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* Chinese firms ride on emerging markets' construction boom
* Overseas expansion cushions tough domestic market
* Made inroads in Southeast Asia, North Asia, South America
* Still face uphill battle to become global players
By Fang Yan and Matthew Miller
BEIJING, Oct 30 (Reuters) - When Guangxi Liugong Machinery was bidding to sell wheel loaders to a Thai ricemerchant a few years ago, company president Zeng Guangan knew heneeded to customize his equipment to beat off Komatsu Ltd and other Japanese rivals.
"Thailand has been using Japanese wheel loaders for years,"explained Zeng. "The seating was getting higher and higher, butthe vehicle's arm wasn't long enough." That works for loadingdirt or concrete blocks, but was unwieldy for hauling rice.
Liugong's modifications won over buyers, and theGuangxi-based firm says it now makes one of every three wheelloaders sold in Thailand. It has also increased its marketing inBrazil, Russia, India and Turkey, helping increase overseasrevenue to 30 percent of its total sales - up from below 9percent in 2010.
Other Chinese machinery makers, including Sany HeavyIndustry, Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science &Technology and XCMG Construction Machinery, are also turning to emerging markets for growth asthey wrestle with cut-throat competition at home, exacerbated bya supply glut - partly a legacy of heavy stimulus spending inthe wake of the global financial crisis.
Caterpillar Inc and Komatsu, however, still seeChina as a bright spot in a global market suffering from adownturn in orders for mining equipment. While the global marketis forecast to grow to $189 billion by 2017, the world's twoleading equipment makers have this month cut their full-yearprofit outlooks.
"Market demand (in China) may not be falling as much asbefore, but the industry has yet to feel the breezes of spring,"said Shi Yang at UK-based industry consultancy Off-HighwayResearch Ltd. "Foreign companies' clients in China are mostlybig state enterprises and their business tends to be morestable."
Zoomlion said on Wednesday its June-September earnings fellby a third from last year, while Sany's net income dropped by54.3 percent. Smaller rivalLiugong on Tuesday reported a 2.6 percent increase in itsthird-quarter profit. Quarterly net income at XCMG fell 45.5percent.
Shares in Sany and XCMG have fallen by around a third so farthis year, while Zoomlion is down 40 percent. The sector medianstock price decline is just 6 percent.
Chinese equipment makers are gaining traction overseas,pulled by the construction boom underway in Southeast Asia andSouth America, where new home and infrastructure building haslifted demand for affordable earth-moving gear.
In January-June, Sany's sales outside China rose bytwo-thirds from a year earlier, with growth in Asia Pacific upmore than 90 percent. Same-town rival Zoomlion - whose annualsales of close to $8 billion make it the world's No.6construction machinery maker - also made breakthroughs inThailand, Chile, Costa Rica and Ecuador with its truck-mountedconcrete pumps and concrete mixing plants.
"Emerging markets represent a good opportunity when domesticdemand is weak," said Xu Mingle, an analyst with BOCInternational. "Even though export volumes remain small andcannot offset the slump at home, it at least cushions the blow."
While Caterpillar, Komatsu and Volvo AB remaindominant in most emerging economies, Chinese gear is makinginroads. In 2011, XCMG group won a $745 million bid to supplycranes, concrete pumps, excavators and other equipment for ahousing project in Venezuela that Caterpillar also bid for.
A year earlier, Liugong beat Caterpillar, Komatsu and SouthKorea's Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd and DoosanHeavy Industries & Construction Co Ltd to providewheel loaders and excavators for an afforestation campaign inTurkey, according to Liugong vice president Luo Guobing.
"Chinese companies are certainly not yet the largest inthese markets, but they're getting really aggressive," saidRaymond Tsang, a Shanghai-based partner at consultant Bain & Co.
Encouraged by the rising popularity of Chinese equipment,Samcorp, a Hong Kong based dealer, started selling Zoomlion andLonking Holdings Ltd's products in Peru three yearsago. It recently opened another showroom in Columbia.
"People like these products," said company director LaurenceLam. "They are almost as good as those made by Westerncompanies, but 30 percent cheaper."
Chinese equipment manufacturers are also gaining access andrecognition in emerging markets as they have improved theircomponent sourcing, according to Hermann Beck, an executive vicepresident at ZF Friedrichshafen AG. Besides the German partsmaker, Chinese firms are turning to Eaton Corp andCummins Inc for parts, he said.
There have also been offshore acquisitions. Over the lastfive years, Chinese firms have bought a variety of strugglingEuropean equipment makers, including Italy's CIFA Spa, Germany'sPutzmeister Holding GmbH, and Poland's Huta Stalowa Wola, whichhas boosted access to Eastern Europe.
Industry executives caution that it will take time forChinese companies to compete against global giants such asCaterpillar, which operates at the higher end of the value chainand books about 65 percent of its sales outside North America.
"They're going to have to learn how to be domestic playersaround the world, the way we did," said Ron DeFeo, Chairman andCEO of Terex Corp, which now increasingly faces Chinesecompanies in emerging markets.
"You can't just make it in China and ship it abroad."
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Carvell Genealogy Surname Data Share
Carvell Surname Origin(Anglo-French) Belonging to Carville (Normandy) [perhaps the Old Teutonic personal name Car + French ville; Latin villa, an estate]. Source: Surnames of the United Kingdom, A Concise Etymological Dictionary; Henry Harrison;Vol.1&2.;The Eaton Press,190 Ebury Street,London,S.W;1912 It seems alot of us originated from England and then travelled to other parts of the world.I have created this email list for individuals researching the surname CARVELL or its derivatives. You can either own the surname or have an ancestor with the name. We may be related and we may not. Won't it be great, if we could pool our resources in one place. We have a place where we put our data + create a free database,file area, photo area + even a calendar for dates. This will create a holding area for us. A place to share stories + maybe someones stories will hit a spark. If we do not make a familial connection ; maybe a new friend. With the cost of retrieving information from online databases, this type of format makes sense. If you come across data that may apply to another member,we can share that information + avoid that person duplicating the energy + cost to obtain that data. Also, if you find a person who shares your family tree, we can agree to share different parts of the research and reduce the latter investment.If people have maps, we can put them in our file area. If you to send me files,photos, maps,etc.I am glad to act as historian and put in the yahoo file areas. It is a restricted email list. You must have a yahoo id, in order to view files, photos,etc, To read messages,it is not necessary to have a yahoo account however you must possess one to log on to the site and use the file areas and view photos.
Everything CARMICHAEL on the web.
History and searchable genealogy of the CASE (KASE) Family of Hunterdon County New Jersey.
Descendants of Ephriam Alpha CASE, born around Albany, New York in 1823.
CASSILLY Origins and Surname Genealogy Website
CASSILLY origins and ancestral home in Tiranny, co. Amagh, Ireland. Probably a member of the O'CAISILE sept of Armagh. Includes Forum.
History of the CASSIRER family from Breslau and Berlin to the Holocaust including Ernst CASSIRER and the 20th century philosophers, Paul Cassirer and the French Impressionists, Bruno CASSIRER and the Cassirer Press, Heinz CASSIRER and Max CASSIRER. Includes also the next generation.
CASSITY / CASSIDY Family Association
This is the offical website of the Cassity/Cassidy Family Association, featuring our database, research updates, history, queries, etc. concerning the genealogy of the CASSITYs and CASSIDYs of Kentucky and their allied surnames.
Also CASTEAL or CASTILE.
CASTLE of George's Creek in eastern Kentucky, from Germany to America.
Frederick CATER & descendants.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]
History of the CATHCART Clan of Scotland.
Catherine PIQUET CLARKE: the journals
The Life and Times of an upstate New York family. The daily journal of Catherine PIQUET CLARKE starting in 1914. Catherine (1880-1972) was the youngest daughter of Peter J. PIQUET and Fanny L. WEST. She married Sidney H. CLARKE at age 15 in 1895. They lived in Volney, New York in Oswego County. Journals will be from 1914 to 1925 and 1961 to 1968.
An indepth 5 generation study of the Dorchester, Maryland CATOR families, including LeCOMPTE, PATTISON, ROBSON, BROHAWN, WATTERS, PAGAN, McNAMARA, HARLAN, TRAVERS, DOVE, SPILMAN, BREERWOOD.
The focus of the CATUDAL Genealogy blog is to discuss all things related to Catudal family history. Topics have included Soldiers of WWI and WWII, dit names, identifying pictures of unknown Catudal family members and just about anything else that has an impact on anyone coming from one of the many Catudal family lines.
CAUDILL family of eastern KY, NC, and other areas.
The primary purpose of this web page is to provide a forum for CAUGHLAN family members to share CAUGHLAN family information and history and also a starting point for CAUGHLAN descendants to become acquainted. Some allied family names are: CAUGHLAN, BEALL, GIGER, WARD, CHILDERS, HARPER, McCUE, KENDALL, KELLEY, DELL.
CAUSER / CAWSER / CORSAR / CORSAIR / CORSER One Name Study Web Site
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The most recent home video release of this movie is October 31, 2005. Here are some details…
DVD Release Date: 1 November 2005
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents Millions on DVD, but not quite a wealth of bonus materials. But what they do supply should be sufficient for those curious about this film, which had a limited release in theaters. These nuggets include a full-length commentary by director Danny Boyle and Screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, deleted scenes and a behind-the-scenes featurette. Audio tracks are available in English (5.1 Dolby Surround) and Spanish (Dolby Surround), with subtitles in English, Spanish and French.
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A seventh grade student takes his homework assignment to make a difference in the world seriously and decides to start a campaign to Pay It Forward by doing for others what they can't do for themselves. In The Mighty, two young teens face their own challenges with courage and smarts after they team up to deal with the bullies at their school.


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The MAXIM L floorings are the top of the range for resistance, support stability, antistatic property and acoustic insulation, products dedicated to those in search of maximum performance and choice. A completely renovated range of decorations proposed in the new extra-long plank format that recreates the character of the traditional wooden planks and makes space radiate extraordinary charm.
Ideal for large surfaces, resistant to any kind of stress, these floorings can withstand a high degree of wear and tear.
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The Son Will Arise (4 of 4) by Jerry Vines
This content is part of a series.THE SON WILL ARISE (4 of 4)
Jerry Vines
Malachi 3:16-4:6
Regardless of how dark and dismal the day, God always
has His people. In the most difficult of times, God
has those people who truly love Him and who are
seeking to serve Him.
When we come to the concluding verses of the book of
Malachi, you will notice in verse 16 he begins by
saying, "Then." In the text, in the way the language
is worded, the "then" is placed in the emphatic
position. The purpose of this is to change the tenor
of the book. It is to give a different emphasis. It is
to turn attention now to a different group of people.
All the way through the book of Malachi, Malachi has
been dealing with a recalcitrant and a rebellious
people. God would make His appeal to their hearts and
they would respond by saying, "Wherein?" "Oh, yeah?"
"Oh, really?" All through that message of Malachi you
have this group of people. In fact, in chapter 3,
verse 5, he summarizes these people by saying about
them—they fear not me. They had no reverence, no
sense of awe, for the Lord.
"Then they that feared the Lord" (verse 16). One group
of people—no fear of the Lord. Another group of
people—they fear the Lord. He is making a reference
here to the remnant of the Lord. In every generation
God has His remnant. Sometimes they are referred to as
the Master's minority. Other times they are called the
faithful few on fire. Whatever the terminology may be
used, in every generation, always keep in mind that
God has a special people.
When the Lord Jesus Christ was born we had people who
were waiting for the redemption of Israel. There was
an old man named Simeon. There was an old lady named
Anna. They were awaiting the coming of the Messiah.
They were a part of the remnant in that day.
When you go to the book of The Revelation, you come
right into the midst of the Great Tribulation time,
the darkest time that will ever occur on this earth,
you will find the two witnesses of the Lord. God
always has His witnesses—His testimony.
So, there is a message for those who are living in the
dismal, dark, demonic days in which you and I live. It
is a message of encouragement—a message of hope. Are
you a part of this remnant? Are you a part of these to
whom God is addressing this particular message
tonight? You may not be everything you want to be, but
you love the Lord in the depths of your heart. You may
not love Him as much as you want to love Him, but you
love the Lord with all the depths of your being and
you are doing your very best to serve the Lord as best
you know how.
If that is your heart, then this message is designed
especially for you. It is one of the great encouraging
messages in the Bible. As we approach the end of the
age, it is going to be important for God's people to
receive encouragement. We are living in days that can
be discouraging. So we need to turn to ...
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This was the last stop on my travels to Slovenia last year. I felt bad neglecting it on previous trips to Slovenia and I'm glad I finally made it there. I didn't see all that much there. Walked up to the castle for some fine views. Didn't have a chance to take in some of the wine country nearby but I did try the wine at a local bar, where I ended up spending most of my time at. When you have an opportunity to drink and talk with locals for hours on end the museums and tourist sights can wait.
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Did any of you change the headset? If so, what kind of headset did you use? thanks
Did any of you change the headset? If so, what kind of headset did you use? thanks
exactly why I want to change it, haha.
I'm thinking about this one: http://bikeisland.com/cgi-bin/BKTK_S...ls&ProdID=1274
Is it good?
Needle bearings or angular contact bearings or just about any other sealed headset will be an improvement, but that's probably not the first thing I'd upgrade.
What is the first thing you would upgrade?
Other than that just get out there and ride, and either replace things that bother you or that break.
"Work hard, play harder!"
i think the most noticeable upgrades are saddle and tires (admittedly i don't run sexy skinny high pressure tires anymore because i'm looking for better wear now for sick wicked sweet skids, or moreso flat protection. but kevlar bead 145psi tires will definitely feel faster and more responsive)
next is foot retention. consider pedals too since the stock ones feel like the bearings come pre-destroyed. at least get those exustar laminated doubles. I've never used them, i've only used mks or toshi doubles, but they look similar enough to use. I'd really recommend getting into clipless. mountain style shoes and pedals are pretty forgiving off the bike. but clipless isn't well liked by many here. those that have tried it love it though. then a stem that fits you.
wheelset is good enough, cranks and bb are not glamorous, but good enough. handlebars are handlebars. the brake hoods are uncomfortable, i'd got with R200s if you're gonna keep them.


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USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Other ID: IB S-3-01-SC
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Marinna Martini
Affiliate Investigator(s): George Robertson, Orange County Sanitation Department and Naval Postgraduate School
Information Specialist(s): Frances Lightsom
Data Type(s): Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography), Location-Elevation: Navigation
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Recover moorings #650-654, 656, 658 partial, and 659.
Start Port/Location: San Diego, CA
End Port/Location: San Diego, CA
Start Date: 2001-10-11
End Date: 2001-10-13
Equipment Used: DGPS, Bottom platform
Information to be Derived: Time series data;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Moorings recovered: 10 (#650, 651, 652, 653, 654, 656, 658-partial, and 659, all deployed FA 01021 SPROUL Jun. 11-14, 2001).
Staff: Jonathan Borden, Marinna Martini, Joseph S. Newell
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Original Center People field contained: Field Ops: Jonathan Borden, Marinna Martini; Shipping: Joseph Newell.
Huntington Beach, Orange County, Southern California, United States, North America, North Pacific;
Data Acquired


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Deciding the Next Decider
Deciding the Next Decider
The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme
Random House, Hardcover, 9781400068289, 128pp.
Publication Date: November 25, 2008
Displaying the form that made bestsellers of Obliviously On He Sails and A Heckuva Job, tales of the Bush Administration in rhyme, Calvin Trillin trains his verse on the 2008 race for the presidency.
Deciding the Next Decider is an ongoing campaign narrative in verse interrupted regularly by other poems, such as a country tune about John Edwards called "Yes, I Know He's a Mill Worker's Son, But There's Hollywood in That Hair" and a Sarah Palin song about her foreign policy credentials: "On a Clear Day, I See Vladivostok." It covers Mitt Romney's transformation ("Mitt Romney's saying now he should have known / A stem cell's just a human, not quite grown"), the speculation about whether Al Gore was trimming down to run ("Presumably, they looked for photo ops / To see what Gore was stuffing in his chops"), the slow-motion implosion of Hillary Clinton's drive to the White House ("Some pundits wrote that Hil's campaign might fare / A little better if Bill wasn't there"), and the differing responses of Barack Obama and John McCain to the financial crisis ("Though coolness has its limitations, it'll / Prevent comparisons with Chicken Little").
Beginning at the 2006 midterms, Deciding the Next Decider resurrects the nonstarters like George Allen ("He fit what's often valued by the Right: / Quite cheerful, Reaganesque, and not too bright") and the low-energy Fred Thompson ("The pros said, 'That's a state he has to take, / And he just might, if he can stay awake' "). And it carries through to the vote that made Barack Obama the forty-fourth president of the United States.
Calvin Trillin, who became The Nation's "deadline poet" in 1990, has also written verse on the events of the day for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and National Public Radio. His political beliefs are so colored by rhyme and meter that he once criticized Hillary Clinton for being "insufficiently iambic" and publicly advised against a presidential run by the governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich. He is the author of Obliviously on He Sails and A Heckuva Job.


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Letters to the editor - 11/24/04
A warning shot for North County
The juxtaposition of two articles in the Nov. 21 Perspective section ("Leaving North County") is as informing as the tales told. The juxtaposition of these articles is a shot across the bow. A warning shot that our mean-spirited ridiculously right politics are amuck and our monetized land-use policies are limiting development of affordable housing. Both result in the departure of valuable community assets, our seniors and our youth.
Side by side the reader engages an older and a younger couple. The elder couple is politically liberal and is throwing in the towel, giving up on Americans form of democracy and relocating to Canada.
Next, a young, thrifty, educated couple is eschewing the mega-mortgage, work-for-the-house lifestyle others choose for homeownership and will soon relocate to Arkansas, which, curiously, is now the size of 1980 San Diego.
Respectively, politics and lack of affordable housing are the factors leading to these relocations. I do not know Mr. and Mrs. Peacock, although I share their politics, so I will miss them, their zeal, and I will carry on. Semper fi, Richard.
I do not know the young Marks couple, but salute their wisdom and their revolt against excessive debt. Adios.
Let's stop second-guessing the military
Recently I found two articles in the paper disturbing and puzzling. The first was about a guard at Guantanamo prison who was disciplined because he hit a prisoner who tried to bite him. What else would anyone expect the guard to do? In the same vein, when someone threatens a police officer with a car, gun or knife he will probably (and should be) shot when the officer defends himself. What is the big shock?
Then recently, a young Marine in house-to-house fighting shoots a prone enemy and is filmed by some media "hero." It is real easy to second-guess the Marine from the safety of your home but quite another if you were there and had to make a decision in a few seconds.
If the government brass caves in to the political correct gurus and prosecute this Marine, I suggest we all chip in and hire a high-octane civilian lawyer to defend him. After all, we chipped in (involuntarily) to pay for David Westerfield's defense lawyers.
I am heartily sick of this "Let's have a war but don't hurt anybody and don't win" philosophy.
NBC's reporting pushes anti-war agenda
What a free press we live in when NBC features a Marine apparently killing an unarmed and harmless civilian. Even though the video was very violent, they showed it because it is necessary for the citizens of America to see. However, it isn't necessary according to NBC to show any videos featuring terrorists or insurgents killing civilians. NBC only goes as far as having Tom Brokaw spending half a minute reporting on it. The reason for this?
According to NBC it is because the beheading videos were too violent. For some reason it seems a little funny to me that when Iraqis are killed by our troops it is never too violent. Could it be that NBC is more interested in their anti-war agenda than they are in reporting the news?
San Marcos
PC Marines don't win wars
Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be PC Marines.
I would not want to go into combat with anyone who would not shoot first, at least when my life depended upon it. I depend on the serviceman to my front, right, left and rear to be ready to kill rather than to be killed.


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Simple Definition of child
: a young person
: a son or daughter
: an adult who acts like a child : a childlike or childish person
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plural children play \ˈchil-drən, -dərn\
1 a : an unborn or recently born person b dial : a female infant
2 a : a young person especially between infancy and youth b : a childlike or childish person c : a person not yet of age
3 usually childe play \ˈchī(-ə)ld\ archaic : a youth of noble birth
4 a : a son or daughter of human parents b : descendant
5 : one strongly influenced by another or by a place or state of affairs
6 : product, result <barbed wire … is truly a child of the plains — W. P. Webb>
: pregnant
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She's pregnant with their first child.
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All of their children are grown now.
an elderly couple and their adult children
Men are such children sometimes.
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Middle English, from Old English cild; akin to Gothic kilthei womb, and perhaps to Sanskrit jaṭhara belly
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plural children
1 : a son or daughter of any age and usually including one formally adopted — compare issue Editor's note: The word child as used in a statute or will is often held to include a stepchild, an illegitimate child, a person for whom one stands in loco parentis, or sometimes a more remote descendant, such as a grandchild. In interpreting the word child as used in a will, the court will try to effectuate the intent of the person who made the will as it can be determined from the language of the will.
2 : a person below an age specified by law : infant, minor <assault on a child under 16 years of age> — compare adult
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Dunkin Donuts Appearance – Flyers Season Opener
I spent the morning serving coffee and donuts at
Dunkin Donuts on Burnt Mill Road in Voorhees, NJ to
celebrate the Philadelphia Flyers Season Opener today!
Hockey is back!
Bernie Saves Kids with the Liguori Academy
I'm excited to announce my involvement in my newest charitable endeavor, the Liguori Academy.
The Liguori Academy is a bold new type of High School in Philadelphia. The City's most disengaged ninth graders will enter a program of aggressive academic growth with personalized curriculum combined with project based specific job training. These are the kids that will otherwise be lost and I am helping the Liguori Academy save them.
The Liguori Academy's mission is to empower students who are the most at-risk academically in the greater Philadelphia area by encouraging their abilities rather than emphasizing their deficits. The Academy's comprehensive program of personalized learning integrated with projects co-developed by business and industry partners will provide the motivation and support necessary to ensure success.
I am proud to be one of the founding board members. And with your financial help, we will open in September 2016.
Visit www.berniesaveskids.com to donate and for more information about the Liguori Academy!
I Am Running the Philadelphia Half Marathon for ALS
It's been months since we've seen an ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, but I vowed to keep the awareness alive and well after all of the hype calmed down.
On Sunday, November 23, 2014, I will be running in the Philadelphia Half Marathon on behalf of the ALS Hope Foundation.
Help me raise money and continuous awareness for this great cause!
Visit the links below:
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ALS Hope Foundation Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/ALS-Hope-Foundation/204046679619845?ref=hl
ALS Hope Foundation Twitter: https://twitter.com/ALSHF
See you all on November 23rd!
A challenge to all Philadelphia athletes and sports fans to support ALS research
Read the original article on Philly.com.
I went to Hahnemann University Hospital five months ago to meet with Dr. Terry Heiman-Patterson and visit some patients that had been diagnosed with ALS. It was heartbreaking. How can you go from being a completely healthy, functioning individual and progress to a state of total incapacitation in a matter of months? You literally lose everything.
The only time we really heard of ALS awareness prior to the Ice Bucket Challenge in our community was the Phillies Phestival, held annually to raise money specifically to "strike out ALS." This year's event was held in May, and in the months following (like so many years before), ALS would fall to the wayside. People would go about their lives, forgetting all about it until the next Phillies Phestival would be scheduled.
But, oh, how the universe works in mysterious ways. Along come a couple of individuals that dedicate themselves to raising awareness for this debilitating disease by dumping a bucket of ice water over their heads and challenging their family members and friends to do the same.
A ripple effect is born. Then the videos go viral, and not only do those people's friends and family start dumping buckets of ice water on their heads, but athletes and celebrities take on the cause. And in the meantime, in the background of all of this chaos and the social media frenzy, the donations come pouring in; more than the ALS Foundation has ever seen before.
If you didn't know about ALS before, it would be impossible not to know now. You can't go five minutes a day without hearing about it! This campaign has emerged and branched out in massive, national proportions, and will probably be marked as one of the most successful awareness and fundraising events for a disease or cause in history.
And as a follow up to my last article about being grateful for what we have, I can't stress enough how lucky we are to be healthy, to be able to walk, talk, eat, laugh, and enjoy ourselves. Right now, I have the ability to describe to you my feelings and emotions, because in the blink of an eye, all of that can be taken away.
I wasn't aware that only 30,000 people in the country are currently diagnosed with this disease. I wasn't aware that the disease could take your life anywhere within 6 months to 5 years. It's an aggressive, nasty disease that completely robs you of quality of life. But now, we know.
Appreciate all you have, because the awareness that the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has brought to the forefront of our minds on a national level cannot be ignored.
In time, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge will fade away, but as a community, we have a responsibility to keep this cause in the forefront of our minds, and not let it fade into the background to become just another "internet sensation."
I, Bernie Parent, challenge YOU to join me in keeping ALS awareness alive on a community level. Let's bring support to OUR homefront and help the ALS Hope Foundation, located right here in Philadelphia, PA, reach their goals for those suffering with ALS in our very own backyard.
I'm calling out ALL Philadelphia athletes (present and alumni), sports fans and corporations alike to walk with me at the 7th Annual Hope Walks for ALS at 12 p.m. on Sunday, October 19th, 2014 at Valley Forge Military Academy, 1001 Eagles Road, Wayne, PA 19087.
Our goal is to raise $100,000, but personally, I think we can exceed that. The first 500 individuals at the registration table that day will receive a free hard cover copy of my book, Journey Through Risk and Fear.
Whether you'd like to walk with me for a small donation of $25, or donate on a corporate level with sponsorships, visit www.alshopefoundation.org TODAY!
Let's see how many saves we can make as a community in the City of Brotherly Love!
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You just can't keep a good actress down, especially when her name is Dana Delany. The two-time Emmy winner is gearing up to return to the world of scripted dramas once more, having just signed on to star in Amazon Studios upcoming drama pilot 'Hand of God.'
So what exactly will this 'Body of Proof' alum be doing? Not examining dead bodies...or at least we hope not. Delany will play Crystal Harris, the wife of Ron Perlman's Judge Harris Pernell.
For those of you unfamiliar with the overall premise of the show, the hour-long project centers around Pernell, a law-bending man with a call girl on the side, who experiences a religious awakening. He begins to have visions and hear voices — which could be God speaking to him — through his ventilator-bound son.
The script was written by Ben Watkins ('Burn Notice') and will be directed by 'World War Z's Marc Forster. The two will also serve as executive producers alongside Perlman and Brian Wilkins. Production is scheduled to begin next month.
This gig signifies an important uptick in Delany's career given how ABC canceled 'Body of Proof' last year after only three seasons. The network briefly considered resurrecting the series, but unfortunately those talks collapsed last fall. Suffice to say, it'll be good to have her back on our TV radar where she belongs.
Delany's other TV credits include 'Desperate Housewives,' 'Castle,' 'Presidio Med,' and 'Pasadena,' to name a few.


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Graham Westley's after Joe Garner
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Ndickou's Group
Ndickou is 46 years old, and is standing in the photo with her hand raised. She is married and has 3 children.
Ndickou will use her loan to buy 2 steers at 140,000 Francs CFA each. In order to fatten the animals, she will spend 4000 Francs CFA on hay each month for a period of 5 months. She also plans on buying 2 kg of ground coffee each week to sell. This second business will allow her to save up some money.
The income from these businesses will allow her to increase her savings, help her husband support their family, and to pay for her son's private schooling.
Ndickou âgée de 46 ans est en position debout sur la photo et a levée la main. Elle est marié et mère de 3 enfants.
Avec le prêt, elle va acheter 2 bœufs à 140 000f l'un. Pour l'engraissement des bêtes, elle achète du foins à 4000f chaque mois pour une durée de 5 mois. En activité parallèle elle compte faire la vente de café. Chaque semaine elle achète 2 kg de café moulu, cette activité va lui permettre d'épargner.
Les bénéfices de ces activités lui permettent de renforcer son épargne, d'appuyer son mari dans la gestion de la famille, de payer en l'occurrence la scolarité de son fils qui est dans le privé.
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THE 1970s IN PERSPECTIVE*
The 1970s were a decade of tumult, doubt and discontent. Violent changes took place in economic activity, in government policy and in the ideas by which policy was guided. Inflation took hold and reached a rate that frightened even the trade unions. Wages outstripped prices and at one stage rose in a year by nearly one-third. Unemployment rose from 600,000 in 1970 to 1.5 million in 1980 but ceased to be the touchstone of policy as the need to control inflation took precedence over the earlier aim of full employment. The rate of exchange was allowed to float in June 1972 and fluctuated violently, with a drop of 8 cents in a single day in 1976. The effective exchange rate fell by 40 per cent between 1972 and 1976 and then recovered about half the fall by 1980. For three years in the middle of the decade consumers' expenditure fell and for two of these years GDP fell too—experiences without precedent in the years since 1945. Yet the record of the decade was not so black as is sometimes suggested. The increase in GDP (thanks in part to North Sea oil) was not far short of the increase in the 1960s and a good deal greater than in the 1950s. Consumer spending rose by more than in the 1960s; it was capital investment, not consumption, that suffered.
The decade fell into three very different parts. First came the years of Conservative Government from 1970 to the first oil shock at the end of 1973 and the miners' strike that followed; then the three years leading up to the IMF crisis at the end of 1976; and finally the last years of Labour Government from 1977 to the second oil shock in 1979. It is usual to concentrate on the middle period. But we should not lose sight of events in the other two periods, especially the first. It was in that period that the flight from the dollar led America to put an end to the Bretton Woods system in the autumn of 1971. It was in that period, too, that the annual rise in hourly wage rates reached double figures and consumer prices began to increase at a rate not experienced since 1950-1. By 1973 an international commodity boom greatly reinforced inflationary tendencies all over the world and was in turn reinforced by the
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Skip to comments.Psst, Gay Bishop Gene Robinson - God Aint Listening (Ps. 66:18)
Posted on 01/17/2009 6:20:37 AM PST by Zender500
The Obama administration and America are heading into treacherous territory. There are certain kinds of behavior that seem to anger God more than others and at this point, America is already on shaky ground. President-elect Obama has asked V. Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, to deliver the invocation at a pre-inaugural event this Sunday on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Bishop Robinson said he had been reading inaugural prayers through history and was horrified at how specifically and aggressively Christian they were. He states, I am very clear that this will not be a Christian prayer, and I wont be quoting Scripture. The texts I hold as sacred are not sacred texts for all Americans, and I want all people to feel that this is their prayer.
Robinson said he might address the prayer to the god of our many understandings, language that he said he learned from the 12-Step program he attended for his alcohol addiction. Im sure that will please God and He will pour out His blessings upon this nation. Actually not.
God-hating nations have a short shelf life. I am not suggesting that one prayer means we are a nation that hates God. But inaugural events reverberate around the world, literally. All civilized nations are watching these events one way or another. God has blessed America abundantly. He has kept us safe since 9/11. It seems to me that activities that revolve around the highest office in the land should acknowledge that. At this point we do not even know if Rick Warren will do so. I pray he does.
The root of Americas problems today are not social or even financial. They are spiritual. Too many in this great nation have told God to take a hike. Is it any wonder we are facing problems that are economic, weather-related, crime-related, immorality-related, and, well, you fill in the blank?
Romans 1:28-31 states, And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God. . .
Robinson is not a friend of God. He is ashamed of the gospel and uncomfortable praying a Christian prayer though the entire world may be watching.
Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs with Liberty Alliance Action and Liberty Counsel, states, It is a shame that President-elect Obama apparently has so little regard for his Christian constituents that he would give such a high place of honor to a self-styled man of God whose only claim to fame is that he abandoned his wife and children to enter, loudly and proudly, a sexually deviant lifestyle expressly condemned by the very Bible hes ironically calling holy and sacred. Barber continues, Gene Robinson is little more than a radical homosexual activist in a clergymans clothing. In fact, his heretical rebellion against Gods express natural order, coupled with his selfish refusal to surrender his pulpit, has almost single- handedly devastated the U.S. Episcopal Church.
It is doubtful that Gods wrath was taught at Trinity United Church of Christ. Obama was not informed that there are consequences when we are in Gods face. Yes, this is a bone thrown to the gay community to heal their wounds at the selection of Pastor Rick Warren, but it is a dangerous one. God and His Word will not be mocked.
Matt Barber concludes and rightly so, As Gene Robinson prays for Barack Obama on Sunday, I would encourage all Bible- believing Christians to pray for him. Pray for his wife and children he left for a lie. Pray that he will repent, go and sin no more, bringing others with him to the salvation only Christ can offer a salvation our nation and world so desperately need.
But But But .. Boy George just wrote and performed a new Obama tribute song "Yes we Can" ,,, shouldn't everyone just get behind the new admin and sing Kumbaya?
Must need money for his jail account.
Oh it was taught all right. Taught that it was directed against white people.
As for Vicky Gene's god of many understandings, I'm sure the mooj are just salivating till they have the chance to clear up that confusion for him.
Robinson's only god is his Johnson.
He has fooled the Epicopal Church into making him a faux Bishop, but he hasnt fooled God. Payback is going to be hell for this fool when he takes his last breath.
We are so screwed.
These verses sums up what America will face once this turkey is inaugurated:
Romans 1:18-23
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of those who hold the truth in unrighteousness. 19For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse; 21for though they knew God, they did not honour him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened. 22Claiming to be wise, they became fools; 23and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.
and Jeremiah 17:5-13:
5Thus says the Lord:
Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals
and make mere flesh their strength,
whose hearts turn away from the Lord.
6They shall be like a shrub in the desert,
and shall not see when relief comes.
They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness,
in an uninhabited salt land.
7Blessed are those who trust in the Lord,
whose trust is the Lord.
8They shall be like a tree planted by water,
sending out its roots by the stream.
It shall not fear when heat comes,
and its leaves shall stay green;
in the year of drought it is not anxious,
and it does not cease to bear fruit.
9The heart is devious above all else;
it is perverse
who can understand it?
10I the Lord test the mind
and search the heart,
to give to all according to their ways,
according to the fruit of their doings.
11Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay,
so are all who amass wealth unjustly;
in mid-life it will leave them,
and at their end they will prove to be fools.
12O glorious throne, exalted from the beginning,
shrine of our sanctuary!
13O hope of Israel! O Lord!
All who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you* shall be recorded in the underworld,*
for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, the Lord.
And we should expect what from a muslim?
This is just a taste of things to come.
The Bible said to "be fruitful and multiply."
Not "be a fruit and hump a guy."
As someone said on another thread... "Never play chess with an Episcopalian... They can't tell a Bishop from a Queen!"
It is just as well that Robinson won't pray in Jesus' name. It is more fitting that he says some sort of pagan, Gnostic prayer. The only shame is that Robinson represents a supposedly Christian church and many people don't know the difference. Robinson knows that someday Jesus will return to separate the wheat from the chaff - the faux Bishop can deny Jesus all he wants but that won't change anything.
It is appropriate that only a Christian would offer a Christian prayer, so we understand your being unwilling or unable to do so, Vickie Gene.
Bishop Robinson said he had been reading inaugural prayers through history and was horrified at how specifically and aggressively Christian they were. He states, I am very clear that this will not be a Christian prayer, and I wont be quoting Scripture. The texts I hold as sacred are not sacred texts for all Americans, and I want all people to feel that this is their prayer.
I can't even say how sad this makes me. His heart is so far from the truth. The only prayer that can help America is a prayer to the YAHWEH RAPHA ( the Lord who heals).
It kind of gives new meaning to the expression, "By their fruits ye shall know them."
Add "King" to that and you have the entire bloody sectarian history of England since Henry VIII.
Never letting a Pope get in the way of a good adulterous "poke" was the root of the Anglican Church.
Vickie Gene, the Bishop of smut.
I guess a normal patriotic American can say they are disgusted at how intentionally and aggressively un-Christian, anti-American and secular-humanistic Gene Robinson's mental and spiritual sickness appears to be.
While the perverted Bishop's view hates America, the conservative view is pleased by those same Christian prayers the perverted Bishop hates so much.
This aggressively perverted charlatan is a clear reflection of the Democrat party, Hollywood, the news media, television, Hugh Hefner, Bill Maher and Rosie O'Donnell. (and a few loud, anti-Bible liberals on Free Republic)
Thank you Gene Robinson for at least admitting what true Americans have been saying for years, America always was a conservative Christian nation until the far left loons began to attack our country's very foundation.
The very perverted Bishop Gene Robinson is led by the same anti-American fanaticism as all Social leftists.
They all are at war against America's historical moorings, just like the few, loud, anti-Christian fanatics on Free Republic.
If Obama needs a non-Christian involved in his ceremonies certainly there are better choices ~ for example, there are several Shinto shrines at Ise who could provide a priest or two.
At the same time the Dalai Lama, a well-known Buddhist figure, would be right there if asked.
In the future Obama, and other Presidents, really ought to think through this part ~ the non-Christian part ~ bringing in faux Christians is hardly uplifting.
Lol! My husband (ex-Naval aviator) thought your comment was exceptionally witty! ;-)
Proof that homosexuality is biological (nature vs nurture) is the finding of a gay Gene....
In the 70s,I was an enlisted weatherman on an aircraft carrier,working just under the flight deck in "officer country" and I found that aviators were the only Navy officers worth a damn.
That was the same paragraph that jumped out at me.
Interesting observation. We know that Jimmy Carter was a Naval officer (of sorts) and he certainly was NOT an aviator.
We can also see that he is not a very logical, nor pragmatic thinker either. ;-/
(Actually, lately, I've been wondering if he has a brain tumor or some other medical condition affecting his thought processes.)
By the way, my husband served on The Bon Homme Richard (briefly as a midshipman) and then on the USS Constellation (as a pilot).
It stands to reason.
Navy aviators were advanced by merit and not by butt-kissing.
No room for under-achievers with a talent for brown-nosing in fields of combat—even in the Navy.
Regular Navy officers,in my day,were more politicians than warriors.Thank God the real important command positions,again in my day,were filled by former aviators.
Submariners like to brag that they are the Navy elite—Carter scuttled that premise big time.
McCain and GHW Bush were Navy aviators but they lost their way—plus they were both shot down.
Perhaps that had an effect.
I doubt that getting shot down was responsible for that. We had a super good friend who got shot down and was on the ground with a broken back as the Viet Cong were closing in. He describes himself in those days as a very "backslidden" Christian. He asked the Lord to help me get out of the situation and promised his life to Him if He did. To this day, NO one can explain how he suddenly felt surrounded by a physical warmth and then got up and walked out from under a tree to the waiting rescue helicopter under fire. Once in the helicopter, he could no longer move. After a lot of surgery and rehab, he's OK now. He kept his promise and is a dedicated minister today who thinks rationally. ;-)
... and if those Queens don't spend all Knight watching Pawn-ography, they feel Rooked?
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding"... Proverbs 3:5
Some bishop ay?? try reading your Bible there bishop Gene... What a moron!
"The texts I hold as sacred"
He doesn't hold the Bible sacred or he wouldn't be a practicing homo
Or likely any Americans. I wonder what he considers his sacred texts. Notice he never says.
... and I want all people to feel that this is their prayer.
In the words of my teenage daughter.....EPIC FAIL. Him praying to a deity which know one knows anything about, about equals him reciting one of the rev. wrights sermons backwards. It's a meaningless waste of time.
I WILL NOT feel that this is my prayer, (sight unseen). Too bad mister, you lose.
It almost sounds as if he knows he's not a Christian, although I doubt he'll ever admit it out loud.
Why couldn't Obama find an Islamic cleric who says eating pork is okay for Muslims?
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Over the past few weeks, the political drama in Washington, D.C., has circulated around the "fiscal cliff," a series of tax hikes and spending cuts set to kick in for 2013. On Jan. 1, U.S. Congress narrowly avoided the fiscal cliff. But the close call left some wondering: Could it have been more easily prevented, particularly through redistricting reform?
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In the third month of open enrollment, Obamacare failed to meet crucial demographic goals for young adults in Ohio and across the nation. Prior to the launch of HealthCare.gov, the Obama administration said it needs to enroll about 2.7 million young adults out of 7 million projected enrollees — nearly 39 percent of all signups — for the law to succeed.The reasoning: Because young adults tend to be healthier, they can keep premiums down as sicker, older people claim health insurance after the law opens up the health insurance market to more Americans.But the numbers released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Monday — the first time the agency provided demographic information — show the law missing the target both nationally and in Ohio.Roughly 19 percent of nearly 40,000 Ohioans who signed up for Obamacare were young adults between the ages of 18 and 34, according to the report. Not only does that fall below the 39 percent goal, but it also lags behind the national average of 24 percent.In defense of the demographic numbers, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote in a blog post Monday that enrollments are demographically on pace with the 2007 experience of Massachusett, where state officials implemented health care reforms and systems similar to Obamacare through Romneycare.Indeed, a report from The New Republic found just 22.6 percent of enrollees through the third month of Romneycare were young adults. That number rose to 31.7 percent by the end of the law's first year.If Obamacare ends up at Massachusetts' year-end rate, it will still fall behind goals established by the White House. Still, Obamacare would be in a considerably better place than it finds itself today. The disappointing demographic figure comes after months of technical issues snared HealthCare.gov's launch. Most of the issues were fixed in December, which allowed Obamacare to report considerably better enrollment numbers by the end of the year. But the enrollment numbers — nearly 2.2 million selected a plan between Oct. 1 to Dec. 28 — still fall below the administration's projections to enroll 3.3 million by the end of December.It's also unclear how many of those signing up for Obamacare actually paid for their first premium, which is the final step to becoming enrolled in a health insurance plan. Given how Romneycare worked out in Massachusetts, it's possible signups for Obamacare could pick up before open enrollment closes at the end of March. Based on previous statements from the White House, Obamacare's success could depend on it.
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The Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") will lead to an increase in Ohio's raw health care premiums, but the increase will be more than offset by the law's tax credits.
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The Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") will lead to an increase in Ohio's raw health care premiums, but the increase will be more than offset by the law's tax credits, according to an Aug. 29 study from the RAND Corporation, a reputable think tank. Specifically, health care premiums will rise to an average of $5,312 under Obamacare in 2016. Without the law, premiums would reach an average of $3,973 that year. But when Obamacare's tax credits are plugged in, the average Ohio individual will only pay a premium of $3,131 — $842 less than an individual Ohioan would pay without the law. The tax credits will be available to individuals between 100 percent ($11,490 in annual income) and 400 percent of the federal poverty level ($45,960 in annual income). The subsidies will be smaller for higher income levels, and the raw premium will vary depending on the insurance plan, so the premium and subsidy numbers don't apply perfectly across the board. The numbers also only apply to Ohioans in the individual health insurance market. Under Obamacare, individuals will be able to enroll for health insurance through an online marketplace. The majority of Americans who get health insurance through their employers or public programs fall under different rules and regulations. Obamacare will help more non-elderly Ohioans get health insurance. Without the law, 14.9 percent of non-elderly individuals would lack insurance. With the law, only 6.2 percent will go without insurance. RAND attributes the difference in insurance rates to tax credits, which make health insurance more affordable, and the individual mandate, which requires certain Americans buy health insurance or pay a fine. The numbers are good news for Obamacare, which needs a certain amount of young adults to enroll to avoid causing health care costs to skyrocket. Federal officials say they expect to enroll 7 million people through individual marketplaces, but 2.7 million must be young adults. That's because young adults tend to be healthier, which will help balance out sicker, older people flowing into health care plans. The online marketplaces are supposed to open enrollment on Oct. 1. The actual plans will go into effect on Jan. 1.
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With a temporary boost to the federal food stamp program coming to an end this November, more than 1.8 million Ohioans — 16 percent of the state's population — will receive significantly less food aid, according to an Aug. 2 report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). The report calculates that the cut is the equivalent to taking away 21 meals per month for a family of four. After the cut, the food stamp program will provide each person with less than $1.40 per meal, according to CBPP's calculations. Citing research from the USDA that shows many low-income families still fail to meet basic standards for food security, CBPP says the cuts will hit families that arguably need more, not less, help: "Given this research and the growing awareness of the inadequacy of the current SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefit allotments, we can reasonably assume that a reduction in SNAP benefit levels of this size will significantly increase the number of poor households that have difficulty affording adequate food this fall." Although the federal food stamp program has been cut before, it's never been cut to this extent, according to CBPP. "There have been some cuts in specific states, but these cuts have not typically been as large or affected as many people as what will occur this November," the report reads. The reductions could also have a broader economic impact: Every $1 increase in food aid generates about $1.70 in economic activity, according to progressive think tank Policy Matters Ohio. "Ohio's foodbanks and hunger charities cannot respond to increasing hunger on their own," said Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, executive director of the Ohio Association of Foodbanks, in a statement released by Policy Matters. "SNAP takes Ohioans out of our food pantry lines and puts them into grocery store checkout lines. It provides supplemental food to the most vulnerable among us. Now is not the time to further reduce this already modest assistance to struggling families." About 48 percent of Cincinnati children are in poverty, according to a 2011 study from the National Center for Children in Poverty. Despite that, city funding to human services that benefits low-income families has been cut throughout the past decade. CityBeat covered that issue in greater detail here. The cut to the federal food stamp program kicks in automatically in November instead of the original April 2014 sunset date as a result of laws passed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and Congress. Obama and congressional Democrats are now urging legislation that would remedy the situation, but it's unlikely anything will pass the gridlocked Congress. Republicans are preparing a bill that would further cut the food stamp program, which they see as too generous and expensive. From Fox News: "Reps. Marlin Stutzman of Indiana and Kristi Noem of South Dakota, two Republicans who helped design the bill, said the legislation would find the savings by tightening eligibility standards and imposing new work requirements. It would also likely try to reduce the rolls by requiring drug testing and barring convicted murderers, rapists and pedophiles from receiving food stamps."
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0 Comments · Wednesday, June 26, 2013
The President confuses British chancellor with his favorite R&B singer, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis unaware of Goodwill's latest "Thrift Shop"-jacking marketing campaign and Jay-Z will have to wait until real people buy his new album before it can become a million-seller.
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A South African music festival announced new "beer drone technology," whereby fans order by phone and have their order dropped from a drone above, will debut at August event. Plus, Jay-Z gets a mini-roast from the President at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and Swedish Doom Metal band Ghost B.C. treats fans to a sacrilicious new box set, complete with band-branded sex toys.
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Federal Sequestration Cuts Hurt Ohio
Cuts affecting education, housing, environment
Policy Matters Ohio released a report Monday that gives a hint of how federal sequestration, a series of across-the-board federal budget cuts that kicked in March 1, will affect Ohio. The impact of sequestration is already being felt in various areas, including education, housing and the environment. In Cincinnati, the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency plans to carry out $1 million in cuts by dropping 200 kids from the Head Start program, which helps low-income families get their children into preschool and other early education programs. Cuts will be spread out all around the state, leading to cuts in tax incentives for renewable energy and energy efficiency, reduced research programs at major universities and the elimination of military jet flyovers at certain events. Wendy Patton, a senior project director at Policy Matters, says the cuts are only the beginning. "We're just seeing the tip of the iceberg now," Patton says, citing cuts in Chillicothe that will force the Chillicothe Metropolitan Housing Authority to serve 47 less families through the housing voucher program. "We will see this kind of information come out across Ohio's 88 counties as the months roll by." In February, the White House outlined how sequestration cuts will affect Ohio in its efforts to convince Congress to stop the cuts. The White House estimated about 26,000 civilian defense department employees would have to be furloughed, nearly $6.9 million in funding to clean air and water would have to be cut and 350 teacher and aide jobs would be put at risk, among other cuts. Even the unemployed will be hurt through cuts to unemployment insurance benefits — bad news in an already weak economy. In Ohio, about $5.3 million in federal grant money going toward unemployment insurance will be cut in a way that particularly affects the long-term unemployed, according to Pew Charitable Trusts. "We already have a problem with the long-term unemployed," says Zach Schiller, research director at Policy Matters. "This just makes it worse for these folks."An analysis from The Washington Post found employers often discriminate against anyone who has been unemployed for a considerable time during the hiring process.
Religious Birth Control Exemptions Are a Double Standard
German Lopez
1 Comment · Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Attorney General Mike DeWine says Obamacare infringes on religious liberty, but Republicans just want special economic rules for religious institutions.
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AG Supports Driver's Licenses for Children of Illegal Immigrants
DeWine says DACA recipients should be eligible to obtain driver's licenses
The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles has been reviewing its driver's license policy for the children of illegal immigrants for nearly two months now, but if it was up to Attorney General Mike DeWine, those people would already be eligible for driver's licenses. In a letter to the Latino Affairs Commission dated to March 19, DeWine wrote, "It appears that the BMV would have to accept driver's license applications from individuals that fall under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative because they can provide all of the information necessary." DACA is an executive order signed by President Barack Obama that allows the children of illegal immigrants to qualify for a social security number and work permit. According to DeWine, that should be enough to qualify for an Ohio driver's license: "With these documents and any other documents normally required by the BMV, an individual can provide the BMV with the information necessary to receive a driver's license." The BMV has been reviewing its driver's license policy for DACA recipients for nearly two months. A previous CityBeat report found the BMV is granting driver's licenses to some of the children of illegal immigrants, but what qualifies a few and disqualifies others is unclear. DeWine's letter is not legally binding, but since it's coming from the state's top legal adviser, it could put pressure on the BMV's legal team as it continues reviewing the Ohio's driver's license policy. "I encourage any citizen who is concerned about a law or policy to contact their legislators and voice that concern," DeWine wrote. "As Attorney General, I do not have the authority to introduce or vote on legislation." CityBeat originally broke the story regarding the BMV policy through the story of Ever Portillo, who was not able to receive a driver's license despite being a DACA recipient ("Not Legal Enough," issue of Feb. 6). CityBeat later heard stories and received documents showing what seemed to be internal confusion and conflict about the policy at the BMV. Between January and February, there was a noticeable shift in the BMV's messaging from flat-out barring DACA recipients from obtaining driver's licenses to reviewing the entire process — a change that might be attributable to the barrage of statewide media coverage on the issue after CityBeat's coverage.
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- if registering on the phone or in person, go to a computer and login to LancerPoint Online Services and select Enrollment Fee Receipt. (Computers are available in the Library, or the Computer Learning Center in the D building.)
- Take your Enrollment Fee Receipt OR your Lancer ID # and a photo ID to the LancerCard ID Station.
- Ask the friendly LancerCard ID Station staff for your new PCC LancerCard ID.


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Cute and sexy
So pretty, so sexy, so exciting!
Honey you are dropdead gorgeous! DAMN!
nothing like a hotttt slender body,,,hot lingerie,,,,and a beautiful gurl cock being stroked. mmmm so fking erotic,,let me suckkkkkkkkkk it,,,mmmm yeah ,,,let me slurp that hott fking cummmmm! ur beautiful hon
Sexy honey! i would swallow all your lovely cum down my throat xxx
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