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Hostel Hercegovina is ideally located in the most historical and central area of Mostar,(Old Town-100 meters away from the Old Bridge),within a walking distance to all major attractions and interesting spots of Mostar.We want to offer you a pleasant vacation and all guests are welcome to our hostel
Hostel Hercegovina is ideally located in the most historical and central area of Mostar, (Old Town-100 meters away from the Old Bridge), within a walking distance to all major attractions and interesting spots of Mostar.We want to offer you a pleasant vacation and all guests are welcome to our hostel.
We can offer you accommodation in one of 4 rooms with 11 beds. All rooms are air conditioned, have cable TV and wifi. Our facilities include bathrooms with hot showers 24 hours a day and free use of 1 equipped kitchen. We appreciate the importance of clean facilities; therefore we'll be cleaning all day long making sure everything is spotless.
Morning coffee or afternoon refreshments can be found on the terrace or in the large garden where you can find some coolnes in hot summer days. The room offers a view of Mostar and the Neretva River.Hostel is designed in order to provide you the best stay in one of the most beautiful cities of Balkan. Enjoy a friendly, fun and intimate atmosphere for all travellers, hopefully making you feel at home.
A staff member will be waiting at the bus and train station when you arrive. Please be sure to indicate your time of arrival so that we know when to pick you up.For travelers who come with their own car parking is provided, while motorists can leave their bikes in the yard where it will be safe and protected.
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Check in: from 11.00 to 23.00
Check out before 10am
Cancellation Policy: 24hours.
Credit Cards Not Accepted.
Taxes Included.
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- 24 Hour Reception
- 24 Hour Security
- Air Conditioning
- Bicycle parking
- Breakfast Not Included
- Cable TV
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
- Free Parking
- Free WiFi
- House Keeping
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- Luggage Storage
- No Curfew
- Non Smoking
- Outdoor Terrace
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- Taxes included
- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
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Hercegovinais located at the address where you can feel the wonderful intersection of East and West that is so authentic in Mostar. On the right side there is the famous Old Bridge (100 meters away) where you can enjoy the sights of the old town and numerous traditional restaurants. On the left side you can find Turkish house (20 meters away), Karađozbay mosque-largest and oldest mosque in Herzegovina (30 meters away), Muslibegovića house (70 meters away), numerous Mostar coffee-bars, restaurants, the post office (150 meters away) etc. Maybe the best sign is big supermarket KONZUM is 20 meters away, property is just behind KONZUM, look for the red doors), When you are standing in front of the market look to the left & you will see a short concrete pedestrian tunnel. Walk through the tunnel, down a few steps, walk ahead keeping to your right & you will see a primary school on your left. Go a little farther behind the market & look to your left down a short, narrow concrete passage & you will see the property with its 2 large metal red doors to the courtyard & a balcony with a wooden railing. Hercegovina is 15 minutes driving away from the airport (If you want we can also offer transportation to the property, which is much cheaper than a taxi)
Located Near
Hercegovina is placed in the center of a town, on the left side of a river Neretva one hundred meters away from the Old Bridge where are located numerous historical monuments from Ottoman Empire and Autro-Hungarian heritage. Also you can find a lot of coffee-bars, restaurants, supermarket, the post office etc. We are also very close to a bus and railway station (5 minutes waking), taxi stands, restaurants, pubs, cafes, clubs and much more.


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The permanent fund for Jersey Youth Academy added $7,330 from the fourth annual Cow Pie Bingo, held June 30 at the Fryeburg Fairgrounds in Fryeburg, Maine, during the annual meetings of the American Jersey Cattle Association and National All-Jersey Inc.
The heifer for this year's fundraiser was donated by Rector Jersey Farm, Hilmar, Calif., in memory of influential Jersey breeders and leaders of the American Jersey Cattle Association who have passed away in recent years.
Rectors Merchant Paris 22258 carried a genomic Jersey Performance Index of 151. She is sired by Sunset Canyon Merchant-ET, GJPI 176. Her dam by Ahlem Lemvig Abe-ET (GJPI 147) is Very Good-85% with 19,214-967-729 m.e. calving at 1 year, 9 months of age. The fourth dam is Excellent with four records over 21,000 lbs. milk, 1,000 lbs. fat and 800 lbs. protein.
More than 80 individuals and farms made donations of $10, $25 or $50 to select one or more of the 192 squares available. "Paris" chose her new owner by making her "deposit" on a square selected by Elsa Sherman and Janice Rector. They donated the calf to the 55th National Heifer Sale, where she sold for $2,100 to Alex Steer, Dalhart, Texas. All proceeds went to Jersey Youth Academy.
Cow Pie Bingo has now raised $27,900 for the endowment of Jersey Youth Academy.
Jersey Youth Academy is a 501(c)(3) educational foundation managed by the American Jersey Cattle Association to attract, educate and retain talented young people for careers in the Jersey dairy business. Contributors represent a broad spectrum of Jersey breeder and dairy industry support.
Applications for the third Jersey Youth Academy, scheduled for July 21-26, 2013, will be posted September 1 and are due November 30, 2012. For more information, visit the Academy website, contact program coordinator Dr. Cherie L. Bayer at (614) 322-4456, or write Jersey Youth Academy, 6486 E. Main Street, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-2362.

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WILL Pottinger is desperate to see his Cradley side build up a handy lead when they face King's Lynn in what is now the first leg of the National Shield at Monmore next Tuesday (7.30).
Heathens are chasing a fourth successive success in the competition but for the first time are racing as defending league champions.
And following last week's postponement of the first leg at the Norfolk Arena, Pottinger says his side have to go on the front foot from the start.
"It's vital for us to build up a handy lead," he said. "King's Lynn were our nearest challengers for the league title last season and they've built a good side once again.
"We will have a full team available with no fixture clashes so I'm pleased about that and hopefully we can get into them early and build up a lead."
Meanwhile, Pottinger is staying relaxed despite the trade magazine, Speedway Star, making Cradley firm favourite for the league title once again in their survey of journalists around the country.
He said: "We all know anything can happen during the course of a season and we need to just take every meeting as it comes along. It may sound boring but that's the way it is.
"We know everyone will be out there to beat us because we are the champions and we have such a fantastic following, but it's all about what shape we are in when September and October comes around.
"We're looking forward to the season ahead and we just want to get some momentum going from here."
Cradley were due to race against Coventry in the Travel Plus Trophy last night.


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|Product Rating: Date Posted: 2009-11-26 11:49:03
|Dark Maraschino Cherry
|Posted By: Pearl S. Dixon
|Location: Beaumont, TX United States
My original taste caused me to cancel my gifts of this and replace with the other chocolates. Since then, I find that people want this item very badly. Thus, I am ordering more for friends and family.
|Product Rating: Date Posted: 2010-01-10 10:59:11
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|Posted By: Lorraine Swenson
|Location: Union, NJ United States
I can honestly say that this is the first product that I have purchased from you that I truly dislike. There is something about the taste that makes it overwhelming and disagreeable. Possibly too much almond flavoring. I feel that the cherry taste should be more subtle. I'm sorry I don't like them.
|Product Rating: Date Posted: 2010-01-16 10:34:01
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|Posted By: B. Stein
|Location: Germantown, WI United States
I couldn't agree more with Lorraine from New Jersey. These were by far the worst tasting thing I've ordered fromyour catalog. Like a 3 in 1 oil taste got spilled into the batch. Not pleasant or very edible at all. Even my wife agreed something's "just not right". Certainly not what we were expecting, since normally your flavors are really "spot" on. Glad we didn't serve these to our guests! Good idea though, please try and improve.
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OMG!! These are so good! So soft and chocolaty.
|Product Rating: Date Posted: 2010-12-26 17:18:26
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I got these for my husband to try and ended up eating as many as he did! They are wonderful!
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|Posted By: Jeannie Erickson
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oh we are addicted to these!! We should have ordered more! I wish these came in sugar free. I could have eaten the whole box myself. So soft and good cherry flavor with the dark chocolate so good with my red wine! You will love these!!
|Product Rating: Date Posted: 2013-01-28 23:27:05
|Posted By: Jan Hicks
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These were a free gift and I figured they were just another box of chocolate covered cherries but was so mistaken. They are amazing, I love the good cherry taste, rich chocolate, consistency, the whole package! I am now ordering more--thanks for the freebie, I fell in love with it!
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I stopped by your factory while in town for the Leavenworth Holiday Festival weekend and always come by your factory when in the area and I saw these WONDERFULLY CHOCOLATE covered Cherry DELIGHT in a grab bag for $5.00 so how could i resist?? THEY WERE SOOO GOOD!!! I wish i would of gotten more!! Love all your candies and we always stop by when in the area! :)
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Isla and Abigail Bring Their Western to London at a Rango Photo Call
Isla Fisher and Abigail Breslin kept up their busy schedule of premieres and press for Rango today in London. The pair posed for pictures with some of the movie's quirky characters, but their leading man, Johnny Depp, wasn't along for the event. He did team up with the ladies last week, though, at the movie's LA debut. He was also on hand for a press conference just before the big night, where he chatted about his sex-symbol status and how his children feel about his career. He and his costar Isla are both parents to two kids, and we just got a first look at her adorable youngest daughter earlier this month. She's been away from home promoting the film, but has had support from her family, with her dad joining her on the red carpet in Berlin on Sunday.


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The cost of many pre-1920 valentines is enough to break your heart, if not your wallet.
That's why I'm continually on the prowl for "penny valentines" — the type most of us gave to one another when we were children; they are still handed out by kids today.
I prefer examples that date back to the 1920s through '50s. Most are comical, even a bit corny. No matter. These endearing greetings are usually tagged for less than $10.
Exchanging valentines is a custom that dates back many hundreds of years. The earliest cards were made by hand of high-quality paper accented with ribbon, satin, lace and perhaps exotic feathers. Lovesick senders also had to come up with original verse, or poetry, as a part of the greeting.
Commercially produced cards first appeared in Germany, France and England. It wasn't until the middle of the 19th century that ready-to-send cards were sold in the United States.
The most notable American maker was Esther Howland, of Worcester, Mass. Her success was so great that at one point she sold $100,000 worth of cards annually. Most of her works currently fetch at least $75 apiece.
Traditionally, valentines were presented by one adult to another. By 1915, however, firms began to turn out valentines for school-age kids and teachers. Stationers and greeting card companies such as Gibson and Whitman retailed kits to whip up valentines using crayons plus scraps of lace and paper. Once assembled, the cards were stuffed into the envelopes provided.
By the 1930s, most valentines sold for as little as a penny each. Retailers kept cards reasonably priced so that youngsters could buy a card for every classmate.
It wasn't long before school parties took place. Cards were deposited in boxes embellished with hearts and cupids. The precious cargo was eagerly distributed by students, while their teacher served cupcakes and ladled punch.
Luckily, large quantities of these sweet valentines — at times called "flats" — have survived. I must have 800 or more in my collection.
I'm fond of those depicting animals. And this holiday, I decided to decorate my mantel with those featuring cats. One shows off a feline sitting at her parlor organ or piano, ostensibly playing a love song. Another example has an orange tabby decked out with a big blue bow, ready to snap a photo with his camera. A favorite of mine has a kitty dressed in a pretty frock and pink ribbon. She says, "Hearts are trumps, and you're my king, my valentine."
By the way, these valentines are a bit special. Known as "mechanicals," they have moving parts held together by a tiny steel eyelet or tabs that perform an action when pulled. For example, I have a kitty whose head rocks back and forth holding a heart saying "Purr-haps you'll be my Valentine."
You'll find vintage valentines at thrift shops, estate sales, flea markets and antiques shops. I hope you will have as much fun putting together a collection of these tiny treasures as I have.
Books galore
The world's largest rare-book fair, sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, will hold its 46th exhibition in San Francisco on Feb. 15-17. The event — a mecca for devotees of ephemera — draws more than 200 vendors from across the United States and around the world.
Among the rare pieces up for sale at the book fair will be a first edition of "The Federalist Papers"; a rare edition of Audubon's "Birds in America"; an autographed chapter of Mark Twain's "A Tramp Abroad"; a miniature Quran used by Muslim soldiers during World War I; and photographs of the Rolling Stones' first United Kingdom tour in 1964.
The popular event will feature a number of seminars covering a range of topics. Two, in particular, sound like winners: "Book Collecting 101" and "What's This Book Worth?" There's also a chance to show as many as three of your own special volumes to an expert for an oral appraisal that's free with your paid admission.
All of the fun occurs at the Concourse Exhibition Center, at Eighth and Brannan streets, San Francisco. Tickets cost $25 for a three-day pass, or $15 for a single-day pass on either Feb. 16 or Feb. 17. Buy yours at www.cabookfair.com. Details: 800-454-6401.
Annual art sale
The fifth annual art sale supporting the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital of Palo Alto starts Feb. 18 at the Thrift Box in San Jose and runs for a month.
Interior designers and savvy connoisseurs are among those who make it a point to be at this yearly clearance. Expect to find original oil paintings and watercolors, as well as lithographs posters and prints. There is a good selection of frames and mats.
Discover the Thrift Box at 1362 Lincoln Ave., San Jose. Hours: Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. For more details, call 408-294-4490.
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The case: Shane Franklyn Miller is suspected of gunning down his wife Sandy and daughters Shelby Miller, 8, and Shasta Miller, 4, in their Shingletown home in Shasta County on May 7 before fleeing 200 miles to the Mattole Valley. Authorities have confirmed that Miller made contact with a woman he had a past relationship with in Petrolia the day after his family was found dead, and his truck was later found on Mattole Road. High school friends and others who knew him during his time in Humboldt County say he has outdoor survival skills and knows the wilderness area where he was last seen.
Miller has a criminal record and served time in prison. Authorities consider Miller armed and dangerous.
Community members are encouraged to call the sheriff's office at 445-7251 or the tip line at 268-2539 if they see anything suspicious or 911, in the event of an emergency.
Latest update: Hikers who found the Miller family dog on May 8 told detectives the dachshund was in the parking lot at the beach by the mouth of the Mattole on Lighthouse Road in Petrolia. Authorities said it appears that Gigi was abandoned in the parking lot, most likely by Miller.
Detective Todd Fulton was able to track them down by calling several telephone numbers left by hikers in metal boxes near the trail. The hikers had left the dog with a local resident they ran into on the beach. Authorities said the dog will be returned to family members.
The search for Miller continued Thursday with significantly reduced staffing at the command post in Petrolia. Sheriff's office personnel will remain in the area with detectives, who are following leads and tips. The other dozen outside agencies that joined the manhunt are returning to their jurisdictions. Deputies will continue 24/7 road patrols for the next several days. Road patrols will be dedicated solely to the Mattole Valley to answer any calls for service.
Humboldt County Sheriff Mike Downey said the most likely scenarios are Miller has killed himself or left the area.
King Range: The King Range National Conservation Area trails will be remain closed through May 31.
At a glance: Shane Miller
Height: 5 feet, 10 inches tall
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By Adam Poulisse: It doesn't always have to be a war of the worlds. Every once in a while, an alien wants to make contact with puny Earthlings just to say "s'up?" For every "Mars Attacks!" there's a "Paul." For every "Independence Day" there's an "Earth to Echo." Here's a list of friendly aliens in pop culture that like us (and in return, we like them).
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Name of alien: Unnamed.
Director: Steven Spielberg.
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban.
About the alien: Tiny humanoids and spiderlike aliens gave special signals to humans to let them know they wanted to make first contact. And, they gave playing with your food some cosmic significance.
Legacy/pop culture impact: Spielberg's movie showed aliens wanted to rendezvous at Devils Tower in Wyoming to greet us, not grill us.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Name of alien: E.T.
Director: Steven Spielberg.
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton.
About the alien: A brown, bottle-necked alien with a glowing heart who is stranded on Earth and wants to return home.
Legacy/pop culture impact: Spielberg once again brought us a friendly alien, the most famous of all. "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" was the highest grossing movie for a decade and spawned dolls, clothes, decorative furniture, theme park rides and the burning desire in our hearts that bicycles could fly.
Alf (1986-1990)
Name of alien: Alf (Alien Life Form).
Creators: Paul Fusco and Tom Patchett.
Starring: Paul Fusco, Max Wright, Anne Schedeen, Andrea Elson, Benji Gregory.
About the alien: Unless you're a cat, you have little to fear from Alf (voiced by Fusco), a furry brown aardvark-like alien that crash-landed in the Tanner family's suburban home after his home planet Melmac was destroyed.
Legacy/pop culture impact: "Alf," which ran on NBC, introduced a sort of alien technology of its own: It was the first television series to be presented in Dolby Surround sound. Alf was a pop culture sensation for its time. In 2012, Sony Animation purchased the rights to the show to develop a live-action/CGI "Alf" movie, with Fusco once again voicing the titular alien.
*batteries not included (1987)
Name of aliens: Fix-Its.
Director: Matthew Robbins.
Starring: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae.
About the aliens: Tiny, hovering, mechanical aliens befriend an apartment building's tenants and help save their building from demolition.
Legacy/pop culture impact: Spielberg was executive producer on "*batteries not included." The movie was co-written by Brad Bird, who went on to write for "The Simpsons" and several Pixar movies.
Mac and Me (1988)
Name of alien: Mac (Mysterious Alien Creature).
Director: Steward Raffill.
Starring: Jonathan Ward, Christine Ebersole, Tina Caspary, Lauren Stanley.
About the alien: An affectionate homage/blatant cash grab of the E.T. craze some years before, Mac is a small orange alien that escapes NASA scientists and befriends a paraplegic boy in a wheelchair.
Legacy/pop culture impact: "Mac and Me" has received notoriety over the years, but for all the wrong reasons. The movie holds a zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is panned by critics for being an E.T. rip-off with too much product placement. The movie has become a running gag between Paul Rudd and Conan O'Brien over the years, with Rudd showing a clip from "Mac and Me" on O'Brien's talk show instead of the movie he is there to promote.
Paul (2011)
Name of alien: Paul.
Director: Greg Mottola.
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen.
About the alien: Paul, an Area 51 escapee, is friendly, but maybe not kid-friendly. The small gray alien (voiced by Rogen) is crass and crude, cracking wise and making inappropriate comments. But at least he wasn't aiming a death ray at the planet.
Legacy/pop culture impact: "Paul" was ripe with geek humor and pop culture references, all the way up to its cameo by Sigourney Weaver of "Alien" fame.
Superman (1978-)
Name of alien: Kal-El.
Directors: Richard Donner, Richard Lester, Sidney J. Furie, Bryan Singer and Zack Snyder.
Starring: Superman has been played by Christopher Reeve, Brandon Routh and, most recently, Henry Cavill.
About the alien: He doesn't have tentacles or scaly skin, but the muscular, chiseled-chin Superman is still an alien. After his home planet, Krypton, is destroyed, Superman lands on Earth to protect it.
Legacy/pop culture impact: The indestructible DC Comics superhero has appeared in six movies since 1978, with a seventh on the way in 2016, pitting Superman against Batman for the first time in a live-action movie. (Batman, of course, is an Earthling.) A sequel to the 2013 film "Man of Steel" was recently announced for 2018.
The key to contacting extraterrestrial life may be our children.
At least, that's been a Hollywood interpretation since "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" first phoned home in 1982, showing us that not all outer space aliens want to zap us with death rays. Some of them, like E.T., have hearts — big, glowing ones.
Since then, the children-find-a-friendly-alien-and-have-to-protect-it-from-the-evil-government movie is becoming a subgenre. There was "Mac and Me" (1988), about an alien on the run from NASA who befriends a boy in a wheelchair. (Mac stands for Mysterious Alien Creature.) "Super 8" (2011) featured a group of precocious young filmmakers who find an alien and help it to return to outer space.
Now there is "Earth to Echo," a family film about a group of preteens whose wonky smartphones lead them to a tiny, damaged alien robot — who looks like a cross between WALL-E and a baby owl — after his spacecraft crash-lands in the middle of the Nevada desert. They name him Echo. As their last hurrah before a mysterious construction company demolishes their neighborhood and displaces them all, the gang helps Echo repair himself and find the key to his spaceship so the little guy can return home.
"Earth to Echo" is told through the children's perspective, using a boy named Tuck's camera glasses, iPhones and other hand-held devices to give the movie a realistic "queasy-cam" found-footage effect that's been around since a trio of young filmmakers got lost witch-hunting in 1999 in "The Blair Witch Project."
Director Dave Green and writers Andrew Panay and Henry Gayden were all on board in approaching "Earth to Echo" with the DIY filming technique.
"With some of the tools you have as a filmmaker, you tie one arm behind your back," Green said. "It's challenging you to fence with the other hand.
"But what I think the advantage was, it really challenged us to tell the story from the kids' point of view and create an intimacy with those characters that you really wouldn't have otherwise."
Another piece of technology the film uses is little Echo itself, which combines practical and special effects. Legacy Effects, the company that brought much larger robots to life in movies like "Iron Man 3" and "Pacific Rim," created Echo.
Sometimes, Echo is totally computer generated. But in the quieter, more intimate moments, like when Teo Halm — who plays Alex, a foster child — holds a wounded Echo in his palm, the alien was a real piece of equipment.
"I found it easier to connect with him when he was right in front of me," said Halm, now 15.
"It's harder to connect when you're talking to the palm of your hand, saying 'I'm going to miss you.' "
After filming was completed, "Earth to Echo" was shelved by Disney for about a year before it was sold to Relativity Media; it finally lands in theaters Wednesday.
The delay between filming and distribution means the four young actors who star in the film now have deeper, more articulate voices than the children they were in "Earth to Echo." Along with Halm, they are Reese Hartwig, 15; Brian "Astro" Bradley, 17; and Ella Wahlestedt, 15.
Halm said people like children-with-friendly-aliens movies "because they have something for all ages."
"You have the cute and cuddly Echo, which kids will love," Halm said. "Then you have the edgier scenes, which bring in teenagers and adults. That's what I think a true family movie is, when you can get everybody to enjoy it."
Comparisons are easy to make to "E.T." and somewhat to "Super 8," which was a throwback to the 1980s in every aspect including being named after an antiquated filming technique. But "Earth to Echo" grounds itself in modern-day technology used by today's youth, just like "E.T." did in its time.
"Earth to Echo" has cellphones, while "E.T." had walkie-talkies. Films are not made on 8 mm film anymore, as in "Super 8," not when you can make a video on a smartphone and post it to YouTube.
At least children still ride bicycles.
"If Echo was found today, this is how it would have happened," said Hartwig, who plays Munch in the movie. "This is how it would have been filmed. This is how people would have seen it. If kids had found (Echo), that's probably what they would have done."
None of the child stars has seen "E.T." Bradley, who as Tuck filmed most of the action, said he doesn't even watch science fiction.
"My favorite genre is comedy," he said.


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Major League Baseball likely will announce all the remaining suspensions resulting from its investigation into Biogenesis this week, according to the New York Post.
Among the announced punishments could be one banning New York Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez for the rest of this season and next season, the newspaper reports. A-Rod hasn't played a major league game yet in 2013 following offseason hip surgery.
At issue is the defunct Biogenesis anti-aging clinic in Miami, which allegedly provided performance-enhancing drugs to athletes. Several MLB players have been linked in media reports to the clinic, including Rodriguez, 2012 All-Star game MVP Melky Cabrera, 2005 AL Cy Young Award winner Bartolo Colon and 2011 AL championship series MVP Nelson Cruz.
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Milwaukee outfielder Ryan Braun, the 2011 National League MVP, agreed last week to a 65-game suspension for violating baseball's rules on drug use after being connected to Biogenesis.
MLB wants to make the suspensions formal this week, when every team still has more than 50 games left to play, the Post reports. The penaly for first-time offenders of baseball's drug policy is 50 games.
Baseball is hoping to minimize appeals by allowing first-time offenders to serve their entire suspensions this season, the newspaper says. That category would not include Rodriquez, who has admitted past PED use, or Cabrera and Colon, each of whom was suspended for 50 games last season after testing positive for PEDs.


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Obama Campaign App Nets Award
Tate Strickland has truly made his mark on the world. The 2010 graphic design graduate and Thirteen23, the company he worked for, were recently awarded the Interaction Design Association's (IxDA) 2013 Interaction Award for their work on the Obama for America
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IxDA, founded in 2003, works to improve the human condition by advancing the discipline of interaction design. It is involved in initiatives relating to education and mentoring, public relations, outreach, and internationalization.
"IxDA is an international organization for user experience design, so the visual design of digital experiences," says Strickland. "The Connecting category [in which he won] is about bringing people together and getting them to talk to each other in some fashion."
While at AU, Strickland concentrated in interactive design, which includes web and mobile design. After graduation, he moved to Austin, Texas, and joined Thirteen23, an interactive design studio specializing in digital strategy, user interface design, and software development.
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Thirteen23 had just decided to expand and hired Strickland as its first full-time designer.
"It was a really small design development team," Strickland explains. "I was actually their sixth employee, and their first full-time designer. What is interesting about the company is that instead of having designers work on their own and create the visual design and architecture of an app or website and then toss it to developers who do their thing, the designers and developers were working in close coordination with one another at all times, which turned out to be a really effective model. I worked really well there because at AU I had been a graphic design major, but I had also done some coding as well. So I knew enough to understand what the developers were talking about and to work with them effectively."
During his time at Thirteen23, Strickland cultivated an expertise in mobile design, mostly for the iPhone.
Strickland and Thirteen23 became involved with the Obama for America Campaign through their work in 2011 with Livestrong. Strickland worked with a small team on creating a basic mobile app for volunteers to collect donations by using Square, the mobile credit card payment solution that connects with mobile devices.
"So we were in contact with Square throughout this process," he continues, "and throughout a series of connections, Square referred us to Harper Reed, the chief technology officer of Obama for America in Chicago. They approached us and asked us to make a donations app that was similar to the one for Livestrong."
Over the course of several months, the project ballooned. "They wanted their entire mobile strategy designed. I was assigned as the designer on the project. It was my job to build all of the architecture: the screens, the wire frames, and also the visual design for the iPhone app. I was a part of the team of four that went to Chicago and met with the campaign."
IxDA presented Strickland and Thirteen23 the award for their work on January 29. However, Strickland had already left the company. Returning as a professor in the AU Graphic Design Program at the beginning of the 2012–2013 academic year, he now teaches Visual
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The traditional idea that animals are reborn as humans just by waiting for their karma to be exhausted just doesn't sit right with me. I mean, why should it apply to the woeful realms, but not the human realms also? I can't just sit in these human realms and "wait for my karma to be exhausted."
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The traditional idea that animals are reborn as humans just by waiting for their karma to be exhausted just doesn't sit right with me. I mean, why should it apply to the woeful realms, but not the human realms also? I can't just sit in these human realms and "wait for my karma to be exhausted." I am reborn in higher realms through mindfulness and right action, and can actually fall into lower realms through a lack of mindfulness. Could this not hold true for beings in other realms? Don't animals put forth effort and concentration, in their own limited way?
bodom_bad_boy wrote:A favorite method of communicating is the cat's purr, which is unique to the feline species. You may already know that a cat purrs when he's content. Animal behaviorists now believe that they also purr when they are in the mood to be sociable.
However, if you pay close attention to your cat, you'll notice that he also purrs when he's nervous, feeling a little uneasy or even if he's in great pain. Some experts think it's a feline form of "meditation" and that this action comforts them. If this theory is at all correct, the "purring" sound of the feline is the equivalent of our "Ohm" when we meditate.
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Vardali wrote:I don't know if animals can meditate, but I do firmly believe that the capacities of animals to act purposefully (instead of being purely instinct-driven) are wildly underestimated.
I don't know about dogs but I am sharing my household with a few cats - and their actions and characters are very different; some of them are real sunshine kitties who are always happy, positive and friendly; others are anxious, nervous and neurotic. Their frame of reference will certainly differ from our human perspective, but they have their own rules, preferences and developments to go by. And there are some that are real little "angels" and I find it hard to imagine that they might not have a chance to gain merit/positive rebirth.
I am trying to expose them to my Buddhst practise, playing chants etc. for them just in case they might benefit. And funny, when I am going into a guided meditation session and a cat is lying on my legs etc. they seem to relax as well
Anyway, I think that - culturally speaking - animals are really underestimated in their (self-)consciousness, so I hope they will be able to move towards enlightenment one way or the other
kannada wrote:Animals don't need to meditate - We do...
BlackBird wrote:Animals do not have the capacity to understand the Dhamma. It would naturally follow that they are incapable of meditation.
However I do think animals can act with purpose, let me relate a story.
We used to have 2 cats, Bobby was the Alpha male around the neighbourhood and we loved him dearly. When I was younger I would sit on the porch after school for a good 20 minutes, and wait for a taxi to pick me up and take me to my Mum's work. Bobby would come every day without fail, and sit with me. He didn't expect anything of me, and I didn't expect anything of him. Just two sentient beings enjoying each other's company. Never underestimate the power of animals to make humans happy and teach them compassion.
Bobby used to rush home from prowling his teritory to greet us because he knew the sound of our car. When I was coming home one night he was obviously rushing home to greet me and got hit by a car on the road adjacent to us.
We didn't know this had happened, but our other cat Paru, a quiet shy wee moggy who largely kept to herself - Was in a strange mood that night. For the first time in years she actually came up to my Mum and started meowing at her, and came and sat on her knee. She was meowing quite a lot that night, for a cat who never meowed before. So when we found Bobby dead on the road side it all seemed to add up. My Mum was grieving pretty hard, and I was no different. But this wee cat Paru, stuck by us, and kept us company. Rubbing up between our legs and looking at us with big comforting eyes... If ever you could see compassion in a cat's eyes, this was it.
It was a beautiful moment, and one that served the shy wee cat a lot of merit - I believe, or well I hope it did anyway. She had a good heart.
Some animals have a lot of good merit stored up in there, a lot of good traits which are still easy to see if one pays attention.
Bhikkhus, there are beings that go on their fours and grinding grass dry or wet with their teeth, eat it. Who are such beings? They are horses, cattle, donkeys, goats,deer or any other animals that go on their fours and eat grass. The fool greedy for tastes do evil things and after death are born in the company of the four footed and eat grass.
Bhikkhus, there are animals that eat excreta. They run sniffing the smell of excreta, thinking we will eat that and that, like the brahmin that runs for the smell of a sacrifice thinking we will eat here and here. In the same manner animals that eat excreta. run sniffing the smell of excreta, thinking we will eat that and that. Bhikkhus, what are the animals that eat excreta? They are cocks, pigs, dogs, foxes and any other animals that eat excreta. The fool greedy for tastes do evil things and after death are born in the company of the animals that eat excreta.
Bhikkhus, there are crawling things that are born, live and die in the dark.. Bhikkhus, what are the crawling things that are born, live and die in the dark? Beetles, worm maggots, earth worms and similar crawling things are born, live and die in the dark. Fools greedy for tastes do evil things and after death are born in the company of those born in the dark
Bhikkhus, there are things that are born, live and die in the water..Bhikkhus, what are the things that are born, live and die in water? Fish, turtles, crocodiles and similar beings are born, live and die in water. Fools greedy for tastes do evil things and after death are born in the company of those born in water.
Bhikkhus, there are things that are born, live and die in excreta..Bhikkhus, what are the things that are born, live and die in excreta? Things that are born live and die in rotten fish, in rotten flesh, in rotten bread, in a dirty village pool Fools greedy for tastes do evil things and after death are born in the company of those born, live and die in excreta.
I may explain the unpleasantness of the animal world in various ways, yet it is not easy to explain that unpleasantness completely.
Bhikkhus, a man would throw into the ocean a plough share with a single hole in it. Then with the eastern winds it would be carried west and with the western windscarried east. With the northern winds it would be carried south and with the southern winds carried north. Then there is a blind turtle in the depths of the ocean and it comes up to the surface after the lapse of a hundred years. Bhikkhus this turtle with one eye to see would he put his neck in the plough share and yoke it to the hole to see light?'
'Venerable sir, it would happen after the lapse of a very long time.'
'Bhikkhus, it is more likely that the blind turtle would put his neck in the plough share and yoke the eye to the hole to see light rather than the fool once fallen to hell would gain humanity. What is the reason? Here, there is no righteous living, good conduct, merit or a pleasant mind. Here they eat each other, the weaker one is eaten up.
Bhikkhus, even if the fool regains humanity after a very long time he is born in a low clan such as with the out castes, the hunters, with the bamboo weavers, chariot builders, rubbish collectors or in such other low family.Born into a poor family without eatables, drinks and clothing, gains them with difficulty. He too is not with pleasant appearance has a deformed body and is with many ailments, either blind, deformed, lame or paralysed, or does not gain eatables, drinks, clothes, conveyances, flowers, scents, ointments, beds, dwellings and illuminations. He misbehaves by body, speech and mind and after death goes to decrease and is born in hell
Bhikkhus, it is like the gambler, who at the first throw loses his sons, wife and all his wealth and is further pursued. That unlucky throw on account of which the gambler loses his sons, wife and all his wealth is much better than the fool misbehavingby body, speech and mindwould after death be born in hell.Bhikkhus, now the fools' sphere is completely told
Dhammabodhi wrote:I don't know whether animals meditate or not, but this big cat earned a lot of merit I'm sure.
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I am considering a in depth post about why I think JOB is a good coach - and I still might get around to it. Really though I think this is all I need to say. O'Brien is the one who basically cut and got rid of Glenn Robinson while in Philly - he pretty much ended his career. I don't think anything more needs to be said.
Really though the fact that JOB is the primary reason JT isn't playing this season - that is all the evidence I need that O'Brien is an excellent coach. Coach will always have a special place in my heart for ushering Jamaal out the door.


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Sean Connery is best known as the original James Bond. He's also starred in numerous box-office hits like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990) and The Rock (1996).
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sean connery stars in the untouchables and the hunt for red octoberThe success of Never Say Never Again re-established Sean Connery as a box-office draw, even though the actual filming experience left him somewhat disillusioned. After a few years away from acting, he returned in 1986 in The Name of the Rose, a European film that won him a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. The following year, he starred as a fearless cop, Jimmy Malone, alongside Kevin Costner and Robert DeNiro in The Untouchables. The film was a big success, and Sean Connery won his first (and only) Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Sean Connery's box-office roll continued through 1989 and into 1990. In 1989, he played the father to Harrison Ford's iconic archaeologist in the third Indiana Jones film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Just a year later, he received only two weeks notice before taking on the role of Lithuanian submarine captain Marko Ramius opposite Alec Baldwin in the Oscar-nominated Jack Ryan adventure The Hunt for Red October.
sean connery stars in the rock and entrapmentAlthough Sean Connery was past 60 years of age, the rest of the '90s saw the actor continue a steady stream of acting. In 1996, he teamed up with Oscar-winner-of-the-moment Nicolas Cage for the high-octane action thriller The Rock. The film was a crowd-pleaser that also harkened back to Sean Connery's Bond films, since he was playing an imprisoned, former secret service agent. 1999 saw Sean Connery star as an expert thief opposite Catherine Zeta Jones in Entrapment, another box office success.
Sean Connery's recent films haven't earned him the same critical or commercial success that he previously enjoyed. While he earned some critical kudos for Finding Forrester (2000), the film only performed marginally at the box office, and his 2003 film, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, was an outright flop. Sean Connery has since retired from acting, even spurning the opportunity to star in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in order to complete work on his autobiography and enjoy his free time. Whether Sean Connery returns to acting or stays retired, he has already blessed movie fans of current and future generations with enough iconic characters and memorable films to forever solidify his shrine in Hollywood history.
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With Brown returning, Altherr heads back to Double-A
MIAMI -- The Phillies optioned outfielder Aaron Altherr to Double-A Reading following Thursday night's 5-4 victory over the Marlins.
The Phillies said they will announce a corresponding move Friday in Pittsburgh, although manager Ryne Sandberg said he expects it will be outfielder Domonic Brown rejoining the club. Brown has been on the paternity list since Tuesday.
Altherr, ranked No. 5 on the Phillies' Top 20 Prospects list according to MLB.com, made his first big league start Thursday. He went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts.
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Ten people were injured, including six children, in a crash Saturday in Woodland Hills, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
The crash on the eastbound 101 freeway at Valley Circle Boulevard happened just after 1 p.m.
With all but one eastbound lane still closed an hour later, traffic was paralyzed for miles. Most cars exited on Calabasas Road, which also was backed up, said Leland Tang, a California Highway Patrol officer who was caught in the traffic himself.
Brian Humphrey, a Fire Department spokesman, said two of the injured children were ejected from a vehicle or vehicles.
Their conditions weren't available, but Tang said it did not appear anyone had been killed. The cause of the accident was still being investigated.


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Hey PD....
We aren't able to make the game vs. the Boston Brad Stevenses (Celts) on Sunday.
Thought I would give the fine folk at the Digest a crack at our tix before I throw them on the exchange.
3 great seats together in section 107 row 5. Club level. $125 each. Tix in hand. Can email them, too.
If this post is up, they are still available.


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A MAN who died from leukaemia has been honoured with a charity being set up in his name to help adults complete their bucket list.
Jamie Macvicar, of High Barrets, Pitsea, died of the blood disease in October last year, aged 42.
When given the terminal diagnosis his family said there were lots of challenges and experiences he would have liked to have had with his family – from meeting Lee Evans, to the cast of Holby City.
Family friend Malcolm Wheeler, 53, who is in remission from bowel cancer, felt there was nothing around to help adults to complete their dying wishes.
Mr Wheeler, of Mariskals, Pitsea, decided to set up the Jamie Malc charity to start support groups for cancer victims and survivors and their families.
He wants to raise enough cash to grant experiences to adults across Essex, after finding most charities only cater for children or young people.
Jamie's sister Carol, 47, said: "When Jamie was in hospital I joked with him who he'd want by his bedside and he said Lee Evans and the cast of Holby City.
"I tried my hardest to get hold of them, but it didn't happen.
"Jamie would be overwhelmed to know this charity was being set up in his name.
"He was a people's person who would help anyone else before himself.
"He was an amazing brother and it's nice he will live on by helping other people.
"He was a big character. He worked in the hospital as a porter and patients would always say how amazing he was, holding their hands as they went for surgery, or joking with them. It's been really hard, but this feels like it's keeping him going.
"As a family we will do our upmost to raise money and help the cause."
Mr Wheeler was motivated to start the charity after completing a Hope course at St Luke's Hospice, in Basildon, which supports residents overcoming cancer.
He said: "It gave me a kick up the bum. I went through all the emotions, but didn't feel isolated anymore. I wasn't the only one worried about it coming back.
"Make A Wish and charities like that are brilliant for children.
"But had I been unlucky to have terminal diagnosis, there would be lots of things I would have liked to do with my family as a lasting memory and it was the same for Jamie.
"It gave me the inspiration to stop thinking and start doing."
The charity will hold its first event on March 8 at Bowers Gifford Sports Club.
Drag queen Bella Bezerk will perform from 7.30pm, with a disco afterwards until late.
Tickets, which cost £10, can be booked by calling 07796 144125.


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February 7, 2012 — Seventy-four percent of the men we interviewed in our series, Engaging Men in Gender Initiatives, identified fear and apathy as barriers to supporting gender equality. In today's Take 5, we look at reasons why men should care. Men have a lot to gain, and nothing to fear from equality. Here's why:
#1: Good business sense. Gender bias inhibits problem solving and hinders innovation. And study after study has linked increased female leadership to stronger, on average, financial results.
#2: Boost your net worth. Women in the US lose about $380,000 due to the gender pay gap over the course of their lives. If your partner is a woman, closing this gap makes good financial sense for you and your family.
#3: Increased personal freedom. Imagine a world where you do not need to hide family responsibilities from co-workers and you have the freedom to admit you don't know something without calling your masculinity into question.
#4: Live longer. Sometimes being a man—especially if it means never asking for help—can compromise your health. Equality has shown to improve health and quality of life.
#5: Your children. Equality now ensures that the next generation will have all the opportunities to succeed on an equal playing field for all.


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Throwing it all away to start fresh is a gamble Florence is familiar with. And it nearly cost him everything.
If you've flipped on the Food Network even once during the past 16 years, chances are good you've encountered Florence, one of the original and most enduring icons of the now sprawling network. His easy manner in the kitchen and baby-faced good looks wooed viewers early and kept him afloat even as his field got crowded.
His old-school, behind-the-stove-style shows — "Food 911," "How to Boil Water," "Tyler's Ultimate" — were solid, even as so-called "reality" increasingly flavored the network's offerings. He wrote cookbooks, he launched product lines, he worked the festival circuit. It was an empire built almost entirely on celebrity. It didn't occur to him that this might not be a good thing.
In 2006, Florence married Tolan Clark — celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito had introduced them two years earlier — a woman so genuine and pleasant it's hard to believe she arose from a world saturated by celebrity (her parents were introduced by Francis Ford Coppola, and she had worked for Ryan Seacrest and Wolfgang Puck).
When she became pregnant with their first child, they made a bold — and risky — decision. They'd leave New York and head to Mill Valley, Calif., to be closer to her family. Florence would tinker with making wine, try his hand at a retail store, probably open a restaurant. The empire surely would follow them. But the West Coast reboot ended up crashing the system.
"The world fell apart," Florence said over a glass of wine during a break at the recent New York City Wine and Food Festival. "We'd just moved to California, and the economy collapsed. My wife and I were just terrified. Food Network canceled two of my seasons because they literally didn't have the ad money to pay for it.
"All public appearance business dried up overnight," said Florence.Florence was forced to lay off nearly all of his employees and burn through the couple's savings. Vacations were canceled and every decision — and every penny spent — was second guessed.
They did get out of it, and the rebuilding, rebranding and diversifying of Tyler Florence began in earnest. This time, instead of following the dictates of a network or fame, he followed his passions. Like starting Sprout, a line of hugely successful organic baby foods so close to the heart of this now-dad-of-three, he gets almost mesmerized talking about the ingredients that go into it.
And his Mill Valley retail shop — The Tyler Florence Shop — which flourished and multiplied.
"Everything else I've done my entire life was defined by the Food Network," he said. "The retail store was the first time I showed what I was thinking."
He also returned to the idea of opening a restaurant. Except one restaurant somehow turned into four, the crown jewel among them being Wayfare Tavern in San Francisco. His television career bounced back, too. When the Food Network offered him a new series — "The Great Food Truck Race." Florence fell in love, not just with the show, but with its concept — helping people with big dreams make them real. So much so, he's all but sworn off opening more of his own restaurants. He'd rather focus on investing in other people's ideas.


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Badin is just one big 'ole laid back boy looking for his forever home to enjoy his golden years.
March 2017 graduate of New Leash on Life training program where he learned Basic Obedience.
The standard adoption fee is $150, but it may vary depending on the situation and the animal. This includes vetting such as shots, spaying or neutering, microchipping, deworming, and heartworm testing if the animal is over six months of age.
You may complete an application to start the adoption process at www.stanlycountyhumanesociety.org, under the 'Adoption' tab.
Thanks for considering adopting a rescue pet!
Adoption fees for pets with Stanly County Humane Society are to cover the following:
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Move over California, there's a new state at the top of the heap in yogurt production: New York.
According to the Associated Press, New York produced 692 million pounds of yogurt last year to claim the top ranking from California, where producers churned out 587 million pounds.
Yogurt plants in New York have tripled production since 2008, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has lifted many environmental regulations to encourage milk production. Click here to read more.
"The new New York State is a place where businesses can grow and thrive, and the fact that New York State is now, for the first time ever, the nation's leader in yogurt production demonstrates that our efforts to open the state's doors to business and grow the private sector are truly working," Governor Cuomo said in a news release. "Our state government is working closer together with the private sector than ever before, rolling back bureaucratic red tape and addressing the burdens that are facing job creators. With New York State officially being crowned Yogurt Capital of America, it is clear that our approach to growing the economy and creating an entrepreneurial government is paying off."
During the last couple of months, New York has moved past Idaho as the third-largest milk-producing state, and thanks to the state's thriving yogurt companies, the New York dairy industry is booming. Chobani, the country's top Greek yogurt producer, says that 93 percent of the milk used by its New York plant comes from local dairies.
"Our focus is bringing that quality milk in upstate New York and making high quality milk, adding value to it," says Chobani CEO Halil Ulukaya.


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Question: Who will be impacted by this bill and when?
Brett: Tax brackets increased only for high income Americans. Singles earning $400,000 and families earning over $450,000 went from paying an income tax of 35% to 39.6%.
But, payroll taxes will increase for everyone! Remember, we were never exactly entitled to low payroll taxes in the first place. Lower taxes were a gift Congress gave us with the goal of stimulating the economy. Now, as a result of the fiscal deal, payroll taxes will jump from 4.2% back up to 6.2% of your paycheck. This takes effect immediately.
Question: Do the math. How much does this really come out to?
Brett: I've taken a few salary averages in South Florida so everyone can figure out how they fit into the equation. Resort desk clerks who typically earn $23,000 a year will pay $460 more in payroll taxes. Electricians who earn $43,100 a year will pay $862 more annually. A property manager earning $64,020 a year will pay $1280 more in taxes. Finally, executives earning $200,360 a year will pay $2274 more. We have to add, for higher earners, the tax only affects the first $113,700 of our checks. Under the break it impacted the first $110,000 we earned.
Question: What can we expect over the next few months?
Brett: In February, we have to raise the debt ceiling to address the country's spending deficit. The truth is, Congress needs money. Economists in D.C. say leaders could be eying our deductions to make ends meet. If workers have fewer items to deduct, then they can all be taxed on more of their income.
Finally, while Congress left doctor payments in place, many seniors are not overjoyed because it's only for a year.
To read more about Brett, go to her website, thehomeeconomist.com.
Copyright 2013 by Local10.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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