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Get ready, The Voice lovers! Cause the number one most successful show this season will hit the road for a tour and we've got all the details!
As announced tonight on the top-rated new television show, "The Voice," the final eight contestants from the smash hit program will hit the road for Sprint presents "The Voice" Live On Tour.
The Live Nation-promoted tour has confirmed six shows beginning July 27th at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, with stops in Las Vegas, New York, Chicago, Boston and Wallingford.
Tickets for Sprint presents "The Voice" Live On Tour are on sale now at LiveNation.com:
The July 27th Los Angeles Tour date is already on sale.
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Growing up in Salinas, California, David Estrada didn't have much opportunity to see professional athletes participate in the community.
That is one reason he makes a point to involve himself so much in the Seattle community and back home in Salinas during the off-season.
"Just having a professional team in my city would have been amazing," Estrada said. "One of the things I try to do when I go home is talk to my high school and my middle school. It's a great honor to be looked up to by all the kids. Anytime I get a chance to get out there and speak to the kids, I'm more than happy to do it."
Estrada was recognized on Sunday as the Sounders FC 2012 Humanitarian of the Year, adding to his breakout season that saw him score five goals in MLS play, including a hat trick in the season opener against Toronto FC before he was forced to sit out with a broken foot. He also added a goal in the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals against Santos Laguna.
Estrada made more than 30 appearances in the community and played an integral role in one-on-one outreach to the Hispanic community.
He also represented the team at three of four "United We Serve" events, striking a prominent presence at the side-by-side player and fan volunteer program dedicated to grassroots community service projects.
Usually a man of few words in front of a lot of people, Estrada made a home for himself at the various community functions.
"I want to meet the fans and know what they're all about. They take time out of their busy schedule to hang out with us, so it's the least we could do to try and pay it back," he said. "Every single event is special. Cleaning up the streets of White Center with the youth and playing dodgeball after that – you kind of miss that sometimes, being a kid. That's what I find most rewarding – when I'm able to go out and play with the kids."
Estrada follows in the great footsteps of previous Sounders Humanitarians of the Year, Taylor Graham (2009) and James Riley (2010 and 2011). Estrada even credited Riley with setting the good example for young players to follow.
"It means a lot," Estrada said. "This organization, everything they do off the field, to be singled out as the Humanitarian of the Year for this team means so much to me."
Estrada is in his third MLS season after being drafted in the first round, 11th overall, by the Sounders in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft. Before appearing in 17 matches this season, 12 as a starter, Estrada had played in just six MLS matches, making two starts in his first two seasons.
He will be eligible for the league MLS W.O.R.K.S. Humanitarian of the Year.

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It's time we considered the environmental impact of our deaths.
Over time, the typical ten-acre swatch of cemetery ground, for example, contains enough coffin wood to construct more than 40 houses, nearly 1,000 tons of casket steel and another twenty thousand tons of vault concrete. Add to that a volume of toxic formalin nearly sufficient to fill a small backyard swimming pool and untold gallons of pesticide and weed killer used to keep the cemetery grounds preternaturally green. Mark Harris, Grave Matters
Photo: Family involvement in natural burial at Ramsey Creek Preserve, SC. The first conservation burial ground in the US, preserving land and allowing a green return to the earth.
Issue #2 of Natural Transitions Magazine is a useful guide to how we can lessen our carbon footprint at death.
A little knowledge goes a long way…
What is embalming?
Embalming is almost never required by law. It is a practice that began during the US Civil War that involves puncturing internal organs, draining the body of fluids and injecting a formaldehyde-based fluid, along with other chemicals and dyes, to provide for temporary preservation of the body. It exposes embalmers to chemicals that are known carcinogens. Refrigeration is an alternative to embalming. This includes the use of dry-ice and other refrigerants such as techni-ice. These are simple to use and may be as effective as embalming.
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A 6-year-old was savvy enough to use the opportunity in a store restroom to tell a customer she had been kidnapped, leading to her rescue from her abductor and putting the man who confessed to the crime behind bars. But the story of how he was arrested has an unexpected twist.
Houston police say the 6-year-old, Kelly, was snatched Wednesday afternoon at the apartment complex where she lives. The girl's mother was unloading the car, while the girl was looking at ice near the fence of the parking garage. That's when 23-year-old Joaquin Ramos allegedly pulled up his Jeep Cherokee near the girl and walked toward her. According to police, Kelly tried to run away but was grabbed and put in the car. It's not clear based on the police report how much the mother saw of the incident, but she tried to run after the Jeep and was unable to stop it.
Just after 4:10 p.m., the man and the girl were at a local Target store when he allowed her to go to the restroom by herself. That's where the 6-year-old told another customer she had been kidnapped. The customer informed Target employees, who took the girl into their care and contacted the police. The abductor had left the store by the time police arrived.
According to KTRK-TV, the girl was not injured but was examined at Texas Children's Hospital as a precaution.
Later on Wednesday, police obtained security footage from Target's cameras and released images of the suspect.
On Thursday, Ramos was located and arrested at Memorial Hermann Hospital where his wife had just given birth to their fourth child, KHOU-TV reported. Members of Ramos' family had seen the images of the kidnapping suspect on the news and told authorities where they could find him.
According to the police report, Ramos confessed to taking the victim and said he didn't know her.
The girl's family is now trying to make sense of why he took the child.
"I don't know, I guess he is just maybe a pervert. But why would you have a pervert and the lady living with him has kids," Marlene Fernandez, the girl's aunt, to KHOU. "Why would you let a pervert live with you if you have kids with you? What were his plans?"
Whatever his plans, Fernandez said "he's going to pay."
"…he's going to pay in jail because we already know what they do to guys like that in jail," she told the news station.
Watch KHOU-TV's report:
Fernandez told KTRK that the victim's mother had already lost her husband.
"Losing a 6-year-old, my sister would have gone insane. And I hope he gets what he gets and I hope everybody listening to this, just take care of your kids," Fernandez said.
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Good news for students: 300 more MBBS seats from Sept
Aspirants aiming to study medicine in AIIMS-like institutes have reasons to cheer now as 300 more MBBS seats will be available from Sept this year.
New Delhi: Aspirants aiming to study medicine in AIIMS-like institutes have reasons to cheer now as 300 more MBBS seats will be available from September this year.
The bonanza comes in the wake of the government`s decision to make the much-awaited six AIIMS-like institutes in the country operational and start MBBS admissions from September.
Each such institute would be allowed to admit 50 students in the first year and once the infrastructure in these establishments is in place, the induction at the MBBS level would be raised to 100 taking the annually availability of seats to 600, officials said.
The admissions to new institutes will be based on the scores of candidates who appeared for the AIIMS MBBS Entrance Test 2012, which was taken by almost 80,000 students this year and the result for which is likely to be declared soon. At present, the New Delhi AIIMS selects 77 candidates annually.
These medical centres are coming up in Patna, Bhubaneshwar, Jodhpur, Rishikesh, Raipur and Bhopal.
The decision to start these establishments was taken yesterday after Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad chaired a meeting to review progress on the ground. These institutes are being constructed under `Pradhan Mantri Gramin Swasthya Yojana`.
During the review, it was pointed out that in the new AIIMS-like institutes except for Raipur where only 52 per cent of the infrastructure work has been completed, the rest are nearing 80 per cent completion of physical targets.


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If it comes to it, and there's a slight chance it may, the Jazz are prepared to start next season with their core lineup intact.
That's because starting power forward Carlos Boozer has an opt-out clause for the final season of his current contract, while starting center Mehmet Okur and backup shooting guard Kyle Korver have early termination options.
Decisions from all three are due by Tuesday, when at 10 p.m. the NBA's summer free-agency negotiating period officially opens.
"I think they're good players, and we'd want to keep them if they wanted to stay," Jazz general manager Kevin O'Connor said late last week. "But it would be for the year, obviously — and that would be their option to stay."
After then, it could all be blown up.
"They're younger. They're not older. They're kind of in their prime," O'Connor said of his three top prospective unrestricted free agents, each part of an injury-plagued team that went 48-34 last season but bowed out of the playoffs with an early first-round loss to the eventual NBA-champion Los Angeles Lakers.
Because of a knee injury and subsequent surgery, Boozer, 27, played just 37 games last season. Okur, 30, missed Utah's first three playoff games with a bad hamstring, and he wasn't right for the last two. And Korver, 27, was bothered all season by a sore shooting wrist that had to be surgically repaired after the postseason.
"So, we'd like to see what we could have done healthy. And we'd like to still see what we could do healthy," O'Connor said. "But every team changes every year. And we expect that to happen every year."
Certainly, then, at least some minor alterations will be made.
Backup point guard and unrestricted free agent Brevin Knight evidently won't be back, replaced on the roster by Thursday's first-round draft pick, Eric Maynor of Virginia Commonwealth University.
End-of-the-bench shooting guard Morris Almond, also an unrestricted free agent, won't return either.
And it's possible that reserve big man Jarron Collins' eight-year Utah run is done, as he's unrestricted, too. His roster spot could be claimed by second-round pick Goran Suton, if the former Michigan State center makes the team.
But if Boozer reverses course and decides against opting out of the final year of his current contract, Okur signs the contract extension that the two sides have been negotiating for some time now and backup shooting guard Kyle Korver returns as well, the Jazz could look suspiciously like they did in 2009-10.
And that, O'Connor suggests, is not necessarily a bad thing.
But it's probably not a long-term thing, either — especially if the read was right when the Jazz GM seemed to tip his hand with this comment last Friday: "If he (Boozer) decides to opt in," O'Connor said, "it's only for one year."
Adding further insight to the Jazz's apparent organizational plans, O'Connor said this when asked what frame of mind a re-signed restricted free agent power forward Paul Millsap might be in should Boozer not exit: "Whatever state he is, it would only be for a year, so that would be something he'd have to look at, too."45 comments on this story
O'Connor made a quick recovery, hastening to add, "I'm not saying we wouldn't re-sign Carlos (Boozer). It's just that that present contract, that present situation, is for one year."
Still, it seemed, the point indeed had been made.
Status quo for one more season? Perhaps, especially if Boozer doesn't opt out.
But beyond that?
Perhaps not.
"I think you'd like to see (everyone back), if that's what they chose," O'Connor said. "But my 'ideal situation' will depend on after Tuesday. Then it becomes a different idea, whatever it is."
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LONDON, Sept. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Executive Summary
A comprehensive research report created through extensive primary research (inputs from industry experts, companies, stakeholders) and secondary research, the report presents the analysis of the global digital healthcare market on the basis of various segments (Electronic Health Records or EHR, Mobile Healthcare, Wireless Healthcare) and By Region (North America, Latin America, Europe, APAC) and for various types (Applications, Sensor, Functionality, End-Use).
The digital healthcare market is driven by surging adoption of use of smartphones, rising trend of home healthcare, rise in use of mobile health apps. Digital healthcare market is steadily gaining momentum in investments with government initiatives towards the digitization of healthcare along with the trend of value based healthcare. Moreover the need for streamlined and real time based communication between the patient and the doctor will present the market with huge growth opportunities and potential in near future.
In terms of region, North America has the fastest adoption rate of wireless health & mobile health based services along with rising adoption of EHR in hospital owned ambulatory care, with maximum market share in United States, while APAC and Latin America region holds huge opportunities accompanied with growth potential in Brazil, Japan , China and Indian Market.
The market grew at a CAGR of 13.21 % in the period 2011-2015 and for 2016-2021, the growth rate is expected to be at 15.05 %. The recent research report published by Azoth Analytics "Global Digital Healthcare Market: Trends, Opportunities and Forecasts (2016-2021F)" suggests that the mobile health segment is expected to grow at a CAGR of x% whereas the wireless health market will grow at a CAGR of x% during the period 2016E-2021F. Leading players of the industry include WebMD, Biotelemetry, Allscripts, Cerner Corporation. The report also covers other prominent vendors such as Portea Medical, Practo, eclinical works etc.
Scope of the Report
The report provides coverage by Segments
- Electronic Health Records (EHR)
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THE TAPPING OF A MALLET behind the counter at Western Boat & Tackle in San Rafael was music to the ears of Marin's Dungeness crab lovers. It also meant business was booming.
The popular bait shop, fish market and deli was hopping Sunday and Monday as Marin's lovers of fresh Dungeness crab were finally able to put the crustacean on their own dinner tables, fresh and cold, cracked and cleaned.
Workers at Western Boat & Tackle on Third Street were flooded with customers as the popular bait shop went through about 600 pounds of fresh Dungeness on Sunday and had another 250 pounds available Monday.
Shop manager Rich Lauchenauer said crab lovers better indulge while they can because stormy weather and choppy seas - 18- to 20-foot swells outside the Golden Gate Bridge - will keep crab fishermen on the docks for the next few days.
"It really depends on what's happening out in the ocean," Lauchenauer said Monday, as the telephone kept ringing with customers calling in orders. "It was nonstop in here Sunday. We had the only crab available."
The official start of Dungeness season was set for Nov. 15, but the Nov. 7 Cosco Busan oil spill prompted a closure while officials determined whether Bay Area seafood was safe to eat. Fishing was reopened in most areas Friday after tests confirmed seafood is safe. Closures remained in place for mussels at Rodeo Beach and Berkeley Pier.
At Western Boat & Tackle, among the first Marin outlets to serve up live and cooked local crab, Alison Iwanaga said she still has some safety concerns.
"I won't let my children eat it," said Iwanaga of San Rafael, a student at Dominican University. "My parents and I will eat it tonight, though."
Iwanaga bought three cracked and cleaned crabs Monday as crab master Mel Judson prepared her order.
Another customer, Susanne Bales, a Novato travel agent, said she stopped by Monday to pick up two crabs to prepare for family, complete with French bread, salad and wine.
"It's something to be savored, so we're going for it," Bales said. "It doesn't get any better, does it? Crabs are scavengers, so go figure."
Judson, who has worked at Western Boat & Tackle for about two years, said Sunday was "a zoo."
"The line was just about out the door," he said. "There were no breaks yesterday."
Crab was selling for $5.49 a pound live, $5.99 cooked whole and $6.49 cooked and cleaned.
Several Marin markets had Dungeness crab from the Pacific Northwest for sale from $7.99 to $10.99 a pound. Local crabs may be available within a few days, depending on the weather, fish market employees said.
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Kids get a reason to smile at free dental clinic in Janesville
He had just visited the dentist for the first time and had no cavities.
�Nothing looks bad,� said Dr. Lance Miller after examining the 4-year-old�s teeth during the American Dental Association�s Give Kids a Smile Program offered by the staff at Robinson & Prijic Family Dental Associates, 1714 N. Randall Ave.
Saul and his 6-year-old sister, Alianna Carrillo, were among 110 children ages 12 and younger seen by the staff at the Janesville clinic.
Their mother, Penny Roeling of Janesville, was grateful that her children could receive free dental care.
�It�s a great opportunity,� she said. �Teeth are as important as any other body part.�
Roeling said she could not afford the dental work, and the savings allows her to pay for gas, groceries, clothes and shoes for her children.
This year is the third time that staff members at Robinson & Prijic have participated in the program, said Kathy McCulloch, receptionist/secretary.
In 2011, 100 children were scheduled, and 91 showed up. That�s about the same number of low-income children, ages 4 to 12, who were served in 2010, she said.
If the children�s families would have had to pay for the work, it would have cost them $17,000 the first year, $26,000 last year and $30,000 this year, McCulloch said.
Staff members volunteered their time Friday, and services included examinations, cleaning, fluoride and sealant treatments, and fillings.
To promote the event, which took four months to plan, the staff contacted ECHO, Community Action, House of Mercy, the YWCA, the Women, Infants and Children program and the Janesville schools.
�Everyone who called got scheduled,� McCulloch said.
�We�re still getting calls,� she said as the phone rang, more vehicles pulled into the packed parking lot and families filed into the full waiting room.
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Town Name New Directors
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Town have named the three representatives of Marcus Evans set to be appointed as directors at next Monday's EGM. They are Martin Pitcher, Ian Milne and Jonathan Symonds.
Chairman David Sheepshanks explained the boardroom developments: "If all is approved, there will be changes at board level.
"The existing directors will remain as shareholder representatives as directors of Ipswich Town plc, which will in future hold 12.5 per cent of the shares of the football club.
"Importantly, they will continue to be ambassadors for the club and they will be invited to attend club board meetings, helping to provide further continuity.
"The football club board will look rather different though, and will effectively become more of a management board.
"It will comprise six directors, with three representatives each from Ipswich Town and the Marcus Evans Group. Derek Bowden as chief executive, Kevin Beeston as a non-executive director and myself as chairman will continue, together with Martin Pitcher, Ian Milne and Jonathan Symonds as new directors."
Pitcher, who is joining both boards, qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, working for them in London and New York in their audit and transaction services divisions.
The 40-year-old moved on to the Marcus Evans Group three years ago and is currently their director of corporate development, which means he is responsible for start-ups and acquisitions.
Ian Milne, a 55-year-old qualified solicitor, is joining the club board. Previously he was with drinks giant Diageo and Revlon International, joining the Marcus Evans Group in 2000.
Jonathan Symonds, the chief information officer of the Marcus Evans Group since 1996, will be joining the club board. The 37-year-old is responsible for the strategy and the delivery of IT solutions for the Marcus Evans Group. He has a degree in Business Information Systems and was previously in management roles with Apple Computers, Bacon and Woodrow and Global Communications.
The EGM takes place on Monday evening at the Corn Exchange. David Sheepshanks will make a short introductory speech prior to questions being taken from the floor.
Shareholders will be asked to approve the proposed refinancing and from Marcus Evans Investments Limited with the result made public after a short interval. Marcus Evans himself will not be present at the meeting.
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Superior play at the defensive end and a solid post game made the difference Thursday night as St. Augustine High School knocked off Menendez 58-38 in girls basketball action.
The Yellow Jackets (5-9, 3-2 District 7-4A) turned up the defensive effort in the third quarter to make the decisive run.
With SAHS up 29-18 at halftime, Vamonda Evans of Menendez nailed a pair of 3-pointers to make it 29-24 less than one minute into the second half.
However, SAHS didn't allow a Menendez field goal for the next six minutes and closed the third quarter with a 12-3 run. That put the Jackets in front 41-27, and the game was never closer than 12 the rest of the way.
"The girls played hard for 32 minutes," SAHS coach David Hudson said.
SAHS made things difficult for Menendez all over the court, which was exactly what Hudson was looking for."We're trying to create a little bit of chaos," he said. "We're definitely trying to keep them uncomfortable."
The plan worked as SAHS had its lead to 53-32 less than three minutes into the fourth quarter.
Menendez coach Barry Williams said the SAHS defense disrupted his team -- probably more than it should have.
"The girls are working hard; they're just making too many mental mistakes," he said. "Until they relax and let the game come to them, they won't (play their best)."
SAHS forward Andrea Eckstein was playing near her best. She was a force in the paint with a game-high 24 points to go along with 12 rebounds and six steals.
The only other SAHS player to score in double figures was guard Sierra DeJesus, who chipped in 11 -- including a key 3-pointer at the end of the second quarter.
For Menendez, eight different players scored, but no one made it to double figures. Ericka Williams led the Falcons (2-8, 0-5) with eight points, and Evans scored seven.
SAHS had a big advantage at the foul line, especially in the first half when the Jackets made all 10 free-throw attempts. They finished 12 for 14. Meanwhile, the Falcons connected on just 9 of 16 attempts.
Hudson was pleased with the foul shooting and said his team is getting closer to playing the kind of wide-open, fast-paced style he's looking for.
"I think they're getting better in the transition game," he said. "Overall, our decision making is improving.
"We're still trying to improve on court vision."
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Community Housing Works, a nonprofit group with an Escondido office that doles out free housing advice, is getting so many calls it cannot answer them all. Chief executive officer Sue Reynolds says she wishes the nonprofit was fielding even more calls.
Bank-owned foreclosures last week countywide hit a new high during the housing recession, and 2008 will see as many, if not more, foreclosures in San Diego County, according to two recent reports released by real estate agencies.
"Last year, we'd have one or two calls a month," Reynolds said. "Now, we're getting a dozen to two dozen a day. And we don't advertise."
The thousands of families facing foreclosure locally often do nothing in advance of losing their homes out of embarrassment or fear, housing advocates such as Reynolds say. That can often leave them with expensive tax bills, lawsuits for the remaining balance on their loans and black marks on their credit scores.
In Riverside County, there were 57,241 foreclosure filings in 2007, more than triple a year before and an 827 percent increase from 2005, according to data from RealtyTrac, an Irvine-based foreclosure tracking service.
For families who have fallen behind, there are essentially three options:
- Go through foreclosure, causing major damage to the borrower's credit rating and possibly leaving the homeowner with huge tax bills and lawsuits from the bank for the remaining amount of the loan after an auction.
- Set up a short sale, in which the lender agrees to sell the property for less than the total loan amount. These can be difficult, especially if there are different lenders holding two or more mortgages. The borrower's credit rating is still negatively affected but less so than in a foreclosure.
- Convince the lender to accept a loan modification, in which an adjustable interest rate is frozen at a previous level. Homeowners have to be able to make the original payment. The credit rating is affected, but the borrower can stay in the home and avoids foreclosure.
Walking away
The confusion surrounding foreclosure has led real estate agents to focus on short sales, encouraged attorneys to tailor their business toward doling out foreclosure advice and spurred the creation of a Carlsbad-based company, You Walk Away, which guides families through the process.
"It's a 1,000 percent increase (in short sales from a year ago)," said Dan Holbrook, a Carlsbad real estate agent. "It's huge. Short sales have gotten increasingly easier to do as lenders recognize it as a veritable loss mitigation standpoint."
That worries some low-income housing advocates because no matter the amount of help, failing to pay off a loan in full will damage a homeowner's credit score.
"I think foreclosure … always needs to be looked at as a last resort," said Reynolds, of Community Housing Works.
Further, the explosion of foreclosures has some housing insiders worried that it could create a culture in which not paying off a loan is acceptable.
"My 11-year-old could tell you there's going to be more foreclosures this year than last," said Jim Klinge, who owns his own real estate agency in Carlsbad. "I'm an old-school guy. I think people should stick it out. … It's in the atmosphere. There's enough homeowners contemplating bailing out -- I think they're being encouraged."
The first step for families facing foreclosure should be to ask their lender for a loan modification so they can stay in the home, Reynolds said.
Community Housing Works pushes lenders for loan modifications through a coalition of government entities and banks, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, sometimes known as HUD, Countrywide and Chase Manhattan.
"My thought is if (a foreclosure company) is not a HUD-certified effort, you should not trust it because where's the business model?" Reynolds said. "How are people making money?"
But if a homeowner has lost a job or otherwise can no longer afford the original mortgage payment, a loan modification is likely not an option, Reynolds said.
Then the homeowner is essentially forced into either foreclosure or a short sale.
Selling short
Blair Wilson says he could not be happier that he went through a short sale. As a self-employed marketing consultant, when business dried up, he said, he fell behind on a refinanced mortgage.
He set up a short sale through Holbrook, who said the San Marcos home sold for $547,000 in April, $100,000 less than what was owed on the home across two mortgages.
"Now we're seeing lenders become more realistic, more cooperative," Holbrook said.
Wilson moved to Las Vegas in search of a better job market. He now rents but hopes to buy a home within a year and said his credit rating is only slightly below average.
"I tell friends, you've got an opportunity to do a short sale, but they still think that the foreclosure is the way to go," Wilson said. "The difference between the two is like day and night, but you have to have somebody that you can really, really trust."
When foreclosure is unavoidable
Short sales only work if the borrower's home can sell for a high enough price to satisfy the lender.
"For some, it may be (the payments are) too much," Reynolds said. "Then they're going to have to address the possibility of a foreclosure."
For them, there is more to foreclosure than mailing the keys to the bank and vacating the home. Beyond a black mark on the foreclosed person's credit rating, the bank that owns the mortgage can file a lawsuit against the homeowner, suing for the difference between the sales price and what is still owed.
"There's certainly economic rationale why some folks might be tempted to walk away, but there might be long-term consequences," said Paul Leonard, director of the California branch of the Center for Responsible Lending.
That is why housing advocates such as Leonard recommend that homeowners meet with experts -- such as real estate lawyers or accountants -- before going through foreclosure.
For those facing foreclosure, one local lawyer advises that homeowners might be able to stay in the home longer by stopping payment on the second mortgage.
"If you foreclose on a house and it only pays the first (mortgage), the lender on the second won't foreclose because they won't get anything," said Ken Andrews, a San Diego lawyer. "Basically, it's just a waiting game."
But homeowners who stop paying a second should be aware it might do more damage to their credit rating than immediately entering foreclosure because they will be delinquent on payments for a longer period of time and incur heavy late fees, he said.
Andrews said the right plan -- paying off credit cards and not carrying a balance -- can bring homeowners' credit levels back to buying a home within three years.
"If you're talking about going into any kind of foreclosure, your credit is ruined so I don't see the difference between just walking away and not paying your second," Andrews said. "But you've got to be careful. This is for somebody who can definitely make payment on the first in perpetuity because if the first forecloses, then the problem is just going to be worse."
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If you know how to make tie dye T-shirts and want to be able to do it in Photoshop, then this tutorial is for you. Learn how to create tie dye effects using Photoshop by following this step by step tutorial.
1Create a new document in any size such as a letter size or an A4 size. You can specify also the color mode and the resolution by following the options I've indicated on the accompanied illustration. And then create new layer or Shift + Ctrl + N.
2Next is to choose a color and to apply a wet media brush. Apply or paint your new layer by going to your brush tool, find the scatter dry brush and set the size of the brush to 1100 pixels. Paint your new layer with the brush in any way you like to as long as the colors fill the page.
3The next step is to decrease the size of the brush to 700 pixels and to choose another color. Paint over your first layer with scatter dry brush using the new color you have chosen.
4Apply the previous step again, but decrease the size of the brush to 500 pixels and choose another color.
5Finally apply again the previous step but lower now the size of the brush to 300 pixels and change the color.
6After painting four colors apply a radial blur on your new layer. Go to your filters panel, choose blur and then apply a radial blur. Specify the amount of blur you want to apply and click on zoom and best for the settings on the radial blur.
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1.5 tsp for 350 mL (I think) water. Made for me at a DavidsTea store. Steeped 5 minutes. Drunk bare.
First off, do not steep this tea as long as 5 minutes. I got stuck in a lineup behind someone buying those scratch lottery tickets. I should have hurried him along by slapping my wet teabag upside his face.
Oh, what a lovely rose black tea. Everything balances well. You can handily taste the black team which is pretty mellow — Chinese, I'm guessing — with a very subtle toast finish. I would hvbe liked this better steeped at 3 or 4 minutes; after 5, things get bitter and soapy. But I'll put up with a lot for roses.


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Bloomington, IN, September 28, 2011. First published at ZNet
What a difference four years have made in Iowa. Around this time in 2007, the state's Democratic base was all abuzz. With the long Cheney-Bush 43 nightmare drawing to a close, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were crisscrossing the state, posing before giant star-struck crowds as enemies of war and wealth and as friends of working people and the environment. Bill Richardson, Joe Biden and even Dodd were pounding their chests against criminal wars and tax cuts for the rich. Crazy John Edwards was electrifying town hall meetings with a fiery stump speech that excoriated the rich and powerful, highlighted poverty and inequality, and referred to the labor movement as "the greatest anti-poverty program in American history." Edwards warned about the dangers of "replacing a corporate Republican with a corporate Democrat" in the White House. He mocked as "singing Kumbaya" Obama's "fantasy of achieving progressive change by sitting down at a big negotiating table with big business and Republicans." Big business and the GOP will "eat everything served," said Edwards, who argued that only an epic battle with concentrated economic power could ever bring such change about.
Flash forward four years. Obama has justified Edwards' warning ten times over. Even longtime left Obama skeptics like myself – a Chicago veteran of the state-level Obama prodigy who began exposing the future president as a fake-progressive corporatist-imperialist at the birth of the national Obama phenomenon (see my essay ""Keynote Reflections," ZNet, July 29th, 2004 at http://www.zcommunications.org/keynote-reflections-by-paul-street) – have been taken aback by the depth and degree of Barack O'Hoover's willingness to serve the wealthy, advance the empire, and accommodate his supposed enemies on the right. Under Obama, as under George W. Bush, "People everywhere learned a blunt lesson about power, who has it and who doesn't. They watched," as William Greider noted early on, "Washington run to rescue the very financial interests that caused the catastrophe. They learned that government has plenty of money to spend when the right people want it."
The "right people" do not include the record-setting 46 million Americans who now "live" below the federal government's notoriously inadequate poverty level – this as the New York Times reports that the rich and super rich have fully resumed their ways of conspicuous and opulent luxury consumption. "Even Marked Up," a Times headline runs, "Luxury Goods Fly Off Shelves." Further: "Even with the economy in a funk and many Americans pulling back on spending, the rich are again buying designer clothing, luxury cars and about anything that catches their fancy. Luxury goods stores, which fared much worse than other retailers in the recession, are more than recovering — they are zooming. Many high-end businesses are even able to mark up, rather than discount, items to attract customers who equate quality with price."
Welcome to American Empire & Inequality, Inc with a nominal Democrat in the executive office. Obama and his team of neoliberal corporatists have done nothing to avert the deepening disparities that rot what's left of democracy in the U.S., where the top 10 percent owns two thirds of the nation's net worth (and a probably higher percentage of its elected officials) and the bottom 40 percent owns 0.3 percent, essentially nothing, and where real unemployment hovers around 16 percent. Major green public works and transportation programs to employ masses of wasted Americans and help restore livable ecology? Advance of the forgotten Employee Free Choice Act to restore union organizing and collective bargaining rights for working class Americans? Renegotiation of NAFTA and other international trade agreements to include meaningful labor and environmental protections? Meaningful national health reform to cut the power of the dominant six insurance companies and the leading pharmaceutical corporations? Transfer of federal funds from the endless empire to the meeting of rising human needs at home and abroad? Nationalization of the nation's parasitic financial institutions and the redirection of their resources to the creation of good jobs? Expansion of family public assistance and other forms of public welfare to even remotely match the scale of the continuing human recession (which lives on beneath mild and tenuous statistical recovery)? Hello?
Get serious. None of this has been remotely advanced by a "progressive" president who has bought into the basic reactionary narrative of the right: that the nation's biggest problem is the deficit (not unemployment) and that the best way to cut that deficit is to slash social expenditures, not raise taxes on the ever more filthy rich. The "right people" include the top military contractors and the Pentagon, of course. The "new" White House escalated Superpower violence in South Asia, passed a record-setting "defense" (Empire) budget, rolled over George W. Bush's not-so counter-terrorist assault on human rights (in the name of "freedom"), extended the imperial terror war to Yemen and Somalia, disguised escalated U.S. occupation of Haiti as humanitarian relief, aided and abetted a thuggish right wing coup in Honduras, expanded the Pentagon's reach in Columbia/Latin America, and…. (I could go on. It's a fascinating record for the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.) Amidst all this and much, much more that could be mentioned in the way of progressive betrayal, the White House has repeatedly mocked and intimidated liberals and leftists who hoped (naively or not) for something less craven to dominant domestic and imperial hierarchies and doctrines.
If ever a sitting Democratic president deserved a challenge from the left of his party in the primary elections preceding his nomination for a second term, it is Barack Obama. But there's nothing remotely close to that in the works – nothing except a mild effort on the part of a few Iowa liberals to elect "uncommitted delegates" to the Democratic convention. All the excited Caucus anger and energy in Iowa this time around is with the arch-plutocratic white nationalist Republicans, with their bizarre claims that corporate Democrats are totalitarian socialists and with their revolting drive to roll back American history to the McKinley administration.
Obama staffers are now in the coffee shops of Iowa City, trying to get numbers for a party re-coronation of the Dalai O'Bomber on the first Tuesday of January 2012. Semi-depressed volunteers trickle in and sit down across from young centrist staffers. You can hear some of the volunteers expressing "disappointment" in their president and how he is "too willing to make deals" with the GOP and business. Clinging to the fantastic notion (which they share with many on the right) that the deeply conservative chief executive is really a left-leaning liberal, they seem to think these deals are contrary to Obama's inner progressive essence. Some complain about how Obama's supposed progressive aims are blocked by Republicans, ignoring the fact that Obama governed towards the corporate and imperial right when he had strong Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.
The main theme in their comments is fear – fear of the terrible Tea Party, of Rick Perry, and of the GOP. Such is the lesser-evilist denouement of nearly three years of cringing, business-friendly right-centrist policy on the part of the politician who swept Iowa with dreamy hopes of "real [progressive] change" in the summer and fall of 2007. As usual, the left fears and the right hates.
Maybe dread of the GOP will be enough to the get Obama a second term. If the doltish evangelical Rick Perry gets the Republican nomination it will boost the current White House incumbent's chances. Who knows, maybe a Great Texas Tea Perry Fear would help the temporizing Wall Street tool Obama seem to spark the Democratic base to a degree that could put him over the top. Mitt Romney, not all that different from Obama in terms of policy and ideology, would stand a better chance of defeating the president. He would do a better job winning over Independents and keeping the Democratic vote depressed.
It's a difficult election to call and far too early to say anything definitive, of course. Much will depend on the performance of the economy – the job market above all – in the next twelve months. Still, it's more than a little pathetic to behold this pale reflection of 2007 and of other past years of Caucus campaigning in Iowa – this distant death rattle of Democratic liberalism that is on such chilling display now in Iowa.
Paul Street (www.paulstreet.org) is the author of Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008, described by John Pilger in 2009 as "perhaps the only book that tells the truth about the 44th president of the United States") and The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2010). Street's sixth book, co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio, is Crashing the Tea Party Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics (Boulder, CO Paradigm. 2011). Street will speak on (and sign copies of) Crashing the Tea Party at Peoples' Books Cooperative in Milwaukee, WI (Thursday, September 29 at 7 pm), and Bluestockings Bookstore in New York City (Tuesday, October 4 at 7pm). Street can be reached at email@example.com.


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ATHENS, Ga. -- When Georgia's seniors lingered on the field to accept the Governor's Cup from Gov. Nathan Deal after beating Georgia Tech, reality began to sink in for Amarlo Herrera.
Looking around the half-empty dressing room, the sophomore linebacker realized how many of his veteran defensive teammates won't be around the next time the Bulldogs take the field at Sanford Stadium.
"We saw that when they weren't in the locker room, when they were out on the field," Herrera said about the moments after the 42-10 win last month.
Six of Georgia's defensive starters and eight players on the two-deep depth chart in last Saturday's SEC championship game were seniors. Plus, junior linebackers Jarvis Jones and Alec Ogletree are projected as first-round NFL draft picks should they decide to forgo their final season of eligibility, and junior nose guard Kwame Geathers also could be drafted, should he leave school early.
Experienced players like Herrera, junior defensive end Garrison Smith and sophomore cornerback Damian Swann will be the cornerstones of Georgia's effort to reload next season regardless -- but they become even more important if the draft-eligible prospects make the leap to the NFL.
"I think about it all the time when I see all these seniors on this defense," said Smith, who leads Georgia's defensive line in tackles with 55. "I'm ready for the responsibility when I have to step up."
Smith joined the starting lineup when another senior, preseason All-SEC selection Abry Jones, was lost for the season with an ankle injury. Herrera has already started 16 games in two seasons and is fourth on the team with 67 tackles. And Swann took over for Brandon Boykin at cornerback this season and started all 13 games, emerging as one of the Bulldogs' top playmakers in the secondary.
"It's not surprising to me," Swann said of his changing role in the secondary, going from one of the youngsters to its most experienced player once seniors Shawn Williams, Bacarri Rambo, Sanders Commings and Branden Smith leave for the pros. "I knew the time would come eventually and I think the position I was put in this year is going to prepare me for next year and being one of those guys."
Herrera shared similar thoughts concerning his job at linebacker. The sophomore earned his first start in the second game of his college career. He shared time at inside linebacker with seniors Michael Gilliard and Christian Robinson through the past two seasons and is one of the team's most reliable tacklers, but his importance will only increase in 2013.
"I feel like I'm a leader anyway in some sense because I call the D when I'm out there," Herrera said.
Herrera's ability to set the defense will obviously come in handy next season when so many Bulldogs play increased roles. They lose key seniors at every level -- John Jenkins, Abry Jones and Cornelius Washington on the defensive line, Gilliard and Robinson at linebacker and the aforementioned four players in the secondary -- at a minimum. Early NFL entries would create further attrition.
That will place significant responsibilities on the returning starters -- as well as players including freshman outside linebacker Jordan Jenkins and junior outside linebacker Chase Vasser who have on-field experience -- to lead in some form or fashion.
"I don't like to do a lot of talking," Garrison Smith said. "I try to lead by example because I feel like vocal leaders, if they're not performing you can't really respect them. So that's why I don't do a lot of talking. I'm not a rah-rah guy. I try to just keep my mouth shut and let my actions speak for themselves."


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Matt Karolian wonders [3] why there was a pile of Hershey's Kisses dumped on Arlington Street this morning. You may recall what happened in Copley Square [4] after the Super Bowl last year.
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When I was a girl, I always loved the story of Alice in Wonderland. We had an old copy of it with the old pictures in black and white and I used to spend hours looking at them and reading the words to go along with them.
I think the very first colour Alice in Wonderland I ever saw was the Walt Disney Version.
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By When this season begins it will be one worth remembering for Knick fans everywhere. For the first time since the 2001 season, the brilliant media has deemed the Knicks contenders. Usually such attention isn't worth a hoot, after all these people are paid to say what they think. However, for the New York media to expect the Knicks to contend, it has to mean something. After all, there are no more overly critical writers in the world than in NYC, so their hope is encouraging.
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Centenarian Lewis Henry Fiset, who survived some of the toughest battles in Europe during World War II and met some of the period's leading figures — including Churchill and Hemingway — is remembered as a proud, good-humored and faithful man.
"He was a wonderful person," his friend LaDona Farinacci said. "He was observant, had charm and had a sense of humor and headstrong faith."
Fiset died March 28 at age 100.
Having moved to San Antonio in 1925, Fiset went to St. Anthony's Catholic School and worked as an usher at the Majestic Theatre.
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The Chicago native earned a business administration degree from Northwestern University in 1931. Nine years later, as war approached, he joined the Army, graduating from Officers Training School in Fort Benning, Ga., in December 1941.
Fiset was promoted to second lieutenant and asked by Maj. Gen. Raymond O. Barton to be his junior and ultimately his senior aide. Fiset also worked alongside senior aide Philip A. Hart, who later became a U.S. senator from Michigan, and met Princess Elizabeth II, the future queen, as well as Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway and many other luminaries during his time in the military.
As the Allied forces retook lost provinces, it was Fiset's job to help refugees and assist in restructuring cities and reforming local governments.
In 1945, he was shot through both legs by a German sniper while en route to help refugees in Bad Mergentheim, Germany. He had a near-death experience in which he saw himself lying on the ground.
"He said he felt immense pain until he saw a light," Farinacci recalled. "There was warmth, and he lost all that pain."
When he came to, he was in a British hospital, having been a prisoner of war while he was unconscious. Fiset was given medical treatment by the Germans until he was made part of a prisoner exchange.
He retired as a major, a rank awarded him by Gen. George Patton.
After the war, Fiset spent much of his time in recovery after surgeries on his legs. His friend said Fiset, who received a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart among his many military decorations, recalled a nurse who kissed him on the cheek, who he met again years later at another hospital.
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Born: Aug. 12, 1912, Chicago
Died: March 28, 2013, San Antonio
Military: Army veteran of World War II.
Preceded by: Parents and sister Monica Bishop.
Survived by: Sister Florence Romant.
Services: Burial at 2:45 p.m. Monday at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.
Farinacci said he did not tell many people about his near-death experience until later in life. It became a way he could share his religious faith, she said.
Fiset lived a humble, quiet life that included the study of Christianity and other religions. But he also maintained a humorous outlook on life, Farinacci said.
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The Auto Defense Turret is an automatic turret that opens fire on any enemy that comes within its range. Samus Aran encounters this turret on the Space Pirates frigate Orpheon and on Tallon IV in Magmoor Caverns at the Monitor Station, the Glacier One base in Phendrana Drifts, and the Phazon Mines. They have a weak casing and can easily be destroyed by a Missile, Super Missile, or Charge Beam shot, and can also be frozen with the Ice Beam, which can stun them momentarily, allowing Samus to shoot them at will. Wave Beam shots can cause them to spin randomly and continuously fire for a few seconds, then explode. They eventually become stronger as Samus gets closer to Metroid Prime, with Mega Turrets replacing them in the Phazon Mines.
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Use Missiles to break outer casing.
- A scan in the Orpheon's Deck Beta Transit Hall, states that the Pirates change the Auto Defense Turret security codes every other lunar cycle and warns that using the older deactivation codes may result in said turret's activation.
- Samus' Scan Visor seems to be able to bypass this problem, most likely by means of the Power Suit's auto-hacking capabilities.
- Auto Defense Turrets become more durable after they are first encountered on the Orpheon level. Auto Defense Turrets on Tallon IV require more missile shots to destroy them (these turrets should not be confused with Mega Turrets). Orpheon's Auto Defense Turrets can be destroyed by a single missile (and conveniently drop Missile Ammo) or a Charge Beam shot.
- Notably, if Samus fires the Wave Beam at the Auto Defense Turret, the Turret is animated in a manner where it fires continuous shots while swiveling up and down. This may be a glitch in turrets due to the electric nature of the beam. A similar reaction occurs if Samus uses the Wave Beam against a Mega Turret.
- If Samus stands in front of any kind of beam door, and a turret misses her and hits the door with a shot, it will ricochet, even keying the "Door cannot be opened with that weapon" message.


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Since my 1/2 marathon left me tired on Sunday, I decided to sway days off and work out on Monday.
I woke up with a very sore throat-where did that come from? The day went downhill from there. Achy, tired, just the general feel of malaise.
I canned the workout. I know the whole "you can work through a cold" I just don't want to.
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A 23rd betting shop could be set to open up in Tooting, despite a public outcry opposing the plans.
Wandsworth Council granted Coral a license to allow gambling in the former H Samuel's Jewellers building in Mitcham Lane, Tooting, at a meeting on Thursday night.
The license gives Coral the power to allow betting in the shop, including four gaming machines giving out a maximum prize of £500.
But the decision has left campaigners disappointed, with 22 betting shops already operating in the area.
Last week Coral were refused planning permission to alter the building, giving campaigners false hope the betting shop would not get the go-ahead.
A Save Our High Street campaign was launched by businesses to combat the growing numbers of betting shops in Tooting.
MP for Tooting Sadiq Khan spoke on behalf of constituents during the meeting who voiced concerns over the high concentration of bookies.
Further objections include fears the shop will attract street drinking, anti social behaviour and the loitering of patrons outside the proposed premises.
Changes to high street planning laws which came in last year makes it easier for betting shops to open in town centres.
Mr Khan is calling on the government to give more power to residents and local authorities to control the number of betting shops opening.
He said: "I welcomed the council's decision to refuse planning permission for the same betting shop last week, but their decision to now grant Coral a gambling licence shows that this was just a token gesture.
"If the council was really listening to what local residents want and was committed to improving our town centre it would have refused to grant Coral a licence last night."
However the council has argued the lack of planning permission will still prevent Coral opening a new branch in the site.
A spokesman said: "Changes to the law introduced under the last Government's 2005 Gambling Act mean it is much more difficult to reject applications for premises licences from betting shops and other gambling businesses.
"However the council has refused to grant this betting shop planning permission, so it is not able to open."


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Bud Selig will retire as commissioner of Major League Baseball when his contract expires after next season, ending more than two decades of leadership that included an era of labor peace after losing the 1994 World Series to a players strike.
Selig, 79, will officially step down on Jan. 24, 2015, when his contract expires.
The former Milwaukee Brewers owner became acting commissioner in 1992 following the resignation of Fay Vincent. He was voted into the position on a permanent basis by league owners in 1998 and, in his 22nd season, is second in tenure behind Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first commissioner, who led the sport from 1920 to 1944.
Selig previously delayed a planned retirement by signing a two-year contract extension in January 2012.
He oversaw the realignment of teams into three divisions in each league, the creation of interleague play and the expansion of the playoffs with wild-card entries for top non-division winners. He also helped baseball rebound from the 1994 strike and implemented professional sports' most comprehensive drug program through collective bargaining following an era of performance-enhancing-substance abuse that led to congressional inquiries.
Selig said he's completing a transition plan in preparation for his retirement, which will reorganize MLB's centralized management. A successor hasn't been announced.
Possible candidates to replace Selig include MLB Executive Vice Presidents Tim Brosnan, Rob Manfred and Joe Torre, and team owners or executives such as Dave Dombrowski of the Detroit Tigers, said Wayne McDonnell, an assistant professor of sports management at New York University.
Selig has overseen historic economic growth in baseball, implementing revenue sharing among the 30 major league teams and a competitive-balance tax on its highest-spending clubs, such as the New York Yankees. Baseball's total industry revenue was $1.2 billion when Selig took over in 1992. By 2012, MLB said, revenue had grown to $7.5 billion.


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Tamaqua's Christine Streisel threw a season's best 149-6 (45.57 meters) on her final throw on Thursday to win the high school girls javelin for the second year in a row at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia.
Streisel, who has committed to further her education and athletic career at Duke University in the fall, moved past Sarah Firestone of Mercersburg Academy, who had the lead with a throw of 148-10 (45.38 meters) entering the final round.
Streisel holds the second best throw ever at the event after winning with a mark of 154-11 last year.
Among other local participants, NorthernLehigh grad Stephanie Pryor posted a NCAA provisional qualifying times in the 10,000 meters for Shippensburg University.
Pryor, whose seventh-place time of 35:07.14 is a 33-second PR. Her time ranks her eighth on the current Division II performance list.
Zach Fleming, another Bulldog grad, posted a NCAA provisional qualifying time in the 3000-meter steeplechase.
Fleming, currently a junior at Kutztown University, finished sixth in the event in a persoal best of 9:15.26. That time is the second best on Kutztown's all-time list.
Another Northern Lehigh graduate, Gwen Steckel, finished 15th in the Women's College Hammer Throw with a distance of 48.91 (160-5), competing for Lafayette College. Steckel also finished 15th in the College Women's Discus Throw at 146-7 (44.69 meters).
Kelsey Hay, a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania from Palmerton, finished 16th in the College Women's Javelin Throw with a mark of 134-1 (40.88 meters).


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Kevin K. Jackson, 52, of Medina, passed away Friday, July 26, 2013, with his loving family by his side. Kevin was born June 21, 1961 in Medina, to the late Leonard and Marie (nee Bradford) Jackson.
Kevin lived most of his life in Medina County. He was a 1979 graduate of Midview High School.
Kevin was employed as a machinist at HyProduction in Valley City for many years. He was a U.S. Army veteran, who served from 1979-1983.
Kevin enjoyed being outdoors, hunting, fishing and camping. Kevin had a special talent in drawing and carving beautiful artwork. The love of his life was his family.
Kevin is survived by his wife of 25 years, Joan; daughter, Ashley (Nick) Gazzo, of Medina; and grandchildren, Luka and Gemma; sister, Tammy (Dan) Bunch of Grafton; and nephew, Cody.
At Kevin's request, cremation has taken place.
Memorial gathering for family and friends will be Wednesday, July 31, 2013, at the Bauer Funeral Home, 2089 Columbia Road, Valley City, from 5 until 7 P.M. There will a Celebration of Life Service at 6 P.M., followed by gathering time till 7 P.M.
Memorials are suggested, if desired, to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 6100 Rockside Woods Blvd. Suite 445, Independence, OH 44131.
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HAMPSHIRE comedian Jim Davidson faced up to former heavyweight boxing champ Evander Holyfield (below) as he entered the Celebrity Big Brother house last night.
The 60-year-old, who has a home in the village of Stockbridge, will be scrutinised by the watching eyes of thousands of viewers during his time in the famous house with a host of familiar faces.
His inclusion comes a year after he was forced to withdraw from the 2013 version of the show as he faced a number of allegations of historic sex offences. But the former Big Break and Generation Game host expressed his delight in December after he was told he would face no action over an alleged sex offence in the Falkland Islands in the 1980s.
In August officers from Scotland Yard told Davidson, who spent eight months on bail, he would face no further action in the UK following his arrest in relation to ten allegations.
He was first held in January by O p e r a t i o n Yewtree detectives, and rearrested in March after further allegations emerged.
The comedian, who appeared on Hell's Kitchen in 2007, will be joined by Made in Chelsea star Ollie Locke (above), who was brought up in Southampton.
The celebrity, who has already made a name for himself as a reality TV heavyweight, left the show last year.
He grew up in the city before moving to London aged 19 to work as a writer, then later a fashion editor for an independent Chelsea magazine.
Ollie visited WHSmith in Above Bar Street in April last year to unveil his autobiography Laid in Chelsea.
The Big Brother line up:
- Former world heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield.
- N-Dubz star Dappy,
- Luisa Zissman from The Apprentice.
- Sam Faiers from The Only Way is Essex.
- Journalist Liz Jones.
- Singer Lee Ryan.
- Singer Linda Nolan,
- Entertainer Lionel Blair
- Glamour model Casey Batchelor
- US actress Jasmine Waltz


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Baku, Azerbaijan, April 19
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Iran and Azerbaijan have discussed the abolition of visa regime, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia and Oceania and Special Representative for Caspian Sea Affairs, Ebrahim Rahimpour said.
"The work in this regard is underway," Rahimpour said, IRNA news agency reported on April 19.
He went on to add that a special group at Iran's Foreign Ministry is currently reviewing the abolishment of the visa regime with other countries for Iranian citizens.
"Simplification of Iranian citizens' entry and exit into neighbouring countries is one of the main directions of Tehran's foreign policy," he said.
Iran unilaterally abolished visa requirements for Azerbaijan's citizens on January 1, 2010.
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Nissan Titan vs Chevy Silverado
Ummm...okay...I guess I'll rephrase that to "most" forum writers. Hmmm... do you think Frank Lloyd Wright would've designed a "contemporary" Nissan? :surprise:
Ask Razorthunder that question. He brought it up.
I do think that Frank would have designed an aesthetically pleasing automobile, but it wouldn't have gone anywhere.
razorthunder Posts: 98Why would Frank need to do that? Nissan does that already!
titan_trash Posts: 1You rather get the Silverado. Some fuel pump problems were on the Titan most likely after 40K miles - It is costly to repair in the four digits. When fuel pump problem show up, your titan will die unexepectedly at anytime, any speed. Mine was at 70MPH crusine on the freeway - twice. Good luck to those of us who current owns Titan.
Four digit repair bill to replace a fuel pump? How did that happen?
A fuel pump might cost $250 with labor extra?
Yep looks that way.
http://x.nissanhelp.com/forums/costestimator3.php?section=engine&name=Replace%20- Fuel%20Pump
Guess his must've been diamond studded.
Another fabrication perhaps? Thanks for the info!
Do you think Joe Friday could replace a fuel pump cheaper? Sorry.....I can't believe they put the pumps in the gas tanks now.....I guess I'm old school :confuse:
'97 mark VIII. After fillup fuel gauge showed 7/8 full never at the full mark. Took it to dealer who wanted me to fill tank with gas and have the tech check it out. Come find out he has to replace the sensor which is located in the now full fuel tank....so funny.
Even if the fuel pump is located in the fuel tank. You're talking 9 hours of labor to drop the tank and replace the fuel pump? Tech should be fired if he takes that long.
I really don't believe that Joe is even alive.
And I haven't had a fuel pump go since my 1981 Volvo refused to fire up back in the winter of 88.
Yep...the last time I replaced a fuel pump, I had a hard time fitting the arm of the pump under the cam lobe...ah man..my 8-Track player just ate my Bad Finger tape...I'm too old for this...
dustyk Posts: 2,926You guys should be careful about jumping to conclusions. A fuel pump replacement on a '99 Avalon just cost us $886. The fuel pump on my daughters '03 Altima was over $700.
So maybe a grand for a Titan is not that far out of line.
smokin98ss Posts: 13I sell both and I can tell you the chevy wins hands down. CR can say what they want but I see them daily and Titans get towed in at a rate of 10 to one on the chevys. I've had people bring them back and trade them two months after buying them. They say it's the worst truck they ever owned. I won't repeat what they say about the Ridgeline.
fueledup Posts: 64Deciding between an 08' titan le crew cab long bed 4x2 with tow pck, msrp of 36,300.00 with rebate can buy for 29,400.00. Or an 07' chevy 1500 extended cab long bed 4x2 with msrp of 33,094.00 with rebate can buy for 26,375.00. love all the features of the titan, but with test drive city mpg registered over 10 mile run at 9.8mpg. I reset the computers before the test drives. chevy(5.3 engine) over almost identical run computer read 14.6. would love info from owners of both to post true mpg's and any problems or lack of problems. I've seen the post of razor so would like some new voices spoken.
boaz47 Posts: 2,751Is that truck owners as a whole are not like car owners. You might have a preference for one truck over another but as a whole you would rather have a truck than a car. I have learned to have a healthy respect for Titans and Tundras even if I do feel it took Toyota quite a while to get it right. Not that their 1/2 ton was ever a bad truck it just wasn't up to what the other full sized trucks were. Now I think they have corrected their 7/8 truck stigma. I simply do not trust Nissan even if I agree they seem to make a reasonable truck. Most of my experience with Nissan trucks has been with their small trucks and I consider them the back of the pack. There is something that turns people off about Nissan Trucks but to be honest I don't know what it is. They were first in the market with compact trucks only to flatten out and fall first to Toyota, then in 74 or 76 they fell to Ford Ranger and not long after they fell behind Chevy S-10. Does anyone know where they stand in total truck sales today?
As far as fuel mileage goes Most of the road tests I have seen have rated Ford, Toyota and GM ahead of Dodge and Nissan. What has bothered me about the Nissan was the same thing that used to bother me about the Tundra. For some reason the Asian powers that be decided we only needed one engine choise. Now even Toyota gives you three just like GM and Ford. Nissan still seems to think they Know better than their customers so we get one choice. It may be a fine engine but I want to make the choice. Still I wouldn't kick a Titan out of my driveway if I wanted a 1/2 ton.
I own both.
If you're looking for mpg and less up front costs, buy the GM.
You don't state what exactly you want the truck to do so based on what you've posted the only logical choice is the GM.
ftrspeedy Posts: 7i bout my 2008 1500 ext cab 4x4 silverado 3.73 gear in late oct. during winter i was getting 15mpg on these warmer weeks recently i've been peeking aroun 16-16.2mpg few days ago i pulled a trailer, bout 20ft enlosed car trailer extra wide 170 mile empty 170 mile loaded with 2500lbs race car auto trans in 3rd gear and doin 60-65mph i got 8-8.3mpg both ways. truck has almost 9100miles on it
friskybusa Posts: 3I can get 20 mpg any day I want. Just have to keep speed to 65 - 68mph. I do it all the time commuting 92 miles a day. mostly interstates. just take it easy with the GO pedal, and stay off the brake unless or untill it is needed. Also 55k miles, no problems and still plenty tread left on original tires. Some people with MPG complaints need to learn how to drive.
20 any day? 55K on tires? Now that is simply amazing.
Only 2500lbs and in 3rd gear? Were you going uphill the whole way? On flat ground you can put it in OD. Seriously.
muskyfever Posts: 20I'd have to take a Titan over a Chevy anyday. American made trucks are for hillbillies, I'm sorry that's just the way it is. I'd take a Tundra before an American made truck also. 100 years of building trucks and the [non-permissible content removed] surpass them on their very first try? Just goes to show you how bad the big 3 really are.
Ummmmm.......guess where the Tundra and Titan are built? doh
trucker8 Posts: 1I have been a die-hard chevy fan my whole life, the time came to trade in my 97 chev. 1/2 ton. that served me well for 12 years, I went straight to the gm dealer to buy an 09 1/2 ton full load and guess what, aside from the new sheet-metal, and flashy interior. that 09 was no different than my 97! what a let down! I test drove an 09 titan LE and let me tell you i will NEVER go back! Thanks chevy its been a great 30 years, but you cant touch my new Titan!
...and a whole new drivetrain and frame and...wait..are you sure you had a 97???? Was it the truck or the dealer? Sometimes they think there are only three players in the full size truck market and want to goug...I mean price them accordingly.
But there is no way a 97 and a 09 are even related. That 97 was really an 88. :P
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