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St. Augustine High School boys basketball player Matt Clark was selected to the Orlando Sentinel and SourceHoops.com all-state squad on Thursday.
Clark, The Record's top player last season after averaging 19 points a game, was on the third team. The team was selected by the Sentinel, SourceHoops.com and newspapers from around the state.
Clark and Creekside's Jordan Dean were selected to the The Florida Association of Basketball Coaches all-state team on April 20.
Clark has signed to play at Flagler College, where his father, Bo, coaches.
Here is the 2010-11 All-State boys basketball team for Class 4A, as selected by the Orlando Sentinel and SourceHoops.com with input from newspapers statewide.
First team
Deion Clark, Barron Collier (Naples), 6-4, Jr.
Evin Graham, Fort Myers, 6-4, Sr.
Cleon Roberts, Norland (Miami), 6-4, Jr.
Andre Smith, Blake (Tampa), 5-10, Sr.
John Wade, Rutherford (Panama City), 6-3, Jr.
Second team
Tyler Bergantino, Nature Coast (Brooksville), 6-8, Jr.
Diamante Lewis, Lake Weir, 6-5, Jr.
Loucheiz Purifoy, Pine Forest (Pensacola), 6-0, Sr.
Joe Toolie, Leesburg, 6-3, Jr.
Dalarrian Williams, Washington (Pensacola), 6-5, Sr.
Third team
Matt Clark, St. Augustine, 6-0, Sr.
Jernell Hughes, Immokalee, 6-2, Sr.
Chris Johnson, Palatka, 6-2, Sr.
Solomon Poole, Terry Parker (Jacksonville), 6-2, So.
Kishawn Williamson, Godby (Tallahassee), 6-6, Jr.
Fourth team
Lex Curry, Poinciana, 6-1, Sr.
Marcus Hagins, Vanguard (Ocala), 6-3, Sr.
Ben Mayell, Cardinal Gibbons (Fort Lauderdale), 5-8, Sr.
Ta'Quan McDrew, Sebastian River, 6-2, Sr.
Teron Wallace, Leesburg, 6-2, Sr.


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Dark Messiah Collectors Edition announced
by Garrett, 2006-08-14 20:53:00Well sort of...this UK game shoppe offers it for A39.99 and claims it has the following content:
Collectors Edition Contains:
Bonus CD with 1 exclusive multiplayer character skin, 4 exclusive single player weapons and 26 minute Making-Of documentary with Arkane, Kuju and Ubisoft. Exclusive soundtrack CD. Grained paper map of the multiplayer world. Heroes of Might & Magic V demo
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We are a Boulder Classic. Munson Farms Started in 1976 with only 2 acres. In the 1979 we opened the stand at Valmont and 75th with 35 acres. We have since grown to 75+ acres, that my brother and I manage, while my parents have taken a more relaxed role in the operation. Our family has been growing pumpkins, spinach, and sweet corn in the valley for generations. Munson's orderly fields of vegetables look out at the Front Range and are bordered by a wonderful wild 'pantry': We harvests garlic, asparagus, mushrooms, and Canada geese from his land. The pumpkin patch in October is a favorite for kids, and the farm stand on the corner of Valmont and 75th is a summer mainstay for locals. Novemeber we have Christmas tree sales.


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Scott Brown, the St Johnstone midfielder, felt a little like an outsider as his team-mates cavorted following their triumph in the William Hill Scottish Cup final last season.
He has resolved to make more of an impact on the club's European campaign, as Swiss side Lucerne visit Perth tonight for the second leg of their Europa League qualifying tie.
The 19-year-old made just his third start for St Johnstone in last week's first leg, a match which ended 1-1. The outing brought Brown a rare sense of satisfaction after departing Bradford City to move to Perth last season.
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He was left out of the matchday squad for the club's biggest game - the Scottish Cup final win against Dundee United - and as such as not able to enjoy the celebrations fully.
"I'm feeling better now I have played a few games. Last season I felt like an outsider because I wasn't playing much," said Brown, who confirmed that Stevie May is likely to start against Lucerne following a thigh injury. "I got a game against Celtic towards the end of the season which helped and so has being involved at the start of this season.
"The team did well last year and it's always great to see the team winning, but I never really felt part of it. The cup final was hard for me to watch because I was desperate to be involved in the team. I was delighted for the boys but as much as they tried to get me to join in with the celebrations, I felt a bit left out.
"But that disappointment has stood me in good stead. It's just made me hungrier to make a difference this year and hopefully I can do that against Lucerne."
That could come from set-pieces, with the Swiss side acknowledging that dead balls will cause them some concern in Perth. "Both goals against us in the first two games have come from corner kicks," said Thomas Wyss, the Lucerne assistant manager.
"We must defend them better and our standards and concentration levels have to be higher. We know we face a challenge."


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Rihanna has taken to Instagram with a full, handwritten tracklist for her upcoming record, Unapologetic, which includes collaborations with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown and Eminem, as well as Future and Mikky Ekko.
Rihanna previously worked with Eminem on his "Love the Way You Lie"; this time, Marshall Mathers returns the favor on a cut called "Numb."
Chris Brown shows up on a track called "Nobodies Business" – a striking title considering their tumultuous past. Back in 2009, Brown beat up Rihanna the night before she was set to perform at the Grammys; he pleaded guilty to a felony assault charge and was sentenced to community service, five years' probation and domestic violence counseling. Just a few days ago, a Los Angeles judge decided Brown would remain on supervised probation and was ordered to return to court in January after his European tour.
Back in August, Rihanna told Oprah Winfrey during an interview that she and Brown "still love each other," and added later: "I just felt like he made that mistake because he needed help. Everybody's gonna say he's a monster without looking at the source. Who's gonna help him?"
"Nobodies Business" does not mark the first time Rihanna and Brown have collaborated since the 2009 incident either. Earlier this year, Rihanna and Brown attracted attention when they collaborated on remixes of each other's tracks "Birthday Cake" and "Turn Up the Music," respectively. At the time, Rihanna said, "I thought people were gonna be surprised that we finally did a record together, but I didn't see how people could think it was a bad thing, you know? In my mind, it was just music."
Unapologetic, Rihanna's seventh studio album, will hit shelves on November 19th, and she'll also appear as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on November 1oth alongside host Anne Hathaway.


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Despite Reserves, San Mateo County Proposes Crippling 15% Healthcare Budget Cut
For Immediate Release
March 28, 2011
Tuesday: Nurses to Protest at Board of Supervisors Meeting
Registered nurses from the California Nurses Association will join local patients this Tuesday, March 29 to protest as the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors meets to consider a 15 percent healthcare budget cut that would devastate the county's healthcare safety net.
WHAT: Nurses Protest San Mateo County Healthcare Budget Cuts
WHEN: Tuesday, March 29, 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: 400 County Center, Redwood City, CA
The county's cuts would significantly degrade healthcare in the region. Long-term effects are impossible to quantify, but some of the first areas hurt would be:
- 180 emotionally disturbed children will lose mental health services
- 1,000+ elderly and disabled residents will have community programs reduced or cut
- 260 non-violent drug offenders will lose substance abuse treatment
- 1,300 disabled and at-risk children will have services reduced
- 250 children will have early intervention services eliminated
- 6 dedicated acute psychiatric bed will be eliminated in the medical center
These cuts come despite the fact that over the last five years, the overall healthcare budget has shrunk by 5 percent, during which time some 22,000 county residents have lost their employer-based health insurance due to layoffs.
"These cuts are unnecessary and will devastate our county health system," said Anna Wilson, an RN in the inpatient psych unit. "Patients will suffer needlessly. We have over $300 million in our county reserve, and promises from the federal government for a 2-to-1 match. Facilities are already stretched too thin and care is suffering. Why would the county push these draconian cuts now? The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors must say no these cruel cuts."


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There are conservative critics of the administration's approach to Egypt who favor cutting off aid to the military government, and there are those who want to retain it. But there is an interesting overlap, which points the way toward a resolution and a more constructive policy toward Egypt.
Former ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton writes:
It follows that cutting off U.S. assistance to Egypt now would be seriously mistaken, as would pressuring other donors to withhold financial assistance to rescue Egypt's economy from the deepening morass that Mr. Morsi let it become. Such cutbacks also would send exactly the wrong political message to the factions within Egypt, the Middle East more broadly, and America's friends and
allies world-wide.
But he argues, "Congress should make a quick, technical statutory fix that allows U.S. aid to continue despite the coup."
Elliott Abrams favors a suspension of aid, contending that this is what current law explicitly requires us to do:
Now, there are good coups and bad coups, coups we like and coups we don't like. But it seems very clear that Morsi won the presidential election, and whatever point public opinion reached in Egypt he was removed by the Army—not by impeachment and not by a revolution. A "duly elected head of government" was "deposed by military coup or decree." So the issue is whether to respect our law.
Look back at all those things we want for Egypt, and the answer should be obvious: We will do our friends in Egypt no good by teaching the lesson that for us as for them law is meaningless.
He stresses, however, that we will remain engaged in Egypt and should also "explain that we expect to maintain those relations, and work closely with them, and seek to resume aid as soon as their promised elections take place."
I would argue for reasons having nothing to do with Egypt that Congress should proceed as described above. This president has become far too accustomed (on immigration, healthcare and now foreign policy) to simply disregarding the express conditions of U.S. law. That is intolerable and Congress should do its utmost to make certain, even if the president does not, that our government respects its own laws. That means in this case following existing law. But it doesn't preclude then giving assurances, concretized in law, as to how we will proceed.
In other words, the U.S. should suspend aid temporarily with explicit language acknowledging the obvious — a coup has taken place and U.S. law requires that we must do so. But then Congress separately should lay out the conditions (to be certified by the president) for re-establishing at least part of our aid, some of which of which have been satisfied. These would include scheduling elections and forming a civil government. We could exercise additional leverage in requiring, for example, restraint in dealing with the deposed Morsi government.
We can thereafter lay out the sort of conditions that would lead to full resumption of aid or even additional assistance. These would include the items both Abrams and Bolton recognize as essential to a successful Egyptian government — respect for minority rights, increased civil liberties and an independent judiciary.
As a matter of foreign policy, conditioning aid in a way that respects our own values and gives us leverage is how we should have been operating up until now. Had we done so — by having cut off or limited aid when those conditions were not met under either Hosni Mubarak or Morsi — we would have communicated to the Egyptian people where we stand and would have had some greater chance of influencing Egypt's behavior. Maybe now is the time to put that into practice — and into law.


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Reflecting the general malaise of the U.S. music market this year, shipments of Latin music CDs tumbled by 26% to less than 19 million units in the first half of 2002, according to data released Friday by the Recording Industry Assn. of America.
On a dollar-value basis, that meant $80 million less in shipments than the same period in 2001 — a 24% decline. Shipments are not the same as actual sales at retail — the numbers can change based on returned merchandise and other factors.
One major factor was a dearth of blockbuster Latin releases in the first half of this year. In the first half of 2001, the highest sales certification issued by the RIAA to a Latin title was twice "Disco de Platino" (400,000 units) for Ricky Martin's "La Historia." This year, no Latin titles attained that sales level.
The industry has high hopes that a slate of fresh releases from such artists as Enrique Iglesias, Vincente Fernandes, Carlos Vives and Los Tucanes de Tijuana will help revive the Latin market in the second half of the year.
The RIAA also said piracy was to blame for a large part of the downturn. The industry has been fighting an uphill battle against online file-sharing sites like Kazaa and Morpheus, slapping them with lawsuits and most recently mulling legal actions against file-swappers themselves.
One bright spot for Latin music distributors: the small but burgeoning musicvideo and DVD markets. Video shipments in the Latin sector more than tripled to 33,000 units. Growth in Latin music DVDs was even stronger, mirroring the format's success industrywide: Shipments grew by more than 700% to 131,000 units.


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At Least 43 People Reportedly Killed In Syria Car Blast
At least 43 people have been confirmed dead in a car bomb blast in the rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz, near the Turkish border.
The explosion occurred outside a courthouse in the town, some just 7km (four miles) from the Turkish frontier, the BBC reports. Azaz has recently been targeted by so-called Islamic State (IS).
The latest blast comes amid a nationwide ceasefire – brokered by Russia and Turkey. It has been mainly observed, despite some violations.
No group has yet said it carried out the bombing, which according to some reports may have killed as many as 60 people and injured many more.
The activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said six rebels were among the dead, with the rest believed to be civilians.


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The Monegros Festival is on again in Spain next month, bringing more than 20 hours of techno, minimal, dubstep, hip hop and more to the Monegros desert between Madrid and Barcelona. Set in the desert, 40000 people, 22hrs non-stop music, on 5 simultaneous stages, alternating between Techno, Electro, Hip Hop, Drum & Bass & Dubstep, there should be a wide enough soundscape to satisfy just about any electronic music lover.
Billed as "The biggest rave in Spain". A lot of terms are used in an attempt to describe this festival, however it is literally impossible to put in plain words if you have not had the chance to attend it. Well worth a flying weekend visit. Should be one of the biggest one day events of the year.
Monegros festival 2009
Line Up includes:
Pendulum Live * Busta Rhymes * 2 Many Dj's Live * Laurent Garnier Live * La Mala
Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77 * Buraka Som Sistema Live * Dave Clarke * Richie Hawtin
Jeff Mills * Luciano * Digitalism djset * Ben Sims * Adam Beyer
Marco Carola vs Loco Dice (Back II Back set) * Technasia Live * DJ Rush * Oscar Mulero * Umek
DJ Murphy * Popof Live * Cristian Varela * Paul Ritch Live * Matthew Jonson * Frank Kvitta * Pet Duo
Boris S Live * OBI Vs Lukas * Eto & Gab * Du'Art * Mat Weasel VS Harry Potar aka Roms
Guigoo Narkotek * Maissouille * CPV * SFDK * Morodo * Chacho Brodas * DJ Griffi * The Bug feat. Flowdan
Caspa feat. MC Rod Azlan * Reso * Sub Focus * Benny Page * Drumsound & Bassline Smith feat. Youngman MC
Aaron Spectre' Drumcorps Live * Aphrodite & MC Junior Red * Kid 606 * Otto von Schirach
Marc Marzenit Live * Cesar Merveille * The Horrorist * Niskerone * Narcotik DLux
Raúl Mezcolanza * Fran the Breakstorm feat. MC Osito & MC V-ree * RKM


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Daniel W. Zamber, Jr., Plaintiff-appellant, v. W.p. Rogers, Warden, Virginia Department of Corrections;d.t. Mahon, Assistant Warden; J.c. Holloway,regional Ofc., Virginia Department Ofcorrections, Defendants-appellees, 843 F.2d 1389 (4th Cir. 1988)Annotate this Case
Submitted: Feb. 29, 1988. Decided: April 7, 1988
Daniel W. Zamber, Jr., appellant pro se.
Robert Harkness Herring, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for appellees.
Before DONALD RUSSELL, SPROUSE and ERVIN, Circuit Judges.
A review of the record and the district court's opinion discloses that this appeal from its order denying relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is without merit. Because the dispositive issues recently have been decided authoritatively, we dispense with oral argument and affirm* the judgment below on the reasoning of the district court. Zamber v. Rogers, C/A No. 86-626-N (E.D. Va. Oct. 20, 1987).
Our affirmance is without prejudice to Zamber's right to file a habeas corpus action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 seeking restoration of good-time credits, after he has exhausted state remedies


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Legal Question in Employment Law in Florida
do I has have a chance at suing a company I only worked at for a month?
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Byron Petersen Byron G. Petersen P.A.
Suing for what? Were you terminated? What concerns you, here?
This is not a legal opinion. You need to see an attorney face to face for a legal opinion.
Good luck. Byron Petersen
Answered on 8/31/13, 10:43 am
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Creative Contest
Who wants to inspire couples everywhere AND be eligible for a package of amazing prizes from some of our FAVORITE vendors? We thought so!!
We are super duper excited to bring you our second "ULTIMATE Creative Ideas" Contest! We are scouting for the BEST creative ideas across the country in each of the following categories: creative dates, lovey-dovey craft tutorials, quick and easy romance ideas {15 minutes or less}, classy & creative intimate moment ideas, and long distance dating ideas. Yeppers! We will actually REWARD you for dating that sweetheart of yours! Check out all the prizes from our FAVORITE VENDORS at the end of this post. So, get your creative ideas flowing and brush up on your photography skills because we can't wait to see what you have to share!
The 2nd ULTIMATE "Creative Ideas" Contest
FIVE super-duper LUCKY winners will be selected. Winners take ALL! {squeal}
Categories to Enter:
Participants can submit up to four ideas to each of the five categories for a total of 20 submissions!! It will need to be completely original and cannot be something we have already posted on our website. Click on the title of each category to browse through what we have previously come up with.
- Creative Dates – Date your mate!! Participants can submit a creative AND inexpensive date idea that they came up with. What is something you have been DYING to make a date out of? We are looking for date ideas that can be done anywhere… no matter WHERE you live! Try to think outside the box of something you and your spouse would enjoy, but that others could easily recreate. If you create a darling printable to go along with your idea, we would love for you to send that in as well.
- Craft Tutorial – We show off fun DIY presents to give to our spouse all the time. Now it's time for all of YOU to share your best ideas! Submit a creative AND inexpensive DIY craft tutorial with details on how it can be recreated. We would love to see a photo of the materials, maybe some of the steps you went through, and then – the final project, of course! We can't WAIT to see what you come up with!
- Quick & Easy – With how busy life gets, we don't always have time to do big or elaborate dates or even gifts. This category is for the most creative idea/way to show love to a spouse… in UNDER 15 minutes! That's the key to this category! Simple, creative, fast, and meaningful!!
- Intimate Moments – You just gotta keep those sparks flying in a relationship! Participants can submit fun ideas that help keep the passion alive in their marriages. Submissions must be tastefully done and presented in a way that is classy.
- Long Distance – With so many people having to be away from their spouses for long periods of time, we are just LOVING this category! We can't WAIT to see what you can think up for this! Any creative idea or FUN package that would help close the gap of distance in a relationship can be entered into this category. We would also LOVE to see creative date ideas that couples have used while being apart.
How To Enter:
Participants will be asked to submit the outline of their idea as well as 2-3 {or more!!} GORGEOUS pictures that feature the fun aspects of their idea. Read on for ALL of the details. Please make sure to do EACH step for EACH submission.
- Send your submissions into firstname.lastname@example.com. Please send each submission in a different email. Reminder – you can even submit four ideas to each of the five categories for a total of 20 submissions – BUT, they all need to be in separate emails.
- Please put "CONTEST – NAME OF CATEGORY YOU ARE ENTERING – TITLE OF YOUR IDEA-YOUR FULL NAME" in the subject line of your email. For example, if I were going to enter the "Intimate Moments" Category with an fun idea about using homemade edible candles, I would type, "CONTEST-INTIMATE MOMENTS-HOMEMADE EDIBLE CANDLES-CANDICE MEYER" as my title. Make sense?
- In order to share your fabulous ideas with everyone else, we need your permission! Please copy & paste these FIVE "terms" into the beginning of your email. This will give us permission to air your photos and/or idea however we choose.
- 1.) I understand that The Dating Divas, LLC reserve the right to edit my submission to conform to their submission/editorial guidelines, and they are allowed to re-classify my submission to the category they deem appropriate.
- 2.) I understand that The Dating Divas, LLC reserve the right to remove my published article if it is found republished elsewhere.
- 3.) The idea I am submitting is my own work and is not plagiarized in any way. By submission and acceptance of these potential posts, I agree that TheDatingDivas.com is in no way liable in cases of complaints of copyright violations.
- 4.) I give The Dating Divas, LLC full permission to publish my submission on their site and I understand that there will not be payment of any kind. {Although I would appreciate being one of the winners!}
- 5.) By submitting an article to TheDatingDivas.com, I agree that I have read, understand, and consent to all of the guidelines set forth.
- Pretty please state somewhere in your email where your inspiration for the idea came from. 🙂
- Please write up the entire idea. You can write up the idea & explain how you did it WITH your sweetheart OR if you don't have time to actually do the idea at this time, you can explain to us how others can do it.
- Include 2-5+ GORGEOUS photos that demonstrate and/or show off your idea. We are going to give you a HUGE hint right here. READY? If your photos are dark, dingy, or have a scary background {lol}, then you probably won't win!! Remember the saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words"?? Well, that is SO true when it comes to this contest! The more gorgeous your photos are, the more likely you are to walk away with one of these prize packages!! Just be aware of the lighting, background, and if you need to – borrow a neighbor's nice camera to take a couple pics! These AH-MAZ-ING prizes are soooo worth it!
Length of Contest:
Our Contest begins October 5th, 2013 (TODAY!!!) and ends on Saturday, November 2nd, 2013. The Divas will review all of the submitted ideas and vote on our absolute favorites in each category. The lucky winners will be revealed during the week of November 18th- 22nd when we post all of YOUR creative and inspiring ideas!
The top winner from EACH category will receive a fantastic prize from EACH of these incredible vendors!!! We have teamed up with our VERY FAVORITE companies and they are each donating FIVE $50+ prizes. That's right, you heard us correctly! Each winner will walk away with A PRIZE. FROM. EVERY VENDOR!!!!
Ready to see all TEN amazing prizes AND 1 SPECIAL BONUS from The Dating Divas team??
Take a shopping spree at Vintage Rose Wraps with a $50 gift certificate and pick from their entire product line, including their signature headbands, belts, earrings, and their two new products; ruffle bags and leather cuffs. It only takes wearing a Vintage Rose Wrap once and you'll see why these fun and flirty accessories have become a must for anyone's wardrobe!
From the makers of Vintage Rose Wraps, comes the new blog, The Vintage Mother. Check out their fantastic new site for inspiration on "purposeful mothering, giving, and living – with a "vintage" ideal for the modern-day Mom." The winner will be one of the first to receive a t-shirt and leather cuff from their shop {OPENING SOON}.
kangacoo designs was Founded in 2008 by Katie Nguyen who had a desire to create fashionable clothes for the everyday girl sizes 3m to 12Y. The clothing is made with practical but interesting fabrics, lots of ruffles, and is above all, fun to wear! The line is designed on the idea that childhood is an occasion, dress for it! Winners will enjoy a $50 gift certificate to this amazing store.
Commemorate the love and life you have shared with your significant other with this fully personalized print 8×10 print by Jackaroo Designing Co. Your loves journey is unique and far reaching so memorialize your accomplishments as a couple and look lovingly to your future. Capture dates, miles, and family stats as a beautiful custom print and give as a special gift to always be treasured.
Hot Chick Aprons are made for those with good taste in and out of the kitchen. These vintage style aprons can heat up the kitchen and spice up your love life! Winners will enjoy a $50 gift certificate to pick out one of their stylish and flirty designs!
Love is in the Wear! Get ready for a romantic get-away with your honey, and whether you are going to a romantic island retreat or a fabulous big-city Broadway show, you'll look amazing in our dress or swimsuit! Your prize from Diviine Modestee is a $60 gift certificate good for use on any Divinita Sole Swimsuit or Sweet Innocence Dress. Prepare to sparkle and shine!
The Home Executive Day Planner by Picket Fence Publications is a favorite in the blogging and Pinterest worlds! It has a super fun design and is amazingly functional– designed exclusively for the Home Executive of any age. You will receive THREE planners to not only make your life more organized, but the lives of two of your friends as well!
Mya Bruce Designs specializes in crafting beautiful stamped & personalized jewelry. Lucky winners will receive a new mixed metal design from the MBD premium line, which was created because every woman can inspire and be inspired. This gorgeous piece features a 24″ sterling ball chain, a mini silver bird pendant, and trio of bronze and sterling rectangles to remind us that "with brave wings she flies" and to "live.hope.be" and "dream."
Burlap, Burlap, Burlap… Rock N Couture can't get enough of this textile. That's why they created their fun and functional burlap clutches that are great for everyday, gifts, weddings, and birthdays. They added this piece to their collection so that you could find your things in a snap. Though everyone LOVES their signature Rock N Couture bags, these clutches are quick, easy and fashionable. The lucky winners will choose not one, but TWO different clutches from their fabulous collection!!!!
Whether you want to make something to add to the romance in your relationship, or something to make your home a more inviting place to spend time with those you love, it's your choice! Say It On The Wall is your one stop shop for all your vinyl needs! (Custom orders welcome!) Choose your own prize with a $50 gift certificate to Say It On The Wall!
In addition to these 10 amazing prizes, we are offering a SPECIAL BONUS!
Each winner will receive a free copy of our e-book: The ULTIMATE Date Night Book!
We've gathered all of our TOP dates plus fresh, never before seen or published date ideas…..and compiled them into The ULTIMATE Date Night Book! This is the perfect book to have on hand for planning future date nights!
Start wooing your spouse TODAY!… and taking GORGEOUS pictures to capture the memories.
Need a little inspiration? Here are links to last year's winners:
- Creative Date: SOAK Up the Sun Date by Jen Kaelber
- Craft Tutorial: Passport to Love by now Diva Becca
- Quick & Easy: 50 Reasons Why I Love You by Sarah Zimmerman
- Intimate Moment: Not Your Mother's Spice Rack by Donelle Quinn
- Long Distance Dating: Keep Him Thinking of You by Stephanie
GOOD LUCK & may the most creative readers win!!


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Complaint Review: Del Webb & Pulte Homes
- Del Webb & Pulte Homes
Office Vinland Blvd
orlando, Florida
United States of America
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Del Webb & Pulte Homes Del Webb, Centex Homes Pulte home Ripping off buyers in Orlando fl area. you may have paid too much orlando, Florida
Pulte Home Orlando fl Fraud rip off.
Reasons why you should not purchase a home from Pulte Homes or other builders under the corp. umbrella of Dewebb, Centex homes. If you or someone that you know purchased a home from Pulte homes or Deweb. Its very important that you take the time to read my post. This could save you thousands! Maybe save your home or even give you the ammo to make Pulte homes purchase that over priced home that you purchased at the wrong time.
Between 11/2007 and 4/2008 Pulte homes sales staff Ripped off unsuspected home buyers in the Orlando area in a community located near the Orlando Convention center called Vista Cay. During the time. Pulte Homes sales staff during the time that the real estate market was declining in the middle of 2007, According to Court documents recorded in public records. Pulte homes sold dozen of homes in the Orlando area at higher sales prices, paying an 8% real Estate commission plus a $50,000.00 to $70,000.00 selling bonus to the selling realtor. Now what really took place in this situation? Pulte homes sales staff assisted the buyers in getting a large portion of this money back in their pockets at closing, some of cash I feel went back into the pockets of the sales stuff from Pulte. When Pulte Home supplied my Real Estate Company with a sales contract with a much lower commission to keep from raising suspensions. But after obtaining the finial HUD-1 statements provided to the Lenders such as SunTrust and Chase I found that there was sales commissions appeared to go to my company that I never received. The average commission was about $90,000.00 on a 335k purchase. Sounds a little fishy.right? I have been a Real Estate Agent for 13 years and Mortgage Broker for at least that long as well.
When I discover I was taxed by the IRS for over 1,000,000.00 in revenue that I never received I contacted Pulte home office in Michigan. I was routed to an office in the Orlando area. After a meeting with the VIPs of the company and several emails Pulte informed me that the sales staff did not do anything out of the ordinary and nothing wrong. Well I beg to differ. My questions are as follows.
1. How did the sales contracts and closing statements inflated by 100k get by the bean counters in Michigan? When we all know production builders are all about the bottom line.
2. How does Pulte explain sales contracts that they provided to me with sales commissions about 92k less per transaction then what really happen?
3. What is Pulte doing for all the other buyers that purchased homes in a 14 month time frame that paid far too much? What this did was artificially inflated the value of all the homes sold in this time frame. YOU PAID 100,000.00 more then what you should have in that time frame.
4. What about the other homeowners struggling to resell condos that are worth less then a 1/3 of what the original cost was.
5. What about the Home Buyers that lost their homes because of Pulte Homes Greed and fraudulent dealings.
This is all public record and I would be happy to review your closing documents to see if you have fallen victim of Pultes Scam. Email me today or have your Lawyer contact me. I would be happy to share copies of the documents that I have. You may be entitled to be a part of a potential class action case against Pulte Homes.
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text: Lately I've been feeling some tenderness on the front of my foot/lower leg, basically right where the foot connects to the leg. Tried to figure out what muscle it was by looking at a diagram, but wasn't sure. Some sort of extensor? Originally only felt it when walking/jogging, but now all the time. It's very, very minor pain at this point, but it's there. Likely causes are either because I've recently taken up light jogging, or started to do light squats and leg praises and calf raises at the gym. So how do I nip this in the bud and prevent worsening or chronic pain without completely stopping my workouts?


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Gearman is a system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function
calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to do work in parallel,
to load balance lots of function calls, or to call functions between
This is the server daemon component. The bridge between workers (clients who
can do work) and callers (clients who want work done). You should run several
of these, at least two, for both load balancing and high availability.
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Gearman-Server/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-Gearman-Server/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install p5-Gearman-Server
cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-Gearman-Server/ && make install clean
pkg install p5-Gearman-Server
PKGNAME: p5-Gearman-Server
SHA256 (Gearman-Server-1.11.tar.gz) = 428374b1e58f293fa3fbb85e5f7d59199c428ca64b8f8b21edcc8a521ae30114
SIZE (Gearman-Server-1.11.tar.gz) = 15553
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 19
Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, categories d, e, f, and g.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
Make it so that the default Perl is always called perl5.
- Move Perl's man1 files along with its man3 files.
- Move where Perl installs its modules man1 pages.
- Convert the ports installing man1 pages.
- Make different Perl versions installable at the same time.
Though you should note that only the default version can be used to
install Perl modules, and the non default Perl versions cannot use the
modules installed via ports if they contain .so as they are installed
in a version specific directory.
Reviewed by: bapt (the Mk bits)
Exp-run by: antoine
Sponsored by: Absolight
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3542
Change the way Perl modules are installed, update the default Perl to 5.18.
Before, we had:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18
site_perl/perl_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18/mach
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/5.18/man/man3
Now we have:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl
site_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.18
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3
Modules without any .so will be installed at the same place regardless of the
Cleanup plist
Support staging.
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
devel part 3)
- convert to the new perl5 framework
- trim Makefile header
Approved by: portmgr (bapt@, blanket)
- Updated to 1.0.6 (1.1.x versions will reside in devel/gearman-devel soon)
- Trimmed Makefile header
- Added patches to work around missing alloca.h
- Added CONFLICTS to p5-Gearman-Server for gearmand 1.0.* and 1.1.*
- Updated to 0.39
- Added gearmand entries to UIDs and GIDs
- Registered conflict with devel/p5-Gearman-Server (conflicting rc.d scripts)
- Add patch to fix build with GCC < 4.4
- Cleaned up rc.d script
- Converted to OptionsNG
- Registered conflict with devel/gearmand (conflicting rc.d scripts)
- Removed explicit LIB_DEPENDS library version number
- Bumped PORTREVISION
PR: ports/171593 (based on)
Submitted by: Gasol Wu <email@example.com>
In the rc.d scripts, change assignments to rcvar to use the
literal name_enable wherever possible, and ${name}_enable
when it's not, to prepare for the demise of set_rcvar().
In cases where I had to hand-edit unusual instances also
modify formatting slightly to be more uniform (and in
some cases, correct). This includes adding some $FreeBSD$
tags, and most importantly moving rcvar= to right after
name= so it's clear that one is derived from the other.
- Replace ../../authors in MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR with CPAN:CPANID macro.
See http://wiki.freebsd.org/Perl for details.
- Change maintainership from ports@ to perl@ for ports in this changeset.
With perl@ hat
-remove MD5
- only 13% of the p5- ports embed @comment $FreeBSD$:
so standarize and remove it
With Hat: perl@
- Change rc script name to avoid conflict with devel/gearmand
PR: ports/144570
Submitted by: Vick Khera <firstname.lastname@example.com> (maintainer)
Begin the process of deprecating sysutils/rc_subr by
s#. %%RC_SUBR%%#. /etc/rc.subr#
- Update to 1.11
PR: ports/143759
Submitted by: myself (pgollucci@)
Approved by: email@example.com (maintainer)
- Update to 1.10
Submitted by: Vick Khera <firstname.lastname@example.com> (maintainer)
- Take advantage of CPAN macro from bsd.sites.mk, change
${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN} to CPAN.
PR: ports/122674
Submitted by: Philip M. Gollucci <email@example.com>
Reworked by: araujo (myself)
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
Gearman is a system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function
calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to do work in parallel,
to load balance lots of function calls, or to call functions between
This is the server daemon component. The bridge between workers (clients who
can do work) and callers (clients who want work done). You should run several
of these, at least two, for both load balancing and high availability.
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Gearman-Server/
PR: ports/116050
Submitted by: Tomoyuki Sakurai <cherry at trombik.org>
Servers and bandwidth provided byNew York Internet, SuperNews, and RootBSD
No vulnerabilities have been reported in the past 14 days
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The early conventional wisdom about the race for mayor of San Diego goes something like this: Nathan Fletcher is the fresh young face; Carl DeMaio is the hardline fiscal reformer; Bob Filner is the unabashed liberal; and Bonnie Dumanis is the moderate favorite of "the establishment."
Like a lot of political conventional wisdom, that analysis has flaws. As this campaign begins in earnest – Labor Day being the traditional start of political campaigns – we urge voters to essentially ignore the early political handicapping and to view the candidates with fresh eyes and an open mind.
The U-T Editorial Board has now conducted initial interviews with the four leading candidates – the Fletcher interview was published Aug. 7, DeMaio Aug. 14, Filner today, and Dumanis is scheduled for next Sunday. These interviews show each to be bright, experienced and knowledgeable. Each offers strengths and weaknesses that stem from compelling life stories. We look forward to learning more about the vision that each has for San Diego. The complexities and nuances of the campaign could well bust the early conventional wisdom.
The most pressing issue is, of course, City Hall's continuing struggle to regain financial stability in a way that will allow it to move forward with the program of whichever candidate is ultimately elected. With Dumanis' switch last week from opposition to support of the pension reform initiative currently being circulated for the June 2012 ballot, differences in the views of the three Republicans, at least, are subtle. Filner, the only Democrat in the field, is now alone in his opposition to the initiative. He has yet to unveil details of his own promised prescription for pension and fiscal reform, though in his Editorial Board interview today he discusses some of the ideas and concepts he is considering.
But the fiscal struggle at City Hall is not the only issue. Other familiar issues – redevelopment, a new stadium for the Chargers, a proposal to eliminate vehicle traffic and parking from the heart of Balboa Park, and the need to keep libraries and rec centers open and potholes filled – will all help separate the candidates.
There are new issues, too. Fletcher in particular is talking about a more involved role for the mayor in local education. That needs to be fleshed out. There will undoubtedly be other new ideas. Some could change the dynamics of the campaign.
To be sure, there are also the important intangibles, most notably leadership: Which candidate is best suited by experience, knowledge, temperament and a proven track record to get something done.
It is probably a cliché to say that San Diego is at a crossroads and that this is a keystone election. But it is also probably true. There is much at stake. The choices are real.


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Schuylkill court news
File for divorce
Jeffrey S. Gerber started a divorce action against Terri L. Gerber, both of 36 Archery Club Road, New Ringgold. They were married May 15, 2004.
Hans A. Shinton, 119 Lafayette St., Tamaqua, filed suit for divorce against Amy D. Shinton, 108 N. Third St., Hamburg. They were married June 19, 1999.
Divorces granted
Sheila L. Vanorden was granted a divorce from Glenn J. Vanorden, both of Pottsville. They were married Oct. 21, 2000.
Barbara a.Spence, 4032 Primrose Drive, Allentown, was granted a divorce from Melvin Letcher, Orwigsburg. They were married Sept. 20. 2008.
Peter D. Witman II, Schuylkill Haven, was granted a divorce from Amanda L. Witman, Saint Clair. They were married Jan. 7, 2011.
Andrea N. Kline, Orwigsburg, was granted a divorce from Jeffrey A. Kline, Cressona. They were married Sept. 7, 2002.
Holly Keff was granted a divorce from Joshua Keff, both of Mahanoy City. They were married May 16, 2009.
Allege contract breach
A Barnesville homeowner filed suit over an alleged contract breach for repairs to his property.
The suit was started by John J. Maddin, of 413 Back Road, Barnesville, against Raymond Wilder, 136 Greenwood St., Coaldale, alleging on July 27, 2012, the parties entered into an oral agreement whereas Madden provided a motorcycle and $1,000 in cash to Wilder to complete a roof with soffit (cornice) rain gutter and flashing. Also, it was agreed he construct an addition on the house, 32 x17 foot, and also complete the interior and exterior stone work on the house. The suit claims the work was never completed and seeks damages of $3,807.31.
Mortgage foreclosures
New Tripoli Bank filed suit against Marc Kranson, Allentown, alleging he has defaulted on mortgage payments on a property at 50 Bull Run St., Coaldale, and that a balance of $106,983.96 plus interest and costs remains unpaid.
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Copppell, Tex., filed suit against Diane Swire alleging she has defaulted on mortgage payments on the property at 18 Ferndale Road, Zions Grove, North Union Township, and that a balance of $148,298.90 plus interest and costs remains unpaid.
Seek back taxes
Tamaqua Area School District filed suits entering judgments against four property owners for alleged failure to pay school tax on their properties.
A suit was filed against Milton C. Bailey Jr., alleging he owes back taxes totaling $1.357.47 on the property at 139 Penn St., Tamaqua; a suit against Ronald G. and Lynneth Creitz alleging they owe $636.40 in back taxes on the property at 124 Pitt St., Tamaqua; a suit against Raymond E. and Brenda L. Rubright alleging they owe $1,090.44 in back taxes on the property at 350 Wildcat Road, Walker Township; and a suit against Charles T. and Joann Rodgers alleging they owe $894.89 in back taxes on the property at 218 Orwigsburg St., Tamaqua.
Treasurer's report
County Treasurer Jacqueline McGovern released the financial report for the month of December.
Beginning balance of all accounts was $46,651,527.51, deposits, $29,087,950.30; disbursements, $25,184,818.42 and ending balance, $50,554,659.39.
The general fund had a beginning balance of $17,015,467.50; deposits, $1,595,168.26; disbursements, $4,259,850.93 and ending balance, $14,350,784.83.
Taxes collected, real estate, $249.994.20; funded debt tax, $13,245.11 and per capita tax, $18,921.40.
Revenues included, fees from the magisterial district justice offices, $44,066.65; 9-1-1 tariff on telephones, $56,100.20; 9-1-1 department earnings, $567.09 and tax on hotels, $16,689.09.


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I was preparing to write another health and wellness article about the importance of paying attention to the quality of our water and food when my news radio announced that Margaret Thatcher had passed at the age of 87. She's a woman known for her strength and her will power to unapologetically stand by her core philosophies about life and politics. I quickly decided that my focus this week would be on this strong woman of healthy character known as the "Iron Lady."
I was born into a generation where there's a higher percentage of females sitting in college classrooms than there are males. A generation where a woman has attempted to run for president and will most likely take that seat before I have grown children of my own. And a generation where, according to a 2006 Lifetime article, 85% of females will return to the workforce after having children.
This world is very different from the one Margaret was born into back in 1925. To put it in perspective, the United Kingdom did not even grant women the right to vote until 1928. I'm sure that Margaret's mother might have been wary to whisper to her newborn baby girl that she could be the prime minister one day. By 1959, however, Margaret was a member of Parliament and in 1979 she became the first woman to take residency at 10 Downing Street as prime minister.
After learning the news of Margaret's death, I commented to a colleague that now it's relatively "normal" to see women in leadership roles. We didn't think to question whether or not it was appropriate for Hillary Clinton to run for president or to question the level of respect that women like Condoleezza Rice deserve for holding prestigious positions of leadership and power. At the risk of sounding cliché, though, Margaret faced many glass ceilings during her career and she managed to punch a hole through them and move on up. She redefined "normal" with an unprecedented amount of determination.
The media has recently been kind to her reputation realizing that her health was declining. Not so long ago, Meryl Streep even paid homage to her and won an Oscar for her role in The Iron Lady. But Margaret was not always well-liked and often not well-respected during her time in power. Despite the critics, her signature personality trait was to stand strong and not express any doubt in her decisions. Margaret believed in the power of showing conviction and often spoke about the importance of living her life as a woman of action. "If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman," she once famously declared.
When I think about women's health and wellness, I'm quick to turn to a lifestyle magazine or Pinterest for inspirational ideas. But the news of Margaret's passing was a moving reminder that as I strive to be a woman of strength from the inside out as well as beautiful in both character and mind, I need to spend time learning more about the women of past generations. So, the next time you're standing in the grocery line about to buy the latest magazine talking about "women's issues," I would encourage you to instead read up on the women who made choices in history that have reshaped the path we walk on today.
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My favorite blood orange tea is from Adagio Teas, but I'd love to try something new. I haven't seen it at the fancier supermarkets, but perhaps a tea shop would have it?
Rooibos I'm less picky about and could get at Whole Foods if I had to, but would like to know what people consider the best in LA.


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text: Capt. James R. "Jimmy" Clemons, 87, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. He was a veteran of the United States Navy and a 30 year veteran and captain with the Chattanooga Police Department. He was preceded in death by his mother, Mary Liza McCoy; father, James Robert Clemons, Sr.; son, Gary Clemons; niece, Billie Carol Porter. Survivors include his wife, Rosie Pearl Clemons; children, Derrick and Isabelle Clemons, Shelia and Dwight Hill, Rodney and Ronald Clemons; daughter-in-law, Milver Clemons; step-children, Orene and Willie Bey, Stella Joyce and Bill Coleman, Linda and Michael Gooden, Van Kent and Kathy Jones, Morris Glenn and Lucia Jones; 28 grandchildren; 39 great grandchildren; 8 great-great grandchildren; two nephews; and a host of other relatives and friends. A funeral service will be held at Noon Tuesday, Dec. 3, in the funeral home chapel, Pastor Randy Peterson officiating. Interment: 1:30 p.m. at Chattanooga National Cemetery. The body will lie in state today after Noon at John P. Franklin Funeral Home, 1101 Dodds Avenue, 622-9995.


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Sandra Hawkins warmed up her vocal chords in front of the elderly men and women at the Rosewood Retirement Community on Valentine's Day before the afternoon performance began.
The show served two purposes for Hawkins — it allowed her to bring some joy to Rosewood residents and prepared her for an audition for the NBC reality competition, "America's Got Talent" in New Orleans this week. Hawkins is an international gospel recording artist and the CEO and president of Jesus Christ 1st Records in Killeen.
"I'm going to be bold enough to sing 'America the Beautiful,' and revise it and turn it around and make it mine," she said about the audition.
This is Hawkins' second trip to The Big Easy to audition for the show. In 2010, Hawkins performed with her late husband, Ronnie, in a musical group called Ron Hawkins & HBF Gospel Singers.
Although her husband died that same year, his death left Hawkins with the strength to continue God's work and perform as the couple had been doing for years, she said.
"It started some 20-odd years ago when I first met my husband who was a big time doo wop artist," she said. "I'm just trying to carry on his legacy."
Hawkins is set to release her new CD this summer and perform in the Bahamas, but she has some fears about getting on stage before the "America's Got Talent" judges, including Executive Producer Simon Cowell. No matter the outcome, Hawkins said she remains focused on her passion of singing around the world in her husband's honor.
She also hopes to one day receive a Grammy.
"I want to help as many people as I can by reaching out and getting the ministry out there," she said.


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John Merline begs to differ. Writing for Investor's Business Daily, Merline remarks that "so far, there haven't been any spending cuts at all." "In the first nine months of this year," he explains, "federal spending was $120 billion higher than in the same period in 2010, the [Treasury] data show. That's an increase of almost 5%. And deficits during this time were $23.5 billion higher."
How can this be when politicians of both parties are constantly trumpeting their efforts to expunge excessive expenses?
As is frequently the case, the folks inside the Beltway have a different edition of Webster's than the rest of us. Whereas to the average American a spending cut means reducing the amount spent from one year to the next, to the average Washingtonian it means reducing the planned increase in year-over-year spending. Thus, if a program's budget was slated to grow by six percent but actually increased by just three percent, it is said to have suffered a 50-percent cut — which is how a five-percent rise in federal outlays translates into "slashing" the budget.
The feds aren't the only ones putting drunken sailors to shame. State governments increased their spending by 10 percent in 2010. "And general fund spending — which makes up about 40% of total state spending — is expected to climb 5.2% in 2011 and 2.6% next year," Merline notes. (Much of this spending growth was driven by federal stimulus spending and is forecast to taper off as those funds dry up, as evidenced by the declining increases in general fund spending.)
Moreover, says Merline, "the claim that state and local government jobs have been severely cut is, at the very least, open to some debate." While Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data show that state and local governments have shed hundreds of thousands of jobs over the past four years, the Census Bureau found that those same governments added 200,000 "full time equivalent" employees between 2007 and 2010. "In any case," Merline observes, "even using BLS data, the number of state and local government jobs has fallen just 2.3% since December 2007. That compares with a decline of 5.4% for private-sector jobs."
In other words, for all the public handwringing over "draconian" budget cuts and falling public-sector employment, government and its employees have suffered very little in comparison to the people they are supposed to be serving.
Politicians of both parties persist in claiming that they are making tough choices to reduce the deficit while they are actually spending ever more funds that they do not have. In April President Barack Obama proposed a budget that "would add $9.5 trillion to the deficit over 10 years and never fall below a $500 billion annual deficit despite a series of huge tax increases," The New American reported at the time. Republicans countered with a supposedly conservative plan by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan that, according to TNA, "would officially increase the national debt by some $5 trillion over the next 10 years and continue $400 billion annual budget deficits through at least 2021." In September Obama proposed sinking the government another half-trillion dollars in the hole with his American Jobs Act, then suggested paying for it with hefty tax hikes — and engaged in accounting trickery to arrive at rather grandiose claims of deficit reduction. Neither party's leadership has made a serious effort to reduce outlays significantly below their current levels.
Some of those voting for more spending are merely buying votes. Others, however, may sincerely believe that the economy will never pull out of recession without additional government stimulus, in part because the pundits, decrying alleged budget cuts, tell them so. Merline cites some recent examples of such op-ed sophistry:
A July article in USA Today, for example, claimed that "Already in 2011, softer government spending has sapped growth."
Jared Bernstein, former chief economic adviser to Vice President Biden, wrote over the summer that "government spending cutbacks have been a large drag on growth in recent quarters and have led to sharp losses in state and local employment."
Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argued in September that "the turn toward austerity (is) a major factor in our growth slowdown."
Of course, as we have seen, there have been no such spending reductions at all; rather, government at all levels has spent significantly more each year despite the economic downturn. Avers Merline: "If government spending is related to growth, as these and others claim, then the economy presumably should be growing faster, not slower, given the current higher rates of federal outlays."
Instead, the economy is limping along in spite of previous "stimulus" laws, phony spending cuts, and ongoing monetary inflation. Having exhausted all other options without making a dent in the unemployment rate, perhaps it's time politicians tried the only remaining approach: taking a hatchet to the budget.
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The spokeswoman for the Association of Abortion Victims (AAV) in Spain, Victoria Uroz, denounced the Red Cross this week for promoting the propaganda material of the Schering Laboratory, which manufactures the morning after pill, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), which receives funding from abortion clinics in Spain and from Schering.
In an article published by Noticias.com, Uroz said that despite the fact that the humanitarian agency recognizes that knowledge about contraceptive methods does not protect against unwanted pregnancies, nevertheless the Junior Red Cross "has provided financing since last November for a bus and for a website that offers totally biased information about sex. It aims to enlighten young people about sexuality with the supposed objective of alleviating the increase in unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases."
Uroz said, "The economic interests of the campaign promoted by the Red Cross are clear: it seeks to advertise for IPPF clinics and offer conferences on how to use condoms, the birth control pill and the morning after pill." Chastity and the responsible use of one's sexuality are completely excluded, she added.
The campaign's website shows graphic sexual images and gives detailed information on sex in a way that is completely biased against traditional values, Uroz said. She urged people to withhold their donations to the Red Cross because of the "safe-sex" campaign.


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By Chris Carmichael
What goes up must come down, and while Stage 17 of the 2011 Tour de France featured some very big ascents, it was the descents that had the biggest impact on the race.
Of the final 62 kilometers of Stage 17, only 8 kilometers were uphill and there may have been another 5-10 kilometers that were flat. The majority of the descending was from the summit of Sestrieres to the town of Villa Peros, a 1560-meter (5118 foot) drop in elevation over 46 kilometers. Almost immediately the race took a right-hand turn and headed up a very narrow and steep climb through the forest for 8 kilometers before plummeting down to the finish in Pinerolo on a narrow, twisting, and harrowing descent.
On any day at the Tour de France, the final results are influenced by both fitness and skill, but some days tilt the balance in favor of one or the other. Today was definitely a day when the riders' skills were put to the test. Most riders passed the test, and a few even aced it, which is very good because the penalty for failure today could have been very bad.
Four men put on a descending clinic for all Tour de France viewers today: Ruben Perez (Euskaltel – Euskadi), Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky), Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank – Sungaard), and Sammy Sanchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi). Perez attacked the 14-man breakaway on Sestrieres and headed down the long descent alone. With complete freedom to use the entire road and no other riders near him, he sliced through the corners on the wide-open descent from Sestrieres. He maintained most of his slim lead over the chasers until the bottom of the descent, and for the first part of the descent the chasers maintained a sizable gap over the peloton.
Once a solo rider or a breakaway reaches the descent it becomes more difficult for a chasing group to catch up. The speeds are so high – whether you're alone or with a group – that it's difficult to increase the speed even more in the chase group. There's a limit to how fast anyone can go on these descents. Air resistance increases exponentially as you go faster, meaning it requires a lot more power to increase your speed from 60 to 70 kilometers per hour compared to 40 to 50 kilometers per hour. At a point, you both run out of gear and out of power to propel yourself any faster. This is the reason you see riders attack on the final few kilometers of a climb. They try to build an advantage on the climb because they know that they will be able to maintain the majority of that gap – or even extend it – on the descent. Many times, the chasers have to wait until the roads level out in the valley to really be able to make up ground.
Edvald Boasson Hagen used this tactic to perfection today, and crossed the finish line in Pinerolo alone to win his second stage of this year's Tour de France. He was second yesterday, behind fellow Norwegian Thor Hushovd, and went out today to avenge his near miss. Boasson Hagen is a big guy who typically excels in races like the one-day Classics in the spring. When he won Stage 6 in the first week of the Tour it was in a sprint against Matt Goss, Hushovd, Roman Feillu, JJ Rojas, and Philippe Gilbert – all top sprinters and Classics riders. But in the last two days, he's done a lot more than just drag himself over some big mountain passes; he's ridden intelligently and powerfully and finished 2nd and 1st in stages he wouldn't typically be favored to win. Today, specifically, he was in the large 14-man breakaway that reached the summit of Sestrieres with about a 7-minute lead over the peloton and a 1-minute deficit to Perez. By the foot of the final climb of the Cote de Pra Martino, Perez was caught and the attacks started flying. Since he's a bigger man, Boasson Hagen struggles with repeated accelerations and prefers to be able to set his own pace. So after a few attacks, the Norwegian launched his own acceleration and quickly moved into the lead. From there he powered up the climb alone, before blitzing the descent. And even though he was working hard to keep his speed high on the descent, he was still able to get enough recovery that he had the power for the final flat push to the finish line.
When the peloton reached the base of the Cote de Pra Martino, the yellow jersey contenders didn't wait very long before launching big moves. When Alberto Contador accelerated, it looked like he was shot out of a cannon, but despite aggressive riding on the climb, the group containing all the men in the top 10 overall reached the summit together. But they wouldn't reach the bottom together.
Sammy Sanchez and Alberto Contador attacked the descent like the devil was coming after them, and as a result they opened a gap to everyone else by the time they emerged into the valley. The others didn't necessarily make mistakes, they just weren't as aggressive. The only rider from the contenders' group to really make a big mistake on the descent was Thomas Voeckler. The yellow jersey leader went off the road three times and was not only split off the back of the Contador/Sanchez duo, but also off the back of the Schlecks/Evans group. Contador and Sanchez worked hard to take advantage of the opportunity presented by the final descent, but behind them the chase quickly organized and within the final 200 meters of the stage the majority of the contenders' group came back together and crossed the finish line in the same finishing time. The only men missing were Voeckler, Ivan Basso, and Tom Danielson, who finished together 27 seconds later.
Descending Skills Clinic
Sanchez, Contador, Boasson Hagen, and Perez illustrated the benefit of mastering the technical component of the descents. Everyone has to slow down for the corners, but the best riders take great lines, position themselves over their bikes perfectly, brake late and slow down the least; and those skills can either move you off the front of the pack or help you catch back on. If you go back and watch the descents today, here are some skills to watch for – and emulate the next time you go downhill:
- Think and look far ahead. Traveling at 60mph (Thor Hushovd reached 69mph on the descent of the Col d'Aubisque on his way to winning Stage 13), you cover approximately the length of a football field (300 feet) every 3.4 seconds. With corners, rocks, potholes, etc. coming at you that quickly, you have to pick your lines early. Ideally you want to set up wide as you enter a corner, cut through the apex, and exit wide. Choosing the wrong line on the entry makes it difficult – and sometimes impossible – to safely exit the turn and stay on the road.
- Brake before the corners. You want to make dramatic changes in speed on the straightaway before you enter a corner, using both brakes so you are complete control of your speed. You may still be on the brakes in the turn, but if you were going 40mph in the previous straightaway, you want to bring the speed down to a safe speed for the corner – say 25-30mph – before the turn rather than trying to dramatically slow down and change direction at the same time. If you go into a corner too hot and grab a fistful of brakes, you'll either lock up the wheels and slide or crash; or your momentum will carry you so far to the outside of the turn that you'll miss the exit and end up in the trees (or someone's driveway, like both Jonathon Hivert and Thomas Voeckler did today).
- Look through the corner. Your bike goes where your eyes are pointed, so look through to the exit of the corner. Don't focus on the potholes or the guardrail at the edge of the road unless that's where you want your wheels to go.
- Plant your weight on your outside foot. To corner safely, you need your center of gravity to remain over your tires and your weight distributed appropriately across both wheels. With your body weight planted on the pedal facing the outside of the corner, you're increasing the traction your tires have on the road.
- Lean your bike and not your body. This is relative. When you ride into a corner, both your body and bike lean to the inside of the turn, but you should lean the bike more than you lean your body. To do this, plant your weight on your outside leg and extend the arm facing the inside of the corner. As you extend your inside arm, you'll notice the bike drops into the corner and your body weight feels like it is primarily directed through your outside leg and your inside arm. This is a very stable position and it provides a lot of traction; you just have to remember to be agile on the saddle so you can move and position the bike underneath you.
Cadel Evans on the final descent of Stage 16. Note the outside pedal is down, he's pushing the bars to the inside of the turn while keeping his body closer to the line of his wheels, and he's looking through the exit of the corner. Photo copyright Graham Watson
Knowing what a descent looks like makes a big difference in your ability to get down the hill or mountain faster. That's why several riders, including Boasson Hagen and Contador, visited the final climb of Stage 17 in practiced the descent a few times in training. Today that knowledge helped them immensely, helping Boasson Hagen win the stage and giving Contador and Sanchez a chance to chip away at Voeckler's lead in the yellow jersey. Unfortunately for the Spaniards, the Schleck brothers and Cadel Evans caught back up before the finish line; but it was still a good move for two riders who have to use every opportunity available to regain time they lost earlier in the Tour.
Chris Carmichael rode the Tour de France in 1986 with 7-Eleven and has been writing Tour de France commentary for the past 11 years. He is CEO and Head Coach of Carmichael Training Systems, the premier destination for coaching, training camps, and performance testing since 2000; and Official Coaching and Camps Partner of Ironman. Follow Chris on Twitter at www.twitter.com/trainright, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/carmichaeltrainingsystems, orwww.trainright.com.


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In celebration of women's health, this issue of Life & Health addresses some health risks that women face today and how they can be more proactive in protecting themselves from some of these common health problems. From heart disease to diabetes, it's important to remember that prevention is key.
Wellness is a concept that would seem "natural." However, the busy lifestyles of modern families contributes to a sense that there "isn't enough time" to take good care of ourselves.Wellness is as much a mindset, an attitude, and strength of focus as it is anything else. And it also has to do with the whole person - spiritual, mental, physical. An attitude of wellness in an individual might in actuality preempt disease, because the choices that a person living a lifestyle of "wellness" makes helps form an overall preventative strategy.
Medical residency is a demanding training period required of all physicians in order to become board certified. In the case of three Mount Nittany physicians who also happen to be moms, the consensus is that the rigors of their residencies prepared them somewhat for being a new mom. "Residency training helps you develop the techniques you need to stay up all night," said Emily Peterson, MD, plastic surgeon, Mount Nittany Physician Group, with a wry smile.
Did you know that heart disease is the number one cause of death in women ages 20 and over? Each year, one of every three women's deaths can be attributed to its effects. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), however, only one in six women believes that heart disease is her greatest threat.
Heart disease, also known as cardiovascular disease, causes blood vessels to narrow or become blocked, which can lead to chest pain (angina), a heart attack or stroke.
The AHA states that about 8 million women are living with heart disease, yet many women don't know it because they don't recognize the signs. Women tend to experience less severe symptoms than men and don't realize that chest pain isn't the only warning of heart disease and/or a heart attack. Symptoms may include unusual fatigue, sleep disturbances, shortness of breath, indigestion and anxiety.
Announcing a free two-part diabetes prevention and awareness series held by Fit For Play Physical Therapy & Fitness Center, Harrison's Wine Grill & Catering, and Mount Nittany Health System: Part 1: Tuesday, May 154:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Free diabetes screening (A1c will be drawn) and snacks; drop in any time between 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm to be screenedPart 2: Tuesday, May 225:30 pm - 7:30 pm - Refreshments, results and interpretation of diabetes screening; nutrition and fitness seminars; healthy cooking demo and tastingLocation:Fit For Play Physical Therapy & Fitness Center2160 Sandy Drive, Suite AState College, PA
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"The allegations of child sexual abuse against Jerry Sandusky brought instant, almost overwhelming public attention to the very important - but previously secretive - topic of child sexual abuse," said Patricia Barthalow Koch, PhD, director of the Pennsylvania Learning Academy for Sexuality Education (PLASE), professor of biobehavioral health, and faculty affiliate in nursing at The Pennsylvania State University. "People became more aware of and concerned about this subject but may not necessarily be clear about how to recognize, report and help victims of child sexual abuse. Being informed is a key to prevention and effective treatment, while denial and lack of education are very costly to children, families and the community."
"As a woman, I never once thought I couldn't achieve something," said Gail Miller, RN, MS, CPHQ, and Mount Nittany Health System's vice president for quality. "My family always supported everything I did and told me that I could achieve whatever I worked toward." Starting at Mount Nittany in 1976 as a medical-clinical nurse, Miller had advanced in her career to a leadership position by 2007.
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Directed by: Jaume Collet-Sera
Starring: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong'o
Rated: PG-13
The poster for "Non-Stop" features Liam Neeson, turned on his side, aggressively firing a gun amid the chaos of a plane crash.
The image suggests that the film belongs to the increasingly tired "Taken" action hero chapter of Neeson's career, and in many ways it does. The evidence is only further compounded by a scene of Neeson's air marshal character Bill Marks forlornly looking at pictures of his daughter.
But this isn't a halfhearted knockoff. Neeson only beats the hell out of a handful of people, after all.
More importantly, the unique, constrictive premise allows for several genuinely tense technical marvels from a filmmaking standpoint. And it requires a certain amount of smart scripting to carry the movie until the narrative hits an inevitable wall.
Marks is a troubled alcoholic nonetheless entrusted with marshal duty on a flight from New York to London. Soon after taking off, his highly secure marshal phone receives a text from someone promising that a passenger will be killed every 20 minutes unless a whole lot of money is wired to an account, etc., etc.
This spurs a lot of scenes in which Marks tries to solve the mystery by aggressively storming around the plane, roping in his seatmate (Julianne Moore) and the flight attendants, played by the terrific Lupita Nyong'o and Michelle Dockery, while the other passengers begin to question his motives.
It's "Clue" in the skies, with a premise that demands a letdown. Fundamentally, the situation is so impossibly convoluted that the screenwriters would have to introduce a Christopher Nolan-caliber innovation for the picture to avoid petering out. This isn't a dreamland and Bill doesn't live in the Matrix, so it's just a pedestrian whodunit that grows increasingly less interesting.
"Non-Stop" also takes itself way too seriously. It seems counterintuitive, but maybe the film would have benefited from fewer top-of-the-line, serious talent and more from actors capable of indulging in the cornball spirit at its core.
Yet director Jaume Collet-Sera makes strong use of the limited space, introducing an airplane bathroom fight that's a marvel of complicated camera set-ups. He enhances the paranoia by hewing close to Marks' addled perspective. The screenwriters conceive several intriguing scenarios over the course of the first half that convincingly result in several deaths while directing suspicion toward just about everyone.
The movie can't sustain its momentum and it's not consistently entertaining enough to wholeheartedly recommend, but at least it's not "Taken 3" (though that's on the way).


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I guess Im lost? you want the file to be MKV?
I guess Im lost? you want the file to be MKV?
I was just saying that MKV was one of the formats that the xbox didn't support.
Ok.. gotcha.. I was just sayin you could convert whatever mkv files you had and convert them for use.. I have to do that from time to time.
The xbox 360 needs a good media app like showtime for the ps3. I think that's what the op was asking for. If the xk3y would allow a homebrew app to play mkv and whatever other file formats the 360 doesn't already support.
The xk3y wasn't designed to run homebrew. Was it?
I don't think so. But I don't have one yet. So I'm just pulling at straws here. It would be nice if there was a way though.


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NYS Senator Eric Adams Responds to the NYPD Decision to Slaughter Three Horses and Announces Legislation to Prevent Government Agencies and Departments From Engaging in the Needless and Inhumane Killing of Horses
NYS Senator Eric Adams Responds to the NYPD Decision to Slaughter Three Horses and Announces Legislation to Prevent Government Agencies and Departments From Engaging in the Needless and Inhumane Killing of Horses
NYS Senator Eric Adams, Chair of the Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee, announces the introduction of a bill that requires governmental agencies to make a good faith attempt to provide service horses with a "retirement" home instead of needlessly killing them.
Senator Adams' statement:
"Last week's decision by the NYPD to slaughter three horses highlights the need for clear and definitive guidelines governing the euthanasia of these animals. We must always proceed in a humane manner. Our decision to euthanize a horse should have a medical basis; we must avoid making it an economic determination. Euthanasia is 'mercy killing,' and it is far from merciful to end the life of a service horse 10 to 15 years prematurely. I will introduce a bill that will regulate the method by which governmental agencies euthanize their horses. It will prevent agencies from engaging in cruel or unjustifiable euthanasia, obligating them to make a good faith attempt to provide their horses with a new home. It will also require that all procedures for euthanasia be performed under the supervision of an appropriate specialist.
"The bill will regulate the actions of departments, agencies, and authorities of state, county, city, town, and village government that, except when attempting to ease the pain or suffering of a horse in physical distress, or for the safety of the public, may not independently euthanize their horses unless they have made a reasonable attempt to locate a registered entity that will take responsibility for continued feeding and maintenance.
"All animals are entitled to proper care and treatment at the hands of humans. The protection of and the prevention of cruelty to animals are hallmarks of a decent civilization, and our society must strive to eliminate abuse of or brutality towards our fellow creatures. On Friday, I held a very thorough Humane Treatment of Animals roundtable, and the issue of the treatment of service horses was one of the issues raised. Once their 'employment' is complete, it is completely unacceptable to dispose of them as if they were inanimate objects. There even exist organizations that accept 'retired' horses for use in teaching children to ride and associations that utilize 'retired' horses as therapeutic adjuncts for individuals with disabilities. My bill is a first step to ensuring that horses that have served humans so well are not rewarded with arbitrary and inhumane slaughter."


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Glencadam Gold will be looking to get his spring carnival back on track with a win in the Group 1 Melbourne Cup at Flemington tomorrow November 6, 2012.
The Refuse To Bend gelding was unbeaten across his first four starts this spring, however, was not at his best in the Group 1 Caulfield Cup last start when finishing 15th of 18 runners.
Glencadam Gold has drawn barrier seven for the 2012 Melbourne Cup and will be ridden by jockey Tommy Berry.
It will be the first Melbourne Cup appearance for Berry, who will be hoping for beginner's luck tomorrow.
Can Glencadam Gold rebound from his last start defeat? Check out the facts below and make your mind up for yourself.
#13 Glencadam Gold – Horse Facts
- Jockey: Tommy Berry
- Trainer: Gai Waterhouse
- Owners: K Wood, Team McDonnell, R Smith, Paul McClure, B Pang, Bongiorno Herron, G Diamond, Fesen Pty Ltd, B Stracey & U K Stayers
- Age: 5YO
- Gender: Entire
- Breeding: by Refuse To Bend out of Sandrella
- Win: 46%
- Place: 23%
- Last 6: x11110
- Prize Money: $474,000
- Track: 0-0-0-0
- Distance: 0-0-0-0
- Current 2012 Melbourne Cup odds: $41
Why Glencadam Gold Can Win the 2012 Melbourne Cup
- He is the right age to win a Melbourne Cup, with 44 of the 151 Melbourne Cup winners being five-year-olds.
- He has one of the top winning percentages in the field at 46 per cent.
- His early form this spring was exceptional, with his The Metropolitan win suggesting he may be able to handle the distance.
Why Glencadam Gold Can't Win the 2012 Melbourne Cup
- He finished at the tail of the field in the Caulfield Cup last start, which is traditionally a good form guide for the Melbourne Cup.
- He has never been trailed over 3,200 metres, nor has he ever run at Flemington Racecourse.
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I'm not the typical demographic for Twilight Fans. I'm 35-44, male, married with 3 kids and I watch 6-10 hours of sports on TV every week
My wife got into the books through friends and described them to me a bit, but with the disclaimer that they were too "high school girlie" for me. I shrugged and took her word for it until we bought the Twilight DVD and watched it together, at which point I was like, "hey, that's a really good story." I finished all four books in five days, which did involve staying up until 3 am twice that week. At this point, I've read them all seven times, though did skip some chapters of New Moon for some of those reads (the depressing parts).
As for why, I've always enjoyed the whole vampire mythos thing, though never a fan of the horror/gore genre (i.e., Blade or Underworld is more my speed). But more than that, I found it a very compelling delivery of first person, which I know from experience is very difficult to write in a manner that both captures the stream of consciousness thoughts of the protagonist while still describing the scene and flow of events. Stephenie did a great job of delivering on both required aspects.
Oh, yeah, I'm also a bit of a hopeless romantic, which I'm sure didn't hurt
As a parent, I like the fact that the stories can be read by my kids without encouraging them to act contrary to the morals I've taught them.
As a former teenager, I appreciate the trip down memory lane, the high school dynamic, and how your first love so completely takes over your personal universe.
As an adult, I love the unique take on man's struggle to suppress the natural man, and the spiritual questions about the worth of one's soul and how much our choices influence our fate in that regard.