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AZUSA, CA – Sityodtong, USA (pronounced, sit-yawd-tong) is punching up their Open House Summer Bash with a Charity Fundraiser benefitting the LASD (Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept.) K-9 Unit on Saturday July 15, 2017 from 9am to 2pm. The event will feature a K-9 simulated attack demonstration, pro and amateur fight training, a charity raffle, a live DJ and a 350 gallon dunk tank. Dunk a Team Sityodtong LA Fighter or the Head Coach (if you can), all in good fun and for a great cause.
The Family Fun Day is open to the public, adults and teens can train for free in Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Champion Conditioning, while the little ones compete in a Team Jump Rope Tournament (all levels of skill and fitness are welcome). Class sizes are limited, participants must call to reserve their space. The days event will also highlight the Charity Raffle (prizes value over $1,000), vendors, 2 for 1 enrollment specials and tasty gourmet Food Truck grub courtesy of Papa Fritz . . . cooking up Belgium waffles and pommes frites (French fries), irresistible LA street food at it's best.
"As a coach, a dog trainer and the proud of owner of 2 German Shepherd's, our organization wanted to bring our community together to work out, learn some self defense and kick down some cash for the Los Angeles County Special Enforcement Canines Services Detail." – Walter Michalowski, Head Coach and Co-Owner of Sityodtong, USA
The public is invited for a day of training in the Combat Sport of Mixed Martial Arts which includes Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in a safe and controlled environment. Egos are left at the front door and re-placed with teamwork and camaraderie. Donation is $10 for the Charity Raffle and $20 for the Charity Raffle and "3" throws at the Dunking Machine. Even if SoCal heats up to triple digits, participants can cool down with free snow cones and fun outdoor water games.
Located at 241 E. Gladstone Street in Azusa, California, Sityodtong, USA is also known as Sityodtong Los Angeles and is the West Coast Branch of the famous Sityodtong Camp in Thailand, known world-wide for producing many legendary Champions. In business since 2003, Sityodtong LA has earned the reputation as a top notch Fighter's Gym, an authentic Muay Thai Academy and a state of the art Training Center for adults, teens and children. You don't have to be a fighter to train like one.
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No, it's not possible at this time.
No matter what CSS coding I've used, I can't seem to add a sidebar to my topsite. Is this not possible on Gotop100 sites?
No, it's not possible at this time.
Okay...thanks! Is that something you may be implementing in the future? Also, I was thinking that placing the members into categories would be a cool thing too....any luck with that? :wink:
Categories and re-designing the templates are both items that are in our long to-do list
Okay, thank you! Can't wait!
Hi Dave...
I just wanted to see if this previous suggestion for sidebars on the topsite will be included in the many changes you are making. I really think it would be an awesome feature that many members would enjoy.
Thanks again!
Sidebars are still on the to-do list, but it's not something that is as simple as creating a new template. It will require a lot of changes so we are still figuring out the best way to do it.
Bummer. LOL Okay, thanks for getting back to me and for the new changes.

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Wheels spinning as GOP looks for traction on health bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pulling in different directions, Republicans are striving to get traction for a health care overhaul in danger of being dragged down by intra-party differences.
Some GOP governors weighed in Thursday evening in a letter to congressional leaders saying the House bill gives them almost no new flexibility and lacks sufficient resources to protect the vulnerable. It landed as Republican moderates and conservatives in the House remained split, and senators expressed reservations. Democrats are united in fierce opposition.
President Donald Trump, whose administration initially embraced the House health care bill, has lately called it "very preliminary," adding that "we will take care of our people or I'm not signing it."
On Friday morning, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is scheduled to meet with the restive House Republican caucus.
Although the House bill has cleared three committees, some lawmakers can visualize scenarios where things come apart. Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas, said it's important to get the legislation passed before Congress leaves for a two-week spring recess next month.
"That's never healthy to let something sit out there too long because pretty soon you have a carcass left," he said.
The House bill — called the American Health Care Act — would repeal major elements of former President Barack Obama's law, create a new, leaner system of tax credits for health insurance, and cap future federal spending on Medicaid for low-income people. It would also reverse tax increases on wealth Americans used to finance Obama's Affordable Care Act.
Critics say it would make health insurance more expensive for individuals, especially older adults and those with modest incomes. An analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found 24 million people would lose their health insurance over a decade though the bill would also reduce the deficit.
In the Senate, meanwhile, Susan Collins, R-Maine, told the Portland Press Herald, "This is not a bill I could support in its current form." She joins Kentucky's Rand Paul and Utah's Mike Lee in opposing the legislation, while other Republicans, including Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Ted Cruz of Texas, have expressed deep misgivings. Collins' opposition leaves the bill short of the support it needs in the Senate unless it changes, since GOP leaders can only lose two votes.
In another warning signal, four GOP governors wrote congressional leaders Thursday saying the bill's approach to Medicaid would not work for states. Medicaid covers more than 70 million people, and its future is expected to be a central issue in the Senate.
"It provides almost no new flexibility for states, does not ensure the resources necessary to make sure no one is left out, and shifts significant new costs to states," wrote Govs. John Kasich of Ohio, Rick Snyder of Michigan, Brian Sandoval of Nevada, and Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas.
Saying they represent most GOP governors, the four submitted a nine-page proposal that gives states more options to overhaul Medicaid and modifies the shift to federal spending limits envisioned by the House. The governors said they support the goal of repealing "Obamacare" but want to avoid collateral damage.
Despite open turmoil, House Speaker Paul Ryan tried to strike an optimistic tone as he addressed reporters Thursday for his weekly press briefing.
"We feel like we're making great strides and great progress on getting a bill that can pass," Ryan said. A White House official said the plan is for a House floor vote next Thursday — the seven-year anniversary of the Obama law.
But Ryan did not commit to a timetable for passage, and he's acknowledged that the bill needs changes to pass. Only last week, Ryan was pledging action sometime next week by the House Rules Committee — the precursor to a floor vote — and confidently predicting the bill would have the votes to pass.
Instead, Ryan spent part of his news conference disputing suggestions that he and Trump are at odds over the health bill, rumblings that originate with Ryan's very reluctant support for Trump during the presidential campaign.
"There is no intrigue, palace intrigue, divisions between the principals ... there really is no schism whatsoever," Ryan insisted. "I'm excited at the fact that we have a president who likes closing deals."
But some conservatives, having ousted the last House speaker, were beginning to grumble openly about Ryan's leadership.
By many accounts Trump has been closely involved in negotiations on the health bill, including calling Budget Committee members ahead of Thursday's vote. He is seen as focused on delivering his "repeal and replace" promise but flexible on the fine print.
Failing to pass a bill while his party controls both the House and Senate would be a devastating blow to his party and the premise of his presidency — that he was a dealmaker the country needed.
Associated Press writers Ken Thomas and Erica Werner contributed.


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Rowing Begins Spring Season
By ODU Athletics
Feb. 29, 2012
The Old Dominion women's rowing team is coming into the spring rowing season with a challenging schedule ahead where they will be looking to build off their impressive effort during the fall that saw the varsity four capture first place in the Lightweight 4+ division and take second in the Women's Open 8+ at the Head of the Hooch Regatta.
The schedule kicks off with ODU traveling down to Austin, Texas to face the Texas Longhorns on March 9th during ODU's spring break. In the fall the Lady Monarch's faced Texas at the Head of the Hooch Regatta. The Longhorns were the only school to beat Old Dominion's time in the Women's Open 8+, taking first place with a ten second lead. The Lady Monarchs also took a trip to Texas last spring for a friendly scrimmage race. ODU's Varsity 8's competed against the experienced Longhorns in a pair of four-minute races and a pair of three minute races to gauge their speed.
The UNC Tar Heels and Delaware Blue Hens travel up to Norfolk on March 17th. The last time the Lady Monarchs faced Delaware was last spring in the CAA Championships where they finished in third place and 11 points ahead of fifth place Delaware in the final team results.
The University of Virginia hosts ODU on March 24th. Virginia is a team who competed in the NCAA Championships just last season and is considered a very competitive rowing program. They last faced Old Dominion at the Rivanna Romp last fall, where UVA's A team placed first in the Varsity 8.
On April first the Lady Monarchs will participate in the Occoquan Sprints and the Knecht Cup in Cherry Hill New Jersey on April 14th and 15th. At last years Knecht Cup ODU's Varsity 8 placed third and the Varsity 4 took fifth in the grand finals.
The spring season will conclude with a trip to the CAA Championships on April 29th and an appearance in the Dad Vail Regatta, the largest regular intercollegiate rowing event in the United States, on the 11th and 12th of May
Last years CAA Championship gave the Lady Monarchs a chance to showcase their rising program with a third place finish in just their third season. ODU's Varsity 8 squad put on an impressive performance placing second, just two seconds behind first place Northeastern.
Old Dominion closed out last year's spring season with a great showing at the prestigious Dad Vail Regatta with the Varsity 8 and the Varsity 4 each placing second. In the semifinals both squads were able to finish in first.


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A charity group in Florida invited Hunter Hayes to perform at their fundraiser on Saturday (Feb. 1). And while he was there, during his full-band, spirited set, Hayes surprised the intimate concert crowd with a brand new up-tempo song called "Wild Card."
The title is literally all I know for sure about the song after confirming it with his record label. I tried so hard to listen to a recording from the event, but Hayes' fans being as enthusiastic as they are about new music, it's impossible to hear him over his their screams.
But the other big news to come out of the Great Charity Challenge event — held at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center in Wellington, Fla. — is that the organizer, Mark Bellissimo, was so moved when he heard Hayes' "Invisible," he started an anti-bullying initiative right then and there.
First, Bellissimo put in $25,000 of his own money. Then seven other donors stepped up to match his donation. So by the end of the night, the group had raised $200,000 to start to put an end to bullying.
The goal of the initiative is to spread the word and encourage teens to end bullying once and for all. With the funds they've raised, Bellissimo's plan is to reach out to local teens first. And then he hopes that Hayes' We're Not Invisible tour will allow the initiative to create similar programs for teens in other cities across the country.
"I'm so stoked to be part of this," Hayes told the crowd during his performance.


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Fonds consists of a draft typescript of Baird's "Doctor Archibald MacMechan: An Estimate and an Appreciation," commissioned by The Halifax Chronicle for their 1923 New Year's edition and withdrawn at Archibald MacMechan's request. Also present are three letters from MacMechan concerning the article and a later letter from Stanley MacKenzie regarding an essay by Baird rejected by The Dalhousie Review.
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I haven't forgotten about you, and nor have your emails, comments, tweets and dm's gone unnoticed. I have merely opted to take time out to reflect on all the fabulousness happening around us every single day. Dubai has been growing and the fashion bloggers/ lifestyle editors have expanded termendously since the time I started this blog. Whether its a hip new restaurant, shopping extravaganzas, fabulous artsy treats, super luxe pampering treatments or mellow hang outs u were looking for, its all just a click away. Fabulous bloggers, thank you!
This post, however, long overdue, is just a gentle whisper to all of you out there looking for the "recette du bonheur". When I started blogging I talked about "Joie de vivre" and I knew there was an infinite well of joy which we can tap into if we were to enjoy every day as we should.
Alors, behold the recipe of happiness.. and may all your days be filled with joy, love and harmony. Always!
1. Body: happiness is ensuring your body is in harmony. Eat well. Treat it well. Exercise and stretch. And most importantly don't forget to BREATH. Water makes up 72% of your body, so make sure you stay hydrated.
2. Mind: practice mindfullness. Positive living is about remembering the good times and visualizing your fabulous future all the while being grateful for all that you are, all that you were, and all that you are becoming. Your mind is powerful yet sensitive, so be gentle with your thoughts.
3. Spirit: being spiritual is a way of life. Remember your essence, have faith in god and pray.. always. Prayers are not only a way to connect to Allah, but also a way of incorporating spirituality into your every day life.
So there it is, a sparkly update which I hope will make your day!
- to a fabulous year ahead!
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Square Enix is in hot water today after Britain's Advertising Standards Authority caught it being sneaky with its Final Fantasy XIII marketing. Square Enix used the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIII in commercials for the Xbox 360 version to make the graphics look "sharper" than they were.
This is bad news for Square Enix, having been embarrassed in a case of marketing mischief, but this is certainly good news for the Sony side of the console wars, with the ASA officially ruling that the PS3 version looks noticeably superior. Certainly superior enough to be used as proof as an official ruling against Square Enix.
"The PS3 image in video sequences appeared sharper and colours were more vivid than those of the Xbox 360," states the ASA.
Square Enix argues that the footage was from cutscenes and not gameplay, which makes it alright, but the rulers of Britain's advertising arena disagrees. The commercial can never again be shown in its "current" form in the UK, which is basically like closing the door after the horse is bolted, but there you go.
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So I attended a Preview Screening, for free, of the Academy Oscar® Award-winning Documentary-movie Undefeated, in my capacity as a "Film Critic." Later, and not in the theater, because that's rude, while I was Internetting for fact-checking information in re the 2009 Manassas Tigers High School football team, I hit an opinion essay on the Forbes site by John Tammy of the Forbes Staff, who, according to his author-info area, covers "the intersection of economics and politics."
According to Tammy's analysis, the movie Undefeated contains an "underlying economic message" that explains the Greatness of Capitalism and, like, how "Trickle-Down" Economics is good, Anti-Trust Regulations are bad and for whiny weaklings, and Obama is a Bad Person.
Sir, this movie is about doing well at Football, and how learning to play as part of a Team can be good for you as a person.
Tammy also throws Sport in among his subjects when you look at his Archive, but I think he basically just reverse-engineers anything he wants into reinforcement of Profound Statements such as "life is economics," which is the kind of crap you say when you just wanna reduce anything into your BATSHIT CRAZY EDITORIAL about Economics and how the movie Undefeated "unwittingly" provides "clarity in certain areas," Koo-koo ka-choo. Also, TONS OF SPOILERS, Jesus Christ, can't anybody write about a fucking movie without spoilering it? This guy blows the most gigantic thing that happens in the movie, a thing that is utterly mind-blowing, and I'm not doing that, man, so you can go read his opinion essay but don't say I didn't SPOILER ALERT you.
I mean, I agree with this guy about Undefeated being a fascinating movie, but that's about it. Undefeated is a heartbreaking, inspiring movie about Bill Courtney, a volunteer high school football coach who does everything in his power to get the disadvantaged youths in his high school football program to keep showing up. He gets a tutor for one kid to get his grades up so he can pass the college entry test; he goes to one kid's house to talk him into coming to practice after he has a meltdown with another teammate. He spends countless hours preaching to his players that the way to achievement in Life, to a sustainable way Up and Out of Poverty can be by applying yourself to tasks with the idea that you must put away your ego to be part of a bigger thing, the Team.
He spends less time with his own children. He is fat and looks like he's gonna have a heart attack any minute.
Tammy connects the idea in the film that "it's not where you start, it's where you finish," to homeless-dude-at-the-bus-stop/AM-radio-talk-show-caller stuff like:
As most readers know, anti-trust is used today by businesses afraid of competition that use ties to federal bureaucrats in the Justice Department to ensure that positive business combinations are deemed anti-competitive so that they don't occur. It's also the case that if a business ever becomes too successful, as in if a business earns gargantuan profits by virtue of giving customers what they want, that anti-trust watchdogs, encouraged by businesses unable to compete, enter the marketplace to try and achieve a breakup of said commercial behemoth.
This is a movie about a bunch of poor kids in a traditionally loser football program, man. You are projecting Crazy Talk about your dislike of Federal Anti-Trust Regulations! Monopolies are bad, man, play the Parker Brothers Monopoly game and watch what happens, the economically disadvantaged are driven into penury, many of them are put out of existence, and it turns into a fucking Dictatorship every time. That's winning, in a GAME, it's not real! It shouldn't be!
Undefeated ably reveals the folly of this kind of federal action. Indeed, a constant theme within the documentary is that it's not where you start in life, but where you finish. Though the Manassas High team had historically found itself winless, and though its players almost to a man had entered the world at the bottom, by Coach Courtney's final season the Manassas Tigers were [SPOILER REDACTED, DUDE SERIOUSLY].
The coach lives with his wife and kids in a nice suburban McMansion-y home, yet he coaches poor children. This is a proof of the validity of the "Trickle-Down" Economics theory:
Perhaps most economically heartening within Undefeated was the certain reminder that the "trickle-down effect" in terms of wealth is alive and well. Though lefty economists of Paul Krugman's ilk will drool otherwise, the simple reality is that the trickle-down effect is as a true as the sun setting in the west.
Paul Krugman?!? The "Home Market Effect" guy? He won a fucking Nobel Prize! What the fuck have you done? Why you gotta take a shot at him? Look man, "Trickle-Down" economics is "Supply-Side Economics," which is bullshit invented by Rich Guys who want to pay less taxes, and have their Corporations pay zero taxes, because they are not People. Well, they used to not be People. Anyway, "Trickle-Down" is aptly described by John Kenneth Galbraith, an Economist, who, I will admit, was a known Canadian-American:
Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy-what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.
See, "Trickle-Down" is basically, "let me have my fill of feed, and then you kids can pick through my leavings, urp!" The practice of "Trickle-Down" is not Charity, where you Give, out of your own pocket, and time, and energy. Charity is what is being exercised by coach Courtney and his fellow coaches and supporters of the Tigers football program. They are Blood, Sweat, and Tears-level giving, and that is a Virtue, not a fucking Economic Theory. How dare you, sir. And another thing, this is not "Trickle-Down" either.
That's Charity! The strip joint did not hire the children to clean up the parking lot or anything, they gave (OK, tried to give) the team some dough for their snack bar, so they could raise their own money. It wasn't an investment, it was meant as a Gift, for the betterment of the children.
What about The Bad News Bears? And not the shitty Billy Bob Thornton remake, I'm talking the O.G. Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal one where people do all kinds of Charitable shit because they learn the True Meaning of Sport, but even though that film is from 1976, I'm not gonna spoiler it. I just think you don't understand that sometimes Sport is about Giving, and not expecting anything back in your Bank Account, Forbes-breath.
for those seeking deeper—even economic—meaning, Undefeated will deliver there too in reminding those who care of the folly of anti-trust, the ineffectiveness of wealth redistribution, the certainty that wealth earned ultimately benefits us all, and the essential truth that success is a choice.
OK, so the family in that based-on-a-true-story movie The Blind Side who redistributed their Time and Energy and Love and Wealth to help out Michael Oher, that was ineffective wealth redistribution? That's not "Trickle-Down" either, man. Why, in this specific instance it's Christian Charity, and you are in favor of it, except you got it twisted in your Thesis Statement, and you didn't realize it means Redistributing Wealth, you Pinko.
Joe Macleod has a job and he makes a Salary, plus he hustles some stuff on the side. It is the American Way. He has a 410(k) that he thinks he is "managing" when he goes on the Web site and moves around the little sliders on the pie-chart that represents the percentages of crumbs from his paycheck that go into the bigger crumbs which amount to his Fund Allocations, or performs the "Rebalancing" action, and beyond the Ownership of 1 (one) share of Apple Computer (AAPL) and 1 (one) share of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) his brother bought him once for Xmas, and also-beyond reading all the Fine Print trying to figure out how many of his Funds in his 401(k) are still in these goddamn Mortgage-Backed Securities (so he can get out of 'em), that's about it for any of his activities in the world of Finance, so he does't look at Forbes too much, in print or on their dot-com, and he readily admits his Financial Brain is flabby and/or underdeveloped for reading stuff about The Economy. But he knows when somebody is Trickling-Down on him.


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The authorization for pastors to perform gay weddings takes effect immediately and applies only to ministers in the 19 states where the practice is legal. The measure passed by a vote of 317 (61 percent) to 238 (39 percent) and was classified as an "Authoritative Interpretation" of the PCUSA constitution.
A commissioner at a meeting of the General Assembly's Civil Union and Marriage Issues Committee raised a point of order regarding the Authoritative Interpretation, noting that it appeared to contradict the constitution it purported to interpret, the conservative Presbyterian Lay Committee (PLC) reported on its website. Currently the PCUSA constitution states, "Marriage is a civil contract between a woman and a man" as well as a "covenant" between "a man and a women" for Christians. The point of order, in parliamentary rules, was "not well taken."
Also in the Civil Union and Marriage Issues Committee meeting, a motion to read Scripture for 20 minutes before starting discussion of same-sex marriage was defeated 39-22, the PLC reported.
The General Assembly voted to amend the PCUSA constitution by a vote of 429 (71 percent) to 175 (29 percent), but the amendment will not take effect unless a majority of the denomination's 172 presbyteries approve it. However, the departure of many conservative churches from the PCUSA as well as the amendment's landslide victory at the General Assembly make approval seem likely.
Hunter Farrell, director of Presbyterian World Mission, told the Civil Union and Marriage Issues Committee that if passed, the amendment likely will lead 17 of the 54 organizations that partner with the PCUSA in world missions to sever their relationships with the denomination. Another 25 partner groups said the action would damage their relationship with the PCUSA, Farrell reported according to the PLC.
A similar measure approving gay marriage was defeated at the 2012 General Assembly 338-302.
The only bright spot for those who affirm the biblical model of marriage in this year's votes was the passage of an amendment to the proposed constitutional amendment stating that marriage has been between "traditionally a man and a woman."
The PLC called the General Assembly's endorsement of homosexuality "an abomination."
"In the name of 1.8 million Presbyterians nationwide, the General Assembly has committed an express repudiation of the Bible, the mutually agreed upon Confessions of the PCUSA, thousands of years of faithfulness to God's clear commands and the denominational ordination vows of each concurring commissioner. This is an abomination," the PLC said in a statement released by its board of directors.
"The Presbyterian Lay Committee mourns these actions and calls on all Presbyterians to resist and protest them. You should tell your pastor and the members of your session that you disapprove of these actions," the statement continued. "You should refuse to fund the General Assembly, your synod, your presbytery and even your local church if those bodies have not explicitly and publicly repudiated these unbiblical actions. God will not be mocked and those who substitute their own felt desires for God's unchangeable Truth will not be found guiltless before a holy God."
PCUSA leaders issued a letter to congregations in which they admitted that there is "both happiness and sadness" among Presbyterians regarding the gay-affirming votes. The letter was signed by General Assembly moderator Heath Rada, stated clerk of the General Assembly Gradye Parsons and executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Linda Valentine.
The votes "came with much thought, discussion and prayer, and clearly the entire body that is the PC(USA) will be interpreting these actions for some time," the letter stated. "Please know that the same triune God in whom we place our hope, faith and trust ... is still in control, and that the Assembly's action today is the result of deep discernment to hear God's voice and discern God's will."
Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, an organization that that seeks to foster renewal in mainline demoninations, said that "by overturning natural marriage the PCUSA is only accelerating its already fast-paced demise. It will become even smaller, whiter and older.
"Only declining denominations reject historic Christian standards and in nearly every case that rejection reinforces the decline. Who respects a church that only echoes the secular world?" Tooley said. "Many faithful have already quit the PCUSA and many more now will. But some faithful will remain. May the Holy Spirit bless their witness and lay the groundwork for the PCUSA's return someday to the teachings of the global church."
Phillip Bethancourt, executive vice president of the SBC's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said the margin of victory for pro-gay measures in the PCUSA illustrates the extent of the denomination's departure from theological orthodoxy.
"Here's what I find most telling about this vote: While 54% of the American public supports gay marriage, 76% of the PCUSA does. It seems that the PCUSA is more pro-same sex marriage than the American public ... by 22%," Bethancourt wrote on his blog. "This isn't a total surprise, considering that white mainline Protestants in general support same sex marriage at a 62% clip. Meanwhile, only 23% of white evangelicals support same sex marriage. Why is it that the pathway to liberalism always seems to lead through the gate of shifting sexual ethics?"
R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said the PCUSA's votes were so "lopsided" in part because theological conservatives have departed in mass from the denomination.
"It's not only members, but congregations," Mohler said. "Approximately 300 churches have left the PCUSA just in the last three years."
Mohler said much news coverage of the PCUSA's decisions will fail to note that most Christians oppose gay marriage. According to Pew Research Center data released June 18, among denominations to oppose gay marriage are the Southern Baptist Convention, the American Baptist Churches, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the Roman Catholic Church and the United Methodist Church.
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Hunting big bucks may be over for now but we are always thinking about it even if it's spring. Man, here at DeerHuntingBigBucks.com we sure are glad it is spring,with the flowers and trees in bloom, and the warmer weather it's such a fun time of the year. There is so much fun stuff to do this time of year.
The fish are probably biting anything that you throw in the water. I would love to go to the river and catch a stringer full of white bass, hybrids, or strippers. They are making there way up the river to spawn.
It is so much fun catching them this time of year because they are so concentrated. Also the crappie are biting like crazy. I caught these trolling with my father-in-law. They are so good to eat! (Yummy!)
Tomorrow is the first day of turkey season here in Georgia. Good luck to all you turkey hunters. I had planned on trying to go, but my wife had surgery yesterday so I won't be able to go this weekend.
I'll get a report from my father, or step-father, and maybe even some pictures if they get one.
My son got a new four-wheeler for Christmas and we are just now getting him to ride it.
He is doing really good to be only two and a half years old. My eight month old boy watches him everywhere he goes on that thing, he wants to ride it so bad he gets so excited watching his brother ride it.
Hunting Big Bucks
The big bucks are dropping their antlers, there have been quite a few nice ones found on our property.
Also, it is almost time to plant those food plots. With a little preparation you can have some great food plots fairly inexpensive. So get out and plant those plots. It will be time to go hunting big bucks before you know it.
I just love the spring and all the fun things to do, and the great weather. Now if I could just get a little time off work to get out and enjoy it. One things for sure before you know it it'll be time to go deer hunting big bucks.


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A Sandwich a Day: A Happy 'Banana Burger' Misdirect at Altas Horas, Newark, NJ
A new sandwich every day.
In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
Editor's note: For the next few weeks, we'll be chiming in with snapshots of our recent road trip to the Portuguese and Brazilian Ironbound neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, thanks to a loaner ride in a Buick Verano. Our destinations, and these articles, come purely from Serious Eats editorial.
As we've seen before, the Brazilian take on a burger isn't just cooked ground beef on a bun. Mayo makes frequent appearances. Corn, too. Fried potatoes perhaps. And, so our research into famed hamburgao spot Altas Horas led us to believe, bananas as well.
That's what we thought when we ordered a Banana Burger ($5.50) at the small counter at this cafe off Ferry street, the heart of Newark's Brazilian and Portuguese enclave known as the Ironbound.
Obviously what you see above isn't a burger, nor does it have any bananas stuck in with all that mayo. We're blaming ourselves for not overcoming a language barrier (fluent English was hard to come by on our visit), but I'll call this a happy accident. Because this grilled chicken, lettuce, tomato, and mayo sandwich dressed with corn kernels and fried potato sticks may be even better than the burger we were after. That chicken's mighty tender and juicy, and it's dressed with enough mayo to be considered grilled chicken salad. Lettuce, tomato, and mayo add pleasant crunch; corn contributes sweetness. And it all comes together on a huge, fluffy bun to make the experience less messy than it'd seem.
I'm not about to say that a fat, juicy burger with all of this wouldn't be fun to eat, but this chicken sandwich has a restrained sense of balance amidst all its excess, and chicken takes better to this loaded treatment than beef. This sandwich answers the question I've asked myself every time I've eaten a Brazilian-style burger: "how can I make this less crazy but still crazy delicious." As a fast food-style beast of a lunch, it's a grilled chicken sandwich I'd return for.
Thanks again to Buick for the ride.
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Sound Off for Jan. 4
Adam Lanza took much more than 26 lives in Sandy Hook. From the grave he has taken hostage the security children, parents, teachers had that they were safe in schools. Everyone in the state has returned to classes, forever changed. Sad, sad, sad.
Back to shopping carts again in Torrington. What to do to keep the city cart free. Of course! Penalize the store. Poorly thought out as we, the shoppers will pay for whatever fine is levied on the stores. And, what about the poor people who rely on the carts to get their groceries home as they have no transportation? Fine them? And collect how?
Perhaps the City Council can brainstorm as to how to help those who have no transportation, must horse the carts through the streets to get their groceries home. Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a dozen $20 folding carts that these people could utilize and keep. Somehow get the word out that these carts are free! One cart per individual with a registry of who got a cart and the date. The carts if used right would be taken to the store(s) with the individual, filled with their bags and off they go until next trip. The carts would give the individuals needing them an easier way to get their groceries, laundry, shopping items home and keep the city relatively cart free.
I understand that the folks in Newtown are running out of space to put all the things that are pouring into their community. This is probably an outpouring of a proportion no one expected. I would like to suggest that there are places like Staten Island and places in New Jersey that were wiped out and that may be a place to redirect this surplus. Call it re-gifting, but at least put it to good use.
Poor Mitch McConnell, having to spend the night alone with Joe Biden, the pretend V.P. and chronic gaffe master. Everyone agrees that spending the night alone with Joe Biden to negotiate a debt deal is inhumane punishment and automatically entitles McConnell a go-to-heaven pass.
The millionaires and billionaires in this country make me sick as well as many other working people in this country. They sit back and rack in their money here from their overseas and China. And they just get wealthier and wealthier as we working people are being made to do with less and less and less. They make me sick. Their making their billions and taking from America until America is running dry. I say this is all the time, if the billionaires don't like it here then get out of America. Leave, we don't need you here. You're making yourself rich and you're trying to control the rest of the country. Get out!
This is in regards to the parents that want to sue the state for the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. First of all, I would say to the parents, they ought to be thankful their children were not killed instead of thinking about suing the state. Second, how many of these people have gone to board meetings in their towns which I see a lot of in the paper and they are always fighting to lower the budgets to keep their taxes lower. So when something like this happens, now they want to blame someone. I think it is wrong. I think definitely better security would be beneficial in these matters and give people jobs as security guards.
I read the story on the ID card from the motor vehicle office. I went to a store and they asked for my ID so I show the one from the motor vehicle office. Then later on I could not find it. At this point I had a copy made at the motor vehicle office, shortly afterward I was in an accident and the police took my license away. So I went to the VA for a new ID card with a picture of me on it. Now I am wondering what happens if you do not have either source. Where can this be done? I know when I was 16 years old I needed to go to the unemployment office to get working papers so I could go to work.
Obama continues to spit in the face of America as he heads back to Hawaii at a cost of $4 million after hitting 3/4 of all American households with an additional $ 1,650. in taxes a year. Obama has no problem at all with spending unlimited amounts of other people's money.


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Northfield, VT --- Senior running back Danny Triplett (Haverhill, MA) ran for 147 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Norwich Cadets to a 20-3 non-conference win against the Engineers of WPI on Saturday afternoon at Sabine Field. With the win, the Cadets improve to a flawless 3-0, while the Engineers fall to 1-2 on the season.
Triplett averaged 7.7 yards per carry and ran for a long of 40 yards. Senior quarterback Kris Sabourin (Georgia, VT) rushed for 106 yards and a long of 25 on the afternoon. Sabourin completed nine of 21 pass attempts for 60 yards and a long of 14 in the win for the Cadets.
For the Engineers, quarterback Jacob Grills (East Lyme, CT) completed 13 of 30 attempts with one interception for a total of 112 yards and a long of 15. Aaron Marshall (Acushnet, MA) totaled 53 receiving yards on four catches, while Ehab Hamdan (Revere, MA) recorded 26 yards on three catches. Running back Zach Grasis (East Brookfield, MA) ran for a team-best 52 yards.
The Cadets opened scoring with 31 seconds remaining in the first quarter. Senior captain defensive lineman Matt Simonelli (Scituate, RI) recorded a WPI fumble and ran it 44 yards to put the Cadets on the board. A failed extra-point kick set the score at 6-0 to start round out the first quarter of play.
After a scoreless second quarter, the Cadets would extend the lead to 13-0 as the Cadets took seven plays to move the ball 75 yards, resulting in a three yard run by Triplett at the 12:07 mark. Freshman Mike Schreiner (St. Albans, VT) connected on the extra-point attempt.
Three drives later, WPI would record its only score of the game as the Engineers used six plays to set up Mitch Lewis (Farmington, CT) for a 25 yard field goal.
In the fourth quarter, the Engineers would find themselves on Norwich's 23 yard line with first-and-10. Quaurterback John Antonopoulos (Cambridge, MA) would misfire, setting up Norwich's Dan Gogan (Keansbury, NJ) for the interception on the eight yard line.
The Cadets would then use 11 plays to travel 92 yards which was capitalized by a 40 yard touchdown run by Triplett. Schreiner connected on his second extra point attempt of the game to set the score at 20-3.
WPI would have two opportunities to score in the final minutes as Norwich would fumble on the kickoff at 3:07 to put the ball back in Engineers possession, but WPI was unable to advance past the Norwich 48 yard line as the clock wound down.
On the defensive end, Norwich was led by John Taranto (New Britain, CT) who recorded a team-high 10 tackles, including a 10-yard sack. Simonelli totaled eight tackles including one tackle-for-loss, while Luis Delgado (Accord, NY) and Nick Pulaski (Stratford, CT) rounded out the defensive leaders with six tackles apiece. Pulaski and kicker Patrick Wilson (West Rupert, VT) were both credited with fumble recoveries on the afternoon.
WPI was led defensively by Shaine Grogan (Dalton, MA), who posted a game-high 13 tackles including a tackle-for-loss. Christopher O'Connor (Bellerose, NY) totaled eight tackles for the Engineers, while Hussein Yatim (Shrewsbury, MA) recorded seven tackles. Jake Brown (Fall River, MA) was credited with a fumble recovery for WPI.
The Cadets, who have won 10 out of the last 11 outings, return to action on Saturday, Sept. 29 when they travel to Mount Ida College for a 1:00 p.m. start in the first Eastern Collegiate Football College (ECFC) matchup of the 2012 season. WPI opens up Liberty League play this coming Saturday at Rensselaer in the annual Transit Trophy game. Kickoff in Troy, NY is slated for 1pm.
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How to Spend $25 Billion the Jeff Bezos Way: Newspapers, Rockets and 3-D Printers
While media and tech circles are still digesting news of Jeff Bezos's $250 million purchase of the Washington Post, the Amazon founder and CEO has been spreading his gilded wings outside of Amazon for several years.
With a reported net worth of $25.2 billion, Bezos has some pocket change at his disposal. And he has used some of it to fund Bezos Expeditions, his private investment firm.
It's the investment vehicle through which Bezos has funded the recovery of engines from Apollo 11. But it has also been how he has placed bets on promising startups in a variety of industries.
The firm's investments have included bets on big-name disruptors, such as Twitter, Uber, Airbnb and Makerbot, as well as a cash infusion in digital media company Business Insider.
Among Bezos Expeditions' less sexy investments: MFG.com, an online exchange for manufacturers and suppliers; Domo, a business intelligence software startup from Omniture co-founder Josh James; and Qliance, a medical clinic startup.
If Bezos ends up breathing new life — and growth — into the Washington Post, it may be the most impressive of them all.


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Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition sold over twice as many copies on PlayStation 4 than Xbox One during its first week on sale, according to figures released by Chart-Track.
69 per cent of copies were sold on PS4, with Xbox One sales accounting for just 31 per cent.
The sales conflict with the original release's week one sales, which saw 50 per cent of copies sold on Xbox 360 and 42 per cent sold on PS3.
The PS4 version of Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is widely believed to be superior to the Xbox One version, despite Metacritic scores suggesting otherwise.
As reported earlier this month, the PS4 version runs at twice the frame rate and maintains native 1080p visuals during cutscenes.
The game shot to number one this week.
Source: UKIE Games Charts compiled by GfK Chart-Track


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A graphic design professor in Missouri knits a 12-foot-long scarf -- while running a marathon.
David Babcock finished the Kansas City Marathon in 5 hours, 48 minutes and 27 seconds, but not before setting a Guinness world record for knitting-while-running-a-marathon with a scarf measuring 12 feet, 1 3/4 inches, the Kansas City Star reported.
The University of Central Missouri professor shattered her own record of a 6-foot-9-inch-long scarf she knit during a marathon in London last spring.
Before that, the record was held by Susie Hewer, who made a scarf measuring 5 feet, 2 inches long in 2008 at the Flora London Marathon, according to the Star.
Babcock began running and knitting separately about three years ago, and decided to combine them to keep things interesting.
He runs to raise money for Alzheimer's disease research.


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It's Banned Books Week (last week of September every year), an assertion of our freedom to read whatever we damn well please, led by the American Library Association for the last 27 years. Way to go, ALA, I'll drink to that!
Let's take a look at some of the science fiction and fantasy that has been challenged or banned by the small-minded censorship-loving prudes in the past, and their reasons for wanting it suppressed. I include fantasy just because so many demented dimwits out there criticize it for promoting "witchcraft" or "sorcery" (as if such things really existed), and that kind of irrational, muddle-headed nonsense annoys me to no end. (Much of this information comes from the ALA site, a great resource for learning about banned books).
1984 by George Orwell
Why: "pro-communist, explicit sexual matter."
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Why: "promiscuous sex, language, moral content, negative activity, contempt for religion," etc.
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Why: the Christ Community Church in Alamagordo, New Mexico had themselves a barbecue and threw LOTR on the fire because it's "satanic." Ok, everyone together…. ready…. start laughing…. NOW!
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Why: "objectionable language."
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Why: contains the phrase "God damn"
Wait…. someone wanted to ban a book which is ABOUT the ultimate banning of books? Is it possible for a human being to so completely lack any inkling of the concept of irony!?
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Why: witchcraft, satanism, the usual crap…. blah blah blah.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Why: contains witches and crystal balls, challenges religious beliefs (and we just can't have that now, can we?).
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Why: sex, language, etc.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Why: sexuality.
His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman
Why: critical of religion.
Cujo, Carrie, and The Dead Zone by Stephen King
Why: sex, violence.
So go on, open one of these books and enjoy it, and be free from the petty tyrants who want to control what you read because (a) they're so uptight about sex and "bad" words, (b) they can't distinguish between fantasy and reality, (c) they think their religious beliefs should be insulated from even the slightest criticism, whether real or imagined, or (d) some combination of the above.
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
~Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959
Every burned book enlightens the world.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
In the ongoing battle between British television personalities, for the moment, Piers Morgan leads John Oliver by the slimmest of margins.
On Monday evening, Oliver, currently filling in for Jon Stewart as host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, had a laugh at the "Piers Morgan Live" host's expense, referencing a tumble the latter took while riding a Segway in California.
Showing extreme enjoyment, Oliver offered a ten thousand dollar reward for the individual who could share evidence of the infamous Segway spill.
Less than 24 hours later, Morgan himself answered the challenge:
"Mock all you want Mr. Oliver, but, my fellow Brit, your punch line did carry with it a bona fide offer, to anyone you said, who could produce the video of me falling off a Segway, and by the way, breaking five ribs, collapsing a lung and nearly expiring from life," detailed Morgan, further explaining Oliver's bit. "Well, guess what John, I have the video, it's real and it's right here."
Rolling footage of himself hitting a curb, and popping off the motorized machine, Morgan attempted to collect:
"Satisfied, John? I hope you are, because that was as painful as it looked. But now it's time for you to suffer pain. Ten thousand dollars worth of pain in fact," he said, referring back to Oliver's offer. "I assume the money will be delivered by the end of business day tomorrow. If not, I'll make sure that Mr. Stewart, now he's back from his lengthy movie making sabbatical, will take it out of your measly little salary."
Watch the clip to see Morgan's fall in all its glory, and for the next edition of "Piers Morgan Live," watch CNN every night at 9.
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There's nothing funny about Piers Morgan falling off that Segway which almost killed him. I don't see why John Oliver or anyone would receive joy from that horrible accident near death video of Piers plunging onto the hard pavement. However Piers is right about John's bona fide offer. Time to pay up the $10k to Piers. Hey John Oliver the clock is ticking...Pay Piers HIS $10k.
this comment is the greatest source of comedy im going to screenshot and keep it forever
This is the epitome of your career Piers. Constantly hitting the curb and somehow getting paid for it.
yes.... well.... if you run your segwey into a car, or off a cliff, or into a big hole, or into a CURB... you are bound to fall off!!! M0R0N.... its too bad you didn't break anything else.
Dear Piers,
Donald Trump's attempt to collect Bill Maher's $5M joke offer failed as miserably as yours will. Please discontinue being a total putz.
Dear Piers,
Maybe you fell off the Segway because you were distracted thinking about the bold faced lie you told about Virginia having the number 1 murder rate in 2009? Turns out the facts show that Virginia had 23 states in front of it for that honor – you lying moron. CNN why do you put up with his lies and non-professionalism. And you wonder why there was an exodus of your viewers to Fox?
CNN puts up with him because they are just like him.
There was no curb. He made it up, like most of his facts. It truely is amazing that he even has a job. It is almost a shame he wasn't traveling at a higher rate of speed, it might have knocked some sense into him.
John Oliver is too dam ugly and nerdy to be a comedian. His jokes are pathetic and not hard to come up. All he does is trash and degrade people for jokes. He should look at his horrible face with his crooked teech and stoogie Moe haircut and untolerable accent and disappear. No wonder his rating have fallen since last year.
Je pense il est beau. 😉
What a defensive and childish retort. I found the jab humorous, as did many others. Whatever happened to "stiff upper lip"?
Ban those evil assault segways now. I think Piers has found a new cause to crusade for, and hey, it makes as much sense as the "Assault" weapons bans he crusades for.


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Join us for today's Happy Hunting! in the treet.tv studios in Garden of Dreams at 3pm, Friday 14th December, to learn about the great seasonal hunts that are going on across the grid, to find out all about the SL Christmas Expo – and the Race for the Bells – and to see the final installment of Season 1 of The Blackened Mirror – and it's a shocker!
Rosamoo Mendelsohn of Hunt SL, our hunt reporter, has decked out our studio with a positive feast of goodies that can be obtained through the seasonal hunts. She will be on hand to share all the latest hunt news with our host Cinders Vale, and some examples of the wonderful items she's found.
Then it's off to the SL Christmas Expo, where Cinders talks to Amanda Yven, who is the organiser for the Race for the Bells – and you'll have a chance to see them in the beautiful Prim Perfect Pavilion, designed by Eliza Wierwight of Patron.
And last, but definitely not least, we have the final episode of Season 1 of The Blackened Mirror. Harland Quinn,Harland Quinn, Alais Alleyn and indefatigable Mr Biggins heading in to danger (rather than trying to escape it).
"You know where we're going," says Alais to Quinn at one point, and it's not a question.
But how does Quinn know? And what will they find at the end of their journey?
It's … complicated.
But you can find out by watching The Blackened Mirror today, when it's broadcast for the first time at 3pm SLT as part of Happy Hunting!
And then, tomorrow, you can join us for a celebratory party!
So join us at 3pm today in the studio for the broadcast. Bring along your hunter friends too. We will be glad to have you all join us for the show.
Or – if you can't attend in person – tune in at 3pm SLT on Friday for the live show on http://treet.tv/live – where you can now chat with other audience members and even some of the participants during the show – or catch it later in the week on our shows page on the Treet.tv web site at http://treet.tv/shows/happy-hunting.


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VANCOUVER — In a blockbuster cross-Canada deal of more than $60 million, Madison Pacific has bought 12 office/industrial properties, including three in Langley. With the Agricultural Land Reserve severely limiting development closer to Vancouver, the Fraser Valley township is fast emerging as a B.C. commercial real estate hotspot, according to industry experts.
"The Langley site in particular is strategic in that it represents 21 contiguous acres of land with over a kilometre of frontage on the Trans-Canada Highway," says Robert Gritten, principal at Avison Young, which led the 12 deals for Madison Pacific. "As Madison Pacific invests for the long term, the opportunity this site offers for redevelopment is dramatic."
Like all properties in the deal – to a total of 540,000 square feet of office/warehouse/enclosed storage space on 98 acres of land – the Langley ones have only 13-per-cent site coverage, compared to traditional industrial averages of 40-50 per cent. All are tenanted by Burnaby-based Taiga Building Products.
Referring to "the stifling effect" on Metro Vancouver of the ALR restrictions established by the Barrett NDP government starting in 1973, Gritten says: "As a result of this supply-demand imbalance, yes, we are more expensive than most, if not all, markets in North America. The geographic advantages that make this city such a great place to live actually work to a disadvantage when we attempt to meet the demand of our industrial manufacturers and distributors. They want and need to be here. We are the gateway for Canada to Asia, but it is so difficult to secure suitable premises for most of our user clients."
No surprise, then, that developers are turning hungry eyes to Langley, with "its good supply of vacant land," Gritten says. "It's a natural extension."
"In looking at demand in the Lower Mainland, we're seeing a substantial eastward shift," says Bill Hobbs, senior vice president, Industrial, with Cushman Wakefield. "Based on the tight supply, one looks farther out in valley. Port Kells [in northeast Surrey] has been substantially eroded in terms of available product. There's significant eastern migration into Langley Township."
Hobbs sees the Langley neighbourhoods of Clayton Heights and Willoughby "growing at unbelievable rates" as businesses shift east. The 700-acre Gloucester Industrial Park, in northeast Langley on the Trans Canada, and connecting to all major railway lines, goes for $950,000 to $1.1 million per acre plus DCCs (development cost charges) and site preparation.
For Madison Pacific, the nation-wide deal through Avison Young "was an opportunity for us to acquire a geographically diverse portfolio with good leveraged returns in properties that have long-term additional development potential," says President and CEO Marvin Haasen. "One of our objectives has been to expand beyond the Lower Mainland where the majority of our assets are located. We have achieved this objective with the purchase of this portfolio, as 60 per cent of the properties are located outside the Lower Mainland."
Still, Haasen says, "there continues to be strong investor interest for Lower Mainland properties. Demand is high while the supply of available properties is limited, so pricing is more aggressive." He likes the three Langley properties for their "strong fundamentals."
For Hobbs, the increasing strength of Langley was inevitable from the moment politicians completed their "tightly drawn" ALR lines in 1975. "I've been calling this one for 26 years" – his time in the business to date. "Now we're seeing a doubling of the population. Now all of a sudden we're going to see continued growth in the next one to two decades."
According to a Cushman Wakefield document, Langley's economy is not only fast-growing but increasingly diverse, with a favourable tax base, skilled labour force, state-of-the-art manufacturing industries, a strong retail and service sector, and many internationally operating and export-oriented companies moving in. These factors, plus "the proximity of Langley to Vancouver, Seattle and overseas markets have made the Langley area attractive for investment and development."
But the migration isn't stopping at Langley. Watch for a surge into Pitt Meadows and Abbotsford, and even north into Mission, Hobbs predicts.
The other properties acquired in the mammoth Madison Pacific deal are in: Kelowna; Edmonton (two); Calgary; Sudbury, Milton and Monetville, Ontario; Boucherville and St. Augustine, Quebec.
The transaction, which closed Sept. 12, involved eight Avison Young offices across Canada. Avison Young also represented Taiga Building Products in 2006 when the portfolio was sold to Argo Ventures.


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Where to Drink Cocktails in Philadelphia's Bella Vista and Queen Village
It'd be hyperbole to describe the dividing line between Philadelphia's Bella Vista and Queen Village as border-war fodder, so let's just call it what it is: confusing. While the city officially places Bella Vista—a "beautiful sight" to the Italian immigrants who founded it—between Sixth and 11th streets south of South Street and north of Washington Avenue, it also states that adjacent Queen Village, settled by the Swedes, can extend up to Eighth. Manifest-destiny fans like to stretch both nabes north; some residents go so far as to claim the opposing sides of single streets can be counted as one 'hood or the other. Who knows? What is set in stone in this charming, largely residential area: a appreciation of craft (peep all the shops, boutiques, and galleries) and a passion for food and drink, stoked by a mix of institutions and new kids.
Bella Vista and Queen Village's tidy, tree-lined streets contain some of Philly's most successful bars and restaurants, nailing tastes high, low, and in between. No matter what borders you adhere to, both neighborhoods provide are easy to slice through on foot, meaning you're never more than a few trudges away from a killer drink. Check out the slideshow for a few essential stops on the BV/QV line, where farm-first kitchens and supremely traditional French bistros bump up against mod-American cooking playgrounds, formerly mobbed-up wine bars, and one of the most-admired brown-liquor selections in the city.
What to Drink and Where
Chick's Social Kitchen + Bar (try the Dark & Stormy)
Southwark (try the Manhattan)
Supper (try the Sorcerer)
Ela (try the Bought a Bride)
Kennett (try the De Rigueur)
Bistrot La Minette (try the Kir Royale)
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Trixiie's co-worker finally gave her the address for the fiesta after boasting about her experience for the past two weeks. Upon arriving, Trixiie was greeted at the door by Jmac. He gave her a quick look over before asking for the password. She revealed her beautiful perky tits and was immediately permitted to enter. Soon after the pleasantries, Trixiie peeled of her tight shorts and began to play with her soft tight pussy until it got soaking wet. She then gave Jmac and amazing blow job before riding his monster cock. He fucked her relentlessly and eventually sprayed her pretty face with his jizz.
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½ cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup Coffee Rich non-dairy creamer
7 cups all-purpose flour
¼ cup margarine
1 quart vegetable oil for frying
Apricot preserves
Sesame seeds
In a large bowl dissolve yeast in warm water. Add sugar, salt, eggs, coffee rich, and blend well. Mix in 4 cups of the flour and beat until smooth. Add the margarine and then the remaining 3 cups of flour. Cover and chill for up to 24 hours.
Roll out dough 1/8 inch thick. Cut into 2 ½ inch squares. Fry in 360 degree F hot oil. If beignets do not pop up oil is not hot enough. Drain onto paper towels.
Dip in apricot preserves, then into sesame seeds.


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Deaf Nebraska med student awarded legal fees
A federal judge has ordered Creighton University in Omaha to pay nearly $500,000 in legal fees for a deaf medical student who successfully sued the school for discrimination.
Michael Argenyi sued Creighton in 2009, after leaving medical school when Creighton refused his requests for interpreters - even though he offered to pay for them himself. Last year, a federal judge ruled that Creighton must provide Argenyi with special equipment and interpreters to allow him to finish medical school. The judge did not require the university to reimburse Argenyi for $110,000 he had already spent for interpreters and special equipment.
In March, Argenyi's lawyers filed a motion seeking nearly $621,000 in legal fees. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp ordered $478,000 in attorney and legal fees.


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Provide a class that renders multiple Haskell values in a text form that is accessible by gnuplot.
Maybe we add a method for the binary interface to gnuplot later.
- class C a where
- text :: a -> [ShowS]
- columnCount :: ColumnCount a
- newtype ColumnCount a = ColumnCount Int
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columnCount :: ColumnCount a Source
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Somehow a writer monad with respect to Sum monoid without material monadic result.
Cf. ColumnSet module.
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The North American iTunes store is chock full of amateur Pocket Monster catalogs, assembling data from the popular Nintendo creature collecting series. They might soon be obsolete, should the official Pokedex for iOS released today in Japan make its way stateside.
From what I can gather from the app's official page, the iOS Pokedex is quite similar to Pokedex 3D Pro for the 3DS. Fans can search through the entire Pocket Monster catalog, sorting by number, type, and other sorts of statistics you sort Pokemon by. The critters themselves are rendered in 3D, able to be rotated and posed in various ways. Or they can just wander about the screen in real time. Either way, tons of Pokemon, at your fingertips.
The app starts at 170 Yen (around $2) and includes Pokemon numbered 494-647. Three additional sets are available for in-game purchase at 500 Yen ($6) apiece. That's $20 for a full Pokedex.
I contacted the North American branch of The Pokemon Company to see if there were plans to bring the app stateside, and was told there were no announcements to be made regarding a North American release at this time.
But you know they're going to. They have to. We have to catch them all.


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Q: Where do I go if I have an emergency?
A: Please call 911 or your local emergency number
Q: How do I confirm my appointment?
A: Please call us at 1-888-4PACMED


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Many, when talking about the Sweet RORO of Sweet Lines Incorporated which is pf Bohol origin talk about her technicals and that is not wrong as there is nothing incorrect in admiring the technical merits of a ship especially that of a luxury liner. But to me I also tend to look at the historical position of things and how they interacted as I am also keen on the historical perspective of the ferries when they came and also their roles. After all, ferries make the shipping companies, at least in the early decades of our shipping history. And, it is in the great liners in which shipping companies are identified by the public.
The Sweet RORO in original livery. Photo by Lindsay Bridge.
The Sweet RORO came to Sweet Lines when from the peak of the company a great slide was already happening them. This came from a probable mistake when in the late 1970's the company decided they would henceforth just buy small liners. It was a great reversal from the previous mantra of the company that they will bring great liners, the prime examples of which were the highly regarded Sweet Faith and Sweet Home which were former luxury liners even in Europe. Also included in that was the Sweet Grace which was acquired brand-new from West Germany.
That bad decision came when the top liners of the company, the aforementioned Sweet Faith and the Sweet Home were already graying and if analyzed technically were already threatening to quit in a few years time (and they subsequently did). Coupled with that that the former cargo-passenger ship from Europe, the Sweet Bliss, the Sweet Life/Sweet Dream, the Sweet Lord/Sweet Land and the Sweet Love which buoyed the company early on and helped in their rise were also growing old as they were also built in the 1950's like the Sweet Faith and the Sweet Home and ferries then were not known to exceed 30 years of life as the metallurgy and technology were still not the same as today when ferries normally exceed 40 years of service life here. Spare and surplus parts are easy to find today and CNC milling of parts are already common whereas that was not the case of 40 years ago. When that decision to just acquire small ferries was made the six liners of Sweet Lines from Europe were already approaching 30 years old save for the Sweet Home (but then this luxury liner, the biggest of her time was actually the first to go because of mechanical problems).
The year 1980 came and one of the biggest crisis in local liner shipping came. This happened when a lot of liners were suddenly laid up because the container ships came into full force all at once and suddenly the old passenger-cargo liners no longer had enough cargo to carry and it was actually cargo which is decisive in the profitability of a passenger-cargo ship. Before the arrival of the container ships of Aboitiz Shipping Corporation, William Lines, Sulpicio Lines, Lorenzo Shipping Corporation, Central Shipping Corporation (the cargo shipping company of Sweet Lines), Sea Transport Company, Negros Navigation Company and Solid Shipping Lines, it was practically just the passenger-cargo liners which were carrying the cargo in liner routes.
Sweet Home was gone in 1979, sold, and Sweet Faith was also gone the next year in 1980, first laid up then sold to the breakers. The new decade came and Sweet Lines had no ship good enough for the premier Manila-Cebu route which they used to dominate albeit with just a small pull only early in the 1970's but largely gone as the decade was winding down. What they had left to serve as flagship was the cruiser liner Sweet Grace which was ordered brand-new from West Germany in 1968 but which does not have the speed and the size of the now-dominant fast cruiser liners of that era already.
While Sweet Lines was saddled with such problem William Lines rolled out the half-cruiser, half-RORO Dona Virginia in December 1979 which was the biggest liner in the country when she was fielded and with a speed of 20 knots too like the liner she was replacing, the storied Cebu City which came brand-new just in 1972. Then Sulpicio Lines rolled out the Philippine Princess in 1981 and this liner was nearly as big as the Dona Virginia but not as fast. Sweet Grace was far smaller than the two unlike the flagship Filipinas of Compania Maritima which was nearly as big as Dona Virginia and Philippine Princess although not as fast as the two. Sweet Grace was also much slower than the three, she cannot even be considered as a fast cruiser liner and so for the first time since Sweet Lines raised the bar in the Manila-Cebu premier route in 1970 with the Sweet Faith, this time it found itself as the laggard and outmatched. And that was where the decision to just buy small liners bit Sweet Lines hard.
Photo from a research of Gorio Belen in the National Library
Having money from the proceeds of the disposals of Sweet Home and Sweet Faith, Sweet Lines was obliged to look for their replacement and it is forced that it should be a good and a big one. They did not disappoint when the former Ferry Ruby of the Diamond Ferry which plies the Osaka to Oichi route came to them in 1982 (but the seller was a third by the name of Dimerco Line SA of Panama and more on that later). The ship was nearly as big as her main competitors at 117.5 meters length and 4,700 gross register tons and at 18 knots design speed she was not giving away much to her direct competition, the flagships of the other liner companies although she was still the slowest at full trot among the flagships. And so what Sweet Lines emphasized was her being a RORO liner and its swiftness in cargo loading and unloading. However, the claim of Sweet Lines that she was the first RORO liner in the country is incorrect as the Sta. Maria of Negros Navigation Company came earlier in 1980. She, however, was the first big RORO liner in the country if the Dona Virginia is excluded.
When analyzed technically, the Sweet RORO is a leapfrog in technology compared to her main competitors which were mainly cruiser liners, the old paradigm. She was already a full-pledged ROPAX (RORO-Passenger) ship unlike the Dona Virginia whereas the Philippine Princess and the Filipinas of Compania Maritima were still cruiser ships . Now these four are all flagships and only four shipping companies were competing seriously in the prime Manila-Cebu route as the others like Aboitiz Shipping Corporation and Escano Lines were no longer in serious contention in that route and the others have practically withdrawn from contention there like Lorenzo Shipping Corporation and Carlos A. Gothong Lines Incorporated (but this company later made a comeback in that route). By the way, Negros Navigation Company is not being mentioned here as she was not doing the Manila-Cebu route then.
Credits to Philippine Daily Express and Gorio Belen
But Sweet RORO might have been too much ahead of her time. Loading vehicles was not yet the wont then in her route (and neither now except for brand-new cars headed for car dealers down south). Container vans were mainly carried by the container ships and at that time there were still a lot of XEUs, the 10-foot container vans which can be handled by forklifts or loaded atop the cruisers at their bow and/or stern. Using chassis for container vans was not yet the standard then and so the full advantage of being a RORO or Roll-on, Roll-off ship was not fully realized when a lot of cargo was still palletized or are still carried loose (however, Sweet RORO had advantage over the others in carrying vehicles and heavy equipment down South). It would be nearly a decade later when the TEUs, the 20-foot container vans will be the new standard in cargo loading and by that time the Sweet RORO was already gone.
The Sweet RORO, the former Ferry Ruby was built by Onomichi Dockyard (Onomichi Zosen) in Onomichi, Japan in 1970 (but Sweet Lines says she was built in another yard) as one of the fast overnight ferries of Japan that bypasses their clogged highways then. She was average in size then (but this is not to disparage her) at 117.5 meters in Length Over-all, 107.0 meters in Length Between Perpendiculars, 20.6 meters in Breadth and 4,619 tons in Gross Register Tonnage. She was 1,943 tons in Net Register Tonnage and 1,477 tons in Deadweight Tonnage. This RORO liner was powered by 4 Kawasaki-MAN V8V 22/30ATL diesel engines with a combined 8,080hp which gave her a top speed of 18 knots which was also average for her size during her time. At that power she would have been more economical in fuel than the other flagships.
The stem of the ship was raked and she had transom stern. She was equipped with ramps bow and aft as access to the car deck. The ship has three decks for the passengers, the uppermost one a local addition (and that deck contained a lobby/relaxation room, the First Class bar and disco plus a game room) and abaft of the funnels is a wide open-air promenade area/sun deck. Aside from First Class and Second Class, a part of her Third Class (now known as "Economy") is also airconditioned. This is because as-built the ship was fully air-conditioned. Her original passenger capacity as refitted was 1,692, one of the highest then among passenger ships in the country. It was broken down into 148 in 1st Class, 144 in 2nd Class, 400 in air-conditioned 3rd Class and 1,000 in non-airconditioned 3rd Class. The 3rd Class occupied the lowermost passenger deck while the First Class and Second Class accommodations and lobbies were on the deck above that and so it is the middle deck.
Photo from a research of Gorio Belen in the National Library
Like the Sweet Faith before her, the Sweet RORO plied the premier Manila-Cebu route twice a week with a 22-hour sailing time which means a cruising speed of 18 knots for the 393-nautical mile route which is actually her design speed. It seems the policy of Sweet Lines is sail the ship at design speed because that is what they also did with the Sweet Faith. However, running a ship at 100% usually entails a ship's not living very long. In 1988, Sweet RORO already had trouble with her engines specifically with her crankshaft as one report said and from that time on she already had difficulty sailing and if she did it is at reduced speed. The next year she was already laid up when she was less than 20 years of age. In 1990, she was sent to India for breaking up, a very short career when her two sister ships was still sailing in Greece up to the new millennium.
In 1987, Sweet RORO had a change of ownership but she was still sailing for Sweet Lines even then. She again became a Panamanian ship with the Dimerco Line SA which was the seller of her to Sweet Lines and to me that indicates a possibility that she was not fully paid for by Sweet Lines and so the seller re-acquired her. This was also about the same time that the Eduardo Lopingco group entered Sweet Lines and took over the management. With the entry of Lopingco additional ships came to the fleet but it turned out those were just chartered from the Hayashi Marine Company of Japan . Later, court cases arose after the company was not able to pay the charter to Hayashi Marine because court records show money was diverted by Lopingco to other ventures.
I wonder but I know financial troubles and mismanagement are ship killers especially when the needed maintenance of the ship are no longer made. And running ships at 100% power is parts-hungry and can result in damages to the engine in the long term especially when maintenance is not up to date. A report said that re-engining her was suggested to the company but nothing came out of it. This was already the time that the company was already headed on the way down after it seems that the founding Lim family has already lost control of the company if court filings are to be believed.
Whatever, the Sweet RORO was a big success in the Manila-Cebu route as actually Sweet Lines was a favorite of many especially the Bol-anons that until today many still remember her fondly (people are more attached then to their great liners unlike today that is why there were ship legends then including the Sweet RORO while now there is no such sentimentality anymore). However, it puzzles me why didn't they extend the route to Tagbilaran given it was their origins and the ship had a long lay-over anyway in Cebu (was Tagbilaran port too shallow for her then?).
She was a fine ship ahead of her time. However, the sad part is she did not last long.


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Reader John writes in with a question addressed to me but much better suited for Deadspin's commenters:
Hi Jack,
In a couple weeks, Georgetown alums will be going against Syracuse alums in a beer pong tournament in New York City. As a proud Georgetown alum, I need my team's name to be both clever and offensive to my Syracuse opponents. So far, I've come up with:
'Cuse Is Doing (Laurie) Fine
Bernie Fine Reaches Playing 1-on-1
Fine with the Statute of Limitations
2-for-1 Special at the Fine House
Laurie Fine Juices 'Cuse
Something about Bernie Fine being eskimo brothers with his players, but I haven't come up with something pithy along that line
Any suggestions?
I might also go with the universally offensive "Rodney King's Pool Cleaners." Is that racist? I appreciate any input.
Probably not racist, but definitely offensive. Kinja community members: what've you got?


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Affordable health care available, will be mandatory for Ky., Ind. residents
While the battle over the Affordable Care Act has brought Washington to a standstill, an historic day in healthcare began in Kentucky and Indiana.
Starting Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of people across the state got access -- many for the first time -- to affordable health care.
Mayor Greg Fischer announced the historic change, alongside Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson and director of Metro Public Health and Wellness, Dr. Laquandra Nesbitt.
Many people don't know about the Affordable Care Act.
Here's what you can expect: If you're insured, you won't have to do a thing.
But if you aren't, the ACA means you have to buy health insurance by March 31 of next year.
In Kentucky, the number of uninsured is huge, at around 640,000 people.
The state says about half of them will qualify for Medicaid.
The others will be forced to buy health insurance.
A 22-year-old college student making about $20,000 could buy a plan for about $50 a month.
A family of four earning $70,000 could buy coverage for about $400.
There is a program called Kynect that pretty much explains it all, including exactly what you can expect to pay.
Frequently Asked Questions about Affordable Care Act for Kentuckians:
1. What is a health benefit exchange?
A health benefit exchange is an organized marketplace for individuals and employees of small businesses to shop for health insurance based on price and quality. In Kentucky, that marketplace is called kynect. Federal law requires each state to have an online health insurance marketplace to ensure that all Americans have access to quality healthcare.
2. Why was it created?
Gov. Steve Beshear issued an executive order to create a state-based health benefit exchange to best meet the needs of Kentuckians. Kynect, will provide simple, one-stop shopping for individuals and small businesses to purchase health insurance and receive payment assistance or tax credits.
3. How many Kentuckians are uninsured?
An estimated 640,000 Kentuckians are uninsured as of 2013, or 14.9 percent of the state's population or approximately one in six Kentuckians.
4. When will I be able to sign up for Kynect?
Open enrollment begins Oct. 1, 2013, and runs through March 31, 2014, with coverage beginning as soon as January 2014.
5. What happens if I don't have health insurance?
Beginning January 2014, most Americans will be required to have health insurance or pay a penalty. By using kynect to purchase a health insurance plan, you may be eligible for payment assistance to help cover the costs of coverage for you and your family. kynect will also check to see if you are eligible for programs like Medicaid or the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program.
6. I want health insurance, but I can't afford it. What will I do?
By using Kynect, you may receive payment assistance or tax credits to help cover the costs of coverage for you and your family. kynect will allow you to compare and select insurance plans, and find out if you qualify for programs like Medicaid or the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program.
7. What if I make too much money for Medicaid, but still can't afford to buy insurance?
Based on your household size and income, you may be eligible for payment assistance to help you pay for healthcare coverage you purchase through kynect.
8. Will it be easier for me to get coverage even if I have health problems?
Health insurance companies will no longer be able to reject people or charge more based on health status, beginning in January 2014.
9. I own a small business. Will I have to buy health insurance for my workers?
No small employer is required to provide insurance coverage. If you have a small business with fewer than 50 people, you won't face any penalties. In addition, if you own a small business with 25 or fewer employees, there may be significant tax credits available through kynect to help cover the cost of insurance. Businesses with 50 or more employees that don't provide health insurance may face penalties starting in 2015.
10. I already have health insurance, or I'm on Medicare. Do I have to buy a new plan?
Most people in Kentucky already have some form of health insurance, either provided through their jobs, Medicare, Medicaid, or through a private plan they've purchased on their own (such as for people who are self-employed).
If you already have health insurance, you don't have to do anything new or different.
"It is based on your income, so, if your income, let's say for instance, if you're a single individual, you can receive premium assistance if your income is below $45,800 a year," said Carrie Banahan with the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange.
If you don't purchase health insurance by the March deadline, you could face a penalty -- either $95 or 1 percent of your income, whichever is more.


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IT WAS always expected that Lachie Sinclair and his brothers would one day take over the family property, Kamilaroi.
MAY, 1992, and after four police officers were acquitted after the savage beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles is ablaze.
LJ HOOKER Toowoomba sales agent Judy Loiterton has seen out-of-town investors flood the property market, and she expects this trend to continue.
HOME is where the heart is – but what happens to your heart when the people you love are scattered around the world?
DECISIONS don't come much bigger than choosing to sell your home.
TOOWOOMBA'S median property price growth is leading the state, and it is expected the city will continue to grow over the next 12 months.
A WOMAN has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada.
FOR makeup artist Grace Barrett, Hollywood isn't the land of golden opportunity. It's the land of difficult divas, cheating boyfriends and unemployment.
CENTURY 21's Geoffrey Jordan believes that the RBA's decision to keep interest rates on hold will encourage many buyers to make a property purchase.


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Volunteers help check on older residents in hot weather
Meals on Wheels adds heat concerns to deliveries
This week's relentless heat poses special dangers to older people in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Volunteers who deliver Meals on Wheels to older people throughout the community do critical checks to make sure that the heat isn't getting the recipients down.
Ruth Rowland said asking about the heat isn't technically part of her job as a Meals on Wheels volunteer, but it's a simple and important thing to do.
"I can see if their air conditioning is working, and if it's not, I can report that. If it's not, maybe they have fans," she said. "(I) just chat with them a little bit about how they plan to stay cool."
Mary Bryan, 90, said she has a heat routine down. She keeps a cold, damp cloth on hand along with plenty of water. She said she loves the volunteers' visits, too.
"They just do everything for everybody," she said.
Ardyth Spry said she just likes to stay inside and count her blessings.
"I have an air conditioner and I like the heat better than I like the cold," she said.
Rowland had a list of 11 Raytown homes to visit Monday. She said she thinks about all the people who could use a drop-in from a relative, friend or neighbor but won't get it.
She said she wishes more people would see the value of a visit the way she does, a positive on both ends.
"I like the idea that I'm checking on them on a regular basis," she said. "Just one other person to help them stay safe at home."
Rowland said if she or the other volunteers find a client with problems, they report it to Meals on Wheels, which gets the clients in touch with groups that can help.
Rowland said she has involved her family in Meals on Wheels trips. Her grandchildren will sometimes ride with her in the summer. Her 90-year-old mother sometimes goes along, too.


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Sheriff: Longtime church official embezzled over $100K
Trinette Johnson turned herself into authorities Friday
A church secretary in St. Bernard Parish was arrested for what authorities said was systematic embezzlement of more than $100,000 from her church.
Trinette Johnson, 39, is suspected of embezzling more than $100,000 since 2006, the sheriff's office said.
Church Deacon Ken Jefferson said for at least four years, he's questioned the church finances.
"The savings went up from $115,000, and the checking had $78,000 to start off. Maybe in less than a year, the money dropped to about $30,000," said Jefferson.
By February, Jefferson said he could no longer turn a blind eye.
"After the church was broke, after we had a negative balance, that's when we started investigating what really was going on," said Jefferson.
Jefferson and other church leaders hired an auditor to look into what they suspect was theft of church funds.
Johnson, of Violet, was the longtime church secretary and account executive for the Greater Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Violet.
She surrendered at the parish jail on Friday after she was informed by investigators that a judge had signed an arrest warrant on charges of felony theft by systematic embezzlement.
She was expected to be released on bond set at $10,000, the sheriff's office said.
According to investigators, Johnson is accused of systematically misappropriating $101,872 of church funds since Aug. 16, 2006.
"There was a lot of double payments, writing a check for one thing, and then turn around and do a check for reimbursement for the same thing," said Elder Stacy Riley Jr.
At the end of February, the sheriff's office said it was presented a letter signed by 33 members of the church saying the body of the church at Greater Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church wanted to pursue criminal charges in a matter where church funds were missing.
The department was presented with evidence, including a copy of the church banking records going back to March 2006.
"It's not a rich community," said Jefferson. "People are struggling every day paying their bills, but they're still paying their tithes because they believe in what God's word says, and then you take the money that they're putting into the church to better the community. I just feel like she must not believe in God."
Riley said he regrets that the congregation didn't take more precautions and create more checks and balances with church finances.
"It was basically disheartening to see that a church that's rich in history and tradition in the parish was struggling financially," said Riley.
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I heard about FreedomPop's new service offering on the radio the other day. Basically, you pay a deposit for a USB or HotSpot device, and they will give you 500mb of free data on that device each month. More data is reasonably priced, and if you ever want to get rid of it, you can send it back and they will refund your deposit. I decided to try it out. If you're interested in hearing how it went, read on!
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Bernanke: "The US Could Soon Face A Debt Crisis Like The One In Greece"
Bernanke is now joining Rosenberg, Ferguson and Faber, Edwards, Grice and many others in warning that the debt crisis rearing its head in Greece may spread to America, causing U.S. interest rates to climb.
As the Washington Times wrote yesterday:
With uncharacteristic bluntness, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned Congress on Wednesday that the United States could soon face a debt crisis like the one in Greece, and declared that the central bank will not help legislators by printing money to pay for the ballooning federal debt.
Recent events in Europe, where Greece and other nations with large, unsustainable deficits like the United States are having increasing trouble selling their debt to investors, show that the U.S. is vulnerable to a sudden reversal of fortunes that would force taxpayers to pay higher interest rates on the debt, Mr. Bernanke said.
"It's not something that is 10 years away. It affects the markets currently," he told the House Financial Services Committee. "It is possible that bond markets will become worried about the sustainability [of yearly deficits over $1 trillion], and we may find ourselves facing higher interest rates even today."
Yes, massive debt overhangs do matter.
Contrary view: A very smart financial expert disagrees, telling me:
Higher interest rates do not equal a debt crisis.
Greece's situation is not comparable to the US. Greece's situation is comparable to that of California. It makes a big difference whether you control your currency or not.
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If your landline has a TAE telephone socket, it is an analogue connection with which customary terminal devices (e.g. telephones, modems, faxes) can be used.
Analogue terminal devices have a TAE-plug (left picture) for the connection to a telephone network, e.g. T-Net.
Connection to an ISDN-telephone system:
Furthermore, analogue telephones can be connected to ISDN-telephone systems. In this case, an ISDN-system (e.g. Eumex) is necessary supporting the needed TAE-socket at the ISDN-connection.
Connection to a VoIP/Internet router:
Many DSL providers offer VoIP (internet telephoning). Analogue telephones can also be connected and used to a router, in most cases with an adapter enclosed.
|Analogue telephone at analogue socket
|Analogue telephone at telephone system
|Analogue telephone at VoIP router
|ISDN-Telephone at ISDN-socket
|ISDN-Telephone at NTBA of the Telekom
|ISDN-Telephone at VoIP router
Low radiation telephones - Low Radiation DECT (ECO-Mode bzw. ECO-DECT)
Cordless DECT-telephones without permanent transmission | Telephones with low radiation
Telefon +49 (0) 9723 93409-10, Fax +49 (0) 9723 93409-29, firstname.lastname@example.com