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When he was 15, Danny Lehan landed his first job busing tables. He'd jump on his bike and head less than a mile from his house in the Acacia subdivision to the Village Inn at Walsingham and Vonn roads.
His mother remembers how excited he was about the work. "One night he came home and told us, 'I'm going to own that restaurant someday,' '' Pamela Swetavage recalled.
That someday is here.
Lehan, 36, built his career by moving through the ranks of the Village Inn corporation, first as a busboy and dishwasher in Largo and later as a general manager overseeing restaurants on both sides of Tampa Bay.
Now he'll open his own franchise in August at 13105 Walsingham Road, the same spot that housed the Village Inn where he got his start back in the summer of 1990.
The old restaurant, operated by Village Inn's corporate office headquartered in Denver, closed in May 2010 when its 30-year lease expired, said Kim Stone, whose family has owned the property for more than 30 years.
"At the time I knew the corporation was doing some organizational changes, but we also knew the business had been viable because we saw records on a monthly basis,'' she said.
As soon as the business closed, Lehan contacted the Stone family to discuss opening a franchise on the property.
"When I got promoted and had to leave the Largo restaurant, it was the toughest thing for me because of the roots I have here,'' said Lehan, who's a 1993 Largo High graduate and has served as president of the Partners N Progress for the Arts at the Largo Cultural Center (now known as Suncoast Performing Arts Foundation).
At first, the landlords, who live in Colorado, wanted to sell the property. "We didn't want to be long-distance landlords anymore,'' Stone said.
But between the downturn in the real estate market and Lehan's persistence, the two sides reached an agreement. On May 24, the lease for the new Village Inn was signed.
Neither Lehan nor the Stones wanted to disclose the monthly rent, but Lehan described it as "comparable to other businesses in the area.''
The investment team for the franchise includes Lehan, his father, Daniel Lehan III, and stepmother Kim Lehan. They're spending nearly $400,000 to open the restaurant.
To help renovate the 4,000-square-foot building, Lehan's stepfather, Joseph Swetavage, is serving as general contractor. It will include seating for 125 patrons.
"Everything the customer touches will be brand new,'' said Lehan.
"I've been with Village Inn for more than 20 years, and I know this is a successful location," he said. "For example, at one point it was ranked third in the country for highest unit in pie sales.''
The opening of the Village Inn means not only seeing the resurrection of a much-loved eatery, but 80 new jobs in Largo.
On Tuesday, Lehan will set up a hiring station at the restaurant. He expects more than 1,000 applicants.
Once the new Village Inn opens, hours will be 6 a.m. to midnight Monday through Sunday. He hopes to unlock the doors by Aug. 1.
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In a 5-0 vote, the commission last week settled on a policy for service outage response and public notification. It also created the Critical Infrastructure Interdependency Working Group.
The policy provides guidance for electricity distribution companies after the commission looked at the responses to hurricanes Sandy and Irene, according to a news release.
The commission also addressed the cost/benefit analysis of implementing of the policy by power companies, and perhaps other industries, especially in regard to the proposed storm damage and outage prediction models, according to the release.
The working group will be made up of power companies, telephone companies, water, wastewater and natural-gas distribution utilities with 5,000 or more customers, cable providers, wireless carriers and others. One of the goals is for parties to come to an understanding of their critical interdependencies and how to coordinate restoration of services when more than one is affected in a geographic area.
The group will meet once a year, but no other details have been set.
"Today's action represents further progress in assuring that significant measures are in place to expedite the restoration of electric service for all customers," Commissioner Pamela A. Witmer wrote in the policy statement. "Regardless of whether the outage is the result of a storm, or physical or cyber attack, I am very pleased that the commission is establishing a Critical Infrastructure working group that will bring all utilities and other partners into one room to discuss best practices that will benefit residential and business customers in this commonwealth."


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"Elections have consequences."
Rep. Patrick McHenry made that statement at both the beginning and end of a town hall meeting in Lincolnton on Monday, during which he fielded questions from citizens from North Carolina's 10th District about issues ranging from jobs and the economy to the Affordable Care Act, immigration, agriculture and the IRS.
The crowd, with an official tally of 84, was largely supportive of McHenry and the Republican Party.
McHenry, a fifth-term congressman who resides in Denver, said he holds town hall meetings to receive valuable feedback from his constituents, and offered his insights and opinions on several of the major current political topics.
He applauded the House for voting numerous times to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He said he was concerned about the economy and, while recognizing the need for affordable healthcare, stated that the best way for an individual to have the ability to afford healthcare was to have steady employment.
Several individuals in attendance expressed concern about the country's immigration policy, and specifically cited border security between the U.S. and Mexico as a serious problem. McHenry said that any discussion of immigration reform has to begin with securing the border, which he described as "porous."
He said there was "no chance" that he would vote to support the large immigration reform bill that passed the Senate in June, and agrees with the House strategy of tackling the immigration issue with a series of bills.
McHenry's town hall meeting at City Hall in Lincolnton was the first in a series of seven meetings with constituents he is holding in the 10th district through Aug. 15. He was introduced by Mayor John Gilleland, who said McHenry has been an asset to the city and the district. McHenry also met with officials from the Lincolnton-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce and toured Sally's YMCA in Denver earlier in the day on Monday.
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From New York to California every other extravert was putting his left hand in his coat pocket, jabbing the air with his right forefinger and muttering about Cuber. Even Negro Comedian Nipsey Russell was imitating Kennedy; but despite the active interest comedians are showing in the President, not all current politics jokes are about him. Random samplings:.
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Over a year ago when Nate and I first began to talk about whether we were going to quit (after losing the content to our site a couple of times) or to continue on, we came up with the idea of satellite sites. After making the decision that we were going to try and make all of this into a business, we decided that at some point we really should meet each other. That's right – We've put together everything and Nate and I have never met in person (kind of funny, isn't it?)
When we started talking about meeting, it was late and so we just began to throw out ideas. We finally decided that we should meet in Las Vegas (If I remember correctly, that was the time when Nate was into poker and that was how Vegas was chosen). From there the idea of Just One Spin came into being, the domain was purchased and the site was up within a week after we first talked about it.
Originally we were supposed to meet at the beginning of this year, but due to some family matters, I came back to Japan which made the January meeting date impossible. We recently decided that this summer will be a good time to meet since I will be back for a short while then.
Anyway, the site has kind of just been there this whole time. The original premise was that Nate and I would go and place a bet on the roulette table and I said that I thought if we announced it to everyone that maybe others would donate to our spin. Nate, as he does with most of my ideas, told me I was crazy and it wouldn't happen. For the most part, Nate was absolutely correct. We received a single donation in March 2005 for $10 from Tommy Vinson and that added with the $10 we were putting in for ourselves gave us a whopping $20 to bet.
The site has pretty much stayed the same during that entire time until today – over a year since our first (and only) donation when Charles Martin (who by his own account admits that he is crazy, came out of nowhere and donated $25 to the spin pot. In the blink of an eye our pot had more than doubled!
Feeling kinda generous and just a little insane, I decided to pitch in on Just One Spin. The premise is that these two guys are taking donations and will place the sum total down on the roulette table for "just one spin". I dunno why I pitched in, but it is kinda cool to say that I joined in on a bet in Las Vegas. At least the amount I've chipped in will be considerably less than if I went in person to gamble.
That is exactly the way we intended the spin to be…a bit crazy mixed in with a bit of fun. And Charles's timing was perfect. Nate and I had just been discussing pinning down an exact date and purchasing a digital video camera so that we can record the entire episode.
It's little things like this that totally make my day. While the gift to the spin wasn't totally from someone out of the blue who happened upon the site (he admitted in an email that he gets the RSS feed from this site), it's fun when something happens the way you imagine it will when you first begin even if it only happens once a year. I have this stupid grin on my face that will probably be plastered there for the rest of the day (my wife is going to think I'm doing another saving is sexy research project). So I just wanted to send a big "thank you" out to Charles for confirming there are at least a couple of others out there who could see the fun insanity of the whole project and for making today a great day.


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All you need to know about renting a scooter in South East Asia: How I crashed one and what the consequences were
Renting a scooter in South East Asia is very common for three main reasons:
1) Everybody and their grandma has a scooter – they are cheap to buy and run, don't take up much space and locals often make a bit of extra cash by driving or renting them to foreigners.
2) They are cheap to rent per day (120-250 Baht/$4-8) and you don't need a driving license to do it. In most cases you wouldn't even be asked if you can drive one.
3) They are perfect in places where there is no public transport, e.g. islands – you can just set up a base, rent a moped and see everything around going for short and effortless little trips.
Riding a scooter in South East Asia can be a lot of fun but it can also be dangerous and there are a lot of scams involved in it. I hope my story will make you think twice before you decide to hire a moped in SE Asia.
The story of crashing a scooter and dealing with the consequences
We decided to rent our first scooter in Thailand while staying on the famed Ko Pha Ngan Island waiting for the half-moon festival. In Thailand we hitchhiked all the way from the Malaysian border so we had never before had the need to rent any vehicle but reaching the island, we realised that hitchhiking was impractical as there was not enough traffic and the waiting time was just too long. Renting the scooter was surprisingly easy: all they asked for was to sign a document that looked like a standard rental form and one of our passports as a deposit so we don't run away with the scooter. We were a bit hesitant about the latter but all the rental places seemed to have the same policy, so you either leave your passport with them or you don't rent a scooter.
Jon was feeling more confident with driving it so he was in charge, although he hasn't got a driving license so it was me who had to shout instructions from the back every time we were at a junction and he didn't have a clue who had the right of way.
I was quite hesitant about trying to drive it myself since back then I didn't even feel confident on a bicycle but seeing that everyone (including other travellers) was driving them so effortlessly, one day I decided to have a go as well.
We picked an empty, straight road and before I started Jon gave me some brief instructions how to turn it on, accelerate and brake.
– You have to be careful when you start it as it will feel very fast at first, so don't be scared – said Jon trying to calm my nerves
– OK – said I and turned the bike on.
The next thing I remember was going really fast and hearing Jon shouting from the back seat, telling me to slow down. As God as my witness, I did try to slow down but in a moment of panic I mistook the acceleration for the brakes and whizzed even faster. What happened next seems a blur: Jon was yelling, I was shitting my pants and the bike was pelting like crazy. Then we suddenly hit the curb on the other side of the road, having driven barely 100 metres. The bike fell down and we did too. I had been wearing shorts and a top, so my skin took bad scraping on the pavement and broken glass from the damaged mirrors. I was in shock and started crying and shouting, telling everyone that "I knew I shouldn't have driven this f*cking bike". Some people came and picked us up from the ground. When I felt a bit better, Jon who wasn't hurt checked the bike and went to look for a doctor or a pharmacy nearby. I was bleeding so he took me to a small chemist's he found, but the two young Thai girls working there didn't really know what they were doing. They cleaned my wounds, though, and sold us some more dressing but there was no surgery on the island so I had to go without it.
The bike didn't suffer any major damage apart from the broken mirrors and some scratches on the side. We knew the owner would drain our money for the mirrors so we found a garage and got them replaced for around $10-15 which was OK. When the day had come for us to leave the island and give the bike back we were quite anxious about the owner's reaction to the scratches, so we tried to cover them with mud to hide the damage. It turned out to be completely pointless as when we returned it, the owner gave it a wash with a hose and quickly discovered all the scratches. He examined the mirrors too but since they looked exactly the same, he couldn't really blame us for damaging them. Then he pulled out the document we'd signed and pointed that for scratching the bike there was a charge of $400! We couldn't believe it but there it was. For breaking the mirrors it would have been $200 more but he was unable to prove it, so we ONLY had to pay the $400. For that amount of money we easily could have bought another bike but at that point there was absolutely nothing we could do, he had one of our passports and refused to give it back to us before we pay him. This is exactly how they make their money! Daily fees are just a small percentage of their income; they make much more on stupid foreigners like us, who try riding the bike for the first time in SE Asia or drive under the influence of alcohol/drugs and eventually crash it. We pulled out our hair but paid regardless, there was no other option.
My wound didn't look good either and we had two weeks left before our flight back to Europe. We were lucky to have had a good friend living in Kuala Lumpur, so after the festival we went straight there to stay in a comfortable flat for the rest of our trip.
Even though I was changing the dressing on a regular basis, my wound wouldn't stop leaking pus and it smelled awful. In the tropical climate it just wasn't healing and every time I changed the dressing, more and more skin came off enlarging the wound. Eventually it got infected and after we got back to Europe I got told off by the doctor who said I could have lost my leg completely. It took around 6 month before I could bend my knee and before the horrible scab came off. Now I have two ugly scars for life but I'm happy I didn't lose my leg, it's served me well, I wouldn't like to have lived without it.
12 Things you should have in mind before you decide to rent a scooter
1) Always carry a first aid kit with you when you're travelling as even a small scratch can be dangerous
2) Don't agree to sign documents you are not comfortable signing and don't give your passport to anybody. It was the only possibility of getting the bike but in retrospect we would have been much better without it. If you really want to rent a bike ask if it's possible to leave a copy or your passport and some money as a deposit.
3) Don't drive vehicles you are terrified of :)
4) I know that not everyone is such an idiot as myself but even if you are an experienced driver, be careful while driving in places like that as you might bump into people like me who try driving for the first time or who are under the influence of alcohol or drugs (everyone was driving under the influence on Ko Pha Ngan).
5) Think twice before renting a scooter or a car in South East Asia. It's a common practice to charge foreigners huge amounts even for minor scratches. This is exactly how they make their money. By not even asking if you have a driving license and letting you rent their vehicle, they hope you'd damage it and would have to pay the hefty fee. Many people try driving scooters in South East Asia for the first time and many people get done by this scam.
6) Before you decide to take the motorbike, examine it carefully so that you wouldn't be charged for damages you haven't done.
7) Make sure you know how to deal with wounds before setting off to a place where you might not be able to get medical help. Scratches and burns eventually happen to everyone who's on the road long enough, make sure you know how to deal with your own wounds…
8) Make sure you get a helmet and a lock for your bike. And always wear your helmet, for your own safety and to avoid being fined by the police
9) In South East Asia there it is chaos on the roads and the majority of drivers don't respect the Western traffic code. There is an informal rule they do follow though: the bigger vehicle has the right of way, so bear it in mind when driving your moped.
10) Horn liberally, like the locals do. Use your horn especially while overtaking people and when turning around blind bends, to let potential drivers on the other side that you are coming.
11) You can get fuel from roadside stalls selling it in plastic bottles. This is usually more expensive than using a petrol station but it can be quite handy expecially if you don't want fill the tank with a huge amount of petrol.
12) Make sure you park your bike in high-profile places and don't leave the helmet hanging off it.


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The Emotional Wellbeing service, offers a range of positive, fun activities for children and young people aged 5-19 years across the Easington area. It is funded through the Local Children's Board, Easington and was developed in response to local consultation with young people and their parents and carers. Two hours of high quality positive activities are delivered three times per week in a variety of areas across East Durham by skilled staff.
Activities are tailored to have a positive impact on children's emotional wellbeing through the provision of 'places to go and things to do' and are delivered at neighbourhood level. The service is part of a seamless integrated three tier service, offering children and families access to tier 0 Activities, tier 1 Active Listening and tier 2 Counselling services as required.
"I like it when you come to our Estate...my mam lets me play out."
The Emotional Wellbeing project was supported by Durham County Council.
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TEL AVIV (Jun. 17)
Israeli soldiers, who escaped a hand grenade that missed their vehicle in Gaza's busy Medina Square yesterday, rushed to the aid of local Arabs who were wounded when the missile exploded in a crowded coffee house. One Arab was killed and 2 were reported injured. A search was going on today for the grenade-thrower, who was hailed as a "patriot" in a Cairo Radio broadcast which reported the incident and claimed one Israeli soldier was killed.' An Israeli lieutenant was killed in a grenade incident on Sunday.


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KRISTEN STEWART got back in the good books with ROBERT PATTINSON by making him a special video montage.
This isn't a PARIS HILTON/KIM KARDASHIAN/TULISA number.
It was like the one from the new Google Chrome ad with a bloke begging for his ex's forgiveness by emailing her a film of their best times – linked with mushy messages.
A pal of Kristen's said: "She sent Robert the film after bombarding him with hundreds of texts, emails and answerphone messages.
"It was a last-ditch attempt at getting him back and she spent ages making the video montage using hundreds of photos and hours of home film footage of nights out and holidays.
"It was just like the Google ad as she cut-and-pasted lines from love poems to connect it all together."
The grovelling film worked on sentimental R-Patz as he's now taken her back – the Twilight co-stars were spotted cuddling at a PRINCE concert in LA last week.
Here's a poem I've written about the debacle, in her words. "Sorry I shagged that director. The End."


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The Ground Floor People cut two fine singles, first "Walking on Eggs" / "It's All Right Now", produced by Ronnie Eden and Joe Simmons on Parfait 101, from September, 1966, then "Treat Me Better" and "Workaday World", produced by Morty Croft and Ronnie Eden, and released on Mercury 72719 in mid-late 1967.
Tom Ciulla wrote to me and answered my questions about the group:
The Ground Floor People was my group and I played drums and wrote songs. My brother Don Ciulla originally put the group together. He played rhythm guitar and lead vocals. Lead guitar, Tommy Morrow and Freddie Davidson on bass and background vocals. I played drums and sang lead, background vocals and did the screaming ("Treat Me Better"). I came up with the name "Ground Floor People". We usually rehearsed in a ground floor apartment or basement. Everyone was from Brooklyn.
We were playing in a club called Freddie's. The owners were trying to sell the place. The group became very popular and after a few months there was a line down the block. The owners decided not to sell and we played there for over nine months. I am pretty sure that was where we met Ronnie Eden (Edelstein).
Joe Simmons was a real sweetheart. I wrote "It's All Right Now" with Joe and collaborated on another song that I wrote and he did the arrangement on. It was called "My Man's a PHD". Ronnie Eden produced the session and discovered a young "Aretha type" singer to record the song. I remember Ronnie saying that he got a drummer, Perdie Persaval [Bernard Purdie?], who he said played for James Brown, and Perdie got the other musicians to sit in on the session.
Q. I haven't heard of a Perdie Persaval, but Bernard Purdie played on tons of NY sessions, including one with James Brown.
That was probably the guy. How many drummers named Purdie could there be?
Ronnie claimed he operated on a tight budget. We never had a chance to correct anything in the studio. Like Don Krantz [of Yesterday's Children, also produced by Eden] said about the bad note on his recording. We all thought the songs "Wanna Be With You" and "Feelings" were really hit tunes. I never met anyone from Yesterdays Children.
I realized later on Ronnie was more interested in having the publishing and recordings of the artists than the quality and promotion of the production. He told me on several occasions he had publishing on several hit songs and recordings that he produced before they were successful. Unfortunately, I made several recordings but was unable to hold on to any of the demos.
My brother was drafted and the group broke up. I played with a few different bands for a while and eventually put together the second Ground Floor People. Sammy Sicalo, lead guitar, George Mandel on keyboard, and Tony Radicello on bass and lead vocals. I played drums and sang lead, background vocals as well. I wrote "Treat Me Better" and "Work A Day World" with Tony. When Ronnie got a recording contract form Mercury records, Tony and I wrote two more songs, "Wanted To Be With You" and "Make A Little Room". All four songs were recorded at the Mercury session. I always felt "PHD" and the last two tunes at Mercury were my best efforts.
Tom Ciulla
"I Wanted to Be With You Girl" / "Make a Little Room" would show up on a 45 by the One Way Street on the Boutique label, both songs credited to Anthony Radicello, Jr., Tom Ciulla and Ronnie Eden for Impeccable Music, BMI, with production by Ronnie Eden.
Ronnie Eden's name only comes up in Billboard in conjunction with Ted Black. Together they sold masters by John Gary to Cameo/Parkway and were sued for it by RCA (Billboard, November 13, 1965).
Tom also tipped me to this article about Ronnie becoming New Orleans record shop legend, Record Ron, who passed away in 1996. I used to go to Record Ron's shop during the two times I lived in New Orleans in the '80s and '90s, but I had no idea of his previous career as a producer.
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FRISCO - There are exciting additions on the field for FC Dallas in 2014, and also an exciting addition in the booth as FCD announced last week that legendary MLS goalkeeper Kevin Hartman will join the broadcast team in 2014 beginning with Saturday's season opener.
"I've had the same schedule and same routine for probably the past 17 years of my life and so I was always interested in seeing life through a different window and I feel like this opportunity is a superb fit," Hartman told FCDallas.com. "Everybody knew how committed and passionate that I was when I played the name and now it's a phenomenal way to stay involved in the league and maybe show some of that passion through the commentating."
Don't miss Cocktails & Cleats 2014 on Thursday, March 6 at F.I.G. in downtown Dallas!
Hartman has literally seen it all in his illustrious MLS career spanning an MLS-record 416 matches including two MLS Cup championships as well as manning the nets for FC Dallas in their 2010 MLS Cup appearance. Kevin hopes to convey some of those insights you can only learn through a wide-ranging career while letting the viewer make their own observations as well.
"I'm most interested in trying to help the observer along and then stay out of the way of the game. Soccer's the beautiful game and the majority of the time it speaks for itself," said Hartman. "I think as the viewing of the game continues to evolve here in the U.S., it's crucial to capture the casual observer while trying to avoid the cliché comparisons to other major US Sports."
The 39-year-old joins a myriad of MLS legends who have moved into the commentating booth, players that Kevin played both with and against over the years.
Relive chats with Pareja, Clavijo & more from our #DigitalTuesday.
"I'm really good friends with Cobi Jones and Brian Dunseth and talk to them both on regular occasions and in some broadcast meetings I had the opportunity to talk to Taylor Twellman and then obviously Alexi Lalas and I go a ways back," said Hartman. "One of the most interesting conversations I had was with [ESPNFC's] Adrian Healey and he said congratulations on having the best two jobs ever."
Hartman returns home to Frisco after a one-year stint with the New York Red Bulls, while his family never left the north Texas area. Having played for FCD while Oscar Pareja was a member of the staff, Kevin is certainly familiar with the Colombian's infectious style and he's looking forward to what should be a young and exciting team in 2014. Kevin will be scarfing the Lamar Hunt Statue in the traditional pre-game ceremony as well as mingling with the fans at Cocktails & Cleats on Thursday night in downtown Dallas.
"I'm looking forward to how the team plays. There's a renewed spirit here, but it's not just because the fact that it's a new year," said Hartman. "I know that the passion with which Oscar coached and played the game is going to be infectious and it's going to be something that the fans are going to see and the players have already seen through preseason. I think we're all just champing at the bit now to get kicked off on the 8th."


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Bald Head Island | Officials on Bald Head Island this week began a new method of controlling the white-tailed deer population: using contraceptives to sterilize does. Bald Head is the first community in the state to implement the non-lethal management program, which is permitted by the state Wildlife Resources Commission and began Jan. 6. The six-year project will serve as a test case to determine whether the method could work in other places. Deer population control is particularly important for Bald Head, as the animals can wreak havoc on the maritime forests that anchor and protect the island from storms.
Wilmington | A Wilmington woman is participating in "10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty," a show on the Spike cable channel that sends nine teams of two into the Pacific Northwest wilderness to find irrefutable proof that the long-rumored hairy creature truly exists. If such proof is uncovered, the team will take home $10 million, the largest prize in reality TV history. Shaney Warehim said that the show, which sent them across several states, was physically demanding but also required mental skill.
Hampstead | The renovation project for the Old Topsail School building continues to move forward, and contractors got a chance Wednesday to walk through the building and see more of what the project entails before bidding on the work. The building, which county officials plan to use as a new Hampstead county annex, sits along U.S. 17 in Hampstead and requires a substantial amount of work. The estimated cost of renovating the school, which was built in 1925, ranges from $1.98 million to $3 million.
New Hanover County | For the first time, New Hanover ABC opened three of its stores for eight hours on Dec. 26 and CEO Dan Sykes said it was definitely "successful." Total sales on the day after Christmas were about $34,300, with just shy of 1,500 customers served between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., according to ABC board records. The average sale per customer was about $25. Sykes estimates that this is the equivalent of half a day's sales when all stores are open across the county for the full 12-hour workday.
Wilmington | In 2013, three professors at the University of North Carolina Wilmington pursued different research projects that have ramifications for the brain in infants, young adults and seniors. They included a look at how packaging influences parents views on baby DVDs, how neurofeedback research can help treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and that exercise may prevent or reverse age-related changes in immune activity in the brain.


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What Does Being Cool Really Mean?
If James Dean was in his prime today, would we still consider him cool? According to a new survey, maybe not — seems the very definition of what's cool and what's not could be changing.
Can't Get Online? Maybe You're a Victim of 'Malware Monday'
On Monday, thousands of people woke up to find they had no internet service. And it wasn't just a weird coincidence — computers infected with a certain malware were affected in what's now been dubbed 'Malware Monday.'
What Are the Best Family-Friendly Restaurants?
Celebrity Birthdays for July 1 – Dan Aykroyd, Pamela Anderson and More
Here's a look at some notable birthdays being celebrated today:
Dan Aykroyd
Age: 60
Occupation: Actor, Screenwriter, and Musician
Known For: His work as one of the iconic original members of 'Saturday Night Live,' starring in beloved comedy films such as 'The Blues Brothers' and 'Ghostbusters' franchises, and roles in other movies including 'Pearl Harbor,' '50 First Dates' and 'I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry'
Supreme Court Upholds Obama's Health Care Law
The Obama administration got an enormous victory on Thursday when the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold the President's signature achievement: the 2010 health care law.
And in a surprise to many court watchers, it was Chief Justice John Roberts who sided with the more liberal justices and wrote the majority opinion.
How Much Money Will a Bad Credit Score Cost You? — Dollars and Sense
Savvy consumers know having a higher credit score means getting a lower interest rate and paying less over the life of a loan — but how much less?
This Day in History for June 24 – Roswell Report Released and More
Take a Break! Study Reveals People Spend Too Much Time Working on Their Cell Phones
We already know the majority of us with jobs work more than the standard 40 hours per week. And one of the causes of those long hours could be in your hand right now: your cell phone.
This Day in History for June 20 – First Commercial Telephone Service and More
Celebrity Birthdays for June 20 – John Goodman, Nicole Kidman and More
Here's a look at some notable birthdays being celebrated today:
John Goodman
Age: 60
Occupation: Actor
Known For: Scene-stealing turns in the films 'Raising Arizona,' 'The Big Lebowski' and 'O Brother Where Art Thou?,' and a nine-year stint playing patriarch Dan Conner on the TV series 'Roseanne'
Is Saving Money Good for Your Health? — Dollars and Sense
Lots of people eat well and clock time at the gym to keep themselves healthy. But as it turns out, your well-being is tied to more than just your physical state.
How Many Americans Work More Than 40 Hours Per Week?
The eight-hour workday is fairly standard in the United States, and June 19 marks the 100th anniversary of it becoming law for federal workers back in 1912.
Private companies began to follow suit four years later, but these days, working only eight hours a day sometimes seems downright quaint.


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En banc is a strong play though.
You can delay CA2 decision and wait for a possibly friendly CA7 decision to head into SCOTUS with more backing.
No. There is no point to en banc proceedings. The state would do en banc, we would not for obvious reasons.
Every day in the states that don't allow carry or ration the right, good people are being attacked, murdered, raped, kidnapped & tortured by criminals who know that citizens cannot effectively fight back. The population of those states is 100 million people.
This isn't merely about strategic presentation. It's about saving the mothers, fathers, children & your wife/husband from harm.
Loss by criminal is by far the most haunting & the most damaging to the survivors of death by criminal. I've dealt with people who are inconsolable, & who are merely waiting to die so they can join who they love.
This is why I fight so hard to help Californians & other victims of laws that were passed before they were ever born.
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Yeah, but you risk one of "our five" keeling over if you wait another year for a carry case.
I think Gura is trying for summer 2013.
Alan Kachalsky announced this already. Prediction: orals in April, decision last day of June 2013.
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Senator Grassley Grills Treasury Nominee About Past Job at NYU
Washington — Jacob Lew, President Obama's nominee to be treasury secretary, is facing questions about his compensation as an executive at New York University and his participation in a "preferred lender" arrangement between the college and his subsequent employer, Citigroup.
In a series of questions submitted last week, Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, asked Mr. Lew about his role in setting tuition and determining endowment payouts. During Mr. Lew's five-year tenure as executive vice president for operations at NYU, from 2001 to 2006, the average tuition and fees paid by students increased nearly 40 percent.
Mr. Grassley, a longtime critic of colleges' endowment spending and executive-compensation policies, asked what Mr. Lew, one of NYU's highest-paid employees, had done to "keep tuition under control." Citing data from The Chronicle's executive-compensation survey, the senator pointed out that Mr. Lew had earned more than the president of the university and a dean, and more than most college presidents at both public and private institutions.
The senator demanded details about a loan that the university had provided Mr. Lew and asked whether laws governing nonprofit institutions should be changed to limit executive compensation. He pressed the nominee on how endowment growth had factored into tuition decisions, noting that NYU's endowment had increased nearly 60 percent, to $1.7-billion, while Mr. Lew was there.
In a series of responses released by the senator on Wednesday, Mr. Lew said that his salary had been set in an employment agreement that he signed when he joined the university, and he noted that his pay rose only 5 percent over five years. The loan, he explained, was a mortgage forgiven in equal installments each year.
Mr. Lew, who is expected to be confirmed by the Senate, said he had not had the opportunity to review federal executive-compensation rules, and described steps he had taken to manage costs, including instituting a hiring freeze, reforming procurement practices, and developing a standard procedure for business travel.
He said the university drew down $109-million from its endowment in its current operating budget, but he did not say how much it had withdrawn during his tenure, or whether endowment growth had influenced pricing decisions. He rejected Mr. Grassley's suggestion that colleges be required to pay out 5 percent of their endowments annually, saying a minimum payout "could harm the long-term viability of an endowment during periods of economic stress," a concern shared by many college leaders.
The senator also grilled Mr. Lew about a "preferred lender" arrangement that the university previously had with Citigroup, where the nominee went after he left NYU. Under the terms of the arrangement, NYU received $1.4-million in "revenue sharing" from Citibank for referring students to its loans. Citibank broke off the deal in 2007, after reaching a settlement agreement with New York's attorney general at the time, Andrew Cuomo. Mr. Grassley asked whether Mr. Lew knew of the agreement and if he had approved it.
Mr. Lew said that Citigroup had been chosen through a competitive process and that he did not recall having any conversations with Citigroup about its bid. He said he did not believe he had approved its selection as a preferred lender, either.
In a written statement, Mr. Grassley said Mr. Lew had not provided adequate details about the terms of his loan from the university and said he would request more information before the committee votes on the nomination.
"Mr. Lew's boss, the president, continually expresses concern about college affordability," Senator Grassley wrote, "so it's important to know whether Mr. Lew enjoyed financial perks as a university executive even as students weathered tuition increases and debt."Return to Top


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Tigers need room to stretch their paws. The massive felines require extensive tracts of land to hunt and find mates. Isolated pockets of wilderness won't cut it.
If the tiger reserves of Asia were managed as large-scale ecosystems connected by corridors of wilderness, the tiger population could boom to triple its current number, according to a study published in Conservation Letters.
When preserves are fragmented, the big cats can't find enough territory and can be wiped out more easily. Not only would preserving whole landscapes allow tigers to flourish, many other species would benefit as well.
Lack of Spare Species Leaves Ecosystems Flat
"By saving the tiger we save all the plants and animals that live under the tiger's umbrella," said study co-author Dr. John Seidensticker of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
A massive tiger preserve would by necessity include the ecosystem the tigers depend on to survive, and that means thousands of other species would be protected.
"Tiger conservation is the face of biodiversity conservation and competent sustainable land-use management at the landscape level," said Seidensticker.
Awareness of the need to preserve whole landscapes has been growing lately. Several recent studies covered by Discovery News have pointed to the need for conservation of high-quality habitat and functioning ecosystems, as opposed to massive tracts of wasteland or areas with low biodiversity.
Seeing Tiger Stripes Across Sumatra
The researchers found that the 20 most promising tiger landscape preserves could support 10,500 tigers, including 3,400 breeding females. They also pointed to historical examples of success. During civil conflict in Nepal, tiger numbers plummeted, but the cats did not disappear. Tigers from India were able to follow networks of wilderness to re-populate the area.
In the 1940′s tigers were nearly wiped out in eastern Russia, but tigers from northeast China repopulated the area. Russia's tigers are currently returning the favor and moving back into China's Changbaishan mountains after tiger populations there hit new lows in the 1990′s. A recently developed series of habitat corridors makes this migration possible.
A connected network of parks in India keeps a healthy population of 300 tigers in Nagarahole National Park and other connected preserves.
On the other hand, tigers were wiped out by poachers in Sariska and Panna tiger reserves in 2005 and 2009, but could not return on their own because the parks were isolated.
Tigers currently range across 13 Asian countries. The feline predators once numbered about 100,000 in the early 1900′s but current estimates are as low as 3,200. Tigers have died out due to poaching, habitat loss, and loss of prey to human hunters.
"We absolutely need to stop the bleeding, the poaching of tigers and their prey in core breeding areas, but we need to go much further and secure larger tiger landscapes before it is too late," said World Wildlife Fund chief scientist Dr. Eric Dinerstein, a co-author of the study.
Endangered Tigers on the Brink
This study helps set a course to attain the goals of the International Tiger Conservation Forum, which was held in November 2010 in Russia. The gathering brought together 13 nations that host tiger territory. At the forum, the nations set the goal of doubling the world tiger population by 2022.
Another big cat that would benefit from landscape level protection is the jaguar of the Americas. The Path of the Jaguar project, spearheaded by Alan Rabinowitz, works to create a patchwork of parks, private lands and reserves that would allow jaguars to migrate from the United States to Brazil. This is important to maintain genetic diversity.
Jaguars once ranged from central California and east Texas to Argentina, but have lost much ground. The last known jaguar in the United States, called Macho B, died in 2009.
IMAGES: Bengal Tiger Cubs Play-Fighting; Looking at snow in the Switzerland tiger zoo; and having a drink in the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve. All photos from Corbis images.


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[30 September 2007]
PopMatters Contributing Editor
That's right! It's Terror Time! Time for Short Ends and Leader to get its ghoul on as part of our annual celebration of all things scary. For the entire month of October, the blog will be focusing on different horror heavyweights, from known names like Troma to unheralded upstarts like Wicked Pixel. In between, we'll address the new movie macabre classics, unearth a few forgotten gems, talk about old fashioned monsters, and countdown the best and worst in specific genres (zombie films, the greatest moments in splatter). First up is that master of literary evil, Stephen King. With 1408 hitting DVD this week, we'll look back at the cinematic career of the greatest living writer of fear ever. Good thing he has all those literary accolades. As our Monday feature explains, his big screen reputation is rather shaky.
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TOTTENHAM Hotspur have lost ground in the race for Champions League qualification as Norwich City boosted their hopes of Barclays Premier League survival with a 1-0 victory.
Robert Snodgrass claimed the decisive goal in the 47th minute at Carrow Road to give Norwich only a second win in 12 games and lift Chris Hughton's side four points clear of the relegation zone.
Tottenham were bidding to return to within three points of fourth-place Liverpool, but instead were left six points below the Champions League berths in fifth place.
Ricky van Wolfswinkel was drafted back into the Norwich line-up and he saw an early chance pass him by when he was unable to make telling contact with a bouncing ball inside the Spurs box after a corner.
The visitors received an early blow when holding midfielder Etienne Capoue was forced off through injury in the 13th minute, with Nacer Chadli coming on in his place.
The first half was a tame affair, with a curling effort from Spurs midfielder Paulinho that drifted over the bar the best effort that either side could muster.
However, the game received an injection of intrigue early in the second half when Snodgrass put Norwich ahead.
Bradley Johnson's pass inside Spurs left-back Danny Rose released the Scotland international and he shaped a left-foot shot into the bottom-left corner from the edge of the area.
Norwich goalkeeper John Ruddy then saved bravely at the feet of Emmanuel Adebayor, who had nicked the ball away from Sebastien Bassong, before Snodgrass saw a swerving drive parried by Hugo Lloris at the other end.
Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood introduced Roberto Soldado with 25 minutes left and the Spain striker squandered a fine opportunity to equalise only seconds after coming on, slicing wide from Adebayor's pass.
Snodgrass twice threatened to add a second goal with efforts from outside the box, while Ruddy produced a fine block to deny Chadli.
It was Norwich who came closest to scoring in the dying stages, however, with Johnson crashing a free-kick against the bar and onto the line, before Lloris had to save at his near post from Nathan Redmond.
Meanwhile, Loic Remy ended Newcastle United's goal drought with a stoppage-time strike as Aston Villa went down 1-0 at St James' Park.
Remy had squandered a glorious chance moments earlier when he could only hit the post with the goal seemingly at his mercy, and it looked as though the Magpies were set to finish a fifth straight game without getting on the scoresheet.
However, he made space for himself in the area in the 92nd minute to fire past Brad Guzan and give Newcastle a valuable victory.
Newcastle went into the game having lost each of their last five fixtures in all competitions at St James' and the club went to special lengths to deny that Alan Pardew's job was on the line if he did not remedy that situation against Villa.
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American Idol is back with a new panelist and an endless list of hopefuls, wanting to be America's next pop star. Each one competes before the judges, who will decide the winner of the top prize.
I suggest the same is true for us as Christians too. We decide who our God or idol will be.
Make no mistake about it, idols are alive and well in our culture today. We may not call them Dagon, Ashtoreth, Baal, Zeus, or Thor, as people of ancient times did. They may have different names, but we still bow before them.
Everybody has a god
Paul tells us then when we believe in Jesus, we turn away from idols to serve God. The apostle John wrote, "Little children, keep yourselves from idols" (1 John 5:21).
So, what exactly would an idol be today? An idol is anything or anyone that takes the place of God in our lives.
And know this: everybody has a God. Even atheists have a god. It is not the true God, but nonetheless they have a god that they worship and serve.
Believe it or not, idolatry comes naturally to us all. Why? Because we must worship,and we will worship.
Even as nature abhors a vacuum, so does the human soul. The human soul will find an object of worship, either on the shelf, on the altar, in the mirror, or in heaven.
Why? Because we are born idolators.
Why would we trade the living God for some fake one? Because it gives us control!
Albert Mohler, in his book Hearing the Voice of God in the Ten Commandments, wrote this:
We can pick an idol up and we can put an idol down. We can move an idol to this place, and then we can remove it to another place. The idol is at our disposal. We can hide it from our sight, or we can put it in the center of the room. We will devise our own worship because we have devised our own God.
To that, I might add to that we feel we can then live our own way.
So, my question to you is, who or what is your God?
What gets you excited? What gets you out of bed in the morning? What do you think about, dream about, plan for, or perhaps scheme for.
What are you really passionate about? Because that is your God.
I hope your answer is the Lord God and not a false one. Because the Lord can save you, but false gods can't.


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This is my second treatment with Radiesse; doctor used 2 1.5ml syringes on cheeks and around mouth (treatment date was May 5, 2012). Results were great, full effect lasted 2-3 weeks, then began to dissipate. Now, I can see a few faint traces left in my cheeks, but completely gone around the mouth. First time treatment (June, 2011) did the same thing. What's going on? Is it just me?
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Why Doesn't Radiesse Last on Me?
Radiesse is lasting longer than 2 or 3 weeks, but the swelling resolved at about that time. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
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Some people need more than 2 syringes for cheek augmentation. It depends on how much volume loss a patient has. Also, fillers around the mouth usually get metabolized fast. And/or the injector might have injected to deep and lost the product.
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Without seeing pre and post treatment pictures, this is a difficult concern to address. In most people, Radiesse lasts anywhere from 6 to 12 months. It is possible that you were injected improperly or that you may need more than 2 syringes to really seen an improvement. I suggest you follow up with your injector and review pre and post photos together.
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BERENICE Marlohe strips off to show the stunning form that bedded Bond.
The Skyfall star posed in skimpy bra and knickers in a smouldering shoot for
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And her smoking hot figure is set to leave 007 fans shaken and stirred.
The French brunette, who seduces Daniel Craig in Skyfall, also posed in a cut
off leather vest and knickers as she leant across a fireplace.
She told the mag her character, Severine "is mysterious: good, evil,
adventurous. I had to give her a lot of substance and charisma, and the
sexiness came from that."
And she said her favourite Bond girl was Famke Janssen's fatal beauty from
She said: "My favourite Bond Girl has to be Xenia Onatopp from GoldenEye. The
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And the stunning 33-year-old admitted a man doesn't need to be good-looking to
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She added: "He doesn't need to be handsome. If he has nothing to say or he is
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I just checked my TU score its 711 i was all excited until i saw there model goes to 900+? What the heck. I thought i was improving but my grade is a C? Im lost in this understanding of credit
What you saw was a FAKO called VantageScore. It's unrelated to FICO.
So when you go to sites like TU and EQ and ask for credit score it isnt the actual score? My TU site score is same as Walmart TU score. I was so excited to see myself over 700 then saw credit scores go to 900+
The CRAs all sell their own scores. EQ does sell their FICO score but it is hard to find. TU no longer sells their FICO score on their website. EX hasn't sold one to the consumers since Feb 2009.
ok now im confused so how do i find out my actual credit scores? and what is a decent/good score?
You are limited to where you, the consumer can get actual FICO scores. myFICO sells the EQ Beacon 5.0 which is widely used by lenders and the same model that you can purchase from the EQ website. Just make sure it says it is a FICO score.
You can also purchase your TU98 score from myFICO. While it is an older version and some lenders still use it, it is not what is widely used. EX is no longer available to the consumer since Feb 2009.
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So when you go to sites like TU and EQ and ask for credit score it isnt the actual score? My TU site score is same as Walmart TU score. I was so excited to see myself over 700 then saw credit scores go to 900+
yes, they are "actual scores". Just not FICO scores. As others have stated, there's a variety of scores out there. Even with true FICO scores, there are dozens of variations of them (auto-enhanced FICO, credit card enhanced FICO, mortgage lender FICO, etc). The "actual scores" you see are for educational or entertainment purposes and they do in fact serve a useful purpose in tracking TRENDS in one's scores. But as far as where to get actual FICO scores, the sources are very limited. If it don't say FICO...it ain't one!
As for ranges, FICO is 300-850. Anything that deviates from that is a FAKO.
You're limited on the places to get your FICO score.
You can only buy your EQ FICO from myFICO, your lender, or from Equifax.com (buyer beware: the scores they push are a FAKO, but your EQ FICO can be purchased through EQ).
You can only buy your TU FICO from myFICO or your lender.
Finally, you can only buy your EX FICO from your lender. As of a few years ago, Experian blocked consumer access to your own EX FICO.
Aside from the above, you can also get your FICO scores for free or at a reduced price. Banks and CUs will offer it as a benefit. M&T Bank, Unitus Community Credit Union, and Digital Credit Union each offer an EQ FICO. You can get your TU FICO from Wal-Mart or Merrick Bank if you have CCs with them. And you can get your EX FICO from PA State Employees Credit Union (PSECU) if you have a checking account with them. There are other CUs out there that will offer a FICO if you ask them as part of a benefit for being a member.
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Due to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and the subsequent transportation shutdown, the Meat Loaf concert scheduled for Thursday, November 1 at the Beacon Theatre has been postponed. Fans are encouraged to hold onto their tickets as we work to reschedule the show. An announcement about a new date will be forthcoming.
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Legco members concerned that proposed night trading of futures will increase market risks
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The local bourse's plan to introduce six-hour evening sessions for futures trading in March has been criticised by lawmakers, while brokers appear divided.
In a special financial affairs panel meeting held yesterday, lawmakers and some brokers expressed concern over Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's plan to launch a new six-hour session for three futures products from 5pm to 11pm from March.
The products will be the Hang Seng Index futures, H-share index futures and gold futures.
The extended hours are aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of the local market.
Adding the evening session will double futures trading to 12 hours, but it is still dwarfed by overseas counterparts such as the US market, which trades 23 hours a day, while Singapore is trading 16 hours a day.
The Democrats' Sin Chung-kai yesterday expressed concern that the new session would add risks. The view was shared by Christopher Cheung Wah-fung, legislator for financial services.
"HKEx may need to consider delaying the launch and consulting the market more to make sure risk management measures are sufficient," Cheung said. "The plans to allow futures trading in the evening while the stock market is not open may lead to speculative or even manipulative activities."
He said that while the stock exchange had a price limit of 5 per cent as a risk management, that was not good enough. The 5 per cent price limit means sell orders cannot be placed with a price below 95 per cent of the contract's last traded price, and no buy order prices can be above 105 per cent of the last trade.
Twenty brokers present at the meeting had split views. Twelve supported the launch of the session to prevent trading being lost to overseas markets and to prepare for the yuan and other commodities products trading. They also said many brokers already have night desks to trade overseas markets' futures.
But eight brokers opposed the move, saying it would add risks and increase costs for brokers.
Several HKEx representatives said its risk management measures and the 5 per cent price limit were appropriate. The Securities and Futures Commission's executive director Keith Lui Kei-kwong said the regulator will ensure HKEx has sufficient control risk management before it approves the launch of the session.
The same meeting yesterday also discussed the controversial Financial Services Development Council which was set up two weeks ago to promote the city's financial industry. But lawmakers yesterday criticised it, saying a private body may escape their scrutiny.
Sin urged the council to be renamed as an advisory committee to reflect its nature, while legislator James To Kun-sun said the council should not be set up as a private company.
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Ronald Reagan said, "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
Our current tax code is far too complicated and needs to be replaced with a code that is fair and favorable toward saving and investing. I am a co-sponsor of the Fair Tax Act (S. 1025) because I believe it to be far better than our present system.
Each year, Americans waste 5.8 billion hours in order to comply with the 60,000-page tax code. This complex tax code also translates into billions of dollars of annual expenses for individuals and business. The system is broken and the Fair Tax is one alternative that will simplify and improve it.
As you know, the Fair Tax would repeal the burdensome income tax and replace it with a national sales tax. The Fair Tax also would jumpstart our economy by removing the 22 percent cost embedded in American made goods and services because of federal taxes. These embedded costs put American goods at a disadvantage to the goods of almost every other country in the world, making American products less competitive overseas.
The Fair Tax will dramatically reduce prices for consumers, protect Social Security and Medicare and benefit low- and middle-income Americans. Families and individuals will be able to save more for homeownership, retirement, college education and any other expenses.
I also believe President Bush's tax cuts should be made permanent. The federal government does not need more taxpayer money. Instead, the government needs to eliminate waste, improve efficiency and restructure programs that are too costly.
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|Emergence of azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus and spread of a single resistance mechanism.
|Snelders, E. ; Lee, H.A.L. van der; Kuijpers, J.M.E. ; Rijs, A.J.M.M.; Varga, J.; Samson, R.A.; Mellado, E.; Donders, A.R.T. ; Melchers, W.J.G. ; Verweij, P.E.
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BACKGROUND: Resistance to triazoles was recently reported in Aspergillus fumigatus isolates cultured from patients with invasive aspergillosis. The prevalence of azole resistance in A. fumigatus is unknown. We investigated the prevalence and spread of azole resistance using our culture collection that contained A. fumigatus isolates collected between 1994 and 2007. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We investigated the prevalence of itraconazole (ITZ) resistance in 1,912 clinical A. fumigatus isolates collected from 1,219 patients in our University Medical Centre over a 14-y period. The spread of resistance was investigated by analyzing 147 A. fumigatus isolates from 101 patients, from 28 other medical centres in The Netherlands and 317 isolates from six other countries. The isolates were characterized using phenotypic and molecular methods. The electronic patient files were used to determine the underlying conditions of the patients and the presence of invasive aspergillosis. ITZ-resistant isolates were found in 32 of 1,219 patients. All cases were observed after 1999 with an annual prevalence of 1.7% to 6%. The ITZ-resistant isolates also showed elevated minimum inhibitory concentrations of voriconazole, ravuconazole, and posaconazole. A substitution of leucine 98 for histidine in the cyp51A gene, together with two copies of a 34-bp sequence in tandem in the gene promoter (TR/L98H), was found to be the dominant resistance mechanism. Microsatellite analysis indicated that the ITZ-resistant isolates were genetically distinct but clustered. The ITZ-sensitive isolates were not more likely to be responsible for invasive aspergillosis than the ITZ-resistant isolates. ITZ resistance was found in isolates from 13 patients (12.8%) from nine other medical centres in The Netherlands, of which 69% harboured the TR/L98H substitution, and in six isolates originating from four other countries. CONCLUSIONS: Azole resistance has emerged in A. fumigatus and might be more prevalent than currently acknowledged. The presence of a dominant resistance mechanism in clinical isolates suggests that isolates with this mechanism are spreading in our environment.


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A leading right wing isolationist called yesterday for Senate rejection of the genocide convention alleging that it would curtail legal protections afforded Americans by the Constitution. The opposition to American ratification of the convention came from Dr. Clarence E. Manion, former dean of the Notre Dame University Law School, in a radio broadcast sponsored by the Manion Foundation. Manion said "internationalist" were seeking to get the American Bar Association to reverse its opposition to the convention. The ABA will meet in Atlanta Feb. 23-24. He asserted that if approved, the convention "will supersede the Constitution and become the supreme law of the land in the entire area of its sweeping coverage." The United States is the only major power which has not ratified the convention. Secretary of State Rogers and Attorney General Mitchell have advised President Nixon to seek ratification of the convention which the senate has pigeonholed for more than twenty years.


text: belfegor 2835 Report post Posted November 18, 2012 (edited) Let me explain my problem: I have a sun, and let say it is at position 100, 50, 20 And then i use this code to obtain sun position in "texcoord space" [code] viewProj = cam.view * cam.proj; ... D3DXVECTOR2 sunPosCS; D3DXVECTOR4 clipSpaceLightPos; D3DXVec4Transform(&clipSpaceLightPos, &D3DXVECTOR4(sunPos.x, sunPos.y, sunPos.z, 1.f), &viewProj); D3DXVECTOR4 screenSpaceLightPos = clipSpaceLightPos / clipSpaceLightPos.w; sunPosCS = D3DXVECTOR2(screenSpaceLightPos.x, screenSpaceLightPos.y); sunPosCS.x = ((sunPosCS.x + 1.0f) / 2.0f); sunPosCS.y = ((-sunPosCS.y + 1.0f) / 2.0f); ... effect->SetValue(hSunPosCS, sunPosCS, sizeof(D3DXVECTOR2)); ... [/code] Then i render fullscreen quad and use this pixel shader to be able to see where the sun is: [code] OUT.Color = distance(IN.TexCoord0, LightPosCS) < 0.05f ? float4(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f) : float4(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f); [/code] When i face my camera to look at the sun, and then just move left or right, the red circle (representing the sun) is also moving but it should not, because sun in real life is quite far away from the viewer and its movement on the screen should not be noticeable. If you understand what i mean? Any suggestions? Thank you for your time. Edited November 18, 2012 by belfegor 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


text: Just thought I would post this here in this forum as maybe it may help someone with a similar problem. To make a long story short I had a Nexus S passed down to me and I found the built in SD card would mount on my OLDER computer but wouldn't mount on my NEWER one. Here's what I did to SOLVE the problem. 1. Downloaded the SDK Tool Kit to get the Google USB driver. 2. Downloaded the SDK .exe version (not the .zip) from - Download For Other Platforms Link at the bottom of Android Developer Page page. 3. Opened SDK and checked both SDK platform Tools & under Extras the Google USB Driver - Install Packages 4. Open Device Manager find the Google Nexus S Device with exclamation mark. Right Click on it - Properties - Driver - Update Driver - Browse My Computer - Crogram Files\ Android\ android-sdk\extras\google\usb-driver - Next and let it install 5. In the Google Nexus S browse to System Settings - Developer Options - Turn On Switch at top - Check mark USB Debugging 6. Plug Google Nexus into USB port and tab Turn On USB Storage - wait until the Android goes orange then your connected. *Here's the part that had me stumped : When I opened Computer to see the list of available drives I could see the new drive letter for the Google Nexus S but it wouldn't let me access the SD card in the phone. After searching endless forums and doing countless trial and errors this was the solution 7. Goto Device Manager - USB Serial Bus Controllers - Right Click on Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller (anything that says enhanced) - choose disable (*do not uninstall disable only!*) 8.Go back to Computer and see if you can access your SD, it worked for me it will for you too. When you disable the (Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller) you are actually disabling USB 2.0 support for your machine. It seems either the Google Nexus Phone or the plug adapter prefers the old USB 1.1. The USB 2.0 on my machine works by the running controller setting in the BIOS which switches the USB 1.1 to USB 2.0 So instead of playing in the BIOS you can just disable the Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller in the Device Manager - that way when you are finished accessing your smartphones SD card just Reboot the PC and you will have your USB 2.0 back and the Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller will be back in the Device Manager. Presto - Happy Days Once More....:star:


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By Casey Bernal
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A single set of Camalots from #0.3-3 and small/medium nuts protect this route adequately.
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|A guy at the crag told me that the diheadral a few feet right of Bob's was Air Soles, and better than Bob's. Although he was trying to help, that's not true. It's some other 5.9ish route. For the unknown route, take microcams and micronuts for that thin dihedral or run it out from the bolt. Okay but not great. Should have just climbed Bob's Crack.
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