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Puerto Rico Flight Produces Biggest Guam Win Streak: Muni Credit
Municipal investors looking for an escape from Puerto Rico, whose debt has lost the most since at least 2000, may find one almost halfway around the world in Guam.
Amid declines this year in the $3.7 trillion municipal market, Guam bonds have lost 12 percentage points less than Puerto Rico's, the best relative performance in at least 13 years, Barclays Plc data show. Last year, the Pacific island's debt also outpaced Puerto Rico's. The territories are among five that issue bonds with interest that's tax-free nationwide.
Guam is 9,372 miles (15,080 kilometers) from Puerto Rico. Yet the gap between the territories' ratings is narrowing. Standard & Poor's raised Guam one step to BB- last month, the highest since 2003 and three steps below investment grade. It cut Puerto Rico in March to one step above junk. The company cited Guam Governor Eddie Calvo's steps to curb expenses while boosting transparency for investors.
"Guam hit bottom and had to put a structure in place to move forward," said John Loffredo, co-head of Princeton, New Jersey-based MacKay Municipal Managers, which oversees $7.5 billion of local debt. "We like when an entity follows through on what they want to do. Guam has done that. They're on the right path and they're being rewarded."
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Interest on territory bonds is exempt from federal, state and local taxes nationwide, helping explain why more than 75 percent of U.S. municipal-debt mutual funds hold Puerto Rico bonds. Guam isn't as widely owned, with just $2.3 billion of securities outstanding from island issuers, compared with more than $70 billion from Puerto Rico, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Guam's improved credit grade serves as a backdrop for a $174 million deal that begins today from its waterworks authority. The agency had its rating raised this month by Moody's Investors Service to Ba1, one step below investment grade. S&P has the bonds at A-, four steps above junk.
Some investors have been buying Guam bonds instead of Puerto Rico's. MacKay didn't own any Puerto Rico debt from April 2012 to September, Loffredo said. The company's New York fund has 8.8 percent of its holdings in Guam, and Loffredo said he'd consider purchasing some of the new waterworks securities.
'Upside Potential'
Guam officials say they don't try to compare their finances with those of Puerto Rico, which has a negative outlook from the three major rating companies.
"We feel badly for the economic conditions that have been persistent in Puerto Rico, and we don't do anything overtly to compare ourselves to them," said Lester Carlson, public finance manager for the Guam Economic Development Authority, which oversees debt issuance.
"The difference is night and day," he said in an interview last week from Boston, where he was presenting the water deal to investors. "We have upside potential."
Puerto Rico vowed seven years ago to fix its finances after posting a $740 million budget deficit. Yet the commonwealth and its agencies doubled borrowing since 2004. Fitch Ratings last week said it would cut the island's general obligations to junk by June if its access to markets is limited.
After Fitch's announcement, Jose Pagan, interim president of the commonwealth's development bank, said in a statement the administration "continues its focus on creating sustainable economic growth through job creation, making ongoing progress towards our goal of a structural budget balance by fiscal 2016, and strengthening our credit profile, market access and liquidity."
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Guam in fiscal 2013 achieved a $13 million general-fund operating surplus, its first in five years, according to S&P. Upon taking office in January 2011, Calvo, a 52-year-old Republican and former PepsiCo Inc. (PEP) executive, quashed raises for government workers and limited expenditures to 98 percent of revenue until the territory erases its deficit.
Calvo leads an island of about 160,000 people, while Puerto Rico has 3.7 million residents, Census Bureau data show. The smaller population base has helped the Guam governor turn actions into quicker economic gains, said Jamie Iselin, head of munis at New York-based Neuberger Berman, which oversees about $9 billion in local debt.
Both territories have jobless rates above 13 percent, higher than any U.S. state.
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The increased ratings on Guam issuers mean investors are less willing to part with their bonds, Iselin said. Neuberger Berman owns some Guam waterworks debt and may buy some of this week's deal, he said.
"Some investors are motivated to trade in and out of Puerto Rico," Iselin said. "Guam investors have generally been pleased with the directionality of the credit, and as a result they're much more apt to hold their bonds."
Guam sold 30-year general obligations in June 2009 with a 7.18 percent yield, Bloomberg data show. Puerto Rico issued similar-maturity securities that year at a yield of 6.2 percent, the data show.
The Guam bonds traded last week at an average yield of 5.89 percent, compared with 8.95 percent on the Puerto Rico obligations, Bloomberg data show. Top-rated munis due in 26 years yield 4.1 percent.
Guam bonds have declined 3.7 percent this year, Barclays data show. Puerto Rico securities have plunged 16 percent. Both have trailed the broad market's 2.5 percent drop as investors have pulled $7.9 billion from high-yield muni mutual funds, according to Lipper US Fund Flows data.
BBB Override
Guam would have a BBB grade if not for reasons such as the lesser support the U.S. government provides to territories relative to states, S&P said. The island also lacks economic diversity, relying on tourism and the military, the report said.
To get a BBB grade, the island would need characteristics of a single-A rated state or locality, Paul Dyson, an S&P analyst, said in an interview.
"Guam, despite those inherent risks it always has, is moving in the right direction," Iselin said. "From a financial performance standpoint, you have a positive trend in Guam, and Puerto Rico has been moving in the other direction."
Weekly Offerings
Proceeds from this week's Guam sale will finance infrastructure such as wastewater treatment plants to comply with federal regulations. A 2011 court order mandated about $350 million of investment, offering documents say.
Elsewhere in the municipal market, issuers nationwide are joining the authority in offering about $7.9 billion in long-term debt this week, the most since July, Bloomberg data show.
The interest rate on AAA 10-year munis is 2.82 percent, close to a four-week high, and compares with 2.67 percent on similar-maturity Treasuries.
The ratio of the yields, a gauge of relative value, is about 106 percent, close to a three-week high. It compares with an average of 94 percent since 2001. The smaller the number, the more expensive munis are compared with federal securities.
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posts on 4/15/2006 12:10:43 PM
I'm on book four. I have five and six. Looking forward to more. Great books. They're so refreshing. Wish they'd make a tv series.
posts on 4/14/2006 1:33:50 PM
I wanted to read all of them--and in order. I couldn't find all of them locally, so I joined the Doubleday Book Club and ordered all of them. I numbered them when they got here, and read all of them. I am now reading them for the second time and expect to read them many more times. I am waiting for more!
posts on 4/13/2006 9:26:17 PM
I was just wondering if these books need to be read in order. I am having a hard time finding them all.
posts on 4/11/2006 12:03:23 PM
These books are amazing! I had the opportunity to meet them while on vacation last year. Very special people they are! I just read a troubleing article in a march NY Times article about Mr. Kinkade. Has anyone else read this?
posts on 4/10/2006 3:13:53 PM
I absolutley love these books. I've read the first three and am starting the fourth as soon as my daughter has finished it. Hope a new one is on the horizon.
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posts on 4/3/2006 12:14:56 AM
Thanks to all for taking the time post message about my books. I've enjoyed reading all your comments. Writing is lonely business and it's very gratifying -- and amazing!-- to hear how much readers enjoy this series. I've just finished a new book, to be published Oct or Nov 2006. No title yet. The order of the books is: Cape Light, Home Song, Gathering Place, A New Leaf, Christmas to Remember and Christmas Angel. Pls write to me c/o Berkely Publishing, NYC.
posts on 1/10/2006 4:53:46 PM
The order of the series for Thomas Kinkade And Katherine Spencer is as follows: Cape Light- March 2002, Home Song- Nov. 2002, A Gathering Place-May 2003, A New Leaf- Jan. 2004, A Christmas Promise- Oct. 2004, The Christmas Angel- Nov. 2005
posts on 12/20/2005 1:59:21 PM
Here is the order beginning with the first one published: 1) Cape Light; 2) A Gathering Place; 3) A New Leaf; 4) Home Song; 5) A Christmas Promise; 6) The Christmas Angel. Here's to hoping there's another one soon!
posts on 11/27/2005 4:02:10 PM
How is it possible to see Kinkade or Spencer in person? Are there any book reviews that go on the road?
posts on 11/19/2005 2:00:34 PM
This is the order that I was able to find for you and also the order I read them in....I'm almost done with The Christmas Angel now. Cape Light 2002 A Gathering Place : A Cape Light Novel 2003 A New Leaf : A Cape Light Novel 2004 A Christmas Promise : A Cape Light Novel 2004 The Christmas Angel : A Cape Light Novel 2005 Hope this helps!
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'Troublemaker' who chose life
By Chris Chivers
Despite being incarcerated for 27 years, Nelson Mandela chose the path of forgiveness, hope and reconciliation. That decision gave South Africa a vision for its own future, a vicar who met him several times in Cape Town writes
Of all the people who've walked the earth in my lifetime, none has surely made an impression on all of us to equal that of the man known the world over as Nelson Mandela.
Nelson was the very British name Mandela was given when he went to the Methodist school that helped to form and shape his many gifts and aspirations. But his ancestral name, the only name that was given to him at birth by his father was Rolohlahla which is Xhosa for "pulling at the branch of a tree". Colloquially the best translation would be "troublemaker'".
But in one of my meetings with him as a priest on the staff of the cathedral in Cape Town it was me whom he gently chided as rolohlahla after hearing that I could be a handful. He did so with a twinkle in his eye because I'd been perhaps one of the more vocal members of a group highly critical of what many saw as the low priority his government had placed on addressing issues related to the HIV/Aids pandemic. But as he chided me he added, those eyes still sparkling, "I know we should have done more in Government. I am trying to do it in so-called retirement!"
That vignette says so much about the man the world knew as one of its most necessary and transforming troublemakers. And given his truly global status it would be tempting, following his death, to elevate him from that very human interaction onto a level that befits an icon of all that's best in the human soul. But it's not what he himself would have wished. Better instead ...
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Nokia 5233 is into the Indian market for people who do not require extremely advanced features in their mobile phone like the 3G and Wi-Fi. Yes, to give a short review of the Nokia 5233, it can be said that Nokia 5233 is now the hottest of the 2G version of the Nokia 5230. However, there are differences in the functionality and configuration of the cell phone. This is yet another low cost handset in the Indian market in early 2010 with attractive features.
The price of the Nokia 5233 will be Rs 7,850. It has a 2 mega pixel camera and 3.2inch touch screen along with sms, mms and email facility. This phone is made not only for people who seek stylish handsets but it also supports the replacement of the features of the color cover in order to impress the young generation phone lovers.
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I frequently raise the point that digitization has meant that artists and record labels alike have sought to monetize other areas, and booze is a prime example of how wide this move into branded merchandising is. Take the example of Iron Maiden - they don't just sell one branded beer ... they have a whole website dedicated to their beer line! Smart branding.
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This book came to me as a surprise. I had felt for some time that a new vision was beginning to unfold in the contemporary British novel, but found myself at a loss as to how to talk about it in critical terms. This changed fundamentally as I discovered the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy, which I encountered for the first time in Timothy C. Baker's doctoral thesis, imminently forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press as George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community. Timothy's application of Nancean ideas was majorly instrumental in setting me on my way.
A trip to Chennai in March 2008, initiated and impeccably organised by Renuka Rajaratnam, brought to life Nancy's theorising. I remain incredulous at the sheer marvel of Chennai, whose miraculous urban beauty took my breath away, and whose daily bustle came to epitomise to me Nancy's inoperative community far beyond all preconceived images of chaos or exotic splendour. The people of Chennai are Nancean 'being singular plural'. No two people I saw in the streets of the city were ever even remotely alike, and yet they all seemed to belong together. There was none of that blind, hectic indifference and uniformity that work to automatise and dishearten life in many western cities (most notably London). Every passer-by I met in the streets of Chennai appeared to seek out my gaze, searching for clues as to who I might be, who I had assumed I was before coming to their city and, most urgently, why I had come. I cannot express enough my gratitude to Renuka for thus opening my eyes to India and the dynamic of its ceaseless cosmopolitan world-creation. Great thanks are due also to Susan Oommen of Stella Maris College, C. T. Indra in the English Department at Madras University, and Shantha Gabriel of the British Council in Chennai, all of whom generously extended their hospitality to me.
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Cate Blanchett was in Sydney, Australia on Friday to celebrate the opening the thirteenth Louis Vuitton Maison store at King and George streets. The 42-year-old Melbourne native actress selected a dress and shoes from the recent Spring/Summer 2012 collection for the cocktail party.
I really like the floral stencil cutout of the v-neck white dress, but I can't get on-board with this overlay. Is it just me, or does it look like a shower curtain liner at the neckline? It also made her look wider than she is.
Paired with the too-white pumps and an office party hairstyle, I just have to accept that this wasn't her dress.


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In the park where we gathered each July 4 when I was a kid, my family was just one the groups who turned the area into a smaller, less-bloody reenactment of one of America's numerous land rushes. Each clan's blanket on the bumps and dips of the main lawn signified sovereignty, at least for the day. Grills were stoked and coolers were stocked, while people lounged in the sun and blared radios that were tuned to salsa or Sousa or "Casey Kasem's Top Forty."
Virtually everyone in the park was an immigrant or first-generation progeny – thousands of people in one place at one time to laud an adopted country. It was as if some immense Latino family reunion were taking place, cordoned off from the rest of the state. The newest arrivals celebrated America's founding with the zealous belief that each subsequent generation could never appreciate the nation's charms as much as they did.
Scores of teenagers huddled in packs organized by gender, scouting for patrols of the opposite sex. The adults were less mobile, and they laughed and ate and yelled, "Ai ya ya" after gulping what they promised would be their final Tecates of the afternoon.
Old men sat in lawn chairs between fluttering American flags and smaller, but still majestic, banners of Mexico or Puerto Rico. The men spoke about the United States with such fervor that it was as if they could account for all of the country's previous 200+ birthdays.
Until dusk, kids ran around the park, gathering together at random to see things explode into bright shards. The powerful firecrackers we lit would horrify modern parents, but these were the days when infants bounced around in station wagons without car seats and teens went for afternoon-long bike rides (sans helmets) and children played king of the hill on mounds of rusty, jagged-edged trash in the local junkyard. By contemporary standards, it's amazing that anyone came out of this era alive.
When the fireworks started, hundreds of children scrambled for their families' blankets. The initial salvo was always a surprise, which was inexplicable in that it was the most eagerly anticipated sight of the weekend.
The fireworks popped off one at a time, with up to a minute between each burst. An explosion in one of a dozen different styles lit up the evening, and a second or two would pass before the boom thundered upon us.
One year, we brought our new cousins – all young children who had come from El Salvador – to see the fireworks. They either watched in stunned disbelief or cringed in outright terror. As we discovered later, putting on a pyrotechnics show for children who had escaped war and witnessed horrific firefights was not the sharpest move. It was, to be blunt, a fuck-up. We had to coax one of my cousins out from under a blanket. But by the second year, with their Americanization in full force, they cheered every supersonic outburst of color in the sky.
The finale was majestic, and as the final rumbling echo rained over us, flames in the shape of an American flag erupted over the water, and the audience cheered its birth.
The crowd stretched to its feet like a great cat awakening. The adults scooped up their blankets and coolers and backpacks. The colossal American flag smoldered in the pond, and the last cloud of smoke faded into the night.


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Edwards and Maietta marry in Las Vegas
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Kimber Nicole Edwards and Jody Ray Maietta exchanged wedding vows Sept. 19, 2012, on the deck of Song Ship at Treasure Island, Las Vegas with Pastor Kenny Howard officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Doug and Carla Thurman Edwards and the granddaughter of Charlotte Thurman, all of Plainview, and the late E.E. "Buddy" Thurman, and the late Fraulein Bruce Edwards Green and Joe Edwards.
The groom is the son of Nina Smith of Santa Cruz, Calif., and Larry Maietta of Santa Cruz, Calif. He is the grandson of the late Jesse and Mary Adams and Tony and Loeta Gonzalves.
Matron of honor was Jessica Breault of Palm Bay, Fla. Bridal attendant was Tifini Powers of Westwood, Calif., sister of the groom.
Best man was Roy Breault, II, of Palm Bay, Fla. Groom's attendant was Ryan Edwards of San Antonio, Texas, brother of the bride.
The bride's dress featured a multi-tiered handkerchief hem skirt in cream and olive green with black corset over white peasant blouse. She carried a bouquet of orange Gerbera daisies to carry out her color scheme of olive and orange. Tied to her bouquet as something old and borrowed was the 1903 lace handkerchief of her great-great grandmother, Florence Howard Gerteis, containing a lace clipping from her great-grandmother, Margaret Gerteis Wimp's, 1928 wedding dress, which was also carried by her mother in her 1982 wedding. For something new and blue, the bride wore a blue mermaid cameo necklace.
The wedding was historical-pirate themed with bride, groom, wedding participants and attendants in appropriate period clothing. Musical selections included "Marry Me" from Pirates of the Caribbean and "Grow Old With You" by Adam Sandler.
The reception was held in Kahunaville Restaurant in Las Vegas. Sachi Tanaka of Conroe, Texas, cousin of the bride, assisted at the reception and also serenaded the couple with an a cappella version of Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon."
The bride is a 2002 graduate of Plainview High School and received a BA from Wayland Baptist University. She is employed with Sodexho at Wayland.
The groom is a graduate of The Ark High School in Santa Cruz and from Sequoia Automotive Institute in Freemont, Calif. He is employed with Dulaney Auto Parts.
The couple honeymooned in Las Vegas and is now at home in Plainview.


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It was a veery hectic weekend, but also very fun, despite the little glitches that were encountered!
The trip was my first time, and I went with about 20 other people from my school, which was great, but I'm also the kind of person who romances with the idea of exploring an unknown city alone, and those illusions were kind of shattered (but then again, what did I expect?)
The highlight of the weekend in terms of shops was probably our short snoop around Fauchion where I stocked up on summer fruits insence and little christmas present lovelies for the family.
The only disappointment was not being able to go to Collette...
But Anyway, wanted to share a little selection of my favourite pictures from the trip.
Merrily, Merrily..
I'm a little obsessed with photographing Merry-go-Rounds, but they're so pretty. Heres the latest addition to my collection, from Sacre Ceour.
Graffiti Chic
I loved this random piece of graffiti. Rather annoyingly, the picture is tres blurry. But it pays tribute to Karl Lagerfeld, Peter Pan and funnily enough, the artist!
As colourful as the Lanvin 07 SS Collection...
Viktor et Rolf lookalikes? (just check out the specs!)
Jump, for my love!
and lastly, me and emmie jumping outside Notre Dame. I look like I'm being attacked my a fox, but its my hair jmuping in a very odd fashion!


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AUSTIN, Texas (NOV. 15, 2013)— David F. White was inaugurated on November 5, 2013, as full professor in The C. Ellis and Nancy Gribble Nelson Chair of Christian Education at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Dr. White joined the faculty of Austin Seminary in 2005. Prior to his appointment, he was visiting assistant professor of youth and education and associate director of research for the Youth Theological Initiative at Candler School of Theology, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1997-2002 he was executive director of the Youth Discipleship Project at Claremont School of Theology, a research project exploring alternative approaches to work with youth and with congregational discernment. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Bethany Theological Seminary, the Claremont School of Theology, and Columbia Theological Seminary. Ordained in The United Methodist Church, White served the church in several positions, including minister of youth, Upland United Methodist Church, Upland, California; co-pastor, Anchor Park United Methodist Church, Anchorage, Alaska; conference coordinator of youth ministries, Alaska Missionary Conference of the United Methodist Church; and associate pastor of Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church, Jackson, Mississippi, and First United Methodist Church, Pascagoula, Mississippi.
"Dr. White is an accomplished and much-appreciated Christian educator, churchman, and lover of beauty," said Austin Seminary President Theodore J. Wardlaw. "It is a complete joy for us to celebrate this promotion with him, and to know and love him in this community."
Dr. White earned his undergraduate degree from Mississippi State University and his Master of Divinity degree from Asbury Theological Seminary. He received both a doctorate and Master of Arts degree in Religious Education from the Claremont School of Theology in 1996; his dissertation was titled Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice of Youth: A Liberative Pedagogy for Youth.
"As a fine teacher and scholar, Professor White routinely encourages students, colleagues, the academy, and the church to consider Christian formation and education in deeper and more comprehensive ways," said Austin Seminary Academic Dean Allan H. Cole Jr. "In doing so, he inspires us to act in more faithful and life-giving ways. He will bring these capacities and many more to his leadership as a senior faculty member. I'm grateful for his significant contributions to our shared life and work."
Dr. White has garnered multiple grants for his research on youth and spiritual discernment, including a $1.2 million grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc. for exploring Christian education with youth. In 2009 he received a $20,000 grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion to fund a diversity project at Austin Seminary.
His books include Dreamcare: A Theology of Youth, Spirit, and Vocation (Cascade, 2013), Awakening Youth Discipleship in a Consumer Culture (Cascade, 2007, coauthored with Brian Mahan and Michael Warren), and Practicing Discernment with Youth (Pilgrim Press, 2005). He is also author of a number of journal articles.
Founded in 1902, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary is an institution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) whose mission is to educate and equip individuals for the ordained Christian ministry and other forms of Christian service and leadership. For more information and ways to support Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, visit www.austinseminary.edu.


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House That Phil Built
Shakespeare asked, "What's in a name?" He was the master of tragedy, triumph, and irony... and just such a Shakespearean drama has engulfed a small community in Alabama. The town of about a thousand suffered a setback and celebrated a milestone surrounded by friends with a special bond.
Read the Terms of Use
(Phil Campbell, Alabama)
Rev. Phil Campbell, Northern Light Church: "To be named Phil Campbell at this time really feels like a gift; it feels like an opportunity, a privilege that I feel obligated to make use of. I'm Phil Campbell, pastor of Northern Light Church, a union United Methodist/Presbyterian congregation in Juneau, Alaska. I made the long trip to Phil Campbell, Alabama to help in the relief effort here. It's a town that was virtually destroyed by tornado on April 27, where 26 people perished. And Phil Campbells of the world-I'm one of them-we're here to help the town rebuild."
(Various Phil Campbells) "Phil Campbell from Birmingham... I'm Phil Campbell from Springfield, Ohio... Palo Alto, California..."
Rev. Phil Campbell: "I feel a connection with the other Phil Campbells. It's interesting we don't necessarily have anything in common..."
(Various Phil Campbells) "...Tuscaloosa, Alabama... Glasgow, Scotland... Austin, Texas... Nottingham, UK..."
"...but we're here for a common purpose and I believe that common purpose to help the town binds us together in a significant way."
(Various Phil Campbells) "I'm Phil Campbell from Brooklyn, NY&ellipsis; Savanna, Georgia&ellipsis; La Farge, Wisconsin&ellipsis;"
Phil Campbell, Wisconsin: "I threw my tools in my truck and came down here hoping I could help somebody out 'cause, what good's a Phil Campbell without his tools?"
Sgt. Terrell Potter, Phil Campbell Police Department: "And you can see that what they're doing here is not lip service. I'm Sergeant Terrell Potter of the Phil Campbell Police Department, and a lot of people are really fascinated with the number of Phil Campbells we've got to come show up to help us with our town."
(Barbara Mashburn greets Nottingham Phil on street.) "You're a Phil Campbell?"
Phil Campbell: "I am."
Barbara Mashburn: "Well, it's good to meet you we're glad to have you here!"
(Nottingham Phil talking to Barbara) "I've never seen anything so devastating in all my life."
Barbara Mashburn, Phil Campbell resident: "My name is Barbara Mashburn. I've lived in Phil Campbell since I was six years old. My house was damaged in the tornado. The roof blew off, but I'm alive and well. It really surprises me that all the men thats names are Phil Campbell are here."
Barbara Mashburn: "I'm glad that it's bringing the attention to Phil Campbell that it has brought, and we really appreciate it."
Rev. Phil Campbell: "The timing of the Phil Campbell convention coincides with the town's annual hoedown. That's a bigger event this year because it's the town's 100th anniversary, just several weeks after the tornado hit, and they decided to go ahead with it."
Jerry Mays, Phil Campbell Mayor: "This is a happy day and a sad day for all of us."
Rev. Phil Campbell: "We're here not only to help in the relief effort, but also to help the town celebrate and commit to its future."
Jerry Mays: "We've had neighbors that we didn't know we had."
Phyllis Campbell: "I'm Phyl, with a 'y', from Michigan."
Phil Campbell: "I'm Phil from Franklin, Tennessee. I have a special connection with this town."
Rev. Phil Campbell: "There's something symbolic about we Phil Campbells being here that has really buoyed the town's sprit. The goal of all the Phil Campbells has been to raise enough money to build a Habitat for Humanity house here in Phil Campbell for one of the storm victims. And our church in Alaska raised five thousand dollars to send to the effort. We've set up a special "I'm with Phil" fundraising page where people can contribute to the Habitat house."
(Ohio Phil) "You know Phil-if you watch TV, you watch movies-Phil is always the wacky neighbor. Phil's never the leading man. So it's nice to be able to help, and we're all leading men today-at least in the town of Phil Campbell, Alabama."
Jerry Mays: "This is a proclamation from the town of Phil Campbell..."
Rev. Phil Campbell: "I'm just moved by that generosity of spirit. Here people have lost everything, and they're appreciative that we've come in, just for a short time, to do a small amount. And it's memorable to have the connections with the Phil Campbells; and to have the connection with the town and to feel a special kinship with the Phils and the town of Phil Campbell. We use what we can, to do the good that we can."
There were 19 Phils in town for the 100th anniversary. You can connect with the group at www.imwithphil.com. There is also an I'm With Phil Facebook group.
Posted: June 22, 2011


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Lake District holidays + Top 10s
Stuart Holmes, Keswick-based photographer and author of new book Photographing The Lake District, reveals his personal top 10 locations for taking stunning shots in the national park
Fancy swimming somewhere a bit more exciting than a chlorinated pool? Here are readers' top tips for safe river swims all over the world
Cumbria's finest walks are not confined to the Lake District. Travel beyond the national park and explore the county's often less crowded coast, towns and historic sites. Mike Innerdale of National Trust Cumbria chooses his favourites
With so many spectacular walks in the Lake District, it's a tough job narrowing the list down to just 10. So we sought expert advice and asked National Trust Cumbria's Mike Innerdale to tell us about his favourites
There's plenty to do in Cumbria outside the Lake District national park. From Hadrian's Wall to Morecambe Bay, and from indoor climbing to cooking with kids, here are some of the best family days out outside the park
A holiday guide to the Lake District and Cumbria 10 of the best family days out in the Lake District
Cycling, sailing, kayaking, walking … even cooking. The Lake District national park offers loads of brilliant family days out in the most gorgeous scenery
From ruined churches to haunted henges, we list Britain's most macabre places to scare yourself this Halloween
Forget movies and popcorn. Treat the kids to some real adventure this summer with Ed Douglas's guide to totally wild UK breaks
10 experts reveal their tips for next year's hottest travel destinationsGallery
Warm your cockles this Christmas with local ales and home-cooked food in front of an open fire. Alastair Sawday directs you to the cheeriest winter inns with the aid of their new satnav guide
Few things beat sitting in your favourite beer garden with a cool pint in your hand. Here's our personal pick of the best sites across the UK


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Love the end of term feeling - all freedom and opportunity and space! Time for an adventure before real life starts again?
Looks so warm and sunny there...so jealous!
It is sunny and warm...nearly all the time. realising I do not have the right clothes for Kenya...!
Thanks for leaving a comment-it is always nice to hear from you!


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She is a pretty chit and will be the languishing kind, like the die-away Maddon who is so 'modist.'
Being dressed in woman's clothing she is taller than ever, and so holds her chin and her eyes that it makes any modist woman mad.
Would you beleave that the lady he was a-ritin to was a chased, modist lady of honor, and mother of a famly?
He commenced in a humble position, and hed filled the public eye long enuff to satisfy his modist ambishen.


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For weeks, E and I have been waiting for the GetGo Ph seat sale. We had to book our flight back to Manila from Hong Kong. See, we already have our tickets to Macau thanks to the Cebu Pacific Seat Sale last February. What we lacked is our return flight home. I told him that we had to book our tickets by April, latest May.
In my "kuripot" (cheapskate) mind, I wasn't willing to spend more than P7,000 (USD 140) for our flight back. Some of you are probably thinking that I'm too cheap, how can I possibly book three tickets below P7,000. With determination, stalking skills, and a supportive husband we were able to book our flight back for only P4,426.21 (USD 89)!
GetGo Ph Anniversary Sale
So how did we do it? As I mentioned, it took stalking skills and E to book this flight.
After booking our flight to Macau, I discussed with E that we had more than enough rewards points from our credit card to book two return tickets.
With his approval, I processed the transfer of points from my credit card to my GetGo Ph account. The points transfer was easy but it took 3 working days for GetGo Ph to reflect it on my account.
I guess this was a blessing in disguise. The current seat sale that they had charged 2,000 points per ticket. I didn't give up, though, I started checking their page every other day hoping that they will announce a seat sale. I keep telling myself that I still had three months to book our return tickets.
Judging their past seat sales I knew that they have bi-monthly seat sales (Read: stalker digital practitioner who spent time analysing their sales and corresponding points).
Come March they started posting teasers about their anniversary sale. I knew that this sale was our opportunity to book our return flights. Thanks to the data I had, I deduced that the possible duration of the seats on sale will be around September to December 2017.
I started checking their page daily! I noticed that they post updates around 11 AM and would send out email blasts at least every other week. This obsessive stalking of their page and email checking bore fruit when I received their advance announcement for the much-waited seat sale.
With my hands trembling, I took a screenshot of my desktop (an actual screenshot – me taking a photo of my desktop)and sent the image to E. My heart started to beat faster as if I ran for a minute in place. It was now or never.
I then asked my brother if I can borrow his Mac Book Pro so I can easily book my flight. This, of course, came with a payment, he will also book a flight if he sees fit (a.k.a. if it fit his schedule). I was fine with that, we had 8,050 points. In my computation, we would only need 4,000 to 5,000 points.
Booking Our Flight
Around 9 PM last March 13, my brother handed me his laptop. Bunny wasn't asleep yet so she even said "tap tap" when she saw it. I immediately logged in on my GetGo Ph account and clicked remember me. My plan in mind is to sleep for a bit with Bunny and wait for E to wake me up when he comes home. It was written in the stars that we will get our ticket because E's shift would end around 10:30 PM and that night he was home 15 minutes before midnight.
E woke me up from my not-so-deep slumber with a kiss, just like Sleeping Beauty daw. I immediately sat up and opened the laptop. I refreshed the GetGo Ph site and the promo was still not up.
Midnight came and with renewed confidence, I refreshed the site and clicked on redeem flights. I entered our details, picked the dates, and waited for the page to load. E sat beside me waiting for the page to load. It felt like we were waiting for more than five minutes before the page loaded.
We had two choices, book the morning flight (8:35 AM departure) or the midnight flight (00:05 AM departure). I tried to weigh the pros and cons, I even considered making a list before making the decision. It was then that I realised, there was no traffic to beat, the train was our way to the airport, and that we weren't in Manila. I also factored in work, with the morning flight we still have ample time to rest before we have to go back.
With E's approval, I booked the morning flight. I expected the site to load slower, I anticipated that users were logging in and booking their flights, but to my surprise, I was able to go to the next page in less than 15 seconds. I added baggage allowance for myself only which cost us additional 3,510 points. In total, we used up 3,570 points and just added P4,426.21 for tax and other fees.
The Experience
To be honest, there was a sense of thrill when we booked our flights through GetGo Ph. The fact that I asked E to wake me up is enough to prove that I was determined to get tickets. This is something that I would advise to those who will try to book. Set an alarm for 12 MN and don't wait for their Facebook post. Watch out for their email blasts because most often than not they announce in advance.
This goes for all seat sales. You will miss out on good flight schedules if you wait until the last minute to book or if you just wait for their post to reach you.
Other Seat Sales
If you are still looking for seat sales, you can check Philippine Airline's site. Last I checked they have no announcements yet on their Facebook page. You can book domestic flights for as low as P1,000 one way. Their sale is both for their domestic and international flights.
Also, as of posting the GetGo Ph Seat Sale is back but with limited seats. So you can try your luck again in booking your flights!


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CHICAGO (AP) — Shares of payment services provider MoneyGram International Inc. fell to a three-year low Thursday after a brokerage cited concerns about increased competition and downgraded the Dallas-based company's stock.
THE SPARK: Credit Suisse downgraded its rating to "Neutral" from "Outperform," and lowered its target price for the stock to $16 per share from $25 per share.
THE BIG PICTURE: Both MoneyGram and Western Union appear to have lowered online money transfer prices and are likely to adjust further amid heated competition.
THE ANALYSIS: "We are concerned increased competition will result in pricing pressure, slowing revenue growth and margin expansion," Credit Suisse analyst Georgios Mihalos said. "Furthermore, we are concerned that increased regulatory scrutiny across the industry could negatively affect MoneyGram."
SHARE ACTION: Down $1.08, or 8.7 percent, to $11.35 in afternoon trading, after earlier hitting a low of $11. The stock last traded that low in late 2009.


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In this post I have added images of some of the fantastic armoured vehicles that I saw at Scale Model World 2016, Telford earlier this year.
I've been modelling, painting miniatures and wargaming since I was a wee lad in Swansea, this blog details some of my interests - I hope that you like it. In 2010 I started a new modelling venture - building 40mm AWI/ACW terrain pieces and designing 28mm masters, which are then cast and available for sale from Grand Manner. - All original images and text are copyright of A. S. Harwood (Dampfpanzerwagon)
Some very impressive models. Thanks for sharing.


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The case of Connecticut National Bank v. First Security Mortgage Corp., which came out of the federal court and demonstrated that it is very easy to pay the wrong party entitled to payment under a mortgage, states no new proposition of law:
"It is important to note that the assignee of a mortgage is under no obligation to give the mortgagor notice of the assignment, and if the mortgagor, after the assignment, makes payments on account of the principal of the note to the assignor of the mortgage without requiring the production of the note, such payments will not be valid as against the assignee." Crocker's Notes on Common Forms, Little Brown & Company (Seventh Edition, 1955), §523.
This is simply the application of the rule that whoever holds the note holds the mortgage. In fact, if the note alone is transferred and no assignment of the mortgage is recorded the holder of the note is the proper party to enforce the mortgage regardless of the status of the record title! See Lamson & Co., Inc. v. Abrams, 305 Mass. 238, 25 N.E.2d 374 (1940). The only exception to this common law rule is contained in G.L.c. 183, §54, which provides that one is entitled to take a discharge from the party who appears to hold the mortgage of record, regardless of who may hold the note.
Of course, Connecticut National Bank elaborates upon the proposition and is couched in terms of agency and the authority to act on behalf of a supposed principal.
Note now that the question of discharge(and affidavits which have the effect of discharges) are fully covered by G.L.c. 183, §§54C.


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Directory of Services & Information
Sanitation Complaints
(See Housing Inspections to contact local district office)
Public Health, Department of
Environmental Health
5050 Commerce Dr., Baldwin Park 91706
Phone (626) 430-5200
Responds to animal sanitation, green pools, overgrown vegetation, residential, sewage, trash, and vacant lot complaints.
Sanitation Districts
1955 Workman Mill Rd., Whittier 90601
P.O. Box 4998, Whittier 90607
Phone (562) 699-7411 or (323) 685-5217
Website: www.lacsd.org
Mission statement: To protect public health and the environment through innovative and cost-effective wastewater and solid waste management and, in doing so convert waste into resources such as recycled water, energy, and recycled materials.
The Sanitation Districts function on a regional scale consisting of 24 independent special districts serving about 5.7 million people in Los Angeles County. The service area covers approximately 820 square miles and encompasses 78 cities and unincorporated territory within the County.
The 23 separate districts work cooperatively under a joint administration agreement with one administrative staff headquartered near the City of Whittier. Each district has its own board of directors consisting of the mayor of each city, and the chair of the Board of Supervisors for unincorporated territory, within that district.
The Sanitation Districts' 1,400 miles of main trunk sewers and 11 wastewater treatment plants convey and treat about half the wastewater in Los Angeles County. The Sanitation Districts are pioneers in using recycled water beneficially. Water reclamation plants produce a high-quality source of recycled water that essentially meets drinking water standards and is reused at more than 600 sites throughout the county.
The Sanitation Districts' solid waste management sites similarly provide for a large portion of the countywide solid waste management needs. The Sanitation Districts operate three sanitary landfills, four landfill energy recovery facilities, two recycle centers, three materials recovery/transfer facilities, and participate in the operation of two refuse-to-energy facilities.
Additional information on services provided and current rates is available on the website.
Scanner Price Accuracy, Businesses
Agricultural Commissioner/Weights and Measures Department
11012 S. Garfield Ave., South Gate 90280
Phone (800) 665-2900 - information or complaints
Website: acwm.lacounty.gov/scripts/attscan.htm
Conducts price verification inspections at retail businesses to confirm that prices charged are the same as those posted or advertised.
Requires businesses to display notices at cash registers informing consumers that they are entitled to the lowest advertised or posted price. (Businesses needing notices or more information may call (562) 622-0415 or e-mail: email@example.com.) Issues registrations to retail businesses utilizing automated price look-up (scanner) systems.
Science Museums and Programs
(See Natural History Museum under "Museums")
Scuba Certification
Parks and Recreation Department
Underwater Unit
Phone (661) 257-4050
Maintains records of those who have received SCUBA certification in Los Angeles County. Replaces lost, damaged or stolen cards.
Offers, in conjunction with the Underwater Instructors Association, a selection of courses for certification ranging from entry level to instructor.
Self-Help Legal Resource Centers
Superior Court
Assist self-represented litigants with civil matters by providing education, typically through workshops. Offer free resources on family law, probate (conservatorships, guardianships and elder abuse restraining orders) and civil matters (restraining orders and unlawful detainers). Additional low- or no-cost legal resources are available at alternative dispute resolution offices and self-help information sites on the Internet, including courtinfo.gov and lasuperiorcourt.org
Antelope Valley Self-Help Legal Access Center
Michael D. Antonovich Antelope Valley Courthouse
42011 Fourth St. West, Lancaster 93534
Mon. – Fri. 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Family Law: Divorce, Paternity; Domestic Violence, Housing Law, Civil Harassment, Name Change, and Guardianship
Compton Self-Help Legal Access Center
Compton Courthouse
200 W. Compton Blvd., 11th Fl., Rm. 1102, Compton 90220
Mon. – Thu. 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Fri. – 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Family Law: Divorce, Paternity; Housing Law, Small Claims, and Guardianship
Inglewood Self-Help Legal Access Center
Inglewood Courthouse
1 Regent St., First Fl., Rm. 107, Inglewood 90301
Mon. – Thu. 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Fri. – 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Family Law: Divorce, Paternity; Domestic Violence, Housing Law, Civil Harassment, Contracts, and Name Change
Long Beach Self-Help Legal Access Center
Long Beach Courthouse
275 Magnolia Avenue, Room 505, Long Beach, CA 90802
Mon. – Thu. 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Fri. 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Family Law: Divorce, Paternity; and Domestic Violence
Norwalk Resource Center for Self-Represented Litigants
Norwalk Courthouse
12720 Norwalk Blvd., Rm. 104E, Norwalk 90650
Mon. – Thu. 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Fri. – 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Family Law: Divorce, Paternity
Conservatorship Clinic Wed. 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Pasadena Resource Center for Self-Represented Litigants
Pasadena Courthouse
300 E. Walnut St., Rm. 300, Pasadena 91101
Mon. – Thu. 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Fri. 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. Facilitator and Conservatorship only
Family Law: Divorce, Paternity
Housing Law: Unlawful Detainer Walk-In Clinic Mon. – Thu. 1:30 p.m.
Conservatorship Clinic Friday 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Response to Domestic Violence Restraining Orders on Tuesday only at 8:30 a.m.
Pomona Self-Help Legal Access Center
Pomona South Courthouse
400 Civic Center Plaza, 7th Fl., Rm. 702, Pomona 91766
Mon. – Thu. 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Fri. 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Family Law: Divorce, Paternity; Domestic Violence, Housing Law, Civil Harassment, and Name Change
San Fernando Self-Help Legal Access Center
San Fernando Courthouse
900 Third St., Cafeteria, San Fernando 91340
Mon. – Thu. 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Fri. 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Family Law: Divorce, Paternity; Domestic Violence, Housing Law; Other Civil matters – Civil Harassment, and Name Change
Santa Monica Self-Help Legal Access Center
Santa Monica Courthouse
1725 Main St., Santa Monica 90401
Mon. – Thu. 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Fri. 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Family Law: Divorce, Paternity; Domestic Violence, Housing Law, Civil Harassment, Contracts, and Name Change
Self-Help Resource Center
Stanley Mosk Courthouse
111 N. Hill St., Fourth Fl., Rm. 426, Los Angeles 90012
Mon. – Thu. 8 a.m. – 4 p.m., Fri. 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Torrance Self-Help Legal Access Center
Torrance Courthouse
825 Maple Ave., Rm. 160, Torrance 90503
Mon. – Thu. 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Fri. 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Family Law: Divorce, Paternity; Guardianship, Housing Law, Civil Harassment, Contracts, and Name Change
Van Nuys Self-Help Legal Access Center
Van Nuys East Courthouse
6230 Sylmar Ave., Third Fl., Law Library, Van Nuys 91401
Mon. – Thu. 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Fri. 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Family Law: Divorce, Paternity; Domestic Violence
Conservatorship Clinic Thu. 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Housing Law, Civil Harassment, and Name Change
Senior Citizens Programs
3333 Wilshire Blvd., 4th Flr., Los Angeles 90010
Phone (800) 510-2020
Provides case management, employment (second careers), health services, information and referral, in-home services, legal services, and congregate and home-delivered meals services.
Senior Citizens Service Centers
(see Community and Senior Service Centers)
Senior Programs - Area Agency on Aging
Administrative Office
3333 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 400, Los Angeles 90010
Phone (213) 738-2645
To serve our senior population, Los Angeles County operates a variety of programs administered by the Area Agency on Aging (AAA). Established in 1975 by the State of California, the AAA is a separate division within the Aging and Adult Services Branch. It is responsible for identifying unmet needs as well as planning, coordinating and implementing programs that promote the health, dignity and well-being of our older residents. The AAA contracts with community agencies to deliver services that promote independent lifestyles such as senior lunch and home delivered meals, nutrition programs, care management, home based care, family caregiver support and legal assistance.
Sewer Maintenance Districts
Public Works, Department of
900 S. Fremont Ave., Alhambra 91803-1331
Phone (626) 300-3340 or (626) 300-3399
Assessment included on property tax statement.
Sexually Transmitted Disease Program
Public Health, Department of
2615 S. Grand Ave., Rm. 500, Los Angeles 90007
Phone (213) 744-3070 (Mon. - Fri., 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
STD Program Hotline: (800) 758-0880
Fax: (213) 749-9606
Website: ph.lacounty.gov/std
Hotline: Provides STD information and referrals to STD clinics and HIV test sites in Los Angeles County. Upon request, free condoms are available. Automated, 24 hours. Health educators available Mon. - Fri. 7 a.m. - 5 p.m. English/Spanish.
Provides free, confidential STD testing and treatment at various locations. The program also has a mobile testing clinic for syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and HIV testing. To find out the schedule of the mobile clinic, call (213) 744-3335.
Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau
4700 Ramona Blvd., Monterey Park 91754-2169
Phone: (323) 267-4800 Public Info Line: 213-229-1700
TDD: business (323) 267-6669
TDD: emergency 9-1-1
Complaint Line (800) 698-8255
Website: www.lasd.org
Twitter: @LASD_News
Nixle.com text/emails: http://nixle.com/lasd----hq-newsroom-shb-los-angeles-county-sheriff/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LosAngelesCountySheriffsDepartment
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/LACountySheriff
Alert LACounty: http://portal.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/alertla
LACrimeStoppers: http://lacrimestoppers.com/
Special Needs Disaster Voluntary Registry: http://snap.lacounty.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=app.registryLogin&CFID=231331&CFTOKEN=55341881
Parking Tickets
(800) 782-3868
Employment Verification
Phone (323) 526-5500
Phone 1-800-A-DEPUTY
Eviction Notices / Civil Process Service
Phone (213) 974-6613
INS Clearance Letters
Phone (562) 345-4441
Sheriff's Stations
Altadena -
780 E. Altadena Dr., Altadena 91001
Phone (626) 798-1131
Avalon -
215 Sumner Ave., P.O. Box 1551, Avalon 90704
Phone (310) 510-2360
Carson -
21356 S. Avalon Blvd., Carson 90745
Phone (310) 830-1123
Century Station -
11703 S. Alameda St., Lynwood 90262
Phone (323) 568-4800
Cerritos Station -
18135 Bloomfield Ave., Cerritos 90703
Phone (562) 860-0044
Compton Station -
301 S. Willowbrook Ave., Compton 90220
Phone (310) 605-6500
Crescenta Valley -
4554 N. Briggs Ave., La Crescenta 91214
Phone (818) 248-3464
East Los Angeles -
5019 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles 90022
Phone (323) 264-4151
Sheriff's Dept. Harbor Patrol Emergency -
Marina del Rey, Phone (310) 482-6000 and
VHF Channel 16 for boaters
Industry -
150 N. Hudson Ave., City of Industry 91744
Phone (626) 330-3322 or (909) 595-3649
Lakewood -
5130 N. Clark Ave., Lakewood 90712
Phone (562) 623-3500
Lancaster -
501 W. Lancaster Blvd., Lancaster 93534
Phone (661) 948-8466
Lomita -
26123 S. Narbonne Ave., Lomita 90717
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Dealing with illness far from home
Serious illness abroad can be very isolating, especially if there is a language barrier
Dawn Prendergast
Myself and my husband both worked as fund accountants for a large multinational bank, but got itchy feet around the same time in 2008. We thought of going to Bermuda or the Cayman Islands, but ended up settling for the rather less glamorous destination of Luxembourg.
I don't think I could have picked this tiny country out on a map, but we were offered good jobs and that decided us.
We planned to stay for a year or two, but as friends and former colleagues started to lose their jobs back home, we decided to stay where we had relative job security and a decent standard of living.
Flash forward three years and we had married, bought a house, and more or less decided to make this country home as things had gone from bad to worse in the financial sector in Ireland.
But a month after I celebrated my 29th birthday, news came that would have been life-changing no matter where we were in the world. I had been diagnosed with stage-two breast cancer. Our world fell apart.
Something as serious as cancer at such an early age is a shock, but to have to deal with it in a strange country was more than we felt we could could cope with.
Language problems
As we both work for American companies, we had never felt the need to learn Luxembourgish (a notoriously difficult language), and our French was rudimentary.
We had very little knowledge about how the healthcare system operated for those suffering from a serious illness. Would we have to pay for my surgery and subsequent treatment? Would I receive any income while I was off work?
Thankfully, we quickly found the Luxembourg healthcare system is second to none. Two days after my diagnosis, I had surgery before beginning a gruelling 18 rounds of chemo. Most of the medical bills and my wages were covered by the state and my employer, which was a massive relief. We could still afford to pay our mortgage for the 10 months I was off work.
Experiencing serious illness while living abroad can be very isolating, especially when there is a language barrier. The support groups were not conducted in English, so we felt very alone dealing with the diagnosis. English-language information packs and pamphlets were also unavailable, and we felt quite helpless and uninformed at times.
Our lack of knowledge about the protocols to ensure bills were reimbursed and sickness benefit was received meant things moved much slower than we would have hoped.
A mother's care
But I was very lucky that my mother, who had had breast cancer herself 10 years previously, travelled over to care for me. My husband couldn't take time off work to accompany me to the weekly chemo and subsequent radiation appointments, but she was there.
Being so far from home, Skype and social media became an absolute necessity, a way for me to keep in touch with friends and family when I was too ill to travel.
I am still receiving treatment, but almost two years after surgery, life is almost back to normal.
In hindsight, one of the first things we should have done when we emigrated was learn the language and research the healthcare system. These things fall too far down the list of priorities for newly arrived immigrants, but would have made dealing with my illness much easier.
Coping with an illness like cancer is difficult no matter where you are, but as more and more people emigrate, dealing with it while far from home is a life challenge an increasing number of us will face, often without a solid support system in place.


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The livestock and I have settled into a bedtime routine. I bring Joey indoors, and, once he figures he cannot beg me to let him out again, he settles on the bed.
|Joey curled up on the bed.
|Rose watches, from the back of the loveseat, for offical bedtime.
|Scooter in his little bed, on the floor, where he cannot bite anyone.
|Rocky watches to see when I will settle down to sleep.
|Sweet slumber for little Rocky.
|My scarred back yard. Huge white pine is reduced to a stump.
|Faded, but still fragrant, gardenia blossoms in a birdnest.


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Oh yeah it was... "Ricki".. "Ricki" and "gee what a nice island". "gee I really like you". "sigh".Quote:
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I have no idea either but it would be so much more fun if they showed us them being normal like with Ali and Chris or Jill and Reid or even Jake and Ali. Again, they really managed to create doubt because at least on camera, both of the relationships seems equal. It was fun to root for one knowing that the other seemingly had just as good of a chance. It was great and I hated Jake and didn't even watch til this summer.Quote:
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Well there was Ricky and then Ricki and the sun and the moon. But otherwise, you got it! :ohnoQuote:
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:nod Plus for some strange reason TPTB decide to edit out all of the fun activities in their dates like flying the kite and them snorkeling it is so odd to me.Quote:
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Yeah, he was pretty boring but I think that's how they are in real life. She's the one who acts like she just swallowed about 15 illegal Four Lokos, he's the one who coddles. What is a real life Bremily going to look like? We might need Shawntel in to drain the vein or whatever. :lolQuote:
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Isn't all that's fake.


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28 Jun 2011
A few weeks ago, I attended two minor league indoor football games and interviewed dozens of players, owners, and commissioners associated with the Indoor Football League and the Southern Indoor Football League. Here's a brief account of my journey. There were a lot of out-takes from this project, and I hope to use them in an upcoming Walkthrough. For example, I had a great conversation with Jared Lorenzen that was cut for space issues. (Write your own joke.)
10 comments, Last at 09 Jul 2011, 2:05pm by jebmak
The play-by-play for that 138-0 game is incredible.
2-McBryde, Derric sacked for loss of 9 yards to the FAY7 (51-Fisher, Russel), fumble recovered by ERI 51-Fisher, Russel at FAY0, TOUCHDOWN, clock 01:38.
14-Ojeda, Carlos drop-kick attempt good.
Erie Explosion 138, Fayetteville Force 0
Ojeda's last PAT was a successful 2-point dropkick
End of game, clock 00:00.
Nothing says running up the score like going for 2 with a 136-0 lead. (Erie's kicker had previously kicked 18 conventional extra points, plus 2 rouges on kickoffs.)
Also, did Fayetteville quit with 1:38 left, or was the final period played with a running clock?
"Players and coaches for the Fayetteville Force in North Carolina staged a mutiny after missing paychecks in April; they were replaced by a semipro team, which promptly lost, 138-0, to the Erie Explosion. "
It wouldn't shock me if Erie was intentionally running it up against a team of scabs.
Remarkably balanced scoring. 9 TDs, 1 safety, and 2 2-pt conversion on behalf of the defense (67 pts); and 10 TDs and 1 2-pt conversion for the offense (71 pts).
Gotta hear what Lorenzon had to say!
If there is no football this year, I hope you turn this into a full length book.
Looks like Erie comes out a little flat in the 3rd quarter. That's something they should work on before the playoffs.
Why is there not a TV programme following one of these teams. It would be incredible, full emotional rollercoaster.
Yeah, Hard Knocks should be about minor league football teams. THAT would be interesting and not contrived, and you can do it all year long.
Sports talk radio and sports message boards are the killing fields of intellectual discourse.
I would absolutely watch this, and I barely watch any sports related programming (I can't think of the last non-event sports thing that I watched, not including the last five minutes of some pregame show).
Just think if Erie had scored another 74 points they could have matched the Georgia Tech/Cumberland score...


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Judge denies bail for Allen Stanford
Judge denies bail for Stanford
Published 5:30 am, Tuesday, June 30, 2009
R. Allen Stanford won't trade his orange prison-issue jumpsuit for street clothes anytime soon, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Senior U.S. District Judge David Hittner said Stanford must remain jailed, revoking a magistrate's order last week granting him release on bail.
Stanford, 59, faces 21 counts of conspiracy, fraud, bribery and obstruction of justice. He's accused of helping bilk investors in a $7 billion fraud centered on certificates of deposit issued by an offshore bank that was part of his fallen global empire, Houston-based Stanford Financial Group.
His lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, said Hittner's decision will be taken to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. "We are very disappointed," DeGuerin said.
Ian McCaleb, a Justice Department spokesman, said prosecutors "believe the judge made the correct ruling today."
A Houston grand jury indicted Stanford and four others in the alleged scheme, including a former top regulator in the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda, where Stanford International Bank is located. A sixth defendant was indicted in Miami, accused of destroying records.
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A separate criminal charge in Houston accuses James Davis, Stanford Financial Group's former chief financial officer, of conspiracy and fraud. His lawyer has said Davis is cooperating with prosecutors. Davis is scheduled to make a first court appearance later this month.
While the others named in the Texas indictment are free pending trial, prosecutors argued that Stanford is a flight risk because he hasn't lived in the U.S. for 15 years, has global contacts, has access to significant cash from others and has a motive to disappear because he faces decades in prison if convicted.
DeGuerin argued in vain for Hittner to uphold U.S. Magistrate Judge Frances Stacy's order last week that Stanford be released on $500,000 bond, noting his client's repeated — and rebuffed — efforts to turn himself in to federal authorities before he was indicted June 18.
Stacy also had ordered that Stanford wear a GPS device and live with his girlfriend in a high-rise apartment in Houston's museum district, where a friend of his daughter's paid $36,000 to cover a year's rent.
Stanford was arrested in Virginia after he was indicted, and brought last week to a Montgomery County facility used to hold federal prisoners.
Hittner noted in his order that Stanford's professed ties to Houston "are tenuous at best and of recent vintage," established only when the frequent world traveler and Caribbean resident realized authorities were closing in and a criminal trial was looming.
"Although he claims his children are moving to Houston, that too is only due to Stanford's impending trial in Houston," Hittner wrote.
DeGuerin argued that Stanford, identified by Forbes last year as the 205th-richest American with a net worth of more than $2 billion, is penniless since his assets were frozen in February when the Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges that he and others ran a "massive Ponzi scheme."
However, prosecutors suggested that the $36,000 rent paid by his daughter's friend illustrates Stanford's access to cash.


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i was looking through your guys sex talk and i couldn't find anything about popping your "cherry". my friends told me that when somebody pops your cherry there is alot of blood. is that true? is there any anyway to prevent that? what exactly does somebody have to do to pop their cherry?thanks so much!
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There's no such thing as a "cherry." Women don't have a fruit salad down there. That's why we don't talk about it, since we're giving you medically accurate information.
When people are talking about "popping a cherry" they're usually referring to tearing a hymen. Some women still have a partial hymen, which is "a thin membrane that was likely around the vaginal opening when you were born.
Most women are born with hymens, but the hymen doesn't usually completely cover the opening to the vagina." Most women's hymens wear away during normal activity, but some women find that they still have some left as they become sexually active, and sometimes during sexual activity (manual sex or penis-in-vagina intercourse) it can get torn and thus bleed. That's where the whole "popping the cherry" myth comes from.
Other times women bleed during first intercourse because they were not aroused enough and thus friction created small tears in their vaginal tissue, or because they were nicked with a fingernail during manual sex.
Some women bleed during their first intercourse; other women don't. Whether or not you bleed has nothing to do with whether you were a "virgin" when you first had penetrative intercourse. In fact, not bleeding is really a goal that you should be striving for.
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For the first time on Wednesday, some Gatlinburg residents were able to get back and find what was left of their homes, after Monday's wildfires raged out of control.
More than 75 homes were destroyed in the Cobbly Nob village, which is located 10 miles east of downtown Gatlinburg.
"I was really worried about my dog"
Mike Manns was one of those residents that had minutes to evacuate.
"I could see the fire glow up on the mountain," Manns said. "You can't put it in words. I mean it's unbelievable, unbelievable."
He weathered the storm at his brother's house, but Manns suffers from heart disease and was without his medication.
On top of that, he was without something else he values just as much.
"I was not worried about my possessions," he paused. "But I was really worried about my dog."
Minnie has been by his side for years, and he had to leave her behind.
For 24 hours, he lived with the uncertainty of whether Minnie or his home had survived.
"I was really worried about her safety. I didn't want her to die in the fire," he said.
He considers himself fortunate. His home only sustained minor damage to his window, and Minnie was okay.
So many people put themselves in danger
Giulia Luzzana's world caught fire while she was out of town. The new U.S. citizen, who was born in Italy, was celebrating Thanksgiving with her husband's family out of town.
"A friend of mine called and said there's fires in Gatlinburg," she said.
She watched reports of homes turned to ashes, then got a text showing the office where she works in Gatlinburg, and her car parked outside, burned to a crisp.
"Reality started to sink in that that was what my home was going to look like. I'd seen pictures online of the house just up the street from us engulfed in flames," she said.
Downed power lines and thick smoke kept Giulia away, but on a rain-soaked Wednesday, she finally made it, and so had her house.
"To come here to find I still had a house is surreal. I woke up this morning thinking that I had nothing left that I literally had to start from scratch," she said.
There's still no power in the neighborhood, so Giulia, her husband, and her pets will be staying with a friend.
"So I'm just getting enough clothes for another couple of days. The important documents"
While it may seem like a miracle her home is still standing, there are plenty of clues their good-fortune is the result of someone's sacrifice.
"That mask that obviously a firefighter left here. Putting their lives in danger, for me. That is a debt I'll never be able to repay," she said. "And there's my husband, cleaning up the neighborhood. Trying to help where he can."
A Thanksgiving holiday that ends so thankful they will not have to rebuild their house when there's been so much damage to the region she calls home.
"You've got people who are ready to give you the shirts off your backs. This is when the true colors of your community shows is when things like this happen," she said.


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China Mobile App Store Registered Users Reach 39 Mln
Sina Tech, 4/21/11
China Mobile (NYSE: CHL; 0941.HK) announced recently that its Mobile Market app store had passed 39 mln registered users and 1.1 mln registered developers. The store offers 50,000 products for download, and has served 1.25 mln downloads to date. China Mobile said that the application store offers a variety of digital content, including music, videos, books, and magazines: more than 1 mln songs, nearly 120,000 books, 265 television shows, and 1,320 single-player games.
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According to the Chinese calendar, 2011 was the year of the rabbit, but from our point of view there were too many worthy animals in the news to limit the calendar to one creature. There were many high points in the animal kingdom over the past 12 months, such as an orangutan's laudable attempt to kick burning cigarettes at a Malaysian zoo. But for every triumph, there was a setback, such as the moose -- apparently drunk from eating fermented apples -- that got trapped in the bough of a tree .
Without further ado, here are the top animal news stories and photos from the past year:
Animals In The News: Best Photos Of 2011


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Our readers so totally rock: someone just sent us this link to AJ Hawk's wedding pictures. By now, you know that he married the sister of Brady Quinn. And the new Cleveland Browns quarterback may have just been the best man. Who knows.
Have at it, folks. (We've just added the first photo … which screams YMCA. At a wedding? Right.)
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Pulling from the breadth of the Bible, M.R. Hyde helps the listener explore some of the depths of the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples. Find new meaning and personal connection to this beloved prayer.
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I am trying to write a small Java client for consuming services provided by Microsoft Exchange server through Exchange Web Services (EWS). For experimenting I set up Exchange Online account.
Then I configured my Outlook client to use the newly created mail on exchange and outlook's Test Email Auto-Configuration windows I tried to retrieve the link for Services.wsdl for that client:
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WindSpring brings more than a ten years of expertise in working with low-power, memory-constrained devices and low-power WANs. In fact, our patented Data Management Technology (DMT) still stands as the first and only compression technology that enables users to view, select and decompress any part of a compressed file, without decompressing the entire file.
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One of D.C.'s top local reporters is switching teams: Mark Segraves, owner of many District politics scoops, is leaving WTOP radio after more than eight years for WRC-TV.
Segraves said Monday that he'll be starting at Channel 4 on Feb. 11, after a Virgin Islands sojourn. WTOP announced his departure in an internal memo.
And, no: While Segraves might be best known for his D.C. government reportage, he is not replacing WRC's veteran District politics reporter, Tom Sherwood.
"Sherwood is well entrenched at Channel 4, and I look forward to working with him for many years to come," Segraves said.
Segraves worked off-camera at WJLA-TV before joining WTOP, where, in addition, to his D.C. reportage, he became known as a tough questioner on the radio station's regular "Ask the Governor" programs. He's also done recent on-camera work for WJLA and has a weekend talk show on WDCW-TV.
Rather than cover District matters exclusively, Segraves said, he'll be on general assignment: "If there's a breaking story, it's my story, wherever it is."
Sherwood said he lobbied for Segraves's hiring, as well as the recent hire of another WTOP alum, transportation reporter Adam Tuss. "He's going to do a lot of things in the whole metropolitan region for us," he said of Segraves. "I think it's good."
Sherwood, who has covered city hall for WRC since leaving The Washington Post in 1989, said he recently signed a new contract and is in no rush to leave. "I'm not going anywhere yet," he said. "The station wanted me to stay, and I wanted to stay."