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|Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Europeans due chiefly to the fierce resistance of the native Caribs. France ceded possession to Great Britain in 1763, which colonized the island in 1805. In 1980, two years after independence, Dominica's fortunes improved when a corrupt and tyrannical administration was replaced by that of Mary Eugenia CHARLES, the first female prime minister in the Caribbean, who remained in office for 15 years. Some 3,000 Carib Indians still living on Dominica are the only pre-Columbian population remaining in the eastern Caribbean.
Known as "The Nature Island of the Caribbean" due to its spectacular, lush, and varied flora and fauna, which are protected by an extensive natural park system; the most mountainous of the Lesser Antilles, its volcanic peaks are cones of lava craters and include Boiling Lake, the second-largest, thermally active lake in the world
|Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about halfway between Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 751 sq km
land: 751 sq km
water: 0 sq km
Size comparison: slightly more than four times the size of Washington, DC
|Land Boundaries:
|0 km
|148 km
|Maritime claims:
| territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
|tropical; moderated by northeast trade winds; heavy rainfall
|rugged mountains of volcanic origin
|Elevation extremes:
|Natural resources:
|timber, hydropower, arable land
|Land use:
| agricultural land: 34.7% arable land 8%; permanent crops 24%; permanent pasture 2.7% forest: 59.2%
other: 6.1% (2011 est.)
|Irrigated land:
|Natural hazards:
|flash floods are a constant threat; destructive hurricanes can be expected during the late summer months
|Current Environment Issues:
|International Environment Agreements:
| party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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| noun: Dominican(s)
adjective: Dominican
|Ethnic groups:
|black 86.6%, mixed 9.1%, indigenous 2.9%, other 1.3%, unspecified 0.2% (2001 est.)
|English (official), French patois
|Roman Catholic 61.4%, Protestant 28.6% (includes Evangelical 6.7%, Seventh Day Adventist 6.1%, Pentecostal 5.6%, Baptist 4.1%, Methodist 3.7%, Church of God 1.2%, other 1.2%), Rastafarian 1.3%, Jehovah's Witness 1.2%, other 0.3%, none 6.1%, unspecified 1.1% (2001 est.)
|73,757 (July 2016 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 21.84% (male 8,239/female 7,871)
15-24 years: 15.7% (male 5,960/female 5,618)
25-54 years: 41.97% (male 15,693/female 15,264)
55-64 years: 9.6% (male 3,787/female 3,294)
65 years and over: 10.89% (male 3,561/female 4,470) (2016 est.)
|Median age:
| total: 33 years
male: 32.5 years
female: 33.5 years (2016 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|0.2% (2016 est.)
|Birth rate:
|15.2 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Death rate:
|7.9 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|-5.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
| urban population: 69.5% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: 0.84% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Major urban areas - population:
|ROSEAU (capital) 15,000 (2014)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 1.15 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.79 male(s)/female
total population: 1.02 male(s)/female (2016 est.)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 10.9 deaths/1,000 live births male: 14.5 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 7.2 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 77 years male: 74 years
female: 80.1 years (2016 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|2.04 children born/woman (2016 est.)
|Health expenditures:
|5.5% of GDP (2014)
|Hospital bed density:
|3.8 beds/1,000 population (2012)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 95.7% of population
urban: 4.3% of population (2015 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 79.6% of population
rural: 84.3% of population
total: 81.1% of population
urban: 20.4% of population
rural: 15.7% of population
total: 18.9% of population (2007 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
|HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
|HIV/AIDS - deaths:
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|25.9% (2014)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: Commonwealth of Dominica
conventional short form: Dominica
etymology: the island was named by explorer Christopher COLUMBUS for the day of the week on which he spotted it, Sunday ("Domingo" in Latin), 3 November 1493
|Government type:
|parliamentary republic
| name: Roseau
geographic coordinates: 15 18 N, 61 24 W
time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
|Administrative divisions:
|10 parishes; Saint Andrew, Saint David, Saint George, Saint John, Saint Joseph, Saint Luke, Saint Mark, Saint Patrick, Saint Paul, Saint Peter
|3 November 1978 (from the UK)
|National holiday:
|Emancipation Day (First Monday), celebrated on first Monday in August (1834); Independence Day, 3 November (1978)
|previous 1967 (preindependence); latest presented 25 July 1978, entered into force 3 November 1978; amended several times, last in 2015 (2016)
|Legal system:
|common law based on the English model
|18 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: President Charles A. SAVARIN (since 2 October 2013)
head of government: Prime Minister Roosevelt SKERRIT (since 8 January 2004)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister elections/appointments: president nominated by the prime minister and leader of the opposition party and elected by the House of Assembly for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 30 September 2013 (next to be held in October 2018); prime minister appointed by the president
election results: Charles A. SAVARIN (DLP) elected president by a vote of 19-0 on 30 September 2013
|Legislative branch:
| description: unicameral House of Assembly (32 seats; 21 representatives directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote, 9 senators appointed by the Assembly, and 2 ex-officio members - the House Speaker and the Clerk of the House; members serve 5-year terms)
elections: last held on 8 December 2014 (next to be held in 2019); note - tradition dictates that the election is held within five years of the last election, but technically it is five years from the first seating of parliament plus a 90-day grace period
election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - DLP 15, UWP 6
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) is the itinerant superior court of record for the 9-member Organization of Eastern Caribbean States to include Dominica; the ECSC - based on St. Lucia - is headed by the chief justice and is comprised of the Court of Appeal with 3 justices and the High Court with 16 judges; sittings of the Court of Appeal and High Court rotate among the 9 member states; 2 High Court judges reside in Dominica; note - Dominica is a member of the Caribbean Court of Justice judge selection and term of office: chief justice of Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court appointed by the Her Majesty, Queen ELIZABETH II; other justices and judges appointed by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission, an independent body of judicial officials; Court of Appeal justices appointed for life with mandatory retirement at age 65; High Court judges appointed for life with mandatory retirement at age 62
subordinate courts: Court of Summary Jurisdiction; magistrates' courts
|Political parties and leaders:
|Dominica Freedom Party or DFP [Judith PESTAINA] Dominica Labor Party or DLP [Roosevelt SKERRIT] Dominica United Workers Party or UWP [Hector JOHN]
|Political pressure groups and leaders:
|Dominica Liberation Movement or DLM (a small leftist party)
|International organization participation:
|ACP, AOSIS, C, Caricom, CD, CDB, CELAC, Commonwealth of Nations, ECCU, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NAM, OAS, OECS, OIF, OPANAL, OPCW, Petrocaribe, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
|National symbol(s):
|Sisserou parrot, Carib Wood flower; national colors: green, yellow, black, white, red
|National anthem:
| name: "Isle of Beauty"
lyrics/music: Wilfred Oscar Morgan POND/Lemuel McPherson CHRISTIAN
note: adopted 1967
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Hubert J. CHARLES (since 16 July 2010)
chancery: 3216 New Mexico Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016
telephone: [1] (202) 364-6781
consulate(s) general: New York
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
|the US does not have an embassy in Dominica; the US Ambassador to Barbados is accredited to Dominica
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The Dominican economy has been dependent on agriculture - primarily bananas - in years past, but increasingly has been driven by tourism as the government seeks to promote Dominica as an "ecotourism" destination. Moreover, Dominica has an offshore medical education sector. In order to diversify the island's economy, the government is also attempting to foster an offshore financial industry and plans to sign agreements with the private sector to develop geothermal energy resources. In 2003, the government began a comprehensive restructuring of the economy - including the elimination of price controls, privatization of the state banana company, and tax increases - to address an economic and financial crisis and to meet IMF requirements. In 2009 and 2013, the economy contracted as a result of the global recession; growth remains anemic. Although public debt levels continue to exceed pre-recession levels, the debt burden declined from 78% of GDP in 2011 to approximately 70% in 2012.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
| GDP (purchasing power parity): $812 million (2016 est.) $799.6 million (2015 est.) $814 million (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $524 million (2015 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|1.5% (2016 est.) -1.8% (2015 est.) 4.2% (2014 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
| GDP - per capita (PPP): $11,400 (2016 est.) $11,300 (2015 est.) $11,500 (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|Gross national saving:
|4.7% of GDP (2016 est.) 7.4% of GDP (2015 est.) 4.4% of GDP (2014 est.)
|GDP - composition, by end use:
| household consumption: 70.5%
government consumption: 18.8%
investment in fixed capital: 10.8%
investment in inventories: 0%
exports of goods and services: 28.6%
imports of goods and services: -28.7% (2016 est.)
|GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
| household consumption: 70.5%
government consumption: 18.8%
investment in fixed capital: 10.8%
investment in inventories: 0%
exports of goods and services: 28.6%
imports of goods and services: -28.7% (2016 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|bananas, citrus, mangos, root crops, coconuts, cocoa note: forest and fishery potential not exploited
|soap, coconut oil, tourism, copra, furniture, cement blocks, shoes
|Industrial production growth rate:
|1.6% (2016 est.)
|Labor force:
|25,000 (2000 est.)
|Labor force - by occupation:
| agriculture: 40%
industry: 32%
services: 28% (2002 est.)
|Unemployment rate:
|23% (2000 est.)
|Population below poverty line:
|29% (2009 est.)
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
| revenues: $148.1 million
expenditures: $148.1 million (2016 est.)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|28.3% of GDP (2016 est.)
|Public debt:
|70% of GDP (2012 est.) 78% of GDP (2009 est.)
|Fiscal year:
|1 July - 30 June
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.4% (2016 est.) -0.8% (2015 est.)
|Current account balance:
|-$69 million (2016 est.) -$48 million (2015 est.)
|$38.3 million (2016 est.) $35.2 million (2015 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|bananas, soap, bay oil, vegetables, grapefruit, oranges
|Exports - partners:
|Japan 38.1%, Jamaica 19%, Antigua and Barbuda 10.4%, Trinidad and Tobago 6.2%, St. Lucia 4.8%, St. Kitts and Nevis 4.2% (2015)
|$186.5 million (2016 est.) $182.9 million (2015 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|manufactured goods, machinery and equipment, food, chemicals
|Imports - partners:
|Japan 42%, Trinidad and Tobago 17%, US 11.9%, China 6% (2015)
|Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
|$100 million (31 December 2016 est.) $126.2 million (31 December 2015 est.)
|Debt - external:
|$288.6 million (31 December 2016 est.) $275.4 million (31 December 2015 est.)
|Exchange rates:
|East Caribbean dollars (XCD) per US dollar - 2.7 (2016 est.) 2.7 (2015 est.) 2.7 (2014 est.) 2.7 (2013 est.) 2.7 (2012 est.)
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|Electricity - production:
|97 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - consumption:
|90.21 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|0 kWh (2013 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|0 kWh (2013 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|33,200 kW (2014 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|60.2% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|18.1% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|21.7% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2016 es)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|1,000 bbl/day (2014 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|978.2 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|0 cu m (1 January 2014 es)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|100,000 Mt (2013 est.)
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|Cellular Phones in use:
|total: 77,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 105 (July 2015 est.)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: fully automatic network
domestic: fixed-line connections continued to decline slowly with the two active operators providing about 20 fixed-line connections per 100 persons; subscribership among the three mobile-cellular providers is about 105 per 100 persons
international: country code - 1-767; landing points for the East Caribbean Fiber Optic System (ECFS) and the Global Caribbean Network (GCN) submarine cables providing connectivity to other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Tri (2015)
|Broadcast media:
|no terrestrial TV service available; subscription cable TV provider offers some locally produced programming plus channels from the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean; state-operated radio broadcasts on 6 stations; privately owned radio broadcasts on ab (2007)
|Internet country code:
|Internet users:
|total: 50,000 percent of population: 67.6% (July 2015 est.)
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|2 (2013)
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2013)
| total 1,512 km
paved: 762 km
unpaved: 750 km (2010)
|Merchant marine:
| total 43
by type: bulk carrier 11, cargo 22, chemical tanker 2, petroleum tanker 4, refrigerated cargo 3, roll on/roll off 1
foreign-owned: 32 (Australia 1, Estonia 6, Germany 5, Greece 4, India 2, Latvia 2, Norway 1, Russia 3, Saudi Arabia 2, Syria 4, Turkey 1, Ukraine 1)
registered in other countries: 1 (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1) (2010)
|Ports and terminals:
|major seaport(s): Portsmouth, Roseau
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|Military branches:
|no regular military forces; Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force (includes Coast Guard) (2012)
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|Transnational Issues
|Disputes - International:
|Dominica is the only Caribbean state to challenge Venezuela's sovereignty claim over Aves Island and joins the other island nations in challenging whether the feature sustains human habitation, a criterion under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which permits Venezuela to extend its EEZ and continental shelf claims over a large portion of the eastern Caribbean Sea
|Illicit drugs:
|transshipment point for narcotics bound for the US and Europe; minor cannabis producer (2008)
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Saturday, July 8, 2017
July 8 - Elizabeth of Portugal, Mother, Queen, Peacemaker,
As soon as Elizabeth heard about prince Affonso's revolution and the impending civil war against the king Diniz, she set out from the hospital where she was staying to see if she could not bring peace between them. She rode the fastest horse she could find because the armies were marshaling against each other with bloodshed on their minds and there was little time left to retrieve peace from the grip of war. Her work at the hospital where she provided food to the hungry and medical care to the sick was put on hold as she rode off to stand between the two armies to insist upon peace. It seemed a fool's errand but if there was anybody who could bring reconciliation between Affonso and Diniz then it was Elizabeth. After all, she was the queen of Portugal and, thus, the wife of Diniz and the mother of Affonso. As a child she would never have guessed where her life would lead her but, then, none of us ever really do. When she was only a child in Aragon and her father told her that she would soon be marrying a man named Diniz who was the king of Portugal, she must have imagined what it would be like to be queen of Portugal instead of princess of Aragon but indubitably she never expected it to involve risking her life and life's work to negotiate peace between her own husband and son.
Elizabeth married Diniz when she was only twelve years old but it was expedient for both Aragon and Portugal to make such a political move and so she entered into matrimony with a man she barely knew. Diniz was captivated with young Elizabeth as she grew and while still a teenager she gave birth to two children: the prince Affonso and the princess Constantia. But the appetites of Diniz went unchecked and he became an adulterer as was his supposed privilege as king. Elizabeth remained faithful to her unfaithful husband and continued to practice the loving faith instilled in her by her family and the Church she loved. While Diniz practiced debauchery, Elizabeth practiced charity and often secreted bread from the royal table to the beggars who waited in the streets for an act of mercy from the queen they loved and who loved them. She opened a hospital and a convent of "Poor Clares." She would later become a member of this convent after the death of Diniz and before Affonso's second war against family but for years she was simply the founder and benefactor of this group that daily lifted up her and others in prayer. Though she was abused by Diniz for her devotion to her Lord Jesus she refused to turn aside from her commitments to love, faith, hope, mercy, and grace. Her life had been changed not by the royal positions she had attained but by the humble guidance of a crucified Lord.
When she arrived at the field of battle she could see the blood lust creeping through the armies that had been fed steadily on a diet of both hatred and fear. The men who prepared to wage war stood to gain little in victory and lose everything in defeat but they could not escape the grim march that led to battle and so they prepared to take the lives of their brothers as they also prepared to offer up their own in sacrifice to royal ambitions.Once again it would be the lives of the poor that were the burnt offerings before the gods of war. Elizabeth placed her body and her life between the two armies and called to her husband and her son. Neither were willing to be the one who ended her life and so the three met together between the soldiers who were afraid to hope for peace because they knew all too well the ways of royalty. We don't know what she said but she was able to reconcile father and son to each other at the cost of being cast aside by her husband the king. She made a sacrifice so that others would not be forced to do so. Years down the road, she would be called away from the monastery of her devotion to negotiate peace again between Affonso and his son-in-law. She did so, again, but the exertion and stress cost Elizabeth her life. She died having made yet another sacrifice for her Lord and his Kingdom.
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Think back a couple of years, before Battleship went into production, when the rights a host of board games were snatched up by Hollywood production companies assumed the movie-going population would want to spent two hours of their lives watching a haphazard plot thrown onto a popular game. Twenty years of mostly critically-panned video game adaptations, and some people thought that problem could be easily solved by severely simplifying the source material. Luckily, filmmakers Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill-- who last teamed up for the horror film Sinister-- are going the opposite route, taking on one of the more morally and physically complicated video games out there. Just don't call it a video game adaptation.
For an interview with Crave Online, Derrick son and Cargill spend a lot of time talking about their upcoming Deus Ex film, taking every opportunity possible to reaffirm their chief philosophy: "We're not making a video game movie; we're making a cyberpunk movie." Their take on the game's third entry Deux Ex: Human Revolution is "moving like a rocket," but the duo continually stress that their approach was not to rehash the entire game, but to flesh it out to include elements unavailable within the gaming world, all while keeping it grounded in reality. A cyberpunk reality.
Wisely avoiding films like Johnny Mnemonic and New Rose Hotel, Derrickson and Cargill namecheck films like District 9, Looper and Inception as inspirations for how to cloak extremely high-concept science fiction in every day realism. Derrickson calls them "all movies that took certain familiar science fiction methodologies and turned them upside-down…Those are all things you've seen a dozen bad versions of, and a dozen decent versions of that." They want to break free from the Blade Runner and Matrix curses that "aren't really cyberpunk films but they are so iconic and so insurmountable." With Deus Ex, even though they aren't able to showcase the vast open world of the game, the duo are confident that their non-traditional storytelling and aesthetics will win people over.
Admittedly, while cyberpunk is an amazingly original genre, it's a term that might not strike film fans of all ages as the most approachable. But then most of science fiction appears that way at first, and a film's quality will often bring in the audiences no matter what the subject matter. Considering Derrickson and Cargill combined on the spooky-but-empty horror film Sinister, while Derrickson was behind the mostly awful The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Exorcism of Emily Rose, maybe we should keep our skepticism at close hand. Possessions and evil monsters hidden in celluloid don't make the easiest transition to secret societies and biotechnological warfare.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. – Augusta State will face a familiar foe Saturday afternoon when the Jaguars open play in the Peach Belt Conference Softball Championships in Columbus, Ga.
The Jaguars will take on rival USC Aiken at 1:30 p.m., in the single-elimination tournament, hosted by Columbus State at Cougar Field on the CSU campus.
ASU (31-15) and the Pacers (25-16) met just three days ago at Satcher Field in Aiken, S.C. The two split a doubleheader, with the Jags taking the opener 1-0 on a Kristen Jones' solo homer in the seventh inning. USCA battled back to earn a split of the twinbill when the Pacers edged ASU 2-1 in the nightcap.
The Jags, who reached the championship game for the second time in school history in 2011, are the No. 3 seed in the tourney, while USCA is seeded No. 6. Play gets underway Saturday morning when second-seeded North Georgia takes on No. 7 Georgia College at 11:00 a.m.
For live stats, a live webcast as well as the complete tournament bracket, visit the following links at www.peachbelt.com/information/12sbtournament/index or http://static.psbin.com/0/t/q5u5b0x3k1aw47/12_softball_bracket.pdf.
2012 Peach Belt Conference Softball Championships
April 21-22 v Hosted by Columbus State v Cougar Field
Saturday, April 21
No. 2 North Georgia vs. No. 7 Georgia College, 11:00 a.m.
No. 3 AUGUSTA STATE vs. No. 6 USC Aiken, 1:30 p.m.
No. 1 Armstrong vs. No. 8 Francis Marion, 4:00 p.m.
No. 5 Columbus State vs. No. 4 Flagler, 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 22
Semifinal No. 1 -- 11:00 a.m.
Semifinal No. 2 -- 1:30 p.m.
Championship Game -- 4:00 p.m.


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Salaams and Salutations,
I'm really STOKED!!! MOOZ-Lum comes out TODAY. DC is one of the 10 cities its being showed in for the next two weekends. UmmAminahHonest and I are going tonight to see it (O.O.T.D pics to come).
Speaking of outfits..Hijabi Fashion Week starts on Monday the 14th!!! Last year it was SOOOO nice to see modest takes on the themes of the day. Each and every ONE of us is different and so that means our STYLE is different. I LOVE originality. So check out the HFW promo and the participating blogs.
Follow HFW on FB
Have a spashing weekend!!
B Beautiful,
Umm Amirah
Friday, February 11, 2011
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Salaams and Salutations,
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Friday, February 4, 2011
Make up rant...
Salaams and Saluations Beauties,
The other day...I look at my 'stash' and realized I have NO new make up *lesigh*.
No particular reason...besides the fact that moving is financially consuming.
So what am I leming?? hmmm
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I've been lemming these for EVERRRRR!! Time to make them mine.
#4 NARS Sweet Revenge lip gloss
#5 Some more MAC brushes..
Enjoy this latest tutorial by XXTheIslandBeautyXX
B Beautiful!!
Umm Amirah
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Check it OUT....Mooz-lem release date 2.11.11
ASA Beauties....
Support Brother Qasim go see Mooz-lem next weekend. Find out more on the Mooz-lem FB fan page.
Enjoy the trailer...
Lets not forget New Muslm Cool..A great documentary film about Muslims in America.
B Beautiful,
Umm Amirah
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US Unemployment Aid Applications Jump to 388K
WASHINGTON (AP) - Weekly applications for U.S. unemployment benefits jumped 46,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 388,000, the highest in four months. The increase represents a rebound from the previous week's sharp drop. Both swings were largely due to technical factors.
The Labor Department says the four-week average of applications, a less volatile measure, fell slightly to 365,500, a level consistent with modest hiring.
Last week, California reported a large drop in applications, pushing down the overall figure to the lowest since February 2008. This week, it reported a significant increase as it processed applications delayed from the previous week.
A department spokesman says the seasonally adjusted numbers "are being distorted ... by an issue of timing."
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I am talking of my arch TT rival, Shane Miller.
I first met Shane a few years ago at the local winter criterium. We both raced B grade. He won. I then found out he had only started racing in D grade two weeks ago, he won that, jumped to C, and won that. The week following his B grade win, of course, he won A grade. From bottom to top in 4 weeks, and amongst Hawthorn Cycling Club the "I Hate Shane Miller (IHSM)" club was founded.
Our rivalry flourished as we both discovered the website cycle2max.com. The next year or two of our respecting careers involved chasing down hill climb records and trying to continually best each other. Our commitment to vertical ascension victories led us many places, the best of those being an IGA in Montrose in the Dandenongs We had been hailed on and rained on for the past 3 hours and were both frozen to death. Shane's brilliant solution? Buy new socks. Yep, a 4 pack of socks, on went some new, dry socks and the old ones into the bin. Then we had another pit stop later on at the Black Kettle Café whereby pancakes and a 2nd sock change gave us the motivation to get home. This was only topped by a Mt Donna Buang climb where we were greeted by snow for the last 2 kilometres. IT WAS COLD. Yeaouch.
Fast forward to 2009 where we faced off at one of Blackburn CC's Boulevard TT's. Being both 'Boulie' locals and knowing each corner so well we could ride it blindfolded we were both backing ourselves to rip the course apart. Rip it we did. What I was not expecting, however, was that the prick would beat me! By two seconds! Here you have the
VIS scholarship holder getting beaten by a full time IT professional. Crap. What can I say, maybe he should search for a new employer, I hear Riis is making moves ;-)
As we have both climbed and time trialled against each other, we have both sought to outdo each other in terms of injuries inflicted. I think I got the ball rolling by being knocked cold after hitting a dog in
, Shane upped the ante with a broken collarbone at a northern combine race, I followed suit with a collarbone at a Sandown crit. Not to be outdone Shane did his other collarbone at the Tour of Bright. Believing I was still the far superior between us I thought why not break my pelvis once at Gippsland, then again in Tasmania along with a bunch of other gnarly injuries. Well only a few months ago Shane saw my raise down in China by demolising his pelvic bones in a way that would make many old grannies lower their heads in shame. Yes the osteoporotic cyclist award was firmly back in Shane's hands. Geelong
So to give some context to these reminiscent ramblings, Shane has come back with some serious form. This crazy bugger does the majority of his training in his '
', I am talking about in his apartment on the wind trainer. I think he has a serious mental disease. Honestly, turn on a little fan and put on a Foo Fighters concert recording and he rides himself into the ground A true headcase. A true Time Trialist. Pain Cave
But boy does the hard work pay off, lately he's been kicking some serious arse in a bunch of different time trials. He is putting out some insane power numbers too, but you'll have to ask him to share if you want to know.
So watch out for his name in some future TT results. He'll be up there. And if he's not, he's probably just broken another bone, but don't worry, he'll be back on the results sheets in no time.
PS- Shane Miller should ride nationals TT at Buninyong. HE OWES IT TO HIS FANS!


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WASHINGTON, March 6 (UPI) -- U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Wednesday President Barack Obama was "trying to make it tough" on Congress by canceling White House tours.
Administration officials said public tours will be canceled beginning Saturday due to the automatic $85 billion in across-the-board cuts to federal spending. Members of Congress, whose offices set up public tours of the White House, were notified of the change in an email Tuesday.
During an interview Wednesday on CNBC, Boehner said public tours of the Capitol were not affected by the spending cuts, and suggested the administration is playing politics by canceling White House tours.
"The president is trying to make it tough on members of Congress," Boehner said. "It's just silly. I want to know who is being laid off at the White House. The Capitol is open for tours. We've been planning for this for months."
"Due to staffing reductions resulting from sequestration, we regret to inform you that White House tours will be canceled effective Saturday, March 9, 2013, until further notice," the White House email to members of Congress said. "Unfortunately, we will not be able to reschedule affected tours. We very much regret having to take this action, particularly during the popular spring touring season."
"So much for the most open administration in history," a congressional GOP aide told Politico. "I guess the only way for the public to visit the White House now is to donate to Organizing for Action," the president's non-profit organization.
A House aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Roll Call the cancellation "creates a constituent relations nightmare" for members of Congress, who must inform constituents of the change.
Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, suggested the White House was deploying what's known in the Capitol as the Washington Monument strategy -- using the threat of shutting down popular attractions as leverage to get budget cuts reversed.
"I understand the strategy of the administration: They're trying to make it as ugly as possible to put as much pressure as possible on Republicans to change their position," Simpson said. "It's just not going to happen."
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, introduced an amendment to a spending bill barring use of funds in the bill to transport the president to a golf course until public White House tours resume, Roll Call said.


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Margaret Costello
Associate Professor of Law
- J.D. Detroit College of Law '88
- M.A. University of Michigan '77
- M.A. Southern Illinois University '76
- B.S. Pennsylvania State University '74
Professor Costello was instrumental in establishing the Veterans Law Clinic at the University of Detroit Mercy Law School, and currently teaches the Clinic. She also teaches a seminar in Advanced Torts. An experienced litigator and mediator, she practiced in the Detroit office of the law firm Dykema Gossett for more than 20 years. She is a past Chair of that firm's Pro Bono Committee and Diversity Committee. Ms. Costello focused her practice on litigation and appeals, including product liability, bankruptcy and commercial litigation, and international arbitration. Also a licensed psychologist, she received her B.S. degree from Penn State University and her J.D. degree, summa cum laude, from Detroit College of Law; she also holds graduate degrees from the University of Michigan and Southern Illinois University. A frequent lecturer and trainer on topics related to litigation and dispute resolution, Ms. Costello also has been an adjunct professor at Detroit College of Law/Michigan State University College of Law.
Significant Professional Achievements and Awards:
Michigan Super Lawyer (2006, 2007, 2008)
DBusiness Top Lawyer (2009)
Martindale-Hubbell current rating of Preeminent
Past-President Women Lawyers Association of Michigan, Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association and Wayne Center Board of Directors
State Bar of Michigan Board of Commissioners (current)
2005 Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association President's Award and State Bar of Michigan John W. Cummiskey Award for Pro Bono Service
1998 Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association Pro Bono Excellence Award
Claims Procedures, Right to Appeal, and Representation Before the VA, in "Advising Clients on VA Benefits" (ICLE 4/22/10)
Methodology is the Key to Exclusion of Expert Testimony: Allgood v. General Motors, W.L.F. Legal Backgrounder Vol. 22 (co-authored with Krista L. Lenart) (2007)
Retaining Diversity Through Mentoring: Theory and Practice, Newsletter of Section of Litigation Comm. on Products Liability Litigation, Vol. 18(1) (2007)
Trying Your First Case in Michigan, (National Business Institute, 2002)
Basics of Civil Litigation in Michigan for Paralegals and Legal Assistants (Half Moon, L.L.C., 2000)
Use of Engineering Experts in the Automobile Accident Case, in "After the Accident" (ICLE, 2/29/2000)
Women in the Legal Profession: You've Come a Long Way – Or Have You?, 3 DET. C.L. REV. 909 (1997)
Arguing in the Hague (co-authored with Ted T. Amsden), 73 MICH. BAR. JOURN. 1094 (1994)
Note, Longstreth v. Gensel: Expanding Liability of the Social Host, 2 DET. C.L. REV. 581 (1986)
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Our former congressman, conservative Republican Charles Taylor of Brevard, was fond of saying government could �mess up a one-car funeral.� Seeming to prove this point is the mess created for hospitals large and small, including our own Pardee Hospital, by the collective actions of the Obama administration, congressional Democrats, the U.S. Supreme Court, Gov. Pat McCrory and GOP leaders in the N.C. General Assembly.
Our former congressman, conservative Republican Charles Taylor of Brevard, was fond of saying government could �mess up a one-car funeral.� Seeming to prove this point is the mess created for hospitals large and small, including our own Pardee Hospital, by the collective actions of the Obama administration, congressional Democrats, the U.S. Supreme Court, Gov. Pat McCrory and GOP leaders in the N.C. General Assembly.
Pardee may lose $13.76 million next year as a result of federal and state budget cuts, CEO Jay Kirby told the hospital�s board last week. That includes a loss of $1.13 million from the federal sequestration that began April 1, $4.44 million in cuts due to federal health care reform and an expected $8.2 million from state budget cuts.
The $4.44 million in cuts projected under the federal Affordable Care Act would have been more than offset by $6.62 million the hospital would have received through Medicaid if North Carolina had joined other states in expanding the health care program for low-income people. But Gov. McCrory and state lawmakers decided not to expand Medicaid, saying it made no sense to enlarge a system that lost $330 million in cost overruns last year.
Pardee, like many hospitals, was expecting to see a higher percentage of Medicaid patients and more funding through expanded Medicaid. If North Carolina remains among the 14 states that have so far rejected expanding Medicaid, costs for the hospital over the long term will be much higher than the $6.62 million the hospital stands to lose in the coming year.
Cuts to Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act are expected to cost the hospital $54 million over 10 years. If the hospital can�t recoup those funds over the next decade, it will have a hard time staying financially afloat, Kirby said earlier this year.
N.C. Sen. Tom Apodaca, R-Hendersonville, counters: �I don�t know how they can project a loss on something they never had.� He has a point, but it doesn�t change the math with which the hospital will have to deal.
Apodaca is among GOP leaders who fought against expanding Medicaid in a quixotic quest to slay the Obamacare beast. They hope if enough states refuse to expand Medicaid, they can halt or force fundamental changes to health care reform.
There�s one big problem with that line of thinking though: Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act � whatever you want to call it � is the law of the land. And states that reject Medicaid expansion are putting themselves, their businesses and their residents at a competitive disadvantage to states that are moving forward to expand Medicaid.
Health care reform was devised under the premise that all states would expand Medicaid to cover residents earning up to 138 percent of poverty level. Many Republicans view this as a vast expansion of government largess and dependency. But other Republican governors who opposed Obamacare in Arizona, Ohio, Florida and New Jersey have decided to accept Medicaid expansion and the federal dollars that come with it.
The federal government has pledged to pay all costs for three years and 90 percent thereafter for states that expand Medicaid. In North Carolina, the expansion would cost the state an estimated $850 million the first six years but would bring in $16 billion.
The big picture impact of those figures is illustrated in a new report by the RAND Corp., a nonprofit research organization. The report found that the 14 states with governors opposed to expanding Medicaid collectively stand to lose $8.4 billion a year. What�s more, the report predicts these states will end up paying an additional $1 billion in 2016 to cover increased levels of �uncompensated care� � the kind hospitals like Pardee provide to uninsured residents. Worst of all from a human standpoint, 3.6 million people may be left without health care coverage, including an estimated 500,000 in North Carolina.
GOP leaders say the inefficiency of the state�s Medicaid system is sucking money out of state government and driving budget cuts to state agencies and the UNC system. Gov. McCrory has left the door open to expanding Medicaid once this �broken� system is fixed.
State leaders should get with it and reform Medicaid, then reverse the blunder they made in rejecting expansion. Our health care system has enough problems as it is without having to cope with a massive self-inflicted wound.


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About Katherine Ancona:
Katherine Ancona is a Registered Dietitian for Whitsons Culinary Group. She received her Master's Degree in Food, Nutrition, and Culinary Science from Clemson University in 2013. While attending Clemson University, she led a team of undergraduate students in modifying recipes to be healthier. She is most interested in wellness, pediatric, and culinary nutrition, and she also serves as a volunteer for the Kids Eat Right Campaign. Katherine completed her dietetic internship at Oklahoma State University in 2014, and began working for Whitson's Culinary Group as a Registered Dietitian in August of 2016.
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We all saw the report from Murilee just under an hour ago, and now we're hearing from numerous sources that the 24 Hours of LeMons race has taken a tragic turn. Our sources tell us the driver of the Volvo 242 Turbo in Gulf Oil colors (pictured above before the race, and below from the Thunderhill LeMons race last year) has died. We're waiting on more as we hear it from team V8olvo as well as others at the Altamont 24 Hours of LeMons. If this news ends up being true, our prayers, thoughts and well-wishes go out to the family, friends and teammates. All we do know for sure is that racing has been halted for the day and will supposedly resume again tomorrow. Although if it is true, that may just be wishful thinking. Updated below the jump — and with new photos below thanks to Mark Pitts.
UPDATE: If you remember, the 242 Turbo was actually the inspiration for the choice of the V8olvo.
UPDATE #2: The V8olvo happened to be right behind the 242 Turbo when it crashed. We're told it went into the wall at speed which made our team think perhaps something happened before the crash to the driver.
UPDATE #3: We have confirmation from a source with close ties to the team that there was indeed a fatality. We are withholding the name and other identifying characteristics until we're given the OK from the family and team.
UPDATE #4: The folks over at Bryan's Message Board have been chronicling the adventures of "Team Porcubimmer" — as such, a few of the forum fan-boys (and girls) were in the stands at Altamont. Here's one of their recaps of what happened:
he shot forward and sped up right before the turn, and went head on into the wall. didn't break, didn't turn...i didn't see anyone bump him. best guess is that he passed out and his foot just acted like a lead weight... but that's just based on the fact that he blasted forward so suddenly and made a beeline for the wall...took them forever to get a fucking tarp up. i was up in the stands with my dad, and he was really upset that it took them so long to do that.
Yes, of course it's speculation — but the rest of the account helps provide more verification for what we've been told was seen out at the track.
UPDATE #5: We've just received the following e-mail from a team member of the victim of the crash with his name, age and a little bit more detail on what may have happened:
The CHP reported that the car was in working order. No mechanical failure seems to have appeared...the impact was estimated at 50 to 60 MPH...Cort Summerfield was 46 years old (02/01/1961)


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Stern College for Women regards plagiarism as a serious act of academic dishonesty. "Plagiarism" means presenting someone else's work as your own. Plagiarism can be an act of deliberate fraud, such as turning in as your own work a paper wholly or partially cut-and-pasted from the Internet, or it may be an inadvertent error, such as forgetting to cite a source whose ideas you paraphrased or meant to quote.
Instances of plagiarism are reported to the Dean and may become a part of your permanent file. Penalties for plagiarism range from receiving a failing grade on the essay to receiving a failing grade for the course, loss of honors, suspension or expulsion from school.
Whatever the penalty, being caught in an act of plagiarism can poison your relationship with your teacher, the department or the whole college, and may hurt your efforts to continue your education.
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The move to create a network of marine protected areas that spans the entire globe took a huge step forward at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which ended last week in Bonn.
On Friday, May 30, the 9th Conference of the Parties to the CBD adopted two groundbreaking marine decisions that will provide important tools for conserving marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction, otherwise known as the high seas.
The first deals with marine protected areas and the second with climate change in relation to the world's oceans.
For the first time, Parties adopted scientific criteria for identifying areas in need of protection in open ocean waters and deep sea habitats in their decision on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity. They also adopted scientific guidance for designing representative networks of marine protected areas.
These criteria are an important mechanism for promoting international cooperation to protect important areas in the high seas. The criteria and guidance were developed at a CBD expert workshop and are based on a rigorous consolidation of over 20 existing sets of criteria applied nationally, regionally and globally, including those developed by IUCN.
The decision also urged Parties and invited other governments and relevant organizations to apply the scientific criteria and guidance to implement conservation measures, such as networks of marine protected areas in the high seas.
An expert workshop is to review and consolidate progress on the identification of marine areas beyond national jurisdiction that meet the scientific criteria.
"The results will contribute directly to progress at the sectoral and regional levels as well as at the United Nations General Assembly, where governments are discussing next steps for the management and governance of areas beyond national jurisdiction," says Kristina Gjerde, IUCN's High Seas Policy Advisor.
The move to clamp down on unregulated activities in the world's oceans also made progress. Parties decided to set up an expert workshop to develop guidance for carrying out environmental impact assessments before such activities are allowed.
"Activities such as ocean fertilization – where nutrients like iron or nitrogen are added to the ocean in the hope that the resulting phytoplankton bloom will provide long-term storage of carbon dioxide – have been able to take place with no scrutiny whatsoever," says Imène Meliane, IUCN's Marine Policy Coordinator. "Developing these guidelines will help ensure such unregulated activities can't just happen with nobody checking how they affect the marine environment."
Parties also adopted a "de facto" moratorium on ocean fertilization, with the exception of small-scale scientific activities. This decision came after scientists reviewing the evidence on ocean fertilization concluded that "based on scientific projections, there is the potential for significant risks of harm to the marine environment" even if direct scientific evidence on the environmental impact was still lacking.
The scientists were meeting under the auspices of the London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matters and its 1996 Protocol, the treaties regulating the dumping of wastes and other matter at sea. They met from 19-23 May in Guayaquil, Ecuador.


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Stratford University completed an affiliation with Baltimore International College (BIC) to assume the educational and operational functions of BIC effective January 1, 2012. Stratford University's School of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management will offer degree programs at the former BIC campuses on 210 South Central Avenue.
Stratford University is admitting new students into the culinary arts and hospitality management degree programs. Prospective students can contact Admissions at 1-800-624-9926, or visit our Culinary School page for more information.
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As the country seemed headed over the "fiscal cliff" Friday, local congressmen on opposite sides of the political aisle held to positions that echoed their leaders.
Pass the tax bill the Democratic-led Senate already passed, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat, said.
Pass the tax bill the Republican-led House already passed, U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, a Republican, said.
Neither seemed overly hopeful about a resolution, even before a mid-afternoon meeting of President Barack Obama and House and Senate Republican and Democratic leaders.
"I always try to remain hopeful, but the honest answer is I think it's more likely that there's not an agreement than ... there would be," Mr. Casey said.
"I haven't been in Washington a long time, but in my short experience ⦠standard procedure in dealing with any of these tough issues is it's usually last-minute," Mr. Barletta said. "And then you're forced to vote for something that's not even good policy, but the alternative is worse for the country. And it seems like that's the direction we're heading again."
The cliff
The term fiscal cliff refers to the combination of the end of the Bush-era tax cuts and automatic across-the-board spending cuts that will both go into effect Jan. 1. Economists say allowing that to happen could thrust the nation back into recession. Many analysts believe Congress, even if it misses the New Year's Day deadline, will come to its senses in January and pass a solution.
Senate bill
The Senate bill, passed in July, would allow tax rates to rise on wages, capital gains and dividends for earnings of more than $250,000, meaning rates would stay the same for earnings below that even for the wealthy.
Under that bill, Bush-era tax cuts would be extended for 98 percent of taxpayers, Mr. Casey said.
"Let's not let the House hold middle-income families hostage to a debate about the top 2 percent," he said. "It's wrong. It's not only bad for those families, but it's bad for the economy."
If nothing else, Mr. Casey said, delay the automatic across-the-board cuts sure to hurt many worthy programs and wait to cut spending in a smart, disciplined and balanced way.
"The problem with the (fiscal cliff) is not only the substantial nature of it, but the arbitrary nature of it," he said.
House bill
The House bill, which Mr. Barletta and U.S. Rep. Tom Marino supported, would extend the Bush-era tax cuts another year.
Mr. Barletta said he would have supported House Speaker John Boehner's "Plan B" solution to the fiscal cliff. Its main piece was continuing the Bush tax cuts on everyone who earns less than $1 million but allowing them to expire on incomes above that.
Mr. Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said he lacked the votes from members in his own party to get that bill passed. Unable to get any Democratic help, he canceled a vote on the bill last week.
Mr. Casey criticized the dynamic as the work of conservative House Republicans elected in 2010.
"And for whatever reason, Speaker Boehner doesn't seem to be able to able to negotiate for his side. And if you don't have a leader who can do that, it makes it very hard to get things done," the senator said.
Mr. Barletta, who was elected in 2010, had a different take on what happened. He would have voted for Plan B, but Democrats balked at it.
"What the public didn't get an opportunity to see is I think there's a large majority of our conference that would agree to raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires," he said. "There were some, obviously, that did not want to and we weren't going to get any Democrat votes so we had to carry it ourselves. And that's where the problem came with Plan B."
He also acknowledged he wanted to see more spending cuts attached to it.
"I don't believe we should take more money from taxpayers and send it to Washington just so they could spend the money," he said. "I believe it's a short-term fix and we'll be looking for more money if we do that."
Efforts to reach Mr. Marino, R-10, Lycoming Twp., and Republican Sen. Pat Toomey were unsuccessful.
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Sorry for not posting the last couple days! My kids are on Spring Break this week. I will have a couple lunch photos to post from this week, but finding time with all my little nutter butters under my feet and in my hair all day leaves me no time to post!
Very soon a lot of fantastic things will be happening here at Another Lunch! Autism Awareness month marches on and with it... my very first Giveaway! And I think it's a very very good one! Stay tuned on that, I really don't think you want to miss it. :)
I also have some really neat new containers to tell you all about. I've been trying them out for a couple weeks and they are great!
AND my blog will soon have a whole new look. All you peeps reading from a blog reader and not from the actual website will be missing out on some really lovely things!
Lots of fun things in store!
Be back soon! :)
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Spring Fever!
Posted by Melissa at 7:43 PM
5 comments:
- Luv_Bug said... [Reply to comment]
I can't wait!
- April 8, 2010 at 8:43 PM
- Susan B. said... [Reply to comment]
looking forward to new posts, new photos, new boxes to review & the giveaway!
Happy Spring! :)
- April 8, 2010 at 9:19 PM
- Jayne said... [Reply to comment]
Can I just say that I'm TOTALLY into your blog! You've found your niche :) You're really, really good at this, Melissa. Honest tozz! I'm looking forward to whatever you have up your sleeve. Happy Spring Break!
- April 8, 2010 at 9:32 PM
- Mathmom and family said... [Reply to comment]
I've really missed your posts this week, but I'm so glad you are enjoying Spring Break.
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"The Indiana Hoosiers are an unbelievable great, great storied program," Lipscomb University head coach Scott Sanderson said. "When I look at Indiana, I think of Kentucky, North Carolina, and other programs that have been mainstays in college basketball for decades."
Sanderson's Bisons (4-6, 1-1 A-Sun) will face the Hoosiers (5-6, 0-0 Big Ten) Sunday at 5 p.m. at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind. The game will be televised on the Big Ten Network. The Lipscomb Sports Network will carry a free audio stream at www.LipscombSports.com/sportsnetwork/.
This year's Hoosiers are in a deep rebuilding mode following a string of recruiting violations by former head coach Kelvin Sampson.
Indiana lost 98.8 percent of its scoring and 96.9 percent from last year's squad that went 25-8. Only senior Kyle Taber and sophomore walk-on Brett Finkelmeier returned.
First year head coach Tom Crean has started the rebuilding process for Indiana and has received Sanderson's praise for his coaching.
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Sunday marks the one-year anniversary since the Bisons defeated Marshall 72-62 for the program's most high-profile victory.
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Sanderson and his staff are actively recruiting players from the basketball-frenzy state.
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Lipscomb sophomore center Adnan Hodzic and sophomore forward Michael Teller both hail from Indiana. Hodzic played at North Central High in Indianapolis where he was teammates with former Hoosier Eric Gordon and current Hoosier Steven Gambles. Teller played at McCutcheon High School in Lafayette.
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Monday against Elon he scored a career high 25 points. Hodzic has set or tied career highs for rebounds in a game three times in December.
He will matchup against freshman Tom Pritchard, the Cleveland Plain Dealer Ohio Player of the Year last year.
Pritchard, a 6-foot-9 forward, is averaging 16.4 points and 10.1 rebounds in Assembly Hall. He posted his fourth double-double of the season Monday with 12 points and 14 rebounds against Northeastern.
"He's a very good low post player," Sanderson said. "He's a big and strong lefty and he knows how to play with his back to the basket."
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Sunday's game will be the final non-conference game for Lipscomb before returning home on Jan. 3 to face Florida Gulf Coast.
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"We need to make some shots," Sanderson said. "We haven't shot the ball particularly well all year."
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Republicans Balk at White House Plan to Avert Fiscal Crisis — WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner presented the House speaker, John A. Boehner, a detailed proposal on Thursday to avert the year-end fiscal crisis with $1.6 trillion in tax increases over 10 years …
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McConnell 'Burst Into Laughter' as Geithner Outlined Obama's Plan — Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, says he "burst into laughter" Thursday when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner outlined the administration proposal for averting the fiscal cliff.
Discussion: Washington Examiner, Whiskey Fire, Philly.com, The Lonely Conservative, Guardian, National Review and The Hill
Robert Costa / National Review: Boehner's Slides — On Wednesday morning, Speaker John Boehner huddled …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill: McConnell slams the door on raising tax rates in deficit deal
Daniel Newhauser / Roll Call:
Boehner Angered by Leak of Phone Call — Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio and Republican leaders are fuming after a late night phone call with President Barack Obama was leaked to the press, despite an agreement that it would not be, according to several GOP aides.
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Nice Deb: As Republican leaders Fume About Leaked WH Phone Call, Maybe We Should Move Secret Fiscal Negotiations …
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GOP Rejects Cliff Offer From Obama — President Barack Obama made an opening bid in budget talks with Republicans that calls for a $1.6 trillion tax increase, $50 billion in infrastructure spending in 2013 and new power to raise the federal debt limit, a provocative set of demands that Republicans …
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Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider: It's Hilarious That Futures Are Higher
Damian Paletta / Washington Wire: The Debt Ceiling Returns to Center Stage
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Boehner, House GOP reject debt deal offer from White House — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday rejected a White House offer to avoid the "fiscal cliff" that would include $1.6 trillion in tax increases, $400 billion in spending cuts and a more permanent increase in the debt ceiling, Republican aides said.
Discussion: Politico and Booman Tribune
Philip Ewing / Politico: Senators brush off White House defense bill veto threat
USA Today:
GOP calls White House cliff offer a non-starter
GOP calls White House cliff offer a non-starter
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Sundance / The Last Refuge: Dear Leader's Fiscal Cliff Proposal: $1.6 Trillion In Tax Hikes, $50 Billion In Stimulus Spending …
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Obama's Fiscal Cliff Proposal: $1.6 Trillion In Tax Hikes, $50 Billion In Stimulus Spending …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Senator: Obama's 'Plan' a 'Fabrication'
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Obama to GOP: I'm done negotiating with myself
Obama to GOP: I'm done negotiating with myself
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Alexis Levinson / The Daily Caller:
Gingrich: House Republicans should stop negotiating with President Obama
Gingrich: House Republicans should stop negotiating with President Obama
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Anjali Sareen / Mediaite: Newt Gingrich Slams House Republicans For Negotiating With President Obama: 'Get A Grip!'
Directorblue / Doug Ross: JUST BOUNCE: Stunned pundits react to Obama's "balanced deal" of no cuts, tax hikes, and increased spending
Sdesprat / Twitchy: Surf's up! Obamas taking $4 million Hawaiian vacation as America plunges over fiscal cliff
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama, Romney have White House turkey chili summit
Obama, Romney have White House turkey chili summit
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Jessica Yellin / CNN: Fiscal stalemate: A new proposal and more accusations
Emily Goodin / Ballot Box: OVERNIGHT CAMPAIGN: Glimpses of Romney
David Firestone / Taking Note: Medicare Off the Menu
Russell Berman / The Hill: 'Disappointed' Boehner calls on Obama to get serious on spending in deficit talks
Justin Sink / The Hill: Romney, Ryan meet off Capitol Hill
Why President Obama Isn't Using His Most Powerful Weapon — Again
Why President Obama Isn't Using His Most Powerful Weapon — Again
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Joshua Green / Business Week: The Science Behind Those Obama Campaign E-Mails
Washington Post:
Obama makes fresh demands on 'fiscal cliff'
Obama makes fresh demands on 'fiscal cliff'
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Jim Geraghty / National Review: The State of the Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine: Obama Surprises GOP With an Opening Fiscal Cliff Offer They Hate
Erika Johnsen / Hot Air: Quotes of the day — Boehner said he was "disappointed" …
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
White House: Obama And Romney "Pledged To Stay In Touch"
White House: Obama And Romney "Pledged To Stay In Touch"
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Peter Baker / The Caucus: Romney Visits the White House
Fox News:
Boehner says negotiations over looming fiscal crisis 'not a game'
Boehner says negotiations over looming fiscal crisis 'not a game'
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The GOP's Medicare confusion
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Jason Williams / MyDD: "Back to 1965..." — Ezra Klein notes the "peculiar impasse" …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: What Do Republicans Want? — You want me to cut Medicare by $500 billion?
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run: Is John Boehner Dumb Enough to Take $400 Billion in Cuts a Decade From Now in Exchange …
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon: Liberals double down: No entitlement cuts
Greg Sargent / Washington Post: Inside the 'fiscal cliff' haggling over Medicare
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog: The Medicare cuts the GOP refuses to identify
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Tough Spot For the Saviors of Medicare
US Department of State:
Explanation of Vote by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Following UN General Assembly Vote on Palestinian Observer State Status Resolution — Thank you, Mr. President. — For decades, the United States has worked to help achieve a comprehensive end …
Discussion: National Review and The Spectacle Blog
Aaron Goldstein / The Spectacle Blog: Thoughts on Susan Rice's Pro-Israel Turn
New York Times:
General Assembly Grants Palestine Upgraded Status in U.N. — UNITED NATIONS — More than 130 countries voted on Thursday to grant Palestine the upgraded status of nonmember observer state in the United Nations, a stinging defeat for Israel and the United States and a boost for President Mahmoud Abbas …
Discussion: NPR, News Desk, The Hill, Hot Air, Los Angeles Times, msnbc.com, Weekly Standard and Balloon Juice
Eyder Peralta / NPR: U.N. Votes To Give Palestinians 'Non-Member Observer State' Status
David Remnick / News Desk: Palestine's Man in the Middle
Julian Pecquet / The Hill: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen to call for cutting UN, Palestinian funds over statehood vote
Allahpundit / Hot Air: UN votes to recognize Palestine as non-member state
Edmund Sanders / Los Angeles Times: Palestinians celebrate expected victory at U.N.
LaToya Bowlah / msnbc.com: The General Assembly upgrades Palestinians' status
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: U.S.: 'This Resolution Does Not Establish that Palestine Is a State'
John Cole / Balloon Juice: What Does This Vote Mean
Associated Press:
UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to recognize state of Palestine; US, Israel object — UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state, a long-sought victory for the Palestinians but an embarrassing diplomatic defeat for the United States.
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: "defamatory and venomous speech that was full of mendacious propaganda"
Ron Prosor / Wall Street Journal:
What Kind of Palestinian State?
What Kind of Palestinian State?
Discussion: New York Times, Pirate's Cove, Spectator, The Investigative Project …, Telegraph, BREITBART.COM and Hot Air
Isabel Kershner / New York Times: After Vote, Palestinians and Israel Search for the Next Step
William Teach / Pirate's Cove: UN Approves Palestinian Observer Status Resolution
Douglas Murray / Spectator: Abbas and the death of the two-state solution
Joel Himelfarb / The Investigative Project …: Abbas, Hamas Poised for U.N. Victory
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM: EXCLUSIVE: UN CONSPIRES TO EXPEL PROMINENT JEWISH GROUP FROM PALESTINE VOTE
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Germany reverses on Palestinian bid at UN General Assembly
Joshua Mitnick / Wall Street Journal:
Palestinians Granted U.N. 'State' Status
Palestinians Granted U.N. 'State' Status
Discussion: New York Magazine, Palestinian Media Watch, Atlas Shrugs and Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes'
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine: Palestine Becomes a U.N. 'Observer State,' U.S. Makes It Clear They Aren't Happy
Palestinian Media Watch: PA: UN vote turns terrorists into freedom fighters and disputed land into occupied land
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs: savage vote — More terror under an increasingly weak America on the world stage.
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
For Secretary of State, G.O.P. Pushes Old Hand — WASHINGTON — As President Obama's potential nominee for secretary of state, Susan E. Rice, comes under increasing fire, Congressional Republicans appear to be coalescing around a familiar name as an alternative candidate …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Susan Rice's Enrichment Program
Susan Rice's Enrichment Program
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Susan Rice's Investments in Business Dealing with Iran
David Martosko / The Daily Caller: Susan Rice has six-figure investment in controversial Canadian oil pipeline company
Doug Brady / Conservatives4Palin: More.
Dan Frosch / Green:
Stake in Keystone Pipeline Is Potential Conflict for Susan Rice
Stake in Keystone Pipeline Is Potential Conflict for Susan Rice
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Maggie Caldwell / Mother Jones: Susan Rice May Have Major Financial Stake in Keystone Pipeline
Wendy Gittleson / Addicting Info: Now It's The Left's Turn To Turn On Susan Rice?
Andy Towle / Towleroad News #gay: Susan Rice Stake in Keystone Pipeline Could Be Stumbling Block in Confirmation Hearings
Steven Mufson / Washington Post: Rice connected to Keystone pipeline company
Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
McCain Gets Petty On Susan Rice Attacks: It's 'Meaningless To Take Out Core Al-Qaeda'
McCain Gets Petty On Susan Rice Attacks: It's 'Meaningless To Take Out Core Al-Qaeda'
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Rush Limbaugh:
Just Walk Away, Republicans — RUSH: I'm having trouble coming up with a term for this. But the conventional wisdom, the groupthink, I mean, folks, I don't care where you go, and this is not a criticism. I'm actually looking at this in wonderment. I don't care where you go.
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Pew Social & Demographic Trends:
U.S. Birth Rate Falls to a Record Low; Decline Is Greatest Among Immigrants — OVERVIEW — The U.S. birth rate dipped in 2011 to the lowest ever recorded, led by a plunge in births to immigrant women since the onset of the Great Recession. — The overall U.S. birth rate …
Discussion: The Week, Washington Examiner, BBC, NBC Latino, Wonkblog and Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes'
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner: U.S. birth rate fell in 2011 to the lowest ever recorded
Sandra Lilley / NBC Latino: Report: U.S. birth rates hit record lows, largest drop among immigrant Latinas
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U.S. birth rate plummets to its lowest level since 1920
U.S. birth rate plummets to its lowest level since 1920
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid must wrestle with undecided Dems to reform filibuster rules — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) may be short on votes he needs to force changes to the Senate's filibuster rules, as nine Democratic senators sit on the fence about the proposed reforms.
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Cruz lays out pathway for more inclusive GOP — Washington (CNN) - Ted Cruz, the Republican senator-elect from Texas who's replacing retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, knows he doesn't quite fit certain molds found in Washington. — "I'm something that's not supposed to exist: An Hispanic Republican," he said.
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David Catanese / Politico: Ted Cruz speech stokes 2016 speculation
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GOP fumes as TSA head skips aviation security hearing — Republicans on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee sharply criticized the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for skipping a scheduled hearing on Thursday. — TSA Administrator John Pistole was listed …
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Faced with questions Monday regarding the 8-mile stretch of Remington Rd. between U.S. 56 and Pilsen, county commissioners expounded their best solution to improve the road.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -3.10% on Tuesday reported a fourth-quarter profit of $97 million, or 21 cents a share, on revenue of $21.27 billion. During the same period a year ago, the online retailing giant earned $177 million, or 38 cents a share, on $17.43 billion in sales. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had forecast Amazon to earn 28 cents a share on revenue of $22.26 billion. Operating income, considered a key measure of Amazon's business performance, came in at $405 million, compared with $260 million in the year-ago period. The company forecast first-quarter revenue in a range of $15 billion to $16.6 billion, and expects operational results to be between a loss of $285 million and a profit of $65 million.
Amazon's earnings fall 45%
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