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Among the 96 students to be honored next Monday at 6:30 p.m., at a banquet at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel Ballroom are Cedar Bluff's Jim Nelson and Kai Wen, Piedmont's Chase Childers and Cherokee County High School's Susan Chesnut. Twelve class winners and the two overall state winners will be announced at the banquet.
Nelson, Childers and Chesnut claimed their respective regions' scholar-athlete awards. Wen claimed his respective region's achievement award.
The Bryant-Jordan Student-Athlete Program was created in 1986 by the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in conjunction with the AHSAA.
The objectives of the program are to recognize and honor Alabama students who have by ability and effort achieved a level of excellence in the areas of academics and athletics that is commensurate with their potential.
The program is also designed to make the student body aware that it is both important and rewarding for them to strive to be the best that they can be.
The initial scholarship offered by the Bryant-Jordan Program was the scholar athlete scholarship. In 1989 the Achievement Award was created. This award is designed to reward the student-athlete who achieves beyond his/her ability both academically and athletically or who may have overcome some obstacle or hardship to achieve success.
Ninety-six scholarships are awarded annually to deserving high school seniors from schools that are members of the Alabama High School Athletic Association. The program has grown from an $8,000 award program to the present over $800,000.
Butler's Trevor Lacey and Ramsay's Kaneisha Horn were named Mr. and Miss Basketball by the Alabama Sports Writers Association. The awards were announced last Wednesday at the ASWA's annual Player of the Year luncheon. The event was held at The Birmingham News and presented by the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.
Lacey, a junior, and Horn, a senior, were the top vote getters among the ASWA's Super Five selections as voted by the group's prep committee. First-team all-state selections in their respective classes were eligible for Super Five selection, but only Players of the Year in each class were eligible for the ASWA's top award.
After helping the Rebels to state championships in 2008 and 2009, Lacey led Butler to a No. 1 ranking for most of the season, before a knee injury in the area final against eventual state champion Lee sidelined him for the remainder of the season.
Still, he was a first team Class 5A selection for the third-straight season which saw him average 22 points, seven rebounds and three assists. Lacey beat out Huntsville-area foe Levi Randolph of Bob Jones by a 171-125 margin with K.T. Harrell of Brewbaker Tech close behind Randolph in third with 123 points. Muscle Shoals senior Ralston Turner was fourth (96) and Lee-Huntsville's Josh Langford was fifth (52) rounding out the boys' Super Five.
After missing nearly all of the 2009 season with a knee injury, Horn returned with a vengeance – averaging 17 points, 12 rebounds and four assists a game. She earned the state Gatorade Player of the Year award, was named a second-team Parade All-American, and is a finalist for the prestigious Naismith Award, awarded annually by the Atlanta Tipoff Club to the nation's best basketball player. She was an ASWA Class 5A first-team selection as a sophomore and a Class 4A first-team selection this year.
Horn topped runner-up Tyrese Tanner of Hoover, 152-135, with Woodland's Courtney Strain third with 111. LeFlore's Shanece McKinney was fourth at 104 and Sunshine's Shafontaye Myers was fifth with 44.


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MIDLAND--Even though most people have never met him, through social media sites and news broadcasts, people have gotten to know Cody Hollums' amazing story of recovery.
The 28-year-old professional bullfighter was put in a coma for weeks after a bull struck him in the head a bullfighting event in Lufkin.
Hollums was lucky to be alive, and spent months in a hospital in Tyler and Lubbock.
"That doctor told me I spent eight of my nine lives" says Hollums.
Coming close to death has made Hollums appreciate his friends and family that much more.
Hollums met his girlfriend Britney at his cousin's wedding, and they've been dating for almost 5 years and she never left his bedside. Hollums says "she never left from Tyler to Lubbock she stayed with me the whole time which was nice because she was a big help".
Britney created a Facebook page the week of Hollums accident and it has 11,666 likes as of Thursday afternoon.
"For all the people who were supportive during that time, thank you" says Hollums about all of the people who've been helping him through his journey.
Hollums is still working on getting back to his old self, going to physical rehabilitation twice a week in Midland.
As far as bullfighting in his future, Hollums says "I don't think I can, if I don't have that desire and that want to like I used to then I won't do it".
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Music You Can Freely Use in Podcasts and Videos
Online music repository Jamendo has a wealth of Creative Commons-licensed music. Listening to a few tracks, I found the mix to be quite good. There are quite a few gems (listen to Legendary). About 1500 albums are on the site with the number increasing exponentially (illustrated below). Conveniently, you can download albums through Bittorrent or eMule. If you hear songs in French, don't be surprised since Jamendo was French-founded. Based on tag size and my own random sampling, electronica seems to dominate with rock, pop, and ambient a few steps behind. There's also some good relaxing music you can use to cool down at the end of the day.
Jamendo is a great resource if you want to add a track to your podcast or video you want to upload to Youtube. For one thing, you aren't going to be sued by the RIAA or have your video taken down. I've bookmarked several videos on Youtube that mysteriously vanished when I tried to go back to watch them again.
Overall, it's an awesome resource for remixing and sharing music and represents an interesting model for distributing music by bringing P2P and open licensing together. While studio released music is nice in its uniformity, Jamendo offers a nice way to access the long tail of music.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
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Sunday, May 06, 2012
An Amazing Collection of Free Photo Sites for Your Blog
Just having text in your blog posts can be a bit dry. Photos help to liven things up, giving visitors something colorful to look at, but it's often difficult to track down a photo that matches your post. It's even more difficult sometimes to tell if you're even allowed to use the photo once you've tracked down one that you like. A good rule of thumb to follow is that images found in government sources like NASA Images are likely in the public domain since they can't copyright their work.
Luckily, Lorelle on Wordpress has done a lot of hard work and assembled a very comprehensive list of photo sites that are likely to be freely usable by anyone. Gimme sites like Flickr are listed, but there are dozens of more obscure sources as well.
Warning: Restrictions may apply in some cases so look for information about usage rights. Sometimes, you'll have to give a link back to the source where you got the image or register at the site.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Clear Private Information from Firefox
1. Go to C:->Documents and Settings->Your User Name
->Application Data
2. Delete the Mozilla folder.
That will wipe everything, and when you restart Firefox, it'll create a new Mozilla folder.
If you aren't able to find the Application Data folder, it is probably because it is hidden. To make it visible, open up a folder and go to Tools->Folder Options->View.
Click on Show hidden files and folders and click OK. Then go back to step 1 and complete the process.
This method is only effective against casual privacy intrusions by nosey friends or parents. The data can still be retrieved through more sophisticated methods.
If you only want to delete the cache, cookies, and web history and not your custom browser settings, go to Firefox and go to Tools-> Clear Private Data. You can tweak the settings for this tool by going to Tools-> Options-> Privacy-> Settings.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Zamzar: Free Online File Converter
You can also convert multiple files at once although then you can only do one kind of file conversion.
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Billster Helps You Track Your Spending
Under the Bills tab, you can add personal expenses, group expenses, what's owed you, and what you owe. You can also tag your bills. A weakness is that, unlike Wesabe, you can't import your data directly from your bank. Manually entering your transactions data will probably get tiring although you can mark recurring payments as such, which reduces the burden slightly. The interface is similar to the one you use when doing e-banking (making single/recurring payments, etc.).The most helpful screen is the Dashboard where you can visualize the flow of cash in and out of your account. If you use tags carefully, you can also get a sense of the relative proportions of your spending. Do you spend a lot on haircuts? How much of your income goes to rent? There's also a half-baked six degrees-ish graphic that shows how many connections you have, how many your friends have, and so on. Maybe more social features will be added soon, and this feature will have added significance.
Once financially oriented sites start appearing, it's usually a sign that the market is maturing. I suspect we'll see several more popping up soon. Certainly, there have been a fair number of social stock-picking sites launching recently along with impressive rallies in the market.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Rihanna Good Morning America Interview (Video)
Rihanna was interviewed on "Good Morning America" today. The 21-year-old singer spoke with Diane Sawyer about her relationship with Chris Brown, her former boyfriend who assaulted her just before the Grammy Awards in February. In the video excerpt, Rihanna explains her decision to forgive Brown, and her subsequent decision to end the relationship:
When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result into some young girl getting killed, I could not be easy with that part. I couldn't be held responsible for telling them, 'Go back.' Even if Chris never hit me again, who's to say that their boyfriend won't? Who's to say they won't kill these girls?
Explaining her decision to vacation with Brown only weeks after the beating, Rihanna said, "But I'm a human being, and people put me on a very unrealistic pedestal. All these expectations - I'm not perfect." The full interview with Rihanna will air on "20/20" this Friday.
For his part, Chris Brown has expressed confusion at the incident, asking himself, "What was I thinking? What is wrong with you?"
Rihanna's next album, titled "Rated R", will be released on November 23.


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NCAA Playoff Preview Maryland and Cornell enter May looking to win their first NCAA title since the 70's.
Rutgers Scarlet Knights 2012 Game Day Gear
The IL Gear Zone returns with more 2012 NCAA Game Day Gear as we bring you an in-action look at the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, a team that traveled to the Carrier Dome in Syracuse on Feb. 19 to take on the Air Force Falcons. The Scarlet Knights won a close, hard-fought contest 11-10 over the Falcons as part of a triple-header.
Air Force Falcons 2012 Game Day Gear
The IL Gear Zone returns with more 2012 NCAA Game Day Gear as we bring you a look at the Air Force Falcons, a team that opened up the season against Rutgers in the Carrier Dome on Feb. 19. Inside Lacrosse and the Gear Zone were there, and we bring you a close look at the Falcons and their game day kits.
Loyola Greyhounds 2012 Game Day Gear
The Gear Zone gets out of the gates for Game Day Gear 2012 with the Loyola Greyhounds. The 'Hounds opened up their season last Saturday against the Blue Hens of Delaware - winning the bout 13 to 8 behind Eric Lusby's 4 goal performance.
Bellevue Washington Custom Apparel From Graph-Tex
The IL Gear Zone's good friends at Graph-Tex in Cortland, New York, never have any shortage of great custom team jerseys and apparel to share with us. Ben Connery and the rest of the Graph-Tex crew continue to pump out some of the best customized work in the lacrosse industry, and their work isn't limited to the East Coast.
UMass Minutemen Spend Some Time In The Gear Zone
UMass has hit the ground running in 2012. With two solid victories over Army (12-9) and Bucknell (11-9) the Minutemen enter this week ranked #10 in the Nike / IL Division I Poll.
Let's take a look at what the University of Massachusetts is repping up at the zoo.
In the gear Zone today is UMass's matte black Warrior TII helmets, maroon and white Warrior Regulator gloves with embroidered logo, two colored (black/white) Evolution head suited up with a custom UMass Warrior Krypto shaft. Not a bad set!
Army Black Knights 2012 Gear Charges Into The Gear Zone
The IL Gear Zone rolls out more of the best college gear of 2012 as we inspect some of what the guys at West Point will be wearing on the field this season. The Army Black Knights' kits enter the Gear Zone showcasing custom items from Brine, Warrior and Nike.
Rutgers Scarlet Knights Storm Into The Gear Zone
Rutgers drops a bomb (or a package) on the Gear Zone with their 2012 all-out gear debut. With new head coach Brian Brecht at the helm, the Knights look to make some waves in the Big East conference all while looking the part.
Hofstra Warrior Gear Takeover
The Gear Zone couldn't hold off any longer for Game Day Gear photos of Hofsta's new Warrior swag. So we had the gear gurus at Warrior send us the Pride's newly decked out uniforms and equipment to the office late last week.
Salisbury Warrior TII and Custom Gear 2012
2011 DIII National Champs Salisbury looks to defend their title in style. The Gear Zone takes a look at their custom Warrior TII helmet, Brine Lopro arm pads, Triumph gloves and Triumph arm guards.
The TII has a maroon shell with gold face mask and Salisbury "S" on the side.
The Brine Triumph arm and elbow guards are maroon / white while the Lopro arm pads are checkered maroon and gold.
Loyola Warrior TII Helmet and Gear
The 'Hounds of Loyola University have the most impressive helmet I've seen so far leading up to the 2012 season. Loyola put their own spin on the two-toned TII by taking the contrast vertical. Racing stripe inspired, the green spear starts from the back of the helmet and comes to a point on the brim. The white paint has a little shimmer mixed in and the face mask is painted loyola green.


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This article is aimed at exploring the details of Citigroup's (NYSE: C) deal with Best Buy and what specific benefits Citigroup could extract from it. The deal holds considerable importance for the bank's shareholders since it reverses Citi's strategy of selling its store-branded credit card business.
The Deal
In a step toward boosting the size of the bank's business, Citigroup's CEO Michael Corbat inked a deal with Best Buy to take over the electronics retailer's credit card operations from Capital One Financial. Citigroup will be able to manage and issue Best Buy's credit cards within the US. According to the news reported by Bloomberg, another deal will enhance Citigroup's loan portfolio with around $7 billion. Since loans are considered a bank's asset, this addition in the loans portfolio will help Citigroup increase its returns. The deals are expected to be closed by the third quarter of the current year, and the Citigroup's current year's results would not be affected by the deals.
Strategy Flip Flop
The store-branded cards business is the same business that Citigroup once sought to sell as part of its Citi Holdings unit. However, now the same Corbat who was heading Citi Holdings back then is committed to growing the size of this business. It's considered another premier retail franchise for Citi and already providing support to the bank's bottom line. Citigroup's store-branded cards business is already servicing over 90 million customers and reported a bottom line of $1.5 billion during 2012, compared to $1.48 billion in 2011. This growth in the bottom line came despite a 4% decline in the top line over the same time period.
Benefits Of Best Buy Deal
The addition of Best Buy's portfolio will allow Citigroup to add to its Citi Retail Services card portfolio, which currently ranks at an estimated $40 billion. The announced portfolio acquisition is consistent with Citigroup's re-segmentation of the business back into "core" operations, and its desire to grow loans and revenues.
My estimate is that this acquisition could add pre-tax profits within the range of $290 million -340 million in 2014. More importantly, this transaction will generate U.S.-based earnings, which will help Citigroup utilize its significant deferred tax assets before they expire. Currently, Citigroup's deferred tax assets have swelled to over $55 billion and still growing despite three years of profits.
The decision to keep the credit card business at Citigroup will be fruitful as it has been for its peers. JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM), the largest bank by assets in the US, reported fourth-quarter results that reflected strong underlying performance across virtually all its businesses, with strong lending and deposit growth. Dimon, JPM's CEO noted that the bank continues to see strong credit performance and favorable credit conditions across its credit card portfolio and wholesale loan portfolio, respectively. Credit card sales volumes climbed 9% over the prior year at JPMorgan, and deposits surged 10% over the same time period to $404 billion, up 3% sequentially.
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), another money center bank in the US reported 7% year over year growth in the number of new credit card accounts during 2012 while is credit card loss rate plunged during the fourth quarter of the prior year to the lowest level since the second quarter of 2006. The bank also reported 7% increase in the purchase volumes per average active credit card accounts during the fourth quarter.
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I believe Citigroup's Best Buy deal is strategically and financially attractive. Besides contributing to the bottom line of Citigroup, the deal is expected to help the bank realize some deferred tax benefits.
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Oxford, the city of dreaming spires, is famous the world over for its prestigious university and academic success. A beautiful mix of ancient and modern, it has become a busy and buzzing cosmopolitan town with a huge choice of restaurants, bars and nightclubs. The surrounding countryside by contrast offers a peaceful retreat from the busy city and a stunning setting for a country escape. We've created a weekend that offers the best of both, so you can enjoy both the calm of the country and the bright lights of a great night out.
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While there were more than 70,000 attendees at the America's Beauty Show in Chicago March 28-30, the event was still able to make a positive environmental impact.
While there were more than 70,000 attendees at the America's Beauty Show in Chicago March 28-30, the event was still able to make a positive environmental impact. As the first beauty show to host a SalonSpa Sustainability Summit in 2008 and again this year, the owners and producers of America's Beauty Show have made a commitment to integrating sustainability under three key elements: continued economic development to sustain our businesses, social progress to support and protect our communities, and an active and involved concern for the environment.
To that end, America's Beauty Show management worked with McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago to produce a successful, environmentally friendly, and sustainable event. Recycling, reusing, and reducing waste formed one of the key components of the program to help ensure that as much waste as possible was diverted from landfills.
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After the success of his highly rated debut album Camp, actor turned rapper turned raptor Childish Gambino has released his latest free project in the form of Royalty. The set includes previously-featured selections "Silk Pillow" and "We Ain't Them." Guest features includes Ab-Soul, Beck, Bun B, Chance the Rapper, Danny Brown, Ghostface Killah, Nipsey Hussle, RZA, ScHoolboy Q and more.
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Fantastic album. There are some weak tracks, the handful of lyrically dumbed down "banger" type tracks just don't hit the spot for me when it comes to Gambino.
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Shouldn't complain about free albums in the first place, tho this album even more so. Loving the flow Gambino rides on this album and the production is clean as well, without being over the top. Enjoyed the previous selections of "Silk Pillow" and "We Ain't Them", and tracks like "Unnecessary" continued the run of favorable listens.
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Childish Mothaf****** Gambino. My favorite rapper went HARD on this mixtape. He's the next big thang.
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Some tracks weren't really that good but still a great mixtape!
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Not something you can listen to from start to finish without skipping a few fillers but the good tracks are just really really good. Childish can never disappoint too much.
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CLEVELAND, N.C. (AP) — About 1,100 workers laid off from a factory that builds long-distance Freightliner trucks will be called back to work to meet increasing demand as economies in the U.S. and elsewhere improve, Daimler Trucks North America said Thursday.
"America moves on trucks. When the demand for trucks is increasing, it means that America is buying more products. It means that America is building more homes. It means that America is constructing more roads," Daimler Trucks chief operating officer Roger Nielsen said.
While growing demand in the U.S. and export markets in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are turning around, Nielsen said the decision to resume second-shift production is also due to Freightliner winning contracts over competitors.
"While construction is recovering slowly in the U.S. — it is recovering — the construction boom south of the equator is going to really grow," Nielsen said.
The recalled workers will increase employment at the largest Freightliner manufacturing plant in the U.S. from about 1,600 to over 2,700, according to Portland, Ore.-based Daimler Trucks. The unit is a division of Stuttgart, Germany-based Daimler AG. Expanded truck production at the Cleveland factory will be accompanied by an additional 100 jobs to a nearby parts plant in Gastonia, Nielsen said.
Daimler also owns a factory in Mount Holly that builds smaller Freightliner delivery trucks and a High Point factory that makes Thomas Built school buses.
The Freightliner plant in the Rowan County town of Cleveland employed about 3,500 workers before the recession led to layoffs that whittled employment to about 650. Financial incentives offered by Rowan County and the town of Cleveland in 2009 kept the remaining jobs as Freightliner started production of military vehicles.
Since then, the plant has seen a steady recovery, said Corey Hill, president of UAW local 3520. Expanded truck production at the Cleveland factory will be accompanied by an additional 100 jobs to a nearby parts plant in Gastonia, Nielsen said.
A majority of the positions will be filled with Freightliner workers who were laid off in 2009 and the added production will nearly double the factory's production by October 2012, the company said. The plant now builds about 90 trucks a day, Hill said.
The production increase is expected to cut the wait for a Freightliner Cascadia model truck from six months to about two months, Nielsen said. A third shift could be added later if demand continues to grow, he said.
If that happens, the jobs would have to be filled with newly hired workers since the just announced production increase will deplete the list of laid off plant workers retaining the right to take back their old places based on seniority, Hill said. The union's contract includes rights for laid-off workers to reclaim their jobs when conditions improve. Some laid-off workers will have moved on to other jobs and won't return to Freightliner, so some newly hired workers may need to be trained, Nielsen said.
The announcement carries economic and political implications beyond one company's fortunes.
Daimler announced its decision a day after the Federal Reserve said the final weeks of 2011 were among the year's strongest as consumers spent more and factories built more. The only one of the Fed's 12 districts that didn't experience growth was the one that includes North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland.
The economy and persistent unemployment promises to be the key issue in this year's elections as President Barack Obama targets North Carolina as a Southern lynchpin and Gov. Beverly Perdue tries to join him in highlighting better days ahead.
As hundreds of plant workers watched the announcement, UAW Southeast regional director Gary Casteel praised the Obama administration's policies for helping shore up the country's manufacturing base with "the type of jobs that pay our taxes and provide a strong backbone for the American economy."
"I look at trucking as the leading economic indicator for all industry. If you see one of these trucks rolling down the road, something good is on the back of it," Casteel said.
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., who frequently criticizes the Obama administration, said she's no different from everyone else in hoping the economy is rebounding.
"Everybody should celebrate," she said.


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Dicapo Opera Theatre will present the Opera For Kids favorite Beauty and the Beast with three performances beginning Saturday, December 1, 2012. Subsequent presentations take place Sunday, December 2, 2012. Saturday performances are at 11 a.m. & 2 p.m., and the final performance on Sunday at 11 a.m.
Vittorio Giannini's Beauty and the Beast tells the story of Beauty's two selfish sisters who plague their father for finery, but Beauty asks only for one red rose. The father finds the flower in the Beast's garden, but the Beast exacts Beauty's hand in exchange. After only a short time as his bride, she goes home, but dreams that the Beast is lonely, returns to comfort him, and finds him changed into a prince by her love.
Featuring members of the resident artist program, all performances are at Dicapo Opera Theatre, 184 East 76th Street at Lexington Avenue. Tickets, at $12 for children and $24 for adults, are available by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444 or by visiting the Dicapo Web site at www.dicapo.com.
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Florida Gun Sales: Are Tougher Laws Needed?
Getting a criminal background check done depends on whether firearms are bought in retail stores on from online private sellers.
If someone is breaking into your home, do you want to be armed with a handgun or an assault rifle?
That's the question that Alex Jackson, who sells guns at Stan's Pawn Shop in St. Petersburg, poses to people who bring up gun control.
For Jackson, the answer is easy. "You want the fire power of an assault rifle for self-protection."
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, some politicians and groups are urging reforms that include a ban on assault weapons and high capacity ammunition clips, as well as background checks for anyone who purchases a gun.
The gun that killed the 20 first-graders and seven adults in Newtown, Conn., was a Bushmater assault rifle.
Currently, bricks-and-mortar retailers, such as Stan's Pawn Shop, on 5th Avenue North, are required to do a criminal background check first. Stan's does not specialize in gun sales but will buy or sell assault rifles and other types of firearms.
Jennifer Arroyave, who works at Stan's Pawn Shop, says that in addition to doing a criminal background check, she also makes a point of talking with buyers to see if they seem "fit" to buy a gun.
Arroyave said that "visual check" is important.
But practices are different online.
There is no mandate for a background check for private sellers online who use websites like Florida Gun Trader to advertise guns for sale. The transactions are more anonymous.
Although it is illegal for anyone to sell a gun to a felon, criminal background checks are not required. Currently, there are 1,927 guns for sale by Central Florida private sellers on the Florida Gun Trader's website.
"Upon finalization of sale, we recommend that Florida Gun Trader members verify the identity of the buyer (state or federal ID) and exchange a complete a bill of sale for both the buyer and seller's information," Florida Gun Trader advises sellers on its site.
Florida Gun Trader also advises sellers to try to meet buyers at a gun range or a private residence as part of the transaction.
Is Gun Reform a Partisan Issue?
Whether gun laws should change is divided along party lines in Florida.
A "Gun Control" scorecard that reform advocates just released grades politicians on whether they have voted for stricter legislation in the past.
Florida's Republican lawmakers all received a "D" or worse. Most of the Democrats were rated with "A"s. (See chart below.)
But Florida voters may not be as hard line.
St. Petersburg resident Anne Marie Jordan, who volunteered on the Mitt Romey for president campaign, said she just hopes that lawmakers use reason during this emotional time.
"There will always be evil in this world. Our government cannot be expected to protect us from everyone and everything," she said.
Jordan was not focused on the details of gun control legislation. She was more concerned about the erosion of constitutional rights.
"When only the government has arms," she said, "we surrender our freedom."
Between 2008 and 2012 all but 25 members of the incoming 113th Congress established voting records on gun control. The NRA uses those records to create a grade for each congressperson. This table, based on Project Vote Smart data, shows an inverse of those grades. High grades indicate a history of voting for stricter gun restrictions; lower grades indicate opposition to restrictions.
Brown, Corrine | FL | House | 3 | Dem | A+ |
Buchanan, Vern | FL | House | 13 | Rep | D- |
Castor, Kathy | FL | House | 11 | Dem | A+ |
Crenshaw, Ander | FL | House | 4 | Rep | D- |
DeSantis, Ron | FL | House | 6 | Rep | D- |
Deutch, Ted | FL | House | 19 | Dem | A+ |
Diaz-Balart, Mario | FL | House | 21 | Rep | D- |
Frankel, Lois | FL | House | 22 | Dem | A+ |
Garcia, Joe | FL | House | 26 | Dem | NA |
Grayson, Alan | FL | House | 9 | Dem | C+ |
Hastings, Alcee | FL | House | 23 | Dem | A+ |
Mica, John | FL | House | 7 | Rep | D- |
Miller, Jefferson | FL | House | 1 | Rep | F |
Murphy, Patrick | FL | House | 18 | Dem | B+ |
Nelson, Bill | FL | Senate | -- | Dem | F |
Nugent, Rich | FL | House | 5 | Rep | D- |
Posey, Bill | FL | House | 15 | Rep | D- |
Radel, Trey | FL | House | 19 | Rep | D- |
Rooney, Thomas | FL | House | 16 | Rep | D- |
Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana | FL | House | 18 | Rep | D |
Ross, Dennis | FL | House | 12 | Rep | D- |
Rubio, Marco | FL | Senate | -- | Rep | D+ |
Southerland, Steve | FL | House | 2 | Rep | D- |
Wasserman Schultz, Debbie | FL | House | 20 | Dem | A+ |
Webster, Daniel | FL | House | 8 | Rep | D- |
Wilson, Frederica | FL | House | 17 | Dem | A+ |
Yoho, Ted | FL | House | 3 | Rep | D- |
Young, Bill | FL | House | 10 | Rep | D+ |
5:43 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
Sen. Nelson's poor rating on voting for increased gun regulation must be the reason I am getting so much correspondence from him after the Newton massacre. Tough to explain all that NRA-bought blood on your hands, Sen. Nelson. One expects poor voting records from the GOP, of course, so the aged Rep Young's record is no surprise. Be very interesting to see how these people vote on the next wave of common-sense gun regulation that will have the support of a majority of Americans. Sen. Rubio is an extreme self-described pro-lifer with young children; wonder what twists he will need to go through to explain voting against regulations if he does pander to the gun-manufacturing lobby rather than the citizens he represents. Many thanks to the outstanding women who vote in the best interests of Florida's families with courage and conviction.
Paul Ray
6:32 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
If you wish to bring any free democratic government to it's knees one needs only to diminish their freedoms one by one in the name of safety and most especially the safety of their Childen.
Paul Ray
6:33 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
BTW, only 37% of Americans polled want strick gun control measures put into place.
CNN Poll Dec 20, 2012
8:09 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
I belonged to the NRA years ago, when it truly represented sportsmen, hunters, an occasional shooting hobbiests. Now, it is become a front for the gun industry--getting most of its budget and virtually all of its lobbying funds from manufacturers. It has also been taken over by extremists and ultra-right-wing political factions. Like the Tea Party, which fronts for billionaires, the NRA fronts for factions I no longer wish to be associated with, and they have done untold damage, not only through their dangerous stands on assault weapons, but on the culture of our country. It's time that responsible gun-owners dissociate themselves from the NRA.
8:33 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
Oh that is so simple If you can't do a background check on someone you can't buy on line. Simple! Use see how that is done. Then that is something that those dealers will have to figure at how to sell their death/killing weapons to people in a way that is reasonable. In fact owning a weapon isn't necessary why are you going to kill anything or anyone?
S. Ripley
9:12 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
1. Require background check/wait periods for private sales & transfers.
2. Require mandatory training for purchase, not just concealed carry.
3. Expand training to include significant time on exercising good judgment, not just safety and shooting proficiency.
4. Impose stiff penalties/jail time for legal owners who fail to properly secure their weapons and/or negligently allow others to access them.
5. No assault weapons ban. Despite how scary they look and how creepy fans of these devices are, there is little evidence that banning specific weapon types will have any meaningful impact.
9:59 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
Get real. Do you think the guy that Robb's you house with a gun has undergone a background check beyond the one obtained at his last felony hearing? Put that sign in you front yard saying "Ban gun and ban violence"and it will announce to the world that you don't have a gun and are begging to get robed. Two years ago three 17y.o. Men tried to rob my neighbor at 8:30 in the morning. They were caught with a loaded handgun. No gun check required when you are underage is there? Just buy or borrow it down in the hood and drive to north St. Pete to use it so your momma won't know.
Ripleys rules have no bearing since concealed carry peopl want to know how to protect their family and practice. Have you noticed when criminals are shot by homeowners who are armed that the criminal while possessing a firearm and a threat miss the owner. We aim and fire to protect ourselves just like our right to bear arms was intended.
10:10 am on Saturday, December 22, 2012
Here's a patch from Massachusetts regarding gun control.


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Honolulu City Lights sports ocean theme
BY STEVEN MARK / email@example.com
There are some new toys for Honolulu's annual holiday celebration this year, in the form of new, ocean-inspired Christmas ornaments.
Every three years the organizers of Honolulu City Lights come up with a new theme for the presentation of Shaka Santa, Mrs. Claus and their holiday dominion.
HONOLULU CITY LIGHTSWhere: Civic Center When: Saturday-Jan. 1, 2013 Cost: Free Info: honolulucitylights.org » Parade schedule, Saturday: 6 p.m. start at River Street, down King Street past Honolulu Hale, to Kawaiahao Street. Decorated city vehicles will be on view at Kawaiahao Street until 8:15 p.m. |
That cycle turns over this year, and the new theme is "Santa's Underwater Adventure," which is kind of a back story to some of the things you'll see this year.
Festivities begin with the traditional parade on Saturday. The attraction remains on display and open to the public through Jan. 1.
"We have a little story so that people don't think we've lost our minds by having a tree this year that's all ocean-inspired," said Carol Costa with the Friends of Honolulu City Lights. Costa, retired Honolulu City and County spokeswoman, has been involved with City Lights since it began under then-Mayor Frank Fasi.
THE STORY, simply put, is that Shaka Santa goes snorkeling at Hanauma Bay and encounters an octopus, and apparently a rather feisty one at that.
An 8-foot purple octopus will occupy the city's fountain as part of the display. "And if you press a button, it will squirt water out," Costa said.
New Christmas ornaments based on the aquatic story decorate the city's 50-foot Norfolk Island pine Christmas tree.
Ornaments based on the City Lights display are also available to the public, and they're already on sale at Macy's, First Hawaiian Bank and Aloha Credit Union. Costa said selling the ornaments ensures that the City Lights presentation remains free.
"The ornaments will all be ocean-themed," she said. "What you're going to see is all kinds of fish, you're going to see crabs, you're going to see sea horses and a whole variety of things that Santa would have seen while he was underwater snorkeling at Hanauma Bay."
Two 8-foot-tall sea horses have been created for this year's presentation, which has come a long way since the original City Lights celebration in 1985. That comprised a big tree, decorated with "little, tiny gold balls and some wooden doves and three floodlights," Costa said. "That's pretty much it — but it was a big tree."
The presentation now includes huge holiday-themed statues — Shaka Santa alone weighs 2 tons — as well as the Public Workers Electric Light Parade, a caravan of city vehicles decorated by city employees.
This year's parade features an Environmental Services truck decorated with characters from "Shark Tale" and "Finding Nemo," and a Parks and Recreation vehicle featuring a paddler navigating a canoe through a sea of lights and palm trees.
Opening-night entertainment this year is headlined by Na Hoku Hanohano Award winner Anuhea and features singer Melveen Leed, comedian Frank De Lima and others.
Visitors who would like family portraits taken with Santa may also want to attend opening-night ceremonies or return in the evening on Dec. 15 or 22. Photos on opening night will be at Mission Memorial Auditorium, and on other nights they will be taken at the gingerbread house.
Opening night festivities:
» 4 p.m. Food and souvenir booths and keiki rides open on Civic Center grounds
» 6 p.m. Tree lighting ceremony on Honolulu Hale stage, includes Melveen Leed singing "Honolulu City Lights"
» 6 p.m. Electric Light Parade leaves Aala Park area and proceeds down King Street to Honolulu Hale
» 6 p.m. Santa meets with island keiki in Mission Memorial Auditorium, adjacent to City Hall
» 6:30 p.m. Display of decorated Christmas trees and wreaths opens in Honolulu Hale Courtyard
» 7:30 p.m. Holiday concert at Sky Gate featuring Melveen Leed, Ballet Hawaii, PAC Kids and Company, Polynesian Cultural Center, Frank DeLima and Anuhea
» Street closures: King Street between Chinatown and downtown will be partially closed at 11 a.m. to prepare for the parade. At 3:30 p.m., curb lanes will close on North King Street between Beretania and River streets and Iwilei Road from Kuwili Street to King Street, and at 4:30 p.m. full street closures in the area will begin, with intermittent traffic flow following along the parade route.


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Have a free tier to help small groups get started
Starting a new meetup generally incurs cost in a number of areas (venues, etc.) so it'd be a huge help if small groups could operate their meetups free of charge until they reach critical mass. Perhaps allow groups with less than 20 members to operate free of charge, then start paying once they grow beyond this and it becomes financially viable?
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Please email me about new game-playing Meetup groups in Forest Hills, NOT Brooklyn and NJ
I am NOT willing to travel to Brooklyn and NJ, and since it is obvious that you are aware that I live in Queens, you might ask all your users to name the places where they are NOT willing to travel to. This would customize your offerings, make things more efficient for everyone and generate more satisfied customers. :)
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Create functionality that allows the Organizer of a Private Meetup group to hide the group from members profiles.
Create functionality that allows the Organizer of a Private Meetup group to hide the group from members profiles.
We are having issues with getting all our members to comply and hide their groups. We are a private group and often people try to join because they see our group listed on a friends profile. In order to join, they need a passcode, but it is inconvenient for the organizers because we have to email and ask questions about how they found us.1 vote -
Create functionality that only allows members to RSVP "Yes" for an event, unless they are changing from a "Yes" to a "No."
Create functionality that only allows members to RSVP "Yes" for an event, unless they are changing from a "Yes" to a "No."
Organizers do not need to recieve email every time a member says no. Obviously if they are not a yes, they are a no. If they wish to leave a comment as to why they cannot make it, they can leave a comment on the event.1 vote -
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Points for speaking at events
It'd be really cool if you could build up some points or some equivalent from presenting at meetups. I know there are perks from individual meetup groups themselves for speaking, but spreading the incentive across different meetup groups might be fun.
This could be like the contribution squares on github - when you propose to speak at conferences, you could send your meetup page that would show much speaker cred you have.1 vote -
Is there any way to indicate more than one language in mi profile?
Is there any way to indicate more than one language in mi profile?
1 voteAdminLisa Marie (Admin, Meetup.com ) respondedI'm afraid there is not currently a way to list two languages. I'll leave your suggestion open for anyone else who would like for vote for this option :)
Allow organisers to communicate with your members
Is there any intelligent reason a member can opt out of the messages of organisers?
It isn't even transparent to organisers who gets their messages and who opted out.
This makes it not only particularly hard to deal with zombie members (I don't even know if they are just on life support or already dead). It is actually bonkers, especially in regard of the vast amount of automated communication produced by the system that is annoying members anyway.It would be really great to start and focus on what communication is necessary to make a group work and what is…
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Yeah, please make it easier to change your twitter account! I have no idea how.
I want to update my twitter but cannot find anywhere to do so! Not even a remove button.
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my photo via E-mail to my profile
Please send me an E-mail address that I can send my meetup profile photo to. email@example.com
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An option to eliminate ALL emails from a group.
Currently, even though you have those boxes unchecked under Email and Communication Setting, you WILL still receive email from organizer due to a change to a meetup. BUT that change to a meetup email is sent to all members on the group including ones that did NOT signed up or RSVP for. An option to eliminate email from organizers that sent in a bulk list will be great.
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Allow us to set our "DEFAULT" emails/notifications template that applies to ALL our MeetUps, then optionally modify the exceptions.
Allow us to set our "DEFAULT" emails/notifications template that applies to ALL our MeetUps, then optionally modify the exceptions as opposed to us having to go in and manually click all the identical choices for each MeetUp individually.
Also, for some reasons, is seems like my "customized" settings for a particular MU sometimes get changed and I start receiving stuff I said I don't want... can the Organizer override our stated options?
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logo for days left and spots left to the right of RSVP button should not be that similar
Both days left and spots left logo that are on the right of the RSVP button in the meetup feed are just white rectangles with the number inside it and either days or spots left written too small in my opinion. To help members easily recognize whether that number stands for days left or spots left, I suggest we change the colour of that rectangle and/or make the word 'spots' and 'days' as big as the number.
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"Find out how to keep this meetup going" email when an organizer steps down, with links to the group.
When an organizer steps down, an automated message goes out that contains only one link: "Keep this group going". Members who click that button instantly become organizer. Dumb! Instead, the button should take them to info about how to become organizer of that group, including links to the group page so the member can review it first.
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Give organizers the ability to approve/decline photos before they are posted to the site.
Not all group members want their pictures taken and posted on the site. Organizers should be able to moderate pictures that group members try to post.
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Meetup everywhere new community notification
As the meetup everywhere page owner, I would like to know when a new community has started or a member has joined. Currently I am not notified of this but have to visit and refresh the website all day to see what new additions there are. A "newest communities" section would be nice too for anyone visiting the page.
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Meetup Everwhere Map - more interaction required
The map on meetup everywhere is lacking a lot of functions. Would be beneficial if the map zoomed in more than it did so you can see
local areas a bit more. Users coming to the page for the first time automatically want to interact with the map. Wouldn't it make sense when people type in their location that the map went to their location? Then they can see if there are any pins on the map. Currently when you hover over a pin, it changes to a hand which suggests that you can click on it, but nothing happens…1 vote -
Email history for 'Email Community' - Meetup Everywhere
When emailing Meetup Planners and members there is no history to see what you last emailed them. I now have 22 communities for my site and I am starting to lose track of what I have sent to people. I can only imagine what a headache it might be for the one's with thousands of communities. Sometimes it is necessary to send a "welcome, here's some info" to the newcomers, but you don't necessarily want ALL of your communities to get it, so tailored messages are needed. An email/message history I believe would be most beneficial. Perhaps it could be…
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Please replace the massive distracting 'show me the meetups' bar with a *smaller* link.
It is annoying and distracting to have the 'show me the meetups' bar at the bottom of the screen permenantly in my face every time I view a page in a group I'm not subscribed to. It is particularly distracting when scrolling down the page while reading.
Certainly the link is useful, but taking up 10% of the page for this banner is wholly disproportionate to that usefulness and is a waste of space.
But unlike previous requests I am *not* asking for it to be removed I am asking for it to be replaced with a smaller link which…
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How about instead of wasting time on silly things like "good to see you" after an event, we'd like a way to save a draft of email to members
Above. Quite often Organizers would like to write up a draft for the other Organizers to see before emailing all members & we can't do that. We miss being able to list what people are bringing when they RSVP so that it shows next to their name & picture. Please stop wasting time ont he silly things like "good to see you". We already know that it was!
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Welcome to Osaka Ibaraki Mosque
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh
We would like to invite you all to this week's Saturday Program at Toyokawa Masjid.
We encourage you to come for the chance to increase our knowledge about Islam.
The details are as follows:
May Allah SWT show us the best way and help us to stay on that it, in sha Allah.
JazakAllah khairan.
Ahmad Syukri
on behalf of OMA
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Assalamu alaykum,
Praise be to Allah.
Imam Ahmad Narrated that Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
"Whoever builds a mosque for the sake of Allah, even if it is like the nest of a sand grouse, Allah will build for him a house in Paradise." classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami'. The hadeeth gives an example of building the smallest thing possible.
Ibn Maajah narrated that Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
"The good deeds that will reach a believer after his death are: knowledge which he learned and then spread; a righteous son whom he leaves behind; a copy of the Qur'aan that he leaves as a legacy; a mosque that he built; a house that he built for wayfarers; a canal that he dug; or charity that he gave during his lifetime when he was in good health.These deeds will reach him after his death." classed as hasan by al-Albaani in Saheeh Ibn Maajah.
From these ahadeeth we can understand that the ongoing charity (sadaqah jaariyah) may mean building a mosque, buying Mushafs (copies of the Qur'aan) to be placed in the mosque, or designating a house or a place as a waqf so that its income is spent on the poor, orphans, relatives, seekers of knowledge or others as stipulated by the one who establishes the waqf, or donating money to build a charitable hospital, and so on.
So my dear brothers and sisters Allah the Almighty has given us a great opportunity to contribute to this project by making a donation also by inviting others to contribute, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
"Whoever calls others to guidance will have a reward like that of those who follow him, without it detracting from their reward in the slightest." Narrated by Muslim, and He said also: "The one who tells another about something good is like the one who does it." Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi.
May Allah bless our Prophet Muhammad and his family and companions, and grant them peace.
And Allah knows best.
Mohsen Shaker Bayoumy
Imam of Osaka Ibaraki Mosque
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We are plan to making some improvements to the existing facilities, insha'Allah. These include adding a children's classroom and dinning room in the area behind the main building, and a mihrab in front of the prayer room.
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Faith Fest 2013: "River of Life"
Augustana Faith Fest is a fun-filled and faith-filled event for 6th- to 8th-grade youth and their adult leaders and will take place on Saturday, February 23, and Sunday, February 24 at Augustana College. At Faith Fest, you will enjoy music, worship, presentations, games and small group activities as you explore your faith in a setting of a vibrant college campus. Review the schedule of activities for more information.
The registration fee of $50 per youth covers the cost of two meals, a Faith Fest t-shirt, lodging at the Elmen Center on campus, and all program expenses. Adult leaders are free of charge. Each congregation attending Faith Fest is asked to send at least one adult leader to participate fully with their youth in all of the weekend's activities. If more than ten youth are attending, please send additional leaders.
Congregational leaders are asked to fill out a registration form for themselves and the names of all youth attending, and return that form (by mail) by Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. Please bring copies of each youth's signed permission for treatment and liability waiver forms to registration on the Saturday that Faith Fest begins.
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AGAPE* and Rachel Kurtz will be performing a concert in Augustana's Back Alley at 7:30 p.m. on the Saturday (Feb. 23) of Faith Fest. The event is open to the public. Tickets will be on sale at the door for $5 per person. Agape and Rachel have performed for hundreds of thousands of youth across the U.S. with a contagious blend of hip-hop, folk pop and soul.


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The week-long early signing period for college basketball starts today, and Arkansas men's Coach Mike Anderson and his staff are expected to sign two of the best big men in the nation, Little Rock Hall power forward Bobby Portis and center Moses Kingsley of Huntington (W.Va.) Prep.
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The US Open has become the Damn Slam that Never Stops as the City that Never Sleeps braced itself for violent storms and a possible tornado.
For the fifth year in a row the men's final was put back to Monday, with Andy Murray the only real winner as fans were left furious and officials were accused of a scheduling balls-up.
"A tornado warning??? You cannot be serious," American tennis great turned commentator John McEnroe tweeted after the second men's semi-final was postponed on Saturday with Spanish fourth seed David Ferrer leading defending champion Novak Djokovic 5-2 with a service break in the opening set.
With a tornado watch in operation and severe thunderstorms predicted, Djokovic and Ferrer were asked to come back on Sunday for an 11am resumption after Murray had safely advanced with a 5-7 6-2 6-1 7-6 (9-7) victory over Czech seventh seed Tomas Berdych.
The women's singles final between three-times champion Serena Williams and world No.1 Victoria Azarenka, set for Saturday night, was also put back to 4.30pm on Sunday as savage winds wrought havoc at Flushing Meadows.
Play at the start of Saturday's action had already been delayed by 90 minutes after heavy rain before gusts of around 100kph sent rubbish - and even Murray's bag and chair at one point - blowing across centre court.
"They were brutal conditions, some of the hardest conditions I've ever played in before. I come from Scotland so that's saying something," Murray said after surviving to reach his fifth grand slam final.
Djokovic's semi-final was abandoned for the day 32 minutes into the contest as tournament director David Brewer opted to evacuate fans.
"Severe weather is coming and we needed to give patrons time to get out of the stadium and into their cars," he said.
Brewer told a later news conference: "We're getting very tired of having Monday finals."
He added that switching the second semi-final to Louis Armstrong Stadium and playing it simultaneously had been discussed as a means of getting both matches completed in time to allow for the final to be staged on Sunday as planned.
Talks were held with player representatives, security officials as well as the powerful broadcasters.
"The consensus was it would be most fair to try to get the matches played on Arthur Ashe if at all possible.
"We thought in fairness to ticket holders and our broadcast audience worldwide, it was the right thing to keep them both on Arthur Ashe. We were hoping we'd get them both in."
The decision was greeted with boos from the crowd of 20,000 inside Arthur Ashe Stadium and general bemusement at the refusal of the organisers to move the Ferrer-Djokovic match.
The US Open's showpiece Arthur Ashe Stadium does not have a roof.
At the other three grand slams, the Australian Open and Wimbledon both have courts with retractable roofs while the French Open will follow suit by 2016.
USTA officials announced a $US500 million renovation plan in June without a roof, claiming to do so was too costly on 23,700-seat Arthur Ashe Stadium.


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On Wednesday April 5, 1978 the Whitestown Town Board voted to hire John (Jack) Finn as the first Whitestown Police Officer. Finn of Walnut Drive Whitesboro earned $4.75 an hour for up to 30 hours a week. He began patrolling the outside area of the town on May 1, 1978. Jack Finn retired from the Oneida County Sheriff's Department in March of that year Jack's last duty assignment was Sergeant in charge of the Identification Unit. Shortly after the hiring of Officer Finn, he was given the title of Police Chief and paid an annually salary of $3,200. The entire budget for the police department in 1978 was $8,000. Chief Finn initially patrolled the town roads in his pickup truck and relied on his CB radio for communications and used his home phone to receive calls. On Wednesday July 12, 1978 the Whitestown Police Department put its first police car on the road; a 1976 Plymouth purchased at the State Police auction. The car was repainted blue and lettered with "WHITESTOWN POLICE "on both sides. Roof lights were purchased and installed in April 1979. In the first four months of the police department existence, Chief Finn traveled 4,000 miles, worked more than 500 hours and answered at least 100 calls. The Whitestown Police in 1979 where one of the first department in the area to be exclusively dispatched by the New York State Police. Most of the departments where dispatched by the Oneida County Sheriff's Department. In 1979, the department hired a second part-time Police Officer, Eugene Sowinski
The Whitestown Police Department continued to increase the calls for service through out the early 80's. Several additional part-time officers where hired. The first Town Police station was build in the area of the Town Highway garage and community center. The Police Station was built by BOCES and is currently used by the highway department. The police department added an additional vehicle to increase its fleet to two patrol vehicles. In 1988, the police department added its third full time officer to the department. Chief Jack Finn retired in 1989. His accomplishments where many in the early years of the department. In August of 1990, the Whitestown Town Board appointed Chief Joseph Palmer as the second town police chief; a position he held until March 2002. On May 1, 2002 Sergeant Donald Wolanin was appointed as Chief of Police a position that he still holds.
As the town continued to grow so, did the calls for police service grow? The police department in the late 80's went from part-time coverage to operating the police department 24 hours a day seven days a week. The 1990's brought even more calls for service. The town police department hired additional full and part-time officers. The present strength of the police department is 7 full time officers and 6 part-time officers. The town police provide all police services including accident reconstruction, Juvenile Aid Officer, Identification technician, certified bike patrol officers and child safety seat technicians.
The budget is a far cry from the 1978 budget of $8,000. The police department budget for 2010 is $435,500.00 and includes a fleet of seven police cars which patrol the town 24 hours a day seven days a week. The town police handle hundreds of motor vehicle accidents a year and respond to thousands of requests for police service. They patrol hundreds of thousands of miles a year in the Town of Whitestown.
The Police Commission of Whitestown working with members of the department came up with the logo "SERVING WITH PRIDE". This was put on all the town police cars with the seal of the town hall. The town police department has for the last thirty two years, served the citizens of Whitestown in a dedicated and professional manner. The police department enjoys a good working relationship with the Town Board and Police Commission. The police department is looking forward to serving the residents of Whitestown even better in the years to come.
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It started, as it almost had to, with Bill Clinton. Over drinks in a bar in the West Village, I remarked to a friend that our former President smoked vagina-accented cigars—what I thought was an obvious reference to Clinton's use of a cigar to masturbate Monica Lewinsky (hopefully to orgasm) before smoking it.
Instead, my friend looked at me and said, "What accent does a vagina talk with, anyway?" and for all the years of careful consideration I'd given my ladybits (and other people's), it turns out I had no fucking idea. I'd conducted Internet polls of what women called their special place, developed a tendency to drunkenly tweet about my cunt ("If I am to be a curse word, I am going to be the biggest, baddest most offensive curse word ever"), shouted out at dive bars that bush is back, stood up in a crowded bar— more than once—and regaled friends and strangers with the tale of the time I had sex in the midst of a raging case of bacterial vaginosis and, for one strange year, walked around the city with a stuffed beaver from Ikea for the sole purpose of taking pictures of My Beaver in inappropriate circumstances. But I'd never thought about what she'd say if she could speak for herself, let alone how she'd say it.
Men, of course, anthropomorphize their dick all the time: the Little General, Little elvis, "I think he likes that" and, of course, the excuse that their dicks made them do something. Maybe because dicks jut out, maybe because men seemingly find phalluses ceaselessly fascinating, maybe because the one-eyed trouser snake looks back at them in silent judgment, but cocks have never lacked a voice in society. despite having lips, however, vaginas don't talk, they just occasionally queef.
But when I thought about it, I knew exactly what she sounds like. she talks in a slow, southern, honey-throated accent that is impossible to resist (not that you would want to), drawing men in with the subtle allure of false vulnerability that they think they can conquer only to discover themselves vanquished. I'm not from the south (though I did watch Gone With The Wind too many times growing up), but I guess something about the climate down there brings it out in her.
Other women's vaginas had similarly distinct accents from their owners. Maureen, 30, a d.C. transplant, said, "Mine's Philly, but you gotta hear it do the big 'O.'" Comic Carolyn Castiglia, whose family lives upstate, told me, "My vagina is a big, strong, hairy, Italian man that looks mean on the outside but is a teddy bear on the inside… My vagina would say things like, 'You talkin' to me?' and 'Kill him,' but only if you were a jerk who deserved a hit. Otherwise it would talk the way tony soprano talked to his therapist. Lots of choked back tears and a thank you at the end of the session." Jessica, 30, told me after I asked, "I immediately heard my vagina talking like salma Hayek in the midst of a sass fit—mouthy, not taking any shit, and fiesty-hot. I had no idea my little lady was Latina, particularly since I'm pretty damn white, but once she started talking to me, there was no denying it." selena, 30, thought hers was almost the antithesis of a New Yorker: "I think that my vag would talk with a Boston accent… it would be like, 'What's aaap? Come over for a beeeya and we'll drink sam summa tagetha.'" Other women's vaginas were more rooted in their heritage. amanda, 32, said, "I'm guessing my vagina would have the same accent I've got, a cheery West texas accent." Native New Yorker ally, 30, told me, "You know, my vagina sounds like Fran drescher."
Still other women felt they had a celebrity below—but, inevitably, a more iconic one than today's culture tends to produce. Helen, 28, said "Mine talks, and sings, like Betty Boop, which is to say, like Helen Kane. she is partial to performing 'You Made Me Love You.' Occasionally, she sings like Betty Boop impersonating a French person, which the actual Betty was wont to do in more than one early cartoon!" delphine, 36, told me "My vagina sounds like Mae West in She Done Him Wrong." amber, 26, said "If my vagina spoke, it would be in the voice of Kathleen turner. Clearly, my vagina smokes, so she is kind of hard to hang out with in bars nowadays." and desiree, 31, said, "edith Piaf, maybe with some Billie Holiday in there. Whatever the scenario, my pussy has sung the blues before, and abused a substance or four, but she's fierce, famous and utterly irrepressible and irreplaceable."
Some women have more silent vaginas, for a variety of reasons. Maggie told me hers was quiet because, "Mine's mouth is always full." sarah, 30, said, "Currently it would probably stutter, as it's been out of use for a while." Lindsay, 30, said, "I have difficulty imagining my vagina talking. she's the strong, silent type. My clit would be her chatty sidekick with a voice like Lucy from Twin Peaks." alyxandria, 34, who is known amongst her friends for talking about pussy almost as much as me, said her vagina was just the opposite: "she is demure, and adorns a shy smile as she speaks in an almost inaudible whisper."
Some people had as more of a morbid sense of humor about their vaginas than others. Lacie, 33, said, "I think mine would be a 'creepy baby voice,' because a friend once told me I do a voice like that sometimes and I've been trying to consciously get rid of it, so it's only natural that it would go to my vagina. Only it would be a creepy dead ghost baby voice, because of my abortion."
Naturally, there are some things about being a woman, or a vagina, in New York that can't help but survive the transition from one set of lips to the other. Comedian sara Benicasa said, "My vagina is called the Velvet Underground because it looks like Moe tucker and sounds like Lou reed. Many, many musicians cite my vagina as an influence. Most of them live in Brooklyn."


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Fallen APD Senior Officer Buried in Mableton
Fallen APD Senior Officer Gail Thomas was laid to rest in Mableton today in front of a crowd of hundreds.
It was a beautiful day to say goodbye to who many, many people agree was a beautiful person.
Atlanta Police Department Senior Officer Gail Thomas was buried in Mableton's Mount Harmony Memorial Cemetery today after a memorial service at Elizabeth Baptist Church in Atlanta. Thomas was killed Tuesday when she was struck by an alleged drunk driver, while assisting another officer.
"It's just tragic," says Officer Michael Bowman, Cobb County Information Officer. "To date, 14 police officers have already been killed nationwide and if the trend continues, that will be a big number by year's end."
The funeral procession was part of an enormous cavalcade, which included law enforcement officers from all over Metropolitan Atlanta.
"It's just sad," said Homeland Security Officer Aaron Jacobs, who attended the burial.
Mayor Kasim Reed was one of nearly 500 people and of several City of Atlanta officials on hand for the memorial.
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"Coming Out" is a regional nonprofit St. Petersburg organization. We work for universal recognition of human dignity and equal rights of all regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity through advocacy, informational and cultural events, and providing psychological and legal services to LGBT. We base our work on the principles of openness, visibility and nonviolence.
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all events >>The third and final hearing of the case of Coming Out accused of serving as a "foreign agent" took place today in the magistrates' court in St. Petersburg. Predictably, the organization was found guilty and fined 500 000 rubles (maximum amount for one violation), making it the 2nd Russian LGBT NGO to be branded "foreign agents". Overall, 4 Russian NGOs have been given the verdict.
Under Article 19.34 of the administrative code of the Russian Federation, if a non-commercial organization receives foreign funds and is involved in "political activity", it must register with the Ministry of Justice as a "foreign agent". In laymen terms, "foreign agent" is equivalent to a "spy for a foreign state."
Today, over 150 LGBT people and their friends and allies gathered on Marsovo Pole, the "Hyde Park" of St. Petersburg, to commemorate Vladislav Tornovoy and other victims of homophobic hate crimes, making this one of the largest public LGBT demonstration ever in Russia. LGBT activists were joined by members of civil and human rights groups, such as "Soldiers' mothers", "Solidarity", Anti-Discimination Center Memorial, Yabloko party, and others. Around 150 counter-protesters, held at bay by police barriers, displayed photos of victims of pedophiles, shouted slurs, threw smoke pellets and small stones at the demonstrators. Among those were two radicals who are currently on trial for the attacks on LGBT activists last year. One of the counter-protester leaders was Vitaly Milonov, the author of the "propaganda" law and United Russia city parliament deputy.
.. read more >>The annual St. Petersburg International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia rally will take place tomorrow, May 17, at 2 pm on Marsovo Pole – the "Hyde Park" of St. Petersburg, in the city center. Traditionally, a joyful celebration of our pride, during which we release rainbow balloons in the air as a symbol of our wish for a world free of homophobia and transphobia, this year's event will be dedicated to the memory of Vladislav Tornovoy, brutally murdered in Volgograd on May 9th of this year, and to all victims of homophobic hate crimes.
.. read more >>May 1st, a true "gay parade" took place at the May Day March in St. Petersburg, Russia.
80-100 people marched down the St. Petersburg historical central avenue, with rainbow flags and slogans such as "No to the shameful homophobic law! Let's stop the hate and discrimination together!" LGBT made part of the larger Democratic column, consisting of various democratic political parties and groups of St. Petersburg.
.. read more >>This week St. Petersburg will discuss the effects of homophobia and transphobia on LGBT teenagers and adults. LGBT organization Coming Out invites everyone to talk about the different aspects of acceptance of homosexual people in society and to hear the views of various civil society organizations and movements on the rights of LGBT people. Several events - informational workshops, discussions and debates - will be held during the Week against homophobia and transphobia under the slogan "It's high time to speak".
.. read more >>LGBT organisation Coming Out initiated a campaign against the homophobic law in St. Petersburg and was joined by Russian LGBT Network and LGBT film festival Side by Side. Join in, too!
Advocacy for human rights in the area of gender relations at the municipal level and lobbying for the interests of LGBT community in the municipal and regional governing bodies, as well as increase of the LGBT community's visibility.
The project comprises a series of educational workshops and seminars for various target groups, including both LGBT and others.
The project consists of film screenings followed by a discussion led by an expert or with participation of special guests. The idea of the program is expressed in the slogan: "See, speak, unite!".
Can you say that you live with a sense of security and safety? Do you know your rights? Are you prepared to defend them? If you answered "no" even to one of the questions, our legal service is for you!
The program LGBT Parents consists of meetings and workshops for LGBT parents and others who are interested in the topic, where issues of reproduction, adoption and parenting are discussed. The program provides a platform for professional, psychological, and peer-to-peer support.
Founded on the ideas of tolerance and respect for diversity, the Festival provides a platform unifying LGBT community and general society in a common social and cultural space without xenophobia or discrimination.
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The program is aimed to monitor the needs and concerns of the Transgender community, organizing regular meetings, providing safe space for events, psychological and legal counseling.
The idea of the Community Center is that the LGBT community of St. Petersburg has its own space.
The program unites parents and friends of LGBT people and LGBT people themselves around the issues of 'coming out' and 'acceptance'
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I write on behalf of Mansion (Gibraltar) Ltd, a company licensed and regulated in Gibraltar to operate several online gaming websites.
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Have all been blocked (both the website and we assume, the download client), when running the test with Ad Aware Free installed and with the "Disable Shop and Bank Safely Online" setting in Green. Indeed, when trying to access the website it says "To keep you safe, this page was blocked by Ad Aware 10 "Shop & Bank safely online" feature." So it would seem that this particular feature is blocking our websites and download files.
We have lots of processes in place to ensure that we stay free of viruses etc. This blocking by Ad Aware Free causes direct damage to our business (in terms of people not being able to access the websites or the downloads) as well as damage to our reputation, as people will be mistakenly believeing that we have viruses or any other malicious content - which we are certain we don't.
I would really appreciate if someone could get back to me confirming that all our websites and download files will be unblocked.
If they will not be unblocked, we would appreciate a justitification for this - please be assured if there is an issue we will do anything we can to fix it.
Please get back to me as a matter of urgency, I attach images of the error messages,
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