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Community and forum dedicated to the books and films of the J.R.R. Tolkien series
If it is the Game of thrones series with Sean Bean (Boromir) in it, then it is actually pretty darn awesome and I am dying to see season 2.
And from what I hear the books are excellent (highly recommended by our old pal LA86) and I hope to read them some day.
I have never heard of such a thing, not to mention books. Can someone give me a synopsis of some sortÉ I have noticed that there is something within Sean Bean himself that causes anything he is in, even in my opinion inferior movies, to be redeemed by just his presence. I am unable to figure out what it is but it is quite amazing.
A TV series made by HBO based on George RR Martin 's 'A Game of thrones' seems full of political intrigue, assassinations, monsters and bogeymen.
Just be warned Leelee that it is quite sexually explicit.
Good to see that someone made this thread. I've first two books in english, I've read some of them in finnish, but I do not recall all the events and stuff it includes.
I watched the first season by myself, and I must say that I'm very impressed.
It was so well done, and it included many good actors and some real feel to it.
It is also one of those 'mature' fantasy series. George Martin wanted it to be that way, and I respect the decision. It spices it all up.
So, I recommend both the books and the series, no matter which of them you prefer first. :)
Thank you both for the explanations, but having heard I shall pass. I am very much like Tolkien in this area of explicit anything really. Since my baby hood anything like that, including cursing has actually given me pain in my chest and a feeling of unutterable sadness. It is to me like having to mingle and listen to an actual orc and that is just dreadful to me. No, no we elves either in middle-earth or this one cannot bear such things and prefer to live in our pristine world of elevated talk and modesty. But thankyou very much for taking the time to share that with me. i honestly had never even heard of this.
I've only seen the pilot of the series, but I'm well into the fifth book in the series and I would definitely recommend them to any fantasy fan. The plot is tight and engaging, and the characters are almost real in their motivations and behaviour, and you'll often find yourself having to re-evaluate your opinions of some of them as you go through. It's also written as a bunch of interconnected stories that wrap themselves around each other until you almost can't separate them from each other, and the whole storyline is very intricate, which forces you to think about it. But at the same time, it never becomes convoluted. The only thing I can say is, don't get too attached to the characters. If you do, you'll just end up with your guts ripped out through your teeth.
With Tolkien Studies being such a large field of discussion, why talk about other works here? I'm not saying we shouldn't, but it seems strange somehow.
Not all of us here are particularly big Tolkien fans, I enjoy the Fantasy genre in general but come to this site because it is safe and polite, unlike 90% of forums on the net where you have to contend with cyber bullies and trolls.
We decided not to spend the extra $9.00 per month for the SoHo channel so we could continue to watch the series, I pretty much forgot about it until just the other day when my Mother in law purchased the first series on DVD which I watched and was enthralled from beginning to end. It is a masterful piece of work in terms of both writing and TV/film. It's complicated, with twists and turns in the blinking of the eye but it all makes sense and I find myself cackling at every clever little plot twist very satisfying, Highly recommended to any fantasy fan.
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Okay now here's the kicker. a month into it and I still haven't received anything at all from these people. Then at the start of the 2nd month I receive a magazine from US weekly and Maxim so it was really weird. another month on the 2nd month I decide to check how much balance I have left in my account and to my surprise I was billed yet again! Even though it was clearly stated that I would be billed only once for my 6 month subscription.
This was the last straw, I called my bank and after a very long process of them telling me I cannot dispute it I tell them to contact the service and cancel my subscription since I could not. Reason why I could not is because
1. they never sent me a contract so I have no contact information of theirs!
2. The phone number they gave me was fake! so was the web site address! I only found their telephone number from the billing information that my bank provided and I called them up only to be faced by an automated system that sounds mysteriously exactly like that girl that called me 3 months back. Anyway they put me on hold for about an hour until the line mysteriously shuts off at exactly 5pm eastern time. Now I don't know if it's a coincidence but who stops working at exactly 5 pm? Most people get off work maybe 5 or 10 minutes before they are supposed to or finish up their work. But at exactly 5 pm? did they hang up on the people they were talking to if there was anyone at all.
So today I got a call from them and I said it was impossible for me to miss a payment since I had already had my bank cancel my subscription and I have a letter from my bank to prove it. But they said the bank can't do that and they never received a call from my bank and also that I was past my cancelation date. For real!? There's such a thing as past your cancelation date!? Now I'm no expert on the law but I have never heard of a subscription service that won't make you cancel your subscription.
Long story short I told them to bugger off and I would contact my bank for details and they said that I haven't heard the last from them.
These guys are scam artists!
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The winger joins captain Kelvin Langmead (knee) on the sidelines, but striker Clive Platt will undergo a fitness test on his back problem on Friday.
"Ishmel is making really good progress and he may still play a part this season," said Cobblers boss Aidy Boothroyd ahead of Saturday's fixture. "When it's a hamstring you have to be careful, but he may be back sooner than we first thought.
"I do have options to replace Ishmel, which is good, and we can play in a variety of different ways and with a variety of different systems.
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On Platt, Boothroyd added: "We really are taking it day to day with Clive because he is such a huge player for us in many different ways and to have him on the pitch or available to be on the pitch is great.
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Complaint Review: World Federal Travel Co., LTD.
World Federal Travel Co., LTD.Pitsanulok Poad Bangkok, Select State/Province United States of America
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Thailand in ten days and see as many places as possible. One Buddhist monk we have met
recomended T. A. T. We thought it might be a good place to book a trip when a monk said so.
That was the first terrible mistake we have done.
After entering the office on Pitsanouk Road a smiling officer started looking after us.
We told him our rough plan and he said he can taylor-make an offer for us.
He surprised us with a high price which was almost 13000 baht per person. We had a Lonely Planet
book to compare prices at the region we are going to. He smiled at us saying that we cannot
really trust the prices in this book. And the package perfectly fits us because it includes
all transports and accommodation and we don't have to pay anything extra. Moreover, there
will always be somebody waiting us with our names so we don't have to worry about anything.
I have been travelling through Asia for couple of months now and learned the rule
"always double-check the price". I asked him again whether the price really includes everything
what is stated. He made us sure that it does. We still hesitated and he tried to
convince us with telling us our fortune as he was supposed to be a fortune teller.
We didn't have that much money with us which he said that is not a problem as somebody from
the office will show us the nearest cashpoint.
Eventually we decided to book the trip with him. When we returned with money his attitude
completely changed. That was our second mistake that we continued in booking. He gave us
all vouchers and wished good luck. We didn't realized then that he din't give us his name
neither any direct contact to him. The first trouble actually came to us on the second day
of our trip to Phuket. We got to change the bus and while waiting, the local travel agent
asked us for more money if we want to get to our place at Patong Beach. This bus was
supposed to drop us off at Phuket town only. We protested that we already booked a place to
place package. The woman didn't want to call the T. A. T. as we asked her for and
started shouting at us that we just have to pay. There were some more people waiting and
one French guy backed us up. The woman started screaming at us to get out of the office.
All of a sudden four of her fellows run in the office and with no previous warning started
figting the guy who was trying to help us. They wanted to use a hammer and a wooden stick
with three nails in it. The french guy's wife wanted to support him and they kicked her.
It the end the French guy got hit with a chair. Fortunatelly they weren't seriously harmed.
The thing is that the hammer and wooden stick were taken by the attacker from a drawer in
the office. After this incident we called the tourist police but nobody picked up the phone
there. The standard police took all of us to the station and captured one of the attackers.
To our surprise the only tourist police officer there hardly spoke English
and the attacker got a fine of 1000 baht with a result of a steet fight. Unbelievable!!
We still had to pay our own transport to Patong Beach. The second unpleasant experience
waited for us in Ko Phi Phi when we were asked to pay an entrance fee. We refused as we
already paid the package. Those money collecters turned violent and started pushing us.
No matter that we are two girls. In the end we had to pay because we couldn't
enter the island without paying. At the end of the pier there was nobody to pick us up.
We called the guest house twice and somebody came after more than one hour of waiting.
When we called the T. A. T. office to complain the person we spoke to said that there is
nothing he can do with this matter and when we asked for his name he just hung up!
We are in the middle of the trip right now and I can say that bloody cheaters in T. A. T.
partially spoiled our holiday here. And I'm not talking about quality of the accommodation
which is definitely worth just half of the price we paid.
I suggest never book with any travel agent if you want to have a pleasant stay here.
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I've heard it said that the test if you have any best friends is who would your friends ask to be their best man?
would any of your friends ask you to be? same with you girls out there, would any of your friends ask you to be their maid of honor?
whitewolfie 18-21, M 2 Answers 1 Oct 13, 2012 in Parenting & Family
Doesn't apply to me. Most of my best friends aren't getting married any time soon, if ever, and most aren't male so I couldn't be their best man.
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One is married already and female.
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The test of a true friend is loyalty pure and simple, longevity of friendship, respect. Just wait a few years and if they're still good friends you've got yourself a real one.
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Friends don't let friends get married.
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When your plugin updates, it attempts to create a directory "visitor-maps-backup" in "wp-content" to save a copy of the "GeoLiteCity.dat" file. That's great, because it's a 28 meg file, and it would be a PITA to have to upload it every time the plugin updates.
The problem is that it doesn't work for me because i don't want to make my "wp_content" directory writable for plugins (just in case). It would be handy if it were possible to set where the temporary directory could be created - for example, i could use "wp-content/uploads".
Another suggestion is based on a localization problem i ran into. The "vmfont.ttf" that comes with the plugin does not include Esperanto characters like ĝ and ŭ, so i substitute my own "vmfont.ttf". Unfortunately, every time the plugin updates, that gets replaced with the original version. It would be nice if it were possible to ask that the font be copied as well as the database file during updates.
By extension, all of the flag and map graphics would be nice to keep, in the event that someone has made their own custom graphic sets.


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Redondo jeans
It is a good product with reasonable price. Moreover I get more 5 dollars coupon for this. I love this jeans so much, Thanks a lot to overstock.com. I will go shopping in overstock.com. TN.
- How did the color on site compare with the actual product? accurate
- Please tell us about the quality of the product. good quality with reasonable price
- How accurate was the sizing? accurate
Nice pair of jeans that arrived in a box, which I was a bit surprised. I did not realize that there were skulls for buttons...but I suppose that is there trademark emblem. Great quality but I think they were a bit over priced; however I would probably buy another pair.
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So, you can't find any of the new ATI Radeon X1300XT graphics cards on the market or your wallet doesn't looks like its going to have the dollars in it for a new nVidia G80 that's due out just around the corner but you want... no... you need a decent performing mid-range graphics card, that isn't going to force you to eat Two Minute noodles for the next month?
Well, the new ATI Radeon X1650PRO is available - it is priced well and of course performs well. So like our round up of the Radeon X1300XT cards just the other day, we will be doing the same thing with the new X1650PRO from ATI and four of its partners - GeCube, PowerColor, Sapphire and HIS. We will be looking at the cards alone with a pair in Crossfire mode to see what type of performance is on offer from one of ATI's newest GPU's.
Continuing with the same layout we used for the X1300XT round up, we will have a quick look at the cards on offer, quickly run over the test bed, check out the results and wrap it all up trying to find out which ones deserves your hard earned dollars.
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I'm using 1.5. Today, I added a sub category and 2 sub-sub-categories, and put posts in all of them.
My problem is that sub-sub-categories are not showing up in the categories view, no matter where I go. I tried changing
in my index.php (both in the basedir and in the active theme dir) to no avail, and even changed the template value of recurse to be 1 instead of 0. There are, in fact, posts in the sub-sub-categories, and these posts show up when I go to the sub-category.
The other problem I have is that the links in the "Filed under:" sections are wrong. They link to http://site/category/ instead of http://site/category/catname. (or, for subcategories, http://site/category/catname/subcatname). (but oddly, the names for the links are correct. . .so the name is "General" but it links to "http://site/category" instead of "http://site/category/general").
I don't think these problems are related. I recently upgraded from 1.2 to 1.5, including regenerating my permalinks (as far as I can tell, I only had the post_id one) . . . and everything else works fine.
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Tim Gieselman3212 S. Brandywine Tr. Springfield, Missouri United States of America
Tim Gieselman T. Gieselman Inc., Nuvo Wealth LLC, Nuvo Holdings LLC, Patronus "Shell" Company and $380K Line of Credit Scam Springfield, Missouri
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Well, I never received my shell company, my line of credit, OR a refund, of my $10K. Also, what Gieselman offers, the shell company, is illegal, as well. So, it was a scam, on top of a scam.
Through the grapevine, I have heard of others, who were scammed, as well. If you were scammed, by Gieselman, you need to do, TWO THINGS:
1) Google the MO Attorney General's Office, and place a complaint. The woman told me, that the more complaints, that they get against Gieselman, the more man power, they will use, to prosecute him.
- Once you're at the site, goto the bottom, right of the homepage, and you will see the Tab, that says: Consumer Complaints. Click on that, and file your complaint, and they will get back to you (they did with me).
- Also, when you place your complaint, be sure to put Tim Gieselman, AND Nuvo Wealth LLC, etc... Any Alias' that he used, be sure to include them, in your complaint.
- Also, obviously, be as detailed, as possible, any names, you can provide, addresses, etc... would help them, even more.
Good luck with your complaint... Hopefully, through a concentrated effort, we can bring Gieselman, to justice.
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Scholars of Twang Track All the YAlls in Texas
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Published: November 28, 2003
COLLEGE STATION, Tex. — "Are yew jus' tryin' to git me to talk, is that the ah-deah?"
That was the idea. John O. Greer, an architecture teacher at Texas A&M University, sat at his dining table between two interrogators and their tape recorder. They had precisely 258 questions for him. But it waddn what he said that interested them most. It was how he said it.
Those responses, part of an ambitious National Geographic Society survey of Texas speech, with its "y'alls," "might-coulds" and "fixin' to's," are helping language investigators throw a scientific light on a mythologized and sometimes ridiculed mainstay of Americana: the Texas twang.
Among the unexpected findings, said Guy Bailey, a linguistics professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a leading scholar in the studies with his wife, Jan Tillery, is that in Texas more than elsewhere, how you talk says a lot about how you feel about your home state.
"Those who think Texas is a good place to live adopt the flat `I' — it's like the badge of Texas," said Dr. Bailey, 53, provost and executive vice president of the university and a transplanted Alabamian married to a Lubbock native, also 53.
So if you love Texas, they say, be fixin' to say "naht" for "night," "rahd" for "ride" and "raht" for "right."
And by all means say "all" for "oil."
In addition to quickly becoming enamored of Western garb like cowboy boots and hats, big-buckled belts, western shirts and vests, newcomers to the state — and there are a lot of them — are especially likely to adopt the lingo pronto.
At the same time, the speech of rural and urban Texans is diverging, Dr. Bailey said. Texans in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio are sounding more like other Americans and less like their fellow Texans in Iraan, Red Lick or Old Glory.
Indeed, Dr. Tillery and Dr. Bailey wrote in a recent paper called "Texas English," a new dialect of Southern American English may be emerging on the West Texas plains. It is not what a linguist might expect, they wrote, "but this is Texas, and things are just different here."
The changes are being tracked by researchers for the two San Antonio linguists, who are working with scholars from Oklahoma State University and West Texas A&M in Canyon, outside Amarillo, under the sponsorship of the National Geographic Society. They divided Texas into 116 squares and are interviewing four native Texans spanning four age groups— from the 20's to the 80's, in each.
As part of the latest effort, two master's students in linguistics from the University of North Texas at Denton, Amanda Aguilar, 24, and Brooke Earheardt, 23, arranged recently to record Mr. Greer, 70, as he responded to an exhaustive 31-page questionnaire.
Ms. Aguilar first probed some of Mr. Greer's attitudes toward Texas. Was it a barren state?
"It's in the ahs of the beholder," responded Mr. Greer, who was born in Port Arthur. The state, he said, was "dee-vahded, you kin almost draw a lahn."
Was it a progressive state?
"Compared to who?" he said. "Califohnia? Baghdad? Ah'd have to say Texas is a progressive state."
"Most are distinctive in their own way," he said, smiling, "with the possible exception of Ah-wah." (That was Iowa.)
Next Ms. Aguilar quizzed Mr. Greer on a lexicon of Texas words and phrases. Had he ever heard the expression "y'all?"
Of course. "Ah think `you' sometimes just duddn't work bah itself."
Could you use it for just one person?
"Ah would trah to confahn it to the plural," he said. "It's just like `youse guys.' "
Had he heard "fixin' to?"
Of course again. " `Ahma' often goes with it," he said. "Ahma fixin' to go."
The questions and Mr. Greer's answers kept coming. A dragonfly? That's a "miskeeta hahk." A wishbone was a "pulleybone." A cowboy's rope was a lasso or a lariat, or just a "ropin' rope." A drought was worse than a "drah spell"; no rain, or "it haddn for a long tahm." You wait "for" a friend who haddn shown up, but you wait "on" someone who is nearby and delayed, perhaps upstairs putting on makeup.
Afterward, Ms. Aguilar and Ms. Earheardt said that Mr. Greer, though white, employed some noticeable African-American and Deep South speech patterns. There were also Spanish influences, common in Texas, where Spanish was widely spoken for nearly a hundred years before English.
Dr. Tillery and Dr. Bailey warned that it was possible to exaggerate the distinctiveness of Texas English because the state loomed so large in the popular imagination. Few speech elements here do not also appear elsewhere.
"Nevertheless," they wrote in their paper on Texas English, "in its mix of elements both from various dialects of English and from other languages, TXE is in fact somewhat different from other closely related varieties."
Perhaps the most striking finding, Dr. Tillery said, was the spread of the humble "y'all," ubiquitous in Texas as throughout the South. Y'all, once "you all" but now commonly reduced to a single word, sometimes even spelled "yall," is taking the country by storm, the couple reported in an article written with Tom Wikle of Oklahoma State University and published in 2000 in the Journal of English Linguistics. No one other word, it turns out, can do the job.


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The insurance company informed the employees today that none of the jobs was being eliminated, but the workers would have to relocate or commute if they wanted to keep their jobs.
Company spokesman Ari Adler tells WILX.com the move is being made to save Delta Dental nearly $1 million a year. The Okemos facility is rented and the Farming Hills facility is owned by the company.
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1. Heat milk to scalding point (170°F; 77°C) in saucepan over low heat, stirring frequently. Whisk in skim milk powder, if using. Remove from heat, and let cool 30 minutes to 1 hour, or until milk temperature reaches 110° to 120°F (44° to 49°C) on instant-read thermometer, stirring once or twice.
2. Whisk together yogurt and 1/2 cup cooled milk in bowl. Whisk this mixture into remaining cooled milk. Pour into clean container(s), secure lid(s), and place in yogurt maker. Set timer for 8 to 10 hours. (The longer yogurt ferments, the firmer its texture and tangier its flavor.) Check 1 container after 8 hours; if yogurt has reached desired tartness and texture, remove cups from yogurt maker, and refrigerate. If not, replace test cup, and continue to ferment 1 to 2 hours more. Chill completely before serving.April/May 2011 p.46
My favorite way is to pour the yogurt into a big mop bucket and toss in the umbilical cord from the calf. Mix it up into a big messy mess and stick your head down in and sloop it all up. Martha Stewart says add a little nutmeg as well.Sloopy - 2015-09-01 13:21:40
I use a yogurt strainer and let it sit in the fridge to drain the whey and it thickens the consistency to Greek yogurt and even to a cream cheese consistency if I forget about it . You can always mix some whey back into it if that happens. I too it with homemade granola and frozen mixed berries .Lisa sharp - 2015-09-01 04:43:36
I use probiotic capsules as a starter if I don't have any organic yogurt. I use one that has 8 strains of probiotics.Lisa sharp - 2015-09-01 04:40:05
To bring this recipe up to today's 'Greek yogurt' interest : Bring the milk to a boil - if not organic, this will inactivate any antibiotic residue in the milk and give stronger culture activity. I have a hard time getting instant organic powdered milk - if concerned about growth hormones in the milk, regular instant powdered milk can be chock full and no reporting of it is necessary. So - do not add powder and : Put your finished yogurt in a colander lined with muslin or several layers of cheesecloth and let drain to your liking (30 minutes is a good minimum). There you have it - Greek style yogurt that is thick, creamy and higher in protein due to water loss. (this is how they have been doing it in India for at least a couple of thousand years) btw : You can let the boiled milk cool in a container or crock and culture it in that container and wrap it in a thick towel. Checking temp with a thermometer can give better consistent results. Kelly B's way with quart jars & warm water is perfect.pm - 2014-07-05 16:07:08
For the past 25 years I have made my yogurt in quart jars in a small cooler filled with warm water--comes out perfect every time!Kelly B - 2014-06-03 17:46:51
If you have a dehydrator with a temperature control, you can use it to make your yoghurt instead of purchasing a yoghurt maker. I use my Excalibur model to make yoghurt in about 4 to 6 hours. There are recipes over the internet and in the Excalibur Dehydrating book.Lucie Arteau - 2013-05-11 13:59:15


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'Game of Thrones' premiere is HBO's top program since the 'Sopranos' finale
Don't stop believing in the ratings power of HBO's "Game of Thrones."
Sunday (April 6) night's Season 4 premiere attracted HBO's biggest audience since the series finale of a little show called "The Sopranos."
Now, let's be clear: "Game of Thrones" didn't come close to equalling the numbers that turned out to bid farewell to Tony Soprano, but HBO is still feeling pretty good about the latest premiere numbers.
In its first 9 p.m. airing on Sunday, "Game of Thrones" averaged 6.6 million viewers, up by 52 percent over last spring's premiere and up by 23 percent over the Season 3 finale. An additional 1.6 million viewers caught replays at 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. bringing the first night number to 8.2 million. Even with all of those combined airings, "Game of Thrones" was still far behind the 11.9 million viewers who watched the 2007 "Sopranos" finale.
HBO says the "average gross audience" for the third season of "Game of Thrones" -- that's all on-air showings, OnDemand, HBOGo and all that stuff -- was 14.4 million.
Naturally, the "Game of Thrones" premiere had a strong ripple for "Silicon Valley," which averaged 2 million viewers in its first airing and added 534,000 in subsequent encores. This was HBO's biggest half-hour debut since "Hung" averaged 2.8 million viewers in 2009.
Things were a bit less robust for "Veep," which averaged 955,000 viewers in its 10:30 airing, actually down by 3 percent from last season's finale. "Veep" added 539,000 in two subsequent airings for an opening night of 1.5 million viewers. HBO notes that "Veep" had an "average gross audience" of 3.9 million viewers per episode last season.
Showtime is also feeling good about its Sunday numbers.
The network says the fourth season finale for "Shameless" drew 1.93 million viewers in its 9 p.m. airing and 2.83 million viewers for the night. It was the show's best total night ever and the biggest audience yet for a "Shameless" finale. Wrapping its third season, "House of Lies" drew 731,000 viewers in its 10 p.m. airing and 1.4 million for the night, up 16 percent from the second season finale.
For the season, "Shameless" averaged 5.7 million viewers through various airings and secondary streams, up 7 percent over last year. "House of Lies" averaged 3 million viewers, flat with last year. Both shows have been renewed and will be back in 2015.


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I submitted a real $1 test donation. It was pending while I finished setting up my new paypal account. Once that was confirmed (after a few days) I went ahead and accepted the charge. The donation posted to my paypal account as accepted but it's not registering in my dashboard.
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I grew up outside of a small town in Arkansas and attended the U of A on a full academic scholarship hoping to walk on to the baseball team. I bounced around majors, trying out engineering and art before falling into acting.
As a dramatist, I feel that I am a student of the human condition, and as an actor I am the embodiment of the truth that hides in every moment. If I can help people to understand themselves and each other a little better, or even just understand them a little better myself through my art, then I feel that I have succeeded.
"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I'm still chewing this one over, but I think it's a strong basis for a philosophy that could solve a lot of problems in the world, if people took it to heart. I encourage you to read the book before you think you know what it means.
Too many to list. Too many for me to really be interested in at once. I like trying a little bit of everything. Music in general, playing and listening. I'll play any kind of sport I can get my hands on. I'm a reader, a gamer, and an actor(that's my main goal right now). I like writing, drawing, and photography. I could go on and on, but I think I've got so many that it's hard for me to actually focus and do much of any of them, so that's what I think I need to do; pick one and really focus on it.
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The extended-cab Ford F-150 was somewhat louder than a conventional model, but it was the emissions certificate in the rear window that proved the pickup packed something unusual under the hood.
A partially disguised F-150 recently photographed testing in Michigan wore a code showing the presence of a 3.0-liter turbodiesel engine, and sported a tell-tale diesel exhaust tip. It looks like Ford is serious about besting its pickup competition in every way. (Read More…)


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Definition of hundreds and thousands in English:
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Tiny sugar beads of varying colours used for decorating cakes and desserts.
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Complete Streets Grows State Transportation Policy
Complete Streets is a growing national initiative to improve the design and operation of roadways, particularly those in urban and suburban settings, to accommodate and encourage safe access for all users – motorists, transit riders, cyclists and pedestrians.
Peach Pass Updates Available on Mobile
To make an exhausting commute seem less so, the Peach Pass GO! mobile app lets commuters check their account balances, change their toll mode and review their billing statements at a moment's notice.
Power to the Pedals: Atlanta's First Bike to Work Challenge
This October, The Clean Air Campaign, the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition and local transportation management associations have organized the first-ever Bike to Work Challenge. The Bike to Work Challenge encourages current and new bicycle commuters to compete as individuals or on teams with other cycling enthusiasts in the metro Atlanta area.
Electronic Speed Limit Signs Approved
The Georgia Department of Transportation recently approved plans to install electronic speed limit signs on parts of Interstate 285, allowing for variable speed limits during the day.
Governor Deal Announces Georgia CommuteSmart Program
To reduce state employee commute times, Governor Nathan Deal recently initiated the Georgia CommuteSmart Program. With 4 options for agencies and state employees, the program allows more flexibility for work travel schedules.
Clean Air Campaign Commuter Rewards
As the summer vacation season nears an end, and schools open their doors to students, the promise of more traffic on Georgia's roads comes back as well.
The Future of T-SPLOST
As debate about the recent T-SPLOST vote winds down across much of the state, discussion is still lively for the three districts that approved the tax — the Central Savannah River Area, River Valley and Heart of Georgia Altamaha.
Deal Announces End of Georgia 400 Toll in 2013
Governor Deal recently announced his plan to remove the Georgia 400 toll at the end of 2013. The announcement detailed to have the state pay off its bond debt on December 1, 2013, and move quickly to eliminate the unpopular toll by the end of that year, stopping collection 4 years earlier than previously planned.
Shuttling Scientists, Students and Veterans Through the City
Among the projects dependent on the coming T-SPLOST vote, the Clifton Corridor Transit Initiative aims to help scientists, students and veterans move just a bit more quickly through Atlanta.
Envisioning the Atlanta BeltLine
In 1999, Georgia Institute of Technology graduate student Ryan Gravel completed his master's thesis, a plan for a 22-mile loop that would connect 45 historic Atlanta neighborhoods, promoting in each greater access to mass transit, public parks and recreational trails.


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HIGHLAND FALLS — A racial discrimination lawsuit brought against the village and Mayor Patrick Flynn has been moved to federal court at the request of the defense.
The lawsuit originally was filed in state Supreme Court in Goshen in early June by Nicole's, a catering hall with a predominantly black staff and clientele.
Defense lawyer Michael Burke could not be reached for comment. In court papers seeking to move the case from state to federal court, he noted the plaintiffs allege numerous violations of federal laws and the Constitution, such as freedom of association and equal protection.
Nicole's says it is the only business in the village required to obtain a permit for live bands or disc jockeys and observe a 2 a.m. weekend curfew on playing music. Other businesses, including one owned by the mayor, that provide DJs for events do not have to obtain permits, the lawsuit says.
It also says the mayor has stated publicly Nicole's attracts "the wrong crowd" and large groups "from Spring Valley and Newburgh," which the lawsuit says are code words for blacks because those communities have large black populations.
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New course for coaches on practicing in the heat
Updated: 06/19/2009 - The deadline is drawing near, but an on-line training program for coaches isn't ready yet.
Updated: 06/19/2009 - The deadline is drawing near, but an on-line training program for coaches isn't ready yet.
Posted: 06/19/2009 - A Louisville police officer has been placed on paid administrative leave after being arrested in Florida.
Updated: 06/19/2009 - A brand of cookie dough is flying off the shelves after a recall was announced on Friday.
Updated: 06/19/2009 - After days of soggy, wet weather, the heat is on for folks in the bluegrass state.
Posted: 06/19/2009 - Nestle has recalled its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products after a number of illnesses were reported by those who ate the dough raw.
Posted: 06/19/2009 - A vote on expanded gambling in the state of the Kentucky could come at anytime Friday afternoon.
Posted: 06/19/2009 - 37-year-old David Owens Thomas II of Jeffersonville died after the truck he was in hit a culvert on U.S.460 in Montgomery County.
Posted: 06/19/2009 - A man whose name graces the faculty club at UK and its tennis center has died.
Posted: 06/19/2009 - Police in northern Kentucky are hoping someone will come forward with information to help them catch a fake cop.
Posted: 06/19/2009 - Army officials say a body found on the Fort Knox Army post was a retired soldier who was working as a computer systems analyst at the installation.
Posted: 06/19/2009 - An online course on medical and safety issues hasn't yet been made available to Kentucky high school coaches, who have less than a month to complete it.
Posted: 06/19/2009 - A couple of unhappy customers who missed out on free grilled chicken at KFC after Oprah promoted it are taking their beef to court.
Posted: 06/19/2009 - The third-generation iPhone 3-G S went on sale Friday morning and some people camped out in Lexington.
Updated: 06/19/2009 - People in one Harlan County community say their water supply is in danger if an upcoming coal mining permit is approved, and that is not their only concern.
Updated: 06/19/2009 - The TLC network says its biggest stars, Jon and Kate Gosselin, will announce a major decision on their reality show, "Jon & Kate Plus 8."
Updated: 06/19/2009 - A couple of unhappy customers who missed out on a free grilled chicken meal at KFC after Oprah promoted it are taking their beef to court.
Updated: 06/19/2009 - A Bourbon County home has been condemned and 30 dogs have been removed after an animal control officer says the home is unlivable.
Updated: 02/05/2010 - The fake checks are so realistic only the bank can recognize them for sure.
Updated: 06/18/2009 - All week, severe storms have battered the state. Until Thursday, most of the damage was limited to the southern and eastern parts of the state.
Updated: 02/05/2010 - A Danville barbershop owners says he's downright mad that someone stole from him and now he's doing something about it.
Updated: 06/18/2009 - Lexington's most famous madame has her 149th birthday celebrated as a fund raiser.
Posted: 06/18/2009 - Police in Rockcastle County have arrested three suspects in connection to a theft of a county garage. More than $15,000 worth of tools were taken.
Posted: 06/18/2009 - On Thursday, Governor Beshear announced that Kentucky's unemployment rate is at 10.6%.
Posted: 06/18/2009 - it was anything but a typical day at work on Thursday for a Lexington man at a downtown hotel.
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- - Ronda Rousey Talks UFC Debut, GSP on Womens MMA, Sex Before Fighting, and Zombies (http://www.mmaforum.com/ufc/107274-ronda-rousey-talks-ufc-debut-gsp-women-s-mma-sex-before-fighting-zombies.html)
Ronda Rousey Talks UFC Debut, GSP on Womens MMA, Sex Before Fighting, and Zombies
As far as I remember, GSP never really said anything disrespectful towards Rousey, just that WMMA didn't appeal to him. Which is a fair honest opinion
she could call me anytime leading up to a fight.... rawrr!
What's everybodies deal with GSP's comments? He said his happy for them but he personally isn't watching women fight. He never disrespected them or doubted their abilities. Just his personal opinion and didn't say everybody has to feel the same way.
I'm not gonna lie, I only clicked on this topic because I saw "Ronda Rousey" and "sex".
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She probably feels that he has been in many gyms with women practicing BJJ and TK along side him. She is a Judo. There is/was a woman like Cyborg. She feels that GSP as a martial artist should appreciate their skills and backing their existence to compete and show those skills on that level.
I've been against Women in the UFC but not Women's MMA. I'm just not interested in whatever kind of division they put together. I am interested in Ronda. But it about stops there.
GSP didn't say anything wrong. But she probably felt like he would back women in the sport more than that and not making it seem cringe-worthy.
The media is always constantly trying to pry into her sex life and she just goes right along with it.
So dopey.
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She may also know that more sex = more interest = more money.
GSP would kick Rousey's ass.
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Semeen Ali presents youthful voices trying to come to terms with the nature of conflicting interests in the trajectories of freedom and democracy. She cites Albert Camus, the great existentialist, who explores the interconnections between freedom and responsibility, challenging the human temptation to consider suicide as possible escape from absurdity: "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
In the poems, fiction and essays, the explorations may plumb the depths of despair or speak of the strength of the weakest of the weak. What we, as Indians, cannot afford to forget, though, is the simple mantra that Mahatma Gandhi has given the world—the mantra which defies all opposition: "Be the Change you want to see in the world."
In a poignant piece, Prachi Gurjarpadhye takes us down memory lane to meet the pioneer of modernist Indian English poetry, Nissim Ezekiel (in pic) at a time when he was no longer in control over his mental faculties. Conversations with Uddipana Goswami and the Parsi voice from across the border, Bapsi Sidhwa, and articles on Aravind Adiga, Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, Aju Mukhopadhyay among others, are the highlights.
Book Reviews are the life blood of any journal as they keep the readers updated with the latest releases and provide a choice to them to pick from the rich fare available. Our scholarly reviewers – Lipipuspa Nayak, Paresh Tiwari, Priyadarshini Gupta, Revati Raj Iyer (in pic), Srinivas Reddy, Subashish Bhattacharjee and Usha Kishore – introduce scintillating works of prose, poetry and fiction.
FICTION"The way of human life … is an unimaginable, unpredictable and relentless chiaroscuro of
happenings... It is a maze of approaches and opportunities, of ordeals and challenges,"
writes U Atreya Sarma, while presenting seven short stories, including that of Sohail Rauf (in pic), guaranteed to tug at the heart strings and challenge the mind.
Ambika Ananth believes "that poetry has a therapeutic quality …, apart from its creative side, restoring individuals and society to good health – the restorative quality can be felt by those who are receptive to it." The children's writer, Deepa Agarwal (in pic), speaks of her past as her "own" foreign country, while Dilip Mohapatra, Jean Ann Owens and others explore their experiences in varied forms and settings. >>>
ART GALLERYPriyadarshi Patnaik and Pinaki Gayen present 'The Scroll Paintings of Bengal,' a
vibrant narrative tradition of 'Patuas,' the wandering artist-performers who move
from village to village singing stories of gods and goddesses as they unfold the
visuals in the scrolls.
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Composition, Music Theory and Musicology Publications (UMKC)
Items in this collection are the scholarly output of the Division of Composition, Music Theory and Musicology faculty and students, either alone or as co-authors, and which may or may not have been published in an alternate format.
Items in MOspace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
Recent Submissions
Aesthetics and national identity in Russian sacred choral music : a past in tradition and present in ruins (Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2005)
Spiritual Songs in the Seventeenth Century: Russia's Legacy in Manuscripts (Verlag Otto Sagner, 2009)


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LSC-Tomball Community Library and the Lone Star College Small Business Development Center proudly begin a third season of Business Success Seminars Friday, March 1st with Maria Tapias, Group Account Director with Lopez Negrete Communications. Tapias will light up the new season with a seminar about Marketing to the Hispanic Community.
Lopez Negrete Communications is an independent, Hispanic owned and operated full service agency specializing in Hispanic marketing. As Tapias remarks, the Hispanic community is "...a world all its own, with different textures and tastes, rhythms and hues."
This year's Business Success seminars are especially timed to begin right after each monthly Chamber of Commerce meeting, a meeting that takes place the first Friday of the month in the Beckendorf Center in the East Building of LSC-Tomball. The seminars will happen just around the corner in Room E178. There is no registration and no registration fee for the seminars, and everyone is welcome. That's 2:15 p.m., Friday, March 1st.
Our funding comes from the state as well as the county, so if you've been well served by the library in the past year, please tell your state representatives. They need to hear from you so they can advocate for library services as they go into budget sessions.
To find out who represents you, use the QR code to the left or click on this link: http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/find-your-representative/ and put in your residential address.
If you like, here is a link to a sample letter provided by the Texas Library Association: http://www.hcpl.net/sites/default/files/Legislative Sample Letter.pdf
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Here's what the book club participants are reading in February. Come join a club and meet some people who like to read the same kinds of books that you do.
Afternoon Book Club (1st Tuesday, 3 pm): Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Paranormal Book Club (2nd Monday, 7 pm): Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Inspirational Book Club (2nd Thursday, 7 pm): One Mountain Away by Emilie Richards
Tween Homeschool Book Club (3rd Monday, 1 pm): The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place
Non-Fiction Book Club (3rd Tuesday, 2 pm): Night by Elie Wiesel
History Book Club (4th Tuesday, 7 pm): The Whiskey Rebellion by William Hogeland
After Austen Book Club (Last Monday, 7 pm): Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Mystery Book Club (4th Thursday, 1 pm): Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Muril Wilson is an award winning artist and former President of the Tomball Art League. She's been painting ever since, as a young adult, the Teton Mountains took her breath away. Born in Bellmead, a suburb of Waco, her travels back and forth to visit her folks take her through the little town of Calvert where she's in love with their historic buildings. To date she's painted twenty-two of them, many of them bought by the building owners. This month she is displaying some of those Calvert paintings as well as other Texas scenes and events. See them in Room L 129.
AARP Tax Aide begins this Saturday. Every year, trained volunteers from the Association of Retired Persons offer help in completing simple tax returns for elderly and low income earners. The help is offered three times a week in Room L-129 on a first-come, first-served basis until the middle of April.
Mondays from noon to 4 pm
Wednesdays 10 to 2 pm
Saturdays 11 to 3 pm
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Before you head off to the library to do your computing on the morning of Tuesday, January 29th, please know that our Network Services will be performing a scheduled maintenance and that the public library computers will be without internet connection for about an hour starting at about 10:00 a.m. The college computers will NOT be affected by this.
Amelia Bedelia, the well-meaning housemaid in Peggy Parish's famous children's books of the same name, is fifty years old! We are celebrating her birthday with an interactive display. Those of you who have loved her books will remember that Amelia had difficulty understanding English idioms, with hilarious result. So when Amelia's boss leaves her a note to change the towels, dust the furniture, draw the drapes, put the lights out, measure two cups of rice, and dress the chicken, --well, check out our display on the first floor to see what she did.
You can find tax forms on the first floor across from the Reference
Desk. Please note that the production of some 2012 major tax products, including the Form
1040 and the Instructions for Form 1040, were impacted by the recent
passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 and are delayed. Know that as soon as the forms arrive, we will place them out for pickup and blog about them here.
This month we have the pleasure of exhibiting the oil and water-soluble oil paintings of Delores "Moon" Smith. Delores is a local painter, who grew up painting and drawing portraits, landscapes, and more. She's a member of the Tomball Art League and she gives private and semi-private lessons. What you see here is a self-portrait.
Ten weeks ago I wrote that our English as a Second Language programs are burgeoning and that we need tutors. A number of people have signed up and we're so grateful. But now we need even more tutors because even more people are asking to learn English.
In case you're not aware of our programs, every week at the library we hold discussion groups that provide forums for practicing speaking English, and we also offer individual tutoring sessions--also at the library--at times convenient to the tutor and the student. We're looking for more volunteers to tutor people who want to learn to speak, read, and write English. We provide training and support and no, you do not need to know a second language to teach people English. Are you interested? If you'd like to volunteer, please give Charity Martin a call at 832-559-4200.
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Archives For Leadership
I usually find Simon Sinek's quotes of the day inspiring even if I don't fully agree with them. For example, today Sinek offers this pearl of wisdom:
If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.
From one perspective I agree if everything goes wrong you at least get a good story but if you can manage to stay optimistic and work to turn a problem around or just work through it, the problem becomes an opportunity for growth. When you resolve the problem or just work through it and learn from it, you get the good experience and the good story. I do need to qualify that a good experience isn't not necessary one that we may enjoy at the time but one that helps us to grow. Let me explain.
A few months back my aged mother had a stroke, fell and broke her hip, had surgery and then had another stroke. Her life has been devastated. She went from being a fully independent senior in her 80's to being hospitalized and requires constant care. My brother and sister who live in the same city as my mother have had their lives radically changed. What little spare time they have in their busy lives is now spent visiting and caring for my mother in the hospital.
My mother's condition is still unstable which means she goes from being on death's door one day to showing signs of improvement the next. This constant turmoil is weighing heavy on my brother and sister. Because I live in another province I don't experience this first hand but I speak with my siblings on a regular basis and have some insight into what they have been experiencing. I have also been speaking to my mother when she is able and have reconciled myself to the fact that she may not make it out of the hospital.
Fortunately, my mother is a woman of faith and believes that she will be moving onto a better place and the physical distress and turmoil she now faces now will soon end. My siblings and I also hold this belief and recognize that the pain and suffering will end because we all face death. This faith has strengthen my family's resolve because we recognize that there are life lessons to be learned as we go through this unfortunate stage in my mother's life. I have had in-depth conversations with my mother and siblings that I would never have had with my family if it wasn't for this unfortunate situation. We are all facing life and death issues that most of us ignore due our hectic lives.
Right now, this is not an enjoyable or good experience in any way, but we are living and working through it and at some point will be able to look back and draw some good from this difficult time. Even though it really doesn't feel like it right now I also know that we learning and growing in this season in our mother's life.
The wisdom offered in Simon Sinek's inspirational post of the day:
"A team's job is to provide their leader more options. The leader's job is to give their team the resources to do so."
will only work if your work environment/department/group operates as a team and you have the right leader.
Unfortunately not enough work settings function as teams and not enough leaders recognize that their priority is to power and equip their teams and most work groups aren't interested in offering their leaders options. You need both components to make have an highly efficient and productive work environment.
I try to limit the posting of Youtube videos to my Wednesday Watchlist posts and I also try not to comment on the videos I post because in my selection criteria I require that a great video speaks for itself. But after watching this video from Simon Sinek this past weekend I realized that I need to post and share this video as soon as possible. Sinek offers a biological and anthropomorphic explanation of effective leadership and what happens when we don't have it that I believe everyone needs to watch. The following explanation of the responsibility or cost of leadership is a small sampling of Sinek's exceptional perspective:
Leadership/alpha comes at a cost. You see we expect that when danger threatens us from the outside that the person who's actually stronger, the person who's better fed and the person who is actually teeming with serotonin who actually has higher confidence the rest of us; we expect them to run toward the danger to protect us. This is what it means to be a leader. The cost of leadership is self-interest. If you're not willing to give up your perks when it matters then you probably shouldn't get promoted. You might be an authority but you will not be a leader. Leadership comes at a cost. You don't get to do less work you get to do more. You have to do more work and the more work you have to do is put yourself at risk to look after others. That is the anthropological definition of what a leader is.
I haven't yet read Sinek's latest book Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't but if his book is even a fraction as good as this talk I am looking forward to exploring his thought further.


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A Morrill, Nebraska man was arraigned Thursday on charges related to a burglary reported Wednesday at a rural Gosper County residence. According to court records, a man reported that a tire was taken off a pickup that was parked in front of... Read More
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Morrill County Commissioner Steve Erdman is getting support from the two Sidney candidates who trailed him and Ogallala's Karl Elmshaueser in the 47th legislative district primary. But only one is ready to full endorse him. Peggy Popps and Wendell... Read More
The Kimball Longhorns get a jump on the rest of the region tonight as they open up the 2016 high school football season with a trip to North Platte High School to play Centura. Kimball Head Coach Nick Kuxhausen says he hopes his team can bounce ba... Read More
The 2016 Old West Balloon Fest is only a weekend away, and promises to be a must attend, three day event. Organizers are anticipating crowds that will top last year's record setting attendance for any event in Scotts Bluff County. Co-Chair Bren... Read More
Fairgoers to the 147th Nebraska State Fair in Grand Island can learn about science, livestock, crops and agricultural education from students and staff of the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis. Nebraska's only statewide technic... Read More
A Gering man has been transported to Regional West Medical Center following a Thursday morning wipe-out on Avenue I. Around 9 a.m., 74-year-old John Krieschel was travelling southbound on Avenue I as he approached the stoplight on 27th Street. Sco... Read More
A judge has ordered a family ranch inthe Sandhills to let Nebraska Public Power District access its land for survey work. Court records say the ruling came Monday in the Brush Creek Ranch lawsuit against the district. The lawsuit sought unspecifie... Read More
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2015 World Market Vendors
The World Market is filled with booths selling unique hand-crafted and imported items from around the world. Walking through, shop and view demonstrations. Also, in the World Market you will find information about various nonprofits and services that support and benefit our community.
(Click on the names in blue to learn more about the items available throughout the year!)
Vendors booths will be open from 10 AM – 6 PM.
|Bead and a Prayer – Irish/Celtic themed necklaces, bracelets, anklets, bookmarks, earrings
|Bend Folds
|Dayo Art
|Echo and Made
Elsa's Unique Designs
Elena Vargas
|Exile International – African handmade goods, paper beads, t-shirts, hoodies
|Hands of Guatemala
|Heart of Nashville - Original Nashville skylines, paintings, prints, note cards, t-shirts, totes
|Hempenwald/Nicholson Sales – Handmade jewelry, hemp & beaded pendants, recycled copper jewelry. Handcrafted natural fiber hats, bags, pouches. Bamboo craft items. Hand-crafted pewter figurines. Hand-dyed tapestries, batik, etc.
|Hoop Voyance
|Incas Andes – From Ecuador: Hand-knit wool sweaters, wool ponchos, wool hats, scarves, bags, purses, maracas, flutes, jewelry, cotton dresses
|International Sewing Club – Up-cycled items created by Immigrants & Refugees; Purses, skirts, jewelry, head bands.
|Imagine Brazil – Original (designed by Circe Zugno) and handcrafted natural seed, gemstone, and sterling silver jewelry.
|Jade & Angels
|Jacqui Arte
Kiehl Guillot
|Llama House – Peruvian Hand-embroidered purses and totes, hanging gourds
Mehendi Art
|Mobile Jewelry Boutique – African/Ghana and Jamaica: Earrings, bracelets, purses, rings
|NOIS (North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies) – Indian jewelry and clothing
|Origin Creations
|Rising Tide – From Nepal: Handmade felt purses, scarves, hoodies, shirts, and packaged tea.
|Rosa Hermosa – (Benefitting Our Little Roses Orphanage in San Pedro, Honduras) T-shirts and jewelry for sale
|Seemi's Henna Art – Pakistan/Dubai: Jewelry, scarves, body art
|Scarlett Begonia – South American imports: clothing, jewelry, accessories
Taller de Fibras
|Vera's Innovations – Original canvas paintings, jewelry, handmade belts, scarves, sombreros, revosos
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Deferred Pensions
Looking for your online account? You will find it all here at:
Your 2015 Annual Statement is available to view online.
Your 2016 Annual Statement will be available to view towards the end of August 2016.
If you have a query regarding the online service, such as how to register or login, as well as password and username queries please call the following number 0116 305 7886 or email us at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Please note that if your questions are about the actual benefits, you are instead advised to call 0116 305 4000 to speak to a Pensions Officer, or use the email address: email@example.com for a more detailed response.
What is a deferred pension?
What is a deferred pension?
What will happen if I die before receiving payment of my deferred benefits?
What is a deferred pension?
Having a deferred pension means that you were once a member of the pension scheme, but you left before retirement age. You have therefore retained your pension with us. Sometimes it is called a 'preserved benefit' or a 'frozen pension'. It is all the same.
You will be contacted at retirement age and offered the benefits.
You will receive a statement each year, usually in August or September, which provides you with the current value and the date that the benefits are due to become payable. The statements are available to view on your online pensions account. Every deferred member can register for access to their online account at the following website: www.Leicestershirepensionfund.org
If you have a query regarding the new online service please call the following helpline: 0116 3057886
Or email us at: email@example.com
The deferred pension is inflation proofed, and until 2010 the indexation was in line with the Retail Prices Index (RPI). From 2011 onwards, the rate of indexation became linked to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI).).
2016: From 11th April 2016 the pensions revaluation will be nil due to negative inflation for any deferred member who left before 1st April 2015. However because of the method the Treasury apply when calculating the inflationary adjustment, any deferred member who left the scheme during the period 1st April 2015 to 31st March 2016 will see a very small negative revaluation on a proportioned basis. The adjustment on that year's pension accrual will however be between nil and -0.10%. Once again, it is likely that this amount will be extremely small.
I have a deferred pension with the Leicestershire scheme, can I take it early?
Not always.
If you left the LGPS before 1st April 2014, then you cannot draw your pension before age 60, unless you are over 55 and have achieved the Consent of your former employer (in line with their own internal policy). If you are interested in finding out if you can draw on your benefits before age 60 please write to your former employer stating the reasons for your claim and requesting further information.
If you left the LGPS after 1st April 2014, then you are able to access your pension benefits from age 55 without the consent of your employer. However, the benefits are likely to be significantly reduced in order for you to start drawing them earlier. If you are interested in finding out the value of your benefits if taken early please use the calculator function on your online account to check, or if you have registered for paper documents in the past, please contact the Pension Section for further information.
You can still apply for release of your deferred benefits on health grounds at any age, which will be judged on whether you are permanently unfit to carry out gainful employment, or in some cases, your former role.
In both instances, you will need to apply to your former employer for early payment, stating the reasons.
When will the Pension Section contact me?
Your annual pension statement will be available online for you to view, usually in August or September.
We will also contact you approximately 2 months before your earliest claim date (this may be inbetween your 55th and your 60th birthday) to tell you about your pension entitlement and how to claim it.
How do I let you know I have changed my address?
Please keep us informed of any change in your home address so that we can write to you close to your retirement date with details of how to claim your benefits. We have introduced an online service that will allow you to update your address electronically. This can be done by registering for the service at www.leicestershirepensionfund.org. Once your registration is complete you will be able to tell us about changes to this information by going to the 'Request And Forms' page or you can update your contact details by selecting one of the short cuts on the right hand side of the main Personal Details Page.
Can I transfer this pension to another local government fund?
If you have deferred benefits from a previous LGPS employment, and any of these rights relate to membership that you built up in the scheme before 31st March 2014, then you will be provided with information by your new scheme to help you decide whether to move those benefits across from the Leicestershire fund, or to keep them here. There are a number of factors that you will need to consider, and you will be provided with full details to enable you to make this decision.
If you have deferred benefits from a previous LGPS employment and all of those benefits relate to a period of employment that took place after 1st April 2014, then those benefits will automatically be joined together with your new LGPS pension. This is because all post 2014 rights are equal across the different funds, and so the Regulations state that a transfer should automatically take place. Your pension rights are exactly the same whichever fund they are held in, and there is no advantage or disadvantage to your pension being moved.
Can I transfer this pension into another non local government scheme?
Normally yes, although you will need to check with that scheme or fund that they are willing to accept the transfer. If they will, then they will be able to inform you of the procedures. This will involve a request being made for a 'cash equivalent transfer value (CETV)' to be calculated by the Pension Section, which is supplied to your new provider in order that they can inform you of the equivalent rights in their scheme. You will then be able to make an informed decision.
You may be aware from news reports that new legislation will become effective from 1st April 2015 about pension flexibility and choice. These new rules WILL NOT change the rules of the Local Government Pension Scheme. The changes that the Government are bringing in will affect what are known as 'defined contribution schemes', such as a private personal pension plan. The LGPS is not one of these schemes. It is what is called 'a defined benefit scheme'. That is to say the rules and benefits of our scheme are set out in law already.
The Government changes will, it is true bring new flexibilities to personal pensions. However the LGPS already includes some of these measures in its own rules. That is to say, small pensions can sometimes be paid up front as a lump sum within certain limits.
Deferred members may well be thinking about transferring their pension to another pension scheme. The LGPS has therefore produced a factsheet to help all members. Find out the facts at Freedom and Choice Q&A for scheme members, PDF document 136KB
If you die with deferred benefits in the LGPS, the following benefits are payable:
A lump sum death grant this a multiple of the current value of your deferred pension at the date of leaving the LGPS.
If you left the LGPS before 31st March 2008, the amount payable would be 3 X the pension, and if you have membership after 1st April 2008, the amount payable would be 5 X the value of the pension.
If you have not nominated a beneficiary, please do so. You can download here a copy of our Death Grant Expression of Wish form (PDF document 858KB)
You can make an expression of wish for whoever you would like to receive the lump sum - friends, family, partners, even an organisation such as your favourite charity.
The advantage of making an expression of wish is that the payments can normally be made quickly without waiting for your estate to be settled. Also, payment usually means that no inheritance tax needs to be paid on the Death Grant.
Important note: If you have more than one LGPS pension, that is to say if you a current contributing member as well with separate benefits either within the Leicestershire Scheme or under another Local Authority in the event of your death, only one Death Grant will be paid. This will be the one that is the higher of the payments, once they have been calculated.
There is also an ongoing pension for your husband, wife, civil partner, or cohabiting partner*.
*What defines a cohabiting Partner? A scheme member can only provide benefits for a co-habiting partner provided they paid into the scheme on or after 1.4.2008.
Cohabiting partner means a person whom Leicestershire County Council Pension Fund is satisfied fulfils the following conditions:
The person (P) has fulfilled the conditions below for a continuous period of at least 2 years on the date the member (M) died
The conditions are:
M is able to marry, or form a civil partnership with P
M and P are living together as if they were married or as if they were civil partners
Neither M nor P is living with a third person as if they were married or as if they were civil partners, and
Either P is financially dependent on M, or M and P are financially interdependent.
Pensions can also be paid to eligible children. Eligible children can include your own children, adopted children and certain other children who depend on you financially. They must normally be under 18, but can be as old as 23 if they carry on in full time education or in training for a trade, profession or vocation, or can even cover some adult children who cannot work, because of a disability which arose while they were a child.
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