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WASHINGTON- Spurred by an 11.2% increase in income tax collections nationwide, total state tax revenue rose 6.9% during fiscal year 1998, according to a report released today by the Center for the Study of the States.
Revenue collections from income, sales, and corporate taxes exceeded original budget estimates by $11 billion dollars, and were higher than expected in 45 states.
According to the report, this marked the fourth year in a row that states collected more tax money than originally budgeted.
"The extraordinary revenue growth reflected much stronger economic growth than most state and private forecasters had predicted," said Don Boyd, co-author of the report and director of the Albany, N.Y. think tank that conducted it.
Established in May 1990, the Center for the Study of the States is the state finance element of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research center for the State Universities of New York. Research for the report was funded in part by grants from the Ford Foundation and the Smith Richardson Foundation.
Regionally, the Rocky Mountain area and the Far West experienced the fastest growth in the country with 9.6% and 8.0% growth respectively. Colorado had the strongest revenue growth increase at 13.3% and Delaware was second at 13.1%.
The Far West states recorded a 17.3% increase in personal income tax revenue, highest in the nation. California's 19.2% personal income tax gain was tops among all states.
Revenue estimators at the Center believe that capital gains and other non-wage forms of income were once again driven up by a strong though volatile stock market, leading to personal income tax growth larger than expected.
While analysts contend that the current pace of revenue growth cannot continue unabated, they are quick to admit they have been predicting a slowdown for the past two years.
"One of the problems is that state revenue estimators don't understand fully where all of the revenue has come from," Boyd said. "Unfortunately, stock markets are fickle, and capital gains can decline. States should be cautious about embarking on tax cuts or spending programs that assume their fortunes in coming years will be as good as in the past few, which clearly are certainly unsustainable over the longer term."
According to the report, states enacted an aggregate net tax cut of $5.3 billion in fiscal year 1998, slightly higher than fiscal 1997's $4.9 billion net cut. The net tax cut represents 1.3% of total state tax revenue.
Twenty-nine states enacted tax cuts during fiscal 1998, while nine states increased taxes. Most of the increases came on cigarette and motor fuel taxes. Alaska and Wisconsin enacted the largest cigarette tax increases, while Michigan and Utah led in fuel tax increases.
Personal income and sales taxes were the most widely cut. Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, and Oregon had income or sales tax cuts significant enough to depress total tax revenue by more than three percent, the study said.
Of these states, Oregon's tax cuts had the most profound effects on revenue growth. Adjusted for tax cuts, Oregon's percent change in total tax revenue soared from 0.1% to 13%. This was due largely to Oregon's $441 million personal income tax rebate, the study said.
With fiscal year 1999 already more than halfway completed, the Center's State Fiscal Brief projected another better than expected year for state tax collections. The final numbers will depend heavily on 1998 tax returns due in April.
"These payments are volatile, hard to predict, and almost always surprising, but the surprise can be in either direction," the report said. "Absent a large negative surprise, many states will end fiscal year 1999 with more revenue than originally expected."
Revenue analysts are once again worrying that financial markets cannot continue to produce the outsized gains that have become commonplace in recent years. Revenue projections are being tempered, but that doesn't necessarily mean a slowdown in tax cuts, the report said.
"State finances are in the best shape they have been in for more than a decade, thanks in large part to roaring stock markets," Boyd said. "While there is no sign yet of slowing, state planners should keep in mind the extraordinary nature of the last few years. States would be unwise to assume that tax revenue and stock market gains will continue to grow as rapidly."


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Pokemon is Better Than Yu-Gi-Oh
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Yu-Gi-Oh, while still popular, focuses primarilly on a card game. It has a TV series about kids playing cards. Really? watching kids play with cards for 30 minutes? Not fun. The video games are just playing cards as well, and also lack the fun of the Pokemon games.
For these basic reasons I support Pokemon over Yu-Gi-Oh.
I'm under the assumption that we both lay out our arguments first round as to why either brand is better, and subsequent rounds are for rebuttals and the like.
Yu-gi-oh's premise is old Egyptian card games, which, to many people, is fascinating, hence why past cultural studies (ancient history) are offered in school, university etc. It is this fascination which makes the franchise so popular and successful.
The mechanics of the card game are relatively simple and are accessible to people of all ages. However, it also challenging enough to reach into higher dimensions of competitive play.
Variety is abundant in the card game as there are about 5000 (I can't find the actual amount, but I think we can agree on this) different cards available. There are many different tactics and strategies to be found within different combinations as a result of the huge variety.
The television series offers excitement and life's-lessons rather than in depth tactics (or even abiding by the rules). "Heart of the cards" reminds children that winning isn't everything as the spirit in which you play is, ultimately, the most important.
I wish my opponent luck, and more importantly, fun :)
My oponents states that YGO (Yu-Gi-Oh) is something to fascinate people in Universities and studiers of anchient history, but this is, as stated by parody series of YGO such as "abriged Series" (http://www.yugiohabridged.com...), a "Childrens card game", and it is. Its goal is that of entertainment for children, not for people in universities and studiers of anchient history. I dont mean to offend anyone who is older and plays YGO, but its main target in sales is children. Also, it is not primarily about Ancient Egypt and history as much as it is about a card game between short kids with huge hair. Pokemon, on the other hand, is not confusing young minds with things such as ancient egypt and history, but as a fun way to raise a team of your own warriors to fight for fun.
And for a comparison between the card game of YGO and Pokemon, YGO is very graphic. Graveyard? Traps? Life points? Attacking? this game acts as though it is a matter of life and death, not a simple card game. While there are many cards in the game, a large margin of those cards have images of blood and gore, with monsters eating eachother and ripping eachother apart. How is this a good way to affect the kids these days? In the Pokemon trading card game, there is simple things, like discard piles and prize cards, no death and life points and such. Its a much more simple and less graphic way to play card games. And there is not a single card that shows pokemon ripping nor eating eachother apart.
As for the television series, they say that the so called "heart of the cards" deals with getting emotionally attached to cards, and that somehow incorperates with getting lucky. It almosts seems like gambling, but I'm not even going to go there. But giving kids the idea that if you think hard enough about a card being what you want it to be on top of your "deck", makes kids think that they somehow will get it. And then, to there most likely dissapointment, they see it is not it. How does thinking hard enough about something will make it happen? In pokemon, it involves skill, not mindless guessing and hoping, but skill. In the games, the only time you have to worry about chance is if a certain risky attack will land or not.
I again thank my oponent for this debate and am glad to partake in it. Have fun with this. :)
"[Pokemon] has had over ten successful years" Successful in terms of financial revenue, but in terms of quality? I concede that the first two generations were excellent (despite theirs flaws e.g. mechanics in RBY gen.), but the quality has dissipated since: "they have no imagination now. Pidove? That's like a gay and retarded version of Pidgey [1]". More evidence of failure – [2], where a consumer complains about the apparently annoying "French horn" whilst "surfing". Failing to satisfy customers is a failure, and reaping profits because of past successes, despite producing rubbish currently is called "cashing-in", and to be honest, this undermines the franchise.
"and has appealed to many kids and even adults more so than any other game about anime battling monsters." Due to having more time to appeal to them than YGO.
"Being able to create your own team to what you prefer and able to endure on a long journey that will lead to hours of entertainment." YGO matches this with the variety of cards.
"Really? watching kids play with cards for 30 minutes? Not fun." You can also listen to them too.
"Its goal is that of entertainment for children, not for people in universities and studiers of anchient history." Citation [3] clearly depicts a young man enthralled at the thought of activating his trap card. Even though YGO is targeted at children, I think it's a success that older people also enjoy it. Also, the man appears to be at university (considering all the library shelves and people doing university things[4]).
"And for a comparison between the card game of YGO and Pokemon, YGO is very graphic." Pokemon is also very graphic. I remember finding and capturing 'Missigno.' My game went haywire and the pixels were everywhere.
Pokemon endorses cheating
In the pokemon generation RBY, 'the rare candy cheat' was a method used to duplicate masterballs and rarecandies to catch all the pokemon and then speed level them.
Pokemon endorses illicit drugs
Venturing to 'Glitch city' (by method of cheating) was possible because the producers wanted to train children for psychedelic drugs. The strange visuals were radical and had multiple subliminal messages encouraging children to do drugs [5] Also, the MART was a drug store, and you could buy non-commercial drugs which could have been infected or not were what the independent seller said they were (second gen). AND, the non-commercial drugs were cheaper!
This teaches children to support illegal third-party drug syndicates.
Pokemon is anti-Christian
Pokemon involves EVOLVING animal like creatures, subconsciously training children to accept evolution. Evolution is a lie because it says so in the Bible, so, the existence of Pokemon is really offensive to Christians.
Pokemon gives unreal expectations to children
"In the Pokemon trading card game, there is simple things, like discard piles and prize cards, no death and life points and such." This is true, but not recognising death is very detrimental to children. In fact, there has probably been some study that shows children believe they are immortal if they are not exposed to death constantly. Not expecting to die is awfully detrimental to anyone's mind, most likely.
"As for the television series, they say that the so called "heart of the cards" deals with getting emotionally…
…a certain risky attack will land or not." Talking about luck when you're arguing for pokemon? Please!
Official guides instructed trainers to save before they tried to catch a rare pokemon in case they fainted it. But there is something more sinister to this. See, this teaches children to give up when things don't go right, therefore, Pokemon accounts for a lot of teen suicides.
Also, you can only get Porygon, a really good Pokemon, through going to the slot machines. Talk about luck! And I'm pretty sure you need Porygon to both beat the game and brag to your friends about having one.
In conclusion, Pokemon probably causes most of the mental ailments in children and this makes it worse than YGO, which only accounts for the rest of the mental ailements.
[1] My twelve-year-old cousin
[2] http://au.gamespot.com...
[3] http://au.images.search.yahoo.com...
[4] My own experience
[5] Common knowledge
"they have no imagination now. Pidove? That's like a gay and retarded version of Pidgey." First, to attack this sentence in particular, of course ther is imagination. They have monsters that look like moths, dragons, birds, plants, dogs, other animals, and even rocky creatures filled with details. There is TONS of imagination. While YGO does as well, they all consist of creepy pictures and monsters that should not be exposed to children of such a young age as they are intended for. Pokemon has no monsters that are scary enough to scare children. While even "Ghost" and "Dark" types are regarded as meaner or "evil" so to speak, they are all still cute and in the show can be tamed easily to be nice and kind. And "Gay and Retarded version of Pidgey" has two problems. First of all, Gay and retarded is rather offensive and should not be used, and to show how much better is on the child mind, it is a pidgey with a heart on its face [1]. It is shown as much more kind and not gory compared to that of YGO. Secondly, her source for this is her "12 year old cousin". Why does this source support any alibi? A twelve year old speaking that way is absurd [obviously from playing too much YGO :) ], and is not a reliable source.
On that note, most if not all of her sources are invalid. Own experience isn't enough for proof. The picture of the black man playing YGO is to make fun of it, not to show how adults play it. It's in a library to further show the comedic effect of being a "Nerd" and playing YGO, not to show how adults play it. And the gamespot link is a forum where it is biased on peoples opinions, not facts. And ill get to the common knowledge one.
As for the graphic conflict, the Glitch is supposed to screw up your game, because it is a hack. It will mess up your game is not endorsed. And by graphic, I meant blood and violence.
As for the cheat, it is not licensed nor endorsed by Nintendo. It was made by people wanting to enhance the games gameplay to new heights.
The producers for the Game did not make glitch city, a glitch is "a sudden instance of malfunctioning or irregularity in an electronic system" [2]. It is not produced that way, it was not intended to be there. It is "irregular" as stated in the definition. And I have not looked into the 'glitch city' thing, and did not even know it existed, whil im sure many other children don't know about either. I would aprectiate some evidence of this, such as pictures and sites on it. But i'm sure the producres of a kid's game would never endourse drugs. As for drug stores, they sell gum and comic books in real life, and are not filled with drugs, and neither is the mart in pokemon.
As for the Anti-Christian topic and the rest of the speech, I will get to that in my next rebutle, but it would take too long to tackle now.
I again thank my oponent for her strong case and look forward to her rebutle. :)
[1] http://www.google.com...
Prior to this response, I thank my opponent for enduring the rubbish I wrote last argument. I assure him this argument will be of higher quality.
"they have no imagination now. Pidove? That's like a gay and retarded version of Pidgey."
The purpose of this quote was to demonstrate that while yes, there is a degree of imagination, it certainly lacks the imagination YGO has constantly showcased. For the record, my cousin is obsessed with Pokemon and has never touched a YGO card in his life.
There are other cases where imagination has evidently come second to laziness, or at least another for of inhibition. Another example of this incompetence is Sawk, Karate Pokémon [1]. Imagination is afar is we only glance at this Pokemon as it looks unmistakably like a karate combatant that, in fact, it could be mistaken for a human. To further exhibit this sheer dearth of imagination, we have Throh, Judo Pokémon [2]. Sure, the obvious misspelling of the word "throw" might have taken at least 5 seconds to imagine, but I would fathom that it took a grand total of 5 seconds to design the Pokemon. There are rare cases of brilliance from the design team of Pokemon, such as Skarmory, Steelix, Crobat etcetera, all of which can be described as awesome. However, names like Caturpie (caterpillar misspelt), Pidove (Pidgey misspelt) and Ekans (snake spelt backwards), are not particularly imaginative nor exceedingly clever. The linear 'imagination' of the produces becomes more obvious as the series progresses (Sawk, Throh and Pidove are blaring examples).
Conversely, YGO houses an array of aesthetically pleasing manga designs, compared to Pokemon's largely pixelated messes. The imagination to not only design a creature, but also design the cards (which, based on observation, have a far greater attention to detail e.g. [1], compared to [3]. Thus, because of the demands placed on art, we can deduce that greater imagination is required to design a YGO card. To further my point, the grand total of unique YGO cards [4] exceeds that of the grand total of Pokemon (~495). While no exact figure is posted on the YGO card list [4], it is clear, through inspection, that there are more unique YGO cards than Pokemon.
"They have monsters that look like moths, dragons, birds, plants, dogs, other animals, and even rocky creatures filled with details." – The degree of imagination to change a moth into, say Venemoth, does not exceed that of, say 'stardust' into 'Stardust Dragon/ Assault Mode'. Explanation: Venemoth is a manga-ised moth which is poisoness. The stardust dragon whilst being a dragon (relatively unimaginative given the abundance of dragons in today's modern culture), but the 'stardust' aspects AND the 'assault mode' have both been imagined from nothing. This is not an exclusive case either: Caturpie to Ancient Gear Golem, Magician of Black Chaos to Beedrill etcetera. Sure, there may be instances where YGO cards are lacking in quality, but the sheer quantity of well designed and imaginative processed cardboard gives the YGO franchise greater leverage for poor quality over Pokemon (50/1000 = 5/100 statistically, meaning if Pokemon produce just 6 poor Pokemon out of 100, YGO has a better quality ratio if they produce 50 poor cards out of 1000).
While the imagination and details of Pokemon may be good, compared to YGO however, the latter wins.
"While YGO does as well, they all consist of creepy pictures and monsters that should not be exposed to children of such a young age as they are intended for."
A subjective criticism such as: "all consist of creepy pictures", is just that, a subjective criticism. "Such a young age" does not quantifiable assert what age is young. Regardless, various aspects of YGO rate differently. "The GX episodes are rated 11+" [5]. As for the card game, while not official, 6 years and over is recommended. While potentially creepier than Pokemon, a mere "creepy" picture has yet to cause any child to freak out or become mentally unstable. I will not resort purely to semantics, but subjective criticisms, that are not supported with external evidence, are valueless.
The intrinsic mechanics of YGO are superior to that of Pokemon's
Complex mechanics are the making of YGO, while Pokemon is more simplistic. It could be argued that simplicity is preferable, however, I argue that the greater complexity allows for more involving play and a greater test of a player's tactics and strategies. This allows a greater freedom in play, which is at least harder to design. It is harder to design as more variables have to be taken into account [6]. Pokemon is linear as you (in competitive play) always attack. The attack choise is also linear as there is often 'only one best move'. YGO differs from this as the best move is: A) not always obvious, or B) is non-existent as there are multiple equally good moves. This superiority can be attributed to the complex mechanics, which allow a more complex and therefore, harder game which is not overly linear.
Outside of competitive play, Pokemon is arguably better as there is far more freedom. However, since YGO has only one aspect to its play (games of cards; there is no free-roam), it would be impossible to compare the two. Of course, you could argue that Pokemon is better due to the free-roam, RPG feature YGO lacks, but I argue that YGO competitive play has :A) longevity over the RPG aspect of Pokemon B) far more complexity in regards to strategy. The Pokemon RPG's freedom is unmatched, yet this sole aspect can not outweigh the two advantageous aspects YGO has over it (all things being equal, and perhaps, not necessarily so).
Pokemon has fewer and less unique dimensions to its game-play than YGO .
For your other points in later paragraphs (beginning with: "On that note", and subsequent paragraphs thereafter), I concede that you are correct in every circumstance.
[2] http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net...
[3] http://jradman11.hubpages.com...
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org...
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org...!
[6] http://www.yu-gi-oh-cards.net...
While I agree that the originality of pokemon is running low, there is still not much origonallity with YGO. YGO consists of, as my oponent agrees with, mostly dragons, and creatures that rip eachother apart. It is a violent game, and should not be subjected to the likes of the children.
I must admit that I agree with the rest of the next paragraph on originality. It was well said.
My oponent then argues that stardust dragon (if i'm correct on it's name) is better than Venomoth,(http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net...) a moth type pokemon (obviosly from it's name). The point of pokemon was trying to make kids think pokemon looked cool, but the point of it was also for kids to see the easy analogies between pokemon and real life things, to make it more beleivable. They tried for the majority of pokemon to be simple and easy to understand what they were symbolizing. YGO, on the other hand, has also changed from it's original ways. At first, there was only normal and effect monsters. Then, they developed fusion monsters. Simple enough. Then, came ritual monsters. Ok, still easy to understand. Now, they have added synchro summons, "xyz" summons, fusions between other fusion, synchro, and XYZ monsters, and even summoning a lot of powerful effect monsters cost special tributes. For example, VWXYZ dragon catipult cannon is a fusion monster that fuses a fusion monster that involves 3 monsters and one that involves 2 monsters. There is also Armityle the Chaos Phantom, which involves fusing 3 God type monsters that each take 3 monsters to summon. This is simply to hard to summon, and to build children up and then knock them down by a spell or trap card teaches them that no matter how hard they try, they can still be easily defeated very easily.
My oponent then argues about the age rating of the game and show. Obviosly, kids these days don't follow the age advised. Kids these days watch south park and family guy for fun, and obviosly dont follow it. I'm sure my oponent can agree on that.
I agree with my oponent in that simplicity is preferable, because having a game that is so confusing is often not chosen over a game that is simple and easy to understand. She then argues that there is a "best move" in YGO. But YGO only has attack and defense, with no room to choose a certain attack, while pokemon has the opurtunity to learn for attacks that can create combos and still add to simpler, easyer to understand mechanics of a card game.
YGO, like my oponent states, only consists of a card game and an unpopular show. For pokemon, the show is obviosly more popular, so is the game, but it is true that the card game isn't, but the videogame is the main focus, and that is where it leaves YGO in the tracks.
No need o apologize for the wait, life is predominately busy for the majority of us and DDO should not be a priority :)
"While I agree that the originality of pokemon is running low, there is still not much origonallity with YGO. YGO consists of, as my oponent agrees with, mostly dragons, and creatures that rip eachother apart. It is a violent game, and should not be subjected to the likes of the children."
The card game certainly isn't, and the television series employs 'holograms' to protect monsters. Furthermore, the holograms shatter into pieces when destroyed, not spill blood or become nastily deformed (e.g. you don't have a bloody, dismembered arm lying around after a monster is struck).
"but the point of it [Venemoth, and Pokemon in general) was also for kids to see the easy analogies between pokemon and real life things, to make it more beleivable."
While no referenced quote is provided, I concede that this is most likely the idea behind the names. However, YGO is not trying to be easy nor realistic in its approach. It is based (primarily) off Egyptian monster, all of which are non-existent (or at least yet to be proven to exist, lol). Both brands have a different purpose; therefore, neither can be better than the other in this regard.
"Armityle the Chaos Phantom, which involves fusing 3 God type monsters that each take 3 monsters to summon. This is simply to hard to summon, and to build children up and then knock them down by a spell or trap card teaches them that no matter how hard they try, they can still be easily defeated very easily."
Conversely, it could teach children some invaluable lessons in life, for example, 'life is not fair'. Also, it may ingrain some 'common sense', or even more complex concepts. Summoning this monster when there are 5 face down magic/trap cards is not a good idea because it is more than likely that one of the cards will hurt the newly summoned beast. The concept of 'risk and reward', commonly seen in the business world, caught also be taught to the kids. To demonstrate this point, say there are no cards in the magic or trap zone on the opponent's side of the field. Relative to the 'risk and reward' concept, it is apparent that there is no risk due to a lack of magic/traps cards. Say there is one magic/trap card on the opponent's side of the field. The child must now evaluate whether summoning the monster now is a good idea – whether the risk (losing the monster to the potential trap card) is worth the reward (summoning the monster and most likely winning the game). Evaluations like these are invaluable in real life, and children could learn them from situations like these.
I don't see how this weakens the YGO franchise; it only highlights the result of lazy parenting.
I didn't quite say that, in fact, I argued complexity can create a better gaming environment as there is greater scope for tactics and strategies.
"But YGO only has attack and defense, with no room to choose a certain attack, while pokemon has the opurtunity to learn for attacks that can create combos and still add to simpler, easyer to understand mechanics of a card game."
Previously, you argued that YGO was not as simple as "attack and defence": "Now, they have added synchro summons, "xyz" summons, fusions between other fusion, synchro, and XYZ monsters, and even summoning a lot of powerful effect monsters cost special tributes". You're arguing that "YGO only has attack and defence", yet is too complicated due to things that are not attack and defence. Sure, there is "no room to choose certain attack[s]", but the complexity comes elsewhere within the aspects that are not "attack and defence".
The show, I think, is less popular than the card game. I don't have statistics and an accredited interpretation to show that the show is objectively "unpopular". I don't think either of us are in a valid judge position to determine how popular a show is, especially when no statistics are present. Frankly, you summation is unsupported.
I would like to conclude by showing you this [1]; it is in the rules to shake hands before a match, which teaches children about sportsmanship.
cheesedingo1 forfeited this round.
I thank my opponent for arguing for as long as he did.
I may have gone overboard with the absurdity. I'll take the next round deadly serious.
It is only possible to discuss Pokemon or Yu-gi-oh in a serious way.
To site your own experience as a source. I mean, it's not like I can click the link and fact-check it.
Furthermore, "common knowledge" is only common to those who have it.
Also, is Con playing Devil's Advocate with that evolution comment? I really hope that's not serious.
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Quote RachJ: Haven't read any posts, but wanted to say how much I love Ericole! These two have awesome chemistry and I just want them together already. I'm a Nicole fan and really want her to be happy and find someone who loves her unconditionally. I find it ironic that her soulmate is Sami's twin, but hey it works because these to are awesome together. I loved when Eric said in today's epi that Nic always gets what she wants in the end. Foreshadowing? I think so :) :)
Yeah I loved that line :))
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Like an old acquaintance shoving a photo of his kids in your face, Christmas has once again forced itself upon us. And it's just as unwelcome as ever. Now I used to like Christmas back in my halcyon childhood years. There was something positively enchanting about gathering around the fire with your closest family members as a deluge of snow laid waste to the world beyond the confines of your home. But when you grow up it's like watching a behind-the-scenes feature on the DVD of your favourite film: the magic inevitably fades. I felt it around the time I realised people were willing to tear each other apart over naff television sets, like they're in the Sudan fighting over the last scraps of food.
And when you're stood in shops beginning to resemble the Battle of the Hornburg you will, inevitably, be subjected to Christmas music. Which leads me to the crux of this article: another round of reviewing terrible Christmas music! If you cast your mind back to the Golden Age of 2009, then you'll remember I compiled a collection of songs I claimed to be the most terrible Christmas songs ever. Well, it would seem my haste to be definitive left me in a worse position for a sequel than the ending of The Dutchess of Malfi. But, blah, Christmas, something, Scrooge McDuck, blah.
Here are five more Christmas songs so awful they could tear the beard off Santa's face. So sit back, get yourself a nice warm, frothy cocoa and let me explain why buying a lump of coal for your children was the right decision.
Note: This article, not unlike Mary Shelly's Modern Prometheus, has been patched together from unfinished articles and notes. Therefore, it may read as such. But this blog has never had particularly high production standards - humorous, given my pen name.
1) Donny Hathaway – This Christmas
I've never understood why many artists romanticize Christmas, presenting it as a Hallmark style sipping red wine by a roaring fire affair. Look at the ugly truth behind Christmas – the stress, sinking further into debt, depression, marital strain, and family gatherings inevitably ruined by someone drinking way over the Russian drink drive limit. You'd be forgiven for expecting Christmas music to be fronted by doom merchants Throbbing Gristle. But no, they keep forcing the aforementioned romantic version upon us like the world's most needy philanthropist. And frankly, it's as inappropriate as attempting to open a manicure salon in a town inhabited solely by armless men.
Enter the late Donny Hathaway, the soul artist with the silky voice of a thousand snake oil salesmen, and his R&B/ Christmas love song 'This Christmas'. Opening with blues style Christmas music it instantly conjures images of a Coca Cola Christmas advert. Being both a romantic song, and a celebration of a holiday that has lost its way to such an extent it should be renamed the Ludwig Leichhardt memorial day, it features expectedly smooth lyrics such as: "And as I look around your eyes outshine the town, they do," mixed with Christmas references and puns, "Hang all the mistletoe I'm gonna get to know you better, yeah". This means that for the majority of the time it sounds like a bad parody featured in The Simpsons, whenever the writers create a Christmas episode.
The Christmas themed lyrics, coupled with their subtle hints of sexuality, come across as lines you expect to hear escaping the mouth of a rapist who has broken into your house dressed as Santa. Particularly cringe-worthy is: "And as we trim the tree, how much fun it's gonna be together, yeah ha". Then this gem which crops up later: "Fireside is blazing bright, we're carolling through the night," is the zenith of the absurdity. Just what are the connotations of carolling all through the night next to a roaring fire? Are we meant to take it at face value? Or do we assume it is Hathaway code informing his female fans that tonight they are going to be ding donging merrily whilst shepherds watch? All in all, Donny Hathaway should have stuck to what he was good at – committing suicide.
|"Well someone's getting a million grandma sweaters for that remark..."
2) Barry Gordon - Nuttin' for Christmas
It is hardly secret that I firmly dislike children. In fact, I spend most nights browsing the internet for a window sticker that will allow to me to publicly display my approval of the tenth plague that blighted Egypt. I also prescribe to the Victorian standard of "children should be seen not heard." Which may seem overly harsh, but whilst they had to endure the horrors that came with rapid urbanization, the Victorians were at least spared Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith. And this 1955 'classic' represents my irrational hatred perfectly. Much like how the supporters of Ibis Football Club must feel every time the team steps onto the pitch; you know it's going to go downhill from the offset as soon you hear the opening music and it borders on reaching the same pitch as the mating call of the average female Geordie.
The vocals are horribly accented in that way that all children do when singing, such as singing nuttin' and gettin' in a manner most befitting a bad Artful Dodger impersonation. It is supposed to sound cute, a sort of ode to that pitiful remorse you feel as a child when you're about to face punishment for your behaviour. But the boy comes across as a right royal twat. A product of an enabling culture that wraps him in cotton wool and gold star graphs. He's like one of the weird psychic kids from Children of the Damned, wondering why he's being hauled down to Scotland Yard for slaughtering his entire village.
Musically it sounds like something created by the Silver Shamrock company from Halloween III. Antagonising lyrics aside, the ear-splitting instrumental warble is agonisingly bad. It's the type of unharmonious wailing you'd expect to emanate from a portal to a universe inhabited solely by cumbersome scrotums and giant zips. I just cannot fathom how anyone can hear this song and think: "Oh. Here is a classic song which epitomises the Christmas experience." Maybe if Christmas was some post-apocalyptic wasteland in which survivors are ruthlessly hunted down by monsters that have taken the form of children. And when the survivors are found these monsters kill them by exposing them to an unceasing barrage of subsonic noise, until their heads explode like those of many a jelly baby. Err, moving on...
|"Oh god...a choir of mutant children!"
3) Cliff Richard – 21st Century Christmas
In accordance with probability theory, Cliff Richard ending up on this list was as inevitable as the Pied Piper of Hamelin ending up on his own 'special list'. He has written the majority of Christmas songs you'll have heard which places him just below Peter Waterman on the list of Pop music's most evil men. One of his later offerings, 21st Century Christmas, is simply a blatant attempt to appear hip with references to texting and DVDs whilst peddling his Christian ideals like many a Christian Metal band before him. There is only one way that the word hip could be attributed to Cliff Richard, and that is in the term 'hip replacement'. At the core of the very concept of the song lays an air of desperation. It's similar to a typical modern American priest who cynically injects his sermons with things that he found on a wiki page about what teenagers like in order to convert America's youth.
For many, Cliff is the de facto face of Christmas. I understand why; his songs have a simple universal message: be a good, virtuous person and embrace the spirit of Christmas. And secretly judge and plot the slaughter of anyone who gets in the way of your festive celebrations. A tried and tested approach which, akin to the aging man trying to desperately cling onto his Club 18-30 days, Old Cliffy has barely altered since his heyday. The man single-handedly proves that the United Nations would have a far easier time abandoning stuffy politics for middle-of-the-road music. Unfortunately, his kindly pastor approach to his song making has shred him of any lingering hint of his Cliff and the Shadows, or Devil Woman era image. So 21st Century Christmas comes across as an ignominious attempt at a soft rock anthem. It's a bit like your parents asking "which one's Pikachu?" when you're playing The Legend of Zelda.
Funnily enough, I fully intended to include this song in the 2009 original list before he became embroiled in the 'everything from the Seventies was a molester and must henceforth be banned,' debacle. I wrote the opening line but decided not to winnow poor Cliff Richard. It seemed too obvious a choice, and I wanted to remain on my grandmother's good side (she promised me a PS3, and I have no integrity). Whilst this song is by no means the absolute 'worst' I was touched by the prescient irony. And no, Cliff's lawyers, that was not an admission that he bummed me.
4) Los Del Rio – Christmas Macarena
For those of you too young to remember, the Macarena was the nineties' Gangnam Style. And yes, it was as equally annoying and repetitive. If you have ever been on a work Christmas outing then you'll surely have seen the Macarena in action. It's the female equivalent of the 'Dad dancing pistols'. As priorly mentioned, the Macarena was an inexplicably massive hit. Naturally the studio wanted to continue to cash in on the success before public interest waned like the flaccid cock of Henry VIII as he carried Anne of Cleaves over the threshold. And they only had one option really. In a stagnating horror movie franchise the story would be taken to the final frontier of space, but this is a pop song - which therefore means re-branding it as a 'Christmas' version.
The Christmas Macarena is, however, downright bizarre. For the most part, it's the same song. Two well-dressed Spanish gentlemen compare the object of their affections to Mary Magdalene while doing an assembly line dance, like they're the overseers at a factory that which produces slutty boxes. But between the verses, the female dancers sing lines from such popular Christmas carols as; "Joy to the World," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and "Auld Lang Syne". And it is done in such a hauntingly ethereal style, that it clashes with the Latino beat of the rest of the track. You don't need to be an Immunologist to know that putting these antithetical styles go together is going to have the same effect as T4 Bacteriophage binding with E.Coli cells.
It probably doesn't help that the video resembles something a particularly festive serial killer would coerce his victims to perform in his basement. The women are all dressed in 'sexy' Christmas themed clothes and performing a rather uncomfortable rendition of the dance; it's essentially every end of year disco my alma mater organised. All the while these ladies sing in the manner of a ghost who realised it had won the lottery mere moments before being splattered by a bus. Undoubtedly, this is not a song you'd want on in the background whilst you're trying to avoid being dragged into the inevitable Prosecco fueled Christmas Day argument.
5) Robbie Williams – Walk This Sleigh
Like how every female sand tiger shark anticipates the day it'll get to eat its bastard offspring, I too have been preparing for the day when I can crown what is unequivocally the worst Christmas song of all time. At first the title suggests a Christmas parody of the 1975 classic 'Walk This Way'. And whilst it may have been as cringe-worthy as a Pathologist who brings his work home with him, it would have at least been able to justify its existence. The actual song however is not humorous, or (I suspect) it was intended to be humorous but came off as funny as a particular November 2006 performance at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood.
The idea of the song fits with the pseudo running theme I presented throughout this article; that akin to donning a comb over hairstyle, there is little point in pretending. After all we all know the day is no longer about Jesus, God or even Father Christmas. It's barely even about enjoying the actual festivities. Just dance around the capitalist maypole. Robbie Williams doesn't even bother pretending he isn't a bigger dick than a Richard Kiel blimp, however. As is evident in this next track; a track so awful that it is being deployed against the ISIS scourge. If the terrorists think they hate western culture now...
Walk this Sleigh is a combination of the typical Williams' tuneless singing and piss-poor pseudo-rapping/talking. The two styles battling against one another is also reflected in the subject matter. One moment he's performing a saccharine (if a little smarmy) chorus about Christmas spirit, and then in the verse he claims: "You definitely won't find a virgin." Clearly Robbie Williams can get women into bed faster than a cold breeze from an open window. He also seems to, rather weirdly, confuse enjoying the Christmas period with performing night-time executions. Seriously: "I don't care if lords are leaping, I take a gat to the back, While they are sleeping, And make sure that they won't be breathing." Sorry, Mr. Stoke-on-Trent. I can't wait for his new track - 'The Wire: Christmas Edition.'
|"This is my Christmas Spirit killing gun."
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This was created by Robert Morris in 1998. This virus
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student of MIT at that time and this program was not
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Assembly candidate Leslie Daigle's fundraising has dropped dramatically in recent months – but independent campaign spending on her behalf now totals more than the combined fundraising of Daigle and her fellow Republican candidate, incumbent Allan Mansoor.
In the past two months, Newport Beach Councilwoman Daigle has raised just $7,000, bringing her total to $160,000 in the race for the 74th Assembly District, according to campaign disclosures filed Thursday. Costa Mesa's Mansoor raised $56,000 in that same period, bringing his total to $273,000.
But don't cry for Daigle. Moderate Republican activist Charles Munger Jr.'s Spirit of Democracy California has spent $480,000 for Daigle in independent expenditures, for which there are no contribution limits.
While Mansoor has signed a "no new taxes" pledge that most Republican legislative candidates commit to, while Daigle has not. And while Mansoor is a hero to many conservatives, Munger's past activism indicates a preference for moderate Republicans like Daigle.
The Democrat in the race, Robert Rush, has raised $30,000, supplemented by $100,000 of his own money.
The district's voter registration – 43 percent Republican and 29 percent Democrat – can be misleading, as it fails to reflect the moderate, bipartisan sentiment of the electorate. Those voters, for example, favored Barack Obama over John McCain in 2008, 49.9 percent to 46.8 percent.
Daigle has been the beneficiary of another $44,000 in independent expenditures on her behalf from other groups and of $23,000 against Mansoor. Mansoor has benefited from $10,000 spent on him by the Lincoln Club and $19,000 spent against Daigle by the Republican Party of Orange County.
See details of the independent expenditures spent on Daigle.
Munger, a physicist, is chairman of the Santa Clara County Republican Party – but is unafraid to part with the official party line. That has included helping fund 2008′s Proposition 11 and 2010′s Proposition 20, which took state legislative and congressional redistricting out of the Legislature's hands. Those measures were billed as making more competitive districts that would elect more moderate representatives. Like Daigle.
Munger gave more than $1.3 million to those two measures. His sister, Molly Munger, is helping fund and is the leading advocate for the November ballot measure called, "Our Children, Our Future: Local Schools and Early Education Investment Act." The measure, which would raise state income tax for most California workers, will compete with Gov. Jerry Brown's tax-hike initiative.
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Yasmine Williams, Toledo, boy, April 3.
Batoul Shehab and Ibrahim Shaaban, Toledo, girl, April 4.
Tambria and Martell Ivey, Toledo, boy, April 5.
Katie and Nate Shrewsbury, Perrysburg, boy, April 5.
Nichole Scott, Toledo, boy, April 6.
Coroner's rulings
Lucas County
Bianca Bepler, 20, of Canal Winchester, Ohio, Feb. 23, on Otter Creek Road at Millard Avenue, Oregon. Accidental, drowning; restrained driver was submerged in creek water after traffic accident.
Judith Crawford, 48, of Toledo, March 6, at Toledo Hospital. Accidental, acute intracerebral hemorrhage; complications of anticoagulant therapy.
Barbara Czapski-Warn, 68, of Toledo, Dec. 19, at Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center. Accidental, complication of an acute subdural hematoma; deceased fell at home.
Holly Dismuke, 49, of Toledo, Oct. 24, in 2700 block of West Central. Suicide, combined drug intoxication.
Joshua Douglas, 31, of Oregon, March 15, at home. Suicide, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Johnnie Hopkins, 35, of Toledo, March 14, at home. Suicide, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Jason Morris, 35, of Toledo, March 4, at home. Suicide, deceased hanged himself.
Eva Peterson, 92, of Port Clinton, Feb. 22, at Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center. Accidental, complications of a fall.
Kazimerz Sadowy, 72, of Toledo, Feb. 15, at home. Suicide, self-inflicted gunshot wound of the head.
William Thomas, 68, of Toledo, Jan. 1, at Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center. Accidental, complications of multiple blunt-force trauma; deceased fell at home.
Frank Vonseggern, 92, of Napoleon, Feb. 27, at Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center. Accidental, acute subdural hematoma; deceased fell at home.
Sharon Wofford, 59, of Toledo, Feb. 8, at home. Accidental, hypothermia; deceased was found in a cold house with a small electric heater.
David Young, 35, of Defiance, Jan. 6, at Toledo Hospital. Accidental, blunt-force trauma torso and head; deceased was ejected from snowmobile after hitting a ditch.
Phyllis Zielinski, 93, of Toledo, Feb. 15, at home. Accidental, hypothermia.
Christopher Gibson, 36, of Toledo, Dec. 7, at home. Accidental, combined drug toxicity.
Theodore Hiles, 66, of Put-In-Bay, Ohio, Dec. 24, at University of Toledo Medical Center. Suicide, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Paula Hornsby, 52, of Toledo, Dec. 3, at ProMedica Toledo Hospital. Accidental, multiple blunt-force trauma sustained from auto accident.
Michael Zacharias, 23, of Oregon, Dec. 27, at Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center. Accidental, combined drug intoxication.
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Lacourse, Anthony, 38, West Poinsetta Avenue, pending investigation.
Leal, Antonio, 56, Fostoria, anoxic brain injury.
Liedigk, Donald, 79, Fairfax Road, gastrointestinal bleeding.
Livingston, Carrie, 65, Perrysburg, sepsis.
Mabry, Evelyn, 87, Spencer Street, respiratory failure.
Makulinski, Mary, 63, East Pearl Street, cancer.
Meeks, Larry, 70, Oak Harbor, Ohio, coronary artery disease.
Meszaros, Barbara, 73, Northwood, cancer.
Minke, Herbert, Jr., 80, Garden Ridge Drive, carcinoma.
Monhollen, Royal, 71, Ontario Street, cancer.
Montelongo, Tomas, 79, Oak Harbor, Ohio, carcinoma.
Morlock, Kenneth, 80, Wayne, Ohio, Alzheimer's disease.
Neundorfer, Carl, 97, King Road, Sylvania, peripheral arterial disease.
Oates, Randy, 55, Walbridge, aortic dissection.
Oxner, Eva, 91, Monroe Street, failure to thrive.
Paddock, Barbara, 72, Fremont, respiratory failure.
Perna, Thomas, 73, Parrakeet Avenue, non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Pfleghaar, Gaya, 77, Coder Road, Monclova Township, adenocarcinoma.
Pickerel, Joan, 80, Perrysburg-Holland Road, Holland, respiratory failure.
Piotrowski, Raymond, 88, Rossford, adult failure to thrive.
Poland, Clifford, 87, Rachel Road, Curtice, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Potts, Inez, 88, Fayette, atrioventricular block.
Randle, Tara, 51, Broer Avenue, cardiac arrest.
Rittenhouse, Cecilia, 71, Bryan, heart disease.
Roughton, Randall, 54, Oakwood, Ohio, cancer.
Sass, Robert, 89, Hurd Street, cor pulmonale.
Schudel, Margaret, 86, Seaman Road, Oregon, hypertensive heart disease.
Shortridge, Shirley, 85, Elsie Avenue, respiratory failure.
Shoumaker, Clinton, 58, Delta, Ohio, coronary artery disease.
Shrewsbery, Gene, 76, Cardinal Bay Drive, Oregon, cancer.
Sloan, Dana, 65, West Alexis Road, presumptive cancer.
St. Pere, Richard, 56, Village Drive, valvular heart disease.
Towner, Melvin, 71, Archbold-Whitehouse Road, Whitehouse, heart disease.
Trafelet, Mary, 70, Carney Drive, Maumee, coronary artery disease.
Tutolo, Daniel, 79, Bowling Green, glioblastoma multiforme.
Urbanski, Alice, 85, Castlewood Drive, respiratory failure.
Washington, Dorothy, 75, Ventura Drive, carcinoma.
Divorces granted
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Phylicia Reed from Markess Cunningham.
Dona Vance from Steven Vance.
Stephanie White from Kevin White.
Byron Layson, Jr., from Earlie Banks-Layson.
Cristal Chaney from James Chaney.
Rosco Neace from Nannie Neace.
Janet Roane from Jerry Roane.
Denise Lammie from Shane Lammie.
Mary McLaughlin from Gordon McLaughlin.
Laura Abbott from Garold Abbott.
Severn Brown from Alicia Brown.
Alan Madison from Stephanie Madison.
Bobby Harrison from Cynthia Harrison.
Cynthia Harrison from Bobby Harrison.
Greg Lorenzen from Debra Lorenzen.
Lindsey Geraghty from Joshua Geraghty.
Erin Cutshaw from Robert Cutshaw.
Renee Phillips from Nicholas Phillips.
Nicholas Phillips from Renee Phillips.
Maria Lacourse from David Lacourse.
David Lacourse from Maria Lacourse.
Joseph Ray from Erin Ray.
Erin Ray from Joseph Ray.
Lakesha Stewart-King from Anthony Stewart-King.
Darryl Gould from Julie Gould.
Julie Gould from Darryl Gould.
Hope McGovern from Daniel McGovern.
Cynthia Baldwin from Timothy Baldwin.
Phyllis Curtis from William Curtis.
Evelyn Rosales from Alfred Rosales.
Jolene Schettler from William Schettler, Jr.
Nicole Jones from Joseph Wcislak.
Matthew Allen, Jr., from Shawn Allen.
Melissa Kirby from Stephen Carmichael.
Janell Schmidt from Michael Richard, Jr.
Dissolutions granted
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Katie Shorrock and John Shorrock, II.
Rachel Ray and Christopher Ray.
Kimberly Kendrick and Robert Kendrick, Jr.
Richard Butler and Deanna Butler.
Jennifer King and William King.
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The Group I, Group III and Non-Public B state meets will all take place at South Plainfield High School today and tomorrow, with a trip to the Meet of Champions on the line. Here are the athletes who will represent the area.
Group III
Nottingham has six athletes and three relays that moved into the group final meet, including champion Ramsden Madeus, who won the 110-meter hurdles last week. Zak Spence finished second in the same event. Others to advance are Alex Borzelin (3rd, 400-meter hurdles and fourth, 400 meters), Colin Brown (4th, shot put), Derek Lopez (5th, pole vault) and David Colon (6th, discus) as well as the 4x100 meters (6th), 4x400 meters (4th) and 4x800 meters (5th) relay teams.
Mercer County champion Hamilton sends six athletes and two relay teams, including three champions. Tyree Adams (1st, long jump and 4th, triple jump), Daryl Hardee (1st, triple jump, 2nd, high jump, and 4th, long jump), and Bashawn Smith (1st, discus) all advance as sectional champions. Others include Derycks Miranda (4th, pole vault), Malik Snead (5th, triple jump), and Pierre Laguerre (6th, 400-meters hurdles) to go along with the 4x400 meters (3rd) and 4x800 meters (4th) teams.
Allentown, the Mercer County runner-up, sends seven individual athletes. Conor Murphy will represent the Redbirds in two events (3rd, 1,600 meters and 5th, 3,200 meters). Alden Littlefield (3rd, shot put), Michael Morris (3rd, high jump), Dan Gregor (4th, 800m), Daivone Thomas (4th, discus), Justin Paglia (5th, javelin) and Peter Mummolo (6th, long jump) will all look to repeat and get to the Meet of Champions.
Lawrence sends six individuals and one relay team. Kamil Zander (3rd, discus), Adam Gibson (3rd, pole vault), Allan Wong (5th, discus), Kris Mus (5th, 100 meters), Semei Mitchell (5th, long jump) and Josh Fleurmont (6th, high jump) will be joined by the fourth place 4x100-meter team.
Hopewell Valley has three second-place finishers from the sectional meet moving on to South Plainfield. Kyle Bennison (2nd, 400 meters) Tommy Teachen (3rd, 3,200 meters and 6th, 1,600 meters) and Aaron Mancuso (2nd, shot put) are joined by the 4x800-meter relay squad that finished third.
Kyrie Choice (3rd, triple jump) and Austin Freedman (5th, pole vault) are the two boys that represent Hightstown. Princeton sends Joe Gray, with his third place in the 400 meters.
Group I
New Egypt sends six individuals and one relay team, competing in six events, which is the most of any area Group I school.
It had three champions at last week's sectional meet, and all have a good chance to move on to the Meet of Champions next Wednesday. Austin Horner qualified in three events (1st, triple jump, 2nd, long jump, and 3rd, high jump.) Kurt Frimel won the discus, and Kenny Stillwell won the long jump. Others moving on are Matt Knigge (3rd, javelin), Cody Campbell (3rd, discus) and Alex Sempervivi (4th, discus) to go along with the 4x800-meter team (4th.)
Curtis Thompson won two events (javelin, shot put) last week and is one of five Florence athletes who will compete. Josh Smith (2nd pole vault), Tolulope Abiona (3rd, 200 meters, and 4th, triple jump), Brandon Czworkowski (4th, pole vault), and Bernard Worthy (6th, 110 meters hurdles) are the others.
South Hunterdon sends Darren Watson (400 meters hurdles) and its 4x100-meter relay team, which finished sixth last weekend.
Non-Public B
Three TCA athletes made it out of South Jersey Non-Public B, including 6-foot-8 basketball standout Richmond Aririguzoh, who placed in both hurdles and the discus throw.
Another basketball player, Tony Ellington (3rd in the long jump and 3rd in the triple jump) and Garrison Wilson (6th in the shot put) will represent the Iron Mikes.
Group III
Hightstown leads the way with three girls and one relay team, competing in six events. Dakota Mills won the 400 meters last weekend and finished fourth in the 100 meters and fifth in the 200. Sienna Kochis (2nd, pole vault) and Elizabeth Lanphaer (6th, pole vault) are joined by the third placed 4x400 meter team.
Lawrence has the 4x100 meters (3rd) and 4x400 meters (4th) relays as well as Domonique Peters (4th, 400 meters), Tatiana Hewitt (4th, triple jump) and Carole Trimble (6th, long jump).
Hopewell Valley has three girls, Haley Mahn (2nd in both the 800 meters and 1,600 meters), Sabrina Wagner (3rd, 400 meters) and Erin Austin (6th, 200 meters) and also the 4x400 meter relay that finished second last week.
Steinert also sends three girls, Macaire Machado (4th, discus), Mariah Greco (5th, discus) and Emma Meiczenger (6th, 3,200 meters.)
Marissa Flim (5th, 100 meters) and Claudia Olsen (5th, 100 meters hurdles) are joined by the sixth place 4x100 meter relay team for Hamilton.
Carly DuBroskey will compete in three events for Allentown (3rd, pole vault, 3rd, 100 meters, 4th, 400 meters). Alyssa Sargent will join her in the 400 meters (5th).
Ashley Edwards won two events for Northern Burlington last weekend, the 100 meters and the triple jump, and is a strong favorite to move on to the MOC. Gabrielle Krichling (5th, javelin) joins her.
Michelle Bazile also won twice at the sectional meet for Princeton. She took gold in the discus and shot put and will be heavily favored to complete another double. Paige Mettheiser will run in the 400 meters after finishing fourth.
Finally, Grace Dwyer is Nottingham's sole representative, but she goes into today on the back of her dominance in the 1,600 meters and 3,200 meters at the sectional meet. She has two golds, along with a third place in the 800 meters, this year, and she will look to break the county record in the two longer distance races. The sophomore is already one of the most decorated girls in the history of the school and most likely will break many records over the next few years.
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Cassidy Nalbone leads four New Egypt girls to South Plainfield. She finished second in the pole vault last weekend at Hillsborough. Joining Nalbone from New Egypt will be Natalie Suess (2nd, triple jump and 3rd, high jump), Rebecca Bausher (4th discus) and Casey McKenzie (6th, 1,600 meters.)
Florence will send two girls, Dana Garrett (2nd, shot put) and Rachel Snively (4th, high jump.)
South Hunterdon sends two relay teams, the 4x100 meters (6th) and the 4x400 meters (5th.)
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Two Trenton Catholic Academy athletes —– Meaurie Pickett (4th in the shot put) and Ahena McKray (5th in the 200 meters) will compete for a B title.
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Today, as you move from one level to another in your academic life, do you know that you are making the wisest investment and that is investing in yourselves, your future and when it comes to budgeting for college students like you, you must understand that this is one of those aspects that everyone has to learn and implement, and if you are starting it early from the time your expenses are funded by your parents' monthly income, then this is the best time. You can start paying for college or fund your higher studies with the money you save with budgeting. What follows are 7 easy ways of budgeting and start saving money for college fund:
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Most students planning for a budget must have numerous times thought, "No problem I can save next month" and break open their piggy bank but end up with no money, the next month to save too. Blunder, they repent so much later on.
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Setting up a budget is not as intimidating as it might seem. It is a responsible action that the majority of humans must do as they enter adulthood to ensure financial freedom and break the chains of debt and over consumption once and for all.
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As you are a college student and you are planning for budgeting, then my dear friend controlling your urges and preplanning spending habits is the best way to budgeting, but remember to pay yourself first. There is no point in having a budget without remembering the whole reason behind it, which is saving for future needs. The best way to save is to pay yourself first when you get your pocket money.
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When it comes to spending, you should always realize how much you have, how much you have to spend and how much you can save. Because money is always limited but our urges and needs are always unlimited.
7. Pocket money as student's salary
If you don't have a paying job, then chances are your parents are your main source of income. Determine how much money they give you each month. This figure includes both pocket money and any lump sum you are given each month. This is basically your salary, so use it wisely.
The above were a few ways of budgeting for college students. These ways even benefited me at different stages of life. There are various other ways of budgeting and savings one can utilize in his life. Now, I would love to know more ideas or tips on budgeting, so please share your comments and suggestions as to how you peeps budget yourself and pay for college.
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If you are a UK passport holder and are planning a trip to the Peoples Republic of China, you will require a visa, your permit to be in the country. If you don't have one you will be refused entry at the passport control. The rules are strict, and you you must follow them exactly or you will not get your visa.
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The International Center for Documentary Heritage will be built in Cheongju, 137 kilometers south of Seoul. The proposal was approved at the 39th general meeting of the UNESCO held in Paris on Monday (Paris time), according to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.
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