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Sunday, August 11, 2013
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Jasmine Russell Gives Stillman College Something to Cheer About
Jasmine Russell didn?t flip in the air when she found out that she was accepted into Florida Coastal Law School, but she could have.? The former cheerleader who graduated in May 2012 spent much of her time off the ground during her Stillman days.? Serving as the squad?s flyer meant that, when she wasn?t impressing the crowd with her amazing round off backhand spring back tucks and other gravity-defying maneuvers, she was the cheerleader that her teammates tossed extremely high in the air and caught in poses that never failed to dazzle spectators.
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Three years ago, Jasmine founded Tumble Your Way to the Top.?? Through the program, which provides tumbling and cheerleading lessons for kids at the Cooper Community Center in Alexander City, AL, Jasmine says she has been able to ?give back to the community? and ?give kids something positive to do.?
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?The Lord blessed me with cheer skills that I can share with others.? It?s nice to see the kids smile.? Cheer and tumbling can also help to boost a child?s self-esteem.? Sometimes shy kids don?t have an opportunity to participate in cheer at school.? My program gives them an opportunity to cheer and it also helps them to open up and meet new friends,? says Jasmine, who graduated with a B.A. in history in May 2012.
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Russell offers lessons for children between the ages of 4 and 12 each summer, which gives her an opportunity to remain in touch with students and hear about the impact that her program is having.? ?One young lady who tried out and didn?t make the squad at her middle school, came to my program to improve her skills.? The next year, she made the team at her school,? Jasmine recalls.
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While being a former cheerleader en route to law school might sound enviably glamorous, Russell has had her share of challenges. When she was in grammar school, she remembers how neighbors used to come to her home bringing food and sympathy. Her father had cancer and couldn?t work. The power was turned off in their home because he couldn?t afford to pay the utility bills. Doctors were convinced that he wouldn?t make it, but he is now a 13-year cancer survivor.
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Russell was again reminded of how fragile life can be when a powerful tornado ripped through Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011, flattening homes and businesses while she and many of her classmates sat downstairs in Roulhac Hall waiting for the storm to subside. Among the 51 individuals in Tuscaloosa whose deaths were attributed to the tornado was Stillman senior William Chase Stevens, a baseball player who was known to his friends as ?Will.?
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?It was really sad to learn that he had died.? He was a history major so he was in pretty much all of my classes. We had a memorial to remember his life.? He was a wonderful student.? He was very caring and willing to help anyone,? she recalls.
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?After the storm, Stillman students came together to help.?? We cleaned debris and helped serve lunch at a soup kitchen.? We also held clothing and food drives at Central High School for kids who had lost their homes.? It?s important for me to continue to give back by sharing my gifts and talents with others.?? Because of my own experiences?the way people helped us when my father was ill, it means a lot to me to give back to others. I could relate to kids whose homes had been destroyed by the tornado.?
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?My passion for service was also inspired by the various service projects hosted by my church, Greater Works Outreach Ministry, and this passion continued when I became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, whose mission is "Service To All Mankind.""
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Through law, Russell hopes to have an even greater impact on the lives of young people. ?I?m interested in criminal law or in juvenile law?something dealing with youth because I am able to connect with kids.? Through community service and through my tumbling program, I?m around kids often.? I would like to be the type of lawyer who is able to help them.? Just because a young person makes a mistake, that doesn?t mean that the mistake has to define who he or she will become as an adult. That?s one of the reasons I have always wanted to become a lawyer.? When I found out that I was accepted into law school, I was so excited.?
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This year, Russell has a record 41 children in her cheer and tumbling program. Her students are preparing to perform in a recital on August 4th, 3 p.m., at the Cooper Community Center in Alexander City.?
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?Each age will perform a cheer, a dance and various tumbling routines,? states Russell.? And while she admits that she is more nervous about beginning that notoriously difficult first year of law school than her students are about landing their backhand springs, Russell can rest assured that thousands of proud Stillmanites will be cheering her on.
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Saturday, August 10, 2013
The Local Broker LLC Announces the Launch of Their Flagship Real Estate Website in Austin, Texas
Atlanta, Ga (PRWEB) August 08, 2013
The Local Broker LLC is proud to announce the launch of its first local real estate website in Austin, Texas, The Local Broker Austin.
With detailed descriptions and professional photography, the site brings Austin?s unique neighborhoods to life, offering a wealth of local listings that make the home shopping process simple and efficient. The Local Broker Austin site uses new IDX technologies and a customized WordPress platform to create a seamless and efficient real estate portal.
Local Broker Austin is the first of many Local Broker sites. Future cities already reserved by top local agents include Charlotte, Memphis and Nashville.
?Austin is our flagship city and I am proud to partner with Elizabeth Riley of Keller Williams Realty as we venture into this market,? said Ian Marshall, founder and president of the Local Broker. ?The online real estate market in Austin is one of the most competitive in the country. Our success in Austin against steep competition will be a great accomplishment.?
Based in Atlanta, The Local Broker is the brainchild of real estate veteran Ian Marshall, and the culmination of more than ten years of building and growing some of the country?s top local real estate websites. The Local Broker partners with top local real estate agents and brokers nationwide to create a state-of-the-art online presence.
Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/8/prweb11007569.htm
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Time Warner-CBS blackout reaches eighth day, viewers to miss golf major
By Liana B. Baker
(Reuters) - More than 3 million Time Warner Cable customers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas will be blocked from watching golf's Major Championship and other popular shows this weekend if the cable company fails to reach an agreement with CBS to end the week-long blackout.
Neither side showed signs of making any progress on ending the dispute as negotiations continued on Friday.
The top U.S. communications regulator said it is ready to act if CBS and Time Warner Cable do not follow through on negotiating to end the blackout of CBS programming in New York and Los Angeles over Time Warner's cable television service.
The blackout started last Friday when the two companies could not agree on fees that Time Warner Cable pays CBS to carry some local stations owned by the broadcaster in some of the largest U.S. TV markets.
"We will continue to urge all parties to stay and resolve in good faith this issue as soon as possible. However, I will affirm to you that I am ready to consider appropriate action if this dispute continues," said the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn.
Clyburn, speaking at a press conference in Washington on Friday, also said she was "really distressed" and "disappointed" by the blackout" and was in touch with both companies.
Time Warner Cable said it agreed with the chairwoman's comments and hopes "CBS soon will come to a reasonable agreement with us that is fair to our customers and their viewers."
CBS said it declined to comment on the remarks.
The FCC probably will not be able end the fight, said David Wittenstein, a communications attorney at the firm Dow Lohnes who has handled similar negotiations between cable companies and broadcasters.
"The FCC has taken a position that it has very limited authority to step in and end an impasse. What the FCC can do as a practical matter is quite limited," he said.
He said the FCC could only get involved if one of the parties files a complaint that says one of the sides is not negotiating "in good faith." The FCC could step in if one side is refusing to meet or not providing good reasons for rejecting offers, for example.
On Thursday, online video streaming services like Netflix Inc and Amazon Inc became a new sticking point in the increasingly acrimonious talks.
(Reporting by Liana B. Baker; Editing by David Gregorio and Richard Chang)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/time-warner-cbs-blackout-reaches-eighth-day-viewers-214212735.html
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Thursday, August 8, 2013
Mass-Market Marathon
There was a time when I spurned mass-market paperbacks. They?re small and flimsy, unbefitting real literature. They?re cheap, and their disposability invites a certain unseriousness in the reader. Whenever I had the chance (and the funds), I replaced the mass-markets in my collection with hardcovers, or at least larger-sized trade paperbacks.
It?s funny how the things that once seemed like bugs now seem like features. Especially that wonderful disposability! If I?m just not that into a book, I want to be able to ditch it. I don?t want to feel beholden to a bad novel just because I spent $35 on the gorgeous hardcover, or because it?s so large and heavy that I couldn?t bring a backup book with me. At 38, with two kids and limited brainpower and scores of shelf-feet of unread books in my house, I am looking for books that I can cast aside without a care if it things don?t work out. On the beach this afternoon, this happens twice. Luckily, I?ve got backups.
I start with Fran Lebowitz?s Metropolitan Life, a terrific-looking orange-red-and-yellow paperback collection of essays by the garrulous New York fixture, who?s famously been not-writing her novel for 30-plus years. Published in 1978, Metropolitan Life collects short essays from Lebowitz?s stints at Mademoiselle and Interview, capturing her particular, fussy, neurotic, funny voice on just about everything?the weather, TV news, Soho, agents, deadlines, landlords, editors, the difficulty of writing, the difficulty of coming up with ideas for columns, digital clocks. That is to say, Fran Lebowitz?s writing seems narrowly tailored to a specific aficionado of the New York literary lifestyle, or maybe even more specifically tailored to Fran Lebowitz.
I wanted to love this book. Fran Lebowitz was the first famous person I ever interviewed, and she stayed on the phone with me for 45 minutes, giving me fantastic quote after fantastic quote for a short piece about New York bookstores. I have never experienced a more delightful interview in my career. (One of the things that is so great about Fran Lebowitz is that she will give a quote to anyone, even a journalist who has no idea what he is doing.) So I liked her, and I like the New York literary lifestyle, and I love the very idea that this collection of essays about, basically, being a louche Upper East writer, was published in mass-market?because it sold! According to the gold embossed badge on its cover, this sucker spent ?five months on the New York Times bestseller list?!
And there are one-liners in this book that I LLOL at. (On a phone call from a Hollywood agent: ?He was audibly tan.?) But by the sixth or seventh essay I?ve already figured out the Lebowitz template: a couple of paragraphs of throat-clearing, establishing at length that she?s going to write about the thing that she?s writing about; a couple of paragraphs of jokes, ranging from solid to very funny; a couple more paragraphs of less-good jokes; a weak kicker. The openers drive me totally crazy. Here?s how she gets into an essay about children:
That is for serious 203 words! I don?t mean to play editor here, but that could easily have been cut to six: ?Here are some jokes about children.? For that is what the piece is: a list of the pros and cons of children, in the voice of Fran Lebowitz. Some of the jokes are great! (?Con: Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. One can only assume that this has something to do with not smoking enough.?) Some are lame. ("Pro: Not a single member of the under-age set has yet to propose the world chairchild.") And every essay starts with that long, long wind-up. I give up on page 108, when a piece about manicures begins: ?During a recent luncheon with a practicing member of the leisure class the subject of fingernail care chanced (as it so often does) to come up.? Good grief. I put Fran back in my beach bag and go for a swim.
After a nap I pull out my backup book, a funny little collection of short stories by Steve Allen, the TV host and professional bon vivant. It?s called 14 for Tonight, and it contains, the back-cover copy informs me,
Fourteen stories?
some hilarious,
some frankly sexy,
some grim and macabre?but
all establishing Steve Allen,
in one giant step,
in the first
rank of
American writers.
Now as you may be aware Steve Allen did not, in the end, make it into the first rank of American writers. Though apparently he wrote 54 books, he?s remembered as the father of the modern talk show, and as a great panelist on What?s My Line, but not so much as (despite what an unattributed blurb on the book?s front cover suggests) ?a modern O. Henry.? That?s because the stories are really terrible. The worst is ?The Interview,? in which a reporter interviewing a famous person is insufferable. No, wait, the worst is ??I Hope I?m Not Intruding,?? in which a famous person eating dinner is interrupted by an insufferable fan. No wait! The worst is ?The Public Hating,? which is meant to be a horrifying tale of modern society?s dark, vindictive underbelly, but is just silly and obvious?a put-upon scold?s version of ?The Lottery.? As it happens, I have a second backup book in my bag, and it?s by the actual Shirley Jackson, so I toss 14 for Tonight aside and pick up Hangsaman instead. So long, Steve Allen. Thanks for costing 35 cents.
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Salamdander Discovers Oil at G4/50-5 Well off Thailand
Salamander Energy plc announced that the G4/50-5 exploration well has discovered oil in the Surin prospect in the central portion of the Western sub-basin, Block G4/50, Gulf of Thailand.
Oil was discovered in good quality Miocene fluvial sandstones in the primary N40 target zone over the interval 5,003 to 5,030 feet (1,525 to 1,533 meters) TVDSS (True Vertical Depth SubSea). Wire-line logs and pressure data confirmed the presence of approximately 26 feet (8 meters) of oil pay. Oil samples recovered from the zone indicate a 31 degree API oil and mapping of the Surin fault block indicates between 49 and 66 feet (15 and 20 meters) of column height above the location of the well penetration. Further evaluation is required to determine the potential resource volume encountered in the Surin discovery. The well has been plugged and abandoned as an oil discovery.
James Menzies, chief executive of Salamander, commented:
?The discovery of oil in the Surin fault block, a 16 miles (25 kilometers) step out from the Bualuang field, has proven the access to an oil charge in the Western Central sub-basin, which had been identified as a key risk pre-drill.? Resource estimates for Surin are being assessed but this is clearly a positive step in de-risking the neighbouring prospects and in understanding the local petroleum system.?
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