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Cheapest States or Overseas Retirement?

Cheapest states are being looked into by a huge number of retirees due to the current unstable economic climate, many seniors are opting for cheaper retirement options than the luxurious custom-built retirement communities that were once so popular.

To make their savings go further, retirees should consider the cheap states in the US in order to lower their living costs. When determining the affordable states to live in, it is not only house prices and rental rates that are compared.

Other important factors are taxes, utility bills and living expenses such as groceries and gas, which can vary in price from state to state more than you might think.

Low Cost States on Real Estate Purchase or Renting

In general, the inexpensive states to live in, whether you are a college student, a young family or a retired couple, are the Midwest and Southern states, such as Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee and Arkansas.

Oklahoma offers many inexpensive cities that also offer a great quality of life. Either Oklahoma City or Tulsa could be considered as one of the cheapest city in Oklahoma; they both have high pay rates and low costs of living.

If you are renting in Oklahoma City, expect to pay under $500 per month for a 900 square foot home. You could rent a new 600 square foot apartment in Tulsa for the same amount, which may include your utilities.

If you are looking to buy a home, a 220 square foot home in Oklahoma will cost around $130,000.

Compare this to average sale prices on comparable properties in Dallas ($180,000); Atlanta ($240,000) and Portland ($250,000) and you can see what a bargain you can snap up.

Apart from the cheap housing, Oklahoma offers retirees international airports making going on vacation and visiting family easy, plenty of social activities and the security of living in some of the safest places in the US.

Another cheap retirement option is Fort Smith, Arkansas; the average house price is $87,000.

Other perks for potential retirees are lower cost of goods, a pleasant, welcoming community, excellent medical services and senior support programs.

Texas states that appeal to retirees are Brownsville, Harlingin and Forth Worth. In the Benbrook suburb of Fort Worth, the average house price is around $145,000; a fantastic price for an area that boasts of endless recreational opportunities, beautiful scenery and no income tax.  So, can you adjust the size of your tax refund to better suit this financial aspect? You bet!

For the more adventurous retiree, moving abroad is an exciting option and one that may save even more money. Three of the most popular retirement destinations are Mexico, Thailand and Costa Rica, and for good reason.

Cheap Lifestyle

Mexico is a cheap state and a perfect choice as it is still close to the US but offers a very cheap lifestyle compared to the US and Canada. An annual retirement income of $29,000 (the average of a typical American retiree) will go a very long way in Mexico, with housing costs close to $500 per month, groceries around $300 per month and utility bills around $200 per month.

If you want to go further afield, Thailand offers the best of all the Asian countries. Comfortable retirement living there will cost around $17,000 per year, and this could be far lower depending on which part of Thailand you retire to. Food, housing and recreational activities are all far cheaper than in the US.

For a tropical paradise go for Costa Rica and enjoy the benefits of saving a huge amount of money.

Utilities are very cheap and good quality housing can be found whether to buy or to rent.

Even if you want to build your own home, you can expect to buy the land and pay for the construction for less than $30,000.

You would then own your own home outright and not have to worry about monthly rent or mortgage payments, something you are unlikely to be able to do in any part of the US — even the cheapest states.

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Commentary: Chicago have formula for Academy success

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. – According to U.S. Soccer’s website, the Development Academy was created in 2007 “to improve the everyday environment for the elite youth player.”

But how does a U.S. Soccer Developmental Academy team live up to that directive? How do you get a 15 year-old kid to buy in, to tone down their competitiveness, or to think about the game like a 35 year-old vet when he’s a sophomore in high school?

Those are all tough question to answer. If you’re the Chicago Fire, you put your money where your mouth is.

Chicago preach professionalism and then take their U-18 team to Mexico to train with the first team to show what it means to be a pro; they tell their players to dream big and build a field for them in the shadows of Toyota Park to give a visual.

Sometimes, the Fire get a reward for the hard work. Maybe it comes in the form of last-gasp goal to win a game, or maybe it takes the shape of a playoff berth. Or maybe – as was the case for the club’s U-16’s this year – it comes in the form of a national championship.

On July 16, with club owner Andrew Hauptman in the stands, the Fire’s U-16 team beat Cal Odyssey in penalty kicks to win the USSDA National Championship at the Home Depot Center. In the process, the Fire became the first MLS team to win a USSDA national title, a fitting reward for three years of hard work.

“In the third year of the academy program, to be able to win a championship of that stature…it’s certainly a huge thrill,” said Fire Director of Youth Development John Dorn. “It was just a great feeling for the kids, a great feeling for all the staff, and to have Andrew there celebrating it just like it was a championship…it was just a great, great feeling overall.”

But winning isn’t everything for the Fire’s academy teams. The club is aware of the classic critique of American youth soccer – too much emphasis on winning, not enough on development – and they’re working hard to go in the other direction. Chicago believe that technical ability and tactical awareness should come first and that winning is merely a positive byproduct of good players and good coaching.

“We’re developing [kids] to be professional players; championships and winning take a secondary nature to that,” Dorn said. “It’s about developing the players to be tactically aware and technically proficient at that level and at whatever level the next step will be”

The Fire have two main methods of preparing players to become professionals. The first is to have a consistent philosophy – something Technical Director Frank Klopas calls a “pyramid structure” – from the first team all the way down the chain.

“The most important thing is the club philosophy,” Klopas said. “We’re putting a whole manual together that details the club philosophy: how we want to play, what’s the role of the players, what are your responsibilities as a Fire player.

“If we want to play a certain style with the first team, it wouldn’t make any sense if our academy teams…didn’t do it the same way. I think we’ve worked very hard to have that understanding and philosophy.”

The second method is to preach professionalism to every academy player. The Fire understand that if their academy is to produce professionals, the kids must look at the game as a craft, something that needs to be improved every single day in order to advance to higher levels.

“They might be 16, but they’re playing with the Fire,” Dorn said. “They play for a professional team and every day we try and instill in them the thought that they’re a pro in the making. They have to conduct themselves professionally. They have to prepare both on and off the field every day for that.”

And while all of that’s good and well, the Fire know that the academy will ultimately be judged upon how many professional players they produce. If no one comes out of the program then, for all intensive purposes, it failed. It may be nice to send kids to college on scholarships, but until a Fire academy player breaks through to the first team, it means nothing to the club’s bottom line.

Chicago, however, could see an academy player break through soon. Klopas hinted that some current academy players are capable of turning pro and filling the Fire’s two “homegrown” roster slots.

“I definitely feel that there are kids in our academy that we could give those slots to,” Klopas said. “We feel confident that we might try to sign two of those kids in the homegrown slots but it’s still almost like a coin toss because [it means] bypassing an opportunity from those kids [to get] a scholarship. You got to make sure that it’s the right two players that you feel do have a great opportunity of making it.”

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A branch bank in a North Center neighborhood grocery store was robbed this morning, police said.

A man in his 30s walked up to a teller about 10:10 a.m. at the TCF Bank in the 4200 block of North Lincoln Avenue and robbed the bank, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada. The bank is inside the Jewel-Osco at 4250 N. Lincoln Ave.

The man left the bank with cash and fled on foot, Estrada said. The amount stolen was not available.

The robber was described as a white man in his 30s, wearing a red-and-white beanie, a burgundy coat and blue jeans, with some sort of medical tape or gauze on his face. Estrada said. He also was  carrying a cane.

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    BEIJING, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- The top leadership line-up of the Communist Party of China (CPC) made a group debut on October 22 morning upon their election at the first plenum of the 17th CPC Central Committee, with Hu Jintao reelected as Party chief for a second term.

    New faces in the pinnacle Political Bureau Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee are Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang. They joined the nine-member echelon with the five remaining members of the previous standing committee, namely Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin and Li Changchun.

    Other newcomers in the 25-member Political Bureau are Wang Gang,Wang Qishan, Liu Yandong, Li Yuanchao, Wang Yang, Zhang Gaoli, Xu Caihou and Bo Xilai.

    Six of the newly elected political bureau members and the CPC Central Committee Secretariat were born in the 1950s. They spent their formative years in a peaceful but transformative China.

    They outlived the severest natural disasters in modern China that lasted from 1959 to 1961, witnessed in their childhood the frenetic development drive of Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), and grew up in the Cultural Revolution which threw China into a decade-long turmoil ending 1976.

    With bachelor's degrees or even doctorates, they rose from the grass-roots, acquainted themselves with the lives of the people and stood out with expertise in economy, business management and social sciences.

    "With these people joining in, the central collective leadership of the Party has gained more vigor and vitality," said professor Liu Chun, deputy dean of the Graduate Institute of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.

    Xi Jinping, 54, was trained as a chemical engineer at the prestigious Qinghua University and much later got doctorate in law.

    Earlier this year, Xi was appointed Party chief of China's commercial and financial hub Shanghai and has brought many new looks on the eastern municipality after a corruption scandal felled his predecessor Chen Liangyu, who is now under criminal investigation for alleged illegal use of 3.2 billion-yuan (427 million U.S. dollars) social security funds.

    A native of north China's Shaanxi Province, Xi said he had spent "his most memorable time", about 17 years, in Fujian, a southeastern economic powerhouse that is just opposite to Taiwan.

    While steering the Fujian provincial government, Xi encouraged better public services for increasing trade between Fujian and Taiwan. "Ma-Shang-Jiu-Ban", the Chinese for "Go and handle it", is his trademark tag for efficiency.

    After being promoted in November 2002 to the post of Party secretary of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee, Xi mapped outa package of measures ranging from ecology to culture to foster harmonious development in the province.

    Li Keqiang, 52, the youngest among the newly elected, mounted the political ladder from the very bottom as Party secretary of a "sheng chan dui", a village-level production unit in the era of communes.

    From the first-secretary of the Chinese Communist Youth League to the chiefs of China's major granary provinces Henan and Liaoning, the doctorate with the Economic Institute of Beijing University co-authored a treatise titled "On the Tri-Structure of China's Economy" and won over the country's top economic award-- Sun Yefang Economic Prize.

    Sources close to Li said that he cared about the sufferings of the public and was good at integrating the Marxism and western economic theories with China's economic reforms.

    He Guoqiang, 63, an engineer-turned Party cadre, has established his name for playing tough against corruption since taking over the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee in 2002.

    He opened the hot-line 12380 to encourage people to muckrake corrupted officials and vowed to crack down on the pernicious practice of landing promotions by greasing the palms of higher-upsor even purchasing official ranks.

    The native of central China's Hunan Province commanded the country's largest-ever drive in the Party's history on Marxism education to secure the vanguard role of CPC members.

    He also served as the governor of east China's Fujian Province and Party secretary of Chongqing Municipality.

    Zhou Yongkang, 64, minister of Public Security and the first commissar of the Armed Police Force, was recognized by his bold and resolute reforms to rectify the work style of the police and eliminate corruption.

    "Be clean, exercise self-discipline and abide by law. Neither abuse power for personal gains nor take bribes. Do not provide protective shield to offenders," Zhou, also State Councilor, taught the police.

    A native of Jiangsu Province, eastern China, Zhou once served as general manager of the China National Petroleum Corporation, Minister of Land and Resources and the Party Secretary of Sichuan Province.

    In the words of Li Lianyu, a delegate to the 17th CPC National Congress which closed on Sunday, the injection of new blood to the central leadership is very crucial for the country to materialize the goals put forth by the Party.

    "We count on the new central collective leadership to steer thecountry into prosperity and harmony at a new starting point," he said.

    Meeting with the press upon election on Monday, Hu Jintao said on behalf of the new leadership that the Politburo Standing Committee is fully aware of its heavy duties and would mobilize the Party and the people to advance the national drive and live upto the trust and expectations of the people.

    Wang Gang, 64, former director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee. A graduate from the Philosophy Department of Jilin University, Wang has abundant experiences of government work at both central and grassroots levels.

    Wang Qishan, Beijing Mayor. He stood out with a substantial credential on economy. The 58-year-old, a certified senior economist, is a part-time professor with the Qinghua University School of Economics and Management. He once headed the China Construction Bank, the former economic restructuring office of the State Council and acted as Party chief of Hainan Province.

    Liu Yandong, 61, the only woman in the Political Bureau, is deputy chairwoman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a doctorate on political science.

    Li Yuanchao, 56, a doctorate on Laws, was recognized for narrowing the urban-rural gap during his tenure as Party secretary of Nanjing City and Jiangsu Province. He once served as deputy Minister of Culture and vice director of the Information Office of the State Council.

    Wang Yang, 52, a master of management science, is Party secretary of Chongqing Municipality and has gone all out to tackle the thorny task of resettling millions of people in the Three Gorges area for the world's largest hydropower project.

    Zhang Gaoli, 60, an economic major in college, once served as Party secretary in Shenzhen, China's pioneer of economic reform. He was reshuffled from Shandong Province to Tianjin this year to steer the northern coastal municipality through an ambitious financial reform in the city's Binhai New Area.

    Xu Caihou, 64, vice chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, graduated from the electronic engineering department of the Harbin Institute of Military Engineering.

    Commerce Minister Bo Xilai, 57, graduated from Beijing University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His political star rose when he was mayor of Dalian, northeastern Liaoning Province. He also served as the province's Party chief.

    Ling Jihua, 50 and Wang Huning, 51, are two new members of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee. They both hold master's degrees.

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City demolish West Ham 6-0 in League Cup semis

MANCHESTER, England -- Manchester City consigned beleaguered West Ham to a second hammering inside four days by romping to a 6-0 victory in the first leg of their League Cup semifinal on Wednesday, with Alvaro Negredo leading the rout with a clinical hat trick.

Wembley Stadium — and a first appearance in the final since 1976 — couldn't be any closer for free-scoring City after an embarrassingly one-sided contest that also featured two goals from Edin Dzeko and another by Yaya Toure.

The result heaped further humiliation on West Ham and its under-fire manager Sam Allardyce, who saw his relegation-threatened side lose 5-0 at second-tier Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup on Sunday.

"It's not unique to us is it?" Allardyce said. "Manchester City have done this to Tottenham and Manchester United. We knew they had to have an off night and they didn't."

Sunderland beat Manchester United 2-1 on Tuesday in the first leg of the other semifinal. The second legs are in two weeks' time.

Allardyce had fielded a shadow side full of kids and fringe squad members against Forest to ensure his main players were fully recharged for this match. It proved to be a complete waste of time.

They were steamrollered by a City team that took its goal tally at the Etihad this season to 59 in 15 games. At times, it was embarrassing and downright cruel as the hosts toyed with their opponents, with Negredo moving onto 18 for the season in his first year at City.

"Playing better than the way he did today is not easy," Pellegrini said of Negredo. "He really played a complete game."

City was everything United wasn't against Sunderland: sharp, full of movement and unforgiving in front of goal. The gap between the two Manchester rivals hasn't been so great in a generation.

Negredo and Toure were at the heart of everything for City and they combined beautifully for the first goal in the 12th minute. Toure floated a long pass through the middle of West Ham's open defense, the ball dropping over the shoulder of Negredo who buried a first-time volley into the corner.

The Spain striker made it 2-0 in the 26th by sprinting onto Dzeko's reverse pass and delivering a finish on the slide, and Toure inflicted more punishment just before halftime, running from halfway toward back-pedaling defender Roger Johnson and calmly stroking a shot low into the center of the goal.

Johnson was signed from third-tier Wolverhampton Wanderers on Monday to ease West Ham's defensive injury crisis that has deprived Allardyce of all his center backs. He couldn't have endured a more miserable debut.

The misery was far from over for West Ham, either.

Negredo completed his second hat trick for City with a snapshot in the 49th after David Silva's low cross deflected into his path and strike partner Dzeko got in on the act on the hour mark, poking home a near-post finish from Gael Clichy's center.

As Allardyce looked on gloomily from the technical area as the rain poured down, Dzeko added the sixth in the 89th with a vicious left-footed shot into the top corner. Allardyce was given a vote of confidence from West Ham's co-chairmen after the Forest defeat but he looked a beaten man here.

"However hard they tried, and they did, was not good enough to stop the quality and talents Man City have bought on the finance that is available to them," Allardyce said.

City has won all 12 of its home games in domestic competition this season and scored 92 goals in 31 games in all competitions.

"We have not arrived in the final but we are very near," Pellegrini said. "It is very important to continue in all the competitions playing the way we did today."

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Bobby Schindler | "America's Lifeline," WGUL, Tampa (Terri Schiavo’s brother) | Monday, March 31, 2008

Obama's Regret about Terri Schiavo

March 31, 2008

Recently, and for the second time in less than a year, presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama stated that his greatest regret as a Senator was not objecting to a vote that was intended to help save my sister from being dehydrated to death.

Senator Obama went so far as to say that this type of “inaction” (failure to speak out against the Senate’s unanimous consent to allow Terri the same due process allowed the most vicious of criminals) can sometimes prove to be just as costly as taking action. One has to wonder what could possibly have been “more costly” than the loss of innocent human life.

At a Democratic rally in Florida in February 2006, Senator Hillary Clinton scolded the Republicans in an effort to single them out for intervening in Terri’s situation, even though the effort to save her passed the Senate with bi-partisan support.

In an August 2006 interview with Esquire Magazine, Senator John McCain said the following: “I understand the frustrations a lot of Republicans feel. We’re not representing their hopes and dreams and aspirations. We worry about Ms. Schiavo before we worry about balancing the budget.”

One of these candidates will be our next President, and the fact that they can make such statements with little to no fanfare from our secular media, or any noticeable outrage from the general public, is a chilling reminder of how far we have drifted as a nation.

It would be interesting to see if there would have been a similar reaction—or lack of one—if, at the time of Senator McCain’s service to his country, a ranking U.S. senator made this comment: “I understand the frustrations a lot of Americans feel. We’re not representing their hopes and dreams and aspirations. We worry about saving POWs like John McCain before we worry about balancing the budget.”

How is that statement any different than what John McCain said about Terri? Terri was an American citizen and was supposed to be protected. But she wasn’t. In fact, we treat animals better than we treated her. Her country failed her, and despite Senator Obama’s remark, that inaction can be “costly” for Terri paid the ultimate cost—her life. Now others like her face the same type of treatment unless our leaders do more to protect them.

There is a lethal bigotry against the disabled in our country and it’s getting worse, in particular against the cognitively disabled—human beings who are being killed every day in our nation. If left unchecked it will likely threaten the lives of everyone who is not able-bodied. This is especially problematic when you have potential leaders who have made it abundantly clear that they are going to do nothing to protect the value and dignity of people like my sister.

I often wonder if our presidential candidates would make such insensitive and callous comments if this were their child or if they had ever known someone like Terri.

Perhaps they could take time to visit my parents and see the agony and torment that remains with them every single day as a result of having to needlessly watch their disabled child slowly killed by dehydration and starvation.

Maybe as president they could explain why my parents were told by the armed police guarding Terri that if either of them tried to give her ice for her bleeding lips they would be arrested immediately.

Maybe my parents could remind all three candidates, who are parents themselves, that a mother and father value nothing in life more than their children and want only to love them unconditionally and protect them in every way possible—a right you can no longer take for granted.

March 31st marks the third anniversary of my sister’s brutal death. Sadly, it is a day that reminds me of what our nation has become, bringing back horrible images of a hideously inhumane death and how the judge who sentenced Terri to die also, in essence, sentenced my parents to death with her.

Senator Obama said that his biggest regret was allowing Congress to try to help my sister. I wish I could ask Terri about her biggest regret, because as things turned out I’m certain that hers would have been that she was born in an America where life is no longer viewed as precious and worthy of protection.

As I think about the future of our nation I can’t help but remember the words of one of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: “The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”

Bobby Schindler is the host of “America’s Lifeline” heard Saturdays on WGUL in Tampa and online through their Web site. He is the brother of Terri Schiavo and has been working with the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation, Center for Health Care Ethics in St. Petersburg, Fla. Contact Bobby at [email protected]


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Catholic Leader Calls on Perry to Denounce Jeffress Over Anti-Catholic, Mormon Comments

The head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is calling for Texas Gov. Rick Perry to cut any and all ties to Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress, over comments Jeffress made last September that are considered to be “anti-Catholic” in nature and for his recent Mormonism is a "cult” comments.

Bill Donohue, the president of the Catholic League, which defends Catholicism, issued a statement Wednesday denouncing the Baptist pastor.

“Where did they find this guy? When theological differences are demonized by the faithful of any religion – never mind by a clergyman – it makes a mockery of their own religion. [The] Rev. Jeffress is a poster boy for hatred, not Christianity,” Donahue stated on the group’s website.

At the Values Voter Summit in Washington Oct. 7, Jeffress told a reporter that Mormonism is a “cult” and that he would prefer Americans elect a Christian over a non-Christian.

Donohue spoke with The Christian Post on Thursday and offered his comments on Jeffress comments and on GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, President Obama, Perry and other elected officials.

CP: Last Friday Jeffress said Mitt Romney was a good and moral family man, but he was not a Christian and that the faith to which Romney subscribes, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a cult. Do you agree with that statement?

Donohue: No. That’s simply an ignorant statement. All religions started out as a “cult.” Mormons have been around for a long time, so I wouldn’t consider them a cult any longer. Now whether we agree with their views – I think that’s a debate we can have at another time, but I don’t believe we should call Mormons a cult. I do think Jeffress is a bit different, but I wonder why he projected himself in this way.

CP: What exactly are you asking Gov. Perry to do?

Donohue: Unless Jeffress changes his stance – and I personally don’t think he will because he has shown no remorse over his statements and he likes to be on television too much – I think Perry should say, “He didn’t speak for me then, and he doesn’t speak for me now.”

Listen, this goes back to 2008 and what John Hagee had said about Catholics. Hagee had a long history of making horrible comments, but after several conversations and some reasoning, Hagee came into my office to meet with me, he offered an apology and today I consider him a good friend. But personally, I don’t expect to hear from Robert Jeffress.

CP: Pastor Jeffress said that he would prefer to vote for a Christian over a non-Christian, but if Mitt Romney were the Republican nominee, he would probably vote for Romney over President Obama. Would you support a Catholic over a non-Catholic and what would you do if Romney and Obama were running against one another?

Donohue: I would vote for the person most qualified to lead our nation. There is no question I have a long history of opposing President Obama. I could never support someone who is such an enthusiast of abortion-on-demand and who opposes most every position of the Catholic Church including same-sex marriage.

Romney’s positions on abortions are disturbing to me too. He supported abortion-on-demand when he was governor of Massachusetts but has now said he changed his position. It is concerning that his mother is a supporter of abortion-on-demand and he has made statements that he would do what his mother tells him to, but I would rather have someone who is willing to change his views on abortion than someone who won’t.

As for supporting a Catholic over a non-Catholic, listen, I think Nancy Pelosi is a disgrace to the church and that [New York Gov.] Andrew Cuomo is a disgrace to Catholics. Everyone knows he (Cuomo) is living an adulterous lifestyle, is pro-abortion-on-demand and implemented homosexual marriage without even first holding a public hearing. What Cuomo sells in New York won’t fly with the rest of the country but you can bet he thinks he’s going to be president of the United States one day, but I wouldn’t support him. I think Ronald Reagan (was) the greatest president of my lifetime and he wasn’t a Catholic.

At the heart of the issue are comments Jeffress made on his Pathway to Victory radio show. Last year, (the) Rev. Jeffress said the Roman Catholic Church was the outgrowth of a “corruption” called the “Babylonian mystery.” He continued, ‘Much of what you see in the Catholic Church today doesn’t come from God’s word. It comes from that cult-like pagan religion. … Isn’t that the genius of Satan?

CP: If Gov. Perry distances himself from Jeffress and convinces voters he does not agree with his comments or positions, do you think Perry can move forward and potentially run a successful campaign?

Donohue: Yes, I think he can, but I think he needs to do it soon. Today is better than tomorrow, but if he doesn’t do something by the end of the week – and we are almost there – then I think his campaign will be in serious trouble.


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In the suit, Tommy Lynn Sells and Ramiro Hernandez Llanas argued that prison officials last week stalled the disclosure of the drug information - including the names of suppliers, lot numbers and information about testing for purity, among other details - in refusing to comply with a Travis County state district court's decision that the information should made available to the convict's attorneys under a confidentiality order, but not made public.

Prison officials quickly asked the 3rd Court of Appeals to block that order and, when they refused, the state appealed to the Texas Supreme Court.

In the new filing, Houston attorney Jonathan Ross and Philadelphia attorney Maurie Levin said several courts and rulings by the Texas attorney general have previously determined that details about the execution drugs the state uses have to be made public. The state is now using so-called "compounding" pharmacies to manufacture the lethal drugs, and those pharmacies are not regulated as closely as other drug-manufacturing plants.

In other states, executions carried out with compounded drugs have had problems and the Texas convicts have the right to know the purity and other details of the drugs being used, the suit alleges.

Sells is scheduled to be executed Thursday, and Llanas is slated for execution April 9.

Sells, 49, a drifter originally from Tennessee, faces execution for the December 1999 stabbing death of 13-year-old Kaylene Harris in Del Rio. He was suspected of killing at least eight other people in New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Kentucky and Texas between 1980 and 1999.

Llanas, 44, a Mexican citizen, was sentenced to death for the October 1997 beating death of Kerrville rancher Glen Lich, who was killed with a crowbar. Authorities said Llanas had worked for Lich. Prison records show Hernandez also fatally stabbed a jailer while awaiting trial.

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Klein Collins pitcher Jake Jarvis did a lot of everything Friday night. He struck out 10, walked six, hit three batters - and smacked a two-run homer.

The only thing he didn't do was get hit.

The junior allowed only one single in a complete game, lifting the Tigers to a 6-1 victory over Kingwood in the first game of their Class 5A regional quarterfinals playoff series at College Park.

"Even in the midst of him struggling a little bit, he finds a way to compete for us and does a great job of keeping us in every ballgame," Collins coach Miguel Carlos said. "He's been doing that all year.

"(But) we make it hard and interesting, that's for sure."

Klein Collins (27-9) and Kingwood (23-13) meet at 11 a.m. Saturday at College Park. Game 3 is 30 minutes after, if necessary.

The Tigers, who played their ace in the opener, will start Francisco Pena, whom the Mustangs beat in the second round of District 13-5A play, in Game 2. The Mustangs will throw top starter Devin Skapura.

Kingwood's Reed Robinson, who took the loss Friday, had the team's only hit, but Kingwood had plenty of baserunners. The only run came on a wild pitch in the sixth inning.

"(Jarvis) kind of shut us down, but we had runners all over the place, so we had our opportunities. We just didn't get that big hit," Kingwood coach Kelly Mead said.

The Tigers got those hits.

Leading 1-0 in the fifth, Jason Helms and Mikey Tanner had back-to-back RBI doubles with two outs, and Jarvis' home run in Klein Collins' three-run sixth came with two outs.

"We had an opportunity there to get a couple of runs, and we did," Carlos said. "My kids maximized that opportunity."

Jarvis threw 125 pitches.

The Mustangs had the bases loaded in the seventh when he recorded the final out, giving them 11 stranded runners.

Helms went 2-for-3 with two doubles, and Jacob Rodriguez had an RBI and a run scored.

"They got us (Friday), but we feel like we're in a pretty good situation (Saturday)," Mead said.

Of course, the Tigers feel good, too.

"I'll take the first win any day," Carlos said.

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Wall of Falling Cards

Lynne Byler from Woodcrest Chapel in Columbia, MO brings us this cool wall of hanging rectangles.

  • Foam Poster Boards 20×30 (purchased at Dollar Tree)
  • Fishing line with higher test
  • Fishing Weights
  • Hot Glue Gun
  • Box Knife
  • Metal Ruler
  • Sewing Needle
  • Yard Stick

They cut foam poster boards into 5×10 rectangles using a box knife and metal ruler. A larger sewing needle was used to create a hole in similar width to the fishing line. They measured off 20 feet of fishing line using a yard stick and threaded the rectangles on the line. 14 rectangles gave them their desired look. They stretched the string across the floor then laid the threaded rectangles on the floor flat with an inch to two inches between each rectangle.

After getting the spacing finalized, they used a hot glue gun to put a dab of glue on each hole/thread. Be sure to have the glue on the underside of the rectangle so it doesn’t slide down. Hang strands at desired locations and tie a heavy fishing weight to the bottom to keep the strand hanging plum. All this cost around $60.

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  1. This set is outstandingly amazing!!!!!! Brilliant idea and beautiful execution. Lynne you and your team are amazing! Great job!!!!!

  2. You guys Rock!!!

    Thanks for doing God’s work!

  3. Is this lighted from top and bottom or just from the bottom. If so, what did you use to light up this platform. We are going to try something similar and would love any details you can give us.

    • The only lights we had on the rectangles were from below. We had 12 Chauvet ColorPalettes lined up on the floor below the set. We didn’t have any lighting from above specifically meant for lighting the set but sometimes we did aim some of our movers from above to hit the rectangles. In the pic with the red & purple there are a couple Martin TW1’s lighting them from above. My favorite thing to do was to use our Mac 575’s to shine rotating gobos on the rectangles. It made them dance!
      Hopefully that helps!

  4. How far apart were they placed?

  5. Hi, How far apart did you hang each strand of fishing line?

  6. What kind and how many lights did you guys use on the bottom. The ones that are near the drum riser.( On the bottom shining across the stage)

  7. Hi! First off this looks amazing! Excited to do this backdrop! I wanted to know when fishing line was sewed through the board, were they all sewed in the middle of each board? Is there a measurement for that??

    • Maricel,
      When I made holes in the rectangles, I didn’t make all of them exactly center. By scattering the holes so some are in center, a bit higher or lower, allowed the rectangles to hang in different directions.

  8. This looks amazing! I’m thinking about making this backdrop for a college ministry retreat.. How many poster boards did you have to buy to make this? Also, how wide was your stage and how long was your fishing line for each string (height of the stage)?

  9. What is the width of the entire backdrop?

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The 4th of July is not a popular evening for television. People are busy picnicking or barbecuing, swimming and going to fireworks shows. If none of those activities are available, people are often busy taking a day off to relax or produce their own fireworks shows. There are a slew of other activities people may engage in for the holiday celebrating the birth of our great nation, but TV isn’t really a big one, as evidenced by last night’s ratings.

Most networks opted to play repeats last night, with the exception of NBC, which nabbed the rights to air the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular. Since NBC was the only network with new content last night, the Fireworks Spectacular easily helped the channel to win the night. According to THR, between the fireworks show and the fireworks recap special that aired afterward, NBC averaged 6.6 million total viewers over the night.

The other networks did not fare nearly as well in repeats. CBS managed a .8 rating and 4.3 million total viewers on average across the evening, Fox only managed a .6 rating, and ABC only managed a .4 rating, although ABC beat Fox in viewership across the night, bringing in 2.2 million total viewers while Fox only averaged 1.8 million total viewers. It was a pretty dismal night for television, but it's hard to see why we would expect anything less when there were so many epic displays of fireworks in cities across the country last night, including a batch in Pittsburgh which were shot off in the middle of a lightning storm.

Still, if you were not wanting to check out fireworks or if you did prefer to stay in and beat the heat, cable actually offered a few nice TV alternatives. Syfy offered a Twilight Zone marathon, which kicked off at 8 a.m. EST yesterday and finished up this morning at 6 a.m. EST. Music channels including MTV, VH1, and CMT each offered Fourth of July marathon celebrations, as well. Over at AMC, the network ran a Walking Dead marathon which is actually ongoing and will run through July 7, so if you’ve been hoping to catch up with or re-watch any episodes of the series, now would be the time.

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Oscilloscope Building a class E transmitter is not particularly difficult, however there are some tools, both electronic and otherwise, that you will need to have. It will be difficult, although not impossible, to build a class E transmitter without an oscilloscope. You need to have access to a good 50 mHz or better oscilloscope! You will need a decent 'scope to really ensure that your transmitter is working correctly, and for testing various parts of the transmitter as construction proceeds.

Soldering Gun Class E transmitters generally contain heavy conductive buses, usually made of copper. These are very hard to solder without a lot of heat. You will need to have a very heavy duty soldering gun. I tend to recommend the Weller D650 industrial soldering gun. It's heavy duty, and produces enough heat to solder any drain, gate or source bus I've created so far.

Drills, taps and dies. You will need a drill with an assortment of bits. A tap and die set is really nice. Tapping holes into heat sinks for mounting of MOSFETs and transistors is a little time consuming, but it sure makes things easier in the long run with respect to mounting devices.

A Variac (variable autotransformer) is strongly recommended for bringing things for the first time, and for making adjustments while testing. It can save many many hours of time.

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Special Parts - Coils, Capacitors and Others

Class E transmitters, like most high power RF amplifiers, require some large RF components. The RF tank coil should be made out of very heavy wire. For transmitters up to 400 watts or so, coils for 40 meters should be made from #4 bare copper or copper tubing. On 75 meters, #4 bare copper works very well, and is readily available from handyman supply stores. On 160 meters, the coil can be safely wound from #8 bare copper. Connections to the coils can be made using large split bolts or other solderless connectors.

The series tuning capacitor (used in the tank of most of the class E transmitters shown here) must be a high voltage, high current, air variable or vacuum variable capacitor. These capacitors are available from a number of sources.

Multi band operation

The subject of operating class E amplifiers on multiple bands had been the subject of considerable attention over the years. Several amateurs have built class E RF amplifiers spanning more than one band. Others have constructed seperate RF amplifiers for each band, and switched between them, using a single modulator and power supply for everything. Both have their advantages.

Bandswitching a single RF amplifier

Switching a single class E amplifier between bands will usually result in a smaller overall transmitter than that obtained by switching between multiple RF amplifiers, and components such as the tuning capacitor need only be purchased once. The trade off is more difficult construction and design. It is highly recommended, if you are going to build a multi band RF ampflier, to use a broadband driver circuit using driver ICs or some other non-resonant design. This will remove the necessity of changing or switching components within the driver when changing bands. Switching between two bands is generally reasonable to accomplish. Switching between three bands is more challenging.

The RF amplifier shown to the right covers 160 and 80 meters, and uses relay switching.

Relay switching is generally the most practical way of switching the various RF components. Switching shunt capacitors must be done with care, using short, thick, heavy leads, and preferably contactors that do not contain any internal wiring. This will keep the inductance of the shunt capacitor switching system as low as possible. It is better to use seperate inductors for each band, connected in series, and short-circuited when not in use than to use a single inductor with shorted turns. The shorted turns get hot due to very high circulating current, and this can waste considerable power. This high current also flows through relays, switches and the like, heating these components as well.

Switching between multiple RF amplifiers for each band

Switching between multiple RF amplifiers is easier to accomplish, and generally will give better results, as each amplifier is optimized for the band in question. Seperate RF amplifiers also results in a more flexible setup. It will also, in general, remove the need for retuning when changin bands - the RF amplifier will usually be tuned up from the last use. The disadvanages of using seperate RF amplifiers are greater space and increased cost, as parts such as tuning capacitors and heat sinks are needed for each RF amplifier.

It is generally easier to set up all of the metering required (drain current meters, voltage meters, etc.) as part of the modulator / power supply, and switch the modulator output between the various RF amplifiers. Use heavy relays or a high current switch for this purpose.

What to build

RF Amplifier

Several transmitters are presented at this site. The 400 watt transmitter for 75 meters is a fairly simple transmitter to construct. The physical layout is compact and easy to build. This RF amplifier is a balanced design that reduces harmonic output, and is very stable.

Modulators fall into two general classes - Analog and Digital (pulse width). Both have advantages. The analog modulators will operate over a wider range of load currents and resistances, and are generally fairly straight-forward in design. The primary disadvantages of analog modulators are the size and weight. Analog modulators are much larger than comparable digital (pulse width) modulators, and have significantly large power supply requirements.

Digital (pulse width) modulators are the most efficient (up to 95% efficiency is possible), and can be made smaller, and require smaller and simpler power supplies than comparable analog modulators. Pulse width modulators are designed to work into a particular load resistance - the load in this case being the class E RF amplifier. The class E amplifier must be operated within certain parameters to properly match the design impedance of the modulator. Digital modulators are designed with significant filtering, by the nature of how they work, and therefore can offer better control over the transmitted bandwidth than analog modulators.

The Pulse Width Modulator and Power Supply is probably the best modulator choice, as there are printed circuit boards available to facilitate construction of the low level circuitry, and the design includes many advanced features.


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Diana DeGarmo, an American Idol runner-up in 2004, has moved to Nashville. After wrapping the new CMT series, Gone Country, she ultimately accepted what people have been telling her for years — that she should pursue a career in country music. Just last month, she put down some temporary digs on 13 acres on the outskirts of town.

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  • Japan has strived to be at the world's forefront for rail research and development
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In Japan, rail rules as the transport mode of choice with over 2,000 kilometers of railroad tracks and an estimated 24 million passengers using the network every day, according to Japan's rail companies.
Despite the country's land mass being roughly the same size as the state of California, the Japanese have developed an extensive railway network that provides easy access to larger cities from smaller towns in the country.
One of the reasons Japan's railway network is so popular is the commuter traffic. Stations are extremely busy during peak periods and some operators even hire "oshiya" or "pushers" -- train and subway staff who help facilitate getting commuters onto trains.
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With such a rich railway history and a constant push to improve the network, CNN has devised a quick quiz for you to test your Japan train knowledge.