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Saturday, October 2, 2010
It's A Beautiful Day - White Bird
It's A Beautiful Day - White Bird .mp3
An oldie but goodie 1968
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An oldie but goodie 1968
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Wanted: Man who raped woman in Covington with kids present
Wanted: Man who raped woman in Covington with kids present by KOMO Staff
Story Published: Oct 1, 2010 at 4:56 PM PDT
Story Updated: Oct 1, 2010 at 4:56 PM PDT
Photo;
COVINGTON, Wash. -- The search is on for a man who raped a woman in her own home with her two children present on Thursday morning.
Police said the rapist tricked the woman into letting him into her home, then threatened to harm her children - an infant and a toddler - if she didn't cooperate.
Police have released a sketch of the rapist, who is believed to be in his late teens or early 20s. He is said to be approximately 6-foot-3 with an average build and "larger-than-average lips."
Investigators said the man appeared to be very familiar with the Covington, Maple Valley area. Anyone with information on the man's identity or his whereabouts is urged to call police immediately at (206) 296-3311.
Source;
komonews.com/news/local/104185859.html
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Story Published: Oct 1, 2010 at 4:56 PM PDT
Story Updated: Oct 1, 2010 at 4:56 PM PDT
Photo;
COVINGTON, Wash. -- The search is on for a man who raped a woman in her own home with her two children present on Thursday morning.
Police said the rapist tricked the woman into letting him into her home, then threatened to harm her children - an infant and a toddler - if she didn't cooperate.
Police have released a sketch of the rapist, who is believed to be in his late teens or early 20s. He is said to be approximately 6-foot-3 with an average build and "larger-than-average lips."
Investigators said the man appeared to be very familiar with the Covington, Maple Valley area. Anyone with information on the man's identity or his whereabouts is urged to call police immediately at (206) 296-3311.
Source;
komonews.com/news/local/104185859.html
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Stryker National Logistics Center Quarterly Award to the Pick Issue Team
l-r; Sidney Williams, Andrew Foss, Dave Regenfuss, Willie Burnett, Philip Atkins, Freddy Darden, Jack Binkley, Lisa, Jerry Stiller
SNLC Awards 'Team of the Quarter' to the Pick Issue Team in September 2010
Presentation by Mr. Ray James
Logistics Manager SNLC
September 2010
The Team of the Quarter Award compliments the Team Member of The Month Award.
Winning teams are selected by co-workers and management suggestions.
To suggest a nominee simply write a brief recommendation and place it in the suggestion box located in the main hallway.
It’s a tough process with so many departments doing so many great things here at the SNLC.
Winners receive a SNLC coffee cup, key chain and t-shirt.
Copyright © 2010 All rights Reserved.
Copyright © 2010 All rights Reserved.
Monday, September 27, 2010
In Loving Memory of Avon L. Pinegar
In Loving Memory of
Avon L. Pinegar
1918-2010
Please be sure to visit the following site and click on this photo in order to enter the photo gallery.
In order to download photos and listen to some of 'Mr. Penny's' favorite music visit this link. -> webin.webs.com Here you will also be able to read the entire obituary.
If you'd like to share this information an email account has been created for that specific purpose.
Simply send a blank email message to the following address and a link to the website mentioned above will automatically be dispatched to the requestor.
kingoscars@gmail.com
Have a great day everyone!
P.S. Please sign the guest book for 'Mr. Penny' as well.
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Avon L. Pinegar
1918-2010
No Man is Indispensable,
But some are Irreplaceable
Please be sure to visit the following site and click on this photo in order to enter the photo gallery.
In order to download photos and listen to some of 'Mr. Penny's' favorite music visit this link. -> webin.webs.com Here you will also be able to read the entire obituary.
If you'd like to share this information an email account has been created for that specific purpose.
Simply send a blank email message to the following address and a link to the website mentioned above will automatically be dispatched to the requestor.
kingoscars@gmail.com
Have a great day everyone!
P.S. Please sign the guest book for 'Mr. Penny' as well.
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Sunday, September 26, 2010
Brad Paisley;Alison Krauss - Whiskey Lullaby
Brad Paisley;Alison Krauss - Whiskey Lullaby
Full Version in HD
runtime 6:44
Copyright 2010 Atkins & Assoc. All rights reserved.
Full Version in HD
runtime 6:44
Copyright 2010 Atkins & Assoc. All rights reserved.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Tax horror: These states will have the highest tax burdens under Obama's new plan
Tax horror: These states will have the highest tax burdens under Obama's new plan
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
From Bloomberg:
High-income residents of New York City and President Barack Obama's home state of Hawaii would have the highest marginal tax rates in the U.S. if Congress adopts his proposal to increase taxes for top earners, a study found.
The Tax Foundation, a Washington research group that advocates for lower taxes, said state, local and federal taxes would impose a top 50.8 percent rate on high-income New York City residents. Affluent Hawaiians would pay 49.7 percent. Residents of California, Vermont, Maryland and New York round out the five states with the heaviest burdens, with top federal-state rates of 49.4 percent, 48.8 percent, 48.6 percent and 48.4 percent, respectively.
"High-income taxpayers, along with second earners, tend to be the most sensitive to higher marginal taxes," said Gerald Prante, the Tax Foundation economist who prepared the report. "And as they keep getting higher and higher, the marginal cost grows even faster."
Lower tax rates on income and investments enacted in 2001 and 2003 expire Dec. 31. Obama and most Democrats want to retain those that target individuals earning less than $200,000 and married couples earning under $250,000 and allow policies that benefited those with higher incomes to expire. Republicans generally back extending all of the tax cuts.
Obama's proposal would allow the top marginal tax rates of 33 percent and 35 percent to revert to 36 and 39.6 percent next year. Phase-outs for deductions and exemptions also would be reinstated, pushing the rate higher. Tax rates on dividends and capital gains would increase to 20 percent from 15 percent.
Under current law, the top federal tax rate applies only to taxable income that exceeds about $375,000; amounts below that are taxed at lower rates. Taxable income is equal to gross income minus deductions, so most taxpayers wouldn't begin paying at top rates until they gross more than about $400,000.
To contact the reporter on this story: Ryan J. Donmoyer in Washington at rdonmoyer@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Mark Silva at msilva34@bloomberg.net.
Source;
http://bit.ly/tax_man
Copyright 2010 Atkins & Assoc. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
From Bloomberg:
High-income residents of New York City and President Barack Obama's home state of Hawaii would have the highest marginal tax rates in the U.S. if Congress adopts his proposal to increase taxes for top earners, a study found.
The Tax Foundation, a Washington research group that advocates for lower taxes, said state, local and federal taxes would impose a top 50.8 percent rate on high-income New York City residents. Affluent Hawaiians would pay 49.7 percent. Residents of California, Vermont, Maryland and New York round out the five states with the heaviest burdens, with top federal-state rates of 49.4 percent, 48.8 percent, 48.6 percent and 48.4 percent, respectively.
"High-income taxpayers, along with second earners, tend to be the most sensitive to higher marginal taxes," said Gerald Prante, the Tax Foundation economist who prepared the report. "And as they keep getting higher and higher, the marginal cost grows even faster."
Lower tax rates on income and investments enacted in 2001 and 2003 expire Dec. 31. Obama and most Democrats want to retain those that target individuals earning less than $200,000 and married couples earning under $250,000 and allow policies that benefited those with higher incomes to expire. Republicans generally back extending all of the tax cuts.
Obama's proposal would allow the top marginal tax rates of 33 percent and 35 percent to revert to 36 and 39.6 percent next year. Phase-outs for deductions and exemptions also would be reinstated, pushing the rate higher. Tax rates on dividends and capital gains would increase to 20 percent from 15 percent.
Under current law, the top federal tax rate applies only to taxable income that exceeds about $375,000; amounts below that are taxed at lower rates. Taxable income is equal to gross income minus deductions, so most taxpayers wouldn't begin paying at top rates until they gross more than about $400,000.
To contact the reporter on this story: Ryan J. Donmoyer in Washington at rdonmoyer@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Mark Silva at msilva34@bloomberg.net.
Source;
http://bit.ly/tax_man
Copyright 2010 Atkins & Assoc. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Russell Watson: The Voice
Russell Watson
Encore
The Voice is the fastest-selling classical recording in UK history
Lulu & Russell Watson - The Prayer
CD version
website | radio | mp3
Following is an interview with Russell Watson from his CD cover titled: The Voice.
It is just about possible you have not heard about Russell Watson, the operatic tenor from Salford, North West England, but then it is unlikely that you will be reading this anyway... But for those of you who have chanced upon a copy of this his second album, Encore, you should know that Watson was the YTS kid changed with putting nuts and bolts in a machine in a factory before he was lifted from a life of drudgery and repetition by virtue of his voice and a determination to let the rest of the world hear it.
To date, at least one and a half million people across the globe have bought The Voice. Hook line and sinker. It is a voice so powerful and versatile that his voice coach, William Hayward, does not hesitate to call it "unique and with no qualifying adjectives". It is a voice which has been at number one in the UK Classical Artist chart since it was released (and is still there at the time of writing) whilst also gracing the top spot in several other countries.
Is it really twelve months since I saw him break down and cry as he listened to the final edit of the genre-defining and inspirational duet with Shaun Ryder of Barcelona, the single that announced the arrival of The Voice? "This year has gone so fast", he reflects, lying on a sofa in his rented London flat, casual in off-duty fatigues of New York Yankees baseball cap, sweatshirt and tennis shorts. "It doesn't seem like five minutes since the release of the first album and to be honest my feet haven't touched the floor. I have been whisked all around the world." He has also, it seems churlish to ignore, performed on the same stage as his idol, Pavarotti, and in front of the forty-third President of the United States of America.
"We were in the States for threee months, recording the album you are now holding in
your hands, and made a lot of friends over there. To begin with, leaving home for that amount of time was quite daunting; I missed my family, but even so it was nothing like singing in Italy, essentially the home of opera. I did a lot of TV there and the first show was the equivalent of the National Lottery in the UK except for the fact that there were about 500 people sitting in an amphitheatre. I felt like Spartacus going into the arena."
"Anyway, I was singing 'Nessum dorma' and was thinking, I hope I get the words right,
but at the first high section the audience started clapping and cheering. I finished the piece and the whole place was on their feet. I felt like I had conquered Italy." Veni, vidi, vici. Well almost. That might have to wait for the success of this album to outstrip the first and, when you consider that The Voice is the fastest-selling classical recording in UK history, that is asking for a lot. But if you don't ask, you don't get. You learn that as you put nuts and bolts into a machine on the shop floor in a factory.
"I have matured as an artist", he explains. "I am more confident as an entertainer, move around the stage more and communicate better with my audience. It is all experience... I started out in the clubs in front of 200 people and it is a bit of a culture shock to work with a 70 or 80 piece orchestra and perform in front of thousands. The very first time I worked with the Royal Philharmonic it was..." he lets his bottom lip tremble. And then burst out laughing. "I sort of had this feeling that all these guys are at the top of their trade and I kept thinking, here's little old me fresh from clubland... yeah, it was daunting and I have to say that, at first, they possibly didn't take me particularly seriously, as a result of where I am from, but I have worked with them several times now and feel at least the feet taller. Now I am introduced as Russell Watson and they cheer and that makes you feel good because it's like I have been recognized by real musicians. It makes you feel like you are part of a team. You aren't given respect, you have to earn it."
Presumably that is why, combining his trademark mix of pop classics and operatic arias, he has worked on this album with songwriters of the calibre of Lionel Richie and Diane Warren, and dueted with the former at his insistence and also with Lulu. Pop classics which come in for the Watson treatment include the Joe Cocker standard "You Are So Beautiful" and "Bohemian Rhapsody"; Lulu appears on "The Prayer", while the rest of the album continues in the vein he established on The Voice - that of bringing opera to the masses, smiling with sweet innocence at the established order as he does so. Consequently, you are also about to be blown away by "Ava Maria", Puccini's "Che gelida manina" and Verdi's "Celeste Aida" alongside "Where My Heart Will Take Me" (the title track of the new Star Trek series - and the first one to feature a vocalist.) Did I mention "Volare"? Prepare yourself.
But before you put you feet up and float away or if you're in the mood to shake the plaster off the next door neighbor's walls, please, if you will, observe a minute's silence for the Sunday newspaper critic who said that Russell Watson would never be successful until he received formal and classical musical training. That notice appeared the same day the first album went double platinum in the UK. Well, as the nameless critic is doubtless aware, you can't put a premium on timing. -- Bill Burrows
CD version
website | radio | mp3
Source;
http://bit.ly/Russell_Watson
Copyright 2010 Atkins & Assoc. All rights
reserved.
Encore
The Voice is the fastest-selling classical recording in UK history
Lulu & Russell Watson - The Prayer
CD version
website | radio | mp3
The Voice is the fastest-selling classical recording in UK history.
Following is an interview with Russell Watson from his CD cover titled: The Voice.
It is just about possible you have not heard about Russell Watson, the operatic tenor from Salford, North West England, but then it is unlikely that you will be reading this anyway... But for those of you who have chanced upon a copy of this his second album, Encore, you should know that Watson was the YTS kid changed with putting nuts and bolts in a machine in a factory before he was lifted from a life of drudgery and repetition by virtue of his voice and a determination to let the rest of the world hear it.
To date, at least one and a half million people across the globe have bought The Voice. Hook line and sinker. It is a voice so powerful and versatile that his voice coach, William Hayward, does not hesitate to call it "unique and with no qualifying adjectives". It is a voice which has been at number one in the UK Classical Artist chart since it was released (and is still there at the time of writing) whilst also gracing the top spot in several other countries.
Is it really twelve months since I saw him break down and cry as he listened to the final edit of the genre-defining and inspirational duet with Shaun Ryder of Barcelona, the single that announced the arrival of The Voice? "This year has gone so fast", he reflects, lying on a sofa in his rented London flat, casual in off-duty fatigues of New York Yankees baseball cap, sweatshirt and tennis shorts. "It doesn't seem like five minutes since the release of the first album and to be honest my feet haven't touched the floor. I have been whisked all around the world." He has also, it seems churlish to ignore, performed on the same stage as his idol, Pavarotti, and in front of the forty-third President of the United States of America.
"We were in the States for threee months, recording the album you are now holding in
your hands, and made a lot of friends over there. To begin with, leaving home for that amount of time was quite daunting; I missed my family, but even so it was nothing like singing in Italy, essentially the home of opera. I did a lot of TV there and the first show was the equivalent of the National Lottery in the UK except for the fact that there were about 500 people sitting in an amphitheatre. I felt like Spartacus going into the arena."
"Anyway, I was singing 'Nessum dorma' and was thinking, I hope I get the words right,
but at the first high section the audience started clapping and cheering. I finished the piece and the whole place was on their feet. I felt like I had conquered Italy." Veni, vidi, vici. Well almost. That might have to wait for the success of this album to outstrip the first and, when you consider that The Voice is the fastest-selling classical recording in UK history, that is asking for a lot. But if you don't ask, you don't get. You learn that as you put nuts and bolts into a machine on the shop floor in a factory.
"I have matured as an artist", he explains. "I am more confident as an entertainer, move around the stage more and communicate better with my audience. It is all experience... I started out in the clubs in front of 200 people and it is a bit of a culture shock to work with a 70 or 80 piece orchestra and perform in front of thousands. The very first time I worked with the Royal Philharmonic it was..." he lets his bottom lip tremble. And then burst out laughing. "I sort of had this feeling that all these guys are at the top of their trade and I kept thinking, here's little old me fresh from clubland... yeah, it was daunting and I have to say that, at first, they possibly didn't take me particularly seriously, as a result of where I am from, but I have worked with them several times now and feel at least the feet taller. Now I am introduced as Russell Watson and they cheer and that makes you feel good because it's like I have been recognized by real musicians. It makes you feel like you are part of a team. You aren't given respect, you have to earn it."
Presumably that is why, combining his trademark mix of pop classics and operatic arias, he has worked on this album with songwriters of the calibre of Lionel Richie and Diane Warren, and dueted with the former at his insistence and also with Lulu. Pop classics which come in for the Watson treatment include the Joe Cocker standard "You Are So Beautiful" and "Bohemian Rhapsody"; Lulu appears on "The Prayer", while the rest of the album continues in the vein he established on The Voice - that of bringing opera to the masses, smiling with sweet innocence at the established order as he does so. Consequently, you are also about to be blown away by "Ava Maria", Puccini's "Che gelida manina" and Verdi's "Celeste Aida" alongside "Where My Heart Will Take Me" (the title track of the new Star Trek series - and the first one to feature a vocalist.) Did I mention "Volare"? Prepare yourself.
But before you put you feet up and float away or if you're in the mood to shake the plaster off the next door neighbor's walls, please, if you will, observe a minute's silence for the Sunday newspaper critic who said that Russell Watson would never be successful until he received formal and classical musical training. That notice appeared the same day the first album went double platinum in the UK. Well, as the nameless critic is doubtless aware, you can't put a premium on timing. -- Bill Burrows
CD version
website | radio | mp3
Source;
http://bit.ly/Russell_Watson
Copyright 2010 Atkins & Assoc. All rights
reserved.
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