Saturday, December 25, 2010

About Christmas Bible Verses

Here are some Bible verses about Christmas. You can use these favorite scripture quotes for your Christmas greeting cards. Many churches also use them for Advent Bible readings or Christmas programs.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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Rashel Sharwar: Elizabeth Edwards Funeral to be Open to the Public...: "A public funeral for Elizabeth Edwards will be held on Saturday in Raleigh, North Carolina at 1 p.m. ET."

Rashel Sharwar: Transformers 3: Dark of The Moon Trailer Video Onl...

Rashel Sharwar: Transformers 3: Dark of The Moon Trailer Video Onl...: "The first official movie trailer of Michael Bay's Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon has finally been released on online. And everyone who was..."

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Rashel Sharwar: American Country Awards Winners Full List and Hig...

Rashel Sharwar: American Country Awards Winners Full List and Hig...: "The first annual American Country Awards (ACA) aired on Fox last night, but they could have renamed it ‘The Carrie Underwood Show.’ Because ..."

Rashel Sharwar: American Country Awards Red Carpet and Press Room ...

Rashel Sharwar: American Country Awards Red Carpet and Press Room ...: "There was a ton of sparkle on Monday night's American Country Awards 2010 red carpet and press room in Las Vegas -- with Laura Bell Bundy le..."

Rashel Sharwar: American Country Awards Top Winner is Carrie Under...

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Monday, December 6, 2010

Rashel Sharwar: Elizabeth Edwards Latest News: Cancer Spreads to H...

Rashel Sharwar: Elizabeth Edwards Latest News: Cancer Spreads to H...: "Elizabeth Edwards latest news: Edwards's cancer fight has taken a turn for the worse, with the disease spreading to her liver and doctors re..."

Rashel Sharwar: Kim Kardashian Pregnant by Kanye West !

Rashel Sharwar: Kim Kardashian Pregnant by Kanye West !: "Kim Kardashian was pregnant by Kanye West, “Media Take Out” reported."

Sunday, December 5, 2010

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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Pennsylvania Unemployment Benefits Online: Pa UC Service Centers Expand Hours

Pennsylvania Unemployment Benefits Online: You can call volumes and logins to our Internet site and volumes have caused intermittent problems without Internet site bucause busy signals for telephone services.

We are working to insure that all of filing platforms are operating at full capacity and have instituted expanded hours for the UC Service Center as indicated below.

Allentown
Monday, 7 a.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Tuesday through Friday, 7 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Altoona Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Duquesne
Monday and Tuesday, 7 a.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Wednesday through Friday, 7 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Erie
Monday, 7 a.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Tuesday through Friday, 7 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Indiana
Monday, 7 a.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Tuesday through Friday, 7 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Lancaster Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Philadelphia
Monday, 7 a.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Tuesday through Friday, 7 a.m. – 4:45 p.m
Scranton Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Martin Luther King Holiday on Jan. 19: All offices will be open from 7 a.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Please note: the above hours may be further expanded or reduced to meet operational needs.
To access our online services go to the PA PowerPort at www.state.pa.us and enter “unemployment” in the PA Keyword field at the top of the screen.
In addition, you may call 1-888-313-7284 to file new applications or reopen an existing claim, and 1-888-255-4728 to file for your bi-weekly benefits. If you get a busy signal, please try again at a later time of day. Please be reminded that you have a period from Sunday to Friday to file for your biweekly benefits. Biweekly benefits filed for on Monday are processed the same time as those filed on Sunday. Therefore, filing on Monday will not delay the receipt of your benefit payment.
Please rest assured that everyone will receive the full UC benefit services to which they are entitled.

Telephone Claims Only

Philadelphia UC Service Center
2901 Grant Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19114-1069
Phone: (215) 856-6990
Toll Free: 1-888-313-7284
FAX: (215) 560-6981
Toll Free TTY: 1-888-334-4046
PAT Philadelphia: (215) 560-1978
PAT Toll Free: 1-888-255-4728
PAT TTY Toll Free: 1-888-411-4728
PAT en español: 1-877-888-8104

UC Board of Review

Referee’s Office
444 North 3rd St., 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19123-4185
Phone: (215) 560-2845

Netspend.com Login: Netspend Prepaid Card Sign In

NetSpend official website is www.netspend.com, you can find Login or Sign In to your NetSpend account details. The NetSpend account Login process is very simple and fast.

NetSpend Corporation is the largest prepaid debit card processor and marketer in the United States and sells private and proprietary MasterCard and Visa prepaid debit cards. NetSpend has 10,000 grocery and convenience stores, gas stations and check-cashing centers in the nationwide. It has more than 90,000 debit cards reload locations and 30,000 card purchase locations.

Netspend Login or Sign In Process:

Enter your username and password at the Netspend account login page at the website www.Netspend.com, a trusted prepaid debit accounts provider in America. Register and get online access. With Netspend Corporation you can rest assured that your paycheck is deposited directly into your account, that you have no credit checks, interest charges or overdraft fees.

If you have an account here you know that you can pay bills online and it is for sure safer than cash. You also know that you can make purchases anywhere with your Visa card and mastercard debit cards. So log in & get access to your account and make your grocery, gas bill payments etc at the link below.

Website: https://www.netspend.com/account/authenticate.m

Netspend Reload Centers Locations, Phone Number and Contact

You want to reload your Netspend card don’t worry. Netspend Reload packs are only available at it’s participating retailers. The NetSpend Reload Pack is available in the checkout lane at all 271 H-E-B stores. You can get your reload pack from it’s participating retailers or 271 H-E-B stores. NetSpend is currently the exclusive provider of prepaid products in H-E-B’s Business Centers. If you want to get nearest retailer centers, then visit NetSpend Find Reload Centers website click here, choose your State or City from the list OR enter your zip code in the box provided to search.

Netspend complaints reload centers (Netspend reload pack locations):

If you have any type of question or complaints of Netspend reload pack, you can contact directly on its customer service center.

Location of Netspend:

NetSpend Corporation,
PO Box 2136,

Austin, TX 78768-2136.

Fax: (512) 857-0263

Contact on toll-free no.: 1-86-NETSPEND

Timing: 8:00 AM-10:00PM CST, Monday through Friday & 8:00AM-8:00PM CST, Saturday and Sunday.

Friday, December 3, 2010

How to Load Money Netspend Card: www.netspend.com

NetSpend card is a prepaid Visa/prepaid MasterCard that you load with cash and then use like a regular debit or credit card. There are many ways to add cash to your new netspend.com prepaid debit card.

You can load money in your card using this 4 way such as-

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DIRECT DEPOSIT TO YOUR NETSPEND CARD: You can have your payroll check deposited directly to your NetSpend card. You do not have to deposit the entire check, although you can. When you receive your card, you will receive a form with a bank routing number and account number that is specific to your card’s account. Complete the form and turn it in to your company’s payroll department, and they will take it from there. If you need another form, you can print one out at the NetSpend website.

You can also use your income tax refund to reload prepaid cards. Whether you e-file or send a paper return, there will be a place for you to select direct deposit and enter the bank routing and account numbers. For federal tax returns and most state tax returns, you do not need to complete a form, merely provide the numbers.

Social security or other government benefits can also be direct deposits to your NetSpend card. NetSpend prefers that you either complete an application online or call their customer service department to arrange direct deposit of government benefits.

TRANSFERS TO YOUR NETSPEND CARD: If you receive online payments through Paypal, you can have the funds transferred to your NetSpend card. It will function as a bank account for the purposes of withdrawing funds. You just need to enter the routing and account numbers to start. Paypal will make two small deposits of under $1 each to test the information. You can log in to your account at NetSpend in a couple of days and when the deposits come in, you enter the amounts at the Paypal site. This confirms your bank account.

Money can also be transferred by using a debit card tied to a bank account. It can be your own account or relatives can use their bank account to add funds to your NetSpend account. There is a fee for reloads of this type. However, there is no charge for reloads made directly from a checking or savings account unless your bank imposes a fee for this type of transaction.

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NetSpend Balance Check: netspend.com

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How to check NetSpend (www.netspend.com) balance?

NetSpend Corporation announced that it will sell All-Access Visa prepaid debit cards at Safeway stores nationwide. NetSpend, the nation’s leading marketer and processor of re-loadable, prepaid debit cards will sell two different prepaid cards at Safeway stores: The All-Access Visa Prepaid Debit Card, a general purpose re-loadable debit card, and the All-Access Visa Gift Card, available in $25, $50 and $100 denominations.

Www.NetSpend.Com is the official website for NetSpend Prepaid Debit account holders to visit to access their accounts and take advantage of other services being offered. Currently we are in the income tax season and tax refunds can be loaded onto your Netspend card.

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Black Swan Movie Review

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A witchy brew of madness and cunning, “Black Swan” tells the story of a ballerina who aches, with battered feet and an increasingly crowded head, to break out of the corps. Played by Natalie Portman in a smashing, bruising, wholly committed performance, the young dancer, Nina, looks more like a child than a woman, her flesh as undernourished as her mind. When she goes to bed at night, a nearby jewelry box tinkling “Swan Lake,” a crowd of stuffed animals watches over her, longtime companions that — as Nina and this dementedly entertaining film grow more unhinged — begin to look more like jailers than friends.

Crammed with twins — lookalikes, mirrored images, doppelgängers — the story follows that of the “Swan Lake” ballet in broad, gradually warped strokes. It opens with the artistic director of a fictional New York ballet company, Thomas (Vincent Cassel), announcing that the new season will begin with a “visceral and real” version of that old favorite. To that end he dumps his prima ballerina, Beth (Winona Ryder), and picks Nina to dance the dual role of the swan queen (an enchanted woman in bird form) and her villainous black twin. But as the pressure builds, things fall apart, or Nina does. She stumbles out of a spin and begins scratching at her skin. One day she strips a piece from her finger as lightly as if she were peeling a banana.

Part tortured-artist drama, “Black Swan” looks like a tony art-house entertainment. (Hey, there’s Lincoln Center!) But what gives it a jolt is its giddy, sometimes sleazy exploitation-cinema savvy. The director Darren Aronofsky is a well-schooled cinéaste, and in “Black Swan” he riffs on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s ballet masterpiece, “The Red Shoes,” and the pair’s “Black Narcissus,” among other influences. But it’s also likely that Mr. Aronofsky, who was born in 1969 and grew up in Brooklyn, frequented Times Square when it was known as the deuce and lined with movie palaces playing the best and worst in trash cinema. I bet he also caught a few episodes of the “Red Shoe Diaries” on cable.

That isn’t a knock. One of the pleasures of “Black Swan” is its lack of reverence toward the rarefied world of ballet, which to outsiders can look as lively as a crypt. Mr. Aronofsky makes this world (or his version of it) exciting partly by pulling back the velvet curtains and showing you the sacrifices and crushingly hard work that goes into creating beautiful dances. Nina doesn’t just pirouette prettily, she also cracks her damaged toes (the sound design picking up every crackle and crunch) and sticks her fingers down her throat to vomit up her food. Mostly, though, she trains hard, hammering her toe shoes into floor much as Jake La Motta pounded his fists into flesh. She’s a contender, but also a martyr to her art.

Mr. Aronofsky is happy to see her bleed. A filmmaker who likes to play around with genre while mixing the highbrow with the lowdown and dirty, he has built a small, vivid catalog by exploring human extremes with wildly uneven degrees of visual wow, sensitivity and intelligence. He trawled the lower depths in “Requiem for a Dream” and struggled to scale the metaphysical heights with “The Fountain,” a fable about eternal (as in, when will it end?) love. For his previous movie, “The Wrestler,” he proved his commercial smarts by taking Mickey Rourke out of deep freeze and dusting off a comeback story that was old when Wallace Beery wiped Jackie Cooper’s runny nose with the script for “The Champ.”

“Black Swan,” by contrast, surprises despite its lusty or rather sluttish predilection for clichés, which include the requisitely demanding impresario (Mr. Cassel makes a model cock of the walk) and Nina’s ballerina rival, Lily (Mila Kunis, as a succulent, borderline rancid peach). But, oh, what Mr. Aronofsky does with those clichés, which he embraces, exploits and, by a squeak, finally transcends.

Such is his faith in his ability to surmount the obvious (and the lethally blunt) that he turns Nina’s mother, Erica (a terrific Barbara Hershey), into a smother-mother who out-crazies Faye Dunaway’s Joan Crawford in the mommy dearest department. You don’t know whether to laugh or shriek (both are reasonable responses), and it is this uncertainty and at times delicious unease that proves to be Mr. Aronofsky’s sweet spot.

It’s easy to read “Black Swan” as a gloss on the artistic pursuit of the ideal. But take another look, and you see that Mr. Aronofsky is simultaneously telling that story straight, playing with the suffering-artist stereotype and having his nasty way with Nina, burdening her with trippy psychodrama and letting her run wild in a sexcapade that will soon be in heavy rotation on the Web. The screenplay, by Mark Heyman, Andrés Heinz and John McLaughlin, invites pop-psychological interpretations about women who self-mutilate while striving for their perfect selves, a description that seems to fit Nina. But such a reading only flattens a film that from scene to scene is deadly serious, downright goofy and by turns shocking, funny and touching.

With “Black Swan” Mr. Aronofsky has found a surprisingly accommodating vehicle for his preoccupations, including bodies in pain, and his ever more refined technique. Here, working with his usual cinematographer, Matthew Libatique, and largely shooting hand-held in both super-16-millimeter film and digital, Mr. Aronofsky opts for grit over gloss, an ideal strategy for a story with a harsh underbelly. Hand-held cinematography can be lazy shorthand for “reality” (as if life happens in shaky-cam), but here the hand-held visuals work because of their intimacy. The influence of the Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne can be seen in the close, tag-along shots of Nina’s head as she hurries off, a point of view that brings you within breathing, at times panting, distance of a character whose behavior can be off-putting. Continue to read....

Aretha Franklin Surgery Successfully Done

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Aretha Franklin says her surgery was "highly successful" and thanks well-wishers for their prayers.

In a statement released Thursday to The Associated Press, the Queen of Soul says: "God is still in control. I had superb doctors and nurses whom were blessed by all the prayers of the city and the country."

Aretha Franklin did not say what she was being treated for Thursday.

Last month, the 68-year-old singer announced she was canceling all concert dates and personal appearances through May on the orders of her doctors.

Taylor Swift Tickets On Sale: Buy Now

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Taylor Swift fans who want to see the singer perform live should "Speak Now."

The singer tickets went on sale today for her shows in Foxborough, Mass., Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Jose and Sacramento. Also on sale are tickets for her shows in Toronto.

The shows currently on sale take place between June 25 and Sept. 3, 2011. Taylor Swift's website lists the full dates for her upcoming tour.

Taylor Swift’s music, while not kids’ music, is still pretty-child friendly. She is someone that many young girls look up to. She still has a lot of her innocent and clean-cut image. Her concerts, while energetic, don’t have a crazy, dangerous atmosphere to them. Many parents might consider taking their young kids to see Taylor Swift in concert.

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Americans Set To Lose Unemployment Benefits Even If Congress Passes Extension

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Even as Congress debates whether to extend emergency unemployment checks for more than 6 million Americans who are approaching the 99-week-limit, some four million others are facing the certain end of their benefits over the next year, unless an entirely new program is crafted.

This is the sobering conclusion of a report released by the President's Council of Economic Advisers on Thursday. The study forecast that the exhaustion of unemployment benefits for so many will curb spending power enough to significantly impede an already weak economic recovery.

The typical household now receiving emergency unemployment benefits would see their income fall by a third should they lose their checks, according to the report. Among the roughly 40 percent of households in which the person receiving a check is the sole breadwinner, income would fall by 90 percent.

The existing emergency unemployment program, which extends benefits for nearly two years, expired on Wednesday. Without an agreement to extend the program, the economy will lose about 600,000 jobs, as the spending enabled by continued unemployment checks ceases. National economic output--which expanded at an annual pace of 2.5 percent during the summer months--would fall off by 0.6 percent.

That disturbing prospect does not even account for the roughly four million people who would exceed even the extended limits in the emergency program. Were that many jobless people left to fend themselves without unemployment checks, that would pose significant risks for the broader economy, say economists. They cite the fact that consumer spending accounts for roughly 70 percent of all economic activity.

"If you're looking for economic recovery supported by consumers, it's discouraging," said Henry J. Aaron, an economist at the Brookings Institution, a research institution in Washington. "It's drag on the economy."

Many economists argue that paying unemployment benefits is among the most effective ways the government can spur the economy: Jobless people tend to spend nearly all of their unemployment checks, distributing those dollars throughout the economy.

Even as Congress debates whether to extend emergency unemployment checks for more than 6 million Americans who are approaching the 99-week-limit, some four million others are facing the certain end of their benefits over the next year, unless an entirely new program is crafted.

This is the sobering conclusion of a report released by the President's Council of Economic Advisers on Thursday. The study forecast that the exhaustion of unemployment benefits for so many will curb spending power enough to significantly impede an already weak economic recovery.

The typical household now receiving emergency unemployment benefits would see their income fall by a third should they lose their checks, according to the report. Among the roughly 40 percent of households in which the person receiving a check is the sole breadwinner, income would fall by 90 percent.

The existing emergency unemployment program, which extends benefits for nearly two years, expired on Wednesday. Without an agreement to extend the program, the economy will lose about 600,000 jobs, as the spending enabled by continued unemployment checks ceases. National economic output--which expanded at an annual pace of 2.5 percent during the summer months--would fall off by 0.6 percent.

That disturbing prospect does not even account for the roughly four million people who would exceed even the extended limits in the emergency program. Were that many jobless people left to fend themselves without unemployment checks, that would pose significant risks for the broader economy, say economists. They cite the fact that consumer spending accounts for roughly 70 percent of all economic activity.

"If you're looking for economic recovery supported by consumers, it's discouraging," said Henry J. Aaron, an economist at the Brookings Institution, a research institution in Washington. "It's drag on the economy."

Many economists argue that paying unemployment benefits is among the most effective ways the government can spur the economy: Jobless people tend to spend nearly all of their unemployment checks, distributing those dollars throughout the economy.
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"There's very few things we can spend money on that probably have such an immediate impact on household consumption as unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed," said Gary Burtless, a former Labor Department economist and now a fellow at Broookings.

But even as the White House pushes Congress to reauthorize the existing emergency program, little discussion centers on what to do to prevent another four million jobless people from losing public assistance. If any active proposal exists to support this group, it remains well hidden.

"That's not where the war is being fought right now," said Aaron. "Given the current configuration of political forces, nobody is proposing to do anything about it."

A senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the White House is now focused on trying to persuade Congress to reauthorize the existing emergency unemployment program, which would protect 6.7 million unemployed workers from losing their checks over the next year.

Given that even this goal is now uncertain, seeking yet another program for the four million jobless people at risk of exhausting emergency assistance seems futile, the official said.

"The President will continue to work to ensure that Americans fighting to find a job can keep food on the table and make ends meet," White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage said in an e-mailed statement.

The diminishing support for the growing ranks of the long-term unemployed seems certain to add to demands on an already strained social safety net. Research shows that the longer a worker has been without a job the harder it is to find a new one, raising the likelihood that many of those losing their checks at the end of their 99-week term will have great difficulty securing a paycheck.

Yet even those who lose their unemployment checks will not necessarily qualify for other forms of aid, like food stamps, said Burtless.

"Only a pretty small fraction of the people who exhaust benefits are going to qualify," Burtless said. Many of these workers have long been employed and have accumulated savings and assets such as houses, which makes them ineligible for support, he said.

More than 6.3 million workers were out of a job for at least 27 weeks in November, comprising nearly 42 percent of all unemployed Americans, according to Labor Department data released Friday.

The Federal Reserve forecasts that the unemployment rate will still be as high as 9 percent this time next year, and about 8 percent at the end of 2012, according to minutes from the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee meeting last month.

"What we're seeing right now is the Christmas present from Scrooge," said Aaron, the Brookings economist. "Merry Christmas, we're cutting off your benefits."

US Unemployment rate rises to 9.8 percent

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that, unemployment rate raise up to 9.8 percent in November, and nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (+39,000).

According to Washington Independent:

This morning’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics contained much bad news. Despite some promising signs that the economy is improving the national unemployment rate jumped from 9.6 to 9.8 percent.

Non-farm employment increased by only 39,000 jobs, not nearly enough to cover the increase of new workers through population growth. Perhaps most oddly, retail jobs shrunk at a time when retailers should be gearing up for Christmas sales.

The number of workers who had been unemployed for more than 27 weeks — the long-term unemployed — stayed steady at 6.3 million, accounting for nearly 42 percent of all jobless workers. Nine million workers were in involuntary part-time jobs because they could not find full time work; these are referred to as underemployed.

An additional 3.8 million workers were counted as “marginally attached to the labor force” or “discouraged workers” because they had given up looking for jobs after long searches, believing that there were no jobs available to them. Those workers are not counted in the unemployment statistics, which would obviously be far higher if they were.

This bad news comes as the White House and the Democrats are trying to pass an extension of federal unemployment benefits over the objections of Republicans, who demand that the cost of those benefits be offset by budget cuts so they won’t increase the deficit.

At the same time, they also demand that tax cuts for the richest 2 percent of Americans be continued, which would add $700 billion to the deficit, without any demand for offsetting that cost.