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Armstrong Development Center

On July 18, 2003 the Darrell Armstrong Foundation for Premature Babies, Inc and Florida Hospital East opened up the Darrell Armstrong Child Development Center. The Center will provide services for premature babies and their families in Central Florida throughout the child’s developmental years. The Center will serve children and families affected by premature birth who have limited resources by making diagnosis and treatment more accessible to needy families by offering a team of specialist to provide treatment for children who were born prematurely and are not currently receiving early intervention services. These services include specialized equipment, physical therapy, psychological therapy, consultation and medical advice.

For more information visit: http://www.dafpb.com/

Finished Motor Gasoline 51.4%
Distillate Fuel Oil 15.3%
Jet Fuel 12.6%
Still Gas 5.4%
Marketable Coke 5.0%
Residual Fuel Oil 3.3%
Liquefied Refinery Gas 2.8%
Asphalt and Road Oil 1.9%
Other Refined Products 1.5%
Lubricants 0.9%

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While economists debate whether the country is in a recession, consumers are being buffeted by skyrocketing prices, growing debt, layoffs, the subprime lending squeeze and a stock market roller coaster.

While you may not be able to control the price of oil or the prime rate, there are some simple things you can do to shore up your finances, safeguard your future and ride out whatever the economy throws at you.

Here’s a list of ideas that hopefully will help you get through any hard times, plus tips if the hard times have already hit your household.

1. Eliminate the nonessentials
2. Start a go-to fund for emergencies
3. Consider cutting back (rather than cutting out) for some expenses
4. Safeguard your current job
5. Be on the lookout for your next job
6. Keep your debt load light
7. Barring a complete personal financial meltdown, continue funding your retirement
8. Swap extraneous spending for smart long-term moves
9. Investigate refinancing
10. Re-examine your insurance
11. Adjust your withholding allowance
12. Reward yourself
13. Ask for an extension on your car loan
14. Get an extension on the mortgage
15. Talk to a mortgage counselor

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Bad news about the banking industry may have you wondering about the safety of your hard earned cash at your own bank.

In the past year there have been four bank failures.

And the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp and banking industry experts foresee many bank failures down the road.

“Regulators are bracing for 100-200 bank failures over the next 12-24 months,” says Jaret Seiberg, an analyst with the financial services firm, the Stanford Group.

TV bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman is preparing a return to the airwaves.
The Chapman family confirmed Thursday that filming is set to resume on the A&E show “Dog the Bounty Hunter.” The show features Chapman and crew in pursuit of bail jumpers in Hawaii and other states.

It was the highest rated show on A&E before the network pulled it off the air in November. Chapman was heard in a taped phone conversation using a racial slur in reference to his son’s black girlfriend.

Chapman has apologized and tried to make amends with the network and the black community.

Network officials says that since the show is about second chances, they decided to accept his apology and resume production. No air date has been announced.

A&E is a joint venture of Hearst Corp., Disney ABC Cable and NBC Universal Cable.

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Whats the moral to this story? Money Talks!

STATE OF THE BLACK UNION 2008
Reclaiming Our Democracy, Deciding Our Future
New Orleans, LA
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Conference Auditorium

If you would like to register - CLICK HERE

Hosted by Tavis Smiley and Tom Joyner
Special video presentation by Academy Award Winner Jonathan Demme

Friday, February 22, 2008
SOBU BUILDS 2008 Day of Service

7:00 am – 3:00 pm
(Day of Service Projects)

Saturday, February 23, 2008

8:00 am (CDT) 1:30 pm (CDT)

Dr. C.S. Gordon, Jr.
Mayor Ray Nagin
Norman Francis
Michael Eric Dyson
Pastor Melvin Jones
Arlene Holt Baker
Darron Boyce
Cornel West
Susan E. Rice
Eddie Glaude
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton
Naomi Churchill Earp
Rev. Al Sharpton

Bishop Paul S. Morton
Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu
State Sen. Cleo Fields
Mayor Cory Booker
Nicole C. Lee
Herreast Harrison
Robert Franklin
Dillard student leader*
Donna Brazile
Bishop T.D. Jakes*
Angela Glover Blackwell
Marc Morial
Michael Steele
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

Panelists time/order subject to change.
* Not yet confirmed.