The Bachelorette Fashion: Emily Maynard's Wardrobe Costs How Much?!

Emily Maynard may or may not be the best-looking star of The Bachelorette yet, depending on your point of view, but she's absolutely the best-dressed.

A $350,000 wardrobe budget from ABC doesn't hurt.

“We had an enormous clothing budget,” Emily’s stylist, Cary Fetman, said. “It was bigger than any previous season ... and we still went over!”

Not that she really needs help - her sweet nature, good looks and adorable daughter are all a guy would ever want - but Maynard, 26, is going all out style-wise.

“Emily has fabulous taste and was involved in deciding what we would dress her in,” Cary adds. “For me, it was almost like dressing a Barbie doll!”

While she dazzles in her strappy $1,045 Christian Louboutin Straratata heels and a $4,000 nude Randi Rahm gown, she does have a list of no-nos.

“Emily hates flats,” Cary revealed of the North Carolinan. “She loves to be a girlie girl. She loves dresses and anything glitzy and sparkly.”

Oh, and despite her easy-going ways, “She is not a jeans girl by any means.”

Just something to keep in mind, Arie Luyendyk, Jr. Keep it in mind.

NOTE: To see how Arie and the rest of the guys fare in the coming weeks, check out The Bachelorette spoilers page on THG ... if you dare!

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Pujols, Lincecum headline bounce-back candidates

FILE - In this May 16, 2012, file photo, Los Angeles Angels' Albert Pujols watches his three-run home run against the Chicago White Sox during the third inning of a baseball game in Anaheim, Calif. Despite shocking many by struggling at the plate in his first season with Los Angeles, Pujols' batting average has risen since the start of May, and is showing that his swing may be turning the corner on his uncharacteristically low numbers. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

FILE - In this May 16, 2012, file photo, Los Angeles Angels' Albert Pujols watches his three-run home run against the Chicago White Sox during the third inning of a baseball game in Anaheim, Calif. Despite shocking many by struggling at the plate in his first season with Los Angeles, Pujols' batting average has risen since the start of May, and is showing that his swing may be turning the corner on his uncharacteristically low numbers. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

FILE - In this May 15, 2012, file phto, San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum (55) works against the Colorado Rockies in a baseball game in San Francisco. Lincecum has struggled to avoid the big inning, and he's walking too many hitters, but he should improve as more balls start finding the gloves of his fielders. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

FILE - In this May 10, 2012, file photo, Baltimore Orioles' Mark Reynolds swings during the first baseball game of a doubleheader against the Texas Rangers in Baltimore. Reynolds is putting up low batting numbers that are comparable with his production last season, but his power should still be there now that he's back from the rib cage injury that sent him to the disabled list earlier this month. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

FILE - In this May 26, 2012, file photo, New York Yankees' Mark Teixeira hits a two-run home run off Oakland Athletics pitcher Graham Godfrey during the eighth inning of a baseball game in Oakland, Calif. A terrible cough all season has sapped Teixeira's strength and energy at times, but in the past five games, his bat has come alive to set his season home-run total back on track. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

This combination made Thursday, May 31, 2012, from file photos shows, from left, Miami Marlins pitcher Josh Johnson on May 9, and St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright on April 19. Both pitchers came into the season off injuries to their throwing arms, and both have high ERAs, but their strikeout and walk rates are reasonably in line with what they were when these two were among the top pitchers in the National League. (AP Photos/Files)

A year ago at this time, Dan Uggla looked lost. The Atlanta second baseman was hitting well below .200 and had been nothing like the slugger the Braves had traded for during the offseason. Then in July, Uggla began swinging the bat better. In fact, he went on a 33-game hitting streak that lasted well into August, highlighting one of the season's most stark turnarounds. By the end of the year, Uggla had a career-high 36 home runs.

A poor start doesn't have to lead to a miserable season. Here are some candidates to bounce back before the end of 2012:

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ALBERT PUJOLS, 1B, ANGELS

Pujols' numbers began to slip a bit last year, but his .243 average in his first season with Los Angeles has been a shocker. There's no reason to think the 32-year-old's swing has deserted him for good. He might not reach 32 homers, his previous low for a season, but Pujols is hitting .329 since May 12. The worst seems to be over.

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TIM LINCECUM, RHP, GIANTS

The two-time Cy Young Award winner has an unsightly 5.82 ERA, but he's struck out 64 hitters in 60 1-3 innings. Lincecum has struggled to avoid the big inning, and he's walking too many hitters, but his performance isn't as bad as it's looked. Opponents are hitting .339 off Lincecum on balls in play. That's a fairly high number, especially for someone who is a bit of a groundball pitcher. Lincecum should improve as more balls start finding the gloves of his fielders.

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MARK REYNOLDS, 3B, ORIOLES

Reynolds is hitting .202 with only two home runs, but Baltimore fans have been through this before with the slugging third baseman. Last year Reynolds was hitting .193 at the end of May, but he finished the year with 37 homers. Low batting averages are the norm for Reynolds, but his power should be there now that's he's back from the rib cage injury that sent him to the disabled list earlier this month.

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MARK TEIXEIRA, 1B, YANKEES

Usually a slow starter anyway, Teixeira has been playing through a terrible cough all season that's sapped his strength and energy at times. In his last five games, Teixeira is 11 for 24 with four homers and nine RBIs. Just like that, the New York star is back on pace for another 30-homer season.

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MAX SCHERZER, RHP, TIGERS

Scherzer might be the American League's version of Lincecum, although he doesn't have the career track record of the San Francisco ace. Scherzer has a 5.55 ERA this year, but he's striking out an impressive 11.7 hitters per nine innings. Scherzer is clearly still fooling batters with his stuff. He's also shown improved command lately and could be due for a breakout.

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JOSH JOHNSON, RHP, MARLINS, and ADAM WAINWRIGHT, RHP, CARDINALS

Both pitchers came into the season off injuries to their throwing arms, and both have ERAs well over 4.00. But there are some encouraging signs. Their strikeout and walk rates are reasonably in line with what they were when these two were among the top pitchers in the National League. Wainwright has allowed only one run over 15 innings in his last two starts.

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IKE DAVIS, 1B, METS

After missing most of last season with an ankle injury, Davis was diagnosed with a likely case of valley fever in spring training. Now he's hitting .170, one of the worst averages of any regular in baseball. Davis is striking out about once a game, and when he does make contact the ball seems to go right at somebody ? witness his .210 average on balls in play. Davis has a long, unorthodox swing that would seem to lend itself to lengthy slumps, but it's too early to write off the 25-year-old after the promising start to his career.

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JUSTIN MORNEAU, 1B, TWINS

Morneau was hitting .345 with 18 homers in July 2010 when a concussion knocked him out for the rest of that season. He hasn't been the same since, hitting .233 in 103 games while battling other injury problems in 2011 and 2012. But he's hit five homers since coming off the disabled list a couple weeks ago ? a sore right wrist was keeping him out that time. At 31, Morneau should still have some productive at-bats left if he's finally healthy again.

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ADRIAN GONZALEZ, 1B, RED SOX

The last-place Red Sox could use more from Gonzalez than a .267 average and four homers, but he does have 18 doubles, so there's still plenty of pop in that bat. Last year Gonzalez hit .347 at Fenway Park, but a majority of his homers came on the road. Perhaps that should be the expectation going forward.

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2012-13 Principal Apportionment Payment Estimator - Principal ...

2012-13 Principal Apportionment Payment Estimator spreadsheet and instructions.

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This tool is intended to help local educational agencies (LEA) estimate their Principal Apportionment payments for the 2012-13 fiscal year. This tool will also help LEAs prepare a comprehensive cash flow projection should they decide to request an exemption from the expected July, August, October, and March deferrals. It is not intended to be a budgeting tool.

General Assumptions:

In order to estimate future payments without the benefit of knowing the data that determines those payments, various assumptions must be made. When developing factors used within this tool, the California Department of Education (CDE) used the latest Principal Apportionment data available (2011-12 First Principal Apportionment (P-1)) and funding levels in the Governor?s May Revision.

All scenarios assume an on-time June budget, the intra-year deferrals added by Assembly Bill 103 (Chapter 13, Statutes of 2012), and the Department of Finance?s (DOF) estimate of revenue limit entitlements and property taxes for the 2012-13 fiscal year. Additionally, all scenarios assume that the DOF?s estimate of property taxes generated by liquidation of RDA cash assets will not result in a revenue limit offset until the Second Principal Apportionment (P-2) (requires legislation). A trigger reduction of $441 per average daily attendance is assumed under certain scenarios; however, proposed legislation has not been published that would provide details on how the reduction would be implemented.

Note: should the State Budget be delayed, the 2012-13 Advance Principal Apportionment will only include funding for the programs continuously appropriated (e.g. revenue limit and charter school general purpose funding) and will not include any funding reductions that are not codified in statute (e.g. deficit factor, on-going targeted reductions). Once a State Budget is passed, CDE will recertify the Advance Principal Apportionment and adjust payment amounts for future months. This cash flow tool does not account for this scenario.

You may not change LEAs once you have started because data input into cells will clear. You must start from a new version. Before starting a new worksheet you may want to save the previous LEAs version of the worksheet to your local drive for future reference.

Instructions:

Before accessing the Principal Apportionment Payment Estimator, save the workbook to your computer by right mouse clicking on the hyperlink and selecting ?save target as?.

• Macros must be enabled for this excel workbook to function correctly. If you cannot select an LEA in the INPUT PA Funding Estimates sheet, macros are not enabled.
• Open the ?INPUT PA Funding Estimates? worksheet by clicking the sheet tab at the bottom of the screen. Select your LEA from the drop down list. LEAs are listed in alphabetical order and County-District-School (CDS) codes are provided.
• From the Scenario drop down list select the scenario you want to model. See below for specific criteria about each scenario.
• Verify that the data populated in column C matches the data on the LEA?s 2011-12 P-1 Summary (XLS). [http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/pa/documents/pasummary2011p1.xls]??

The factors shown in the ?Settings? tab (Column L ? AF) are used to derive estimates for the 2012-13 Advance, P-1, and P-2 based on the scenarios listed below under Specific Assumptions. An LEA?s pre-loaded 2011-12 P-1 amount has been multiplied by the associated factors to calculate the Principal Apportionment total used to generate 2012-13 payment information.?

The 2011-12 P-1 data may be overridden by unprotecting the worksheet on the review tab. An LEA may choose to update these numbers with their estimates of 2011-12 P-2 but should note that all the factors from the settings tab are based off of 2011-12 P-1 statewide totals.

More specific assumptions used are noted below. Note that the formulas may be overwritten at any time should an LEA have better estimates of funding than the assumptions provided in the table. However, we caution against changing the assumptions for the 2012-13 Advance.

Limitations:

• The tool does not accommodate for district reorganizations (unifications, lapsations, mergers); LEAs should enter data for each district involved in the reorganization separately and sum the cash flow outputs to estimate the funding the new district will receive in 2012-13.
• Unless noted, the tool does not prevent an LEA from entering data in any field; however, some funding is based on the type of LEA (e.g. only county offices of education should enter data in Line A-1, school districts in Line A-2, charter school in Line A-3.). For a guide, use the data pre-populated in Column C from the LEA?s 2011-12 P-1 data.
• As detailed below, under scenarios D and E an LEA can enter trigger estimates. An excess tax county office of education or excess tax school district can use this feature but the reduction will not be automatically populated on Line A-1 or A-2. The trigger amount can be manual input on Line A-27, Recomputations and Adjustment to derive cash flow under these scenarios.
• Locally funded charter school payments should be calculated separately from school district data.
• This tool replicates the Principal Apportionment Summary; therefore, statewide benefit charters and all charter school districts funded under the Charter School Block Grant will need to calculate estimated funding separately for each site.
• The tool is calculating estimated monthly payments on the individual LEA level; however, in any month if the county subtotal (sum of all LEAs in the county) is negative, no cash will be paid to the county.

The cash payment amounts generated by the calculator are estimates. Actual cash payments will not necessarily match.

Specific Assumptions:

Scenario A, Pass-EPA at P-2

This scenario assumes that the Governor?s tax initiative passes and that the CDE does not incorporate the Education Protection Account (EPA) as a reduction to revenue limit state aid and charter school general purpose block grant state aid until P-2. It assumes the following reductions to the cross-year deferrals: February to July -$1,468.3 million; March to August -$270.5 million; April to August -$502.9 million.

Note that the factor applied at P-2 to revenue limit state aid, in part, approximates the impact of the liquidation of RDA cash assets. As an alternative, an LEA could overwrite the automated number with its own estimate.?

Scenario B, Pass-EPA at P-1

This scenario assumes that the Governor?s tax initiative passes and that the CDE incorporates the EPA as a reduction to revenue limit state aid and charter school general purpose block grant state aid beginning with P-1. It assumes the following reductions to the cross-year deferrals: February to July -$1,468.3 million; March to August -$270.5 million; April to August -$502.9 million.

Note that the factor applied at P-1 and P-2 to revenue limit state aid and charter general purpose block grant state aid, in part, approximates the impact of the EPA. The P-2 factor also approximates the impact of the liquidation of RDA cash assets. As an alternative, an LEA could overwrite the automated number with its own estimate. That estimate should include a state aid reduction for EPA receipts, which is approximately 21 percent of deficited revenue limit or charter general purpose block grant.

Scenario C, Pass- EPA at Advance (requires legislation)

This scenario assumes that the Governor?s tax initiative passes and that the CDE incorporates the EPA as a reduction to revenue limit state aid and charter school general purpose block grant state aid beginning with the Advance Principal Apportionment. It assumes the following reductions to the cross-year deferrals: February to July -$1,468.3 million; March to August -$270.5 million; April to August -$502.9 million.

Note that the factor applied at P-1 and P-2 to revenue limit state aid and charter general purpose block grant state aid, in part, approximates the impact of the EPA. The P-2 factor also approximates the impact of the liquidation of RDA cash assets. As an alternative, an LEA could overwrite the automated number with its own estimate. That estimate should include a state aid reduction for EPA receipts, which is approximately 21 percent of deficited revenue limit or charter general purpose block grant.

Scenario D, No Pass-No EPA

This scenario assumes that the Governor?s tax initiative does not pass and that the CDE does not incorporate the EPA as a reduction to revenue limit state aid or charter school general purpose block grant state aid at any certification. It assumes a statewide trigger reduction to revenue limits at of $441 per ADA times the statewide ADA total beginning at P-1. It also assumes no reductions to the cross-year deferrals.

This scenario requires inputting ADA to approximate the trigger reduction. This can be done by selecting the ?Add Trigger? button, which is visible when selecting Scenario D or Scenario E.

Note that the factor applied at P-2 to revenue limit state aid, in part, approximates the impact of the liquidation of RDA cash assets. As an alternative, an LEA could overwrite the automated number with its own estimate.

Scenario E, No Pass-EPA at Advance (requires legislation)

This scenario assumes that the Governor?s tax initiative does not pass and that the CDE incorporates the EPA as a reduction to revenue limit state aid beginning with the Advance Principal Apportionment (reductions would begin to be restored at P-1). It assumes a statewide trigger reduction to revenue limits at of $441 per ADA times the statewide ADA total beginning at P-1. It also assumes no reductions to the cross-year deferrals.

This scenario requires inputting ADA to approximate the trigger reduction. This can be done by selecting the ?Add Trigger? button, which is visible when selecting Scenario D or Scenario E.

Note that the factor applied at P-2 to revenue limit state aid, in part, approximates the impact of the liquidation of RDA cash assets. As an alternative, an LEA could overwrite the automated number with its own estimate of revenue limit state aid.

2012-13 Payment Information:

The ?OUTPUT 2012-13 Payments? tab provides LEAs with the estimated monthly payments for the 2012-13 fiscal year funding based on the assumptions outlined above tables and data entered by the LEA. Amounts are automatically calculated and are based on one of the three payment schedules identified in Education Code (EC) Section 14041. Additional information about the monthly schedule is available on the Principal Apportionment Payment Schedule. [http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/pa/papayschedule.asp]

As noted in the General Assumptions earlier in this document, the tool incorporates the intra-year deferrals added by Assembly Bill 103 (Chapter 13, Statutes of 2012) as well as the reductions to the cross-year deferrals proposed at the May Revision. For additional information about the deferrals see the ?2012-13 Deferral? tab.

Questions: ?Office of Principal Apportionment and Special Education | 916-324-4541
Office of Charter Apportionments and District Reorganization | 916-324-4541

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XBMC audio engine gets big rewrite, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio hit your media hub

Fans of XBMC who've wanted their HTPCs to replace the higher-end components of a home theater setup, like Blu-ray players and higher-end receivers, are having their wishes fulfilled through a completely reworked sound system. AudioEngine, as it's called, can processevery stage of audio encoding and decoding, even with 7.1-channel formats like Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. As the code uses more precise floating point math, the improvements can bolster heavily compressed audio and allow for upmixing from stereo to a native surround format. Sound should sync more closely to video and avoid any jarring interruptions from system sounds, too. The AudioEngine update is still limited to experimental nightly builds of XBMC, so don't be surprised if something goes awry, but it's slated as part of the main development track and should be a boon for just about any XBMC media junkie before long.

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Kenyon Glover Films Partners With Gilt Entertainment, West Arts ...

Posted on 31 May 2012.

Kenyon Glover Films is on the path to success, with 2 more films in production ?LETHAL DANGER? & ?CHAMPION? this will be a busy year for K G Films?

Los Angeles, CA ? May. 28, 2012? Ikon Media Empire public relations firm would like to introduce ?MURDER ONE? a nail-biting thriller in real time with action developing inside and outside of the television studio. It?s the story of two men fighting for the truth as the life of many is at stake.

Kenyon Glover along with Marlene Mendoza CEO of Gilt Entertainment working along side West Arts LLC and Canyon Pictures come together and form a power producing team that plans on releasing the best product to the market.

All four production houses have very strong track records in the business of making movies and strong production business sense, and therefore present a strong case to produce an award winning project.

Also on the horizon K G Films and Gilt Entertainment are putting in serious hours developing the idea and concept for the super action packed martial arts film ?OBSIDIAN? with Nikk St. Croix coming onboard as a consulting producer this film has the ingredients to rival most top box office martial arts blockbusters.

Kenyon Glover Films is on the path to success, with 2 more films in production ?LETHAL DANGER? & ?CHAMPION? this will be a busy year for K G Films?

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