This store is the second Salvation Army thrift store in Michigan to make the switch to the dollar format. It was a way to increase sales at the struggling shop on Perry Street in Pontiac and it worked for the Michigan Avenue store in Detroit. Unlike other Salvation Army thrift stores where things are hung up and sorted by colors and styles, most of the merchandise is just thrown into big bins.Janet Reed is a customer who not only shops for herself, but for those in need. She gathers warm winter coats and donates them to her church.The merchandise comes from other Salvation Army stores after it's been on the floor a while. Shoes here are three dollars. And yes, you'll find big names.And there's low cost furniture too.Shopping here is a true win win. Not only can people get a tremendous amount of stuff, but fund life changing rehab programs for men and women at the same time. Without the donations from people in the community, the Salvation Army would be unable to fund the programs.You can read more about the store below in the press release sent out by the Salvation Army.The Salvation Army Southeast Michigan Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) recently converted its Pontiac Thrift Store on Perry Street to a dollar store. The transition represents the second ARC dollar store to join the nonprofit's 34 metro Detroit thrift stores, the other of which is located on Michigan Avenue in Detroit.With $1 deals on clothing, linens, towels, curtains and household goods, the Pontiac Dollar Store offers patrons tremendous savings on the same great selection of Salvation Army Thrift Store merchandise you can expect at any of the nonprofit's stores. The ARC rotates clothing on and off the store floor daily, ensuring a fresh selection of merchandise each time you shop.In addition, the Pontiac Dollar Store will participate in the ARC's seasonal 50 percent off clothing sales. Shoppers can look forward to great deals throughout the year for only 50 cents. Furniture and electronics will remain priced as marked."We expect the Pontiac Dollar Store will boost our sales," said Jacqulynn Idzior, director of operations, The Salvation Army Southeast Michigan ARC, which operates the thrift stores. "Since we converted the Detroit location to a dollar store in October 2011, we have more than doubled sales at that thrift store. We are confident the Pontiac store will yield similar results."Proceeds from all 34 stores benefit The Salvation Army Southeast Michigan Adult Rehabilitation Centers, independently funded, 180 day residential rehabilitation program for adults.Founded by William Booth in London, England, in 1865, The Salvation Army is a faith based, non profit organization dedicated to serving people in need without discrimination. The ARC is an integral part of TSA's mission, and offers substance abusing adults the opportunity to rebuild their lives through a voluntary, short term residential self help program designed to establish a sense of dignity, self esteem and personal strength that will allow them to resist the desire to abuse a substance and regain their rightful place as contributing members of society. Completely self funded, the ARC draws its entire operating budget from the revenue of the 34 Salvation Army Thrift Stores located in Southeast Michigan. Antoine Bethea Jersey

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The international press has portrayed her mostly under a negative, highlighting every flow: she will never live up to Grace Kelly, she can't speak French, her wedding to Albert II Prince of Monaco will never match the one between Kate e William in terms of allure and grandeur and to top it off, she will never excel in anything, even as a swimmer competing in international competitions, she never won the gold medal.

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We liked her because as a kid, her dream was to participate at the Olympics, and she accomplished it. An equally commendable goal than that of wedding a Prince, if not more impressing. Beside, Charlene is indeed a record holder: she will be the most athletic and the fittest Princess of all Royal Courts even compared to Princess Victoria of Sweden who, to make sure she was always in shape, even married her personal trainer.

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Currently, she trains with her coach between four and six hours a day, three times a week. In a recent interview, she even admitted having lost a little weight for her special day thanks to a more demanding training routine and an increased volume of stretching exercises. She loves surfing and trekking all complete activities, healthy both for the body and the mind. She enjoys playing golf and has strong back muscles. What is more, she is vegetarian and follows a diet that helps preventing diseases such as hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerosis, and heart problems. It's thanks to her healthy penchant for vegetables, that the French chef Alain Duchasse declared that the wedding menu will feature and use only vegetables grown on the Grimaldi farm in Rocagel.

Charlene is a fit and healthy girl and those much gossiped about broad shoulders are simply everybody's envy. If the body is the temple of the soul, we are in good hands. The discipline learn through sport helped her standing strong for years in the face of uncertainty, supporting Prince Albert II throughout the discovery of his many affairs and the children that came with them, and in the end, she made it. Perhaps, she will even use that same rigour and discipline to remain by her husband's side in good and bad times. Like it used to be in fairy tales. All the best, Charlene!

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Photos: Flipping out on the set of A 'Flipping Vegas' with Scott and Amie YanceyOn A "Flipping Vegas," abandoned homes across the Las Vegas Valley get a second chance in the hands of real estate investor Scott Yancey and his interior designer wife, Amie.

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I visited the couple onsite during a flip in Summerlin, where they were filming their upcoming fifth season.

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Scott Yancey: We were originally in land development, and I would commute to Central California. In about 2007, when things officially tanked, we were going to move down to our house in Cabo and take a few years until the market came back. But what ended up happening is we sold our house and were about to leave, and I overheard someone say that you can buy a house in Vegas for $36,000 that would rent for $900 a month. So we ended up buying houses for $36,000 to $42,000, when no one else was doing it.

There was such a huge supply vs. demand, we were killing it. And then, years later, people got into it, and the supply and demand changed. And it got a little more difficult to go after houses. But we've been doing it enough and finding properties so many different ways that we still were able to get a good amount of volume. Now it's changed again. Now there's excess inventory, and the days on the market are taking longer.

But I think there are a lot of amateur type flippers who have gotten in in the last little while, and they have short fuses because they've borrowed money to their properties. Buyers have a lot of options now, and I think those people who are in the business who don't have staying power are probably going to start discounting their properties. So I see prices maybe going down in Vegas again for a little while. Especially the next quarter or two because you're going to have the holidays when buying slows down and people are going to get desperate and need to fill their places. Things have definitely changed. Cedric Thornton Eagles Jersey

What do you do to compete now that the market is more crowded? Is it just a question of lowering prices?

Amie Yancey:: I believe "nice" sells, even though Scott fights me on it. I put extra finishes and touches on them that I mean, nobody in this neighborhood, unless they were keeping the house or was a homeowner improving it, would have added a double stacked cabinet (like I did to this house today). All those cabinets have been refinished, they're getting seated glass in them, limestone floors. To me, I want the buyer to have an experience when they walk through that door and be like, "I could stay here for life. It's perfect. Somebody put a lot of love and extra care into this house."

I mean, I feel like I'm giving birth to each of them. I know Scott has timelines to turn them around fast, and we butt heads. He sees the bottom line, and I fall in love with the transformation. I can't stop myself; I really need rehab for designers.

I think a lot of these floor plans the builders built are obsolete and outdated. They have little rooms. Now everyone wants a great big entertainment room and something a little more transitional, so it's a little cleaner fit and finish on them. Not everyone wants tan and white now. They were built so fast, they all look the same on the inside. But now people don't want a house that looks like everyone else's. With her over improved kitchens and master baths, we do get more money. Other cities, like Detroit or Atlanta, or places like Florida and Kansas, it could be said that they have better opportunities in those places. But do they have the entertainment, the dining, the weather that we have here? So you should pay a little more to be here.

But I think there are other places where there are better values for purchasing. Right now our market has shifted to where it's ideal for buying and holding because the prices have gone up so much. We buy and hold more properties than we flip. We save our flips for the show. Flipping is a great way to generate capital, which allows you to invest in properties you hold and rent out.

Background: I'm 31 year old female who suffers from neuropathic pain (vulvar vestibulitis) and had been taking nortriptyine (10 mg 3x daily or 30 mg once daily) for this pain. I stopped abruptly on my doctors advice, having taken my last dose on monday morning (Oct. 27).I recently went to Urgent Care for an unrelated issue while my doctor was on holiday a couple of weeks ago. The triage nurse raised concern about my high heart rate, which was quite high on arrival, but slowed to 127 by the time they did an ECG. I was told it was still high ish and to see about getting my thyroid tested. My blood pressure was 137/? which is VERY high for me (I am always low normal at about 102, 106ish. My highest known was 116) so it was also thought I could be nervous being at the hospital.When my doctor got back from holiday Monday, I went in to ask about the test and he found my heart rate was 200 BPM, variable. He was very concerned. He sent me across the street to an internal medicine doctor who did an ECG, which was then 137 BPM. He said my blood pressure was 50/75. I thought I mis heard him (he has an accent) so I asked again and he repeated it again. I commented with shock on how extremely low that seems and he said it was because my heart was racing so fast. I still think I must have heard something wrong because that seems like coma state to me??? I did nearly faint on standing at the other doctors but I didn't feel particularly unwell. This doctor told me to stop taking the medicine immediately and ordered blood tests, a chest x ray and thyroid ultrasound. I have not heard any results after one work week and I assume this means all was normal. My family doctor said no news was good news. I assume it is some sort of withdrawal even though my dose was so low. I'm starting to feel a bit better today. I assumed that my heart issues would stop but so far they have not. I definitely don't feel as though I'm on as much of a "high speed" as I was before and, in fact, I'm so exhausted that I can hardly function. My dishes have piled up and even running out to the store requires a long rest afterwards. I do not feel anxious or depressed, just utterly exhausted. I have noticed, also, that my heart rate changes for no particular reason. I can be watching TV and feel fine and then suddenly my heart will speed up while I'm just sitting there and then slow back down. It is not as extreme as before I stopped the medication, though. Last night I was sitting down and tested my heart rate. It was 76 bpm. Then I tried standing up just beside my chair with no extra movement and it was 110 bpm. I'm not sure if that is normal or not but it fits with the changes I feel when I bend to scratch my leg or something.Is this something I should be concerned about? It was assumed by both doctors that, if it was not thyroid, then it would be medication related. the heart speed definitely did improve after stopping the Nortriptyline but I just feel as though something is still wrong. Is it possible that having such a fast heart rate for months could have stressed my adrenal glands or something and this is causing the exhaustion and fluctuations? Is that something that would just go away on it's own? Is it something that could/should be tested in some way?Thanks for your time!Hello First of all, you probably did misunderstand the accented doctor, since it is impossible to have a blood pressure of 50/75, since the systolic (top number) is, by definition, greater than the lower one. More likely he was saying "150/75," which would be more consistent with what you'd gotten earlier.Now then, as to what's going on. You would seem to have had some inapproriate tachycardia (I don't believe it was supraventricular tachycardia or any other more exotic rapid tachycardia, because the EKG would have shown this), which could have been caused by the nortriptyline, which can have a variety of cardiac side effects. Also, since you stopped the medication you've experienced a slowing to normal (and 75 at rest followed by 110 after standing is not abnormal).Pain blocking drugs such as nortriptyline and others even of other classes can have this side effect (inappropriate tachycardia), and since it seems to have improved, maybe even normalized, since you stopped, this seems the likely culprit. You may have to try some other medications for this same purpose til you find one which doesn't disagree with you. Just because this happens with one doesn't mean it will happen with them all.Your feeling unwell after having stopped the nortrityline is not unheard of either, especially when one's been on it for some time. It's usually best to taper off these things, but there's no harm in stopping cold (when used as a pain blocker) other than the syndrome you've described, which isn't so much dangerous as just plain annoying. You should begin to start feeling more like yourself shortly, but the original complaint will no doubt return and require some other sort of drug to manage it.This occasional inappropriate tachycardia can also, of course, be caused by thyroid disease and/or the medications used to treat that. This also should be checked to be certain everything is in line in that respect. It is also possible, though less likely, that you're suffering a certain degree of adrenal exhaustion, which would be related to one of the other two problems (thyroid or the discontinued med), and so that, too, should soon begin to resolve.While you should begin to feel more and more normal, please follow up with us and keep us updated. I think there is adquate reason to suspect the medication and its discontinuance as the primary causes of both the inappropriate heart rate and the feelings of general unwellness.Best of luck to you. Please stay in touch.Thank you for the response. You were right, after surviving the annoying effects of withdrawal I began to feel much better. I went back to the specialist today and my blood pressure was good (I checked about the 50/75 thing from before and he told me it had been 50/40 which was exceptionally low and he was surprised I was standing at the time). I'm at a healthy 110/67 now with a slightly fast pulse but I was nervous. He told me my lingering tired feelings are from an iron deficiency and that if I take a one a day tablet I should begin to feel completely myself again.The vestibulitis is unfortunately more of a problem than I expected. I didn't realize the Nortriptyline had actually been working but clearly it was. I won't be seeing my gyn until December 19th so I plan on doing a little research on alternatives up until that time. I have heard that topical Gabapentin has given some women relief without the side effects of the oral medication. I hope that if I go in to my appointment with some informed options to present I won't be told that I'm just going to have to live with the vestibulitis which was the thought if the tricyclics didn't work.Anyway, thank you again for your time. It was very reassuring, when I felt so unwell, to read that the way I was feeling were not unheard of and would pass. This service is appreciated.Hello I'm glad to learn the effects of withdrawal of the offending medication are starting to abate and you're feeling better already. That's very good news. I believe the (corrected) 50/40 BP was either a momentary finding or perhaps an erroneous reading. It sometimes happens. The bottom line with low blood pressure is that if it works for the subject, then it's OK, and when it's as off base as that reading was, it's either been transient or erroneous. At any rate you're doing well in that department and that's excellent.The potential for topical gabapentin (and quite possibly even the same or a related medication taken by mouth) is great. If topical works, all to the good. There's not necessarily ever a uniform set of side effects with these meds, and some people tolerate them internally very well, while others do experience side effects such as you did with the nortriptyline. I'll be interested to hear how the topical application works for you.Please do stay in touch. Wishing you the very best.I just wanted to follow up and let you know that I have had some great success with 4% topical Gabapentin in a lipoderm base for treatment of the V. vestibulitis. It doesn't eliminate the problem but it does greatly reduce it without side effects. I would like as many doctors to know of this as possible because it really is worth a try for those female patients suffering with Vulvodynia. My only problem that could be related to the med (but I doubt it) is that I have felt like I have a chronic UTI for the last few months but tests come out negative. I actually had a "leak" of sorts where I went to the washroom and discovered that I was completely wet with a putrid smelling urine ish fluid. I did not feel it happen and I don't know if it came from my bladder or vagina. I don't know if this would have happened to me anyway or if it is a result of the medication getting on my urethra and irritating it somehow. I'm inclined to believe it is not related to the medication. I see my gyn in 4 months and will mention it then it if continues.Anyway, thanks again for all your help!Great to hear from you and really happy to have you drop us a positive update, which really could be useful to a lot of doctors (and patients, too). The apparent UTI or whatever it is could well be due to the medication, but that's just speculation on my part, considering the fact the medication does block certain nerve transmissions, mainly those of pain. It will be very interesting to find out what, if anything, that turns out to be.Thanks for touching base with us and for sharing a potentially very valuable bit of information!Sorry to carry this topic on again but it seems the inappropriate tachycardia is back or didn't actually leave. I began to feel much better after stopping the Tricyclics and so when my heart rate was deemed acceptable at a followup appointment, we assumed everything was fine.Recently I went to Urgent Care again for an unrelated issue while my doctor was on holiday and AGAIN I was told at triage (and I was tested a second time after a couple of hours of sitting in the waiting room) that I had a high heart rate at 131 and that I should follow up with my doctor. My BP was 116/?. I hadn't noticed the speeding heart rate as I had when it was 200 bpm last time, and I didn't feel particularly ill. If they hadn't told me I would have had no idea, although it was obvious once pointed out to me. I did follow up with my doctor a couple of weeks later and on that day my heart rate was 144 bpm and my blood pressure was 110/? (I can never remember diastolic numbers!). I was sent for an ecg the next day and, although I don't know the results yet, I honestly don't feel that my heart rate was racing at all for the test. So this appears to be fluctuating. I have been on summer holidays for a month and a half and have had absolutely no stress or anxiety, so I think it is safe to rule that out.One thing that did come back on my blood tests is low iron, although I am told that I am not anemic. I wasn't told the test result number but when I asked if I could correct it through diet she said no, they wanted me to take a multivitiman with Iron in it.\ Reggie White Eagles Jersey

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At least some information was obtained on all but 10 schools, most of which are private. You can also view our interactive salary database which allows you to see coaches' contracts.

2 Public school; no outside income report provided. (The outside income report is required annually by the NCAA for all coaches and other athletic department personnel to reveal potential conflicts of interest.)

3 Information is from a federal tax return. (Most private schools are organized as tax exempt organizations, which are required to file each year with the IRS. The return lists the organization's highest paid employees. At some public schools, the athletic department or a support organization is also organized as a non profit. USA TODAY used the most recent filing available, with compensation covering the 2008 calendar year. The return includes all income paid by the school or support organization, including benefits, perks and performance bonuses that might have been earned. It does not include income paid by other sources.)

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Alabama: compensation includes a $533,333 contract year completion bonus for the 2009 10 contract year. It accrued and was paid in April under an amendment that otherwise annualized the accruals and payments of what had been three one time completion bonuses. Those bonuses, totaling $5 million, were added to the contract in September 2009 and would have been paid in 2012, 2015 and 2018. The first regular annual accrual occurred Sept. 1, 2010.

Connecticut: receives additional compensation under a shoe/apparel contract and from his annual camp. The university declined to release information about either.

Iowa: compensation includes a $100,000, one time signing bonus from a new contract this year that was to be paid by Dec. 31.

Middle Tennessee: compensation includes a $15,000 bonus that will be due if Stockstill remains the head coach as of Dec. 31.

North Carolina: receives additional compensation under media and shoe/apparel contracts the university declined to release. The deals paid him $499,000 in 2007 and were scheduled to pay $505,000 in 2008, the university said in 2007. The university declined to release the amount this year.

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Purdue: is guaranteed this amount for the 2010 season because his bonus earnings, when added to a base salary of $220,000 and supplemental fixed compensation of $335,000, will not exceed the guaranteed amount. In the future, if his base salary and bonuses exceed the guaranteed amount, he will receive only the base salary and the bonuses.

Temple: is from a report required by Pennsylvania's Right to Know Law.

Texas Christian: school's athletics department told USA TODAY in fall 2009 that Patterson's compensation for that year was $1.8 million. In December 2009, he received a two year contract extension through 2016; the school did not release financial terms.

At least some information was obtained on all but 10 schools, most of which are private. Three public schools did not provide contracts; 15 declined to provide the NCAA mandated outside income report, which covers athletically related income the coach receives from nonuniversity sources. Schools that provided contract information were given the opportunity to review their figures. A not available (NA) in the chart denotes schools that are private or did not release the information or schools whose coaches are new and had not filed an outside income report.

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Salaries reported do not take into account deductions that have, or may, occur because of state government furlough, or other pay reduction, actions.

Non university compensation: from sources listed on the coach's most recently available, self reported athletically related outside income report.

Gilas Pilipinas suffered a string of heartbreaks in its return to the World Cup in 36 years but the support from its countrymen never wavered. And if anything, it grew even more. Text ON INQ BREAKING to 4467, for Globe, Smart and Sun subscribers in the Philippines.

Mayabang si Chot kaya tayo nakaabot ng World Cup gawa ng Imports at ni MVP na nagpondo sa Team!

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FIBA were definitely excited with the participation of Gilas considering that the Filipinos love basketball to death and they are the only once who are excited and watching the games unlike in many parts of the world where interest in basketball is minimal. The victory was well deserved.