HACKENSACK, N.J. – Just two people in New Jersey will begin receiving coverage Monday under new plans created by federal health care reforms.

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Vincz says more than 600 applications were downloaded and 268 information kits were sent out following the program’s announcement on Aug. 1.

The Grapple is real. It’s an apple that tastes like a grape. It’s pronounced Grape-ul.

They are currently out of season, but will be available again in late October/Early November.

More here, including where to buy.

64 Percent of Young Women Would Release a Sex Tape to Get Ahead – Asylum.com.

64 percent of women would release a sex tape if it would help advance their careers.

The survey found that 45 percent of women also answered that they would sleep with their professor to pass a college class. (Meanwhile, a relatively paltry 42 percent of men would pull a “Kardashian.”)

36 percent of women replied they would blackmail a co-worker or a boss to get ahead.

Minneapolis To Pay $165,000 To Zombies – wcco.com.

Seven people who were arrested while dressed as zombies and their attorney will be paid $165,000 from the city of Minneapolis.

Police arrested seven friends in 2006 as they danced through downtown Minneapolis while wearing zombie costumes.

“Full-time ATU workers make anywhere from $20.63 to $34.35 an hour.”

http://wcco.com/local/metro.transit.vote.2.1873263.html

Police in North Miami say a Democratic congressional candidate has been robbed at gunpoint while waiting to make a campaign appearance at a church.

Police Lt. Neal Cuevas said that Marleine Bastien was in a car Saturday with her sister outside the Church of the Living God when another car pulled up along side them. A man got out, opened the driver’s door, and demanded the women give him their purses and threatened to kill them.

TheUglyBugBall.co.uk specifically excludes “anyone who is overtly pretty or attractive”.

Instead, it accepts only those who “weren’t blessed with great looks” — or, more bluntly, people who have “fallen from the ugly tree and hit every branch on their way down”.

We’re in the thick of what one sociologist calls “the changing timetable for adulthood.” Sociologists traditionally define the “transition to adulthood” as marked by five milestones: completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying and having a child. In 1960, 77 percent of women and 65 percent of men had, by the time they reached 30, passed all five milestones. Among 30-year-olds in 2000, according to data from the United States Census Bureau, fewer than half of the women and one-third of the men had done so. A Canadian study reported that a typical 30-year-old in 2001 had completed the same number of milestones as a 25-year-old in the early ’70s.

Despite the lack of demand, the U.S. Mint has produced approximately 2 billion of the golden-colored $1 coins, with production continuing at about 500 million coins per year. This includes the four different $1 coins released each year featuring former presidents, plus one more annual design for the separate Native American $1 Coin Program.

As of May 31, the Federal Reserve Banks had nearly 1 billion $1 coins stockpiled in their inventory. The amount continues to grow with each $1 coin released and is expected to reach 2 billion by the end of the program.

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Last year, the Mint distributed $121 million of the $1 coins through the direct-ship program. Unfortunately, a potentially significant portion of this amount may have been related to artificial demand created by people taking advantage of the program. Many people purchased the coins at face value with their credit cards, earning valuable rewards points, and then deposited the coins at their local bank, recovering the full cost. (The Mint has since worked to curb such abuses.) Once deposited, many of these $1 coins were probably returned to the reserve banks, since financial institutions would have little need to keep them on hand.

After crunching the data, FCC wonks have concluded that ISPs advertised an average (mean) “up to” download speed of 6.7Mbps in 2009. That’s not what broadband users got, though.

“However, FCC analysis shows that the median actual speed consumers experienced in the first half of 2009 was roughly 3 Mbps, while the average (mean) actual speed was approximately 4 Mbps,” says the report. “Therefore actual download speeds experienced by US consumers appear to lag advertised speeds by roughly 50 percent.”