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Jorge Popovitch along with his son Pablo Popovitch opened the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Center 13 years ago in Fort Lauderdale. They felt it was time to bring Gracie/Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to South Florida, that's when the first Popovitch center was open in 1995.

Being one of the first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy's in the USA, the Popovitch Academy is known for its long tradition of making students into well rounded individuals that can defend themselves in real street situations and for making students Champions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Competition.

Pablo Popovitch is one of the most prominent Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competitors in the world, not the least of which includes being 2007 World Jiu-Jitsu champion ,Grapplers Quest Champion 7 Times, USA National Champion 10 Times, North American ADCC Champion, ADCC 2007 & 2005 Finalist.

After 13 years of success what started with one Academy now turned into a 4 Location and with growing Jiu-Jitsu Team, we are proud to have 2 locations in Florida (Pembroke Pines and Ft. Lauderdale), one in Louville KE and our last location is on Cleveland Ohio.

There is a new BJJ Center in Pembroke Pines Florida. Master Vagner Rocha will be the head instructor of the school at that location.

The New Location:

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Center of Pembroke Pines Fl

9873 Pines Blvd
Pembroke Pines,  Florida 33024
Phone: 954-432-8788

Class Schedule

Available classes:

    * Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Fundamentals
    * Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Advance
    * Kickboxing
    * Kids MMA
    * Mixed Martial Arts

The Ft Lauderdale Location:

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Pablo Popovitch (3rd Degree Black Belt)

1594 East Commercial Blvd.,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33334
Phone: 954-771-0084

Class Schedule

Call the school to find out more information or visit the website at http://www.bjjcenter.com.

There are articles and videos to view online.

Click here to learn more about our 30 day FREE
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Kickboxing and Mixed Martial Arts Program

Saturday, May 31, 2008
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

at the Broward County Emergency Operations Center located at:

201 N.W. 84th Avenue • Plantation

Are you ready for the 2008 Hurricane Season?

Learn what it takes to be Ready. Set. Safe.

• A free, fun and informative event for the entire family
• More than 40 hurricane preparedness exhibits
• Tours of the Emergency Operations Center
• Displays of emergency response vehicles
• Giveaways and prizes
• Free parking

NEW THIS YEAR!

• Live demonstrations throughout the day
• “Kids Zone” for Broward’s youngest residents – art, balloons and goody bags
• Learn more about registration for important emergency services including Vulnerable Population Registry, Special Medical Needs Shelters and Evacuation Transportation, Hurricane Update eMail System and more!

For more information, call 954-831-4000 • TTY for hearing impaired 954-831-3940 or visit www.broward.org/hurricane

The Department of Financial Services, Bureau of Unclaimed Property, holds unclaimed accounts valued at more than $1 billion, mostly from dormant accounts in financial institutions, insurance and utility companies, securities and trust holdings. Unclaimed Property also includes tangible property such as jewelry, coins, currency, stamps, historical items and other miscellaneous articles, from safe deposit boxes.

If you have ever lived in Florida, there's a chance we are holding unclaimed property for you.

http://www.fltreasurehunt.org/

Well congress decided not to add wind coverage to the National Flood Insurance. Saying that it's too expensive. Gee - why don't they say that about the Iraq War! I guess it's better to die for the country and preserve Iraq's Oil fields then take care of our own US citizens.

Here's today's story:

Wind coverage plan gets walloped
High costs are cited as efforts to add an amendment for wind coverage to the flood insurance bill fails.

BY LESLEY CLARK
lclark@MiamiHerald.com

WASHINGTON –
A Gulf Coast-backed effort to add wind coverage to the National Flood Insurance Program was soundly defeated Wednesday in the Senate amid concerns that it would be too expensive.

The drive to add the amendment to the flood insurance bill failed 19 to 73. Opponents said they were leery of the cost and opposed to federal intervention in private markets.

The whole story: 

http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/525128.html

I think I am paying taxes on almost everything I spend money on.  Whether it a trip to the grocery store or Home Depot. I am seeing some form of a tax here and there, even when there does not seem like there is a tax, there is the effect of a tax.

The first place we always notice a tax in in our pay checks. Our pay checks have line items for  Federal Withholding Tax, FICA, SS, Medicare, Unemployment

• Gasoline - federal tax
• Shopping - state tax
• Phones - state and federal
• Water - county
• Electric - state
• Cellphones - federal and state
• Cable and Satellite TV access - federal and state
• Road Tolls - like the Turnpike
• Airline Tickets
• Train Tickets
• Hotels - the bed tax
• Stocks - when you make your profit - Capital Gains
• Real Estate & Mortgages - when recording the instrument - stamp tax - buying - selling
• IRAs & 401Ks when you begin to withdraw
• Parking in high traffic areas like the beach or downtown - those meters are everywhere
• Beer - Alcohol
• Tobacco - if you smoke
• To modify your home - you have to pull a Permit with your city
• The biggest one we see is with our Homes - property taxes that take care of the state, county and local communities

We normally do not see a tax with Groceries but we do pay higher prices for the taxes on the energy bringing the food to the store. Some of the farmers receive government assistance and funding.

Services - We do not pay a tax at the time of service, but from the money we do pay for that service - any taxes will be passed on to us - they will pay their taxes and unemployment costs.

When we die we might have to pay a death tax. Boy that really sticks it to us.

Roth IRAs - paid with taxed dollars, and we are supposed to get that back tax free. Let's see if congress messes with that one.

So how much tax are we really paying? When someone says they are in a 28% tax bracket - are they really? What about people with a the lower pay scale - how much tax are they paying as a percentage of thier income.

Now stop and think how much aide in the form of money do we provide to other countries?

How much tax dollars does the US provide for medical care for illegal aliens?

Then think about how much money we are spending on a war in Iraq and Afganistan.

How much money do we provide for all the services for our government?

How come the average citizen cannot have the same type of health insurance plan that congress has for itself - that we, the citizens pay for in our taxes?

Now the real big question is how are our tax dollars really being spent?

Some of these links can help:

http://finance.yahoo.com/taxes/article/102817/How-Your-Tax-Dollars-Are-Spent

http://www.federalbudget.com/

http://www.gpo.gov/factsheet/index.html
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Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2008 (CD-ROM)
Description: Contains all of the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2008. Offered in fully indexed PDF format. Includes software required for viewing the documents. Has many of the budget tables in spreadsheet format. Also contains the material on the separate "Analytical Perspectives" CD-ROM.
Price:  $39.00

Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2009
Description: H.Doc. 110-84, V.1. Contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President's budget and management priorities, and budget overviews organized by agency, including assessments of their performance. 110th Congress, 2d Session.
Price:  $39.00

Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2008 (Book & CD-ROM)  (Relevance: 827)
Description: Contains analyses that are designed to highlight specified subject areas or provide other significant presentations of budget data that place the budget in perspective. Includes economic and accounting analysis; information on Federal receipts and collections; analyses of Federal spending; information on Federal borrowing and debt; baseline or current services estimates; and other technical presentations. Also includes a CD-ROM with several detailed tables, including tables showing the budget by agency and account and by function, subfunction, and program. Item 996-A.
$50.00

There is a tremendous amount of information between Federal and State Government Taxation, but being aware of how the money is spent and why we are taxed is the first steps if understanding the complicated process.

Try spending a few hours looking at all your bills and find out how much tax you are really paying.

• Start off with your property taxes
• Phone bills and add them up for the year
• Electric Bills
• Cellphone Bills
• Water Bills
• Waste Bills
• Cable TV and Satellite
• Natural Gas & Propane
• Next look at the gasoline taxes you pay - guessing .18 per gallon.
• Look at everything you spend your money on and add up the tax.
• Then finally add all the taxes you paying from your pay check.

Take the total amount of the taxes you paid and divide that amount by your annual salary. What percentage do you pay in taxes?

I almost forgot - Florida State Budget information - http://www.floridatbrc.org/ 

And we did not even talk about insurance…. 

This is a critical year to get out to vote. Make your voice heard. 

Good Article, but the real question is what is going to be built and how is it going to be paid for.

S. Fla. stuck with $3 billion sewage bill
The state Legislature passed a measure that requires South Florida counties to halt the discharge of sewage into the sea, but the bill comes with a hefty price tag.

By LAURA FIGUEROA
lfigueroa@MiamiHerald.com

TALLAHASSEE –
South Florida counties must eventually stop pumping hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage every day into the ocean, under a bill the Legislature passed Wednesday that also sticks the counties with the $3 billion cost.

''It's the same old story: The state leaves the county with the big price tag,'' said Broward County Commissioner Ilene Lieberman, who has been monitoring the measure from Tallahassee.

The whole story:
http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/516483.html

This is a site dedicated to help the people of Tibet. 

The music is amazing and beautiful by Tibetan Singer, Dechen Shak Dagsay

http://www.for-the-people-of-tibet.net/ 

Geshe Yeshe Phelgey
Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc.
1781 Dresden Drive
Atlanta, GA 30319
(404) 982-0051
www.drepung.org

The 43-year-old filmmaker will move to New Zealand for four years to make the films back-to-back with executive producer Peter Jackson.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies

He wrote and directed Pan's Labyrinth and directed the upcoming sequel - Hellboy II: The Golden Army.

For Residential use Only - No commercial vehicles
New Program - Saturdays Only - April 5 - September 27, 2008 from 8:00am - 4:00pm

Recycle branches, palm fronds, tree limbs and trimmings for free!

Disposal Locations:

North Residential Trash Transfer Station
2780 N. Powerline Rd., Pompano Beach
(North of Copans Rd.)

Central Residential Trash Transfer Station
5490 Reese Rd., Davie

South Residential Trash Transfer Station
5601 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd.,West Park
(East of U.S. 441)

For more information, call 954-765-4999 or visit Broward.org/waste

Program includes free disposal of yard waste, woody waste such as fencing and lumber, and bulky waste including large items such as sofas, chairs, mattresses, appliances and carpeting.

Free disposal is available to the residents of all Broward County cities except Pembroke Pines, Parkland, Pompano Beach and Hallandale Beach.*

*A current driver’s license/photo ID with a utility bill (water, electricity, cable, telephone) and/or tax notice are required as proof of residency (name and address must match). Any users without the required proof of residency will be denied access; residents without the required proof of residency will be required to contact their City for an Authorization Certification to be allowed access.

Water managers vote to ease water restrictions
By Andy Reid |  Sun-Sentinel.com
11:55 AM EDT, April 10, 2008

South Florida water managers today voted to ease restrictions and allow twice-a-week yard watering starting April 18.

Two months of above normal rainfall and a wet start to April buoyed water supplies and prompted the district to stop the once-a-week watering limits, in place since Jan. 15.

Under the new restrictions, odd numbered addresses would be allowed to water on Wednesdays and Saturdays and even numbered addresses would water on Thursdays and Sundays. Watering would be allowed between 12 a.m. and 10 a.m. or between 4 p.m. and 11:59 p.m.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/