Please find the PNC Unsung Hero winner for September 2010:

Mr. Frank Hill

We salute this month’s PNC Unsung Hero…Mr. Frank Hill. Mr. Hill has been the inspirational leader and mentor for almost 20 years of a special program called Black Data Processing Associates High School Computer Competition. This program teaches computer skills, presentation approaches, and more to 7th through 12th graders. He volunteers his time to organize and teach and many times gives his money and his transportation to make sure that the students in the program have the ability and opportunity to compete. He is retired from his job at Bell Laboratories so he is limited in his financial resources but certainly not his intellectual assets! He is helping young African Americans bridge the digital and economic divide and paving the way to careers in the field of computers. His commitment to his passion has been reflected with integrity, honesty, and leadership. For everything you have done and continue to do…Mr. Frank Hill you are our Unsung Hero for the month of September. Brought to you by PNC and 1230am WDBZ.

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This morning in Bromlin, a suburb of our friendly neighbors in Northern Kentucky, there was a odd incident that literally has me on the floor cracking up and shaking my head in pity. Two men were scooped up by the authorities today after allegedly breaking into not one, but two homes right across the river.

Their intent at 2:45AM this morning was to break into the house to fight and beat up a guy they were looking for, but guess what? They broke into the wrong house and of course, alarmed the residents there. They later went across the street to break into the right house the second time and actually continued the fight they were aiming to initiate. Isn’t that crazy?

So get this, Cincinnati, police claim the suspects, whose names have not been released, sliced up the man in the second house with a box cutter and even were injured in the process. Now all of them are in the hospital this morning. That’s way too much going on.

So what do you guys think of this one? Share this story with your friends and let me know what your reactions are to this accidental (and intentional) case of breaking and entering over in Kentucky by posting your thoughts in the comments section below.

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Christopher Pearman, Raven-Symone’s dad, discussed his new book “Dream So Big: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Your Child Believe and Achieve” and offered his parenting plan for raising successful children.  Click and listen:

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Tiger Woods returns to the sport Monday at the Masters, ending a self-imposed exile stemming from a car accident in November outside his home and his subsequent admission of extramarital affairs.

Watch the Press Conference here:

Woods is practicing this morning at Augusta National Golf Club, and is set to participate in a news conference – his second since the scandal broke – at 2 p.m. ET. (Our partners at Golf.com will live blog the news conference here)

The golfer – even since his early childhood – has thrived in the spotlight and it may shine brighter today than it has before with millions of spectators turning on nearly any channel to catch him – not even on the course but at a news conference. SI.com’s Richard Deitsch (also a partner blogger for us on this blog) says the news conference will turn the Masters into one unlike any other.

And our partners at Time.com wonder if Tiger, let alone any athlete, can be mentally prepared for what will happen at the Masters this year given all the attention. The tournament, they said, will effectively be a test of his toughness in the face of all of the drama. For other golfers, the spotlight on Tiger could be a good or bad thing. Golf.com’s Peter Kostis says while all eyes will be on Tiger at the start of the Masters, the real drama surrounds some of the players over 40 and under 30.

While some other players may have strong chances to take the tournament (and there are a variety of things golf fans are looking forward to at the Masters), many fans and even a plethora who never watch golf, certainly will be zeroing Woods’ every move – just as they have since his whirlwind drama unfolded.

He delivered a carefully managed statement in March to a small, hand-picked crowd, and has given two one-on-one interviews, the news conference will be Woods’ first in months. Golfer Brad Faxon, who has gone through his own similar turmoils, wonders in a column for Golf.com if this was the right return for Woods – given all of the hype and some of his recent decisions. Faxon isn’t the only one who things Woods needs to make some big changes – our partners at Golf examine why the biggest change Woods needs to make might not be related to his marriage, his therapy, or his game, but instead to his inner circle.

Woods’ public woes began with an early-morning crash November 27 outside his Orlando, Florida-area home. He suffered minor injuries after striking a fire hydrant and a tree with his Cadillac SUV. Woods – one of golf’s biggest names who had always maintained a squeaky-clean image – was not required to talk to police about the wreck and declined to talk with investigators on several occasions. Eventually, he was cited for careless driving.

The wreck occurred days after the tabloid National Enquirer alleged Woods was having an affair with a New York nightclub hostess. The woman has denied the allegation, but several others have come forward to claim that they had sexual relationships with the fiercely private Woods, who is married to former model Elin Nordegren. The couple has two children.

Woods’ alleged mistresses have released voice mails and text messages they claim are from the golf champion. In March, Woods said he would be in inpatient therapy until early February for “issues” he did not explain. He acknowledged multiple extramarital affairs.

he controversy prompted several corporations to suspend or drop their multimillion-dollar sponsorships with Woods, who also apologized to his business partners for his behavior.

VIA: ESPN.com

What will you remember about the 2010 NCAA tournament? There’s been plenty to choose from.

Duke ending its mini-Final Four drought? Michigan State making an improbable run back to the Final Four? Butler giving a whole new meaning to “Final Four host school”? Conquering hometown hero Bob Huggins coaching his alma mater West Virginia past favorite Kentucky and into the Final Four for the first time in 51 years?

Or will you always think about the first two rounds, a series of head-spinning games that left you wanting more and more and more?

It’s hard not to remember this tournament for the greatness of those opening rounds:

• Northern Iowa’s Ali Farokhmanesh hitting not just one but two shots to essentially ice games against UNLV and top-ranked Kansas in Oklahoma City.

• The finish of the Michigan State-Maryland second-round game in Spokane and its frenetic final 20 seconds. And let’s not forget Michigan State escaping against New Mexico State two nights before.

• Murray State’s Danero Thomas‘ buzzer-beater to knock out Vanderbilt in the upset that everyone either picked or claims they picked.

• BYU’s Jimmer Fredette pouring in 37 points in a thrilling double-overtime victory over Florida in the first round in Oklahoma City.

• No. 14 Ohio stunning No. 3 Georgetown by 14 points in a game that is still surreal to consider when pondering the domination by the ninth-place MAC school over the Big East tournament runner-up.

• Ishmael Smith’s buzzer-beater for Wake Forest that knocked out Texas and mercifully end the Longhorns’ disastrous 2010 portion of their schedule.

• Cornell blasting past Temple and Wisconsin and into the Sweet 16 for the first time in Big Red history.

• Purdue’s Chris Kramer going to the basket to beat Texas A&M and send the Boilermakers, sans Robbie Hummel, to an improbable Sweet 16.

• Robert Morris not being pleased with the late-game calls in missing out on a regulation win over Villanova, and then losing to the Cats in overtime in the first round.

• Omar Samhan’s dominating performances for Saint Mary’s in upsetting Richmond and Villanova en route to the Sweet 16.

Or maybe you’ll take with you the road to the Final Four that included:

• A magnificent double-overtime game between Kansas State and Xavier that goes down as one of the finest we’ve seen. The 101-96 win by K-State reminded me in some ways of those classic Gonzaga-Arizona or Illinois-Arizona games from previous tournaments. You didn’t want this one to end.

• Butler stunning top-ranked Syracuse in the West. That’s still hard to fathom.

• Michigan State beating Tennessee on a free throw by Raymar Morgan with a second left.

• Cornell opening up a 10-2 lead on Kentucky in the Sweet 16, only to get smashed by a 30-6 run to end the first half.

• Kentucky missing 28 straight 3s at one point against Cornell and West Virginia, and the Mountaineers being up by two at the half without making a 2-point basket in their Elite Eight victory over Kentucky.

That’s good stuff so far. No one seems to be whining about who wasn’t in the field, that’s for sure. Seeding the tournament was certainly a debatable point. Selections weren’t. And the excitement of this 65-team event, one that shouldn’t expand beyond maybe 68 in years to come, hasn’t disappointed. Will the Final Four continue the trend?

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It’s time to start thinking about getting those taxes done. Maybe you’re in a panic. Not to worry. Just follow Schnepper’s 15 steps to getting your taxes done, and you’ll be much happier. Ready? Here they are:

Get serious. Unless you’re focused, you’re going to see that receipt six times rather than the once you need. This is all mental now. Schedule a time to get to work and commit to that time. Then . . .

• Smart Taxes blog: Keep up with the latest tax news and changes

Get started. Remember that commitment to get to work? Keep it! This step requires action. Get your pencil and take the blank forms out of the envelope where you’ve been hiding them, praying that the tax fairies would make them go away. My father reminds me of the old Brooklyn proverb, “A trip of a thousand miles begins with a traffic jam.” Get in that “jam,” and your  will begin to jell. Now . . .

Get organized. Something has to go on those returns. Get your W-2s together to report wages, your 1099s to report interest and dividends, your 1099Bs for reporting stock and bond sales, and your 1098s for deducting your interest and taxes. The Internal Revenue Service and your accountant both want final numbers. It makes it easier for them and less painful financially for you. Bring either one a shopping bag full of receipts and you’re going to feel the pain . . . especially in your wallet.

Get informed. Have you been following all the changes the U.S. tax code has seen in the past decade? How about the multiple new tax bills passed just last year. You can now deduct the sales tax you paid in 2009 on a new car costing as much as $49,500 and as much as $500 ($1,000 on a ) in real estate taxes paid on your home even if you take the standard deduction! Got a kid in college? Have you used the “tuition and fees” deduction (.pdf file) that lets you deduct as much as $4,000 in tuition and fees off your 2009 taxes?

Even better, have you looked at the new American Opportunity Tax Credit, which can give you as much as $2,500 in tax savings? If not, get educated! While you’re getting enlightened, don’t neglect the  on energy-efficient improvements to your home. And if you’re a new homebuyer (one who hasn’t owned a principal residence for the last three years), you can get a refundable credit of 10% of the purchase price, up to $8,000, on a new principal residence. If you’ve been in your home for five of the last eight years, you can purchase a new principal residence and qualify for a 10% credit of up to $6,500.

If you’re “tax simple,” the IRS can actually do the return for you, or you can have your return done online — sometimes even for free. Alternatively, if you’re tax-savvy, do your own return after learning the new rules. A good place to start: the IRS’ absolutely free Publication 17 (.pdf file). It’s hundreds of pages of everything you need to know about your 2009 tax return and your planning for 2010. If that’s too much, go to a professional.

Get help. You might remove a splinter from your own finger, but you wouldn’t perform heart surgery on yourself. A trip to a tax professional should at least tell you what you’re missing. Don’t hesitate to ask for help; it’s deductible. But call for an appointment now! The later your accountant does your return, the more tired that tax preparer will be. You want your return done when she’s at her best.

Get status. Decide how you’re going to file. The lowest rates are with joint returns, but if there are potential high medical or miscellaneous deductions, married filing separate may yield a lower total tax. Do it both ways. Alternatively, a single mother may qualify for the head-of-household rates, which are better than the rates for filing as a single. Sometimes, when a joint return isn’t practical, even a married person with a dependent child can qualify for head-of-household rates, which are much better than married filing separate. You need to know the rules.

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Saint Patrick’s Day (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig) is a yearly holiday celebrated on 17 March. It is named after Saint Patrick (circa AD 387–461), the most commonly recognized of the patron saints of Ireland. It began as a purely Catholic holiday and became an official feast day in the early 1600s. However, it has gradually become more of a secular celebration of Ireland’s culture.

St. Patrick

Little is known of Patrick’s early life, though it is known that he was born in Roman Britain in the fifth century, into a wealthy Romano-Britishfamily. His father and grandfather were deacons in the Church. At the age of sixteen, he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and taken captive to Ireland as a slave.^[1] It is believed he was held somewhere on the west coast of Ireland, possibly Mayo, but the exact location is unknown. According to his Confession, he was told by God in a dream to flee from captivity to the coast, where he would board a ship and return to Britain. Upon returning, he quickly joined the Church in Auxerre in Gaul and studied to be a priest.

In 432, he again says that he was called back to Ireland, though as a bishop, to save the Irish, and indeed he was successful at this, focusing on converting royalty and aristocracy as well as the poor. Irish folklore tells that one of his teaching methods included using the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) to the Irish people. After nearly thirty years of teaching and spreading God’s Word he died on 17 March, 461 AD, and was buried at Downpatrick, so tradition says. Although there were other more successful missions to Ireland from Rome, Patrick endured as the principal champion of Irish Christianity and is held in esteem in the Irish Church.

Wearing of Green

Originally the colour associated with Saint Patrick was blue. However, over the years the colour green and its association with Saint Patrick’s day grew.^[2] Green ribbons and shamrocks were worn in celebration of St Patrick’s Day as early as the 17th century.^[3] He is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish, and the wearing and display of shamrocks and shamrock-inspired designs have become a ubiquitous feature of the day.^[4][5] Then in the 1798 rebellion in hopes of making a political statement Irish soldiers wore full green uniforms on 17 March in hopes of catching attention with their unusual fashion gimmick.^[2] The phrase “the wearing of the green”, meaning to wear a shamrock on one’s clothing, derives from the song of the same name.

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(CNN) — Four months after an auto accident and reports of extramarital affairs put his golf career on hold, Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he plans to return to the sport at the Masters Tournament in April.

Woods dropped out of professional competition in December after a Thanksgiving weekend wreck outside his Florida home turned a harsh spotlight on the golfer’s personal life. In March, the 34-year-old golfer issued a public apology for cheating on his wife and said he was undergoing treatment for unspecified “issues.”

But on Tuesday, he said he was coming back to play in the Masters, which he has won four times since 1997.

“After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I’m ready to start my season at Augusta,” Woods said in a statement released by his agent. “The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and, as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be, even though it’s been a while since I last played.”

The tournament is scheduled for April 5-11 at Georgia’s Augusta National Golf Club.

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Haim, 38, was taken to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, where he was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. PT (5:15 a.m. ET) on Wednesday, Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ed Winter said. The hospital is a mile from Haim’s apartment.

Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Corey Haim seemed to be winning his battle against drug abuse in the weeks before his death, his manager and closest friend said Wednesday.

The 1980s teen movie actor and heartthrob died early Wednesday after collapsing in the Los Angeles apartment he shared with his mother, authorities said.

Haim was “weaned down to literally zero medications” in the last two weeks by an addiction specialist, manager Mark Heaslip said on HLN’s “Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell.”

The doctor “put him on a new line of medications,” Haim’s longtime friend and frequent co-star Corey Feldman said on CNN’s “Larry King Live.”

Feldman pleaded with people not to draw conclusions that Haim died from a drug overdose. He said that until the autopsy report is issued, “nobody knows and nobody’s going to know.”

“I know that there were symptoms that he was showing that expressed it could be a number of things,” Feldman said. “This could have been a kidney failure. This could have been a heart failure.”

Heaslip said Haim’s mother, Judy, told him “there were no signs of him overdosing.”

His death came as his career was picking up, with Haim booking “movie after movie,” Heaslip said. His latest film is set for release soon, he said.

Haim “really became a man” in recent months as he helped his mother in her battle with cancer, Feldman said. “He’s been there for her, taking care of her, being responsible,” he said.

Haim, 38, was taken to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, early Wednesday, where he was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m., Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ed Winter said.

Haim was in the apartment he shared with his mother, Judy, when he “became a little dizzy, he kind of went to his knees in the bedroom,” Winter said. “His mom assisted him in the bed. He became unresponsive.”

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