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1. Don’t blame others for making you unhappy. Take responsibility for making yourself happy.

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Jim Hunter, NASCAR's vice president of Corporate Communications, smiles during news conference at Richmond International Raceway on Sept. 7, 2007. Hunter served the sport for more than 40 years as a journalist, promoter and executive.

DAYTONA BEACH – NASCAR Vice President of Corporate Communications Jim Hunter, whose career in motorsports spanned portions of six decades as both a journalist and public relations professional, died Friday night in Daytona Beach following a 12-month battle with cancer. He was 71.

If you are an avid television fan, like I am, I know you are just as frustrated about the “season” changes all the stations have recently adopted. The old days of new shows beginning just after Labor Day and ending sometime in May or early June with reruns in the summer so you could catch up on what you’d missed are very much over.

Now there is this convoluted programming schedule that no one understands.You get interested in a new program, watch it for maybe three or four weeks, and poof, it’s gone on hiatus and a new show is in its place.

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A 50-plus acre brush fire in the Seville-Pierson area was contained Friday night, but firefighters will continue fighting the blaze in the Volusian Forest Trail, just east of U.S. 17 near Lake George.

PIERSON -- Homes were threatened at one point Friday, but firefighters were able to finally get a handle by nightfall on a brush fire that swelled from 15 to 50-plus acres, possibly caused by a lightning strike.

Several homes were threatened by winds heated up from the fire in the Pierson Seville area Friday afternoon. Moderate winds, that were hot and moving fast, threatened at least two homes, but firefighters were able to contain the fire by then. The fire was moving east near Lake George, off of U.S. 17, and in the vicinity of 260 Volusian Forest Trail

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Javarzia Anthuan Evans and Sanchez Demario Clark were charged with armed robbery Thursday of the Right Stop convenience store on North Dixie Freeway. 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Two men were apprehended Thursday night, 17 hours after  they walked into a newly opened convenience store at 3 a.m. and robbed it, New Smyrna Beach police said.

DELAND -- Dr. Roberta Favis, professor of art history and curator of the Vera Bluemner Kouba Collection at Stetson University, will present a gallery talk Thursday, Nov. 11, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand. The talk is free and open to the public.

Case#:10-33590 Date: 10/27/2010 Time: 2331 Invest Asgn:
Header: THEFT Location:138 Douglas St, Edg. Business Name: ZONE:53

V1 Carole Robinson (Mother) V1 found the same denominations of bills which she had given to her mother earlier in the day in S1's purse. A small metal pipe used to smoke cannabis, rolling papers and a small mirror with white powder residue on it were also found inside S1's purse and provided to deputies on scene. Theft and paraphernalia charges forwarded to SAO. Case filed.

ORMOND BEACH -- A man reported missing Wednesday evening while hanging out with a friend on the beach was discovered dead shortly after midnight Thursday, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said.

An autopsy on Steven Price, 32, performed Thursday morning by the Volusia County Medical Examiner’s Office preliminarily indicated that he had drowned and that no foul play is suspected. Price was a transient who had been in Florida less than 24 hours. He and a friend had arrived in Orlando via Amtrak train and hitchhiked to Daytona Beach.