The Megacon Indie Film Expo is proud to present the Florida premiere of the feature film, BLOOD SHOT. This film is based upon the award-winning short film by Dietrich Johnston which originally played at Megacon in the past. Johnston, and the executive producer Andrew Wyly, transformed the positive buzz about the short film into a star-filled full-length production. Brennan Elliot (Strong Medicine, The 4400) and Michael Bailey Smith (The Hills Have Eyes, Men in Black 2), two of the film’s stars will be appearing at Megacon in support of the premiere and hope to meet their fans and make new ones.

“The idea of making a full length feature film in Hollywood is a real dream come true for independent filmmakers,” said Terry Cronin, who is the director of the Megacon Indie Film Expo. “This is a really fun action-packed movie that has incredible potential for a series. A real franchise builder.”

BLOOD SHOT is the story of a cop named Rip, played by Brennan Elliott, whose life falls apart as he chases a terminator-like vampire, played by Michael Bailey Smith, who happens to be a hitman controlled by a CIA agent played by Lance Henricksen (Millenium, Alien) . The great Brad Dourif (The Lord of the Rings) plays a notorious Middle Eastern terrorist who is plotting a major attack on the U.S. that includes detonating a powerful nuke in the heart of Los Angeles; the only thing standing in his way is an unlikely duo formed by the mysterious vampire (Michael Bailey Smith) and the cop (Brennan Elliott) who is chasing him.

Michael Bailey Smith is excited about coming to the show, “It’s great to return to Florida and see all the cool stuff going on at Megacon. I think the fans will love BLOOD SHOT and I hope to meet everyone who comes out to the show.”

The film will show at the Orange County Convention Center as part of the Megacon on Saturday, February 18th from 7:30 – 9:00 pm. Brennan Elliot and Michael Bailey Smith will take part in the Indie Filmmaking Panel and will be available for autographs and photos on the show floor of Megacon.

The Megacon Indie Film Expo showcases numerous award-winning independent short films in the genres of action, anime, animation, comedy, horror, superheroes, science fiction, and suspense. The short films will be shown Friday, Feb 17th from 6:30pm – 8:00pm. This selection of films is hosted by 3 Boys Productions the founders of the Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival and the creators of the horror adventure comic series “Students of the Unusual”. Donations will be accepted for the Hero Initiative.

For more information go to www.megaconvention.com

or www.studentsoftheunusual.com

BLOOD SHOT IMDB- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196124/

Charter High Students Gave Sneak Peek Performance of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella the Musical at By the River Affordable Senior Living Community

Make no mistake about it, Indian River Charter High Schumann School for the Performing Arts production of “Cinderella The Musical” is sure to be a hit. The show will be given at the Vero Beach Theater Guild February 2nd, 3rd and 4th at 7:00pm and February 4th and 5th at 2:00 pm. Tickets can be purchased online by clicking on the “Ticket” tap at wwww.irchsonline.org.

Students performed a sneak peek of some of the popular musical numbers at By the River today and it was thoroughly enjoyed by the residents and guests. By the River is Sebastian’s affordable senior living community. It was the dream and vision of spiritual teacher Ma Jaya to have a place that seniors can call “home” and live comfortably in a vibrant community.

Julianne Zimei and Jernie Talles-Millan

The story of Cinderella has been told for more than a hundred years in countless cultures. Threatre director, Michael Naffziger, said that this year they had so many talented kids that he dual-cast all the roles, except for the Fairy Godmother.

Two of the Cinderellas, Kaitlin Ruby, l0th grader, and Julianne Zimei, llth grader, performed today. They are best friends and have not been competing, but rather cheering each other on. As Kaitlin said, “We tag each other. You’re ‘it’ today!”

Everybody knows that athletes dream of going to the Olympics, but not many people know that musicians do as well. The University of Florida Gator Marching Band is the only college band that has been invited to perform at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. An invitation to perform at the Olympic Games is an honor and the chance of a lifetime, especially for eight proud Vero Beach High School Marching Band alumni. These former VBHS band students are part of the 150 Gator Band members who are planning to attend the trip in July. Starting out on various instruments in 6th grade at Gifford Middle School, all eight students pursued music throughout high school in concert and marching band.

Sarah Piper and Amy Hiser graduated from VBHS in 2008 and have participated together in the Gator Marching Band all four years of college. Piper, an Education major and a trombonist, is currently one of three drum majors at UF. Hiser is an Elementary Education major and a tuba player.

Joshua Lamothe, who graduated from VBHS in 2009, is studying Aerospace Engineering and is a principle trumpeter.

The newest members of the Gator Band, Katherine DiSandro, Kelsey Grabach, Gwendi Lamothe, Samuel Lapeyre, and Gardner Reid all graduated from VBHS in 2011, and performed with the VBHS band at Carnegie Hall in 2010. DiSandro is studying Veterinary Medicine and plays piccolo. Grabach is a Business Administration major and a trombonist. Gwendi Lamothe (sister of Joshua Lamothe) is studying Biochemistry and plays the mellophone. Lapeyre is a Digital Arts and Sciences major and plays baritone. Reid is studying Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and is a trumpeter.
Despite the different majors of these students, they all have one thing in common: they feel blessed to call Vero Beach home. This community has been very generous in supporting student musicians, and these eight VBHS alumni are hoping for continued financial assistance in this new endeavor. The cost of the trip for each band member is $4100, some of which the university is underwriting. It is expected that the individual student will have to contribute $2500-$3500 out of pocket toward the trip expense.

James Sammons, band director at Vero Beach High School for over 30 years says, “I think the Gator Band going to London is absolutely wonderful. We here at Vero Beach High School traditionally have a lot of students in Gator Band, and it makes me very proud that these students have worked hard at the collegiate level and that they are getting this great honor. So not only are they doing the Gator Nation proud, they’re doing Vero Beach High School proud.”
These students will be proud to represent Vero Beach in the 2012 Olympics, and if you are able to assist them financially, please contact Kelsey Grabach at 772-559-2841 or send an email to vero2012london@gmail.com.

VERO BEACH, Fla.: Local American Red Cross volunteers responded to a house fire on 33rd Avenue in Vero Beach at approximately 1:30 a.m. today. The team of three Red Cross volunteers helped coordinate emergency aid for six adults and four children. The Red Cross met the immediate and essential needs of the impacted individuals by providing lodging and food due to fire damage to the residence.

Red Cross volunteers on the scene were members of the Chapter’s Disaster Action Team, a group of specially trained volunteers who respond to the scene of a local disaster when called upon at any time of the day or night.

To make a financial donation to your local Red Cross to help people affected by house fires and other disasters here in the United States and around the world, people can click, call or text – visit www.pbtcredcross.org, call 800-833-0599, or text the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.

About the American Red Cross:

The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; teaches lifesaving skills; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a charitable organization — not a government agency — and depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. For more information, please visit www.pbtcredcross.org or join our blog at www.pbtcredcross.org/blog.

VERO BEACH, Fla. – Local American Red Cross volunteers responded to a house fire on Juanita Avenue in Fort Pierce at approximately 12:30 p.m. today. The team of two Red Cross volunteers helped coordinate emergency aid for two adults and one child, age 15. The Red Cross met the immediate and essential needs of the impacted individuals by providing lodging due to fire damage to the residence.

Red Cross volunteers on the scene were members of the Chapter’s Disaster Action Team, a group of specially trained volunteers who respond to the scene of a local disaster when called upon at any time of the day or night.

To make a financial donation to your local Red Cross to help people affected by house fires and other disasters here in the United States and around the world, people can click, call or text – visit www.pbtcredcross.org, call 800-833-0599, or text the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.

About the American Red Cross:

The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; teaches lifesaving skills; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a charitable organization — not a government agency — and depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. For more information, please visitwww.pbtcredcross.org or join our blog at www.pbtcredcross.org/blog.

“An investigation is underway in Indian River County where police tell CBS 12 that a man`s body was found in a backyard.

Indian River County Sheriff`s officials tell CBS 12 a lawn maintenance crew found the body of a deceased male in the backyard of a Vero Beach home around 5:30 Wednesday evening. The body was found at a foreclosed home that has been vacant for years in the 4800 block of 61st Court.” -CBS12.Com

The body was badly decomposed and decapitated; I hope the maintenance crew had already eaten dinner before they found the gruesome remains.

The cops say they will treat this case as a homicide until they can rule out otherwise. You don`t have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that a body that has been decapitated is most likely a murder victim.

The body was found at a foreclosed home, losing your house is a horrible ordeal and if the body hadn`t been decapitated I would have guessed that the body was the homeowner. But it`s impossible to commit suicide by chopping off your own head.

The house had been empty for a couple of years, and the medical examiner has yet to determine how long ago the victim met his untimely death.

Vero Beach is a small city with a population of about 17,000, needless to say it`s not everyday that someone discovers a decapitated corpse. If you have any information about this case please call Treasure Coast Crimestoppers at 1-800-273-TIPS

Read more: http://www.cbs12.com/articles/body-4737210-decapitated-home.html#ixzz1fxRXV66f

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“After a Vero Beach man showed his bruised left testicle to sheriff`s investigators, a woman was arrested and stands accused of grabbing her husband`s privates and refusing to let go for two minutes.

According to a report by TCPalm.com, Maryann Scott, 49, told Indian River County deputies her husband had taken a $15,000 ring he had given her and hid it.” -UPI

If a woman squeezed my privates demanding to know where I had hidden her expensive ring, I would sing like a soprano and tell her exactly where I hid it.

Maryann may be sadistic, but grabbing her husband by the family jewels is the best way to find out where he hid her jewel.

One little detail that needs to be emphasized is that Maryann was holding a knife while she was torturing her hapless husband. Hell, I would have told the evil woman not only the location of her ring, but how much money I had in my savings account, and anything else she wanted to know.

The cops took a photograph of the victim`s bruised manhood, I hope that the image doesn`t end up on the Internet, that would really be adding insult to injury.

Follow Robert Paul Reyes on Twitter: http://twitter.com/robertpaulreyes

Treasure Coast Community Health (TCCH) has opened its fifth location in Indian River County in the K-Mart Plaza, 1555 U.S. 1, Suite 105, Vero Beach; offering pediatrics, primary medical care and behavioral health. TCCH is a complete healthcare home to nearly 20,000 IRC residents.

An open house, including tours, will be held Wednesday, December 14th from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., followed by a ribbon cutting at 5:30 p.m.

TCCH accepts Medicare, Medicaid, most private insurances, or charges on a floating fee scale for the uninsured. For more information, or to make an appointment at a location near you call 772-257-8224.

Judyth Piazza interviews Steve Dorrance, Executive Director of Treasure Coast Community Health Foundation…

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Save for College or Save for Retirement?

With Mission Tuition YOU can do BOTH!

All parents want to send their kids to college, but more and more of us are finding it far too difficult to save for college in this time of rising tuition rates and a shaky economy.  In fact, it is getting to the point where we believe that ‘tapping’ into a 401K, or cashing in a retirement plan, will be the only way for our children to receive a ‘higher education.’

It was only a generation ago when parents made sure to put their child’s college funding as number one on their priority list, but many parents are now being forced to postpone their plans to save, or simply not save for college at all. Unemployment is a key factor in all this, as well as lower wages – and the urgency that everyone feels after each “congressional meeting” has come to a close, to save for their own retirement.  There are so many issues right now with Medicare and Social Security that people are truly living in fear.  They believe that their senior years will not be paid for, and that help will simply not be there when they arrive at the magic number.

The national unemployment rate stands at around nine to nine-point-two percent (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), but the actual number may be much higher than that because many do not qualify for unemployment, while others have come to the end of their benefits. These, unfortunately are not the only issues we face.  There are a slew of workers who have had to take pay cuts in order to keep their jobs.  And, let’s face it, paying the mortgage and feeding our children has become a much bigger priority than saving for a college education.

The higher tuition rates, we’ve already covered in other articles, and they are still increasing much faster than inflation.

So now, with all other avenues exhausted, parents get to their retirement savings.  Parents know that it is taking far longer and becoming much more expensive to head into retirement.  Their future dreams of having a boat, or driving across America, or traveling…these are becoming more ‘Once Upon a Time’ stories than actual realistic facts.  Financial advisors are also now warning people that they may need to save two or three times the amount they thought they needed in order to have even a comfortable retirement.

Everyone wants to retire one day, and no one wants to live on Social Security benefits that – per our government – may be well under $1000 a month. All of this bad information and data causes one result:  Put money away in 401K’s instead of saving for college.

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Retirement: Take full advantage of any retirement savings plan that is available at your workplace. Since employee contributions are deducted from your paycheck, this is a completely painless way to build up retirement savings.

College Education: You need to establish a 529 plan for your children.  One of the big advantages to these plans is their flexibility, and the fact that the parents control the savings within the plan. If your child is able to get a scholarship, the savings in the 529 plan can be used for another family member or withdrawn (with taxes and penalties on the earnings) and used for the parents’ retirements.

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You are the savings side of the equation on this subject, but your children are also part of the relationship.  They need to keep their grades up, participate in extracurricular activities, and make sure that when it is time to fill out their college applications, they have stunning credentials!  This comes with family discussions.  This way, with everyone involved, a child can find the right school which is the best match for their passion, drive, and savings, that will offer them a truly great future unhindered by paying back student loans.

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Steve Dorrance Speaks with Judyth Piazza about Treasure Coast Community Health Foundation on The American Perspective Radio Program – Click to listen

“The way a nation treats its sick and aging is a direct reflection on the character of the nation as a whole. Harry Getzov and Treasure Coast Community Health Foundation have created a 21st century model that strives toward eldercation and available healthcare. I am proud to be part of these important changes.” Judyth Piazza

Steve Dorrance

Harry Getzov, author, national speaker, and upcoming guest on The View and The Doctors will be speaking in Vero Beach at The Quail Valley River Club on December 5 for the benefit of Treasure Coast Community Health. Harry most recently wrote gOLD, a book of fascinating stories from inspired conversations with Hugh Downs, Maya Angelou (one of the great voices of contemporary literature), Jerry Vale, former major league baseball player William Moose Skowron and nearly 1,600 others. “He is thoughtful, caring and amusing, all at the same time! His uplifting and insightful view of the cycles of our lives is prescient for all, including the boomers who are on deck next, and those who are enjoying the golden years.”

Harry Getzov

Mr. Getzov`s Background

Mr. Getzov is an accomplished attorney, educated at Emory University School of Law. Mr. Getzov obtained a bachelor`s degree from Boston University`s College of Liberal Arts and studied at the Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter College. As a prolific writer, his articles have appeared in the New York Daily News, Newsday, The Dallas Morning News, The Kansas City Star and amNew York, and he has been a guest on radio in the communities he has visited throughout the country. He spent many years in New York City and Hollywood as an entertainment lawyer. He has an insider`s perspective on an industry most will never experience.

To Benefit Treasure Coast Community Health

Mr. Getzov has generously agreed to make this presentation for the benefit of the Treasure Coast Community Health Foundation (TCCHF). Treasure Coast Community Health provides a wide range of medical, dental and behavioral healthcare services, and is a healthcare home to 20,000 Indian River County residents. We accept Medicare and Medicaid patients, populations of importance to Harry.

Event Details

While overlooking the Indian River from the main dining room, attendees will be served an exceptional lunch starting at 11:45 a.m. by a dedicated staff, and receive a complimentary copy of Mr. Getzov`s book. Please call 772-571-1983 to make a reservation for the December 5th luncheon or request additional information. The TCCH Foundation will benefit from your $50 per person, tax deductible contribution.

Generously sponsored by the Brackett Family Foundation

Judyth Piazza chats with Harry J. Getzov, Author of gOLD, The Extraordinary Side of Aging Revealed Through Inspiring Conversations …

Judyth Piazza interviews Steve Dorrance, Executive Director of Treasure Coast Community Health Foundation…