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Vanderpump Rules
- Release date:7 January 2013 (USA)
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- Summary:"Vanderpump Rules" follows the passionate, volatile and hot-and-bothered-staff at Lisa Vanderpump's West Hollywood mainstay SUR. Lisa balances her motherly instincts and shrewd business sense to keep control over this wild group of employees as they pursue their dreams and each other while working at her "Sexy, Unique Restaurant." Often seen on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, SUR has been the backdrop for many memorable moments, including the unexpected encounter between Brandi Glanville and Scheana Marie, a female server who famously had an affair with Brandi's ex-husband. [+]more
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Episode Guide For Vanderpump Rules add new episode
- Episode 1 Instafight 11/3/2014
- Episode 2 All Fired Up 11/10/2014
- Episode 3 Grand Opening And Closure 11/17/2014
- Episode 4 Jax "Nose" Best 11/24/2014
- Episode 5 In the Doghouse 12/1/2014
- Episode 6 Kiss and Tell 12/8/2014
- Episode 7 New Girl, Old Grudges 12/15/2014
- Episode 1 Tooth or Consequences 11/4/2013
- Episode 2 Branded 11/11/2013
- Episode 3 Only the Lonely 11/18/2013
- Episode 4 Rumors 11/25/2013
- Episode 5 Surlesque 12/2/2013
- Episode 6 Lisa's Angels 12/9/2013
- Episode 7 Addicted 12/16/2013
- Episode 8 Sherlock Stassi 12/23/2013
- Episode 9 Rich People Annoy Me 12/30/2013
- Episode 10 SUR of the Border 1/6/2014
- Episode 11 Ultimatum 1/13/2014
- Episode 12 Til Death Do Us Part 1/20/2014
- Episode 13 Bitch Slap 1/27/2014
- Episode 14 I Lied 2/3/2014
- Episode 15 Reunion Part 1 2/10/2014
- Episode 16 Reunion Part 2 2/17/2014
- Episode 17 Secrets Revealed 2/24/2014
- Episode 1 Welcome to SUR 1/7/2013
- Episode 2 This Is a Break-Up 1/14/2013
- Episode 3 You Don't Know Jax 1/21/2013
- Episode 4 Vegas with a Vengeance 1/28/2013
- Episode 5 I'm Not a Bitch 2/4/2013
- Episode 6 Caught With Your Trousers Down 2/11/2013
- Episode 7 In Love With Someone Else 2/18/2013
- Episode 8 Last Call 2/25/2013
- Episode 9 Reunion 3/4/2013
- Episode 10 Reunion Secrets 3/11/2013
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WOW I can stand Stassi she is horrible to Jax, I feel sooo bad for him. If things doesnt go her way its the end of the world. She wants a guy that she can control like a dog. Jax is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy to good for her. Ohh and she doesnt even look 23years old but looks 34-45 years old.1 years ago
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What no reunion show? That would have been fun, supposedly Jax/Jason is made to face Stassi and admits he'd rather sleep in his car than with Stassi..then proceeds to try and get her back off stage. Real class act2 years ago
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I actually really enjoy this show. I do find it a bit "over the top" OF COURSE lol but you shouldn't expect anything less from LISA VANDERPUMP2 years ago
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Here's what you can talk about at your cocktail parties this weekend: The issue isn't really whether the Angels would be helped by Manny Ramirez -- they would -- or whether they'd be the team most helped by Manny Ramirez -- they would again, I suspect. It's really whether at this point anybody should sign Manny Ramirez for anywhere near what he's asking. That's almost certainly a no, and since somebody desperate is likely to go far too close to what he's asking, I don't think anybody smart should stand in somebody desperate's way. Winner's curse and all that.
Anyhow, Rob Neyer says the Angels should sign him, but probably won't.
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This "value investing" has occurred even though there is one billion square feet of vacant retail space in the United States, according to Urban Land magazine. While the stock prices of Sears, J.C. Penney, Radio Shack, Bon-Ton Stores (BONT) are other retailers are declining rapidly, the vacancy rate for retail space is decreasing very, very slowly.
Sears presents a particularly egregious example that the retail real estate market market is not valuing as highly as its investors.
In a November 2012 interview with Fortune, Bruce Berkowitz of the Fairholme Fund, stated that, "The value of Sears [which trades near $60] would be over $160 a share if the land on the books was fully valued ... Regardless, you'll see gigantic cash flows from the closing of locations, the pulling-out of the cash from inventory, work in process, and distribution centers. They're not idiots when it comes to real estate. They understand that today's standalone store can be tomorrow's multi-use hotel/residential-retail center."
Sears is now trading for around $37.25 a share after a bull market year for both the stock market and the retail sector.There are now 119 closed Sears stores for sale or lease, according to the company's website. Sears has closed about 300 stores since 2010. Sears and J.C. Penney recently announced the closing of more than 33 stores. Sears still has about 40% of its closed stores for sale that were shut down since 2010 with more on the way. Statista predicts that the vacancy rate for retail space will decline from 10.1% in 2014 to 10% by 2015. Should Sears be able to peddle its closed stores at that rate, it will still have well over 100 for sale.
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Not going to take up much of your time - just wanted to say "hi" and let you know that I'm with you all in the TTC over 35 'group'.
I've been married a month and a half now (Sept 25) and DH and I are wasting NO TIME trying to have a baby. I'm 39 and that worries me.
Anyway, wishing everyone here good luck on the quest to become a Mom.
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May your stay be short and your visits packed with good news.
I hope we all get blessed with the news that we are no longer TTC in 2010!!
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Snoop Lion spread a message of hope while debuting his new single "No Guns Allowed" on "Conan." The former gangsta rapper was joined by his daughter Cori B. and some young backup singers as he performed the peaceful record, which was inspired by recent tragedies.
"I just felt like I had got to the point in my career and my life where I didn't need guns in my life because I didn't project that energy," he told Piers Morgan. "I felt like I was positive and peaceful. At the same time, I kept hearing about all these school shootings and these people getting guns in their hands and not knowing what to do with them and just going on a rampage, so it really touched me and affected me to where I wanted to say something."
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Jon, Leah and Matt decide to take a family photo for Camille and spend the day finding matching shirts and going to the photo studio. When things go awry, the three try to do whatever they can to salvage the picture. Meanwhile, Devin brings Jarod and Jenn to the spa to help him romance a spa worker he met at the bar.
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Employers from the corporate and not-for-profit sectors will be interviewing and recruiting for entry-level professional positions. To participate in the program, arrive with lots of copies of your resume and be sure to dress for success. Be prepared to market your skills, training, and experience during the interview.
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Detox will have to wait. Dr. Dre is planning to take a brief break from recording, once again delaying his long-awaited album.
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According to Chris Tomasson from FoxSports, Chris Kaman has interest in re-signing with Hornets as free agent next summer. "I hope so. We'll see what happens."
Former Central Michigan University star Chris Kaman scored 20 points and added seven rebounds to help lead the New Orleans Hornets to a 94-81 win over the Denver Nuggets Monday at Denver.
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|Denmark Fire Fighters ask for First Responder training
|Written by Jerry E. Halmon
When the fire department pulls up on an accident scene people expect us to do something, Denmark Fire Chief Charles Breland told Denmark City Council members at their August 16, meeting. Breland said for that reason several members of the department have requested first responder training.
Were not first responders, EMTs or Paramedics. Several people would like to take a first responders course to learn safety, basic first aid, stop the bleeding, Breland said.
The fire chief noted that in responding to a serious accident on Highway 70 and Guess Drive a couple of weeks ago Denmark fire personnel had to stand around 30-45 before they could respond.
People expect us to do something. This is something we want to look into with the help of council and get some first responders. Breland said. Councilmember Hope Long-Weldon asked Breland how many people were interested in the first responder training.
Chief Breland stated that 10 or 12 members of the department were interested in the training and he had spoken with Martha Hammett of the Bamberg County EMS, who was looking at starting a combined class with the Hunters Chapel and Govan Fire Departments.
Breland commented that the Denmark Fire Department was one of the few departments in the county that had no first responders. Im not a young man, if something happen to me, I want someone there on the scene that can help me.
Also during the meeting:
. Chief Breland reported for the period of July 19-August 6 the department responded to 14 fire calls, two structure fires, three automobile fires, three false alarms, two trash debris fires, one mutual aid and assisted Voorhees College with a bee problem. The fire department is averaging 9-10 members per call with 30 members in the department. The department will be losing two certified fire fighters in Gene and Stacey Frank, who will be moving to Anderson SC. soon the chief said.
. City Finance Director Rusty Munoz gave a one months report on the citys budget that showed intergovernmental revenues were down 15 percent from last year.
. Police Chief Leroy Grimes reported that the department created 69 cases files for the month. The chief noted the passing of City of Bamberg Police Officer Eric Bamberg and stated that several Denmark Police Officers were planning to attend the Funeral on Friday.
. The public works department reported that six-water line leaks were repaired and two valves repairs.
. Mayor Gerald Wright reported he was quite impressed with the two new wells upon his visitation two weeks ago. The mayor described the wells as being very sophisticated and high tech and were very close to being online. When the new wells are brought on-line the present wells will be used for back-ups. I was very pleased it doesnt solve all our problems, how ever we will be able to supply water in adequate amounts, Wright said.


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The St. John's University gunman, who terrorized the Jamaica Estates campus on Sept. 26, will be going to a psychiatric facility rather than jail.
Omesh Hiraman, 22, of East Elmhurst, was found to be incompetent to stand trial following a report by court-appointed psychiatrists. They determined that he lacked the capacity to understand the proceedings against him or assist in his own defense. His attorneys agreed with the findings.
The decision was announced on Monday in a proceeding presided over by Queens Criminal Court Judge Joseph Zayas.
Hiraman was ordered to be turned over to the state commissioner of the Department of Mental Health for 90 days. After that, the state can seek additional commitment if deemed necessary.
According to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, the charges against Hiraman have been dismissed. "The defendant is clearly a very troubled young man," he said. "Under the circumstances, the court's decision is the right one for all concerned."
Hiraman, a St. John's student, came to campus with a .50-caliber loaded rifle, wearing a Halloween mask and hood. He was spotted by a number of students with the rifle in a black plastic garbage bag.
Students alerted campus security and one of the guards, Dan Boylan, came upon him on a second-floor breezeway of Marillac Hall. Boylan was assisted in apprehending Hiraman by Christopher Benson, a student and police cadet.
Hiraman bought the rifle upstate, but did not have a license to carry it in New York City. After his arrest, the campus remained in a lockdown for several hours until it was ascertained that he was the lone gunman.
The gunman's attorney said Hiraman suffered from schizophrenia and his condition was exacerbated by back surgery.
St. John's credits its new security notification system for quickly informing students by text and phone messages about the gunman.
Both Boylan and Benson were honored by the university for bringing the incident to a close.


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Damage is seen in a neighborhood in the Breezy Point area of Queens in New York after fire destroyed about 80 homes as a result of Hurricane Sandy.
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Never has a hurricane been more aptly, if tragically, named than Sandy, the superstorm that flooded New York City and battered much of the East Coast. At press time, the storm had killed at least forty-three people and caused an estimated $32 billion in damages to buildings and infrastructure—figures expected to increase in the coming days as emergency personnel pick through the wreckage—and left 8 million homes without electricity.
Sandy is short for Cassandra, the Greek mythological figure who epitomizes tragedy. The gods gave Cassandra the gift of prophecy; depending on which version of the story one prefers, she could either see or smell the future. But with this gift also came a curse: Cassandra's warnings about future disasters were fated to be ignored. That is the essence of this tragedy: to know that a given course of action will lead to disaster but to pursue it nevertheless.
And so it has been with America's response to climate change. For more than twenty years, scientists and others have been warning that global warming, if left unaddressed, would bring a catastrophic increase in extreme weather—summers like that of 2012, when the United States endured the hottest July on record and the worst drought in fifty years, mega-storms like the one now punishing the East Coast.
Hurricanes are fueled by hot ocean surface temperatures. The Atlantic Ocean is about five degrees Fahrenheit hotter than usual this fall, and as Katharine Hayhoe of the University of Texas has noted, about 15 percent of this extra heat is directly due to global warming. The flooding unleashed by Sandy is especially destructive, Kayhoe adds, because global warming has caused sea levels in the New York region to rise by one foot over the past century.
But scientists' warnings have been by and large ignored—at least within the corridors of power in Washington. As in the myth of Cassandra, today it remains unclear whether even the latest catastrophe—the devastation of America's greatest city, its center of commerce, finance and, tellingly, the news media—will cause the nation to wake up and take serious action.
There are signs of hope. Speaking Tuesday in Minneapolis, former president Bill Clinton called out Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for ridiculing the idea of fighting climate change, thereby becoming the first political heavyweight to explicitly link Sandy with climate change. Slowing the rise of the oceans, as candidate Barack Obama pledged to do in 2008, but which Romney mocked in his address to this year's Republican national convention, sounds like a pretty good idea in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Clinton said, adding, "In my part of America, we would like it if someone could have done that yesterday."
New York governor Andrew Cuomo, in a press briefing Tuesday morning, did not raise the climate connection himself but did affirm it. "We have a 100-year flood every two years now," Cuomo said he told president Obama by telephone. "Anyone who thinks that there is not a dramatic shift in weather patterns is denying reality," Cuomo added.
Obama himself, however, has not linked Sandy with climate change, thereby continuing the climate silence that has characterized both his and Governor Romney's presidential campaigns. Climate change went completely unmentioned in all three of the Romney-Obama debates, as well as in the debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan. This was historic: it marked the first time since 1984 that climate change was not discussed in any of the campaign debates. And when Obama was finally questioned about the omission last week in an interview with MTV, what was his response? Obama said he was "surprised" that climate change hadn't come up in the debates—as if he himself had nothing to do with that result. After all, he's only the president of the United States. Yet somehow Obama found plenty of time in the debates to brag about the record amount of oil drilling and pipeline laying his administration has presided over.
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By Bernard A. Krooks, Esq.,
Certified Elder Law Attorney
Severe neurological conditions that affect memory leave a large burden for the caregiver. Planning ahead and taking some simple steps now can lessen that burden and improve the care you receive.
If I asked you for a definition of estate planning, you might say that it means making sure that your loved ones receives what you have worked so hard for during your life when you pass away. Some of you might even say it means making sure that the government does not get any more than necessary in taxes from your estate when you die. Nevertheless, focusing on estate planning is about as desirable as going to the dentist for root canal work for many of us. Although it may weigh on our minds, there always seems to be something more important to do like buying a new car or planning a family vacation.
Surprisingly, there is something we like thinking about even less than estate planning and that is planning for the rest of our lives and, in particular, planning for the possibility that we may get sick and no longer be able to take care of ourselves. According to a recent survey by a major insurance company, more than half of all people would rather meet with an advisor to discuss their will and estate planning than discuss planning for long-term care needs. This is true despite the fact that approximately 50% of us over the age of 65 will spend some time in a nursing home before we die. Moreover, more than 50 percent of the people surveyed said that going to a nursing home is worse than becoming bankrupt and even worse than dying.
This is unfortunate since annual long-term care costs nationwide average approximately $75,000; and in some major metropolitan areas, the costs can exceed $150,000 per year. Generally speaking, long-term care is the assistance needed by someone who can no longer independently perform daily activities such as eating, bathing, toileting, transferring, or dressing. This care can be received at home or in an assisted living facility, adult day care center, or a nursing home.
Most people think that these costs affect only the life savings of the seniors receiving the care. However, a significant number of adult children take care of their aging parents, including paying the costs of housing, health care, and incidental expenses. Costs of clothing, home repair, and cell phones can be unnoticed and often come out of the pockets of the adult children. Most children are not abandoning their elderly parents but shouldering the significant time and financial burden required to help them.
This burden is compounded by the fact that most people simply do not have any idea how much long-term care costs, and they believe that Medicare pays this cost, which it does not. However, if we haven't planned in advance, our life savings can be depleted since Medicare coverage of long-term care is extremely limited. In fact, even if you qualify, Medicare pays for only a couple of months of care if you're lucky. It will pay only 20 days for "skilled nursing home care," which occur after a hospital stay. Thereafter, there are significant co-payments. In some special cases, and these are limited, Medicare will provide home care services without a prior hospital stay. In these cases, the person must be home-bound due to their condition, require intermittent (not full-time) skilled nursing care, and the person applies directly through a Medicare Certified Home Health Agency (CHHA).
Many theories abound attempting to explain our apprehension about planning for long-term care and the rest of our lives. While most Americans recognize the importance of planning for their possible long-term care needs, the emotions that surround the thought of losing our independence, as well as the misconceptions we may have about care options, make it uncomfortable for us to confront these issues. Here are 5 steps to help explain the facts about long term care, so that planning for the possibility of needing it becomes much less daunting.
Although the landscape has significantly changed since the enactment of the DRA, planning opportunities remain to protect your assets. The earlier you plan ahead, the more assets that can be protected for you and your family. Do yourself a favor; take the time today to plan for the rest of your life. Although the process might involve a significant amount of time and effort, and force you to confront some difficult issues, you're worth it. You and your family will be glad you did.
Bernard A. Krooks, JD, CPA, LLM (in taxation), CELA, is president and founding member of the NY Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and a nationally known and widely quoted expert on elder law. For more information, visit www.littmankrooks.com [2].
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Curl - FTPS - Auth TLS with CCC
What I'm working with;
curl 7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/184.108.40.206 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.2.2
Features: GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz
The settings of the FTPS site I am trying to connect to;
[morr1111-ugbbsk1307 ~]$ curl -v --ftp-ssl --data-ascii --ftp-pasv --no-epsv --user morr4457 ftp :// fts.airbus.com:21 -Q "CCC"
Enter host password for user 'morr1111':
* About to connect() to fts.airbus.com port 21 (#0)
* Trying 22.214.171.124... connected
* Connected to fts.airbus.com (126.96.36.199) port 21 (#0)
< 220 feftsprod4 FTP server (SecureTransport 4.7.2) ready.
< 234 SSLv23/TLSv1
* Initializing NSS with certpath: sql:/etc/pki/nssdb
* CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
CApath: none
* SSL connection using TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
* Server certificate:
* subject: CN=fts.airbus.com,OU=OI,O=AIRBUS,L=Blagnac,ST=Haut e Garonne,C=FR
* start date: May 30 00:00:00 2012 GMT
* expire date: Jun 15 23:59:59 2013 GMT
* common name: fts.airbus.com
* issuer: CN=VeriSign Class 3 International Server CA - G3,OU=Terms of use at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Legal Repository from VeriSign, Inc. (c)10,OU=VeriSign Trust Network,O="VeriSign, Inc.",C=US
> USER morr4457
< 331 Password required for morr4457.
> PASS xxxxxxxxx
< 230 Virtual user NG01111 logged in.
< 200 PROT command successful
< 257 "/" is current directory.
* Entry path is '/'
< 200 command channel cleared.
* Connect data stream passively
...and it just hangs. Now, I can make it work using CoreFTP, no problems. The main thing to overcome seems to have been the CCC, which is not a common feature.
I have obviously change a few little details, like my username and password, but you can see what's happening I think. I don't have enough experience with Curl to troubleshoot this and my FTPS knowledge is questionable at best. Is anyone able to give me some helpful hints or even a shove in the right direction?
Thanks for reading.
NOTE!: I had to put some spacing in, due to forum rules, I'm unable to post links, understandably, so the spaces in the command used are intentional, and not there when I actually try to connect.


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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.Oscar Wilde
If it feels like discouragement, fear, uneasiness, frustration, if it feels like anger -- that's what it means. That scarcity feeling has all those feelings wrapped through it. They are all indicators of some resistance within you. What those feelings are actually saying is, "Ah, as I'm feeling this thing that I'm calling scarcity, I'm a vibrational mismatch to the abundance that I want. I want abundance, but I'm not vibrating there. So as I reach for the thought that feels better, reach for the thought that feels better... so that those negative emotions subside, now I'm no longer resisting. I'm allowing. I've lined up the Energy within me."Abraham
I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. We can someday replicate that on a machine. Earthly life is carbon based and computers areBill Gates
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.Jeanne Moreau
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.Iris Murdoch
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.Paul Engle
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.Bertrand Russell
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.Denis Waitley
Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions.Norman Cousins
As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.Dalai Lama
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.Amy Vanderbilt
Whats most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. Im a great believer of energy and emotion.Ralph Bakshi
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This year's Thunder & Lightning honorees were instrumental in successfully blocking the voter photo ID law in South Carolina, a major victory that showed grassroots activism at its best.
Larrie Butler was born at home in Calhoun County in 1926 and never had a birth certificate. Mr. Butler exposed the governor's lack of knowledge about the law by having sufficient photo ID to buy Sudafed and a plane ticket, but not to vote in South Carolina. He was featured in local, state and national news programs, and his story illustrated how the new law would prevent some people from voting. (See video the SC Progressive Network shot of him in his home.)
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|Pat Buttram
as "Mr. Haney" on Green Acres
|Maxwell Emmett Buttram
June 19, 1915
Addison, Alabama, U.S.
|January 8, 1994 (aged 78)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death
|Renal failure
Resting place
|Maxwell Chapel, United Methodist Church
Haleyville, Alabama, U.S.
|Alma mater
|Birmingham-Southern College
|Film and television actor, writer
|Years active
Political party
|Dorothy McFadden (1936-1946; divorced); 1 child
Sheila Ryan (1952–1975; her death), 1 child
|Pat Buttram
as "Mr. Haney" on Green Acres
|Maxwell Emmett Buttram
June 19, 1915
Addison, Alabama, U.S.
|January 8, 1994 (aged 78)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death
|Renal failure
Resting place
|Maxwell Chapel, United Methodist Church
Haleyville, Alabama, U.S.
|Alma mater
|Birmingham-Southern College
|Film and television actor, writer
|Years active
Political party
|Dorothy McFadden (1936-1946; divorced); 1 child
Sheila Ryan (1952–1975; her death), 1 child
Maxwell Emmett "Pat" Buttram (June 19, 1915 – January 8, 1994) was an American actor, known for playing the sidekick of Gene Autry and for playing the character of Mr. Haney in the television series Green Acres. He had a distinctive voice which, in his own words, "... never quite made it through puberty".
Buttram was born in Addison in Winston County in northern Alabama, to Wilson McDaniel Buttram, a Methodist minister, and his wife Mary Emmett Maxwell. He had an older brother, Augustus McDaniel Buttram, as well as five other elder siblings. When "Pat" Buttram was a year old, his father was transferred to Nauvoo, Alabama. Buttram graduated from Mortimer Jordan High School, which was then located in Morris, Alabama, then entered Birmingham–Southern College to study for the Methodist ministry.[2] He performed in college plays and on a local radio station, before he became a regular on the "WLS National Barn Dance" in Chicago, Illinois.
Buttram went to Hollywood in the 1940s and became a "sidekick" to Roy Rogers. However, since Rogers already had two regulars, Buttram was soon dropped. He was then picked by Gene Autry, recently returned from his World War II service in the Army Air Force, to work with him. Buttram would co-star with Gene Autry in more than 40 films, and in over 100 episodes of Autry's television show.
Buttram's first Autry film was Strawberry Roan in 1948. In the late 1940s, Buttram joined Autry on his radio show, Melody Ranch and then on television with The Gene Autry Show. During the first television season, Buttram went by "Pat" or "Patrick", with a variety of last names. From the second season forward, he used his own name.
Buttram guest starred on three episodes of Walter Brennan's ABC sitcom, The Real McCoys, including the role of Cousin Carl in the episode "Back to West Virginny" (July 27, 1961). In the story line, the Amos, Luke, and Kate McCoy return to Smokey Corners, West Virginia, for the 100th birthday gathering of "Grandma McCoy", played by Jane Darwell. Henry Jones guest starred in this segment as Jed McCoy.[3]
Buttram is remembered for his role as Mr. Haney (Eustace Haney) in the 1965–1971 CBS television comedy Green Acres. He did voice work for several Disney animated features, playing Napoleon (hound dog) in The Aristocats, the Sheriff of Nottingham (a wolf) in Robin Hood, Luke (swamp inhabitant) in The Rescuers, Chief (hunting dog) in The Fox and the Hound, and one of the Toon bullets in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He had a recurring role as the voice of Cactus Jake on Garfield and Friends. One of his last roles was a cameo in Back to the Future Part III. His final voice over was A Goofy Movie, released a year after his death.
Buttram made the oft-quoted observation about the 1971 "rural purge", in which CBS cancelled many programs with a rural-related theme or setting: "CBS canceled everything with a tree — including Lassie", referring to the cancellations of Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction.[4] (Lassie actually ran until 1973.)
In 1936, Buttram married Dorothy McFadden, and the couple adopted a daughter named Gayle, but they divorced in 1946. In 1952, he married actress Sheila Ryan; the marriage ended with her death in 1975. They had a daughter named Kathrine (nicknamed Kerry) born in 1954. Buttram retired from acting in 1980 and made his home in his native Winston County, Alabama. However, he soon returned to California, where he made frequent personal appearances.
Buttram was a staunch Republican who helped Ronald W. Reagan spice up his speeches with political quips.[1] In 1993, Buttram expressed surprise that with the inauguration of Bill Clinton and Al Gore as U.S. President and Vice President, respectively, so many Hollywood actors were "taken with that whole country-boy image they tried to project."[1] According to his niece, Mary Buttram Young of Sheffield, Alabama, "Uncle Pat would always say, 'I'm from Alabama - I can see right through that'."[1]
Buttram died in 1994 at the age of seventy-eight of renal failure in Los Angeles, California. He was survived by his two daughters, Gayle Gangl (still surviving), and Kerry Buttram-Galgano, who died from cancer in 2007,[5]) and two granddaughters, Natalie and Angie Galgano, and an older brother, Gus Buttram of Haleyville, Alabama. He is interred at the cemetery at the Maxwell Chapel United Methodist Church[6] in Haleyville.
Buttram was also honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and also by a star on the "Alabama Stars of Fame" in Birmingham.
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The red-pigmented white pitcher plant we purchased at the UC Davis Arboretum Plant Faire looks like a flamboyant coral reef. Like a hat askew, its ruffled "lid" hangs over the trumpet-shaped "pitcher." The pitcher is actually a long, hollow tubular leaf.
But looks are deceiving.
Sarracenia leucophylla is a carnivorous plant. It draws insects and then devours them. In the few weeks we've had it, it's gobbled blow flies, snagged tachinid (parasitic) flies, and horrors, it ate two of our beloved honey bees.
I do not think I like this plant.
Our bee friendly garden is no longer friendly. There's war in our garden of peace. We have a weapon of mass destruction right in our own backyard. And you think Dracula is scary on Halloween!
Ernesto Sandoval, curator of the
"Ah, yes, the horrors of indiscriminate insectivity!" he says. "The Sarracenia, especially S. leucophylla are really good indicators of the relative abundance of insects and unfortunately, even honey bees are convinced to visit the flower-mimicking leaves."
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We often hear of "cream of the crop," but the honey bee is the "queen of the crops."
Honey bees are crucial to
Can you name a fruit or nut crop that absolutely depends on honey-bee pollination? So much so that no commerical crop could be produced without cross pollination? No, not tomatoes! Here are some: almond, avocado, apple (most varieties), apricot (some varieties), cherry, chestnut, lychee fruit, peach (some varieties), pear (some varieties) plum, pomegranate, prune, sunflower, tangelo and tangerine.
Vegetable seed crops dependent on honey-bee pollination? Among them: asparagus, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery, Chinese cabbage, collards, cucumber, kale, kohlrabi, leek, melon, mustard, onion, parsley, parsnip, pumpkin, radish rutabaga, squash, turnip and watermelon.
Vegetable seed crops dependent on honey-bee pollination? Among them: asparagus, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery, Chinese cabbage, collards, cucumber, kale, kohlrabi, leek, melon, mustard, onion, parsley, parsnip, pumpkin, radish rutabaga, squash, turnip and watermelon.
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I shot this photo at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. The honey bee looked huge and the fly, tiny. There they were together. (Ah, if you let your imagination run wild, there's a children's book there! Once upon a time, a bee and a fly...)
The fly is a minute black scavenger fly (Scatopsidae). You see these flies around decomposing matter (in this case, dead bees). After all, worker bees live only four to six weeks in the summer. During that time, they encounter all sorts of killers, such as diseases, pesticides, parasites, stress, climate change, intruders, and the mysterious colony collapse disorder).
Kimsey, an adjunct professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology, is known for not only his expertise on flies and his courtroom testimony, but his award-winning teaching. I'm not sure which is the most popular: the CSI television series or Kimsey's classes. (My bet: his classes!)
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What are insect pollinators worth to the global economy?
Well, it's a lot less than the Wall Street bailout...er...rescue plan.
Recent research published in the journal Ecological Economics reveals just how important insect pollinators are.
A Eureka Alert press release issued by the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres says that a team of French and German scientists found that the "worldwide economic value of the pollination service provided by insect pollinators, bees mainly, was $153 billion in 2005 for the main crops that feed the world."
That amounts to 9.5 percent of the total value of the world agricultural food production.
The study says that fruit and vegetables account for about a third of that total. The bee shortage has already hurt growers and consumers worldwide. Pollinator disappearance "would translate into a consumer surplus loss estimated between $190 to $310 billion," the news release says.
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Honey bee researchers think that stress may be one of the factors in the declining bee population. Other factors: malnutrition, diseases, pesticides, parasites and changing climates.
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