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Earn Money Blogging
Did you know you can make money from your sports blog? It's easy, fun, and completely free.
We've created a host of online tools which allow you to make money online through your blog without any technical training. In about 15 minutes you can have your account set up and you can start earning money!
In a nut shell all you have to do is create an account in our network of sports sites, sign up with Google AdSense, post some ad banner code, and start blogging. When people click on your ads you will earn money from every click. It's that simple. Check out our Revenue Share FAQ (below) to learn more about how you can start earning money from your sports blog.
Click here to view an article that was posted on Yahoo! News a few months ago about how bloggers are making money online.
Once you've created your account check out the "Earn Money Blogging" profile as we're always publishing tips and tricks on how you can increase your traffic and revenue.
Revenue Share Frequently Asked Questions
1. How does the revenue share program work?
2. How do I sign up for the revenue share program?
3. How do I sign up with Google AdSense?
4. How much can I expect to make blogging?
5. What is my blog's URL?
6. Where does my blog post appear?
7. What tips can you give me on blogging?
8. How else can I make money from my blog?
9. How can I increase traffic (and revenue) to my blog?
1. How does the revenue share program work?
You write blog entries and earn money on the revenue generated from the banners posted on your blog and profile pages.
On your profile and blog pages there are three major banner placements. At the top of the page (728 x 90), on the side of the page (160 x 600), and in the middle / bottom of the page (300 x 250). You create an account with Google's AdSense program, upload the banners to our servers, and your banners will appear when someone views your profile and blog pages. Google's AdSense program will feed in appropriate banners and will send you a check every month based on the number of times people clicked on the banners.
2. How do I sign up for the revenue share program?
First, you create an account on our network of sports sites. Click here and choose your favorite team.
Don't worry too much about which team is your favorite. Just pick a team and join that site. You only need to join one site - once you've joined one, you've actually joined all of the sites in our network, too. So create only one account. You can then join the other sites by adding those "communities" to your profile. Once you've logged in look for the "Join other sports communities sites" link in the welcome message (upper left hand corner once you've logged in). But keep in mind, you don't have to join any communities at all even if you want to write about that team - our system will find your blog posting and put it in the right spot. Joining the other communities is just an option and will simply let you interact with other fans of that team and appear on that team's home page.
Once you've created an account on our network log in and update your profile page and then write your first blog entry. When you're logged in, click on the "Your Blog" link at the very top of the page to write a new blog entry.
Once you've created your profile page and written your first blog entry, create an account using Google's AdSense program (see next questions for specific directions).
3. How do I sign up with Google AdSense?
It's free and easy to sign up for a Google AdSense account. Google will provide high quality text-links on your blog and profile pages and you will get paid every time someone clicks on one of the ads.
To sign up for an account click here: Sign up for Google AdSense.
Fill out all the information on this form. Your website URL will be your profile page on our sports site. NOTE: You must create an account on one of our sports sites as that account will be your URL. It will be something like this: http://www.nbabasketballonline.com/youname (although you can join any number of our sites so the domain name may be different if you've joined another site).
Once you've submitted your application to Google AdSense it usually takes 24 hours for them to approve your new account. So in the meantime go ahead and write a few blog entries and once you've been approved come back to this page and complete the final steps below.
Once you've created an account with Google and been approved you can log in here: https://www.google.com/adsense/login/en_US/?destination=%2Fadsense%2Fhome
Once you've logged in to Google AdSense all you need to do is input your Publisher ID in to the "Simple Banner Upload" tool (Note: You must be logged in to use this tool!). You can find your Publisher ID in the upper right hand corner when you log into Google AdSense. It will look something like this: "pub-2324299351234567".
Once you have your Google Pub-Id log into your sports site account and click on the "Revenue Share" link at the top of the page (you must be logged in to see the "Revenue Share" link). Then click on the "Simple Upload Tool" link in the middle of the page. You will see a form where you paste in your Google Pub-ID. Once this is done your Google Ads will appear on your profile page and all you blog posts. To verify that your account is set up correctly wait 24 hours and then log into your Google AdSense account. You should see at least a few impressions (meaning your ads were shown) for your account and with a modest amount of steady traffic you should start to see some clicks, too.
You can also upload custom ad units using our "Revenue Share" tools, so have a look at them when you get a chance (the link is always at the top of this page but you must be logged in to see the "Revenue Share" link).
If you have any questions of comments please let us know. If something is too confusing or too technical for you, we'll be happy to upload the banners for you. You just need to create your Google AdSense account and email us your username and password so that we can log into your account and grab your publisher id.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Never, ever, ever click on your own links thinking this will boast your earnings. Google has advanced techniques which will NOT count multiple clicks by the same user, and if they see a pattern of abuse they will cancel your account. In fact, you should NOT tell your friends and family that you earn money by people clicking on your banners because they often mistakenly think that by clicking on the ads repeatedly they will be helping you out, when in fact all they'll do is get your account cancelled.
4. How much can I expect to make blogging?
If you follow the directions above you will be creating an account with Google's AdSense program and you will be posting three banners on all of your blog and profile pages. From those three banner placements you will earn 100% of the revenue. In addition, as you find other monetization opportunities, like text links (see below), you will be able to earn more money.
The amount you make blogging will be directly proportionate to how much effort you put into your blog. When you first start your blog you will be making very little because you don't have a lot of blog entries and you don't have a following of people reading your blog. If you continue to write an interesting blog people will continue to come back to read what you have to say. Interesting blogs have a way of taking off almost like a spreading virus as people talk about them and tell their friends about them.
The great thing about writing a blog is that once it's written it can potentially earn you revenue forever. So after several months of blogging the number of blog entries that you have written will multiple as will your revenue from them.
If you work hard to build and grow your blog within a year or so you should be able to make $100-$200 per month. While this may not sound like a huge sum of money, it's not bad for doing something that you enjoy. In addition, many bloggers have been known to make lots more than that and have gone on to become "experts" on their topics and earn their entire full time living through their blogs and associated jobs.
This is very important and you will need to know this when you are telling people about your blog (including Google AdSense when you sign up with them).
To find your blog URL log into this site using the form at the very top of this page. And then once logged in, click on the "Your Profile" button at the top of the page. Then cut and paste the web URL that is in your browser's address bar to tell people about your blog. It will be something like this: http://www.nbabasketballonline.com/yourname/
The actual domain name will probably be different since you'll be joining your favorite team's site and the "yourname" will be your username from when you created your account.
6. Where does my blog post appear?
When you write a blog post on one of our sports sites your post will appear on your blog page. In addition, the title, your name, and a snippet of your post will appear on the home page of the appropriate team site, giving your post instant exposure. Our system looks for certain keywords like the city name and team name in the "Keywords / tags" section so make sure you use this to accurately define your blog post. For instance, if you write a blog post about the Yankees, make sure in the "Keywords" box you put "New York Yankees" (without the quotes) so that our system knows what the post is about and can map the post to the home page at http://www.newyorkyankeesnews.com. You do NOT have to be a member of the Yankees website to have your post show up there.
By writing blog posts on a variety of teams and sports you will get much more exposure because your by-line will end up on many different websites. So try and write on a variety of sports subjects and on a variety of sports teams.
7. What tips can you give me on blogging?
Make each blog post as interesting as possible. This may sound like common sense, but always keep it in mind. The more interesting your blog is the more people will read it. Quality is much more important than quantity. No one will read through a hundred blog posts (or even 10) to find one interesting one. But if each post is interesting people will be coming back week after week to read what you have to say.
You're more than welcome to blog on any sports subject you choose, however blogging on a subject that we have website for will give you much more exposure. We have a site for nearly every sport / team: every MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL team, as well as a golf, tennis, NASCAR, NHRA Drag Racing, MLS Soccer, horse racing, boxing, mixed martial arts, WNBA, college football, college basketball, and high school football. So if you blog on a subject covered by one of our sites your blog entry will get maximum exposure because we'll be linking from the appropriate site's home page directly to your blog.
8. How else can I make money from my blog?
In addition to Google Ads, there are quite a few other ways that you can earn revenue from your blog.
Keep in mind that all of the techniques mentioned below will work much better once you've established your blog and have a good sized following. In the early stages of your blog you are much better off spending time trying to network / market / and write new blog posts then you are trying to optimize your earnings and squeeze every penny out of the traffic you have.
There are several other companies that offer similar banners to blog owners and website publishers. Two good ones are:
There are three banner slots that you control on your blog page all of different sizes: 728 pixels x 90 pixels, 160x600, and 300x250. These are standard sizes that all ad networks have banner code for. You can put in banner code from any ad network into our Revenue Share - Advanced Banner Upload tool (Note: You must be logged in to use this tool). Just make sure it is the right size. One easy thing to do would be to join the other two ad networks above and put in 1 ad from Google, 1 ad from WidgetBucks and 1 ad from Chitika. This will add variety to your blog ads and may increase your overall earning. Or you may find that one ad network simply works better for your blog. The key here is to experiment a little bit so that you start to optimize the traffic you have.
What's known as "affiliate marketing" is another great way to monetize your blog. Affiliate marketing simply means that you join an affiliate program and earn money when someone clicks from your blog over to the affiliate owner's website and makes a purchase or completes some other action like signing up for a mailing list. Nearly every company has an affiliate program these days. Amazon is a great one to join because they are very reputable and offer so many products you're sure to find some that your users will like. To join Amazon's affiliate program go here:
Once you've joined an affiliate program you can post banners similar to the Google AdSense banners. Most affiliates will have the standard sizes that you can use on your blog.
What works best with blogs, however, is to actually do a write up / review of a product and then link to it in the blog post so that your readers can buy it from the affiliate. You will typically earn between 5% and 10% of the purchase price when someone completes a purchase through your affiliate link. This works very well because typically you will only be reviewing products that you actually use and really like, so you can write an honest and enthusiastic review. Your readers are usually people with similar interests to yourself so the post hits a targeted demographic and can result in a good conversion rate. As an example, suppose you bought the new issue of Sports Illustrated and read a good article that you wanted to comment on. You could write a blog post commenting on the article and then have an affiliate link to Amazon so people could subscribe to Sports Illustrated through Amazon (yes Amazon sells magazines, too!). The key here is to look around at the products and services that you use on a daily basis, find an affiliate program that sells the product, and then mention the product and link to it in your blog post.
Taken a step further, once you've established yourself as a blogger with substantial traffic and an interest in reviewing products, companies may approach you and offer to give you a free demo product and ask for a review in exchange. Depending on how much traffic you have, you can easily charge for this service. And taken even a step further (again you'll need substantial traffic to make this work) you can join a service link ReviewMe (http://www.reviewme.com/) which specializes in matching up bloggers with people who want reviews for their products and services. Prices range but you can typically earn $25-$500 per review depending on how big a following you have on your blog.
Once your blog has been around for a while your blog page will get what's called Google PageRank (PR). Google ranks pages and gives them a score between 1 and 10. It's a complicated equation but basically more PageRank is good and shows more authority within the Google algorithm. Google PageRank is freely available for everyone to see so potential advertisers will always look at your PR when they are negotiating a price for advertising on your blog. The way you increase your PR is getting outside websites to link directly to your blog (see "How can I increase traffic (and revenue) to my blog?"). Once your profile and blog page have a PR4 or greater you will start getting invitations from companies who want to buy text links on your blog page. Typically you can charge around $10-$25 / month for a small text link. When you get these requests just let us know and we'll be happy to help you implement these text links so you can make more money.
To check your blog and profile page's PR use this tool: http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-lookup/
It usually takes a few months for Google to fully index your blog pages so you shouldn't expect to show any PR for at least a few months. Our sites are designed to grow your PR as quickly as possible so once Google has found your page and indexed it, you should have a PR1 to PR3 pretty easily, but to get to a PR4 or PR5 you will need to get outside sites to link directly to your blog.
In addition, once your blog has some Google PR you will start to get requests for embedding links into your blog posts. This is usually from ticket brokers. Whether you do this or not is completely up to you, but you can generally earn between $100 to $200 for each embedded link that you provide to a ticket broker. Often they will want them embedded into an old blog post that you write months ago because that blog post now has some Google PR. Or sometimes they might even commission a story about a specific sports related subject and ask that you link back to their sites using certain keywords. Keep in mind that the main thing that determines the price you can charge is the amount of Google PR that your blog has, so if you can get your blog to a PR5 you'll get the upper end of the range, while if your blog is only a PR4 you'll only be able to get the bottom end of the range. So you should always be out there trying to get people to link to your blog.
Once you've established yourself as a serious blogger you will start to get advertisers contacting you about placing ads directly on your blog page in place of the Google Ads. This is how you will start to make the most money from your blog. You'll be cutting out the middle man (Google) and selling directly to the advertisers. Once again, how much you can charge depends on how big a following you have and how much Google PageRank you have. Typically you simply need to multiple the amount you're making from Google AdSense by at least 2 or 3 times to arrive at a price (Google takes about half of the revenue earned from AdSense).
9. How can I increase traffic (and revenue) to my blog?
Building a loyal following on your blog isn't going to be easy. It's going to take some time. And while our network of sports sites does get substantial traffic and you will benefit from that traffic, in order to turn your blog into something that makes $100, $200, $1,000 or even $5,000 per month it is going to take a lot of work on your part. It's not going to be easy. But hopefully it'll be fun.
As a blogger the most important thing you can do is write quality content. This builds readership. Quality content also gets linked to from other sites. If a person reads your post and they run a blog, they are quite likely to post a link to your blog because they like your blog and think their readers will like it too.
But after writing you will need to be proactive in trying to market your blog. The single biggest misconception about the internet is the old saying "if you build it they will come." This is simply not the case. As a rule you should be spending almost as much time marketing your blog as you do actually writing blog posts. This comes as a surprise to people, but if you really want to earn money from your blog this is the truth. Keep in mind that making money from your blog is not mandatory. If you just want to write about sports and don't care about the money, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Writing can be fun, educational, and very therapeutic - which is reward enough. But if you want to try and turn your ability to write into money, read through the rest of this post.
All the things that people and companies do to promote themselves in the online and off-line world could probably work for your blog, too. Below is a list of some simple things that you can do to get things started but this is by no means an exhaustive list so be creative and try and come up with other ways, too.
Getting inbound links to your blog is at the core of every marketing effort you will do for your blog. Inbound links simply mean getting people on other websites to link to your blog. Any inbound link is good. The importance of inbound links really can't be overstated. The links will bring people over to your blog and often times once a link is in place it will remain in place for a long time. In addition to the people who click over to your site through these links, inbound links also work as a way for the search engines to find and rank your blog. The more inbound links Google finds leading to your blog the more authority they will give your blog for the keywords that people type into their search engine. So as you think about marketing your blog always keep an eye out for opportunities to get inbound links.
One easy way to get inbound links is to get people to place our "Headline Widget" with your username in it. The "Headline Widget" displays the titles, a snippet of your blog posts, and a link back to your blog on their webpage. It's a small bit of HTML code that they place on their page and our server feeds in your blog posts dynamically. It's free, easy, and can provide quality content to other webpages.
There are lots of other sports blogs out there. Find them, read them, and post intelligent comments on their blog (you can usually place a link in your comment to your blog). If people read your comments and like what they read, they're quite likely to click over to your blog.
An easy way to start this process is to comment on other blogs within our own sports network. Every comment you leave on a blog post in our sports network posts your icon and a link back to your blog. This is a quick simple way to start to build a following of readers.
Once you've established yourself on our sports network branch out and start commenting on other blogs. Do a Google search for your favorite team plus the word "blogs" and you'll most likely get a whole bunch of blogs about your favorite team. Another great way of finding blogs it to look at Technorati's blog listing page at: http://technorati.com/blogs/directory/
Once you've found a few blogs similar in scope to your blog, read a few posts on these blogs and post comments with a link back to your site.
In addition to other blogs, you can usually find online forums related to your blog. Again, when you post comments in these forums you will often times be allowed to put a small link back to your blog.
One word of warning, you can actually do yourself more harm then good by quickly jumping onto blogs and forums and posting not-so-intelligent comments. You can be banned from the blog / forum or worse, ruin your reputation as a quality writer. The whole point of this process is to gain readers, which you can only do by adding intelligent, insightful, comments. Comment spam is wide speard and highly frowned upon by nearly everyone - so don't be a comment / forum spammer. Add to the discussions on these other sites and people will be happy to click on your link and check out your blog.
Once you've established relationships with other blogs by commenting on them, you might consider writing a "guest post" for that blog. Guest posts are very common and are simply a blog entry posted by someone other than the blog owner. Blog owners love this because it's quality content for their readers without having to do much for it. And it's good for the guest blogger because at the end of the blog you'll be able to post a little bit about yourself and a link back to your blog. Email the blog owner and tell them you have your own blog and that you'd like to write a guest post for their blog. Send them a link to your blog and pitch them an idea for a blog post. It's quite likely that they'd love to have your guest post.
Another way to get inbound links is to ask other bloggers to review your site and tell them you will review their site in exchange. You can easily write a quick review about their site and link to them and they are usually happy to do the same for you.
Another great way to start to build an online reputation and network with like-minded fans is to build a presence on social news sites like Digg (www.digg.com) or social link sites like Stumble Upon (www.stumbleupon.com). If you've never used these sites, they're basically a community of people who recommend news stories, websites, blog posts, or anything that's online to each other. Each site works differently but they are all basically the same idea - users recommend content to other users. Join the site and learn how it works and become a part of the community. We have a mini how-to here if you'd like to learn more about how to increase traffic to your website using social media websites: http://www.nbabasketballonline.com/bloggers/weblog/3899/how-to-use-social-media-websites.html
Our network of sports sites is already set up for this sort of online promotion. When you post a blog entry you'll notice that you see a bunch of icons underneath it which link to these sites. Once you have an account with the site you can just click the link and submit the story. There is still a lot to be done even once it's submitted, but these icons make submitting very easy. Getting your post to the top of these sites takes some work and the actual process differs from site to site, but basically once submitted you rate it and try and get your "friends" to rate it too, and try and get your friends to pass it along to their friends, etc. etc.
Again, though, these sites take some time to build up a good reputation and gain trusted friends. Joining for the sole purpose of promoting your own blog probably isn't going to amount to much. But joining and using the sites as they are intended and then promoting your blog is a great way to have fun and build readers at the same time. If you can get your blog post to the top of the different lists on these sites it can literally mean hundreds of thousands of people finding your blog in a very short amount of time.
As you network around the internet and let people know about your blog what will happen is that Google and other search engines will start to notice your links and rank your blog higher and higher in the organic search results.
The great thing about all of these sites is that once you've got a few links on them those links remain a part of the web for a long time. People will continue to go back to the blog posts in the future, find your comments, and then click over to your blog. A solid link goes a long way.


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People with chronic lung or immunodeficiency diseases such as COPD need to be extremely aware of avoiding viral, bacterial, parasitic, and fungal lung infections, since these conditions make it more difficult for your body to stop and kill invading organisms. Consequently, you are more likely to get lung infections and, your infection will last longer. Lung infections will make your COPD symptoms much worse: you will be more short of breath, cough more, and have even less energy. Furthermore, once infected, it is more likely that the infection will progress to pneumonia.
Although it is important to take preventative measures to avoid lung infections, you do not need to isolate yourself from other people. There is no guaranteed way to prevent infections, however, if you are proactive with your vaccines, take the time to wash your hands, and are aware of your surroundings, then you will increase your chances of living an infection free life. Here is what we suggest:
Wash your hands thoroughly and frequently. Good hand washing with soap and water is one of the easiest and best ways to avoid getting all sorts of infections. Be extra vigilant at good hand washing whenever you visit a hospital, clinic, school, or any other place where a large number of people are gathered. Alcohol-based gels are also effective.
When you do cough or sneeze, make sure you do so into your elbow area, a tissue or handkerchief rather than into your hands.
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Chili Lime Rubbed Steak Recipe:
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon coriander
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
2 Tablespoons lime juice
1 Tablespoon olive oil
1-2 pounds flank steak
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Resting with a Cup in Venice August 1, 2007
We're of the opinion that there are two difficult things about visiting Venice. The first is making sure you have a map, because yes, you will get lost. The second is dragging your luggage through the main Venice island during high season.
Upon arriving in Santa Lucia train station, we took care of the map issue immediately at the crowded tourist office at the station. Getting our luggage down to Giudecca, that long island to the south of the "fish" of main Venice, proved to be more of a chore.
Sure, the vaporettos (public boats) are good and they get you there, but if you take the wrong one, it makes for a longer trip, and that happens quite often. Then, if you get off at the wrong stop, all those cute, little bridges that are part of the allure of Venice become the most evil thing in the world with rolling luggage and under the August sun.
However, once we got to our hotel in the middle of the afternoon, all was quickly forgiven when we looked out of the window to see Venetian palaces across the main canal as we looked at each other in excitement and said, "We're in Venice!"
After a short nap, we realized that we were too tired as well as too hungry to join the flocks of tourists migrating into places like Saint Mark's Square. So, we popped over to the local Giudecca market and got two of the best things there are in Italy: prosciutto and mozzarella.
We then returned to the hotel, made up two cups of chai, and went out to the nearest bridge that had defied our luggage earlier and sat down by the water to watch the boats passing by. While obviously two very cheap tourists, we were also two very happy tourists because not only was the food wonderfully tasty, and the sunset on the canal striking, but the chai was great to finish off such rich and heavy food with its spicy aromas and deep body. It all got us prepared to tackle Tourist Central the next day.
Where: Fondamenta Sant Angelo, Giudecca Island, Venice, Italy
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Weekend Driver: Modern American muscle meets classic burger joint
Pepper Tree Frosty in Vista has roots to 1953
Weekend Driver / Jack Brandais
A beautiful San Diego day and it was almost time for lunch. In the driveway was a modern interpretation of the classic, big American sedan, a Dodge Charger R/T —its Hemi waiting to rumble.
I headed to one of the few surviving original drive-in burger joints in the county — Pepper Tree Frosty in Vista. Unfortunately, the country roads that once led to downtown Vista are now four- and six-lane suburban highways, but the upscale developments that built these roads have created quite a pleasant drive for visitors.
Head to the Leucadia Boulevard exit from Interstate 5 and after exiting head east over the hill to El Camino Real. You'll pass the first of three golf courses along the way, the Encinitas Ranch Golf Course. The boulevard goes through a portion of the course with a classy bridge providing access for golf carts going from one side to another.
Although Encinitas is known as a beach town, you will enter the area where most of its residents live and the area where most of the towns in coastal North County intersect. To the south and west are Encinitas and its communities of Leucadia and Olivenhain; north are Carlsbad and its community of La Costa. As you reach Rancho Santa Fe Road —its namesake community is to the south —and make the turn north, you'll enter the outskirts of San Marcos. And then a left on Melrose Drive (which becomes South Melrose after Palomar Airport Road) to a right on West Vista Way.
What have developed over the last 20 years are some pretty neighborhoods served by meandering boulevards that on a Sunday morning aren't crowded. I wouldn't want to drive them in rush hour, but with minimal traffic, drivers and passengers can enjoy the palm-lined byways, especially in a car like the Charger.
The R/T tester with 370-hp, 5.7 liter Hemi V-8 and five-speed AutoStick was nicely dressed in leather-trimmed seats, navigation and the Beats by Dr. Dre sound system. The hills and curves didn't test either the Hemi or the sport suspension. It was just the kind of road my Dad used to look for when we'd take Sunday drives in the '64 Pontiac Catalina.
I'd love to have the old Catalina at a car show, but I'd rather take the Charger to get there.
• Interstate 5 to Leucadia Boulevard. Head east.
• Continue onto Olivenhain Road.
• Continue onto Rancho Santa Fe Boulevard, heading north.
• Left at South Melrose Drive.
• Right at West Vista Way.
• Left at Vista Village Drive.
• Right at North Santa Fe Avenue.
Pepper Tree Frosty, 270 S. Santa Fe Ave., Vista, (760) 726-0732, http://peppertreefrosty.com
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Melrose Drive provides another pleasant drive with even a bit of old North County along the way. Actor Leo Carrillo's old estate, now a museum, is just off on a side street; and a half-mile or so of horse stalls and ranchettes line the road just before drivers reach the county courthouse in Vista.
In Vista, while the city has developed its old center into modern suburbia, the crazy quilt of streets remain, so be sure to make all the turns.
The Pepper Tree, with roots to 1953, didn't disappoint. Be sure to walk up like you're a local and order a burger from the back window and the chocolate malted from the front. Then enjoy lunch on one of the picnic tables. The old pepper tree is long gone, but the Pepper Tree carries on. And make plans for the annual Burger Run car show, typically in mid-January. Hundreds of cars will turn out.
Nostalgia isn't always what it used to be, but finding some of the good stuff that's still around is always great fun. Pick any sunny day you like and hit the road.
Jack Brandais is a San Diego freelance writer. Reach him through his website, www.weekenddriver.com.


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1a.Objectives (from AD-416)
The objectives of the project are to.1)Assemble a collection of natural accessions and 2,000 homozygous T-DNA lines,.2)Conduct a detailed phenotypic characterization of the collection using a phenomic approach, and.3)Begin detailed characterization of a select group of mutants and natural accessions.
1b.Approach (from AD-416)
We will apply a phenomic strategy to identify Brachypodium mutants and natural accessions with variation in traits (e.g. biomass, growth rate, root architecture, cell wall composition, water and nutrient use efficiency) relevant to the development of biomass crops. A key advantage of this approach over traditional single trait screens is that we will identify variation in many traits simultaneously and, due to repeated measurements over time and carefully controlled conditions, we will be able to detect relatively modest phenotypic changes. These types of incremental changes may be particularly useful in the development of biomass crops because there may be fewer unintended consequences that decrease other agronomic qualities than with single gene variation that results in large phenotypic changes. To begin the process of translating the variation observed in Brachypodium into biomass crops, we will initiate studies aimed at identifying the genes responsible for the traits in question. Documents Grant with Sebanci University.
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Insane Clown Posse and four fans are suing the FBI and Department of Justice, alleging their constitutional rights were violated when the feds labeled their "Juggalo" devotees a gang, according to the New York Daily News.
"It's time for the FBI to come to its senses and recognize that Juggalos are not a gang but a worldwide family united by the love of music," said ICP member Joseph Bruce, aka Violent J, in a statement released by the Michigan American Civil Liberties Union, which joined the suit.
"There has never been -- and will never be -- a music fan base quite like Juggalos, and while it is easy to fear what one does not understand, discrimination and bigotry against any group of people is just plain wrong and un-American."
He's right about one thing. There has never been anything like the Juggalos.
The Juggalos are known for painting their faces like clowns -- just like their heroes Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope. Their weeklong "Gathering of the Juggalos," is notorious for its blatant drug use and overall bad behavior, according to the Daily News.
In 2011, the Department of Justice designated Juggalos a "hybrid gang." The government has estimated there are a million Juggalos.
Sounds like they're breeding.
That designation has led to at least two fans being harassed by police, according to the lawsuit. Brandon Bradley, 20, said police in Sacramento "on numerous occasions" accused him of being in a gang, and interrogated him about his Juggalo tattoos and clothing. Scott Gandy said he was rejected by the Army, which labeled his ICP tattoo as a gang symbol. He spent $800 to have his Juggalo tattoos covered, but was still rejected.
"It's unfair that police are treating fans of ICP like criminals just because of the music we like," said Bradley. "Even though the Juggalo community has had a positive effect on my life, now I feel I have to cover my tattoos in certain areas or risk being harassed by police. It's wrong to make me hide who I am."
Right. A guy who wears makeup.
The Department of Justice did not have immediate comment on the lawsuit, the Daily News said.
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A man captured at gunpoint by the president of an eastern Missouri bank has pleaded guilty to robbery charges.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 58-year-old Donald Ray Lee pleaded guilty last week to second-degree robbery for the October holdup of Peoples Bank & Trust in Troy. Sentencing is March 1.
Police say Lee wore his granddaughter's Halloween mask when he walked into the bank, demanded money and put his hand in his coat pocket, indicating he had a gun.
He didn't really have a weapon. Bank president David Thompson did.
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Mission: Can I Get Kelly Ripa's Body?
One writer's journey to find strength (and a thinner waistline?) through the celebrity-worshiped fitness workout, Physique 57
I walk into the carpeted studio (carpet? OK no judgment) for the "beginner" class with about 10 other women who all look relatively normal (i.e., not models -- phew) and find a spot in the back of the room. Kyle, the instructor, jogs in. He is lean, tall, and a super good-looking guy in a black tank top. And now I'm nervous.
"Grab a water bottle," he says. "You burn way more calories when you are hydrated." Sounds like crazy fitness instructor talk, but it's true: Researchers at the University of Utah found that adults who consume eight or more glasses of water each day burned significantly more calories than people who only drank four or less. Good thing I came to class with a 32-ouncer.
Kyle then introduces himself individually to each of us, asks about any preexisting injuries, and instructs us to grab a pair of five-pound weights. "Five pounds?" I think. No big deal, right?
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Great job! Getting started is the hardest part and as long as you continue, it'll be easy to keep those good habits. Now I am inclined to look into the Physique 57 classes. There is not gym where I live that offers it, but perhaps I can find a DVD where I can try it at home. Nice work!
by flirtygirl214 Friday, August 10, 2012 at 02:02PM Report as inappropriate
Great but now work in healthy foods. See the real change.
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Researchers at the University of Utah found that adults who consume eight or more glasses of water each day burned significantly more calories than people who only drank four or less. WHY ISN'T THIS SHOUTED FROM THE ROOFTOPS???
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I found videos on youtube and did a 5 min one for arms.
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This was a great article, but I don't think I'll be trying out these DVDs.
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Kelly Ripa looks like a skeleton...
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This was a wonderfully witty and honest article that I can totally relate to. Thank you for the inspiration! You rock! =)
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Im trying to loose weight but i have no motivation, this motivates me to be active. And i know its really hard to cut back on our favorite food
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Wonderful, my girl! Confessing to breaking down and all, putting yourself through the mill, and coming out the other side a winner! Yesssss! Make all us gals proud, and I, for one, am truly motivated!
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she looks so and sounds so much better in the second video than the first
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Gov. Jerry Brown in a steamy political scandal? Unlikely.
Another national economic collapse? Also a long shot.
After last week's primary election, the real question is: Does a rookie Republican like Neel Kashkari have any chance of toppling a popular governor in an ultrablue state?
California political experts say only Brown's, ahem, death could keep him from winning an unprecedented fourth term in November. But even the Grim Reaper himself wouldn't necessarily lift Kashkari to victory: California election laws give even candidates in coffins the right to stay alive on the ballot.
Brown got 54 percent of the vote in Tuesday's primary, even though he didn't campaign at all -- no mailers, no TV or radio ads, no political events. He held onto all but a smidgen of his $20.7 million campaign war chest.
Recent polls show his approval rating as high as 59 percent as voters give him credit for a newly stable state budget and falling unemployment. Brown, 76, also has the name recognition that comes with 40 years in elected office. But the 40-year-old Kashkari, a former U.S. Treasury Department official who has never held elected office and helped bail out the banks after the economy collapsed in 2008, is still introducing himself to voters.
Kashkari, who won 19 percent of the vote Tuesday, had to put $2.1 million of his own money into an ad blitz to best tea party Republican Tim Donnelly. His digs at Brown -- blaming him for "the destruction of the middle class" and relentless pursuit of a "crazy train" high-speed rail project -- aren't getting much traction beyond the GOP, preferred by only 28 percent of California voters.
Perhaps Kashkari's glimmer of hope is that the nation's political history is dotted with upsets that prove no pundit can predict all the possibilities.
History also shows that sudden scandals can destroy once-unassailable candidates.
But Jack Pitney, a Claremont McKenna College professor of politics, said the chance of Brown facing "personal scandal is almost nonexistent -- he's just not a personal-scandal kind of guy; he's never been interested in enriching himself."
"And at his age," Pitney added drolly, "other types of scandal seem unlikely."
Pitney said there's always a chance someone in Brown's administration could get caught with a hand in the cookie jar -- "that's just the nature of government" -- but it would take widespread corruption to tar Brown's name.
Yet Brown's decades of squeaky-clean image would probably carry him through even that, said Corey Cook, director of the University of San Francisco's Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good.
"He's never been a transactional politician -- those are the people who get themselves in trouble," Cook said, referring to the kind of horse trading and mutual back-scratching embraced by many but eschewed by Brown.
Pitney said the only opening he sees for Kashkari would be "a sudden economic downturn, which could rapidly darken the state's fiscal outlook, particularly if the stock market crashes." California's disproportionate dependence on capital gains taxes means a market crash could send the budget from black to red fast, he said, and Kashkari "could argue the state government's prosperity has been an illusion."
But Cook contends that even then, most voters would probably prefer an experienced hand at the helm to manage the crisis.
Steve Boilard, director of CSU Sacramento's Center for California Studies, noted that with state revenues still exceeding expectations and Brown's May budget revision looking fairly rosy, the next big checkup won't come until the Legislative Analyst's Office issues its fiscal forecast in November -- after the election.
"I want to believe that the voters can choose whomever they want and nothing is ever a foregone conclusion," Boilard said, "but I really just don't see any realistic scenario in which a majority of the public would say, 'We don't like the job Jerry is doing.'"
There's always the possibility of his untimely demise. Still, a candidate who's entitled to appear on the general election ballot remains on the ballot even after death, and if he or she gets the most votes, "he or she shall be considered elected to that office," state law says.
The seat, of course, would then be deemed vacant, and the lieutenant governor would take over.
Given California's left-of-center proclivities, there's a good chance that most voters would pick a dead Brown (and, by extension, probably a live Gavin Newsom) over a live Kashkari.
"Such things have happened," Pitney said, noting that U.S. Sen. John Ashcroft, R-Mo., lost his seat to Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan in 2000, weeks after Carnahan perished in a plane crash. In fact, Pitney -- a former GOP staffer and policy analyst -- says his very first political campaign was on behalf of a dead sheriff in New York's Saratoga County.
"We framed it as a tribute," he said.
Boilard, tongue firmly in cheek, said he sees only one way Brown won't win re-election: an asteroid hitting Earth.
"It's an outside chance," Boilard said, "but I think it's the best chance that those who want to see Jerry Brown leave would have."
Few think Republican Neel Kashkari has any chance of unseating Gov. Jerry Brown in November. But history has shown that sometimes polls and pundits get it wrong:
1948 presidential election: Incumbent Democrat Harry Truman lost all nine of the Gallup Poll's post-convention surveys. And although Truman showed gains, few political analysts thought he had any chance of beating Republican nominee Thomas Dewey. Truman's huge win -- 303 Electoral College votes to Dewey's 189 -- was punctuated by the famous photo of a victorious Truman holding aloft a copy of Chicago Daily Tribune with a "Dewey defeats Truman" headline.
1991 Pennsylvania U.S. Senate election: When GOP Sen. John Heinz died in a plane crash, the governor named Democrat Harris Wofford to fill the seat until a special election. Polls showed the long-winded and underfunded Wofford trailing Republican former governor and U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh by as much as 40 points. But Wofford's ability to connect with working-class voters, and his ability to tie Thornburgh to the increasingly unpopular presidency of George H.W. Bush, took pundits by surprise: Wofford won by 10 percentage points.
1998 Minnesota gubernatorial election -- Polls said Democrat Hubert "Skip" Humphrey III had the upper hand over Republican Norm Coleman. But when Election Day arrived, former professional wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura -- who had run a shoestring, grass-roots campaign as a Reform Party candidate -- had sneaked up and body-slammed both the major-party candidates into submission. Many of his votes apparently came out of Humphrey's camp, leaving the Democrat in third place.
2006 Virginia U.S. Senate election -- Polls showed incumbent Republican George Allen was headed for a second term right up until August, when he was caught on videotape using an ethnic slur against a staffer from Democratic challenger Jim Webb's campaign. His lead instantly narrowed, though he still led in the polls through late October. But when the dust cleared, Webb won by three-tenths of a percentage point.
2008 Louisiana 2nd Congressional District election -- Incumbent Democrat William Jefferson won in 2006 even after the FBI raided his offices in a corruption probe. He was sworn in for his ninth term in January 2007 and indicted by a federal grand jury five months later. He still beat six challengers in 2008's Democratic primary, but low turnout helped Republican Anh "Joseph" Cao oust him that December despite it being one of the nation's most heavily Democratic districts. Jefferson, convicted in 2009, began serving his 13-year sentence in 2012.


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Dothan has only had one library for more than 50 years.
Soon, the city will have two with the construction of a new library downtown and at Westgate Park.
It's a three year project in the making and finally the wood is being sawed, steel beams are up, bricks are being laid, and everything seems to be right on track.
Right now everyone can't contain their excitement, about the progress.
"I can't begin to tell you how excited I am about this, this has been a long time coming for Dothan," Cindy Aman, Dothan Library Board, member.
"Oh it is exciting, everyday is different, certainly every week is different," says Bettye Forbus, Director of Houston-Love Memorial Library.
Two libraries will be built in the city, one at Westgate Park, the other in downtown right next door to the current location.
And library leaders say looks can be deceiving.
"Everybody is amazed at how quickly things are coming up, and although it seems slow at first, when their doing all the stuff you can't see in the ground laying the pad, running the wiring, once, the steels started coming up, and you can actually see, things taking shape, it is amazing," says Bettye Forbus, Director of Houston-Love Memorial Library.
So, not only are things progressing at the downtown location, but if you head over to, Westgate and things are going along quite nicely as well, it's something Dothan leaders are proud of.
"Because of all the activity going on out there, people using the rec center, ballparks out there, galore, the hiking trail, the walking trail the bike trial, I think we will pick up an awful lot of traffic there," Cindy Aman, Dothan Library Board, member.
Traffic that's well worth the money and time invested from both local governing boards, private donations and a grant.
It's progress that could have been delayed by rain but is actually ahead of schedule.
"We had a lot of rain, in the last couple of months, and it put us behind a couple of weeks, but we have worked a lot of overtime, and almost every Saturday, so we've gotten back up to where we need to be and it looks like we will be able to finish up a month ahead of schedule," says Mike Lewis, owner Lewis Construction.


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I am looking for information on old private cemeteries in Wood County.
Growing up I visited my grandfathers nephew, Oneal Vance, in Hawkins often. My grandfather was Stephen Grady Myers. Oneal often took us to cemeteries and showed us where familly members were buried. One day he took us to one close to his home in Hawkins that was on someones private land. He referred to it as the "Redlands"?
It was a very small cemetery and my grandfather, Johnny A. Meyers, was buried there. I do have a picture of the tombstone and his last name is mispelled.
I would like to know if there is any listings of such cemeteries available to help us locate it again. Any information you could give me or any clues would be a great help.
Thank you for your help.
Stella Lack Green
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"Temple Grandin" Receives 15 Emmy Nominations
Congratulations to everyone who was involved in the creation and production of HBO's "Temple Grandin," which received 15 Emmy nominations.
From specialchildren.about.com:
The nominations for the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards were revealed this morning, and HBO's biopic Temple Grandin cleaned up with 15 nominations, including one for Claire Danes's portrayal of Grandin, two supporting-actress nods for Julia Ormond as Temple's mother and Catherine O'Hara as Temple's aunt, supporting-actor recognition for David Strathairn as a sympathetic teacher, and nominations for writing, directing, and best made-for-TV movie.
What an honor it is for Temple to have her remarkable life story honored in this fashion; we are confident that our friends in the autism community will join us in echoing that sentiment. The movie is currently airing on HBO and HBO On-Demand – check it out and share your thoughts.
More from the Autism Speaks Blog about the film
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July 9, 2010 at 11:19 am
How thrilling for Temple, the actors, writers and producers of this wonderful project. And Emmy would be well deserved!
July 9, 2010 at 12:29 pm
That was an awesome movie!!! I really enjoyed it. To learn about the thinking process of someone with autism.
July 9, 2010 at 4:36 pm
I really want to see this picture, I am allways wondering what is (my autistic son) thinking of, we live in southamerica, please send us more information about the movie
July 10, 2010 at 7:59 pm
wow … new look, eh? Take a look at http: // www . theautismnews . com/ which has been active since Jan 2009!
July 12, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Temple is an amazing person.
I am so happy that she will be speaking at this year's Kickapoo COuntry Fair (www.kickapoocountryfair.org) in LaFarge, WI on Saturday 7/24/10!!!
July 13, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Way to go, Ms. Grandin! And in the words of one of the characters in the movie, "Ms. Grandin, this is a masterpiece!"
July 17, 2010 at 6:04 pm
I recently watched "Temple Grandin" on HBO; it was one of the most moving docudramas I've seen in a very long time. Claire Danes' portrayal of an autistic woman was so accurate it was nearly painful. We have a grandson with Asperger syndrome and have some first-hand, real world experience with this. It would have been so easy to go over the top in the portrayal but good judgement and a gentle hand were used. The result was a movie that deserves every award possible.
August 6, 2010 at 9:19 am
Our family is trying to spread the word about Autism through the Fast Company Influence Project.
Click on http://fcinf.com/v/dcyx and make Dean Reilly-Vinicombe the most Influential Person on the Web. Dean is 12 years old and was diagnosed at 15 months old.
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This week the active and popular NYLUG Python Group will meet as
usual at 6:00 pm Tuesday 30 September 2008.
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The Human Rights Committee held a meeting this morning in which it adopted a follow-up progress report on individual communications adopted by the Committee at its one hundred and ninth session. The Committee also discussed its methods of work.The Committee Member acting as Special Rapporteur on Follow-up to Individual Communications, Mr. Yuji Iwasawa, presented the progress report (CCPR/C/109/3) covering submissions received and processed between July and October 2013. The total of 21 cases from 17 countries related to Algeria (three cases), Azerbaijan (one), Canada (one), Colombia (one), France (two), Kyrgyzstan (one), Latvia (one), Paraguay (one), the Philippines (one), the Russian Federation (two), Sri Lanka (one), Sweden (one), Turkey (one), Ukraine (one), Uruguay (one), Uzbekistan (one), and Venezuela (one). The Committee's recommendations had not yet been implemented in most cases, and the follow-up dialogue was ongoing in all cases. Experts exchanged views on the issue of whether or not State parties had implemented the Committee's recommendations if they had not provided responses to the Committee. Final performance evaluations should not be submitted while a dialogue with a State party was still ongoing, which was why the Committee's assessments listed in the report should be viewed as provisionary. The next report from the Special Rapporteur would be provided in March 2014.Given the heavy burden imposed on the Special Rapporteur on Follow-up to Individual Communications, the Committee decided to appoint Ms Anja Seibert-Fohr as Deputy Special Rapporteur to assist the Special Rapporteur.During the meeting Nigel Rodley, Committee Chairperson, briefed the Committee about his presentation of its annual report to the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. His presentation inspired comments and questions from a number of State parties, all of which had been positive and supportive. The sole substantive question came from Kenya, on perceived contradictions regarding the Committee's position on polygamy, given that polygamy was reportedly recognized as a matter of culture under the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. There were indications that the Committee may receive additional Secretariat support in 2014. Mr. Rodley highlighted other issues raised at the General Assembly, which included the Addis Ababa Guidelines, adopted by the Committee in the late 1990s, which it was agreed remained the sole regulation regarding the code of conduct of Committee Members. There were proposals that treaty bodies hold a session in New York every two to three years but the issue of dual chambers had also been raised. States providing the most financing to treaty bodies were finding it difficult to continue the same levels of funding, due to the financial crisis. Strong support had been voiced for the simplified procedures of reporting (such as sending list of issues prior to reporting) and using modern audio-visual tools, such as webcasts and video links, to enhance the presence of the delegations. In the ensuing discussion Committee Members asked about the status of the treaty body strengthening process and the possibility of introducing a master calendar. The Chairperson replied that there was unwillingness among a number of States to accept the introduction of a comprehensive reporting schedule was supportive, but further discussions and considerations would be needed.
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Video: Netflix is great, but I'm being squeezed says multimillionaire Ken Burns
(Bloomberg) -- Filmmaker Ken Burns professes his love for the access to content Netflix provides, but not for their revenue sharing with content producers. He looks forward to the next deal PBS strikes with Netflix, hoping it generates a higher share of subscriber revenue for content creators.
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The Fox Street Allstars are a soulful blues-rock band from Denver and frontman Jonathan "Skippy" Huvard wants you to know one thing: "Fox Street is a band you want to see," he said. "We're going to rock you out, funk you up and throw a raging soul party."
The band returns to Vail for a show tonight at Shakedown Bar. The five-piece is celebrating the recent release of its second album, Tough Talk, which was recorded over the summer of 2012 at Scanhope Sound in Littleton. The record was engineered by Josh Fairman (New Mastersounds, Ivan Neville, Kinetix) and features Joe Tatton of The New Mastersounds on organ, piano from Bill McKay and pedal steel by Grammy-award-winner John Macy and The Black Swans on backup vocals.
1. Vail Daily: What can you tell me about "Tough Talk"?
Jonathan "Skippy" Huvard: "Tough Talk" is the band's record. We put this thing together as a band. As opposed to the first record, where one person would bring completed songs to the table and we'd just record them, "Tough Talk" differs in the fact that one or two people would bring a rough framework of a song and the band was instrumental in arranging and shaping the tunes. We recorded both records with Josh Fairman (Kinetix), however he and his business partner over at Scanhope Sound built a state-of-the art recording studio in Morrison. The new studio really allowed us to open things up and take advantage of a lot more on this second record. We also went vintage and recorded the record on two-inch tape. The result is a warm, sultry, vintage feel. The sounds of the two records are incomparable.
2. VD: You've had some heavy hitting musicians sit in with you. Tell me about some of the highlights.
JH: We have been fortunate to play with some monster players. It's been our goal from the very start to be a musicians band. We value our music peers and superiors, and being able to play with some of our mentors has been such a gift. The first name that comes to mind is Stanton Moore, the drummer in Galactic. Aside from being one of the best drummers in the country, he has been an inspiration to our band and has really given us so much guidance over the years. He is a monster behind the kit and it's awesome to be jammin' in his pocket. All of us in the band have been able to sit in with the New Mastersounds - and them with us - extensively. They're a terrific band; so funky!
3. VD: You've been touring a lot the past year. Tell me about some of your favorite shows.
JH: We have been able play to so many great rooms, meet so many awesome people and music fans that it's really hard to pinpoint "the best shows." If I had to pick one, I would say this last New Years Eve show in Jackson Hole, Wyo. at The Pink Garter Theater. It was an incredible night. Jackson is the first town outside of Colorado that we started touring to. We've got a great group of people out there. We sold out the show two nights before the gig, which is always a great feeling, and the band was absolutely on fire that night.
4. VD: What can people expect from your show tonight in Vail?
JH: I have to admit that Shakedown in Vail is becoming one of our favorite Colorado spots to play. It's always popping off, and Scott is the man. He's got a real vision and continues to bring some unbelievable music to the valley; he's a ripping guitar player and singer as well! It's a great venue! Made by musicians for musicians, it's the place to see live music in the Valley!


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SAN JOSE -- First, Logan Couture made sure things would reach a shootout by blocking a shot with just three seconds left in overtime.
Then he proved to be the difference Saturday night as the Sharks came from behind for a 3-2 shootout victory over the Phoenix Coyotes in a game that San Jose never led until it was over.
"I went with speed," Couture said of the lone shootout goal to beat Coyotes netminder Jason Labarbera. "I stopped up a little bit, saw some room in the five hole and was able to put it there."
The victory was the Sharks' fourth in a row and moved San Jose into sixth place in the Western Conference.
And it came despite the fact Todd McLellan had to alter his team's winning formula when an injury to defenseman Jason Demers forced the coach to move Brent Burns back to the blue line, even though it was Burns' play at right wing that had been sparking the Sharks offensively.
"Really, all four lines were competing hard and Burnzie just goes on the back end like he's always been doing," captain Joe Thornton said. "We missed him up front, but everybody stuck together and played hard and we ended up getting the win."
Joe Pavelski and Marc-Edouard Vlasic scored for the Sharks in regulation, while the Coyotes got goals from Boyd Gordon and Radim Vrbata against Antti Niemi.
Center Boyd Gordon gave Phoenix a 1-0 lead at 14:43 of the first period when he roofed a backhand shot over Niemi.
The Sharks had peppered Labarbera throughout the early going, but didn't break through until Phoenix center Rob Klinkhammer earned a four-minute penalty for high-sticking Jason Braun at 7:59 of the second period.
After five shots were blocked and Labarbera saved three others, Pavelski's 49-foot slap shot from the right point finally sailed into the Coyotes net at 10:24.
"I decided to shoot it and it was just knuckling in there," said Pavelski, who now has a goal in each of his last four games. "It's nice when it finds a way in."
It only took 33 seconds of the third period for Phoenix to regain the lead when Vrbata went unchallenged and punched a rebound of his own shot past Niemi. Then, with exactly five minutes left in regulation, Vlasic slid the puck under Labarbera's blocker to make it 2-2.
In the shootout, Niemi stopped Steve Sullivan, Vrbata and Mikkel Boedker, while Labarbera frustrated Dan Boyle and Pavelski after giving up the goal to Couture.
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks.


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Disaster spending eclipses $10 million locally
Published: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 5:50 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 5:50 p.m.
BATON ROUGE — Nearly three months since Hurricane Isaac struck Louisiana's coastline, more than $365 million in state and federal disaster assistance has been provided in 55 parishes.
The costs of being coastal
In the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac, state and federal governments have spent more than $365 million on disaster assistance in Louisiana. The following is a breakdown of how much went to Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.
- Residents registered for assistance with FEMA: 4,333.
- Individual assistance grants: $3.7 million (Includes housing assistance of $3.3 million and "other" needs assistance of $427,168).
- Public assistance obligations: $652,442.
- U.S. Small Business Administration disaster loans: $1.6 million.
- Total assistance: More than $6 million.
- Residents registered for assistance with FEMA: 3,797.
- Individual assistance grants: $3.2 million (Include housing assistance of $2.9 million and "other" needs assistance of $357,285).
- Public assistance obligations: $339,825.
- U.S. Small Business Administration disaster loans: $668,100.
- Total assistance: More than $4.2 million.
SOURCE: Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Atlantic hurricane made landfall Aug. 28 in Plaquemines Parish as a mild Category 1, based on the National Hurricane Center's Saffir-Simpson Scale, which takes into account wind speeds and not surge heights.
Isaac's maximum sustained winds regionally reached 80 mph, and coastal surges reached 15 feet in some areas, enough to force the Mississippi River to reverse course for 24 hours, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, pushing storm surge as far north as Baton Rouge.
It wasn't until Sept. 1 that residents of Lafourche Parish were deemed eligible to participate in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's individual assistance program.
Hurricane victims in Terrebonne Parish had to wait another five days until FEMA allowed it in as well. But in between this time, 42 residents from Terrebonne and 23 from Lafourche checked into hotels using the agency's transition sheltering assistance program.
Along with other disaster-related expenses, the state and FEMA have so far spent $6 million in Lafourche and $4.2 million in Terrebonne.
Additionally, federal coordinating officer Gerard M. Stolar said more assistance will arrive with the future rollout of recovery programs designed to help residents over the long haul.
"Louisianians have made tremendous progress in their journey toward recovery from Hurricane Isaac," Stolar said. "The efforts of the survivors themselves, combined with those of the whole recovery community, have made all the difference in Louisiana."
In mid-September, Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes were also included, in the amounts of $339,825 and $652,442 respectively, in supplemental FEMA funding known as public assistance obligations, often used for infrastructure repairs.
The U.S. Small Business Administration has also disbursed $1.6 million in disaster loans to Lafourche Parish businesses since Isaac made landfall, and another $668,100 in Terrebonne.
Separately, the FEMA-administered National Flood Insurance Program has paid more than $370 million on claims from policyholders in Louisiana.
Forty recovery centers were also created in the wake of the storm to serve survivors throughout Louisiana, and two centers remain open in the hardest-hit parishes.
On Sept. 4, a disaster recovery center opened in Matthews, and 498 people visited it before it closed Oct. 3.
There were two similar centers opened in Terrebonne Parish roughly a week later. Before the last one closed Oct. 30, 826 people had sought out its services.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard were called in Oct, 15 to begin removing barrels, drums and other potentially hazardous containers in both parishes.
The clean-up effort was funded by FEMA, which likewise bankrolled the individual assistance program, which has paid out more than $116 million in grants.
So far 8,130 residents in the Terrebonne-Lafourche region have registered for the individual assistance program, and more than $6.2 million in housing assistance has been distributed, said FEMA public information officer Jack Heesch.
The housing category provides cash payments for temporary housing, such as a hotel; home repair or replacement; and permanent or semi-permanent housing construction.
Local residents have received $784,452 for "other" needs, Heesch said.
"Other" assistance is made available for a variety of items from medical and dental expenses to funeral and burial expenses.
Heesch said registration activity has been heavier in Lafourche Parish, where 4,333 people have opted into the program and $3.3 million has been distributed for housing needs and $427,168 in the "other" category.
In Terrebonne Parish, there have been 3,797 registrations, $2.9 million in housing needs paid out and $357,284 for "other" needs provided.
The registration deadline is Nov. 29.
Terrebonne and Lafourche parish residents can still register for individual assistance or check the status of their registrations online at www.disasterassistance.gov. If you're using a smartphone exclusively, you'll need to go to m.fema.gov.
By phone, call 1-800-621-FEMA (3362) or TTY 1-800-462-7585. For those with 711 relay or video relay services, call 1-800-621-3362.
FEMA's phone lines operate from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. Non-English speakers may receive assistance in the language of their choice by selecting "Option 3" when prompted.
To begin the registration process, all participants will need their Social Security number, a description of their loss, all applicable insurance information, directions to the property in question and a contact telephone number.
Additionally, all applicants will be given a number that should be recorded and kept in a safe place. The number will allow FEMA to keep track of your claim throughout the process.
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Susan Davis of Inman journeys back in time to 1911 to when trouble was looming on the horizon for her German-Russian ancestors, who lived in poor villages in Russia. It was time for them to make a major move.
Readers of her second published book, "Ancestry's Journey" will feel like they are going on a historical journey as they travel with them as steerage passengers on steamships and experience the confusing immigration process at Ellis Island. America didn't welcome them with open arms, but the country did give them the opportunity to work as manual laborers in sugar beet fields in northeast Colorado. For many years, the immigrants clung to their customs and German language.
Davis recounts how the worldwide flu of 1918 and the powerful blizzard of 1949 nearly changed her family tree. The journey ends at current day where readers will learn what heirloom her ancestors left behind for their descendants to treasure.
The book was printed by Mennonite Press in Newton, as was her first book
"Small Farm & Big Family," which has sold out. Davis has been a freelance writer since 1988. She has had 700 short stories published by The Fence Post and Prairie Times. She writes a monthly children's column for The Fence Post.
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There's a new military out there, and they insist you carry a picture I D.
Often, they will look the other way or grant some exceptions with regard to contents in your carry-on luggage.
Occasionally a grenade, rapid fire weapon, machete, or some plutonium will slip past security, but you will never cross the line without the picture I D.
You can vote without it, but don't show up at the airport without it.
There are some things I can't tolerate but force myself to accept. This is not one of those things.
Recently, I reached into my pocket after 30 minutes of circling the roped maze.
Back and forth I went. I noticed the cute girl every other turn and began to feel we were connecting in a strange sort of way. I could only see her when I was facing east. When I was facing west, she was gone and I yearned to be facing east again.
The relationship grew. "Would she be on my flight?" I thought. "What are the chances we bump into each other when the train accelerates and we exchange sheepish glances." "Are we registered at the same destination resort?" "What are the chances I could marry this women in three days?"
But I digress.
As I approached the next level of security (the human robot that stamps your boarding pass), I reached into my pockets, wallet, jacket, carry-on sleeves and I even stared down the soles of my shoes.
The driver's license I was looking for was in my ski pants, and those pants were a 100 miles away.
I had only minutes before being granted clearance to the next level and I had to think of a plan B. I turned to the weary traveler who was behind me in line (he was also facing west and I had a moment before my girlfriend re-appeared).
"Have you ever gone through airport security without a picture ID?" I asked.
He was a seasoned sort and I knew this was not his first rodeo. The fellow showed signs of depression, lack of self esteem, boredom and bad looks. He glared at me with a curled lip and a sneer in his face and replied, "You'll get on the flight, but you just gained celebrity status, so plan on extra time and get ready. They love when you don't love them."
"Thanks friend," I said, and opted not to exchange phone numbers. It was my turn to talk to the stone-faced woman at the podium.
I stepped forward.
"I have done a real stupid thing," I said. "First I ask for your forgiveness and now your understanding. I do not have my driver's license, and I really need to get on this flight."
I handed her my boarding pass, two credit cards, a bank check, Social Security card, home depot card, a City Market preferred customer card, and a Vail Library card and said, "These library cards are really hard to get."
She got on the walkie-talkie and mumbled something totally in-audible, looked at me, and said, "Step to the side."
Moments later, a large man wearing blue rubber gloves and holding his hands chest high approached me. He directed me to an area behind all the other activity and said, "I have to say all of what I'm about to say before I examine you so please don't interrupt."
"Examine me for what?"
"You just interrupted me. Do I need to call security?"
I stood there like a man and allowed him to violate me. When I was permitted to speak again, I had words: "I was just detained for another 20 minutes while my friend here from another planet made my world and yours a safer place." "I am not a terrorist. Terrorists don't forget their driver's licenses." "Why don't you people laugh more?" "Isn't it time we start phasing this security thing out?" "Why don't you consider profiling?" "Please don't unionize."
"Because of you I have lost sight of the woman I was going to marry."
Only three more airports to check into without an ID.
This should be a great trip.
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