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Authorities say a Forrest County man wanted for questioning in his wife's homicide has been found dead in Alabama.
The Hattiesburg American and WDAM-TV reported that the body of 31-year-old Rosmond Lay was discovered Tuesday night at a rest area in Greene County, Ala.
Authorities had been searching for Lay after the body of his wife, 27-year-old Andrea Lay, was discovered in the couple's home in Rawls Springs Monday. Forrest County Coroner Butch Benedict said she had been shot.
Benedict said Rosmond Lay died of a single gunshot wound to the head. He was found sitting in his wife's missing Toyota Camry with the motor still running.

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By Len Lazarick
In unusual joint testimony, Maryland State Treasurer Nancy Kopp and Comptroller Peter Franchot, chair and vice-chair of the state pension board, pleaded with Senate budgeters not to permanently cut $100 million in state payments to the retirement system.
They said the cut proposed by Gov. Martin O'Malley had high long-term repercussions and undermined the state's credibility with bond rating agencies by reneging on promises made in 2011 pension reforms.
Leaders of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee asked the state two top financial officials where they would make up the $100 million O'Malley has used to balance the budget as the senators search for other potential ways to trim the $39 billion spending plan.
"Help me out," said committee vice chair Nathaniel McFadden, D-Baltimore City, and say where to cut the rest of the budget.
"We find ourselves a week away from having to make a final decision," said budget chair Ed Kasemeyer.
Revenue write down expected
The committee members had already been told to expect an official write-down of revenue estimates next week of $100 million to $200 million. They were also seeking to boost what they saw as an inadequate surplus of only $30 million O'Malley had left as a cushion for unexpected expenses that often average more than $100 million each year.
Kopp and Franchot, former delegates who served as appropriations subcommittee chairs in the House, declined to propose any cuts in other areas of the budget while advocating for a higher pension contribution.
"We think this was a wrong choice," said Kopp, repeating comments she had made to other lawmakers.
Promises made in 2011
In 2011, the legislature passed major reforms of the pension system that raised employee contributions from 5% to 7% of salaries and reduced future benefits -- moves strongly opposed by state employees and teachers. In exchange, the legislature promised to use $300 million of the savings to bolster future liabilities.
"While in the short term, [the governor's cut] does save money from the general fund," Kopp said, in the long term, over 20 years, "it costs $1.75 billion to the employer -- the taxpayers," because the lost funding must ultimately be made up along with all the expected investment returns on the missing money.
"We would urge you to recognize the reforms and stick to them," Kopp said.
Franchot said, "Backing away from our commitments undermines our credibility ... in the eyes of the financial community."
Other committee members asked about making the $100 million cut in pension contribution, just for fiscal 2015, rather than over the next 20 years.
In reports released last week, two New York rating agencies that reaffirmed Maryland's triple-A rating for its March 5 bond sale noted that the legislature had already cut $100 million in this year's budget, setting aside the money in case of federal budget cuts.
This would be the second year in a row that the state has not lived up to the promise made in 2011 pension reform.
In general, legislators cannot add money to the governor's budget. But in this case, the $300 million extra contribution is written into law and the legislature must approve a change in the law to reduce it to $200 million as part of the Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act (BRFA, or burfa in State House parlance.)


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Conn. boys slain by grandma had gunshot wounds
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – The two boys who were killed by their grandmother before she committed suicide this week each had multiple gunshot wounds, the state medical examiner's office said Friday.
The examiner's office said the grandmother, 47-year-old Debra Denison, died of a gunshot wound to the head. The cause of death was formally ruled a suicide for Denison and homicide for the boys.
Police say Denison left a suicide note and took a revolver from her house before picking up 2-year-old Alton Perry and 6-month-old Ashton Perry on Tuesday afternoon at their day care in North Stonington. Their bodies were found in a van hours later after a frantic search.
Hundreds of people attended a vigil Friday night in North Stonington to remember the boys and support their parents, Jeremy and Brenda Perry.
Jeremy Perry told the crowd: "Your support is probably the only reason we're still on our feet right now," The Day of New London reported.
Family members said Denison, Brenda Perry's mother, had struggled with mental illness, but she had appeared to improve in recent months. She was on the list of people authorized to pick up the boys at the day care, and the boys' mother had told the center the grandmother would be picking them up that day. Tuesday was Alton's birthday, and she was supposed to bring him back to the house for a party.
Staff at the day care said Denison was friendly and showed no signs of distress. A spokesman for the slain boys' parents said the day care staff followed protocol and the parents do not blame them for what happened.
Alton died of gunshot wounds to the head and Ashton died of multiple gunshot wounds, the medical examiner's office said.
State police say they are investigating issues including who purchased the revolver, how Denison obtained it and her history of mental illness.
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We here at the USO hope this new blog is keeping you informed of the many programs, services, celebrity entertainment tours, and more that our organization has to offer the men and women who bravely serve this nation. One of the great things about a blog is that we can share the words and thoughts of the people that make this organization what it is. "From the Desk of…" will serve to give you first-person postings from the USO. So here, without further ado…
From the desk of John Hanson, Senior Vice President of Communications:
Welcome to this site. We'll promise to update you regularly on what the USO is doing and how you can help the troops. We can't do what we do without you.
[caption id="attachment_163" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Hood Stadium, just before the start of the Community Strong concert"][/caption]
Right now (the afternoon of December 11), thousands of troops, family members and local citizens have gathered at Ft. Hood, Texas. They're participating in a daylong event that featuring some of today's best performers. They're performing for free, just as all of the celebrities we call on do.
Watch this space for photos and videos as they come in.
Most of us who care about U.S. troops and family members are thinking about Afghanistan. The USO has been taking entertainment tours to Afghanistan for the past 8 years. With the help of the National Football League, we built the Pat Tillman Memorial USO Center at Bagram Airfield 4 years ago, and it remains a vibrant hub of activity for the troops stationed there and those transiting through the base. It's right off the flight line, near the passenger terminal. There's access to the Internet and we make free phone calls home available, just as we do at all of our centers in the region. There's a wide-screen TV for watching movies (and football games), and a great little kitchen for snacks and drinks. It's a great representation of home.
I was honored to escort Marie Tillman when she visited the center just before Thanksgiving. I think that experience was important for her, and her visit meant a great deal to the men and women stationed there. All of my trips to Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait are emotional, but this one was very special.
Our presence in Afghanistan is expanding, as the U.S. role there is. In addition to the Tillman Center, we will open a new center across the base. When we built the first location, there were 8,000 troops at Bagram. The number has expanded, and we need another place for troops to relax.
We've also opened a phone kiosk in Kabul, and our next large center will open in Kandahar in spring.
A word about the Internet and phone calls from the region. We have known for years that access the Internet and clear phone calls was a challenge. It was really hard to log on, and sometimes impossible to get a call out of the country.
In April, we bought access to a satellite and created our own private telephone network. Every USO location in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait has access to the network. Initially, we thought troops would be thrilled with fast on-line access – and they are. The most gratifying aspect, though, is that about 180,000 phone calls a month are being made. It's great to play a part in that connection to home.
So, we'll grow in Afghanistan as troops' needs require.
Stay tuned.
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Going without underware. Often, as a sign of having detention students go commando.
The girl went commando because of their detention.
লিখেছেন- detention311 29 de জানুয়ারি de 2011
the best arnold movie
let off some steam, bennet
লিখেছেন- me 20 de মে de 2004
Possibly the worst perk in Modernwarfare 2 with this perk u can stab a person from across the map.
Joe: I shot that bitch in the face and he didnt die and he knifed me from like 15 feet away.
Bob: He probbably had commando on.
Joe: What a noob
Bob: He probbably had commando on.
Joe: What a noob
লিখেছেন- brainfreze28 31 de মার্চ de 2011
Best Arnie movie ... EVER
Come on! You gotta like the part where he just causes mass extinction on a whole island only getting a few scratches.
লিখেছেন- Mister Ignorant 23 de এপ্রিল de 2004
The coolest most bad ass Shwarzenegger movie ever made.
"watch commando to see Arnold stroll down a pristine garden path while hired henchmen run into a steady stream of automatic gunfire"
লিখেছেন- Spelunker 17 de এপ্রিল de 2003
living on limited resources. being thrifty and cheap in some ways.
i'm going commando this week. i only got $20 left in my account.
লিখেছেন- NoHouse 11 de এপ্রিল de 2005
synonym to "tries to hard in pubs"
pregame allstar
pregame allstar
লিখেছেন- Anonymous 1 de জুলাই de 2003


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I'm thinking it will be 74.99 for the one with coolrunner and 59.99 for the one without
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Lol this is funny how can any of us even guess the prices when none of us know the specs of the build or even all the things it can do?If i have helped in anyway please leave thanks or rep
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Re: demon pricing
Under $50 is reasonable price for DemoN.
I think live support & Rgh2 makes worth to it.Spending some little more money to this is not at all worse because those extra dollars r for their effort on RGH2,FUSION & DemoN...tHANKS
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whatever the price is it will be worth it fullstop.
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It'll be worth it because the ****** ******* is a dual nand @ roughly $40, but doesnt include the super fast nand reader and support and anything else the Demon has. In the end, I know I'm getting this so I just hope its out before summer.Having trouble with your finances? Want to make a little extra income each month? Ask me how, I'll help you out. Also this is 90% visual so if you are very close minded and want to try it, open up, live a little and take some risks lol
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Wisconsin Law Review Symposium
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The Wisconsin Law Review is seeking topic proposals for its annual Fall 2016 Symposium. We encourage submissions on any relevant legal issue.
Topic proposals should be limited to no more than 2,000 words. In addition, topic proposals should include the names of anticipated authors/participants and explain the relevance of the legal issue. Please submit any topic proposals to email@example.com by April 22, 2016.
The Wisconsin Law Review looks forward to continuing its tradition of engaging in diverse symposium topics. Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
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England's trouncing of Zimbabwe at Lord's was more mismatch than Test match. Nasser Hussain's side will take the win, but for their opponents to essentially be bowled out twice on a third day pitch, the second time by bit-part bowlers, is the kind of one-sided contest best enjoyed by Roman emperors.
Early season conditions in England catch many visitors unawares. Three years ago a far stronger Zimbabwe side were also blown away at Lord's. At the time Robert Mugabe's war veterans were forcibly reclaiming farms and several players, their families affected, could not focus on the match. The civil unrest is far worse now and so is Zimbabwe's cricket following the "retirement" of leading players such as Andy Flower.
Such a compliant foe means performances need to be taken in context, though England's successes with the bat - Mark Butcher, Marcus Trescothick and Anthony McGrath - had to contend with conditions at their most spiteful on the opening two days. Butcher's 137 resulted from gifted strokeplay and skilful defence, a combination that got the prize it deserved.
"To a degree, it's what we expected to do," Duncan Fletcher, the team coach, said after England's rapid victory. "We batted well on the first day when the ball really seamed and swung around. The guys stuck to it and that was very important."
In contrast, the youthful bowling attack of James Anderson and Stephen Harmison had to overcome nerves, though not much else, as the callow among Zimbabwe's batsmen showed a technical aptitude against the swinging ball that was agricultural at best. Even Butcher's gentle curves and McGrath's steady seam caused problems as the pair shared seven second-innings wickets, all-round performances that place both in the frame when England's one-day squad is announced on Thursday.
At 30, Butcher would be a borderline case for Fletcher's ideal of picking only those players available for the next World Cup in four years' time. Mind you, Fletcher also wants to unify the Test and one-day sides as much as possible and with one-day all-rounders like Craig White, Paul Collingwood and Andrew Flintoff all injured, alternatives are needed.
The selectors have discussed Butcher (who began his career as a bowler who batted at seven) before, without conclusion. Perhaps his bowling, challenging in conditions like those at Lord's, is not threatening enough abroad. Whatever the reason, it clearly irks Butcher that with 51 Test caps to his name he has yet to play a one-day international.
"I'd like to be in the one-day squad," Butcher said yesterday. "I'm fed up of being that quiz question about the most-capped cricketer never to play a one-day match for his country. I've always felt if you're good enough to play Test cricket, you're good enough to adapt to the short game."
Injury to a knee last year probably counted against Butcher and kept him out of Surrey's one-day side, who got used to playing without him. In fact, he has not played one-day cricket for his county since last May, a huge impediment when trying to sway the selectors.
After his nerveless performance, McGrath is almost certain to be included in Thursday's squad for the NatWest series. Like Michael Vaughan and Trescothick, whose batting averages at the time were equally modest, he appears to have been plucked from county cricket almost at random.
Yet, Fletcher has a keen eye for clues that hint at quality and it was McGrath's one-day batting, primarily in last season's Cheltenham and Gloucester quarter-final against Essex, where he made 72 from 70 balls to win the match, that made the Yorkshire captain's qualities stand out.
"His shot selection under pressure was excellent and is the kind of decision-making that's crucial at the highest level," Fletcher said. "He did that here on his debut against Zimbabwe but also in the match against Essex last year. It's not easy to come in at six or seven and make a match-winning contribution and I believe there are certain things about him that are really exciting."
England's youthful bowling attack could also exhilarate given time to bed down and improve. The combination of Matthew Hoggard, James Anderson and Steve Harmison covers all bases bar experience. Barring injury, Andrew Caddick would have played at Lord's, but apart from giving Alec Stewart three of four more catches than Anderson, who chose instead to uproot stumps, he was not really missed.
Anderson's rise from near obscurity to blond-tinted destroyer has been the stuff of legends. A shy and quietly spoken person, he looks like being his own man despite boy-band good looks and a Beckham-like hairdo. Indeed, barring sudden marriage to a member of Atomic Kitten, he should remain earth rather than celebrity bound.
A lithe athleticism helps him find pace without straining, but it is the perfectly stabilised seam after he releases the ball, not unlike Australia's Jason Gillespie, that enables him to swing the ball in such devastating fashion. So far only snapshots of true greatness have been glimpsed. Five wickets on his debut, mainly the product of late outswing against Zimbabwe's tail, gets his name on the Lord's glory boards (centuries and five or more wicket hauls at HQ are recorded in gold paint) at the first attempt. It is a marvellous start and, provided he stays sound in mind and body, a glorious career beckons.
With Anderson and McGrath capturing the imagination, it now smacks of carelessness that England's cricketers will not be seen on terrestrial television until the opening Test against South Africa on July 24, a gap of eight weeks. There is one Test at Chester-Le-Street and 13 one-day internationals in that time - the only window when football rests and truly takes a back seat - but they will be shown on Sky, a satellite channel whose viewing figures for cricket are modest.
Sky, with four dedicated sports channels, do a fine job and it is not their fault that the England and Wales Cricket Board have organised the fixtures this way. The lack of foresight among cricket's administrators is nothing new and many feel, not for the first time, that an opportunity to stir the country's youth will be missed.


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Skip to comments.Weekly Gardening Thread 2011 (Vol. 29) July 29
Posted on 07/29/2011 5:22:39 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. This past week here in East Central Mississippi has been great, weather wise. There have been numerous and very beneficial pop-up T-storms almost every day, which have helped keep the temperatures down and my garden watered.
I hope TS Don will give some relief to those of you in drought stricken Texas. Forecasts are for it to dissipate in about 36 to 48 hours after landfall.
If you are a gardener or you are just starting out and are in need of advice or just encouragement please feel free to join in and enjoy the friendly discussion. Our Freeper community is full of gardeners, each with varying interests and skill levels from Master Gardener to novice.
I hope all your gardens are flourishing.
Weekly Gardening Thread
I hope all of you will stop by.
This is typically a low volume ping list. Once a week for the thread and every once in a while for other FR threads posted that might be of interest.
If you would like to be added to or removed from the list please let me know by FreepMail or by posting to me.
Send seeds? Befriend seeds? Just want 10 seeds?
If you have garden seeds you can offer other FReepers for free, for a SASE, and/or in exchange for other seeds, please send me your info. (Private Message Mrs. Don-o) and I will add you to this list, which I will post on the garden thread from time to time. Please also Private Message me to be removed when you no longer have the seeds to offer. FReepo-seedoholics can contact each other by Private Message to arrange any transactions. Remember that old seeds may have reduced germination. (Although Ive had great luck with them. And for free, you cant lose...) If possible, list year and variety. Mrs. Don-o I CAN OFFER a few of these seeds (say, 10) for free to anybody who wants to send me a SASE: Basil (Genovese 2010) Beans (Jackson Wonder Butterbean 2011) Broccoli (Bonanza 2011) Chard (Bright Lights 2010) Fennel (Florence 2011) Kale (Redbor Hybrid 2010) Squash (Acorn 2009 and I had really good germination with it, this year!) Squash (Georgia Candy Roaster 2011.. a terrific winter squash!) Tomato (Brandy Boy 2011) INTERESTED IN Seeds for Fall Anything (surprise me!)
Dozens of large ripe "Better Boy" tomatoes and lots of "burpless" cucumbers in Virginia Beach. life is good!
From the forecasts, TS Don will not bring much needed rain to Texas. SIGH.
I hope so. Even if TS Don hits the right area of S Texas, some of the runoff could get into Lake Travis, since the S Llano River runoff area starts near the border.
I've harvested lots of red, ripe tomatoes, by the way. Mine came in relly early. But now the plants, which still have a few pink-turning big tomztoes n them, are looking poorly, and there's very few blossoms and no new fruit-set.
I'm wondering if "wrecked" or exhausted tomatoes could be cut back at this point, resulting in renewed growth and increased production until the first killing frost. I'm thinking you could cut them back pretty far, leaving some foliage, esp. branches that are still looking good. Then apply a good dose of balanced fertilizer and water to renew growth and increase production.
Is that worth a try, especially on a sprawling indeterminate plant that still has a good root system?
Alternatively, could you bend down and re-root your better branches via layering?
I am open to any suggestions, and I suspect other gardeners have similar interests right about now.
Has anyone had any luck growing Okra in the Northeast? I'm here in (M)assachusetts.
Getting tons of green beans, summer squash, and my first red tomato. My acorn squash and butternut squash are going nuts!
I'm in Massachusetts too and don't have any red tomatoes yet, but more cukes than I know what to do with so I've been canning like crazy and will do more this weekend. My peppers are starting to look better, but are still in trouble.
Our garden is growing nicely, and we have noticed something we have never seen before. . . or at least something we never paid attention to before. Our potatoes have seed pods that look like little green tomatoes. I had to look it up on the computer to learn more. I'm sure this is a well known fact and we are the last to know, but we think it's pretty neat!
What variety are your tomatoes? Some very early ones are determinants. They make, then they're done. If they're determinants I'm not sure anything other than rooting cuttings will fix it. Curious to see if anyone has any other advice.
Maybe it's hot where you are? Mine have just now started making. With temps above 95 for several weeks it was a task just keeping them alive.
After a slow start, I am getting some big, beautiful tomatoes. My pink Brandywines are just lovely. I also have the regular, and they are my standby tomato plant.
Corn is so-so - has been too dry, and hopefully it will come through. For some reason my squash did not do well this year, but I have enough friends with gardens that I still have plenty.
After some rain (not enough but we'll take it) forecast looks hot and dry - sigh!
Stay cool!
I'm up in Harrisburg and we grew okra this year. I wish I had planted more I love them pickled.
There are varieties of okra that are supposedly more tolerant of cooler temps. Can't recall any specific names right off hand but IIRC Burpee and maybe Johnnys had some?
My squash are 'large and in charge' with all the heat units we've had this summer. Keeping them watered has been a task as RD232 seems to have gotten all my rain. If you're in the heatwave part of the NE you may find female blooms aborting before and/or just after they set if temps are 100ish. Hopefully not though. With either of those. One of my compost volunteer squash (cross between musquee de provence and long of naples) is ripe. We're going to pick it this weekend. It's longer than a regular pumpkin but has turned very bright orange over the last week. Long of Naples are usually more dark green when picked.
The water lines are in to four points in the backyard...the vegetable garden raised beds, the rose garden and fire pit, the chicken coop area and the pond/waterfall area. Jack will finish filling in the trenches today.
The yellow cherry tomatoes are ripening and sweet. We have some blossom end rot on our Romas. Next year, we will do a better job with our vegetable garden...we may have to with the current economy and administration!
Our hopes of any moisture here in the Hill Country are rapidly evaporating this morning as we find Don speeding due west into deep south Texas ....
I guess that is our next best hope.....it's a long shot, but nothing else seems to be on the horizon....
My acorn and other winter squash have not done well at all and my zukes have slowed down quite a bit. I have never had much luck with any type of squash. My pepper plants are doing well. My tomato plants are done for. I will be transplanting some more paste tomatoes either today or tomorrow they are all right around 15 inches high and really need to be planted in the garden.
I've bought pickled Okra in the grocery, but if you pickle them yourself, let me know how they turn out.
And it did. But now it seems shot, and we still have 80 days until the first expected frost!
My sister lives in Austin, and I have a niece that lives near Madrone, where the wild fires burned over 600 acres. She even is close enough to take pictures from her home. I pray for you Texans. We have been dry here in MD but when I hear this I am thankful that some of our grass is still green and our ponds are still full.
My vote is heat then? Are they in containers? I have some ananas noir that are taking over my trellising system. They are just now making fruit (nothing set due to heat). I water them every 2 weeks with algoflash water. Maybe they're resting, hopefully not pining for the fjords. Or seaweed stuff. I think RD232 doses his with seaweed somethingorother. Maybe he'll have an idea?
Tomato forensics is mysterious. To me anyways.
I have rooted suckers from mine though. With our heatwaves and general disease and insect problems it never hurts down here to have backup plans B, C, D and possibly E.
Were you closer I'd give you all the plants you desired. I've probably got 30 orphans of one variety or another on my driveway in drink cups waiting for homes. This means you too, RD232.
I've pretty much given up on the Spring garden. I'll nurse my Bell and Thai peppers through the Fall. At least long enough to see if they revive and start producing peppers. Everything gets pulled up.
My seed trays have sprouted. This weekend I'll put them in 4inch peat pots and pray for a break from this ghastly drought.
Virginia Sweets 80 days
Jetsetter hybrid 64 days
Katana hybrid 60 days
Biker Billy Jalapeno
Big Early Hybrid
Chinese Giant Hybrid
Baby Cocina
Yamato Sanjaku
Soyu Long
Georgia Collards
Shoya Long Eggplant
Waltham Butternut Squash
Assorted bunching onions and radishes
Hope the heat doesn't kill em!
It's been miserably hot here in Central Missouri this past week. Is also starting to get dry at my place.
The sweet corn is starting to fill out the ears and I'm trying hard to get enough water on it to make a good crop. The summer squash is dead, cucumbers not far behind, green beans suffering and the bugs have turned my brassicas to lace.
On the bright side, the tomatoes are flourishing. Picked close to five gallons of whopping big Purple Cherokee and Better Boy this week. The Brandywines are loaded and just starting to ripen. The Ambrosia cantelopes love the hot weather and are loaded with fruit. The late-planted okra is knee-high and starting to take off.
We're getting a little break in the heat this weekend - highs are only supposed to reach the low 90°s. ugh...
So says superstitious that way BA. I've got some 'Maskotka' tomatoes to put in a couple of urns by my back door. And some paste tomatoes to set out as well.
My winter squash have done well for some reason.
We're growing 'Rumbo' (Jungs) and hubby calls them 'Rambo'. 4 vines, each in its own hill, have taken over my yard. At least 12 almost ripe pumpkins on them and they're still setting little ones. Also some Long of Naples, Seminole Pumpkin, Violina Gioia, Black Futsu and Argonaut. Along with 6 or so compost volunteers radiating out from my compost pile. Maybe your squash hate all the rain? We also spray with sevin (dilute) mixed with DE once a week to keep borers down. I've already lost 3 of 12 zukes to the little stinkers. Squash are the only things we spray with any pesticides. Otherwise, down here, we just wouldn't get any.
If only SVB's and fire ants were natural enemies! Although, I have a new respect for my mole problem. I'll tolerate the mole if he'll eat SVB grubs.
Two days of tremendous T storms have turned my grass from brown to green and soaked my poor flower beds so thoroughly that I'm planning to take the day off of work today and work in the garden to try to get some of the stubborn weeds OUT. And the temps have cooled down.
I haven't been out to check the veggie garden yet, but I'll do so right after breakfast. So far we've harvested only 3 small zucchini, 2 cherry tomatoes, herbs, and green onions. We'll see what we have behind the fence. It's been almost a week since I've been out there. I'm hoping for some GOOD surprises.
Then I will transplant today!
I gave away all my lovingly grown-from-seed "starter plants" many weeks ago.
One of my overgrown, harvested-out, played-out and tattered-looking plants developed an excellent sucker that started near the bottom of the main stem, so I cut away all the fading, yellowing, browning branches and kept the sucker, hoping to take advantage of a still-good, big developed root system. We'll see how that sucker does!
I do think I'll try rooting some cuttings as well. (Sigh.) Hope springs eternal!
When the kids were little, we grew enough okra to pickle and they'd eat them by the jar full. Literally by the jar so didn't have any left for the freezer. Wierd afterschool snack but at least it wasn't junk food, lol.
Today's a good day to root cuttings. I had the best luck just putting the cuttings in a glass jar full of water. YMMV, of course. Definitely spray for the blight, that will tax the plants and they won't do anything. We use copper. We got some from Jungs (big mongo sized container of it) to use this year. Last year we got a smallish container from the local ACE hardware store. Definitely try that too. Else blight will get them all. Which reminds me, hubby needs to spray with copper again tomorrow. It's *time*.
I lost all my maters to blight last year. It got too bad before we realized it wasn't just 'too much water' or 'too much heat'. All 75 tomato plants, started from seed. Gone.
Encourage the joints to root. That makes the whole plant stronger and more resistant to disease and insects. You might keep the grass away as best you can. When you water (if you need to), water along the whole rooted vine. I had some giant squash vines last year that had SVB's in them. The SVB infected part died, of course, but the rest of the rooted vine survived and produced just fine. The vines we allowed to root and grow along the ground out produced the trellised ones by a factor of about 2:1. This is only with vining things that will root along the vine. IIRC, cucumbers and melons don't do this. We trellis those.
Your little pumpkin looks great! Give it time, allow it to root where it wants (I direct the unrooted tips where I want them to go) and when you fertilize (I use compost tea), sprinkle some along the vine also. You'll get female blooms eventually. They'll look like teeny little pumpkins with a flower on the end.
Good luck!
San Saba, a couple hours NW of Austin, had another grass fire a few days ago. Between the firefighters on the ground and the water dumper planes, I think all the houses were saved.
Also this week, some people just outside Austin donated their father's estate to help victims of the fires there.
It's the dry pastures that's the problem. One lit cigarette thrown out a car window or a spark from a train is all that is needed to set off a fire. The cattle tanks are dry so ranchers are selling off their stock. Beef prices will be dropping so get ready to stock up the freezer soon.
Paste Tomato Plants I will transplant today and a few Jalapenos, green Bell peppers, Red pimentos and a zuke I picked this morning.
You NEED to see this. Some say the way he speaks or his mannerisms may drive you a bit nuts (didn't bother me, so I don't get it), but you have to stick with him until the 3-minute mark or so...trust me.
Holy cow!!! Has anyone else ever seen this guy's videos before? This was posted in 2009, and he has over 470 other videos posted on his YouTube channel. I have watched a few, and they are packed with loads of interesting information for the raised bed/high-impact gardening crowd. Gardening tips and ideas galore...
Amazing. This is what everyone's front yard should look like. :-)
Tomatoes have finally been ripening for me. And the cucumbers continue to slow down, but are still producing fairly well. Here is the harvest for this week, minus a few tomatoes that have already been sacrificed to our meals. And about a half dozen tangerine beefsteak tomatoes that are in the freezer.
And my first attempt at barrel pickles.
Isn't the 'ping' list getting up toward 500?
The barrel pickles look amazing.... like something you would see in a magazine. May I be so bold as to ask where you got the glass container? I've never seen one made of glass and have only seen the crocks.
Thanks Red_Devil 232.
I just did that to several of mine. Im in the south and the intense sun and heat about did them in but the ones (I have them in buried pots because of all sand) that I moved to where they get half shade during the day are doing great. I cut them way back. They are growing new foliage and one even has new flowers. Looks like its going to work for me.
Gorgeous bells. I'm envious. You had more cooler/cloudy days during the heat wave than we did apparently. My tomatoes, however, are all ecstatically happy plantwise. Just no tomato set during hot spell. I think the combo of heat and excessive rain made yours unhappy. Seems like your locale is always getting rain, every time I load the radar.
Your mater plants are about the size of mine. IIRC we started them around the same time.
Thanks for the video it is interesting, you know. He has some very big, you know, and deep raised beds.
I also bought a cheap poly cutting board with the intent to cut it down to fit in the jar to weigh down the pickles, but for this run, I just used a gallon ziplock bag full of water.
The ping list is at 477 as of this post.
You are a doll for letting me know! Thanks!!
Can you give us more info on your Barrel pickles? They sure look like they will be very tasty. Ingredients?
One of his other videos state that the depth of his raised beds ranges from 12 to 33 inches deep. That is because his land slopes down to the street, and he wanted to keep the beds level...
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April 25, 2016
Seattle-based multi-media artist Margie Livingston explores age and destruction in her new solo exhibition at Culver City's Luis De Jesus Gallery.
Merging the body with acrylic sculpture and action paintings, Margie Livingston takes the viewer through the painful process of entropy and dysfunction. Her collapsed grids made of poured paint skins over three-dimensional string sculptures ache with frailty and disuse. [ READ MORE ]
April 12, 2016
Why Is Margie Livingston Dragging Her Painting Behind Her?
The Seattle painter Margie Livingston has a show coming up at Luis De Jesus Gallery in LA called Holding it together, in which she deploys her dry sense of humor. She harnessed stretched canvases to herself using a contraption she sewed based on bodybuilder harnesses. Then she set out on the streets. (Did you see her? Did you think you might be dreaming?) [ READ MORE ]
April 08, 2016
brandon andrew: On Beauty and Repulsion: Whiteness, Art, and Inviting Discomfort
Brandon Andrew is an artist. He is white, he is queer, and he excels at making people uncomfortable. Maybe this is why I fell so deeply in love with him when I met him. more
I was in Los Angeles earlier this month at the opening of his new show.
Standing in the glow of a stunning neon and stucco piece, I was drawn to the light, to the glow –attracted on an almost pheromonal level.
I spent the rest of the night walking around the gallery, but kept returning to stand in the halo of warm light coming off this one piece.
It felt good. It was beautiful. [ READ MORE ]
March 20, 2016
Featuring work by Ken Gonzales-Day: 'Une deuxième image'
Après notre exposition Time Capsule, en 2012 à la Maison des Arts, dans laquelle nous montrions des œuvres qui rassemblaient plusieurs temps dans une même image, nous nous sommes interrogés, en guise de deuxième volet d'un diptyque d'expositions, sur le fait que certains artistes activent plusieurs images dans une même image.
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Ken Gonzales-Day included in the exhibition 'Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art'
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Josh Reames and Jose Lérmas at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
When I lived adjacent to my university's football stadium, an aural read of its emanating roar could be deeply confusing: celebration or war? Far from the harmonies of a choir, the sour cacophony of competing cheers sounded, I'm sure, better from within.
Josh Reames and Jose Lérma have created something of a visual equivalent at Luis de Jesus. more
March 03, 2016
Exhibit | José Lerma & Josh Reames at Luis De Jesus Gallery
A collaboration between two talented artists results in a monument of meaningful sociopolitical satire.
Culver City is buzzing about two monumental paintings created in collaboration between internationally exhibited artists José Lerma and Josh Reames, on display at Luis De Jesus gallery through March 6, 2016. more
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Freewheeling: Josh Reames and José Lerma Collaborate
The collaborative paintings of Josh Reames and Jose Lerma are a pas de deux in draftsmanship: Lerma's freewheeling, skinny line cavorts with Reames's softer, rounded marks and carefully taped off volumes. The two artists here join forces for the first time, having spent all of January working in situ at the Luis De Jesus gallery, a habitual approach for Lerma but a first for Reames. more
The front room holds two enormous paintings on facing walls, He Hath Founded It Upon the Seas I and II, both depicting fantastical assemblies of pirates, colonialists, or figures that amalgamate the two. The figures appear in a tropical setting referencing the Cayman Islands, notorious as a tax shelter and invoked in the first painting by images of a lion, three starfish, a turtle, and a pineapple, all found on the islands' official crest (as is the paintings' title) and in the second by inclusion of Ugland House, the administrative center for the territory. Ranging in color from jet blacks to faint grays and a few neutral hues, the scenes are composed with energetic goofiness. Lerma's multi-eyed caricatures jostle in tight clusters amidst the chaos of Reames' cannonballs, beer bottles, googly eyes, cigarettes, and blocky exclamation marks hovering illusionistically above the canvas surface. [READ MORE]
February 27, 2016
Josh Reames and Jose Lérma
Josh Reames' crafty airbrushed and trump l'oeil-heavy paintings are given a healthy re-fresh through a collaboration with his friend and fellow painter Jose Lérma. Together they've created two mural-sized paintings (which were custom made to fill both long walls of the front gallery) dubbed "He Hath Founded It Upon The Seas (I and II)." more
February 27, 2016
Throughout Zackary Drucker's work, there's a consistent theme: collaboration. From Translady Fanzine, her photographic collaboration with Amos Mac, to She Gone Rogue, the film that brought Drucker and Rhys Ernst to the 2014 Whitney Biennial, to Transparent, Amazon.com's Emmy Award-winning television series on which Drucker serves as associate producer, Drucker seems to work best in dialogue with others. Southern For Pussy (2015), Drucker's recently-released pilot for OpenTV, is no exception. more


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So on December 8th I went down to the Farm Bureau and cancelled our homeowner's policy. On Monday December 11th I got a call from Ms. Simpson stating that Allstate wouldn't cover me. So sorry. Thats it. She told me to cancel my insurance WAY BACK IN NOVEMBER, but I didn't I waited until I was sure everything was ok.
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Based off of our physical inspection we found liability risks on the property that fell well outside of the underwriting guidelines of the company we proposed to insure your property with. And as stated in our correspondence and verbally to you, once these risks are resolved we would be more than happy to insure your property and take care of you for many years to come. These liability risks should be resolved in order to protect you as a homeowner as well.
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The parables have not only suffered from neglect but have fallen foul to misunderstanding and misinterpretation. There is confusion today in both the pew and the pulpit. Instead of allowing Scripture to interpret Scripture, many have resorted to, and relied on, tried, but not trusted traditions. If we count and consider the amount of books available on this subject, we will be surprised and disappointed by the standard and substance. There is less than a shelfful of books that might be called both spiritual and substantial. The number of publications that make compelling reading, and satisfy and sanctify the soul of its readers; are few and far between. There is a common consensus amongst conservative Christians that the New Testament contains thirty or more parables. Some scholars, for instance, have married together two parables such as the lost sheep and coin and made them a couplet of one. And of course, some have done the opposite and divided one parable in to two. This means there is a measure of disparity amongst writers with regard to the total number of parables. Within this present work, about the parables of Jesus, there are a total of thirty fi ve chapters; each one devoted to an exposition of the particular parable. When Jesus explained, illustrated and applied the parables of the Kingdom, He sometimes used a pen to write a story and on other occasions He used a brush to paint a picture. The old saints used to describe the parables as "Perfect Portraits." They believed that Jesus was portrayed in every parabolic picture that is presented on the pages of the Holy Bible. In one of the parables Jesus asks a profound question about His return, Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really fi nd faith on the earth? (Luke 18:8). The implication of the question is that He will not. Many believe that Jesus is talking about the quantity of faith, but it is the quality of faith that concerns Christ. What is of paramount importance is that we all have the right faith. Second best, or, silver, is not good enough for God; only pure gold will suffi ce. We all need the faith that comes from hearing and hearing by the word of God. Many of the Puritans preached like a goods train, slow and sluggish but Mr. Thomas Watson was a cut above his contemporaries. His messages were more like an express train, faster and fuller. He was known to say, "Faith is the ring the Father puts on His child's fi nger." As the days grow shorter and the nights grow darker we sense the coming of Christ is drawing nearer. What we need in the last hours of the last days is men of faith who Mr. Stephen Olford said will take the "Book of God and preach the Son of God by the Spirit of God." May this book go some small way to cause men to have warm hearts, wet eyes and willing spirits. Maranatha! The Lord comes!
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Travelers Chief, at 65, Lands 'The Deal' of a Life of Deals
By LESLIE EATON with LAURA M. HOLSON
Published: April 11, 1998
Three weeks before he announced the Travelers-Citicorp deal, the biggest merger in history, Sanford I. Weill was honored by 100 friends at a surprise 65th birthday party at the Four Seasons. His wife, Joan, asked each table of guests for five words to describe Mr. Weill and to read the lists aloud.
Most of the words he liked, his friends and family say: smart, loyal, bold and -- his favorite -- sexy. Some he disliked -- portly and cheap. But nobody mentioned some of the adjectives Wall Street applies to him: rich, ruthless, rumpled, abrasive.
And driven. That is the word that seems best to describe Sandy Weill, the Brooklyn-born son of immigrants from Poland who struggled to get his first job on Wall Street as a messenger, went on to build a giant brokerage firm, lost it, then started over again at 52.
The new firm he built, Travelers Group, became so successful that when Mr. Weill proposed a merger, Citicorp, the lofty 200-year-old bank and global powerhouse, was eager to wed. The deal was worth $70 billion when it was announced on Monday.
Whether by a grand vision of the future or some insecurity stemming from his unprosperous past, Mr. Weill has now been driven to create Citigroup, a company that could touch any American who buys a house, saves for retirement, insures a car or uses a credit card.
But now, at a time when many of his peers are retiring, Mr. Weill will have to prove that he has more than drive, that he has the personality and the skills to make a success of this unlikely, seemingly unwieldy combination. Mr. Weill was in Georgia late this week entertaining employees at the Masters golf tournament and was unavailable for comment.
His track record as a deal maker is excellent but not unblemished. And this merger of equals with the highly successful Citicorp is fundamentally different from Mr. Weill's earlier deals, in which he snapped up troubled companies and fixed them.
''This is more a leap of faith,'' said James Dimon, Mr. Weill's right-hand man and the president of Travelers. If previous deals were like buying a house, he said, ''this is more like moving to Vermont.''
For the combination to work, Wall Street analysts say, Travelers and Citicorp must do more than just change their names. They must really become one firm, selling Travelers insurance and Salomon Smith Barney brokerage services to Citicorp's credit card and checking customers, and Citibank credit cards and banking services to customers of Travelers.
Whether that happens, many people agree, will depend on Mr. Weill and John S. Reed, the cerebral chairman of Citicorp, whose interests tend to be international and theoretical. While the deal was Mr. Weill's idea and he is widely expected to be the one most involved in the company's operations, the two men have taken the highly unusual step of agreeing to share the chief executive's job.
''Synergies and cross-selling work if you have good management, and don't if you don't,'' said Frank G. Zarb, chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers and a longtime colleague of Mr. Weill. The two men at the top of Citigroup ''seem to be interested in doing different things inside a company -- Sandy gets into the trenches -- which makes me hope it will work out very well.''
Few people who met Mr. Weill early in his career expected such big things from him. He grew up in Bensonhurst -- his father was in the garment business --and became the first in his family with a college degree when he graduated from Cornell University in 1955. Like most people in those days, he got married right out of college, to Joan Mosher, and soon had a family to support. They have two adult children: a son, Marc, and a daughter, Jessica Bibliowicz.
Though he quickly worked his way up to stockbroker, Mr. Weill in those days was no smooth-talking salesman. ''Aside from his colleagues and clients, he rarely spoke easily to anyone, out of shyness bordering on fear,'' according to ''The New Crowd: The Changing of the Jewish Guard on Wall Street,'' by Judith Ramsey Ehrlich and Barry J. Rehfeld (Little, Brown, 1989).
In the early 1960's, Mr. Weill became a partner in what would prove to be a remarkable group: Arthur L. Carter, the publisher who now owns The New York Observer; Roger Berlind, one of the most successful producers on Broadway; Marshall S. Cogan, the businessman and art collector who once owned the restaurant 21, and Arthur Levitt Jr., who has just been reappointed as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The stock brokerage firm these men founded went by several names but entered Wall Street legend as Corned Beef with Lettuce: Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt.
The partners were all dynamic and a little intimidating, recalled William K. Joseph, who joined the firm as a broker and, while staying at the firm in pretty much the same job, has had a dozen different business cards. (Today it reads Salomon Smith Barney.) ''They were driven, building a business, and very cost-conscious, too,'' Mr. Joseph said.


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They would not take no for an answer and insisted I at least let them send me some to try. I told them no, I didn't want to be bothered with having to return anything, and I did not need them.
I told her I was currently paying 3.99 for color and 5.99 for the high capacity black cartridge. (Inkquik.com) The sales rep then insisted that their ink cartridges had a lot more ink and would last much longer than the ones I was using and that was the reason for the price difference.
The sales rep told me she would not take any billing information from me so they would not have anyway of billing me. And she assured me I would not have to I would not have to return anything, make any phone calls, nothing at all. She said I would not have to pay anything unless I was happy with the ink, and then "they would trust me to pay them only if I was completely satisfied."
No action whatsoever was to be required from me. I told her I understood that she was wanting to send them to me for free with no obligation, but I really didn't need them and I wouldn't feel right taking her ink for free. So I still told her I didn't want them, even for free. I told her I was busy and I appreciated her offer, but I really wasn't interested and I needed to get off the phone.
But she was relentless! She kept on and on badgering me, telling me I had nothing to lose and no action at all would be required by me, they would be mine to keep if I didn't like them. She said this was a promotion they were doing to get people to try their ink and see how much better their ink really was. I finally agreed just to get off the phone with her.
But when I tried the ink she sent me, it was not any better than the ink I was already using and theirs cost a lot more. So, of course, I did not re-order from them. And that was supposed to be it.
Then I started getting collection agency phone calls and letters claiming I owed them the cost of the ink plus now the cost for the collection agency. I kept telling them the agreement, but they said I owed the money since I kept the ink and if I didn't pay they would report my company to the credit bureaus and ruin my company credit. I told them if they did I would sue them and I would not be bullied in to paying for something I never wanted to begin with and they could send a UPS pick up for the remaining ink, but they refused to do that.
I had only tried the one black ink cartridge. I had not used any of the colored cartridges. I called the com pay directly to try to get them to send a UPS pickup for the remaining ink. They still refused. They wanted me to return them at my expense and pay the collection agency fees that they had incurred. Even after they agreed their sales rep should not have made all the claims she made. The woman I spoke to actually laughed at what the sales rep had told me and made light of it.
Still she would not agree to pick up the package. I did not feel like I should have to be bothered with having to send this back at my cost plus pay them $24 in fees. It was the principle of the matter. I had already had to spend a lot of my time on the phone with these people, and the collection agency. I had to write a letter of dispute to the collection agency also. I did not feel like I should be out any more time or expense.
Now two years later their legal department is calling me threatening to take legal action against my small business. This time they offered to settle with me if I paid them $ 75 dollars. I told them no again. I would not be scammed or threatened into paying them anything. They said they would file for a judgment against me and if I didn't appear in court ("clear across county) that they would receive a judgment against my company for $200 plus court cost and take it directly out of my checking account.
I still refused to pay and told them they are still free to send a UPS pickup for the ink. They still refuse to do this claiming I should have called them within 60 days if I did not want the ink, which I never agreed to or knew about.
And then he had the nerve to criticize me for "only answering the phone when I wanted to." Just because I was not there to answer the phone every time he called?
I told him I would have no choice but to report them to the better business bureau if they did not leave me alone. He told me that would make no difference and not hurt them in anyway. I guess I will look for legal papers in the mail next... If "Asso Supply Co" comes up on your caller ID save yourself a huge headache and Do Not Answer!
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- Outdoor pool
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Spa tub
- Total number of rooms - 156
Family Friendly Amenities
- Free Wi-Fi
- Indoor pool
- Laundry facilities
- Outdoor pool
- Refrigerator
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Cable TV service
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free toiletries
- Free weekday newspaper
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Free local calls
- Free WiFi
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Premium TV channels
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Room service (limited hours)
Where to Eat
435 Grill - This restaurant serves breakfast and dinner.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool, an outdoor pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
- Golfing nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
- Pets not allowed (service dogs only)
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Only service animals are allowed
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: USD 5 per person (approximately)
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