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BLACKSBURG, Va. - The University of North Carolina track and field teams saw five more All-ACC honors on the second day of competition at the 2013 ACC Indoor Championships. Nine Tar Heels also qualified for the finals in 10 events that will take place on Saturday.
"Coming off of day two I think that both the men and women have put forth a very solid effort," said head coach Harlis Meaders. "On the men's side we were able to advance people to the finals in almost every event and we've got to be in the finals if we want to have a chance to win."
Cameron Overstreet earned a personal best and All-ACC honors as she extended her claim on the second-best UNC record in the indoor pole vault. She placed second by clearing a height of 13-8 ¼ (4.17 meters).
"Cameron got another PR and had two great attempts at 14 feet," said Coach Meaders, "She is continually improving her chances of making it the NCAA championship meet and we're really proud of her efforts."
The men's multis placed two-three-four in the heptathlon as Joe Hutchinson and Chadd Pierce earned All-ACC honors and Ryan Ramsey completed his first multi-event of his collegiate career. Hutchinson earned 5,226 points to rank fourth all-time on the UNC records list. Pierce earned a personal best 5,135 points to rank fifth all-time in school history. Ramsey earned 5,131 points.
"The men's multis finishing 2-3-4 was a fantastic job by those guys and Coach [Josh] Langley," said Coach Meaders, "Those finishes as well as our others have putting us in very solid positions to have a good showing at ACCs."
Ariel Roberts earned All-ACC honors for the fourth time in her career as she placed third in the high jump at a height of 5-10 (1.78 meters), a mark that ties her seasonal high.
Chrishawn Williams placed second to earn All-ACC honors in the long jump as she leapt 20-4 ¼ (6.20 meters).
"Chrishawn had six jumps over six meters in the long jump and that shows a lot of consistency," said Coach Meaders, "She is definitely ready for the championship part of the season. We've seen a great series of jumps from her."
Patrick Schellberg placed fourth in the 5,000 as he ran a season best 14:03.99, a time that furthers his hold on the second-best UNC all-time mark.
In the preliminary heats of the women's mile Annie LeHardy, Lianne Farber and Karley Rempel all advanced to Saturday's final. Annie LeHardy won her heat in 4:52.25. Lianne Farber won her heat in 4:46.50 as Karley Rempel placed third in the same heat in 4:51.24. Farber currently leads the qualifying times heading into the final.
"Having three of our ladies qualify for the final of the mile is incredible for us and I know we can count on them to keep up the good work," said Coach Meaders.
In the men's mile, Isaac Presson won his preliminary heat in 4:06.36 to qualify for Saturday's final. He currently ranks first among qualifiers heading into the final.
"The final of the men's mile with Isaac going up against the top milers in the conference will be an epic competition," said Coach Meaders, "We're very proud of his strides this season and know he will do great things tomorrow."
O'Neal Wanliss qualified for the final in the 800 clocking in at 1:51.38, a season best for him.
"O'Neal is showing his fitness and is ready to make a big charge in the finals," said Coach Meaders.
Clayton Parros advanced to the finals in both the 400 and the 200. His 47.87 in the 400 that won his heat and his 21.63 that placed second in his heat of the 200 are both season bests.
Javonte Lipsey also advanced to the final of the 400 with his season-best 47.77.
Devon Carter qualified for the final in the 60-meter hurdles after he raced 8.02 in the preliminary round.
Dylan Moore tied his season best in the high jump, clearing 6-10 ¼ (2.09 meters). AJ Hicks earned a new personal best with his fifth-place 61-6 ¾ (18.76 meters) finish in the weight throw.
"Overall been a great competition," said Coach Meaders, "The ACC continues to grow and improve with Clemson, Florida State and Virginia Tech as top national level teams. Tomorrow is going to be a good final day and we're going to have to work really hard to stay where we are and progress as a team in addition to the strong performances across the board thus far."
The women's team is currently ranked fifth with 32 points and the men's team is ranked fourth with 28 points.
The final day of competition begins Saturday with field events beginning at 11 a.m. and running events beginning at noon. Live results will be available and theACC.com will have a live video stream at the finals beginning at noon.
Carolina's All-ACC Honorees
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The Price of Pieces: Why You Can't Buy A Championship
High salaries. Higher expectations. Why free agency won't win you a championship.
It's August 24th, 2012. Eric Hosmer knocks one over the Monster to cut a slim 2-0 Red Sox lead in half, 2-1. But no one is watching the game. They're all out on the concourse, staring up with mild confusion and interest at the many TV screens that tell us the Red Sox are planning to trade away nearly $170 million in salary to the Los Angeles Dodgers for a handful of prospects that in another four months won't even be with the team. The whispers, in the wake of the news, spread like wildfire through the hallowed halls of the Fens, bouncing around in eerie silence before hitting the airwaves outside and eventually the newsstands the next morning. By sunrise the deal will be done; Adrián González, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford and Nick Punto, a slew of free agents signed in recent years (with the exception of the perturbed and perpetual shit disturber Beckett) in the hopes of winning another title, will be headed south to the greener pastures of the Golden State, and the pundits of the Globe, the Herald and the million blogs of the Fenway faithful will be flying the white flag, grasping at whatever straws remain that can explain the ugly decline of the last calendar year.
It's a shedding, a fire sale, a salary dump. It's the culmination of two piss-poor Sox seasons operating under a broken ethos, under a sham economy that equates talent with money and both with championships and wins, and it's flawed. It's broken. It's been proven over the past few years that it's not enough for an owner to simply buy up all the best talent available and throw it onto a field, sit back and expect a title. There are other factors in play, the intangibles they say that you just can't teach.
Or buy.
The Proof
In recent years, far too many teams have succumbed to the outmoded Steinbrennerian idea that wins can be bought at a price. Take for example the L.A. Angels: Last offseason they signed the top position player (Albert Pujols) and pitcher (C. J. Wilson). In t
he duo's previous full seasons (13 combined) they were good for an average 12.2 wins above replacement, yet the Angels only improved by three games and actually finished further back in the division, settling for third behind the Oakland A's, a team that operates on a third of the payroll the aforementioned Angels do. And you don't have to look past baseball to find a handful of other examples of this:
2012 Boston Red Sox
Payroll: $173,186,617 (3rd highest),
Record: 69-93 (5th in AL East),
Free agent costs per year (2010-11): $57M,
Average WAR of free agents prior to signing: 11.1,
Net wins from 2011: -20.
2012 Miami Marlins
Payroll: $118,078,000 (7th highest),
Record: 69-93 (5th in NL East),
Free agent costs per year (2011): $59.1M,
Average WAR of free agents prior to signing: 12.5,
Net wins from 2011: -11.
2012 Los Angeles Dodgers
Payroll: $162,743,575 (4th highest after acquisition),
Record: 86-76,
Free agent costs per year: $67.4M,
Average WAR of free agents prior to acquisition: 16.1,
Net games back from acquisition: -6.
The Dodgers actually stand as the most interesting case here. Prior to their midseason spending spree in which they acquired over $67 million in annual salary on August 25th, they were two games back of the division lead, having held it for most of the season before a San Francisco surge unseated them. After those acquisitions, intended to propel them back to the top, they fell another six games, closing out 2012 eight games back in the West and out of the postseason entirely.
What these numbers give way to is a trend; were it one team, one year, we might be able to forgive it as an anomaly, but when the four biggest free agent spenders collapse in consecutive seasons we have to stand and take notice. What's more is the time frames in which each decline occurred: for the Sox it took almost two years to realize, the Marlins only one and the Dodgers a mere month for the effects to be felt. So we can rule out disproportionate sample size. Ditto depreciation of assets; most of these free agents were bought in or around their primes. So what's happening here?
The Context
To put it in a different light, in context, if you will: between 2010 and 2012, the Red Sox, Dodgers, Marlins and Angels spent $1.4 billion on future free agents and have zero postseason appearances to show for it.
Conversely, Texas, Atlanta, St. Louis and San Francisco have spent a "paltry" $465 million, a third of the aforementioned four teams, and have 10 postseason berths, three World Series appearances and three World Series titles between them in that same time span.
But that's about as far as the numbers will take us. The dollars, stat lines and cents only serve to highlight the disparity between these eight teams, not explain it. For that, to account for this billion-dollar talent gap, we're required to go out on a bit of a familiar limb and talk about intangibles.
The Problem
What each of these teams lacks is a weird and unquantifiable notion of chemistry (unquantifiable might be the wrong word; "zero postseason appearances" seems to quantify it quite well). While the running theme among the four major spenders seems to be to fill a hole by importing expensive free agents, the theme among the four most successful teams of the last three years is to develop it, allowing the team to grow together organically as opposed to filling in the blanks with external stopgap solutions.
As an example: the core five players of the Giants, a team that owns two of the past three World Series titles, were all brought up in-house: Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, Pablo Sandoval, Brian Wilson and Buster Posey. In fact, out of nine starters and their five-man rotation, only four players are imports. The Angels last season? They only had four guys brought up through their farm system playing full time.
Even the oft-cited champions of free agent spending, the New York Yankees, stand as a shining example of this mistaken paradigm. Think back to that late nineties/early oughts team. Who anchored it? Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera. All born-and-bred Bombers. When did their World Series woes start? When they signed A-Rod for $250 million in 2004.
And it's not just baseball that is afflicted by this rather undocumented and unproductive shift in philosophy: the Lakers this season, after signing center Dwight Howard and point guard Steve Nash, are barely breaking .500; the Philadelphia Eagles, who two years ago were a shoo-in after an expensive free agent frenzy in 2010, have gone 12-20 and fired their coach. Even the Heat, who obviously have a championship now, struggled with admitted chemistry problems after signing the best player in the league, perhaps the best player to ever play the game.
The Solution
Patience. On the part of owners and fans.
The rash of free agent spending we've seen in recent years has created a problematic and self-destructive cycle. Free agents are brought in to fill holes not only in depth charts but in failing fan support. The more expensive the free agents brought in, the greater the expectations for that team's success. With greater expectations comes greater room for disappointment. And more disappointment means less fan support. Less fan support means more free agents and were back at square one, except that with each new extravagant signing, the price tag on coveted players rises. Higher prices, higher expectations.
But in-house players, players drafted, groomed and brought up through the ranks of a team tend to be removed from that sort of cycle. Fans seem to be able to forgive easier, forget faster, and warm to the idea of growth over a prolonged period of time as opposed to the win-now mentality that accompanies free agent spending. Perhaps then this idea of chemistry is not so much the connection between the five or nine or 12 players on the field, but the connection between those players and the fans. Should the Red Sox, Angels, Dodgers and Marlins have performed better? Or should we, their supporters not have held them to such high standard?
It's probably a little bit of both, but so long as we (the fans and owners alike) continue to equate projected on field success with money spent, with free agents bought and sold we will continue to be unsatisfied with the results.
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- New museum tells the story of Richard III's family, battlefield death and the uncovering of his bones
- Medieval king was found buried beneath a municipal parking lot in UK city of Leicester
- Thousands have flocked to see the final resting place of controversial monarch
With the announcement that Richard III's long-lost remains -- curved spine and all -- are to be buried at Leicester Cathedral on March 26, 2015, the UK city is set for another spike in tourist numbers driven by the dead monarch.
This time around though, there'll be plenty for visitors to look at.
It's all a far cry from those first, excited days after the discovery was announced in 2012, which saw locals and tourists alike lining up for hours around the block to look at a hole in the ground.
Back then there were no bells and whistles, just a strip of scraped-back asphalt, a couple of muddy trenches and the all-important grave, marked with a handful of yellow pegs and a copy of Richard III's portrait, laminated to keep out the drizzle.
The grave is still there, of course, but after months of scientific tests, massive controversy and a costly court case, it's now surrounded by Leicester's newest attraction, the King Richard III Visitor Centre.
The museum, which opened with much fanfare recently, tells the story of the "three Ds" of Richard III: his dynasty, explaining the complex family history which led to the bloody Wars of the Roses; his death, at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, defeated by Henry Tudor and later flung into an unmarked grave; and finally, the discovery of his remains.
Iain Gordon, director of the new visitor center, explains: "We start with the medieval soap opera of Richard III's rise to power, the Wars of the Roses and the 500 years of controversy that followed, and then we tell the key part of the story: the discovery."
'Beyond reasonable doubt'
It's this part, the tale of how a King of England could lie unknown and unacknowledged for centuries, most recently beneath a municipal parking lot, only to be found by a group of archeologists as stunned by what they'd found as the rest of us -- and with just enough clues to identify him -- that has fascinated people around the world.
The museum shows how the excavation was carried out, and explains the complicated series of tests carried out to prove "beyond reasonable doubt" that the remains were indeed Richard III's.
There's even a replica skeleton on display so people can see for themselves the fatal blow to the head that felled the King on the battlefield, and the distinctive curved spine that gave rise to the myth of the evil, deformed monarch portrayed by Shakespeare.
Gordon says that before it had even opened, the center had sold tickets to visitors from as far afield as Australia and Scandinavia, Canada, the U.S. and Germany.
"We had people walking past the door asking 'is it open yet, is it open yet?' and Australian tourists desperate to know if it would be ready before they flew home," he says.
International attention
Gordon adds that interest in all things Richard III-related remains high -- a temporary exhibition at the city's Guildhall nearby attracted 200,000 visitors in a year, and local authorities hope the tourists will keep coming.
The area between the grave site and visitor center -- housed in an old school -- and the cathedral, where the much-tested remains will be reinterred is being redeveloped, with new gardens linking the two, and part of the cathedral itself is being remodeled to make way for the new royal tomb.
The idea is that tourists will be able to spend an entire day on the Richard III tour.
They'll take in the Battle of Bosworth site, just outside the city, to see where he's thought to have died, the visitor center, to learn more of his story, and finally the cathedral, to visit his grave.
Thankfully, there's now plenty more to see than the original hole in the ground, though that'll remain the focal part of a trip to the new museum.
The hole takes pride of place in a church-like quiet room, the floor covered with glass so that people can look down into the grave itself.
There is though, a nod to the high-tech era -- at certain times of the day, lighting effects make it appear as though his bones are still in the grave.
In the visitor center, as well as the minds of many visitors, he will remain the King in the parking lot.
King Richard II Visitor Centre, 4A St. Martin's, Leicester; tickets £7.95 ($13.40)


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Viet Nam among top 12 reformers in the business world
This demonstrates Viet Nam's great strides in carrying out reforms. The country was placed in the list of the 50 top reformers in 2003.
The achievement was attributed largely to the country's legal reforms covering business licensing, asset registration, protection of investors, contract enforcement and business bankruptcy.
This is the third consecutive year that Viet Nam has been listed in the Doing Business report conducted jointly by the WB and IFC in more than 150 countries around the world.
Doing Business in 2006 updates last year's reports on seven sets of indicators: starting a business, hiring and firing workers, enforcing contracts, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, and closing a business. This years' report adds three more new indicators: dealing with business licenses, trading across borders, and paying taxes.
According to Martin Rama, Chief Economist of the WB in Viet Nam, the country needs to continue pushing reforms to create a favourable business environment for investors because it is still only ranked 99th among 155 countries surveyed in terms of business activities.
Caralee Mcliesh, a senior economist involved in the Doing Business in 2006 project, said that in order to improve its ranking, Viet Nam should establish a concentrated, transparent and simplified tax collection system to streamline procedures for businessmen. At present, investors in Viet Nam spend an average 1,000 hours a year to complete required tax procedures.
In addition, Viet Nam should cut the necessary duration to start-up a business from 50 days to 30 days like Thailand and Malaysia have done, the WB official said.
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Visitors to the 26th annual Black Heritage Festival will see an entirely new look, Judi Washington, executive director, said.
The festival will be held Friday through Sunday. Friday's opening event, a performance by magician Dewayne Hill, will be presented at the Benjamin Mount Memorial Theater at the Central School Arts and Humanities Center. Saturday's and Sunday's location will be at the Lake Charles Civic Center.
"In the past we only used part of the Civic Center, zoned into a children's area and another for general audiences," she said. "This year we will use the entire Civic Center except Rosa Hart Theater."
Activities "will include Vendor's Expo, Africana Culture Performances Extravaganza, Zydeco Aerobics, a Hall of Fame Ceremony, educational workshops, magic shows and much more," she said.
Entertainment venues will be divided into themed areas for gospel, zydeco and R&B, jazz and others. The mezzanine of the center will be the Premier Stage for presentations, such as a Hall of Fame presentation, and other special programs.
"Food courts will be provided on every level so patrons can obtain food and drinks from the many vendors and have a place to sit and eat while enjoying the entertainment, instead of walking around with their food," Washington said.
An education component has been added with Empowerment Seminars, one on parenting and another for teens. A Diaper Derby/Healthy Baby Contest will precede the parenting seminar.
Empowerment Seminar speakers will be Tameka Prude Selders on parenting and Calvin Mackie for teens.
Selders is a native of Lake Charles and alumna of Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge. She received her master's in teaching from Dallas Baptist University and has more than 12 years of teaching experience.
Mackie is a former engineering professor, an internationally renowned speaker and a successful entrepreneur. He is a partner in Golden Leaf Energy, which produces and distributes biodiesel from waste streams.
Spotlight performers will be Frankie Beverly and MaZe with Ft cupid, hosted by Derrick Kenner, at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Doors open an hour earlier.
Beverly formed MaZe in San Francisco in 1970 and has recorded a number of successful albums. The group performs a smooth, passionate R&B style.
Magician Hill will give impromptu performances during Saturday's events, Washington said. He is a native of West Virginia and began performing tricks in Charleston, his hometown, when he was a child. He paid for his college education at West Virginia State College with his magic and comedy routines.


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Wayne Law student awarded scholarship by Federal Bar Association
DETROIT — Wayne State University Law School third-year student Alex Szypa has been awarded the Edward H. Rakow Scholarship Award by the Federal Bar Association.
The $1,500 award is given each fall to one student at each of Michigan's five law schools. Winning students must demonstrate outstanding scholarly achievement in securities, operations or business law, as determined by the dean of the law school. The scholarships were presented at the association's Rakow luncheon Nov. 19.
Szypa grew up in Warren and Sterling Heights and now lives in Birmingham. He works as an intellectual property law clerk at Carlson Gaskey & Olds in Birmingham.
"I chose Wayne Law because I wanted to go into intellectual property law," he said, noting the school's highly regarded curriculum in the field. Wayne Law has the only patent procurement clinic in Michigan that is sanctioned by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Szypa holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan and is registered to practice as a patent agent before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He also is associate editor of The Wayne Law Review.


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The ubiquity of worlds beyond our Solar System confounds us
Kevin Heng
The hardest thing to observe with a telescope is a rock. Astronomers can see disks of gas and dust swirling around nascent stars, as well as fully formed exoplanets orbiting mature stars. But it is terribly difficult—if not impossible—to detect the presence of planetesimals, at least outside of our Solar System. An entire cottage industry of astronomers is engaged in the study of protostellar or protoplanetary disks, the purported birthplaces of exoplanets. They find a rich cacophony of features in these disks: asymmetries, gaps, warps, dust made from exotic substances. Sometimes, they even find exoplanets embedded in the disks (which often cause the features themselves). A decisive test of planet formation hypotheses is to study the properties of planetesimals within these disks, but these objects are practically invisible. Planetesimals are neither numerous (compared to dust grains) nor large enough (compared to exoplanets) to re-emit significant radiation that can be detected by telescopes. Any link to them is indirect and uncertain at best, made through assumptions of their relationship to the observed dust grains. Even estimating the masses of these disks remains a crude exercise at best and requires Solar System–centric assumptions on the opacity of the dust grains and the relative amounts of dust and gas present in the disk. We find ourselves bombarded with information, but knowledge eludes us.
The prevalence of rocky exoplanets in nature lends credence to the paradigm of core accretion. Astrophysicists hoping to model formation by this mechanism appear to have their work cut out for them: They must start with micrometer-sized dust grains and congregate them to produce larger particles, either on paper, in computer simulations or in the laboratory. The task is daunting, because there is conceivably a factor of a billion in size between dust grains and planetesimals. The protoplanetary disk conspires to exacerbate matters—gas orbiting a star tends to move at slower speeds than the dust grains do. The gas molecules, mostly hydrogen, in the disk are so numerous that they act like a fluid, which has an internal pressure. This self-exerted pressure support results in the gas orbiting the star at a speed slower than would be predicted. Dust grains or rocks, present in much fewer numbers, do not exhibit this property, and thus in their reference frame the gas appears to be coming towards them, much like what one encounters when one runs in the rain. This relative motion between the dust grain and the gas is azimuthal (around the star) instead of radial (toward or away from the star), which then leads to a loss of angular momentum and the radial motion of the dust grains towards the star. The time scale on which this "gas drag" phenomenon occurs is, uncomfortably, shorter than any conceivable time scale for grain growth. This conundrum is commonly called the "meter-size problem," because it afflicts meter-sized objects the most when they are located at the same distance from the Sun as the Earth.
Proposed solutions to the meter-size problem are plentiful. Some astrophysicists devote their careers to re-creating in their computers the conditions for encounters between dust grains. These simulations capture the intricate details of collisions, both constructive and destructive: coagulating, chipping, bouncing, deflecting, shattering. Dust grains of all sizes and shapes are studied. Again, we are awash in information, but knowledge is slower to come. Nature is hinting to us that planet formation is a robust phenomenon—surely, the mechanism involved cannot be privy to all of the micro-details of the dust grains and must be related somehow to the global properties of the protoplanetary disk. Although it cannot serve as a proof, we are guided by principles such as Occam's razor—when faced with many explanations, we pick the simplest one.
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I don't have much time to write today, but I just had to post this picture. They may flock to dumps and snack on dead fish, but they have so much more personality than seagulls. This one looks just like one of the Seinfeld street toughs to me ... he's hawking this piercing glare, but you can see right through those ruffled feathers. Before he was so rudely interrupted, he was probably saying to his otter friend, "Don't you just love the blue sky today? Look at the way it reflects on the snow. Oh I just love it. It's just gorgeous, simply marvelous."
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text: Just looking for some insight here. It has been super hot here in the area the last few days. I have a small water source right in front of the hives that they seemed to have been visiting, an additional bird bath with stones near the hives that I had seen them taking water from in the past. In the last few scorching hot days, I have only seen wasps and yellow jackets taking water from my sources and none of my bees! What the heck? There is a small man-made pond on the property behind us, but that is a football field away! Why don't they like my water? I had seen them taking it at the same time as the wasps from the same source before, so I am not inclined to believe that they are scaring them off.


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Economic stimulus plan will offer tax filers refunds of $600-1,200
Original post made on Jan 24, 2008
As part of the agreement reached today, refunds will go out to approximately 116 million families, according to the Associated Press. Individual tax filers are eligible for $600, while joint-filers are eligible for $1,200. Families with children will also be eligible for an extra $300 per child.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, January 24, 2008, 3:31 PM
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a resident of Donlon Elementary School
on Jan 24, 2008 at 7:04 pm
This is actually a very good thing. I'm in the business and have been doing mortgages for a long time. I'm not just saying this because of the business. People like me are doing a great business through all the turmoil. This is no different than when interest rates were 16%+ in the 80's and no different than the liquidity crunch of the 90's. The move upward in the conforming limit would mean many troubled homeowners and non-troubled could refinance at lower rates. Many can buy now that wouldn't be able to buy otherwise and I'm speaking of responsible wage earners or business owners. They will still have to qualify for the loan in terms of income, assets, and credit. California and other states are far behind the standard in terms of the conforming limit. Hawaii and Alaska have higher conforming limits. Other high cost states should have the same. $625,000 would still not be enough for some people in New York or California to purchase under first time buyer type programs.
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 25, 2008 at 5:23 am
Gee -- TJ's post so smacks of advertising.
a resident of another community
on Jan 25, 2008 at 6:40 am
I hope the weekly deletes his post or charges him for advetising on here. Half his post is advertising and the other half is him talking himself up.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 25, 2008 at 10:16 am
Note to self:
Do NOT ever call TJ Jones!!!
How sleezy...
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Jan 25, 2008 at 9:08 pm
It is interesting that the leading post in this thread is by someone who unabashedly implies how profitable it is for him in the mortgage business, especially because of the turmoil. Rather than call for the posts removal, it is best to leave it exposed to the wrath of other posters who follow.
....Now y'all got a sense of the greed that fueled the debacle that is now known as the credit crisis caused by a wall-street-gamed-mortgage industry that in turn fueled high housing prices resulting in a housing boom instigated by a policy of abnormally low interest rates by a federal banking system trying to keep going an excessive consumer economy whose population has lost its capacity to produce wealth and to maintain its average personal income and standard of living because low-worker-cost countries have taken this country's jobs and those low-cost countries now are producer economies generating wealth enjoyed by their citizens whose standard of living is rapidly rising like ours once did in the period after WW II through about the late 70s but now longer rises.....
As citizens our guilt lies in our addiction to consumption. This addiction fuels those producer economies. We define ourselves by what and how much we have, not by who we are. So, if our incomes cannot keep pace, we use our homes as ATM machines to get the cash to buy that SUV that we just have to have as well as to purchase the gas, with the result that our money ends up funding Iran, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, etc. Don't forget that is also funds China where we get our clothes, toys, and everything else under the sun.
So, in response to the current situation our great leaders respond by sending the nation deeper into debt in order to put spending money in consumer's pockets to keep the game going..... They expect you to do your patriotic duty and SPEND your tax rebate! That's the propaganda, isn't it? Is this true leadership?
The Roman empire decayed by the time it hit 300 years of age, and the US is now 233 years old. Hopefully, there is enough time left to make some fundamental changes. But I think it has to start with you and I.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 3, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Frank...I appreciate your comments given above on 25 January, 2008.
A pundit (Joel Stein of the LA Times) in a article in todays Tri Valley Herald dated 3 February noted the following hypothesis "Say, for instance, I got $600 and I spent it on strippers. Those strippers would then buy clothes at Bebe, and the person who owns Bebe would would buy the crappy house I overpaid for and get me out of the financial predicament caused by unscrupulous mortgage lenders and not by my addiction to strip joints."
He concludes that "An empire that believes spending is a patriotic act is perilously close to its end...."
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These are some videos I found on Youtube that show the proper method for storing food in 5 gallon buckets.
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
How to seal mylar bags with a clothes iron.
The mylar bags are about $2.00 each and be sure to use oxygen absorbers.
SOON-We already lost the war. You are the resistance.
If you are serious about dry pack canning, you may have a local LDS (Mormon) church community dry canning facility near you. Assuming there are some openings for time and equipment, they are usually quite willing to let non-Mormons use the facility.
Contact them, ask politely and be flexible in your schedule. The LDS canneries use actual cans in their facilities. While a bit more expensive than 5 gallon mylar canning, the smaller tin cans allow smaller quantities to be opened and used.
Tin cans are also more flexible in storage space demands.
Like most stuff, the more you buy the better the deal.
But the point about the Mormons is right. They are masters of survival preparedness.
Good videos on YouTube show how they organize and store their supply's.
What's good about the mylar system is you can reseal the bag after you take out what you need.
appropriate links to morman info please???
how about a source for mylair bags??
I am off the page for extended times due to job requirements, not gone forever
From The Food Storage Faq - Specific SpecificationsIt may not be necessary to form your own community to purchase a dry-pack can sealer and bulk quantities of metal cans. If you live in the right area your local LDS church may have facilities they will allow you to use and perhaps even suitable food products they will sell you.
Most facilities will be located at one of the LDS Bishop's Storehouses located in various places around the country, but some churches also have their own local facilities. The easiest means of finding out is simply to ask the LDS church member you know. If they don't themselves know, or you don't know any Mormons then a little phone book research will be necessary. Find your nearest local Mormon church and ask about speaking with the local Bishop of the Ward or Relief Society president. Either one of those two individuals will be able to give you the information you seek.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please do keep in mind that the individuals responsible for the family canneries are all volunteers with demands on their time from many areas. Be courteous when speaking with them and, if there are facilities for use, flexible in making arrangements to use them. You will, of course, have to pay for the supplies that you use, cans and lids at the least, and any food products you get from them.
Any food products you want to have sealed in cans will need to fall within their guidelines of suitability for that type of packaging. This is for reasons of spoilage control since many types of foods just aren't suitable for just sealing in a container without further processing. If you purchase food products from them, they will already be within those guidelines.
I've corresponded with many LDS members and have even contacted the LDS headquarters in Salt Lake City to get the official word. Keeping in mind that not every area may have facilities for use and that the family canneries are run by volunteers, they are quite earnest about allowing non-church members to use their facilities. It's worth investigating.
A close buddy of mine died last week. So, his kids who live out of town gave me a key to watch the place. He has a bunch of canned foods and distilled water. The kids told me to take all of it. It is almost like emptying a small country store out, for free!
I am set.
Yeap, it is a lot easier to HAVE than to HAVE NOT.
Living to get up another day to find all you had is GONE winds up being a real DRAG!!!
I contacted the LDS and they are going to send me some info.
they were VERY nice and helpfull on the phone.!!
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Topic: I'm listed
I guess this belongs here on the "good news".
I got a call today, that the have listed me on the transplant list.
Needless to say, I'm freaking out.
I really don't know what to say....
Wife to Brian; Mommy to Carter (8) and Madison (4)
Liver transplant 7-9-2013


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Movie Review: 30 Minutes or Less
Despite the sharp comic cast, this comedy limps to the finish line.
Director: Ruben Fleischer Rating: R Studio: Media Rights Capital
Paddling against the recent tidal wave of comedies that outstay their welcome, 30 Minutes or Less, which stars Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari, at least gets the job done in 83 minutes of throwaway laughs.
Eisenberg, fresh from his Oscar-nominated work in The Social Network, plays a smart, aimless, lovelorn pizza delivery guy who has hooked up with a pretty girl (Dilshad Vadsara), who happens to be the twin sister of his permanently pissed-off best friend (Ansari). Other than that dalliance, the twitchy, neurotic Eisenberg's small town life is pretty much dead-ended until he gets a bomb strapped to him through the moronic scheming of a father-hating, gutter-mouthed lout (Danny McBride) who forces him to pull a tricky bank heist. McBride, you see, lusts after the lottery jackpot won by his aging dad (Fred Willard) because he wants to open a tanning salon brothel, a bizarre scheme that ropes in the scene-stealing Michael Peña as McBride's hit man and Nick Swardson as his dim bulb ballistics expert guy.
Even with a sharp comic cast and that mercifully quick running time, talented director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) lets the air out of the comic balloon when it ought to be soaring along. The finale feels less like a victory lap than a shrug. And Michael Dilberti's screenplay's association with a real-life Erie, Pennsylvania pizza delivery man/bank robber who was killed when a bomb strapped to him exploded doesn't—especially considering how strongly some of the moviemakers involved deny the importance of that basic similarity—generate extra good will.
About the Author
Playboy Contributing Editor Stephen Rebello has written many Playboy Interview and 20 Questions features. He is the author of such books as the notorious Bad Movies We Love (with Edward Margulies) and Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, the latter of which has inspired a dramatic feature film set for production in 2012. His most recent Playboy Interviews include Josh Brolin and Cameron Diaz.


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Exhibition: 7.9. - 30.12. 2012
KIRKEBY EPHIPHANY is the meeting of the greatest abstract painter in Danish art and the Glyptotek's extensive collections of art which cover 6000 years. The exhibition KIRKEBY EPIPHANY will present 25 paintings and sculptures spanning the period from 1981 up to the present day.
Per Kirkeby combines the sensual in the raw materials of fabric and colour with great artistic and theoretical insight. His extraordinary ability to bring together form, nature and a wide-ranging web of ideas in painting and sculpture has made him one of the most important figures in modern art.
Motifs from Nature
KIRKEBY EPIPHANY displays Kirkeby's use of a number of recurring motifs, taken from Nature – from the alien forms of the polar regions, from the forest on the Danish island of Læsø or from his own back garden. Visitors can share the artist's widely-encompassing sense of what has great picture-making power, across artistic genres, media and cultural-historical boundaries.
With Per Kirkeby, that which is most banal may suddenly reveal itself as a direct line to something more – that extra, with which art has always been concerned. Kirkeby uses his vision to enable the public to see visions too, in a serious encounter of the abstract and the concrete. Today Kirkeby is at the height of his artistic powers. See a modern master in the setting of the Glyptotek's galleries, light and atmosphere.
The exhibition has been realised with support from:


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Great contrasts of both color and pattern scale. Good job Carrie.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Great contrasts of both color and pattern scale. Good job Carrie.
Don't worry spider.
I keep house
I donate quilts to the AAQI.
Like some of the rest of you, I didn't really like the Indian on Horseback, so found a substitute!
Sew many ideas ... just sew little time!!
Oh your horse is beautiful! Where did you find that pattern? I like your jewel block too
Eat, quilt, sleep, repeat
Most of us did not like it, but I did it anyway, but will probably not use it in my quilt. Your jewel came out wonderful! I liked that block, it was not as hard as it looked! Ohhhhh, more fusion in that maroon color - beautiful!!!
"You have enough quilts made when your soul is filled, your creativity satisfied and your fingers just won't work anymore."
Anael ... I stumbled on this site of free patterns recently. Mostly applique, but when you go thru the alpha list, it does identify the PP ones too. It was just the head for 6", then I added the stripes around the edge.
JeanieG ... When I did the FWS, I did ALL, whether I liked them or not, just to say I did them ALL! This time, I guess I'm giving myself some slack, being that I know i'm not doing them all. Now for some balance, I'll be looking for a few more animals/birds. When I got it finished, I went ooooh too ... and sat there thinking of more Fusions Mists. It really gives some nice movement, doesn't it? ITA not as hard as it looked ... I almost skipped it because of the dreaded Y's, and am glad I did not!
MUST find a cow! .... anyone know the whereabouts of a PP cow pattern?
Sew many ideas ... just sew little time!!
Whoo-hoo! Two more blocks done, & lovely ones too!
My initials are BB, so dublb is double B.
Kudos all around QE. How about this for a cow?
Don't worry spider.
I keep house
I donate quilts to the AAQI.
This cow is a good one I think....I had to go back to the patterns page to see a picture http://piecemealquilts.com/patterns/...scroll down a bit.
Beautiful blocks, QuiltE. I have used that purple fusion too and just love it.


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Fast Break: Thunderstruck
|03.31.10 at 10:04 pm ET
Game of the year? No question. Best regular season game of the Big Three era? It would have to be in the discussion.
The Celtics lost to the Thunder Wednesday night, 109-104 and while there are implications to the defeat, it's not hard to appreciate just how good this game was.
You want numbers? the Celtics shot 17-for-20 in the second quarter and 70 percent in the first half… and they only led led by four. Six different Celtics scored in double figures, but no one scored as many as 18 and they had assists on 30 of their 44 made baskets
You want moments? With four seconds left in the third quarter Rajon Rondo raced the length of the floor, knifed through the Oklahoma City defense and laid one off the glass as the buzzer expired. As Rondo skipped away from the shot he had a slight grin on his face as if to say he knew how good it was. That was only one of a dozen or more example of individual brilliance.
Or how about Rasheed Wallace going 7-for-8 from the floor, with almost all of that working off the low post where he dominated a host of OKC defenders?
And Kevin Durant was ridiculous. He scored 37 points and made impossible shots from all corners of the court. He also lived at the free throw line where he went 15-for-15. As a team the Celtics attempted just 17 free throws.
This game had everything you could possibly want in a regular season NBA contest, except for maybe a Celtics win. They are now a game behind Atlanta for third place in the East. They have two more home games to regroup during this stretch and carry some momentum into the playoffs.
Player of the Game: If you have to pick one player from this game it has to be Durant. He scored 37 points and drew so much attention from the Celtics that Jeff Green found himself open for two huge 3-pointers in the final minutes.
Turning Point: The Green 3-pointers. They were both killers.
* Paul Pierce started despite suffering a stinger in his shoulder and scored 14 points to go with four rebounds and four assists in the first half. Kendrick Perkins also returned to the lineup after missing the last two games with knee tendinitis.
* The Celtics turned the ball over nine times in the first quarter, but committed only one in the second.
* The Thunder had never beaten the Celtics in the Kevin Durant era.
* Durant was awesome, obviously, but the Celtics made him work much harder for shots in the second half. They had their big men hedge off screens to initiate double teams and throw his timing off. It really didn't matter though. Durant also got the benefit of several whistles and shot 15 free throws. He made them all, of course.
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I'm definitely new at this, one hive started from a 3lb package in early May. They have drawn 7 combs in the bottom deep (8 frame equipment) and I added a second deep about 3 weeks ago. Did an inspection 2 weeks ago and they had drawn only 1 frame in the upper deep but I found several queen cells on the side of the comb. Another inspection last week and the queen cells were capped and they had drawn another 1 1/2 frames in the upper deep for a total of 2 1/2 frames with a tiny bit of work on another frame. I haven't seen the old queen in the last 3 inspections and she is marked so she has been easy to find. I assumed I must have rolled my queen in an earlier inspection and that they were making a new one.
Today I noticed a lot of bees flying back and forth in a flight path they have never used before. I went out to take a look and there were more bees flying in and out of the entrance than I've ever had. Still they weren't clustering or bearding, just lots of bees flying. There was also a louder buzz coming from the hive than they've ever made. I watched for a while and the activity didn't slow down and the noise didn't decrease. It occurred to me that maybe they were going to swarm. Since this is the first year for this hive and they have lots of room I didn't expect them to swarm this year but I'm new at this so maybe they are?
I don't have any more hive bodies but I have a couple of mediums so I went to the shed and made a bottom board and an outer cover. I put foundation in eight frames and put the frames in the box. I don't have any lemon grass oil but I do have some Honey-B Healthy so I smeared a little dab of that on top of a couple of the frames. I set this hive up about 25 feet from the existing one. Before I even stood up after setting the box down a couple of bees flew around it and then entered it. I stepped away and watched and quite a few bees began flying around the outside of the new box and then entering. I would say probably two or three bees every minute were checking it out.
So my questions-
1- Is it likely that my hive started from a 3 lb. package this year, which has lots of room is going to swarm? They just didn't seem that strong.
2- Are the bees inspecting my "swarm trap" hive likely to be scout bees (even though they haven't swarmed yet) or just curious bees checking out the box?
3- Should I take a drawn frame from my existing hive (not one with brood or eggs of course) and put it in the swarm trap or is foundation enough?


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Seven Hills Vineyard is now regarded as one of the "ten most important vineyards in the world" by Wine & Spirits Magazine. In addition to Seven Hills Vineyard, Casey crafts wines from several of the best, old vine vineyards in Walla Walla and on Red Mountain, including Ciel du Cheval, Klipsun, and McClellan Estate.
Casey' focus has always been on Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux varietal reds, complemented by limited production of Alsatian varietal white wines. His vision is to produce wines that reflect the terroir of these sites with intense structure and pure varietal fruit character capable of graceful ageing. View all Seven Hills Winery Wines
About Walla Walla ValleyView a map of Walla Walla Valley wineries
Sharing part of the valley with Oregon, Walla Walla is on the southeast side of the Columbia Valley. It is primarily red grape land, with Cabernet Sauvignon leading in the vineyards, followed by Merlot and the ever-growing and very popular, Syrah.In the 1990's, as Washington State was gaining more acclaim for its red wines, Walla Walla was hailed by wine critics for its quality and sense of place. That has not changed. Many red wines from Walla Walla show not only great complexity and elegance, but ageability. Though the region is known for the red wines, the most planted white grape here is Chardonnay.
About Washington
So how does a state known for rain and coffee produce high quality wines? They plant their grapes on the east side of the Cascade mountains, away from that ever-present rain cloud that sits along the coast. Perhaps wine grapes do well since the sandy loam soils east of the Cascade range give way to an almost desert-like land, saved from drought only by the helpful rivers that run through the area – and the good irrigation systems.
Thinking that the state would do best with typical northern growing grapes like Riesling and Gewurtztraminer, turns out the apple state is well-suited for reds, namely Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and, more recently, Syrah. Of course, whites have not been forgotten - Washington State Rieslings range from bone-dry to sweet, are well-structured and high quality, and Chardonnay dominates most of the other white plantings, making a range of wines. But the reds of the region, Merlot in particular, have made Washington State a quality force to be reckoned with.


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Bratwurst with Grilled Corn Relish Recipe
Sweet corn stars in this amazing relish. It kicks basic brats and hot dogs up a notch. —Taste of Home Test Kitchen
- 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 3 tablespoons balsamic vinaigrette, divided
- 4 uncooked bratwurst links
- 2 medium ears sweet corn, husks removed
- 1/4 cup chopped roasted sweet red peppers
- 1 green onion, thinly sliced
- 4 brat buns, split
- 1. Combine mustard and 2 tablespoons vinaigrette. Grill bratwurst and corn, covered, over medium heat for 15-20 minutes or until meat is no longer pink and corn is tender, turning frequently and basting with mustard mixture.
- 2. Cut corn from cobs. In a small bowl, combine the corn, peppers, green onion and remaining vinaigrette. Serve brats in buns with corn relish. Yield: 4 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 each: 572 calories, 32g fat (10g saturated fat), 63mg cholesterol, 1536mg sodium, 51g carbohydrate (8g sugars, 2g fiber), 21g protein.
Reviews for Bratwurst with Grilled Corn Relish
Reviewed Sep. 8, 2011
"This was pretty good, nothing too spectacular, but it is an easy way to add fun to brats."
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|Nov 13th, 2014 07:28 AM
Re: Amanda Bynes mugshot
how come I feel so lucky that this thread is not flooded by me
|Nov 6th, 2014 01:19 PM
|Super Dave
Re: Amanda Bynes mugshot
|Nov 6th, 2014 12:49 AM
Re: Amanda Bynes mugshot
|Nov 6th, 2014 12:04 AM
Re: Amanda Bynes mugshot
Looks like her parents have given up.
From Perez Hilton
Amanda Bynes' parents are dropping their conservatorship, sources tell perezhilton.com exclusively.
Last week, Amanda's mom Lynn Bynes regained legal control of her daughter until early next year.
Despite her mom's conservatorship, Amanda was released from her psychiatric hold, and made headlines wandering around Hollywood.
Sources tell us that Amanda has made death threats against Lynn and her husband Rick. Because of this, they are dropping their conservatorship and moving back to Texas. Amanda's siblings are currently in Texas and just as fearful.
We've learned that Amanda is happy with their decision to leave L.A.
More details to come.
Read more: http://perezhilton.com/#ixzz3IFJVsJWd
|Nov 2nd, 2014 08:44 PM
Re: Amanda Bynes mugshot
Originally Posted by MMJSL View Post
Her other Twitter. @PersianLa27
Someone tagged her in a tweet. A lawyer, @TamarGArminak
|Nov 2nd, 2014 08:37 PM
Re: Amanda Bynes mugshot
Originally Posted by CrossCourt~Rally View Post
Where did you hear this ?
She has been suspiciously quite this weekend
The last message posted on her twitter was..."Zac Efron is not ugly" from a couple days ago.
Someone tagged her in a tweet. A lawyer, @TamarGArminak
|Nov 2nd, 2014 08:33 PM
Re: Amanda Bynes mugshot
Originally Posted by MMJSL View Post
Amanda is allegedly going in for Electroconvulsive Therapy on Nov 3rd. Anybody else seen Next to Normal? Very sad.
She has been suspiciously quite this weekend
The last message posted on her twitter was..."Zac Efron is not ugly" from a couple days ago.
|Nov 2nd, 2014 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Super Dave View Post
Her parents look like they haven't eaten in awhile, either.
|Nov 2nd, 2014 08:04 PM
Re: Amanda Bynes mugshot
Amanda is allegedly going in for Electroconvulsive Therapy on Nov 3rd. Anybody else seen Next to Normal? Very sad.
|Oct 31st, 2014 07:37 PM
Yes I saw her pop up on my Twitter feed again making all kinds of claims. She clearly is still unwell
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|Oct 31st, 2014 06:38 PM
|Super Dave
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Her parents look like they haven't eaten in awhile, either.
|Oct 31st, 2014 06:36 PM
|Just Do It
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I don't get it, WHERE THE HELL IS HER FAMILY? Why on Earth would they let her stay alone in a hotel room in LA? get her home, Jeez.
|Oct 31st, 2014 06:06 PM
|Super Dave
Re: Amanda Bynes mugshot
I'm afraid of where this will all end. If not her getting hurt, then someone else.
|Oct 31st, 2014 05:30 PM
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Amanda Bynes -- Goes on First Post-Hospitalization Rant
It didn't take Amanda Bynes long to launch a new rambling rant ... accusing her father of sexual assault again, and announcing plans to get out of her conservatorship.
Friday morning, Bynes tweeted she plans to go to court today to get control of her life ... and her money. She also said, "The police filed a report against my dad - I am not able to be in the same room with him. He is a sexual predator and he SHOULD BE IN JAIL."
TMZ broke the story ... Bynes was sprung from the psychiatric facility where she had been held for more than two weeks ... and was spotted roaming around Sunset Blvd. on Thursday night.
She concluded her Twitter rant by writing, "So sorry you've been fooled by Sam Lufti and my parents, but they are lying about stealing money from me and i cannot continue to allow them to abuse me any more! Thank You everyone, have a great day "
|Oct 31st, 2014 05:28 PM
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They let the poor thing out of the mental ward last night Just in time for Halloween
Amanda Bynes -- RELEASED From Mental Facility ... Roaming Sunset Strip
Amanda Bynes has been released from the psychiatric facility where she's been held for more than 2 weeks and was roaming the Sunset Strip Thursday night ... TMZ has learned.
Sources familiar with Amanda's treatment tell TMZ ... she went before a hearing officer at the psychiatric facility Thursday, asking to be released. Amanda has been on her meds and sounds lucid, even though doctor's say she is seriously mentally ill.
The hearing officer felt Amanda was stable enough that she could NOT be held involuntarily, so he ended the 30-day hold that had been granted last week and Amanda walked out the front door.
Amanda walked down Sunset Blvd., searching for a place to stay. She then went to a diner where she ordered a ton of food which she devoured -- fried chicken, salmon, Caesar salad with guacamole, and a house salad with Italian and ranch. She was chitchatting with the waiter and said she was shy because she had a procedure on her face which required a bandage.
Amanda, who paid with a credit card that did not have her name on it, did not seem "with it," according to the waitress. She would carry on a conversation and then when the waitress walked away, Amanda would mumble to herself.
The waitress tells us ... Amanda complained she lost 20 pounds recently and that's why she was so hungry, but didn't want anyone to see her eat because she'd "look like a fat ass."
We're told Amanda has been looking for a hotel room, but she had been turned down at several places.
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Unlike others without bees, I have at least four feral hives on my farm--all in dead and rotting poplar trees.
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The log is about 16 inches diameter and I was thinking about cutting off the hive portion and inserting it into a wooden box of some type and storing in the barn for winter. Maybe even feed them. Any ideas what I should do? When is the best time to do a cut out with the most success? Also should I use a top bar or regular hive? Should I just let nature take its course and wait till spring and hope for the best?
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I saw that. Looks like an interesting concept for making a semi Sten. Too bad the article left out many of the details and just gave an address you can send your dollars to if you want the real story. Modifying the bolt to come up with a closed bolt firing system is the real catch to building a Sten. Same goes for a Suomi.
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What away games have you all been to? Best and worst experiences.
Family being a season ticket holders since 1950s, I can't believe I've only been to 1 Giants away game. I have seen a few games at old Mile High Stadium when at college in Colorado, but no Giants other than in New Orleans a few years ago. We got killed as you remember. But a great city and fans treated us (18of us!) well with only mild ribbing and heckling near end of game. Mostly they thanked us for coming to their city after Katrina.