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There was no meteor to kill the dinosaurs, there was only a pissed off sand weasel.
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Hamby described how another driver flagged him down, then struck him in the head. He needed six stitches above his right eye to close the gash.
"He smashed me right in the head and the blood just started going and I couldn't see anything," said Hamby. "It felt like a brick hit me or something."
Hamby said it happened Tuesday just after noon after he pulled his vehicle out of the Anderson Campers parking lot along State Route 273.
Another driver in a pickup truck quickly sped up behind him.
"All of a sudden there's a big white Ford F-150, he almost hit me, I thought because he came up behind me so fast. And he started motioning with his hands, and I thought something fell out of my truck so I pulled over, got out and walked to the end of my tailgate. He got out of his truck and he said something and I turned my head and when he did, he hit me," said Hamby.
That sucker punch broke open the skin above Hamby's eye, sending a gush of blood down his face and shirt.
Hamby says through all of that, he was able to get a look at the suspect vehicle. He describes it as a white Ford F-150, with a glass camper shell on the bed. The driver was towing a black flatbed trailer.
"I didn't see his face really good because I was trying to hear what he said when I got hit. I just put my head down and he kept pounding on me until I could get away from him," said Hamby.
Anderson Police say this brazen beating is an isolated incident, and unfortunate roadside attack.
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Who is conducting the seminars?
And trust me...there are many different ways that Obamacare will squelch innovation. This is just one example.
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"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
Everyone knows ya can't just zim zam the flim flam without the zip zop zoopity bop!
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It's too bad, I'm too good....
That's what they believed in the USSR. How did that work for them. They were in the dark ages until the wall came down.
This (as I said) is economics 101.
And the problem is that with so many other countries going to government sponsored health systems, they rely on the US for innovation.
Another one of the "unintended consequences" with the desire to care for everyone.
The road to despair is littered with the remnants of "good intentions".
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They don't wear capes or have super powers, but little brown cows are helping save the world. Seriously. Here's how the dots are connected:
People around the world like cheese, and they like it a lot. Demand has been growing for decades and shows no signs of stopping. In the U.S., 40 percent of all milk is already made into cheese.
The vast majority of cheese is made from milk produced by cows.
As is the case with humans and all other mammals, cows consume water, food, and other natural resources. Cows also have a "carbon footprint" that negatively impacts the environment through production of carbon dioxide and other waste.
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Jennifer Lawrence fell as she walked up the stairs to accept her award for best actress at the Oscars.
The Silver Linings Playbook actress beat out octogenarian Emanuelle Riva to win the Oscar for best actress.
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The three c's of farming
Character, capital and conditions are critical considerations for anyone who wants to farm in the future.
by Charles Crave
The author started on a 43-cow rented farm and currently owns a successful crop and dairy operation along with a cheese factory in Waterloo, Wis.
The dream of farming has become a reality for thousands around the world since the advent of agriculture. For perhaps even more, this dream has been snuffed out by an array of circumstances. But, how does one take the dream of farming and turn it into reality?
There is no one way to go about becoming a successful farmer. A vision towards achieving your goal, though, is an essential start. As a young dairyman, you most likely have a vision of owning your own farming operation. You may envision crops, calves and cows, but successfully owning and managing these assets involves a different three c's - character, capital and conditions.
Character is learned
Almost everyone reading this article has an agricultural background. Those years of your dad telling you to do it because it "builds character" can now be taken to the bank.
Do you have the honesty to procure a loan? Do you possess the character to work effectively with those in the industry? Do you have the mental ability to differentiate between working hard and working smart? Are you a grumbler or a doer? Do you have a record of successful leadership in your community, family or your farm? Have you succeeded beyond the basics? In the business of farming where so much is dependent on factors beyond your control, such as the weather and milk prices, remember that character is always in your control and will be there when needed.
Capital is earned
While your parents began building your character when you were young, they may not have been building your capital. If you want to own your own business, you need the raw materials to do so. Before you can think about having a productive herd, you need a plan for how you're going to feed it. This means having some initial capital.
Capital refers to the financial assets you can bring to a business. No banker will want to finance a business if they have all the risk, so cash is key. If you find yourself with empty pockets, an education is a good place to start, as it provides a skill set that will enhance your financial position. Are you willing to live modestly in order to save the money necessary to start a farming venture?
A young farmer who spends money on a shed full of toys instead of earning assets, such as a growing herd, may have a short farming career. Remember that no one starts out as the boss, and the experience and wages you can earn as an employee may be what you need to start an operation of your own.
Conditions are chosen
By working for someone else, not only will you get a financial boost, but you see the type of conditions you would like to have on your own operation or would never like to see again. Conditions are a reflection of what you are doing to position yourself for success.
For instance, your employer may operate with a free stall barn, while you feel a seasonal pasture-based operation may be more to your liking. You may have to relocate to make your vision bear fruit.
The most important thing to ask yourself is, can the conditions you choose as the basis of your operation bring you a profit? Milk is produced around the world in a variety of conditions. But no matter where you choose, make sure it is in the position to be a profitable venture.
The three c's can lead to profit
By combining your character with capital and favorable conditions, you are now in the position to start earning a profit. Earning assets are essential to control as a farmer. A producing herd is an example of an earning asset. Another example of an earning asset would be a pen of growing calves. Farmland, buildings and machinery are assets that offer a slower payback. Renting land or machinery is quite often much more cost-effective for a beginning operation.
It cannot be emphasized enough that you must know your cost of production. For starters, do a budget and utilize industry-wide data. Most of that can be found very easily just by reading articles such as those in Hoard's Dairyman.
The following two charts have been printed in Hoard's Dairyman within the past year. The examples show that, if you choose to have an average dairy operation, you will have a net income of about 63 cents per hundredweight. Many successful farms in 2011 have shown net incomes of five to 10 times this margin. If you have the ability to be above average, a greater margin may follow allowing you to operate a more profitable operation. A profitable farmer uses his profit to pay the principle and interest on his investment. Don't forget to factor in a wage for yourself in your budget.
As a farmer, you are most likely an independent individual with production-based skills. This does not mean you should go at everything alone. By hiring an agricultural accountant, you will be in a position of fiscal accountability to yourself, your family and your banker. It would be ideal to establish this relationship prior to beginning your business. Knowing what is going on in your business and having a second opinion can be a priceless asset and relieve some of the stress that comes with owning your own business.
The preparation of an education, experience and a vision for success in conjunction with the three c's is the foundation of production agriculture; or any business for that matter. Perseverance and hard work won't hurt your career either. No matter how you choose to go about making your dream a reality, as long as you have character, capital and favorable conditions, you have a great start, and the crops, cows and calves will follow.
This article appears on page 220 of March 25, 2013 issue of Hoard's Dairyman.


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(March 6, 2007)--The San Antonio Neuroscience Alliance (SANA), a collaborative initiative of UTSA and the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSC), will host a spring retreat from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, March 31 at the Radisson Hill Country Resort.
Open to all San Antonio neuroscientists, the retreat will provide an informal forum for social and scientific interaction among neuroscientists, postdoctoral fellows and graduate and undergraduate students. The forum will include presentations by doctoral students and a poster presentation competition. In various categories, awards will be presented for excellence in neuroscience.
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Neuroscientist John Hildebrand will deliver the keynote speech on the simple olfactory system. Hildebrand directs the Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology and leads a group that conducts multidisciplinary research combining anatomical, behavioral, chemical and neurophysiological methods. The group's research focus is the organization, physiology, functions and postembryonic development of the insect nervous system with the goal to discover commonalities of nervous systems in insects and other organisms.
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Would it be feasable to propose a contest where the beekeepers here create the perfect TBH?
I know we have the know-how with all of us in here.
Here's what I propose:
Any person or persons who can develop or design the perfect TBH would be recognized here in this forum and their plans would be placed on the site for all of us to benefit.
The perfect TBH is defined (for the purpose of this proposed contest) as:
1. any hive that uses top-bars in the Kenyan TBH fashion.
2. is very lightweight yet extremely durable
3. is the least expensive to build
4. is designed with the most ease of use by the beekeeper
5. is demonstrated to be the most efficent and utilitarian to meet the bees' needs
6. is the least complicated to produce
Anybody who would like to amend or add to this suggestion is welcome as it is merely a rough proposal.
ANY THOUGHTS on how we could reward the winner would be much appreciated as well. It seems that some are more responsive when it comes to monetary rewards!
Of course the contest would take time (at least a year)so as to prove the qualifications 1-6, but it would give us time to consider how to show appreciation to the designer of the best TBH.
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text: I was recently given boxes of unused, unassembled frames. I have enough to make probably 240 frames. All of the frame ends are for deep hive bodies and I am planning on using medium bodies in my next hives that I will start up in Spring. I am planning on cutting all the frame ends down to the length of what medium frame ends should be and then notch out the area for the bottom bar. The width of the deep frame ends are about 1/8 of an inch wider than what a medium would be. I am concerned that when I place 10 frames in my hive(brood) bodies, the space between the frames ends will be a bit smaller/tighter for the bees to walk through. Should I sand them down to make the space 1/8 of an inch bigger or not worry about it? I don't want to prevent them from being able to walk around the ends of the frames when trying to get to the other side of the foundation. Thanks, juzzerbee


text: This one and one other look home made. From my uneducated guess, it looks like there are four deep boxes setup as individual setups. (stacked two high) and then the one I took the first pictures of. There are a lot of fruit trees, berry bushes, and use to be a corn field. He may not have had them set up jusy for honey.


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The great experiment in copyright trolling that is Righthaven appears to be nearing an end.
Righthaven, which was founded more than a year ago to monetize print news content through copyright infringement lawsuits, has suffered a myriad of courtroom setbacks in recent months. Among them, it was sanctioned $5,000 for misleading a federal judge, ordered to pay $34,000 for an opponent's legal fees (.pdf), and was told over and again by judges that it has no legal standing to even file the lawsuits.
With all those issues now on appeal, the litigation factory's machinery is grinding to a halt. A review of court records shows Righthaven has not filed a new lawsuit in two months, after a flurry of about 275 lawsuits since its launch at the beginning of last year. A court filing indicates there have already been layoffs at Righthaven's Las Vegas headquarters (.pdf), and even some already-filed lawsuits are falling by the wayside, because Righthaven isn't serving the defendants with the paperwork.
Righthaven chief executive Steve Gibson confirmed by telephone that his company has stopped filing new lawsuits, pending appellate rulings that could take months or even years to filter through the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
"It certainly seems to be prudent to see how all of these cases come out in the wash," Gibson said, adding that he still reserves the right to file new lawsuits at any time.
'Is this really a fight over whether the blogosphere should be able to take people's creative works and reproduce it?' —Righthaven CEO Steve Gibson
Taken together, the setbacks suggest the business model employed by Righthaven has imploded on nearly every front — making it difficult to envision Righthaven copycats or a solid Righthaven future.
"The cases continue to show that their business model is not a viable business model," said Kurt Opsahl, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has opposed Righthaven in court.
Founded in 2010 with a $500,000 investment by Stephens Media — its first and largest client — Righthaven promised to fix the print media's financial ills by suing bloggers and website owners for reposting snippets or entire copyrighted articles. Newspaper content, Gibson said in an interview last year, had hidden value waiting to be unlocked through litigation under the copyright act, which allows $150,000 in damages per violation. "We believe there to be millions, if not billions, of infringements out there," he said.
Righthaven went on to settle more than 100 cases out of court for a few thousand dollars each. Many of its early lawsuits targeted websites for comments and forum posts by the site's readers.
The plan hit a major snag in June, however, when Chief U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt of Nevada threw out a copyright lawsuit against the Democratic Underground blog for allegedly clipping four paragraphs from a 34-paragraph story published by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Stephens Media's flagship paper.
The issue in that case, and most others since, is Righthaven's legal standing to sue over Stephens Media copyrights.
It turns out Righthaven didn't own the copyrights it was filing suit over. Instead, Stephens Media granted Righthaven permission to sue over the newspaper chain's content in exchange for a 50 percent cut of all the settlements and jury awards: the agreement did not grant Righthaven license to use the content in any other way. The EFF called it a "sham." Judge Hunt agreed, ruling that a "copyright owner cannot assign a bare right to sue" (.pdf).
Righthaven and Stephens Media have amended their operating agreement three times in a bid to get standing, as the copyright act only allows rights holders to sue for infringement for violations of their own copyrights. In the current version, with each side getting a 50-50 split in lawsuit awards, Righthaven theoretically owns the copyright for litigation purposes, but Stephens Media is allowed to continue exploiting the copyright for other uses, like licensing rights. Stephens Media retains the right to "re-purchase" the copyright at "fair-market value" within five years, according to what the two are calling the "Amended and Restated Strategic Alliance Agreement" (.pdf).
Righthaven's other client, Denver Post publisher MediaNews Group, has a similar relationship with Righthaven, and some three dozen Righthaven lawsuits over Denver Post content are stalled, as a federal judge in Colorado weighs dismissal over the standing issue. (MediaNews did not return repeated phone calls and e-mails for this story. Stephens Media, through its attorney, declined comment.)
"I don't know why they don't stop this whole charade," said Marc Randazza, a Las Vegas attorney who was awarded $34,000 in legal fees after winning against Righthaven in another decision on appeal.
Last year, one of Randazza's client's posted an entire Las Vegas Review-Journal article to a message board discussing public-employee pensions. A judge ruled it was fair use, then said Righthaven had no standing to bring the case to begin with, and awarded legal fees.
Eric Goldman, a Santa Clara University School of Law intellectual property scholar who has been closely following Righthaven, said the business model adopted by Righthaven is not likely to be copied any time soon.
"In theory, it seems like it was ingenious. Newspapers are one of the largest owners of copyrights out there, and they just sit on their assets," Goldman said. "But you'd need such a high volume of cases with enough dollar value to justify the enforcement effort. They were going after the small fries — the least likely to pay."
Righthaven's legal setbacks have "reinvigorated my faith in the judiciary," said Goldman.
Righthaven's business model may have been inspired by patent-troll companies, who purchase patents for the sole purpose of suing and threatening to sue. But those companies actually buy the patents outright.
Despite the legal issues, the staff cuts and the suspension of new litigation that was Righthaven's lifeblood, Gibson claims he remains optimistic.
"Is this really a fight over hyper-technicalities over particular language aspects of this private-party contractual documentation, or is this really a fight over whether the blogosphere should be able to take people's creative works and reproduce it?" Gibson said. "It is our belief that the truth of the matter will be determined in our favor."
See Also:
- Newspaper Chain's New Business Plan: Copyright Suits
- Bloggers Mull Legal Action Against Righthaven
- Righthaven Loss: Judge Rules Reposting Entire Article Is Fair Use
- Judge Fines Righthaven $5,000
- EFF Decries 'Sham' Copyright-Troll Legal Tactics
- Righthaven Says It Owns News Articles It's Suing Over — for Real This Time
- Denver Judge Taps Brakes on Righthaven Copyright Lawsuits


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The first thing one notices when confronted with the work of Sharon Lockhart is that she is neither a photographer nor a filmmaker. While the end results of her artistic process are indeed photographic prints and film projections, these are not the defining elements of her work. Her practice is much more akin to that of a choreographer or a musician, as her media of choice are space and time. Based in Los Angeles, the artist graduated with her MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1993 and has subsequently become a central figure in a generation of artists who came of age in the 1990s. They are inheritors of what critic A. D. Coleman identified in 1976 as the "directorial mode" in photography, describing a new artistic strategy in which artists set up or stage their images. For the last decade, Lockhart has exploited the directorial mode in order to investigate the temporal gap between the stillness of photography and the dynamism of cinema.1
In Lockhart's Untitled (1996), for example, a single static image contains an entire world within the borders of its frame. Unlike some of her earlier work, it does not so much reference any specific instances in the history of narrative filmmaking as it describes a more general ontology of the cinematic. This extremely large, horizontally formatted color photograph is scaled to the aspect ratio of a cinema screen, confronting the viewer with what appears to be an ambiguously dramatic moment in the middle of an unknown or forgotten film. A young man finds himself in a hotel room, framed against the highly stylized backdrop of a floor-to-ceiling glass window that looks out into the twilight of an anonymous cityscape. As it turns out, the city is Los Angeles and the location is the Bonaventure Hotel, although we have no way of determining this visually as the picture recedes into a blurry depth of field constituted by the reflective surfaces of the glass. In its luminous shimmer, we catch a glimpse of a figure entering the room through a door that is in essence positioned in the off-screen cinematic space behind us. We are caught in the middle of the narrative created by this image, frozen in a fragment of time and trapped in a story with no promise of resolution, yet we are seduced into attempting to complete the open-ended fiction that has been so intricately constructed by the artist.
While Lockhart is well known for her photographic works, she has also worked in film since the very beginning of her career. In Goshogaoka Girls Basketball Team (1997), a work comprising both a film and a series of photographs, she moves away from a focus on storytelling in order to conduct a more sophisticated structural investigation into the nature of our physical relationship to cinematic space and time. The result of a residency in Japan in fall 1996, this project, featuring a junior high school girl's basketball team from the outskirts of Tokyo, enabled Lockhart to explore her interest in the experimental concerns of both the minimalist dance choreography and the structuralist filmmaking practices of the 1960s. In a nod to such filmmakers as Yvonne Rainer, Michael Snow, and Chantal Akerman,2 who challenged the conventions of narrative cinema by focusing on the material structure and process of their medium, Lockhart employed a single stationary camera and divided the film into six sections of ten minutes each, a time determined by the length of a single commercially available reel of 16mm film. Working with American choreographer Stephen Galloway of the Ballett Frankfurt, Lockhart put these twenty-four young women through a set of highly structured movements in which their bodies weave in and out of our field of vision, defining the different areas of cinematic space created by her camera's constant gaze across the length of a gymnasium floor at the proscenium of a theatrical stage. As the film progresses through its six dramatic "acts," what at first appears to be a kind of rote documentation of a basketball practice begins to take on the character of a highly ritualized and abstract tale, leading Lockhart to suggest that "the proscenium defines the movement of the girls; it announces the film as a fiction, as staging, as theater."3 This fictional staging stands in stark contrast to the film's structural influences. In the end, it becomes clear that in Goshogaoka Girls Basketball Team, the artist has managed to construct a hybrid exploration of bodily movement that paradoxically bridges the gap between the legacies of structural and narrative filmmaking, and in so doing, reveals her true fascination to be the mutable immateriality of dramatic performance.
As the artist has suggested, "I think most of the time we see a photograph and we either are caught up in the flow of time—imagining the moments before and after the photograph was taken—or we see the image as existing completely outside of time. We never stop to consider the relationship, seeing both the flow of time and its arrest in the photograph." Quoted in Bernard Joisten, "Sharon Lockhart," Purple, no. 2 (Winter 1998/1999): 328–335. ↩
Lockhart was especially influenced by Chantal Akerman's film D'Est (1993), which is also in the Walker Art Center's permanent collection. ↩
Quoted in Joisten, "Sharon Lockhart," 329. ↩


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To get to the registration desk you must first pass through a sea of slot machines. Sarah's statement about this was, "Wow!" Of course the slot machines are right next to the registration desk, so hearing the clerk was a challenge. Once we got to our room, which had a wonderful view of the roller coaster, we went for a swim. The cool thing about that, besides the water, was when you floated on your back and looked up it was like floating on a street in New York City.
We then went to exploring a few the hotels adjacent to ours. The MGM Grand was a very nice hotel with real lions in the casino. There were two guys just sitting in the glass cage with the sleeping lions, who must be slightly more intelligent than the ones in Out of Africa, because they were not running around trying to get the lions agitated. In fact it looked as if they might fall asleep.
After that, it was over to the Excalibur hotel which is on the other side of the street. The Excalibur was a bit more themed than the MGM Grand, but it also appeared to be older looking. By the time we were done looking at these two hotels Sarah was tired so we went back to the room.
The next day we toured several of the other hotels which consisted of over the top lavishness like the Venetian, to glorified hotels like the Tropicana. I am not going to waste a bunch of time describing all of them, because it is just something you need to see to draw your own opinion. Besides, I'd rather make fun of people...
Pat and Sarah watch a show on Saturday nights called What Not to Wear. I have sat through enough episodes to get the general principal behind it. Some earthy, schleppy person who make obviously poor fashion choices is recommended by their alleged friend to be made fun of on national TV. In exchange, the schleppy person receives guidance from two self appointed know-it-alls (Clinton and Stacey) and is given 5 grand to spend on a new wardrobe. The person receives the money, buys clothing , claims to be reformed, then after the know-it-alls return to New York, the schleppy person probably returns to their previous bad fashion habits, sells the new wardrobe on EBay, and makes $2500 for their trouble.
By now you are asking what does this have to do with Las Vegas. Bear with me. I am getting there. I am no fashion expert, but I have found a way to cut out the alleged friend to find the poorly dressed person. Just hang out in Vegas. Here is a list of fashion issues I observed:
50 plus year old man, jogging pants, white socks and thong sandals.
70-ish man in dark purple shirt and lighter purple polyester pants with patent leather shoes, a handle bar mustache and a bad toupee.
Obesity and spandex.
Obesity, daisy duke shorts, and large snake tattoos.
Leisure suits.
Mini-skirts on women over 60.
Muscle shirts on men with bodies like mine or even worse.
Orange hair and green mohawks.
You get the idea. I could not believe these people went out in public dressed like this.
Another aspect of Vegas I had not fully considered is the fact that sex sells and Sarah is 12. This problem manifested itself in a couple of ways. On our last night of vacation, at Sarah's request, we went to Margaritaville, Las Vegas. Having been to the one in Myrtle Beach we thought we knew what to expect. But it is Vegas and everything is PG-13 at a minimum. Dinner went as normal. 6pm rolled around and the people on stilts came out. Still normal. The volcano began to erupt. Still nothing new. Then things progressed in an unexpected direction. A young lady, who was more than capable of wearing Daisy Dukes and a bikini top without offending Clinton and Stacy, came out dancing around the room. She then sauntered up the volcano; danced some more, slid down a slide into a giant Margarita pitcher located next to the bar. She stirred the Margarita by dancing around in it, got out and danced some more on the bar. I am not sure how much of this registered with Sarah, but I was slightly uncomfortable. This is not the worst part of the evening.
We then went to Treasure Island where they have an outdoor "Pirate" show in front of the hotel. The show is actually a 20 minute dance review in which some poor male pirate is captured by a dozen scantily clad female pirates. The plot continues with him wanting to be rescued by his fellow male pirates. Please. The only male in Las Vegas I could think of, who would want to be rescued from this group of "pirates", was Elton John who is currently playing at Cesar's Palace. Anyway, after the male pirate ship is sunk they swim to the girl pirate ship where some interesting dancing occurs. Eventually all the men are kicked off the ship, left with nothing, and the girls sail away. Fill in your own metaphor here. This was still not the worst part.
Sandra Bullock fact insertion - Treasure Island and its ships were used in Miss Congeniality 2. Unfortunately, Sandra did not dress like a siren in that movie.
We then went to see the Freemont Street Experience. It is hard to describe, but imagine more than 3 city blocks, covered with a canopy of millions of LED lights. Now turn up "American Pie" by Don Mclean, and combine the music with generational pictures. It makes for a pretty remarkable 5 minute show.
Now for the worst part. Brilliant me decided that since it was dark it would be cool to drive down Las Vegas Blvd. and look at all the hotels lit up. This next story needs a little set up. At the beach they have planes flying over dragging advertising signs behind them for Dominos pizza, restaurants and other beachy things. In Vegas they use a line of trucks with billboards on the back driving up and down Las Vegas Blvd. The billboards advertise Vegas acts, shows, and women who will come to your hotel room.
I, of course, end up next to a line of these trucks stuck at a light. Sarah, of course, asks what these trucks mean. I, of course, remain silent deciding this is a maternal teaching moment . Pat proceeds to explain this is a way for men to get a date. Sarah proceeds to read the whole billboard out loud and then goes into a routine that I just can't remember well enough to type. Pat was laughing so hard she was nearly crying. I giggled then tried to figure out who I could beat up. There were no targets of opportunity in this normally target rich environment.
We got back to our room with no other sexually laced incidents. Thank God. We packed up and flew out the next morning via Southwest Airline. I have only a couple of observations about this. We were checked in by Mike Carr who has been featured on the A&E show "Airline". He was nice and complemented Sarah on how tall she was. Finally, after traveling all over LA, San Diego, Sedona, and Las Vegas we meet someone who has been on TV.
I did not mind flying Southwest, with the exception of their hybrid kindergarten/cows going to slaughter boarding system. Lining up in numerical order, and standing around is stupid and serves no purpose.
I will type a final blog this weekend and direct you to a place where you can look at all of our pictures if you wish to.
Until then,
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The Beachcombers played at Beachwood golf course. Low gross: Jim Beairsto, 84; Stu Cleveland, Ed Hennessey and Larry Cecil, 86. Low nets: Cecil, 61; Hennessey, 64; Bob Smith and Beairsto, 66; Reggie Auten and Ed Kinney, 67; Dennis McCann, 69. Team net Stableford: Cecil, Auten, McCann and Dennis Davidson, 25 points. Golfer of the week was Larry Cecil.
My husband, Gene, and I went to Gatlinburg, Tenn., last week and we loved it.
We had heard it was a lot like Myrtle Beach, and that was a fine reason to go. I love our crazy, funky, touristy area with its Canadian and Minnesota tourists, its bike rallies, golf courses, shows and big buffets. They say Myrtle Beach is the blue collar capital of the world, and that's fine with me. Heck, I'm the daughter of a Maryland chicken farmer, so I'm comfortable with blue collar.
The First Tee of Brunswick County has the great honor and privilege of bringing the Dennis Walters Golf Show to The Reserve Club at St. James. There is no charge and no need to RSVP for the show, which will take place from 10:30-11:30 a.m. June 16.
The Dennis Walters Golf Show is a one-hour combination of golf mastery and human inspiration. It is great golf, great fun and a great message. The show is also about achieving your dreams.
The West Brunswick High School golf team sent four players to the N.C. High School Athletic Association Class 3A East Regional May 3 at Maccripine Country Club in Pinetops. Greg Hensley gave West Brunswick its top placing, shooting an 82 to finish tied for 11th among 84 golfers. Jack Donoghue shot a 91, Keith Hopkins a 99 and Cole Grammen a 102.
The annual Winding River Men's Golf Association member-member tournament was played May 5-6 at Carolina National Golf Club. Using a shotgun start both days, 96 players (48 teams) teed it up May 5 for the first of five matches.
The First Tee of Brunswick County is once more selling its Player Card for $100. The card is only available to Brunswick County residents.
With the card, golfers can play once at each of 23 Brunswick County Golf Course for $25 (includes cart and green fees). The card is only valid during certain times of the year and the summer session is from May 15-Sept. 15, 2010.
The Crow Creek's Men's League played its fourth annual two-day member-guest golf tournament April 30 and May 1. Sixty-eight golfers competed, with some guests coming in from around the country. Crow Creek owner Henry Bennett and Director of Golf and Restaurant Operations Bryan Thomas set up the golf course and facilities for the tournament.
Getting physically fit will not only help your golf scores, it will keep you from getting injured and improve the quality of your life.
The Beachcombers played their annual Vinny Shea golf tournament May 4-6 at Santee, S.C. The format was team four low nets. First were Dennis McCann, Ed Kinney, Larry Bollinger and Larry Ward with a score of 291, beating by a match of cards Jim Beairsto, Bill McDavitt, Bill Cameron and Bob Bryne.
May 5 results: Kinney, Cameron, Reggie Auten and Rick Givens were first at 282. Second were Bob Brownley, Byrne, Dick Conley and Charlie Shore at 283.
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Audubon Society to host Chimney Swift sit July 18
The Brainerd Lakes Area Audubon Society (BLAAS) will host a Community-wide Chimney Swift Sit at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, July 18, at the Laestadian Church, 1501 S. Eighth St., Brainerd.
Have you seen the Chimney Swifts doing their aerial acrobatics? Each evening dozens of swifts dive into the depths of the Laestadian Church chimney as darkness descends. Many people think they are bats or swallows. At last year's first sit-in in July, 101 swifts were counted diving into the chimney.
At the second annual event, participants will watch and count as the birds display and drop into the chimney. Bring binoculars and a chair.
Chimney Swifts are veracious insect eaters who fly non-stop from morning to night. They are incapable of perching like other birds, but have claws and spines on their tail feathers that enable them to cling to the rough interior of the chimney where they roost during the night.
Chimney Swift populations in Minnesota have declined 54 percent in the last 40 years. This is due mainly to the loss of suitable homes as old chimneys are knocked down and homeowners are lining and capping their chimneys, making them inaccessible to the swifts.
Individuals and organizations can help the swifts by leaving chimneys open where feasible and by constructing "fake chimneys" to replace the ones demolished.
This event, sponsored by the Brainerd Lakes Area Audubon Society, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Jennifer Lust at 218-825-1010 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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It's fun and frustrating all at the same time. Golf is one of those games you love to hate – it will drive you nuts, and then you hit one great shot and it makes your whole day.
It's also a great escape from the grind of daily life. A Saturday on the links can be the perfect escape, and golf trips and outings can be a great time for both the avid golfer and the weekend hacker.
This section isfor those of you who love the golf lifestyle, focusing on the game itself and all the fun you can have around it.
You can follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google+ for regular content updates.
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Check out our review of two high-quality polo shirts made in Italy from Golf by James Warren, both featuring a hidden pocket.
Featuring the ability to play as past masters like Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, "Tiger Woods 14" is the most complete and engaging golf video game ever made.
Bullz-Eye traveled out to Las Vegas and partied at the Aria as we covered the Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational golf tournament at Shadow Creek.
Follow the Masters, the British Open and every other golf tournament.
We all daydream about playing on some of the best golf courses in the world before we die, and at the top of David Medsker's list is the home of the Masters, the Augusta National Golf Club.
Mike Furci has some exercises for the avid golfer that will help you reduce your risk of injury.
How you can work out and use stretching to improve your golf game.
Golf Web Guide
Check out the full web guide in the right column throughout this Golf channel, and here are some general golf sites that will appeal to both the avid golfer and beginners.
This site has practically everything a golfer would want, with news and information along with all sorts of resources for the casual golfer.
Here you'll find all sorts of information about the game of golf and the PGA Tour. The site has daily golf tips and information on instruction and equipment along with news from the pros.
Golf Digest
This well-known magazine has an excellent site with plenty of information covering golf instruction to courses around the world.
Here you can book tee times online 24/7 and you can earn rewards toward a free round of golf. The site has over 80,000 open tee times at 1,800 golf courses in the United States and Canada. Simply select where you want to play, find a tee time deal, and golf now!
The Scores Report – Golf
This national sports blog covers the pro game and the PGA Tour.
SPORTSbyBROOKS – Tiger Woods
Brooks has been all over the Tiger Woods scandal and you can get all sorts of sports gossips and golf gossip on this site.
Hooked on Golf Blog
This blog covers a wide variety of topics, from golf gear and equipment to news on the pros.
Golf Girl's Diary
Here's a great combination – great golf content coming from a hot babe! The pi cog the Golf Girl on the site is enough for a visits, and you'll enjoy her posts as well.
Armchair Golf Blog
This is a great blog with tons of information. The writer has a real passion for the game.
America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses
This interactive feature is super cool as you can scroll over each state in the interactive map and see the ranked golf courses in that state.
Robb Report – Best of the Best 2009
The ultimate luxury magazine ranks the best of the best each year, and this is their list of the best golf courses for 2009.
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Get more information on the pro game and the PGA Tour at our golf page in our Bullz-Eye Sports Channel. Also, check out our pages on The Masters, the British Open, the US Open and the PGA Championship.
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Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
yup, sounds about right.. probally be a 8 time pro-bowler there
Damn, first Von Miller and now McClain. Nice pick-ups.
Good for them, I still feel this guy could be good.
Dont forget stealing Courtney Upshaw last year in the 2nd round.
Spin that Webb young Davis
One year, $700,000. The Giants weren't interested?
Giants hate Line Backers, Im convinced. They dont want any big name, 1st round draft pick linebackers on their team. They love slow white guys who are undrafted or just underdog mentality and blue collar players.
Spin that Webb young Davis


text: WELL LOOKIE THERE! Nice to see others thinking along the same lines. I'm glad to see that lug welded onto the mag. That's what I'm going to do to some G3 mags. I figure I can make some lugs from scrap steel chunks I have laying around, or weld up a HUGE bead like I did with the Saiga bayonet lug, then dremel/mill to shape. Cool stuff!


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Meet the friendliest face in outer space. Cheerful Wander (voiced by Jack McBrayer) travels from planet to planet with his loyal horse Sylvia in the new cartoon series Wander Over Yonder. They do good deeds while unwittingly thwarting the plans of evil Lord Hater.
"It's okay to be kind to others," McBrayer told TFK. "That is a good quality to have, and I think it gets overlooked in other shows. It's nice to be nice."
Wander to the Rescue?
In the first episode, "The Greatest," a peaceful day on Binglebop planet is shattered when Lord Hater and his evil Watchdog Army declare their dominance of the planet. Wander happens to show up at this time. He is wearing his signature green cowboy hat and riding his horse Sylvia (voiced by April Winchell).
"Sylvia is Wander's best pal," says Winchell. "She'll stand up for him no matter what."
Wander will need Sylvia to keep that promise. His innocence puts him in conflict with Lord Hater. When Lord Hater declares he is "the greatest," Wander challenges him to a series of carnival games to test his declaration. Will Lord Hater crush innocent Wander? Or will Wander win the day? You'll have to watch to find out!
Just for Fun
Fans are sure to enjoy getting to know Wander and his silly ways. His antics are irresistible. Case in point: Wander happily goes about his business, totally unaware that he is walking into the Watchdog Army!
All in all, the combination of innocent Wander and evil Lord Hater will give viewers plenty of belly laughs.
"I do hope kids like the characters," says Craig McCracken, the show's creator. "When I pitched this show to Disney, I said, 'This is Wander and this is Lord Hater. I love their personalities. I think they're really funny and fun. I hope kids will fall in love with them.'"
Wander Over Yonder airs Friday nights on Disney Channel. Be sure to follow Wander on all of his accidental adventures!


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why do so many people think every year there will be another cruz on this team?
why is it so hard to believe?? Like he was a lock or something???
"Measure Twice......Cut Once"
You couldn't be more full of **** if you were break dancing in a Port-a-Potty.......Kruunch
This is just life smacking another would be star up side the head, and telling him that he just didn't bring the whole package. Not even lasting two days has got to be a wake-up call for him. He might resurface elsewhere; but it's really doubtful if he didn't even make it through the first OTA.
Should they have kept him just because they paid him $15K? Or are you questioning the front office because they paid $15K to a guy that ended up being cut? Either point is sort of silly, don't you think?
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Francigena's House. Tuscan countryside
Size65 m²
Floor No.2
- Kitchen
- Parking available
- Smoking allowed
- Lockable room
- Dishwasher
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Accommodation summary
|Gracco del Secco, 53034 Colle di Val d'Elsa, Italy
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Includes: - a small entrance hall,
-Bathroom with shower, bidet, wc,
-Comfortable living room with a futon and coffee table.
-New kitchen with many amenities. Oven, hob, dishwasher, fridge, freezer available for use.
-Large and bright room with lovely green walls, furnished with a large wardrobe, double bed, two bedside tables and LED TV.
Small-mansarda a wardrobe.
Close to home: restaurants, bars, taverns, markets, bus stops,parking.
Distances by car: 20 minutes-Siena, San Gimignano 10 minutes, Florence 40 minutes, Volterra 30 minutes!
House rulesFlexible hours: Guests can arrive and depart when you want, by agreement with the owner, who shall deliver the keys.
Minimum stay: two nights.From November to March use of radiators: pay as you go or with agreement between customer and owner; for info send a mail.
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Reviews of this property
Very warm welcome by Simone. Arrival and departure possible basically any time due to his flexibility. However the looks at the outside could be disappointing, the inside of the apartment is terrific. The appartment is situated in a quite area of the ancient village with the village center easily accessable with an elevator. The appartment is perfectly accomodated with all household appliances and kitchen tools.
We recieved a warm welcome from Simone when we arrived at his apartement together with some Toscany delicacy
The apartment is big, clean has every thing you need and is situated at a nice town with a supermarket nearby.
Colle di Val d'Elsa lies in the middle of tuscany and from there The city's Florence, Sienna, Volterra, San Gimignano, Cecina beach and many other places are easy accessible.
Simone and his parents have been great hosts,and were very helpful.
If you ever want to visit Tuscany i reccomend his place.
Simone and his parents are very friendly. After a long trip from the Netherlands we were welcomed with a lovely surprise. The appartement of Simone is artistic, cosy, clean and close to the old center of the beautiful pittoresque village of Colle di Val d'Elsa.
The apartment is super nice, there is in an excellent ubication to visit many places around the village such us Siena or San Gimignano and also the village is one of the most beautiful of La Toscana. 100% recomended, Simone and their family are really nice, they gave us a bottle of Wine with our names and some aperitive
We had a wonderful time here in the old part of Colle Val d'Elsa in Simone's apartment with very warm reception by the owner. The hospitality is very remarkable and we had a good time next to places like San Gimignano and Siena.Thank you very much! Eugen
We had a great time and Simone and his family are very nice and welcoming. From here you can go everywhere in the surrounding villages and interesting places. The apartment is very clean and comfortable. You have everything you need. We will come again!
Great appartment and great hosts. The welcome was fantastic with aperitiff and wine, fresh spices basil, rosemary etc, fresh tomatos, and snack. The appartment is big and clean, and has all household utensils, washer, dishwasher, fully equipped kitchen and basics like oil, salt, pepper, spices etc. Simone was great host, he told us about Tuscany, recomended types of wine and cheese, and helped with plans that we made for our trip. There is great choice of books and guides and maps of Tuscany so even if you come unprepaired you can plan your stay there on the spot. Price is very good for what you get. Stronly recomended.
It was just perfect! Colle di Val d'Elsa is a lovely little town in the heart of Tuscany. The apartment is great and you have everything you need.
Simone and his parents have been great hosts, warm-hearted and helpful in every situation.- Thank you so much!-
There's nothing more to say than : If you want to go to Tuscany, you won't find anything better, especially for that price!
The apartment is perfect for two people ... very comfortable and spacious, well served with everything you need (sheets, towels, rug for the bathroom, pans and cooking utensils, toaster, hair dryer ...). We found even of basic food products such as salt, oil, water and cheese in the fridge and the owners had left something for breakfast or for a snack.
The reception was SUPERB! Mr. Sergio, father of Simon, he waited until 15.00 (or maybe more) while being on November 1 and therefore a feast, and on arrival we offered an aperitif with appetizers. During this pleasant aperitif, it is offered to explain the history of Colle Val d'Elsa and even to accompany us on a visit to the city, but since our very short stay and fearing a shower we decided to take advantage of the sunny day to explore the surroundings.
Mr. Sergio then gave us a lot of helpful pointers on how to move and what to visit and gave us some useful guides for the entire territory of the Val d'Elsa and Siena.
From the apartment you can reach easily in fact many towns and cities, including Siena, San Gimignano, Volterra, Monteriggioni and the whole area of the Sienese Chianti and Val d'Elsa. Colle Val d'Elsa is also a very very pretty village and unfortunately underestimated, which is not mentioned in the guidebooks but is worth a visit as the other places. The view from the vantage points is very beautiful, and the walk through the streets of the country equally.
It is also possible to park in the village, close to the apartment in a convenient free parking (at least it was in November, but I assume it is in the other periods of the year!).
The overall experience is definitely EXCELLENT, we recommend this apartment for the kindness and hospitality of the owners, for the care with which it was decorated (Mr. Sergio is a talented painter) and for the beauty of the village and the surrounding area!
L'appartamento per due persone è perfetto...molto comodo e spazioso, ben servito di tutto ciò che serve (lenzuola, asciugamani, tappeto per il bagno, pentole e utensili da cucina, tostapane, phon...). Abbiamo trovato addirittura dei prodotti alimentari di base come sale, olio, acqua e formaggio e in frigo i proprietari avevano lasciato qualcosa anche per la colazione o per uno spuntino.
L'accoglienza è stata SUPERLATIVA! Il Sig. Sergio, papà di Simone, ci ha atteso fino alle 15.00 (o forse di più) pur essendo il 1 novembre e quindi una festività, e all'arrivo ci ha offerto un aperitivo con degli stuzzichini. Durante questo piacevolissimo aperitivo, si è offerto di spiegarci anche la storia di Colle Val d'Elsa e addirittura di accompagnarci in visita per la città, ma essendo il nostro un soggiorno molto breve e temendo l'acquazzone abbiamo pensato di approfittare della giornata di sole per visitare i dintorni.
Il Sig. Sergio ci ha quindi dato un sacco di indicazioni utili su come muoverci e cosa visitare e ci ha dato delle utili guide per tutto il territorio della Val d'Elsa e di Siena.
Dall'appartamento si raggiungono infatti comodamente moltissime città e paesi, tra cui Siena, San Gimignano, Volterra, Monteriggioni e tutta la zona senese del Chianti e della Val d'Elsa. Colle Val d'Elsa è poi un paesino molto molto grazioso e purtroppo sottostimato, che non viene citato nelle guide turistiche ma che MERITA una visita al pari degli altri posti. La vista dai punti panoramici è molto bella, e la passeggiata per le strade del paese altrettanto.
Inoltre è possibile parcheggiare in paese, vicino all'appartamento in un comodissimo parcheggio gratuito (a novembre almeno lo era, ma presumo lo sia anche negli altri periodi dell'anno!).
L'esperienza complessiva è sicuramente OTTIMA, consigliamo questo appartamento per la cortesia e l'ospitalità del proprietari, per la cura con cui è stato decorato (il Sig. Sergio è un bravissimo pittore) e per la bellezza del paesino e dei dintorni!
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it sounds like her role in the movie is important enough to keep in the final film, but who knows.
it sounds like her role in the movie is important enough to keep in the final film, but who knows.
IMO, Sasha has one advantage over Tara -- since Tara got hyped as "the youngest ever" (Nat, World and Oly champ), it is harder for people to think of her as an adult than is the case for Sasha. If Tara can recognize this fact, and move beyond it to be friends with Sasha --- Kudos to herOriginally Posted by Red Dog
Do you really think these two American figure skating ladies (Cohen and Lipinsky) will get to the same level of acting as Streep, Close, Foster, Spacek? or even Roberts? The ladies I just mentioned studied acting at universities and take renowned Acting classes like Actor's Studio to keep up their skills.
I think it's kind of cute that I see these skaters in a movie theatre or on TV but I do not have any high hopes for them eeking out a career in films.
There have been athletes that made a smooth transition to acting careers. Chuck Connors (baseball player), for one.
The thing with Streep, Close, Foster et al is that they had tremendous acting talent right from the getgo and HONED their craft in acting classes, and Streep and Close did years of stage work long before they got into the movies, and that is what helped them to become the great stars they are.
Tara wanted to go straight from the skating rink to movie stardom, and she is having a hard time. She's been trying to find acting talent in herself by taking acting classes, and the plain fact is you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. If you don't have acting talent, it isn't going to magically appear just from taking a few acting classes. She could have built a decent resume the hard way, by going for bit parts in off-Broadway or touring company shows and gradually learning what it means to be an actor. Looking at her actual resume is painful, because there is so little substance in it.
Tara's been pursuing an acting career since 1999, even while performing in SOI. In the beginning, she got TV roles based on her fame as a figure skater, but those opportunities dried up when her OGM got farther and farther in the past. She doesn't seem to be making any headway at all right now, except for a few more TV appearances in reality shows. Tara is lucky that she has all the money from her pro career and endorsements to sustain her while she makes the rounds. Most young struggling actors have to work as waitresses, clerks or whatever jobs they can get just to keep a roof over their heads and feed themselves. And many of those who struggle have real acting talent!
Also pro athelete Chuck Norris made a smooth transition from mashall arts champion to "Walker Texas Ranger" and various other movies.
Chuck Norris was one of the best Martial Arts fighters around in his time. I actually saw him fight at several tournaments. However he is the worst actor - I have no idea how Walker has survived on TV - the man just has no acting ability - but did get a name doing the martial arts thing in movies when those movies were "in" but acting - I don't think so.
I believe Chuck started in a Bruce Lee film after wining some title. Unfortunately the transition for Sasha would not be as readily available for FS roles. I hope she get to be a better actor.
If it's of any interest, there is a site on the web that lists the names of famous people. Tara is in there, and Sasha isn't. Click HERE
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LMFAO I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!Originally Posted by IDLERACER
But Sasha was in the 100 most beautiful people issue of People. Althought she was just listed in an age group, she was in there. Not only that, but you can't trust everything on the web.
About athletes that became actors, what about Arnold Swartzenager (bodybulding)?
Also Johnny Weismuller and Buster Crabb (Olympic swimmers who went on to play Tarzan in the movies).
Ronald Reagan was a college football player, before becoming president -- of the Screen Actors Guild. (Or am I just remembering his role in Knute Rockne?)
ahh, who cares, it's just a magazine. And personally I know better.Originally Posted by SeaniBu
Allow me to re-quote my self to ensure ya'all get the drift.
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because I'm from Texas it always somehow bothers me to see "y'all" misspelled...the apostrophe goes between the y and the a, not the a and the l!!