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Hi guys! Just a little question here, can I share my PSOne game saves with my PS3 to play in my living room and then put them back to my Vita as we could in the PSP days?
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yep you can its just a simple thing of pluging your vita into your ps3 and transfering the saves back and forth
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Awesome man, thanks! I guess I should've tried
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How much does he pay weekly?
DH pays $105 weekly, for one child.
I'm just curious how much other people pay...if you don't want to answer or think it's none of my business, feel free to move on :)
DH pays $105 weekly, for one child.
I'm just curious how much other people pay...if you don't want to answer or think it's none of my business, feel free to move on :)
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Thanks. We have documented things and it hasn't made any difference yet. The county we live in, in our state, is very MOM leaning. He had a crap lawyer the first round, but there is a new judge, so who knows. Unfortunately, we're also dealing with getting rights stripped from my oldest's bio dad. That's a whole other story, but she is petrified that something will happen to me and she'll be forced to go live with him. Have to finance one battle at a time, KWIM?
I wish ALL parents could just be civil and do the best by the kids. They've been separated for over 4 yrs and divorced for more than 3, you'd think the bitterness would have died down by now.
I wish ALL parents could just be civil and do the best by the kids. They've been separated for over 4 yrs and divorced for more than 3, you'd think the bitterness would have died down by now.
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I am sorry shes such a nightmare, I hate parents like that. I do not think I will ever understand a mom esp making the child suffer just to get at the dad. Doesn't make sense to me at all.
Have you guys considered going after full custody ?
I would document everything, When she sends him outside with no coat on have the camera with a date stamp on it, ready to go & get a picture of him, or video tape it. If anything maybe she will get the hint & start putting a coat on him
I hope it gets better for you guys & the kiddo.
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Interesting. I just find it irritating as hell that she agreed to the overnight bag and providing things, then doesn't follow it. Then she nit picks him all to hell if he forgets some idiotic detail of the order. FFS, the woman sends him outside with no coat on if it hit a cold snap since DH had him last just so we can't have "her" coat. She's a nightmare.
It's common for the people I know to send overnight bags, special occasion clothing is on your own.
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I have always made more than he does, & still get that amount.
I do not pack weekend bags for him either, Its his dads responsibly to take care of him 100% when he is with him. Should I say when he gets him which is rare. I have to when he is with me. he is also ordered to have health insurance on him, but my insurance is better so he has to pay 65% of everything relating to medical cost. & I get to claim him on my taxes.
My sister in law is the same way, it is in her court order that he provides for her 100% when my niece is at his home.
Everyone I know gets at least 350.00 a month, unless they do the 50/ 50 custody.
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If she makes more, she's responsible for more of the total cost of a child. (This is going by the worksheet for MO that they use in every order) If she makes 70% of the total income betweeb 2 parents, then she is responsible for 70% of what the court deems its costs to raise said child.
I was personally awarded $226 for one child and $427 for two other children. So, seems very high to me.
The difference between 2 and 16 is simple inflation, nothing to do with their age. BM doesn't pay for 40 hrs a week daycare anymore, so the total cost has decreased. That's why we're going for a re-evaluation. DSS's standard of living at our house is suffering. That and she refuses to pack a wknd bag that's stated in the court order, so we have the added expense of buying him clothes, a second coat, a second lunch bag, a second set of shoes...you get the picture.
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Actually its not that high for MO, the normal here in MO is 350.00 a month per child. & From what I understand it does not matter if she makes more. & the older they get the more she will get.
My son was getting 108.00 a month at age 2, & he is now 16 & gets 480.00 a month & his dad does not make crap & has 5 kids to support...
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$200/bi-monthly for one child, so $400/month. We live in mid-missouri, so that's high for our area. We're getting it re-evaluated because he no longer goes to day care all day. This amount was figured with that expense when he was 3. She makes twice as much as DH does, so DS has never lost his "standard of living".
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My ex pays me $1,200. My DF pays his son's mom $250 until we go back to court because he basically lives with us now but we need to get a new order.
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by Anonymous 64 on Mar. 20, 2013 at 8:46 PM
Suppsed to be getting over 679. That is 582 plus 97 in back pay. 1st oayment was due in December. Haven't seen a dime or heard a damn thing since. I cut him a break for almost 4yrs before going to court for it. Had enough of him telling me to "fuck off and do it myself" then being mad that I dnt send my child to his crackhouse for visits.
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LASur5er, I never took Kyudo. The thought of losing an ear to a bad nock and release scared the hell out of me as a kid. Childhood phobias aside, it sounds like Zen consciousness can be quantified scientifically.
Christopher II, thank you for your post and the link. I knew that eventually someone more informed that I would put up more information and perhaps links. Still waiting for Skorzeny and LawDog et al, now that LASur5er has replied.
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Slater quickly asserted his dominance in the Final against Nicol when he launched a frontside air-reverse and solidified the ride on the reform to earn an 8.50 and backed the ride up with a 7.77 to put the Australian in an early combination-situation and controlled the heat throughout the entirety of the bout.
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The town also celebrated the opening of the Carolann Hooton Research Library to kick things off on Friday.
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JANESVILLE — A hoppin' good time was happening Saturday morning on the grounds of the Lincoln-Tallman House.
Lines of hundreds of eager children accompanied by adults formed to join in the Easter egg hunt. Then the participants spread out to other areas where more lines assembled so pictures could be taken with the Easter Bunny, who sat in a rattan-chair throne on the porch of the historic house at 440 N. Jackson St.
Children also gathered around a table where they guessed the number of jelly beans inside a glass jar.
Jackson Weis, 5, of Janesville, guessed there were 1,000 jelly beans in the jar "cause there's a lot'' in it, he said.
If he's right, he wins the jar and its contents.
Other lines formed to get fake tattoos, to pick up goodie baskets at the Egg Exchange Center, and in age groups to be released for the highlight of the day—the Easter egg hunt.
"Are you ready for the Easter egg hunt?" yelled a member of the St. William Knights of Columbus through a megaphone.
"All right, here we go! Nice and easy. There's plenty of eggs,'' he shouted.
Logan Bykowicz, 5, of Ann Arbor, Mich., was the first of the 5- and 6-year-olds to approach the ground, which was covered with hundreds of pastel-colored plastic eggs.
"I already got a lot," he said, grabbing and throwing the eggs into his Easter basket.
"I'm collecting golden eggs," he said, as he held up an egg of that color and showed his dad, who was videotaping him.
Nearby, Aiden Steinke, 4, and his sister Emma Steinke, 6, of Janesville were playing a game of beanbag toss.
"I filled up my whole entire basket," Emma said.
Emma continued to enjoy the day by hopping up and down to the music of "The Bunny Hop" and dancing to the music of the "Chicken Dance" blaring from the disc jockey's loudspeakers.
Later, she got a "tattoo" of a glittery Easter Bunny on her forearm.
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Emma's mother, Chris Steinke, said the morning's event was nice for children to get out and do things now that the weather was finally spring- like—52 degrees under a partly sunny sky.
Her father Steve Steinke also appreciated the fact that the event was not commercialized and that it gave the couple an opportunity to instill the importance of community support by making a donation to ECHO, the Janesville church-sponsored charity.
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The Knights prepared 650 goodie bags filled with donations from throughout the community. Knights' spokesman Jere Johnson said about 550 children attended.
The event brought in families and younger audiences to get them reconnected to the Lincoln-Tallman House campus, said Mike Reuter, Rock County Historical Society executive director.
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I was about ready to punch a hole in my wall when I saw the ending to this game. Can't believe it. This has to be one of the worst losses in Mets history. Luis just catch the damn ball!
What is lost in all of this is that the Phillies lost and the Mets missed a chance to cut into their division lead. Kind of felt bad for Castillo afterwards as after my intense anger had gone away I realized that he is a human and as humans we all make mistakes. The one thing I can say about Manuel is that he does not seem to place any importance on fundamentals. Mets are a fundamentally challenged team. All these mistakes are going to cost them again come September unless Manuel gets off his but and makes these players practice fundamentals.
As a side note I heard that Brian Bruney made some comments about K-Rod. Bruney is a classless individual who needs to worry about coming back and actually doing something to help his own team. He can never and will never be mentioned in the same class as K-Rod. Hey Bruney why don't you take some lessons from your teammate Derek Jeter on how to conduct yourself with class and professionalism?
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On the Boomer and Carton morning show yesterday morning, they replayed the Howie Rose and Gary Cohen calls from this game. Probably one of the worst regular-season losses in Mets history. Baseball 101 says you catch a pop-up with 2 hands, NOT one. For Evil Empire fans this was like spending a Saturday Night in a hot tub with Audrina Patridge; for Mets fans this was like the end of "Old Yeller" and that movie DIDN'T have a happy ending!! ENOUGH SAID!!
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Just imagine you've saved an entire year (or more) to pay for your dream Hawaii vacation when — BAM! — something goes terribly wrong, and you have to cancel everything.
Although it's rare, it happens.
And, when it does, the right travel insurance could reimburse you for most, if not all, of your travel-related expenses. The tricky part is deciding if you need travel insurance for your Hawaii vacation. And, if so, which kind to purchase.
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Today we are in denver visiting ds#1 who seems to be surviving his job with Teach for America. I'm anxious to leave early tomorrow for Breck but ds has a doctors appointment in the afternoon which really complicates things. Of course I realize I need to be mature about this and the world doesn't revolve around me and yada yada. Still, I want to be there NOW. So if any colorado people have suggestions for what to in denver in the morning or in breckenridge this afternoon, I'm all ears. We rented a nice house in Breckenridge (only $137/night because it's pre-ski). We're there for two nights. Then back in denver for one night. I realize this is a rather late request for suggestions but I'm trying out a just-in-time suggestion supply chain. We'll see how that works.
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Today we are in denver visiting ds#1 who seems to be surviving his job with Teach for America. I'm anxious to leave early tomorrow for Breck but ds has a doctors appointment in the afternoon which really complicates things. Of course I realize I need to be mature about this and the world doesn't revolve around me and yada yada. Still, I want to be there NOW. So if any colorado people have suggestions for what to in denver in the morning or in breckenridge this afternoon, I'm all ears. We rented a nice house in Breckenridge (only $137/night because it's pre-ski). We're there for two nights. Then back in denver for one night. I realize this is a rather late request for suggestions but I'm trying out a just-in-time suggestion supply chain. We'll see how that works.
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Have you been to Five Green Boxes on Pearl Street. I've put the link below. The street itself is a LOT of fun for shopping and having lunch. The two stores are SO cute. You'll find things you haven't seen elsewhere--and a lot of handmade things.
You might enjoy poking around the Vietnamese area--I think it is Alameda.
There is an H Mart I am saliivating about shopping at when we come in two weeks--and Asian market on steroids (in Denver and other parts of the country). I think it is in Aurora.
There is a new Trader Joe's. You see I'm stuck on shopping.
OH, you could go to the butterfly pavilion in Westminster. It IS fun.
have fun in Breck.
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If you're interested in art, there is a Van Gogh exhibit at the Denver Art Museum that just opened on Saturday--you would need a timed ticket for admission--so call or go on line http://www.denverartmuseum.org/
The building itself is fantastic--and there are, of course, other exhibits.
There is a restaurant at the museum that is nice for lunch --I would suggest that you get reservations if you want to go there. http://www.ktrg.net/palettes/
Also about 2 blocks from the museum is Pint's Pub--great burgers and beer and other dishes. http://pintspub.com/
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I'm not a Colorado person but we enjoyed a few hikes in Breckenridge.
Mohawk Lake--lovely vistas, waterfalls, lake and some ruins
McCullough Gulch--an old mining road--beautiful waterfall, good picnic stop on the boulders right before the waterfall, lake at the top.
Sapphire Pt. Overlook Trail-- a short walk to a lovely view
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If you go to the Art Museum, definitely take in Palettes. It is a Kevin Taylor restaurant with truly remarkable food. I love the Native American exhibits at the Museum also. It is so good.
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Let us know if the house is as wonderful as it looks.
Today feels like a book and coffee day, so The Tattered Cover might be a good place to spend some time.
If you are in LoDo, I think a quick visit to Rockmount Ranch Wear www.rockmount.com is interesting for a look at Western fashion. I don't own any of their items, but I've enjoyed browsing.
I love a couple of the hikes LindainOhio recommends but I'm not sure how much snow is on the trails. Bring layers!
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Thanks for all the suggestions. I've calmed down a bit. DS put some Paul Simon on Pandora (DW asked if it's the aging-parents channel on pandora) and it snowed last night and we slept pretty well (the air mattress didn't leak) and I fixed a kitchen drawer so I feel useful, something that gets harder the older your kids get. Garyt22 would ask about the helicopter.
Anyway, I will try to follow the suggestions. We'll go to the hardware store and the art museum. I'll try on-line tkts, but that's an extraordinary level of planning for us. Then we'll go get groceries, and before you know it'll be time to leave for Breckenridge, hiking, and waterfalls.
Gretchen, we followed your shopping suggestions last visit and had a nice lunch across the street from green boxes, but there are only so many things I can buy that I don't need. Last time I bought a wind-up walking ear and a wind-up walking nose.
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Take your wife to the other one for lovely jewelry, scarves, etc.
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Looks like you will have lots of snow. Why is this tagged as a trip report? Where is the report?
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fmpden, it's an interactive trip report. You tell us what to do and we go do it and then report back. It's sorta like a video game, a rather slow moving RPG.
For example, gretchen and marty suggested the denver art museum, so that's what we did this morning. We were too cheap to spring for Van Gogh but I did sit down and look through a coffee table book. The guy clearly had skills.
We did go to the 4th floor and see a wonderful exhibit by an artist from Ghana with metal pieces sewn together like shimmering quilts. And a red dining room on the third floor filled with grey wolves. Lots of cool stuff. But we didn't eat at the restaurant because we wanted to have lunch with ds at Earls Sandwich Shop on Ogden near Colfax (even you Denverites probably don't know earl's, which claims to have an antique sideboard from the Savannah lawyer of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil).
Anyway, after lunch I used toggle bolts to fix ds's shower curtain holder and hung some hooks to encourage him to hang up his clothes. I did not have to do any plumbing work. Finally, after the doctor's appointment, we were able to leave for Breckenridge in the upgraded suv (the car rental clerk said we needed the suv rather than the economy fiat because it was snowing and my wife found that very convincing) and that's where where we are at this very moment. You're thinking it's taken us a long time to get here. Totally.
Tomorrow we will go look for Mohawk Lake, McCullough Gulch, and/or Sapphire Pt Overlook Trail. When we get back to Denver I'd like to look for the Tattered Cover.
The House is very nice. DS is enjoying wii. Netflix later. The outdoor hot tub is hot (duh), really wonderful, and looks out on a snowy hillside with tall spruce or fir or some other kind of big tall pine trees. I really don't know what they were. Travel writing is harder than it looks.
The house is nice, big, and has log lamps and log stairs but it could use some charm. A few nice little paintings, some photographs, dare I say a woman's touch? It's not the Blue Lake Ranch in Durango, but it's very good for us and I won't complain. VRBO is really a big deal, like GPS and wheels on suitcases.
Thanks again for your suggestions. Tomorrow I'll report something about Breckenridge so people won't complain too much about the title.
Here's info about the sculpture guy from Ghana.
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Well, we had a nice dinner and strawberry rhubarb pie for desert and watched Margin Call (a very good movie with kevin spacey) on the gigantic tv and I'm telling you for once in your life you can go short on charm and long on stainless steel, granite countertops and free netflix. Rent the house.
OK, tomorrow I promise to write something useful.
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santamonica, I love your "trip reports". So where is the house & where did you go to dinner? We need specifics! A walk on Main street in Breckenridge is always good entertainment, especially Clints bakery. If you have time in Denver you might check out the new Colorado History Museum. We have not been there yet but enjoyed the old one on school field trips. The Tattered Cover is an institution not to be missed, I have many fond memmories of it from the Cherry Creek days.
I hope your son is having a good experience. My daughter graduated from DU in 2011 & is adjusting to the working world. If you son needs a local contact, let me know. We live a ways out but have lived in Denver & have 3 "young adult" children.
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We did the trail ride by Breckenridge--it was really beautiful. But likely the horses have been stabled for the winter if it's now snowing.
We also went to the Country Boy Mine which was a fun diversion but if you can hike instead, I'd choose that.
We really liked our meal at the brewpub at the south end of town. I checked Google maps just now and am pretty sure it was the Breckenridge Brewery.
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Well, there's no way to put a pretty face on this. We didn't really do anything all that fascinating today. We took a steam bath, went in the hot tub, drove to town and went to the information center, had coffee and pastry at Clint's (the French Bakery was closed), drove around some, had lunch at the Breckenridge Brewery, went hiking at Sapphire Point, went to some dumb outlet center and then to walmart (I feel strongly that outlet centers are rips whereas walmart is a great place to shop),came home, walked around some, got back in the hot tub, and now I'm gonna fix dinner (chicken and sausage on the grill) while dw reads and ds works on lesson plans. Later, a movie.
This is not the stuff of a travel documentary, but it was really fun. The fresh snow on the trees this morning was great, and Sapphire Point is a beautiful place to walk. The Brewery had a very tasty soup and salad. Thanks everybody for the suggestions.
We've liked the house a lot, it's been hard to leave. It's in Blue River, about six minutes out of town.
Tomorrow it's back to Denver and the Tattered Cover.
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On one of your forays to the mountains/Denver you should take up fly fishing. I take it Blue River is a community, but the Blue River is the little stream that flows by Silverthorne (and maybe this place) and is trophy trout water!! Also fishing right behind the Outlets in Silverthorne will get you some 24 inch trout!! Amazing.
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Gretchen, I took fly casting for one of my phys ed credits at Penn State about 40 years ago so I'm ready to cast some flys in colorado. BetsyG, thanks for your offer of local support for ds. There have been days I've been sure he desperately needs it, but he seems to be doing ok at the moment.
We came back to Denver this morning, directly to the Tattered Cover where we had lunch, bought some stuff, and watched a gorilla parade. Then we came back to the apt, rested, and shopped at Whole Foods, where the clerk reminded me there are 5280 feet in a mile and that's why the local mag is 5280, for the mile high city. She also said there's a row of seats at the ball field painted a different color because they're exactly a mile above sea level. Ditto a step at the state capitol building, but she said they marked the wrong step.
She also said Cheesman Park was haunted so that's where we went next. We saw a lot of girls in fancy dresses in the park posing for quinceañera party pictures. Then we came home to fix dinner for DS and some of his teacher friends.
That's about it. Your suggestions were very helpful. We enjoyed the Denver Art Museum, Sapphire Point, Clints, Breckenridge Brewery, and the Tattered Cover Bookstore, and hopefully will get to more places on future visits. Thanks again.
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Well, PA, Mich, and CO rank as great fly fishing areas. You can be at some great streams really easy from Denver. Shouldn't miss that!! What fun.
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SM - just saw your post on the hurricane thread about being stuck in Denver & going to a mindfulness lecture. I think everyone else in Denver is watching the Broncos. Anyway, did you get to the Art Museum? or the Colorado History Museum? The Museum of Science & Nature was always a favorite with the kids but has adult appeal also (good pizza & salad bar). The weather should be very nice here this week so check out some of our wonderful parks, Washington, Cheesman. Hiking could be muddy but a drive to Red Rocks would be interesting. Colorado Springs has some sights to see also. And then there's the rest of the restaurants on your list. Enjoy your forced time in our fair city!
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Our Denver granddaughter was supposed to leave for DC this morning on a class trip--50 8th graders!! It has been cancelled.
They did go to the Art museum for a while.Botanic Gardens is another possibility.
Missed his other thread.
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See it now. Beautiful mountains!!??
It will take a while to sort out the airport especially going east. I had assumed "west" from the name.
It DOES give you an idea of the complexities of running airlines--the planes have to get TO somewhere in order to LEAVE for somewhere else!! Seems easy enough--until....
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Sorry. I just looked up "mindfulness". VERY interesting--and pun intended, I hadn't thought of it that way!!
Have you been to the REI store.
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Gretchen, I hope he is not at DIA trying to get home. It is a beautiful day here & would be a great day to go to the Botanic Gardens.
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Maybe he'll check in!!
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The rest of the week will be great also. If you don't have a schedule to met, good time to hang out here. DIA is becoming the parking lot for a lot of airplanes. Over 30 plans are just parked at Denver. The issue will be getting rested crews in to get the planes out. It is always a mess with the system break down.
Our New York son was trying to get back after a weekend in Oregon. Make it to Chicago with a confirmed reservation out on Tuesday evening provided the New York airports are open by then. Fortunately for him the markets are closed today and perhaps tomorrow.
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I didn't want to burden you colorado travel advisors with having to come up with another day of suggestions for us. We found out yesterday morning at the airport our flight was canceled so we hopped the shuttle back to Advantage Rental car and got a chevy cruz for two days for $24 total, which is a pretty good deal.
Our son was very enthusiastic (willing) to have us around for another two days. So we did some laundry for him, a few more apt repairs (more toggle bolts), and went to a mindfulness lecture last night. Forty five minutes of silence to think about our breathing and trees falling on our house in maryland.
This morning DS was out the door at 6am and comes back this evening from a class at 8pm leaving him exhausted and us a day to explore. So we went to the Botanic Garden (beautiful and lots of benches to enjoy the sun) and to the History Museum (I went down the mine shaft elevator and the barn slide. I think the barn slide is intended for younger people but I had a good time).
Then we drove to Alameda and Federal to the T-Wa Inn and had a great Vietnamese lunch. Then we went a couple more blocks to Federal and Mississippi and wandered into a Vietnamese massage reflexology shop where you can get an hour massage in a chair/bed in a big dark room with 10 or 15 other people for $25 and it was, like they say, about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on. Feet, hands, head, back, arms, shoulders. You should definitely try this.
You can also buy cool stuff in shops near Federal and Mississippi, like a little green smiling buddha for $3.50, which will make a great gift for DS when combined with a gift certificate to the massage reflexology place.
So, again, that's about it. Your suggestions have exceeded all reasonable expectations for our denver sojourn. Tomorrow we try to leave again. This time we'll check the flight status before we leave for the airport.
Errata: The rental house outside of Breckenridge was $187/night, not $137/night, but still a very nice house and a bargain I think.
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That Viet area is SUPER. Better check the flight if it is east, as you say!!
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If you are stuck again tomorrow you might check out Castle Rock & hiking in Castlewood Canyon although it could still be muddy. Did you get to Red Rocks? And there's always Cherry Creek & Cherry Creek North for shopping.
I am hoping you get home so add these for your list for next time.
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I don't think you are going out tomorrow either. Son stuck in Chicago flight was just canceled for Tuesday evening and rebooked for Friday. So he is coming here and with a flight on Monday. DIA is becoming a parking lot for airplanes. Now up to 50. Wonder if they are collecting $7/day parking fees.
If you can ride a bike, rent a bike and ride the Platte River trail to the south. Still have the Mint, Molly Brown house, tea at Brown Palace hotel, or take the car to the Buffalo Bar or the TommyKnocker brewery in Idaho Springs. Take you son to the Fort (285, Morrison)for a special dinner.
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We are back in Bethesda. Got up with DS at 5am; he worked on lesson plans and I worked on rescheduling the canceled flight which was supposed to leave at 10:45. Amazingly, United put us in the last two seats on a 10:56 flight direct to DCA, the first United flight to the re-opened airport. So we're home, the house is still standing, we have many happy memories of Breckenridge and Denver, and many of your excellent suggestions still to try. Thanks.
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Glad you made it home & all is well there. Let us know when you will be back!
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I've discovered the gorilla parade we saw was a benefit run for mountain gorillas.
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Trader Joe's isn't due to open until next year.
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It wasn't an easy read for most participants of the first "Pushing the Limits" discussion, but in the end, it was a satisfying experience for many readers. They got the connection.
"Connection" was the theme of the first of four book discussions at Morenci's Stair Public Library—each one showing how science is part of everyone's life and how humans are driven to push the limits. In the book "Thunderstruck," the invention of wireless radio is connected to a turn-of-the-century murder investigation and wireless communication served as a new method of connecting people across long distances.
Adrian College professor Adam Coughlin, who serves as the moderator for the series, learned that about two-thirds of the book discussion audience actually read the entire book while others who didn't make it all the way through were present just to experience the discussion.
"Half as much a book would have been twice as good," suggested Pat Houtekkier, and Theresa Pobanz said she would have appreciated more about Crippen, the man accused of murdering his wife, and less about Marconi's work on developing the wireless.
"It became work to read it," Ralph Stuebs said. "I enjoyed how it turned out, but it was a lot of work."
Michelle Stevens said she needs to be grabbed by the story in the first chapter or two and she wasn't in this case. For the sake of the discussion, she kept ploughing forward.
Despite the difficulties, said Jane Brasher-Garrow, the way the two parallel stories were woven together was enjoyable.
Marconi's endless experimentation brought a segment of Coughlin's graduate work back into focus. For more than a year he worked on the solution to a project. Try, fail; try, fail.
"It took me back to Marconi," he said. "Even if the book read slowly, it rehashed so much frustration."
After watching a short video of an interview with the author Erik Larson, Coughlin started the discussion by noting that everyone relies on science whether or not they realize it.
"Science comes into our lives without necessarily calling it science," he said.
Furthermore, many people engage in scientific endeavors and never refer to themselves as scientists, much like Marconi.
"Everything we do is an experiment," Stuebs said. "We don't know if things are going to work out or not, but that's science. That's what Marconi did. That's what a scientist does."
The talk turned back toward connection when Colleen Leddy mentioned how she's in contact with her geographically distant children and grandchildren nearly every day. There's voice, text and face-to-face contact through Skype and Facetime. It's such a change from even 20 years ago.
"It's great, but it's also horrible," Leddy said. "We have so much more of a daily relationship, but it's also a daily reminder that they're not here."
The constant contact has really changed the quality of communication, said Karen Mepham.
"In the long run, there's less contact," she said. "In a way, all the contact makes people further apart. We're all lost in our own little world."
The contact is there, she said, but it's no longer face to face.
Pat Herman agrees that new technology is bringing new connections, but sometimes technology drives a wedge between the generations.
"We're losing a lot of connection with all the connections," she said.
Coughlin told about an annual rafting trip taken by some Adrian College students that ends in an area with no internet service.
"The first day and a half they're lost," he said, "then they'll start to talk to one another."
He's heard statements along the line of, "I never knew how much fun I could have without my cell phone."
There's a little poison with every medicine, Herman said about technology, adding, "It's mushroomed so fast that I mentally can't keep up with it."
Going back in history, Coughlin said, there was a time when people scoffed at books and said they would rather sit down and hear a story. Now books are the default and some people say they would rather sit down and read a book rather than get lost in modern technology.
The connection between the changes underway in Marconi's time 110 years ago and the changes we're experiencing today are very interesting to compare, Stevens said.
The audience watched a second short video that showed how personal knowledge is passed down through the generations. Not everything is lost, the narrator said. People apply old knowledge to new situations.
Roxanne Swentzell, a Pueblo artist, practices the skills of building from clay and water—skills that were passed down from generation to generation.
It shows how to connect the past, present and future, Stevens said. In contrast to most modern communication, Pobanz said, the personal touch is not lost.
"The video also emphasized learning from the past," Stuebs noted. "It's important. We need to remember that. The past is always connected to the present and the future, if we let it."
• "Thunderstruck" was a tough way to start off the series, Dr. Coughlin said, but the second book in the series, T.C. Boyle's "When the Killing's Done," should engage readers even more.
The theme of the discussion is "nature" and the discussion is planned for March 28 at 7 p.m., with refreshments served at 6:30. Copies of the book are available at the library.
The Pushing the Limits program is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.


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Hugh Jackman rescues children from drowning
Actor Hugh Jackman rescued his children and other swimmers from a rip tide, a stretch of turbulent water in the sea, at Bondi Beach, Sydney on Saturday.
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In a video obtained by a news channel, The Wolverine actor could be seen grabbing the arm of a man and pulling him around, as the man held onto his daughter, a website reported.
Jackman then helped his son Oscar, 15, from the same rip.
The X-Men: Days of Future Past actor, who donned a black swimsuit, was also seen waving at other swimmers in a bid to attract their attention and get them to come ashore.
Lifesavers also launched into action, using boards and jetskis to make several other rescues.
Peter Adam, the man who was grabbed by the actor, told the news channel that he was helping the actor's daughter at the time.
"He wasn't rescuing me, I was assisting him to get his daughter up to the sandbar. He then grabbed my hand to get us up. He then went to get his son," Adam said.
The North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club took to Instagram to thank Jackman and the surf lifesavers on duty for their actions.
Jackman arrived in Sydney on Friday, after a month-long stint promoting his latest film Eddie the Eagle.


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Notes: Mariners starters coming along
Notes: Mariners starters coming along
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- For starters, the Mariners are performing exceedingly well lately. One day after projected Opening Day starter Felix Hernandez allowed one run over three innings, and threw strikes consistently around the kneecaps of hitters, left-hander Jarrod Washburn on Thursday tossed three shutout innings against the Royals at Surprise Stadium. That extends to four the number of impressive outings by the likely regular-season rotation.
Right-hander Miguel Batista pitched two hitless innings against the Cubs on Monday and left-hander Horacio Ramirez worked three scoreless innings the following day in his first Cactus League start. Tack on the two most recent outings and it adds up to 11 innings pitched, one run allowed, and a 0.82 ERA. Right-hander Jeff Weaver struggled in his first Cactus League outing, surrendering five hits and three runs against the Giants in Scottsdale. But Mariners pitching coach Rafael Chaves had a prolonged phone conversation Wednesday night with Dave Duncan, the Cardinals pitching coach who worked with Weaver late last season and is credited with getting the pitcher's career back on track. The message Chaves has been preaching all spring seems to be catching on, at least with the pitchers who will be on the Opening Day pitching staff. "We're not trying to reinvent the wheel, we're trying to make it as simple as possible," Chaves said. "From day one, we have talked about, 'work the bottom of the strike zone, change speeds and work ahead in the count.' The less you put in their heads, with mechanics or other things that can distract a pitcher, rather than concentrate, the better off it is. I think simple is working." Simple works just fine for Washburn, but he wasn't altogether happy with his outing. "My offspeed pitch wasn't very good today, and I still haven't hit that inside spot to a lefty," he said. "I got one in on [Alex] Gordon, so I guess I got a little too far in. But, the results were good." Washburn surrendered a two-out single to Ryan Shealy in the second inning and then Gordon, a left-handed hitting third baseman. "No matter how good it is, there are still things to improve on," he added. "I'm happy with how it ended up and how I threw overall, but there are still some things I need to work on." Washburn has been working on getting his pitches to left-handers farther inside. Lefties batted .317 (44-for-139) against him last season, and he's looking to reduce that number substantially in 2007. Washburn didn't read too much into the string of well-pitched outings by his rotation colleagues. "It's just like wins and losses in spring training, it doesn't mean anything," he said. "It's good that we're all getting our work in. Obviously, some things are working for us. It is Spring Training and the games don't mean a thing right now, but it's showing what we're capable of. "We have the capability of having a real solid five-guy rotation. We'll go out there with a chance to win every single night. That's our main goal when we go out there as starters, to give our team a chance to win." Washburn gave the Mariners a chance to win their second Cactus League game, but right-hander Jorge Campillo threw it away -- literally. The reliever's wild throw on a potential inning-ending double play in the fourth inning ignited a five-run uprising that greased the skids to an 11-3 Seattle loss -- its seventh Cactus League defeat in eight games.
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"Washburn was outstanding," mnager Mike Hargrove said, "but from the fourth through eighth innings, we didn't pitch well at all. Today was not a good day for Campillo. It didn't help his cause at all."Beltre backs off: Third baseman Adrian Beltre has bursitis in his left (non-throwing) shoulder. "We're going to shut him down for a couple of days," Hargrove said. "He probably could take some ground balls, but he has been diagnosed with bursitis, which is treatable with rest." Beltre has been one of the hottest hitters early in the Cactus League season, going 4-for-11 with one home run. It seems odd that his non-throwing shoulder is the one bothering him. "He and [hitting coach Jeff Pentland] have been working real hard this spring on letting go of his top hand after contact," Hargrove explained. "I think that probably has something to do with it." Jimenez has MRI: Left-hander Cesar Jimenez, who appeared in four games with the Mariners last September, had an MRI on his left elbow on Thursday. Jimenez pitched a perfect eighth inning in Wednesday's game against the Giants, striking out two of the three batters he faced, and was supposed to pitch the ninth inning as well. But there was discomfort in his elbow. "I don't know how realistic his chances were [of being on the Opening Day roster]," Hargrove said, "but he was in the mix. He was throwing the ball well." Also on the injury front, Sean Burroughs remains in San Diego recovering from a shoulder injury suffered while fishing prior to reporting to Spring Training. The 26-year-old infielder, who has previous Major League experience with the Padres and Devil Rays, will remain in San Diego working with his personal physician before reporting to the Mariners' Minor League complex. Extras: Closer J.J. Putz has tightness in his right elbow and could miss up to two days of action. He had been scheduled to pitch an inning in Friday's game against the Rockies, but that seems unlikely. ... The Minor League camp had its first full-scale workout and the State of Washington continues to be well represented. Willie Bloomquist (Port Orchard), Sean White (Mercer Island), Matt Tuiasosopo (Woodinville), and Eric O'Flaherty (Walla Walla) have been in the big-league camp. The Minor League influx includes Jason Grove (WSU/Walla Walla), Aaron Trolia (WSU/University Place), Will Fenton (UW/Kingston), Kyle Parker (UW/Yakima), Andrew Barb (Lake Stevens), Chris Minaker (Edmonds) and Brant Ust (Sammamish).
Jim Street is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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In part citing a decline in flight traffic, the Federal Aviation Administration has recommended that the city not submit a plan designed to reduce noise at the Municipal Airport.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — In part citing a decline in flight traffic, the Federal Aviation Administration has recommended the city not submit a plan designed to reduce noise at the municipal airport.
Without a plan approved by the FAA, the airport cannot enforce mandatory noise rules, Rhonda Walker, the airport's manager, said Wednesday.
Noise at the airport off U.S. 1 has been a constant complaint from neighboring residents. A noise abatement committee was formed in 2005 to meet monthly and make recommendations to the city's Airport Advisory Board.
The noise complaints spawned the formation of a group called New Smyrna Beach Citizens Against Noise, which was responsible for erecting a billboard along U.S. 1 a few years ago with a boy holding his hands over his ears, declaring the city should be named "Noise Smyrna Beach."
The city spent four years studying noise levels and air traffic levels as well as hosting public workshops before submitting the noise study to the FAA for a preliminary review.
The study was the "first step" to establish mandatory restrictions for aircraft coming and going from the airport, Walker said.
"Unfortunately, the outcome from that noise study basically established that we did not have a noise problem off of that airfield," she said.
Walker said that between 2005 and 2008 there was a "huge influx" of training from area flight schools, which generated numerous noise complaints about the roar from the airport. However, that amount of flight training traffic has dipped since then, a decline Walker contributes mostly to the economic downturn.
In 2008, 179,396 takeoffs and landings were recorded at the airport. In 2011, the count dropped to 128,795, according to the city.
"So that traffic count is back down even below our 2005 level even before the (air traffic control tower was activated in 2004)," she said.
The FAA considers anything above 65 decibels as a noise problem, and Walker said that level is not reached consistently off the airport property.
"For them, for the residents themselves, they feel it's a noise problem but it doesn't meet the guidelines that the FAA has established for a noise problem," Walker said.
One phase of the city's study consisted of developing noise exposure maps, designed to gauge what noise levels were off the airport property. The study included what flight traffic numbers were projected to be in 2009 and 2014.
Allan Nagy, an environmental specialist with the FAA's office in Orlando, said in a Jan. 8 letter to Walker that there is a "significant discrepancy" between the forecasts of aviation activity used to develop the 2009 and 2014 (noise exposure maps) and the FAA's most recent forecast of flight activity at the airport.
Nagy said the FAA's forecast shows a "significant drop in aircraft operations at the airport," which would lead to the noise contours being smaller than those developed and depicted" in the city's studies.
"In order for them to accept this and approve (the study), we would have needed to have to go back and redo our noise exposure maps which would have only lowered the noise level because we've got a decrease in traffic now," Walker said.
Among its requests to the city, the New Smyrna Beach Citizens Against Noise had asked the city to charge a fee to every pilot that lands at the airfield to generate income the airport could use to free itself from government grants and their conditions.
Walker said one of the noise abatement procedures she hoped the FAA would approve was allowing the airport to rotate runways depending on weather conditions. There are three runways at the airport.
"So that you may have a quiet day today and you would have planes tomorrow, but we would rotate the runways, which would help alleviate some of the noise," she said.
Walker said she could continue to work with flight school officials and controllers at the airport on possible ways to reduce noise, but they aren't mandatory without FAA approval.


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On-Page FAQ Videos To Inform Customers About Treated Wood And Timber Products
American Pole and Timber has officially launched their "video FAQ's" throughout their website to provide quick, straightforward answers to the most common questions they receive.
June 2, 2014 (Newswire.com) - American Pole and Timber has officially launched their "video FAQ's" throughout their website to provide quick, straightforward answers to the most common questions they receive about the treated wood and structural timber products they supply. They use the videos to address a few of the more technical questions they receive as well.
Instead of placing all the videos on an "FAQ" page where visitors will have to go and search or scroll to find their questions, they placed the videos on pages throughout their website next to the services and products they are relevant to. William Plant, Chairman of American Pole and Timber commented, "Our mission has always been to 'consult, inform, and supply'. The videos represent another way we inform our visitors, prospects, and clients. When people have more specific questions about their projects or what materials might be best, our Project Consultants are here to answer their questions and share ideas."
The FAQ videos completed so far answer questions such as, "What wood options do I have for timber trusses?" and "What is a wood check?" Many of the videos might seem to cover topics too simple to bother with but American Pole and Timber's Sales Manager, Eric Lincoln, explains, "We wanted to include real questions people ask - and definitely questions they might be afraid to ask. A lot of these questions are already answered elsewhere in the website - it's a very informative site -- but of course we don't expect people to read the whole thing."
The videos are produced by their marketing department who insists on getting thoughtful, but off-the-cuff, answers from the Project Consultants. Content is more important than production value. There are now approximately 30 FAQ videos throughout the website and on their YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/buildingproductsplus/videos. However, they already have more in the editing process and more planned for the future as well.
American Pole and Timber is a Houston, TX manufacturer and supplier of structural timber products and extended-life building materials for marine & shoreline projects, commercial building, and custom residential construction.
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Bernard A. "Bernie" Walsh, 67, of Elyria, died Thursday, February 6, 2014, at Ames Family Hospice House in Westlake. He was born January 13, 1947 in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where he was a graduate of Waynesburg High School.
He served with the U.S. Army from 1966-1968 and was a resident of Elyria and Carlisle Township since 1971. Bernie was a self employed residential contractor and formerly served on the Carlisle Township Zoning Board. Some of his interests included antique cars and toys and communicating with people on his CB. He sold fresh produce at the Carlisle Township Farmers Market and was a Pittsburgh Steelers fan.
Bernie is survived by his wife of 44 years, Diana S. (nee Nicholson); daughters, Jody (Bryan) Willi of Elyria and Michele (Jeremy) Horner of LaGrange; grandchildren, Leslie and Valerie Willi and Landon and Lillian Horner; brother, Carlton Walsh of Port Orange, Florida; and several nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Charles and Lillian Walsh; and sisters, Mary Ellen Lewis and Charlene Walsh.
Friends will be received Sunday, February 9, 2014, from 2 to 5 P.M., at Dicken Funeral Home, 323 Middle Avenue, Elyria. A service will be Monday, February 10, 2014, at 11 A.M., in the funeral home, with Reverend Rick Stein, Pastor of First United Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Brookdale Cemetery, where Elyria VFW # 1079 will present military honors.
For online condolences visit www.dickenfuneralhome.com


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Backstage in the press room of a weekend radio festival, the entourages of resurgent '90s rock bands Green Day and No Doubt found themselves in a most awkward situation. Just moments before Billie Joe Armstrong's notorious onstage rant that has landed him in rehab, the Green Day frontman shocked everyone within earshot by loudly telling No Doubt's legendarily adored singer Gwen Stefani, "If I wasn't married I'd f*** the s*** out of you!" According to Billboard, it was No Doubt's famously outlandish drummer Adrian Young who broke the tension by exclaiming to Armstrong, "And if I wasn't married, I'd f*** the s*** out of YOU!"
Stefani's appeal is not limited to old-school rock heroes. Rome, the 24-year-old singer who performs as part of Sublime With Rome, recently spoke to CBS Local exclusively about his dream performance, which would be to sing the Sublime song "Saw Red" live with Stefani, who performed on the original version of track, found on Sublime's 1994 sophomore album Robbin' the Hood.
"Everyone would expect that. Me singing with Sublime now, and Gwen Stefani being gorgeous and awesome," Rome said. "Plus, who knows, we might start talking and get to know each other and take her out to dinner or something." When he's reminded by the interviewer that Stefani is happily married to the band Bush's lead singer Gavin Rossdale, Rome only laughed. "Yeah, that's true, huh?"
Such unbridled and public affection for Gwen Stefani is really nothing new; there is a palpable sense of connection, having watched her evolve from the precocious upstart representing Orange County in an Anaheim baby-tee (remember those?) in the 1993 video for "Just A Girl" to her current status as 42-year-old fashion and pop culture icon. As a result, Stefani has become one of the most beloved and perpetually crushable celebrities of our time. She's the kind of woman that other females feel good about admiring and guys still dream of hooking up with. Stefani exists in a rarefied air of her own creation, one that female singers half her age aspire to someday achieve.
How exactly did Gwen Stefani become the most admired and generally adored person in rock since her male counterpart in likability, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters? As No Doubt releases their much-anticipated new album, Push and Shove (the band's first in a decade), let's break down Stefani's undeniable appeal and reveal the five reasons why she's still the rock world's Number One Crush.
She's Just So Darn Cute Much like fellow celebs Jennifer Aniston and Cindy Crawford, Stefani's classic, all-American good looks never go out of style. Even through the countless style evolutions over the years, her sunny Orange County appeal always shines through.
She's The Ultimate Girlfriend/Wife Stefani's well-known relationship history is rather unique in the world of rock. She was loyal to her high school boyfriend (bandmate Tony Kanal) to the point of the break-up almost ending the band. Instead, No Doubt flipped the drama into 1996 mega-hit "Don't Speak," with Stefani going on to marry eternally hot Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale like some sort of Nicholas Sparks rock novel, only it's real life.
She's Hella Good Unlike so many pop creations littering the current musical landscape, Gwen Stefani is really talented. Able to mine her personal life experiences into catchy, memorable songs, she's also a true road warrior who can deliver the goods onstage over the course of a grueling tour. Holding her own even when working with production heavyweights like the Neptunes and Major Lazer, Stefani's presence is rarely (if ever) outshined.
She Makes Bank In addition to the money she's earned from No Doubt and her solo records, Stefani's spun her singular style into two fashion lines (L.A.M.B. and Hirajuku Lovers) as well as being a spokemodel for make-up giant L'Oreal. In 2005, Hewlett-Packard produced a limited edition Gwen Stefani camera, also using the singer in a 2007 TV campaign for their computers. Even Jay-Z would be proud of Stefani's business acumen.
She's As Sexy As She Wanna Be While Stefani's eternal cuteness has already been discussed, it has to be said: when she's not just kicking it with the guys and decides to turn up the heat, Gwen Stefani is hotter than women half her age. Recently seen rocking a tiny bikini on a beach in Miami, there's no denying that at 42, Stefani has more than got it going on, big time.
–Scott T. Sterling, CBS Local


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While everyone rightly so were singing the praises of 20-year-old Trevor Bayne on his Sunday afternoon drive that made him the 2011 Daytona 500 champion, not enough was said about the Wood Brothers team that got him to the big race in the first place.
The Wood family have been around NASCAR since stock cars were being raced on the sand of Atlantic Avenue in Daytona Beach.
Through the good times and the bad times, the family endured with such championship drivers as David Pearson and Bill Elliott.
But over the past few seasons Wood Brothers Racing had fallen on hard times and Bayne winning in the No. 21 Ford at Daytona was something of a fairy tale ending to a story that was told after the race by second-generation fasmily member Eddie Wood.
In involved another famous automobile family the Fords and current company chairman Edsel Ford, and how he helped the team survive when it was having trouble even qualifying for NASCAR Sprint Cup races.
Probably the lowest point was missing (the Daytona 500) in 08, Eddie said. Our family had been coming down here since the 50s and had never missed one until we missed that one.
I think thats probably the lowest point for me was that day.
Its almost like when you miss a race, especially the Daytona 500, its like somebody died. Until you go through it, you cant put it into words, but when you walk through the garage and you see people you see every week, theyre afraid to look at you.
Its like they dont know what to say. Like you walk up to them and say, Hey, we missed the race, OK. But its tearing you apart inside.
Len and I dug in and we visited a lot of people. We got with our friends at Ford Motor Company. We were at Pocono that year and Edsel Ford was looking for a phone number for a four-star general that we were friends with and he called me.
He said, Why havent you called me? Whats going on? And I said, Mr. Ford. Im just ashamed to. Weve run so poorly and were missing races.
He said, Weve got to fix that. Im going to have someone call you in the morning. So the next morning, which was Wednesday, I think, Mr. Jim Farley from Ford Motor Company called us and he said, Weve got to fix your program. Why dont you come up here? (to Detroit).
So within two hours we had no clothes, we wore what we had on and headed to the airport and left just like we were.
We went to Michigan and bought clothes to go visit Mr. Farley stayed up there two days to get to him and we met with him and told him our problems and it was just like talking to someone youve known for years and he said, OK, were gonna fix this.
Theres a lot of stuff in between that and now, but thats how we started to come back.
That is how Edsel Ford helped the Wood Brothers get back into Victory Lane at Daytona International Speedway.


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The fashion icon on breaking into the boys' club of silicon valley to launch her own social network
What piece of gadgetry most improves your life?
There are gadgets that are more functional but I really love my Swedish Hasselblad 503CW, which was originally made in the Fifties. Last year I managed to lose three cameras, which is absurd. The way I rationalised it was: "Well, they were obviously not the right cameras for me." Then I had a dream that I was taking pictures at the wedding of one of my friends. I was getting everyone to line up in the picture and I had the camera and it was square and medium format. I woke up and was like: "That's the camera I have to get!" So I called a photographer friend and he gave me a bunch of options, and…


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Teen and her abductor could be in Houston area
Published 9:30 am, Thursday, September 20, 2012
A 15-year-old girl who was reportedly kidnapped Monday in Alabama by her stepfather may be headed to Mexico through Houston with her family, officials said.
Ailene Lander was allegedly kidnapped by Charles Partin about 1 p.m. in Dothan, Ala., officials said.
They may try to cross into Mexico, and traveling through Houston would be a natural way to get to the border, said Shauna Dunlap, an FBI spokeswoman.
Officials said the girl's mother, Julie Bethke, and the teen's five siblings are believed to be traveling with them. Bethke, officials said, is believed to have helped in the alleged abduction.
According to Dothan police, an employe with the Department of Human Resources reported she had taken the girl to Southeast Alabama Medical Center for an appointment. While they were at the clinic, Partin approached them, took the girl to a van and drove away with her.
Authorities did not release any other details about the case.
Lander is described as being 5 feet 4 inches tall and she weighs about 140 pounds. She was wearing a white shirt and white and pink shorts.
Partin, who is also known as Dean, is described as being 36 years old. He was wearing a baseball cap, a dark-colored shirt and dark jeans. No description of Bethke or the teen's siblings was available.
They were last seen in a blue 1994 Mercury Villager minivan with a license plate of either 38D18W2 or 34B26K3.
Anyone with information about the case is urged to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALLFBI (1 800 225-5324).


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A woman has been executed in Syria by her own son for abandoning Islam in the Isis-controlled Syrian city of Ruqqa, according to reports. Respected monitoring group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) claimed 45-year-old Leena Al-Qasem was killed by her son Ali Saqr in a public execution for committing apostasy.
The anti-Isis Syrian activist group also uploaded a photo of the man believed to be the son, and described him as a member of the Islamic State (Isis).
The group corrected the age of the woman to 45-years-old after sending these tweets.


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The modest successes that had characterized Pres. Ronald Venetiaan's first two years in office became mostly wistful memories in 2002. Key to a disquieting range of political and economic difficulties was the government's failure to curb a sharply rising fiscal deficit. Substantial pay increases fueled inflation, increased depreciation of the Suriname guilder, and apparently provoked the IMF into seeking the preparation of a revised government budget. Agriculture—traditionally important for both employment and foreign exchange—suffered owing to the closure of the commercial banana industry and the loss of the key Jamaican market for rice. The vast informal economy of narcotics smuggling and ecologically corrosive mining, fish poaching, and timber cutting continued to resist government control measures while creating hazards for potentially productive new industrial-scale bauxite and gold projects.
Although Venetiaan's faltering stewardship shook the confidence of citizens and members of his four-party New Front Coalition, the coalition's parliamentary majority appeared solid and almost attractive when viewed against the mismanagement of former president Jules Wijdenbosch and former military dictator Dési Bouterse.
Though bright spots were few, positive signs included mining and palm-oil enterprises, continuing and significant disbursements by major donors, and slow but ongoing discussions with Guyana to open up joint exploration for oil and gas.
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Google has just posted its third quarter profits, and if it's being affected by the current economic climate, it certainly isn't showing it. The company reports revenues of $7.29 billion for the last quarter, up 23% from the third quarter of last year. That's billion with a "b," or just a little under a third of the gross state product of Vermont. Yes, in the third quarter of 2010, Google made almost a third as much money as the state of Vermont is worth.
Of that massive number, Google's own sites generated $4.83 billion of the revenue, while partner sites made an additional $2.2 billion through AdSense. Google's total revenues were split nearly down the middle between domestic and international income; $3.52 billion came from within the United States, while $3.77 billion came from other countries. Of that $3.77 billion, $890 million alone came from the United Kingdom.
If you're wondering just how much Google is worth in total assets, that number is a whopping $53.34 billion, or 31.7% more than its total assets in the third quarter of 2009. That means, as an economy, Google is bigger than 9 different individual states, including Idaho, Maine, and Alaska. It's truly an impressive number.
Read more at Google Investor Relations.