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Landscape Driftwood
Landscape Driftwood
What Makes the Use of Landscape Driftwood For Decoration Special?
Driftwood is deadwood that has been washed onto a seashore, or the banks of a river, or a lake by the action of waves, winds, or tides. It's a form of tidewrack or marine debris. In some areas, this type of wood can be a big nuisance. However, it also provides food and shelter to the birds, fish and some aquatic species when it floats in different parts of the ocean. Bacteria, gribbles, and shipworms decompose this wood, and with time it gets converted into the nutrients that are again reintroduced into the food web. Sometimes decomposed wood pieces may get washed ashore, where it provides shelter to the plants, birds and various other species.
Landscape Driftwood has been a fascinating material since centuries and is widely used in landscaping, fine arts, building plant and animal environment, and hobby craft. When used in landscaping, it is also used with fancy garden lights, or for making planters for decorative plants. You can purchase it at craft supply and pet stores. However, it can also be free for you if you are willing to spend time looking for it! There is nothing more enjoyable than combing a beautiful beach searching for these washed up treasures. You can not only find this wood on saltwater beaches, but also on the shores of brackish river deltas and big freshwater lakes. Their type would depend on the kind of trees that grow in that particular geographical area.
Some landscape driftwood pieces are quite large and beautiful, so people decorate their gardens by placing them strategically or planting trees or flowers in them. It is also be used in making floral decorations, lamps, furniture, picture frames, or just placing a piece on a shelf. Many people love to place these beautiful wood art in their aquariums, and with proper cleaning and curing, it won't dirty your fish tank!


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Diane Hicks
How did you get into triathlon?
A girlfriend at the gym asked me if I wanted to train for one, and I said, "What is a triathlon? Swim- yeah, I lifeguarded. Bike, sure- I ride my piece I call a bike (old mountain/hybrid) every now and then. And run- I do 5k's. Sure, why not?!"
How long have you been doing triathlon?
Little did I know I'd be here after 4 years!
Favorite workout?
800's at track or any fun relay run
Do you have training partners?
Yes-Kimberly, Karen, and Kevin, & Laine.
Best Race?
Tri- Most improved times- this year at Landry Best run- hmmm… 3rd place AG at Elvis 5K the last two years. PR- Greenville St. Paddy's Day 5K
Worst Race?
TexasMan Half Iron Relay- I did the run portion at noon in 95 degree heat with temps in the 100's on the pavement. Not fun!
Why you do triathlons?
To stay in shape and be in a community of healthy people with a similar lifestyles.
What's next for you?
White Rock Half Marathon & Austin Marathon
Most embarrassing moment doing sports?
Falling off my bike or having a flat and not being able to fix it.
Running Shoe that you wear?
What time do you wake up?
Between 5:15 and 6:30
Favorite song to train to?
Anything from Rob Zombie to Hip Hop and even some country.
Out of all 3 sports- which is your favorite?
What kind of food do you eat during a workout?
Clif Bars, Clif Bar Shot Blocks, Sport Beans
Favorite food (regular)?
Chips & Salsa
Spouse/Significant Other?
Other sports interest?
Rowing, boxing, lifting weights, scuba diving, snorkeling- (yea, right- not around here!)
Something that you like to do that is not sports related?
Taking pictures, laying out by the pool, organizing and creating fun things
Favorite TV show/movie?
Grey's Anatomy & How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
Greatest motivator?
Early, Texas
Interesting fact about yourself?
I used to have a thumping car stereo complete with 10 inch woofers & an amp in my car in high school.
What do you like to do to get away from triathlon?
Happy hour with friends, relaxing at a pool or lake, visiting college friends, or hanging with my nephews & mom.


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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Classic Meets Modern and Feminine
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A couple of years ago I spoke at the last BlogPotomac – a Happy Capitalist in a sea of non-profits and government agencies – and had a blast, so I jumped at the opportunity to sponsor Geoff Livingston's new conference, xPotomac.
xPotomac – where the Digital Future meets Business – will be held on February 25, 2013 at the Source Theatre in Washington DC. 8 sessions will be presented by the likes of Greg Verdino, Andrew Keen and Jennifer Cansalvo, in a tight format of 15 minutes per speaker and 30 minutes of Q&A. Sound fantastic, right?
If you're interested – and you should be – today's the last day to get 10% off ticket price using the code January. There will be no February code, so if you have friends who are interested, now is the time.
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The Department of the Treasury's Federal Insurance Office (FIO) has released its long-awaited "Annual Report" on the insurance industry.
Delayed Consequences
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FIO's Power Play
The global insurance regime is creating a more powerful federal regulatory body.
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Supplying the Rope
Will health insurance exchanges be the death of us because we are mishandling them right now?
The Check Creates the Balance
Speaker Boehner may be our last check to balance the White House.
Obama 2.0—An Insider's Perspective
What another term for the Obama Administration means to brokers.
Follow the Vote
Political contributions follow the vote, not the other way around.
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The MLR is a perverse disincentive for plans to reduce their costs.
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The House Financial Services Committee leadership will change this year. While the personalities are similar, the politics may not be.


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Telling Stories
I started this blog, inspired by Donald Miller, to try to live a better story. If you look at some of my early posts, this theme abounds. I deliberately sought out risks. At times this has worked out for me. At other times, not so much. This continues to be a theme in my life and will continue to be a theme on this site.
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years chronicles Miller's attempts to live a better story. When a movie being made of episodes from his life exposed how little story he had to tell, he consciously made the effort to change that, to take some risks, to seek adventure so that in creating better stories to tell perhaps his overall storyline would be more compelling.
Like Miller, I wondered if I had lived enough story to make a movie. And… if I had, would it be worth watching?
I began re-evaluating this after my mother's funeral a few weeks ago. My siblings and I sat around sharing stories about my mom. It was neat to hear about aspects of her life that I had not experienced.
Shortly after my mom retired from work, she began to volunteer as an assistant teacher at a local elementary, helping kids understand their assignments so that they could prosper in class rather than falling behind.
My siblings told story after story of while walking through a store, they would hear someone call out "Hi, Grandma B!" When the person that called out came over to talk, it was always someone who my mom had helped when they were little, now as an adult. Her assistance made a difference to them in school and in life. Enough that they wanted to speak to her when they saw her.
When pondering this, I realized that a certain part of living a great story is taking a smaller role and helping others excel in their own story. Lifting others up can be as powerful as rising up to my own challenge. I now feel inspired to find ways to do both, to live my life better, creating a better story for me, but to also help others do the same.


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Musical Performances in an Image Gallery
The Alternative Rock Music Band's website also allows people and fans from all around the world to access an impressive media gallery, which contains images and photographs from the band's personal archive, their concerts, events, private performances and even family events. This page will allow all those who are eager to get to know the band's members, the chance to have a look at the numerous images and learn more about the band.
All the image albums are well-organized and structured, this way allowing users to easily find what they are looking for, without spending too much time sifting through pages. However, although the band was founded quite some time ago, the photography documenting process only begun in the later years, therefore the members of the band wish to personally apologize to all fans that they weren't able to capture all the events and concerts on film. Nevertheless, all the recent years are rich in events and people can enjoy numerous albums from the many recent concerts, events and even social gatherings where the band members took part.
Furthermore, in addition to the albums where the concerts and events are documented, the website also offers the band's fans the possibility to have a "sneak peek" into the band's members' personal life. Several dedicated albums cover each individual and its own family, preferred past time activities, personal achievements, etc. All these special albums are also being followed by a personal biographic for each band member. By offering such transparency in their approach, the band members wish to offer the chance to lean more to the fans who cannot afford to travel and meet them in person, this way ensuring that all people can get to know them more.
For those who wish to learn even more about the associated bands and the events that the Alternative Rock Music Band regularly frequents each year, the following page offers more details on that topic.


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Duo Noire guitarists will perform in Hawley and Grey Towers
Milford — Duo Noire, featuring African-American classical guitarists Thomas Flippin and Christopher Mallett, will make two appearances in Pennsylvania in June.
At 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 16, they will perform a show called "Spectacular Precision" at Grey Towers N.H.S. in Milford and at 4 p.m.
On Sunday, June 17, they'll repeat the performance at Hawley Silk Mill. Tickets cost $20 for adults; children under 15 are admitted free.
See "Ticket Information," below, for details.
From New York to BeijingFlippin and Mallett use their virtuosic skills to win hearts and minds for classical guitar music, and they often bring genre-bending contemporary compositions into the mix as well.
Graduates of the Yale School of Music, they made a splash with their first album, FIGMENTS, frequently played on WQXR-FM.
Duo Noire has been featured in Chamber Music Magazine and Classical Guitar Magazine, and the duo has won enthusiastic applause for their performances in New York City, Beijing, and many points in between.
Their next album, Tryptych, features contemporary works composed by women and will be available on June 22.
This Spectacular Precision concert will include Baroque pieces by Bach and Scarlatti, and music by Spanish composers Isaac Albeniz and Manuel de Falla, "Libertango" by Astor Piazzolla.
Another piece they will perform, "Hocus-Pocus," was written for them by Grammy nominee Clarice Assad and will be one of the tracks in Tryptych.
Ticket InformationSeats cost $20 at the door and in advance online (see http://www.kindredspiritsarts.org/), at Holy Crepes (224 Broad Street in Milford, PA), and at Main Avenue Books (202 Main Avenue in Hawley, PA).
As an alternative to purchasing single tickets, concertgoers can enjoy both the music and savings by purchasing a 2017 Season Pass to eight events for $115, also available via http://www.kindredspiritsarts.org/ or at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/buy-2017-season-pass-for-only-110-tickets-33878369114.
The concerts are presented by Kindred Spirits Arts Programs in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service and the Hawley Silk Mill.
KSAP, a nonprofit organization of volunteers, has been bringing quality entertainment to area audiences and programs to school students since 2002.
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Pretty much everyone knows by now that Adobe Photoshop is the Cadillac of image editing programs. It's also well known that it doesn't come cheap. In fact, even the stripped down Photoshop Elements can cost upwards of $100!
If you're on a tight budget, but you'd still love to have a powerful, extremely capable photo editing program, I strongly suggest giving a free program called GIMP a try. Most people find that GIMP provides all the power and functionalilty they need, at a price that simply cannot be beat.
GIMP is an acronym that stands for "GNU Image Manipulation Program". Although it's distributed for free under the GNU licensing agreement, GIMP is actually more powerful than the vast majority of commercial image editing programs on the market today.
Like Photoshop, GIMP comes with tons of specialized tools for correcting colors, adjusting brightness and contrast, sharpening or blurring images, removing red-eye, adding special lighting effects, and a whole lot more. And as one might expect, you can easily work with layers and make area-specific adjustments as needed.
In a nutshell, GIMP offers almost everything you'll find in Photoshop, but it won't cost you a dime. There are a couple of caveats to using it however:
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thank you row of houses green, originally uploaded by AnitaRex.
Friday, April 30, 2010
thank you row of houses
thank you row of houses green, originally uploaded by AnitaRex.
12 comments:
- Dawn said...
LOL - your post made me giggle Antia. Sounds like an amazing weekend with the family despite all the dramas, Well done on your EBTKS mention. And your house cards are awesome. Chad is lucky to have such a talented wife to make his thank you cards!!!
- 30 April, 2010 03:19
- Creative Char said...
Love your cards Anita!
- 30 April, 2010 07:42
- Ayana Posadas said...
Wow Anita!
These look great! :)
I love the pattern paper and the different ways you used the same stamp!
- 30 April, 2010 11:53
- Jill said...
Great cards! I love them all- especially the simplicity of the simple stamping on kraft! Very striking!
- 30 April, 2010 20:25
- Alice Wertz said...
lovely simple thank yous, Anita! i love them all! it sounded like you had quite an eventful weekend last week!! thanks for sharing your fun stories! =)
- 30 April, 2010 21:38
- paula said...
Anita, what great cards. I especially love the way you where meant to have those houses ;). Don't worry so much about the blonde moment - I think we all must suffer from that from time to time. It sounds like you all had a fun & eventful time as well xoxoxoxo
- 01 May, 2010 21:15
- Tiffany said...
Gorgeous! Love the clean and very crisp design, these houses are so fun to experiment with, aren't they?
- 02 May, 2010 20:32
- Vanessa said...
Your cards are super, Anita!!! Love your houses!
- 03 May, 2010 04:43
- Jenny said...
Wonderful cards!! And yes you can use text in the challenge. Any kind of writing style you want!! :D I just love how they look. I want that friendship stamp too!! :D have a wonderful day!
- 03 May, 2010 10:59
- alexandra s.m. said...
Love these cards! Such a clean and gorgeous design!
- 03 May, 2010 12:29
- Courtney Baker said...
Oh these are great!
- 03 May, 2010 22:32
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The buff Orpington bantam has been named Stanley, as I am convinced he is indeed a male due to already visible and fast growing comb (please tell me if I am completely wrong here). Stanley is THE most independent of all the chicks and is quite happy to go off exploring the garden without mother hens in tow.
The silkie chicks - I personally think they are a definite for being named Laverne and Shirley (for those of you who remember "The Fonz" the names should be familiar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverne_&_Shirley ). They do everything together, are slightly dim (I think it's a silkie thing) and so hope that they are both girls as I would hate to lose either of them. Any comments back to the blog voting for Laverne and Shirley would be deeply appreciated.
Harriet with Shirley and Laverne
And then we get to the baby turkeys. What we think are the speckled Sussex are growing at an alarming rate. They are probably twice the size of Eggnog. They are always the first to the food and I am sure that at least one is a male if not both of them.
Speckled Sussex chick realising its got wings!
After the "confinement" the girls have undergone both incubating and the start of rearing, they have now had both a chance to spend some time in the "lawn run" and if we are about, free-range in the garden.
The "lawn run" was a quick internet purchase which in the guise of a guinea pig run seemed to suit the purposes of getting one of the mums and some of the chicks out onto grass and some peace from the other. However that proved to be impossible as Harriet and Ruby are joint mums so dividing them, never mind the chicks just didn't work.
The positive is that we can get all the birds out onto grass for a good scratch about and a hugely enjoyable dust bath (it's hysterical watching the chicks emulating Harriet and Ruby dust bathing, usually underneath the mums and getting kicked out on a regular basis, not that they minded) when we are not around.
Best of all is that when we are about we now let all the birds out into the garden. Still not quite confident enough to leave them alone as although Ruby as turned into a complete headcase if she thinks any of the brood are in peril I still feel a cat could take a chick. However if we are about they now all go out and love it.
Of course for ever positive there is a (slight) negative;
- Newly seeded lawn trashed and reverted to a dust bowl within a few days
- How quickly newly planted vegetation is removed in search of the occasional bug
- Physalis (Cape gooseberries) were outrageously victimised and eaten without mercy
- Borders instantly scratched out onto the paths
So bless them a couple of rules are now applied;
- chicken training - they now move easily between the lawn run and home run
- when free ranging, mums are not allowed on the borders
- when free ranging, physalis is seen as a legitimate target so that is a sin they are allowed
- Stanley does exactly as he pleases
- can chicken herding be classified as alternative employment? I love it.
All in all, could life be any better?
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hi im 18 yrs old and my neurologist diagnosed me with cronic headaches/migranes. i only wanted to take advil because i DO NOT want to take any drugs like narcotics or anything similar to it... but she prescribed me with sumitripan anyways. What kind of effects does it have? is it like taking vicodin? because i refuse to take anything that will alter my mind/body. please let me know.
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Hi Kristen012, I feel for you having Migraine headaches as I know first hand how painful they are. I remember trying this medication earlier last year and I remember my face would become bright red and warm, like I was in the sun too much. But I don't remember any other side affects from this medication, although we are all different in how our body will react to the same medication.
Good luck, Liz.
thank you for commenting. They do say that you get tingling, chest tightness, and more bizarre things like that but like you said were all different. How soon did it work for you once you took it?
At the time of taking it, I am sure this medication I reacted too and I was not on it for a long, because they took me of it. Liz.
Hi! I can tell you my experiences. My migraines began over 20 years ago and I have tried most meds. Topamax is a good preventative. If you have migraines weekly or a few times a month this may reduce the number and lessen the effects you have. There are also many meds you can take as a migraine begins. There are 2 common migraines, with and without aura. An aura is visual lines, spots, zigzags, blurriness and sometimes partial blindness that can last from 15 minutes to an hour. I find the aura helpful to let me know to take my meds immediately. Imitrex has 3 varieties; pills, nasal spray and injections. Pills take much longer to take effect but have less side effects. Nasal spray works quicker and has a few more side effects. The injection is painful but works quickest and has the most side effects. Pills never work quick enough for me and as I said before injections are painful with more side effects.
My preferred method is nasal spray but I will use injections if I can't get to my meds quickly. Pain doesn't begin until the aura disappears but I have short auras and must react quickly. I keep my meds in my purse at all times. I also have light and sound sensitivity as well nausea so I try to lie down in a dark quiet room with a lined trash can beside me. My migraines may last from 1 to 3 days and I can have from 1 to 3 each week. I kept a journal for a time and have learned things that commonly precede my migraines and try to avoid foods that can begin a migraine. Although coffee is one food that brings on migraines it is also one that reduces the severity of mine so I make strong coffee to drink at the start. Hope some of this information helps someone. Good luck to everybody who has migraines!
Sumatriptan is Imitrex. It is not addictive and does help with pain by expanding blood vessels that have constricted. Side effects are less with the pill. I don't have any side effects with nasal spray except the terrible taste as it runs down my throat. Injections are different! My throat constricts, heart races, I have chest pains, my arms draw up and my head feels as if it is exploding. For me this lasts about 5 minutes. Imitrex is NOT recommended for anyone with heart problems!
Hi - Imitrex is nothing like an opiate medication, or one that will dull your mind, or be addictive - nothing like that. It works by constricting (making smaller) the veins in your brain because lots of times for migraine sufferers the veins in your brain become enlarged, and cause migraine pain. I had some side effects from Imitrex - the first 30 minutes I would feel a little short of breath, felt flushed, sweating - but not anything bad. I could continue working, and after an hour or so the migraine was completely gone. Gone! I now take Relpax, which is a similar medication but I have less side effects - the migraine symptoms just fade away with no side effects. These meds are the first line treatment prescribed by doctors for migraine sufferers - because they help - a lot. I'd say give it a try. If the side effects are too much, try another medication in that family as there are several and one might work better for you than another.
Also consider making a journal of what you eat, everything you do to see if you can determine what triggers your migraines. For me it is certain foods, some things I am allergic to, my period, weather changes. I am able to avoid the things I am allergic to, and stay away from my trigger foods and have greatly reduced the number of migraines I have. Please consider all these things - you are much too young to have migraine pain all the time! - ElizaJane
yes its ridiculous that im eighteen years old and get headaches everyday and migranes more than twice a month. But thank you so much for explaining it more to me! I have been keeping a record of what i eat for three months or so and my neurologist still is unsure what exactly is triggering it.what exactly is replax?
It is another medication in the same family of medications as Imitrex. It is in tablet form, that you swallow (I don't know if you are using the pill form of Imitrex, or the injection form). For me, it works better than Imitrex. For other people one or another of the meds can work better, or worse - just depends on the person. So be sure to try another medication if Imitrex doesn't do the trick! - ElizaJane
Immitrex to me was the next best thing to sliced bread for my migraine headaches. That was when they were injections you gave yourself, but I hear it doesn't come that way anymore. I had migraines 24/7 for 6 weeks at a time, & immitrex completely took them away & I don't have them anymore at all. My step daugther has them, & takes the pills, but says she still gets the headaches. You may get a feeling of increased heartbeat or something in that order, but I don't think it's anything to worry about. Another med I have heard is good is Axert. I wish you the best. Migraines are the pits...
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Friday, May 7, 2010
Hayley McNeff Interview
How good is Hayley McNeff? She is over ten years younger than me, and she is female, yet she is one of my idols. In two years she added immense size, did her first two shows in 2009 and in both, won her class, and the overall. I have come across very few who have the love and dedication for the sport Hayley has. And at a young age, she has so much more she can do, and she will do. Hayley is someone you can not doubt, and you can not deny. She is going to be one of the elite women in this industry. A sign of that is that not many people have the popualrity she has after doing just two shows. If you are a sponsor, Hayley is the kind of person you should want promoting your product. She is beautiful, a great physique, and such passion for what she does. Here is your chance to know a little more about a woman who will for sure be a superstar in the sport of bodybuilding.
Q: First Hayley, I want to thank you for taking the time to do this.
A: Oh, of course!
Q: Can you start out by telling a little about yourself. Family, where you are from, things like that.
A: I am from Concord, Massachusetts. I have an older brother and an older sister. My sister lives in New York and brother lives in Upstate New York. I am close with them, not my parents. My family didn't agree with my bodybuilding until I won my first two shows, LOL. Now they're proud after I achieved something LOL!
Q: Before bodybuilding, were you an especially athletic person? Play any sports?
A: Yes, I have always been very athletic; my whole family has. I've played almost every sport, from soccer, field hockey, skiing, lacrosse, horseback riding. I was on a U.S. diving team, and finally to bodybuilding.
Q: What initially led you into the gym?
A: I saw my first female bodybuilder on Myspace!!! Once I saw her big vascular arm- that was it for me!! I went to the gym the next day, and the rest is history!
Q: Was weight training something you picked up fairly easy? How long before you saw results?
A: The first 6 months I didn't know how to eat, so I didn't blow up until alter. Once I got the diet down, I really started growing at an expedient rate. My body responded really well to lifting, to the point everyone assumed that I was juicing when I've never touched the stuff.
Q: How long were you training when you decided to compete and what made you decide to compete?
A: I realized I was finally big enough to step on stage like all the female bodybuilders I idolized!! My goal was to get huge, and I wanted to compete against other huge chicks LOL!! I am a very competitive person, so competing came naturally.
Q: Was competing something your family and friends supported at the time, and how about now?
A: At first my family and friends thought I was crazy for even getting into bodybuilding. But once I decided to compete, everyone was pretty supportive at that point. But after my shows, I got a new found respect I never had before from people. Once I did two shows and won both, people looked at what I did as more legitimate than just an obsession.
Q: Was the first show what you expected? Did anything surprise you?
A: Yes, I expected to win and I did. No nothing surprised me. I was fully prepared. I had been dreaming about it since I got into bodybuilding two years prior.
Q: Can you share your contest history.
A: I competed in my first show, the Delaware last August 2009, and the Maryland/East Coast Classic a week later. I won my class, lightweight, and the overall in both shows.
Q: What do you consider your best body part or the one that gets the most compliments?
A: It depends LOL! It depends on what is biggest at the time, although I try to remain symmetrical. But probably my back and my legs.
Q: Do you have a favorite part to train?
A" Nope LOL! My favorite is usually what I am training heaviest at the time, which is always changing as I am always trying to lift heavier. But I enjoy all body parts equally. lately, however, seated leg curls are making me cry LOL! Literally! SO I am loving those haha!
Q: What is your normal training routine and diet like, and how do you alter it for contest prep?
A: One body part a day. I do arms twice a week because they are a stubborn body part. I eat 9 meals a day all year long, to the point where I get up to do shakes in the middle of the night. I eat carbs 8 or 9 meals out of the day and protein at every meal. I purposely did many cheat meals this year so that when Is tarted dieting I would shock the crap outta my body. This has proved to work well because I have started dieting and my body is definitely shocked LOL! The lowest carb meals I will ever eat d day is 3 since I am natural, so I will never do a ketogenic diet; I would lose too much muscle.
Q: When someone sees your physique for the first time what is the most common reaction? More positive or negative?
A: Positive. People love it LOL. People are extremely supportive and are interested in what I do. If they don't understand it, they still respect it and how hard I work. Not everyone wants to look like this, and not everyone is attracted to it, but regardless, everyone knows I put my soul into what I do.
Q: When they see it that first time, what is the one comment or question you are most sick of hearing?
A: Hmmmm..... "What do you eat?" LMAO! It's so annoying! I don't want to tell them because they're not going to remember it, and they are not going to do it! So I don't wanna waste my breath LOL!
Q: What is the biggest misconception about female bodybuilders or the one thing you wish people understood?
A: Hmmm... that one needs to take drugs that men are taking in order to compete and do well. You don't need to.
Q: Do you feel muscular women are becoming more accepted in society?
A: I am accepted, but I look like a female still LOL> I think the begin to have a problem being accepted when they take it too far with drugs and begin to legitimately look like a man- facially. When women have muscle and still look like women in the face, and have distinctly female muscles as opposed to male muscles, they are usually accepted. I find that people are intrigued by it more than anything.
Q: You are obviously very beautiful, is fitness modeling something that interests you?
A: Absolutely not! I never wanted to be another fitness model. I wanted to be huge!!!! LOL! I like to carve my own path in everything I do.
Q: What is the best and worst part of competing?
A: Best part: Winning!LOL!! Worst part: feeling like shit and being sooo hungry!
Q: Do you have any favorite bodybuilders or any you admire?
A: Yes!!! Sooo many!! Physique wise, Debi Lazsewski, Lisa Aukland's legs, Candy Canary's upper body, Heather Armbrust's legs, and I love Debbie Bramwell as a person!
Q: DO you have a favorite cheat food?
A: Probably cheeseburgers and pizza LOL! I love fries but I can;t even eat them as a cheat meal because they're just too fatty LOL! I feel nasty when I eat them LOL.
Q: If another woman told you she wanted to start bodybuilding, what is the one piece of advice you would most want to give her?
A: Get huge LOL! Naw, I'm just kidding. I would say DO NOT TAKE DRUGS! And if you do, only take the "chick drugs". DO NOT TAKE WHAT THE MALE BODYBUILDERS TAKE!
Q: Outside of training, any other hobbies or activities you enjoy?
A: Uhhh.... no LOL. I am graduating Umass Amherst with a Psychology degree. I love training and going to class.
Q: Can you describe a typical day in the life of Hayley McNeff.
A: All I do is go to class, eat, go to the gym, eat LOL, and sleep. And I love it that way!
Q: What is one thing people would be surprised to know about you?
A: I loooooove chick flicks ahhaaaa!!!
Q: Describe Hayley McNeff in five words.
A: Intense, Passionate, Determined, Hardcore, Bad ass.
Q: Any set plans coming up as far as competing or anything else?
A: Yess!!! I am dieting for Team Universe in July!! I am 11 weeks out and I am sooo excited!
Q: Anything you want to take this opportunity to plug or promote?
A: Raising the Bar 4 is coming out- just did filming for it this week! I am in Raising the Bar 3, but people should watch all 3. They are amazing and inspiring bodybuilding documentaries that will give you chills up your spine! In fact, anything produced by Mike Pulcinella will. He also did "Overkill!! on kai Greenn, which had me glued to the TV the whole time LOL!
Also Chris Zimmerman, my best friend, is probably the best photographer in the business right now. Check out hist stuff- it's crazy! A really talented dude.
Q: Are you looking for sponsors?
A: Yes I am!! How can I get one?! LOL!! Get in touch with me on Facebook: Hayley McNeff. Send me a message! Thanks!
Q: Hayley, again, it has been great to have you do this. Any last words before you go?
A: Everyone: Get Huge! LOL!
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True Detective season 2: the rumours and what we actually know
True: Colin Farrell plays a serious Ray
Cast your mind back to 2008 and you'll remember this isn't the first time we've seen Farrell play a gun-slinging sleuth called Ray. In Bruges saw Farrell as a bitter, failed hitman (Ray) hiding in a medieval city, notching up a number of comic capers with lovable sidekick Brendan Gleeson. In True Detective, Colin portrays Ray Velcoro who was described by the HBO as "a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him." If the meaningful, soul-searching glances in the trailer are anything to go by (we estimate there must be a solid minute of the cast communicating solely through stares and side-eyes) we're more likely to see this Ray as Farrell's McColinssaince role, rather than the type of crook that would casually hang out with "two manky hookers and a racist dwarf".
Rumour: Keira Knightley will star
After Vaughn and Farrell were locked in to the lead detective roles, all eyes were on which Hollywood starlet would take-up the female protagonist. The Twitterverse speculated and Knightley emerged as the strongest contender - in the eyes of unconfirmed reports on the internet, of course.
Sadly, it's just a rumour. It's likely she was considered - perhaps even auditioned - for the role, but Rachel McAdams pipped her to the post. Whether she'll still make an impromptu cameo is TBC.
True: Rachel McAdams just got badass
You might know her best for romantic leads in Nicholas Sparks films or Tina Fey comedies, but you're about to see a whole new side to McAdams acting skills - call this her Cake or Wild moment.
McAdams' character, Ani Bezzerides, is described as a no-nonsense "Venture County Sheriff's detective whose uncompromising ethics put her at odds with the system she serves," and whose dark upbringing is to blame for later gambling and drinking addictions. Need more proof? Just check out her no-prisoners shooting skills in the trailer.
True: It's set in California
Pizzolatto has revealed True Detective will depart from the sweltering and foreboding dystopia of post-Katrina Louisiana and travel to California. But take a look at the trailer and you'll see that it's not the beaches and boardwalks you'd most likely imagine - the OC this 'aint. Think a pseudo-noir, Grand Theft Auto V-style, City of Angels.
Rumour: The Exorcist director William Friedkin will film several episodes
Friedkin is in talks with Pizzolatto about taking-up the clipperboard for later episodes in the series. Although nothing has yet been officially confirmed, we're keen to see how The Exorcist director will bring his own brand of soil-your-pants horror to the show.
Rumour: Adult film actors Ami Amia Miley and Peta Jensen have been cast in a "vast" orgy sequence
Twitter is rife with the news of an almighty orgy in season two, but HBO are still yet to confirm. If the reports are anything to go by, theactresses, both in their twenties, were recruited through an extras agency, not specifically because of their porn careers.
Dozens of actors were hired for the scene, filmed and were all required to sign nondisclosure agreements. We'll have to wait until the season airs to find out if this one's true - perhaps one to avoid watching with the parents, though, just incase.
True...ish: It's set in the past
Well, if that old-school CRT TV behind Colin Farrell is anything to go by.
True Detective season two airs on Sky Atlantic in June


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2014 has come to a close. What a great year for the Emerald Coast! A year filled with festivals, outdoor concerts, charitable occasions, and exciting events. Let's take a look at some of the memorable events along the Emerald Coast last year.
The definition of festival is a celebration of a specific event. Here in South Walton we are all about celebrating so it's to no surprise we will pair just about anything with festival. First on our list: The 5th Edition of the 30A Songwriter's Festival! This festival was bigger and better than ever, taking place in the middle of January. The ever famous 30A provided the perfect setting with lively venues that showcased a wealth of talent. Such diversity displayed on the stage from writers who perform their own music to performers who write their own songs. With 150 songwriters and over 200 performances once again the 30A Songwriter's Festival was a 'HIT'!
With an array of wine bars in South Walton it's not hard to see our people have a passion for good wine. What better way to celebrate that passion with a Wine Festival. Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort presented the "Kentucky Derby of Wine Festivals" once again in spring 2014. The Village of Baytowne Wharf completely covered with white tents, big hats, and people tasting amazing wine. It's always a stellar four day event with live music, culinary experiences, perfectly paired wine dinners, and of course the Grand Wine Tasting. I can't wait to taste next years' event!
The summer festival referred to as artistically powerful can only be Digital Graffiti! This is by far the most talked about yearly event on 30A. Watch as art, architecture, and technology collide creating a spectacular scene on the white walls of Alys Beach. Way ahead of its time, Digital Graffiti is the first projection art festival in the world drawings thousands from all over the white sand beaches of 30A. This increasingly popular event with artists, filmmakers, musicians, designers, and celebrities has turned a 1 evening festival into 3 evenings of animation! It will be hard to top last years' show but I'm sure they will.
South Walton loves fashion so we dedicated a whole week to it. South Walton Fashion Week (SWFW) brings glamour to the beach every year in fall. A whole week full of runway shows, style lounges, pop-up shops, and a blend of emerging designers national as well as local. A panel of celebrity judges and designers as well as all who attend can observe the models on the runway while they show off the latest in fashion. We are sure South Walton has a fashionable 2015 up their sleeve. Fall, fashion, and festival sound so good together!
We salute you South Walton for an amazing 2014 and toast to an even better year to come. We can't wait to see what you have in store for 2015!


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Welcome to the 2018 Summer Reading Program! Fill in your online reading log by following the link and selecting the appropriate age group, or pick up a paper reading log at the library. If you are registering online, make sure you first select the tab that has the correct program and age division before trying to log in or sign up.
Enter each book as you complete it, including the title, author, and a brief review. Participation prizes will be arranged in July for everyone logging books, and grand prize winners will be awarded in the beginning of September.
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Merry do we meet again.
We're all here, as we've ever been.
We meet today in peace and love.
As is below, so is above.
Love Trivia
The longest screen kiss in a commercial feature movie occupied 3 min. 5 sec. of screen time in You're In The Army Now (1941). Regis Toomey and Jane Wyman were the movie's lingering lip-lungers.
The greatest number of couples to have kissed in the same location at the same time is 1,588, at the Sarnia Sports and Entertainment Center, Ontario, Canada, on 13 February, 1999.
Your heart weighs approximately 11 ounces, is a little larger than your fist, and beats approximately 4000 times an hour.
The Kama Sutra is believed to be the oldest sex manual in existence. Generally considered the standard work on love in Sanskrit literature, the book is thought to have been written around 300 A.D.
The "I Love You" computer virus was detected in Hong Kong on May 1, 2000. In four days the virus had mutated into three different generations. Figures by Trend Micro Inc. showed that "I Love You" had infected 3.1 million computers worldwide.
The oldest surviving love poem is written in a clay tablet from the times of the Sumerians, inventors of writing, around 3500 B.C. It was unromantically named Istanbul #2461 by the archeologists who unearthed it.
Karmit Tzubera and Dror Orpaz were the eventual winners of a kissing contest held at Rabin Square, Tel-Aviv, Israel, after kissing for 30 hours 45 minutes, on April 5, 1999.
Saint Valentine was a bishop who was beheaded for helping young lovers marry against the wishes of the mad Roman emperor Claudius. Before execution, Valentine himself had fallen in love with his jailer's daughter. He signed his final note to her, "From Your Valentine", a phrase that has lasted through the centuries.
Valentine's Day is believed to have had its beginnings in a Roman festival called the Lupercalia. The early Roman men often wore the names of the girls who were to be their partners during the Lupercalia pinned to their sleeves. And thus came the saying "wearing your heart on your sleeve".
The 17th century hopeful maiden ate a hard-boiled egg and pinned five bay leaves to her pillow before going to sleep on Valentine's eve. It was believed this would make her dream of her future husband.
The Duke of Orleans is believed to have made the first valentine card. Imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1415, he wrote love poems, or "valentines", to his wife in France.
3% of pet owners will give Valentine's Day gifts to their pets (compared to 48% at Christmas).
Among the writings of the Ancient Greeks, the onion is mentioned the most often as an aphrodisiac.
The red rose was the favorite flower of Venus, the Roman goddess of love. Red stands for strong feelings which is why a red rose is a flower of love.
Wearing a wedding ring on the fourth finger of the left hand dates back to ancient Egypt, where it was believed that the vein of love ran from this finger directly to the heart.
As reported in a February 1840 edition of The London Times, Queen Victoria's wedding cake was more than nine feet in circumference.
Eighty-five percent of all Canadian brides receive a diamond engagement ring, giving Canada the highest diamond engagement ring acquisition rate in the world.
The longest engagement on record was Octavio Guillen and Adriana Martinez. After "dating" for 67 years, they finally got married. They were both 82.
The youngest couple ever to marry was an eleven month old boy and a three month old girl who were married in Bangladesh in 1986. The marriage was arranged in order to settle a twenty year feud over a disputed piece of farmland.
The most fantastic gift of love is the Taj Mahal in India. It was built by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan as a memorial to his wife, who died in childbirth. Work on the Taj began in 1634 and continued for almost 22 years. required the labor of 20,000 workers from all over India and Central Asia.
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Merry have we met, and merry have we been.
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cosmic evolution
Evolutionary Claim: First there was NOTHING, then it EXPLODED, and NOTHING accidentally turned itself into EVERYTHING!
- COLD BIG BANG Initial Concept by Lemaitre, further developed by Prigogine, Mayor, Teller, Peierls, Hogan, Carr, Kaufman, and Aguirre.
[This scenario shares aspects of its short chronology with Genesis 1:1-18, which describes the first four days of God's creation of the Universe.]
- HOT BIG BANG Only Lemaitre's concept of expanding space survives in this Big Bang makeover theory.
Evolutionary Claim: Nature is all that is, just particles in motion and the forces between them.
Evolutionary Claim: No matter how unlikely, in Nature anything is possible, given enough time.
Evolutionary Claim: There may be many universes, perhaps an infinite number, undetectable by one-another.


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This is my second card based on this week's sketch on Jehkotar Card Challenge. Love that sketch!!!
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I have HeroesCon in about a week and after that, I think I'm done for the year. I'll still be attending my local show but it just becomes too expensive to attend every show that I want to attend. I need to focus on paying off more bills, and maybe checking out other events and local things besides conventions. Plus I love traveling and I can't take "normal" vacations and attend cons. As far as next year goes, C2E2 will probably be the only show I attend. It's honestly more of a hangout with friends show and kills two birds with one stone. I almost feel like I'm over some of the larger shows as well. It comes stressful, expensive, and time consuming. I'd rather just drive down the beach, or go visit friends. I actually just got back from a trip down the beach and I had such a blast just hanging out with people and not having to worry about being at panels or keeping a schedule. It was actually relaxing and I haven't felt that way about a convention in awhile.
If I can make some solid progress on my bills, maybe I'll revisit this next year but I need to make some changes and this is one of them. I'll take this as a good time to remind everyone I'm an Amazon Affiliate and a Sideshow Toy Affiliate. If you use my links to make a purchase I earn a little something! If you join Ebates using my link I can earn $25 and you can earn $10! And for whatever reason I just started a Ko-Fi page which you can find here if you wan to buy me a "coffee." I think that's it for plugs.
I might try and refocus on the blog as well. I might try some brainstorming over the next few days and come up with some new stuff. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know in the comments! I'm pretty open to anything.


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From the past or present, each week we talk to a different Fulham personality. This Sunday, it is Finland goalkeeper Antti Niemi who helped the Club survive in the top flight.
Finland goalkeeper Niemi played an important role for Fulham in keeping the Club in the top flight in his two-and-a-half years in SW6.
As one of the few Finns to make the break into the European game, Niemi arrived at the Cottage in 2006 after spells with Rangers and Southampton. He insists he's glad he spent time learning the game in his homeland before making the move overseas.
"Even if you were a pretty good player in Finland it didn't necessarily mean that you would get a chance to play abroad," he told fulhamfc.com. "We had very few players who have played outside of Finland and I was already 23 when I moved to Denmark to play abroad with FC Copenhagen in 1995. I had already got over 100 appearances in the league for HJK Helsinki so, for me, that was the right way to do things.
"Even if the standard wasn't massively high, it still gave me a good grounding as I had senior games under my belt, I won the Finnish league and also the Player of the Year award. Personally, that made it so much easier to move abroad."
Niemi impressed with his agility and shot-stopping and had already made his international bow in 1992 which would help him in his desire to move up in the game.
"At the time I was the captain of the Under-21s so I made the step up in '92 and was hoping that I would get my chance to move abroad," he said. "I was thinking maybe that I would stay and played hundreds of league games in Finland and that would be my career but thankfully I got my chance.
"I moved to Denmark to play for Copenhagen for a season and a half. Then I moved to Rangers. All my career moves have never really been planned. Perhaps they should have been but if I had a chance to go somewhere then I either took it or I didn't. For example, the move to Denmark came about because they had a bit of an injury crisis and they wanted someone who would come in quickly. The Finland FA president at the time had played in Denmark as a goalkeeper and they asked him for a name. He mentioned me and everything happened in two days.
"I was inconsistent in my first six months in Denmark but did well in my first full season. I learned that Rangers had sent a scout to watch someone on the pitch when we played in a League Cup Semi-Final; it was one of those games where I just saved everything and we won. That 90 minutes made them choose to sign me, so it was all about luck really."
Niemi's move to Scotland almost never happened, though, as he nearly arrived in England a few years earlier.
"When I signed for Rangers, I was actually going to Coventry City who was managed by Gordon Strachan," he said. "I was there and everything had been agreed. In the morning, when I was going to sign the papers, I got a phonecall saying Rangers wanted me and I had to decide what I wanted to do in 10 minutes. Looking back I might have done better signing for Coventry, but I signed with Strachan later in my career so it worked out."
Arriving at Ibrox, it wasn't the culture shock that you might expect moving from Scandinavia to Scotland, but a lack of playing time hindered the goalkeeper's development.
"The Scots people are really friendly and nice," he said. "At that time the club had people like Ally McCoist, Paul Gascoigne and Andy Goram. They were all seasoned old veterans and were really down to earth. When I first arrived I was nervous, but they treated me really well. Andy came up to me and said, 'if there are any problems, just come to me and let me know'. That certainly helped me to settle.
"However, I didn't get a chance to play in the first team as much as I wanted. Andy was first choice and I was probably third with Theo Snelders ahead of me. I think the plan was that Andy would retire and I might be promoted, but then Walter Smith left and Dick Advocaat came in. During my time there he brought in two more goalkeepers: Stefan Klos and Lionel Charbonnier. So it's fair to say I wasn't in his thoughts much. I had a chat with him and he said, 'I think for your own sake, people need to see how good a goalkeeper you are' so I moved to Hearts.
"They were the third best team in the country behind Celtic and Rangers, but I said to myself that sometimes you have to take a step backwards to go forward. That was maybe the best decision that I ever made; it felt a bit of a downgrade at the time, but I wasn't playing and I knew it would be good for me in the long run."
Two-and-a-half years at Hearts saw Niemi play consistently well and he made a name for himself as a penalty stopper, while also getting a taste of European action. Ultimately, though, the dream remained in England and it was hard to say no when Southampton made a move in 2002.
"I was already 30, so I was thinking that I might never get a chance to move to the Premier League," he said. "I got a call from Southampton and I wasn't going to turn that down; I had learned my lesson from my previous contact with Gordon Strachan and I jumped at the chance. I said 'yes' straight away."
The goalkeeper quickly established himself as the first choice and, while the club finished an impressive eighth, he almost opened his goalscoring account against his future employers Fulham in a 2-2 draw on 15th March.
"That was the season that Fulham were playing at Loftus Road," he said. "We were 2-1 down in injury time and I remember it well because I never really went up for corners; I'm not a very big goalkeeper so it didn't make much of a difference if I did. But I looked at Gordon and he mouthed 'go on, get up there'. So I ran up and the ball came in, one of the defenders headed it out and one of our strikers had a shot which was blocked. It went high in the air and it felt like it was there for a minute. I knew that, from where I was standing, it would land right on my chest.
"There was nobody near me so I knew I had time to control it and do something, but I've never been in that situation before so it was odd. I took it down and managed to get a shot in. I was thinking 'just don't look stupid, whatever happens, just don't mess it up' and it crashed off the crossbar. Two inches lower and it would have been in, but it bounced off the goalline and Michael Svensson put it into the empty net. I certainly played my part in the equaliser, but that was closest I ever came to a goal."
Niemi was also a key part of the club's run to the 2003 FA Cup Final against Arsenal. However, he picked up a rather unwanted title when he became the first goalkeeper to be substituted in a Final, due to injury.
"I was going to have surgery after the Final anyway," he added. "My knee had issues with the ligaments and I was having injections before the games to get me through. Even the doctor said to me that if it wasn't the Final then he wouldn't have let me play. I had no pain during the game and was enjoying the atmosphere at the Millennium Stadium even though they scored after 38 minutes; then my calf went in the second half. I had to come off, but there was always a risk and we lost eventually [1-0], but I still had the experience of playing in the game."
Southampton fell from grace somewhat in the following years as they slipped down to 12th the following campaign, and were then relegated as they finished rock bottom in 2004/05. So, in January 2006, Niemi chose to join the side he almost scored against. After six months in the Championship, he returned to the top flight to battle Tony Warner and Mark Crossley for a First Team place in SW6.
"Personally, everything went really well for me at Southampton and a large part of my time on the south coast holds great memories for me," he said. "But when we got relegated it all went pear-shaped. We lost our best players, we had injuries, we had managerial changes and nobody was playing well. I spent six months in the lower division but got a chance to join Fulham and living in London was a big attraction. My wife was delighted to get a chance to move to West London and, as I'd played against them many times, I knew that it was a nice Club too."
After joining, Niemi got a short run in the side in January, then again in the final few games of the season. The Club finished 12th but the Finland international had shown enough to persuade Chris Coleman to give him the number one jersey for the start of the new campaign.
"I played 31 games which was good," he said. "But we were struggling against relegation and we only just stayed up with Lawrie Sanchez in charge, beating Liverpool in our penultimate game. The following season Roy Hodgson came in and that was difficult as well because it looked like we would get relegated. I had some injuries towards the end of the season, including one with my wrist, and I lost my place to Kasey Keller. It was an incredible season as we managed to stay up on the final day, but I had to watch from the sidelines.
"At the end of the season Mark Schwarzer signed and, although I certainly enjoyed my time there, I knew I wouldn't be playing as my wrist was in plaster for another five months so I left."
Niemi retired, although he later had a brief (albeit fruitless) spell with Portsmouth, and he moved into coaching.
"I knew I was never going to be a manager," he said. "But goalkeeping coaching was a natural step. The only thing I knew was the world of football, so Finland offered me a chance to continue helping goalkeepers and I have been there for the past three years. Whenever I see the results at the weekend, I always look for Fulham and Southampton as they were close to my heart."


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Fri 01 Mar 02
'Til They Glow Tour 1/02
My original plan for the trip was to jump on I-82 at Ellensburg and head down through Yakima to the Richland/Pasco area, then reverse course and work my back around the Hanford Site through Othello. However, my 1038 departure forced a mod to the route; I instead continued east on I-90 out of Ellensburg, crossed the Columbia at 1303 and then turned south on WA 243 towards Beverly and the Hanford Reach area. Within a few minutes I passed the immense Wanapum Dam, followed by the Priest Rapids Dam and a surprising number of vineyards. The small town of Matawa's trying to make it with multiple industrial parks; the prime feature is undoubtedly La Popular Restaurant, which features Chinese/Mexican cuisine (I'm not going to comment on that one!).
For those of you who live elsewhere in the country, the portion of the Columbia contained within the reservation – known as the Hanford Reach - stretches from Vernita in the west all the way down to Richland, resulting in roughly 50 miles of river that's never been dammed, farmed alongside or otherwise modified…which makes it the longest pristine section of the Columbia between BC and the Pacific Ocean. There was a big fight several years ago about the future of the Reach and while the DoE continues to own and operate the nuclear R&D facility, the river itself is now under nomination as a Federal natural reserve. Several local groups tried to pry it away from the Feds with justification ranging from "there's too much Federal government around here as is and we can do a better job of management" to the standard organizations/individuals desiring to "develop" the reach, which of course would negatively impact the local salmon. Ah well…
Hanford Site – In January 1943 the Manhattan Engineer District of the Army Corps of Engineers formally established the Hanford Site on 640 acres on a plateau in south-central Washington bounded by the Columbia River.I drove diagonally through the site in '96 on WA 240 and yeah, you can't go off the highway in any direction without hitting a security gate. However, a route along the north side of Hanford on WA 24 puts you through the refuges with reasonably good access to several historic sites. The Army's former headquarters/operations site is at the southeast corner of the facility, immediately north of Richland.
The district started scouting the location in 1942 and in February 1943 it moved out the 1500 residents of the small towns of Richland, White Bluffs and Hanford. Construction actually started in March and by the conclusion of the project in August 1945 the government spent some $230 million putting in over 550 buildings, 386 miles of roads, 158 miles of railroads (serviced to the camp's gate by the Milwaukee Road, operating south from the Columbia River bridge) as well as two new communities: Hanford Camp to house the 50,000 construction workers, and Richland to house the 17,500 people who worked the project.
The district and contractor DuPont immediately began work on three reactors – designated B, D and F – three chemical processing plants for the recovery of plutonium, 64 underground waste storage tanks, fuel fabrication facilities and support buildings and housing. By August the total population of construction workers exceeded 51,000, making Hanford and its company town Richland the fourth largest city in Washington. The first plutonium was produced in late 1944 and in 1945 Hanford started shipping the material to Los Alamos for use in the second of two atomic bombs, the one which the 509th Composite Group dropped on Nagasaki (Oak Ridge produced the uranium for the first bomb).
Five more plutonium-producing reactors followed during the mid-1950s as part of a major round of plant expansion. Shutdown of the early reactors started in 1964, although the site and surrounding community continued to see economic benefits through the production of weapons-grade plutonium and nuclear power development efforts; the latter, developed as the Washington Public Power Supply System or WPPSS – pronounced "WHOOPS!" – was a spectacular and expensive failure. In the mid 1970s the Feds built the 400-megawat Fast-Flux Test Facility at the site as part of the breeder reactor program but by 1992 they'd pulled the plug. Recent attempts to fuel and restart the reactor for research purposes have failed to win approval, so now Hanford is concerned with nuclear waste management and cleanup. Fluour-Daniel, the current contractor, spends most of its time looking for nuclear waste storage and disposal solutions.
Getting back to the nuclear facilities, the B-Reactor was the first operational plutonium production reactor, placed in service in September 1944 under the direction of Enrico Fermi. The reactor – which remained in operation through 1988 – was graphite-moderated, water-cooled and designed to operate at 250 million watts. The American Society of mechanical Engineers designated B as a National Mechanical Engineering Landmark in 1976; you can read the plaque and see the facility from an overlook on WA 24. Otherwise, pretty much everything north of the River formerly contained within the Hanford Site is now part of the Saddle Mountain Wildlife Refuge to the west and the Wahluke Slope Refuge to the east.
As an "oh by the way," the Manhattan District did build an airfield to support activities at Hanford. Located 2˝ miles northwest of Richland, the airport went from the DOE to Benton County in 1960 and it now serves as a GA field. Airborne Express operates a small feeder operation at Richland; the field also formerly housed a Naval Reserve Center.Camp Hanford/Hanford Defense Area – Apparently, the first military units in the area were MPs who provided security for the Hanford Reservation. I've also found several references to a POW camp on the reservation during World War II, primarily housing Italians. Best I can tell, it was on the far south side of Hanford on the Yakima River and according to one source the site is now a park.As an aside, the former residents of Hanford and White Bluffs are able to get out to their old towns sporadically. The Seattle Post-Intelligence wrote of one such visit last August under the title of "Victims ousted by Manhattan Project keep town memories alive – A bittersweet reunion at Hanford." The government moved about 1500 residents in order to build the Hanford Plant; amazingly, the remains of several buildings in the two former communities still stand.
The Army moved out its MPs in 1947 and turned over security for the facility to contractor General Electric, which placed armed guards at several locations around Hanford. After the Korean War broke out the Army gave GE some M8 Greyhounds while furiously working to get antiaircraft units into the installation. The first guns – 120mms – arrived from Fort Lewis in March 1950, manned by the Washington Army National Guard's 770th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion.
The Army established Camp Hanford in 1951 specifically to coordinate the air defense of the Hanford Works. During the same period the Air Force put interceptors in at Moses Lake AFB – the 81st Fighter Interceptor Wing, from May 1950 to August 1951 – as well as LASHUP-program radars at Saddle Mountain, Richland, Moses Lake and Hanford itself. The final boundaries weren't set until 1955 when the AEC transferred an additional 1100 acres in North Richland, resulting in a 3700-acre installation. The camp encompassed most of the former North Richland Construction Camp as well as most of the installation's 3000 area. Some of the early structures included "Bremerton Housing" – prefabs from the Puget Sound Navy Yard – barracks from the former NAS Pasco and others for a total of some 100 buildings.
The primary command and operations unit was the 5th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group, which included the 83rd, 501st, 518th and 519th battalions; according to Vigilant and Invincible the first batteries of the 518th arrived right about the time the Guard showed up in early 1950. The three battalions eventually served 16 antiaircraft gun sites located in the "100" and "200" areas of the installation; they're identified and described in an excellent cultural resource study produced by Batelle Pacific Northwest Labs (unfortunately, the last time I tried the address at www.hanford.gov/docs/rl-97-1047/military_ops/index.htm the document didn't come up; something tells me Hanford pulled the military site documentation for the duration). The Army officially designated the gun sites with a PSN prefix for "position," but Battelle also gave them "H" numbers.
Each battery firing site ran about 20 acres in size and incorporated sandbag/wood firing positions and frefab support structures manufactured from wood and aluminum; the later facs got the standard Army cinder-block buildings, probably of the same general design as in the Nike sites. The battalion headquarters sites included the standard assortment of support/personnel structures including ops/admin, mess hall, motor pool, maintenance shops and radar facilities. Weaponry included the 120mm guns and .50-cal machine guns for local defense plus small arms. According to Batelle the intact gun sites are H-40, -42, -50, -51 and –61; H-40 was a battalion command site now consisting of "specially sparse debris-scatters associated with demolished buildings and their contents, concrete building pads, traces of former roads and paths, ammunition boxes, and the sandbagged [doughnut-shaped] revetments, wooden structures and other sandbagged/cobblestone structures associated with the former antiaircraft artillery sites."
If the reports I've read are any indication, few of the air defenders considered the assignment as "choice." Reputedly you could go AWOL at Hanford and remain in sight of your unit for three days. Pennsylvanian Don Fleming, a vet of A/518th who was 18 when he first arrived at Hanford, told the Tri-Cities Herald that his first thoughts were, "Oh, my God. Where in the hell is this? Is this hell? Everywhere I looked, I saw sand and sagebrush." Frank Trent said in another report that the majority of the troops assigned to Camp Hanford never really knew what it was they were defending, saying, "All I knew was we were there to defend it…if an airplane flew over, and it was not identified, we were supposed to shoot it down."
Nike Ajax facilities started going in in 1954 with the conversion of the 83rd and construction of four firing batteries. Between late 1957 and early 1958 the Army deactivated 13 gun sites, leaving three on the North Slope portion of the installation to provide local defense for the missile batteries. In September 1958 the 83rd AAAMBn inactivated and was replaced by 1/52nd Artillery; the 193rd Ordnance Detachment supported the missile battalions out of facilities at the main campsite.
The Army continued reduction of its Hanford defenses during the late 1950s, converting only H-06 to Nike Hercules operations and inactivating the remaining gun units. On 1 July 1959 Camp Hanford became a sub-post of Fort Lewis; in October 1960 the group and missile battalion inactivated, ending ARADCOM operations at the site. Camp Hanford formally closed on 31 March 1961; one of the few remaining structures in the main cantonment immediately north of Richland is the former group and camp headquarters building, now occupied by Battelle as its Pacific Northwest Laboratory operations and services building.5th AAA Group – The Army activated the 5th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Group at Camp Hulen, TX on 17 August 1942. It redesignated as the 5th AAAGp on 18 February 1944 and inactivated at Camp Myles Standish, MA, on 15 October 1945 following service in Tunisia, Sicily, Naples-Foggia, Anzio and Rome. I haven't nailed down which corps or divisions the 5th served with although it was briefly assigned to the 36th Infantry Division in late 1944.Hanford's two operational Nike battalions were particularly short-lived, what with ARADCOM shutting down the missile defense in 1960. In fact, Hanford was the first missile-equipped defense area to inactivate, right about the time ARADCOM disbanded the last two gun defense areas at Savannah River and Saulte Ste Marie.
The group reactivated at Fort Bliss on 1 August 1946 and on 28 June 1950 consolidated with headquarters and headquarters battery 5th Coast Artillery. The 5th CA dated to the establishment of the 5th US Artillery on 4 July 1861 at Fort Greble, PA; its batteries participated in just about every battle of the War Between the States including the Peninsula Campaign, the First Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor and Grant's final push through Petersburg and Appomattox. During World War II the 5th CA manned batteries at Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth in New York with some of its units heading overseas. They inactivated at Fort Rucker on 19 April 1944 while the regiment itself disbanded on 26 June 1944. I expect the consolidated unit was at Camp Hanford shortly afterwards, providing command and control for the antiaircraft artillery units which were arriving for local defense.
The headquarters redesignated as the 5th Artillery Group on 20 March 1958 and inactivated barely two years later, on 26 August 1960 as part of the shutdown of Army air defense activities at the facility. That same day the Army consolidated HHB 5th Artillery Group, 24th AAAMBn (formerly of ARADCOM's Boston Defense Area), 1/5th Coast Artillery and the 5th Field Artillery Battalion as the 5th Artillery under the Combat Arms Regimental System (don't just love Army history?). The regiment became the 5th ADA on 1 September 1951.
Two battalions of the 5th ADA currently serve, equipped with Stingers and Avengers: 4/5th ADA with the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood and 5/5th ADA with the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea and Fort Lewis. The latter was a Nike operator in the Washington-Baltimore Defense Area83rd Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion– The 83rd had its start as the 2nd Battalion, 64th Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps, organizing on 17 May 1918 at Pensacola. It demobilized on 9 April 1919 at Camp Eustis, VA and reactivated on 3 June 1921 at Fort Ruger as the 2nd Battalion, Hawaiian Antiaircraft Regiment. It became the 2/64th Artillery (Antiaircraft) on 2 June 1922 and 2/64th Coast Artillery (Antiaircraft)(Semimobile) on 20 February 1924. The battalion redesignated once again as the 750th AAAGBn (Semimobile) on 12 December 1943 and apparently spent the war in Hawaii, inactivating at Fort Shafter on 10 December 1946.As can be expected the four Nike sites were at the four corners of the reservation. Only one, H-52 Rattlesnake Mountain, is intact with its buildings and magazines and is physically contained within the current boundaries of the installation. The other three battery sites are now in wildlife refuges and are completely obliterated, leaving only the roads and sporadic foundations.
On 13 June 1952 the 83rd AAAGBn activated at Camp Hanford. It redesignated as an antiaircraft artillery battalion on 20 July 1953 and on 1 August 1954 went into the missile business, eventually gaining the four Hanford Nike Ajax sites. The battalion inactivated on 1 September 1958 under the reorganization of the Army's combat arms units.
1/52nd Artillery – The unit which replaced the 83rd AAAMBn initially stood up in late 1907 at Fort Michie, Great Gull Island, NY as the 134th Company, Coast Artillery Corps, later becoming the 1st Company, Fort HG Wright in Long Island Sound. The battery reorganized as A/7th Provisional Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps on 22 July 1917 and shipped out for Europe where it saw combat in the Champaign-Marne, St Mihiel and Lorraine. It became A/52nd Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps) on 4 February 1918 and inactivated on 1 August 1922 at Fort Eustis.
The outfit reactivated on 1 June 1941 as A/52nd Coast Artillery at Fort Hancock, NJ and subsequently went into combat in the Southwest Pacific, serving in New Guinea, Leyte and the Luzon. It became A/286th Coast Artillery Battalion on 1 May 1943 and A/538th Field Artillery on 30 August 1944 prior to inactivating at Camp Myles Standish on 14 December 1945. It reactivated in the Philippines on 31 December 1946, inactivated on Luzon on 30 May 1947, reactivated again on 22 March 1951 at Camp Carson, CO and inactivated in Germany on 1 June 1958.
The 1/52nd reactivated for the last time at Hanford on 1 September 1958 and served for about two years, inactivating on 23 December 1960; best I've been able to determine the battalion has never returned to active service. The only battalion of the 52nd ADA currently operational is the 6/52nd at Ansbach, Germany, a Patriot outfit under the 69th ADA Brigade.H-83 Priest Rapids- All four batteries in the Hanford Defense Area used the same configuration: two magazines (2B) with eight launchers and storage for 20 MIM-3 Ajax missiles.Well, maybe I'll get lucky at the next stop. Drive about 14 miles further east on WA 24, watch for the signs indicating the Wahluka Wildlife Area ("Gate closes at dusk"), turn left and there you are…or are you? I initially thought I'd successfully found H-07H, the former AADCP site for the Hanford Defense Area, but instead:
The site components of H-83 are located to the north of WA 24 at the extreme northwest corner of the old reservation; unfortunately, I pulled off the state highway to find the reasonably good access road fully blocked by a barbed wire fence and earthen berm (RATS!).
According to most of the references I've relied on C/83rd (/55-9/58) and C/1/52nd (9/58-12/58) operated the site, but later in the trip I found evidence that C-83rd actually manned H-12 so this was probably B Battery's site. Also, an annotated diagram I have for Hanford – I want to credit either Michael Binder or the late Lance Wright – states that the Army did start modifying H-83 for Nike Hercules but never completed the work. Apparently the service decided to inactivate the Hanford Defense Area while conversion was underway, Herc ops took place only at H-06 and only for a brief period.H-04 Hanford – My first indication was that road pattern didn't really match the diagram I had; when I stumbled across H-07 and H-06 a few minutes later I finally realized what I'd been looking at: a NS gun site.Which left the (probable) AADCP:
Charlie Battery of the 519th manned the installation. The diagram at left is a fairly speculative mod from the Hanford historical pub and gives a typical layout for the complex's antiaircraft artillery sites.H-07H Saddle Mountain – The site was immediately north of WA 24 about two miles east of H-04 and again, all that's left are the roads, some mounds and some curbing.Sat 02 Mar 02
As indicated, this was apparently the site of the AADCP for the Hanford Defense Area as well as the home of HHB 519th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion from some point in 1950 through the unit's inactivation on 20 December 1957. As such it also held the barracks, BOQ and other support structures for H-06, which was literally just up the road.
When I put Rings of Supersonic Steel together with Mark Berhow (BTW, Mark, Sam Stokes and the Fort MacArthur Military Museum should have the second edition out shortly) I didn't have any information on the AADCP for the Hanford Defense Area. I'm still going under the assumption the defense had a manual AADCP, primarily due to the early shutdown of Nike operations at Hanford prior to the deployment of the AN/GSG-1 Missile Master and GSG-5 BIRDIE
Hanford's northeastern Nike site was only a few hundred yards to the northwest, with direct access from H-07H.
H-06 Saddle Mountain- A/83rd (/55-9/58) and A/1/52nd (9/58-12/60) manned the only Hanford site which converted from Nike Ajax to Hercules, between June and December 1958. After inactivation the site's equipment went to N-52 Deep Creek in the Norfolk Defense Area.
What's out there now – in and around the roads and other paving, including the curved paving which led to the refueling area and assembly building – are the missile blast plates and that's about it. I didn't find any evidence of the magazine doors or crew access and ventilation ports; the Army did a fine job of clearing off the installation.
As for the IFC, the road continues a few yards past the battery site but then disappears; the other primary access – along an irrigation canal a few yards east – is blocked at WA 24. Rats…and naturally, I found out after the fact that if I'd continued north from H-04 along the paved road (I actually did, to a point up the side of Saddle Mountain) and then turned east I would've come in to H-06C from the back side. Oh well, save that component for another visit, eh?
Still, I was pretty happy; after a few years of trying I finally got on top of a Hanford Nike site. H-12, the other site on the east side of the reservation, is due south of H-06 but its access road is blocked (rats, again…). However, after driving a few yards to the east I found an unpaved road that went in the approximate direction and charged down it; sure enough, it intercepted the site road and away I went.
H-12 Othello – Fourth and last of my quick tour, H-12 operated under C/83rd (/55-9/58) and C/1/52nd (9/58-12/58).
This one turned out to be something of a prize: at the battery area the base of the flagpole remains in place with "C Bty 83rd AAA Missile Bn" cast in the concrete. At the IFC about a mile to the east on the rise the paving extends to leveled-off mounds with broken concrete, giving a good indication of the former location of the radars.
Okay, it was now time to finish the drive to Fairchild via the scenic route.
They may be mewling about snow in September in Puget Sound, but in Spokane it was most definitely still winter with temperatures dropping to about 12° the first night (whuf!). I got up, scrapped the Electric Whale's windows and proceeded to check in with the 141st AREFW/HO at the west end of Fairchild's ramp (I know, I know, the official USAF abbreviation for air refueling wings is now ARW, but that'll always mean air rescue wing to me. What can I say; I'm a reprobate).F-37 Cheney – Fitted with three magazines and 12 launchers, Cheney was operational under B/10th (12/56-9/58) and B/1/43rd (9/58-6/60). In November 1961 the Army transferred the installation to the Washington Air National Guard, which moved in the 252nd Communications Group (Mobile) and the 242nd Mobile Communications Squadron.Sun 03 Mar 02
When the 252nd inactivated on 18 June 1971 its place at Four Lakes ANGS went to the 105th Tactical Air Control Squadron; the 252nd reactivated the following day at Paine Field. The 105th went away a few years ago, apparently as part of the transfer of the Western Air Defense Sector from the RegAF to the WAANG. The 256th Combat Communications Squadron now occupies the facilities.
And – as I learned at while at Fairchild – the 256th just got called up to Federal active duty so I wasn't too surprised when I showed up at the facility and found the gates locked with no one answering the phone. Ah well; a shot of the fence from the road will have to suffice for the time being. As an aside, according to the Blue Twain the 10th AAABn arrived at Geiger via train on Monday, 14 September 1952. Assigned to the 31st Artillery Brigade at McChord, the battalion made its first firing/training trip to Yakima Firing Center the following month.
The day dawned bright and fairly warm – about 44° - and I was ready for my last session with MSgt Weeks. She was good to put up with me; following the attacks the 141st AREFW activated several crews and maintainers but the majority of the wing is still traditional guard, ie one weekend a month and Lord knows she had enough to do this weekend without my prowling around and asking questions. I stayed out of the way best I could, took a few notes, answered a few questions and departed about 1100 via audio-visual where I ordered something like 18 photos of F-86As/F-94Bs/F-89Js/F-102As/F-101Bs for our history program.
From Fort Wright it was easy enough to continue west on Trails Road, up into the flats. The next stop involved the two components of the northeast Fairchild Nike site.F-07 Spokane – Ron Plante provided some notes and photographs (or was it Michael Binder; it all runs together, eh?) so I knew what to expect when I got to F-07C. This was the other Ajax-only installation; after the Army moved out the Air Force modified the IFC into a comms and satellite tracking facility. Sure 'nuff, it was gated with plenty of government "restricted area" signs and buildings modified to the point of being unrecognizable. Two geodesic domes are on concrete bases on the eastern side of the facility; the platforms are good sized and non-Nike but they may indicate the former location of the radars (then again, they might not; they're on the reverse side of the IFC from the battery…tall towers?). The site's at the north end of Lyons Road at its intersection with Newkirk.Well, let's go four-for-four on the Fairchild Defense Area. I drove south from F-07L to intercept US 2 then turned westbound, stopping at a mini-mart to get a Diet Pepsi refill and a copy of the Sunday Spokesman-Review (told the old boy behind the counter I might find some jobs; he responded, "Try Seattle. We're in deep doo-doo here between Boeing and Alcoa."). I stopped again to get a good look at the Spokane Plains Battlefield monument across from Fairchild's main gate then headed out past the small town of Deep Creek to Wood Road, where I turned north.
The launcher facility is about a mile to the southwest on the north side of Craig Road. I found a lot of prefab homes in the vicinity (none dare call them "estates"); at 2400 North Craig you'll see Teen Challenge International-Pacific NorthwestCenters, Spokane Men's Center. Apparently it's a rehab halfway house or something of the sort; a newer two-story building is on the property but the old Army structures are recognizable. The three magazines/12 launchers are at the northwest end of the property and are apparently abandoned.
The operators of F-07 were A/10th (12/56-9/58) and A/1/43rd (9/58-6/60). According to an article I received from Tim Tyler, the Air Force has let a contract to build a training and education facility at F-07C, aka the White Bluff Complex. Construction is scheduled to start this spring.F-87 Deep Creek – This was the second of two Nike Hercules sites, built for the purpose and manned by D/1/43rd (9/58-3/66). The layout was three magazines/11 launchers and I assume a HIPAR. According to the information we dug out for RS2, the IFC is now owned by Valley Electrical Service while F-87L belongs to William F. Spelker & Sons.That was it for my second Spokane/Fairchild/Geiger sojourn in five months. At 1320 I dropped back down onto US 2 and resumed my trek west, turning south onto WA 28 at Davenport and backtracking my October excursion. About an hour later I was in the "town" of Lamona (this time I kept an eye out for it).
I hit the battery fac on the north side of Sprague Road first…and found three very large, very loud dogs (Tim? Your services are needed) with a pack of llamas across the road wondering what the hell all the racket was about. The site's in good shape, privately owned and apparently the owners live onboard. The magazine/launcher area is to the north. Off to the west-northwest about a mile – west of Wood, on top of the only hill in the area – is the IFC. It too was locked up with no trespassing signs and no access to the top of the ridge. Rats…


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