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-- today isn't the only one with a list consumer reports has put out their third annual naughty and nice list this highlights specific company policies and practices.
So who deserves cheers and -- Who deserves the -- I don't know what it -- his time lax consumer reports he has projects added there.
-- -- How are you don't I'm doing great how are you all right let's start with -- nice company's first all right so we've got a bank on the list this year is that true.
It's actually true and just to make it clear you know these -- consumer reports conventional ratings were were reading a company.
As you introduced it's really about a particular policy -- practice we gave the thumbs up on her thumbs down.
-- with that mind -- who would ever think a bank would make a list but PNC bank got it.
And they got on our nicely if -- if we get a major survey.
Now above ten big banks and and free basic checking and you didn't have to maintain a minimum balance.
To keep it going so that's great in this day -- -- you don't see that very often day by -- -- Home -- on the -- still.
Yet you know one of the things that people don't realize we all buy new appliances all the time you'll get caught up in the moment.
But we never think about what's gonna happen to the old appliance.
And if you look at the fine print of what you see wouldn't win a company delivers that they think will remove year old.
Refrigerator your dryer her watcher but when they moonlight that oftentimes is will remove it to the curb.
Your stop would get British thing in a lot of places won't take it away -- it -- so home people has it in writing.
That -- -- year old product whole lot of up your property.
Bill in Stonewall.
Test level your new product to make sure everything's okay and we like that soup -- -- I would all tier retailers making this Lessig got -- strong it has to -- a free shipping both ways and call.
Yeah cold it you know -- middle of the road -- -- don't always get that great service and great customer return policy kind of interaction.
That you get at upscale or higher and retailers.
But -- is certainly an exception.
And they have -- -- no hassle return policy.
And they'll accept items back without without any time limit.
The banks up puts them in better stead in some of their peers are right side we've got we've got to move things -- -- let's get to the naughty list.
We got two airlines on the nodded as we get delta and spirit why are they there.
Well don't it was kind of an interesting case because when we bought a -- super saver -- the kind.
For 250 dollars a message pops up after we were about to click body and it said hey hold on a second.
You -- Perot -- couldn't get peace of mind and upgrade your fair to a nonrefundable one and it's it it'll only cost you 750.
-- thanks for that and made it sound like an offer -- -- her huge -- like -- and spirit I suspect it has to do with luggage right -- I don't you know -- no doubt -- great low cost airline yeah you're not -- anything with you.
I mean if you want to check a bag it they've just recently all their rates.
Two and I'm not shouldn't take check bank if you wanna bring -- carry on on board that you can't stop under the seat in front of you.
It can cost you is much as 100 dollars.
-- -- -- -- depending upon when you declare it.
So you've got to be careful about that and Ticketmaster they're being asked to death all about two dollars and fifty cents to print your take.
Well to their credit.
Told us hey we're -- -- really hard to get rid of that.
Those fees we don't have -- control over it has to do with the venue but still their basic policy is two dollars and fifty cents to print out your own head and.
If they live up to understand they're trying to eliminate that be entirely Tod marks is the senior project editor for consumer reports have great to have you -- every year appreciated.
My pleasure thanks a lot thank you -- I -- busiest travel to.
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Shakes-Drayton set for surgery
European Indoor 400 metres hurdles champion Perri Shakes-Drayton is to undergo knee surgery in the next few days after injury cut short her participation at the World Championships in Moscow.
The 24-year-old suffered tears to her cartilage and posterior cruciate ligament after sustaining the injuries during the 400m hurdles final in Russia a week ago.
Shakes-Drayton, who won gold as part of the 4x400m relay at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul last year, suffered the problem at the start of the final, the athlete feeling a wobble in her knee, and she eventually finished seventh.
The Londoner immediately flew home and tests identified her injury which will see her undergo an operation in the coming days.
British Athletics performance director Neil Black said: "Perri is working closely with the British Athletics medical team whose focus is very much to get her back into racing as soon as possible.
"She has had an incredible season, and it was a major disappointment for her that she suffered this injury in her first global final.
"We wish her well with her recovery and I have no doubt that she will be back on the track, in top form, next year."
Her agent Jonathan Marks said: "Perri is bitterly upset to have come away from Moscow without a medal and instead with a season-ending injury which she will have to undergo surgery on.
"We were surprised by comments from some sections of the media regarding the reasons for her performance in the final before the full extent of her injury was revealed - not least given Perri's success in both the indoor and outdoor seasons in 2013 and two personal bests in qualifying which made the pain of the final all the more hard to swallow.
"She was clearly in shock post race and given the seriousness of the injury it was incredible she actually got round the track.
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20/20/18 or 20/18/18, depending on my mood. I run alternate controls on a Scuf and am still getting used to it.
20/20/18 or 20/18/18, depending on my mood. I run alternate controls on a Scuf and am still getting used to it.
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Right now I'm on 18-22-14. I like having the LT sensitivity higher because I can get better pop shots off with my Gnasher.
I change up my sensitivity all the time though.
18-18-16, might switch up to 20-20-18
Used to work 16-16-14 but it's not able to keep up with me anymore.
Mine are all near 30. I tried some of the lower settings and I couldn't turn quick enough. Just too slow. I think I'm running 28-28-28 or 29s. Maybe 30s. It's one of them though. I don't find it matters much at those speeds.
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Using 16-17-18 now, not really used to my old one.
So this thread is full of people saying '30-30-30 is stupid, you can't snipe, stop bragging'... who's been bragging exactly? Someone posted a topic asking peoples sensitivity, and people answered. Don't get on their back about it.
I play at 30-30-30 and i can snipe just fine, i have no problems in any way and i'm a decent enough player.
Also, i don't care what 'pros' play with or competitive players, i play with what's comfortable to me, that being 30-30-30.
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I've been messing around with my sensitivity a lot lately, but for the past three days I've grown to love my current setup which is 28-13-13. My reasons being that this made my pop shots more accurate, as well as giving me more control when I'm sniping, and at the same time the look is high enough for me to wallbounce pretty quickly as well, but I may turn down my look just a tad more, maybe 24-25 and I think it'll be perfect.
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28-18-14. Trying to play with a lower sensitivity on Target, but I just can't.
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Not quite. I play 30-30-30, and I guess it just from me using it since gears 1 but the boltok on max sensitivity is a monster. Its not hard to aim if you get used to the speed of the sway when straffing you'll be fine. Max sensitivity makes you hard to compete with when you get used to it. And you can wallbounce circles around people with it. But I also use a sensitive button controller with sensitive triggers so I have an edge already.
the highest u can get
I also play without hud and I have no problem with popshoting or active reloading.
30-30-28 and to be honest it feels slow sometimes lol
i play on 24-22-18 tried 30-30-30 way too fast espcially for aiming probaly staying where i am for aiming but slowly working my way up when i feel comfortablw strafing
28-20-18. Use to have it all set to 30, but I found myself missing more shots. With this I get control, plus the speed in turning that I need for wall-bouncing.
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I'm using 18-16-16 with alternate controls.
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20-20-17. I do a lot of transitioning from hard aiming to blind firing and vise versa so keeping the look and aim setting the same keeps me on target.
I am around 27-27-27. I forget them exactly. There is a 28 or two in there I think. Just not sure where. I do alot of strafing and only a minimal bouncing. Hard aim alot. I like the quickness to acquiring my target if they are running past or rolling or dancing with me.
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30 17 14 look has to be high or eles its just to slow for me. Alternate control scheme
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I play with 30,30,30. Played with that sensitivity since it was available. Makes the game more fun if you can get used to that. I use the regular control scheme.
I think i play 29-30-30, I forgot. I Played Alternate for Weeks but it didn't work out very well, for some odd reason when you Tap A in a Gnasher battle to wallbounce you seem to just stand there and get Hard-aimed down. I recommend staying on Default because i feel i wallbounce way better on there. Although i can't Circlebounce without Alternate i can easily trick people with my wallbounce skills on my Default.
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I currently use 26, 24, 20.
The reason for that is because with me, 26 can allow me to turn in 360 degrees around cover ^_^.
The reason for 24 is because the aiming is quite accurate when you get used to it. =)
Finally 20 because the point of 'Zooming' is to kill from a distance, to put it too high/too low would be inaccurate. >_<
For wallbouncing you'll want 30 sensitivity. I keep my look and target sensitivities on 20 though (so it's 30-20-20). There's no need to play on alternate for wallbouncing, if you want to wallbounce fast use the claw grip (YouTube it) but it's not really worth it. Speed isn't the key to being a successful wallbouncer, it's about having sporadic movement and combining good strafing, wallbouncing and accuracy to get the kill. Also note you should only wallbounce when you're at a disadvantage and need your opponent/s to miss shots.
I'm pretty sure Kaos Vefy (again, search on YouTube) has some good videos for strafing, check his channel. Good luck.
I play on 30 24 24 its fast for wallbouncing and good strafing especially for that quick turnaround but then the aiming is high but not too high for a hairpin screwup
30, 30, 30.
...Somehow it still slows me down sometimes.
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Alternate control game and this sensitivity
18, 14, 18.
Regular control scheme, 20-20-20
28-27-28 or 27-28-28 or something like that. I matters little at that number. I just didn't want to be a 30-30-30 player. Too vanilla for me.
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Fedor got fired
After suffering a somewhat humiliating loss to Dan Henderson, who is better known to fight at middleweight, his third loss in as many fights, Fedor Emelianenko has been let go by the Titanic of MMA Strikeforce.
Naturally, UFC President Dana White handled this news with the circumspection and grace that we have come to know throughout the years. Oh wait, nevermind.
UFC president Dana White on Thursday confirmed his release to MMAWeekly.com.
"Yeah, he's being cut," White confirmed. "You guys thought he was the pound-for-pound best in the world, I said he was overrated for years."
Emelianenko's legendary undefeated run first came to a halt when he faced Fabricio Werdum last year, and after clipping the Brazilian early in the fight, he was submitted by triangle choke.
Bummer. But wait, there's more!
According to White, he believes Emelianenko's contract was up anyway, which paved the way for him not to come back to the promotion.
"Yeah, I think so as far as I know," White said about Emelianenko's contract.
White also stated he had no conversations at all with Emelianenko or his camp, and has stayed out of the situation since Zuffa purchased Strikeforce earlier this year.
It would have been cool to have Fedor in UFC during his prime; but his handlers protected him, at least some of the time, from fighting top quality fighters. Fedor went beatless for almost a decade; and has notches in his belt over the likes of of Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic. His Pride fights are some of the best stuff you will ever see in MMA. Still, once he started fighting in the U.S. his aura collapsed like he was Kimbo Slice.
If UFC has taught us anything it is that on any given Saturday night you can fall. It's not all just father time stuff, either, doing boxing exhibitions in half-empty arenas is not top-notch competition and won't do you any favors during legacy talks. But I guess that doesn't really bother Fedor; or at least it didn't when he started doing it. I hope Alistair Overeem is paying attention to this development because he could be facing the same decision. If Overeem wants to do random boxing exhibitions for paydays, then fine; but it could eventually diminish his drawing power. Both fighters are represented by Golden Glory, a promotion that pays their fighters; and shields them from outsiders.
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we most recently purchased a Cedrus Response Box of the RB-830 variant (2012 model).
The box installs fine and shows up in the Windows device manager as a "USB Serial Port (COM11)", like described on the Cedrus homepage.
I can access and monitor the box with HTerm without any problem. All keys send signals of 48bit length when pressed or released.
To test the box with Inquisit 22.214.171.124 (build Mar 23, 2011) I used the script Sean posted here: http://www.millisecond.com/community/forums/t/1013.aspx
The script defaults to COM3 in XID mode by specifying "/inputdevice = XID3", which I changed to XID11 to match the COM port settings of the Cedrus box on my system.
After starting the script Inquisit immediately issues the error:
System error 2: .Line 71, File .\ComPort.cpp
When clicking OK on this dialog, Inquisit pops up another error message stating
Inquisit can not access port COM11. Verify that this is a valid port on this machine.
It IS a valid port, as HTerm most convincingly proves. What's going on?
Best wishes,Malte
Addendum: I just installed the current stable version 126.96.36.199 (build Feb 28, 2012). Same result: same bug.
Bye, Malte
Another addition: I switched the RB-830 to COM mode by setting DIP switches 1 and 2 to high and changing the Inquisit script to "/ inputdevice = COM11".
Again, HTerm reads out the box correctly on COM11. All eight buttons are registered with the expected bit patterns.
Inquisit also exhibits the same behavior as before with identical error messages.
Any ideas anyone?
Try manually assigning a COM # between 1-9. This can be done via Windows Device Manager:
Properties of your device -> Port Settings tab -> Advanced... -> COM Port Number dropdown.
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Hi Dave,
I did indeed try that workaround before posting. Assigning a 1-digit COM port actually makes Inquisit work perfectly well with the Cedrus box.
Unfortunately, on about half of our lab computers (~ a dozen), all COM ports below COM10 are in use.
That's why we would very much love Inquisit to be able to address COM ports above 10.
Maybe Sean can fix this in a future update.
Best wishes, Malte


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The University of Miami mens basketball team climbed as high as it ever has Monday to a No. 8 national ranking in The Associated Press poll and the man who made that magic ladder appear, Jim Larranaga, had just heard the news when we spoke.
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Nothing stays a secret for long anymore, and so these Hurricanes havent.
Less than a month ago they were off the national grid, and barely making South Florida pay attention. Now they are one of the sweet stories in all of college basketball, rocketing up in the polls from nowhere to 25th to 14th to eighth in three heady weeks.
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Larranagas guys have won nine in a row entering Tuesday nights home game vs. Boston College. They are 17-3. They are 8-0 in the mighty Atlantic Coast Conference the first ACC team other than Duke or North Carolina to do that since 1981.
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This year, though, you get the idea anything is possible. You get the feeling March Madness will very much include this team as a major player.
A couple of weeks ago there was speculation about this being a Sweet 16 team. Then came the stunning whipping of Duke. Then came the top 10. Now if youre talking Sweet 16 you seem to under-selling UMs potential.
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With fuel economy reminiscent of the late VW Lupo, the new VW Golf Diesel Hybrid Concept seems to address the growing schism between American and Japanese hybrids and European Diesels.
Green Car Congress recently reported on the unveiling of the car at the Geneva Auto Show. VW couples a new 7-speed DSG transmission with a 1.2-liter, TDI diesel engine and an electric motor capable of operating in all electric mode. The diesel engine puts out a max of 74 hp and 132 kb-ft of torque, and its electric counterpart puts out 20 kW and 103 lb-ft of torque at its peak. This new diesel hybrid sounds like anything but your stereotypical, gutless economy car.
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Even though this car is still a concept, we can probably expect to see it released in the near term, on the coattails of the recent Golf BlueMotion.
It's really exciting to see this concept come out of VW. For a long time VW has resisted the hybrid movement in favor of diesel, which results in similarly good mileage but higher emissions levels. With VW now, hopefully, moving into the hybrid business we will perhaps see more models that can be exported to the Japanese and US markets. This is especially meaningful because oftentimes, European cars that boast high efficiency are blocked from the U.S. market over worries that they are too small or unsafe.
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Writing about the Joad family's journey from the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma to the promised land of California in The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck famously called Route 66 the "mother road." But today it's more of an impoverished great-grandmother.
The 2,400-mile highway, which starts in Chicago and passes through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona before ending in Los Angeles, will turn 83 this year—and it's not aging gracefully. Derelict gas stations, restaurants and trading posts, often vandalized, line its rural stretches, their neon signs long since dimmed. Developers are bulldozing quirky motels to make room for generic high-rises. And in places where traffic was once so thick it took ten minutes for a pedestrian to cross the road, you can spread a cloth and have a picnic, says Michael Wallis, a leading advocate for the preservation of the route.
Soaring automobile sales, coupled with the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921—which called for the networking of roads—provided the impetus for the highway. Cyrus Avery, an Oklahoma state highway official, and Springfield, Missouri, entrepreneur John Woodruff mapped out Route 66's diagonal course based on existing trails blazed by Native Americans, explorers and soldiers. And though it wasn't the first or longest of its kind, Route 66 was the shortest, most temperate year-round stretch between the Midwest and the West Coast. During World War II, soldiers hitchhiked on it. After the war, Americans took to the highways as never before, and a distinctive roadside culture—diners, motor courts and kitschy tourist traps—grew up along Route 66 to cater to them.
"It became a stage on which Americans acted out their aspirations," says Roger White, curator of road transportation at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Dubbed the "Main Street of America" by Avery, it inspired Bobby Troup's song "Get Your Kicks on Route 66" (recorded by Nat King Cole and, later, the Rolling Stones), Jack Kerouac's beatnik bible On the Road, the 1960s television series "Route 66" and, most recently, Pixar's animated film Cars.
Route 66's popularity led to its downfall, with traffic swelling beyond its two-lane capacity. In 1956, legislation created the Interstate System, and over the course of three decades, five separate interstates bypassed segment after segment of Route 66. Its signature black-and-white shield markers were taken down, and in 1985, Route 66 was officially decommissioned.
But Route 66 would not go quietly. "I got tired of people talking about the road in the past tense," says Wallis, who, in 1990, wrote Route 66: The Mother Road, a seminal biography of the highway. Today, 85 percent of Route 66 remains drivable, and some businesses thrive among the casualties. Ted Drewes Frozen Custard stand is still serving up cones in St. Louis; Stanton, Missouri's Meramec Caverns still gives tours; and the famous Wigwam Motel in Holbrook, Arizona, still offers a night's stay in a 30- by 16-foot concrete wigwam. "It's a labor of love, these motels," says John Lewis, an owner of the Wigwam. "I don't think the guests fully realize the effort it takes to keep these things going."
Driving a stretch of the route between Albuquerque and Gallup in the late 1980s, New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici was saddened by the deteriorating filling stations and shuttered mom-and-pop stores. He introduced a bill to preserve the highway. Authorized in 1999, the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program has been involved with 86 projects, including the repair of Lewis' wigwams. But while the legislation authorized the program to receive up to $10 million over the course of its ten-year life span, actual appropriations have been averaging around $300,000 a year, which is reduced by more than half by the salaries of two staff members and travel and administrative costs. "It's done some wonderful things," says Kaisa Barthuli, the program's manager. "But folks are a little discouraged." And the ten-year preservation effort is scheduled to end this year. A proposal to extend the program is part of an omnibus bill that is not expected to pass. "We're keeping our fingers crossed," says Barthuli. "We have a lot more work to do."
Most supporters of the preservation of Route 66 agree that the highway needs money, awareness and a national voice that can speak and act on its behalf. The World Monuments Fund named Route 66 to its Watch List of endangered sites in 2008, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation included its motels on a list of "America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places" in 2007. Wallis and others, including representatives from the eight state Route 66 associations, are in the process of forming a national nonprofit called the Route 66 Alliance to help with fundraising.
"It's a tremendous cross section of American history along those 2,400 miles," says Barthuli. "If we lose those stories, we're really losing a sense of ourselves."
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Can anyone tell me why there is a different US Rt 66 that runs thru Pennsylvania?
Posted by Karl Heineman on July 19,2012 | 10:06 AM
I've been on some of the stretches when I stayed in Amarillo, back in '98. This coming October, I'm taking a road trip out to Joshua Tree (from Austin), and will be taking a big chunk of the Mother Road back home.
And yes, Joy...I'm sure your diary would be well worth reading. Bolgger.com would be a good (free) blog site to post it, day by day...I'd sure read it.
Posted by Dave on June 27,2011 | 08:45 PM
In the summer of 1962, my family finally escaped its 'exile' in Pennsylvania and drove west to California connecting with Route 66 in Missouri. We deviated off onto the old Oregon Trail and headed to the Pacific Northwest to visit relatives. But in that stretch of Route 66 in the Midwest, I remember we turned off south to visit a mausoleum someone built for himself and his wife. Romanesque columns, it was circular and had marble figures of the two of them. Anyone know where this is/was?
Oh and I do have fond memories of the Burma Shave signs!
Posted by Lon Hall on June 27,2011 | 07:13 PM
We are a recently retired couple who are eager to take a trip on Route 66, stopping at as many historical places we can find and to patronize whichever businesses are left. But where do we get the information necessary to do this? Where are the maps, the lodging, the restaurants, the gas stations? The historical markers? And how do we know it's up to date?
Why don't the state chapters dedicated to the preservation of the Mother Road get together and make a website with all of the above included, so we could follow it? Next thing you know, there could be an iPhone App telling us where to go, turn by turn! People could choose between a week's trip, or the two-week version, or the stop-at-every-single-possible-artifact version!
Please let me know where to get current info enabling us to make a trip within the next year.
Posted by S Martin on January 14,2011 | 11:38 AM
My husband and his friends have had a lifelong dream of travelling Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles by motorbike, and next year this will happen! They are all in their 60's and we, the wives, will travel comfortably by car behind them. Our plan is to do this trip in May, hoping that the weather will be kind to bikers. Is this a good time of the year to do this? Your article has made them even more keen as it is an extraordinary piece of History that may disappear forever before too long.
Posted by Gill Goodall on August 2,2010 | 09:34 AM
We picked up a caddy in chicago in april 2008 and drove the full length of route 66 keeping to the old road staying at old motels and eating in old diners this was an ambition of mine i had for many years. it was a big hilight of our lives seeing the old towns and sights all the way ,it took us 4 weeks .they must keep this road preserved
We hve had 7 trips to the usa seeing a lot of your wonderful country Eg sun studios,rca studios nash monument valley canyon de shelle and lots more
Peter & Sandra Males
Posted by Peter & Sandra Males on June 5,2010 | 03:02 AM
Thanks for sharing your stories. We are happy to provide info free to fellow Roadies. Oklahomaroute66.com
Posted by Mike Hickey on April 13,2010 | 07:41 PM
I recently read about a new bill headed for the President's desk to allocate money to attempt to attract foreign tourists to America.
Funny thing is, thousands of foreign tourists flock to America every year to travel Route 66 on motorcycles, classic cars (some of those cars shipped across the ocean from home and back again), and on tour buses.
How do I know this? Because thousands of those foreign tourists have been stopping in Erick, Oklahoma specifically to see Harley and Anabelle Russell - also known as The Mediocre Music Makers - for more than 10 years now. Furthermore, Harley and Annabelle have been attracting these thousands of foreign tourists to their Sandhills Curiosity Shop every year without utilizing any government funds (local, state, or federal) whatsoever.
And to top it all off, Harley and Annabelle attract these thousands of tourists to their "Theater" without selling anything or charging any admission fee.
The U.S. Government is now about to lay out millions of taxpayer dollars to attempt to do what Harley and Annabelle have been doing for years without once having to pick the taxpayers pockets to do it.
For anyone curious to find out how they do it, just see: http://www.filmbaby.com/films/4471
Posted by Joe Summars on March 1,2010 | 11:47 AM
U.S. Federal stimulus packages are inherently flawed and doomed for failure. It takes blood, sweat, and tears to bring life back to a dragging economy or a dead, historic highway like Route 66.
The documentary "Harley & Annabelle - Living Legends in Erick, Oklahoma" (now available at Filmbaby http: www.filmbaby.com) tells a real-life, blood, sweat, and tears success tale on Route 66.
Two years in the making, this documentary reveals the story of transformation of a couple of struggling, conventional-business entrepreneurs into wholly unconventional entertainers now responsible for dealing out "Insanity At Its Finest" for thousands of travelers coming to Erick, Oklahoma from around the world specifically to see Harley & Annabelle, "The Mediocre Music Makers" and their "Sandhills Curiosity Shop".
A more complete synopsis of the documentary is provided on its Filmbaby page.
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Posted by Joe Summars on December 19,2009 | 10:49 PM
fund raiser caravan bikes cars etc...route 66 the old way!!!
some type of activity to get ppl. to take notice. I've never been on that route before my time but I've heard about it and until now I thought it was still around. So how many others think the same way.... countless......
Posted by jackkie on September 28,2009 | 04:22 PM
I loved the post by "E" on March 6. Route 66 would make a great bike route. I realize that parts of it are still a working highway, but on those parts, the bike trail could run alongside the road. This would be a great project for some creative collaboration between groups such as Rails-to-Trails, American Trails, Friends of Route 66, the US government, etc. Just think of all the benefits of such a coalition: create jobs, preserve a piece of American history, conserve gas, promote exercise, good for environment, economic stimulus... the list goes on and on.
Posted by Kevin on August 6,2009 | 08:51 PM
I am a British Postman and would like to cycle Route 66 on one of our Royal Mail delivery bikes with a colleague to raise money for charity. I have checked out the route and have found out that alot of the route is on Interstate roads which i assume you cannot cycle on. Can you email me your cycle route that you took or tell me where i can get hold of one. Thanks Very Much Neil Cadenhead.
Posted by Neil Cadenhead on July 23,2009 | 10:14 AM
Route 66 is only 2 Blocks north of where I live in area code 63040 Grover Mo. Back in the 70's before we moved to our present home we would take a ride in the country on Sunday going out 66 through Grover, and today it has 1 stop sign which it didn't have then. The road still had a lot of old houses and a historic bldgs, one was a grocery store, P. O. and auto repair. We rode the 2 lane on our way too Pond, Mo. and visited the old bldgs, that had been converted into antique shops. There was a rock bldg, I am told was probably built as a trading post prior to the Mother Road. There was no place to eat as all of the old Mom & Pop places were long gone. The Big Chief restaurant had been closed for years but 2 attempts to revive it have failed in recent yrs. In 99 when we 1st. moved here I meet a lady at a local FF place who had lived in Grover all of her life. She was in her mid 80's then and her father had started a Grocery store and was given the job of Post Master. He also repaired cars in the 1930's & 40's. After Marie's husband passed away I started eating breakfast with her and although a bit frail and quiet, this woman had a memory that would fill a basket. She and I became good friends and sometimes we would talk for hours about her life in Grover. After her father died she became P. M. and held that job for 39 yrs. What a pleasure it was to listen to her talk. Especially about the characters that stopped for a cold soft drink, and head on west to California. Rte. 66 was the way west from StLouis long before it was route 66.Back then it was just a dirt road for the wagon trains from StLouis. Today most of the bldgs are gone, very few remain. I have seen a lot of change on Rte,66. Marie passed away about 5 yrs, ago. Oh the memories she shared about life in those days. Route 66 is a legacy of American History and will live on in the minds of those who know the story. I am reminded of that fact every day as I ride down Hwy 109 and cross over The Mother Road.
Posted by Allen Smith on July 15,2009 | 02:50 AM
My family, and I live on route 66 in Kingman,AZ. It truly is the most awe inspiring road in the USA. From Oatman through Kingman,and past the Grand Canyon Caverns to Seligman, you can feel what the migrants of the depression felt. See the vast beauty of the country side, and know at the end of route 66 lay the promised land. Car clubs, and motorcyclists, from around the world, come here to the mother road,rte66, every year, to experience just that! To know, to feel, to see. They too, find that special place in there heart, for Route 66. I need your help. The City of Kingman has been petitioned by some of the ranchers along rte66, just north of Kingman, to rezone there property next to 66, from AG, to COM. This rezoning could affect up 20 miles along Route66, to Industry, Chemical Plants,and Junk Yards. This would disfigure the country side, and surly spoil our national heritage. If you could please help,contact us @ firstname.lastname@example.com, or Kent @ az2live@ frontiernet.net thanks.
Posted by Kent Russell on July 2,2009 | 12:49 PM


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Bob Corwin has his spot at Hamilton High School in Phoenix. He has his portable chair back, with the cushions, set up on the coaches side of the floor, about 15 rows up in the bleachers. His trademark green windbreaker and flip-down shades are also in evidence, as if anyone could mistake him for anyone else.
We talked every day for at least 15 minutes, commenting on the Nike Tournament of Champions Joe Smith Division games we were watching as well as on college teams and the WNBA. Sooner or later, as it always does, the talk came around to injuries.
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You never know where or when someone special will show up. Here is a case in point.
You've probably never heard of the freshman who is quite possibly the best player in the women's collegiate basketball Class of 2013. As the saying goes, you havent but you will. No. We're not talking about Baylor's highly regarded freshman dunking sensation Brittney Griner. We don't mean Notre Dame's Skylar Diggins or South Carolina's Kelsey Bone. You've no doubt heard plenty about all of them.
Odds are you don't even follow the college she's attending. And no, we don't mean Elena Delle Donne, who's lighting things up for the Fightin' Blue Hens of Delaware.
Here's the case for a new name, the name of a player who, based on the early returns, may very well prove to be the equal -- perhaps the better -- of any of the four players in the elite company just mentioned. Of course, more data is needed before final conclusions can be reached, but this new addition to our list of upper level college freshmen (class of 2013 WNBA draft, assuming all use their college eligibility up and that league still exists at that point) is definitely worth seeing in action if you get a chance.
Last week Connecticut finally showed what everyone suspected. By beating Stanford 80-68 the Huskies confirmed the No. 1 ranking they have enjoyed all season. Stanford played well and led by two at the half but UConn kept up the pressure and pulled away in the second half. These two teams may very well meet again in San Antonio at the Final Four, just as they have the last two seasons.
Connecticut and Stanford are two of the 15 teams that have been ranked every week by Full Court Press as well as the two major national polls. For all of the questions coming into the season, the Top 25 has been relatively stable. This is partially because many of the top teams have chosen to play very little competition non-conference, and as a result have been able to maintain their preseason ratings.
The Big 10 starts their conference schedule in earnest this week and the Big East and Pacific 10 both get going this weekend as well. While there are still a few marquee non-conference match-ups, it is primarily conference play after this week.
This weeks Top 25 may look very familiar because it is the same as last weeks Top 25. Stanford was the only team in the Top 25 to lose last week. Given their previous wins over No. 3 Tennessee and No. 7 Duke however, the Cardinal maintain the No. 2 spot.
If you care about the women's college game, and you were not stuck in traffic somewhere, you watched this game on TV. So, this report is going to be more blog-like and stream of consciousness than usual.
Pre-game Thoughts
UConn will lose if:
1. Tina Charles gets into foul trouble. UConn has nobody else who can play in the post anywhere near the caliber of 6-4 Jane Appel, 6-4 Kayla Pedersen (who plays the 3) or 6-2 Nnemkadi Ogwumike. It will be tough enough for Charles to decide whom to guard, and to score through the double team. Kaili McLaren will have to play very well off the bench anyway. If she has to do so alone, the Cardinal front court will have a field day. Heather Buck is not ready for this game.
2. UConn shoots poorly from beyond the arc. The Huskies started out the season on fire from three, but the guards (plus Maya Moore) are a cumulative 4-17 in the last four games. That's worse than 25 percent. In the miserable Iona game, these shooters were clearly gun-shy from the arc. Every coach knows to pack it in against the Huskies, and dare them to shoot from the outside. Every major surprise loss in the last 11 years has come on a poor outside shooting night. Against many teams, UConn can punch it inside anyway, or they can drive the baseline. Way too much interior height on Stanford.
Stanford will lose if:
1. The guards turn it over. Against Tennessee last week, they turned it over just 12 times. But the UConn defense is much more disruptive and organized than the Vols. The pressure is on Jeanette Pohlen to have a solid game with the ball.
2. UConn shoots really well from outside.
3. Maya Moore finally takes over a game completely. Nobody can guard Moore except Moore. She is often content, however, to let the game come to her, rather than taking it aggressively to the other team. In the Final Four, Moore played her usual excellent game (24 points, eight boards). Renee Montgomery, however, took control early and controlled the game on both sides of the court. Moore has yet to do that for 40 minutes.
St. Mary's of Stockton, California came within a single bucket of forfeiting its No. 1 national ranking in girls' high school basketball this evening as Brea Olinda, also of California, forced them to overtime before succumbing, 66-67, in a tooth-and-nail battle for supremacy on the court.
St. Mary's will now move on to face Orange County, California's Mater Dei High School which won its own tough semifinal battle today, coming up with a 56-50 victory over Long Beach Poly in a game that was closer than its final score would suggest.
As we move toward the Christmas break, there have been 41 teams that have made it into the Top 25 rankings of the Associated Press, USA Today/ESPN or Full Court Press. The one team that was added to that number since last week's article on this topic is Oklahoma State which moved into this weeks Top 25 at No. 22. This week we will focus on the 13 teams that have been ranked by everyone but not every week. Next week the focus will be on the 15 teams that have been rated by everyone every week. But first, here is this weeks Full Court Top 25.
Eighty-four teams took the floor at the Nike Tournament of Champions Friday, and all of them had a lot in common: Talent, competitive spirit, a passion for the sport, and hopes of emerging on top as the national high school girls basketball champions. But one team had something else going for them. Sisters. And a lot of them.
Now one set of sisters might not be that big a deal. We've grown accustomed to sister combos and even twins on the court. Oklahoma had the Paris twins, the WNBA has the Millers.
But the St. Anthony's Catholic High School team includes four sets of sisters on its roster: Junior forward Jourdan Cooper and little sister, freshman post standout Kendall Cooper; senior guard Talor Hixon and freshman guard Chandler Hixon; junior forward Natalie Williams and freshman guard Stephanie Williams; and the Panaguitan trio of senior point guard Breanna and sophomore twins Beatrice and Brittany.
"It's different," Jourdan Cooper said. "I've never been on a team that had that many sisters, but it kind of keys team chemistry."
James Anderson, in his third year at the Long Beach school after leading Narbonne High School to years of greatness, said this is his first experience with such a sister-filled team. And he sees definite benefits.
Every year, its the same. Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix is full of tall girls stepping into vans, and athletic-looking types wearing polo shirts with college logos picking up rental cars.
Its the Nike Tournament of Champions, and as sure as Christmas carols get overplayed, the best high school teams in the country come to Chandler, Arizona, to decide things on the court.
This year, there are the usual highly ranked suspects scheduled to play in the Joe Smith Division, plus a few newcomers who are out to establish a reputation. The rookies, though, usually find it much harder than they expect to rack up wins theyre used to the usual high school or summer tournaments where the first game is almost always a gimme, and if things do go wrong, and the losers bracket beckons, it will be smooth sailing to a few more wins.
But not in this tournament. There are four games in five days (starting Friday, ending Tuesday, with Sunday off), and all four in the Joe Smith Division will be flat-out wars. There are no easy games, no breathers, no blowouts that are guaranteed to get even the last player in the rotation on the floor for eight minutes. There are college-level players everywhere, and college coaches (the ones with the polos and rental cars) everywhere as well.
UCLA season ticket holders arriving for the Bruins' exhibition home opener November 9 saw the two freshmen they'd heard about in Markel Walker and Mariah Williams. But there was another new player on the bench with the team.
"Who's that?" many fans asked each other.
They didn't truly find out until 10 days later when, as the Bruins were in the process of crushing Hawaii, Coach Nikki Caldwell sent in Jackie Shepard late the game. Fans may not have known quite who she was yet, but they cheered wildly when she successfully put up a floater.
Shepard had made her debut. As such, she's the first walk-on to the team that anyone can remember, spokesman Steve Rourke said.
The Los Angeles Sparks have named Jennifer Gillom as their new head coach, succeeding Michael Cooper who left to take the reins at the University of Southern California, the team announced Monday. Meanwhile, Minnesota has hired former Detroit Shock general manager and assistant coach Cheryl Reeve to fill Gillom's former job at the coaching helm of the Lynx, that team announced last week.
Gillom, who was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame earlier this year, starred at the University of Mississippi under Van Chancellor who later became the first coach of the Houston Comets. A Kodak All-American, Gillom is the second all-time scoring leader at Ole Miss, her 2,186 career points second only to her sister Peggie.
After graduation, Gillom played professionally overseas, primarily in Italy, with stints in Greece, Spain and Turkey. Gillom then went on to a seven-year career as a player in the WNBA. Her best years came early in that career, with Gillom reaching her career-high in 1998, when she finished with an average of 20.8 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. Though most of her career was spent with the Phoenix Mercury, she played her final season, 2003, with the Sparks. Unfortunately, that year was one of decline, as Gillom retired with a career average that had dropped to 13.4 points and 4.5 rebounds per game.
"I am extremely excited to return to the city of Los Angeles and begin this new journey as head coach of the Sparks," said Gillom. "This is a storied franchise with a championship caliber team. I look forward to being part of the future success and am eager to continue building the Sparks legacy."
Gillom won five gold medals, including a gold from the 1988 Olympics, and one silver as a player for USA Basketball, and was named the 1985 USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year. In addition to her '88 Olympic gold, she owns golds from the 1986 and 2002 World Championships, and took golds at the 1987 Pan American Games and the 1986 Goodwill Games; her silver came from the 1986 World University Games.
Gillom was tapped this summer to serve as an assistant to storied coach Geno Auriemma, who is heading the 2010 Women's World Championship and 2012 London Olympics teams.
Gillom began her coaching career in 2004 with the girls' basketball team at Xavier College Preparatory, an all-girls Catholic high school in Phoenix, Arizona, where she compiled a 130-25 record in five seasons. Under her leadership, her high school Gators have annually advanced to the state tournament for the past four years, and Gillom has received regional coach-of-the-year honors in each of those years.
But her coaching experience in the pros is limited to say the least. Gillom served as an assistant coach for the Minnesota Lynx in 2008. She was elevated to the position of interim head coach for the Lynx last year after Don Zierden abruptly resigned to join Flip Saunders' staff with the NBA's Washington Wizards three days before the start of the season.
The Lynx got off to a strong start under Gillom's tutelage, and were 4-1 when marquee player Seimone Augustus went down to a season-ending ACL tear on June 17 just six games into the season. The Lynx held on for the next two weeks, pulling out three more wins against two additional losses in the month of June, but without Augustus, Minnesota soon unraveled, going on a six-game losing streak and finishing a disappointing 14-20.
Perhaps as a result of that shaky head coaching debut, Minnesota bypassed Gillom in favor of former Detroit assistant coach and general manager Cheryl Reeve. The Lynx formally announced Reeve's appointment as head coach last week, though the move has been rumored for weeks now.
Two more disparate resumes would be difficult to imagine. Reeve has 21 years of coaching experience, including five years as an assistant coach at George Washington, and five years as head coach at Indiana State from 1995-2000, where she led the team to its first postseason appearance in 20 years at the culmination of the 1998-99 season. Reeve has spent nine years in the WNBA as an assistant to various teams, launching her her coaching career in the pros in 2001 as an assistant to Anne Donovan with the Charlotte Sting. In Reeve's first year with the team, the Sting improved to 18-14 from the previous year's record of 8-24, and advanced to the WNBA Finals appearance. The following year, the Sting repeated their 18-14 record, and made another post-season appearance.
After Donovan left the Sting at the end of 2002 to become head coach of the Seattle Storm, Reeve moved to the Cleveland Rockers, apprenticing under Dan Hughes. The Rockers also advanced to the playoffs that year, but the ownership pulled the plug on the franchise at the end of the season. Reeve returned to the Sting staff, again as an assistant, for the 2004 and 2005 seasons.
From 2006-2009, Reeve served as assistant coach of the Detroit Shock under Bill Laimbeer, whom she helped guide the Shock to their 2006 and 2008 WNBA championships. Last year, after Laimbeer's departure, Reeve served as an assistant on the sidelines to Rick Mahorn, while at the same time assuming Laimbeer's duties as the Shock's general manager. Laimbeer, who is now an assistant with the Minnesota Timberwolves, is said to have given Reeve a glowing recommendation for the Lynx head coaching job.
Reeve played at LaSalle in the 1980s, and a graduate position at LaSalle was her first coaching position. But Reeve never played professional ball.


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Joseph "Joe" L. Wojtysiak, 61, of Carlton, Minn., passed away Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, in his home surrounded by family and friends. He was born in Moose Lake, Minn., on May 2, 1951, to Frances (Gresczyk) and Joseph F. Wojtysiak. Joe proudly served his country in the United States Army and was stationed in Germany. He managed the VFW in Carlton for 18 years. Joe began working for Potlatch Corporation/Sappi Fine Paper in 1990 and recently retired due to health complications. Joe married Janet Cozzi on Feb. 14, 1987, and they resided and raised their children in Carlton for the past 25 years. He enjoyed spending time with his family and extended family. He was active with the Carlton Honor Guard Post 2962 for 39 years and served as captain for 35 years. Joe was an avid hunter and fisherman and a diehard Vikings fan. He thoroughly enjoyed going to the hunting shack in Wright, Minn.


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SOCASTEE, S.C. — The Socastee High School football team beat West Brunswick 44-30 Friday, Aug. 30, in a non-conference game in which Socastee threw two interceptions and lost four fumbles.
WILMINGTON — South Brunswick High School junior Grant Hufham won the season-opening Mideastern Conference boys' cross-country race Thursday, Aug. 29, at Hugh McRae Park in Wilmington. Hufham ran the 3.1-mile course in 16 minutes, 59 seconds, finishing 20 seconds of Hoggard's Graham Parker. The race had 77 runners.
Junior Thomas Eichorn was South Brunswick's second fastest runner in the season-opening boys' cross-country race, 12th in 18:27.93.
The Brunswick Community College volleyball team lost its season-opener Aug. 28 in five sets to Lenoir Community College.
The Lancers won 25-13, 23-25, 18-25, 25-13, 15-13.
This was Erin Hagen's first match as BCC coach. She has six county players on the nine-player roster.
"Before this game tonight I wasn't really sure what to expect," Hagen said. "But now the expectations are through the roof. I expect us to compete in every game and I expect us to win. And I think they expect that, too.
By Bill Hennecy Special to The Beacon Shallotte driver Sam Yarbrough sped away from the field for his ninth victory this season in Late Model stock car racing Aug. 22 at Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Speedway. Because of rain earlier in the evening, qualifying was scrubbed, a quick session was held for all classes for practice and the starting field was set by the points standings.
By Shannon Leslie Special to The Beacon BOILING SPRING LAKES— South Brunswick's only form of defense that could stop Wallace Rose-Hill on Friday night was the weather. When the Bulldogs scored their fourth touchdown, the sound of thunder caused a 14-hour delay that left the game fixed at 27-0 awaiting an extra point. On Saturday, Aug. 24, the Bulldogs answered the 10 a.m. game-time whistle with an extra point. They added two touchdowns and a 30-yard field-goal en route to a 45-0 victory over the Cougars.
The sky was littered with large cotton balls and the air was thick enough to cut with a knife. The forecast was calling for a 50 percent chance of rain all day. I had checked the radar and could clearly see most of the action was happening around the Interstate 95 corridor well inland from us. The rain showers were moving in a more northerly direction and I expected we would have no issue for a few hours.
I open this week's report with a reminder to watch "No Limits Fishing," co-hosted by Capt. Brant McMullan and me, on ATMC-TV. The show is broadcast 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. It is viewable anytime at On Demand.
Compared with football, basketball and ice hockey, golf is a genteel, stately sport. Golfers don't crash into each other trying to get the ball into the hole. There are no referees on the links. Golfers are expected to know the rules of golf and to follow them. But that doesn't mean there are no dangers. You can get hurt playing golf. Obviously, golfers need to be careful of snakes, alligators and fire ants in this area, but they also need to be careful of other golfers and Mother Nature. Let me explain.


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Buster Douglas, best upset ever.
Originally Posted by SEGA 04:55 = /thread Son of a bitch....
Either put on these glasses, or start eating that trash can
"If I could have eaten the crumpet, I would have done better at this game!"
All of these videos suck except for the one where the guy gets bit
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