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Public and social media fights between Hollywood celebrities
Johnny strikes first
As you know, as soon as it was made public that Amber Heard filed for divorce from Johnny Depp, just three days after the passing of his mother, TMZ was posting stories about how much his family, and his ma in particular, hated her. Full Story
Annie's "unintended shade"
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Anne Hathaway is promoting Alice Through The Looking Glass. She was at the Hollywood premiere last night. We'll get to that in a minute. As you know, Helena Bonham Carter is also in the movie. So this is what Annie posted on Instagram: Full Story
Kristen Stewart: Pre-Cannes drama?
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Kristen Stewart left LA for Cannes yesterday. She's in Woody Allen's Café Society which will open the festival later this week. As you know, US Weekly reported on Thursday that Kristen's intense two month relationship with Soko Full Story
Girl Sh-t starring Nicki Minaj and Demi Lovato
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Nicki Minaj and Demi Lovato were both dressed by Jeremy Scott for Moschino at the MET Gala. Neither outfit, frankly, was impressive. Anyway, after the event, Nicki posted a shot of the 3 of them together on Instagram. She tagged Jeremy. She tagged Moschino. But she didn't tag Demi: 😘 @itsjeremyscott @moschino Full Story
Jennifer Hudson Reacts to Tony snub
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The story at the Tony Awards was never going to be Hamilton, because that was always going to be the story. Yeah, 16 nominations is a lot, but the show has probably been the most mentioned piece of art in the last twelve months, by an exponential amount. That was never THE story. Instead, I said to Lainey, the story will come from the snubs. Full Story
Drama at Live!
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I'm sure you've heard about what's happening at Live! with Kelly and Michael. Kelly Ripa apparently found out after the show on Tuesday that Michael Strahan Full Story
Tina Fey will take her time
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But she'll be lining it up, that shot, and when it comes for you, well… Three years ago, while hosting the Golden Globes, Tina and Amy Poehler Full Story
Taylor donates to Kesha
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Taylor Swift announced this weekend that New Romantics will be the next single off 1989. I've written several times about New Romantics. It's a really good song. Taylor, however, as we all know, has already won Album of the Year for 1989 which, as we also all know, was what she wanted all along. Full Story
Taylor Swift lays up
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Unlike Leo and the Oscars, Taylor Swift has never pretended to not want to win Grammys. She wanted Album of the Year for Red. And when that didn't happen, she wrote the "sonically cohesive" 1989 and she spent time with the Recording Academy – click here Full Story
Kanye says Kanye isn't into ass-play
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As you know, I quite enjoyed it when Kanye went hard on Twitter against Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose the other day. Click here for a refresher. Amber went back low against Kanye in response. Click here Full Story
Is this an apology or a scolding?
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I f-cking love Erykah Badu. Not only because you can't f-ck with the Badu. And not only because she's not a believer in Iggy Azalea. But also because when she's apologising…well… she turns it into an occasion to guilt her kids. Yes. I approve of this parenting. Full Story


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Skip to comments.Police: Father Killed Children, Wife, Self In Home
Posted on 06/16/2009 11:29:20 AM PDT by inflorida
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- According to detectives, a 41-year-old man murdered his wife and two young children, before killing himself.
"We have found a firearm, which is a clear indication of what we believe is a homicide-suicide," Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger said.
The father is identified as John Wood who officers say killed his wife Cindy, 40, and his two children, 12-year-old Aubrey and 10-year-old Dillon.
The tragic incident happened inside a house in the exclusive, gated Heathrow community in Lake Mary.
The Heathrow neighborhood is quiet and upscale, neighbors say and unaccustomed to violence. The entire Wood family was found dead in their home at 1214 Trentwood Court (see map) Monday by a cleaning lady.
Devastation was written unmistakably on the faces of family and friends who showed up to Trentwood Court Monday afternoon.
The small brown home, tucked on the end of a cul-de-sac in the pricey neighborhood became the scene of a horrific murder-suicide.
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Prayers up for the innocents in this horror.
Piece of garbage. Uhg, I probably need to go to confession because of all the thoughts that are running through my head right now. I can't repeat them on this forum.
When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Dude, shoot yourself first. Leave the wife and kids out of it. If you're that depressed or that big of a loser, snuff yourself. But don't take it out on the innocents.
y'know, i really wish these freaks would just start with themselves. you want to kill a bunch of innocent people and yourself? K, start with you first.
Rumor has it that his wife was a big shopper (weekly Saks trips, etc) and had possibly also been talking of leaving him and taking the kids. Some adultery has been rumored as well.
Prayers for all remaining family and friends.
My sentiments exactly.
What is it with these guys?....file for bankruptcy, go on welfare if you have to...but taking out your whole family?
I will never understand why these people even take out the kids. Just sick. Ironically he didn't kill the two family dogs who were found lying next to the dead kids.
Narcissistic pride.
Odd way of wording that. Prayers for the children. Whatever problems the parents might have had, there is no excuse to do this to the children. They filed bankruptcy 5 years ago, yet they have racked up another $100K on 17 cards and he has the nerve to go gambling?!? Sounds like dad had some major problems that no one's talking about. Another oddity is why is the LE looking at the blood splatters on everyone's computer and why so if they were each in different rooms? I feel for the dogs not being taken in by the relatives, that's just wrong.
Amen. This is only the beginning. Back in the crash of 29, most of the folks who were affected were stockbrokers, and many of them jumped out of the windows or killed themselves. The families were spared due to the moral value system of the day.
Today, we have a valueless (kill it if it is inconvenient) society, and the regular joes have leveraged themselves into the lifestyle that was reserved only for the very wealthy this time around. The ramifications of this will probably be horrific, and we are only witnessing the beginning. It takes time for the financial fallout to all these unemployed to hit. They may have some savings, or access to a credit line, family who will help out in the short run but as time goes on they are unable to continue helping. Work will be harder and harder to come by, government benefits run out or become unavailable due to budget constraints, and the hopelessness sets in.
Most women justify abortion by saying that they wouldn't want anyone else to raise their kid, but they can't either so it is more "humane" to kill them in the womb. Where does that line of thinking take you when your kids are hungry, homeless, and you don't have any prospects to deal with it? Yes, I fear, this is just the beginning of these stories. Pray for our country......
I'm so tired of these chickenguano losers who murder their entire families bcause of DAD'S screwups.
Hey, Dad! A few newsflashes:
1) We all screw up sometimes. No one is perfect.
2) Whatever you did, it's NOT the end of the world.
3) Whatever you did, your wife probably had nothing to do with it, and your kids most DEFINITELY had nothing to do with it.
4) The wife and kids will probably do just fine without you, if you want to take the cowardly way out.
How tragic.
Another fact was that the house cleaners found them! Ugh, if you are that far in debt and your wife isn't working, why the heck did they still have a housekeeper? Probably had a pool and lawn service as well.
Rumored. How unfair and wrong of you to spread that with nothing more to go on than unsubstantiated rumors. You should have heard the vile and untrue things my ex accused me of, fortunately he DID start with himself.
He killed himself last year, leaving me and our sons safe from his mentally ill self.
Caviar taste on a sardine budget. Totally out of control.
I said rumored because that is what it was. This is from a local site that the neighbors post on and what friends had mentioned. I am sure more will come out in the end and of course in now way does it justify what this creep did, even if the rumors do prove true.
I sometimes wonder if there are people who truly don't understand how to handle money, whether they are rich or poor. I mean, almost like an addiction, the spending gets out of control.
Unless she was the one running up the 100 grand credit cards and insisting on mortgaging the house again to support the standard of living to which she had become accustomed.
No excuse for him to do what he did but the woman ain't always innocent.
Sorry that you had to go through that. I am also sorry for your loss. I understand that he was insulting and whatever words you would like to use but it is a loss just the same especially for your kids. God Bless you!!!
If this is true it may well justify him leaving her.It may even represent an understandable reason why he might kill himself.But it does *not* justify him killing his kids.Or even her.
Not for a minute.
Don't care how bad things were between the parents, I can't imagine it ever being bad enough to kill the kids like that.
If this is true it may well justify him leaving her.It may even represent an understandable reason why he might kill himself.But it does *not* justify him killing his kids.Or even her. Not for a minute.
I completely agree. It infuriates me to keep reading these stories where one family member takes the whole group out. If life sucks for dad, do it like the old days when they jumped out of buildings.
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The best answer is tool. The relationship between the first pair of words, parrot and bird, is that of item to category—one word names something that falls into the category, or group, named by the other word. Therefore, the second pair of words must also have an item-to-category relationship. A saw is a type of tool.
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The Terrifying Mile-Wide Tornado That Just 'Obliterated' Tuscaloosa
A monstrous tornado nearly a mile wide killed fifteen people in Tuscaloosa, Ala. and "obliterated" parts of the city when it touched down on Wednesday afternoon. These videos should give you some sense of how terrifying a tornado can be.
The damage in Tuscaloosa is extensive (as you can see from the photographs), and the death toll is likely to rise. Tuscaloosa wasn't the only town hit, either: At least 58 people died from severe storms, tornados and flooding across the state on Wednesday, prompting President Obama to declare an emergency and mobilize the Federal Emergency Management Authority.
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The Red Cross has set up a website for people to check up on loved ones, or list themselves as "safe." Over 70 have died throughout the region since extreme weather set in earlier this week, though luckily, the storms are predicted to weaken and move out of the area starting on Thursday.


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Politicians who are trying to break the sprits of federal workers are doing a pretty good job, so far. They've threatened benefit cuts (so far none have materialized) and — both parties — have brought us to the brink (again) with the threat of sequestration-triggered across-the-board cuts coming in March.
Staunch defenders of federal workers are on the endangered species list and with a few notable exceptions are keeping rather quiet.
If the sequestration process (originally approved by both the White House and Congress) is triggered, federal workers in many agencies could be furloughed until an agreement is reached, or the start of the new fiscal year in October. Worst-case scenario: That would mean up to 22 days of furlough.
The maximum furlough bite would be 20 percent from March through the end of September or 4 percent (at least) for calendar year 2013.
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Hiring freeze result of Trump team's review of federal agencies
A couple of weeks back I read somewhere that because of sagging morale, work had come to a standstill in federal offices. I suspect that it was somewhat of an exaggeration. Of course, it hasn't. And probably won't, no matter what happens. Work will stop or slow when and if employees are furloughed and forced to go home. Otherwise people will keep on keeping on no matter what their leaders in Washington say about them.
But are feds unhappy? Could they be more motivated and productive? A good guess would be yes! Consider these comments from on-the-job feds:
"I always think I have seen everything. A president (John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan) shot, a presidential resignation ( Richard Nixon), a president who napped, a president who couldn't keep his pants on. But I guess there is more to see. A political party ruled by the crazies. Life is quite interesting." Jonathan
If sequestration does happen and some key feds are sent home, politicians better hope the country isn't blindsided by a freak storm, a catastrophic earthquake, a terrorist attack or a major airline disaster, like a mid-air collision.
The Senate could hold hearings blaming the Republicans, the House panel would pummel the Democrats and White House. But the public might remember who forced agencies to shutdown all non-essential services which — in hindsight — might turn out to be rather essential.
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White House details widespread furloughs, cuts to agency programs Civilian agencies now have a clearer picture of life under sequestration. The Office of Management and Budget said Friday hundreds of thousands of furloughs and cuts to nearly every agency program can be expected if sequestration goes into effect next month. OMB Controller Danny Werfel said the effective percentage cut to each civilian agency would be about 9 percent over the next seven months. DoD can expect cuts of 13 percent
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Just days before the Oscars, the second Berkshire Shorts Film Festival takes place tonight in Lee, Massachusetts. Makers of short films have found a boon with video-sharing websites, but it's still a challenge to get their work in front of audiences, according to Patrick Toole, founder of the new Berkshire Shorts Film Festival.
"It's getting easier because of the internet and Youtube, and short films are more of an accepted art form, but in the pst you had no venue to show a short film, except a film festival."
So last year he put out a call for short films by independent filmmakers and staged a one-night film festival in Lee in October. The response was strong enough to prompt a second festival tonight.
Included is a piece by Shelburne Falls filmmaker Jared Skolnik called "The Earth Rejects Him," a horror-inspired story about a young boy who discovers a body in the woods. It's already screened at a few festivals. Skolnik says the opportunity to get immediate feedback from audiences is key.
"When you're a filmmaker your work can be seen online but you don't really have that connection that comes with a face to face conversation."
Lighter fare is here as well, like "Business Men: The Tennis Match," shot at a middle school tennis court in the town of Dalton. Director Dave Sondrini says its's part of an ongoing series.
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"We have never seen a year like this, so dry so early." This from Larry Miller, director of the Franklin County Farm Bureau.
And when Miller says "never," it is like 41-years worth. That's how long he's been farming. The veteran agrarian was pondering the current devastating, killing heat wave that has blanketed the Midwest and other areas of the nation.
Oddly enough, 2012 began on a high note in the fields.
"We got out and into the fields early," Miller said. "There were ideal conditions and we had a good wheat harvest by the first of June, even May. Then it turned into a nightmare." Farmers throughout much of the nation face the same problem because of the brutal three-digit temperatures that are also taking a toll in human life. "We know the corn crop is gone," Miller said. He referred longingly to previous years when tillers of the soil had 17-20 inches of rain to this point to work with.
Miller said that at the end of May the farmers told themselves that if they get a June rain they might salvage a good year, at least on soybeans. They waited. And waited. But it didn't happen and now no one is very optimistic. Could a big rain save the soybeans? "We just don't know," Miler admitted. "I've never seen anything like this before. There is no question it is the driest, earliest."
Cattle, too, are in desperate shape. Miller has a small herd of cows which he considered selling. But he will keep them and struggle through. "There won't be any grass (for grazing) until spring," he said.
As to the business outlook for farmers, Miller is not pessimistic. "Normally, one bad year will not kill a farm business. Also, today's farmers have an advantage over previous generations because they can buy crop insurance in many forms," he said.
Of course, the shortages do mean that the prices go higher on crops that survive. But that is a small consolation to farmers that have faced some of the hottest, driest weather in recent memory.
Cattle farmers feel the heat
Franklin County farmers and cattle raisers are among the hardest hit in the worst drought in memory for most local agrarians. A combination of extremely hot and dry weather in Illinois made the first half of 2012 the sixth driest on record, according to the Illinois State Water Survey. Statewide rainfall averaged just 12.6 inches for the period of January through June, nearly 7 inches below normal. Every month this year has had above normal temperatures and the statewide average of 52.8 degrees for the past sixth months is the warmest on record.
Raising cattle locally is going a little better than trying to grow crops. West Frankfort farmer/rancher George Tomlinson said, "The cows handle it better than we do." Bovine appetites diminish as the heat batters the area. "All the animals need is water, a little food and shade and they'll be alright."
Page 2 of 3 - Tomlinson is better off than many ranchers who are trying to fatten the animals for market. The weight gains during the intense drought were not appreciable. He raises cattle primarily for breeding purposes. The main problem is grazing access. The brutal arid heat has caused the grass to become scarce. Normally the cattle graze until the grass disappears. "Normally we don't feed them hay until September, but they are getting that diet now, some for nearly two months."
Oddly enough, the wilting crops that will take a financial toll on the farmers in 2012 might benefit the animals. It's possible farmers will bale the failed corn crop for cattle feed so the herd will still get three square meals a day.
In the paradox that is farming, the failed crops will drive up the prices of the product and therefore they can sell fewer bushels to make as much money. Currently corn is selling at about $8 per bushel and soybeans $12. But there are no good aspects to the current record-setting drought. "This (weather) is a disaster," Tomlinson said. "But when you make your living depending on the weather, you take it in stride. It is part of the game." There could be a light at the end of the tunnel. "We could still save the soybeans if we would get some rain. It wouldn't take much to save the beans."
"Agriculture is the backbone of Illinois' economy, and as we've seen today, severe drought conditions are devastating crop production throughout the state," Gov. Pat Quinn said. "As this drought continues, we are committed to using all the tools we have to help impacted farmers and communities bounce back."
Havoc in ballfields
Temperatures soared, crops were dying and there was no sign things are going to improve any time soon.
Southern Illinois became southern Arizona.
Nowhere was this more evident than in Frankfort Community Park where the usually pristine baseball and softball field looked like something from an apocalypse film.
"In the past, we would have lots of games rained out during a season, sometimes for two weeks at a time," Greg Woolard said. "That definitely wasn't the case this year. I think that was the only good thing that the weather brought us. It's been quite a while since I've seen the fields get this bad."
Park Board President Brett Dunston echoed Woolard's thoughts.
"It's practically nothing out there," he said. "Those kids have been playing in dust because it's drier than a bone. It's just miserable what the drought has done and the grass has been dead since June."
If you walked across the softball fields and the Little League fields, grass was quite sparse. It only existed in small patches in the corners of the outfield and even then it was not even green. It was more of a light gray that makes one think that the field was human-like and had actually died.
Page 3 of 3 - The baseball fields were in a little better shape, but not by much. They became mostly brown and gray, but they had little islands of green along the bullpens and in various spots in the outfield, sort of like an oasis. On one part of the outfield, tiny pieces of grass, maybe four or five stems poked out of the dirt and further giving off the impression that you are standing in a desert. It makes one think a tumbleweed is going to blow by any second.
These conditions are certainly not the fault of the Recreation Department crew who tirelessly worked to make sure the fields were fit to play on and at least presentable. Unfortunately, Mother Nature just didn't want to cooperate this summer causing the department to take on some heavy costs.
"The worst part is the dirt," Woolard said. "When that wind picks up, it can blow it quite a ways. We end up having to buy more dirt to build up the pitcher's mound and the rest of the diamond."
Woolard says the department had to buy five loads of dirt this year at $300 per load, which is something they haven't had to do for years.
As far as the grass goes, well you may as well forget about that. The department has stuck a fork in trying to keep that alive and began focusing on the flowers around the park.
"We try to water the flowers daily and it's frustrating because the very next day, they are completely dry," Recreation Department groundskeeper Robin Smothers said. "The grass is done. It's completely dry and dusty. Occasionally, weeds will come up and we'll try to get rid of them, but it's just no use at this point and I don't think it's going to get any better."
On the plus side, come October the fields will be deserted and they can recuperate and look better next year.
"It was a rough year for the fields, but it'll be over soon," Woolard said. "All we can do is hope that we have better conditions in the spring."
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By BRANDY HUNTINGTONStaff Writer
The Emery County EMT Association recently received a huge attribute to their ongoing EMT training. The Simulaids manikin was made possible by means of a grant. Gordon and Carol Larsen had a big role in the grant process. They spent a lot of time last December rushing to get all the requirements ready. Cole Clarke helped by explaining the process and then writing the grant ordinance. Kathy Jensen also helped with paper work that needed to be ready to be processed. The grant was funded by the PacifiCorp Foundation, which covered most of the cost. Sheriff Lamar Guymon went to great measures to pick up the rest of the cost.
The new training manikin has many features, some of the highlights are a complex airway management, vital signs assessment, chest trauma treatment, 12 pulse points, cardiac monitoring and treatment, and heart and lung sounds.
The manikin is operated by PDA. The PDA offers many different scenario's that are preprogrammed in and can be made as they go. The scenarios are entered into the PDA and the EMT is then able to treat the manikin appropriately. The manikin for example has an I.V. arm so the EMT can state what kind of medicine and the measure that should be issued. The manikin then reacts to the medicine and the EMT can make sure the right decision was made. The PDA can record the students scenario and their response to the situation, and then they can review their progress at anytime.
The Simulaids manikin helps teach critical thinking skills and personnel and equipment management. The students can use any field of airway device to intubate. It allows you to see the chest moving and you hear lung sounds such as crackling, wheezing and striding to help determine any problems. It can check chest compression depth to measure it for effectiveness. There are many more capabilities to the new training manikin.
President of the Emery County EMT Association, Brandie Riley said, "This is a huge help in training for every EMT in the county. It will improve our training effectiveness immensely. We appreciate Gordon and Carol Larsen, Cole Clarke and Kathy Jensen for all their help in receiving the grant, Castle Dale and Emery EMTs for coming together to help make the grant possible, PacifiCorp for giving us this great opportunity by approving the grant, and last but not least, Sheriff Guymon for helping with the rest of the donation".


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The Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology has knowledge to lend, and is looking for local companies to share in it.
The college is seeking area businesses to take part in the annual Capstone Project, sponsored by the executive MBA program. Applications are due April 18.
The executive MBA project teams spend a 20-hour week defining and analyzing a client's problems, delving into areas that include manufacturing, finance, business strategy, marketing, human resource management and information systems.
"We see the 'Capstone Projects' as both a service to Rochester's business community and an opportunity for our executive MBA students to demonstrate their expertise," said Donald Wilson, director of the executive MBA program. "We are always interested in receiving capstone applications from organizations identifying problems that will challenge our EMBA students while tackling real issues at local companies."
Participants must be willing to provide a project sponsor and share relevant information and data with student teams. RIT officials note the confidential studies are available only to company officers and faculty reviewers.
There is no fee to participate, though RIT said some companies have made contributions to the Saunders College executive MBA scholarship fund.
Firms interested in participating can find more information by visiting www.ritemba.com and clicking on Capstone Projects. Those interested also contact RIT's executive MBA office at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Learning series focuses
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Do you want to grow blueberries or blackberries? The Master Gardener Learning Series on Feb. 12 will focus on the do's and don'ts – from start to berries.
The class will be offered at 3:30 and again at 6 p.m. at the Lee County Extension Office on Cliff Gookin Boulevard.
Call (662) 841-9000 to register for this free class.
Fruit, vegetable
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The growing interest in fruit and vegetable farming in north Mississippi is reflected in the expanded agenda for an upcoming growers' meeting at the Lee County Agri-Center.
Two full days of seminars and activities are planned for the third annual North Mississippi Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference and Trade Show Feb. 14 and 15 in the Magnolia Building at the Agri-Center in Verona.
The $20 registration fee covers a one-year association membership, monthly electronic newsletters during the growing season, informational materials and lunch both days of the conference. On-site registration begins at 7:45 a.m. each day, and sessions begin at 8:15 a.m.
Some subjects that will be discussed include marketing produce, irrigation practices, blueberry and strawberry production, greenhouse and high-tunnel production, and insect, weed and disease control.
Jeff Wilson, area extension horticulture agent based in Lowndes County, said the agenda is based on growers' requests for information.
For more information or to preregister, contact a county extension office.
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The book is a comprehensive guide to a variety of craft techniques, written by top crafters in their fields. The authors teach the basics of each craft through words and photos, and then offer a project to let you practice the techniques.
The crafts in the book are appropriate for beginners as well as seasoned crafters, and they don't require a lot of specialized equipment. Included are textile crafts, paper crafts, jewelry, ceramics, glass, candles, soap and eco crafts.
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Canadian team named for world championships in beach volleyball
OTTAWA – Volleyball Canada announced today its six-member team for the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships set for June 13-19 in Rome.
Canada has two teams in women's competition with veterans Annie Martin of Sherbrooke, Que., and Marie-Andrée Lessard of Ville LaSalle, Que., as well as Heather Bansley (in photo) and Elizabeth Maloney both of Toronto.
On the men's side, Christian Redmann of Toronto and Ben Saxton of Calgary is the Canadian pair. They are one of three wildcard teams selected for the competition.
Martin and Lessard launched their 2011 season last week and placed a solid 13th at the FIVB World Tour stop in Myslowice, Poland. Bansley and Maloney, won gold and bronze at stops on the NORCECA (North and Central America and Caribbean) circuit this spring and have also competed at three stops on the World Tour.
Redmann and Saxton, in their first season together, took bronze at a NORCECA event and reached the main draw at the World Tour stop in Shanghai earlier this month.
Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser of the U.S., and Brazilians Juliana and Larissa are the top seeds in men's and women's play respectively. There are 48 teams each for the men and the women.
The composition of the 12 pools will be announced on May 31 in Rome with the teams split into 12 pools of four with the top two teams from each group plus the eight best third-place finishers moving onto the knockout phase. Pool play matches for each gender will be held on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (June 13 to 15) followed by the 32-team elimination rounds on Thursday and Friday (June 16 to 17). The semifinals will be held on Saturday evening, June 18 with the medal matches set for Sunday evening, June 19.


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By By DIANE TADEHARARNDirector of Nursing ServicesEmery County Care and Rehab
Here is your opportunity to thank your favorite or most frequented nurse! National Nurses Week is Monday, May 6th through Sunday, May 12th. We have all had an experience that was made better by a nurse somewhere in our past. It doesn't matter if it is distant past or recent past, chances are, you've been affected.
Nurses fill many shoes; bedside care, acute care, long-term care, and hospice care are just a few. There are technology nurses, office nurses, paperwork nurses, specialty nurses, school nurses, corporate nurses, research nurses, political nurses... They are every where.
Nursing as a single profession almost defies definition because there are so many fields. Nursing is also the profession found to be most trusted, by most people, most of the time. Nursing is considered to be a high-stress job in any setting. It's also a very satisfying job. Nurses can generally endure the stress for the often small, yet very personal gratification of being able to help another human. There is only one absolute in nursing: CHANGE. There will always be change in the field of nursing because it is a living career. The intrinsic desire to help and heal is the heartbeat. The evolution of nursing is the breath. The options and opportunities circulate. The successes nourish, the sights and sounds guide. The hope of nursing will be carried into the eternities because nurses never walk alone.
If you have been touched by a nurse, or know a nurse who may need to be reminded of their value - please take just a moment to let them know that they do, indeed, matter. I have been blessed by many nurses with wings in my life. I extend my heartfelt appreciation to my nurses who worked with me to raise our Medicare/Medicaid rating from three stars to four through our state survey in February. I am proud to say, "We are the only four star facility in the area." But mostly, I am honored to be a sister in the fight for life and health and honored to be 'DON-Diane'.


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this is just more of latest media craze to have public watch stupid rediculous money making garbage on tv…..doesn't portray any real view of people or show any positive inspiration…and that's what they want america to watch, which is why it is on…..get it…..don't buy into kardashian, jersey shore and this stuff either…..if we didn't watch, it would have to go away……of course, the family wants and needs the moolah, so they will continue….can't fault them for doing what the producers say do…..
instead – go out and help an animal or something
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I agree!!!! This is the stupidest "show" I've ever wasted my time watching!!! Newsflash….June , "You ain't beautimus!!" Get a real job and stop using your child to pay your way through life…that's just a nasty white trash way to NOT earn a living!!!! Let the little girl be a little girl and stop living YOUR dreams out through her!!!


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The Biltmore Estate Candlelight tours have begun, Asheville held its Holiday Parade this past Saturday and the Grove Park Inn's Gingerbread Competition winners have just gone on display. In spite of my stubborn reluctance to even think about Christmas decorations until after Thanksgiving, I can't help but start to give in to the excitement surrounding the holidays. The Christmas season is here, like or not, and I absolutely love this time of year. There's something magical about the decorations and the music, the parties and even the shopping. Downtown Asheville has a holiday shop window competition that brings out everyone's creativity and helps get you into the spirit.
Sensibilities Spa won the competition with their clever snow-people enjoying the spa treatment, complete with a snow ancestor portrait above the fireplace! The holiday parade was quite an extravaganza with innumerable floats, performers, marching bands playing holiday music and our own Olympic silver medalists, Lauren Tamayo and Manteo Mitchell serving as Grand Marshals of the parade. Santa was the last to arrive with his entourage of festooned live llamas, bobbing Christmas-tree characters, and dancing reindeer people. Families camped out along the parade route and excited children darted into the street to catch a glimpse of what was coming.
It was great family fun. The Gingerbread Competition winners are always amazing to see and it gives you an excuse to enjoy the outstanding Arts & Crafts Architecture and original mission furniture of the Grove Park Inn. These are not run-of-the mill gingerbread houses. They are amazing edible sculptures and the bakers come from as far away as Massachusetts to compete. There are no less than 6 productions of The Nutcracker or variations thereof in Asheville this year. They range from the Asheville Puppetry Alliance's "In the Nutcracker Mood", featuring holiday music, to a modern interpretation with all dance and no singing or speaking at the Flatrock Playhouse and Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre's "The Return of the Nutcracker and the Mouse King," a surreal, imaginative telling of "The Nutcracker". And of course, the Asheville Ballet will perform the full original ballet from Imperial Russia.
There will be choral performances and parties as well, but nothing can compete with the Grand Biltmore Estate in full Christmas regalia. By candlelight, with harpists playing and choirs singing in the Conservatory, the myriad of trees sparkle even brighter. My own 9 foot Christmas tree has arrived from Balsam Hill trees and it's all I can do to keep from setting it up now. Right after Thanksgiving it's going up! Happy Holidays!


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I looooved Saved By the Bell! So cheesy, so good.
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I was a huge SBTB fan, long past the point that I should have been. Not sure why b/c it was TERRIBLE.
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With the introduction of retail competition in the electricity industry, regulatory authorities in many jurisdictions are now overseeing the purchase of electricity at wholesale by electric utilities for customers that do not otherwise obtain supply from independent retailers. There are two primary ways in which, under the supervision of regulatory authorities, electric utilities purchase electricity for these non-shopping customers: through simultaneous descending clock auctions or through fairly common sealed-bid auctions, commonly known as Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
Descending clock auctions have received a lot of coverage in the trade press and academic literature on electricity. In comparison, sealed-bid auctions have not received as much attention. This discrepancy may be explained by the myriad approaches to purchasing wholesale electricity that entail issuing RFPs that tend to obscure the fact that RFPs simply are sealed-bid auctions.
Non-Shopping Customers
In states that have introduced retail competition into the electricity market, end-use customers (such as households and businesses) can purchase their power supplies from retailers that are independent of the local utility company. Many end-use customers, however, do not purchase their power from independent retailers and continue to rely on their local utility company. The regulatory authorities in these states oversee the purchase of electricity by electric utilities to supply such "non-shopping" customers 1 and generally require that the electric utility purchase this power through a competitive process. In most cases, utilities use sealed-bid auctions carried out through RFPs to purchase these power supplies.
Competitive procurements of electricity for such utilities have been reviewed in recent years. 2 The most common competitive procurement process is for the electric utility to solicit sealed-bid offers to provide full-requirements load-following wholesale electricity to these non-shopping customers. 3 The RFPs in these solicitations share some characteristics, such as clearly defining the electricity product being purchased and the rules governing the purchase, but often differ in important ways, including the structure of the sealed-bid offers and the method of determining the winning bids. However, these "auction design" details—the structure of the sealed-bid offers and the method for determining the winning bids—play a crucial role in determining the price at which wholesale power supplies will be purchased and hence the rate that non-shopping customers will pay for electricity.
Three auction design elements—tranche size ( i.e., the size of each unit of the power product being purchased), bid format, and auction clearing methodology—play a particularly important role in determining the price that these RFPs return. Sealed-bid auctions that allow for flexibility in the pricing structure can yield lower prices for electricity than other formats.
Sealed-Bid Auctions
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The median household income in Cameron Park, California is
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The median age of people living in Cameron Park is
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Lets just say for some weird reason jamarcus russell falls to us when we pick (although i think he'll go top 10). i know there's 1 in a million chance this happens. probably even less lol. but lets say it happens, would u guys be okay with picking him. i mean a 21 years 6'6'' QB who can throw it 70 yards down the feild with a flick of a wrist deosn;t come much often. he can also run and is smart. his accuracy isn't bad but he's working on it. I mean i love clements and i think he'll be really good but isn't russell what we jets fans have been wanting forever now. he reminds me alot of culpepper when he had moss. i know chad is prolly gonna be the starter next year as and i'm okay with that but i just wanted to know what u guys would in that situation.
In my opinion the draft porspects should be ranked as follow:
Calvin Johnson (best wr prospect to come out in a decade or more)
Russell (just love the way he plays)
Alan Bransh (if u watched this guy the whole year...u know he's a beast)
Joe thomas/gaines adams/brady quinn are all fighting for this spot lol.
so can u guys tell me what u would do and maybe a little explanation???
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Posted 14 January 2007 - 04:52 PM
The Newest Member Of The J-E-T-S!!!
Posted 14 January 2007 - 05:43 PM
somone wanna say something??? lol
The Newest Member Of The J-E-T-S!!!
Posted 14 January 2007 - 05:55 PM
if it did happen we should draft him
Posted 14 January 2007 - 07:03 PM
I'd do some kind of trade. Maybe we can get a good guy for him
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Is Pepsi Really a Substitute for Coke? Market Definition in Antitrust and IP
Mark A. Lemley
Stanford Law School
Mark P. McKenna
Notre Dame Law School
April 10, 2012
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 100, p. 2055, 2012
Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 424
Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 12-75
Antitrust law explicitly depends on market definition. Many issues in IP law also depend on market definition, though that definition is rarely explicit.
Applying antitrust's traditional market definition to IP goods leads to some startling results. Despite the received wisdom that IP rights don't necessarily confer market power, a wide array of IP rights do exactly that under traditional antitrust principles. This result requires us to rethink both the overly-rigid way we define markets in antitrust law and the competitive consequences of granting IP protection. Both antitrust and IP must begin to think realistically about those consequences, rather than falling back on rigid formulas or recitation of the mantra that there is no conflict between IP and antitrust.
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February 13 2013 10:24PM
Do the Edmonton Oilers have something in Kristian Pelss? Will he score enough to have a pro career? Can he make the NHL?
Several years ago, the Edmonton Oilers drafted Kyle Brodziak in the deep dark recesses (214th overall) of the draft, and it paid off (although they dealt him too soon). Brodziak was drafted in 2003, turned pro in 2004 and became an NHL regular in 2007 fall. Brodziak worked his way past a mile of first rounders with hard work on the penalty kill and at evens, and made himself into a useful NHL player during 173 AHL games.
His first AHL season? 56, 6-26-32 .571, no screaming hell.
Three years ago in June, the Edmonton Oilers drafted Kristians Pelss in the deep dark recesses (181st overall) of the draft, and it might pay off down the line. Pelss was drafted in 2010, turned pro in 2012 and became an AHL regular when all the NHL players left Dodge City.
Pelss is 14, 0-6-6 .429 since his recall from Stockton.
- Stu MacGregor: "Now, he's interesting. I think he could fit into the Oilers plans in a role as a high energy guy who can skate. I was at the World U-18 with Oil Kings general manager Bob Green when we both saw the kid. Frank Musil did some clandestine work to see if he'd come over to play for the Oil Kings. Knowing that, I figured 'Let's take a swing at this guy.' We even had to add him to the Central Scouting draft list so we could pick him. When you do that he only appears on your list."
- Todd Nelson: "He's way more responsible defensively that I gave him credit for. He has tremendous speed but part of his game that I didn't know he had was his grit. He has to play and get the minutes but I think he has an opportunity to be a third- or fourth-line penalty-kill role player in the NHL."
The heart of the 2010 draft is spending the season in OKC. Second rounders Tyler Pitlick, Martin Marincin and Curtis Hamilton are getting the majority of the attention (good and bad), but guys like Ryan Martindale and Kristians Pelss are developing and earning playing time.
Kristians Pelss is a gritty, 2-way forward with some offensive ability and he is posting numbers in the AHL. Pelss is a long shot for the NHL, but so was Brodziak.
He's a name to remember.
February 13 2013, 11:15PM
cant wait to see him in his FIST nhl game
February 13 2013, 11:24PM
I hope Pelss can make it, Oilers are going to need a player or 3 like him in the bottom 6 once the likes of Horcoff, Belanger, and Smyth ride off into the sunset. Plus I always liked a really late pick making it to the nhl on hard work.
I still think the line of Brodziak, Glencross, and Stortini was one of the better 4th lines the Oilers put together in ages.
February 14 2013, 02:03AM
Sometimes I am dyslexic. In this case I was wondering why you would write an article about Willie Pless on a hockey blog.
February 14 2013, 02:17AM
Vancouver media are such arrogant pric-s. I grew up in Edmonton but moved to Vancouver. The oilers are my team. I know they aren't the best team right now but I hope they improve quickly. I was listening to team 1040 sports station in Vancouver and was shocked at how cocky they are. They we're bragging how the Canucks had already locked up the division at the13 game mark. They started to slag the oilers,flames and wild by calling the division a'craphole'. I want to punch those mealy mouthed little wimps so bad. Anyways, how about someone passing this onto the oilers website so they can get angry for their next canucks game?
February 14 2013, 02:18AM
I hope Pelss can make it, Oilers are going to need a player or 3 like him in the bottom 6 once the likes of Horcoff, Belanger, and Smyth ride off into the sunset. Plus I always liked a really late pick making it to the nhl on hard work.
I still think the line of Brodziak, Glencross, and Stortini was one of the better 4th lines the Oilers put together in ages.
Good, but not as good as Horcoff Murray Laraque.
Reminds me of a Pat Hughes/Todd Marchant kinda player. Has the wheels,the skill and the grit to be the same kind of player. More likely we see Pelss than Hamilton. Pelss has game. When he was with the Oil Kings he had some moments where you would say Oh My! definitely has NHL caliber speed. Needs to pound the weight room. Like any young man it takes time to put on weight/muscle. Look at RNH. I've got a dog with more meat on its bones than RNH has. But when time and physical maturity finally meet RNH should fill out to a plump 180 lbs. Time is what Pelss will need to grow s a player. He needs at least 2 more seasons in the AHL to get that maturity and then we'll see him lighting up the penalty kill and 3rd-4th line minutes.
February 14 2013, 09:08AM
All fun a good but we need guys like this right now. Or one of our stars is going to get his ankle cut and there will be no retaliation.
February 14 2013, 09:09AM
Is Antti Tyrvainen almost ready?????
February 14 2013, 10:16AM
I tend to forget about him until I see him play. I've seen him in about 10 games now and he has played with consistent effort, won puck battles, and not looked bad offensively. It's a big jump from the A but he's a good hockey player, so I can absolutely see it happening.
February 14 2013, 11:15AM
Didn't SMB once dub him his "little Latvian ball of hate"? There is always room in the line up for that gritty PK role if he can make/take a pass. Kinda sounds like he'll be Petrell version 2.0
February 14 2013, 01:04PM
Is that 80s goddess Morgan Fairchild?
Pelss, Rieder, and Rajala are all going to be NHL players imo. They each have that quality and just need to keep on trucking.
February 14 2013, 04:36PM
Pretty interesting that this guy was so off the board that the Oilers had to actually get his name added to the CSS board. I'm all for an underdog story and there is certainly room for turnover in our bottom 6 in the next few seasons.
February 14 2013, 08:07PM
Didn't SMB once dub him his "little Latvian ball of hate"? There is always room in the line up for that gritty PK role if he can make/take a pass. Kinda sounds like he'll be Petrell version 2.0
Best nickname ever...."Latvian Ball of Hate!"


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A Visit to Beliefnet
One of our several stops today was Beliefnet, perhaps the largest website devoted to topics of religion and spirituality, where we experimented with some video shooting for one of their features. That's a "stay tuned" for now, but we enjoyed working with their crew, and while there we stopped by the office of Steve Waldman, the co-founder and CEO, who has known Krista for some time. His book, Founding Faith, will be out in March. Waldman was our guest for a couple of election year shows four years ago, notably, Beyond the God Gap, and he has an unusually balanced and insightful view of religion in the political scene.
Beliefnet recently published a poll of its Evangelical users that shows some interesting drift. Among other things, a larger percentage (38.7%) of self-described Evangelical participants named "reducing poverty" as their most important issue rather than those who said "ending abortion" (31.8%) was.
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you do know that the mimbari fighters would have a hard time to even dent the excalibut right!!!!Nah, Excalibur is powerful but still wouldn't hold up to the Sharlin. If it uses its Main weapon, its dead in the water for a full minute. Plenty of Time for a Sharlin (or its remaining fighters on the off chance the Excalibur actually manages a fatal hit) to dice it to pieces. Lets not forget that other than its Vorlon "I am out of power now please kill me" main weapon, all its other weapons are either Minbari or Earth Alliance, all of which are going to be inferior to the Sharlin's. Its close enough to be a good fight, but as i said, Its most advanced normal tech is Minbari, and isn't going to be their top of the line.
that ship has taken direct hits from drak ships and not even slowed down
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Skip to comments.Colt Sues Heckler & Koch, Bushmaster Over Copies of M4 Rifle
Posted on 04/22/2004 12:06:54 PM PDT by 45AutoEdited on 07/19/2004 2:13:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Colt Defense LLC, the exclusive supplier of the M4 rifle to the U.S. military, claimed in a lawsuit that Heckler & Koch Inc. and Bushmaster Firearms Inc. are selling ``copycat'' versions of the weapon.
Closely held Colt seeks a court order to block Bushmaster and Heckler & Koch from using the M4 name or design in any of their products. Colt claims Bushmaster's XM-15 E2S ``M4 Type'' and Heckler & Koch's planned ``HKM4'' are ``identical'' to Colt's, according to the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Bushmaster products are generally superior to Colt's.
If I were buying an AR-15, I would definately make sure my barrel was at least 16 inches in length. Gives the 5.56 x 45 round adequate stopping power.
"The Colt .45 may have won the West, but it took a New York investment firm to save Colt's Manufacturing from a post-Cold War decline in weapons sales and tough foreign competition. Through its subsidiaries, Colt's Manufacturing makes handguns (Cowboy, Defender) and semiautomatic rifles for civilian use and military weapons (M-16, M-4 Carbine) for the US and other governments. The company has distributors throughout Europe, Asia, and Australia. Founded in 1836 by Samuel Colt, the company is about 85%-owned by investment firm Zilkha & Co., who has been reviving the company since 1994 when it bought the firm out of bankruptcy."
Colt's Mfg. Co. is finally profitable after a rocky 10 years marked by a bitter four-year strike, bankruptcy and musical-chair ownership. The historic gunmaker is now on solid footing thanks to a new owner, Donald Zilkha of Zilkha & Co., and a new president, 44-year-old Steve Sliwa.
Zilkha is committed to resurrecting Colt through capital expenditure to upgrade the factory, innovative new product introductions and consolidation within the industry by acquiring new companies under the banner of Colt's Holding Co.
The holding company recently acquired Saco Defense, the Maine-based manufacturer of several military and sporting firearms, including the M-60 machinegun and Weatherby rifles. Colt's Holding Co. also owns A.I.S., a manufacturer of an interactive computerized "scenario" shooting system.
Saco gives Colt a broader military base in addition to its M4A1 Pentagon contract at the West Hartford factory. Zilkha also said Colt is in the final stages of acquiring Ultra-Light Arms (ULA), a small manufacturer of custom rifles in West Virginia.
ULA produced 102 custom-grade hunting rifles in 1996, the latest year for which BATF figures are available. ULA's main claim to fame is a light-weight rifle, less than 6 pounds with a scope. ULA rifles retail for $2,000 to $2,500. Zilkha said he plans to make a "production version" of the ULA rifle in the $700 to $800 retail range at the Saco facility for sale through the Colt dealer base.
Sliwa, the company's new president, comes to Colt with an impressive background in the aerospace industry. Sliwa is tasked with developing new technologies at Colt, such as the controversial new "smart gun" that Colt unveiled last year.
Sliwa holds a doctorate in engineering and was a project engineer at NASA before joining Colt. The Princeton and Stanford educated executive was the president of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida immediately before coming to Colt. He also did a stint as a software engineer in Silicon Valley.
Zilkha sees Sliwa as the sort of leader it will take to bring a gun company prosperity in the coming millennium - high tech all the way.
Market-driven new products are also a top priority with Colt, Zilkha said. Showcasing the company's commitment to utilizing the latest technologies, Colt is developing a "smart gun" that can only be fired by a person wearing a special microchip that "talks" to the gun. Sliwa touts the "smart gun" as a solution to the next wave of anti-gun legislation aimed at "child-proofing" firearms. He also sees it as a way to create a vast new market for firearms among families who want a gun for protection but are scared to keep one in a home with children.
Colt's new products slated for the 1999 SHOT Show answer the consumer demand for small, concealable self-defense handguns with new products such as the Defender (sub-Officers size .45 ACP), the Magnum Carry .357 snubnose and a new subcompact 9mm. The Cowboy, an affordable single-action with a transfer bar safety, is finally in production with the first guns shipped to distributors in late 1998.
How great are the chamber variances from standard? I've heard of problems reloading brass caused by this (loose chambers), but have no personal experience.
My semi-educated guess is that they *really* perceive H&K as a serious threat. Heckler & Koch is the new player in the AR business - and they are serious about military contracts. Bushmaster did do a small run or two of carbines for DOD, but Colt and FN have built most of 'em.
It's possible that Bushmaster was included out of sheer spite. That was the first AR "clone" manufacturer to really threaten Colt's position.
There are a long list of companies who've made knock-offs of the AR-15, yet only these two are named as defendants. Interesting.
I can never remember: is the $200 a one-time ripoff, or annual? I have a short-barrelled pre-ban 7.62x39 Colt Sporter that I like just fine.
``Bushmaster has intentionally copied the names used by Colt and the look and feel of Colt's M4 carbine in order to mislead the consuming public into believing that Bushmaster's products are comparable to Colt's,'' according to the suit.
So let me see if I have this straight. They're saying that they're "identical", but not "comparable"?
To top it off, the Colt was $400.00 more! I don't have to tell you which company got my hard earned Lurker bucks.
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