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Celebrity Actress Smoking Part III
Here we have the third part of selected pictures with Hollywood Famous Actress smoking cigarettes. Enjoy the collection of photos with Celebrities Smoking Cigarettes.
1. Ally Sheedy Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Ally Sheedy Smoking Winston Classic Cigarette
About Ally Sheedy : Alexandra Elizabeth "Ally" Sheedy (born June 13, 1962) is an American film and stage actress, as well as the author of two books. She is best known for her roles in the Brat Pack films The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire. Sheedy was born in New York City and has two siblings, Patrick and Meghan. Her mother, Charlotte (nee Baum), was a writer and press agent who was involved in women's and civil rights movements, and her father, John J. Sheedy, Jr., was a Manhattan advertising executive. Ally Sheedy's mother was Jewish and her father was of Irish Catholic descent. Her parents divorced in 1971.
Sheedy attended Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York City, graduating in 1980. She started dancing with the American Ballet Theatre at age six and was planning to make it a full-time career. However, she gave up dance in favor of acting full-time. At age 12 she wrote a children's book, She Was Nice to Mice; the book was published by McGraw-Hill and became a best-seller. On June 19, 1975, she appeared on the game show To Tell the Truth in her role as a young writer.
2. Alyson Hannigan Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Alyson Hannigan Smoking Winston Blue Cigarette
About Alyson Hannigan : Alyson Lee Hannigan (born March 24, 1974) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Willow Rosenberg in the cult classic television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Michelle Flaherty in three American Pie films, and Lily Aldrin on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Although Hannigan had appeared in an industrial film for "Active Parenting" as a baby, as well as having starred in a commercial for the Duncan Hines cookie mix in 1978, it was not until 1985, when she moved to Los Angeles, California, that she formally began her acting career.
Living with her mother and attending North Hollywood High School, she successfully auditioned for agents while visiting her father in Santa Barbara. After attending North Hollywood High School, she attended California State University, Northridge. Hannigan's first major film role was in My Stepmother Is an Alien, a science fiction comedy released in 1988; one of her co-stars in the film was actor Seth Green, who would later join her in the regular cast of Buffy as her on-screen boyfriend. Then in 1989, her first regular role on a TV series came when she was cast in the short-lived ABC sitcom Free Spirit.
3. Alyssa Milano Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Alyssa Milano Smoking Winston Silver Cigarette
About Alyssa Milano : Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress and former singer, known for her childhood role as Samantha Micelli in the sitcom Who's the Boss? and an eight-year stint as Phoebe Halliwell on the series Charmed. She was also a series regular on the original Melrose Place portraying the role of Jennifer Mancini. Milano has a female sports apparel line, Touch. Alyssa Milano is the daughter of Lin, a fashion designer and talent manager, and Thomas M. Milano, a film music editor and boating enthusiast. Milano was born in Brooklyn, grew up on Staten Island, and was raised Roman Catholic. She has a younger brother, Cory (born in 1982), who is also an actor. In a 2003 interview, Milano recalled having had a good childhood, having grown up in a "loving, true family." Milano is a cousin to both Eric Lloyd and Emily Ann Lloyd.
4. Amanda Holden Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Amanda Holden Smoking Winston White Cigarette
About Amanda Holden : Amanda Louise Holden (born 16 February 1971) is an English actress and presenter. Among her roles are Mia Bevan in Cutting It, Sarah Trevanion in Wild at Heart, and the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award. She is one of the judges on Britain's Got Talent. She is married to record producer Chris Hughes. Her marriage to Family Fortunes presenter Les Dennis ended in divorce in 2003. Holden was born in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire to Judith Mary Harrison and Naval petty officer Frank Holden. Her parents split up when she was four and she was brought up in the village of Waltham Chase, by Harrison and stepfather Leslie Drew Collister.
She joined the Bishop's Waltham Little Theatre Company when she was nine, and credits Angie Blackford as influential in her early stage career. When she was 16 the family moved to Bournemouth and ran a small B&B while Amanda herself studied Drama and English literature A levels with Terry Clarke and Charles Lamb at the Jellicoe Theatre, now part of Bournemouth and Poole College. She successfully auditioned for the independent drama school Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in the Wood Green area of North London when she was 18, graduating in July 1994.
5. Amanda Peet Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Amanda Peet Smoking Winston XS Blue Cigarette
About Amanda Peet : Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American actress, who has appeared on film, stage, and television. After studying with Uta Hagen at Columbia University, Peet began her career in television commercials, and progressed to small roles on television, before making her film debut in 1995. Featured roles in films such as the 2000 comedy film The Whole Nine Yards brought her to a much wider recognition. She has appeared in a variety of films, including the 2003 horror film Identity, the 2005 action-thriller Syriana, the 2006 comedy-drama Griffin & Phoenix, the 2007 romantic comedy The Ex, the 2008 science fiction film The X-Files: I Want to Believe and the 2009 disaster adventure drama 2012.
She has also appeared in the 1999 drama series Jack & Jill and the 2006 drama series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Amanda Peet was born in New York City, the daughter of Penny (nee Levy), a social worker, and Charles Peet, a corporate lawyer. The two are now divorced. Her father is a Quaker and her mother is Jewish. Peet attended Friends Seminary, then studied history at and graduated from Columbia University, where she auditioned for acting teacher Uta Hagen and decided to become an actress after taking Hagen's class. During her four-year period of study with Hagen, Peet appeared in the off-Broadway revival of Clifford Odets's Awake and Sing with Stephen Lang.
6. Amber Heard Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Amber Heard Smoking Winston XS Silver Cigarette
About Amber Heard : Amber Laura Heard (born April 22, 1986) is an American actress and model. She played the lead and title character in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. Heard's first starring role came in 2007 on the CW television show Hidden Palms. Her breakthrough came in 2008 with roles in Never Back Down and Pineapple Express. In 2009, Heard starred in The Stepfather and also had a small role in the horror-comedy Zombieland. She next starred in The Joneses and And Soon the Darkness (both 2010), John Carpenter's The Ward, alongside Nicolas Cage in Drive Angry, and alongside Johnny Depp in The Rum Diary.
Heard was born and raised in Austin, Texas. Her father, David, is a contractor, and her mother, Paige (nee Parsons), is an internet researcher for the state. She attended St. Michael's Catholic Academy in Austin until her junior year, when she left to pursue a career in Hollywood. As a teenager, Heard was active in her school's drama department and appeared in local commercials and campaigns. At the age of 16, her best friend died in a car crash and Heard, who was raised Catholic, subsequently declared herself an atheist, due to the influence of the works of Ayn Rand. Dropping out of school at the age of 17, to go to New York to start a career in modeling, she then relocated to Los Angeles to get into acting.
7. Amber Smith Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Amber Smith Smoking Winston Super Slims Blue Cigarette
About Amber Smith : Amber Smith (born March 2, 1971) is an American actress and former model. The daughter of professional American football player Russ Smith and Carol Smith, Smith started modeling by age 16. As a teenager she traveled to Paris, France, where she worked as a model throughout Europe for four years. Her breakthrough came when her naturally blonde hair was dyed red, giving her a strong resemblance to 1940s and '50s movie star Rita Hayworth. Smith appeared in back-to-back issues of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and became Esquire magazine's first Vargas Girl of the 1990s.
She also became the first model of the Wonderbra campaign. She later posed for photographer Helmut Newton for a Wolford advertising campaign, and was the model for the 2002 lingerie campaign for Venus Victoria, the European sister company to Victoria's Secret. Smith has appeared on the covers of the fashion magazines and women's magazines Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire, among others, and was the cover girl for the March 1995 issue of Playboy. She has appeared in advertising for L'Oreal makeup, Buffalo Jeans, Camel cigarettes, Kahlua liqueur, Volkswagen automobiles, and Panama Jack, among others, and has walked the runway for such fashion designers as Chanel and Jean Paul Gaultier.
Smith was cast in her first film role in Paul Mazursky's Faithful, on a referral from Robert DeNiro that stemmed from her Casino auditions. She also appeared in The Funeral, directed by Abel Ferrara, and Barbra Streisand's The Mirror Has Two Faces. She played Susan Lefferts, a Rita Hayworth lookalike, in Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential. Smith's resemblance to Hayworth came into play again with a role in HBO's cable telefilm The Rat Pack. She also had a role in American Beauty. Her biggest role to date has been as the star of the Cinemax TV series Sin City Diaries, which debuted in 2007. She played Angelica, a Las Vegas entertainment consultant who plans activities for casinos' high-roller guests. Overall, she has played various roles in several 1990's feature films and television series. Since 2000, she has appeared primarily in films.
8. Amber Tamblyn Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Amber Tamblyn Smoking Winston Super Slims Silver Cigarette
About Amber Tamblyn : Amber Rose Tamblyn (born May 14, 1983) is an American actress and poet. She first came to national attention in her role on the soap opera General Hospital as Emily Quartermaine, followed by a starring role on the prime-time series Joan of Arcadia portraying the title character. Her feature film work includes roles in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Grudge 2, and 127 Hours; she recently had an extended arc as Martha M. Masters on the main cast of the medical drama House. Tamblyn was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Russ Tamblyn, an actor, dancer, and singer who starred in the 1961 film of West Side Story, and Bonnie Murray, a singer, teacher, and artist.
Her paternal grandfather, Eddie Tamblyn, was a vaudeville performer. She attended the Santa Monica Alternative School House, which, in her words, was "very unorthodox, no letter grades". At the age of ten, she played Pippi Longstocking in a school play; her father's agent, Sharon Debord, was attending as a family friend and ended up convincing her father to allow Tamblyn to go on auditions.
9. Amber Valletta Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Amber Valletta Smoking Winston Super Slims Fresh Cigarette
About Amber Valletta : Amber Evangeline Valletta (born February 2, 1973) is an American actress and model. She began her career as a model for fashion agencies, and appeared on cover pages of internationally recognized magazines. She made her film debut in Drop Back Ten (2000). She then starred in the hit film Hitch (2005). She has since appeared in films such as Man About Town (2006), Dead Silence (2007), Gamer (2009), and The Spy Next Door (2010). Valletta was born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her mother worked at the post office. She attended Booker T. Washington High School. She got her start in the fashion industry when her mother enrolled her in modeling school at the age of fifteen at the Linda Layman Agency. She appeared on the cover of magazines and in advertisements for Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein and Versace and hosted MTV's House of Style with fellow model Shalom Harlow.
10. Amrita Arora Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Amrita Arora Smoking Winston Super Slims White Cigarette
About Amrita Arora : Amrita Arora (born 31 January 1981) is a Bollywood actress. Arora was born in Chembur Mumbai to a Malayali mother, Joyce Polycarp, and a Punjabi father, Anil Arora. Her sister is Malaika Arora Khan. Arora had a Christian wedding ceremony with boyfriend, Shakeel Ladak on 4 March 2009 and also had a traditional Muslim nikaah. Reportedly due to her pregnancy, she was dropped from UTV's film, Season's Greetings. She gave birth to a baby boy named Azaan on 5 February 2010. Arora made her Bollywood debut in 2002 opposite Fardeen Khan in the film, Kitne Door Kitne Paas, which was not successful at the box office. Her first successful film was the action comedy, Awara Paagal Deewana. A series of flops followed, among them the controversial Girlfriend (2004), about a lesbian relationship, in which she appeared opposite Isha Koppikar.
In 2007, She made a special appearance in Farah Khan's film, Om Shanti Om in the song "Deewangi Deewangi" with her sister and brother-in-law Arbaaz Khan. In the same year, she appeared in Speed and Red: The Dark Side, also starring Aftab Shivdasani and Celina Jaitley. The films received mixed reviews at the box office. In 2009, her releases were Deha and Team the Force. The same year, she appeared in a supporting role in Kambakth Ishq, produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. She appeared with her sister on the show Koffee with Karan, hosted by Karan Johar.
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Whether you're new to the world of credit cards or have been using them for years, you may be making rookie mistakes with long-lasting consequences. Misusing credit cards can create mounds of debt that could take years to repay or damage your credit score, making it hard to get other forms of credit (such as a mortgage or car loan), rent an apartment, or even land a new job.
Avoid inadvertently making poor choices that could hurt your finances for years: Skip these amateur moves and find out what to do instead.
Newbie Mistakes
Whether you're new to the world of credit cards or have been using them for years, you may be making rookie mistakes with long-lasting consequences. Misusing credit cards can create mounds of debt that could take years to repay or damage your credit score, making it hard to get other forms of credit (such as a mortgage or car loan), rent an apartment, or even land a new job.
Avoid inadvertently making poor choices that could hurt your finances for years: Skip these amateur moves and find out what to do instead.
Closing an Account
Why amateurs do it: Sometimes people decide they don't want to use a particular card anymore, so they close the account without realizing it will damage their credit score.
Why it's not a good idea: "Part of your credit score is based off the length of your credit history," says Matthew Coan, owner of financial website Casavvy.com. When you cancel a card, your average length of credit goes down, meaning you lose credit-positive points.
What to do instead: Even if you stop charging purchases to your card, it's better to cut it up and leave the account open, since there's no penalty for having a credit card and not using it.
If you really don't want to keep an account open because it carries an annual fee, then close only it if you still have another open card — closing all cards sends a red flag to potential creditors. Before closing, make sure you won't be applying for a new card, mortgage, or loan of any kind for at least six months: If your average length of credit history goes down when you cancel, your credit score will temporarily drop, making it hard to open new lines of credit.
Applying for Too Many Accounts at Once
Why amateurs do it: People who are new to using credit can be dazzled by their newfound purchasing ability, and it can be hard to refuse big discounts that come with retail store cards. With so much temptation, it's easy to open several accounts within a few months.
Why it's not a good idea: Applying for too many cards at once can hurt your credit score, says Sammie DelRosario, a Certified Personal Finance Counselor and manager of the debt management department at Debt Helper. "Every time you apply for a new line of credit, it registers on your credit report. Opening multiple credit cards at once sends a signal that you may be overextended."
What to do instead: Instead of applying for numerous cards, focus on quality over quantity, says Kimberly Foss, CFP, author and founder of Empyrion Wealth Management. Keep a few cards, maintaining low balances and paying them off each month, instead of having several cards — especially if they were all opened within a few months. They'll be easier to manage and your credit score will probably benefit.
Using Too Much of Your Available Credit, Even if You Pay Every Month
Why amateurs do it: When a card issuer offers a credit limit of $5,000, it may be tempting to charge up to the limit. But "because you can" is never a good reason to spend money.
Why it's not a good idea: Part of your credit score is based on your credit utilization, or the percentage of available credit that you're using. Most credit experts recommend using 30 percent or less of available credit — using more can lower your FICO score.
What to do instead: Keep your credit utilization rate under 30 percent. If you find that you're using too much of your total credit, then ask the credit card company to raise your limit, Coan recommends. (Note that this request can result in a hard credit inquiry that can temporarily lower your score by a few points.) Remember that a raised limit is not a free pass to spend more. Instead, the higher limit will make it easier to stay under that 30 percent mark.
Not Reading the Fine Print
Why amateurs do it: The font is tiny for a reason — companies want you to be "enticed by new cards offering 'zero-percent interest rates' and 'no monthly fees,'" DelRosario says, without checking into the details.
Why it's not a good idea: When you don't read the fine print, you don't really know what you're getting into — and several months later, you could be hit with a sky-high interest rate or surprise fees. "Those low rates don't last forever," DelRosario notes, so you should know what you've committed to.
What to do instead: Before you sign up for a new card, look carefully at the terms. For instance, what will the interest rate be after the intro period? If you transfer balances, what fees are involved? If you pay late, or exceed your limit, what penalties and fees can you incur? Are there any additional fees associated with carrying a balance on the new account? If you can answer all these questions, then you're in a position to sign on the dotted line.
Opening Only One Card
Why amateurs do it: Many newbies believe that having only one credit card will help them build a strong credit score, but that's not necessarily true.
Why it's not a good idea: "While having too many credit cards can affect your score, having only one can also hurt you," DelRosario says. In fact, having multiple cards with low balances improves your credit utilization rate, which will boost your credit score.
When calculating your score, credit bureaus also take into account how many cards you have open. For a good credit score, you have to prove to creditors that you're a "'good risk,' meaning you have a history of making diligent payments over a period of time," Foss says. It can be hard to prove that with only one credit account.
What to do instead: Have two or three cards, even if you don't use them all. "Have one card for daily purchases, a second for larger purchases that you can pay off over time, and a third card that can be used in case of an emergency," DelRosario says, adding that it can also help to have a backup card in case your main card is lost or stolen.
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Many people overindulge on holiday foods. A small change to your recipes could result in healthier foods. Consider the change to healthier oils as a "better than" change. The food is healthier than it would have otherwise been but it doesn't mean that it's your best choice.
We live in a town that is surrounded by rolling hills, filled with green pastures, and influenced by agriculture. Our bluegrass territory and wild horses define who we are to other people and make us proud to live here, though we often forget that beyond these rolling hills and green pastures and through the bluegrass that there are other places that are worth exploring.
Salvisa Christmas parade to be held Saturday
The city of Salvisa will be hosting its annual Salvisa Christmas parade on Saturday, Dec. 7 at 10 a.m.
The parade features a Lex 18 meteorologist as the grand marshal, according to event organizers.
There will be host chocolate, coffee and snacks with Santa at the Salvisa Ruritan building following the parade.
The Christmas parade festivities also include float and snow queen contests.
For more information, check out the parade's Facebook page and website at www.salvisaruritan.org.
Main Street in Lawrenceburg will be aglow with Christmas cheer this weekend during the city's annual Christmas parade, scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7.
The grand marshal of the 2013 "A Country Christmas" parade will be Marva Gill in recognition of the many years of volunteer work she's dedicated to Anderson County, according to city hall.
The Christmas parade line-up will begin at the American Legion park with judging of entries scheduled to start at 4:30 p.m.
They are Anderson County's kings of burgoo and soon the entire nation will find out why.
Jesse Sanford and Jeff Royalty, three-time winners of the annual Burgoo Cook Off sponsored by The Anderson News, are scheduled to appear at 11:30 a.m. Dec. 30 on cable network TLC's "Hungry Brothers" show.
Shawn Reaves had forgotten his belly.
A piece of padding stuffed inside his plush red Santa Claus suit, Reaves' belly was nowhere to be found in his "dressing room," a row of his costumes hanging from an exposed pipe off the side stage of the Grand Theatre in Frankfort.
Although Reaves' got the white beard covered, the Lawrenceburg resident hasn't gone as far as to pack on the pounds for the role of Kris Kringle in "Miracle on 34th Street, the Play" scheduled to open this Thursday.
Not intentionally, Reaves laughed.
A second Anderson County Democrat has entered the race for the newly created state House of Representatives seat in the 53rd District.
Donna Drury, who is currently an elected member of the Anderson County Board of Education, said she filed her election documents earlier this month, joining fellow Democrat Kent Stevens in next May's primary. The winner, if no other candidates file, would face Spencer County resident James Tipton, who is running as a Republican.
The woman charged with tying up her 3-year-old granddaughter for up to 16 hours each day has accepted a plea offer instead of going to trial, which was scheduled to begin this morning (Monday).
Commonwealth's Attorney Laura Donnell confirmed that Carolyn Case has accepted a plea deal, but declined to say what the deal is until it is formally signed.
Case is now scheduled to formally enter a guilty plea Dec. 17 in Anderson Circuit Court, Donnell said Monday afternoon.
A Lawrenceburg couple lost their home, possessions and dogs when their house burned to the ground last Friday evening.
Bill and Renee Casson's home at 1842 Mill Creek Pike was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived around 5:15 p.m.
What sparked the blaze remains unknown, Bill Casson said Monday afternoon, but he does have his suspicions.
"We had just put in a new refrigerator and stove in less than 24 hours before the fire," he said. "We don't know but it makes us wonder."
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A Pirate Looks at 60
Jimmy Buffett's midlife crises.
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Jimmy Buffett turned 60 this past Dec. 25, a day he undoubtedly spent in a lower latitude, in a meditative frame of mind, in close proximity to a tankard of Captain Morgan. At least that was the case with birthday number 50, which, as recounted in his autobiography A Pirate Looks At Fifty (1998), Buffett celebrated by piloting his private jet from the Cayman Islands to Costa Rica to Colombia and drinking copiously, while contemplating "spirituality" and his goals going forward: "Learn celestial navigation," "Swim with dolphins," "Start therapy." Anyone who has heard a Jimmy Buffett record will know that therapy is totally unnecessary. Buffett has been writing and singing confessional songs for three decades, but he's never shown the slightest sign of discontentment—shrugging away the world's sadness, and his own indulgences, with an amused "I know it's all my fault" while oozing over to the bar for another round.
And who can blame him? Buffett is one of the music business' singular success stories. He has parlayed an unlikely subject—getting shitfaced while cruising the Gulf Coast in your power boat, basically—into a multimillion-dollar industry, a perennial place on Forbes' list of highest-grossing entertainers, and the most passionate concert audience this side of the Deadheads. (He also has written a couple of New York Times best sellers, operates a chain of seaside bars, and has his own seaplane airport, Lone Palm. Take that, Mick Jagger.) Buffett has done all this without altering his music one iota—indeed, without any evident effort at all. He's a bard of hedonism, the sunbaked, can't-be-bothered-to-stir-from-this-beach-chair variety. His songs are nudged along by lazy rhythms and gentle country-rock acoustic strumming, and accented by the rounded ping of steel drums—the universal sonic signifier of Caribbean languor. He takes the stage of sold-out arenas and baseball stadiums in the same T-shirt and baggy beach shorts that he wears aboard ship, and can't even bring himself to put on a pair of shoes. Does he even own shoes?
I learned about the Buffett dress code the hard way, when I turned up wearing street clothes at a Madison Square Garden concert on a chilly evening last September. I had heard tales of Buffett's rabid fans, the Parrotheads, and was prepared for an onslaught of Hawaiian shirts. But that was just the beginning of the Club Med-wear. I came up the subway stairs to find a phalanx of men in their 40s striding down Seventh Avenue in plastic leis and grass skirts. Headgear ranged from Carmen Miranda-style fruit baskets to baseball caps topped with foam shark fins. Waiting in line at the Garden turnstiles, I stood next to a fellow with a papier-mâché outboard motor belted around his waist.
Buffett sells a lot of records—his latest album, Take the Weather With You, topped the country charts when it was released last October. But it's touring that has made his fortune, and to really understand Buffett, you have to spend a couple of hours in a room with 15,000 people singing along with every lyric while batting giant inflatable sharks overhead. "Parrotheads are known, to, um … begin their preparations early," Buffett said to cheers shortly after taking the stage, and indeed, much of the audience was unmistakably blotto well before the first steel drum sounded. Buffett sang a stately new song, "Here We Are," which marvels at the enduring, well-soused fellowship of Parrotheads: "Who would have thought this game, this flame would still be burning?/ Who would have guessed that all these blenders would still be churning? ... Here we are, with our fins up and our feathers flashing/ Here we are, with our coconut shell brassieres, chanting." Video screens flanking the stage played footage of the Parrotheads' famous parking lot antics. It looked like a giant frat party—a Girls Gone Wild video, with the part of the 19-year-old co-eds played by paunchy middle-aged men—but for Buffett, Parrotheads are heroic nonconformists, and their bacchanals have vague spiritual overtones. In "Here We Are" he sings: "Here we are, all the black sheep family outcast and a freak or two. … We're the offbeat Uncle Freds who spill their wine on you. … We're the dreamy Deadheads who just like us and Dave Matthews."
Parrotheads are as devoted as Deadheads and Dave Matthews fans—doubtless many in attendance at the Garden had followed Buffett up the coast in their minivans. But musically, Buffett has nothing in common with jam bands. He fronts a slick 12-piece group, the Coral Reefers, and they breeze through the same songs, in the same way, note for note, night upon night, year after year. Buffett has a knack for ingratiating singalong melodies and sharply detailed lyrics, and he's ruthlessly single-minded. Few pop stars have carved out so distinct a theme and stuck to it unwaveringly for so long, with such fearless zeal for bad puns: "Last Mango in Paris," "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes," "Off To See the Lizard," "Floridays," "The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful," "Jamaica Mistaica," "License To Chill."
Buffett is not the first American pop singer to sell tropical fantasies. The tradition stretches from Tin Pan Alley's Hawaiian ballads of the 1910s, to Bing Crosby's and Elvis Presley's revivals of the theme, to '50s-'60s exotica and Don Ho, on down through Buffett to country beach bum Kenny Chesney. But where the other performers have mystified the islands, Buffett is unsentimental and journalistic. In admirable detail, his songs depict tourist traps, where the locals exist only to pour your drinks and cheeseburgers in paradise are on the menu. Buffett is unambivalent about this ugly Americanism—he's all for it. Buffett's music is often hideously tacky, objectionable on both moral and aesthetic grounds, but you have to give him credit for capturing a milieu and a mindset. He'll never get the respect given to his generation's more celebrated troubadours, but he may prove more valuable to future social historians as a chronicler of late-20th-century American folkways. Go to Bob Dylan and Paul Simon for poetry and pretty tunes, but if you want to know how baby boomers ate, drank, and screwed on vacation, reach for Boats, Beaches, Bars, and Ballads.
By all accounts, Buffett lives the life he sings about. For his fans, most of whom aren't multimillionaires with large pleasure craft, the experience is vicarious: The closest many will come to a Caribbean lagoon is a kiddie pool in the parking lot of a Jimmy Buffett concert. Yet Buffett's songs are not so much about an escape to a place as a flight from time. His true theme is the Me Generation midlife crisis. Buffett's tunes are sunny and easygoing, but they have a desperate undercurrent: the hopeless hope that the party need never end, that you can, as one song put it, "grow older but not up," remaining reckless and responsibility-free deep into adulthood.
Two decades ago, in "Pirate Looks at Forty," Buffett cast his plight in mock-historical terms: "Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late/ The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder/ I'm an over-40 victim of fate." More recently, in the Parrothead anthem "Here We Are," Buffett put it in starker terms. "It's the child in us we really value," Buffett sings. That message has proven to be very good for business, and there's no reason to doubt Buffett's sincerity. Somewhere right now—probably a very warm, palmy place—the pirate is looking at 60 in the same way that he will look at 70, and, if his liver holds up, 80. Through a boozy haze, with the blue ocean gleaming on the horizon just over the rim of a shot glass, it looks awful lot like 18.


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Over 30 years ago our family opened a mill and began making socks in Northfield, Vermont.
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What is the catch with this game.
There's no way its as expansive as they're claiming, that all of this gameplay is as smooth as it is in the trailers.
So is it going to be a $60 purchase, a Minecraft type $30 download? Anyone know? ANYONE?
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Say WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
Petty complaint.
It seems small. Like the transitions are so fast. You're on the planet, go up for a few seconds and you're in an asteroid belt.
There needs to be more empty space.
I agree. The transition from being on the surface to being outside the atmosphere is too fast. If that shit took longer, you would have a better sense of the scale. I also think the planets are too close together; though they've stated that this is so they can have their sci-fi book cover look, with planets you can see on the horizon and that sort of thing, and that in some systems the planets would be farther apart.
The warp is also really fast. I read that for the purposes of the trailer, they cheated a bit and basically gave that ship unlimited warp capability, in the galaxy map he looks like he's going from one half of the galaxy to another and when he warps it takes like a second. These sorts of things ruin the sense of scale. IMO. Having billions of star systems and planets that you can visit in one game is an amazing achievement, let people take it all in.
Yeah the sense of scale is ruined by it. Dead space is important in those kinds of things. I get that a game of this size that dead space would eat up and essentially waste a ton of memory, but it takes me out of the experience when you go from one planet surface to another in one minute of real time flight.
Still looks awesome though.
Good discussion about whether or not the planets are actually planet-sized planets. It would seem the ones we have seen in trailers so far are not planet sized, according to the explanations of this astrophysicist person in the following discussion. Sean Murray said the planets would be planet-sized. So either they're showing small planets for the purposes of their gameplay videos, or Murray is full of shit. It could be the 'catch' that I had been worried about, the niggling sense that 'this all seems too good to be true'. If there are no planets that are actually planet-sized, he should just be up front about it, 'cause it still looks like an amazing game.


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On Sunday, Trevor Bayne won the Daytona 500 in just his second NASCAR race. I watched most of the race and it may be the only car race I watch all year.
And that is why NASCAR is losing the ratings war.
You see, I am the sports fan they should be targeting — avid sports fan, male, age 18-49 — and for some reason they are missing terribly.
I even have a favorite driver. A few years ago I decided I wanted to get into NASCAR, but I needed a driver to root for. Without a driver representing my home town or current town, I did what any sane person would do. I made a spreadsheet ranking all the drivers in various categories such as how much I like their main sponsor and what color their car is. Clint Bowyer won. His sponsor at the time was Jack Daniels. You do the math. Of course, now his sponsor is Cheerios. Considering I now have two children, it is as if we have a connection. Or he is mocking me, but I digress.
The point is, I may not watch another NASCAR race this year. Why? I'm not sure. But it doesn't help that: a) even in HD, it is not easy to get a sense of how fast the cars are going on TV; and 2) those speeds are getting slower.
In 1987, speeds of cars at the Daytona 500 peaked when Bill Elliot won the poll with an average speed of 210.364 MPH. That year, Elliot also won the race with the second-fastest average speed (176.263)*.
This year, Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the pole with an average speed of 186.089, or 24 MPH slower than Elliot in 1987. And Bayne won the race with the second-slowest average speed...ever. Bayne's winning speed was faster than only the 1960 race (124.740).
One reason for the slower speeds is restrictor-plates. And of course, yellow flags have a lot to do with the average speed, and maybe that is something NASCAR needs to minimize. (Of course, the plates keep cars closer together, which leads to more accidents.) Like baseball, it is the downtime that makes the sport seem slow to the casual viewer, not the 100 MPH fastballs.
Either way, I want to like NASCAR, but I don't. That's not my problem, that is NASCAR's problem.
* The fastest average speed at the Daytona 500 was by Buddy Baker (177.602) in 1980. All data via NASCAR.com, Daytona500.com and SI.com


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The Atlanta-Journal Constitution ran a story this past weekend on test-score tampering across the nation. This morning there's a video chat with the AJC reporters on Facebook. The issue of test tampering is serious in many ways. It sends a message to students that cheating is permissible and even warranted in some situations. It gives parents and teachers an inaccurate picture of how their students are actually performing. It brings into question public policy on testing.
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A known, scientific fact is that when stress builds performance suffers. This was first studied in the early 1900's and is as true today as it was then. Testing is not going to go away and for many reasons it is necessary. Public policy makers– state legislators, national representatives, departments of education at every level — must pay attention to the escalating stress that testing is causing to all parties concerned. This has negative effects on local school officials, on teachers, parents and ultimately on students. No one functions well with this level of stress. If the tampering scandals tell us one thing it's this: when stress is so high, it hurts.


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Locked bootloaders are a hot topic nowadays. Most Android fans prefer to play around freely with their devices. And Motorola hasn't been so good about letting us do that, since they insist on locking them.
If you're like us, I bet you thought the Droid X and Defy were about to become old, obsolete devices. Think again. CyanogenMod-7 is here to resuscitate them with some custom ROM goodness.
It has indeed been a hard quest for our beloved developers to put CM-7 onto these devices. After countless hours of hard work, cvpcs and Quarx have figured out a way to port it over. All that coding and testing is not easy, though, so the ROM does not yet work perfectly on these devices.
CM-7 for the Motorola Droid X
The developer that ported CM-7 to the Droid X has actually posted a video as proof of this righteous deed of might and courage.
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As already mentioned, the ROM has just been ported, so things are not expected to run smoothly… at least not yet. The developer, cvpcs, is still working on it and claims many features may not be working because he has yet to finish the Libaudio driver for the Droid X. He might have to rewrite the whole thing from source, if he doesn't find a good alternative. But, this does indicate cvpcs is definitely set on making this work.
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Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes Divorce: Katie Wants Sole Custody Of Suri Cruise
Katie has filed for divorce from Tom citing 'irreconcilable differences' and is seeking sole legal custody of their daughter, Suri, in order to protect her from Scientology 'freaks.'
Our inside source tells us that Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise in order to protect their daughter Suri, 6, from Scientology.
"Katie wants sole custody of Suri. She doesn't want Tom polluting her with Scientology," our source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. "She basically wants to protect her daughter and keep her away from all these freaks!"
According to TMZ, Katie, 33, filed for divorce from Tom, 49, who was "blindsided" by her move and "did not see this coming." Their report adds that this divorce is from some "nastiness."
Katie filed for divorce in New York on June 28, citing "irreconcilable differences" and is asking for sole legal custody and "primary residential custody" of Suri.
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In all the years I have been doing a blog and newsletter, I have tried to not repeat myself. So, here is something I've never done before–a murder mystery. It should only take a few minutes to solve. I'll put the "whodunnit" at the end of the post.
Alan was a guitar virtuoso, a legend in the music industry. The fact he never stuck with a band for more than a tour at a time had to do with his demeanor (he was often drunk, disagreeable, and difficult) but boy could he play.
On this particular tour he may have went too far. Everyone was furious with Alan–the group's manager complained about his tardiness, the band felt he was stealing the show and their girls, and the roadies were annoyed and appalled by the way he mistreated his instruments and equipment.
When he was found dead just before the last show of the tour, there was no lack of suspects. The manager was the one to find him backstage. Alan was on the ground in a fetal position with his guitar strapped on and plugged in. There was a broken bottle of Vodka at his feet. After finding out their lead guitarist was dead (at their managers' suggestion) the singer, bass player, and drummer all agreed to do the show while the roadies packed up his gear.
There was no obvious cause of death, and everyone was busy before the show and nowhere near Alan–who set up a makeshift area backstage to warm up alone. So who killed him?
The Killer is . . .
It seemed like all of the characters had a motive to kill Alan, the gruff guitarist. However, nobody actually did it. The clues were that he was a drunk, did not take care of his gear, and warmed up alone. Alan electrocuted himself when a vodka bottle fell and broke on his already damaged electric equipment in his solitary practice area.


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Marking the ten-year anniversary of service to the campus,
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Microsoft Outlook can be configured to automatically sort
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We would like to bring to your attention the guidelines for
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Although using Peer-to-Peer [P2P] file-sharing software is
not illegal, its use for unauthorized downloading and
uploading of copyrighted music and other material is a
copyright infringement. The music industry is steadily
expanding its' efforts against infringement through a
variety of legal means. It should be obvious that
downloading copyrighted music and video is illegal, and may
result in legal prosecution with serious consequences. In
addition, the process of sharing files may expose your
computer to security risks, such as malicious spyware or
damaging viruses.
Cable TV in Classrooms
We would like to remind all faculty and students that every
classroom in UHB is equipped with 70-channel cable
television. To access cable television, select VCR on the
Crestron [the touch panel next to the computer] and then
press the on button on the display. Use the channel up and
channel down buttons on the VCR to select channels. We will
soon have recording [DVR] capability and by fall of 2007
should have cable available in BRK and PAC classrooms as
well. To check available programs and channels offered by
the cable, please visit the
Cable Television webpage.
Microsoft Vista Support
As noted previously, there is a number of support issues
associated with the recently released MS Vista operating
system. These include [but are not limited to] problems
with: incompatible software, text editing in Blackboard,
authenticating into the wireless network, and issues related
to communication on the campus network. Although we are not
requiring that you avoid using Vista, ITS continues to
recommend Windows XP Professional as the operating system of
choice for faculty, staff, and students PCs. If past Windows
operating system releases are used as a benchmark, we expect
Vista to be more stable and support friendly in six to nine
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Technology Day 2007
This year's theme is "Improving Learning
Outcomes through Technology". The event [held on
Friday, April 13th] includes various
presentations such as our keynote speakers,
presentation sessions, and poster sessions. For
more information, visit the
Technology Day 2007 webpage.
Keynote: The Impact of Technology on Learning:
Examples from Online and Blended Education -
Peter Shea
Keynote: Second Life and Education: An
introduction to pedagogical uses of the virtual
environment - Barbara A. Galik
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Jennifer Lopez Got a Lady Gaga Song
Hear the Gaga-produced "Hypnotico."
"Hypnotico," J. Lo's latest musical offering, was written by Lady Gaga and her producer RedOne, and you can sort of tell (mostly during the blunt "hypnotic / notico" parts; that seems like something Gaga would enjoy chanting). That doesn't mean it's an instant hit, though: Bland and half-baked ("we're just some silly heartbreakers tonight"?), it was certainly farmed out for a reason. So will this revive Lopez's singing career to its "Waiting for Tonight" highs? No, probably not. Here's the question, then: With the other facets of her multimedia empire clicking — J. Lo's got the Idol gig, of course, and will soon branch out on her own with an insane-sounding musical competition show — why does she insist on continuing to make music? Why not sit back, relax, and enjoy the fact that there is something that you do that people like? Basically: Why make music when you are a multi-hyphenate walking corporation and that division of your business holdings is no longer viable? Why, you ask? Well, one can only assume, Jennifer Lopez keeps making music because Jennifer Lopez actually loves making music. And that's admirable.Hypnotico - Jennifer Lopez by HDMI44


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"The ordinance states officers could disarm individuals, if necessary, reports ABC 31. "Dollar says the proposal is just way to give officers more authority to protect themselves."
The new rule would allow authorities to confiscate guns of "unruly" people during an extreme weather event such as the April 2011 tornadoes or any other emergency.
TextU.S. politicians have cried wolf over austerity long enough for the public to ignore them. A perfect time, then, for politicians to actually unleash the wolves.
Barring an unlikely last minute deal, here's a short list of some of the massive, national bi-partisan-created austerity cuts, according to the New York Times:
-600,000 food stamp recipients will be cut from the program
-Massive education cuts. According to President Obama: "Once these cuts take effect thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off and tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids.
" -12 billion in Medicare cuts (more to come after 2013)
-Millions receiving unemployment will see their checks cut by 11% (an average of 132 a month)
-Federal funds to state governments will be cut, creating even more deficits for states and municipalities, and thus more localized cuts (the states have already made austerity cuts of $337 billion!)
Also, 700,000 jobs are expected to be lost while 70,000 kids are also expected to be kicked off of Head Start And this is just for 2013.
The current plan for the austerity "sequester" cuts is $100 billion of federal cuts every year for ten years, equaling massive cuts to jobs, Medicare, education, and completely destroying federally funded social programs.
Will it actually happen this time? The New York Times reports:
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The idea of being rich or poor is just a perception of the individual's mindset.
In the world today it is either you are rich or poor. The mediocre concept of middle class is just a mirage. Like it or not, the rich will continue to get richer and the poor will get poorer.Like the polar ice caps, the middle class is disappearing. The world economy is becoming a two-class society. Soon you will be either Rich or poor. What makes the difference between the rich and poor is their mindset and quality of information the rich has that the poor don't.
Problems on the Horizon
Just as we are only now becoming aware of the effects of global warming, we are also only now becoming aware of the effects of the loss of our middle class. Currently, most members of the middle class feel safe and secure. They are content, even though most are aware that we have problems on the horizon. They feel safe because they believe their government will step in and take care of them and protect them. Little do they know, there is little that government can do to protect them.
Governments, even the U.S. government, cannot protect their people as they once could, simply because the problems are now global problems. For example, the price of oil is determined by countries outside the control of the United States. Terrorism is not a war against nations. Terrorism is a war against ideas. A terrorist can strike anywhere and disappear into the populace. And globalization, causing the loss of so many American jobs, is the problem of multinational corporations becoming richer and more powerful than many countries. This globalization has also been made more possible through the World Wide Web making communication instantaneous anywhere in the world. Communication has become possible any time any where.
Financial Advice
There are three levels of financial advice: advice for the poor, advice for the middle class and advice for the rich. The financial advice for the poor is that the government will take care of them.
The poor are counting on Social Security and Medicare. The financial advice for the middle class is: get a job, work hard, live below your means, save money, invest for the long term in mutual funds and diversify. Most people in the middle class are passive investors- investors who work and invest not to lose. The rich are active investors who work and invest to win. These e-books is about becoming active investors - expanding your means to live a great life by working and investing to win.
People want greater vision so they can see with their own eyes and make their own decisions. Because our educational system does not really teach people to be financially literate, people cannot see. And if they cannot see, there is no transparency. Due to this lack of vision and transparency, people are simply investing by giving their money to someone else to invest. They blindly follow the advice of "work hard, save money, invest for the long term in mutual funds and diversify." They work hard and follow this investment advice because they cannot see.
A word of caution: If you believe that working hard, saving money, investing for the long term in mutual funds and diversifying is good advice then these 30 BUSINESS E-BOOKS may not be for you.
Businessmen, Not Politicians
People expect their elected government officials to take care of the growing problems facing the poor and middle class. Authors of these 30 business e-books are not politicians. They wrote these e-books as entrepreneurs, investors and educators. Instead of promising to solve your problems, they want you to avoid becoming a victim of the problems. Do not expect your political and government officials to provide solutions. Do not think you are entitled to a secure, prosperous and healthy life. Instead they want you to become rich and become part of the solution to the problems the world economy face.
Not A How-To Business e-Books
When it comes to money, many people want to be told exactly what to do. They often ask specific questions, such as, "I have $500,000. What should I do with it?" When you tell people that you do not know what to do with your money, they are happy to tell you what to do ... and their recommendation is that you give your money to them. These e-books are not a how-to books. The authors will not be telling you what to invest in. They will share with you how they think, why they win financially and how they see the world of money, business and investing.
A Matter of Vision
Most rich people do not want you to know what they know or their secrets to becoming rich. But these authors are different. They want to share their knowledge with you.
One of the definitions of leadership is vision. These e-books are about visions, about seeing what most people never see through the eyes of these authors, men who have won (and occasionally lost) at the game of money. 30 business e-books are e-books about how these men think and why they think the way they do. Through their eyes you will gain additional insight into how you can improve your financial future.
The e-Books Is Not About Changing the World
These e-books are not about changing the world. It is about changing you so that you do not become a victim of a changing world. The world is changing rapidly. Politicians and government Bureaucracy cannot change fast enough or protect everyone from these shifts.
It was sometimes announced that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have joined forces to solve some of the world's most pressing problems. This is commendable as money does have the power to solve many of our world problems, such as hunger, affordable housing, and hopefully many diseases (such as cancer and AIDS), but…….
Money Cannot Solve Poverty
The one problem money cannot solve is poverty. While there are many underlying causes of poverty, one of the causes is a lack of financial education. The problem with throwing money at the issue of poverty is that money only creates more poor people and keeps people poorer longer.
These authors know that the one true solution to worldwide poverty is financial education, not money. If money alone could solve poverty, rich men and governments would donate their money. But since money cannot solve poverty, they donate their time. In addition, a portion of the profits of these e-books will be donated to charitable and educational organizations that also teach financial literacy .As your financial education increases; you will start to recognize financial opportunities everywhere. Once you become rich, you may choose to help change the world as well.
As you read these e-books you will see the voices of men and women, from different backgrounds, different perspectives


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Timber Edge Estates is far enough away from the city's hustle-bustle to make for beautiful country living, but close enough to every convenience that only a city like Lafayette, Indiana can offer. The location, just off of State Highway 26 at I-65, puts us just minutes from anywhere in the Twin Cities, including the campuses found in both Lafayette and West Lafayette.
The property and grounds are well maintained, and have a full line of recreational facilities, including a fitness center, clubhouse, swimming pool, basketball court, tennis courts, and more.
The apartments offer wooded or pool views, are exceptionally spacious, and are well-designed for upscale, modern living. You'll love the gourmet kitchens and oversized closets. Self-cleaning ovens, self-defrosting refrigerators, dishwashers, microwave ovens, and central air conditioning all come standard at Timber Edge Estates.
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