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The Building of Brownwood - Exciting Construction Plans

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In our second episode of The Building of Brownwood, we continue to take you behind the scenes for the building and construction of our third and final town square. This month, we will be talking with designer Tracy Mathews and Landscape Architect Mike Pape about the inspiration behind their master plan, Danny Tilton talks about the changes happening both inside and outside of the Barnstorm Theater, we'll build a stone wall with Taz of T&D Concrete and we'll give you an exclusive first look at our new Palace Hotel. So sit back and enjoy another edition of The Building of Brownwood.

Two hyenas at the St. Augustine Wild Reserve

Two hyenas at the St. Augustine Wild Reserve

Only in Florida: Video of HUGE gator in Lakeland goes viral

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Woman Kills Son, Self at Gun Range

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Intact Body of 2-Year-Old Boy Recovered After Alligator Attack at Disney Resort

The body of the 2-year-old boy snatched by an alligator at a Disney resort in Orlando has been recovered. The body of Lane Graves, who was visiting the resort with his family from Nebraska, was completely intact when it was found by a dive team Wednesday afternoon, Orange County Sheriff's Jerry Demings said. Police and a Catholic priest delivered the heart-breaking news to the boy's parents, Matt and Melissa Graves, who were visiting the resort with Lane and their 4-year-old daughter.

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Saving Bison, Hunting Access & Corralling CWD
Program 2508. Air dates December 4-10, 2016 & June 4-10, 2017

Saving the Last of the Southern Plains Bison
Caprock Canyons State Park holds the last remnants of pure Southern Plains Bison that exists in North America. Once numbering around 60 million, now there are only 80; the history of how they came to live at the state park, on their native historic land is a long one. Because of the hard work of a few individuals, these Bison live on.

A Place for All
Most hunting blinds are not designed for people with disabilities. Inks Lake State Park northwest of Austin has tackled that problem by building special hunting blinds that are accessible for people with physical limitations

Lone Star Land Steward: T Star Ranch
When Bruce Thomas acquired the T Star Ranch in 2004 from a local rancher, mesquite had invaded the majority of the property, decreasing the native grasses and limiting the food supply for wildlife on the property. For the past 12 years, his family has worked to restore the once-overgrazed pastures back to native grassland on this 231 acre property.

Parks & Wildlife People: Chronic Wasting Disease Response Team
When Chronic Wasting Disease made its way to Texas White-tailed Deer, the Texas Parks and Wildlife CWD Response TWIMS Reprogramming Team took action to save our natural resources.

Lake Bob Sandlin State Park
About two hours east of Dallas, you’ll find a quiet state park that has everything from hiking to fishing. Lake Bob Sandlin is a perfect hidden getaway for folks of all ages.

Wild Things: Why Did the Turtle Cross the Road?
Many folks find turtles crossing busy roads and wonder “What’s the right thing to do?” State Herpetologist Andy Gluesenkamp helps answer that question.

Postcard From Texas
Early morning dew blankets the Blue Mountain Peak Ranch.

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Police Officer Saves a Child From Possible Abduction at Oklahoma Walmart. The officer intervenes after stranger allegedly snatches child from shopping cart, holds her at knifepoint.
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Does Eerie Photo From Scene of Deadly Crash Show Stairway to Heaven?

Following a fatal car crash in Georgia last month, a photo captured a beam of light shining down on the wreckage, leaving many to believe it was an illumination from heaven. Hannah Simmons, 23, her 9-month old baby and her best friend all died in the accident after Simmons lost control of her car. Anisa Gannon was on her way to work when she came upon the scene and took the photo. At the time, she didn't know anyone died nor did she notice the beam of light.

It's Another Episode of LiveTuesday Night Prime Time Trivia With Bruce!

It's Another Episode of LiveTuesday Night Prime Time Trivia With Bruce!
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Vintage Television Commercials - 1980s - Part 1

This is a compilation of mostly national television ads that aired during the early and mid-1980s. They originate from off-the-air VHS recordings.

Some of these spots are masterpieces. They provide a glimpse into an era of TV broadcasting when the commercial breaks often were as interesting and well produced as the programs they interrupted.

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The Great Gildersleeve: Gildy Traces Geneology / Doomsday Picnic / Annual Estate Report Due

The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.

On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of Gildersleeve's Diary on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940).

He soon became so popular that Kraft Foods—looking primarily to promote its Parkay margarine spread — sponsored a new series with Peary's Gildersleeve as the central, slightly softened and slightly befuddled focus of a lively new family.

Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.

In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.

Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).

The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.

DHL Express | From Document Courier to Market Leader

DHL has come a long way since its establishment in 1969. Having started as a document courier, DHL has become the world’s leading international express logistics company. Today, almost 50 years after its foundation, DHL Express employs 100,000 professionals and delivers 1.3 million shipments per day in over 220 countries worldwide.

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Travelling with Bruce is Live! Cruise Trends and Predictions For the Future!

Travelling with Bruce is Live! Cruise Trends and Predictions For the Future! Cruises and cruise lines continue to evolve. For the longest time cruise lines just continued the tradition of serving top notch food and dancing entertainment until they invented the modern day toys like waterslides and rock climbing walls. But for the future cruiser, the cruise lines are going all out with expected features like virtual reality rides, movie nights with VR glasses and a new type of cruise called the Wellness Cruise. Your doctor, or employer may well send you on your wellness cruise where you will get 7 to 21 days of active yet very relaxing treatment for your stress condition or overweight issue. Diets will be custom tailored for you along with exercise programs, wellness seminars and shore excutions desiegned to help you get and stay healthy and less stressed. I can't wait myself.

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Life of a Career Criminal: Bureau of Prisons Psychology Documentary Film

The American Mafia (or simply the Mafia or Mob in the United States), is an Italian-American criminal society. Much like the Sicilian Mafia, the American Mafia has no formal name and is a secret criminal society. Its members usually refer to it as Cosa Nostra (Italian for our thing). The press has also coined the name National Crime Syndicate to refer to the entirety of U.S. organized crime, including the Mafia. The Mafia emerged in New York's Lower East Side and other areas of the East Coast of the United States during the late 19th century following waves of Italian immigration, especially from Sicily. It has its roots in the Sicilian Mafia, but is a separate organization in the United States. Neapolitan, Calabrian, and other Italian criminal groups, as well as independent Italian-American criminals, eventually merged with the Sicilians to create the modern pan-Italian Mafia in North America. Today, the American Mafia cooperates in various criminal activities with the Sicilian Mafia and other Italian organized crime groups, such as Camorra, 'Ndrangheta, and Sacra Corona Unita.

The Mafia is currently most active in New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, New England, Detroit and Chicago, with smaller families, associates, and crews in places such as Los Angeles, Texas, Florida and Las Vegas. There have been at least 26 cities around the United States with Cosa Nostra families, with many more offshoots, splinter groups and associates in other cities. There are five main New York City Mafia families, known as the Five Families: the Gambino, Lucchese, Genovese, Bonanno and Colombo families. At its peak, the Mafia dominated organized crime in the U.S. While each crime family operates independently, nationwide coordination is provided by the Commission, which consists of the bosses of each of the strongest families.

Law enforcement still considers the Mafia the largest organized crime group in the United States. It has maintained control over much of the organized crime activity in the United States and certain parts of Canada. Today most of the Mafia's activities are contained to the Northeastern United States and Chicago where they continue to dominate organized crime despite the increasing numbers of street gangs and other organizations that are not of Italian origin.

Early gangster films depicting organized crime in America include The Public Enemy (1931), Little Caesar (1931), and Scarface (1932), the latter loosely based on the story of Al Capone.

Arguably the most popular and most praised Mafia films are The Godfather (1972) and its sequel The Godfather Part II (1974). Both films were based on Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather (1969). Since their release, many other films have been produced, like Martin Scorsese's films Goodfellas (1990) and Casino (1995), which were based on true stories. Other such films include The Untouchables (1987), Mobsters (1991), Donnie Brasco (1997) and the made-for-TV film Gotti (1996).

Other films portraying the Mafia include Once Upon a Time in America (1984), A Bronx Tale (1993) and comedies like Analyze This (1999). American Mafiosi also appear in supporting roles in other films, such as True Romance (1993), Carlito's Way (1993), The Departed (2006), and American Gangster (2007).

While many TV shows like The Untouchables (1959--1963), Crime Story (1986--1988), and Wiseguy (1987--1990) have told fictional accounts of the Mafia, by far the most popular TV series has been HBO's The Sopranos (1999--2007). The show, set in Northern New Jersey, portrays fictional New Jersey Mafia boss Tony Soprano, the Soprano crime family he heads, and its close affiliation with the Brooklyn branch of the New York Mafia. HBO followed up this hit series with the 1920s-setting period drama Boardwalk Empire, based in Atlantic City. Based on the life of Enoch L. Johnson, it features several early-era Mafia characters in supporting roles.

The American Mafia has also been popularized in video games such as the Grand Theft Auto series, The Godfather: The Game, The Godfather II, and the Mafia series.

The Mafia is also the topic of many popular novels, most notably in the work of author Mario Puzo, which include The Godfather, The Sicilian (1984), The Last Don (1997), and Omertà (2000), as well as James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet (first editions published 1987-1992) and Underworld USA Trilogy (first editions published 1995-2009).

Long Beach, California | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:43 1 History
00:01:52 1.1 Origins
00:05:32 1.2 Post Incorporation
00:12:40 2 Geography
00:13:35 2.1 Neighborhoods
00:13:57 2.2 Climate
00:15:44 2.3 Environment
00:15:53 2.3.1 Pollution
00:19:12 2.3.2 Ecology
00:22:27 3 Demographics
00:22:37 3.1 2010
00:28:53 3.2 2000
00:35:58 4 Economy
00:38:16 4.1 Top employers
00:38:56 4.2 Retail
00:39:37 5 Culture
00:39:46 5.1 Art
00:42:01 5.2 Music
00:45:28 5.3 Theater
00:47:01 5.4 Cultural events
00:48:55 5.5 Sites of interest
00:55:41 6 Sports
00:55:50 6.1 Grand Prix of Long Beach
00:57:15 6.2 Long Beach Marathon
00:58:09 6.3 Baseball
00:58:36 6.4 Basketball
00:59:37 6.5 Sailing
01:00:22 6.6 Water skiing
01:00:54 6.7 Surfing
01:01:50 6.8 Rugby union
01:02:11 6.9 College sports
01:03:43 6.9.1 Archery
01:04:08 6.10 2028 Summer Olympics
01:04:33 7 Government
01:04:42 7.1 Municipal
01:07:23 7.2 Federal and state representation
01:08:30 8 Infrastructure
01:08:40 8.1 Police department
01:08:56 8.1.1 Restrictions on registered sex offenders
01:10:56 8.2 Fire department
01:11:24 8.3 County
01:11:58 8.4 State and federal
01:12:48 9 Education
01:12:57 9.1 Primary and secondary schools
01:13:08 9.1.1 Public schools
01:13:40 9.1.2 Private schools
01:13:49 9.2 Colleges and universities
01:14:51 10 Transportation
01:15:01 10.1 Ports and freight
01:16:37 10.2 Public transportation
01:21:29 10.3 Airports
01:22:26 10.4 Freeways and highways
01:24:56 10.5 Bicycles and pedestrians
01:26:41 10.6 Modal characteristics
01:27:48 11 Media
01:27:57 11.1 Movies and television
01:33:07 11.2 Online News
01:33:55 11.3 Print
01:36:57 11.4 Radio
01:37:51 12 Notable people
01:38:01 13 Sister cities
01:38:15 14 See also



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Long Beach is a city on the Pacific Coast of the United States, within the Los Angeles metropolitan area of Southern California. It is the 39th most populous city in the United States and the 7th most populous in California, with a population of 462,257 in 2010. A charter city, it is the second largest city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and the third largest in Southern California behind Los Angeles and San Diego.
Incorporated in 1897, Long Beach lies in the southeastern corner of Los Angeles County and borders Orange County. Downtown Long Beach is approximately 22 miles (35 km) south of downtown Los Angeles, though the two cities share an official border for several miles. The Port of Long Beach is the second busiest container port in the United States and is among the world's largest shipping ports. The city is over an oilfield with minor wells both directly beneath the city as well as offshore. The aerospace industry continues to play an important role.
The city is known for its waterfront attractions, including the permanently docked RMS Queen Mary and the Aquarium of the Pacific. Long Beach also hosts the Grand Prix of Long Beach, currently an IndyCar race. The California State University, Long Beach, one of the largest universities in California by enrollment, is located in the city.

Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks

My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)

Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.

Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.

And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)