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Spending the 4th of July in Las Vegas
Vegas Syndicate | June 30th 2008
Friday is the Fourth of July, and a great way to celebrate would be to watch the fireworks display over The Strip in Las Vegas. And since it's the start of a weekend, the celebration can last for... [[ Visit the Vegas Syndicate for the full story, o read more
Tales of a Tassel Dancer
Living Las Vegas | June 30th 2008 by Mark Sedenquist
She calls herself "Satan's Angel, the Devil's Own Mistress," and her signature act involves flaming pasties. Now 60-something, Angel is a burlesque legend, and she had plenty of stories to tell at the "Miss Exotic World Pageant," held earlier this mo read more
Tennis Serve Pronation
All About your Life | June 29th 2008 by joom
Pronation is a term you’ll here a lot when higher-level tennis players discuss proper serve technique. Pronation is a special type of arm movement that allows you to accelerate your tennis racket through the ball, increasing the amount of pow read more
moonlit diptych
Daily Painter's Marketplace | June 25th 2008 by p conyers
moonlit diptych 80 x 160 cm acrylic on canvas'illusion of freedom' 80 x 80 cm'bid for freedom' 80 x 80 cmon sale from 6pm 27th June at one woman show, Toco d'azur Promenade des Anglais, Nice, Francewww.paintingriviera.com painting holidays in Matisse read more
Robber Tries to Tob Convenience Store With a Palm Frond
The Odd Journal | June 24th 2008 by spigok
An attempted robbery at a store in Florida is among the oddest videos the police has ever had to investigate read more
Encore To Start Hiring Next Month for December Grand Opening
Vegas Syndicate | June 21st 2008
Encore is on track to open in December and will begin hiring workers in July, Wynn Resorts executives said Monday evening. The new hotel will add about 5,300 employees to Wynn Resorts' staff, Wynn... [[ Visit the Vegas Syndicate for the full story, read more
Green Livin Zap VOCs with Houseplants
Green Livin | June 21st 2008 by Stephen M Harrell
Pick up a few of these common houseplants the next time you visit a local nursery: palms, ferns, corn plant, dragon tree (dracaena), rubber plant, weeping fig (ficus), English ivy, peace lily, florist mum, gerber daisy, dumb cane (dieffenbachia), sch read more
Caterpillar food, continued
Tropical Biodiversity - The Amazon | June 17th 2008 by luccaa77
And here are a few of more than 30 individuals found in the caterpillar "nest". What I did was to cut the frond from the palm and then open it up completely on the sink of the porch. In little time the caterpillars started moving about, but they di read more
Caterpillar food, continued
Tropical Biodiversity - The Amazon | June 17th 2008 by luccaa77
Smart critters, those caterpillars. Notice that they didn't eat the leaves of the frond where they have built a nest, if that's the right word. What looks like a bird's nest is full of big caterpillars all bunched up together. As pictured, the wei read more
Little Buddha at The Palms
Vegas Syndicate | June 16th 2008
When it comes to Las Vegas fine dining, Little Buddha stands out as one of the most evocative and atmospheric enclaves. Within the pulsing, hip Palms Casino Resort, Little Buddha is filled with a... [[ Visit the Vegas Syndicate for the full story, o read more
Watch out for the Coconuts
Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe | June 15th 2008 by Colin Campbell
They would likely kill you if you hung around for long enough in Mildaren, South Australia.When I lived in Singapore we used to go walking and cycling along East Coast Park and they had much shorter palms with Beware of Falling Coconuts Signs. That w read more
Tucumã palm
Tropical Biodiversity - The Amazon | June 15th 2008 by luccaa77
Thorns on the trunk of the tucumã palm (Astrocaryum aculeteatum). I've never seen longer thorns on any other palm and they're hard and very sharp. read more
"The Rock" Gets Star on Vegas Walk of Famep
Vegas Syndicate | June 15th 2008
Wrestler-turned-movie star DWAYNE 'THE ROCK' JOHNSON is to be honoured with a star on Las Vegas' version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Scorpion King star will be feted outside Brenden Theatres... [[ Visit the Vegas Syndicate for the full story read more
Bracket Fungi
Tropical Biodiversity - The Amazon | June 14th 2008 by luccaa77
It's always neat to have visitors at Bosque Santa Lucia because they see the forest with fresh eyes and they often see what I don't. I had walked right under this dead mucajá palm (Acrocomia aculeata) today without noticing what was up above. I ha read more
Seed From 2000 Year Old Tree Is Doing Well
Bible Prophecy In The News | June 14th 2008 by OneBlogAtATime
Just over three years old and about four-feet tall, Methuselah is growing well. “It’s lovely,” Dr. Sarah Sallon said of the date palm, whose parents may have provided food for the besieged Jews at Masada some 2,000 years ago. The li read more
Pilar Rubio - Revista FHM
ChisMopoly.Com El Chisme Es un Monopolio | June 13th 2008 by francis uceta
Recomendamos Leer June 13, 2008 — CANDIDATAS A MISS UNIVERSO 2008 (0) June 13, 2008 — Todas las invitadas a los premios Estilo Elle celebrados en Barcelona (0) June 13, 2008 — Miley Cyrus con un nuevo enamorado en la cama!? (0) Jun read more
CANDIDATAS A MISS UNIVERSO 2008
ChisMopoly.Com El Chisme Es un Monopolio | June 13th 2008 by francis uceta
Ya han terminado todas las votaciones clasificatorias a Miss Universo 2008 MDM. Ahora sí, tenemos a las 45 chicas que optaran por el título. A partir de ahora, se valorará a cada una de las aspirantes a través de las fotos de cada una de ellas du read more
Tree grown from 2000 year old seed
Blog of the Airtightnoodle | June 13th 2008 by airtightnoodle
A date palm has been grown in Israel from a 2000 year old seed, making it the oldest seed known to have sprouted and grown. Dr. Sallon, of the Louis L. Brock Natural Medicine Research Center, is hoping it will replace the extinct Judean date palm. T read more
Todas las invitadas a los premios Estilo Elle celebrados en Barce…
ChisMopoly.Com El Chisme Es un Monopolio | June 13th 2008 by francis uceta
El jueves por la noche se entregaban en el Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña de Barcelona los premios Estilo Elle a las personalidades del mundo de la moda, la música, el deporte, la arquitectura, la literatura, el mundo empresarial y el panorama read more
Miley Cyrus con un nuevo enamorado en la cama!?
ChisMopoly.Com El Chisme Es un Monopolio | June 13th 2008 by francis uceta
Nuevamente el portal OceanUP, quien al parecer se está especializando en desatar polémicas sobre Miley Cyrus ha publicado nuevas fotos (2 últimas abajo) y en una de ellas aseguran que Miley está supuestamente en la cama (última foto abajo) con ( read more
Romance de Cameron Díaz con Paul Sculfor es serio
ChisMopoly.Com El Chisme Es un Monopolio | June 13th 2008 by francis uceta
Y tal parece que que la guapa actriz de La Máscara, Cameron Diaz está tomando cada vez más en serio su relación con el modelo británico Paul Sculfor, ex novio de la actriz Jennifer Anniston. Y es que después de un cándido flirteo disfrutado po read more
Yellow Sky At Day's End
Terry's Ink and Watercolor | June 13th 2008 by Terry Banderas
This is a simple illustration using one color with black. Unfortunately, I did not do this on watercolor paper. The yellow sky has different tonal values to add interest. The trees were done in solid black with no tones. The ocean in the lower part read more
Palms Looking to Target UK Clubbers with Oakenfold
Vegas Syndicate | June 11th 2008
Las Vegas is hoping to become the next big destination for British clubbers. British DJ and producer Paul Oakenfold is believed to be close to signing a deal to perform regular dates at Palms... [[ Visit the Vegas Syndicate for the full story, othe read more
Potted Palms Prevent Prying Eyes
Water Once A Week | June 9th 2008 by PlantBuddy
Here's a shot of two potted palm trees and my friend Honey in Ikea's parking lot. She's waiting for her husband to come and load the palms into a small car. The couple had a little argument in the store about whether 2 five-foot trees would fit into read more
Sling Media prototypes SlingPlayer for iPhone
Gizmos for Geeks | June 9th 2008 by The Geeks
We’ll start off with the bottom line here and that is this is not a real product, but only a proof of concept. Sling has been toying with a ‘jail broken’ iPhone to prove that the SlingPlayer can run on it. So far, they’ve prod read more
Bare ground
Tropical Biodiversity - The Amazon | June 7th 2008 by luccaa77
Somebody has been eating mumbaca fruit ... and it was probably a monkey! I took this picture below the palm shown in the previous post. All that's left are the star-like skins of the fruit (Astrocaryum gynacanthum). I've never figured out how the read more
Mucajá palm, continued
Tropical Biodiversity - The Amazon | June 5th 2008 by luccaa77
When Cleuson scooped out the rich organic material from inside the mucajá palm pictured in my last post, this beetle, perhaps a darkling beetle, came with it. I'm sorry that I didn't take time to get more pictures because I don't have a good view o read more
Mucajá palm, continued
Tropical Biodiversity - The Amazon | June 4th 2008 by luccaa77
That's enough stump business! Let's get on to the remainder of the mucajá palm (Acrocomia aculeata), which is still laid out on the ground, where it fell after being chainsawed. When I took this picture, my caretaker had already removed several bu read more
Mucajá palm, continued
Tropical Biodiversity - The Amazon | June 4th 2008 by luccaa77
And here's an even closer look at the inside of the mucajá palm (Acrocomia aculeata) stump. When I think of tree stumps, I visualize a hard heartwood surrounded by decaying bark and sapwood. In the case of the mucajá palm, it's the contrary. The read more
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