Artist Builds Vegas Sign With Cards, Dice
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Artist Bryan Berg sits on a ladder in front of his sculpture of the famous Las Vegas sign made from playing cards and poker chips at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Thursday, July 27, 2006. LAURA RAUCH
By FRANCISCA ORTEGA (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated PressJuly 30, 2006 3:23 AM EDT
LAS VEGAS - Take 500 decks of playing cards, 1,800 poker chips, 800 dice and more than a few tubes of Super Glue. Add an artist who likes to stack things and mix in some Vegas glitz. "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas," or at least welcome to a life-size replica of the famous sign made out cards, dice and poker chips.
Bryan Berg, perhaps best known for building a 25-foot castle out of playing cards, broke his no adhesive rule to build the sign for the World Series of Poker.
Berg called the sign, which is attached to a scaffolding of wood and weighs 400 pounds, a "logistical nightmare." It took about 450 hours to complete.
"It's like brain surgery," he said. "I didn't even know if it was possible."
Unlike the original at the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip, the replica does not have a flat front. Pockets of its face are left bare so the structure's interior design is revealed. The honeycomb pattern of the cards and their laminated covering catch the light, making it appear the sign is lighted up and shimmering in the desert heat.
It hangs above the stage in the Rio hotel-casino's convention center, where more than 8,500 entrants are competing in the main event of the World Series of Poker tournament.
A graduate of Harvard's Graduate School of Design, 32-year-old Berg began stacking cards when he was 8. At 17, he won a Guinness World Record for the world's tallest house of cards with a 14-foot-6-inch-tall tower. In 2004, he broke his own record with a 25-foot-tall recreation of Cinderella's castle.
What started as a hobby has turned into a career for Berg. He now makes sculptures out of cards full-time.
This is the first time Berg has used glue in one of his sculptures.
When Loctite Super Glue commissioned him for the project, he said he agreed only if the final design "flew, floated or hanged," - something so people could see glue was used.
"I don't (usually) use tape, or glue anything together, and I've never even considered it. I've always been a purist," he said. "I think it's important that I'm up front about it."

You know you are an Arizonan if ...

1. You are willing to park three blocks away because you found shade.

2. You can open and drive your car without touching the car door or the steering wheel.

3. You've experienced condensation on your ass from the hot water in the toilet bowl.

4. You would give anything to be able to splash cold water on your face.

5. You can attend any function wearing shorts and a tank top.

6. "Dress code" is meaningless at high schools and universities (picture lingerie ads).

7. You can drive for four hours in one direction and never leave town.

8. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.

9. The four seasons are: TOLERABLE, HOT, REALLY HOT, AND ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!

10. You know that the heat you feel when you walk outside is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door.

11. You think someone driving wearing oven mits is brilliant.

12. Salsa is a part of your daily diet.

13. You can listen to a weather report of 117 and not flinch.

14. You notice your car overheating before you drive it.

15. You can pronounce San Xavier, Saguaro, Tempe, and Cholla

16. You no longer associate bridges or rivers with water.

17. You know a swamp cooler is not a happy hour drink.

18. You can be in the snow, then drive for an hour...and it will be over 100 degrees.

19. You can make sun tea instantly

20. You run your a/c in the middle of winter so you can use your fireplace.

21. The best parking is determined by shade.....not distance.

22. You realize that "Valley Fever" isn't a disco dance

23. You actually burn your hand opening the car door

24. Sunscreen is sold year round, kept right at the checkout counter.

25. You put on fresh sunscreen just to go check the mail box

26. Some fools will market mini-misters for joggers and some other fools will actually buy them. Worse.....some fools actually try to jog.

27. You know hot air balloons can't rise because the air temperature is hotter than the air inside the balloon.

28. No one would dream of putting vinyl inside a car

29. You see more irrigation water on the street than there is in the Salt River, and, on that note, you have to go to a fake beach for some fake waves.

30. You can fry an egg on the hood of a car IN THE MORNING!

31. You think a red light is merely a suggestion.

32. Most of the restaurants in town have start with "El" or "Los" or end in "bertos."

33. Your house is made of stucco and has a tile roof.

34. You think 60 tons of crushed red rock makes a beautiful yard.

35. People who have black cars or black upholstery in their car are automatically assumed to be from out-of-state or nuts.

36. You know better than to get into a car with leather seats if you're wearing shorts.

37. You can't find anyone at a park until 7:00 PM

38. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Arizona.

Committing to change

Committing to change
Facing long standing issues
Dealing with the pain

Pain born of actions
From my less than innocent
Teenage romances

Pain born of constant
manipulation by a
Master with a face

Pain born of secrets
Of my own in order to
Protect my family

Pain born of searching
Unknowingly for true love
Without condition

Pain which led to an
Unhealthy relationship
With eating and food

A relationship
That left me feeling happy
As well as betrayed

Now habitual
Food has become a friend
As well as a foe

I have committed
To let food be nourishment
Not a friend or foe

I have chosen
To eat to live and no longer
Will I live to eat

Thirteen Things about the week of JULY 6th -July 13th, 2006 1. In about 3 hours we head to town to visit the Dr. 2. He will give us the results of my husbands MRI 3. Hopefull we will find the reason he has had SO MANY horrific headaches. 4. I am scared to know but even more scared not to know. 5. On the way home we pick up my new eye glasses. 6. I found a black spider with two yellow fuzzies on his back outside this week. 7. I opened the back door & found a BIG lizard sunning himself about 3 feet away. 8. I nearly crapped my pants when I saw him. 9. I have lost 3 pounds this week. 10. I am down ONE 8 ounce can of soda each day. 11. I have been journaling everything I put in my mouth. 12. I have consumed 8 to 13 glasses of water each day this week. 13. I have exercised on Sun, Mon & Tues this week. That is up from NO exercise at all! Links to other Thursday Thirteens!1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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Thursday Thirteen Edition #48 Week 2

irteen Things

Thirteen Things about this week 1. We got the flat tire on the car patched. 2. The Monsoon offcially began on Sunday. 3. We took the girls to a free Fourth of July Fireworks show. 4. The show was REALLY crappy! It was the worst I've EVER seen! 5. It rained REALLY hard about 30 minutes after we got home. 6. The four of us went to the Doctor on Monday. 7. The girls got 4 shots each. 8. The Dr. told my husbnad to get an MRI. 9. He thinks my husband might have an annurisim. 10. I am scared about it. 11. I was on the phone with the Dr. office, the insurance company & the Diagnostic center for a total of 3 hours today. 12. I took the kids to the librbary today. 13. The oldest made a paper plate frog for the craft at the library. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1.

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Pictures from our visit to Texas

*Hey Crissy! Do you recognize the outfit Char is wearing?*

We drove to Texas to see my Husbands Grandmother. He had not seen her in a VERY long time & she had NEVER seen either of our children...or me for that matter.

The Baby's 1st Birthday Cake photos

I KNEW she was going to do this, so she was only wearing her diaper. She was just starting to come down with the flu so we had no party. Within a few hours her sister & I had the flu also, we just didn't know it was the flu at that time.

Casa Grande National Monument

Butterfly Exhibit at the Botanical Garden

Butterfly Exhibit at the Garden

A path at the Garden

Cactus Flower bloom at the Garden

Sunflower along the Roadside

Botanical Garden Butterfly Exhibit

If there is light in the soul,There will be beauty in the person.

If there is beauty in the person,There will be harmony in the house.

If there is harmony in the house,There will be order in the nation.

If there is order in the nation,There will be PEACE in the world.

~Chinese Proverb

Thirteen Things about Mary1. My favorite color is GREEN! 2. My middle name has been passed down in my family for 200 plus years 3. I am currently recovering from the Flu. 4. I have liked & belived in Angels since I was a VERY small child. 5. I have seen ghosts on more than one occasion. 6. I am a Stay At Home Mom. 7. I am an avid Postcrosser. 8. This is my first edition of Thriteen Things. 9. I am BEYOND proud of my "Baby" Sister. 10. I have been a slave to the laundry this week with 3 of us having the Flu. 11. I have seen the hand of God & am no longer worried about what others think when they hear it. 12. I have an unshakeable faith in the Lord. 13. I am in the process of changing my eating habits & reintroducing exercise into my life. Links to other Thursday Thirteens!1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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Yard of a Thousand Lakes

Yes, you read it correctly. It seems that I may have as many as 1000 mini-lakes in my yard. Okay, so it's a bit of an exaggeration but there is at least one that is about 1100 square feet. I only know this because it is about 1/2 the size of my house! Not to mention there are at least 20 OTHER smaller but still sizeable mini-lakes on our acre of land. We got a rare early June rain/wind/dust storm that blew through about 2 hours ago. First came the sudden dramatic drop in temperature, next howling winds & TONS of dust. It got to the point that it was literally ZERO visibility! Next came rain that was being blown by the wind with such force, it sounded like hail hitting the windows. I was seeing cloud to ground lightening & it was close enough I could feel the electricity in the air. I placed both the girls in the doorway between the bathroom & master bedroom, away from all windows & electrical outlets, unplugged the phones & electronic devices & had candles & matches close at hand. The dust was so thick that at 5pm...it was black as pitch outside. That is of course when we lost power. Char was fussy the whole time while Liz was pretty good, but asking if daddy was inside when she saw the dust. Once we lost power all bets on calm little ones were lost. I kept them both in the playpen & sat next to it, talking to them & telling them a story. The power was only out about 10 minutes, but with my voice fading fast due to my coughing...it was 10 minutes too long. I was much relieved when I saw my hubby pull up outside in front of the house, knowing he was safe. He works outside & on top of roofs every day so when I see lightening & dust storms, I have a very real concern for his safety. Now we are housebound for the next few days (not that I was going anywhere anyway being sick) & the work truck is parked on the street until the ground solidifies again.

I called my mom & told her to get her a$$ straight home as the storm was headed her way & fast. She called a little later telling me my Grandmother is in the hospital due to MAJOR swelling in her legs from being immobile. Until they get this mess with her back figured out, this could be an ongoing problem. They admitted her to reduce the swelling & to make sure no blood clots have formed. Say a prayer for her. She could use all of them she can get.

BTW, I am still feeling like I got run over by a truck but Phlegm Dam broke wide open last night about bedtime & has been flowing strong ever since. I'm not kidding, I've filled TWO bathroom trash cans with Kleenex since 7 am this morning! Yes, my head & sinuses are pounding but it's a good thing. It IS a GOOD thing...right?

Update from the House of Flu

This won't be long either. We are still coughing & hacking up our lungs. Liz & I are at least. Bob seems to be "okay" still. That's a good thing since he is the one with the paycheck. Charlotte I'm happy to report is doing MUCH, MUCH better.

Last night Char slept in her room while Liz & I shared the bed. Bob slept on the couch so he wasn't sleeping in sheets & pillows tainted with our Flu germs. The plan is for me to wash all our our bedding, including pillows & such so he can sleep in our bed tonight. I will be on the couch, propped up so I can breath. I think Liz may end up in her Daddys chair for the same reason.

I did manage to something other than just nap for the first time since Thursday I think. I took some Nyquill & Liz some Triaminic so we both ended up getting some decent sleep. I heard Bob come in & give Liz Triaminic. He said that the way the two of us were hacking it was keeping him from sleeping....in the other room! I would have given Liz meds but I was so dizzy from coughing & sheer exhaustion I couldn't get out of bed. Since I had no voice, I couldn't call out to Bob either. I am not very dizzy this morning.

I talked to my sister this weekend, as well as my Grandparents & Grandma. Nobody even told my sister that Grandma had back surgery! That really pissed me off. HELLO! It's back surgery! Actually NECK surgery! It's stuff like that my family DOESN'T say that gets to me. I'm used to the gossip & bad mouthing. When something IMPORTANT comes up that family members NEED to know about? It's amazing how fast the gossips mouths shut! It becomes family business only if it is about them they want sympathy! GRRR!

Oay, I need to head back to bed. I am getting dizzy again & don't want to crawl across the house to get there.

This won't be long

I just wanted to do a quick update.

We left for Garland, Texas (around Dallas) on Friday night. We drove straight through & it took us about 16 hours. We had a room at the Gaylord Texan & it was beautiful. Sunday we spent the day with his Grandma, 2 Uncles, an Aunt-in-Law & his neice & nephew. Monday we headed back home & returned Tuesday morning. In all, we had a good time.

Yesterday both the kids & I began to get sick. The three of us were running fevers all day. The smallest was vomiting up formula & pedialite, but feeling better by bedtime. The oldest was feeling okay at bedtime but woke me up by vomiting all over her bedroom at 1am. That is why I am awake right now. Then there is me. I have been running a low grade fever, sweating like a pig or freezing, spewing vomit & feces like crazy & am lightheaded. I can't forget that I have developed a sharp pain in my left ear...usually the sign of an ear infection for me. Gee? Wanna come over so you can get sick too? Let's just hope my hubby doesn't catch any of it.

I know it will all pass. I know this could have happened at any point over the holiday weekend (thank goodness it didn't) Unfortunately, it doesn't make me feel any better right now.

With that, I am off to bed.

How the lime gets in the Pepsi

Courtesy of an e-mail my Aunt Lora sent to me.

!Step AWAY from the blog! :-)

I will be away from my blogs for the long weekend.

Please take a minute to stop & remember those soliders that have died for, fought for or are currently serving our country.

I will post again later in the week.

Have fun & stay safe!

Creeping Deserts

Deserts May Be Creeping Closer to Cities
By ANDREW BRIDGES (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated PressMay 26, 2006 8:06 AM EDT

WASHINGTON - Deserts in the American Southwest and around the globe are creeping toward heavily populated areas as the jet streams shift, researchers reported Thursday.

The result: Areas already stressed by drought may get even drier.
Satellite measurements made from 1979 to 2005 show that the atmosphere in the subtropical regions both north and south of the equator is heating up. As the atmosphere warms, it bulges out at the altitudes where the northern and southern jet streams slip past like swift and massive rivers of air. That bulging has pushed both jet streams about 70 miles closer to the Earth's poles.

Since the jet streams mark the edge of the tropics, in essence framing the hot zone that hugs the equator, their outward movement has allowed the tropics to grow wider by about 140 miles. That means the relatively drier subtropics move as well, pushing closer to places like Salt Lake City, where Thomas Reichler, co-author of the new study, teaches meteorology.

"One of the immediate consequences one can think of is those deserts and dry areas are moving poleward," said Reichler, of the University of Utah. Details appear in Friday in the journal Science.

The movement has allowed the subtropics to edge toward populated areas, including the American Southwest, southern Australia and the Mediterranean basin. In those places, the lack of precipitation already is a worry.

Additional creep could move Africa's Sahara Desert farther north, worsening drought conditions that are already a serious problem on that continent and bringing drier weather to the countries that ring the Mediterranean Sea.

"The Mediterranean is one region that models consistently show drying in the future. That could be very much related to this pattern that we are seeing in the atmosphere," said Isaac Held, a senior research scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He was not connected with the research.

A shift in where subtropical dry zones lie could make climate change locally noticeable for more people, said Karen Rosenlof, a NOAA research meteorologist also unconnected to the study.

"It is a plausible thing that could be happening, and the people who are going to see its effects earliest are the ones who live closer to the tropics, like southern Australia," said Rosenlof. Her own work suggests the tropics have actually compressed since 2000, after growing wider over the previous 20 years.

Reichler suspects global warming is the root cause of the shift, but said he can't be certain. Other possibilities include variability and destruction of the ozone layer. However, he and his colleagues have noted similar behavior in climate models that suggest global warming plays a role.

Moving the jet streams farther from the equator could disrupt storm patterns, as well as intensify individual storms on the poleward side of the jet streams, said lead author Qiang Fu, a University of Washington atmospheric scientist.

In Europe, for example, that shift could mean less snow falling on the Alps in winter. That would be bad news for skiers, as well as for farmers and others who rely on rivers fed by snowmelt.

"This definitely favors or enhances the frequency of droughts," Fu said of such a shift.

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Is this a true solution?

Congress May Expand Border Fences

By JACQUES BILLEAUD (Associated Press Writer)

From Associated PressMay 11, 2006 11:24 PM EDT

DOUGLAS, Ariz. - Much of this dusty city along the border is separated from Mexico by a fence consisting of 12-foot vertical metal bars, spaced inches apart to prevent illegal immigrants from squeezing through.
Surveillance cameras are mounted on towers nearby, and Border Patrol agents posted hundreds of feet away in the desert scrub and flowering ocotillo watch for anyone who might try to scale, cut through, slip under or sneak around the fence.
Though these fences are criticized for shifting would-be border-crossers to more dangerous and remote spots, they do make it harder for illegal immigrants to reach urban areas where they can slip into a car and head for the nation's interior to find work.
Now, as Washington seeks to overhaul America's broken immigration policies, Congress is considering putting many more such barriers along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, which already has 83 miles of fences.
A bill that cleared the House in December would put fences at immigrant- and drug-smuggling corridors in all four southern border states. At an estimated cost of $2.5 billion, the fences would cover 850 miles of border - roughly one-fifth the length of the Great Wall of China - though it would not be one continuous wall.
The gaps would be policed the way many remote areas of the border are already guarded now: with motion sensors, cameras, unmanned drone aircraft and Border Patrol agents.
Among other things, House legislation calls for a mostly continuous 392-mile fence from Calexico, Calif., to Douglas. The second-largest piece would be a largely uninterrupted 305-mile segment in the Texas brush country from Laredo to Brownsville, a corridor used by cocaine smugglers.
Immigrant rights groups say fences waste taxpayer money because would-be border-crossers who are desperate to earn a better living in America will always find a way around or through barriers, as evidenced by the lower sections of the fence in Douglas, where rods have had to be welded into place to patch up breaches.
Even some proponents say erecting fences, without using other border enforcement efforts, will not stop illegal immigrants.
"All by itself, it's not a magic solution," said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which favors limiting immigration.
But the Border Patrol says fences slow down immigrants so authorities can have enough time to respond to those who try to come across. That, in turn, frees up other agents to focus on remote areas, where they already use aircraft and ground sensors.
"Fencing by itself is not effective, but not having a fence is not effective either," added Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
Advocates for beefing up border security said a 14-mile fence near San Diego, once the country's most prolific smuggling center, shows that barriers work. The fence there is made of corrugated metal sheets previously used as landing surfaces for military aircraft. Behind it is a second fence, made of tightly woven mesh.
Within that area, the barrier is credited with dramatically reducing the flow of illegal immigrants.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, a California Republican who is the leading voice in Congress for more fences, said the costs of building fences are much lower than the government expenses associated with illegal immigration, including huge sums spent on incarcerating immigrants convicted of crimes in the United States.
Opponents say there are some costly consequences as well. Immigrant rights advocates say fences prompt migrants to cross in remote areas where they face dangerous obstacles, such as rivers where some drown, deserts where some succumb to the heat, and mountains where some are injured or die.
Also, a large-scale fence could force immigrants to remain in the country longer, while in the past they came to earn money and then returned home, said Angela Kelley, deputy director of the pro-immigrant National Immigration Forum.
"If it's riskier and harder, people don't leave," said Kelley, who believes a guest worker program will reduce illegal crossings.
In Douglas, Louis Hahn, a retiree who tends horses on his ranch, said the fence reduces traffic through the city. But he said it is simplistic to think that a huge physical barrier will trump the economic forces that prompt fathers to leave their families and risk their lives for a chance at a better life.
"You have got to put yourself in the position of the man crossing the border and what he's willing to take," Hahn said.
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On the Net:
Customs and Border Protection: http://www.cbp.gov
Sen. Jon Kyl: http://kyl.senate.gov
Rep. Duncan Hunter: http://www.house.gov/hunter
National Immigration Forum: http://www.immigrationforum.org
Federation for American Immigration Reform: http://www.fairus.org

WTC Staircase

WTC Staircase Leads Endangered Sites List

By DEVLIN BARRETT (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated PressMay 11, 2006 8:27 AM EDT

WASHINGTON - Anyplace else, the scarred concrete steps would be an eyesore. At ground zero on Sept. 11, 2001, they were a last chance for escape. Now they stand as the last surviving above-ground piece of the World Trade Center.

The "Survivors Staircase" was named one of the nation's most endangered historic places Wednesday, along with whole swaths of New Orleans and Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

By singling out the staircase and sections of the South, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is seeking to preserve areas hit by the two biggest American disasters of recent memory. Katrina, noted Trust president Richard Moe, "damaged more historic homes than any event in the history of the country."

The Trust is a private nonprofit group founded in 1949.
In New York, the rumbling of construction around ground zero has weakened the staircase, and it is not included in plans for a new tower.
To Sept. 11 survivor Patty Clark, the Trade Center staircase is "symbolic of all of us who were witnesses to that day. It's still strong, somewhat damaged, but that's kind of like we all are."

Clark and other employees of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey used the staircase to escape Tower 1 after the terror attacks in New York.

She had already walked down 65 flights of stairs when she got to the World Trade Center plaza. Debris from Tower 2, which had just collapsed, filled the plaza, leaving the open-air staircase as the only way out. She and other employees followed the stairs down to ground level at Vesey Street and raced north, escaping just minutes before their own tower collapsed.

"For people who got out of the building, it was by steps, so steps are very important to the people who lived," she said.
Supporters say they could live with seeing the staircase moved in order to preserve it, as long as it isn't placed far from its original site.

Moe said most people don't know the staircase remains, since it is closed to the public. "It's an enormously important artifact," he said.
In the South, historic Mississippi towns and New Orleans neighborhoods face wholesale demolition after the 2005 hurricane.

Moe said development pressures may lead towns and property owners to relax building codes and replace historic homes rather than repair them.
"They need the assurance that the rush to rebuild won't destroy the historic character that the wind and the water didn't sweep away," he said.

Also cited on the Trust's new list of endangered historic places are the retirement home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Pascagoula's La-Point-Krebs House.

"Katrina represents the greatest cultural disaster in the history of the country, in addition to being a great human disaster," said Moe.
Also named by the group were whole sections of New Orleans, including the lower Ninth Ward, Mid-City, Holy Cross and South Lakeview.

"We're not talking about the expensive homes, we're talking about the low and moderate income homes, the shotgun cottages, the Creole homes. This is the heart and soul of New Orleans," Moe said.

Also named to the most endangered list were:
- The Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building in Washington.
- Blair Mountain Battlefield in Logan County, W.Va.
- Doo Wop Motels in Wildwood, N.J.
- Fort Snelling Upper Post in Hennepin County, Minn.
- Kenilworth, Ill.
- Kootenai Lodge in Bigfork, Mont.
- Mission San Miguel Arcangel in San Miguel, Calif.
- Over-the-Rhine Neighborhood in Cincinnati.

Kenilworth, a northern suburb of Chicago, was chosen as an example of the intense development pressure to tear down early 20th century homes and replace them with what the group decries as hulking mansions.

"It's a phenomenon we're seeing everywhere I go, and it's probably the most pervasive threat to historic communities," said Moe.
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On the Net:
National Trust for Historic Preservation: http://www.nationaltrust.org