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[FlyRobinFly]

I have not been on much to tell you guys, but we are looking at buying another home and moving. We have already found one that we are putting an offer on. The address is in Monroe. The place is around High Bridge (if any one knows were that is). It is great, 10 acres, 6 bedrooms, ready for horses and other animals, huge chicken coop!!!!!! Shop and also a garage for DH to be entertained while I play in the 9 stall barn or the HUGE covered areana. This place is amazing, and best of all..... if a fricking cyote shows up out there, we will be having cyote for dinner! I can't wait to live somewhere that I can shoot the things that threaten to take my animals.
So wish us luck, got my fingers crossed for us!

That place sounds wonderful! I hope you do get it.

 

[JNB]

Originally Posted by Chicken Rustler

OK so as it turns out course my nephew has wireless that I a can tap from the trailer. So here are a couple pics from the first day I was here to help with set up.They are expecting 300++. They have had a portable dance floor brought in for the live band.
In these first 2 all a long the deck is an 8' tall glass wall. It is awesome as it really keeps the wind off the deck.



This place is awesome.... and you are pretty cool to be going ahead of time to help set up..

Originally Posted by lisaheath1

Here are some pics of the coop we are building. We are doing this freestyle, lol. No plans, just making it up as we go....




Your coop is really awesome design.. Props for doing it "as you go" Looks fantastic.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Here are some pics of the coop we are building. We are doing this freestyle, lol. No plans, just making it up as we go....

Great pictures, I like how you're documenting the building process, and it looks like you're having great fun with it too.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

I'm taking a break from studying today because it is my B-Day. I decided I'm 4 years younger today. I'd shave off more than that, but I don't think I'd pass

I gave a lot of chicken coop tours over the weekend. I wasn't planning on it, but we had a month-late birthday party for my DD over the weekend (back-yard camping slumber party).

Well, Happy Birthday one day late Ogress! And a belated Happy Birthday to Olivia as well.

 

[Greg Richardson]

This is what I was posting about a week ago. After being rear ended at a stop sign having my life changed forever just what I want to see is the car manufactures chasing each other to bring more and more distractions to driving. Cell phone use along with make up and men shaving going down the road is bad enough now they be checking their facebook.








Automakers rush to add apps, but regulators fear distractions

By John R. Quain
New York Times News Service

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The Cadillac CUE infotainment system's interface is shown in the car and on an iPad. (General Motors)

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here have been the sexy horsepower wars and dull best-in-class fuel-efficiency battles. Now automakers are fighting an undeclared, escalating war over in-dash apps, worrying regulators about even more distracted driving.
Automakers say they are concerned, too, but that hasn't stopped them from connecting smartphones to in-dash systems and putting Internet-based information into so-called connected cars for 2013. While some Web-based apps offer features similar to those already available in traditional car stereo systems (such as the streaming music service Pandora), newer offerings will let drivers order movie tickets, scroll through restaurant reviews and even check Facebook updates.
Mercedes-Benz, in its just-released second-generation Mbrace2 system, offers six apps, including Yelp, Google Local Search and Facebook, which will allow you only to check in. Acura, Honda and Subaru plan to introduce a suite of streaming services using Aha, a division of the telematics company Harman. Facebook will be included, and one of the services Aha will offer is the reading of Facebook posts aloud.
Facebook is also in the new version of the Lexus Enform system, along with six other apps, including movie-ticket ordering, restaurant listings and Yelp.
Carmakers say customers are demanding these features, driven by the popularity of touch-screen smartphones and tablets.
"The majority of auto companies are reactive," Robert Acker, Aha's general manager, says of the apps arms race. "They see some announcement some other automaker made and they want to have the same services in their car."
Government regulators are concerned. In February, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a 177-page set of proposed guidelines for in-car electronics. The report repeatedly mentions the complexity of dashboard displays and services that include Twitter posting in traffic, checking restaurant recommendations and buying tickets from behind the wheel.
Car manufacturers say the reality is that drivers are already using these features on their phones while driving. The goal, they argue, is to offer fewer distractions with built-in systems that use, for example, voice commands, buttons on the steering column and large touch screens.
"They are using these apps on their smartphones, anyway," says Jim Buczkowski, Ford's director of electrical and electronics systems. "So how can we enable them in a non-distracting way?"
Some interfaces allow drivers to scroll through a list of items; others don't. Some systems do not allow drivers to use touch screens; others emphasize them.
"We consider the size of text and the number of items per screen" in order to reduce the amount of time a driver may glance away from the road, says Sam Adams, cross-car-line services manager for Mercedes-Benz, which doesn't use touch screens.
Most systems also prevent drivers from using onscreen keyboards to enter addresses while the car is in motion, something automakers point out portable navigation devices and smartphones do not do.
Many of the companies involved in connected car services worry that government regulators will step in to eliminate them. Indeed, the NHTSA, in its February report, recommends that any in-dash operation that requires the driver to look away from the road for more than two seconds be disabled. The agency also suggests banning manual text entry of more than six button or key presses during a single task and the use of more than 30 characters of text on a screen.
But the NHTSA proposals are only recommendations. More important, the technology and services are changing so rapidly that any regulation would probably be obsolete by the time it became enforceable.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

~Tracy, poultry n008 but a fast learner

Like your Clumber Spaniel too!

 

[justbugged]

Quote: I am willing to take a feral cat. If you catch him. I would be more than willing to come get him. I had been known to rehabilitate feral cats.

 

[hallerlake]

This is what I was posting about a week ago. After being rear ended at a stop sign having my life changed forever just what I want to see is the car manufactures chasing each other to bring more and more distractions to driving. Cell phone use along with make up and men shaving going down the road is bad enough now they be checking their facebook.








Automakers rush to add apps, but regulators fear distractions

By John R. Quain
New York Times News Service

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The Cadillac CUE infotainment system's interface is shown in the car and on an iPad. (General Motors)

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here have been the sexy horsepower wars and dull best-in-class fuel-efficiency battles. Now automakers are fighting an undeclared, escalating war over in-dash apps, worrying regulators about even more distracted driving.
Automakers say they are concerned, too, but that hasn't stopped them from connecting smartphones to in-dash systems and putting Internet-based information into so-called connected cars for 2013. While some Web-based apps offer features similar to those already available in traditional car stereo systems (such as the streaming music service Pandora), newer offerings will let drivers order movie tickets, scroll through restaurant reviews and even check Facebook updates.
Mercedes-Benz, in its just-released second-generation Mbrace2 system, offers six apps, including Yelp, Google Local Search and Facebook, which will allow you only to check in. Acura, Honda and Subaru plan to introduce a suite of streaming services using Aha, a division of the telematics company Harman. Facebook will be included, and one of the services Aha will offer is the reading of Facebook posts aloud.
Facebook is also in the new version of the Lexus Enform system, along with six other apps, including movie-ticket ordering, restaurant listings and Yelp.
Carmakers say customers are demanding these features, driven by the popularity of touch-screen smartphones and tablets.
"The majority of auto companies are reactive," Robert Acker, Aha's general manager, says of the apps arms race. "They see some announcement some other automaker made and they want to have the same services in their car."
Government regulators are concerned. In February, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a 177-page set of proposed guidelines for in-car electronics. The report repeatedly mentions the complexity of dashboard displays and services that include Twitter posting in traffic, checking restaurant recommendations and buying tickets from behind the wheel.
Car manufacturers say the reality is that drivers are already using these features on their phones while driving. The goal, they argue, is to offer fewer distractions with built-in systems that use, for example, voice commands, buttons on the steering column and large touch screens.
"They are using these apps on their smartphones, anyway," says Jim Buczkowski, Ford's director of electrical and electronics systems. "So how can we enable them in a non-distracting way?"
Some interfaces allow drivers to scroll through a list of items; others don't. Some systems do not allow drivers to use touch screens; others emphasize them.
"We consider the size of text and the number of items per screen" in order to reduce the amount of time a driver may glance away from the road, says Sam Adams, cross-car-line services manager for Mercedes-Benz, which doesn't use touch screens.
Most systems also prevent drivers from using onscreen keyboards to enter addresses while the car is in motion, something automakers point out portable navigation devices and smartphones do not do.
Many of the companies involved in connected car services worry that government regulators will step in to eliminate them. Indeed, the NHTSA, in its February report, recommends that any in-dash operation that requires the driver to look away from the road for more than two seconds be disabled. The agency also suggests banning manual text entry of more than six button or key presses during a single task and the use of more than 30 characters of text on a screen.
But the NHTSA proposals are only recommendations. More important, the technology and services are changing so rapidly that any regulation would probably be obsolete by the time it became enforceable.
Life changed forever? Were you hurt badly?

 

[Greg Richardson]

Yes, neck,back, closed head injury. Wasn't able to talk right, think, write words, memory, etc. Lot of that has come back.
But I doubt my neck will ever be the same. Hoping all my memory works good again.
Good news is I'm blessed to have recovered the amount I have as some never come out of it.

 

[hallerlake]

Yes, neck,back, closed head injury. Wasn't able to talk right, think, write words, memory, etc. Lot of that has come back.
But I doubt my neck will ever be the same. Hoping all my memory works good again.
Good news is I'm blessed to have recovered the amount I have as some never come out of it.

Wow! I'm glad to hear you're doing as well as you are.

Mr Hallerlake swears that acupuncture did more for his neck than doctors or chiropractors ever did.