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how best to proceed to buy a small farm or farm land? i am looking in south central tennessee. i would prefer a south slope, with 4 season stream. no agent if i can help it (what are the dangers?) this would be a lazy farm, maybe a few chickens, ducks, hay, a dog or three. maybe i could park a trailer on the property until i could build a home.

Explanation: The surface of our Sun is constantly changing. Some years it is quiet, showing relatively few sunspots and active regions. Other years it is churning, showing many sunspots and throwing frequent Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and flares. Reacting to magnetism, our Sun's surface goes through periods of relative calm, called Solar Minimum and relative unrest, called Solar Maximum, every 11 years. The featured video shows on the left a month in late 2019 when the Sun was near Solar Minimum, while on the right a month in 2014 when near Solar Maximum. The video was taken by NASA's Solar...

hypothetically, a driver gets flashed by an automated speed trap at a california intersection, running a green light. he (or she or they) is(are) wearing a baseball hat and dark sunglasses. ho.e/she/they have facial hair which did not show in their last driver's license photo, years ago. the usual drill (so i have learned in a different california county) is that -- in theory-- the automated incident notice first goes to a reviewing human police officer. the police officer looks at the incident photos and tries to make a facial match with the registered owner. if the officer succeeds, and...

Shares of Australian investment firm Macro Energy gained 42% yesterday, after news emerged that it plans to enter the bitcoin space and raise A$9.1m ($8.2m) in funding.

For a two-and- a-half-year-old movement, the tea party has already left a massive imprint on American politics. No Republican contender for the presidency can afford to betray its positions against taxation, against liberalizing immigration policies, against a loose interpretation of the Constitution. Tea party backers in 2010 helped vault a number of Republican candidates into the House of Representatives, which now boasts a thriving Tea Party Caucus. Need more evidence of its mainstream emergence? Just weeks ago, CNN teamed up with Tea Party Express to sponsor a GOP presidential debate. These milestones notwithstanding, the movement remains a pipsqueak on the...

my epson 500 printer prints leaving blank stripes across the page. this is the 2nd epson 500; the first was replaced because of problems. it's less than a year old, on warranty.

a specious argument is a favorite pretext for war. hamas is attempting to break the blockade of gaza by means of propaganda in the international news

obama released a new ad today and the annointed one is at it again check out 28 seconds in the tag line reads BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENT

Why do we capitalize the word “I”? There’s no grammatical reason for doing so, and oddly enough, the majuscule “I” appears only in English. Consider other languages: some, like Hebrew, Arabic and Devanagari-Hindi, have no capitalized letters, and others, like Japanese, make it possible to drop pronouns altogether. The supposedly snobbish French leave all personal pronouns in the unassuming lowercase, and Germans respectfully capitalize the formal form of “you” and even, occasionally, the informal form of “you,” but would never capitalize “I.” Yet in English, the solitary “I” towers above “he,” “she,” “it” and the royal “we.” Even a gathering...

Investors clamor to take over America's highways, bridges, and airports

I'm *CONCERNED* that when Rush gets out of treatment next month, the *PALM BEACH* district attorney (probably still *BITTER* over the 2000 election!) is going to try to make a *NAME* for himself by going after Rush on *TRUMPED UP* charges. I was *HEARTENED* by initial reports that Palm Beach only goes after *DEALERS*, not *USERS*, but I'm *WORRIED* after reading the *NEWSWEAK* article that says they sometimes *DO* go after users, especially *CELEBRITIES*. I think there is *LEGITIMATE* reason for *CONCERN* here, considering that Palm Beach is a *LIBERAL* county. It scarcely seems to *MATTER* that Rush never committed...