Christmas Village | Rapid City, South Dakota | Black Hills
As we greet you at the door, you will step into a world of excitement and enchantment: The sights and sounds of Christmas. We capture the joy of the Christmas Season, Fall and Halloween throughout the store.
9 miles south of Rapid City, SD off of HWY 16
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Most small business owners know the importance of taking out loans and lines of credit in order to grow. Better Qualified offers business solutions to analysis and consulting on business and establishing business credit scores, credit card approval processes. Paul J. Oster is the CEO of Better Qualified, LLC, a limited liability company that specializes in business credit services. Better Qualified works with over 100 business partners that are both public and privately held companies. The company has consulted for thousands of individuals and corporations on their credit ratings, operations, sales and business models. All Video Credits you can find here Rapid City is the second-largest city in South Dakota (after Sioux Falls) and the county seat of Pennington County. Named after Rapid Creek, on which the city is established, it is set against the eastern slope of the Black Hills mountain range. The population was 67,956 as of the 2010 Census. Known as the Gateway to the Black Hills and the City of Presidents, it is split by a low mountain ridge that divides the western and eastern parts of the city. Ellsworth Air Force Base is located on the outskirts of the city. Camp Rapid, a part of the United States Army National Guard, is located in the western part of the city. The historic Old West town of Deadwood is nearby. In the neighboring Black Hills are the popular tourist attractions of Mount Rushmore, the Crazy Horse Memorial, Custer State Park, and Wind Cave National Park. Better Qualified, LLC is a company that uses a dynamic approach to ensure that their clients are maximizing the benefits that are associated with higher credit scores. This company will examine client’s current products and services that are directly related to their credit scores. Mortgages, Lines of Credit, Deposits, Loans, Student Loans, Credit Cards, and Insurance are just some of the areas that will be evaluated to make sure clients are in a 'better' place when they complete the program. Another program is the Freedom Package. The ultimate goal of this offer is to have the program pay for itself. Why pay more for every financial transaction and other business affair for the rest of your life. Better Qualified protects you against Identity Theft, the fastest growing crime in America. Finance and Insurance industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in underwriting annuities, insurance policies and reinsurance, and the retailing of insurance and the provision of related services to policyholders. Industries are defined in terms of the type of risk being insured against, such as death, loss of employment due to age or disability, and property damage. Establishments that pool risk invest premiums to build up a portfolio of financial assets to be used against future claims. Contributions and premiums are set on the basis of actuarial calculations of probable payouts based on risk factors from experience tables and expected investment returns on reserves. Better Qualified company created a motivating short film focused on people who have just started a new business. Everyone, who has just started his own business first of all need business credit. Business credit is a way to grow your business with new lines of credit without any personal guarantees. Better Qualified can help you with this easily. On the Better Qualified web page you can find important stuff like separating your SSN from your tax ID. Also a comprehensive audit and business filing. Secure between $50000 and $100000 of credit within 12 months. Build your Paydex, Intelliscore and DUNS profile. Establish new business tradelines for items like credit cards. Once you establish your business credit you can lease equipment and a whole lot more.
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New Years. Fireworks. Rapid city South Dakota
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Exploring the Teddy Bear Mansion (Gone Wrong)
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THE BADLANDS, WALL DRUG, AND THE CORN PALACE!
Driving through South Dakota can be pretty desolate, but at least we were able to visit Wall Drug and the Corn Palace to break up the drive to Omaha!
Wall Drug Store, often referred to simply as Wall Drug, is a tourist attraction located in the town of Wall, South Dakota, United States. It is a shopping mall consisting of a drug store, gift shop, restaurants and various other stores. Unlike a traditional shopping mall, all the stores at Wall Drug operate under a single entity instead of being individually run stores. The New York Times has described Wall Drug as a sprawling tourist attraction of international renown [that] takes in more than $10 million a year and draws some two million annual visitors to a remote town.
The Corn Palace is a multi-purpose arena/facility located in Mitchell, South Dakota. It is a popular tourist destination, visited by more than 500,000 people each year. The Moorish Revival building is decorated with Crop art; the murals and designs covering the building are made from corn and other grains. It also hosts the home basketball games of Dakota Wesleyan University and the Mitchell High School Kernels.
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Watertown SD Polar Plunge 2014
The 2014 Special Olympics Polar Plunge held at Lake Kampeska, Watertown SD Feb. 15 raised over $80,000. Entries from as far away as Ohio joined in on the event.
LA Angel's Tent City: The New Face of Homelessness
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Help us document and support the new faces of homelessness and those at need in an effort to shed more light and awareness on this growing issue.
Tent cities are popping up all over America at rapid speeds (The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty announced that research showed a 1,342% increase in homeless encampments reported between 2007 and 2017).
I and my producing partner Mitch Koss got to check out the controversial Los Angeles Angel's Tent City located in Anaheim, California where more than 1,000 people are said to call this area home. Within minutes, we met a 34 year old college educated single Mom born and raised in Orange County, aka The OC, who is now 6 months in to living in her tent. She let us film inside her tent so we could show you this dangerous living environment. Also, I get tempted to buy a bicycle from Mike's Bikes, another locally born and raised OC native millennial now 3 years into living in tent city. He lives in a sub camp with his brother a contractor short on jobs and his fiancee who works full time in a local store.
Perhaps the reason why California, New York, Florida and Washington state account for so many homeless people is that homelessness is no longer simply the result of mental illness and / or addiction -- which it mainly was starting in the '80s when the mental ill were de-institutionalized, that is, tossed onto the streets, so the public didn't have to pay for their care.
Today homelessness is looking more and more like the result of income inequality, and the rising unaffordability it brings.
For example, the state of California has the world's 6th largest economy, which means there's a lot of accumulated wealth here. But last fall, the US Census Bureau said that when cost-of-living is factored in, California has the highest poverty rate in the nation, nearly 1 in 5 people... And nearly 1 in 8 residents of the US living in California:
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Philip Sheridan | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:12 1 Early life and education
00:03:33 2 Civil War
00:03:42 2.1 Western Theater
00:11:27 2.2 Overland Campaign
00:16:20 2.3 Army of the Shenandoah
00:22:59 2.4 Appomattox Campaign
00:25:00 3 Reconstruction
00:29:46 4 Indian Wars
00:33:04 5 Postbellum career
00:35:59 6 Yellowstone
00:38:49 7 Personal life
00:39:38 8 Death and burial
00:40:46 9 Legacy
00:46:07 10 In popular culture
00:46:17 10.1 In literature
00:47:12 10.2 Onscreen
00:49:24 11 Dates of rank
00:49:33 12 See also
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Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864, he defeated Confederate forces under General Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley, called The Burning by residents, was one of the first uses of scorched earth tactics in the war. In 1865, his cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental in forcing his surrender at Appomattox.
Sheridan fought in later years in the Indian Wars of the Great Plains. Both as a soldier and private citizen, he was instrumental in the development and protection of Yellowstone National Park. In 1883, Sheridan was appointed general-in-chief of the U.S. Army, and in 1888 he was promoted to the rank of General of the Army during the term of President Grover Cleveland.
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North Dakota | Wikipedia audio article
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North Dakota ( (listen)) is a U.S. state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States. It is the nineteenth largest in area, the fourth smallest by population, and the fourth most sparsely populated of the 50 states. North Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889. Its capital is Bismarck, and its largest city is Fargo.
In the 21st century, North Dakota's natural resources have played a major role in its economic performance, particularly with the oil extraction from the Bakken formation, which lies beneath the northwestern part of the state. Such development has led to population growth and reduced unemployment. North Dakota contains the tallest human-made structure in the Western Hemisphere, the KVLY-TV mast.
Rural Medicine | On Call with the Prairie Doc | March 31, 2016
Dr. Rick Holm, The Prairie Doc, is joined by Joy Falkenburg, MD, of the Custer Regional Health Clinic to discuss the differences between urban and rural medical practices.
Dr. Falkenburg graduated from the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine in 2000. She works in Custer, SD, and specializes in Family Medicine. Dr. Falkenburg is affiliated with Custer Regional Hospital and Custer Regional Medical Clinic. She is also a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine for the USD Sanford School of Medicine. For this position, she received the prestigious University of South Dakota (USD) Sanford School of Medicine (SSOM) Department of Medicine 2014-2015 Edward J. Batt, M.D., Memorial Award for Outstanding Faculty Member.
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Board of County Commissioners Douglas County Nebraska meeting December 11, 2018
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The Queens and Brooklyn Nobody Knows: A Block by Block Exploration
November 15, 2016
The Fall 2016 Presidential Lecture Series:
“The Queens and Brooklyn Nobody Knows: A Block by Block Exploration”
A Lecture By Dr. William Helmreich
Distinguished Professor Of Sociology
The City College Of New York
The City University Of New York
Bill Helmreich walked 6,000 miles to write a book, The New York Nobody Knows. The goal was to capture the heart and soul of this great metropolis by speaking with hundreds of people from different walks of life. In this talk he will focus on two of the hottest boroughs, Queens and Brooklyn, to explore issues like immigration, community, ethnicity, and gentrification.
Bill will also talk about how he came to walk 121,000 blocks (that’s how big NYC is) and why walking is the best way to learn about a city he calls “the world’s greatest outdoor museum.” You’ll hear about the man with two boa constrictors wrapped around his neck, a man with a unique flower garden, a woman who decorated her home in a special way, a church that performed exorcisms on a regular basis, and a homeowner who placed 1140 stuffed toys in a cherry tree.
Dr. William Helmreich received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Washington University (St. Louis). He is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Colin Powell School of Civic & Global Leadership at City College of New York and a Professor of Sociology at City University Graduate Center. He is also a Permanent Senior Fellow at Yale University. Helmreich served as Department Chairman for five years at City College and taught at Yale University before coming to CUNY.
A former Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Dr. Helmreich is the author or editor of 15 books, including The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City (Princeton University Press), winner of the 2015 Guides Association of New York City Inaugural Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Book Writing; The Brooklyn Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide (Princeton University Press); What Was I Thinking: The Dumb Things We Do and How to Avoid Them (Rowman & Littlefield); The Things they Say Behind Your Back: Stereotypes and the Myths Behind Them (Doubleday and Transaction Books); Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives they Made in America (Simon & Schuster); Contemporary Issues in Society (McGraw-Hill) with Hugh Lena & William McCord; and The Black Crusaders: A Case Study of a Black Militant Organization (Harper & Row).
Professor Helmreich is currently writing a five book series, one volume on each borough, for Princeton University Press. As a result, he has been walking NYC again. The first volume on Brooklyn appeared in October 2016. His lifelong interest in the Big Apple was sparked by a game he and his father played when he was a child, called “Last Stop.” Each week they would take a subway to the last stop and walk around the neighborhood. When they ran out of last stops, they went to the second, third, and fourth-to-last stops. As he put it “My father gave me the greatest present a parent can give besides love—the gift of time.” He has written for The New York Times, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, and has appeared on Oprah, Larry King, CNN, CBS Morning News, and as a guest anchor on NBC TV News and has been profiled in the New Yorker magazine. A May 2016 segment of Sunday Morning News with Charles Osgood was devoted to his book about New York.
You Bet Your Life: Secret Word - Face / Sign / Chair
Julius Henry Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 -- August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film and television star. He is known as a master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers and imitators. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigar, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows. These exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the world's most ubiquitous and recognizable novelty disguises, known as Groucho glasses, a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.
Groucho Marx was, and is, the most recognizable and well-known of the Marx Brothers. Groucho-like characters and references have appeared in popular culture both during and after his life, some aimed at audiences who may never have seen a Marx Brothers movie. Groucho's trademark eye glasses, nose, mustache, and cigar have become icons of comedy—glasses with fake noses and mustaches (referred to as Groucho glasses, nose-glasses, and other names) are sold by novelty and costume shops around the world.
Nat Perrin, close friend of Groucho Marx and writer of several Marx Brothers films, inspired John Astin's portrayal of Gomez Addams on the 1960s TV series The Addams Family with similarly thick mustache, eyebrows, sardonic remarks, backward logic, and ever-present cigar (pulled from his breast pocket already lit).
Alan Alda often vamped in the manner of Groucho on M*A*S*H. In one episode, Yankee Doodle Doctor, Hawkeye and Trapper put on a Marx Brothers act at the 4077, with Hawkeye playing Groucho and Trapper playing Harpo. In three other episodes, a character appeared who was named Captain Calvin Spalding (played by Loudon Wainwright III). Groucho's character in Animal Crackers was Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding.
On many occasions, on the 1970s television sitcom All In The Family, Michael Stivic (Rob Reiner), would briefly imitate Groucho Marx and his mannerisms.
Two albums by British rock band Queen, A Night at the Opera (1975) and A Day at the Races (1976), are named after Marx Brothers films. In March 1977, Groucho invited Queen to visit him in his Los Angeles home; there they performed '39 a capella. A long-running ad campaign for Vlasic Pickles features an animated stork that imitates Groucho's mannerisms and voice. On the famous Hollywood Sign in California, one of the Os is dedicated to Groucho. Alice Cooper contributed over $27,000 to remodel the sign, in memory of his friend.
In 1982, Gabe Kaplan portrayed Marx in the film Groucho, in a one-man stage production. He also imitated Marx occasionally on his previous TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.
Actor Frank Ferrante has performed as Groucho Marx on stage for more than two decades. He continues to tour under rights granted by the Marx family in a one-man show entitled An Evening With Groucho in theaters throughout the United States and Canada with piano accompanist Jim Furmston. In the late 1980s Ferrante starred as Groucho in the off-Broadway and London show Groucho: A Life in Revue penned by Groucho's son Arthur. Ferrante portrayed the comedian from age 15 to 85. The show was later filmed for PBS in 2001. Woody Allen's 1996 musical Everyone Says I Love You, in addition to being named for one of Groucho's signature songs, ends with a Groucho-themed New Year's Eve party in Paris, which some of the stars, including Allen and Goldie Hawn, attend in full Groucho costume. The highlight of the scene is an ensemble song-and-dance performance of Hooray for Captain Spaulding—done entirely in French.
In the last of the Tintin comics, Tintin and the Picaros, a balloon shaped like the face of Groucho could be seen in the Annual Carnival.
In the Italian horror comic Dylan Dog, the protagonist's sidekick is a Groucho impersonator whose character became his permanent personality.
The BBC remade the radio sitcom Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, with contemporary actors playing the parts of the original cast. The series was repeated on digital radio station BBC7. Scottish playwright Louise Oliver wrote a play named Waiting For Groucho about Chico and Harpo waiting for Groucho to turn up for the filming of their last project together. This was performed by Glasgow theatre company Rhymes with Purple Productions at the Edinburgh Fringe and in Glasgow and Hamilton in 2007-08. Groucho was played by Scottish actor Frodo McDaniel.
Calling All Cars: History of Dallas Eagan / Homicidal Hobo / The Drunken Sailor
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.