Four Winds Casino Grand Entrance
This film was made with permission. This shows the Grand Entrance to the Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo Michigan. It is one of the nicest casinos found anywhere. It was late November so the Casino already had up the Christmas tree.
Four Winds Casino New Buffalo Jr Suite
Jr suite at Four Winds Casino New Buffalo Michigan #FOURWINDSCASINOS
Four winds casino hotel in new buffalo Michigan
This is by far one of the best rooms in Michigan for staying at a casino , I give this place a thumbs up and room was extremely clean upon entering :)
Junior Suite Four Winds Casino
Short Video showing the Junior Suite at the Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo Michigan. Entire Staff was extremely friendly and the suite was very nice.
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The Howling Mines | Critical Role | Campaign 2, Episode 6
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2006 Las Vegas Bowl Oregon (7-4) vs BYU (10-2)
1st portion of this tape(00:00-15:00) are the last minutes of the exciting comeback by #18 Oregon against #15 Oklahoma on a missed call on an onside kick. From September 16, 2006.
2nd portion of tape (15:00-40:00) is of the last few minutes of the Civil War game vs. Oregon State.
3rd portion of tape(40:00-3:11:03) is the 2006 Las Vegas Bowl. This bowl game was played on December 22, 2006 at 5 p.m. PST at 40,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney, Nevada, USA where this bowl game has been played since 1992.
Suspense: After Dinner Story / Statement of Employee Henry Wilson / Cabin B-13
In the earliest years, the program was hosted by The Man in Black (played by Joseph Kearns or Ted Osborne) with many episodes written or adapted by the prominent mystery author John Dickson Carr.
One of the series' earliest successes and its single most popular episode is Lucille Fletcher's Sorry, Wrong Number, about a bedridden woman (Agnes Moorehead) who panics after overhearing a murder plot on a crossed telephone connection but is unable to persuade anyone to investigate. First broadcast on May 25, 1943, it was restaged seven times (last on February 14, 1960) — each time with Moorehead. The popularity of the episode led to a film adaptation, Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), starring Barbara Stanwyck. Nominated for an Academy Award for her performance, Stanwyck recreated the role on Lux Radio Theater. Loni Anderson had the lead in the TV movie Sorry, Wrong Number (1989). Another notable early episode was Fletcher's The Hitch Hiker, in which a motorist (Orson Welles) is stalked on a cross-country trip by a nondescript man who keeps appearing on the side of the road. This episode originally aired on September 2, 1942, and was later adapted for television by Rod Serling as a 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone.
After the network sustained the program during its first two years, the sponsor became Roma Wines (1944--1947), and then (after another brief period of sustained hour-long episodes, initially featuring Robert Montgomery as host and producer in early 1948), Autolite Spark Plugs (1948--1954); eventually Harlow Wilcox (of Fibber McGee and Molly) became the pitchman. William Spier, Norman MacDonnell and Anton M. Leader were among the producers and directors.
The program's heyday was in the early 1950s, when radio actor, producer and director Elliott Lewis took over (still during the Wilcox/Autolite run). Here the material reached new levels of sophistication. The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series (featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny. Jim and Marian Jordan of Fibber McGee and Molly were heard in the episode, Backseat Driver, which originally aired February 3, 1949.
The highest production values enhanced Suspense, and many of the shows retain their power to grip and entertain. At the time he took over Suspense, Lewis was familiar to radio fans for playing Frankie Remley, the wastrel guitar-playing sidekick to Phil Harris in The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. On the May 10, 1951 Suspense, Lewis reversed the roles with Death on My Hands: A bandleader (Harris) is horrified when an autograph-seeking fan accidentally shoots herself and dies in his hotel room, and a vocalist (Faye) tries to help him as the townfolk call for vigilante justice against him.
With the rise of television and the departures of Lewis and Autolite, subsequent producers (Antony Ellis, William N. Robson and others) struggled to maintain the series despite shrinking budgets, the availability of fewer name actors, and listenership decline. To save money, the program frequently used scripts first broadcast by another noteworthy CBS anthology, Escape. In addition to these tales of exotic adventure, Suspense expanded its repertoire to include more science fiction and supernatural content. By the end of its run, the series was remaking scripts from the long-canceled program The Mysterious Traveler. A time travel tale like Robert Arthur's The Man Who Went Back to Save Lincoln or a thriller about a death ray-wielding mad scientist would alternate with more run-of-the-mill crime dramas.
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The misadventures begin when Miles (Paul Giamatti), an un-recovered divorcé and would-be novelist with a wine fixation, decides to gift old college buddy and washed-up actor Jack (Thomas Haden Church) with a celebratory trip to the vineyards of the Santa Ynez Valley the week before Jack's wedding. The two couldn't be an odder couple. Jack is an over-sexed charmer; Miles is a sad-sack worrier. Jack is looking for his last taste of freedom; Miles just wants to taste perfection in a bottle. Jack is fine with cheap Merlot; Miles pines for the elusive, perfect Pinot. Indeed, the only thing they seem to share in common is the same heady mix of failed ambitions and fading youth. And yet, as they make their way up the coast, Miles and Jack soon find themselves drowning in wine and women. Both men careen dangerously and comically toward mid-life crises. Now, the wedding approaches and with it the certainty that Miles and Jack won't make it back to Los Angeles unscathed or unchanged...if they get back there at all.
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DS2 SL1: Сколько гондурасов чёрных на арене той, сквозь толпу не вижу босса или я слепой (Часть 2)
0:00:00 DS2 SL1: Сколько гондурасов чёрных на арене той, сквозь толпу не вижу босса или я слепой
0:45:30 Чихнул и говорю что есть поесть
1:20:00 поделился наработками новой песенки (а ещё узнал, что я лох и говно)
1:33:00 бан за Нейромонах Феофан (неопределённость ютуба)
0:53:00 МЕРЦАНИЯ В ИГРЕ (баг экрана 1)
1:09:00 ОНА ЖЕ ДЕВУШКА (ЧТО С ЛЮДЬМИ НЕ ТАК)
1:30:00 Не увернулся от вертикального удара
2:31:00 просто нереальный хитбокс в другую сторону
2:37:00 блять, просто 3 раза подряд падаю с поста
2:50:00 ручка от жигули, крутящийся зонтик (баг шульва)
3:28:00 Выблядки конченные, наяривающие друг другу (2 раза хильнули)
3:33:10 Найс рофлы, тупнул назад на 2 метра в захват (ПОГЧАМП) анимации бесездовские
3:46:30 кувыркнулся в босса, другого
3:48:30 Всё настолько плохо, что дед задевает меня 03:51:30
3:49:00 ДА КУДА ОНА УДАРЯЕТ
3:52:30 ВТОржение пораЖЕНИЕ
3:57:00 Да ёб твою мать, ХВАТИТ ГОНЯТЬ МЕНЯ, СУКА ЁБАННАЯ одновременно 2 стадия
3:59:00 попала попАЛА, ЧТО ЭТО ЗА МАНСЫ 04:00:30 ПАЯЯЯЯТКА
4:02:30 Ебать она пердит, плеткой попали КАК ЭТО НЕДЕПО
4:04:00 ВТОРЖЕНИЕ ебать я его убил
4:09:30 ёбанные танцульки
4:16:30 жесть заколупасили
4:31:30 вот только не надо, ЁБАННАЯ ШЛЮХА, КАК ТЫ МЕНЯ ДОЕБАЛА БЛЯ (1 удар боссам)
4:33:30 НЕ БЫЛО НИ ЕДИНОГО РАЗРЫВА!
4:45:00 ЧТО ЗА ХРЕНЬ БЛЯТЬ (что-то упало, отняло управление)
4:53:30 ДА ИДИ ТЫ В ПЕНЬ БЛЯТЬ как она тае бануто закручивается
5:31:20 Накликал себе баг с мерцанием игры белым (баг экрана 2)
5:44:00 СТИМ на профилактике ОК
5:46:30 кувыркнулся в босса
5:49:25 что это за скрипты, все 5 секунд она меня атаковала
5:53:45 я просто не могу увернуться подряд от этих 3 ударов
5:57:30 КАК они меня убил (сбил тайминди, подросил и ударил 2 раз)
6:06:30 с 6:03:30 по 6:06:40 столкьо времени И ВСЁ В ПУСТУЮ, ЧТО ЭТО ЗА УДАР (ЗАЁБАННЫЙ БОЙ)
6:07:13 вторжение арбалет маг париконга
6:15:20 НАЙС ВРЕМЯ ДЛЯ ЭКПЕРИМЕНТОВ (захват)
6:20:10 получил все 3, когда лелал шаг и уворачивался от них
6:25:20 ПИДАРАС, ПРОСТО НЕ МОЖЕТ БЫТЬ, ПРОСТО НЕ МОЖЕТ БЫТЬ (захват)
6:44:20 ЕбАТЬ ОНА ГОНИТСЯ, ДА ТЫ ЗАЕбАЛА (1 УДАР) СТУЧУ ПО КЛАВЕ
6:52:00 я не успеваю в неё ролится
6:55:20 лохи, но как убивают
6:56:20 ВТОРжение. сдох от моба, пока делал бекстеб фейту
7:00:00 ВТОРжение маг и пидорас, затыкал топором
7:02:20 всё перепутал с фантомом, что она кружит
7:04:20 не попасть по толстой шлюхе, а потом попасть под ужар 360 разворачивающегося
7:09:20 ВТОРАЯ СТАДИЯ ГОАНА, ВЖЖЖЖЖ
7:20:00 ПОПИЗДИ МНЕ ТУТ (заебал abizzaka)
7:24:00 ВОССЛАВИТЬ СОЛНЦЕ = ЕБАТЬСЯ В ЖОПУ
мой личный врач, как мне жить
7:26:00 КАК МЕНЯ ВСЁ ЗАЕБАЛО (Я ВЫСКАЗАЛСЯ) ОРУ ЧТО ПИЗДЕЦ СОСЕДЯМ 4 ночи
7:32:00 Я НЕ ВИЖУ ПРОБЕЛА, ОБИДНО ЧТО ПИЗДЕЦ
7:34:30 ОДИН - ЛЕГКО, ДРУГОЙ - СЛОЖНО, ДА ОПРЕДЕЛИТЕСЬ ВЫ УЖЕ
7:46:30 Тихо, ёбанная шлюха с 1 ударом
7:52:00 -УБИЛ ТВИКСОВ (ЗАЩИТНИК И СМОТРИТЕЛЬ)
7:59:30 Чихнул, всё заблевал
8:03:00 сгорел от луча
8:10:00 Убил Нашандру, а где Алдия? Заруинил квест
8:45:30 Вендрик = озон терпила, что-то пошло не так
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Стрим 18+, его создатель слепой крот часто бомбит по мелочам, таращит ебало, плохо понимает шутки и любит просрочку из KFC
Бан за ОЧЕНЬ плохие шутки на гране бана ВО ВСЁМ МИРЕ и подсказки(=спойлеры), облегчающие ебобе страдания, на основе которых и делается весь контент. Другие игры не предлагать, сюжетные игры противопоказаны
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5. Если путь до босса неимоверно длинный и занимает большую часть стрима, загружать сейв перед туманом
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The Great Gildersleeve: Gildy Is In a Rut / Gildy Meets Leila's New Beau / Leroy Goes to a Party
Aiding and abetting the periodically frantic life in the Gildersleeve home was family cook and housekeeper Birdie Lee Coggins (Lillian Randolph). Although in the first season, under writer Levinson, Birdie was often portrayed as saliently less than bright, she slowly developed as the real brains and caretaker of the household under writers John Whedon, Sam Moore and Andy White. In many of the later episodes Gildersleeve has to acknowledge Birdie's commonsense approach to some of his predicaments. By the early 1950s, Birdie was heavily depended on by the rest of the family in fulfilling many of the functions of the household matriarch, whether it be giving sound advice to an adolescent Leroy or tending Marjorie's children.
By the late 1940s, Marjorie slowly matures to a young woman of marrying age. During the 9th season (September 1949-June 1950) Marjorie meets and marries (May 10) Walter Bronco Thompson (Richard Crenna), star football player at the local college. The event was popular enough that Look devoted five pages in its May 23, 1950 issue to the wedding. After living in the same household for a few years with their twin babies Ronnie and Linda, the newlyweds move next door to keep the expanding Gildersleeve clan close together.
Leroy, aged 10--11 during most of the 1940s, is the all-American boy who grudgingly practices his piano lessons, gets bad report cards, fights with his friends and cannot remember to not slam the door. Although he is loyal to his Uncle Mort, he is always the first to deflate his ego with a well-placed Ha!!! or What a character! Beginning in the Spring of 1949, he finds himself in junior high and is at last allowed to grow up, establishing relationships with the girls in the Bullard home across the street. From an awkward adolescent who hangs his head, kicks the ground and giggles whenever Brenda Knickerbocker comes near, he transforms himself overnight (November 28, 1951) into a more mature young man when Babs Winthrop (both girls played by Barbara Whiting) approaches him about studying together. From then on, he branches out with interests in driving, playing the drums and dreaming of a musical career.
DS2 SL1: Колесница, Гули и Драконоёбец, или Пик с големом Ебобо
0:00:00
0:42:45 сожрал алогичный демон
0:47:30 Убил алгчного демона
1:15:50 Маска Ебобо
1:20:00 МИМИК, Мимик блять
1:23:00 НЕТ, я его не открывал
1:25:00 Убил мимика, АХУЕТЬ хватает ловкости на крюк 01:27:30
1:40:30 твою мать, ТЫ ЧТО ДЕЛАЕШЬ
1:43:30 ДА ОТЪЕБИИИСЬ
1:46:00 ну и нахуй тогда
1:53:00 Ты что блять, ты что блять
1:56:30 Нет, НЕТ, нет, нет..
2:06:40 Да, да?
2:08:30 как попало, хуй пожрал
2:11:45 Убил Миту
2:12:10 замечательный лифт ебало таращиванья
3:18:00 КАКОЕ ОТРАВЛЕНИЕ, ЁБ ТВОЮ МАТЬ БЛЯТЬ, ПОПАЛ НА ДЕРЬМО
3:24:00 Убил Бойца крыс
4:42:00 чихнул
5:31:00 Убил Нажку (17:52:20 3:51:30)
7:49:30 Убил Крыса
9:01:00 Убил Драконоёбца под лил лосс
10:08:30 Учу алфавит
10:24:00 Умер от бомжа на Маге (ору)
10:26:00 АМЕРИКАН БОЙ (как ты доебал блять)
11:09:00 вторжение J сажает фпс
13:54:00 блядский ии ёбанных бомжей
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)