'Fireworks Over Lake D'Arbonne' set for the Saturday The Union Parish Chamber of Commerce will present “Fireworks Over Lake D’Arbonne” in the Farmerville on Saturday near the Highway 33/15 bridge. A flotilla of decorated boats will launch at 7 p.m. and tour the lake until 8:30 p.m. Ceremonies and the fireworks display will begin at 8:45 p.m. For best viewing, the public can gather at Lake D’Arbonne Motel, Ludwig Marine, ramp road and...

Holiday brings out fireworks fun, danger in the Myrtle Beach area The Fourth of July holiday is a time to celebrate the nation's history and spend time with friends and family, but area authorities also want to remind residents and visitors to be safe while in the area and use common sense during their travels. "July 4th is typically a busy weekend for us, obviously," Myrtle Beach police Capt. David Knipes said. "We're getting into the...

Boston Business Journal Honors Carbonite as One of the Boston's Best Places to Work Carbonite®, a leading provider of online backup solutions which provide customers with "anytime, anywhere access" to their stored files, has been honored by the Boston Business Journal as the areas' 9th best. Here is my HIC so far. I got this from Vos last October. Even though it was a great casting, to super clean-up something this size takes a LONG time.When y. By Christopher Zinsli Carbonite Inc., a provider of online backup services that...

Sideshow: Shia and Megan: Costars coupled Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox engaged in sexual relations while filming first Transformers movie, the manchild admits to Details. "Look, you're on the set for 6 months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them," said Shia, 25, who is promoting Transformers: Dark of the Moon. "I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation....

Summerfest is a yearly music festival held at the 300,000 m2 Henry Maier Festival Park along the lakefront in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The festival lasts for 11 days, is made up of 11 stages with performances from over 700 bands, and since the mid-1970s has run from late June through early July, usually including the 4th of July holiday. Summerfest attracts between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people each year, promoting itself as "The World's...

Very Low-Calorie Diet May Reverse Diabetes A very low-calorie diet of 600 calories a day may be able to reverse type two diabetes, preliminary research suggests. 11 people who had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes within the past four years slashed their calories for 8 weeks, sticking to a diet of liquid diet drinks and non-starchy vegetables. Three months after going off the diet, 7 were free of diabetes. Sound too tough to follow?...

So You Think You Can Dance is an American dance competition and the reality show that airs on Fox in the United States. The series first premiered on July 20, 2005 and has a similar premise to the American Idol series of singing competitions, with nationwide auditions leading to the discovery of the next big star. However, unlike American Idol, the show focuses not only on the dancers' talent, but also showcases new works by cutting edge...

Revolutionary Road is a 2008 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes, from screenplay by Justin Haythe, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. It is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates. The film opened in limited release on December 26, 2008, and expanded wide on January 23, 2009. It was the first film in which DiCaprio and Winslet have co-starred since the 1997 film Titanic. The film was nominated for 3...

Is J.K. Rowling Working On More Harry Potter? With the final screen installment of the Harry Potter saga set to the hit theaters next month, fans of the beloved boy wizard have braced themselves for what seems like the end – or is it? A Twitter account for the site also blasts the same message, but a rep for Rowling, 45, was mum about what exactly the author is conjuring. Rowling's spokesperson told the BBC that the project was not "directly...

Best Fathers Day Quotes and more Happy Fathers Day Poems and Printable Cards  Father’s Day Quotes and Poems – The Father’s Day is celebrated in almost 60 countries around the world. This is the day and right time to reward them with same honors as what we have given to our Mothers last month and throughout the entire year. It is also said that every minutes is no comparison to our parents in our life as what they have contributed to...

As seen from the Earth, a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, and the Moon fully or partially covers the Sun as viewed from a location on Earth. This can only happen during a new moon, when the Sun and Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth. At least 2, and up to 5, solar eclipses occur each year; no more than 2 can be total eclipses. Total solar eclipses are nevertheless rare at any particular location...

Michele Marie Bachmann is a member of the US House of Representatives, representing Minnesota's Sixth congressional district, and a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. She previously served in the Minnesota State Senate and is the first Republican woman to represent the state in Congress. Bachmann is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, a supporter of the Tea Party...

Pentecost is one of the prominent feasts in the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ after the Resurrection. The feast is also called Whit Sunday, Whitsun, or Whit especially in the United Kingdom, where the following Monday was traditionally a holiday. Pentecost is celebrated 7 weeks after Easter Sunday, hence its name. Pentecost falls on the tenth day after Ascension Thursday. Pentecost...

The Nissan Leaf is a five-door mid-size hatchback electric car manufactured by Nissan and introduced in Japan and the U.S. in December 2010. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official range is 117 kilometres, with an energy consumption of 765 kJ/km and rated the Leaf's combined fuel economy at 99 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent. The Leaf has a range of 175 km on the New European Driving Cycle. Deliveries to individual customers...

A solar flare is a sudden brightening observed over the Sun surface or the solar limb, which is interpreted as a large energy release of up to 6 × 1025 joules of energy (about a 6th of the total energy output of the Sun each second). The term is also used to refer to similar phenomena in other stars, where the term stellar flare applies. Solar flares affect all layers of the solar atmosphere, when the medium plasma is heated to tens of...

Super 8 is a science fiction film written and directed by J. J. Abrams and the produced by Steven Spielberg. The film, starring Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, AJ Michalka, and Kyle Chandler, will be released on June 10, 2011 in conventional and IMAX theaters. Cast    * Joel Courtney as Joe Lamb    * Elle Fanning as Alice Dainard    * Kyle Chandler as Jackson Lamb    * Ron Eldard as Louis Dainard   ...

Mystique is a fictional character associated with the Marvel Comics' franchise X-Men. Originally created by artist David Cockrum and writer Chris Claremont, she first appeared in Ms. Marvel 16. Throughout most of her history, Mystique has been a supervillain, founding her own Brotherhood of Mutants and assassinating several important people involved in mutant affairs. Mystique herself is a mutant, a shapeshifter whose natural appearance...

Google Reader is a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline. It was released by Google on October 7, 2005 through Google Labs. Reader was graduated from beta status on the September 17, 2007.InterfaceGoogle made major revisions to Reader's user-interface on September 28, 2006. Product manager Nick Baum described the redesign as a movement toward making news aggregation something for the general public...