Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - Movie fans are in for a treat as the American Film Institute airs its 11th annual countdown celebration Tuesday night. The show is a three-hour salute to the Top 10 American movies from 10 film genres.
Jessica Alba, Sigourney Weaver, Kirk Douglas and Gabriel Byrne are among the stars counting down the 10 greatest films in 10 different genres: animation; courtroom drama; epic; fantasy; gangster; mystery; romantic comedy; science fiction; sports and Western.
Each category will be presented by a separate star. Three of the biggest names are Clint Eastwood (Westerns), Alba (Romantic Comedy) and Quentin Tarantino (Gangster).
“AFI’s 10 Top 10″ airs Tuesday night at 8/7c on CBS.

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Despite having 'loss of income' insurance, most aren't seeing payments
LAKE DELTON — Most who operate one of the many family-owned, quaint resorts on the shores of now-empty Lake Delton are doing their best to keep a sense of humor — even though a dark cloud of uncertainty is omnipresent.
“You can go almost anyplace in Wisconsin and find a lake filled with water,” said Kate Pettit, who owns and operates Delton Oaks, which features 27 motel rooms/suites and a two-bedroom cabin on the southwest side of Lake Delton. “But this is the only place you can see a lake without water.”
On Monday, the lake which attracts thousands of tourists each summer, drained after a portion of the sandy northern shoreline breached following heavy rains — allowing Lake Delton to quickly rush into the nearby Wisconsin River.
Christine Nowak, owner of the Lakeside Motel — which is just down Wisconsin Dells Parkway from the main entrance to the Tommy Bartlett Show — joked: “I guess I’ll have to change the name of this place for a year.”
What has caught Walter and Bertha Bochenczak a bit off-guard is the outpouring of support they have received from many of the people who have stayed at their Thunderbird Resort — which features four rental cottages and a four-plex of condominiums on the west shore of Lake Delton — for the past 16 years.
“We’re a true Mom and Pop operation, and it’s been strange because so many people who have stayed with us are calling and offering condolences, like somebody died,” Walter Bochenczak said. “But we’ll figure it out — even if (Bertha) has to go get a job as a waitress, and I have to work as a bus boy.”
After a few minutes chatting, however, the Bochenczak’s brave faces and sense of humor begins to erode. Although the draining of Lake Delton may have a relatively minor impact on the greater Wisconsin Dells area as a whole, the drying lake bed — which now consists mostly of muck, old tree stumps, buoys, assorted trash and a stream of water — is a devastating blow to those whose resorts sit next to what was 267 acres of water just days ago.

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Beginning today, Bubba Watson will see if his Torrey Pines practice pays dividends.
Watson, who finished in a tie for fifth at the 2007 U.S. Open, joins Heath Slocum and Boo Weekley as Pensacola area representatives teeing it up in the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego today.
As far as first impressions from those 36 practice holes, the course offered little surprise to Watson.

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CLASSIC CARS AND TIMELESS EPISODES IN THE U.S. PREMIERE OF TOP GEAR’S SIXTH SEASON
Fans of BBC AMERICA’S International Emmy-winning car show, Top Gear, can catch up on the earlier antics of the intrepid trio - hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May - and the mysterious ‘The Stig - with the U.S. premiere of Season Six. The team pit a Range Rover against a tank, race from London to Norway, try to outrun Irish Army snipers in convertibles and count down the greatest driving songs of all time.
Top Gear, season six premieres Monday, July 14 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.
Top Gear takes extraordinary and ordinary cars to the limit and beyond to find out if they’re as good as their manufacturers claim. Full of extreme stunts, challenges and weekly features, Top Gear is exciting, inclusive and passionate there are no boring stats and impenetrable conversations about camshafts and tire pressures. But it is the sharp wit of Jeremy, Richard, and James that make it more than just a motor show.
Straight out of BBC AMERICA’s Top Gear vault, this season the guys return to the ’60s to define ‘cool’ with the Aston Martin DB5 and Jaguar E-Type and then James May spins back to the’70s with the Maserati Bora. It becomes a family affair when the hosts hand over reporting duties to their mothers, who review a range of small cars from Renault, Honda and Peugeot.
Once again The Stig puts the rich and famous through their paces in the ‘Star in the Reasonably Priced Car’ feature. Getting behind the wheel on the test track this season include Timothy Spall (Harry Potter), The Darkness’ Justin Hawkins, Sir Tim Rice, and BBC Radio personality Chris Evans.

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Last-minute gift seekers with a computer and printer on the ready can honor dads this Father’s Day with free printable cards, gift tags, certificates and more thanks to the FreePrintable.net family of sites.
At Free Printable Greeting Cards.org, there are humorous cards, including dads in mild peril.
For the younger set, there are Father’s Day coloring pages along with hundreds of other themed coloring sheets that are perfect to slip in a card or frame for Dad.
All of the printables can be downloaded and printed for free as PDFs, while the certificates and cards also have premium Microsoft Word download options so, for a fee of $4, users can customize them however they would like.
“Our free printables save you a trip to the store while still showing Dad that you care,” said Kevin Savetz, creator of the FreePrintable.net sites. Other Printable.net sites fill a variety of home and business needs, from free printable business cards to fax cover sheets to printable paper.
FreePrintable.net was created by Savetz Publishing, Inc., a company that creates high-quality, content-driven web sites. The FreePrintable.net family of sites also offers free printable business cards, stationery, award certificates, recipe cards and other useful printable items. Savetz Publishing also owns FaxZero, which lets users send faxes from their PC; and Free After Rebate, a guide to free-after-rebate deals.

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“Spontaneous jamming strongly encouraged.”
That informal suggestion included in promotional material for the Raccoon County Music Festival, set for Saturday at Geauga Historical Society’s Century Village Museum in Burton, hints at the type of happenings that will be taking place at the annual event.
Along with performers presenting traditional and folk tunes on a simple, wooden haywagon stage, festival goers will find clusters of musicians strumming fiddles and plucking guitars while resting on picnic benches, grassy grounds and wherever else the melodic mood strikes.
That combination, according to event organizer Pete McDonald, is what the casual concert is all about.
“There are people that haven’t seen each other in a while who get together, sit under a tree and start playing. Others see them and join, and there you have an old-time jam,” said McDonald, a Cleveland resident who used to live in Munson Township. “And we’re also not just picking any old bands (for the scheduled events). These are masters of their music, mostly American traditional.”
Bringing it back
McDonald, a Chardon High School graduate, is one of the driving forces who about three years ago revived the raccoon round-up, which began in the late 1970s. Its wildlife-based name derives from the American Indian word “sheauga” (a precursor to “Geauga”) meaning “raccoon.”
In its infancy, groups of musicians would get together to jam the day away just for the fun of playing old-time tunes. Later, the event became more organized, with arranged performances and the introduction of popular headliners.
Despite lapses in production over the years, the revival has proven to be successful, drawing hundreds of folks.
McDonald was steeped in song from an early age. His mother, Mary (Haas) McDonald, is part of a large musical family, many of whom comprise The Maple Hill Rounders.
The group, including McDonald, will provide tunes for do-si-do-ing at a square dance to cap off the day.

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T O D A Y
HERITAGE SENIOR CENTER “Garden Fun with Your Grandchildren”. Please sign up in advance so supplies will be available. Other activities include a rubber stamp class, bingo and ceramics. The center is at 140 E. Center St., Clearfield. For information, call 801-773-7065.
AUTUMN GLOW SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER Bill Fennimore, Wild Bird Center, will talk about attracting and feeding birds, 11:30 a.m. Dr. Kent Nabors, gero-psychologist, will be available for private consultations today at the center, 81 E. Center St., Kaysville. For information, call 801-544-1235.
GOLDEN YEARS SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER Navajo taco lunch, $3. Reservations required. Other activities include Tai Chi, the Reminiscence group, soft aerobics, watercolor, beginning tap, stained glass, pinochle, bridge, billiards and dancing to a live band. The center is at 726 S. 100 East, Bountiful. For information, call 801-295-3479.
S A T U R D A Y
ORIENTEERING 10 a.m.-1 p.m., at Kaysville Mountain Park. Visit www.o-utah.org.
AUDITIONS: “CLEARFIELD IDOL” Auditions for children ages 6-12 is from 10 a.m. to noon; ages 13-19 is 12:30-2:30 p.m. and people 20 and older is from 3-5 p.m. at the Clearfield Community Center’s Little Theatre, 140 E. Center St., Clearfield. Pre-register by today. For information, call 801-525-2790 or visit www.clearfieldcity.org.
BIRDWALK Guided walk, Kays Creek. Departure is at 8 a.m. from the Wild Bird Center of Layton, 1860 N. 1000 West. For information, call 801-525-8400 or visit www.wildbirdcenter.com/stores/lay/birdwalks.
S U N D A Y
“THE TRUE STORY OF CINDERELLA” - A COMIC OPERA 7 p.m., Ed Kenley Centennial Amphitheatre, 455 N. Wasatch Drive, Layton. Free, family oriented event. For information, call 801-546-8575 or visit www.thedavisarts.com.

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The typical football uniform includes thigh pads, shoulder pads and a helmet.
It’s an outfit worthy of protecting anyone on the football field, but it hasn’t been approved by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration as proper attire for a construction site. The athletic fields and gymnasiums at McKinney High will be empty this summer as the campus undergoes a giant upgrade this summer. From the main student parking lot to the lockers and the McKinney ISD Natatorium, there will be renovations aplenty, and in order to complete the construction before the start of the 2008-09 school year, the building will be closed to outside personnel for the next three months. In other words, no football helmets allowed.
“Safety is our primary concern,” Pogue construction site manager Kenneth Taylor said. “Anybody that walks into this building needs to be wearing a hard hat.”
Many involved with the McKinney athletic department will be relocating to off-site facilities for the next few months.
Campus athletic coordinator and head football coach Bobby Reyes will be moving his office to the McKinney ISD Athletics offices at Ron Poe Stadium while his assistants move over to Faubion Middle School, site of numerous McKinney High summer camps, including the seventh- and eighth-grade football camps.
Among the structural improvements include new dressing rooms and new turf inside the multipurpose facility, which includes the main weight room. McKinney is moving its training facility to Faubion. “It’s the same thing that Boyd had to do with its construction last year,” Reyes said. “They dealt with the same circumstances last year, and they proved it can be done. It’s not going to be that big of a deal.”
While the football team prepares for a move to Faubion, many of the other sports are still looking for a home.

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Give the kids a taste of Indian culture with a visit to the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s exotic ”The Jungle Book.”
The play at DeSales University is filled with brightly colored, flowing costumes, lighting that evokes the leafy mystery of the jungle and a score of Indian-inspired songs built on the themes of inclusion, cooperation and respect for others.
Featuring an assortment of memorable characters — from the wide-eyed 11-year-old Mowgli to the hypnotic and dangerous Kaa the python — the tale may be a little scary at spots but is ultimately richly rewarding. It’s definitely not the Disney version of the Rudyard Kipling story.
The animals are creatively portrayed with stylized gold headpieces and paws on the back of their hands.
”The Jungle Book,” 10 a.m. today and Friday. Continues next week at 10 a.m. Wednesday and runs 10 a.m. most Tuesdays through Saturdays, through Aug. 2. DeSales University, Schubert Theatre, 2755 Station Ave., Center Valley. Tickets: $13; $11, ages 12 and under. MOVIES IN THE PARK
With the weather teasing us with a hint of summer, grab a blanket and head to a park for an outdoor movie. Allentown and Bethlehem offer free family-friendly movies in parks throughout the summer on inflatable outdoor screens.
Allentown presents the boy-meets-alien movie ”E.T.” at dusk Friday on a 16-by-9-foot screen in Roosevelt Park, Saucon and Woodward streets.
Bethlehem kicks off its movies at dusk Wednesday on its 25-by-14-foot screen with ”The Goonies,” a tale of adventurous misfits, in Friendship Park, E. North and Penn streets.
On June 12, the Ben Stiller comedy ”Night at the Museum” will be shown at Fairview Park, Fourth Avenue and W. Market Street.
Summer movies in Allentown include ”Apollo 13,” July 4 at Cedar Beach; ”Evan Almighty,” Aug. 1 at Irving Park; ”Grease,” Aug. 23 at West Park (with dinner; call 610-434-0657 to register) and ‘The Bee Movie” Sept. 5 at the Allentown Arts Park.

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