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Ramona Trevino wiped her eyes as she stood at the microphone. She looked out at her audience, a crowd of 50 or so sweating on a narrow patch of grass up in Sherman. "For three years, I managed this Planned Parenthood," she said. "There was a tugging in my heart, which it shames to me to say I ignored. This spring, you can just say everything changed."
The people on the grass were gathered outside the former site of Sherman's only Planned Parenthood, a tiny facility that was only open three days a week and didn't perform abortions. It closed August 24 for lack of business, something that this area's pro-life contingent was ready to count as a major victory.
On a crushingly hot Sunday, they came to the public right-of-way directly outside the vacant building to celebrate: Hymns pumped from a tiny portable speaker, prayers were said, women wept, cake was served. A volunteer holding a sign that read "Jesus Loves You" waved at passing cars. A few times they waved back.
An elderly man with a long white beard arrived at the rally in a truck festooned with statuary of saints, pro-life bumper stickers, and a wooden sign that read "God Bless Texas." He beckoned me over to show me the cab, which was festooned with more images of saints and pictures of him with various pro-life luminaries. Asked for his name, he shook his head. "Names don't matter," he said. "Only Jesus matters. They just call me the Jesus Freak."
Although the Sherman Planned Parenthood may not have offered abortions, "they provided abortion referral," Karen Garnett told me. She's the executive director of the Catholic Pro-Life Committee (CPLC). "Every Planned Parenthood refers women for surgical abortions."
They also, of course, provided Well Woman exams and pap smears; women in Sherman who previously used Planned Parenthood are being referred to its next closest location, 40 minutes south in McKinney. A report by the Sherman Herald Democrat in 2009 found that uninsured women seeking preventative health care only had four options: the Greater Texoma Health Clinic, the Health Department, the Texoma Health Foundation and Planned Parenthood.
Garnett didn't seem concerned that the Sherman clinic's closing might limit access to health care. "They might have to drive a little further," she said. "But it's still available." Gerry Brundage, President of the Texoma Pro-Life Association, later dismissed, "all that, 'Oh, where are women gonna go? Women are gonna die,' stuff," as "just rhetoric."
The event was also meant to celebrate that Ramona Trevino had, during her time managing the Sherman Planned Parenthood location, changed her political direction and became wholeheartedly anti-abortion. Many of the attendees were affiliated with 40 Days For Life, a national campaign that is, as their website states, "a community-based campaign that draws attention to the evil of abortion" through prayer, vigil, fasting, and community outreach. Their national director, David Bereit, showed up from Washington D.C., to attend the rally. He said that since the campaign began, "4,313 babies have been saved, and 53 workers have left the abortion industry. Ramona is No. 53."
Trevino is in her 30s, with short dark hair and a silver cross dangling from around her neck. She sat under a blue tent for most of the rally, being fanned with a paper by the woman next to her, looking serious and a little teary. She told a CPLC employee to relay to me that she "wasn't speaking to media today." Instead, she listened as a parade of speakers praised her bravery, occasionally dabbing at her eyes. She's been only intermittently employed since leaving the Sherman facility, most recently at a bank, Bereit told me.
The director of the local Pregnancy Care Center also spoke; like most crisis pregnancies centers, it's firmly anti-abortion and warns on its website of abortion's potential "spiritual consequences." The director, who gave her name as Melba, mentioned that during her time at Planned Parenthood, Trevino had started referring patients to the Pregnancy Care Center instead of her own workplace.
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"I walked out of this job on Friday May 6," Trevino told the crowd, when it was her turn to speak. "And I never have looked back since. My message is to glorify God. I really want this day to be about the power of prayer... This place is out of business, and it's all because of God." She spoke only briefly, reading from note-cards, before going back to stand with her husband and teenage daughter. At that point, a tiny blond teenager appeared by my side with a leopard-spotted umbrella. "May I shelter you?" she asked, her braces flashing as she spoke. "You look really hot." She stood motionless for 20 minutes or so, the umbrella aloft. "God bless you," she said finally, before snapping the umbrella shut and going back to join her family.
David Bereit, 40 Days For Life's national director, said that the Texoma Pro-Life association has been praying for the Sherman facility to close for 7 years, ever since it first opened here. "They've been praying for this to happen for a long time," he said. "They feel this is an answer to their prayers."
"The battle's not over," Pastor Jeff Davis of Victory Life Church told the crowd. "We pray for their other locations to be closed, to be put out of business." 40 Days For Life will be campaigning in Dallas next. They're planning a 24/7 protest later this year outside Planned Parenthood's Greenville Avenue location, which they call a "late-term abortuary."
Gerry Brundage, president of the Texoma Pro-Life Association, had one more piece of good news, before the cake was cut and everyone beat a retreat from the punishing heat. "Ramona," he said solemnly, "is with child." Trevino erupted into a fresh wave of tears as she was engulfed by her supporters; people lined up to hug her, everyone wanting a little piece of what they saw as a miracle.


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Runtastic MWC has used this in Europe 2013 to present two new accessories for bikers that will make the experience more complete rider. This is their last two gadgets: "Speed & Cadence Sensor" and "Bike Case".
The accessory "Speed & Cadence Sensor", as its name suggests, is a measurement sensor that will give us information about speed and cadence monitoring can live through the App runtastic. Place, with flanges on the bottom of the picture sleeve and connects via Bluetooth, which makes it compatible with any smartphone that has an application dedicated to cycling. All information, of course, will be recorded and will be available through these Apps.
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Meanwhile, the housing "Bike Case" is designed for iPhone 4, 4S and 5 and available in two colors, clear black and white. Runtastic wanted to make our terminal in a monitor, through their applications and Mountain Bike Bike Run, we can control our career path without desconcentrarnos if the phone suffers during exercise. This has created a rigid housing with safety lock, a sporty, gummy and robust, made with exact and necessary openings to connect our headphones or an extra battery. Screensaver features against splashes and bumps and Belly buttons. Moreover, the housing can be placed either horizontally or vertically on the handlebar or on the stem where more convenient, and has the necessary elements for assembly.
These two accessories add to the runtastic family that already has many gadgets to cheer on the "hard" work out of our couch and move our muscles or join if you are a pro. Since sensors in helmets, watches and belts, gloves that allow us to use our terminals, to chargers, extra batteries or fasteners in the race.
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Star Wars And Toy Story Lands Are Coming To Disney's Hollywood Studios
In huge news for Star Wars and Toy Story fans, Disney's Hollywood Studios are set for a major makeover with lands based on both movie franchises coming to the park.
A second Star Wars Land is also set to open at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
The awesome news was revealed during the D23 conference on Saturday.
The Star Wars areas will each be 14 acres – Disney's largest single themed land expansions ever – and both will include an attraction that puts visitors into a battle between the First Order and the Resistance. Another attraction will place guests behind the controls of the Millennium Falcon.
Bob Chapek, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts said:
[The land] will introduce you to a Star Wars planet you've never seen before — a gateway planet located on the outer rim, full of places and characters familiar and not so familiar. The inhabitants of this remote frontier town — one of the last stops before wild space — will operate every store and restaurant. Every single thing will be in story.
Toy Story Land is also set to be quite the immersive experience, as the all new 11-acre expansion will encourage visitors to "think they've been shrunk to the size of Woody and Buzz as they are surrounded by oversized toys" and the park will be based on Andy's backyard.
Speaking during the event, lead creator for Walt Disney World Kathy Mangum said:
We are looking at Hollywood Studios with different eyes, taking it from a behind-the-scenes experience to one that takes you into your favourite movies.
Mangum confirmed that Toy Story land will include at least two new attractions.
She added:
One will see little green aliens pulling you around as the Claw looms over you. The other is a family coaster where you ride on the back of Slinky Dog.
Part of the development will also see a new track added to the existing Toy Story Mania! attraction, a 4D shooting game which allows guests to take aim at 3D objects.
The D23 conference has been a bit of a goldmine thus far, with news that Toy Story 4 will focus on a love story between Woody and Bo Peep, and the first images from Finding Dory being released.
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The biggest statement LeGarrette Blount made Friday night wasn't his touchdown run.
The Bucs running back, who could be on the verge of losing his starting job, said he thinks he and Doug Martin could be the best pair of backs in the league.
"We can definitely be the best duo in the NFL, with the schemes that we have, with the offensive line that we have, with the blocking and the confidence [Martin] has in me and the confidence I have in him," Blount told Stephen Holder of the Tampa Bay Times. "It's definitely going to be a really good fit. We have the potential to be the best backfield in the league."
Perhaps Blount should start with being the best backfield in the NFC South, where a group that includes Michael Turner in Atlanta is probably last in terms of top-to-bottom talent, behind Carolina's three-headed attack (or maybe four, if you count Cam Newton) and a New Orleans fleet of backs who fit into specific roles.
Blount ran for 30 yards on seven carries, and Martin added seven carries for 21 yards. Each scored a touchdown, as coach Greg Schiano tried to establish a mindset with playcalls,
Blount said he's lost weight, and feels quicker this year, which is what a guy who is being pushed for his job should say.
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Today in Kimberley's History
Extract from "The diary of a doctor's wife" by by Winifred Heberden
This interesting diary of the Siege of Kimberley covers the period 16th October 1899 to 21st February 1900. At the outbreak of the war, Winifred's husband, Dr. G.A. Heberden, (affectionately known as 'Jack' to his family and friends), was the District Surgeon of Barkly West; and when it was realized that the Anglo-Boer War was inevitable Dr. Heberden decided to offer his services to the Imperial Forces in Kimberley, and that night he tied his three year old son, Reggie, to his back with a blanket and, together with his wife and 19 year old cousin, Harry Gibbs, left everything they possessed behind and rode on horseback the 23 miles into Kimberley. Dr. Heberden was enlisted as Surgeon Captain under Imperial Orders. (The diary is available online in two parts: Part One and Part Two.)
I went to the inspection of the gun at the 'Stone Crusher Fort', riding on Jack's steady old charger, as the climb up was rather steep. This gun, being placed on such a high Debris Heap, commands a wide range of country looking towards Felsted's Farm, Dronfield, Intermediate Station and the Waterworks. We saw through a telescope the Boer Laager of tents and wagons between Dronfield and the Intermediate. Cape Police are in charge of the gun we inspected.
We returned through the old Mounted Camp ground and saw the improvements in drainage and gravelling they are making for the reception of the troops again. Afterwards we went on to De Beers' Workshops to look at the big gun being made under Mr Labram's directions.
They were boring it at the time, and as it slowly revolved in a horizontal position one could see what a big fellow he is. The length is about 10 foot, and the weight of the shells about 28.5 lbs. Next week it is to be finished. The carriage for it is made of iron also. The calibre of the gun is 4.1 inches. Between 30 and 40 men are engaged on it, and it will cost between UK PNDS800 and 1,000, which includes the extra wages to the men.
Close by the Workshops is the Cold Storage place, recently finished and capable of taking quite 500 carcases. It will also be useful for storing frozen meat after communication by rail is opened up. There is a reserve of meat already in store in case anything happens to the last of our live-stock.


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|Maruti Suzuki signs agreement with Gujarat government for land purchase
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|Gandhinagar, 2nd June, 2012: Car market leader Maruti Suzuki India Limited today signed State Support Agreement (SSA) with the Government of Gujarat for purchase of land near Mehsana to set up an all new manufacturing facility.
The Agreement was signed by Mr. Shinzo Nakanishi, Managing Director and CEO, Maruti Suzuki India Limited and Mr. Maheshwar Sahu, Principal Secretary (Industry and Mines), Government of Gujarat in the presence of Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi.
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summary : Prayer services kicked off soon after word spread about the latest rounds of fatal shootings involving both police and civilians in Louisiana, Minnesota and Texas. However, church leaders in various U.S. geographies share that they know Christians are seeking a more robust sort of religious counseling, because they do not agree violence is the answer.
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Spoilers on: one of the biggest questions movie-goers will leave this weekend's "Thor: The Dark World" with doesn't have anything to do with the titular Thunder God, his brother Loki, or nearly anything having to do with the movie itself. Rather, it's the identity of Benicio del Toro's weird-out character The Collector, who appears in a brief, mid-credits sequence; and will later show up in 2014's "Guardians of the Galaxy."
We'll get to who The Collector is from the comics and how he might play into "Guardians of the Galaxy" in a moment. But first, when MTV News' Josh Horowitz hit the red carpet for "Thor: The Dark World" in Los Angeles, he found out the whole scoop from Jaimie Alexander and Ray Stevenson (who appear in the mid-credits scene as "Thor" characters Sif and Volstagg respectively), as well as "Guardians" Director James Gunn.
Beyond confirming that he did direct the scene in question, it turns out Gunn had a very short timeline to get it done. "I got the script that morning," Gunn said. "Did it at the end of a day of second unit shooting, and that's how this little bit came together."
Anyone who has seen the scene knows that even for a space epic based on a comic book, del Toro's performance is "out there." And Alexander and Stevenson agree: "He's a tall chap, quirky, and mad as a bag of snakes," Stevenson joked, adding that he only met the actor for the one day of shooting. "His hair is pretty awesome," Alexander added with a laugh.
Gunn added that the character is different from how he imagined when he was writing the script, but del Toro still nailed what the writer/director had on the page. "I did sort of say he's like an outer space Liberace," Gunn said. "Which he's kind of doing! But he just came in prepared, doing something utterly unique, and he's mesmerizing."
Not much is known about The Collector's role in "Guardians," though he in some way relates to villains Ronan The Accuser, played by Lee Pace; Nebula, played by Karen Gillan; and uber-baddie Thanos, played, so far as we know, by nobody. Despite that, Gillan, when asked on the red carpet for "Thor 2," said that she didn't share any scenes with del Toro, so where his loyalty lies in the movie remains to be seen.
So who is The Collector in the comics?
First of all, as his name implies, he collects things. He's one of the Elders of the Universe, a race of immortal beings who wield tremendous power. The Collector has the power to see the future, and in the books saw the coming of arch-villain Thanos. To protect races (and objects) from the Mad Titan, The Collector created a vast menagerie and storehouse to keep them safe.
One of those things? An Infinity Gem, a stone capable of great power coveted by Thanos. Over the years, The Collector has helped, and sometimes clashed with the heroes of Earth, particularly The Avengers. He also is often seen with fellow Elder The Grandmaster, who likes to play games involving Earth heroes.
Will any of that play into Guardians? Given the direction of that mid-credits scene, it's entirely possible. But we'll have to wait until August 1st, 2014, when "Guardians of the Galaxy" hits theaters to find out.


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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Three quick thoughts after the MLS All-Stars' 2-1 win over Bayern Munich at Providence Park on Wednesday night:
1. It's a nice moment for MLS
And we're not just talking about the result. Coming off the heels of a World Cup that captivated the nation like never before, this was a week to celebrate the growth of the sport in the United States. Portland was the perfect host. It's a soccer city, pure and simple, and the MLS All-Stars' matchup with mighty Bayern was the talk of the town in the lead-up to the contest. The only question was whether the home team would be up for the challenge. MLS has had its share of victories in these showpiece matches, but it's been embarrassed at times, too -- most recently in last summer's one-sided loss to Roma, a team that doesn't have the stature of the German champions.
Bayern dominated early, and when Robert Lewandowski gave the visitors the lead eight minutes in, MLS fans feared the worst. But the hosts managed to claw back into the game in the second half with goals from New York Red Bulls forward Bradley Wright-Phillips -- the league's leading scorer -- and Landon Donovan, who was famously left off the U.S. World Cup squad in May. The former Bayern loanee sent Diego Valeri's feed past Manuel Neuer to seal the 2-1 win. The victory doesn't mean anything in the standings, it's true. But beating a team like Bayern Munich is never meaningless.
2. Lewandowski may be the best striker in the world
The Polish forward arrived on a free transfer from Borussia Dortmund this summer, but there probably isn't a more valuable player in the world right now. Lewandowski had been in brilliant form for Bayern during all preseason, and he was again right from the start against the best in the MLS. The 25-year-old forced a fine save from Nick Rimando seven minutes into the match, and moments later he showed his class by skipping over defender Aurelien Collin and ripping a swerving 18-yard bomb past Rimando. (Perhaps the Real Salt Lake keeper misplayed the shot slightly, but there probably wasn't much he could have done to stop it, anyway.)
Later, Lewandowski thrilled the crowd with some fancy footwork, and his combination play and movement off the ball was also sublime. He's probably the best target striker anywhere right now, but that label doesn't do him justice. What makes Lewandowski so dangerous is his versatility. With size, guile and the outrageous skill on display here, there is no shortage of ways he can win a match. Now, with an all-world supporting cast around him, we could simply be calling him the game's best striker, period, by the end of the season.
3. Thierry Henry is still world-class
As good as Lewandowski was on Wednesday, the best player on the field for either team in the first half may have been 36-year-old living legend Thierry Henry. The French icon, who turns 37 on Aug. 17, combined superbly with front-runners Clint Dempsey and Obafemi Martins early on, and after he nearly scored on an audacious long-range half-volley in the 41st minute, he proceeded to chew out referee Jair Marrufo for not awarding a corner kick off the deflected shot. That combination of skill and fire has helped Henry win every major title in world soccer during his sterling 20-year career.
There has been plenty of recent speculation that Henry will retire at the end of this season, when the 4½-year contract he signed with the New York Red Bulls in 2010 expires. And when MLS coach Caleb Porter subbed for him three minutes into the second half (Henry was the only member of the starting XI not to be yanked at the break) so he could receive a lengthy ovation, it sure felt like the end of something. In some ways, it would be a shame. Henry's earned the right to go out on his own terms, of course. But there's no doubt the man can still play.


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Group 1 elements, also known as alkali metals are elements that can usually be remembered by students in the Periodic Table of Elements, simply due to its proximity to the left end of the table. (Most students read from left to right, obviously) The following notes in Berry Berry Easy is Part 3 of SPM Chemistry Form 4 Notes on Periodic Table of Elements. Similar to understanding noble gases (from Part 2), the trends for Group 1 elements in terms of electron arrangement of atoms, physical properties, chemical properties and specifically for this group, safety precautions will be discussed.
(Tips: Please follow the safety precaution prescribed by your teacher in handling the alkali metals (if you were given the chance to do so). The reason is simple, as you will only need to see the volatile nature of alkali metals here when they are in contact with water, Brainiac's video on Alkali Metal <view here>. After viewing the video, you should have no reasons to not follow the safety precautions)
(Second Tips: Do try your best to memorise the elements down the group. Read aloud everyday a few times: Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium and Francium. If you do so, you'll memorise it without much effort. That'll be an advantage in exams.)
SPM Chemistry Form 4 Notes – Periodic Table of Elements (Part 3)
Group 1 elements
- Group 1 elements are known as alkali metals
- Atomic radius (atomic size) – increases (going down the group)
- The outermost shell of the atoms (Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and Fr) have 1 valence electron
- Good reducing agents
- Very reactive – increases (going down the group)
- Very electropositive – increases (going down the group)
|Electron arrangement of atom
|Lithium / Li
|Sodium / Na
|Potassium / K
|Rubidium / Rb
|Caesium / Cs
|Francium / Fr
Physical properties
- Grey solids with shiny silvery surfaces when freshly cut
- Soft solids at room temperature
- Good conductors of electricity
- Good conductors of heat
- Low melting point and boiling point (compared to heavy metal)
- Melting point and boiling point decreases (going down the group) – atomic size increases and number of shells occupied with electrons increases / metallic bonding between atoms becomes weaker & less heat energy is required to overcome the weaker metallic bonding.
- Low density (Li, Na and K float on the surface water / Rb, Cs and Fr sink in the water)
- Density of element increases (going down the group)
Chemical properties
- Chemically very reactive and react rapidly with oxygen and water vapour in the air (must be kept in paraffin oil)
- Reactivity increases (down the group) – how easily it can lose one (single) its valence electron to achieve stable (octet or duplet) electron arrangement
- React vigorously with cold water – produce alkaline metal hydroxide solutions and hydrogen gas
- React with oxygen – produce white solid metal oxides and metal oxides can dissolve in water to form alkaline metal hydroxide solutions
- React with halogens – produce white solid metal halides
Safety precautions
- Cannot hold with bare hands
- Wear safety goggles and gloves
- No flammable substance nearby
- Avoid the fire
The next part, Part 4 in this series of notes from Berry Berry Easy on the Periodic Table of Elements for SPM Chemistry Form 4 students will be focused on Group 17 elements or Halogens such as Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine and Astatine. They are what the Berry Berry Teacher will call, the friendliest group of elements. After you learn this topic, you'll understand why.


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Following A Society of Hounds I've been pairing poems with images a lot more:
Cosmic Butterfly–
You are eternal,
Forever in my mind.
I have chased you,
But never caught you.
Only in fantasies do my hands find your wings.
I fell upon my own ambitions,
compressed into a void.
You flew undaunted,
a burst of light that illuminated my dreams.
Everytime I give up,
Every moment I believe you lost to that blackness,
Every second I hold my breath,
You return.
The beauty of your light is that I never had to steal it,
you always gave it freely.


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We are all busy, and sometimes retouching our hair gets bumped to the bottom of the list. Luckily, I have a quick way you can hide your roots!
The zig-zag part has made a comeback! Use it to hide your roots and break up that harsh look of them growing out.
Use a comb to part your hair at an angle to the left or to the right and part it back the opppsite way. Bonus: This look also creates volume!
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Gradually, the most successful games and apps from the App Store are updated to the screen of the iPhone 5 and the fifth-generation iPod Touch. Real Racing 2, one of the most driving games like among users, already updated to adapt its interface to the latest phone from Apple.
The improvement that we see in every race is a significant increase in the field of view, which allows us to preview the cars pass us. Otherwise, the game continues as before.
We assume that the shortage of Real Racing 2 news in recent months due to the launch of its successor closest we could see during the keynote presentation of the iPhone 5: Real Racing 3.
If you do not have Real Racing 2 on your iPhone, enjoy the Black Friday and download it for only 0.89 euros:
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Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Should Rangers asset be brought in from the cold?
While it is clear that James Tavernier is first-choice RB and has made that position 100% his own over the past three years, the situation on the opposite side has become a lot less abundant.
Rangers have four (yes, really) options at left back and none of them have truly won fans over in a universal manner.
Jon Flanagan has been solid, but not flashy – a decent defender who has made the odd error but is technically in his weaker position, being a natural RB. He also offers nothing going forward.
Andy Halliday, who does, again, a solid job there but it's far from his natural slot, whatever that is any more. He too struggles to offer much going forward and does get caught for position when defending.
Then we have Borna Barisic, who showed glimpses of his stunning crossing delivery early on but showed a real weakness for defending – many accused him of costing Villarreal's second goal and it's also an issue that he cannot stay fit. He's been out for a month.
And last but not least… yes, it's Lee Wallace, who we do feel has been given a completely raw and rather disgraceful deal by the club he sacrificed everything for. While he has fitness issues, we wonder now just significant they are and how much of his absence is down to his altercations with the powers-that-be.
Seen more often in the development squad, Wallace and youth coach Graeme Murty must be such great mates down there, and it's the failed senior manager who seems to have come out on top given he got his old job back while Wallace sits on the scrapheap.
Which brings us to the point of this piece – is there a way back for Wallace at Ibrox?
No one seems to have settled at LB – and the big marquee player we signed for it has both failed to convince and be fit. Why shouldn't Lee Wallace become a serious option to fill that position again?
He attacks well, he defends pretty decently too, and he will give his all if he's selected. He is certainly barely any inferior to any of the others we've mentioned.
It's a waste having this guy on a wage if we're not going to use him, so either get him involved or cut him loose.
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I'd love to see the big man back.ReplyDelete
We should aim to have 2 good players for each position. So, 2 CBs, 4 players. Flanagan is RB cover and much as I love Halliday, he should not be one if the two.ReplyDelete
So, Wallace as backup or get another one in.
Murty and him mates? So what was fallout all about. Or have you forgotten. Anyway too old and has been out too long. Costing a lot.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Alan, think you missed our sarcasm there!Delete
There's no debate really, he's a good player with so much still to offer this team. He's taking a wage so get him in there, might just show Gerrard he actually has the right player along for LBReplyDelete
I would play him tonight.better lb than Flannagan in my opinion and far better going forward. Had a bit of a raw deal 4 meReplyDelete
Wallace Deserves another Chance
He Deserves another Shot at LB Slot
This is how it should be :
AM - No.1
Alnwick/McCrorie - No.2
(When AM Retires, Make Jak No.1 and have McCrorie as His No.2)
Foderingham - Sell
Tav - No.1
Flanagan - Backup
Goldson/Katic - Main Pairing
Worrall - Backup
McAuley - Finished
When Worrall goes back to Notts/McAuley Retires either Buy two New CBs or Buy 1 New CB and use Aidan Wilson as the Other.
Barisic - No.1
Wallace - No.2
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This actually won't be a movie review, it will be a soapbox rant because it's just one of those days. First of all, I have to say HELLO to the Egyptian! It was my first time back in there since SIFF took it over. In current light of the Harvard Exit closing and the unknown future of some of the other Landmark theaters, I'm very, very happy to have the Egyptian still operating as a theater.
The Imitation Game
Genre: Biopic, Historical Drama
Watched: in theater, SIFF Egyptian
Rating: **** (out of 5)
I gave the film a four star rating, which is probably a bit too generous, especially seeing that I gave The Theory of Everything 3.5. I felt like the two movies were similar in the sense that they felt really glossy, meant more for entertaining the masses than giving any deep insights. This was especially true with how a lot of Turing's behaviors and interactions in the movie garnered somewhat cheap laughs. Still, I'm the first to admit that my tastes often fall into the mainstream, and I enjoyed the movie as entertainment.
Why take the bus over to Seattle, trek up Capitol Hill, and eat popcorn for dinner in order to see a film in the theater instead of waiting a few months to come out on Netflix? This was one of those evenings that highlighted how different the experience can be. First of all, I've been having trouble focusing (especially on films with subtitles) at home lately. In the theater, there is no Dragon Age in the other room to distract me. Secondly, it's the interaction with the other moviegoers.
It's a small world at SIFF. I saw Wild over the weekend (loved it – see, I'm totally mainstream) and I'm pretty sure "the lady who responds" was in the audience because I heard a few outbursts of assent ("Yes!") during a scene where Strayed's mother was giving good life advice. I was mentioning this to my friend, and then she mentioned that her pet peeve had come up in this movie – someone scoffing audibly when chemical castration came up. She said that it really annoyed her because it was someone looking down on a different society and feeling sooo much more enlightened, as if our society isn't just as full of the sheep mentality.
Self-righteousness has been on my mind in the past few years. It's what draws me to reading The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt, even though nonfiction and I are a hopeless combination. It's easy where I stand to be pro-feminism, pro-civil rights, etc., but how many of us would even hold those views if we grew up in a society that didn't accept them? We can hold our lofty principles from the comfort of our sofas and laptops, but how many of us have had those principles tested by fire? What attitudes do we condone or ignore that future generations will look back and scoff at?
Self-righteousness is a dangerous state of being. I say this as much for myself as for anyone else – if you find yourself thinking that you're better than other people, it's time to examine your blind spots.


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Saturday, October 24, 2009
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'Skins 'soap opera' twist: Zorn's job safe for now
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[October 24, 2009]
Well, that should quiet things down for a while.
The Jim Zorn unemployment watch is over. Jerry Gray, as it turns out, isn't a coach-in-waiting about to get promoted any day now. Another week of Washington Redskins craziness ended with an actual message of stability Friday: The front office said Zorn will be the coach for the rest of the season.
"We were the soap opera for the NFL the last two weeks," quarterback Jason Campbell said, "so hopefully it'll calm down a little bit."
The unexpectedly strong vote of confidence was delivered in the morning by executive vice president of football operations Vinny Cerrato. After letting anxiety build for several days following last week's loss to Kansas City, Cerrato opened his ESPN980 radio show by saying: "Jim Zorn is the head coach of the Washington Redskins and will be for the rest of this season, and hopefully into the future."
The news dampens the rampant speculation that began when Zorn was asked to give up his play-calling duties following the 14-6 loss to the previously winless Chiefs. Zorn called the move "uncomfortable" and players expressed general concern over the state of the franchise, yet the powers-that-be remained silent until Friday.
"The frustration is very high, everywhere around here," Cerrato said. "But the relationships internally within this organization, quite frankly, remain the same."
Cerrato did not deliver a similar message to Zorn in person, but Zorn didn't feel the need for it. The coach appeared to take the news in stride.
"I don't necessarily have a reaction to that because I am the head coach," Zorn said. "I want to be here for the next 10 years. That's my story."
The Redskins are 2-4 despite playing one of the weakest schedules in the league over the last five weeks. The offense, overseen by Zorn, has yet to score more than 17 points in a game and has twice failed to score a touchdown at home.
Players, tired of answering endless questions about their coach's job, welcomed the news as they prepared for Monday night's game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
"That should relieve a lot of tension and a lot of stress," Campbell said. "Guys don't have to worry about thinking about it or talking about it."
Linebacker London Fletcher said it was tough enough to win in the NFL without having to deal with uncertainty about the coach.
"It allows us to go and really exert all our energy and focus into the opponent," Fletcher said. "I'm happy for him. I'm happy to know we'll have stability this year, and into the future."
Zorn said if Cerrato's endorsement makes for a more focused team, he'll take it.
"If it comforts the players - awesome!" Zorn said. "But I think our players are focused regardless of what the situation is. Whatever has to be said, I guess it has to be said, but we go on."
The uneasiness at Redskins Park began 2 1/2 weeks ago, when Snyder and Cerrato hired longtime NFL consultant Sherm Lewis as an offensive consultant. Lewis has now been promoted to play-caller, even though he is still learning the play book and personnel.
Those moves were seen as an attempt to undermine Zorn, positioning the franchise for a possible coaching change, perhaps to secondary coach Gray, during the upcoming bye week.
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Cerrato offered a different perspective, saying the moves were done to help Zorn, who is in the second year of a contract that's guaranteed for three years.
"Look at all the things that we've done to try to help," Cerrato said. "You could have done other things drastically. No, you have confidence in him, because you want him to do well."
Cerrato said he now hoped Zorn's status is "totally crystal clear."
"Hopefully we can just concentrate and focus on winning football games," he said.
Cerrato had several axes to grind during his radio show. He chided the media for reporting "false rumors," but did not explain why he waited five days to break his own silence about the play-caller switch or Zorn's overall status. He declined to speak to reporters after practice.
Cerrato also belittled what he called "off-the-wall" comments made by Hall of Fame receiver Steve Largent, a close friend of Zorn's, who called the switch to Lewis "a joke."
Cerrato referred to Largent as "his friend" instead of by name, then noted the four Super Bowl rings won by Lewis as an assistant coach with San Francisco and Green Bay.
"I don't think 'his friend' has a one," Cerrato said.
Even through Lewis left the NFL after the 2004 season and was enjoying retirement in Michigan when the Redskins called, Cerrato feels the 67-year-old West Coast offense expert is up to the play-calling task.
"You don't forget how to ride a bike if you hadn't rode your bike in four years," Cerrato said.
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A Hundertwasser-inspired visitors' centre and public library expected to become the hub of Kawakawa will go ahead this year after the project received the final $2.3 million needed.
The funding was included in the Provincial Growth Fund announced by Regional Development Minister Shane Jones in Gisborne yesterday.
Kawakawa Hundertwasser Park Charitable Trust chairwoman Noma Shepherd said the announcement was the fruition of 10 years' work.
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The project had grown in that time but really started gaining momentum when the Northland Regional Council and Far North Holdings came on board last year.
''We're really thrilled, we can move forward now ... all the work we've done over the years has come to something. It will become the centre of Kawakawa, it'll join the whole town together,'' she said.
The Kawakawa Hundertwasser Park Centre, Te Hononga, will combine a library, Far North District Council service centre, gallery, art workshop, toilets and parking for cars and tourist buses.
It will be built of rammed earth on what is now a carpark behind the Kawakawa shops.
The project group had already raised more than 40 per cent of the money needed.
Mr Jones said as the gateway to the Bay of Islands and the Far North, Kawakawa had the potential to leverage off the cruise ship market and attractions such as the Twin Coast Cycle Trail.
However, improved infrastructure was essential to meet visitor needs and expectations.
Once built, the centre would connect visitors to local Maori cultural experiences and increase visitor numbers and spending in Kawakawa.
The project had strong iwi, business and community support, a key criteria of the fund, while a feasibility study forecast an increased visitor spend of $1.75m per year.
Mr Jones said the centre would be built and operational late this year.


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Having officially opened its doors one month ago, the long-awaited Jekyll Island Convention Center is already winning extreme praise from state leaders, meeting planners and tradeshow executives.
Several hundred people gathered on May 20th to celebrate the official grand opening of the new Jekyll Island Convention Center. Gov. Nathan Deal held the large scissors and cut the ribbon on the highly anticipated new Convention Center, while the Golden Isles community came together to usher in a new era for Jekyll Island.
Following the ribbon cutting ceremony, guests to the event were invited inside the Center for an open house and self-guided tours. The response heard from first-time attendees was purely positive, with guests commenting on the center's coastal color scheme, detail-oriented design and eco-friendly elements, including solar panels, an 80-gallon cistern for collecting and dispensing rainwater, and low-impact lighting.
The 128,000-square foot Jekyll Island Convention Center has been in planning for more than four years. Construction on the Center began in 2010, and was completed several months ahead of schedule and under the planned $50 million budget. Our opinion is that it was definitely worth the wait!
Plan your next business meeting, convention, trade show, wedding or special occasion at the new Jekyll Island Convention Center. On your next visit to the Golden Isles, we recommend stopping by the new convention center to explore the beautiful ocean front grounds. In addition, you can also find an amazing variety of other high quality conference venues in the Golden Isles. These include The Lodge at Little St. Simons Island, The Cloister on Sea Island, The Lodge at Sea Island Golf Club, The King and Prince Beach & Golf Resort and the Sea Palms Resort on St. Simons Island. For a complete list please visit our 'Groups & Weddings' section on GoldenIsles.com.


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Update: Best Buy is also selling Resident Evil 6 for $19.99 as part of their weekly flyer that runs until Saturday. Thanks ffboi7!
Original Story: Considering that Resident Evil 6 wasn't well received by critics when it launched in October, the rather quick price drop to $39.99 last year wasn't much of a shock. If you passed on it at $40 though, choosing to wait for the game to go even lower, Amazon is now selling Resident Evil 6 for just $19.99, $10 off their regular price of $29.99.
With some big patches arriving since release, adding certain features like the ability to play through Ada's campaign right off the bat or offering QTE assist, Resident Evil 6 is a better experience than it was when it first came out. And if you're a fan of DLC, there are a few pieces coming to the PS3 version shortly. Unfortunately, it's still Resident Evil 6.
In case you didn't want the latest in the Resident Evil franchise, Hitman: Absolution is $29.99 and Assassin's Creed III is $39.99.
Are you going to pick up RE6 at this price? Do you recommend Resident Evil 6 at this price? Is no price good enough? Let us know in the comments below.


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Archive for June 2012
Pickling Excess Eggs
Even if you do not have chickens, at times you may have more eggs that you can really use because more than one person brought home a dozen after there were not enough for breakfast. One simple way of using these extra eggs that does not require refrigeration is pickling them in white vinegar, a little salt and a couple of peppers.
I have posted two videos on YouTube that will take you through the process. The first is "Pickling Excess Eggs Blog Version" which is a 4-minute video that outlines the process at: http://youtu.be/p6ObBHu7Pco. A second, longer video, goes into more detail at: http://youtu.be/iHxxNSIeupA.
This process goes back to ancient China where the tradition of 1,000-year-old eggs emerged. What might have occurred is that robbers raiding royal tombs in China found and ate a porcelain jar of eggs that had been left to feed the deceased a millennium before. This is how the rumor of 1,000 year-old duck eggs might have been started and how such a thing occurs on restaurant menus today.
Any egg may be pickled. In the early history of the U.S. eggs from all manner of fowl and reptiles (turtles & alligators) were pickled in jars and crocks. Even today you can still purchased pickled quail's eggs from pen-raised quail in gourmet stores. Dr. Sues' "green eggs and ham" may have its ultimate origin with pickled eggs which were sometimes colored with dye (and still are today). In earlier times these dyes were mineral-based such as copper sulphate and arsenic salts, and were toxic to deadly. Nowadays we use organic-based food dyes which are not quite so blatantly harmful, but may be less than helpful to human health.
If you are going to have a few pickled eggs to keep in the fridge for a few weeks, boil them, put them in a glass jar with some salt and white vinegar and a few peppers (or crushed red pepper) and eat them as you feel the need. Should you wish to keep them long-term, then you will need to make sure that everything so much as possible is sterilized by boiling in hot water, just as you would "can" anything else in glass jars.
An additional caution is that if you are going to use ordinary glass jars that might have contained pickles or mayonnaise, be warned that these are non-tempered glass that will break if exposed to quick heating or cooling. Put hot material in hot jars and cold material in cold jars. Wait until your jars cool before putting them in the fridge. I cannot say that pickled eggs will keep for 1,000 years, but they will certainly keep very well for months if properly canned and stored.
Practical Bowfishing: The E-Book is available from iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon
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The expanded E-Book version of Practical Bowfishing – Wm Hovey Smith is now available from iBookstore, Amazon.com and as a Nook book from Barnes & Noble. The electronic edition contains a new chapter, "Bowfishing across North America," which was written about the author's cross-country bowfishing in 13 states from Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, to Grays Harbor, Washington after the book was published.
This trip was taken to prove one of the book's claims that bowfishing can be done almost anywhere, anytime there is open water. This trip was taken with a beat-up trailer "Weldo Trailer" and patched up boat "Bondo Boat" that I felt was safe to park along almost any road in the country. In fact, there was only one part of one state, the Idaho Panhandle, where bowfishing was prohibited in this mountainous area's rushing trout streams. The biggest fish taken was a 58-lb. carp from a lake in Central Washington and the most interesting shot was taking two fish with a single arrow.
The new E-book also contains updated supplier and contact information, but preserves the original book's detailed instructions on gear, bowfishing boats, techniques, species, cleaning and cooking instructions. The photos that were removed to make the E-book publishable are replaced with expanded captions to assist the user.
Although used soft-cover editions of this out-of-print title are sold on-line for between $50 to sometimes over $200, new copies of the book from the original printer's cartons are available from me for a little over $20 at www.hoveysmith.com.
The E-book can be purchased now for $8.99 from www.ibookstore.apple.com for Mac-system computers, at www.barnesandnoble.com for Nook readers and from www.amazon.com for the Kindle reader. This book will also be available from Reader Store (Sony), Kobo, Gardners, Baker & Taylor, eBookPie and other E-book outlets by mid-July, 2012.
Practical Bowfishing – Wm Hovey Smith
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X-Treme Muzzleloading: Game with Muzzleloading Rifles, Pistols and Shotguns
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Looking at the subtitle that I just wrote, perhaps it would have been better than the X-Treme Muzzleloading: Fur, Fowl and Dangerous Game with Muzzleloading Rifles, Pistols and Shotguns official title that I used for the book; but finally, after three years in progress, it is published. Any author is happy to have his book finished, and after working with this one for so long I am too – whatever it is called.
I had already decided that this was very likely to be my last printed outdoor book and that it ought to contain the best of my writings on muzzleloading hunts that I published over the past 50 years. I do not claim to be a "big hunter" in either physical size or accomplishments. I have always enjoyed hunting with a variety of muzzleloading guns. Occasionally I take "trophy" animals, but more often they are common species taken with uncommon guns.
I wanted this to be a 9X11 format book with a sufficient number of photos to adequately inform readers about the muzzleloaders that I used, how I loaded them, hunting with them and ultimately took game that ranged from armadillos, to swan to Cape buffalo. Not only did I use rifles for my small and big game hunting, I also used uncommon muzzleloading pistols and smoothbores.
My immediate challenge was that illustrated books this size are very expensive to design and produce. I made an agreement with Hungarian editor Balazs Nemeth who publishes the "Pedersoli's Blackpowder No. 1" quarterly E-zine to use materials from my book in exchange for designing X-Treme Muzzleloading. This way it could be submitted "ready to print" and save considerable production costs. Nemeth has also been a long-time black-powder enthusiasts in addition to having a University position, wife and young children. In between holding down three jobs, he was also working on my book. He honored his commitment and got the job done, even though it took longer than either of us anticipated.
From my end, I had to make a book from a number of articles written in various styles that had been published in whole, or part, in a number of publications, several of which were not longer in existence. These included magazines like Chevy Outdoors, Dixie Gun Works Blackpowder Annual and Blackpowder Hunting, to name a few. It would have been nice had the book contracted to the publishers of the Gun Digest Annual, but they saw this book as appealing to too small a market to be profitable.
I also looked for sponsors to help print the book and found a welcome one with Hodgdon Powder Co. who purchased the ad for GOEX powder that appears in the rear of the book. Author House, the print-on-demand publisher, was already doing Backyard Deer Hunting: Converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound for me, so it was logical to also use them for my new title.
What's in the book
Contained in the book's 293 pages are 25 chapters considering four subject areas. Chapters 1-4 are comprehensive and cover respectively, Small Game, Waterfowling, Turkey Hunting and Deer Hunting. Chapters 5-20 are hunts for small and large game including squirrels, rabbits, quail, ducks, geese, swan, hogs, deer, bear, ostrich, bison and Cape buffalo. In Chapters 21-24, I consider hunting with black-powder cartridge guns, muzzleloading gun maintainance, knives and solo hunting. In the concluding chapter I have 31 of some of my more unusual wild-game recipes including roasting a whole boar's head (and what to do with it) and alligator paw soup.
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This book is now available from my website www.hoveysmith.com for $27.77, from www.amazon.com and other on-line book retailers. Reviewers and Editors who would like review copy, contact me at email@example.com.
Building and Shooting the three-barreled Duck Foot Pistol
If you are going to name a pistol after a bird, names like "Eagle" and "Condor" have connotations of power, but Duck? This is even less true when it is not even the whole duck that you are talking about. Who is going to feel particularly safe with something in his great-coat pocket called a Duck Foot Pistol? You may recall that the rabbit's foot charm was not particularly lucky for the rabbit when it was alive, and he had four feet. Imagine someone waving a duck's foot in front of a crowd of angry sword-waiving sailors whose grog rations had been terminated.
Nonetheless, there was such a gun that made during the late 1700s and early 1800s that was sold to sea captains who might have to face down a mutinous crew or a tight group of armed men in close combat on a ship's deck. At least ducks had something to do with water, and the gun had three barrels, like a duck's three toes. Somehow through the decades that name has stuck to this pistol-sized version of the volley gun. The volley gun contained multiple barrels that discharged at once and such guns were produced in sizes that ranged from pistols to cannon. Such guns are still occasionally used as props in movies about pirates and the Napoleonic wars.
As part of a series of an upcoming Gun Digest article "Self Defense Guns Then and Now," I decided to include one of these seldom-written-about guns in the mix and give it a serious evaluation along with police models of the 1858 Remington and Colt Revolvers. Completed guns are not generally available, but a kit, made by Classic Arms ( New Legacy Products of Hope, Indiana) was sold by Dixie Gun Works. I bought the kit and built the gun.
The pistol consists of three steel barrels, a steel connector block vented to each barrel, a brass frame, percussion nipple, hammer-lock parts and a wooden block that is already inlet to the back of the frame; but not shaped. The buyer's tasks are to shape and finish the pistol grip, fit and install the lock parts and blue and polish the metal. The most challenging part for most people will be to make the pistol grip without destroying it. With patience and skill these grips can be very nice indeed, but I was after something that was more functional than attractive.
As a first step, I tightened up the wooden block to the frame, clamped that into a vise and took a large rasp and starting working down the corners of the block. The walnut was nicely grained, but would have taken a very long time to shape by only using a rasp. My next effort with a chisel went much faster, with the result that you can see below.
After I had removed as much as I dared with the chisel, I took the rasp and smoothed the grips down. Now that the grips were shaped, I installed them to the rear of the frame to determine what additional wood that I would have to remove by sanding. Following that, I converted a hand sander into a bench sander by clamping it into my vise and proceeded to do the final shaping on the grips. Sanding with coarse, medium and fine grades removed the last of the chisel gouges. The grips were then coated with wood stain and a MinWax stain-finish combination. After this had dried I coated the grips with furniture wax.
When I completed my assembly of the pistol I had something that half-way worked in that I could not install the trigger spring to the extent that the gun would cock and function normally. I sent it off to a gunsmith who had the drill press and bits to successfully install the spring (by drilling pilot holes in the trigger and frame) and smooth up the lock. Upon its return, I had a gun that would work after I reduced the diameter of the nipple so that the no. 11 caps would fire. I shot the gun with its recommended load of 12 grains of FFFg black powder and a patched .350 round ball. I also worked with stouter loads and received improved accuracy and terminal performance, but nothing very confidence building. While better than no gun at all, the Duck Foot was/is best used a ranges less than 10 yards with the barrels held vertical so that an adversary would catch all three balls in different parts of his body. This would not likely to be instantly disabling, but could surprise him to the extent that you could escape to obtain a more effective gun or assault him with a knife. It appears that those using these weakly-powered pistols were also armed with a blade as a back-up defensive weapon.
A caution when shooting these low-powered pistol loads is that balls/bullets will bounce back and may return to hit the shooter if the projectile impacts against a hard object such as a plank, rock or tree. Always test shoot these guns against a soft backstop or in other places where "bounce backs" cannot occur.
A 3-minute video going through the construction stages is now available on YouTube at: http://youtu.be/YnVOCusXbIg. I did a follow-up video on shooting the pistol in connection with the Gun Digest article, and this video is posted below. I later obtained improved results from this gun with additional load development, but even so, it remains a very specialized gun with limited potential uses.
My Home Town CDs: Money Making Opportunities
Everyone lives somewhere, and if you are a small-town guy who lives in one, you have likely picked up a lot of local lore that others will find interesting and pay money to hear about.
As a former news writer, author, radio broadcaster and stand-up humorist facing a declining book market; I decided to produce a history of Sandersville, Georgia, in the form of a radio show, put it on a CD and sell that product.
My radio show, "Hovey's Outdoor Adventures," provided a non-traditional format. This show is usually divided into several sections. I open with a bit of "found sound" which relates to the topic. Then comes a few minute introduction and the first ad. In this case I used a gag ad from "The Association of Town Criers." Then I did a 4 AM walk around the town square describing the changes that I had seen and events that had taken place on the square, including Gen. W.T. Sherman's burning of the town during the Winter of 1864.
Following a gag ad on about the half-hour, I tell a little about my family's history which included a former Mayor, a doctor, educators, plantation owners and native Americans. I am frank about issues like slavery, wars, depressions, segregation, intergration, agricultural decline, migration and population changes. Through these changes, the resilient population has adapted. Seen through the longer view of history, it is apparent that small-town life is not as unchanging as it appeared when we were kids. An interesting aside is how I came to meet my great, great, great-grandfather face-to-face, although he was more than 100-years dead at the time.
I usually have a cooking section on my show, and on this one, "The Secrets of Cooking Southern Fried Chicken," was a natural element to incorporate, as this skill is an essential part of almost every Sunday dinner.
The thrust of this CD is that although not everything has been harmonious throughout the town's history, "It was a good place to live then. It is a good place to live now. Sandersville, Georgia, my home town," I conclude.
This CD's production took most of a week to think about, compose, record and edit. I first used it as an episode on my radio show, "Hovey's Outdoor Adventures." After approaching a number of town businesses, a local bank agreed to purchase 250 copies as promotional items, which financed Disc Makers run of the first 500, production of art for the disc printing, shipping in paper sleeves and purchase of 250 plastic disc holders. This approach avoided the expensive design and production of printed inserts and CD covers, as only the face of the CD was printed.
Although costs will change, this approach allowed me to price the CDs to retail at $5.00 for the paper sleeved version and $7.00 for those in a plastic case. My market area is small (10,000) with only two privately owned pharmacies and one gift store as potential outlets. These agreed to take from 8-12 copies as an initial order. Additional copies were also sold for resale to the local historical society. This is small area, small volume and small-dollar marketing where personal interchanges with people who you have known all of your life are significant.
I will also participate in local craft shows and markets a few times a year, to gather additional sales. Although CD sales are in decline in the music industry, the CD still remains viable for retailing through gift-selling outlets. They are also convenient for listening on long-duration car trips. While it is possible to put the same information on-line on a pay-to-download basis (and Disc Maker will also sell you download cards), buyers in my rather conservative market prefer the CDs that can be wrapped and given as traditional gifts compared to the same information on less conspicuous thumb drives.
Promotion was done by a short article in the county newspaper, speaking at local clubs, and on-line. Once the base market is established, additional CDs about different aspects of the community can also be produced on an annual basis for the September-December gift-buying season. A little research can extend this approach and your product line to nearby cities.
To purchase a copy of the CD and for more information about my books, blogs, videos and radio show go to my website www.hoveysmith.com.


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Tartar Leather has a rich, spice laden opening paired with a bitter citrus. A sticky bergamot and orange with a medicinal herbal undertone that brings to mind eucalyptus and something warm like nutmeg, falls shortly into an abstract, smooth suede. The top notes create an almost tar like astringency, only soft on the skin. The leather isn't a literal leather, it is more a mirage of one – some animalics underneath (mainly a soft, ganache-like civet) provide a rich musky texture which paired with the opening astringency give off a faux-suede.
The heart brings rich florals of rose and jasmine, and a hint of oud underneath turns Tartar Leather into a woody/floral more so than a leather. The suede effect seems to dart in and out of focus, drifting further into the background as a wood and vetiver base dominate. The oud is yet again, super soft on the skin, not at all a challenging note and used beautifully to round out the florals along with the merest hint of civet and castoreum. The castoreum comes across like labdanum with a slightly sticky texture on the skin, and I think there's a hint of incense to go along with it due to a growing presence of smoke.
Tartar Leather is sweeter than Mecca Balsam which must mean there's a bit of benzoin in here also, unless the florals are giving this a softer, sweeter scent. But in comparison, the labdanum/incense/rose/smoke is similar in both (hence why I paired these together). Tartar Leather is a lovely fragrance, but I'd hardly call it a leather. Instead it is a soft, smoky floral with a rich, woody drydown. Both beautifully blended and full of life.
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My dad is so cute! He's so proud of our family, our fans, and what this hair thing has accomplished! Dad's always texting or emailing me photos of hairstyles he sees when he is running errands, or even watching TV!
Several weeks ago, he emailed me a photo of a hairstyle worn by Heidi Klum during an episode America's Got Talent. {Funny thing, I had seen the episode and thought her hair looked awesome!} In the email, he hinted that we "should seriously film a video of it!"
Dad, this one is for you! Today we are going to show you how to create an edgy Side Double Dutchback hairstyle!
We used a base of subtle waves for this hairstyle, and the combo consists of two Dutch braids on only one side of the head. The braids go back, then wrap down, and underneath the back of the head where the braids are secured an hair elastic. This cute hairstyle provides an "edgy" look that would be perfect for competitive dance or cheer teams. {I can foresee several dance groups wearing this one, for sure!} We wear it around here to provide that perfect POP with cute jeans, sneakers, and a t-shirt.
This style can also be worn for several days, and looks adorable with straight, curly, or wavy hair! If you are careful with it, you can wear it for several days in a row, too!
To see your hairstyle recreations featured in our CGH App, feel free to tag your own photos of this hairstyle on Instagram with: #CGHDoubleDutchback
It is another way to get the "shaved" look without committing to a razor and half-bald head! {We've posted another single single side-up hairstyle called Side Flat Twists here before, and it was a very popular one.}
Please leave a comment below letting me know what TV shows you love, especially those that showcase great hair! I'd like to know!
Items Needed: Brush, rat-tail comb, spray bottle, spray wax, 1 hair elastic, 1 ponytail holder, hairspray {if desired}.
Time Requirement: 7-10 minutes
Skill Level: Medium
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Please feel free to leave a comment below letting us know what you think of Heidi Klum inspired hairdo!
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A week ago, while we were in LA for BeautyCon, we met up with a good friend, Andrea Brooks from AndreasChoice. She and her sister Brittany are twins as well, and they are fascinated with Brooklyn and Bailey. So much so, that they decided to film a video together to determine if Twinepathy {twin telepathy} really exists!
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If you're still asking the question "did Kim Kardashian get a nose job?" I can answer it for you. YES! Yet again, this before and after photo shows how thin her nose really is now. It's not like she woke up one day in 2006 and discovered makeup contouring exists - she already knew. But even if she did, there's no way you can change the shape of your nose to that degree. Also, she couldn't keep that regiment up every day of her life for the last 9 years. We've even seen pictures of her leaving the gym (no makeup and all) with a much smaller looking nose.
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By Trevor C. Hale
We will never be royals. Um, speak for yourself, Lorde.
My family doesn't put on airs, but we may have some royal blood. Not in the Queen Elizabeth sense, mind you, but a bit more than "I'm the king of my castle" sense.
In our family lore, our great5 grandmother was a Native American princess. We grew up hearing the story, but until last year at a family gathering at Lake Martin, I hadn't heard it fully. According to my uncle Bill (a legendary enthusiastic storyteller, infectiously laughing throughout), our forbearer name a' Higdon was in Kentucky after the Revolutionary War, about 100 years before B-ham was founded. After America's independence from the colonialists across the pond, he met and fell in love with a true local—a Native American woman whose dad was either a Choctaw or Chickasaw chief.
They hooked up, hopefully after a romantic and gentlemanly courtship. #revolutionaryraconteur. The chief (I guess my great6 granddad) was not amused, said, "Say sayonara to the gringo princess," brought her back to the village, and cut off her ear as punishment!
Higdon was a good tracker, as one would be in the late 1700s, and hid out close to the village biding his time, hankering for his honey. He may have wrestled a bear or two…or at least told tall tales about bear wresting after a few cups of mead (mead? #soRenaissanceFair. Maybe Kentucky sour mash).
Using the skills he honed under General Washington, driven by desire, he snuck into the camp and eloped with his Pocahontas. Fearing discovery and retribution (I have but one ear left to give), they migrated south to Alabama, and the rest is, literally, my history.
Wanting to test my lineage (and maybe apply for a casino license) I took a DNA test through ancestry.com. They send you a kit, you fill up a small tube with spit, seal it, send it, and wait for the results.
I received an email saying my DNA results were in. I was ready to embrace my Native American roots. #ChangeUrNameRedskins.
A few clicks later, and…not an iota of Chickasaw blood. In fact, 87 percent British! Six percent Western Europe, 5 percent Ireland, a pequena of Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal), and a meatball crumb of Scandinavian.
On the bright side, Great Britain! Land of Shakespeare, The Stones, Mr. Bean. What's not to love? I do enjoy giving British friends a hard time about their colonial ways.
Living in the Middle East, one has a great appreciation for the disaster of British imperialism. Exactly 100 years ago, Britain and France sliced up the Ottoman Empire's Arab provinces in the Sykes-Picot agreement, creating borders that would impact today's Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Saudi, Lebanon, Iran, and Turkey. These arbitrary borders ignored generations of tribal, ethnic, and religious history, helping create a century of strife and tension in the Middle East.
Remember in Lawrence of Arabia when T.E. Lawrence helps lead the Arab army into Damascus after taking Aqaba? The Arabs were promised the region in exchange for fighting against the Ottomans, but were betrayed (as was Lawrence) by the partitioning, which was signed in secret.
I just returned from Jordan, where they are celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the events portrayed in Lawrence of Arabia (another column).
In Robert Zinn's mind-blowing People's History of the United States, he eloquently outlines (from the losers' point of view—not losers, like Donald Trump losers, but the opposite of the winners who always write history) the outrageous atrocities Columbus and European settlers inflicted on Native Americans. There are heart-wrenching stories of gold plundering, pillaging, raping, disease spreading, and land grabbing in the name of monarchs and deities completely foreign to them.
Sorry to digress. It's the Choctaw in me. Uncle Bill and others in the family say not to worry; sometimes ethnic traces don't show up in tests after so much time and DNA dilution.
He worked it out on a 5×7 card, which my cousin Anita posted to the family Facebook page. Seems I'm .8 percent or 1/125th Native American, and it probably wouldn't have shown up in the test.
Stiff upper lip old boy. Pip Pip.
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Hello lovelies! I wish I was one of those people who could make a New Year's resolution and actually stick to it, but alas, I am weak *rolls eyes*. Although I'm not going to make any set resolutions, there are a few things I want to work on in 2017 and thought I'd share them with you (maybe this will motivate me to stick to them… haha).
1. Stay fit and healthy.
This is one of those goals that I set for myself every year, but I usually set myself majorly unrealistic targets. This year, I'm just going to chill, try and eat a bit more clean and go to the gym more than once in a while. Nothing too crazy… just wanting to live a generally healthier lifestyle and feel a bit better and more energised!
2. Experience life to the fullest.
Sometimes I put things off because I'm a major procrastinator, or life just gets in the way – the usual. But this year I'd quite like to 'seize the day' and take advantage of every opportunity that comes my way. I need to stop putting blockades in the way of doing things I want to do!
3. Get out the damn reading slump!
Those of you who have been kicking about my blog for a while will know, I've been in the worst reading slump for months and months now. At some point this year, I'm definitely going to get over it. It's happening! I miss my literary faves.
4. Learn a new skill.
Self-improvement is something I feel quite strongly in, so I'd love to learn something completely new. Since I enjoy alcohol, I was thinking about possibly looking into mixology and learning how to make a few cocktails. I'll just wait and see where life takes me!
5. Become more positive.
Finally, I'd quite like to just become a bit more happier and positive in every day life. I can be quite pessimistic at times, just because life happens and it sucks sometimes, but I'd definitely like to get back to more of a 'glass half-full' type of mindset.
So there's what I'm going to be working on this year! What about you? Any resolutions or goals you're setting for yourself? Let me know 🙂


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It's Gratitude Day at school! Gerry is ready to be grateful and kind all day long. She's excited to give her best compliments, she's donated a beautiful painting to her class's art gallery, and she even has the perfect jar contribution ready for the food drive. But when disaster strikes, it's tough to stay grateful--even on Gratitude Day! Can Gerry prove that a fairy princess always has the right attitude of gratitude?


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After moving this weekend, I wasn't up to cooking anything complicated, but I still wanted fun things on hand for all the friends and family who came by our house this weekend! Enter: the popsicle molds that I'd totally forgotten I'd even bought, a few tablespoons of chocolate chips, and the amazing GoGo squeeZ applesauce packets! Super healthy and absolutely delicious. Even better? You could make these out of any of GoGo squeeZ's flavors (I think the new AppleCherry flavor would be perfect as a chocolate-dipped variation, yum)!
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