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June 4, 2018
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Rep. Mike Turzai
The industry pays its fair share in Pennsylvania and creates enormous economic benefits
The May 20 Forum piece by Dennis Davin, the secretary of the Department of Community and Economic Development, in which he favors a new tax on natural-gas development in Pennsylvania is misguided.
It is deeply concerning that the chief economic development person for Gov. Tom Wolf would openly champion in a punitive tax on Pennsylvania job creators. With economic policies like this, is it any wonder that Pennsylvania continues to lag behind the rest of the country with the seventh-highest state unemployment rate?
Keep in mind, natural-gas producers already pay the same income taxes, sales taxes and payroll taxes that every other business in our commonwealth pays. In addition, they pay an impact "fee" that no other state assesses and no other industry has to pay. This fee alone has raised nearly $1.5 billion since it was enacted in 2012.
While Mr. Davin does acknowledge the impact fee (advocates usually simply lie and claim we don't tax natural-gas drillers), he dismisses it as minimal. Yet, consider that, in 2017, Ohio raised $36.7 million and West Virginia raised $69 million from their respective severance taxes, while Pennsylvania's levy raised $173.3 million. This illustrates a simple truth. It is not that our tax rate is too low, but that it will never be high enough to keep up with the insatiable appetite among many in Harrisburg to spend other people's money.
Based on projections from the state's Independent Fiscal Office, General Fund tax revenues are expected to come in almost 4 percent higher than last year. There is no need for additional tax revenue to balance the budget.
Instead of thinking of new ways to tax this industry, Mr. Wolf's economic development chief should focus his time on growing the number of family-sustaining jobs that result from a thriving natural-gas industry and the downstream industries developing around it.
We're seeing the benefits of natural gas as a feedstock realized at Shell's Beaver County petrochemical facility, as well as at Sunoco Logistics' Delaware County natural-gas-liquids processing facility. These two projects alone represent billions of dollars in capital investment, along with thousands of good-paying local jobs. Projects like these also create additional downstream manufacturing opportunities.
Lower natural-gas prices are also providing relief for middle-class families. On average, Pennsylvanians have seen a 38 percent decrease over the last decade.
The benefits of clean, low-cost natural gas, along with the investments being made in communities across this commonwealth, should be celebrated instead of met with new impediments. Mr. Gov. Wolf and his chief economic development officer should rethink their approach.
Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Bradford Woods, is speaker of the state House of Representatives.

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Using Grammar in Life
A friend of mine has an interesting trick that he uses in spoken language tests: before it starts, he memorizes one sentence that uses a lot of impressive language and complex grammar. During the test/interview, he finds an opportunity to work this sentence in (I assume—and hope—that he changes it as needed to suit the topic). His theory is that by doing this, he demonstrates his ability with advanced grammar so he doesn't have to go try so hard to impress the test graders in the rest of the test.
Using Grammar on the TOEFL
I don't recommend following my friend's example. First of all, ETS graders are trained to recognize memorized answers and deduct points for them. Moreover, your responses will be scored holistically, so one sentence, no matter how beautiful (or appalling) it may be, probably won't have much impact on your score.
If you're not a grammar lover, you're probably relieved that there is no grammar section on the iBT (the PBT still tests grammar in a section called "Structure"). Although grammar doesn't have its own section on the iBT, this doesn't mean that grammar isn't tested. For one, if you're not familiar with difficult grammar structures, the reading passages will be quite hard to understand.
Besides that, graders will consider your use of grammar and vocabulary when scoring your written and spoken responses. Because there aren't any questions specifically about grammar, it's your responsibility to demonstrate how much you know.
TOEFL Grammar Scoring
Let's just look at the scoring rubric for the speaking section. Understand that the importance of grammar in the writing section is similar.
A speaking response that scores a 4 will demonstrate "effective use of grammar and vocabulary. It exhibits a fairly high degree of automaticity [fluency, ease of speaking] with good control of basic and complex structures (as appropriate). Some minor (or systematic) errors are noticeable but do not obscure meaning."
If you score a 3, here's what ETS has to say: "The response demonstrates fairly automatic and effective use of grammar and vocabulary….Response may exhibit some imprecise or inaccurate use of vocabulary or grammatical structures or be somewhat limited in the range of structures used. This may affect overall fluency, but it does not seriously interfere with the communication of the message."
A score of 2 is characterized by "limited range and control of grammar and vocabulary. These limitations often prevent full expression of ideas. For the most part, only basic sentence structures are used successfully and spoken with fluidity. Structures and vocabulary may express mainly simple (short) and/or general propositions, with simple or unclear connections made among them (serial listing, conjunction, juxtaposition)."
The lowest score for an on-topic response has this description: "Range and control of grammar and vocabulary severely limit (or prevent) expression of ideas and connections among ideas. Some low-level responses may rely heavily on practiced or formulaic expressions."
First of all, note that according to the rubric, a practiced response gets you a score of 1. Even if you have no confidence in your ability to speak spontaneously, almost anything you say (on the given topic) will get you a better score than a memorized response.
Second of all, notice that this rubric isn't all about correctness. If you only use basic structures that you know you can use correctly, you may receive a score of 2, even if you never made any mistakes at all. Even though they're not asking directly about complex grammatical structures, the ETS graders still want you to prove that you know how to use them.
Take risks!
When you're preparing for the test, spend some time training yourself to use varied structures. It's OK if you make a mistake, although it's better if a friend or tutor is there to help you correct it. If you have a speaking buddy, try this activity: choose a topic to discuss, and write up some cards with different structures (tenses, transition words, phrasal verbs, etc.). Say one sentence to introduce the topic, then draw a card. Your next sentence should use the structure on the card AND follow logically from the sentence before. Even if you make some mistakes, this can help you learn to vary your language enough to qualify for a top score in free responses.
PS. Find out why you need to study grammar in our TOEFL grammar infographic!


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Fosters public awareness of the organ and other early keyboard instruments and their music, through professional performances and the provision of bursaries to students of the organ from Suffolk
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A permit will be issued today to allow the neon sign atop the old Firestone Corp. building in downtown Orlando to come down.
The sign will be removed promptly, probably by the end of this week, said Matthew Brenner, an attorney representing Firestone.
The Orlando City Council rubber-stamped the decision of the city's Historic Preservation Board earlier this month to allow the sign to be removed. The Firestone Corp., which owns the 70-year-old building at 578 N. Orange Ave., but rents it out, asked to take down the sign because of negative publicity.
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Nothing pairs with the trials and tribulations of life with small kids like alcohol. At the end of a long day of what feels like futile parenting efforts, pouring a hefty glass of pinot (or bourbon or beer or moonshine…we don't judge) can help it all feel better. As you take that first sip and your toddler's day of screaming directly at your face fades into the darkest recesses of your memory, a little drink can make all the difference so you're ready to face the music again tomorrow.
Because it will all still be there tomorrow. Good god, keep pouring.
The funny parents of Twitter totally understand the power of alcohol in soothing the worst parts of parenting and are here to make you laugh with these hilarious tweets about how well parenting pairs with pinot. And craft beer. And vodka. Just read the tweets.
1.You're gonna have to learn to chug.
[pizza place]
My husband took my son outside & my daughter went to the bathroom & I have a second to drink my beer in peace oh nvm time's up
— Graceful AF (@graceful_asfuck) June 11, 2016
When you're parent, time is at a premium. Don't waste it not drinking.
2. Tough love.
You have 4 kids so the only baby shower gift you'll be getting from me is a box of Trojans and/or wine.
— Rachel Noise (@Rachelnoise) September 28, 2015
If you're going to keep reproducing, it's on your friends and family to keep you well-stocked with wine. It's more valuable than diapers after kid number three.
3. Shhh mommy has a headache.
Me: ugh I've got a headache
Me: I must be coming down w/ the flu
Me: So sick
8: *eyes empty wine bottle on counter
Me: DON'T JUDGE ME
— Sarah del Rio (@est1975blog) October 26, 2016
It's the flu. That's the story we're going with or your iPad is mine.
4. Shrug.
You say I drink too much.
I say my kids are still alive.
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Maybe don't judge so much. We're all very happy over here.
5. No thank you please.
Unless "how you lost all your baby weight in 3 months" involves drinking to excess, I'm not interested.
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6. How dare you.
There's a tiny chance you're not as cute as you think you are on the wine nights.
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That's right, we're probably even cuter.
7. *bottle smashes*
-Me, drunk, yelling at the Chuck E. Cheese band.
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Well. That's one way to get kicked out of a Chuck E. Cheese. Worth it.
8. Literally any liquor at all will do.
What breakfast liquor pairs best with Daniel Tiger and day 2 home with sick kids?
— Rich Cromwell (@rcromwell4) May 17, 2016
Even that bottle of Sour Apple Puckers your younger sister brought for Christmas Eve seven years ago that's been sitting up on the shelf. Now's not the time to be selective.
9. Check, please.
I wasn't going to drink alcohol tonight, but then I remembered I've been home all day with 3 kids, so… Yeah, I've had 2 cranberry vodkas.
— Cray at Home Ma (@cray_at_home_ma) January 28, 2016
Only two? It must be early.
10. Truth.
Moms drink wine because they're like liquid epidurals for when your child is dive-bombing you or climbing you like Mt. Everest.
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Just a little something to take the edge off when your preschooler kicks in your spleen.
11. That's literally it.
Making new mom friends is actually pretty easy. Just compliment their kid's outfit, and offer them some boxed wine.
— Sara Says Stop (@PetrickSara) May 19, 2016
Did we just become best friends? I think we just became best friends.
12. Parenting Level: Actual Wizard
Parenting Level: convinced kids we are going on a magical night time pajama adventure bc I forgot to buy beer & ice cream earlier
— Spookypants Cher (@House_Feminist) September 20, 2015
What could be more magical than a nighttime grocery trip to get mommy's favorite coping mechanisms? Saddle up, kids!
13. Blame it all on them.
I'm not saying kids turn you into alcoholics but I am saying I never drank this much prior to kids.
— MyQuestionableLife (@2questionable) October 24, 2016
So your recycling bin is as full as your diaper genie? Welcome to parenting.
14. A complex equation.
High school math comes in handy when you're determining whether the benefits of your kid fetching your beer outweigh the cost of the spills.
— Dad and Buried (@DadandBuried) November 28, 2015
It's always worth the spills. No math necessary.


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Jim Shore's Personality Poses are colourful creations that capture the essence of a character in a single design. Belle's beauty is in full bloom in this sweet figurine of Snoopy's sister decorated with a floral motif. The item is packed in a branded craft box. Unique variations should be expected as the product is hand painted.
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Project Cost: $1,235,715.00
Completion: November 2011
Contract Method: Firm Fixed Price
This project involved the replacement of four out of five of the pad mounted transformers serving building 37. Building 37 is a highly secured building area and performs a critical mission for the Department of Veterans Affairs in the Midwest. During the outages when the old transformers were removed and the new ones brought on line, Webb Electric Company provided temporary power to keep the building on line. New secondary service entrances were installed from the new pad mounted transformers to the main secondary switchboards inside the building. A new security fence was installed around the pad mounted transformers.


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Dear traders,
When it comes to selecting a Forex trading system, you have a choice between buying a system and looking for a free one.
The biggest issue with free Forex trading strategies is that they are not time-tested.
As for PDF systems, in my opinion, they tend to be worth as much as you pay for them. However, having a trading system is not the only factor to decide your success.
Many beginner traders rely too much on their setups, which leads to one problem: as soon as the market changes and their system starts losing money, the trader wants to change their strategy entirely. The fact is, you don't change your system just because of a few losing trades. For that particular reason, I'm going to share some quick tips to adjust and empower your existing system.
Trading is a Learning Process
Learning how to trade is not a matter of finding the ideal system, indicator, or trading pattern. Trading is a skill, and every skill needs practice. Read up on trading psychology, register for some trading webinars, and work on your risk management. Find what your system is lacking, and improve it.
Changing Market Conditions
The market changes all the time, so we must adjust accordingly. The nature of financial instruments largely depends on the macro environment at the time. Traders change their behaviour according to the broader economic climate. A currency may react to a news release, technical level, or manipulation.
The nature and severity of this reaction depend on many things, such as:
- inflationary cycles;
- bull/bear market conditions in equities;
- global macro themes.
A lot of perfectly fine trading systems suddenly stop working due to changing market conditions. You have to take this into account if you want an effective trading system.
Adapt your system to the current market conditions, by tweaking your system's indicator parameters. If you trade solely by price action, try following near term historical patterns.
Trusting Your System
When you begin trading live, you may find yourself in the following situation: as soon as you experience a few losing trades, you start questioning your system's reliability. Changing an ineffective system sounds obvious, but be careful. As I mentioned above, the Forex market is changing all the time, and you should adapt to it. However, you also need to give your system a chance to prove itself.
Otherwise, you will end up starting from scratch every time you make a losing trade. Bottom line – you have to trust your trading system.
Switching Between Time Frames
Trading capital pushes market one way or another. When the price is not balanced, it might create oversupply on a particular time frame. When you see accumulation, the price not moving much, it tells us that market participants are happy with the current bid and offer. It is time to change your time frame. The price may be moving in trend motion on other time frames. Remember – the market is a shark, and you are a fish following the shark.
Watching Candlestick Wicks
The bigger the candlestick wick (the shadow), the higher the chance of a possible reversal. Try to spot a hammer, pinbar, or shooting star. Follow the daily candle. If you spot any of these two patterns bouncing off support or rejecting resistance, think about a potential reversal day.
Source: Dax30 daily chart, Admiral Markets Pivot, MT5 with MT5SE add-on, Sep 2017-Mar 2018
Using H8 Time Frame
MT5 offers different time frames compared to the MT4 platform. I prefer the H8 time frame. This particular time frame is a great compromise for swing traders as it sits between the 4h and Daily time frames. It's very useful for day traders due to the fact that it tells us the prevailing market direction. Intraday traders should be paying attention to this time frame, no matter which market they trade.
I hope that you enjoyed my professional tips. If you have any comment or question, feel free to ask me in the section below!
Cheers and safe trading,


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serves 4
- 8 heads chicory
- 8 slices cooked ham (York, etc.)
- butter (for braising)
- 100 gr ( 3.5 oz) butter (for the sauce)
- 100 gr ( 3.5 oz) flour
- 500 ml ( 2 cp) milk
- 200 gr ( 7 oz) Gruyère cheese or similar plus some more for topping
- salt and pepper
Use a saucepan, to put chicory heads. Add cold water to just cover.
Season with a pinch salt, cover with a lid and simmer gently for about 30 minutes or until tender.
Wrap the chicory with the ham, seam side down.
Meanwhile, use a saucepan to gently melt the butter and add the flour.
Stir and allow to cook without browning for a few minutes.
Add the milk with a whisk, stirring constantly to avoid clumps.
Place the saucepan on gentle heat until just thick enough to coat the back of a spoon - do not allow the mixture to boil.
Remove from heat and add half the cheese. Season with salt and pepper.
Drain the cooked chicory and with a ham wrap the head.
Use a buttered fireproof dish to place the chicory.
Pour the cheese custard over the chicory; sprinkle with remaining cheese and grill until brown in a prehead oven at 200°C - 392°F.
Serve with creamed potatoes.
Tastyfood - Recipes
Baked Chicory with Ham Recipe


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Eighteen days, ninety percent to go! That seems like a lot, prob'ly 'cause it's a LOT!!
As we work frantically and diligently to try to get folks to believe in this as much as WE do, I thought it'd be cool to show a little example of how a chapter of the novel is transformed into a scene from the opry. Of course, there's no way to ever include EVERYTHING from a book in any form of stage or screen adaptation, but this one comes pretty darned close! And don't forget - you can get a free download of the novel HERE!!
This is from the novel:
Wilson, Tennessee is a small town of about fourteen thousand located in the Cumberland Valley about a half-hour's drive east of Nashville. The seat of Wilson County, it has all the charms of a small Southern town – friendly folk, a town square, a single movie theater (although a full two generations have no memory of it having a single screen), and gossip that flies as care-free as the Confederate Flag that waved over the courthouse until almost 1970. While political pressure from Nashville (the threat of withholding money!) brought the flag down, gossip remains unencumbered.
Northerners like to imply it's a Southern thing, but gossip's been around almost as long as people. If they hadn't been alone on the planet, surely rumors would've flown about a certain couple having pre-marital sex in a certain garden.
Egyptians gossiped with hieroglyphics, American Indians with smoke signals, frontiersmen with Pony Express riders. One of the driving forces behind many technological advances – if you really study it - has been not only to more-effectively facilitate the slaughter of our fellow man, but also to facilitate the infliction of more subtle (and far more entertaining) injuries.
During the late winter and early spring of 2009 in Wilson, Tennessee, rumor had it that Willard Blevins – "you know, Mack's boy" – was possessed by a devil in his laptop.
Nobody blamed Mack and Elenore for giving the twelve-year-old a gizmo that came pre-loaded with – in addition to all its other apps – a freakin' entity. They were from a different time, a generation that considered programming the VCR and getting the coffee-maker to brew before you woke up to be all the technical know-how required of someone without a college degree. And there were no degrees in the Blevins family - and none were expected – most likely because the family tree wasn't exactly overrun with branches. Mack's father was Elenore's mother's cousin, Elenore's sister's husband was Mack's uncle's cousin's boy…it didn't make for a high prospect of a bio-chemist in the family's future, but it sure made it easy to find an organ donor. Which was infinitely more practical.
His father got Willard the laptop mainly for its video games, because, as Mack put it, "the little shit's always wantin' to change the goddamned channel from NASCAR." His son's aversion to stock-car racing prompted Mack to wonder on occasion if perhaps the boy wasn't his, but he'd done the bone-dance with Elenore plenty of times, and couldn't for the life of him imagine anyone else wanting to go through that.
It took Willard some time to figure out how to work his new toy. At first, all he could do with it was play Dungeon Hunter, which Mack was relieved to discover at least involved killing. The boy had always been something of a loner – his weight problem attracted derision from his classmates and eliminated most sports as an activity option – and his parents were both happy to see him while away his free hours doing something he seemed to enjoy more than sitting on the couch, bitching about what was on TV. They often heard him in his room, shouting gleefully at the death of another enemy combatant in the sacred land of Gothicus, and, while they couldn't really comprehend his reports of progress - using words like "Warlord" and "Astromancer" – if it relieved them from seemingly incessant interruptions of watching cars driving around in a circle, they were all for it.
About a month earlier, the joyful sounds of villain-killing exaltation had suddenly ceased. After a few hours of silence from the boy's room, Mack told Elenore he was afraid their son might be burned out.
"Goddammit," he growled. "He's gonna be back in here bitchin' about what's on TV."
Elenore concurred, in the way she'd concurred for years. She silently nodded her head, her eyes glued to the flat-screen. Occasionally she grunted, but mainly reserved such outbursts for family crises.
Mack had hoisted himself out of his comfy recliner. It was pretty much the only exercise he got these days, ever since he'd lost a big toe in a drunken bowling accident and got a hefty settlement check. He waddled down the hall to Willard's closed bedroom door, and was about to walk in when he thought he heard a faint but only vaguely familiar sound from inside the boy's room. It was not dissimilar to the sound made by squirrels in the attic, but obviously that wasn't it. A few moments later it dawned on him.
He walked back into the living room, a strange expression on his face.
Though the tone of his voice didn't seem particularly urgent, there was something about it that had pulled his wife's eyes from the TV screen.
Mack paused a moment, almost as if he couldn't actually commit to words the thought in his head, yet neither could he hold it back.
"I think Willard's in there goddamned typing."
Elenore's jaw had dropped and rested on her Titanic-sized bosom.
"Shut the front door."
This was not only as close as Elenore ever came to swearing, it was also one of her rare complete sentences.
"I shit you not. Can't think of what else it might be."
Elenore's curiosity, usually a slumbering, dim-witted beast, overcame her aversion to getting off the couch for anything but going to the bathroom, refilling her iced tea, or popping a snack into the microwave. She gripped the padded arm-rest and lumbered to her feet.
Mack was almost as mystified by this as he was by the goings-on in their son's room.
"Dang, Elenore, it ain't even a commercial."
If looks could slap, Mack would've been smacked.
Without waiting for further reply, Mack turned and walked down the hall, Elenore just behind. The couple paused – as side-by-side as logistically possible with two such bodies in the narrow hallway - just outside the closed bedroom door, listening. Unfortunately, the labored breathing of not one but two fat people drowned out whatever faint sounds may have been emanating from the room.
"Shhh!" Mack whispered.
"'Shhh' what?"
"Stop breathin'!"
Elenore back-handed his shoulder, the sound absorbed by Mack's circus-tent-sized flannel shirt.
"You stop breathin'."
With the dual behemoths momentarily completely silent, the only sounds in the house were the faint whirring of the ceiling fan in the living room, barely audible over the TV's inanity.
And the distinctive clickety-clickety-clack of the laptop's keyboard from behind Willard's closed door.
Mack and Elenore exhaled simultaneously, looking at one another wide-eyed, Elenore surprised, Mack with an "I told you so" expression.
"Shut the front door," Elenore whispered.
"You think he's doing homework?" Mack whispered back.
It's not an easy thing to whisper a responsive grunt, but that's what Elenore did.
Without awaiting further response or encouragement, Mack quickly turned the knob and opened Willard's door.
"Shut the front door," Elenore said for a third time, and Mack would have thought her incessant yacking nearly intolerable if his attention hadn't been elsewhere.
Willard sat on his twin-sized unmade bed, his pudgy legs stretched out and crossed at the ankles. His back rested against the headboard, his computer opened on his lap as his fingers raced across the keyboard, his eyes staring through his dirty-blond stringy bangs at either the opposite wall or nothing at all.
Mack and Elenore took all this in in exactly the amount of time it took for the sound waves from the opening of the door (and Elenore's "Shut the front door") to reach their son's dirty ears. His gaze quickly turned their direction. He slammed his laptop shut.
"I can't believe I fucking lost my fucking capo again," he said.
And now, the opry version:
Scene 2
Typing sound fades as music rises.
LIGHTS UP on a living room, a recliner in front of a large-screen TV, a sofa beside the recliner, a coffee table strewn with magazines and an ashtray at the far end of the sofa, where sits ELENORE, knitting and smoking.
MACK enters, holding beer.
I like NASCAR
(pops top)
And beer
The only exercise I get is gettin' it from here…
(crosses to sofa, limping)
To here.
(plops down on sofa)
I like NASCAR
(picks up remote)
Those guys are great
(turns up volume, sound of racing)
Go straight take a left take a left go straight
Take a left take a left go straight
Go straight take a left take a left go straight
Take a left take a left go straight
Sound of racing fades.
I like knitting, it helps relax my mind
I ain't KIDDING
Sometimes it's the only peace I find
Just a needle and some thread
And cigarettes and magazines
And I'll be the happiest country girl you never see
Go straight take a left take a left go straight
Take a left take a left go straight
Go straight take a left take a left go straight
Take a left take a left go straight
I like NASCAR and beer
I kinda like to lose myself in anything that ain't right here
Elenore's like a zombie who only smokes and knits
(motions to closed door STAGE RIGHT)
And our boy's less like a zombie
Than a little bitch
Shhh Mack! Willard'll hear ya!
Both look at door.
I can't believe he's not shrieking at one of his stupid video games
But you bought him that computer 'cause he was drivin' you insane
I traded all that whinin' for "BOOMS" and "KA-POWS"
But he sure is quiet now
(back to race)
I like NASCAR, and NASCAR likes me
Go straight take a left take a left go straight
Take a left take a left go…I gotta pee
Mack rises and limps to bathroom. He stops at door and looks up, noticing the accompanying MUSIC. He sighs, shakes his head, enters bathroom, closes door.
SFX peeing with MUSIC.
MACK (from behind door)
MUSIC changes.
MACK (cont)
There ya go.
SFX peeing continues, wanes, stops. SFX flush. Mack exits bathroom, looks quizzically at Willard's door. Limps over, puts his ear to door. Looks up, irritate at the MUSIC volume. MUSIC fades. SFX typing rises.
MACK (cont)
I know I've heard that sound before
Like squirrels in the attic
But that can't be it
His eyes widen as it dawns on him.
MACK (cont)
Goddamn it Elenore!
I think Willard's in there goddamn typing!
(stands, shocked)
Shut the front door! That's not like him at all!
I said Goddamn it Elenore!
I think our boy's in there goddamn typing!
I know, I heard you, I said that's not like him at all
Not like him at all...
Elenore lays down her knitting and crosses to Mack.
Well we ain't real educated, ain't had too many chances
Our fam'ly tree ain't exactly overrun with branches
It was one thing when that gizmo was more like a toy
I just don't know what's got into our little boy
Maybe he's just playin', pretending that he's writing
I hear what you're saying, that has to be it
He's sure doing it quickly, no way he could have learned
Mack looks at the TV, frowns.
Dammit, I just missed the part where that guy crashed and burned
There's got to be an explanation
Let's bring this mystery to an end
Mack flings open door, LIGHTS UP on WILLARD, sitting in his bed, typing rapidly on a laptop, eyes straight ahead, trance-like.
Fuck a bird!
Shut the front door!
Willard blinks, notices his parents, slams the laptop shut, annoyed.
I can't believe I fucking lost my fucking capo again!
What the fuck's a capo?
baby steps
DAY 7 was pretty damned awesome! Raised $1250, almost hit the 19% mark with twenty days to go...
Been using the Hootesuite site a lot to coordinate my social media - it allows me to schedule posts in advance, which gives me a bit more time to stew over 'em.
I've discovered that the vast majority of emails you get from a Kickstarter campaign is from folks trying to sell you stuff. Go figger. One guy has sold me on a twenty-minute phone call tomorrow, just to chat about where I'm at, with no obligation. He's got a nice pitch on his website, and seems to really get into sharing his expertise. Of course, there's no budget for fundraising funds, which is kinda what crowdfunding is all about, but I guess if I come away from the chat with any new ideas or perspectives at all, it'll be worth the twenty minutes.
Working on getting the kids together to do another preview video...those are FUN!!
More later...
Pathetic Whiner
It's been hard to not want to lash out over the complete ambivalence to my labor of love - the lack of any attention or support or feedback at ALL is simply overwhelming to me. I just don't know what I've done wrong. I thought that SURELY the folks who were proclaimed fans of my writing would give it a second glance, or give me some feedback or indication that they'd really looked at the project at ALL, and didn't just click the "like" button, and go on their way. I don't do that, really. I read the article or watch the video or look at the pictures. Usually. Either I"m in the vast minority or for some reason everyone REALLY thinks this project - this creative endeavor which I've stated over and over again is as thrilling to me as anything I've ever written - just completely sucks eggs and beans and donkey dicks and the what-not. Is certainly not worthy of any actual attention.
I wish those who called me their friend would tell me WHY they think it sucks so bad, or why the hundreds of hours I've spent thus far have not warranted the fifteen minutes it would take to actually check it out and give me a little feedback.
I don't give a shit. I'll keep on with the project because I DO believe in it. Those that believe will continue on believing, and we'll continue on working (hopefully). Those that don't believe never really believed to begin with. I don't want to be this person, this pathetic whiner we always scroll past, but jeebus! You've already scrolled past, haven't you? FUCK! (NOTE: for this blog post, chances are you were never here to begin with. Insert smiley face).
It's almost like a bad SNL sketch...like that scene from "Broadcast News," where the Albert Brooks character gets his shot at the big-time and sweats like a hooker in church, or a politician under oath. I'm certain, by golly, that there's some sort of Kickstarter "blooper reel" for the LEAST effective/successful campaigns...GOT to be. If not, now might be the time to start one. 'Cept it wouldn't really be funny. Kinda sad, prob'ly.
I haven't really done much the last day or so...the first couple of days stunned me, I think...made me a bit ill. I didn't really expect MUCH, but I expected more. My greatest fear is that I've lost all credibility with the cast I've got so far, though most have known me long enough to know I've never really had any great credibility burden anyway. Lol. Is it acceptable to put "lol" in a blog post? I'm sure it is. I just don't read many blog posts.
I have a tendency to want to get angry with my FB "friends" who en mass wanted absolutely nothing to do with this project...and I do lash out in snarky little ways, like just now. But I certainly don't dwell on that for long before I start blaming myself for doing wrong whatever it was that I obviously did wrong in communicating the essence of this project. Besides sucking at self-promotion, which I've gone into ad nauseum in the brief history of this blog, and will not dwell upon again here. Yet. I really never know when that shit's gonna rear its ugly head...
One tries to step back and look at things dear with at least some objectivity, but it's tough. Many times, to be too objective is to find an argument against doing something you know you're going to do anyway. At least, that's my experience. In fact, it's that experience which teaches me that we don't use our failures so much as warnings of things to avoid in the future, but as a way to at least tell ourselves we're smart - as in, "I knew that was going to happen!" Again, just my experience, and quite the digression at that...
So - I look at this outside myself and say to myself, "Well, this feller seems to be somewhat amusing at times, but awfully depressive and neurotic. AND he seems to go off on tangents and weird little projects all the time, but never really does anything with them. And fifteen grand? I've considered doing a lot of things, but giving that kinda money to a kook ain't one of 'em."
First of all, that anyone would think such things about me makes me sad. I've been pretty focused on this project in one form or another since last February, through all that shit that went down with my health and the what-not. And still, I AIN'T MAKIN' SHIT OFF THIS! Lol. It's like I yelled it.
I planned the budget quite carefully, and I'm not paying myself a dime. The bulk is for studio time - in the neighborhood of (and prob'ly more than) one hundred hours. Steve Goodie, my long-time buddy and Musical Director of the project, normally gets quite a bit more for this, and it's as good a deal as one could possibly get in Nash-vegas. I'm also paying the voice talent - again, it'll be less than they're worth. Kickstarter takes five percent, they say to figure fifteen percent for taxes - so there's that. There's the artwork and duplication, there's a little something for musicians that ain't Steve (sigh - yeah, he plays damned near everything...but we'll most likely have guest players), some publicity and supplies and the what-not. I'm absolutely, totally fine with not budgeting myself anything. There's ample reward down the road. I'm not doing this to bring attention to that so much, as to demonstrate I'm not just pulling numbers out of my ass.
All righty then. All blogged out. Gonna try to communicate some of the above in FB posts and tweets and the what-not.
Second day
Went to bed at 7-freakin'-30 last night (I think I've been over-doing it a bit), woke up to ten bucks pledged from someone I've never heard of. That's okay though. I was kinda surprised, actually.
They may wind up doing a case study of this campaign, as an example of how NOT to do it...I studied on this stuff for a bit, read all about the most successful campaigns, and did SOME of it...yet I shied away (as I knew I would) from the sh*t that's always held me back - what I perceive as buggin' people. My entire life I've dreamed of being in a position where other people would bug people on my behalf, and I could just do the stuff I don't suck at. Maybe some day...but not if I don't bug people.
I read these stories about these folks who built up massive email lists - that email lists are the way to go. I compiled the emails of the people I KNEW had read and enjoyed the book, or dig the music, or just think I'm a swell feller. Tried to add to it even on FB, by giving away my books and my music. Got it built up to a whopping 41 people! This ain't what's recommended.
So silly, all this fuss for a comedy opera adaptation of a ghost story. Not sure how I got to here, but here is most certainly where I'm at, and when I watch the videos of Sean and Anna singing my songs, and when I listen to the other demos, and when I think of the reactions of those who've listened thus far, here ain't that bad a place to be.
Guess what I'm gonna do today? Yep. Bug people.
October 31st, 2017
What the f**k am I thinking?
I've thought those exact words plenty - almost as many times as I've been on stage. Seems there's almost always a moment just before I go up where I think of all the other things I could be doing, things which don't stand the very real chance of making me look like an complete f-king idiot in front of lots of people.
This is kinda like that, but somewhat different.
For starters (Kickstarters?) - I generally don't do anything onstage which I haven't done a million times. My music is tattooed on some nether region of my noodle which conscious thought only grudgingly visits.. And while my "Dead Guy Opry" (that's what I call it for short) is nearer and dearer to my heart than anything I've EVER done creatively, this crowdfunding thingy has a lot of elements to which I'm a novice. Things I really really suck at.
Mainly, you know, the "funding" part.
I've never had a knack for sales (and there's no getting around that that's what this is). I've been highly encouraged by others who tell me I'd be a natural, but every time I've tried it I've not been able to shake the notion that my prospective customers might have a notion that I'm only being friendly so they'll give me money. And that I'm really just buggin' 'em.
It seems to me this Kickstarter endeavor requires a whole lot of buggin' folks. My inferiority-complex-riddled ass thinks this freakin' BLOG is prob'ly buggin' people. Yet bug them (you) I will. Between tonight at 6 Central and November 27th at 11:59 pm, you'll be sick to death of my sh*t. If you ain't already.
I'll be postin' on Facebook (from THREE pages!), I'll be doing some e-mailing from this Mailchimp doo-hicky I'm trying to figure out. I'll be tweeting. I'll be Insta-gramming (once I figure THAT out). I'll be doing everything I can to get folks to see in their heads what I see in mine - a completely unique musical presentation of some really twisted and funny sh*t. I've got some mega-talented folks (Sean Patrick McGraw, Anna Lynn Ferris, and - of course - Musical Director Steve Goodie) who already see it.
Sorry to bug ya, and hope I don't look like a f-king idiot.
The Kickstarter Campaign for the Concept CD "DIARY OF A DEAD GUY - the Country-freakin'-OPERA!!" is officially underway!
Click here for more details, including a couple of FUNNY F***ING VIDEOS!!
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Early in 2009, I had some troublesome female issues develop...
I'll give the boys a break and stay away from graphic detail
except to say that it involved heavy bleeding. Like daily,
constant bleeding. No pain though. None at all. Strange?
Very! Especially since I'd gone through early menopause in
the 90s after my original you're gonna die diagnosis
back in Winston! But it didn't interfere with my
schedule in any way and I wasn't in any pain, so I just gave
it to God and went about my business.
During that time, I got laid off at Cirrus, started with the jail
ministry, began painting Witness Wear t-shirts, making my
little Disciples Crosses, etc. I thought about the bleeding
from time to time. Now in May of 2009, one of our older
pastors over at Garr, who had retired due to chronic illness,
gave one final sermon which really made an impression on
me. Garr's non-denominational, but it's roots are firmly
Pentecostal, so they had lots of folks who faithfully prayed for
whoever was sick to be healed. Like Pastor Byrd.
But his sermon that Sunday was about how we should never
doubt God's will because if he hadn't spent the last 12 years
battling illness he never would have impacted the number
of folks he had for Jesus. People in hospitals, waiting rooms,
dialysis clinics….staff, doctors, nurses, patients, families of
patients, etc. These folks would all see him and know how
sick he was and how much pain he was in and were unable
to figure out the source of the man's attitude and joy and
the peace that just emanated from him all the time!! That
gave him just the opportunity he needed to start a conversa-
tion and bring it around to Jesus! He reminded us that
had he not been sick he never would have had access to any
of those people and how God always had a plan, even if we
couldn't always see it!
Now my imagination began to work overtime! Was Pastor
Byrd's sermon God's way of telling me I should go to the
hospital and get the bleeding checked out? I'd just assumed
that I should do what I did back in '93 which was leave
it in His hands. But what if, this time, I was supposed to
be in a hospital setting and touch people there for Him?
Everything was different now then it was back then….the kids
were on their own and reproducing at an alarming rate, my
marriage was good and solid. I was SO confused! I didn't
want to do anything that was AGAINST God's will for me,
but I didn't know what His will was!!! So I called Clayton
and laid it all out for him.
As usual, he laughed and laughed. (Wonder what he would have
done for comedy in his life if I had ever quit calling?) He told me
not to worry my head about it. He said, "I'm not saying you
WON'T end your life in a hospital someday, and I'm also sure
that as long as there's breath in your body, you'll be telling
folks about Jesus wherever you happen to be, but for now?
If you're not in any pain?
Just keep on keeping on, girl. You're a cutie pie, but you're
not big enough to get in God's way or mess up His plans. If &
when He wants you in the hospital, trust me, He'll get you there
and you won't have a thing to say about it. When that happens
just go with the flow…until then? Do what you're doing!"
Made sense to me, especially in the light of how busy I was!!
Seemed like, back then, every morning I'd wake up with a
new plan or task to get done! Mostly on the porch, which
was growing by leaps and bounds!! In 2010, one morning
in March, God wanted to know why there wasn't anything
about Easter on the Porch! GULP!! I said, "I'll get right
on that Lord!" And I did! Built 4 new pages all about
the Easter Story….how He died, how He suffered, WHY
He did it all for us and how He rose again, defeating death
and guaranteeing our home in Heaven! Then I put a
picture of a pretty little garden gate on the front page and
labeled it simply The Easter Gate. Got all this done
around the end of March…..about a week before Easter
and posted a message asking folks to email me their
names and ages and locations if their walk through the
Gate had impacted them in any way for Jesus.
Well, one of the first to email was a lady from Marseilles, which
is outside of Paris, France. She was SO excited…wanted me to
send her my cell phone # so she could talk to me. So I did.
That was a hinky conversation….cause she spoke fluent French
and very little English so we had to go s-l-o-w!! But the gist
of her story was that she'd been a NON-believer and her sister
was constantly bugging her about it. 'Specially at Easter–you
know how we get!! LOL! Anyway, she went upstairs and
slammed the door to shut out her sister's nagging and sat down
to check her email and all of a sudden, she's on this website
called Dusty's Front Porch!! She figured she hit the wrong
key or something and tries to X out of it, but the X box won't
work. So she starts circling the page looking for another
way to exit out and she sees the Easter Gate and thinks that
might work. She says…."by page 2? You had me….I read
all the pages, then I just sat there and cried for an hour before
I gave Jesus my heart. I had to call and thank-you!!
This has been the most amazing 2 weeks of my life!!" Right
then? The goosebumps hit me BIG Time!
I asked her, "Two weeks? When did you first click the Easter
Gate?" She said, "I'll never forget the date: it was March 16th,
the night before St. Patrick's Day!!" I swallowed hard and
tried to explain to her and myself, that I hadn't even built the
Easter pages until the 27th or so of March!! So how did she
find & click on it March 16th and was she sure of the date?"
She was absolutely sure! So God not only got her to the
Porch somehow…..He got her through a gate that hadn't
even been built yet!! Say it with me: GODWINK!!!!!!!!!
I'll return to this entry later and blog about even more
Godwinks that occurred between 2009 and 2012. That period
was chockfull of God's plans for growing the Front Porch….
how it went from being just a database to hold my stories to
an online community complete with chapels, prayer wheels,
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Prayer, Love, Courage, Humility and Effort. These are the five smooth stones Believer's in Christ Jesus must hold ready to defeat the giants in their life today.The account of David the shepherd boy defeating the giant Goliath with a stone and a slingshot is legendary. You can read all about it in I Samuel 17: 1-58.
Why did David need five stones? Goliath had four other brothers! Why 'smooth' stones? Those stones came from the brook called Kedron. They had been smoothed by the water flowing over them for many years.
Today, we need smooth stones to defeat the giants in our lifetime. Those stones are found in the word of God; polished smooth in our hand as weapon to defeat the enemy of our soul on a day-to-day basis. The victory was in David's confession of faith to what God could do through him. That's the same confident confession we can claim today. Read about David and Goliath again and let the word of God polish your stones. Be Blessed


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2014-15: Scored his first points and grabbed first rebounds as a Racer against Brescia (Nov. 20) ... Came off
the bench and hit a pair of shots in MSUĺs win over Western Kentucky (Dec. 6) ... Played a season-high 18
minutes against Southern Illinois (Dec. 22) with a pair of field goals ... Grabbed eight rebounds (Jan. 17) against
Tennessee State ... Came off the bench and hit 4-of-4 from the field to get a career-high 11 points at SEMO
(Feb. 14.) and matched it against Austin Peay (Feb. 21) ... Came off the bench and grabbed a career-high 12
rebounds in the Racersĺ NIT win at Tulsa (March 23) ... Appeared in 33 games and played an average of 12.2
minutes per game with 2.5 points and 3.2 rebounds.
Before MSU: Joins the Racers after two season at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas where he
played for Coach Kevin Gill ... Langston helped the Highlanders win back-to-back North Texas Junior College
Athletic Conference titles ... McLennan put up a 53-11 mark in Langstonĺs two seasons ... He was named
Player of the Year in the NTJCAC and was one of only 10 players to be named All-America by the National
Junior College Athletic Association ... In the 2013-14 season, he scored 10.8 points per game and hauled in 7.5
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You got some amazing pictures! Which camera are you using? Mine digital is on the fritz and I'm shopping around. I can't decide how much camera I really need. Mine started acting up on a Colorado vacation this summer. Half of the pictures were total junk. Such a bummer!