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Some people are too serious and stiff. They don't really know how to let loose and have fun. I see people my own age trying to find jobs and become this "mature adult". We've still got time, guys. Slow down and relax. Have fun. Enjoy the time you have now and worry about all that serious stuff later. We're still young.
Everybody wants to be successful. They're so worried that they'll fail that they try to model themselves after people they view as "successful". Sometimes the people who seem successful, aren't really happy with themselves. They don't really view themselves as successful. Working hard is a good thing. Yet, why do we work at things that we don't really want? Why can't we just let go of the idea that success is making a lot of money and having a big house? Success is finding something you like and making a job from it, whether it's a well-paying job or not. Your job should be something you enjoy. It should be fun. Let go of the idea that success is being rich. Because it's not.
In 6th grade, we were taken into the computer lab to go onto a certain website. On the website, you had choices on how you wanted to live your life in the future. Things such as: "Do you want a house or an apartment?" "Do you want to eat out a lot or have TV dinners?" "Do you want to go out with friends a lot or spend time at home alone?" Of course everybody wanted the first ones. They sounded like more fun! When you got to the end, however, you were asked to pick the career that you wanted. Unfortunately, the teaching career that I chose told me that I wouldn't have the money to do any of those things. It was a huge disappointment so I went back and chose a different career. I chose to be an anesthesiologist. It was the last thing on earth I wanted to be, but it was the highest paying job. When I chose it, the website told me I would be able to pay for everything and on top of that have almost $10,000 to spend on whatever I wanted.
The thought of living so comfortably was nice, but it took me until now to realize that I don't want a high paying job if I'm not going to have fun doing it. I want to have a job that makes me happy. I can still do all those fun things; I don't care what that website said. Just because a teaching job pays less, doesn't mean it will keep me from doing the things I want. I just have to be careful with my money. That's something I'm willing to do in order to have a job that I enjoy. I don't want to be stiff and serious. I want to let go and have fun. I want to enjoy my life and live it to its fullest no matter what path I choose to walk. Whether I become a teacher, an artist, or a registered nurse, I will have fun doing my job because I trust myself to pick a future that is happy and bright. No stiffness included.
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Will Man Rob God?
- Thursday, August 13, 2009
A second argument that people give to avoid the tithe is that they "cannot afford it." What that statement really means is that they cannot pay their tithe and pay all the other expenses they have incurred. Again, in their minds the tithe is the last resort in the budget. Their giving to God is something that is at the bottom of their list of priorities. It's a weak argument before God to say, "Lord, I didn't tithe because I couldn't afford it" - especially when we consider that the poorest among us has a higher standard of living than ninety-nine percent of the people who have ever walked on the face of the earth.
There are many more excuses that people give to avoid this responsibility, yet the New Testament tells us: "Let the thief no longer steal" (Eph. 2:28a). If we have been guilty of stealing from God in the past by withholding our tithe from Him, that behavior must cease immediately and give way to a resolution to begin tithing at once, no matter what it costs. It's an interesting phenomenon in the life of the church, that people who in 1960 gave a dollar to the offering plate every week, still give that same dollar today. Everything else in their living costs has been adjusted to inflation except their giving. We also have to remind ourselves that if we give gifts to God, we cannot call them tithes if these gifts fall beneath the level of ten percent.
One of the sad realities of failure to tithe is that in so doing we not only are guilty of robbing God, but we also rob ourselves of the joy of giving and of the blessings that follow from it. I have yet to meet a person who tithes who has expressed to me regret for being one who tithes. On the contrary, I hear from them not a sense of judgment towards those who don't give but rather a sense of compassion toward them. Frequently, I hear tithers saying, "People who don't tithe just don't know what they're missing." It is a cliché and a truism that you can't out-give God. That statement has become a cliché because it is so true. In the text in Malachi, we find something exceedingly rare coming from the lips of God. Here God challenges His people to put Him to a test: "Put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need" (3:10). Have you put God to that test? Have you tried Him to see if He will not open heaven itself and empty His own treasuries upon you? We need to stop robbing Him and thus receive from Him the blessing that He promises.
Dr. R.C. Sproul is founder and president of Ligonier Ministries, and he is author of the book Five Things Every Christian Needs to Grow.
Original publication date: August 13, 2009
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Back when I was a kid living in, you guessed it, Chicago* winter was full of the awesome. That is, until January hit, you'd successfully squeezed out every magic drop of Christmas present goodness – hell, you'd even made "my monkey butler Mr. Snappy" out of the boxes your presents came in – and you suddenly remembered why you loathe winter. Because it's ass piled on ass, snowing ass, and your boogers freeze when you step out the front door.
The moment school's back in session after Christmas Break (no, we weren't so weirdly PC back then) it began. Every day, you'd call some random number listed by the phone called "time and temperature" and they'd tell you the forecast.See kids? We DID manage to live without an iPhone app that alerts you about all the weather-related things that might affect you – like somewhere on another continent, a brush fire has broken out and OMG DO SOMETHING even though it's glaringly obvious to anyone with half a brain that there's no way you're going to travel to some country you can't pronounce with a bucket of water – the TSA has banned water along with breathing, smiling, and hope.
Most of the time, some grainy-sounding, vaguely female voice would inform you what you already knew - it was ass cold. It would be ass cold at noon and ass cold when you went to bed.
One of those rare moments, though, you'd hear from the equally grainy voice that WEATHER was going to happen and it was PROBABLY going to be BAD! As adults, we groan and think about how this is going to make our toes physically freeze and fall off our body into wee toe Popsicles while we commute to and from work. As kids, though, this was the beginning.
The beginning of the feverish prayers for a snow day. For me, it'd go something like, "Dear God, I think this is how I pray or something. Can you please make it snow tomorrow so the schools are closed? And, can you make the person on the radio with the boring voice swear? Thanks, Jesus Christ, Amen." As though God had better things to do than to make it snow so some random Midwestern child could avoid school.
Then, the questioning began. Because I wasn't raised by helicopter parents, my own parents always looked semi-shocked when I walked into a room, like, "Wait, who IS this chi…Oh right, we had another kid." But when a possible SNOW DAY was MAYBE GONNA happen, my parents couldn't help but pay attention to me. Mostly because I badgered them at least every three minutes to "call the school" to see if it had been cancelled yet. Didn't matter if there wasn't a single flake of snow falling or if the front yard had suddenly turned into a tropical paradise, I'd pester them just the same. My shrill cries eventually gave way to this conversation:
Young AB: "Mooooooooooom, can you call the school now?"
My Mother: "Rebecca**, I called ten minutes ago. Nothing has changed since then."
Young AB: "How 'bout now?"
My Mother (doing her best to ignore me)
Young AB (determined to NOT allow my mother to forget my existence for a single moment): "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! PLEASE CALL THE SCHOOL! I MIGHT NOT HAVE SCHOOL TOMORROW!"
My Mother: "Not-so-subtle method of getting me to call, huh?"
Young AB: (smiles proudly)
Eventually my mother broke down and gave me the number so that I could call and listen to the tinny voice tell me that school was, for now, still on. And the next day, I'd wake up, hopeful that I'd get to spend the day drinking cocoa and relaxing by the fire on a bearskin rug while my (box) monkey butler, Mr. Snappy fed me grapes. Didn't matter that I both loathed cocoa and we didn't own a fireplace OR bearskin rug and that Mr. Snappy had gone through too many incarnations of box creations to even resemble cardboard.
I'd scramble to the phone and punch in the coveted numbers only to hear a bored-sounding lady (I think it was the school secretary, but I can't be certain) say the same thing. Which was, essentially, "School's in session. SUCKER." Okay, the SUCKER was implied, but you get the drift. School was on. No fireside chat with Mr. Snappy.
Ad nauseum.
I'd forget all about the ass cold and focus on more interesting pursuits like counting the piles of ice-encrusted poos in the backyard and determine if our dogs did, in fact, shit in patterns. (answer: no) Then, one morning out of the fucking blue, I'd wake up to find my mother staring forlornly at the phone. Groggily, I'd ask her what was wrong.
Choking back a sob, she'd reply, "You have a *weeps* snow day today!"
Suddenly I'd be wider awake than I'd ever before been and scrambling through the house to find pieces of my winter gear. I'd shove my legs into my snow pants, not caring that the pants had somehow eaten one of my beloved cute kitten socks, knowing I'd regret it later when my boot had filled with slush. I'd scuttle out the door, all "I can't move my arms!" as the gang of neighborhood kids began to run out of their front doors.
*click* I'd hear as my mother locked the door behind her, still crying over the implications of a snow day.
I haven't had a snow day since Jesus copied my math homework.
That is, until Monday. All week the week before, I'd heard various reports of a cold wave hitting Chicago on Monday – all with varying degrees of hysteria – and I promptly laughed. With varying degrees of sarcasm. Cold? In Chicago? In JANUARY? Why, I NEVER!
Until Monday. When it was -50 degrees BELOW zero. Because "death by commuting" seems an awfully pathetic way to go, I decided that I probably wasn't going into the office. Neither was my coworker Lauren. Or Adam. Or Chris. Or Ryan. Or, quite frankly, MD, my boss.
The kids, trapped at my house until further notice also had a snow day. I'd hoped to miraculously find an adult-sized snowsuit in my coat closet so we could romp around in the snow together, but alas, there was nothing. Besides, it was so cold that the Weather Channel finally stopped reporting on the fish*** and started saying things like, "drink a gallon of water before going out doors," and throwing around hypothermia like it was a hip new band.
So we stayed in. For two straight days while the world shut down. In fact, our snow day(s) could easily go on record as the laziest snow day(s) in the history of snow day(s) ever.
Also? The best.
*Motto: 4/5 governors impeached!
**My parents are the only human beings who call me "Rebecca," which means that whenever I hear it, I'm instantly on guard, as though I'm in terrible trouble.***Won't someone think of the fish? ————– Am I the only person who remembers snow days as lasting approximately 89 hours and filled with the most fun stuff in the history of ever?
Before you click away, horrified that I'm about to launch into a detailed description of a dream I had about my cats going snowboarding, don't worry, Pranksters. I know the painful retelling of dreams is second only to memes as "most annoying thing on the Internet*."
In the Paleolithic era, when my inbred cousins were dinosaurs, I was a small child. Let's call me "Young Aunt Becky," because that makes the assumed familiarity sound a lot more white trash. My parents were hippies, hopelessly stuck in an era of Wall Street Boy Wonders snorting piles of coke of three thousand dollar an hour hookers, and mullet-ed Trans Am owners trying to get chicks in bikinis to lay on their car hoods while Whitesnake blasted in the background. Needless to say, they were entirely lost in this brave new world.
(pointless sidebar: weren't we all?)
We we were a civilized bunch, if it killed my mother, we'd attend the ballet, the symphony, and the opera. While my friends visited Salmonella-infested water parks during their "family days," my parents dragged us to look at the dusty rocks that had once resided in the pancreas of Catherine the Great. You tell me who won on "family fun days."
And you can forget listening to Bret "I Have VD" Michaels croon about roses and thorns – that shit was beneath us. While the rest of the world fawned over Axl Roses's mullet, we listened to public radio. All day. Every day. Most of the time, I tuned it out.
That was, of course, until the day I heard one of the commentators on NPR lose their fucking shit. See, for those of you not forced to listen to tragedies about billions of babies dying in a country I couldn't locate on a map, public radio does their own ads. So instead of hearing Billy Mays screaming in the middle of a coke binge about my "whites getting even brighter!" It would just be one of the droning voices reading ad copy into the microphone.
And, I learned that day, it was live.
I couldn't have been more than eight the first time I heard someone say the word "pube" on the airways. In fact, the word was so innocuous that I didn't even recognize it for the comedy genius it is. There is no finer word in the English language than "pube," my Pranksters. I continued going about whatever business it is that eight year olds have before I realized what was going on. My lizard brain recognized that something was gloriously rotten in the state of Denmark when I heard laughter – actual, real, laughter – emerging from the stereo. I dropped whatever I was doing and began to listen.Did NPR REALLY just say a naughty word?
Between giggles and guffaws, the commentator choked out a few words I did happen to recognize: "shit," "it sounds so sexual *bwahahaha* just *gasps for air*" before someone interrupted and continued in the sober, drab, dull-as-dry-toast commentary I'd grown accustomed to.
That was my first experience with the miracles of naughty words on NPR. And it left me with the singular desire to have more, MORE! debauchery, more nasty, more gross, more AWESOME words on public radio. For years, I suffered through other people listening to public radio in my presence – some would cluck their disapproval when some far-away land experienced a life-shattering earthquake, while I, having spent my young life listening to these tragedies, played an eternal loop of Britney Spears in my head. Accused once of "not caring" about the "social injustice in the world," I merely laughed – this coming from a slacktavist who worked at a garage door company. I was in nursing school at the time.
Still, I listened diligently. And still, I heard nothing. No "pubes," no "shit," no maniacal laughter when someone fucked the shit up on NPR. Not a single naughty word on NPR was to be had; instead, I had to listen to people who spoke through a mouthful of grogginess in a sleep-inducing lull. And nothing. I'd nearly given up my dream of listing for naughty words on NPR.
That was, until Thursday, when I was finally able to cross an item off my ever-implausible bucket list.
I stepped into a cab Thursday morning, dodging the icicles hanging precariously from the tall building, glinting sinisterly in the early morning sun. I announced my intended address to the cabbie and away we went. I stared out the window, trying to rattle my brain into coherency as we drove, halfway listening to NPR while trying to connect still-asleep synapses.
And there it was.
Completely detached and speaking through a mouthful of marbles, an NPR announcer made my dream come true without even realizing it. Barely listening, my ears perked up when she said in a dull monotone, "Poo."
While it's not the "motherfucker," I'd been praying for since I was 8, it was a damn good substitute. Like most people, I find the word poo hilarious, in part because my hippie parents insisted we refer to bodily functions as they were named. We did not shit. We did not piss. We "urinated." We "defecated."
I'm not in the slightest bit ashamed to admit that the word "poo" still sends me into gales of laughter. Which is precisely what I did when I heard it in the cab. I laughed until a stream of saline spurted from eyes and rolling down my face. My sides hurt. My back ached. I pulled an intercostal muscle. And I didn't care. The pain meant nothing.
I had finally realized my dream. NPR said naughty words to the sounds of my thrilled – yet cold – ears. And, my Pranksters, there is nothing sweeter than that.
Somewhere, my parents are feeling an intense pull of pride toward their only daughter……or not.
*I am the second-most annoying thing on the Internet.
Okay, Pranksters, YOUR TURN – what's the most ridiculous have on your "I must do this before I die" list? (I overarching loathe the term "bucket list")
Of all the new year cliches, none seem to be more true that the people who fill gyms, yoga classes and fitness centers on January 1st. I'm what you could call "a gym class regular", not a hero, not a meathead, not even an enthusiast, but a dude who noticed his fitness joint when it opened, got on the ground level membership pricing, and goes enough to justify the amount that comes out of my checking account each month. I'm familiar with the treadmill, the yoga mats that I do push ups and sit ups on, and the bench press area. I know how to sweat and maintain my mediocre build of 43-year-old Campbell Soup Can. I put the stock in stocky.
It's been three and a half years since I joined my gym and I like it. There are meatheads with gallon jugs of distilled water and a duffel bags full of stuff that I assume are Barry Bonds approved "supplements", but I haven't done any journalism to confirm. There are a lot of people who look like me, middle-aged, graying in the usual areas and proud of their one-hour sweat three or four times a week. I've even traded hellos, how 'bout them local sports teams conversations and dude, can I spot you on the bench moments with a few others.
When I walked into my local ligament pull this morning, January 1, 2014, I expected swarms of newbies. I mean I read Facebook, the Twitter, and Instagram. Everyone I kinda sorta know is going to change for the good and make 2014 their bitch.
The parking lot was full. I smiled, pulled into one of only two spaces available, scooped up my workout gear and went inside. You could smell the temporary enthusiasm. It was combination of the Target makeup counter and human mothballs from the last time people hit the mills and weights. The girl behind the counter checked me in. She's my oldest daughter's age, 18, and sarcasm is her co-pilot.
"Welcome to Jungle, for now."
I laughed at her line and dodged two women dressed in clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe then bumped into six different dudes trying to find a locker in the men's area.
"Hey man, thought you'd skip this week, glad you didn't. More tales to tell this way, huh?"
The gravely voice belonged to Pete. Pete looks like George Peppard when Peppard played Hannibal Smith on The A-Team. I've always assumed Pete loves it when a plan comes together. One day I'll smoke a victory cigar after we take out some rouge military guys. I didn't respond, because once you talk to Pete, you're in for a ride that doesn't let up for a while. I smacked his arm with my right hand and laughed then found my favorite locker, number 23.
The floor of the fitness center looked like those news clips you see of the Wall Street Stock Exchange. People were everywhere, like ants all up in a picnic. My gaze caught one treadmill open so I made a line for it. It was in front of a TV playing Fox News Channel. This was going to be a painful 25 minute rat race. I noticed the guest on Fox & Friends was an astrologer. I was amused. Someone forgot to tell their producers and hosts that their network didn't believe in science, fake or otherwise. But the sixty-year-old woman huffing next to me on her treadmill seem totally engaged. I tweeted my thoughts instead of saying them out loud.
After my run, I noticed my usual workout wasn't possible. Everyone was on everything I needed so I started people watching. I saw the trainer guy crash and burn flirting with two girls who were working out in full make-up and earrings. I noticed a female muscle head throw a minor temper tantrum when one of the newbies left weights on a bar. Every few minutes a regular would notice me, nod their head and mouth "this sucks" or "six weeks" or "kill me" and I'd laugh. I wondered how many would stick it out and become average, run of mill, regulars like me. I saw two guys with major potential for mediocrity. They were polite, about to pass out and apologetic for getting in the way. They were even cuter than the ones who'd be gone in six weeks.
The music being played signified the new school attendee. Top 40 ruled. Strong women with children mouthed the words to "damn, she's a sexy chick" and "I'm sexy and I know it". While out of shape dudes couldn't help themselves to classic Lady GaGa or Pitbull.
By the time the bench press machine was open and I could do my four sets, One Republic's Counting Stars played. That line, "everything that kills me, makes me feel alive" said it all. That was why I was here on January 1, 2014, trying to feel alive at 43-years-old. After I finished making my chest and elbows feel like they were about to explode, I started counting stars, those people who wouldn't be around in a month. I hold out some hope my cynicism is dead wrong. But for now, I say 4 out of 45 will be there trying to make themselves look good for their significant other son Valentine's Day.Lance Burson is writer living outside Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and three daughters. He's the published author of two books available on amazon for kindle and in paperback from Lulu.com – The Ballad of Helene Troy and Soul To Body. His favorite exercise is full body massage followed by whiskey.


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Obsession Egon Booms' Mercedes-Benz PontoonI have always loved Q-cars. The idea of putting a big, tricked-out engine into a small car, and seeing the look of surprise on the faces of sports car drivers as you leave them in the dust has its own brand of appeal. These days major manufacturers play this game very well indeed. BMW's M5 and the E63 AMG are just two examples of factory-built four-door hot rods that can really upset drivers of junior league supercars.
However, there's something even more enticing about dropping modern mechanicals into a classic car, giving it a turn of speed that would do justice to the racing cars from its era.
My old high-performance road and race driving coach, John Lyon, had a car like that back in the 1970s. It was a green Morris Minor Convertible powered by a tuned 110-hp Mini Cooper S engine. A lower Koni suspension, wider steel wheels and big brakes kept it from departing into the scenery, and were the only clues to its non-standard mechanicals. Of course Lyon was a master behind the wheel, and the number of big car drivers he upset with this innocuous looking but very rapid granny car was legendary.
Today I'm in the small village of Hinte, near the coast of Northern Germany, and I have come to see a 1950s classic Mercedes Ponton with the heartbeat of a 35-year-younger model.
The Ponton has a special place in my personal motoring experience because when I was 12 and living in Singapore, I was one of five youngsters taken to school every day in a grey 180D Ponton contract taxi. My lasting memories of this car was a clapped-out diesel engine that sounded like it was full of nails, and it felt like it could not pull the skin off the proverbial rice pudding. Forty-eight horses hauling a 2,600-pound car with six on board was no recipe for stirring performance.
Unlike some of the wild Frankenstein engine transplants companies like Brabus made in the 1980s, stuffing souped-up big-block S-Class engines into unsuspecting 190Es, this Ponton's creator, Dipl. Ing. Egon Booms, traded one four-cylinder Mercedes engine for another. However, his power unit of choice was not the tame 122-hp motor that powered the bog-standard 190E 2.0 liter. Instead, Booms went the whole hog with the 235-hp Cosworth-cylinder-head-endowed engine from the legendary 190E 2.5-16 Evo II.
Open the bonnet and you will see the cam cover bears the 2.3-16 script from the earlier 185-hp road car. "At the time I built it, this meant cheaper insurance," Booms explains, "but things have changed since, and it now no longer matters as the car is categorized as a classic and licensed for summer use in Germany." Interestingly, after inspecting it, the German transport office gave Booms manufacturer status; therefore his car has its own unique chassis number.
The high-revving 2,463cc motor is very over-square, with a bore and stroke of 97.3mm x 82.8mm. All DTM racers and their homologation road versions had to use fully working catalytic converters, and the 500 Evo II cars built for this purpose were no exception. So this late 1950s Mercedes meets mid-'90s emission standards.
Free-flow steel catalysts help the power, and a healthy 235 hp arrives at a screaming 7200 rpm, with the limiter at 7700 rpm. Torque output is 181 lb-ft between 5000 and 6000 rpm, and the 3.46:1 final drive helps the high revving engine at cruise.
When I first heard about this Ponton Cosworth, I wrongly assumed that Booms had simply performed an engine transplant and beefed up the chassis and brakes to cope with the near 300 percent increase in power. How wrong I was.
Wheeling out the photo album, he showed me the step-by-step build he performed in his spare time over seven years. He explained that his one-off special is actually the marriage of a Ponton bodyshell to the complete floorpan, axles, suspension, engine, brakes and interior of a 190E 2.5-16 Evo II.
Actually, it would be more correct to say two 190E 2.5-16 Evo IIs, as the first donor car had been hit hard from behind and provided its undamaged motor and interior. The second car suffered significant damage to its roof when it rolled, and was cannibalized for its underpinnings and some other parts.
"I actually started off with the idea of using a 122-hp 2.0-liter 190E motor," Booms explains. "But when my local wreckers told me they had an Evo II, I didn't hesitate." Not all the parts came from the two wrecked Evo IIs though. In the interest of safety, Booms used many new suspension and brake parts, which added to his final bill.
The Ponton body panels were repaired where necessary and adapted to the mix of original and 190E structure with many hand-fabricated bespoke parts. "Actually, only the roof panel was totally untouched," he says. Bespoke sheet metal around the 190E bulkheads and door support areas was hand fabricated to stitch the two generations of Mercedes together.
Those who have ever contemplated such a project will be savvy enough to ask about the wheelbase and tracks of both cars. But just as the 1970s Mercedes 600 and today's Maybach come within spitting distance of each other in critical dimensions, so do the Ponton and 190E. "If you want to be pedantic, the Evo II's wheelbase is exactly 15mm longer, so I just jigged things slightly to center the axles during setup," Booms says.
Open the boot and further surprises are revealed. The fuel filler cap sits behind an adapted 190E filler flap placed vertically up against the bulkhead, while a CD changer hangs on a bracket under the rear parcel shelf. Lifting the modern Mercedes-style boot floor panel reveals an OEM Mercedes-based satellite navigation unit that rises on its own miniature pneumatic strut for loading the CD. The attention to detail is simply awesome.
Most of the Evo II cabin was transplanted into the Ponton. "I had to shorten the dash slightly and fabricate a trim panel to make it look neat," Booms says. "The front and rear seats are all original Evo II as is the center console."
The engine stirs into life with the familiar frenetic rasp of the 190E 2.5-16 Evo II. This high-revver always sounds highly strung and raring to go, a soundtrack that seems totally at odds with the sedate look of the classic Ponton.
On the road, Booms' creation feels just like an Evo II. Its medium weighted power steering, taut but supple ride and crisp handling are a world away from the late-'50s Ponton. It even has ABS. No Ponton has ever gone this fast, but this Mercedes hybrid is capable of 149 mph, and zero to 62 takes 7.0 seconds, a big improvement on the yawning 36 seconds of my school taxi.
The only visual clue that this car is not what it appears to be is the 7.5J and 8.0J x 16-inch AMG alloys with 225/45ZR16 Bridgestones and the lower ride height, but Booms is considering making wider original steel wheels with the appropriate hubcaps to complete the deception.
As an automotive engineer with master mechanic and automotive electrical master diplomas as well, Booms relishes off-the-wall challenges like this car. But it was not a cheap exercise by any means. "If you factor in my 2,500 man hours over the last seven years as well, then this hobby project would cost over 185,000 to reproduce," he says.
As I departed, he told me that he has already started work on his next project, a Porsche-powered, mid-engine classic Beetle. I'll be visiting again in the not-too-distant future.
Mercedes-Benz Pontoon LayoutLongitudinal front engine, rear-wheel drive
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She's getting ready to compete for hardware when the Olympic Summer Games commence this August as, as a precursor, Jessica Ennis was picked to cover the August 2012 issue of Cosmopolitan UK magazine.
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She's turned into the poster-girl for the upcoming Olympic games, and Jessica Ennis was selected to cover the February 2012 issue of Marie Claire UK.
The track and field phenom posed for a sporty spread shot by Yu Tsai while talking about everything from her relationship with Andy Hill to being nervous before big events.
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- Returning to Previous ROM: To go back to your previous ROM, boot into recovery, select backup and restore then restore your previous ROM by selecting it from the list.
AOKP based on Jelly Bean Android 4.1 is now installed and running on your AT&T Galaxy S2 Skyrocket. Visit the official development page for updates and more info. Share your thoughts on the ROM in the comments below.


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Moscow Pride:One point that hasn't been identified is that when we heard that the couts had upheld the Pride ban, we tried to arrange events which would not provoke the police, and my impression was that the police had agreed to our proposals and guaranteed our safety. So for example we were encouraged to go as individuals to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, rather than en masse, but when we got there the burial place wasd closed and we were surrouned by fascists.Also at a packed press conference a couple of hours before the events, we all signed up to a "Moscow Declaration of Human Rights". I haven't seen this on any news report yet. Many European politicians movingly spoke in favour of this document, including Volker Beck, who was later to be attcked by fascits and arrested by the police.Best Wishes,Derek Lennard.IDAHO-UKDerek Lennard.IDAHO-UK Co-ordinator.
As pointed out, this comes just a week after Russia assumed the Presidency of the Council of Europe, the human rights watchdog that guarantees freedom of expression and assembly.People should lobby their local MP immediately to raise this issue in Parliament and to demand that the Presidency of the Council of Europe be removed from Russia.I thought that Russia had learnt about and fought fascism in the past, clearly not a lesson that it has carried forward to the present. Now it is no better than Nazi Germany!
I am not a gay. But i do not have any prejudice against gays.I think that it is biological and psychological orientation that makes people homosexual.Now about Russia.Russia is one of the most ignorant,uncivilized,biased,paranoid,racist countries in the world.I know because i studied in Russia for 7 years.It is defenitely the most racist country in the world.In a country were every week atleast one non white is being killed or seriously attacked,if you wish for gay rights openely,then i think it is suicidal.In russia even human rights people who advicates equal rights for all races are being killed or attacked.Antifascists are being traced and killed.Authorities support racist organisations .If not for official support, nazi organisations will not survive.But in Russia antifascists are being targeted by police rather than racist neonazis.This is the reality of Russia.So your life is in your hands if you think to rebel against official policies of Russia.But most of the blame for growth of neo fascism in Russia must go for islamists who tried to destabilize russia during 90`s and even now.Both islamism and neonazism must be eradicated from the world if the world is to live peacefully.
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Categories > Celebrities > My Chemical Romance > That Tearing Sound of Love Notes.
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What happened with Eloise.
It's been about 3 weeks now since I started at this godforsaken school. I agree with Gerard, the food's crap and some people are somewhat worse. I was sitting on the floor of my room with Gerard, playing some video games my parents had sent me while Frank slept in the room next door.
"Oh you are so gone!" He said, laughing. I smiled triumphantly as the 'Player 1 Wins!' came up on the screen, only to be tackled to the floor by Gerard.
"NO!" I yelled, trying not to laugh and he began to tickle my ribs. I involuntary scrunched up in a ball and tried to stop the tickling madness.
"Piss off!" I managed out, crawling away and trying to catch my breath. He laughed and fell backward himself, sprawling out over the carpet.
"I'm so bored. Want to dnm?" He asked. I raised an eyebrow.
"What's that?" I asked. He chuckled.
"It's a deep and meaningful conversation about whatever you want." He explained.
"Ahhh." I nodded and sat back against my bed.
"Alright, tell me, did you find out what happened with Eloise that time?" I asked. He blushed and nodded.
"Yeah." I smiled.
"What's with the redness?" I asked. He shrugged, smiling.
"She used to live next door to me in primary." He said. I nodded and waited for him to continue.
"Stop looking at me like that!" He said, throwing his hands up in defense and trying very poorly to hide the huge grin on his face.
"Carry on." I said. He laughed.
"I dunno. I asked her what was wrong that day because in primary, her and her dad used to fight a lot. Like he'd come home, and Mikey and I knew he hit her. We'd hear screaming and then something bang and she'd tell him to stop… not like he would." He added on.
"What made her go to you anyway? No offense." He asked. I shook my head and shrugged.
"No idea.." Then I looked back and remembered. "Wait, in science, her sleeve had fallen down.. and-"
"I saw those too." He said.
"Yeah. When I tried to grab her arms to tell her it was okay, yeah. You can imagine, she just broke down again."
"So what did you do?" I asked. He looked at me and his face turned a deep red and he mumbled something.
"What was that?" I asked with a smirk. He grinned and looked at a spot on the wall, making at seem interesting. I heard him cough.
"I kissed her." He said, trying to make it sound casual but you could just hear the excitement in his voice. I burst out laughing, lying my head back into my bed.
"Fuck off!" He said.
"No.. no.." I said, holding my hand up.
"Let me catch my breath." I said, trying to breathe and then moving over toward him.
"That's so cute." I said, giving him a hug. He sighed in relief and looked at me.
"Do you think I should ask her out?" He asked. I raised an eyebrow.
"Did she pull away?" I asked. He shook his head.
"She kissed back I'm pretty sure."
"Then ask her out."
"But what about her reputation?" He asked, "I don't want her getting paid out like we do just because she's hanging out with me." He sighed and I laughed again.
"You worry too much, just ask her." I said. He nodded, smiling.
"Thanks Keira."
"Anytime." I sat back down, and leant up against the lounge like Gerard was. Just listening to the sound of my video game.
"I'm going to have a quick check on Frank." He said, standing up and I watched him walk to the adjoining door and open it.
"Frank?" He asked, walking in and looking around. I frowned as I watched him shrug and walk back in, shutting the door.
"He must have gone to get lunch." He said.
"You want to go too?" I asked. He nodded and put out his hand to help me up and I smoothed out my clothes before joining him in the hallway. I stopped quickly to lock the door behind me and then started my walk with Gerard down to the cafeteria.
"Did you talk with Frank?" He asked me quietly. I nodded my head, readjusting my shirt.
"Not about what you think though, I've just been getting along." I said. He nodded, and then looked at me knowingly.
"What?" I asked. He smiled even wider.
"Frank was talking in his sleep the other day." He said. I looked at him.
"Yeah. He said your name." He said. I looked at him again and he was smiling at me.
"I think he likes you." He said. I snorted. "What?!"
"Darling, no one has liked me since the 5th grade. I understand why too, and plus, PLUS, he's only known me 3 weeks and we've only talked about school work or music. That's it." He looked up and pondered my answer.
"Tell me, what's your favourite band?" He asked. I sighed.
"It'd have to be a toss up between Green Day and the Bouncing Souls." I said. He grinned as we neared the cafeteria.
"And do you play any instruments?"
"What's your favourite colour?"
"Don't have one."
"How many boyfriends have you had in the past?"
"One, but it was a fuck up." I said. He grinned widely as we entered the large room.
"I think you've just contradicted yourself without even knowing it." He whispered, then walked over to where people were lining up to get food. I rolled my eyes at his still wide grinning at me and walked toward the door leading outside. I just didn't feel that hungry anymore. I pushed on the door with my shoulder and walked slowly to the end of the building, trying to remove my ipod from my pocket. I finally got it out though when I felt someone grab the sleeve of my hoodie and drag me around the corner of the building where the jocks usually sat.
"What the f-" They put their hand over my mouth and I stopped struggling at how gentle they were holding onto my face. I looked up and was met with a pair of familiar hazel eyes.
"Fuck." I said. He stared at my eyes.
"No, its Frank remember?" He gave a soft smile. I coughed and leant up against the wall.
"So what's up?" I asked. He looked down at his feet and then rubbed his hands together.
"I don't know how to say this… without creeping you out." He said. I nodded.
"It'll take a lot to creep me out Frank, just tell me." I said. He closed his eyes and then opened them, locking them with mine.
"I think… I…. need you." He said. I kept looking into his eyes for some kind of joking, but he wasn't. He was dead serious.
"What do you need?" I asked. He breathed in and looked around; thank god the jocks had better things to do today.
"Nothing in particular, nothing from you. Just, you." He said. I looked down and bit my lip as he started playing with his lip ring. I felt the wind slightly leave though as his body moved closer to mine, less than a foot apart. I caught my breath as his hand moved up to my cheek, not touching it, but kind of hovering over it. Not sure of what to do. I watched as he let out a frustrated breath and went to turn away. Fuck it. I grabbed his collar and pulled his face to mine, kissing him softly. I stopped though, pulling away slightly and letting our lips brush, waiting for his reaction. He moved forward suddenly and kissed me fully, bringing both his hands up to my cheeks and pulling my face closer to his. I smiled into the kiss and slowly pulled away.
"You can have me." I said and he smiled, touching my hand and moving back around the corner. That was a smile… a real smile. I sighed and leant up against the wall, looking at the screen on my ipod to see a song already playing.
/I don't care if you don't mind
I'll be there not far behind
I will dare
Keep in mind
I'll be there for you./


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The Naked Truth about Stefan Sagmeister's Renamed Firm, 'Sagmeister & Walsh'
In 1999, Stefan Sagmeister made graphic design history with a poster (at right) that featured the details of a speaking gig sliced—by a knife-wielding intern, legend has it—into the designer's own naked torso. That proved effective, aside from the scarring. The poster, a sensation at the AIGA Detroit event, was hoarded by design fans and later acquired by London's Design Museum for its permanent collection. And so when Sagmeister decided, after nearly two decades, to rename his eponymous firm Sagmeister & Walsh, he simply stripped—and his new partner, 24-year-old Jessica Walsh, was game to do the same. The eyebrow-raising image, posted below for your ogling, lays bare the naked truth that the NYC-based firm "will do anything for design."


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If you think you have a two-part question, you actually just have two questions. We encourage you to ask the better of the two and save the crappy one for a less-discriminating lecture series.
Misha Glouberman on how to behave like a worthwhile human being during a Q&A session. Go ahead, click through and read the rest; there are some pearls of wisdom in there for all of us. (via wnycradiolab)
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EUCC Thanksgiving dinner today
TELL CITY – The Evangelical United Church of Christ will prepare a traditional Thanksgiving dinner today. The meal will be served in the fellowship hall from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Anyone wishing to have meals delivered in the morning can call the church office at 547-7059.
Meals will be delivered in Tell City, Cannelton and Troy. Anyone is invited to call the church to request a meal.
FERDINAND – When Sister Madonna Helmer celebrated her golden jubilee as a Sister of St. Benedict in 2006, she felt there was "something special I should do as I met that milestone in my life." What she ended up doing, even though she never considered herself a writer, was write a book.
To keep the birthday list updated, The Perry County News needs your help. Call 547-3424 if you want to add a name, make a change or if a name or date is wrong. If a person is deceased, please advise the newspaper so the name can be removed from the list. This information is appreciated. You can add names for the year if you like.
November 26
Heath Scherzer and Brittany Graves announce the birth of their daughter, Savannah Joyce Scherzer, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, at Deaconess Women's Hospital in Newburgh.
The infant weighed 6 pounds, 9 ounces and was 21 inches long.
Grandparents are Jeff and Jody Graves of Dale and Gary and Joyce Scherzer of northern Perry County. Great-grandparents are Frank and Jeanette Becher of Ferdinand, Paul and Dolores Scherzer of St. Meinrad, Dave and Karen Clark of Santa Rosa, Calif., and Joyce Graves and the late Robert Graves of Santa Rosa.
The Perry County News is pleased to announce events of local interest as a service to our readers and the community. Information should be sent to The News at P.O. Box 309, Tell City, IN 47586. Information can also be faxed to 547-2847 or e-mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please include a telephone number.
Substance abuse committee to meet
TELL CITY – The Perry County Substance Abuse Committee board of directors will meet at 2:30 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Evangelical United Church of Christ.
FERDINAND – Twenty-five music students of Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand will present two Christmas music recitals Dec. 5 at Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand.
The recitals, which are free and open to the public, will be held at 1:30 p.m. EST and 3:30 p.m. EST in Assembly Hall at the monastery.
Students performing at 1:30 p.m. will be Jessica Bertke, Claire Dooley, Ivy Evans, Madison Fella, Grace Gogel, Paulina Gogel, Garrett Jarboe, Madison Hammond, Audrey Keepes, Olivia Schroering, Nolan Snyder and Jenny Weinzapfel.
TELL CITY – Epsilon Omega Chapter of Kappa Kappa Kappa is selling prints of historic landmarks in Tell City and Perry County.
Most were drawn by offenders in the Purposeful Living Unites Serve program at Branchville Correctional Facility.
TELL CITY – The Daughters of Isabella are selling raffle tickets for various prizes. There will be 28 prizes in the raffle, including a quilt and Holiday World tickets.
Cost of tickets is $1 each or six for $5.
Tickets may be purchased from any D of I member or by calling Dona Sweeney at 547-4794.
Drawings will be held Dec. 7 at the D of I Christmas party.
TELL CITY – The Perry County Junior Women will host the Sweets, Treats and Santa Holiday event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4, at the Schergens Center. The cost is $3 per child and $2 for adults who wish to eat with their children. Lunch will be served and children can make crafts and also visit with Santa Claus.
Danny Bolin will take photographs. There will be gift bags given to the first 100 children.
To make a reservation, call T.J. Noland at 547-7822 or e-mail email@example.com.
PERRY COUNTY – Area Girl Scouts are readying to take cookie orders from Jan. 1 through Jan. 23.
This year's sale will offer eight varieties of cookies: Thin Mints, Shortbreads, Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Peanut Butter Patties, Caramel deLites, Thanks-a-Lots, Lemonades and a new Belgian-style cookie called Shout Outs.
A change this year will be a new "soft" packaging for the Thanks-a-Lots cookies, which, according to cookie suppliers ABC Interbake, eliminates more than 150 tons of paperboard from the waste stream.
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