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parachute ammo
im going to try and put a parachute on a peice of ammo, its a 5in piece of 3/4" pvc filled with water and capped off
i was thinking of making the shute out of a big garbage bag, i have 2 questions about the bag:
1. would garbage bag work or would it be to heavey? if so what should i use?
2.how big in diameter should i make the chute?
well since i got no help on this i just winged it and it turned out really good its fun to shoot or just throw the parachute is 3' in dia. my camera isnt here atm but i will post pics of it asap
How does that work? Wouldn't the parachute just open right away and stop the projectile from going very far?
sorry it took so long for me to get the pics but i didnt have acess to a camera for a while
no it doesnt open up right when shot or thrown it goes and comes down about 5-10' before it opens
and heres the pics:
I made one with a pencil for the body, blu tac wrapped in electrical tape weighting the front. I used a chute about 30cm x 30cm made of bin bag, fishing line strings, and a cable tie attaching it to the pencil.
Pretty mediocre height, the lines started to unravel just after apogee, proving that it should work with a few tweaks. The problems started after the parachute lines unraveled. Due to the light weight of the projectile, it never got enough speed to 'pop' the chute open. I may try it with a thinner, more flexible plastic. Any ideas?
I would love to see a larger version fired from schmanmans S.W.A.T gun
Or, a toothpick, cotton thread and a tiny piece of glad wrap. Somone with a working mini pill bottle gun should try this, because I took mine apart and i don't feel like reassemling it.
you could also try adding weight to the pencil or using something heavier, as for the chute i dont know anything off the top of my head that would be thinner
and it would be sweet to see a larger version shot out of the S.W.A.T gun
Thats cool. I'm just wondering, is that a Les Paul, Fender p-bass and a fender bass amp in the backround???
Well I made another smaller version, weight was an old shrader, the shaft was a part off a sprinkler system, and the chute was smaller to try and helf it open. It was a total failure, not sure what went wrong but I think it opened like a second after leaving the barrel, and the strings came off a few of the corners. I didn't manage to find it again so I can't be sure on why it didn't work.
yes to all of that the guitar is mine, the amp and bass in pic is my bros, i have 2 amps for guitar a 15w crate, 50w peavey (i think its 50) and im going to buy a 100 maybe 200w peavey when i get the money
EDIT: insomniac how long are the strings on your chute? try making the strings:chute ratio 2:3 that seems to work best for me (i failed several times before i came up with this) or it could need more weight cuz im not sure how much that weighs
or its possible the problem is the way you load it, heres i prepare mine:
grab the very center of the chute so it falls into a cone shape the just squeeze it and get it as skinny as you can then fold the tip of the chute to the bottom of it and squeeze again the wrap the strings as tight as you can around the bottom of it (where the top meets the bottom) and then fold it over next to the load or put in front or behind the load to shoot, try different things and see wat works best with that size ammo
Heres my version of this. If you make slits up the side of the chute it exposes more surface area and causes more drag.
How well does yours work professor amadeus?
I can't really experiment that much, I live in a city and i lose it after each shot. I might make one with an aa battery and go to a deserted field to shoot it.
ok, that is on my to-do list for the spring.
I will use one of the extra large heavy duty black ones, and a caulk tube as the weight. I will also videotape it, and count the hang time.
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Wednesday, September 29, 1999
New MP3s released
Wendy & Lisa continue to add new 'Specials' to the MP3 section of their website. The latest additions include covers of "Secret Agent Man" and -- get this -- "Stand By Your Man," both of which were recorded for use in the TV show "Snoops". The site also includes a variety of other scoring snippets and unreleased tracks.
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Church experiences have changed dramatically over the past 30 years, and so have the core fundraising concepts ~ Dr John Bash
Laguna Beach, CA (PRWEB) January 23, 2014
Church Stewardship Consulting announced today the availability of its 2014 edition of the "5 Keys to Successful Fundraising". Gleaned from 27 years experience in developing church fundraising programs for small- to medium-sized congregations to help grow membership, facilities, and ministries, the "Five Keys to Successful Church Fundraising" is available now as a no-cost download.
"It's not uncommon for churches to have visions that are bigger than their budgets," explained author Dr. John Bash, CEO of Church Stewardship Consulting. "Yet, no matter whether a congregation is considering a building, debt reduction, annual budget giving, or ministry growth campaign, the 'Five Keys' outlines the critical steps each project must address in 2014 and beyond."
Highlights of the Five Keys to Successful Church Fundraising programs include:
- Be transparent. Church members want to know what's going on in the boardroom. They want to share the vision and be led in an authentic way.
- McMansions and fancy cars in the church parking lot? Help your congregation walk the talk by teaching how money and finance is more than giving to the church.
- In this digital age develop tools like bank auto-withdrawal and other ways to accept online donations. Make giving easy for members.
- Share the vision. Most church goers can't name most of the ministries their church offers. Have congregants and stakeholders share their visions for the great things happening.
- If the person introducing the offering or program isn't excited…that attitude will be seen in the pews. If the offering bores you, so will the results.
"Church experiences have changed dramatically over the past 30 years, and so have the core fundraising concepts," explains Bash. The Five Keys explores the new terrain of church fundraising that acknowledges not the way things were in the church where you grew up back when, but the way they are now.
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I've linked up to How Sweet the Sounds "Pink Saturday"
New Store Grand Opening
I've linked up to How Sweet the Sounds "Pink Saturday"
11 comments:
- Glenda/MidSouth said...
Oh my word !!! You do all this for your Grands !?! They will love it all and love Pee Wee joining in also. :-D You really did good!
Thanks for stopping by. That was my organized mess - you would not want to see my table right now. :-D
Enjoy your evening.
- May 17, 2012 at 3:54 PM
- fairyrocks said...
Now this is my kinda project. What a wonderful thing to do for your grands. They will remember that pirate store always.
Thanks for popping by. Hope the sun is shining on you and your little treasures..AAARRRR
- May 17, 2012 at 5:00 PM
- OOAKFairyland said...
I love all of the pirate stuff - how much fun! What a magical place for your grands - they are very lucky!
- May 17, 2012 at 7:07 PM
- BucksCountyFolkArt said...
Am I too old to be your grand?
- May 18, 2012 at 12:05 PM
- LV said...
You have things going in the right direction. I love your little shop and wish you well with it.
- May 18, 2012 at 12:42 PM
- Francie...The Scented Cottage Studio said...
Ohhhh I wanna shop ! Just love everything. Happy Pink Saturday.
- May 18, 2012 at 2:27 PM
- ~Shabby~Prim~Delights~ said...
That is gorgeous...what a wonderful place to build dreams,
- May 18, 2012 at 4:33 PM
- Atelier de Charo said...
Happy Pink Saturday!
- May 18, 2012 at 7:38 PM
- Ms. Burrito said...
Oh so pretty! I am now your follower.
Hope you'd come and link with me in my Color Connection meme through my PINK entry.
- May 18, 2012 at 9:54 PM
- Fun With This and That said...
Fun place have a great week Laura
- May 19, 2012 at 8:34 PM
- chubskulit said...
i love it, just awesome.
Pink Blooms, have a blessed Sunday!
- May 20, 2012 at 6:08 AM


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did this on friday as a tribute to michael jackson after watching "this is it."
the other night, my nephew came to my room to look around. i gave him this piece to give to his mom/my sister and he went running up the stairs saying, "look! art!" i love him. he's so cute.


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What about looming a group of pumpkins for your Fall home decor. They are so easy. Just use the loom for the appropriate size.Loom one or loom a group of pumpkins. Check out the provocraft site for an easy pattern.
Joann has all the supplies, the yarn you need,Red Heart is a nice acrylic worsted to use.
Of course if you don't have your looms a great set to get is the round Knifty Knitter set.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Time For Fall Loomin
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The roma and cherry tomatoes are going to ripen any day now. Last summer, the tomato crop was poor - this year? Wow.
This is the first time I've tried growing lettuce - and these three plants did so well,
Grow your own spring mix? Totally awesome!
Come July, I may be sorry I put in several zucchini plants.
I am not sure what is worse - letting the aphids have their way with the plants, or eating an insecticide laden artichoke.
Ever had success with Safer soap? Me, neither.
I'm close to chopping them all down; aphids are just disgusting. Way worse than hornworms, and you know how nasty those bad boys are.


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In my post "Will the U.S. spend the Economic Recovery Act's $20 billion for Healthcare IT more wisely than the UK?", I expressed concern that the answer to the titular question might in fact be "no."
In this third post of a series I present more information that stands as another exhibit to my thesis above, the first case of the series at this link being mine personally, the second case being of another person, an HIT consultant and former student in healthcare informatics.
This third case presents the perspective of a technical IT support person working for a vendor. He is young, yet has excellent observational and reasoning skills exceeding those of many "senior" people I have encountered.
This case came unsolicited. It is worth reading in its entirety for it speaks quite a number of truths. I have edited some of it out for length, but the full version appears here.
Congress, are you listening?
Case Three (emphases mine):
Hi MedInformaticsMD, I just finished reading your website on informatics, thought it covered a lot of the issues in clinical IT well, very well, one thing though that I thought was missing was the perspective of the vendor IT staff and how these issues trickle upstream (or is it downstream) to clinical IT.
... A brief background ... I am relatively young especially in the healthcare world. I have been working in healthcare IT for almost 3 years now and started with no knowledge of healthcare, my background was/is technical.
I have worked with several hospitals and groups of hospitals to create interfaces to practices (over 50 interfaces and over 15 different EMR/HIS/LIS systems), and in some cases other labs to share HL7 formatted clinical data. I have also been dabbling in (E)MPI's also and working on the design of a light-weight EMR application.
Although I do have limited healthcare experience I have somehow managed to become responsible for the design of these applications or have my hands somehow involved in these projects. Our staff, developers at the least have worked in the healthcare IT space for about 10-15+ years each.
I myself though am the odd one out with just under 3 years, so I spend most of my time learning from them, other industries and other developers to get a grasp of how to develop/design applications.
I for one feel the biggest problem with clinical IT, is as you stated, there's a "magical bullet" that can solve everyone's problem and IT is that bullet. This magic bullet idea seems to live on both sides, hospitals as well as vendors seem to think that IT will fix it all. The reality that both of us seem to see though is, it won't solve everything, it will solve some things but I think more importantly is that it can only help clinicians.
IT cannot solve all of clinician's problems because as you stated, healthcare is a complex, dynamic beast to tackle, rather than solving problems, I feel it would be best to use IT to make processes more efficient where applicable. Before I go too far though, I need to define people as I see them:
- Clinical people - Folks that understand the healthcare process down into the nitty gritty details, understand the complexity and dynamics of working in healthcare.
- Clinical IT people - These are folks like yourself, understand the clinical process and the IT side of things.
- IT people - These are folks like myself, we understand IT, development and the limitations of computers but don't quite understand all the details we can see the big picture but don't quite understand all the details and how they work in healthcare.
Internally at our company, much the same as with the C level people in hospitals, is that IT will fix [insert problem here]. The reality is though, it won't, if its not thoroughly examined and researched it won't solve the problem, or even worse the problem can't be solved by IT, similar to your ED whiteboard example.
We are currently developing an application where the client is driving the design, while management is trying to keep the application generic enough that we can implement this at other sites. The problem is, we have no expertise in that area, our developers, designers, implementers know and understand interfacing, not development in these other areas.
Management in their infinite wisdom though think we can do this as long as the hospital is giving input, though there's no clinicians involved in the design, just the IT managers of the hospital.
This seems to have become the bane of my employment though, management sees a revenue stream and then sends it down stream to the guys in the trenches to make it happen, the reality though is, we can make SOME of it happen, but not the entire solution, this seems to fall on deaf ears though.
Sales and management are those in a position of power to drive what the front-line soldiers do without understanding the problem. For example we, developers and implementations have been tasked with developing a light-weight MPI [master patient index - ed.], which has been a success though since this falls into some our staffs expertise.
But, the project was doomed to fail since day one because the expectations were to meet a 100% patient match without [additional -ed.] data entry. This was similar to solving CPOE, the last numbers I read were CPOE covers about 20% of total results/orders that exist today.
The expectations and smoke screen put by sales, marketing, vendors etc. seem to have grabbed everyone's imagination, I think what should be put out there is reality, unfortunately reality doesn't sell as well, which is a shame.
I've seen/heard of projects that range in the tens of thousands to multi-million fail because the expertise isn't there, management sees a glorious one-size-fits all application and bites the bullet only to see their 25 million dollar budget for the year go down the drain in one project and now dozens of other projects are in peril or go on indefinite hold because of the lack of budget.
My cousin works at a small hospital in admissions, they recently installed [major vendor's] application for patient registration. I was speaking with him about this and believe its a multi-million dollar failed project, [major vendor] doesn't internally have the staff to develop such an application, they didn't bring in clinicians, they didn't ask about their work-flow and designed an application that makes no logical (to a clinician or hospital employee) sense.
Options are scattered, the application expects a patient to be registered before being admitted, the problem is what happens in ED situations where the person goes in with no identification and is near-death, not quite easy to ask a person about to die their information.
That's the reality of hospitals, anything goes, [vendors should] develop the application to work in that manner. I also see another arena where IT has failed healthcare, the notion, the idea of EMR's is grand and could be a good one I believe.
... This boom in clinical IT is great, but, the intentions of companies jumping into healthcare overshadow the purpose of the applications. Companies are rapidly developing and deploying applications without ever asking a clinician if it works.
[Major new application] is a $25m dollar application, has many bells and whistles but lacks a fundamental core, how do you get data into it? It seems to be able to manage data well, can do many things, but at the end of the day if you can't get data into it its an expensive application that collects dust.
The revenue bug seems to have bitten many capable IT companies, unfortunately though they seem to have forgotten the fundamentals of simply asking, 'What exactly is it you need?' Vendors aren't entirely to blame of course, hospitals seem to want solutions but refuse, or can't put resources into creating a solution.
It's a pretty vicious circle of failed IT projects, lack of expertise that I think will keep going on until peoples perspectives of clinical IT are changed. If a viable solution is going to be created, the resources have to be put into it, the question I suppose is who is going to do it?
On a current project, we have several staff members of the client designing the application, internally we have several people designing the application, but, neither client nor designers understand each other. This project has gone on for about 2-3 months now, I started on it initially got pulled off and am now back on it again.
It's almost 3 months later and they're still discussing the items from day 1, there has been no progress in 3 months because neither side wants to put the resources into designing the appropriate application. The limitations on the technical side clash with the needs of the client, the capabilities of technology don't quite meet the clients needs, but no middle ground has been met, no answers and the same questions over and over.
Maybe one day some day, a group of folks will get together from all sides and sit down to nail things out, unfortunately in my few short years, I've seen egos and politics clash too often to think it'll happen any time soon.
... Implementation all too often lives on the bottom-line, whether they are forced to or not. At the end of day their job is secure depending on how productive they are, not how sound the core is, that's management and development's job right? Ours (I say our, because I am currently most active in implementations) is just to get it up running, working and be done with it, move onto the next job. Development and support can take care of the aftermath.
... There's a common theme among all three roles though, why worry about the fundamentals and the core when it's already 'good enough'. I think this is a mentality that needs to take a back seat, in my humble opinion anyway, the mentality should be, 'Does this work? can it be better?' Of course this has to be aligned with ROI (return on investments).
It seems to me anyway, that there has been so much focus on creating teams, departments and specializing people in specific areas that there are too few people to help bridge the gap. This is where I am hoping I can play a role some day anyway. To me, there's a lack of bridges between departments, fields of expertise and the client, making sense of everything isn't an easy task by any means, but it is a necessary one if an application/solution is to succeed and it seems to me its the first role to be dismissed.
It should be understood I am not "against" health IT nor a luddite. I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Biomedical Informatics in 1994 out of love for the idea of improving healthcare through IT. It is clear, however, as these examples and others at my academic website "Common Examples of Healthcare IT Difficulty" illustrate, that significant further research is needed in order to determine how to best make this technology meet the needs of real world clinicians, and how to best implement it under real world conditions.
I do not advocate abandonment of health IT, only a return to the understanding that this technology remains largely experimental. This understanding was usurped in the past decade by an overaggressive and indeed opportunistic HIT industry, enamored of profit potential, and the irrational exuberance has now spread in a manner reminiscent of other speculative bubbles of late.
HIT should be treated as experimental, not as a drop-in panacea for healthcare's ills. In its present state is is perhaps as likely to exacerbate those ills. This is probably not technology that should be deployed en masse at present. We cannot afford as a society to learn how to do this by trial and error.
EHR today as a plug-and-play panacea that will save $80 billion per year? Or, $20 billion abyss?
I report, you decide.
Case one of this series is here. Case two is here.


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Sorry for the ack of posts. Work's had me pretty busy as of late.
But today I skipped work and went to see these:
And these:
And lot's more stuff at the National World War Two museum, just a fifteen-minute bike ride from my front door.
More pics tomorrow, I promise. I gotta go out now, but these should whet your appetites (Excpet for Displaced Louisiana Guy and his brother Matt, who were just there, and Old NFO, who has been everywhere, including in the background of several of the museum's period Pacific War shots. (I'm pretty sure that was him standing next to MacArthur on the deck of USS Missouri when the Japanese formally surrendered.)
Great museum, great time. Anyone else wants to come see it, drop me a line.
Friday, June 24, 2016
Another museum of note finally visited
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Dr. Boyce D. Watkins "The People's Scholar", is one of the leading social commentators, black speakers and high action freedom fighters in America. In his words, "We don't need more PhDs in the black community, we need more Ph-Dos". He advocates for education, economic empowerment and social justice and has changed the definition of what it means to be a black scholar and leader in America. He is a Blue Ribbon Speaker with Great Black Speakers, Inc. and one of the top black speakers in America. He is also the author of "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About College" and "Financial Lovemaking 101: Merging Assets with Your Partner in Ways that Feel Good."
In addition to publishing a multitude of scholarly articles on Finance and investing, Dr. Watkins has presented his message to millions, making regular appearances in various national media outlets, including CNN, Good Morning America , MSNBC, FOX News, BET, NPR, Essence Magazine, USA Today, The Today Show, ESPN, The Tom Joyner Morning Show and CBS Sports. He is also the favored Financial Expert and social commentator for "The Wendy Williams Experience", which has 11 million listeners nation-wide. Through his Step Up and Go to College Tour, he has spoken to over 50,000 African-American youth about the benefits of obtaining a college education. As a black financial speaker, he has given financial advice to millions of African-Americans through his series "Get your paper straight" and "Black Love, Black Money, Black Relationships" as well as over 150 national television, radio and print interviews in the last 2 years alone. He is also a faculty affiliate with the College Sports Research Institute at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Finally, he has fearlessly endured firestorms of controversy for his willingness to honestly and intelligently address racial inequality in university hiring/tenure practices, NCAA athletics, the prison system, "mainstream media" and the educational system.
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I wanted to take a moment to thank all those working dads out there.
You know who you are.
- You go to work. You do your job. You don't ask for a thank you note in return.
- You're willing to forgo your dreams of playing [insert random sport here] for the sake of your kids.
- You pay the mortgage and save for your children's education in lieu of fancy vacations and expensive cars.
I know how hard you work. You travel to conferences. You sleep in strange cities across the country. Although it pains you greatly, you spend time away from your supportive wife and super-cute kids. You do this because you have a sense of responsibility, you love your family, and you are invested in something greater than yourself.
That's pretty awesome.
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LAKE TWP. Swing a golf club, sponsor a golf hole, or enjoy dinner during a third annual charity golf outing in memory of 2014 Lake High School graduate Zachary Doherty set for July 29 at Tam O'Shanter golf course in Jackson Township.
There will also be a silent auction of gift baskets, and dinner will also be provided as part of the event, along with door prizes, a raffle, and 50/50 drawing. One special item to be included during the silent auction will be one flight lesson to learn to fly an airplane.
The cost per golfer to enter is $75. Three hole sponsorships (each costing $100) are also still available. Golfer registration begins at noon, followed by a shotgun start at 1 p.m. During the day, $400 cash prizes will be awarded for team champions; golf game challenges include closest to the pin, longest drive, mulligans, skins game and a four-person scramble.
Non-golfers are also invited to attend and enjoy dinner only, at a cost of $20 per person, as well as bid on silent auction items. The buffet meal, beginning at 6 p.m., will include baked chicken, sausage and peppers, redskin potatoes, rigatoni, salad and a roll. The deadline to register for the golf event or dinner only is July 25. Download an event flyer with registration info at thezacharydohertymemorialscholarshipfund.org.
One hundred percent of the event's proceeds after expenses will go to the non-profit Zachary Doherty Memorial Scholarship Fund so it can award student scholarships, including two for outstanding Lake band members, and one for an outstanding Lake Advanced Placement student. These were programs and classes that Doherty, who graduated summa cum laude, enjoyed while attending Lake High School. All donations to the scholarship fund are tax deductible.
Last year's charity golf outing raised $8,000.
"We hope to exceed last year's total. There are lots of things students need today," said Pamela Doherty, Zach's mother in a news release. "This is a family friendly event – we hope to see kids there."


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(Composed in my head while jogging and walking around Lake Union last night.)
My buds blow bass in my ear,
Tickling my drums,
Tinny tunes help my body,
Find the rhythm.
They say women don't sweat,
We glow,
We have glands,
Producing salty beads,
Cooling our strong curves.
Soaking each layer of wicking-wear.
Cleansing us.
Feet hit pavement.
Shocks find their way through joints,
We push forward.
Dancing in inertia.


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Darius Rucker's Current Single I Got Nothin' Music Video!
Darius Rucker's current single "I Got Nothin'" is currently #20 on Billboard's Top 100 country charts! The emotional song is off of his sophomore album, Charleston, SC 1966, and was released earlier this summer.
I find this song getting stuck in my head daily! It is a story of a difficult relationship, and for some reason I can't help but love it. It could be his great voice or the awesome music it is set to, but something about this song pulls me in!
Take a gander at Rucker's always passionate performance in the video here!
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First half was anyway. By end of second shadows were covering field and it cooled dramatically.
However, probably lost 36 lbs of water weight.
Fortunately, part of a strong crew tonight.
Game Summary:
First game at this level in a while (seems like all my games lately have been on leagues I haven't done in a while).
All the more appreciative of the A cup refs who did 2 games a day in this heat. One is enough for me. Of course, at my age, getting up and down the stairs without breaking a hip is a bonus.
Forgot to put on the tracker for the 2nd half. Stupid blog writer! Best I can get on this post is a 69.
Stat Line:
half / km / avg speed / top speed
1st / 3.02 / 3.7 / 21.5
Total distance extrapolated thru 90 min: 6.04 km
Third time broke 3km barrier in a half (out of 30 odd halves tracked). Yup, that's me, wait for the hottest day then run your a$$ off. Sigh again.
Obviously, no 'staying out of the centre circle' for this cat tonight.
So, I'm thinking if I had a spotter who watched the game and recorded the time of fouls, then I could pinpoint my positioning. Might be useful to see patterns. Hmm, must explore further.
2 cautions
Should have had two more, but wasn't thinking clearly in the 2nd.
@farber94 and Darren.
Like I said, a couple of strong AR's.
So last post had top 10 songs with sun in the title.
How about top 10 summer songs?
(if you don't spontaneously start singing song #5, you're not really Canadian) (or older than say 30).
(I have soft spot for song 10)
'"Hot Fun in the Summertime," Sly & the Family Stone
Some songs celebrate the spontaneity of summer nights, but Sly & the Family Stone's 1969 hit "Hot Fun in the Summertime" makes a point of celebrating those long summer days through triumphant trumpets and a massive singalong chorus. "End of the spring, and here she comes back," Sly sings, channeling our joy over the mistress known as summer.
"School's Out," Alice Cooper
There was no better anthem than "School's Out" for the summer of 1972 — and every summer since. No other song has quite captured the joy of summer break like Alice Cooper's breakthrough hit, even for listeners long out of high school.
"Heat Wave," Martha and the Vandellas
Perhaps in August a heat wave would be cause for concern, but in early July it's more an occasion for a party. Though Martha Reeves was singing of a love so fiery it felt like a weather pattern in the 1963 single by famed songwriting team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the effect of "Heat Wave" remains the same.
"Saturday in the Park," Chicago
The band may be called Chicago, but the story goes that "Saturday in the Park" was inspired by a summer day in 1971 — "I think it was the 4th of July," the song says — spent in NYC's famed Central Park, soaking up street performances. The following July, Chicago released "Saturday in the Park," and it became their biggest hit, reaching No. 3 on the Hot 100 chart.
"Summer of '69," Bryan Adams
In his biggest hit to date, Bryan Adams outlines instructions for a great summer, even if it's not 1969. Step 1: Buy your first real six-string. Step 2: Start a band. Step 3: Meet your one true love at a drive-in. Step 4: Hang out on a porch. Step 5: Have the best days of your life.
"Summer in the City," The Lovin' Spoonful
Summer can take on a different meaning for urban dwellers, as the summer tends to accentuate certain negative aspects of city life (funky smells, heat trapped between skyscrapers, etc.). Still, there's nothing quite like a summer night stroll in the big city, making the grit and grime worth it. The Lovin' Spoonful captured that dynamic in their1966 hit.
"The Boys of Summer," Don Henley
Don Henley has 1984′s "The Boys of Summer" to thank for turning him into a big star outside of the Eagles, but it's fans who really should be tipping their hats to Henley. He created an enduring ode to sentimentalism by reflecting on carefree summers passed — something we all can long for as we age.
"Vacation," The Go-Go's
The Go-Go's got a big hit in the summer of 1982 with "Vacation," a song that perhaps would not have went Top 10 on the charts had it been released in snowy November. Sure, adults can take vacation whenever they please, but there's something about a road trip that demands to be taken in the summer.
"Surfin' USA," The Beach Boys
An argument could be made that the majority of the Beach Boys' early hits are universal summer songs. But with its name-checking of major surf spots across the country (well, mostly just California, but you get the picture), 1963′s "Surfin' USA" takes the fun-in-the-sun cake.
"Cruel Summer," Bananarama
As Bananarama chronicled in 1984′s "Cruel Summer," the season is not necessarily all sunshine and smiles. The heat can make us crazy, and the fun we perceive others to be having can make us feel even lonelier.


text: The town of Bergama itself is a small town, of little interest. But Bergama is the site of Pergamon, one of the most impressive late Greek kingdoms in Antiquity. And the ruins of Pergamon's acropolis dominate the modern town. There are some other attractions, such as the currently closed Red Basilica, but almost everything dates back to the time of Pergamon.


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The Midas Legacy is a company that is growing by the day. They are a a research services company that focuses on wealth management advisory but they are so much more than that. They also help with the quality of a person's life. There are not many companies out there like that, but that is what makes them so truly unique and one-of-a-kind. They truly care about their clients and they treat them like family. They get to know them and they take the time to find out what makes a person tick and what motivates them at any age.
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June 22, 2011
B+W+1= Your Next Stamp Challenge.
Now as always, there's something in it for you to win!! Yay, that's what it's all about...free stamps! Okay, so if you participate in the challenge you can win the Celebrate stamp set. Woo, hoo...now that's a reason to celebrate for sure!! As our challenge runs for 2 whole weeks you have plenty of time to hop on over to the YNS Store and pick up some of these fun images yourself! If you do use a YNS stamp on your challenge card/creation, you'll be entered into the prize draw TWICE and be entered into the Top Pick draw – that's 3 chances to win!
You have until Tuesday, July 5th (midnight EST) to enter! Make sure you head on over to the challenge blog and link your creation. So let's get to stamping!! Can't wait to see what you come up with.
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Distance from Brighton, MO to Santa Fe, MO
Driving distance between Brighton, MO and Santa Fe, MO is 200.02 miles (or 321.89 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.
Leaving from Brighton, MO you would reach Santa Fe, MO in about 3 hours 54 mins if you keep an average speed of miles per hour, assuming you don't make any breaks or get stuck in traffic.


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Recent Acquisitions (or the Piling of the-Piles):the-pile Additions:
the-invisible-pile Additions:
Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera #1) by Jim Butcher
Since I've read and liked 6 of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, I would assume I might enjoy his foray into fantasy.
Woodwalker (Woodwalker #1) by Emily B. Martin
The Kindle edition of this one seems to still be on sale for $0.99 (Amazon US)- I bought it because I'm a sucker for deals, fantasy, and books with intriguing covers.
Currently Reading:
In My Life:
I haven't been doing much because of the pain and a seeming increase in my legs falling out from under me and my hands dropping things. However, my mom wants to take me on several trips this summer, so I may not be on the blog too much. My University of Utah doctor was on vacation, so I may hear the results of my test soon (and her interpretation). The tech seemed to think there was nothing amiss, but again, he was the one shocking himself by not listening to my advice on not touching the active electrodes.


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Visibility. There is still a need to document the work being done by women, particularly in the sciences. It is even more important to educate people outside of the science world because it can literally save lives. More on that later in my post. One of the benefits of going to a science blog is that another person is telling me they are traveling the distance between a dream and actuality. If they can do it maybe I can too.
This post was inspired by FairerScience hosting a blog carnival on dreams of a more equitable society. Prudence Motowo is from Zimbabwe. It is one thing to say that you want to be a scientist but there is a lot of work involved in gaining that higher degree. In a video from 2007 you can learn about Prudence's area of research and her climate transition from Zimbabwe to the English winters.
In 2008 Prudence had to defend her dissertation in what folks in the UK call a "viva." This is a video of the moments after Prudence Mutowo became Dr. Prudence Mutowo.
Disgruntled Julie is working on her Ph.D in Oncology. Her blog is a mixture of what she is doing in and out of the lab. The first post I read was explaining a dilemma about a presentation she needed to give to her peers. In this passage you can clearly see that she loves what she does:
My program is in cancer biology, rather than biochemistry or pharmacology or structural biology, so we are tied together by the fact that we study cancer, not by the way in which we study cancer. 98% of the program studies cell signaling and knockdown genes in cells and in animals, and while they produce some hot science and generate some pretty cool results, the techniques they use are all same old, same old in so much as we see the same thing every week.
Then I come along, and my results come from surface plasmon resonance and circular dichroism and fluorescence polarization, and I talk about things like molecular modeling with structures from co-crystallization…That's what I love about my project – even though it's taking me a long time to generate worthwhile data, my presentations are always interesting, because I am the black sheep of the program doing something COMPLETELY different than everyone else (all biochemistry/biophysics), and people are interested to learn about what it is that I am doing.
Nightmares On The Journey
Now just because you think your dream is a good idea doesn't mean that all educated people are going to respect or encourage you. Even in the halls of science, there are people who will be threatened by a woman's presence . Melissa at Confused At A Higher Level, dreams about if there will ever be any increased representation in physics by women:
I have become less optimistic the longer I have persisted in physics. Initially, I imagined there existed a few old guards resistant to change, but that the attitudes and actions that hindered women in physics were on their way out. Yet I have had physicists of my generation say appalling things to me, and I continue to be disappointed in the complacency of people who claim to be allies.
What does make me optimistic is that women who have had 30+ year careers say that they have seen improvement over the course of their careers. However, now that the blatant discrimination is gone, the challenges are more insidious. For that reason, I think Virginia Valian's book, Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women, might make good required reading for scientists.
Honoring The Dead and Saving Future Lives
In 1989 a man walked into an classroom at the Ecole Polytechnique. This man killed 14 women students. This is a statement of fact. It does not tell the story. Alice at Sciencewomen fills in the details about what happened in her post on We Remember the Montreal Massacre. You see, in most stories they remember the name of the killer. Alice list the names of the women who were killed.
Most stories also remember that he stated that he wanted to kill "f*cking feminists." It did not matter if these women were or were not feminists. They were women who dared to dream. In our world, that is enough to get you killed. Thesis with Children wants you to know that the fear echoed south of the border.
I understand that fear because when you are in a male dominated environment or course of study you are told both covertly and overtly that you as a woman do not belong. I bring this up because there is a fictional movie based on the events of December 6, 1989. You can view a trailer of the movie, or read more about it at IMDB's Polytechnique page. Canadians are conflicted about the movie. There is an article in the The Star.com that talks about film and what memories it invokes.
Unfortunately it might become the cultural record of fact. This is another person that is revising and re-interpreting the actual experience. I do not know if those of us the U.S. will have access to this movie. To be honest, I don't think I would see if I could. Watching women being killed is not entertainment to me.
We can save future lives by educating our children that all people have the right to be educated. We can be verbally respectful of women who choose their life path, whether that is a SAHM, a Bio-Medical engineering or a mom who is a Ph.D.
We can save future lives by telling our truths in our writings, photographs and recordings. We can no long allow people to tell our stories if we are capable of doing so ourselves.
We can save future lives by following our dreams.
Gena Haskett is a Contributing Editor at BlogHer where this article first appeared.


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Shooting investigation at Star Mini Mart, 2950 N. Washington Blvd., Sarasota/
SARASOTA, Fla. -- February 9, 2016 -- 1 p.m.
Terrence Manley, 49, of 3036 31st Way, Sarasota, has been arrested and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, a felony, in connection to last night's shooting at the Star Mini Mart (2950 N. Washington Blvd.) The victim and the suspect were arguing over a woman when the shooting occurred.
SARASOTA, Fla. -- February 8, 2016 -- 10 p.m.
Sarasota Police Officers are currently investigating a shooting with minor injuries at 2950 North Washington Boulevard, Sarasota. This is the location of the Star Mini Mart.
Officers responded to the Star Mini Mart shortly before 10pm on Monday. A male victim was shot in the leg and was treated and released on scene. Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Division are responding and have no reason to believe the public is in any danger at this time. The investigation is ongoing but it is believed the shooting began between two males arguing.
Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call the Sarasota Police Department at 941-316-1199.


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THE WORDS, a thought-provoking romantic thriller from CBS Films and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, arrives on Blu-ray™ and DVD December 24th – both with UltraViolet™. Bradley Cooper (Limitless) stars as Rory Jansen, a young literary hopeful who risks it all to become a success. While on their honeymoon in Paris, Rory and his wife Dora, played by Zoë Saldana (Colombiana), step inside an antique shop where they find a briefcase that will later reveal the key to the career he has always desired… but the find comes with a steep price. This dramatic story within a story exposes the strong effects that life's choices can have on us all. The film also stars Jeremy Irons (Margin Call), Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow), Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian), and Olivia Wilde (TRON: Legacy).
DVD Extended Special Edition Includes:
Both the theatrical and extended versions of the feature film, plus two featurettes:
· "Unabridged: A Look Behind the Scenes of The Words"
· "A Gentleman's Agreement" : A Look at how Bradley Cooper and the Filmmakers Found The Words
Blu-ray Extended Special Edition Includes:
DVD special features, both the theatrical and extended versions of the film, and two featurettes exclusive to the Blu-ray:
· "Clay and Daniella"
· "The Young Man and Celia"


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Today I discovered the that the new Beth Ditto EP was available on i-tunes and yes I bought it and now I have must have definitely played it around a hundred times already!
1: i wrote the book
2: goodnight goodmorning
3: open heart surgery
4: do you need someone
The sexy video, a homage to Madonna's "justify my love" is brilliant and loving Beth's playful side making bigger girls look hot. I love the new collaboration with simian mobile disco, the genius behind records like "Temporary Pleasure" that gave us songs like "audacity of huge" and the first collaboration with Beth "cruel intentions". now we got a taste we need more and definitely love dancing to all of them!


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|Primavera, Mixed Media Encaustic on Panel
Primavera means spring - the floating flowers reminded me of Botticelli primavera flowers...
I picked and pressed these flowers called 'Spring Beauty' from Prairie Hill in early spring.
Now they are preserved under wax.
This morning the baby blue and pink sunrise
was exquisite against Prairie Hill's silhouette.


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How to Use Firefox Options
|Apr 24, 2006
|Michael E, Callahan
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This question submitted by Janet Calhoun, Robert Washington, Al Casano, Janet Ivers, Michael Wilson, Robbie Martin and numerous others
The browser that comes with Microsoft Windows is Internet Explorer, but millions have switched to Mozilla Firefox. Since I've received numerous questions about all of the different "options" I did a two-part article on Internet Explorer. Today, however, we're going to focus on the options found in Firefox!
In order to find the options in Firefox just look on the menu bar and click on Tools ... Options. You'll immediately see that there are six option tabs each of which is indicated by a colorful icon. We'll take these one at a time.
General Tab
The General tab has a number of options on it. You can change your "home" page to use the page you're currently on, one of your bookmarks, or a blank page. You can also indicate whether you want Firefox to check to see if it's the default Web browser. While I consider Firefox my "default" browser I do have 5 or 6 browsers on my main computer. For that reason I never have any of them check to make sure they're the default. This tab also has the connection settings. You can click on the "Connection Settings" button and set up a proxy server and more.
Privacy Tab
The Privacy tab has six (6) tabs of its own that you can use to alter different settings. The first of these is the History tab. You can change the number of days that Firefox saves the history for and you can also clear that history. The next tab is the Saved Forms tab and on this tab you can tell Firefox to save any information you enter into forms or the search bar. You can also have Firefox clear out any saved information.The next tab under Privacy is the Passwords tab. You can have Firefox remember passwords that you type in on Web sites. You can view saved passwords and you can also create a "Master Password" for Firefox. Next is the Download History tab and this lets you view a history of files you've downloaded and you can also clear out that download history. Another nice feature is that you can indicate whether you want to clear the download history manually or have Firefox do it either immediately after each download or each time you exit Firefox. Next up in the tabs is the Cookies tab. Here you can allow all sites to drop cookies, only originating sites, and there's an Exceptions button where you can allow or block sites. The program also gives you great flexibility in handling cookies. You can tell Firefox to keep cookies until they expire, until you close Firefox, or to ask you every time.
There's a View Cookies button that lets you go in and remove specific cookies or you can remove them all. There's also a Clear Cookies Now button that will clear them all out with one click. Another cool feature in Firefox is a Clear Private Data option. Here you can change the setting for that option and even set it so your private data is cleared each time you exit Firefox. Very nice. The last tab in the Privacy tab is the Cache tab. The "cache" is your temporary Internet files. You can define how large the cache can be as well as delete it immediately.
Content Tab
Tab Options
Since Firefox supports a tabbed user interface, they give you the power to decide how these tabs will work. For example, if you open links that are in other program you can tell Firefox to open a new window, open a tab in the most recent window, or to use the most recent tab or windows. You can also select an option that will force any link that opens a new window to either open it in a new tab or to open it in the tab where the link appeared. Another slick option is to hide tabs when there is only one window open. You can also have Firefox warn you when you're closing more than one tab. This is really useful because now and then I'm in a hurry and I click to close Firefox while I have multiple tabs open.When I'm reminded I can tell it to just close the tab I wanted closed and to leave the others open.
In this tab you can either select one folder for all programs you download, or have Firefox ask you each time you download any file. I personally think it's a good option to always download all files to the same folder. That way you always know where a downloaded file is. You can also decide if you want the Firefox download manager to display while doing a download and if so, if you want the download manager to close when all downloads are done. Firefox can automatically download certain types of files. The program gives you the option of changing how these files are handled.
Advanced Tab
The final tab in Firefox is the Advanced tab. Here you can decide a number of things, like if you want Firefox to start searching as soon as you begin typing. You can decide if you want to use auto-scrolling or smooth scrolling or both. Here also you can choose a language.
Firefox provides you with a nice set of configurable options that you can use to browse the way you want. I hope you've found this useful. Coming soon ... an article on the options found in Opera, Netscape, NetCaptor, and others.
I'd like to thank Janet Calhoun, Robert Washington, Al Casano, Janet Ivers, Michael Wilson, Robbie Martin and numerous others for asking this question.
If you have a question on how to do something on the computer you can submit it via email by clicking HERE You will not receive a reply, but all topics will be considered.
Michael E. Callahan, known around the world by the trademarked name Dr. File Finder, is regarded as the world's leading expert on shareware. Dr. File Finder works with software programs and developers full-time, and in the average year he evaluates 10,000 programs. Since 1982 he has evaluated over 250,000 software and hardware products. Mr. Callahan began evaluating software online in 1982 and no one has been at it longer. He currently works doing online PR and marketing for software companies, and is the Senior Content Producer for Butterscotch.Com.


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For those of you reading who can't attend, there is information about buying raffle tickets in the post linked below.
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Thank you,
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Bra Sam Bass from Zimbabwe has played bass for African greats having served his tenure for Oliver Mutukudzi's Black Spirits Band and other big concerts. Bra sam is a serious musician,a respected bass player who seconds as a tutor and has been a major influence on Akili Blaq's low end sounds.
Play Aszez&Bresstzz [audio https://maishayetu.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/17-aszesbrestzzz-fullovit-bra-sam-bass-produced-by-mm3rd1.mp3]
Featured in Track 17 #Asszes & Bresstzz in A Dollar a day by Atmattatva Das aka Fullovit.
Bra Sam Bass is currently residing in South Africa where he is a freelance bassist and a session player for a couple of Bands including Bonolo Molosiwa and TBIC.


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But when it comes to one of the major issues so far in the campaign - Crist's support for President Barack Obama's stimulus program, complete with awkward man-hug - Bush has taken a clear-cut position:
Crist was wrong.
The St. Petersburg Times' Adam Smith found the money quote in an interview Bush did with Newsmax.com:
Gov Crist is a talented guy. He's about the nicest person I ever met in politics. But there's one thing he's done that I just find unforgivable. That I'm aware of he is the only statewide political leader that embraced the stimulus package when Republicans were fighting to suggest an alternative. ... He did it the day before the vote, it was a mistake, and then he denies that he would have supported the bill. I know I'm supposed to be politically correct and I said I was neutral and all that (but) I got a problem with that.


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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Manya, i became a mother when i was 26.
i became a grandmother when i was 43.
became a great grandmother last year, give or take
when i was almost 64.
my daughter keeps birth/kidding records for her
dairy goats.
when i try to think of these things, i feel
like i should do something similar.
anyway...the GreatGrandSon's little giraffe
has horns.
Mama's still to go and then off in the mail
some things don't change. Won't change, no
matter. babies are conceived and born, the
holiday of Christmas in this culture rolls
around every 12 months and grandmas are
filled with the urge to be grandmas. Great
or plain.
11 comments:
- grace Forrest~Maestas said...
Debi P NW ~ a grand baby. is this
the first one?
puppets are always the ultimate
for a grandbaby. a mother. a
as i said, puppets get to say and
do things that the humans don't/
can't. they can tell the stories.
it's just hard, for me, to know
which stories i want to tell.
- December 19, 2010 at 5:20 PM
- grace Forrest~Maestas said...
Manya~moving talk...yes. i have
chosen buddhism as my way of moving
through this life. and about this
moving talk, i have decided that
the only Way, will be to go back
to "Practicing like my hair's on
Fire". Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
- December 19, 2010 at 5:25 PM
- nandas said...
cute little horns... yes that was what was missing... forgot about those.
- December 19, 2010 at 10:22 PM
- saraz said...
Once I made some tiny roast chickens out of polymer clay (don't ask why)and they just didn't look right. After pondering this weighty question for a while, I realised the poor chickens had no wings! Horns are important and being a grandmother of any kind is the most important of all.
- December 20, 2010 at 6:05 AM
- Mo'a said...
Oooooo!!! I love them. They came out great.
- December 20, 2010 at 11:09 AM
- woman with wings said...
Handmade toys -- more wonderful than words can say here! I planned on making hooded capes, felt it would be too rushed to enjoy the making though -- were you able to make yours?
- December 20, 2010 at 11:52 AM
Go! Grandma! Go!
- December 21, 2010 at 4:31 AM
- Manya Maratou said...
an eclipse and a solstice a sort of darkness on darkness ??
this summer I was telling a story about a boy called dondrup. his way was going back again and again, but he heard lots of stories from the golden corpse
- December 21, 2010 at 11:53 AM
- Sandra said...
A puppet made by your great grandma, that the best gift you can get!
Grace are they living far away from you?
- December 21, 2010 at 10:12 PM
- Manya Maratou said...
hey, grace, I really do like the puppets! I was eyeing a holey sock today..
- December 22, 2010 at 8:37 AM
- Jacky said...
Special.... your Great Grandson will love them! Hand puppets hold a lot of fascination for children and adults alike. As you said, they can say the things we sometimes dont and tell the most amazing stories.
I hope you had the most wonderful Christmas Grace. The Cherry Pie in your most recent post looks scrummy! Lucky Grandson.
Jacky xox
- December 25, 2010 at 3:20 PM


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I need you to stop looking at me
with the photographic memory.
I need your hands to be your hands,
not near me.
I know it's 'European', but don't.
I need you to see my space, see my space, and realize it's mine.
Stop being there with your photographic eyes.
Find a new subject. Find a new space.
This is mine.
You look into my space, my eyes and photograph
things that should never be seen
or shot.
The shots taken are undeleted.
They rest in time
I had my moment because of you
My space, eternal.
I had my moment in a moment with him
Not with you
And that, alone
Is what saves me.


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I've been mulling over the fate of my blog.
It's been neglected since Facebook came into my life. I find I spend more time on FB than here. So what I've decided is that I will keep my blog open a bit longer and transition over to FB almost exclusively.
In fact, a number of my bloggers are on FB as well. If you're not on FB, come find me and we'll have a lot of fun. I promise!
End Of Summer -
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The Timberwolves lost Ricky Rubio for the season back on March 9. That did not stop Kevin Love from scoring more points (491) than anyone in the NBA in the month of March. He finished the month averaging 34 points and 15 rebounds over hist last 5 games. He scored 30 points 8 times, including two 40 point games and a 50 point game! Love grabbed 70 offensive rebounds this month, which was 5 more than the #2 guy Kris Humphries. He also lead the league in defensive rebounds, grabbing two more offensive rebounds (153) than Superman himself, Dwight Howard. Love made more 3pts than anyone else
Not far behind though, Josh Smith finished the month averaging 23.9 points, 10 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 1.5 blocks and steals per night. Smith had 6 30 point nights this month. Only Kevin Love scored more points. Crazy part is though that Josh Smith actually shot the ball 9 more times (394) than Kobe Bryant (385).
Rajon Rondo lead the NBA in assist with 219. He was the only player with more than 188 assists (Steve Nash).
Paul Milsap's 44 steals was second to Chris Paul's 53.
Serge Ibaka has 58 blocks. That was just 10 shy of Roy Hibbert (35) and Andrew Bynum (33) combined!
Mike Dunleavy made 54% of his 3pts going 37 of 68. However, 37 3s was only good for 8th this month as Kevin Love lead the way with 48, followed by Ryan Anderson 44 , Randy Foye 43, Steve Novak 43, Joe Johnson 40, Klay Thompson 39, Marcus Thorton 39.
Kevin Durant lead the NBA in turnovers with 63. Rondo, Nash, Wall and Lawson rounded out the top 5 all with at least 55.


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GENRE: New Adult Chicklit Romance
Kassandra is a single, independent woman who prides herself on her own success. But when she's asked by her best friend Laura to be the Maid of Honor in her wedding, Kassandra finds herself questioning her lifestyle. Helping Laura plan the wedding is no problem—she's done it before for all their other friends. The first time was a blast, the second super fun, but doing it without receiving any help from the rest of the girls gets old really fast.
The whole event kicks off with the worst kind of surprise when Kassandra discovers who her friend's fiancé really is, and she's torn between supporting Laura's future happiness and hiding the deeply buried, intimate past she shares with the groom-to-be. Struggling to be the bigger person and do all the hard work on her own, Kassandra finds surprising comfort in Josh, the best man in the wedding and someone she's been avoiding for years. He's charming, thoughtful, handsome, and the worst kind of womanizer, but she just can't seem to stay away. All the while, Kassandra can't help wondering if the wedding could be any more cliché—until she finds unexpected ways to change things up a bit.
From Chapter 11
"Why are you here, Josh?" I couldn't hold back my curiosity any longer.
"What do you mean?"
He seemed completely caught off guard by my direct question, and I had to remind myself that he couldn't see inside my head. I really didn't know what I wanted to hear, but Edward's words kept coming back to me. Maybe Josh only wanted to sleep with me, nothing else—although it seemed like a lot of trouble for only a night of pleasure.
"Do you really only care about getting into my pants?" I asked, bordering somewhere between a pleading glance and a glare.
Josh seemed to relax a bit before he answered me. "You know I do. But not in the way that moron phrased it. I don't want you thinking about it like that."
"You have no idea what I'm thinking," I quipped.
"I don't," Josh said quietly. "I wish I had a clue." Then he stepped closer to me and tilted his head. "And obviously you don't know how I feel about you, either."
"Then explain it to me." I didn't try to back away from him this time.
This time he looked at me with different eyes. I didn't see myself broken in them anymore.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
K.T. Castle is an author/artist in progress. She's on a quest to find the words, forms, and colors to materialize the worlds and people of her imagination. She never saw herself as an incurable romantic, but lately, that's what she finds herself musing about. Love is found everywhere, regardless if it comes from a nice person, an ass — mundane or even vampire. When she's not busy with work, in front of a computer placing many thoughts in order, she makes her best to be creative or relax with a good book and a snack. Some of her favorite characters are Sookie, Rule and Shaw, Bella, Edward, Clary, Jace, Wrath, Hollywood, Blaire, Woods, Ethan, the Sleeping Beauty, and Ariel.
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If you haven't read the poetry of J.V. Cunningham, you should. His epigrams and concise, wry humor offer a wonderful respite from the elliptical effusions of too many contemporary poets. Here is epigram #30, for example, from his collection Epigrams: A Journal:
This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained
Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.
Or there's "The Metaphysical Amorist" from The Exclusions of a Rhyme:
You are the problem I propose,
My dear, the text my musings glose:
I call you for convenience love.
By definition you're a cause
Inferred by necessary laws—
You are so to the saints above.
But in this shadowy lower life
I sleep with a terrestrial wife
And earthy children I beget.
Love is a fiction I must use,
A privilege I can abuse,
And sometimes something I forget.
Now, in the heavenly other place
Love is in the eternal mind
The luminous form whose shade she is,
A ghost discarnate, thought defined.
She was so to my early bliss,
She is so while I comprehend
The forms my senses apprehend,
And in the end she will be so.
Her whom my hands embrace I kiss,
Her whom my mind infers I know.
The one exists in time and space
And as she was she will not be;
The other is in her own grace
And is She is eternally.
Plato! you shall not plague my life.
I married a terrestrial wife.
And Hume! she is not mere sensation
In sequence of observed relation.
She has two forms—ah, thank you, Duns!—,
I know her in both ways at once.
I knew her, yes, before I knew her,
And by both means I must construe her,
And none among you shall undo her.
In a profile of Cunningham a few years ago, Jody Bottum suggested that he misunderstands the significance of Duns Scotus here, but "poets are rightly not judged for the coherence of their stabs at abstract philosophy." And Cunningham, Bottum would go on to write, was "the most fascinating poet of his generation."
I mention all of this because D.G. Myers, who studied under Cunningham, reflects on his legacy over at his excellent Commonplace Blog:
One day in class, Cunningham asked the dozen or so graduate students enrolled to fill the blank in an epigram by Sir Henry Wotton:
He first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, ________, and died.
The other students in the class struggled valiantly to rise to the occasion, devising all manner of poeticisms to satisfy the missing cretic foot. I was dull and embarrassed by my dullness. I wrote in resignation:
He first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, went to bed, and died.
Cunningham's response: "In twenty-five years of teaching, this is the best wrong answer I have ever received." Myers:
In one sentence, Cunningham defined the scholarly life. It is not a matter of formulating correct answers, which is something that undergraduates, with their obsession over grades, cannot seem to grasp. It is a matter of so inhabiting other men's minds, other men's time, that your wrong answers are very nearly their own thinking.


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I'll use the movie The Champ as an example. A character dies in a dramatic action scene, but it is not the death scene that has the audience weeping. The actual lump-in-the-throat moment occurs several minutes after the death scene when a young child reacts to his parent's death. If the movie had ended with the death of a main character it would only be an average film; it is the relationship between father and son that gives it heart, and the raw grief of a child that creates a tear-jerker.
Interpersonal relationships between your characters allow you to suggest to your readers how to feel about them. Readers feel empathy more easily for characters who are loved by other characters. And as for the antagonist Cracked.com has an excellent article that shows how even a character who is in the "right" can be derided as the bad guy simply for having the opposite perspective to the protagonist (along with villainous acting and make-up, of course).
In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry is told countless stories about his nemesis, Lord Voldemort, before he ever meets him face to face. The other characters have visceral responses to even the mention of Voldemort's name. And, as a clever counterpoint, Harry's own name is met with reactions ranging from interest to awe, eliciting curiosity from the reader at vital points in the book's beginning.
Readers can understand on an intellectual level that your protagonist is extraordinarily brave because you told them, but they won't own the emotion that a brave person can provoke until you show them that response through another character.
If you have a character who seems to be lacking depth, try digging more into how s/he makes another character feel. Your characters must react to each other before your reader can follow their lead.
Elle Neal is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Browse through the resources for writers available at her website or follow her writing insights at her Fictional Life Blog.


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It's that time of the year when everyone is starting to get sick, including me! For those of you who know me, it is no secret that I always tend to get sick around the holiday season. Whether it is from stress or viruses being passed around, it's important to amp up your weakened immune system with some good ol' Vitamin C. So when I woke up this morning reaching for the cough medicine I decided that a recipe incorporating citrus fruits would be a good idea this week.
When someone says Vitamin C what do you think of? 9 times out of 10 the response will be "orange juice of course!" Well before you snatch the juice out of your fridge and start chugging it down like you're at a frat party…drinking water of course 😉 STOP! Put the OJ back down and reach for the fruit instead. Many brands of orange juice on the market contain quite a bit of added sugar and not nearly as many nutrients and fiber as the whole fruit. While the white membrane is usually bitter, I definitely suggest eating it anyway seeing as that is the most nutrient dense part of the fruit.
While the orange is an awesome fruit, I decided to mix it up and use my grapefruit instead. Not only does grapefruit supply your body with vitamin C, it has also been proven to boost your metabolism, lower your cholesterol, detoxify your liver, aid in cancer prevention, and much more. WOW talk about a super fruit!
All right, on to the recipe. Citrus Marinated Tofu with a White Wine Reduction Sauce
Serves 2-3 people depending on how hungry you are!
- ½ Grapefruit
- ¼ cup Pink Moscato Wine
- 1 Tbs Lemon Juice
- ½ Tbs Lite Soy Sauce
- 1 tsp Stevia
- 1 tsp Minced Garlic
- ½ tsp Grapefruit Zest
- ½ tsp Salt
- ¼ tsp Ginger
- 8 oz. Extra Firm Tofu
Juice the grapefruit then whisk together with all other ingredients except tofu. Cut the tofu into about 1/3 inch thick triangles and add to the marinade.
Marinade in the refrigerator as long as possible! The longer the tofu soaks, the more flavorful it will be. I soaked mine for about 3 hours.
Tofu Preparation
- 2 tsp Light Smart Balance (It's vegan!)
- 2 Tbs Whole Wheat Flour
- Wine
Spray a large sauté pan with non-stick spray and allow it to preheat over medium-high heat. Your pan is ready when a drop of water sizzles upon touching the bottom of the pan. Add the tofu in a single layer.
Cook for about five minutes or until nicely browned on the first side. Move the tofu around slightly every so often so it does not stick. After five minutes flip the tofu, the second side should only take about three minutes to brown.
Slightly reduce the heat and add the marinade.
Simmer until almost all of the marinade has soaked in/reduced.
Remove the tofu and add 2 teaspoons of butter to the pan. Once the butter has melted, sprinkle the flour on the butter and mix together allowing them to brown. After about 30 seconds add enough wine to cover the bottom of the pan and stir constantly until combined. Keep stirring as the wine reduces. Add another layer of wine and continue to reduce. This part is basically fool proof; if your mixture becomes too liquidy add more flour. Add more wine if the reduction becomes too thick.
This tofu goes great over a bed of quinoa or brown rice.
Pour the reduction over the tofu and enjoy alongside your glass of wine!


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Ensuring a quality education for all students leading to graduation and productive citizenship.
Worth County FFA and 4-H Livestock Exhibitors traveled to Perry Ga. to compete in The Georgia 4-H and FFA State Market Goat and Lamb Show. The shows were held during the Georgia National Fair. Taylor Layfield, Luke Gwines, Peyton Gwines, Regan Bozeman, Rylan Bozeman, Parker Weaver, Brady Weaver, and Adam Ivey all made the trip to Perry, Ga. to exhibit their animals in front of hundreds of spectators and livestock judges from across the country.
During the showmanship portion of the show Rylan Bozeman was selected at the Intermediate Division Champion Market Goat Showman. In the Market Lamb show, Brady Weaver was selected as the Junior Division Showmanship Champion. All other Worth County exhibitors placed in the top 10 in their respective showmanship classes.
The Fifth Overall Champion wether goat was exhibited by Taylor Layfield. Ragen Bozeman exhibited the Fifth Overall Champion Market Doe.


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Oh, say can you say?
saidIn Biblical Hebrew quotes are typically introduced with two verbs, the first one which is semantically rich tells us what kind of speaking is occurring, such as loud speaking, beginning of speaking, rebuking, calling, etc. Then the second verb simply means 'says'. The Hebrew conjunction vav usually intervenes between the two verbs.
English typically uses only a single verb of saying in a prequote margin. Verbs such as "answered", "shouted", and "whispered" include the semantic component of 'say' within their semantic structure. Hebrew expresses the meaning of 'say' in a separate verb.
Literal and essentially literal English versions usually translate both of the Hebrew quotation margin verbs to English, the semantically rich first verb, as well as the 'say' verb. Less form-oriented English versions often do not include a literal translation of both Hebrew verbs because an English translation of the first Hebrew verb of a quote margin already includes the 'say' verb.
I have been compiling a list of examples of English translations of Hebrew quote margins. They come from passages in the Hebrew Bible, as well as the New Testament. We should not be surprised that Jewish authors of the New Testament would use the form of Hebraic verb quote margins as they wrote Greek. They were, except for Luke, probably first language speakers of the dialect of Aramaic spoken during the time of Christ.
Here are some translation examples with both approaches to the translation of Hebraic quotation margin verbs (the pertinent words of the quotation formulas are boldfaced):
Gen. 18:29Please note that there is sometimes variation within a single version with regard to whether or not the Hebraic dual verb structure is translated to a single verb in English.
Again he spoke to him and said (ESV)
Again he spoke to him (NRSV)
Gen. 22:11
But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said (HCSB)
But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven (NIV)
Gen. 31:43
Then Laban answered and said to Jacob (RSV)
Then Laban replied to Jacob (NASB)
Gen. 37:10
his father rebuked him, and said to him (NRSV)
his father scolded him (TEV)
Gen. 44:19
My lord asked his servants, saying (NASB)
My lord asked his servants (NET)
Ex. 32:5
And Aaron made proclamation and said (ESV)
Then Aaron ... announced (TEV)
Num. 23:7
And Balaam took up his discourse, and said (RSV)
Balaam uttered this prophecy (TEV)
Judges 16:17
he told her all his heart, and said to her (NKJV)
Finally he told her his secret. (NET)
1 Sam. 2:1
Then Hannah prayed and said (NIV)
Hannah prayed (HCSB)
Acts 2:14
But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them (KJV)
Then Peter stepped forward with the eleven other apostles and shouted to the crowd (NLT)
Acts 10:34
Then Peter opened his mouth and said (ISV)
Then Peter began to speak (HCSB)
Some people would consider it a virtue for an English Bible version to have both verbs of the Semitic prequote formula literally translated to English. Others would consider it a lack of translation equivalence since English does not normally use two verbs of saying as Hebrew does.
What do you think? What are advantages and disadvantages of each approach to translate the Hebraic quotation formulas?


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More Details On 'RHOC' Star Vicki Gunvalson's Boyfriend's Past Emerge! He Was Arrested For A DUI!
'Real Housewives of Orange County' star Vicki is known for her sterling image and looking down on others, but lately her boyfriend has been tarnishing that reputation!
Real Housewives of Orange County member Vicki Gunvalson's boyfriend, Brooke Ayers, was arrested back on July 15, 2009 for a DUI in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, according to RadarOnline.com. This is his third arrest in two years! Eek.
After Brooke sat in prison for two days, his then-girlfriend, Debbie Keane reportedly released him on $1,000 bail. Brooke promised to pay her back, but Debbie said he hasn't done so to this day!
The DUI is one of several shady facts about Brooke's past. He was also arrested twice in 2010 for failing to pay child support, and owes another ex $40,000. Vicki, what could you possibly thinking by dating this guy?
HollywoodLifers, what do you think about Vicki's new boyfriend? Sound off below!