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Smithsonian Institution's Guide to Sponsored Projects (PDF and HTML) w/ linked table of contents and Appendices
For a PDF version of this guide, please click here.
Since its inception, the Smithsonian Institution has been involved in research and scholarly work in areas such as astronomy, astrophysics, cultural and biological diversity, the global environment, human ecology, space science, art history, humanities, arts, and social sciences. Increasingly, grants and contracts from public and private sponsors have supported these research and scholarly efforts. For nearly three decades, rising numbers of externally funded projects and more stringent requirements for financial and program accountability have challenged Smithsonian Principal Investigators and administrative officers alike.
This Guide to Sponsored Projects is intended to help Smithsonian staff, Research Associates, and Collaborators who wish to seek, or who have already obtained, external funding for a project, exhibition, or research activity. The process of identifying, seeking, obtaining, and administering external funds can be complex. It is hoped that this Guide will lift the burden of interpreting sponsor and Smithsonian policies, assist in the compliance with these policies, and serve as a resource for those involved in the various aspects of sponsored project activity.
The Guide directs Principal Investigators, Fund Managers and other staff from the development of a project idea through the administration and close-out of an award. In addition to answering the most commonly asked questions related to grants and contracts, the Guide references several Smithsonian policies affecting sponsored projects. It summarizes the steps involved in applying for grants and contracts from external government, corporate, and foundation funding, and provides a listing of additional materials, manuals, and policies for further information. Moreover, the Guide provides the names and telephone numbers of OSP staff who can help every step of the way.
We have attempted to produce a Guide that will support and ease the efforts of Principal Investigators who seek and administer grants and contracts. Representatives of the research community and staff administrators who provide support services to Principal Investigators have reviewed drafts of the Guide. The Guide is a more useful tool as a result of their input. We wish to express our gratitude to the reviewers for their extensive comments and suggestions.
Smithsonian staff may obtain the Guide by logging on to the Office of Sponsored Project's website (http://prism.si.edu/osp/index.html) or by contacting OSP directly. Changes and additions to the Guide will be provided through updates on OSP's website as they occur. If you have questions or comments concerning the information presented in the Guide or on sponsored project related matters, please contact the Office of Sponsored Projects by phone (202-633-7110), fax (202-633-7119), e-mail (email@example.com), or mail (Smithsonian Institution, Office of Sponsored Projects P.O. Box 37012 MRC 1205, Washington D.C. 20013-7012). OSP is located at 2011 Crystal Dr., Ste. 352, Arlington, VA 22202.
J. Scott Robinson, CRA
Office of Sponsored Projects
The vision of the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) is to be the finest sponsored projects administration office as viewed by the Smithsonian community, external sponsors, and OSP staff. OSP seeks to foster proposal development for research, education, and exhibitions throughout the Smithsonian; promote and sustain sound business practices; and provide the highest quality of administrative management and financial services to support the Smithsonian Institution's mission. OSP encourages an office community of staff having professional and cultural diversity.
All Staff members understand that the pulse of the office is its values. In establishing and living by a set of shared values, the staff view these shared values as beacons to an ideal work experience. Staff behaviors and the resulting actions that a small team of committed employees can accomplish in each and every annual planning cycle speak to the importance of shared values. OSP values honesty, personal and group integrity, rigor and responsibility, respect and courtesy, open communication, equity and tolerance, dedication and discipline.
To support the Smithsonian's mission and vision, OSP strives to meet five goals:
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Sponsored Project Flow Chart (pdf)
APPENDIX A - OSP Organization Chart
APPENDIX B - SD-318 Externally Funded Grants and Sponsored Project Contracts
APPENDIX C - SD 319 Interagency Transfers
APPENDIX D - List of Other Sources to Assist Principal Investigators
APPENDIX E - Checklist for Developing a Proposal
APPENDIX F - Matrix of Employee and Consultant Distinctions
APPENDIX G - Guidelines for Internal Budget Development, Sample Budget
APPENDIX H - Account Categories to Be Used on Grants and Contracts
APPENDIX I - SD 304 Guidelines for Administering Indirect Costs
APPENDIX J - Does the Smithsonian Charge Indirect Costs on Sponsored Projects?
APPENDIX K - OSP Report of Cost-Sharing
APPENDIX L - Proposal Brief Form
APPENDIX M - Smithsonian Statement of Organizational Status
APPENDIX N - Regulation and Compliance Issues Pertaining to Sponsored Projects Administration
APPENDIX O - Guidelines for Protocol Submission to IACUC
APPENDIX P - Smithsonian Patent Policy & Disclosure Form and Copyright Policy - Executive Summary
APPENDIX Q - SD 604 Misconduct in Research
APPENDIX R - Smithsonian Announcement 91-25: Unauthorized Contracting
APPENDIX S - SD 308 Advanced Funding Policy
APPENDIX T - Project Award Summary
APPENDIX U - Sample SFS Financial Reports
APPENDIX V - Proposal Submission Checklist for Principal Investigators
APPENDIX W - Subcontract/Consultant Contract Checklist for Principal Investigators


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Make The World Move liveeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed it!!! It was awesome and she looked like she was having so much fun. Her outfit was HOT!! And I loved the little touch the Hips Don't Lie trumpets gave the song. I'm happy, this got me excited!
the performance was all over the place
but that was at least you expected before since Christina n Cee Lo together on the stage
Im still loving the pink afro wigs she's wearing back when Halloween Party last month
and that last long high note
she's so pitchy hahaa, I dont know maybe it's kinda noisy with so many things going on the stage
or she could not hear her voice with her ears (you can see her adjusting her ears with her hands)
but overall it's so fun!!
I think it's a performance for them since they will not be there on The Voice 4
and a Hips Dont Lie trumpets kinda a welcoming music for Shakira next season
Im gonna miss them, I mean miss the chemistry from those 4 coaches together
Just for fun...
Try not to get pissed at me
I bought the deluxe edition of Lotus yesterday, and I must say it is free of imperfections.
Track 5 and 6 are my favs right now.
Just A fool would make sense as a single. The song is powerful and It could really go well with a little bit of promo.
Anyone seen the live of Make the world move ??
Aguilera needs to stop hitting the high notes if she can't do it. I mean it's Ok to mess up with one live song. But lately she has been destroying every live performance she did. I mean come on christina, we re used to sthg better coming from u !
Anyway, at this point, I dont thnik they will ever do something with th record. They wont promote any singles, and she'll go on tour hopefully with the Lotus project behind her already.
yeah im not very optimistic but even if any of Cease fire, circles, just a fool, let there be love or army of me could goes out as a single, RCA an aguilera wont promote it. It's just my opinion.
Lotus is good, it's not as good as Bionic, back to basics & Stripped, but it's entertaining.
Now chiristina get it all together, think straight and come back next year with Back to basics 2.0
^ I think Bi-on-ic is better too, should have been more successful.
Lotus projected to sell 70-80k first week.
That is 30-40k less than Bionic.
How depressing for her. I guess that's what happens when you don't promote and your single makes zero impact on the radio.
Aguilera used to sell 300-500k first week.
I've only been listening to the album for a day or so. I like it.
Best tracks on the album:
01. Lotus
03. Red Hot Kinda Love
06. Let There Be Love
12. Best of Me
14. Light Up the Sky
That's disappointing given all the free promo she gets on The Voice every week and stuff. I was expecting at least a 100k+ debut, especially because at this time of year album sales are the strongest (holiday season).
Guess this might be Christina's second album in a row to miss the Platinum mark.
the problem is that even though she's on the Voice which is a great platform, she hasn't been saying "hey y'all go check out my album" incessantly...when really she should have. If I were a semi regular viewer of The Voice and not a stan, how am I supposed to know she has a new album unless she says so?
also I knew it was a horrible idea to release the same week as One Direction....can't beat horny teenage girls. I am one of those horny teenage girls though. (not literally) I tried to resist but Niall Horan is too cute.
this also happened.
^I still don't get the One Direction appeal, musically or looks-wise even, they all look like jailbait. I prefer the boys of The Wanted, and like some of their songs too.
But Christina is dangerously close to being a has-been. I still don't understand her need to put out generic radio crap on both Bionic and this album (Your Body, I'm looking at you). She was like so different, fresh, and unique when she came out with Back to Basics. The entire sound of that album was so different than anything on mainstream and I don't understand why she didn't stick to it. She's basically sending "musical wallpaper" songs to radio now. It's like you go in a room, notice the wallpaper for a second and then don't care anymore. That's how I feel about her recent releases. You recognize her voice and then it's like "oh okay, so what?"
I'm seriously wondering if she even cares.
I can't and won't pay for this. At least she still has loyal fans who will buy her stuff regardless. For now--I'm not seeing any "growth" musically. And that's not working for me.
Last edited by Huntneo(PT); November 15th, 2012 at 12:32 AM.
She may get an increase from the performance with Cee Lo and the announcement on The Voice of her album dropping. Who knows. Let's hope.
But you guys are right. I like Christina when she has a clear vision. When the album is more cohesive.
Lotus is just, meh. Forgettable. Except for a few tracks.
To restart her career I think she needs to recruit Mark Ronson (Back to Black). Or Stuart Price (Confessions on A Dance Floor). Or maybe Timbaland.
I don't know.
I don't think she cares anymore about being the big popstar, she hasn't promoted this album as much as she should've, she released Your Body 2 months ago and we didn't even get a real performance until Tuesday's and it was completely different song (that I loved BTW but still) and the next one we'll get is the AMAs and we know nothing else. She just doesn't care I guess. As I fan it's kinda sad but I've made my peace with it, I'm happy to enjoy her music and her "presence" as a celebrity but I don't expect her to be in the league of Rihanna, Katy Perry or Justin Bieber right now. She's not even trying.
I do think it is strange that she made probably the most commercial album since her Genie days, an album with the potential to have multiple hit singles, but she still doesn't bother to get her ass off her couch and promote.
But with Lotus the problem is completely the opposite, the music is really commercial and radio friendly so that's no problem, the problem is the lack of promotion. Most people don't know about Lotus unless you are a Christina fan. Her promo was based on posting Youtube clips and tweeting...that's bullsh!t! Those tweets and Youtube videos are only seen by her subscribers and followers...HER FANS. The general audience that doesn't care enough to follow or subscribe doesn't even know anything.
I mean the only Your Body performance we got was the one on Jimmy Fallon with a freaking stapler for God's sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL. I swear this bitch loves to troll us.
The biggest problem isn't lack of promotion. It's the material she chooses to record and put out to radio. Seriously. WTF is radio friendly? If you listen to Adele's 21 album none of the songs fill the description of being "radio friendly". It's an entire album filled with ballads. She made radio love them, as opposed to making songs that the radio loves by default. She didn't give a shit about what was big on radio then.
That's what Christina needs to do. I don't give a flying fuck about "radio friendly" crap. You don't use a 4 octave once in a generation voice to make radio friendly crap. You dictate what radio should sound like. If we want radio friendly we can just switch to Rihanna, Katy, GaGa and what not. Those ladies are all radio friendly material which is why they can hit the top of the charts for 10 weeks even and then a year later nobody gives 2 shits about their hits and they have to consistently put out new songs or we forget them.
None of them can make a song like Beautiful and have people praising it even after a decade of its release. They cannot. Nobody gives a flying fuck about Just Dance, I Kissed a Girl, We Found Love, Umbrella, etc anymore. They are all radio friendly. But they are not iconic. They have a short shelf life.
Christina needs to grow a fucking pair and stop giving a shit about what radio wants and instead put out good music instead of putting out absolute generic music. It doesn't do her any justice. It's an insult to my intelligence if Christina camp thinks I will approve her singing shit ANYBODY else on radio could have recorded.
I want Back to basics 2.0
imagine if she did promo like her previous albums
Stripped - live performance at MTV, VMA appearance, magazine cover, radio
Back to Basics - ANOM debut performance at MTV Movie Awards, magazine cover, and branding people she was a BABY JANE
even Bionic had it - Oprah, Today Show, Good Morning, performance at Leno, magazine cover etc etc
while Lotus
just several interviews from her home, Jimmy Fallon, and others but she was promoting The Voice
20% promoting Lotus
I miss her performance at Good Morning America too
After all she problly makes more money with the voice than she does with LOtus, that makes sesn to promote the voice then LOL
BreakTheIce in here preaching! lol
Once again, I agree with everything you're saying.
But you're going to have to lay up off "Umbrella". That's a classic!
They're also in my age group. I'm like a month older than Louis. I can probably pass as jailbait too so I guess the idea of them "looking like jailbait" has never really occurred to me.
As for the Wanted...they just give off this really douchey vibe.
I thought Bionic was more coherent. But meh. I don't know anymore. I liked how Stripped was Xtina, B2B was Baby Jane, and Bionic was Madam X. Lotus -> ???
Another huge problem is image. When I was studying GRE vocab, I came across the word fulsome...and that's what I think of MOST of Christina outfits these days.
if she looked like this more often...
she said the Voice performance of Make the World Move was all about royalty...I'm like "no grrrl" The only queen that would wear a wig like that would be a drag queen.
oh btw Your Body finally became top ten in Canada's hot 100!!!
I don't know what Christina you're talking about but you're getting it all wrong, her music hasn't been about "what radio wants" for the past 10 years (I'm not complaining, that's just how it was). Neither Back to Basics nor Keeps Getting Better nor Bionic were radio-friendly and even though I applaud her bravery and originality, that's part of the reason why she lost so much appeal with the general audience. She's back making a very pop and radio friendly record but it isn't going anywhere bc of promotion, so it all goes back to my previous post.Christina needs to grow a fucking pair and stop giving a shit about what radio wants and instead put out good music instead of putting out absolute generic music. It doesn't do her any justice. It's an insult to my intelligence if Christina camp thinks I will approve her singing shit ANYBODY else on radio could have recorded.
Is that why Adele can send a ballad straight into the top 10 and have other ballads top the charts while Christina's radio friendly song just tanks?
Is that also why Somebody Like You went to #1 for 8 weeks depite sounding like nothing that was on the radio at the time of its release?
Is that also why fun. managed to also score big hits with rock songs when radio was all pop-RnB at the time they released We Are Young?
And is that also why Ellie Goulding's Lights, an indie song, became one of the biggest hits this year?
Yea okay.
After giving Lotus a solid listen, Bionic is still vastly superior. No idea why it tanked to be honest. Lotus will bomb because the other 932542 albums released this year by the same producer/crew are taking up the chart space and RCA is full of nasty fuckers that use their teeth too much when blowing you. That's all.
Taylor Swift, 19 year old beautiful girl that talks about breakup and releases pop-ish country songs (yeah POP-ish, I don't think that's real country). She's as comercial as you can be, I think you're misinterpreting my point, I don't mean to say that everything needs to sound like Britney's technopop in order to be successful, the term "radio-friendly" is a lot wider than that, its simply about a record that is easy for the general audience to digest, whether it is technopop or not. And Taylor Swift is as easy as it comes! A 19 year old girl talking about breakup??? The teenager girls are eating that up!!! Plus she's part of the new teen craze along with Justin, Selena, etc...That being said, let me know where she's gonna be in 4 or 5 years.
And Adele I already told you.
You really want Christina to make a "different" sound that stands out from everything that is being played on the radio? SHE ALREADY DID. It's called Back To Basic and Bionic. And I love those records, but I as already said, the fact that she changes her sound so much record from record means she alienates a big part of the audience everytime and it doesn't really give her a musical identity; she does have a trademark sound in her VOICE but after everything she has experimented with, a "Christina Aguilera song" can be pretty much anything and that can be a good and a bad thing. Right now I think only her hardcore fans (like me) are the ones who keep following her. So again, promotion is the key now, if nobody else but her hardcore fans know and care about a new record, that reflects on sales and everything else.
If your point about promotion were true, Bionic would have been a success. It wasn't. It was a disaster and she promoted the hell out of that album prior to its release (Oprah and what not). Promotion isn't the biggest problem here. Good music will eventually promote itself. Christina has severely lowered her standards. It doesn't matter if you promote the hell out of shit. If it isn't what is expected of you nobody will care. If it is good music it will eventually turn around and end up drawing attention . Take note of the quote on Lights, which managed to climb all the way up to #2. Where was the promotion? It slowly found its way to being a hit.In the United States, "Lights" was a sleeper hit, spending one year and three months on the Billboard Hot 100 before finally reaching number two on the chart in August 2012, after being released in May 2011. The song was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), with sales of over three million downloads in the United States.
And, brand new artists which successfully charted this year and took charge the Hot 100 for 23 consecutive weeks this year. So yes for 23 weeks (that's over 5 months) you had brand new artists who came out with little to no promotion commanding radio all of a sudden.
Take note I always say promotion isn't the biggest problem. I acknowledge the fact that it is important, but you need to have good stuff to promote. Lately, Christina doesn't. Her new releases don't do her any justice because she attempts to record stuff which is basically already out there.
Good stuff + promotion = Back To Basics is a major hit.
Bad stuff + promotion = Bionic.
Bad stuff + no promotion = Lotus.
Bad stuff + promotion for Lotus = Bionic 2.0
When what fans really want and deserve is Back to Basics 2.0.
Yes, is not all about promotion. Is about good music as well, but both go hand in hand specially if you take 2 or 3 years between albums (people forget reaaaally fast that's why Sh1thanna is cashing in on her moment releasing one album after the other).
.Take note I always say promotion isn't the biggest problem. I acknowledge the fact that it is important, but you need to have good stuff to promote. Lately, Christina doesn't. Her new releases don't do her any justice because she attempts to record stuff which is basically already out there
I agree with what you say about promotion here, but I disagree with your thoughts about Xtina's music. Lotus has the potential to be a hit in every sense of the word, songs like Just A Fool (that is climbing the itunes chart as we speak without promotion), Around The World, Sing For Me, Circles, Best of Me, Lotus Intro, Red Hot Kinda Love and even Your Body have HIT written all over them.
Hmm I think the Back to Basics jazzy kinda sound is what suits her voice the most, but I don't know if I'm prepared for another record like that right now. I love pop music, and I love when she makes pop music, GOOD POP, e.g. Stripped.When what fans really want and deserve is Back to Basics 2.0.
On the left side of the equation, you should all Perez Hilton's Hate Campaign (which included completely unfounded Gaga comparisons) and Christina Aguilera being out of the public eye for quite some time (her own choice to take a break)
I don't think any of these is the most important contributor but I think they all contributed
Not to mention, America seems to freak out when Christina does anything overtly sexual i,e Dirrty or NMT. Which is weird because Rihanna has a song about S&M.
It irks me to no end when people say oh Bionic was jumping onto a trend. She's said after B2B that her fourth album was going to be in a completely different direction, an electronica sort of direction way before Gaga became so huge.
Like it makes no sense, if she wanted to copy Gaga whose stuff was mainstream stuff by RedOne, why would she go to relatively underground acts like Ladytron or Peaches or the then relatively unknown Sia. Furthermore, the good majority of the songs on Bionic were ballads. How many ballads did Gaga have on the Fame?
I also think her label made her do a lot more mainstream stuff and fucked it up. Just look at Ladytron's quote on Bionic's wiki page.
Given the reviews, I think Your Body had great potential. Of course some people didnt like it but they're in the minority I think. Promotion could have made this song blow up which in turn could have helped the album a lot.
@ not knowing who Ellie is. God, if you want anything remotely decent these days you have to listen to British artists. America is total shit at the moment.
'Lotus' is pretty damn good IMO. I don't care for the production on some of the songs and some of the lyrics are a little amateur but I think I enjoy just about every song.
'Light Up the Sky', 'Best of Me', 'Make the World Move', 'Just a Fool', 'Cease Fire' and title track are some of my favorites already.
and to think Christina actually sang at Perez's birthday once. What a douche. All that backstabbing, not surprised even Gaga got tired of him
Your Body got to the final round! this is crazy! you get that promo grrl
Just saw this video...I absolutely love it!
AfterElton's Louis Virtel once described Christina as "artistry-deaf" and I think that perfectly sums up why she hasn't had a hit song in a decade. She has no musical identity, she doesn't know what's hot at the moment, she has no idea what audiences want to hear, she makes no attempt to appeal to listeners... She's ultimately clueless. That's why she's wandering around the "Your Body" video dressed as a gourd-shaped Peggy Bundy, singing cartoonishly hypersexual pop drivel -- because she thinks she's "with it" when in fact she's pathetically out of touch.
^ kind of assuming she gives a shit about whats "hot" at the moment.
just fyi, a decade is 10 years and Back To Basics was less than 10 years ago hun.
Yes, I'm aware of when the critically-derided, hit-free Back to Basics was released.
Ain't No Other Man Top Ten in 17 countries this includes major markets like the UK, US, Australia
Hurt Top Ten in 12 countries Ten Twenty in 5 Countries. Third on Germany's 2007 year end chart
Candyman Top Ten in 5 countries Top Twenty in Ten Countries. Eighth on Australia's 2007 year end chart
Accompanying tour grossed $90 million and had to be stopped early due to pregnancy.
Okay whatever you say J-23
I'll let you google reviews for Back To Basics yourself. Stay pressed bitch.
all this talk about Back To Basics is making me nostalgic.
*plays "On Our Way"*
that don't mean that I won't need a frieeeeeeeeend
Just watch Xtina get interviewed on Dateline. Its funny, I used to think she was a pretentious bitch, but she actually seems quite lovely.


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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Vivian Zabel, Author and Publisher
It's VBT - Writers on the Move's September tour and it gives me great pleasure to present Vivian Gilbert Zabel. Vivian will be my guest today, and again on Thursday, September 3rd. Just as a note, Vivian also goes by V. Gilbert Zabel. Today, we'll learn a little about Vivian with a short bio and we'll also take a peek at one of her juvenile books, Prairie Dog Cowboy.
As with most women raising a family and working, Vivian put her writing career in slow gear until she retired. Then, after almost thirty years of teaching, she devoted her time to writing. It seems this is the trend of women in today's society; one career ends and another is picked up. Ah, the power of us women! But, this is even more of an accomplishment for someone suffering with rheumatoid arthritis and Lupus. To steadily move forward while handling serious chronic illnesses is quite an achievement since at times just living with a chronic illness can be a full time job. Well, Vivian is not only a published author of short stories, poems, and novels, she also created and runs 4RV Publishing. Vivian is certainly a testament to determination, perseverance and strength.
Vivian has three juvenile books and one mystery/suspense (with a touch of thriller) novel under her belt and today we'll take a look at one of the juvenile books: Prairie Dog Cowboy. Just the name alone sounds great; it makes you want to shout: Giddy Up! Here's an impressive review:
Prairie Dog Cowboy by V. Gilbert Zabel
Time passes so quickly and history is getting rewritten all the time. So much of our heritage is lost with those changes. It is refreshing to see a slice of reality portraying the daily life of 1899 Oklahoma in V. Gilbert Zabel's latest literary work, "Prairie Dog Cowboy".
Buddy Roberts is but a small boy at the start of the story. It isn't clear right away why his mother is set against the child. Although he has an older brother, he's tending to the cattle at the age of five, all alone with only his dog to keep him company. Buddy is a mindful child, doing what needs to be done, even at such a young age, hoping some day to grow up to be a cowboy. Instead of him and Patch doing the work on foot, he dreams of herding cattle on horseback someday.
Neighbor rancher Caleb Hyman is impressed with Buddy. He wonders, too, why the child works hard while his older brother, Jake, is doted on and spoiled. But, Caleb can see the man that Buddy will become, encourages him, and teaches him to rope. Once Buddy can rope a prairie dog, Caleb promises he'll give the boy a job on his ranch. Not an easy thing to do, but Buddy works hard to reach his appointed goal.
Through the years, Buddy becomes a part of Caleb's family, a friend of Caleb's twin sons, and the unknowing object of affection for their younger sister, Katie. Life begins to take a turn for the better as he approaches manhood.
"Prairie Dog Cowboy" is a testament of a time when life was hard, but people weren't afraid of hard work. The day-to-day occurrences represented are an accurate telling of the time, history that should not be lost. Teens and young adults can learn much from this story and I, for one, am thankful that Ms. Zabel has documented this slice of American history.
Reviewed by Jena' Galifany
Author, Editor, Reviewer
I love juvenile books that weave accurate history into their stories; it's such a great way for children to learn without realizing they're actually learning. And, as the reviewer, Jena Galifany, mentions, it's a wonderful means of preserving our history.
Be sure to check the links below to get your own copy of Prairie Dog Cowboy today:
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/5s4uqw
Talk to you soon,
20 comments:
- Deborah Weed said...
Karen, thank you for your interview on Vivian. Not only did I get to know about Prairie Dog Cowboy, I also felt Vivian's courage through your words.
Prairie Dog Cowboy sounds like a story that celebrates tenacity, courage, family and a look at growing up in a simpler, more authentic time. You are right, this kind of history should not be lost!
Vivian, you are in inspiration for all of us!
- September 1, 2009 at 9:25 AM
- Gayle said...
Vivian, I love your book cover!
- September 1, 2009 at 9:39 AM
- Katie Hines said...
I really liked the interview. Like Vivian, I came to writing late, but I don't have four books under my belt! Hope you have lots of sales, Vivian.
- September 1, 2009 at 11:16 AM
- Nancy Famolari said...
Excellent interview. I enjoyed the review of Prairie Dog Cowboy. It's a book well-worth reading, even if you're not a kid!
- September 1, 2009 at 11:32 AM
- Vivian Zabel said...
Thanks, Karen, for the post about me and Prairie Dog Cowboy.
By the way, at book festivals I've had as many adults buy the book for themselves as for children.
- September 1, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- Helena Harper said...
Karen and Vivian - you both inspire me with your determination to keep moving on and achieving, regardless of the obstacles you may encounter on your way. It is humbling to read what Vivian has achieved despite her physical ills. I would be very interested to know what inspired you, Vivian, to write your book. Are you interested in that period of history?
- September 1, 2009 at 1:24 PM
- Vivian Zabel said...
I've always been interested in history, and when my husband kept sharing his experiences on the farm, as a cowboy, and while breaking horses, I knew I had to use them some time.
I did, by setting some of his experiences back in time. He was born over 50 years after Buddy, the main character in Prairie Dog Cowboy.
- September 1, 2009 at 1:32 PM
- Harry Gilleland said...
Good post about Vivian! I have been friends with Vivian for years now. I was impressed with her writing when I first met her, and I still remain a fan of her writing today. Plus she is one busy, hard-working lady who is a good role model to emulate ... only I lack her energy!
- September 1, 2009 at 4:04 PM
- Carolyn Howard-Johnson said...
Did you know that there is so much call for juvenile books that some of the big bookstore chains are starting marketing programs to promote them? Special sections, etc.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Tweeting writing tips at www.twitter.com/frugalbookpromo
- September 1, 2009 at 4:26 PM
- Karen and Robyn - Writing for Children said...
Hey, All,
Thanks for stopping by. Thursday we'll have the Q&A!
- September 1, 2009 at 5:25 PM
- Vivian Zabel said...
Yes, thank you for visiting.
Do I know any of the answers?
- September 1, 2009 at 5:31 PM
- kathy stemke said...
I've read "Praire Dog Cowboy" and I enjoyed it throughly. Vivian is a wonderful writer and an outstanding person.
- September 1, 2009 at 5:43 PM
- Vivian Zabel said...
*blush* Thank you, Kathy.
I really enjoyed writing Prairie Dog Cowboy. I've heard that it isn't good to switch genres, that an author should stick to one. However, I have so many ideas for different types of books. I don't want to stick to only one.
Thanks, folks, for stopping by and leaving comments.
- September 1, 2009 at 5:47 PM
- Stephen Tremp said...
I love books about the prarie as I read many when I was a kid growing up in Michigan (although we didn't have any praries). There's something about stories unfolding under the expanse of the big sky that engages and pulls me in. No city sky scrapers, no traffic jams, no back alleys. Just a lot of wide open space for stuff to happen.
Stephen Tremp
- September 1, 2009 at 10:38 PM
- Dorothy Massey said...
Inspiring post. Thanks so much karen and Vivian. I also became a writer when I gave up teaching, although I now teach Creative Writing, which I love.
Dorothy Massey www.kidsbooksuk.blogspot.com
- September 2, 2009 at 4:42 AM
- madcapmaggie said...
Always a pleasure to read more about Vivian. Thanks for the interesting interview.
Margaret Fieland
- September 2, 2009 at 9:35 AM
- Vivian Zabel said...
I'm enjoying the comments for this post. Thanks, everyone.
- September 2, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Crystalee said...
Prarie Dog Cowboy is on my to-read list. Vivian is an excellent author and a great editor to work with!
- September 2, 2009 at 10:38 AM
- Vivian Zabel said...
Thanks, Crys. It helps to be a good editor when working with a good writer.
- September 2, 2009 at 10:44 AM
- Karen and Robyn - Writing for Children said...
Wow, this is the most comments I think I've ever received here.
Thanks, everyone for dropping on by.
Vivian, you certainly are a crowd pleaser! I'm thrilled your my quest this tour.
- September 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM


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What will the new year bring? Health and prosperity, of course - but not unless you eat your lucky black-eyed peas on New Year's Day.
Here's a super-simple, tasty black-eyed peas recipe you can cook up Jan. 1. Pair it with homemade skillet cornbread for the perfect meal.
Postscript: Did you know that black-eyed peas are not peas at all? They are legumes.
This delicious Southern fish dish is accompanied by collard greens and vitamin-rich black-eyed beans, a combination that is said to bring good luck and financial enrichment. Serve this meal with fresh, hot cornbread on the side. Recipe for that follows.
1 bunch (large, about 101/4 pounds) collard greens
1 medium onion
Salad oil
1 can (16-ounce) black-eyed peas drained
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper
4 (4-ounce) red-snapper fillets
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Lemon slices and parsley sprigs, garnish
1. Coarsely chop collard greens and onion. In 3-quart saucepan over medium-high heat, in 1 tablespoon hot salad oil, cook onion until tender; add collard greens and 1/2 teaspoon salt; continue cooking until vegetables begin to brown. Add 1/4 cup water. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 5 minutes or until collard greens are tender, stirring occasionally. Stir in black-eyed beans; heat through. Keep warm.
2. On sheet of waxed paper, combine flour, paprika, thyme, ground red pepper, and 3/4 teaspoon salt. Press flesh-side of snapper fillets into flour mixture to coat.
3. In nonstick 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat, in 1 tablespoon hot salad oil, cook snapper fillets 5 to 7 minutes until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork, turning fillets halfway through cooking time. Remove fillets to warm platter. To same skillet, add lemon juice and 1 tablespoon water; heat to boiling; pour over snapper.
4. To serve, arrange collard greens on platter with snapper. Garnish with lemon slices and parsley sprigs. Serves 4.
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1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup yellow cornmeal
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
4 tablespoons margarine or butter, cold
1 can (8 1/2 ounces) cream-style corn
1 large egg, beaten
2 ounces Monterey Jack cheese with jalapeno chiles, shredded
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2. In large bowl, mix flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, salt and black pepper. With pastry blender or 2 knives used scissor-fashion, cut in margarine or butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs. With fork, stir corn, egg and cheese into flour mixture just until blended (batter will be very stiff).
3. Place greased skillet in oven; preheat pan 5 minutes (to help brown bottom of cornbread). Remove pan from oven; spoon batter into skillet and spread evenly with small metal spatula.
4. Bake corn bread 15 to 20 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean and corn bread is just firm to the touch. Cut into 8 wedges and serve warm. Serves 8.
• Each serving: About 290 calories, 9g total fat (3g saturated), 34mg cholesterol, 375mg sodium, 44g carbohydrate, 1g dietary fiber, 7g protein.
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- Part 2: Scribd.com goes 1984, again?
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- Ron Paul (1988): legalize drugs (Morton Downey Jr. Show)
- Ron Paul (2011): drugs, prostitution and gay marriage
- Happy Thanksgiving 2014!
- 94 years of age Sarah Obama (Barack Obama's step-grandmother) was recently (Nov, 2014) in New York City at the United Nations and on the radio in Rhode Island.
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- AMERICAN ADVOCATE: >>> BRUCE , your article on options is very interesting . Do you trade options of any kind ??? …
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- Fierce field research behind enemy lines. Dr. Conspiracy's wife (Virginia Hutson Davidson) is a criminal and Loren Collins is a baloney man. (22)
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50 Preceeding Comments:Larry bland: @ Lucas Daniel Smith: Lucas, thanks for staying on this guys case. We were very effective in ridding this place of the likes of him as well as the RACISTS Andrew Vrba, Bob, EllenH, Kurt Colman as well as all their sock puppets. Keep up the good fight in the new year Lucas. You have many followers out here that appreciate all you do....Lucas Daniel Smith: American Obot (Obot BobJ) filming in Chuncheon, China: ...Lucas Daniel Smith: It appears that Wencil Jerome Palan was: Born: December 14th, 1935 Passed away: April 3rd, 2005 Obituary: MADISON - Wencil J. ""Wendi"" Palan, age 69, passed away on Sunday, April 3, 2005, at the Don and Marilyn Anderson HospiceCare Center in Fitchburg. Wendi was preceded in death by his wife, Boneta ""Bonnie"" Palan, in 1994. He is survived by his brother, William Palan of Blue River; and close friend, Alice Waelti of Madison. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, ...Lucas Daniel Smith: Here is a picture of another of the War Ration Books (Book Two). The ration book in the above report contains the name William James Palan (male, age 11) and the ration book provided here in this comment contains the name Wencil Jerome Palan (male, age 7). It appears that they were brothers....AMERICAN ADVOCATE: >>> AS THEY SAY IN HAWAI ' I ~ " MELE KALIKIMAKA " . <<<...AMERICAN ADVOCATE: >>> SOMEONE PLEASE TELL HOW badrak ' insane' obummer CAN MAKE DECISIONS AND CONTROL DRILLING FOR OIL SO THAT AMERICA CAN BE INDEPENDENT FROM THE ARAB SOURCES . THAT ASSHOLE STUPID SON OF A BITCH HAS DONE TOO MANY THINGS TO DESTROY AND INHIBIT THE RIGHTS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS . THE ONLY SOLUTION IS TO EXPOSE obozo AS A FOREIGN BORN ILLEGAL ALIEN , INDICT , ARREST AND REMOVE HIM FROM OUR CAPITOL AND SEND HIM AWAY IN SHAME AND DISGRACE ....Lucas Daniel Smith: 08.15.2011: Rick Perry (Texas Governor) at a house party in Cedar Rapids, Iowa praising fracking and advocating fracking in Iowa (which, thankfully, hasn't happened): ...Lucas Daniel Smith: @ Mark McDaniel: Thank you very much! I also wish you, and all other readers, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We look forward to seeing you here at the Blog and the Forum in 2015!...Bruce: @ Mark McDaniel: Thank you for your participation here on the LDS Blog and also on the InspectorSmith Forum. I wish you, and all our other readers as well, a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!...Mark McDaniel: Dear Lucas and Bruce, I wish you both a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays season. Thank you for your contributions on the web this past year and I look forward to your contributions in the new year!...AMERICAN ADVOCATE: >>> THE INFO ON THE NORDYKE TWINS BIRTH CERTIFICATES WAS SENT TO MORE THAN 650 OF MY CONTACTS , ALONG WITH INSTRUCTIONS ON THE LINK " DOCUMENTS AND VIDEOS ", SO THAT EVERYONE CAN BE INFORMED OF THE FRAUDULENT DOCUMENT POSTED BY OUR ' STAINED WHITEHOUSE ' ....AMERICAN ADVOCATE: >>> THE BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR THE NORDYKE TWINS ARE ABSOLUTELY AUTHENTIC . IF THERE WERE A BIRTH DOCUMENT IN HAWAI ' I FOR obozo IT WOULD LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THESE . THIS IS MORE PROOF OF FRAUD FROM THE " STAINED WHITEHOUSE " AND ITS ILLEGAL ' OCCUPIER '. EVERY MEMBER OF THE LAZY LAMEBRAINED CONGRESS , SUPREME COURT , FEDERAL COURTS , LAMESTREAM ENEMEDIA , LAW ENFORCEMENT AND dummy-crats IS JUST AS GUILTY AS THE FRAUDULENT , TREASONOUS , ANTI-AMERICAN , LYING , UN-AMERICAN , SUBVERSIV...Bruce: Pictures: Alaska's Wondrous Bristol Bay, Now Off-Limits to Gas and Oil Drilling National Geographic Eve Conant 12/17/2014 President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he is taking Bristol Bay "off the bidders block" to protect the pristine southwestern area of Alaska from oil and gas interests. "It is a beautiful national wonder," Obama said in a video address from the White House. "It's something that's too precious for us to just be putting out to the highest bidder." The presid...Bruce: Wikipedia - Pebble Mine Excerpt: ....................................... Political actions Two bills designed to outlaw large scale mining in the Pebble area were introduced in the Alaska state legislature in 2007; both stalled in committee. A third attempted (by ballot measure) piece of legislation was the Alaska Clean Water Initiative, 2008. It was voted down after months of high profile public debate, heavy advertising, and a series of judgements by the Alaska State Supreme Court. The...Bruce: About The Bay SaveBristolBay.org Excerpt: The Bristol Bay region in southwest Alaska is pristine wild country stretching from the rugged snow-capped peaks of the Alaska Range, accross tundra and wetlands laced with rivers that flow into the Bay, providing the best wild salmon habitat on Earth. The hour and a-half flight from Anchorage to Bristol Bay takes visitors on a breath-taking journey across two national parks (Katmai and Lake Clark), Alaska's largest state park (Wood-Tikchick...Bruce: Business leader Nancy Blakey explains Bristol Bay's economic power ...Bruce: AMERICAN ADVOCATE wrote: >>> BRUCE , your article on options is very interesting . Do you trade options of any kind ??? 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With Mr. Cassidy's victory in what had been the last undecided Senate race of the midterm electio...Bruce: Surprise! 2016 GOP front-runner emerges 'On the verge of becoming a political phenomenon' WND Joe Kovacs 12/3/2014 Excerpt: With the midterm elections now over, Americans are now looking ahead toward 2016, and a fresh political face is among the early front-runners for the Republican presidential nomination. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has finished in second place in a new CNN/ORC International poll, behind failed 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, who has consistently said he won'...Bruce: Dr. Carson makes several accurate and important points. I refer readers to the below-linked sub-forum on the 'InspectorSmith Forum' for an expansion of the ideas introduced in the video: "Radical-Left FASCIST and Führer Wannabe -- Barack Hussein Obama II" http://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/InspectorSmith/forumdisplay.php/24-Radical-Left-FASCIST-and-F%C3%BChrer-Wannabe-Barack-Hussein-Obama-II --- Regarding Wolf Blitzer's comment concerning the responsibility of Hitler for the death...Lucas Daniel Smith: @ Mark McDaniel: Thank you for your kind words!...Mark McDaniel: Lucas, your drawings are always a pleasure for the eye to see and young man I tell you they will soon adorn MOMA in NYC with a 1945 Picasso oil on canvas to the left and a Degas ballerina pastel on paper to the right, you mark my words....Lucas Daniel Smith: Cloud&Heat reimagines the data center with its ecological solution Tech Republic November 19th, 2014 by James Sanders Excerpt: Cloud&Heat offers a unique ecological solution to heat the homes of customers by placing cloud servers into private residences and harvesting the heat generated to warm the air and water. .... The German company Cloud&Heat is reimagining the data center, not as a large monolith, but as something that can be distributed as easily as the workloads are dis...Bruce: Alessandro Acquisti: Why privacy matters ...Inspector Smith: Example, the Dutch government (Netherlands) are not suggesting that the Dutch government cannot access citizen's data, but rather that they don't want the United States accessing the information: EUROPEAN PROTECTIONISM IN CLOUD COMPUTING: ADDRESSING CONCERNS OVER THE PATRIOT ACT (COMMLAW CONSPECTUS page 213 thru 214)...Inspector Smith: @ Bruce: Bruce, I am familiar with Christopher Wolf. The video is interesting. However, Wolf is talking about an entirely different issue. I don't think many people have ever said (and Wolf knows this) that governments in Europe cannot access a citizen's cloud information. Of course they can. (btw, in my opinion, most Europeans don't enjoy 'rights' in the way, or some ways, that Americans do. Just one example, in some countries in Europe it is illegal to verbally deny that certai...Bruce: Electronic Privacy for the 21st Century (Julian Sanchez) ...Bruce: The Cloud -- Security Nightmare or Our Next Great Hope? ...Bruce: U.S. Not Unique in Government's Level of Access to Cloud Data—Hogan Lovells' Christopher Wolf ...Lucas Daniel Smith: I forgot to mention that Cloud & Heat (the German company) covers the following costs for customers: 1. costs of upkeep for the computer hardware inside the cabinet, servicing the equipment once or twice a year with prior notice given to the premise's owner, and replacing the equipment every three years. 2. costs of electricity and internet connectivity, and assumes liability for any damage....Bruce: Interesting and important article. Thanks for posting! 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My parents smoked cigarettes (although my mother quit smoking long ago) when I was child and waking up to the smell of a parent smoking in the bathroom was enough for me to know that I would NEVER smoke. Furthermore, it just didn't make any sense, whatsoever, to smoke. It stinks, it gross, it cost money which could ...Lucas Daniel Smith: @ Bruce: I'm sure there are GOOD REASONS why Nevada has, with experience, decided to attempt CONTROL of prostitution in the state. I would hope that the other states would see the wisdom of maintaining control of the matter as much as possible. Interesting comment. However, I don't understand why you use the word 'CONTROL' in this context? It seems like your comment is trying to mitigate what they have done, which is made prostitution legal in rural Nevada. I sometimes like to eat...Inspector Smith: Is this an image of class?...Bruce: I endorse and applaud Ron Paul's defense of the right of our individual states to choose how to deal with many controversial social issues, such as those discussed briefly in the video. The country was set up for the states to compete with one another, like a giant laboratory, for testing and, if desired, implementing matters such as these. The Federal Government should not in most cases be involved. That being said, these issues can be very COMPLICATED. For example, regarding prostit...AMERICAN ADVOCATE: >>> A NEWSLETTER ARRIVED TODAY FROM " LIBERTY COUNCIL ACTION " WARNING THAT RADICAL islamists HAVE FILED A LAWSUIT TO FORCE THE COURTS IN AMERICA TO USE shit - a- ria LAW . IT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE THAT " WE THE PEOPLE " TALK TO EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS AND TELL THEM THIS NIS IMPOSSIBLE , SINCE THAT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH OUR LAWS OR THE CONSTITUTION . THESE ARE EXTREMELY TREACHEROUS AND DANGEROUS mu-slimes TRYING TO INFILTRATE OUR NATION AND DESTROY EVERYTHING WE BELIEVE IN ...AMERICAN ADVOCATE: >>> IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY THAT AMERICA DECLARE WAR ON C.A.I.R. , HAMAS , AL QAIDA , & DOZENS OF OTHER SUBVERSIVE mu-slime criminal gangs . ON THE STREET OF SEVERAL MAJOR AMERICAN CITIES , THE mu-slimes HAVE DECLARED THEIR INTENT TO CONTROL AND DOMINATE AMERICA , THEN RAISE THE HATED BLACK FLAG OF islam OVER OUR CAPITOL . ALL mu-slimes ARE DANGEROUS , TREACHEROUS , HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH , WEALTH , LIFE , LIBERTY AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS . THEY MUST ALL BE DEPORTED OUT OF A...Bruce: Quote from the featured article: I never really considered the picture to be very significant and I don't see how the picture helps to prove that Obama was born in Kenya. -- Even if Obama weren't born in Kenya he would still have roots from Kenya. True, and the photo is INTERESTING - BUT there is PLENTY OF OTHER EVIDENCE that Obama WAS born in Kenya! Reference: Obama WAS Born in KENYA, Compilation of Support Data http://www.wasobamaborninkenya.com/InspectorSmith/forumdisplay.php/...Bruce: Video: "How Ron Paul Was Cheated Out Of Presidency" Excellent video - Thanks for posting! The points made in the video speak volumes about the power of our Controlled MSM and Political Establishment to influence the course of history in the U.S.A. Unfortunately, as has now become totally obvious with the country's official treatment of the 'Obama Problem' the Establishment's tired old agenda appears to be in full force. Ron Paul and the ideas he has so eloquently expressed and foug...Lucas Daniel Smith: Another of my views that I want to make a note of: I couldn't care less about my credit score. Wikipedia defines credit scores as, "numerical expression based on a level analysis of a person's credit files, to represent the creditworthiness of that person. A credit score is primarily based on credit report information typically sourced from credit bureaus."...Bruce: Lucas Daniel Smith says: My thoughts, very brief, are provided below: 1. Members of US Congress should be allowed to vote freely and without fear of reprisal and/or punishment. 2. Adopting a policy which allows the US Government to punishing someone (Congressman/woman or normal citizen) for their vote (including a vote for House Speaker) would be an exceedingly unwise, reckless and thoroughly inadvisable precedent to set. I totally agree! The dubious Rules Change activity discussed...Lucas Daniel Smith: Btw, here is my GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition and accessories: GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition...Lucas Daniel Smith: @ Bruce: Thank you for the extremely helpful information regarding natural gas and propane. Below is an image (from your above link) of the general comparison chart of CNG vs LPG:...Bruce: First, let me give our readers a little insight, from a chemist's standpoint, regarding the FLAMMABILITY RISKS of Propane (usually a blend of largely Propane - C3H8, but also containing some Butane - C4H10) versus Natural Gas (largely Methane - CH4). Molecular Weights: Air (largely Nitrogen + about 20% Oxygen): 29 Pure Propane: 44 Pure Methane: 16 Since Propane (LPG) has a much HIGHER MOLECULAR WEIGHT than Air, its vapors are MORE DENSE and it will collect in low areas and can produce a...Lucas Daniel Smith: CORRECTION: In my comment above I think I made a small mistake. I believe that many gas stations in the Dominican Republic are selling Propane (not Natural Gas) at the pump. However, Natural Gas and Propane are almost the same thing (I think) and come from, basically (to keep it simple) the same source. (Hey, at very least, you can use both these gases to cook Turkey Tails! lol) In any event, a lot of cars and trucks are running on Propane in the Dominican Republic. I will post pictu...Lucas Daniel Smith: @ Bruce: Bruce, regarding natural gas. Something that you might be interested in knowing (if you don't already) is that a lot of the cars in the Dominican Republic operate on natural gas Propane. There are 'gas stations' which at the pumps they dispense natural gas Propane. You pull your car up, pop the trunk, and fill your tank with natural gas Propane. It also should be noted that this is nothing new in Dominican Republic. I first arrived in April, 2003 (more than 11 years ago) a...Bruce: @ Lucas Daniel Smith: ... I believe that there are much more important things to accomplish than worrying about gay marriage and abortion. I hear people all the time talking about gay marriage and abortion. You make a good point. Establishing the appropriate perspective on significant issues of any type is important. It's just that people are so different in their concerns and there are so many different perspectives to choose from. The issues of gay marriage and abortion ARE very impor...Lucas Daniel Smith: THE TURKEY'S TAIL I've also noticed (for a number of years now) that many Americans (from all social classes) tend to shoot down good ideas. Most of them cite stuff they've heard someone else tell them or some US Gov or State gov or local Gov regulation or reasoning why the good idea would never work or why it's to dangerous or why its not a wise financial move. You ever heard the anecdote about the woman cooking the turkey? She always cuts the turkey's tail off before she places the ...Lucas Daniel Smith: @ Bruce: It's just that I believe that there are much more important things to accomplish than worrying about gay marriage and abortion. I hear people all the time talking about gay marriage and abortion. I understand (to a certain degree) about the definition of marriage and no I don't really like imagining a fetus being aborted. However, in my opinion, there are much more significant things to accomplish and work on. It seems sometimes that Americans are stuck on the small (small in...Bruce: Dr Benjamin Carson on Gay Marriage ...Lucas Daniel Smith: @ Bruce: Thanks for posting this. I saw the story yesterday but I procrastinated and planned on making a comment today. I have so much to say about this case, and I've said a lot in the past about, and it just upsets me even more now to read that these two (of the four) have now received a decade each in prison. Some readers might not have a problem with it (you might even advocate it) but just wait until one day the federal government knocks on your door (or a daughter's door or a mot...Bruce: Two in Ricin Terrorism Plot Are Each Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison The New York Times Alan Blindernov 11/14/2014 Excerpt: GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Ending a case that involved questions about the line between rhetoric and criminal conduct, a judge on Friday sentenced two men to a decade each in prison for their roles in a plot that included using ricin in a series of attacks in major cities. The decision by Judge Richard W. Story, of the Federal District Court, came nearly 10 months a...Bruce: So -- The world-total-control-government crowd of 'elites' at the United Nations now wants to know what society benefits we, the masses, most desire to humbly receive. These benefits would come NOT FROM THE UN FOLKS PERSONALLY OF COURSE, because THEY for the most part don't actually produce ANYTHING. They would come at the POINT OF A GUN BY LAW from the producing citizens of the benefit receiver's own countries or preferably and more practically from the producing citizens from other more ...Bruce: First, let me state that I am basically in total agreement with the thoughts and conclusions expressed in the above cited post by 'The Humble Libertarian". My wife and I are long-standing, minor financial supporters of the 'Georgia Right to Life' organization. That being said, I MUST SHAMEFULLY ADMIT, because this world is currently in such a damned, tragic, moral mess, that I have lately and reluctantly become rather cynical regarding the issue of abortion. OF COURSE, no irresponsible, un...Bruce: The Abortion Debate: A Reasoned, Scientific Pro-Life Argument The Humble Libertarian 2/4/2012 Excerpt: The Abortion/Slavery Parallel In an 1860 speech to Congress, Stephen A. Douglas said: "We, in those measures, established a great principle, rebuking [this] doctrine of intervention by the Congress of the United States to prohibit slavery in the Territories." Douglas wanted slavery to remain legal. His argument was not that he liked or believed in slavery, but that he believed ...Lucas Daniel Smith: On the same website: Why does my vote matter? Their answer:...bob: Smith hasn't posted an article or comment in the last month. I hear Kenya is lovely this time of year....Bruce: Slipoff: Ineligible Senator Mary Landrieu: Election Not About Who The pResident Is Or Was Birther Report 11/4/2014 Excerpt: VIDEO ...: ( Video via Fox News ) View the complete Birther Report presentation at: http://www.birtherreport.com/2014/11/slipoff-ineligible-senator-mary.html...Bruce: Southern Shockwave: Mary Landrieu Blames Obama's Unpopularity on Racism Breitbart / Big-Government Wynton Hall 10/30/2014 Excerpt: In comments sure to cascade into regional races across the South, embattled Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) told NBC's Chuck Todd on Thursday that Southern racism is to blame for President Barack Obama's unpopularity. "Why does President Obama have a hard time in Louisiana?" asked Todd. "Let me be very, very honest with you," said Landrieu. "...AMERICAN ADVOCATE: @ Bruce: >>> BRUCE , THE MOST LIKELY SCENARIO AND CAUSE OF WORLD TRADE CENTER COLLAPSE IS DEMONSTRATED ON A RECENT POST . IT SHOWS DEEP DESTRUCTION OF THE GRANITE BELOW THE BUILDINGS AND MELTING OF THE GRANITE WHICH COULD ONLY BE POSSIBLE BY DETONATION OF A NUCLEAR DEVICE . GRANITE IS EXTREMELY HARD ROCK . AT ANY RATE , SOMEBODY VERY EVIL WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESTRUCTION , AND IT WAS NOT CAUSED BY AIRPLANES . WE ARE NOT BEING TOLD THE TUE STORY AND WE WILL NEVER KNOW . THE VILL...bob: Smith hasn't posted or commented in two weeks. Guess Kenya finally extradited him....Bruce: What Are Steel Moment Frames? Property Risk / ABS Consulting Most modern high-rise buildings and many mid- and low-rise buildings rely on steel moment frames to resist lateral loads arising from winds or earthquakes. Lateral loads on a building caused by wind are externally applied and easy to visualize. Conversely, lateral loads from earthquakes result from internal inertial loads that develop as the ground, and therefore the building's foundation, accelerates. This is similar to the forc...Bruce: A Look at the New One World Trade Center The state-of-the-art future home of AD has claimed a prime place in the New York City skyline Architectural Digest Text by Robert Sullivan September 2012 Excerpt: Despite a decade of planning, the recent appearance of the new World Trade Center tower in the skyline of New York has been startling for many reasons, not the least of which being that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the maker of bridges and tunnels and a few large ...Bruce: One World Trade Center, New York City Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats Written by Kenneth Lewis & Nicholas Holt, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Posted September 2011 Excerpt: .............................................. The world knows what happened in Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001. The twin towers of the World Trade Center and several other buildings were damaged or destroyed, and more than 3,000 people were killed. The ground smoldered for months. Rescue w...Bruce: New Theory on World Trade Center Collapse Blames Explosive Chemical Reaction Molten aluminum mixing with water could have ultimately brought the towers down Popular Science Clay Dillow 9/21/2011 Excerpt: More than ten years after the fact, a scientists based at the Norwegian research institute SINTEF is proposing that a well-documented chemical reaction spelled the ultimate demise of the Twin Towers after the attacks of September 11, 2001. This isn't another conspiracy theory, nor ...Bruce: Concrete on the Rise in City Building Projects New York Sun Joan Vollero, Special to the Sun 3/29/2007 Excerpt: Everyone who sees the new world headquarters of Barry Diller's IAC is likely to see something different. Architect Frank Gehry's first structure on Manhattan's West Side Highway could be said to resemble billowing sails or a pleated skirt, but the real sleight is concealed: It is concrete, not steel, that makes up the building's backbone. The American Mission to the Unite...Bruce: Constance wrote: I guess I have lost my $300.00. Thanks for posting your interesting but likely, as you now believe, SAD STORY regarding your experience in trading binary options. I'm sure you have learned a lot in your experience and it will likely result in a hard lesson. $300 is a LOT of money. You may be interested in reading the below referenced book regarding binary options trading. I think you may find the book interesting since you already have some experience yourself with ...Constance: I invested $300.00 in a UK Co. called Ivory Options They asked me for ID's and signed papers . Initially a broker contacted me 3 and 1/2 weeks ago. I have had no further contact. Yesterday (still believing!) I started to sign up with Royal Binary and a Pop-up came on and told me the system recognized my password and I did not go any further with this. On Monday I am expecting a call from them. Thank you for your Scam information. I guess I have lost my $300.00....Lucas' Avenger: I detest the smell of obots in the morning....Bruce: Mark McDaniel wrote: the first 5 minutes are extremely important I agree! However, I think the segment regarding George W. Bush is inherently a bit weak and PASSIVE, due to the subject matter. Even the video producer, David Hooper, introduces the segment with the phrase "The dog that didn't bark". That is, something DIDN'T happen in Florida on 9/11/2001 that MIGHT normally be expected to happen. Sure -- the Secret Service SHOULD HAVE whisked Mr. Bush away from the school much earli...Mark McDaniel: the first 5 minutes are extremely important...Bruce: The whole 9/11/2001 tragedy (move along folks, trust us the WTC attack was a total surprise, nothing to see here, Saudi Sunni Muslim involvement, LIES and COVERUP) involving Bush II reminds me a little of the 11/4/2008 tragedy (move along folks, trust us he was born in Hawaii, nothing to see here, Saudi Sunni Muslim involvement, LIES and COVERUP) involving Obama II! --- Perhaps the same general category of 'influential people' in our government and the MSM were involved with both tragedies. ...Bruce: Quote from the feature presentation: If this film doesn't convince you that 9/11 was an inside job then probably nothing will. IMO - The video, '9/11 - Anatomy of a Great Deception - Complete Version' is a slick but remarkably sloppy presentation on the topic by David Hooper. I REMAIN A SKEPTIC regarding the use of pre-planted 'controlled demolition' charges being used to bring down any of the three WTC buildings under discussion here, most especially the Twin Towers that were actua...AMERICAN ADVOCATE: @ bob: HEY BOOB , S.T.F.U. AND GO AWAY....AMERICAN ADVOCATE: @ Rambo_Ike: IKE , THIS BOOB DESERVES A HUGE RAMBO SMACK IN THE MOUTH ....Bruce: Wikipedia: The Terror Timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_Timeline ------------------------------------------------- The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11--and America's Response Paperback – September 7, 2004 - by Paul Thompson http://www.amazon.com/The-Terror-Timeline-Comprehensive-11/dp/0060783389...Bruce: Ron Paul Believes Bush Admin. Had Advance Knowledge of 9/11 Attacks The New American Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. 9/6/2014 Excerpt: What was on the 18- and-a-half minutes of tape erased by the Nixon White House? We'll likely never know. While theories and speculation about the content of that lost material still resonate, particularly in alcoves of the Internet, there is one contemporary puzzle that is beginning to attract the attention of lawmakers and citizens. From the day of i...Bruce: Pressing for the Truth on 9/11 The New American William F. Jasper 12/25/2006 Excerpt: 9/11 Press for Truth effectively presents some of the most glaring discrepancies, lies, and coverups concerning the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. Henry Kissinger "nearly fell off the couch." He spilled his coffee on himself. He was visibly shaken. The next day he announced that he was stepping down as chairman of the 9/11 Commission, the post to which President Bush had named hi...Inspector Smith: @ Bruce: Bruce, according to multiple witness, some sort of explosives went off in the subterranean levels of all three of the downed World Trade Centers. There are innumerable clever videos in which we can see underground levels still being navigated after the planes hit (and during the fire in building 7) but that doesn't indicate that explosives didn't go off down there. I don't think that any of the witness are implying that the subterranean explosives brought any of the three build...Rambo_Ike: @ Larry Bland: It's obvious from the comments BobJ left at Dr Con's propaganda site he feels he was grossly mistreated here at this site. I would suggest when he returns for a visit to give him a big warm fuzzy with a group hug....bob: AMERICAN ADVOCATE wrote: @ bob: THEN DO NOT READ THE TRUTH IN MY MESSAGES YOU LAMEBRAINED IDIOT . That would require you to say something truthful, which you haven't....AMERICAN ADVOCATE: @ bob: THEN DO NOT READ THE TRUTH IN MY MESSAGES YOU LAMEBRAINED IDIOT ....bob: AMERICAN ADVOCATE wrote: @ bob: BOB THE BOOB , IF YOU DO NOT LIKE TO READ MESSAGES IN ALL CAPITOLS So in addition to writing in ALL CAPITALS, you are writing in every capitol? Congratulations! ALL CAPITALS do not make your lies more believable, just less readable....Larry Bland: @ Rambo Ike: AMF to bobj and the twerp Andy Vrba. Hope they take all their sock puppets like Andy's "langolier" with them. They like to use Allinsky tactics but don't like when those same tactics are used on them. Thanks Ike for the info on the posting over at crunts place. Had to hold my breath while I went there to read it. Obot stench is well, you know!...Bruce: Quote from the featured article: "Orly indicates that if an ineligible Ted Cruz wins she wont like it but she may not (she's not sure yet) file any sort of litigation challenge. She states that she has already spent 6 years of her life challenging Obama's eligibility and that she has to consider her family and her time." I certainly don't fault Orly for expressing the above referenced sentiment. I hope it doesn't come to abandonment of our NBC requirement for POTUS, but it's obvio...Rambo Ike: Bringing attention to a sleazy post at Dr Con's propaganda site: (BobJ October 10, 2014 at 12:05 pm) with the typical lying & smearing of Birthers. BobJ is presently there dropping crocodile tears on that forum looking for sympathy. He must be a sensitive fella and feels he didn't get the "kid glove treatment" when he was here. He expected Birthers to rollover and take it when he was here at this blog calling everyone a racist and we all should "F' Off & Die". He claims Lucas outed...Lucas Daniel Smith: Orly comes on at about the 58 minutes mark in radio interview....AMERICAN ADVOCATE: @ bob: BOB THE BOOB , IF YOU DO NOT LIKE TO READ MESSAGES IN ALL CAPITOLS ~ STAY AWAY AND PAY NO ATTENTION . WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE A TRAITOR TO AMERICA AND PART OF THE PROBLEM . S . T . F . U ....AMERICAN ADVOCATE: @ bob: >>> and you are a damned stupid fool obot to make any effort to defend the monkey faced , flap earred bastard , communist mu-slime who has screwed up AMERICA and has done nothing good for " we the people " ....
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Curriculum and Resources: Trash-Out
What can you learn about a family by examining the things they've left behind?
Trash-Out is filmed through the perspective of a company cleaning out a foreclosed house. Through this film and its accompanying lesson, your students will learn about the steps in the foreclosure process and about foreclosure rates in your local area. The short documentary by filmmaker Maria Fortiz-Morse is part of PBS's program, "POV," a showcase for independent, non-fiction film.
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- Making Sense of the Foreclosure Mess
Why are mortgage holders suspending foreclosures? And what will happen to homeowners?
- Foreclosure Aftermath: What We Leave Behind
Our homes tell the story of where we come from and who we are. What happens when we lose them?
- No Foreclosures Here
With the housing crisis nationwide driving struggling families from their homes, Boston's creative Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative shows how communities can hold their ground.
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