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Drink up and savor the night in this trailer-trash approved Beer Belly Buddy adult mens costume. No light beer served here! Who needs a date when you got your beer belly buddy and a cold one on hand? The blue overalls feature an attached fake beer belly and come complete with a white hat.
Make Up Tips Don a full metal jacket this Halloween for a totally convincing costume. Oh no you didn't! Oh yes you did! Only you know what's real and what's not with this set of novelty teeth featuring a full set of faux metal braces. Get ready to lock lips!
Be glad you were not born this way - but get the look in under five minutes with the frightfully realistic Bucky Tooth Cap. Slip it on and go hillbilly real fast. Cute for your funny bunny costume or kooky clown costume too.
Let's face it, guys are lazy but they can be trusted to pull on a tee. Pull off a cool Halloween costume when you get this adult men's faux Real Hillbilly costume - it looks like the real deal and features photo realistic imagery printed on a comfortable tee.
Get out there and shoot beer cans on the fence post, call the hogs and don't take a bath in this Hillbilly beard. Create or complete the trashy costume of your choice with this fake beard and stay the heck away from your sister!
Break open another brewsky and throw that other squirrel on the grill, 'cuz it's trailer park time in this blonde Super Mullet Wig! This funny wig is sure to get you crowned king of the trailer park.
Celebrate America when you wear this Flag Patch Trucker Hat. Drink beer, love war, and just act like a complete red neck stereotype wearing this patriotic cap. God bless Amurrrica!
Make Up Tips Create an unmistakable zombie, vampire, hillbilly, convict, criminal or wicked witch character when you black out one or several teeth with this amazing Liquid Tooth Out makeup. Or put it on as a prank before you go to the dentist!
The possibilities are endless when you decide to use this Black Mullet Wig to complete your Halloween costume. Be a rock star, or maybe one of your favorite hill billy characters-- the choice is yours with hair like this!
Gather 'round y'all, we gone have ourselves a weddin' when you wear the Red Neck Groom Adult Men's Costume. This orange vest features an attached shirt and tie, complete with camouflage pants and a hat.
Hop on that wagon and get your hillbilly look in line with the rest of your crew when you wear this Redneck Brown Beard to complete your costume. Brown synthetic facial hair features an adhesive back for an easy application!
Create or complete your cowpoke, hillbilly, hick or good old boy costume with this classic straw Cowboy hat.
Hit the court for a game of hoops when you wear the Low Impact Wig. This hilarious wig features a bald cap with flowing, wavy locks in the back, complete with a red headband and matching wristbands.
Get loose on Halloween drinking some moonshine and whiskey when you wear this Hillbilly Straw Hat! All you need for a costume are a few hand-me-downs.
The more loose the better if you're going as a southern hick this Halloween. Hillbilly Black Felt Hat goes great with some hand-me-down plaid shirts.
Turn your little pumpkin into a country bumpkin when you dress them in this Hillbilly Baby Romper. The one-piece costume is made to look like overalls over a plaid shirt along with a red neck scarf.
This 14 Inch Beard makes the perfect addition to many classic Halloween costumes. Become a biker or pirate. Turn on and tune in as a hippie. Or create a funny costume and be a hillbilly. Use this over and over again with many great costume ideas!
You can be bad to the bone or just a little rebellious when you add the Bandana Headband to your costume. Features black bandana put into a bow.
Don't say a word - you'll have to do all your talking through actions when you wear the Mime Girl's Costume. This cute suspender dress features a mime face embellishment and comes complete with a red neck scarf, white gloves and a beret.
Hey, is that one of them there hillbilly jack 'o lanterns? Turn your pumpkin into a Billy Bob pumpkin when you embellish it with some white buck teeth. This set of eighteen plastic teeth in three sizes is enough to outfit and entire trailer park.
Reveal in your deadliness in the Senor Death Adult Men's Costume. Make your mark on Halloween in this black long-sleeved shirt with skeleton and rose print, red neck tie, and saucy black hat with red pom details.
Give those groovy babes and seafarin' wenches something to grab onto with this hilarious chest wig! Thick, brown, and oh so touchable, this funny wig shows off you manliness whether you're a funky disco dude or a fearsome pirate.
It's all business in the front and party in the back when you wear the 80s Mullet Wig. This luscious blonde wig features an extraordinary mullet design perfect for any retro costume.
Complete your hill billy or outdoorsman costume when you decide to add this Redneck Beard Grey to your outfit. Grey beard fits comfortably on face and makes for one great accessory!


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If I open the file folder labeled Applications, in Finder, Places, user (the home icon), it is empty. If I click on the Applications icon in Finder, Places, it lists all of the applications. What is the purpose of this empty Applications folder? Is it just a convenient place to put frequently used applications, and the default is that it is left empty?
I guess I'm not 100% sure of the purpose of finder sidebar Places. Is it simply a place to put links to frequently used items?
thanks, Kevin
The difference is this:
/Applications - Where applications installed for all users are located
/Users/<username>/Applications - Where applications installed for ONLY that user are installed.
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So, is the Kaoko setup the defacto cruise control option? Anyone have something else they prefer?
I have the Kaoko, moved it over with the ProTaper bars off the KTM.
However I've read of another interesting solution that is dirt cheap, effective and you can toss without any concern.
Find an O-ring that will fit snugly between the inside portion of the grip and the housing. Put a piece of tape on it as a tab for inserting and removing it. It should be thick enough to hold the throttle, yet still allow the rider to easily turn it.
I've been using a friction throttle lock on every bike since 1986, when my K75C had a screw type available as a factory part. I ride all the time with a throttle that stays put and have become so used to it that it surprises me when the Kaoko backs off and my throttle closes when released.
This has been an issue on the occasional time when I switch bikes with a friend and forget to release it.
Give the O-ring a try and see if you like that style of riding. Just be careful to make it only just enough friction to get the job done. The throttle should still be easy to turn.
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Vegetable Mold
19 May 2009
|Lemon jello
|6 Ounce
|Hot water
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Cold water
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Lemon juice
|2 Tablespoon
|To Taste
|Sliced carrots
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Frozen green peas
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Hard-cooked eggs
|3 , sliced
|Shredded red cabbage
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Shredded turnips
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Green onion
|1 , thinly sliced
Dissolve the lemon Jello in hot water.
Stir in the cold water, lemon juice, and salt.
Set aside.
Cook the carrots and peas according to package directions, drain and cool.
Set aside.
To assemble, pour about half cup of the Jello into a six-cup capacity mold.
Place in the refrigerator to set.
Arrange the egg slices in the center of the mold, circle with rows of carrots and peas.
Gently pour in half of the remaining Jello.
Place in refrigerator to set.
Combine the cabbage, turnips and green onions with the remaining Jello.
Pour into the mold, cover with plastic wrap, and chill four hours or overnight.
When ready to serve, run a knife blade around the edges of the mold, place a serving platter over it and invert.
Garnish with salad greens.
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The wrong side of the tails are shaded
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The wrong side of the tails are shaded
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awwwwwww just suck it
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Didn't you already post this?
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Oh I see the thumb is different
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this have the finger in the right place.
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Yeah weird shadowing, but a great image Raxki. Nice to se you trying new things out.
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nicely drawn
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Damn, it doesn't help the song my sister is playing at the moment.
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Not my condom! It must be hers!
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I love this Skitteh~ <33 She looks adorable~! and lol at the chat bubble.
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Why am I reminded of Tess?
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Soo cutely drawn! I love her expression ^^
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lol, this is perfect! well, in the funny sector. keep on spinning that hoop!
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Awesome i♥it ^W^
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Hi, I'm Lucy.
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Now, this is an emo Lucy.
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Now she just needs to dye her whole fur black.
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Wasn't there a fanfic like this, only Lucy was in prison?
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Go cry emo kid....
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emo Lucy!!!
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After forgetting to save the picture the first time around. (My idiot self forgot to save it as I was exiting out the program after finishing it. and I was practically taken back to the beginning of coloring when redoing it again) I decided to finish it a few days later since she looks cute here. <3 I tried to sit her in the front of her school campus, which I have no idea what it looks like. xD
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Well it's about a 2-3 story building (I forget cause I haven't seen the page in a while) and fairly rectagular. :3
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Rachel, your drawings are always so cute and well drawn. I love your style.
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Cute! <3
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Tiny feet!
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Kawai! she looks like a kind girl, not a tomboy at all! though the bench is too tiny for her.
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And david is the blackest of them all!
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Lmao Migrant is it a competition?
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man justin would be the whitest black guy in the world i can't imagine him like that oh my god
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Oh no. Molly is losing her innocence.
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Looks almost like she's wearing extra long rubber/latex gloves...
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That's racist! ... I love you!
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I just read this and thought "What?"
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My thoughts, exactly! X) I love this. C:
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First upload to candybooru.:D
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Paulo face look like a squirrel so cute <3
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thanks for not resizing it
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Have you seen my discus? It could have gone that way...or...that way! And if you see it, please return it to its owner!
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Katie's over there, guys...
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No but she would pull manizer stunts.
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Ok look here you people! It's not Paulo!
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this is probably what could have been, but didn't end up being ;-;
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Nobody reads the damn tags.
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best gender changed pic ever
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^ Not a gender change pic
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its AmayaxPaulo`s CHILD!
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I'm with the above. The tag says Paulo x Lucy but the kid looks like Paulo x Amaya.
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Wow! This is a really good GB Paulo!
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Hellsing and BCB that's an interesting combination. We got Tess as Integra, Jaz as Ceras, Abbey as Anderson, and Paul as the man..I mean Alucard. Only question I have is what is Jazz holding? I hope it's her rifle but then it looks like it has a hose attachment.
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@ Anonymous #1: Yeah, that's her gun; the attachment is the scope. I went all-out with this one and brought in the Hellsing manga for reference. I don't know why the scope is at such an angle, but it is.
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AHAHAHA! Hellsing FTW!
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I accept Paulo as Alucard
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^^ Ah, wait, nvm, I see now its that one priest dude.
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Never heard of it.
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So who will be Walter, Major and The Captain?
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@ Hoheh, SpaceMouse, and Anonymous #2: THANKS!!
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I was aiming for something cute
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You managed creepy.
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What is this I dont even
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Ya know...I'm not really sure
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Its better than it would be if I did it
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It's toddler-Lucy playing with demon figurines.. I don't see anything wrong there, 'sadorable!
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Well I tried n.n'
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Ando3@I choose becoming anthro.
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those are my trunk .
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I'm happy be they Raxki's trunks or Paulo's trunks.
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i♥theface that cat make in the pool soo priceless and the other r just looooooooooooooooooooooooooooool *thumb up* make more plzzzz
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Bloody hell mate! ... your fanboy draws make me go "Awwwwww"
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Sometimes, you work really scares me. o_o"
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Haha at Rax's face in the pool.
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am i the only 1 who wish they had a paulo and all the bcb cat pushie out in stores?
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notice my typing sorta sucks donkeys balls but all will


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Paint Strippers - What to Use?
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I haven't read all the replies from the others just yet so if this is already covered pardon the redundancey. Any high concentrated degreaser such as Castrol Super Clean will work and that's found at major auto parts stores. Right now in the bucket I'm using a product called Manny Rose equivallant to CSC obtained thru industrial suppliers. That stuff is very potent and effective!!!
Good Luck!
Posted 05 April 2008 - 06:01 PM
I've used DOT-3 with great success. At wally world you can get their super-tech brand pretty cheap and it works very well. It doesn't give off too strong of a smell but I would still recommend using in a ventilated area. Also if you go the brake fluid route, wear plastic gloves, or else it will dry your skin out something fierce.
i use brake fluid with good success also
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It smells (and feels) like brake fluid-------but brake fluid may be harsh on styrene (and deadly to resin!) so it's got to be something else. I used it when I had to repaint the Ford I'm working on.........only drawback though, is if you've got any putty work, kiss it goodbye as it'll break that right up!
Brush it on, let it sit for a couple hours, and the paint'll start to lift with ease!
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put it into a rubbermade food holder that is bigenough to hole the project
let it sit for about 1 hour-24 hours
and bam it will peel off or you can use a tooth brush to take it off
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A note on the Super Clean/ Purple Power prodcucts. It is lye based, avoid contact with skin and eye protection a must. Works great on enamels. For lacquers, sand through to the primer in a few spots, to let the chemical attack the primer. The lacquer will just slough off after the primer is disolved. Unless the purple stuff is BRAND new, it seems to have trouble with lacquer paints.
true that i got ulsers on my hands because i toutched that stuff when it was new
ulsers on the hands dont feel to good trust me
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I had some Gumout brake fluid on hand (didn't want to spend money if I didn't have to), worked GREAT. As far as the address, not moving til this friday, thanks for asking.
James, Ive never had a problem on metals. You have to watch some of the Revell plastics from the past couple of years as Brake fluid will make the plastic VERY brittle. In fact Jimmy Flintstones Resin is a Watch out item too. I mad e the mistake of painting under BAD conditions and one of his bodies was in the way. Oh I repaired the damage of course, in fact its not even noticeable now. Uh , as for the Brake fluid, use the really cheap fluid . Ive found the NAME BRAND stuff isn't as effective . Hey hows the new address working? Ed Shaver
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like Gregg typed ,store brand paint strippers work the best. I used the spay on aircraft stripper from wally, worked almost instantly, did learn not to scub it off while not wearing a shirt. DUHH!. on my part , but it was hot that day. I also have one of the palstic totes , next size up from a shoe box to keep the body in while spaying on the stripper, helps keep the mess to a minimum.
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I've got most of the bad spots sanded down, but it needs lot's more work. I'd much rather strip off the paint and start from bare white plastic.
What's the best stuff to use that will strip the paint off clean, but wont' harm the plastic at all? I'm very close to purchasing another kit just for a fresh body.


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A small delegation from the northwest Alaska community of Shishmaref is appealing to lawmakers in Washington for help combating climate change.
Tony Weyiouanna, president of the Shishmaref Native Corporation, is part of a five-person delegation from the rural Alaska village visiting the nation's capitol this week. Wayiouanna said Wednesday that the group is meeting with Alaska's congressional delegation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and a bicameral task force on climate change.
"We're mainly describing what kind of things we're seeing with the effects of climate change, the effects on our community," he said.
Weyiouanna said the group's trip was funded by the group Act on Climate Change, an organization that aims to bring political attention to the issue of climate change.
According to Wayiouanna, the group is looking for money and technical assistance for building a seawall around the village and, ultimately, relocating the village entirely.
"A lot of our focus is to request assistance to get legislation passed to assist communities that are having trouble fighting climate change, towns dealing with erosion or flooding, that kind of thing," he said.
Shishmaref, a community of fewer than 600 people, is located on a barrier island off the Seward Peninsula, bordered by the Bering Sea to the west and a lagoon on the east.
Weyiouanna was part of the Shishmaref Erosion and Relocation Coalition, a previous effort to raise funds and awareness for the village's relocation. The total cost of such a project could be close to $200 million.
Protecting the community from erosion, Wayiouanna said, builds upon a past Army Corp of Engineers study that Weyiouanna said affirmed the need to build a new seawall around the island village to combat erosion.
November storms battered Norton Sound and Bering Sea communities. In Shishmaref, the lone road along the spine of the community—the "Dump Road," as it's called by locals—suffered significant erosion. That road runs along the community's airstrip, and Weyiouanna said the runway could be next.
"No state or federal agency that provides that assistance, and we need to work with congressional delegation to see who can carry that torch, be that champion," he said. So far, the delegation has shared its concerns with a variety of groups but Weyiouanna admitted that there were "no commitments yet."
The group is continuing to meet with politicians and other organizations through the end of the week.


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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
© Copyright 2015 Clayton News Daily
By Valerie Baldowski
Two-year-old Mason Law sat next to her mother, paying close attention to the story being read from the front of the room.
She was among more than 30 children who attended Wednesday's "Toddler Tales" children's story time, at the McDonough public library branch.
The story time was geared toward children between 19 and 35 months old, and featured reading, music, singing, and dancing. Law stayed close to her mother during the activities, but joined in with the singing and dancing.
Alex Law, Mason's mother, said she and her daughter regularly attend the story times at the McDonough library.
"Take it from someone who has a learning disability," said Alex Law, "I think it's very important for her to learn how to have an idea of words, and how the letters go together."
Alex Law said she has dyslexia, and that she is not sure if her daughter will develop it.
"If she doesn't have it, that's wonderful," Alex Law said. "If she does, at least she has the beginning of the understanding of it, so she won't be overwhelmed with it later on."
The regular interaction with other children at the story time events also helps her daughter develop social skills, she added.
The activities were led by Debbie Zerkle, the library's children's services specialist.
Zerkle began by leading the group of children and adults in singing "Happy Birthday" in honor of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose birthday was Jan. 27. The group also danced to some of Mozart's music, and listened while Zerkle read "Zin Zin Zin Goes the Violin," "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," and "The Sleepy House."
Zerkle said reading is a primary activity in her family. "My daughters read to my grandchildren ever since they were little," she said.
Reading is critical in a young child's development, Zerkle added.
"It's really important," she said. "That first two years, their little brains are like sponges. The more they're read to, the more their brain is going to develop."
Children not exposed to books and reading early on, Zerkle said, will not advance as well after age 4 or 5.
Christy Maddox of McDonough, and her 3-year-old daughter, Lily, were also at the story time.
"We come weekly," said Maddox. "It's fun for my daughter, and it's educational. She loves to check out the books after story time."
The McDonough story times are part of an organized reading program throughout the Henry County library system.
Kathy White, children's specialist for the Stockbridge library branch, said being read to at a young age led to her love of reading later in life.
"My mother read to me," White said. "That's some of my earliest and fondest memories of my mother, picking me up and reading to me and my siblings. It put in me a love of reading."
Reading also sparks children's' imaginations, she said.
"It's important to read to the kids, to hopefully make them want to read the stories," she said. "If I do a book talk, I leave them hanging. I don't tell them what happens in the book. I tell them, 'If you want to know what happens, you'll have to check this book out and read it.'"
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This is the second survey in the Health Tracking Household Survey (HTHS) series, the successor to the Community Tracking Study (CTS) Household Surveys. The CTS Household Surveys were conducted in 1996-1997 (ICPSR 2524), 1998-1999 (ICPSR 3199), 2000-2001 (ICPSR 3764), and 2003 (ICPSR 4216), and the first HTHS survey was conducted in 2007 (ICPSR 26001). Although the HTHS questionnaires are similar to the CTS Household Survey questionnaires, the HTHS sampling design does not have the community focus intrinsic to CTS. Whereas the CTS design focused on 60 nationally representative communities with sample sizes large enough to draw conclusions about health system change in 12 communities, the HTHS design is a national sample not aimed at measuring change within communities. Hence, "Community" was dropped from the study title. Like the previous surveys, this survey collected information on health insurance coverage, use of health services, health expenses, satisfaction with health care and physician choice, unmet health care needs, usual source of care and patient trust, health status, and adult chronic conditions. In addition, the survey inquired about perceptions of care delivery and quality, problems with paying medical bills, use of in-store retail and onsite workplace health clinics, patient engagement with health care, sources of health information, and shopping for health care.
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How many of you have heard of Ralph Waldo Emerson? (Take a show of hands) I'm not surprised. Of all the luminaries in our Unitarian Universalist history -- and there are quite a few -- he shines the brightest. Most of us heard of or read Emerson before becoming a Unitarian Universalist. I remember reading his essays, like Nature and Self-Reliance, and his famous commencement address to the Harvard Divinity School in high school and college English classes. Emerson was a prophet of individualism, a be-yourself-don't-worry-about-what-anyone-else-says kind of guy. That message resonates strongly with adolescents and young adults who are precisely at the point in life when they are struggling to establish their own identity.
Emerson came from an impeccable Unitarian pedigree. His father had been the minister of Boston's First Church and had persuaded the congregation to make the transition from being Trinitarian to Unitarian. The young Emerson attended the citadels of Unitarian education, Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School, and he served as an assistant minister to Dr. Henry Ware, Jr., at the Second Church of Boston and then succeeded him when Ware left to become a professor at Harvard. Emerson found parish ministry irksome, and he particularly objected to the Lord's Supper as an obsolete formality. "Most men find the bread and wine no aid to devotion," he observed, "and to some it is a painful impediment." Emerson resigned his pastoral position and embarked on a career as a public lecturer and essayist, which is how most of us have come to know him. In the words of biographer Frank Schulman, Emerson "exchanged his pulpit for the rostrum … and accepted a call to a much larger audience, the country."
He devoted the rest of us life to writing and speaking on behalf of his philosophy of Transcendentalism. We sampled a taste of Emerson's philosophy in our responsive reading a little earlier. In his first book, Nature, he asserted that the division between the human and the divine is artificial. "Standing on the bare ground -- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space -- all mean egotism vanishes," he writes in Nature. "I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." In Self-Reliance, he pushed individualism further: "Trust thyself: every heart beats to that iron string. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think."
In 1838, Emerson made his break with the Unitarian establishment when he delivered the commencement address at Harvard Divinity School. It was my pleasure to visit that very chapel when I was in Boston a few months ago for my examination interview with the Ministerial Fellowship Committee (MFC) in my quest to join the Unitarian establishment. Emerson told the faculty and the new clerical graduates that Unitarianism had become the "corpse-cold" custodian of a second-hand religion because it was relying on scripture and superstitious belief in miracles to have access to God. This was unnecessary, he told his stunned audience, because individuals may experience God directly, particularly as we commune with nature. This future Unitarian icon was not invited back to Harvard for another 30 years.
One of those divinity school students who heard Emerson's famous address was Henry Whitney Bellows. How many of you have heard of him? (Take a show of hands) I'm not surprised. I was hoping we could have a reading of Bellows words, but our hymnal doesn't have any, despite the fact that it can be argued that Bellows, more than Emerson or perhaps anyone else, may be most responsible for there being a Unitarian denomination. If Emerson was a visionary prophet, Bellows was an organizational man, or as Connie Myers might observe, Emerson was a Lenin and Bellows was a Trotsky.
The minister of All Souls Unitarian Church in New York, Bellows came to fame nationally as the president of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, the forerunner to the American Red Cross. The Sanitary Commission organized the collection of donated medicines, bandages, food, blankets, and other much needed supplies for the ill-supported soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War and is credited as a major factor in the success of the Union cause. While crisscrossing the country on behalf of the Commission, Bellows stopped often at Unitarian churches, and he saw that the emergence of Transcendentalism and scientific rationalism had sparked controversy and division among Unitarians and that they desperately needed a national organization to unify them. In his 1859 address to the Harvard Divinity School, he observed that there was "an undeniable apathy in the denominational life of the body." I think that's a 19th century way of saying that it's hard to herd cats.
So Bellows invited 600 Unitarian ministers and lay leaders from around the country to All Souls to form the National Conference of Unitarian Churches. There was already in existence the American Unitarian Association, but its membership was composed of individuals. The National Conference was composed of congregations and is therefore the forerunner of our present UUA. As you know, now that I have passed my MFC interview and have been granted preliminary fellowship as a UU minister, I am an expert on UU history, and in my study of UU history, I have learned that the Universalists began their decline as a denomination right at the time that Bellows formed the National Conference of Unitarian Churches -- a decline that continued until the Universalists nearly disappeared before they were absorbed in the merger with the Unitarians in 1961. The Unitarians, on the other hand, survived and thrived during this period because, among other reasons, they had an organizational structure … thanks to Henry Whitney Bellows.
At the General Assembly of UU congregations in Charlotte last summer, the current minister of All Souls in New York, Rev. Dr. Galen Guengerich (absolutely no relation to that other Gingrich), observed that Unitarian Universalism has not grown since the '61 merger between Unitarians and Universalists. We had just over 200,000 UUs then, and we have just over 200,000 now. During the last 50 years, we UUs have prided ourselves that we have held our own in membership numbers, while mainline Protestants have declined. But the downside is while our numbers have remained steady, the U.S. population has increased 50% over the last 50 years, which means that our proportion of the population has actually decreased. In addition, over the last couple of years, our absolute numbers have decreased, as well.
Guengerich also cited what should be encouraging numbers for UUs. The fastest growing religious group in America right now are those claiming "no religion" -- 15% of Americans, which outranks every major religious group except Catholics and Baptists. This should bode well for UUs because unlike nearly every other religion, we welcome humanists, atheists, agnostics, and skeptics in addition to theists. Also, half of all Americans migrate from the faith of their childhood to some other faith, and 90% of UUs are comprised of religious "immigrants." Yet we are not growing. Why?
Guengerich says we have chosen to be heirs of Ralph Waldo Emerson instead of Henry Whitney Bellows. In other words, we have continued to emphasize individual spirituality over organized religion. If spirituality is an individual's understanding and expression of truth and meaning, religion is our common understanding and expression of truth and meaning. Organized religion provides the forms and structures for spirituality to develop, spread, and be passed on to future generations. Emerson rebelled against and left organized religion because he experienced the institution as stifling his personal spirituality. Bellows supported and built up organized religion because he recognized that personal spirituality could not survive without institutions. I think Guengerich is right. We UUs are children of Emerson, not Bellows.
Guengerich noted that conservative political and religious organizations get it. They are immensely successful at propagating their faith because they are not bashful at all about pouring money, time, and resources into TV and radio programs, the internet, think tanks, schools, and other institutions to reshape society in their image. UUs, on the other hand, have authority issues. We viscerally distrust personal and institutional authority and try to rely solely on individual and congregational initiatives. I think there are some psychological reasons behind our "cat mentality." Most of us -- remember, 90% of us -- are refugees from other faith traditions, and most of us have been wounded by these faith traditions, so we don't readily trust religious institutions. Plus, a liberal by definition is someone who doesn't trust authority. We prefer to trust our own perspectives and judgments over that of others. So when religious liberals come together to try to form community, it really is like trying to herd cats. We can be a finicky bunch. We prefer to have our own individual litter boxes and to use them when we want to, where we want to, and how we want to, and you can't make us do otherwise.
By the way, this is not only a denominational issue; it's a congregational issue. For all practical purposes, ours is the only truly liberal congregation in this town. We should be much, much larger than we are. Why aren't we? We have the principles of reason, openness, and acceptance that so many in our community already subscribe to in their personal lives. We have a warm and inviting congregation that eagerly welcomes newcomers. I suspect that what we have lacked is organization. I do take encouragement, however, from the fact that in the last few years, we as a congregation have been paying much more attention to our infrastructure, to our policies and procedures, rules and regulations, our committees, Board of Trustees, and staff, our religious education program and social action initiatives, our newsletter, website, and Facebook page, and our facilities -- all those organizational structures that are not sexy or exotic and quite often are tedious and boring but are absolutely necessary to sustain the presence of Unitarian Universalism in our community and in the lives of future UUs. In other words, I believe that our congregation is following Bellows more than Emerson.
But all this begs this question: Why should you want to give your time and resources to support and build this community. Hardly any of us are truly altruistic. Almost everyone is willing to give if he or she knows that they will get something in return. There are lots of returns from belonging to a religious community, but let me briefly mention only three.
First of all, I believe that all of us, all human beings, suffer from some degree of shame. Shame is different from guilt. Guilt is that feeling of self-reproach when you do something wrong; shame is that feeling that something is wrong with you. We feel guilty for something, but we feel ashamed of ourselves. All of us feel ashamed about something because none of us escaped childhood without our souls being wounded in some way. Our souls were wounded because our parents were not able to accept us fully as we were. There was some part of us that they found unacceptable. Perhaps they wanted you to be prettier or smarter than you were, or perhaps they wanted you to be more compliant or more charming. Whatever they may have found unacceptable about us, they were doing the best they could because they, too, had been shamed when they were children, so they were incapable of giving us unconditional love. So we grew up feeling flawed or defective in some basic way. Many women feel shame about their bodies or appearance. Many men feel shame about being weak or needy.
As I suggested earlier, many UUs feel a kind of religious shame. We left those religious communities of our childhood because we no longer believed what they taught and what we used to believe. Many of us were led to feel that our inability to believe what we were taught was due to a flaw in our nature, that something was wrong with us. "Why can't you just believe like everyone else?" That lingering feeling that something is wrong with you is shame.
Shame is a failure of self-acceptance. We cannot accept some aspect of ourselves we judge to be inferior or inadequate or defective. We cannot accept our whole selves because early in life when we were dependent on others for our self-worth, they could not accept our whole selves. Since relationships originally set up our shame, it take relationships to heal our shame. Not just any kind of relationship because some relationships continue to shame us, but relationships with people who can accept us as we are, with all our warts, freckles, and blemishes, and affirm our basic goodness. You and I need each other to be healed from our shame because if you can accept me as I am, then maybe I will be able to accept myself.
Secondly, I believe that all of us, all human beings, are born with the capacity for empathy. It's not just a belief; there's a growing body of scientific evidence that we instinctively feel what another human being is feeling. Babies as young as 12-months-old demonstrate evidence of feeling empathy. It makes evolutionary sense that we would be hard-wired for empathy because feeling empathy for others would lead to helping others, which would promote the survival of the species.
But as with every other innate capacity, it can only develop if the proper conditions are present for its development. That's why you and I need each other. We need community to give and receive understanding, support, and compassion because without the developed capacity for empathy, we cease to be human. Some may hold that our reason or our science or our technology is what makes us distinctly human. But I think our capacity for empathy is what makes us most human because it allows us to recognize the humanity of others and to connect with the humanity of others. Without this capacity, we are subhuman. Without this capacity, we see people as if they were means to our ends, and we treat them as if they were mere objects.
Thirdly, I believe that all of us, all human beings, are meaning-makers. We have to make sense of our world, give explanations of why things happen, have goals to strive toward, have values to live by, have a reason to be. When we hear a bump in the night, we cannot go back to sleep until we can explain to ourselves what it was. We cannot accept randomness. When the unpredictable happens, when things don't fit our familiar frameworks, we feel tense, annoyed, maybe even depressed. But life is good, life is fulfilling, life is … well, meaningful when we find meaning outside ourselves. It was Benjamin Franklin who observed that "people who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages." During the last couple of years, as the excesses of Wall Street have been exposed to public light, we have beheld men who have accumulated lots of stuff but whose lives are small packages because the meaning of their lives has not grown beyond their own egos.
I think it is telling that when a lawyer asked Jesus what he must do to have eternal life, Jesus told him the story of the Good Samaritan, a story about someone who went the extra mile to help someone else. Evangelicals define eternal life as what happens when life ends. But according to the Biblical use of that phrase, eternal life has more to do with what happens when life begins. To have eternal life means to be fully engaged in life, to be fully alive. I don't know about you, but I have felt most fully alive when I have gotten beyond myself and invested myself in the lives of others. You and I need each other in order to have a meaningful life.These are some personal returns from belonging to and supporting a religious community. Now let me give you a transpersonal reason. Unless you are extraordinarily talented, unless you can make a name for yourself that will outlive you, unless you are an Emerson, your name will die when everyone who knows you dies. You and I are destined to be forgotten names on tombstones in a forgotten cemetery. But the values we cherish and the principles we live by will be immortal if they are kept alive by an institution that outlives us. I belong to and support this congregation because I receive from it so much more than I give to it that makes my life more livable. But I also belong to it and support it because I want the Unitarian Universalist values that have guided and enriched my life to guide and enrich the lives of our children and future generations who will follow us. I may not live forever, but this congregation can and will if we sustain it in our lifetime … if we follow Bellows instead of Emerson.
Rev. Dr. Neal Jones
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Hi all! it has been awhile since I've checked in here -- but I've been enjoying reading about how everyone has been doing. Our june bug, Geraldine Sadie, was born at just after four in the morning on last Thursday, June 9th, just as the sun was rising.
I started having mild contractions around 7:30 in the evening or so on Wednesday, and we headed to the birth center around 10:30p or so. I am so so satisfied with our experience in this birth center (a midwife-led unit within the largest hospital in our small german city). I had the no drug, no needles, very minimal intervention (just a bit of monitoring when we first got there) birth I wanted for my daughter (but with the option to go full-steam with every intervention possible in seconds had we needed it!) ... and I was blessed at the end with this soo alert, healthy little creature, who was nursing in the first ten minutes! I don't even remember her crying at all, although I'm told she did give a cry in that moment before she was laid on my belly. The midwives were amazing, totally respected our wishes, and my husband was just incredible. After I delivered the placenta the midwife gave us a tour of its coolness while we waited for the cord to stop pulsing. This is our first, so it was all new to us! Then she helped my husband to cut the cord and they left us alone like that for an hour or so. It was pretty incredible. When they weighed her later, she clocked in at 8 lbs, 12 oz (~4kg). Okay, I'm rambling now.
The only snag was that the ward (which is different location within the hospital than the birth center/labor & delivery) was so totally full of women due to various reasons, that my husband would have had to go home (!) for the afternoon & night .... not the way we imagined the first night for our new family. So I talked with midwives about me going home that day, and everyone thought it was a good idea. Many checkups and pep-talks later, we were on the bus for the short ride home. The bus was maybe not our best idea ever (the 10 min ride felt a LOT longer than normal), but we don't have a car and a taxi wasn't an option since we don't have baby's car-seat either. It was kinda crazy, but it was also great to be in my own bed that afternoon. And in the german system, a midwife comes to visit you daily for the first six weeks, which has been a great help & good for our peace of mind ... especially since we are very far from our families. The care here is pretty incredible. I feel soo lucky.
Thanks for reading my rambling story! wishing all of you all the best!
She's beautiful! Congrats mama - sounds like a wonderful experience!
Crystal (34) married to LPN DH (38) , mama to (7/07), (1/09), and (7/11) and (12/28)
Congratulations! She's beautiful!
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Amazing! So glad you had a positive experience. She's gorgeous. Love the name.
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Oh mama, she's beautiful and that's a wonderful story!
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Huge Congratulations to you all!! What a beautiful Baby Girl! x
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aww congratulations she's a doll!
I can't believe you took the bus home! That's wild! Congratulations on a beautiful birth and beautiful baby :) :) :)
Congrats! She is totally sweet. I can't believe you took the bus either! I can see why you did though. :) Enjoy your babymoon!
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Thank you for sharing your story!
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Congratulations! She looks absolutely wonderful!!
What a story! You'll have to tell her of her first bus ride! Congratulations! She's a cutie!
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Darryl Strawberry thinks Wally Backman will be the next manager of the Mets
Jan 25, 2011, 7:42 PM EDT
Here we go again.
According to Andrew Marchand of ESPN New York, Darryl Strawberry believes Wally Backman will be the next manager of the Mets.
"Wally will be the next manager of the Mets, in my opinion. I don't have much say, but I thought he would've been the right choice for them. Not taking anything away from Terry [Collins]. He's a great man and I think he'll probably do a great job turning these guys around. But I think Wally's in the future, as far as the manager, and I think he'll be a super manager."
The Mets announced this week that Backman will move up to manage Double-A Binghamton in 2011, so if he stays in the organization long enough, he figures to have a much better case the next time there's a vacancy, at least with me. Granted, as a die-hard Mets fan, I hope Terry Collins leads the team to five consecutive division titles or something, but I'm not irrational enough to believe that will actually happen. By hiring Collins and keeping Backman around, the Mets have essentially kicked the can down the road on this one.
- 3greenowls - Jan 25, 2011 at 8:53 PM
Can someone explain to me the unabashed love for Backman? I don't quite get it.
- D.J. Short - Jan 25, 2011 at 11:09 PM
For a certain segment of Mets fans, it's two-fold. One, he was on the '86 team. Two, he has "fire," something Jerry Manuel lacked. I was opposed to hiring him, mostly because he didn't have higher-level managerial experience or even any coaching experience in the big leagues. If he can prove himself in the minor leagues by managing at Double-A and/or Triple-A, I'd be willing to give him more consideration in a couple years.
- phillysoulfan - Jan 26, 2011 at 11:13 AM
Wally Backman is to Mets fans what Larry Bowa was to Phillies fans.
- Old Gator - Jan 25, 2011 at 11:30 PM
I'm a Backman backer, but there's no point getting into that again since the Mets saw fit to go gray, gray flannel with the uninspired and uninspiring retread Terry Collins instead. I may be a Feesher of men now, but My '86 Mets creds are well known around here. But what of that.
Thing is, it's very funny that Darryl Strawberry, of all people, should be extolling the virtues of Wally Backman, because during their last season together on the Mutts they didn't exactly like each other very much. Backman made some offseason comments about Strawberry's lack of focus, or some such thing, and I remember the Straw being quoted as saying "wait till I get my hands around that (grawlix) little redneck's throat!" – or words very much to that effect. As Lisa, the former Mrs., would tell you, when Darryl says thing like that, they are to be taken seriously.
But it sounds like Straw found religion or something. I hope it was Buddha – the other guy sells too hard.
- BC - Jan 26, 2011 at 9:38 AM
I don't want Backman ANYWHERE near my Mets. Nowhere. Unless he's schlepping hot dogs outside Citi Field, do NOT let him near the team. He has nothing close to the experience needed to manage in New York, and he's generally a total scumbag. How did Butch Hobson and Bucky Dent work out managing in similar situations? Um…. not so much.
They ever hire Backman, and I'm putting my fan allegiance on eBay for bid.
As far as Darryl… dude, you stopped being relevant over a decade ago. Find something else to do.
- metalhead65 - Jan 26, 2011 at 12:14 PM
why is strawberry mentioned? 27 drug busts or whatever make your opinion moot. only the most delusional people care what you have to say just go away!and can you guys stop reporting about him?most fans think of drugs and nothing else when his name comes up,don't realy care that he might have been a good player at one point he blew all that for drugs yet he feels like because he played the game he should still get the attention.like I said 27 chances later we don't or at least this baseball fan does not care what you have to say and you are the last person I would want around young impressionable minds. what can you possibly say to them to keep them on a straight and narrow path? don't do drugs kids cause like if you get busted 27 times like I did it can ruin your career?great message,just keep saying sorry and they will keep paying you untill you can't play anymore. I am all for second chances but this guy had more than anybody has a right to and blew them all.it wasn't untill he could no longer play and make money that he got his act together supposedly,hey maybe he just hasn't got caught again but I for one and sick of hearing about him!
- BC - Jan 26, 2011 at 12:25 PM
Read this book – an awesome read – and you'll get an idea of why Darryl ended up where he did.
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I love the cheeseburger dinners. They also have curly fries that are awesome. Overall Dimitrios is a great place to eat.
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Crispy Teriyaki Spring Rolls
|Ground beef
|1 Pound
|Crushed garlic
|1 Teaspoon
|1 Large, diced
|Finely chopped carrots
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Spring onion
|1 Ounce, shredded
|Teriyaki sauce
|3 Teaspoon
|Soy sauce
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|2 Tablespoon
*Heat oil in fry pan
*Stir beef, black pepper, carrots, and salt in. Stir until the meat become brown.
*Make sure that the meat is cooked well. Keep it aside.
*Heat oil in another pan, Add garlic and onion. Saute until its transparent.
* Add cabbage . Stir fry for a moment.
*Add soy sauce, salt and teriyaki sauce. Stir well. Cover with lid for 2 minutes.
*Then add cooked beef and spring onions. Stir fry for about 1 minute over high heat. Make sure not to overcook the vegetables.
*Brush outer edge of the skin roll with flour paste. Place 1 tbsp filling on the spring roll skin. Roll the pastry into a tighter roll according to pastry instructions.
*Place side with edge showing face down to hold shape until time for frying.
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Getting Older
For some reason, I can really relate to this
Soap Box, Ballot Box and Ammo Box –An average person's view on society, politics and firearms.
30 Jul
For some reason, I can really relate to this
4 Apr
I'm in my 50's. Been into computers since High School; took the first computer programming class the school ever offered way back in '81.
I should be very aware of storage capacity and limitations but some things sneak up on even the most aware. Today it really struck home how much things have changed.
I need to work on some documents at home so I sought out one of the USB thumb drives our marketing folks distributes as the industry version of 'gimme' caps.
My initial thought on looking at it was "How quaint*; 512 MB — not even a full Gig or a 2 Gig drive."
Of course, there was more then enough room on the drive for all 200+ documents; not even 40 megs of worth of files. Realized I've been spoiled by how fast technology has advanced and how cheap components are now days. Makes me thankful for the times we do live in.
* Or something to that effect minus the sentence enhancers and more colorful phrasing.
23 Sep
Let's talk about many people's nemesis this time of year — the lowly ragweed plant. This thing is loaded for trouble and then some.
Ragweed is the biggest culprit in causing fall allergies, according to AAFA; there are 17 different species found in the United States, and it's found most often in rural areas in the Northeast and Midwest.
"Scientists estimate that a single ragweed plant can release one billion grains of pollen over the course of ragweed season," an AAFA fact sheet states*. "Ragweed pollen grains are light and are easily dispersed by the gentlest of breezes."
1 Billion grains of pollen in a single season. Jiminy Crickets- no wonder I feel like someone's stuffed a water balloon between my nose and eyeballs.
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6 Feb
Why do I need an AR-15?
To satisfy a deep seated psychological need to flip a metaphorical finger at the gun grabbers.
27 Jan
Reading reports of this issue brought back a memory of a similar issue decades ago.
In 1981, horse meat labeled as beef was discovered at a Foodmaker plant that supplied hamburger and taco meat to Jack in the Box.
Yep, smart-alec Bob was working at Jack In The Box in 1981. This resulted in one of the many times I was called into the owner's office for a brief discussion. As near as I can remember it went something like this.
Owner- "Bob would you care to explain why I had an irate customer calling me this morning".
Bob – "Sure. I bet I can guess who it was and what it was about; some guy who stopped here last night to buy a burger. He was drunk; really really drunk. Kept going on about the story in the news".
Owner – "He mentioned something about the news and how he asked you a simple question."
Bob – "Well, he didn't ask me a simple question. He kept asking the same question over and over again. Wouldn't take any of the assurances you (even then I was smart enough to stick that in) told us to say."
Owner – "So what happened to make him so mad."
Bob – "I really don't know. I tried to reassure him like you said but nothing but he kept asking if there was horsemeat in his burger and he didn't want horsemeat.
So I assured him as I handed him the order that Jack In The Box does not use horsemeat but our burgers are 100% pure Kangaroo meat".
I think the only reason I kept that job was the fact I was the only person who would consistently work the grave yard shift.
21 Jan
Spent a large chunk of the day sleeping in and lazing around the house; Life can be good even if it isn't all spent at the range.
Later that day, I met up with a friend and reader Cormac (
didn't ask if I could use his name, so for now he is Nameless) and headed out to the Super Secret Shooting Range aka The Club. Nameless Cormac isn't a member of the club so I did the usual nickel tour then headed to the pistol and rifle range. Oh boy, was my timing off. I thought that going later in the day made sense; hoping that most people showed up earlier then went to lunch.
Apparently many folks thought like I did — late lunch then show up to the range.
There was a large group of people taking up all the stations at the 200 yard range, a group of folks plinking away (with very high dollar firearms) on the 25 yard Rimfire only range, and a hand full of folks on the 50- and 100-yard ranges. The 25-yard range was plum full of folks. It was probably as busy it had ever been. Of course,
Nameless Cormac was a little shocked by that opinion. He pointed out there was no waiting line and it did have a couple of open spaces. I just smiled and pointed out the advantages of being a member of a private range.
We decided to start out on the plate rack on another 25-yard range. Unfortunately it was almost as if we were doing a nature television show "No plates were actually harmed in the process of filming or shooting at them".
It wasn't quite that bad but the steel industry won't be running on high due to our shooting. We did manage to start knocking a few down consistently later though.
We took the time to punch some holes in paper targets at 25 yards also. Did better there and it was fun to shoot at that range; normally I practice at 7 or 15 yards. It was also humbling for me, I can see how much work I have to do.
Updated to include name and mention Cormac's shooting with his Mosin — 3 shots in the bullseye that could have been covered with a quarter at 25 yards. He can stick around if there is a Zombie Apocolypse
It was also very interesting to see how many people brought out guests to the club. I would say easily 1/3 of the people shooting Saturday afternoon were visitors to the club. I was glad to see them. I made sure to introduce myself and thank them for coming out.
So what did you do on Gun Appreciation Day?
28 Feb
Short version: Not your typical Hollywood movie – and that is a good thing
Long version: The acting was a little rough. There were spots where the dialogue was stilted but let's be honest, how many of us actually speak like Hollywood actors, eh.
The characters were given a huge back story filled with sub plots or foreshadowing. The characters back story was barely touched in truth but I think that was by design. These people are every day people, coming from all walks of life. The producers definitely wante the audience to be able to relate to the SEALs and we could.
The plot was something that Hollywood would hate: bad guy wanted to do horrible things.
Again, there was no huge back story why; it wasn't needed. Anyone outside of Hollywood knows why Narco-Terrorists want to do bad things, why Muslim Extremists would want to do bad things. And it isn't because "America made them do it".
The action is the main part of the story and the movie delivered. Except for a few questionable explosions (Which grenades were our guys using? I'm sure the teams would want a few of those), the action was very far from your movie norms. Pistol shots didn't send someone flying 40′ down a hallway, guns didn't have magical magazines, and the bloodshed was gory but not excessive.
Definitely receives a good review from She Who Lets Me Make Her Coffee Every Morning and I; and we aren't alone.
Anyone else see it? Thoughts and reviews?


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Written by Suzanne Kahn
Adam Davidson's recent New York Times Magazine article "The Best Nanny Money Can Buy" introduced readers to the "bizarre microeconomy" of New York's highly paid nannies. The first nanny Davidson introduces earns $180,000 a year, plus a Christmas bonus and an apartment on Central Park West.
Davidson's economy is indeed bizarre. As Bryce Covert pointed out in Forbes recently, the average New York nanny makes $37,076 a year. Childcare providers, home health care aids, and others are paid far too little for the incredibly important work they do. In the U.S., median pay for a childcare worker in 2010 was about $9 an hour.
Care work jobs have historically been paid poorly. Jobs associated with the work women traditionally did as wives and mothers have not been conceptualized as real work and have generally paid far less than traditionally male work. This was partially a result of the way laws were written. Until the 1970s, domestic workers were not included in the Fair Labor Standards Act that mandated a federal minimum wage, among other things.
When jobs pay well, however, they tend to attract men. Yet this does not seem to be the case among New York's elite nannies. Interestingly, even in the microeconomy of highly paid nannies, they are all women. Davidson himself points this out, and a glance at the job listings on the website of the Pavilion Agency, the firm that connected Davidson with the high-end nanny he spoke to, confirms this. Why aren't men attracted to these high-end jobs?
The answer seems to lie with the respect we give care workers. Most nannies not only earn very low pay for very long hours but also gain little social capital from their jobs. This lack of respect seems to extend even to highly paid nannies. It is unmistakable in the language used in the Pavillion Agency job listings. "This is the nanny who will be a 'wife' to a fortunate family," reads one posting. Others describe the candidates as a "lovely lady" or "cuddly." This sounds like the way the ad execs on Mad Men talk about their secretaries and not the way we talk about candidates for professional careers in the 21st century.
These are also notably gendered advertisements. Employers are clearly looking for women to fill these jobs because they imagine them to be a woman's or a "wife's" work. This sort of language very likely not only keeps men out of these jobs, but it also keeps pay very low for most care workers. As long the job of nanny is not respected, it will be paid less than jobs that are.
Davidson may have described a strange niche economy, but his rare, highly paid nannies actually tell us quite a bit about the problems most care workers face. If even six-figure salaries fail to attract men to the market, there's a problem with care work that goes far beyond poor pay. It's a job that society tells men, and many women, that it isn't respectable to do. Until these jobs earn social capital as well as cash, care work will probably remain a sex-segregated, and therefore underappreciated, sector of the economy. Outside the upper echelons of Manhattan society, that means care work is likely to remain poorly paid.
This post was originally published by the Roosevelt Institute.
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Thank you for sharing.
It is true that, across the board, traditional "women's work" is still highly undervalued, underpaid, and lacking the respect it deserves. We are suffering from a "feminine energy crisis" in the world--women gain power, money, and respect primarily through embracing masculine behaviors. This is not so much as men vs. women as masculine vs. feminine qualities. Feminine qualities are not as valued as masculine qualities, although both are present (to varying degrees) in all people and both are vital for a functioning society.
I'm a nanny and know that my job is valued about as much as someone who asks "do you want fries with that?" but I find it rewarding and important work. I purposely don't work for wealthy families as I find they often under-parent and over-schedule their children. Despite the article, they often don't even pay as well as more average folk who manage to afford a nanny through sharing with another family, etc.
More men may also choose care work (especially with children) if society was more receptive to it. How many mothers would hire a male nanny? A few, but it's not everyone's idea of the perfect caregiver.
I feel sorry for those who are unable to care for infants or the elderly, or the in between ages.
being a care worker has to have it's rewards...
One thing I do know about women is that even the coldest one I met is better at nurturing and caring for others than I am. Something about a baby's cry just makes me want to punch a cactus!
I definitely think they should be paid more. I also think our society fetishizes machismo too much for men to consider this line of work, as well as having to add in the fact that nurturing doesn't seem to be a common instinct in men. I'm no sexist, but outside the egregious and inexcusable pay rates, women are more suited to taking care of their fellow human beings.
with my friend in hospice care, I have seen some amazing caring male nurses and health care guys. I suspect some are gay, but so was my friend..anyone getting into the field of end of life care deserves a free pass into heaven and a solid gold cadillac to tool around in as far as I am concerned.
Thank you.
This is the nanny who will be a wife to a fortunate family, reads one posting. Others describe the candidates as a lovely lady or cuddly.
This is exactly what anybody would want for their children. You wouldnt want a bank exec to watch your children. Described any other way, this person wouldnt get the job.
I have taken care of my 95 yr old father for 8 years, mostly without pay. One reason is I love him, the other is I would have to pay $20 an hour or more (thru an agency) for someone to watch him while I was away at work. How much would I need to earn before it was worth my while to find a job? Im stuck.
Home health care and daycare jobs will never pay as much as other career type jobs. If they did, what would be the point in working? Only the highest earners could afford to work.
When my daughter lived in Manhattan, I spent a lot of time visiting and therefore a lot of time with my grandchildrenn and their nanny. The nanny and I became great friends and through her I met many other nannies in the building and in the parks and at story time at Barnes and Noble. I would never have believed the quality of care and devotion from these caregivers if I had not experienced it myself. In fact, when observing children in the parks on week-ends with their parents, I was appalled to see them ignore their children and talk on their cells with their backs to them. While the parents were well groomed, the children appeared to have slept in their clothes and not had their hair combed since their nanny did it. These nannies are worth their weight in gold and it's a darned shame that many of them are underpaid and underappreciated for a job and a responsibility that most people wouldn't do for any amount of money.
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Agree with Kamia and Darren
cool indeed!


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I've seen flying elephants in Fantasyland.
... i couldn't resist.
I've seen flying elephants in Fantasyland.
... i couldn't resist.
Many Bothans died to bring you these fastpasses.
Here's the cat I mentioned seeing yesterday near Taste Pilot's Grill:
I worked in Parking last summer on the College Program. Whenever I did RT (Rear Tram, aka the guy at the back of the tram who says "Driver, your turn is clear"), I'd sometimes see possums at night when making the trip from Downtown Disney back to the Parking Structure. There are also quite a few cats in the same area. Fortunately they're smart enough to stay off of the tram route (at least the ones I saw)!
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I love seeing the Disneyland cats.
The only 'wildlife' I've seen other than the cats and ducks has been a rat...it scurried across the path near Big Thunder Mountain one night right in front of us and it was fairly large. I guess one of the cats hadn't had him for dinner yet.
I've seen plenty of cats, a rat/mouse scrambling between bushes waiting for the tram at the parking structure, and plenty of ducks. I even saw one who decided to try and take off the head of the lead singer of the 80z All Stars at Tomorrow Land Terrace. *lol*
When I was a CP at WDW I saw a lot of animals, squirrels, bunnies and tons of gators.
Although at Disneyland I have many seen rats, cats, a couple squirrels at DCA, which someone told me they've been there since before the park opened...strange parking lot squirrels I guess.
This Raccoon was really a first for me, I thought it was a cat at first.
Little and broken, but still good.
Saw a lizard once in Fantasyland a long time ago. I also get the feeling that many critters are watching us whist we're walking about Disneyland.