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Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: Elise the Actress: Climax of the Civil War (covering the year 1865), Janie's Freedom: African-Americans in the Aftermath of the Civil War (1867), Rachel and the Riot: The Labor Movement Divides a Family (1889), and Emily Makes a Difference: A Time of Progress and Problems (1893). American Rebirth will transport you back to America's recovery of the late nineteenth century, teaching important lessons of history and Christian faith. Featuring bonus educational materials such as vocabulary words, time lines, and brief biographies of key historical figures, American Rebirth is ideal for anytime reading and an excellent resource for home schooling.
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JoAnn lives on the Minnesota prairie which is a setting for many of her stories. Once a full-time CPA, JoAnn now spends most of her time researching and writing. JoAnn has published historical nonfiction books for children and several novels with Barbour Publishing in the Heartsong Presents line as well as the American Adventure and Sisters in Time series for children. Several of her novellas are included in CBA best-selling anthologies by Barbour Publishing. JoAnn's love of history developed when she worked at an historical restoration in North Carolina for five years. She enjoys researching and weaving her fictional characters' lives into historical backgrounds and events. JoAnn believes that readers can receive a message of salvation and encouragement from well-crafted fiction. She captivates and addresses the deeper meaning between life and faith.
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Luv2ReadAge: 45-54Gender: Female5 Stars Out Of 5Wonderful Historical FictionAugust 12, 2013Luv2ReadAge: 45-54Gender: FemaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This review was written for American Rebirth: Civil War, National Recovery, and Prosperity.My daughter loves all of the "Sisters in Time" series. For a wonderful price, she gets 4 books in one! I love how she gains a "living" sense of American history from different perspectives throughout different time periods. She tells me that all the stories in this particular series keeps her attention - which is a definite plus in our household.
I recommend American Rebirth, as well as all the others in the Sisters in Time series.
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The theme for this blog hope was to CASE one of Paula's Cards or Projects: CASE: choose a card/project and selectively edit it and create your own card or project.
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With my card I have chosen from Paula's card the lovely stamp set "Wild About Flowers" and created my own card. I have used the new Fabulous Foil Acetate and sponged my background with sponges and my ink pads. Then I have stamped Versamark Ink over the whole image and coated it in clear embossing powder and heat to set. I have also embossed my first layer of card with the embossing folder "Fluttering".
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The Prisoner of Cell 25
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The Prisoner of Cell 25
To everyone at Meridian High School, fourteen-year-old Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid who has Tourette's syndrome. But in truth, Michael is extremely special—he has electric powers. Michael thinks he is unique until he discovers that a cheerleader named Taylor has the same mysterious powers. With the help of Michael's friend, Ostin, the three of them set out to discover how Michael and Taylor ended up with their abilities, and their investigation soon brings them to the attention of a powerful group who wants to control the electric teens—and through them, the world.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans introduces a character whose risk-filled exploration marks the beginning of a riveting new series. With only his powers, his wits, and his friends to protect him, Michael will need all his strength to survive….
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The ibis Berlin Messe is situated right next to the exhibition center. The hotel is ideal for exhibitors, visitors and guests who favor a central location. S-Bahn (city rail) and U-Bahn (underground) stations are just 164 yards (150 m) away. You can reach Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate in about 15 minutes. Drivers can park in the free car park opposite the hotel. After a day at an exhibition or a sight-seeing tour, relax and enjoy the comfort of your room and bed.
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Bank of England Governor defends stark warnings about recession in wake of Brexit vote as economy shows signs of resilience
'The incidence of financial sector misconduct has risen to a level that has the potential to create systemic risks by undermining trust in both financial institutions and markets,' Mr Carney has told the G20
Some saving account providers made cuts up to five times larger than the Bank of England base rate reduction last month. And experts warn there is more pain to come.
Experts say prices will likely weaken as heightened uncertainty following the UK's vote to leave the EU weighs down on consumer confidence
Santander said the changes were being made 'due to the market expectation of interest rates staying lower for longer'
The pension funds' unwillingness to sell is frustrating the Bank's attempt at unprecedented monetary expansion and, thus, the authorities' wider ambition to support the economy during the slowdown in growth after the EU referendum
Experts said pension funds would be reluctant to sell long-dated Gilts, even at the high prices offered by the Bank, because of regulatory requirements
Bank of England accused of allowing banks to be overexposed in event of new financial crisis
Bank says decision to leave the EU will lead to lower growth, higher inflation, fewer jobs and ordinary people worse off
The Big Questions: Will your mortgage repayments fall, will your savings earn less interest, and will this stimulus really help the economy grow?
A dramatic set of figures show UK economy will virtually grind to a halt because of decision to leave the EU


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It was an exciting time at our first recruiting drive here at San Francisco State University. It has always been a personal pleasure of mine standing at a table draped with a Gadsden Flag (hilariously, soon to be recognized as a hate symbol), along with a scatter of literature promoting freedom, in one of the most leftist universities in the country. From my experiences tabling in the past, my group and I have either received dirty looks or have encountered some entertaining accusations of being racist, sexist, and homophobic (the usual insults you would get in this kind of environment for not conforming to the leftist ideology) even during the time when our current president was African-American.
That being said, whilst tabling with Julia Di Bernardo, Nicole Sanders, and Nathan Fatal, all of whom were excellent reps and quite entertaining as well, I began to see an amazing shift. After a phone call with my Vice President, he also made note of it. More and more people came up to our table open for discussion. Many people came up out of curiosity, especially a lot of exchange students. Our chapter has always been popular with the international community on campus, and we have had a few international student members join our chapter as well. I heard everything from concerns regarding the upcoming elections to people who aren't sure about their political stances, and just simply wanted to know more about the Liberty movement. I have high hopes for this year.
Our newly revived chapter here at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville is full of individuals who are committed to defending our rights, and I am proud to say we did not let nasty weather nor university bureaucracy hamper us.
The university's initial attempt at our Involvement Fair (where campus clubs and organizations show themselves to potential recruits), was ruined by mismanagement. They called off the event for rain, although it was sunny the entire day. Everybody in our chapter was all ready and exciting to go recruit.
They moved it to the next day, Thursday, when not so many of us were free. It also meant we had to make emergency plans to get the table there in time. Without a car here in town, we had to carry the supplies and poster all day in class. Alas, the weather truly was nasty this time, and they canceled the event again and rescheduled it for this upcoming week.
We were not going to let the weather and sure as heck were not going to let the university ruin our recruitment efforts. We went out on our own and set up a table in our student center Friday, the very next day, and were out in force promoting liberty.
We got a stunningly positive reaction. We tabled with the "find out your political ideology" set up. Many people found out there were libertarian, and many people who already identified with us and the ideals of liberty, found they were even more libertarian than they thought.
Before our tabling time expired, we got five signups in under an hour. We made headway. We turned heads and got attention. And we are only beginning.
Our first semester on campus is off to a great start at LIU!
We combined recruitment with the free speech ball and were able to generate a lot of buzz on campus; enough to have the school paper request an interview! Students were curious about the free speech ball which helped draw them to the table and while they wrote on the ball, we pitched YAL.
Our first two events are already scheduled:
Sept 27 8pm Deep Web Screening in Hillwood Cinema!
Sept 28 7:30pm Liberty Dinner in the Great Hall at Winnick Mansion!
Come have dinner with us and tell us what is on your mind!
YAL members in the area are welcome to attend; lets work together for Liberty!
Pictures of our appearance in two local newspapers in one week:http://imgur.com/a/kHPle
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke
...and let them not say we did nothing here! This week was an exciting start to the school year and our resurrection of Kent State University's Young Americans for Liberty chapter. We started the week by rolling out a Free Speech Beach Ball (provided by the Leadership Institute) onto the "K" in front of the Student Center. This area of campus is very high traffic and we had an incredible turnout, with 183 signatures on our Free Speech petition and close to double that amount in participants. The next day we had a follow up meeting with five new members. We also made the front page of the local newspaper, the Record-Courier.
On Friday night, word spread that a gun rights advocacy group would be doing an "Open Carry Walk" through campus on Saturday to challenge the university's unconstitutional firearm policies. The walk had previously been done at other Ohio universities with great press coverage. YAL sprung into action, quickly organizing five members to walk with the group in solidarity for their cause. Our chapter President even purchased holsters for everyone to wear, showing the administration that our right to self-defense and the 2nd amendment is more important that hurt feelings and safe spaces (despite the fact they were not allowing students to participate while armed). Our members encountered counter-protestors and emotions were high, many students felt that the firearms walk was disrespectful to the four students that lost their lives on May 4th, 1970. A small clash between our members and protesters at the site of the May 4th shootings made the Sunday-edition of a larger local newspaper, the Akron Beacon Journal. The event is being discussed heavily on the university's social media groups.
I am incredibly excited about the press and student participation we received this week, especially for a chapter that just submitted its Constitution for official recognition on Wednesday! We had a ton of fun and showed the university that we would continue to push the limits of their unconstitutional policies. We will be heard, seen, and feared this year. YAL IS BACK!
On Wednesday September 21st, the newly established YAL chapter at USC Sumter held its first recruitment drive. While we are still not officially recognized by the college, although we should be soon, we were allowed to set up a table and recruit for a few hours with the other clubs on campus.
Because the campus is so small, most of the other clubs are not very well established with official materials and professional displays. With the official materials provided to us by YAL, our table was able to easily stand out and attract a lot of attention from students. By actively asking students to take our political quiz to figure out their political philosophy, we found many people who did not even know what libertarianism was let alone that they were one!
Overall, the event was very successful. In fact, so many people took our political quiz that I had to run over to the library to print out a bunch of extra copies! We distributed a lot of materials and informed as many people as we could about our next meeting and why they should come regardless of their results. Hopefully we can continue to have this kind of success with future events!
Those of you who have kept up with the goings-on of Auburn's YAL chapter will have heard about our efforts over the past year to collaborate with student rights group FIRE in attempt to have Auburn University's outdated and oppressive speech codes rewritten.
As of this writing, we at the Auburn YAL chapter are happy to announce that, after several rounds of meetings and discussions with both representatives from FIRE and Auburn's administrative staff, we are nearing the final revisions on a draft of the policy that would qualify Auburn University for a "Green Light" rating from FIRE, the highest rating possible in terms of respect for the 1st Amendment by the university. We believe this represents a tremendous victory for the principles of Liberty and Free Speech.
We are also in the process of working with the administration to reword its Student Conduct Policy and Sexual Harassment Policy so as to eliminate vagueness, ensuring that both students and faculty are clear on what these policies actually state. We are happy to say that the University has, thus far, been extremely cooperative with us on addressing these matters in a timely fashion.
We will continue to update our blog as any new developments arise.
Today I and the vice president of the YAL chapter at the University of Texas at San Antonio conducted our first tabling event using the supplies provided to us in the activism kit that was sent from YAL. I tabled in front of the humanities building, a high traffic area on campus, at 10:00 AM and continued to table until approximately 2:00 PM.
During the tabling event I emphasized the importance of knowing one's rights during interaction with law enforcement and I had the opportunity to converse with individuals who both support and criticize law enforcement methods and activity, especially recent activity relating to officer involved shootings that have occurred in North Carolina and Oklahoma. I myself usually find myself siding with law enforcement, as I am very familiar with police training and tactics as a result of being involved in the police explorer program in San Antonio several years ago.
After engaging in intellectual conversation with numerous individuals, including a radical leftist who refused to acknowledge any of my points regarding an unrelated topic, I had a total of eleven individuals sign up to attend our chapter's first meeting which will be held on Tuesday, September 27. Tuesday's meeting will involve me giving a brief presentation on law enforcement techniques and the rights that an individual possesses when interacting with law enforcement personnel.
On September 19th, Young Americans for Liberty at Kent State University kicked off their first activism project with a Free Speech ball! It was a campus favorite. The students actively participated in the event and even took pictures with the ball.
To our liking there was no issue with the administration. Although, some school officials did come over and ask what our event was about. We kindly explained and they stated it was a lovely way to promote discussion.
Over 300 students participated in the event and over 200 signed our petition to adopt the Chicago principles of free speech on campus. We also added five more signups to our already growing chapter!
We had a local newspaper run our article and it ended up making the front page the next day! We definitely were proud of our chapter for prompting such waves on campus. The story was also run on TV2, Kent State's premier TV news station that is also available to the surrounding county residents.
Our chapter is on our roll (pun intended) here at Kent State University and we are not stop anytime soon! Cliff Maloney Jr. put us to the test at YALcon and wanted us to #BeTheNext. We are here to say we will #BeTheNext best mid-atlantic chapter! We are already planning our next activism event as I type.
At the end of the spring 2016 at Jacksonville State, YAL was a respectable organization. The problem was that there was no one to keep the organization going since everybody was graduating. The liberty movement at Jacksonville State had seemingly died. It would have had it not been for a state chair by the name of Gordon Miller.
He found another liberty minded person named Gabriel Colvert. Although at this point we had a chance, we still had the problem of us not knowing each other at all. Also I had not even started college yet! I had no clue on how college worked, much less how to run a chapter!
We met on move-in weekend and we got started on rebuilding the chapter. It took a week for us to confirm our advisor, which I thought would be enough for us to start tabling. Well our "student life" requires that we have four solid members and a $100 deposit to rent a table for a few hours. We did not have those resources.
So our current state chair, Jeremiah Baky, mentions to me that we could participate in the screening of "Deep Web". I knew we were not going to be able to recruit with the traditional recruitment table. Thus it should be nearly impossible to get to the four recruits necessary and put us in a catch-22. But we had the first amendment on our side and I knew that people wound want to hear our message. So on September 20, We went out into the quad, handed out all 50 of the U.S. constitutions that YAL sent us and we got 21 signatures.
From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank Gordon Miller for finding me in June and helping me get to the national convention. I learned a lot about YAL in those four days. I want to thank Jeremiah Baky for giving us support during this past month. I want to thank our chapter's previous president, Mark Johnson for helping me get our chapter's advisor. Finally, I want to thank Gabriel Colvert for his shared passion in this movement and for cancelling out some of my weaknesses while we were recruiting. Because of these people, YAL is back at Jacksonville State!
Today the Towson University Chapter of Young Americans for Liberty had our first activism event on campus. We undertook a clip-boarding event in our university's central Freedom Square in order to get signatures from students who were interested in our new group, and at the same time to raise awareness about our group and liberty to the students of Towson University. Whilst doing this, it was very surprising to see the number of students who were interested in our group on campus and to see the inquiries which they had as well, asking more questions about the liberty movement and what exactly we stand for. Many were surprised to see that they were actually rather Libertarian as well after taking our quiz for their political ideology and placing themselves on the Nolan chart.
Today was a good first step overall for our chapter, and it was a good stepping stone for us to move onto our first meeting and to host more recruiting events such as this one in the coming weeks so that we may really start to have the students of Towson University get in on the liberty conversation and have their voices be heard.


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I've been going through the video archives of the BCC's Top Gear. Not that I'm that much into supercars or care about reviews of new cars. Still, I do enjoy the foreign adventures, races, challenges, and such. My favorite, perhaps, is when they tried to kill a Toyota pickup and couldn't.
Killing a Toyota - Top Gear - BBC
These featured bits seem fairly contrived and probably more scripted than they'd like viewers to believe. Which I suppose they must be, the show is sort-of what you might call comedy-reality TV. One comedy thread that crops up from time to time is the British view of Americans as fat and stupid and Australians as big and dumb. Granted, Americans are the fattest folk on the planet. How big Aussies are I couldn't say. Still, how accurate is the intelligence part of the stereotypes?
Enter the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) which tracks primary and secondary school achievement. The PISA reading score for the UK was 494, the USA score was 500 and Australians scored 515. Interestingly, European-Americans (which includes British-Americans) scored 525, higher than every European country except for Finland.
There's more: Canada scored 524 and New Zealand scored 521, joining the U.S. and Australia in outdoing the UK. Which suggests the smarter Brits emigrated leaving laggards behind in the mother country. Oh yes, Ireland scored a 496. Meaning the poorest performing English-speaking country is the UK. So, if Yanks and Aussies are as dumb as the Brits joke about, the joke's on them as they'd be just a little bit dumber.
Another Top Gear running joke is how American cars are rubbish compared to European cars. On this they have a point. American car suspensions are retrograde technology and interior appointments are cheesy plastic. Still, considering how the vast majority of people use their cars, is all that superior fit, finish and high-speed handling worth it? Maybe Americans prefer to spend their resources and brain power on other things.
After all, while Europe was fiddling with incremental improvements of 19th century technology, the automobile, America busied itself inventing personal computers, communication satellites, and the Internet. So, Top Gear presenters, who's looking dumb now?
Filed under Odds & Ends 9/28/16
Sorry for the hyperbolic headline. Just thought I might try my hand at web-speak teaser writing. Did it make you want to read it more? Probably not, I didn't offer a life hack or the best free gift. Of. All. Time. Anyway, let's get on with the real business at hand.
What we're talking about is not the political left-right divide, but brain lobes. The differences between which is not what you may have heard in the 70s or 80s when the left brain-right brain notion was more popularly discussed. You know, the old creative-logic, emotion-reason left-right location in the brain business. That's all been shown to be wrong.
The new thinking on thinking is... well, rather than rehashing it, or botching it badly, we suggest watching the video. Or, being an interview, you could simply listen to it as there's not much to see except the usual talking heads sort of thing. That way you can multi-task. Which is what the combined halves of the brain pretty much do. Or maybe duo-task. Confused? Click the link already. Afterwards, the opening pic with the brains and rainbow might actually make sense. One hopes.
Iain McGilchrist 'The Divided Brain'
–Interview by Iain McNay
Filed under Links & Sites to See 9/23/16
I'm not a big fan of elaborate stage magic, if that's what you call it. You know, big boxes and machines and such where the trick seems to be performed by the apparatus more than the magician. I much prefer sleight of hand stuff with very simple items, coins, cards, etc. If you do, too, you might enjoy what I'll declare the best rope trick I've ever seen:
Las Vegas Magician Mac King Shows Us a Trick
If I have it right, this particular bit of virtuosity blows the mind of Teller, as in Penn and Teller. I'm supposing he rates it as highly as I do. Which is a much better endorsement, to be sure.
Filed under Links & Sites to See 9/20/16
When Scotty helped the 20th century engineer concoct transparent aluminum in Star Trek IV I chalked it up to sci-fi imaginariness, like transporters. Regular readers know transparent aluminum really exists. Not only that, they can make other transparent metals, too. Seems strange something so solid and opaque like metal could be made transparent and still be solid. Until you consider glass is made of sand, which we don't give a second thought to being clear.
Some might say, "Ah, but glass is actually a very viscous liquid and not a solid." Maybe you've heard that one. Well, that's yet another science myth. Some folks reckoned such when examining Elizabethan (and the like) windows which were thicker at the bottom and concluded they flowed very slowly downward over time. Like super slow, stiff Jell-O or something. Anyway, they figured wrongly.
In the olden days they didn't make rolled plate glass, float glass. They manipulated glass the old fashioned way, same as glass blowers do today. One window pane making method was spinning a blob of molten glass at the end of the pipe into a flat disk with centrifugal effect which they cut rectangles out of for windows. That's where the old bull-eye glass you sometimes see in old buildings came from.
A second method was to blow a cylinder, like a vase or tumbler. While it was still molten they'd lop off the end connected to the pipe. Then they'd slit the resulting tube open along its length unrolling it into a flat rectangle.
As you can imagine, neither method guaranteed uniform thickness. When they framed this type of glass for windows they put the parts with the same thickness together at the bottom. Probably just made it easier to make the leading or frame that held it all together. Thing is, there are cases in very old buildings where the glass is thicker at the sides or even at the top. The glass didn't flow sideways or upwards, the panes were that way from the git-go. The bottom line, glass is a solid and not a liquid.
To make stained glass they added different metals to the glass which produced different colors. Of course, you don't see teeny-tiny bits of these metals embedded in the glass, it's all transparent. Or translucent, anyway. Which means transparent metals have sort-of been around quite a while.
Filed under Fun Facts & Trivia 9/17/16
And now, a "Strange Deaths" art spot from Fortean Times magazine of some years ago.
A woman died from a heart attack caused by the shock of waking up at her own funeral in Kazan, Russia. As mourning relatives filed past her open coffin, Fagilyu Mukhametzyanova, 49, woke up and started screaming as she realized where she was. Her husband Fagili, 51, had been told his wife had died of a heart attack after she had collapsed at home with chest pains. "Her eyes fluttered and we immediately rushed her back to the hospital, but she only lived for another 12 minutes before she died again, this time for good," he said. "She wasn't dead when they said she was and they could have saved her." He planned to sue the hospital.
Like they say, waking up dead is a very bad way to start the day. Or end the day, for that matter.
Filed under Snippets 9/15/16
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In a world where they erect bridges to nowhere and build cities nobody lives in, it seems no construction is too pointless not to be imitated by folks hither and yon.
Flip This Home! 10 Unbelievable Upside Down Houses
People do live in some of these inverted structures, so the inside is right side up. Others are furnished and outfitted totally upside down inside. In which case we recommend you not try the plumbing.
Still, if you're going to do this inverted house folly fully, bury the house so only the basement is above ground. All the same, couldn't you simply put in a reflecting pool for a similar effect?
Filed under Links & Sites to See 9/12/16
Infrequently Answered Question #100: What's big and red and eats rocks?
A: A big red rockeater.
Yes, an old gag you might recall from childhood. Yet notice, it's a big red rockeater and not a red big rockeater. It's also a grumpy little old man and not an old little grumpy man. To follow the train of thought, which of the following sounds right?
One of those ugly little day-glo English police cars.
One of those English day-glo ugly police little cars.
Though the adjectives are the same in both cases, the second sentence just sounds wrong, even illiterate. That's because there's a rule of syntax English speakers use without ever formally learning that such a rule exists. Which is, adjectives generally appear in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-color-origin-material-purpose noun. At least, according to one source. A second has it: quantity-opinion-size-temperature-age-shape-color-origin-material noun.
Whatever the case, you can sometimes get away with changing the order a bit. It could be a little old gray-haired man or a gray-haired little old man. You can also have an ugly big green metal box or a big green ugly metal box. Still, you can't switch adjectives up too much, there's no such thing as a metal big green ugly box.
Then again, if you're keeping inventory you'd pretty much put everything in reverse order, including putting the noun first. The noun is the real gist of the item so you organize and alphabetize by that. In which case you'd have: box, metal, green, big. Opinions of its ugliness, being subjective, are usually not included.
Filed under Infrequently Answered Questions 9/8/16
"History is bunk." –Henry Ford
History is not always written by the people involved and so often relies on stories told by witnesses. Though, as in the Kurosawa classic Rashomon, eyewitness account can vary quite a bit. Then again, history can be told by people based on, well, hearsay. We're into the whole friend of a friend system of urban mythology as history. How accurate is that?
Even so, eyewitnesses don't always see everything, or remember correctly. Plus, they can be biased and only see what they want to believe. Oh yeah, people are also capable of lying. And believing lies. Especially if the lie is the only story you've heard and is repeated over and over and made its way it into the history books.
One wonders how much history, like the previously mention slanders against Ty Cobb, really is bunk. To that point, here's an article which might be subtitled: "Everything You Thought You Knew about Rasputin Is a Whopping Lie"
Filed under Quotes & Sayings 9/6/16
I've decided to become a prepper and put up a six month or so supply of non-perishables. Am I expecting the breakdown of commerce, or the collapse of civil society? Nope. Do I anticipate hyperinflation? Nah. Do I reckon the end of the world as we know it is just around the corner? Not really. I'm not that kind of prepper, more of a traditional prepper, if I can call it that.
What I'm expecting is not a catastrophe, but winter. Why trudge through the ice, snow and cold of a Michigan winter lugging bags of consumables when I can stock up now in my shirt sleeves? I mean, I'm going to need such things sooner or later, so why not get them sooner? Canned goods, frozen foods, dried pasta, beans, and the like. As well as things like toilet paper and kitty litter. Hey, it goes in one end and comes out the other, right?
This is not a new idea, it's a very old idea. For people 250 years ago it wasn't very convenient to hop down to the supermarket once a week. Heck, there were no supermarkets. In the past to get through winter people put up stores, packed the root celler, cured meat, pickled and fermented things, etc. This was before they invented canning, but folks knew how to store enough stuff to last until spring.
Now, I don't have a root celler, but I have a fridge with a freezer. Even better. Unfortunately, since I don't raise chickens or have a cow in the garage I'll need to occasionally ankle to the local bodega for milk and eggs. Plus, I'll have to forgo salads for the duration. Still, fewer trips and lighter loads to schlep through the slush suits me right down to the ground.
The other option for surviving winter is an even older idea, head to warmer climes. Would that I could. While we moderns are highly mobile, perhaps in a way the nomadic ancients got around more than we do now. After all, they say eighty percent (or whatever it is) of Americans never live more than 25 miles (or whatever it is) from where they grew up.
Filed under Odds & Ends 9/1/16
The standard western musical scale is an octave, that's eight notes. Though the scale begins and ends on the same note, as in do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do. That second do is double the harmonic vibration of the first do, so it is and isn't the same note. Or something. It's a vibrations per second thing we won't go into. Though one wonders if we divided time a little differently so a second was a bit longer, would all music be out of tune?
Anyway, toss in flats and sharps, which are the same notes depending on the particular scale, and you get thirteen notes, or twelve since you're repeating yourself once you close the scale at the upper end. Either way, you still call it an octave and not a trideskitave. All the same, you get more than thirteen (or twelve) scales out of all that because there's major, minor, diminished, flattened fifth scales and such.
As you can imagine the number of chords and progressions is quite large. Yet, if you want to write a hit pop song you can throw out all that because you don't need most of it. That's because every hit pop song uses the same four chords and progression. Don't believe it? Listen and maybe laugh:
Axis of Awesome - Four Chord Song (with song titles)
As you can see, writing a pop song is simple. In construction. Writing one that's a hit, not so easy.
On the other hand if you want to write Middle-Eastern pop music you have many more possibilities to use, and, one supposes, also ignore. That's because, while the European scale goes in half steps, those darn Asians shove in some quarter steps. Which would mean you can't play a lot of Middle-Eastern music on traditional European instruments because they won't play the tweener notes.
On the third hand (assuming you're a freak), the traditional Chinese scale is only five notes. Or is it six? This repeating the note at the beginning and end is confusing. Anyway, if you want to play anything and make it sound Chinese-ish, simply use only the black keys on any keyboard instrument and there you go.
Filed under Links & Sites to See 8/30/16
Another good old "Brickbats" spot of art from Reason magazine of July, 2007.
A Florida court has found Tracy A. Thomas guilty of harboring ducks. Thomas says she leaves her garage door open so her cats can get in and out. But the judge found she was allowing ducks to come into the garage; he also told her she could be prosecuted for breaking a city law against allowing cats to roam freely. Thomas faces a fine of up to $500, but the judge says he will waive the fee if she keeps her garage door closed.
Hey, I used to do that. Not harbor ducks, leave the garage door ajar so the cats could go in and out. Wound up harboring squirrels. Not really so much harboring, I didn't want them in there. They're pretty destructive, ripping up stuff for nesting material. A squirrel's nest is pretty much like a big rat's nest in a tree. Or in a garage, as the case may be.
Anyway, I put an end to that by putting in a cat door for the garage. Pesky squirrels haven't figured that out yet. Haven't noticed any possums or raccoons using it either. Though I wouldn't put it past a raccoon to figure it out someday, clever little masked bandits that they are.
Filed under Snippets 8/25/16
Depending how you define "best selling" you could make the argument the Ford Model T would top the list. In its heyday this single car had a fifty percent market share, half the cars on the American road were Model Ts. Try outselling that. It wasn't the top selling in total numbers, but there were a lot fewer people around back then.
By volume the Volkswagen Beetle wins the title of best selling car at over thirty million units sold. Of course, unlike the Model T, it sold all over the world in a much more populous world. It helped that they built the thing for about forty years, more than twice as long as the tin Lizzy.
Still, the VW doesn't get the crown as the best selling motor vehicle of all time. Notice we said motor vehicle and not automobile. At over 80 million units sold, the winner is… the Honda Cub. That's right, the ultimate people's car is a motorcycle. Or is it a scooter? Or, with its large, narrow wheels a sort-of cross between the two? Whatever it is, its the king of the road.
Now then, if you want to say a vehicle that has changed over time but carried the same badge is the same model, the T isn't the best selling Ford model ever. It's the Transit van which has been selling world-wide in all its iterations some five decades and counting.
Filed under Fun Facts & Trivia 8/23/16
America doesn't have an official dialect, or even language, which isn't the case elsewhere. Many countries have a standard version of their particular language for official communication. In Germany, which has a dozen different dialects, they have Dachsprache, based on the Hannover dialect. In England, the unofficial official accent is Received Pronunciation, or RP. Some call it the mid-Atlantic accent, a sort-of mix of English and American someone living on an imaginary island halfway between the two might sound like.
Some professions also have their own way of speaking. For instance there's what you might call media-speak. Newscasters, documentary narrators, and advertising voiceover artists speak in ways that don't really match up to any regional, natural, conversational way of speaking. As Jack Lemmon said about Tony Curtis' Cary Grant imitation in Some Like it Hot, "Where did you come up with that phony accent? Nobody talks like that."
Another example is a speech pattern many airline pilots have informally adopted when speaking on the intercom to passengers during flight. It has a relaxed, folksy, confident feel to it based on the West Virginia accent. Why West Virginia? Because that's where Chuck Yeager hails from. You want to sound like a top pilot, talk like Chuck Yeager.
Are these dialects or accents? Or something else?
argot (är′ gō; är′ gət) noun, A specialized vocabulary or set of idioms used by a particular group or class; especially the jargon of the underworld.
jargon (jär′ gən) noun, 1. Nonsensical, incoherent, or meaningless utterance; gibberish. 2. A hybrid language or dialect. 3. The specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, class or fellowship.
patois (păt′ wä; pă twä′) noun, 1. Any subliterate regional French dialect. 2. Any regional dialect. 3. The special jargon of a group; cant.
So, we seem to have a number of synonyms, some with multiple meanings. None of which hit the bullseye. English, what a language.
Filed under Word Meanings and Origins 8/17/16
My next-door neighbor is having his driveway redone today. True to the stereotype, by an Italian concrete contractor. Which one supposes is appropriate since the Romans invented concrete, a sort-of artificial stone. Maybe not artificial really, since it's made of natural stone material. Perhaps more like reconstituted stone. Or perhaps artificially hardened stone. Whatever the apt description, it's stone you can pour and mold into whatever shape you need rather than chiseling it like marble or something.
Like the previously mentioned corrugated cardboard, concrete is also a ubiquitous, relatively cheap wonder material. Only not so modern. And it makes lousy packaging.
What I'm wondering is how they pour concrete in places like San Francisco. What I mean is, some of the streets there are pretty steep grades, how do they keep it from simply running down the hill when it's wet?
Filed under Odds & Ends 8/15/16
Infrequently Answered Question #99: Paper or plastic?
A: Something of a vague question, but for my money it's paper. Not so much for shopping bags, but for another container, the cardboard box.
Corrugated cardboard is one of the greatest, if least celebrated, inventions of all time. Strong, light, versatile, cheap, ubiquitous. How much damage has been spared goods by shipping and storing in corrugated cardboard? How much time, energy and space has been saved by replacing wooden crates with cardboard boxes? Forget plastic, corrugated cardboard is the modern wonder material.
I came across the following and figured there wasn't much I could say about the wonderfulness of cardboard to beat it, they're making houses out of the stuff. I'm not talking about the homeless sleeping in cardboard boxes, real homes.
This Tiny Cardboard Home Takes Only 1 Day To Build & Lasts 100 Years
Folks like to make claims about things that haven't proved out yet, so you'll understand if I don't take the "lasts 100 years" as fact. Remember Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion house? How about Thomas Edison's concrete house?
For a little backstory on the origins of corrugated cardboard, there's this from Gizmodo:
How the Cardboard Box Was Invented
Filed under Infrequently Answered Questions 8/10/16
Now that I know a thing or two about web animation, I've updated an old lift explanation companion article, "The Trouble With Airflow Diagrams." Since this bit was all about how wings and air and whatnot move, what better than to have diagrams that, you know, move. Seems a natural. These should make it much easier to understand what I was getting at.
It's brand spanking new old content, if you will. Even if you don't really know, as I don't, why something new is brand spanking.
The Trouble With Airflow Diagrams
Filed under Odds & Ends 8/9/16
Forget Hoffman, not that anyone remembers him, Porsche is the German car guy to remember. Ferdinand Porsche is famous as the founder of the car company bearing his name, the first offering of which was a relatively affordable sports car. Not something the outfit is known for these days. He's also renowned as the creator of the Volkswagen Beetle. Perhaps less well-known are his highly successful Auto Union (now Audi) mid-engine race cars of the 1930s.
Herr Porsche was an auto innovator of the first stripe from the beginning. His first effort was a revolutionary electric car where the wheels were electric motors. A highly efficient design since there was no loss of power through mechanical connecting shafts and whatnot. His second car was a gasoline engine/electric hybrid. Pretty much the same system in hybrid cars today, only about a hundred years ago.
Elon Musk is but a pale imitation of the real genius that was Ferdinand Porsche.
Filed under Links & Sites to See 8/5/16
I reprise an old Suck.com spot that just seemed appropriate considering the time in the political cycle. Only this time around, I've animated the spot for your enjoyment. Too bad I didn't know how to do that back in the day. Would it have made it funnier? Would it have made Suck better? Would it have saved my job? We'll never know.
All we know for sure, for this election we have some different liars telling different lies. Have no fear, many of the old lies and liars are still going strong. The classics never die. Enjoy that, too.
Filed under Snippets 8/2/16
Not that anyone tunes in to terry colon dot com for handyman advice, but I made a promise of a few tips so here they are. Hopefully, they are not the usual tips you've run across before and are possibly useful. If not, well, a couple are animated. Just as good as an instructional video, only not.
Ten DIY Tips for Revamping Your Studio (or Any Room, Actually)
You may have noticed I have no tips for painting windows. I don't have to paint windows because my old place sports 1950s aluminum windows. Not the panes, which are glass of course, but the frames, sills and so on are unpainted aluminum. Not all that energy efficient, but they have that mid-century modern look that suits me right down to the ground.
Filed under Top Tens and Other Lists 7/29/16
Not every Brazilian is a soccer star, not every Frenchman can cook, and not every German is a brilliant car engineer. To wit, the misbegotten automotive monstrosity, the Hoffman. Never heard of it? Well, there's a very good reason for that. See for yourself:
What It's Like To Drive The Worst Car In The World
While the dedicated reader may have noticed my fancy for bubble cars, not all bubble cars are created equal. The Hoffman is a lot less equal than the rest.
Filed under Links & Sites to See 7/25/16
Believe it or not I'm amongst the richest people in the world. The key phrase is, "in the world." Globally, over $77,000 in net worth puts you in the top ten percent.
Then again, the comparison is a bit misleading because the local cost of living makes a difference. Plus, things like income and GDP are calculated in terms of commerce rather than actual production or goods. For instance, paint the house yourself, no GDP. Hire a painter, GDP. Did more work get done because you paid for it rather than doing it yourself?
Subsistance ruralists grow crops, herd animals, build housing, make textiles, tools and pottery, yet generate no income or GDP simply because they didn't buy or sell any of it. Doesn't mean they created no wealth, it just doesn't show up as GDP or income. So when they tell you such-and-such country has some really low per capita income, what does it really mean?
On the flip side of the above, when American moms got jobs in large numbers starting in the 1970s an entire daycare industry emerged to do the work for money mothers had been doing unpaid. When the wife works and then hires out the cooking, cleaning, and laundry, GDP goes up. Yet no more work is done than if they stayed at home and did those things themselves as they used to do. Makes you wonder how much GDP growth in the last 50 odd years has been phony?
Speculations aside, in light of how little effort I've been putting into terry colon dot com of late, I guess it makes me the idle rich. I can live with that.
Filed under Talkin' Bout Money 7/22/16
A very early Suck.com that pretty much sums up my current attitude to frequent blogging, if blogging's what I'm doing here at terry colon dot com. Not that I'm actually at the beach sunbathing, just enjoying the great outdoors of summer. Working, actually. Only on homeowner type stuff. I'll get back into the swing of internetty things later. How much later? Time will tell.
And considering that spot of art is nearly twenty years old, time flies, too.
Filed under Snippets 7/18/16
There's this bit about square pegs and round holes, but how about square pegs that are round holes? Which won't make any sense until you go watch the video:
The Ambiguous Cylinder optical illusion
Filed under Links & Sites to See 7/13/16
Got the studio redone and all systems are back online. Finally. Took longer than expected and didn't work as planned. The initial plans were left in tatters, as they say. As I drew. I'll spare you the details.
One thing in the aftermath I also didn't foresee or plan on I discovered when I sat down to draw this pic and some sketches for a Reason job, I'm out of drawing practice. Take almost two weeks away from putting pencil on paper and you lose your touch. Just goes to show, practice, practice, practice. Hey, the best athletes and musicians in the world practice constantly to keep their edge. Same thing applies to third rate illustrators.
Can't tell whether it's effected my writing. Well, that wasn't all that good to begin with. Onward and upward. Onward, at any rate.
Filed under Odds & Ends 7/11/16
Seven DIY Rules of Thumb
While the last sounds like a weak joke, it's actually true. They studied it. Something to do with adrenaline or dopamine or something, I'm not sure. Still, screaming with pain is natural, you gotta figure it must have a purpose. Cursing is just putting words to the scream. If having your mother kiss the owie will make it better... I have no information on that.
Filed under Top Tens and Other Lists 7/1/16
I'm currently refurbishing the studio from ceiling to floor so everything is more or less broken down and out of sorts. So, nothing really new from me here, content-wise. But there will be some hard-learned DIY tips in the aftermath. So stay tuned. OK, not tuned really, but bookmark and come back later for the goodies on how you can redo your room the Terry way.
For the time being, enjoy this old Suck.com Jackson Pollack spot of art. Or is that a splot of art? Some pun.
Filed under Odds & Ends 6/27/16
A few days late, but still timely enough. I mean, summer lasts for months. Anyway, the word summer comes from… oh, who cares? It's summer. Relax. Enjoy the warmth and sunshine. Take your shoes off and stroll barefoot through the grass. You'll feel better. It's good for you. At least, if the grounding/earthing people are right.
Filed under Odds & Ends 6/23/16
Forget battery electric cars, could be the 200 year-old Sterling engine is the future of motoring.
San Antonio man has engine that gets 100 mpg
Filed under Links & Sites to See 6/20/16
Infrequently Answered Question #98: If you park on the driveway and drive on the parkway what do you do on the freeway and highway?
A: To follow form I guess you drive freely on the highway and drive high on the freeway. Well, some folks do, at any rate.
OK, admittedly silly. Here's a road related segue question: Why is, as they tell us, driving a privilege and not a right? Just because the government decided so? How about walking or riding a bike, privilege or right? What's the actual underlying principle here? They say it's a free country, but look how many things you need a license for. Meaning, all the things you need government permission to do. Hunt, fish, own a dog, cut hair, start a business and on and on. Could be worse, I suppose, in England you need a license to own a TV.
Filed under Infrequently Answered Questions 6/17/16
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah. Blog blog, blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog, blog. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Whether that's an entire case of the blahs or maybe just half a box is hard to tell. Still, just because there is a terry colon dot com doesn't mean it's required writing. I mean, we're not locked into updating regularly, as depicted in the old magazine (forget which one) spot from 1997. Enjoy it for what it's worth, blah blah blah.
Filed under Snippets 6/14/16


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Teachers and students are shocked that a song of a sexual nature was used for a listening exercise in a year 12 German language exam.
The exam, held across the country last week, included the song Relativ by German group Wise Guys.
It included the lyrics (translated to English) "You are nicer than my neighbour and I expect in bed, I could do with you relatively much".
Some students were so perplexed by the song they left the exam in tears while others reacted by laughing in disbelief, two German teachers who have complained to NZQA said.
Warwick Gibbs, a German teacher with 40 years experience and who has marked national papers in the past, says the song was inappropriate for his students because of the sexual nature of the lyrics and that a song was used instead of spoken text.
He has never come across a song in an exam and says it is a contrast with the NZQA standard which asked students to "demonstrate understanding of a variety of German spoken texts on familiar matters".
"Since when was spoken texts a song?"
Students were asked to write what the song was about and to describe the man and woman mentioned in the lyrics.
Another German teacher, who did not want to be named, said students were asked for the inferred meaning which could have resulted in answers such as "she must be good at dancing, because when she dances it makes him hot" or "he likes to watch her, so maybe she's a stripper".
It was "totally inappropriate" for year 12 students, she said.
"It also sounded as if it had been recorded in a fish bowl; the echoing was so great that I even found it difficult to hear."
She listened to it three times and still couldn't understand all of what was said.
"I'm their teacher and I'm struggling to find the meaning," she said.
"It makes us as teachers feel incapable. We can't prepare our students."
Both teachers received no warning that a song may be used in the exam so couldn't give their students a heads-up.
NZQA deputy chief executive Richard Thornton said the song was chosen "as it was felt it would engage the candidates".
"The song was about 'topics of personal and/or community interest' as the standard requires," Thornton said.
The first stanza was translated to help orient the 458 students who sat the exam, he said.
"The recording was done professionally and the lyrics are clear and easily heard, with no interference on the recording."
Thornton said the song was chosen with 16 and 17 year olds in mind.
Despite the sexual connotations, students were just confused by the song in general, one teacher said.
"The students said they had no idea there was going to be a song in there and wondered why we hadn't done anything in class.
"They made it impossible for Kiwi kids to pass. They've really directed it for native speakers to get excellence grades," she said.
Gibbs said the paper was "astonishing".
"This was never going to be easy to understand, especially when there are backing vocals plus music, both of which can affect the hearing of vital words."
Some students would have given up or under-performed and the exam would undoubtedly influence some to drop the subject next year, he said.
Other language exams were yet to take place and Spanish and French teachers were anxious of what to expect, Gibbs said.
Thornton would not say if songs were to be used in any other exams this year.
The teachers were encouraging other German teachers to complain to NZQA before the papers are marked.
"I feel like we have to do something for the kids so it doesn't happen again next year."
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