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This is a discussion on Ireland declares war on France! within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; An oldie-but-goodie... Jacques Chirac, The French Prime Minister, was sitting in his office wondering what kind of mischief he could perpetrate against the United States ...
An oldie-but-goodie...
Jacques Chirac, The French Prime Minister, was sitting in his office wondering what kind of mischief he could perpetrate against the United States when his telephone rang.
"Hallo, Mr. Chirac!", a heavily accented voice said. "This is Paddy down at the Harp Pub in County Sligo, Ireland. I am ringing to inform you that we are officially declaring war on you!"
"Well, Paddy," Chirac replied, "This is indeed important news! How big is your army?"
"Right now," said Paddy, after a moment's calculation, "there is myself, me cousin Sean, me next door neighbor Seamus, and the entire dart team from the pub. That makes eight!"
Chirac paused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have one hundred thousand men in my army waiting to move on my command."
"Begorra! !" said Paddy. "I'll have to ring you back!"
Sure enough, the next day, Paddy called again. "Mr. Chirac, the war is still on. We have managed to get us some infantry equipment!"
"And what equipment would that be, Paddy?" Chirac asked.
"Well, we have two combines, a bulldozer, and Murphy's farm tractor."
Chirac sighed, amused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 6,000 tanks and 5,000 armored personnel carriers. Also, I've increased my army to one hundred fifty thousand since we last spoke."
"Saints preserve us!" said Paddy. "I'll have to get back to you."
Sure enough, Paddy rang again the next day. "Mr. Chirac, the war is still on! We have managed to get ourselves airborne! We've modified Jackie McLaughlin's ultra-light with a couple of shotguns in the cockpit, and four boys from the Shamrock Pub have joined us as well!"
Chirac was silent for a minute and then cleared his throat. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 100 bombers and 200 fighter planes. My military complex is surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And since we last spoke, I've increased my army to two hundred thousand!"
"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!", said Paddy, "I'll have to ring you back."
Sure enough, Paddy called again the next day. "Top o' the mornin', Mr. Chirac! I am sorry to tell you that we have had to call off the war."
"I'm sorry to hear that," said Chirac. "Why the sudden change of heart?"
"Well," said! Paddy, "we've all had a long chat over a bunch of pints, and decided there's no foo-kin way we can feed two hundred thousand prisoners!"
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Funny and about the truth aint it
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I heard that one when it was, Ireland declares war on Sadam. I still love it.
Why did they stop shooting off fireworks at Disneyland Paris?
French troops kept surrendering to Mickey Mouse.
There are 2 sounds in the world that strike more fear than any others. A click when you should hear a bang and a bang when you should hear a click.
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All this frency talk reminded me of one scene in this flash animation, I got a good laugh from it.
si vis pacem, para bellum
protego communis bona
d2thomas...thanks for posting that link....it was very funny.
USAF: Loving Our Obscene Amenities Since 1947
The Complete Military History of France
- Gallic Wars - Lost. In a war whose ending foreshadows the next 2000 years of French history, France is conquered by of all things, an Italian.
- Hundred Years War - Mostly lost, saved at last moment by schizophrenic teenaged girl, who inadvertently creates The First Rule of French Warfare; "France's armies are victorious only when not led
by a Frenchman."
- Italian Wars - Lost. France becomes the first and only country to ever lose two wars when fighting Italians.
- Wars of Religion - France goes 0-5-4 against the Huguenots
- Thirty Years War - France is technically not a participant, but manages to get invaded anyway. Claims a tie on the basis that eventually the other participants started ignoring her.
- War of Devolution - Tied. Frenchmen take to wearing red flowerpots as chapeaux.
- The Dutch War - Tied
- War of the Augsburg League/King William's War/French and Indian War - Lost, but claimed as a tie. Three ties in a row induces deluded Frogophiles the world over to label the period as the height of French military power.
- War of the Spanish Succession - Lost. The War also gave the French their first taste of a Marlborough, which they have loved every since.
- American Revolution - In a move that will become quite familiar to future Americans, France claims a win even though the English colonists saw far more action. This is later known as "de Gaulle Syndrome", and leads to the Second Rule of French Warfare; "France only wins when America does most of the fighting."
- French Revolution - Won, primarily due the fact that the opponent was also French.
- The Napoleonic Wars - Lost. Temporary victories (remember the First Rule!) due to leadership of a Corsican, who ended up being no match for a British footwear designer.
- The Franco-Prussian War - Lost. Germany plays the role of drunk Frat boy to France's ugly girl home alone on a Saturday night.
- World War I - Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein." Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.
- World War II - Lost. Conquered French liberated by the United States and Britain just as they finish learning the Horst Wessel Song.
- War in Indochina - Lost. French forces plead sickness, take to bed with the Dien Bien Flu
- Algerian Rebellion - Lost. Loss marks the first defeat of a western army by a Non-Turkic Muslim force since the Crusades, and produces the First Rule of Muslim Warfare; "We can always beat the French." This rule is identical to the First Rules of the Italians, Russians, Germans, English, Dutch, Spanish, Vietnamese and Esquimaux.
- War on Terrorism - France, keeping in mind its recent history, surrenders to Germans and Muslims just to be safe. Attempts to surrender to Vietnamese ambassador, fail after he takes refuge in a McDonald's.
The question for any country silly enough to count on the French should not be "Can we count on the French?" but rather "How long until France
edit to add: d2thomas, that was a great video...thanks for posting
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As much as any young English actor, Terence Stamp thrived in the swinging '60s. He was part of a new working-class generation that included one-time flatmate Michael Caine, as well as Albert Finney and Peter O'Toole. At 25 he was nominated for an Oscar for his first movie, Billy Budd. Once described as ''the most beautiful man in England'', Stamp worked with a roll-call of leading directors: William Wyler on The Collector, Joseph Losey on Modesty Blaise, John Schlesinger on Far from the Madding Crowd, Federico Fellini on Spirits of the Dead, Pier Paolo Pasolini on Theorem and Ken Loach on Poor Cow.
He was not short of female company either, accompanying girlfriend Jean Shrimpton to the 1965 Melbourne Cup, where he found the Australian paparazzi so intrusive he told his agent never to accept an acting job in that godforsaken place. (He later changed his mind, dragging up for The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, suiting up for a troubled Mars mission in Red Planet, and acting opposite a piece of paper in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.)
Stamp also had relationships with Julie Christie and Brigitte Bardot and, more recently, was married for six years to an Australian pharmacist 35 years his junior, after meeting her in Bondi.
After the buzzing '60s, Stamp had a long break from movies. Jobless after a couple of flops, he spent nine years at an Indian ashram, only returning to work when he was handed a dirty, dog-eared letter addressed to ''Clarence Stamp'' offering him a role in two Superman movies.
Now 74, Stamp is philosophical about these colourful ups and downs, even his divorce five years ago. ''She got bored with me quite quickly,'' he says without a hint of rancour or regret.
How does that leave him feeling about relationships? ''I'm learning untethered love,'' he says. ''It's not tethered to anything in particular, or anyone in particular.''
Stamp is on the phone from London, where he is staying with friends, to talk about his latest film, the drama Song for Marion. He told an English newspaper recently that he hasn't had a home for years; he stays with friends or moves from hotel to hotel. ''I always saw myself as a kind of strolling player, travelling about,'' he says.
In Song for Marion he plays a prickly retiree, Arthur, who has to learn to cope when ill-health strikes his wife, Marion (Vanessa Redgrave), whose greatest pleasure is singing in a choir led by cheerful Elizabeth (Gemma Arterton).
Stamp had one reservation about taking on what he thought was a beautiful script: Arthur was an ordinary, working-class man.
''I can do ordinary,'' he says. ''But I don't do ordinary very well.''
Writer-director Paul Andrew Williams (London to Brighton) told him not to worry, saying he wrote the film about his grandfather, who was also good looking in his later years.
''It was very intuitive on his part, which gave me a great deal of confidence,'' Stamp says. ''As soon as I'd got over that, I thought, 'It's about my mum and dad'. My dad [Tom, a tugboat captain] was unusually good looking. He was better looking than any of us boys. He only ever wanted to be with my mother and she only ever wanted to be with him.
I can do ordinary. But I don't do ordinary very well.
''So I thought to myself, 'Fair enough, if I get in difficulties, I'll play it as Tom'.''
Song for Marion joins The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Quartet and Performance as films about retirees dealing with such big issues as mortality, ageing, love and regret. Their box-office success indicates a growing audience for the triumph-over-ageing genre.
''These films were all in production at the same time,'' Stamp says. ''So it was obviously a universal movement.
''When we closed the Palm Springs Film Festival, I was sat in the front row so couldn't sneak out at the end, and hundreds of people came up to me and said, 'Please make more films for us'. I understand that, because I don't go to films very much because they're all for kids. I don't want to see films for kids. I'm not interested in Harry Potter and Star Wars and special effects. I'm not interested in virtual reality. I like my reality to be reality.''
Working for George Lucas on The Phantom Menace confirmed that view. ''It wasn't my kind of thing,'' Stamp says. ''I'd just arrived in Sydney one day when I got the call to do three days on Star Wars. I really didn't want to go but I went because I was going to be working with the wonderful actress who won the Oscar for Black Swan. I got on to the set and said, 'Where's the wonderful Natalie Portman?' And Lucas said, 'Oh, I've given her the day off. That's her. That bit of paper stuck on that post, that's Natalie.' I thought, 'I won't be doing many more of these'.''
One of the attractions of Song for Marion was working with Redgrave, whose distinguished career has included Isadora, Howard's End and an Oscar for Julia. Having performed with Redgrave on stage decades ago, Stamp wanted to work with her on film.
''In the year before the shoot she had lost her daughter, her sister and her brother,'' he says. ''When I walked on to the set that first day I realised that she was completely shattered. So my first thought was, just as a human being, I have to really be here for her.
''But like all great artists - we didn't really talk about it - I assume she put all that emotion into the character.''
Stamp seems none too troubled about his own ageing. ''My work has always been about my 'presence' - presence as in being present,'' he says. ''It was intuitive. It just kind of happened on my first movie that I was naturally more present between 'action' and 'cut' than I was in real life. Slowly, over the years, that sense of presence has seeped off into my day-to-day life. I've been learning to live with the energy of 'presence' really, so I don't think about the passing of time.
''Time is an idea inside that presence. Time is a thought. It's not actual. What's actual is a sense of awareness that one is born with and cannot get away from. It's always there.''
As well as three memoirs, Stamp has written a sequel of sorts to one of his best movies in recent decades, Steven Soderbergh's The Limey. Called Waterloo Sunset - a reference to the famous Kinks song that mentions Stamp and Christie in the line, ''Terry meets Julie, Waterloo Station/Every Friday night'' - it's about a gangster who gets out of prison after 25 years and wants to win back his lover and get revenge on his best friend for betraying him.
Soderbergh urged him to write the film but now that the filmmaker is retiring, Stamp might direct it himself. Or he might not.
''I don't really have any psychological ambitions any more,'' he says. ''I don't create anything in my mind and pull anything to me. I'm just out there, waiting to see what happens.''
Song for Marion screens from April 25.

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Un oh, not to dash your dreams...but you need others to help and filming is not easy. Need friends that have a good camera, with some good shooting skills, a good editing skills, good snow, weather and light....etc. There are a ton of kids that have skillz that say they want to get some good edits....but when a good day hits they are way too antsy to stand around waiting for the shot to get set up. Just realize for 1 minute of good vid there are probably many many hours of film, labor and expense. Just noting that you need others to help your E-penis stroking. At least around my parts you couldn't pay anybody enough $ to give up poo lines inorder for you to be p-star.
btw we are talking to this kid
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What size board should I get?
Hey guys, the title says it all. What size board should I get?
height - 5'5
weight - 145
shoe size - 10
age - 14
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I had pretty much the same specs last season, I was about 135 and 5'3. I was riding on a 142cm board. Even then, that board felt a little bit too small. Especially when I would do a board slide and my nose and tail would be touching the snow -_- My mom is bent on the fact that park = small board and refuses to believe that I need anything bigger than a 142cm. Lol my dad is on my side, but my mom is like "NO. YOUR WRONG." So anyway, who is right? Should I stick with my 142cm this season, or should I get something bigger? I ONLY ride park.
|If you want to get free shit, become a regular at your local shop. Some rep from burton isn't going to see you online and think 'he's our next big star'. You get sponsored not only because you're really good at snowboarding but because you love snowboarding and would be happy doing it for nothing. Spend less time editing videos of your sick grab and spend more time on the mountain actually doing it.
|Uh Oh's mom said he was good so clearly little Timmy is good. Mothers know all.
Originally Posted by BurtonAvenger View Post
is this a long incoherent sentence with lots of commas, yes it is, and I don't give a flying fuck.
"Just trying" to get a sponsor isn't going to get you a sponsor. People who adventured around the world on their own dime, taken and written epic accounts along with high quality edits aren't getting sponsored so why would a half-baked first attempt at a park edit, of which there are thousands out there, be enough to get sponsors? The majority of edits on youtube aren't sponsor-me edits, they're just out there because people have an amateur love of snowboarding and cinematography and will spend their own money and own time doing something they never even intend to get anything back out of, let alone a contract. Some of these edits are pretty damned good no matter what scale you judge it on, too.
Look, the people riding pro for teams spent their whole lives trying to get sponsored. They sacrificed everything working a shit night job and riding every hour they could hoping to develop enough skill and style to commoditize their snowboarding into something a company can use to sell snowboard related shit. Believe me, if you were on the cusp of getting a fat contract, not having a section on SBF.com to stick your edit under wouldn't be stopping you. So what would be the point?
Agrees with BA.
|ME ME ME ME ME I'M A JOCK ME ME ME ME ME. Fuck off dude wrong mentality for snowboarding.
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Originally Posted by BurtonAvenger View Post
And there's that E-penis stroking again. I'm so good, I have a video, I have this, you should worship me, me, me, me, me, me, me. You're not that good you're not even mediocre you're just cocky. I know kids in t shirt shops that are better than you and they don't care if they get a sponsor. You have the wrong attitude.
Sponsored or not I love the sport and always will, just why not try for a sponsor? I enjoy it, so why not pursue it a little bit? Now believe me, i'm not stupid. Unless I start throwing down double corks I'm probably not going pro, so my grades are all still A's, but I have fun with it so why not try to get sponsored? It's like football, JV or Varsity I still love and play football, but Varsity is just better.
|And there's that E-penis stroking again. I'm so good, I have a video, I have this, you should worship me, me, me, me, me, me, me. You're not that good you're not even mediocre you're just cocky. I know kids in t shirt shops that are better than you and they don't care if they get a sponsor. You have the wrong attitude.
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Wizards' Wittman offers no excuses for feeble start
By Steve Ginsburg
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington Wizards coach Randy Wittman refuses to use injuries to his two best players, John Wall and Nene, as the reason for his team's feeble start to the NBA season.
The second-year coach of the once-proud franchise also does not want to hear about a young roster or bad luck down the stretch for the Wizards' 0-8 record.
"We're not going to use excuses," Wittman told Reuters on Monday. "We've got to learn how to do it, have confidence in doing it, and go out and do it. That's what it boils down to.
"You can't hope it happens. You have to make it happen. That's where we have to get."
The Wizards were booed mercilessly Saturday during an 83-76 loss to the Utah Jazz when they became the second NBA franchise ever to open consecutive seasons with eight straight losses.
They look to avoid setting a franchise record for season-opening losses when they host the Indiana Pacers (4-7) later Monday at the Verizon Center.
Wittman has shuffled his line-up in hopes of finding a winning combination but there are no easy answers. The team seems to wilt late in the game as five of Washington's losses have been by seven points or fewer.
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Dabbs Named Volleyball Assistant
May 2, 2011
CINCINNATI – Former Appalachian State University volleyball assistant coach Samantha Dabbs has been hired to a similar position at the University of Cincinnati, head coach Reed Sunahara announced Monday.
"We are excited to have Sam join our staff. She will bring added energy and competitiveness to what we've established here at Cincinnati," Sunahara said. "She has a good knowledge of the BIG EAST from her playing experience. I think Sam is one of the up-and-coming young coaches who has a bright future in this profession and will help develop our setters."
Dabbs joins the Cincinnati staff after coaching at Appalachian State during the 2010 season. She fills the void created when Erin Virtue left the program to take a position at University of Michigan.
A native of San Antonio, Texas, Dabbs enjoyed a successful playing career as a setter after completing her final two seasons of eligibility at Louisiana State University following two years at University of Louisville.
"I'm very excited to be a part of the Cincinnati volleyball program and for the opportunity to learn from two well respected coaches such as Reed and Myanna (Hellsten)," Dabbs said.
Dabbs was named a 2009 AVCA All-South Region Honorable Mention, as well as All-Southeastern Conference First Team and All-Louisiana First Team selections following her senior season at LSU when she averaged 11.33 assists per set, which ranked second in the SEC and 18th in the NCAA.
"In my volleyball career, I was fortunate to have coaches that pushed me to be successful as both a student and an athlete," added Dabbs. "I believe that is what Bearcat volleyball stands for – success on and off the court. It's a program I'm very proud to be a part of."
As a junior in 2008, Dabbs ranked fifth in the SEC in assists and was selected to the All-Louisiana Sports Writers Association Second Team and named the LSWA Newcomer of the Year. She recorded a triple-double in her LSU debut with 48 assists, 10 kills and 14 digs against Texas A&M.
Prior to her two years at LSU, Dabbs led Louisville in assists as a freshman and sophomore and helped the Cardinals to a No. 17 ranking in 2007. She spent that summer competing with USA Volleyball's A2 Junior National team, which played in Croatia where it defeated Italy to become the first American team to win the Global Challenge in its three years of existence.
Hailing from Winston Churchill High School, Dabbs was ranked as the No. 22 recruit in the nation by PrepVolleyball.com. She was named the Texas Outstanding Setter of the Year and earned three bronze medals and helped win a National Title in the Open Division in the USAV Junior Olympics.


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Murray's Bio
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Colorado State head volleyball coach Tom Hilbert completed his 2014 coaching staff on Tuesday, naming Luke Murray as the Rams' newest assistant coach.
Murray, 28, will work with the team's middle blockers, in addition to being the program's scouting coordinator and handling a large portion of its recruiting.
"I'd like to thank Tom and the entire CSU athletics staff for this opportunity," Murray said. "It's an honor for me to work under Tom, and to be a part of a program that has such a rich history. Colorado State volleyball is a big name on a national level, and I'm excited to be part of it."
Murray spent the past two seasons (2012-13) as an assistant at East Tennessee State. With the Buccaneers, he guided the team to a pair of conference titles and a 45-22 overall record.
"Luke is somebody who is mature beyond his experience in college coaching," Hilbert said. "I view the hiring of him the same way I recruit. I think he's somebody who has great potential. He has the desire to excel in this field, and from all accounts from the people I've talked to, he's an extremely hard worker."
In 2012, ETSU went 23-13 and appeared in the school's first-ever NCAA tournament after running the table during the Atlantic-Sun tournament. A year later, the Buccaneers went 22-9 and won the regular-season title.
Murray worked with the setters, the position he won a national championship at while playing for Penn State. As ETSU's top assistant, he also served as the team's recruiting coordinator and assisted with scouting and academics.
ETSU setter Jamie Rutledge averaged 10.79 assists per set in 2013 (52nd in NCAA), in addition to earning several community service and leadership awards. Murray also coached Megan Devine, the 2012 Atlantic-Sun Player of the Year and tournament MVP. Devine was named a 2013 AVCA All-America Honorable Mention.
Aside from setting, ETSU's offense was in the top 50 nationally for hitting percentage in 2013, and on defense, the Buccaneers ranked 19th in the NCAA with 2.77 blocks per set. CSU ranked just ahead of ETSU, ranking 13th with 2.84 per set.
Even with a successful two-year stint at ETSU, Murray is most known for his playing experience. The former setter helped Penn State to a national title in 2008, being named to the NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team. As a senior that year, Murray was also tabbed as an AVCA second-team All-America selection and the AVCA/Sports Imports National Player of the Week on March 27, 2008.
The two-time captain and first-team All-EIVA selection finished his career with 3,191 assists, which ranks seventh all-time in Penn State history. He played for head coach Mark Pavlik.
Following his collegiate career, Murray trained with the U.S. National Team in Anaheim, Calif., under Hugh McCutcheon and Alan Knipe (2008-09, spring 2011). From there, Murray played professionally in Cyprus and Puerto Rico (2009-12).
"I've had some great coaches teach and develop me over the years," Murray said. "To be able to pull philosophies and styles from coaches who are really well respected is something I feel fortunate for. The coaches I've gotten to play for and coach with have developed me as a coach."
Murray spent three summers as a volleyball clinician with U.S. Elite Volleyball (2011-13), where he co-ran a clinic designed to help coaches implement effective practice methods. Prior to that, he spent two summers (2009-10) as the lead coach for Gold Medal Squared.
Away from the court, Murray has helped his players to plenty of success in the classroom. During the 2012-13 academic year, ETSU held a 3.59 grade-point average, with four student-athletes being placed on the A-Sun All-Academic Team.
Murray, a native of Washington, Pa., graduated from Penn State in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. He is married to the former Kendall Grow.
He replaces Matthew Botsford, who accepted the head coaching position at Florida Gulf Coast on Feb. 10. Botsford is one of six active Division I coaches to formerly coach under Hilbert.
"Luke's playing experience speaks for itself, but I think we'll find that his hard work makes him just as good of a coach," Hilbert said. "I'm very pleased with this hire. I think he's a good fit for us as a staff and the Colorado State program."
CSU is coming off a record-breaking season, in which the Rams set multiple program marks, including 27 consecutive victories and a .933 winning percentage (28-2). CSU won its fifth consecutive Mountain West title, earned a trip to the NCAA tournament for the 19th straight season, was ranked as high as No. 9 nationally and finished seventh in the NCAA for average attendance.
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A patient's family handed me lemons the other day.
Big, fat, juicy lemons from the lemon tree in her back yard that I have big, fat, juicy plans for because when you are handed lemons…
It isn't always making lemonade just as the lemons you are often handed aren't usually real lemons.
Nurses are more often than not handed A LOT of lemons because when you are caring for individuals on what is often a horrible, no-good, very bad day…if not the worst day of their life…you find yourself dealing with a lot of sh…er…lemons:
patients' problems, their family's and friends' problems, physicians' and other practitioners' problems, management problems, lab problems, pharmacy problems, radiology problems, housekeeping problems, security problems, your own family problems, aching feet, bursting bladders, raging hunger, eye-twitching headaches, computer downtime, short staffing, exhaustion…and on and on and on…
We handle it. We deal with it. It's what we do. It's part of our skill set; a skill set many of us come by naturally and the rest of us work very hard to cultivate and integrate into our practice. Nurses deal with it.
But nurses, just like everyone else, are human…very human. Nurses complain too. They complain sometimes about all of the above and then some. It might seem that might be all we do…to some who then shout STOP COMPLAINING ALREADY! DO SOMETHING! BE A CHANGE-MAKER! They're right, of course. We should do something. We almost always are even if they don't appreciate it.
Out of complaints and frustrations often comes just change as many agents of change find inspiration in their own complaints and the complaints of others. Dr. Hultquist, my Fundamentals in Nursing professor and Dean of the Nursing program I graduated from YEARS ago will be proud to know that I still recall some of the agents of change in nursing that she lectured about, all who were inspired from their own frustrations and complaints:
- Florence Nightingale- Of course one starts with Flo when talking about change-makers in our profession! Laying down the foundations of what is today our profession, Flo was a driving force in changing the reputation of nursing and nurses.
- Mary Breckinridge- While training and working as a nurse in post World War I Europe, she was inspired to consider that the model of care she was a part of delivering in France could be implemented in remote rural areas of the United States. From her work as a midwife and nurse in rural Kentucky, evolved the Frontier Nursing Service.
- Dorothea Dix- One of the pioneers of American Nurses, she became an activist for the post Civil War mentally ill helping to implement the first generation of mental health care in the United States.
- Mary Eliza Mahoney- recognized as one of the first African American women to break the color barrier graduating from nursing school. Her work through the years of her practice helped to significantly influence the elimination of racial discrimination in the registered nursing profession.
- Virginia Avenal Henderson- Where would we be were it not for the "first lady of nursing" who helped to define the role of the modern professional nurse, "the unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge."…Dr. Hultquist I am certain is beaming warmly that I remember this one! Her work is credited with shifting the focus of nursing research from studying nurses to studying the differences that nurses can make in people's lives.
- Walt Whitman- Hurray for murses like Walt Whitman! During the Civil War, Whitman spent almost all of his free time at the military hospitals caring for the wounded and ill soldiers. He tried to provide anything that the soldiers needed, bringing them food, writing letters and attending to their physical needs. Often spending his own money for supplies, he did all he could to bring them comfort. He was with many soldiers as they drew their dying breaths.
- Florence Guiness Blake- Blake is credited with making significant contributions in pediatric nursing and family centered nursing care highlighting he importance of parent-child relationships and parental involvement in the medical care of children.
- Linda Richards- Recognized as the first professionally trained American nurse. Richards established nursing training programs in the United States and Japan as well as created the first system for keeping individualized medical records for hospitalized patients.
All of these individuals were great agents of change in the history of the nursing profession…and they are absolutely, certainly not alone.
Nurses and medical staff in a Colombia hospital in the 1970s, frustrated with the lack of proper, working incubators for their frail, tiny patients, as well as increased infection rates, utilized the babies own mothers providing continuous skin to skin contact which freed up caregivers as well overcrowded incubator space. The added surprising benefit was a marked increase in survival rates, decrease in nosocomial infections and respiratory disease and overall improved breastfeeding success and maternal satisfaction and confidence. From this evolved kangaroo care, or skin-to-skin care, a technique practiced on newborn, usually preterm, infants wherein the infant is held, skin-to-skin, with an adult. Kangaroo care for pre-term infants may be restricted to a few hours per day, but if they are medically stable that time may be extended. Some parents may keep their babies in-arms for many hours per day.
Nurses and practitioners in my own NICU became agents of change asking why can't we have ZERO babies with CLABSI infections which we have managed to do for an unprecedented six years and counting. We're mighty proud of being a part of that change that evolved from complaining and questioning.
Yes, nurses complain a lot…so it seems. But so do teachers and cops and firefighters and store clerks and hairdressers and drivers and plumbers and students and grumpy old men and mommies and…we all complain. We are a bunch of complainers. We even complain about other people complaining expecting that they will stop complaining when we complain that they should. We're handed a bunch of lemons in our lives, in our workplace, our classroom, our homes, everwhere and we often do complain. It's what we do after is what counts most of all.
As for me and the lemons I was handed the other night…I have this great Lemon Chicken recipe.


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The Gainesville Police Department says it's not only fighting crime downtown but deterring it as well. As part of the department's zero tolerance policy on alcohol, the agency doubled its police presence last night. Police stress their goal isn't for more arrests rather it to increase public safety and enjoyment. Officers were on foot, bikes, and even horses patrolling the area.
"I want the law abiding citizen to go downtown and see why there is a lot of cops down here. It's safe downtown and I want the criminals to see that this is not a place I where want to be," said Segregant Barry Kays.
Some bar owners and patrons say the increase of officers, barricading streets, and the added patrol is intimidating and discourages people from going downtown. The Gainesville Police Department argues when people feel secure they're more willing to come out and spend money.
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Mercedes-Benz just showcased what it calls its "Dream Cars" right in the City of Dreams at the 2016 New York International Auto Show. The event marks the third appearance of the brand's fleet of dream cars, which started in Detroit and Geneva earlier this year. This time, the lineup is joined by models that are making their world premieres. The main attraction this time is the Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe, which was shown in Beijing last year in its concept form. Then the rest are the new additions to the Mercedes-AMG variants such as the E 43 4MATIC, C 63 Cabriolet, GLC 43 4MATIC, and the CLA 45 4MATIC that recently underwent a facelift…. Continue Reading »


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Teh hoomins are at Mk1 Madness this weekend. We takes turns keeping watch.
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All's good on the Volkshaus homefront. Just wanted to say mew before I continue, er, washing the car.
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Teh hoomins are getting ready for autox, which involved...
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I hope everyone had a happy Fangsgiving holiday! I gives thanks for kibble and squishy noms and belly rubs and hoomin hugs and ALL the grass!
Iz alive and well, posting from undisclosed locashunz - I may or may not have gotten into a fight on the line for teh kibbles, but hey, cats don't do maths so it was an even day as far as I'm...
Lulz I haxzored teh big mau's vortecks account (pw was "kibble". amateur. I changes it :sly:).
Ghillie here, I is doing my part to gain weight so Sandy doesn't blow me away! Cold showerz, do not...
Just as long as it's not cut with that 9-lives crap. I'll take some good catnip too. And not that crap from Newark either. I want some Vermont nip yo. :laugh:
Oh! I forgot to menshunz, the hoomins took the cabby and Trek to mk1 madness and brought me back a tiny water dish. Iz only good for two licks but I like it as decorashunz
We haz been busy at teh Volkshaus. The girl hoomin has a new hobby called autocross, which is when hoomins drive fast around stuff to catch the laser at the end. Pfft, I can catch the red dot in my...
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an air puck of mass m1= 0.25 kg is tied to a string and allowed to revolve in a circle of radius R=1.0m on a frictionless horizontal table . the other end of the string passes through a hole in the center of a table and a mass of m2=1.0kg is tied to it. the suspended mass remains in equilibrium while the puck on the tabeltop revolves.
a) what is the tension in the string
b) what is the horizontal force acting on the puck
c) what is the speed of the puck
the tension on the string has to be equal to the weight hanging down.
force on the puck equals tension.
force=m v^2/r solve for v


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[AMERICANS ABROAD] Clint Dempsey should come off the bench every game for Fulham. The American came on in the second half of the makeup EPL game at Stoke City on a snowy Tuesday night with the Cottagers trailing 3-0 and scored on a dipping volley from 40 yards in the 85th minute to cut the margin of defeat to 3-2.
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It had been an all-around bad evening for Fulham, which gave up three goals in the first 37 minutes and lost in-form Bobbie Zamora with a fractured dislocated shoulder.
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Duff's goal and twice came close to scoring for Fulham before he struck with a wicked shot from distance.
He again threatened in stoppage time but was denied by Stoke keeper Steve Simonsen.
"It is a bad day when you lose and it is a bad day when you lose Bobby Zamora ...," said Fulham manager Roy Hodgson. "It is a very expensive game for us."
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Stoke City 3 Fulham 2. Goals: Tuncay 12, Diagne-Faye 34, Sidibe 37; Duff 61, Dempsey 85.
City -- Simonsen, Higginbotham, Huth, Shawcross, Diagne-Faye, Lawrence (Diao, 90), Whitehead, Delap (Whelan, 66), Etherington, Sidibe, Tuncay (Fuller, 42).
Fulham -- Schwarzer, Kelly, Konchesky, Hangeland (Smalling, 46), Baird, Hughes, Gera, Murphy, Duff, Johnson, (Nevland, 83), Zamora (Dempsey, 54).
Referee: Mark Clattenburg.
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A massive thunderstorm has left 6,000 Toronto residents without power after tearing through parts of southern Ontario, leading to numerous tornado warnings and reports of funnel clouds.
Meteorologists are tracking an area of severe thunderstorms extending from near London through the northern GTA and east-northeastward into eastern Ontario, Environment Canada said on their website.
These are dangerous storms. A roof has been reported blown down in the Petawawa area and trees have been blown down. Wind damage has been reported in Petawawa, Pembroke, Gravenhurst, Bracebridge, Barrie, and Coldwater. The individual thunderstorms are moving eastward at 80 km/h while the area of thunderstorms is sinking southward at about 30 km/h. The thunderstorms are capable of producing damaging winds and large hail as well as the threat for a tornado. Torrential downpours are also associated. Some places could see local rainfall amounts of 50 mm in an hour.
Environment Canada issued tornado warnings for regions including cottage country as heavy winds snapped trees and sent residents running for shelter from lashing rain.
The weather service said there were unconfirmed reports of funnel clouds near Barrie and Bradford, with the areas' tornado warnings lifted later Friday afternoon.
Roughly 130,000 Hydro One customers had their power knocked out at one point, with more than 35,000 left in the dark in the Midland-Barrie-Orillia area alone.
Environment Canada Meteorologist Peter Kimbell says there are no confirmed reports of any tornadoes as the eastward storm rolled throughout the province in several waves.
Kimbell says some of the worst-hit areas include Pembroke and Petawawa on the Ottawa River, and Callander outside North Bay.
He said Environment Canada teams were planning to head to those areas once the storms died down to assess damage.
The southern Ottawa area was also hit with a tornado warning, but that was lifted just after 4:30 p.m.
A tornado warning was put in place for the Niagara Region, Hamilton and the Brantford area just before 7 p.m., as heavy rains settled into the Greater Toronto Area.
Severe thunderstorm warnings and watches were in place for virtually all of southern Ontario.
Residents flooded Twitter with photos of toppled trees and damaged buildings, with raindrops splattering camera lenses.
Provincial police Staff Sgt. Sharron Brown says Orillia and the surrounding area have been slammed with emergency calls.
"`We've heard of trees down on top of a vehicle, trees down across roadways blocking traffic," she said.
"Right now the priority is to respond to the calls for service," she said.
Kimbell says the fierce storms are causing major damage to residential areas, even if they don't technically reach tornado status.
"It really is immaterial in one sense whether it was caused by a tornado or not."
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As we look at media today, politics, religious organizations, business's, alternative methods, individuals, and groups standing for and against, we begin to ask ourselves, "Who is right?" What if the answer is none of them. None of them are right. Lets look at the "individual" which means undivided. The individual seems to be in constant conflict with itself. The mind is in a battle for good and bad, right and wrong, for and against, etc… and yet we are told there is one-verse, or universe.
We have made up our politics, religions, economy, marriage, divorce, money, in our game of make believe, which means making you believe something that isn't real, we have forgotten we have made it up. We made up from our individual duality. We made it up from a place of power over something, because most of us grew up with some sort of religion or spiritual practice which preached a God that has power over you. But that practice is based on the mind, that believes itself, believes its thoughts, believe in worry, doubt, confusion, which leads to violence with self and others. So here we are in a place of make believe. We believe in what we speak without understanding it, we believe in our teachers, ministers, parents, without questioning. We believe in our media without questioning. We believe because we are afraid to look inward and question this mind that needs to be questioned, inquired, and looked at. What if we were to understand that we are equal in the universe? The power over anything is made up. That we are equal in every way to the universe. That the word individual which means "undivided" actual was more real to you then separation is. That when you see homelessness, poverty, wealth, etc..outside that that is actually in you and if you have a problem with it out there then it needs to be looked at in side.
So rather than inquiring and questioning the mind inside, we act like it isn't happening, and throw up our garbage on society. We preach love, and stab each other in the back. We continue to take the low road, rather than high road. We refuse to look at ourselves, because we are comfortable in separation. Separation gives the individual a sense of specialness. We love to feel special in relationships, works, health, spirituality, religion, friends, because we don't feel that way inside. So maybe someone will give us that outside. But who cares right? You may read this and say I know this already, or hate this crap, or what is he talking about, all these ways of seeing this blog are correct. This blog isn't about accepting another way, it is about questioning, inquiring, and looking at ourselves. The invitation is for everyone.
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An irked President Trump is considering trade actions against Beijing.
There has been much speculation about whether Trump will retain Yellen as Fed chair when her term runs out early next year.
Fresh off a recent victory at Buffalo Wild Wings, Mick McGuire is ramping up his campaign at Deckers.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen said Tuesday that banks are "very much stronger" judging by how major institutions did in the recent stress tests.
Rates are jumping right now after global central bankers promised inflation is eventually coming.
Steel stocks climbed Tuesday amid reports the Trump administration could soon impose tariffs on foreign steel companies.
The Fed rightly plans to raise U.S. interest rates once more this year given recent inflation weakness is likely temporary, Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker said on Tuesday.
Wall Street may be primed for a pullback as the summer gets under way.
One of Wall Street's biggest bulls has a key decision to make.
Senators Bob Corker and Mark Warner are considering legislation that would break up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to Bloomberg.
Merck said Tuesday its cholesterol drug anacetrapib met its primary goal in significantly reducing coronary heart disease.
Central banks will find themselves stuck with slow growth over the long-term unless authorities do something decisive to turn things around, a U.S. central banker warned.
Investors have embraced a new three-letter abbreviation — E.S.G., or "environmental, social and governance" — as a yardstick for companies. How meaningful is it?
Fintech firms are worried Brexit could see the UK lose passporting benefits and access to talent, says TransferWise CEO Taavet Hinrikus.
These are the stocks posting the largest moves after the bell.
Former chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke said Monday economists have a "responsibility" to help address populist frustrations.
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Three parts today.
Randomness. Martin Scorsese and Dave Navarro.
Never before seen photos of Princess Diana and Charles on their honeymoon.
It's Hammer time for Rose McGowan.
Rumer Willis and about 10 new tattoos. Considering she only had one or two last week, I'm guessing they are either fake or she has a crush on a tattoo artist.
Long time no see anywhere, Renee Zellweger.
Shenae Grimes partying last night.
Sarah Jessica Parker points out the thing growing on Elizabeth Hurley's head.
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Archive for the 'Stop Online Piracy Act' tag
Adam Curry Explains Why SOPA Is A Distraction
The Podfather Has Spoken!
Yesterday, websites around the world went dark to protest the SOPA act which is geared to stop online piracy by killing DNS routing. There is actually a triumvirate of legislative acts: Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (OPEN) introduced by Darrel Issa (R).
Issa will have a hearing today to address DNS concerns. Domain Name Services are what get your website name (domain) to translate into an IP address, and without them a website is dead in the water to anyone that doesn't know your website's IP address.
Adam Curry diligently exposed what is really underlying all the bills that the tech media has missed. All of the bills refer to the Lanham Act which already exists, it isn't anything new under the sun.
Curry concludes that OPEN is the most fair to all parties as it requires the accuser to post a bond before an investigation takes place to combat frivolous threats.
This led Mr. Curry to actual domain name registration verification. Many internet savvy people and geeks worldwide are aware that the "whois" lookup of a website will reveal who registered the website with their name, address and phone number and some can be purchased by proxy services at higher fees for privacy.
The internet standards bureau known as ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is now taking submissions for new top level domains like .cool .ufo .shill .drone which you can use to register a new domain but the requirements have now changed.
Now a new domain name must have identity verification even if it is international. So a new website like dontdroneme.bro will have to have a verified government identification before you are allowed to register it.
Consequently when SOPA, PIPA, or OPEN becomes law you will be "hunted down" and found no matter where you live even if it is out of the country.
Curry concludes on his blog:
Until then, feel free to make your google+ facebook and twitter icons all black, as your faux protest is futile. The real change, that of your privacy online, is being made in plain sight by former Director of the National Cyber Security Center of the Department of Homeland Security Rod Beckstrom, current CEO of ICANN. Shill anyone?
Adam Curry Explains Why SOPA Is A Distraction
SOPA is a Red Herring
As usual, the bought and paid for self-fulfilling tech press is missing the elephant in the room.
The blogosphere discussion surrounding a self-imposed 'blackout' of "key" websites and services that we apparently can't live without, is scheduled for this wednesday. All in protest of proposed legislation in the house and senate.
I submit this is a big fat red herring.
First some background:
SOPA Shelved Indefinitely
Amid significant pressure from tens of thousands of internet users and major web behemoths like Google, Facebook, and Reddit, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is, in its current form, Dead on Arrival:
Misguided efforts to combat online privacy have been threatening to stifle innovation, suppress free speech, and even, in some cases, undermine national security. As of yesterday, though, there's a lot less to worry about.
The first sign that the bills' prospects were dwindling came Friday, when SOPA sponsors agreed to drop a key provision that would have required service providers to block access to international sites accused of piracy.
The legislation ran into an even more significant problem yesterday when the White House announced its opposition to the bills. Though the administration's chief technology officials officials acknowledged the problem of online privacy, the White House statement presented a fairly detailed critique of the measures and concluded, "We will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet." It added that any proposed legislation "must not tamper with the technical architecture of the Internet."
Though the administration did issue a formal veto threat, the White House's opposition signaled the end of these bills, at least in their current form.
A few hours later, Congress shelved SOPA, putting off action on the bill indefinitely.
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That's what he got on Sunday, as the Mets boosted Martinez to a big early lead against Mike Hampton and Pedro went into cruise-control mode, tossing just 61 pitches and leaving after six innings in a 8-1 Mets win.
"This is probably the only day I can say that I had an easy day at the office," Martinez told reporters. "I deserve it, don't I?"
With the Mets needing a victory to salvage a split of their four-game series with the Braves, the bats jumped on Hampton early.
Making his first start back off the disabled list, Hampton had none of the magic that Tim Hudson stymied the Mets with on Saturday night; New York battered the left-hander for five runs and seven hits in just two innings.
Leading the offensive attack for the Mets was Mike Cameron, who singled twice, homered and drove in three runs.
With the Mets leading 6-0 after six innings, Mets manager Willie Randolph pulled Martinez – "Saving bullets," Randolph reasoned – and turned the game over to the relief trio of Juan Padilla, Heath Bell and Dae-Sung Koo. They got the job done, including the Mets debut of Padilla: a 1-2-3 seventh inning featuring three ground ball outs.
As for Martinez, he said he had no problem with calling it an early afternoon, even if the Shea Stadium crowd would have rather seen him go longer.
That's not surprising, considering Martinez has truly been everything the Mets could have hoped for and more: he's now 11-3 with a 2.60 ERA, and has allowed one earned run or less in nine of his 19 starts.
"That's why you guys call me the ace," Martinez said.
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Randolph was non-committal, only saying, "We'll see," and the message was clear: Mientkiewicz has a lot of hitting to do to earn his way back into the manager's good graces.
Randolph has been exceptionally pleased with the production given to him by Chris Woodward, who was tabbed for his 16th start at first base Sunday. At this point, it's probably not even fair to say that Mientkiewicz is the Mets' starting first baseman.
Minor League Report
TRIPLE-A NORFOLK: Eric Valent went 3-for-4, including a homer, and drove in two runs to lead the Tides to a 10-8 win over Syracuse Sunday night. Prentice Redman added a solo homer as part of a two-hit night, and Anderson Hernandez kept up his hot hitting with a 3-for-4 showing. All-Star Jason Scobie (11-4) picked up the victory, allowing four earned runs and eight hits over six innings.
DOUBLE-A BINGHAMTON: Lastings Milledge's bat remained hot in a 3-for-4 performance, scoring a pair of runs, but Milledge's .588 average at Double-A wasn't enough to lead the B-Mets on Sunday. Binghamton fell to Reading, 7-4, when reliever Luz Portobanco (2-6) allowed four runs over the last two innings. Brett Harper cracked a solo homer, his fourth, for Binghamton, while Orlando Roman made a quality start, allowing three runs (all on solo homers) and six hits over seven innings, striking out seven.
SINGLE-A ST. LUCIE: Evan MacLane (8-5) threw five perfect innings Sunday before turning the game over to Maldonado Oquendo, who allowed a run on three hits the rest of the way in a 10-1 St. Lucie win over Clearwater. Kevin Rios went 3-for-5 with a home run, two RBI and two runs scored for the Mets.
SINGLE-A HAGERSTOWN: West Virginia put up three runs in the top of the 14th inning against Jose Gomez (1-2) and Marcelo Perez Sunday, powering past the Suns, 8-5. Mike Carp cracked his 18th home run of the year, a two-run shot in the third inning, and Jason Weintraub contributed four innings of scoreless, two-hit relief for Hagerstown.
SINGLE-A BROOKLYN: Brooklyn and Auburn were suspended due to heavy fog on Sunday. The game will be made up on Monday at 12pm, as the teams will play the remaining five innings of the game and then play a seven-inning game, Monday's originally scheduled contest.
ROOKIE-LEAGUE KINGSPORT: Bluefield plated three runs in the eighth inning Sunday, pushing past the K-Mets, 5-4. Dustin Childress was strong in a start for Kingsport, going five innings and allowing a run on two hits, striking out four. Catcher Joan Martinez homered, his third, and shortstop Jose Coronado contributed two hits.


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12m. The rift is usually misnamed, if not stay well away. Exit right at the top.
This is sustained, technical and pumpy for a V Diff. Don't pick it as a biginner's route.
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Rosario Dawson Scores "Sin City 2" Gig
She was a hit in the original "Sin City" flick, and now Rosario Dawson has confirmed she will appear in the forthcoming "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For".
During a recent interview, the "Josie and the Pussycats" starlet gushed, "It's in! It's happening! Can't tell you nothing."
Rosario went on to talk about her character, Gail, saying, "I think Gail is pretty much Gail. What you see is what you get. I don't think she's going to be poppin' out any babies and singing any songs or anything like that."
"Sin City: A Dame to Kill For"' will be directed by Robert Rodriguez and William Monahan, and is slated for a release date of October 4, 2013.


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Most of the cars that I try to put on this blog are dream cars. They are the cars I know I will never own. They are expensive and fast, all things that I love. This car is different in so many ways but very similar in surprising ways.
The Grand National was produced by Buick from 1982 until 1987. The 1982 Grand National was silver and actually finished by an outside subcontractor. They were meant to be a one-time car to celebrate winning the constructor's championship in NASCAR. In fact there were no Grand Nationals in 1983.
Then in 1984 Buick got smart. They released the Grand National in the black scheme we all love. They also blessed it with a 200hp engine. The Grand National continued to see power increases. The 1987 model seen here is supposed to be the Grand National of Grand Nationals. It featured a turbo-charged V6 engine that was under rated at 276hp. The GNX was capable of 4.7 seconds in the 0-60. That is just astonishing.
This is a car that I could afford. I am afraid of the power though. I have heard talk of Buick releasing a new Grand National. I hope they don't really. This was a special car for another time. The Buick of today shouldn't tarnish that memory.


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- This article is about the episode. For the proposed spin-off of the same name, see Valley Girls (TV series).
Valley Girls is the 24th episode of the second season and the 42nd overall.
Shoulder pads may come and go, but a BFF is forever. Because even when you're not sure where you're headed, it helps to know you're not going there alone. No one has all the answers and sometimes the best we can do is just apologize and let the past be the past. Other times, we need to look to the future and know that even when we think we've seen it all, life can still surprise us and we can still surprise ourselves.
-Gossip Girl
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To prove her own independence, Serena refuses to leave jail with her mother, Lily, or her grandmother CeCe. Rufus is also furious with Lily for having Serena arrested, and returns home without asking Lily to marry him, since he thinks she isn't that different from her mother after all. Meanwhile, Lily is extremely upset with Cece for telling Rufus about their lovechild. While their relationship was never very strong, Lily wants Cece to leave immediately.
It's also the day of Senior Prom at Constance Billard and Blair is determined to have the perfect prom she's dreamed of with Nate. But something or someone seems to be sabotaging her dream until mysterious packages of her dress and corsage arrive from a mystery person; she's thrilled since they look just like the ones from her prom book.
Dan convinces Serena to go to prom by bringing her a dress that Jenny made and taking her himself, although just as friends. Blair is thrilled to see her best friend and makes plans to be Prom Queen; although her minions attempt to sabotage the votes, Chuck manages to save the day by rigging the votes in Blair's favor. Serena also finds out that Chuck was the one who sent Blair her dream dress and date, although Chuck just wants her to be happy.
Despite Blair's perfect ending to a perfect prom, she and Nate decide to break up since Nate was her perfect high school boyfriend and they should both move on having seen their relationship through, something they couldn't do before.
Serena and Blair reminisce about the end of high school together, both dateless but with one another.
This episode was also the potential backdoor pilot for a Gossip Girl spinoff starring a young Lily.
Memorable Quotes Edit
Gossip Girl: Shoulder pads may come and go, but a BFF is forever, because even when you're not sure where you're headed, it helps to know you're not going there alone.
Blair: Serena's been in jail for over 4 hours, she's already served more time than Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan combined!
Blair [to Serena]: Why are you still in jail?!
Serena: It's by choice!
Blair: Oh, God! You're not going to come out of there with a mullet and a girlfriend, are you?
Serena: My mother didn't think that I was old enough to make my own decisions, so I decided to stay in jail and I'm not leaving until she decides to let me live my own life!
Blair: So it's a war of attrition!
Serena: So to speak.
Blair: Except she gets to wage the war from the comfort of her penthouse while you remain behind bars!
Gossip Girl: Who knew the mother Chucker could also play fairy-godmother? ...but if C just made B's dreams come true, why does it feel like our queen is standing with the wrong King?
Blair: Turns out fairytales end when they do for a reason. I really wanted to go to prom with my high school boyfriend, and now that I have...
Serena: It feels like your high school boyfriend.
[Blair nods]
Dan: Yeah, who even voted for her?
Chuck: Me. About 150 times.
Lily: I should forgive Serena for defying me.
Rufus: Or first maybe you need to forgive Cece.
Lily: My mother doesn't need forgiveness, she needs electro-shock therapy.
Gossip Girl: Life can still surprise us, and we can still surprise ourselves. XOXO, Gossip Girl.
Dramatis Personae Edit
Starring Edit
- Blake Lively as Serena van der Woodsen
- Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf
- Penn Badgley as Dan Humphrey
- Chace Crawford as Nate Archibald
- Taylor Momsen as Jenny Humphrey
- Ed Westwick as Chuck Bass
- Jessica Szohr as Vanessa Abrams
- Kelly Rutherford as Lily van der Woodsen
- Matthew Settle as Rufus Humphrey
Special Guest Stars Edit
- Brittany Snow as Lily van der Woodsen (in flashbacks)
- Krysten Ritter as Carol Rhodes
- Shiloh Fernandez as Owen Campos
Guest Stars Edit
- Ryan Hansen as Shep
- Matt Barr as Keith van der Woodsen
- Caroline Lagerfelt as CeCe Rhodes
- Connor Paolo as Eric van der Woodsen
- Cynthia Watros as CeCe Rhodes (in flashbacks)
- Andrew McCarthy as Rick Rhodes
- Yin Chang as Nelly Yuki
- Nicole Fiscella as Isabel Coates
- Abby Pivaronas as Veronica
- Amanda Setton as Penelope Shafai
- Zuzanna Szadkowski as Dorota
- Dreama Walker as Hazel Williams
- No Doubt as themselves
Recurring Stars Edit
Trivia Edit
- This episode was the backdoor pilot for a proposed spin-off focusing on Lily's teenage years. The spin-off was never picked up.
- In this episode we meet Keith van der Woodsen in the flashbacks, played by Matt Barr. He is one of Lily's love interests and it can be assumed he is supposed to be Eric and Serena's future father. However, when we meet their father in season three, his first name is William. This is probably a continuity error and it can be assumed this is the same character.


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Salt Spring Island, B.C.: Grow your own everything
Population: Approx. 10,000. Median single-family home price: $569,300 U.S.
Different veggies grown: 47
Take a trial run: Michael Ableman's Foxglove Farm has two cottages and a log house. From $149 U.S.; foxglovefarmbc.ca
A is for apples—more than 350 kinds grow within Salt Spring's 74 square miles, including such rarities as Duchess of Oldenburg. B is for bananas—the tropical fruit grows here too. This rugged isle, off Vancouver Island's eastern shore, also has the rest of the alphabet covered (like C for carrots), thanks to a Mediterranean climate that serves as the perfect greenhouse.
"We can eat out of the garden 12 months a year," says Dan Jason, whose company, Salt Spring Seeds, markets some 600 varieties of seeds.
"In a way, the island is returning to its agrarian roots," says Michael Ableman, a Californian who now works the soil at Foxglove Farm, where he grows dozens of kinds of fruits and vegetables. "I've been here for 10 years, and I'm continually discovering things I had no idea were here."
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