Good afternoon! Good day yesterday, I got some curtains that fit the back of my entertainment center perfectly. The entertainment center in my office had been modified to fit our new, much larger, flat screen, HDTV when we bought it. Then after a few years we bought a brand new living room set with a sectional sofa that barely fit in the room. We had to move the TV to on top of the mantle & the entertainment center went into storage. When our daughter grew up & moved into our now converted garage with her husband, I took her bedroom & turned it into my office (before that my desk & pc were squeezed into the already overstuffed living room). Now I've got a BEAUTIFUL office & I took the entertainment center out of storage & put it in my office closet. Don't laugh, it was a shallow closet with bi-fold doors. I removed the bi-fold doors & now have the PERFECT place for the entertainment center. It's really quite amazing. Anyway, the back was wide open due to the mod to hold the new TV & there was a vertical reinforcement beam going straight down the center in the back. It all looked ... not so good. Well, I bought a valance recently to hide the top shelf of the closet & the clothing rod. The light bulb now lights the valance & it creates this beautiful glow in the room. The curtains I got yesterday hide the back wall of the closet & the vertical reinforcement beam. It all looks MUCH nicer now. Eventually I'll get a longer balance & curtain set so they'll actually have the nice ripple they're supposed to have, but for now this looks much better than it DID. Eventually I'll even find the funky shaped light bulb that goes in the right side & lights up the glass shelves over there. Then it'll look even more beautiful!
I also got a very nice maroon bath towel yesterday, but there's not much to say about that, so ... end of story.
When Pete & Josh got home from work last night we took Josh to a friend's house so he can have some time off (he's off work the next 4 days). Eve was already there, Kyle is in school, Pete's at work ... I have the whole house to myself! PARTY!! :) What this means is I plug my iPhone into my office stereo & rock out, but today I might do 1 better & plug the phone into the home theater system & REALLY rock out! Anyway, after we dropped Josh off at his friend's house, we went grocery shopping for some items we were out of & then came home & finished up our 4-day Twilight marathon. We watched the 1st movie on TV, borrowed 2 & 3 from Eve & Josh, & the 4th arrived from Netflix yesterday. Now I'm just waiting for the 5th. There BETTER be a 5th. There HAS to be a 5th!
There won't be much movement in any direction today -- backwards, forwards, or sideways. The energy of the day is still, but it is nevertheless powerful. So just because you're not running around with a million things to do does not mean that you won't be active and productive in your mind. There is a lot of positive energy just under the surface, waiting to be seen -- once you tap into it, you'll be able to see the bright side of the darkest events and enjoy stress-free day. Tell your partner how you feel. You'll express those emotions with ease, and your honesty will open up communication in new ways. Share your good news and dazzling energy, too. Like a racecar driver on a track, gunning the motor, you are geared for speed and aching for an adrenaline rush. Find a project that can use fast, hard work -- one that doesn't go very deep. Make sure your energy is well directed.
Easter Egg Hunt at the LCFD this Saturday @ 2:p.
Enterprising reporter Phil Green (Gregory Peck), eager to blow the lid
off anti-Semitism, accepts an assignment to pen a series of frank
exposés for a progressive magazine. Looking for a new angle, Green poses
as a Jew and soon endures the full spectrum of bigotry -- from being
denied a job and use of public facilities to his son suffering a
beating. Little by little, the journalist comes to understand the cruel
effects of prejudice.
I usually recommend 15- to 20-year level term insurance, & the idea behind that is this: When will you be out of debt including the house, when will the kids be grown & gone, & when will you have a big enough pile of cash that it won't financially hurt you should a primary breadwinner die? The only time I'd get a 10-year policy is if you're really old & you're just getting it for a few years.
Kitchen:
Toss duplicates of any utensils. They're just wasting space in a drawer.
Morgan Fairchild:
The beloved soap star, who also had a recurring role on Mork & Mindy.
News Weather & More:
- News that is time stamped for up-to-date content
- Weather (including radar, animated radar and severe weather warnings)
- Sports (including scores and news for professional and college sports)
- Flight tracker
- Horoscope
- Lottery
- Local movie times
In many areas we also have:
- News video
- Photo slideshows
- School closings
- Traffic updates/maps
If there is a video or slideshow with the story, then we let you know. Weather images provide constant access to your current weather, and sports scores are current with game play info where available.
NOTE: This application offers push notifications of breaking news. The option to enable them is given the first time you start the app.
Paragon:
A model of excellence or perfection.
George & Muriel's marriage, which has lasted over 30 years, is a paragon of domestic bliss.
"Paragon" derives from the Old Italian word paragone, which means "touchstone" & comes from the Greek parakonan, meaning "to sharpen." The prefix para- ("before" or "beside") is found in many English words, including "paradox," "paramedic," & "parallel." The 2nd half of parakonan comes from akone, meaning "whetstone." A touchstone is a black stone that was formerly used to judge the purity of gold or silver. The metal was rubbed on the stone & the color of the streak it left indicated its quality. In modern English, both "touchstone" & "paragon" have come to signify a standard against which something should be judged.
When addressing an envelope ...
Simply make sure the recipient's address & return address are not easily confused & that the writing is perfectly legible. Include the correct zip code(s). Also, check the spelling - especially of the name of the person you're addressing.
Which bird has the largest, 2nd largest, & 3rd largest wingspan?
A. Buzzard
B. Peregrine falcon
C. Albatross
Which planet has the last, 2nd least, & 3rd least gravity?
A. Venus
B. Jupiter
C. Mercury
BAC. Mercury has the least mass & weaker gravity. So there.
White House ousts GM chief (2009):
On March 29, 2009, Rick Wagoner, the chairman and chief
executive of troubled auto giant General Motors (GM), resigns at the
request of the Obama administration. During Wagoner's more than 8 years
in the top job at GM, the company lost billions of dollars and in 2008
was surpassed by Japan-based Toyota as the world's top-selling maker of cars and trucks, a title the American automaker had held since the early 1930s.
G. Richard Wagoner Jr., who was born on February 9, 1953, spent his entire career at GM. He went to work for the company after graduating from Harvard Business School in 1977, eventually becoming president of GM in 1998 then chief executive in 2000. As chief executive, Wagoner undertook some restructuring measures, including shrinking the size of the work force, shuttering plants, ditching the money-losing Oldsmobile brand and working to slash enormous health-care costs for GM retirees. However, critics charged that GM was slow to innovate and in recent years the company continued to focus on its small trucks and sport utility vehicles even as gas prices soared and consumer interest shifted to smaller, fuel-efficient cars and hybrids. In November 2008, Wagoner was sharply criticized by the public for flying to Washington, D.C., on a private corporate jet to ask Congress for a bailout loan. (The CEOs of Chrysler and Ford were also knocked for taking private planes to the congressional hearings.) Nevertheless, the following month, GM, which had been hard hit by the global economic crisis and slumping auto sales, received $13.4 billion in federal aid.
On March 30, 2009, the day after the White House announced Wagoner had been asked to step aside, President Barack Obama stated that GM would have to undergo a fundamental restructuring in the next 60 days in order for the government to consider loaning it any more money. On June 1, 2009, GM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Bankruptcy was a move once considered unthinkable for the company that was founded in 1908 and became a giant of the U.S. economy in the 20th century. GM pursued a strategy of selling a vehicle "for every purse and purpose," in the words of Alfred Sloan, who became president of the company in 1923 and resigned as chairman in 1956. By its peak in 1962, GM produced 51 percent of all the cars in the U.S. However, according to The New York Times, during the 1960s the automaker "began a long and slow process of undermining itself" as it failed to innovate fast enough in the face of competition from foreign car manufacturers.
G. Richard Wagoner Jr., who was born on February 9, 1953, spent his entire career at GM. He went to work for the company after graduating from Harvard Business School in 1977, eventually becoming president of GM in 1998 then chief executive in 2000. As chief executive, Wagoner undertook some restructuring measures, including shrinking the size of the work force, shuttering plants, ditching the money-losing Oldsmobile brand and working to slash enormous health-care costs for GM retirees. However, critics charged that GM was slow to innovate and in recent years the company continued to focus on its small trucks and sport utility vehicles even as gas prices soared and consumer interest shifted to smaller, fuel-efficient cars and hybrids. In November 2008, Wagoner was sharply criticized by the public for flying to Washington, D.C., on a private corporate jet to ask Congress for a bailout loan. (The CEOs of Chrysler and Ford were also knocked for taking private planes to the congressional hearings.) Nevertheless, the following month, GM, which had been hard hit by the global economic crisis and slumping auto sales, received $13.4 billion in federal aid.
On March 30, 2009, the day after the White House announced Wagoner had been asked to step aside, President Barack Obama stated that GM would have to undergo a fundamental restructuring in the next 60 days in order for the government to consider loaning it any more money. On June 1, 2009, GM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Bankruptcy was a move once considered unthinkable for the company that was founded in 1908 and became a giant of the U.S. economy in the 20th century. GM pursued a strategy of selling a vehicle "for every purse and purpose," in the words of Alfred Sloan, who became president of the company in 1923 and resigned as chairman in 1956. By its peak in 1962, GM produced 51 percent of all the cars in the U.S. However, according to The New York Times, during the 1960s the automaker "began a long and slow process of undermining itself" as it failed to innovate fast enough in the face of competition from foreign car manufacturers.
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