- July 30, 2012 -

Our baby girl has flown. She's now in Myrtle Beach & I miss her so much! At least it's comforting to know that she's with family out there. She has her grandparents & half-brother to watch over her. She'll be just fine & has a bright future ahead of her. Good luck Eve! We're all wishing you all the happiness, joy, & success you can handle. Keep in touch, send pictures, write, text, IM, post ... I miss you!

Kyle is going up to Princeton for the day & Pete is at work now, I slept late due to getting my schedule bounced upside-down due to the airport thing & having to get up at 4:a after going to bed a 1:a, & all is well here.

LCFD training tomorrow night.

Don't be afraid that a gift isn't "perfect." If you think the person will like it, they probably will.

Don't wear or bring any scented body-care products when camping, which attract wildlife. Store food & toothpaste in a bear-resistant canister away from your campsite & in the shade.

Fitness Pro:

FITNESS PRO IS SIMPLY THE BEST FREE FITNESS APP OUT THERE!! READ BELOW WHY:
Features
- 450+ exercises photo's with reference
- photo's of real people (no drawings)
- search option for fast finding your exercise
- possibility to create your own workout schemes
- various build-in routines to get you started
- simple and easy logging
- advanced log graphs and log results
- track and map your runs
- share your runs with friends with the free online portal
- no registration
- no lite version or limited use
MAIN FEATURES:
----Exercise reference----
It doesn't matter if you prefer staying at home to do your exercises or prefer doing this in the gym. Fitness Pro can help you train more effectively! Are you tired of doing the same exercises over and over again? Did you ever wonder if you are doing exercises correctly? Training better and more effective is what Fitness Pro is all about!
With an exercise library with over 450 exercises you will always find the exercise that suits your needs. Just tab a category, browse through all exercises or quickly search for a specific exercise. Tab the exercise to get a helpfull picture showing you how to perform the exercise. For more in depth instructions, simply switch to the detail view of an exercise at any given time!
----Create your own Workouts----
Fitness pro is a great tool to help you plan and create your personal workouts.
Workouts are based on a weekly scheme, in which you can add up to 7 different training days. Simply search or browse through the extensive list of over 450 exercises and choose one to your liking!
Personalize each exercise by simply tabbing them. Choose the reps and weight relevant to your training! Once you've personalized all exercises to your liking, you simple select the training day that's relevant and start with your workout!
----Routines----
Fitness pro is a great app that holds a massive amount of exercises and is a great reference source, but where do you start as beginner? No worries! Simply choose one of the preset routines that fits your needs and get started!
----Anatomy----
Learn your body and muscles so know what exercise will fit you best.
By tabbing a muscle anywhere on the overview you can see detailed information and exercises relevant to this specific muscle!
----Adding & viewing logs----
Fitness Pro 2.0 contains an advanced logging system that can assist you in tracking your progress. Just start logging your exercises during a training so you can track your progress in detail. Watch the progress for individual exercises or see the total results on a monthly or even yearly base! You'll be amazed at the extra incentive it will give you, after you see a month's progress with different runs or the increase in weight you've lifted!
----Track your Runs----
The "Log and Map run" function lets you keep track of all your runs in great detail. Before you start running, simply select music from your device to enjoy during the run and hit the start button. While running, you can see your progress being tracked live!
We understand that during a heavy or sweaty workout you don't want to constantly look at your device, so we build a voice response system to keep you updated!
All logs are saved so you can review you're runs in great detail after wards!
----Online Portal----
The online portal is a new way to show your runs in greater detail. In addition it will show distance markers and elevations graph. Also it will let you share your runs with your friends, it has a seemless integration with Facebook and twitter. We are currently working on a live view option which let you share your run live with your friends. Your friends can send you even a live cheer! The portal is currently in a Beta state and is Free available for all Fitness Pro users. Current subscribers will get soon receive there login information.
These are just some of the new highlights we believe you'll love. There are many more features in the app to discover!

Guess who applies for a car loan at the car dealer? Someone who has really bad car fever & who has emotionally purchased the car! Then the finance manager comes out to tell you he's sorry you've been turned down for 0%, but he got you approved at 6%. That's called a bait-&-switch. It's a scam.

Hollywood golden couple weds (2000):

On this day in 2000, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, one of Hollywood’s highest-profile couples, marry at the Malibu, California, estate of the producer Marcy Carsey (The Cosby Show). The two actors reportedly met on a blind date in 1998 and quickly became favorites of the tabloid media once they went public with their romance. Their wedding cost an estimated $1 million and featured tight security to keep out the paparazzi.

Pitt, who was born in 1963 in Oklahoma, rose to fame in the early 1990s with roles in such films as Thelma & Louise (1991), A River Runs Through It (1992) and Kalifornia (1993). He went on to build a long list of starring movie credits, including Fight Club (1999), Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and Babel (2006). Aniston, who was born in 1969 in California, became famous for her role as Rachel Green on the hit TV sitcom Friends, which aired from 1994 to 2004. The actress has also made a number of movies, including The Good Girl (2002), Bruce Almighty (2003) and Rumor Has It (2005).

Despite their reputation as one of Hollywood’s golden couples, rumors eventually began to circulate that Aniston and Pitt were having problems. In 2004, speculation swirled that Pitt had become romantically involved with Angelina Jolie, his co-star in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Over the New Year, Pitt and Aniston were photographed walking hand-in-hand on the beach in Anguilla, yet just days later, while they were still on vacation, a joint statement was issued announcing their separation. Though it seemed to be an amicable breakup, the press speculated that Pitt had wanted to have a family and Aniston--who had recently wrapped up a 10-year-run with Friends and had begun appearing in more films--was reluctant to take a break in her career for motherhood. Pitt was also depicted as being increasingly involved in global charity work, including the AIDS crisis in Africa.

Analysis of the breakup only intensified that spring, after Pitt was photographed with Jolie, a UNICEF representative, and her adopted son at a beach resort in Africa. Soon, they emerged as a full-blown couple, posing as a 1960s-era husband and wife (with a brood of blond children) for a 60-page photo spread titled “Domestic Bliss” in the July 2005 issue of W magazine. Outraged Aniston fans and friends denounced Pitt (who had in fact come up with the concept for the photo spread himself) as insensitive, and Jolie as a glamorous homewrecker. Novelty T-shirts at the time advertised their wearers as belonging to “Team Aniston” or “Team Jolie”; according to Vanity Fair, Aniston T-shirts outsold Jolies 25 to one.

Aniston and Pitt’s divorce was finalized in October 2005. In January 2006, Jolie announced she was pregnant with Pitt’s child; soon after, the news broke that Pitt had successfully adopted Jolie’s children Maddox and Zahara, whose surnames were legally changed to Jolie-Pitt. Jolie gave birth to a baby girl, Shiloh, in May 2006. In March of the following year, Jolie and Pitt adopted another son, Pax Thien, from Vietnam. In July 2008, Jolie and Pitt had twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.

Kill Speed:

A group of friends fly home-built, high-tech planes to deliver drugs from Mexico to California to fund their Hollywood lifestyle. That is, until their group is infiltrated by a beautiful young woman who is not what she pretends to be.

Last classic VW Beetle rolls off the line (2003):

On this day in 2003, the last of 21,529,464 Volkswagen Beetles built since World War II rolls off the production line at Volkswagen's plant in Puebla, Mexico. One of a 3,000-unit final edition, the baby-blue vehicle was sent to a museum in Wolfsburg, Germany, where Volkswagen is headquartered.

The car produced in Puebla that day was the last so-called "classic" VW Beetle, which is not to be confused with the redesigned new Beetle that Volkswagen introduced in 1998. (The new Beetle resembles the classic version but is based on the VW Golf.) The roots of the classic Beetle stretch back to the mid-1930s, when the famed Austrian automotive engineer Dr. Ferdinand Porsche met German leader Adolf Hitler's request for a small, affordable passenger car to satisfy the transportation needs of the German people Hitler called the result the KdF (Kraft-durch-Freude)-Wagen (or "Strength-Through-Joy" car) after a Nazi-led movement ostensibly aimed at helping the working people of Germany; it would later be known by the name Porsche preferred: Volkswagen, or "people's car."

The first production-ready Kdf-Wagen debuted at the Berlin Motor Show in 1939; the international press soon dubbed it the "Beetle" for its distinctive rounded shape. During World War II, the factory in Kdf-stat (later renamed Wolfsburg) continued to make Beetles, though it was largely dedicated to production of war vehicles. Production was halted under threat of Allied bombing in August 1944 and did not resume until after the war, under British control. Though VW sales were initially slower in the United States compared with the rest of the world, by 1960 the Beetle was the top-selling import in America, thanks to an iconic ad campaign by the firm Doyle Dane Bernbach. In 1972, the Beetle surpassed the longstanding worldwide production record of 15 million vehicles, set by Ford Motor Company's legendary Model T between 1908 and 1927. It also became a worldwide cultural icon, featuring prominently in the hit 1969 movie "The Love Bug" (which starred a Beetle named Herbie) and on the cover of the Beatles album "Abbey Road."  

In 1977, however, the Beetle, with its rear-mounted, air-cooled-engine, was banned in America for failing to meet safety and emission standards. Worldwide sales of the car shrank by the late 1970s and by 1988, the classic Beetle was sold only in Mexico. Due to increased competition from other manufacturers of inexpensive compact cars, and a Mexican decision to phase out two-door taxis, Volkswagen decided to discontinue production of the classic bug in 2003. The final count of 21,529,464, incidentally, did not include the original 600 cars built by the Nazis prior to World War II.

Make a shopping list before heading to the grocery store. Planning ahead will save you time & money. Spend 10 minutes at home making a shopping list & save a lot of time roaming up & down aisles at the store. You'll be home in no time with food for the whole family!

Superficies:

1: A surface of a body or a region of space. 2: The external aspects or appearance of a thing.

The author seems interested only in the superficies of his characters' actions, & the reader is left having to guess at what motivates & drives them.

Look below the surface of "superficies" & "surface" & you'll find the very same Latin roots: super-, meaning "on top," & facies, meaning "face" or "aspect." English-speakers plucked "superficies" straight from the Latin, where it means "surface." Our word "surface" came to us by way of Middle French, where sur- (which comes from super- & also means "on top") was combined with face (meaning "face," from facies). We added "surface" to our crop of borrowed words around the 17th century, & the 1st known use of "superficies" is from 1530. One tricky thing to keep in mind about "superficies" is that it can be singular (even though it ends in an "s") or plural. There is no "superficie" of "superficy."  

What is the ecclesiastic rank of a Roman Catholic clergyman wearing a violet zucchetto, or skullcap?

Bishop or archbishop. Popes wear white; cardinals, red or scarlet. Priests and deacons may wear a black zucchetto, but rarely do.

What woman’s name did actor Cary Grant rattle off three times in a row in a movie?

“Susan, Susan, Susan,” in Bringing Up Baby (1938). Despite the standard impersonation of Grant, he never uttered “Judy, Judy, Judy” in a movie.

Which 6 letters did Benjamin Franklin propose eliminating from the alphabet?

Which album came 1st, 2nd, & 3rd?

A. A Hard Day's Night

B. Please Please Me

C. With the Beatles

You're healthy, you feel terrific & you love the way you look. End of story. Stop dieting.