Saturday was a nice, relaxing day. I got everything done that I could & still had time to complete a panel on the machine knitted blanket AND play Sims. This time I played the Row House Apartments. I didn't build this one, but it's one of the top downloads on the Sims 3 site. When I play a house, I never leave that house. All generations must move their spouse into the house when they get married instead of moving out like the do when I'm playing a bloodline or a career. I'm about to break that rule. My 2nd generation Sim in the Row House Apartments game has met the love of his life & during grade school went over to her house after school one day. She wasn't even on his radar at this point & I was curious who this girl was who was inviting him over, so he went. They got off the school bus & proceeded to enter her home, a Mediterranean Villa with 7 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, & one of the most stunningly decorated homes I've seen. It's huge & beautiful! Guess what? So much for those apartments! Nice, but I think I'm moving. I KNOW I'm moving! I'll change the name of the game from Row House Apartments to Mediterranean Villa & still play a house in this game, but it's definitely going to be the Villa. I think this one might even be larger than my other favorite; Remington! My 2nd generation Sim has reached adulthood & has entered the medical field. He's going to be a World Renowned Surgeon. The love of his life is still a mystery & still in high school. I have to wait for her to graduate before I can marry her. Once I do, I'll move her, myself, & our 2 dogs to the Villa & move her family to the Apartments. I know there's room for all of us at the moment, but that won't last as the generations keep going. You're only allowed 8 Sims per house no matter what the size of the house or lot.
My brand new Borealis Firefly keyboard just arrived & I love it! Very bright, the picture
doesn't do it justice. It's also not nighttime & that's as dark as I
could get my office for the photo. I love the feel of the keys, also.
VERY nice!! I recommend this keyboard highly. Programmable gaming keys, music playback, ff, stop, mute, etc, & a volume dial also. As soon as my gaming mouse arrives I'll have a matched set. The mouse glows blue in a stripe around the sides. I can't wait! It should come tomorrow. Technically it should have come before the keyboard. :) Important LCFD Business meeting tomorrow.
As kids head back to school, most families need to implement a new routing or schedule to manage the homework, activities, & events. Post the new schedule on the refrigerator or someplace visible for all family members. Try color coding. Assign each member a different color to keep track of who has to be where & when.
Backbreaker Football:
Backbreaker is an intense, arcade football experience. Score touchdowns
by sprinting, juking and spinning past waves of oncoming defenders,
racking up combos and score multipliers on your way to the endzone!
Maxim
"The most addictive sports game I've played on an iPhone"
EDGE Magazine
"Brilliant!!!"
The Appera
"It feels like PS3/360 gaming on a tiny little screen… it’s THAT good!"
Pocketgamer.co.uk
"Backbreaker Football looks amazing and the animations are topnotch. But you'd expect this of NaturalMotion - which provided the animation engine for GTA IV."
The Appera
"Just do yourself a favor and play the frickin game!"
Follow us on Twitter for the latest update news: @Backbreaker
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AMAZING GRAPHICS
Backbreaker Football brings next-gen console technology to the iPhone. Incredibly fluid animation (using NaturalMotion’s morpheme engine), bone-crunching tackles (based on endorphin simulation technology), a stunning 3D stadium and multi-angle instant replays. Show what your iPhone or iPod touch can REALLY do!
MULTIPLE GAMEPLAY MODES
Compete for the Golden Helmet awards in ‘Challenge Mode’ or take the ultimate test in the gruelling 70-wave ‘Endurance Mode’.
CUSTOMIZATION
Choose your team and stick your name on the jersey!
UNLOCKABLE CONTENT
Unlock secret content by completing Challenges and winning helmets.
ONLINE LEADERBOARDS
Post your scores to our global leaderboards and see how you stack up against your Facebook friends.
FUN FOR ANYONE
Easy to pick up but tricky to master... and maddeningly addictive!
Maxim
"The most addictive sports game I've played on an iPhone"
EDGE Magazine
"Brilliant!!!"
The Appera
"It feels like PS3/360 gaming on a tiny little screen… it’s THAT good!"
Pocketgamer.co.uk
"Backbreaker Football looks amazing and the animations are topnotch. But you'd expect this of NaturalMotion - which provided the animation engine for GTA IV."
The Appera
"Just do yourself a favor and play the frickin game!"
Follow us on Twitter for the latest update news: @Backbreaker
________________________________________
AMAZING GRAPHICS
Backbreaker Football brings next-gen console technology to the iPhone. Incredibly fluid animation (using NaturalMotion’s morpheme engine), bone-crunching tackles (based on endorphin simulation technology), a stunning 3D stadium and multi-angle instant replays. Show what your iPhone or iPod touch can REALLY do!
MULTIPLE GAMEPLAY MODES
Compete for the Golden Helmet awards in ‘Challenge Mode’ or take the ultimate test in the gruelling 70-wave ‘Endurance Mode’.
CUSTOMIZATION
Choose your team and stick your name on the jersey!
UNLOCKABLE CONTENT
Unlock secret content by completing Challenges and winning helmets.
ONLINE LEADERBOARDS
Post your scores to our global leaderboards and see how you stack up against your Facebook friends.
FUN FOR ANYONE
Easy to pick up but tricky to master... and maddeningly addictive!
Happy birthday to John Carmack, the father of DOOM. (1970)
Keep an eye out for cars pulling away from the curb & car doors suddenly opening.
Pulchritude:
Physical comeliness.
The tennis player may not have won many championships, but her pulchritude gained her a starring role in many glamorous advertising campaigns.
If John Keats was right when he wrote that "a thing of beauty is a joy forever," then "pulchritude" should bring bliss for many years to come. That word has served English handsomely since the 1400s. It's a descendant of the Latin adjective pulcher, which means "beautiful" & also gave us "pulchritudinous," an adjective meaning "attractive" or "beautiful." The verb "pulchrify" (a synonym of "beautify"), the noun "pulchritudeness" (same meaning as "pulchritude"), & the adjective "pulchrous" ("fair or beautiful") are other pulcher offspring, but those terms have proved that, in at least some linguistic cases, beauty is fleeting.
On August 20, 2004, 83 tow trucks roll through the streets of
Wenatchee, Washington, in an event arranged by the Washington Tow Truck
Association (WTTA). "The Guinness Book of World Records" dubbed it the
world's largest parade of tow trucks.
According to the International Towing and Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the first tow truck was the invention of a Chattanooga native named Ernest Holmes, who helped his friend retrieve his Model T
Ford after the car slid into a creek. Holmes had previously assembled a
system consisting of three poles, a pulley and a chain, all connected
to the frame of a 1913 Cadillac. Holmes soon patented his invention, and
began manufacturing the equipment to sell to garages and other
interested customers out of a small shop on Chattanooga's Market Street.
The Holmes brand went on to earn an international reputation for
quality in the towing industry.
The WTTA organized the August
2004 tow-truck parade as part of its annual Tow Show & Road-E-O
event. Wenatchee's tow-truck world record came under assault from at
least two quarters in 2008. In Hampton Beach, New Hampshire,
that May 18, more than 250 tow trucks took part in a single-file parade
organized by the New Hampshire Towing Association (NHTA). According to
an article in The Hampton Union newspaper, all kinds of
trucks--"Flatbeds, wheel-hook tow trucks, massive, 72-ton big-rig
wreckers"--participated in the parade, which was followed by a driving
skills competition and a tow-truck "beauty" contest. Rene Fortin,
president of the NHTA, said that his organization had unofficially
broken Wenatchee's record in 2005 with a parade of 235 trucks, but as
the parade didn't fit Guinness' long list of requirements, it hadn't
been accepted. World records aside, Fortin told The Hampton Union, the
central goal of the parade was to revamp the image of the towing
industry: "People don't often like towers, so this is our chance to show
our good side."
On September 20, 2008, the Metropolitan New York
Towing Association threw its own hat into the ring. Two hundred and
ninety-two tow trucks, including flatbeds, wreckers and 50-ton rotators,
left Shea Stadium in Queens (previously the home of the New York Mets,
the baseball park has since been demolished to make way for the Mets'
new Citi Field) and traveled along the Van Wyck Expressway and the Belt
Parkway before ending up at an abandoned airport tarmac at Floyd Bennett
Field in Brooklyn. There, the trucks parked in a formation that spelled
out the words "New York."
This reboot of the Planet of the Apes franchise is a prequel set in
modern-day San Francisco, where scientists are conducting genetic
research on apes. The evolved primates develop advanced intelligence and
revolt against being used as lab rats.
Sundial:
This 316L Stainless Steel Ring with Roman Numerals flaunts a classy matte finish, with gloss and shinny border, this innovative and stylish ring is inspired from the Roman Numerical system.
This 316L Stainless Steel Ring with Roman Numerals flaunts a classy matte finish, with gloss and shinny border, this innovative and stylish ring is inspired from the Roman Numerical system.
True leadership is servanthood. Real leaders are servants. I don't mean you're subservient. I don't mean you have to wait on your employees. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm saying you should put their interests, their futures, & their families at the center of your decisions. You have to think that way.
On this day in 2011, three men, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie
Misskelley, who were convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the murders of
three boys in Arkansas,
are released from prison in a special legal deal allowing them to
maintain their innocence while acknowledging that prosecutors had
sufficient evidence to convict them. Echols, 36, had been on death row,
while Baldwin, 34, and Misskelley, 36, were serving life sentences.
Collectively known as the “West Memphis Three,” the men had always
maintained their innocence, and questions about the evidence used to
convict them had persisted for years. Their case attracted widespread
attention and the support of a number of celebrities.
In May 1993, the bodies of three 8-year-old boys, Christopher Byers, Steve Branch and Michael Moore, were found naked and hog-tied in a drainage ditch in a wooded section of West Memphis, Arkansas. Investigators initially had few solid leads; however, because the bodies appeared to have been mutilated, rumors circulated about a possible connection to satanic cult activities. A tip eventually led investigators to focus on the teenage Echols, a high school dropout who grew up poor, was interested in witchcraft and regularly wore black clothing. Then, Misskelley, an acquaintance of Echols, confessed to the murders following a lengthy interrogation by authorities, and implicated Echols and Baldwin. Described as having a below-average IQ, Misskelley provided information about the crime that conflicted in key ways from details known to the police, and he soon recanted his confession. Nevertheless, in February 1994, he was convicted of first- and second-degree murder, and sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years.
In a separate trial in March 1994, Echols and Baldwin were convicted of capital murder. During the trial, Misskelley refused to testify against the two, and prosecutors had no eyewitnesses or physical evidence linking Echols and Baldwin to the crime. Instead, the prosecution presented evidence that Echols, the alleged ringleader, read books about witchcraft as well as novels by Stephen King and Anne Rice, and said he was motivated to murder the boys as part of an occult ritual.
The case gained national attention with the release of the 1996 documentary “Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills,” which cast doubt on the men’s guilt. A movement grew to free the West Memphis Three, and celebrities including Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder, Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines and film director Peter Jackson (“The Lord of the Rings” trilogy) spoke out in support of the three men and helped fund a legal team to fight the convictions. In 2007, lawyers for the West Memphis Three said new forensic tests showed there was no DNA evidence to link the men to the crime.
In the fall of 2010, the Arkansas Supreme Court ordered a hearing for Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley to determine if they deserved new trials. However, before the hearing took place, the trio’s lawyers and prosecutors in Arkansas reached a deal allowing the men to enter an Alford plea and go free. With this little-used legal tool, a defendant is allowed to maintain his or her innocence but plead guilty because it is considered in his or her best interest to do so.
In a statement following his release from custody on August 19, 2011, Echols said, in part, of the plea deal: “I have now spent half my life on death row. It is a torturous environment that no human being should have to endure, and it needed to end. I am innocent, as are Jason and Jessie, but I made this decision because I did not want to spend another day of my life behind those bars.”
In May 1993, the bodies of three 8-year-old boys, Christopher Byers, Steve Branch and Michael Moore, were found naked and hog-tied in a drainage ditch in a wooded section of West Memphis, Arkansas. Investigators initially had few solid leads; however, because the bodies appeared to have been mutilated, rumors circulated about a possible connection to satanic cult activities. A tip eventually led investigators to focus on the teenage Echols, a high school dropout who grew up poor, was interested in witchcraft and regularly wore black clothing. Then, Misskelley, an acquaintance of Echols, confessed to the murders following a lengthy interrogation by authorities, and implicated Echols and Baldwin. Described as having a below-average IQ, Misskelley provided information about the crime that conflicted in key ways from details known to the police, and he soon recanted his confession. Nevertheless, in February 1994, he was convicted of first- and second-degree murder, and sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years.
In a separate trial in March 1994, Echols and Baldwin were convicted of capital murder. During the trial, Misskelley refused to testify against the two, and prosecutors had no eyewitnesses or physical evidence linking Echols and Baldwin to the crime. Instead, the prosecution presented evidence that Echols, the alleged ringleader, read books about witchcraft as well as novels by Stephen King and Anne Rice, and said he was motivated to murder the boys as part of an occult ritual.
The case gained national attention with the release of the 1996 documentary “Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills,” which cast doubt on the men’s guilt. A movement grew to free the West Memphis Three, and celebrities including Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder, Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines and film director Peter Jackson (“The Lord of the Rings” trilogy) spoke out in support of the three men and helped fund a legal team to fight the convictions. In 2007, lawyers for the West Memphis Three said new forensic tests showed there was no DNA evidence to link the men to the crime.
In the fall of 2010, the Arkansas Supreme Court ordered a hearing for Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley to determine if they deserved new trials. However, before the hearing took place, the trio’s lawyers and prosecutors in Arkansas reached a deal allowing the men to enter an Alford plea and go free. With this little-used legal tool, a defendant is allowed to maintain his or her innocence but plead guilty because it is considered in his or her best interest to do so.
In a statement following his release from custody on August 19, 2011, Echols said, in part, of the plea deal: “I have now spent half my life on death row. It is a torturous environment that no human being should have to endure, and it needed to end. I am innocent, as are Jason and Jessie, but I made this decision because I did not want to spend another day of my life behind those bars.”
What was the last cigarette advertised on American TV?
Virginia Slims, on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, on January 1, 1971, at 11:59 p.m.—one minute before a federal ban on cigarette advertising on radio and TV took effect.
When a platter arrives with food you aren't sure how to eat - an unusual type of sushi, perhaps, or crab in a shell - you can (1) wait until someone else starts to eat & follow suit; (2) ask how the food should be eaten - "with fingers or forks?" (3) avoid the food altogether. Crying out "Ewww ... what's that?" is not an option.
When it comes to credit scores, what does the acronym FICO stand for?
Which comes 1st, 2nd, & 3rd?
A. Morning watch
B. Forenoon watch
C. Middle watch
Who was the first film character to be a finalist for Time magazine’s Man of the Year?
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, in 1982. He lost out to “the computer,” which was named Machine of the Year.
Words couldn't possibly describe your __________, but there are a few: ______________________________ & don't forget __________.
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