August 28, 2012

Did the opposite edge panel on the afghan last night, now I just need to do all the center panels & start joining them. YAY! Sims went well last night, I played one of the downloaded houses, Japanese Lake Retreat. Very nice house with all high-end electronics & beautifully designed. It's on the beautiful island of Cornucopia & Opal, the 2nd generation daughter is now a toddler. She's going to be a handful to deal with because so far she hates the outdoors & is a couch potato. ::: sigh ::: I just love a challenge. LOL! I got woken up by a phone call about an explosion in McKinney & turned on the news to find that a 12" gas line had been hit by heavy equipment & had exploded. 30' flames & Hwy 5 has been shut down as a result. MCM is running on generators & the FD has no choice but to just block the road, keep the area clear, & wait for the utility company to shut down the line. Right now they're just hoping the tree line doesn't catch. Tonight is meet the teachers at the school AND LCFD training. Looks like I'm going to miss training. :( I do need to go to the school because Kyle is in AP classes this year & also debate & a couple other things. It's going to be a busy night.

"__________!" you said, & everyone in the world stopped what they were doing to see who had said something so __________.

Advertise & market your business on a budget that doesn't kill profits. Then crank it up until you start seeing diminishing returns. Then pull it back down & crank it up again by testing it a different way. Do it again & again until you find the right spot. Develop the sweet spot by tracking your results carefully.

Black Martyr:
This bracelet gives a bold powerful look to your style, with the metal shine and the industrial finish, it surely makes a mark on your outlook, shows calmness and high self reliability and managing capacities. The steel finish is made to look at its best.

Don't store your clothes in the dry cleaning bags. The chemicals are harmful to your clothes & flimsy metal hangers will wear out your clothes more quickly.

Fugitive polygamist leader Warren Jeffs is arrested (2006):
On this day in 2006, Warren Jeffs, the leader of a polygamist sect of Mormons, is arrested by a highway patrol officer during a traffic stop in Nevada. At the time of his arrest, Jeffs was facing charges in Arizona and Utah of arranging marriages between men and underage girls. The 50-year-old self-proclaimed prophet had been on the run from the law for more than a year and was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.
After his father’s death in 2002, Jeffs assumed leadership of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a group that practices polygamy. The group, which is estimated to have around 10,000 members, a number of them based in Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, is a radical breakaway sect of the mainstream Mormon church, which banned polygamy in 1890.
In September 2007, a jury in Utah convicted Jeffs on two counts of first-degree felony rape as an accomplice for his part in arranging the marriage of a 14-year-old girl to her 19-year-old first cousin. At trial, the girl testified she was forced to wed her cousin, and then forced to have sex with him against her will. When she asked Jeffs to release her from the union, he reportedly instructed her to submit to her husband, “mind, body and soul.” A Utah judge later sentenced Jeffs to two consecutive terms of five years to life in state prison.
In 2008, state authorities raided the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, a compound Jeffs founded for his followers in 2004. Acting on a series of tips, Texas officials removed over 400 children from the compound on suspicions they were being abused. The children spent several months in temporary state custody before Texas courts ordered them returned to the ranch, stating they weren’t at immediate risk of abuse. However, more than half a dozen men from the sect were eventually convicted of child sexual assault and abuse.
In July 2010, the Utah Supreme Court reversed Jeffs’ 2007 convictions on the grounds that the jury in his trial had received faulty instructions. However, in December of that same year, Jeffs was extradited to Texas to stand trial on charges of sexual assault. In August 2011, a jury convicted him of child sexual assault in a case involving a 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl whom he had wed in what his church referred to as spirtual marriages. Jeffs, who fathered a child with the 15-year-old, was sentenced to life in prison.

How much honey does the average worker honey bee produce in her lifetime?

In his 1976 hit song “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” how many ways did Paul Simon list?

7.

Pink:

1a: To perforate in an ornamental pattern. b: To cut a saw-toothed edge on. 2a: Pierce, stab. b: To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.

The sleek curtain requires no sewing; we pinked the edges to add a bit of detail.

Webster's 3rd New International Dictionary, Unabridged, includes 13 distinct entries for "pink," whereas Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has only the 5 most common. (Words get distinct entries in dictionaries when they have different etymologies or different parts of speech.) Today's "pink," the only verb of the 5, is from a Middle English word meaning "to thrust." Of the remaining 4 entries, the only "pink" older than the verb (which dates to 1503) is a 15th-century noun referring to a kind of ship. The next-oldest noun (1573) describes a genus of herbs. The noun referring to the color pink & its related adjective date to 1678 & 1720, respectively. Evidence suggests that a new verb "pink" - a synonym of the verb "pink-slip" - is also emerging.

Stock Market Millionaire:

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Traditionally, white wines are served before red, & dry ("sec") wines before sweet. But the food more often determines the wine. For instance, a somewhat sweet wine may be particularly suited for a rich, sweetish entree such as lobster. Red wine with red meat & white wine with fowl & fish remains a useful guideline, but it's not a hard-&-fast rule. The specific food is a better way of deciding which wine to serve. in general, wines should be comparable to the food in "body" or "weight" (relative strength), so that one doesn't overpower the other. Robust wines go best with hearty dishes, lighter wines with more delicate fare.

Turn your cell phone to silent mode while bicycling. Loud rings can startle & distract you from the road.

Which is America's favorite, 2nd favorite, & 3rd favorite pedigree of cat?

A. Siamese

B. Persian

C. Main Coon

Which is fastest, 2nd fastest, & 3rd fastest?

A. A hummingbird's wings

B. A woodpecker pecking

C. An anteater's tongue

ABC. Hummingbirds are among the smallest birds known - as small as 4" long. Yet they've been recorded flapping their wings at up to 200 beats per second. They can move!