A nice long sleeve / sweater fall day. Made josh & I a cheese omelet for breakfast & then I dusted the bathroom accents, cleaned the bedroom mirror & dining room table, did a load of dishes, checked the alarm system, mopped the hallway, dusted my office walls, swept the utility room, & changed the bedding. Drove Josh to work & then it was SIMS time! I completed the nursery in Northmont (shown here), but when I saved it the game froze during saving. I had to Ctrl+Alt+Del my way out of it & never checked to see if it really saved or not. I was afraid to look ... so I may have to do that room over the next time I load up the Sims, I'm not sure. After restarting the game, I loaded up Lafayette. Our cats had 2 kittens (shown here) & we kept 1 female & named her Hazel (2nd generation). She's lazy &
independent. This will be Scarlet's (2nd generation) cat. Scarlet has met Randell Fogle in grade school & she'll most likely marry him after she graduates. Their child (3rd generation) will be Randell 2nd or Scarlett II. When scarlet aged up to school age, I gave her the virtuoso trait. She'll most likely be joining the music career as an adult. After Sims I picked Kyle up in town at the library. He had his bicycle with him, but as he left the school it started to
downpour on him. After that I had a banana for lunch (exciting, I know. LOL!), & then checked eBay & started the next knitted panel for the afghan. I didn't get to finish it, had to go with Pete to pick Josh up from work & then came home & cooked dinner. We watched NCIS & NCIS Los Angeles & then headed off to bed.
In this stunning sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, ex-NASA chief Heywood
Floyd (Roy Scheider) helms a U.S.-Soviet mission of scientists
(including John Lithgow and Helen Mirren) trying to rendezvous with the
abandoned Discovery spacecraft to reactivate the homicidal HAL 9000
computer and learn the truth. Set with Earth on the verge of nuclear
war, this tense epic from director Peter Hyams earned five Oscar nods.
Already paid off the house? Great! But what's the next step? Maximize everything you can with 401(k)s, Roth IRAs & anything else you have available to shelter money from the government with a retirement plan. After that, you're left with taxable investing. The only investing you should do is simple & clean. Buy growth stock mutual funds that have a low turnover ratio (so they don't activate the taxes), & pay cash for real estate - no mortgages.
On this day in 2011, in a decision that makes
international headlines, an Italian appeals court overturns the murder
conviction of Amanda Knox, an American exchange student who two years
earlier was found guilty in the 2007 murder of her British roommate,
Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy. At the time of her 2009 conviction,
Knox, then 22 years old, received a 26-year prison sentence, while her
ex-boyfriend, Italian college student Raffaelle Sollecito, who also was
convicted in the slaying, was sentenced to 25 years behind bars. The
sensational, high-profile case raised questions in the United States about the Italian justice system and whether Knox, who always maintained her innocence, was unfairly convicted.
On November 2, 2007, the 21-year-old Kercher of Coulsdon, England,
was found fatally stabbed in the bedroom of the home she shared with
Knox and two other women in Perugia, the capital city of the Umbria
region in central Italy. Investigators said the British exchange student
had been slain the previous night. After questioning by police, Knox, a
Seattle native and University of Washington student doing her junior
year abroad in Italy, was arrested. She denied any wrongdoing, saying
she was at computer science student Sollecito’s house the night the
killing occurred. Police claimed Knox later gave them conflicting
statements about her whereabouts at the time of the crime, and said she
also accused her boss at the bar where she worked, who turned out to
have a solid alibi, of Kercher’s murder. The American student, who was
first questioned without an attorney or professional interpreter, said
police coerced her into making the accusation as well as other
incriminating statements. (The false accusation would later result in an
extra year tacked on to Knox’s prison sentence.)
During the nearly yearlong trial that followed in 2009, Italian prosecutors charged that Knox, along with Sollecito and another man, Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast native, had viciously attacked Kercher in a sex game gone wrong. (Guede was convicted for his role in Kercher’s death in a separate, fast-track trial in 2008. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison, which was reduced to 16 years on appeal.) The prosecution’s main evidence against Knox included tiny traces of her DNA and that of Kercher’s on a knife discovered at Sollecito’s home. Traces of Knox’s DNA were also found on a bra clasp belonging to Kercher. Knox’s attorneys argued the bra clasp was found over a month after the murder at a contaminated crime scene, and that the knife blade couldn’t have made the wounds on the victim.
The case received extensive media coverage in the United States and Europe, where the attractive Knox was dubbed “Angel Face” and “Foxy Knoxy” by the tabloids. In the Italian and British press, Knox was painted as a promiscuous party girl. However, in America, she was often portrayed in the media as an innocent abroad, a young woman who had worked several jobs to earn money to study in Perugia, where she had been railroaded by an overzealous prosecutor.
Knox and Sollecito appealed their convictions, and at their subsequent trial court-appointed experts testified the original DNA evidence was unreliable and did not definitively link the young American and her former boyfriend to the crime. On October 3, 2011, an appellate court jury of two judges and six civilians in Perugia acquitted the two defendants of murder. (The court upheld Knox’s conviction on a charge of defamation for accusing her former boss at the bar of murdering Kercher. Knox was given time served along with a fine.) The 24-year-old Knox, who been jailed in Italy since her 2007 arrest, flew home to the United States the following day.
During the nearly yearlong trial that followed in 2009, Italian prosecutors charged that Knox, along with Sollecito and another man, Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast native, had viciously attacked Kercher in a sex game gone wrong. (Guede was convicted for his role in Kercher’s death in a separate, fast-track trial in 2008. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison, which was reduced to 16 years on appeal.) The prosecution’s main evidence against Knox included tiny traces of her DNA and that of Kercher’s on a knife discovered at Sollecito’s home. Traces of Knox’s DNA were also found on a bra clasp belonging to Kercher. Knox’s attorneys argued the bra clasp was found over a month after the murder at a contaminated crime scene, and that the knife blade couldn’t have made the wounds on the victim.
The case received extensive media coverage in the United States and Europe, where the attractive Knox was dubbed “Angel Face” and “Foxy Knoxy” by the tabloids. In the Italian and British press, Knox was painted as a promiscuous party girl. However, in America, she was often portrayed in the media as an innocent abroad, a young woman who had worked several jobs to earn money to study in Perugia, where she had been railroaded by an overzealous prosecutor.
Knox and Sollecito appealed their convictions, and at their subsequent trial court-appointed experts testified the original DNA evidence was unreliable and did not definitively link the young American and her former boyfriend to the crime. On October 3, 2011, an appellate court jury of two judges and six civilians in Perugia acquitted the two defendants of murder. (The court upheld Knox’s conviction on a charge of defamation for accusing her former boss at the bar of murdering Kercher. Knox was given time served along with a fine.) The 24-year-old Knox, who been jailed in Italy since her 2007 arrest, flew home to the United States the following day.
Any worn clothes should be cleaned before storing the clothes for the winter months. Stains are more likely to set & clothes are more likely to retain odor if they're stored before being cleaned.
Black Tie:
Men: Black tuxedo jacket, matching trousers, formal (pique or pleated-front) white shirt, black (silk, shiny satin, or twill) bow tie, black cummerbund to match tie, dressy suspenders to ensure a good fit (optional); black patent shoes & black dress socks, no gloves.
In summer or on a cruise: May have white dinner jacket, black tuxedo trousers, plus other black tie wardrobe.
Women: Formal (floor length) evening dress or short dressy cocktail dress.
In what year was the Hubble Space Telescope launched?
A. 1985
A. 1985
B. 1990
C. 1995
D. 2000
Answer: B. 1990
Lugubrious:
1: Mournful; especially : exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful. 2: Dismal.
The diner's dim lighting makes eating there a particularly lugubrious experience.
"It's a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery," wrote Pubilius Syrus in the 1st century a.c. This gives the word "lugubrious" a woe all its own, since it has no related words in the English language. Sure, we can dress up "lugubrious" wish suffixes to form "lugubriously" or "lugubriousness," but it's the sole surviving English offspring of its Latin ancestors. "Lugubrious" once had a linguistic living relative in "luctual," an adjective meaning "sad" or "sorrowful," & like "lugubrious," "luctual" traced ultimately to the Latin verb lugere, meaning "to mourn." "Luctual," however, faded into obsolescence long ago, leaving "lugubrious" to carry on the family's mournful mission all alone.
Take 3 deep breaths - 5 seconds in, 5 seconds out - to slow your heart rate & the pace of your stress hormones.
The Academy awards you the Golden __________, recognizing your work in the field of __________.
Today's Horoscope:
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Today’s Horoscope by Kelli Fox is the easy way to check out horoscopes for all twelve star signs. You can delve deeper with the astrological Overview section and take a sneak peek at the week ahead with the Forecast section. All in a simple to use, free application for your iPhone. The “Extras” section provides free astrology reports, astrological matching, monthly horoscopes and more.
What was the only theme song from a James Bond film to hit No. 1 on American pop singles charts?
“A View to a Kill,” in 1985, performed by Duran Duran.Which appears 1st, 2nd, & 3rd on nutrition labels?
A. Calories
B. Total Fats
C. Cholesterol
ABC. In 2006, the FDA ruled that trans fats must also be listed, in the interest of healthy hearts. (Those are the fats found in shortening, hard margarines, & such.)
Which is the deepest, 2nd deepest, & 3rd deepest spot?
A. Mindanao Deep
B. Mariana Trench
C. Kuril-Kamchatka Trench
Which is the only state to have had its official Post Office abbreviation changed since 1963, when two-letter postal designations were introduced?
Which of these television shows are about time travel?
Quantum leap, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek, Goodnight Sweetheart, Doctor Who, ALF.
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