I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! Ours isn't until today when the rest of the family gets in. We're waiting for Angela, Logan, & Virginia. It's going to be great to see them again! Yesterday I enjoyed a large bowl of Rice Krispies for breakfast & then looked at the cool pics of snow at our house that Josh sent. Great pics! Lots of snow ... & I missed it. A white Christmas in Collin County & I'm in Myrtle Beach. Timing, huh? I checked eBay & Ann helped me pick up my old Panasonic boom box from my youth. I finally found one & it's in great condition! I'm so happy! Thank you Ann!! Mom cooked us a great chicken meal with corn, rice, & rolls for dinner (my lunch) & then I checked Twitter & loaded up Sims. I've never played Sims on a laptop before & I wanted to see how quickly I could crash this laptop by not only running Sims, but cranking all the settings up to full like I have on my gaming PC. Guess what? It runs great. This is one smokin' laptop! I want it. I wonder if maybe I could buy it (I'm only borrowing it at the moment). I didn't play last night, but instead started trying to recreate this house. It's coming along nicely & looks pretty close to the real thing. It's called Conway. No screenshots because I was too busy working on it to take a screenshot. I'll try to remember the next time I'm in there. :) This morning I checked my bank & all is well, so on with the rest of the day.
Chestnut lima, a.k.a Christmas lima, is a maroon-speckled bean that's actually unrelated to the lima bean. It has a subtle chestnut flavor.
Drop a handful of ice down your sink & run the garbage disposal. This cleans the blades. To ward off odor, sprinkle with baking soda or drop a piece of lemon down the sink too.
I'm not pleased that money is more concentrated among a fewer number of people. I don't think that's good. I think it would be great if everyone were winning. I don;t like income inequality, but I would never take it away from someone to give it to someone else to fix it - ever. Income redistribution doesn't work. The way to solve inequality is to teach the people who are not at the top how to get there. The economic pie just grows. There isn't a size limit, nor is there a limited number of pies.
Kindle:
The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to
read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful, easy-to-use
interface. You’ll have access to over 1,000,000* books in the Kindle Store plus
hundreds* of newspapers and magazines. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your
last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you
can pick up your book where you left off on another device.
Get the best reading experience available on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch:
• Shop the Kindle Store by visiting Amazon for the largest selection of books people want
to read: over a million books, including over 800,000 at $9.99 or less.
• Get free book samples – read the first chapter free before you decide to buy.
• Read hundreds* of newspapers and magazines including The Economist, Reader’s Digest, Martha Stewart Living, and Food Network Magazine with high resolution color images. Visit the Kindle Store to subscribe to a newspaper or magazine and have each edition automatically delivered, or purchase individual issues.
• Email PDFs & other documents to your new Send-to-Kindle e-mail address and we deliver them to your device. The documents are automatically archived in the Amazon Cloud and available for re-download on your iOS or supported Kindle devices. You can also read PDFs from Mail, Safari, or by transferring them from iTunes.
• Customize your reading experience by choosing the margin size, background color, font size, and either portrait or landscape format.
• Instant dictionary word lookup with 250,000 entries and definitions. Tap and hold a word to view the definition.
• Search inside the book to find a character, topic, or section you want to revisit.
• Simply tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages.
• You can also read your Kindle books on your Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, PC, Mac, Android-based device, and Windows Phone 7-based device. Our Whispersync technology
syncs your last page read, notes, bookmarks, and highlights across devices, so you can pick up where you left off.
• With Kindle textbooks you save up to 60% off print list prices when you buy, and up to 80% when you rent. Use the Notebook in your Print Replica textbooks to review your bookmarks, highlights, notes. Tag and filter the most important items to study.
read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful, easy-to-use
interface. You’ll have access to over 1,000,000* books in the Kindle Store plus
hundreds* of newspapers and magazines. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your
last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you
can pick up your book where you left off on another device.
Get the best reading experience available on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch:
• Shop the Kindle Store by visiting Amazon for the largest selection of books people want
to read: over a million books, including over 800,000 at $9.99 or less.
• Get free book samples – read the first chapter free before you decide to buy.
• Read hundreds* of newspapers and magazines including The Economist, Reader’s Digest, Martha Stewart Living, and Food Network Magazine with high resolution color images. Visit the Kindle Store to subscribe to a newspaper or magazine and have each edition automatically delivered, or purchase individual issues.
• Email PDFs & other documents to your new Send-to-Kindle e-mail address and we deliver them to your device. The documents are automatically archived in the Amazon Cloud and available for re-download on your iOS or supported Kindle devices. You can also read PDFs from Mail, Safari, or by transferring them from iTunes.
• Customize your reading experience by choosing the margin size, background color, font size, and either portrait or landscape format.
• Instant dictionary word lookup with 250,000 entries and definitions. Tap and hold a word to view the definition.
• Search inside the book to find a character, topic, or section you want to revisit.
• Simply tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages.
• You can also read your Kindle books on your Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, PC, Mac, Android-based device, and Windows Phone 7-based device. Our Whispersync technology
syncs your last page read, notes, bookmarks, and highlights across devices, so you can pick up where you left off.
• With Kindle textbooks you save up to 60% off print list prices when you buy, and up to 80% when you rent. Use the Notebook in your Print Replica textbooks to review your bookmarks, highlights, notes. Tag and filter the most important items to study.
Rarefied:
1: Of, relating to, or interesting to a select group : esoteric. 2: Very high.
Cartography is 1 of those rarefied fields at which only a select few can actually earn a living.
"Rarefied" was formed from the verb "rarefy," which derives from a combination of the Latin rarus ("thin" or "rare") with facere ("to make"). Since the 14th century, "rarefied" was also on the lean side, acquiring the sense of "made less dense" (as in "the fog lifted & we could breathe more easily in the rarefied air"). By the 16th century, "rarefy" had evolved to mean "to refine or purify." Over time "rarefied" followed suit; by the 1940s it was being used to mean "only for the select."
Set clear start & end times & stick to them. It's helpful to let the other parent know if you expect them to stay. Ask about food preferences & any health issues you should know about a child visiting your home. Have plenty of toys & activities on hand when you host a playdate for toddlers, but keep it casual & let the kids set the pace.
Teaberries are better known as what?
A. Spearmint
B. Catnip
C. Wintergreen
D. Blueberries
Answer: C. Wintergreen
A powerful earthquake off the coast of Sumatra,
Indonesia, on this day in 2004 sets off a tsunami that wreaks death and
devastation across the Indian Ocean coastline. The quake was the second
strongest ever recorded and the estimated 230,000 dead made this
disaster one of the 10 worst of all time.
It was 7:58 a.m.
when the tremendous quake struck beneath the Indian Ocean 160 miles west
of Sumatra. Not only did it register at approximately a 9.3 magnitude
(only the 1960 Chile earthquake measured higher at 9.5, though there may
have been stronger tremors prior to the invention of seismographic
equipment) and last nearly 10 minutes, the quake moved a full 750 miles
of underwater fault line earth up to 40 feet. The movement of the
earth--there is evidence that huge boulders weighing thousands of tons
were pushed several miles along the ocean floor--caused a massive
displacement of water. It is estimated that the resulting tsunami had
two times the energy of all the bombs used during World War II.
Within
15 minutes, tsunami waves were crashing the coast of Sumatra. At the
north end of the island was a heavily populated region known as Aceh.
There, waves reached 80 feet high over large stretches of the coast and
up to 100 feet in some places. Entire communities were simply swept away
by the water in a matter of minutes. The death toll in Indonesia is
estimated at between 130,000 and 160,000 people, with an additional
500,000 people left homeless. About a third of the victims were
children.
The huge waves missed the coast of Indonesia on the
north side and went on to Thailand, where between 5,000 and 8,000 people
died. The tsunami also moved east across the Indian Ocean. In Sri
Lanka, the tsunami came ashore about 90 minutes after the earthquake.
Although the waves were not as high as in Aceh, they still brought
disaster. Approximately 35,000 people lost their lives and half a
million others lost their homes. In addition, about 15,000 people died
in India. The killer waves even reached 5,000 miles away in South
Africa, where two people perished.
In total, about 190,000
people are confirmed dead with another 40,000 to 45,000 missing and
presumed dead. Although billions of dollars of humanitarian aid poured
in to the affected region in the aftermath of the disaster--an estimated
$7 billion within the first 18 months—some areas are still suffering
from the massive devastation.
One year prior to this
earthquake and tsunami, almost to the hour, a 6.6-magnitude quake rocked
Bam, Iran, killing 30,000 people.
What animal’s den is known as a holt or a couch?
What hit Broadway musical included the song “We Need a Little Christmas”?
Mame. The music and lyrics are by Jerry Herman. A film version of the 1966 musical was made in 1974.
Which character was created 1st?
A. Batman
B. Superman
C. Bugs Bunny
Which of these U.S. states are designated as commonwealths?
Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Missouri, Pennsylvania, California, Virginia, Nebraska.
Which organization was founded 1st?
A. National Guard
B. Red Cross
C. Peace Corps
BAC. The Peace Corps was established by President Kennedy in 1961.
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