Your elementary students are overweight? Power Rangers to the rescue!

<b id="internal-source-marker_0.018686966504901648"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtQPcYIOEQOMC0VM7jS0KiEdqxFuSfrpcasypFiEJqFBx5exyHsveIOV9myAstJxl7_INKG-3jhCWHv4ErjkQyPFIjtLaszLyZ964MXCFuLdalnxI8w0ZHAbFh_zNzBvYVYvo_Flf6LQLm/s1600/pr2013_poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtQPcYIOEQOMC0VM7jS0KiEdqxFuSfrpcasypFiEJqFBx5exyHsveIOV9myAstJxl7_INKG-3jhCWHv4ErjkQyPFIjtLaszLyZ964MXCFuLdalnxI8w0ZHAbFh_zNzBvYVYvo_Flf6LQLm/s320/pr2013_poster.jpg" width="280" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://empower.powerrangers.com/sites/default/files/Power%20Rangers%20emPOWER%20Challenge%20Teacher%20Kit.pdf">Download </a>the Power Rangers Empower curriculum.<br />Enter <a href="http://empower.powerrangers.com/teacher-sweepstakes">the sweepstakes</a> to have the Power Rangers<br />come to your school.</td></tr></tbody></table></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.018686966504901648"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last week when I kept Children’s church, the children said they didn’t want to play “Mother May I” but could they play <b>Power Rangers.</b> Each 4 year old was a ranger and had a job and role to do. Interestingly, when I was approached by a potential advertiser that uses PowerRangers to promote healthy living and habits, I was already primed and keen because I know that children are already play and pretend to be Rangers. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.018686966504901648"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.018686966504901648"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This curriculum is perfect for younger children and should be one you email to your elementary teacher friends. You could adapt for other ages as well.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.018686966504901648"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.018686966504901648"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As a person who has struggled with maintaining a healthy weight, this topic is near to my heart. We HAVE to create engaging, powerful health content to use with children and after reviewing this material, it is a GREAT start (and it is free.)</span></span></span></div><span id="internal-source-marker_0.018686966504901648"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.018686966504901648"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The<a href="http://bit.ly/emPOWERbusyteacher"> emPOWER program</a> takes the “teamwork, confidence, health, and physical activity” motto’s of the Power Rangers and puts it into a free curriculum for you to use in your classroom. </span></span></div><b id="internal-source-marker_0.018686966504901648"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to the creators of the program:</span></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Power Rangers emPOWER Challenge program provides teacher-approved in-classroom activities aligned to national curriculum standards for grades 1-3, utilizing the Power Rangers to inspire kids to eat healthy, exercise, and develop teamwork and confidence.  The program provides resources, recipes, and tips for parents, too.”</span></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://empower.powerrangers.com/sites/default/files/Power%20Rangers%20emPOWER%20Challenge%20Teacher%20Kit.pdf">Download the free kit now.</a> [PDF]</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each "Power Rangers emPOWER Challenge" classroom guide contains:</span></div><br /><ul style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Classroom activities that introduce important life skills and help build healthy habits</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Student worksheets to distribute to your class with exercises that build verbal skills</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A parent mini-magazine that explains the program and provides healthy recipes</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A certificate of completion for participating students</span></div></li></ul><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBw-R16h3DCog1oIwArrwY_6wv3ZPW5XTnCya6CXGTcA6KlFl-Oup-Yk0BLNkGLpX0BgaSrBGe1lAAlZG_AVuh15DZdOP9W-eX7k5zZjkIWdrnY4dsALxKYdWOR_JzpdhpCLZdxM9v-6U4/s1600/pr2013_activity4+thumbnail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBw-R16h3DCog1oIwArrwY_6wv3ZPW5XTnCya6CXGTcA6KlFl-Oup-Yk0BLNkGLpX0BgaSrBGe1lAAlZG_AVuh15DZdOP9W-eX7k5zZjkIWdrnY4dsALxKYdWOR_JzpdhpCLZdxM9v-6U4/s320/pr2013_activity4+thumbnail.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But you can also apply to have the Power Rangers come to your school!</span></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The P</span><a href="http://empower.powerrangers.com/teacher-sweepstakes" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ower Rangers emPOWER Challenge School Sweepstakes </span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">will award a $5,000 donation and a visit from the Power Rangers Megaforce to the winning school or nonprofit after-school program. Make sure to download the kit and enter your local elementary school or after-school program in the sweepstakes! </span>Registration is open until March 31st.</span></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enter the P</span><a href="http://empower.powerrangers.com/teacher-sweepstakes"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ower Rangers emPOWER Challenge School Sweepstakes</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> today - and let us know if you've been implementing the program in your classroom how it's worked.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The students love the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Power Rangers</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and I am glad they are using their social cred with the younger generation for a good cause. I hope if you’re a teacher in grades 1-3 that you’ll </span><a href="http://empower.powerrangers.com/sites/default/files/Power%20Rangers%20emPOWER%20Challenge%20Teacher%20Kit.pdf"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Download the free kit now</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and tell your friends. You can </span><a href="http://ymiclassroom.com/lesson-plans/power-rangers-empower/"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">download each piece separately</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as well. Thanks.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.018686966504901648" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.018686966504901648" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes, I’ve accepted this organization for one of the few advertising spots on my blog because I like the program, it is an important cause, and this organization is providing free resources for teachers. That is a great fit.</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.018686966504901648" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.018686966504901648" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How do you teach students about healthy living? Please share in the comments what you are doing and also, how you like this program. I'd really like to get your feedback.</span></b></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">-------</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Disclosure of material connection:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> This is a "sponsored post." It is something I do sometimes for those who are advertisers on my website. (So don't contact me for one unless you want an advertisement.) The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to write it. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I have used or reviewed personally and believe will be good for my readers. I'm disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."</span></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></b>

Your elementary students are overweight? Power Rangers to the rescue!

Download the Power Rangers Empower curriculum. Enter the sweepstakes to have the Power Rangers come to your school. Last week when I kept C...

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Pigeon Forge Fire Smolders After Monday Rain

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Pigeon Forge Fire Smolders After Monday Rain" src="http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2013/03/pigeon-forge-fire-smolders.jpg" /><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pigeon Forge, TN – The forest fire that once stretched across 300 acres dwindled down to less than a single acre after a full day of around-the-clock efforts and an evening rain Monday. The fire damaged over 70 cabins at the Black Bear Ridge Resort and several private structures sprinkled throughout the heavily forested area not far from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sevier County Emergency Management Director John Matthews told <a class="external" href="http://www.wbir.com/news/article/260508/2/Fire-officials-still-enforcing-evacuation-orders-for-Pigeon-Forge-fire" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Fire down to less than an acre, evacuation soon to be lifted">a local television station</a> that people who want to check on their property and try to recover their belongings may be allowed back into their cabins today. The badly damaged areas will remain closed. Families lost a range of items, from clothes to expensive electronics and priceless mementos, but fortunately there was no loss of life.</div><div style="background-color: white; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="margin: 2px 10px 10px 0px;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="410" hspace="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="adblade_ad_iframe" scrolling="no" src="http://web.adblade.com/impsc.php?cid=1818-1466442841&url=http%3A//www.inquisitr.com/579006/pigeon-forge-fire-smolders-after-monday-rain/&rnd=1363791769347&output=html" vspace="0" width="260"></iframe></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The forest fire began as a house fire at around 4:00 pm on Sunday and peaked around 300 acres later that day. By Monday morning, crews had <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/578384/pigeon-forge-fire-continues-to-burn-doubles-damage-in-east-tennessee/" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.inquisitr.com/578384/pigeon-forge-fire-continues-to-burn-doubles-damage-in-east-tennessee/">reduced the fire to half of its size</a>, but the fire continued to break through containment and <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/577367/pigeon-forge-fire-decimates-resort-town-in-tennessee/" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.inquisitr.com/577367/pigeon-forge-fire-decimates-resort-town-in-tennessee/">work its way up the hill</a>. An evening rain arrived that reduced the fire to less than five acres. By Tuesday morning only a few scattered fires remained, consuming less than an acre.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Over 100 firefighters from up to 30 fire departments responded to the crisis from areas throughout East Tennessee. The Tennessee Army National Guard loaned two Black Hawk helicopters to the effort, which airlifted 60 loads of water from Douglas Lake to diminish the fire burning just outside Pigeon Forge. Only a few firefighters remained Tuesday morning to monitor the remains.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A state of emergency was declared Monday and the American Red Cross opened an emergency shelter at the Pigeon Forge Community Center for residents displaced by the fire. Volunteers organized a command center at the local Calvary Baptist Church.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The majority of the cabins affected were lost. 59 cabins were completely destroyed, and another 16 were damaged. Those whose properties remain intact will be escorted to try to retrieve their things. Law enforcement will still maintain a quarantine around the cabins burned by the fire due to safety concerns.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pigeon Forge is a resort city with a population of around 6,000. The city is home to Dollywood, the popular tourist attraction co-owned by <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/tag/dolly-parton/" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Dolly Parton</a>, which was never threatened by the fire. The bulk of the <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/577351/tennessee-wildfire-threatens-popular-tourist-destination/" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Tennessee Wildfire Threatens Popular Tourist Destination">Pigeon Forge fire</a> took place in the heavily forested mountainous area outside of town.</div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />Read more at <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/579006/pigeon-forge-fire-smolders-after-monday-rain/#khjgGz2UOe2bbPKp.99" style="color: #003399; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">http://www.inquisitr.com/579006/pigeon-forge-fire-smolders-after-monday-rain/#khjgGz2UOe2bbPKp.99</a> </span></div>

Pigeon Forge Fire Pigeon Forge Fire Smolders After Monday Rain

Pigeon Forge, TN – The forest fire that once stretched across 300 acres dwindled down to less than a single acre after a full day of around-...

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UCF Gunman's To-Do List Ended With 'Give 'Em Hell'

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">The University of Central Florida student who planned to massacre his fellow students had ordered more than $700 worth of weapons online, including two packages of ammunition, gun shooting DVDs, and accessories for his weapons that arrived on campus after the attack had already been thwarted.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">The packages contained even more ammunition for the attack that former UCF student James Oliver Seevakumaran, 30, planned to carry out Monday morning shortly after midnight.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">He already had a handgun, assault rifle, high capacity magazines, and four homemade bombs he hoped to use on fellow students after pulling the fire alarm and forcing them into the crowded hallways, according to police.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">University Police Chief Richard Beary said today that Seevakumaran had written out a detailed list of the actions he hoped to take Monday night and crossed off the items as he went, including getting drunk at a bar called Mad Hatters and pulling the fire alarm. Police confirmed that he did both.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">The last item on the list was "give 'em hell," but Seevakumaran killed himself before killing any fellow students, Beary said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/university-central-florida-body-bombs-found-18755260" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">University of Central Florida Narrowly Avoids Tragedy Monday</a></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">According to cops, the former business student pulled the fire alarm shortly after midnight, causing campus police to respond to the Tower 1 residence hall. He then returned to his apartment, where he pointed a rifle at roommate Arabo Babakhani.</div><div class="rel_container g_4" id="rel_image_feature" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 20px 50px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 200px;"><div class="rel_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="rel_thumb" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="lpos=widget[Left_Rail_Image]&lid=view[Image]" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="PHOTO: James Seevakumaran is seen in this undated handout photo from University of Central Florida, where he was found dead in a dorm room on March 18, 2013 from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound." border="0" height="112" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ht_ufc_seevakumaran_kb_130318_wg.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5px; 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I open my door and I see my roommate with an assault rifle. I didn't stop and look, I slam the door in his face so he couldn't harm me. As soon as I open the door he just raised the rifle on me," Babakhani told ABC News.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Babakhani said Seevakumaran was a loner.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"For the most part if you said anything to him he would ignore you, he would stare off in the distance and pretend like you didn't exist. But he made eye contact with me when he pulled the gun on me. That was the best eye contact I ever had with him. He looked me dead in the eye and raised the gun," Babakhani said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"I thought he went after my roommate but I didn't hear a struggle. Then I heard pops and then silence," he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">University police responded to the apartment and, in a dramatic video shown at a press conference today, spent tedious moments trying to find the right key to enter Seevakumaran's room while the fire alarm sounded around them. Upon entering, they found Seevakumaran dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Officers quickly backed out of the room where Seevakumaran's body was. Police said that he had four homemade IEDs that were laced with shrapnel in a backpack in his room, in addition to the guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">The suspect had a American Tactical .22 caliber assault rifle and a High Point .45 caliber handgun and high capacity magazines, including a drum magazine similar to the type used in the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Police discovered today that Seevakumaran had two additional packages that he never picked up at the campus post office that included a sling for his rifle, a magazine, and DVDs on shooting and using lasers with weapons.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Beary said that the suspect spent at least $700 on the weapons and ammunition for the attack.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Seevakumaran had purchased his guns online and picked them up at a local Orlando federal firearms dealer, according to Beary.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Police said they were still investigating the incident but that there was no discernible motive for the planned attack.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;"></div><h3 style="font-size: 15px !important; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Last Item on Gunman's List Was 'Give 'Em Hell'</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Seevakumaran had been a student at the university from fall 2010 until December 2012, but he did not re-enroll for the 2013 semester. He was in the process of being evicted from the dorm when he killed himself. University officials said that it should not have taken as long as it did to evict Seevakumaran, but that the school took pains to be "compassionate" to students who had nowhere to go.</div><div class="rel_container g_4" id="rel_image" style="clear: left; float: left; margin: 20px 50px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 200px;"><div class="rel_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="rel_thumb" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="lpos=widget[Left_Rail_Image]&lid=view[Image]" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="PHOTO: A police officer shows a picture of a gun similar to the one found in a University of Central Florida dorm room, March 18, 2013." border="0" height="112" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/abc_ucf_campus_threat_mi_130318_wg.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5px; padding: 0px;" title="" width="199" /><span class="image_icon" style="background-color: transparent; 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padding: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">Babakhani said that his roommate was a loner.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"For the most part if you said anything to him he would ignore you. He would stare off in the distance and pretend like you didn't exist. But he made eye contact with me when he pulled the gun on me. That was the best eye contact I ever had with him. He looked me dead in the eye and raised the gun," Babakhani.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">His roommates said they had never seen him with guns or weapons.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">University police have stressed how the number of weapons and ammunition could have led to mass tragedy.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 150px;">"Anybody armed with this type of weapon could have hurt a lot of people there, particularly in a crowded area as people were evacuating," Beary said. "It could          have been a very bad day."</div><br /></div>

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Michelle Shocked Draws Fire for Anti-Gay Remarks

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="post-304183 post type-post status-publish hentry category-music tag-folk-music tag-homosexuality tag-shocked-michelle entry " id="entry-304183" style="background-color: white; border-top-style: none; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; padding: 15px 10px 0px;"><header class="postHeader"><h1 class="entry-title" style="color: black; font-size: 2.4em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.083em; margin: 6px 0px 4px;"><br /></h1><address class="byline author vcard" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 2px;">By <a class="url fn" href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/author/james-c-mckinley-jr/" style="color: #666699; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;" title="See all posts by JAMES C. MCKINLEY JR.">JAMES C. MCKINLEY JR.</a></address></header><div class="entry-content" style="margin-top: 15px;"><div class="w190 right" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 5px 0px 1em 12px; overflow: hidden; width: 190px;"><img alt="Michelle Shocked performing in Madison, Wisc., in 2011." height="251" id="100000002126374" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/03/19/arts/19artsbeat-shocked/19artsbeat-shocked-articleInline.jpg" width="190" /><span class="credit" style="color: #909090; display: block; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.223em; margin: 2px 0px; text-align: right;">Andy Manis/Associated Press</span><span class="caption" style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.2727em; margin: 3px 2px;">Michelle Shocked performing in Madison, Wisc., in 2011.</span></div><div style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Michelle Shocked, the punk folk-singer, liberal activist and born-again Christian, has<a href="http://sfist.com/2013/03/18/michelle_shocked_launches_into_anti.php" style="color: #666699;">drawn fire</a> for an <a href="http://meowonline.org/michelle-shocked-god-hates-fags/" style="color: #666699;">anti-gay tirade</a> in San Francisco over the weekend, during which she said God hates homosexuals.</div><div style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">One nightclub in Evanston, Ill., on Monday canceled a scheduled appearance in May after her remarks, at Yoshi’s jazz club in San Francisco on Sunday night. The Evanston club, Space, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/evanstonspace/posts/10151295791672245" style="color: #666699;">said on its Facebook page</a> that “it’s clear that this is no longer a show we’re willing to put our name on.” At least four other shows have also been canceled, including a March 29 show at the<a href="http://www.hopmonk.com/novato/music-and-events/events-detail/?event_id=276012" style="color: #666699;"> Hopmonk Tavern</a> in Novato, Calif., The Associated Press reported on Tuesday.</div><div style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Michelle Shocked cited Old Testament verses condemning homosexuality and told the audience she hoped the courts would uphold Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage, according to <a href="http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/folk-legend-incites-mass-walkout-anti-gay-speech-195312874.html" style="color: #666699;">Yahoo Music</a>. “I live in fear that the world will be destroyed if gays are allowed to marry,” she said. Then she also told the audience to go on Twitter and report that she had said God hates homosexuals, though it is unclear whether <a href="https://twitter.com/ultramundane/status/313543467039080448" style="color: #666699;">that remark was sardonic</a>.<span id="more-304183"></span></div><div style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Much of the audience walked out after her remarks. The club’s manager tried to end the show, but she continued playing until staff members pulled the plug and turned off the stage lights.</div><div style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Gay rights has been a touchy subject for Michelle Shocked over the years. In 1990, she <a href="http://www.dallasvoice.com/michelle-shocked-said-what-1990-outlines-interview-surfaces-10434.html" style="color: #666699;">told an interviewer at The Dallas Voice</a> that she had once had a relationship with a woman but did not want to be defined as a lesbian.</div><div style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">In recent years, she underwent a religious conversion and started attending a Pentecostal church, and her statements about homosexuality became more tortured. She <a href="http://www.edgedallas.com/index.php?ch=entertainment&sc=music&sc3=&id=73235&pf=1" style="color: #666699;">told The Dallas Voice in 2008</a> that she resented attempts by journalists to pin down her sexual orientation.</div><div style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“There are some inconvenient truths that I’m now a born-again, sanctified, saved-in-the-blood Christian. So much of what’s said and done in the name of that Christianity is appalling,” the singer told the weekly paper. “According to my Bible, which I didn’t write, homosexuality is immoral. But homosexuality is no more less a sin than fornication. And I’m a fornicator with a capital F.”</div><div style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Then in 2011, she became incensed when a member of the audience asked her position on gay rights at the Christian-oriented Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina, <a href="http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/4888/wild_goose_festival%E2%80%99s_%28mostly%29_welcoming_spirit_for_lgbt_christians_/" style="color: #666699;">Religion Dispatches magazine reported</a>.</div><div style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em;">“Who drafted me as a gay icon?” she said. “You are looking at the world’s greatest homophobe. Ask God what he thinks.”</div><div><br /></div></div></div><div class="entry-meta" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 10px 0px 0px;"><div class="shareTools shareToolsThemeClassic shareToolsThemeClassicHorizontal articleShareToolsBottom shareToolsInstance" data-description="Some venues have canceled upcoming shows after the folk singer's remarks about homosexuality at a performance in San Francisco." data-shares="facebook|,twitter|,google|,save,email,showall|Share,print" data-title="Michelle Shocked Draws Fire for Anti-Gay Remarks" data-url="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/michelle-shocked-draws-fire-for-anti-gay-remarks/" style="margin: 23px 0px 23px 10px;"><div class="shareToolsBox"><ul class="shareToolsList" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding-left: 0px;"><li class="shareToolsItem shareToolsItemFacebook noLabel firstItem" data-share="facebook" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0.45em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: none; float: left; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;"></li></ul></div></div></div></div>

Michelle Shocked Michelle Shocked Draws Fire for Anti-Gay Remarks

By  JAMES C. MCKINLEY JR. Andy Manis/Associated Press Michelle Shocked performing in Madison, Wisc., in 2011. Michelle Shocked, the punk fol...

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What doesn't kill me makes me stronger

I fought like hell to get my blog back up, then I don't post anything for almost a month. I've been busy, but not that busy!<br /><br />I don't feel like I have anything exciting or interesting to talk about in regards to weight loss or exercise. My weight went up to 206 even thought I've been going to Weight Watcher meetings consistently. The problem is that I haven't been "doing" Weight Watchers. Just paying the monthly fee and sitting through the meetings isn't enough. My best friend has been going with me and in the same time we've been going regularly (about eight weeks), she's lost 13 pounds. I could kick myself for not getting on plan. Every day I say I will, every day I don't. Same old story. <br /><br />Same with the gym, I was going on a regular basis but then got too busy. I had a great workout on Saturday, but that was my last workout. <br /><br />In my defense, as lame as it is, I'm having some sort of health problem. According to Google, my symptoms indicate a bladder infection or ovarian cancer. I know what you're thinking, stop looking up my symptoms on Google. Unfortunately, I'm very high risk for ovarian cancer. Age, postmenopausal, obesity (increases risk by 50%), reproductive history (never had kids - makes me a big risk), family history -- we're pretty sure my mom died from ovarian cancer, per her doctor, but they never ran any tests. He said since she was so old - 86 - and she was going to die anyway they didn't want to bother with doing any tests. Wish I'd forced the issue on that one.<br /><br />My doctor ruled out a bladder infection based on the urinalysis. Now she wants me to do blood work and get a CT scan. That was on Monday. Monday night I felt a lot better and thought it was a waste of money to get the extra tests done. Last night I thought I was dying so I'm calling today to schedule the CT scan. I'll get the blood work done too. It's better to try to find out what's wrong. I had an episode of the same kind of pain in January but it went away. Now it's back with a vengeance, with the pain much more intense this time.<br /><br />Okay, enough about my health. Want to hear how the divorce is going? Probably the worse divorce I've witnessed. I had to go to court last week on something trivial for another hearing. It's crazy because each time we have to go to court, it costs me a big chunk of money (I have to go with my attorney). I won't go into details about what my husband wanted, but the judge ruled in my favor. <br /><br />The bills are astronomical since I'm paying for everything, including his health and auto insurance (which annoys me, ordered by the court since he's still not working). <br /><br />His criminal trial is scheduled for June 11. Really dreading it since I have to testify. My best friend will be there with me. It'll be a jury trial with witnesses (there weren't any witnesses so not sure what they're talking about - except the police were there). I've already read about 30 pages of lies my husband has written about me and submitted in court. Some pretty amazing works of fiction, which I believe is considered perjury.  The divorce trial is still scheduled November 3. <br /><br />I wish this year was over. I want it to be 2014. <br /><br />My sister is doing well. I took her to lunch and for her hair appointment on Sunday. She seems to be happy. She continues to try to talk, and talks up a storm. Watching her try to tell the stylist how she wanted her hair done was rather comical. I always tell the stylist what she wants and usually my sister doesn't try to say anything. On Sunday she started chatting up a storm witht he stylist. I was sitting across the room and watched for about a minute. The stylist knows my sister had a stroke, but it was the first time my sister tried to talk to her. I thought I'd better rescue the stylist and went over to try and figure out what my sister was saying. We finally figured out she wanted her bangs cut short (we think that's what she wanted). My sister is talking more than ever, but it just doesn't make any sense. She can say "okay", "yeah" and "alright". That's the extent of her vocabulary that's understandable. I keep hoping that someday she'll say more words I can understand. <br /><br />My niece is coming for a visit over Easter to see her mother (my sister). I told my sister and she shook her head no, over and over, and then cried non-stop for ten mintues. I finally told her that maybe she wouldn't come and to not worry about it so much and she finally stopped crying. This is my good niece, my sister's favorite child. She has a lot of mental issues, but she's very kind and sweet. She's on bipolar meds, anti-anxiety and anti-psychotic meds, as well as a couple meds for depression. She checked herself into the hospital about a month ago and was admitted to the psych ward for a week. Then last week she went back to the hospital but they called her husband to come get her. She's 48 and a mess. Her husband called Friday and said she's not coming down. She call Sunday and said she is coming down. I'd prefer she wait until she's got her head on straight, but doubt that will ever happen. <br /><br />After reading this, I can see why I haven't posted for the last month. A rather sad and pathetic story. Oh well, it's my life right now.  I'm still standing, still going to work every day. I still have amazing and wonderful friends, and my faith in God. It's all good. I'll get through this period. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger, right? <br /><br />

What doesn't kill me makes me stronger

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Sherpaa - blog

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I Am Stuck in the Middle of a More Ass

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMgxOM-8_T3XRLrSHKcE0iH_ISBsX2HhiHtgbHvmmfeyRvIWz9PAFDxvtQ8DIr8hZN-l3SEVbq9vJp1czIp4fZYe7YnU1U2UPevqnGCun3JN-DUtNLbU5gQJ5SVsnTfUCj41rSySVilU4/s1600/Mark+Sanford+South+Carolina.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMgxOM-8_T3XRLrSHKcE0iH_ISBsX2HhiHtgbHvmmfeyRvIWz9PAFDxvtQ8DIr8hZN-l3SEVbq9vJp1czIp4fZYe7YnU1U2UPevqnGCun3JN-DUtNLbU5gQJ5SVsnTfUCj41rSySVilU4/s400/Mark+Sanford+South+Carolina.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Cheers, Suck It, and Go to Hell you Rotten Bastards!!<br /><br />Ha!!  Take that!!<br /><br />How did it feel reading that as you opened up this page?  It didn’t shock you.  Move you.  Or anger you at all, did it?<br /><br />I didn’t think so.  And that my friends, has become a problem for me.  The last couple of days my posts have been late because well…I can’t think of anything to write about in a way that would elicit disturbed laughter and/or true outrage in people.<br /><br />You know why?<br /><br />I believe we Americans have become mental and emotional zombies, and that is making things difficult for guy like me who dabbles in the art of clever and sophisticated shock prose which we call satire.<br /><br />Some of my malaise and lack of literary fire can be blamed on the weather.  For the past three months here in Ohio, we have had what seems like a mere four days of sunshine.  Seasonal Affective Disorder?  Oh yeah, there’s something to that.  However…<br /><br />Much of the problem lies with our state of society and culture.  For instance…<br /><br />Perhaps I could write an uproariously hilarious satirical piece about a conservative Governor in a conservative southern state who bolts from his duties, skips town, skips out on his wife, and hikes to Argentina in order to have sex with a hot babe in Buenos Aires.  Ha, Ha, and then, and then people dig it…Hee Hee…<br /><br />A couple of years later this same wacky, adulterous Governor who left office in shame and disgrace runs in a special election to become the U.S. Rep. from South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District and garners more votes than any other Republican.  Ha…that would make a great piece of satire.  Well, it would have, however…<br /><br />Last night?  Real life beat me to the punch line when Mark Sanford far outdistanced his Republican opponents in the aforementioned special election.  Thanks a lot South Carolinians!!  Fucking Gamecocks…<br /><br />Or…or…yeah here we go…I could write a scathing, biting, and jocular piece of satire about the GOP, the party of moral superiority and fiscal frugality hosting a conference and two of the headliners are a half term Governor/reality TV star who gives birth to out of wedlock baby makers and a thrice bankrupted reality TV host.  Ha!!  That has possibilities maybe I’ll----<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlZ6JNINSnRP76sgWv-TLJ9pT4IM0_oyg4eyNmtYSqTy29HPgnvGKE_2rpzHZoccSbc01Z4ST_QlS0EbtkWS9EQJpaP13z1pghlCGd2L3T2Otl6pUhFpLEbP8d9ZTwu60WOnA07JskSdI/s1600/Sarah+Palin+Hot+Clevage+Naked+Sexy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlZ6JNINSnRP76sgWv-TLJ9pT4IM0_oyg4eyNmtYSqTy29HPgnvGKE_2rpzHZoccSbc01Z4ST_QlS0EbtkWS9EQJpaP13z1pghlCGd2L3T2Otl6pUhFpLEbP8d9ZTwu60WOnA07JskSdI/s320/Sarah+Palin+Hot+Clevage+Naked+Sexy.jpg" width="320" /></a>Wait…What?  That happened at C-Pac last week?  What the fuck?  See what I mean?  I guess one can no longer say, “Art, or in this case satire, imitates life.”, because life IS satire these days.  One big, satirical string of events after another.<br /><br />How can I compete with life when life and actual events have become their own laugh factory to the point where the wacky and edgy are no longer wacky nor edgy?<br /><br />Jay and I often joke about how politicians, pundits, and various people are quick to pop themselves in front of TV camera in order to feign outrage over the latest non-crisis or comment they had recently heard.  I think Jay and I have stumbled upon something that has happened in and to this country.<br /><br />The reason that these folks feign outrage is because they have to fake it, because no one is any longer actually outraged…about anything!!  Anything that matters that is.<br /><br />Oy…The last time I managed to actually outrage anyone through my satire was ayear and a half ago when I wrote about the “true reason” that <span style="color: blue;"><i><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/07/anders-behring-breivik-super-trouper.html"><span style="color: blue;">Anders Behring Breivik</span></a> </i></span>went on a rampage and killed a smelt tin full of Norwegians.  Oh Baby!!<br /><br />We had a more than a hand full of pissed off Norwegians (and Dutch people for some reason) more than a little ticked off at IWS.<br /><br />But man…that was, as I said, a long, long time ago.  So I figure I have two options as to how to once again make an impression and elicit emotion through my writing.<br /><br />I could one, step up my game.  Get better at it, be more creative, or number two…<br /><br />Move to Norway.  Hmmmmmmmmm?<br /><br />I think I’ll opt for option one because as I mentioned earlier…I get bummed out during the drudgery and dreariness of an Ohio winter; I bet I would become downright suicidal trying to live through a winter in Oslo.<br /><br /><i>Cheers!!</i><br /><i>Matt-Man</i><br /><br /><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS">@mattman_iws</a>  </div>

I Am Stuck in the Middle of a More Ass

Cheers, Suck It, and Go to Hell you Rotten Bastards!! Ha!!  Take that!! How did it feel reading that as you opened up this page?  It didn’t ...

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Jay Parkinson, The Doctor Is in (Well, Logged in) - NYTimes.com

Surfing the Web in his all-white Dumbo loft, Dr. Jay Parkinson, 37, looks like any other young tech visionary. He has a trim beard and thick-framed glasses. He wears slim-fitting black outfits and jaunty scarves. He speaks with a measured, "This American Life"-like cadence. And he's a firm believer in the utopian promise of the Internet.<br /><br><br /><br>But Dr. Parkinson's start-up isn't a new app or social network. He is a founder of Sherpaa, a Web site that operates like a virtual doctor's office, examining patients by e-mail and text message.<br /><br><br /><br>"We're using the Internet to reinvent health care," Dr. Parkinson said proudly, seated next to a Ping-Pong table and a shaggy goldendoodle.<br /><br><br /><br>Have a mysterious rash? Send a photo of it to Sherpaa, reply to a few e-mails (Are you sure it's not a bruise? Do you have bed bugs?), and proceed to the nearest Duane Reade to pick up your prescription.<br /><br><br /><br>This may seem like health care for the "OMG, I'm sick :( " generation, but clients include high-tech players in New York like Tumblr, Skillshare, General Assembly and Hard Candy Shell. "We're tech-savvy doctors," he said, "for tech-savvy patients."<br /><br><br /><br>In fact, Dr. Parkinson is perhaps the most prominent of the city's 2.0 doctors, who are rethinking the health care model along 21st-century lines.<br /><br><br /><br>In 2007, after graduating from Penn State College of Medicine, and completing a residency in pediatrics at St. Vincent's Manhattan Hospital in Greenwich Village, and another in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, he did what every young roustabout did at the time: he moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn.<br /><br><br /><br>Dr. Parkinson rented a ground-floor apartment on North Ninth Street, and spent his nights at Hotel Delmano and the Brooklyn Ale House and his days caffeinating at Atlas Cafe. He was adrift.<br /><br><br /><br>"I knew I didn't want to join a private practice," he said. "I'd be the low man on the totem poll, get paid poorly and not be in control of my hours."<br /><br><br /><br>Instead, he started a self-titled blog on which he wrote about health issues relevant to the L train crowd, like the dangers of cocaine and the wonder of Thom Yorke's left eye ptosis. He also started a Tumblr page, which included a flattering photo of himself standing underneath the Williamsburg Bridge with a stethoscope.<br /><br><br /><br>Rather than set up a standard practice — an office with, say, back issues of Vice magazine and a surly tattooed receptionist to schedule appointments — he invited patients to contact him directly through instant message and e-mail. "We can figure out if I need to come to your work, your home or meet somewhere else in the city," he wrote on the site. "We can even meet in the park or a coffee shop."<br /><br><br /><br>The concept seemed so trendy that Gawker mocked Dr. Parkinson in a post entitled, "Williamsburg's Hipster Doctor Will Diagnose You Via IM." The article went viral. "When I read that," he recalled, "I thought my career was over. But after it came out, I had seven million visitors on my site that month. I was offered both a book deal and a movie deal. 'The Tyra Banks Show' called. They wanted me as their Dr. Oz."<br /><br><br /><br>(Full disclosure: I was an editor at Gawker at the time but did not write the post in question.)<br /><br><br /><br>Dr. Parkinson turned down the various offers, but he rode the wave of popularity. He started a design consultancy called the Future Well. He also stopped seeing patients and let his license to practice medicine lapse. "Seeing patients is stressful for me," Dr. Parkinson said. Instead, he networked.<br /><br><br /><br>He held parties, cocktail mixers and backyard barbecues that attracted Web luminaries like David Karp, founder of Tumblr; Chris Hughes, a founder of Facebook and current publisher of The New Republic; and Jakob Lodwick, a founder of Vimeo. "The Internet crowd really latched on to my practice," Dr. Parkinson said.<br /><br><br /><br>Instead of making house calls to ailing freelancers, Dr. Parkinson was now hobnobbing with their bosses. His new start-up, he decided, would work exclusively with companies.<br /><br><br /><br>Started in 2012, Sherpaa now has eight employees, including two primary-care physicians, and counts 500 customers from 30 companies. Sherpaa's network includes 100 specialists to whom it refers clients.<br /><br><br /><br>More than offering 24/7 service, Sherpaa's main selling point to employers is cost. By moving away from a reliance on traditional primary-care physicians and emergency room visits, Sherpaa claims that it can save companies up to $4,000 a year for each employee. (It charges $50 a month for each employee.)<br /><br><br /><br>Dr. Parkinson still holds mixers for hepcat medical professionals. At a recent barbecue, he served sausages from the Meat Hook and whisky cheese from the Bedford Cheese Shop at the apartment he now shares with his girlfriend, Paige Ferrari, 30, a producer for "Doomsday Preppers." The décor is classic Bedford Avenue contemporary: a pair of suspenders hang from a lamp; a stuffed javelina is mounted above the bed.<br /><br><br /><br>Sitting under a vintage World War II Red Cross flag, guests discussed the health issues of the day like the "quarter-life crisis" among 20-somethings and "hipster belly," a result of too much pulled pork and too few pull-ups.<br /><br><br /><br>"Part of being a 20-year-old is doing stupid things," said Dr. Parkinson, spearing a bratwurst. "And part of being a 30-year-old is realizing you can't have this sexy body doing the same thing forever."<br /><br><br /><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/fashion/jay-parkinson-the-doctor-is-in-well-logged-in.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/fashion/jay-parkinson-the-doctor-is-in-well-logged-in.html</a>?

Jay Parkinson, The Doctor Is in (Well, Logged in) - NYTimes.com

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Giddy Up And Go Granola Review

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQL0NHKpwuRBS5uu80ML1o-AaqOLQ53YMp9MerZfl78978lz_x9RgOhqp5hW0DsoLn-y914dYolSHqKTZJa2MJdw4vNqpBSMne5IBQvgHJH84vR7x2yLV2T7055PrjKOIkko5Mc3uHxz4/s1600/giddy+up+and+go+granola.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQL0NHKpwuRBS5uu80ML1o-AaqOLQ53YMp9MerZfl78978lz_x9RgOhqp5hW0DsoLn-y914dYolSHqKTZJa2MJdw4vNqpBSMne5IBQvgHJH84vR7x2yLV2T7055PrjKOIkko5Mc3uHxz4/s320/giddy+up+and+go+granola.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yesterday morning there was a knock on the door and this lovely package of granola was delivered by the Fed Ex guy! Just love when they arrive at the door, you know it's something great!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was sent some of Thoughtful Food's <a href="http://thoughtfulfood.net/Giddy-Up---Go-Granola.html">Giddy Up and Go Granola</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am in love with granola, you can add it to just about anything!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love adding them into parfaits for a healthy and delicious breakfast to get me up and going each morning.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can even put it on fruit, ice cream, heck you can even eat it right out of the bag it's so good!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love everything about this product from their name to the little bow tied right on the bags of granola.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With a product like this you can tell that a lot of thought was put into it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thoughtful Food line was set out on a mission to serve up some good foods that were healthy, all natural and clean.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Facts:</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gluten Free</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dairy Free</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vegan </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No GMOs</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also Great For Diabetics</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The flavors I was sent for my review was Seriously Seedy and Notoriously Nutty.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I couldn't wait to try it because I love granola and being organic this just sounded and looked a whole lot healthier and better for me, besides I love all of the ingredients in it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every granola that I've tried has been different ranging from fruity to chocolaty.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhopJNguSd3-jXrXsldpNiPdpu8i4F1TEKEL4zldI124-GURJwt-LpD4Uh38MIRSRmuhDIrzCxVsdhfK482rdiXK8cg42aor1_70YLzzv1MdJ_rBc40ApaSHqF98W8soblqkax2fpaYVL4/s1600/giddy+up+and+go+yogurt+bowl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhopJNguSd3-jXrXsldpNiPdpu8i4F1TEKEL4zldI124-GURJwt-LpD4Uh38MIRSRmuhDIrzCxVsdhfK482rdiXK8cg42aor1_70YLzzv1MdJ_rBc40ApaSHqF98W8soblqkax2fpaYVL4/s320/giddy+up+and+go+yogurt+bowl.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This morning I grabbed my bowl and measured out my yogurt then tore the bag of granola open and nibbled on a piece, wow amazing!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I noticed that it was more chewy and soft rather than hard and crunchy like other granola's, but I loved it!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I sprinkled some on my yogurt and added blueberries.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then dug right in.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great flavor of the raisins and the clusters and worked great with my yogurt!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Couldn't believe at how great this tasted!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seriously Seedy:</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoJRt1or_vNGPpKHwFhyeABkM3be677erdSqxffqOaAOCOqYOfbam_LPJ0z73G3ynnVYRsjLBE6mjReuZgxLfQaLaKTNg5mvon6L-O1xujQglWkds1aIvIQNzk4kPn6WTz7HP3kHxGmOw/s1600/giddy+up+and+go+granola+seriously+seedy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoJRt1or_vNGPpKHwFhyeABkM3be677erdSqxffqOaAOCOqYOfbam_LPJ0z73G3ynnVYRsjLBE6mjReuZgxLfQaLaKTNg5mvon6L-O1xujQglWkds1aIvIQNzk4kPn6WTz7HP3kHxGmOw/s320/giddy+up+and+go+granola+seriously+seedy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am in absolute love with this kind of granola as well from Giddy Up!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tastes great and it didn't taste much different from the Notoriously Nutty one.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet, delicious and worked perfect in you guessed it, yogurt!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I added a bit of orange cranberries and the flavors altogether were amazing!</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Website </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://thoughtfulfood.net/index.html">http://thoughtfulfood.net/index.html</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like them on Face Book</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/giddyupgranola?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/giddyupgranola?fref=ts</a></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Due to FCC guidelines:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thoughtful Foods sent me bags of their granola in exchange for a product review. All the opinions expressed are my own.</span></div></div>

Giddy Up And Go Granola Review

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How to Clean Toenails

Having being blessed with really rough wide and dry flat feet, it has always been a challenge for me to keep my feet and toe nails looking bright and sprightly. Here are some useful tips I have gathered on how to keep toenails clean. There is a secret recipe - it is just not cleanse, file and polish.<br /><b><br /></b><b>Step # 1</b>  - Keep the following tools ready at hand. Nail file, cleanser, toenail clipper (optional), nail polish, footfile or pumice stone, nail polish and finally <b><i>a tooth brush and tooth paste</i></b><br /><br /><b>Step # 2</b> - Soak feet in warm water with salt<br /><br /><b>Step # 3</b> - Go through the usual process of drying and filing away the dead skin with the pumice stoce or the foot file<br /><br /><b>Step # 4</b> - Cleanse the toe nails with a nail polish remover and cleanser<br /><br /><b>Step # 5</b> - File the toe nails using a nail file or emory board<br /><br /><b>Step # 6</b> - Clip the dead skin and the ingrown nails. Be careful not to break the skin. It is better to file away the ingrown nails than clip it if you are likely to hurt yourself.<br /><br /><b>Step # 7</b> - Soak the feet again to remove the dead skin and soften the skin <br /><br /><b>Step # 8</b> - Dry feet<br /><br /><b>Step # 9</b> - The most important step in cleaning toenails and it works! Apply some toothpaste to your toothbrush. Brush your toe nails as you would your teeth. Brush the skin around the toes. Reappy paste and brush the feet, sole and all.<br /><br /><b>Step # 10</b> - Rub the pumice stone on your feet and around your toes to make the paste more effective<br /><br /><b>Step # 11 </b>- Clean feet and apply moisturiser<br /><br /><b>Step # 12</b> - Lo - your feet and toe nails are bright and shiny - and clean. Apply polish as you wish.<br /><br />Most of these are normal procedure for cleaning our toenails and pedicure. The abrasive ingredient in toothpaste that cleans teeth and the freshener that keeps our mouth fresh - works equally well for our toes. So do it and tell me the results.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

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Doctors Urge F.D.A. to Restrict Caffeine in Energy Drinks - NYTimes.com

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><nyt_text style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div id="articleBody"><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">A group of 18 doctors, researchers and public health experts jointly urged the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/food_and_drug_administration/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the U.S. Food And Drug Administration." class="meta-org" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Food and Drug Administration</a> on Tuesday to take action on <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/e/energy_drinks/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about energy drinks." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">energy drinks</a> to protect adolescents and children from the possible risks of consuming high amounts of caffeine.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">"There is evidence in the published scientific literature that the caffeine levels in energy drinks pose serious potential health risks," the doctors and researchers wrote.<a title="The letter [PDF]." href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/BestofScienceLetter_v22.pdf" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">In their letter </a>to Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, the F.D.A. commissioner, the group argued that energy drink makers had failed to meet the regulatory burden placed on them to show that the ingredients used in their beverages were safe, specifically where children, adolescents and young adults are concerned. As a result, the group urged the F.D.A. to restrict caffeine content in the products and to require manufacturers to include caffeine content on product labels.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; "><a title="Related article. " href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/business/safety-of-monster-energy-drinks-questioned.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">A similar letter was sent</a> to the agency by the San Francisco city attorney, Dennis J. Herrera, who is one of several public officials conducting investigations of the energy-drink industry.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">Energy drink makers have insisted their products are safe and that their levels of caffeine, a stimulant, are on a par with other widely consumed drinks, like coffee.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; ">The F.D.A. has said that it is safe for adults to consume about 400 milligrams of caffeine daily, though many experts say that most adults can consume 600 milligrams or more of caffeine without ill effect. 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one room challenge - the reveal

The big day has finally arrived - reveal day! Six weeks, 20 bloggers and one room later, my girls' have a new bedroom and I have a new manicure coming my way (catch up on weeks <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/p/one-room-challenge.html" target="_blank">1-6 of work on the ORC here</a>).<br /><br />So in the words of Jennifer Grey in Ferris Bueller, 'let's not ruin this with a lot of talk.' Let's get right to the good stuff.<br /><br />If you follow me on <a href="http://instagram.com/littleblackdoor" target="_blank">instagram</a>, then you've been getting little sneak peeks for the past few days. Here is where we started.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifI9en5KRMrQ_65mku19hpwXhQO4lblfKo_Iq44yFCYTSv1G1C4xPV4wCwdXcU1oalj48YwY8Oj_0XNz1F-nB_g0_e3fmqNYMwGrEhjOsek9GDc05kiO4J5MdZ26YXltxSSykeBNoNyGGz/s1600/LittleBlackDoorGirlsRoom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifI9en5KRMrQ_65mku19hpwXhQO4lblfKo_Iq44yFCYTSv1G1C4xPV4wCwdXcU1oalj48YwY8Oj_0XNz1F-nB_g0_e3fmqNYMwGrEhjOsek9GDc05kiO4J5MdZ26YXltxSSykeBNoNyGGz/s640/LittleBlackDoorGirlsRoom.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />And six weeks later, here is where we are today.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqPyL3h8VgpbBCYMdfJDHt8EiZXDNckVp6ItxandXPsqcZCqQp-T_Xqg8uDSlBmHoDucsoUyzXOAX1HaI0OMZG2ylWLOEbGpKJRsvseKc1vXBgYGXZRE35_vPTuRlYZI1HEvWLVVFpIM2Z/s1600/GirlsRoomWideShot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Happy but spent.<br /><br />I want to thank all of you for following along and for your encouraging comments and support. I accept this Oscar on behalf of all the....oh wait, that's a different speech.<br /><br /><div>If you are new, please come back often as this project has actually triggered several others through out the house (I'm sick, I know). And for you regulars, big hugs and kisses to you.</div><br />And a big thanks to my friend <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/" target="_blank">Linda</a> for including me. My first two cocktails tonight will be in your honor my dear.<br /><br />Make sure to check out my fellow ORC ladies to see their beautiful spaces as well. It's like Christmas morning I tell ya.<br /><br />Now about that cocktail...<br /><br /><div style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px;"><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23.7pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #365f91; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://chattafabulous.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #365f91;">Chattafabulous</span></a> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23.7pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #365f91; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://chinoiseriechic.blogspot.com/2013/03/one-room-challenge-reveal-surprise.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #365f91;">Chinoiserie Chic</span></a> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; 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one room challenge - the reveal

The big day has finally arrived - reveal day! Six weeks, 20 bloggers and one room later, my girls' have a new bedroom and I have a new m...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 03/20/2013

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://social.razoo.com/2012/07/seven-image-editing-tools-to-create-awesome-visual-content/">7 Image Editing Tools to Create Awesome Visual Content | Inspiring Generosity</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Some more interesting ways to edit pictures online.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/photography">photography</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.pimp-my-profile.com">Facebook Covers | Myspace Layouts | Twitter Backgrounds | Blogger Templates | Layouts for hi5, YouTube, Friendster - Pimp-My-Profile.com - Pimp-My-Profile.com</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This is an interesting website with cover generators and other tools for you to use to create pictures for your profile.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/photography">photography</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://frabz.com/44g5">My wish is for every child to have 1 to 1... - Meme Generator Captionator</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">I've been turning tweets that have had the most shares and favorites into photos for two reasons: 1) to test photo makers and 2) to satisfy my own curiosity if it is true that pictures travel further than text these days. Here's one that reached almost 100,000 people on Twitter. The exact tweet was "My wish for children is 1 to 1. Every 1 to have 1 person who loves them. Be the one, teacher. Be the one." Hope this encourages you as you share. </p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='https://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 03/20/2013

7 Image Editing Tools to Create Awesome Visual Content | Inspiring Generosity Some more interesting ...

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