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Walking Round Town
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Take a walk, see what you find in your town!!
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Yellow –Flash Story Challenge
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A yellow canoe passed by
filled with presents wrapped and tied in bows
two polished wood seats reflected the hot sun
I watched as it drifted into the noon day heat
wondering…..
“Who does that canoe belong to?”
A yellow canoe passed by…..
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Touring canoe via wiki
Write a ditty about your life, a slice of life.….
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What Do All Vintage Game Show Hosts Have In Common?
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Stupendously classy suits !
Nice cut, ties, handerchiefs, clips on ties, cuff links- ooooo la la ! My personal fav Monty Hall wow Botany 500 was his designer, Bert Convy he knows how to wear and walk in a suit ……and Peter Tomarkan- classic threads to name a few. So if you want to upgrade your personal wardrobe check out the vintage game shows and look and learn!!
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via wiki!
Men’s suits
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Johann Christian Fischer in matching coat, waistcoat, and breeches, by Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1780.
The suit is a traditional form of men’s formal clothes in the Western world. For some four hundred years, suits of matching coat, trousers, and waistcoat have been in and out of fashion. The modern lounge suit’s derivation is visible in the outline of the brightly coloured, elaborately crafted royal court dress of the 17th century (suit, wig, knee breeches), which was shed because of the French Revolution. This evolution is seen more recently in British tailoring’s use of steam and padding in moulding woolen cloth, the rise and fall in popularity of the necktie, and the gradual disuse of waistcoats and hats in the last fifty years.
The modern lounge suit appeared in the late 19th century, but traces its origins to the simplified, sartorial standard of dress established by the English king Charles II in the 17th century. In 1666, the restored monarch, Charles II, per the example of King Louis XIV‘s court at Versailles, decreed that in the English Court men would wear a long coat, a waistcoat (then called “petticoat“), a cravat (a precursor of the necktie), a wig, and kneebreeches (trousers), and a hat.
1901, a man in a morning coat
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Celebrate Tonight With The Cocktail Du Jour! Pardon My French!!
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Take Hersheys choc syrup add red wine and milk /soy (whole) then seltzer-all over ice–apportion to taste and top with whipped cream !! Serve with a hersheys choc almond bar or two !
ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!! better outside around sunset.
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Global alcoholic drinks volumes registered a …
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Perhaps everyone is feeling blue, the state of the world and all that – for having a cocktail is always a celebratory act – a nod to the world saying this is a great place !! let’s enjoy it with friends (or solo with a good book or a sunset)- they don’t call it the happy hour for nothing– so cheers to you and your cocktails!!
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A martini is just a martini. Unless it’s made with the delectable Jamaican fruit, soursop. And …
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Coffee !
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VIA- INDIA TIMES
The easiest cold-brew coffee recipe needs 1/3 cups of ground coffee and 1 1/2 cups of water. Mix both thoroughly and let the mixture brew in the refrigerator overnight. All you need to do the next morning is to sieve the mix and sweeten it according to your liking. It’s ready to be used in any way you want.
For the coffee float, place a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a large coffee mug or glass. Pour in the chilled coffee. Watch the ice cream scoop rise up to the top. You can add a pinch of cinnamon powder or chocolate shavings if you want. Or double the ice cream scoop if the weather is too hot.
Thai Coffee
Take 4 tablespoons of coffee powder and 2 teaspoons of ground cardamom (elaichi) powder. Brew the coffee in 3 cups of water in your coffee filter. When the coffee is ready, add sugar according to your taste and stir till it dissolves. Let the coffee cool down.
Take one large coffee glass and fill half of it with crushed ice. Pour in the brewed coffee. Top with 1 tablespoon of heavy cream and sprinkle some more cardamom powder on top.
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Yumsky!!
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Another Monday, another week to deal with, …
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Is Monty Hall the Margret Mead Of Consumerism??
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I never watched Let’s Make A Deal when it was on the air, essentially I never watched game shows but they are now being aired as vintage shows and I have discovered they are quite entertaining!!
As I watched let’s make a deal I noticed that Monty seemed much more interested in the psychological reactions that he could induce by presenting items that would tempt the participants. It appeared that he was actually studying the patterns that were extracted in such situations and drawing conclusions, not unlike Margaret Mead.
That is what makes the show fun to watch, it has a few layers- Monty’s study of cultural reactions of his participants to the prize of consumer products , the fun of watching the different types of people and the costumes they choose and the fab products that were offered as prizes many much better than the offerings today!! I speak of those—
CARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, let’s make a deal is much more than just entertainment, it is a historical archive of a time gone by. And it was the perfect use of consumerism and advertising woven into a show where the people were allowed to consume/enjoy the products for free….. if you were willing to dress up as a banana…..
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Fruits of four different banana cultivars Via WIKI
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Monty Hall in the 1970s
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| Born | Monte Halparin[1] August 25, 1921 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Occupation | Game show host, actor, producer, singer, sportscaster |
| Years active | 1953–present |
| Spouse(s) | Marilyn Plottel (m. September 28,1947-present; 3 children)[1] |
Monte Halparin, OC OM (born August 25, 1921), better known by the stage name Monty Hall, is a Canadian-born MC, producer, actor, singer and sportscaster, best known as host of the television game show Let’s Make a Deal.[1]
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| Margaret Mead | |
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Margaret Mead in 1948.
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| Born | December 16, 1901 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Died | November 15, 1978 (aged 76) New York City, New York, USA |
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| Occupation | Anthropologist |
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| Children | Mary C. Bateson (born 1939) |
| Awards | 1970 Kalinga Prize |
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. [1] She earned her bachelor’s degree at Barnard College in New York City and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University.
Mead was a respected and often controversial academic who popularized the insights of anthropology in modern American and Western culture.[2] Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960ssexual revolution. She was a proponent of broadening sexual mores within a context of traditional Western religious life.
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I would have dressed up as a mustang car!!!!
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Insect intersects Frog
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BJHC Scan / waercolor/ found Praying Mantis
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Squirrel Diaries – A Haiku A Day Told By Squirrels!!
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Oooooo, popcorn
into the tree stump it goes
a treat for me….. later today
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Fuzzy kind full of fun, Squirrels!!!
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From La Bamba To Burning Down The House What Happened to Rock ? How Did It Lose It’s Roll?
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Lets talk music, after watching the Richie Valens’ La bamba music video with Los lobos, I think that is the best music video I have ever seen so much fun and a dash of the metaphysical what every great Rock and Roll song has as its core, and then the Blues Brothers which is a long music video with the same elements of fun with a spiritual cast – I thought they both are record of a time nad place where music and fun (freedom ) reigned supreme where the point of the music was the music not money not entertainment the point is to dance and sing!
it is a clear pure life experience that unleashes the spirit from the body and you rise up to a place where we all meet in joy.
So what happened ? How did music become so corporatized ? Corporatization of some thing means that the corporation comes between the listener and the music there is no longer a direct interaction and it kills the heart of the experience.
Who or what killed the music? Well here is my theory …..it was the massive success of the Bruce Springsteen tour in 1984 – He went from a sorta spiritual kinda guy with great songs to a person that wanted and sought out the cash to be made from music on a unprecented level. When the corporate world saw that there was big moolah to be made it they then formed a limited market where artists had to fit into that mold or support was not forth coming.
Then the Tunnel of Love tour in my estimation was the first reality TV show ,another words you went to watch the personal drama unfold not the music. Just like the so-called reality TV shows where you watch basically people argue and it is presented in a TV format.
But I digress…. So think about it watch The La Bamba video and the first Blues Brothers movie with the fabulous John Belushi and let me know what you think!!!
The dancing is so fantastic in both of them!!!
Watch the discussions on how and why each film (the La Bamba film has the labamba video as a bonus item) was made, there is where you get a true understanding of what the music meant and still means to the atists and audiences.
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A think about it lets ruminate post!!!!!
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Los Lobos – La Bamba ( music video ) – [fcef8025d]
Music video for “La Bamba” by Los Lobos. Tags: 1987 80s Los Lobos Rock & Alternative. Biography; Top Tracks; Top Albums; Concerts; Track; Pick and Click one of the …
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Blues Brothers – Soul Man (Belushi SNL Clips) | Free Video …
Live “Soul Man” video from SNL with Best of Belushi clips
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Deep Sea Mystery
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New anglerfish.
Credit: Theodore Pietsch, Ph.D., University of Washington
Their findings have been published by The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Copeia, an international journal that publishes original research on fishes, amphibians and reptiles.
This new fish, which was found between 1,000-1,500 meters depth, is a new species of Ceratioid anglerfish (Genus Lasiognathus Regan [Lophiiformes: Oneirodidae]). The three females specimens found ranged in size from 30-95 mm in length. Looking at a photo of the fish, one quickly understands how anglerfishes get their common name.
At the ocean depths this fish lives in, there is no sunlight. The only light is that from creatures that produce bioluminescence, which means they generate their own light source. Also, at these depths, the pressure is immense — over one ton (2,200 pounds) per square inch. And the fight for food is never-ending. That’s why these fish have developed their unique way of attracting prey — from the appendage at the top of their head, which resembles a fishing pole of sorts. And, like its human counterparts, this fish dangles the appendage until an unsuspecting fish swims up thinking they found a meal, only to quickly learn that they are, in fact, a meal themselves.
“Finding this new species reinforces the notion that our inventory of life in the vast ocean interior is far from complete,” said Dr. Sutton. “Every research trip is an adventure and another opportunity to learn about our planet and the varied creatures who call it home.”
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Now that is quite a fish!
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More Data Won’t Matta- Encrypted Or Not ! We Need Sherlock Holmes …..
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It is not more info on everyday citizens that will foil these plots ( Turkey gave the info to France that the one of the plotters was heading back to Belgium/France but no one kept on that lead.)
What is needed to control the current situation is,
less data
focused data
and higher quality leaders
of our security organizations who will accept responsibility when they fail.
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It will also look into why Belgium’s security services didn’t share information on them with their French counterparts. In early 2015, two of the three Abdeslam brothers involved in the Paris terror plot were … got as far …
Voice of America · 13 hours ago
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Anyone can gather data but you need experienced high quality people to carry on an investigation to its end. Data means nothing if you cannot assess it into valuable information.
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Statue of Holmes in an Inverness cape and a deerstalker cap on Picardy Place in Edinburgh
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Peace to the world
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Vegetarian Treat # 3
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Mac 4 Cheese (with Leeks) as seen in Grub
Preparation Time: 20 min Ready in: 1 hour
Ingredients
Coarse salt
2 cups uncooked whole-wheat elbow macaroni
5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 thinly sliced leeks, white and light green parts only (see Note)
3 tablespoons whole-wheat flour
3 cups whole milk
1 tablespoon white balsamic vinegar
½ teaspoon paprika
Pinch of cayenne
1 cup grated cheddar cheese
1 cup grated pepper jack cheese
½ cup grated fresh mozzarella
½ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
Directions
• Preheat oven to 375˚F and lightly grease a shallow 2 quart baking dish.
• Bring a large pot of water to a boil for the pasta. Add 2 teaspoons salt. When the water returns to a boil, stir in the pasta and cook until al dente, about 6 minutes. Drain the pasta and set aside.
• Meanwhile, in a medium sauté pan over medium heat, warm 2 tablespoons of the olive oil. Add the leeks and ½ teaspoon salt. Sauté for 5 to 7 minutes, until the leeks are lightly browned. Remove from the heat and set aside.
• Warm the remaining 3 tablespoons olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat and whisk in the flour. Cook for 3 to 4 minutes, whisking every 30 seconds, until the flour is a darker shade of brown.
• Raise the heat to medium, add the milk, and bring to a simmer, whisking constantly. Simmer for 10 minutes, whisking constantly, until thickened.
• Reduce the heat to low, add the vinegar, paprika, cayenne, ½ teaspoon salt, ½ cup of the cheddar, ½ cup of the pepper jack, the mozzarella, and Parmesan to the white sauce and stir until smooth. Season with black pepper to taste.
• Add the leeks and elbows to the white sauce, gently stir well, and pour into the baking dish.
• Sprinkle the remaining ½ cup cheddar and ½ cup pepper jack over the top and garnish with the chopped rosemary.
• Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until lightly browned and crisp on top. Serve hot.
NOTE: CLEANING LEEKS
• First cut off the greens, leaving only the light green and white bottom, then cut off the roots. Slice the leek in half lengthwise, then thinly slice it horizontally. Fill a large bowl with cold water. Add the leek slices, and swish around well, vigorously, rubbing any dirt and sand off the pieces. Lift from the water and set in a colander. Rinse the bowl of any residue and repeat if necessary.
– See more at: http://smallplanet.org/recipes/mac-4-cheese-leeks#sthash.cl9WxyTy.dpuf
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Delicious! served with carrots and butter and a ceasar salad ! (parmesean cheese romain lettice mustard garlic mayo salt pepper and topped croutons)
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Vegetarian Treat #2
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Veggie tea sandwiches!!
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- Prep: –
- Cook Time: 6 min
- Serving: 2 People
Whole grain bread and meaty sundried tomatoes give this grilled cheese variation delectable tastes and textures.
Ingredients
- 4 slices whole grain bread
- 4 tablespoons butter, softened to room temperature
- 1/2 cup sun dried tomatoes packed in olive oil, drained, chopped
- 4-ounces shaved Manchego or Jarlsberg cheese
Directions
- Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat; spread one side of each slice of bread with butter; spray skillet with nonstick cooking spray.
- Place two slices of bread, butter side down, in skillet and sprinkle with tomatoes and cheese; top with remaining bread, buttered-side out.
- Press sandwiches with a spatula and cover with a lid. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, or until bottom of sandwiches are lightly browned. Flip, lightly press, and cover skillet with lid. Cook for 2 to 3 more minutes, or until cheese is melted and both sides of sandwiches are lightly browned.
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Try this delicious recipe for grilled brie and apple sandwiches.
Ingredients
- Brie
- Thinly sliced tart, crisp apple
- Thinly sliced raisin bread (or raisin pecan sourdough bread)
- Thinly sliced butter
Directions
- Heat a griddle over medium low heat.
- Meanwhile, butter the outsides of two pieces of bread. Layer brie and apple on the inside.
- Place on the griddle and cook until the brie has begun to melt and the outer sides of the bread are crisp and lightly browned.
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with a salad!!!
A Waldorf salad is a salad generally made of fresh apples, celery and walnuts, dressed in mayonnaise, and usually served on a bed of lettuce as an appetizer or a light meal. More at Wikipedia
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Happy meal time !
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Latest Sea Monster Surfacing To Say Howdy!
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A Scottish tourist unwittingly captured an unidentifiable sea monster while vacationing inGreece. Harvey Robertson was on a boat cruise off the coast of Parga, sailing throughsea caves with his family. He was initially …
FOX News · 10/28/2015
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My theory is this, there is not enough oxygen in the water because of micro-plastics (decaying plastic bags) filling the world’s sea so the deep sea animals are rising to the surface in search of air.
Hey it is the perfect time to buy that reusable carry all and pass on all plastic bags offered!! Save a sea monster today!!!
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Research links!
In my Marine Science class this spring, I quickly learned that phytoplankton in the ocean make 50 percent of theoxygen … Microplastics come from sources such as microfleeces, microbeads in washes and bits of plastic from soda bottles and sea plastic …
Bangor Daily News · 11/26/2014
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The sediment below then becomes a low oxygen zone, in which only few organisms … “Pieces of plastic on the deep seafloor are unlikely to degrade into micro-plastics as quickly as is the case on the North Sea coast, for example. This is due to the lack …
Science Daily · 10/23/2012
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All the sea monsters want me to thank you in advance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Talking About Peace / a BJ Halliday Crawley Production 