Monday, November 30, 2009

Christmas Tree , Andy Warhol , * BEAUTIFUL!

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"Google Wonder Wheel" makes searching enjoyable and time effective at the same time.

About:
The wonder wheel is meant to provide a more visual display of relevant search terms and keywords for the user. This tool is a built in mind mapper with the intention to sort out search results in a logical way of relevancy creating a visual wheel of terms that can make your searching enjoyable and time effective at the same time. If from some reason the google wonder wheel is not yet available in your local google search, give it some more time as development in other languages is taking place.

How To:
Enter your key word or phrase and perform a search.
After submitting the key word or phrase you would like to search for, click on the “show more options” link on the top left side. The results will be divided in to two screens.
Clicking on the Wonder wheel link will now create a sun shaped circle of terms, all related to your original search. Your key word or phrase is the main phrase, since it’s the one we looked for and you can find other related keywords to this search on the sun beam. Now your display will show the Google Wonder Wheel tool on the left side and the Google search results on the right side.
Now the fun starts. You can navigate your way around the relevant key words and phrases and find more and more results. It’s easy and the graphical effects make it fun.

Click on the below picture, to view a bigger format:

Christmas Party!!!

On Friday, December 20Th, our class will be having a Christmas party!!! We will play fun games, listen to wonderful Christmas songs, and watch Christmas movies!! We will also be doing many Christmas activities and crafts!! I would like for each student to buy a $5 gift that could go to a boy or a girl, if you can not get a gift, please just let me know! We will play Dirty Santa with the gifts!! I am ordering pizza for the students, and if any of you parents would like to bring chips, dip, cookies, cake, drinks, or any snacks please let me know!! I will have a sign up sheet in the classroom!! Parents or Grandparents may join us at any time during the school day!!! I hope to see you there!!!! Once again, Merry Christmas!!!!

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen,

Comet and Cupid and Donder and Blitzen.,

But do you recall

The most famous reindeer of all?

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Had a very shiny nose,

And if you ever saw it,

You could even say it glows.

All of the other reindeer

Used to laugh and call him names;

They never let poor Rudolph

Join in any reindeer games.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve,

Santa came to say:

Rudolph with your nose so bright,

Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"

Then how the reindeer loved him

As they shouted out with glee,

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,

You'll go down in history."

Thank You!

Ms. Smith

Over Break, Earn Some Extra Credit!!!

I would love for you to spend your time over winter break reading a book and writing a book report on it!! You may choose one of the books from the ones I have listed. You may check these books out at the school library or the community library. I made sure they are all located at both places. I would like the book report to be at least 2 pages, and it will be due Friday, January 8th. Participating in this project over break, you will earn 10 bonus points on any test of your choice the third nine weeks! These books are not boring at all; they will keep your attention! When I was younger, I read them all and loved them! I really hope you enjoy these books!! Have a nice Winter Break!!! Please choose a book you have never read!

"Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus" By: Barbara Park

"Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth" By: Barabara Park

"Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy" By: Barabara Park

"Junie B. Jones is a Party Animal" By: Barabara Park

"The Boxcar Children #1" By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

"Boxcar Children: Candy Factory Mystery" By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

"Boxcar Children: Schoolhouse Mystery" By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

"Boxcar Children: Houseboat Mystery" By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

"Boxcar Children: Yellow House Mystery" By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

"Hardy Boys: The Tower Treasure" By: Franklin W. Dixon

"Bailey School Kids: Goblins Don`t Play Video Games" By: Marcia T. Jones and Debbie Dadey

"Bailey School Kids: Ghosts Don't Eat Potato Chips" By: Marcia T. Jones and Debbie Dadey

"Bailey School Kids: Dragons Don't Throw Snowballs" By: Marcia T. Jones and Debbie Dadey

"Bailey School Kids: Bigfoot Doesn't Square Dance" By: Marcia T. Jones and Debbie Dadey

"Bailey School Kids: Elves Don't Wear Hard Hats" By: Marcia T. Jones and Debbie Dadey

Thank you and Have a Merry Christmas!!!

Ms. Smith

Christmas Lights Trends

I am an avid follower of Christmas lights trends. I have loved all types of Christmas lighting since I was a little child. I can still remember, as a child, glancing up at that paste board box placed on a high shelf in our cold storage room, knowing that it held our precious strings of shimmering Christmas lights. In those days Christmas lights were highly fragile so I knew not to try to pull the box down for a quick glimpse however tempting it might be.

Over the years, all types of Christmas lights have been transformed. The days of strings of screw-in incandescent light bulbs have gone. Although with the demise of those strings of Christmas bulbs go some of my fond Christmas memories. On a random day in early December my dad would arrive home from the office and announce it was time to put up the Christmas lights. He would put on what he referred to as his grubby clothes and make the pilgrimage to the cold storage room to collect the paste board box full of Christmas lights. He would then begin the process of testing each bulb in the string. If one bulb had burnt out often the entire string of Christmas lights would fail to light up. Some years putting up the outdoor Christmas lights went quickly but some years we were sent to bed without seeing the final glorious display of Christmas lighting. I have never lost any of my enthusiasm for these wonderful sparkly rites of late December.

These days there is an enormous array of different types of Christmas lighting. Of course, there are still many strings of white and red and green bulbs but now there are many other options as well. There are spectacular focus pieces such as hanging light balls, and hanging lighted Christmas stars, each made from over 100 tiny led bulbs. Some of these focus pieces are very large and taken up a visually large space (ie. 3 feet by 3 feet) while others are much smaller and can easily fit into most home Christmas lighting schemes.

There are Christmas string lights. These are simply the popular white outdoor string lights constructed with red and green led lights. Of course, white string lights are also a perfectly suitable addition to many Christmas lighting decor schemes.

The annual lighting of Christmas lights can be wonderful small family times or they can result in a splashy party. For example, Stella McCartney has a few friends over when she lit her Christmas lights last week. The event was held at Stella McCartney store on Bruton Street in London. It was hosted by Stella and Mary McCartney, Twiggy and daughter Carly, Jamie and Louise Redknapp and the Mighty Boosh gang, who re-created their famous Nanageddon episode dressed as grey-haired "nanas". Stella and her friends served mini mince pies, chocolate Christmas puddings, Champagne, apple juice with cucumber and pints of Guinness. I will try to post a pictures of her Christmas lights scheme in a latter post.

Whatever your Christmas lights scheme might be do it with joy. It doesn't matter if you have a huge budget (like SMc.mentioned above)or a modest budget. It doesn't matter if you host a blow out party or just put up the lights yourself. Holiday lighting is a special thing and, whatever the next Christmas lights trends might be, they are sure to be beautiful.

Railway Square (Theme Day: Waiting)

These rising glass bus shelters and four sculpture light towers in Railway Square at Haymarket were installed in 1999 along George Street. Located close to Central railway station, this is a place where people are always waiting for buses. The old Railway Square post office (top) which is now a boutique hotel and new office blocks (bottom) including those for railway administration, can be seen in the background.

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Weekend

Ran 6 miles yesterday. They were tough, but not painful. So that equals a successful run.

"After shot" - why do I like these?...[why do I take these?!?!]

I decided I also want to start swimming [after watching some fat guy do the Hawaii Ironman triatholon on the biggest loser.] So I started this weekend. I don't know why, but I always get semi-embarrassed when I am swimming at the gym. Not because of the fabulous kanakuk era one piece, but just because I don't really know how to swim "right." I need Megan to come give me some lessons.

On Saturday night I went to Rachel Copley's wedding reception. She looked GORGEOUS!

Conway girls: Me, Ali, Rachel & Brittany

AND I woke up at 4:30 AM to go work out this morning. When I was leaving the gym it was STILL dark. Geee...

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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Sticks and Stones Look There is a Home!

Linking to Made it Monday @ The Persimmon Perch

and DIY Day at A Soft Place to Land

I wanted to share some of our home building photos. My Wonderful Hubby started building our home August of 2008. It was a ~~long painful~~ 12 month process. (12 months makes it sound longer than 1 year. I am going for dramatic here.)

This was the day the wood was delivered. Hubby was getting ready for the next day when all the help was coming to stare framing.

Family and friends showed up to help frame the house.

Seriously look at the date this is the same day! Man they work quick!

DH and his Bro working on interior walls the next day.

About a week later and halfway through the trusses.

Proof I helped that's me ~~Hanging on for dear life!~~ in the cowgirl hat and glasses.

So we still need some landscaping but one step at a time! I think it is Beautiful the way it is!

To Tree, Or Not To Tree

To tree, or not to tree? That is the question. Whether ‘tis nobler in the den to suffer the needles of outrageous ornamentation, or to leave trees outside (where they grow), and by opposing end them (indoors). The conscience, which makes cowards of us all, has caused me to sickly o’er with this pale cast of thought: Why have I allowed a Christmas tree to dominate my living room, yet again?

I love Christmas. I love Christmas music. I love Christmas decorations. Do I love Christmas trees? I wonder.

Beside me stands a monstrous, decorated intrusion into the order of my life. As tradition dictates in the Sleadd home, the furniture gets rearranged from Thanksgiving weekend until New Year’s Day to accommodate a coniferous guest. Thus, the measured juxtaposition of my arm chair, book stand, and reading lamp has been set awry by the merry boughs of imposition.

I grow contemplative and cautious. If I make room for a tree in my house and den, will I next make room for blatant idolatry in my life and habits? And what’s a Christmas tree got to do with the birth of Christ anyway? I don’t recall the gospel of Luke mentioning an evergreen tree stuffed into the stable in Bethlehem to crowd out the cattle.

I’ve heard stories about Martin Luther finding deep symbolism in a spruce tree he saw one night when he was feeling spiritually frisky. But I suspect that some German tree farmer found a way to sell more trees if he added holiday appeal, like a printer proclaiming a special day for the purpose of selling more greeting cards. It seems dryly ironic to claim an evergreen tree represents eternal life in Christ, then to chop it down and set it in one’s house to whither into a parched, fire hazard.

For the record, my Christmas tree is artificial, so it probably won’t burn the house down. And it’s actually quite pleasant to look at. It is perfectly conical and uniformly green. Its wire branches are evenly distributed with factory precision, and stiff enough to hold up the heaviest ornaments China can make. Few real trees look so good, or require so little care.

But herein lies a typological quandary, which tests the native hue of resolution: What are we to make of Christmas tree symbolism when the specimen is a hypocrite, a plastic phony, a green-washed Pharisee stuck in a tree stand. Must give us pause. Maybe that’s why a rash of American governors, and the president himself, recently couldn’t decide whether to call them Christmas trees, or Holiday trees.

I've not delved into the Christmas tree's alleged pagan past, nor will I. Research the subject yourself and find enough ambiguity to also give one pause. Alas, you must decide for yourself what to do about such trees. I recommend you enjoy holiday liberty as you practice whatever is God honoring and beneficial.

Me thinks I'll let my Christmas tree remain standing in the house, as usual. Though if the Christ of Christmas has not returned by next December I'll probably have to think it all through again, to tree, or not to tree.

Have a Merry Christmas this year.

From .tel Roadmap to .Telguide

Créer son domaine .tel en 10 étapes

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A new look and handling for .Tel?

Créer son domaine .tel en 10 étapes

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TelProxy could look and work like "community-landing.html", and everybody would start talking about the dot tel domain: http://www.telnic.com/community-landing.html

Inspired by Telnic's community-landing cycle/circle:

Below:
Icons and .tel logo are neatly integrated. Handling is fun and time saving. You will never have to scrawl down anymore, as all links are always displayed within a circle. Subdomains, are circles, as well. There are no more rect angular cards, but only round cards:

Below:
Definitely not cool. But only outdated and ugly, and hindering Telnic's success. It is not only all about technology, but also about looks. Here you see the "non-go-design" from Telnic. Not quite sure, why they only make their website cool, but not the dot tel domain itself:

Haymarket, Railway Square

This building at Railway Square, Haymarket was one of the old Marcus Clark Department store buildings. These days it has become a youth hostel. The contemporary sculpture light tower is one of four installed at Railway Square in 1999.

Tita Carré - Agulha e tricot

Download - Livro Julie & Julia – 365 dias, 524 receitas e 1 cozinha apertada – Julie Powell

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 11:42 AM PDT

Julie estava em crise. Prestes a completar 30 anos, insatisfeita com o emprego de secretária de repartição pública e sufocada pela pressão crescente para ter um bebê, sentia-se incapaz de dar rumo diferente a sua vida. Para piorar um pouco mais, ainda foi obrigada a se mudar com o marido para uma quitinete em um bairro afastado, a quilômetros de distância do trabalho e dos amigos. Parecia mesmo um beco sem saída.

Porém, a solução estava no lugar mais improvável: no velho livro de receitas guardado na cozinha da casa da mãe. Ela decidiu seguir adiante e enfrentar o desafio de fazer as 524 receitas contidas no clássico de Julia Child (uma das mais importantes apresentadoras de programas de culinária na TV americana) em apenas um ano – e escrever um blog relatando a façanha. Dessa forma, deu início a uma insólita provação envolvendo perfuração de ossos, remoção de vísceras, extração de miúdos e assassinato de crustáceos a sangue frio. Como se não bastasse, teria ainda que lidar com um casamento a perigo, um emprego na corda-bamba e uma possibilidade nada remota de perder de vez a sanidade mental.

Tudo isso para, entre risos, lágrimas e vexames, aprender uma saborosa lição sobre a arte do bem viver.

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Nascidos antes de 1980

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 11:04 AM PDT

Pensando bem, é difícil acreditar que estejamos vivos até hoje!

Quando éramos pequenos, viajávamos de carro sem cintos de segurança, sem ABS e sem air-bags.

Os vidros de remédios ou as garrafas de refrigerantes não tinham nenhum tipo de tampinha especial, nem data de validade. E tinham também aquelas bolinhas de gude, que vinham embaladas sem instruções de uso.
A gente bebia água da chuva, da torneira e nem conhecia água engarrafada. Que horror!

Andávamos de bicicleta sem usar nenhum tipo de proteção e passávamos as tardes construindo nossas pipas ou nossos carrinhos de rolimã... A gente se jogava nas ladeiras e esquecia que não tinha freios, até que déssemos de cara com a calçada ou com uma árvore e, depois de muitos acidentes de percurso, aprendíamos a resolver o problema, sozinhos!

Nas férias, saíamos de casa de manhã e brincávamos o dia todo; nossos pais, às vezes não sabiam exatamente onde estávamos, mas sabiam que não estávamos em perigo.
Não existiam os celulares. Incrível!

A gente procurava encrenca. Quantos machucados, ossos quebrados e alguns dentes moles dos tombos. Ninguém denunciava ninguém. Eram só 'acidentes' de moleques; na verdade, nunca encontrávamos um culpado. Você lembra destes incidentes? Janelas quebradas, jardins destruídos, as bolas que caíam no terreno do vizinho... Existiam as brigas e, às vezes, muitos pontos roxos. Mesmo que nos machucássemos e chorássemos, passava rápido; na maioria das vezes, nem mesmo nossos pais vinham a descobrir.

A gente comia muito doce, pão com muita manteiga, mas ninguém era obeso. No máximo, um gordinho saudável. Nem se falava em colesterol. A gente dividia uma garrafa de suco, refrigerante ou até uma cerveja escondida, em três ou quatro moleques, e ninguém morreu por causa de vermes!

Não existia o Playstation, nem o Nintendo. Não tinha TV a cabo, nem videocassete, nem Computador, nem Internet... Tínhamos, simplesmente, amigos!

A gente andava de bicicleta ou à pé. Íamos à casa dos amigos, tocávamos a campainha, entrávamos e conversávamos. Sozinhos, num mundo frio e cruel, sem nenhum controle. Como sobrevivemos? Inventávamos jogos: com pedras, feijões ou cartas. Brincávamos com pequenos monstros: lesmas, caramujos, e outros animaizinhos, mesmo se nossos pais nos dissessem para não fazer isso! Os nossos estômagos nunca se encheram de bichos estranhos! No máximo, tomamos algum tipo de xarope contra vermes e outros monstros destruidores, um tal de óleo de rícino!

Alguns estudantes não eram tão inteligentes quanto os outros e tiveram que refazer a segunda série. Que horror! Não se mudavam as notas e ninguém passava de ano, mesmo passando. As professoras eram insuportáveis! Não davam moleza. Os maiores problemas na escola eram: chegar atrasado, mastigar chicletes na classe ou mandar bilhetinhos falando mal da professora. Correr demais no recreio ou matar aula, só para ficar jogando bola no campinho.

As nossas iniciativas eram 'nossas' mas, as conseqüências também. Ninguém se escondia atrás do outro. Os nossos pais eram sempre do lado da Lei quando transgredíamos a regras. Se nos comportávamos mal, nossos pais nos colocavam de castigo e, por incrível que pareça, nenhum deles foi preso por isso. Sabíamos que, quando os pais diziam 'não', era 'não'.

A gente ganhava brinquedos no Natal ou no aniversário, não todas as vezes que ia ao supermercado. Nossos pais nos davam presentes por amor, nunca por culpa. Nossas vidas não se arruinaram porque não ganhamos tudo o que gostaríamos, que queríamos...

Esta geração produziu muitos inventores, artistas, amantes do risco e ótimos 'solucionadores' de problemas. Nos últimos 50 anos, houve uma desmedida explosão de inovações, tendências.

Tínhamos liberdade, sucessos, algumas vezes problemas e desilusões, mas tínhamos muita responsabilidade.
Não é que aprendemos a resolver tudo, e sozinhos?

Se você é um destes sobreviventes, parabéns. Você curtiu os anos mais felizes de sua vida.

É isso............