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Hi Zuri! :wave:

Well, he is a "bit" better - getting around with his walker. He is still sleeping on the couch :happydance: (I get the blankets to myself! :D) as his back and hip from falling last week still hurt, but not so much today. At least he didn't break any bones, but did put a dent in the wall... :scared:

I don't believe that picture I posted is a painting, I believe it's a photograph. :)

Thank you for the JINGLES! - sending you some too - JINGLES!!!!

Long time ago I designated my blankets and DH blankets--he has his own and better leave mine alone.
 
1957 - Silhouettes - The Rays top the charts. Evening all my friends.


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MY DISC IS FULL :D

AFTER READING THIS, I FEEL BETTER!!!!! YOU WILL TOO, I'M SURE!

Brains of older people are slow because they know so much.

People do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because
they have more information in their brains, scientists believe . Much like
a computer struggles as the hard drive gets full, so, too, do humans take
longer to access information when their brains are full.

Researchers say this slowing down process is not the same as cognitive decline . The human
brain works slower in old age, but only because we have stored more
information over time. The brains of older people do not get weak. On the
contrary, they simply know more. Also, older people often go to another
room to get something and when they get there, they stand there wondering
what they came for. It is NOT a memory problem, it is nature's way of
making older people do more exercise. SO THERE .

Now when I reach for a word or a name , I won't excuse myself by saying "I'm
having a senior moment".

Now, I'll say, "My disk is full!"

I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can't remember
their names. So, please forward this to your friends; they may be my
friends, too :rolleyes:

hahaha!

For years now, when people question my (non) memory of something, I just say, "I guess that didn't make it into the database."

Then I just shrug...
 
1949 - That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine becomes a chart topper.

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Good Afternoon my SB friends! Hope you all are having a lovely day. My wonderful construction crew is here putting up the fascia and soffits and the gutter that has been laying for months in the back yard. Yay! What a difference from that fiasco some months back. They put up scaffolding and secured their ladders unlike that young man who ripped me off, who had his banker buddy as his helper, with loafers on.

Thank you YoNo for the funnies! I have really missed them and they were really good. The pic of the mare and foal artwork was phenomenal. I love that you all appreciate these gorgeous animals too and have taken the time to post so many wonderful horse related things.

I watched the Breeders Cup on Saturday and it was so cool to see American Pharoah race for the last time. When Victor Espinosa sank low in the saddle at the end, and AP let it rip, I just clapped and cheered. That horse still had more in the tank, got low and just got faster. Thrilling to watch to say the least. AP truly is a champion, one of the greats and deserving of all the accolades being sent his way.

I went out this morning for the first time during daylight hours in several weeks and noticed the leaves had peaked. A lot of the trees are laying their leaves. Have you all reached peak leaf color where you live? I just wondered how far ahead or behind we are here in Delaware than our more southern friends.

Oh Zuri, so glad you've been able to get out and about! This fall has been wonderful in the Mid-Atlantic. I don't imagine that your foliage is much different than mine. I think that we are at the height of things right now. Colors are beautiful even as the trees are shedding their leaves. I love this season! Soooo beautiful!
 
hahaha!

For years now, when people question my (non) memory of something, I just say, "I guess that didn't make it into the database."

Then I just shrug...


I heard that the more you learn the heavier your brain, and I thought that was probably why some people have a hump. It's the weight your heavy brain.



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Niner, the kitties are adorable? (no color) Pretty sad when you have to trick the functions to work, and they still get it wrong. sigh

Pages... I read a book about the Donner Party when I was quite young, and the story has stayed with me. I was pretty excited to finally find that same book at a yard sale (or was it a flea market?) this summer.

Val, I have never heard of Winegums...:thinking:

Bernina, come out of hiding and give us an update, gal.

http://mynewbutcher.co.uk/product/maynards-wine-gums/
maynards-wine-gums.jpg
"Wine gums are chewy, firm pastille-type sweets similar to gumdrops without the sugar coating, originating from the United Kingdom."
 
Good morning :) Smile and have a great day. Don't take things for granted and make the most of each day!

Been rather draggy last few days...might be the crazy weather changes daily. Very foggy this am, have warnings out and schools are delayed for 2 hrs.

We actually have 2 people running for town treasurer this election day. First time in a long time someone has ran against the current one. Maybe, I should vote for the one running against her. LOL
 
Good morning peeps.

I am back in the mode of cleaning out more cabinets and storage shelves. I am going to get this place organized sooner or later ...... the trick is if I can keep it that way.
 
Good morning peeps.

I am back in the mode of cleaning out more cabinets and storage shelves. I am going to get this place organized sooner or later ...... the trick is if I can keep it that way.

I know what you mean...I am very good at organizing, just bad about keeping it that way! Oh well...
 
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Update on murderer's appeal: due today

RESPONSE DUE: Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Re: FILED: Motion to Reconsider Re: Motion to Disqualify; Certificate of Compliance with Rule 31.18(d), ARCP;
Certificate of Service (Appellant)

http://apps.supremecourt.az.gov/aacc/1ca/1capartyindex.htm
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I spent 11 years in prison. Here’s what I wish I’d known before I got out.

"...I had committed a crime. It was a serious one — I was guilty of killing someone. My own father..."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opini...-i-wish-i’d-known-before-i-got-out/ar-AAcpP4X
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Searching for Redemption After Prison (Audio- 18:45 min.)

"Vinu Julius, an ex-con, speaks with Gil about what he learned in his 11 years on prison and what he wished he knew prior to being released"

http://www.talk910.com/media/podcas...arching-for-redemption-after-prison-26171102/
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The Life and Times of Vinu Bunty Julius
A Story of Redemption and Restoration


My Story

http://www.vinujulius.com/my-story.html
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14 News Investigates: Violent offender registry

"...Vinu Julius was convicted of beating his father, a prominent eye surgeon, to death with a chisel...."

http://www.14news.com/story/7302281/14-news-investigates-violent-offender-registry
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MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO FATHER'S MURDER

"The son of an Evansville eye surgeon faces between 30 and 60 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering his father. Vinu Julius, 23, admitted he repeatedly struck Dr. Satish C. Julius in the head with a towel-wrapped metal chisel early May 4 after the two argued at their home..."

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1N1-1084EF9CAF0307EF.html
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Authorities: 'Good possibility' Julius slaying was planned

"...Evidence uncovered in an East Side storage shed leads police to believe there is "a good possibility" that 22-year-old Vinu Julius planned the slaying of his father, Evansville eye surgeon Satish Julius..."

(scroll down to "images" to see actual newspaper article)

http://local.evpl.org/views/viewarticle.asp?ID=386936
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Boy, 10, sends judge plea to keep mom in prison

"A traumatized Ohio boy who watched in horror as his mother stabbed his father to death wrote a heartrending letter asking a judge not to release her from prison.
"Dear Judge Peeler, I feel that my mom should stay in prison because I seen her stab my dad clean through the heart with my sister in his arms," little Bradyn Takach wrote. "That took a big amount of happiness out of my and my sister's lives."..." :(

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/boy-10-sends-judge-plea-to-keep-mom-in-prison/ar-BBmETkX

Background:

Franklin mom gets 10 years in prison in fatal stabbing

"...(Shannon) Smith, 24, of Franklin, was convicted Jan. 28 of voluntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence following a four-day jury trial in the Jan. 29, 2009, fatal stabbing of Robert Takach, II, the father of two of her three small children..."

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news...-gets-10-years-in-prison-in-fatal-st-1/nM9fZ/
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We don’t need to keep criminals in prison to punish them

"America's prison state is a disaster. One percent of the adult population is behind bars, and corrections is squeezing higher education out of state budgets. We have five times as many people in prison as we ever had before 1980, and five times as many (per capita) as any other advanced democracy.

What's worse is that it is, in this era, a completely unnecessary disaster. It's simply not true that to punish someone and control his behavior you need to lock him up and pay for his room and board..."

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/18/8226957/prison-reform-graduated-reentry
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Christmas in Prison (some foul language)
Greeting the holidays in an age of mass incarceration


"Right after Thanksgiving, red and green decorations start popping up all over the place. The ubiquitous security windows with their diamond-pattern wire reinforcements are suddenly framed in sparkly silver tinsel. It’s 1980, and this is my first Christmas in the joint, in an adult lockup. Everyone who knew me before I entered prison has disowned me. I’m too young to fully grasp what that means...

My first Christmas in prison, and I’m living in a state of idiotic denial. I’ve been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole — I was among the first to receive such a sentence in California..."

http://harpers.org/archive/2014/12/christmas-in-prison/
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The Case for Smoking in Prison
When cigarettes are outlawed, only outlaws have cigarettes.


"Hundreds of inmates rioted in an Australian prison on June 30 in response to a cigarette smoking ban that was set to take hold at all 13 prisons in the state of Victoria. Tensions at the prison had reportedly been running high since earlier this month, when the facility stopped selling tobacco...

And so I tend to see much of this smoking ban as being on its face about improving the health of inmates, but given the broader punitive thrust of incarceration in America, most of what’s going on with the tobacco ban is really about saying, let’s punish them. Let’s deny them things..."

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/07/01/the-case-for-smoking-in-prison
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Peek behind bars: Inmate art show depicts life on death row

"LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ndume Olatushani jokes that he "couldn't even draw a crooked line straight" when he arrived on death row almost 30 years ago.
He had plenty of time to learn, though, being locked in a cell up to 22 hours a day for 28 years.

Now, one of the paintings by Olatushani, who was freed in 2012 after a judge overturned his murder conviction, is the centerpiece of a Los Angeles exhibition titled "Windows on Death Row: Art From Inside and Outside the Prison Walls."..."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/86fa...d-bars-inmate-art-show-depicts-life-death-row
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'Law And Order: SVU' Is Making A Duggars-Themed Episode

"After much speculation, E! News confirmed Monday that "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" is making an upcoming episode based on the Duggar family from "19 Kids and Counting." ...

E! says that the "SVU" Duggars-themed episode will center around a large family with a reality TV show as the investigators discover the 13-year-old daughter is pregnant. The episode, called "Patrimonial Burden," will air on Nov. 4. ...

Law & Order: SVU" airs every Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET on NBC."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/law-and-order-svu-duggars-episode_561bc543e4b0082030a3278a
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A New ‘Star Trek’ TV Series Will Debut in 2017

"...CBS said that the new “Star Trek” series would begin in January 2017 with a “special preview” episode shown on the network. That premiere and subsequent first-run episodes would then be shown on CBS All Access, its subscription video site...."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/arts/television/a-new-star-trek-tv-series-will-debut-in-2017.html
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Years of neglect, $100 million in cuts created chaos in Florida’s mental hospitals

"Many nights Tonya Cook made her rounds alone.

She walked the halls of one of Florida’s most-dangerous mental hospitals clutching her clipboard to her chest, trying not to think too much about the patients in her care.
All of them were men. Many were schizophrenic, violent...

Since 2009, violent attacks at the state’s six largest hospitals have doubled. Nearly 1,000 patients ordered to the hospitals for close supervision managed to injure themselves or someone else...'

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article41933331.html
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The Horror of Working in a Hospital

"...Neither has Potter ever gotten used to what he thinks of as the violence. Saving lives—and losing them—can be hard to watch. Ribs can be broken during resuscitation, blood, needles, sobbing sounds from the waiting room. Patients who don’t die end up looking like they’ve been beaten up. Once in a while one of them is dropped on the floor...

Back at the hospital the doctor steps away from the body and “calls it”—hospital talk for officially dead. In Potter’s experience, doctors typically are ready to give up before the nurses. Not always, but usually. Sometimes a doctor needs a few minutes after a patient dies to walk in the parking lot, and sometimes a nurse goes to a room set up so patients don’t see them cry..." :(

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/01/the-horror-of-working-in-a-hospital.html
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And for some :hilarious:

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Funny Exam Answers by School Students


1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.

2. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked, "Am I my brother's son?"

3. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients.Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.

4. Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.

5. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.

6. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.

7. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

8. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.

9. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.

10. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."

11. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.

12. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.

13. In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.

14. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.

15. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah."

16. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.

17. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet.

18. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

19. During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe.

20. Later, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called Pilgrim's Progress. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.

21. One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. Finally the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

22. Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.

23. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. His mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation.

24. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy.

25. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees

26. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German half Italian and half English. He was very large.

27. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

28. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened and catapulted into Napoleon. Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't have any children.

29. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.

30. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. She was a moral woman who practiced virtue. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.

31. The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Still reading? Have you no work to do?

32. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.
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HOW THE MARX BROTHERS GOT THEIR NAMES

"...The famed Marx family comedy act was made up of Julius, Adolph, Leonard, Milton, and Herbert Marx. But to all of us who know and love this delightful comedy group, we know these five characters better as Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Gummo, and Zeppo Marx, names four of the five were given one fateful night in 1915..."

http://greatentertainersarchives.bl...chive+(THE+GREAT+ENTERTAINMENT+MEDIA+ARCHIVE)
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Talking about "boy toys" again (but seriously- an eye-opener for me) :what:

Male escorts

"Is the growing market for male escorts a sign of female sexual liberation or just a re-run of the same old stereotypes?...

So what do male escorts tell us about an underlying shift in female sexuality? Western women today have more freedom, money and power than at any point in history. Yet for many, like Louise, the decision to buy sex goes beyond financial independence: it marks a brave new world of go-getting female sexuality, in which women can be as assertive as men in pursuing what they want...

With the decline of the traditional family unit, some women – particularly career women who are cash-rich and time-poor – find it easier and more efficient to organise paid-for sex than to seek it at home, in a bar, or online. Casual relationships or affairs can be complicated; hiring an escort offers control, an opportunity for sexual experimentation and exploration of fantasies without fear of judgment from a partner. Escorts, as Louise points out, have ‘seen it all’...

The blockbuster bondage novel Fifty Shades of Grey (2011) has ‘single-handedly helped male escorting’, says Missy, a bright 40-something madam who owns Platinum X. ‘Women have started to think: this is OK, socially accepted, people aren’t judging me – they’re revering me a bit: Oh you lucky thing, this is so hot and sexy!’.."

http://aeon.co/magazine/society/women-who-hire-escorts-are-no-different-to-men/
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Morning all! :wave:

Hmmm... only one here, except for a "guest"!

And not much to say today... :D

We got an inch and quarter of RAIN!! :happydance: Don't have to water anything for a few days! And MORE RAIN predicted next Monday!!

So will be back to see if anyone else comes over here!

:seeya:

okay - editing to "see" if I can post a "Sharing" picture!
 

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Years of neglect, $100 million in cuts created chaos in Florida’s mental hospitals

"Many nights Tonya Cook made her rounds alone.

She walked the halls of one of Florida’s most-dangerous mental hospitals clutching her clipboard to her chest, trying not to think too much about the patients in her care.
All of them were men. Many were schizophrenic, violent...

Since 2009, violent attacks at the state’s six largest hospitals have doubled. Nearly 1,000 patients ordered to the hospitals for close supervision managed to injure themselves or someone else...'

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article41933331.html
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The Horror of Working in a Hospital

"...Neither has Potter ever gotten used to what he thinks of as the violence. Saving lives—and losing them—can be hard to watch. Ribs can be broken during resuscitation, blood, needles, sobbing sounds from the waiting room. Patients who don’t die end up looking like they’ve been beaten up. Once in a while one of them is dropped on the floor...

Back at the hospital the doctor steps away from the body and “calls it”—hospital talk for officially dead. In Potter’s experience, doctors typically are ready to give up before the nurses. Not always, but usually. Sometimes a doctor needs a few minutes after a patient dies to walk in the parking lot, and sometimes a nurse goes to a room set up so patients don’t see them cry..." :(

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/01/the-horror-of-working-in-a-hospital.html
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I found the Daily Beast article very disconcerting, as it was written through the eyes of a tech, with 4 years on the job. I don't know where he worked, but what he describes is NOT the norm, at least I hope not. I have worked in a number of hospitals over a 36 year time span and things are never as perfect as we would have liked. But I truly hope none of you experienced what is described in this piece.
 
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