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Let's start with a Christmas puzzle! I love these things. It's not as hard as you think but look carefully.</div>
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It takes the average person almost 3 minutes to find the little dog hiding among the polar bears in this brainteaser. If it takes you longer don't fret.<br />
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Just say yes if you find it or no in the comments. I'll post the answer in my New Years' post. Good luck!<br />
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Today is Christmas so better late than never with this post. I'm not riding my bike today because it's windy and raining off and on. Instead, I'm drinking eggnog without dark rum (which I adore) because when I had both knees replaced in August Stanford hospital almost ruined my kidneys. It's a long story but they're recovering so I have to be careful. My knee replacements went much better I'm very happy with the improvements. What counts is I'll be fine for 2020.<br />
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These are just delicious if you have them in your area. I've practically made myself sick eating them. The bark has a white chocolate layer, a dark chocolate layer, and smashed up candy canes in it. OMG!<br />
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Isn't this guy darling! It's a Quokka, a marsupial, about the size of a domestic cat. They're like squirrels from The Land Down Under. They're always smiling and happy looking like live teddy bears.<br />
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You gotta love a bad boy Santa bringing a different kind of Christmas. Lol!<br />
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I hope you liked the artwork and jokes. I did a different Christmas post at <a href="https://bikewithbekkie.wordpress.com/2019/12/25/merry-christmas-cyclists/" target="_blank">Bike With Bekkie</a> if you're interested.<br />
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<b>Finally Here</b></div>
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Christmas comes but once a year</div>
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sharing love with those held dear</div>
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festive Christmas trees appear</div>
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Jingle Bells is what I hear.</div>
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Christmas Eve the skies are clear</div>
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Santa’s coming have no fear</div>
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in his sleigh with eight reindeer</div>
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bringing presents far and near.</div>
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Christmas comes but once a year</div>
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time for blessings and good cheer</div>
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my favorite holiday atmosphere</div>
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now, that day is finally here!</div>
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May we all find peace this year.</div>
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<b>Christmas Tanka #122415</b></div>
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the true meaning of Christmas</div>
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proud of those ugly sweaters</div>
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I hope your Christmas is full of all good things! After the year we had we could all use a little bit of peace, love, and understanding. Let's spread that kindness around. Not everyone has the means to have a wonderful holiday and the Christmas spirit is all about sharing. Big hug!</div>
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My date for surgery was August 26th. I was at my doctor's (orthopedic) at Standford on May 10th. I was hoping for another cortisone shot to the ligaments in my legs and more physical therapy but I was sorely mistaken. I was limping yet again because my left knee had moved and was causing me a lot of pain.<br />
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Dr. A (everyone calls him that because no one can pronounce his name) wasn't having it, "It's time we replace those troublesome knees. Let's set a date for the surgery."</div>
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What could I say? I had waited decades for my "windswept knees" to get better and it wasn't happening. I had one terribly bent leg that caved in because of the pressure of supporting the other damaged knee. People always noticed it when they saw me. I sighed a big sigh.</div>
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"When I do surgery I can straighten your legs and you'll be better than ever," Dr. A offered with a smile.</div>
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So the day before my 65th birthday I said yes to having both knees replaced at once. Dr. A felt that I was in great shape for my age and would do well after surgery.</div>
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The week before surgery I got a call from Dr. A's assistant. He said if I came in for a special scan that they could use robotics during my surgery. I felt lucky to be picked and agreed.</div>
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The scan was nothing special they taped a bar to each leg and scanned them. The bar was part of the reference that the robot would use. It was really space-age cool stuff. Of course, I would be asleep and that was fine with me.</div>
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It was only May and I had plenty of time to ride my bike before surgery but time passes quickly as we know. Tick tock.</div>
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<i>You can see in this photo how bent my left leg was before surgery. The other leg isn't great either. They call it "Windswept Knees" but there's no beauty in it. This was a ride early August.</i></div>
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My knees got better from bike riding for years and hardly ever hurt when I was peddling but when I got off of the bike or stopped the bike I never knew what was going to happen. I had a lot of falls when stopping and putting my foot down. My knee would give out and over I would go. I never had any other kind of fall while riding.</div>
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I was going to celebrate riding 20-30 miles every other day for 4 years Feb. 20th! Now I had to postpone that date.</div>
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<i>When they removed the pressure bandage this was what I saw. Later they got me up with a walker and make me take a few steps. I barely remember it now. Those bandages are waterproof and protect the stitches keeping them dry and together while they heal.</i></div>
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<i>I even took an art class and made this! The hospital had many ways to keep us busy and focused. Everyone I came in contact with was professional and focused. They came up with a program for every patient and made it fun. We all joked PT stood for Pain And Torture. </i></div>
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<i>Soon my waterproof bandages were wrinkled and peeling off from me exercising and showering. The marks above and below were where the sensors went for the robot. It could feel where my bones were while following the bars on the scan for reference. At least that's what I think since I wasn't in on the operation. Lol!</i></div>
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<i>There you have it! The scar on the right is shaped like that because I had an old surgery scar there and Dr. A used the same scar so I wouldn't have 2 scars. He did a great job on my knees.</i></div>
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My new knees work well, my legs are straight and I'm taller. Both legs are the same length (which doesn't always happen) and I bent them 144 degrees or something like that. Now I just have to start PT at Standford's Clinic and use their stationary bikes so I can get back on mine confidently.<br />
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I have pain pills and still need them. The pain I have almost never stops but I can't describe it. I think it's nerve pain. Lots of cramps from unhappy hamstrings or tendons. It's going to get better as I go.<br />
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I am walking around carrying my cane and being careful I don't have a fall. I impressed Dr. A, the PTs, and OTs with my progress while I was there. At week 3, (tomorrow) I'm at the week 6 level. When I look in the mirror I can't believe what I see. I can't wait to put on my cycling gear!<br />
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I'm in the process of fixing my bicycle the seat post broke. I ordered another it's coming tomorrow. It makes it easier to wait until I spin in PT this Wednesday at Stanford Clinic. I want to be smooth when I take to my bike. It might just be this week.<br />
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For anyone who's going to have this surgery, I say do both at once. Get it done and you won't have to do it again. It helps to be in shape. Make sure you have a doctor that you trust that talks to you. Anything worth doing is hard work. Good luck with the hospital stay!<br />
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Today it's the 4th and we like to celebrate it. Fireworks, water, alcohol, food on the grill, and being outside is the idea for the day.</div>
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My roommate and I are going to dine-in with burgers and such from Red Robin because we live in an apartment without room to grill. We are thinking of riding our bikes down to Coyote Point and spying on the fireworks across the Bay around the area by the Harbor around 8pm.</div>
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Remember to keep your pets indoors and comfort them if the fireworks are too much. They shouldn't be outdoors for any reason! They won't understand our celebration but can pick up on our excitement.</div>
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I hope you have the best 4th with friends and family! Since it's a long weekend cycling will be in our plans quite a bit. </div>
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I am going to have both of my knees replaced on August 26th so I only have so many days to ride until I'm laid up recovering. I look forward to it because I have a deformity in my knees called "Windswept Knees" which will be fixed along with the replacements. Just as I'm social online about my biking and life so will I be about the surgery. More later, this is a holiday.</div>
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We all deal with getting older differently as we are unique individuals but one thing stays true, it surprises us all. One day you look in the mirror and all is changed. When that happens we become a senior citizen almost overnight.<br />
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Of course, it doesn't really start overnight but time (which used to be on our side) is fickle. We realize it's moving at an alarming rate. Soon there's no time for anything! Time starts to pass us by.<br />
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That's not all! If single, (like me) love and romance get put on the sidelines as time feels like it's running out. One day the men who used to look at me with interest in their eyes start to ignore me. They stop looking and I'm confused. Where are all the men I ask myself? They can't all be married and needing Viagra!<br />
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While I'm trying to figure out where the men are and how to sign up for Medicare I become aware that people are putting me into a niche. That's when I start hearing the term, "for your age," added to sentences where it wasn't before.<br />
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When you start hearing this term added to everything people say about you, then you've become older than dirt. </div>
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"You have great hair, for your age!" (My hair is my greatest asset it runs in the family and has been there my whole life.)<br />
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"You're in great shape, for your age." (Not the fact that I workout and exercise daily, eat the right foods, and get 8 hours of sleep a night.)<br />
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"You have a great memory, for your age." And so on and so forth.</div>
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<i>No one knows this but when I find the right phone booth on a night when I've had way too many drinks I become Super Sanchez, a female Hulk/Superman mixture. When Super Sanchez shows up you better look out!</i></div>
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It really starts to grate at me. That, and being called, "ma'am" everywhere I go. Is there a rule that when you get grey hair you must be called ma'am? I still have a name last time I checked.<br />
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You better be careful what you say around us seniors some of us have super-powers.<br />
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<i><b>Time Has Not Been Good To My Blogger Blog</b></i></div>
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For me, pictures are worth a thousand words and today it's meaning has never been clearer when I see the blank place-keepers where my hard work used to be.<br />
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Through the years a few things happened that made my old Blogger blogs a nightmare to behold:<br />
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Photobucket, although the worst offender, is not the only one. Windows Live Writer and Live Spaces started it all. When Live Spaces was shut down I moved my blog to Blogger. I had already been using Windows Live Writer to write my posts it was an awesome word processor which I felt was ahead of its time.<br />
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I used Windows Live Writer for everything it was versatile, by Microsoft, and could be used for Blogger blogs. I connected it to Bekkie In Wonderland which allowed me to write my posts in an environment that looked like a preview of BIW so before publishing a post I knew how it would look.<br />
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Any Blogger blog could be connected in the same way and Windows Live Writer was everything Blogger's word processor should have been. (Making a note here that Blogger's word processor is still the same to this day with no improvements!) I used Windows Live Writer for all of my Blogger sites.<br />
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Even with Live Spaces discontinued Windows Live Writer was around for decades! As a word processor, it was one of the first to give you coding control using (the then new,) HTML code. It gave you total control over the size of images letting you drag whatever size you wished. That and other little things made it a great word processor.<br />
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As time went on it started to become obsolete as I started to see grumblings from Microsoft about pulling support. One day it didn't look like my website anymore when I wrote new posts and a year or so later it was pulled. Actually, it quit working (I was that hard-core.)<br />
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In the meantime, I found a site called <a href="http://s675.photobucket.com/user/Bekkiehere/library/?sort=3&page=1" target="_blank">Photobucket</a> and not only could I store unlimited images for free I could do so like an image library. I could store animated GIF files (then new) and get the codes to post them anywhere including my blogs.<br />
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I tried to look at my account to see how long I've had it but can't find anything. It's a very old account maybe started in the 80's? The amount of ads around and on top of my images is bad and it takes forever to load. It wasn't always like this but as the years went on the ads grew.<br />
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I used to pay for Photobucket yearly. I did this for 2 years (I don't remember how much) it was a long time ago. I stopped paying and more years went by. My account was very buggy to use taking up precious time but it was easy and I used it for all of my sites.<br />
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Losing Windows Live Writer was bad because the HTML was a little different so switching to Blogger's processor gave me problems. Some of the posts were a different font, spaced wrong, etc. and it just made them look bad. I had to do a lot of work and delete a lot of work just to keep my content. It was terrible and time-consuming redoing old posts.<br />
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Just a year or so ago, I noticed the majority of the images on my websites were pulled along with a message from Photobucket telling me they were now charging for hosting. It was then I realized how much I had relied on Photobucket, a free service, and it was devastating. Nothing was for free anymore.<br />
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No way was I paying them again and now I could write my own code. I had to rework so many of my websites I gave up, deleting 3 of my older Blogger sites.<br />
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My WordPress blogs weren't as bad because I was already writing my own code on them. They use an easier HTML code than Blogger does meaning transferring one post in HTML from Blogger to WordPress doesn't work smoothly. So what else is new? Lol!<br />
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After deciding to keep Bekkie In Wonderland (my oldest blog) and already doing all the work to keep the posts I did keep I ran out of space on my Google Drive. I knew I wasn't going to get away without paying this time it was just a matter of who to pay.<br />
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It took me forever to go through my Google Drive and delete Gigs of images. I was very careful but not careful enough because some of the storage wasn't old files like I thought. When I saw BIW was missing most of its images AGAIN my heart sank. I still have the images elsewhere but didn't remember those particular pictures were linked to BIW.<br />
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I couldn't delete enough images on my Google Drive so I had to pay for a year of storage and still lost all of that work on BIW, some of it (image replacement) had been done once already.<br />
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Exhausted I'm done for now. My posts are fine without the pictures although I'm very unhappy about it this time. I'm not sure what to do. Some posts are ok but BIW is pretty much wiped out. All of the contributing factors have helped but I made the final boo-boo that brought me to this point.<br />
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Sorry for the missing photos. If you blog, I know some of you had Photobucket and maybe Windows Live accounts (in the past) too. I feel for you! What have you done about your missing images?<br />
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There's no need to pay for hosting images in this day and age! You can do it on your blogs word processor. Just make what you want (using images, words, and links) under Compose, when finished, use the HTML button, copy and paste it into an HTML box from your website.<br />
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My newer posts are ok so please read around the missing images until I can get to them. New posts will be more important. Life outside of my websites hasn't been much easier recently everything is getting too expensive in my state of California.<br />
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Happiness is emotional</div>
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endorphins fill my brain</div>
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muscles relax</div>
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others tense</div>
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pulling at the corners of my mouth</div>
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Happiness is addictive</div>
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good times amplified</div>
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one beaming smile</div>
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makes us fall in love</div>
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Happiness is temporary</div>
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we’d like it to last forever</div>
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still, it leaves us</div>
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without warning</div>
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but when we least expect it</div>
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someone smiles</div>
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and it reminds us</div>
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that it’s just around the corner.</div>
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Happiness never lasts but that doesn’t mean we’ll never be happy again. We never know what will make us smile. Open up and be receptive to happiness in any form. How are you doing? Have a great day!</div>
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Want to read more of my poetry?<a href="https://capriciouspoet.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"> Capricious Poet</a>.</blockquote>
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The moon plays tricks</div>
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with a lunar eclipse</div>
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eyes to the skies</div>
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twice this month is nice</div>
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number two is blue</div>
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tipping and slipping</div>
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under the earth’s umbra</div>
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invitingly in syzygy</div>
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this blood moon makes us swoon.</div>
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Yes, I did rhyme syzygy, look it up. Lol!</div>
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A Blue Moon is when two full moons happen in the same calendar month; lunar eclipses occur when the moon passes into Earth’s shadow; and supermoons happen when the moon’s perigee — its closest approach to Earth in a single orbit — coincides with a full moon. In this case, the supermoon also happens to be the day of the lunar eclipse.<br />
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The second full moon and the lunar eclipse will occur on the night of Jan. 30 or the morning of the 31st. And the supermoon will take place on the night of Jan. 30, which is technically one day before the moon reaches peak fullness, but even NASA is willing to call the event a supermoon nonetheless.<br />
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I watched it last night on my patio it was awesome! My picture isn’t great, but it’s the only camera I had (cell phone.) This was when the moon was fully eclipsed and was orange.<br />
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<i><br /></i> <i>This is what it looked like (although this isn't from this year.)</i></div>
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I don't know if you saw it but it was totally worth getting up at 4:30am to see. At the time I had no idea I'd be able to watch it from my patio. Once I figured that out, I got in a chair with a blanket and had a great view. A one of a kind viewing last seen in the 1800's.</div>
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I'd love to hear if you saw it or not so leave me some comments. If you want to write a poem of your own in the comments please do.</div>
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<b>A Very Good Year</b></div>
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The month of December has come to a close</div>
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the weather has brought a new blanket of snow</div>
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Christmas has faded from Rudolph’s red nose</div>
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looks like it’s time for the new year.</div>
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To the party we go with our friends in tow</div>
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faces aglow and dressed in our best</div>
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jollification where ever we go</div>
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looks like it’s time for the new year.</div>
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Champagne is flowing as midnight draws near</div>
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resolutions are made as we watch the ball drop</div>
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we raise up our glasses to toast to good cheer</div>
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that this New Year, be a very good year!</div>
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I've posted this poem before but it begged to be repeated. I am happy for the chance for another year. 2017 was unreal! So many famous people died that I cared about and grew up with.</div>
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<li>Jerry Lewis</li>
<li>Chester Bennington</li>
<li>Tom Petty</li>
<li>Jim Nabors</li>
<li>David Cassidy</li>
<li>Fats Domino</li>
<li>Della Rese</li>
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<b>Walking Through Doors</b><br /><br />The doorway arrived in the nick of time<br />at the stroke of midnight before the first fireworks<br />wide open, brightly illuminated and full of promise<br />on the brink, I took my departure.<br /><br />New doors open to us throughout life<br />some require keys before opening<br />some demand a pound or two of flesh<br />a lesson learned, an entrance earned.<br /><br />Sometimes we balk at the opening<br />without realizing we’re on a new threshold<br />like not recognizing the dawn of a new day<br />letting that door slam shut in our faces.<br /><br />Cooling our heals in the vestibule<br />aware and anxious to make our emergence<br />an unmarked exit opens to the unknown<br />that first step can be a real bitch!<br /><br />© Rebecca Sanchez 2018</div>
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Wrote this today it's about doorways with New Years hinted in it. Have a nice week, it begins!</div>
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<i>Don't stop writing on your old blogs!</i></div>
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Today I decided to go through my blogroll to see what's happened to everyone. Since it's the holidays my thought was, this is the time when people are apt to reach out and touch someone by writing on their blogs.</div>
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This is my last (and oldest blogsite) on Blogger. I made a lot of my online friends here some of whom I still see on social networks and such today. This is the only site where I still have a blogroll. </div>
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Old-fashioned blogs have pretty much gone obsolete in 2017. I know I haven't had time to look at what other people are reading when visiting their sites these days. I sometimes scan blogrolls when I run into them but mostly to see if I'm on them.</div>
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In the early days of blogging, we were being introduced to spaces and blog spots. We featured other bloggers (unknown popular authors) on our sites, handed out blogging awards, had blogrolls, and other tricks to get more traffic to our blogs. You remember those days if you're an older blogger.</div>
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As I went through my blogroll I was sad to remove several of my old friend's blogs. What was worse was the number of blogs still up that haven't been written on since 2015 or later. 2013 was the last prime year on Blogger that I blogged too so I understand the timeline. It was a good time to blog, get comments and make friends. So what happened?</div>
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The blog killer appears to be time itself. Once the blog world settled down and got serious "everyman blogs" lost readers because they had no lasting substance. Online friends are wonderful but you can't count on them to come read your posts and bring their friends if they aren't relevant. People want to read more than just hear about your day or look at your family photos anymore there's a big world out there.</div>
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A handful of popular blogs on my list got more popular. They made it because they had funny stories, real artwork, already large followings and daily posts. Some of them moved to better homes (different URL's) but I was happy to see some of them still around.</div>
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So what can we do with our old, lonely blogs? Bekkie In Wonderland is my oldest blog and in the same boat. I've written on it a long time and lost some of it to old failing coding and losing Windows Live Writer which I used for years.</div>
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As I moved my main blogs to Wordpress and new audiences I stopped writing on BIW and forgot about it. My comments, coming from old friends who also had Blogger blogs were sparse and I almost deleted it with the others but I couldn't.</div>
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I decided to give Bekkie In Wonderland another chance for readers. I updated and started writing on it again. I want to invite you to do the same. There is one good reason:</div>
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There is power in this. A brand new website takes time for the search engines to pick it up and then it will not be on the first page of said search. This is the only way people will find your site so it's super important. Even if you change the name of your site as long as it's at the old URL it will keep its place when doing a search for it.</div>
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If you aren't going to write about a certain subject anymore you can redo your site, even rename it. The only thing you can't do is change the URL and what does that matter if you are only blogging about normal things in your everyday life?</div>
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I ask you to reconsider. Don't stop writing on your old blogs, an occasional post keeps them alive and will keep your readers from jumping the sinking ship. Writers need to write and we need practice if anything. Write about the news, trends, things you like that are in the news or trending...I think you get my gist.</div>
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Of course, if you can't ride get off the horse. Everyone has a website these days but not everyone was meant to be a writer. Writing is more work than glory.</div>
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<b>Some Good Quotes About Writing</b></div>
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<i>“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.”</i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i>—Allen Ginsberg, WD</i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i>“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”</i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i>—George Orwel</i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i>“Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.”</i><br />
<i>—Enid Bagnold</i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i>“It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.”</i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i>—Jack Kerouac, WD</i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i>“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”</i><br />
<i>—Ernest Hemingway</i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i>“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”</i><br />
<i>—Virginia Woolf</i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i>“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”</i><br />
<i>—Samuel Johnson</i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i>“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.”</i><br />
<i>—Stephen King, WD</i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i>“Beware of advice—even this.”</i><br />
<i>—Carl Sandburg, WD</i><br />
<i><br /></i> <i>“Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.”</i><br />
<i>—Ray Bradbury, WD</i><br />
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<b>And this sums up what's happened to blogging and life in 2017.</b><br />
<i><br /></i> <i>“We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings. … Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.”</i><br />
<i>—John Updike, WD</i><br />
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Isn't that the truth? ~laughing~<br />
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I hope to visit some of the blogs I left on my blogroll and see some writing spawn again. Most of all, I hope to get a few readers back to my Wonderland because I still have a lot to talk about. This is where I can write about anything I want, unlike my other sites.<br />
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Happy Holidays!<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So it's the holiday season again. When I was a child, like all children, Christmas was magical. My parents were great at it. They even hid presents in the tree and around the room they really knew how to work us kids into a frenzy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then one day I became aware. Being the older sister of a 4 year younger brother I was the first. I don't remember how or why but I got old enough to finally understand the workings of Christmas. No Santa Claus? That about killed me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I grew up a child with a huge imagination. It's one of the things that has helped me through life but finding out about Christmas was just one of the "truths" of life that I found shocking signaling the end of my childhood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">No magic? What about the rest of it? The Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and more? All tall stories and for what? I still wonder. Would it be so bad to have kids know the real truth behind these childhood fibs? Maybe when we grew up we wouldn't be willing to believe every untrue lie fed to us by our government for example? The "experts"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't know but I do know I'm getting off of the subject of Christmas. I'm not ready for it but I never am. Christmas was lost to me in the 90's along with Thanksgiving and most of the other holidays now all just indicators of more time passing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If I had family who cared it might be more pleasant but I doubt it. I'm always broke these days, especially around the holidays so I don't get into Black Friday or Cyber Monday, etc. I might buy something small for myself just so I don't feel so sorry for "me".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I think of Christmas this is what I think of. A snow-covered cabin all cozy inside with presents and a fire waiting. Perhaps a warm handsome man?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I used to have snow at Christmas but living in California that's out of the question unless one has money (and the knees) to go skiing. But this is what I do during the holidays.</span></div>
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I'm out riding my bicycle along the Bay Trail in San Mateo. It's really pretty year round even without snow. I miss it sometimes.</div>
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Candy canes are still one of my favorite candies! I actually learned to like fruitcake and I adore eggnog with dark rum. What do you like about Christmas?</div>
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The thing I still like each year is New Years. Now that I'm older I don't like how fast time is flying but I can't help but have some hope that each year will get better. This year is already better right now than last so I'm hoping for more of the same.</div>
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These are beautiful scenes that I've never seen with my eyes. Although I've seen some pretty sights in winter horse-drawn carriages and things like this are pretty much history.</div>
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Christmas is coming just like every year...whatever way you celebrate, or don't, I hope you have the best Christmas ever!</div>
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Nothing can make me happier than Jumbo blueberries from (of all places) Mexico! When these huge berries show up at Lucky's supermarket I'm there to buy 8 cartons of them and even that is not enough.</div>
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I usually shop at Safeway but Lucky's has a deal exclusively with Driscoll's to get their very best berries. Safeway will buy another brand or get Driscoll's from another area. The greengrocer at Lucky's told me this or I wouldn't have known.</div>
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All Driscoll's blueberries are not created equal.</div>
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It makes a huge difference! The berries from Peru are usually sour even if they look delicious. What a rip! I hate sour blueberries, all you can do is add sugar to them and use them for something else although most times I take them back to the store and return them.</div>
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Even the berries from California can't compare! I don't know what the deal is, but I never knew there were Jumbo blueberries and why does Mexico have them and we don't? What makes them so big and tasty? Do I want to know? (Uncomfortable laughter...)</div>
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<i>My oatmeal without raspberries (didn't get any this time.) I make and serve it in a measuring cup. The dots are chia seeds.</i></div>
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My thing is oatmeal, in fact, every morning for breakfast I have my Red White and Blue Oatmeal with chia seeds. That is Quaker organic instant oatmeal with blueberries and raspberries. Oatmeal is the best breakfast food ever it sticks with me all morning and gives me energy for my morning bike rides.</div>
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Just take another look at that picture of the berries! When they say Jumbo they aren't kidding! These berries are the size of grapes! They are sweet tasting and I can sit and eat one of these containers of them like grapes no problem.</div>
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So when I hear Jumbo Blueberries it makes me very happy! I have the last 5 containers of them from Lucky's in my fridge waiting for me to eat them. It's almost breakfast time....</div>
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<b>Jumbo Mexican Blueberries</b> or<b> I Will Eat Them</b></div>
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I will eat them in my chair<br />
I will eat them naked bare<br />
I will eat them on a dare<br />
I will eat them in my lair<br />
I will eat them while I swear<br />
I will eat them with no hair<br />
I will eat them with much flair<br />
I will eat them here and there<br />
In my mouth without a care<br />
I will eat them anywhere!</div>
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I hope you have the best day ever! In a few, after my oatmeal with Jumbo berries, I'm going biking and it's a beautiful day outside.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well hello there readers! It's been awhile since I've written here but I'm about to change all that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you haven't been here in awhile Wonderland has a new look. I had a lot of fun doing it so let me know how you like it. I also went through and fixed a lot of old code and posts that got stripped out when Photobucket got greedy and screwed me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">About that, Photobucket, the image library that I've used for decades decided to charge users who host their own images through them on their websites and such. Without warning these ugly ads to go pay homage to them popped up everywhere because I had been using Photobucket faithfully for years. It was a great place to store images and they gave you the HTML code for using them other places. That's how I got in deep do-do when Photobucket decided to start making money offa me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What they don't know is I know how to write my own darn code now and don't need them. Still, I had a lot of old posts that were messed up and dotted with ugly ads on them. Some got fixed and a bunch got thrown out but most of them needed to go.</span></div>
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I've been up to a lot! I bike 20-30 miles every other day on the Bay Trail in San Mateo. I have never felt better! I write about biking and health on <a href="https://bikewithbekkie.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Bike With Bekkie</a> a newer blog on WordPress.</div>
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I hope you'll be back when I have more to say. After all of the work and years I've put into this blog I'm going to take advantage of it and the great place it has on Google search. I'm all spiffed up and ready for business.</div>
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It's a new time for me, almost a new year and as Billy Idol put it, "It's a nice day to, start again!" (From White Wedding.) Night folks!</div>
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They have some very strange ideas about holidays in the past. I love to look up vintage cards because I always find things like these. (Above.) These cards are copies of vintage New Year cards and postcards from the Victorian Era.<br />
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Here's my New Years poem I post every year since I wrote it. I was so pleased to use the word "jollification" in it, it's a great word<br />
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<b>Time For A Very Good Year</b><br />
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The month of December has come to a close<br />the weather has brought a new blanket of snow<br />Christmas has faded from Rudolph’s red nose<br />looks like it's time for the new year.<br />
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To the party we go with our friends in tow<br />faces aglow and dressed in our best<br />jollification where ever we go<br />looks like it’s time for the New Year.<br />
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Champagne is flowing as midnight draws near<br />resolutions are made as we watch the ball drop<br />we raise up our glasses to toast to good cheer<br />that this New Year, be a very good year!<br />
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© Rebecca Sanchez 2011<br />
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Here’s to wishing you, and yours, a very good year from the bottom of my heart!<br />
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The actual notion of a ball "dropping" to signal the passage of time dates back long before New Year's Eve was ever celebrated in Times Square. The first "time-ball" was installed atop England's Royal Observatory at Greenwich in 1833. This ball would drop at one o'clock every afternoon, allowing the captains of nearby ships to precisely set their chronometers (a vital navigational instrument).<br />
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Around 150 public time-balls are believed to have been installed around the world after the success at Greenwich, though few survive and still work. The tradition is carried on today in places like the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, where a time-ball descends from a flagpole at noon each day - and of course, once a year in Times Square, where it marks the stroke of midnight not for a few ships' captains, but for over one billion people watching worldwide.<br />
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Getting over a miserable summer cold I was drinking beer on Sunday and got dry. The Heineken was drying me out along with the cold medicine. (Yes I read and ignore labels too.)<br />
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I decided to get a glass of Safeway apple juice to sip with it good for the cold and thirst. The mix in my mouth was delicious.<br />
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I poured some beer in a glass and added apple juice to taste. I think the bitter and the sweet go well but make it your way. When done right you have a sweet bubbly apple/hops drink that's sure to please and keep you hydrated.<br />
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Add to that a salty snack with some veggies and you're set for a Sunday afternoon of snacking and posting on social networks in front of the TV while watching Superjail or Or Game Of Thrones like I am. I just love that new Popcornopolis Caramel Corn you should definitely try it.<br />
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So I made up a drink and I'm calling it <b>The Applehop</b>. Don't serve it on ice drink it cold it's meant to be slammed. Add some rum/vodka and call it the <b>Applehop Hammer.</b><br />
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<br />I spent a good part of the morning trying to answer this, going through horrible articles written by people thinking they were helping but they weren't because they didn't have the answer.<br /><br />It's not Windows, not HTML, not ASCII, no, it's Unicode. What?<br /><br />Ask the person who has used Windows all of their lives and they are sure they have the answer! It's 0169 using a Windows keyboard. What Windows keyboard-I have a new Chromebook?!<br /><br />Of course, everyone wanted to talk about doing it in Google Docs but I wanted to use the symbol anytime and was sure there had to be a keyboard shortcut...but this was an Acer Chromebook 15 with a different keyboard so how do I do it?<br /><br />I was beginning to miss Windows...but then I saw my answer via a stranger in the Chromebook Forum. It was "a9!" I felt like I had the answer to the Ultimate Question Of Life, The Universe, And Everything. But it wasn't enough...<div>
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I found some Chrome extensions with the Unicode characters on them that copied the code/image automatically. Neither one I tried had the copyright symbol. WTF?<br /><br />Then I looked at my new Chromebook keyboard instructions and found that I could hold Shift/Ctrl and by pressing "u" use a code to get the same types of symbols as a Windows keyboard. </div>
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Then I realized the "u" was for Unicode and found the forum where I found the Unicode for the © symbol. It is a9. <br /><br /><b>This Is How You Do It</b><br /><br />Press shift/ctrl together, hold them down, then press u, then press a, then press 9. When you're finished it says "ua9" but don't stop there! When you press the space bar afterward you'll see © (the copyright symbol.)<br /><br />To get any other symbols look up the Unicode chart and do the same using the corresponding code. You can look that up yourself. "Okay, Google!"</div>
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So I'm sharing my find with you because I know I'm not the only writer with a Chromebook trying to figure this out. I love my new Acer Chromebook 15 and it's great not to have to deal with Windows. Enjoy!</div>
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We go on social networks to be social but how do you find other people in the big bad stream? And why should one bother to plus? <br />
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Google is a big network when looking to connect with someone. That’s why Google came up with the +1 social shorthand to track each other. <br />
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When using any language it’s important to learn the basics. The technical term <a href="http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/ping">pinging</a> is what Google calls plussing and whether you know it or not you do it every day. <br />
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I have hundreds of friends in the stream so how do I find just one? <br />
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To send a post to a person type a + and the person's username immediately afterward. After typing 2 or 3 letters a menu will pop up to choose from. You can send one or more usernames on the same post it’s up to you. Unless it’s a very common username the menu should pop up quickly. Common usernames can be harder to find because the list is long. <br />
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You can send these posts public, private, or both but check before you post privately to make sure you aren’t overlooking the public setting. You can send a private post out to someone that way by accident so watch it! <br />
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If I can’t find their plusses how can I expect them to find mine? <br />
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You are beginning to use notifications and they will do the same looking through their notifications and will see that you did. Always give them time to see your messages because we all use notifications differently. If someone just won’t answer and it really bothers you take them out of your circles it wasn’t meant to be. <br />
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In your settings, you determine how you want to be notified and what you want to be notified about. Your settings are important and if you haven’t looked at them yet I would suggest you do so now and see how your notifications are set up. They are the most useful tool on G+ use them right and they will serve you. <br />
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Just because a friend is online doesn’t mean they are watching for you like a hawk so what can you do? <br />
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Don’t wait if you want someone, in particular, to see your post or comment ping them on it. I make a practice of plussing (pinging) every time I do anything on G+ because my friends will see it faster in notifications. <br />
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<b>Why give people plusses at all? </b><br />
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Other people don’t plus so why should I? <br />
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It’s true that people are lousy at pinging each other I see it every day but why let that ruin your online experience? Communication skills are everything on a social network just like offline and the better you are at it the more people will want to include you! <br />
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Try going without talking all day offline and see where that gets you. You can be sure your friends will miss out on a lot but you don’t have to. <br />
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<li>+1 on a post-I like it! </li>
<li>+1 on a comment-I saw your comment and am letting you know. </li>
<li>+1 on a comment-I liked what you said but don’t want to comment. </li>
<li>+1 on a comment-I agree with you! </li>
<li>+1 and Reply (ping) about the same comment-I want to add or answer this and here’s my comment to see. </li>
<li>+1 on anything-Going to tell Google your preferences, likes, dislikes, and other things about you. </li>
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Everyone on G+ waits to get plusses don’t fool yourself. As a newbie remember how you felt when you got your first plusses? How did it feel when you got no plusses? <br />
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If you hate a post or dislike a person you certainly wouldn’t want to plus them but maybe they shouldn’t be in your circles anyway. <br />
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By using this social shorthand to navigate G+ you will have an easier time finding your friends and understanding what’s going on. Your friends will know you appreciate their posts and I have found as a side effect of plussing often you get circled often. <br />
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<div><span style="font-size: x-small;">This was <b>Showoffs</b>, a popular community of mine on G+ in 2014. This is another article from Google past.</span><br />
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<br /><b>Setting Up Your Google Plus Profile For Success</b></div><div><br /></div><div>
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<div>Stop right there! <br /><br /></div><div>Your profile is one of the most important things you can spend time on and it will make a difference in how fast you gain followers and who you meet. Take the time to fill it out it’s your introduction to anyone and everyone. You will hear about Google being top-notch at helping you sell your product and if you think of yourself as” your product” no one can stop you!<br /><blockquote><b>
I don’t want to tell people about myself if I don’t know them!</b></blockquote>Of course, you don’t and who says you have to tell but a few well-placed facts about yourself and the things you would like to share online are a must. When you hit the G+ stream and start to add people to your first circle others will be adding you and before they do they will look at your profile. <br />
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What does yours say about you? If you have a blank profile they will pass you up and if you want to make friends or network this is a big negative.<br />
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You don’t have to put your address or enable location but people will want to know where you’re from and talk to you about it. They like to know what you are interested in and that can’t hurt. You don’t have to put where you work but you can put your vocation. Use common sense and be clever.<br />
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It’s up to you how much you want to divulge or express but the more information the better when it comes to people deciding whether to follow you or not. Remember, it’s not how many people in your circles it’s how many people follow you.<br /><blockquote><b>
Why should I use a picture on my profile?</b></blockquote>Profiles without pictures are called "Blueheads" and it puts a person off right away when they see no picture. People like to “see” who they are following and a headshot will help you reach more people.</div>
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My profile is filled out why include a photo? People will read about how cool I am it shouldn't matter?<br />
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If you have an excellent profile but no image people may not look you up meaning you have already lost. People online may seem like they have all the time in the world but they are busy and when looking up people to follow they would rather see a picture. I would probably not be looking you up without one.<br /><blockquote><b>
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<li>Name/Username </li>
<li>At least last place you worked or not </li>
<li>Any education if you think it important to your online goal </li>
<li>A photo of you or something to represent you </li>
<li>If you have websites, YouTube, Facebook, etc. add the links so people can find and follow you there </li>
<li>What you want from your online experience </li>
<li>What others can expect from you </li>
<li>A good (keep it short) tagline and change it often </li>
<li>An image for your profile cover photo that represents your interests or tastes</li>
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You will want to set up your profile so you can update it easily without changing it too often so your friends will recognize you when they “see” you online.</div>
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An awesome feature of G+ that no other network has is that you can use animated Gifs for your profile photo/cover photo if you wish. How great is that?<br />
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Of course, filling out a profile is not rocket science but if you want to meet people this is the way to ensure that when you interact with someone and they like how it went they will look you up and circle you. Repeat many times over and soon you will be accumulating followers and be on your way. You are now a product people will want to “buy into” so relax and enjoy it.<br />
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Filling out profiles is not for everyone but blank profiles and no profile pictures are used every day by hackers and trolls on G+ that people have to block. This fact alone is a good reason to have a filled out profile. If you don’t want to do it know that your online experience will be an upward battle.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sK1t4RGWrn4/X2adGmHDqQI/AAAAAAAKgtE/fZZW8jCI7joKtH-pdj6a3hNdS5MFaUGPACNcBGAsYHQ/s113/headbangsoncomputer_t_01.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="113" data-original-width="113" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sK1t4RGWrn4/X2adGmHDqQI/AAAAAAAKgtE/fZZW8jCI7joKtH-pdj6a3hNdS5MFaUGPACNcBGAsYHQ/w200-h200/headbangsoncomputer_t_01.gif" width="200" /></a></div>
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There is no doubt about it the social networking giants are all the buzz. A research report I read today on the internet says that 51% of online Americans have joined a social network. Another 73% are consuming some form of social content on a regular basis on networks like Sony’s PlayStation. People are connecting with, listening to, following, and collaborating with each other online at an amazing rate. <br />
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We are sharing just about everything with each other these days. Photos, recipes, plans, and even locations just to name a few of these things. Business people are using social networks to build their careers, promote themselves, their websites, and their reputations. Networking is the social norm. <br />
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Some of the most popular social networking sites are Google Plus, Facebook, and Twitter with LinkedIn catching up fast. Each one of those sites is uniquely positioned and serves a particular population or purpose. There are other online networking sites, numbering in the thousands, so at this point, they shall remain nameless. <br />
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After researching social etiquette I specially wrote these tips with Google Plus in mind. It’s no wonder people get confused we receive this technology quickly and it changes so much that we forget how to play nice with others while keeping up. <br />
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<b>Social Network Etiquette-Community=Google Plus </b><br />
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1. Give more than you receive. If you want attention from others online you have to be willing to give it first. Become a good commenter and stay positive. If you’re in a bad mood stay offline! <br />
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2. Don’t be a keyboard gangsta. The worst thing about the Internet is the keyboard trolls. They’re the people who have to talk trash to everyone they meet. They say things online you would never say to a real person’s face. If you are this person I bet you’ve been blocked already. Get a clue. <br />
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3. Add value to the community at large. This means not posting things nobody cares about and not constantly promoting your own brand. Before you post anything to a social media site ask yourself; “Does this really add value to the community?” If not, reconsider posting it. <br />
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4. Don’t start arguments and sabotage others efforts. Drop all of your e-beefs and hatred. Don’t try to bury others just for the sake of getting ahead. Making enemies on social online media sites will get you nowhere and you reap what you sow. <br />
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5. Remember that cheaters never win. Sure, you might be able to get somewhere by cheating but eventually you’ll get caught. Once everyone sees you for the cheater you are, you can’t take it back ever. This applies to people who use more than one profile or websites that look good but are made to stay anonymous and cause trouble or spam. <br />
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6. Build quality relationships and get to know your friends online. People are more willing to help those who they really know. Remember relationships require the participation of both parties and you’ll always have someone in your corner and a network of useful people. To get help you should give always give it back. <br />
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7. Stop pushing the Envelope. One of the fastest ways to alienate people online is to constantly flood them with requests for helping you out. Whether you’re constantly asking people to comment on your blog or shouting your content, eventually, everyone will lose patience with you. People will learn to tune you out. <br />
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8. Respect the community. This is one of the most important rules of social media etiquette. Show respect to the people in the community. Just make sure you don’t step out of line and always treat others the way you want to be treated. <br />
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9. Listen to others. It’s easier to tell someone they are wrong than to take the time to listen to what they’re really saying. Understand where the people who comment on your post are coming from. You don’t know everything and you can learn from others if you’re a good listener. <br />
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10. Be accountable for your actions. Because of the anonymity the Internet allows, there is hardly any accountability online. Instead, try to be honorable by taking responsibility for your actions. People will respect you whether they agree with you or not. People want to be trusting, give them the opportunity. <br />
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11. Don’t step on other people’s posts. Repost responsibly and people will admire you for it. If you have a link to share do it on your own post and if you don’t like what you see instead of leaving a negative comment pass that posts up. You catch more flies with honey than you do vinegar. <br />
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12. Use a photo for your profile picture and put some information on your profile. If you’re joining a social network why not be social? When a person sees a blank profile and no picture at all they don’t make any connections about you and don’t want to deal with you. At least use some other image if you don’t want to show your mug online. <br />
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13. Be polite to one another. If you can’t be nice be civil and remember the common courtesy's you give people in your offline life and apply it online. One of these days you might be talking to someone who will give you your next job online and you don’t want to blow that! Can’t we just all get along? <br />
This is my equation and I believe it works! Credibility+trust=Followers on Google Plus <br />
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Social media and online etiquette give you a rough guideline on how you can communicate to online audiences without irritating anyone. When you operate above these minimum ethical requirements, you will gain credibility and trust among people. <br />
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Sources: Google Plus, Facebook, Windows Live, AOL, Tagged, Linked In, My Space, (to name a few of the social network’s I’ve belonged to in the past,) Wikipedia, Google Search, and Internet<script type="text/javascript">
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This animated Gif is a good example of how our circles interact on Google Plus.<br />
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Using circles and following have been misunderstood by newbies. Choose a circle and you're viewing everyone’s content in that circle at that time. Change your circle and you have a different view.<br />
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Follow someone and you're following a person's single profile but you'll be putting them in a circle. Circles are used to group your friends and interests so you can find them easier.<br />
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You will find yourself asking:<br />
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How many circles should I have?<br />
If someone adds me do I have to add them back?<br />
Why have circles at all?<br />
Will someone know when I circle them or when I don't?<br />
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These are just a few of the questions that could have you running in circles but armed with a few facts you will be using them to your advantage.<br />
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The Secret Of Circles<br />
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Circles are groups of people you decide to follow. If you follow someone it’s making them a daily friend because you will see their posts when you use that circle. You don’t have to ask them to be your friend or wait for an answer you can build and use your circles immediately.<br />
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You want to make your circles about friends, interests, or what you want to see online because whether you trade them or not it’s your own unique view of Google+. Each circle you make will offer you a different view of G+ than the Public stream. It depends on how many circles you make as to how many “views” you’ll have.<br />
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Don’t worry about what other people are doing they are doing the same thing and no one should take this process personally. Google+ was designed to be used this way and anyone who gives you grief about it should be blocked.<br />
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Facts About Followers<br />
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Followers are people who decide to circle you by personal choice. It’s what the other side is doing while you make your circles. It’s not the number of people you follow it’s the number of people who follow you that counts. When you start to gain followers you are notified as to how many on your profile.<br />
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You get followers by posting great content and giving out good conversation. You can’t buy, beg or borrow followers they have a mind of their own and you must learn what they want to get them.<br />
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People will try to encourage or ask people to follow and plus them. Not a good idea it can backfire when people decide you are begging for it. When you follow or unfollow you can be as fickle as you please about it.<br />
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It’s a fun challenge to post good content and accumulate followers. I like finding and creating rich content and getting as many followers as I can. There is no award for having thousands of followers just the satisfaction of networking with awesome people.<br />
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Some Things To Remember</div>
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<li>Circles can be deleted if they aren’t working just start another.</li>
<li>You can follow G+ without any circles and you will still gain followers.</li>
<li>If you delete a circle it’s not personal. </li>
<li>Some of the people with the most followers don’t circle anyone.</li>
<li>You can have as many circles as you want.</li>
<li>Followers are people who have circled you.</li>
<li>Include yourself in all your circles, everyone does.</li>
<li>No one has a say about who you follow, circle and who you don’t.</li>
<li>Having thousands of followers does not ensure popularity. </li>
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Miscellaneous Facts<br />
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Learn how to block someone and use it liberally. There are new people to meet and life is too short to deal with strangers who mistreat you. Some people join social networks (like bullies in the real world) who only want to hurt or start arguments with you and if you let them you are playing into their sick schemes. Use caution, block but don’t be afraid of people most of them want to engage agreeably.<br />
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<b>From Newbie To Maybe</b><br /><br />When I came here I felt just like every newbie, ignored and vulnerable. Google+ was a place where everyone else had friends but me.<br /><br />I would put up posts and they would be ignored. If I left a comment it would go answered and ignored. Yet when reading comments all the people around me had people talking to them!<br /><br />I thought, nobody here likes or understands me. I've been on Google+ a whole week already and nothing is happening and what’s up with the pluses? I want to go back to Facebook.<br /><br /><b>Bite your tongue!</b><br /><br />Everyone feels like this starting Google+ after all it’s new and so are the people. You can't rely on your friends joining you here so instead of throwing in the towel do what I did and go from <b>Newbie to Maybe</b>. People will be circling you in no time.<br /><br /><b>Creative Commenting Is Key</b> <br /><br />Start getting used to surfing the public stream and if you see a post you like comment on it. Don't just say; “I like it.” Or “Lol!” That’s not going to do it at first. I found by being funny or creative with what I said in comments I started to get a lot more attention. Keep this up and get good at it. People with the posts and the people who comment on them will notice. With a little work you’ll start to get responses to your comments. <br /><br />In the meantime people will be starting to circle you. Just because people circle you doesn't mean you have to circle them back. Let that sink in for a second. Circlecount facts will back me on this; some of the people with the most followers on G+ don’t follow anyone!<br /><br /><b>Start Your Circles Please</b><br /><br />You will want to name your first circle and start following people. It's the same as friending someone. Name your first circle and be adding people to it as you go. Add people who like your comments and comment you back. Add people whose posts you want to see everyday. <div>
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If you are commenting like I suggested and posting well you should start to see a little improvement in people paying attention to your posts. It takes time but it does happen and you will be making some neat new friends. <div>
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Your posts won't see a lot of engagement for the first few months so anyone who comments or plusses you should be thanked. Tag them (plus their username) so they get notified of it.<br /><br />You could have a circle for people you like, one for your kids, one for a communities, the choices are varied and up to you but circles are important because it’s your personal view to Google+ and your entertainment.<br /><br /><b>Talking To New People</b><br /><br />You can’t rely on your friends joining you here on Google Plus and unless you want to crawl back to Facebook or Twitter ashamed of yourself you will buck up and meet new people. It’s easier than you think.<br /><br />Pick people’s posts or comments that interest you and ask a question about that post. Engage the person you wish to know. If you are honest, friendly and open usually that person will be too. People love funny and clever. If it doesn't work out move on no foul.<br /><br />You will meet people on posts and in comments. If you join communities you can meet people surrounding a shared interest and have a closer relationship than in public. I suggest you join one and you will get invites. As with following people just because someone invites you to join a community doesn’t mean you have to join.<br /><br /><b>Don’t Think People Don't See You</b><br /><br />This is a social network and people will be watching you. Just because you can't “see” people following you doesn't mean you are invisible. On the contrary, you are constantly being circled, your profile checked and more by cautious plussers who can see everything you write online.</div>
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When new you should minimally fill out your profile and always have some sort of profile photo. People hate seeing stock profiles with no photos and you will have a big strike against you right away. People refer to these accounts as "Blue Heads" and avoid them.</div>
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Just because you write something to someone else and don't tag anyone the next person can come along and read your whole conversation on a public post. Remember that and use the tag feature instead if it gets personal so you don't say something you regret.</div>
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I have had people come up to me and tell me they were observing me react with another person online and it touched them. I was shocked to find out I could be watched that close but remember Google is a search engine first and foremost so people can follow you easily especially if they have you circled.</div>
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<b>Important</b>: If you say (write) something stupid and delete it on a public post that person can still read it if they are receiving email notifications so watch what you do and write online it's never invisible.</div>
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<br /><b>Posting Popularity</b><br /><br />Posting is an important part of Google Plus and gaining followers. Learn from your mistakes (when your posts are poorly received) and post accordingly. I even delete posts that get ignored and it happens! </div>
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People won’t circle you if they don't like your posts it’s what draws them to you. If you argue and pick fights calling it discussions it won't work. Humor is a 2 edged sword depending on what it is and being right is not always might. </div>
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If you really stink and can't pick your own then share the good posts. There are plenty to go around so learn to recognize them and circle the people who share them they can be your best friends and assets. </div>
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Just because one person doesn't have a success with a post doesn't mean you can't. If it's something good repackage it by all means. I've had some of my best trending posts that way.<br /><br /><b>Thing’s People Like On Posts</b><br /><ul>
<li>awesome sayings or quotes</li>
<li>good humor and classic cartoons</li>
<li>animated Gifs</li>
<li>good photography, personal pictures or selfies</li>
<li>animal pictures and cats on #caturday (every Saturday)</li>
<li>the space program or photos from NASA</li>
<li>breaking or interesting news</li>
<li>technical and business news</li>
<li>anything about Google+</li>
<li>beefcake for men or women</li>
<li>movies and TV shows</li>
<li>informative posts that teach you something</li>
<li>music or YouTube videos</li>
<li>recipes or food photos</li>
<li>car or motorcycle photos</li>
<li>posts that invite you to engage, like word games</li>
<li>politeness and kindness</li>
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<li>dropping personal links or otherwise in comments</li>
<li>becoming super friendly too fast</li>
<li>pushing yourself or selling products constantly on your posts</li>
<li>having a smart or dirty mouth in comments</li>
<li>arguing with others on a post especially if it’s not your post</li>
<li>getting into marathon discussions about something you can never agree on</li>
<li>going “off topic” on other people’s posts-start your own chat</li>
<li>constant negative images and words on posts</li>
<li>pushing your beliefs on others especially religion there’s a time and a place</li>
<li>racial profiling or bullying</li>
<li>no profile photo (Blue Heads) or blank profile</li>
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There's many more not listed but a big one is killing a conversation on some one's post. Some people put up posts to “chat” with their friends about a subject. They will watch notifications and answer immediately and if they are discussing a recipe (for instance) you don’t talk about how fat you're getting. The conversation is ruined for the person posting because they wanted to talk about eating food and it’s your fault.</div>
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<br />If you still have a tough time of it you might want to check into communities. Depending on which one’s you join you have an audience that is looking at one subject instead of many and you can find something you like. If the community is large (over 2000 people) one post can get a lot of attention and pluses. Smaller communities will afford you quicker attention by the members and meeting people so it depends on what you're looking for.<br /><br />Picking the right people for your circles is important because that is what you will see in your streams on Google+ the most. They are the people you will share with and will entertain you. It’s your own fault if you end up with duds but you can always start over or share circles with others.<br /><br />I fully believe that you don't need to share circles or be in them to get followers it's a personal choice. Better to get to know people a little first. It’s better to share circles when you're not a newbie anymore and need some stimulation in your stream.<br /><br />Everyone who starts at Google+ wants instant success and wants a similar experience from whence they came even though they are looking for something different. It's not a "race" to see who can get the most +1's or followers. Slow and steady gets you followers that won't drop you later. Give yourself 2 months practicing these methods and you won't believe how far you will have come.<br /><br />One thing's for sure instead of fretting about being a Newbie you now have the tools to become a Maybe…and after that anything is possible.<br /><br />Source: Google+ and my experience as a user with 11.5 K followers. I am the final stage after Maybe; that would be “Got It” and you will too.<script type="text/javascript">
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Art by <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112176345720274905475">Ron Hicks</a> follow him on G+.</div>
<br />Starting out on Google+ no one seems to like plussing and once learned it's quickly forgotten. I never understood why "Like" and "+1" seem so different since they both convey the same type of information.<br /><br />But it's not the same if you look closer plussing is a shorthand language and the perfect way to let our friends know what we are up to during the posting day. Google+ uses a notification system to let us know if someone or something is looking for us and it depends on you plussing to have it work.<br /><br />I've talked about tagging so let's look at it. To tag someone (plus them) is to send them a signal that you have:<br /><ul>
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<li>saw what they wrote and agreed</li>
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Nothing is worse than having a friend waiting for your post and them not getting it. Or you are waiting for something important and it doesn't show up. <br /><br />People like to blame Google+ for glitching but most of the time one or both sides are not tagging (plussing) correctly. If you forget your post will not be seen unless the person lucks onto it or resorts to looking on your profile for it. If it's more than a few days late good luck finding it.<br /><br />It's so easy to tag a person when commenting on their post and it makes sure they see your comment right away. Even if they have time to follow their own post they may not see your comment until later. <div>
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Time is a factor when communicating online make sure they see you commented by tagging (plussing) their username before you leave your comment.<br /><br />To tag someone you type a + followed by their username. After the first few letters, you will see a drop-down menu pop up where you will find their name to select. You have plussed (tagged, pinged, etc.) them successfully.<br /><br />A name that is tagged correctly looks like this "<a href="https://plus.google.com/100704821255005985477">+Bekkie Sanchez</a>" and I will see it in my notifications right away.<br /><br />It's always good to show your friends and followers that you enjoy what they post by plussing them. This is where Facebook, Google+ and most social networks are similar. It's all about what works, what's fun and what's going viral all voted on by us.<br /><br />Using Google+ to your full advantage and learning the shorthand is the smart thing to do. It's a simple system that makes everyone's day easier but it must be put into practice to work. Google+'s notification system and the stream doesn't read minds it depends on our plusses.<br /><br />(Notifications should be checked constantly during the day the more the better.)<br /><br />"Google+ is not made up of equal experiences. There are newbies, trolls, regular Joe’s and then there’s the people who know." </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3004611056406234519.post-24180226969877809922013-09-08T10:49:00.000-07:002017-12-09T08:48:34.735-08:00How To Make Tea With Pot<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-7pYGw_HXoZg/Uiy5TqiH3LI/AAAAAAABUkQ/bzwJFi1wKQI/s1600-h/as-seen-on-tv-pot-lead.jpg"><span style="color: white;"><img alt="as-seen-on-tv-pot-lead" src="https://lh3.ggpht.com/-v5lhdZKiVhY/Uiy5U0EnCQI/AAAAAAABUkY/--7JkUkjYQo/as-seen-on-tv-pot-lead_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" height="360" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="as-seen-on-tv-pot-lead" width="600"></span></a><br />
If you have some shake or pot to make tea with it’s a good way to get your medicine without smoking it. It’s not liking making regular tea so please pay attention to the instructions or you will not be happy with the results.<br />
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<b>Learn how to make weed tea in just a few simple steps. </b><br />
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If you have never tried weed tea you may not get what you were expecting. Making marijuana tea takes time, technique, and prep work. The most time-consuming step is extracting the THC from the weed.<br />
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THC is not easily soluble in water alone, but with added saturated fats like whole milk or butter the transfer can occur just add heat and time.<br />
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If learning how to make marijuana tea is new to you, you should know that its effects are likely to be equal to that of eating marijuana. Marijuana tea produces time-released body high that has a mild effect, but can potentially last for hours.<br />
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Some variations of weed tea are better tasting, and some are more potent. So, depending on your preferences decide which recipe will suit you best.<br />
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1/2 cup of marijuana leaves<br />
4 cups of water<br />
4 oz of whole milk<br />
2 tea bags of your choice<br />
4 oz of pot butter<br />
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1. Grind up your marijuana leaves. Put in pot, add water and bring to a simmer. Let simmer on low for 15 minutes.</div>
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2. 4 oz. of your favorite premade pot butter.<br />
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3. Melt your 4 oz. of pot butter and mix it together with 4 oz. of whole milk. SLOWLY add this mixture to the simmering pot of weed tea to avoid curdling of the milk. Put in your favorite tea bags and simmer for an extra ten minutes.</div>
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If you think that the texture or taste of the weed flakes in the marijuana tea will bother you, you can extract them by using a strainer, or by using a cheesecloth to separate the materials.</div>
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<b>Quick marijuana tea recipe: </b></div>
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1. Grind up 1/2 gram to a gram of marijuana buds per cup of milk. Add 1/2 oz of water per cup of milk.<br />
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2. Bring to a simmer for up to 25 minutes to allow THC extraction. Pour into a container, add a couple tea bags, and honey if you wish.<br />
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3. After about 6-8 minutes, remove tea bags. If you think that the texture or taste of the weed flakes in the marijuana tea will bother you, extract them by using a strainer, or by using a cheesecloth to separate the materials. You can also strain your weed tea in an old pair of pantyhose.<br />
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The effects of weed tea can take 30-60 minutes to take effect, and when it does it may only be a mild high.<br />
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You may have to stir your drink occasionally just in case the mixture starts to separate. A straw will easily solve the problem. Drink it all down.<br />
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Cheers to you and I hope by now you are holding a nice glass of hot or ice cold pot tea with pot butter in the fridge. Now, make your favorite space cake with the leftover pot butter and invite your cool neighbors over for a “high tea” like they do in the UK!<br />
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<br />Once you learn to make good pot butter you can make any kind of food or drink with pot in it and be successful at getting enough medicine in your food so that you don't have to smoke. If you don’t like to, or can’t smoke there are ways to get around it they just take a little time and care.<br /><b><br />To Make Pot Butter</b><br /><br />Making pot butter is the core of most marijuana food recipes. Pot butter is the essential ingredient that gives the high in marijuana food, so take your time to learn and make it right.<br /><br />There are a couple different ways to make pot butter, however, all ways to make marijuana butter are pretty basic.<br /><br />Pot butter ingredients: <br />3 sticks of unsalted butter, not margarine! <br />1/2 oz. or more marijuana leaf, less if using buds. <br /><br />Suggested tools to make pot butter: <br />1 Double broiler, or 2 pans one smaller than the other <br />1 large bowl <br />a strainer <br />a grinder <br />a cheesecloth or an old pair of pantyhose. <br /><br /><b>Making Pot Butter Fast </b><br /><br />1. Prepare marijuana leaf or bud. You can crush or grind your marijuana leaves using a clean electric coffee grinder for ease, or you can do it by hand with a bud grinder or with your hand. The more the leaf and bud is ground the easier it is for THC extraction.<br /><br />2. If using two pots, add water to the larger bottom pot and put your butter in the smaller pot. Set the small pot in the big one and heat on low until butter is melted.<br /><br />Caution: DO NOT BURN THE BUTTER-LOW HEAT! <br /><br />3. When the butter is completely melted add your prepared marijuana clippings to the pot butter. Let cook for up to thirty minutes, remembering to stir every five.<br /><br />4. Remove the bud butter from heat and let it cool until manageable (about twenty min). Now pour your fresh pot butter through the strainer into your large bowl, this removes the big pieces of the marijuana leaf.<br /><br />5. More extraction for a nice buttery consistency.<br /><br />If you have a cheesecloth handy this step is easy. If your butter is still hot wear gloves. You do not want to burn yourself. Soak the cheesecloth in the butter, and squeeze into your small bowl used for storage. You can repeat this process to remove more of the marijuana remnants if you feel it is necessary.<br /><br />If you do not have a cheesecloth then we would recommend using an old pair of pantyhose. Cut the foot off the pantyhose and carefully pour your marijuana butter mixture in and squeeze over your small bowl.<br /><br />You're done! Cover your small bowl and place in refrigerator, or now that you have made pot butter you should try it in one of your favorite recipes that requires butter, like brownies, cake, or cookies to make your very own space cake. <br /><br /><div>
How did yours turn out? <br /><br />Now go to the last article and make some pot tea to enjoy before summer is over! <br /><br />Keep On Bloggin’!<div>
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<br />Teeth Looking upward from inside the mouth.<br /><br />In the course of developing sophisticated imaging techniques for peering into the human body, Hong Kong-based radiologist Dr. Kai-hung Fung discovered something within himself: an artist. <br /><br />The discovery happened when Fung was asked by surgeons to generate 3-D images to allow them to visualize complex anatomies prior to surgery. Beginning with CT scans that show slices of organs at different depths, Fung stacked the slices into a single image and developed a way to indicate changes in depth with contour lines similar to those on a topographic map. <br /><br />Adding “millions of colors and the infinite combination of different shades of colors can be more informative than the simple steps of greyscale,” Fung wrote in an email about how he came up with the idea. <br /><br />The color added more than mere data. A few years ago a CT scan of a woman’s nose, which resembled an iridescent orchid from a distant planet, sparked an insight. Medical images could be art as well as science. “She had a very straight nasal septum and wavy maxillary sinuses ... the anatomy was exceptionally beautiful,” Fung wrote. “What Lies Behind Our Nose” went on to tie for first place in the 2007 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. National Science Foundation. Dr. Fung’s art career took off. His visually stunning diagnostic images have been published, exhibited and awarded more prizes, including “Most Psychedelic Images in Science” (2011) from Discover magazine. <br /><br />But Dr. Fung’s amplifications of CT and MRI scans are more than just groovy wall posters. His “4-D visualizations” (short 3-D videos) aid surgeons by “showing changing perspectives and relative relationships of various anatomical structures. He compares his anatomical views from inside the body to scenes from the science fiction film “Fantastic Voyage,” but with real data. <br /><br />Like a photographer who prefers manual settings to “point and shoot,” Fung says that instead of using commercial 3-D medical imaging software, “I started to generate my own mapping algorithms and created various color spectra for representing the data … The Rainbow Technique and the 3D/4D color Moiré art that I pioneered were discovered by accident and through … careful observations when I was experimenting. ... They were in fact image artifacts created by the software.” <br /><br />Riffing on these accidents and creatively tweaking the settings, Dr. Fung has pushed radiology into the realm of fine art. Dr. Fung’s aesthetic approach to radiology doesn’t stop with medical imagery. Currently, he is working with data supplied by artist and nature photographer Dr. Gary Yeoh to produce 3-D CT images of flowers and biological specimens.<br /><br /><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-1rkiKS4K8no/UYvzkZ1CS3I/AAAAAAAAk1s/Po2JXWHwId4/s1600-h/1.jpg.CROP.original-original%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img border="0" height="554" src="https://lh6.ggpht.com/-Fg2jBZjSsa8/UYvznJBOQlI/AAAAAAAAk10/qsxHfCQnMwY/1.jpg.CROP.original-original_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" /></a> <br /><br />The roof of the 4th ventricle of the brain.<br /><br /><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-o5_Gk9RNppE/UYvzpRv3PFI/AAAAAAAAk18/I6_N0jjQvg8/s1600-h/2.jpg.CROP.original-original%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img border="0" height="505" src="https://lh6.ggpht.com/-1Ws-fF17Ufg/UYvzrnFYxDI/AAAAAAAAk2I/nkCu5GFw1l8/2.jpg.CROP.original-original_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The blood vessels inside the brain with the skull base as background.<br /><br /><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-TrgG7waNmEA/UYvzuBVGqTI/AAAAAAAAk2Q/ayfZzF2pJUY/s1600-h/8.jpg.CROP.original-original%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img border="0" height="556" src="https://lh5.ggpht.com/-cm_e75i045A/UYvzxKAVEVI/AAAAAAAAk2Y/WiEaVIjGnwk/8.jpg.CROP.original-original_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" /></a><br /><br />A virtual view inside the left ventricle looking towards the heart valves.<br /><br /><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-8mFbV8bEl-I/UYvzzFJwu4I/AAAAAAAAk2g/tn9Xbkic674/s1600-h/3.jpg.CROP.original-original%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img border="0" height="609" src="https://lh5.ggpht.com/-gvqm75ppSbY/UYvz1mxD8tI/AAAAAAAAk2o/FKov9X_XWsI/3.jpg.CROP.original-original_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" /></a><br /><br />A hole in decaying tooth in the lower set of teeth.<br /><br /><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-wm_4GkkngUo/UYvz3nV-zoI/AAAAAAAAk2w/QWlMiKbF510/s1600-h/5.jpg.CROP.original-original%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img border="0" height="561" src="https://lh4.ggpht.com/-n9NssMV_qSM/UYvz6G0kq_I/AAAAAAAAk24/Hl0a_OJXAqY/5.jpg.CROP.original-original_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" /></a><br /><br />Stress lines cutting through the head.<br /><br /><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-P6rSyxoUOVo/UYvz8ix8UDI/AAAAAAAAk3E/bZ9fiSAPW4s/s1600-h/7.jpg.CROP.original-original%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img border="0" height="535" src="https://lh5.ggpht.com/-GFPtY-HeXYA/UYvz_TIUaCI/AAAAAAAAk3M/kR08VxUiKyI/7.jpg.CROP.original-original_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" /></a><br /><br />An inside view of the left nostril.<br /><br /><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-oTXTkMKI-kk/UYv0CD0i7eI/AAAAAAAAk3U/69yHs57lsAs/s1600-h/4.jpg.CROP.original-original%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img border="0" height="533" src="https://lh6.ggpht.com/-X6F56_PeL9c/UYv0EZWZMJI/AAAAAAAAk3c/bFSwXT71j0U/4.jpg.CROP.original-original_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The flesh and shell of a live whelk and a clam illustrating evolution and problem-solving in nature.<br /><br />What a psychedelic trip through tissue and bone that was hey kids? <br /><br />I used to work on CT and MRI scanners here in CA and before Dr. Kai-hung Fung came up with this method other scientists and doctors were working on similar models. That was in the 1980’s however and they have come a long way. <br /><br />Software and hardware wise they do a lot of things with scanners that they never could have done before. Many heart procedures that involved surgery are now done on scanners with no heart dyes and common X-ray methods just get better. I’m happy to see a new art form come out of something that can save our lives and still look like Fine Art.<br /><br />And, I get to say things like “acid trip,” “Psychedelic,” “groovy” and other cool stuff.<br /><br />Keep On Bloggin’!
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Times are tough with everything that’s going on in the world but I still have a simple belief that we are on this planet for more of a reason then just destroying the planet and each other. I think one of our best hopes for a united Earth effort begins with the astronaut's vision of the Overview Effect. Once the movie “<a href="http://www.planetarycollective.com/continuum/">Continuum</a>” comes out the general public will get their first look at an overview, our history and everything they didn’t know about our little blue planet.<br />
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“On the outside, in-between all of us and everything else.” Chris Hadfield<br />
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I wanted to do something different for Wonderland so I wrote this poem beforehand and now I want to share it with you. It encapsulates my feelings about this day and the Earth. I hope you like it.<br />
<b><br />Believe</b><br />
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Believe that things can get better<br />
Believe that the earth can be clean<br />
Believe that no person goes hungry<br />
The future remains to be seen.<br />
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Believe there's an end to extinction<br />
Believe that the forests stay green<br />
Believe that the garbage gets picked up<br />
The future remains to be seen.<br />
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Believe there's a better tomorrow<br />
Believe that the earth is pristine<br />
Believe there's no war in all counties<br />
The future remains to be seen.<br />
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The future is ours so let's grab it<br />
Let's clean up this world that we trash<br />
We need to quit wasting resources<br />
The future remains and must last.<br />
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© Bekkie Sanchez 2013<br />
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Take care and may your view today on Earth Day be an Overview.<br />
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Keep On Bloggin’!</div>
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