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Post by voltaire on Nov 1, 2015 15:41:34 GMT
Is Barry Sanders still available? Yes. The only two NFL related names taken so far are Aaron Rodgers and Vince Lombardi.
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Post by bipolarbear on Nov 1, 2015 21:35:16 GMT
Is Barry Sanders still available? Yes. The only two NFL related names taken so far are Aaron Rodgers and Vince Lombardi. ...and Bo Jackson.
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Post by edjr on Nov 16, 2015 14:07:42 GMT
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Post by voltaire on Nov 19, 2015 18:40:02 GMT
69.3 BPB - Paul Eisler - Inventor 69.4 Vudu - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Statesman 69.5 90sb - Billy Mays - Artist (Performing) 70.1 90sb - Steve Wozniak - Thinker 70.2 Vudu - George Berkeley - Philosopher
I was having hell getting into FFT.
But I did somehow.
To Bear.
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Post by voltaire on Nov 20, 2015 8:12:44 GMT
Still having a brutal time getting in. What should take a moment or two takes many attempts and a half hour.
70.3 Russell Brand - Wildcard 70.4 Charles de Gaulle - Statesman 70.5 John Maynard Keynes - Social Scientist 71.1 Jane Austen - Great Woman 71.2 Dwight Eisenhower - Administrator
To Bear
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Post by voltaire on Nov 24, 2015 1:31:44 GMT
I'm having serious, serious problems getting into FFT. TBBOM says it's my turn but I don't know that. I also haveve no idea whose been selected lately. I want - if availiable
Virgil - Poet
and
John Dalton - Scientist (Other)
Dalton made many contributions mainly chemistry but also atomic theory, meteorology, color blindness, lots of things.
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Post by voltaire on Nov 24, 2015 3:24:51 GMT
It's all a big clusterfock right now. I can barely get in there. So I just rant in here hoping Bear sees it.
TBBOM got confused by the makeup pick and since we've been waiting forever for Vudu, it looked to him like it was his turn so he went and made picks and told me it was my turn so I made my picks. But it wasn't his turn to pass it to me. So me and TBBOM made picks too early.
Vudu been on the clock too long so he can get skipped, no problem, but I've got no way of letting 90sbaby know this. Maybe Bear or TBBOM can let him know.
Anyways,skip Vudu, if 90sbaby goes, skip him again to Bear. Meanwhile, there's four picks out there from TBBOM and me that were made too early.
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Post by voltaire on Nov 24, 2015 10:11:38 GMT
73.3s Vudu - Ustad Ahmad - Engineer 73.4 BPB - Agatha Christie - Writer (Fiction 73.5 90sb - Charles George Gordon - Administrator 74.1 90sb - Bear Grylis - Explorer 74.2 Vudu - Helen Keller - Wildcard 74.3s Vudu - George Melies - Jack of all Trades 74.4 BPB - C. Everett Koop - Adviser 74.5 TBBOM - Frederick the Great - General (Strategic) 74.6 Volty - John Dalton - Scientist (Other) 75.1 Volty - Virgil - Poet 75.2 TBBOM - Henry Arnold - General (Strategic) 75.3 BPB - Buckminster Fuller - Inventor
((We're here))
75.4 Vudu - 75.5 [[[90sb - Henry Kissinger - Adviser]]] pending 76.1 [[[90sb - Gunnar Myrdal - Social Scientist]]] pending 76.2 Vudu - 76.3 BPB -
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Post by vuduchile on Nov 24, 2015 14:18:48 GMT
1.
In 1925, a woman addressed a newly formed service club at their convention in Cedar Point, Ohio. Her speech inspired the club to dedicate themselves to helping people like her. Since that time, the Lions Club has helped provide the gift of clear vision to millions worldwide.
I'm proud to be a member of our local Lions Club, and am inspired by what this woman was able to accomplish, despite her disabilities.
Below is a transcript of the speech made that day by one Helen Keller - Wild Card.
Dear Lions,
I suppose you have heard the poetic legend which represents Opportunity as a capricious lady who knocks at every door but once, and if the door isn't opened quickly, she passes on never to return. And that is as it should be. Lovely, desirable ladies won't wait, you have to go out and grab 'em. I am your Opportunity, clothed in visibility. I am knocking at your door. I want to be adopted. The legend doesn't say what you are to do when several beautiful Opportunities present themselves at the same door. I guess you are to choose the one you love the best. I hope you will choose me. I am the youngest, and the opportunity I offer you is full of splendid possibilities of service.
The American Foundation for the Blind is only four years old. It grew out of the imperative needs of the blind and was called into being by the sightless themselves. It is national and international in scope and importance. It represents the best and most enlightened thought on our problems that has been reached so far. It embodies a new idea in our work, unity of effort, which is scientific and modern. It will render impartial assistance to all classes of the blind. It will make the efforts of local organizations more effective, more fruitful in results.
The time has come to regard the work for the sightless as a whole, in which the kindergarten, the school, the library, the workshop, the home for the aged blind and prevention are seen to be parts of a great movement with one end in view, namely making life more worth living for the blind everywhere. Beside the young blind, for whom existing institutions are supposed to provide, there is a large class of men and women who lose their sight when it is too late for them to go to school. Those who are in the dark from childhood are hard pressed to find their place in the work of the world; but the man suddenly stricken blind is another Samson, bound, helpless, dependent, until a way is found to unchain him.
Try to imagine how you would feel if you lost your sight tomorrow. Picture yourself stumbling and groping at noonday as in the night, your work, your independence gone! In that dark hour wouldn't your heart cry out for a friend to teach you how to live in the dark?
That is just the kind of friend the American Foundation for the Blind will be to all the blind if people with sight will only give it the support it must have. Adequately financed, it will help the blind in every emergency of their lives.
You have heard how I was taughthow a little word from the fingers of another, a ray of light from another soul touched the darkness of my mind, and I found myself, found the world, and found God! It is because my teacher cared about me and broke through the dark, silent imprisonment which held me that I am able to work for myself and for others. If you care, if we can make the people of this great country care, the blind will triumph over blindness.
This is the opportunity I offer you, Lionsto foster and sponsor the work of the American Foundation for the Blind. Will you not help me hasten the day when there shall be no preventable blindness, no little deaf blind child untaught, no blind man or woman unaided? I appeal to you, Lionsyou who have your sight, your hearing, you who are strong and brave and kindwill you not constitute yourselves Knights of the Blind in my crusade against darkness?
2.
George Melies was a French actor, director, inventor, cinematographer, illusionist, toy maker and costume designer.
In the earliest days of cinema. Méliès, a prolific innovator in the use of special effects, accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "cine magician".
But that's not why he's being drafted.
In 1897 he directed a film titled "After The Ball". This film included the first ever nude scene. Thus porn was born.
George Melies. Jack of All Trades.
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Post by voltaire on Dec 11, 2015 3:09:41 GMT
I can't log in to FFToday and have two picks that both require substantial write ups.
I started with the other one but this one is easier to write. Although it's taking a while since the school expects me to teach classes and stuff. No matter, my very very long lunch break begins now.
When last we visited Tang Taizong, it was pick 32.4 and I posted that he was the most highly praised Emperor in China and that all subsequent Emperors and their staff would look to his era as the prime guideline for how to organize a government and effectivly run the Empire.
In 638, a 14 year old named Wu Zetian became a concubine (lesser wife) of his. He called her "pretty" but she would never became a favorite. Taizong very much loved his #1 wife Wende. Still the girl was unusual in that she was already highly educated by the time she entered the palace. As a child, she hadn't been content to sip tea and do needlework. Her father had indulged her passion for education and so Wu read and learned about many different topics such as politics and other governmental affairs, writing, literature, and music. So Wu Zetian became a personal secretary for the Emperor - along the way learning first hand from the one of the all time greats that ever lived about how to effectivly manage an Empire. She serves in this capacity until Taizong dies in 649 ... eleven years she served as his personal secretary.
So at this point in the story we have a brilliant, ambitious, talented, uber-hot, and hardly touched 25 year old widow of the former Emperor. She must now shave her head ala Sinead O'Conner and retire to the monestary to live the rest of her life as a Bhuddist nun. Such is her lot in life. Off she goes. There goes the hair. Gone.
But that's not the end of Wu ZeTian. That's the opening act.
Let's jump ahead in the story from 649 when she is 25 to 690 where at age 65, she becomes Emperor or China. Not Empress, not acting as a dowager in the name of her son, no. Emperor. Full on Emperor. As in sitting on the throne, wearing the yellow robes, ruling in her own name, assunimg the title Huangdi. The only female Emperor in four millenia of Chinese history, her rein lasts for 16 years until her death at age 81.
So what was she doing in the forty years between 649 and 690? Well, she also was running China herself in those years as well, both in her (next) husband's name and in her son's. She was the effective leader of China not just for those sixteen years but for well over fifty years. And these was a great prosperous half century for China. The country expanded, enemies were thwarted, and great prosperity. She was an apt pupil of Taizong and became a great ruler in her own right.
But now let's go back and get her out of the monestary. Three stories of how that happened:
---- Story One (the unoffical one)---- But the former emperors son, Li Zhi, had begun an affair with Wu earlier, while still his father's concubine. After his father's death Li came to visit her, and found her more beautiful, intelligent, and intriguing than ever before, and decided to bring her back as his own concubine. Because she had become a concubine at age 14, she was now in her feminine and sexual prime, but also had spent time learning patience, control, and meditation on her will for power and superiority over men who had so easily had her vanquished to a nunnery.
----Story Two (the official one)---- On or after the anniversary of Emperor Taizong's death, Emperor Gaozong went to Ganye Temple to offer incense, and when he and Consort Wu saw each other, both of them wept—and were seen by Emperor Gaozong's wife, Empress Wang. At that time, Emperor Gaozong did not favour Empress Wang, and much favored his concubine Consort Xiao; further, Empress Wang did not have any children, and Consort Xiao had one son (Li Sujie) and two daughters (Princesses Yiyang and Xuancheng). Empress Wang, seeing that Emperor Gaozong was still impressed by Consort Wu's beauty, hoped that the arrival of a new concubine would divert the emperor from Consort Xiao, and therefore secretly told Consort Wu to stop shaving her hair and, at a later point, welcomed her to the palace.
----Story Three---- Some modern historians dispute this traditional account, and some think that Consort Wu never had left the imperial palace and might have had an affair with Emperor Gaozong while Emperor Taizong was still alive.
Anyways no matter what the story is Wu Zetian is recalled back from the temple. The first and only time that an Emperor has taken on the concubine of a former Emperor. Very scandalous as it's a form of incest. She'd also have to deal with the Emperor's wife and his #1 consort. Also a chattering class of court officials in alliance agaist her.
Scandal ridden and slurred, at least she was back and in Gaozong's good graces. There was still much more, she would have to shake her ass and use her cunning to get to the top. It's a long story but she succeeds. Meanwhile, Gaozong himself isn't eactly the picture of health. He's frequently ill and incapacitated and relied on her heavily.
Even after her death and successful reign, there were problems with her reputation. Future Confuscian scholars for centuries did not approve of a female emperor nor her methods to play the insider game to box out the other women and men that she undertook to wiggle her way to gain power (a lot of mysterious deaths, scandals, and political retribution along the way). They would wave a very "who did this woman she think she is? How dare she!" condescending finger wagging to her from the safety of time. But even her critics recognize how China prospered under both her regency and her outright reign.
Her reputation has really gotten a huge bost in modern times.
She'd sure made for a great Seductress... maybe ... for now...
Wu Zetian - Great Woman
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Post by voltaire on Dec 11, 2015 3:24:03 GMT
Well, that's one long writeup. Off to lunch. I will post a second one soon. Anyone who sees this can move it to FFToday, thanks.
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Post by Artista/CN on Jan 15, 2016 6:45:49 GMT
Trump- THE worst presidential candidate in US history..
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Post by Artista/CN on Jan 20, 2016 6:56:57 GMT
The geek club itself for 2016 so far, worst bored! WTF is up with that slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww bored??!!! Took me over 1/2 hour to respond to a friggin PM over there with the long wheel spinning followed by timing outs!
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Post by voltaire on Jan 20, 2016 12:02:59 GMT
The geek club itself for 2016 so far, worst bored! WTF is up with that slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww bored??!!! Took me over 1/2 hour to respond to a friggin PM over there with the long wheel spinning followed by timing outs! When that happens, I never know if it's because I'm overseas or if it's a site problem.
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Post by bipolarbear on Jan 20, 2016 15:51:22 GMT
I have been unable to get the site to load today.
Volty, hopefully you received a couple of picks I sent to keep things moving along. I will go upstairs and try another computer in a bit.
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