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I had my right arm up on the gate. She caught me in the ribs as she picked up speed and off we went down the alley! I was somehow balanced on her head like a hood ornament on a Mack Truck! In flight I reached out with my right hand and grabbed a passing gate. I picked up enough splinters to pick Donald Trump’s teeth and sunk an eight penny nail in my finger!

Drummer, Jonathan Barber, born in Hartford, CT, has been playing the drums since the age of 5. Jonathan was first introduced to the drums by his father and began nurturing his passion and talents at his family church. During his senior year of high school, Barber became a member of the Artists Collective in Hartford, CT founded by Jackie and Dollie McLean. There he studied with Master Artist, Renee Mclean, who introduced him to jazz, and its African roots and rhythms; it was at that point Jonathan knew he wanted to be a musician. He furthered his studies at the University of Hartford, Hartt School of Music, Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, where he graduated Cum Laude, receiving a B.A. in Music Performance (Jazz Studies). Wasting no time Jonathan became an on-demand drummer in the Hartford, CT Jazz scene, and began building his career in the New York jazz scene. Jonathan has had the opportunity to perform with many artists such as, Jimmy Greene, Erykah Badu, Wallace Roney, Jeremy Pelt, Kenny Barron, John Patitucci, Kurt Elling, Terrace Martin, Charnett Moffett, Stanley Jordan, Harold Mabern, Steve Davis, Larry Willis, Abraham Burton and many more. Jonathan has been privileged to gi… (read more)

— Sometimes gentle pressure is better than jerkin’ as hard as you can. Kinda like pickin’ up a bull’s nose.

Phil gave Dale the go-ahead. Dale engaged the PTO. The auger clanked and started to turn. Suddenly Phil seemed to explode in front of Dale’s eyes! Dale engaged the clutch immediately and everything stopped.

The whole project took 9 months to complete. The team followed very stringent quality measures during each stage of construction. As per the original plan, They finally had a neat and clean, hand crafted body with no burning, cutting or weld marks on it. Despite it took 9 months to complete the rebuild, there was not any trace of surface rust of stains while it was handed over for painting.

Commenter: TimThe whole Guaranteed Student Load GSL system is a scam! I pay back my loans when I can. When colleges and universities discovered that students were getting loans from the government, they continuously raised tuition. The banks kept paying us and thereby we payed the colleges and universities. So, in essence, we have "foot the bill" way beyond the price of our education–we payed for all of the new improvements (buildings and the like) at our places of higher learning. If you don’t believe me, take a look your alma mater. (And then our alumni associations have ask for money!I’m glad I don’t have their NERVE in my tooth!) The GSL money should needed to go directly to colleges and universities so overall costs could be minimized. But then again, these institutions of higher learning would owe the money, so it was simpler to have hard working, students pay. We were dupes to a system that fed into one another. What is the point of going to college if there aren’t any jobs? We were told there would be jobs a plenty after the "baby boomers" retired. Guess what? They are not retiring–and who can blame them? All of their money they saved for 55 years went spiraling downward in a matter of months. If your an educator at a college or university, no one over 65 dares retire. Their pay, along with the rather redundant administrators, absorb most of the funds. And the jobs that are out there? Oh they want to pay you nothing–but they want all they can out of you! Who let these industries and other companies go overseas? It’s a disgusting situation that could have been avoided if it was managed and thought out better.

— If a feller doesn’t trim his own horse’s feet, he’s got too many horses or not enough time.

Commenter: NancyAnnI have been unemployed for 6 years. In 1999 or 2000- (I Can not remember)……..I was granted a bankruptcy. At that time,I was also in school. but, I became ill. and I quit school. It was my last semester. Also at that same time my husband had a nervous breakdown. it was his 3rd one.’He has had 7 in the past 15 years. and his mom who we lived with was sick. I never made much money to speak of……i was primarily a housewife. I took care of 2 families. Collectively,we never made much money to speak of either…….THAT, was why i went to school. I borrowed 27,000. Over the past 11 years it has blossomed to nearly 80,000. I sent letters, I talked on the phone………frankly I gave up. I can not get work at this point. first and foremost, there is no work where I live that I can do. Second,no one will hire me.I think I must have applied to the local college here at least 14 times in the past 4 years…….. I will probably never get a job here. i was a sub teacher for awhile, I kept getting sick.and,last year, i got hurt on the job, and sent home, I was told by the teachers,I wasn’t wanted in the school. rooms because of my handicaps……….they need someone to get on the floor with the kids- and that I can not do……….. I am not eligible for unemployment, disability, or anything else………..I fall through all the cracks……… I have no monthly income. My husband was put into mental health care with the veterans,for his troubles, and suicide prevention.He, is a Viet Nam Veteran. He is on permanent disability. It gives us a little, but it does not make ends meet. My loans were handed over to a collector in New York. They have tried to harass me and I will not let them. they have however also called my neighbor twice in the past 2 months, and pretended they were calling our house……..and then asked our neighbor to ask me to call them……saying they have been trying to reach me, and pretending they I tried to better my life, so I could help myself and my family, and that is all I am guilty of- trying to be a productive family member, and contributing citizen to my country….. they stripped us of our consumer rights, and removed the statute of limitations, and bankruptcy laws………this is wrong, One has to ask why student loans are the only loan industry that this problems exist in…. the plain fact is that were were targeted. People like me need to be released, so that we can go back to school if we choose to and get re educated, and become functioning members of this country………

— I observed to a man in New York that I was surprised that they had so many cows and so much farming. He said, “Son, this is where it started.”

A total of 114.1 million tonnes of coal was exported in the 2011 calendar year for a new record while December, 2011, saw a new monthly export record of 11.6 million tonnes.

Miners are paying for a couple of weeks of gliding lessons, at a time, and need accommodation. So you build him some hangars, hiring some local homeless people. The people who supply all the equipment and materials, for the Nissen / Quonset huts and hangars, hire some extra staff.

What you see now, looking eastward across the pool, is a Mad Max-esque contraption known in-house as the Vehicle, whizzing back and forth on a raised track on a hundred and fifty or so truck tires. The Vehicle is about the size of three train cars, and looks from a distance like a tattered blue houseboat tipped up at an angle. It is unmanned and travels, hauled by heavy cables, between two big winch houses at either end of the pool. The most important part of the Vehicle is a hundred-ton iron blade, roughly a hundred and fifty feet long, that hangs half submerged from its western side. Beneath the pool’s opaque surface, this iron sheet becomes the hydrofoil, able to push huge amounts of water at extremely finely calibrated speeds and angles.