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What sorts of activities do eleven year old girls enjoy?

elgalan207 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:50:09 -0800

I have a ten (nearly eleven) year old niece who is coming to spend a week and a half with me this month. What sorts of activities do eleven year old girls enjoy? I have a ten (nearly eleven) year old niece who is coming to spend a week and a half with me this month. I am super excited, but I haven't really spent much time with her in the past 5 years since I moved away from home. What sorts of books, tv shows, magazines, movies, and summertime activities do eleven year old girls enjoy? I want to stock the house with things she will like having around. Most of my friends have children, but they are much younger, so to ask around is moot. I live in the Fox Valley area of Wisconsin (boo), so lots of outdoor options are available to me.

In which you help me to compile the greatest Sunny 70s AM Radio Playlist The World Has Ever Known.

Senor Cardgage — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:47:08 -0800

In which you help me to compile the greatest Sunny 70s AM Radio Playlist The World Has Ever Known. It's an ongoing pet project of mine that I revisit every time the weather gets all nice and summery out. As it is now. So to give you some context...

I have labored (lovingly) to create the world's greatest and most exhaustive playlist of 1970s AM radio classics that have that "summer" sound, or at least ones that sound like summer to me. For instance, I always thought the Doobies' "Black Water" was a summertime jam, but Wiki tells me it was a late winter release in the year it was released.

Good examples from my POV would be songs like:

Seals & Croft "Summer Breeze" ("Diamond Girl" fits too)
Ozark Mtn Daredevils "Jackie Blue"
Firefall "Strange Way"
Chicago "Wishing You Were Here"

And so on.

Thus far I have 5.8 hours of tracks. 91 of them.

You can see what Ive got already here...

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/506/itunes1.jpg

(anyone know how to extract just the relevant playlist txt out of iTunes?)

So what say ye gents?
Comb that chest hair, rev up yer custom van, splash on some Hai Karate and lets do this thang....

What's your favorite happy summertime high energy tune?

dpx.mfx — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:17:36 -0800

I'm looking for unabashedly happy, feel good music. Do you have any favorites to recommend? Any genre is fine. I'm really looking for happy, high energy songs that'll sound good on the car radio with the windows down and sunroof open on a long road trip. Summertime music, I guess. New, old, popular, obscure.

How Does the Military, Police, Etc. Notate the "second" 1:30 am when we "fall back"?

WCityMike — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:25:20 -0800

How do places where precise timekeeping is essential handle the repeat of an hour when we go off Daylight Savings Time? There are certain professions in which I imagine very specific denotation of time is particularly important — hospital, military, first-responders (police, fire, ambulance), specialized equipment, etc.

"Spring forward" is probably not a problem, because it "removes" an hour — 2:00 jumps to 3:00. But in the fall, an hour is repeated — that's what I'm curious about.

In these venues, how do they handle properly distinguishing the first 1:30 am from the second 1:30 am? Is it done informally (i.e. Joe the ambulance driver writes down "1:30 am (second time 'round)" in his log while Frank the ambulance driver writes down "1:30 am post-DST" and George the ambulance driver forgets and just writes down "1:30 am"? Or is there a generalized standard in the field.

Summertime - but is interpretation as easy?

floanna — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:15:55 -0800

I've always loved the song 'Summertime' from the musical Porgy & Bess. I think that part of that appeal is because it has always been open to a wide variety of musical interpretation. I've been trying my hardest for years to find other songs that match that level of artistic license but still maintain it's original beauty. Anyone have any other suggestions of similar songs that I can get my lugholes listening to? I watched 'stuck on you' the other night and heard yet another wildly different rendition of 'summertime' which prompted me to ask the question.