Click the Above Image to see my Store at zazzle. If you ever need any custom graphics just post a comment and I will get back to you. Thanks for the visit. ~shoop
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Sep
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Life is just a bowl of cherries. Prov. Everything is going well.; Life is carefree. (Often used ironically, as in the second example.) The real estate salesman tried to convince us that life in the suburbs is just a bowl of cherries. Jill: Hi, Jane. How are you? Jane: Oh, my alarm clock didn’t go off this morning, and then my car wouldn’t start, and I missed the bus and got to work late, and I just found out my rent’s going up fifty dollars a month. Life is just a bowl of cherries. thefreedictionary.com
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If You Click the Above Image you can see my RSS Feed from my Twitter page. ~shoop
What is RSS?
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
Why RSS? Benefits and Reasons for using RSS
RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site’s email newsletter. The number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly and includes big names like Yahoo News.
What do I need to do to read an RSS Feed? RSS Feed Readers and News Aggregators
Feed Reader or News Aggregator software allow you to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and display them for you to read and use.
A variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers include Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac), FeedReader (Windows), and NewsGator (Windows – integrates with Outlook). There are also a number of web-based feed readers available. My Yahoo, Bloglines, and Google Reader are popular web-based feed readers.
Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding sites that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available.
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Sep
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Click the Above Image to Visit Artur’s site at Renderosity. This guy does amazing 3D work. Thanks for the visit please leave your opinion. ~shoop
Artur writes:
This is inspired by some recent holidays in Algarve (the most southern province of Portugal). An attempt to capture the warmth of the bright light typical from that region, in contrast with the relax provided by the shade.
I didn’t want to just make a house and a patio so I added some details which provide some insight about who may live in this house, I hope you enjoy discovering them.
I modelled the house in SketchUp inspired by a house I saw in a painting. Textured in Vue.
As usual in my outdoor scenes, there’s only one light source, the sun.
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Sep
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Click the Above Image for the Larger Picture. This one took some time to do. A lot of tiny details. Hope you will enjoy. Thanks for the visit. Feel free to leave your opinion. ~shoop
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Sep
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The Go Daddy Girl
The Go Daddy Girl! You Go Daddy!!
Go Daddy is an Internet domain registrar and web hosting company that also sells e-business related software and services. In 2009, it reached more than 36 million domain names under management. Go Daddy is currently the largest ICANN-accredited registrar in the world, and is three times the size of its closest competitor. GoDaddy’s domain reseller division is Wild West Domains (wildwestdomains.com), and Wild West uses the secureserver.net domain for many of their webhosting servers.
Go Daddy has great prices and if you are looking to brand yourself and or your service or product, getting a domain name should be first on your list of things to do. Click the Image and it will take you to the next page where you can Click directly to Go Daddy and find your Domain. Thanks for the visit. ~shoop
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Click the Above Image to See GeoGraphics Art Gallery @ Renderosity.com. GeoGraphics does amazing realistic work. It is hard to believe this image was made digitally and not a photo. Very well done. Thanks for the visit, feel free to leave an opinion. ~shoop
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Click above image to visit Blakes website. Thanks for the visit. ~shoop
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From www.blakeshelton.com
With the success of his 2008 chart-topper “Home,” Blake Shelton took a long career step forward. With the release of Startin’ Fires, he leaps to a whole new level.
“Home” took Shelton into new musical territory, stretching him vocally and stylistically, helping him expand his audience to include those who might have missed the more traditional approach he’d taken to that point. Startin’ Fires, his fifth album, completes that journey, establishing him in the process as one of country music’s most talented and versatile song stylists.
“This is something I’ve been wanting to do,” he says, “exploring richer melodies and challenging myself as a singer.”
Perhaps nowhere is his success more evident than in the project’s first single.
“‘She Wouldn’t Be Gone’ is definitely not the typical cut you’d hear on one of my albums,” he says. “It’s got a lot of minor chords and a unique melody for country music. Vocally, it’s one of the tougher songs I’ll ever sing and I love that. You have to have the right song and the right timing to do that, and ‘Home’ kind of opened the door for me.”
Long-time fans will find that Shelton honors his roots as well. Long known for the way he wraps his rich baritone around both emotion-laden ballads like “Austin” and “The Baby” and light-hearted party anthems like “Some Beach” and “The More I Drink,” he tackles songs about country life and attitudes with more joyful assurance than ever, bringing his personality to bear on the record as never before.
“I think this album is probably more autobiographical than anything I’ve ever done,” he says. “While Pure BS was a kind of reflection of what I was going through at the time, this album is a reflection of who I am and the things I love and always have–driving back roads, drinking beer, being outdoors. Hell, I finally found a song that has deer in it and that tickled me. People know these things about me, but I’ve never really had that in my music, and I’m finally dumping myself onto my album. It’s about who I am personally, and I hope other people can relate to it.
That autobiographical tone kicks off the album in the rollicking Craig Wiseman/George Teren barnburner “Green.”
“That’s what I do,” he says of the song’s rural images. “I sit with my guitar, plant corn and watch the deer and hawks. When I left the house this morning, there was camouflage hanging on the clothesline–as redneck as it gets. And it’s funny, the lifestyle I’ve lived for years and years has become the new green movement. It’s my favorite song on the album because I can sing that with a big smile on my face, confident that people are getting a hundred percent who I am as a person.”
The album has plenty of all the elements that make Shelton the multidimensional artist he is today–soaring melodies, passionate lyrics, a bit of romance, and songs that celebrate the country life.
“I think this album takes things a step above where they have been,” he says. “It shows me as the artist I’ve always wanted to be, which is somebody with a fresh sound that when you hear it, you think, ‘That’s got Blake Shelton’s stamp on it.’”
To that end, songs like “She Wouldn’t Be Gone” and “I’ll Just Hold On” are twin showcases for the challenging vocal approach Blake is taking, while “100 Miles” has its own riches both vocally and emotionally. Blake is at his romantic best in “Here I Am,” which he co-wrote with Dean Dillon, and “This Is Gonna Take All Night.” The classic sound that has nailed down his country bona fides is evident in “Never Lovin’ You,” and there is his trademark down-home wit and the celebration of the country life in songs like “Home Sweet Home” and “Country Strong.”
“Good At Starting Fires” will be widely seen as an ode to girlfriend Miranda Lambert, but it is on the album’s closer, “Bare Skin Rug,” that the musical riches inherent in that relationship–and the irreverence of which they are capable–get their first full workout following Miranda’s splendid harmonies on “Home.”
“Everyone expected us to come out with a big power ballad and we did just the opposite,” he says. “Obviously, we want to write and record together–we’d be crazy not to. But we certainly wanted to approach it in a way that isn’t cheesy. I can get away with things–people expect about anything from me–but Miranda protects her image fiercely. She’s the tough girl in country music. We ended up writing a song about a couple of hillbillies who meet up in the mountains. They’re young, they’re virgins, and, damn it, they’re tired of waiting. That’s what it is. And we decided, ‘Let’s just do this how we wrote it.’”
The result, recorded live in front of a friendly campfire, is a modern redneck classic.
Taken as a whole, Startin’ Fires is a richly nuanced look at one of this generation’s most engaging singers and certainly one of its most interesting characters. Last year’s star turn on the NBC miniseries Clash of the Choirs and Blake’s appearance as a judge on Nashville Star have helped raise his profile across the board, introducing his irreverently skewed personality to millions of new fans.
It’s a long way from Ada, Oklahoma, where he dreamed early on of a career in music. In fact, he once got a bit of inspiration from the man who produced Startin’ Fires.”
“I remember seeing a story on an Oklahoma City TV station about Scott Hendricks,” he says. “They said he was an Oklahoma guy who had moved to Nashville and made good, making these huge albums on big artists. I used to think, ‘It would be so cool to meet him some day. Maybe he’d give me a shot.’ Then, not long ago, he fell in my lap when he became A&R chief at Warner Bros. We decided we wanted to make this record together, and I’m really glad we did.”
Blake cut his teeth on the Oklahoma City club circuit while still in high school. He was part of the entertainment for an event in Ada honoring Mae Axton, writer of the Elvis classic “Heartbreak Hotel.” She saw him perform and told Blake she thought he could get a record deal if he moved to Nashville and that she was willing to help. That convinced him to move just two weeks after graduation. He worked with Hoyt Axton, Bobby Braddock and Earl Thomas Conley, among others, en route to his record deal, and his debut single, “Austin,” shot him straight to the top of the charts. It also became his first #1 video, a group that would ultimately include “Heavy Liftin’,” “Goodbye Time,” “Home,” “Nobody But Me,” “Some Beach,” “Don’t Make Me,” “The More I Drink” and the song that still gets as passionate a reaction as any.
“‘Ol’ Red’ was not a huge hit at radio,” he says, “but it’s my signature song. To this day, that’s the one people hold up signs for in concert.”
Thanks to those songs, Blake’s stature as a singer has grown steadily through the years, and his presence everywhere from network television to Youtube has raised his profile even more. Now, with the release of Startin’ Fires, Blake steps into the forefront as both one of the country’s premiere vocalists and one of its true personalities. It’s a position he declares himself grateful to be in.
“I think,” he says with his trademark smile, “that I’ve got the best of both worlds.”
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