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My wife does 98% of the heavy lifting when it comes to the laundry at my house. I will therefore let her use as many woolen dryer balls as she would like to.

Seems to be respected academically (accredited by SACS) but tuition is a ball buster at over $40K - and that doesn't include housing and fees. She ended up not attending due to overall cost even though she lived in South Carolina.

I think your daughter can get a degree in marketing from a much more prestigious college which has a good business school. Even most regional colleges will provide a marketing degree at much less cost. If I were advising her directly, I'd suggest a university that 1) has a marketing degree in or near the location she eventually wants to end up at, or 2) is an SEC or similar level school even if it is not the primary university in her home state. I think she'd end up with much more value in her degree that way. And if she decides to change her major, she will have far more options within the same college. Any major with an art/design family focus will be limiting within the Southeast.

Disclaimer: My wife teaches marketing at a regional university as an adjunct instructor. She advised her niece to look at other options beyond SCAD for a business degree.

But... that's JMHO. Good luck to her whatever she chooses.


Edit: My youngest son graduated from Jacksonville State. He enjoyed the small town atmosphere there. He came out fine with his degree for his profession, and felt that it prepared him well for his master degree.

Jutta Leerdam - Dutch speedskating champion

I am a NASA contractor. My original position allowed me to travel a lot and I was a able to take my camera to a lot of places that most people do not get to do so. This included launch support and assessments; I have been to every NASA location in the US except for Ames. Couldn't really take photos at White Sands, though, IYKWIM.

I have posted several NASA related photos in the "Pictures from says gone by..." thread, starting on page 975 and sprinkled in the next 10-15 pages or so. You may find them interesting.

At Marshall Space Flight Center's rocket garden.

For anyone interested in some fine naval stories that will have your side splitting... ePub downloads:

Away Boarders

The idea of détente with the Soviets has not yet filtered down to Boatswain's Mate First Class Fatso Giononni, who has skippered his scow-like landing craft through two other novels by Admiral Gallery. This one finds Captain Fatso and his boys on duty in the Med, where they play chicken with Russian cruisers, and do other mean nautical things.

The climactic caper involves an American-made gunboat being transshipped to Egypt by way of Soviet headquarters. What happens on the high seas is a mixture of ingenious peacetime battle action, garnished with the author's salt-encrusted observations on the state of the world.

Stand By-y-y To Start Engines

Twelve stories of giant practical jokes or tricky maneuvers played by various officers of the Navy - a Blue Angel pilot, a bright young Ensign, and various competitive Admirals - on other members of their service, the Army, and gentlemen of the press.

Cap'n Fatso

Chief Boatswain's Mate 'Fatso' Gioninni finally has command of his own vessel as he cruises around the Med getting into mischief and tweaking the noses of the Russian Navy. Through mischance, he and his landing craft are left behind when his Carrier Task Force get sailing orders. Fully provisioned, Fatso and his crew of like-minded free spirits take their own version of a Mediterranian Cruise (after first disguising their craft so that nothing can come home to roost). This is a fine example of Gallery's light-hearted touch at the helm for all who have enjoyed his sea-stories before or for someone who has never read him before!

Three Books By Daniel V. Gallery

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Clear The Decks (autobiography)

"An irreverent but hilarious "must read" for anyone interested in the WWII carrier navy, R.Adm. Gallery relates the tedium of service in Iceland, the terror of being stalked by German U-boats in the North Atlantic, capped off with the true-adventure tale of his Carrier Task Group's capture of the German U-boat 505 (now on display in Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry) off the African coast. D.V. Gallery intersperses writing fit for an adventure novel with the facts of history from the "big seat" aboard the USS Guadalcanal - one of the "baby flat-tops" of the Second World War."

Another Book by Daniel V Gallery

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You ever been pulled over and a cop ask you if you have any weapons in the car? Its not illegal but it’s for everyone’s protection.

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I always hand the cop my license AND my concealed carry permit, and then tell him that I have a gun in my car and exactly where it is. I did that one time and he said "Tell you what... you don't pull out your gun and I won't pull out mine. Fair enough?" "Absolutely, sir." All while keeping my hands at 10 and 2 on the steering wheel.

I have a buddy of mine who served in the Army. He would always hand in his military ID card to the cop as well. He swears that he never got a ticket if he did that. If the cop asked why, he'd say "Because my drill instructor always told me to do that, sir." I mean, it never works for ME but I still do it anyway.

I love me some police... but not when they are nervous.

That was indeed quite interesting.

My ancestral home is Vicksburg, and my dad worked at the Corps of Engineers for a few years. The Mississippi is literally the heart of our country, and one of the key factors that helped our nation develop into a world superpower.

Thanks for posting.

One you never hear much about any more... actress Karen Valentine. I guess she faded out after the Love Boat went away and she graduated from the Hallmark Channel. Here she is, circa 1970 at the Golden Globes awards. I always thought her hair was dark brown or black... or maybe this is just aged or bad film.