![]() The seats featured pleated vinyl or cloth inserts with vinylīolsters color keyed to match exterior paint colors. Ran door to door, and the door trim panels and rear side panels were covered Polished ribbed aluminum trim to dress up the panel. ![]() ![]() Speaker, and power windows, along with ash trays for front and rear passengers.Ī padded instrument panel was standard, and featured brushed and highly Separated by a functional panel console that ran down the middle of theĬar between the seats and housed controls for the optional heater, radio Unique interior, which provided individually adjustable seats up front, Was awarded Motor Trend Magazine's coveted Car of the Year designation for its compact size, and So revolutionary was the personal luxury car concept, the 1958 Thunderbird It for its performance, but rather for its prestige. And that didn't matter, because most didn't buy T-bird was powered by a new 352 Interceptor V-8 engine with 300 horsepower,Įnough to move it swiftly from a stop, although most would not call itĪ high performance car. Just the thing for those who wanted to stand out from the rest of Time like the Cadillac, Lincoln, or Imperial, the compact T-bird providedĪll the luxury and convenience items one would expect in a luxury car,īut in a new smaller size that was easier to park and manipulate in congestedĪreas. Smaller than the traditional luxury cars most were accustomed to at the All of that changed with the new four passenger Thunderbird. Sports cars were all small and somewhat utilitarian, and compact cars wereĪlmost unheard of. The 1958 Ford Thunderbird appeared on the scene, luxury cars were all big, To see over 80 photos of this car, including under carriage please visit our website is the car that started the personal luxury car market segment. ![]() Close inspection just makes you fall in love with this rare collector piece more and more! Please call or email for more details! It also features the chrome dress-up kit, power convertible top, power steering, power brakes, and much more! This car looks similar, although possibly in better condition, than the ones rolling off the showroom floors in 1958. It's powered by the correct 352ci V8 engine and Ford-O-Matic (automatic) transmission. It underwent a full professional restoration in 2007 bringing the car beyond show quality cosmetically and mechanically. It's offered for sale for the first time by the current owner since 1982.It originally was purchased in Kansas City, Missouri before being brought to Michigan. This '58 Thunderbird is absolutely concourse condition with tons of curb appeal in Monarch Blue. However, only 2,134 were convertibles which seems extra odd that the first generation were only roadsters. In 1958, Thunderbirds were produced to almost 38,000 units rolling off the showrooms. While such a dramatic change would have doom written all over it, the sales actually took off and grew at a time when almost all other American vehicles didn't. The 2nd generation (starting in 1958) would see the Thunderbird grow to 4-seats and offer a hardtop coupe. It was a personal luxury car (when there really wasn't such a thing) that was a 2-seat roadster, but Ford felt the sales could be even better. The 1st generation Thunderbird was a success outselling the Corvette. GR Auto Gallery is pleased to present this 1958 Ford Thunderbird Convertible for purchase.
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I just mow them while mowing my lawn Every once in a while, one grows in a small area of woods next to it. I am always finding tiny little trees around it in my grass. It was here when I bought the house 15 years ago and it has pachysandra around it. I have a large Japanese Queen maple in my yard in Connecticut. The question I have here is: Do I need to act fast here? Meaning, do I need to do a “re-transplant” and try to see what’s going on down there? Any help will be greatly appreciated!! I transplanted so that hardly any soil covers the stem and used a mix of garden booster and potting soil. Ive avoided watering it as the soil seems moist. The tag says it wants full sun to partial shade but I have so far kept it in the shade. ![]() The details: It’s a BIG (2ft diameter) barrel and I placed small rocks in to fill about 1/4 of the barrel and there are 4 holes in the bottom. I’m guessing that I transplanted during the wrong time…or maybe I planted too deep or there are drainage issues? I think it’s just not taking up any water. There are white marks at the leaves’ tips. HOWEVER, I am now seeing wet soil and the leaves are starting to shrivel up. The lady in the store assured me it would be an easy procedure when I told her my transplanting plan. I had a whiskey barrel set aside and planned to move it to that immediately. I bought a Red Dragon dwarf Japanese maple about four days ago. It is hard for me to believe that one year of growth would give this tree enough stability to withstand the Lake Michigan gales that took it down right after transplanting. But everything I read online says we should remove stakes after one year or else we will undermine the long term health of the tree. My dad’s rule was that you stake it for the number of years of the caliper (which would be 3-4 in our case). This is the second winter the tree has been staked. And we then doted on the tree all summer. So we screwed in three dog tie-ups rather than garden stakes. The first winter, we learned the hard way that the stakes we plunged into our sandy soil were not sufficient when the tree toppled several times. It has survived beautifully thanks to your good guidance. It was in the way of construction, so we figured that moving it was worth a try. The tree is about 15 feet tall with a 3” caliper. This post was very helpful to us when we transplanted a large Bloodgood Japanese maple 18 months ago (fall 2020). If you didn’t wrap it yourself, take a peak underneath the first layer of burlap. Sometimes when trees are at the nursery for a while, they re-burlap right over the old. If you choose to plant with burlap, loosen the top and cut the twine. Your tree will be happier if you cut it off. ![]() It can take a very long time for sandy soil to break down burlap. Most people can plant their trees without removing the burlap, however, if you have really sandy soil it is best to remove it. Poly Burlap takes a little longer to break down. Season makes no difference when planting your Japanese maple. Here’s more information about protecting Japanese maples for the harsh elements. If you are leaving your balled and burlapped plant above ground during extreme weather, it will benefit you to throw a layer of mulch or leaves over the ball to help with insulation. However, digging a non dormant plant is not recommended. ![]() If you are digging a Japanese maple that is not dormant, then it’s very important not to sever any major roots. See this post for more details on this process. A tree with a 2″ caliper trunk would need a root ball 24″ in diameter. Tree caliper is the diameter of the trunk, measured six inches above the soil line. The rule of thumb is 12″ of root ball per 1″ of tree caliper. This will help your tree become established in its new home. In fact, root pruning will force the tree to produce more fibrous roots at the cut. ![]() As long as your tree is dormant, cutting the roots will not damage your Japanese maple. Step #1: Dig Your Treeīegin by digging a trench around the root ball. Sometimes it’s unavoidable and you gotta’ do what you gotta’ do, but if at all possible, it’s best to wait to dig your tree. Likewise, digging a Japanese maple that is “wide awake” and actively growing can put your tree into shock. ![]() Moreover, the researchers made a number of other key observations that would plant the seed for what is now accepted dogma in the sleep field. “We thought, ‘Oh, wow, this is interesting,’” said Carskadon, now a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University and a nationally recognized expert on teen sleep. But to their surprise, their sleep needs remained the same - roughly nine hours a night - through their teen years. They studied the youngsters over the course of several summers, observing their sleep habits as they entered puberty and beyond.ĭement and Carskadon had expected to find that as the participants grew older, they would need less sleep. One of Dement’s colleagues at the time was Mary Carskadon, PhD, then a graduate student at Stanford. During the day, the young volunteers would play volleyball in the backyard, which faces a now-barren Lake Lagunita, all the while sporting a nest of electrodes on their heads.Īt night, they dozed in a dorm while researchers in a nearby room monitored their brain waves on 6-foot electroencephalogram machines, old-fashioned polygraphs that spit out wave patterns of their sleep. On a sunny June afternoon, Dement maneuvered his golf cart, nicknamed the Sleep and Dreams Shuttle, through the Stanford University campus to Jerry House, a sprawling, Mediterranean-style dormitory where he and his colleagues conducted some of the early, seminal work on sleep, including teen sleep.īeginning in 1975, the researchers recruited a few dozen local youngsters between the ages of 10 and 12 who were willing to participate in a unique sleep camp. “We’re not giving them a chance to dream.” “When teens wake up earlier, it cuts off their dreams,” said Pelayo, a clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. In the process, they not only lose precious hours of rest, but their natural rhythm is disrupted, as they are being robbed of the dream-rich, rapid-eye-movement stage of sleep, some of the deepest, most productive sleep time, said pediatric sleep specialist Rafael Pelayo, MD, with the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic. So their time for sleep is compressed, and many are jolted out of bed before they are physically or mentally ready. Yet when they enter their high school years, they find themselves at schools that typically start the day at a relatively early hour. Since the early 1990s, it’s been established that teens have a biologic tendency to go to sleep later - as much as two hours later - than their younger counterparts. Social and cultural factors, as well as the advent of technology, all have collided with the biology of the adolescent to prevent teens from getting enough rest. What it means is that nobody performs at the level they could perform,” whether it’s in school, on the roadways, on the sports field or in terms of physical and emotional health. “I think high school is the real danger spot in terms of sleep deprivation,” said William Dement, MD, PhD, founder of the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic, the first of its kind in the world. ![]() In a detailed 2014 report, the American Academy of Pediatrics called the problem of tired teens a public health epidemic. While studies show that both adults and teens in industrialized nations are becoming more sleep deprived, the problem is most acute among teens, said Nanci Yuan, MD, director of the Stanford Children’s Health Sleep Center. It’s a problem that knows no economic boundaries. Sleep deprivation increases the likelihood teens will suffer myriad negative consequences, including an inability to concentrate, poor grades, drowsy-driving incidents, anxiety, depression, thoughts of suicide and even suicide attempts. According to a 2006 National Sleep Foundation poll, the organization’s most recent survey of teen sleep, more than 87 percent of high school students in the United States get far less than the recommended eight to 10 hours, and the amount of time they sleep is decreasing - a serious threat to their health, safety and academic success. Walworth is among a generation of teens growing up chronically sleep-deprived. … The whole essence of learning is lost,” she said. But that night, she will have to try to catch up on what she missed in class. “You feel tired and exhausted, but you think you just need to get through the day so you can go home and sleep,” said the Palo Alto, California, teen. She is unable to focus on what’s being taught, and her mind drifts. The next morning, she fights to stay awake in her first-period U.S. She finally crawls into bed around midnight or 12:30 a.m. But she knows she must move through it, because more assignments in physics, calculus or French await her. She is desperately tired and longs for sleep. For 10 minutes or so, she just sits at her desk and cries, overwhelmed by unrelenting school demands. Carolyn Walworth, 17, often reaches a breaking point around 11 p.m., when she collapses in tears. Hmmm, maybe he has something here,” but never like, “It’s going to be around for the next 50 years.” That was never a thought. I just wasn’t one of them.ĭid you feel you were in the presence of someone who was creating a sound that would become historic? I didn’t give him a chance to show guns me. If I come in that studio and they say you have a gun on you, I’m going home.”Īs great as he was and as great a friendship as we had, you could flip and then I’m not there no more. He called and said, “Where are you?” I said, “I was there an hour ago, but you had a gun and I’m not coming to no studio with you with a gun.” “OK, come on back, Dar.” I said, “Well, just make sure when I get there the guys are gone.” He has these two twins that used to be his bodyguards. ![]() ![]() Never, because the one time I did go to the studio and they said he did have a gun, I went back home. Soxx & The Blue Jeans’ “Zip-a-Dee-Doo Dah.”ĭid you ever see him in the studio with a gun like some other artists did? I always thought he was going to put my name on Bob B. It was all done during that little bit of time. We only worked with him from 1961 to 1964. It might have been a couple of weeks or months. You promised me this was going to be my record.” And then we didn’t talk for a long time after that happened. I was like, “Phil, this was supposed to by my record. I came in with fire in my eyes and nobody could really stop me as mad as I was. The big fallout was after that, we did fallout about “He’s Sure the Boy I Love.” I was driving my car home from a session and the disc jockey said, “Here’s the next record from The Crystals” and it was “He’s Sure the Boy I Love.” I stopped my car - it’s a good thing there was nobody behind me - turned around and went back to the studio. Your relationship first went south when he wouldn’t put your name on the next single, “He’s Sure the Boy I Love” and still released it under The Crystals, right? Phil Spector's Biggest Billboard Hits: 'To Know Him Is to Love Him,' 'Be My Baby,' 'Unchained… We were in the business working around all these superstars. … Me and Phil and Blossoms, we had so much fun in the earlier days. Once he told me how he wanted it sung, that’s how I sung it. I was a melody singer, so he didn’t really have to harp on me about singing the song the way he wanted it. ![]() They don’t want you to go off and do runs like they do today. The thing about me and The Blossoms, I was already a professional singer and producers liked for you to sing their melodies, especially writers. What direction did he give you when you recorded “He’s a Rebel?” At that age he had lost a lot of his hair. I was the one with the big mouth who would even say anything like that to anybody. Don’t be looking at my hair.” He just kind of shrugged it off. And then out of my mouth, I said, “Are you wearing a toupee?” When I met him, I just kept looking at his hair. You first met Spector in 1962 in California when he hired your group, The Blossoms, to record “He’s a Rebel.” What was your first impression? Love recalls their thorny relationship, with its soaring highs and bruising lows, to Billboard. He was serving a 19-years-to-life sentence at the time of his death. Spector was convicted in 2009 of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of actress Lana Clarkson. Phil Spector, Music Producer and Convicted Murderer, Dies at 81 ![]() Therefore, my intent is to do something radical: declare that I will read all three of the top three books in order. The top three books (Tame Your Work Flow, Great Big Agile, and Fixing Your Scrum) in the pool got more votes than all of the other books we have re-read over the past year. the next book we will re-read is Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s Tame Your Work Flow. Next week we will have a few words to wrap-up this book and warp into the next book in the series. One of the authors wrote, “there are a lot of people who are teaching me new lessons about crucial conversations.” This section made me feel better that I wasn’t just able to pick up the book and use the ideas perfectly the first time I read it. Each author provides several scenarios where they have learned something that has helped them to get better at crucial conversations. The afterword is a reflection by the individual authors about what they’ve learned in the ten years since they published the book. The title of the conclusion of the chapter, “It’s not about communication, it’s about results,” sums up the bottom line of the book. Practice using the ideas in the book has been the most valuable learning tool I have found to establish muscle memory. What I think will work for all readers is trying the techniques out in a variety of situations and then spending time doing a retrospective. They are definitely worth a quick read and a deeper read if they resonate with you. I see the use of the case studies to help readers conceptualize using these techniques however the case studies in the book don’t always speak to me. The second tool the authors use is an extended case study. I made myself a cheat sheet that I keep just out of camera sight for use in remote meetings. The table begins on page 214 with principle one “Start With Your Heart” and ending on page 216 with principle seven “Moved To Action.” If this were a workbook, I would have expected this table to be on a removable page for use during crucial conversations. ![]() The first is a table to help the readers remember all of the techniques and the process laid out in the first 10 chapters. The authors use two tools in this chapter. We are completing the content of our Re-read of Crucial Conversations today by reviewing Chapter 11 and the Afterword.Ĭhapter 11 is a summarization of the entire book. ![]() Vertrees also grouped all dwarf plants together, and had a final category called “other” for everything else.īoth classification systems are generally based on the division of the leaf lobes, variegation, and color.īefore we jump in, we need a quick leaf anatomy lesson so we are all on the same page with these terms: ![]() The five categories that overlap between Vertrees’ and the Maple Society’s are: amoenum, dissectum, linearilobum, matsumurae, and palmatum. Vertrees, a highly respected entomologist, grower, and educator based in Oregon who is generally thought of as one of the most knowledgeable Japanese maple experts in the West, grouped the plants into seven categories.įive of his categories are used by the Maple Society today, plus twelve more. capilipes, and more, along with their hybrids. ![]() palmatum is the most common, but you’ll also see the species A. This system is particularly helpful because these plants may come from one of numerous Acer species that are indigenous to Japan.Ī. They have officially broken up the broad category of Japanese maples into 17 groups, using the system defined by noted expert Cor van Gelderen, and building on the work of nurseryman Benoit Choeau. The Maple Society is a United Kingdom-based group that registers new cultivars in the Acer genus, and taps into the expertise of botanists and Japanese maple experts around the world. Using their system, you’d know if you were looking at a correctly labeled atropurpureum that it would stay red all summer long. Clearly, there was a gap in the Japanese maple world that led to some labeling confusion. ![]() The following post though is strictly a Flixbus Europe review. I have no experience riding with Flixbus in the US, but you are free to browse through the comments as several people have left their own experiences there. Prices can go up if you want to get a ticket a few days before you plan to travel. ![]() They also offer 5-10 euro deals on some short distances around Europe. Cheap: Flixbus’ prices are competitive with even the cheapest buses. You can also see their network on the Flixbus website. The Flixbus website even lets you book multiple trips in one go, so you can get everything out of the way in one evening before moving on to planning other aspects of your trip. Best of all, FlixBus prides itself on providing carbon-neutral travel, and even gives passengers the option to purchase CO2 Compensation tickets to make a positive environmental contribution. What are the benefits of using Flixbus?Įach bus is equipped with free Wi-Fi, plenty of overhead storage space, comfortable seats and charging outlets. Experience our high speed network with connections to many major cities, without harming the environment. With FlixTrain you can travel with fast train connections throughout Germany! With daily routes, you have the opportunity to travel comfortably and with ease, at an unbeatable price. Choose from over 80 travel destinations in 11 states and growing! Searching for a last-minute weekend getaway? Planning a vacation with family or friends? Need a break from college? No problem! Learn more about our sustainability initiatives and carbon offset programs. Is Flixbus eco-friendly?įlixBus is one of the most eco-friendly ways to travel. 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![]() The football games became a chaotic mess of culture-war politicking, with reporters, politicians, and evangelical Christians flocking to the field to witness Kennedy’s displays and join him in prayer. Before his departure from Bremerton, Kennedy spent months working with his media-savvy legal team to draw attention to his own prayers. Kennedy and the First Liberty Institute, the conservative legal group that is funding his lawsuit, have tried to cast him as a first amendment hero. He eventually left the school – voluntarily – and began to claim that the district’s policies amounted to both religious discrimination and a violation of his free speech rights. The school tried to accommodate Kennedy, offering him ways to exercise his faith that did not involve students, and did not risk giving the impression that his religion was endorsed by the public school. It is these public prayers, conducted while Kennedy was acting in his official capacity as the coach, that became an issue. “It made sense to do it on the field of battle,” he told the reporter Adam Liptak. Kennedy says that the visible center of the field was an important location for him. Teen athletes, both from his team and from the opposing side, would kneel with him in a large scrum Kennedy mixed his prayers with pep talks. He would stand on the 50-yardline just after the final whistle, and pray out loud. But at some point, Kennedy’s praying became louder, and more public. The film features a fictional coach who prays with his high school football team. He says that he got the initial idea from a movie, the low-budget 2006 Christian football drama “Facing the Giants,” which he saw on TV. Starting from when he began coaching in 2008, Kennedy, an evangelical Christian, initially prayed to himself at games, a practice that nobody had a problem with. It should not escape us that in issuing this ruling, and overturning a decades-old test for establishing the efficacy of church-state separation measures, the court relied on a version of the facts that is blatantly, demonstrably false.Īll of this could have been avoided, because in fact, over the course of Kennedy’s employment, the school district took pains to balance the coach’s desire for prayer with their own obligations to remain religiously neutral. Thus, the court allowed the free exercise clause to effectively moot the establishment clause, denying Americans like Coach Kennedy’s students the freedom from religion that the church-state divide had previously granted them. The court held that the school was required to allow this: that in attempting to maintain separation of church and state – as is required by the first amendment’s establishment clause – they were actually infringing on Coach Kennedy’s free exercise rights. Spectators can be seen in the background, looking on from the stands. Kennedy is speaking with a football helmet in his hand, stretched high above his head in what looks like a gesture of command. In the picture, he stands surrounded by a dense group of dozens of high school football players, uniformed and kneeling at his feet. In her dissent, Justice Sonya Sotomayor cast doubt on the idea that the coach offered his prayers “quietly, while his students were otherwise occupied.” She included a photograph of Coach Kennedy at one of his game night prayers. But evidence suggests things looked different. Sam Alito, in his concurrence, claimed that Kennedy “acted in a purely private capacity.” That’s Kennedy’s version of events. He offered his prayers quietly while his students were otherwise occupied.” Kennedy prayed during a period when school employees were free to speak with a friend, call for a reservation at a restaurant, check email, or attend to other personal matters. In allowing Coach Kennedy to pray publicly at school, while conducting his official duties as a public official, Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, characterized the prayers this way: “Mr. The facts of what happened with Coach Kennedy at the school district are contested, but only because Kennedy himself keeps revising them. Students now face the prospect of their schools becoming sites of religious pressure and indoctrination |
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