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Five Presidents Who Were Scouts

Boy Scouts of America: A Centennial History

The Boy Scouts of America is one of the largest youth groups in the United States. Founded in 1910, it has had over 110 million young men, of various ages, in its organization. Every president of the United States has supported the work of the Boy Scouts of America since its founding and each served as honorary president of the BSA during his term in office. Each President, starting with William Howard Taft, has helped to further the Scouts, but only five have been Boy Scouts. Here is a list of those Presidents. Read more...

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Posted by Jimm - May 14, 2012 at 2:44 pm

Categories: Education Tags: barack obama, Bill Clinton, boy scout, boy scouts of america, cub scout, eagle scout, George W. Bush, gerald r. ford, jfk, john f. kennedy, scouts

Hate The New Facebook? Fix It!

I love Facebook. It has wasted years off my life, but I am still addicted to it. Why? Because everyone is on it and like most of us, I am nosy. There are several things that really irk me about Facebook and none of it has anything to do with me being jealous that Mark Zuckerberg is a gazzilionaire, even though he looks like he is twelve years old. What are some of the things that you hate about Facebook? I’d love to hear what your complaints are. Here are mine.

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Posted by Jimm - May 8, 2012 at 5:17 pm

Categories: Home and Living, People's Choice Tags: facebook, facebook fan page, fb, like, likes, Mark Zuckerberg, photo tags, privacy policy, tagging, timeline

5 Superheroes Too Stupid To Be Avengers

The Avengers hit the silver screen this year with fantastic success. Billed as "The Earth's Mightiest Heroes"; Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, The Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye join forces to save the world from Loki and an evil alien menace. While four of these superheroes have had their own movies and are easily recognizable to even non-comic book fans, there were many other superheroes that did not fare so well in making the Avenger's tryout. This is actually amazing, because the Avengers will take almost anyone as a team member. Since 1963, there have been 188 different characters in the comic series. How could you NOT be in the Avengers if you have a super power? Well, these are the heroes that are so absurd that Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) didn't have on speed dial to save the earth in times of trouble. After seeing them, you'll know why...

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Posted by Jimm - May 5, 2012 at 12:01 pm

Categories: Entertainment Tags: avengers, black widow, Captain America, comic book movies, comic books, cypher, dazzler, doctor doom, hawkeye, howard the duck, hulk, iron man, squirrel girl, starfox, thanos, thor

Fortune 500 Companies Using WordPress

I use WordPress for almost every site that I build. If you are unfamiliar with this program, it is a content management system (CMS) that allows the business owner to edit and manage their own web site. When I first started using WordPress to build web sites for companies, I had some push back from some of my clients. Some said, "It's a blogging software, I don't want to blog." Others thought the system was too amateur to be used on their web site. If the site didn't cost them $5000, then it wasn't good enough for them. How wrong they were! Not only have I worked on web sites throughout the United States, I've created WordPress sites for companies doing business in Ceylon, the United Arab Emirates, and Dubai! It seems that larger corporations are also following suite. Here is a list of Fortune 500 companies that use WordPress for their web sites, as well.

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Posted by Jimm - May 3, 2012 at 3:08 pm

Categories: Business Tags: content management system, facebook, general electric, google, pepsi corporation, ups, wall street journal, wordpress, yahoo

Getting To Know The Munsters

The Munsters: The Complete Series

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The Munsters was a television show that ran on CBS from 1964-1966. During that time, they aired 70 episodes. I was a big fan of television's The Munsters, which was similar to The Addam's Family (which ran at the same time on ABC from 1964-1966). While The Addam's Family got more recognition, I enjoyed The Munsters with their "Leave It To Beaver" innocence and humor. Do you remember The Munsters? I've put together a list of the five main characters with some facts you might not have known about them.

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Posted by Jimm - April 30, 2012 at 3:33 pm

Categories: Entertainment Tags: cbs, eddie munster, giant bat, grandpa munster, herman munster, leave it to beaver, lily munster, marilyn munster, mockingbird lane, munsters, shroudshire, The addams family, the munsters, transylvania, woof-woof

Celebrities Who Played The Tuba

Playing a musical instrument in school can be very beneficial to a child. It is a shame that each year, more schools cut their music programs and deny their students from participating in activities like marching band. Many of my readers used to be (or still are) musicians. I used to be a tuba player. I played the instrument for about 20 years in several different marching bands and look back on that time as a really happy time of my life. When doing some research recently, I found a list of famous people who also played the tuba. You might be surprised with some of the names. Did you play an instrument in school? If so, what instrument?