My collection of videos flying the Powered Parachute.

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Well, today I attempted to fly my Buckeye Dream Machine Powered Parachute. Everything went well. I even took some passengers along.

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It seems that my hobbies and interests follow a certain cyclical fasion. Recently I got interested in Powered Parachutes (PPC) and decided to try and buy one of these machines. I hope to post new videos whenever I get it flying, but here is the first video depicting my first solo just after 2 flights with the instructor.

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I know there are many Adobe Photoshop users out there who range from the amateur to the professional.  Adobe has just recently released their online version of Photoshop called Adobe Photoshop Express. I did not spend any significant time on the website to give a proper review, but what I saw was very promising. It is just another perfect example of how software is shifting to the internet. You can now edit your photos right from your browser. It is largely understood that the software is nowhere in comparison to the full version of Photoshop CS3, but it offers enough tools and filters that would satisfy a casual Photoshop amateur user. Adobe offers 2GB of space to store and edit your photos. Go ahead and give it a try.

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Animot.com is a website that allows you to quickly and easily generate fantastic video slide shows of your photographs. The video can be easily posted to any of the online sites like YouTube, emailed, download for your iPod, or just saved to your computer. Animoto.com does all the hard work behind the scenes. This can be your solution to show your family and friends hundreds of your best photos that you have collected over the years.If you decide to purchase a subscription, then please use this Referrer Code: deksjvrx to get $5 OFF.

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After a few years without a decent camera I have acquired the newly-released Canon 40D. Supposedly it is a significant improvement since the 30D (which wasn’t much different from the 20D). A few years back I had photography as a hobby. Since then everything has moved digital and I was left with my film camera. Well now it is time to experiment and be creative. Stay tuned for possible new photo galleries and discoveries.

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Since August 2006 I’ve been trying to cycle on a regular basis. It is not always easy to find the time in a busy schedule and with a family that involves two kids. This month I’ve reached my small milestone. Yesterday I planned my route so that I would come home with an odometer reading of no less than 1000. It just so happened that I rolled into my garage with exactly 1000.0 miles. It is significant to me, but is probably nothing compared to those that seriously cycle.
I’ve gotten my wife interested in the sport as well. The children also come along for the ride in their trailer. Talk about a nice exercise when you have to drag an additional 50 pounds. All in all I wish that more friends would consider this sport. If you are interested then let me know. I would be glad to share my experiences with you.

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Dr. Kent Hovind Gets Ten Years: Because of Religion, or Tax Fraud?
by Don Boys, Ph.D.

Original Link: http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/22457.html

Everyone knows Lady Justice is blind but now we know she is bigoted as well! Case in point: Dr. Kent Hovind was recently sentenced to ten years in jail. Kent argued that his ministry was tax exempt and cited the IRS code to support his case! He wrote the IRS many times asking them why he was wrong if, in fact, he was wrong. They never responded! Arrogance? Incompetence? Whatever the reason, an American citizen could not get a reply from the very people who should have been able, even eager, to help.

Kent’s enemies are painting him as a greedy tax resister when he has said repeatedly that he will pay all the taxes he owes. He could not get any response from the IRS nor did the judge, prosecutor, or anyone else inform him why his ministry was not exempt from taxes as are hundreds of thousands of similar organizations. Therefore, he spends ten years in the Big House. That’s where they send killers, traitors, rapists, child molesters, armed robbers, and other Very Bad Guys.

Well, not always. If you are a celebrity entertainer, liberal politician, or sports figure, you can usually get probation; only a slap on the wrists. Sometimes a fine.

Note that Senator Ted Kennedy while driving drunk, with a young woman in his car, drove off a bridge and swam away leaving her to die a slow death as she used what oxygen was available. Justice? He is sitting in the U.S. Senate and some fools take him seriously while Kent Hovind sits in prison.

Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, an admitted pervert, confirmed that his Washington apartment had been used as a callboy headquarters by a male prostitute for a year and a half until late 1987. So, Barney’s lover-boy was using his apartment as a callboy ring to make a little money on the side. Barney did not go to jail, did not lose his seat in Congress. I’m not sure if he passed go and collected $200.00. Maybe his lover can tell us that. However, Kent Hovind sits in prison while Barney sits in Congress making laws that we are expected to obey.

The late Massachusetts Congressman Studds plied a sixteen-year-old male page with liquor and seduced him, and tried to seduce two other male pages. After admitting his seduction of the male page and taking him on an 18-day trip to Europe (where they had sex every two days) Studds was reelected to Congress 6 times! He didn’t spend a day in court or jail! He sat in Congress but Kent Hovind sits in prison.

Would it be all right if I pointed out that when Republican Congressman Foley admitted to sending salacious e-mails to a male page, he was almost drawn and quartered on the Capitol steps. His crime? There was no crime, and the e-mails did not contain any sexually explicit language. Furthermore, there was no indication that Foley had tried to meet with the teenage boy. However, the Florida Congressman was hounded out of office. Foley may be a pervert, and if so, I’m glad he is out of office, but compare his treatment with that of the above proved perverts! It depends on your worldview: Foley was cast as a conservative Republican and Studds and Frank as liberal Democrats!

But it gets worse!

Andrew James of Vermont molested a four-year-old at least ten times, admitted it and walked away with probation and a $22 fine! He had three other convictions and Judge David Howard could have sentenced him to life in prison and a $50,000 fine. The judge is a jerk!

Mark Hulett, a 34-year-old, pled guilty to aggravated sexual assault on the daughter of a friend from the time she was six to age 10! The prosecutor asked for 8-20 years in the slammer but Judge Edward Cashman gave him 60 days! That esteemed judge has esteemed rocks in his head.

I could bore you with numerous cases of schoolteachers who took advantage of their position, seduced students, and walked away with probation, although usually the men go to prison and the females go free! And have you noticed that screaming feminists are not demanding equal treatment between male and female predators?

There are recent cases where rapists and killers walk away with probation and Kent Hovind sits in prison for ten years! Folks, there’s gotta be more to it than meets the eye. Your Federal Government wanted to “get” an outspoken Christian and they did. All right, so Kent made a mistake in judgment, and even if he is guilty, don’t sane people think his sentence is excessive? After all, didn’t Kent tell them he would pay any taxes they showed him he owed? Is it possible that they got him, not for taxes, but for religion? The Feds didn’t like his outspoken brand of Christianity.

Yes, Lady Justice is blind, dumb, stupid, and bigoted as is obvious in the case of Dr. Kent Hovind who sits in prison as I write this piece. And if it could happen to him, it could and might happen to you or me. Maybe Bible believing Christians should do as Chinese Christians and keep a small bag packed with personal things waiting for that ominous knock on the door: “We’re from the Federal Government and we’re here to get you.”

Copyright 2007, Don Boys, Ph.D.

Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives, author of 13 books, frequent guest on television and radio talk shows, and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years His most recent book is ISLAM: America’s Trojan Horse! His websites are cstnews.com and muslimfact.com  

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There once was an oyster whose story I tell,

Who found that sand had got under his shell;

Just one little grain, but it gave him much pain,

For oysters have feelings although they’re so plain.

Now, did he berate the working of Fate

Which had led him to such a deplorable state?

Did he curse out the Government, call for an election?

No; as he lay on the shelf, he said to himself,

“If I cannot remove it, I’ll try to improve it.”

So the years rolled by as the years always do,

And he came to his ultimate destiny—stew.

And this small grain of sand which had bothered him so,

Was a beautiful pearl, all richly aglow.

Now this tale has a moral—for isn’t it grand

What an oyster can do with a morsel of sand;

What couldn’t we do if we’d only begin

With all of the things that get under our skin.

Author Unknown

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