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The first city in the world to have a population of more than one million was London, which today is the 13th most populated city, with about 8 million residents.
And Now You Do
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16:31, The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #109
Easter Sunday at the Alumni Center
April 1st, 2002
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All the folks outside of Kerens missed a great Easter Sunday in downtown Kerens at the Alumni Center. Cars were parked up and down Main Street, people were walking around on the sidewalks, and all kinds of gossip was floating around within the walls of this Community facility.
When the two hundred plus people walked in the double door entryway to this extravaganza, the first thing you would notice is multi-colored hanging globes from the ceiling presenting a first taste of bright Easter decorations. Ottis Ray Spurlock in his Sunday Easter suit was seated at the ticket collection booth greeting everyone along with Linda Selph wearing her pastel blue Easter dress. People started trickling in at 11:30 and by noontime there was a line stretching back out the door as the smell of cooking food drifted out onto the bricks commemorating Kerens past.
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“See, I Told You So!” But no, I am not talking about Rush Limbaugh’s sequel to his bestselling “The Way Things Ought To Be.” Instead, I am talking about “The Lord Of The Rings” doing a slam dunk on Harry Potter this week in the annual Oscar’s extravaganza. Was not that great? In an earlier column I made the case that those Hobbits made a much better literary tale than the Wizards of Potter Land, but postponed judgment on the movie until now.
(Why does “judgment” not have an “e” after “g” ? Where are you Mrs. Curington when I need you? It just does not seem right.)
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“The Communicator.” Get used to hearing that term because that is the next big gadget that will be sweeping across the USA here in the very near future. They are not in the stores yet, but they are being packaged and getting ready for delivery right now. In fact, it is already the most popular communications device being sold in Europe right now.
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #106
Scrabble in the Alumni Center
March 11th, 2002
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Donna York’s eyes narrowed as she eyed the move that Joyce Lockhart was about to make. She knew that Joyce was about to seek an advantage that might close the door to her own next move. Judy Baker’s head was lowered as she contemplated what this would mean to her own strategy and nervously twitched her fingers back and forth and around and around. I peered out of the corner of my eye at my dead serious opponents while stroking my beard wondering what was about to explode across the table. What to do. What to do.
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What do you do when that catastrophic crash visits your computer and everything you have created vanishes in the twinkle of an eye? We have talked about computer security, various tools for maintenance, and the all important house keeping tasks associated with keeping your computer healthy, but not about disaster recovery. If you have a computer long enough, sooner or later a loss of data is as inevitable as your car breaking down when away form home. It is going to happen.
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One hundred and four. Fifty-two weeks times two. Each week when I send off a column to Neal Williams at the Tribune, I number the column for reference in the future. Starting with number one early in the year 2000, we have now arrived at exactly two years since the Kerens.Com column was kindly given life by Donna and Neal. For some reason it does not seem that long or that many columns, but here we are in the middle of the rainbow. This has been an interesting two year trip following a path that has wound around and down many different avenues.
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To Wal-Mart or to Super Wal-Mart? Now after reading that sentence, here is a real question for you. Is the first statement derived from a quotation from Clarence Darrow, or would it be William Shakespeare? Think about it.
What in the world does that have to do with Wal-Mart? Well it’s like this. I am getting pink face irritated with the on again and off again debacle of building a Super Wal-Mart in Corsicana. Specifically, on the highway between Corsicana and Kerens. Everybody that has heard this rumor at least ten times during the last year raise your hand.
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If you are a guy, do you like sleeping with two other guys right up next to you? What if they had been sweating under layers of clothing all day, smelled nasty, and it was freezing with a screaming wind outside. Lets see, what else. Well, there were water bottles in our sleeping bags with us to keep the water from freezing, and the supper we had just cooked ourselves was down right horrible. Freeze dried lasagna boiled in hot water. You can guess what that led to during the night. Not a lot of perfume being passed around.
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #101
Long's Peak Boulder Field
February 4th, 2002
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One eye had been open all night long when the alarm went off at 4:00 a.m. in the morning. Long’s Peak was waiting and it was time to double-check our equipment. Time to put on multiple layers of insulated clothing and make sure our feet were thoroughly wrapped. The past had taught me it was the feet that go first, but Mother Nature was not going to fool me twice.
Our plan was to make the boulder field at the base of the Keyhole by afternoon, pitch a tent and begin the quest to summit the mountain the next morning. We were cocky the first day knowing this would be the easy part, or maybe we were just hiding our tension. The danger would not arrive until the next day when we walked through the Keyhole. Or so we thought.
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #100
Getting Ready for Long's Peak
January 26th, 2002
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“The mountain is closed due to snow and ice conditions” said the Park Ranger and it was then a few hairs on the back of my neck started to stand to attention. Not after all this grueling training and preparation, what an emotional letdown. This could not be.
Have you ever been to Estes Park, Colorado? My parents had made this journey in the past and told me it was the prettiest place in the state, and they were right. The little town of Estes Park sits nestled right in the middle of the Rockies and is surrounded on all sides by year round snow capped mountain peaks.
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #99
Chamber of Commerce Banquet
January 21st, 2002
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Nora Lee May tallied the numbers, turned around and declared “8 Empty Seats.” That is what she told me when everything was said and done. Even including Homecoming, that is the largest crowd yet we have seen on Main Street sitting behind Glynn Holloway’s flags and on the pretty concrete floor that Buddy Hughes dyed green. So, it was a success, another success, for the Chamber of Commerce, the Kerens Alumni Center, and Kerens.
Nothing but good words were spoken about the performance that Lynn Berry put on for the crowd. The show, the words he spoke, and the sentiment he carried with him. It was a little goofy, it was a little serious, and it was nice. Did you know I heard he puts a Bible in each vehicle sold at his dealership in Corsicana? Nice gesture isn’t it?
Nothing but good words were spoken about the performance that Lynn Berry put on for the crowd. The show, the words he spoke, and the sentiment he carried with him. It was a little goofy, it was a little serious, and it was nice. Did you know I heard he puts a Bible in each vehicle sold at his dealership in Corsicana? Nice gesture isn’t it?
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #98
Game Night at the Alumni Center
January 13th, 2002
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Competitive battles were being waged on Main Street Saturday night. Some of the tools of these struggles included Dominos and Scrabble Tiles as people searched for an opening to exploit any potential weakness in their opponent’s strategy. The marks on the score cards mounted during the night.
This was a new event put on by KESA with a fun and games Saturday night of friendly matches. If you missed it, keep an eye out for the next one. Robert Selph and KESA Vice-President Murlene Lilly prepared some world-class chili that disappeared during the evening. In other words, it was good. I do not think I have ever met anyone that enjoys cooking more than Robert does. He just plain enjoys it.
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Dixie Bell told a story I heard this weekend about a child that was so poor he only wore his glasses on Sunday. His Mama was afraid if he wore them to school they would end up broken. The story as told by this articulate teacher of many years had a happy ending in that she and her friends were able to provide him with a second pair as an act of kindness. This is one of those stories that makes you think, it makes you feel, and it makes you grateful for everything we have to be so thankful for in this community. Even if you have nothing but a roof over your head, you should pray to the Lord your thanks each and every day for this privilege of the place you call home.
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The New Year has arrived and time to start charging down the road to another series of surprises and events that you never thought would happen. Unless you scratch your head and think real hard of course.
The sun has gone down and it is New Year’s Eve right now as this keyboard begins tapping away towards midnight and the year 2002. Someone is on TV singing “New York, New York” and I am contemplating whether or not “I Want To Be A Part Of It.” You know how the words go. Frank Sinatra did.
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The end of 2001 is already here and you can just make out 2002 beginning to peek around the corner. This is the last column of 2001, Arthur C. Clarke is still hanging out in Sri Lanka, no trip to Mars planned yet and I am hugely disappointed. Oh well, we do have a space station, just not on the scale that Sir Arthur envisioned about 30 years ago.
Looking back over this year of which many history books will be written, all of us were witnesses to events that kept CNN and it’s rival stations hopping from story to story. No excuse for boredom this year, none at all.
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 The reason ESP, for example, is not considered a viable topic in contemoprary
psychology is simply that its investigation has not proven fruitful...After
more than 70 years of study, there still does not exist one example of an ESP
phenomenon that is replicable under controlled conditions. This simple but
basic scientific criterion has not been met despite dozens of studies conducted
over many decades...It is for this reason alone that the topic is now of little
interest to psychology...In short, there is no demonstrated phenomenon that
needs explanation.
-- Keith E. Stanovich, "How to Think Straight About Psychology", pp. 160-161
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| Tuesday, July 22 | | · | Kerens.Com #169
Student Scholarships
June 2nd, 2003 |
| Monday, June 02 | | · | Kerens.Com #168
First Time to India
May 26th, 2003 |
| Monday, April 14 | | · | Kerens.Com #167
Annika Sorenstam & Golf
May 19th, 2003 |
| Friday, April 04 | | · | Kerens.Com #166
Mother's Day at KESA
May 12th, 2003 |
| Thursday, March 27 | | · | Kerens.Com #165
Dayton Flight Museum
March 5th, 2003 |
| Tuesday, January 01 | | · | Kerens.Com #164
Speed Bumps
April 28th, 2003 |
| Thursday, December 27 | | · | Kerens.Com #163
KESA Easter Luncheon
April 21st, 2003 |
| Tuesday, November 27 | | · | Kerens.Com #162
KESA Easter Luncheon
April 14th, 2003 |
| Tuesday, November 13 | | · | Kerens.Com #161
Born in the U.S.A.
April 7th, 2003 |
| Saturday, November 03 | | · | Kerens.Com #160
Puppy Dog
March 31st, 2003 |
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