#Pam Johnson

[randomrichards]

BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY:

Using the TV

To show the joys of reading

A show made with love

[90ssuperheroes]

directors directing their heroes

[pierppasolini]

Miami Vice - 1.17 - Rites of Passage

[neverscreens]

— TOTALLY KILLER.

Part One, 345 Screencaps.

Part Two, 345 Screencaps.

Part Three, 345 Screencaps.

All in GALLERY. Like or reblog if it was useful, every interaction shows us that we should keep making screencaps for y'all ♡

[chaosbyincorporated]

popular opinion: sitcom men could literally run me over with a tractor, bury my body in an unmarked grave, and tell my family i offed myself, and i would still hold a spot for them in hot damn Heaven.

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like or reblog if you save. ♡

[doesnotloveyou]

Miami Vice, S01E17 - Rites of Passage //

that time when Sonny attempted a football tackle on Rico

[ldrismygod]

[midnight-star-world]

So today on the MSR (Midnight Star Review), we will be talking about the latest CMT (Country Music Television) special to honor the Legendary band Alabama. This show took place on CMT on Thursday August the 15th, 2024 at 8pm EST (Eastern Standard Time). So let's see who played what to honor Alabama.

Set list. Sam Hunt - Song of the South. Jason Aldean - Love in the first degree. Old Dominion - Roll on (Eighteen wheeler) Little Big Town (LBT) - The closer you get. Brad Paisley - Ol' Alabama. Blake Shelton, Steve Wariner, & Kara Britz - Old flame. Lorrie Morgan & Pam Tillis - Feels so right. Riley Green - Dixieland delight. Jamey Johnson - Angels among us. Alabama - My home's in Alabama. Alabama - Mountain music.

And that's a wrap for what they played for us. And the stand out performance would have to be Jamey Johnson's. That is such a tough song to play, and he really did a great job. And on the MSR (Midnight Star Review), I would give this special a 4 out of 5 stars. I grew up listening to Alabama's music. And it is my Brother's favorite band as well. I felt like they did well on this and giving us at least a two-hour special to honor them. Thanks for taking the time to read this review. See ya all next time.

[godsfavoritebrat]

this is what the inside of my head always sounds like. i wanna dance 🕺

[surmp]

Episode 123: I Got Sand Up My Crack!

Sticking with the Rock this month for another Actor Franchise episode and this time I talk about 2017’s Baywatch. So sit back, relax and enjoy. Check out shutuppopcorn.com Or for the quick links for all feeds https://linktr.ee/Shutuppopcorn #NetworkFamilia Music: Moon Bay Site: https://icons8.com/music/ Check out https://linktr.ee/Shutuppopcorn #NetworkFamilia Music: Moon Bay Site:…

[xtruss]

The Importance of Handwriting is Becoming Better Understood! Research on Pens and Paper Highlights Their Benefits

— September 14th, 2023

A Person's Hand, Writing with a Pen that has a Lightbulb on the End. Image: Nick Lowndes

Two and a Half Millennia Ago, Socrates complained that writing would harm students. With a way to store ideas permanently and externally, they would no longer need to memorise. It is tempting to dismiss him as an old man complaining about change. Socrates did not have a stack of peer-reviewed science to make his case about the usefulness of learning concepts by heart.

Today a different debate is raging about the dangers of another technology—computers—and the typing people do on them. As primary-school pupils and Ph.D hopefuls return for a new school year in the northern hemisphere, many will do so with a greater-than-ever reliance on computers to take notes and write papers. Some parents of younger students are dismayed that their children are not just encouraged but required to tote laptops to class. University professors complain of rampant distraction in classrooms, with students reading and messaging instead of listening to lectures.

A line of research shows the benefits of an “innovation” that predates computers: handwriting. Studies have found that writing on paper can improve everything from recalling a random series of words to imparting a better conceptual grasp of complicated ideas.

For learning material by rote, from the shapes of letters to the quirks of English spelling, the benefits of using a pen or pencil lie in how the motor and sensory memory of putting words on paper reinforces that material. The arrangement of squiggles on a page feeds into visual memory: people might remember a word they wrote down in French class as being at the bottom-left on a page, par exemple.

One of the best-demonstrated advantages of writing by hand seems to be in superior note-taking. In a study from 2014 by Pam Mueller and Danny Oppenheimer, students typing wrote down almost twice as many words and more passages verbatim from lectures, suggesting they were not understanding so much as rapidly copying the material.

Handwriting—which takes longer for nearly all university-level students—forces note-takers to synthesise ideas into their own words. This aids conceptual understanding at the moment of writing. But those taking notes by hand also perform better on tests when students are later able to study from their notes. The effect even persisted when the students who typed were explicitly instructed to rephrase the material in their own words. The instruction was “completely ineffective” at reducing verbatim note-taking, the researchers note: they did not understand the material so much as parrot it.

Many studies have confirmed handwriting’s benefits, and policymakers have taken note. Though America’s “Common Core” curriculum from 2010 does not require handwriting instruction past first grade (roughly age six), about half the states since then have mandated more teaching of it, thanks to campaigning by researchers and handwriting supporters. In Sweden there is a push for more handwriting and printed books and fewer devices. England’s national curriculum already prescribes teaching the rudiments of cursive by age seven.

However, several school systems in America have gone so far as to ban most laptops. This is too extreme. Some students have disabilities that make handwriting especially hard. Nearly all will eventually need typing skills. And typing can improve the quality of writing: being able to get ideas down quickly, before they are forgotten, can obviously be beneficial. So can slowing down the speed of typing, says Dr. Oppenheimer.

Virginia Berninger, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, is a longtime advocate of handwriting. But she is not a purist; she says there are research-tested benefits for “manuscript” print-style writing, for cursive (which allows greater speed) but also for typing (which is good practice for composing passages). Since students spend more time on devices as they age, she argues for occasional “tuning up” of handwriting in later school years.

And perhaps even into adulthood. Johnson had not handwritten anything longer than a letter in decades before putting actual pen to paper to write this column’s first draft. Whether it made any difference to the outcome is a question that readers must decide.

Socrates may or may not have had a point about the downsides of writing. But no one would remember, much less care, if his student Plato had not noted it down for the benefit of posterity.■

— This Article Appeared in the Culture Section of the Print Edition Under the Headline "Hand-wringing Over Handwriting"

[tunafishjournal]

Ode to the Dells

It feels like summer

yet also feels a little like fall

What a gift

a gentle, cooling breeze can be

Green leaves softly sway back & forth

against a backdrop of birds chirping,

chasing one another across a slightly cloudy, gorgeous sky

They call out to one another

and it’s almost like they beckon me to join them

I would gladly glide through the clouds with them

perch on the branches of those peacefully swaying trees

and call out to more beings to join us in this humble,

yet breathtaking delight

Down below me, a squirrel

scurries across the patio, ready to play and chase and eat

How I wish I might join him

and play and chase and eat all day

to climb trees to the highest heights and to enjoy the fruits and nuts and yummy deliciousness

that nature has to offer us

The soothing smell of the lake wafts by on the breeze

And I take a deep inhale

I watch the ducks glide through the water, the boats languidly go by

And I feel like I’m part of a grand secret

As if every living force around me has invited me out to fly, to climb, to glide

to enjoy the gifts that this beautiful landscape has extended to us

And I join them, willingly

eager to learn, to grow, to be

one with all that’s around me

On a deep, calming breath

I relax into all that is being freely given to me this day

What a gift the simplest things can be

- Pam R. Johnson Davis (she/her), TFJ Issue One: Celebrations

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[allcatsconstitutethesamefamily]

From Think Like a Cat by Pam Johnson-Bennett, 2000.  See also How to Be Your Own Cat.

They've had many lives and many ages: cats I've met in my time travels.

[skarsjoy]

Happy Sunday! Tomorrow, (October 7th) the beloved podcast “Truest Blood” comes back! Kristin Bauer (Pam) and Deborah Ann Woll (Jessica) will be hosting again and talking through seasons 5 & 6 of @truebloodhbo. This is the official podcast of the show. In their new  promo from last week, they said they will be talking to Ryan Kwanten (Jason Stackhouse), Joe Manganiello (Alcide Herveaux) and our favorite, Alexander Skarsgård (Eric Northman). At the end of the season 4 podcast they also said they would be talking to Chris Bauer (Andy Bellefleur) and Janina Gavankar (Luna Garza).

They haven’t announced which guest they will be starting with so we don’t know who they will be starting out with. It’s always a fabulous podcast though - each one is a gift to any Truebie. Season 5 (originally aired in 2012) is when we got the back-to-back flashbacks of Eric & Pam’s meeting and maker stories (episodes 5.02 and 5.03). Season 6 ended in a major cliffhanger for Eric. I. CANNOT. WAIT.

Photos from HBO & Entertainment Weekly. The cast were on 11 different covers of EW in 2012 and were shot by Alexei Hay. The rest are mostly my screen caps from seasons 5 & 6, although there are a few stills by John P. Johnson and Lacey Terrell. I’m not sure who shot the character posters for Season 5. This was the last year they did them.

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Roger Stone, who wrote the New York Times best-selling book “The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ,” plays a shocking new audiotape that has been uncovered in which Democratic National Committee executive Director Cliff Carter confirms to LBJ crony Billie Sol Estes that it was Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who hired Malcolm “Mac” Wallace to murder President John F. Kennedy.

This shocking audio tape is confirmed by the fact that the fingerprints of Wallace were found on the cardboard boxes that comprised the “crows nest” on the sixth floor of the Texas school book depository building from which at least one of the shooters of JFK unleashed their deadly barrage.

Stone does not dispute the recent revelation in a Paramount documentary in which the doctors who attended to JFK at Parkland Hospital in Dallas say they observed bullet wounds in Kennedy’s head and throat which were consistent with multiple shooters hitting the president from the front and in the back.

Stone and cohost Troy Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Slingshot News also discuss the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings of President Donald Trump's nominee for Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and the ridiculousness of Senator Adam Schiff, complaining about the weaponization of the Justice Department, of which he has been the major progenitor. “If it's Schiff, flush it,” says Stone.

Only last week an Inspector General's report from the Biden DOJ showed that Adam Schiff had knowingly leaked classified documents to the media in violation of the law. Stone calls for his prosecution.