Growing up my Grandmother used "gumption" and whenever I hear it I think of her and wish it was used more today. She also used "in a month of Sundays" and "a coon's age" to mean "a long time".

Any words or phrases that bring up memories of your past?

There are several different ways of writing the following. Which makes more sense to you? 

Ignore the fact that you could replace teacher with a name because this same model will be used many times in a 200-page book. This applies to a bunch of scenarios such as a spouse, a patient, a lifeguard, etc. where the gender isn't known or even very important. 

Note that this isn't about gender equality or anything like that. I'm just trying to figure out the best way to get my point across. #1 and #2 seem stuffy to me but while #3 is more and more accepted, there are a lot of people who would say it is wrong and judge the author negatively. 

1. The teacher was told s/he needed to get his/her things together and leave the premises by 2:00 PM.

2. The teacher was told she or he needed to get his or her things together and leave the premises by 2:00 PM.

3. The teacher was told they needed to get their things together and leave the premises by 2:00 PM.

Thanks.

How do you trust someone to work on your site that you don't know and have to give them your passwords? tia

My Grandmother used to tell me a story about the Little Red Hen. It was about working hard and used the example of every step of baking a loaf bread, from preparing the soil to baking the bread.

We used to have to work so hard just to eat. I often think about how little effort we have to put in today to have a loaf of bread.

The story of the Little Red Hen is about work and helping others, but it always made me think of how much work the Little Red Hen did to make her bread.

Here's 3 free stock video resources that are a little 'different' if you need B-roll

Detonation Films
https://www.detonationfilms.com/Stock_Directory.html
Alpha/Chroma-keyed video of violent stuff, like explosions.

The News Market
http://www.thenewsmarket.com/
Free broadcast-standard video and multimedia content from video news releases service

Free Animal Videos
http://freeanimalvideo.org/
Stock video of animals, pets and wildlife.

These are 21 copywriting manuscripts from the late Billy Mays TV infomercials. You can see he pretty much has a formula that he uses for each commercial.

http://billymays.s3.amazonaws.com/billym...cripts.pdf

Here's one of his commercials. The PDF above has links to more of his commercials.

I admit I love good memes...and memes actually use the "Kuleshov Effect". A guy named Kuleshov did an experiment where he showed images of a man's face without emotion and how people reacted to different tests.From Wikipedia.com:
 

Quote:Kuleshov edited together a short film in which a shot of the expressionless face of Tsarist matinee idol Ivan Mosjoukine was alternated with various other shots (a plate of soup, a girl in a coffin, a woman on a divan). The film was shown to an audience who believed that the expression on Mosjoukine's face was different each time he appeared, depending on whether he was "looking at" the plate of soup, the girl in the coffin, or the woman on the divan, showing an expression of hunger, grief or desire, respectively. The footage of Mosjoukine was actually the same shot each time. Vsevolod Pudovkin (who later claimed to have been the co-creator of the experiment) described in 1929 how the audience "raved about the acting... the heavy pensiveness of his mood over the forgotten soup, were touched and moved by the deep sorrow with which he looked on the dead child, and noted the lust with which he observed the woman. But we knew that in all three cases the face was exactly the same."

What are your favorite songs on youtube? You video hs to be black and white only.

https://youtu.be/Mr_uHJPUlO8

Hi I build sites for customers. I want to offer a good theme with my services. Whats a good free wp theme I can install on my customers blogs?