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Its summer and it’s hot, but do you know who invented the air conditioner?

Its summer and it’s hot, but do you know who invented the air conditioner?
Anytime you see a truck on the highway transporting refrigerated or frozen food, you’re seeing the work of Frederick McKinley Jones.

One of the most prolific Black inventors ever, Jones patented more than 60 inventions in his lifetime. While more than 40 of those patents were in the field of refrigeration, Jones is most famous for inventing an automatic refrigeration system for long haul trucks and railroad cars.

Before Jones’ invention, the only way to keep food cool in trucks was to load them with ice. Jones was inspired to invent the system after talking with a truck driver who lost his whole cargo of chicken because he couldn’t reach his destination before the ice melted. As a solution, the African-American inventor developed a roof-mounted cooling system to make sure food stayed fresh.

In addition to that refrigerator invention, Jones also invented an air-conditioning unit for military field hospitals, a refrigerator for military field kitchens, a self-starting gas engine, a series of devices for movie projectors and box-office equipment that gave tickets and made change. Jones was posthumously awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1991 – the first Black inventor to ever receive such an honor.
reference: http://www.black-inventor.com/Frederick-McKinley-Jones.asp

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Unless You Receive

How can you behold the beauty of the sky, that appears in your eye, unless you receive?

How can you handle the joy, that God has promised, and stop feeling blue, unless you receive?

How can you care about all the things others have to share, unless you receive?

How can you cherish our love, unless we fit like hand and glove, unless you receive?

It is in God that we live, because He is so willing to give. ALL WE CAN RECEIVE.

Ida Hamner

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Instrumental by James Rhodes

mercurial vicissitudes

“So I looked for distractions. I looked for a way out that didn’t involve homicide or suicide. And all roads led to music. They always do.”

Two years ago, just a couple of months after being discharged from a mental health unit, I sat in front of the TV and watched a man take a Steinway into a psychiatric hospital. I listened as he talked about his own experiences of mental illness, about how classical music saved his life and then he played a piece by Rachmaninov (his Prelude in c sharp minor, if you are interested) and my brain stopped for the first time in months. I had been unable to read a book or follow a TV show, I couldn’t breathe without an overwhelming sense of anxiety and then suddenly I experienced this moment of peace and that’s when I fell into the world of classical music.

Here’s the thing about classical music…

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Pine Cone Stamp

Pine Cone Stamp by TEES1_
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Green Apple Plate-A great addition to your dinner wear.

http://www.zazzle.com/green_apple_plate-115158724060022543?. it’s exciting and it’s new. It will also make a very attractive wall plate all around your kitchen. Below are some more comfort things you’ll love:

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Adrian Blevins: My Mother’s First Husband

It’s in your past, but pray for those that’s beginning.

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My mother’s first husband, who was the first mentally ill person I ever met, rents storage spaces all over D.C. He saves in crate after carton after crate: paper towel tubes, his son’s second grade science projects and college term papers, broken air conditioners, hammers, screwdrivers, curtain rods, weights, spatulas, pots and pans, old cans of paint, drills, sandwich bags, magazines and books and paper clips, window panes and big, long rolls of pink insulation and leather gloves and half-empty cans of shoe polish and arm chairs and tube tops and baby aspirin and vinyl records as well as the files of the court records (as well as their Xeroxes) of what was said before the judge between he and my mother more than forty years ago. When I saw him a couple of years ago, he was standing in my sister’s dining room organizing boxes of National Geographic, which…

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“3 Things successful novel writers have done”

The first thing a successful novel writer will do is to manage his/her time wisely. Good time management is most important to a writer professional or beginner. Taking time to write a paragraph over and over. Until they feel that the reader will imagine it just as they do. This makes the reader hooked and want to keep reading.Leaving no information uncertain, the reader is saying, “I believe in you and your creation to entertain me in my spare time.”
They also take time to read books in the same genre that they wanted to write. It’s always interesting to learn how others develop a story from beginning to end. How other writers develop characters, dialogues, plots and scenes can help the new writer through the development of their own.
Then when all is done they let someone critique what they have written, and are open for good or bad criticism. Usually authors that have written several novels will be able to notice immediately what has gone wrong in the story. If you promised readers an exhaling love story, then through struggles, conflict or whatever obstacle ,your story should be leading toward a romantic wedding.