Google Privacy Concerns

Ever since the Google Street View program was released in May 2007, many people have been complaining about the privacy issues associated with it. Apart from seeing their houses on Google's Web site, people have reported seeing themselves on the Internet as well. Now, I'd say that's taking it a bit too far. If you agree, here’s how you can keep your home and yourself a little more private!

1.) If you don’t want your house to show up in the Google Street View program because of privacy issues, all you have to do is click on the Report a Concern button, shown below.



2.) Next, choose Privacy Concerns for the reason why you don’t want the image shown in Street View.



3.) Now, describe why you don’t want the image in Street View and then enter in your e-mail address.

4.) Next, move the Street View image until the red rectangle is centered over your property.



That's it! Google will then review your concerns and delete the image if they agree with you. Yes!

1.  Sift flour, sugar, salt, soda, and cocoa together into a 9 x 13 inch ungreased cake pan. Make three wells. Pour oil into one well, vinegar into second, and vanilla into third well. Pour cold water over all, and stir well with fork.
2. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 to 40 minutes, or until tooth pick inserted comes out clean. Frost with your favorite icing.

January 13 - Daily Feast Volume II So few people are worthy of our tears - only a few. Our personal space is invaded and we are made to think we caused the rift that follows. This is an illusion that is not worthy of the price we try to pay. It is the elders' privilege to look back and smile. They, too, have known the ideal, the magnificent, the ultimate - and they have cried. But a da to li s di, that wonderful grace, provided knowledge of how to hold one loose thread in place by joy - not tears. And then came peace. ~ It is the duty of the brave when injured to lay peace aside....and then to lay down again in peaceful quiet. ~ PUSHMATAHA - CHOCTAW CHIEF, 1812 *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* Elder's Meditation of the Day - January 13 "When you remove love and try to replace it with monetary things, you've got nothing ... Get him to understand that he has to love himself before he can love anything else." --John Peters (Slow Turtle), WAMPANOAG It is said, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." That's the trouble, most of us do. Great Spirit, You are love; You are spirit. Spirit and love are interconnected. I am spiritual. Let me realize what I am really made of. *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* 'THINK on THESE THINGS' By Joyce Sequichie Hifler Bad feelings are burdens. When we get to the point of believing the whole world is sour because we don't understand it, we have a lot of self-searching to do. Maybe we helped it to lose its sweetness. Maybe we're the bad apple that soured the whole lot. Our first thought should be to make amends. Sometimes we can't, and when such is the case we need to get out of the way and let time and nature take its course. Life is too beautiful to go on being a bitter pill that insists that everyone swallow it. As in the words of Caleb C. Colton, an English clergyman around the turn of the century, "the man who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the grief which he proposes to remove." We need to unburden ourselves by forgetting our problems and doing something that will put a smile on someone else's face. The quickest way to solve the problem of hurt feelings is to inquire if this situation is important to the whole of existence. Does this particular thing mean more than any of the other things of life? It is amazing how quickly trials fade into nothingness when faced with this question. It places before us the need to decide here and now the meaning of our whole existence. There are not many things in our lives that we can truthfully say mean everything to us. The small things are important and very dear, but the really significant things we count on one hand - life, our loved ones, our good desires, our faith, and our nation. One of the most magnified situations in this day is taking life too seriously. In the stress of too much mental confusion, we seem unable to laugh off so many little irritations. We let personality rule us into making each little problem the source of great anxiety and dramatically lay hold of it until it chokes us. The worthwhile side of this life is too important to let ourselves become involved with things that mean little to us. Too much of the trouble in the world is caused from ego-building important that would never be missed in anyone's existence. *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* Available online! 'Cherokee Feast of Days' By Joyce Sequichie Hifler. Visit her web site to purchase the wonderful books by Joyce as gifts for yourself or for loved ones......and also for those who don't have access to the Internet: http://www.hifler.com Click Here to Buy her books at Amazon.com Elder's Meditation of the Day By White Bison, Inc., an American Indian-owned nonprofit organization. Order their many products from their web site: http://www.whitebison.org *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*(1)

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1. When you were a child did you ever blab a family secret and get in trouble for it later?
yes. i remember that  when i was about 5 or 6, my uncle who was in his 20's at the time, had a friend  whose unmarried teenage sister had a baby. on the way to see her and the new baby, my grandmother pronounced judgment on her, saying she was a whore. (remember this was about 1969 or 1970). we had a good visit as far as i can remember, and as we were getting to leave, the 16 yr old came out with the baby. her mom told her that she needed to take the baby back in the house as it could get sick being so little and being outside. i asked her if i could as her a question, and she smiled and said "yes sure". 
i then proceeded to ask her if she was a whore?
her eyes filled up with tears, and she looked at her parents. my family was MORTIFIED. and my mother said "angelia, why did you say that" and i said "grandmother said she was and i just wanted to know if she was right"

grandmother said "no, i didnt say that" and i said, "yes you did. you said that on the way over here"
the parents said that it was a shame that such a good visit had to be ruined this way, and that it was time for us to leave. 
i remember my family talking about this all on the way home, and my grandmother was so mad at me!! my mother did stand up for me by telling her that if she didn't want the other family to know what she really felt about the girl, she shouldn't have said it in front of me, because she knew that small children parroted everything they heard. 




2. Have you said anything in the last 24 hours that you regret? yes. i got mad at my son, and yelled and said some bad words.

3. Have you ever blabbermouthed something to a significant other that in hindsight you really should have kept to yourself? given the hell that living with my last ex-husband was, at that time, i shouldn't have run my mouth like i did, but now.....i wouldnt take any of it back, because he's a ASS!!!

4. Have you ever written anything on your blog that you wish you could take back? no not yet, but if i felt like that i probably just delete it.

5. Are you the blabber or the blabbee? Tell us your most embarrassing blabbermouth moment. when i was younger right on up until i was about 27 or so, i was the blabber. but after having to apologize a few too many times, i learned to keep my mouth shut. now i'm just the blabbee. 

6. Who is the biggest blabbermouth tattletale in your household? when my husbands sons aren't here, it would be my 11 yr old son, but when they are, it would be his 8 yr old son

7. You are the Blog Paparazzi! Which blogger's real photograph are you most interested in getting? probably Winivere's . i have an idea that she is probably ALOT prettier and smaller than she thinks.

8. If you could hire the loudest and most skilled blabbermouth in the universe to do your talking for you and advertise it well, what message would you like to spread to humanity? Don't hold back. 
that we better be getting prepared the gov't isn't being totally honest with us.

Every minute in this country one man is struck down by Man-Flu.
Women, all we ask is that each of you offers them a cup of tea,
some kind words and your undivided attention and care.  Then
maybe, just maybe, we'll beat this monstrous disease together.

The Band Meme It's a musical meme-O-matic! Here's how it goes. You are about to have your own band's CD cover. Follow these directions to the letter. My tagee list is at the bottom of this post. It's fun and requires no thought at all. Go to......






the name of my band is MAUS MINE
and the title of my album is 
ORIGINAL IS NOT GOOD

BANANA SPLIT DESSERT

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INGREDIENTS:
8 Tbs. Butter or Margarine (One Stick)
2 cups Graham Cracker Crumbs
2.3 cups Confectioner's Sugar
8-oz. package Cream Cheese, softened
15-oz. can Crushed Pineapple
1 cup Prepared Whipped Cream
3-6 Bananas, sliced
1 package Instant Chocolate Pudding
1 1/2 cup Milk
Additional Whipped Cream for Topping
Maraschino Cherries and Chopped Nuts or your choice of garnish

DIRECTIONS:
To prepare the first layer of your banana split dessert, melt
butter in a 9-inch by 13-inch glass baking dish. Stir in graham
cracker crumbs and press with a fork to make crust. Bake for
about 5 minutes in a pre-heated 200-F degree oven. Set aside to
cool. Prepare the second layer by combining sugar, cream cheese,
pineapple, and prepared whipping cream in a large mixing bowl.
Beat with a mixer to thoroughly combine all ingredients. Spread
the mixture evenly over the top of the graham cracker crust.
Slice enough bananas to completely cover the pineapple-cream
layer of your dessert. Prepare instant chocolate pudding with
milk and pour mixture over the top of the banana slices.
Refrigerate to set and store. Just prior to serving, top with
additional whipped cream, and sprinkle with nuts and maraschino
cherries. Refrigerate to store

Yield: 12 Servings
Category: Desserts

Honey Cake

• 3½ cups plain flour
• 1½ teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon nutmeg
• 4 eggs
• ¾ cup caster sugar
• 4 teaspoons vegetable oil
• 2 cups thick honey
• ½ cup freshly brewed coffee
• 1½ cups walnuts or pecans, chopped roughly

Preheat the oven to 170°C, gas mark 3. Grease and base-line a roasting tin. Sieve together the flour, baking powder, bicarb, salt and spices. Set aside.
Beat the eggs and slowly mix in the sugar. Continue to beat until light and fluffy and then beat in the oil, honey and coffee. Fold in the flour and nuts. Pour into the tin and bake for 60 – 80 minutes or until well-risen and golden. Cool and serve cut into squares.
You could use two 9” loaf tins instead.

how beautiful our area is now with all the snow. we are having our third snow for the season now. last week we had 10 inches-ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS-although we ended up house bound for 4 days. jonah and i had alot of fun sledding down our driveway-i ended up wiping out several times when the disk spun around! my hat came off, i fell backwards-i think i ended up still going down on the sled. i had so much fun-i had forgotten how much fun sledding was-hadn't done it since i was a kid at my grandmothers and papaws house.
it was pretty well melted except for a few spots here and there and the right side of our driveway-AND we have learned that we cannot leave my car on top by the house....when we heard the forecast called for snow again, we have parked it down on the lower part of the driveway, close to the mailbox. but i don't think it will be taken out anytime soon as the road is still snowy.
school has been called off for tomorrow, which is no surprise to us. jonahs teacher told me that if it doesn't get to 21 degrees, the snow melt that the highway dept puts out doesn't melt the ice. my husband is driving the isuzu. im so glad that he had the foresight to get something like that. i was living in sevierville when i bought my car, so i didn't really need something with 4 wheel drive. if i had been in a place like this, i would've been looking for one.
fortunately, we have the supplies that we need. milk, bread, toilet paper. can't do without any of those!