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Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side. With a 5-lb potato sack in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, and then relax. Each day you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer. After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato sacks. Then try 50-lb potato sacks and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level.) After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the sacks |
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DATELINE METRO OFFICES
Kelly McCarty agreed to continue to be the editor of the McCarty Metro after refusing a buy-out proposition by Bradric Productions. The 1 year agreement is that the longest running editor of the Metro will publish 9 new editions in 2008, down from the usual 11. Gone will be the January, April, and August editions. We at the Metro will continue to strive to keep you informed on the family and still tickle your funny bone.
DATELINE: CRAINS 40 UNDER 40, CLASS OF 2007
For the past 17 years, Crain’s has been identifying men and women in the business and nonprofit community who have achieved solid business success before the age of 40. Crain’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2007 has members who have started successful companies, have found success at established companies or who have taken nonprofits and made them stronger. One class member created a Web site that connects machine-tool makers with buyers. Another class member is an advocate for historic preservation in Detroit. And yet another started an exposition for black-owned businesses. Close to 250 people were nominated for this year’s 40 Under 40. In making the selections, Crain’s asked nominees to provide extensive information about their careers and community activities. The panel of Crain’s judges based its selections on the information provided by candidates and from Crain’s research. In the end, professional achievement was the most important qualification for selection. Click Here For The Article On Steve
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The Game Plan (PG-Colorful Language)
Go out to Mrs. Hicks Tree, across to the car, then go long... Looks good on the palm of a hand, but can DJ McCarty get the pass off before Dennis Devine rushes in after 5 Mississippi? This is a thriller right to the end. Balls Of Fury (PG13-Lot's Of Groin Shots)
Shortstop Mike McCarty is demoted to work in the bullpen, and catches Wally Modowski without the benefit of wearing a cup. These "in the dirt" fastballs will make you wince on the edge of your seats. Good Luck Chuck (R-Disturbing Dental Video)
Chuckie Brown is not being deployed to Iraq, instead, he makes an appointment to the dentist. The movie is based on the going away party thrown by his Coyle Park friends, knowing that they may never see the Coke drinking Brown again. The Kingdom (R-Violence)
Life on top of the Cheese Castle. Who is king of the park today??? Is it the smokers??? No. It's Mouse Jascot, and his brother Rich. Who will knock them off? Will it be a wild Modo pitch, or is Rick McCarty up to the challenge. |
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CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS ED NOTE: I encourage all my readers to send in your celebrity sightings to the McCarty Metro. Each month, we will post them, and the best ones will be nominated for an M&M award in February.
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| Here are some tricks to help you get your money's worth:Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products) are significant. Every truckload that we load is temperature-compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for businesses, but service stations don't have temperature compensation at their pumps. If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time you want to buy gas, do not fill up; most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank into your car's tank. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or half-empty), because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm. (Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane to act as a barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby minimizing evaporation.) If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank, so you're getting less gas for your money.
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A round watermelon can take up a lot of room in a refrigerator, and the usually round fruit often sits awkwardly on refrigerator shelves. Smart Rutherford County Tennessee farmers have forced their watermelons to grow into a square shape by inserting the melons into square tempered glass cases while the fruit is still growing on the vine. |
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Rick Johnson knew he was in trouble. He forgot his anniversary. His wife Peggy was mad. She told him " Tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift in the driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in less than 6 seconds AND IT BETTER BE THERE!! " The next morning Rick got up early and left for work. When his wife woke up she looked out the window and saw a box gift-wrapped in the middle of the driveway. Confused, the wife put on her robe and ran out to the driveway, and brought the box back in the house. She opened it and found a brand new bathroom scale. Rick has been missing since Friday. Please pray for him.
| DATELINE: TEXAS
In a recent news broadcast, it was announced that Lorena Bobbitt's sister Louella was arrested for an alleged attempt to perform the same act on her husband as her famous sister had done several years ago. Sources reveal the sister was not as accurate as Lorena. She allegedly missed the target and stabbed her husband in the upper thigh causing severe muscle and tendon damage. The husband is reported to be in serious, but stable condition, and Louella has been charged with a misdewiener!
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     | Luciano Pavarotti, 71, Italian operatic tenor, pancreatic cancer. Jane Wyman, 90, American Academy Award-winning actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan. Brett Somers, 83, American actress, comedienne and panelist (Match Game), stomach and colon cancer. Alice Ghostley, 81, American Tony Award-winning actress, colon cancer. Marcel Marceau, 84, French mime artist. | Therese E. Russo, 79, of Clinton Township, died Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007. She was born May 5, 1928, in Ferndale. Mrs. Russo was a homemaker. She is survived by her husband of 57 years, John; children, Michael (Julie), John (Ann Marie), Karen, Mary Beth (Randy) Nasir, and Paul (Jamie); grandchildren, Michael, Paul, Kellie, Jaclyn, John and Scott; siblings, Catherine (Pat) McAlinden, and James (Becky) Kelly; and sister-in-law, Anna (Larry). She was predeceased by a daughter, Terri; siblings, Jack (Rose) Kelly, and Mary (John) Eizonas; brothers-in-law, Sam (Jean), Joseph (Mary), and Buster (Nancy).
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An archeological team digging in Washington DC has uncovered a 10,000 year old fossil of what is believed to be the first politician. 
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