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kickoffcoverage: PEYTON MANNING SHOWS INCREDIBLE MEMORY - This is a pretty amazing story when you have time to process the entire thing.Tennessee video coordinator Joe Harrington, who has been working with Volunteers for more than two decades, got a call in early December while he was out to lunch.He recognized the voice: Old Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning. But the Denver Broncos star offered no greeting, just a request to cut up a play from 16 years earlier and send him the video.It wasn’t hard to find either, because Manning gave him every single detail of the exact play he was looking for.“I pick up the phone and I go in the corner where it’s quiet, and I’m all, ‘Hello?’ and no ‘Hi, how ya doing?,’ nothing,” Harrington said. “This is what he says: ‘In 1996, Tennessee played Ole Miss in Memphis, in the third quarter we ran a play called Flip Right Duo, X Motion, Fake Roll 98 Block Pass Special. I need you to find that play, I need you to digitize it and I need you to send it to me at Denver, in my email.’“Exactly where he said it would be is what he said would happen.”How amazing is that?When Manning called this play, he was a JR at Tennessee. Since his college career, Manning has played in two Super Bowls, made 12 Pro Bowls, won four MVP awards and counting playoffs has thrown 8,554 NFL passes. But he still remembers the exact play call of a pass he made against Ole Miss in Memphis when he was 20 years old.This is why Peyton Manning is one of the best, if not the best, player to ever wear an NFL uniform. He is a student of the game. (Photo via SI Photos) Amazing.

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PEYTON MANNING SHOWS INCREDIBLE MEMORY -

This is a pretty amazing story when you have time to process the entire thing.

Tennessee video coordinator Joe Harrington, who has been working with Volunteers for more than two decades, got a call in early December while he was out to lunch.

He recognized the voice: Old Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning. But the Denver Broncos star offered no greeting, just a request to cut up a play from 16 years earlier and send him the video.

It wasn’t hard to find either, because Manning gave him every single detail of the exact play he was looking for.

“I pick up the phone and I go in the corner where it’s quiet, and I’m all, ‘Hello?’ and no ‘Hi, how ya doing?,’ nothing,” Harrington said. “This is what he says: ‘In 1996, Tennessee played Ole Miss in Memphis, in the third quarter we ran a play called Flip Right Duo, X Motion, Fake Roll 98 Block Pass Special. I need you to find that play, I need you to digitize it and I need you to send it to me at Denver, in my email.’

“Exactly where he said it would be is what he said would happen.”

How amazing is that?

When Manning called this play, he was a JR at Tennessee. Since his college career, Manning has played in two Super Bowls, made 12 Pro Bowls, won four MVP awards and counting playoffs has thrown 8,554 NFL passes. But he still remembers the exact play call of a pass he made against Ole Miss in Memphis when he was 20 years old.

This is why Peyton Manning is one of the best, if not the best, player to ever wear an NFL uniform. He is a student of the game. (Photo via SI Photos)

Amazing.

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amandaonwriting: Writing the Query Letter Advice from an article by Beth Hill In your query, be sure to include: title of the story genre word count an enticing blurb a request for action contact info (name, pseudonym, phone number, email address) Query Letter Tips Once you write your query letter, have a writer friend or critique partner rewrite it. Sometimes we’re simply too shy about promoting ourselves. Let someone else toot your horn if you can’t do it yourself. Practice writing query letters for books you’re familiar with. Pretend you have to get a positive response in return—what would you say about a well-known book to get it requested today? Do not include artwork (especially work done by your children) for a possible cover or your picks for the actors to play your characters in the movie version of the story or  your life history or a list of all the manuscripts you’ve not sold. Stick with the essentials and that’s it. Do not request that an agent or editor check out your website or your blog. You can include a link in your signature line, but don’t refer to it in any other way. Meet up with agents and editors at conferences. If they hear your elevator pitch at a conference and request a query, they’ll remember your story and be looking for it. Follow the link to read the full article Source for Image From Writers Write

amandaonwriting:

Writing the Query Letter

Advice from an article by Beth Hill

In your query, be sure to include:

  1. title of the story
  2. genre
  3. word count
  4. an enticing blurb
  5. a request for action
  6. contact info (name, pseudonym, phone number, email address)

Query Letter Tips

  1. Once you write your query letter, have a writer friend or critique partner rewrite it. Sometimes we’re simply too shy about promoting ourselves. Let someone else toot your horn if you can’t do it yourself.
  2. Practice writing query letters for books you’re familiar with. Pretend you have to get a positive response in return—what would you say about a well-known book to get it requested today?
  3. Do not include artwork (especially work done by your children) for a possible cover or your picks for the actors to play your characters in the movie version of the story or  your life history or a list of all the manuscripts you’ve not sold. Stick with the essentials and that’s it.
  4. Do not request that an agent or editor check out your website or your blog. You can include a link in your signature line, but don’t refer to it in any other way.
  5. Meet up with agents and editors at conferences. If they hear your elevator pitch at a conference and request a query, they’ll remember your story and be looking for it.

Follow the link to read the full article

Source for Image

From Writers Write

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Short List of Male Celebrities that beat and/or rape women.

scifigamingmom:

  • Charlie Sheen
  • Sean Connery
  • Gary Oldman
  • David Hasselhoff
  • Mel Gibson
  • Michael Fassbender
  • Nicholas Cage
  • Gary Busey
  • Bill Murray
  • Eminem
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Phil Hartman
  • Tommy Lee
  • Josh Brolin
  • Sean Penn
  • Woody Allen
  • Roman Polanski
  • Axl Rose
  • Sonny Bono
  • John Lennon
  • Sean Bean
  • Elvis Presley
  • Kelsey Grammar
  • Rob Lowe
  • Chris Brown

Who Tumblr/Internet/Society cares about when they beat/rape women:

  • Chris Brown

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Just because two people are capable of deeply hurting each other over and over again does not make them passionate, star-crossed lovers. It makes them two people who keep doing terrible things to each other. Someone’s ability to make you completely and utterly soul-crushingly miserable does not mean they are a soul mate with some deep insight into your psyche. They are just someone who is really good at making you unhappy.
Andrea Greb, You Are Not Blair Waldorf (via larmoyante)

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You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly.

Aaron Freeman (via larmoyante)

Beautiful look at death through the eyes of a physicist.

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