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Pennsylvania family lights up the farm for more than 60 years
As soon as the sky darkens, Beverly Levine flips the switches that light up Koziar�s Christmas Village in Bernville, Pa. (pop. 955), transforming her family�s farm into a holiday wonderland for the 63rd year.
�It�s like a fairyland,� says Levine, 70, as she gazes at the 10-acre Christmas-themed attraction built around dairy barns, chicken coops, tool sheds, a grain silo and stone farmhouse aglow with 500,000 lights.
The charming scene is a testament to the creativity and holiday spirit of her late father, William Koziar, who began decorating the farm in 1948 to delight his wife, Grace, and their four young children. Outdoor Christmas lights and decorations were novelties at the time and attracted carloads of spectators.
�Every year, our father would add something,� says Levine, who remembers helping her father plug in the numerous strands of lights.
�There was only so much wattage, so we couldn�t put all the Christmas lights on until the milking was finished because we needed lights in the barn,� she adds. �We couldn�t turn on the television either.�
The Koziars� home became known as the �Christmas House,� and each year motorists clogged the narrow road in front of the farm, parking haphazardly to marvel at the glowing lights. In the early 1950s, William paved part of a field to make a parking lot, set up a card table and began charging a dollar a car to visit Koziar�s Christmas Village. As visitors walked around the farm admiring the decorations, the Koziar kids served cups of hot chocolate.
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Although her father provided the creative spark, the whole family created Christmas Village, says Sonia Ochroch, 72, Levine�s only surviving sibling.
�We�d sit down after Christmas and come up with all these ideas,� Ochroch recalls. �It kept our minds in a creative mode. Wherever we went, we�d come back with ideas.�
During the summertime, their father rigged a lighted Koziar�s Christmas Village sign atop the family�s Pontiac and drove in area parades to promote their winter attraction.
Year-round, he tinkered with decorations and hired local farmers, artists and welders to help create the designs that the family brainstormed�a giant U.S. flag shining with red, white and blue bulbs on top of the 65-foot silo, and lighted bells, candles, stars and snowflakes attached to the roofs and sides of the house and barns. They arranged their own dolls, ice skates and toy trucks for a ��Twas the Night Before Christmas� scene in one of the chicken coops.
�Everything here has meaning to us,� says Ochroch as she looks wistfully at a scene of an old-fashioned Christmas dinner on the enclosed front porch of the farmhouse. �Those are Mom�s dishes on the table and her Victrola. That�s Billy�s airplane in the corner,� she says, recalling her brother who died in 2007. Their sister, June, died last year.
In front of the 1870s farmhouse is the lake that their father dug and the source of sweet memories of swimming with friends and bundled-up ice-skating parties as soon as the lake froze over.
Holiday tradition
Today, the lake reflects thousands of shimmering Christmas lights from the first weekend in November through Jan. 1, as the two Koziar sisters keep the village glowing with the help of three year-round employees and several seasonal workers. For thousands of families, the gift from a loving father to his family has become a holiday tradition.
�Everything is so beautiful,� says Clara Casciano, 90, of Norristown, Pa., who has been visiting Koziar�s Christmas Village since the 1950s. �It just makes you feel alive.�
Accompanied by three generations of her family, Casciano makes her way along a lighted walkway with her daughter Sue Fontannay, 64, of Limerick, Pa.; Sue�s daughter, Danielle Fontannay, 36; and Danielle�s daughter Claire, 4, who can�t wait to have her photo taken on Santa�s lap inside Santa�s Headquarters.
As the family strolls, they�re delighted by Christmas displays in dozens of former farm implement sheds and other structures built for the village: a brick firehouse, one-room schoolhouse, post office, church and ice cream parlor. Pathways lead to a two-story fiberglass Santa Claus on Ho! Ho! Ho! Lane, a life-size Nativity scene, a bakery, and a gift barn stocked with nutcrackers and other holiday ornaments.
Sue smiles as she watches a model train zip around a miniature village. Further along the path, a �Kissing Bridge� is adorned with lighted wreaths and angels. The bridge is a popular spot for first dates and wedding proposals since the toll to cross is a kiss.
�This place makes you feel like Christmas,� Sue says.
Nearby, Connor Devlin, 2, of Exeter, Pa., stares wide-eyed at a display of Santa�s workshop and a white-bearded elf painting a toy soldier.
Connor�s father, Brian, 37, is as impressed by the glistening village as his toddler. �The best part is when you come over the hill and it�s like you�re looking into a snow globe,� he says.
�Tis the season
Wendy Fisher, 43, has worked at the village during the holiday season since she was 16, as have her two children.
�It�s part of my Christmas tradition,� says Fisher, a school secretary in nearby Bethel, Pa. �My first job here was typing up price tags, but I�ve worked everywhere in the village. This is my family.�
Although Koziar�s Christmas Village closes Jan. 2, it takes a month or longer to dismantle the elaborate displays. The decorations are refurbished and new ones planned before they are installed each August for the upcoming season.
�Everything around us has changed,� Levine says. �There aren�t a lot of farms anymore, but the Christmas Village is still here. It�s so miraculous.�
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Windows XP, which was launched in October 2001 and has been updated with three service packs, is the most popular and longest-lasting desktop operating system so far. Around 400 million PCs (42.86% of all PCs out there) are still humming along just fine with this version of Windows, based on all network traffic recorded for July 2012 by Net Applications.
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At a time when the financial climate is a major factor, Becker is keen for progress after some minor structural issues have arisen in the city recently.
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Jaded tech pundits may be nitpicking the iPhone 5—it gets scratched, it's evolutionary, it scorched my finger, we don't like the new connector, the map got me lost, [insert latest gripe here].
But guess what? Your end users aren't listening. These devices will be on your network soon, if they're not already. Record-breaking first-weekend sales and a weeks-long order backlog are proof that, despite the collective yawn from flinty analysts, the iPhone 5 delivered what the increasingly accurate supply chain rumor mill predicted, and the general public hasn't outgrown its lust for Apple gadgets.
While the iPhone 5 is undeniably evolutionary, it also demonstrates that keeping up with (and in a few cases, pushing) the march of smartphone component technology, coupled with a lot of little OS changes, equals a demonstrably superior product. The 5 is much faster, slimmer and lighter than the 4S while improving on its previously state-of-the-art display and camera. And while iOS 6 giveth (Passbook, FaceTime, feature additions to virtually every built-in app) and taketh away (Google Maps, YouTube), on balance it too is a notable improvement.
In this report we'll analyze both the hardware and software highlights from the new iPhone with an eye on features most useful to enterprises, quantify performance improvements with hands-on test results, and wrap with some recommendations for business managers and IT pros evaluating the revamped iPhone lineup. (S5931012)
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CP wrote:"And I haven't even mentioned his X and O's skills. Let's just say, he's very Mike Brown on the offensive end of the floor. The Hornets literally ran one single solitary play with the high screen and roll with the center. It worked a lot two years ago simply because of Chris Paul's immense talent and the chemistry between him and Tyson Chandler. But better coached teams like San Antonio and the Lakers eventually exposed their bland offense game plan. "
Excuse me while I vomit. I retract my earlier post where I said I'd be fine with Scott...
I'm still fine with him. He's not perfect, and this is one take. Sounds like much like Izzo would, he could use a solid O X's and O's guy on the bench with him.
In NJ, I recall the whispers of losing the team as well, but also recall that VC is a doosh at the height of his dooshery, and Kidd wasn't a model citizen when the big 3 plan in Dallas imploaded IIRC.
I don't think Scott is great and would still go up and comer with a better resume. But I don't think he's Randy Whittman either.
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Hikohadon wrote:peeker643 wrote:As to Trestman, he was here in late 80's and it was rocky at times but not because of him. He was in a bad situation w/Bernie, etc as Bernie was Manning-like in the specific sense he wanted/demanded control of the offense. The Trestman Browns were actually pretty good offensively. I have no idea why he fell off the NFL map but he was also very young when he was here and maybe he didn't play nice with others.
Not sure he's head coaching material but not sure he's not.
He's been a pretty damn good coach in the CFL. Not sure how much that means, but it is successful head coaching experience.
I actually wouldn't mind that hire at all.
The Canadian pitch is wider with deeper endzones, so isn't it like playing on grass vs. clay in tennis? One game is spread out for the slow guys (clay/CFL), the other is speed and more speed (grass/NFL). Not sure how that would translate.
Tho at least he does have to work with a limited roster...which give him a management skill college coaches don't possess.


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Skip to comments.The Great New Year Stampede: Americans Rushing to beat Obamacare and gun bans.
Posted on 01/03/2013 7:07:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There is a New Year stampede developing that we have not seen for a long time.
Gun stores are swamped with panicking customers. They are looking for handguns, semiautomatic rifles, and as much ammunition as they can afford. But buyers are not just camouflaged hunters, conspiracy theorists, and gun hoarders. Instead, many of those purchasing firearms and ammo are so-called ordinary people, convinced that this administration will soon begin to centrally register and then ban far more than assault rifles.
There were probably lots of reasons why Adam Lanza shot 26 innocent children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. But so far the government and media are not focusing much on his prior obsessions with violent video games, on societys seeming inability to hospitalize the unstable, or on the crude violence peddled in Hollywood and through popular music that portrays shooting people as a sort of cheap fantasy without consequences.
Instead, the administration is zeroing in on the ability of Lanzas mother to legally buy semiautomatic weapons that her son then stole to murder her and the schoolchildren and employees. The result is a pandemic of fear that the Second Amendment will be reinterpreted and redefined as never before.
With the resolution of the fiscal cliff, taxes on those who make more than $400,000 are going to rise considerably as they will revert to the Clinton-era rates. But this time the landscape is radically different.
There will not be much deficit reduction and certainly no balanced budgets, adding insult to injury for those who must pay the government far more.
The new, higher rates come on top of state-income-tax hikes in much of the country all in addition to further increases in capital-gains taxes, new Obamacare taxes, and much steeper inheritance taxes. The result is not just a 3 percent to 5 percent increase on the well-off, but for some payers aggregate hikes of 7 percent to 8 percent or even more.
No wonder many companies are rushing to pay dividends now to beat rising capital-gains-tax rates. Likewise, many individuals are considering expensive new life-insurance policies to protect their heirs from losing small farms and businesses to steep new federal estate taxes. Red states will attract even more refugees fleeing high-tax and near-insolvent blue states.
Most Americans are already seeing their health-insurance premiums shoot up in anticipation of the 2014 federal takeover of health care. To pay for the vast Obamacare programs whose details still remain a mystery for most money will be raised in all sorts of bizarre ways, from reducing Medicare coverage to taxing new medical devices and some drug makers.
A sense of foreboding hangs over the currently insured. Almost everyone is unsure whether the new federal statutes will still cover currently covered procedures or whether they will be rationed or curtailed altogether. Expect many people to schedule check-ups and major medical procedures in 2013 before Obamacare kicks in.
There is a common denominator that underlies all this multifaceted uncertainty. Fairly or not, there is a sense that those who played by the rules and did well have instead done something wrong, or at least are under suspicion and it is now time for their government to seek atonement from them. Worse still is the dread that the governments new policies and taxes will not solve problems but may make them worse and prompt even more government engineering.
For the law-abiding gun owner, the federal government may make it more difficult to buy legal arms even though there is little evidence that gun restrictions per se have stopped shootings, and some evidence that states with lots of armed citizens have lower crime rates. If the semiautomatic-rifle ban does not work, what gun will be banned next to stop violence?
Most well-off taxpayers add up their local, state, federal, payroll, and capital-gains taxes and feel they really have paid their fair share. They all know that handing over more wont solve the fiscal crisis, but instead will only empower more government deficit spending. If new taxes wont stop deficits, whats next?
Finally, those who budgeted and provided their own health insurance feel that the new restrictions and higher taxes on their coverage are the costs of subsidizing many who could have bought, but chose not to buy, their own health insurance.
The ability of citizens to protect their households, to keep at least half their earnings safe from various government taxes, and to use their own judgment in making health-care decisions is central to a free people. No wonder the fear that a radically growing government will infringe on such traditional freedoms is stampeding millions of panicky Americans in all directions.
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of The End of Sparta.
I admit it. I bought one for the first time.
I'm trying to by a new 7.62 semi-auto. No luck at all so far.
Vote with your $.
Buy hard goods as inflation hedge.
If bed breaks, mattress won't hit the ground, but may be a little hard.
It was the corrupt MSM that elected and then floated Bill Clinton. It was the corrupt MSM that prevented information about Obama from causing him political damage and thus enabling him to be elected. It was the corrupt MSM that reelected Obama despite the abject misery.
Coupled with a nation of people who have absolutely no spiritual and moral foundation and you have a people who believe anything pop culture pitches them.
Unless there is a spiritual revival of huge proportions in this land we are doomed.
.....but did not Sandy Hook come along at the most convenient time for this administration?...right on the heels of F&F?....it has to be a coincidence since there is NOBODY who would engineer such a tragedy just to further an agenda......
.....or is there?
When they come for the guns, and that will be sooner, I think, than later, the decision will have been made to sovietize the USA completely and things will move very quickly. The killings and disappearances will begin and targeted famines. George W Kerensky has been followed by Barrack Hussein Lenin. The guns will be confiscated when the military has been satisfactorily neutralized which operation is probably well under weigh.
Seemingly, every department's reason for existence is to expand itself. To finance this expansion, fedgov is borrowing 40 cents of every dollar it spends. Most of this money is borrowed from the Federal Reserve, in essense fedgov borrows from fedgov to finance fedgov. This will not end well. Am I missing something?
The Illinois legislature is poised to take away all modern guns, including those that were grandfathered in, from registered gun owners.
The government plans to seize them one way or the other.
I did my part yesterday.
Subject: thinking on your feet
Tim decided to tie the knot with his long time girlfriend. One evening, after the honeymoon, he was assembling some loads for an upcoming hunt.
His wife was standing there at the bench watching him. After along period of silence she finally speaks. "Honey, I've been thinking, now that we are married I think it's time you quit hunting, shooting, handloading, and fishing. Maybe you should sell your guns and boat."
Tim gets this horrified look on his face.
She says, "Darling, what's wrong?"
There for a minute you were sounding like my ex-wife.
"Ex wife!" she screams, "I didn't know you were married before!"
I wasn't!
Good for you. Consider it a badge of citizenship.
You have nailed it about the corrupt MSM. The sad thing is that they are exeptionally well versed in "doublethink". They are very good at lying to themselves.
With the new media, we have a chance, but we have to fight. Giving up is not an option. We have no where to flee.
I held an AR-15 (on sale) in my hands about a week before the school shooting, but I just could not bring myself to buy something so ugly. I am thinking another M1 Garand instead. They still have some at the CMP.
Members of the military I know tell me they will not be part of any confiscations down the road. Gun owners tell me there will be civil insurrection and vigilantism before they give them up. All I know is that our country only functions through voluntary compliance of our laws by the majority. If the majority refuses to comply, it doesn't matter what Big Ears has to say. We shall see.
So, freepers, if I join the NRA, will that info be published anywhere?
I finally have all the parts on order to build one. Not my original plan, nor my original timing for this purchase, but not much choice. I believe the best we will get is grandfathering in what is currently in your possession. I have a second lower and LPK that I need to figure out what to do with. I really want a .308 but the parts on those are $$$$, and the extra lower wont work for it.
It does not matter. You are on Freerepublic. You are already on a higher priority list than the NRA.
The NRA sends its members print magazines, so the post office already has that list.
I do not think the NRA list is available via google search. I should have read your question more carefully before I posted!
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Most of the military will be sidelined, "kept in the barracks," so to speak. The confiscaion will be attempted using the army of federal, state, and local SWATs, of which there are far more than most people imagine, and by TSA, Forest Service, DOE DEA, AFT, and SIEU etc. etc. Billions of bullets to the "civilian" agencies this past year, remember?
Folks, write to your representatives and senators. Call them. Also contact your state representatives and senators, if gun control bills are coming to them. Join the NRA and state Second Amendment rights organizations, or at least send donations to them.
That said, it appears that most of the money and efforts against our Second Amendment are going into Colorado this time. Their national efforts won't be likely to pass the US House.
In Colorado (recent recipient of large numbers of people moving from the west coast and the northeast), they are attempting to root their agenda and go from there. The Colorado legislature is now a Democrat majority, and the Governor is a Democrat. Some State Assembly Democrats there would vote against gun control measures, though, if they felt that voting in favor of them is too unwise (volumes of letters and calls they receive).
They should also know that more gun control laws will also adversely affect the State's economy (tourism, hunting, etc.).
Calirado is much further to the left than most of you know (big city regulations in rural areas, big federal funding and much more). Residents of some states tend to cheerlead for their states regardless of true political conditions, because they depend on big government for their incomes. Although leaning far to the left on most issues, Caliradans in both socialist political parties like firearms, especially the tacticool kind. Such firearms are in style, and don't you know the planet Niburu is heading our way. ;-) [Little humor there.]
"All rifle, upper half, lower half, and lower receiver orders."
Sometime in the last few days, it said that the lead time was a year. Now, it says that they're not taking orders on those items.
There were rumors a few days ago, that other manufacturers were also backed up for about a year.
The few Democrats leading efforts against our Second Amendment said months ago, that they were going to try to affect supplies (raise prices, lower availability). Looks like they've done it again.
I got a Taurus Judge. The idea of a revolver handgun that shoots shotgun rounds appealed to me. After taking it to the range, I don't regret the decision.
Happy New Year!
Have a happy one, yourself.
I could only imagine what would now occur if the feds tried anything around these parts. Most the locals and Indians hunt with old military guns, M1's, SKS's, Ar's, and Aks. All the open river for the park service to patrol and all that forested woods along the bank; could become a problem; maybe they should agent orange the bank for 100 yards on both sides.
We live in a conservative state, with conservative government that already puts word out to state police not to enforce fed law that goes against the constitution. I do believe that if the feds tried such lunacy, it would end with the non compliance of the populace, rejection by the state government, and could mushroom into civil disorder the likes the left can't imagine; maybe that's what they want but the end result would hurt Big "O" more than would help him. They need the populace to abide by the law voluntarily or the country will fall into turmoil and their future plans will be short tracked. When the law is seen as unconstitutional by the populace, they won't support or abide by that law; it's always been that way. Gun control has always hurt the dems at the ballot box.
I'm too far along in my life to give up my constitutional rights to anybody and I know most everybody around here feel the same, they won't become slaves. I have a friend that is now dying of cancer, I'd rather go out for an important concept if need be and for that reason, I don't live in fear of all the fed agencies that you mentioned. Just my makeup I guess and there's millions more just like me all over America.
My son and I were at the gun shop this last weekend. He wanted to spend his christmas money on a Ruger 10/22. After calling about 15 places this shop had stock. Many of the gun racks were empty but the place was busy. While we were there employees brought out 2 AR-15s and placed them on the wall racks. You could see dozen's of heads turn. Both guns were off the racks within 30 seconds. They were doing background checks for both of them before we left.
I met a man today who just relocated from Durango, CO to northern Idaho. I asked him why he left a nice place like Durango. He told me he had a Romney sticker on his car and his tires got slashed.
It appears that Colorado is lost.
That's not news. You might be able to find someone with a Saiga 308 who hasn't sold out of them yet (because a lot of people don't know the thing exists) and you might be able to find a just-built FAL professionally assembled on a US receiver from surplus parts.
These were not coincidences.
Good thing these agencies placed their HUGE orders for ammo right before an event which would cause HUGE PUBLIC DEMAND FOR AMMO!!
I'm SO glad I got started back in 2008. Still wish I could have done more. Dammed if I'm gonna pay $50 for a 30rnd AR magazine.
I'd investigate how to make the things myself before spending a small fortune on them. I may already have plenty though. Just sayin'....
That looks a lot better (both the gun and the shooter).
TSA will be in charge of all transportation if SHTF. Think checkpoints and "Where's your papers/travel orders?" If you have been in an airport lately you will see the demographic of the TSA crowd.
We could very well see a second American civil war in our lifetimes.
"I admit it.... I bought one for the first time...."
Me too....2nd one is on order....Ammo is VERY scarce here.....All 5 dealers in this area had nothing but a couple boxes of buckshot!!....No .38 nothing......
"...to buy something so ugly. ..."
It's in the eye of the beholder.
I see it as "something that makes liberals pee themselves and infuriates socialists" and that has a beauty all it's own...
As a matter of fact, it makes it downright "Helen Of Troy" beautiful...
RINO File.
If you don't mind a bolt-action rifle, Savage makes a very accurate .308 that goes for about $300.
We need a congressional investigation into Sandy Hook.
Yes you are. The Federal Reserve is a private bank owned by private bankers (like Citi) who own shares in it. It acts in the interest of these member banks
My "plan", since I am new to this, was handgun first (did that in August), then, Ruger 10/22 for Christmas (done), then shotgun (used 1100 at auction last week), ARs and bolt actions to follow the next 2-3 years. I am looking at bolt actions now and am leaning towards Thompson Center Dimension that I can swap between .223 and .308. I got to hold one at a gun auction last week and it felt good. That way I can be working with only 4 calibers plus 12 gauge, .40, .22LR, .223/5.56, and .308/7.62, across 7 "guns" ( XDm, 10/22, AR and bolt actions in 5.56 and .308, and 12 gauge).
That would be my next handgun purchase also.
The upside is that since I worked in LE for a while I can say with confidence that most of them couldn't hit an elephant at 50 yards. Most armed officers never practice except at the once a year re-qualification.
At the range it was laughable how many fumbled with their mags during a reload and then recharging the weapon. As a matter of convenience most don't know where their extra mags are. Uniformed officers would pull a mag from their belt and it would have food crumbs and funk all over them.
I am not too worried.
Being shamefully ignorant of firearms, I don't recognize this one but that is a beauty.
Even up here in rural Alaska some 35 miles north of Wasilla we have a trained SWAT team, I know because I was accidentally involved in a situation some years ago.
I was making a concrete delivery to a house in Big Lake, about 6 houses away a silent alarm was tripped, somehow they ascertained the intruder was armed and may have a hostage, I could not leave my concrete mixer and watched the whole scenario of how the team was delivered, how they deployed, how air support stayed overhead, they were fully armored with helmets and vests plus the usual black gun rollout.
Many police departments all across America have formed their own SWAT team because the Feds were hosing cash out of tankers to them. And now they are getting even more cash, weapons far beyond what you could have bought in a store.
They will never out number armed Americans but they will have superior firepower.
I suggest scouring the video database of movies made about guerrilla warfare, behind enemy lines insurrection, freedom fighters etc, but skip the latest Hollywood crap like Red Dawn 2. They make films like that hoping to falsely educate insurrectionist Constitution Freedom Fighters.
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Why don't everyone open their eyes up the truth is we r in a major crisis our freedom is at stake..we r ran by half humans half reptialians bankers from over seas who have bought r freedom to vote freedom to live period..we need to ask why is there 600,000 plastic coffins and fema camps with trains ready to ship us away in..just so they can have their illuminati elite group to survive while they terminate their biggest fans while knowing their fans eyes r closed..don't believe me look up infowars.com or prison planet.com either of them will tell u the truth behind sandy hook set up(gun control) 911 the big picture will be revealed. For the love of GOD find Jesus Christ … he's the only one who can save us now… new world order…depopulation plan 500,000,000 worldwide serious stuff…stonehedge in millington Geogia has the elite plan of nwo. See 4 urselves….it will I promise u U will not care whose wearing what kind of Dress color etc..just wake up america
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Crisis as well as the poor will all ways be with us!!! Yes, Jesus is the answer for the world today, above him is none other,Jesus is the way!! Nice comments are always the best ones and really, what the world needs now is love not hate. There is a time and a season for everything and right now it is just "the Obama's season", so why not rejoice with them. I agree, that the shooting at Sandy Hook was heart-wrenching, but the question is why was the gunman allowed to purchase so many guns, when his countenance clearly displayed a "psychological illness". Mainly, I believe that many of our problems with such crimes of this kind lie within family members not paying enough attention to their own "emotionally sick family members", but yet want to blame the entire nation including the president. When prayer and the name of God was taken out of our schools, everything else came in and began to take over. Basically, what do you expect?
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- The megastars narrow their search and concentrate on mo' money.
- Teams that raped the roster for cap space only to find there won't be a Bron under the free agency tree start scrambling to fill the roster voids.
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Research: Cloud Security: Verify, Don't Trust
A common question about the cloud is whether it's more or less secure than a corporate data center. That's an interesting question—and also the wrong one to ask. Instead, customers and potential customers of cloud services, whether IaaS, PaaS, SaaS or some other acronym, need to ask whether a cloud provider's controls align with the amount of risk a customer is willing to take with its data.
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Skip to comments.Cause and Effect: Americans Who Voted for Obama Now Seeing Weekly Job Hours Slashed Below 30...
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My wife works for a small family business that employed 55 workers.
Six were let go a few weeks back to get under 50. No news camera's standing out on the curb. Nobody keeping count - just another 6 jobs gone.
Boo hoo...elections have consequences.
It was a vote of economic serial murder, at least second degree murder that is (Intent to do economic harm to half the country that pays taxes, with intent to wound but not kill, but winds up killing anyway by bleeding us, economically speaking, to death)
I suggest that those who get the axe should march on D.C. and protest the government intrusion that cost them their job, if they don't do anything about it than frankly I am tired of fighting for their sorry butts.... I also suggest that business owners explain to their employees that the exact reason that they are being laid off is because of government taxation and overregulation, I would say also to be sure to thank an Obama voter for ensuring that you are on the unemployment line.... but of course as the unemployment sky rockets the average American won't be told by the Liberal media complex and the government will continue with creative ways to fudge the numbers as labor participation drops at twice the rate of new hires.... As the unemployment checks run out and more people jump on the SSDI or Welfare roles that ultimately is unsustainable and will destroy the country... bottom line what we are watching is national suicide.
Too bad...so sad.
Having a real hard time shedding a tear over here...
The ignorant masses made their bed, now they have to sleep in it. This will affect young and unskilled people more than any others, because they are the ones who bring the least value-added to a business.
Boo f'ing hoo. Maybe next time they'll think about NOT voting for a Socialist turd and his enablers in Congress.
Top Ten Things To Tell A Laid-Off Obama Voter:
My personal favorite:
1. Hey, at least that successful Mormon businessman didnt win.
On a happier note, I get to fire an employee on Christmas Eve day because she has gone over her sick and vaca time. Four write ups this year. Oh, and she tells everyone about her awesome Kwanzaa vacation coming up!
If one considers the purpose in the mind of a leftard....
there is X amount of work to do. I have Y people to do that work in 40 hours.
To your average leftard then they think that if you cut their hours by 25% then they will hire 25% more workers to do the same X amount of work.
When the reality is that their hours get cut 25%, the work X remains the same and the staff level remains the same. So the employer demands higher productivity.
Leftards never follow things through to their logical conclusion.
Cause & effect, huh. Do Big Ears voters even understand that correlation?
"On a happier note, I get to fire an employee on Christmas Eve day because she has gone over her sick and vaca time. Four write ups this year. Oh, and she tells everyone about her awesome Kwanzaa vacation coming up!"
I envy you; I have black employees, but with one exception they are happy to have a job and do it well.
For several decades now employement law in Hawaii has mandated that employers provide health insurnace to employess who work over 20 hours / week.
The result? A lot of people work two or more part-time jobs (under 20 hrs/week) and have no health insurance. Been going on a long time
All they had to do was look at a real life case study ... right in Obama's backyard.
For several decades now employement law in Hawaii has mandated that employers provide health insurnace to employess who work over 20 hours / week.
The result? A lot of people work two or more part-time jobs (under 20 hrs/week) and have no health insurance. Been going on a long time
All they had to do was look at a real life case study ... right in Obama's backyard.
Take their last 30 hours away and they'll blame Bush for it.
Instead of one company that does a few things, put a wall up, divide the Co., two parts (two companies, Inc.).
One side of the wall does one thing, other side does the finish work.
For those that make $250K or a little over, cut back to $245K.
More than one way to skin a cat. (I really don't know that, but was told)lol
...Remember how you said you wanted to pick up a part time job? Well, now you need to get two part-time jobs - no one is hiring full time anymore....(here's your sign)
How surprising./sarc
Really? Do you think that only liberals are getting laid off? Bad news: staunch conservatives can't get more than thirty hours a week, too. I hope you're a little more sympathetic toward us.
Whoa. If she is celebrating Kwanza, then it is impossible to fire her for any reason without a costly lawsuit.
I heard that list this morning on the radio and laughed out loud as I was driving to work!!
Scrolled down to a reply: #15....
I am sure all of those extra taxes on the rich will flow down to you.
Elections have consequenes.
"..I hope you're a little more sympathetic toward us...."
To my people: Yes, absolutely.
To them: Nothing but contempt. They wanted "change", they got it. They screwed themselves and the entire country.
The title says "Americans who voted for Obama..." Or did you miss that?
Point your cannon there.
I hope that their hours get cut to zero. words cannot describe how much i despise the bastards.
They are pretty funny...in a grim way. WE'RE "the rich" in question...
We're ALL gonna get bounced as the country spirals "forward" into a crap bowl of hope and change.
I told them no problem: If they want to pull that race card bit. All you have to do is axked them: "Where you Black when I hired you?"
Her termination is for GROSS incompetence and being habitually late and lying. All written, checked, and approved write ups.
HR approved my request to fire on Monday before Xmas with cause. All pre-Clownza....plus it is NOT a religion.....just a celebration.
(("Oh, and she tells everyone about her awesome Kwanzaa vacation coming up! "))
Heard this on Beck this morning, looks true:
"The word "Kwanzaa" comes from "matunda ya kwanza," which is a Swahili term for "first fruits." The extra "a" in "kwanzaa" came about during an early Kwanzaa celebration in which seven children each wanted to represent a letter in the word, and an extra "a" was added to "kwanza" to make sure all the children were included."
Tell her you'll be celebrating the true "mantunda ya kwanza" and won't need an extra 'a'....she's fired.
My greatest fear is that they would all slowly starve to death.
Oh, the horror.
WHERE...make that: Was you Black when I hired you?
"Cause & effect, huh. Do Big Ears voters even understand that correlation?"
No because the official party line drummed into them by the media and our public education system is that these layoffs and firings are caused by those evil, greedy rich.
I could not care less about kwanzaa. At the present time I do not know anything about it and am not interested in learning.
Not really. She was Black when she was hired, no discrimination there. Write ups are the saving factor.
Yikes! Hope you've got your ducks in a row! Been there and done that.
Boo f'ing hoo. Maybe next time they'll think about NOT voting for a Socialist turd and his enablers in Congress.
I'm part of that group at 26 years old and I haven't voted for a socialist turd, ever.
Okay, I tell a lie. I voted McCain and Romney because Obama was worse.
But having said that, what am I supposed to do now? The only reason I have a computer is because I work my extremely part-time job from it for all of $100 a week, and that's the BEST job available to me at the moment. Other than that, I'm unemployed, have crushing student debt, and what few savings I had were used to try to pay down all the other debt that Obama's first term forced me into.
So what do you propose that I do now? I want to be a maker and not a taker, but there's nothing I can do! I can't even serve in the armed forces because of my health problems.
Yikes! Hope you've got your ducks in a row! Been there and done that.
As much as it pains me to say this, people aren't smart to realize that one simple truth, that the government cost them their jobs. AND THEY WON'T! It won't be until (and possibly not even then) the masses wake up and realize that the Obama they voted for doesn't care about them. He only wants to be king and will destroy anyone and everyone to achieve his goal.
Remember this exchange from Men In Black, the first movie?
James: Why not tell people, people are smart.
Agent K: A person is smart, people are dumb panicky animals and you know it!
Seems almost a bit prophetic, don't ya think?
May be justified, you will probably win, doesn't mean a lawsuit won't be filed.
I think Kwanzaa is a hoot - a stupid made up holiday that should be mocked at every opportunity.
The story about how it has one extra 'a' is funny as heck.
"...So what do you propose that I do now?..."
Whatever you can to survive until (if) things better.
Not being a wiseass - I've BEEN there. Hell. I dug graves and cut grass in a cemetery back in the day just to make a living and pay my bills.
You take the BEST job you can get - and you get it by going door to door at EVERY business in your area, and you KEEP doing it every day until you get something.
"...Im part of that group at 26 years old..."
No, you're NOT part of "that" group; Read the title.
You're part of the group that got affected by what the assholes and idiots of THAT group voted for, and I do feel sorry for you. And I worked with others just like you. Kids with degrees, right out of college, and in debt, who just found themselves unemployed. Nobody's safe and secure right now.
Do whatever you can - pump gas, change tires, work the cashier counter at MacDonald's or Burger King, take whatever position you can get for now, and work the hell out of it to make ends meet.
Cut back on things you don't absolutely need.
Parents still around? Move back with them if they'll let you and start socking cash away, whatever little bit you can.
That's how you survive tough times, kid. You get tougher, and you use whatever skillsets and talents God gave you and those you made for yourself.
I wish you well, and you have prayers from many, many people out here.
Of course, they'll be branded as being "greedy" and "selfish" if they do that. Notwithstanding the fact that the proper purpose of a business is to make money for the stakeholders, and that's as it should be. Businesses which make money will have more money to invest, and thus be able to better able to serve their employees and customers. Taking away a business' ability to make money will leave it less able to serve employees and customers.
Also told her that half my tenants were black, was none of her business, but just an added jab by me.lol
I have empathy for all conservatives that voted for "love of country" and now suffer because of Obama and his democrats.
All others can eat worms.
-Support your country, hire a conservative.
-Do something for mankind, fire a lib today.
-Look for the union label, then buy something else.
Sorry about the overly-emotional response. Just that it's been rough lately—economics plus liver problems—and it's easy to take things the wrong way in this state of mind.
It's embarrassing, but my mother and step-father have let me move back in with them. I hate it, but it's the best of my limited options. I've gone to seminary in order to keep my student loans from coming due, and it lets me earn the occasional few hundred dollars from doing pulpit supply too.
That plus writing on commission has managed to keep my head above water so far. But it's a very narrow thing, and getting narrower.
Thanks very much for the advice and the prayers.
I hope the boss (quietly) targeted obastard supporters...
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"NPR Community" Announcement: Dewey Wins!
September 29, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: budget shortfalls, combination of the two, democratic society, editorial director, grizzled veterans, john dewey, largesse, media framework, media game, member station, music site, national public radio, perp walk, Riff, right tools, station managers, strange combination, unintended consequence, victory lap, walter lippman, youtube
Big news this weekend from the mothership. National Public Radio gets in the social media game with their launch of the NPR Community, a public media framework that ties all digital content posted on the NPR website - both from insiders and member station producers (Disclosure: I am the latter) - to the good people who actually consume it on their computers, mobile devices, and other emerging gadgets.
I'll be joining the community of NPR/member station employees, listeners, and visitors to the NPR Music Site for the online cabal. According to Dick Meyer, Editorial Director at NPR Digital Media, "Many big news operations have had open comments and other "social media" functions for quite awhile. Some of you are grizzled veterans of Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and online news commenting; for some this will be new."
He added, "NPR has been cautious because we want to do it right; we want the comments and the conversations to be useful, friendly and civil; we want NPR employees to participate and talk about their work. We needed the right tools and the right philosophy to come together. Now it has." Read the full announcement.
It's another victory lap for John Dewey's assertions on the role of journalism in a democratic society and another perp walk for Walter Lippman's treatise. Or an uneasy alliance of the two competing philosophies. To me, it's Dewey's "Great Society" turned "Great Community" for public radio's content makers and users. Supported by taxpayers like you. Cool. Meyer adds, "We are not launching the project to get more "hits" that will make more money. We are doing it because it is the respectful thing to do for the NPR community."
True, but the service will bring more traffic to NPR's website, and consequently, more underwriting sponsorship. Station managers grappling with overtaxed work forces, limited resources, and budget shortfalls of their own will view this with the requisite admiration, envy, and possibly some concern. Will the largesse, an unintended consequence or otherwise, trickle down to stations? And while everyone in public radio has their eye on growing the audience, NPR Digital and other capitalized public media institutions (including a handful of stations) are making the concept of an audience disappear. It's being replaced with citizens and collaborators and users in a participatory online environment. People who naturally consume information, love to share it, comment on it, and engage with it. Not to mention the occasional conservative hecklers and critics of public media. It's an interesting experiment, and finding a solution to the fiscal equation is like finding the next prime number. But organizations like NPR are risking revenue for innovation. Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, I'll be hanging out in my bleacher seat on the NPR Community, connecting to the music lover who visits some of the content I contribute (including the WBGO/NPR Music Concert Series, Live at the Village Vanguard). I'm joining because it's my bit part in the whole liberal (and I use that word in its true definition) utopian process. After all, what's a great society or great community without some great music?


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Spice & Wolf (GN 8)
Title: Spice & Wolf
Volume: GN 8
Pages: 192
Distributor: Yen Press
Release date: 2013-06-25
Suggested retail price: $12.99
Age rating: 17+
Despite the dangers, Lawrence and Holo decide to escort Elsa and Evan back to Tereo in an effort to rescue the village from the calamity that Enberch has orchestrated. But with the town in dire need of a miracle, is this a job for the Wisewolf of Yoitsu, or is a simple merchant better suited to meet the challenge at hand?
Story by Isuna Hasekura and Art by Keito Koume.
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Capture today's memories for tomorrow with scrapbooking, now easier than ever with new tools and technology.
On flower-patterned�paper, Amy Glines arranges her favorite photos from a family hiking trip. She settles on a design, then reaches for glue, ribbons, rubber�stamps, colored pens, shape-cutting scissors, stencils and a sticker-making machine to create a keepsake of a spring outing to Hot Springs (Ark.) National Park.
�It�s a way to relive the memories,� says Glines, 40, of Purcell, Mo.,who�s been scrapbooking since 1991.
Glines� 30 personalized scrapbooks provide a peek into her life andreveal her love for her family. Decorated pages with hand-writtenpassages highlight the rescue of a baby oriole, a surprise snowfall in May, a trip with her husband, Jeff, to an Oklahoma City Barons ice hockey game, and a summer visit by her niece and nephews.
Scraps of History
Some 23 million Americans keep scrapbooks, a pastime rooted in 16th-century �commonplace books,� in which people copied proverbs, quotations and speeches that they deemed worth remembering. Modern scrapbooking, however, arose in the 19th century with�affordable penny press newspapers. �There was so much wonderful information in print with cheap newspapers,� says scrapbook historian Ellen GruberGarvey, author of Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance.
Rather than save piles of newspapers, people cut out news stories, poetry, sermons and tidbits that were meaningful to them and pasted the clippings in scrapbooks.�Scrapbooks are extraordinary bridges to the daily lives and thoughts of our ancestors,� says Garvey, an English professor at New Jersey City University in Jersey City, N.J.
Heirloom Albums
Saving family photos and history in embellished books is the focus of today�s scrapbook keepers, whether they use paper, computers or both to preserve memories. Scrapbook.com founder Jill Davis, 60, of Mesa, Ariz., says scrapbooks reveal much about a person�s life. She�s seen the reactions of her children�s soon- to-be spouses as they thumbed through the pages of family scrapbooks that she compiled.
�It�s a wonderful connection to behold,� Davis says. �The scrapbooks contain feelings, stories, hopes, dreams, highs, lows and chronological information, too.� Davis created her first scrapbook at age 12. Sitting at her grandmother�s kitchen table spread with family photos, she eagerly glued photos of her ancestors on paper pages, listed their birth and death dates, and wrote their stories as related by her grandmother.
In 2001, Davis� passion became her business when she launched the nation�s largest online scrapbooking store. In 2007, she bought Keeping Memories Alive, the nation�s first scrapbooking store and website founded by Marielen Christensen in Spanish Fork, Utah. Christensen is credited with sparking the contemporary scrapbooking craze when she displayed her �memory books� at the 1980 World Conference on Records in Salt Lake City.
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While Nally prefers traditional scrapbooking with paper that she cantouch,otherhobbyistshave shifted to computers to create digital albums. The appeal is less clutter and expense, according to Michelle Stelling, 46, founder of the National Association of Digital Scrapbookers in Commerce City, Colo.
�The future is going to be digital and video,� Stelling says. �My students take pictures, but also a 20-second video clip, which we mix in with their memories. It�s not just flat photos on a DVD.� Whether scrapbook keepers cut and paste with scissors and glue or with the click of a mouse, family memories andhistoryarepreserved.This article originally appeared as on American Profile


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Looking to get the Versa max. im wondering if i should get a 26 inch or the 28 inch barrel. Duck goose and turkey hunting. Any opinions?
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Mine's a 28" Personally I like that length, but in reality barrel length makes no difference other than swing (i.e. obstacles).
"When you hear my third shot.....that's your signal to take 'em."
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Doesn't really matter. The velocity change between lengths is probably as little as a few to AT MOST 20fps per inch - that's nothing. I think the load hits max velocity at around 20" or something. Pattern doesn't really change - that's your choke. What it will affect is sight plane and balance. Balance - I have the 28" versa and it's balanced perfectly for me - can hardly tell I'm holding the thing. Sight plane - Longer barrel would theoretically be more precise on longer shots but a little trickier on in-your-face shots. Most of the gobbler gunners I know use shorter barrel shotguns (like 24") but turkey shooting is a different kind of bird(har har). Only other variable is your size. But that would go back to balance I suppose.
My 2 cents - 2" doesn't make any difference to me. I would prefer to have those 2" though.
Oh, came across this from Remington's Q&A. Guess I wasn't far off. haha:
Modern smokeless powders burn in the first 13 to 16 inches of the
and maximum velocities are obtained in the first 20 inches. Shot will carry the same distance regardless of the
. Shot
will be the same whether the
is 21 inches in
or 30 inches in
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has the same choke constriction.
Our experts state there would be a small variation in velocity when using a 21-inch
as compared with a 30-inch
; however, the variation would be immeasurable.
The basic advantage of a shorter
is that it will swing faster. The longer
gives the hunter a longer sight radius to be more precise, particularly when pass shooting waterfowl. Also, the longer
can often help balance certain
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I have a 28" barrel and personally love the gun. As far as turkey hunting, if you are in thick woods, you better get the shorter barrel. If you are goose hunting, get the longer barrel... I have a Super Vinci with a 26 barrel and love it for the duck boat and thick woods.
Good luck, again this is only my opinion. I have both and really would say it is your preference on which way you go..
I have had a few issues with my versa max. I have had some issue with shells not being feed into the chamber and the stock was coming loose every time I fired the gun. Remington was great to fix both and sent me a new case with chokes back... Nothing but good things to say about Remington's Customer service A++ compared to Benelli...
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was at cabelas the other day they had it on sale for 800 bucks might want to jump on that if you want one.
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was at cabelas the other day they had it on sale for 800 bucks might want to jump on that if you want one.
probably a good idea...I can't even find one around here, everybody's sold out of them!
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