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The Booneville Blue Devils haven't lost in two months. The Daily Journal's top-ranked team is riding a 17-game streak and looking for a third straight state trip to the MHSAA state tournament.
"We're taking one game at a time, trying to get better every day. They've stayed very humble and hungry," Booneville coach Michael Smith said.
Booneville will recognize part of its successful past on Saturday against Olive Branch. The 1963 team under coach Ken Lindsey went 42-0 and won the Grand Slam and will be honored between games on the 50th anniversary.
All but one player is expected to be there, with one coming from as far as Dallas. One player has passed away, but his family is expected.
"You see banners on the wall of state championships and grand slams. Most of these guys still come back and have been important in the community and educational leaders around here," Smith said.
One of those is Larry Morgan, Booneville's former superintendent.
Magic moments
"It's going to be real special. Some of us haven't gotten together for many years," Morgan said. "It's going to be great to talk old times."
Morgan transferred from Burnsville and remembers a lot of moments from that season, his junior year, particularly a 16-15 win over New Site and a dominating Grand Slam win over Loyd Star at Mississippi Coliseum.
He well remembers the starting five. Mackie Don Smith played at Memphis State, Buddy Walden at Mississippi State and H.L Richie, David Bolen and Fred Stennet and Northeast CC.
This Booneville team would love to finish that strong.
The Blue Devils' loss against No. 5 Mooreville, a 3A contender as well, was the last game before the Booneville had a full healthy roster.
"Every day we try to learn something but we were very humbled by Mooreville," Smith said. "We played a bad game and they had everything to do with that."
Booneville didn't panic early. An extended football season limited practice and then the Blue Devils started out 0-2.
Balance has been the key, Smith says. His team gets a double-digit scoring average from Kenny Paul Geno, Jack Nichols, Jordan Miller and Antonio Crump.
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Can't the Messiah find any Capitalist for his Czar positions?
Makes one wonder what he is, a socialist or communist.
Can't the Messiah find any Capitalist for his Czar positions?
Makes one wonder what he is, a socialist or communist.
"Do more than is required of you"
General George S. Patton
It's the fastest and dirtiest way to Fascism. Just what the Chicago mob and Soros desire...anything to undermine the basic beliefs and freedoms of the USA.
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
So clear me up on this. Are we becoming communists, socialists, or facists? Seems you guys can't pick on any one thing and agree.
I thought the USA was a republic.
Here is a brief description for those of you unfamiliar;
For the time being, it seems we have an Exec. and Leg. government, popularly elected that seems to reflect the majority view. Why can't some of you get over this? The pendulum will certainly swing the other way, as it always does.
Is BO my messiah? Of course not. Was GB yours? I doubt it. Do we have a perfect system of government? Yes! Because it allows for freedom of choice, and swings back and forth to reflect individual conscience at any given moment in time.
I still have faith in the American experiment, and believe that this is a good country, peopled by good intentions, whether or not I, or you agree at any particular juncture in that experiment.
Is our country changing and evolving? Yes! Visit your local Wal-mart, if you doubt.
You can lament the changes. Or you can adapt to them.
These changes have been brought about by all of us, Dem, Repub, Con and Lib alike. It's just the way things are. You can choose to be angry and resentful, but it ain't gonna change the way things are.
One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
Here are a few of the Messiah's pimps;
AfPak Czar: Richard Holbrooke
* AIDs Czar: Jeffrey Crowley
* Bank bailout Czar: See TARP Czar below.
* Compensation Czar: See Pay Czar below.
* Cybersecurity Czar: TBD as of 6/15/2009
* U.S. Border Czar: Alan Bersin
* Car Czar: Steve Rattner
* Climate Czar: Todd Stern
* Drug Czar : Gil Kerlikowske
* Economic Czar: Paul Volcker
* Energy Czar: Carol Browner
* Faith-Based Czar: Joshua DuBois
* Green Jobs Czar: Van Jones
* Guantanamo Closure Czar: Daniel Fried
* Health Reform Czar: Nancy-Ann DeParle
* Infotech Czar: Vivek Kundra
* Intellegence Czar: Dennis Blair
* Iran Czar:
* Middle East Czar: Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell
* Non-Proliferation Czar: Gary Samore
* Pay Czar: Kenneth Feinberg
* Persian Gulf/Southeast Asia Czar: Dennis Ross
* Regulatory Czar: Cass Sunstein
* Science/Weather Czar: John Holdren
* Stimulus Accountability Czar: Earl Devaney
* Sudan Czar: J. Scott Gration
* TARP Czar: Herb Allison
* Terrorism Czar: John Brennan
* Urban Czar: Adolfo Carrion, Jr.
* War Czar: Lieutenant General Douglas Lute
* WMD & Terrorism Czar: Gary Samore
"Do more than is required of you"
General George S. Patton
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
Van Jones, self admitted communist AND an ex con. What is HE doing so close to the seat of power?
Bob Gutermuth
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God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
These attorneys are basically at will employees. Clinton fired 93 when he came into office because he could.
Bush fired 7 that he had appointed in his first term. What is the big deal. They did not like their performance so they were fired.
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I myself hadnt had any problems with my gun having camo, my shotgun has a grey wood finish, hasnt mattered yet. I think it would probly be best if the gun you use does not have a glossy finish. To save movey u can buy some camo gun tape.
If it's going to be a dedicated turkey gun, I suggest spray painting it with Krylon Fusion and being done with it.
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Gertrude K. "Gert" (Torgeson) Peterson, age 91, of Dodgeville, passed away on Thursday, February 7, 2013 at Upland Hills Health. Born April 7, 1921 on the Torgeson homestead, on the Southern ridge of Norwegian Hollow, the daughter of Elizabeth Jane (Rogers) Torgeson and Gullick H. Torgeson. She attended Wayside Country School and graduated from Dodgeville High School in 1939. Graduated from U.W. Platteville and U.W. Madison. Taught in rural schools for 3 years, Ridgeway State Graded School and the Dodgeville Elementary School (34 years) for a total of 46 years, retiring in 1987.
Gert married Lester E. Peterson on March 12, 1942. They lived their married life in Dodgeville. She was confirmed in the Grace Lutheran Church of Dodgeville and has been a devoted member since. She served as Sunday School Superintendent and worked with the Sunday School for over 50 years. She was president of the Church Women and served on Church Council and Property Committees. She was the Church Historian and Librarian. Gert was a member of Mary Circle, Retired Teachers and Gov. Dodge Rebekah Lodge. Lester and Gert enjoyed 68 years of marriage. They both loved traveling. She enjoyed reading and quilting. She especially enjoyed her nieces and nephews and family gatherings.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lester; her parents and siblings Roger Torgeson, Rhoda Leffler, Elizabeth Schwartz, Ruth Evans, Mary Nezki and Charles Torgeson. Gert is survived by her nephew, C. Kenneth (Betty) Leffler of Dodgeville; her nieces, Eleanor (Steve) Morstad of Monroe; Sherry (Randy) Ohl and Patti (Tim) Koepnick both of Delavan; many great nieces and nephews and a sister-in-law Emma Jean (Charles) Torgeson of Delavan.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at Grace Lutheran Church in Dodgeville. Pastor Steven R. Kottke will officiate with burial in East Side Cemetery. Friends may call from 4:00 P.M. until 7:00 P.M. Monday at the Lulloff-Peterson-Houck Funeral Home in Dodgeville and at the church on Tuesday after 10:00 A.M.
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Video Memory Play Video SCHNEIDER, Lowell C.; age 85; of Rochester Hills; ran into the loving arms of his Savior on Sunday, October 12, 2014, after a brief illness. Lowell was the only son of Milton and T. Jane Schneider of Cosby, Mo. A veteran of the U.S. Army, he graduated from the General Motors Institute (now called Kettering University) in 1956. Lowell was a Pontiac engineer for nearly 40 years. In 1956, he married Lois Bowman of Blissfield, MI, who preceded him in death 17 years ago. Today, their legacy includes three children: Lyndon (Robbie), Leslie (Braden) and Loren; five grandchildren: Megan, Emily, Jordan, Abby and Olivia; and five great grandchildren. Lowell loved building things, including homes, trailers and most recently a grandfather clock, restoring things, like old cars and bulldozers, and collecting things, like record albums and tools. He was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Rochester for more than 50 years. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 from 6 to 9 p.m., at PIXLEY FUNERAL HOME, 322 W. University Drive, in downtown Rochester, and then again at St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 620 Romeo Street, Rochester, from 10 to 11 a.m. on Wednesday, October 15, 2014. His funeral will follow at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church. Memorial contributions may be made to the church. www.pixleyfuneral.comPublished in Daily Tribune on Oct. 14, 2014+Read More Share Listen to Obituary Remember Share a message, photo, or video below View all messages 23 "So sorry to hear of Lowell's passing. He would drop by our..."- Jim Parker"As next door neighbors in Rochester, the entire Schneider..." "Dear Schneider family, our deepest sympathies to all of you..."- Alice and Mic Shaeffer"Dearest Schneider family, Our deepest sympathy and prayers..." "Leslie and Braden Bennett: We extend our sincerest sympathy..." Add a memory or condolence to the guest book Add Message Please add or record a video for the family of Lowell Schneider Add a video + Please add a photo and share in the life story for Lowell Schneider Add a photo + http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailytribune/obituary.aspx?n=lowell-c-schneider&pid=172794281&fhid=11409


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- NYGBS Collections Volume I: Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. (1890)
- NYGBS Collections Volume II: Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. (1901)
- NYGBS Collections Volume III: Baptisms from 1731 to 1800 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. (1902)
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- NYGBS Collections Volume XVI: Minutes of Coroners Proceedings, City and County of New York, John Burnet, Coroner, 1748-1758 (2004)
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- The German Churches of Metropolitan New York — A Research Guide by Richard Haberstroh, C.G.
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- Index to Marriage and Death Notices in the New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung 1836-1870 by Frank A. Biebel.
- Kings County, New York, Administration Proceedings 1817-1856, Abstracted by B-Ann Moorhouse, CG, FGBS, and Joseph M. Silinonte
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so sorry for your loss Corey !!
My Dad said to me ."Son, a man just needs three things to be happy....A good dog, a good gun and a good wife.....Thank God I have all three
Sundown's Boss of Delta Marsh JH (Louie QAA X Delta MH)
Traveling Through The Graded Timber JH (2012 NAFC Trav X Timber MH QAA)
Sundown's Ruff And Tuff (Boss JH X Lil Bit) best pup I have ever raised
Home of HRCH Sundown's Loaded To The Maxx (FC AFC Jamie X Dixie QAA) RIP
"Too sad to say much". That says it all and I'm sorry for you. It's all the harder since you've had him from day one. Been there and they take a big piece of you when they have to go.
Hang in there-
"You can put pressure on a dog, you cant take it back "
Mitch Patterson '07
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Brassfire's Brass in Pocket JH, WCX ** (4 Master passes)
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Corey, So sorry to hear about Tank. He was a special dog and will always be remembered.
Tom Dorroh
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Sorry for your loss. I just lost mine as well, and it is so hard when you love them the way we all do.
Sorry you lost Tank, Corey, he looked like a real character, a big part of your life, and I'm sure you miss him terribly.
Kim Pfister, Rainmaker Labs
I too am very sorry for your loss.
HRCH UH "Boomer" MH
UH HR "Hunter" SH (RIP)
"When you go to a test or a trial, your dog should be underwhelmed." ~ Evan Graham
"It is unreasonable to expect a dog to be more precise than you are." ~ Rex Carr
"You own what you condone." ~ Mike Lardy
Sorry Corey - never easy to lose our friends
"Too late smart, too soon old" - Now I finally get it Grandpa
Dennis Long
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HRCH Barton Creek's Winner Take All MH "Rio"
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I am so sorry about Tank's passing. He had such personality and, well - I guess presence is the word. One couldn't help smile when you looked at his sweet face. RIP, Tank - you good old boy. Flyers in heaven for you.
Thinking of you and Tracey.
HRCH Truline's Cleopatra MH (Cleo)
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Kim's friend Sheletha threw the shower, and I arrived early to her house to help set up. My mom, who I haven't seen since we began our travels, was mostly responsible for catering. So getting to the house, and receiving big, long hugs from her and my stepdad, Rick, was soooo nice. Sometimes you just don't realize how much you've missed somebody until you see them again, ya know? But Rick was quickly whisked away (Albert took him to lunch) since this was a girls only affair, and Mom was busy, so I tried to make myself useful while I anxiously awaited Kim's arrival.
Wow-she looks good! Kim has always been so cute anyway, but she's adorable pregnant! Absolutely radiant.
The shower went really well. Kim and baby London received tons of stuff.
Kim's sister Sharon, and mom Andrea were both there. I haven't seen either one of them since Kim's wedding 9(?) years ago. Kim and Sharon don't look much alike, but Kim and I have always been told that we look amazingly alike. So a lot of the friends there thought I was the sister. Ha! Some things never change.
Somebody made stuffed mushrooms-my favorite! Yum! It all looked so pretty.
The one bummer was that Kim and I didn't get to visit much. I'm hoping that Albert and I will get a chance to visit with her and Nick sometime later in our stay in this general area. But for now, it's moving day. Albert is working in the San Francisco office for the next few weeks, so we're heading on over to a campground in Marin-about 2 hours away. I guess I should go help get things ready....


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Since years Starboard focuses on the latest moves in the Freestyle board category without any compromise. The Flare 99 a racy Freestyle board with contest ambitions. The perky freeride factor is overruled by great control. The board is very controllable even in choppy water conditions even though it does not feel too lively in lighter winds. Don't be deceived by the flat planing position of the board. The feeling really does not invite you to jump - but everybody who will try to jump will be surprised. Especially the half-high, fast turn jumps without any ramp. Popping air on flat water can be done absolutely well with the board. To land safe, to continue in the sliding position - that's what makes the special "flair" of the board. The Flare 99 opens the door to a new beautiful Freestyle world in an easy way. The planing qualities are excellent and when changing into switch stance the board keeps the speed - especially because of the excellent stability. Actually, it is so stable that it hardly slows down even when one is a bit clumsy on his feet. Its great stability also extends to maneuvers like tacks, willy skippers and sail moves. There are better boards for classic jibe maneuvers but the combination of controlled, straight backwards slides and fast slide moves is outstanding.
The FLARE 99 is a real New-Schooler. The board is predominantly shaped for flat rotations and slides than for making big airs.
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In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney writes that "the character of the Chinese government--one that marries aspects of the free market with suppression of freedom--shouldn't become the norm."
Should the 21st century be an American century? To answer, it is only necessary to contemplate the alternatives.
One much bruited these days is that of a Chinese century. With China's billion-plus population, its 10% annual average growth rates, and its burgeoning military power, a China that comes to dominate Asia and much of the globe is increasingly becoming thinkable. The character of the Chinese government--one that marries aspects of the free market with suppression of political and personal freedom--would become a widespread and disquieting norm.
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What's up fellas?!? Been a long time since I checked in here. Glad to see some of the old crew are still going strong.
I just wanted to share a little venture that I started recently with an old friend of ours. We're making toys!!! Specifically, playsets and dioramas for all our Star Wars figures.
First up is our Space Tree. Definitely check out our Indiegogo campaign for lots of pics. If you're feeling generous, please donate. Maybe we can even arrange a special LA locals discount?
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After nearly peeing in my pants when I saw the name "Quintesson" on a box at Target, I passed on the craptacular POS as well. I thought maybe the success (of sorts) of the Unicron finally prompted Hasbro to give us a Quintesson, but a true Quint this guy ain't.
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For Immediate Release: Contact: Sharon Snyder August 30, 2000 Ron Harris Ian Stirton Kelly Huff
WASHINGTON The Federal Election Commission has successfully launched its new Administrative Fines Program, sending dunning notices to committees for failing to file their July quarterly reports on time and informing them that they must pay fines which could range from $125 to $12,000.
Committees were notified of their July Quarterly filing obligations on June 21. Reports were due by close-of-business July 15 from candidates committees (those seeking election in 2000), and PACs and political party committees which do not file monthly. If sent certified or registered mail, reports must have been postmarked by midnight on the due date.
Announcement of the new Program in late May, and dissemination of articles and information outlining the programs potential scope, appear to have had an impact, since the number of late filers and non-filers has dropped significantly from April to July. Thirty percent of filers were late with their April Quarterly filings compared to only 18% for the July filings. That represents a 12 percentage point drop.
Committees have 40 days to either pay the penalties or submit written responses challenging the alleged violations. After analysis by a reviewing officer, a report will be forwarded to the Commission, with additional responses from the committees, if they so choose. If the Commission makes a final determination that committees have violated the law, civil money penalties will be assessed. Committees will have 30 days to pay the penalties or seek judicial review in U.S. District Court.
The new Program was authorized by Congress in response to a legislative recommendation made by the FEC. Its purpose is twofold: to free critical Commission resources for more important and complex enforcement efforts, and to reduce the number of financial reports filed late or not at all. The Administrative Fines Program encompasses a range of civil money penalties set high enough to discourage committees from considering them an acceptable cost of doing business, but not so high as to be exorbitant.
In general, reports that will be covered under the Program include: semi-annual, quarterly, monthly, pre-election, post-general and special election, and 48-hour notices. Civil money penalties will be determined by the number of days late, the amount of financial activity involved, and any prior penalties for reporting violations. Election sensitive reports (reports and notices filed prior to an election) will receive higher penalties.
Reports are considered to be filed late if they are received after the due date, but within 30 days of that due date. Election sensitive reports will be considered late if they are filed after their due date, but prior to four days before the election. Committees filing reports outside of these parameters will be considered non-filers.
As with other compliance programs, the agency has installed certain review thresholds. These are variable and will be modified over time. If the new program is successful, the Commissions goal is to increase the universe of committees subject to penalties, further enhancing disclosure.
Cases (even those which are initially challenged) are expected to be closed within four months. (This assumes no petition in district court.) If a respondent fails to pay the penalty, and has not filed a petition in district court, the Commission will transfer the case to the Department of the Treasury for collection, in compliance with the Debt Collection Improvement Act. Alternatively, the Commission may file suit in the appropriate U.S. District Court.
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MONTENEGRO - Country Specific Programmes for Capacity building
Activity in 2012
The Centre of Expertise implemented two cycles of the Leadership Academy Programme. The final cycle will take place in February 2013.
Activity in 2011
Round Table joint event organised by the Programme on Strengthening Local self government in
Montenegro Phase II and the EU-CoE Programme on Strengthening Local Self-Government in
Detailed report on the system of administrative supervision in Montenegro prepared
Detailed recommendations on public services were made in a document Called "Regulation of
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analysis and up-date on the implementation of the National Programme and Action Plan on Fighting Corruption at Local Level in Montenegro;
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a national media campaign on "Transparent Municipality";
development and implementation of a model communications strategy for municipalities;
Regional Conference on "Good Governance, Transparency and Ethics at local level"
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Senior level officials from the Council of Europe, the OSCE – ODIHR, the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, and from other international organisations attended the conference.
Participants took stock of progress made in the action engaged at both central and local level to fight corruption and promote public ethics.
They exchanged information and good practice, reviewed current policies and considered further measures aimed at enhancing the quality of local governance, with particular focus on the transparency and the ethical conduct of public affairs by all those involved.
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Joint Programme (JP) between the Council of Europe and the European Agency for Reconstruction
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module on capacity-building for local government with the following projects:
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- b) a Best Practice programme, and
- c) a Leadership Development programme.
Joint Programme on Strengthening Local Self-Government in Montenegro (Phase II)
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module on strengthening public ethics at local level, aiming at implementing the anti-corruption programme.
Complementary projects
VNG International launched a larger project on ethics in municipalities funded by MATRA, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.
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Crow Road Pharmacy in the West End, has won a professional award for its outstanding travel clinic. The chemists – J. A. Hogarths – like to wish their customers a 'healthy holiday' and offer specialised clinical services such as yellow fever vaccinations and malaria treatment.
The judges in the Scottish Pharmacist Awards praised pharmacist Mhairi Speirs and her team for their walk-in style travel clinic and their dedication to the community by helping people make 'informed and professionally guided decisions about their own health.'
Collecting the prestigious Business Initiative Award at a ceremony in Edinburgh, Mhairi said: 'I feel so honoured and absolutely delighted to have received this. I am just thrilled. We have had really positive feedback in the clinic. We have a wide-ranging demographic among our customers so it is great to be able to offer the service to everyone.' She added: 'local schools seem to be going further afield for long trips. So we'd love to work with them to develop the clinic.'


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Situated in la Montagne Niore 20 mins from Carcassonne with La Cite, le Canal du Midi and Mazamet, relax in a medieval village house, 5 beautiful bedrooms, ; Unspoiled area; stunning scenery, historic Cather castles, forest walks, markets, vineyards.
Set amidst gentle hillsides, two large suites with private baths and exquisite views on the valley. 20 miles from Blois, Huchepie manor organic b&b is ideally located to visit the Loire Valley châteaux and the historical France heartland.
Bed & breakfast/self-catering accomodation in beautifully restored Gascon 18th Century coaching inn. Pool, gourmet meals, country walks, peace and quiet
The Domain of Serrigny, beautiful manor of the XVIIIth with magnificent view on the medieval village of Châteauneuf-en-Auxois and at 200m of the Canal of Bourgogne.Beaune and Dijon at 25 mn.
Located one mole from the beach of Bénodet on a 20 ha family estate la Ferme de Kereven propose nicely decorate bed and breakfast and self catering accomodation
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Find a France bed and breakfast for your romantic weekend getaway. Intimate b & bs are cozy, romantic accommodations that are perfect for a mini-vacation, honeymoon, or wedding anniversary celebration. You will love the unique charm of our France inns. Many guesthouses include complimentary breakfasts and unbeatable hospitality. Browse our bed & breakfasts and plan your France romantic getaway today!


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
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Fred Steffen in the 1970s Childcraft Books
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About a year ago I posted some examples of 1950s album cover art by a Chicago illustrator named Fred Steffen...
Recently I happened upon some 'new' artwork by Steffen - this time from the 1970s. Fred Steffen provided title page artwork for each chapter in Volume 10 of the 1972 edition of Childcraft, The How and Why Library.
Seen at actual printed size, these illustrations are bit indecipherable.
But have a look: when we zoom in on the individual elements... they're wonderful!
Here you can see Steffen's distinctive linear ink line style and complex but well organized use of detail.
As a group, these illustrations have a trippy look so reminiscent of the era in which they were created.
I don't really have any new information of Steffen, so I'll just leave you to scroll through this series and enjoy their groovy quirkiness.
* This week, as time allows, I'll be featuring more artwork by a variety of illustrators from the 1970s editions of Childcraft, The How and Why Library.
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I KNEW I knew those illos! We got those when we were kids in the 70s and I couldn't get enough of them. I am an illustrator today, and couldn't let that set get sold when we boxed up my parent's house. I still browse through them and marvel at the quality of those old-style artists. Those guys (and gals) knew how to DRAW.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for sharing these.
Super-cool! I love the adjectives you use: "distinctive" "trippy" and "groovy". Steffen's work seems much more contemporary to me than many of the illustrations of that era. And I loved those books as kids; looking forward to what you have coming up!ReplyDelete
As soon as I saw the first image I was suddenly, and pleasantly, thrown back in my days growing up and staring at those drawings over and over again. I especially remember the "Spooky Places" chapter illustrations along with one of Theodore Roosevelt.ReplyDelete
I can easily count this as one of my inspirations in art during my upbringing and I'm currently an illustrator for an ad firm.
- Thanks for posting really cool stuff.
Bringing back old memories. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
I did a post awhile back on Childcraft in which I showed a paper sculpture/3D paper art by Russell Jackson. I've been searching forReplyDelete
information on him but have hit a dead end. I'd like to do a post on him as I've been asked about him a few times. Do you have any information on him or ideas where to search? I would appreciate any help!


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Posted: February 15, 2011
The Internal Revenue Service says it will need an battalion of 1,054 new auditors and staffers and new facilities at a cost to taxpayers of more than $359 million in fiscal 2012 just to watch over the initial implementation of President Obama's healthcare reforms. Among the new corps will be 81 workers assigned to make sure tanning salons pay a new 10 percent excise tax. Their cost: $11.5 million.
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It appears about a third of the current Guantánamo detainees will be released in the near future and shipped off to some sort of a rehabilitation center in Yemen. In the State of the Union address, President Obama reiterated his administration's policy to close the detention center, and the Department of Defense has cleared approximately 55 Yemeni detainees for release.
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"LIVE as long as you may," says Southey, "the first twenty years are the longest half of your life." It is a reflection so trite as to be made by every living soul capable of that mental process ycleped thought, that one of childhood's days is equal in duration to five or six of man or womanhood's; that one of childhood's years is a saeculum, a mighty aeon, whereof the beginning is more distant from the ending than are the Tudor days from ours. Was the case the same, I marvel, with those giants in age that flourished and withered before the Flood?
Those unfortunates, on whom was inflicted the penance of a thousand years of labour and sorrow, did their earlier days spread and stretch themselves in the same disproportionate fashion? Did they grow page: 278 to maturity, I wonder, as soon as we do? Were they full grown at twenty, middle‐aged at fifty, and were their remaining eight or nine hundred winters devoted to old age? Oh, monstrous notion! A land peopled with dotards! a world full of gray heads and gouty feet, and age‐palsied intellects. The alternative, though more probable, is assez drôle, in its necessary and legitimate consequences.
At a hundred years old, those ill‐starred ones were still spinning tops and dressing dolls, if antediluvian dolls there were; at two or three hundred, they were making love, and getting into those scrapes to which hotheaded youth is liable; at five hundred they were thinking of settling down to the serious business of their lives. Were the memories of those ancients strengthened in proportion to the length of time they had to be exercised upon?
I have heard it affirmed by sane people and have read in divers books that breakfast forms the cheerfullest, sociallest réunion of English home life. Whosoever stated that fact, whosoever wrote it, I take upon myself to deny it. Tout au contraire, that interesting animal, man, so curious in many of his habits, is at that hour at his worst. A remnant of sleepiness, unknown to themselves clings to most people; they have not warmed to their day's work. If the new organizing of society were intrusted to me, I should make it as indecorous to breakfast in public, as it is now considered to perform one's ablutions in the presence of that vague personage the world.
Whether social or not, breakfast is over at Wentworth; much kippered salmon and cold tongue have been consumed, and a little slack conversation has been kept up. Dolly, knowing that there is a time for all things, has molested no man with her eyes, page: 280 has contented herself, at least, with two or three quite trifling glances at Dick, whom Fate has deposited at her side. Breakfast then is over, has been over an hour or more, and most of the tenants of that red brick Elysium, Wentworth Park, are standing and sitting about the hall, pulling on gloves, reading the Times, and settling disputed claims to pot hats.
Before the door, out in the spring sunshine, stand many horses, malely and femalely saddled; likewise a double dogcart with a pair of light‐hearted chestnuts. Most of the ladies are in riding habits; the widow among the number, and very like an overripe gooseberry she looks. I am unclad in riding gear; I have never bestridden (or the feminine equivalent for bestridden) anything nobler than a jackass; never shall possibly. It is evident we are all on the verge of some expedition. Most of us, it is true, would rather :stay at home; to many of us, indeed, a pic‐nic is verily and indeed the accursed thing.
We are to be amused, all of us, nolentes, volentes, not in our own way but in Lady Lancaster's. I am among the very few volentes. I am not looking my best this morning, having been crying most of the night, and there is a red rim round each eye; but of red rims, red noses, and haggard cheeks, I am careless, for I am sitting on the topmost one of the flight of stone steps that lead up to the hall door.
Dick is stretching his long length, like a big Newfoundland, one step below me; he is looking at the chestnuts, and smiling and saying:—"Won't we put them along page: 282 at a tidy pace, Nell? We'll take the shine out of them?"
By one brilliant coup, I have retrieved last night's disasters; at least I think so.
Five minutes back, Dick was leaning against the door post, looking glummer than glum. Nobody was nigh save me. Dolly was up stairs, Sir Hugh was rating one of his grooms. What an opportunity for prompt action! I go up and put my hand on his arm. "Dick," said I (I had never called him Dick before) "Well?" (very glum) "What have I done? why are you angry with me?"
"I am not angry," (with averted head, but slightly thawed intonation).
"If you're not angry, do drive me in the dogcart to‐day, instead of riding; you know I cannot ride; do, dear Dick!"
As I make this indecently forward proposal, my voice shakes, and my heart thumps like a steam ram. Dick's head veers round like a weathercock in a high wind.
"Won't I just? if I have the chance; what a little darling you are! but you see page: 283 the cart is Lancaster's—not mine, and perhaps—"
Sir Hugh coming up, interrupts him.
"You're for riding, I suppose, aint you, M'Gregor? Carriage exercise isn't much in your line; at least it used not to be, and there's the roan all ready for you."
"Oh, thanks, old fellow," responds M'Gregor, "but if you don't mind, I've rather a fancy for tooling these chestnuts along. I don't seem to care much about peacocking along the king's highroad."
Sir Hugh's countenance falls.
"All right," says he (his face says "all wrong"), "just as you like, only you'd better keep an eye on that off mare; she is the very devil to pull when there's anything behind her; don't blame me, Miss Lestrange, if you find her flourishing her heels in your face."
Dolly standing near, overheard. She was holding her habit up delicately with one hand, and slashing a small Balmoral boot with her whip.
"Had not you better get your cloak, Nell?" she suggested, "we may be late coming home."page: 284
"Perhaps I had," said I, and up stairs I ran, two steps at a time. Dolly followed me, made a remark or two upon my dress, and upon no other subject, and then went down again. I was a long time finding my cloak; having discovered it at last in the depths of a trunk, I redescended to the hall. Dolly is gone; the riders all are gone, but the dogcart is still there; Sir Hugh is still there, and Richard is not there! I stare blankly.
"Why I thought Major M'Gregor was to drive me?"
Sir Hugh's mirth runs over in laughing eyes and a broad grin.
"Yes, so he was, but your sister made it all right; awfully jolly of her, wasn't it?"
"How—how do you mean?" I gasped.
"Why she told him you were rather nervous about horses, and that you funked rather at what I said about the mare; that was all my eye, you know. She's as quiet as an old cow."
"Well, go on," said I, digging my teeth into my under lip.
"Well, he stuck to it like a man for a page: 285 long time, till at last she had to tell him—jolly girl she is—that you had hinted to her—she said you did not like to speak out—that you'd rather have me for a Jehu; he gave in, then, in a minute, like a sensible fellow. Come, hadn't we better be starting! Mind the wheel?"
My heart, like Nabal's, turns to stone within me. I get in mechanically.
"Give her her head," shouts Sir Hugh to the groom, and off we go. The chestnuts are a showy, high‐actioned pair, and step well together; full of oats, are they? swiftly do they bear us along.
"We by parks and lodges going, See the lordly castles stand; Summer woods about us blowing Made a murmur in the land."
Only we did not see any "lordly castles," because there were not any such on the Lancaster estate. Instead, we passed by many a substantial farm and homestead, with barns and stacks, and trim out‐buildings, that told of a good and well‐to‐do landlord. Hugh points out his possessions with complacency as we bowl past them.page: 286
"D'ye see that copse over there, with the lot of scrubby brushwood there, down in the hollow?"
"Well, that's the very best cover in the county; always find there; never missed once last season."
I am determinedly sulky, and register an inward vow that no sentence longer than a monosyllable shall be extracted from me. The hedges are white with hawthorn; on the orchards the rosy snow of the apple blooms lies thick, the blackbirds are singing, and Sir Hugh's heart is merry within him.
"Nice little box that, isn't it?" says he presently, indicating with his whip a snug cottage, buried in cherry trees and laburnums. "My governor built it for an old bailiff of his. I've got a lot of greyhounds there now for coursing."
No comment whatever.
"Do you like coursing?"
Our destination is a certain show place, fourteen or fifteen miles from Wentworth, page: 287 a place that appertains to a certain earl, who has so many houses, show and not show, that he is quite puzzled to know which to live in. The equestrians reach the bourne to which all we travellers are hastening sooner than my Hugh and I do; they are able to take advantage of bridle paths and wood paths and narrow lanes, in which, if we attempted to traverse them, we and our four‐wheeled vehicle should stick. So our delicious tête‐à‐tête has lasted an hour and three‐quarters ere we reach the great wrought iron gates that give ingress to Wilton Towers, and roll through the park among the oak‐clumps and the fallow deer and the thick deep bracken. The place of rendezvous is by the side of a mere, much affected by coots and wild ducks and Canada geese—a piece of water more remarkable for extent than beauty.
Here we find our associates mooning and loafing about, like unburied spirits on the hither side of Styx; heavy and displeased are most of them. Of such a fête as the present one, the eating part, the fleshpots and flagons form the mar‐ marrow page: 288 row, the pith, the kernel; hitherto these ladies and gentleman have been put off with husks and rind; and very cross it makes them. We pull up under a spreading horse‐chestnut which is tossing its white spikes in the sunny breeze.
"Stop a bit," says Sir Hugh, throwing the reins to the groom, "don't be in a hurry; I'll lift you down."
The only thing is, it is so difficult to know in this world when our fortunes have reached their nadir; there are so page: 289 few depths that have not a yet deeper depeer deep beneath them—heat and horse‐flies, and midges, and the headachy snappishness which is the result of heat, formed the lowest abyss to which poor humanity in our persons was called upon to descend to‐day. Half an hour after my culbute, life, I think, wore a cheerfuller aspect in the eyes of most of that roasted assemblage; Wilton Towers seemed a desirabler demesne, and even the twelve miles ride home a more bearable prospect.
Ουδε τι Θυμος εδευετο δαιτος εισες
Round these cates we sit accroupis, on the short fine grass, and feast to the sound of "the long ripple washing in the reeds."
"Capital Sauterne, this!" cries the disbelieving old bachelor, holding up his glass to the light, to see the foam bead sparkle diamond‐like. "I wonder where Lancaster gets it; I've tried half a dozen places, and never could get hold of anything decent."
"It is nice," owns the widow, sipping.
"By‐the‐bye, apropos of Sauterne, did page: 291 I ever tell you of a bon mot of Lord —, the late man, you know, not the present?"
He travels a little nearer to the bereaved one, along the turf, and his wicked old eye twinkles (he has not had the heart to unpack any of his little anecdotic wares, for her benefit, hitherto.)
"No, I think not; tell me now, do."
"I'm almost afraid, but it really is too good to be lost."
His voice sinks to a susurrus, a chuchottement, either of which words is more onomatopoeiatic than whisper. The widow lends him her ears, and I see them reddening under the combined influence of the Sauterne and the bon mot, which was, I think, a very mauvais mot.
"Nice little cob of yours, Lancaster—that black one," says the lean lord; "easy as an arm‐chair. Do you ever hunt him?"
"No," says Hugh; "he's hardly up to my weight, particularly over a stiff country like this; he'd be just the thing for you, and he's A1 at timber."
(All the Lancastrian geese are swans.)
"Is there any bustard?" asks the youth page: 292 with the influenza. "Biss Seybour wadts sobe bustard; Atcha! Atcha!"
"Bless you," murmurs Miss Seymour, under her breath. The benediction being called forth by the sneeze, not the demand for mustard. I, of course, am next to my host; I always am; people begin to leave that coveted post vacant for me; I made a feeble effort to shirk it at the beginning of the entertainment, but was foiled. Hugh is drinking bottled beer, and making brilliant remarks, and sharing his petits soins pretty equally between the silent dove beside him, and the not more silent doves in a pie before him. Dick M'Gregor and Dolly Lestrange seemed to have hardly more appetite for their luncheon than I had; they could not well have had less.
Flirting is, in one respect, like wit; it has never been satisfactorily defined; it is less fortunate than wit; in that it has not yet found a Bishop Barrow to expend pages of gorgeous eloquence in describing it; no object, they say, looks exactly the same in two pair of eyes, nor are any two people's notions on the subject of flirting precisely alike.page: 293
Dick and Dolly, however, fulfilled all the conditions required by all the different ideas of all the different people then present, on this vexed theme. Firstly, they seemed to have a very great deal to say to each other; secondly, they did not seem to have anything whatever to say to any one else; and thirdly, what they had to say to one another, they appeared compelled to say in a stealthy and secretive manner. Dick's face was troubled "as if with anger or pain," as he lay reclined, like a young river god, among the yellow irises by the rushy margin of the lake. His hat was off, and the sun was busy weaving an aureole like a saint's round his curly head. Poor fellow! there was not much of saintly repose, and there was a great deal of earth's unquiet passion in that honest angry face.
I never knew any woman who could compare with Dolly Lestrange in the art of drawing out and waking into rampant life any spice of the devil which might be lurking latent in a man's soul. She was waking Dick's devil now; I saw her—saw the evil spirit gradually shaking off its sleep, page: 294 and coming with a lurid light into those eyes that had looked before only vexed, and pained, and thwarted.
"Your eyes are not black, brown surely?" says he, with interest.
"No, black, I think—aren't they?"
She raises them full of innocent wondering inquiry, and fixes them on his; rests them there unabashed; neither speak for a minute; then Dolly, in a half whisper—
"The moon will be up as we go home to‐night, won't it? we shall see it in that page: 295 pretty brook we came down by, shan't we? but, perhaps—oh, I forgot—"
She stops, as though in confusion.
"Forgot what?" he asks eagerly.
"I forgot that I mightn't—mightn't be riding with—you, might—be riding with somebody else; and then I thought—"
"Thought what?"
He bends closer to catch a glimpse of the down‐drooped head.
"Oh, nothing—nothing; it was only that—that I thought I should not care much about the brook, or the moonlight, or anything else—then."
The great velvet orbs passionate, passion rousing seek his again; seem unable to tear themselves away. What man can stand it? Dick cannot. I see the broad low brow flushing. I see his eyes answering hers; speaking that mysterious thrilling fire‐language that surely the devil invented.
"Why should not we ride home together?" he says, softly.
She plays with the wide‐open iris flowers, with the stiff, wet iris stems that lie in her lap.
"You might have got tired of me, page: 296 mightn't you? is that quite an impossible hypothesis? Do men never tire of women? I think I've read somewhere that they have done such a thing before now."
"No, I don't," I respond snappishly, like a little yelping cur, with his tail between his legs, snapping at a big dog's nose, "pickled salmon is not air that I'm aware of." The fact is, I have got some page: 297 pickled salmon on my plate, and am sorely bested to know how to dispose of it, for swallow it, most surely can I not; I could as soon swallow Hugh. I should like to hurl it, and the platter that contains it, and any other crockery within reach, at Dolly's sleek shapely head; but that may not be. Unguessing of the storm in a tea‐cup beside him, in a state of blissful unconsciousness, Hugh takes up the thread of his discourse, begins a new thread rather, for—dear fellow—he is a little discursive.
"We shall have to do the house just now, I suppose; walk through a mile and a half of execrable pictures; I will say that for Lord Stencliffe, he has got more vile daubs and bad copies together than any other man in England."
(Oh for that cut glass decanter to aim at the bridge of Dolly's nose! oh to make those black eyes black eyes indeed!)
"H'm! has he?"
"I wonder why one ever comes to see these sort of places. I never heard any one say they liked it—did you? it's an awful bore, isn't it?"page: 298
"Yes, it is; most things are awful bores in this world, I think—and people too!"
Sir Hugh laughs lazily; champagne and sunshine, and a heavy luncheon will induce a certain blandness of manner and indisposition to take offence; he laughs as one laughs at a parrot swearing, or at the rage of anything equally impotent.
"Ha, ha! most people means me, I suppose; why are you always so down upon me, I wonder?" I gaze straight before me into space, and feign deafness.
"Never mind!" he says, good humouredly. "I've a pretty tough hide, and I'd rather be pitched into by you than kissed by anybody else!"
Hugh never thought it necessary to lower his voice when he said anything tender. The expression "love whisper" never could be applied to his amatory commonplaces; love‐shout or love‐bellow would be more applicable; any one that chose to listen might hear; he was not saying anything he was ashamed of. Dick does hear, and draws his smooth brows together into a frown. Dolly does hear, page: 299 and says, with a pretty, playful, dimpling smile—
"Lovers' quarrels! Poor little girl! I hope he is not trifling with her!"
The poor little girl, listening, winds her pocket‐handkerchief tight round her fingers, till it is converted into a ropy, stringy rag, and then bites a piece out of it. Fête champêtre has a pleasant sound, but I think the sound is pleasanter than the reality. I think, in sober earnest and in literal truth, it is sweeter far to have one's legs beneath the friendly mahogany, where lively grasshoppers cannot get up them; in a cool dining‐room, where one enjoys immunity from phlebotomizing gnats and midges.
The Wilton flies and gnats drew much human blood that day, but we bore our being "let blood" meekly; it was part of our appointed torture. Meekly also we bore the house, and the Dutch Madonnas, and the Lelyan and Knellerian portraits, and the lying anecdotic biographies tacked on to each by that obesest of housekeepers; meekly also the chapel, with the place where the family sat, the place where the page: 300 ladies' maids sat, the place where the footmen sat; meekly also the gaudy new window to Lady Grace's memory, where a very big blue St. Peter, and a rather big red St. John, and a green impotent man, stood huddled together in close proximity, with a gate anything but "beautiful," picked out in yellow in the background. Everywhere Hugh followed me like St. Nicholas's pig.


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