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These gloves are knit sideways, in garter stitch only, on 2 straight needles, so they are dead easy! They knit up pretty fast, I can make a pair in an evening of t.v. watching. They're a good small project to take with you when you're on the go as well. I have knit a few pairs while I have been on the train or bus, and the whole lot, needles, yarn etc fits easily into my bag. You can use up all your little bits of left over yarn as well, so it makes a great stash busting project :-)
I wrote the pattern using the "trial and error" method and have also made a pattern for a 4-ply version. I made the 4 ply version in the Noro Kureyon Sock yarn and they look fabulous! I just need to get around to photographing them so I can show you :-)
I've listed the pattern for the 8 ply (DK, Sport Weight) version in my DaWanda store HERE Etsy store HERE


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Put a little fun in your meals
- Be a positive role model. Eat the foods you want your child to eat. And make meals and snacks enjoyable with good conversation and a relaxed mood.
- Avoid labeling your child. Instead of saying, "My child doesn't like broccoli." say "My child is great at trying new foods." If you identify your child as someone who doesn't like certain foods, he or she will believe himself or herself to be picky, which makes it difficult to accept new things.
- Keep trying! It may take 10 or more tries for your child to accept new foods. Keep putting one bite of a challenging food on your child's plate, and praise him or her for small tastes.
- Make sure there is at least one thing you know your child likes to eat at every meal or snack. Let your picky eater help make decisions at meals, such as choosing side dishes. Giving some control to your child empowers him or her to feel confident about trying new foods.
- Get your child involved with meals and snacks. Children as young as 2 can help set the table, wash produce, and prepare a recipe. Most children will eat something they helped make!
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Today, more than 12,000 U.S. wine shops have a presence on the web. But just 14 states allow consumers to order wine from out-of-state retailers.
Eleven states prohibit residents from ordering wine from out-of-state wineries. Four states ban the sale of wine on Sundays. The overwhelming majority of Americans support supermarket wine sales, but 15 states force consumers to purchase their wine in a dedicated liquor store. In another 15 states, it's illegal to bring your own bottle of wine into a restaurant — even if the restaurant owner is okay with it. Like virtually all America's liquor laws, these restrictions trace their origins to Prohibition. Today, these laws simply harm consumers and enrich special interests.
Fortunately, there's a new organization that's fighting these anti-consumer wine laws. Called the American Wine Consumer Coalition, the group deserves every wine lover's support.
When Prohibition was repealed 80 years ago, states were given the authority to regulate the "transportation or importation" of liquor within their borders. At the insistence of a motley crew of interest groups, states imposed an assortment of rules.
A top priority was weakening producers, because before prohibition, teetotalers and law enforcement alike believed they wielded too much power. Temperance advocates blamed producers for the ills of drunkenness; police officers associated producers with organized crime.
Lawmakers answered this call in one of two ways. They either took control of the sale and/or distribution of alcohol or created a "wholesaler tier" to sit between producers and retailers.
Today, just Pennsylvania and Utah maintain total control on alcohol sales. In those two states, government officials decide which liquor brands are sold, how much is charged, and where those products can be purchased.
Virtually every other state depends on a wholesale tier through which most alcohol must pass. This is essentially a state-mandated middleman.
As one might guess, wholesaling is big business. Together, the nation's two largest wholesalers had revenues of more than $14 billion last year. So it's no surprise that the wholesaling industry fights hard against efforts to undermine its presence.
Consider direct-to-consumer wine sales.
About 20 years ago, Americans started developing a taste for high-end wines, typically from California. Many consumers started ordering directly from producers.
Such transactions cut out wholesalers, so they spearheaded a campaign to prohibit winery-to-consumer shipping. Consumers responded with lawsuits, and in 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that state lawmakers could only prohibit direct shipping from out-of-state wineries if they blocked wineries in their states from shipping out of state. The 11 states that still prohibit direct-to-consumer wine sales hardly produce any wine of their own.
The wholesaling industry has also fought to block online retailer-to-consumer wine sales — and remains successful in 36 states. So if you live in Pennsylvania and desperately want a bottle of wine that can only be found at a store in Washington, D.C., you're out of luck.
Wine retailers obstruct supermarket wine sales. After all, if consumers could pick up a bottle of Merlot while shopping for dinner, they might skip the trip to the liquor store. And while bans on Sunday sales were originally promoted to keep the Sabbath holy, they're now pushed by retailers who hate the thought of increased competition.
Laws against bringing your own bottle of wine into a restaurant are pushed by the restaurant lobby. The reason? Restaurants profit handsomely from wine sales, typically tripling the retail price. Plus, it's easy to imagine an upstart restaurant gaining traction by encouraging patrons to bring in their own booze — and established restaurants don't enjoy competition.
America's liquor laws are designed to protect and serve special interests — not consumers. That's why the time has come for the American Wine Consumer Coalition.
David White, the founder and editor of Terroirist.com, is president of the American Wine Consumer Coalition. His columns are housed at Palate Press: The Online Wine Magazine.


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7 Ways to Keep Active With Kendama This Summer
Here are seven ways to keep active with Kendama this summer:
1. Learning New Kendama Tricks
We've got over 75 Kendama trick tutorial videos that will teach you not only the basics but also intermediate and advanced Kendama tricks. Try dedicating an hour to Kendama each day. Pick 3-5 tricks you want to get better at, prep your playlist with our tutorials, and have fun!
2. Go To A Local Kendama Jam
There are jams, events, and tournaments happening all around the globe.
Check out our events page on our Facebook profile to check out some jams near you.
3. Start Your Own Kendama Jam
If you can't find a jam near you then start your own! With three simple steps, you can host a jam in no time!
- Step 1: Find a Venue
- The easiest thing to do is go to your local public park and find a great spot with ample space.
- Step 2: Decide on Day and Time
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- Step 3: Get the Word Out!
- Lastly, make a flyer and throw it up on Facebook or Instagram.
Here are some other ideas to get the word out about your jam. You can ask your school to make mention of your jam in their summer newsletter. If you go to church, you can ask them to make mention of your jam to the everyone. Don't forget to let us know about it too and we'll let everyone in the community know!
4. Create a Custom Kendama
If you are into arts & crafts, painting your own custom Kendama is a great activity. You can add some flare to a painted Kendama or start on a natural, just have fun with it!
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Film yourself lacing your favorite trick or even a clip of a trick you are trying to land.
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LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) – Closing arguments began in late June in the murder trial of the White former transit cop who shot an unarmed Black passenger in Oakland.
As a verdict nears, some analysts and activists wondered whether L.A. would see a repeat of "Rodney King."
Rodney King is the Black motorist whose infamous 1991 videotaped beating by members of the Los Angeles Police Department drew national outrage. A predominantly White jury acquitted three of the officers, deadlocked on one, and set off six days of rioting throughout South L.A. The period became popularly referred to as the "1992 L.A. Rebellion" and the "Rodney King riots."
"The acquittal of the officers that beat Rodney King triggered one of the worst riots in American history. If the jury with no Blacks acquits Mehserle, it will be silence in the community. It will come. It will go. You will hear angry statements from some youth leaders. You will hear angry statements from the relatives from Oscar Grant, but as far as community anger, rage, you will hear nothing," predicted Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, political commentator and talk radio host.
The reason is a lack of local and national media attention and what appears to be a lack of emotional engagement and public attention, except for a consistent contingent of youth led protests and scrutiny from community leaders and activists in the Bay Area since Johannes Mehserle shot 22-year-old Oscar Grant, III. on a station platform on Jan. 1, 2009, he said.
According to Dr. Hutchinson, one parallel is that White officers are accused of victimizing Black men, but a difference is there is no sense of a city on edge in the Grant murder as with Rodney King's beating.
The LAPD was on trial, not just the four officers who beat Mr. King, because of its long, well documented history of brutality against Blacks and Hispanics, Dr. Hutchinson told The Final Call.
The sordid history includes an almost relentless war with LAPD which spawned beatings, riots, brutality, and murders, but the analyst and writer felt the same relationship doesn't exist with BART.
"Rodney King was just waiting. King was not isolated. King was not an aberration. King was part of a pattern of abuse from a police department to a community. … Those four officers that beat Rodney King weren't just seen as four rogue cops. They were seen as the face of a brutal police department but Mehserle is seen as just one bad cop," Dr. Hutchinson said.
Aidge Patterson, an organizer with the L.A. Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant, said the system has set the stage for a repeat of Rodney King by lying to people's faces.
"They're trying to tell us what our eyes see is not what the truth is. They're trying to cover this murder by another one of their foot soldiers up but at the same time I see an amazing effort of people across the state to have this cop locked up and let them know they don't have the ability to get away with it like they did back then," he said.
"As the trial of Johannes Mehserle comes near its conclusion; the city of Oakland fears the response shown in L.A. after an acquittal in the beating of Rodney King. Those whose anger led them to the streets of Los Angeles to protest an unjust verdict were justified in anger. Oakland should learn that the road to peace is the proper administration of justice. Minister Louis Farrakhan teaches us that injustice creates an imbalance of mind; and when the mind is imbalanced, so too can be our actions," said student Minister Keith Muhammad, of the Nation of Islam mosque in Oakland.
"Our hope is that city leadership will take courage, stand together, and demand justice. There is no need to wait for the verdict to call for peace and calm; demand justice now. This case has zero Black members of the jury. This case should have been monitored closely by the federal government. City leaders should stand on the mountain top and demand justice. Then the people may feel that government is on their side and not the side of rogue police, who are trained to cover their tracks," he said.
"Remember, Johannes Mehserle is the first peace officer in the history of California to face a murder charge for unjustified homicide or murder. Remember, no peace officer in the country has ever been convicted for murder while on duty. Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, Elenor Bumpurs, and a long list of other police killings have all been considered by courts, justifiable homicides. Cities are paying millions of dollars to settle lawsuits; yet no criminal court has convicted an officer for murder."
News media indicate the Oakland Police Department recently simulated a riot to prepare for the Mehserle verdict, but rebellions only occur when people get fed up with police injustice and terrorism, Mr. Patterson noted.
Instead of preparing for war against its own citizens, Oakland police should prepare to create better relationships in communities and a society that's just and better for everyone, he added. Instead, they would rather send the message to the people of Oakland that whatever the verdict is, there's nothing they can do about it, Mr. Patterson continued.
"They've made Johannes Mehserle into a victim in this case and he's nothing but a brutal killer.It's like they've been egging the people of Oakland on to smash on the people but they could have done this better. They could have put African Americans on the jury, even African Americans that like police, but they made it blatantly obvious that they've drawn a racist line in the sand," Mr. Patterson said.
He believes a lack of media coverage of the first cop to be tried for murder in California was intended to quiet people down, the same way media refused to show bodies returning from wars." They learned from Rodney King how they're going to show these cases. This is obviously one of the most historic cases in the entire country and it should be on every news station, but they're good at keeping people ignorant."
Related news:
- Trial in videotaped shooting of Oscar Grant begins in Los Angeles (FCN, 06-17-2010)
- Transit cop who killed unarmed man gets a change of venue (FCN, 10-29-2009)
- Leaders accuse officers of lying in Oscar Grant shooting case (FCN, 07-02-2009)
- Fatal shooting of unarmed man sparks outrage (FCN, 01-19-2009)
- Web Video of police shooting in Oakland (KTVU Report)


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Dacia, in antiquity, an area of central Europe bounded by the Carpathian Mountains and covering much of the historical region of Transylvania (modern north-central and western Romania).
The Dacian people had earlier occupied lands south of the Danube and north of the mountains, and those lands as a Roman province eventually included wider territories both to the north and to the east. The Dacians were of Thracian stock and, among the Thracian successor peoples in the region, were most akin to the Getae. (Indeed, the similarities between the groups led the Greek historian Herodotus to label both as Getae, while the Romans referred to all these populations as Dacians.) They first appeared in the Athenian slave market in the 4th century bce. Subsequently they traded with the Greeks (importing especially wine) and used Greek coins. They spoke a Thracian dialect but were influenced culturally by the neighbouring Scythians—from whom they adopted the cult of the Scythian deity Zalmoxis and a belief in immortality—and by Celtic invaders of the 4th century bce.
The Dacians were members of an alliance that engaged Roman troops in 112, 109, and 75 bce. By the time of that contact, Dacian society had divided into two distinct classes—an aristocracy and a proletariat. The former consisted of the nobility and the priesthood, and the latter comprised the rank and file of the army, the peasantry, and artisans. Among the proletariat, chief occupations were agriculture and cattle breeding. Dacians also worked rich mines of silver, iron, and gold in Transylvania. Dacia carried on significant outside trade, as evidenced by the number of foreign coins found there.
About 60–50 bce King Burebista unified and expanded the kingdom, establishing it as a significant regional power. He overwhelmed the Greek cities on the north Black Sea coast and expanded his borders west beyond the Tisza River, north to modern Slovakia, and south of the Danube to the area beyond Belgrade. Burebista seems to have offered Pompey assistance in 49 bce, and in 44 Caesar was planning a vast expedition against the Dacian kingdom. Caesar was murdered that year, however, and soon afterward Burebista was assassinated as well. His kingdom broke up into at least four parts, but the Dacians continued to harass Rome, an invasion in 11 or 10 bce being particularly devastating. Augustan generals gradually pushed them back from the left bank of the Danube while also settling 80,000 men within the Roman province of Moesia on the right bank. No further trouble was recorded until autumn 69 ce, when the Dacians found Moesia vulnerable after the legions had departed to fight Vitellius. After capturing a number of forts, they were beaten back by Vespasian's general Gaius Licinius Mucianus, then on his way to Italy.
The origins of the more-serious wars under the emperors Domitian and Trajan are hard to discern, but Roman provocation cannot be ruled out. The Dacians, unified once again under Decebalus, raided Moesia in 85 ce, killing the provincial governor, Oppius Sabinus. Domitian restored order the following year, but his commander Cornelius Fuscus was killed with a large part of his army in a failed invasion. In 88 Rome won a victory at Tapae near the Iron Gate pass, but, because of difficulties with tribes farther west, Domitian gave Dacia a favourable peace. Roman suzerainty was recognized, but the Dacians received a subsidy and the loan of engineers.
In 101 Trajan reopened the struggle, and in 102 he dictated a peace under which the Dacian capital, Sarmizegethusa (probably near modern Sarmizegetusa, Romania), received a Roman garrison. In 105 the war was renewed, and in 106 the whole country was subdued, with large parts of its population being exterminated or driven northward. Trajan acquired enormous booty, his campaigns were commemorated with a massive victory column in Rome, and Dacia's mines, perhaps a motive for the conquest, were immediately exploited. Roads were built, and Sarmizegethusa and Tsierna (modern Orșova) became colonies. The new Roman province was at first put under a consular legate with at least two legions, but under Hadrian it was divided. Dacia Superior comprised Transylvania, under a praetorian legate and supported by a single legion at Apulum (Alba Iulia), while Dacia Inferior—in what was afterward Walachia—was governed by a procurator. In 159 Antoninus Pius redivided the area into three provinces, the Tres Daciae (Dacia Porolissensis, Dacia Apulensis, and Dacia Malvensis), all subordinate to one governor of consular rank. Marcus Aurelius made them a single military area about 168.
The limits of Roman territory were probably never clearly defined, but the Romans benefited both militarily and materially from the occupation. The need for troops south of the Danube most likely caused the abandonment of the province by Aurelian about 270.


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Review by Tom Huddleston
Posted on 19 October 2007
Source Vertigo Films 35mm print
Categories The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival
The Onion's AV Club offshoot recently ran a feature listing 10 films which would not have been possible without the influence of Wes Anderson and Rushmore. A shorter but steadily expanding list would be those works impossible without David Gordon Green and George Washington—such a countdown might include Mean Creek, Twelve And Holding, Old Joy and now Shotgun Stories. It's not that Green invented this sort of lush, lyrical working class American realism - he took his cues from, among others, Terence Malick, Charles Burnett and Errol Morris - but he certainly brought this particular style of cinema into focus for a new generation of filmmakers.
In Shotgun Stories the parallels are clearly pronounced, perhaps because Green himself produced the film, which is directed by young first timer Jeff Nichols. But there's more story here than in the average indie slice-of-life, and it's surprisingly gripping. The Hayes family is split in two—three brothers from one mother, four from another. The elder three, now in their mid-20's, and named Son, Kid and Boy, feel abandoned by their father who, although he later found religion, cleaned up his act and became a proud family man, never returned to his first family, leaving the boys in the care of their bitter, hate filled mother. But when the patriarch dies, oldest child Son feels compelled to make a statement, interrupting the funeral and spitting on the coffin. This provokes a bitter feud between the two factions, which eventually leads to violence and murder.
As with Green's work, one of the standout aspects here is the photography. Set in the flyblown small town of England, Arkansas, the film luxuriates in a lambent, sunlit depiction of places and people—golden fields of wheat, bug stained windshields on a dusty highway, the sides of clapboard houses glowing in the last light of the setting sun. One particularly memorable image captures Boy fishing at a small lake, the light glittering on the water as he makes Margaritas in a blender hooked up to his car battery.
Such small character touches are all over Shotgun Stories. These are terse, taciturn people, unable to express themselves emotionally—there are as many pursed lips and narrowed eyes here as in any stiff-upper-lipped English wartime romance. They reveal themselves through the small details: Son's obsessive, self destructive nature is illustrated by his obsession with cards, even though we never actually see him gamble. Boy's relative innocence comes out through his relationship with his dog, Henry, and the small gang of kids he's trying to teach basketball. The dialogue is spare and essentially declarative, but there are brief passages of real beauty, such as a bittersweet discussion on the nature of love between Son and Kid—'you just have to decide you're going to love someone, and love them. That's all there is to it.'
All three lead actors acquit themselves superbly. As Son, Michael Shannon looks like he just stepped out of Badlands, all 70's hair and grim, tightlipped determination. Middle brother Kid is very likeably played by Barlow Jacobs, but it's newcomer Douglas Ligon as Boy who threatens to steal the show: overweight and cowardly, but forced to carry the full weight of responsibility when both his siblings are put out of action. Every one of the characters feels at home in their world, a part of the landscape, with pensive, weatherbeaten faces to match. The four younger Hayes brothers - particularly acne-scarred teenagers Stephen and John - barely seem like actors at all, but real farm kids, utterly inhabiting the parts they've been given.
Shotgun Stories is a beautifully judged film, taking its time to tell a simple, familiar but relevant and deeply poignant story. The pace is precisely maintained, easing us into the characters and the story, hitting dramatic peaks which steadily increase in significance and emotional impact, then taking a step back to examine the consequences of such events. And though it may never scale the expressive, heartbreaking heights of films like Twelve and Holding or All The Real Girls, Shotgun Stories remains a wonderfully affecting character study, and a visually sumptuous cinemagoing experience.
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A few months back, I noted that the impressive early success of the Common Core effort risked breeding overconfidence, complacency, and inattention to how the effort would play out in practice. I warned that many who signed onto common assessments might be alienated by an effort that pushed too far or too fast.
Well, as of this morning, the Common Core battle has been officially joined. The notion that something this potentially momentous would unfold with no more than a bit of carping was always unlikely. Today, the anti-Common Core-ites fired their first organized response, in a manifesto titled, "Closing the Door on Innovation." Organized by the Hoover Institution's Bill Evers, Jay Greene of U. Arkansas and the Bush Institute, Greg Forster of the Foundation for Educational Choice, standards crusader Sandra Stotsky, and former Bush administration official Ze'ev Wurman, the document opposes "the ongoing effort by the U.S. Department of Education to have two federally funded testing consortia develop national curriculum guidelines, national curriculum models, national instructional materials, and national assessments using Common Core's national standards."
The 100+ mostly conservative signatories argued in a press release announcing the manifesto that "current U.S. Department of Education efforts to nationalize curriculum will stifle innovation and freeze into place an unacceptable status quo; end local and state control of schooling; lack a legitimate legal basis; and impose a one-size-fits-all model on America's students."
The signatories charge that current efforts "are against federal law and undermine the constitutional balance between national and state authority;" that "the evidence doesn't show a need for national curriculum or a national test for all students;" that the "U.S. Department of Education is basing its initiative on inadequate content standards;" that "there is no research-based consensus on what is the best curricular approach to each subject;" and that "there is not even consensus on whether a single 'best curricular approach' for all students exists."
(In a potentially related development, Whiteboard Advisors reported on Friday that its April survey of influential D.C. "insiders" showed an 18 percent drop since July 2010 in how "important" the respondents think it is that a NCLB/ESEA reauthorization address the Common Core. Of the sixteen potential NCLB/ESEA elements addressed, Common Core showed the second largest decline. Common Core was the only issue for which "insiders" indicated there was less support in Congress now than in July 2010.)
Bill Evers reports that "Closing the Door" was underway before the Shanker Institute's recent manifesto on behalf of "common content," but this document has clearly been shaped by what its authors term the Shanker Institute's effort to champion "a single nationalized curriculum in every K-12 subject." In short, the Finlandophile wing of the Common Core movement is accentuating the concerns of those who fear the exercise is a Trojan Horse for efforts to involve Washington more deeply in running the nation's schools.
Signatories include legislators who chair or vice-chair education committees in Minnesota, Colorado, Arizona, and Texas; state board members from Colorado and Alabama; two former general counsels at the U.S. Department of Ed; and a grab-bag of Republicans like former California governor Pete Wilson, former Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese, former U.S. House member Pete Hoekstra, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, and Spellings Commission chair Charles Miller. They also include William Estrada of the Home School Legal Defense Association; Bob Enlow, president of the Foundation for Educational Choice; the heads of a number of state-level conservative think tanks; and academics including Shelby Steele, U. Chicago's Richard Epstein, Stephen and Abigail Thernstrom, and, intriguingly, progressive icon Joel Spring.
It isn't yet clear whether this document marks the emergence of anything more than scattered opposition, but it does signal that the Common Core effort is about to become more contentious. For those who remember the national standards imbroglio of the early 1990s, the fact that this pushback is taking on a conservative, partisan shape, especially in the run-up to a Presidential election and at a time when small government Republicanism is back with a vengeance, should prompt some anxiety. The presence of some politically potent signers, like the home schoolers and Grover Norquist, only ups the ante.
I've previously raised questions about the Common Core not to be nettlesome but because, done right, the effort could be a terrific boon to assessment, accountability, research, tool-building, and instruction. Done wrong, it may well unravel what leading states have accomplished on standards, undercut charter schooling and autonomous district schools, stifle online learning, compromise school accountability, and fuel a more destructive replay of the '90s national standards fight. And, as I've said, I think it more likely that the enterprise will go wrong than that it'll go right. This leaves me pretty conflicted, and agnostic, on the whole deal.
The challenge for Common Core-ites was never to win over Evers or Greene. They're smart skeptics more attuned to the risks than the potential benefits of the effort. The challenge for Common Core-ites has always been to convince the mass of policymakers, activists, educators, and observers that the concerns are overblown. Core-ites need to hold centrist policymakers, reformers, and voters by assuring them that there are no hidden agendas, the effort is working to anticipate and address adverse consequences, and the Common Core is not morphing into a covert national curriculum or a dramatic expansion of the federal role.
Over the past twelve months, I'd say that Core-ites have done a mediocre job on these counts. Rather, they seem to have blithely accepted (or welcomed) an active federal role, largely ignored how their efforts might impact charter schooling or online learning, dismissed skeptics as ideologues and know-nothings, and done nothing to rein in those eager to charge from common assessments to something like a national curriculum.
Common Core-ites would do well to regard today's blast not as a threat but as an opportunity to raise their game.
– Frederick Hess
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Ortelius is an important figure in the history of cartography. He is regarded as the father of the modern atlas. His Theatrum Orbis Terrarum was a bound volume of maps, with descriptive text, intended to sytematically cover the entire world. It came out in many editions and languages between 1570 and 1612 and was generously plagiarised then and later. The map Islandia first appeared in the edition of Theatrum in 1587. Islandia was the first detailed and accurate (by the standards of the time) map of Iceland. The information for the map itself originated with Bishop Gudbrandur Thorlaksson who sent it to a Danish historian, Anders Sörensen Vedel. Vedel sent the notes and a map of his own creation to Ortelius who used them used when preparing the copperplates for Islandia. The Vedel map has not survived. Many of the placenames on the map were badly mangled by Ortelius when he converted the Icelandic script (Latin letters with additional characters) into the Latin script common in Holland.
I don't intend to write a detailed article about the map as a whole, today. I just want to make some comments about the animals surrounding the island in the sea, especially his sources for the animals. The auction site of Barry Lawrence Ruderman (my source for the Ortelius images) says:
Some of the more purely fanciful images may derive from tales of St. Brendan, a sixth century Irish missionary who, according to legend, journeyed to Iceland and whose name is associated with a mythical island of the same name. Others are traceable to Olaus Magnus's Carta Marina of 1539, although they were probably derived directly from Munster's Cosmographia of 1545 and most notably Munster's chart of the Sea and Land Creatures[Meerwunder und seltzame Thier].
As far as I can tell, this is true, though I have identified some of the other sources. I believe Ortelius relied more directly on Olaus that on the intermediary of Münster. Only a few of the beasts on Islandia were portrayed in Cosmographia, while several more can be found on Olaus' map and, more importantly, in his book Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, first published in 1555 and many times thereafter. Another source that Ortelius used was Konrad Gesner (De Piscibus Orbiculatis 1558), who commented on and, in some places, corrected Olaus. One of those corrections appears on Islandia. Finally, he might have used Ambroise Paré's Des Monstres. Although there is nothing in this that he couldn't have found in any of the other sources, Des Monstres first published in 1573, is one of the greatest monster bestiaries of all time.
On to the illustrations. Ortelius marked the animals on the map with capital letters. These were described in text on the back of the map. For each animal, I'll start with the image and description, follow with some possible sources for the image, and end with any other comments that wander into my mind.
A. is a fish, commonly called NAHVAL. If anyone eats of this fish, he will die immediately. It has a tooth in the front part of its head standing out seven cubits. Divers have sold it as the Unicorn's horn. It is thought to be a good antidote and powerful medicine against poison. This monster is forty ells in length.
From the description, it's quite clear that he intends a narwhal. I've written before about the European belief in unicorn horn. By the time that Ortelius wrote the text for this map, the belief in an actual unicorn animal was fading. However, belief in the horn itself, whatever its true source, and its anti-poison properties hung on for another century. Curiously, although there were plenty of images of sea unicorns that Ortelius might have drawn on, he chose to use something that resembles a swordfish to represent the narwhal. I haven't been able to locate a source for this image.
The ell is a highly flexible measure. It most commonly means, either a cubit (half yard, finger tips to elbow, or roughly eighteen inches) or a three-quarter yard (finger tips to arm pit, or roughly twenty-seven inches). Just to keep things confusing, it was also used for any foreign measure of the same order of magnitude.
Since I can't find anything to match his narwhal, we'll move on to B and C.
B. the Roider is a fish of one hundred and thirty ells in length, which has no teeth. The flesh of it is very good meat, wholesome and tasty. Its fat is good against many diseases.
C. The BURCHVALUR has a head bigger than its entire body. It has many very strong teeth, of which they make chess pieces [some editions say bricks]. It is 60 cubits long.
I don't have anything to offer for the images of B or C either. Their basic forms, with the wide open mouthes, vaguely matche standard artistic representations of fish going back to Minoan Greece. One thing I can say about the Burchvalur is that the description of a long head and teeth used for carving sounds like a sperm whale. In fact, several of the monsters on the charts of Ortelius, Olaus, and Münster are based on different stories about sperm whales.
On a linguistic note: Roider or reydur or reidr is an old Icelandic name for baleen whales, which have no teeth. The suffix -valur, in Burchvalur, comes from the root as "whale." It shows up as hvalur, wal, ual, hval and other forms hidden in the names of many northern sea mammals.
For D, I do have some meat. Ortelius points to Olaus as his source for the sea hog. Olaus bases his pig-like monster of the German Sea on a specific sighting in 1537. Between Olaus' first representation in 1539 and Ortelius' image in 1587, the beast has undergone some evolution.
D. The Hyena or sea hog is a monstrous kind of fish about which you may read in the 21st book of Olaus Magnus.
This first is from Olaus' 1539 map. The sea hog has a boar's head, a very scaly body, webbed feet, what might be a row of uneven spines or bristles on its back, horns like a cow's over its shoulders, and, strangest of all, what appear to be three eyes on its side.
Münster's version from six years later has fewer details. The webbed feet now look more like fins and the side eyes are gone. Where Olaus' sea hog faced right, Münster's faces left. This reversal was common when prints were copied. The engraver set the original work next to his plate and copied what he saw, forgetting, or not caring, that when his plate was printed, the image would become reversed.
The version printed in Olaus' book in 1555, faces left again. My guess is that Olaus' engraver worked from the map plates rather than a print. The image is a little more detailed and has a new background but it is otherwise unchanged.
In Gesner, three years later, the image is reversed, it's slightly more detailed (beautifully so), and lacks a background. In case there was any question about where he got the image, he directly quotes Olaus' book and comments on it.
Finally, we have Paré in 1573. The image face left and lacks any background, so I think it's safe to say it was copied from Gesner.
Looking back at Ortelius' image, I think it's clear that he did not get it from Münster. The most important in my making this judgement is the three side eyes. Münster did not have them, and does not mention them in his accompanying text. He merely calls it a "monstrous fish that resembles pig." In Ortelius, they look more like bullet holes that eyes, but they are there and in the same arrangement (two above one below). My principle of reversals would seem to argue that Ortelius worked from Olaus and not Gesner, but I think one other point argues in Gesner's favor. Ortelius' image is not a simple copy; it has been completely reworked. The scales are gone and the beast looks furry. The feet are no longer webbed; they look like those of a dog or some other terrestrial carnivore. In fact, he calls it a hyena. Gesner was the only previous writer to use the word hyena to describe the monster. I'm not sure where he picked up that reference. It's possible that there is another source that I'm not aware of that had an image of a furry sea hog, but until I hear of it, I'm going to say Ortelius was the one who improved the sea hog based on Gesner's description.
E. Ziphius, a horrible sea monster that swallows a black seal in one bite.
Various sources I've looked at claim that the Ziphius is a goose-beaked whale, a sperm whale, or an orca. Olaus, who first used the image was very clear that Ziphius is a swordfish (xiphia). He wrote that is had horrible eyes, a sharp beak like a sword, a triangular back (a fin), and that it was a stranger in the North that only occasionally showed up as a robber. However, he also said it had a head like an owl's and he drew it that way. Here are the images of Olaus, 1539; Münster, 1545; Olaus, 1555; and Gesner, 1558.
Three things stand out when comparing Ortelius' Ziphius with Olaus' first image. First, the second attacking monster is missing from the scene. Second, Ortelius' Ziphius has no dorsal fin. Third, it looks like Vincent van Gogh. I think the last one is a coincidence. Ortelius' Ziphius most closely matches Münster's. Of the four earlier images, only Münster's lacks the dramatic staging and it has the smallest dorsal fin. These make it the most likely source for Ortelius' Ziphius.
F. The English whale, thirty ells long. It has no teeth, but its tongue is seven ells in length.
Several things stand out taking this image and description together. First, it appears to have teeth, contrary to the description. Second, it has arms. Third, is that a giant penis? All of these details come from Olaus and are repeated in Gesner and partially in Paré.
Olaus' illustration is not based on a species called the English whale. It is, rather, an illustration for a report of a particular whale that beached itself near the mouth of the Thames on August 27, 1532. He describes the proportions of the whale, commenting on the fact that its mouth was long in proportion to its body. He says that is had long "wings," half the length of its body. He says it had no teeth but, instead, hairy blades on the roof of its mouth and a long tongue. He says that its genitals were of monstrous magnitude. I think most modern people would have no problem recognising this as a male baleen whale of some sort. Olaus' illustration shows workers chopping up the stinking carcass to dispose of it. Olaus appears to have had some trouble translating the report into an image. The "wings" turned into dragon's feet and he drew the baleen plates as a series triangles that looked a lot like teeth.
Gesner's English whale is essentially a copy of Olaus' with the people removed, possibly to give us a better look at the giant penis. His one significant change is that he has added some teeth in the lower jaw.
Paré started from scratch and created a new image. In his, the front of the whale has been reworked to have a profile like a sperm whale and the "wings" have been changed from arms into cute little bat wings. Its lower jaw has teeth that again resemble a sperm whale and it appears to have no teeth at all in its upper jaw, only some curious holes.
There is one hint in Olaus' drawing that he might have had some experience with whale bones. This is in the strange arms of the whale. The arms look flabby and are made up mostly of wrist and fingers, which is exactly the bone structure of a whale's fins. Like the wings of its fellow mammal, the bat, a whale's fins have kept most of their fingers, as opposed to birds whose fingers are all fused into one structure. Ortelius was apparently not familiar with these bones as he has rendered the fingers more paw-like. The bones are well displayed in this Nineteenth Century German illustration.
G. HROSHUALUR, that is to say as much as Sea horse, with manes hanging down from its neck like a horse. It often causes great hurt and scare to fishermen.
There's really nothing special about the sea horse. Both the legend and image had been well known since classical antiquity and, by the Medieval times, it was used in heraldry. The pose is a common one. Ortelius could have taken his image from a fountain, mural, coat of arms, or book illustration. It's very similar to Gesner's sea horse, but not enough so that I would say it was based on Gesner.
Ortelius' sea horse is really quite beautiful. Today, it would be easy to imagine his horse showing up as an airbrushed poster full of rainbows and unicorns. But, such a treatment obscures the legend, which was that the sea horse was a horrible monster that hunted and killed fishermen. Then again, the unicorn was often portrayed a a horrible monster that hunted and killed men in the forest.
H. The largest kind of Whale, which seldom shows itself. It is more like a small island than like a fish. It cannot follow or chase smaller fish because of its huge size and the weight of its body, yet it preys on many, which it catches by natural cunning and subtlety which it applies to get its food.
Like the sea horse, the island fish has a long heritage in mythology. It appears in the Arabian Nights, Icelandic mythology, and in the Voyage of St. Brendan. In most legends, a ship comes across the island fish sleeping on the surface (a basking shark?). Thinking it is an island, the sailors land and build a fire to cook their dinner, waking the monster. The island fish is not usually malicious, it is merely dangerous because of its size. Olaus had an image of the island fish on his 1539 map but not in his book.Olaus' image shows the episode of the sailors starting a fire. Münster had a variation of it without the sailors. Gesner has the sailors and so must have copied it from Olaus' map.
Both Olaus' and Gesner's fish have a row of small fins running along its spine, while Münster's and Ortelius' do not. This, and the sailors, make me believe that Ortelius was more inspired by Münster than by the others for this image.
I. SKAUTUHVALUR. This fish is fully covered with bristles or bones. It is somewhat like a shark or skate [thorn-back in the German edition], but infinitely bigger. When it appears, it is like an island, and with its fins it overturns boats and ships.
According to the Icelandic Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture only two species of rays or skates are native to their waters and neither one is big enough to capsize a ship. Ortelius' image could owe something to Olaus and Gesner. The fish in its mouth resmbles Olaus, but the spininess does not.
While there is some resemblance in the images, the descriptions are completely different. The ray described by Olaus is presented as a model of virtue. In the image, the ray is rescuing a fisherman who has fallen into the water and is being eaten by hungry fish. Later on, Olaus describes a different giant ray that uses its stinger to pluck sailors off of ships.
K. SEENAUT, sea cow of grey colour. They sometimes come out of the sea and feed on the land in groups. They have a small bag hanging by their nose with the help of which they live in the water. If it is broken, they live altogether on the land, accompanied by other cows.
Notice the three cows on the shore behind the Seenauts. They are labled vacca marina, which is Latin for "sea cows." Olaus, Münster, and Gesner all had sea cows in their presentations, but none of their illustations resemble Ortelius'. Still, I like the sea cow enough that I'm going to show them anyway.
Münster's and Gesner's sea cows are descended from Olaus' map illustration and not from his book illustration, which is completely different. I think it might be the ancestor of the cow in Guernica.
L. STEIPEREIDUR, a most gentle and tame kind of whale, which for the defence of fishermen fights against other kinds of whales. It is forbidden by Proclamation that any man should kill or hurt this kind of Whale. It has a length of at least 100 cubits.
The image of the Steipereidur nearly matches the island fish above. Olaus, on his map, has several whales that all basically fit this image. Besides the one shown above as the island fish is this one illustrating a battle between a whale and an orca. That scene was a standard piece in natural histories dating back, at least, to Pliny in the first century. This might be what Ortelius was referring to when he described Steipereidur.
On a less happy note for the Steipereidur, the royal proclamation must not have lasted long. In a history of Greenland published in 1705, Thormodus Torfæus wrote that Steipereidur was the tastiest kind of whale.
M. STAUKUL. The Dutch call it Springual. It has been observed to stand for a whole day long upright on its tail. It derives its name from its leaping or skipping. It is a very dangerous enemy of seamen and fishermen, and greedily goes after human flesh.
The springing whale is another name for the orca. The presence of two so different orcas in the literature of the time shows how confused information arriving from different sources could become. Ortelius should have been aware of the orca, under that name, as portrayed by Olaus and numerous other artists, but the springing whale description was so different that he never made a connection of them being the same animal.
N. ROSTUNGER (also called Rosmar) is somewhat like a sea calf. It goes to the bottom of the sea on all four of its feet, which are very short. Its skin can hardly be penetrated by any weapon. It sleeps for twelve hours on end, hanging on some rock or cliff by its two long teeth. Each of its teeth are at least one ell long and the length of its whole body is fourteen ells.
And here we are with my friend the walrus. In my Ruscheni article, I gave some history of European knowledge of the walrus. Some other day, I'll do a complete data dump of everything I found in my research. For now, I'll just give a short version of that which is relevant to Ortelius' map.
The description of the walrus spending its time hanging by its teeth to sleep dates back to the thirteenth century and a bestiary written by St. Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus). It is part of a bizzare description of hunting walruses by sneking up on them while the slept, cutting slits in their skin, running a rope through the slits, tying the rope to a tree and then waking the walruses (as if all this cutting and tying didn't) and stampeding them into the sea during which they were supposed to literally run out of their skin Like some Tex Avery cartoon character. The description was repeated by many writers including Olaus and Gesner. Olaus' illustrations show the walrus as a legged monster with tusks in its lower jaw.
The first edition of Gesner's book copied Olaus' illustration and repeated the Albertus story.
None of these images resemble the one that Ortelius used. Münster's chart of the Sea and Land Creatures does not include a walrus. But Ortelius' walrus does have a source and that is the second edition of of Gesner's De Piscibus. between 1558 and 1560, Gesner learned of a drawing of a walrus in the wall of the Strasbourg city hall. Around 1520, Bishop Erik Valkendorf of Trondheim sent the head of a walrus, preserved with salt, to pope Leo X. On the way to Rome, it was displayed at the Strasbourg Rathaus. Someone made a drawing of it on the wall, imagining a seal-like body with a fish tail, four chubby arms, and wing-like structures behind the fore-arms. Gesner was skeptical about the body, but faithfully reproduced it.
In the thirty years between Gesner and Ortelius, Western Europeans began to penetrate the Arctic in significant numbers looking for shortcuts to China and trade with Russia. Many of these travelers saw walruses and brought back ivory and more realistic stories of walrus hunting, but I cannot locate any images during that time.
O. Spermaceti parmacitty or a simple kind of amber, commonly called HUALAMBUR.
This is ambergris or whale barf. Aged ambergris is used as a fixative in perfume and was, and still is, extremely valuable. On the map, the ambergris is represented as two blobs flanking the walrus. We don't need to look for a source for shapeless blobs.
P. Blocks and trunks of trees, by force of winds and violent tempests torn off by their roots from the cliffs of Norway, tossed to and fro, and surviving many storms, finally cast upon and coming to rest at this shore.
The significance of the driftwood is that, by Ortelius' time, Iceland had almost no trees big enough to use for ship building or construction. For the same reason, Olaus made a point of showing driftwood around Greenland. Like the ambergris, we don't really need to look for sources for driftwood.
Q. Huge and marvellously big heaps of ice, brought here by the tide from the frozen sea, making loud and terrible noises. Some pieces are often as big as forty cubits. On some of these, white bears sit together, watching the innocent fish play about in exercise.
I don't think there is a specific source for this illustration. Bears were a familiar animal to European artists. In Ortelius' time, they still lurked in forests across most of the continent. Bears were used in heraldry, so most artists would have been able to draw them. I find these bears especially charming. Rather than the fierce animals of reputation, they are shown playfully.
Olaus also showed ice floes and polar bears on the northeast coast of Iceland. One of them is eating an innocent fish.
An interesting detail is that the polar bears on Olaus' map are brown. Renaissance maps were printed in black and white and later hand colored. Color printing did not come into being until the nineteenth century. Quite often, the maps were colored by their owners and not by the publishers, meaning different copies of the same map can quite different color schemes. Though Olaus clearly labeled the bears "white bears" (ursi albi)whoever colored his map colored the bears a more familiar brown.
And now we've come all the way around the island. By my count, most of the identifiable sources for Ortelius' sea animal images are either Gesner or Olaus, though he was also aware of Münster. Sea horses and bears were common enough in European art that they could easily have been original creations. As to the descriptions, most of these are also Gesner or Olaus (Münster's descriptions are very short). Finally, the inclusion animals not in any of those sources and the use of Icelandic names makes me think that he got most of the rest of his information from Bishop Thorlaksson and Anders Vedel. Whatever his sources, the map is a beautiful glimpse into the state of knowledge during the age of discovery.


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red dog, name for two different simple gambling card games.
In one version of red dog—also known as yablon, acey-deucey, and between the sheets—each player puts up an initial stake, and the banker deals two cards faceup. Unless the ranks of the cards are the same or consecutive, the bettors may increase their stakes by as much as the original amount of their wagers on the basis of their belief that the next card turned from the deck will be intermediate in rank between the first two cards. A third card is then dealt between the first two, and the bettors win if it is intermediate. The odds paid to a successful bettor vary with the number of ranks intermediate between the first two cards (the "spread") as follows: one rank pays 5 to 1, two ranks pay 4 to 1, three ranks pay 2 to 1, and greater spreads pay 1 to 1. If the first two cards are consecutive, no one may raise, and no one wins. If they are paired, no one may raise, but a third card is turned, and the bettors win 11 to 1 if it matches the rank of the first two cards.
In the other version of red dog—also known as high-card pool—players contribute equally to a pot, which is replenished by new antes whenever it is empty. Each player is dealt five cards, or four cards if 9 or 10 play. Starting with the player to the left of the dealer, each in turn may toss a chip in the pot in order to throw his hand in or bet any remaining part of the pot that at least one of his cards will be of the same suit and higher in rank than the next card turned from the deck. After the pot has been covered or all the players have wagered, the banker turns the top card, and each player settles with the pot the amount of his bet. In some circles a player may also bet against holding a winning card.


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Module 1 - Introduction and General Overview of Important Concepts
Overview of the course and the curriculum we will be covering (4:23)
Evergreen nature of this course and course questions (5:06)
Administration - Course Payments, Refund policy, certificates of completion (6:25)
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What happens with someone's taxes when they pass away? (5:03)
Overview of the process for those in the role of executor (5:42)
What is probate and does a will need to be probated? (4:49)
Overview of the filing process for tax preparers (4:10)
Module 2 - First Steps In The Process of Preparing Terminal T1 Returns
The important dates and tax periods to be aware of for deceased taxpayers (3:23)
What type of time frame can I expect to have executor clear estate (5:05)
The different tax returns that can be filed for a deceased individual by the executor (4:12)
Other optional returns for business/partnership income and income from Graduated Rate Estates (GRE) (4:26)
The deadlines for filing T1 returns for deceased (3:40)
Additional T1 deadlines that are often overlooked, missed or not considered (3:09)
Estate returns and what you need to know (5:07)
The deadlines for filing estate tax returns (2:23)
The penalties for late filing of trust returns (3:08)
Using Auto Fill My Return system to help with returns and easier authorization process (4:02)
Module 3 - Tax Rules on Death of a Taxpayer
The Rights & Things return as an optional return (5:04)
An example of a rights & things case and what to report (4:04)
Amounts paid directly to beneficiaries instead of estate (2:10)
Are instalments necessary after the date of death? (3:23)
Claiming tax credits in the year of death on the Terminal T1 (5:02)
Example of tax credits in year of death - not pro-rated (1:45)
Medical expense rules in the year of death (4:37)
Rules for donations made by the deceased and by their estate (5:26)
Accruing income in the year of death and on terminal return (3:53)
Pension splitting with spouse in year of death (3:40)
What happens to capital losses and carry-forwards in the year of death? (4:16)
What happens if there are capital losses in the estate? (3:40)
Alternative minimum tax (AMT) and the year of death (1:54)
Dealing with T-slips in the year of death on final return and trust return (4:14)
Another scenario on dealing with T-slips on the final return (3:08)
Module 4 - Capital Property & Deemed Disposition Rules
The general deemed disposition rules (3:02)
Example of deemed dispositions and how to report (3:45)
Transfers to spouse and spousal rollovers (3:25)
Where might a surviving spouse elect to transfer at FMV? (4:34)
Deemed disposition of depreciable property (5:30)
The rules related to land inventory in the year of death (0:54)
The treatment of stock options and what to do in year of death (2:17)
The issues with getting an accurate ACB of various assets (5:58)
Claiming the correct and optimal property as the principal residence (3:32)
An example of the principal residence decision making process (4:45)
Issues to examine with principal residence claims (4:17)
Disclosing the deemed disposition of the principal residence (5:43)
Module 5 - Deferred Income Plans - RRSP, TFSA & Pensions
RRSP contributions made in the year of death (2:24)
The tax treatment of RRSP accounts in the year of death (4:07)
Roll over of RRSP accounts to surviving spouse and others (2:50)
The documents and slips you will see on transfer to spouse's RRSP account (5:21)
What if the value of the RRSP goes down after DOD when it's cashed out? (5:26)
What happens to RRIF accounts at date of death? (2:06)
Practical guidance - Different RRIF amounts and making sure you have all slips (3:46)
The slips you will see on the transfer of RRIF accounts to a spouse (3:29)
Some additional comments on RRIF amounts (1:52)
What happens to Home Buyers Plan outstanding amounts on death (4:00)
What happens to TFSA accounts on or after death (4:08)
Best practices on preparing estate returns & using useful reports (5:33)
An example of a deceased's asset listing used for probate and its usefulness (4:01)
Module 6 - Estate Tax Returns - The T3 Trust & Information Return
Overview of the conceptual framework of the trust reporting system (3:55)
Introduction to the T3 Trust & Information Return (3:23)
The basics of the T3 trust return and the information you will need (5:56)
A look at the T3 return and the relevant or common schedules & forms (5:47)
What you need to know about tax and trusts (5:11)
Understanding the rules for Graduated Rate Estates (GRE's) for deceased estates (3:33)
The rules related to the CPP death benefit and how to report the income (2:26)
Working with the executor to determine the estate's accounting and income (4:38)
Dealing with T-slips you may get from institutions that don't match year end (3:17)
Example of how to deal with T-slips on an estate return (5:31)
Where to get the information to complete the T3 Trust return and typical income (5:03)
An example of the type of income and information you'll have for the T3 return (5:33)
Sample of filling out the T3 Trust & Information return with the example income (5:22)
Necessary reporting for executor fees (5:04)
Preparing an ACB report for beneficiaries on share transfer (3:18)
Giving beneficiaries information they'll require for future taxes (2:41)
Helping the executor with distributions to beneficiaries (5:55)
Using a holdback as part of distribution planning to beneficiaries (7:09)
Module 7 - Clearance Certificates & Dealing with the CRA
What is a clearance certificate? (2:47)
Does every Executor need to apply for a clearance certificate? (6:04)
Filling out the TX19 Request for Clearance Certificate (4:11)
The documents and information you should submit with the TX19 request (8:18)
An example the final clearance certificate (1:56)
How long does it take to get a clearance certificate? (3:10)
Can you file tax return early for deceased who passed away early? (3:54)
It's ok and preferable to give CRA the same paperwork over and over (2:39)
Requesting taxpayer relief on late filed returns and other penalties (3:36)
Module 8 - Conclusion & Resources
A good CCH resource for preparing trust returns (2:11)
Some other good reference publications from the CCH (3:18)
Tips on building your practice with terminal returns and estates (4:30)
Thank you and my email contact information for questions - testimonials etc (1:11)
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For the last several years, Bruce Western has been studying the rising number of Americans who are serving time in prison. The professor of sociology has examined how higher incarceration rates have impacted families and how the effects reverberate in labor markets.
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Home phone service providers in Oklahoma
Compare the cheapest landline phone service plans available in your area.
We helped over 2 million users compare phone plans in 2023
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- The best landline phone companies in Oklahoma
- How to pick the best home phone service provider
- Home phone service coverage map in Oklahoma
- Compare the best home phone plans
- Cheapest landline service for seniors in Oklahoma
- Oklahoma home phone service FAQs
- Recap: What is the best landline phone service in Oklahoma
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If you're looking for the best home phone providers in Oklahoma, you're in the right place.
According to Statista, there are still over 90 million landlines in the US. However, with so many types of landline service available, we'll help you find the cheapest home phone service for your individual needs.
You'll learn all about the cheapest home phone service including the different types of landlines, features, call quality, customer service, and more.
Keep reading to find the best phone service in your area.
The best landline phone companies in Oklahoma
Ooma home phone in Oklahoma
- T-Mobile 5G & 4G LTE networks
- Unlimited minutes
- $80 equipment fee
30 day money back guarantee
The Ooma Telo LTE home phone service is a reliable home phone solution that requires a one-time hardware payment of $129.99 and low monthly pricing.
- Free phone calls within the US
- Free calls to Canada & Mexico
- No internet required
- Transfer your number
- 911 alerts
- Taxes & fees are extra
- Poor score on Trustpilot
Ooma's cellular home phone service could be helpful if you're in an area with unstable broadband connections, as it operates on the T-Mobile 4G LTE wireless network, not a fixed-line.
It offers several features, such as a 1GB LTE cellular connection for backup internet, a backup battery for power outages, free calling to the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
You can easily transfer your existing phone number over, and because your home phone is using a cellular network, it creates more flexibility, so you can use the Ooma app to make and receive incoming calls wherever you are.
Plan | Price |
Telo LTE home phone | $11.99/mo 30 day money back guarantee |
Telo Basic home phone | $0/mo *Only pay fees & taxes |
Telo Premier home phone | $9.99/mo 30 day money back guarantee |
US Mobile home phone in Oklahoma
- T-Mobile 5G & 4G LTE networks
- Unlimited minutes
- $90 equipment fee
Get first month FREE
US Mobile offers a great home phone plan with a monthly costs that are very competitively priced and includes taxes & fees. While primarily, a cell phone carrier, their new home phone service is an excellent cost-effective alternative to traditional landline.
- Unlimited talk
- Taxes & fees included
- Get the first month free
- No internet required
- Unlimited calling to 200+ countries
- 24/7 customer service
- Easy setup
- Excellent score on Trustpilot
US Mobile offers a cheap home phone plan with unlimited talk in the US, plus unlimited international calling to 200+ countries and 411 numbers. And the great thing is, unlike some VoIP providers, you don't need an internet connection to make use of their benefits.
Operating on T-Mobile's 4G LTE wireless cellular network, rather than a fixed connection, as part of your setup pack, you'll get a US Mobile SIM card and a home phone base and device if selected. As an affordable phone provider, US Mobile sets itself apart from others by providing outstanding customer service, with round-the-clock support available via phone or online chat.
The home phone service operates on one of America's most reliable networks and comes with no activation, cancellation, overage, or daily access fees. There are also no contracts or hidden fees, making the pricing transparent and predictable.
The plan includes voicemail, caller ID, call forwarding, and conference calling at no additional cost. When you purchase their Home Phone Base, you receive one month of service for free. For those who don't already own a cordless handset to use with the Home Phone Base, US Mobile offers a bundle kit priced at $99.99.
Plan | Price |
Home phone service | $12.99/mo Get first month FREE |
Business phone service | $12.99/mo Get first month FREE |
Community Phone in Oklahoma
- T-Mobile 5G & 4G LTE networks
- Unlimited minutes
- $99 equipment fee
Coverage Guarantee - $99 equipment fee
Community Phone offers affordable wireless landline services - no internet service is required as it operates on the T-Mobile 4G LTE wireless network.
- Unlimited nationwide calling
- Works without power
- Keep your existing number
- No internet required
- Easy to setup
- Scores excellent on Trustpilot
- More expensive than others
With unlimited local and long-distance calling, Community Phone plans offer something for all landline needs. You can also easily bring your existing landline number, and it's a quick 30-second setup
Operating on cellular networks gives you more flexibility than with a traditional landline, and if there's a power cut, a battery backup can keep you connected for up to 12 hours.
The main drawback with Community Phone is the price, as its monthly price is not as cheap as other competitors.
Plan | Price |
Standard landline service | $39.99/mo Coverage Guarantee - $99 equipment fee |
Premium landline service | $49.99/mo Coverage Guarantee - $99 equipment fee |
How to pick the best home phone service provider
- Coverage: It's essential to check coverage maps to ensure that the provider has reliable signal strength in your area. This will guarantee good call quality with clear and uninterrupted calls.
- Plan flexibility: When selecting a phone service provider, consider your calling habits and choose a plan that caters to your needs. If you make frequent long-distance or international calls, then look for providers that include that or offer affordable rates. On the other hand, if you mostly make local calls, then prioritize plans with unlimited calls within the US. Additionally, some providers offer plans with features like call waiting, voicemail, and caller ID, which may be important to you, depending on your requirements.
- Pricing: When looking for landline services, it's important to compare pricing to ensure that you're getting a good deal. Many major providers only offer a telephone service when bundled with TV or Internet. But there's no need to bundle your home phone services and pay over the top for features you don't want.
- Contracts: Signing up for long-term contracts may mean you have to pay early termination fees if you decide to switch providers, which can be quite costly. With short-term or contract-free plans, you have the freedom to switch providers whenever you want without incurring any additional fees.
- Advanced features: Look for features such as voicemail, call waiting, caller ID, and 3-way calling that can enhance your calling experience. Voicemail allows you to receive messages when you're unavailable, while call waiting notifies you of incoming calls when you're on another call. Caller ID helps identify the person calling, and 3-way calling enables you to speak with multiple people at once.
- Customer service: When choosing a product or service, it's important to look for good customer service to ensure that you'll receive prompt assistance when needed. Excellent customer service can make all the difference in resolving issues and ensuring you feel valued.
- Equipment costs: You may need to consider any equipment costs associated with the service. This may include purchasing a home phone base station, which can add to the overall expenses. Make sure that these costs fit within your budget before making a decision. However, many providers allow you to bring your own cordless phone, which can help save on equipment costs. Keep in mind that certain types of phones may not be compatible with all home phone services, so it's worth checking with the provider beforehand.
- International calling plans: If you have loved ones residing outside the United States and your calling plan doesn't include international calls, it's advisable to check the rates for international destinations. Some service providers offer inclusive international calling features or add-ons that can help you save money on long-distance calls.
- Bring your existing phone number: When switching to a new service provider, confirm if they allow the transfer of your existing home number. Not all providers offer this feature, so you may have to choose a new phone number if the option isn't available. However, many providers do offer number porting services, which can make the transition to a new provider seamless and hassle-free.
Compare landline phone providers by ZIP code to make sure you find the best deal.
Home phone service coverage map in Oklahoma
Compare the best home phone plans
Provider | Minutes | Monthly Price |
US Mobile | Unlimited | $12.99 |
Community Phone | Unlimited | $39.99-49.99 |
Ooma | Unlimited | $0.00-11.99 |
Cheapest landline service for seniors in Oklahoma
Many landline providers offer discounts or special plans for seniors in Oklahoma. These plans may include lower monthly rates, free or discounted long-distance calls, caller ID, and other features that can meet the needs of seniors.
The Government's Lifeline program offers phone service discounts to eligible low-income customers, including seniors. The program is available in most states, and eligible customers can receive a discount on their landline or cell phone service.
Oklahoma home phone service FAQs
Ooma offers the cheapest home phone plan in Oklahoma. Ooma home phone is available for $11.99 per month, where you only pay the initial equipment cost plus fees and taxes.
Ooma currently offers the best value home phone service in Oklahoma, with plans starting at $11.99 per month.
Yes, landline without internet is available in Oklahoma from &.
The cost of home phone service in Oklahoma starts at $11.99 per month with Ooma, with a one off cost of $79.99 for the initial equipment.
Traditional landline is still available in Oklahoma but only when bundled with internet service, which can cost in excess of $60 per month.
Recap: What is the best landline phone service in Oklahoma
The best landline service comes down to your needs but there are plenty of ways to save money on your home phone service.
Taking advantage of promotions, discounts, and deals, and cutting down on unnecessary features can help you cut costs. You can also bundle your landline service with cable tv service and high-speed internet.
Making sure to compare providers available in your area and check customer reviews to find the best home phone service provider for you.
Methodology: How we picked the home phone service in Oklahoma
The home phone providers we recommended have been researched and evaluated based on price, coverage, customer service, and additional features. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive view that balances cost and value, helping you find a plan that fits your needs and budget.
We did consider these other alternatives: Verizon, AT&T, Xfinity, Spectrum, Optimum but we discounted them because they all require you to bundle landline service with internet at a much higher cost.
The data within our coverage and speed data is sourced from the FCC. We also used data from OpenStreetMap and Mapbox technology.


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Managing your Applications¶
By default it is assumed that you only intend to use CodeIgniter to manage one application, which you will build in your application/ directory. It is possible, however, to have multiple sets of applications that share a single CodeIgniter installation, or even to rename or relocate your application directory.
Renaming the Application Directory¶
If you would like to rename your application directory you may do so as long as you open your main index.php file and set its name using the $application_folder variable:
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Relocating your Application Directory¶
It is possible to move your application directory to a different location on your server than your web root. To do so open your main index.php and set a full server path in the $application_folder variable:
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Hello, my name is Natassja. I come from a musical family and I am totally in love with music. Its sounds, melodies, lyrics, harmonies, emotion, depth, simply amaze me and when all of these elements fuse, an awesome and enthralling work of art is conceived. Hearing beautiful music gives me goosebumps; making it - feels surreal.
There is no way for me to describe exactly what happens when I sit down to write a song, or from where my ideas or concepts emanate. Sometimes it's an aria that whispers in my ear or a poetic euphony that craves my spirited and innovative attention. It's that tune that's been ringing in my ear all day, almost like I'm hearing things. It's that little ditty begging for my soul to breathe life into it. As with anything I am fond of, I give it my essence, reverence, influence and energy; I claim it, birthing a beautiful composition.
People have let me down more times than I can count. Things in my life have fallen apart in the past. My years on this earth have been no walk in the park. I never used to give myself enough credit for anything I had ever done. I'm finally realizing the talent that's been here all along; the talent others have always seen. Never have I felt so sure about anything in my life, but I feel so sure and positive about this thing called music.
So to all the idealists, dreamers and visionaries who fear failure or rejection, when there is something you want to accomplish but your fears keep you from acheiving your goals; remember your dream is just that. If you don't take the steps to make it possible it will always remain a dream. You must stay focused and motivated so others can see your dreams as if they were looking through your eyes. Never cease to amaze yourself.
I was given a gift and it is my purpose, promise and obligation to share it with the world.
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Natassja will be in the French Riviera performing for two nights, June 7 & 8 at the Cotton Club, Cannes, France.