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From Richard Loescher at the UU Church in Eugene, OR, we have some additional excerpts from their Facilitator Training Manual. Again, we thank the Unitarian Society in Newton, MA, since their website contained the original version of these challenges.
As I mentioned last month, The UU Small Group Ministry Network has two new publications. Small Group Ministry 2010: Celebrating Congregations will include information on small group ministry programs at 150-200 churches. A second new publication, Spiritual Journeys: 101 Session Plans for Small Group Ministry Programs, will also be available at GA 2010 and from the Network website. See more information on both publications below.
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Challenge 6: Tension or open conflict in the group arises: two participants lock horns and argue, or one participant gets angry and confronts another.
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Ubisoft Inc. this week released the Lowlands Trailer for Far Cry 4 for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 4, Playstation 3, Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox One, Xbox 360, and the PC.
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First-half performance gave Spartans title shot
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SYRACUSE — Statistics can be incredibly misleading at times. Take Friday afternoon's state Class A football final, for instance.
The Burnt Hills defensive unit allowed 401 yards. That number, however, doesn't speak to the stellar play the unit turned in to help the Spartans secure the school's first state title with a 40-20 victory over Sweet Home at the Syracuse Carrier Dome.
The Panthers (12-1), the No. 2 team in the state entering the game, were limited to 124 yards in the opening half. They did not score a point during those 24 minutes, trailing 26-0, and were just 1-for-6 on third down.
"The defense played great," said Burnt Hills junior defensive end Paul Krowel, who registered a pair of sacks. "Once we got the 26-0 lead at halftime — which was unexpected — we knew they were going to pass the ball."
Sweet Home spent most of the first half deep in its own territory and the Burnt Hills defense, led by Krowel and linebackers Logan Ball, David Newell and Jack Maher, kept the Panthers pinned back until the final drive of the second quarter.
It appeared as if Sweet Home would score in the final minute, but Ball tipped a pass that Newell snared for a crushing interception.
"When you are beat, you are beat and we got beat by a better team today," Sweet Home coach John Faller said.
The Panthers did engineer scoring drives of 42 and 77 yards in the third quarter to cut their deficit to 33-14, but Josh Quesada's 39-yard touchdown run with 1:15 left in the third quarter pushed the Spartans' lead to 40-14.
"We came up with a lot of chain reactions. We would stop them and then the offense came up with a big run," said Newell, who recorded five solo tackles and the key interception.
Ball finished with six solo tackles, two assisted stops, a pass deflection and a fumble recovery to lead the Spartans (12-1). Krowel added five solo stops and one assisted tackle. Senior defensive back Eric Dillon also added an interception.
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The Seahawks made a roster move on Tuesday, but not quite the one expected.
While the waiting game on Edgerrin James continued, offensive lineman Grey Ruegamer was waived to make room for offensive lineman Brian De La Puente, who was claimed off waivers from the Kansas City Chiefs.
De La Puente, 24, was waived Monday by Kansas City. The 6-3, 308-pounder played center at California, but is being called a guard by the Seahawks.
De La Puente was undrafted in 2008, then spent camp with the San Francisco 49ers before being waived. He then signed with the Chiefs and was on their inactive list for seven games before being placed on the practice squad for the rest of the season.
Ruegamer, 33, was an 10-year NFL vet who signed with the Seahawks just prior to the start of training camp. But he suffered an elbow injury in the early going and missed much of camp until returning to the practice field Tuesday.
However, he didn't take part in any of Tuesday's drills and was released shortly after.
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A TEEN mum unit in Sunderland is celebrating after receiving a glowing report.
The nursery at the Bumps to Babies, B2b, Project in Hendon has been rated as outstanding by Ofsted.
B2b, run by Sunderland City Council, offers specialised services for parents aged 19 and under where children can be cared for while their mums can improve their skills.
Everyone is delighted by the report following a visit from the education watchdogs.
Tracy Rawding, nursery manager, said: "The B2b staff are extremely proud of the service we provide.
"We are delighted that our hard work and commitment has been recognised with this outstanding judgement from Ofsted."
Councillor Paul Watson, leader of the city council, said: "The childcare provided at the centre gives young mothers the chance to develop their education, parenting and life skills alongside their babies and other families.
"It also involves babies in an exciting and challenging range of activities and experiences which helps their early development."
Ofsted bosses said: "The staff team has an excellent understanding of the learning and development requirements, which they use to plan an exciting and challenging range of activities and experiences for each child.
"Children make outstanding progress, as a result of staff awareness of individual needs and precise assessment and planning for all children."
Inspectors said the needs of youngsters are quickly identified and exceptionally well met.
They said: "Superb partnerships are in place to involve parents and carers in their child's learning and development, which means that children are very well supported in their learning at home.
"Staff are enthusiastic, highly motivated, caring and fully involved with the children.
"Therefore, children are confident, very happy individuals who learn and achieve extremely well."
Inspectors said staff show an excellent knowledge and understanding of the safeguarding and welfare requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage, and robust policies and procedures are implemented.
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The chicken is oven-fried, removing stove-top heat and mess from a steamy August kitchen while still producing an extra-crunchy crust.
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- 3 large eggs
- 3 tbsp. Tabasco sauce
- 1 medium onion
- 2 clove garlic
- 1 whole Chicken
- ¼ c. Wondra flour
- ¼ c. fine yellow cornmeal
- ¾ tsp. Coarse salt
- ¼ tsp. sweet paprika
- .13 tsp. cayenne pepper
- ¼ c. extra-virgin olive oil
- Mix eggs, Tabasco, onion, and garlic in a large bowl. Add chicken, and toss to coat well. Cover, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour (or up to 8 hours).
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Place a rimmed baking sheet on center rack. Whisk flour, cornmeal, salt, paprika, and cayenne in a medium bowl. Remove chicken from marinade, and roll each piece in flour mixture, shaking off excess.
- Place chicken on preheated baking sheet, and bake for 20 minutes. Lightly brush top of each piece with oil, and bake, brushing tops every 10 minutes, until chicken is dark golden brown, 30 to 40 minutes more.
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In a nutshell, over the last week I have played three concerts for Arizona Repertory Singers, officially started a new concert series, performed a pretty big concert in that concert series, talked in front of fifty people about the series, gone bowling with my family, and ran/walked a 5K! I Xmas shopped too, which earns a tiny nod and woke my kids up without screaming almost every day of that week. It's been a busy week!
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On the other hand, as I said and shown earlier, child support payments are rather low relative to the actual average expenditure on children.
So...he's in jail for not being able to pay an impossible sum imposed on him?
The first thing that strikes me is a glaring grammatical error in the article (not a misspelling, but a complete omission of a necessary word), which I do judge an article's legitimacy by. Not saying this isn't wholly on the up and up, but I'd feel much more comfortable reading this off the Washington Post, for example.
Anyway, assuming everything in the article is accurate, that is problematic. It makes zero sense to ruin what livelihood a man does have by jailing him. Better to reduce payments to something more realistic.
So apparently he makes 90k pretax, and failed to pay 53k in one year!? How in the world. It's as though they expect him to give up the majority of his income.This is not the first time the man has been jailed for non-payment of alimony. He spent 10 days in custody in 2010 after failing to pay $25,000 in spousal support, and he was ordered to spend two months in jail last year because he could not pay $53,000 in support payments to his former wife.
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I've seen grammatical errors and spelling mistakes on the times, daily news, huffington post, cnn, fox, just about any news site, after all, they are all human.
Divorce laws are unfair to the ex-husband.
I'll assume the story as presented is factual, but one must be careful reading stuff off the 'Net from unfamiliar websites, as you know.
Also love the technicality they used to jail him. Its not because he couldnt pay her. Its because he diddnt pay the full ammount ordered by the court that they got him for... Now he has no job, massive debts and a nice stay in prison which will prevent him from getting any equally high paid job in the future. The american legal system has destroyed this mans life. His wife and kids too.
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Kinda like a scam e-mail, grammar mistakes just raise red flags for me.
The last thing I want is to get all enthusiastic about a news story on a small-time website that turns out to be less than accurate.
I love how there are a few notes from the article that are not really being touched upon, or even being questioned.
First) How disabled is the ex-wife? Is she unable to physically support herself? Is she a vegetable? Unable to walk? Is it a mental disability? How much assistance does she require and is the money being put to use there? Is she being funded by government sources for this care? What is the extent of her 'disability'?
Second) What is the situation with the 'child support'? How many children does he have with her? What is the status of his custody with said children/child?
Third) What are truly the details in the actual case that led to, not only the obscene amount of money involved, but also the legal fees? (if both got lawyers and the 100k was split evenly, it would be 50,000 a piece in legal fees he has to pay)
My personal opinion: The amount he has to pay vastly is unequal to the amount he makes. The amount is truly unrealistic, given living expenses on top.
The woman is disabled and would need assistance. But we are missing SO Many details in the actual story. I feel for the guy, I agree that the system is still sweked to the women being the beneficiary, but what about the details we are missing?
Also, dang guys you are trying to tear Semaphore a new one. o.o'
Regardless of the situation - nobody should have to pay over their income (or even an extremely vast majority) of their income. I'm blind to the laws of alimony and child support; however, I don't think anything should justify having to have somebody go to jail because he got divorce and had to pay more than he possible could have.
Meanwhile you on the other hand have linked 2 articles, which I'm guessing you didn't even read, because I'm sure you can't actually tell me the break down from the articles. Fact is the articles include Transportation expenses and Housing expenses as the largest cost. Pretty sure we already went over the fact that Housing expenses and transportation expenses are expenses the parent already has to pay. There is no additional cost in these departments. Maybe you should engage your brain a little in some logic and commen sense, before you run your yapper. Do you even live in the real world or just in some bubble?
You disparage so many posters about using sources to back up their claims, yet you rarely use any, and every time you do they don't prove a damn word you say.
You never responded to my last request for actual proof on your claim. Your best proof was "it's common knowledge" very nice argument. Your sourced article of course provided ZERO actual statistics to back up your claim. So either keep your hypocritical trap shut or practice what you preach.
It's hard for me to argue in favor of alimony when children aren't involved somewhere in the marriage, but I'll try. When you get married, you are agreeing to something. You may not know what that something is, but unless there is a prenup or even a postnup, that something will invariably change with every situation your connected life may encounter. If one of you doesn't work, it's agreed upon in the eyes of the court. You may not agree with it, and while married asked for help from your spouse, but you got married with some knowledge of that life. If your spouse loses their job after you get married and never finds another one, you both have accepted that new lot in life. If you end up supporting your spouse in marriage, you are hurting their chance of finding a job or career down the line. The longer someone is out of a job, the less chance they have. If that's not something you agree with, then the choice you have is to have a prenup agreement with scenarios and situations outlined.
To me, it's rare when both parents have full time jobs and have children. I've seen it, but it's just not common around my life. With that said, if its required or agreed upon that one spouse will be the stay at home parent to raise the children, you are ruining their future financial prospects by taking them out of the job market.
In a basic sense, alimony is a good idea (imo), but in its current form that has the potential to be manipulated, it's not so great.
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The judge needs to be unseated. He has a horrible reputation for high balling people out of spite. They did not do the research versus this guys income to see if the judgment was viable. Bad math is bad. IMO, when law makers flub, they should have to take an active part in living out the mistake. For example, the judge orders this guy to pay more than he makes, now the judge has caused undue pain and hardship on someone, it should come out of his pocket book to help make up the mistake. The only way for these fools to learn from their mistakes is hard consequence.
Quite often, the difference between an idiot and a genius is simply a matter of success rate.
And fact is those are still expenses related to raising children, whether you like it or not. We went over nothing. You're unilaterally and arbitrarily deleted two large items from the cost of raising a child, just to suit your argument that it doesn't cost as much as it actually does.Meanwhile you on the other hand have linked 2 articles, which I'm guessing you didn't even read, because I'm sure you can't actually tell me the break down from the articles. Fact is the articles include Transportation expenses and Housing expenses as the largest cost. Pretty sure we already went over the fact that Housing expenses and transportation expenses are expenses the parent already has to pay.
Except I did in fact provided sources right there in front of you, and they agree exactly with what I say about the cost of raising children. You're the one being selectively blind about the expenses in order to create manufactured outrage over child support payments even though the fact remains that they cover, on average, less than half of the actual costs of raising a child.You disparage so many posters about using sources to back up their claims, yet you rarely use any, and every time you do they don't prove a damn word you say.
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Nobody made that assumption except you.How come the person who was working isn't considered to have made any sacrifices?
What about it? You take the whole situation on both sides into account to result in an equitable outcome.What about career sacrifices that that person made?
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Paramedics say a crash which sent two people to hospital in west Ottawa Sunday night may have been caused when the driver had some kind of medical attack.
Emergency crews said they responded to the single-vehicle crash at the intersection of Kakulu Road and Castlefrank Road around 5:11 p.m.
A Honda Accord had veered off the road, slammed through a chain link fence and hit a tree, trapping a 62-year-old man and woman when it came to rest on its roof in an elementary school yard.
Witnesses said many people in the area rushed to the scene to see if they could help, including a teenaged boy who tried to flag down passing cars for help after he saw it crash.
"We have some witnesses here that indicate speed was involved," said Sgt. Anthony Skinner.
Ottawa Fire Services spokesperson Marc Messier said crews used heavy hydraulic rescue tools to get the male driver out, then took the side of the vehicle off to get the woman.
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Mateen Abdul Shaheed, 20, faces six counts of first-degree criminal mischief. Police said he was involved in numerous acts of vandalism, including causing a power outage and damaging vehicles at Broadway Toyota.
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Unequal Trade
December 12th, 2012 · 1 Comment
If you have even a passing interest in colonialist cunning, you owe it to yourself to check out the National Museum of Australia's dynamite exhibit on Aboriginal breastplates. These were baubles that the European arrivals provided to Down Under's native inhabitants, ostensibly to honor certain individuals for being community leaders. But the givers desired something […]
Tags:Aboriginal breastplates·art·Australia·colonialism·politics
The Garments of Egg Smugglers
October 22nd, 2012 · Comments Off on The Garments of Egg Smugglers
The fear of detection begets some of the most admirable innovation around, a technological truism proved by the photographic records of Australian Customs. These galleries are chock full of devices that smugglers have used to route around law enforcement, mostly in order to convey drugs from Southeast Asia. But there are also several wearable inventions […]
Hopping to Oblivion
July 17th, 2012 · 12 Comments
The Jenga-like nature of markets is revealed in the tale of Australia's kangaroo-meat crisis. There was a time when steaks and chops taken from Down Under's most celebrated marsupials seemed destined to become a staple of butcher's shops the world over. No country developed a more ravenous appetite for kangaroo meat than Russia, which came […]
The First of Many Final Laps
April 26th, 2012 · Comments Off on The First of Many Final Laps
After a day spent haggling with the callous mandarins of America's health-care system, I'm back to working on the final chapter of the book. I actually came up with a killer last line while walking Microkhan Jr. to school this morning; everything else, alas, is a mess, which is why I'm just leaving you with […]
Taipan Be Not Proud
October 26th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Nearly two years ago, I posted about the exorbitant prices of anti-venom, which seem largely due to the reluctance of pharmaceutical manufacturers to service such a relatively small market. The end result of those companies' economic sensibility is a dearth of medication in Papua New Guinea, where snake bites are a serious public-health problem: In […]
Tags:antivenin·Australia·medicine·Papua New Guinea·public health·snakes
Play with Your Emotions
October 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on Play with Your Emotions
On a Wired deadline today, so just offering a taste of what's to come this week—a tangential bit of art peeled off from a newly developed interest in the Torres Strait Islands independence movement. I was hoping to track down an example of the baizam, or shark dance, which features the most awesome headdresses you've […]
Try, Try Again
June 22nd, 2011 · 2 Comments
There are few more hallowed legal principles than the protection against double jeopardy, which is enshrined in various constitutions and codes throughout the world. But as allegedly unimpeachable DNA evidence has become more common in courtrooms, a backlash has developed against the centuries-old prohibition against trying a person again after they've been acquitted. In Scotland, […]
Tags:Australia·crime·double jeopard·forensic science·law·Scotland·technology
Supply, Demand, and Pugilistic Marsupials
February 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Apologies for being late with this year's obligatory Australia Day post. Though we've never had the pleasure of visiting the island continent ourselves, we've long enjoyed the company of Aussie compatriots—especially those we've encountered while roaming the far corners of the globe, since the Aussies always seem to know where the bar is. More importantly, […]
Tags:animal cruelty·animals·Australia·boxing·kangaroos·marsupials·Primo Carnera·sports·Woody Allen
Drought and Drugs
October 27th, 2009 · Comments Off on Drought and Drugs
Australia's epic drought could end up being something of a boon to neighboring New Zealand, at least in terms of aboveboard narcotic production. Half the world's legal opium crop is grown on tiny Tasmania, largely under the auspices of Tasmania Alkaloids—a company that operates under the all-time most intentionally innocuous slogan of "Value Adding in […]
Tags:agriculture·Australia·drugs·economics·New Zealand·opium·Tasmania·Tasmanian Alkaloids
Is Football Our Species' Savior?
September 16th, 2009 · Comments Off on Is Football Our Species' Savior?
In the course of conducting some morning research on chimpanzee cannibalism, we found ourselves absorbed in a 2006 paper that compared the aggressive tendencies of chimps and humans. (A PDF can be downloaded by clicking here.) As it turns out, humans and chimps are equally adept that cold-blooded murder, but our primate brethren are far […]
Tags:Australia·biology·chimpanzees·football·Jane Goodall·primates·sports
Scared Sober?
August 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment
We don't have too many hobby horses here at Microkhan, but one of them is a steadfast belief that many long-accepted practices are far less effective than advertised. This is typically because our species is easily seduced by logical facades, and thus pays too little attention to actual evidence. You can understand, then, why the […]
Tags:alcohol·Australia·bloodletting·crime·medical science·public health
The Murder Project
July 28th, 2009 · 12 Comments
While scouring some FBI press releases last week, we came across this semi-comical gem from the Chicago field office. It announces the arrest of a Indiana tandem who stand accused of trying to arrange a contract killing. Note the details of their proposed payment for this risky task: FRIEDBURG and ALEXANDER were both charged in […]
Tags:Australia·Chicago·crime·Indiana·Nina Shen Rastogi·Slate·statistics·The Murder Project
Fatally Besotted
July 20th, 2009 · 10 Comments
Upon reading this tragic yet all-too-common tale from this morning's New York Times, we were reminded of our long-held hypothesis that a huge number of homicides would never occur were it not for the ingestion of alcohol. Yet we've never really had a good sense of what percentage of killings involve inebriated parties—at least until […]
An Iron Horse for the Ages
June 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments
The most gargantuan machines on Earth usually operate far outside the public eye, in remote corners of the globe where the substances that make modern life possible are extracted from the ground. We've previously posted about one such device, an abandoned component of a German coal-mining operation. Today we'd like to focus on another plus-sized […]
First Contact: New Guinea Highlands
May 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on First Contact: New Guinea Highlands
For the second installment of our nascent First Contact series, we're gonna hit the layup and blog about this classic culture-clash documentary. A prized Microkhan correspondent and former New Guinea resident summarizes the film with far more acumen than we could ever manage: Basic story is that the initial European settlements in Papua (south side […]
Tags:anthropology·Australia·First Contact·Mick Leahy·mining·movies·New Guinea
The Kobe Bryant of Netball
April 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Microkhan's Australian readers (we have at least two!) may already be familiar with Romelda Aiken's spectacular exploits on the netball court. She is, after all, the best player on the Queensland Nationals, a lithe and aggressive scoring machine who recently racked up 42 goals in an upset win over the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic. […]
Tags:Australia·Indonesia·Jamaica·netball·New Zealand·Romelda Aiken·sports
Truly Lilliputian Jockeys
April 20th, 2009 · 7 Comments
To paraphrase a great eight-fingered, three-haired philosopher, there are few things in life that can't be improved by the addition of a monkey. Such is the case with greyhound racing, an on-the-ropes pastime that briefly experimented with monkey jockeys during the Depression. According to a recent Australian reminiscence, things went awry due to the pint-sized […]
Tags:Australia·greyhound racing·Humane Society·monkeys·primates·sports
Convict Love Tokens
April 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Convict Love Tokens
In response to yesterday's post on trench art, one of Microkhan's treasured Aussie readers turned us on to convict love tokens. These engraved coins were made by English convicts as they awaited deportation to Australia, during the island continent's 19th-century turn as a massive penal colony. The token to the right was produced by an […]
Last of the Morans
March 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on Last of the Morans
In the early part of this decade, the fair city of Melbourne, Australia was embroiled in a violent gangland war, pitting a speed trafficker named Carl Williams against the notorious Moran clan. The spat, which started when one of the Morans shot Williams in the belly, ended up claiming at least 34 lives; it also […]
Avenging a Shark Attack
February 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Avenging a Shark Attack
The Australian Navy is hunting for the shark that recently mauled one of its more experienced divers. How will the Aussies know when they've found the real culprit, rather than just another shark? It ain't easy.


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Dear AKC: I have a two-year-old Boston Terrier. She is wonderful. However, three months ago, my wife passed away. I am at work most of the day and am considering another dog, especially to keep my girl company. Obviously, I would need a dog which is already housebroken, similar in size and age. Do you recommend another Boston or another breed? -- Seeking Canine Companionship
Dear Seeking: I'm sorry to hear of the passing of your wife and I'm sure you and your Boston Terrier have lost a great companion. My congratulations to you for recognizing how this life-altering event will affect the whole family, including your dog.
Let's look at the Boston Terrier as a breed for a moment. According to the official standard of the Boston Terrier, written by the parent club the Boston Terrier Club of America, "The Boston Terrier is a lively, highly intelligent, smooth-coated, short-headed, compactly built, short-tailed, well balanced dog, brindle, seal or black in color and evenly marked with white. The head is in proportion to the size of the dog and the expression indicates a high degree of intelligence."
Additionally, according to the parent club's website, "Bostons require a lot of time and attention. They are and have been bred to be companions. They will languish without human contact. They are not "outside" dogs!"
Armed with this knowledge about Bostons let's look at your options. If your dog spent a fair amount of time with your wife during the day, I would suggest that you first hire a professional dog walker or pet sitter to come and visit your pet during the long hours that you are at work in order to satisfy the Boston's need of human companionship.
Rescue a Boston
I had a friend once that had one Boston and then got a rescue Boston as a companion and it did wonders for both of them. These lively, intelligent breeds do need to have either canine or human companionship throughout the day. I would recommend that you get an older, adult dog. These are usually already housebroken and will not require the vast amount of time that a puppy would in terms of training and acclimating to a new household. There are a variety of rescue organizations for Bostons that you can research here. Good Luck!


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Tantek Çelik wrote: > Per the HR discussion in general, even though HR itself can be considered a > block for formatting purposes, the point of where the "rule" of the Horizontal > Rule element draws needs to act like an auto-sized contained glyph that > formats more like a horizontally stretched text character rather than a border > (as described by others). E.g. it *does not* draw or get sized under adjacent > floats - it draws in the area that text in a similarly placed box would flow > into. And it is sized (%) and aligned within that flow area as well. I would like to see how you could create HR using a glyph (answer: you can't). Imagine you have 600 pixels of horizontal space. This should result in a 600-pixel-wide horizontal rule with 2 pixels high of coloured line and zero pixels of transparent space. If you set size=10, if it were a glyph, the coloured line would increase in size, and yet it does not; and to make matters stranger, from zero pixels of transparent space we now have 9 (size - 1). This is a very strange glyph if you ask me. Now consider that there is width=5, and size=5. The rendering would be this. +---+ | | | | | | +---+ If we change that to width=600, if it were a glyph the border would increase 120-fold in width, as would the width of the white space, but in fact the border does not increase at all. (Or then again, perhaps it's a magic glyph.) > This behavior is both as implemented by current UAs, and what is more visually > desirable. > > It is an error to attempt to sacrifice the visually desirable rendering to a > set of rules that don't adequately describe it. > > Yes, we don't have what would be necessary in CSS to properly describe the > typical and desirable rendering of <HR>. Some additional concepts are > necessary. Or rather simply devise different float rules or properties to cope with the fact that the rendering is perfect outside of floats, and (IMO perfect with them as well) only problematic withfloats.Received on Friday, 3 March 2000 06:04:05 UTC
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I recently purchased a 3-cup Bialetti Moka Express, and am having trouble making a good brew. I followed the directions on Sweet Maria's (http://www.sweetmarias.com/brewinstr/...), but end up with a lot, and I mean a lot, of sediment. I think I'm doing all the steps right: I fill the filter without packing it, I put it on a med-high heat so that it takes about 5 minutes, and I remove the pot from the heat as soon as its full.
I'm using whole beans that I grind myself using a Magic Bullet. I tried doing a coarser grind, but still end up with a lot of sediment. The Magic Bullet doesn't give a consistent grind---is this the problem? Should I be using an actual coffee grinder? What kind of coffee grinder should I get? What type of grind do I need for a Moka pot?


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While writing this blog post for M's Photography Styling Challenge, I realised how décor trends and home trends have evolved over time. Bringing in the western décor/home layout, into the traditional Indian home has emerged as a great fusion of the 'west meets the east' and the transition is so seamless that it doesn't seem western anymore.
Indian homes have this concept called, the 'Drawing Room', a formal or a designated seating area meant for guests and STRICTLY guests… a very colonial concept, still very prevalent in many Indian homes. I remember as children we were banned from entering this area (whether it was enclosed or an open one); and just the sheer restriction of entering this sacrosanct area meant for guests would make it the most appealing/inviting/enticing room in the entire house! The forbidden always seems the most tempting! Most of the homes still have this concept, including my parents & in-laws' place (the place that serves as the Living Room is actually the Dining Room).
When we got married and set up our first home, my husband and I agreed that we don't need a 'Drawing Room' instead we opted to have a place that we could use unabashedly/ freely, no boundaries, no knocking over stuff or breakables… with or without children… The Living Room… the most used room in our home, where ever we have been posted to. Although we did have a small formal area designated exclusively for 'unofficially' official discussions/meetings in my hubby's study area (in the base homes) but no Drawing Room as such.
So when we were renovating the home where we live now, we did away with the Drawing Room completely, pulled down a wall to have a huge Living Room instead, where we come together as a family to watch TV, play games, entertain, work, laze, eat… the decor is hassle free and nothing really to worry about… yet inviting and comfortable.
Sometimes this area doubles as the 'Nightover Room' for my children's sleepover parties, as our media unit is in this room (we consciously decided not to have TV in any of the Bedrooms).
Although it is a constant effort to keep the Living Room organised, comfortable and appealing but over the years we have learned how to… I have trained my children well! And they know the drill. I took these photos on Saturday when I made some lemonade for us, the temperatures are soaring here it has already crossed 36 degrees centigrade. I used the bottle and the glass that my daughter had as her share, as my props for styling.
To see the 'after' and 'before' of our Living Room Click Here. And to see what the other participants of this group have to show, click on the following links!
At The Corner of Happy and Harried
The Delicious World of Chefette Spicy
To check out my previous Photography challenge Click Here.


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BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) -- China's top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng met with Pakistan's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Zubair Mahmood Hayat in Beijing Thursday.
Hailing the traditional all-weather friendship between China and Pakistan, Yu, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), said China appreciates the Pakistani government and military's firm support for China in fighting terrorism.
He called on both sides to enhance military-to-military cooperation so as to safeguard the security of both countries as well as regional peace and stability.
Yu also called for implementation of the consensus reached by the leaders of both countries to promote the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and forge a community of shared future.
Zubair said Pakistan would like to increase cooperation between the two militaries and provide security for the construction of the economic corridor.


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Need a little advice:
I have a DB sickle mower. The pivot arm that comes off the wobble bearing and drives the actual sickle sections hits the side of the steel housing when it reaches full swing to one side. This is down near the bottom of the mower. The arm that carries the counter weight is what is hitting the side of the metal housing. I would like to reset it to move more in the middle of the space. Before I get out the BFH and go for it, can anyone tell me if there is (or isn't) any adjustment possible on this? Has this been banging into the housing since new? There is obvious evidence of the hammering, so it may have 'always' been this way. I'd sure like to correct it without cutting out clearance from the steel. There's gotta be a better way....
Thanks, All!
Sickle Adjustment, Walk Behind
Started by Oakdale , Jul 16, 2013 05:17 PM
3 replies to this topic
Posted July 16, 2013 - 05:17 PM
- larryd said thank you
Posted July 16, 2013 - 08:32 PM
No help from me , need pics but I'm sure someone can help
Posted July 17, 2013 - 02:43 AM
If you can post some pictures of this, it would help. I have been rebuilding one of these.
Posted July 17, 2013 - 06:06 AM
Check the lower bearings that support the shaft. Wear may allow it to swing too far.
- Alc said thank you


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LabyrinthAlex Beecroft
Kikeru, the child of a priestess at the sacred temple of Knossos in ancient Crete, believes that the goddesses are laughing at him. They expect him to choose whether he is a man or a woman, when he's both. They expect him to choose whether to be a husband to a wife, or a celibate priestess in the temple, when all he wants to do is invent things and be with the person he loves.More »


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London (Aug. 24)
The Jewish population of Cardiff, Wales, has become alarmed over the growing wave of anti-Semitism which has swept over the city, the London Daily Herald declared today.
According to the report, hotels, clubs and restaurants are refusing to admit Jewish guests, while a country club near Cardiff has barred Jews from becoming members. A group of Jews desiring to visit the club were refused admittance and the application of a local doctor for membership was rejected when it was discovered he is Jewish.
Victor Rothschild, member of the banking family, was recently turned out of a London roadhouse when it was found he is Jewish. In Leicester huge anti-Jewish slogans were painted on walls in the city.


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Fulham Boss 'Gutted'
Fulham manager Chris Coleman came away from the 3-2 loss at Middlesbrough saying: 'I'm gutted. I'm a bit disappointed in our naivety at times when we defend, I was a bit disappointed with the second goal in particular, but again I'm sick of coming away from home and playing well and coming away with nothing because it's a bitter pill to swallow.'
The boss added: 'Generally our performance was good again, it's just on certain occasions in the game we have got to learn to shut up shop, it's as simple as that. That starts with your defence and if we are prepared to do that, then we are okay. Coming away from home and scoring two goals, I don't expect to be going away empty-handed in any game we play. I certainly don't expect to concede three goals in any game we play away from home or not, and that disappointed me.'
He also questioned the referee's decisions in the game. He felt that Yakubu should have been ruled offside for his goal after Hasselbaink's shot rebounded off him: 'Look at my players' reaction. They can tell. I know he's a human being, but you have got a linesman and a referee. Uriah Rennie is in a good position, as far as I can see, there are not loads of players in front of him. His comment to Brian McBride was he cannot overrule the linesman - he's the boss, he bosses the game, he makes the decisions. In fairness to the linesman, and the angle he had - from what I have seen - Yakubu was on the other side of Hasselbaink, so maybe it was a little bit shady for him.'
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Mauricio Pochettino: Dele Alli not ready for England call-up
Tottenham head coach Mauricio Pochettino believes it is too soon to talk about midfielder Dele Alli playing for England.
Alli, who left MK Dons in the summer, has been a revelation this season, forcing his way into Pochettino's starting line-up with a series of sparkling displays.
England boss Roy Hodgson watched the 19-year-old play 90 minutes in Tottenham's 1-0 win over Crystal Palace last Sunday and is believed to be considering the midfielder for matches against Estonia and Lithuania next month.
Harry Kane, Ryan Mason and Danny Rose have all received debut call-ups under Pochettino's guidance but the Argentinian has warned against rushing Alli to follow suit.
"It's the same situation as last season with Harry Kane," Pochettino said.
"Be careful with the younger players, the players who arrive in the Premier League and perform well. It's not easy.
"But again, like last season, it's not my decision. It's Roy Hodgson's decision if he wants to call up Dele Alli.
"You can see he's a player that is very mature and shows great quality but always in football it's step by step and we need to be careful.
"He will mature. He has personality and good character. But it is too much of a rush to talk about bigger steps for him."
Kane scored 79 seconds into his England debut in March but has managed only two goals in 16 appearances since for Tottenham and is yet to get off the mark in the Premier League this season.
Despite the drought, Kane has played well in games for Spurs and Pochettino insists he has no plans to pull the 22-year-old out of the firing line.
"He was on the bench against Qarabag but I think he needs to play to have the opportunity to score," Pochettino said.
"We need to stop speaking about Harry Kane, we need to let him do his job. The most important thing is I'm very happy with his effort, the way he has been playing.
"Strikers need to score but it is only a matter of time, the goal is coming.
"You always need to try to ask why - he needs to improve, we need to ask why to improve his performance in games.
"This is a tough moment because he needs to score because he is a striker, but around the club, in the changing room, we believe in him."
Spurs take on league leaders Manchester City on Saturday, hoping to bounce back from Wednesday's Capital One Cup defeat to Arsenal.
They are also looking to reverse a recent run of poor results against City, who have won the teams' last four meetings, scoring 16 goals and conceding just twice.
"Tomorrow is a good opportunity to change the dynamic," Pochettino said.
"Football is psychological and emotional. We need to be ready for tomorrow to compete. This is the most important thing. To compete.
"We are ready for tomorrow, we are fresh and we want to give a good result to our fans after the defeat on Wednesday."
Ryan Mason remains sidelined with a knee problem while Mousa Dembele, Nabil Bentaleb and Alex Pritchard have ankle injuries and also miss out.


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October 2014 - Majesty of the Seas to Caribbean - Bahamas
My husband and I had a great time on this short cruise. We usually cruise for the holidays, Xmas and New Year. This cruise now encourage us to cruise during the year. It was very relaxing,comfortable and most of all affordable.The best was the day spent on the beach at Coco Bay. Our first visit to the Keys, exploring. Will go again.The time spent at ports were lengthy which gave us time to explore even though we did not go on shore excursion. We walked around the Key island and even visited a few of the bars. We get to meet greet and talk to some of the residents on the island. The day was well spent which enhanced our cruise experience, we really never did this before on other cruises and this was our seventh cruise. Great, try it. No regrets.


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computer problems
All of a sudden our laptop wont start properly. It freezes at the windows welcome screen. When I restart it, it goes to a start-up repair option and says it cant fix it and gives this message:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: StartupRepairOffline
Problem Signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 03: unknown
Problem Signature 04: 21201066
Problem Signature 05: AutoFailover
Problem Signature 06: 11
Problem Signature 07: BadDriver
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Any idea on what is going on. From what i have read online it seems like it could be a bad driver and most likely need to be reset/reload the OS. If so how could I get pictures and music off of it. Any help is much appreciated. It is windows 7. I have reloaded an OS on another computer but have never gone in and retrieved data on a crashed laptop.
You can take the drive out and put it in an external usb box to retrieve the files. Many computer have a section of the drive setup to restore the OS without deleting files. It does wipe the registry such that most installed programs must be reinstalled.
My laptop is a toshiba satellite a505-s6980. I have the restore disks but I thought they only bring it back to out of the box status. How would i figure out if I can reset it without erasing the files
You could call tech support. I think the restore leaves the files intact.
Restore will wipe the disk so don't do that yet.
There should be an option when you put in the disks that allow you to update drivers and not lose everything else.You can definitely remove the drive and connect it to another computer and pull the stuff off. You should have received a Toshiba Driver disc and you can probably install from there. Also you can probably download those off their site.
that's if he could get into windows, which is kind of the root problem.
i assume you've tried safe mode with no luck.
either yank the drive, or look into a 3rd party boot disc that will let you copy the stuff off to a usb drive before wiping and restoring (you can do this with a regular windows setup disc too but you gotta be a little handy with the command line)
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When I first started learning about Ron Paul and economics and the wonderful world of the anti-establishment, I also stumbled onto those interesting ideas about 9/11. I hoped these ideas would have died down by now, but I've seen them creeping up again recently in multiple places. It appears that the Internet will keep these theories alive forever, so I thought it worthwhile to offer my explanation of why I'm not a 9/11 Truther, and why it has very little to do with analyzing the "facts."
"Truthers" are people who think the official narrative about 9/11 contains contradictions and/or physical impossibilities, and who have constructed an alternative narrative, which they believe to be more accurate, in which the federal government actively participated in destroying the World Trade Center and damaging the Pentagon. (There is a larger, less radical set of people who believe the government did not cause the attacks but may have known about them and let them happen; I am concerned only with the truthers here.) For example, truthers may claim that the exploded fuel from the planes couldn't have been hot enough to melt the steel of the two towers, so there must have been additional explosives that were rigged up to bring the building down. Or truthers may claim that it would have been physically impossible to maneuver a plane into the angle that allegedly hit the Pentagon, and that the impact is much better explained by a missile. And so on.
I am not qualified to determine whether or not the alternative narratives make more or less sense than the official one – but I'm not sure the truthers are qualified, either. Collisions of giant planes and giant buildings are extremely rare, and each event involves thousands of factors that are impossible to completely analyze and consider, from velocity to angle to number of floors below and above to amount of fuel to time of day to weather to kinds of materials inside the building and so forth. It is mostly irrelevant to bring up comparisons to isolated historical incidents of planes that ran into other things and affected them differently, because there may have been thousands of different inputs that affected that different output. If you're skeptical of the official narrative, shouldn't you be just as skeptical of some guy on the Internet who thinks he calculated beyond a shadow of a doubt what could or could not have happened on 9/11? Have you done the calculation? How do you know the guy on the Internet had enough information to account for all possible factors, or that he didn't just make a mistake? (Conspiracy theorists have a bad habit of disbelieving any evidence that discounts their ideas while latching on to any reported evidence that encourages it, even if it's just as unverifiable as the official media they so strongly distrust.)
Since I'm not smart enough to analyze which narrative makes more sense, I look at what each narrative requires me to believe. The official narrative requires me to believe that the government was incompetent. The alternative narrative requires me to believe that Bush and his leaders were evil geniuses who concocted a plan like this: "Ok, we know that a bunch of Muslim foreigners are planning to hijack some planes and run them into buildings. Now we know that this can't destroy the buildings. We also know that the American people won't support our evil goal of wars in the Middle East if the buildings are damaged, but they will if the buildings fall down. So we need to secretly rig up explosives to destroy the buildings after the planes run into them. Oh, and let's also damage the Pentagon, even though we already decided that damage alone wasn't evil enough for the World Trade Center. But unlike the World Trade Center, which is a busy building completely open to the public, it would be too hard to rig explosives inside the Pentagon, a highly secure government building entirely within our control. So instead, we'll shoot it from the outside with a missile!" Maybe truthers see that kind of narrative as making more sense. I see it as an extremely complicated plan that doesn't make any sense and would be incredibly difficult to pull off. (I'm sure truthers will argue that I've misrepresented their narrative here. There are many variations, but they are all sufficiently complicated, non-sensical, and difficult.)
The alternative narratives of 9/11 don't make any more sense than the official one, but they require a government that is far more competent than I have ever seen. I tend to view the federal government as a bloated bureaucracy that is constantly messing things up. Yes, it's also corrupt, but in the sense that its members use it for their own personal gain, undermining the government's goals, which is the exact opposite of working together toward a secret, corrupt government goal. I just don't believe the federal government is competent enough to pull off something of the magnitude required if the official explanations are wrong. This is the government that completely botched the response to Hurricane Katrina, the government that arrests and executes the wrong people, the government that loans money to bankrupt businesses. Botching things is what massive, highly-centralized, low-accountability organizations are good at. I find it pretty easy to believe that the hodgepodge of intelligence-gathering operations within the government didn't communicate well enough to piece together facts which were obvious in hindsight. I find it much harder to believe that our government was so diabolically efficient that they were able to sneak explosives into two popular buildings so that when some foreigners hijacked planes and flew them into the buildings, they could set off the explosions and make them collapse instead of just burning a lot.
But even if I reject the alternative narratives, how do I explain parts of the official narrative that allegedly don't make sense? Well, sometimes the media is just incompetent at reporting things. For example, since I'm pretty familiar with computers and technology, I frequently see articles about Google that are woefully misinterpreted or lacking important context. But just because the media botched the explanation about how Google did what they did, that doesn't mean that Google didn't actually do it. And just because the media may have inconsistent explanations of how certain things unfolded involving 9/11, it doesn't automatically follow that these things couldn't have happened at all. Furthermore, it's perfectly consistent to believe that if many people in the government are incompetent, then many people in the media are incompetent, too.
This helps explain some of the truther claims of suspicious pre-9/11 activity, like convenient people conveniently buying insurance or trading stocks a couple days before or whatever. Well, some of that information could simply be wrong or lacking context. Some of it could just be coincidence. And some of it could even be people that knew or at least suspected something was going to happen. That can all be true without requiring that the leaders of our government knew exactly what was going to happen and decided that what was going to happen wasn't bad enough to justify their evil goals so they had to make it even worse.
With 9/11, I have no idea whether or not the alternative facts are more accurate than the official ones. And I don't think the purported reasonings behind the alternative facts make any more sense than the official ones. But there is one big reason I can't believe the truthers. The alternative narratives are missing a crucial piece of evidence that has nothing to do with Osama bin Laden or the physics of airplanes, and it's the most important evidence of all: evidence that the government is anywhere near competent enough to accomplish the acts that their narrative requires. I find that to be the most unbelievable "fact" of all.


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DC Collectibles has exclusively announced to CraveOnline that two holiday themed statues will be released this December. The first is a Superman and Wonder Woman Holiday Kiss mini statue inspired by the art of Jim Lee and sculpted by Tim Bruckner.
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Painter of American History
By: Roy Nuhn
As seen in The Antique Shoppe Newspaper, April 2007
In the years between 1900 and 1930, painter J. L. G. Ferris created a series of 78 historical scenes portraying America's past from the discovery of New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492 to the beginning of World War I. Today his artwork is the largest intact series of American historical paintings by a single artist.
What Ferris did was to devote the last 30 years of his life to recapturing the greatness of the American experience on canvas. Even more remarkable, his paintings were not for sale. He did not want the visual effectiveness of his paintings to be lost selling them off one at a time. They were to be viewed as a whole.
Ferris was possessed by a vision. The first half of his life - years of growing up, of art training, and years of studying worldwide and at home in Philadelphia the great, paintings of the past and present - came during the last four decades of the 19th century. This was an age when historians, artists and craftsmen of all disciplines - from architects and writers to furniture designers and educators - as well as the general public looked backward to the greatness of our nation's past.
Rightly so have these years been called the "American Renaissance," a time when all things American began to be considered important and our past glorious. No longer would European ideas, models and movements influence us too greatly. Beginning with the Centennial Celebration in Philadelphia in 1876, it lasted until the decade or so before World War I, when technology, invention and the marvels of the machine became dominate.
Ferris was one small part of this cultural movement. His paintings, so painstakingly researched down to the tiniest detail, added a humanistic touch to the grandeur of the American past as it found its way onto his canvases. Like many of his contemporaries, he made the great and small figures of America's great pageant more lifelike, more human, and less the gods and mythological heroes they were once thought to be.
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris was born in Philadelphia on August 18, 1863. His father was a well-known portrait painter and etcher, his mother the sister of three popular artists. Small wonder that he received much encouragement to become an artist. His father was his first teacher.
In 1879 young Jean was enrolled in the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, located in Philadelphia. There he received the best possible art education in America and had the finest teachers in the country. He made several trips abroad, with his father, to study the paintings of Europe's best.
In 1883 he was sent to the Academie Julian, in Paris, to study with the world's most respected teachers of the time. In France he was drawn into the current anti-establishment art movement of the day, which advocated the combination of the traditional academic approach with a free style - eventually to be called "impressionism." A close study of Ferris's paIntings shows traces of this influence.
Always drawn to American history, the young man gravitated in that direction when it came time to earn his own way in the world. However, it was the financial, as well as the moral, support of his family that enabled him to keep painting.
His first major painting, "General Howe's Levee, 1777," was sold in 1898, when he was 35 years old. Upon reflection, he regretted selling it because his dream of putting together the American epic in a series of paintings would not work if they were sold off individually.
And so, with the arrival of the new century, J. L. G. Ferris buckled down to his life's major work, the creation of that saga in oils. He vowed never again to sell these paintings.
To support himself he did book and magazine illustrations, miscellaneous historical paintings not part of his special series, and - of great interest to us - sold reproduction rights to the many pictures he was creating for his epic saga.
Sometime around 1908 several publishers began marketing prints of Ferris's artwork. These came in all sizes, with some intended for framing. Schools, banks and government offices often adorned their walls with them. Many others were sold as souvenirs to be saved in scrap albums as special treasures. The prints were on sale at five-and-dimes, stationery shops and other stores coast to coast, though a few quality editions of art gallery beauty were found in upscale emporiums.
During the first half of the 20th century, a couple of publishers produced calendars with illustrations from the paintings. Brown and Bigelow's rank among the best of these.
The Ferris collection also inspired many postcards. A few will be found on the older pre-1920 cards. The most reproduced of all his scenes is "Lincoln and the Contrabands, " showing the president with a group of former slaves in the occupied South at war's end.
International Art Co. used it for one of its unnumbered postcards. The company also printed many of the pictures as blank back trade cards for use by advertisers, such as H. D. Foss & Co. Quality Premier Chocolate (Boston) and Dr. D. Jayne's Family Medicines Co. (maker of patent medicines), which added its own promotional messages.
The paintings showed up on other postcards, as well, mostly by small publishers, including linen-style printings of the. 1930s. In the post-World War II era, quite a few were published as sharp quality chromes, especially for sale during the American Bicentennial celebration of 1976.
In modern times the most effective use of the great historical paintings of Ferris on the postcard form was a group by a Michigan firm, Paw Paw Plastics Laminating Service, Inc. In 1972 they printed and sold an 18-card large size, chrome-like set. As late as 1984 these were still being sold at retail for $5 a set.
After being exhibited for many years at the Smithsonian and elsewhere, the paintings eventually returned to the Ferris family who licensed the use of their images to a number of firms. J. L. G. Ferris had died in 1930.
Today, prints in good condition, depending upon age, sell for $10 to $25. Framed large prints carry larger price tags. Old postcards are in the $8 to $10 range; the various trade cards go for a bit more. Postcards of the 1930s to 1980s usually sell for $3 to $5.
There has been a growing demand for such prints and postcards over the last couple of decades and availability is not as good as it used to be. Ferris's interpretation of America's past is greatly loved today, especially in these highly patriotic times.
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Two new parks for dogs to romp
Town property readied for popular canine recreation
Updated 10:25 pm, Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Big dogs, little dogs, black-and-white dogs — all will have a place to go when Colonie opens two new parks especially for canines.
One will be at the Colonie Mohawk River Park off Route 9 and is expected to open this fall. The other will be on town property next to the Colonie Town Golf Course and is expected to open next spring. "We've had a lot of people interested in dog parks in the area," Supervisor Paula Mahan said. "We've looked at some other dog parks in the surrounding communities."
The dog parks will be built without added cost to the town. Clough Harbour & Associates is donating the engineering work, Waste Connections is providing the fencing, and town employees will do the labor.
At the Colonie Mohawk River Park, the area for dogs will be to the left of the entrance where an open space now exists.
"There is an existing parking lot that is rarely used so there is parking," Mahan said. "It's really a beautiful space that's not being used."
The space now located by the town golf course by Consaul Road had two tennis courts on it. One already has been converted to parking space, and the other will be replaced by the dog park.
The dog parks will be fenced so dogs don't run outside the space, and a fence will separate a larger enclosure for big dogs from a smaller space where little dogs can run free.
A covered shelter will enable residents to stay dry during rainy weather or in the shade on hot days. Dog owners will be able to use fountains to fill dishes to give their dogs water.
For their pet to be able to use the dog park, an owner must be a town resident. Dogs must be registered with the town clerk, and owners must pay an annual fee and provide proof their dogs have been inoculated against rabies and distemper.
The fee has not been set, Mahan said.
"The average in the Capital Region is between $30 and $35," she said.
Identification tags will be given out for display on the dog's collar. All dogs will have to be accompanied by an adult or youth aged 16 or older.
The town won't have a full-time person assigned to the parks, but Mahan noted town employees work nearby. "The owners are very responsible, and they appreciate having a place to bring their dogs," she said. "We're really looking forward to having them completed so dog owners can enjoy them."
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Originally posted January 15, 2012 (before the disaster)
My muse seems to have abandoned me.
It's hard for me to admit, and yet it's true. I haven't had many "good" story ideas in quite some time, and now that I'm actively looking for new content to write (both for short stories/novels and for this blog) it seems to be even more difficult to come up with something that feels worthy of my time.
I'm trying not to let it worry me… not to force it… but the clock is ticking and the pressure is starting to mount. I need to come up with something soon if I want to have it ready in time to meet some end of February submission deadlines.
*takes a deep breath*
This has happened to me before. I think it happens to all writers at some point or another, probably more than once. I just need to be patient, to stay alert, and to keep trying to work through what ideas I do find.
In the meantime, I received some valuable advice from Twitter (thank you my followers: you were very helpful!):
- Look at pretty pictures
- Listen to inspiring music
- Freewriting
- People watching
- Local news stories
- Working out
- Read things like what I am trying to write
- Mindless housework (dishes, laundry)
A few of these have already proven useful, and I'll be trying a few more in the coming weeks (and hopefully reporting back in!). What's your favourite way to get inspired?


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Skip to comments.Video: Virginia Bakery Refuses To Serve Biden; Angry Over 'You Didn't Build That'
Posted on 08/15/2012 7:51:53 PM PDT by Justaham
The owner of Crumb and Get It in Roanoke says he doesn't agree with the Obama administration's policies.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
People are so sick of being bullied by liberal elites they just don't care what happens any more.
I just sent them a message to call me back to take my order for a few dozen chocolate chip cookies (for delivery to California). I salute his courage to start a business and his gravitas to tell BiteMe to stuff it.
"I just hope their taxes are in order."
I give them about 2 weeks before the IRS comes knocking on the "enemy" door.
Someone needs to put it on YouTube - could give them a mail business that would really give them a boost!
Oh, the horror!
Here is website
So is Chick-fil-A !
" - - - I give them about 2 weeks before the IRS comes knocking on the enemy door."
True, Sheriff of Nottingham Timmy Gee will come a knocking.
My concern is the ATF. I'll bet at least one of their wooden utensils is made from an endangered exotic wood.
That would mean that the Bakery's doors "would be put in chains."
I hope people watch the video.
At the end of the news story, the reporter said the Secret Service went in and thanked the store owner for saying no and then proceeded to buy some food.
Even the Secret Service hates Joe Biden.
I composed an email and included their Facebook page and the link to the video and sent it to all my friends and asked them to send it on.
We need to contact people in that area of the country and have them patronize this business when they are in the area. It's the only way I knew how to reach people in VA, by spreading the email far and wide.
I hope it helps!
By the end of the election he should be "Knuckles deep in dough" ha ha ha
The regime is so arrogant that I wonder if they even care what this cracker bakery owner or his patrons think.
This small business owner is representative of the foundation and pillars of the American Dream (because he really did "build that"), but to Obamugabe, he's just another greedy white farm owner with a price on his head.
Yes and it says alot about them because on the spot they were faced w/two options and 'doing the right thing' was the option that won out. They put country before self - true Patriotism. I join you in applauding them!
I emailed and asked about shipping too! Hubby wants to order a couple of dozen cookies or SOMETHING! I started my own practice about 18 months ago — *I* and *we* have done this! Gotta support the others like us :)
Good for you!! Americans helping Americans against the 'greed of the government'.
Yes between Curl Up and Dye and The Dew Drop Inn, where Ol' Green Teeth hangs out...
That's funny.
I don't know, this is the first I heard of them/these patriots!
Did the same. Their concept is a good one, made-to-order cookies.
Oatmeal chocolate chip, anyone?
Chick Fil A! - closed on Sundays, also! Awesome!
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