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The following articles were taken from the book, ENQUIRE WITHIN UPON EVERYTHING published in 1856
Being hints to each other for the good of both, as actually delivered at our own table
If your husband occasionally looks a little troubled when he comes home, do not say to him, with an alarmed countenance, What ails you, my dear? Dont bother him; he will tell you of his own accord, if need be. Dont rattle a hailstorm of fun about his ears either; be observant and quiet. Dont suppose whenever he is silent and thoughtful that you are of course the cause. Let him alone until he is inclined to talk; take up your book or your needlework (pleasantly, cheerfully; no pouting no sullenness), and wait until he is inclined to be sociable. Dont let him ever find a shirt-button missing. A shirt-button being off a collar or wrist-band has frequently produced the first hurricane in married life. Mens shirt-collars never fit exactly see that your husbands are made as well as possible and then, if he does fret a little about them, never mind it; men have a prescriptive right to fret about shirt-collars.
If your wife complains that young ladies now-a-day are very forward, dont accuse her of jealousy. A little concern on her part only proves her love for you, and you may enjoy your triumph without saying a word. Dont evince your weakness either, by complaining of every trifling neglect. What though her chair is not set so close to yours as it used to be, or though her knitting and crochet seem to absorb too large a share of her attention, depend upon it that, as her eyes watch the intertwinings of the threads, and the manoeuvres of the needles as they dance in compliance to her delicate fingers, she is thinking of courting days, love letters, smiles, tears, suspicions, and reconciliations, by which your two hearts became entwined together in the network of love, whose meshes you can neither of you unravel or escape.
Never complain that your husband pores too much over the newspaper, to the exclusion of that pleasing converse which you formerly enjoyed with him. Dont hide the paper; dont give it to the children to tear; dont be sulky when the boy leaves it at the door; but take it in pleasantly, and lay it down before your spouse. Think what man would be without a newspaper; treat it as a great agent in the work of civilisation, which it assuredly is; and think how much good newspapers have done by exposing bad husbands and bad wives, by giving their errors to the eye of the public. But manage you in this way: when your husband is absent, instead of gossipping (sic) with neighbours, or looking into shop windows, sit down quietly, and look over that paper; run your eye over its home and foreign news; glance rapidly at the accidents and casualties; carefully scan the leading articles; and at tea-time, when your husband again takes up the paper, say, My dear, what an awful state of things there seems to be in India,; or what a terrible calamity at the Glasgow theatre,; or trade appears to be flourishing in the north,! and depend upon it down will go the paper. If he has not read the information, he will hear it all from your lips, and when you have done, he will ask, Did you, my dear, read Simpsons letter upon the discovery of chloroform? And whether you did or not, you will gradually get into as cosy a chat as you ever enjoyed; and you will soon discover that, rightly used, the newspaper is the wifes real friend, for it keeps the husband at home, and supplies capital topics for every-day table-talk.
You can hardly imagine how refreshing it is to occasionally call up the recollection of your courting days. How tediously the hours rolled away prior to the appointed time of meeting; how swift they seemed to fly, when met; how fond was the first greeting; how tender the last embrace; how fervent were your vows; how vivid your dreams of future happiness, when, returning to your home, you felt yourself secure in the confessed love of the object of your warm affections. Is your dream realised? are you so happy as you expected? Why not? Consider whether as a husband you are as fervent and constant as you were when a lover. Remember that the wifes claims to your unremitting regard great before marriage, are now exalted to a much higher degree. She has left the world for you the home of her childhood, the fireside of her parents, their watchful care and sweet intercourse have all been yielded up for you. Look then most jealously upon all that may tend to attract you from home, and to weaken that union upon which your temporal happiness mainly depends; and believe that in the solemn relationship of husband is to be found one of the best guarantees for mans honour and happiness.
Perchance you think that your husbands disposition is much changed; that he is no longer the sweet-tempered, ardent lover he used to be. This may be a mistake. Consider his struggles with the world his everlasting race with the busy competition of trade. What is it makes him so eager in the pursuit of gain so energetic by day, so sleepless by night but his love of home, wife, and children, and a dread that their respectability, according to the light in which he has conceived it, may be encroached upon by the strife of existence. This is the true secret of that silent care which preys upon the hearts of many men; and true it is, that when love is least apparent, it is nevertheless the active principle which animates the heart, though fears and disappointments make up a cloud which obscures the warmer element. As above the clouds there is glorious sunshine, while below are showers and gloom, so with the conduct of man behind the gloom of anxiety is a bright fountain of high and noble feeling. Think of this in those moments when clouds seem to lower upon your domestic peace, and, by tempering your conduct accordingly, the gloom will soon pass away, and warmth and brightness take its place.
When once a man has established a home, his most important duties have fairly begun. The errors of youth may be overlooked; want of purpose, and even of honour, in his earlier days may be forgotten. But from the moment of his marriage he begins to write his indelible history; not by pen and ink, but by actions by which he must ever afterwards be reported and judged. His conduct at home; his solicitude (showing interest and concern) for his family; the training of his children; his devotion to his wife; his regards for the great interests of eternity; these are the tests by which his worth will ever afterwards be estimated by all who think or care about him. These will determine his position while living, and influence his memory when dead. He uses well or ill the brief space allotted to him, out of all eternity, to build up a fame founded upon the most solid of all foundations private worth; and God will judge him, and man judge of him, accordingly.
Dont imagine when you have obtained a husband, that your attention to personal neatness and deportment may be relaxed. Now, in reality, is the time for you to exhibit superior taste and excellence in the cultivation of your address, and the becoming elegance of your appearance. If it required some little care to foster the administration of a lover how much more is requisite to keep yourself lovely in the eyes of him, to whom there is now no privacy or disguise your hourly companion? And if it was due to your lover that you should always present to him, who proposed to wed and cherish you, a neat and lady-like aspect; how much more is he entitled to a similar mark of respect, who has kept his promise with honourable fidelity, and linked all his hopes of future happiness with yours? If you can manage these matters without appearing to study them, so much the better. Some husbands are impatient of the routine of the toilette, and not unreasonably so they possess active and energetic spirits, sorely disturbed by any waste of time. Some wives have discovered an admirable facility in dealing with this difficulty; and it is a secret which, having been discovered by some, may be known to all and is well worth the finding out.
Custom entitles you to be considered the lord and master over your household. But dont assume the master and sink the lord. Remember that noble generosity, forbearance, amiability, and integrity, are among the more lordly attributes of man. As a husband, therefore, exhibit the true nobility of man, and seek to govern your own household by the display of high moral excellence. A domineering spirit a fault-finding petulance impatience of trifling delays and the exhibition of unworthy passions at the slightest provocation, can add no laurel to your own lordly brow, impart no sweetness to home, and call forth no respect from those by whom you may be surrounded. It is one thing to be a master another thing to be a man. The latter should be the husbands aspiration; for he who cannot govern himself is ill-qualified to govern another.
It is astonishing how much the cheerfulness of a wife contributes to the happiness of home. She is the sun the centre of a domestic system, and her children are like planets around her, reflecting her rays. How merry the little ones look when the mother is joyous and good-tempered; and how easily and pleasantly her household labours are overcome! Her cheerfulness is reflected everywhere; it is seen in the neatness of her toilette, the order of her table, and even the seasoning of her dishes. We remember hearing a husband say that he could always guage (sic) the temper of his wife by the quality of her cooking: good temper even influenced the seasoning of her soups, and the lightness and delicacy of her pastry. When ill-temper pervades, the pepper is dashed in as a cloud; perchance the top of the pepper-box is included, as a kind of diminutive thunderbolt; the salt is all in lumps; and the spices seem to betake themselves all to one spot in a pudding, as if dreading the frowning face above them. If there be a husband who could abuse the smiles of a really good-tempered wife, we should like to look at him! No, no, such a phenomenon does not exist. Among elements of domestic happiness, the amiability of the wife and mother is of the utmost importance it is one of the best securities for THE HAPPINESS OF HOME.
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Mothers, who wish not only to discharge well their own duties in the domestic circle, but to train up their daughters at a later day to make happy and comfortable firesides for their families, should watch well, and guard well, the notions which they imbibe and with which they grow up. There will be so many persons ready to fill their young heads with false and vain fancies, and there is so much always afloat in society opposed to duty and common sense, that if mothers do not watch well, they may contract ideas very fatal to their future happiness and usefulness, and hold them till they grow into habits of thought or feeling. A wise mother will have her eyes open, and be ready for every case. A few words of common, downright, respectable, practical sense, timely uttered by her, may be enough to counteract some foolish idea or belief put into her daughters head by others, whilst, if it be left unchecked, it may take such possession of the mind that it cannot later be corrected. One main falsity abroad in this age is the notion, that women, unless compelled to it by absolute poverty, are out of place when engaged in domestic affairs. Now, mothers should have a care lest their daughters get hold of this conviction as regards themselves there is danger of it; the fashion of the day endangers it, and the care that an affectionate family take to keep a girl, during the time of her education, free from other occupations than those of her tasks or her recreations, also endangers it. It is possible that affection may err in pushing this care too far; for as education means a fitting for life, and as a womans life is much connected with domestic and family affairs, or ought to be so, if the indulgent consideration of parents abstains from all demands upon the young pupil of the school not connected with her books or her play, will she not naturally infer that the matters with which she is never asked to concern herself are, in fact, no concerns to her, and that any attention she ever may bestow on them is not a matter of simple duty, but of grace, or concession, or stooping, on her part? Let mothers avoid such danger. If they would do so, they must bring up their daughters from the first with the idea that in this world it is required to give as well as to receive, to minister as well as to enjoy; that every person is bound to be useful, practically, literally useful, in his own sphere, and that a womans first sphere is the house, and its concerns and demands. Once really imbued with this belief, and taught to see how much the comfort and happiness of woman herself, as well as of her family, depends on this part of her discharge of duty, and a young girl will usually be anxious to learn all that her mother is disposed to teach, and will be proud and happy to aid in any domestic occupations assigned to her, which need never be made so heavy as to interfere with the peculiar duties of her age, or its peculiar delights. If a mother wishes to see her daughter become a good, happy, and rational woman, never let her admit of contempt for domestic occupations, or even suffer them to be deemed secondary. They may be varied in character by station, but they can never be secondary to a woman.
No trait of character is more agreeable in a female than the possession of a sweet temper. Home can never be happy without it. It is like the flowers that spring up in our pathway, reviving and cheering us. Let a man go home at night, wearied and worn by the toils of the day, and how soothing is a word dictated by a good disposition! It is sunshine falling on his heart. He is happy, and the cares of life are forgotten. A sweet temper has a soothing influence over the minds of a whole family. Where it is found in the wife and mother, you observe a kindness and love predominating over the natural feelings of a bad heart. Smiles, kind words and looks, characterise the children, and peace and love have their dwelling there. Study, then, to acquire and attain a sweet temper.
If you wish to cultivate a gossiping, meddling, censorious spirit in your children, be sure when they come home from church, a visit, or any other place where you do not accompany them, to ply them with questions concerning what everybody wore, how everybody looked, and what everybody said and did; and if you find anything in this to censure, always do it in their hearing. You may rest assured, if you pursue a course of this kind, they will not return to you un-laden with intelligence; and, rather than it should be uninteresting, they will by degrees learn to embellish, in such a manner as shall not fail, to call forth remarks and expressions of wonder from you. You will, by this course, render the spirit of curiosity, which is so early visible in children, and, which, if rightly directed, may be made the instrument of enriching and enlarging their minds a vehicle of mischief which shall serve only to narrow them.
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Jack, whereabouts is Amstid-am?
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You wish to leave? Why, I thought you were very comfortable with me.
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Having been unusually quiet throughout 2017 so far, Danger Mouse has now unveiled a brand new track set to feature in the upcoming film Baby Driver.
The new track 'Chase Me' features collaborations with both Run The Jewels and Outkast's Big Boi, and has been said to have been specially created for the film's soundtrack, stating that "we tried to create something that matches the spirit of this bad ass film."
Baby Driver will be out in cinemas on the 28th June, with the soundtrack arriving a little earlier on the 23rd June. Click here to listen to 'Chase Me'.

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Chester-le-Street (district)
Coordinates: 54°51′36″N 1°34′26″W / 54.860°N 1.574°W
|Chester-le-Street District
Shown within ceremonial County Durham
|• 1974
|16,243 acres (65.73 km2)[1]
|• 1973
|• 1992
|• 2001
|• Origin
|Chester-le-Street urban and rural districts
|• Created
|• Abolished
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|Chester-le-Street District Council
Chester-le-Street was a local government district in County Durham, England. Its council was based in Chester-le-Street. Other places in the district included Great Lumley and Sacriston.
The district was formed on 1 April 1974 as part of a general reorganisation of local administration throughout England and Wales carried out under the Local Government Act 1972. Chester-le-Street was one of eight non-metropolitan districts into which County Durham was divided, and was formed form the areas of the abolished urban district of Chester-le-Street along with the bulk of Chester-le-Street Rural District, namely the parishes of Bournmoor, Birtley (reduced in size), Edmondsley, Great Lumley, Lambton, Little Lumley, North Lodge (created from the part of Harraton outside Washington New Town), Ouston, Pelton, Plawsworth, Sacriston, South Biddick (reduced in size), Urpeth and Waldridge.[1] The remainder of the rural district was transferred to the metropolitan boroughs of Gateshead and Sunderland, in the new county of Tyne and Wear.
The district council did not have a coat of arms, but instead used the design of the chairman's badge of office as its logo. the design consisted of a circle divided by a curved cross into four quarters.
- In the centre of the cross was a lion, taken from the arms of the Lambton family of Lambton Castle.
- In the top left quarter was a cross of Saint Cuthbert. The saint's remains lay in Chester for more than a century, and the town was the see of a bishop. The saint's relics and the bishopric were subsequently transferred to Durham. The River Wear formed the background.
- In the top right quarter was a depiction of the pithead gear of a coal mine, illustrating the area's traditional source of wealth. Behind this was shown the Chester-le-Street Viaduct
- In the bottom left quarter was a falcon, with Lumley Castle in the background.
- In the bottom right quarter was a depiction of the legendary Lambton Worm.[4]
The emblems in the upper left and lower left quarters were subsequently altered to a bishop's mitre and a Roman eagle standard.[5]
The district was abolished as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England being replaced by a new unitary authority called Durham County Council.
Electoral divisions[edit]
- Chester-le-Street North and East Chester East ward; Chester North ward
- Chester-le-Street South Chester South ward; Edmondsley and Waldridge ward
- Chester-le-Street West Central Chester Central ward; Chester West ward; Pelton Fell ward
- Lumley Bournmoor ward; Lumley ward
- Ouston and Urpeth Grange Villa and West Pelton ward; Ouston ward; Urpeth ward
- Pelton North Lodge ward; Pelton ward
- Sacriston Kimblesworth and Plawsworth ward; Sacriston ward
Villages in Chester-le-Street District[edit]
- ^ a b c Local government in England and Wales: A Guide to the New System. London: HMSO. 1974. p. 46. ISBN 0-11-750847-0.
- ^ OPCS Key population and Vital Statistics 1992
- ^ "Chester-le-Street". Census 2001. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
- ^ Description of the Chairman's Badge, information sheet published by Chester-le-Street Council, 1989.
- ^ "History and Profile". Chester-le-Street District Council. 2001. Archived from the original on 2002-04-05. Retrieved 2002-04-30.


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For those that want to learn more about taking good digital photos, I found a great on-line book you might want to check out. Here is a selection from the preface:
A great photograph begins when you recognize a great scene or subject. But recognizing a great opportunity isn't enough to capture it; you also have to be prepared. A large part of being prepared involves understanding your camera well enough to capture what you see the way you want to interpret it. Getting you prepared to see and capture great photographs is what this book is all about. It doesn't matter if you are taking pictures for business or pleasure, there's a lot here to help you get better results and more satisfaction from your photography. To get better, and possibly even great photographs, you need to understand both concepts and procedures; the "whys" and "hows" of photography.Check the rest of the book at http://www.shortcourses.com/use/ They have a lot of beginner and more advanced tips.


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Professional qualifications: the Commission formally requests that Spain amend its national legislation applicable to the profession of dental practitioner
The European Commission has decided to address a reasoned opinion to Spain regarding its legislation governing the profession of dental practitioner. The Commission considers that the Spanish legislation is not in line with Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications in that it allows specialist doctors access to the profession of dental practitioner.
Under Directive 2005/36/EC, the profession of dental practitioner should be recognised as a specific profession distinct from that of medical practitioner, whether or not specialised in odontostomatology. Spain, which did not have a specific profession of dental practitioner at the time of its accession on 1 January 1986 and therefore had to create it, has benefited from transitional derogations in favour of its medical practitioners specialised in stomatology who exercise those activities; although those medical practitioners must have started their basic medical training no later than 1 January 1986.
However, for one part, the Spanish legislation does not take account of this condition set by Community law and for another part, in some cases Spain allows medical practitioners specialised in maxillo-facial and oral surgery to participate in competitions to fill posts for dental practitioners in the national health system.
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Kings Draw Second Pick in NBA Draft Lottery
SACRAMENTO, CA (MPG) - In what will be arguably the most important draft in Sacramento Kings history, the odds have already bounced in their favor. They made the biggest jump in Tuesday night's lottery, moving all the way from the projected seventh overall pick to the second slot behind the tank-happy Phoenix Suns. It is the first time in the modern lottery era that the kings have held a top three pick.
But with a long, dismal history of draft selections recently highlighted by Jimmer Fredette, Thomas Robinson, Ben McLemore and Nik Stauskas, does it even matter at all? For what it's worth, this is a deep draft class headlined by Deandre Ayton out of Arizona, Luka Doncic out of Real Madrid, Jaren Jackson out of Michigan State, Marvin Bagley III out of Duke and Trae Young out of Oklahoma, to name a few. The talent is definitely there.
The Suns appeared to have their sights set on Ayton all season long as they gloriously tanked. He looks ready to make an immediate impact in the league and keeping him in the state of Arizona makes sense. However, Suns new head coach, Igor Kokoskov, was Doncic's head coach when he won the 2017 EuroBasket title and is big on his guy. This may change things in the Kings' favor yet again heading into the draft.
The Kings have a lot of options, but if Ayton fell to the number two pick Sacramento would have no choice but to take him. The 7'0", 260 pound, 19-year-old averaged 20.1 points, 11.6 rebounds and 1.9 blocks in his freshman year. "Elite physical tools, soft touch at the rim and a promising jump shot make Ayton the likely top pick," according to SI's latest Top 100 Prospect Rankings. "His sheer size and strength presents a matchup problem for most any defender, and he may be the most athletic 7-foot prospect to come along this decade."
Ayton would be a no brainer for Sacramento, as it is extremely rare to find a 7-footer with his arsenal. But it surely won't be that easy, it never is for a Kings organization that hasn't reached the playoffs or finished with a winning record since 2005-2006.


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of rom backup hardware and tools for working with roms.
We will also privede you with links to best shops selling
rom hardware.
First to give you an idea about how roms are made - read
about making gba roms!
GBA Cartridge to PC
You have to have a way to connect gameboy cartridge to
the PC. For that you can you Flash Advance Linker or FA
Linker Xtreme. Regular linker connects to Printer port
when Xtreme can be connected to both printer port or USB.
Save game data on PC as *.GBA file
When you have FA Linker connected you can use Flash Advance
Writer, Little Writer or Flash Xtreme writer software
to save the game from the cartridge on to your PC Hard
Drive. It will be saved as .GBA file. Most roms are 4MB
or 8MB
(1 Mega Byte on PC = 8 Mega Bits on Cartridge)
Play backuped games on PC or GB
When you have backuped the game on the PC you can Play
it with one of the Gameboy Emulators or you can send it
a ReWritable Flash Advance card and play it on another
Gameboy. Because Flash Advance Cards are bigger than regular
GBA Cartridges you can make compilation of say 8 of your
favorite games and write them to one 256M FA Card.
In short - this is how most of the gameboy advance roms
that you can download from the internet are made. As you
can see - the main purpose of roms (and FA Linker) is
not to play then on PC's using Emulators, but to use them
as backups of your original games. Of course if you have
made a backup of your game you can play it PC if you like.
MAME contains several components: a CPU emulator which duplicates the behavior of the CPUs of many original arcade machines; an input emulator which maps arcade buttons, joysticks, and other controls to PC keyboards, joysticks and other devices; and an emulator for the arcade game display and sound equipment. The only thing missing from MAME is the ROM image, which is the program from the original arcade game which made the game run. When MAME is run, it is running the original game from several years ago - just on different hardware.
More information about GBA backup devices can be found
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In the house, Brad is least likely to follow a recipe. And most of his recipes will be highly spiced. The running joke is that he'll try to put saffron, cardamom and rosewater in absolutely everything. And it's only partially a joke.
He's east coast Canadian, and when pressed can be persuaded to make poutine or tourtiere; or a Newfoundland steamed pudding. But he grew up loving Lebanese food. Then he left Nova Scotia and lived all over the world, and encountered its food. Japan for 3 years, Australia for 5, backpacking throughout Asia, visits to Italy and Mexico. Most of what he cooks is only approximately related to a classic recipe, and will have influences of Mediterranean, Asian, or Indian.


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Hey whats going on guys today were going to take a look at 10 smaller mods you might have missed. Grab the damn mag by monkatraz is a mod we have all been waiting for. Now we finally have a fix for the clipping issue on stand alone weapon mods. You will break the sub machine gun animation in the process, but the trade off is definitely worth it. Bethesda showed off a ak47 in the newest nuka world trailer, so that might fix the issue all together, but until then this definitely gets the job done. Now that your reload animations are fixed why not break something else instead. Weapon jams bring back the chance of your weapons jamming in combat. There are a few weapons that are immune to jamming like revolvers and double barrel shot guns, but everything else seems to be fair game including laser weapons.
When your weapon jams your ammo counter will go to zero, so to unjam it just keep firing or hit the melee key. This will jerk the weapon around a bit causing it to unjam and allowing you to put in a fresh mag. The chances you have a jam, all depend on the receiver type your using, along with your luck skill, and how many perk point you have in gun nut or science. I was a little confused on how a laser weapon could jam but the mod author explained it on the mod page. He either knows what hes talking about,or he made it up off the top of his head. Either way im just going to go with it because it sounds like a pretty legit explanation to me. One of the best shooters to come out recently besides doom in my opinion was the new wolfenstein. So if your a fan of that game too, you should check out the mod pandzerhoud. You can pick this new companion up over at the robotics disposal ground and you get two version to choose from.
Theres the panzerhound mini which is about the same size as dogmeat or you can grab the panzerhoud maxi which is as tall as the player. I do recommend you grab the the mini version though because the maxi version tends to be a pain especially in interior locations. Take shelter is a simple mod that i have been waiting for someone to make. This mod makes the pulowski shelters no longer useless by letting you use them as save points. All you have to do is walk up to them, close the door and the game will automatically save for you. If your someone who likes to play on survival this is definitely a must have mod in my opinion. Hopefully someone will come along and make them usefull during radiations storms too.
Scrap-O-Tron 2000 is a handy mod that you should have at everyone of your settlements. You will find this new machine in the crafting category and once you place it down you will see 4 buttons that all do different things. The first button is the input all junk button, this button will take all the scrap able junk out of your inventory and place it into the machine. If your worried you might loose something useful by accident the second button can be used to sort though your junk to only take out the common items instead.
For example it save my baseball for i can make a grenade out of it instead. Once everything you want to scrap is inside just hit the third button which will break the items down into there crafting materials and deposit them into the lower compartment. Once there all broken down all you have to do now is hit the forth button, which will place them all into the settlement workshop for you to use anywhere. In my last mini mod video i covered the mod orphans of the commonwealth by which adds 20 new child settlers. Now with the mod school desk by frogprincess you can build a school to keep them occupied. This mod adds 5 new desks, which come in red, blue, white, yellow and green along with 2 new desks for teacher. They all function just like workstations so all you have to do is assign a teacher to there desk, then assign each kid to one too and if your lucky they might sit still.
Solar panels adds two new solar panels to the workshop so you wont have to listen to those annoying generators. The first new solar panel provides 3 power and can be mounted to almost any wall. You wont be running anything major off of it, but its enough to power up the lights in whatever building you place it on. The second solar panel is the solar panel rack which provides 5 power. This ones really use full for powering up turrets that are placed in odd spots. You can either place them on the ground or top of buildings and if you need a little more juice all you have to do is daisy chain them together.
The next mod isnt exactly realistic, but as soon as i saw it i knew i needed to have it. Hubris comics restoration brings the store back to its former glory. There new custom textures for the displays and every magazine from the game is on the shelves for you to pick up. But i have to warn you if you have made it to hubris comics yet just be careful walking though the door. The former employees are still there and since nothing is static so one misplaced grenade can cause the whole store to be destroyed in just a few seconds. The mod author is working on a static version though so hopefully that wont be a problem in the future What i would like to see a version that gives me a empty store, that way i can collect all the magazines myself and have a nice play to display them. Theres are a few mods for skyrim that add museums so you can put all the things you collect on display and this just seems like the perfect place to do something like that.
Publick Occurrences Expanded is a nice immersive mod that adds 10 new newspaper articles covering the adventures of the sole survivor. When you complete a major quest just head over and talk to nat. She will then hand you a paper that summarizes the quest and they all change depending on the outcome. All together theirs over 5000 words in total and the author plans on expanding the articles to cover some side quests too. Its best to use this mod on a new game though so you get the articles one by one. But if your already deep into a playthough like me, you she will just hand you them one after another.
I really like mods like this because its nice to see people actually acknowledge my presence in the wasteland. The last mod i have for you is called bountiful boards. I felt kind of dumb when i saw this mod because i didnt even realize they existed. But after reading the comments on the mod page it made me realize i wasnt the only. If you didnt know there were bounty boards either theirs actually two of them in diamond city. The main bounty board is located on the wall right to the left of the Swatter shop and the secondary board is in the hall way when you walk into Dugout Inn. How i managed to walk by these boards so many times and never see them is beyond me. Now dont get to excited, because theirs only 2 bounties in total and once you complete them all there gone for good. But luckily this modder came along and made them all repeatable along with adding 4 new quests for you to try out too.
Hopefully the mod author expands on this in the future, because this mod definitely has alot of potential. One thing id love to see is these boards put in settlements. Ive always loved the way quests were handled in the witcher and it would be great to have that same feature in fallout. Hope you enjoyed the video guy let me know in the comments which mod is your favorite. Thanks for watching as always and i will see you in the next showcase..
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Book Review: The Oklahomans
By: Steve Byas
The Oklahomans:
The Story of Oklahoma
and Its People
Volume I: Ancient-Statehood
by John J. Dwyer, Norman: Red River, 2016
324 pages, hardcover.
Perhaps no state has a more interesting and diverse history than does Oklahoma, and John Dwyer has expertly conveyed this fact in the first volume of an envisioned two-volume work on the "Sooner State." To be blunt, many authors in the past of survey histories of our state have produced books on Oklahoma history that are about as dry as the dust from the multiple cattle drives that crossed the state in the last part of the nineteenth century. These writers have at times appeared almost disinterested in their subject, and present the material in an almost condescending, even apologetic manner.
John Dwyer, on the other hand, is devoted to his home state. At the same time, the book does not avoid those parts of Oklahoma's checkered history which are a vivid testimony to the flawed nature of human beings. Instead, he tackles such topics in a way that provides the perspective that is usually missing from other treatments of difficult topics, like segregation, the Indian removals, corruption in government, and private sector injustices.
The book is clearly written from a Judeo-Christian world view, but not so much so that other perspectives are ignored or disrespected. And the book likewise is kind to the concepts of limited government, free enterprise, and respect for private property.
In that regard, Dwyer takes the time to explain the Indian System of Land Ownership. When one reads of how the Native Americans viewed land ownership in most other works, the reader can almost be led to believe that the indigenous peoples of North America were to the left of Karl Marx.
Drawing upon the depiction by Clara Nash and Erma Taylor, in their history of Bryan County, Dwyer's book demonstrates this was not accurate. "The Choctaw domain was held in common. Any citizen of the nation had the right to make his home anywhere in the country. He could fence the surrounding land for fields and pastures," as long as the fence went out no further than a "hog-call" (about ¼ mile).
But, as Nash and Taylor further explain, "They could not trespass on the already-fenced lands of another Choctaw. Any citizen could sell his improvements such as houses, barns, and fences, but could not sell the land. If he abandoned the farm for a period fixed by law, usually three years, it reverted to the public domain."
And, considering that modern Americans are said to "own" their land, but they must continue to pay the property taxes in order to continue to "own"it, Nash and Taylor's conclusion is instructive: "They paid no land taxes since they didn't own the land."
Hardly an example of "communism," as the Indian's system is so often falsely portrayed.
In The Oklahomans, the reader will be treated to the exciting story of the beginnings of the Oklahoma oil industry, which is presented as something positive, not as some sort of negative as far too many writers picture the oil business today.
While one is reading Dwyer's work, the reader may forget that he is reading a "history book,"because it is written with the powerful words of an accomplished novelist. (Dwyer has also written fiction). Unlike some writers, however, he does not believe in taking "artistic license"with the facts in order to create a more engaging story. For example, in his account of the great Comanche chief, Quanah Parker, this historical character emerges as a real, three-dimensional human being, rather than an actor in a morality play, as is so often done for modern readers.
"Quanah well illustrates the vast transformation from old Oklahoma to new, even as both he and the state retained so much of their essential strength and so many of their distinctives,"Dwyer wrote. "He was born into the most fearsome warrior tribe ever to rumble across the earth. The Comanches stopped the Spanish, the French, the Mexicans, the Apaches and numerous other tribes – for a long time the Americans – conquering the Southwest. His father was a legendary war chief and his mother was an even more famous white woman."
Dwyer does not gloss over Parker's violent nature. "Through his mid-twenties, he himself killed numerous white and possibly black Americans, other Natives, and Mexicans, and participated in or led countless raids and slaughters that involved robbery, rape, torture, and murder. The Comanches' victims included women, children, and even babies."
But Dwyer's Quanah Parker story does not end there. He continues the fascinating story of this feared Comanche chief as he develops friendships with noted Americans, such as President Theodore Roosevelt and the noted cattle drive entrepreneur, Charles Goodnight, and eventually embraced the Christian religion, regularly attending Mennonite church services. One of Parker's sons, White Parker, became well known in the Lawton, Oklahoma, area, as a "stalwart Methodist minister."
Concluding with statehood, Dwyer related the story of how the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention President, William H. Murray, rejected the inclusion of the phrase, "The Supreme Ruler of the Universe,"into the Constitution. Instead, Murray insisted on the more no-nonsense, "Invoking the guidance of Almighty God"into the prelude to the document.
The tragic story of the forced migration of the Indian tribes of the southeastern United States is told with such feeling that one can almost see the tears shed by the Five Civilized Tribes, as they leave behind their ancestral homelands. The maltreatment of the African-Americans in the first state Legislature, when segregation was implemented, is likewise well-covered. "T)hey defined the 'African' race in such a manner that made a mockery of U.S. constitutional law regarding the rights of black citizens," Dwyer wrote.
Yet, Dwyer's book is no morality play, with blacks and Indians always wearing the "good guy" white hats, and persons of white European ancestry usually donning the "bad guy" black hats. The achievements of all the peoples of Oklahoma are well-documented, along with the inevitable flaws of all ethnic groups.
I specifically found Dwyer's analysis of the progressive political philosophy of great value. Oklahoma's state Constitution was adopted in the heyday of the progressive era of American politics, and its influence is manifestly present in its provisions. Dwyer wrote, "Progressivism served as the vehicle by which the classical or economic liberalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave way to the modern liberalism of government intervention to achieve individual freedoms and opportunities."
This movement has cursed America ever since, however, as Dwyer explained. "In the early 1900s, those pursuing progressive ideas sought through expanded governmental power – especially on the national level, but in Oklahoma as well – to correct the ills of a fast-growing nation." Not content with acting on this belief that government power could improve society, these progressives "took aim at correcting the ills of other nations as well, as Presidents like Roosevelt, William McKinley, and Woodrow Wilson launched the U.S. into the global imperialist sweepstakes long pursued by the European powers."
From the beginnings of Oklahoma's recorded history, until the creation of Oklahoma as the nation's 46th state on November 16, 1907, John Dwyer tells the exciting story of Oklahoma in a way that will keep the reader engrossed from beginning to end.
It is also a book full of color graphics that will appeal to the eye. As former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating said of Dwyer's work, "The reader will be pleased to find early in his read and throughout the book an incredible trove of maps and drawings and visuals of all kinds, vivid and colorful, to explain what the author is saying."
This book should whet the appetite of the reader, in anticipation of the second volume, which will no doubt inform and entertain with the stories of the intrigue of Oklahoma politics in which two Oklahoma governors were impeached and removed by the Oklahoma Legislature; the emergence of the Oklahoma oil industry as it provided a booming economy for the state, along with the great oil boom and bust of the 1980s; the greatest ecological disaster of the twentieth century – the Dust Bowl – that drove hundreds of thousands of Oklahomans westward to California and Arizona in search of survival; and the worst race riot in American history, which took place in Tulsa, in 1921.
As with this book, and with his other books, including treatments of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson; his War Between the States: America's Uncivil War; and other novels, it will no doubt leave the reader more informed about Oklahoma's colorful state history, but also will also give the reader hours of entertainment.
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The Prudent Fix for Oklahomas Long Term Budget Problems!
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Logistics refer to the commercial activity of transporting goods or proving required services to customers at their choice of place, at the right time and also in the right condition. Logistics have become a very vital part of the businesses around the world and hence, the global economic system which in turn is causing a significant growth in the global logistics industry. Logistic activities accelerate economic growth and productivity growth. Efficiency of the economy's logistic sector is a major indicator of its level of competitiveness and is an important determinant of its source of employment.
There are many freight forwarding industry trends on which companies base their decision of outsourcing logistics such as company size, complication of logistics and relative economic benefits of outsourcing. Particularly the e business web portals have to resort to outsourcing logistics due to their need for on- clock dispatch and delivery. Outsourcing of logistics enable companies to specialize in their areas of operation and focus on their competencies. However, there also some drawbacks associated with this market such as vendor reliability issues. Third Party Logistics Market Reports help to understand market performance and future course of actions.
North America and Southeast Asia are the world's most lucrative logistics outsourcing market while the rest of the world is showing growth in inter regional logistics. A large number of factors are contributing to the increasing popularity of logistics outsourcing such as globalization, time scarce economy, development of e commerce, improved customer awareness, strategic concerns to achieve more flexibility and better IT infrastructural support. At the same time loss of logistics, poor transportation, local protection regulations and lack of post-outsourcing measurements are some of the factors hampering growth of this market.
Fedex Corp and DHL International were the major two players in the logistics outsourcing market accounting for 50% of the business globally followed by XPO Logistics, Inc. and United Parcel Service, Inc. with a narrower reach as compared to the former two. The global ecommerce logistics market will witness the rise of many new companies. Gati Limited and Clipper Logistics are some other companies which are worth a watch. The global logistics market is expected to achieve a CAGR of 20.6% between 2016 and 2024.
Although the growing emergence of ecommerce in developing countries like that of India and Brazil is boosting the demand for e commerce logistics, there are problems associated with the same such as problems of reverse logistics and problems of infrastructure in developing economies. Reverse logistics refers to the problem of returning the ecommerce goods particularly in the case of free delivery which burdens the reverse logistics chain and cause a hike in the cost incurred by ecommerce logistics companies. These factors are expected to restrain the growth of the global ecommerce logistics market. Global Logistics Market Outlook is bright with fair participation of developing and developed economies and rising trade across countries.
On the basis of the type of service, the logistics market is divided into warehousing, transportation, and others of which transportation segment is the largest, accounting for a dominant 51.6% of the market. The major reason for the dominance of this segment is the role of transportation in supply chain. The growing emphasis on last-mile connectivity will give this segment a further boost. The warehousing segment is further split into hubs/delivery centers, mega centers, and returns processing centers. Similarly, the transportation segment is divided into freight/rail, maritime, air/express delivery, and trucking/over road.
Source: https://www.kenresearch.com/automotive-transportation-and-warehousing/logistics-and-shipping/SC-100-45.html


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No Distance Between You & Your God in Prayer
"If thou art running to Christ, He is already near thee. If thou dost sigh for His presence, that sigh is the evidence that He is with thee. He is with thee now: therefore be calmly glad." - Charles Spurgeon
It is of great comfort to read the words penned "from the first day...thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words." Be glad child of God for our words are heard "from the first day"! This should cheer the wavering saint who labors in prayer!
When we think of international communication and how back in the day it used to take weeks to have a painstakingly written letter delivered to it's eagerly awaiting addressee, we can truly appreciate the fact that there is no distance between the seeking soul and the listening God. We tend to think of God naturally, in terms of distance, that He is far away in the heavens on a throne, but nothing could be farther from the truth.
In the sphere of prayer there is no distance, no interference, no walls, no obstacle to catch our rising prayer and cast it to the ground. God is closer to the believer than the believer is to himself. As a matter of a fact, before we pray He knows our prayer altogether - Psalm139:4.
In warfare it is critical to know that there is no distance that our prayer must travel. A whisper of a prayer can be more powerful than a prayer of shouting and pleading with God. Often due to a delay of the answer, we assume there is distance, but contrary to appearance, He instantly hears and He instantly acts.
Yet there are times of a hindering of the execution of that prayer as we see in Daniel's case. Though Daniel did not immediately know of the delay of an answer due to warfare and hindering, Daniel continued to fast and pray. It is of utmost importance that we cease not in prayer, that we knock until the door is opened. Because the answer is coming and your constancy in prayer is part of the warfare being waged. All too often answers to prayers in transit are halted due to the breakdown of prayer.
When a person begins to discover the power of prayer, the Prince of Persia, the unseen authority of Ephesians 6:12, will begin his hindering program. He will use feelings, pressure, circumstances, people, or personal distractions to get the praying warrior to stumble in his prayer and stop. He will project impulses, fears, bad news, or whatever he can send to stop the prayers.
Were Daniel's prayers a part of the victory in that Michael the Angel was sent to help get the words to Daniel of the vision? I think so. For when we read the disciple's prayer of Matthew 6 we read "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." The distance between the will of Heaven and the will of God accomplished on the earth is only a prayer away. When we pray, God's will is accomplished. When we abide in prayer, we are an acting agent, an ambassador, that becomes a conduit of the accomplishment of the things of God on this earth.
!We must remember that the devil is the "Prince of the Power of the Air" so he has authority in the air, but not absolute authority. When believers live in their flesh, in the wisdom of this world, they become conduits of the air giving place for the devil, even speaking his mind about God's people and God's work. That is why when we are Spirit-filled we can detect demonic activity when we enter certain locales of entertainment, carnal activity, or territories given over to sin.
Be ever aware of the words that you speak and what you put out into the air. Negativity and fear, carnal comments, natural deductions, and personal opinions devoid of truth actually give the devil a stronghold to traffic in the air causing pressure and oppression over people.
It can be clearly observed when we travel to certain countries, and cities that are ruled by corrupt Godless political leaders, how the atmosphere of the country is heavy and oppressed. It is a great joy that when we pray, the atmosphere in which the Prince of the Power of the Air dwells, cannot stop or slow our prayers. Actually when we pray, the atmosphere is confronted and is cleared. Nothing was more effective in clearing the air in the Bible than the spoken Word of God and the prayer of the saints. Just as the air in a lightning storm is ionized and purged, so is the thick atmosphere of Satanic activity in warfare when the prayers of you and I arise.


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The U.S. formally transferred control of its largest prison to the Afghans in a ceremony Monday at Bagram airbase north of Kabul.
The Obama Administration agreed in March to cede control of Bagram, also known as the Parwan Detention Facility, well ahead of the 2014 deadline, at the insistence of President Hamid Karzai, in a deal to help our "partner in peace" politically.
"We are telling the Afghan president and the Afghan people that today is a proud day," said Afghan army Gen. Ghulam Farouk, who now heads the prison.
General John Allen, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan wasn't quite as jubilant, skipping Monday's ceremony, and the Pentagon has hit the brakes on continuing implementation of the deal.
While the U.S. has already given the Afghanis authority over most of the 3,000 detainees, they won't transfer 34 of the most dangerous Taliban fighters, along with about 50 foreign fighters, mostly Pakistanis, who aren't covered by the agreement.
The Pentagon doesn't believe it can trust the Karzai government to detain prisoners known as "enduring security threats," many of whom have American blood on their hands.
Taliban fighters somehow have a habit of escaping from Afghan prisons in a country where graft and corruption are pervasive, and those implicated include Kaarzai's family and inner circle.
Another issue is the status of new detainees captured after the official transfer of control to Kabul authorities. Afghan officials want the U.S. to hand over anyone captured within 72 hours, a ridiculous standard in a war zone.
All of this calls to mind last year's Daqduq fiasco in Iraq, when the Pentagon was forced by the Obama Administration as part of an agreement on detainees to hand over a senior Hezbollah terrorist who confessed to the murder and torture of American soldiers.
Rather than taking Ali Musa Daqduq out of Iraq and putting him before a U.S. military court, he stood trial before an Iraqi court, which in May ordered him freed.
The dispute also calls into question the resolve of the Obama Administration to ensure the best possible U.S. position as the drawdown continues.
The White House is thrilled to trumpet Obama's Afghanistan campaign pledge but doesn't seem to be doing much to ensure the safety of the American soldiers who remain there.


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Buying development rights may protect Niagara Falls air base
WHEATFIELD – The next challenge to the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station can be seen along the flight path.
The prospect of new subdivisions or other developments sprouting up on farmland around the air base worries local officials who fear such development could make it harder to safeguard the station in any future round of base closings.
They weathered different missions at the base and Pentagon budget cuts before, so now officials want to get in front of any threats should the Air Force put Niagara Falls on a shutdown list like it did in 1995 and 2005. Both times local officials and residents persuaded the federal Base Realignment and Closure Commission, or BRAC, not to close it.
Now, officials want an appraisal to find out how much it would cost to buy development rights on farmland around the base. Holding the development rights would quell any fears the Air Force might have about future development encroaching on the base.
"When we go to the Pentagon, one of the first questions they ask us is if there are any encroachment issues," said John A. Cooper Sr., president of the Niagara Military Affairs Council, a citizens group of air base advocates. "Even housing developments where aircraft are flying over them (could be considered encroachment)."
Niagara County, the Town of Wheatfield, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority and the Niagara Military Affairs Council have hired GAR Associates for $30,000 to study how much the development rights might cost.
"Once we find out that information, we can eventually apply for a grant from the state to purchase these rights," Cooper said.
"This whole initiative is to ensure that there is no encroachment as far as development is concerned," added County Legislator David E. Godfrey, R-Wilson, whose district includes some of the affected area. "We understand a BRAC could come as early as this year, and any encroachment would be a red flag for Niagara."
"The study will address the important issue of future development to land contiguous to the runway protection zone at the airport and military base with respect to aviation compatibility," said NFTA spokesman C. Douglas Hartmayer. "It will prevent a scenario of having a not so well-suited neighbor adjacent to the airport and military base. In addition, this investment will help support the longevity of the 914th by preventing encroachment issues from arising that could be construed as having a negative impact on the long-term future of the base – something no one wants to see happen."
There are nearly 3,000 full- and part-time civilian and uniformed personnel at the base, making it Niagara County's largest employer.
Where to buy
"We are in the very early stages of this," Wheatfield Supervisor Robert B. Cliffe said. "We are nowhere near talking to farmers about specific contracts. I would think development rights would be a lot less expensive then actually purchasing property. The town has no use for it."
The target area for the study is bounded by Niagara Road, which is the "main drag" in Bergholz, and by Walmore, Lockport and Ward roads, Cliffe said.
"It's a substantial amount," Cliffe said. "You don't want to change the zoning to take away the farmers' right to use the land without paying for it."
Frank Zuccari, who owns close to 500 acres of open land in Wheatfield, said most of his land is in the base's flight path. Because of that, he already follows restrictions on how he can use his property.
"We can't put up any of these new solar panels because of the glare," Zuccari said.
He's also not allowed to do any large-scale digging, because excavated land tends to lure seagulls and other birds.
"We can't dig a pond, sell the clay around here, because the birds would be in the flight path of the planes," Zuccari said. "We were approached. A guy said this would be perfect dirt for landfills, but they said no, the airport's there, the birds would get into the planes, which you can understand."
His family was paid $5,000 an acre 12 years ago for land that became a residential subdivision on Ward Road.
When it comes to selling development rights, "I would be interested to hear what they say," Zuccari said. "You never turn a proposal down. If you don't want it, fine, but you always listen."
So would lifelong Bergholz farmer Michael Devantier, but he warned, "It wouldn't be cheap, let's put it that way."
He said farmers count on the value of their land, especially if there is no next generation waiting to take over the farm, as in his case.
"For the farmers here, the land is their retirement money," Devantier said.
"The town put more restrictions on. It's harder to get a development through now than it used to be," Devantier said.
He's never sold land for a subdivision.
"We've been approached many times, but I said no. We're not selling until we're going out of business," Devantier said.
No air base position
Officials at the base are not taking a public position on the development rights idea.
"As far as anything to do with encroachment, we know there are advocates for us, but we stay in our lane, and our lane is to be good stewards of the taxpayers' dollars and concentrate on our mission," said Sgt. Kevin L. Nichols of the public affairs office.
The county has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years on lobbying firms to promote additional construction and new missions for the two units stationed at the base.
The 914th Airlift Wing will be renamed the 914th Air Refueling Wing after it completes the replacement of C-130 cargo planes with KC-135 tanker aircraft later this spring.
Meanwhile, the 107th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard has been chosen as a control center for military drones. The control facility is under construction and is expected to be finished by June. The drones will not be housed at the base, although Cooper said he'd like to see that happen in the future.


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Monday, January 23, 2012
Oh My!
16 comments:
- trash talk said...
Girl...post away! Heck...if it'll help...I'll post for you! Wish it wasn't so far away...sigh.
- January 23, 2012 at 8:32 PM
- Corn in my Coffee-Pot said...
Love all your time worn photos...
I was about to say Post away...and Deb beat me to it!
have fun and make lots of money at the sale/show
- January 23, 2012 at 8:59 PM
- BECKY said...
Hi Theresa! You are one busy gal! I have two daughters getting married in a six month period and I think you're still busier than me!! Thanks so much for your email about the butter pats! So sorry I didn't thank you earlier. With these weddings, the budget is being stretched, so I have a definite limit on what and when I can spend. I would have bought 25 if I could have!! Have you sold all of them by now?
Love your eye for merchandising and styling. Your work and booths are stunning! Love that large bird cage vignette!! Love it all!
Have a wonderful week!
- January 23, 2012 at 9:19 PM
- A Wild Thing said...
I feel your pain, we totally redid the Shed, but it looks awesome, as I know yours will as well...did someone mention the king and queen of cram???
- January 23, 2012 at 9:50 PM
- peggy aplSEEDS said...
LOL, post all you want, your photos are lovely anyway! all the best for the show. thanks for sharing!
peggy aplSEEDS
- January 23, 2012 at 10:07 PM
- peggy aplSEEDS said...
LOL, post all you want, your photos are lovely anyway! all the best for the show. thanks for sharing!
peggy aplSEEDS
- January 23, 2012 at 10:07 PM
- Linda@Coastal Charm said...
Hope you have a wonderful show.
- January 24, 2012 at 12:15 AM
- Tina @ TinyBear Studio said...
Great photos :o)
Have a great show - I hope you´ll have lots of sale.
xx Tina
- January 24, 2012 at 1:19 AM
- outjunking said...
Hope to see you there. Looking so forward to the show being in Hendersonville.
- January 24, 2012 at 6:03 AM
- NanaDiana said...
Great close up shots. Love the baby shoes! You're not fooling me~ You just want to save dollars here so you have more to spend TBERE! xo Diana
- January 24, 2012 at 7:17 AM
- Well Worn said...
Hang in there. All the work will so be worth it. Love the close up of the keys. I wish I were in the area I would so love to attend.
- January 24, 2012 at 8:09 AM
- Garden Antqs Vintage said...
Wish I were going. Hope it's a great show!!
- January 24, 2012 at 9:38 AM
- www.MaisonStGermain.com said...
I never tire of any of your posts:) Hope you sell lots and have fun:)
~Debra xxx
Capers of the vintage vixens
- January 24, 2012 at 11:14 AM
- oldgreymare said...
You are incapable of a bad post..remember to take care of yourself.
This is the pot talking to the kettle mind you....:D
- January 24, 2012 at 12:43 PM
- red.neck chic said...
I wish I could go to see you...
but since I can't, sell it all so you can keep doing posts about great things you're bringing to your store and/or to Texas for me to drool over.
that key photo is fantastic fun!!!
;-D robelyn
- January 24, 2012 at 4:02 PM
- A Cottage Muse said...
Another fabulous market too far away! Have a great time and take lots and lots and lots of photos!!
- January 26, 2012 at 11:54 AM


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Picture of the Day - "Evening Search" - Aug. 2, 2016
Went down to the marsh again this evening. We saw, surprisingly, a few dozen gulls, a few harriers and some Short Earred Owls :) Got almost too many shots to choose from but chose this one. I will be doing another post later with the rest. :)
Taken with Canon 70D, Canon 100-400mm @ 400mm, 1/2500 sec, f/5.6 and ISO 1000


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Dawson speaks
We made it with time to spare.
Three seconds of time.
It had been a flat-out race, that last half mile, upgrade all the way. The heavily laden pack horses were stumbling and staggering by the time the last of them got their butts tucked in behind the trees, but none actually fell.
Cougar yelled, "Settle the bunch! I can slow the Crow down some!"
My time in command was over, obviously. Tam and I kept moving, fast as I've ever seen two men move in my life, circling the horses with the women and kids tucked into a stronghold among a number of boulders near the center of the place.
When the shootist's rifle boomed fer the first time, I remembered all of a sudden, having seen the weapon in action when we'd done the 21 gun salute fer Believer's passing. Cougar could indeed slow down the enemy with that shooter.
By the time we had things set up and went to find handy trees flanking his position, he'd fired five times if I had the tally right.
Dang, son," Tam complained, "You didn't leave none fer us?
The .45-70 Government long rifle had done its job. Downslope, the nearest Crow was still maybe a hunnert yards off, and he weren't moving. Two of his party were, charging hard, but it was obvious they were there to retrieve their fallen comrade, and we let 'em do it. One man raised his rifle to his shoulder, figuring on giving his friend some covering fire if nothing else, but then he hesitated, lowered the weapon again, and went to help pick up the fallen warrior.
He'd realized his enemies were honorable men.
"Status report?" I asked.
"I counted twenty-three to start with. Dropped two of 'em, the one you see there and one with the first bullet out of the barrel. In between, they knew to keep zig-zagging their ponies, and mostly they weren't where I'd figured by the time a round got to 'em. Did accidentally ventilate one pony, though it dropped behind a little hump and you can't see it."
Tam rubbed his chin, pondering. "Two dead be enough to discourage 'em, you think?"
"Nope." His son shook his head. "Not this bunch. That's old One Eye out there. I've tangled with that son before, and it takes some licking before he'll back off. Most war leaders, they lose a man, they're done fer that go-round. If nothing else, warriors quit following him, and he finds out what it's like to be a one-man war party. But this fellow, fer whatever reason, can lose men without everybody deserting him. We're close to whipping him, with two down, but we ain't there yet. If I coulda jist nailed one more…."
The tale teller snorted. "You sound like old White Bear, over there on your left. Our Mr. Trask has this perfectionist thing going on. Dunno how he passed it to you, though."
Well, there'd be a lull now, likely till dark. Dark of the moon, in fact; we'd be fighting by starlight. In the meantime, we checked over the horses, women, and kids, unloading the pack horses and offsaddling our riding mounts. There weren't no reason to do otherwise; making any kind of run outa here was the same as sticking the barrel of a shooter in your mouth and pulling the trigger.
Indians don't generally arm their women–which results in a lot of dead Indian women and children when the Army comes to call–but despite having one fullblood Cheyenne among us, we weren't Indians. Laughing Brook and her daughter in law both wore well used Colts at their hips. In fact, Penny, like her husband, wore two of 'em. They'd not been packing those when we left the Cheyenne encampment, but the pistols had come out of hiding once we'd made it to Fort Hill, as I'd begun thinking of this place.
Penny was nursing Susan, which I noticed in passing before looking quickly away. I know it's Nature, but it's always bothered me some, seeing a woman do that. Don't know why; it don't trouble me none when cows or horses or any other critters do it. I knew enough not to discuss the matter, though, and there were plenty of other things to look at. There were still hours until sunset, and we three men needed to know every blade of grass, every pine needle, tree trunk, boulder, anything and everything in our redoubt and the approaches to it before night fell.
By the time the sun set, crimson and gold over the far ridges, we were about as ready as we were gonna be. We all watched that glory, Nature reveling in Her splendor, impervious to the petty squabbles going on between us mere humans. The adults, women and all, took turns patrolling jist inside the perimeter so's no foolhardy warriors could slip up on our backside while we were enjoying the light show, but each turn only took a few minutes. The hollow was dang near circular, made me think it was…"Tam, what's the word fer a hole in a hilltop like this, one left behind by one of them volcanoes, back in the day?"
"A caldera?"
"Caldera. That's it. We're sitting in a freaking volcano caldera."
Nobody else seemed to be all that impressed, but I was downright fascinated. Now that I'd finally learned to read, I didn't go nowhere without a book or two in my saddlebags. Seemed like I'd read something about people who'd–"Got it!"
"Got what, Dawson? By the way, soup's on." Laughing Brook meant that literally. Well, technicially it was stew rather than soup. While Penny was tending to her kids and the men were figuring and rigging our defenses, Tam's wife had built up a fire, rigged a tripod, snagged a small kettle and the fixings out of them packs…and whomped up one helluva fine feast.
We ate like lumberjacks, filling our bowls and returning to our sentinel posts, watching out over the land as we chowed down.
"This caldera." I said between swallows. Not too much chewing going on; I realized I was hungry. "We're in good company, using a hole in a volcano fer protection from superior numbers. When old Spartacus led his slave revolt against the Roman Empire, way back all them centuries ago, he and the last of his bunch holed up in a volcano fer a while. I imagine it was a sight bigger than this one, but the same principle."
"How'd that work out fer him?" Penny asked, having finally gotten her kids settled and finding time to fill her own bowl.
I shrugged. "If memory serves, he eventually left cover, the Romans caught him, and every one of them slave rebels got hung upside down and nailed to big wooden crosses."
That quieted the party some, till Tam broke the silence. "Well," he drawled, "Them Crow might be able to figure out how to rig up a few crosses, but they're all-fired short on nails, last I heard."
"There is that," I admitted. "We're losing light, but I jist got me another thought. How much rope would you estimate we still got in them packs? You know, not counting the picket line."
Cougar knew more about our cargo than anyone else. He thought a moment and said, "Somewhere between twelve and fifteen hunnert feet. Can't ever have too much rope."
"That's what I hoped you'd say. This here caldera is what, maybe ten feet deep and something like eighty, ninety feet across?"
"Give or take," Tam said, and Cougar nodded.
"Okay, so a three hunnert foot line would go plumb around the thing, or purty close."
There weren't a one of us, man or woman, who was born slow between the ears. They got it in a heartbeat, even before I added, "I propose we build us a spider web and trap us some Crow flies."
Tam speaks
They came at us early, not more'n an hour after full dark. We'd figured they might do the smart thing, wait till the final minutes before dawn, when most men start daring to believe they've made it through another night and are therefore at their most vulnerable.
If they'd done that, bellied up close to the trees but waited till they could barely begin to see, we'd have had a harder time of it fer sure. They'd have seen the rope strung ankle-high everywhere with a few special lines run jist above waist height–which happens to be neck height on a man running in a half-crouch.
But these warriors were way too impatient fer that, so the killing commenced early. I heard the soft hoot of an owl coming from the far side and realized my son had spotted the first of 'em coming in.
I'd thought my own night vision was good, and it was, but Cougar had eyes like a danged–well, a danged cougar, is what. It was good to know it was time; I'd been amazing myself half to death, realizing I not only had two sons but three grandchildren as well. Hell, I weren't even middle aged yet, not by my lights anyway, and here I was a grandaddy! And Laughing Brook a grandma! I didn't half understand it.
Killing in the night though–that I understood. Understood it well.
From my left, that one. A Crow's death scream, cut off before he could half git it out. White Bear had struck. The Cheyenne had named my partner well; he did fight like a bear when he had it to do. Hunts Enemy had gifted him with a buffalo lance, and he'd picked that as his weapon of choice fer the early work this night.
"We won't be wanting to blind ourselves with muzzle flashes iffen we don't have to," he'd said, and I totally agreed.
A soft grunt as an enemy warrior tripped over a rope not ten feet in front of me got my attention. I remember driving my rifle butt down, missing his head the first time but shattering a shoulder on the man.
The screaming kids brought me back from the blackout.
Keeping youngsters quiet at times like this is always difficult, and the consequences are often deadly when the babies start squalling their lungs out. But we'd planned fer this, known it was more likely to happen than not, and used that knowledge to our advantage. When Grandaddy Crazy Rifle had pointed out we could use them rugrats fer bait, I'd gotten some ugly looks from the women…until I'd explained myself some, anyway.
Now gunfire lit up the night. Gunfire, and plain old firelight added to it.
"Remember the black wolf?" I'd asked my love, and she'd understood immediately. She'd built a fire in them rocks, built it up strong, then banked it down to coals…with plenty of tinder and kindling piled close at hand. She'd made a big steel pan work as the shutter had once done to shield the light from Believer's cabin fireplace.
At first yell from the little ones, knowing whatever Crow had gotten past us men would be coming fast, she'd whipped the pan out of the way and begun flinging flammables on the coals. It was Penny who killed the first two enemy warriors who slammed into the multiple-height ropes long enough to make nice, fat targets in the suddenly rising light.
Do you have any idea how much damage five grown humans wielding seven big bore revolvers can do to a war party at close quarters? We'd been packing Texas loads until reaching this place, but every weapon now carried a cartridge under the hammer, and we used 'em all. Seven shooters, six shots each, forty-two bullets flying in among them rocks and trees.
It's a wonder we didn't shoot each other while we was at it.
There was a risk, after, but the torch had to be lit. Dawson volunteered to handle it, but I couldn't jist go and leave all the dirty work to him. We left Cougar with the women, jist in case, and made the rounds. Fer a time, I held the torch while he made sure each Crow was dead, a fact we established with a fair amount of certainty by cutting off the man's head. When we figured we were maybe halfway done, we swapped out, him holding the torch and me doing the cutting.
In the end, we tallied seventeen bodies, and one of em was old One Eye himself. Now, we figured, this bunch was well and truly whipped.
We pulled out an hour after sunup, having eaten a hearty breakfast and rigged our little village fer travel once again. Henry, the oldest boy, insisted that at three years old–or "Almost four!" as he pointed out repeatedly–he could ride his own pony. So we tested that out, though the gentle little mustang was led by Laughing Brook. Turned out the little guy was right; he didn't fall off even once. That left baby Susan with her Mom, but it was Daddy who figured out what to do with two year old Reggie. He squared the little guy away atop one of the pack horses, his little butt cushioned by a load of blankets and other relatively soft goods. Trying to run this way wouldn't be a real smart idea, but fer steady walking, it looked like a purty good arrangement.
I looked back once at what Dawson called Fort Hill. Them seventeen Crow heads were hanging by their hair from as many pine branches, basically ringing the entire caldera. When their people came fer their bodies, they would come in force–a hunnert warriors or more, maybe even a thousand. They would be enraged but also shocked, stunned, and most of all horrified. They had taken greater losses in large engagements with their many enemies over the years; the tales told me that. But I was willing to bet they'd never been hurt so bad by jist three men and two Demon Women who actually shot back when attacked.
Always, now, we rode with one man at point and two at the back corners. It was my turn to take point, which I done with a sense of pleasure so deep it's plumb impossible to describe. Fer all them years, after leaving Believer and Laughing Brook at Fort Benton on that long-ago spring day, I'd been about as alone as a man could be. Fer what…seventeen years it had been like that. Then I'd met Dawson Trask, twenty-four years old at the time, recently mustered out of the United States Army and still wearing them haunted eyes from his service to the Union in the War Between the States. We'd felt a connecton from the first, and the loneliness had lessened a mite–more than a mite. Fer both of us, I had reason to believe. It meant something, knowing there was a man you could trust at your back, and that he was man enough to cover it.
Now…now I was the grandaddy patriarch of a whole durned clan, eight Souls strong, with money in the bank and a ranch to build up along the Heurfano River in Colorado Territory. I couldn't git over the marvel of it.
"What do you think, Smokey?" I asked the grulla. "Could you have seen this coming, looking at that twelve year old kid on the run from The Banking Bastard, falling on his face unconscious from starvation, back then?"
I hadn't ever heard this horse–or any other–talk inside my head like Wolf, the great Appaloosa stallion, had once done. Nor had I thought too much about reincarnation except to reckon it made some sense. Which was why, when Smokey got my attention this time, he done it with a bang.
"I think you're doing okay, boss," he said clear as a bell, "Long as you don't go shooting any more mountains."


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The Fosters has become known for dropped tiny seeds of political awareness amongst the bold oats of sexual awareness it sows each week. This week's episode features a prime example of that as we open with Callie's stroll across the college campus. She's interrupted by a fellow student who asks her to sign a petition requested the college to refuse admittance to a right-wing speaker who is anti-immigration. The spark in Callie's eye indicates there's a fire of social activism brimming just beneath the surface, but she tells him she isn't actually a student at the school.
Cole brings a young boy who is being sexually assaulted by a man he stays with to the precinct, where Stef implores him to reveal the name of the man who is abusing him. Unfortunately, we have a bit of Stockholm Syndrome running through him at the moment, so he takes Stef's card and leaves. Stef is visibly shaken and shows the first signs of the obsessions that can often be a side effect of a job like hers.
Tess shows up to invited the Fosters over for dinner, where Mariana gives us a fine display of compromising her own character and identity by pretending to be the person she thinks the hunky new neighbor boy will like. While she's changing to go on a run, Callie poses the question of Mariana hanging out with Ximena's little sister.
In the backyard, Brandon chases around Mason while Cortney radiates obvious remorse over the loss of that romance, and Mariana dishes about her roller derby tryouts. Inside, Jesus pleads with Emma for forgiveness and informs her that he's dropping out of school. Smart way to win your girlfriend back, dude.
Meanwhile, trouble is brewing in lesbian paradise, because Lena is showcasing obvious distain for Stef's continuous rejection of the methods Lena has researched to help Jesus. They don't even finish the conversation, due to the work phone call Stef takes.
The phone call is from Cole, who takes Stef to an area of town where homeless LGBT youth have set up camp. A young boy recalls fooling around with some other boys in front of him at a hotel room and claims he stole a thumb drive from him. When Stef requests the drive, the boy offers to sell it to her for a hundred bucks.
Dinner ends up being at the Foster family house after all, and while Tess, Lena, and Stef all share awkward exchanges, practically all of the Foster kids are conspiring to attend the fundraising party for the roller derby team. Mariana brings Logan, but when she tells the Moms she's going to "see a movie", they allow Jesus to tag along. Although he promises to behave, Mariana has to keep chasing Jesus around to stop him from dancing with the derby girls.