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Okay......then,
11/27 12:27 a.m.
Bill
11/27 at 12:05 a.m.
Bill
Can't get your monitor clean enough? Perhaps a residue has built up on the other side of the glass, from inside the CRT. This side will clean it for you.
http://www.clean-your-screen-for-free-now.com/
Bill
"Remember "Continental kits?" They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln Continental"
LOL! Thanks for the memories. My first car - in 1957 - was a 1952 Ford four door, not only with a continental kit but fender skirts as well!
I do remember our icebox. We replaced it in 1950 with brand new refrigerator - not a "frigidaire" but a Westinghouse.
Bill
You were able to actually POST on SI? I can read, but not make a post.
Bill
So far, it looks as though SI is down again - hopefully, some of our faithful will wander over here.
Bill
From Matt:
"Bob is on it. No idea when it'll be back up.
Looks like it had some nasty failures on the back-end.
I'll update as I know more."
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2679762
Thanks, Susie
Rest in Peace Chad as I cherish the memories......
I second that!!
Well trained dog....
http://www.henry.martinez.net/videos/14thplace.htm
Re SI Interestingly, private messages can be posted, but not public.
Bill
SI is down? Unable to post new messages! Since last night around 9:30?
Bill
The second National Park in the United States is created(designated):
"Information about Sequoia National Park
Sequoia National Park is located in the central Sierra Nevada mountain range. It can be reached by taking highway 198 east out of the city of Visalia. Continue east until the Ash Mountain Sequoia National Park entrance is reached. From this point north, highway 198 is known as the Generals highway and is the main road through the park. The north entrance to the park can be reached by taking highway 180 east out of Fresno. Continue east until the Kings Canyon entrance is reached at Grants Grove. The Generals highway will lead to south from Grants Grove.
Sequoia is the second oldest park in the National Park system, being predated only by Yellowstone National Park. It is named for the many groves of Giant Sequoia trees which are the largest living things on earth. The largest of these trees is the General Sherman which is between 2,300 and 2,700 years old. This tree has a ground circumference of 103 feet and weighs an estimated 1,385 tons. Its largest branch is almost seven feet in diameter. The effort to preserve this area came from a diverse group of San Joaquin Valley residents in the 1880s. Some park proponents sought to protect water supplies for irrigation while others wanted to protect the big trees from further logging. This effort bore fruit when president Benjamin Harrison signed into law a bill creating Sequoia National park on September 25, 1890.
The Sierra Nevada is the largest single mountain range in the United States. It stretches nearly 400 miles from Tehachapi Pass in the South to Lake Almanor in the North. It is nearly as large as the French, Swiss and Italian Alps combined. Sequoia National Park contains many scenic glacier carved canyons in addition to the Sequoia groves. Due to the presence of limestone, caves are another feature of the park. Over 100 caves have been discovered in the Sequoia Kings Canyon area. One of these, Crystal Cave, is open to visitor tours in the summer. Sequoia also contains Mt. Whitney which at 14,494 feet is the highest peak in the Lower 48 states.
There are several campgrounds in the park that are operated by the park service. Some can accommodate RV vehicles while others offer more primitive facilities. In addition, private concessionaires operate a lodge which is located in the Giant Forest Village. "
http://www.cyberhikes.com/HSNPINFO.HTM
see also - http://www.nps.gov/seki/
The first newspaper published in America....(had a short history):
"Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper published in America, was printed by Richard Pierce and edited by Benjamin Harris in Boston on September 25, 1690. It filled only 3 of 4 six by ten inch pages of a folded sheet of paper. The journalist stated in his his first (and only) issue that he would issue the newspaper "once a month, or, if any Glut of Occurrences happen, oftener."
Benjamin Harris's news was real news and was the first and last offered to Americans for many years. Publick Occurrences was brought to an end after only one issue by an outraged administration, claiming that it contained "reflections of a very high order." It was printed without authority. An aroused bureaucracy issued a broadside warning against future publications of any kind without "licence [sic] first obtained from those appointed by the Government to grant the same."
Fourteen years elapsed between the appearance of America's first and second newspapers. John Campbell, a bookseller appointed Postmaster of Boston, was the editor. His newspaper was the Boston News-Letter and the first issue was dated Monday, April 17 to Monday April 24, 1704. The pages were slightly larger than those of Publick Occurrences.
In the first issue of the News-Letter there was only one advertisement: "This News-Letter is to be continued Weekly, and all persons who have any lands, houses, tenements, farms, ships, vessels, goods, wares or merchandise to be sold or lett; or servants runaway, or goods Stoll [sic], or lost, may have the same inserted at a reasonable rate; From Twelve Pence to Five Shillings and not to exceed. Who may agree with Nicholas Boone for the same, at his shop next door to Major Davis's apothecary, in Boston, near the Old Meeting House. All persons in Town and Country may have the same News-Letter, Weekly, upon reasonable tearms [sic], agreeing with John Campbell, Post-Master, for the same." This newspaper was never very prosperous.
When William Brooker was appointed Postmaster to replace Campbell, Brooker wanted to continue the newspaper under the same title. Campbell held out and refused to authorize the use of the title News-Letter to anyone else. Brooker sidestepped the matter and called his newspaper the Boston Gazette which made its first appearance on December 21, 1719. Likely for this reason, there was great animosity between the two newspapers. An early issue of the News-Letter carried this editorial: "I pity the reader of the new paper; it is not fit reading for the people."
Seven months later, Philip Musgrave was awarded the position of Postmaster in Boston and replaced Brooker. At this time, James Franklin, the printer of the Gazette, was also replaced. Franklin wanted to start his own newspaper despite friends and family telling him that Boston already had enough newspapers (2) and a third could not survive. Despite this, Franklin went ahead and published his own newspaper, the New England Courant on August 19, 1721. It became the fourth newspaper published in America.
Campbell, in his News-Letter commented in one of his issues: "...The New England Courant... by Homo Unius Negotii, or Jack of All Trades, and, it would seem, Good at None... giving some very, very frothy fulsome Account of himself..." When James Franklin published an editorial criticizing the government for lack of interest in getting rid of pirates that were harassing shipping off the New England coast he was sent to prison. James' 13 year old brother and apprentice, Ben, took over the work of laying type, printing, and delivery of the issues. Six months later, James Franklin was forbidden to publish any more newspapers so the masthead now carried the name Ben Franklin as editor and publisher. Young Ben, now legally being free of being an apprentice, and not liking his brother James, ran away to New York and later to Philadelphia. The New England Courant kept publishing issues claiming Ben Franklin was editor and publisher until 1726 without anyone being the wiser.
The first issue of the third newspaper in America, the American Weekly Mercury, was published in Philadelphia and was dated December 22, 1719 -- one day after Brooker's first issue of the Boston Gazette. The page size was about nine by thirteen inches. The editor was Andrew Bradford. While early issues were primarily news from London and Europe, Bradford ventured forth in one issue and printed a mild comment against the General Assembly. He was quickly summoned by the Authority for a scolding. Despite the warning, Bradford slowing started publishing more and more local news.
The fifth newspaper in America, also published in Boston, was the New-England Journal and its first issue was March 20, 1727 and was edited by Samuel Kneeland. Following the lead of the Courant, the Journal featured the letters, essays, and verses of its readers.
The sixth newspaper in America was published in 1727 in Annapolis and was titled the Maryland Gazette. The exact date of the first issue has not been officially recorded. It was edited by William Parks.
The seventh newspaper in America was the Universal Instructor in all the Arts and Sciences; and Pennsylvania Gazette. It was edited by Samuel Keimer and the first issue was dated December 24, 1728. The first two issues were filled with extracts from the book Chamber's Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. Less than one year later, Keimer sold his newspaper to Benjamin Franklin and his partner Hugh Meredith. The title was then shortened to the Pennsylvania Gazette and the first issue under this title was dated Thursday September 25th to Thursday October 2nd, 1729.
Although short-lived, the eighth newspaper in America was the South-Carolina Gazette, edited by Thomas Whitmarsh. The first issue was dated January 8, 1731 and printed in Charleston. When the publisher died in 1734, Lewis Timothy established another newspaper with the same title.
It becomes unclear just which newspaper was the ninth and tenth newspaper published in America. The Weekly Rehearsal started as a magazine in 1731 but sometime in 1732 -- some sources state 1733 -- Thomas Fleet purchased the publication and turned it into a newspaper. (In 1735 the title was changed to the Boston Evening Gazette.) The exact date of the first newspaper issue is unknown. Eleazer Phillips began publishing the South-Carolina Weekly Journal, in 1732. Again, the exact date of the first issue is unknown."
"1957 Desegregation at Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock Central High School was to begin the 1957 school year desegregated. On September 2, the night before the first day of school, Governor Faubus announced that he had ordered the Arkansas National Guard to monitor the school the next day. When a group of nine black students arrived at Central High on September 3, the were kept from entering by the National Guardsmen. On September 20, judge Davies granted an injunction against Governor Faubus and three days later the group of nine students returned to Central High School. Although the students were not physically injured, a mob of 1,000 townspeople prevented them from remaining at school. Finally, President Eisenhower ordered 1,000 paratroopers and 10,000 National Guardsmen to Little Rock, and on September 25, Central High School was desegregated......"
http://www.sjbc.org/lr.htm
SI down again?
"You're lucky if they acknowledge your existence."
Uh...., there are a many times when I could use a little less acknowledgement of my existence. Perhaps your cat doesn't talk as much as my Chad does.
I hadn't realized just how bad he was until several years ago. While I was on vacation a friend came by to feed him. When I got back, my friend's comment was - "Wow, is he ever noisy!" I took offense at someone calling my cat noisy and I defended him, saying he was just a little talkative. Then I began to take notice. Sure enough he is unusually "verbal." Of course, it is completely my fault because I have always talked to him. It wasn't as noticeable to me when I was "working" because I spent so little time at home.
In some ways he is very much like the stereotypical wife. He always has the last word...er...meow, no matter what I say. And, every night when I lie on the couch to watch TV, he spends 10 - 15 minutes telling me about his day before settling in to watch TV with me or sleep. I don't know why he feels duty bound to tell me about his day because I already know all about his day. While I work hard all day trading, he spends it sleeping. Sleeping, that is, between the time he spends nagging me for a fresh plate of food (which he doesn't eat) and the time he spends jumping in my lap to be petted and talked to, in order to remind me that he is here and that I should acknowledge HIS existence.
Bill
SI is back now.....but this site is sure slow
Re: Nathan Hale
"But 1 mouth to
give for his country
By DON SINGLETON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Nathan Hale had a big mouth.
And that's what got him hanged as a spy by the British in 1776, historians concluded this week.
Hale, considered by the CIA to be the first American executed for spying for his country, was put to death 227 years ago Monday after he was trapped by a double agent.
For years, details of Hale's capture were unknown, but a manuscript donated to the Library of Congress in 2000 provided definitive new information.
James Hutson, head of the library's manuscript division, said the Revolutionary-era document was written by Consider Tiffany, a Connecticut storekeeper and British sympathizer.
The manuscript, donated by Tiffany descendant Bradford Tiffany, indicates that Hale was caught on Long Island when he blabbed details of his mission to Maj. Robert Rogers, a British soldier masquerading as a Colonial spy.
Wearing civilian clothes and carrying no identification, Hale spent some time recording information on British forces, but Rogers spotted him as a possible agent.
At dinner with Rogers and others he believed to be friends, Hale spilled his guts, Tiffany wrote.
"At the height of their conversation, a company of soldiers surrounded the house, and ... seized Capt. Hale in an instant," Tiffany wrote.
Convicted on the basis of the notes he had made, Hale was hanged Sept. 22, 1776, at what is now 66th St. and Third Ave. in Manhattan, where he is reputed to have uttered this famous line: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." "
Originally published on September 20, 2003
http://www.nydailynews.com/09-20-2003/news/wn_report/story/119119p-107344c.html
Last edit on your link:
EDIT
"Another tad bit of information about John Joubert: He was not executed in 1998. He was killed July 17,1996. Please review your information before posting it. He also was not a native of Maine. He was born in Lawerence, Mass. This means he is a native of Mass."
Also, see stories from 1996:
"Child killer executed in Nebraska
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A former Boy Scout leader who said he enjoyed "seeing the fear" of his murder victims was executed in the electric chair early Wednesday for stabbing two boys to death in 1983.
John Joubert, also a former airman, confessed to repeatedly stabbing and slashing Danny Jo Eberle, 13, and Christopher Walden, 12, near the Air Force Base where he was stationed.
After Joubert was convicted in Nebraska, he was convicted in Maine with strangling and stabbing 11-year-old Richard Stetson in Portland in 1982. He got a life prison term without parole for that killing.
"It was the power and the domination and seeing the fear," Joubert told the Omaha World-Herald last month in explaining why he killed the boys. "That was more exciting than actually causing the harm."
Joubert, 33, has said the murders were the culmination of years of psychosexual fantasies."
http://www.recordernews.com/1996/0717/natnews/natb/natb.html
And, interestingly,
CNN
News Briefs
June 28, 1996
"High court stops execution of convicted murderer
LINCOLN, Nebraska (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court stayed the execution Thursday of a Nebraska man convicted of killing three boys, aged 11 to 13. Officials made no comment about the reason behind the stay.
John Joubert said that he committed the crimes for sadistic pleasure. He was sentenced to death for two of the murders, and life without parole for the third."
http://www.cnn.com/US/9606/28/newsbriefs/
Faith Hill born
"Faith Hill Bio
One of the biggest female country stars of the '90s, Faith Hill also took advantage of the inroads Shania Twain made into pop territory, becoming an enormous crossover success by decade's end. Of course, Hill's movie star good looks certainly helped her cause, and her much-celebrated marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw gave her career an extra kick of glamour and mystique. Hill may not have appealed to country purists, but she had the star power of a diva even before her pop success.
Faith Hill was born Audrey Faith Perry on September 21, 1967, in Jackson, MS, and grew up in the nearby small town of Star. She was singing for her family as young as age three and first performed publicly at a 4-H luncheon when she was seven. Hill spent much of her childhood singing wherever the opportunity arose, influenced primarily by Reba McEntire, and at age 17 formed a band that played local rodeos. At 19, she quit college and moved to Nashville to make it as a singer, first finding work selling T-shirts. During this time, she was married briefly to music executive Dan Hill. Eventually she was hired as a secretary at a music publishing firm, where she was discovered by accident while singing to herself one day. Encouraged by company head Gary Morris, Hill became a demo singer for the firm and also performed professionally as a harmony vocalist behind singer/songwriter/producer Gary Burr, who produced Hill's own demo tape. A Warner Brothers executive caught Burr and Hill's act at a Nashville club, and wound up signing Hill to a solo deal...."
http://www.livedaily.com/artist/bio/92.html
"Perry Mason" Premieres
Perry Mason was created by author Erle Stanley Gardner in the 1930's. In 1957 Perry Mason was brought to television on CBS. The first episode shown was The Case of the Restless Redhead on September 21, 1957. There were 271 episodes in all running from 1957-1966. All but one episode was in black and white (The case of the Twice Told Twist). The first few minutes of the show are used to introduce the characters and for the murder to take place. Next, Perry would end up defending whom ever was charged with the murder. He would get Paul Drake (his P.I.) in on the case to help him find the real murderer. Then the show would move to the courtroom, usually with Hamilton Burger as the D.A. In the court room Perry got most confessions, usually right on the witness stand. For the final scene Perry, Della and Paul would usually gather in Perry's office or a restaurant and explain how they figured it out, and end with some kind of joke.
"The Daily Planet, the country's first publicly listed brothel, received some promotional help from former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss"
She sure gets around.....who says crime doesn't pay?
"Native Americans have formed some odd alliances in setting up casinos on their reservations. But are they ready to get in bed with Heidi Fleiss?"
http://www.gamblingmagazine.com/managearticle.asp?c=540&a=2091
Not exactly......
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=19167569
It's back.
Bill
Of course, I was jesting. And, it's BILL not Shirley. :)
Now SI is back......all I had to do was jest....
Bill
"I just got one of those Internal Server Error messages."
Yea, me too. I wish there was a board here where we could get the status of SI - and maybe one there too, just in case there should ever be a problem with IH. :)
Bill
PW:
Thanks for the pictures. The first cat looks very much like my Chad after his lion cut back in March. Thankfully, he is looking a lot more normal now....and totally without the usual tangles of summer.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=879441
Bill
OT: Churak: May I say, as one of the silent lurkers, I am glad to see you back.
Bill (aka wlcnyc)
The New York Times Story.......
"NATIONAL / May 25, 2003
N.Y. Times Said to Suspend Correspondent
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 8:07 a.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Rick Bragg was reportedly suspended by The New York Times for two weeks as the newspaper published an editors' note about his handling of a feature story about Florida oystermen.
Bragg, a Times national correspondent, declined comment when reached at his New Orleans home Saturday. The newspaper also has refused comment on the suspension, reported Friday on the Columbia Journalism Review's Web site.
The report comes in the wake of the scandal surrounding former Times reporter Jayson Blair, who was found by the paper to have ``committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud.' He resigned May 1.
An investigation conducted by the Times found fraud, plagiarism and errors in 36 of 73 articles written by Blair between October and April. The violations included stealing material from other newspapers, inventing quotes and lying about his whereabouts.
Blair is already floating a book proposal about the scandal, according to The Washington Post. The proposed book is entitled ``Burning Down My Master's House,' an angry rant at the paper that he called ``my tormentor, my other drug, my slavemaster,' the Post said.
The proposal portrays Blair as a black man ``who rose from the fields and got a place in the master's house and then burned it down the only way he knew how,' according to the Post. Blair's literary agent David Vigliano did not return a call for comment Saturday.
In its editors' note Friday, the Times said that while Bragg wrote the June 15 article and visited the Gulf Coast town where it originated, interviewing and other reporting at the scene were done by a freelance journalist working for the newspaper. The note did not make it clear whether Bragg's editors had known the role of the freelancer at the time.
A New York Times employee told The Associated Press on Friday that Times editors told Bragg to take a paid vacation for two weeks, but said it would be considered a suspension.
The Times said a reader had questioned whether Bragg had been in Apalachicola, Fla., the dateline of his story about threats to the livelihood of oystermen on the Gulf Coast.
The Times said Bragg visited Apalachicola briefly, but the reporting was done by J. Wes Yoder, a freelance journalist working for the Times. The note said ``the article should have carried Mr. Yoder's byline with Mr. Bragg's.'
While many national correspondents at the Times rely on stringers for reporting, the paper's policy on ``dateline integrity' says the bylined writer must ``provide the bulk of the information, in the form of copy or, when necessary, of notes used faithfully in a rewrite,' CJR reported.
In an interview with CJR on Wednesday, Bragg said ``I wouldn't have done anything different. J. Wes did great work and we came out with a great story.'
Bragg, 43, won the feature-writing Pulitzer in 1996 ``for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America.' He came to the Times in January 1994 as a metropolitan reporter, becoming a national correspondent later that year."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-NY-Times-Suspension.html
New York Daily News version......
"Times slaps 2nd writer in byline flap
By PAUL D. COLFORD
DAILY NEWS BUSINESS WRITER
Star correspondent Rick Bragg has been hit with a punitive suspension by The New York Times for using extensive, uncredited material from a young intern in a story, newsroom sources said yesterday.
The Columbia Journalism Review Web site said the suspension would last for two weeks. It was not clear whether there would be any restrictions on Bragg when he returns to work, the sources said.
Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis declined to comment.
The Times said in an editor's note published yesterday that a journalist named J. Wes Yoder should have shared a byline with Bragg on the story — a colorful account of Florida oystermen published in June.
Yoder, 23, told the Daily News he spent four days in and around Apalachicola, on Florida's northern gulf coast — longer than Bragg — did much of the reporting and sat with his notes alongside Bragg when the staffer wrote the piece.
But Yoder said he has no hard feelings that he received no co-byline for his efforts.
"I had offered to volunteer for Rick for the summer because I wanted to learn from him," said Yoder, who has since become a staff writer for The Anniston Star, an Alabama paper where Bragg once worked.
Though national and foreign correspondents for The Times and other news organizations often call on locally based freelancers for assistance on the road, Yoder's unusual relationship was what he called an internship — "or volunteership."
Yoder said Bragg paid him directly for his work over three months, calling it an invaluable experience.
However, coming three weeks after the forced resignation of reporter Jayson Blair for plagiarism, revelations about Bragg's use of descriptive material and quotations gathered in large measure by a young admirer threatened to heap further embarrassment on a paper still reeling from Blair's fabrications.
The latest flareup has added significance because Bragg is a friend of Howell Raines, the embattled executive editor, who has championed his work.
The Times said it responded to a reader's letter and "found that while Mr. Bragg indeed visited Apalachicola briefly and wrote the article, the interviewing and reporting on the scene" were done by Yoder.
"I don't know if he actually said, 'Please give this kid a byline,'" Yoder said. "I certainly understood I wouldn't be getting a byline."
Yoder said he was contacted by The Times yesterday.
Mathis said, "We know of no grounds for further investigation of Mr. Bragg's work."
Bragg, 43, joined The Times in 1994 and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for feature writing. A son of Alabama, he's a beloved figure in the South, applauded for his two family memoirs, "All Over but the Shoutin'" and "Ava's Man."
He did not return calls made to his office in New Orleans.
Originally published on May 24, 2003 "
http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/86475p-78749c.html
"The sheeple in the northeastern megalopolis........adore her. "
Perhaps, but some of us people don't!!
Bill
And to think David thought that thread had become "moot".
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=18951981
The battle continues, just the "focus" has changed. LOL
"There is a background Windows service called "Messenger""
And a real PITA it is! Like MSC290, I was assaulted by it when I updated my system to XP. Those were the most annoying pop ups of all I have seen......right smack in the middle of the screen.
Slightly over a year ago you said:
"....I'd guess that SI will last not a day less than InfoSpace does. And will be sold to someone else if they can find a buyer before the end comes."
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=1113
And so, it has come to pass.
Best of luck,
" if you drink cool aid & stand sideways, you are gonna look like a thermometer!"
uh....I don't think so! Not Bob. :)
Edit: And, for the record, it's Kool Aid as in Krispy...
At least here we can choose our colors. LOL
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