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Off path parking banned at McIntosh
As the opening bell of school is within days of ringing, a new fleet of golf cart driving students are preparing to descend upon the campus at McIntosh High School.
Cart drivers will have to adjust to a lack of off-campus parking
As the opening bell of school is within days of ringing, a new fleet of golf cart driving students are preparing to descend upon the campus at McIntosh High School.
Cart drivers will have to adjust to a lack of off-campus parking directly off a cart path that runs almost parallel to Peachtree Parkway between Stevens Entry and the school.
In April the City Council voted to make that path a no-parking area, though carts will still be allowed to park off campus along Prime Point.
City crews have already erected no-parking signs along the area of the path.
The no-parking decision for the path was made in the face of photographs of carts parked haphazardly in the off-path wooded area with trash on the ground. Some of the carts were parked with two wheels still on the path, which led to citizen complaints about the path being blocked, officials have said.
The decision to make the path a no-parking zone was not unanimous, however. Councilman Doug Sturbaum voted against the measure, saying he felt the school should add more parking spaces for golf carts before the city took action on the matter.
when once again your child will believe you have common sense, are not completely out of the loop and someone they are not ashamed of---all teens seem to be ashamed of their parents at their age regardless of how "cool" they may seem to others. The day will come when your advice will be asked for and just maybe it will also be taken. Just imagine having four girls become teen-agers all within three years!! Now that was fun--not!!! Forty years later, I can look back and laugh--back then never thought that day would come---and they were all good kids---just normal and typical--and they have all grown up to be self- sufficient, honest, intelligent hard working citizens. Thank the good Lord. I always told them my wish was that they each have a child just like them and in three instances that did happen---there is justice, you just have to be patient--but now those grandchildren have grown up to be, just like their parents before them, self-sufficient, honest, hard working citizens. Amen.
Has anyone even thought of walking to school? The people who drive their kids to school are probably the same ones who run their dogs along side of their carts. I don't care what anyone says, that is animal cruelty. Get off your carts and walk the dog and walk yourselves to school.
I don't care what anyone says, that is animal cruelty.
If one does not care about the thoughts or words of others, is it therefore reasonable not to care for the thoughts of that person?
My childhood neighbor had a dog that was kept outside year round with a dog house as a shelter. I did not care for it but the dog was happy. I also think that dressing one's dog up in a sweater or hat is terrible as well. I could reason that those actions would be cruel as well--but are my thoughts the end of discussion? I am not so vain as to think my mental rulings rule all morality, or in reality, even my household.
Why did the other council members not agree with Starbaum?
First, it is Sturbaum, not Starbaum.
We didn't agree because the BOE had committed to adding the spots and because the carts were being parked illegally on private property, were blocking the paths and for other reasons, such as complaints about activities around the clustered carts.
The school was the reason for the problem but it was spilling onto PTC. Remember, BOE property is not part of PTC. It is County. So they could not do enforcement off of school property and we could not do enforcement on school property.
We had the same problem to address last year on illegal parking in the Lexington area. So they just moved to other private property.
The parking in that area was never permitted before but there was a lack of ordinance to take action. Now there is. We had to take care of our responsibilities.
Fact is, though, while I don't know the exact number, the BOE has added more cart spaces on the MHS campus.
Ah yes, herein lies the crux of the problem, the "complaints about activities around the clustered carts".
Hizzoner is diplomatically referring to the long-standing tradition (well, for the past 7 or 8 years or so) of McIntosh students smoking marijuana immediately after school on that long downhill path that parallels school property.
I have to laugh when our vaunted county TNT brags about 5 busts netting 600 grams of pot...I suspect that much is smoked up each week outside of McIntosh.
I made the mistake of travelling that cart path once a while back right after school let out....I haven't seen that much purple haze in the air since Led Zeppelin played the old Atlanta Stadium in the 1970s...
I got NO response from the law or the school and you won't either about patrolling those areas at certain times and making arrests!
It is a Lindsey Lohan thing!
No enforcement authority on McIntosh High property? Is it not PCPD who is called to respond in an emergency?
Is MHS one of those "Islands" in PTC that is illegal? Like the one in the acres trying to be annexed into PTC from the County?
Are all the schools in PTC illegal Islands?
The cops don't like to be in those areas at start and finish of school---nor on the highways where the zoom, zooming occurs! Nor on the paths near the school.
Nor inside the Red Room.
Apologies to Mr. Sturbaum.
Good to hear that more spaces are being added - I hope they more than offset the spaces that have been lost.
Has the City done anything to help to remedy the bad parking situation for students? If so maybe you can get those efforts reported. As is, it appears the City is working against the students - first by shutting down parking on the street adjacent to the school, next with the area across the street, now with the path. There may be some students who do not want to buy a pass but in general there's not nearly enough golf cart parking at McIntosh.
So if a golf cart is parked in a "no parking" zone what happens? Do you get ticketed? If you don't pay what happens? Will the person who the cart is registered have a warrant out for their arrest? Will they tow the carts? I have NEVER been able to not get through the area on my golf cart. The cost of the towing, tickets, court costs etc... isn't worth the minor irritation of the home owners that reportedly started all this trouble.
Does this mean PCPD will start ticketing and towing vehicles parked all over the "NO AUTOS" area around the amphitheater green space across from Huddleston whenever there is a concert?
While there is nothing wrong with riding the bus (I did it through most of HS), there is also nothing wrong with letting responsible teens drive the golf cart to school. This will be the second year that my teens are taking the golf cart to school. It enables them to get to school a little early or stay after school if they need to talk to a teacher. Sometimes they only need to talk to a teacher for 5-10 minutes after school, but that's not possible if they are riding the bus. We do pay the $50 fee for them to park on campus. I know that there were some students parking along the paths that were a problem, and I don't have an issue with that being stopped. However, I don't understand why so many people are so angry about teens driving a golf cart to school -- especially the people who are suggesting that parents drive the kids to school in lieu of having the teens take a golf cart. The roads are busy enough, and the electric golf carts are less polluting than cars. And while there are plenty of teens who drive recklessly on the paths, some of the worst speeders I have seen on the paths are middle-aged men with their golf clubs in the back trying to make their tee time!
I don't think the golf carts are the problem. Many people object to the gratuitous property damage that has happened in the past. That is what started this whole debate/complaint issue. None of those property owners would have complained about the kids if they hadn't had so much property damage. If the only thing they had done was park on someone else's property that wouldn't have been a problem. Sadly most of them have not been taught basic manners. They haven't been taught to respect other people's property. It's a shame, because a few bad kids ruined it for everybody.
being grumpy. This board is littered with them.
My Son rode his golf cart a good bit to school, and he enjoyed it.
The big painted rocks in front of McIntosh are gone. Space for more golf carts?
How do you "adjust" to parking when there isn't any?
Park your cars there instead until thet realize how harmless the carts really were.
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How about this right for teens - ride the effin bus!
for the kids involved in after school activities.
1. Be sure to purchase your golf cart parking space.
2. Get mom or dad to bring you home.
3. Get a teammate, friend or sibling to bring you home.
4. Walk. To Zaxby's, El Reposo, Dairy Queen, McDonald's, Chick-Fila, etc., etc. until mom or dad can come pick you up. $1 gets you a Coke and a seat at McDonald's to do your homework.
5. Ride a bike.
6. Call a taxi.
7. Quit the activity.
8. Let youths with nothing to do loiter on your property.
It boggles my mind why golf carts are not encouraged more for school commuting, especially at Starrs Mill. Isn't that a purpose of our vaunted cart path system?
Amen idk. Or what about car pooling and dropping your child off to school. O sorry forgot these housewives probably have tee off time. Just some more BS- "it ain't ever gonna happin". These kids will never get fined,or warned, they will keep on driving the effin carts as long as they want to cause mommie, daddy and ptree city bureaucrats say they can. You'd think rich folks would be more mindful of the bureaucrats brats.
Tie up your horses there and let them crap all day on the path and streets.
I think if we would simply banish all teenagers from PTC and all over say, 70, that many of these "parking" nuts would then be happy.....no then they would themselves have to flip the burgers and mow their own yards.
These kids are simply going to make crooked bankers, investment house employees, and developers anyway.
With my daughter's 13th birthday coming tomorrow and the constant eye rolling, slouching, huffing, and attitude that has accompanied this transition, I'd have to agree with the notion of banning all teens. We should lock them away until they're 30.
They will fly by and before you can blink an eye, your beloved Daughter will be headed off to College. Time really does fly.
. . .in a female's life! She knows it all; is disgusted with the 'old fashion ideas' of parents - especially MOTHER! I was blessed with sons! Watched with love and support as my sons and their wives raised their daughters. Hang in there! One granddaughter is 28; one will be 18 in August; and then there is the youngest - 13! Something magical happens at 18. Mother's become 'wiser'; fathers more tolerable; and somehow at 18, the female becomes smarter. Amazing!
I have a suggestion about a 13-14-15 year old daughter!
First, buy them the pill and see that they take it. Then keep them as busy as you can and if they cooperate there, let them run around like the boys of that age do! They will anyway, maybe not just as much.
Preaching does no good. Warning does no good, and saying things to cause eye-roll does even less.
Let them know you are glad they are alive and are free but there is some work to be done first.
and the self profession of seeing the CCC- I can see why the baby boomers and beyond have turned out as they have. kudos to you. Kinsey probably slept with you, huh? LOL
Thank you for your untimely advice..our daughter is now 36!
Ask her! If you have a good relationship she might tell you about 13-15!
Know the feelng--when our Daughter was 13, we would have given her away to anyone who would take her! It's just one of them things!Hang tough.


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Something is seriously wrong with the people who attend these games because from what I hear people think nfl football games are a day at the spa and are for relaxing. It's disgraceful
My woman is from Akron, OH and went to Ohio State. She's been down here for a few years and said panther games, especially during the months of Aug/Sept/early October is the only time where she has felt "underdressed" attending a FB game.
She describes it as a "cocktail party" with a football game afterwards that most people don't seem to concerned about who wins or loses.

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Really, people? We're still talking about Surgeon General Regina Benjamin's weight? This week, Michael Karolchyk, the owner of a gym, appeared on FOX News to voice his opinion about why Benjamin has no right being considered for Surgeon General. Luckily, Neil Cavuto took him to task, but Karolchyk still got in zingers like, "Just because you eat a lot of dinner rolls doesn't make you a role model." Oh, and did I mention that during this whole appearance, he wore a shirt that read, "No Chubbies?" How cute! And when I say "cute," I mean, "Can I punch this guy in the face?"
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How enormously smart of Sony to seize the moment and "go first" without actually going first.
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What we saw on that electrifying Wednesday evening was merely a concept of a console, flatteringly portrayed by Sony executives and yet invisible to the scrutiny of critics. We heard of a "super-charged PC" ready for developers to exploit, an operating system as slick and baggage-free as an iPhone, a console sentient enough to predict what its owners want.
What we didn't see, of course, is how exactly Sony is going to achieve this. Let's not forget that Sony initially said the PS3 was an immensely powerful system that could change the colour of the sun whilst checking your emails, and look what happened to that.
So it's completely understandable that there are tough questions about Sony's grand promises (example; David Perry's ambition to stream every single previous PlayStation game would require an astronomical effort to untangle twenty years of old licensing agreements).
But as the Redmond-heads at Xbox mock their closest rival for not showing that sparkly box (in a sort of passive-aggressive Twitterism), they may not have noticed just how expertly Sony has played its hand.
The market has been desperate for new consoles for more than two years, and Sony has placed itself at the centre of that frenzy for next-gen. It puts pressure on Microsoft to respond, and gives the Xbox team a benchmark to meet. Yet PlayStation 4 is only a philosophy right now - there's not much of the console that Microsoft can measure, let alone leapfrog.
Yes, the mass-media may be a tad grumpy about being flown to New York just to see a logo, but this time Sony is shrewdly showing just some of its cards. The world is thrilled that PlayStation 4 is no longer speculation, and yet all the secrets of the machine won't be revealed until the second half of the year - by then the Next Xbox will be too close to the manufacturing phase for Microsoft to take into account the key features of its rival.
Maybe Kaz Hirai was actually onto something when he said in January: "Why go first when your competitors can look at your specifications and come up with something better?"
Xbox marks the spot
Word is that Microsoft will respond in April (I've been told by someone I trust that it's April 26th, though we'll need to double-source this before we can publish it as a news piece on CVG).
It's quite obvious that the event will be glitzier than the PlayStation Meeting. Microsoft is financially far healthier than Sony and it will no doubt pay the big bucks for timed-exclusive DLC or any advantage it can get its hands on.
There are some doubts I have - particularly with Microsoft's underperforming internal studio network - but I wouldn't be surprised if the Xbox team had secured another exorbitant Rockstar deal, or a major agreement with Bungie, or even a monstrous Call of Duty partnership.
Whatever the Microsoft team cares to throw its money at, the emphasis must be on games this time. For too long the message about Xbox is how it has become an extended lifestyle brand: incorporating software for music and movies and so on.
Credit where it's due. Microsoft has pushed an eight year-old console into the living-room and across a range of demographics. But there hasn't been a landmark exclusive Xbox game for years, and it's been several years since Microsoft directly addressed its core gamer market. Let's hope the team remember how it's done.
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When I was a kid my father took my sisters and me to Rapids, it's this massive water park in Florida that I hope for health reasons has now been burned to the ground. And my older sister who is every bit the party pooper went down the water slide wrong (classic my sister!!) and in an asthmatic fury got stuck at the end of the slide with child after child landing on her. And guess who one of those children was?? Yea it was one of the spawn of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore!!!
And then Bruce Willis scooped up my sister!! And delivered her to my dad!! Who's response was not "Thanks John McLane for saving my asthmatic daughter from drowning!!" but "Wow, great to meet you Bruno! People ask me allll the time if I'm you. I have three daughters too, haha, amiright, daughters??"
No one believes that story, but it happened and has solidified my hatred for water parks and the Willis-Moore Family.
No one also believes that at 11 I almost got kicked out of the warped tour for trying to fight the guy from The All American Rejects.
if you mean in the ability to profit on this by videotaping it and selling it to a reality television production company, or for a more lucrative contract with a porn site, that was never lost upon me.
even when being sincere about our ability to pay for our college educations on our own, the five tarts never appreciated this golden oppurtunity.
so yes, i "realize how hot this sounds".
long time reader, first time commenter.
you may ask why dubz? [if that is your real rap name!??! (it is.)] why now choose to stop lurking?
i wanted to share with my fellow monsters finally my story, as a child i was that little girl, i literally pee'd myself from my excitement. continually through the trip, i pee'd myself at least 5 times that weekend because i was finally in disney world. i was home.
then 15 years later i packed up the minimal contents of my basement apartment and headed to orlando to work for a anthropomorphic rodent to try and return the favor. i had to move to a state that i swore never to enter again for fear of being eaten by an alligator or contracting a venereal disease, or just as likely to contract a venereal disease from an alligator. i lived in a shitty, insect infested apartment with 5 other girls, most of whom may not have been mentally stable. i worked 50 hour weeks making minimum wage standing around in a disgusting polyester, epulated, pleated "costume" in the florida sun.
and it was still the best time ever because i made magic. although maybe about 40% of the children were genuinely grateful for the expense their parents went through to get them there, or the fact that grown adults acted like complete assholes for their happiness, it was still an overwhelming number.
those damn kids melted my ice cold heart and all i did was high five them wearing disgusting disease ridden rodent gloves and hand them cheap old stickers.
sorry for the rant, but as a "castmember",and this could get me "terminated", the one happy little girl in the sea of aggrivated parents and ungrateful rugrats (shout out ^^) made it all worth it.
sorry again, won't happy again, just very passionate.


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The couple met while they were working at the Mandarin Oriental Miami's Azul restaurant, where Bernstein ?rst made a name for herself (she's since become the executive chef for MB at the Aqua hotel in Cancún and is a regular on Today and the Food Network). When she and Martinez decided to make it official, they wanted to prepare a feast for the ages. That meant coming up with a menu that blended their varied backgrounds—Bernstein is a half-Argentine Jew; Martinez is Mexican by way of Minnesota, with a bit of German on the side—using food that could impress the most sophisticated of palates (not to mention Bernstein's mom, who's quite a cook herself). To pull off this culinary extravaganza, they would need some help. And they got it. Friends, colleagues, and family pitched in, sparing no expense to fête the couple.
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"People didn't even find their seats; they just marched straight up to the food as if they had never eaten before," Bernstein says with a smile. "I have to say, it smelled pretty damn good in there, so I can understand—but my family, they watched with their mouths wide open."
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"It's good to know people," Bernstein acknowledges. "It was definitely a labor of love." In addition to calling her former colleagues to the kitchen, Bernstein looked to the flavors of her youth. Since childhood, she has loved to eat at Hy-Vong, a tiny Calle Ocho café that she says has the most authentic Vietnamese food this side of the Pacific. She asked owner Kathy Manning to prepare duck spring rolls and shrimp on sugarcane.
And of course, there had to be the Argentine food that Bernstein had grown up eating. For that, she brought her mother to the Miami City Club to teach the chefs how to cook gaucho fare, such as churrasco, a strip streak with chimichurri sauce, and ensalada Rusa, an Argentine take on a Russian salad with peas, carrots, and roasted beets. Mom was also called on to bake more than 140 frosted cupcakes. "I was looking for a white-trash cupcake, and nobody makes them as well," Bernstein says. "When you want something done right, sometimes you've got to go to Mom."
It was certainly a feast to remember—except, perhaps, for Bernstein. Like many brides, she did not get to enjoy the meal she'd so meticulously planned. "I had two oysters because my husband made me try them, and I tasted the jerk lobster," she says. "I remember telling everyone that all I wanted to do at my wedding was dance and eat. I did dance, but I was so nervous, and I couldn't put anything into my mouth. When I got home I was starving, and there were no leftovers. My guests had eaten every single last bite."


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Oh, my goodness! Here in Texas, we're in the 60's (and whining, of course; but we're always whining about something, LOL), but isn't this AWFULLY early for you? I've got blooms but not blossoms yet due to our "cold" weather...supposed to be in the 70's tomorrow and next week, maybe blooms then. |
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Our weather was in the 50s and 60s until today. We only turned on the heat yesterday when the cats were acting chilly, LOL. This is quite abnormally early to have any snow in our area, let alone a big ol' snowstorm that dumped 9 inches on us. Usually we have some frosty nights starting in mid Oct, then a dusting of snow by Thankgiving, and no real snow until Christmas. I wonder what's going to happen when winter officially gets here, LOL. It is quite pretty, actually. I love snow and the way it transforms the familiar landscape into something new and magical. |
It is magical, isn't it, as if you have a whole new world in your yard... we do get a little snow here in TX and do enjoy it since it is usually gone by afternoon! Growing up in Montana we would have months and months of cold weather, absolutely beautiful, but... so feel for y'all up north; I really do like living in the South, although we surely don't have anywhere near the beauty you enjoy. Guess we just learn to enjoy what each area has to offer, we're all lucky!! |
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If you need instructions for assembling your AR, you might refer to Dillinger's post in the Knowledge Base from July of 2008. I'm doing the same thing (building an AR), and there are a lot of good guys in this forum who are happy to help.
I recommend going 5.56.
Unless you are also going to start re-loading your own ammo, or have connections at Silver State Armory (for 6.8 SPC - Silver State Armory manufactures and sells 6.8 SPC Ammunition and custom brass cases, 5.56 ammo, 7.62x51 ammo), 'no' they aren't the only ones who supply it, but one of the main ones - I would suggest staying with 5.56 for cost (cheaper), availability (more widely available - and in more weights and type of bullet), accessories, etc. You can always add a complete upper in one of the other calibers (6.8SPC, 6.5 Grendel, .204 Ruger, 7.62x39, 9mm, .450, .458 SOCOM, etc) later. As for barrel length and gun configuration, that is something you need to decide, as far as what type of shooting you'll be doing most, if you'll be doing more longer range shooting - then you'd probably be better off with a longer barrel (18-24"). If you are going to be setting the gun up for close quarters, mainly shorter range target/plinking/etc, then a 16" barrel would probably be a better choice. Mainly it comes down to what you want it to be able to do, what you want it to look like while you are doing it, and how much $$$'s you want to put into it, whether you want to buy it pre-built whole, pre-built in separate assemblies, or build it yourself from parts. Slo
right now i'm thinking i'm either getting a doublestar m4 from buds Doublestar Star 15 M4 16" 6 Pos. Stock .223 for Sale at Buds Gun Shop $659.00 or get this stag lower here stag arms complete ar-15 lower receiver and couple it with this upper here Del-Ton, Inc. AR-15 16" Post-Ban Flat Top Barrel Assembly i pretty much can't afford more than that. i plan on upgrading as i go eventually getting a piston kit and quad rail then this kit here Get Out Of Dodge Tactical Package what do you guys think?
i was thinking of 308 but its not in my budget but i seen a thing on tv about the m16 and its history from the m14 to the newest hk ar and they were talkin about how lethal the 5.56 is when it hits a body it starts tumbling and causes major damage and a big exit hole. im not sure if i want a 16" or 20" barrel what do you guys have on yours and why
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The L.C. Bird Skyhawks boys and girls basketball teams both faced Dominion rival Cosby on Friday. Both teams came into the double-header undefeated, and both teams left that way too as the girls defeated Cosby in overtime 63-54 and the boys cruised to a 76-46 in a blowout.
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"Taja is an awesome freshman," said head coach Chevette Waller. "She does some things that we don't expect an inexperienced player to do well, and then she makes some rookie mistakes, she's learning well."
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Cole led Bird's scoring with 17 points to go with six rebounds and five assists, and Story recorded a double-double with 15 points, 12 rebounds and two blocks. Adriane Vaughan led the way for the Titans with 17 points and 10 assists.
Bird's boys seemed to be on a calm, confident cruise control the entire night and used a balanced attack as they rolled to a 30-point victory.
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The Philadelphia Print Shop has one of the most extensive selections on antique prints of Native Americans available anywhere. From life-portraits of individual chiefs, warriors and women to first-hand depictions of typical events in the lives of the American Indians, these rare images are both dramatically decorative and historically fascinating.
A rare series of lovely and fascinating images of American Indians from a French history of the world by Jules Dufay. This plate came from the American volume of Dufay's Historie des Voyages, which was an account of the 'wars, social mores, products and history of different parts of the world. Each image is based to some extent on reality, but with some interesting aspects clearly not accurate. These are an early European attempt to better understand Native Americans.
A series depicting events in America, mostly within the United States in the early years. $350 each
Prints of the Indian Wars. From The United States Army and Navy. Akron, Ohio: Werner Company, 1899. Chromolithographs. All ca. 9 1/4 x 13 1/4. Very good condition, except some with minor marginal tears (repaired) and as noted. Denver.
A series of dramatic prints illustrating the American Indian wars after the Civil War. The prints are from a series on the United States Army and Navy, and each print captures in detail the various types of uniforms worn by each service and by rank. The scenes are unusual in depicting military action, with the troops attacking or being attacked.
After the Mexican-American War, Lieutenant James W. Abert remained in Bent's Fort with a fever, while other officers in the Army of the West moved on to California. Upon his recovery he was assigned, along with Lieutenant William G. Peck, to explore the newly acquired territory of New Mexico. In late 1847 and '48 they explored New Mexico, examining the mines in the region and looking for the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola. They did encounter the pueblo cities of Cibolleta, Moquino, Pajuate, Covero, Laguna, Rito and Acoma, which Abert realized were those cities found by Coronado in his search for Cibola. Abert and Peck gathered important information on the economic potential, geography and geology, and population and political situation in the region. His report included some fine lithographed views presenting the new U.S. territory to the American public, as well as two images of Cheyenne. There are few period images of this tribe, which were so important for the history of the Great Plains. This image shows the two principal figures sitting in front of a Cheyenne village. $125
Beginning in the mid-1850s, the U.S. government sent out a number of exploring parties to survey potential routes for the planned Pacific Railroad. Included in these parties were scientists and naturalists, whose job was to document the environment, flora and fauna, and Indian tribes that they met. This view was from Lieutenant Whipple's exploration along the 35th parallel, which traveled from Little Rock, Arkansas, through Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona, ending up passing through the Mojave Desert to Los Angeles. $125
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James Queen. "Indian Mode of Travelling." From P.J. De Smet's Letters and Sketches: With a Narrative of a Year's Residence Among the Indian Tribes of the Rocky Mountains. Philadelphia: M. Fithian, 1843. Lithograph by P.S. Duval. 3 1/4 x 5 3/4. Slight wear at top left edge. Else, very good condition. Denver.
An early and quite accurate view of an Indian tribe on the move in the American West. From De Smet's account of his trip to the Rocky Mountains. $75
Seth Eastman. "Marriage Custom of the Indians." From Ornaments of Memory--Beauties of History, Romance and Poetry. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1854. Engraving by Charles Burt. 5 5/8 x 7 5/8. Very good condition. Denver.
Seth Eastman was a soldier who spent many years in the American west, particularly working as an artist to document Native Americas for the U.S. government and for private purposes. His drawings provide some of the best first hand images of Indians in the west before the Civil War. $175
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"Aborigines of North America." From The Comprehensive Atlas and Geography of the World. London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh: Blackie & Son, 1886. Tinted lithograph. 5 x 8, with decorative borders. Very good condition. Denver.
An attractive prints from a British atlas, from the late nineteenth century, which included a number of plates showing the "Race of Mankind." This print, based on mostly on drawing by Karl Bodmer, shows men and women from the Iroquois, Assineboin, Crow, Pawnee and Dakotah or Sioux tribes. Issued at a time when Europeans were fascinated by the American West, and at a time when many pictures disseminated there were quite inaccurate, these images would have provided a more accurate, though somewhat dated, documentation of the Native Americans. $150
George Catlin. "Buffalo Hunt, Chase." Plate 7. From Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. London: G. Catlin, 1844. Folio; 12 1/4 x 18 1/2. Lithograph drawn by McGahey and printed by Day & Hague. Full original hand color. Very good condition.
The prints of George Catlin mark a poignant and heroic moment in the history of American art and culture. Setting out to chronicle and immortalize Indian culture, Catlin's career was one of mid-19th century pioneer adventure and spirit colored by the ideal of the 'noble savage' in his pristine environment. In 1830 he went out to St. Louis and from there traveled extensively for several years to Indian villages along the Platte and Missouri rivers and then later to tribes throughout the mid and far west. The result was some 500 paintings and one of the most significant chronicles of Indian life and culture ever produced. The prints Catlin later published from his paintings, with their fascinating and important subjects, as well as their rich color, detail and artistic worth, are a noble legacy from Catlin's memorable career. During his sojourn in the west, Catlin spent much time recording the customs of the Native Americans, including their hunting techniques. This image shows the action of a buffalo hunt in graphic detail. One Indian, whose horse seems to have been knocked over by a dying buffalo, stands and shoots his arrow at another beast, while nearby a mounted hunter sends an arrow true into the side of a massive bull. A third figure in the foreground shows a brave stepping from his galloping mount, about to be gored by a buffalo, onto the back of another thundering beast. The action, detail of costume and weapons, makes this print a terrific combination of ethnological artifact and aesthetic masterpiece. $5,750
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Karl Bodmer. "Abdih- Hiddisch. A Minatarre Chief." Tab. 24. From Travels In the Interior of North America in the Years 1832 to 1834. London: Ackermann and Company, 1839-1843. 10 x 12 1/2. Aquatint. Full hand color. Very good condition. Denver.
Karl Bodmer, (1809-1893), is considered by many to be the greatest 19th-century artist to have produced prints of the American west. Bodmer and his patron, Prince Maximilian of Wied, came to America from Germany in 1832. With Bodmer in charge of the pictorial documentary, Prince Maximilian, an experienced and respected traveler and naturalist, set out to put together as complete a study as possible of the western territories of the United States. The result was the publication of Maximilian's journals in successive German, French, and English editions between 1839 and 1843, and with it, a picture atlas of eighty-one aquatint plates after paintings by Bodmer. This picture volume is now regarded as one of the most comprehensive and memorable visual surveys of the western territories ever made. The prints provide a rare and privileged glimpse into 19th-century America by one of the now most coveted artists of the period. This is one of Bodmer's series of portrait prints and it demonstrates the quality of all his work. $9,500
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John Mix Stanley. [On the War Path.] Detroit: Calvert Lithographing Co., 1872. Chromolithograph by Robert T. Bishop. 22 1/4 x 30. Laid on canvas, mounted on new backing board. With extensive old tears and some rubbing on right side and in upper left quadrant. Repaired and inpainted. In original frame. Ref: Peter Marzio, The Democratic Art, pp. 180f., plate 105; James Bartlett, Antiques, Sept. 1976, pp. 520-521. Denver.
An extremely rare western print after John Mix Stanley's 1871 painting "On the War Path." In 1853, Stanley was an artist for Isaac Stevens' U.S. survey for the proposed northern route of the Pacific Railroad. This print records an episode from that expedition, when the survey party met an Indian army crossing through Cadotte's Pass in the Rocky Mountains. Stanley made an on-site sketch, later producing the painting in his study back in the East.
In 1869, Stanley arranged for a German publisher to issue chromolithographs of some of his paintings. These were quite popular, but the Franco-Prussian War soon made this arrangement difficult to continue. Thus Stanley, who was then living in Detroit, looked to a local firm, the Calvert Lithographing Company, to produce the chromolithograph of "On the War Path." The print this firm produced was larger and of much higher quality than the German prints, being made with twenty lithographic stones--twice as many as the Germans used. The print was extensively promoted, with newspaper reviews and an elaborate brochure, but Stanley's death in April of 1872 and a disastrous fire in a building next to the Calvert warehouse resulted in a very small production of the print. The fire resulted in the lithographic stones being damaged beyond repair after only a short run. One newspaper account said 300 prints were run off in the first printing, but it appears only 100 were produced, for in an 1897 interview, Thomas Calvert said only that many had been printed before the fire.
The print is best example of Stanley's work and one of the best American chromolithographs of the late nineteenth century. The image shows the Indian tribe crossing the pass, with the majesty of the Rockies beautifully rendered. Chromolithography was often used to imitate the texture and detail of an oil, and this print of the medium shows how closely this could be done. A very rare example of a most desirable print. $4,600
Astley David Middleton Cooper. "Burning Arrow." Boston: Tabor Prang, 1904. 19 1/2 x 25 1/2. Chromolithograph. With original, decorative frame and brass plaque. Very good condition. Denver.
A.D.M. Cooper (1856-1924) is known for his paintings of American Indians, buffalo herds and frontiersmen. Unfortunately, Cooper and his work are not as well known today. Cooper who had a great zest for life was born in St. Louis. His father was a prominent Physician and his mother was a grand niece of the Louisiana Territory explorer William Clark. Cooper's parents were good friends with George Catlin and young Cooper was enthralled by the stories and paintings of Catlin.
Cooper attended Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied portraiture and landscape drawing. In 1876 he traveled through the West living with various Indian tribes and seeing the tragedy of the Indian Wars. Cooper for a brief time was also an illustrator for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. In 1880 he moved to San Francisco and began a successful but furious painting schedule completing more than a thousand paintings in his life time. In a few years his paintings were being marketed throughout the U.S. and Europe. Three years later Cooper moved south to San Jose. Cooper's paintings were often dark and moody but filled with action and drama. He not only depicted Western genre scenes but included classical themes, religious and historical depictions, portraits, and landscapes. Cooper died in 1924, after a long battle with tuberculosis. A few of Cooper's paintings can be seen in the San Jose area.
This print, "Burning Arrow" is one of Cooper's most famous paintings which he did in 1900. It depicts a moonlight night with a group of Indians being illuminated by a large signal fire. Above the fire, on a large boulder, is a lone Indian having just shot a burning arrow into the night sky to signal another group of Indians in the far distance indicated by another signal fire. A wonderful retrospective representation of the long gone American West. $2,100
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Caregiver initiative's hurdle: state's budget hole
An initiative on the November ballot would require the state to increase spending by millions of dollars to boost training for long-term-care workers, at a time when the Legislature must slash nearly $2 billion from the state budget.
Seattle Times Olympia bureau
Initiative 1163
• Increases basic-training hours from 34 to 75 for most new long-term-care workers.• Increases required annual continuing-education hours from 10 to 12 for most long-term-care workers. Requires caregivers to pass a test.
• Requires new caregivers to undergo FBI criminal-background checks. Current law requires federal background checks for workers new to Washington; the rest undergo state background checks.
• Creates a certification system, so that caregivers could be investigated and disciplined by the Department of Health.
• Covers those who work in private homes, boarding homes, adult family homes and assisted-living facilities.
Yes campaign: www.yes1163.com
No campaign: www.no1163.com
An initiative on the November ballot would require the state to increase spending by millions of dollars to boost training for long-term-care workers, at a time when the Legislature must slash nearly $2 billion from the state budget.
Initiative 1163 supporters say the spending is appropriate, given the need for additional training. "What this initiative says is this is a top-tier priority," said Sandeep Kaushik, a spokesman for the campaign, financed almost entirely by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents long-term-care employees.
House Ways and Means Chairman Ross Hunter, D-Medina, said he will probably vote no on the measure because of the gaping budget hole. State agencies have prepared a long list of potential cuts, such as eliminating supervision of parolees convicted of violent crimes and ending state-subsidized health care for the working poor.
When voters look at I-1163, Hunter said, they should ask themselves, "Would I rather have this than anything on that list?"
Senate Ways and Means Chairman Ed Murray, D-Seattle, said he'll likely vote for the measure but noted the initiative doesn't provide a way to pay for the increased cost. "Initiatives without revenue sources are challenges," he said.
Ballots will be mailed out next week and must be returned with a postmark no later than Nov. 8.
The state already requires criminal-background checks, as well as 34 hours of training for most new long-term-care workers. I-1163 would boost the requirement to 75 hours and include more rigorous background checks. Training would include safety and the fundamentals of care.
It covers anyone paid to provide long-term care, with the exception of certain medical professionals such as registered nurses. Also, caregivers tending to the needs of a family member are subject to less stringent training requirements.
Long-term-care providers work in adult family and boarding homes, nursing homes, assisted-living facilities and patients' homes.
If I-1163 were fully implemented today, the state estimates there'd be roughly 50,000 long-term caregivers in the category required to have 75 hours of training.
However, only new workers would have to get the additional training. Existing workers would be grandfathered in.
In the 2011 fiscal year, Washington spent around $9.3 million in state dollars for the training of newly hired long-term-care workers who provide in-home assistance with personal daily activities such as eating, personal hygiene, dressing, bathing and mobility.
In-home providers represent about two-thirds of the overall long-term-care workforce. State officials said they could not break out costs for the remaining workers who provide care in out-of-home settings.
The Governor's Office projects that, if I-1163 is approved, state costs will increase an additional $32 million over the next two years for background checks, training and certification. That's expected to be partially offset by roughly $14 million in federal matching dollars and new state fees.
If all this sounds familiar, there's good reason. In 2008, voters overwhelmingly approved an almost identical initiative, also backed by the SEIU. However, the Legislature delayed implementing the initiative twice because of deep budget cuts.
If I-1163 passes next month, lawmakers could postpone it only with a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate, a difficult task.
The SEIU disagreed with the latest delay earlier this year and decided to go back to voters. So far the campaign has raised nearly $1.4 million with almost all of that money coming from the union.
An Elway Research poll released in August found 77 percent of the voters surveyed supported I-1163, while 9 percent opposed it and 14 percent were undecided.
I-1163, except for a few tweaks, essentially reinstates the earlier initiative but requires the changes to begin kicking in next year, instead of 2014 under current law.
The state budget, however, is in worse shape now than it was when the first measure passed in 2008, during the recession.
The No 1163 campaign contends the initiative's costs could be even higher than projected by the Governor's Office, but in any case says the state can't afford it.
"Our state is in a deep enough hole. The voters need to take the shovel out of SEIU's hands," Cindi Laws, a spokeswoman for the no campaign, said in a statement. The no campaign is backed by a coalition of groups including the Washington State Residential Care Council and the Home Care Association of Washington.
Gov. Chris Gregoire says she'd like to see the training go forward but that now's not the time. "Candidly, that's why the Legislature and I have delayed it, not because we don't support the policy, we just don't have the financial wherewithal to pay for it right now. We've had to prioritize," she said.
Kaushik argues there's a proven need for the additional training, pointing to a 2010 investigative series by The Seattle Times, "Seniors for Sale," which detailed systemic problems in the adult-family-home industry, including harm to the elderly by untrained caregivers.
"It's clear there are some significant problems with the system that are in need of reform," he said. "The voters have already made it clear that they think fixing those problems is a priority."
As for I-1163 resulting in the state spending more when it needs to cut spending, Kaushik said, "Will DSHS (the Department of Social and Health Services) have to make some adjustments in their budget to fund this? I think that is likely. But we think this is an important enough priority that should happen."
Kaushik also argued that the state needs to look at increasing taxes to avoid making some of the cuts being discussed.
Some Democratic lawmakers are talking about putting a tax package on the ballot early next year. However, even if they decided to do so, the Legislature could not count on voter approval and would still have to craft a budget with steep cuts in spending.
Increasing taxes on their own would require a two-thirds vote in the Democrat-controlled House and Senate, considered a near impossibility.
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