text: Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity "Student Assembly" first appeared in the May/June 2012 issue of Touchstone. Student AssemblyToday's Mass Education Pushes Children Away from Virtue into Mere Hygiene by Anthony Esolen Have you ever waited in line to tour the gigantic, boxlike "machines for living" built by Le Corbusier? Have you purchased tickets to sleep a night in a fifteen-story apartment complex? Have you surveyed a sprawling paper mill or bottling plant and said, "If only my house looked like one of those"? Neither have I. We are human beings, after all. Yet this insight, that homes actually presuppose human beings to live in them, with human bodies, and a human nature, has had no effect on our public schools. I assert that the way we build schools, where we place them, what we choose to teach (and what we choose not to teach), how we treat the sexes, how we schedule the school day, the manners we expect from students, and indeed the whole crazy machinery of officers and administrators determining the system, are the result of nothing less than our having forgotten what human beings are. Two Incompatible Visions I should like to illustrate by recalling my experience in grade school. It was not pleasant. I was taciturn and lonely. I was also years ahead of my classmates, so I spent a lot of time in the classroom daydreaming or doodling. But for all that, the school was fit for a human being. How? First, it was a Catholic school. The battle over prayer in the public schools has never been over whether a few innocuous pieties might be uttered at the beginning of a school day. It has been over two incompatible visions of mankind. The one affirms that man is made for a transcendent end. It sets our gaze at a horizon we are somehow meant for, but which we cannot attain on our own. Architecturally, it is as if we dwelt in the neighborhood of a steeple and a bell tower, whose tolling would remind us that what we do below is to be oriented toward the things above. The other vision denies that end. It affirms that what matters is only what is here and now, or what we can eventually produce in a future here-and-now. It generally scorns the past, and replaces wisdom with technical efficiency. Its Eden is not one of holiness, but of managed hedonism, secured by technological advancement and sound political directives. Suppose that the poets and the theologians and almost all the great philosophers of every culture are right, and the technocrats are wrong. Then the public school, with its culture oriented towards nothing transcendent, is an offense to human dignity. It is like a house without windows, or a world without a sky. That explains why their buildings have come to resemble factories. About Something Sacred But that was not so at my school. When we arrived in the morning, we were instructed to enter the nearby church and to sit with our classmates, boys on the right, girls on the left. Our teachers, most of them nuns, would be there before us. We would hear the remainder of Mass, and that is how we began the day. On every first Friday of the month, we ended our studies early, to go to the church for the rosary—we were praying, we were told, for the conversion of Russia—and the rite of Benediction. During Lent, we attended the Stations of the Cross, followed by confession. We had a thousand reminders that political power is frail, that mere pleasures vanish, that the love of money is the root of evil, and that the things that really move the human race, faith, hope, and charity, are everlasting. The nuns, with all their human glories and human flaws, were visible reminders of these things. So were the high, arched windows in our rooms. So was the inscription from Thomas Aquinas that was painted over the entrance. Every day of my school life, I saw the One who died on the cross, for love. Many things follow from that first insight. Our dress, for instance. If human beings have a transcendent end, they must pursue it in communion with others, since none of us is sufficient for himself even in the necessities of everyday life, let alone wisdom; and love is both the condition and the purpose of our freedom. Therefore we did not dress as we would while playing ball in a field or digging in the garden. Who would attend a wedding in jeans and a T-shirt? We dressed as if we were about something sacred, and about it together. So the boys dressed in jackets and ties and dress shoes—no sneakers—and the girls dressed in plaid weskits and skirts, with the initials of the school embroidered on the front. A Realistic Discipline There's more. Our classes were, by today's standards, huge. The number of students in my class fluctuated between 45 and 51. It is quite impossible to manage so great a number of hedonistic units. Discipline would break down immediately. But it was not hard at all for one nun to teach that many human children. How did they do it? The other side of their belief that we were all meant for holiness was their knowledge—a day or two in our company would suffice to show it—that we were deeply flawed. We were weakened by original sin. It is strange to see how an utterly unwarranted optimism regarding the natural goodness of mankind is bound up with a totalitarian need to keep these saints under constant surveillance, while the acknowledgment of our sin is compatible with a realistic discipline that allows for, and helps to effect, true freedom. The sisters did not beat us. There were no paddles. But they did not put up with backtalk, or other rudeness, like whispering, or chewing gum, or slouching. They did not load us down with homework, because we got a lot done during classes, as was to be expected when we were not herded from room to room like animals, and when we brought to school the same expectation of obedience—not slavishness, which is compatible with hatred, sabotage, and defiance—that we took for granted at home and in the church. Answerable to Church & Home The school was an extension of the home. It wasn't that the sisters had read the social encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius XI and modeled their school accordingly. They did not think about subsidiarity so much as they lived it. That, too, made it possible for them to teach so many children in one room. For they knew the families. Indeed, they would see these families together at church on Sunday. The vast anonymous consolidated school, ironically, has no room for families, and can only wiggle individual units of self-will into their peg holes. But it is quite a different thing when a small number of sisters are teaching the children from the same several dozen families year after year—both for the sisters, who grow accustomed to the families, and for the children, who grow accustomed to the sisters. There was never a sense that the school set itself in opposition to the home. Now, because of an erroneous and truncated view of man, we forget what marriage and family are for, and we allow an impersonal state—a monstrous paternity without fathers—to bully its way into everyday life. But the school I attended was answerable both to the church, which stood across the street, and to the home. A Genuine Lunch Hour That, too, was nearby. We had one bus, for students who lived a mile away on the far end of town. Everyone else walked, including me and my sisters and brother. Many of the students lived on the neighboring hills above the school, and for them the walk home was a natural transition from being in school to being at play, outdoors—after a quick change, of course. The walk is a human thing. Not only were we outside in the fresh air, a great good in itself, but we could talk easily with one another, or dawdle at a candy store, or pass by the houses where our classmates stopped. When you walk, you gain a sense of the whole neighborhood, from the dogs and the toddlers to the old ladies on their porch swings. That is impossible on a bus. Because we lived nearby, and because the school was oriented toward the church and the home, we were given a genuine lunch hour. For a couple of years, my sister and I walked home for lunch, where my mother cooked us such glorious things as French toast or homemade pizza. Others brought their lunches in bags, drinking cartons of milk from the local creamery (as we all did, for our mid-morning break). Then we would congregate on the "playground," a blacktopped area beside the school. One or two of the nuns went outside to make sure nothing bloody went on. We played jail, tag, crack the whip, and cops and robbers. The boys flipped baseball cards against the wall, or traded them. Some kids went next-door, to the Knights of Columbus building. There they might buy some candy, or duck into the adjoining barber shop, run by an old Italian man. Some of the older kids would cross the bridge over our river and buy lunch at a little restaurant. There were no security officers, no metal detectors, no hall passes, no furloughs. As long as you were back in time, you were all right. In my six years of attendance, I cannot recall a single occasion when somebody wasn't back in time. That would have been as unthinkable as not showing up at home for supper. Learning Without Cynicism There were subtle ways, too, in which the sisters acknowledged that we were sexual beings, boys and girls, rather than indiscriminate creatures with minor differences in plumbing. Again, this was something tacitly assumed rather than consciously pursued. The boys were treated as boys. If their play got a little rough during lunch hour, it was all right. I do not remember that the nuns ever stopped what we were doing. The boys were expected, too, to do a little of the dirty work around the schoolroom, like washing the blackboards and cleaning the erasers. When the state demanded that our school offer physical education, the sisters got the bright idea to hire a dance instructor, so the boys and girls learned—along with "modern" moves laughable to remember—how to dance the polka and the waltz with one another. The curriculum could have been better. We had modern "readers," which did not include any great literature, even in excerpts, unlike the old McGuffeys. The best books were the geographies. Geography was its own subject, and a favorite of mine, as I loved to make maps, complete with cities and rivers and agricultural and industrial products. They and the histories were presented from a Catholic point of view, so we were introduced to Father Junipero Serra, John Carroll of Carrollton, and Elizabeth Ann Seton. Religion was erratic, but I do remember a splendid and eloquent old compendium of stories from the Old Testament, with accounts of the wicked King Ahab and the saintly King Josiah. Math lingered forever in arithmetic, but by the sixth grade everybody could perform all the important operations: long division, for instance, and calculating ratios and percentages. In Sister Carmene's sixth grade, we received pretty thorough instruction in English grammar. We diagrammed sentences, and not just the simple ones, either. We learned about tense, mood, voice, person, number, and case; about participles, gerunds, and infinitives; about coordinating and subordinating conjunctions; about adverbial phrases and adjectival phrases; about noun clauses and relative clauses and the rest. When I arrived in high-school Latin and German, I was surprised that my classmates from other Catholic schools did not know what the subjunctive mood was. What we did not have was cynicism. Partisan politics was absent. One day, the girls were taken aside for instruction in the female body. That was that. Everyone assumed that sexual instruction was the business of the parents, who were, after all, the employers, and who gave their children to be schooled as part of a sacred trust. Those parents would have been as astonished to find a sex-besotted curriculum as to hear that the man cleaning their septic tank was talking to their kids about hookers. The sisters remembered that their students had souls, and I suppose they prayed for us all the time, though it never occurred to me to ask. They also remembered that they were part of a community. Indeed, one of the girls from my class herself became a nun, and her younger brother became a priest, as did the son of my barber, whose wall featured a portrait of Pope Paul VI. Nor did the school invade our summers. We were left, blessedly, to live. Suppose, though, we have forgotten what a human being is. How will we build schools then? Machines for Educating The ambiguity of the subtitle above is deliberate. Is the sense of the gerund active or passive? I believe we have built schools as machines for educating, because we have assumed that children are machines for educating. We haven't forgotten that they are human beings. I'm not accusing our educators of conscious cruelty. But our view of mankind has been so impoverished by the bad philosophy of our time that, without thinking about it, we treat children as if there were no specifically human ends to be pursued by intellectual and practical virtue, and as if there were no natural goods to be sought as ends in themselves or as means towards those ends. Take the placement and size of the modern consolidated high school. The one in my town in Rhode Island will do for an example. It "serves" the teenagers of an area covering 68 square miles, with more than 30,000 inhabitants. A school large enough to accommodate so many adolescent units cannot be built in any long-settled area. It cannot be on Main Street. It cannot be across the street from a barbershop and next-door to a rectory and a church, as the high school in my hometown used to be. So it is located at a convenient distance from everyone and everything. I say "convenient" because it really is the aim of the educators to have the students isolated from the community, partly so that they won't have so much opportunity to get into trouble—for the modern school's notion of virtue is minimalist and ineffectual, consisting in keeping one's genitals healthy, not shooting people, and eating vegetables—and partly to insulate the school from chance oversight. Of the nearly one thousand young people who are amassed in the Coventry High School, not more than a dozen or so live close enough to walk to the place. So they must ride the bus; and, what with the frequent stops over so large a district, the rides can be very long. No fresh air, no exercise, no casual meeting of people along the way, no dropping into the small market, no diversion into a field for playing ball—and, most important, no daily-lived reality of belonging to a neighborhood. The Loss of Human Things These are not mere pleasures I've listed. They are human things—as necessary for a well-lived human childhood as are healthy food and drink. If it is argued that, no matter where we place the school in Coventry, almost all the students will have to ride a bus to get there, the answer should be, "And who says that there has to be only one school? Why shouldn't there be a high school for every place where a good many people live?" The answers will inevitably be some form of argument from efficiency. "We can't have five world-class swimming pools!" No doubt; but then there's no need for such, nor for most of the rest of the machinery that stocks the suburban school. As for what schools are really for, teaching students the rudiments of literature, science, history, geography, and so forth, there is no gain at all in the large school. In fact, if the "departments" at such a place enforce a conformity from class to class and teacher to teacher—not in discipline but in, say, textbooks or choice of literature—then there is a distinct loss to the common good. I can't fathom how it is a boon to the community to have a thousand youths reading Catcher in the Rye, rather than some of them reading, if their teacher is brave enough, Moby-Dick. Then there's the sheer harried rush of bodies in the large school, herded from room to room on command, and strapped into the Billows Feeding Machine for a squeezed-out twenty minutes for lunch. This managed chaos, like nails on an assembly line funneled into boxes for sale at Home Depot, is reflected also in the curriculum. For there really isn't any. If we remembered that human beings have ends, moral and intellectual, then we would wish to lead children, personally, gently, carefully, to the point where they could speak intelligently about the founding of our nation, or read Crime and Punishment, or look with knowledge at a painting by Michelangelo, or puzzle out some lines of Latin poetry. The disciplines would have to do with one another, and each would be coherently organized in itself, ordained towards some end. Units & Consolidation But instead, we treat the youths as if they were filing cabinets or computers or units of a mass electorate. We give them a unit (the word is revealing) on Egypt, then a unit on American Indians, just as one might download this program onto a computer, and then that one. We instill in them the "right" opinion regarding weather or war, so that, by the millions, they will pull the correct lever in the voting booth. We like it all the more when the opinion is accentuated by scoffing at piety, cutting oneself off from the wisdom of the ages, and parading one's higher knowledge before one's parents. This is known as "critical thinking." We build the schools flat and sprawling, like factories. The high school in my hometown, that closed its doors when "consolidation" took place (that word, too, is revealing), was built like an old courthouse or even a church. It had a tower and a belfry. The builders probably assumed that that was the way a school should look, but then we must ask why they thought so, and what view of human nature and of education it silently expressed. First, there was an embrace of beauty. The tower could not be justified on grounds of sheer utility, unless we remember that without beauty the human being starves and shrivels; it is, appropriately enough, a great disutility to be a utilitarian. But the beauty wasn't merely decorative, like a patch of flowers planted here or there. It was, visually and formally, the building's orientation and pinnacle. It was a building for people who have souls. It pointed towards the heavens. In those days, the schools had not lopped the head off the humanities; they were not allergic to the spiritual. Indeed, the teachers made sure that the Catholics among the students went once a week, after hours, to receive religious instruction at the parochial school across the street. All Hygiene, No Virtue No one would have called that building an "educational center," a term that surely shows that we haven't lost all sense of humor. For the very thing that an educational center lacks is a center. It has no heart. No surprise there—that a soulless thing should be heartless, too. There's a lot of talk about sex in such places—or rather What to Do with Those Things—but very little talk about love. No abiding love of one's country, no love of one's heritage of literature and art, and certainly no awakening love between boys and girls, to be fulfilled in marriage. It is stunning, when one steps back a moment to consider it. A thousand boys and girls in one place, their bodies sprouting hair, their bones lengthening and thickening, their hearts racing, their looks awkward and beautiful at once, and you spend a few hundred hours talking about Genital Mechanics, and not a minute about what boys and girls are like, and how they can learn to love one another as married men and women. All hygiene, no virtue. But then, cleaning is what we do to machines to keep them running well. That makes a "good" machine. I could go on: the televisions everywhere, the thoughtless submission to the god of "technology," the layers of organization, the depersonalized punishments, the imperviousness of the system to appeal by parents, the anonymity of scale. I used to say that in our country we have no compulsory education. We have compulsory schooling. Now I am wondering whether I shouldn't choose another word, at that. Anthony Esolen is Professor of English at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, and the author of The Ironies of Faith (ISI Books), The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Regnery), and Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (ISI Books). He has also translated Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata (Johns Hopkins Press) and Dante's The Divine Comedy (Random House). He is a senior editor of Touchstone. "Student Assembly" first appeared in the May/June 2012 issue of Touchstone. If you enjoyed this article, you'll find more of the same in every issue. Letters Welcome: One of the reasons Touchstone exists is to encourage conversation among Christians, so we welcome letters responding to articles or raising matters of interest to our readers. 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- On the Web
- LJ Index, March 2006
- The Edge at Micro Centers
- They Said It
- Edubuntucation
- diff -u: What's New in Kernel Development
On the Web
Are you still writing programs with the same tools and in the same manner as you did five, seven or even ten years ago? Thinking it might be time to modernize your programming arsenal? Follow along as Collin Park takes a step away from 20+ years of C coding and ventures into Python waters. In his new series on LJ.com, Collin tests out Python by putting it to work solving various puzzles, including the "Coconuts" problem (www.linuxjournal.com/article/8728) and Sudoku (www.linuxjournal.com/article/8729).
Exclusively for LJ.com readers, read an excerpt from Chapter 10, "Adding Your Code to the Kernel", of The Linux Kernel Primer: A Top-Down Approach for x86 and PowerPC Architectures (www.linuxjournal.com/8730). In our excerpt, authors Claudia Salzberg Rodriguez, Gordon Fischer and Steven Smolski "follow a device driver from how the device is represented in the filesystem...through the specific kernel code that controls it."
Finally, graduate student Ryan Mauer shares the results of his recent project on Xen. Ryan is a student of our regular LJ.com contributor Professor Richard Sevenich at Eastern Washington University. Ryan intended his project to be "an example of how Xen Virtualization can be utilized to prototype a Linux cluster with only a single physical computer, thereby minimizing the up-front hardware costs, as well as providing a way to perform a feasibility study early in the cluster implementation process." Read the article and learn the results of his work.
LJ Index, March 2006
1. Percentage of persons aged 12 to 24 who prefer MP3 players to radio: 85
2. Percentage of persons aged 12 to 24 who listen to satellite radio: 2
3. Thousands of persons in the US who downloaded a podcast during 2004: 820
4. Millions of persons in the US who downloaded a podcast during 2005: 4.8
5. Percentage of podcast listeners in the US who download on a weekly basis: 20
6. Conservative estimate of podcast listeners in the US by 2010, in millions: 45
7. Aggressive estimate of podcast listeners in the US by 2010, in millions: 75
8. Number of Google results for "podcasting" on September 25, 2004: 24
9. Millions of Google results for "podcasting" on December 6, 2005: 78
10. Thousands of Ubuntu/GNOME Linux desktops deployed in schools by Macedonia: 5
11. Number of schools to which the new Macedonian Linux desktops are going: 468
12. Number of computer labs also getting Linux desktops: 182
13. Percentage of surveyed Micro Center customers who are receptive to purchasing a Linux desktop: 75
14. Position of Red Hat in a list of popular Linux distributions: 1
15. Position of Debian among the fastest-growing Linux distributions: 1
16. Red Hat share of Linux Web servers: 34
17. Debian share of Linux Web servers: 25
18. Fedora share of Linux Web servers: 16
19. SUSE share of Linux Web servers: 11
20. Millions of active Debian sites: 1.2
1–7: Bridge Ratings
8, 9: Doc Searls
11, 12: The GNOME Journal
13: Linspire & Micro Centers
14–20: Netcraft
The Edge at Micro Centers
Micro Center is a chain of 19 computer gear stores in 13 states. You find them where techies are concentrated: Santa Clara, Tustin, Madison, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Cambridge and Fairfax. You find them on-line too at microcenter.com.
If you go into their stores, you now find desktop Linux doing something more than bringing down the price of some bottom-end Windows-less PC. Desktop Linux is actually featured. Or, in retail lingo, merchandised.
When the decision to promote desktop Linux was made, Kevin Jones, VP of Merchandising for Micro Center, sent out a letter that said:
We know we can't just randomly plunk new desktop Linux computers around our vast stores and expect them to sell well. To become viable, a product line has to be prominently displayed, easy to test drive, and be backed by both a knowledgeable salesperson and post-sale service and support. Micro Center's retail model is based on the "store within a store" concept—products are housed in their own separate sections within the store, where trained Micro Center staff can respond to questions about the specific products in their sections.
This progress isn't limited to the chain's off-line stores. A search for "linux" at microcenter.com brings up 13 pages of results. And, if you want to know one reason why the on-line store performs so well, go do "What's this site running?" at Netcraft.
Eleven servers come up, all running Linux.
They Said It
Fear, because what is free is never fully appreciated.
—Steve Gillmor, blogs.zdnet.com/Gillmor/?p=189
Remember, Linux is a species, and we aren't fighting anyone here. We are merely evolving around everyone else, until they aren't left standing because the whole ecosystem changed without them realizing it.
—Greg Kroah-Hartman, on Linux-Elitists
I knew Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.org) had reached a milestone when my friend John, a Windows expert of long standing, told me he now tests hardware combinations with Ubuntu. "When I loaded XP on this new box I put together yesterday, it was a nightmare. It couldn't find peripherals, wouldn't load all kinds of stuff. Then I booted it with Ubuntu and it found everything, just like that. So I knew the machine and the peripherals were fine."
But what's good for experts like John still might not be simple and easy enough for schools. That's why we now have Edubuntu (www.edubuntu.org), a new Ubuntu distro that's customized for classroom use. Says the edubuntu.org Wiki, "As an educator, you'll be able to set up a computer lab or establish an on-line learning environment, in an hour or less—then administer that environment without having to become a fully-fledged Linux geek."
Edubuntu is built on the 2.6 Linux kernel and GNOME 2.12. It contains more than 16,000 pieces of software and fits on a bootable CD. It is also pointedly noncommercial. The Edubuntu Manifesto begins, "Edubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for the 'enterprise edition'. We make our very best work available to everyone on the same Free terms." The Manifesto also commits to a regular and predicable six-month release schedule interval. The first official release of Edubuntu 5.10 came out on October 13, 2005. The next release should then be due in April of this year.
diff -u: What's New in Kernel Development
A new cryptographic filesystem, eCryptFS, has been sent to the kernel developers for consideration. Phillip Hellewell has been working with Michael Halcrow, who presented a detailed design of eCryptFS at the 2005 Ottowa Linux Symposium. eCryptFS may be "stacked" on top of other filesystems, using the FiST-stackable filesystem framework written by Erez Zadok. The current version supports per-mount decryption only, essentially to support testing and debugging of the basic features. Advanced policy and per-file public key support is planned after some amount of testing can be done on the existing infrastructure. One of the most interesting features of eCryptFS is that it stores its cryptographic metadata within the files themselves, allowing cool features like securely transferring files across untrusted domains.
Mark Gross submitted a special character driver for the Intel NetStructure MPCBL0010 single-board computer that will ship in the fall. The MPCBL0010 is essentially intended for use in telecom devices, which often need to synchronize their operations with other hardware. Mark's driver enables this synchronization via the onboard FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) intended for that purpose. And, a sysfs interface provides easy control over this synchronization to the system developer. Mark also included an ioctl interface, primarily so the driver could be tested under 2.4 kernels, but the ioctl probably will be dropped in any final version of the patch accepted into the 2.6 tree.
The saga of software suspend continues to be broad and sweeping. Rafael J. Wysocki recently posted some patches to split the entire swsusp infrastructure into two independent kernel subsystems. One subsystem is responsible for snapshotting the running system, and the other is responsible for reading and writing the snapshotted data to and from swap. One of the benefits of this division is that it allows a significant portion of swsusp's functioning eventually to be migrated to user-space. Aside from that, the new system allows more memory efficiency, and it does away with certain size limitations and reliance on global variables. Pavel Machek also has gone over these patches and approved them. As we watch big changes like code forks, reunifications, subsystem divisions and so on, it's important to remember that in the beginning, software suspend was deemed impossible because certain hardware state just couldn't be saved. It's no surprise that this feature's problems remain large.
The git revision control system continues to develop at a hot pace. If you haven't tried it, you should. The Ubuntu distribution's kernel development is now done with git, and ethtool development recently migrated to git as well. As a side point, it was pointed out recently to Randal L. Schwartz (now using git for Web site development) that git is binary-safe and easily handles image files, compressed tarballs and anything else one might throw at it. Other folks, like Jeff Garzik, have been experimenting with creating a peer-to-peer storage back end for git, allowing users to query a larger git network, rather than a single standalone system. File renaming in git continues to be a hard sell from Linus Torvalds, as he insists that rename tracking can be done automatically and does not require the user informing the system of a rename. Although no longer the primary git maintainer, Linus continues to influence development strongly, and he remains the biggest evangelist of git features, often pointing out powerful and non-obvious idioms to mailing-list readers.
Adrian Bunk has taken over from Rusty Russell as the Trivial Patch Monkey maintainer. As created by Rusty, the Trivial Patch Monkey collects and submits patches that are so trivial they could not possibly be wrong. Originally, many such trivial patches would get lost in the shuffle. Contributors wouldn't know precisely where to submit them, and the developers who might receive them (including Linus Torvalds) often just let them drop on the floor, choosing instead to focus on more significant work. Rusty decided to pick up these patches and submit them regularly until they finally would be accepted. With each kernel release, he would initiate the semi-automated process of sending these patches along, with the form and timing most likely to appeal to Linus. Now Rusty has apparently moved on, and Adrian will perform a similar task. The Trivial Patch Monkey is not unlike the new w.x.y.z stable tree (dubbed the sucker tree by Linus). Both are largely thankless tasks that lack the thrill of participating in new feature development. And, both make a large difference to the community, though we don't spend much time thinking about them.
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I am interested in starting an online store but i am unsure quiet how it works. I want to buy wholesale on an as needed basis so that i dont have to keep merchandise on hand. Is this even possible to do? If so, any suggestions?
This is a discussion on Questions about starting an online store within the FFL Dealer Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; I am interested in starting an online store but i am unsure quiet how it works. I want to buy wholesale on an as needed ...
I am interested in starting an online store but i am unsure quiet how it works. I want to buy wholesale on an as needed basis so that i dont have to keep merchandise on hand. Is this even possible to do? If so, any suggestions?
It is possible but there is a lot of compitition out there and the margin on firearms is not much. I don't say this to discourage you but getting a real working retail website up and running is a big undertaking unless you are knowledgable of such matters. Being able to accept credit cards is nearly a must in todays economy and everyone wants their item as soon as possible. Be vary cautious in dealing with credit card (murchant services) companies. You can get had in secounds and be liable of years of payments, fees, surcharges, chargbacks and equipment costs. Getting your 01-FFL is not difficult at all. Getting your vendors setup is another matter entirely. Of course you can use Gunbroker, Davidsons and a host of others to market your wares. Sales tax permits (where applicable) are a must as well as a local business license which is almost manditory for getting a FFL and a Employeer Identification Number (EIN) even of you have no employees in order to comply with federal regulations and open a bank account.
If you look through the threads in this forum you will find a post of how I started. I will be happy to try to answer any questions you may have. I am making a little money and selling a few firearms. Perhaps the most rewarding part of this is working with people on a one-on-one basis, face to face. I only sell by appointment so I can give a customer the attention they deserve in choosing a handgun since that is all I deal with other than the occasional accessorie. I do sell and customize rifles (AR) and normally get the customer physically involved in the installation of accessories. In reality, it is their rifle and they should know every aspect of it.
I wish you my best!
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Your reply is very helpful and i have read the previous post but still have unanswered questions. I am looking to sell mostly class 3 weapons and eventually maybe do some gunsmithing involving cerakote finishing. I am a total begginer at all of this so step by step instructions are necessary. i do have a business licence and an EIN # from an existing business. Im trying to find out if im doing an online bunshop from my existing business if it is zoned right. trying to get all of the info before I filke for my FFL and have a viable plan.If You have more information i would greatly appreciate any you will give. My personall email is email@example.com. Thank you for your reply
I don't have any knowledge or experience as to the legality of selling firearms, but PLEASE talk to your CPA about the tax implications. Online sales can get tricky when sales tax is involved, and if you don't know right off the bat what and who you're responsible to pay you can end up with thousands of dollars in penalties and interest. I've seen it happen to way too many well-intentioned small business owners.
Other than that, good luck with your endeavor! Helping people start new small businesses is my FAVORITE part of my job. Entrepreneurship is in my blood
ETA: Going to your local SBDC would probably open up a lot of resources, too. Most of the time they are at a business school and consultations are free. https://www.tsbdc.org/
Thank you very much lyz_grace for that bit of information its greatly appreciated
I spoke with the Tn Dept of Revenue they told me that i only have to pay taxes on items bought here in my state, on out of state purchases i dont have to do anything but report the dollar amount to them of the items purchased. They said i dont have to pay sales tax to any other state or do anything else, does anyone ahave any knowledge of this?
IN KENTUCKY... If I buy from a wholesaler in another state [who has a copy of my retail sales tax permit] I will pay no sales tax on the purchase. However when I sell the item [in Kentucky] I would collect 6.00%of the total sale and pay it to the Kentucky Department of Revenue. Now if I do the same thing but I subsiquently sell the item to a dealer in another state, I would have to have a copy of their State Sales Tax license [typically a standard state specific "blanket purchase" form indicating they are exempt from pay sales tax on purchases] then they sell the item and collect the sales tax for their state.
lzy_grace is right. Sales tax is a booger. But if you keep your ducks in a row you will not have any problems. Economic conditions being what they are however the collection of state sales tax is low-hanging fruit for revenue and scrutinization of interstate sales is a wide open avenue to finding more revenue. Kentucky is pretty much middle of the road on sales tax. They don't bother you unless you mess up. By far the worst thing you can do in Kentucky is pay sales tax late. One day late will get you a fine which is a precentage of the tax owned, the tax owed and a penalty fee for filing late. You might owe say, $10.00, but if it is received it will cost you something like $0.20 + 10.00 late fee and a $5.00 penalty = $15.20 + the original $10.00 for a nice total of, $25.20.
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If we are deavating a bit too far from the core focus of the forum with business related chatter, please advise and we can take this to PMs.
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The big hangup you may encounter is that some of the wholesalers or manufacturers may require a contract whereby you guarantee to buy x amount of product per year. I just don't see how doing it on an as needed basis would be profitable. The main reason is the shop that spends 10 thousand a year on product is not going to be happy if they find out the distributor is selling to you at the same discount but you are only buying 500 bucks a year. I know because I used to raise cain with my distributors for doing just that. They would sell to a private individual that was running a business out of their garage and the rest of us were paying brick and mortar rent.
Ever been in the HVAC business? This is exactally how, Trane, American Standard and several others work. And.. This is exactally why you see long-time Trane and American Standard dealers moving to Bryant and other brands. Ran into a local HVAC/R distributor selling refrigeration equiment to the end user at the same price I as a retailer/installer was buying it for. So the end user would get it wholesale and have me install it and if there was a problem with the equipment I have to fix it free or suddenly become the bad guy for trying to make a living.
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Manufacturers would soon find themselves out of business if they only sold to the end user. The reason being is that their market is limited to only those that are willing to buy their brand. Some manufacturers will repackage the same product but under a different name and sell to the big box retailers. I was a small business and am not anti small business but it becomes very difficult to stay afloat paying rent, utilities, taxes, insurance and all the other aggravations of being a brick and mortar when the manufacturer sells the same discounted stuff to the guy selling out of the garage. If I could figure out a way to reduce my overhead to .03% I could put walmart out of business.


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Here's a bit of troubling news about our search for the perfect parma – We're running out of pubs in the city. It's nothing to be too worried about, our "parmas to try" list is still over 100 pubs long, but of that list only about five are in what I'd consider to be in the CBD....+
Attempt #214 – 'Junction Beer Hall & Wine Room'
For parmas this week I opened up our map and thought to myself "where haven't we been", keeping an eye out for what I have dubbed "blackspots" – Suburbs in which we have yet to do a parma review. For some reason my eye was drawn to the west of Melbourne. We've done a...+
Attempt #213 – 'The Gasometer Hotel'
I've passed the Gasometer a few times and its always intrigued me. I can't quite say why it was at the top of our list this week, it just was. The Gaso has a bit of a history. After it opened originally as The Gasometer it became Father Flanagan's, an Irish pub (and you can...+
Attempt #212 – 'Bridie O'Reilly's $4.50 parma special'
The day that Bridie's announced their $4.50 parma special was the day my inbox exploded. Not just my inbox, but I was inundated with messages on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram … basically every form of social media we have (Bridies even sent me a flyer in the post about it after I wound up on...+
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If you're ever walking out of a game of footy at Etihad stadium and think to yourself "I want to have a beer in a massive warehouse", then the Woolshed Pub is the spot for you. Situated around the back of the stadium, between Etihad and the water, lies the Woolshed Pub, and (despite...+


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A nautical star symbolizes the North Star and is seen as a guiding light. This star is an outdoor lantern that can be hung on your porch to represent the importance of home and finding your way back to loved ones.
As a little girl, I remember hunting through fields of clover to try and find one of the four-leaf variety. This Irish charm always eluded me as a child, but now that I am an adult, this pressed clover print seems like quite the lucky find indeed.
There is something nostalgic about pressed flowers; it's like a reminder of a simpler time, but this artwork still feels very modern. It would look great in a clean, white space.
There is something nostalgic about pressed flowers; it's like a reminder of a simpler time, but this artwork still feels very modern. It would look great in a clean, white space.
Breaking wishbones isn't just for Thanksgiving anymore. With these plastic ones, you can make a wish anytime you want.
The New Year's tradition of eating 12 grapes on the 12 strokes of midnight is one that hails from Spain. The grapes are supposed to bring prosperity for the year ahead.
This antique grape lug was an essential for farmers during the harvest season, but now you can use it for storage, organization or planting plants. It will hold a lot of grapes as well, so you can keep some on hand whenever need a little extra luck.
This antique grape lug was an essential for farmers during the harvest season, but now you can use it for storage, organization or planting plants. It will hold a lot of grapes as well, so you can keep some on hand whenever need a little extra luck.
The ancient Egyptians considered ladders to be lucky, a way for them to climb into the heavens in the afterlife. This rustic ladder would make a great display piece, and the steps can double as shelves for books and collectibles. It may not be needed to climb heavenward, but it would have great presence in a living room or bedroom.
It might be rare to have ladybugs land on you, granting you their good fortune, but it is possible to have them land in your cereal bowl every morning. This whimsical child's bowl, which isn't necessarily reserved for children, has an illustration of the little bugs at the bottom. After your last few bites of Cheerios, they will reveal themselves and send you on your way feeling quite lucky.
The acorn and the oak tree are seen as lucky symbols in Norse folklore. People of this culture will traditionally place an acorn on their windowsills to protect their homes from lightning. This acorn wind chime would be a nice substitute to hang on your porch or patio. It may not ward off lightning, but it will still sound lovely as it blows in the wind.
A lucky oak tree is hand-printed on cotton linen in this beautiful pillow design. I love the rustic materials and colors, and I could envision this pillow placed on outdoor furniture for some extra comfort or on a white sofa for a pop of color.
Keys were seen as important symbols in ancient Greek, Roman and Japanese cultures, as they were significant in matters of the heart, of health and of wealth. I would like to think these skeleton key pillows would grant you beautiful dreams, as well as spruce up your bed with some shabby-chic flair.
A key may be lucky, but what about a key that doubles as a corkscrew? I think that is extra good fortune! Gift this corkscrew to your favorite wine connoisseur, and hopefully he or she will have luck all year long with their vintages.
A gift of bamboo is good luck, and the recipient of this handmade bamboo cutting board would be quite fortunate indeed.
This is a perfect hostess gift because it can be personalized to the state of your choosing, and a small heart can be engraved on your favorite city. It is very original and a total conversation piece.
This is a perfect hostess gift because it can be personalized to the state of your choosing, and a small heart can be engraved on your favorite city. It is very original and a total conversation piece.
Elephants are good luck symbols, and they represent longevity and wisdom. Even this mini elephant will do the trick and be such a sweet addition at snack time. And because this little bowl is made out of recycled materials, it is lucky for the planet as well.
In England it is tradition that both white and brown eggs bring luck and happiness. Gifting a real egg can get tricky, but this birch egg ornament comes flat and packaged like a postcard. Its pieces are easy to assemble, and once together, it can hang and bring prosperity all year long.
If you are going to eat some real eggs this New Year's, these egg cups are a beautiful way to display them. They're made from Acacia wood with environmentally friendly techniques. The wood grain texture is so rich, and the design is perfectly simple.
Chinese and European cultures see the pig as good luck and often depict them on charms or tokens. This ceramic white pig is actually a speaker that connects with your MP3 player. It can pull double-duty as a cute sculpture too, while still being discreet about its speaker capabilities.
This gold acorn can be worn on a charm necklace or even put on a key ring so that the good fortune it brings can go wherever you do.
This elephant wall hook may be double the luck, but it does triple the work with three hooks. The material is cast iron, but I love the weathered white paint. It feels like a great flea market find but without all the time spent searching for it.
In the Chinese culture, red lanterns are a good luck symbol. This string of luminous, woven cotton orbs is not quite your traditional lantern, but the effect may be just as magical. I believe that nothing cheers up a space more than sparkly lights, and with the plethora of colors to choose from, these garlands are quite the lucky find.
This is another lucky yet highly functional elephant, this time in the form of a wood clock. The design is laser cut from bamboo, so this gift would bring extra prosperity into your home. This clock is fun and modern, perfect for children of design-conscious parents.
This sweet piggy is made from reclaimed wood and handmade in England. The jute twine tail and ribbon add the perfect touch of texture. Perch him on a shelf amid some antique treasures to spread luck and cheer to all who see him.
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Long term unemployed people will have their benefits cut unless they visit a Job Centre everyday, undertake voluntary work or undertake training. If those out of work fail to partake in one of these tasks they will initially lose four weeks Job Seekers Allowance in the first instance then 13 weeks for a second failure.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, James Caan, the Government's new Social Mobility Tsar says that parents should not help their children to get a job. Instead they should encourage kids to make their own way. The reason he gives is that when parents hold back they help their children to develop. I agree, but for a different reason.
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March 25, 2013
Vipar Heavy Duty and Accuride announced a new three year agreement where Vipar HD will offer Accuride Wheels, Gunite wheel-end components and Imperial Group products. Products in the program include wheel band spacers, steel and aluminum wheels, and demountable rims from Accuride Wheels; brake drums, spoke wheels, air disc brakes, rotors, disc wheel hubs and automatic slack adjusters from Gunite; and Imperial fuel tanks, in-frame battery boxes and custom fit bumpers.
"Vipar Heavy Duty has had a long term relationship with Accuride Corporation in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico," said Steve Crowley, president and CEO, Vipar Heavy Duty. "This new agreement recognizes the strong commitment that Accuride continues to show in the aftermarket through their investment in the infrastructure and personnel to support this program."
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Pending federal charge filed against former Marshall police officer
Marshall — A former Marshall Police Department narcotics officer is accused of alerting a drug dealer that he was being investigated.
The federal charges against William "Brody" West were filed Aug. 5 in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas in Marshall.
He is charged with misprision of a felony, which accuses him of withholding information on a crime or deliberately concealing knowledge of a felony.
Court documents show that in March 2012, West sent a text to a person who was selling cocaine to "shut it down" after West found out that law enforcement officers were investigating the drug dealer.
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Why 3D Systems Will Revolutionize Manufacturing
I'm hanging tough with my holdings in 3D Systems (DDD) and the iShares Nasdaq Biotech ETF (IBB). My reasons are pretty straightforward.
I personally believe 3D-printing is going to revolutionize manufacturing on Earth. We've only seen the beginning. This specific company is the leader in the field. There's nothing blue sky about it.
The company turns a profit, and I believe will soon even pay a small dividend. The market is absurdly manic-depressive in its appraisal of this equity. I have no idea what's going to happen to this stock over the short-term... nor does anybody else. Over the long-term, though, it's the best bet I know, and that's why I'm loaded up with it.
IBB, the ETF for the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index, is my second holding. Trying to pick the winners and avoid the losers in biotechnology is practically impossible for someone without inside information. On the other hand, the field as a whole is finally beginning to bear fruit, and the future appears very bright. This is a way for me to diversify. That's my rationale.
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Hollywood Highlights for the week of July 25
Welcome to the slightly belated third edition of Hollywood Highlights. Let's get to this week's biggest entertainment news. First, some breaking news out of San Diego Comic Con: Courtesy of director Zack Snyder, we have our first image of what Wonder Woman will look like in "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice." There was also a short teaser, which hasn't been released but is pretty well described here by IGN. I'll do a further rundown of my thoughts on Wonder… Read More »


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While doing business in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, Fred Koch witnessed the brutality of Joseph Stalin's regime. He returned to the United States a free-market evangelist. "[My father] was constantly speaking to us children about what was wrong with government," David Koch told author Brian Doherty in Radicals for Capitalism, a history of the libertarian movement. "It's something I grew up with—a fundamental point of view that big government was bad."
When his father died in 1967, Charles Koch inherited a large fortune and became CEO of the family business. Today Koch Industries—which produces everything from fertilizer to Dixie cups—is the nation's second-largest private company, generating nearly $100 billion in revenue in 2011.
In 1962, Charles Koch began reading about Austrian economics, a staunchly free-market philosophy often embraced by libertarians. "I spent the next two years almost like a hermit, surrounded by books," he told the Wall Street Journal in 1997. He attended lectures at the Freedom School, a Colorado Springs institution led by prominent libertarian scholars. As Koch Industries expanded, he emerged as the libertarian movement's leading patron. The network of libertarian groups he bankrolled became known as the Kochtopus.
Charles Koch and Ed Crane met when Koch hosted a Roger MacBride campaign fundraiser at his Wichita home. Crane was impressed by Koch's commitment to libertarian principles. "He was more hard-core than I was," Crane says.
As the campaign wrapped up—with MacBride receiving 0.2 percent of the popular vote—Crane looked forward to moving back to California and resuming his career in finance. But Koch approached him with a question: "What would it take to keep you in the movement?"
During his time in Washington, Crane had been impressed by the think-tank establishment, especially the conservative American Enterprise Institute and the liberal Brookings Institution, both of which he saw as able to influence policy in meaningful ways.
"It would be nice to have a libertarian think tank," Crane told Koch. "But you don't want me to run it, because I am going back to California."
Koch offered to build a libertarian think tank in California if Crane would run it. Crane agreed.
To create the new think tank, Koch changed the name of a Kansas nonprofit he had formed in 1974—the Charles Koch Foundation—to the Cato Institute. The name referred to Cato's Letters, a collection of essays on political liberty that influenced the American Revolution.
In a highly unusual step, Koch structured Cato as a stock organization. Cato's shareholders were empowered to appoint a board of directors, which would oversee the institute's management. Kansas is among the few states that permit nonprofits to issue stock.
"Scuttlebutt around the Kochtopus offices in the late '70s and early '80s was that Charles had put it in place to protect his own interests: If he was funding this organization, he didn't want it saying or doing things he deplored—things that would embarrass him," Jeff Riggenbach, who joined Cato in 1978, said via e-mail. "He wanted to retain the ability to pull the plug."
Cato's five original shareholders were Koch, Crane, MacBride, libertarian economist Murray Rothbard, and George Pearson, a former employee of Koch's. Koch "liked the idea of being in control of things even though he is not recognized as being in control," says David Gordon, who worked at Cato in 1979 and 1980. "He picked the people as stockholders because he thought they would do what he wanted."
Crane didn't realize how peculiar this corporate structure was. He signed the shareholder agreement and paid $12 for a dozen shares of Cato stock.
Cato christened its San Francisco headquarters in 1977. Its mission was to insert libertarian ideas into the national discourse through academic research, a daily radio program, and a monthly magazine, Inquiry.
Crane was just 32 when he became Cato's CEO. His management style was criticized by some as tyrannical, and he became known in libertarian circles as Boss Crane. His allies were called the Crane Machine.
Early employees, however, say Koch was Cato's real monarch. He and Crane spoke nearly every day by phone. "Ed Crane would always call Wichita and run everything by Charles," Gordon says. "It was quite clear that Koch was in charge." Koch traveled to San Francisco every couple of months to meet with Crane and the staff. "Whatever Charles said went," says Ronald Hamowy, an early Cato employee.
But in communicating with Cato employees, Koch could be frustratingly passive-aggressive. When Riggenbach suggested recruiting '60s activist Abbie Hoffman for Cato's radio program, Koch seemed surprised but didn't say what he thought. "Ed had to tell me later how much Charles really hated the idea," Riggenbach says. "He had to explain to me further why I should have understood Charles's brief comments as a strict order to scotch any such plan."
While other libertarians believed it would take generations for their ideas to trigger broad reform, Koch was less patient, Riggenbach says: "He expected to see results from his investment in the popularization of ideas, and he expected to see them within his lifetime."
Crane and Koch became close friends. They traveled to the Soviet Union together in 1981, taking a train from Finland to St. Petersburg. They visited China in 1983, lodging at the same state guesthouse where President Nixon had stayed in 1972. Their political views were nearly identical. Says Charles Murray, an AEI scholar who has known Crane and Koch since the 1980s: "I don't think you could get a piece of paper between them."
Crane took a leave of absence from Cato to run the 1980 presidential campaign of Libertarian candidate Ed Clark. By selecting Charles Koch's brother David as the vice-presidential candidate, the campaign was able to gain access to David Koch's personal wealth without violating campaign-finance laws. In the end, Clark received more than 1 percent of the popular vote—to this day the best-ever showing for a Libertarian presidential candidate.
Meanwhile, Crane and Charles Koch struggled to keep Cato's staff united; internal feuds were common during Cato's early years. Shortly after the 1980 election, Cato shareholder Murray Rothbard blasted the Clark campaign—which Crane had managed—for watering down libertarian tax ideals in the hope of attracting voters. "They sold their souls—ours, unfortunately, along with it—for a mess of pottage," Rothbard wrote in a libertarian journal.
Rothbard was fired from Cato. He claimed that his shares of Cato stock, which were held in Charles Koch's Wichita office, were canceled. Rothbard accused Crane and Koch of breaking the law and violating libertarian principles. "This movement is too big for any set of power-hungry villains to control," Rothbard wrote.
(Rothbard is rumored to have written some of the racist passages in Ron Paul's newsletter that drew national attention during this year's Republican presidential primary. He died in 1995.)


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text: Between the cities of Barcelona and Tarragona, near the coast and with the mountains of Montserrat on the horizon, LAlt Penedès is the land of the vine. The wines and cavas made here lend recognition to the name of this region, which has a host of treasures to discover, such as the archaeological site and Olèrdola Park, an area settled in the Neolithic Age, fortified by the Iberians and a strategic centre in the Middle Ages. Or there is the historical monuments of Sant Martí Sarroca, which include the Church of Santa Maria, a jewel of European Romanesque. Catalan Art Nouveau (known as Modernisme) left its mark on Gelida, Sant Sadurní and Vilafranca, towns with trails to walk in search of architecture and art from the turn of the twentieth century. Wine, the mainstay of the region, is represented in the Vinseum de Vilafranca, a museum dedicated to the culture of wine in Catalonia, which is a dynamic cultural space adapted to the demands for information of the twenty-first century.


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Saturday, February 11
Clune Arena
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USAFA, CO (Sports Network) - Joe Hanstad led five teammates in double figures with 19 points as the Boise State Broncos took down the Air Force Falcons 72-61 at Clune Arena for their first Mountain West Conference.
Anthony Drmic tallied a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds for Boise State (11-12, 1-7 MVC), which snaps an eight game losing streak. Derrick Marks and Drew Wiley each scored 11 points for the Broncos while Kenny Buckner added 10.
For Air Force (11-11, 1-7), Michael Lyons scored a game-high 24 points, Taylor Broekhuis added 10 points and eight boards and Todd Fletcher dished out nine assists. This was interim head coach Dave Pilipovich's first game at the helm for the Falcons.
While both teams shot 9-of-25 from the floor in the first half, Boise State was able to take a 27-24 lead into the break by converting all five of its free throw attempts. Air Force went just 2-of-7 from the line in the half.
Boise State pulled away in the second half by improving its field goal shooting to 48 percent. The Broncos never trailed after halftime.
Boise State finished 21-of-25 from the foul line and outrebounded Air Force, 39-27.
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I regret to announce that we've possibly lost a brother in David Reynolds, a Lieutenant in the New Hope Volunteer Fire Dept. He has been missing since Wednesday after he was involved in a boating accident. There was one confirmed fatality in the incident, and with the weather being on the cold side, things are looking rather dreary. Please keep his family and brothers in New Hope in your prayers.
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From Katrina to snowmageddon: lessons government should learn
(Read article summary)From Katrina to the Christmas blizzard to river floods, the government has botched natural disaster relief management. Here's how to do it right.
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As Mike Bloomberg just learned in the Great Snow Mess of December 2010, people want a lot of services from government when a weather shock takes place. People want the wise government to anticipate how nasty the snow storm will be, to correctly warn the people, and to have the resources to have an ample fast clean up crew ready once the weather event has played out and dumped a lot of snow.
In the real world, this hasn't been how things have worked. Consider the Nashville Floods of 2010. source
"The National Weather Service failed to warn of major flooding in Nashville in the spring until after it had already taken place, and residents did not heed warnings because they didn't reflect the urgency of the flooding, which killed 22 people around the state, a new report shows.
The report released by the weather service on Wenesday found that the agency's river forecasters ignored two models that showed more accurate flood predictions for the Cumberland River. Instead forecasters favored a model that relied on inaccurate and untimely information from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The weather service continued to use that data despite observations on the ground that proved their flood predictions were inaccurate."


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White Castle is issuing a call for entries for its 13th Annual Cravers Hall of Fame Contest. Cravers have until July 31 to submit their entry for the 2013 contest.
The Hall of Fame was established in 2001, and 9,545 Cravers have vied for the honor of a Cravers Hall of Fame induction. The hall is home to 147 inductees. All stories are celebrated in the Hall of Fame section of the White Castle website.
"If you've gone to great lengths to satisfy your desire for the steam-grilled-on-a-bed-of-onions taste of The Original Slider, then you may have what it takes to become a member of the Cravers Hall of Fame," said Jamie Richardson, vice president of White Castle. "At White Castle we strive to feed the souls of Craver generations everywhere, but especially for those who support us most passionately."
Winning Cravers are invited to Columbus, Ohio, to attend the Hall of Fame induction ceremony this fall. Cravers can submit original stories about their relationship with White Castle, why White Castle is meaningful to them, and the efforts they have made to satisfy cravings for all the menu items at whitecastle.com/cravers/hall-of-fame/new. Stories are evaluated for originality, duration and extent of the "Crave."
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Allis Chalmers Tractor Musuem
Come visit this private collection of Allis Chalmers tractor models made from 1914-1957. Open for free by appointment or chance.
CITY: Paris
Ambero Antiques and Decorative Arts
Located on the west side of the historical Courthouse square in Charleston, IL, Ambero Antiques & Decorative Arts provides authentic antique, vintage, and contemporary furnishings at fair prices. Here you will find an eclectic mix of furniture, mirrors, art, ceramics, metalwares, textiles, and jewelry.
CITY: Charleston
Ambraw River Trading Company
With a large red barn and "Mary's Wash House" full of early country and primitive furniture and accessories.
CITY: Hidalgo
Andrew's at the Westbrook
Fine Euro-American dining in an elegant country atmosphere. Fresh fish and pastries with a French flair. Small vineyard with wine available for purchase.
CITY: Paris
Arvin Motel
Conveniently located on IL 33 in Robinson, with well-kept rooms featuring wall-mounted flat screen television. Very reasonable room rates. Handicap accessible facility.
CITY: Robinson
Barkley Farms
Perennials are popping up everywhere on this Paris farm. Visitors are invited to wander the gardens to see the variety of plants that are grown and sold here.
CITY: Paris
Bent Tree Country Club
This 18-hole, par 70 course is a challenge for players of all levels.
CITY: Charleston
Best Western Robinson Inn
Luxurious rooms, meeting rooms and many other amenities await travelers. Handicap rooms, fitness center, pet friendly.
CITY: Robinson
Black Hawk Park
The city of Paris operates this property on Twin Lakes. Wander the trails to see plants and animals that live in the woods, on marshy land and on the lake. Special nesting boxes have brough bluebirds to the meadows.
CITY: Paris
Budget Host
Clean Rooms! Free Coffee, Free HBO, Free Local Calls, Microwave & Refrigerator Available, Weekly & Monthly Rates Available, Food Nearby.
CITY: Greenup
Budget Host
29 units with smoking and non-smoking. Two queen beds are in a standard room.
CITY: Greenup
Calico Basket
Country gift shop, collectibles, pictures, Pipka Lizzi High dolls, Santa's Pat Richter pictures, year-round holiday room, and Yankee candles.
CITY: Paris
Cameo Vineyards
This family-owned winery manages seven acres of French-American hybrid grapevines and makes eight different wines, including reds, whites and blushes. A gift shop, and complimentary tastings and tours, are available.
CITY: Greenup
Castle Finn Winery
Located among the rolling hills and farmland, this central Illinois winery offers more than just wines. The facility offers a stoned back patio, tree-lined pond, and a banquet hall. We welcome weddings, ceremonies, birthday parties, corporate retreats and other special events. Be sure to check our website for event dates for dinner theater productions and live music.
CITY: Marshall
Charleston Alley Theatre
Located in the historic courthouse square. A local theater at its best. In an intimate setting, offering a wonderful mix of old and new drama.
CITY: Charleston
Charleston Historic District
Downtown Charleston includes a historic courthouse and many historic homes listed on both the Coles County Register for Significant Places and the National Register of Historic Places.
CITY: Charleston
Charleston Putt-n-Swing
This family fun spot features an 18-hole miniature golf course and batting cages.
CITY: Charleston
Clark County Genealogical Library
You'll find census records, newspaper clippings, birth and marriage records, and other files of interest helpful to geneological research.
CITY: Marshall
Clark County Museum
The Clark County Historical Society is dedicated to the preservation and education of all things pertaining to the people and places of Clark County, Illinois. Learn about the Lincoln-Douglas debates and unique area country architecture here.
CITY: Marshall