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Ralph 'Ted' Rosselli, Sr. , 87
of Clearfield died on Sunday, February 23, 2014 at the Christ the King Manor, DuBois.
He was born on February 5, 1927 in Clearfield, a son of the late Ernest and Mary (DeLappa) Rosselli.
Mr. Rosselli owned and operated Rosselli TV Sales in Clearfield from 1953 until 1984. He continued working in the business with his son until 2006.
He served with the US Navy during WW II.
Following his time in the service, he graduated from Temple University.
He was a member of St. Francis Catholic Church, Clearfield, the Clearfield Sons of Italy Lodge and the Clearfield American Legion John Lewis Shade Post #6.
He is survived by two sons, Ernest Rosselli of Rockton and Ralph 'Ted' Rosselli, Jr. and wife Yvonne (McDowell) Rosselli of Du Bois; four grandchildren, Christy Albertson and husband Kevin, Chad Rosselli and wife Morgan, Angela Rosselli, Amy Gilga and husband Chris; five great grandchildren; a sister, Alice 'Dolly' Centra of Clearfield; and numerous nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Nickoletta R. (Fama) Rosselli on September 30, 2008 and whom he wed August 22, 1953 in St. Francis Church, Clearfield. He was also preceded in death by four brothers, Robert, Anthony and John Rosselli and Ernest Rosselli Jr.; a step sister, Mary Miller; and a step brother, Joseph Rosselli.
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Posted 07 May 2005 - 03:02 PM
i have found a debate on shia chat .com that how many shia / sunni scholors r converted into sunni or shia scholars http://islamic-forum...tyle_emoticons/default/image001.gif
So i also want to continue that one on here. and i am thinking that more and more people will give their information about this. Thanx.
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Ayatullah Abu Alfathel Alburqai
His full name is: Abulfadhal the son of Al-Hasan the son of Hijjat Al-Islam Al-Sayyid Ahmed the son of Ridha Al-Deen the son of Al-Sayyid Yahya the son of Mirza Meeran the son of Yahya the son of Meer Muhsin the son of Meer Ridha Al-Deen the son of Al-Sayyid Muhamed the son of Meer Fakhr Al-Deen the son of Meer Hussain the son of Badshah the son of Meer Abu Al-Qasim the son of Meerah the son of Abu Al-Fadhal the son of Bindaar the son of Isa the son of Abi Jaffar Muhamed the son of Abu Al-Qasim the son of Ali the son of Ali Muhamed the son of Ahmed the son of Muhamed the lame the son of Al-Sayyid Ahmed the son of Mousa Al-Mubarqi�e the son of Al-Imam Muhamed Al-Taqi the son of Al-Imam Ali bin Mousa Al-Ridha the son of Al-Imam Mousa bin Jaffar Al-Khadhim the son of Al-Imam Jaffar bin Muhamed Al-Saddiq the son of Al-Imam Muhamed bin Ali Al-Baqir the son of Al-Imam Ali bin Al-Hussain Zaynul A�abideen the son of Al-Imam Al-Hussain bin Ali bin Abi Talib the son of Al-Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased at them all.
He was nicknamed Al-Burqu�ei in relation to his grandfather Al-Sayyid Mousa Al-Mubarqa�a.
His Quest for Knowledge:
Ayatullah Al-Uthma Abu Al-Fadhl Al-Barqa�ei sought knowledge from the following scholars:
- Al-Sheikh Abdul Kareem Al-Ha�eiri Al-Yazdi,
- Ayatullah Hujjat Koh Kamrah,
- Ayatullah Al-Sayyid Abul Hassan Al-Esfihani,
- Al-Haaj Al-Sheikh Muhamed Ali Al-Qummi,
- Mirza Muhamed Al-Samera�ei,
- Al-Haaj Al-Shiekh Abdul Nabi Al-A�araki,
- Al-Qassim Al-Kabeer Al-Qummi,
- Ayatullah Shah A�abadi, and many other scholars
The Phenomenon of Ayatullah Al-Barqa�ei:
In matter of fact, Al-Barqa�ei, may Allah have mercy on his soul, was part of a phenomenon that we need to understand and try to spread and adopt. This phenomenon that we are talking about is the guidance of some Shia scholars to Islam and their realization of the falsehood of their previous sect. Al-Barqa�ei mentioned in his book �The Destruction of the Idol� or �Kasr Al-Sanam� that he was influenced by Mustafa Tabteba�ei. Tabteba�ei had graduated from the Shia schools in Qumm, the holy Shia city, reached the degree of Ijtihad � the right to deduce fatwas from Sharia - , and then left Shiasim. Other prominent Shias who left Shiasim include but not limited to the following:
- Dr. Ali Muthfarian who was a surgeon and left Shiasim to become the prayer Imam for Ahl Al-Sunnah mosque in Shiraz,
- Mousa Al-Mosavi who resolved on correcting the path of Shiasim and in the process wrote many books including: Shiasim and Correction (Al-Shia wa Al-Tasheeh), O� Shia of the World, Wake up (Ya Shiat Al-A�alam, Estayqathou), The Miserable Revolution (Al-Thawrah Al-Ba�eisah), and many other books.
- Ahmed Kasravi: a prominent Shia judge and writer, who left Shiasim to be later assassinated by extremist Shias, and wrote a book named Shiasim and Shia (Al-Tashayu�a wa Al-Shia), and
- Ahmed Al-Katib, a Shia who rejected the hypothesis of the birth of the Awaited One Muhamed bin Al-Hasan Al-Haskari aka Lord of All Ages and invalidated all of the historical Shia stories regarding this matter, story after story.
His Suffering, May Allah Have Mercy on His Soul:
After ordering him to fear Allah, to establish regular prayer, enjoin what is just, and forbid what is wrong, Luqman said to his son, �and bear with patient constancy whatever betide thee,� because every reformer who calls for reforms suffers from pain and is always surrounded by rumors.
At the time of the Shah, and through the instigation of Ayatullah Shari�timdari, the leader of Shias at that time, Al-Burqa�ei was imprisoned, tortured, and then exiled. Ayatullah Shari�timdari managed to gather six thousand signatures, and that resulted in expelling Al-Burqa�ei from the mosque that he was its leader. The mosque is located in Tehran. Since the Shah�s government was secular in nature, he showed indifference towards what Al-Barqa�ei was doing i.e. refuting the beliefs of Shiasim. However, the increased instigation and hatred from Shia scholars lead to cast some suffering on Al-Barqa�ei.
However, the true suffering and the greatest agony started after the Iranian Revolution. The Shia scholars tormented him, and encouraged the ignorant people to attack him. As a result, his house was attacked many times. And when the regime noticed that he is not refraining from telling the truth with great courage and that he is continuing in his activities, though in a small scale, then the regime instructed one of its followers to assassin him as they tried to do the same thing with Haydar Ali Qalamdaran, may Allah have mercy on his soul, who left Shiasim long time ago. The person who tried to assassin Haydar Ali was one of the scholars of Qumm who visited Haydar Ali in the beginning days of the revolution to kill him with a knife. However, Haydar Ali managed to flee away, and lived for many years afterwards.
However, the Shia regime was much annoyed by the works and books of Al-Barqa�ei, which he used to type on the typing machine and distribute it to people.
As we said earlier, the regime had sent one of its followers to assassin Al-Barqa�ei by gun at his house. And while Al-Barqa�ei was praying, some bullets had been fired on him, and a bullet managed to enter his left cheek to leave from the right cheek. Al-Barqa�ei, may Allah have mercy on his soul, at that time aged 80 years and was transported to the hospital for treatment. However, the doctors were ordered by the regime not to treat him. After that, a doctor advised Al-Barqa�ei to leave the hospital and seek treatment at his house.
And all of that did not break the iron will of Al-Barqa�ei, and he continued in his doings until the regime imprisoned him. Prison was no stranger to Al-Barqa�ei; however, this time it was the notorious prison Evin, which is considered to be the most infamous political prisons in Iran. He stayed a year in that prison, then he was exiled to Yazd, a very far away city from Tehran, his dwelling city.
However, after 5 days of his exile, he was again lead to prison to be exiled again to the same city later on. Then he passed away, and no one knows for sure whether he was murdered or not, may Allah have mercy on his soul.
Al-Barqa�ei passed away in the year 1993 and advised his friends and family not to be buried in a Shia cemetery or to write any poems on his grave, even though he wrote some wonderful poems for such an occasion before his guidance, but he preferred not to have them in the end.
His Works:
Al-Barqa�ei wrote many books, some of them as follows:
- An Index to the Beliefs of Shiekhism and its Contradiction to Islam (Fahras Aqa�eid Al-Sheikhiyah wa Mukhalafatha lil Islam)
- A Study in the Supplication of Al-Nadab (Dirasat Du�oa Al-Nadab)
- Supplication of Al-Nadab and its Contradictory Nature to Quran (Du�oa Al-Nadab wa Mukhalaft Ebaratuh lil Quran)
- The Many Superstitions in Visiting the Grave (Al-Khurafat Al-Katheerah fi Ziyarat Al-Quboor)
- The Prohibition of Temporary Marriage in Islam (Yahreem Al-Mut�ah in Al-Islam)
- The Destruction of the Idol � A Study in the Hadeeths of Al-Kafi (Kasr Al-Sanam)
- A Scientific Study in the Hadeeths of Al-Mahdi (Dirasah Eilmiyah li Ahadeeth Al-Mahdi)
- The Contradiction of �The Keys to Heavens� to the Verses of the Quran (Mukhalafat Mafateeh Al-Jinan li Ayat Al-Quran)
And he also translated into Persian the book �Al-Muntaqa� by Al-Thahabi, which is a summary of �Minhaj Al-Sunnah Al-Nabawiya� by Ibn Taymiyah.
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Dr. Ali Muzafaryan. His Biography could be find on the link below, unfortunately it is in Farsi. I wonder if any qualified person here can translate it to us:
مختصري در مورد زندگي دكتر علي مظفريان رحمه الله
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رضا زنگنه و چگونگي گرويدن ايشان به مذهب اهل سنت
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Posted 08 May 2005 - 07:32 AM
Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk, popular name for the history of Struggling in Pakistan, an Ex-SHIA scholar, who converted to SUNNI.
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Posted 08 May 2005 - 01:36 PM
Nice attempt by brother al-a3sha. I hope u will continue to increase the list of shias. i also request to other shias and sunnies to caculate those ulamas who changed their beleifes.
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Posted 10 May 2005 - 07:07 AM
ok can Any other brother give any information http://islamic-forum...tyle_emoticons/default/image001.gif
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Posted 22 June 2005 - 06:25 AM
-Alama: Ismail Al-Ishaq Al-Khoeini
- Hyder Ali Qalamdaran
- Dr. Musa Al-Musawi
- Hussain Al-Musawi
- Muhammad Iskandar Al-Yasiri
I found them on the following site (Arabic):
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Jzzak Allah Hair for ur Work
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Posted 24 June 2005 - 05:51 PM
I see, in this thread, shias haven't mentioned any 'Aalim of Ahlus Sunnah who converted to a shia.
And I believe the way shias beat the drum of Tijani, his conversion from Ahlus Sunnah to Ahlush Shia must be a Drama, as shi'ism is nothing but a bogus play.
Tijani would either be a Sunni in disguise of Taqiyyah and then proclaimed to convert to shi'ism just to fool the people or he would never had converted to shi'ism, he would be a shia from the beginning.
As this is what is way of shias to impress simple folk. Just visit [not allowed], you would see scores of those who claim to have converted to shi'ism from Islam.
They all are liars, as the one who believes a shia is an Idiot-Number-One.
Anyways, I am interested to know about Tijani:
1. Where is the proof that he was a Scholar of Ahlus Sunnah before converting to a Shia?
2. Where is his work as a Sunni?
If shias fail to answer these questions then everyone should raise the slogan that
Shias are Liars-Number-One.
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Yes there are many shia in mullah disguise among muslims, and they are the one who are spreading shia beliefs among ignorant muslim masses. One can easily distinguish these shia when one listen to juma speech and Khutaba, in Khutaba the imams mention the name of the daughter of Nabi[saw] grand sons[ra] and other cousins, but you will never hear them mention the name that are mentioned and their status eleviated in Quran, like the name of Sayeda Hz. Ayesha siddika[ra]
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Between mean glances that we might share
The space between us is like a lightyear
All in my phone like she AT&T
All in my Facebook pretendin she me
Cus her "Not Hot" single friends feedin her nonsense
The ghetto's trying to kill me and my chick's an accomplice
With black gloves (black gloves) black mask (black mask)
Full lips (full lips) fat ass (I like that!)
Text messaging ridiculous comments
I'd have to wash my mouth out to read you the contents
She might literally love me to death
We had a stairway to heaven til' I fell down the steps
Now I'm left with a pain in the neck
But she's my eye candy, the flavor I savor
And I'm part Vader, I think with my saber
I live in crazy town and I'm married to the mayor
[Hook: Kno]
[Verse 2: Kno]
They call me Lex, junior
Not Rex Lewis
My ex like a six shot shooter - sex ruger
She's a sex cougar
She texts, we bang every time I sit next to her
Man, she get me hard as steel, I call her X-Ray
Coz my ex bust her neck during sex play
I get the cleanest dome, I mean it holmes
She never be at home but she never be alone
Her boyfriend is a punk, he rock a onesie
He think he fly, pullin' stunts in his undies
But she my kryptonite
I know...cryptic right?
I'm sitting back with a pipe getting ripped at night
On my window pane, the coldest rain
My enemy, Miss Lois Lane
[Hook: Kno]
[Verse 3: Tonedeff]
She's a devil in a baby blue dress
Who I'm mentally redressing as an angel through sex
Who be testing my mettle - and yes, in a way, I choose the stress
And I guess that I settle cause I'm a slave to huge breasts
But it ain't worth it
Ask me again if my mind has changed on the situation in five days
And I couldn't say for certain
And so we stay in this deranged arrangement
Nailing 'tween the breaks of these unwavering debates of 'who's the
Crazy person'?
She got them fuck-goggles on me
My judgement Impaired like I was drunk on kamakazi's running a busted Kawasaki
Callin the love doctor cause I need a fix of this chick and it's sickening
Wish I could quit, but my dick is mixing the signals and shit
Half of the time, I see past these disastrous signs
And half of the time, I keep asking if I'm happy to lie
If blame can be assigned, then I guess I'll have to try this food for thought:
You can always see the shape of the pan in the pie
Savage desire in me to taste her loving
So my peace of mind will never turn into a baker's dozen
I'm crumbling


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- My engineering team has never been responsible for cost before – how can I know if a design change is increasing or decreasing the manufacturing cost of the product?
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Do Not Pay Emergency Room Bills, Poors. This Is How.
I frequently meet people, most of them young and poor, who are burdened by debts to emergency rooms, and I am always shocked that these people with no money are even considering paying. Here is how it is done, in a strangely servicey explanation from Vice.
As a person with next to no money, my approach to personal finance borrows very heavily from my understanding of The Great Depression and the film The Road Warrior. Therefore, I conduct myself at all times with a shameless, don't-care-how-embarrassing pragmatism. So whenever a problem with my health presents itself, I just head to the emergency room with no intention of paying anyone for anything… As long as I don't delude myself with dreams of one day financing a house or of answering my phone without getting yelled at by a stranger, emergency rooms are basically a Supermarket Sweep of free medical treatment.
Let's Have A Big Party To Celebrate The Return Of Chest Hair
I Love Serial Entertainment And So Can You
Mary Lattimore, "For Billy"
Soundscan Surprises Week Ending 4/28
I Can't See How This Anne Frank Virtual Reality Film Might Be A Bad Idea
Stop Selling Your Body For Clicks
Julien Mier, "Hum Of The Hummingbirds"
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Starting next week we enter the Twilight Zone of not-quite summer but not yet fall. Here in Alaska, traditional definitions of fall like the autumnal equinox don't always work. Alaska, living true to its motto of "North to the Future," starts fall early. Consider these upcoming dates: • At 1...Wed, 08/13/2014 - 4:46pm
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Have you noticed how some Alaskans like to drive glossy black trucks with tinted windows, jacked up tires and not a hint of chrome. The Betster gets that no-chrome thing. Chrome can be a pain to polish. Big, black truck are part of the tactical trend — you know, silver is the new black. You don'...Wed, 07/23/2014 - 4:25pm
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Not that the Betster actually saw it, but observant citizens reported that last weekend tents covered every square foot of beach above the high-tide line on the Spit. A campfire haze circled Kachemak Bay from Point Pogibshi to Bluff Point, which probably had some homesick Californians pining for LA....Wed, 07/09/2014 - 4:46pm
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is anyone out there that give a damn about the crt bikes getting more tv time? so what if theres only ten or so prototype bikes on the grid to race? these crt bikes dilute th purity of this g.p. class,why not lump these bikes in with world superbikes? its a better fit.


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Tatting Class To Be Hosted by Peaceful River
McCausland, IA/October 30, 2013 – Peaceful River Trading Co. is hosting a Tatting class on Sunday, January 12th. Come join the fun at 1:00pm at 302 North Salina Street in McCausland, Iowa.
The cost for this class is $10.00 person and that includes everything you'll need, except the tatting shuttle. Each student will also want a straight pin or safety pin and a pair of crafting scissors. You can bring your own clover brand tatting shuttle to the class or pick one up at Peaceful River for an additional fee. Babysitting is also available during the class for an additional $5.00 per child.
Tatting is a technique used for handcrafting lace developed by a series of knots and loops. Tatting can be used to make lace edging as well as doilies, collars and other ornamental pieces.
Tatting with a shuttle, like we'll be teaching in this class, is the earliest method of creating tatted lace. A tatting shuttle aids in tatting by holding a length of wound thread and guiding it through loops to make the necessary knots.
Owners, Sheila Bosworth and Kit Gleason are excited to host the class. "We want to give people the opportunity to create their own pieces of art. So many times, as we get older, we lose that creative, artistic side we had when we were younger. These classes offer adults a way to get back in touch with their creativity."
To register for the Tatting class on January 12th, call Peaceful River at 563-225-2100 by Wednesday, January 6th.
Peaceful River is a treasure trove of arts and crafts as well as antiques, gifts and collectibles. Nestled inside a beautiful circa-1916 bank building, visitors travel back in time while browsing through the great selection Peaceful River has to offer. Peaceful River Trading Co. is open from 10 am to 5 pm Wednesday through Saturday and 11 am to 4 pm on Sundays. McCausland is located about 20 miles northeast of Davenport, just off Utica Ridge Road on F33 and 5 minutes north of Scott County Park. Explore Peaceful River Trading Co. at www.peacefulrivertradingco.com
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Nemesis Wins All Time Greats
It perhaps comes as no surprise that Nemesis has won the Alton Towers summer 'All Time Greats' competition. Over the summer holidays guests have been given the opportunity to ride the top five coasters at the park, then vote online for which is best. Over 300,000 people have voted and today Nemesis was crowned the winner – smashing the competition and by taking 41% of the votes.
Here's the final scores:
Nemesis – 41%
Oblivion – 21%
Air – 20%
Th13teen – 10%
Rita – 8%
Congratulations to Nemesis – it also got the vote from UK Park New's founder!
Check out the Alton Towers website and share the results on Facebook!


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Investors in AuRico Gold Inc (AUQ) saw new options become available this week, for the November 16th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the AUQ options chain for the new November 16th contracts and identified the following call contract of particular interest.The call contract at the $4.00 strike price has a current bid of 25 cents. If an investor was to purchase shares of AUQ stock at the current price level of $3.92/share, and then sell-to-open that call contract as a "covered call," they are committing to sell the stock at $4.00. Considering the call seller will also collect the premium, that would drive a total return (excluding dividends, if any) of 8.42% if the stock gets called away at the November 16th expiration (before broker commissions). Of course, a lot of upside could potentially be left on the table if AUQ shares really soar, which is why looking at the trailing twelve month trading history for AuRico Gold Inc, as well as studying the business fundamentals becomes important. Below is a chart showing AUQ's trailing twelve month trading history, with the $4.00 strike highlighted in red:
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May 2, 2016
Progress Energy says some of its customers are reporting suspicious phone calls, and they're getting complaints more frequently.
Progress Energy says customers are getting calls from people who claim they work for Progress Energy or another power company. The caller says your electricity is about to be disconnected for lack of payment. You can keep the lights on, the caller says, by providing credit card information. Progress Energy says the almost never call and ask for your credit card information.
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Our dedicated staff of 33 full-time and 16 part-time and seasonal employees includes award-winning on-air talent, directors, and producers, as well as a leadership team that ensures the smooth operation of the station while maintaining financial viability. A 16-member Board of Directors, selected from our viewing area, governs Lakeshore Public Media (also known as Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting, Inc.). We also receive a twice-annual review from a 16-member Community Advisory Board. In addition, a 200 strong volunteer corps assists with on-air pledge drives and special events that support Lakeshore Public Television and Lakeshore Public Radio.
About Lakeshore Public Television
Positioned in the Chicago Designated Market Area, Lakeshore Public Television serves Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland. We broadcast to 14 counties in Indiana and Illinois, reaching thousands of people in rural areas, small towns, and major cities with our unique blend of regional and national programming. We are proud of our dual identity—being your trusted source for local news, weather, and sports, as well as, the community PBS station bringing you all the quality, commercial-free shows you expect from public broadcasting.
Past & Present
In the mid-1980′s, a group of concerned citizens began looking for a way to give Northwest Indiana a televised broadcast voice. When the Lake Central School District could no longer support local station WCAE, the license was assigned to Gary, Indiana and secured by the founding directors of Lakeshore Public Television. Lakeshore Public Television signed on the air November 1987 as WYIN Channel 56. Today, we remain the sole televised source for local news, sports, and weather, as well as information on cultural events and community issues.
Throughout the 1990′s, Lakeshore Public Television put into practice the vision of a locally active television station. The first newscast aired with a commitment to cover stories of interest to residents in Northwest Indiana. The news staff was small–at times it was a one-man show–and the anchor sat in front of a curtain to read the day's news, but viewers tuned-in, eager to see a newscast with local flavor and focus. In addition, Indiana Now, the front-runner to our current public affairs programs, debuted with hosts Larry Evans, an area attorney, and now Lake County Sheriff Roy Dominguez. The show featured interviews with community leaders and state lawmakers like then governor Evan Bayh, and then lietuenant governor Frank O'Bannon. With the station's reputation as a community resource well established, the staff and Board of Directors planned to greet the new millennium with a focused effort to strengthen the quality and power of the broadcast signal.
The 21st century and the dawning of the digital age brought many exciting changes to Lakeshore Public Television. In November 2003, a 950-foot tower with a 54-foot analog antenna was erected at our Crown Point, Indiana transmitter site. The new transmitter allows Lakeshore Public Television to harness our full power of 1.35 million watts, sending a strong, clear signal to viewers in a 65-mile radius. In February 2004, with a $2 million state grant, Lakeshore Public Television installed a digital antenna and digital tuner, adding four digital channels (17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4). 17.1 and 17.4 are currently operating.
Today we continue to upgrade the quality of station production and our broadcast equipment. Some of the revenue is generated through donations from local businesses, and state and federal grants. However, our primary resources come from viewer support, the kind of grassroots funding that truly makes us public television.
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Lakeshore Public Television knows that you count on us to keep you informed about what is going on in the region; that's why we feature Northwest Indiana's only local newscast, Lakeshore News Tonight. We are also proud to offer weather, sports, and public affairs programming with a local flavor, including college basketball games from Loyola and Lewis Universities. Of the 178 PBS stations operating in the US, Lakeshore Public Television ranks 21st for the number of hours of local programming we produce—more than 300 hours annually!
Only The Best of PBS
At Lakeshore Public Television, we realize that our region, and therefore our audience, is diverse in culture and interests. That is why we are delighted to offer top-quality PBS programming, which has something for everyone—the kids, the cooks, the do-it-yourself types, the art lovers, the travel buffs, and so on.
Unlike commercial stations who program by network mandate, we make programming decisions right here in the station. That means we can choose the very best of PBS—shows that educate, enlighten, and inform our viewers. Whether you love the outdoors, crafting, great drama and mystery, or lively political discussion, you will find a show (or two or ten!) to suit your tastes on Lakeshore Public Television.
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Lakeshore's team of award-winning professionals develops, produces and distributes high-quality television for major networks as well as local and regional broadcasters. Whether it's live events, satellite uplinks, sports, news or entertainment, we can assist you in getting your live shot or live event on air and ready for broadcast. Visit lakeshoreproduction.com for more information.
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Our radio station, WLPR–FM 89.1, first went on the air January 22, 2009. It sought to become "The Voice of Northwest Indiana" with an intensive effort to bring listeners the latest in news, weather, traffic and sports. Using a select schedule of National Public Radio programming, along with news from NPR, and local programming through the day, "The Lakeshore" has become the local FM station with its finger on the pulse of the region.
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WordPress: hiding menu items from users based on their roles (using a custom walker)
Sometimes you may wish to have a section of your WordPress based site protected for exclusive access by logged-in users with a certain access level (in WordPress terminology: a role). I recently encountered this feature request on a client project, so I thought I'd share my results here, since I had to cobble together the information from a great variety of sources. Much thanks, in particular, to Toscho at the most excellent WordPress StackExchange site for setting me onto custom walkers as the way to customize the way your menu should display.
Since I'll be limiting this blog post to my actual implementation, rather than a more general discussion of best practices, I should just quickly set up the particular business requirements I was dealing with:
- I would only be protecting Pages, not Posts
- The protected pages would only be accessed through a menu in the Footer of the site
- If the user is logged in and has access to the pages, those pages should appear in the menu
- If the user doesn't have access to the pages, the menu item in the footer would be a Login link instead
- Users that should have access to the pages are: administrators, editors and a custom role ("members")
Solution Overview
The situation, though not overly complex, requires a number of elements to be in place:
- A custom role called "Member" must be created. We can then assign this role to registered users so they get access to the pages.
- This role will get a custom capability called "view-member-pages", which would be the actual check to see whether they can see the page. We tie the visibility to a capability, not a role, so that we can then also assign that capability to Administrators and Editors.
- A custom menu must be built that will have this special show/hide feature
- That custom menu will leverage an internal class called a Walker that is used to traverse a hierarchical structure (like a menu) and display the HTML (ul and li tags and all that) required
- We will override the default Nav_Menu_Walker class with our own that will intercept pages that ought to be protected and only show them under the right conditions, otherwise showing a login link.
- We have to make sure that if there are two or more pages that are hidden this way, we only show one login menu item, not one for each hidden page!
- Finally, I elected to make the criteria that determines whether a page is "protected" or not the actual template that the page uses, so we need to create that custom template and assign it to the pages we want protected.
The Custom Menu
This part is quite simple. We start by registering a new menu location with our theme. This allows the menu location to become available on the Admin > Appearance > Menus page so we can create the menu there and add whatever items we want to it. Of course, we still have to go into our Admin back-end and create the menu, and associate it with this new location.
Registering the menu location is done with register_nav_menu(). This is probably best done in functions.php:
register_nav_menu('footer', 'Footer menu');
Oooo. Scarrrry. I know, right? Real hard stuff. Keep reading, mister Smarty Pants.
And, then, in our footer.php file where we want this actual menu to appear, we actually call that menu using wp_nav_menu():
wp_nav_menu(array( 'theme_location' => 'footer', 'container' => 'div', 'depth' => 1, 'walker' => new ZG_Nav_Walker() ) );
This particular menu is non-hierarchical, meaning it's only one level. This explains the "depth" parameter. The "walker" parameter is where the magic starts to happen. Or at least, it's letting the magic know where we want it to happen. The actual magic happens inside the custom ZG_Nav_Walker class that we'll create a little later on.
Custom Roles and Capabilities
In order to allow certain users to see our pages, and others to just see the "login" link, we will leverage WordPress' Roles and Capabilities. A Capability is used to enable or disable someone from doing something specific (like edit a post, or moderate a comment). A Role is just a grouping of these capabilities. Administrator, Editor and Subscriber are examples of existing roles.
Well, we don't want our "Members" to have any special capabilities other than viewing these special pages, so it makes more sense to just create a custom Role called "Member" and assign a single capability (which we'll call "view-member-pages") to it.
First we go off and define a few constants at the top of our functions.php file, to make things a little easier to maintain. Plus I kinda like all those ALL_CAPS. Makes me feel important. Or impotent. Something like that.
// define the custom capability name for protected pages define ('ZG_PROTECTED_PAGE_CAPABILITY', 'view_member_pages');
Then we add the new role and capabilities (later on in functions.php)
function roles_and_capabilities(){ // create a new role for Members add_role('member', 'Member', array( ZG_PROTECTED_PAGE_CAPABILITY => true )); // add the custom capability to other qualified roles get_role('administrator')->add_cap(ZG_PROTECTED_PAGE_CAPABILITY); get_role('editor')->add_cap(ZG_PROTECTED_PAGE_CAPABILITY); } add_action('wp_loaded', 'roles_and_capabilities');
We wrap the framework calls add_role() and WP_Role->add_cap inside a function so that we can invoke the function as an action at the appropriate time, just so we can stay idiomatic. That's idiomatic, not idiotic, smart-ass.
Since we want Admins and Editors to also be able to see these protected pages, we have added our custom capability to these existing roles as well.
At this point, you'll want to go into Admin and create a new user and see if you can assign the "Member" role to that user.
Using a Custom Walker to customize your WordPress nav menu
So, like the Google-search-optimized subhead here says, we're now going to create the magic by extending the built-in Walker_Nav_Menu class with one of our own. The Walker construct is used to process a list of elements, one element at a time, and do something with each element. The concept was probably based on an iterator design pattern. Our custom walker in this case is extremely simple – we override the Walker_Nav_Menu's public start_el and end_el methods, just intercepting them long enough to ask the question: do we have access to see the menu item?
If we do have access, we just call the base Walker_Nav_Menu's start_el and end_el methods and be done with it. If we don't have access, well, we change the output to show a link to the wp-login.php page. And we implement a little bit of business logic to make sure that if we have two or more protected pages, we don't see multiple login links.
The criteria that I opted to go with here, to determine whether a page was a "protected" page or not was the template that we've associated with that page. I don't love this approach, but it works for this client. I would actually recommend using some kind of custom metadata or a custom taxonomy (ie: access –> public, private, members etc). But I'll leave that for you kids to figure out on your own. So the first thing I do is define another constant (again, everything in functions.php):
// define the custom password-protected template that is used to determine whether this item is protected or not in the menus define ('ZG_PROTECTED_PAGE_TEMPLATE', 'page-membersonly.php');
Then we get to our class (the "magic"!!):
/* Custom Walker to prevent password-protected pages from appearing in the list */ class ZG_Nav_Walker extends Walker_Nav_Menu { protected $is_private = false; protected $page_is_visible = false; protected $login_shown = false; // override parent method function start_el(&$output, $item, $depth, $args) { // does this menu item refer to a page that is using our protected template? $is_private = get_post_meta($item->object_id, '_wp_page_template', true) == ZG_PROTECTED_PAGE_TEMPLATE; $page_is_visible = !$is_private || ($is_private && current_user_can(ZG_PROTECTED_PAGE_CAPABILITY)); if ($page_is_visible){ parent::start_el(&$output, $item, $depth, $args); } else if (! $login_shown){ $item->ID = 'login'; $item->attr_title = ""; $item->target = ""; $item->xfn = ""; $item->url = site_url("wp-login.php"); $item->title = __("Member's Login"); parent::start_el(&$output, $item, $depth, $args); } } // override parent method function end_el(&$output, $item, $depth) { if ($page_is_visible || ! $login_shown){ if (! $login_shown){ $login_shown = true; } parent::end_el(&$output, $item, $depth); } } }
The way you change what the Walker outputs is by editing the properties of the $item variable, which is an instance of the Menu object. I haven't yet tracked down the Menu object definition in the source code(ed: actually, it turns out there is no Menu object, but the item itself is defined in nav-menus.php), so you can get a full list of all properties if you just do a print_r($item) – and be prepared for a lot of output. Would you believe that the entire body of your Post / Page is included not once, but twice inside that object. Yeesh. No wonder WordPress needs to much PHP RAM on the server. Oh well.
Of course, the one piece of information that you DO need – the page template associated with that menu item – is not actually available in this Menu object. Go figure. But we can use get_post_meta to grab that little tidbit.
Last Step
Finally, we just need to create our custom page template. We'll once again use current_user_can(ZG_PROTECTED_PAGE_CAPABILITY) to make sure that we're allowed to display the content. Then we associate that template with our protected pages, and test, test, test!
Hope this helps someone out there!


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damn, even santa is gettin some action
id let her suck me like that too
Love this one, like the wedding ring hope her hubby was filming her suck his mate off! My wife has sucked most of my mates off, I've filmed most. It s great we have a late drink and she ends up with a cock in her mouth. They all think they are the only ones who she has done this to, obviously they are all discreet as they are married, but she has sucked off 5 out of 6 of them. Loves comparing the cocks. She has told me 1st chance she gets she will blow the 6th (Trev) whether I am there or not, drunk sober or even in the car outside Tesco. She WILL suck him off!
Happy people, happy sex
You have a touch of pie retention there mate !!!
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I bet he is hiding a 6pack under that tshirt.
better both naked!
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what did that fat fuck ever do to get that hot girl to suck his little stubby cock? awesome BJ
Redheads are the shit-I would love to leave a load in this chicks throat!
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Installing and setting up mysql and hive on one server is eligible or you want to see different approach?
It should be enough for the first iteration. What do you think?
I think having the mysql (Hive metadata store) and HIVE_HOME on one server is a good start, especially since the master node is usually idle in small clusters. My understanding is that the Hive metadata store is used to compile queries into Hadoop jobs, so load level is modest, and load grows by number of job requests plus number of data inserts, multiplied by "size of data" ("number of datanodes").
If the mysql component/role is specified is a distinctive way, like hive-mysql, then the configuration reference can later be migrated to be on a separate machine.
I could use a Hive service in Whirr next week, actually (a patch would be fine).
I think you can use puppet to setup the mysql server now that we have support for that in trunk.
I have a working Hive - Whirr integration. It needs to be configurable and tests are missing too, but I will create a patch from it today. Thank you for your patience.
Adam any updates? I can help with adding integration tests.
Updates? I can give a hand too
Is it possible to simply use apt-get in this recipe to install mysql-server?
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Capturing the Wilderness: An Interview with Peter Essick
For Peter Essick, a world-renowned nature photographer, capturing the Ansel Adams Wilderness area meant long spans of solitary days in the high Sierras—and all the beauty and adventure that entails. Some of the winter shots required the most daring he's ever needed in his 25-year career, including one memorable past snap of a radioactive alligator from a project on nuclear waste. Digging his own snow cave and trying not to suffocate during a four-day blizzard was worth it to Essick, who in his new book, The Ansel Adams Wilderness, celebrates Adams' work. Ansel Adams changed the face of nature photography and shaped America's relationship with our landscapes, and also influenced Essick himself when he was a burgeoning young photographer. Inspired to do the project by a reprint of one of Adams' early books, Essick discusses the experience with Sierra: reliving an earlier era of photography and bringing us all back to a simpler time.
Sierra: In the forward of the book you talk about the potential intimidation of following in the footsteps of Ansel Adams. How did you overcome that?
Peter Essick: I had to believe that I could do something new and different. If you feel like it's all been done already it can be really defeating from a creative standpoint. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I could make it my own. I took a more contemporary approach and included the modern context of today's wilderness.
Some people, even some artists, look at nature as sort of outdated and a pleasant day-dream. I wanted to emphasize that it's still relevant and we need it just as much as we did back then. We just need to look at it with a different lens. I think a lot of the people who pick up the book may have the Ansel Adams photos in mind and feel like they already know it—I knew I could give them a different perspective. Adams always used the latest technology, so using digital is something that I felt like he would do if he were here. I didn't want to copy his technique or his approach but I wanted to celebrate it while bringing it into the modern era.
S: How do you think the landscape has changed since Ansel Adams photographed it?
PE: There are some pictures of Adams' that you wouldn't be able to take now. The moon over Hernandez, for instance, you couldn't recreate these days. There's been some development—there's a Wal-Mart and a road now. But the High Sierra area, the Ansel Adams Wilderness, that's stayed the same because it's protected. I even went to some of the spots and stood my tripod in a hole exactly where Ansel Adams stood his.
I think the real change is in how we see wilderness... back in Adams' time it was a place to get away and enjoy yourself. It still provides that for us, but now we're seeing wilderness as set apart, a refuge when all of the other areas have been developed. These are some of the only areas where we can still see wild nature. It makes you reflect—everything was once wild and now there are only these little fragments left. That's the real change, the development that's taken place in the years between Adams' photos and mine, and the change in perspective that's occurred alongside it. We all still need the tonic of wilderness, so to speak. The peace that people went into the wilderness looking for in the twenties and thirties is something we need even more so today.
S: I was fascinated by the idea of extracts, which you mention in the book. Can you tell me more about that?
PE: That was Adams' huge leap forward in landscape photography. Back in his day the equipment was so heavy and cumbersome that most photographers just did survey photography. They weren't thinking of it as personal expression or art, they were simply documenting. Adams, though, captured just a section of a landscape. He used to say that nature is made up of shapes, and the artist's job is to make form out of them. The way you do that is by including your own emotional response as a photographer. He revolutionized nature photography by bringing in the feeling of the extract. So that's what I tried to do. For other assignments you put together a shot list and you know what you need to get to supplement the story, but for this project I just had a list of places I wanted to go and trails to follow. I went, I set up camp, and took pictures of whatever caught my eye—I tried to respond to it personally.
S: Talk to me about how Adams influenced you as a photographer.
PE: Ansel Adams was a big influence when I was first starting out—he had these basic manuals about how to be photographer that I read when I was in high school and taking my first photos. A lot of Adams' artistic theories first developed when he was out climbing, taking in all these natural phenomena, photographing in the high mountains, and I had a similar experience. My father was a science teacher and he liked the outdoors, so he took me around the Death Valley and Yosemite. I started to develop my love of the outdoors from him, and that's been a great influence on my trajectory as a photographer.
S: Most of the nature photos that we see these days are in color. What does black and white have to offer the medium?
PE: This area photographs really well in black and white. When Adams first started that's all that was available, but he always said that it was a departure from reality. He liked the fact that you had a lot of control over it—at the time, you couldn't manipulate color film in the dark room the way you could with black and white. When the publishers and I thought about whether we wanted to do it in black in white, we thought it might be harder because it would feel more like we were copying Adams. But I also thought it would be more of challenge to do something novel and do it in black and white. With digital you can open the image in color or in black and white, and I discovered that I really preferred most of the black and white images. The granite of the area is gray already and the sculptural form of it is more apparent if you take away the color. Black and white allows the shadows to play with the rays of light, and light as form shows up better. That's the role of the artist in any kind of medium, I think: an attempt to give the viewer a sense of the place and of one person's feelings about it always results in the best art, and that really comes through in black and white.
S: What was it like for you, spending extended periods of time in the wilderness?
PE: After the first few days you forget about the office. At these higher elevations, above the tree line, it's sort of like a lunar landscape, a different world. That's when you can really start to feel a connection to the earth and the landscape, after those first few days, when you get away from all the emails and cell phones. It helps your photography too. You start to focus on trying to capture your feelings about the place, you feel more in tune and more responsive to the landscape.
All photos courtesy of Peter Essick, from his new book The Ansel Adams Wilderness


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Jim DeMint channels John Briggs
Timothy Kincaid
October 4th, 2010
In 1978, California State Senator John Briggs sponsored an initiative on the ballot which would have banned gays and lesbians, and possibly anyone who supported gay rights, from working in California's public schools. Although this initiative was initially successful in the polls, it failed on election night by 58.4% to 41.6%.
While the notion of banning gay people from certain types of employment (other than the military) seems archaic, it certainly isn't dead. In fact, one of the more prominent voices in the Senate seems to be channeling John Briggs. (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)
[Senator Jim DeMint] said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn't be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who's sleeping with her boyfriend — she shouldn't be in the classroom.
"(When I said those things,) no one came to my defense," he said. "But everyone would come to me and whisper that I shouldn't back down. They don't want government purging their rights and their freedom to religion."
Undoubtedly DeMint considers himself to be a good Republican. And, as such, undoubtedly he idolizes Ronald Reagan. So perhaps he should consider these words from the man that is credited for turning around public opinion:
Whatever else it is, homosexuality is not a contagious disease like the measles. Prevailing scientific opinion is that an individual's sexuality is determined at a very early age and that a child's teachers do not really influence this.
Were DeMints thinking based on Fears About The Children, then he could rest assured that they are baseless. But they aren't. Rather, DeMint is concerned about that nebulous "freedom to religion" which seems to be defined as the right to force others to do what your religion dictates.
And so Senator DeMint's objection to gay people teaching is based in something a bit less susceptible to argument or logic: a desire to harm the lives of gay people and to falsely present them as something to be feared or shunned. Because that is consistent with the values of the god he serves.


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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Several gun shows, all about an hour's drive from Newtown, Conn., have been canceled.
A show in White Plains, N.Y. — brought back a few years ago after being called off for a decade because of the Columbine shooting — is off because officials decided it didn't seem appropriate now, either. In Danbury, Conn. — about 10 miles west of Newtown — the venue backed out. Same with three other shows in New York's Hudson Valley, according to the organizer.
Gun advocates aren't backing down from their insistence on the right to keep and bear arms. But heightened sensitivities and raw nerves since the Newtown shooting have led to toned-down displays at gun shows and prompted some officials and sponsors to cancel the well-attended exhibitions altogether.
Some of the most popular guns will be missing from next weekend's gun show in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., after show organizers agreed to bar the display and sale of AR-15 military-style semiautomatic weapons and their large-clip magazines.
"The majority of people wanted these guns out of the city," said Chris Mathiesen, Saratoga Springs' public safety commissioner. "They don't want them sold in our city, and I agree. Newtown, Conn., is not that far away."
The mayor of Barre, Vt., wants a ban on military-style assault weapons being sold at an annual gun show in February. Mayor Thom Lauzon says he supports responsible gun ownership but is making the request "as a father." The police chief in Waterbury, Conn., just a few miles from Newtown, has halted permits for gun shows, saying he was concerned about firearms changing hands that might one day be used in a mass shooting.
In White Plains, in New York's suburban Westchester County, Executive Rob Astorino had brought back the show in 2010 after a ban of more than a decade following the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, but he said the show would be inappropriate now. The shows in the Hudson Valley and Danbury were listed as canceled on the website for Big Al's Gun Shows. A man who answered the site's contact number said it was the venues that canceled the shows, not the promoter.
In Houston, transportation officials temporarily stopped using electronic freeway signs to give directions to gun shows amid complaints following such a show the day after the Dec. 14 school shooting. State-level transportation officials overruled the decision. The signs are routinely used to direct traffic or tell visitors where to exit freeways for rodeos, sporting events and gun shows.
On Wednesday, the City Council in Saratoga Springs urged organizers of a downtown gun show Jan. 12-13 not to display military-style weapons and the high-capacity magazines "of the type used in the Newtown tragedy." About a dozen people gave impassioned pleas at the meeting.
Show organizer David Petronis of New Eastcoast Arms Collectors Associates agreed to the limit.
"I don't think it's fair that we're taking the brunt of the problem," Petronis said, "but I can understand the reaction of people in doing so."
Petronis said his group is a "nice, clean family-oriented … arms fair" that brings in thousands of visitors and a lot of money for the city. He stressed that buyers at his show undergo background checks, as per New York state law.
The gunman in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December used an AR-15 to kill 20 first-graders and six educators in the school. The gun belonged to the shooter's mother, but it's not clear where it was bought. The shooting has led to calls for stricter regulation of assault weapons, though the National Rifle Association has steadfastly opposed such measures.
Gun dealers around the country are reporting a spike in sales of semiautomatic rifles amid renewed talk of a federal ban on assault weapons. The possibility of tighter gun control has also pumped up attendance at gun shows in several states.
Marv Kraus, who helped organize a weekend gun show in Evansville, Wis., said business has been especially strong lately.


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Many times people make decisions regarding family hand-me-downs and vintage items that they regret later. We see a lot of examples of this on the Antiques Roadshow. Think about how often people find valuable things in dumpsters, at garage sales, and are given very valuable items as payment for a favor or service. The person who threw the item out or gave it away must be kicking himself somewhere, don't you think? Expensive mistakes can be avoided by just doing a little research, and I'd like to share what I do with an item I'm unfamiliar with in this post.
I purchased this collection of French porcelain at an auction a few years ago. I knew it was high quality because all of the details were hand painted rather than a transfer design, there was additional relief decoration, gold painted edges, and triple signed bottoms on some of the pieces. Sometimes I buy first, research later. I packed up my finds and put them in my basement and sort of forgot about them for a while.
I happened to see a plate just like my example being appraised on the Antiques Roadshow last season. I remembered the appraiser calling it "French export porcelain", but didn't write down any details, trusting my memory (which was a mistake). So I went to Google Images and searched with the words "French export porcelain". Lo and behold, a couple pieces similar to mine popped up, and I discovered it was made by Samson, a French company.
Next, I looked at the mark on the bottom and found a good on-line resource for pottery marks, identifying my marks a second time as Samson. Samson was even written about on Wikipedia, I discovered. It was a French company that made ceramics in Paris beginning in the 1830's. Their initial intention was to reproduce examples of museum pieces and expensive ceramics in private collections, so they were adept at producing ceramic wares in a variety of styles.
Samson produced ceramics ranging from Italian majolica to French Palissy to Chinese famille rose. Samson's wares were hard-paste porcelain with a glossy glaze, signed with their own markings. They were not intended to deceive, but eventually unscrupulous dealers found ways to remove the markings and pass off Samson's wares as the more valuable originals.
The Samson company continued production until the late 1960's and their items are quite collectible now because of their beauty and interesting history.
The internet is so handy for researching antiques, but I find old fashioned price guides to be very helpful too. I have a little library that I refer to frequently, and anyone who is in the antique biz or a serious collector should have a good basic antique price guide and a couple specific guides in areas of interest. I have several for Roseville, Weller, and Majolica pottery, Dolls and Teddy Bears, Glass, Enamel Ware, Yellow Ware, Costume Jewelry, Advertising, and Vintage Toys. These guides will have prices for items and have all sorts of information about reproductions to watch for and other tidbits. Most antique malls sell price guides, or you can buy them at bookstores.
A couple of my well-worn collector price guides:
I often check eBay for a quick and easy indication of what things are selling for. EBay is like a constantly updated price guide. I go to "completed listings" and do a search for the item in question. Then I factor in the cost of shipping along with the final price at the end of the auction. This gives you an idea of what people are willing to pay right now for the item. Price guides that were written 15 years ago before the economic downturn tend to be unrealistically high when it comes to the values of most things.
If you happen to have a painting or sculpture in hand, the first thing you need to do is check for an artist signature. Sometimes the frame of a painting will conceal a signature, or sometimes there will be information on the back indicating who painted the art work. Unfortunately, there are many unsigned paintings in the world too. If you do find a signature, you need to drop everything and check to see if the artist is "listed".
Unfortunately, this painting has no signature. If I painted it, I would have signed it, wouldn't you?
A "listed" artist is someone who has a body of work substantial enough to be recognized in one of the major art reference books. The industry standard is Davenport's. Now there are on-line sites too, and these might be worth checking. Try ArtPrice, ArtFact, and ArtNet. If you find the artist who created your piece, consider the artist "listed", and you can now be more confident about putting a value on your piece, because the the reference book or site will indicate what the artist's works have been selling for.
Whatever you do, don't throw anything out or give anything to charity until you have an idea of its value, and make sure Grandma doesn't do it either!
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You should be ashamed of yourself. You are nothing but a bully. You should be disappointed in yourself. I cannot fathom how you get joy out of making someone else suffer. Grow a heart, a conscience, and a soul. Learn some morals and values.
i am not going to this site anymore everytime i look at a picture then i have to look at obamas face. He is the worse president ever unless you are a minority and want everything for free. which is why he was re-elected. your site sucks
You should be ashamed. You are publicly humileating people and could care less. Playing guessing games on peoples genders in not funny and neither is bullying others. You people are grown adults and really need to grow a heart for others! You should be ashamed. No one deserves to be publicly humileadte in any way shape or form!!!!!
About People of Walmart: I would like stand up, even though alone, to object
publicly to making fun of people. We're all in the same boat of life together.
Publishing photos of people in order to laugh at them is unkind in the extreme. We
need more understanding, acceptance, and love in this suffering world, not humor
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People of Walmart is a humor blog that depicts the many customers of Walmart stores across the United States and Canada. Through funny photos and videos, People of Walmart is an entertainment blog in the Three Ring Blogs network that features over 30 of the funniest humor blogs on the internet. Walmart is the largest retail store in the United States and has millions of people visit stores each day wearing anything but proper attire.


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Like Remap join to merge comment lines and the newly added Enhanced Ctrl-A, this tip takes an existing Vim command and modifies it to do mostly the same thing, but subtly better. We're starting to get a reasonable collection of these. Possibly there may be more in the imported tips. I think a new category may be in order to collect these improved versions of built-in functions. --Fritzophrenic 14:11, April 7, 2011 (UTC)
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- Tip was originally named Command for searching expressions (paths) wich include backslashes. (with trailing '.').
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Munna (Sanjay Dutt) is in love with the voice of popular Radio Jockey
Jhanvi (Vidya Balan). Life is beautiful for Munna - his 'dadagri'
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Are signs at shows cool or annoying?
Picture this: You're standing a dozen rows deep at a Bruce Springsteen show. You paid $100 a seat, and you're standing up, grooving to Rosalita* or some such.
Just then, the chick in front of you whips out a massive "I Love you BRUUUUUCE" sign" and starts waving it around.
Suddenly, your $100 view of the stage is obstructed.
What do you do?
Do you tap the gal on the shoulder and ask her to put the sign down?
Or is holding a sign just like standing up -- something you have to deal with? ...
Personally, I draw the line at signs. Yeah sure, let 'em wave it for a song. They took time and made the thing, blah blah blah.
But any more than one song and that sign has to come down. That's my opinion.
I have a different opinion about standing vs. sitting.
Amie and I were at a Billy Joel show in Washington a couple years ago, towards the back of the Verizon Center.
We stood up and danced to one of the songs, and the middle aged man behind me asked me to sit down.
I turned to face him, and gave him the Evil Eye. Out of courtesy, I sat down for a bit a couple songs later.
But everybody's got legs, and unless you're going to see something like this live, you had better be prepared to use those legs -- especially if you're rocking out to Billy Joel or Bruce Springsteen.
*I picked Rosalita because that's my personal favorite Springsteen song. I hear he recently tore it up at Hershey Park.
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