tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81131099662066410572024-03-12T18:28:55.519-07:00Six Mile PressSix Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-52417557837289087332012-06-28T17:57:00.002-07:002012-06-28T18:00:29.060-07:00Harvey Girls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvBaCt5eNsspuQcE3sFLOHF4rAWu8NIHA6ul7Lpti3cJWubjoKExvMLO-exYxbPsHTW1UJwVx4d-6npaSssET8NCJ6QuGAFmtkZpyBMDvUOq1-npk0p9ksq8iMiv3CdvdsF46S0b6ZpaP/s1600/kansascity.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlvBaCt5eNsspuQcE3sFLOHF4rAWu8NIHA6ul7Lpti3cJWubjoKExvMLO-exYxbPsHTW1UJwVx4d-6npaSssET8NCJ6QuGAFmtkZpyBMDvUOq1-npk0p9ksq8iMiv3CdvdsF46S0b6ZpaP/s400/kansascity.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style'; font-size: 14px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In 1875, businessman Fred Harvey (1835-1901) opened two restaurants in Kansas and Oklahoma along the Kansas Pacific Railway. At that time, the railways did not serve food on trains and Harvey's restaurants quickly became popular with travelers. Within a few years, Harvey contracted with the Santa Fe Railway to build and operate restaurants at dozens of stops throughout the Southwest. The Harvey House chain operated until the 1960s and at its height included 84 restaurants stretching from Kansas to California.</span></i></span><br />
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In 1883, Harvey implemented a policy of employing a female white only serving staff. He sought out single, well-mannered, and educated American ladies, and placed ads in newspapers throughout the east coast and midwest for "white, young women, 18 to 30 years of age, of good character, attractive and intelligent". The girls were paid $17.50 a month (approximately $436 in today's terms) to start, plus room, board, and tips, a generous income by the standards of the time.</span></i></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In a mythology that has grown around the Harvey Houses, these female employees are said to have helped to "civilize the American Southwest". This legend found its highest expression in The Harvey Girls, a 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, and, more notably, the 1946 MGM musical which was inspired by it. The film stars Judy Garland and Angela Lansbury, and it was directed by George Sidney. It introduced the Johnny Mercer song "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe."</span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPOnTvEP2BTNowGNq_RBts7_ZY-BQ85xaKL0a_vEUzCBu-ZcxFU4SRFBpnC2ZjCQl2-5z5eW3ak-h1yaz5yc1u3J0CII2tjIyGTTpmSuXTnZl8W6RYkhDr3yCE-o2L7RrjaVZyO_AViT16/s1600/losangeles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPOnTvEP2BTNowGNq_RBts7_ZY-BQ85xaKL0a_vEUzCBu-ZcxFU4SRFBpnC2ZjCQl2-5z5eW3ak-h1yaz5yc1u3J0CII2tjIyGTTpmSuXTnZl8W6RYkhDr3yCE-o2L7RrjaVZyO_AViT16/s400/losangeles.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiSgSpBwK6wOcp0SINCw5Rz9G5o5u68dkrlKVTgqEtPgrz-Pbb9QaWQ9dLMYLpw2CkQHnOXHu74hE7kiCGN6ZhqJaK91EO6isHBLY4-I3sgutVSEKnZojEAXzXCC0MrbG1ZYTgSpldNRXi/s1600/062012-JudyGarland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiSgSpBwK6wOcp0SINCw5Rz9G5o5u68dkrlKVTgqEtPgrz-Pbb9QaWQ9dLMYLpw2CkQHnOXHu74hE7kiCGN6ZhqJaK91EO6isHBLY4-I3sgutVSEKnZojEAXzXCC0MrbG1ZYTgSpldNRXi/s320/062012-JudyGarland.jpg" width="176" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Harvey Girls Rules</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 23.0px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Must be single the length of the contract</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Must live in dorm on site</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Must have a manicure once a week</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Must never have a man in the dorms</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Must keep uniforms spotless</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Orange juice must be freshly squeezed</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Must keep dorms dusted</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Must obey 10 pm curfew</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Must not wear any makeup</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
No jewelry</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
All silver must be polished continually</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Mandatory haïr nets</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Never talk to the patrons</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Coffee must be fresh</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Napkins must be precisely folded</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Tables must be set precisely</div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Apple Chancery'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
Must be courteous to patrons always</div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx5tqnrMJLQdYTUOymD1TwwibacFzkqjNsvMQV5MzxUrQ8QaeGXMEOeJiiJtK8Hpx6wF5CdZuKfp8yaIJw4laqB_UWdW0C5f0FIOvWOyHkycHPeL29RCQPdvNn9kREGJIqRxO50F2bNe5N/s1600/Harvey+Girl+Rules.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkj-4OzXGg73M-7i475MdGAuEznKGnxoWKGQDYuVLwmDOJDPrnBIUG4feBs_MXleBECIptZ3qrYU93YWmzm9cT_8wEXyc9r8YEZAr0Hz-ivDuJmZL4BHDe1A3gMI_oT0dt-sS0Vz_6Yaum/s1600/Casa+del+Desierto+Barstow,California.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkj-4OzXGg73M-7i475MdGAuEznKGnxoWKGQDYuVLwmDOJDPrnBIUG4feBs_MXleBECIptZ3qrYU93YWmzm9cT_8wEXyc9r8YEZAr0Hz-ivDuJmZL4BHDe1A3gMI_oT0dt-sS0Vz_6Yaum/s400/Casa+del+Desierto+Barstow,California.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
<i><br /></i></div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-90492845469019993232012-05-16T10:47:00.000-07:002012-05-16T10:47:21.359-07:00Route 66<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqYTMW3j2mwa4HbLGCNgHovhfRtRgofbcntsZzRiiIlt68sxysvs23nDJyoMwJ6NdAsRA1-EyI8vrbfMSUXpp95R2weCdvQfZpYob8GyhIWypc7JhM0gaQqW7TEFI2iljk8b2Bh5SPJ4OB/s1600/route+66+sign+item+4n1-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqYTMW3j2mwa4HbLGCNgHovhfRtRgofbcntsZzRiiIlt68sxysvs23nDJyoMwJ6NdAsRA1-EyI8vrbfMSUXpp95R2weCdvQfZpYob8GyhIWypc7JhM0gaQqW7TEFI2iljk8b2Bh5SPJ4OB/s320/route+66+sign+item+4n1-01.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<div style="color: #545559; font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;">
ROUTE 66<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
<br />
</span>If you ever plan to motor west,<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>travel my way, take the highway that is best.<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
<br />
</span>It winds from Chicago to LA,<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>more than two thousand miles all the way.<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
<br />
</span>Now you go though Saint Looey<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Joplin, Missouri,<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>and Oklahoma City is mighty pretty.<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>You see Amarillo,<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Gallup, New Mexico,<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Flagstaff, Arizona.<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Don't forget Winona,<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Kingman, Barstow, San Bernandino.<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
<br />
</span>Won't you get hip to this timely tip:<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>when you make that California trip<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
<br />
</span>solo<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
<br />
</span>Now you go though Saint Looey<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Joplin, Missouri,<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>and Oklahoma City is mighty pretty.<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>You see Amarillo,<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Gallup, New Mexico,<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Flagstaff, Arizona.<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Don't forget Winona,<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Kingman, Barstow, San Bernandino.<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
<br />
</span>Won't you get hip to this timely tip:<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>when you make that California trip<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
</span>Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.<span style="font: 13.0px 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
<br />
<br />
</span>- Bobby Troup, 1946</div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-75096062488257651312012-04-22T16:55:00.001-07:002012-04-22T16:55:35.945-07:00Trike on!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIXtnthzLsAs62nzUwIWcdcavFTreMGhSaVnkASRoU_ov4H2YeruF7ZkFPGE5FoovFEgVWCqmuGcpxSsbJqUucfT9BZLWMkJTEdDVywF0jYXlS4N39G_-cRZJ_vZEepXqPLhFEBt4kNYr0/s1600/The+Rambler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIXtnthzLsAs62nzUwIWcdcavFTreMGhSaVnkASRoU_ov4H2YeruF7ZkFPGE5FoovFEgVWCqmuGcpxSsbJqUucfT9BZLWMkJTEdDVywF0jYXlS4N39G_-cRZJ_vZEepXqPLhFEBt4kNYr0/s320/The+Rambler.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<div style="color: #202020; font: 24.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
WHY RIDE TRIKES?</div>
<ul style="list-style-type: disc;">
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Stability - loose gravel, sand, ice, tire blowouts, etc. will not send a trike crashing to the ground.</li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Ride during the winter - hitting a patch of ice is fun on a trike.</li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Do you have trouble balancing? No problem with a trike.</li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Leaning into the turns makes cornering on a trike fun. They handle like a sports car. </li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Pull up to a stop and never put your foot down on the road</li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Motorists give you a wider berth when passing - primarily out of sheer curiosity.</li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">No need for a kickstand or leaning post.</li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Instant celebrity status - people will know who you are.</li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br /></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Great platform for attaching fairings and accessories.</li>
</ul>
<div style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>www.terratrike.com</b></span></div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-91749708047491209902012-02-16T09:21:00.002-08:002012-02-16T09:24:26.556-08:00The Blonde Coyote<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKmmlFJK0CCQZSakGY2xq0QRfzlsTUNNhngOA3E3NCYzbrd7YYIy1WU2lbPvVlLDl50Tsh9KlTXNktXj_HtyMybAq-LdidvM1fcs0og5sXV_dlyMyzo1Sab5qup3otmuh1yFqLwZbQMHx-/s1600/Mary+Caperton+Morton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKmmlFJK0CCQZSakGY2xq0QRfzlsTUNNhngOA3E3NCYzbrd7YYIy1WU2lbPvVlLDl50Tsh9KlTXNktXj_HtyMybAq-LdidvM1fcs0og5sXV_dlyMyzo1Sab5qup3otmuh1yFqLwZbQMHx-/s320/Mary+Caperton+Morton.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
An excellent blog by Mary Caperton Morton</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
http://theblondecoyote.com/</div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-20906085709739025752012-02-12T15:23:00.000-08:002012-02-16T09:16:23.832-08:001943 Steel War Penny<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNV2SfLo9d8bSyvLRBHZrbe14F4_IbSaLPtT36Y4W8Vdot70uPsEYSpzL_UuHDwu7vvzauEyvs4TA869ZxrGElvPbAodem0Y4LZdFynqUhcoOi1u6wkn1PV9oMfSrdAL4ad_yO44oqVQry/s1600/1943s_steel_cent_obv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNV2SfLo9d8bSyvLRBHZrbe14F4_IbSaLPtT36Y4W8Vdot70uPsEYSpzL_UuHDwu7vvzauEyvs4TA869ZxrGElvPbAodem0Y4LZdFynqUhcoOi1u6wkn1PV9oMfSrdAL4ad_yO44oqVQry/s1600/1943s_steel_cent_obv.jpg" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<div style="font: 12.0px 'Bookman Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">The <b>1943 steel cent</b>, also known as a <b>steel war penny </b>or <b>steelie</b>, was a variety of the U.S. one-cent coin which was struck in steel due to wartime shortages of copper. It was designed by Victor D. Brenner.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px 'Bookman Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px 'Bookman Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Due to wartime needs of copper for use in ammunition and other military equipment during World War II, including windings for massive uranium gas separation magnets as part of the Manhattan Project, the United States Mint researched various ways to limit dependence and meet conservation goals on copper usage. After trying out several substitutes (ranging from other metals to plastics) to replace the then-standard bronze alloy, the one-cent coin was minted in zinc-coated steel. It was struck at all three mints: Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco. Coins from the latter two sites have respectively "D" and "S" mintmarks below the date.</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px 'Bookman Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px 'Bookman Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">However, problems began to arise from the mintage. Freshly minted, they were often mistaken for dimes. Magnets in vending machines (which took copper cents) placed to pick up steel slugs also picked up the legitimate steel cents. Because the galvanization process didn't cover the edges of the coins, sweat would quickly rust the metal. After public outcry, the Mint developed a process whereby salvaged brass shell casings were augmented with pure copper to produce an alloy close to the 1941–42 composition. This was used for 1944–46-dated cents, after which the prewar composition was resumed. Although they continued to circulate in the 1960s, the mint collected large numbers of the 1943 cents and destroyed them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Wikipedia</span></div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-60661663356400060912012-01-25T06:40:00.000-08:002012-01-25T06:55:26.278-08:00American Bison<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEtWI3u0d8ygNf2-BwQxBjf3h7bsK4Fs49U2qx-5jnkAeImXRcsV-IDO3dN4S2E8H0iWC9Ly12lPBQSKEeyvyb2vnlGD-BJNWxwBMiNRyaPDJMOFNOKqjY-Zc5vvxkCb6oyo20IM8PmrwD/s1600/1280px-Bison_Badlands_South_Dakota.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEtWI3u0d8ygNf2-BwQxBjf3h7bsK4Fs49U2qx-5jnkAeImXRcsV-IDO3dN4S2E8H0iWC9Ly12lPBQSKEeyvyb2vnlGD-BJNWxwBMiNRyaPDJMOFNOKqjY-Zc5vvxkCb6oyo20IM8PmrwD/s320/1280px-Bison_Badlands_South_Dakota.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important;"><div style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center; width: 700px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: left;" valign="top"><table style="display: inline !important;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
"In America today, all wild things and wilderness </div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
hang by the slender thread of individuals giving a damn."</div>
</div>
</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td><div style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style'; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important; font-size: 9pt;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center; width: 700px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;" valign="top"><table style="display: inline !important;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9pt;">Dale F. Lott in "American Bison"</span></div>
</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td><div style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style'; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important; font-size: 9pt;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important;"><div style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center; width: 700px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: left;" valign="top"><table style="display: inline !important;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style'; font-size: small;"><b>
</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style'; font-size: small;"><b></b></span><br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important;"><div style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center;">
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style'; font-size: small;"></span></div>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"></tr>
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important;"><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">
<zzzhtml><zzzbody></zzzbody></zzzhtml></div>
<div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: left;">
</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style'; font-size: small;"><b>
</b></span><br />
<zzzhtml style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><b><zzzbody></zzzbody></b></zzzhtml><br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="text-align: left; width: 700px;"><tbody>
<tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;" valign="top"><table><tbody>
<tr><td style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;" valign="top"><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<b><br /></b><br />
<div style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style'; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">
<b>
</b><br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-align: center;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important;"><div style="display: inline !important;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style'; font-size: small;"></span></b></div>
<b>
</b><br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important; font-size: 9pt;"><div style="display: inline !important;">
<b style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style'; font-size: small;"></span></b></div>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><zzzhtml><zzzbody></zzzbody></zzzhtml><br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center; width: 700px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="display: inline !important; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;" valign="top"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br /></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-86663439702786472762011-12-30T14:34:00.000-08:002011-12-30T14:34:30.860-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5B5vPzlZERc/Tv48NeXFQBI/AAAAAAAAAKs/yLAc4SybeC0/s1600/Houston+Colored+Library.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="332" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5B5vPzlZERc/Tv48NeXFQBI/AAAAAAAAAKs/yLAc4SybeC0/s400/Houston+Colored+Library.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
Under segregation black people were generally denied access to public libraries in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States"><span style="color: #361eee; text-decoration: underline;">Southern United States</span></a>. Rather than insisting on his libraries being racially integrated, he funded separate libraries for African Americans. For example, at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston"><span style="color: #361eee; text-decoration: underline;">Houston</span></a> he funded a separate Colored Carnegie Library.</div>
<div style="color: #444444; font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
-Wikipedia</div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-34501585169280598152011-12-30T13:04:00.000-08:002011-12-30T13:08:01.826-08:00Carnegie Libraries<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7-X87Kp70ZY/Tv4lm0ByvgI/AAAAAAAAAKg/9YNrqU5aLt8/s1600/Union%252C+SC+Carnegie+Library.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="147" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7-X87Kp70ZY/Tv4lm0ByvgI/AAAAAAAAAKg/9YNrqU5aLt8/s320/Union%252C+SC+Carnegie+Library.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">
Carnegie Library</div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">
Union, South Carolina</div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">A <b>Carnegie library</b> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library">library</a> built with money donated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish-American">Scottish-American</a> businessman and philanthropist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie">Andrew Carnegie</a>. 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_library">public</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_library">university library</a> systems. 1,689 were built in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a>, 660 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom">Britain</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland">Ireland</a>, 125 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada">Canada</a>, and others in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia">Australia</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand">New Zealand</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia">Serbia</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean">Caribbean</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji">Fiji</a>. Few towns that requested a grant and agreed to his terms were refused. When the last grant was made in 1919, there were 3,500 libraries in the United States, nearly half of them built with construction grants paid by Carnegie.</span></div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">The first of Carnegie's public libraries opened in his hometown, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunfermline">Dunfermline</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland">Scotland</a>, in 1883. The locally quarried sandstone building displays a stylised sun with a carved motto - "Let there be light" at the entrance. His first library in the United States was built in 1889 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braddock,_Pennsylvania">Braddock</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, home to one of the Carnegie Steel Company's mills. Initially Carnegie limited his support to a few towns in which he had an interest. From the 1890s on, his foundation funded a dramatic increase in number of libraries. This coincided with the rise of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_club">women's clubs</a> in the post-Civil War period, which were most responsible for organizing efforts to establish libraries, including long-term fundraising and lobbying within their communities to support operations and collections. They led the establishment of 75-80 percent of the libraries in communities across the country.</span></div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Carnegie believed in giving to the "industrious and ambitious; not those who need everything done for them, but those who, being most anxious and able to help themselves, deserve and will be benefited by help from others." Under segregation black people were generally denied access to public libraries in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States">Southern United States</a>. Rather than insisting on his libraries being racially integrated, he funded separate libraries for African Americans. For example, at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston">Houston</a> he funded a separate Colored Carnegie Library.</span></div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Most of the library buildings were unique, constructed in a number of styles, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaux-Arts_architecture">Beaux-Arts</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_architecture">Italian Renaissance</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_architecture">Baroque</a>, Classical Revival, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Colonial_style">Spanish Colonial</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_baronial_style">Scottish Baronial</a> was one of the styles used in Carnegie's native Scotland. Each style was chosen by the community, although as the years went by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bertram_(Carnegie_secretary)">James Bertram</a>, Carnegie's secretary, became less tolerant of designs which were not to his taste.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lippincott_Tilton">Edward Lippincott Tilton</a>, a friend often recommended by Bertram, designed many of the buildings. The architecture was typically simple and formal, welcoming patrons to enter through a prominent doorway, nearly always accessed via a staircase. The entry staircase symbolized a person's elevation by learning. Similarly, outside virtually every library was a lamppost or lantern,meant as a symbol of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_(spiritual)">enlightenment</a>.</span></div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">In the early 20th century, a Carnegie library was often the most imposing structure in hundreds of small American communities.</span></div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Wikipedia</span></div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
SIX MILE PRESS</div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
Stephen T. Powell</div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
Central, South Carolina</div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
January 1, 2012</div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-11303151620858923962011-12-21T14:56:00.000-08:002011-12-21T14:58:02.091-08:00The Green Man<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BxuIuwD13Q8/TvJjZT__5OI/AAAAAAAAAKI/_IsgneOLK2E/s1600/Green-man.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BxuIuwD13Q8/TvJjZT__5OI/AAAAAAAAAKI/_IsgneOLK2E/s320/Green-man.jpg" width="292" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<div style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A <b>Green Man</b> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculpture" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sculpture">sculpture</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Drawing">drawing</a>, or other representation of a face surrounded by or made from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Leaf">leaves</a>. Branches or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Vine">vines</a> may sprout from the nose, mouth, nostrils or other parts of the face and these shoots may bear flowers or fruit. Commonly used as a decorative <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_(architecture)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ornament (architecture)">architectural ornament</a>, Green Men are frequently found on <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carving" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #663366; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="wikt:carving">carvings</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_(building)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Church (building)">churches</a> and other buildings (both secular and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ecclesiastical">ecclesiastical</a>). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Green Man" is also a popular name for English <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_house" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Public house">public houses</a> and various interpretations of the name appear on inn signs, which sometimes show a full figure rather than just the head.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Green Man <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(art)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Motif (art)">motif</a> has many variations. Found in many cultures around the world, the Green Man is often related to natural <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetation_deity" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Vegetation deity">vegetative deities</a> springing up in different cultures throughout the ages. Primarily it is interpreted as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Symbol">symbol</a> of rebirth, or "renaissance," representing the cycle of growth each spring.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Wikipedia</span></div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-34507075351563040072011-12-07T10:20:00.001-08:002011-12-07T10:25:54.854-08:00AdBusters<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">
</div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRK87nxFi0E7Beg-OxTUtp3Ucqttk7uJkyHdyvXX4d9r5oNRP3inOVud_S_L_ohWu5d9Mgh6sJSlvy5OSAbXmje4db0McQMRZDP_gKOWHOXJVg8xRnvDpUYC0dnO9JQgJZOqYKG3RV3ZJh/s1600/Everything+Is+Fine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRK87nxFi0E7Beg-OxTUtp3Ucqttk7uJkyHdyvXX4d9r5oNRP3inOVud_S_L_ohWu5d9Mgh6sJSlvy5OSAbXmje4db0McQMRZDP_gKOWHOXJVg8xRnvDpUYC0dnO9JQgJZOqYKG3RV3ZJh/s400/Everything+Is+Fine.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">
<br /></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The <b>Adbusters Media Foundation</b> is a Canadian-based <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not-for-profit" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Not-for-profit">not-for-profit</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-consumerism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Anti-consumerism">anti-consumerist</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Environmentalism">pro-environment</a> organization founded in 1989 by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalle_Lasn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Kalle Lasn">Kalle Lasn</a> and <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Schmalz&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #ba0000; text-decoration: none;" title="Bill Schmalz (page does not exist)">Bill Schmalz</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Vancouver">Vancouver</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a>. Adbusters describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em;">Characterized by some as anti-capitalist or opposed to capitalism, it publishes the reader-supported, advertising-free <i>Adbusters</i>, an <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activist" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Activist">activist</a> magazine with an international circulation of 120,000</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 10px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.5em;">devoted to challenging </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none;" title="Consumerism">consumerism</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.5em;">. Past and present contributors to the magazine include </span></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hedges" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none;" title="Christopher Hedges">Christopher Hedges</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.5em;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none;" title="Matt Taibbi">Matt Taibbi</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.5em;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McKibben" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none;" title="Bill McKibben">Bill McKibben</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.5em;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Munroe" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none;" title="Jim Munroe">Jim Munroe</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.5em;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Rushkoff" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none;" title="Douglas Rushkoff">Douglas Rushkoff</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.5em;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Barnbrook" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none;" title="Jonathan Barnbrook">Jonathan Barnbrook</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.5em;">,</span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none;" title="David Graeber">David Graeber</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.5em;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Critchley" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none;" title="Simon Critchley">Simon Critchley</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.5em;">, </span></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_Zizek" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none;" title="Slavoj Zizek">Slavoj Zizek</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.5em;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hardt" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none;" title="Michael Hardt">Michael Hardt</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.5em;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Orrell" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: none;" title="David Orrell">David Orrell</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and others.</span></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">
Adbusters has launched numerous international campaigns, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Buy Nothing Day">Buy Nothing Day</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_turnoff" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="TV turnoff">TV Turnoff Week</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Occupy Wall Street">Occupy Wall Street</a>, and is known for their "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvertising" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Subvertising">subvertisements</a>" that spoof popular <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Advertising">advertisements</a>.</div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">
Wikipedia</div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em; text-align: center;">
http://www.adbusters.org/</div>
</span>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-88231716064827760442011-12-07T10:10:00.001-08:002011-12-07T10:18:10.106-08:00EKKO STAMPS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1qsTtFhya6Q6C_RnsTGeNoulaW98lHYvTALQEfN4n0mFFiMIFMdLFmBf8GKaIFIj-HYtpuzfwnGK3fRTUHU8YUIkHe5Nhl_-vQyobIHi769KCtcJG8FrEvQeq-QnzcwWtDAeGps8jNgia/s1600/RadioNews+Stamp+Fad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1qsTtFhya6Q6C_RnsTGeNoulaW98lHYvTALQEfN4n0mFFiMIFMdLFmBf8GKaIFIj-HYtpuzfwnGK3fRTUHU8YUIkHe5Nhl_-vQyobIHi769KCtcJG8FrEvQeq-QnzcwWtDAeGps8jNgia/s320/RadioNews+Stamp+Fad.jpg" width="231" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQUWimhFEzoTHCNzKjqQUlBUjvlQPUoFe0AsH5LXXp5yPkrkTHN0UiUFGsLkbiBsyJw6TvQjP9Ivhp69AmrTsd-aGVyeORcLOl6izTba3LloRhw4kdAJy5l-rJwDq00HexSkIC896P_N3H/s1600/EKKO+LETTER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQUWimhFEzoTHCNzKjqQUlBUjvlQPUoFe0AsH5LXXp5yPkrkTHN0UiUFGsLkbiBsyJw6TvQjP9Ivhp69AmrTsd-aGVyeORcLOl6izTba3LloRhw4kdAJy5l-rJwDq00HexSkIC896P_N3H/s320/EKKO+LETTER.jpg" width="192" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVl6AAsxoUd9YdAdZrZJEyVmsH8hKTmY0F2Ajr53wu0Itg5dTpdjbiqVV0DnTbwKzu3q7rwpN3MteygXJq30S_r4TwgW4ik9eUGwX2dwMbcEUoXbDEwhRCBEQhHFcUirJsTAJZ6m_ukOeS/s1600/EKKO+STAMP+ALBUM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVl6AAsxoUd9YdAdZrZJEyVmsH8hKTmY0F2Ajr53wu0Itg5dTpdjbiqVV0DnTbwKzu3q7rwpN3MteygXJq30S_r4TwgW4ik9eUGwX2dwMbcEUoXbDEwhRCBEQhHFcUirJsTAJZ6m_ukOeS/s320/EKKO+STAMP+ALBUM.jpg" width="235" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="color: #180b7f; font: 11.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">
<i></i></div>
<div style="color: #180b7f; font: 11.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Goudy Old Style'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Goudy Old Style';"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Goudy Old Style'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Goudy Old Style';"></span></span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px Corbel; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">
<div style="font: 13.9px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font: 12.0px Corbel;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span>THE STAMP COLLECTING PROCESS</span></div>
<div style="font: 13.9px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div style="font: 13.9px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“The process was very simple. For only $1.75, the EKKO Company offered an album to the collector of new stamps. The album contains pages preprinted with an outline of each of the stamps currently available, a listing of broadcast station call letters and wavelengths, and a nice map on the inside cover showing the locations of these stations.</span></i></div>
<div style="font: 13.9px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Spaces were also left for stations not yet participating, or stations that were just coming on the air. In addition, there was space to jot down up to four dial settings at your own time of reception.</span></i></div>
<div style="font: 13.9px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Proof of Reception" cards were furnished with the album.</span></i></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 13.9px/normal Corbel; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div style="font: 13.9px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Listeners needed only to send a few facts on these cards about when and where on the dial they had heard a broadcast, plus ten cents to cover mailing costs, to the station. There the card was checked against the station log for accuracy, and the listener was mailed a stamp with the station's call letters and design upon it.</span></i></div>
<div style="font: 13.9px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">An ad for this stamp album appeared in Radio News, April, 1925.</span></i></div>
<div style="font: 13.9px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div style="font: 13.9px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Interest in the hobby became so widespread that the February 1925 issue of Radio News featured the Ekko stamps on its cover.”</span></i></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Credits: </span></b></div>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b><div style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Goudy Old Style'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
http://www.antiqueradio.com/gilbertcombs_ekko_6-97.html</b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Goudy Old Style';">
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Goudy Old Style'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Goudy Old Style'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://pl703.pairlitesite.com/Ekko_Album.html </span></b></div>
</span></span><br />
<div style="color: #036514; font: 11.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="font: 12.0px 'Goudy Old Style';"><br /></span></div>
<div style="color: #036514; font: 11.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="font: 12.0px 'Goudy Old Style';"><br /></span></div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-67488864490472573592011-10-28T05:51:00.001-07:002011-10-28T05:52:35.598-07:00Huffy Bicycles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikeYNuFRc4ZzagPmbZugKoSZS-G6Q0Sf-dppHceUS3Zp3-rhJGkvFdzOzFRwjCqo3iLkfASW8sDEKHpBbHzO_TE73tJRSDHZau0qIH0oPCa1_w_qDexzc2M3SwPIw-w74ZPx-xO-rfUKbG/s1600/1955+Huffy+Radiobike.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikeYNuFRc4ZzagPmbZugKoSZS-G6Q0Sf-dppHceUS3Zp3-rhJGkvFdzOzFRwjCqo3iLkfASW8sDEKHpBbHzO_TE73tJRSDHZau0qIH0oPCa1_w_qDexzc2M3SwPIw-w74ZPx-xO-rfUKbG/s320/1955+Huffy+Radiobike.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<div style="font: 18.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px;">
<b></b></div>
<div style="font: 18.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
1955</div>
<div style="color: #333233; font: 18.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<div style="color: #333233; font: 18.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<b>Huffy Radio Bicycle<br />
</b></div>
<div style="color: #333233; font: 18.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<b>The Huffy Radio Bicycle provided a radio built into the tank, with the antenna and battery pack on the rear carrier.</b></div>
<div style="font: 18.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<div style="font: 18.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<b>http://www.huffy.com/about/History.aspx</b></div>
<div style="font: 18.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<div style="font: 18.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<div style="font: 18.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<b>The Huffy Corporation was founded in 1887 when George P. Huffman purchased the Davis Sewing Machine Company and moved its factory to Dayton, Ohio. Seven years later, in 1894, Huffman adapted the factory to manufacture bicycles.</b></div>
<div style="font: 18.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 21.0px; text-align: center;">
<b></b></div>
<div style="font: 18.0px 'Goudy Old Style'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">
<b>Wikipedia</b></div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-5601287478268600072011-09-05T15:37:00.000-07:002011-09-05T15:37:55.006-07:00The Art Of Ed Mell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt8bKxO7D3mVaTLqa87mi1KEWRhE-xm4LswheacDzrMrOL04C5kEQKi24CZbuF6RZ4PsB_FQzXSzYh_xuhkQx3xYxGcgBmW-OfXDx7qGYzEtClO6tZxm0RFFUCv841zN4c2HEoepRFSWIx/s1600/Longhorn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt8bKxO7D3mVaTLqa87mi1KEWRhE-xm4LswheacDzrMrOL04C5kEQKi24CZbuF6RZ4PsB_FQzXSzYh_xuhkQx3xYxGcgBmW-OfXDx7qGYzEtClO6tZxm0RFFUCv841zN4c2HEoepRFSWIx/s320/Longhorn.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody>
<tr><td><zzzbody style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></zzzbody><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Apple Chancery'; font-size: small;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important;"><zzzbody><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> The Art Of Ed Mell</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</span></span></span></zzzbody></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span><zzzbody style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br />"When painting a sunset or extraordinary rock configuration, I view it with an eye toward design integrity, I am an idealist attempting to elevate the power of the original vision by reducing it to its architectural elements."<br /><br />Commercial art teaches you techniques. It is always something I will be grateful for, that and the discipline. In commercial art school, skill is stressed as much as imagination.<br /><br />You needed to do things right. Students were taught to approach art that way so that somewhere in the future, when they discover their imagination is the most important thing, they will always have the discipline and the skill to draw upon."<br /><br /></span></span></span></zzzbody><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Apple Chancery'; font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Apple Chancery'; font-size: small;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;">
<tr style="display: inline !important;"><td style="display: inline !important; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> http://www.overlandgallery.com/Artists/Mell.html</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span><zzzbody><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></zzzbody></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-19323729608863800042011-09-05T14:37:00.000-07:002011-09-05T14:37:22.233-07:00Thomas Jefferson's Laptop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi7qPtn9k6nc7IkmIeZquAiS5ecnAXfOcZ3nComUceu3S0tqedsXSH-qcKNxIXfep6mJagfgzGEEnRSM9xuWK5JCnf3d0Of8xhghrhHEKTOWOdwWinLhdLMoIC_AmHbVl0HFoC3YP5V3kd/s1600/photo1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi7qPtn9k6nc7IkmIeZquAiS5ecnAXfOcZ3nComUceu3S0tqedsXSH-qcKNxIXfep6mJagfgzGEEnRSM9xuWK5JCnf3d0Of8xhghrhHEKTOWOdwWinLhdLMoIC_AmHbVl0HFoC3YP5V3kd/s320/photo1.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px;">
Thomas Jefferson came up with the idea of a portable writing desk during his 200 mile coach rides between his home at Monticello, Virginia and the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px;">
He designed this desk, with an adjustable book rest and a locking drawer. He gave the drawings to Philadelphia cabinet maker Benjamin Randolph to build.</div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px;">
The Declaration of Independence was written on this "lap box."</div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px;">
The original lap desk is on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.</div>
<div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/small_feb01.html</div>
Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-5735811963963101782011-07-19T17:35:00.000-07:002011-07-19T17:35:47.443-07:00The Printing Press Project at Middle Tennessee State University<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8vuP7hgZqyiF49Q3l_9EQG5Gf3_p-lxge4gdnroqlsBABE6f8SHrA-0xIjIinQr9gox4s-zaSBse1U-GE5TYWn8zLA-W5w67UD9QyEf5NjrdDs9hfam6UJG-vu-tRp2uqXZHJBcP62dWT/s1600/MTSU+Press.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="92" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8vuP7hgZqyiF49Q3l_9EQG5Gf3_p-lxge4gdnroqlsBABE6f8SHrA-0xIjIinQr9gox4s-zaSBse1U-GE5TYWn8zLA-W5w67UD9QyEf5NjrdDs9hfam6UJG-vu-tRp2uqXZHJBcP62dWT/s320/MTSU+Press.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div align="center" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="style1" style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold;">The Printing Press Project at Middle Tennessee State University</span></div><span class="style2" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="style2" style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</span></span><br />
One of only a handful of operational, reproduction 18th century printing presses in the U.S., the Printing Press Project provides experiential learning opportunities on the MTSU campus, and in the K-12 school system.</span><div class="style2" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</div><div class="style2" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Calibri;">Constructed in 2004 the press is based upon the English Common Press used by Benjamin Franklin when he worked as a journeyman printer in London in the 1720s. It was constructed of hand-hewn chestnut and white oak nearly 100 years old by two craftsmen on campus. </div><div class="style2" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</div><div class="style2" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Calibri;">Since that time it has been used in school and community demonstrations and workshops to illustrate the tremendous impact the press had on the development of our nation and the importance of care in designing and producing documents.<br />
</div><div class="style2" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Calibri;">After learning about the press, students understand a little bit better what it feels like to be an eighteenth century printer.<br />
<br />
The press project currently operates out of a room on the fourth floor of the library where classes receive instruction, visiting artists experience the rare opportunity to use an reproduction 18th century press, and school children can see history come alive.<br />
<br />
The press project offers students and the community a dramatic and unforgettable experience through activities that integrate history, writing and letterpress printing. Activities include lectures to university and school students about historical printing, a visiting artist each semester, community print nights, and printing demonstrations for community groups.<br />
</div><div class="style2" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Calibri;">The construction of the press was made possible with grant money awarded to Walker Library faculty members Dr. Alan Boehm, Director of Special Collections, and William Black, Administrative Services Librarian, and Janet Higgins, Department of Art.</div><div class="style2" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</div><div class="style2" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">http://pressproject.mtsu.edu/home.html</span></span></div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-64211827604556690182011-07-17T11:07:00.001-07:002011-07-17T12:11:51.711-07:00Bird Girl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijz6pFvEMlSIkIW_8zfedfd95T3RSPoJRhDm7lErftALUuNRwM9LjcZLigJUW_8ij989VlTAXdPVjg1Na_cERAWZCiwi4HpHCDIDwTMjZvM5hZ_0Avz6JUghUfcsuv9IH9A6SmhkBCC6SC/s1600/The+Bird+Girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijz6pFvEMlSIkIW_8zfedfd95T3RSPoJRhDm7lErftALUuNRwM9LjcZLigJUW_8ij989VlTAXdPVjg1Na_cERAWZCiwi4HpHCDIDwTMjZvM5hZ_0Avz6JUghUfcsuv9IH9A6SmhkBCC6SC/s320/The+Bird+Girl.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i>Bird Girl is a sculpture made in 1936 by Sylvia Shaw Judson in Lake Forest, Illinois. It achieved fame when it was featured on the cover of the 1994 novel, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It was sculpted at Ragdale, the summer home of her family.</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i>Bird Girl is cast in bronze and stands 50 inches tall. She is the image of a young girl wearing a simple dress and a sad or contemplative expression, with her head tilted to the left. She stands straight, her elbows propped against her waist as she holds up two bowls out from her sides. The bowls are often described by viewers as "bird feeders."</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i>The sculpture was commissioned as a garden sculpture for a family in Massachusetts. A slight, 8-year-old model named Lorraine Greenman (now Lorraine Ganz) posed for the piece.</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i>-Wikipedia</i></b></span></div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-59254943786184105452011-07-12T16:07:00.000-07:002011-07-12T16:08:47.074-07:00Police Accountability<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2bReVynD84AIPxV2yJ02F7zpWDwDGWKPkzoQOHqLlscuLT6SpGCikCcwcNXqbGsGPALiE5lg2gDSPYFUrbL5qmsd2aM-LkaQOn4bpbZnaiHLPh4y8L_oU6Yynlq-DMFoUthr_a84DW7BP/s1600/COPBLOCK.ORG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="75" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2bReVynD84AIPxV2yJ02F7zpWDwDGWKPkzoQOHqLlscuLT6SpGCikCcwcNXqbGsGPALiE5lg2gDSPYFUrbL5qmsd2aM-LkaQOn4bpbZnaiHLPh4y8L_oU6Yynlq-DMFoUthr_a84DW7BP/s400/COPBLOCK.ORG.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cop Block is a decentralized project supported by a diverse group of individuals united by their shared goals of police accountability, education of individual rights and the dissemination of effective tactics to utilize while filming police.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">We seek to highlight the double standard that some grant to those with badges. By documenting police actions – whether they are illegal, immoral or just <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnUfa-rXNTQ" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0060b6; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a waste of time and resources</a> – then calling the police stations involved (ideally while <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOTX8GvKCD8" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0060b6; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">recording and then later sharing your conversation</a>), we can work together to bring about transparency and have a real impact.</span></span></div><h2 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"></h2><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In addition to this direct pressure on police departments we want to be an educational resource on institutional changes that would curtail the common rights-violations and unaccountability today by those with badges and a place to showcase different techniques, viewpoints and courses of action.</span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;">http://www.copblock.org/</span></span></span></span></div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-1461560740749233782011-07-12T15:59:00.000-07:002011-07-12T15:59:34.332-07:00"To Protect and Observe"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTToAscI9qiSRvVrNB_l55WfLkUF94mYWtJ86pn3PLWQTT8zW3rE6FdbawbVLO-hPKcwaKaO8aSBVqriNmsQ62oLmEpbWctsHltnRLjMTAysDG3fVj8o3Ly04aE2V_SnY1mHSG9Po0Wkh/s1600/Orlando+CopWatch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTToAscI9qiSRvVrNB_l55WfLkUF94mYWtJ86pn3PLWQTT8zW3rE6FdbawbVLO-hPKcwaKaO8aSBVqriNmsQ62oLmEpbWctsHltnRLjMTAysDG3fVj8o3Ly04aE2V_SnY1mHSG9Po0Wkh/s1600/Orlando+CopWatch.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<h3 class="widget-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Orlando Copwatch Goals</h3><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">1) Reduce police violence by directly observing the police on the street, documenting incidents and keeping police accountable. We maintain principles of non-violence while asserting the rights of the detained person. We provide support to victims whenever possible. We also seek to educate the public about their rights, police conduct in the community and issues related to the role of police in our society.</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">2) Empower and unite the community to resist police abuse.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="textwidget" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">3) Encourage people to solve problems WITHOUT police intervention. We want to explore alternatives to calling the police.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">4) Most importantly, we encourage people to exercise their right to observe the police and to advocate for one another.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">http://orlandocopwatch.com/</span></span></div></div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-87911876596793119872011-06-19T09:46:00.000-07:002011-06-19T09:46:48.811-07:00The Bill Of Rights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggqsYuxpN6C7kw_VRbawIqbH8QGqxNBFJQ4Lr0ek5cnXBIcs0TVvBalhIWUfDEQRgU8M5VN-OdT-WmYJS8mUSfA6_pWydpjCEyKBgF8-2aU9S7l1vC-5qdLn2pLUmWRkiXuxNm8zytkIf9/s1600/Great+Seal+of+the+USA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggqsYuxpN6C7kw_VRbawIqbH8QGqxNBFJQ4Lr0ek5cnXBIcs0TVvBalhIWUfDEQRgU8M5VN-OdT-WmYJS8mUSfA6_pWydpjCEyKBgF8-2aU9S7l1vC-5qdLn2pLUmWRkiXuxNm8zytkIf9/s320/Great+Seal+of+the+USA.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><img align="BOTTOM" alt="The Bill of Rights" border="0" height="134" name="graphics1" src="http://www.billofrights.org/billofrights.gif" width="414" /></div><h2 align="CENTER">The First 10 Amendments to the<br />
Constitution as Ratified by the States</h2><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">December 15, 1791</div><h2 align="CENTER">Preamble</h2><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Congress</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">OF THE</span> <span style="font-size: x-large;">United States</span><i>begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday<br />
the Fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.</i></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">THE</span> Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">RESOLVED</span> by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.:</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ARTICLES</span> in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><img align="BOTTOM" border="0" height="111" name="graphics2" src="http://www.billofrights.org/flourish.jpg" width="149" /></div><h3 align="CENTER">Amendment I</h3><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.</div><h3 align="CENTER">Amendment II</h3><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.</div><h3 align="CENTER">Amendment III</h3><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.</div><h3 align="CENTER">Amendment IV</h3><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.</div><h3 align="CENTER">Amendment V</h3><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">Amendment VI</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">Amendment VII</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">Amendment VIII</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">Amendment IX</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">Amendment X</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;">The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people</div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-25345762424765135622011-06-17T10:53:00.000-07:002011-06-17T10:53:43.159-07:00S.W.A.T. the Musical<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAZUHbAut9NyXCvuOu-vUBnOPvZx3FUMgrFavpyrN5fqKBxniPieqR3TJAvJKaF7zN3xG6rUQZn7P1y-wi2wrSCdXrYgHzPy6LU1AXUH82kzYwe0zunFuXmi_vMnYB3nNjhuHBno-Hi89E/s1600/%2522No+Knock+Raid%2522.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAZUHbAut9NyXCvuOu-vUBnOPvZx3FUMgrFavpyrN5fqKBxniPieqR3TJAvJKaF7zN3xG6rUQZn7P1y-wi2wrSCdXrYgHzPy6LU1AXUH82kzYwe0zunFuXmi_vMnYB3nNjhuHBno-Hi89E/s320/%2522No+Knock+Raid%2522.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px;"> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-02-14-noknock14_ST_N.htm" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0060b6; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">USA Today</em> reports</a>, an astonishing 70,000 to 80,000 militarized police raids take place on a annual basis in America, many of them on mistaken suspects and many of them ending with injury or death for police and citizens alike.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><i>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV7u91A3KGQ</i></span></span></div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-24860935190753351092011-06-09T09:07:00.000-07:002011-06-09T09:07:52.747-07:00The Wrestler<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBIgOnqCcdegQaR7JDRJNLKOCr4g1uRFsUSc4Y0g2Op_a5g5Vy69a4CRKMvHBpvy7MDKgtq2WTbP0Y2V9rs0zt1T_dll5msDYl7e9BqFYloUfJ9I6QVv5ZWRtKFqBtxTL2rFpYZ2JFEFcT/s1600/Art+Deco+Wrestler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBIgOnqCcdegQaR7JDRJNLKOCr4g1uRFsUSc4Y0g2Op_a5g5Vy69a4CRKMvHBpvy7MDKgtq2WTbP0Y2V9rs0zt1T_dll5msDYl7e9BqFYloUfJ9I6QVv5ZWRtKFqBtxTL2rFpYZ2JFEFcT/s320/Art+Deco+Wrestler.jpg" width="248" /></a></div><br />
<br />
<div style="color: #3e4724; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><b></b></div><div style="color: #3e4724; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b>The Wrestler</b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b>A shining symbol of the American century</b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">He’s known simply as the <i>Wrestler</i>, the vision made tangible by American sculptor Dudley Vaill Talcott (1899-1986), who cast him in the 1920s from the high-tech material of his day: aluminum. It was, as <i>The American Architect</i> magazine enthused in 1929, “a metal of this generation.“ </div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">And it was a sculpture of that century: the <i>Wrestler</i> was monumentally modern. Cast by the Cleveland Foundry of the United States Aluminum Company, the statue stood as a symbol of America’s emergence as an industrial power and its 20th century coming of age.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">On display at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles (where an American wrestler captured the gold), the <i>Wrestler’s</i> intimidating 6’ 6”, 475-pound bulk awed and astonished. The statue today resides in <a href="http://wolfsonian.org/"><span style="color: #2811ee; text-decoration: underline;">The Wolfsonian-Florida International University</span></a>, the inspiring “museum of thinkism“ in Miami Beach. Visit there and its looming presence may well awe you, as it has so many.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2811ee;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2811ee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_960760412"><br />
</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEMPLATES/PRODUCT/Product.asp?Params=Category=17-1163%7CLevel=2-3%7Cpageid=8135">http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEMPLATES/PRODUCT/Product.asp?Params=Category=17-1163%7CLevel=2-3%7Cpageid=8135</a></span></div><div><br />
</div><div><br />
</div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-69289536657923584572011-06-09T08:36:00.000-07:002011-06-09T08:36:51.383-07:00BibliOdyssey<div style="color: #666666; font: 38.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 7.0px;">BibliOdyssey</span></div><div style="color: #999999; font: 12.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 5.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 2.0px;">Books<b>~~</b>Illustrations<b>~~</b>Science<b>~~</b>History<b>~~</b>Visual <i>Materia Obscura</i><b>~~</b>Eclectic Bookart.</span></div><div style="color: #999999; font: 12.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 5.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 2.0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #999999; font: 12.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 5.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 2.0px;">http://www.bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/</span></div><div style="color: #999999; font: 12.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 5.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 2.0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #587017; font: 15.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b>The Phantom of the Optical: An Online Illustration Trove</b></div><div style="color: #666666; font: 12.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;">BibliOdyssey gives entrée to a gorgeous and idiosyncratic gallery of rare art.</div><div style="color: #214ac6; font: 12.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="color: black;">by <a href="http://www.edutopia.org/damien-b-m-english">Damien B.M. English</a></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="width: 105.0px;" valign="middle"> <div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="width: 2.0px;" valign="middle"> <div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="width: 2.0px;" valign="middle"> <div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="width: 2.0px;" valign="middle"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody>
<tr> <td valign="middle"> <div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div></td> <td valign="middle"> <div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table></td> <td style="width: 123.0px;" valign="bottom"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px; width: 118.0px;" valign="baseline"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="width: 38.0px;" valign="middle"> <div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="width: 38.0px;" valign="middle"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="width: 38.0px;" valign="middle"> <div style="color: #4d4d4d; font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table></td> <td style="width: 105.0px;" valign="bottom"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px; width: 100.0px;" valign="baseline"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="width: 38.0px;" valign="middle"> <div style="color: #4d4d4d; font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="width: 38.0px;" valign="middle"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="width: 38.0px;" valign="middle"> <div style="color: #4d4d4d; font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table></td> <td style="width: 102.0px;" valign="bottom"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px; width: 97.0px;" valign="baseline"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="width: 38.0px;" valign="middle"> <div style="color: #4d4d4d; font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="width: 38.0px;" valign="middle"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="width: 38.0px;" valign="middle"> <div style="color: #4d4d4d; font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table></td> <td style="width: 61.0px;" valign="bottom"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 0.0px; width: 56.0px;" valign="baseline"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="width: 56.0px;" valign="middle"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="width: 2.0px;" valign="middle"> <div style="color: #4d4d4d; font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="width: 15.0px;" valign="middle"> <div style="color: #4d4d4d; font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="width: 37.0px;" valign="middle"> <div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div></td> <td style="width: 2.0px;" valign="middle"> <div style="color: #4d4d4d; font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table></td> </tr>
</tbody> </table><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><img alt="4421.jpg" src="webkit-fake-url://ADAA803D-9D45-44D1-99FC-0E2026B08F5B/4421.jpg" /></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Print by Aleksei Radakov, 1920.<span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div style="color: #919191; font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Credit: Courtesy of BibliOdyssey</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Somewhere in Sydney, a man quietly communes with his computer, poring over visual "materia obscura" from every corner of the world and a wide spectrum of centuries. Through <a href="http://www.edutopia.org/tech-teacher-cut-Web-noise"><span style="color: #214ac6;">RSS (Real Simple Syndication)</span></a> feeds, bookmarked links, e-newsletter subscriptions, and search engines, he sifts through the Web looking for art collections, exhibitions, archives of old engravings, and portfolios of contemporary graphic artists to share with the world.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">This man isn't looking for any particular thing; rather, it seems he's looking for every beautiful, peculiar, or haunting piece of art that has ever graced the pages of a book. But what he's looking for exactly is not important -- what matters is that he's gathering up the gems and oddities he finds for a visually rich site called <a href="http://www.bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #214ac6;">BibliOdyssey</span></a>, a splendid classroom-discussion tool and entrée into art and its history.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The Webmaster, Paul (he has asked that his last name not be printed), is a mysterious man in his early forties who was born and raised in Sydney and has spent some time in Vietnam. Known on the site only as peacay or pk, he says his digital guise isn't an effort to create what he calls a "secretive persona" but rather the result of a desire to take a backseat to the art, "because, after all is said and done," he adds, "I'm just a curator, and it is the content that deserves center stage."</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><img alt="4421-1.jpg" src="webkit-fake-url://ADAA803D-9D45-44D1-99FC-0E2026B08F5B/4421-1.jpg" /></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">A calendar printed by the Antikamnia Chemical Company.<span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div style="color: #919191; font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Credit: Courtesy of BibliOdyssey</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Paul's BibliOdyssey began with what he describes as the "vague notion" to find interesting but obscure book illustrations. Coupled with this desire was his growing experience with (and eventual expertise in mining) the riches of the Internet. Using the burgeoning blogosphere, Internet communities such as <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/"><span style="color: #214ac6;">Metafilter</span></a>, and the online bookmarking site <a href="http://www.delicious.com/"><span style="color: #214ac6;">Delicious</span></a>, he began saving images, then learned how to tweak them for presentation. Like any bricks-and-mortar gallery curator, he wanted to share his personal pleasures, so he began posting his rare finds to a <a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: #214ac6;">Blogger.com</span></a> hosting site. The rest of his Odyssean venture naturally fell into place from there.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">"The most profound change to the site took place with my gaining more confidence handling the images," he says. "From this flowed an increase in the number of images per post, along with an eventual belief that the site functioned best as a visual magazine rather than just one or two images per post."</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">At this writing, BibliOdyssey offers more than 700 posts, all organized, tagged, indexed, hyperlinked, and readily available to any art lover with a modem. Each posting of images includes Paul's meticulously researched commentary, as well as more links for those students or teachers interested in continuing the exploration.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">"What you see in a single post may have taken days, and sometimes months, to collect, research, write, and edit," says Paul. "For every hour of work in producing a post, there have probably been ten hours of not-quite-fruitless searching, reading, and editing."</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><img alt="4421-2.jpg" src="webkit-fake-url://ADAA803D-9D45-44D1-99FC-0E2026B08F5B/4421-2.jpg" /></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">"Eight suggested methods for raising the obelisk."<span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div style="color: #919191; font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Credit: Courtesy of BibliOdyssey</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">This attention to detail, and in the quality of the art itself, can draw teachers and students alike into a world of odd, elegant, and often surprising images -- each with its own story to tell. A journey through BibliOdyssey gives art students a chance to sample an eye-peeling exhibition of art and illustration ranging from a powerfully imagined sketch of a stormy sea during the Permian age to the funny and peculiar skeletal "Funny Bones" color sketches of Louis Crucius, displayed in the window of a St. Louis pharmacy during the late nineteenth century.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">One of the most significant things to be learned from BibliOdyssey is how the Internet can open astonishing new worlds to anyone. Paul has no background in the visual arts (his résumé mentions experience in nursing, biochemistry, the insurance business, and teaching English as a second language, but no design background). Wide-ranging curiosity and a natural gift for spotting memorable art, combined with the modern miracle that lets us search archives around the globe, have made possible something as engaging as this site.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The man behind the screen isn't reaping any financial gain from his work, other than some advertising revenue. He calls the site his "online manifestation of a personal midlife crisis," joking that it's an obsessive hobby that "keeps me off the streets." His Web browsing is never topic based; the primary goal is just to find what he considers "artistically viable" images that catch his eye and appear in enough numbers to merit a post. "I can react to something if it's bizarre or elegant or gorgeous or smart," he says. "But I can -- and very often do -- find beauty or interest in the minutiae: the technical virtuosity of an engraving or the possible meanings of some motif in an allegorical picture, or simply the exquisite beauty of a particular color. I like obscure and weird, certainly -- images that are often less well known -- but, like everyone, I have a wide potential for visual interest."</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><img alt="4421-3.jpg" src="webkit-fake-url://ADAA803D-9D45-44D1-99FC-0E2026B08F5B/4421-3.jpg" /></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Sketch by Mariano di Iacopo, fourteenth century.<span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div style="color: #919191; font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Credit: Courtesy of BibliOdyssey</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Sharing this interest with others is the main reason Paul plays the assiduous curator, along with the creative freedom it grants him.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">"Without delving too far into the psychology, BibliOdyssey allows me an outlet for my research tendencies and, in an ongoing way, positive feedback makes me feel that I'm doing something that's appreciated," he says. "That, in turn, provides justification for continuing to search for weird and wonderful visual images."</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">And there is no doubt he takes pride in his site and works hard for the greater good of the free, easy-to-access information the Internet is celebrated for.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">"I had a duty to be as accurate as possible," he says. "Otherwise, I would feel as if I wasn't making any real contribution. I pride myself on providing, to the best of my modest abilities, the most interesting and important information as an accompaniment to the images. Images can be magnetic invitations to learn. BibliOdyssey is a good example of using image-based enticements to draw people to the stories, history, and backgrounds of many subject areas."</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; line-height: 15.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><b>Damien B. M. English</b><i> is a freelance writer living in San Francisco.</i></div><div style="font: 12.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><i><br />
</i></div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-14229415932500500442011-04-23T06:03:00.000-07:002011-04-23T06:10:18.404-07:00Blue Dog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglJE9A6mFcDjSFnzS1OhgpUmQgHuc-syA6_5vK8Q-EYQQGi5MfemIQatXJHdNCt0f2df8qKDDiGN0GWWoXyaWlC2i063i1kA0ItbeHxfjvZzoZWweo2d_J-UHQe6RptSLCK4mZ37BruifB/s1600/Watch+Dog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglJE9A6mFcDjSFnzS1OhgpUmQgHuc-syA6_5vK8Q-EYQQGi5MfemIQatXJHdNCt0f2df8qKDDiGN0GWWoXyaWlC2i063i1kA0ItbeHxfjvZzoZWweo2d_J-UHQe6RptSLCK4mZ37BruifB/s400/Watch+Dog.jpg" width="302" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>George Rodrique</b></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Based on a familiar Cajun folk tale, the loup-garou is a mythical werewolf that roams around places at night. Rodrigue remembers being told as a child to go to bed or else the loup-garou would get him. A boogie man story. The legend bore him this painting, set in a full moon landscape, which gave the dog the blue tint, and subsequently, gave the world an iconic image.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://talesfromtheroad.southernliving.com/tales_from_the_road/2008/04/louisianas-blue.html</span></span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.georgerodrigue.com/rodrigue/index2.htm</span></span></span></div></div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-79189376768832314122011-04-22T10:52:00.000-07:002011-04-22T11:02:52.410-07:00Pulitzer Medal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWlAq8ebj3q2c7N6Qc4-NY3cBQPWrmWEVpOz4fN_wUQQQ_s4e_isk1BqOLYEMetZQ26B_5CrcnqrGxXSoE39mp2jYrVkeJJwGQiL_dtcHsc6aHjy7Ww_iBUoOFOdeBpwFMmj_HQ0ZN4D04/s1600/Pulitzer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWlAq8ebj3q2c7N6Qc4-NY3cBQPWrmWEVpOz4fN_wUQQQ_s4e_isk1BqOLYEMetZQ26B_5CrcnqrGxXSoE39mp2jYrVkeJJwGQiL_dtcHsc6aHjy7Ww_iBUoOFOdeBpwFMmj_HQ0ZN4D04/s400/Pulitzer.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.18in;"> <span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">"Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations."</span></span></span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.18in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px;">Joseph Pulitzer </span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8113109966206641057.post-40646647569389148152011-04-22T07:27:00.000-07:002011-04-22T07:32:44.597-07:00When I Met My Muse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoVJeWiLjvh_4G3RDtzPa6q5BsBrNI3Nq4BrNM0Zra775gTyXzJCc2pGBaCby0ySkD1ctVdqaErKvw_AxMLJZr_DBqTNblq_4CWabS09mSKDLjNJNd-aguZlZFPfH6zyghoIM1ZAy90pYy/s1600/Muse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoVJeWiLjvh_4G3RDtzPa6q5BsBrNI3Nq4BrNM0Zra775gTyXzJCc2pGBaCby0ySkD1ctVdqaErKvw_AxMLJZr_DBqTNblq_4CWabS09mSKDLjNJNd-aguZlZFPfH6zyghoIM1ZAy90pYy/s400/Muse.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I glanced at her and took my glasses </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: LucidaGrande;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">off--they were still singing. They buzzed </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: LucidaGrande;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">like a locust on the coffee table and then </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: LucidaGrande;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ceased. Her voice belled forth, and the </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: LucidaGrande;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">sunlight bent. I felt the ceiling arch, and </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: LucidaGrande;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">knew that nails up there took a new grip </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: LucidaGrande;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">on whatever they touched. "I am your own </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: LucidaGrande;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">way of looking at things," she said. "When </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: LucidaGrande;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">you allow me to live with you, every </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: LucidaGrande;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">glance at the world around you will be </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: LucidaGrande;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a sort of salvation." And I took her hand.</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.18in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>William Stafford</b></span></span></span></div></div>Six Mile Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127386910212651265noreply@blogger.com0