Spellbound
falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
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Nore, Sending Jingles your way. Wish you felt better.
http://ccm.net/forum/affich-78368-when-i-type-letters-going-all-over-the-place
I don't know if this will help, but it could be a sensitivity issue with the mouse pad. check out the suggestions on this link and see if it helps.
(I thought perhaps you were trying to teach us a new language for our trip. :giggle: )
This is a hot button issue for me. No Pell Grants for Prisoners. Period. My father was the one who brought it to the attention of Senators Pell and Biden that Pell grants were being granted to prisoners. Senator Pell had no idea as that was not his intent in the late 80's and 90's. Why should prisoners be ENTITLED to a higher education when WE have to take out loans for our kids OR they take them out and are faced with years of payments. IMOO.Tribute to Dr. Jon Marc Taylor, a Prison Education Crusader
"On December 27, at the ago of 54, Missouri state prisoner and prison education crusader Dr. Jon Marc Taylor died of a heart attack in his prison cell. For those who knew him, and those who knew of his amazing transformation and contributions to the field of prison education, he will be sorely missed.
The story of Jon Marc Taylor is anything but the typical story of a prisoner. Incarcerated since the age of 19 as a result of crimes committed in 1980, Dr. Taylor is perhaps the very ideal of reformation and rehabilitation. While incarcerated he earned his high school diploma, bachelor's of science and master's of arts through Ball State University, and finally his Doctorate in Public Administration from Kennedy Western University.
These are merely his educational feats, his advocacy feats, such as leading the charge to restore prisoner Pell grant eligibility, are a whole other story of remarkable success and realizing the seemingly impossible..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris...c-ta_b_9104560.html?utm_hp_ref=crime&ir=Crime
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James Ridgeway’s Solitary Reporting
"...there may be no reporter in the United States who has collected more stories of solitary-confinement prisoners than the veteran investigative reporter James Ridgeway.
Since it is virtually impossible for a reporter to gain access to a solitary-confinement unit, Ridgeway came up with another strategy. “I wanted to use the prisoners themselves as reporters,” he told me. “Of course, that’s taboo in the mainstream press, since we all know they’re liars and double dealers and escape artists.” He chuckled. But breaking that taboo “didn’t bother me at all,” he said. “My position was: all we want to do here is, we want to know what is going on inside.”
Each week, Ridgeway leaves his home in Washington, D.C., walks to his local post office, and returns with about fifty letters from men and women locked in solitary-confinement units in prisons around the country. The letters began arriving in 2010, soon after Ridgeway launched a Web site, called Solitary Watch, with an editor named Jean Casella. “When we started, there was nobody writing about this,” she said. Ridgeway was then seventy-three years old. He dug into his retirement fund to help cover startup costs, and now, when he goes to the post office each week, he pushes a walker...
Ridgeway will turn eighty this year. Lately, his eyesight has been weakening, making it much harder for him to read and file all the letters that sit in piles atop his desk. “I have so many right now I can’t face them,” he said. But he has no plans to stop. “Most of these guys I write to, all they want is to reach out and have a human hand,” he said. “I used to think they wanted their cases dealt with, but all they really want is just to have some sort of correspondence, some kind of contact with the outside world.”.."
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/james-ridgeways-solitary-reporting
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Chicago Announces New Police Training For Dealing With Mentally Ill
The U.S. Justice Department is currently investigating the Chicago police's use of deadly force, among other issues.
"CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, facing sharp criticism over police shootings of civilians, announced reforms on Friday to address how police and other emergency workers respond to the mentally ill, including new crisis training for officers...
The reforms would increase the number of officers who receive a 40-hour "Crisis Intervention Team," training course, which teaches the best ways to de-escalate situations with people in crisis, especially the mentally ill, the mayor's office said.
The number of officers who receive this training would expand to 2,800 from 1,890 this year, so each district will have a CIT officer staffed on every watch.
In addition, all of the department's 12,000 police officers would receive eight hours of training on mental health awareness, and 911 dispatchers will be trained on identifying situations requiring crisis-intervention tactics..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...af0772?ir=Crime§ion=us_crime&utm_hp_ref=crime
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This is a hot button issue for me. No Pell Grants for Prisoners. Period. My father was the one who brought it to the attention of Senators Pell and Biden that Pell grants were being granted to prisoners. Senator Pell had no idea as that was not his intent in the late 80's and 90's. Why should prisoners be ENTITLED to a higher education when WE have to take out loans for our kids OR they take them out and are faced with years of payments. IMOO.
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015...rants-for-prisoners-an-old-argument-revisited
Student loans are currently the bane of my existence. I swear by the time I'm done paying them it will be time for me to help pay for my kids to go to college if that's what they choose.
BBM
Count me in, and yoga on the beach in the morning sounds great!
If you go see "Carol," please let me know how you like it. I find Patricia Highsmith (who wrote the book on which it is based) a very interesting person.
This is very interesting, both about the purses and the guns lol. It makes sense that you would find the different inner mechanics of a gun fascinating, as you have a great mind. I have never looked at a handgun up close, but my grandfather had a Winchester rifle that I recall from the 60's. He had a peach orchard and would shoot at squirrels IIRC. There is a Civil War rifle that hangs above the fireplace at my DH's river house that has been there forever. My dad had his rifle from the Marine Corps where he got a uniform pin that said "Excellent Marksman"? Or something like that. He told stories of shooting at tin cans on his uncle's farm.
Do you have to take the guns out of the safe and clean them regularly if you don't use them?
They recommend once a year is good to take them out and wipe them down with an oil rag on the metal and inside barrel. But I don't do it as often as that and they seem to store fine for years at a time without ever needing to touch them so long as the final cleaning before you store them, you leave a coating of oil on the metal parts. What I do is first clean them good and then before storing I have a clean rag that is very damp with gun oil and then I wipe the metal parts all over without putting any finger prints on the metal. That way when I store it, there is a nice coating of oil to protect the metal. You have to avoid touching the metal with fingers or hands since there is something in our skin that can cause the metal trouble.
I also love the wood finishes on the stock of a rifle. I have a nice Browning shotgun that has the most beautiful wood finish on the stock. I use furniture polish on the wood stock and wood parts which has a wax to it to protect the wood.
Investing in a good gun cleaning kit is a must. I have about 5 or 6 kits since different barrel sizes need different cleaning rods and brushes.
I am truly ignorant to all of this. You obviously are a responsible gun owner to say the least. Do you own any of the old ones that have the sterling or silver engraving on them? I guess like antique? If they don't make them like that any more?
I don't have any with the engraving markings like we see on TV or old movies but I have always wanted a nice engraved one. They are usually very expensive since the only ones that are engraved are usually expensive weapons. It makes sense if you think about it because nobody would take the time to engrave one unless it is a nice one.
You can actually still get engravings done if you send your firearm to a custom engraver but of course it is very expensive process and would cost a lot. The gun shows are fun to go to just to see ones like that. They have them there usually at the gun shows. Neat to look at but too expensive to buy. LOL
Is there such a thing as universal ammo or does each type of gun take its own specific type?
Each gun has its own very specific ammo. There is no universal ammo that all guns could use. Each type of gun has its own diameter of barrel and that is why it needs its own ammunition. For example .45 caliber , .357 magnum, .22 caliber, etc. The lower the number typically the smaller the diameter and typically less powerful but not always the case as the type of shells get pretty complicated. They are describing the bore diameter size of the barrel usually.
I am laughing at your safe deer population. My German Shepherds have both caught deer and I was horrified! My Mercedes caught a deer once, right at the driver door as I was on my way to work. I was not happy with the huge dent and having to crawl over the seat to get in or out. I left the deer hair there for the insurance people to get a load of.
Thank you for answering my questions. I like that your wife collects handbags! Does she have a Birkin bag? I have never seen one of those either in real life either!
I don't think she has any Birkin bags. I don't really remember all the brands she has but I do remember she has at least 1 from Dooney+Burke, Gucci, and Ralph Laruen are the 3 names I remember her talking about when they arrived in the mail.
I think she likes her Dooney bags a lot. I see her carrying those sometimes. The funny thing though is she ends up liking and using the less expensive ones the most. There is a J.C. Francis brand she got on the Liqucidation Channel for cheap and she really likes those. I guess it goes to show that we don't have to always have the best things as some of the standard things are the things we use the most.