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Interesting story about a shoe cobbler in Winooski, Vermont. He even offered to stay on for six months to smooth the transition...profitable business, no takers.
http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/a-winooski-cobbler-seeks-a-successor/Content?oid=3015990&utm_content=bufferf10e3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer0 -
Suburban Dallas residents, including women, worried about crime are flocking to obtain concealed handgun permits, according to training school operators and state records.
The trend is especially pronounced in Tarrant County, which has outstripped Dallas County as a hotbed of successful applicants.
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Had not heard of this around here but have heard of it back east.
quote:SWEET HOME, Ore. -- Sweet Home Police are trying to figure out who left a trailer full of starving animals in a church parking lot.
A neighbor says he watched a man pull up in a black pickup hauling the trailer Wednesday, unhook it and drive off.
When the man didn't come back, the neighbor called police.
Officers found a llama, two ponies and a horse inside, which are far too many animals for the size of the trailer.
If you know who abandoned the animals or recognize the trailer, call Sweet Home Police.
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History is not the only subject getting short shrift.
Consider this sad example of hopelessness:
A student played high school football in Detroit. He was a great running back, but a really poor student.
At graduation, he didn't have enough credits. But he was a great football star and the students held a rally and demanded the principal give him a diploma anyway.
They were so insistent that the principal agreed if Dwayne could answer one question correctly he would give him a diploma.
The one question test was held in the auditorium and all the students packed the place. It was standing room only.
The principal was on the stage and told him to come up.
The principal had the diploma in his hand and said, "Dwayne, if you can answer this question correctly I'll give you your diploma." He said he was ready and the principal asked him the question.
"Dwayne," he said, "How much is three times seven?"
He looked up at the ceiling and the down at his shoes, just pondering the question. The other students began chanting, "Graduate him anyway! Graduate him anyway!"
Then he held up his hand and the auditorium became silent. he said, "I think I know the answer.
Three times seven is twenty-one."
A hush fell over the auditorium and all the other students began another chant.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Call it a sign of the times: The world's oldest newspaper still in circulation has dropped its paper edition and now exists only in cyberspace.
Post-och Inrikes Tidningar, founded in 1645 by Sweden's Queen Kristina, became a Web-only publication on January 1.
"We think it's a cultural disaster," said Hans Holm, who served as the chief editor of the paper for 20 years. "It is sad when you have worked with it for so long and it has been around for so long."
It's been a long journey for a newspaper started by the queen to keep her subjects informed of the affairs of state. The first editions, which were more like pamphlets, were carried by courier and posted on note boards in cities and towns throughout the kingdom, Holm said.
Today, Post-och Inrikes Tidningar, which means "mail and domestic tidings," runs legal announcements by corporations, courts and certain government agencies -- about 1,500 a day, according to current editor Olov Vikstrom.
It's not exactly a best seller. The paper edition had a circulation of around 1,000, although the Web site is expected to attract more readers, Vikstrom said.
The newspaper is owned by the Swedish Academy, known for awarding the annual Nobel Prize in Literature, but the publishing rights were sold recently to the Swedish Companies Registration Office, a government agency.
Despite its online transformation, Post-och Inrikes Tidningar remains No. 1 on a ranking of the oldest newspapers still in circulation compiled by the Paris-based World Association of Newspapers.
"An online newspaper is still a newspaper, so we'll leave it on the list," WAN spokesman Larry Kilman said.0 -
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quote:Originally posted by williamprynn
It's all Bush's fault.
I'd say it's Al Gore's fault since he invented the internet.0
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