No New Taxes of any kind!

How about a national slogan to all levels of politicians:

NO NEW TAXES OF ANY KIND!

Businesses should also come to understand that we, the proletariat, are tired of being nickled and dimed by add ons.

How about a national message to all politicians at all levels:


NO NEW TAXES OF ANY KIND WITHOUT ALSO SOURCING INCOME TO COVER AND CONVINCING FEATURES.

Non-existent customer service and the telephone

I am a 75 year old.

In the "good old days" one could pick up the telephone and call a company and get an operator. The operator knew how to get to the right live person. Today- Nevva hoppen, GI!

You get an "improved" system of electronics.

If you make it through the maze and reach a live person of the organization, you get infinitely more wisdom than the electronics provide. If you get to a real person in less than thirty minutes, you have reached one of the "better" systems.

Yuppie- young up and coming managers with high salaries- don't want to be bothered with customers having problems. That could mean dealing with grumpy old men like me.

In my day, customers were the most important part of any business. A tire maker's aim should be to make profits, not tires, although better tires and better management will make more profits. The point being that business won't last with dissatisfied customers for very long. There is a basic law that the good outlast the bad. To me, bad customer service is the worst "yuppie management" has done to America.

I guess there is a basic misunderstanding between the generations. Give me the "Uppies" - up and comers with reasonable salaries and the incentive to get better- of old, versus the "Yuppies of today.

I F... by Rudyard Kipling for our despondent friend

For Anneliese Landers, a recently widowed friend whose interview story is in my latest book: "I, God, & Country".

— Excerpted from If— on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Woman, my daughter! Orininally "a Man, my son!

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. It may be copyrighted outside the U.S. (see Help:Public domain).

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Bob Sowards
PGA TOUR Events Played Finish FedExCup
Cuts Made 1st 2nd 3rd Top 10 Top 25 Scoring Avg. OWGR Money Points Standing
Career Totals 21 6 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- $65,189 -- --
2008 10 4 -- -- -- -- -- 72.93 -- $46,027 197 218th
2007 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- $ -- --
2005 7 2 -- -- -- -- -- 72.72 -- $19,162 -- --
2004 1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 77.50 -- $ -- --
Nationwide Tour Events Played Finish Money List Rank
Cuts Made 1st 2nd 3rd Top 10 Top 25 Scoring Avg. OWGR Money
Career Totals 50 21 -- -- -- -- 4 -- -- $35,470 --
2008 4 1 -- -- -- -- -- 72.60 -- $3,135 203
2007 3 -- -- -- -- -- -- 73.00 -- $ --
2005 1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 75.67 -- $ --
2004 9 5 -- -- -- -- -- 72.32 -- $11,385 185
*OWGR = Official World Golf Rating More Stats

KEY STATS
Scoring Avg. (Actual) 70.00%
70.31%

Driving Distance 281.0
285.4

Driving Accuracy Percentage 46.43%
57.80%

Greens in Regulation Pct. 63.89%
67.98%

Scrambling 69.23%
56.83%

Putts Per Round 29.50
29.65


Bob Sowards Average
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Result Year Events
T45 2008 Travelers Championship
T54 2008 Puerto Rico Open presented by Banco Popular
T63 2008 AT&T Classic
T69 2008 Sony Open in Hawaii
CUT 2008 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am


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a.. His best finish on the PGA TOUR was T45th in 2008 at the Travelers Championship.
b.. He ranks T99th in Putting Rating on the PGA TOUR.
PGA TOUR
STANDARD STATS Rank Additional Stats
Driving Distance 280.7 142th Tot. Dist. - 11,791 Tot. Drvs. - 42
Driving Accuracy Percentage 57.68% 158th Fwys Hit - 169 Poss. Fwys - 293
Greens in Regulation Pct. 57.41% 190th Greens Hit - 217 # Holes - 378
Putting Average 1.825 164th GIR Putts - 396 Greens Hit - 217
Eagles (Holes per) 243.0 64th # Holes - 486 # Eagles - 2
Birdie Average 2.48 197th # Birdies - 67 Tot. Rnds. - 27
Scoring Average 72.36 187th Tot. Strks - 1,969 Tot. Adj. - 15.310-
Sand Save Percentage 46.67% 133th # Saves - 21 # Bunkers - 45
Total Driving 1,998 199th Total rank from stats 1 & 2
Regular Season FedExCup Points 197 -- Pts.Behind - 22,498 -
Money Leaders $46,027 -- - -
Par Breakers 14.20% 196th #Bird/Eagl - 69 #Holes - 486
Putts Per Round 28.95 59th Tot. Putts - 608 Tot. Rnds. - 21
GIR Pct. - Fairway Bunker 19.2% 999th - -


Player did not meet the minimum number of rounds requirement to be officially ranked. The rank indicated is the position the player would be ranked if the minimum had been met.

Nationwide Tour
STANDARD STATS Rank Additional Stats
Driving Distance 289.1 -- Tot. Dist. - 5,782 Tot. Drvs. - 20
Driving Accuracy Percentage 64.93% -- Fwys Hit - 87 Poss. Fwys - 134
Greens in Regulation Pct. 63.33% -- Greens Hit - 114 # Holes - 180
Putting Average 1.868 -- GIR Putts - 213 Greens Hit - 114
Eagles (Holes per) 180.0 -- # Holes - 180 # Eagles - 1
Birdie Average 2.50 -- # Birdies - 25 Tot. Rnds. - 10
Scoring Average 72.60 -- Tot. strks - 726 Tot. Rnds. - 10
Sand Save Percentage 36.36% -- # Saves - 4 # Bunkers - 11
Total Driving 1,998 -- Total rank from stats 1 & 2
Money Leaders $3,135 -- - -
Par Breakers 14.44% -- #Bird/Eagl - 26 #Holes - 180
Putts Per Round 30.70 -- Tot. Putts - 307 Tot. Rnds. - 10


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Portsmouth Daily Times 6-23-08 Stars on floodwall

The stars were removed and are being restored with digitally copied signatures also restored.

Justin Montivon puts the finishing touches on a name under one of Portsmouth's floodwall stars. G. Sam Piatt/Daily Times
By G. SAM PIATT
PDT Staff Writer
After more than 15 years of exposure to the harsh elements along the Ohio River, the stars on Portsmouth's wall of fame have deteriorated to the point of replacement.

Local artists Justin Montivon and Mike Doherty, who have worked under Louisiana's Robert Dafford on the floodwall murals, have been busy repainting the stars and the names of celebrities under them.

They also are redoing the signatures of those who signed the stars with a black marker pen.

"Each of the signatures was photographed with a digital camera, and they will be painted back. The signatures will be exactly the way they were," Doherty said.



The same kind of long-lasting masonry paint used on the murals is being used on the stars.

"They're restoring what was already up there, and this time, it's being done right," said Bob Morton, president of Portsmouth Murals Inc. "They look very nice."

The signing of the stars by the stars started during Mayor Frank Gerlach's administration (1990-1997).

"During the city's celebration of its 175th anniversary, a young man - can't recall his name just now - guaranteed he would paint 175 stars along the outside of the floodwall," Gerlach said. "He got about 155 of them up there and then quit."

"So here we had these stars and I was asking myself, 'What will we do with the stars now?'" Gerlach said. 'I thought about Hollywood's and sports halls of fame, and decided Portsmouth could have a floodwall 'Wall of Fame.'"

Kathleen Battle, Portsmouth's famed opera singer, was the first to sign a star. That was on April 1, 1991, Gerlach said.

"They put her on a high-lift chair to sign her signature within the star. Television cameras whirred and her songs were played as background. It was impressive," Gerlach said.

One of the stars, redone now by the artists, has Dan Quayle's name under it but no signature by the former vice president, who has ties to Portsmouth.

"I reserved him a star and when he was in town, right before the election (1992), we tried to get him to sign it," Gerlach said. "But the Secret Service wouldn't approve it. His guards said there was too much open space in those Kentucky hills across the river, from where somebody with a high-powered rifle could have shot him."

A mayor's committee now decides who meets the criteria to be selected to sign one of the floodwall stars, but in Gerlach's day, he reserved that decision for himself.

"My criteria was that they had to be well-known at least throughout Ohio, or better - like Roy Rogers - known nationally and internationally," he said. "I would catch people when they were coming to town, like the sports stars, and get them up there to sign a star. I would put a name under a vacant star and get them up there with a marking pencil, and they would sign their name."

Some sports stars who have a star on the wall, after leaving the area and going on to become players on national teams, include Gene Tenace, Larry Hisle, Rocky Nelson, Chuck Ealey, Curt Gentry and Don Gullett.

As of Saturday, there were about 125 stars repainted by the artists. About 55 of them have no names under them.

The original stars were "a low-budget operation," said Gerlach. "I'm very pleased, as is Bob Morton, to see that it's now being done right."

G. SAM PIATT can be reached at (740) 353-3101, ext. 236.