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I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!

A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

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Monday, November 17, 2014

New Scam ... Thx Marge R!

According to Snopes this is true. See http://www.snopes.com/fraud/sales/express.asp Charlie

BE ON THE ALERT, THE HOLIDAY SEASON IS COMING NEW SCAM

Just when you think you've heard it all. Here comes another scam. This
scam is very clever. Be very careful out there! One could easily fall for
this - beware of people bearing gifts!

There is a new and clever credit card scam. Please circulate this.
Someone it happened to says it works like this:

Wednesday a week ago, I had a phone call from someone who said that he was
from some outfit called: "Express Couriers" asking if I was going to be
home because there was a package for me, and the caller said that the
delivery would arrive at my home in roughly an hour. And sure enough,
about an hour later, a uniformed delivery man turned up with a beautiful
basket of flowers and wine. I was very surprised since it did not involve
any special occasion or holiday, and I certainly didn't expect anything
like it. Intrigued about who would send me such a gift, I inquired as to
who the sender is. The delivery man's reply was, he was only delivering
the gift package, but allegedly a card was being sent separately; (the
card has never arrived!). There was also a consignment note with the gift.

He then went on to explain that because the gift contained alcohol, there
was a $3.50 "delivery charge" as proof that he had actually delivered the
package to an adult, and not just left it on the doorstep where it could
be stolen or taken by anyone.

This sounded logical and I offered to pay him cash. He then said that the
company required the payment to be by credit or debit card only so that
everything is properly accounted for.

My husband, who by this time was standing beside me, pulled his wallet out
of his pocket with the credit/debit card, and 'John', the "delivery man",
asked my husband to swipe the card on the small mobile card machine which
had a small screen and keypad where Frank was also asked to enter the
card's PIN and security number. A receipt was printed out and given to us.

To our horrible surprise, between Thursday and the following Monday,
$4,000 had been charged/withdrawn from our credit/debit account at various
ATM machines.

It appeared that somehow the "mobile credit card machine" which the
delivery man carried now had all the info necessary to create a "dummy"
card with all our card details after my husband swiped our card and
entered the requested PIN and security number.

Upon finding out about the illegal transactions on our card, we
immediately notified the bank which issued us the card, and our
credit/debit account was closed.

We also personally went to the Police, where it was confirmed that it is
definitely a scam because several households had been similarly hit.

WARNING: Be wary of accepting any "surprise gift or package", which you
neither expected nor personally ordered, especially if it involves any
kind of payment as a condition of receiving the gift or package. Also,
never accept anything if you do not personally know or there is no proper
identification of who the sender is.

Above all, the only time you should give out any personal credit/debit
card information is when you yourself initiated the purchase or transaction!

If you pass this on, it may just prevent someone else from being swindled!=

Good one girls! ... SamKat

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High Notes 11-20-2014

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My column for the week

Jim Kegley

High Notes 11-20-2014

If you’ve never tried to write using a computer, you may not understand why, when you can’t access “Google Search”, you really are “at a loss for words”! Oh, I know the words, I just have to verify their meaning if I want to use them for those reading this column to understand.

I actually was “Googling” a memoir I’d read many years ago, written by Ernest Hemingway’s widow, Mary, entitled ‘A Movable Feast’ (1964). A. E. Hotchner, Hemingway’s biographer, suggested the title, from his memory of Hemingway saying, in conversation, “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then whatever you do, for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

I was going to use the concept of that story as the basis for my last-minute, and harried, offer to the newspaper Gods. Unfortunately, my (not-so-smart) smart-phone wouldn’t allow my use of the search engine, and that’s why I, at 7:36 a.m. on Tuesday, November 11, Veteran’s Day, my absolute-deadline time, was trying to write for “The Scioto Voice”.

I’ve known for years that many people who lived in Scioto County during the 1950’s, our A-plant boom times; carry fond memories of Portsmouth. Somewhat less culturally diverse than Paris, France, but youthfulness has its unique departmental brain divisions of memory, ala, achieving maturity, and Portsmouth during those years was a pretty exciting place through our teenage years.

As you may know, I didn’t get my column done and to the office on time, and missed last week’s publication.

Sorry!

A Portsmouth moveable feast would include the many wonderful culinary delights available at places like: Joe and Ann’s Shake Shoppe - Chocolate Chip ice cream; The Park Shoppe - Pork Barbecue; The Original Hamburger Inn, The Turkey Shoppe – giblet green gravy over fries; The Shawnee Drive In – Big Chief burger; Ollie’s Kentucky Fried Chicken, Crispie Crème donuts’, The Blue Pig – frosted mugs of root beer; Casey’s Eat Shop – best hot ham sandwich; Henry’s Café, The Sugar Bowl, and Pop’s Restaurant.

Who could forget: A & W Drive In, Blackie’s Drive In, Nick’s Hot Dogs – ooh the sauce; The American Restaurant, The Coachman, The Cameo, The Town House – Crunchy fried chicken; Porky Pig, The Trail Inn, Wonder Bar, The Modern Grill, Coney Island Lunch, White Front, The Cycle Inn – two tiered Cycle burger; The Lane Shop – Chili; The Courthouse Inn, Fergie’s Lunch, Morton’s Restaurant, Benny’s Café – Spanish steak sandwich and cold draft beer; Reese’s Hamburger’s, White Front, Harold’s Restaurant – Chateaubriand – roasted beef tenderloin with wine sauce, surrounded with a ring of whipped potatoes and Florintine Salad with anchovies; Patsy’s Inn, Pat’s Café, Darone’s Pizza – 10 cents a slice.

I know you remember: Johnson’s Terminal Restaurant – Greek style spaghetti; River Side Inn, Luchi’s Lunch, Andy’s Hot Dog Stand, The Cottage, Eureka Lunch, Kilcoyne’s – Codfish sandwich; The Millbrook Inn, Langwell’s Cafeteria, Lowe’s Pool Room – Mabel’s blue-plate specials; Shumpie’s Bar-B-Cue, State Bar, Silver Moon, Super Club, The Horne Inn, The Stonepipe – Prime rib au jus; Liberty Café, Libbey’s Lunch, The Coffee Shop at Chabot’s, Greyhound Post House (24-hours), Jimmy’s Corner, Mountel’s Lunch, The Four Keys.

This is a small list of the three pages of restaurants listed in the 1957 Polk City Directory for Portsmouth.

Many of those names must conjure memories of the scents, sounds and tastes that we grew-up with during those years, and what we all would give to do them again. No, we can’t go home again, except in our memories and our minds.

I was thinking then, (Tuesday, Nov. 11) and am thinking again today of Elmer Frasher, the retired architect, with whom I used to imbibe, while sitting the bar at one of the service/social clubs we used to frequent. Elmer died a couple of weeks ago, and I have to admit that I hadn’t seen him in nearly two years. I used to pass by the American Legion building on Court Street and see Elmer’s Lincoln, and would think, “I should stop and say hello”, but I never did.

Now, I’m sorry!

Here’s an incident I remember about my old friend…he once said, in telling me a story…”The man was portly, somewhat like you!”

And, I responded…”Portly? That’s a helluva way to describe someone”, and Elmer just twisted that swizzle stick around in his mouth, and said…’Well, you are portly!” referring to my beer-belly physique!

The few people at the bar, who could hear us, laughed at our exchange.

I guess I couldn’t really argue the point. That was just Elmer’s direct, no holds barred, way of talking.

Elmer Frasher was an easy-going, introspective sort, who was dedicated to his close friends and family. He loved the club-society he frequented, and was an active member of the American Legion Post 23 in Portsmouth through the years. Elmer was a graduate of Portsmouth West High School, and after serving in the military, returned to use the G. I. Bill to attend, and graduate, from the University of Cincinnati, in architecture.

Elmer designed many buildings around the area, and he told me The Hudson House, on Fifth Street (where I once lived) was one of them. Elmer loved baseball and basketball, and had been an active amateur player in school, and on local teams.

He used to talk about Hawaii a lot, and said he maintained a long-standing membership in one of that state’s American Legion clubs. The obituary in the local daily newspaper, said Elmer served in Korea, however, I don’t recall him mentioning Korea. I know he would have turned 18 on October 8, 1945

Funeral services were held, Tuesday, November 4, and burial was in McKendree Cemetery, while arrangements were under the direction of F. C. Daehler Mortuary Co.

Adieu old friend, adieu!

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Climatologist: 30-Year Cold Spell Strikes Earth

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With nasty cold fronts thrusting an icy and early winter across the continental U.S. — along with last winter described by USA Today as "one of the snowiest, coldest, most miserable on record" — climatologist John L. Casey thinks the weather pattern is here to stay for decades to come.

In fact, Casey, a former space shuttle engineer and NASA consultant, is out with the provocative book "Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell," which warns that a radical shift in global climate is underway, and that Al Gore and other environmentalists have it completely wrong. [Get "Dark Winter" with Free Offer – Click Here]

The earth, he says, is cooling, and cooling fast.

And unless the scientific community and political leaders act soon, cold, dark days are ahead.

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Casey says the evidence is clear that the earth is rapidly growing colder because of diminished solar activity.

He says trends indicate we could be headed for colder temperatures similar to those seen in the late 1700s and early 1800s when the sun went into a "solar minimum" — a phenomenon with significantly reduced solar activity, including solar flares and sunspots.

If he's right, that would be very bad news.

"Dark Winter" posits that a 30-year period of cold has already begun. Frigid temperatures, and food shortages that inevitably result, could lead to riots and chaos.

Casey tells Newsmax, "All you have to do is trust natural cycles, and follow the facts; and that leads you to the inevitable conclusion that the sun controls the climate, and that a new cold era has begun." Casey is president of the Space and Science Research Corp., an Orlando, Fla., climate research firm.

His new book debunks global warming orthodoxy. For over a decade, he reports, the planet's oceans have been cooling. And since 2007, the atmospheric temperature has been cooling as well.

"The data is pretty solid," Casey says. "If you look at the 100-year global temperature chart, you look at the steep drop off we've had since 2007, it's the steepest drop in global temperatures in the last hundred years."

So how can the media and scientific elites make a case for global warming when it's actually cooling?

Casey suggests climate-change theorists have simply wedded themselves to the wrong theory, namely, that global temperatures respond to the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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Any scientist suggesting otherwise is castigated as a heretic, though there are other prominent scientists who support Casey.

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Noted Russian astrophysicist Habibullo I. Abdussamatov has argued that a new, mini-ice age has begun, though Casey doesn't go that far.

He does agree with Abdussamatov that the real driver of global climate is solar activity, namely sunspots. These correspond to shifts in global temperature with a greater than 90 percent accuracy, he says.

The environmental left focuses instead on ever-rising greenhouse emissions, suggesting nature is just taking a bit of a breather before the upward march in temperatures ineluctably resumes.

"There are two fundamental flaws with that," Casey says. "No. 1, the greenhouse-gas theory, and the global climate models that they produced, never permitted a pause. As long as CO2 levels were going up, the only thing that could happen was global temperatures could go up. That has not happened.

"No. 2, there could absolutely be no cooling, much less a pause. And yet we've been cooling for 11 years now."

The recent polar vortex that sent temperatures across the Midwest plunging to sub-zero records is not an aberration, Casey says.

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If "Dark Winter" is right, that means the nation is busily preparing for the wrong calamity.

"We don't have 10 years," Casey warns. "We've squandered during President Obama's administration eight years . . . and we didn't have eight years to squander."

The worst of the cooling cycle, Casey predicts, will hit in the late 2020s and the early 2030s.

Food riots will break out, demand for heating oil will spike, and the failure of the corn crop will put the squeeze on ethanol.

He even predicts the United States will ban agricultural exports to feed its own citizens.

When Casey developed his theories in 2007, he emerged with several predictions.

Rising temperatures would begin to reverse themselves within three years. The sun would enter a phase of reduced activity he called "solar hibernation." And oceanic and atmospheric temperatures would enter a long decline.

So far, all of Casey's predictions have come true. He says, "My theory tells you when it will be cold . . . and it is the cold that kills."

Casey also posits that a long-term cold spell will have dire effects on the earth's geology.

As air and ocean temperatures, the earth's crust begins changing, leading to more volcanic activity and earthquakes. Casey notes that the worst earthquake to strike the continental U.S. in modern times was in 1812 at New Madrid, Missouri – during the last great solar minimum.

The climate changes also will affect human activity and may be a prelude to revolutionary politics. He says the French Revolution took place at the beginning of the last solar minimum in 1789.

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"It could be one of the reasons Putin is so eager to get Ukraine," Casey says. "For many decades before Ukraine became independent, it was the primary source of wheat for the Soviet Union during cold weather times. Putin must have the wheat of Ukraine for the new cold era."

Casey has a worried look as he talks about the revelations in "Dark Winter."

"There is no human on earth, much less here in the U.S., who has experienced the depth and duration of cold we're about to experience — it's that serious," he says.

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On with the book club: What makes a person admirable?

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Continuing on with our book club in Language Arts today, we discussed what personality traits make someone admirable. Again, the theme of our book club is “This is who I am” and all of the novels have main characters who display “admirable traits” and strength of character in some way.
I had students write what they thought were admirable traits on the board and here is what they had to say:

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-Thoughtful
-Really cute
-Good singer
-High self esteem
-Selfless
-Make sacrifices for others
-Good personality
-Loyal
-trustworthy
-An awesome actor
-Helps me with my basketball playing
-Hardworking
-Funny
-Sets a goal and works toward it
-Kind
-Positive
-Patient… and a few others…
We had an excellent discussion on the traits that they came up with, and then worked on trying to narrow our list down to 5 main traits.
Can someone be admirable and also be a horrible singer? Yes, of course – so we took “good singer” off of the board. Can you be admirable without a good sense of humor? Yep! So that “funny” was gone.
We worked our way through the list and finally decided on a few key characteristics that would make someone admirable:
They are kind, set a goal and work toward it, and make sacrifices for others.
The best part is that the class basically hit the nail on the head! The traits that they decided on are ones that the main characters in the novels display. Score! I love it when that happens – everything coming together the way it’s supposed to. They are already making connections all over the place and we’re only two days in. They’re connecting our read aloud, Firegirl, to the anticipation guide that we did on Friday and to the main character that we read about in our last read aloud, Shot at Dawn: World War I. Love it! Super pumped for when they actually get into their book club groups with their own independent novels which will be Session 5… and we’re entering Session 3 tomorrow.
Wish me luck! We’re on to a shared reading piece tomorrow about Myers-Briggs and personality inventories – should be interesting!

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