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APRN Alaska News

After bruising first year, new Dunleavy budget trades cuts for big PFDs and deficit spending December 12, 2019
Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy proposed a new budget Wednesday that would spend most of the cash left in the state's primary savings account to sustain government services at status quo levels, while paying out record-sized Permanent Fund dividends. The post After bruising first year, new Dunleavy budget trades cuts for big PFDs and deficit […]
Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage
Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019 December 12, 2019
Gov. Mike Dunleavy has released a proposed budget that spends savings to pay large PFDs. Plus: A U.S. Senate bill could provide new guidance for ship travel in the Arctic. And, a fully electric seaplane made its first flight over the Fraser River near Vancouver. The post Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019 appeared […]
Mayowa Aina, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage

Legislative Drafting Institute for Child Protection (LDICP)

Recent Research Spreadsheets November 30, 2016
Our students have compiled research in three topic areas. Below are the links to their research tables that can be downloaded for searching and viewing. For a state-by-state review of Mandatory Reporter laws, click here. For a state-by-state review of Background Check laws, click...
feigleycommunications
2016 Legislative Drafting Students November 15, 2016
Our students spent the summer working on the inaugural project of the LDICP. Through their extensive research, massive databases of information on state statutes regarding the abuse of children ave been created and will be posted here as their work is finalized. Here are...
feigleycommunications

wikimedia

Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for December 12 December 12, 2019
Picture of the day The Green and Golden Bell Frog (Litoria aurea), is a magnificent looking frog. In the late 1860s several consignments of these frogs were received from Sydney and released by the Auckland Acclimisation Society. There have been several attempts to establish populations of this species in the South Island.
Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for December 11 December 11, 2019
Picture of the day Paysandisia archon (Palm moth), male dorsal side

Bob Mayer

Take a WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, today. December 9, 2019
My 79th title, Walk on the Wild Side is out today. It’s the third book in the Will Kane, Green Beret series, that starts with New York Minute, which is free today only. I’m already into Hell of a Town, the 4th book. There will also be Area 51: Earth Abides later this year, a […]
Bob
What Were The 7 Cascade Events Leading Up To Pearl Harbor? December 7, 2019
Most disasters require 7 things to go wrong; my rule of 7. Whether it be a plane crash or a military disaster. Pearl Harbor was no different. It wasn’t one or two or even six things that went wrong: it was seven. Free today through 9 December is Stuff Doesn’t Just Happen II: The Gift […]
Bob

Hugh’s Views & News

The 2019 Christmas Charity Appeal – Help Me Raise £250 For Battersea Dogs & Cats Home By Leaving Me Links To Your Blogs and Books December 9, 2019
Bloggers & Authors - Help me raise £250 for Battersea Dogs & Cats Home by leaving me links to your blogs and/or books.Continue reading
Hugh's Views and News
How To Centre Captions Under Blog Images On The Gutenberg Editor December 2, 2019
Now all captions under images, photos and pictures on the Gutenberg editor can be aligned to the centre. This is how to do it. Continue reading
Hugh's Views and News

Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog

The Editing Podcast S3E3: Think it’s American? Think again! – by Denise Cowle & Louise Harnby… December 12, 2019
In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Denise and Louise chat about 4 features of written language that are often thought to be Americanisms but aren’t! Listen to find out more about … -iz- spellings serial commas em dashes which/that in restrictive relative clauses Continue reading HERE
The Story Reading Ape
How to Ride The Publishing Roller Coaster Without Falling Off: How to Stay Sane in a Crazy Business – by Ruth Harris… December 11, 2019
on Anne R. Allen: I don’t really have to tell you, do I? Success followed by failure. Ups followed by crashes. Sinatra sang it: Flying high in April. Shot down in May. Moodswings. One week you pop the Dom Perignon. The next, you’re knee deep in rotgut vodka empties/rumpled chocolate wrappers. You’ve lost/gained weight. Your […]
The Story Reading Ape

KarmaTube

How an Army of Women Resurrected a River December 5, 2019
Women in Vellore, India, have resurrected the Naganadhi river and the agriculture of the area that were almost lost to drought. In 2014, the women took matters into their own hands and worked with engineers and hydrologists to build 600 recharge wells by hand: digging wells, making cement rings, placing the rings and stones, and […]
Breath of the World: Amazon Rainforest November 28, 2019
Who among us does not depend on fresh air as the source of our life and well-being? As one Ecuadoran elder said, "It is from the amazon that the breath of the world comes; without the amazon the world would not breathe.". Our rain forests are all that stand between us and catastrophic climate change. […]

Joan Reeves: Slingwords

The Story Behind the 12 Days of Christmas Song December 8, 2019
Just about everyone knows the Christmas standard, The Twelve Days Of Christmas, but do you know the fiction and the facts regarding this song?I’m the kind of person who likes to dig for facts about things. The origin of a creative work is of great interest to me. I hope it is for you too.In […]
Joan Reeves
Saturday Share: Recipe, Christmas Cherry Dessert December 7, 2019
If you like to serve dessert for holiday dinners, here's one that's a time saver because it's a dump cake and so easy to make.Since it's also decadently rich and yummy, it's perfect for a holiday meal.Christmas Cherry PDessertI call this dessert a pie-cake because it’s like a delicious cherry pie, but it's not really […]
Joan Reeves

WASP Final Flight

Lucile Doll Wise, 43-7 | August 2, 2018 August 17, 2018
"Jacqueline Cochran was looking for WASP. They told me I would have to be interviewed and they would contact me when they came to the Wichita area. But I didn’t wait for that. I went down to Houston for my interview, to speed things up. And I think that’s one of the smartest things I […]
Unknown
Jean McCreery, 44-W-10. |. May 10, 2018 July 20, 2018
"My first flight was with a barnstormer at the age of five. I loved it! I also tried to 'fly' out of the barn loft with an umbrella. This was less than successful..." WASP Jean Terrell McCreery, 44-10 The indomitable Marguerite Jean Terrell Moreo McCreery has "...slipped the surly bonds of Earth. And danced the skies on […]
Unknown

The Old Motor

Roving DuPont Gasoline Test Car Checks Filling Station Fuel December 11, 2019
An oil company knows the quality and octane of a gasoline batch before it leaves the refinery, although the Unita Oil Refinery Company apparently contracted with Dupont to test their regular gas blend out in the field. These photos were taken in 1954 by a Vernal Express Newspaper photographer in Vernal, Utah, for a promotional...
David Greenlees
Three Unique Pre-War Automobile Images December 10, 2019
The Schoellkopf Co. of Dallas, Texas certainly pulled out all the stops when they assembled this distinctive rig to promote its sales of “Gas and Kerosene Refrigerators.” The tow vehicle appears to be a streamlined 1933 Reo “Flying Cloud” coupe and the trailer by an unknown maker is decorated with a motif of a house,...
David Greenlees

National Day Calendar

December 12, 2019 – NATIONAL DING-A-LING DAY – GINGERBREAD HOUSE DAY – NATIONAL POINSETTIA DAY – NATIONAL AMBROSIA DAY December 12, 2019
The post December 12, 2019 – NATIONAL DING-A-LING DAY – GINGERBREAD HOUSE DAY – NATIONAL POINSETTIA DAY – NATIONAL AMBROSIA DAY appeared first on National Day Calendar.
Doug Philp
December 11, 2019 – NATIONAL APP DAY – NATIONAL NOODLE RING DAY December 11, 2019
The post December 11, 2019 – NATIONAL APP DAY – NATIONAL NOODLE RING DAY appeared first on National Day Calendar.
Doug Philp

Shorpy

Local Hero: 1952 December 12, 2019
May 1952. "Weymouth (Massachusetts) High School football team. Glenn Allen of the Weymouth Maroons with football." Color transparency by Jim Hansen for the Look magazine assignment "Championship High-School Football." View full size.
Dave
All in the Farmily: 1940 December 11, 2019
May 1940. "Farm Security Administration tenant purchase borrower and family. Crawford County, Illinois." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the FSA. View full size.
Dave

Shorpy Reader Shared Photo’s

Put Up or Shut Up: 1956 November 25, 2019
That's what I like to imagine my future-brother-in-law was telling me as the showdown is about to come in our poker hand here in the living room of our home in Larkspur, California. The "shut up" part was, of course, something I was familiar with hearing often enough from others in non-wagering situations. At my […]
tterrace
Dad and Toyota November 22, 2019
Southern Utah, and my father with our 1971 Toyota Corona. He taught me how to drive stick shift in this car, and several years later, I bought it and drove it for a few more years. Our cabin would be built near this lake. Good memories.
Mvsman

Shorpy Reader Comments

Easter time! December 11, 2019
In reply to All in the Farmily: 1940: Looks like Easter presents and baskets! Dads looking at buying some chickens! Plus a drawing of Thanksgiving dinner by Carl. Thanks for these insightful pictures of our past. Edit: and it looks like twins! [For the record, Easter in 1940 fell on March 24. - Dave]
TheDon
Après Easter December 11, 2019
In reply to All in the Farmily: 1940: New overalls for Dad and boys, and Mom has stockings. Nice foot powered organ. I played one like it in 1962.
AM Wood

Debra Lynn Dadd

Is Your Tap Water Safe? December 10, 2019
This past summer I wrote a post about PFAS chemicals in farm produce. The source of the chemicals was from ground water that had been contaminated from firefighter foam used primarily on military bases. At the time, the contaminated ground water seemed relatively contained to areas in close proximity to military bases. Now, EWG has […]
Lisa Powers
Versatile Almond Cookie Recipe Will Let you Make Almost Any Holiday Cookie You Love Gluten-Free, Egg-Free, and Dairy-Free December 10, 2019
I know many of you reading this have enjoyed my holiday cookies recipes in the past in my food blogs. This year I don’t have a food blog, but I will be launching a new food blog in January. It’s called Wholefood Cuisine, and all the recipes will be made with whole foods, like this […]
Guest Post from Debra Lynn Dadd

BloominThyme

Salad Bistro November 21, 2019
My garden is like a salad bistro from November through April. The weather is perfect and nothing says “al fresco” like a Florida winter. In my garden, I grow a variety of lettuce, brassicas, and roots–all perfect for a healthy salad. However, eating salad every day can get boring. Yes, I said it out loud. […]
gardenfrisk
Rust and Beans November 4, 2019
Rust is a fungal disease that commonly occurs in Florida where it’s warm and humid. Most beans are susceptible to Rust. The disease generally occurs only during prolonged periods of warm, wet and/or humid weather. Rust refers to a variety of fungus, exists in at least 35 pathotypes and is extremely variable. Symptoms develop on leaves […]
gardenfrisk

AV Club Wiki Wormhole

Just when Lagertha thinks she's out, Vikings pulls her back in December 12, 2019
“Always traveling and never arriving.”Read more...
Dennis Perkins on TV Club, shared by Dennis Perkins to The A.V. Club
Survivor ejects player after misconduct claims December 12, 2019
For the first time in its 19-year history, CBS’s reality competition mainstay Survivor has directly removed one of its players from contention, with contestant Dan Spilo booted from the show over claims of sexual misconduct. Spilo—who was at the center of a controversy earlier this season, in which fellow contestant…Read more...
William Hughes on News, shared by William Hughes to The A.V. Club
Change can't be denied as Modern Family celebrates one final Christmas December 12, 2019
If you were to compare the tenth and eleventh seasons of Modern Family, you’d probably incorrectly assume that the tenth was the final one. The episodes and plot from last season felt like a final send-off, especially with the season-long story of Haley getting back together with Dylan and then getting pregnant with…Read more...
Kyle Fowle on TV Club, shared by Kyle Fowle to The A.V. Club
Dark Betty rises again as Riverdale reaches its gassy, foreboding season finale December 12, 2019
We measure TV finales, even those marking the midseason break, by closure and the lack thereof. That can be somewhat confusing on a show like Riverdale, which raises and answers new questions on a week-to-week basis. When every week has a sense of high-drama climax, the actual climax comes off as a bit, well,…Read more...
Charles Bramesco on TV Club, shared by Charles Bramesco to The A.V. Club

Task & Purpose

'Millions' stolen in decade-long buying fraud at Florida VA hospitals, officials say December 12, 2019
Editor's Note: This article by Dorothy Mills-Gregg originally appeared on Military.com, a leading source of news for the military and veteran community.At least 15 Department of Veterans Affairs employees and vendors in Florida were engaged in an "elaborate" fraud scheme that cost the government "millions" since 2009, two government agencies announced in a joint press […]
Dorothy Mills-Gregg, Military.com
Mark Wahlberg and his family's fast-casual chain Wahlburgers may be coming to a base near you December 11, 2019
Actor Mark Wahlberg will be visiting troops overseas to plug Wahlburgers, a fast-casual restaurant chain owned by the actor and his two brothers, Donnie Wahlberg, and chef Paul Wahlberg.According to Stars and Stripes, Paul and the artist formerly known as Marky Mark will be at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Sunday to plug the […]
James Clark

DamnDelicious

Quick Chicken Ramen Noodle Stir Fry December 11, 2019
Noodles, tender chicken, broccoli, bell pepper and mushrooms with the best and easiest stir fry sauce ever. 30 min. Start to finish. So is it too early to be doing New Year, New You? Because after all the holiday stuffing and pies, I need all the veggies I can get. And this recipe is the […]
Chungah @ Damn Delicious
Instant Pot Cheeseburger Mac and Cheese December 7, 2019
Cheeseburger macaroni? YES, PLEASE! Hamburger meat, pasta and an epic cheese sauce. All made in ONE POT. Too easy! It’s been a bit hectic here. With the move, the traveling, the wedding planning, and the holidays, we’ve been constantly on the go-go-go. But even with our super busy schedules, I can still whip up this […]
Chungah @ Damn Delicious

RecipeTinEats

Christmas Cake – ultra moist fruit cake (speedy!) December 11, 2019
This is a speedy, easy Christmas Cake that requires no overnight fruit soaking. It’s a fruit cake that’s incredibly easy to make, with a rich, velvety texture that’s full flavoured and so moist it can be eaten plain. But no one turns away a slosh of custard! Terrific made on the day, keeps for ages,... […]
Nagi
Maple Glazed Ham December 9, 2019
Maple Glazed Ham – this is the ham glaze you use when you want to add a special touch to your festive baked ham! The most incredible sticky glaze with the subtle fragrance of maple and hint of holiday spices, this is THE Christmas Ham recipe I make to gift and take to gatherings year after year. New... […]
Nagi

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Legislative Drafting Institute for Child Protection (LDICP)

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I didn’t have my glasses on…

Indian Country Media Network

Legends of Windemere

Smorgasbord – Variety is the spice of life

Bluebird of Bitterness

Elle Knowles: Finding Myself Through Writing

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Positively Present

The Diesel-Electric Elephant Company, England.

Joan Reeves: Slingwords

World United Music

WASP Final Flight

The Old Motor

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Stump the Bookseller

National Day Calendar

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Thoroughly Reviewed

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Debra Lynn Dadd

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AV Club Wiki Wormhole

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