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As we've already announced, Paulding.com will be producing a live (and delayed) videocast of the Dallas Christmas Parade on December 5th. I've run into a couple of businesses who want to sponsor video Merry Christmas messages to run in that netcast to Paulding residents and family on December 5th. The message can be roughly 10 seconds long and in video format from a cell phone or video camera and the soldier or the soldier and his buddies can wish folks at home a Merry Christmas and a local business will sponsor their video played in the parade. So if you know someone in Iraq or

Are you going to be offering these again this year?

I fixed that... I think I found the glitch that has been plaguing some of the new memberships since the board was upgraded. I've got to keep an eye on that. Mommywatts, go ahead and post your topic again and mods, move it back if you can (I

I've got a little time and three pdf cards if someone else wants to play tonight. You'll have to print them out yourself pubby

check your pm box. pubby

The ARTIST is the commerce membership for those who have seasonal sales. Introduced this earlier this fall, this membership also provides full business access to the site. Simply pay $40.00 and you'll gain permissions participate in the commerce of the site, thirty days at a time. pubby

I suspect for Jeremey to get on that show, he's going to have to do something ... but he's kind of big to be an elf Actually, I'm not certain of who will be hosting the show and what all we can do (number of cameras, etc.) pubby

As we think through this, one of the things we want to do is make it so folks can shout out a Merry Christmas to the community. LPPT and Bizness (and me) will be video taping folks wishing the community a Merry Christmas in a variety of ways. One option would be, say for a group at a store to stand together and sing the first refrain from Christmas Carol like "We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas, we Wish you a merry Christmas, and a happy New Year!" with Santa Hats on and their business identified. That one takes about nine seconds. We figure there are at le

Folks: I do find the call for instant death a bit blood thirsty. While I figure this guy's life will be cut short by the state bye and bye, I do figure there are even now some possible 'excuses' including ... for all we know ... a brain tumor that caused him to lose it; a chemical imbalance that had him listening to strange voices (mental illness) or some other malady including being placed in a drug induced stupor by some super secret federal program aimed at mind control (the military does do crazy things - kill the goat?) in which he was an unwitting accomplice. Likely - not very

you get six pips when you hit 5000 posts ... and the ability to set your descriptive name. pubby

There was one court of that nature. It didn't last long. Folks hereabouts probably associate it to Rooster Cogburn (Among the last roles played by the Duke - oh, and when I was there a pretty good saloon ) Anyway, Cogburn was one of the hanging Judge Issac C. Parker's federal marshals. Judge Parker caused 79 folks to hang; sometimes in groups of six miscreants at once. Here is an article about Judge Parker. http://www.legendsofamerica.com/AR-IsaacParker2.html One thing that comes from this article is: The reality is that when the court in Fort Smith was first set up to cov

We're looking at doing the Christmas Parade Live this year and to promote doing it live, I'm going to be printing out a couple of Christmas Carols and getting different people to sing a couple of lines of the song and then edit them all together. We may also do Christmas greetings of this nature for others to play the day of the parade and afterward. I'm also looking for more ideas and even produced video - say a slide show of folks working on their floats and stuff like that. Lets have some fun and make this the Christmas the most fun yet! pubby

In the spirit of this poll, I set this topic to automatically close at 00:01 on Friday, November 13th. pubby PS: Lets see if it works

Hiram was way ahead last week in the polling and now it is showing strong but not near as strong as the Rockdale-Banneker game. Having voted o Saturday I noted that over 3000 votes had been cast at that time and Rockdale-Bannekar had like 89 percent of those votes. Bottomline, I wonder if the voting is truly fair for this. Does anyone else share my concern? pubby

The blue button had a hard-wired URL that stopped working when we made some DNS changes. Rather than have people click and click in frustration (like I was doing until Chris called and I realized the issue) I replaced it with the text link. We'll get the blue button back Monday. pubby

I know they only make 2.5% ... and they'll never make a dime more even if they have to pay their CEO's hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation There are a lot of businesses that manage their profits to a specific level. Most notably, the motion picture industry which would rather pay execs and 'studio services' and overhead than show a profit because they'd have to share the 'profits' with talent under the contracts. pubby

If you like baseball at all, you ought to mosey over to Sports - a- Rama in Dallas (Plaza shopping center catty-corner to the original Paulding McDonalds at Macland and Business 6) as they're going to have pro baseball players speaking and carrying on at Sports-a-Rama's grand reopening. I think they have a band that is going to play and stuff as well. Interesting place if you have a kid that is interested in baseball or if you are a baseball/youth league coach. pubby

Huh? please explain. pubby

Gosh, and I thought you guys loyalty to the profits of insurance companies ... I mean your politics are defined by that loyalty ... would mean you'd be unequivocally in favor of giving it to the insurance company as it is theirs. I mean property rights are property rights and accepting stolen property - regardless of age and even innocently - is a crime that removes your rights. You know the law is the law especially when it serves property rights as justice, from my reading of your political philosophy, is always a poor third in terms of priority. pubby PS: Actually, I shouldn't com

LPPT: You got your email back but the messages sent in the interim went to the black hole. Sorry, but while it works (I've checked it and it works) ... there was no big bunch downloaded meaning they never were delivered. pubby please don't hit me again

Growing pains may result in short ... or not so short ... periods of outage. If you watch the news, you'll understand why we need to get this done. (LPPT was beating me with a stick - go ahead, watch it! ... it is the last piece in the news.) pubby

I've met you and I know that others would be more than happy to meet you. I know I was happy to do so. pubby

I'm betting you used an different extension (not .jpg) for the image. Sometimes, if you make a minor mistake (one line instead of another with a java script slide show or some such, it might give you an issue. It should not give you the error message with jpg. (alternately, if your copy was shy the "g" on .jpg ... i.e. picturename.jp ... it will give you the error. pubby

Actually, it is still in place. I checked the setup and it was possible to make the aggregate points invisible thus hiding the aspect of reputation that led those with egos and agendas to see what they could do to manipulate and control things. So now the votes appear in the actual post that the person thinks is superior or not and the points don't accumulate to stroke the ego of anyone (or hurt their feelings either.) It was obvious that there were some who are concerned about such things. The purpose is to allow folks to rate topics and in essence show their support for parti

Well, lets see if this makes any more sense when the reputation points appear only on the post that earns them. I've removed the display of aggregate reputation points earned so that the collection of points would focus on the posts that are positive (or negative) rather than on the poster. pubby