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A Real Wisconsin Parents Guide to Controlling Your Kids
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Typical White American Male Response to Melania Trump
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Say Hello To Our Little Friend
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Young Conservative Parents Pay Homage to Trump and Company With Naming Rights
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President-Elect Donald Trump Says Most Female Leaders Would Not be His First Choice
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Hillary Clinton Touched Me Inappropriately
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Betsy DeVos Answers 10 Questions from Education Week
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Scott Walker’s New College Plan to Halt Wisconsin's Brain Drain
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Canadian Scientists to Clone Jesus
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Menomonee Falls High School to Change Mascot from Indians to Indians
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Hiter to Run for Office in Washington County
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Pussy Grabbing Sweeping Nation’s High Schools
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Christian Blogger is Sexy - That's Why we Care
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Romper Article Fully Explains Hillary's Loss
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Food Stamp Challenge to Stamp Out Debt
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Real Wisconsin News Offers Our Thoughts and Prayers
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West Allis to Give Up
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Milwaukee County to House, Reform Juvenile Criminals Downtown
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I Like the Way Alex Molinaroli Says F-You To The World
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Government Officials Across US to Follow Samsung Lead, Offer Pizza
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H-V-A-C Not H-VAC
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News Never Covered by Failing, Fake News Media Outlets
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Milwaukee Gun Buyback Program Scrapped; Bullet-proof Vests to be Offered Instead
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More Secure Schools Coming Our Way
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New Pica Diet Sweeping the Nation
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Jesus Sues Jagermeister for Logo Infringement
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Proof of Out of State Protesters in Madison
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Donald Trump: What We Say Versus What We Mean
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Jacksonville News
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Does HOA collect police reports for crimes in my neighborhood?
Someone on Nextdoor was asking this question, and I was tempted to respond that the only thing HOAs collect is money. The real responses to the question ranged from, "It depends on your HOA" to "That's not part of what an HOA does." While I can understand that crime is separate from house paint and green lawns, since crime is the #1 factor in property values, HOAs probably need to DO something when it comes to crime.I read that in a town in the Southwest, an HOA was being sued because a house that had been deemed a nuisance was not foreclosed on, resulting in a child being killed in a drive-by shooting meant for the residents of the nuisance house. I agree with the people bringing the lawsuit. If the HOA's sole purpose is to maintain property values, then people who bring crime to the neighborhood should be forced out, just like someone who might never mow the grass or pay HOA dues.When one of our neighbors brought two violent incidents to our block, I wrote to my HOA and to the owner of the rented house. I mentioned the lawsuit above to the HOA, and I told both entities that other neighbors had confirmed to me that the police showed up at the house several times before we'd moved in. I myself had seen a member of the household arrested a couple months before the violence. So three incidents in about four months, and I decided it was time for the family to move on. I never really received much of a response, but the family DID move out within a couple of weeks. Maybe the family realized it was time for a fresh start, but I'd like to think that getting involved helped to push them. However, I also believe the HOA and rental company would have either not known about it or ignored the problem without my letters.
Crime, however, is often a result of people from outside of the neighborhood. That crime itself may not be the responsibility of the HOA, but installing a trail camera on a cell phone plan with a solar power battery pack might do the trick to capture trespassers. Any kind of camera, really. See if the police will install one. Even a fake camera might deter one crime. I'd let a wifi camera on my street use my guest wifi, as well, and I assume some of my other neighbors would, too.The HOA could go semi-all-out and install an automatic gate without a code, along with a powered camera that stores video. If there's no code, anyone can get into the neighborhood, but it slows people down and ensures everyone entering knows they are on camera. The good news is that the roads are still public and part of the city.Maybe HOA bylaws need to include more about crime and nuisance homes, especially in an area like Jacksonville. Crime is spread out in this town. Maybe back when my HOA was formed in 2004, there was no crime in East Arlington, but that's not the case today. Homeowners need to expect more out of their HOAs, as property value is more about crime than a nice pool and paint color of the houses.
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Jacksonville List of Neighborhoods
I keep seeing all the Jacksonville neighborhoods as backdrops to maps, but I have yet to see them listed for those of us who like lists. So, after using the government websites to find the GIS maps that contain the neighborhoods, I was able to extract the lists of areas in Jax that appear on maps. It could be useful to those of you who also like lists and deal in real estate or something where you'd need the names of all the neighborhoods here.
The lists are in alphabetical order by region. Jacksonville is big, so it's divided into six planning zones: A (Arlington and Beaches), N (North), NW (Northwest), SE (Southeast), SW (Southwest), and U (Urban Core). I wanted to make a visual grid map using a table, but it's just so big. Also, I do understand alphabetical, but it would be nice on a map if the letter-number combinations were adjacent, but that's just an opinion, and we're pretty much stuck with alpha order now. I think a couple of names were cut off because of length, but this is a fairly comprehensive neighborhood list for Jacksonville/Duval.
It's also interesting to note that if Jacksonville ever made the move to un-consolidate, the six zones would be the most likely separate cities.
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Top 4 Spots in Jacksonville's Arlington Neighborhood
I was on the News4Jax website when I saw an "article" about local restaurants. The article said it was about Arlington restaurants, and I figured it wasn't that big of a deal that my location was being used to show me stories relevant to where I was. However, after reading the short blurbs about the top 4 restaurants in my area, I saw the disclaimer on the bottom of the article:
This story was created automatically using local business data, then reviewed and augmented by an editor.
So, I was not only reading an article that accessed my location in order to serve the right content, but the content itself was provided by the businesses being reviewed. Sure, the star-ratings were from Yelp, which is semi-reliable, but there is no real indication that these four restaurants were the top-rated restaurants on Yelp. I assume that they were the four Arlington restaurants that paid to be part of an advertising article promoting them.You can see from the address bar that the article title was "Check Out The Top 4 Spots in Jacksonville's Arlington Neighborhood." While I'm sure the four listed restaurants are just fine, it's disturbing that this content was served to me on a NEWS website as NEWS. It's clearly blatant advertising, paid placement, and not a real review or opinion by a human being.What's next? Top four crimes this week articles that pull information from JSO's Crime Map? I know, there's no ad money in that, so probably not. The point is that if pretend articles are being pulled from content on paid-service websites and placed on news websites, then we're in trouble. As readers and as writers. Even the images are from Yelp, which means user-submitted. No one did any work on the article in question, and more than likely, the "editor" is in India, curating and augmenting hundreds of pretend articles every day, never having eaten barbeque ribs in her life.With so much data out there, it's nice to get a quick guide to some decent local restaurants to try, so there's a value to articles like the one that I thought I was reading. I might even like the listed places. It might even be accurate. But it's also wrong.
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My Messy Office
My messy classroom, home office, and garage all indicate the same thing to people: I must be careless, cranky, and uncaring. That's according to a study that showed two different work spaces to participants. A messy workspace left people with a negative perception of the unknown worker who occupied the space.
That's kind of sad, since my mess is part of my creativity. Actually, I have to have a mess somewhere in order to function properly. I used to have a junk drawer when I first got married because my wife is pretty much the opposite of a messy person. She allowed me one junk drawer on the main level, and about half of the three basements we had. And most of the garage. And the tool shed. Those were my messy places.
In Florida, we don't have the built-ins with drawers or a basement, so I have to be better at hiding my messes. It's frustrating, to say the least. The whole point of having a mess is that what I need is right there for me when I need it. I don't want to venture into the garage attic to find what I need. I don't want to have to page through file folders for tax documents when they are all stuffed on my desk where I need them. There should be a pen sitting out and within reach from any location in any room.
The most frustrating, however, is the fact that I can't always find my writing notes. I'll take notes while out at a bar or while at church. Observations for later. And those notes need to be out in the open to remind me of what I need to be writing, like Christmas tree ornaments in my office space, or else I won't ever write those ideas. Then they just get stuffed in a box, which is suffocating for ideas.
I also have to wonder if my bosses over the years have assumed something negative about me because my school desk was always messy. I tried to keep it way in the corner, but it was very, very messy. But that was because I was usually working on planning new lessons, revising old lessons, grading papers, writing, thinking, researching, and contacting people. Sometimes, I'd be testing out video production equipment, hooking various electronic devices into my computer to see what they could do, and generally figuring out if I could improve as a teacher. But it looked like I was somehow careless to outsiders.
All in all, I'm lucky to have a wife who forces me to clean once in a while. If we were both like me, the house would be a disaster all the time, and people would be afraid to come over. And they'd probably think that both of us are careless, cranky, and uncaring.
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There Was a Time When St. Augustine Stole The Biltmore Ads
There was a time when I saw an ad for St. Augustine, Florida. It was a simpler time, when none of the other ads were about politicians of ill repute. But it seemed to be a time when St. Augustine had decided to infringe upon the terminology associated with Biltmore. It was last year on local TV.
I saw the St. Augustine ad twice on network television (late 2017, I believe), and it was an obvious lifting of the Biltmore ads I'd seen all the time. You know the ad, wherein we are made privy to this fanciful world where ladies and gentlemen seem to exist and behave a certain way that seems sadly gone most of the time. Yet, it does still exist if you stay in a certain hotel. Maybe one with a hot tub time machine.The St. Augustine ad seemed to be a send-up of the Biltmore ad. I don't think the idea was to steal it as much as acknowledge we've all seen the other ad around here. But, of course, it was stealing. Brazenly. So the St. Augustine ad was taken off the air very quickly. As in, some lawyers spent last night at the Biltmore and now it's gone.I was watching a PBS documentary that said back when Flagler built his St. Augustine hotels and pushed for the railroad to come through Jacksonville rather than terminate there, it ruined tourism in Jacksonville. I'm sure the Biltmore is always watching out for other fancy destinations to pull some kind of stunt that might steal guests away, and if one of those places is going to rip off the exact wording from an ad, then it's pretty obvious.
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What is the most popular city in Florida?
This is an interesting question that pops up on Google when you search for information about Jacksonville. I believe people want to know the most populous or populated city in Florida, unless they are total tourists who are just interested in popularity. As far as being popular, I suppose Miami is tops, then Orlando and Tampa. Population is always a bit more complicated.By metro area, here are Florida's most populous (highest population) along with 2018 US rank:#7 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL MSA#18 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA#22 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL MSA#40 Jacksonville, FL MSA#72 North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL MSA#76 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL MSA#81 Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL MSA#87 Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL MSA#95 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL MSAThat's top 100 and over 500,000 population, anyhow.Here are the cities (not metro areas) in Florida, ranked by most populous within the city limits:#12 Jacksonville#40 Miami#49 Tampa#71 Orlando#79 St. Petersburg#95 HialeahKeep in mind that Jacksonville's area is 20 times that of Miami. So, Jacksonville is the largest city by area, and largest city by population within its city limits in Florida.Side note: Rhode Island, with a population just over one million, is only about 40% larger than the CITY of Jacksonville in area. That's crazy. And a good reminder why there's no city of Jacksonville walking tour map.While Golden Girls reruns keep Miami popular, and Mickey Mouse makes Orlando shine, Jacksonville is also popular. We might have to work a little harder to figure out what that is, exactly, but it also presents an opportunity. Let's not make it murder or something negative. I watched a PBS documentary about our bridges, and those are nice. Nature. Other stuff.........
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Deep Forest Airport, Please
I've complained a little about the local JAXEX Craig airport, and while I am hoping it stays at a manageable size, I wanted to take this opportunity to redirect some of you to an airport I never knew existed. I am hoping some of the rich and famous who fly over my house will choose to hit up another rich and famous local resident to use his private runway instead. Please, all you robber barons, carpetbaggers, venture capitalists, elite socialites, property developers, and ponzi schemers, give your buddy George a call and use the Deep Forest Airport instead of JAXEX.
The runway at Deep Forest is 1.27 miles long. That's longer than either runway at Craig. You can land your G6 with no problems, according to Cutler Knupp, who apparently has a special pass to land at the private airport. I am hoping more G6 owners head for the Forest. Also those who own the Pilatus PC-24, the Cessna Citation Longitude, the Gulfstream G600, the Bombardier Global 6500 or 7500, and the Airbus ACJ319NEO.Mostly, I want you to land down in Deep Forest because there have been three airplane crashes on the St. Johns River, near JAXEX, in the past six months. Eventually, someone is going to crash land over houses rather than the river. Therefore, I'd prefer more airplanes flying to airports that are away from population centers. Or else fewer crashes.Also, even if you're not in the jet set, maybe the owner of this private airfield, basically adjacent to Mayo Clinic, will allow you you land your turbo prop on the runway to save a life. But I'm not sure. You can call the number on the link to the irport.Next time the city council wants to talk about expanding Craig at JAXEX, it might also be the right time to remind the politicians (who might be allowed to land their own G6s at Deep Forest if they approve the right zoning proposals for the owner of the airport) that there is another option, and it's been around for years.All other opinions aside, I hope Jacksonville does consider the Deep Forest site as a better JAXEX location in the future, and then plans ALL development around the location appropriately after the move. That's called planning.
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Male Fashion and Lifestyle: Matching Hats
If you want to be really cool as a group, get you some matching hats. Most of us don't think about it ahead of time, and we often make the mistake of matching t-shirts or NASCAR jackets, but matching hats are really the way to go for guys. Let's take a look at how to decide on those hats so that you can look your best.
Sports teams have matching hats. If you join a team, you'll get one like everyone else. When you go out for an ice cream after the game, everyone will know you are a team, even if you've put on jackets to keep warm. I kept all my North Central Little League hats, which is how I was able to get a photo of my past teammates and coaches all wearing matching hats. Sure, some of them were All-Stars hats, but they were all black North Central Little League headgear, and we looked like a team.Even if you're not on a team, your grandma could make the awesome decision to buy matching Nike hats for all the cousins in the family, creating the photo op from above. Actually, my grandma probably should have done this every year, but I'm not sure the womenfolk saw how cool the whole thing was. Instead of spewing on about politics and drinking too many Bud Lights, we were hanging out in the yard like a football team (all linemen), just because we'd gotten those hats.
My friend and I went on the Miller Brewery tour just before St. Patty's Day one year and procured the matching foam hats you see here. That was a good hat purchase because everyone seemed to want to take photos with us, and this was way before smart phones and selfies, circa 1999. Check out those Chuck Taylors and that Seiko Kinetic watch.
Of course, you can get it all wrong with matching hats, too. Family reunion hats seem to fall in this category. Or matching cowboy hats--those are supposed to be individual. Probably band hats, too, like if you and four of your friends all had matching Def Leppard hats, even at a Def Leppard concert, you'd be kind of lame. But most of the time, matching hats are pretty sweet.
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Male Fashion and Lifestyle: Sunny Boy Hair
I originally got the "Sunny Boy" wig when I was an extra in an independent film that was never finished. I had to wear a Polo shirt, a sweater over my shoulders, and the Sunny Boy blonde wig. I was the bad guy, and my Mercedes 300SD also fit the bill. We only finished one day of filming, at Lake Park Golf Course in Milwaukee. I was probably revealing my devious plans to co-conspirators while golfing. I don't recall. However, Sunny Boy stayed with me, and I put it to some use over the years.Once in a while, I'd pull Sunny Boy out and wear it somewhere. Not just to drive with blonde hair, but to actually be Sunny Boy on an excursion. That means getting it to fit just right and owning it all day, like I did when I was in the movie. I am sure the people with me during those adventures kept wondering when I was going to take the hair off and be normal, but it was just a simple way to be a little outlandish for a day. I never totally got into character. It was just the blonde version of me.The main events I remember best while wearing the wig would be crazy hair day at my teaching job, going apple picking, a day at the zoo, and our daughter's Barbie birthday party.As a teacher, I am a consummate professional, even if I like to tell a good, funny story to the students, so most of them couldn't help giggling at me all hour as I wore Sunny Boy. For some reason, they couldn't take me seriously, even though the rock star wanna be teacher down the hall looked like Sunny Boy all the time.The photo above is from apple picking at the Elegant Farmer in Wisconsin. I wore Sunny Boy while there with some friends. No one seemed to notice or care out loud, but I knew some people wondered at the wild hair on the hay ride. It gave the whole day more of a care-free feeling, so it was fun.I lived about a mile from the Milwaukee County Zoo, so why not walk up one day with Sunny Boy? Nothing special. Just another day at the zoo, but maybe some of the animals wondered at the crazy hair on that one human.Lastly, Sunny Boy was used at our daughter's Barbie party. I got my wife a big blonde wig to be Barbie. I am not sure where she found the dress. I wore Sunny Boy, even though I'm not sure Ken is normally blonde. No one in the family had trouble recognizing me, probably because they'd seen me in my hair before, but my wife's grandma didn't know her.I'd recommend having a dress-up box, even as an adult. I have a giant bin of props, as well as one with just hats. Some are goofy, but others could be used in more serious situations. Probably not job interviews, but just nights out on the Town Center.
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I'm not going to keep this one to myself, since someone not on my site isn't clicking my ads, anyway. If you have a blog or even a big ol' company website that has some Adsense ads on it (the Google ads), then you need to add a custom ads.txt file to your website. I did not receive an email about it. I just showed up to check earnings, which I don't really bother to do very often, and there it was: a dozen websites without the right code.If you are on Blogger, and it's monetized through Adsense, then it should be automatic. My problem was that this site IS on Blogger, but my Adsense is technically a 3rd party ad system because I had set it up with a different account or something. So I had to add my custom page even to my Blogger page.The basic idea is that you need to download the file from Adsense, upload it to your domain, and then wait for Google to see it. This took about two days. If you have FTP, you can do it that way, but it also works in CPanel. If you only have access to the website and not the actual domain, then you might need to get your web guy to add the file for you. Also, the ads.txt file would not download for me in Firefox, only Chrome.It's not the same as adding Google Adsense code to the <head> section of your website. Google seems to want to confirm you also own the domain, as I am sure plenty of hackers have found ways to add Adsense code to unwitting websites out there. It's a good thing for all of us that Google is trying to make sure website owners are the ones putting up ads and getting the money from those ads, even if it's a hassle to stick this code on multiple websites. That said, I'm sure most local Jax bloggers have one or two sites to deal with.It's simple to check to see if your Blogger or other website is configured properly. Just type yourdomain/ads.txt. The page should look like this:If this helped you keep your Jacksonville blog monetized, make sure to click on an ad to show your appreciation. I'd do it for you.
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