COLE CASH. A tiny, crude, 170-year-old pencil sketch by a 19th century artist went up for auction last week in Philadelphia. The drawing of an ancient Roman “Arch of Nero” occupied just 15 square inches on a 32-square-inch sheet of paper. Experts in the art trade guessed that, in view of the artist’s fame in his own time, the recent revival of interest in the artist’s work, and the known habits of collectors, this scrap of art history could fetch as much as $2000. In fact it sold for $7500. Another picture, "attributed" to the same artist, sold for $3275. A third picture, a fully realized, full-sized oil painting made by the same artist, did not reach the six-figure reserve price Which serves to indicate what has come to be the market value of works by Thomas Cole (1801-48), of Catskill NY.
BETTER DAYS. The jobs picture, nationally and locally, has shown signs lately of improvement. As widely reported in the news media, the national rate of unemployment dipped in November to 8.6 per cent, the lowest (=best) since March 2009. Part of the improvement, to be sure, is due to departures from the ranks of people who are counted as belonging to the work force. But 120,000 jobs were added, even while 20,000 government jobs were cut. And those gains coincided with upturns in rates of factory output, construction, retail sales, and small business returns.
Consistent with the national trend, moreover, is the jobs
picture in our section of the country. The November figures have not been released yet by the State’s
Labor Department, but the positive trend is evident:.
10/11 9/11 10/10
NYS 7.7% 7.8% 8.0%
Albany Co. 6.5 6.9 6.9
Ulster Co
7.4
7.8
7.8
Dutchess
6.8 7.0
7.2
Columbia
6.8
7.0 7.0
Sullivan 8.1 8.3
8.5
Delaware 7.6 8.4
Orange
7.2
7.7
GREENE 7.8 8.3 7.9
Bronx* 12.4
12.4
12.3
Saratoga** 5.9 6.0
6.3
*Worst
in State
**Third
best in State
Those figures also serve to confirm a persistent economic fact: in GreeneLand, it's harder than in neighboring counties to find work.
NO SPICE. The substance known colloquially as “spice” (and as K2, Spice Gold, Spice Silver and K3), as well as synthetic marijuana, has been outlawed by Greene County’s legislators. This happened even before the stuff, the cannaboids, had been tested by the Food & Drug Administration to learn whether the emitted smoke affects bystanders adversely. That action was taken by the legislators of Greene County, Indiana.
NO SPICE. The substance known colloquially as “spice” (and as K2, Spice Gold, Spice Silver and K3), as well as synthetic marijuana, has been outlawed by Greene County’s legislators. This happened even before the stuff, the cannaboids, had been tested by the Food & Drug Administration to learn whether the emitted smoke affects bystanders adversely. That action was taken by the legislators of Greene County, Indiana.
e care, with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a Perfect Diet and all you do is load your pockets with Purina Nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again.... Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff a poodle's butt and a car hit me. I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. Better watch what you ask me and be prepared for my answer. I have all the time in the world to think of crazy things to say….
“Now that you've read this I have to confess, I copied it from someone else."
DAILY MAUL.
--“The
plan, which is a department level plan, has been aoporived through the
commissioners level after several levels of review, outside of the public review.”
--“The
two underpinning reasons…was to help inform the public on how DEC manages deer
and wanted to lay out specific strategies to improve the plan for the future.”
--“He
said he viewed the deer management plan as pushing for quality for a well
balanced deer heard, allowing for the proper amount of bucks to the proper
amount of does.”
--“For
2012, the budget decreases in revenues and expenditures, no cost of living
raises, and hours cut for certain departments’ personal services where revenues
have declined.”
--“Total
amount to be raised by taxes in 2012 have been figured at $1,490,345….”
--“Bringing
up the rear was Santa Claus and one of his helpers in the bucket…”
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