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    • Creatures great and small

      Aug 09, 2012 12:00 am

      We are checking in to tell you that everything is good at the Responsible Pet Care shelter although we are bursting at the seams. We have a shelter-full of cats and kittens. Our small dog area has been full of lost dogs and dogs waiting for their new homes all summer.

      We currently have four dogs waiting to be adopted that are in-house or in foster care. You can see our available dogs on our website: http://www.rpc.petfinder.com.

      Help earn $300

    • What I've Learned

      Aug 02, 2012 12:00 am

      Diamonds used to be a girl's best friend. Perhaps they still are.

      Though their friendship status may be uncertain, there are two things about diamonds that are sure: they are not formed from coal and they are not rare – certainly not rare enough to warrant the prices people pay for them.

    • Financial Fitness / Savings Bonds

      Aug 02, 2012 12:00 am

      Susan Graves

    • What I've Learned

      Jul 26, 2012 12:00 am

      If you have an email account, you have probably gotten mail from a stranger in Nigeria.

      In 2008, I wrote about Advance Fee Fraud, known as 419 (four one nine) fraud after the section of Nigerian penal code that covers such schemes. I have an interesting update.

    • from the editor's desk ...

      Jul 26, 2012 12:00 am

      While I am a certified sap who will cry at cheesy movies and over children's handmade gifts, I have never found myself even close to tears over anything to do with business or economics (well, maybe my bank balance).

      And yet, that's exactly where I found myself last Thursday.

      This happened while standing in a line that completely circled the circumference of the store I was in. It was the check-out line. I stood in it for at least 20 mintes while it barely moved.

      Now this was last Thursday – July 19 – not Black Friday or Christmas Eve.

    • What I've Learned

      Jul 19, 2012 12:00 am

      Ask anyone, even a child, to make a sound like a frog and there is a good chance they will say ribbit in a froggy sort of voice.

      Have you ever in your life heard a frog, an actual frog, go ribbit? Probably not. So how did the idea that frogs make such a sound permeate our culture?

      Thank Hollywood.

    • What I've Learned

      Jul 12, 2012 12:00 am

      A frightened woman hears noises in the middle of the night, lights a candle, and goes walking about a spooky mansion to see what it is.

      When I was a kid and saw that in a movie, I thought, "She wouldn't do that. Heck, nobody would do that. If I were there, I'd sit in the corner with a baseball bat until morning."

      The nightgown-clad woman was tiptoeing about at night, not from over-active curiosity, but from bad scriptwriting.

    • 03-28-OPCOL-2012-FinancialFitness

      Jul 12, 2012 12:00 am

      Something that effects everyone’s financial well being is the condition of the economy. The trend in the State of Maine, is that we typically are last to experience economic downturns, but we are also the last to recover.

      To help our local economy thrive, it’s important that our community supports local business by shopping in our neighborhoods.

    • What I've Learned

      Jul 05, 2012 12:00 am

      There is a trick people use to separate what a piece of writing says from how it looks on the page. It's called lorem ipsum.

      Lorem ipsum is nonsensical text that is used so layouts can be checked without the distraction of meaning. In the graphic design business, using a nonsense filler was known as greeking, as in "It's Greek to me."

      The text that's used, however, is not Greek, but Latin. Here's an example:

    • Teens connecting the dots

      Jul 05, 2012 12:00 am

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