A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....12-28-05....Hall of Fame #14

Billie

[Billie]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world.

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in need; and congratulate those deserving. We strive to keep our threads entertaining, fun, and pleasing to look at, and often have guest writers contribute an essay, or a profile of another FReeper.

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~ Billie, Dutchess, DollyCali, Mama_Bear, GodBlessUSA ~

Thank you to all our Hall of Famers and to all of you who have become part of our Finest Family ... as regular contributors and supporters who drop in every day to say hello.  We wouldn't be here without you. : )

We're THREE AND A HALF years old now! Still having fun. We hope you are. As promised, for your information and perusal, here is our fourteenth "Hall of Fame" - a list of all our threads from the very beginning ... from Monday, June 24, 2002, through yesterday, December 27, 2005.

"Getting to Know You"

Previous Hall of Fame Threads

09-23-02 .................................. HALL OF FAME #1
12-31-02 .................................. HALL OF FAME #2
03-24-03 .................................. HALL OF FAME #3
06-25-03 .................................. HALL OF FAME #4
09-30-03 .................................. HALL OF FAME #5
12-30-03 .................................. HALL OF FAME #6
03-23-04 .................................. HALL OF FAME #7
06-29-04 .................................. HALL OF FAME #8
09-28-04 .................................. HALL OF FAME #9
12-29-04 .................................. HALL OF FAME #10
03-29-05 .................................. HALL OF FAME #11
06-28-05 .................................. HALL OF FAME #12
09-27-05 .................................. HALL OF FAME #13

September 2005, October 2005

09-28-05 .......................POETRY & POTPOURRI AT THE FINEST
09-29-05 .....................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
09-30 THRU 10-02-05 ...............................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
10-03-05 .......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
10-04-05 ........WELCOME ~ ANOTHER FASCINATING QUESTION
10-05-05.............................MOVING STORIES FROM FREEPERS
10-06-05 .....................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
10-07,08,09-05 ........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
10-10-05 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
10-11-05 ...........................THINGS YOU LEARN IN THE MOVIES
10-12-05..................................DOGGIE TAILS:WHY DOGS BITE!
10-13-05 ....................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
10-14,15,16-05 .........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
10-17-05 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
10-18-05 ........................POETRY & POTPOURRI AT THE FINEST
10-19-05 ......................................................NORTH TO ALASKA
10-20-05 ...........................................NORTH TO ALASKA, cont/d
10-21,22,23-05 ........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
10-24-05 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
10-25-05 ...................PIPPIN'S THOUGHTS ~ "GHOST STORIES"
10-26-05 ........................................GREEN IS GREEN IS GREEN
10-27-05 ................................................WHY GOD MADE PETS
10-28,29,30-05 .............................................HALLOWEEN 2005
10-31-05 .....................................................MILITARY MONDAY

November 2005

11-01-05 ...........................................ALOHA! BACK TO HAWAII
11-02-05.................................ALOHA! BACK TO HAWAII, cont'd
11-03-05...........SQUIRREL TAILS (CAN'T WE ALL GET ALONG?)
11-04,05,06-05 .........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
11-07-05 .......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
11-08-05 ............................A "LEFT" FANTASY ~ KERRY WON!
11-09-05 ...................A "LEFT" FANTASY ~ KERRY WON! cont'd
11-10-05 ......................................SMITHSONIAN BLING BLINGS
11-11,12,13-05 ........VETERAN'S DAY ~ HONORING VETERANS
11-14-05 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
11-15-05 ............................................................OH, MY EYES!
11-16-05 ...................................................OH, MY EYES! cont'd
11-17-05 ..................THANKSGIVING COUNTDOWN ~ T MINUS 7
11-18,19,20-05 .........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
11-21-05 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
011-22-05 ........................................................GIVING THANKS
11-23-05 .......................................ANIMALS ARE PEOPLE TOO!
11-24 THRU 11-27-05.............THANKSGIVING IS GIVING THANKS
11-28-05 .......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
11-29-05 ..........................................LET THE HOLIDAYS BEGIN
11-30-05 ...............................LET THE HOLIDAYS BEGIN cont'd

December 2005

12-01-05.....................................................CELEBRATE LIVING
12-02,03,04-05.......................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
12-05-05.....................................................MILITARY MONDAY
12-06-05.........................FINEST CHRISTMAS TABLES, PART I
12-07-05.........................................CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK
12-08-05 ..................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
12-09,10,11-05 ...EAST - WEST, FREEPERS DECORATE BEST
12-12-05....................................................MILITARY MONDAY
12-13-05 ......................FINEST CHRISTMAS TABLES, PART II
12-14-05.............FINEST CHRISTMAS TABLES, PART II, cont'd
12-15-05...................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
12-16,17,18-05 ................................CHRISTMAS IN THE HEART
12-19-05........ .............................................MILITARY MONDAY
12-20-05 .....................CHRISTMAS POETRY AND POTPOURRI
12-21-05 ...........................SILENT NIGHT ~ CHRISTMAS MUSIC
12-22-05 .............................IT'S A FURRY FINEST CHRISTMAS
12-23,24,25-26-05 ..........................HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
12-27-05 ....................................................MILITARY TUESDAY

We're Here Because of You.

09-27-05 ~ Hall of Fame #13

Click on the photo to view the album. To submit your photo, please contact dansangel or .45Man at danbh59@yahoo.com and include Freeper Photo Album in subject line.

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

[WVNan]

Gotta run. Have prayer meeting. BBL.

[Billie]

Shoot! I meant to address this post I'm replying to - to both of you.

Nan, cellpadding and cellspacing are spacing inside a table command that nothing else can 'penetrate'. It means that when you're nesting several tables inside one another, whatever cellpadding and cellspacing you specify is going to be the background color or image of the table just before it. Your next table you give the table command for cannot get closer to any of the edges than the number of cellPADDING pixels you specify. The cellSPACING is a little bit different - it means that your tables themselves are spaced whatever amount apart that you specify the cellSPACING to be. I bet that doesn't make much sense. :( Very hard to explain. One just has to practice using different numbers to see the effect you get.

[MEG33]

I parked all mine in my freepmail(letters to self)..I have just opened a new folder in Yahoo mail for other information. I keep my freepmail cleaned out and also my email except for information I need to save so it works out.

[Billie]

Can you copy and paste the text into a text file, and put it on your desktop, naming it whatever will job your memory? :)

[Billie]

Job - geesh! jog your memory!

[Victoria Delsoul]

This marks 3 1/2 years for The Finest, with many thanks to all of you.

Oh, wow, 3 1/2 years already – time sure flies.

Thanks for the links, Billie.

click on it

[MEG33]

A bouquet for Billie

[freema]

Those were both great reads and I would have loved to meet up with you two on that trip!

We have very much in common. You studied my favorite subjects, and I had entertained becoming a priest or a sister in an order in our church for quite sometime.

My hubby laughs it off, because I can have a mouth way worse than a sailor...

[Billie]

Oh, I love that song, Victoria! I even like it in the midi form. :) Now I'm saving the wave by Bob Hope - and his wife (I think). :)

Yes, 3 1/2 years! Look at the Canteen now - it was 4 years in October. :)

[Victoria Delsoul]

Congratulations. Keep up the good job!

[Billie]

Gosh, that's a beautiful bouquet! Thanks, Meg. (I see you changed the cellpaddings, too!) See how easy that is? And to change background gradients or other images, you just switch the urls. :) Same with the font color.

[Mama_Bear]

Aha! Told on you, Lori!:)

LOL! She did, didn't she? But, see.....it just goes to show what a dedicated sistah I am. LOL.

[Mama_Bear]

Hmmmmmm.....I have never quite understood the difference between cellPADDING and cellSPACING. Even after your explanation to Nan.....I still don't get it. I never use cellspacing. Seems redundant to me, since cellpadding does what I need it to do.

I notice that Amy does the opposite - always uses cellspacing and not cellpadding.

[Billie]

There are default measurements in cellpadding and in cellspacing. If you DON'T specify cellspacing=0, you will still get a width of 2 pixels - the default is 2. If you DON'T specify cellpadding=0, you will get a width of 1 pixel - the default for cellpadding is 1.

I use the cellSPACING when I am using a border, because I don't want that tiny white *stripe* on the bg, so I use cellspacing=0. Also, if you want a *really* tiny sliver of gradient ribbon, which I use a lot, it's important to do the cellspacing=0. :)

[SandRat]

COAST GUARD HOMECOMING — Families of U.S. Coast Guard Port Security Unit 311 personnel wait in Los Alamitos, Calif., for returning Coast Guard members to get off a C-130 aircraft, upon the unit's return from a deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Dec. 8, 2005. The unit, based at San Pedro, Calif., returned following a six-month deployment in support of the U.S. Navy's Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the global war on terrorism. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Scott Epperson

COAST GUARD HOMECOMING — A member of the U.S. Coast Guard Port Security Unit 311 greets his daughter at Los Alamitos, Calif., Dec. 8, 2005, upon the unit's return from a deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The unit, based at San Pedro, Calif., returned following a six-month deployment in support of the U.S. Navy's Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the global war on terrorism. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Scott Epperson

COAST GUARD HOMECOMING — Families greet the returning crewmembers of U.S. Coast Guard Port Security Unit 311 at Los Alamitos, Calif., upon the unit's return from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Dec. 8, 2005. The unit, based at San Pedro, Calif., returned following a six-month deployment in support of the U.S. Navy's Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the global war on terrorism. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Scott Epperson

[SandRat]

TEXAS HOMECOMING — U.S. soldiers of the 56th Brigade, 36th Infantry Division "T-Patchers," returned Dec. 10, 2005, to Waco, Texas, to the same stadium where nearly a year before they began their Iraq deployment. The welcome ceremony at Floyd Casey Stadium, home of the Baylor University Bears, began with the presentation of the colors. U.S. Army photo by Texas National Guard Sgt. Ann Venturato

TEXAS HOMECOMING — At the welcome home ceremony for U.S. soldiers of the 56th Brigade, 36th Infantry Division, each unit uncases its own colors to symbolize completion of the mission. The soldiers returned Dec. 10, 2005, to Waco, Texas, to the Floyd Casey Stadium, home of the Baylor University Bears, the same stadium where nearly a year before they began their Iraq deployment. U.S. Army photo by Texas National Guard Sgt. Ann Venturato

TEXAS HOMECOMING — Family members and friend display signs at the welcome home ceremony for U.S. soldiers of the 56th Brigade, 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guard. The soldiers returned Dec. 10, 2005, to Waco, Texas, to Floyd Casey Stadium, home of the Baylor University Bears, the same stadium where nearly a year before they began their Iraq deployment. U.S. Army photo by Texas National Guard Sgt. Ann Venturato

TEXAS HOMECOMING — Flags, signs and balloons mark the homecoming of the U.S. soldiers of the 56th Brigade Combat Team, Texas Army National Guard. The soldiers returned Dec. 10, 2005, to Waco, Texas, to Floyd Casey Stadium, home of the Baylor University Bears, the same stadium where nearly a year before they began their Iraq deployment. U.S. Army photo by Texas National Guard Sgt. Ann Venturato

TEXAS HOMECOMING — A child receives a boost from her mother to help her better see her father standing in formation during a welcome home ceremony for U.S. soldiers of the 56th Brigade Combat Team, Texas Army National Guard. The soldiers returned Dec. 10, 2005, to Waco, Texas, to Floyd Casey Stadium, home of the Baylor University Bears, the same stadium where nearly a year before they began their Iraq deployment. U.S. Army photo by Texas National Guard Sgt. Ann Venturato

[Mama_Bear]

Okay, I now understand cellspacing. I also now understand why I could not get the "little white edge" to go away on one of my state posts. I tried and tried to eliminate it and couldn't. I get it now. Who would have thought that defaults were built into cellspacing/padding? Thank you, teacher Billie. :-)

[Billie]

:)

I didn't see your post when I answered your FR mail. Ignore mail now. :)

[Billie]

Thank you for the fantastic photos in #95 & 96, Sandrat!

[SandRat]

Glad you enjoyed them.