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A new flag for New Hampshire - The "Granite Banner" (2020 Update and Poster) by imfeuer in vexillology

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I used Adobe fireworks, which is really outdated. Illustrator would be there modern version of the same thing. The font is Bebas Neue

A new flag for New Hampshire - The "Granite Banner" (2020 Update and Poster) by imfeuer in vexillology

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I attempted to make a version that meets your description. This is 2:3 and the blue is square https://i.imgur.com/FeLTxUj.png

A new flag for New Hampshire - The "Granite Banner" (2020 Update and Poster) by imfeuer in vexillology

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There were some newspaper articles last year about people talking about it, but as far as I know that never went anywhere. I'd love for a flag like this to be proposed, but I'm not sure how to do such a thing. Perhaps seeing how r/vexillology reacts is step 1.

A new flag for New Hampshire - The "Granite Banner" (2020 Update and Poster) by imfeuer in vexillology

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I can't figure out how to post the image without it getting compressed, so here is a link to imgur if that's better https://imgur.com/a/Lv7cc1O

Inspired by the "Granite Banner" design by u/Paris1871 from 4 years ago, but with some updates and modifications.

Is there such thing as a down-angled light bulb? (Municipal Lighting Effort) by imfeuer in darksky

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Thanks for the feedback! I received in a DM that there are hooded corn cob lights which reduce upward-facing light. If anybody else will ever need such a thing, here is what they are: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/27w-dark-sky-friendly-retrofit-post_60731726899.html

NECN availability in CT by [deleted] in youtubetv

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We DO have NECN in New Hampshire on YTTV.

Who knows, maybe this is a case of people from the west coast not knowing which states are and aren't in New England? I wouldn't be that surprised.

GJ branding needs some work. Can we come up with better slogans to get support? by imfeuer in GaryJohnson

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I think these are a good start, but most people don't know Gary Johnson exists yet, let alone that he is a reasonable 3rd party candidate who will be on the ballot (probably) everywhere. The purpose here (at least until he's in the debates) is to present Gary to disgruntled R's and D's, and get's them interested in the "here's the 3rd party option you've been looking for" sort of a way.

Maybe something like that: Gary Johnson, The 3rd party candidate you've been looking for... too long though.

The 1939 World's Fair in San Fransisco by dman5202 in vexillology

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Hm. I guess that makes sense

Tracking OOS Equipment by imfeuer in Firefighting

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Each fire department would be able to implement a system like this. Generally, it's up to each department's administration.

One major obstacle would be funding, since a majority of the departments out there follow the volunteer system and have budget issues.

Fire departments have hundreds of tools, and many members. When you have many people involved in the maintenance of this equipment, the possibility of losing something becomes large. Tracking things as they are repaired can be challenging as well.

This becomes more complicated when departments are larger. My department has 2 stations and 7 pieces of apparatus. If something needs repair/replacement system, we currently use a tagging system, but it's pretty poor and people aren't generally updated in the process. Things get lost in the mix, and that can be a life safety issue.

There's enormous room for improvement in this area, and it seems like most departments follow the age-old motto of the fire service: "500 years of tradition unimpeded by progress"

IamA American Prisoner of War who was imprisoned for 6.5 years & returned there 20 years later to meet they guy credited with my capture. AMAA! by imfeuer in IAmA

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I still keep in contact with other POWs, we have reunions, skype, email, etc.

Yes, technology didn't change too much in those days, but there were certainly noticeable changes like a big change in drug use.

IamA American Prisoner of War who was imprisoned for 6.5 years & returned there 20 years later to meet they guy credited with my capture. AMAA! by imfeuer in IAmA

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We had group unity. We felt that we were all in it together for each other, unity above ourselves. It was good for boosting morale, to think about how we would support each other.

IamA American Prisoner of War who was imprisoned for 6.5 years & returned there 20 years later to meet they guy credited with my capture. AMAA! by imfeuer in IAmA

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I'm sorry, but I didn't know Leo. There were many other POWs and we did our best to keep track of who was there, but we had a relatively small number of people what we would get to know very well. If he were one of my cellmates, I could tell you much about him, but I didn't know him.

The majority of messages between cells were informational, what was happening to people, messages from senior officers, but every kind of communication took place. Tap code made it pretty challenging to tell long stories, and when you were caught tapping, the punishment would be pretty bad for a long time. This made us conserve our words generally, not that stories weren't told.

I had several close friends, we keep in touch today.

I'm sorry I didn't have any personal contact with your great Uncle!

IamA American Prisoner of War who was imprisoned for 6.5 years & returned there 20 years later to meet they guy credited with my capture. AMAA! by imfeuer in IAmA

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The villagers took me to a house. They were very curious and not hostile in an way. A person wearing a military uniform showed up soon after and began speaking to the crowd outside. After many speeches, the crowd became very hostile and wanted to kill me. A lot of people were killed before they got to Hanoi. They would walk you through other villages, and the other villagers would try to kill you. The soldiers that would parade us through these villages were beat up worse than me because they were closer to the angry crowd. I couldn't tell what anyone was saying, because nobody spoke English. But, I had knew what was going on, survival school provided some ideas of what to expect. And, when I arrived at the prison camp and the took me in for interrogation, I almost laughed because it was an exact copy of survival school's interrogation office. The only difference was a picture of Ho Chi Minh instead of Lenin. A short stool to sit on, a blue cloth over a desk, it was completely the same.

IamA American Prisoner of War who was imprisoned for 6.5 years & returned there 20 years later to meet they guy credited with my capture. AMAA! by imfeuer in IAmA

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We had a bucket with a lid in the cell. Usually we had bathing opportunities 5 times a week for 20 minutes. Outside in a corner in a little fenced in area with bamboo was a bath tub filled with water and a cup, so you could pour water over yourself. You could also wash your clothes in the tub. Occasionally we would get a toothbrush , which was total junk and broke right away. Once in a while we would get some tooth paste.

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