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Above: the photo illustrates some of the clues available in older buildings that can help determine the building's age and condition.

We see hand hewn beams, rafters abutting without use of a ridge board, rather wide plank roof decking, a history of roof leaks, a curved cross-beam, armored cable electrical wiring, a chimney that has probably been re-constructed.

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Justice isn't some left-wing idea that was concocted in the 1960's. Justice is fundamental to the DNA of a successful America. ... We have had inclusive capitalism in this country. We have had shared prosperity in this country. These are not fanciful ideas. - Darren Walker, Ford Foundation President, in "Inspired as a 13-Year-Old Busboy", David Gelels, Corner OFfice, The New York Times, 29 September 2019.

Walker continues: Part of the way we can get back there is understanding that we can't have an economy that produces flat wages for a decade and expect people to be able to live with dignity. We can't have public systems that are woefully under-performing There are solutions, but we capitalists don't like to talk about two things: redistribution and regulation. If our capitalism is to be successful, we've got to talk about those two things.

It is also thanks to diapause that stinkbugs, indoors, seem inordinately graceless and impossibly dumb. But, as we all now know, being graceless and dumb is no obstacle to being powerful and horrifying. - Kathryn Schulz, "Home Invasion", The New Yorker, 12 March 2018 p. 38.

Journalists are responsible for following the truth wherever it may guide them. - David Carr, The New York Times - 2013 [1]

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. - A.J. Leibling (1904 - 1963), "Do You Belong in Journalism", The New Yorker, 14 May 1960, p. 105

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. - Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856 - 1941), "What Publicity Can Do", in [PDF] Other People's Money—and How Bankers Use It, Frederick A. Stokes Co., Publishers, New York (1914), p. 92.

It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. - Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man - 1871

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. - Thomas Jefferson letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. - First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 15 December, 1791

The freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic Governments. - U.S. Declaration of Rights, 1776

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