<html><head><base href="x-msg://14/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ahhhh, there ya go! Indeed, that would do the trick. Thanks!<div><br></div><div>Terry Farrell</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 31, 2012, at 7:59 PM, David Lawson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Hi Terry,</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Any messages you get with a font too small or hard to read can be rectified by clicking on the "forward" or "reply" button, then highlight the text that is hard to read and you can change the font & size to whatever you like (see below!)</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Hope this helps.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Regards,</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Alastair</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">David Lawson's Pianos</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Australia</font></div><blockquote dir="ltr" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com" href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">Terry Farrell</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="pianotech@ptg.org" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, July 31, 2012 7:18 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [pianotech] NY Times article on pianos (OT)</div><div><br></div>Susan - I don't know if I am the only one who receives your posts in the tiny courier font or not, but it is very difficult to read. It is tiny and looks like you were running out of ink on your ribbon. Is it possible for you to use a larger, more readable font? I've always enjoyed your posts, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>but I have to admit that I tend to not read them now because the font used is so difficult to read. Or is it on my end? :-)<div><br></div><div>Terry Farrell</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Susan Kline wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size="3"><font face="Arial"><small><font size="4">Hi, Bill<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>We can agree to disagree about that. Certainly there's plenty of blame to go around.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>The predatory lending, and the draconian bankruptcy bill which saddles young people with debt<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>for their natural lives, and the vicious collection practices (pressuring kids to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>pay their loans before their rent, their utilities, their food, or their medicine)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>seem to be to be far from blameless. And the way they've set up loans so if graduates<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>can't make payments, the principal just mounts up and up -- doubling, tripling --<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>"I owe my soul to the company store" comes to mind.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>It all seems very similar to the mortgages banks sold to people who obviously would<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>default. They privatize the profit while socializing the risk.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>I'm done with politics, here. Suffice to say that no one newly graduated with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>a six-figure debt will be able to study piano tuning, or live on a beginning<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>tuner's earnings. And that has been going on for decades already. No wonder<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>routine work isn't getting done.<br><br>It reminds me of places where the cost of real estate and rent gets so high<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>that the service people (gardeners, window cleaners, day care people, etc.) can't<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>afford to live within commuting distance.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>It all feels like endgame to me. If things can't get any more expensive<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>and complicated and impractical, in the end they will come crashing down.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Best to keep a wary eye on the basics in our lives -- where does our food,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>electricity, fuel, etc. come from, and will it keep coming? Is the division of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>labor which we've become totally dependent on really going to go on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>forever? Anyone feel like investing in some nice high-paying Spanish<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>bonds? 25% unemployment in Spain these days. What are they all going to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>do?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Thumpe's right -- gardening is good. Not because it is financially profitable<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>right now, but because the food is better than store-bought, and growing it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>teaches people how to do it successfully, and how to use the produce and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>plant the right amounts at the right times. Someday they might really need this<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>skill. Plus some plants like fruit trees and berry bushes and nut trees<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>need time to grow.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Best,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Susan<br></font></small><br></font>Bill Fritz wrote:</font><blockquote cite="mid:8CF3CBCB56292CD-2088-9585@webmail-m013.sysops.aol.com" type="cite"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; ">Susan, while I'd agree that this world is indeed changing...</font></div><div> </div><div>However, I would respectfully suggest that Wall Street is not at fault for the massive Student Loan mess... it is the US Govt, the Colleges, & the Professors who encouraged students to take on too much debt at too young an age. I'll also fault the parents, though the students are by law allowed to make their own decisions, and indeed do so too willingly.</div><div> </div><div>Easy loan money from the USGovt encourages students to step up to more expensive colleges, and only encourages the Colleges & the Professors to raise their rates.</div><div> </div><div>The law of supply & demand... except in this case, Wall Street had nothing to do w/ it.</div><div> </div><div>Best Regards... Bill Fritz, St Louis</div><div> </div><div> </div><div><table><tbody><tr valign="top"><td nowrap="" style="padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 9px; padding-right: 10px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 1px; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: initial initial; ">From:</td><td style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Susan Kline<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:skline@peak.org"><skline@peak.org></a></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 9px; padding-right: 10px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 1px; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: initial initial; ">To:</td><td style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 9px; padding-right: 10px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 1px; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Subject:</td><td style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Re: [pianotech] NY Times article on pianos</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 9px; padding-right: 10px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 1px; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Date:</td><td style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:28:37 -0700</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="AOLMsgPart_9_bcff6aef-268b-4165-a232-70525d83c23d"><small><font size="2" face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">What I see is one more way in which this country has paid for letting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Wall Street put most of the young and educated into indentured servitude<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>via student loans.</font></small></div></font></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>