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Is it surprising that the postal service continues to lose money? First-class postage is currently 45 cents and will rise to 46 cents on Sunday. However, the rates for non-profit postage, and the pre-sorted postage rates for businesses, were apparently not increased at all. This in spite of the fact the postal service is expecting a $15 billion deficit this year. The 1-cent increase is expected to generate an additional $888 million, which will only make a small dent in the revenue shortfall.
We all receive junk mail, classified as pre-sorted and nonprofit mail, most of which we discard. Why aren't all of these organizations paying the same price as the individual is for mail service?
The big question is, if pre-sorted and non-profit mailings constitute the bulk of mail, why weren't these rates raised at all
on Jan 23, 2013 at 5:36 pm
It's an outrage and affront to all decent, liberty-loving citizens that we were not informed of this in a timely manner. I demand that the Pleasanton City Council and the School Board delay the stamp price increase until we, the people, have had our say. Ever heard of sunshine laws? Ever heard of democracy? Ever heard of the Boston Tea Party? I'm taxed enough already, and I'm not gonna take it any more!
on Jan 23, 2013 at 5:46 pm
Communicate online. Otherwise pay through the nose! tee hee...
on Jan 23, 2013 at 5:59 pm
I'm with Doug Miller. Is there somewhere we could all march downtown or something to protest this hienious affront against the American citizenry? No coincidence that this is occurring right after Obama gets "elected" to a second term. I'm being taxed to death already. This should be a wake-up call to all Ptown citizens. Perhaps we might all meet in front of the main post office?


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Prime Minister: "South East needs extra airport capacity"
The Prime Minister today repeated that the South East needed extra airport capacity. He was talking at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
It was David Cameron's birthday but there's no doubt who was the star of the show. Phil Hornby reports.

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The Salvation Army made almost as many smiling faces as Santa Claus on Christmas morning.
Every year, East Texans help the Salvation Army give children Christmas presents who otherwise might go without on Christmas morning.
Pat Burgess is a cog in a wheel of the great machine that is the Salvation Army's Angel Tree program.
"Do you have any basketballs?" I asked Pat.
"We have a couple, but we hope to get more," Pat replied, standing in front of a box of 120 balls.
"I've been doing it five years now. I wouldn't miss it. It's a lot of work. It's three weeks of work, but I wouldn't miss it," Pat said.
Pat has the first 300 boxes. Other volunteers have the rest. They make sure the numbers match the requests.
"They mess them up occasionally, but we get it straightened out. Fortunately, if someone gets away without their stuff, we have the number and we call them up, and come back and get what they are supposed to get," Pat revealed.
"You want to have happy customers," I observed.
"Always, that's our job," he agreed.
"There's three row captains. We go through and make sure every box has all the children in there, or adults. Sometimes we have adults, but they're all filled. Every one of them," Pat went on.
"So these boxes have children in them?" I asked him.
"Well, they're toys, toys for the children," he clarified.
"Oh, okay. I thought I had a different kind of story here," I said.
"No, toys for the children, not the kids," he laughed.
With that it was time for lunch which gave me a good clue as to how many people it takes to pull this off. Hundreds.
"So a basketball guy gets to be third in line?" I asked Pat.
"When my wife gets to be first, I follow her," Pat said.
"So this is the reason you came in here," I pointed out to Pat.
"You got it. This is the reason. The free food," he laughed.
Five minutes later Pat was pushing around a stack of boxes.
"I thought this was your lunch break," I mentioned to him.
"Lunch break? No such thing as a lunch break," he laughed.
Well, Pat your self-imposed sentence of bringing joy to the world is almost over.
The distribution of the toys takes two days.
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Grilled Portobello Burgers Recipe
You don't miss the meat on this hearty burger. The veggies, mayo and cheese fill you up with plenty of flavor. —Mary Haas, Hewitt, New Jersey
- 4 large portobello mushrooms (4 to 4-1/2 inches), stems removed
- 6 tablespoons reduced-fat balsamic vinaigrette, divided
- 4 slices red onion
- 1 cup roasted sweet red peppers, drained
- 3 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese, cut into 4 slices
- 4 kaiser rolls, split
- 1/4 cup fat-free mayonnaise
- Brush mushrooms with 4 tablespoons vinaigrette. Grill mushrooms, stem side down, and onion, covered, over medium heat 3-4 minutes on each side or until tender. Top mushrooms with red peppers, onion and cheese. Grill, covered, 2-3 minutes longer or until cheese is melted. Grill rolls, cut side down, 1-2 minutes or until toasted.
- Spread roll bottoms with mayonnaise and drizzle with remaining vinaigrette. Top with mushrooms; replace roll tops. Yield: 4 servings.
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My 4-year-old daughter is on a very strict Low-Protein diet and by leaving off the cheese, this is a recipe that she can eat with us! It is very hard to modify recipes for her and this one helps her fit in a little better when we bar-b-cue and have friends over! Thank you for a great recipe my whole family can enjoy together!
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Beach House 30 Seconds Walk From the Beach! in Clearwater Beach
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This beach house is a three bedroom two bath beach home that sleeps four to ten people and the
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side, gives you an expanded view of the beach and the Gulf of Mexico. The patio/lounging area lets you relax and sun yourselves while looking out towards the beautiful beach. You will spend many hours enjoying this spectacular view.
When you enter the house you walk into a living room area to include the kitchen. You will cook, dine, and entertain yourselves, all with a panoramic view of the
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You are on the beach as seen in the photo's, so you could not ask for a
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Beds:1 King, 1 Queen, 2 Twins and and 2 sleeper sofas for 4 more people.
Central Air and Heat.
Full Kitchen w/ oven fully equipped.
Toaster Oven.
Coffee Maker.
Outdoor Charcoal Grill
Cable TV.
HDTV Widescreen.
Wireless Internet
Wrap around porch North and West with beachviews.
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Pro:Baseball, Football and Hockey
Golf, 10 min. drive away.
Tennis,a 7 minute walk away.
Boating,Sailing. Fishing, Charter or Bottom, with the finest fishing fleet on the west
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Dinner cruises.
Sunset sailing crusises.
All types of water sports,Jet Skis,Para Sailing,etc.
Fine restaurants and laid back beachside grills, with great fresh
Disneyworld is an 1 1/2 Hr. drive along with Universal and Sea World.
Busch Gardens 45 minute drive.
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May 31-Aug 08.$2,350/Wk..7 night minimum & Saturday to Saturday
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A traveling monument has made its way to East Texas to honor the memory of those who fought and died in Southeast Asia a generation ago.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial "Moving Wall" is on display at Rader Funeral Home in Henderson.
The wall contains the names of the over 58,000 Americans who gave their lives during the conflict. For veterans, it's a solemn remembrance of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
"These names on the wall, they were somebody," says Charles Rader, "I think that's really important. There was a Vietnam Veteran here yesterday that told me, 'You know, I just never thought I could go to the real wall; when I saw this I just had to come."
You can pay your respects at the Moving Wall 24 hours a day at the Rader Funeral Home in Henderson. The wall will be there until noon on Monday.
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I worry; I worry about my community which has over the years witnessed more and more hatred, suspicion, and anger thrown against it. Its a community full of proud, peaceful and law abiding Muslim-Americans, many of whom came to the United States in order to pursue the American Dream and create a better life for themselves and their families. Yet now, ten years after the attacks of September the 11th, we see ourselves targets of angry demonstrators protesting houses of worship yelling chants of no mosque here, no mosque here though just a little while ago many didnt even know what a mosque was. On the news we're forced to listen to words such Islamic Terrorism", "Muslim Terrorist", and "Islamist Militants, though I learned that Islam meant that one would gain peace by submitting their will to the will of God alone with no partners. Ive been repulsed by a Christian Pastor who publicly burned the Quran. Im angered by political actors who hold hearings that put on trial all Muslim Americans, assuming their guilt and radicalization.
Is this America? Is this the country that in 1991 my parents brought me and my brother to? America, a nation whose promise of freedom, acceptance of all peoples, and opportunity for a better life for us all compelled my father to bring us here? Is this the same place where I went to school? Are these the same streets I rode my bike down? The same homes of friends I visited? Is this the same place I went to University in? Though everything around me looks the same, the school is still there, new children riding bikes down the streets, freshman now taking over campus. Yet I feel as if the atmosphere has changed - that a growing dark cloud is casting a dangerous shadow over everything that I knew. I many times ask myself: "Is it possible that a group of terrorists could really have succeeded in dividing this country? Succeeded in turning my neighbors against my community?" Now ten years later, have they succeeded in their real goal and objective of dividing and destroying what this nation believes in and our founding fathers hoped for us?
I do believe as many believed before me, that for evil to succeed, good men must do nothing. I witness everyday heroism of people and communities who stand for what is right, work together, and help one another and wonder when will our voices over take those of modern hate preachers and teachers.
So I worry, but though I worry, members of the Muslim community around me amaze me at how hopeful they are in their future in the United States. Though I worry, every day the Muslim community works hard to reach out to their neighbors, builds bridges, volunteers their time and efforts, and know that they will be successful. Though I worry, I am awed by my community, who, through the stereotypes, negativity, hate speeches, and adversity believe stronger than ever that better times are still yet to come and we will move on and not only yes we can but yes we will. A physical minority but a spiritual majority because they stand for what makes America great. I will end with the words of Malcolm X, who subtly said it best - quote - That I am a Muslim, I believe in Allah God in one God, and I believe that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. And there is nothing wrong with that - unquote. There is nothing wrong with the religion of Islam and I would encourage everyone to get to know about Islam, even its only one verse.
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The Philadelphia Eagles are drafting 23rd in SB Nation's 2011 NFL mock draft and representing the birds, Bleeding Green Nation, has selected CB Jimmy Smith. The Eagles two biggest areas of need are offensive line and cornerback. OTs Anthony Castonzo and Gabe Carimi are off the board so this is a somewhat easy pick for BGN.
The biggest question mark with Smith is of course "character concerns." On that, BGN writes:
We've heard rumors that he's overly cocky, but we heard those same things about DeSean Jackson, and look how that turned out. A lot of teams outsmarted themselves taking guys like Devin Thomas and Jerome Simpson before him. A lot of teams probably did the same thing last year with Dez Bryant. The Eagles have never shied away from taking guys with character concerns, and I know they recently had Smith in for a visit to Philadelphia. Assuming he carried himself reasonably well in that face to face interview, I don't think the Eagles would have any reservations about taking him.
Character is important but if you have a veteran locker room, I think you can handle it. The Eagles are a veteran team, with a coach who has won a lot before, so I think they can handle guys with character concerns.
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British PM David Cameron is really pissing off the rest of Europe and some Brits.
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Training completion rates high as PeopleSoft transition nears
The majority of community members who will be using PeopleSoft, the university's new Human Resources administrative system, have seized opportunities to take core training essential to operating the system.
"The response thus far has been fantastic," says training manager Stephen Sakell. "Our goal is to ensure that all system users are fully prepared prior to implementation, and training is a vital component of that preparation."
To date, approximately 97 per cent of the individuals identified as timekeepers and 96 per cent of the individuals identified as contract hire administrators have completed detailed training in those areas. Of the 446 individuals identified to take the Introduction to PeopleSoft for HR course, 87 per cent have completed that training. Feedback has been outstanding, with a 94 per cent positive response from the more than 1,000 training evaluations submitted.
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DENISON -- Forensic science students had their skills tested Thursday at a competition between Sherman and Denison High Schools.
Grayson College hosted a crime scene competition on-campus Thursday morning.
Students from Denison and Sherman competed in four mock events.
They included an indoor simulated shooting, a crime scene investigation and a search for evidence outside using metal detectors.
"It's amazing what science can do, how you can actually find a criminal off of something that they might have left at a crime scene," Denison senior Shelby Woodall said.
It's the 12th year Grayson College has hosted the event.Students from Sherman High School won two of the four events. A student from Denison won one, and there was a tie in the fourth event.


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DURHAM — Behind a stellar performance from senior libero Ali McCurdy, the 15th-ranked Duke volleyball team clinched a share of the ACC championship Wednesday, defeating N.C. State 3-1 (25-20, 25-14, 20-25, 25-18) at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
With a one-game lead over North Carolina and Florida State heading into the season finale, Duke has the opportunity to win the league title outright Friday at home against the Tar Heels. The match will start at 3 p.m. and admission is free.
McCurdy anchored a solid defensive outing by the Blue Devils. She matched her career high with 37 digs, extending her ACC-record career total to 2,463.
Duke (26-4, 17-2) also got a career-high-tying seven blocks from freshman middle blocker Jordan Tucker to help hold the N.C. State (20-11, 11-8) offense in check for much of the match.
Were really happy we got this win today, coach Jolene Nagel said. N.C. State plays tremendous defense. They keep the ball alive forever, they keep coming at you and theyre a great team. (N.C. State) has a lot of great hitters, so I was pleased with how our team executed on the block and on defense.
Sophomore outside Emily Sklar added a career-high 21 kills and season-high 19 digs. In addition, setter Maggie Deichmeister had 49 assists and 10 digs, and rightside hitter Elizabeth Campbell hit .400 with 14 kills, nine digs and four blocks.
North Carolina 3, Wake Forest 0: Victoria McPherson had 13 kills and seven blocks to lead North Carolina to a 3-0 (25-19, 25-18, 25-17) sweep at Wake Forest.
Improving to 27-3, 16-3 ACC, the Tar Heels have the most wins since the 2002 ACC championship squad went 32-4.
This was a really important win for us today to get on the road, coach Joe Sagula said. Wake Forest always has a challenging offense to defend, and I think we did a good job of that today. We competed hard and responded well to the pressure of our final two matches.
McPherson, who finished with a solid .333 attack, nearly tied her career highs of 14 kills and eight blocks. Jovana Bjelica added nine kills and four blocks, and Hayley McCorkle had seven kills with three blocks.
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on Dec 5, 2011 at 7:59 am
Another stupid crime by stupid people. Thank you Good Samaritans.
on Dec 5, 2011 at 9:01 am
Gee came in from OAKLAND! Keep your garbage in your own city. Watch Stineridge crime rampant up with the stupid BART extension Oming in from the west side ghettoes.
on Dec 5, 2011 at 9:03 am
Gee came in from OAKLAND! Keep your garbage in your own city. Watch Stineridge crime rampant up with the stupid BART extension Oming in from the west side ghettoes.
on Dec 5, 2011 at 9:08 am
Wow, Asseblywoman Mary Hayashi, is now shoplifting at Nordstrom and she got away.
on Dec 5, 2011 at 9:23 am
Good Samaritans - thank you for being willing to get involved BUT what if it had been something more deadly than pepper spray. Safety is more important than purses
on Dec 5, 2011 at 10:19 am
Samantha, in order to deride criminals for being stupid, one must use correct spelling and grammar. I did enjoy "ghettoes" and "rampant up"...right out of the Dubya playbook!
on Dec 5, 2011 at 3:24 pm
Ah Lili---"Dubya"? A liberal pinko shows her colors! Right out of the "blame Bush" collective. Gotta love Bill Ayers and Comrade Barry.
on Dec 6, 2011 at 10:11 am
$10K worth of bags from Nordstrom? Thats....like......2 bags....
What'd he do? Stick 'em under his shirt??
on Dec 6, 2011 at 8:49 pm
I love that I got called a Communist because I pointed out Samantha's terrible spelling. It always turns into something political with you Alamo old-timers. Thanks for the chuckle!
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BEVERLY — Five people were hospitalized yesterday morning after a series of car crashes on both sides of the stretch of Route 128 near Brimbal Avenue.
Fire Lt. Ryan Laracy said the accidents apparently began shortly before 9 a.m., when a Waste Management truck traveling southbound on Route 128 swerved off the road just past Exit 19, rolling over and spilling a Dumpster full of trash off the back. It was unclear what caused the truck to swerve and State Police are investigating. The man driving it was brought to Beverly Hospital.
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A TEENAGER has been arrested for alleged kidnapping, a sexual offence and assault while the subject of an interim anti-social behaviour order, magistrates heard.
But Natalie Harvey, 18, had not caused trouble in Burnley town centre and the accommodation project which she has been kicked out of, the court was told.
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More than 90 percent of LIPA's 1.1 million customers on Long Island lost power after Superstorm Sandy and didn't get it back for weeks. Now a new report criticizes the utility giant for its poor performance.
A scathing report by the Moreland Commission, which is a panel appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, pointed out why LIPA performed so poorly after several major storms.
Among their discoveries, while many LIPA customers were paying some of the highest utility rates in the country, outside consultants were raking in up to $500 an hour in fees totaling $65 million over four years. One even billed $6,800 for a Manhattan hotel room and another for a trip to Puerto Rico, complete with a seaplane ride.
"What stands out here is the absurdity some of the charges these outside contractors charge the utility. Just ridiculous stuff that normally other utilities would be picked up by audit and monitoring – but they were not picked up by LIPA," said Matthew Cordaro, LIPA Watchdog Ph.D.
Determining who was involved and when may prove difficult says the panel. They found what they call a disturbing revolving door between the highly paid consulting company Navigant and LIPA.
One example is LIPA's COO during Sandy was Michael Hervey. Since January, Hervey's been working for Navigant.
"That's not unusual actually," said Cordaro. "Through the country, as execs wind down their careers at utilities, many times they will join outside contractors."
Those are just some of the alarming revelations in the report but there are others. The panel found that LIPA trustees spent a mere 39 seconds discussing storm preps four days before Sandy and that LIPA ratepayers have been footing the bill for the high, unexplained consultant payments and accounting irregularities to the tune of $15 million in overcharges.
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The commission is turning over its finding to federal prosecutors to see if criminal charges are warranted. Gov. Cuomo is also calling for prosecutors to take a very close look at what they've uncovered.
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2.58/5 rDev -22.3%
Appearance: light copper/brown, great clarity, light tan foam that turns rocky as it collapses, bits of lace
Aroma: toffee, ripe pears, hint of banana, woodsy hops
Flavor: medium-sweet maltiness with a nutty edge; vegetal bitterness and grassy hop flavor; finishes dryish with a lingering white grapefruit bitter aftertaste
Mouthfeel: medium body, pert carbonation, slight astringency
Other comments: Distinctively boring.
02-24-2008 17:20:18 | More by GreenCard
3.25/5 rDev -2.1%
09-10-2013 17:14:12 | More by harpus
United Kingdom (England)
3.25/5 rDev -2.1%
500 mL brown bottle poured into a pint glass.
A: deep mahogany/brown beer with great clarity, moderate head of 1-2 fingers that dissipates quickly, minimal lacing.
S: rich and malty
T: although it tastes good, it doesn't quite deliver what the scent and sights promised. Not quite as interesting as I'd hoped, but enjoyable nonetheless.
M: kinda typical of an English bitter or pale ale--moderate carbonation and heaviness
D: would definitely drink again, but not gonna search high and low for it
04-06-2010 20:42:38 | More by fullsweep
United Kingdom (England)
3.35/5 rDev +0.9%
What a name for a beer... BB Oct 09, served cool in a straight imperial pint glass.
A: pours a bright reddish amber hue, topped with a thick, fluffy light beige head with decent retention; carbonation remains light with sporadic ejection of large bubbles from the bottom.
S: savoury-sweet prunes with a slightly sharp tinge of citrus fruits comes pleasant and smooth, on top of very mild sweet black-tea-ish maltiness and (weirdly) a touch of coconut shavings.
T: a mouthful of Badger's unique mixture of peachy-floral scent and overwhelming biscuity malts is followed by apple-ly and tangerine-like English hops, while the floral aroma seems to linger well enough in expanding to the 3rd dimension, rendering an aromatic aftertaste on top of tired yeasty touch and tangy, thin citric hops. A tad chewy & dry (a bit like the undertone mixed of unsweetened black tea and roast nuts) in the end, perhaps the work of roasted malts added to the brew, and a healthy touch of salty-sourness maintains throughout the drink, a good sign for a pale bitter, really.
M&D: the mouthfeel, being slightly too fizzy for my palate, is not particularly dry to reveal a deep imprint of the roasted malts, while it's not clean either, showing a mixed palate of hops and malts here and there. Overall, this easy-to-drink, medium-bodied dark Bitter cannot score higher maybe due to the slightly messy flavour profile and palate, and maybe also due to the much similarity with so many other Badger's brews.
11-10-2008 19:53:25 | More by wl0307
United Kingdom (England)
3.75/5 rDev +13%
Brown 500ml bottle with a best before Date of Dec 2008, drank May 2008.
Poured into a Forbidden Fruit chalice glass.
Terracotta red colour with a wispy white trace of a head.
Toffee Apples came to mind as the aroma arrived at my nose, this was sweet smelling stuff.
The taste reminded me of Batemans XXXB, one of my favourite beers. Well balanced and full of all the good things an English Bitter should possess, a hop, malt mix with a medium mouthfeel.
I thought this one of the better bottled beers on the British market at the moment.
05-27-2008 07:57:07 | More by BlackHaddock
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Pickled Partridge Ale from Badger Brewery, Hall and Woodhouse
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We had to buy Mucinex, or whatever it's called, for our daughter when she got a yeast rash. The best advice is to give your child some air-time. We would call it 'nudie-pudie' time and my girl still runs around naked saying "Nudie pudie, nudie pudie". We used disposables, and were so fortunate, as she only had one bad case of diaper rash, and rarely ever got even a mild one.
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Police say they now know who has been making 'Purge' posters, and will be confronting them soon.
Albany Police continue the hunt for a gunman who stuck up a man delivering Meals on Wheels to the elderly and disabled.
People who receive those meals say they can't believe their friend was robbed at gunpoint, and hope it doesn't hurt the Meals on Wheels program.
Terry Taylor wouldn't go on camera with us, but said even after being robbed at gunpoint, he never even thought about not finishing up all his deliveries.
Taylor, who works for the Middle Flint Council On Aging, was delivering meals at the Golden Homes on West Tift Avenue about 9:00AM, when a man pointed a gun at him and demanded money.
Taylor gave him all the money he had, three dollars, and after he escaped, delivered Shelia Williams' food box.
"When he got here, he was very upset. He had told me he had just been robbed on the street," Williams said.
Upset, but Taylor kept on helping folks. "The gentleman who was delivering the meals went right on about his business," said Council on Aging Executive Director Kay Hind.
"He kept on delivering. I told him he needs to call the police and stuff like that. And he said he was OK long as he made it back to his truck," Williams said.
Taylor said the armed robber wanted his cell phone, which he said was in the truck. When the robber went to look for it, Taylor took off running. Taylor was worried volunteers might be scared to deliver meals on wheels if they heard about his robbery.
"I'm sorry it happened because people might think twice. Really about going out and delivering them. But I'd like to assure them it's never happened before," Hind said.
The folks who receive their meals from Taylor describe him as very kind, and are shocked by the crime. "Help folks out, and folks rob him. It's sad." said food recipient Annie Hall.
Williams said Taylor urged her to keep her doors locked as police continue to search the area for the gunman and he went on to finish his food deliveries.
Taylor described the gunman as a black man in his early 20's, wearing a hoodie-style shirt over his head. Police picked up two suspicious persons this morning in the area, but they were not charged.
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Amber Nasland shares some social media job descriptions, and many of them have the same thing in common: Companies still don't know why they need or want social media.
The TGIF 'Revolution' Is Nothing Without a Marketing Strategy
The use of Twitter, Google, the Internet and Facebook won't make a weak brand strong; instead, companies need a strategy. May sound obvious, but this article got me thinking, and I loved the examples.
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text: Illinois' first shotgun season is this weekend, Fri-Sun. I'm getting excited! We went to check on stands this past weekend and there's lots of deer sign ... and I mean LOTS!! We walked out down a path I mowed for my sister to walk into her stand. We had just got in the truck and I looked right back down that path and there was a pretty nice buck (I'll guess ~140") standing there looking at us. We had just walked by there a few seconds before. I wonder how close we were when we went by him? Its possible that this was the buck that I let walk last year. I hope my sister gets a crack at him. In any event, he didn't seem to mind at all that we were there. I think he was hoping to get a look at one of the Cubs.


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Friday marks one week since the horror at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.Communities across the country took time to remember the 20 first-graders and six staff members killed. In Smyrna, a walk and balloon release was held at Stewarts Creek Elementary. Hundreds gathered to walk 27 minutes, one minute for each of the 26 victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School and one minute for the mother of the gunman. Twenty-seven white balloons were released following the walk.Teacher Courtney Bennett helped organize the local remembrance."Walking I've noticed a lot of the kids are holding hands, there's one now. Keeping them close and I think that's what this is about," she said. "We wanted this to feel like a unified event so I think that's what's happening."Teacher Mirna Aguilar added, "As soon as I heard they were doing this I was like, 'I want to pay my tribute to the children and the families and everyone.'"At the end of the walk, there was a moment of silence before the balloon release.Belmont University and Vanderbilt University also held ceremonies for the Newtown, Connecticut victims Friday.
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Behold, the findings of the Internet!!
"@theseangray: @AJCFalcons Happy belated D...will Julio play in the second preseason game?" <-Yes
"@theseangray: @AJCFalcons Happy belated D...will Julio play in the second preseason game?" <-Yes— D. Orlando Ledbetter (@AJCFalcons) August 13, 2013
I don't know what "Happy belated D" means, but I have a feeling it's not appropriate for this family-friendly blog.
In any case, Julio will be playing in the second preseason game. What does this mean for the Falcons and Ravens?
Well, for the Falcons, it means The Great One has returned for Bird Bowl .5, and he will victimize the purple and black. It also means the O/U for the Falcons margin of victory has gone from 7.5 to 854.5.
For the Ravens, it means more nightmares about Falcons wide receivers. Who could forget the catch to end the Thursday Night game a few years ago?
Anyway, join us in celebrating the return of Julio Jones to the football field, and let's hope his hamstrings stay loose.


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The University of California at Los Angeles School of Law has received a $10 million gift to establish an institute for business law and policy.
The money, the largest single gift in the school's history and the capstone of the school's five-year, $100 million fundraising initiative, came from education reform advocate and philanthropist Lowell Milken, a 1973 alumnus, the Los Angeles Times' L.A. Now blog reports.
Milken is the chairman and co-founder of the Milken Family foundation, a private foundation focused on education. He also is the co-founder of Knowledge Universe, a Singapore-based company focused on early childhood education.
The money will be used to create the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy, which UCLA officials said was the result of a three-year effort to establish business and law initiatives that focus on innovative research, problem-solving and hands-on skills training.
"In line with the goals of the Campaign for UCLA Law, Lowell's generosity will enable us to initiate a range of curricular innovations, further critical research and provide financial support for students, who will become our nation's future leaders in business law and policy," law school dean Rachel Moran said in a statement.
The gift also propels the school past its fundraising goal of $100 million in five years, a spokeswoman said.
"At a time when our state's great universities are under significant financial pressure and constraints, it is incumbent upon those of us who benefited greatly from our educational experiences within the UC system to help support the outstanding work of those universities," Milken said.
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The Walking Dead Episode Five: No Time Left
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Review By Jickle @ 05:33pm 22/11/12
There's something a bit special about crying over fiction.
Although making too big a deal of it is often a great way to trivialising an entire medium – especially in games writing, where for too long we've thrown the word 'emotion' about as though it were a great uncovered truth capable of changing how games are perceived by broader society – it's worth acknowledging when a game really affects you. It's something rare and powerful and human, and it usually comes from a connection that most games just simply aren't that interested in forming.
When I say that Episode 5 of The Walking Dead represents the first gaming experience to ever make me shed a tear (and yes, I did play through To The Moon), there's an underlying thread that could be tugged away at and unravelled if one were so inclined. Truthfully, The Walking Dead Season 1 has been such a wonderful success because it never really bothered itself with being a typical 'game' experience. It told a great story by making the telling of that story the primary component of the gameplay, by focusing the player on soaking in characters above all else, and reacting to them as they saw fit.
It's not that The Walking Dead is an inherently better, classier, or more sophisticated game for actually having emotion resonance – this is, after all, still a game that involves killing a great many zombies. It's the ways that The Walking Dead earned that tear over 13 hours of walking around, clicking on objects and making dialog choices, which makes it so special.
To describe the events of the episode at this point would be silly, suffice to say that, in my game, everything played out in a manner surprisingly consistent with how I'd played the game. Not every question is answered, but then, they shouldn't have to be. One moment was a little silly – a certain chain of events felt shoehorned in to get Lee to a place the game wanted him to be in, circumventing the myriad of possible paths the character could have taken up to that point – but the fiction remained largely believable. It's perhaps not quite as thought provoking or involving as much as Episode 4 was, simply because it needs to get you to an end point, but nobody's likely to be disappointed with how events wrap up.
There are no real puzzles in this final chapter. It focuses explicitly on conversations (at least it did in my playthrough – it's hard to imagine how the episode plays out if you made certain unpopular choices at the end of Episode 4, which are, without exception, compelling and satisfying, often reflecting on things you did or said in the previous four episodes. The events of the last half hour or so of the game, in particular, are spellbinding, even using QTEs in ways more inventive and purposeful than I'm used to.
The Walking Dead: Season 1 has been an unusual phenomenon. Adventure gaming never exactly went away, but in recent years the best games in the genre have mostly been the ones that cast a glance backwards to the classics and tried to replicate their best features. The Walking Dead distils the formula immensely by removing most of the puzzles – which would have sounded like a disastrous plan had Telltale announced their intentions in advance – replacing them with a compellingly tragic, unusually human glimpse into the heart of the on-going pop cultural zombie obsession. In most zombie fiction, The Walking Dead comics included, humanity is meant to be the 'real' monster – but The Walking Dead game has, over the slow build-up of its episodic structure, given us characters that still have the capacity and courage to fight back against their demons too.
In many ways The Walking Dead has been a game about love; between a man and his surrogate daughter, between families and lovers, between player and avatar, and across humanity broadly. It was love that made The Walking Dead special, and made me shed a tear as the credits rolled. It's love that makes The Walking Dead not only Telltale's best game by a mile, but also one of the best adventure games ever.
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From the Rumble Seat spoke with former Tech head coach Pepper Rodgers on Monday Night. We talked about football, Tech, Air Force, and more.
Hey guys, we wrote up a series of articles about the three previous times Tech played Air Force in 1977, 1978, and 1979. Interesting highlights include Air Force's DC at the time of the '78 and '79 games being Al Groh (GT's current DC), a former head coach of the Jackets getting his second gig after college at AFA (Chan Gailey), and Eddie Lee Ivery setting the single game rushing record in 1978 against Air Force.
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Few things pass the time more agreeably, when waiting for one's bar trivia scores to be tabulated or sitting in line at your local international film festival or when finding one's self lamentably lacking in dominoes, to argue about the Hall of Fame. It's like an extra layer of fandom, a diluted political acumen; each person has their methodology, their candidates, and their unconquerable opinions. And like politics, everyone can agree on the fact that the system of the Hall of Fame is deeply flawed. The writers, after all, are wizened luddites with food rotting in their patchy, tangled beards. The veterans are busy handing out free passes to the Hall to old friends, drunk off appletinis at Mickey Mantle's Restaurant. And the nerds… oh, the nerds.
Each year we have the conventions, the rallies. Soon the Blylevenites will toss their collective weight behind the Elect Raines by 2021 Committee, while the Jack Morris and Lee Smith crusaders will fire up their 56K modems to denounce them. The same thirty people who vote for Harold Baines every year will meet up at a Best Western in Charleston to swap stories. Eventually, Election Day will come, we'll have the headlines, one last enraged argument, and one writer from a farm town in the Midwest will be burnt in effigy for writing Dale Sveum into his ballot. It's high drama, and there's certainly fun to be had. But is it useful?
I rarely use the first person in this little blog. But in a typically belated response to the Barry Bonds trial and the pre-emptive handwringing over his potential eligibility in 2012, I feel obligated for the sake of transparency to elaborate on my own baseball-political values. Should known steroids users like McGwire and Bonds be included in the Hall of Fame? Should Pete Rose, whose crimes are considered by some far less damning for some reason? Should Jim DeShaies have received a vote? How would I, Faceless Internet Blogger #7964, solve the eternal dilemma that is the Hall of Fame?
I would abolish the Hall of Fame.
Well, not all of it. The plaques are nice, and we may as well hold on to the memorabilia, since we've gone to all the trouble of collecting it. But as far as the Hall of Fame as the average fan considers it, a roped-off collection of the Greatest Players Who Ever Played the Greatest Game Greatly, I don't think we should bother anymore. Here are some of the reasons why:
There is no objective standard for greatness. One of the wonderful things about baseball is that it wields a dichotomy of objectivity and subjectivity. On the one hand, we have numbers, and on the other, we have aesthetics; either without the other would be useless. But when it comes to the Hall debate, there are those who want a "Small Hall" filled only with the Ruths and the Seavers and the Matthewses (they would make room for poor forgotten Eddie Matthews, right?). And then we have the "Large Hall" people who want to reward Bob Grich and Dwight Evans and Darrell Evans and Terry Shumpert. Then we have the people who celebrate championships and want to enshrine every member of the 1975 Reds, and would shun Edgar Martinez because he "didn't know how to win" and "didn't know how to get his manager to stick him at third even though he wasn't very good at it and seriously you're starting Russ Davis". We have the secret mustache cabal and its sworn, equally invisible enemies. And none of these opinions are definitively wrong. They're each an individually devised conception of greatness.
The flaw in the idea that there is an objective definition of a Hall of Fame player is that such a cutoff is entirely arbitrary. It would be different if there were a natural break in the curve, a noticeable separation between the "great" and the "good". Instead we have a gentle sloping curve, and the fence that lets in the Orlando Cepedas of the world and keeps out the Carlos Delgados is constructed of two materials: precedent and self-justification. For the vast majority of voters (and fans), players either "feel" like a Hall of Famer or they don't, based on whichever unquestioned assumptions they carry into the argument. In his book, Politics of Glory, Bill James explains it thusly:
The Hall of Fame begins right at the point where the curve flattens out. It's where it has to begin (or where it has to end), because if you let it go down further into the curve, the number of candidates just gets out of hand. If that line is drawn at Point G there may be three players there – but if you move it back to Point F there will be six or seven players, and if you move it to Point E there will be a hundred or two hundred. The Hall of Fame has to stop before it reaches that point.
It's as good an argument for a small hall as any, but it leaves a few threads undone: it doesn't really preclude moving the line to Point F, just Point G, the point at which we're drowning in plaques. The other problem is that James is insinuating that there is no halfway point between the F and G. The reality is more of a slippery slope, a Zeno's Paradox of talent, an annual scraping of a couple of players off the top of the pool. As long as the Hall exists, the temptation to do this will continue. And as long as voters are over-strict with eligible players, as I'll argue below, the assignment of glory will be made by old, unqualified ballplayers with rose-colored glasses and personal agendas.
Even if there were an objective standard, we haven't been following it. The flaw in the small hall argument is that it's already a large hall. James does an impeccable job of presenting the ever-changing, deeply flawed voting systems designed to confer greatness. The 75% rule and limitations on the number of players a writer can vote for leads to bottlenecks and logjams, and the 5% cutoff rule serves to weed out underappreciated players before they can even have time to be discussed. There are dozens of inductees shuttled through the back door by the Veteran's Committee, forcing the writers to restrict passage through the front. What we're left with are "legends" far inferior to the men sitting at the doorstep. True advocates of a small hall would have to be willing to tear some plaques down, and that's an argument that's rarely made. The precedent has already been set. There are three possibilities: Phil Rizzuto doesn't belong in the Hall, Alan Trammell does, or the Hall of Fame is incoherent and broken.
An objective standard for greatness is pointless anyway. There's this neat little statistic called Wins Above Replacement. With it, you can compare any two players in history, setting aside anything that might skew the numbers, like the era, the ballpark, or the southeasterly winds in any given at-bat. Sure, it doesn't calculate dirty uniforms or poor investment skills, and it's not too great at evaluating pitch selection by catchers. But for the most part, it's a pretty effective way of categorizing every single baseball player in the history of mankind, and putting their life's work in perfect numerical ranking. Was Bruce Bochte a better baseball player than Royce Clayton? We can find that out for you.
So if statistics are your bent, there's no real need for a Hall of Fame to tell you what that spreadsheet already shows. Take your list, move people up and down a little based on your own preferences, decide on your own arbitrary cutoff and you've got yourself a Hall of Fame. Smirk all you want, but at least the spreadsheet knows how to deal with Rube Marquard, and your children wouldn't be stuck having to explain Bruce Sutter and Jim Rice. I acknowledge that there was a time, amongst the newsprint and the transistor radio and the polio, where the Hall of Fame did fulfill a role of cataloging greatness for the casual fan. Nowadays, that role can be ably represented by a Bleacher Report slide show.
The Hall of Fame fails to confer the glory it's designed for. The vast majority of baseball fans would be hard-pressed to name a third of the players in the Hall of Fame, even ignoring the managers, executives and broadcasters. Jimmy Foxx was enshrined sixty years ago, and most people still don't know a lick about him. On the whole it seems strange to me, in a way, that the glory of these great ballplayers is celebrated by a faceless corporate conglomeration in a town in the middle of nowhere. Kirby Puckett doesn't belong to baseball; he belongs to the city of Minnesota, the place where he became a hero and where so many children grew up idolizing him. Let his shrine be there; let that be the place where people make their pilgrimage.
Baseball belongs in a museum. The debate over steroids and amphetamines seems somewhat silly to me: if we elect these players to the Hall of Fame, the logic goes, they'll receive exactly the same amount of honor as the "clean" players. The easiest way to solve this is not to try to weigh each player's transgressions in some clumsy public court. It's to remove the honor. Baseball is an infinitely complicated, beautiful game, and one of its simple truths is that there are as many losers as there are winners. An edifice that only celebrates greatness is nothing more than propaganda. The Hall should remember all of it, from the champions to the lowliest of Mariners teams, the heroes and the villains alike.
Put Pete Rose in the museum. Describe exactly what he did: include the 200-hit seasons, the awful sideburns, the gambling, and the general idiocy that followed. Leave a copy of My Prison Without Bars out on a table. Let the fan see for him or herself, let them come to their own decision, and let them appreciate the game of baseball in their own way. Because they will, regardless.