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As someone who has witnessed the horrific treatment to the staff I would never support this organization. Not only is the Lodi director horribly mean to all the staff and volunteers but the director at Brunswick is not to be trusted. She has been bad mouthing past employees there for years and it running their names through the mud. Each of these individuals that worked at Oaks Family Care Center were treated extremely disrespectfully and since they left the Barlow family has stated lies about these individuals. That does not sound like a very good Christian to me. I do not trust what they do with the money either. They only want the credit for doing something nice for others and they do not take the responsibility in how they mistreat others. I would never send someone in need to a place like that! YUCK!
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Concho Valley pecan crops small but high-quality
Prices rise as numbers shrink
What this year's pecan crop lacks in yield, it almost compensates for in quality.
Mark Oliver, vice president of Oliver Pecan Co., sees a great deal of demand for an excellent crop.
His family business is headquartered in San Saba and has outlets in Belmont and San Angelo, the latter of which is on North Chadbourne Street.
The Olivers have been making pecans their business since the early 1970s, but Oliver — who has been shelling and buying for the company since 1992 — said this year has yielded the shortest crop he's seen in 21 years.
"It's like that statewide," Oliver said. "It's some of the best quality we've seen in a while; there's just not many of them."
In years past, San Angelo and surrounding areas easily could net 1 million pounds of pecans, Oliver said, but now the region can't even produce three-fourths that.
"There's just not a lot of water for them, so a lot of trees have died," he said. "It's all over; Central Texas got hit really hard" by the drought.
Pecan trees also are alternate bearing, meaning they produce an abundant crop one year followed by a scant one the next.
"They overloaded and produced too many, and that hurt the crop last year and this year," Oliver said. "It seems like it's always too many or not enough."
The shortage isn't limited to the San Angelo area, Oliver said.
"Nobody's had a good year," he said. "It's down everywhere. Georgia's crop is maybe 50 percent. Texas, we're sitting around 25, 30 percent. (Georgia's) quality's been OK. They had too much rain, really, and it hurt their quality. Their numbers aren't terrible, but the quality suffered a little. We're sitting on some of the better ones."
Insofar as moisture and pecans, timing is everything, he said.
"You want it at certain times," he said of rains. "Nothing's ever perfect. You want it late August and early September; otherwise you're irrigating more."
Pest eradication also is an integral part of pecan crop management, he said.
"There are always different insects that harm them through the years," he said. "It depends on where you are. Some places don't have certain insects, and some have more than others."
Compounding the difficulty of growing pecans is China's demand of the product, Oliver said.
"China's been buying them the last few years, and they want the premium pecans, too," he said. "The prices have stayed up high because everybody's paying high for the premium. As long as China's in the market, it's going to stay like that."
Pecans are native only to the United States and Mexico, Oliver said. When China experienced a walnut shortage, they began buying North America's pecan supply and "fell in love with them," he said.
"They eat them a different way than we do, but they keep buying more every year. When that started happening, prices went through the roof, so consumption rate has gone down" in the states, Oliver said.
Still, Oliver Pecan Co. experiences a peak in demand for the holiday food staple beginning in the weeks before Thanksgiving, through Christmas.
Asked if that makes it difficult for the company to keep enough pecans in stock, Oliver laughed. "You have to find them wherever you can," he said. "We buy all over the state. My brother runs the (company) in San Saba; he'll cover the whole state. We're located where we can buy all over the state and find the best ones we can. Sometimes you have to fight over them. You've got a lot of buyers. It's difficult finding enough pecans, but we find a way to make it happen."
This year, at least, consumers know they're getting quality pecans, Oliver said.
"Last year it was a hit and miss on how good they were," he said. "I would rather have an average crop every year, but that just doesn't seem to happen. You're at the mercy of whatever the year brings you."
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- In a two-minute spot that aired during Super Bowl XLVII, Dodge Ram highlighted the farmers who are the life blood of our nation.
- The spot featured the real men, women, and even youth who "put in 40 hours by noon on Tuesday," but also sow and harvest the food that we all consume every day.
- Paul Harvey narrated the commercial, based on audio of a speech he gave to the Future Farmers of America in 1978.
- Farmers markets are an affordable and accessible way to not only provide wholesome fresh foods for your family, but also support local farmers and therefore your local economy.
- The spot shared the beautiful scene of a family gathered around the table for dinner, something that can improve a child's performance at school and give them greater self esteem. A family dinner can reduce in the incidence of obesity, eating disorders, depression, and substance abuse.
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|A bivariate multi-level model, which avoids mathematical coupling in the study of change and initial periodontal attachment level after therapy.
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|PMID: 17265045 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|When relating the change of periodontal attachment level to its baseline value, mathematical coupling has to be taken into account. Oldham's strategy of testing the differences in variances of two repeated measurements was recently advocated as a possible solution. Here, a simple bivariate three-level (site and subject with a lowest level specifying the multivariate structure) model is introduced where gingival units (sites) were nested in subjects. It allows the easy interpretation of the variance-covariance structure and fixed model estimates, and provides an unbiased estimate of the correlation between the mean and change of periodontal measurements. The properties of this model are exemplified using data of a study on the clinical effects of non-surgical periodontal therapy in adults. Based on the covariance terms, correlation between the change in clinical attachment after therapy and the mean of the pre-operative and post-operative attachment level was very low (about -0.11, p < 0.001) at the site level, and not significant at the subject level. Regarding the attachment level, differential treatment effects may be neglected. With regard to periodontal probing depth, however, patients with larger extent and severity would benefit more from treatment. The present communication provides an easy strategy for the avoidance of mathematical coupling in the study between change and initial value by employing a bivariate multi-level model.
|Hans-Peter Müller
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Andy and Amy Mangione of Louisville, Ky. and their two boys are just the kind of people who should be helped by ObamaCare. But they recently got a nasty surprise in the mail.
"When I saw the letter when I came home from work," Andy said, describing the large red wording on the envelope from his insurance carrier, "(it said) 'your action required, benefit changes, act now.' Of course I opened it immediately."
It had stunning news. Insurance for the Mangiones and their two boys,which they bought on the individual market, was going to almost triple in 2014 --- from $333 a month to $965.
The insurance carrier made it clear the increase was in order to be compliant with the new health care law.
"This isn't a Cadillac plan, this isn't even a silver plan," Mangione said, referring to higher levels of coverage under ObamaCare.
"This is a high deductible plan where I'm assuming a lot of risk for my health insurance for my family. And nothing has changed, our boys are healthy-- they're young --my wife is healthy. I'm healthy, nothing in our medical history has changed to warrant a tripling of our premiums.


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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) _ The University of Kansas Hospital has announced plans to redevelop its heart-transplant program, which closed in 1995.
The hospital said Monday it has received a $1.5 million gift from William Reed, chairman of its department of cardiovascular disease, and his wife, Mary, to develop the program.
The Kansas City Star reported that the hospital closed its heart transplant program in 1995 after problems with the program were made public by the Star.
From May 1994 to late March 1995, the hospital performed no transplants and turned away every donated heart. But it kept admitting patients and put others on waiting lists.
In 1996, the hospital revamped its heart program and announced in 2000 that it was redeveloping the transplant program. But those plans were later put on hold.
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How To Get More SEO Traffic From Images On Your Blog
I bet you don't give the images on your blog the attention they really deserve.
Luckily there are just a few easy principles you should be following. And once you make them a habit you'll get yourself a new consistent source of traffic.
To be honest, I'm guilty of not following these easy tips myself. So this post is not just a guide to getting the most from the images on your blog, but also a promise to my own self to finally make it a habit.
Hope you'll join me in this quest.
Images Do Bring Visitors
It's not a surprise that the web is becoming more visual these days. You've probably heard about Pinterest (which is already being copied by others). Their website is just a never-ending feed of images and people go nuts about it!
Well, guys at Google knew the power of visual content long before Pinterest appeared on the map. In 2007 they announced "Universal Search" & Blended Results which brought images, videos, news and all sorts of other visual stuff to their search results.
And it was a no-brainer for us marketers, that image and video results are much more visible and have a higher CTR than the regular snippets of text.
See where I'm going?
Google Image Search is not the only place where the images from your blog may pop. If optimized properly, they may appear right on the front page of regular search results, which will bring you tons of traffic.
But Do They Bring Visitors To You?
You may want to visit your Google Analytics account and check how much traffic the images on your blog are bringing you right now.
Cause I was a bit disappointed today when I saw that:
This kind of report is available in your Google Analytics under Acquisition -> All Referrals -> find "google.com" there and click it -> find "/imgres" there and click it.
So does your graph look impressive?
NOTE: the graph above is only showing you the traffic from images that appear in regular search results (Universal Search). In case you'd like to see your statistics from Google Image search as well, see this amazing tutorial.
Well, here's what I'm going to do in order to make the graph above look more sexy.
Making The Most Out Of The Images On Your Blog
There are only two core principles here and luckily both of them are no rocket science.
Just make following these principles a habit (like I'm about to) and your traffic from images will start growing.
- The images should be extremely relevant to your article
- The images should be properly optimized for Google
Let's break them down:
1. Picking Relevant Images For Your Article
Let me put an image of an adorable cat in this very post:
Let's pretend it's perfectly optimized and it pops in Google whenever people are searching for "adorable cat".
That means some people will land on this article because of this cat picture. But will they stick?
Hell NO!
This article is nothing more but meaningless jibber-jabber for this kind of visitors.
So instead of posting cats, I need to focus on the images, that would be relevant to what my article is about (screenshots of Google search results and Google Analytics that I've used above are quite relevant by the way).
This way I will get visitors who are actually interested in reading this article.
The right choice of images will bring quality visitors to your article from Google Image Search.
2. Optimizing Images For Google
In essence, you should put keywords that describe what's on the image to 3 places: filename, alt tag and caption (or surrounding text).
Keywords in Filename
Something like "005243.jpg" is absolutely non-descriptive filename (unless of course you have nothing else but numbers 005243 written on the picture).
You should use a filename that would best describe what you can see on the picture. If it's an adorable cat with blue eyes on a sofa I suggest you use a filename like that:
TIP: use hyphens to separate words
Keywords in Alt tag
You should place pretty much the same descriptive keywords in the "alt" tag of your image. Thanks to WordPress, it's super easy to do:
It is my personal belief that filename has much more weight in the eyes of Google than the alt tag. But since SEOs love it so much I guess it helps too.
TIP: don't use hyphens to separate the words of your Alt tag (just kidding)
Keywords in Caption and/or surrounding text
And as a final argument to Google you should leverage your Caption and/or surrounding text.
Caption is again something you can fill in once you're adding the picture via WordPress editor (see my "grumpy cat" example above).
And once the post is published the caption will be displayed right below the picture (see text under my "grumpy cat" example above).
In case you're not using image captions on your blog (I strongly recommend you do, cause people love them) you can put these keywords somewhere in the text that's surrounding this image. That would be a signal to Google that the image is highly relevant to these keywords.
And that's it! It takes no more than a minute to fully optimize an image. So guys, we should definitely make it a habit!
Unique Images = More Results
I know it's not that simple as it sounds, but bloggers should strive to using unique images in their articles .
Cause this is how a common scenario looks like:
- I need an image of an adorable cat for my post (like the one above);
- I go search Google Images for "adorable cat" and find the image I like (exactly the one above);
- I use that image in my article and optimize it perfectly for keyword "adorable cat" (see above);
- I feel stupid, because I'm trying to get to the top of Google with a copy of image that's already there.
I'm not a Google engineer, but I'm sure they somehow prevent this kind of scenario from happening:
- They can see that the images are identical, why should they rank the new one higher than the old one?
- If the old image was generating lots of clicks and downloads – that means it's relevant to what was searched for, which is yet another reason to keep it in place.
And besides, some people say it's bad to "steal" images that way, as they probably belong to someone else.
This all leads to a logical conclusion: you should use unique images in your articles.Unique images have much better chances to rank in Google and they don't irritate other people.
But where to get them? That would be a nice topic for my next blog post.
And meanwhile I'd like to hear your thoughts on this article in comments.


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What is a Tagged White Blood Cell Scan?
Has your doctor ordered a tagged or labeled white blood cell scan for you? Here's what this procedure is used for and what it involves.
There are times when it's obvious that a person has an infection, but it's unclear exactly where it's coming from. To find the source, a doctor often orders a chest x-ray, blood tests, and a urinalysis to check for evidence of infection. Sometimes, despite a thorough search, the source of the infection can't be found. That's when a special test called a tagged or labeled white blood cell scan may be helpful.
What is a Tagged or Labeled White Blood Cell Scan?
This is a test used to find hidden sources of infection. When there's an infection, white blood cells are called to the site of the infection to fight it. This test tracks exactly where the blood cells go, so the source of the infection can be identified. It basically involves tagging white blood cells that are removed from the body with a special radioactive tracer that lights up when scanned with a special camera. The labeled white blood cells are then put back into the body, and the entire body is scanned. This allows the infection to be localized so it can be treated.
How Is a Labeled White Blood Cell Scan Performed?
Blood is taken from a vein and the white blood cells are separated out and mixed with a special radioactive tag. The white blood cells that are tagged are injected back into the body and allowed sufficient time to reach the site of infection. A whole body scan is then performed which picks up the radiation from the tagged white blood cells and helps the doctor locate where the infection is coming from. The scan is usually done on an outpatient basis and requires no anesthesia. It can be a lengthy procedure since once the white blood cells are injected; you may have to return several times for scanning.
Are There Risks Associated with a Labeled White Blood Cell Scan?
The biggest risk of a tagged white blood cell scan is an allergic reaction to the radioactive label which – in extreme cases – can lead to serious symptoms such as a drop in blood pressure and even death. Fortunately, this isn't common. There's also the risk associated with radiation exposure. The amount of radioactive tagging material used for this procedure is very small – only a little higher than what you'd get from a standard x-ray. The camera used for scanning only detects radiation – it doesn't emit it. Other risks include bruising, infection, or bleeding at the injection sites when blood is taken and re-injected. It's important not to take any antibiotics prior to this procedure since it can alter the results.
The Bottom Line?
Tagged or labeled white blood cell scans involve exposure to small amounts of radiation, but they can help to find sources of infection that might otherwise be difficult to locate. Not treating an infection can be life threatening which should justify the use of this test when necessary. The good news is that this procedure requires no anesthesia and involves no pain other than the needle stick that comes with drawing the blood and injecting it back into the body.
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Each week of this 8-week Challenge - which will run from April 2 - May 27!!! - I'll be posting a new printable workout in my blog. (Look for the words "Spring Fitness Challenge" in my blog titles each week!) You'll be able to print out your workout and take it with you to the gym OR you can follow along with the workout in real-time by viewing it under the Expert Playlists in our Workout Builder!
To participate in the Challenge - just try out the workout each week and post about your progress/experience in your blog. Try the workout as many times as you'd like - we recommend around 1-3x per week, depending on your fitness levels. Each week's workout will progress slightly in difficulty - so that by Week 8, you're really cruising along on your fitness goals, becoming a stronger and more confident you! Fill us in each week on your weekly weigh-in and definitely let us know if you're seeing any weight loss or if you're feeling stronger!
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By Melissa Freund- Editor-In-Chief
As the snow began to fall outside, the crowd began to form inside Viterbo University's Fine Arts Center on Monday, January 20. Filling nearly every seat available, over one thousand people shuffled into the Main Theatre for the 2014 LaCrosse Area Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration.
After William Coleman and Dempsey Miller III were honored with the Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award, and the Viterbo Concert Choir sang tribute, the keynote speaker, the honorable Alan C. Page took the stage to begin his address.
Currently an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, Page became the first African American elected to the position when he took office in 1992.
While his career in law has been anything but ordinary, Page might be more often recognized from his years spent with the Minnesota Vikings.
Although his football career began by "accident," Page left Ohio after graduating high school and continued his athletic career by joining the Fighting Irish at the University of Notre Dame. There, he was recognized as a college football All-American before graduating in 1967with a degree in political science and went on to become a first round pick in the 1967 NFL draft. Page dedicated 15 years to the professional sport, playing defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings and the Chicago Bears. Within this time, Page secured four NFC Championships, was selected for the Pro Bowl nine times and was named the National Football League's Most Valuable Player in 1971.
While there is no doubt that Page was a talented football player, he knew that he could not play the game forever. Therefore, he saw his career in the NFL as temporary and decided to continue his higher education, earning a Law Degree in 1978 from the University of Minnesota. As Page put it, "Really, football simply slowed down my entry into the law.
"I first became interested in the law when I was about eight or nine years old," Page explained. "When I was growing up, I would read articles in the newspapers about Brown vs. the Board of Education. So at a very young age, I saw the power of the law."
It is this power that Page largely credits with his entry into law.
"It is through the law that I have the power to ensure that fairness happens," Page told the audience.
While Page began his speech discussing the lessons that he learned from football, such as "preparation is critical to success," and his motivation for entering into the law, he quickly turned the focus from himself to the American youth, heavily emphasizing the importance of education.
"I see far too many young people come into the court system—many of them have simply given up hope," Page told the audience, "and a key tool for creating that hope…is preparing them for the future." Therefore, "we must educate our children," Page stressed.
Otherwise, the equal opportunities, which we are constantly working to ensure, are irrelevant, Page continued, because "without preparation, opportunity becomes an empty promise."
In an effort to do his part to prepare our young people for the future, Page, along with his wife Diane, founded the Page Education Foundation in 1988, a grant program for students of color looking to pursue an education beyond high school. However, what is unique about this grant program is that, in exchange for the $1,000-$2,500 that a student receives each year, he/she is required to document 50 hours of community service.
"The grant recipients act as tutors, mentors and role models for children in kindergarten through eighth grade," Page explained. As a result, "those young children can see someone that looks like them—maybe comes from where they're from—and is using education as a tool."
In its inaugural year, the Page Education Foundation supplied educational grants to 10 students. Yet today, Page proudly announced, there are approximately 550 students receiving educational funding from the program, a statistic which elicited a spontaneous round of applause from the crowd.
Page concluded his oration with a call to action, blaming our nation's debilitating issues on the fact that, "we tend to think it's somebody else's problem." However, he countered this misconception stating that, "the steps we take can be significant.
"All of us—everyone of us—has the ability, opportunity and obligation to make this world a better place."


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Screening out grapevine virus spares Napa-Sonoma more than $60 million
November 18, 2013
Providing disease-free grapevines and rootstock to California's famed North Coast wine region is more than a good idea — it's money-wise to the tune of more than $60 million annually, according to a report from researchers at the University of California, Davis.
To quantify this benefit, the researchers developed an economic framework to conduct a case study of grapevine leafroll-3, the dominant grapevine virus in California and worldwide. They report their findings in a working paper released by the Center for Wine Economics at UC Davis' Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science. The complete paper is available online.
"This analysis places a dollar value on the efforts to prevent the spread of just a single disease in a single grape-growing region," said Kate Binzen Fuller, the study's lead author and a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Foundation Plant Services at UC Davis. "The overall benefits of such testing and certification are, in fact, dramatically higher," she said.
Fuller added that the study revealed that the monetary benefits of such screening efforts far outweigh the costs related to screening and vine replacement.
"Even if growers have to pay a premium for certified, virus-free vines, this study suggests that they will receive a very large benefit. For the scenarios we evaluated, benefits are between six and 10 times the cost," she said.
Viral threat to grapevines
Viruses and related disease-causing microbes pose a serious threat to agriculture because there are no effective controls available to growers, other than destroying infected plants. In the case of grapevines, viruses typically spread over long distances through the movement of infected plants or the use of infected cuttings and rootstock for propagating new plants.
Grapevine leafroll-3 appears in multiple strains, most causing leaves to redden and roll under along the edges. The disease diminishes fruit production and quality as grapes develop less pigmentation and sugar and mature more slowly. Growers have reported drops in yield of 30 percent and more; in some cases the disease even causes the plant graft to fail, killing the young vine.
The virus primarily is transmitted to the vine by mealybugs, tiny insects that are commonly found in California vineyards. Growers try to prevent grapevine leafroll-3 by testing their existing vines, using virus-free rootstocks and cuttings to grow new vines, removing diseased vines and spraying for mealybugs.
Screening plants for viruses
To prevent the introduction and spread of such viruses in grapevines, several clean-plant centers have been established throughout the United States, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to provide a large inventory of virus-screened plants to agricultural nurseries and growers.
In California, the Foundation Plant Services at UC Davis is responsible for screening and reproducing healthy, disease-free grapevines, as well as strawberries, fruit and nut trees, roses and sweet potatoes.
This meticulous process takes five to nine years and is costly, with expenses covered by revenue from plant sales to nurseries, several types of plant user fees, as well as custom contracts and virus testing.
Costs and benefits
The economic model created for this study by the UC Davis researchers compared the estimated value of losses incurred by North Coast winegrape growers due to grapevine leafroll disease with the estimated benefits realized by using vines that were certified to be virus-free. They did this by estimating what a grower's net revenue would be in several different scenarios, based on initial disease appearance, disease spread, use of certified or noncertified vines, and replacement or nonreplacement of diseased vines.
"Results from applying this model indicate that, for the scenarios we examined, the most economically beneficial strategy is to plant initially with certified clean vines and to replace any vines that become diseased also with certified clean vines," said study co-author Deborah Golino, a Cooperative Extension plant disease specialist and the director of Foundation Plant Services.
The researchers found that the average annual benefit to a grower from replacing diseased vines in a vineyard was 39 cents per vine or $512 per acre, if noncertified vines or rootstocks were used in both the initial and replacement plantings. The benefit for replanting diseased vines climbed to 55 cents per vine or $727 per acre if certified plant material was used to both plant and replant the vineyard.
Overall, the researchers estimate that, for just grapevine leafroll-3 virus, the vine certification program yields a benefit of between 30 cents and 47 cents per vine, or between $401 and $616 per acre. If all growers in the region were to use certified planting stock, this would translate to a benefit of between $40.4 and $61.8 million per year for the North Coast region. This benefit translates to between 4.8 percent and 7.4 percent of the wine grape revenue for that region.
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Country Inn & Suites - Lawrenceville
Country Inn & Suites - Lawrenceville
Hotel Guest Rating: 8.8/10
989 Duluth Highway
Lawrenceville, GA 30043
Welcome to the Country Inn & Suites - Lawrenceville
Freebies including a full country-style breakfast, 24-hour cookies and cappuccinos and a lending library make the non-smoking Country Inn & Suites - Lawrenceville a well-loved hotel among Priceline guests.
Hotel Features
Families score big at this low-rise hotel, with free stays for kids under 19 and the amenities to keep them happy, including in-room microwaves, mini-fridges, premium cable TV and DVD rentals. Business travelers get what they need too, with free Wi-Fi, free coffee and two speakerphones with voicemail in all 49 rooms. In-room fitness options are a bonus for those who prefer to keep their workouts private. For more outgoing types, there's a fitness center and an outdoor pool. Guests appreciate all these options after indulging in the breakfast buffet — a full spread with waffles, sausage, omelettes and more — not to mention the free cookies, candies, coffee and cappuccinos available around the clock. Other amenities include a business center, valet cleaning services and a coin laundry. Parking is free.
Hotel Location
There are about 15 places to eat within a half-mile of the hotel, located on Highway 120 between River Exchange Shopping Center and the Gwinnett Medical Center. Drive 10 minutes one way to historic Lawrenceville or 10 minutes the other to Discover Mills Mall. Gwinnett Arena is five miles away. Downtown Atlanta is a 40-minute drive, and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is about 40 miles from the hotel.
Guest Favorites
With its "incredibly comfortable accommodations," "substantial breakfast" and "excellent staff," the Country Inn & Suites is simply "amazing," according to Priceline guests.
Country Inn & Suites - Lawrenceville Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- Accessible facilities
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- Accessible room
- Air conditioning
- Baggage hold
- Brailed elevators
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- Business center
- Cable television
- CNN available
- Complimentary in-room coffee or tea
- Complimentary newspaper delivered to room
- Connecting rooms
- Elevators
- ESPN available
- Evening reception
- Exercise gym
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- Fitness center on-site
- Free parking
- Front desk
- Hairdryer
- HBO available
- Health club
- Hot breakfast
- Housekeeping - daily
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- Non-smoking rooms (generic)
- Outdoor parking
- Outdoor pool
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Hotel Information
You must show a valid photo ID and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all special requests cannot be guaranteed and are subject to availability upon check-in. Additional charges may apply. Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.
Hotel Guest Reviews of the Country Inn & Suites - LawrencevilleOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
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Breakfast was the best we've ever had.
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Was very clean.Room was beautiful.
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The hotel was really nice. This was my second stay at this location. That a was because my first stay there, a little over a month ago was so nice.
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We chose to eat elsewhere after experiencing the crowded breakfast area. There was no assistance for handicapped individuals. One woman had 6 children, two in boosters, seated at a table for two people. One people are seated at the tables in the breakfast area, you cannot get up and walk around the tables easily (especially if handicapped). We had to wash our own table which was filthy. The galley style food area made for pushing by patrons who were impatient, waiting on their turn. We left and ate at IHOP. ...
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Thank you for visiting�the Ohde Funeral Home�website. We hope you will find the site easy to use and�locate the�information you are seeking.�We appreciate�the continuing�nice comments as many of you visit the site for the first time. Please sign up for our email announcements by clicking on 'Mailing List' below. If you have already done so, let us know how we can be more helpful on our website.
For 110 years,�Ohde Funeral Home and its staff has�been singularly committed to caring for our client families through presenting a wide range of quality, customized services and products, offering prudent advance funeral planning options and maintaining the highest standards of professional and ethical conduct.
We constantly strive to keep all of our locations updated. The recently added family lounges, with an area for children to play and adults to take a short break, have been well received. In addition, we are constantly researching ways that we may be of more service to our families and communities. Ruth and Alison are available as speakers on the many topics related to funeral service.Please let us know if we can be�of greater service to you.Recently Hannah Brotherton joined our staff as a funeral director intern. She has completed her schooling and passed the National Board Exam. Now she will serve a one year internship with Ruth and Alison as her preceptors before being fully licensed as an Iowa Funeral Director. Hannan will live at our funeral home in Carroll and begin to serve families in all of our locations. It is exciting to have a young person join us as we look to new ways to serve our client families.
We are so blessed to have the best support staff. Deb Hansen and Michelle Meyer try to keep up with everything in the office and we would be lost without their support. Kathy Kraus is our everything maintenance person who also helps with funerals. This summer's rains have certainly kept her busy mowing and trimming the yards. Tom Sporrer, Ron Reischl and DanWittrock�help with funerals and driving and are graciously on call whenever needed. Deb Knueven has started part time. Since she worked full time for us at one time, she anticipates our many chores. Rosalie Macumber, Nancy Shoon, Ramona Anderson, Kay Vaux and several substitutes are so helpful in our branch locations. As you can tell, 'it takes a village' to provide outstanding service to our many client families. �
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New Year's Eve entertainment lineup announced
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- More than 30 artists and musicians will help Charleston say "GoodNight" to 2013.
"There's going to be a great diversity of music and musical styles," said GoodNight Chairwoman Alice Anne Robertson. "It's completely free and is a wonderful way to start an evening."
The alcohol-free event, in its 19th year, will start at 6 p.m. Dec. 31 at various venues throughout the city. Each of the performances last about 45 minutes. People can walk to many of the locations or hop onto one of the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority trolleys, free of charge, Robertson said.
The event will feature performances by the Kanawha Kordsmen Barbershop Chorus, the West Virginia Youth Symphony, the Martin Luther King Jr. Male Chorus and many others.
Robertson said there's something for everyone to enjoy, including old and new acts. All the performances are scheduled to wrap up around 10 p.m., just before the new year.
This is Robertson's third year as chairwoman of the event. She has enjoyed traveling to different musical events in West Virginia in search of new talent, she said.
"I love when people tell me, 'I have this group I want you to hear,'" Robertson said.
Trolleys provided by the city of Charleston will make a loop of the GoodNight locations beginning at 6 p.m. Parking for the event will be free in the Virginia Street garage next to City Hall. For more information, call the GoodNight 2012 Information Hotline at 304-744-1400.
New Year's Eve GoodNight schedule
Baptist Temple
6 and 8 p.m.: Presby Pickers
7 and 9 p.m.: Appalachian Celtic Consort
Capitol Theater
6 p.m.: Gospel Brass Band
7 p.m.: B-Ties Dixieland Band
8 p.m.: Charleston Metro Band
Civic Center Little Theater
6 and 8 p.m.: River City Youth Ballet Ensemble
7 and 9 p.m.: Craig Hinchman Trio
Christ Church United Methodist
6 and 8 p.m.: womanSong
7 and 9 p.m.: Kanawha Kordsman Barbershop Chorus
First Presbyterian Church
6 and 8 p.m.: Roger Rabbalais
7 and 9 p.m.: Bill McCoy and Friends
Kanawha United Presbyterian Church
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.: West Virginia Youth Symphony
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Almost Heaven Chorus
Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral
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St. John's Episcopal Church
6 and 8 p.m.: Charleston Civic Chorus
7 and 9 p.m.: The O'Daugherty Family Singers
St. Marks United Methodist Church sanctuary
6 and 8 p.m.: Martin Luther King Jr. Male Chorus
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9 p.m.: Jimmy McKnight
St. Marks United Methodist Church chapel
6 and 8 p.m.: Jennie Allinder, Jim Mullins & Friends
7 and 9 p.m.: Rose Fisher
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
6 and 8 p.m.: Jonathan Tucker
7 and 9 p.m.: Ryan Hardiman
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Three Nights of Rodeo Fun in Fayette County
Submitted by Edgar on Thu, 08/14/2014 - 11:49am
The sixth annual Fayette County Sheriff's Posse Rodeo in La Grange ended Sunday after three big nights at the area on FM 609. One of the highlights of the event was famed Charro rider Jerry Diaz, who is shown above performing with his wife
Staci. To the left, this bucking bronco has no intention of letting the rider last eight seconds during the rodeo Saturday night.
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I remember walking along the beach
as cool sands filtered through my toes.
Seagulls cheering a new born day
as the foam of the waves ebbed to and fro.
I remember being massaged peacefully, but yet overwhelmed
by the strength of the waters roll from another distant shore.
As the sun grew stronger its hues changed in the kaleidoscope of its nature
my soul felt lifted as to soar into the total admiration of this day.
I remember the feeling of being one, not being detached
as being surrounded in a compassionate embrace.
then 'mazed over the vast canopy of the sky touching all horizons
as I yelled in loudest exclamation of how small I really was; . . .
And then I realized that I was still enveloped in the nurture of this day
as I sat on the damp sands to think, ...
to reflect within myself, ...
for a pause to pray
"Greater are all things then that of what I know that I seek to always know more
As a vessel of the spirit of all there is, I shall never be filled.
So let me embrace the embracer this day and everyday,
As part of the whole as a child is to a parent
let me be guided with all there is to be known with open mind and clarity
and always to give thanks."
....I remember the calm that came over me and the smile that made me feel complete.
Thanks for this day and everyday and all that share it with me!
As from distant shore; we "all" wonder if somewhere there is someone else there what we wish or want for; hold and wait, and in the the moment something or someone may enter your life for you to love or to know to add to your world!!! [I got that from a fortune cookie!!]
I have the mind to say I love everyone every day! Of what to say as for the beginning of this year, until Valentines day of this year, to the last day of any year: Why is there; it just one day to say I Love??!! OH to love, to be, if it was not for love, nothing would not be anything for anyone to see!!! Everyday is the challenge to love oneself to create of how beautiful one can be for being able to create with love!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy Valentines, with all my love embrace!!!


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Read Jeremiah 31:31–34
Psalm 98
In the midst of hectic schedules, its easy to forget things. We may forget to send a birthday card to a friend or forget to buy milk at the store. Often, however, we are good at remembering those things we ought to forgetthe times when weve been offended or sinned against. We replay the soundtrack of the argument, or the difficult situation, and hold onto those grudges for years or even lifetimes. We wear resentment and hurt like a shawl. Sadly, in this attitude of victimization, we often block out our own sins and shortcomings. We ignore the plank in our own eye while we examine in full detail the speck in our neighbors eye. We forget that every sin offends God, holy and just as He is. We dont make amends with our neighbors or even confess our sins to God. However, our God is not only holy and just, but also full of compassion. We dont deserve mercy, but God gives it. We dont merit forgiveness, but God bestows it. Our Lord, on this Maundy Thursday, reminds us that He has forgiven our sins and will remember them no more. What comfort that isand well worth remembering!
O God, holy and merciful, we thank You for Your tender compassion, for forgiving our sins and remembering them no more. Amen.


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Vanessa Moran, center, assists Samuel Adlebush in her Meadowbrook Elementary School classroom in Howard. The third-grade teacher is among this year�s Golden Apple Award winners. / Corey Wilson/Press-Gazette
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� Age: 27
� Family: Husband, Corey, and daughter Valerie
� Education: Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
� Career: Taught first grade in Tigerton School District in 2007-08; third-grade teacher at Meadowbrook Elementary School in Howard-Suamico, 2008-present
� Hobbies: Scrapbooking, reading, running, also owning a business, Vanessa's Videography.
HOWARD � Third-graders at Meadowbrook Elementary School are bundles of energy, but teacher Vanessa Moran has no trouble keeping up.
She will dance, sing and turn cartwheels � anything to inspire them to learn.
"At the end of the day, I owe them a great education; that's why they're here," Moran said. "These kids are my whole world. It's all about them. Nothing else matters."
Moran, who has taught in the Howard-Suamico School District for about four years, said she works hard because, as someone once told her, "These kids get one chance at third grade � and I'm it!"
For her work in the classroom, Moran was named a 2012 Golden Apple Award winner.
Moran's students recently had a multiplication lesson, but they weren't sitting at desks completing worksheets. Instead, they formed groups to play a game that helped them work on multiplication while also using game strategy.
"It's a great way for them to use what they've learned and maybe not even realize they're learning," Moran said.
She said she knew from an early age she wanted to teach.
"My first-grade teacher made such an impression on me," Moran said. "I admired her command of the classroom. I just remember her, and I wanted to be like her. I got to student teach with her the year before she retired."
Moran's students appreciate her style.
"She's special," student Kaiyli Thompson said. "She helps us learn. And she's funny. When she messes up, she makes it a joke. She's a nice teacher. I like being in her class a lot."
Classmate Raymond Plumley agreed.
"She's fun," he said. "She helps us learn math, and she makes it fun by setting up lots of games."
She strives to make learning fun because new lessons can be scary sometimes, Moran said.
"Learning to multiply numbers such as eight, nine and 10 can be scary for third-graders," she said. "I want it to be fun and energetic, very hands-on."
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Grover Cleveland Galloway Jr., 83, of Thompsonville, went to be with his Lord at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 24, 2010, at his home.
Doc's wishes were to be cremated. Leffler-Poulson Funeral Home of Benton is in charge of the arrangements.
Mr. Galloway was born on Aug. 8, 1926, in Benton, the son of Grover Galloway Sr. and Goldie (Reed) Galloway. He married the former Mildred Tate on Dec. 23, 1947, and she survives.
Mr. Galloway is survived by his wife, Mildred Galloway, Thompsonville; a son, Dr. Dan Galloway and wife Christine of Crown Point, Ind.; a daughter, Deborah and husband Jim Daly, Valparaiso, Ind.; a daughter-in-law, Jody Galloway, Thompsonville; 11 grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; and three great grandsons; a brother Bill Galloway, Christopher; and a sister, Ruth Ann and husband Don Atkins, Benton; and several nieces and nephews.
Mr. Galloway was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Jim Galloway; and a sister, Eva Adams.
Doc worked for U.S. Steel with American Bridge where he was a machine burner. He later worked for Celebrity Boats, and he was a farmer.
After moving to Thompsonville, Doc attended the First Baptist Church of Thompsonville. He was a member of the New Life Assemblies Church in McLeansboro. Mr. Galloway along with the Rev. Mark Minor of the Whittington Baptist Church were involved with the Ministry Program at the Big Muddy Correctional Center. He was a Navy Veteran of World War II.
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Ellen's Feelin' Madonna
In a piece of product promotion that redefines subtlety, Ellen regaled a nation with a full-on dance production to Madonna's new single, "4 Minutes". And watching it, I couldn't help but wonder, how close are we to seeing Ellen get a stripper pole on stage?
I don't know; I don't get it. But I know alot of you guys are Ellen fans, so I guess it's worth a watch. It's just so...weird. Like when she's dancing really close to the fat girl in the audience. Are we really a nation of dancers, and only Ellen brings it out in us (and by "us", I mean Ellen's studio audience).
I mean, every time I see a clip of her dancing around, the audience is hooting and hollering like they've never seen a 14 year old boy dance before. Oh, sorry, I forgot - she's a 50 YEAR OLD WOMAN. Well, good for her. That snake-charmer dance of hers has apparently worked its magic on one-leggy blonde...Portia better watch out though. Ellen looks about this close to actually taking a muff dive on to an unsuspecting housewife lucky enough to get an aisle seat. You know I'm right...and you know you'd watch.
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Tiger Woods 'admitted to hospital as OD'
Tiger Woods was admitted to hospital after his accident listed as an overdose, the gossip website TMZ claimed this morning. Sources at the Health Central Hospital are reported as saying that Woods's admissions chart specifies "OD" and mentions he was having trouble breathing.
It had already been reported that the golfer was snoring at the scene, where his Cadillac Escalade collided with a fire hydrant and a tree at around 2.25 in the morning on November 27.
His wife Elin is said to have handed two pill bottles to paramedics at the scene of the collision and it's believed the prescriptions were for Ambien, (zolpidem) a hypnotic, and Vicodin, a painkiller containing a mixture of hydrocodone (an opiate) and paracetamol.
There's nothing sinister in Tiger Woods having these medicines: any sportsman who's suffered strains or injuries might need to take them. Understandably, however, commentators are bound to make a link between the medicines, which can cause sedation and impair motor skills, and the reports that Tiger appeared to be snoring or sleepy at the scene.
The Florida Highway patrol have fined Woods $164 and given him a citation for careless driving. But these penalties are probably the least of his worries. At least nine women, mostly blondes, have been linked to Woods in alleged affairs, including a porn star, Holly Sampson, who also appeared in an episode of Matlock, and a waitress at a pancake restaurant named Mindy Lawton.
Now the sniggering has started. There are jokes about the Nike slogan "Just Do It". Saturday Night Live made light of his problems and on last night's David Letterman show the host, who's only just got over his scandal over workplace affairs, joked: "Boy, it looks like that Tiger Woods is having some trouble, huh?" and said he wished Tiger would stop asking him for advice.
Woods's endorsements include Nike, Titleist (Tiger uses only this brand of gold equipment so it's quite possible it was a Titleist club that wife Elin used to smash the back window of the Escalade), Buick, Gillette, Gatorade, American Express, Wheaties and Asahi. The stream of revelations doesn't help Tiger Woods to claw back his dignity or portray himself as a serious man. Few things are more damaging than being laughed at. One has to wonder: will his highly profitable endorsements survive the relentless jokes?
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How to Boil Crawfish – Cajun Style
This is how we do it down here in Lafayette, Louisiana
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Cajun – Nathan Abshire – French Blues – slide
Cajun accordionist Nathan Abshire's "French Blues". One of his best songs. Slide is my tribute to a Louisiana crawfish boil. I hope, for you Louisiana natives who have moved away, or a friend of Louisiana culture, you enjoy the music, and can smell and taste the mudbugs.
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Am I the ONLY Louisiana citizen infuriated at the dismal status of our state?
Our governor and "representatives" continually utter the same tired rhetoric about our "unique culture" and "our spirit" when confronted with questions about Louisiana's status as a "bottom-of-the-list" state. The abysmal condition of Louisiana (crime, poverty, healthcare, education, quality of life, etc.) isn't going to be remedied because of our "joie de vie" or our mardi gras parades.
So quit complaining and collecting evidence and do something to help.
Categories: Louisiana Culture Tags: Cajun, cooking, crawfish, culture, Louisiana, restaurants, Saints, travel
Louisiana Crawfish Company
A virtual tour of the Louisiana Crawfish Company.
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Visit Louisiana's Other Side . . . Discover Yours
Shreveport-Bossier attractions, dining, events, accommodations and more!
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Spicy Girl Boiling Hot Crawfish (How To Boil Crawfish Louisiana Style!)
This is a how to video on boiling spicy crawfish (crayfish). Heather LaCroix's newest video in her "Heather's Outdoor Kitchen" series. Her and her rooster Gumbo cook up some mud bugs to show everyone how she likes her crawfish. Robbie shows everyone how to suck the heads. Amy helps Heather shuck corn.
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Cooking Crawfish Cajun Style
This is a short video of my family having a good time cooking crawfish cajun style in Louisiana.
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Crawfish Boil from Chef Axel Stromboe
In New Orleans, indeed throughout Louisiana, the principal outdoor cooking incident uses what most of the country regards as bait, and boils them as an entree. A crawfish boil is to Louisiana what a clambake is to New England. This one, at a local golf tournament, is organized on a gargantuan scale by caterer Axel Stromboe. Butane jets generating some three hundred thousand BTU's, bring a hundred gallons of water to boil in twenty minutes. Chef Stromboe does a little heating himself with spices measured by the handful.
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So, I had my first true dressage test on my little ex-western Quarter Horse yesterday. All in all it went very well, as he has never been trailered off the property for a show before, and, as far as I know, he has never seen an indoor arena. I'm very, very proud of him. Even though he was very tense and was never able to truly relax and come soft into my hands like he does at home, he tried very hard. However, I did feel like we regressed a little bit in our training.
When I first started riding and training him he had a HUGE problem with cross cantering and picking up wrong leads. We worked through this a long time ago and haven't had this particular problem in probably close to five months... Until yesterday. He started cross cantering in his warm up, and also did it once in our test, as well as picking up the complete wrong lead for the second canter in our test.
Now, my question is, since we don't have this problem at home anymore, and thus I can't do much training with it at home, how do I conquer it at shows? Is this something that will just take experience and mileage to get him calm and relaxed when we're not at home, or is there something in particular I can do at our next show to avoid it other than just trotting, fixing it, and asking again for the complete correct lead every time it happens until it stops. He does not do flying changes, and it's not something I plan on working on for quite some time as we still have foundations to work on and he tends to loose his brain when you do too much too quickly. So fixing it in the canter is out of the question for now.
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What do you think of Cee Lo's lyric change, turning John Lennon's line from "Imagine" from "and no religion too" to "and all religion's true"?
What do you think of Cee Lo's lyric change?
It doesn't just offend Lennon fans. The history books show that more people have been killed in the name of religion than for any other reason. He perhaps doesn't know that, though, coming from a country who only reads the christian bible and nothing else, and who laughably still teaches creationism in schools.
CeeLo screeched...Does he like burkas?/Clitorectomies?/Priests raping kids?/Adultry stoning?/Crusades?/Inquisition?/9/11?/Arranged marriages?/Bombing girls'schools? /Honor killings?[Maher]. Book burning?/Deleting stem-cell research?/Teaching abstinence-only?/Suicide bombings?/No birth-control~blood transfusions?/No psychiatrists?/Murdering abortion MDs?/Child-abuse religious exemptions?/How to dress/what(not) to eat/booze~who to friend/have sex w/? No1 gives a shit-&-1/2 about CLG's supernatural beliefs...we'd be btr w/o religion...Imagine that.["There's no man in the sky"~~Carlin]...Write your own damn song, fool~~you're no Bard/Maestro/Lyricist Lennon or possess Mathis' velvet voice. Lennon tried to open people's eyes & CLG took it upon himself to shut them again...'Twas a new Cee lo(w). Lennon never screamed/shrieked this song...sung softly like you're in the rm~~not across the st. Dumb loudmouth w/ghetto tatoos.
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Louisiana residents are buckling down, preparing to ride out the rest of Hurricane Isaac as it comes ashore.
Dean Walton, a Harvey, Louisiana resident, spoke to Brazos Valley This Morning by phone Wednesday morning. Harvey is about one mile south of New Orleans.
He reports a large tree was blown over onto his house, causing some damage to a back bedroom. Walton also said the winds were changing direction rapidly.
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Mursix Corp. President Todd Murray talks with employee Scott Turner on the floor at Mursix in this file photo.
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A growing Delaware County manufacturing company is growing again.
Mursix Corporation, which makes components for the auto industry in its plant on the western edge of Delaware County, will expand its facility and add 91 jobs to its current workforce of 251.
The Delaware County Redevelopment Commission met Thursday and agreed to earmark revenue from a tax increment financing (TIF) district that includes Mursix to back up $7 million in expansion of and investment in the company's plant. ...


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As mentioned last night in this post, Criminal Minds created a book for their episode There's No Place Like Home. Agent JJ Jareau read her son Henry Bedtime For Baby Star and brought a tear to the eyes of millions. I have the inside scoop on the book and wanted to share the images with you here. I'll be updating these later tonight with high res images but for now this is what I can offer. To be clear, this is the entire book, there were no other words or pages as it is a PROP.
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Think The Wolf of Wall Street (from another era and without the sex and drugs) meets the indie masterpiece 99 Homes (about the housing market crisis).
I interviewed character actor Steve Zahn, one of film's most visible faces over the past 20 years, in 2009. He was memorably funny, energetic and self-effacing, much like the characters he tends to play.
Ridley Scott is no Cecil B. DeMille. That's not necessarily a bad thing. What it means is that Scott's new epic Exodus: Gods and Kings is as much a product of our high-tech new-millennium era as The Ten Commandments was of the Eisenhower gray-flannel suit period.
I walked out after the parting of the Red Sea, which was depicted more as if an iffy forecast by Tom Skilling missed a low pressure system forming over Lake Michigan, than God majestically parting it to let his people go.
The landscape of this film is colossal! If you get a chance, watch this on the big screen.
We have no way to ascertain whether Moses personally suffered from trauma. He lived long before history was written down in Israel and the stories about him are shrouded in centuries of later tradition.
Bale's Moses changes dramatically from a strapping, confident and commanding "prince of Egypt" -- the typical hero of braun and bravado -- to a wan, confused, tormented, exhausted servant.
Usually when a film depicting a story from the Bible is made, the main danger for a studio is angering religious groups who feel that the film is attacking their beliefs or strays too far from accepted (or at least favored) interpretations.
"Exodus: Movement of Jah people! Oh-oh-oh, yea-eah!" chants Bob Marley. In his rousing three-minute song "Exodus" he presents a more spiritual feel for Moses than Ridley Scott's 154-minute, whitewashed sword-and-sandals epic.
In The McConaissance, McConaughey has become not an anti-hero, but an anti-matinee idol.
This year's crop of best acting nominees in the lead and supporting roles somehow manage to represent the archetypes of every person you've ever dated. To wit...
This year the top movies reflect the hopes, fears, and obsessions of their audiences, and so they offer us a chance to reflect on what these films can teach us. As our opening images suggest, one of the primary themes of our current films is one of our current dilemmas: Why do we feel so alone in a world in which it is possible to be connected 24/7?
Amy Adams's breasts should be nominated for an Academy Award. Would that there were a category for best supporting (or in this case best unsupported)...
Christian Bale is a nominee for an Oscar for his role in American Hustle, but Illinois may want to appreciate him more for his roles in Public Enemies and The Dark Knight.
What if these movies, and this great new album, point to a collective shift towards valuing connection, giving your gift and making a real contribution to people, whether we get paid for it or not?
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Why worry about that pesky Congress when the White House can take action on its own? Vice President Joe Biden essentially said as much Wednesday in suggesting President Barack Obama might use an executive order to deal with guns.
"The president is going to act," said Biden, giving some comments to the press before a meeting with victims of gun violence. "There are executives orders, there's executive action that can be taken. We haven't decided what that is yet. But we're compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action that we believe is required."
President Obama vowed last month that a new task force overseen by Biden will provide "concrete proposals" by the end of January to reduce gun violence. The group, which includes an array of Cabinet members and government officials, was established in the wake of the massacre in Newtown, CT, that left 27 people dead - 20 of them elementary school children.
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What do you call a plot twist so familiar and unsurprising that it doesn't twist at all?
I can't come up with anything. I sort of like "misst," but I can't stand the way it has to be spelled.
Anyway, whatever it's called, "Violet & Daisy" hinges on one that's so familiar, all you need to do is watch the trailer to make a pretty good guess about it.
The title characters are straight out of a Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez collaboration: vaguely spacey teenagers who, calmly and usually while chomping bubblegum, are also hit girls.
In other developments that owe a lot to Tarantino/Rodriguez, they do this while wearing nun costumes and pretending to deliver pizzas as the soundtrack blares '70s anthems ("Angel of the Morning").
Saoirse Ronan and Alexis Bledel (who, at 31, can still almost get away with playing a teenager) are Daisy and Violet, with James Gandolfini as their latest target, who seems weirdly fine with the idea that they're going to waste him.
In between outre "jokes" (the girls love jumping up and down on corpses, watching blood burble out of the wounds), the three develop a grudging rapport.
A lot of the credit for that goes to Gandolfini, whose weary resignation is quite affecting, but it quickly begins to seem likely that the only reason any of this is happening is to make us wait until writer/director Geoffrey Fletcher can spring his little surprise.
Trust me, it's not worth the wait.
Directed by: George Fletcher
Starring: Alexis Bledel, Saoirse Ronan, James Gandolfini
Rated: R, for very strong language and some violence
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