Beidler Explains Cost Of Theater
- June
- 1
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If you missed the Harnett Regional Theatre production of Irvin Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun,” you missed a great evening of theater. Mellicent and I have enjoyed most of the big hits but had always passed this one by.
You would have been surprised. The stage setting was absolutely fabulous with brilliant lighting, and the sound [...]
Sex Offender Law In Oregon Is Different
- May
- 19
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Without giving too much away, I live near a park in West Medford and I just found on www.familywatchdog.com, a Web site that tracks where sex offenders live, that a sex offender lists an address near this park. A friend told me that sex offender cannot live within a 1,000 feet of a park of [...]
Flo Rida The Ringtone King
- May
- 19
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Becoming the first artist to have the no. 1 selling digital track of all-time with his club pounding single, “Low,” which reached over 3.2 million sold, is nothing to downplay. Thanks to its success, the Carol City-raised rapper Flo Rida has taken hold of the music industry and has no intention of letting go.
Although just [...]
How Much Is Enough To Hold In Reserve Fund
- May
- 19
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Q: I live in a self-managed building that’s in good shape. We consider ourselves a young association and have only $4,000 in our reserve account. At a recent meeting, there was concern that our reserves are too low as the building gets older.
How do we determine what is proper to have in a reserve account? [...]
Face Time Instead of Facebook Time
- April
- 25
Medium of Isolation
“In this sample, the Internet was used extensively for communication,” according to the authors of the study. “Nonetheless, greater use of the Internet was associated with declines in participants’ communication with family members in the household, declines in the size of their social circle, and increases in their depression and loneliness.”
However, there is [...]
PODCASTFunny Way to Launch a Product
- April
- 25
But Wait, There’s More
The fun didn’t end there. The site kept listing different physical addresses for the business, going from a suburban neighborhood in Miami to a more industrial building. Then Psystar stopped taking credit card orders, saying its provider, PowerPay, had “dropped the ball.” It moved to PayPal instead. PowerPay countered that in fact [...]
Coming up Bugs pies and Earth Day
- April
- 21
Pie festival The Great American Pie Festival, sponsored by the American Pie Council, will be at Lakeside Park in Celebration from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Events include an all-you-can-eat Never Ending Pie Buffet, pie-baking competition, cooking demonstrations, pie-eating [...]
Plane crashes in Congo killing at least 33
- April
- 20
The Hewa Bora Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ploughed into a crowded neighborhood of Goma, capital of Democratic Republic of Congos eastern North Kivu Province, after bad weather forced the pilot to abort take-off.
Government spokesman Esdras Kambale said in a broadcast on national television that 33 people were killed and 80 injured in the crash, but [...]
Text of Petraeus Report
- April
- 16
Here is the text of Gen. David H. Petraeus’ remarks Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee:___Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to provide an update on the security situation in Iraq and to discuss the recommendations I recently provided to my chain of command.Since Ambassador Crocker and [...]
Lost in the system
- April
- 13
A lot of people tried to do the right thing for Jeff. And yet, it all went very wrong.
When a neighbor saw what she thought were choke marks on his little sister’s neck, she reported it.
Adams County human services responded quickly. Investigators talked to the children in person and away from their mother. [...]
