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fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as
sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as
effects.
- Henry Melville
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wisdom, charity. - William Menninger
Potpourri
Where we put everything that doesn't necessarily belong anywhere else!
Two mint julep sippin' Southern gals
traipse through life in the
Mint
Julep Journal sharing recipes, pearls of wisdom and whatever
floats through their properly polite minds.
Young ladies from Fayette County and their American
Girl dolls at the opening of the new concept store, North Point
Mall
8/24/07
On August 18th, American Girl opened their doors at North Point Mall in
Atlanta. The new store is one of only two new "experiential retail concepts"
opening this year. The second location is in Dallas, Texas...
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7/5/07 A Chicago man pleaded guilty today to a felony
charge for posting the first four episodes of this season’s "24" on the
Internet before they were originally aired on the Fox television network
earlier this year...
Hotly Debated Academic Analyses Claim Up To 18 Lives Saved Per
Execution
6/11/07 (AP) CBS News - Anti-death penalty forces
have gained momentum in the past few years, with a moratorium in Illinois,
court disputes over lethal injection in more than a half-dozen states and
progress toward outright abolishment in New Jersey....
5/15/07 The nation’s minority population reached 100.7
million, according to the national and state estimates by race, Hispanic
origin, sex and age released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. A year ago,
the minority population totaled 98.3 million.
The Spying Game:
Tricks of Today’s Trade
7/11/07 FBI Release: One of your
execs is on a business trip overseas. At an opportune time, a foreign spy
covertly plants software on her laptop. Unsuspecting, she returns home and
plugs her laptop into your company’s computer network. By the time your
security experts get wind of it, your most cherished business secrets are long
gone...
5/4/08 (5:06 p.m.) The Internal Revenue Service has begun to
transfer economic stimulus payments to millions of Americans. The IRS will issue payments of up to $600 ($1,200 for married
couples) plus $300 for eligible children younger than 17, throughout the spring...
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4/27/08 (Blogpost) An overwhelming majority of
Georgia's students are meeting expectations on the Georgia High School
Graduation Tests (GHSGT), including two of the exams that are aligned to the
state's more rigorous curriculum...
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4/26/08 (9:38 p.m.)
Earlier this month, Andrea Foster, General Manager of
Staples of Fayetteville visited Hood Avenue to celebrate attendance performance
and honor the attendance award recipients for the month of March...
More
2/19/08 (8:17 a.m.)
Lessening the
effects of aging, contaminated wood purification and the most flame resistant
house insulation are just some of the examples of experiments conducted by
Fayette’s budding young scientists at the 2008 Fayette County Science and
Engineering Fair...
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1/9/08 (4:33 p.m.) Georgia Aquarium is now giving
families and organized youth groups the opportunity to see what
goes on when the lights go out at the world’s largest aquarium
with new overnight programs...
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November 4th Declared Retired Educators Day in Georgia
10/4/07 Carol A. Lunsford of
Fayetteville, along with members from the Governing Board of the Georgia
Retired Educators Association witnessed Governor Sonny Perdue signing a
proclamation declaring November 4, 2007 to be Retired Educators Day in
Georgia. Lunsford is AREA X Director for the Georgia Retired Educators
Association covering the counties of Butts, Carrol, Clayton, Coweta,
Fayette, Heard, Henry, and Spalding.
9/13/07 A child born in the United States in 2005 can
expect to live nearly 78 years (77.9) - a new high - according to a report
released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Deaths:
Preliminary Data... More
9/11/07 Law enforcement officials, prosecutors,
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, Department of Family and Child Services
(DFCS), medical providers and child advocates came together to announce
the merger of the Georgia Center for Children and the Fulton County
Child Advocacy Center. The new organization will be called the Georgia
Center for Child Advocacy...
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8/29/07 America's favorite
homewares designer, Jonathon Adler, will unveil a new collection at
DECOR Expo Fall 2007, from September 7 to 9 at Georgia World Congress
Center... More
8/15/07 The U.S. Census Bureau estimates 171,000 people
living on Hawaii’s Big Island could be impacted by Hurricane Flossie —
the first hurricane to reach Hawaii since 1992 when Hurricane Iniki did
extensive damage to the islands of Kauai and Oahu...
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Effective July 1, 2007, Georgia State Law (Senate Bill
38) requires that first time vehicle registrants provide a valid Georgia
driver's license/ identification card before a license plate can be issued.
DHR Invites
Public Comment on Babies Can't Wait Early Intervention System
Changes
7/3/07 DHR has completed an examination of the Babies
Can't Wait system to make sure it is performing well and is sustainable.
To make sure there is maximum stakeholder input, the public is strongly
encouraged to participate in a 60-day public comment period, which will
run from June 18, 2007 - August 20, 2007....
In quest to go green, US firms retool car fleets
6/22/07 Christian Science Monitor: Call it the greening
of the fleet. Corporate America is starting to look at the millions of
cars it owns or leases for traveling salesmen, executives, and
technicians as an area where it can cut down on greenhouse gases and
save money on increasingly expensive gasoline...
The population for the entire country in 1910 was 92.2 million.
4/28/08 (10:11 p.m.) Employees are the
Fayette County School System's most valuable and important resource. In
order to serve students in the best possible way, the system...
More
2/1/08 (3:36 p.m.) Four current
and former East Fayette Elementary enrichment students have been invited to
the Georgia Capitol to demonstrate to state lawmakers how they use
technology in the classroom...
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Pledge of Allegiance
Jared Demeter,
Nicholas Fink, Duncan Wisniewski and Ryan Smith from Sara Harp Minter
Elementary School, Fayette County, Georgia, lead the Pledge of Allegiance at
the 12/17/07 Board of Education meeting.
12/1/07 (9:08 p.m.)
Securities, commodity contracts and other financial investment activities
continued to climb at an accelerating rate, reaching $499 billion in 2006, a 23
percent increase from $406 billion in 2005, according to new data released Nov.
29th... More
9/19/07 In an effort to help Georgians conserve energy,
save money and protect the environment, Georgia’s third annual ENERGY STAR
Sales Tax Holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, October 4 and runs through
midnight Sunday, October 7, 2007...
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9/12/07 Twenty thousand preschool students are preparing for
a celebration of cultures, all in effort to emphasize the importance of
diversity, tolerance and respect for others...
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New Report Examines Changes in the
Racial and Ethnic Composition of Public Schools
9/2/07 Since 1993-94 white public school students have become less isolated
from minority students, while black and Hispanic students have become slightly
more isolated from white students, according to a report released today by the
Pew Hispanic Center based on an analysis of the most recent school enrollment
data. These two seemingly contradictory trends stem mainly from the increase
of more than 55% in the Hispanic slice of the public school population. The
report also provides detailed state-by-state tabulations of changes in levels
of racial and ethnic isolation in public schools. The report,
The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of U.S. Public Schools, is
available on the Pew Hispanic Center's website,
www.pewhispanic.org.
More Than 300 Counties Now “Majority-Minority”
8/21/07 Nearly one in every 10 of the nation’s 3,141 counties
has a population that is more than 50 percent minority. In 2006, eight counties
that had not previously been majority-minority pushed the national total to 303,
the U.S. Census Bureau reported in August...
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Community Measures
Prevent Deaths During Pandemic, New Study Finds
8/11/07 School closures and other community strategies designed
to reduce the possibility of spreading disease between people during an
epidemic can save lives, particularly when the measures are used in
combination and implemented soon after an outbreak begins in a community,
according to a new study based on public records from the 1918-1919 influenza
pandemic... More
