surPRIZE surPRIZE surPRIZE...

Congratulations, Mark. Back in the day, we called it "sticktoitivity" ... And you have that in abundance. Good luck in the future -- those you work with will be blessed to have you on their team!

has anyone else noticed that since printing/production has moved to the norcross AJC facility, we are seeing an awful lot of gwinnett county stories in the ABH?

berkeley lake drained...norcross apartment shooting? don't we have enough to report here in Athens?

can someone explain this, please? i mean, i think i know the answer, but...

just askin'...

[quote][b]Its_almost_over_HUH[/b] - Yeah task force target the blacks. Even though the majority of people downtown are white. And according to the fbi profile. The average drug dealer is a white college kid.
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you OBVIOUSLY have not spent any time in downtown athens at night!!!!! My husband works downtown nights as security at a bar -- i don't know about daytime, because i've not spent much time downtown athens daytime in years, but i can tell you from personal observation, it's NOT just "white students" downtown!!! Other races are very very well represented in the nighttime population of the strictly downtown area (thomas to pulaski, broad to dougherty streets).

it would be difficult to average the ratios, but blacks to whites ratio is very close to even on any given night!!! just depends on what PART of the d/t area you happen to look at any given moment. and ANYONE can be that "drug dealer" .. young, old, black, white, asian, hispanic ...

webby, that depends on the culture you are in. i do, however, tend to agree that in OUR culture, at age 1, and certainly by age 2, children are generally weaned, if they were ever breast fed at all. in more primitive cultures where food is less abundant, longer breast feeding might in fact mean life or death, so i would not be so quick to judge it, per se. as for Time--Shame on you.

the report of this hearing and the adjournment thereof was reported on the 5 o'clock news out of atlanta. like it or not, this case IS news. much more relevant than whether Berkeley Lake gets drained, to athenians. Joe waited until he could write his report, the posted it -- a typo is nothing in light of this story -- and reported it straightforward in manner and WITHOUT a picture of the criminal involved, for which I am grateful -- many have asked that ABH NOT show this creature's antics or face in any way. some of you wish ABH would not report it, but folks, this IS news. And had ABH NOT reported it, many of you same people would grouse about that. No, a fact-based story about what occurred IS important to us all. Would you have said the same thing about, say, Hitler's behavior before and during WWII? That we should not have it reported to us because he's so vile? Do you not remember the admonishment "Know Thy Enemy". To those who don't want it reported, don't read it, just like i read very very little about what is reported about the georgia bulldogs various sports activities. talk about pandering to sell papers!!! (((ducking to avoid all the rotten tomatoes)))

[quote][b]OcCoCitizen[/b] - And if someone really wanted to relieve congestion, they would have spent the money on an already congested road, say Mars Hill for instance, instead of creating a new empty road.[/quote]

that's a project that is "under way" (i.e., county trying to condemn land if they cannot buy it outright) for quite some time -- but not a popular topic in oconee county

RIP Maurice Sendak -- you graced me and my family with your words and imagination -- and enriched our lives tremendously. Thank you.

Oracle, Oracle! Were you a hippy in the 60s? Heavenly Blue, Indeed! LOL!!!

Fun. Fun. Fun. FastSigns -- they were the company on that Boss show last week, and the CEO seems to be a pretty savvy lady! I hope they win, and I agree with Speedy... come down on those freaking robocalls, especially from the "Card Services" people that will NOT take you off their call list even when you ask nicely, hang up when you TRY to talk to them... and call day after day after day after day!! I don't have one single credit card, and I get their calls on average 2 a week, sometimes more!!! UGH!!!

@scooper47: ohhh and how i love a grammar challenge!

Let's see. The fish will be shocked and removed. the "fish" is modified by the entire remainder of the sentence, the part set out by commas. So if i could diagram it, the base line would be FISH / Shocked/Removed, and under neath Fish would be The and the entire remainder of the sentence. The comma segment would then have to be diagramed to show that "since it was built" refers to the "city", and that in addition, the phrase "with the city council meeting" is a modifier of the city's history... ... ... lord, i used to do this for a living...

and i GIVE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^5 to scooper! i don't think even i could do it!!! '-)

interesting...not for an athens resident however ... how many subscribers does abh have in Berkeley Lake(that's a tiny little town in the vicinity of buford highway and pleasant hill, or the exit just south of pleasant hill, actually... although i DID use that as a shortcut traveling from athens to the peachtree industrial/perimeter mall area...when i commuted...

[quote][b]bobbidiboo[/b] -
It's "they're". Good job officer.
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bobbi, actually the sentence could be correct "when there [at the house] on an unrelated matter"!!! however, i DO see how you read it as "when they're [the cop] on an..." my reasoning for saying it SHOULD be "there" is that the sentence starts off "The cop" (singular), so in that case, it would be "when he's on an..."

just sayin'

however, having walked past, for a glass-front store-front eatery, it looks classy enough, i reckon. above my pay grade, however.

[quote][b]mpd0.59[/b] - ACC is anti-business??
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all depends on how much ready cash you have and most importantly who you know or have known ... you notice this is not a chain, and supports, purportedly, local producers, as well as something fairly unique ... whether the underpaid overworked populace will support it, especially in its location right under the parking garage and beside the GaTh is another story, one that will certainly tell itself... i can just see the hoi palloi (sp?) eating at a fine dinery while dubstep is hammering the walls from next door, and the dubstepping public is roaming the streets doing whatever it is they do (and you can substitute "dubstep" for "hip hop" "rap" "country" "rock" "trustafarian" "heavy Metal" or whatever you don't particularly like, no being prejudiced here)

i guess "killed" to this particular bureaucratic numbnuts means "shot by a thug" ... this is totally ... TOTALLY disgusting ... if i were a member of this board or panel or group OR their families i'd be hiding my head in absolute total abject SHAME...

I agree...what a stupid and totally heartless decision by some bureaucrat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@grove600: which is why there should be "gradations" of the charge of "sex offender". The sex offender list would clearly show a level number on the picture, with an explanation of the levels in plain english

i propose maybe 4 levels.

1 is for such things as peeing in the bushes or parking lot or whatever (exposure with no contact with anyone)--not a felony and only 6 months on the "list"
2 is for the category of the young people who "go too far" with whatever age-range restrictions are decided on (i.e., 16 yo girl, 17 yo boy, etc) that would otherwise be statutory rape, but is consented to between the (albeit immature) parties. not a felony and only 6 months on the "list"
3 could be maybe sexual battery or assault or whatever, develop a clear definition of what this is (short of rape, i would assume) either never comes off the list or 25 years or something strong on the list, boxed in red frame...
4 rape. on the list for EVER, boxed in a red frame with the word "Warning" flashing

i dunno, something like that anyway. i'm sure it could be done. to make it simple, the "list" could be updated to ADD someone on the day of conviction; removals would occur on the last day of the 6th month (or whatever time) to avoid the argument that it creates too much bureaucratic shuffle...

and yet if the cuts in education continue, you can bet art, music and drama will be among the first to go...

congratulations Misra for a job well done! Good luck at nationals!

i know the name is not terrribly uncommon, but hey, Joe, how'd it feel typing Joseph Johnson for this article, LOL!!! I know there's no relation, but...still, had to be a little weird for ya!

It's kind of one of those situations where you'd love to believe it's true (the thing about the Taliban joining forces with 'us' to eliminate terrorists/terrorism) but you just know it's NOT. I have trouble believing that he's (obama) that naive that he would think that they could be trusted. There's far too much animosity towards the West, and US in particular, for any sort of real accordance. Shame. But it's true. There is such a cultural divide that from birth almost they are taught that we are satan personified, and it's their spiritual and national duty to eliminate us. how do you fix that? can it be fixed?

well it's certainly worth a try, because the federal standardized testing measure is certainly NOT succeeding. "employers are frustrated that today’s graduates lack analytical skills, literacy and a habit of continuing their education while working" says it all. It's exactly what I've been saying all along. (you know, no one ever made a scientific breakthrough using multiple choice; no book was ever written using multiple choice; you can't even serve food and calculate a bill and tip using "multiple choice" (well you MIGHT consider choosing food from a menu "multiple choice" but the waitron still has to do the other stuff, lol))

here's hoping!

um guys ... "$300 ring" ... while i know that's not some big bucks for some people, a $300 ring is a pretty nice ring, i'm thinking. more expensive than any ring I have, let's just leave it at that. i don't THINK a 12-pack and a bottle cost QUITE that much, yanno?

@cathead96: not really... kids have been doing *stuff* just as stupid for as long as I can remember, and my parents told me stories of their day ... shows like 'Jackass' are done by people grown-up in age but not mentality and just promote stupid activities, but by no means did it START them!!!!! (and i'm old enough that i can remember stupid stunts back in the 50s) ... every culture, in every age, stupid stunts seem to be part of the growing up process...and probably will continue to be that way until the end of time (Mayan or othewise)