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McCain names Alaska governor for VP
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, left, and Sen. John McCain.
August 29, 2008
DAYTON - John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a conservative who shares his maverick streak, as his vice presidential running mate on Friday in a startling selection on the eve of the Republican National Convention.
At a raucous rally in the swing state of Ohio, McCain said he made his pick after looking for a political partner "who can best help me shake up Washington and make it start working again for the people who are counting on us."
McCain said that Palin was "exactly who I need.
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Plant explodes in Institute
August 29, 2008
INSTITUTE, W.Va. - One worker was killed and a second injured in an explosion at a Bayer CropScience plant that shook an area west of Charleston.
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Many W.Va. school kitchens don’t meet fire code
August 29, 2008
PARKERSBURG — As many as 18 of Wood County’s 27 public schools do not meet new standards for fire suppression systems in school kitchens, but officials say they are working to bring all schools up to code by next summer.
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Volunteers from area heading to Gulf Coast
August 29, 2008
PARKERSBURG — The first local Red Cross volunteers have been deployed for disaster relief in the Gulf Coast in anticipation of Hurricane Gustav, a spokesman said Thursday.
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Beautiful Day
Fri, August 29, 2008 @ 2:11AM
A beautiful evening in Denver ended with a great speech by Barack Obama and a fireworks display that lit up the warm evening. A reference to clean coal technology brought the WV Delegation to its feet. We head home early in the morning.
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Music for the masses
Fri, August 22, 2008 @ 10:08AM
I have been a music reviewer nearly as long as I have been a reporter. This means I have a load of CDs that are pretty bad. The reason is simply because in the early days of my career, I had a pretty unlimited supply of music sent to my college. New and established artists' new CDs would be shipped by the cart load to the newspaper office and, as the only CD reviewer on campus, I was handed boxes to lug back to the dorms and I kept what I wanted and what no one else wanted. I was more than happy when I came to this office and was given the freedom to review what I want without need of keeping anything. But, with this large collection, it's difficult to keep track of the music I love. CDs I have fallen for have been lost. Between loaning them out (I like to share what I enjoy with friends) and going from car to car, music I enjoy has disappeared. Their memory lives on with the empty cases shoved under my bed and hidden in storage bins in the attic.
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What an Amazing Race!
Fri, August 22, 2008 @ 2:07PM
What an awesome weekend for the half marathon. The weather was picture perfect, the competition was fierce, and everyone seemed to run or walk great races. I had a wonderful time coordinating the race this summer. I got to work with a great group of committee members and volunteers who take great pride in the half marathon and two-mile race. This race wouldn’t be possible without the help of the community and the various sponsors. I’m not sure if many people were aware, but I got to ride in the lead truck. It was such a feeling of accomplishment to see all of the runners take off and fill Juliana Street. Everything I’ve been working on all summer finally fell into place and ran smoothly.
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Olympics
Tue, August 12, 2008 @ 12:29PM
I've been watching the summer Olympics on television - I always forget how much fun the sports are until I start watching them. Several times, the Beijing sky, in all it's smoggy glory has been shown. I have heard that many people are wearing masks to limit their exposure. It seems to me that it would be a great location to make some money -"Finest medical masks available. Allows you to take a deep breath and not worry! Guaranteed to stop everything but oxygen!" Hopefully, no one is being scammed because they did not take a mask over with them but I would expect several vendors to have masks for sale at incredibly high prices. May be I should have purchased stock in a medical mask making company before the Olympics started. Oh well. Too late now.
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This puts the weenie in Halloween
Fri, August 29, 2008 @ 8:43AM
If I ever do something like this, kick me.
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Author Book Signing
Mon, August 25, 2008 @ 10:46AM
Local author Patsy Evans Pittman will be signing her book, "Blood Kin & Other Strangers," a collection of Appalachian stories and poems, from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at the local Borders store. You can find out more about the book at www.publisherpage.com.
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Take me out of the ballgame
Thu, August 28, 2008 @ 10:36AM
A couple links to pass on today. The first is from Deadspin regarding Patriotism gone overbaord at Yankee Stadium. A man claims he was ejected from the stadium after not standing still in the seventh inning during the singing of "God Bless America." The Yankees have a "no excesive movement policy" and this guy - an admitted Red Sox fan - got up to use the bathroom. So he claims. He was escorted out of the stadium by two New York's finest. I'm not entirely sure I believe the guy's story - I'm sure he wasn't totally innocent - but there I bet there is some validity to his claims. ... Then there's the Bo Pelini's press conference. Pelini is the new head coach at Nebreaska - replacing craptacular Bill Callahan. Pelini showed up to his weekley presser wearing a blue - not red - shirt. He was questioned about it by reporters.
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Now that's poetry
Wed, August 20, 2008 @ 9:21AM
I have this old hardback book that's about a hundred years old now, Robert Service's "Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses." For years, I have carried it with me on many fishing trips and itás a great deer-camp read. When it's painfully hot, reading "The Cremation of Sam Magee" either makes you feel cold inside, or resigns you to the fact that the heat is much better than the Yukon chill that froze the bones of Sam Magee. My first exposure to Service was as a kid at the soil and water conservation camp in Cedar Lakes. One of the adult leaders could recite it from memory and he did by the campfire every year. Service wasn't an adventurer like Jack London, although he wanted to be. He left his job as a bank teller in Scotland to move to Canada seeking some excitement. He wound up working as a bank teller in Canada, but his poems made him a fortune.
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Site now offers social networking connection
Thu, August 28, 2008 @ 12:54PM
An explosive growth has occurred in the past few years in the use of social networking sites on the Web. Social networking sites are simply sites where people that know each other, or have similar interest, can gather and share ideas and other things. The two giants, Facebook and MySpace, have more members than most countries have people. Most social networking sites operate is the same basic way. You set up a page and then allow your “friends” to see it. You approve “friendships” before they are added to your page. Once added, they can view photos that you post, leave comments on your “wall” and view your current status. Once viewed as strictly an online tool for those under 25, social networking sites have become a great way for people of all ages to stay connected.
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I pay for this why?????
Fri, August 29, 2008 @ 10:50AM
Does anyone besides me see a problem with not having a telephone for five days because "the phone company" can't make a service call between Thursday afternoon and Tuesday afternoon? I had the misfortune of having my home telephone go out of order Thursday afternoon. After repeated telephone calls to "the phone company" repair line and following repeated instructions on how to test the telephone line, I finally basically was told "sorry, but we can't get to you until Tuesday ... after all this is Labor Day weekend." Duh! That's kind of the point ... waiting until Tuesday to get a telephone line fixed, which I pay extra to have repair service, means I'm without contact with fire, police, ambulance, etc. until Tuesday. "The phone company's" lack of concern certainly makes me wonder why I have a land line in the first place, especially when I have a cell phone ... and why I don't bundle my home telephone with my TV and Internet service.
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