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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. ---Mario Andretti The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. ---Mack R. Douglas Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. ---Peter F. Drucker A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance. ---Tom Flores The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment

I Didn't Do It -- I Swear... LPPT DID IT!!!!

From 11Alive's website (07-31-09) Cops: Texting NY Tow Truck Driver Hits Car, Pool LOCKPORT, N.Y. (AP) -- Police say a Buffalo-area tow truck driver was juggling two cell phones -- texting on one and talking on another -- when he slammed into a car and crashed into a swimming pool. Niagara County sheriff's deputies say 25-year-old Nicholas Sparks of Burt admitted he was texting and talking when his flatbed truck hit the car Wednesday morning in Lockport. The truck then crashed through a fence and sideswiped a house before rolling front-end first into an in-ground pool. R

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. ---Joel Osteen Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ---Lou Holtz Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. ---George Marshall Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. ---Earl Nightingale I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. ---Sugar Ray Robinson I discovered I alw

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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. ---Anne Frank Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. ---Mahatma Gandhi To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. ---Lord Acton He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things. ---Chinese Proverb Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. ---Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Disciplining yourself to do what

From 11Alive's website (07-30-09) Nixle Replaces Twitter And Facebook In Paulding PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. -- Look out Twitter and Facebook. A relatively new social networking site may be stepping on your toes. Nixle is trying to find a niche where other social networking sites can't. Nixle is offering a secure site specifically for government agencies. It started January 1. The Paulding County Sheriff Office started using the site to alert its residents about a month ago. How secure do you feel when you use social networking sites? How do you know the information you get is

From 11Alive's website (07-30-09) NYC Giving Homeless People One-Way Tickets to Atlanta, or Wherever They Want to Go ATLANTA, Ga. -- New York City's mayor is taking some heat for supporting a re-location program for the homeless. The Big Apple is buying one-way plane and bus tickets for the homeless, sending them out of town, to anywhere they want to go -- but with a catch. According to The New York Times, Georgia is one of the most popular places New York City's homeless want to go with their free tickets. The catch is this -- the only way the homeless can get a ti

From the AJ-C website (07-28-09) $3M Ga. DOT grant goes to Paulding airport A $3 million grant has been awarded to Paulding County by the Georgia Department of Transportation for the construction of a terminal and an Economic Development Center at the Paulding County Regional Airport. A 25 percent local match will be provided by the Paulding County Industrial Building Authority, according to the authority’s director, Blake Swafford. Freese Construction of Marietta has been awarded the contract by the authority, added Swafford, who also serves as the director of Paulding’s Airpo

From WSB-TV's website (07-27-09) Suspicious Package Shuts Down Downtown Connector South ATLANTA -- A suspicious package forced the closure of all southbound lanes of the downtown connector Monday morning. The package was found under a bridge on I-75/85 at Fulton Street, according to Atlanta police. Traffic was backed up on the connector to 10th Street. Check back on wsbtv.com for more on this developing story.

I knew the little troublemaker would start up!!

Looks like the Official Troublemaker of P.com land is B-A-C-K........Lock Your Doors!

If it's Covalli's that you're talking about -- been there, very good!

From the AJ-C website (07-24-09) Retailers brace for tax-free holiday Cash registers might not ring quite as loudly this year as Georgia kicks off its annual tax-free holiday aimed at back-to-school shoppers. There is a recession, after all. Retailers hope the July 30-Aug. 2 period of sales tax-free shopping on everything from corsets to computers will jump-start consumer spending as the second-most important retail season of the year gets under way. Many metro Atlanta shopping malls and merchants have geared up with special promotions, extended hours and additional staff

From the Times Georgian (07-23-09) Old Harris Road signal due by Dec. 1 Paulding’s Board of Commissioners advanced its Old Harris Road and Bentwater fire station projects July 14 and also saved some money through debt refinancing. The board awarded the contract to install a traffic signal at the intersection of Old Harris Road and U.S. 278 to North Cherokee Electrical Contractors for $90,870. Paulding DOT Director Scott Greene said the signal will be installed by Dec. 1 and that it must be operational before a bridge the Georgia Department of Transportation has begun building on

From the AJ-C website (07-22-09) Downtown Connector construction to close lanes again - Closures begin this weekend and will continue for 10 weeks Here we go again. The Downtown Connector was re-paved just last summer, it’s true. But the state Department of Transportation has more in store. This weekend, drivers can get an early taste of the next couple of months’ lane closures, as DOT shuts down three lanes of northbound I-75 near the Brookwood Merge. They will be closed from 8 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. That closure will allow road crews to work on a ramp for the

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ----Ralph Waldo Emerson Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. ---Jonathan Edwards A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. ---Vernon Howard You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. ---Robert C. Savage Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got. ---Janis Joplin Character is like a tree and reputation lik

From WSB-TV's website (07-21-09) Atlanta Starbucks Giving Away Free Pastry ATLANTA -- Buy a beverage, get a free pastry. That's the deal Tuesday at Starbucks in metro Atlanta and the rest of the country. The free items include muffins, scones, bagels, doughnuts and tropical paradise bars, as long as they last. You will need to print out a coupon from Starbucks. The offer will be good until 10:30 a.m. The offer is good nationwide at all Starbuck locations, except in Hawaii, airports and Barnes & Nobles stores. STORY

I'm loving it too, while it lasts!!!

From the AJ-C website (07-20-09) Record low temperatures expected another day, Weather to warm up later in week, possibly bringing thunderstorms Low temperatures in Atlanta early Monday tied a record for the second consecutive day, and forecasters are promising at least one more night of temperatures approaching all-time lows for late-July. Just before daybreak Monday, the mercury dipped to 61 degrees at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, tying a record for the date first set in 1946. Elsewhere across metro Atlanta, temperatures dropped to 57 in Cartersville and Pea

Welcome Aboard and Lots of Luck!!

I know both Dean Bucci, along with his partner, Chad Plumley, as I handle their law firm's website -- objectively speaking, from talking with them / getting to know them, and their staff, I most definitely would recommend them -- also, Dean and Chad both have a great reputation and are very knowledgable.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. ---Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe When you are through changing, you are through. ---Bruce Barton It is never too late to become what you might have been. ---George Eliot When you blame others, you give up your power to change. ---Dr. Robert Anthony If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ---Mary Engelbreit You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ---Mahatma Gandhi

From WSB-TV's website (07-19-09) Michael Vick's Home Confinement Ends Monday Michael Vick's federal dogfighting sentence is scheduled to end Monday and that is also when he will go back on trial -- facing a whole new series of judgments. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, teams, fans and sponsors are among those who will weigh in on Vick's future. First and foremost, Goodell must decide whether Vick's suspension will end and, if so, when -- allowing the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback a chance to play in the league again. Goodell is expected to act fairly quickly, so Vick a

Love this weather, too! But, you know we'll have another "heat blast!"