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Paulding does not, and never has gotten much coverage from the Atlanta media unless it is super sensational. That is why we have Pubby and P.com!

OK....Been here for going on to 26 years, and this is definitely a high water mark. Luckily we are up at a reasonbly high elevation, but I imagine a great number of homes are getting water. We have never seen our "Cement KOI Pond" in the back get run-off and as of right now there is a river running through the middle of it. After the blasting 3 years ago we had to remove the Koi because it would no longer hold enough water for them, so it is only goldfisth and wild natural stuff but I imagine they have for the most part been washed down to the creek. I have not heard, but I assume La

Sorry, but to match what we get from the State Health plan with MrsSurepip working at the Ag Department, we would have to pay $2000 a month for the same coverage we are now getting for less than $500 a month according to the quotes on this website. Plus, our State Insurance includes vision and dental [$1500 annual available plus cleanings] as well as Rx typically at $10 or less copay. $18,000 a year increase in premiums ain't chump change to me. MrsSurepip will have to keep her job at the State.

There are a whole lot of "Depends On". Hormone, levels, body size, age, and the list goes on. Better to be safe than sorry....

Normally the Kroger branded birds here in North Georgia are Pilgrim's Pride. They have about 60% of the Georgia production of what used to be Con Agra and Gold Kist. The Brasilian group will now be the largest poultry producer in the USA and by far the biggest in Georgia.

Pittsburg, Texas: JBS Brasil, a Brasilian based meat packing company, and the owners of Swift Foods in the USA has just reached agreement with the Board of Directors of Pilgrim's Pride Poultry to purchase 64% of the Pilgrim's stock for $800Million US. They got the deal of the century. Book value of Pilgrim's assets is well in excess of $4 billion dollars and replacment value would be closer to $6 billion. Pilgrim's was so devastated by the escalating corn prices and transportation costs for most of 2008 they had to file for bankruptcy protection December 1, 2008. Even though they h

Georgia Highland's classes in the old Bagby Annex building began last month. They have basically the 100 and 200 level courses. Kennesaw will be starting classes in January, and will be offering 300 and 400 level courses along with some graduate classes. Both will be offering classes from their entire portfolio, not just nursing. Son graduated from Southern Catholic Collge with a degree in Philosophy last May and started classes with Georgia Highlands to begin working on a business degree. Professional student but we figured in these economic times it would probably be better to just

Go back and find the infamous Pat Crook email to the commissioners from summer of 2008 during the election. The one King Jerry stated he had never seen. It is in this email where she explains the increase in the county bond rate, because it was a small number to begin with, to the what they needed to raise it to in order to pay the green space and TajMahal would be something like 178% [her math was off a little] and would require publication and townhall meetings to meet the Georgia requirements. The email goes on to explain how she had requested Glenn Richardson to appeal to the state DOR f

You think we can get the prosciutto lady to donate some for a good cause ? And I promise I can change your opinion of the stuff. It really is quite special. G'Nite all.....

Oh! you are hurting my heart and my palate. It is really quite special, but not pan fried with eggs and grits! LPPT, we need to have a talk about special foods like prosciutto before you rip my heart out and stomp it flat!

I have nothing to add other than how grateful we are the winds are not from the East right now. Life can be good.....depending on the prevailing winds.

I am interested. What 'ya want to barter/trade, etc. ? Is it sliced, and if so How ? Or do you have a whole or half a ham, or what ?

DON'T YOU DARE! Go and get some generic country ham for doing that. $2 a pound at the most. I cannot think of a straight-up prosciutto dish. It is used to flavor or accompany somethine else to cut it so to speak. Even on a sandwich, you would not want too much and you WOULD want a powerful cheese or a really mild cheese to go with it. Dry Red Wine and crusty french bread. Some apple, and parmesean chunks maybe. Try wrapping asparagus and then just lightly steaming them.

It is probably no good. I will take it off your hands for you though..... If it is really REAL Prosciutto [does it say Parma on it anywhere] it is about $7 to $10 a pound. Think of it as really, really concentrated ham. Not necessaril concentrated salty, like our country cured salted hams, but just intense ham. Is it still on the bone whole, sliced in packages, diced or what ? Whole, still on the bone, you can slice it very, very thin but it will take a very good knife and some skill. It will keep, refrigerated, on the bone for several weeks to a month or more putting it in

Only way to find out for sure if anything is broke is to get it xrayed. Depending on how hard you fell, and what you hit, you may have a hematoma, basically a gigantic bruise inside well below the surface. I took a queer and nasty fall on a somewhat slick set of steps a month ago, and came down HARD on the edge of the step on my butt. I got up and shook it off. Over the next week I was bruised TERRIBLY, but could walk OK and everything seemed in OK working order. Swollen and really UGLY looking, but I took lots of ibuprofen [i normally take 1000mg a day anyway for arthritis].

With anything more than a carry on size rolling bag and a laptop it becomes a hassle. We learned that years ago when traveling to Europe if you have to go any part of your journey by train. If we were going to take a holiday while on a trip to a poultry equipment convention, we would store all of our bags with our "Show" clothes at the airport, and try to have no more than a suitcase on wheels and 2 backpacks for hitting the train station. You have to reserve 1st class seats and allow plenty of time to "check" bags on the trains, and 1st Class tickets are like triple the cost.

I hope to see additional motivational spending programs come out of the Fed Stimulous with rebates and tax credits addressing other energy saving devices and products used around the house: Demand water heaters HiEfficiency Heat Pumps Storm windows and doors Solar Panels And the list can go on and on.

For going to the airport via GRTA, there are 10 or so buses in the morning ending with the last one a little before 8:00. These will drop you at 5 Points, or close by, where you can get the MARTA train to Hartsfield. There is one "Reverse-Commute" bus in the afternoon going from Hiram downtown between 4:30 and 5:00. Coming back to Hiram, as mentioned previously has 1 reverse commute in the morning going from downtown to Hiram. You would have to be on a pretty early red-eye to catch this one. There are 10+ buses in the afternoon, starting I believe at 3:30 from either the Civic Center

Depending on when, I use it often. Coming home to Hiram, you need to just get on the Marta Train. I go to the Civic Center Station, time allowing, so I don't have to hold up the bus putting my bags in the underneath storage compartments, but you can also catch it at the back side of the 5 Points station at the corner of the plaza at the NE corner. You will pay the typical Marta fare [$2.25?] at the airport and get a transfer for the bus. My wife catches the 4:30 bus at the NW corner of the Gold Dome and I hold the front seat for her to join me. Hard to beat $2.25 from the a

When I sold off my business and started doing just consulting work for several outfits around the country and world, as a workforce of "1", my health insurance with BCBS went from under $500 a month in 2002 under a group policy with 12 to 15 members, to $2400 a month in 2006 with just my family. So, to save us $25,000+ a year, MrsSurepip went to work for the State Ag Department so we could buy our insurance via her job. Are you trying to tell me under Obama's plan I will be paying $2400 a month again if I want to purchase that same policy we are paying less than $500 a month from the Stat

The dealers have gotten just as beat up by the local banks as the builders and the rest of us. Keeping the inventory lower while sales remain down saves them big bucks. I don't know many high ticket items in huge inventory anywhere right now, and don't expect it to change much for another year or more.

You trying to spin your way out of a tax increase the GREAT ONES, Sonny and Glenn have already stuck us with by trying to shift the focus to what might be ? If Obama's healthcare package gets approved and lets me buy insurance for my family at the same group rates charged by the giant companies, or groups like the State, it will save me thousands a year. Sonny and Glenn snuck by us and grabbed an easy $200 to $300 from each homeowner in the State.

I think it helped out the auto industry which includes all those involved with supplying goods to the auto industry as well as the dealers. Like I said above, I think in time it will show a large boon to the salvage industry as well. They typically do not receive that many cars which are still in relatively good shape body wise, as well as interior parts, dash items, seats, etc. And it is money that will be recirculated throughout the economy at a time when we desperately needed more money circulating.

There are 600,000+ cars, sold by how many dealers, with how many salespeople who were struggling to pay their mortgage? And how many of these cars sold have been sitting on a holding lot for how many months waiting for the market to improve ? I wonder how many thousands of autoworkers avoided furloughs and kept the plants operational, not to mention their thousands of sub-supplers who were able to keep their doors open as well. Figure the rebate at 25% of the car value, and that put $12 Billion back into circulation in the economy from $3billion paid out. It will be 6 month

Gov Sonny and Speaker of the House Glenn Richardson decided they needed that money worse than you or I. And then look how they spent it. Think any of them are taking furlough days ?