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I've been at this job, working with all of you on a daily basis, for five months now. That means that these blogs have existed with a Community Content Coordinator now for the same amount of time that they existed, post-launch, without such a position in place. While some of you...
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3/27/07
Wow, this trip is getting exciting! I have stored some great memories of the structures that appear right under the cortex. I love the limbic system, especially the hippocampus and the amydala. I think of the hippocampus as an old college campus for hippos. I...
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What do you think of Bakersfield's housing market? Do you agree with some projections that it will be one of the nation's worst in 2007, with median home sales prices declining between 5 and 6 percent? It's obvious that the boom market of just a few years ago is gone, but what's next...
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How much are California tax payers paying their elected officials? The answer to this question can be found at www.dpa.ca.gov/jobinfo/ElectedOfficersSalaries.shtm . All Legislators in the State Senate and Assembly receive an annual salary of $113,098. Since 2005 Lawmakers have received a...
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As I was driving home today from our Bakersfield.com blogger event, I saw a couple at the side of the road with their hood up having car trouble. I few cars ahead, I see some guy with a Bakersfield.com bumper sticker on his truck pull over. It was Tom that had stopped to help them!...
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Hi there, everyone,
I submitted a story to the Applause section of the Californian a while ago, and it is on the site now! Give it a read and tell me what you think. They messed up some of the punctuation and grammar when they printed it, and of course they spelled my last name wrong (everyone...
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We love all the great people who create stuff on Bakersfield.com, whether it’s blog posts or comments, ratings or reviews on our new Inside Guide, personal profiles or Your Words stories.
That’s why we’ve launched a new weekly email newsletter called Ngage, which highlights...
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Hopefully, chillin' over a cup of coffee with us at Dagny's!
Bakersfield.com Blogger/Commenter Meet-Up
3:30 to 6 p.m.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Dagny's Coffee Company
20th and Eye Streets, Downtown
We provide the drinks and food, you provide the talk and company. This is the first of a...
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Today I had the honor of representing Bakersfield.com, along with newsroom blogger Steve Swenson and interactive media marketing manager Mary Russo, at the United Way of Kern County's 17th annual Professional Development Conference for Nonprofits. Steve was on a panel about how nonprofit...
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Many of the long-time regulars here may remember "Bakosphere," from our Typepad-hosted staff-blog days. Started under the radar in December of 2005 by a team of staffers from TBC's interactive media department and the newsroom webteam, Bakosphere was a bunch of different...
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We've been talking about it for a while, and now we finally have a date! The first of a continuing series of Bakersfield.com blogger meet-ups will be on Saturday, March 17 (yes, St. Patrick's Day) at 3:30 p.m. at Dagny's Coffee Company on the corner of 20th and Eye Streets downtown....
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n-gage, our e-newsletter about all things interactive on Bakersfield.com, goes out to your inboxes every Thursday at 10 a.m. Tomorrow's will be issue number 2. To make sure you don't miss a single edition, including a new "neighbor" profile every week, click here to sign up...
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I know, you've been afraid to hope, but finally, it's here.
No longer will your lovingly typed text disappear from the comment submission form at the bottom of blog posts when you mistype the anti-spam code. Go ahead. Test it. I did. It works! Not only will your...
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My parents have a Maltese that I swear they bought to replace my brothers and me when we left the house. They paid $600 for him when he was six weeks old. They were recently informed that their "baby" needs major surgery on both rear legs. The "specialist" vet quoted them a...
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n-gage, our new email newsletter about all things interactive on Bakersfield.com, launches today with its first issue, set to go out to your inboxes at 10 a.m. this morning. Click here to sign up now (scroll down to find n-gage) so you won't miss an issue. Every Thursday at 10 a.m.,...
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I'm not cruel, and I won't wait any longer to answer to rumors concerning the question of if I will release a cover of Cake's The Distance, in honor of Kevin Harvick's victory at the Daytona 500.
The answer is a resounding "MAYBE!" Cake is actually working on a compilation of...
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Nobody loves the war in Iraq. Nobody loves war-----------period. Or do they? You don't even have to enter any quarters into my blog n roll jukebox. Simply watch this new music video by Cake, who covers Black Sabbath's War Pigs, and, instead of quarters, enter...
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You know as humans I think we can get greedy. We want things, I mean as we live here we are called to be servants of Jesus Christ but we also want. And becuase we have so much faith in our Lord and savior we pray to Him and ask Him of these things. And sometimes what we have to come to understand...
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When I watch TV, all I hear every five minutes are commercials for MOR furniture. The hard-sell, redundant, annoying commercials play at every single commercial break, on every cable channel targeted at the Bako area, always saying the same things. I am so totally sick of their...
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Happy Valentines Day! I don't mean to bring you down. Rather, with this song, and with these words, I'd like to bring somebody up. I'm talking about the homeless. I'm talking about posting this blog thread as a forum for raising all kinds of create ideas concerning...
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ExpressJet Airlines announced earlier this week it will serve 24 midsize U.S. cities, including Bakersfield. ExpressJet will fly two nonstop flights a day to and from San Diego starting on May 14. Meadows Field currently offers service to Los Angeles, Phoenix, Houston, San Francisco, Salt Lake...
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I had a dream last night
we were dancin'
at a Valentines ball
you stood barefoot
on the ballroom floor
tryin' hard to break my fall
but I told you I had already fallen
no need to brace my fall
and I told you that
my heart's already broken
no need brace the walls
don't go...
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Today we launched a cleaner version of our People page, plus added a few new features.
A cleaner design that better displays some of the great content being created by our readers. This is a huge improvement over our previous design.
A searchable A-Z list of all our...
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From 12 midnight tonight until about 5 a.m. PST tomorrow morning, Thursday, February 1st, blogs, profiles and all other People-related content will be inaccessible due to a server upgrade.
When the site goes back up, however, you'll find a few new surprises. First, the People page, your...
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ExpressJet is launching a new airline carrier and plans to begin service to Bakersfield and 23 other midsized cities, including Fresno, this spring. The new airline, which plans to add routes that currently do not have non-stop service, has not yet released flight schedules and would not confirm...
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Banana Republic will soon add a store at Valley Plaza.
What do you think?
National upscale chains P.F. Chang’s China Bistro and California Pizza Kitchen recently added Bakersfield restaurants. With the addition of a Banana Republic, is Bakersfield starting to attract more high-end...
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The Home Depot will move into the long vacant building formerly occupied by Zody’s department store on Ming Avenue near Stine and Akers later this year. Click here to read story.
What do you think about finally having a permanent tenant for the building, which also housed Builders...
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CHECK SOME COOL NAMM SHOW HIGHLIGHTS!
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Attention all you dedicated bloggers and commenters who are up late or up early at your keyboards: we have an outage scheduled for tonight (or tomorrow, depending on your point of view).
From 1 a.m. to about 5 a.m. PST on Thursday, January 25, you won't be able to access the blogs,...
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Does the honeymoon stop after the wedding?
According to a recent poll, unmarried men are four times more likely to purchase jewelry for their girlfriends then married men are to do the same for their wives.The same poll says four out of five married men claim to be "lost" when shopping...
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Did You Know More Women Are Going to Prison Today More Than Ever and Why Society Can Help Change This
Many people believe that all women who are in prison have done some hideous crime. Not so. It is important to know that prison causes damage and disruption to the lives of...
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Did You Know More Women Are Going to Prison Today More Than Ever and Why Society Can Help Change This
Many people believe that all women who are in prison have done some hideous crime. Not so. It is important to know that prison causes damage and disruption to the lives of...
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Why are so many women going to prison? What happens daily once inside?
Let's talk about this as I'm curious to know what you all think as there are many factors that play a role. Should we be sympathetic? Should we care? Should we have compassion? Should there be rehabilitation in and out of...
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I Get Forgetful: Diary of Donald Doyle, Alzheimer's Patient: Bruce L. Thiessen, Ph.D., Psychologist/BlogBook Author: Catharsis Fiction BlogBooks, 2007
Sunday, January 21, 2007
11: 46 pm
Well, lately I've been thinking that just because I've got this diagnosis doesn't mean I...
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STOP - LOOK AROUND - and tell me who you see? I have read the papers and see that many are up in arms about illegal immigration.....but what about those who are here legally and sending our jobs back to there native country. I am talking about those from India....now let me preface...
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Eliminating term limits(Venezuela has a six year term at this time)only saves him the trouble of terrorizing voters and fixing counts in the next election(or having his competition disappear!)and is certainly a bad sign for those who may re-think their position on him next time after...
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Some were disappointed. Some were relieved. I was among those relieved that the increasingly intense confrontation between myself and local blogger, Dusty, did not develop into a full-scale Donald-Trump-vs-Rosie-O'Donnell-styled showdown. Then of course insult was...
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January Is National Mentoring Month 2007
National Mentoring Month highlights mentoring and the positive impact it can have on young lives. This month-long outreach campaign focuses national attention on the need for mentors, as well as how each of us – individuals, businesses,...
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My second post on this blog, “Community Rules,” and my last post before the end of the year, “All in Moderation?” were about a subject that, when I bring it up, makes a lot of the regulars around here moan and groan (or worse). But, as the saying goes, the more...
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There are countless victims, and most don't even know they are victims. As children, they were forced to attend churches that practiced religious abuse. This was accomplished by hiring and then supporting hell, fire, and brimstone ministers who interpreted scripture according to their...
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What do you think of gift cards? If you're like me, you got a few in your Christmas stocking this year. Are they a great gift that allows you to go out and buy what you really want or a thoughtless cop-out, a sign the gift giver didn't spend much time looking for gifts for you?
I...
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A recent blog about California's minimum wage increase predictably expanded into a discussion about everything from Vietnam, feminism and illegal immigration to Monica Lewinsky. It also led to debates over the benefits and drawbacks of capitalism.
So why not debate (hopefully in a civil...
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Is this New Years Day like an unopened bottle of champagne, full of repressed possibilities? Is this just Another New Years Day, or are you going to make this one special. I'll share two of my New Years resolutions. One is to continually improve on my songwriting, singing,...
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The presidential hopefuls are slowing gaining steam as we plow past '06, into 07, with an eye on the big prize in '08. Each presidential hopeful has put his/her best foot forward, but who will rise in prominence in '07, and who will become burried in baggage and scandal? If the election...
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Most mistakes, whether on a personal level, or a public or political level, may be traced to an attitude of pride. That's why the best way to approach the coming year is with an attitude of humility, the attitude so poignantly portrayed in the song, Why Me Lord? by Kris Kristofferson. ...
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Well, now that you've heard the song, here's your opportunity to share your experiences and answer the question: Can faith, or devotion to Jesus, keep a spouse faithful? Is a person committed to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ any less likely to cheat in a marital...
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California’s minimum wage will increase from the current $6.75 an hour to $7.50 an hour on Jan. 1 and to $8 an hour on Jan. 1, 2008.
Worker's rights groups say the increase is needed given the state's high cost of living and will help out working families. Pro-business groups warn the...
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John Lennon, when he was alive, urged us all to Imagine. Can you imagine a world in which the Beatles actually claimed Bakersfield as their home town rather than Liverpool? What if, instead of calling London, I had just grabbed the local phone book to interview the Quarrymen, the band...
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I was at Valley Plaza today talking to day after Christmas shoppers. Do you like shopping on the day after Christmas? Do you shop that day for the sales, to return an unwanted clip on tie or to get a jump start on next year's holiday shopping? Or do you do whatever possible to...
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To follow Jesus in '07, you will need to leave the worries and fears of '06 behind. To follow Jesus from the cradle to the cross, and beyond, you will need to suspend your doubt and cynacism long enough to take hold of the reins of faith. To follow Jesus through his death, you will...
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