I am from Coalinga, about 20 miles away from Avenal. I saw the article from the BBC yesterday and thought it was being blow way out of proportion. I know a few people that have gotten Valley Fever, and even one that died from it (he was about 85 years old), but I still think they were being dramatic with how they depicted it. I do think the cases for valley fever are going to pick up if valley doesn't get more water soon, but that is a very long and different conversation.

ASCAP defiantly has problems, but if they dont collect for the artist who will? Should the artist just not get anything for being played on the radio and chalk it up to advertising? That sounds like a lame deal to me.

lol, i grew up in coalinga, there arent any other newspapers.

Im from coalinga, couple answer for you. . . 1. I dont believe shots were fired, i know local pd that didnt know anything about it (only a hand full of pd work in the city) 2. might have gotten threats, but i dont know who from and no one said anything about death threats until it go to court. . .Fabricated??? 3. Business was a trucking business, so all contract based not regular store front customers 4. only 1 other local trucking company and they do fine. 5. everyone knows everyone so it isnt hard to know that it was his daughter that wrote the blog. 6. yes it was deer season, but house is no where near hunting grounds :P

Ok, So I am from Coalinga i was in High School when all this was going on. First thing I want to say is that if you read around on this case you might hear that there were shots fired at her dad's house. This is an out right fabrication. No shots were ever fired I know quite a few of the police officers in town and none of them can account for any of that sort of thing. Moving on. . .The girl that wrote the blog had come back to coalinga to visit her parents and go to the Football game. At the game her old friends treated her like crap and so she wrote this blog. The reason why this became such a huge deal is because the girl that wrote the blog on Myspace was a "Coalinga Golden Girl". Coalinga is very small and being that it is small everyone knows everyone and when someone goes off to a good college and shows alot of promise we as a town are very proud of them. When she wrote that blog it hurt a lot of people's feelings. I believe she intended on it only targeting a few of her old friends but she didn't choose her words carefully enough to exclude all coalingons. Once word got out that she had written her ode everyone was printing it out and it was circulating the school and everyone was getting really worked up about it. Our principal got wind of it and in his anger decided to submit it to the local paper. Right or wrong that is how it all started. Coalinga is a small town. When everyone knows everyone stuff like this happens. It is sad to watch, and I was disappointed that the Family lost their business because of it, because they were a good asset to the community in Coalinga. If you have any other questions about it let me know. . .

My roommate had a bluetooth Logitech mx1000 and i have a rf mx1000. The difference in performance and battery life is huge. The RF mouse was sooo much better. If you are only planning on web browsing though i would imagine that it is pretty inconsequential, but if you are gaming or doing anything mouse intensive you will regret bluetooth.

Hmm im trying to remember what ever happened to Glenn Beck. . . O ya he went to Fox.

Do you really think he didn't already have the physical copy of the cd, and that he didnt get that for free?

If this goes through they will prob have a premium service that you have to pay for that will be ad free.

I work in a IT department that supports about 100 users. We give open office to all the users and then we will install MS office on special requests. In my experience it is not smooth. The program works fine, but the users don't like change, simple as that.

You forget that while in the New Testament Jesus is all loving, but he also hates. He hates sin. The bible clearly says in the old and new testament that homosexuality is a sin. This does not mean that we should hate homosexuals though. Jesus always loved the person, he detests the act.