Saturday, the mailbox contained:
April 9, 2007 issue of BusinessWeek (Who’s Afraid of Google? With its tear through media, software, and telecom, the Web giant is raising new fears of its growing influence.) Coupons from Mailbox Savings An advertisement from Friendly Lincoln Mercury A plea from The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation A plea from Doctors Without Borders
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Saturday, the gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA were:
Grade Price
Regular $2.499
Mid $2.599
Premium $2.699
Diesel $2.799
Kerosene $2.699
Gas prices were unchanged today. For the month of March, gas prices increased 24 cents per gallon, and [...]
Friday, the mailbox contained:
April 6, 2007 issue of Entertainment Weekly (Harry Potter – All You Need To Know About the New Movie) April 2, 2007 issue of Sporting News (MLB 2007 Preview) March 2007 issue of Paste (Norah Jones) April 2007 issue of BBC Music (The 20th Greatest Sopranos – 30 years after her death, is Maria Callas [...]
Thursday, the mailbox contained:
Spring 2007 issue of National Parks (Hunting and Fishing in Alaska’s Park Units – A Cultural Legacy) April 1, 2007 issue of St. John’s “The Record” (Who is Grace St. John’s?) A membership offer from AARP (They’re several years early – I’m not 50 yet.) An offer for Mel Bartholomew’s Square Foot Gardening A plea from [...]
Thursday, the gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA were:
Grade Price
Regular $2.499
Mid $2.599
Premium $2.699
Diesel $2.799
Kerosene $2.699
Gas prices were up 10 cents per gallon today.
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Wednesday, the mailbox contained:
April 2, 2007 issue of Newsweek (any day I’m here could be the day I die. – The Iraq War in The Words of America’s Dead) May 2007 issue of Car and Driver (On the Road to Bagdad! – Who makes the best $25,000 funster?) April 2007 issue of Virginia Wildlife (Virginia’s Forgotten Lake [...]
The more time that children spent in child care, the more likely their sixth grade teachers were to report problem behavior.
Also, children who got quality child care before entering kindergarten had better vocabulary scores in the fifth grade than did youngsters who received lower quality care.
The findings come from the largest study of child care [...]
Tuesday, the mailbox contained:
Summer 2007 L.L.Bean Catalog An offer from GoDaddy.com An advertisement for Lugenis at The Art and Science of Dermatology Coupons from Food Lion A postcard from Salem Baptist Church A plea from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society A plea from the World Wildlife Fund A plea from UNICEF A plea from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Some books:
Reporting Vietnam; American Journalism, [...]
Tuesday, the gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA were:
Grade Price
Regular $2.399
Mid $2.499
Premium $2.599
Diesel $2.799
Kerosene $2.699
Diesel prices were up another 10 cents per gallon today. That’s 20 cents in 2 days!
Gas, [...]
Sheetz Gas Prices
Originally uploaded by Steve Jenkins.
Before the Exxon across the street went out of business, the price differences at this Sheetz on Apperson Drive between regular and plus and plus and premium were 6 cents per gallon. This morning, it jumped to 20 cents per gallon, so premium is now 40 cents [...]
Monday, the mailbox contained:
March 2007 issue of PC World (35 Things Every PC User Should Know!) March 2007 issue of Make: (Tales & Projects from the Fringe) Spring/Summer 2007 ULINE Catalog A plea from America’s Second Harvest Library of America Annual Report A plea from Team In Training A rebate check from Staples An offer from Back-To-Basics Marketplace 2007 Spring Calendar from the [...]
Monday, the gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA were:
Grade Price
Regular $2.399
Mid $2.499
Premium $2.599
Diesel $2.699
Kerosene $2.699
Gas prices were up 4 cents per gallon, and diesel prices were up 10 cents per gallon [...]
A survey found that 29 percent of U.S. households, or 31 million homes, do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe to an Internet service over the next 12 months.
The second annual National Technology Scan found the main reason potential customers say they do not subscribe to the Internet is because of [...]
Saturday, the mailbox contained:
April 2007 issue of TechNet (Toolbox Essentials) April 2007 issue of Business 2.0 (The 11 Coolest New Products On the Planet) April 2, 2007 issue of BusinessWeek (Beyond Virtual Reality – Motion-capture technology is bursting out of Hollywood and into companies such as Intel, Toyota, and Lockheed Martin) March-April 2007 issue of Appalachian Trail Journeys [...]
Friday, the mailbox contained:
April/May 2007 issue of Mother Earth News (Giant Garden Issue!) March-April 2007 issue of UTNE (America’s Slave Labor – Illegal Immigration: A Moral Solution) March 30, 2007 issue of Entertainment Weekly (Grindhouse – Tarantino and Rodriguez team up. Can America Hack It?) April 2007 issue of Wired (Why Exposing Yourself Is The Future [...]
Thursday, the mailbox contained:
March 2007 issue of RN (Finding the words – How to handle difficult conservations) March 26, 2007 issue of Sporting News (The all-access issue – Your behind-the-scenes, beyond-closed-doors, inside-the-games pass) April 2007 issue of Smithsonian (Wonders of Alexandria – Rediscovering the Fabled City of Cleopatra) April 2007 issue of Southern Living (Spring Attractions) March 2007 issue [...]
Home-buyers of tomorrow could find themselves walking across floors made from manure. Fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure could take the place of sawdust in fiberboard, which is used to make everything from furniture to flooring to store shelves. Researchers hope it could be part of the solution to disposing of the [...]
Wednesday, the mailbox contained:
May 2007 issue of Nintendo Power (Pokemon Perspectives) A Harbor Freight Catalog Coupons from Kroger A plea from the Appalachian Trail Conservancy A binder and coupons from Staples
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Faced with a $2.5 billion budget shortfall, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is eliminating hundreds of jobs (20% of jobs), cutting back programs and leaving more than 200 national wildlife refuges unstaffed.
The cuts also mean fewer law enforcement officers. In the Pacific region, only six officers will patrol a four-state area. In Oregon, [...]
Tuesday, the mailbox contained:
March 26, 2007 issue of Newsweek (Exercise And the Brain – We know that working out is good for the body. But now research says it also makes us smarter – and may help fight breast cancer and alzheimer’s) April 2007 issue of Real Simple (Hate to clean? Quick tricks to [...]