Archive for March, 2010

  • Publisher’s Corner Publisher’s Corner

    By Eloise Graham April - The Diamond Month Diamonds are a girls’ best friend…or so the saying goes. Diamond is the birthstone of April. It is nothing more than a big chunk of coal that is really old and has been under a lot of pressure. All joking aside, the diamond is carbon whose atom...

  • Who Knew? Teachers Are People Too! Who Knew? Teachers Are People Too!

    By Gary Metivier Teachers can be scary. Okay, maybe a better word is ‘intimidating.’ But did you know teachers are people too? Some of them are parents. Some of them go to church. And from what I hear, all of them go to restaurants to eat from time to time and may partake in an occasional gla...

  • Preserving those Precious Memories Preserving those Precious Memories

    By Harry G. Coin Industrial/Systems Software Architect CEO, Quiet Fountain LLC 563-332-4970 • hcoin@quietfountain.com So, there I was: just under 50 years old, looking at about 100 boxes of photographs on slides taken from the 1950s through the 1980s, holding all the memories of our pare...

  • In and Out of the Quad Cities In and Out of the Quad Cities

    Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall How about a different twist? Nope not the Chubby Checker version, or the chocolate ice cream variety; instead we refer to that great metaphorical twist. Once reserved exclusively for great literary circles, words like literary theorist, philosophic ae...

  • Strengthening Families and Communities Strengthening Families and Communities

    By Rondi Doyle Director of Community Relations Child Abuse Council The month of April is devoted to celebrating and supporting everything we can do to transform our community into a place that really cares about families and children, which is what prevention is all about. We all care ab...

  • Butter …better for you than Margarine…? Butter …better for you than Margarine…?

    By Robert J. Scranton, D.C. Fibromyalgia Centers of America Before 1920 coronary heart disease was very rare in the United States. Paul Dudley White introduced the electrocardiograph to colleagues at Harvard University and was told to focus on something that would be more profitable. The new ma...

  • Surf’s Up – Internet News     Surf’s Up – Internet News

    .... dedicated to providing information about the Internet. Free Stuff in Hard Times By Chris Cournoyer e-mail: webmaster@ccx.net Domain: www.ccx.net Times are tough. When the economy stinks, we all look for savings anywhere we can. And this includes our technology needs. This article f...

  • Tales by Triplett - Phone Phobia Tales by Triplett – Phone Phobia

    By Patrick Triplett Remember the good old days when you could dial a telephone number and actually speak to the person you were calling? Well, those days are over. Now you either talk to an answering machine, a voice mail, or a recorded message that gives you an endless list of options before you...