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How do you define pleasure?

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 3, 2010 - 5:37am

In her book, "Eat, Pray, Love," Elizabeth Gilbert talks about traveling to Italy to experience pleasure, a concept that she finds foreign. During her first few weeks in Rome, she struggles with coming to grips with what "pure pleasure" really is. Gilbert says that "pure pleasure is not my cultural paradigm," explaining that she grew up in a family of hard workers who were not given to idleness.

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2-2-10 Libby Frazier, age 5, bowls a 19 game average

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 2, 2010 - 10:04pm
2-2-10 Libby Frazier, age 5, bowls a 19 game average

2 spares in a row!

Libby Frazier, 5, isn't your average bowler. She's the youngest bowler to ever play a serious game at Southgate Lanes. That makes her above average. On the day this photo was taken she bowled two spares in a row and she happily maintains a game average of 19. The kindergartener is the daughter of Todd and Tonya Frazier, Bluffton.

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South and east of the border

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 2, 2010 - 6:12pm
4GN 346

A "Wild" West Virginia license plate in white and blue, was captured in the Rosenberger Drive parking lot at Bluffton University.

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Regional news
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About that knock under the hood - take it to Kirtland's

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 2, 2010 - 4:33pm
Gary Kirtland and Jim Kinn in a familiar pose

Click here to view the Kirtland's Auto photo gallery.

By Austin Arnold, BGSU Icon intern
If you hear a clunk or feel a knock in your car, what should you do? You might want to start by getting it checked out at Kirtland's Auto Repair Center on the corner of Main and Jefferson.

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January registered temperature extremes

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 2, 2010 - 4:04pm

January registered an extreme in temperatures, according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer. The high temperature for the month was 50 degrees on Jan. 24. The low was minus 2 on Jan. 3.

January 2010's average daily temperature was 22.9 degrees. The normal average daily January temperature is 23.6 degrees.

Snowfall reached 9.9 inches in January. The average January precipitation is 2.04 inches.

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Regional news
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January Bluffton police docket

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 2, 2010 - 3:56pm

Bluffton Police Department
Public Docket January 2010

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Police/Fire/EMS
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