Atlanta

On Monday, Kid Rock was sentence to serving a year of probation and was fined $1,000 for his part in a fight at an Atlanta Waffle House this past fall. He was also sentenced to six hours of anger management counseling and 80 hours of community service. He pleaded no contest to one count of simple battery and four counts of battery were dropped.

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Here in Atlanta a major change in radio stations is about to happen. 99X, an alternative rock station, is about to go away, becoming an internet only station, and Q100, the number 2 top-40 station and leading FM station, is taking over the frequency, 99.7. The reasons listed are declining listeners for 99X and a need for Q100 to better compete with Star 94, the current number 1 top-40 station. I wonder though, if anyone really realizes the implications of what just happened.

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Today I did two things I thought I would never do. Both involve driving through certain areas.

We were invited to a birthday party about 45 miles away. The only thing was that the directions there called for me to drive on I285 in Atlanta, a road that makes me nervous just riding on. I've never driven on 285, and I've always sworn I would find a way to stay away from it. To me, the stress of riding on it just wasn't worth it. With that in mind, I used Google Maps to find a back roads route.

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The art of judo and ju-jitsu has a very special relationship between them. It was said that judo is actually developed from ju-jitsu, by Professor Jiguro Kano, the founder. Professor Jiguro Kano graduated from the Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1881 and wanted to introduce a form of physical exercise to his students. Through the several ju-jitsu schools he attended, he adopted the best principles of the art and developed judo. Judo, literally translated means the “gentle way”. Judo today is one of the most wide-spread martial arts and is a sport event in the olympic as well. However, the founder Jiguro Kano, envisaged judo as the development of a lifetime art, as opposed to a sport. He felt strongly that it was an art with the purpose of training one’s mind and body rather than to be a public competition.

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I really like the West Coast myself, but if Atlanta is where your heart lies, you might want to check out a recent press release from Atlanta Condos which provides an online search list to help buyers find condos in the Atlanta area.

The list is especially useful because it only includes condominiums and the prospective customer does not have to waste time plowing through all other kinds of available housing to find what he or she is looking for.

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