News lifestyle 2008-08-02 Andanh.com

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Backpack through Lexington loaded up with school supplies Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:32 EDT

At 6:30 p.m. Thursday .. as in tonight . Jack and Ann Salyer invite you to stop by NorthEast Christian Church and join their friends, fellow church members and strangers as they help students in need.

.You don't have to bring anything,. Jack Salyer said. .Just yourself.

.It will be a night of fun, .fellowship, food and surprises, and work..

In other words, wear comfortable shoes and clothing, and bring your best altruistic attitudes.

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:54 EDT

Appeals court OKs ID cards for use of medical marijuana

Federal law does not pre-empt state law in a court battle over the licensing of medical marijuana, an appeals court has ruled.

San Diego and San Bernardino counties had argued that issuing identification cards to eligible users, as required by the 1996 state law, would violate federal law, which does not recognize the state measure.

But the appeals court concluded Thursday that ID card laws .do not pose a significant impediment. to the federal Controlled Substances Act because that law is designed to .combat recreational drug use, not to regulate a state's medical practices..

Learning to landscape with lists Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:54 EDT

Landscape Planning:Practical Techniquesfor the Home Gardener (Second edition,revised and expanded)By Judith Adam.Firefly Books. 247 pp. $29.95

Landscaping is not for the faint of heart or the impatient, but Judith Adam makes it less daunting.

In this updated edition of her 2002 book, the Canadian horticulturist, landscape designer and television personality leads readers step-by-step through the entire landscaping process from the initial area assessment to maintenance, including topics like hiring professionals, figuring costs, and grading and drainage.

She even provides a sample four-year plan and a worksheet for developing your own plan. Adam is big on lists, which I found helpful: 10 elements of landscape design, a 10-point property assessment survey, the 10 best tools, the 10 best shrubs, trees, annuals, perennials and more.

Garrard church celebrates 225th anniversary Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:54 EDT

Old Paint Lick Presbyterian Church in Garrard County will celebrate its 225th anniversary this weekend.

The church was built of logs on a four-acre tract in 1782 and founded by the Rev. David Rice, a Presbyterian minister from Virginia.

One of the four men credited with building the church, Thomas Maxwell, also helped organize the Presbyterian church at Silver Creek in Madison County, and later moved to Lexington where he was an officer in the first Presbyterian church in the city. Maxwell Street was named after him, according to historians at Paint Lick Presbyterian.

In 1830, a new brick church was built near Ky. 52, across the highway from Manse Road and the location of the first church. Church historians say it was the largest congregation in the state circa 1860.

Pang pong: a company's net gain Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:04 EDT

Take a splash of tabletop ping-pong, add a dash of tennis and you create pang pong, a game played by employees at Hitachi Automotive Products in Harrodsburg.

And they don't have to sneak to play it. The company not only encourages it as a way to unite the workers and celebrate cultural differences, but it has installed at least five pang pong courts on the grounds.

Employees have played pang pong since Hisanori Nakajima, who was the vice president and general manager of HAP Kentucky for about four years before moving back to Japan in April, introduced it to them, human resources manager David Edwards said.

Pang pong was created at Hitachi's Japanese headquarters and has been played there for at least 30 years.

UK linguists, Shughni scholars work to save spoken language Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:48 EDT
Imagine a world in which your native language is spoken by a population about one-fifth the size of Lexington.

Imagine, also, that your language is not taught in schools, broadcast over the airwaves or preserved in literature. And one by one, the words of your language are being replaced by the words of a more dominant language in the region.

Such is the predicament for the Shughni people, who speak a minority language in the Pamir Mountains of eastern Tajikistan.

But thanks to a team of linguists at the University of Kentucky, the Shughni language has a better chance for long-term survival. The UK researchers, under the direction of linguistics professor Greg Stump, are hosting three Shughni-speaking scholars from Tajikistan this month for a series of workshops dedicated to the study of the language.

The workshops are the first step toward creating not only a written script for Shughni, but also a full-length grammar of the language for others to study.

Learning to go back to school Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:55 EDT

Add some back-to-school buzz to your fun-in-the-sun summer by throwing Yoko, Splat or Wiggles onto the book shelf for your kids, especially those prone to first-day jitters.

In addition to new and familiar characters to soothe and prepare there is a two-tier counting book celebrating teachers and what they teach . from art to geometry.

Written by husband-and-wife educators Steven L. Layne and Deborah Dover Layne, Number 1 Teacher: A School Counting Book (Sleeping Bear Press, $17.95, ages 6-12) includes quick rhymes full of science terms (liquid, solid, gas), musical help (five lines in a staff), a memory tip for the colors of a rainbow (Roy G. Biv) and the number of parts of speech in a sentence (eight).

The rhymes are accompanied by longer, fast-moving narratives offering older students fun facts and hard-core history.

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