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Agape Bible Fellowship2111 South Darlington Ave.Free lunch for students from 12 to 2 p.m.The Bridges FoundationIn support of our Oklahoma teachers, The Bridges Foundation is offering full day classes for students with special needs grades 10-12 beginning April 2nd. Classes are offered at no expense to parents.Register online at www.thebridgesfound.org. Space is limited.

James M. Fullerton, of Mason City, was one of nine funeral directors recognized for 40 years in the business during the 138th Annual Iowa Funeral Directors Association Convention, May 15-17, in Altoona.

Costas Soukoulis, Ames Laboratory senior scientist and Iowa State University Frances M. Craig Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor, has been named as a 2018 National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow.

Carson City Natives & Newcomers will be starting the New Year off Thursday at 11:30 a.m. at Red’s 395 Grill, 1055 S. Carson Street.

"I’m sure there’s times where that vehicle was probably completely on the wrong side of the road, and that’s a windy road. Somebody else could’ve been coming from the other direction, and they could have had a head-on collision," Lukes said.

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One recurring theme we noticed: new customers are getting better packages, for less money, than existing customers. When pricing out comparable bundles for the bill guides, we generally saw that new customers were being offered the same or better service for $10-$20 less than our current customer. We even found one ten-year Charter customer, whose bill we did not publish, paying roughly $75 per month more than a brand-new customer, getting similar service, in their neighborhood would. Customers who do happen to live in competitive markets might as well shop around, check with other businesses, and see who’s offering the best deal. Competition has this way of dropping prices and improving available service, after all. Unfortunately, a huge percentage of us live in markets where we are stuck with a cable/broadband monopoly, so switching is off the table. The conventional wisdom says that if you can’t quit, you may as well negotiate. And for a long time, that was good advice. As recently as 2014, our siblings at Consumer Reports put together a handy list of tips for negotiating a better deal with your cable company. Even in a 2015 survey Consumer Reports still found that by and large, the 42% of customers who tried to negotiate were able either to reduce their bills or to get more services included for the prices they were paying. Anecdotally, however, it appears that the big companies — especially Comcast — aren’t as interested in negotiating with you as they used to be. Consumerist readers who have tried to negotiate better TV or triple-play rates with Comcast in recent months tell Consumerist that the company is simply not playing anymore, and the calls are ending either with rates unchanged or with Comcast calling a would-be cord-cutter’s bluff, and cheerfully snipping their service. Why the turn-around from extreme efforts at retention to a “don’t let the door hit’cha on the way out” attitude? Perhaps the wave of high profile, awkward, painful, retention-related PR disasters the company endured in 2014 and early 2015 has finally pushed it in that direction. Or maybe they’re just reading the writing on the wall: pay-TV has been losing customers for a while, after all, while broadband subscriptions are going up, up, up. And pay TV costs a lot more to provide, and has much thinner profit margins on it, than broadband service does. So, friends and readers, we leave you with a parting curiosity. We want to know: if you think your bills are too dang high, have you tried negotiating, and how has that worked out for you? [polldaddy type=”iframe” survey=”B107034769717C73″ height=”auto” domain=”kcoxconsumer” id=”cable-negotiation-1″]

He, however, said the suspects were all handed over to the police command in the respective states for proper investigation and possible prosecution.

There was a few simple rules for the list. Only one trail per city or town, and stats are based entirely on publicly available Strava rides. So, if you don’t see your favourite section of singletrack named below, you can congratulate your local scene on riding purely for the joy of it, instead of always racing against the clock.

Route 209 was closed more than three hours for several miles from Route 248 to near the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the dispatcher said.

The creators and cast took over the Cecconi’s indoor-outdoor party. "Having been a part of a couple of memorable things as an actor, long ago, there’s a great appreciation for when it comes back around so that’s sort of the celebration for me and then the more present answer is I haven’t been challenged like this as an actor in a very, very long time," said actor Kevin Pollock. "It’s astonishing and crazy in terms of the challenge of doing this show and therefore instantly rewarding while you’re doing it so this is crazy icing on the cake but we’re all still pinching ourselves. We just finished shooting the second season and we’re all still madly in love with each other and the show. So here’s to that."

However, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) precludes the use of most metals used in catheter construction. Liquid crystal polymer (LCP) monofilament braiding, a newly developed alternative to metal, has taken on the challenge of MRI-compatibility. LCP possesses many beneficial properties for catheter braiding, including autoclavability, chemical resistance, mechanical properties that rival some stainless steel braidings, and diameters as small as 0.002 in. (0.051 mm).