He said: "It's a very sad loss of a very good friend I spent many great times with".

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I'm Ed Gordon and this is NEWS AND NOTES. The Internet is a great tool for research, but how many times have you found yourself overwhelmed by search results, when you're trying to find something fairly simple?

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What a great irony we have in the stone industry when the industry was many times more profitable when details were all done by hand versus now when the work is now mostly done by tools and machines not available 25 years ago.

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When we think of the women who ran for president in modern times, many of them were formidable candidates with great ideas, and had they lived in a different time, we may have elected them.

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