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DALTON, Minn. — The Otter Tail County Sheriff's Office has identified the man killed in a tornado Wednesday evening, July 8.
Seth Nelson, 30, of rural Battle Lake, Minn., died when the shop he was working in collapsed during one of the tornadoes that struck southeast Otter Tail County.
The sheriff's office said the National Weather Service classified the tornado Nelson died in as category three on the enhanced Fujita scale — meaning it had wind speeds between 136 and 165 mph.
Authorities said two tornadoes touched down in Otter Tail County Wednesday evening, creating a 6-9 mile path of damage in the southeastern part of the county.
Dennis Schmidt, chairman of the Eagle Lake Township board, said he watched the tornado from a hill near his farm and said he knows the man who died.
He said the man was working in his shop when it collapsed on him. Schmidt wouldn't give the man's name, knowing that his next of kin likely had not been notified.
Emergency responders were blocking off traffic in the area as first responders with the Ashby Fire Department were going door to door checking on other rural residents after the tornado hit at about 5:20 p.m.
Roads were closed to the public throughout the area as homes and buildings were destroyed and trees were down, Schmidt said.
"There's insulation and tin all over the place," he added.
Nick Carletta, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Forks, said the tornado that was possibly as wide as 500 yards at some points was one of the worst in the area in several years.
He said it could be on top of the scale for tornadoes, which would be an EF5.
"From preliminary evidence, it could be from an EF3 to an EF5," Carletta said. A NWS meteorologist was on the scene examining the damage.
An EF3 tornado means wind speeds reached 136 mph, and if it was an EF5 the wind was greater than 200 mph.
Carletta said the meteorologist saw at least one home lifted from its foundation which would mean it was on the higher end of the tornado scale.
The tornado had "multiple touchdowns," he said as its path went from west of Ashby, across Interstate 94, to southeast of Dalton and then moved to the area south of Battle Lake.
A tornado warning for the area was issued at 5:08 p.m., Carletta said, and was lifted at 6 p.m. as the storm moved eastward.
"It was a bad one," Schmidt said about the twister he watched from about four miles away. He estimated the tornado was on the ground for about 20 minutes.
Carletta said it could have been on the ground for as long as 30 minutes.
"I watched it go down, then it would hit the water and go up and then back down again," Schmidt said.
He said the Sewell Lake area in south-central Otter Tail County, about six miles southeast of Dalton, was one of the hardest hit areas.
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Friday, January 8, 2010
Countdown to departure.
Last day. We're cramming in as much as we can and I'm sure I won't get much sleep tonight. I need to finish Steve's laundry so he can pack, he needs to clean out his truck, and somebody probably should have made a checklist of all the everyday things he will need to remember - like medications and replacement blades for his razor.
I'm trying to stay upbeat, but there are moments when this weird combination of anxiety and sadness chips away at my resolve. I chase it away with the reminder of how happy I am that things are on an upswing for us, and how proud I am of Steve for doing everything he can to support his family. I'm also a little excited that I will be able to concentrate on some projects at home while he is away. Keeping busy is usually the best medicine for loneliness.
As expected, the kids are wearing their emotions on their sleeves this week. Tempers flare a little quicker, tears come a little easier. This morning Rachel, our 7-yr-old, was bummed because we didn't have enough bread to make cold lunch (both the kids usually take their lunches to school). When she got over that drama she asked for an egg and cheese burrito for breakfast. I told her we didn't have any tortillas and she cried. Not a spoiled-brat-whining-for-what-she-wants kind of cry; more like an "I'm really sad and this just sucks" kind of cry. So I hugged her and then sat down on the couch and held her for a while. She's always been our uber-sensitive child. Someday I might tell her to suck it up and get over it, but not today. Not when I know exactly how she's feeling.
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Thinking of you guys!ReplyDelete
Aw, man, you're gonna make me cry!ReplyDelete
At least in this day and age we have tons of ways to communicate and keep in touch. Does Steve have a laptop or web access on his phone? If not, I think DR would be okay with working that into the budget for the sake of family unity!
Thank you, ladies. :)ReplyDelete
Leanne, he does have a laptop and we chat a lot that way when he's gone. I think we might have to go the web-cam route for the kids this time, though. We'll see how the first couple of weeks go.
Okay girl you are gonna make me all sad for ya....ReplyDelete
I know Mike tells the guys 'it's like a military deployment'.
Happy and sad for you all at once!
Empress ... *snicker* ... you crack me up.ReplyDelete
Don't be sad! This is a GOOD thing! Just promise me we can get together for lunch or something when the kids and I are out there to visit. ;)
Of course we will do coffee, lunch or something.ReplyDelete
And I will show yall Gabe's....it really is my favorite place to take folks. Nothing but a huge garage sale but I love it so much.


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03 Apr Inspire the Future Songwriters of the World
Inspire the Future Songwriters of the World
Teaching children a new skill can be one of the most rewarding experiences in life. When you teach children how to do something for the first time, you get to experience it through their eyes.
Teaching children how to write songs takes that experience to another level as you watch them find their creative sides and grow as artists and as human beings. A child who wants to be a songwriter is willing, to be honest, and face his or her true emotions.
Why should you teach children to write songs?
Music is a big part of our lives. It's who we are and creates the soundtrack of our experiences and memories. We use it to celebrate, as background at home and in movies, and to learn. It has a powerful effect on our brains and emotions, and its constant presence improves our lives. When we interact with each other while making music, we build strong relationships and communicate on a deeper level.
When children learn how to write songs, they are forced to learn how language works and how to experiment with different rhythmical and rhyming structures. Below are just some of the many areas in which children learn when they compose their own music
Thinking and Attention Skills
Songwriting and composing takes an enormous amount of both spontaneity and intense focus. There is also a powerful rule of cause and effect. The choices a songwriter makes in use of lyrics, rhythm, tone and many others have a direct effect on the listener. Anyone making music needs to pay attention to their actions and how those actions affect their work. Writers must be aware of where they are in a song and how each note sounds. Making music helps people experience the moment in a way they would probably never learn otherwise.
Language Skills
Music is one of the most natural and long-lasting methods to build language skills. Every writer must carefully consider the songwriting content from the first word until the last because every word has an effect. Learning these skills early can help with reading and even learning other languages.
Motor Skills
From singing to dancing to playing an instrument, music is best experienced through physical interaction. Children learn how to control their bodies, focusing on each movement to get the desired effect. They can learn coordination and stamina as they practice their skills.
Even if they are only writing for fun, children can learn the discipline that comes with practicing musical skills. When you help them with the songwriting process, you can also help them establish a routine that will allow them to go through the process of writing and revising a song until they have achieved a completed song worthy of a songwriter's competition.
How to teach children to write songs
You can teach children how to write songs in groups or individually, although writing in a group can be a little less intimidating when they are just starting out. The earlier children start experimenting with writing songs, the more natural and comfortable they will feel doing it. It is easier to break it down into steps:
- Come up with an idea for a song. If you are teaching a group, get them to brainstorm together to come up with an idea, at least the first few times. Using a whiteboard to track the ideas can be helpful. And remember, no idea is a bad idea. During this brainstorming phase, it's important to stress that there is no editing.
- Make a list of some of the words you associate with your idea. Have everyone put their ideas together and talk about the similarities. Again, create a safe environment within the group – no idea is a bad idea.
- Choose a melody, the simpler the better. Nursery rhymes are good melodies to start with, as they are simple and memorable. Another great exercise is to have them choose one of their favorite songs and rewrite the words to go with the existing melody. Here is a chance to write a new song for Frozen.
- Work on writing the chorus first. It's the repetitive part, and you can use the words the children have come up with. This is a good way to teach them about creating hooks.
Now that you have a framework, a theme and, a tune, write some verses that will fit. Take a break from the song for a week or so and play other music. Then perform the music and see how it sounds. Feel comfortable revising the song as you need to. Being willing to change and edit are important parts of the discipline of songwriting.
Benefits of Children Writing Songs
The look of joy on a child's face after hearing their completed masterpiece is a reward in itself. Once they have written their first song, children will feel a sense of accomplishment that can't be taken away. There is a thrill that comes from knowing that they created something that didn't exist in the world before and can live forever. This excitement is contagious and gives them confidence that they can write a song. At that point, children know that they can do it, and they can keep writing songs and getting better.
As they progress and become more skilled in language and music, they will very likely start doing creative activities with no encouragement. Songwriting skills lead to other long term skills and accomplishments. Children who practice music have higher IQs, higher test scores and better spatial-temporal skills.
Songwriting is also a great way for children to process their feelings in a positive, constructive way. It can become a powerful life skill they can use to handle difficult situations in their lives. It can also increase empathy in children, as writing from someone else's perspective allows the writer to imagine life through another person's eyes.
Experts don't think that music itself makes people smarter; they believe that all those benefits come from practicing the skills necessary to make music. With songwriting, the musicians get an extra advantage in that they have their own personal work that they created. So don't be afraid to share your songwriting skills and passion for music with the future writers of the world and experience the true power of music.
You might also like these related blogs on songwriting:
About us: Foxhedge Music is a management company and recording studio located in historic Leipers Fork. Our mission is to support and encourage songwriters. We believe they are the back-beat of Music City, while we continue to invest our time and resources in the Music City community. Through the Music City SongStar Songwriting Contest, we want to give songwriters a chance to have their music heard. We're believers in creativity, chasing dreams and getting the chance to pursue your passion.


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He tries to feed her goldfish crackers while we're riding in the car. "No, honey, baby can't have crackers yet. In a few months, but not now."
He finds a binky, and brings it across the room to her. (Too bad she was sleeping before he tried to put it in her mouth...)
At playtime, she lays on her Boppy, entranced by him. He dances and picks out toys she's certain to love. He makes his stuffed owl hoot at her, presses the button so his dancing dog dances and sings to her. He hands her his favorite farmer and some animals. Sometimes she even gives him the hint of a smile.
"Hi, fweetie...Hi, Natalie...awwww", he coos, and grabs at her hand as she lies in her swing.
He reaches over to pat her back along with me as she fusses and finally burps on my shoulder.
She wakes from her nap, crying. "Let's go get Natalie! She wants a snack." he proclaims, and so we do. And she does.
And right now, this is how he loves her.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
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- Janine said...
So perfectly beautiful.
: )
- January 28, 2010 at 5:25 PM
- Zoey Martin said...
So lovely!
- January 29, 2010 at 7:56 AM
- Tiffany said...
Oh, Carrie! That bond that they are growing is so, so special. it is one of my favorite things to watch here in my home.
PS I am praying for you.
- January 30, 2010 at 9:04 PM
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Various surveys report that the great majority of harassed workers (between 75% and 90%) report adverse psychological effects, including PTSD symptoms, eating disorders, crying spells, loss of self-esteem, and feelings of anger, humiliation, shame, embarrassment, nervousness, irritability, alienation, vulnerability, helplessness, and lack of motivation (Harned & Fitzgerald, 2002; Jorgenson & Wahl, 2000; Larsen & Fitzgerald, 2011).


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A number of multinational firms whose Indian susbsidiaries are listed on the local stock exchanges are in the process of delisting. This is the second round of such delisting trend which was observed around 8-10 years ago when the markets had tanked and numerous MNCs found an opportunity to exit from the Indian bourse. But the rise in the stock market could make such delisting offers unsuccessful.
The firms who have over the last few months announced delisting offers or buyback offers which would ultimately lead to delisting include names like South Korean confectionery maker Lotte India, drug maker Novartis, Mylan owned Matrix Labs.
US generics drugmaker Mylan is the latest to offer to buy back 24.8% of Matrix Laboratories at an indicative price of Rs 150 which is the same level at which it is trading currently at the stock exchange. Matrix Labs scrip has moved up 30% since the time Mylan first indicated that it is coming up with a delisting offer. On the day Matrix Labs informed the stock exchange about the offer from Mylan to buyout the minority shareholders, the stock opened 20% up compared to the previous days closing and has moved up further 8% to Rs 152 as against the indicative offer price of Rs 150/share. Mylan holds 71.2% in Matrix and Indian founder of the firm N Prasad hold around 5% in the company.
Korean FMCG firm Lotte came up with a revised offer last month. It had last year rejected the price of Rs 825 determined by the reverse book building process(through which such delisting is to be implemented) as it considered it too high. The new 'indicative' offer price is pegged at Rs 370/share. Given that the ruling price is Rs 504 this offer is unlikely to muster any share either.
The latest trend began sometime in 2007 when the markets were still up and has only gathered steam since then. Some of the MNC arms which got delisted over the last 1-2 years include Bosch Chassis Systems, GE Capital Transport, Panasonic AVC, Wartsila and Ray Ban.
Now many others are trying to take that route to get rid of stringent listing norms which require numerous disclosures. MNCs had listed their Indian arms due to a government policy which required them to dilute a part of holding to local investors. Overtime the quantum of equity to be owned by local investors were relaxed and eventually as the economy opened up many MNCs started buying out the investors in these companies.
Stringent Listing Norms; Disclosures Not Go Down Well With MNC's
While the exit of MNCs from the bourses faced some criticism, they had a strong argument against listed. The key reason for someone going public is to raise funds but given their parents backing they didn't require to raise funds in India. In addition the listing requirements added to costs and also required country specific disclosures which MNCs are not very comfortable with. Given a chance they would like to have just one firm which is the parent firm to be listed in the home market.
As a result a number of MNCs such as Philips, Cadbury, Otis, Carrier, Reckitt Benckiser to name a few delisted themselves around a decade back. That was also the time when the market was at a low and the MNCs found ready takers to sell out shares.
When the market was in a bull run such delisting offers almost dried up and barring a few exceptions there were not many delisting offers. This was because of two reasons-- rising cost of buying out the shares and less probability of successful open offer as many investors tend to expect the share price to go up and look for a significant premium to the ruling stock price.
Infact some investors (largely punters) usually do not participate in open offers expecting the MNC to keep raising offer price. As a result in many companies --even those who have got delisted-- have some public shareholders who refuse to sell out and ask for ever higher premium to tender their shares.
Over the last one year some MNCs have found an innovative way to get round the problem of unsuccessful buyout offers. They were also helped by the market crash which forced many punters to look at selling out at a reasonable price.
As per the strategy, first used by Bosch Chassis Systems and GE Capital Transport, MNCs started disclosing the maximum 'acceptable' price for delisting. Although, some firms in the past have given an indicative price for delisting higher than the floor price these two were probably the first where they have given the maximum acceptable price. While the shareholders are still free to ask for a higher price, in these cases, the maximum acceptable price disclosed by the acquirers has become the final discovered price by default.
Delisting Norms
The delisting norms require acquirers to follow a price discovery mechanism through the reverse book building route. As per this all minority shareholders tender their shares asking for a price without any ceiling. The acquirers discloses the 'floor' price which is determined as the average of the preceding 26 weeks traded price quoted on the stock exchange where the equity shares are most frequently traded. The price at which the maximum number of shares are tendered becomes the exit or discovered price for delisting. It is upto the acquirers to accept or reject this discovered price. If they reject the price than the company stays listed.
In both Bosch Chassis and GE Capital Transport, the maximum acceptable price disclosed by the acquirers eventually became the final discovered price. It is argued that minority investors figure out that the premium that they are going to get over the existing market price may not be available if the acquirer rejects a price which is above its 'acceptable' price. As a result most shareholders tender their shares at that price even as they are free to ask for a higher price.


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An 614-AvA Speeder Bike (also known as an Imperial Speeder Bike) were a series of speeder bikes used by the Galactic Empire. Manufactured by Aratech Repulsor Company, these speeder bikes were armed with twin laser cannons located at the front and work alongside All Terrain Defense Pod walkers and TIE Fighters to form a high-speed strike force, cutting down escaping rebels.
Speeder Bikes were ideal for long-distance scouting missions and patrolling large areas with minimal use of fuel or personnel. More nimble than Troop Transports, they allowed Stormtroopers to survey difficult terrain or chase after fleeing suspects. It could also tow up to two crates.
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- The design of this speeder bike model was developed from an early illustration by concept artist Joe Johnston in 1979.


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Often referred to as the land of poets, Chile has a rich and colorful literary tradition that has been recognized throughout the world thanks to its two Nobel Prizes and a stack of other awards.
Now the South American nation will feature as the guest of honor at next year's edition of Latin America's largest literary event, the International Book Fair (FIL) of Guadalajara, Mexico
Every year since 1993, the fair's organizers have invited a different country to attend the event as guest of honor, putting on a series of special performances and profiling their literary achievements throughout the the event.
The guest of honor at this year's event, which was attended by 660,000 people and close to 2,000 publishing houses from over 40 countries, was Germany. The year 2012 will be the second time Chile has received this privileged position, which it also held in 1999.
Chilean Minister of Culture Luciano Cruz-Coke described the opportunity as a great honor for Chile, as he accepted next year's invitation at the fair's closing ceremony, according to El Mercurio.
"We accept this invitation with great responsibility, as is fitting for the most important event of its type in the Spanish-speaking world," he said.
The minister also used his speech to pay tribute to some of Chile's greatest literary figures, including acclaimed poet Nicanor Parra, who had won the 2011 Cervantes Prize just days earlier.
"We have reached the literary pinnacle with two winners of the Nobel Prize [for Literature], Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, while other [Chilean] figures have made up the vanguard of literary creativity, including Vicente Huidobro and Nicanor Parra, whom I congratulate now."
According to Cruz-Coke, Chile is currently experiencing a literary boom which is evident in the resurgence of the local publishing industry.
Among the positive signs are the emergence of new voices in Chilean narratives, the strength of local independent publishing houses and the appearance of new types of books, such as comics and graphic novels.
At the ceremony, Germany's ambassador to Mexico, Edmund Duckwitz, praised Chile, saying his country enjoyed close ties of friendship and cooperation with the South American nation.
"We are certain that it will be a worthy successor for the next edition of this marvelous fair and festival," he said.
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When scientists first started to figure out how to extract DNA from ancient skeletons, their success was met with astonishment. One minute, scientists were fishing Richard III's genes from his royal bones, and the next they were showing off DNA retrieved from 500-year-old Incan mummies.
The idea that DNA could survive for thousands of years — let alone be reassembled into an entire genome — seemed little short of miraculous.
Despite the field's rapid advances in recent years, though, ancient DNA is still hard to find and hard to make sense of. Potential errors lurk around every corner. Even little oversights can cause big headaches.
Andrea Manica, a geneticist at the University of Cambridge, appreciates this fact all too well. A head-turning study by his team turned out to have a fundamental flaw that erased some of its most provocative conclusions.
In October, Dr. Manica and his colleagues reconstructed the first ancient human genome ever found in Africa, retrieved from the skeleton of a man who lived in Ethiopia 4,500 years ago.
Ancient DNA experts were delighted, because the genome may provide clues about African history that other kinds of evidence — broken pottery shards, for example, or scraps of ancient manuscripts — cannot.
"It's an amazing, amazing, unique, special, incredible, first-of-its-kind data set," David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School who was not involved in the study, said in an interview.
Retracted Scientific Studies: A Growing List
The retraction by Science of a study of changing attitudes on gay marriage is the latest in a growing number of prominent withdrawals of the results of studies from scientific literature.
After Dr. Manica and his colleagues published their results, Dr. Reich and Pontus Skoglund, another geneticist at Harvard, requested the original data. They wanted to use it in their own studies of ancient human populations.
Dr. Reich and Dr. Skoglund reanalyzed the findings — but did not reach the same conclusions.
In the original study, Dr. Manica and his colleagues sought to understand how the ancient Ethiopian man (dubbed Mota, after the cave where his body was buried) was related to other humans. The researchers found many unique mutations that linked Mota to a group of Ethiopians who live near the cave today, known as the Ari.
By contrast, the researchers found that Mota was only distantly related to many people elsewhere in Africa. In fact, the analysis suggested that most living Africans shared some DNA with Europeans and Asians that were missing from Mota's genome.
To explain these intriguing results, Dr. Manica and his colleagues tested out different historical scenarios. In the best-supported one, a group of people migrated from the Near East back to East Africa — a so-called backflow — about 3,000 years ago. In subsequent generations, their DNA spread across Africa.
But some of the implications of this theory were surprising. For one thing, this backflow seemed to have raged like a flood, spreading all the way across the continent in relatively little time.
Those provocative implications drew wide attention in the media, including The Times. Unfortunately, Dr. Skoglund and Dr. Reich couldn't find any trace of the migration beyond East Africa.
Once Dr. Manica learned of the conundrum, he and his colleagues retraced their steps.
They discovered that they had neglected to take one small but essential step in their analysis. "It was clear human error," said Dr. Manica in an interview. "It's just something that should have been done that didn't get done."
The DNA in a bone thousands of years old has broken into little fragments. After scientists retrieve those fragments, they must fit the pieces back together like a jigsaw puzzle.
One way to do a jigsaw puzzle is to refer to the picture on the box. Similarly, scientists working with ancient gene fragments refer to a standard reference genome to figure out what goes where. That requires software designed to reassemble DNA fragments in as little time as possible.
As it turns out, the data produced by the program used to map Mota's DNA came in a format that had to be tweaked before the scientists used a second program to compare it with other genomes. In the Mota study, no one did the tweaking.
That little oversight had a big impact. Dr. Manica and his colleagues unknowingly ignored some spots in the genome where Mota's DNA was identical to that of Eurasians. As a result, Mota appeared not to be as closely related to Eurasians as he really was.
The mistake also created the false impression that many Africans outside of East Africa shared a lot of genes with Eurasians, DNA not found in Mota's genome.
Dr. Manica and his colleagues last week posted a statement about the error, which was first reported in the journal Nature. They have asked Science, where their study appeared, to publish an erratum, and the journal is considering it.
Still, Dr. Reich noted, other parts of the original study, such as the reconstructed sequence of the Mota genome, stood up to scrutiny. The Ari do appear to be close kin to Mota.
What's more, the Eurasian backflow did indeed occur — but only East Africans carry DNA from that event. "At least the general story still stands," said Dr. Manica.
The Mota genome will remain an important resource for scientists studying human history. Dr. Manica and his colleagues, for example, are using it to study how humans expanded from Africa into Europe and Asia more than 50,000 years ago.
Dr. Manica and Dr. Reich agreed that ancient DNA experts needed to be willing to share their analyses to catch such errors in the future.
"It's so scary to work with this kind of data," said Dr. Reich. "I'm sure we'll make a mistake at some point, too."


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Lirik "A World To Believe In" dari Celine Dion ini dipublikasikan pada tanggal 4 Januari 2012 (9 tahun yang lalu). Belum ada info detil tentang single ini. Berikut cuplikan syair nyanyian / teks lagunya "And all of the songs left unsung / And be strong and be whole once again I know that dreams we hold on to, can just fade away / And …". Single lainnya dari Celine Dion di antaranya If Love Is Out Of The Question, (If There Was) Any Other Way, Where Does My Heart Beat Now, The Last To Know, dan Unison.
Lirik Lagu A World To Believe In
I've seen the tears and the heartache, and I felt the pain
I've seen the hatred in so many lives, and lost in vain
And yet through this darkness there's always a light that shines through
And takes me back home
Takes me back home
All of the promises broken
And all of the songs left unsung
Seems so far away as I make my way back to you
You gave me faith and you gave me a world to believe in
You gave me your love to believe in
And feeling this love I can rise up above
And be strong and be whole once again
I know that dreams we hold on to, can just fade away
And I know that words can be wasted, with so much to say
And I when I feel helpless there's always a hope that shines through
And makes me believe
Makes me believe
And I see for one fleeting moment
A paradise under the sun
I drift away and I make my way back to you
Life goes on
Can leave all sweet sorrow and pain
And life, hold on
To all that you are
To all that we'll be
And I can go on once again
Because your love hears my soul once again
I can live and I can dream once again
Because you made me believe


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Dick's Sporting Goods will be opening a 45,000 square foot store along Pavilion Parkway, according to developer Anchor Associates.
The new store is already under construction and plans to be open before the holidays.
Michael's, Petsmart, Famous Footwear, Aspen Dental, Mattress Firm, AT&T will join BW3s and Chipotle as the newest stores under construction that should be in business by the end of the year.
Since Anchor Associates took over for Bear Creek Capital, the Newport Pavilion has taken off. Here are some of Anchor Associates clients (including Dick's) that may end up in the Pavilion:
- Bed, Bath and Beyond
- Best Buy
- Borders
- Buy Buy Baby
- Christmas Tree Shops
- Forman Mills
- Gander Mtn.
- Gap
- Harbor Freight Tools
- JC Penney
- Jo Ann
- Lowe's
- Muenchen's Furniture Express
- Office Depot
- Old Navy
- Plum Market
- Save A Lot
- Sears
- Trader Joe's
- Weekend Furniture Outlet
Not saying these places are coming here, by any means. But at the same time, the connection to Anchor bodes well for one or more of these retailers to end up in Newport. Specifically, there are not that many clothing retailers that are currently here.
More specifically, Trader Joe's would do very well in this area.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Dick's Sporting Goods to Newport Pavilion (Other Possibilities Listed)
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Make mine a vote for Trader Joe's!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 18, 2013 at 10:32 PM
As exciting as this seems, is a store of this size really a good idea? Parking and traffic are already a bit crazy and all of the retailers and restaurants aren't even opened yet. The planning committee needs to be careful and not get over zealous.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 19, 2013 at 7:50 AM
Oh, a Trader Joe's! Please!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 21, 2013 at 8:23 PM
Whomever wrote this story; Borders has been out of business nationwide for slightly over three years.ReplyDelete
Borders still has an online business presence and is still listed as an Anchor Associates client.ReplyDelete
Barnes and Nobles bought their retail component.
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Nicole Natalie Marrow Austin more familiar with the name Coco Austin is a multi-talented individual. She is a well-known actress cum glamour model cum dancer cum the web personality. In her twenty years of career, she worked with great excellence and proficiency. Here are the complete details about the career, biography, and net worth of Coco Austin in 2020.
Early Life & Biography:
Coco Austin was born on 17th March 1979 in Tarzana of California to her parents, father Steve Austin and mother Tina Austin and grew up in the neighbouring Palos Verdes. She belongs to the Serbian community as her maternal grandparents are from Serbia. There were one younger sister named Kristy Williams and three younger brothers in her family and her name Coco came from her little brothers. At the age of ten, Coco came to Albuquerque in New Mexico with her family and grown up playing football, riding bikes, etc. From this time she started her dancing in different forms like jazz, ballet, etc.
Personal Life:
Coco Austin has a beautiful personal life without any rumours which inspire her to do good work in her professional field. Coco Austin got married to the actor cum rapper Tracy Lauren Marrow popularly known by Ice-T in January 2002. Coco and Tracy got their child Chanel in 2015 after thirteen long years of their marriage, and three of them are living happily in their penthouse in New Jersey.
Career, Awards & Nominations:
Coco Austin started the modelling career at the age of eighteen mainly of swimsuit, lingerie and various body modelling for several videos, calendars, etc. She won the title of Miss Ujena in the year 1998 in Mexico which gave her good name and fame. In 2001 Coco started working at Playboy Mansion. After that, she did some low-budget films like Southwest Babes, Desert Rose and The Dirty Monks etc.
Coco did some special performance in various television shows like Comedy Central, Hip-Hop Wives, etc. She took part in the game show Celebrity Family Feud in 2008, and she played the leading role in the Peepshow from 2012 to 2013. The reality series started by Coco Austin along with her husband named Ice Loves Coco started on television on 12th June 2011 and ran for consecutive three seasons.
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Now come to the much-awaited part, the net worth of Coco Austin in 2018. Coco Austin earns a handsome amount of money from her versatile career of modelling, acting and dancing. She has a luxurious house in New Jersey, and she maintains a lavish lifestyle. Taken into account all her assets, the net worth of Coco Austin is $5.5 million.
Coco Austin is a popular name in the field of entertainment. She is quite a successful person in every field she worked, but she got immense fame from the reality show Ice Loves Coco which she did with her real-life partner Ice-T. The fans of Coco Austin will love to know that Coco with her husband is ready to launch their next venture of reality series to enthral the whole world.


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Home > Burmese Minerals – May 22 > MS1333 Fergusonite-(Y)
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The mineral name fergusonite-(Y) honors Sir Robert Ferguson (1767-1840), landowner, politician, and mineral collector in Scotland (Haidinger, 1825). Ferguson's collection remained intact until 1997, when Brian Lloyd purchased the collection.
Fergusonite-(Y) is nominally a yttrium niobium oxide, but samples typically contain tantalum, other rare earth elements and uranium. In fergusonite-(Y), a minor uranium content causes damage to the atomic arrangement of fergusonite-(Y), leading to a loss of crystallinity. The mineral becomes amorphous in a process known as metamictization. Recognition of fergusonite-(Y) therefore depends on combining chemical analysis with study of its external crystal form.
This is a long prismatic crystal, showing crude crystal form. The terminations appear to be very rough pinacoids on a twisted tetragonal prism. The mineral shows superficial brown alteration, itself being resinous black on a fresh surface. There is a bit of adhering clay.


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Ryan Burch In The Collision Of Worlds
Ask yourself, what surfer out there today is most likely to tip surfing on its head?Read more
Not simply push it further in the direction it's already going, but change its course entirely… For that you'd need someone who both shapes and surfs dimensionally… three, four, five, whatever you got. You'd need someone whose imagination has no perimeter fence around it. You'd need someone who pairs the words "strange" and "wonderful" together an awful lot. Californian Ryan Burch is a gift. He's all of the above, but doesn't possess the bitterness and recalcitrance that many surfing futurists – locked in battle for years with a cold, pragmatic world – exhibit. Burch is a "why not?" kind of guy, and we came up with the idea of interviewing him for the SW Future issue, that's exactly what we said.
SW: Did you ever think of the future as a wee grom Ryan Burch?
RB: Well I definitely watched surf movies as a kid and tripped out that the level of surfing was already so high. It was obvious to me right from the start that if you wanted to be someone who gets to surf for your whole life, you had to figure out how to push your surfing to a level that was beyond what already existed.
What movies were you watching as a grom?
The first movie I ever watched was Five Summer Stories. An old classic that my Dad was super psyched on. He was like "You gotta watch this vid, it's got the best surfing ever!" So I watched that forever and it was my introduction to what people surfed like. Then the next movie I got after that was Loose Change which was nuts because I hadn't watched anything from any era between those two films. It was like seeing the future all at once. Like, no gaps in between. So I didn't see anything 80s or 90s or any of that evolution of boards and styles that went down in those eras between 1972 and 1999. In fact, the first time I saw Bunyip Dreaming was when Jack McCoy gave me a copy and said "Check out my movie, man!" And that blew my head off too because I was like "What is this generation and style of surfing?" because everyone was surfing in a totally different way again. So I feel like my mindset in those early days was coming from either 72 and Five Summer Stories or from the future and Loose Change (laughs).
What about out of the water? Did you have much imagination for the future as a kid?
I did like Back to the Future for sure but I wasn't future minded. It wasn't my focus. Whatever was coming at me I was just dealing with it (laughs).
Did you want to be a pro surfer after you saw Loose Change?
Before I saw Loose Change I was just a little grom competing in the Rob Machado surf contest that he used to put on at Cardiff Reef, a local spot where I grew up, and I was trying to do cheater fives to win the finals. Then the next year I went into a surf shop to buy my first wetsuit so that I could finally surf through the winter and Loose Change was playing on a television. I think I was 13 and I was watching Bruce Irons's part and my brain didn't really understand what I was looking at. I was just going "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat! The sky is the limit?!" When you're that age and you go into a surf shop, man, it's such a stimulating place because you get to see everything! You may be totally out of contact with it because the person who taught you to surf doesn't go in there everyday, but when you're a kid you have your own experience and everything is there for you and that's when you decide what kind of surfer you want to be I think.
Does it strike you as remarkable that your surfing is now doing the same thing for an entirely new generation? Those twin fin Chile sessions in Psychic Migrations (Volcom's 2015 surf movie masterpiece) had a massive effect on how people wanted to surf and what they wanted to ride? Could you have imagined when you were watching Bruce Irons that future surfing would be done on asyms and twins?
It's like that because kids have access to absolutely everything nowadays and so the field of influence is much greater, and they get to start with everything at their disposal… information and footage of any era, and they can find the surfing that speaks to them and push that style of surfing in new directions. It's awesome! I think there will always be those guys who ride reliable and proven equipment when the waves turn up, that tradition will still run through. Those guys who dedicate themselves to the waves they live by are pretty traditionalist and that always keeps things in check, but I think there is a general sense of more open mindedness in surfing today and it's great to see groms who can really push the limits on alternative equipment be able to be in rotation to get a set wave at the premier locations when there is swell. Anywhere you go it's going to be crowded but waves go everywhere and someone should be able to show up on a single fin, or whatever it may be, and if they can get waves then we'll see more variation in approach and style and that is the best thing for surfing. When you surf every single day you begin to realise how day-to-day life it is. You see people you might not ever talk to, you see others and get excited to see them, and it's just like walking down the street. I mean it's crazy how common surfing has become. Everybody does it. It's pretty popular (laughs).
You've spent a lot of time with Nat and Bryce Young. How does hanging with one of the sport's original icons affect the way you see the future?
Hanging with those guys is so crazy and proof of how a positive attitude can transcend the idea of time. What I find most interesting about Nat is the fact that he's shifted his goals away from the waves that he's gonna catch towards the waves that his family are gonna catch. "Let's take the family surfing!" To me it says a lot about how an individual's relationship with surfing evolves and you begin to understand that that's really how the language of surfing exists; in the passing down of stories and information and experience from generation to generation. But those two guys in particular are such inspiring people. They've really set me on the right course because Bryce is always getting me psyched to surf or skate and do it as best I can because he's always killing it and Nat is the eternal grom and he's like "Whatever I can do to surf another wave or ski another sick mountain, I'll do it."
What about boards Burch? It feels as though any idea, no matter how legit or loopy, can get traction and take off into its own movement.
For sure. I definitely think we'll see more experimentation and a lot more strange and wonderful designs because the truth is you can go absolutely anywhere with surfboards. It's an endless thing. There are so many different people making so many different things and they all think they're onto it so it's just going to continue. If they can get people to believe in what they're putting out there… it'll catch on. People are gonna try shit because it's a very experimental time. Even someone who doesn't surf every single day is beginning to experiement because there's so much stuff out there, and who knows where it can go? I get really psyched on the fact that maybe it'll be become less dedicated to certain people riding certain types of board, and what I mean by that is, why just get on a twin fin like the feel of it and then never get off them? I like the idea of somebody hopping around on everything. That would be great because then they can surf the perfect board every time no matterthe conditions. I mean, it sets up a world with a lot of decisions and crazy judgment calls (laughs) but compare that with someone who only rides the one design in everything, that puts a lot of compromising into your surfing and results in judging the waves based on the performance of the board, which you shouldn't have to do.
Can you imagine a future where the WSL World Tour reflected that way of thinking?
(Laughs) That would be quite the circus wouldn't it? It would be a travelling stunt act! It would be so good though. I mean, it's become so set. They ride very similar surfboards because they need the familiarity. You gotta look at the pro surfing thing as getting your routine down, travelling with it, and refining the same tricks everywhere you go. I don't think it's bad because if you nail those tricks your performance lifts to a higher level and that's when a little bit of magic happens because that's surfing and it always can. If somone could do that on different boards within the framework of the pro tour though, I dunno man, it would be a weird colliding of so many different worlds (laughs) and personally, I think it would be incredible to watch.
What's your vision of the future in terms of the boards you're shaping?
Trying to apply the right boards to the right waves. I'm looking all around because there are so many different types of waves that require different types of boards. There are just so many different things you can still do with boards. I always think about trying to get air into boards, getting some sort of bottom contour that keeps the board airated so that when you're not on rail you're just flying but then when you're on rail the board stays super holdy. Then when I'm making longboards I just want to make the slowest surfboard ever, (laughs) because if you want to nose ride you need to have that feeling like you're dragging a parachute. I've been going so fast on twinnies for so long that sometimes I just want to go slow. Thrusters work for that too (laughs).
Wave Pools?
Awesome. You've got to have wave pools. It's amazing what they can do with the technology they have today to make the wave look the way they do. Man made waves is a great thing. And it doesn't matter how cynical you want to be about it, there are plenty of surfers out there who would loooooove to surf the wave pool.
If you had unlimited money and access to the science, what would a Ryan Burch wave pool look like?
It would look like a star shaped island with a train that wrapped around it and sent swell into five different coves so that you'd have five lefts and five rights of all varying shapes and sizes and wave height. It'd even have outer reefs in the middle of it so that you can get your little outer reef fix as well. It'd basically have tonnes of spots and on the shore would be a bar and good food as well. That'd be ideal.
Who do you look to when you want to be inspired by performance surfing and pushing your own limits?
John John and Kelly, man those guys are so crazy, but I follow everybody. I follow the media. I'm on Surfline. I watch as much surfing as I can wherever I can; movies and videos and whatever. I mean John John is so clearly on a whole other level. He's a total freak and it's so fun to watch all the things he puts out. Even the footage of him duckdiving the length of a swimming pool… it just showcases the water skills behind his really excellent surfing… he's so inspirational and probably the biggest surf star in the world for a reason because he's so cool in every type of surf.
The video thing is massive isn't it. My kids would rather watch Youtube videos all day than a movie or TV and the level of understanding they get from these 30 second videos with no production quality and no story arc speeds up how they learn to a mindblowing level.
It's huge. I'll bet you things like that John John duckdiving clip changed surfing overnight, but you wouldn't know because it's all happening underwater (laughs). But you can also see it in the speed with which surfing continues to evolve and that's across all forms and approaches as well.
If kids are learning and adapting every single second, what is surfing gonna look like in say, two years?
I see it heading in the same direction it's been heading for a while now, people finding ways to do crazier shit on crazier waves and on crazier boards. I mean, it's endless… it'll just go on and on and on until people are doing things we can't even imagine right now. I dunno man…. the future kinda terrifies me in that way (laughs).
Well if you believe Hollywood the future more often than not looks like a natureless, waterless hell-hole run by human destroying terminators.
No shit! There is so much to think about with the future because surfing is so broad and people are tapping into whatever sub-culture within surfing speaks to them most. Might be foiling, might be logging, might be World Tour shortboarding, might be air mattressing… it's like space and time, it's everywhere all at once. It's all completely different and it's being broadcasted everywhere so everyone knows where the level of say, big wave surfing is at, and everyone knows what the highest level of twin surfing is, or where foiling is at, and if they choose to get into one or more of those things they know what the benchmark is and from there they begin to imagine how they can improve on it. You see it all in these rapid fire bursts of information that are basically telling us "Hey your body is capable of doing this!"
Whose surfing hits a chord with you on a more personal level?
I've always loved the way Mark Healey surfs. He's been an inspiration to me and if I ever grew a bigger nutsack I'd try and do what he does. I get to go on a lot of trips with the Volcom guys and Ozzie has always been a huge influence on me. The younger squad like Balaram Stack and Noa Deane are so fun to surf with and I draw a lot of influence from them. But I also feel like a guy who's coming into it from such a weird situation because these guys are doing the biggest airs and hitting the end section so hard… it's pretty shocking for a guy like me.
It's a long way from Five Summer Stories.
Exactly, and I feel like I still have a lot of Five Summer Stories shock every time I see those guys surf because the level is ever changing and so progressive. Anything I can do to fuel a little bit of the fire is pretty nuts because it's so good to surf amongst that stuff.
You seem so positive about the future, that's rare in a world bombarded with so many pessimistic forecasts for what lay ahead?
I'm so lucky. I can't believe I've been able to experience what I have, surf the waves I've always wanted to surf, meet the people I looked up when I was a kid. And so many of the people I've met are so grateful and stoked. Look at Ozzie. He's got the most wild imagination and you see it in the way he surfs, he's having the most fun ever. He's always so pumped and positive and he's killing it! And it's funny because the thing that really gets me excited is surfing with friends who I knew from high school who are still surfing a lot and the general consensus with those guys is that the more you surf the happier you are. And it might be getting more crowded and things may be changing but if you're surfing every day and being involved in it then your future is looking good, it's looking amazing, actually.
So simple!
I love it! (laughs) Except that it's terrifying as well (laughs), but we're all going there so why not embrace it?
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Question: A few summers ago, my friend and I watched a show presented by Coca-Cola about kids in a boarding school. One of the characters was a girl who attended the guys' school and another moved to Dawson's Creek in the fall. We can't remember what the show was called; can you please help us? Dafna, West Hempstead, N.Y.
Televisionary: You're thinking of the WB's Young Americans, which aired in the summer of 2000 and focused on the lives and loves of, well... young Americans attending a boarding school and the townies who lived near it. Rodney Scott's Will Krudski moved from Dawson's Creek to this short-lived hour-long drama, appearing alongside Kate Bosworth (Blue Crush) and Katherine Moennig, who played Jacqueline/Jake, the young lady who attended the school as a young man.


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a newborn baby girl abandoned at an east London park amid freezing temperatures. The baby girl was discovered in Newham late on Thursday night and taken to hospital, the Metropolitan Police said.
Incredibly the child was found alive, despite 1C temperatures and snow across the capital.
The child is being cared for at an east London hospital and her condition is stable at this time.
Police are increasingly concerned for the welfare of the baby's mother who may be in need of urgent medical attention and urge her to contact police or London Ambulance Service.
Appealing directly to the mother, Inspector Shane Clarke of the North East Command Unit said: "I urge you to make contact either with police, your local hospital or GP surgery. It is really important that we know that you are safe.
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Hi all, not sure if you are aware, but the Recreational Aviation Foundation has helped move forward an agenda across the country to help protect back country airstrips and even re-open strips that have been closed for several years. Here in AZ, with their help we were able to get Senate Bill 1229 amending AZ Revised Statutes 33-1551 passed this last year becoming law in July. Basically this agenda is to add aviation activities to existing Recreational Use Statutes, or writing new legislation that will protect land owners from possible liability, encourages land owners and managers to open their airstrips to recreational aviation use. With the newly amended 33-1551, here in AZ, we have been able to re-open one Forest Service airstrip and are working on two others that we already have commitments from the Forest Service to re-open. It still takes relationship building and trust between the land owner/manager and aviators, but with the number one objection being taken care of, that being liability, you can move on to taking care of lessor objections such as maintenance concerns and such. If you are not a member of the RAF and you love back country, you should be. www.theRAF.org
Thus far the following state have clear language in their R.U.S. including aviation:
Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, Tennessee, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Kansas


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Vision Zero is an ambitious plan to reduce the number of traffic deaths in the City of Alexandria and drivers should be prepared for upcoming changes. Before you make a right turn on red, be sure to take a second look to make sure you're not at a newly changed intersection. With Alexandria implementing parts of its "Vision Zero Initiative" in order to improve the safety of its streets, new traffic rules will be affecting drivers and roads across the city.
Over the past seven years, the city of Alexandria has been working on a project to improve road safety called the "Vision Zero Initiative". As part of this project, research was done on Alexandria traffic records,crash records, and other relevant material in order to create engineering recommendations to improve Alexandria road safety. Through the research done via the initiative, it was determined that "turning movement" type crashes were the largest type of automobile accident in Alexandria. New policies are being implemented to lower the "turning movement" crash rate across the city.
The statistics are sobering. Crash data was analyzed for 2011-2016 during the Vision Zero Action Plan showed that during this time period, 445 people walking were involved in crashes with one in seven of those crashes resulting in death or serious injury to the person. Turning-movement crashes were found to be among the most common crash types in Alexandria.
Hoping to curb the number of incidences for the most vulnerable, bikers and pedestrians, there are over 10 new intersections that are now "No Turn On Red" intersections, meaning drivers can not make turns when the light is red. The Alexandria intersections have implemented the "No Turn on Red" policies include:
- Primary Street Onto:
- King Street Henry Street
- Gibbon Route 1
- King Street Patrick Street
- Mill Road Eisenhower Ave
- N Jordan Duke Street
- N Patrick King Street
- N Pickett Duke Street
- Prince Street S Henry Street
- Prince Street S Patrick
- Reading N Beauregard S Jordan
- Duke Street S Quaker
- Duke Street S Walker
- Duke Street Park Center Dr
- King Street S 28th St
- King Street Southern Towers
- Seminary Cambridge Duke Streetv
- Roth Duke Street Metro Road
- Eisenhower Ave Route 1
- Slaters Lane Cameron Station
- Duke Street Gibbon
- S Washington King Street
- N Washington Street Queen Street
- N Henry Street S Peyton
- King Street Edsall
- Whiting N Quaker Fern
- Whiting Edsall Road
More Alexandria roads will be implementing the "no turn on red" and other Vision Zero Initiative rules throughout the upcoming months. As much as we hope the new initiatives will lower the incidences of pedestrian/bike crashes, we encourage all drivers to keep their eyes out for those bikers and pedestrians and, more importantly, if you're crossing a street be sure to watch out for drivers who are unaware that pedestrians have the right of way even when they are turning from a green light. Unfortunately, we've seen too many incidences of drivers not watching out for pedestrians.


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This weeks home tour is a contemporary home located in Melbourne. Originally an 1920's art deco home it's been renovated in a classic contemporary style with beautiful high ceilings, loads of natural light and stunning art
Who lives here
Rebecca (interior consultant - instagram @becshnider ), Braham (Management Consultant) , Twins Romy & Blake 22, and Berry 12
Style of home and location
Contemporary style, Melbourne
The house was renovated in two stages - The first renovation which included adding on two bedrooms, ensures, study area and laundry was done 5 years ago and the kitchen and downstairs media room was done 2 years ago.
I wouldn't categorise myself with a particular style, but i love white walls then adding warmth, colour and texture through furnishings and artwork to create a cosy feel.
For inspiration I devour my magazines, instagram and my huge selected of coffee table books that I've collected over the years and that's always being updated. I also get lots of inspiration when I travel
In the original renovation we added on a teenagers retreat, study area and laundry to accommodate our older twins. We added in some cabinetry throughout the house and painted the house white as it was quite dark.
More recently we added a new kitchen and 2 skylights as the kitchen is south facing and needed a boost of natural light throughout the day.
• Live in the house first to get a feel for it.
• Do as much as you can to add in natural light
• Don't be afraid to add colour and texture.
• Do your research thoroughly before starting any work as to minimise variations and costly mistakes.
Probably our favourite thing is being in a smaller house now while it still has everything we need. It also quiet in our street and the kids can play out the front with the neighbours every night. Even all our dogs are out there playing together! Its also in great proximity to the city.
NKN gallery, Irving Laffner,Edwina Corlette, Fenton and Fenton and almost every artist now is on Instagram too.
Photography - Derek Swalwell and Lauren Bamford


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My Favorite Scar Albums
About My Favorite Scar: My Favorite Scar Rock 'n' grungemetal from The Netherlands. A new mix of American rock with a European spice. A strong and brand new name that soon will establish its credits with a new sound. Heavy but sexy, hard hitting but melancholic. Soaked in tons of groove. Loud and dark. My Favorite Scar consists of five members, who each have earned their spores in different musical backgrounds. Men who are compelled to the power of the mighty riff - combined with mesmerizing melodies.


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The mellow sounds of the guitar, the whining of the fiddle, the high pitch of the banjo, and the lapping notes of the big standing doghouse bass are the pure sounds of traditional music that draw in the audience like a moth to a flame. Once you have been captured by its rich and pure melodies, you will never be free. Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. From the time I was three years old, I traveled with my daddy, an old-fashioned Baptist preacher, to churches all over northern Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina to attend their monthly singings.
I've seen many students who were just so-so students, lackadaisical about their work, didn't seem to care whether they made a seventy. As a result of being in the Foxfire classes, they seemed to wake up, find skills or desires or goals they had not been aware of. If it had not benefited the school, it would have eventually died out. This is something that the whole school, student body, teachers, administrators, and the community itself could be proud to be a part of. It was a benefit to all the students.
I loved the sound and admired the fancy "show" clothes that they all wore. The wagon wheels adorned with rhinestones and jewels distinguished Porter Wagoner's clothes from all the others. The ladies' full-skirted ballroom gowns were often clenched with both hands and raised to knee length as they broke out into a buck-dancing routine. So many talented groups rise out of the hills of Appalachia. Deciding who would be included in this edition was a very tough decision. The groups you will learn about throughout these pages, whom you can also listen to on a companion CD available directly from Foxfire, are just a sampling of the talent that enriches our area.


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Building a Phenomenal Career out of Average Grades Steve Ash
What is standing in the way of your next professional shift? Is it your educational background? Your work experience? Your superiors?
Listen as Steve Ash, Engineering Manager of Fireball Equipment, and Resilience Radio host Kim Ades discuss how to move your career forward when it's not moving on it's own.
In this episode, we explore:
- What to do when you are not detail-oriented.
- How to mediate conflict as a leader.
- How to leverage a competitive spirit.
- How to know what's next for you professionally.
- How to move your career forward when it's stuck in place.
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"You don't know what you're going to find when you're really focused on your strengths."
-Kim Ades
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Transcription: Building a Phenomenal Career out of Average Grades with Steve Ash
Here is a super interesting snippet of our conversation! See transcription (26:23 – 32:30):
Kim Ades: FOM Coaches help people who are highly driven, people who want to achieve larger goals and people like you who may want to lead the company, become the CEO or just move up. Do you have a question for this particular coach?
Steve Ash: I do. What advice would you give to someone who wants to take their career to the next level, be it becoming a manager or a VP?
Kim Ades: You know, I remember listening to something one day about how a person should move up, and the answer was by taking initiative. Take initiative with respect to your learning and your development.
They were talking about the fact that they didn't have a computer at work, and they felt like it was the company's job to get them a computer. The response was, no, it's your job to get yourself a computer because it's your career, it's your life, it's your learning, it's your development, it's your productivity and it's your success. And so that's very much in the same vein as what we're talking about, right?
What do you want to learn? I would really focus on identifying the ways you want to develop on a personal level. What lights you up?
You said that you're a good engineer and that you're a really great manager. It sounds like your strength lies in the area of people. So how can you develop your leadership skills? What can you do in that realm? Maybe it means going back to school and getting an MBA. Maybe it means learning how to coach. Maybe it means getting a coach.
Maybe it means spending some time on a personal level with all the CEOs you can find, interviewing them and learning about how they handle people effectively. It doesn't matter what that looks like, but it's about what initiative will light you up, turn you on and help you personally develop that isn't driven by your boss or the organization. It's just something that you take on yourself because it's exciting and interesting for you.
Many people wait until someone gives them instruction, but I would suggest to you that leaders don't wait. There is no one to give them instruction. They make up their own initiatives. They decide what they want to do next based on their interests and what totally turns them on.
So my advice for you is to really think about what you want to learn next. Where do you want to grow?
Sometimes, people don't know the answer to that question, and that's where a coach comes into play. We look at all your strengths to see what avenue you could pursue that would achieve the highest ROI. Does that make sense?
Steve Ash: Oh, it does. I'm just writing it all down!
Kim Ades: Oh, okay. An exercise that we ask our clients to do is to seek out feedback from the people in their personal and professional lives. They even ask their spouse, their kids, their family members and their friends, what am I amazing at? What's my sweet spot? What do I do without any effort? What comes to me naturally?
Very often, our clients are shocked by their feedback because they didn't know that others saw them in that light. They also didn't realize that there was a pattern that showed up as a strength in a lot of different areas of their lives.
I did this exercise about 20 years ago. I remember asking the people in my life, what do you think I'm really strong at? My mother said, "You're great at sales." My father said, "You're a good talker." A friend of mine said, "You're really great at rallying people and getting them to see a vision that you have." Other people said, "You're really great at communicating."
What it boiled down to was that they thought I was able to express my emotions, stories, visions and ideas with ease. Before asking them, I didn't know that about myself. I had no clue. It actually had a strong influence in leading me down the road to starting my own coaching company.
So you don't know what you're going to find when you're really focused on your strengths.
Steve Ash: Yes. I'm interested and scared at the same time.
Kim Ades: Well, why are you scared? What's scary about that? It's kind of exciting from my point of view.
Steve Ash: If I found something out that I didn't know about, then I'd put pressure on myself to pursue it. How can I easily apply my strengths? And what if what I'm strong at actually isn't in alignment with where I want to go?
Kim Ades: Well, you'll find that what you're strong at is usually something you're already doing. You may have not have noticed it before and you may not have designed your life around it. I rarely find that people are strong at things that clash with where they want to go. Usually, if you're strong at something, you want to incorporate it more and more into your life. So you may notice a strength that seems to clash with your destination, but if you can incorporate it, your destination becomes much more fruitful.
Steve Ash: Yeah. You're on a natural trajectory and then this could be the jet fuel to get you there faster.
Kim Ades: That's exactly right. I love the way you just said that. So you want to incorporate your strengths into your destination because you want your journey to be a natural one; one that's easy, fun, joyful and really inspiring to you.
When considering moving forward in our professional lives, it's easy to list the things that may be holding us back. It's common to blame external factors for our lack of movement.
But the truth is, the only one slowing you down is you.
Moving yourself out of your own way is not an easy job. It becomes a whole lot easier when you have a different set of eyes to help you challenge your self-imposed limitations and realize your strengths.
We would be an honored to guide you on your path to extraordinary success.
Start by scheduling a complimentary coaching call with us.


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Cisco completes acquisition of Accompany
The merger will enable Cisco to take collaboration to the next level with even more intelligence
Tech giant Cisco has completed the acquisition of Accompany, a privately held company based in the US.
The company provides an AI-driven relationship intelligence platform for finding new prospects, navigating the selling process, and strengthening relationships.
Accompany's AI technology and talent will help Cisco accelerate priority areas across its collaboration portfolio.
Cisco acquired Accompany for $270m in cash and assumed equity awards. Accompany founder and CEO Amy Chang has been named senior vice president in charge of Cisco's Collaboration Technology Group (CTG), the company said.The Accompany team joins the CTG under Chang's leadership.
The acquisition of Accompany will enable Cisco to take collaboration to the next level with even more intelligence. Together, Cisco and Accompany will continue to power the future of work in a smarter way to enhance customer experiences.
"Amy has proven to be an effective and innovative leader through her years as an entrepreneur, an engineer, and CEO, and I couldn't be more pleased to have her and the Accompany team join Cisco," said Chuck Robbins, Cisco chairman and CEO.
"Together, we have a tremendous opportunity to further enhance AI and machine learning capabilities in our collaboration portfolio and continue to create amazing collaboration experiences for customers."
"I am thrilled with the opportunity to join Cisco and the industry's leading collaboration team," said Chang. "Enterprise applications are rapidly becoming more intelligent and augmented with data and pertinent information in real-time. By combining Accompany's relationship intelligence capability with Cisco's award-winning collaboration product portfolio, customers will be able to more intelligently collaborate with employees, customers and partners."
Chang, who has served as a member of Cisco's Board of Directors since October 2016, has in conjunction with the transaction resigned from the Cisco Board of Directors effective immediately.


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It is only "Hump Day" and you're already itching to pull out the markers and color the stress away. And to satisfy your yearning, IKEA, the home of "fiscally responsible furnishings for all," has come to the rescue.
Normally I think of stress when I think of IKEA – building a PAX wardrobe with it's 150+ pieces of hardware can't be called a calming experience. However, now you can color one! IKEA has released five free adult coloring pages covered with lamps, couches, chairs, even their FORNUFT tableware and fanciful plants.
The individual designs are very cute and simple. They are also a great way to go crazy with color options: I always wanted an olive green polka-dot shade on my TORSBO lamp. And as I colored, I did start to think about other printables IKEA could create, such as scenes of rooms furnished and decorated with their products, like their in-store displays. Or food items from the restaurant and grocery areas, including GRÖNSAKSBULLAR vegetable balls with lingonberry preserves.
I also enjoyed matching the items on the coloring pages to the online catalog. Of course, this was probably IKEA's intent – to get more people to visit their site and buy all the plush throws, storage units, and those four glass tea light holders for $1.99 that are just so cute even though I don't own tea lights!
You can get the coloring pages here. IKEA has done a great job by making them PDF files so that they are super easy to print; you don't even have to save them to your computer if you do not want to. Be sure to share your completed pages on social media with the #ColorWithIKEA hashtag.


text: Emerging Tech PeopleSoft launches Web-enabled upgrade for ERP suite Ellen Messmer @itworldca Published: October 31st, 2000PeopleSoft Inc. has introduced a Web-enabled upgrade to its enterprise resource planning that will spare customers the chore of distributing proprietary client software to end users.The newly launched PeopleSoft 8 includes 108 applications for human resources, supply-chain and financial management, all of which have been re-tooled for the Web. It also includes 59 new applications, mainly for call centre and Web-based customer resource management – which PeopleSoft acquired through its purchase of Vantive.The new software, which took two years to develop, involved US$500 million in investment and the work of 1,600 programmers. To bring the product to market, the development team re-wrote 14,042 HTML pages of 7,225 distinct Internet-based transactions."PeopleSoft 8 gives PeopleSoft a commanding lead in the marketplace," PeopleSoft president and CEO Craig Conway told 300 industry leaders at a launch event in New York earlier this year. "(It) is the only enterprise solution on the market that is pure Internet – zero code on the client, zero screen scraping, zero client-server."PeopleSoft customers say they are eager to take advantage of the Web-enabled applications."We'll definitely use this," says Kay Clarey, executive director of the U.S. Treasury's Capital Investment Review Board – which selects and manages the department's IT assets.The Treasury, which has installed the PeopleSoft human resources application, had limited its use of PeopleSoft to a few hundred end users because it was difficult to distribute the cumbersome client software to individual desktops.However, the Web-enabled PeopleSoft8 will let any authorized user with a browser make use of the application to either obtain or enter information over the Web. The Treasury also plans to deploy more PeopleSoft applications, such as financials modules.PeopleSoft executives say Version 8 will provide organizations with the means to promote customer self-service, whether it is employees making address changes, or a trading partner checking on customer shipment status as part of the PeopleSoft supply-chain application."With the financials application, for example, you can check for funds availability on a real-time basis," says Chuck Giraud, vice-president and general manager of PeopleSoft's federal technology section.Because the PeopleSoft applications can be linked together for workflow purposes, organizations can use the suite to accept purchase orders placed at a Web site, and then have those purchases automatically applied against a negotiated contract. That would result in a drawdown on a contract account, which PeopleSoft would compute and display to show the contract status.Version 8 also supports XML, for customers who want to exchange documents or set up an XML-based search engine. PeopleSoft8 also includes a revamped version of the Vantive customer relationship management (CRM) software for call centre and Web-based CRM. These applications will provide a common view into a customer's interaction history, whether it originates via the telephone or e-mail.PeopleSoft, which has about 2,400 enterprise customers, prices its applications on a customer-specific basis. Typical deployments can range from several hundred thousand to several million dollars. Emerging Tech