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All the while, business and regional politicos suffer gut-stabbing anxiety that the state is shadow boxing. The Chicago-based multinational, they fear, already has made up its mind to assign the 777X assembly to South Carolina.
Time to separate the wheat from the ambiguous rhetoric, and ask Boeing what it specifically wants. Washington won't pay any price, but it will pay, and it will be fiercely competitive.
As the Puget Sound Business Journal's Steve Wilhelm reports, the threat of a South Carolina exodus has kindled out-of-the-box remedies. Sen. Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane, hopes to make Washington a right-to-work state. Rep. Mike Sells, D-Everett, offered a pitch-perfect response.
"If you want to lower the living standard of working people in this state, that's one way to do it."
As Sells told The Herald, it's better to concentrate on how to work together on economic issues, instead of finding ways to drive in the wedges. Do Northwesterners want to preserve the dignity and rights of a highly skilled workforce?
This year, legislators continued to elbow policies and budgets (notwithstanding a Senate-fumbled transportation plan) to ensure that the state's largest private employer remain content.
Gov. Jay Inslee unveiled his statewide aerospace strategy in the spring. It's a blueprint predicated on workforce training, diversifying the aerospace cluster, and enhancing the industry's support chain.
Inslee also appointed Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson to chair an intergovernmental, inter-agency task force to streamline the 777X permitting process.
In addition to transportation, the mainspring for landing the 777X is higher ed and addressing the skills gap in engineering and technology.
Higher ed managed a 12.4 percent backfill increase in the state's operating budget, and WSU/Everett secured $10 million for the design and planning of a University Center expansion.
Everyone dreads a Boeing epilogue titled, "While Olympia Slept." That's why a summit -- not a photo-op -- is necessary to midwife concerns and address them head-on. Gov. Inslee should request a meeting with Boeing CEO Jim McNerney in concert with the state's legislative leadership. Put it all on the table. What features of the state's failed transportation plan are critical to ensure the 777X be assembled in Everett? Broker a deal. Pay a price, but not any price. No sleeping.
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SALISBURY, N.C. - Pfeiffer University improved 13 shots from round one to round two finishing 11th at the 2011 Patsy Rendleman Invitational hosted by Catawba at the Country Club of Salisbury. Steph Peareth concluded inside the top-10 carding a tournament total of 152 (73/79) to wrap up tied for seventh.
Chelsea Demers took four less shots in Tuesday's final round to conclude second best for the Lady Falcons at 164 (84/80). Lauren Lyle improved by seven shots on Tuesday to shoot 173 while Meredith Beavin had an eight stroke improvement. Victoria Purcell concluded scoring for Pfeiffer improving a team-best 13 shots.
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Get well soon, kewart ! There seem to be so many bugs going around at the moment. Change in seasons, I guess.
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Get well soon, kewart ! There seem to be so many bugs going around at the moment. Change in seasons, I guess.
Ungaro II is my SotD.
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Good morning, kewart & all!
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Norway is very wet and windy today, and daylight never seems to appear. Needed something warm and spicy, so I chose Lancôme's Magie noire.
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Kewart, you have my sympathy. I've also had a stubborn virus hanging over me for a while. Confirmed as nothing serious but it has laid me dreadfully low at times. Hope you continue to improve.
SotD is Tom Ford Neroli Portofino.
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Hope you're feeling better, Kewart.
Wearing Flor y Canto today.
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Kewart I hope you feel better soon. The same goes for you, Jon. Please take care of yourselves.
SOTD is Comme des Garçons Eau de Parfum
Wish you all a very good day!
"I felt something so intense, I could only express it in a perfume." - Jacques Guerlain
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Morning ladies,
I hope you feel better so Kewart.
I'm not actually going to wear a SOTD today because, the wonderful Foustie has sent me loads of samples. So I will be testing them all day. I will be smelling VERY fragrant today though lol.
I hope everyone has a good day today x
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Bottega Veneta.
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Oh Kewart, honey, feel better soon!
No scent yet, still very early here. Just got the girl off to school. Fingers crossed that things are improving.
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Good morning everyone -
I'm in a few luscious spritzes of vintage-80s Flora Danica for ballet. Y'all have a great day!
Poor sick kewart - hope you feel better soon!
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((Jon)) - huggin' you for always being so sweet.
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Jicky solo ... for now.
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fragranceman88, I too am working—no, sniffing—my way through samples sent by several lovely basenote-ists, while listening to some CDs I need to catch up on, notably Tchaikovsky's enchanting Serenade for Strings.
What do insomniac perfumers do to fall asleep? They count chypres!
jujy has hit 1000 posts! Congratulations! Here's to many, many more!
Turns out my scent choice is perfect for today, I'm in a bit of jujy's Private Collection. A beautiful scent to celebrate a besutiful person!
The nose wants what it wants!
It was excruciatingly hot yesterday. This summer was rather foggy, and we get an 28º day in autumn. The forecast suggests today will be a bright day as well.
Am in Diptyque Philosycos. Come to think of it, I need more 'summery' scents. Most of my scents are too rich/sweet/cloying for hot days.
Nuit the Cellophane. Need to cheer up here too!
Bad girls don't cry but get even.
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Well...it's all in my own head here. Sending you all my love. xo
Good afternoon.
Still a bit too warm for my tastes, here, but the light is superbly smooth and the air is filled with Osmanthus scent.
Avignon, for me today.
"Your fragrance with a fume of iodine" L. Cohen
SotE - Lanvin Avant Garde (sample).
Different Company Bois d'Iris today.
Iodine, you are not the only one longing for cooler weather. It is around 88 F here today and humid. Blegh.
I had a shower and have switched to Chanel No. 22 edt as sotd. It is my favorite Chanel: all sweetness and cloudlike fluffiness. It makes me feel like this...
Good Evening,
I have the privilege of being a house twin with Lilibelle tonight: No.19 EdP.
Best to all.
Wearing Fendi Theorema, sadly my skin is eating it up today and I can hardly smell it on me.
Another flying hello to my fragrant family.
Hugs and healing vibes to Kewart and Jon xxx
SotD was A La Nuit again.
To celebrate the arrival of more of my weekend spree today I have Confetto on my right hand and Bois de Violette on my left. Not really a compatible combo but individually lovely
I missed you all, I hope you are fine!
(Kewart & Jon, feel better soon!)
I haven't posted for a while, waiting for things to improve here, but as it goes I may never post again!...
(At least we are never bored in Greece!)
I was wearing
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it never disappoints me.
vintage Tiffany edp. loving the prim floral undercut by tropical fruit with nectary Victorian cottage overstuffed pastel vibes. strong and delicate at the same time.
*Dora* - nice to see you again.
Great to see you *dora* we missed you too.
SOTD: Arabian Wood by Tom Ford.
Lubin Le Vetiver
What I've Been Wearing:
Annick Goutal Eau du Sud.
I don't know much about medicine, but I know what I like. -- S.J. Perelman
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Hi *dora*, they will get better, there is not a spot left for them to go more south. Thanks for posting again. Many hugs.
Today I wore Lolita Lempicka.
Creed Bois du Portugal tonight for the first time in quite a while. Always a class act. Always.
These things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon, the Truth--Buddha
Amouage Interlude Women this evening again. Falling for it, big time, can't have enough of myself.
Central Park by Bond No.9
SotE is Tocade. Always calming for me.
I'm scent twins with Foustie today ... I'm also wearing Back To Black.
I've trademarked the color bleu
Elixir des Merveilles by Hermes. Gorgeous! I wanna full bottle ASAP.
I send thee this sweet perfume a fragrance to the fragrant, as one would offer wine to the god of wine.
Hove Spring Fiesta perfume and bath oil.
Ambra Di Luna..the animalic note is no fun for my nose..not the greatest reaction..but darn this smells so good. Ugh. I've got allergies to animal funk I guess.


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Here it what I came up with..
I knew I wanted the banner on my mantel to be full of pictures, to see how my little tiny baby grew into my big one year old. It was so fun putting it together--and super easy. Jute, clothespins, scrapbook paper, and then of course pictures, is all you need for this banner.
How the airplane party came about, was from winning a giveaway from Mygrafico. I was able to chose a printable package, and with my son's first birthday coming up, it worked out perfectly. I chose the 'Flying High Party Printables Set'.
One thing that was so nice about using this set, was the huge of amount of prep-work that was taken off. All I had to do was print everything on cardstock, then cut it out. Made my life so much easier. :)
Okay, now for the fun part, the party decor..
Here's an overview of the table, I will break it down for you in pictures below. It turned out really great though. Whenever I put together a party, I forget how much time the little details take. I sound like I throw parties a lot, I really don't, but the ones I have done in the past have been pretty time consuming.
Oh the cakes! How I loved them, wish I could take credit for them, but a sweet friend of mine made them for the special day. She actually looked at the printables to make the cakes fit in, pretty amazing, right?!
I wrapped a tall glass jar with red yarn, then added 2 airplanes from the packet to it. It was a simple way to add a pop of color.
The candy tray consisted of wrapped chocolate bars, small goodie bags & chocolate dipped marshmallows--those are MUCH easier to make than cake pops, by the way. :) The white bags were the party favors for the kids with a few little trinkets in them.
I made the party hats as well. I found the tutorial for them here. I simply wrapped scrapbook paper around party hats purchased from the Dollar Store, & added a little pom pom to the top. There were also some printable hats from the packet as well. Such a cute way to make your own party hats!
I decided to dress up the party blowers too. They also came from the Dollar Store--I glued a circle piece of scrapbook paper with a '1' on it, to make it more unique for the party.
I saw a great tutorial to make your own coffee filter pom poms from this site. They are so simple to make & the best part about them, they are reusable!
The little banner was also from the printout packet
A few more pictures of the cakes, they were almost too cute to eat. :)
Here is the big feast of the night..
The Dollar Store is the place to buy cute little glass containers, I bought several of them for the party. Having Rootbeer as our drink, is always such a treat for the kids.
Homemade slow cooked Mac & Cheese was so tasty, we will be making this again!
Parmesan Pretzel Bites were very simple to make, can't wait to try them with cinnamon & sugar next time.
Orange Fluff salad was a fun spin on the regular jello salad that we normally eat.
(If you want to view the recipes, click on the recipe names.)
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Described by his daughter Jeanie as "a pioneer, visionary and trailblazer," Buss, who had been battling cancer, had became renowned as all those things mainly because he and the Lakers were uncommon winners. The Lakers announced he was 80, although according to the birthdate he listed in a 2006 interview transcript, he would've been 79.
Buss had been hospitalized for much of the past 18 months and died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at 5:55 a.m. Monday because of kidney failure.
"We not only have lost our cherished father, but a beloved man of our community and a person respected by the world basketball community," the Buss children said in a statement.
"The NBA has lost a visionary owner whose influence on our league is incalculable and will be felt for decades to come," NBA commissioner David Stern said in released statement. "More importantly, we have lost a dear and valued friend. Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time."
Buss' 10 NBA championships – while missing the playoffs only twice in 33 seasons – are patently absurd. He blended Hollywood glamour with great basketball, which is why he could be given a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in 2006 for television advancements and be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010 as a contributor to the sport.
With savvy decisions that played out both inside and outside of the arena, Buss seemed always the smartest and most daring guy in the room.
That includes the high-stakes poker room, his most recent passion that challenged him to match wits with the best professional poker players in the world. Buss' itch for ongoing competitive challenges was such that he was at a Bicycle Casino poker table while the Lakers' parade was going on to celebrate their 2009 NBA title.
Buss' intelligence was applicable in a variety of realms: He started out a graduate of the University of Wyoming with a degree in chemistry, believing education would be his springboard to whatever else he could imagine.
He was right.
Buss sought his doctorate in physical chemistry from USC, bringing him to the area with which he would become so identified. He shifted gears from the aerospace field into real estate – turning a $1,000 investment in a West Los Angeles apartment building into a Lakers empire that today is valued conservatively at $1 billion by Forbes magazine.
Lakers star Kobe Bryant, who was swayed by Buss' last-ditch phone call in 2004 in choosing to stay a Laker rather than sign with the Clippers, called Buss "extremely, extremely intelligent and extremely patient."
"You think about the rivalry that took place between the Lakers and the Celtics and what that did for the global outreach of the game," Bryant said. "It reached me, and I was all the way in Italy and I was only 6 years old."
Buss owned 66 percent of the Lakers and intended to keep the team in the family by handing it down to his six children: Johnny, Jim, Jeanie, Janie, Joey and Jesse. All have roles or titles in the Lakers' organization, with Jim taking on most of his father's duties in running the team while Jeanie is in charge of business operations.
In recent times, Jim, Jeanie, Joey and Jesse took turns watching Lakers games on TV with their father from his hospital room.
"(He) showed amazing strength and will to live," the Buss children said in a statement. "It was our father's often stated desire and expectation that the Lakers remain in the Buss family. The Lakers have been our lives as well, and we will honor his wish and do everything in our power to continue his unparalleled legacy."
Jim Buss said in a October interview with the Register that his father liked the way the franchise was position for the future: "I think he's relieved. If you had to put it in words, I think he's extremely happy with what the family is doing with the business that he built."
Buss also noted: "I could never be compared to what my dad has done, that's for sure."


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It's been another busy week in the world of fashion as Hollywood's hottest stars hit red carpets, streets and even catwalks around the globe causing wows and wonderment, and RadarOnline.com has all the winners and losers in our weekly fashion round-up.
Kirsten Dunst used to find herself on the worst dressed lists far too often but now she has a brand new movie coming out and the actress has been dressing to impress across the world. The Melancholia star looked super sophisticated and white hot at Bulgari's Le Gemme Eyewear Collection Launch, pairing a figure-flattering Derek Lam gown with Bulgari bling.
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Congress is responsible for passing annual appropriations to fund government agencies. If Congress neglects to pass funding bills, government agencies are forced to shut down. Follow all of Federal News Radio's government shutdown coverage from the past several years.
After the shutdown: Federal employees cite drain on morale
Tuesday - 10/22/2013, 2:03pm EDT
Since Congress approved a stopgap funding bill last week that reopened the government, furloughed employees have streamed back into their federal offices, dusted off their desks and begun digging out of piled-up emails.
But improving the morale of the budget-battered federal workforce will likely take longer than clearing out an email inbox.
Eighty-three percent of respondents to a Federal News Radio online poll said morale at their workplace is now worse than before the shutdown. Another 5 percent of respondents said they didn't feel personally affected but the morale of their co-workers had worsened.
Federal workforce experts and employees, themselves, also say the two-week government shutdown has opened up a rift of resentment between groups of federal employees which, in part, is fueling the morale drain.
"There are haves and have-nots in this, and it's not even clear which is which," said John Palguta, the vice president for policy at the Partnership for Public Service, in a recent interview with the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp.
Initially, the scales seemed to be tipped in favor of the employees who were excepted from furloughs, who kept on working despite the shutdown and were guaranteed pay once Congress restored funding. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of federal employees were deemed "nonessential" and forced to stay home with no promise they would ever be paid.
"This government has everything backwards. They reward the lazy workers at the expense of the hard workers."
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In the stopgap funding bill that reopened the government, however, Congress approved retroactive pay for furloughed workers, essentially turning the two weeks of forced furloughs into something like a surprise mid-October vacation.
"How is that fair? I came to work every day and was told not to leave since I might not get paid," an employee with the Social Security Administration, who asked that we not use his name, wrote to Federal News Radio. "This government has everything backwards. They reward the lazy workers at the expense of the hard workers."
'Nonessential' term degrading?
Despite receiving word that they'll be paid, furloughed feds are also facing their own morale issues.
"Now that the furloughed workers are back, there are attitudes from those that were forced to report for work," a U.S. Border Patrol employee, who wished to remain anonymous, wrote in an email to Federal News Radio. "Federal workers were played like pawns for no reason and it was useless ... Back pay or no back pay, this has caused some very deep wounds that will heal, but will last a lifetime."
Early on during the shutdown, furloughed feds were also tagged with a term many saw as an insult: "nonessential."
In official Office of Personnel Management guidance, the term "nonessential" is never used. Employees are either "excepted" from furloughs under the terms of the Antideficiency Act, which governs budgeting during a shutdown, or "nonexcepted."
No matter, the term quickly cropped up in news reports, social media and even congressional debate.
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A week into the shutdown, the Senior Executives Association, which represents the 8,000 members of the Senior Executives Service (SES) in the federal government, had had enough. The group called on Congress and the media "to stop denigrating federal employees through the use of the term 'essential' when discussing the status of furloughed employees," an Oct. 8 press released stated.
"The mere term," the group said, "is detrimental to effective operations and employee morale."
GovLoop.com, a social networking site for federal employees, embarked on a "You Are Essential" campaign to give furloughed workers a motivation boost and to try to eliminate the shutdown-created divide between workers. Users can request faux name-tag stickers that read "HELLO I am Essential (even if Congress doesn't think so)" and are encouraged to post pictures of them and their colleagues sporting the stickers at the office.
The campaign is designed "to show folks that they matter, and they're all essential in our book," Steve Ressler, GovLoop's founder and president, told Federal News Radio. So far, the site has received more than 550 requests.
Bumpy path to business as usual
With piled-up projects and missed deadlines, the return to business as usual at the office faces a bumpy path, which won't do anything to boost workers' sagging morale.
"There's going to be some massive backlogs out there," the Partnership for Public Service's Palguta said. "How do you clear up the backlogs and focus on getting the day-to-day things done going forward?"
That could be compounded because many agency leaders — if they're political appointees — were not furloughed during the shutdown.
"So ... when they were roaming empty halls, they were probably thinking of some new initiatives they can do," he said. "Well, you're going to have to kind of hold some of that in abeyance while you just focus on getting back to the normal stuff. You've got to focus on mission, but don't start adding to it just yet."
What else should managers do? For one, don't be afraid to talk about the shutdown with your employees, said Sean Morris, leader of Deloitte's Federal Human Capital Practice.
"Not addressing [the shutdown] is like sweeping the elephant in the room under the rug. And I think that festers over time."
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"Not addressing it is like sweeping the elephant in the room under the rug," he said in a recent interview with the Federal Drive. "And I think that festers over time, and it starts to beg questions from our employees. So the best thing you can do is communicate and engage. Most importantly, be a good listener. They'll engage to you. It's not whining, but it's them bringing forth their concerns and their questions to you."
Also likely tamping down employee morale for the foreseeable future is the continued uncertainty surrounding the federal budget. The current continuing resolution only funds agencies through Jan. 15. Until then, as part of the funding bill that reopened the government, a budget conference committee will meet in the hopes of hammering out a longer-term funding deal.
Rank-and-file feds remain wary, however.
"We're still going to be watching our pennies," Cindy Blythe, a management program analyst with the U.S. Coast Guard, told the Federal Drive in a recent interview. "There's not going to be any mad rush to go spending. ... I'm worried about what will happen in January. I would like to think that Congress will be able to get together and come up with something that both sides will be able to vote on. But they couldn't do it in a year; I don't know how they're really going to do it in two months."
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The United States defeated France 86-50 in the gold medal game of the Olympics on Saturday night.
Candace Parker, a standout player with UMMC Ekaterinburg, scored 15 of her game-high 21 points in the first half for the United States as they built a 37-25 lead.
They put the result beyond doubt with a 15-7 run in the first five minutes of the second half.
The loss was the first of the London Games for France, the bronze-medal winners of EuroBasket Women 2011.
"I thought the French team was the team of the tournament, the way they played consistently from day one all the way through to the final," USA coach Geno Auriemma said.
France won the EuroBasket Women title in 2009.
"It took a lot of work to get here," France veteran Edwige Lawson-Wade said.
"It wasn't just a week of playing good basketball.
"It was month after month, two years of working, four years of working hard - a whole career, really."
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All of Stephen King's TV Work, Ranked
The Stand, Salem's Lot, The Shining...READ MORE »
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The fashion photographer hits Brooklyn's "oldest" distillery.READ MORE »
I Was a Proud Non-Breeder. Then I Changed My Mind.
A Prominent Yogi on Fat Yoga, Instagram, and Changing Stereotypes
Hulu Pulls Every Episode of 19 Kids and Counting
The Case of the Amazing Gay-Marriage Data: How a Graduate Student Reluctantly Uncovered a Huge Scientific Fraud
I Tried to Install an Air Conditioner Myself and I'll Give You One Guess As to What Happened
Manspreading Can Get You Arrested
Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Selma Blair Had a Cruel Intentions Reunion — of Course, They Reenacted That Kiss
How to Live, According to One Very Pretty Rich Person
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A local musician who made it big in the 1970s will be laid to rest Wednesday.
Sammy Reginald Johns of Belmont died Friday.
The singer, songwriter and guitarist made his mark on the country music scene starting in 1975. Johns' big break came with the release of "Chevy Van." The song rose to the top of the charts and sold more than 3 million copies.
Johns recorded "Chevy Van" but most of his success came by writing songs for other artists.
His songs were recorded by John Conlee, Waylon Jennings, Sammy Kershaw and Conway Twitty.
Johns formed bands over the years including The Devilles and the Sammy Johns Band, and he snagged more than one record deal.
Born in Charlotte, Johns began playing guitar when he was 9.
He has performed on the Grand Ole Opry Live and Nashville Now.
Bil Jones met Johns through music.
Owner of The Music Center in Gastonia, Jones spoke with Johns on a regular basis. Johns was a customer and became a friend over the years.
"He was just a great guy. He would come in and we would talk about music," said Jones. "He was an all around a nice guy and was very humble. He just loved music."
Jones called Johns a treasure for Gaston County. He said the talented musician still enjoyed getting out and performing.
Johns lived in Belmont and died at Gaston Memorial Hospital at the age of 66. Family members couldn't be immediately reached for comment.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight at McLean Funeral Directors of Belmont. A funeral service will be 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Bumgardner Chapel of McLean's, Belmont, with burial to follow in Greenwood Cemetery.
You can reach reporter Diane Turbyfill at 704-869-1817 and twitter.com/GazetteDiane.


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NAMI Advocate e-newsletter, November 2008
In this issue: Election 2008: Now What?; Breakdown; Parents and Teachers as Allies; A Family Guide; The Soloist Premiere Postponed; NAMI Bookshelf; and more... Read this issue online.
Election 2008: Now What?
After an historic election cycle, the 2008 presidential election has been decided and Barack Obama will take the oath of office for the presidency in January. The Democrats control both Houses of Congress. What does the future hold for mental health care reform?
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by Rob Gurwitt
Reprinted with permission from the author. First published in the October, 2008 issue of Governing magazine.
When a public system issues a cry for help, it often does so in horrific ways. Sure, there are stacks of polite studies and the occasional sharply worded report, pleas from advocates and the dogged efforts of a few legislators. But more visible than any of these is abject failure.
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Parents and Teachers as Allies Continues to Expand
NAMI recently hosted a "Training of National Trainers" to train additional NAMI leaders in key states and communities on Parents and Teachers as Allies, a two-hour, in-service mental health education program for school professionals.
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A Family Guide ~ Choosing the Right Treatment: What Families Need to Know About Evidence-Based Practices
Due to popular demand, NAMI has reprinted this practical guide, designed to inform families about evidence-based practices in children's mental health. A Family Guide also provides information on an array of treatment and support options.
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The Soloist Premiere Postponed -- But See the Clips
Originally scheduled for release during Thanksgiving, the movie The Soloist, about a homeless violinist living with schizophrenia, has been postponed until April 24, 2009.
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NAMI Bookshelf
This Month: Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia ; Schizophrenia for Dummies; Borderline Personality Disorder: thefacts: All the Information You Need, Straight from the Experts; Hammond's Choice; A Balanced Life: 9 Strategies for Coping with the Mental Health Problems of a Loved One.
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The Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation coordinated a familiarisation tour to the Maldives for a group of 3 journalists representing various media targeting the general consumer via daily papers covering and online magazine versions from 26th August – 3rd September 2012.
The main purpose of arranging such media fam trips is to bring journalists to Maldives to experience the product first hand in order to get positive editorial publicity about the destination. The group consists of a journalist from Dive magazine (circulation 35,250 ) and Zest magazine (circulation 70,043 ) and Conde Nast Bride Guide.
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A couple weeks ago Orson Swindle, an assistant secretary of commerce for economic development in the Reagan Administration, was kind enough to send me news articles from his days battling policymakers over porky Economic Development Administration projects. In a 1989 Insight article, Orson gave a nice summation of one of the problems with special interest spending:
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According to the latest Small Business Economic Trends survey conducted by the National Federation of Independent Businesses, 31 percent of respondents said the single most important problem facing small businesses is "poor sales." "Taxes" and "Government Regulations and Red Tape" came in second and third place at 22 percent and 13 percent respectively. Combining the two, the biggest problem facing small businesses according to respondents is government.
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"Smart Growth" from a Dumb Agency
Housing Market on Government Crutches
My house has been on the market for a month and it has drawn a lot more looks than I expected. I've been quizzing realtors as they come through, and each one tells me the same story: the government is single-handedly propping up the demand for housing. In addition to the homebuyer tax credit and government-induced low mortgage interest rates, most sales are being done with Federal Housing Administration backing.
Food Stamp Price Tag Rising
Food stamp usage is at record levels according to the New York Times, with one in eight Americans now receiving benefits. There are several reasons for the upswing, including expanded eligibility in the 2000s and the severe economic downturn. The following chart shows the dramatic rise in spending for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as the Food Stamp program until 2008 when Congress changed its name to sound more palatable.
Stimulus Hypocrisy and the Tea Partiers
The Washington Times recently used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain letters sent to the USDA by numerous Republican lawmakers seeking stimulus money for their constituents. All of these Republicans had publicly criticized the stimulus and voted against it.


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Kinchant Dam, Mackay Area
Kinchant Dam is located in the picturesque Pioneer Valley and is 41 kilometres west of Mackay. The Dam was built on Sandy Creek to provide irrigation and town water in 1977, it holds 62 800 mega litres of water at an average depth of 6.8 metres and has a surface area of 920 hectares when full.
The dam is stocked by local fish stocking association MAFSA which includes Sooty Grunter, Sleepy Cod and since 2000, Barramundi. There are also breeding populations of Fork Tailed Catfish, Eel Tailed Catfish, Spangled Perch and Mouth Almighty. There is no boating or speed limit restrictions here, and it is a very popular spot on the weekends for those with their own speed boats, jet skis and water ski. A concrete boat ramp is provided.
Accommodation which includes camping sites, van site, dorm accommodation and self contained units are available at the dam and are provided by Kinchant Waters Leisure Resort.
To get to Kinchant Dam, travel west from Mackay through North Eton and follow the signs to the dam, which can also be accessed via a bitumen and dirt road from Mirani, past the Pioneer Valley Golf Course. At Kinchant there is a beautiful park area overlooking the dam, ideal for picnics with barbecue and toilet facilities close by. It has a kiosk, licensed restaurant, and activities other than fishing such as bushwalking and mountain bike riding.


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Anna Kendrick as Jessica Stanley
Ashley Greene as Alice Cullen
Dakota Fanning as Jane
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Nikki Reed as Rosalie Hale
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The fourth and final novel in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. Divided into three parts, the first and third sections are written from Bella Swan's perspective and the second is written from the perspective of Jacob Black. In Breaking Dawn Part 1, Quileute and the Volturi close in on expecting parents Edward and Bella, whose unborn child poses different threats to the wolf pack and vampire coven.
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Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C
by Walter Brueggemann | August 2010
The 'Low Holy Days' of Summer
Summer time may be when "the livin' is easy" for a lot of folk. Even in the church year, summer is a pause between high holy days. So what are these ... low holy days? The lectionary readings suggest it's a time for the church to rethink and reconsider its identity and vocation for the daily practice of emancipated obedience.


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Box fans, window fan, ceiling fan, tuna-fish sandwiches, train horns, sand, donuts in the morning, the beach, seining, hot summer days, cold-water showers, afternoon naps, no TV, no telephone, sand, stacks of Reader's Digest books, dart board, cards, sand, late-evening thunderstorms, crabbing, fishing, and oh, I almost forgot to mention…sand. These wonderful memories all seem to bundle up together in my mind when the long days of summer come and make me long for "The Coast," "the camp" — or more endearingly dubbed by the kids as the "Choo-Choo Train House."
The Choo-Choo Train House was located in Clermont Harbor, Mississippi and was originally a school house that sat five blocks inland from the beach and a few houses from the railroad. It had been a school from 1911, when it was built, until the 40's when the town built a new school. At that time it was put up for sale and my grandmother and my step-grandfather (Pa-pa) bought it when my mother was about thirteen years old. They would spend the entire summer down at the coast while Pa-pa would go back to Baton Rouge on the weekdays to work in his store. He would head back to the coast on Friday evenings to be with his family again. When I was a child, we'd go down at least a few times each summer.
The old camp was one big room divided into three parts with half-walls surrounding the kitchen area in the middle. It also contained two fully-enclosed bathrooms — one with a tub and one half-bath. There were large windows on every wall for opening to allow a cross-breeze when the weather was hot. The old ceiling fan in the front room made a loud, grinding noise as it started spinning, but when it got going, could blow a part in your hair. There were beds in the front room and beds in the back room. But there was one special twin bed right by the front screen door where my Pa-pa took a nap every afternoon. It was difficult to keep a bunch of kids quiet for two hours and not let the screen door slam while he slept!
Special days for me started at 4 AM when I would get up to go fishing with my dad. It was still dark as I tried to get dressed quietly. My dad would turn on a small lamp at the kitchen table and make French bread toast in the old Munsey toaster. After scraping the blackened toast into the sink with a knife (quietly) because we left it too long in the toaster, we would finish eating and head to Bordage's (pronounced Bo-dash's) fishing marina inland on Bayou (Bye) Caddy. It would still be dark outside as I put on my orange life-preserver and got into our skiff. Daddy would start the outboard motor and it always seemed so much louder in the early morning. As we made our way down the bayou toward the Gulf with the marsh grass on each side of us, shining in the water as the boat glided through were phosphorescent organisms that would glow briefly in the darkness. About 30 minutes of winding through the watery passages we would reach the mouth of the bayou just as it was getting light. We'd fish for an hour or more and then head back to Bordage's. We always ended our trip with a Barq's rootbeer and a pack of peanut butter crackers. I still love that combination!
We would get back to the house just in time to put bathing suits on and go to the beach with my brothers and sister and whichever cousins happened to visiting at the same time. Playing in the shallow surf, if the tide was in, or playing on the sand of the sandbars running and splashing through the tide pools was our fun when the tide was out. We'd head back to the camp around lunch when it got too hot to stay out there. Each of us got a turn at the hose out back to rinse the sand off of ourselves and then we'd do the complete job in the cold shower inside. Brrrr! And no matter how much you rinsed off, you still found sand somewhere on your body when you got out!
Lunch usually consisted of tuna sandwiches or other cold lunch meat sandwich, then the sleepy people would find a bed and flop on top for a nap under the breeze of the ceiling fan. Those of us who never napped, would read comic books or play a quiet board game or card game. Sometimes Mom would give us each a dime to walk down to Garcia's (Gar-sha's), the local general store to get an ice cream. I believe she did that mostly to get us out of the camp during her nap time.
Finally when the nappers awoke, we'd get our damp swimsuits back on and head to the beach and play until the sun went down. If the tide was out, we'd seine between the sandbars in the tide pools and see what little fish, shrimp or crabs we could catch. The youngest children always enjoyed the flipping minnows jumping on the net as we pulled the seine up onto a sandbar.
When the sun went down we'd head back to the camp for a meal of hot dogs or boiled crabs if we went crabbing at the train trestle that day — after going through the "de-sanding" ritual again of the hose and cold shower. By the way, one of the best feelings in the world is to be clean, cool and in fresh pajamas after being hot all day and in a damp sandy bathing suit.
After supper it was time to get on — not in –our beds until it cooled off. We had our radio tuned to WWL- New Orleans at 9:00 PM to hear CBS Mystery Theater. We listened intently as the opening trademark "creaking door" would open and E. G. Marshall would introduce that evening's suspenseful tale.
Before we went to sleep, we would dust any sand out of the bed — and there always was some — and Pa-pa would tell us to cover our heads with our sheet while he sprayed the inside of the camp with the flit gun to kill the mosquitoes. Going to sleep hot, but waking up in the cool morning with the birds chirping in the trees outside the open windows is one of my fondest memories of being at the Coast.
The Coast is where my parents met and courted. It is where all of us kids put our feet in the water of the Gulf for the first time. It's where we went each summer to relax. It's where we had family reunions every year around my parents' anniversary.
Yes, it was hot. Yes, it was sandy. But it was a nice place to go and have no distractions, to be with family, to bring friends, to enjoy the beach, and to eat and sleep as much as you wanted.
The Coast is where we used to enjoy all of these things, but those days are gone. Along with many other people's precious possessions, the Choo-Choo Train House and Clermont Harbor were destroyed in August of 2005 by the unprecedented power of Hurricane Katrina. This stretch of the Mississippi Coast was one of the hardest hit areas of the hurricane. The sadness I felt from the loss of our camp and Clermont Harbor was the same as if I had lost a member of my family. I mourned for many years, and I still do.
Nothing can replace the old camp, or Garcia's, or Bordages, but one story demonstrates the resiliency of the place and its people.
One hot day a few weeks after the storm while we were cleaning up debris on our property, my mom proceeded to pull out a checkered table cloth, spread it on the surviving picnic table and began to set out cold lunch meat and sandwich fixings. We all sat and enjoyed our lunch under the sparse shade of one of the remaining, bedraggled trees. It was at that moment that I knew that not everything had been destroyed. The heartbeat of the Coast was still there.


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The best sportfishing boats are often built by fishermen, and Carolina Classic fits this mold. All of its 25 to 35 foot long models are focused on fishing, and all feature flush cockpit decks, deep-V hulls, and Carolina flared bows. Although some new models are powered by outboards, the larger models are inboard diesel boats and Carolina Classic is one of the few builders to offer inboards jack-shafted to stern drives, in some of its models. These boats are known for their heavy build and feature such rugged construction techniques as fully-glassed hull, deck, and liner seams. For more information,


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T3: TomTom ONE is revealed as Test Winner
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T3: TomTom ONE is revealed as Test Winner
The TomTom ONE UK receives a glowing review in this double page feature looking at 'wallet sized' sat nav's. In a round up of 5 devices the TomTom ONE is included and is revealed as Test Winner. It is the only device to receive 5 stars and performance is summed up as "Brilliant". The review goes on to compliment the device further, "It has that simple interface that makes TomTom greatgreat, a 3.5-inch touchscreen, user-friendly maps, speed camera alerts and Bluetooth for use with the Plus services (but not hands free calling). It's the best budget sat nav around."(March 2007)


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Hi all,
I have a new 2010 Audi A3 with the Audi Music Interface (AMI). I have the iPod cable and my iPod Classic is quickly recognized and everything works. But every few days, I start the car and press the MEDIA button on the head unit to get to the iPod and there is an error. The AMI can't initialize a connection with the iPod.
The iPod isn't locked up. If I just unplug and plug the iPod in again its recognized and everything is fine.
Any Audi owners/AMI users ever heard of this?
Any insights would be helpful.