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Cummings High School will induct five new members representing several eras into the school�s Athletic Hall of Fame as part of the basketball games Saturday night against Eastern Alamance.
Francesca Evans is a 2012 graduate who won seven state championships in girls� track and field. She was a member of four consecutive state team titlists and was all-state on 15 occasions while producing two state records. A hurdler and jumping specialist, she holds four school records.
Kortney Williams competed in girls� track and field from 2007-10, garnering all-state 11 times. She�s the only athlete in the state to participate on eight state championship teams at the same school, combining indoor track and field with the spring outdoor seasons.
George Robinson Jr. directed the boys� basketball program from 1999 until stepping aside last January to become an assistant principal at the school. His team won five state championships, eight sectional titles and nine conference crowns. He was a seven-time conference Coach of the Year along with one state Coach of the Year honor.
Wrestlers Duane Wilson and Steve Wilson go in with impressive credentials.
Duane Wilson, a 1987 and 1988 state champion, compiled a 140-4 record from 1986-89, and at the time held the state record for must victories. He was a three-time conference Wrestler of the Year and won 21 tournament Most Outstanding Wrestler honors.
Steve Wilson was a 1991 state champion and finished his career with a 155-13 record, then holding the mark for most victories in state history. He was a three-time regional champion and three-time state place finishers along with 13 tournament Most Outstanding Wrestler awards.
T.J. Gwynn, a multi-sport athlete whose main accomplishments came in boys� basketball, also will be honored Saturday night, athletics director Jay Perdue said. Gwynn was a 2011 inductee, but a work conflict prevented him from attending that year and a family member represented him at the induction.
-- BIG FIELD, BUT SOUTHERN ALAMANCE GIRLS MUST WATCH: The fifth annual Tony Perrou Classic has expanded to more basketball games, but the event won�t include Southern Alamance�s girls� varsity team.
Several area schools will be represented in Monday�s event at Southern Alamance.
Southern Alamance�s girls won�t participant because of an overscheduling issue, athletics director Jon Russell said. The Patriots would exceed the permitted number of games that can be played in a regular season if they play.
Russell said he attempted to find a replacement opponent for Northwest Guilford�s girls� team, which was to face Southern Alamance, but he wasn�t able to do so on relatively short notice.
The premier game figures to be the 7 p.m. nightcap with Burlington Christian Academy taking on Cummings High School in a boys� game.
Before that at 5 p.m., there�s a girls� game between Cummings and Williams High School that will mark the second meeting of the season between the teams. Williams won the first one.
Earlier in girls� action, BCA meets East Chapel Hill at 1:30 p.m. That�s followed by Southern Alamance�s boys against River Mill at 3 p.m.
The expanded schedule includes junior varsity games (Southern Alamance vs. Eastern Alamance girls at 10:30 a.m. and Southern Alamance vs. Williams boys at noon).
The Tony Perrou Classic is named in memory of the former Southern Alamance football coach who died in an automobile accident. Proceeds from the day�s games go to a scholarship fund.
-- 100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION BEGINS: The North Carolina High School Athletic Association began its 100th anniversary with a kickoff celebration Saturday in Chapel Hill.
Coaches Michael Gainey of Rocky Mount and Jan Stanley, formerly of West Henderson, spoke about experiences in coaching.
Executive director emeritus Charlie Adams was on hand to offer a history of the organization. Current NCHSAA commissioner Davis Whitfield gave a reflection on the theme of �honoring the past, embracing the present and shaping the future.�
Corporate sponsors were represented to offer their perspectives, according to information from the NCHSAA.
Former NCHSAA president Ralph Holloway was master of ceremonies.
The centennial activities will continue for a year, capped by a gala celebration next January.


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This New York Daily News cover says it all:
The accompanying article reveals no one was stabbed, shot, or slashed in New York City on Monday — a feat that hasn't happened in recent memory.
And while encouraging, the lack of violent crimes for a day isn't exactly surprising.
New York has reported 366 murders so far this year, down about 23 percent from last year.
"They're going to come in with the fewest number of murders since about 1960," NYPD historian Tom Reppetto told the Daily News. "It's an almost impossible figure, but their programs have been fabulously successful in stopping crime."
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Designed in the Mission Revival style that compliments many of Ojai's architectural gems, Su Nido's spacious one and two bedroom suites are built around a charming cobblestone courtyard.
Each suite features unique decor and is between 600 and 1000 square feet in size. The front room of our suite, the Raven Suite, featured a large flat screen television, fireplace and a love seat that you could just melt into.
The suite also featured a kitchenette complete with cork screw, coffee maker and microwave. They also include some complimentary waters, juices and snacks. A welcome surprise compared to the price gouging for extras practiced by the big chains.
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In my lifestyle, I rarely can sleep more than six hours a night. On this bed, I managed to take a late afternoon nap and then still fall asleep at 10 o'clock. With no alarm set and the curtains drawn, it was nearly 11 hours later when our full rested bodies began to stir. Now when I have trouble sleeping at night, which I often do, I just think back to this bed and fall fast asleep.
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Remember earlier on how we discovered that Google really is not our friend? They are a business out to make money for themselves. Believe it or not, this is where PPC management comes into the picture. Since Google is always going to do what's right for Google, relying solely on search engines and organic rankings is a surefire way to keep your company vulnerable to the latest algorithm updates. No matter how much we would love to tell you that we know it all and your website will never be affected by a ranking update, that's just not the truth. We would not want to start out our relationship by lying to you, so recognise that we will do everything in our power to keep you at the top of the search engines but it's impossible to guarantee it forever with the ups and downs of Google algorithm changes. Organic listings are awesome. Do not get us wrong. They are responsible for our success, but they are not our only channel for website traffic.That's where PPC management comes into the picture…As a business owner, you want access to as much traffic as possible. And in order to achieve maximum success, tapping into pay per click is a fantastic way to expand your reach tremendously.
That's what it's all about, right? You're looking to grow your company and it really shouldn't matter how you achieve this result. Just as long as it is effective.
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This is how to perfectly optimise a webpage. This will give you the best chance at attaining a high first page ranking when combined with other relevant SEO factors.
As far as website design is concerned…
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There Are Websites That Will NEVER Rank Because Of Their Structure.
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Recent Google Updates Make Ranking New Websites Even Harder!
Because we pay close attention to what the search engines, particularly Google, are up to, we have recognised that it's becoming more and more difficult to rank new websites since mid May 2014. Many people are wondering if Google has made another change. Maybe they added another filter that's making it tough to grab those coveted first page listings?We've scoured the web and used information based on our own experiences to help solve the case. And what it all comes down to is this… We've learned that Google has implemented two crucial updates very recently. These updates are making it much tougher to crack the first page of the search engine results (SERPs).But all hope is not lost. Please keep that in mind. Now that we've figured out what Google is up to, we can come up with a workaround to snatch up first page listings in no time at all.
Curious about the latest algorithm updates? Here's a quick look at the details that we've uncovered…
Two Crucial Google Updates & How They Affect Rankings
Google are up to their old tricks again. They constantly update their algorithms in order to keep SEOs and Internet strategists on their toes. Algorithm updates are a challenge we relish. They often knock the competition down a peg or two and scare away those that can't handle the emotional roller coaster that is Google rankings. But each update is based on concrete and identifiable factors and, if you have the time and the resources, you can unlock secrets that will positively impact your Internet visibility. Note: If you think you may have been the victim of a Google algorithm update — maybe your enquiries and sales suddenly dried up — then you should take a look at this link.
As far as the two major updates go, the big changes taking place in the Google algorithm include:
Page 1 Ranking Delay
Yes, it's true. Based on our own personal experience, plus information that we've gathered from private masterminds and Internet marketing related forums; all point to Google implementing a new first page ranking delay. They added this filter back in the middle of May 2014.For the most part, this delay has everything to do with brand-new websites and webpages. If you're starting a new website or adding new pages of content to your existing site, please realise that it will take at least a month, and in more competitive niches a lot longer, in order for these pages to start ranking. In the past, it was as quick as a week or even less sometimes. New content is slow to build up steam under the new Google algorithm conditions.This update is very new, so truthfully we are still uncertain as to why the delay is in place and how it works. We're wondering if it's some kind of a site penalty, or if it could potentially be a penalty that is placed on new backlinks. The main thing we have noticed is that it has a major impact on brand-new sites or non-authority sites. To achieve visibility online you need to take a long-term approach. Moving forward, new clients must please keep this in mind. It will take a little longer to start seeing the results of the fruits of our labours, but we will get you to the Promised Land. We will get you to the top of the Google rankings on the first page. It's a matter of resolve, patience and time!
Google Plus Author Photos Removed In The SERPs
Next, we reported recently that links to Google Plus websites and profiles are no longer showing the name and photo next to the search engine results. This unfortunately hurts click through rates, because listings with the photo get more click throughs than those without, so this will have a major impact on click through rates on the search engine results pages.But here's the real kicker…Google, in its infinite wisdom, still show the photo on Google Plus profiles. As an example, the article posted on your website will no longer have the G+ photo on the site, but the profile that links to the article is still going to have the photo. Google in essence did this in order to generate more traffic to Google Plus, and it's a sneaky way to do so.
What Kind of Impact Will the Two Search Engine Algorithm Changes Have on Search Marketing?
Ultimately, here's what we've boiled this all down to…
Google is looking to frustrate search engine specialists with the ranking delay. Not only that, but it also shows that they are going to continue to focus on big brands and forget about the little guy. But that doesn't mean that all hope is lost. It just means that they are focused on larger authority sites and pay less attention to brand-new websites that are just starting out.
As far as the author picture removal is concerned, we feel that Google is doing everything in their power to push Google Plus. They're willing to sacrifice the quality of the search engine results in order to make this happen.
This proves more and more that Google really is not our friend. They do whatever they can to help their business, even at the expense of millions of other small businesses all around the world. They aren't here to help you. They are a multibillion dollar conglomerate that happens to control the majority of the search market. As a Gold Coast business owner looking to take advantage of the Internet, please remember that Google is not on your side. We will use them and they will use us as often as possible. But do not discard the fact that Google will steamroll over you without even thinking about it if it will benefit their company.
For year we have recognised that to rely on Google solely for traffic is foolhardy. They can wipe you out overnight and it doesn't matter how big and powerful you are; ezinearticles.com was taken out by a Panda update in 2011, lost 90% of its visibility overnight and may never get back to its glory days.
How the Semantic Web is changing the Future of Search Marketing
So, the semantic web is all about the way the Internet is organised. That's the gist of it and it's the absolute future of search marketing.Here's the great thing about it…Since we understand it so thoroughly, we also know how to dominate it.Our recipe for semantic web domination is simple. Take a look… How to Conquer the Semantic Web The semantic web is going to separate the wheat from the chaff whether you realise it or not. It's going to separate those serious about building an online business from those who look at it as a hobby. Our recipe for success includes:
- Fill the Internet with massive amounts of quality content. This content must be informational, valuable and knowledgeable. It must help all of those who read it.
- Your blog or website must be simple and easy to navigate.
- Social media plays a major role in the semantic web. Use it along with your blog in order to generate interest about your products and services and other company information. You need to have people talking about you and your business. This will create a snowball effect of awesomeness surrounding your company.
- Create quality content that gets shared all over the Internet. Social media is especially powerful for this part of the strategy. Make sure that your content is liked, shared and +1'd on on social media channels that are relevant to your business.
- A strong social media presence is a must in order to conquer the semantic web. This will allow you to thoroughly engage with prospects and current customers.
- Become a member of the online conversation. You can do this by updating your social media accounts and sharing fresh content on a regular basis. Make sure all of the information that you share is valuable in some way or another. Being funny is always a great way to go viral, so if you can include comedy in your content then you'll have no problem succeeding!
- Connect all of your online activities together in a web. That's the beauty of the semantic web. It's all connected and it creates a major shield around all of your valuable web assets (i.e. blogs, social media accounts, etc.) and allows each and every one of these valuable channels to rank highly in the search engines.
- By using the semantic web to its fullest, and following the guidelines set forth for you, you will have no choice but to become the biggest authority in your market. You will be the leader in your field and the go-to company that everyone loves and respects.
We understand that this is a lot to take in. That's why you need our help. Nobody can do all of this alone, but when you have a team of professionals working hand-in-hand with you to help your business dominate, you can't help but succeed.
Engagement & How it Improves Google Ranking
Everybody wants to improve their Google rankings. Our recipe for conquering the semantic web is a fantastic way to dominate the search engine results pages as well as the Internet in general! But we wanted to focus on engagement as part of its own topic as well.More than anything else, Google and the other Search Engines like Bing and Yahoo want their customers to have a good experience. In order for their customers to have a good experience, they have to provide relevant results on websites that are user friendly and engaging. What does this mean for you? If you manage to create a user-friendly website and offer a phenomenal user experience, Google and the other search engines will recognise this. They will begin to rank your content higher on the search engine results pages as a result. How will the search engines know that people are having a good user experience? This is where social signals come into the picture. Social signals are now part of all ranking algorithms. The search engines are looking for large amounts of social signals in order to determine the content that people like the most.As an example, if you posted an article to your blog that has 2000 Facebook likes, 150 Google pluses and a bunch of shares through other social media channels, the odds are definitely in your favour that the content is going to rank highly in the search engines without much effort on your part. The search engines – especially Google – will pick up on all of the social media activity and realise that your content is worthy of a listing at the top of the search engines for that particular topic.
Engagement is so important for search engine rankings, and as you can see, it could mean the difference between success and failure. So create engaging content that your customers will love. Not only will this help grow your customer base, but it will get your company in front of more potential prospects and eventually turn into greater sales.
You might say that your industry and what you could write about is boring. However, the people looking for your goods or services are vitally interested in what you have to say. So, say it well!
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Then, the other day I was on Picnik editing photos for the last remaining days. And FINALLY they posted suggestions "to keep your photo editing mojo rolling."
And thus giving me PIC MONKEY!
I immediately liked Pic Monkey. It has all the same things Picnik does.
Come to find out, it's made from a small group of people that invented Picnik. Guess they didn't want to go quietly into the night and wanted to keep that photo mojo rolling. Picnik was about $24 to use for an entire year. TOTALLY WORTH IT. I imagine that Pic Monkey will eventually charge. But for now all their cool effects are free!
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Over the last few months, since posting this blog, I have been constantly using Pic Monkey. During this time they have been adding more and more awesome options to edit your photos!
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TMC wrote:From the ESPN recap:Nelson ripped his entire team, but reserved particular disdain for Davis, who "pounded the ball too much," and Mike Dunleavy, who "was a disaster. He didn't rebound, he didn't score, he didn't do anything."
It starts soon for Dun. I'm sure he's trying to motivate both players... but I'm pretty sure it won't work for Dun. Not playing at PF. He'll get abused every single night at that position.
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- Design and build software, websites, & web apps
- Illustrate seemingly complex ideas in a simple way
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I design interfaces down to the pixel, and I build prototypes that connect to databases. Buzzword!
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I think I was an LSAT weirdo... lol... I took two redbulls (finished one in the test center min before the test), 2 chocolate bars with 70% cocoa, gum, kleenex, water, 2 preptests,and a ziploc bag with the following: timer, 7 pencils, a highlighter,and 2 erasers. I also had a sweater that I took of btw the first and second sections. Hehe.. not sure if I needed all that armory; but the redbull was surely helpful.
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Rookie Matsuyama wins Japan Tour money title
Hideki Matsuyama has become the first rookie to claim the Japanese tour's money title with a win at the Casio World Open.
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Matsuyama turned pro in April and has won five tournaments on the Japanese tour this season. In seven PGA Tour-sanctioned events, Matsuyama has six top-25 finishes. He plans to compete on the PGA Tour in 2014.
Matsuyama shot a 70 in the final round Sunday at Kochi Kuroshio Country Club to finish at 12-under 276, one stroke ahead of Yuta Ikeda. The 21-year-old college student received $390,000 for Sunday's win, bringing his earnings this season to slightly more than $2 million.


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102 Year Old Granny Gets Arrested To Tick Off Bucket List
People have all sorts of things they want to try or achieve before they pass on.
What's become known as the 'bucket list' has gained in popularity over the years as people try out things they've always wanted to do but never had the nerve to.
Some experiences are more extreme such as giving sky diving or ab-sailing a try, but this little old granny takes the cake!
102 year old Edie Simms has achieved a lot in her lifetime, but realized there was one thing she wanted to experience more than anything else - being arrested!
So the friendly Police Officers in her hometown in St Louis arranged for her to be picked up from her nursing home and put in the back of a police squad car, they even put her in handcuffs!
"We love it and we get more out of it than the seniors do," St. Louis Police Sgt. John McLaughlin told the station.
While Edie was in the back of the cop car, one officer recalled her passing him by: "Edie held her hands up to show that she had the handcuffs on! She's just such a neat lady."
Edie has dedicated a great deal of her life to community service and recently stitched and sewed over 400 handmade items for her fellow guests at the Five Star Senior Center.
"It's a great world if you just open your eyes and look at it," says Simms.
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In Videos: Chef Dan Barber Speaks on Sustainable Foie Gras
On Monday night, Dan Barber, the pioneering farm-to-table chef of Blue Hill, won the James Beard Foundation award for Outstanding Chef of the year. This video of him at the Taste3 conference in Napa Valley last year focuses on the politics of foie gras. "The problem for chefs is that it's so freakin' delicious." True, true. Sure, you can cook great food without it, but that's like biking the Tour de France without steroids, he jokes. Barber mostly talks about a farmer named Eduardo Sousa, who works on a small farm in Spain and doesn't torture his quackers before we spread them on crackers.
Now, what I really want to know—what's that guitar doing on stage? Was there a foie gras jam session we missed off camera? The video, after the jump.
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Tim Bergling is anxious. He is staring straight ahead, so quiet that everyone with him has gone silent, too, out of respect or maybe a little fear. It was a crazy thing to do, in retrospect, two shows in two different cities, Anaheim and Las Vegas, with only an hour and a half between them. Even with the police escort and the private plane. Now he is twenty-one minutes late, and twenty-one minutes matters when it's the biggest party night of the year, New Year's Eve, in the biggest party city in the world, Vegas, and you're the star of the show, scheduled to go on at midnight, which was—Tim reaches into the pocket of his jeans, barely held up by a Gucci belt, and pulls out his phone to check the time—twenty-two minutes ago. "@Avicii better get to XS soon!!" some douchebag is saying on Twitter. "People paid money for this!" The doors slide open, and Tim steps forward, purposeful as a heart surgeon headed to perform a triple bypass. His girlfriend, his booking agent, his tour manager, a club promoter, a guy with a video camera, and a reporter surge after him.
"Security!" the promoter shouts, and hulking figures fall into step beside us.
"Dog!" An assistant sweeps in to take the Pomeranian from the girlfriend's arms.
"Okay, go!" and this unwieldy centipede begins its shuffle through the Encore resort, into a restaurant, where bejeweled women and heavyset men look up curiously from their Dover sole, out the back door, past a pool, up some stairs, and behind a velvet rope where Tim alone steps onto a raised platform facing out into the gaping maw of XS nightclub.
He pauses a minute, taking in the expectant faces, flushed and a little drunk, chanting, "A-vi-cii! A-vi-cii! A-vi-cii!"
Then the light falls on him, and he lifts a skinny arm and flicks a switch, flooding the room with a melody that washes over the crowd like a balm before turning into a beat that has them going, his words, "completely apeshit," and then, and only then, does he relax.
"Happy New Year!" shouts Felix Alfonso, his bodyman, popping open the first of many bottles of Dom Pérignon. When Tim twists around from the jiggy little dance he's doing behind the decks to accept a glass, he is smiling like the happiest guy in the world.
Which he should be, he knows. Most people would be overjoyed to have Tim Bergling's life. To have, 250-plus nights a year, audiences of thousands chanting your name. To have the leggy blond girlfriend, the limitless champagne and the piles of money, and famous musicians begging for the production magic he brought to "Levels," his inescapable 2011 electronic dance music hit in which Etta James has a good feeling, over and over, for three and a half minutes. To have the girls hyperventilating, "I want to fuck him so bad," whenever he appears, which one blonde is telling her friend right now at high-decibel volume, although Tim can't hear her, he's too immersed in cuing up the next track that is going to keep people going completely apeshit.
"I am reasonably happy, I am," he'd said in his Swedish accent a few days earlier. He rifles a hand through his scraggly blond hair, sincerity in his icy blue eyes. Because he is only 23, subsisting on a diet of Red Bull, nicotine, and airport food, and spending most of his time bathed in the pixelated glow of a computer screen has not diminished, just kind of softened, the perpetually rumpled good looks that prompted Ralph Lauren to cast him in an ad campaign. There is a Tumblr devoted to his nose.
"I love DJing, I do," he stresses. "I love everything that comes with it; it's fun and it's kind of glamorous." And yet. There's always that moment, right before he goes onstage, when he wonders what the fuck he is even doing up there, if he deserves any of this, and if this is the time it all comes crashing down. "It's just like when it's right in the moment and you have that stupid bright light on you," he says, searching for the words to say it. "It feels so awkward."
Four days before New Year's, I arrive in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, to find him pacing around a tented greenroom at Mamita's Beach Club, smoking like a chimney and knocking back Red Bulls. The champagne is chilling. The waves are lapping gently at the shore. But Tim's attention is entirely focused on the sounds coming from the stage, where a warm-up DJ is playing a song called "Epic" by Dutch DJs Sandro Silva and Quintino. "I can't believe he's playing this," he mutters.
"This is really frustrating," he says, grinding out his cigarette and lighting a new one. "Is he gonna play 'Don't You Worry Child' next?"
Felix gives him a warning look and nods in my direction. Vin Diesel bald, with discernible muscle groups, Felix has all the indicia of scariness until he opens his mouth. ("I carry his drugs in my butt," he later jokes when asked to describe his duties.)
"I'm sorry, I sound grumpy," Tim says apologetically. "It's just that it's embarrassing to do the same things."
It's a strange problem for a musician, which is what Tim considers himself to be. While he likes to play mostly his own songs, he still includes tracks by others to keep up the requisite energy level, and "Epic" is one of them. In fact, it's the third song the opening DJ has played from Tim's usual rotation, and each time it happens, Tim cracks open another Red Bull and gets a little more jittery.
The Rolling Stones never had to suffer this type of indignity. "We should make a list of songs that we tell festival organizers not to let other DJs play," Bergling's tour manager, a no-nonsense Irishwoman named Ciara Davey, says decisively, as if writing a note to self. Tim nods, though he doesn't seem any less tense. His British lighting guy, Simon Barrington, comes in, carrying a box of equipment and smiling, blithely unaware of the budding crisis.
Tim Bergling, a.k.a. Avicii, DJs 250 nights a year and often earns six figures a show. Do the math.
"How many people are out there?" Tim asks.
"Just twenty-five people," Simon responds cheerily. "And a dog."
"And what?" Tim asks distractedly. He's listening to the thumping sound of "Who" by German producers Tujamo and Plastik Funk coming off the stage. "This, too?" he says incredulously. "How many of my fucking songs is he going to play?"
By the time he's set to go on, Tim's face has taken on a grayish sheen. He seems so genuinely convinced this is going to be a disaster that I'm steeling myself for the possibility that his preternaturally brilliant career is about to go up in smoke.
Of course that isn't what happens at all. First of all, there aren't twenty-five people on the beach but 2,500. When Tim appears onstage, a tiny figure surrounded by a metropolis of equipment, presses play on his first big hit, "Seek Bromance," everyone—the California girls in itty-bitty bikinis, sunburned cubicle jockeys, belching frat boys in coral necklaces, ravers with giant pupils—leaps into motion like the sand is on fire, and it becomes immediately clear that his fears were totally unfounded. The DJ before was playing people some songs. Avicii possesses them. The sound that pours out of the speakers is crisp and melodious and so fucking loud it seems to get inside your body, the bass pounding away at your guts, the synthesizers providing a soaring moment of relief before the bass comes rushing back in so forcefully that there is no room left for thoughts or anxiety or anything. It is not an unpleasant feeling—like being inside a giant, beating heart. Everyone is grinning like a lunatic. In the front row, a fat guy weeps tears of joy. A bra wings through the air, landing somewhere at the side of the stage. Felix spots it from his perch behind the DJ booth, where he has been lighting cigarillos for Tim every time he holds up two fingers or getting him a drink when he makes a C-shaped gesture with his hand. "Women always throw bras," he yells delightedly.
"How was that?" Tim asks when he gets off the stage two hours later, all shiny and smiley and lighter looking, as though he shed his layer of tension somewhere onstage, in a little heap, like the undergarment Felix had examined and discarded.
"Oh, it was flash," says Simon, who is clearly used to Tim's histrionics. "Some people danced. Apparently some guy from Sweden was playing onstage? Not my taste, really."
Later, when I point out as tactfully as I can how completely insane he was to have been nervous, Tim shrugs somewhat abashedly. "It's just like, you have to really stand out now, DJing," he says. "Especially now that electronic dance music is getting so big and saturated, and there's a lot more like similar DJs competing against each other. People are just coming out of nowhere."
He should know, because Avicii kind of came out of nowhere. Four years ago, Tim Bergling was a high school kid in Stockholm, remixing songs on his laptop in the style of house-music acts like Swedish House Mafia and posting the results in the comments sections of music blogs. While his parents were confounded by the "constant donk-donk thumping" coming out of their youngest son's bedroom, his ear for melody caught the attention of Ash Pournouri, an ambitious then 26-year-old club promoter who could see the electronic-music boom coming and wanted in on it. Pournouri asked the 18-year-old to coffee, figuring at least he could use his connections to help him get some club gigs. But after Tim warily ambled up, all disheveled-Viking hipster, a grander vision began to take shape. "He started saying all of these things like, 'I'm going to make you the biggest artist; we're going to get there in two years; you're going to be bigger than that guy and that guy,' " Tim recalls.
Before Pournouri could make him the biggest DJ in all the land, however, he had to teach him how to DJ, which was something Tim had never actually done before. Thanks to computers, these days, DJing is mostly "before work," Tim explains. Most of the set list and transitions are worked out before he gets onstage. The notion of a DJ who determines what to play by reading the room "feels like something a lot of older DJs are saying to kind of desperately cling on staying relevant."
This is not to say there isn't some skill involved. "I kinda know what's going to work," he says, pulling up a screen of cardiogram-like shapes on his laptop, which he identifies as songs. "You have to retain the energy level throughout the set," he explains, moving the shapes around until they fit together, like Tetris pieces. "You can't just start out with an energetic song; you have to build up to it."
Since so much of it is predetermined, I ask, what is he doing onstage? He sure looks busy as hell up there: Twisting knobs and pushing buttons and smiling and dancing. But after watching his show a few times, the only real difference I notice when he twists a button or pushes a knob is that sometimes it gets a little louder or quieter, like he's deploying all of that energy just to change the volume.
"Yeah, it's mostly volume," he shrugs. "Or the faders, when you're starting to mix into another song, you can hear both in your headphones, you get it to where you want and you pull up the fader."
The rest of it, the dancing and the constant arm-pumping motion like Right on, doesn't this moment totally rule? That's all performance, which was Pournouri's first lesson.
"A great DJ interacts with the audience," he says professorially over the phone from Australia, where he recently gave a talk titled "The Avicii Case Study" at the country's first-ever Electronic Music Conference. "You have to engage people. Dancing, smiling."
Anyone can play a gang of hits, he goes on. The trick is to make them feel like they're really at a show. "It sounds very abstract, but a great DJ takes his audience on a journey," he says. "You want them so into it that they can't leave. The tracks that get the attention are the songs that create some kind of feeling. And that became a precondition for everything we did in the studio."
Bergling and Pournouri produced "like a hundred" tracks, and along the way they settled on a kind of formula: a four-chord beat, overlaid with a melody that contains emotionally provocative but universally accessible lyrics. There's all kinds of stuff layered over it: swirls and echoes and sirens and pauses that make you feel like things are really happening! But the journey, as Pournouri might say, always comes back to the same steady beat. Rob Kapilow, the author of the book What Makes It Great?, likens Avicii's songs to Muzak, not only because almost all of them riff on other people's compositions (the piano line repeated throughout "Fade into Darkness," for instance, is lifted from "Perpetuum Mobile," by '80s-era classical music collective Penguin Café Orchestra), but because its main purpose is to create ambience. "It's peppy, it's upbeat, it's got a steady groove," says Kapilow. "There's nothing not-smooth about this music, nothing to annoy you. This sort of repetition is very comforting; it's why children want to hear the same book over and over again."
Back in Mexico, Tim plays a new track, tentatively titled "Someone Like You." "It's so simple," he says, laughing. "I mean, All my life I have been waiting for someone like you? It's almost stupid."
Tim had decided on the DJ name Avici—a friend told him it was a level of Buddhist Hell. (He added the extra i because Avici was already taken on Myspace.) It took him eighteen months to get comfortable behind the decks; his first show ever was in front of 1,000 people. The next thing he knew, he was commanding six figures at clubs in the U.S. and performing at the Ultra Music Festival with Madonna, who had specifically selected him to sherpa her into the booming electronic-dance-music scene. "It was just perfect timing," Tim says now. "My own rise went hand in hand with the whole EDM rise."
The last time kids in neon went crazy for electronic music, things looked a little different. "Back then, no one ever even used to look at the DJ," says the lighting guy, Simon, who spent four years on tour with the Prodigy in the early '90s and worked at Gatecrasher, one of the clubs where the rave scene first took off. "It was much more about dancing with one another. Now everyone is facing the stage. They're all there to see him."
The big difference: Money. EDM 2.0 isn't just the province of kids in warehouses and ravers on the beach, it's the soundtrack of glitzy clubs in places like Las Vegas and Miami, which is where we are headed tonight, as soon as Tim wakes up. "You'll see it tonight when someone buys a bottle of champagne. There will be sparklers. There will be a variety of scantily clad girls," says Simon, wrinkling his nose. Because the club has its own lighting, he and Ciara are flying from Mexico to Dallas to prepare for the show there. Which is probably a good thing. "Without digging myself too big a hole," says Simon, "it's completely against everything that I personally believe in about clubbing."
Around midnight, the black SUV carrying Tim, Felix, and myself passes in front of a line of tanned hopefuls being held tantalizingly back by a velvet rope in front of Story, a two-day-old club in Miami Beach. "It's not really new," Tim says, yawning. "They just made it over a bunch of times." These aren't his favorite kinds of gigs, either. "The VIP crowd tends to be less energetic," he says. "If you are able to go out and spend $2 million a night in a nightclub and then get laid, it doesn't add anything for their...what do you call it, what you leave after when you die?" The deep thought stays unfinished as beefy guys in black suits usher us down to a small windowless greenroom, where a dark-haired waitress in dangerous-looking shoes is already pouring glasses of champagne. The booze is always free for Avicii.
In the beginning, this was kind of a problem, when all of a sudden he was Justin Bieber big, without the PG-13 reputation to uphold, hanging out with a crowd for whom every day is literally a party. "You are traveling around, you live in a suitcase, you get to this place, there's free alcohol everywhere—it's sort of weird if you don't drink," he says. And so he did. At first it was because "I didn't expect it to last," Tim says. Then it did last, and soon he had a serious habit: champagne at night, Bloody Marys at the airport, wine on the plane, repeat. "I was so nervous," he says. "I just got into a habit, because you rely on that encouragement and self-confidence you get from alcohol, and then you get dependent on it."
He kept going like this until last January, when he developed "like, searing" abdominal pain and wound up in the hospital in New York for eleven days with acute pancreatitis. "I probably drink more now than I should," he says. "But I have a pace. I never drink two days in a row."
Tonight is a drinking night, as Tim has friends in town, a rooster-haired gang of Swedes in skinny jeans. "Skål!" they say, downing shots and jabbering excitedly in Swedish, until the room fills with the quiet rustling that signifies the imminent arrival of a famous person. David Grutman, one of the owners of the club, enters accompanied by a small dark figure in a knit cap and sunglasses who is surrounded by an entourage also wearing knit caps and sunglasses. "This is Pharrell," he announces. Producer Pharrell Williams pauses to shake hands with everyone in his path, like a religious figure or a politician. "I'm happy for your success, man," he tells Tim, and they chat for a few minutes, literally about the weather, while everyone stares into their champagne glasses. Then it's time to go.
The DJ booth at Story is elevated above the floor, so the audience below looks like a sea of disembodied hands, and as Tim starts his set—The love you seek and moooore—the hands go crazy, and a beam of emerald light suddenly envelops him, like he's about to be sucked up into space. Dancers appear, dressed in complicated sex-alien costumes that shoot light out of their fingers. It would all seem very futuristic except for Paris and Nicky Hilton, who are dancing languidly on banquettes as though the past ten years haven't happened at all. Paris comes to a lot of Avicii's shows. "She's like a stalker," yells Felix, who is standing next to me in the booth. "What?" I yell back. "LIKE A STALKER." Then he points a giant gun with the word "Avicii" at me and presses the trigger, spewing a haze of freezing dry ice fog into the air and cackling maniacally. Throughout the night, the line outside stays the same length, but as it goes from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. to 4 a.m., its denizens seem increasingly skinny and haunted and desperate, so that it looks like a Soviet breadline in Hervé Léger. Upstairs in the balconies, flickering trails of light appear periodically as hostesses in tiny black costumes carry bottles of champagne, each one spiked with a sparkler, signifying the extinguishing of thousands of dollars.
"Last night was good, right?" says Tim the next day, surrounded by a crime scene of hangover food at the Miami airport. "It was cool that Pharrell came. Though I feel so fucking awkward when someone like Dave is like, 'Oh, here's Pharrell.' And it becomes a thing to say hi. And then we're like, 'Oh the weather's good,' for twenty minutes. But the energy was pretty good."
"You only got one bra, though," Felix points out.
"I know, sucks. It landed on the tempo too. Sped the fucking track up. I didn't even notice."
He looks down at his phone. In Tim's itinerant existence, the Internet is the one place he can reliably be found, and what he sees is not always flattering. "Ha," he says after a few minutes. A DJ called Funkagenda has posted a long, personal message to Facebook. "It's like this sob story," he says. "He's like 'I'm an alcoholic, all the shows where I've been really drunk I have been sorry for that.' He just wants people to be like, 'Oh my god oh poor you, it's like boo-hoo, it's stupid.' " He turns to me. "If you know who he is, he's like an asshole," he explains.
Tim's beef with Funkagenda started at Coachella, after Tim's managers had his set time changed so Tim wouldn't be competing with the holograms of Snoop Dogg and Tupac. "And in order to do that, they had to change everyone else's set," he says. "And all these people trash-talked me on Twitter, and Funkagenda was like 'Oh, that's like the time he played with Deadmau5, he didn't have the same production as Deadmau5, so he refused to go out.' And that's wrong, I didn't not want to go out. My management said, 'We were promised full production and we didn't get it so we're not going to play unless we get full production.' So he starts trash-talking me, like I'm a prima donna, so he's just a dick."
"He is a dick," Felix confirms.
"I thought of the perfect response," Tim says. "I want to write 'Cool story bro.' "
"Ash isn't going to like it," Felix warns.
"It's very obvious I am being sarcastic if I say 'Cool Story Bro,' " Tim protests, typing.
A few minutes pass. No response. "You're just sitting there hitting refresh aren't you?" Felix asks.
"Someone said, 'Don't be a dick,' " Tim says, laughing uneasily. "It's not that bad if you are saying 'Cool Story Bro.' Is it? It's funny." But his confidence is wavering. "I'm going to remove it before it escalates any further," he mumbles as we board the plane.
Tim does not want to be seen as a dick. He would also like not to care about Internet haters. "The hate started very quickly, because I'm young and I got into it very quickly, and a lot of people just find it hard to be happy," he says later, sitting at the Joule hotel in Dallas, drinking a cappuccino before his 10 p.m. set. "They get like jealous very easily, maybe. In the beginning, I used to care," he says. "I don't really care anymore."
But in the next breath he's off talking about how it drives him crazy when people call him a sellout for making a remix for Madonna: "How can you see that as selling out? She is a legend. Like fucking like Michael Jackson, when he was alive, people would have been like, 'OMG, that's like selling out.' Now people would think, 'Oh, that's so cool.' Because he died."
And the people who gripe about his modeling for Ralph Lauren? "I always wear, like, checkered shirts," he says, plucking at his flannel. "Well, actually, this is striped, but all the photos are exactly what I usually wear."
And as for the people who say he is too mainstream: "I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative."
So yeah, he cares. He knows he shouldn't. Maybe it's the Swedish in him. "People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you," he says. "That's what it is. I'm much better about it than I used to be. But it's hard to switch a button and make it go away, even though I want to, because it's so stupid."
There's another reason, too. "I guess I think like deep inside, I know that it's like, it's a different kind of performing, it's not really... You're not performing like a guitar player or a singer is performing, you know what I mean? So it's weird to be in the same type setup as one of those. 'Cause I'm not really doing much, you know, like technically it's not that hard."
He shrugs it off. "You can't do anything about it," he says. "I'm where I want to be."
Another black car to another greenroom, another show: The Lights All Night festival is a blur of kids in Fun Fur and neon going, "Are you rolling?," mesmerizing one another with light-up gloves. Tim has never taken the Drug Formerly Known As Ecstasy, which is sort of odd since MDMA is to EDM what cocaine was to disco. "I mean, I want to take it," he says the next day, eating a layover hamburger on the way to Vegas. "But I'm sort of afraid of anything that makes you feel out of control." Even though the kids in Dallas are his age, it's hard to imagine him among them crowd-surfing in a neon tankini. "Yeah, I kind of missed all that," he says. "Because when I was 18, I couldn't go out, and then when I could go out..." he trails off.
"He gets mobbed," Felix says.
"I don't really dance, anyway," Tim says. Other than his friends from high school, who he sees sparingly—"I help them get laid," he laughs—most of his time is spent around adults.
"You're sticking with us through New Year's Eve?" Felix asks me. "You'll see what we're all about."
"We'll do some showers," Tim says.
"We'll get ten bottles of champagne and we spray it, we have a war," Felix clarifies, seeing my blank look.
But Tim is having second thoughts. "It's a bit douchey," he says. "It's very douchey."
"Just blame it on me," Felix offers magnanimously. "I'll be a douche."
New Year's Eve in Vegas, and the anticipation in the air is palpable. Gangs of twentysomethings rove the hotel with giant water bottles, hydrating. This holiday is an endurance test, it must be trained for. The same is true for Team Avicii. Last night's show at Marquee and the subsequent hotel suite party was merely practice for tonight's sprint to Anaheim and back. At 6 p.m., Felix, Tim, and his booking agent, David Brady, gather in the lobby of the Wynn hotel, along with Jared Garcia, a promoter from XS who is coming along to make sure he'll get back in time, and a camera guy who is filming it all for reasons no one seems clear about.
"Look at the car Jesse bought," David Brady says on the way to the airport, twisting around from the front seat of the car to show Tim an iPhone picture of the sports car recently purchased by the managing partner at XS. EDM has been good to the clubs: XS made over $80 million last year, according to the Wynn, a figure that broke revenue records.
"Look at Jesse last night," Tim says, showing the car an iPhone picture of the same promoter, passed out drunk on his couch.
"Did you shave his eyebrows? The rule is when someone gets drunk you shave their eyebrows," says Felix. "When we get out of the club, let's go and TP his car," he adds, as we board the private plane. Everyone agrees this is an awesome idea.
White Wonderland, the festival in Anaheim, is organized by Insomniac, the same people behind the Electric Daisy Carnival, and it is similarly over the top. Four dancers in glittery snowball costumes rush past us on the way to the green room, which is decorated with Christmas lights and contains Emily Goldberg, Tim's girlfriend. Tall and blonde and startlingly normal, she and Tim started dating exclusively about a year ago, after Tim had his come-to-Jesus moment with his pancreas. ("I used to have a bunch of girls, girls that I liked," he'd said earlier.) They share a dog, Bear, who is running around on the floor like a feather duster with legs.
"Bear, it's your daddy," she says. "I'm not sure she recognizes you."
Tim scoops the dog up and walks over to the window that looks down at the main floor of the convention center, where rave kids dressed in the event's requisite all-white are trickling in. "Is it sold out?" he asks.
"About 98 percent," says David Brady.
"What happened?" he says nervously.
Felix, sensing panic, jumps in. "About 500 people just walked in," he says. "They're coming in waves."
"Wow, people really went all out," he observes. "Americans are really good at partying," he says, turning away. "Swedish people would be too cool for this kind of thing. We're, um...what do you call it? Emily, do you know which word I use?"
"Douchey?" Emily says.
There are 24,000 people there by the time he goes on, and afterward, he is sweaty and giddy. "They were really into that new one, the one that goes, brn-nrew-nrew nrew nrew nrew nam," he says as the van takes off for LAX, accompanied by a police escort David Brady hired to run all the red lights.
"Faster! Faster!" Tim urges playfully as the van screeches around a curve and everyone laughs. But the mood grinds to a halt at LAX along with the car, which is detained by security. "What the fuck?" he says, peering out at the airport officials sweeping under the car with their flashlights. "Why is this happening?" he demands of Felix. "Didn't you call ahead?"
Ten minutes later, we're on the plane, but Tim stays quiet for the rest of the trip, moving the cardiograms of song around on his laptop.
By 2 a.m., XS has given itself over to full New Year's Eve abandon. Kathy Hilton, Paris's mom, is dancing on a platform next to the stage, and girls with small dresses and hungry eyes are jammed into the velvet-roped area behind the DJ booth. Felix, who's been doing his usual business of lighting cigarillos and pouring drinks, has been attempting to keep them away from Tim, but at some point a skinny brunette attached herself to Felix and is hanging from his neck like a scarf. Nearby, Emily is swigging champagne and watching the scene. "Is this totally insane to you?" she types on her phone, showing me the screen. "I see it all the time and I still think it's completely excessive and disgusting."
With the brunette in his blind spot, Felix doesn't notice an XS promoter sneaking up, a bottle of Dom Pérignon in his hand. Seconds later he is batting foam out of his eyes, rivulets of $900 champagne streaming down his bald head, calling for reinforcements. A train of bottle-bearing waitresses marches in like the cavalry.
One hand on his headphones, the other on the fader, Tim is too focused on keeping the crowd jumping in front of him to notice the douchiness going on behind him. He is in what Felix calls "his zone," where tension and fear and anxiety are obliterated by the pounding of the bass and the swell of the melody, and all that remains is the need to keep it going, to keep the energy up. He lifts a hand in the air, unselfconsciously mouthing the lyrics to his biggest hit: Ooooh sometimes I get a good feeling.
He's only contracted to play for two hours, but 3 a.m. comes and then 4 a.m., and Tim is still going. He burns through everything in his repertoire, some generic crowd-pleasers, the tracks he's testing out from the album he's working on, which will feature real instruments and "a lot of talented people," he'd said earlier. "Like people with real talent." He is so successful at making the audience feel like they can't leave that many of them stay well past the time they should. By four thirty, the girls shimmying on tables have come to resemble Depression-era marathon dancers, all bloody blisters and smeared eye makeup. One of the security guards is taking out a girl doubled over in a wheelchair, puke-stained hair grazing her knees.
Through it all, Tim just keeps shaking his hips and pounding his hand in the air. He doesn't even see that right behind him, someone has taped Emily's legs together with electrical tape, leaving her flapping on the platform like a drunk mermaid, a bottle of Dom Pérignon clutched in her hand, or that when she starts to cry, it is Felix who bends down and untapes her. It is 5 a.m., and the air is heavy with exhaustion and sudden sobriety, but Avicii puts on another track, and everyone rallies, as he knows they will. He just isn't ready for it to end.
Jessica Pressler is a contributing editor for New York magazine.
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Music is often used to call to mind a certain time, location or mood. The popular music created in the '30s ("Brother Can You Spare a Dime?") or 40s ("I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time") evokes the era, and we are lucky that, as time goes by, more of these songs are appearing on digital archives like the Library of Congress's American Memory Project or Internet Archive. Some songs, though written much later, suggest an earlier event. One of the best known of these is "(Coming to) America," released by Neil Diamond in 1980, which strongly brings to mind the great mass of immigrants of the second half of the 19th Century, traveling in steerage as they made their way to what they hoped was a better life. What's your favorite "history" song?
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My gg grandfather wrote 3 songs that can be found in this collection.
I also am fond of "Abraham, Martin and John" by Dion and "Ohio" (about the Kent State shooting) by Crosby, Stills & Nash.
How about "I've Got a Name," by Jim Croce, wasn't it? The lyrics are something like, "… I've got a name. And I carry it with me like my Daddy did … but I'm living the dream that he can't live …"


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MNsure's enrollment total topped the 200,000 mark as of Tuesday, the final day that people could choose a plan on the state's health insurance marketplace.
About three quarters of those who enrolled in coverage since October qualified for government-sponsored coverage such as Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare, MNsure spokesman Joe Campbell said. About 50,000 others enrolled in private coverage.
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Last fall, MNsure officials hoped to enroll about 135,000. But not everyone who tried to get coverage is thrilled.
But some consumers who tried to enroll ran into problems with the MNsure website and long waits on hold.
Among them was Jeff Moores, of Fridley, Minn. he wanted to be included in the enrollment numbers, but like so many frustrated and angry Minnesotans before him, he was unable to get the MNsure website to work on Tuesday.
Moores, 31, said he had started the process of enrolling in private coverage a couple of weeks ago but because of website problems then wasn't able to complete the process. He tried calling MnSure's contact center Tuesday with some questions, along with 18,000 other consumers who waited on hold an average of a half hour.
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Campbell acknowledges there were problems on Tuesday. He said many of them involved the process of confirming an applicant's identity. That requires MNsure to verify information through a so-called federal data hub.
"When you go through the website, there's a connection with the federal hub that tells MNsure you are who you say you are," he said. "It involves trying to prove a variety of different things. And for one reason or another a consumer who came to the site either didn't provide the right information or may not have had the right information available to them at the time."
Moores wasn't able to finish. He emailed MNsure to ask whether there would be some other way to beat the deadline but has heard nothing in reply.
"I don't know if folks in my situation, if there's a lot of us who perhaps weren't able to sneak in under the deadline because of some technical issues," he said. "Maybe I'm the only one; I don't know."
Campbell said MNsure will analyze applications on a case-by-case basis and determine who is still eligible for coverage. Those that are deemed ineligible won't be able to purchase private health coverage until next fall, and may face a tax penalty.


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71 Buffalo River is a $20,000 property on a 1.09 acre lot located in Waynesboro, TN.
Green Buffalo River Retreat is offering an opportunity to own 1 +/- acre camping lots either on the Buffalo River or Green River. Electricity will be available soon. Property offers a commons area for all owners to enjoy. Taxes TBT, Each lot is surveyed & marked
|Exterior Features
|Land Type
Residential Lot
|Property Type
wayne county
|Elementary School
waynesboro elementary
|Middle School
waynesboro middle school
|High School
wayne co high school
Greenbuffalo River Retreat
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