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And for me, the lesson seems to be: Don�t let things go unsaid.
But too often, I do. I get so wrapped up about getting where I need to be that I overlook where I am and where I�ve been.
I too often miss the observation that my mother � at 85, still traipsing off to the coast for contemplative stays � makes about appreciating what we have.
I too often miss the wisdom from author Ann Voskamp, in her book �One Thousand Gifts,� about living each day with thankfulness.
Thankfulness, she says, leaves no room for bitterness.
Ah, but you can�t wait for the muse, she warns. You have to be proactive. Have to think it, say it, claim it � before it�s too late.
�Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life, unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time,� writes the Canadian author, who lives on a farm and is the mother of six.
So today � while still �in my event� � I pull out my hammer and begin: With no other agenda, I say thanks, readers, for meeting me in this time and space � if I can be so presumptuous � three times a week.
Too often, we wait to tell people we care about them only at a memorial service. Or at a retirement party.
Thanks for column ideas, observations, Q&A suggestions, perspective, occasional praise and even criticism � when offered with good intentions and a name.
Thanks, column subjects, for allowing me the privilege of telling your stories.
Any success of this column often rests on people with the guts to share painful parts of their lives. Readers find strength in such people�s courage.
In a time when some dailies such as the New Orleans Times-Picayune have gone to three days a week, thanks to the Baker family for the commitment to a daily paper.
Thanks for the folks who sell ads so you can get your news and I can have a job. And for those who work the dark hours getting the paper to the houses of subscribers and to the news stands of businesses.
A place full of artists and athletes, students and seniors, country folk and city folk, high end and homeless, all bound by this time and place and these climatological elements, even that bone-chilling fog that recently turned the valley into a giant bowl of frozen clam chowder.
But better a bowl of chowder than tornado or hurricane fodder. And the great thing about this place is that no fog, no flooding, no asphalt-melting heat lasts too long.
Meanwhile, if you must escape, you can.
Last week, we fled the fog for the coast and, just after climbing past Noti, entered a wondrous, blue-sky world as if we were the �Narnia� kids walking through the closet.
Despite our individual and collective flaws, this is a good place with good people, you, readers, among them.
I know this is strange � and not likely to work for the reader who gently chastised me for not being �caustic� enough. I know the official season of thanksgiving passed two months ago.
Don�t wait to say what needs saying.
Address your formal letter complaining of harassment to the appropriate person.
4 What Happens to a Sexual Harassment Lawsuit if a Company Is Sold?
Sexual harassment incidents can wreak havoc in a workplace and even bring lawsuits from employees, vendors or clients who feel they have faced discrimination. One way to combat sexual harassment is to hire a trainer to speak with your employees on sexual harassment statistics and prevention. Find a certified sexual har...
Introduce yourself in the first paragraph as the owner or human resources manager and include your company name. State your purpose for writing — to hire the trainer to speak to your employees about sexual harassment.
Indicate how you learned of the trainer’s services, whether through a referral, trade publication or online. The trainer will find this information useful, so include it in the first paragraph.
Introduce your company briefly in the second paragraph. Indicate your industry, the types of products and services you provide and the number of employees you have. Give an overview of your company culture in a single sentence. Such details help the trainer tailor his presentation to your employees.
Suggest available training dates and times in the third paragraph. List contact information, such as your phone number, email address or business cell phone number. Ask the trainer to contact you so you can further discuss his services and set a date.
Brookins, Miranda. "How to Write a Business Letter Asking for a Trainer to Come Train Your Company on Sexual Harassment." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/write-business-letter-asking-trainer-come-train-company-sexual-harassment-11126.html. Accessed 25 April 2019.
How Does a Company Write an Appeal to an Unfavorable Ruling From an Unemployment Hearing?
Epic Games recently announced the first VR Funhouse Game Jam in partnership with NVIDIA, Valve and HTC and you are invited to participate in the event's consumer day on Monday, September 26. The game jam itself will happen September 24-26 on the incredible MS Bleichen ship in Hamburg, Germany. Registration for the cons...
It seemed like too much work at first.
A couple of big hits made it possible.
Though network executives were skeptical of the idea, they tasked the series creators with making a pilot, which they did, with Alanis Morissette's "You Learn" and TLC's "Waterfalls." VH1 ordered 10 episodes.
Lionel Richie's "Hello" is the greatest pop-up video ever.
Thompson and Lowe are most proud of their efforts on Lionel Richie's "Hello," which features a horrific sculpture of the singer. They talked to the real sculptor for the episode: "They only had the one head, and they only saw it the day of the shoot, and it looked like Patrick Ewing, this horrific sculpture," the produ...
Not every artist was happy with the show.
Famously, Billy Joel made VH1 pull an episode featuring his "Keeping the Faith" music video because their allegation that Christie Brinkley "did not keep the faith" in their marriage was causing their daughter stress and bullying at school.
They brought it back. VH1 ordered new episodes of "Pop Up Video" in 2011, using the old style of pop-up factoids during music videos from artists like Kesha. Season 1 consisted of 60 episodes, and it went on to a second season in 2012.
Oh yes, there were copycats.
The popularity of "Pop-Up Video" spawned countless knockoffs and imitators. In one example, Disney Channel re-released their original movies like "High School Musical," calling them the "What's What Edition."
It's not all that original.
Certainly, "Pop-Up Video's" basic idea of commenting on a video as it's playing isn't all that unique. "Mystery Science Theater 3000," which pokes fun of B-movies, debuted in 1988, and VH1's sister station MTV's "Beavis and Butthead," featuring the two animated assholes giving their opinion of music videos, premiered i...
A BOMB disposal unit had to be called to a football stadium after a GRENADE was found under one of the stands.
Fortunately nobody was injured and the game went ahead between two rival teams in Argentina.
The discovery was made ahead of Argentinian third-tier side Ituzaingo's derby match against Deportivo Merto at the Estadio Carlos Alberto Sacaan stadium in the capital city Buenos Aires.
Local media report the grenade was found between two and three hours before the stadium opened for the match.
The explosive device was reportedly found under one of the stands where the Deportivo Merto fans were set to sit.
Official sources said: "It was found deposited on the ground, under the walls of the visitors' stand and close to the press cabins.
“The facilities were closed to safeguard the area."
Local media report an Anti-Explosives Unit were called to the scene and the grenade was removed without delaying kick off.
The grenade was later detonated in a safe place, according to reports.
Ituzaingo president Hernando Politano told local news outlet Infobae: "I was in the stadium when it was found.
"It was half buried. It had the shape but it didn't even look like a grenade, it looked like something buried.
"It was buried under one of the stands.
"Guarantees have been given and the security operation was carried out with normality."
The Primera C match finished 0-0 and no further incidents were reported during the match.
Perhaps the most exciting moment of the match came when a fan won a moped in the half-time raffle.
A Japanese man named Masato Nakatsuji has been arrested and accused of writing a computer virus that replaces all the files on a person's computer with home-made manga images of squid, octopuses and sea urchins.
It's believed that somewhere between 20,000 and 50,000 computers have been infected by the Ika-tako virus, which translates to "Squid-octopus". It spread through the Winny filesharing network, disguised as a music file, and once run the malware works through the files of the hard disk, replacing each with an image of a...
It's not the first time that Nakatsuji has been arrested for virus creation. In 2008 he was convicted of violating copyright after coding malware that replaced data with an image from anime series Clannad. He told the police in this case that he didn't think he'd be arrested again because he'd created the squid and oct...
This time, however, the police arrested him on charges of "property destruction", arguing that since the virus makes it impossible to retrieve the original computer files, those files have been destroyed. It's the first time that Tokyo's police have arrested someone for property destruction in connection with malware.
The virus sends the files that it replaces with squid anime to a server that's believed to have been set up by Nakatsuji. Police found data for around 20,000 users on the server. Nakatsuji told police: "I wanted to see how much my computer programming skills had improved since the last time I was arrested."
The GBT Babies wrote a song about bullying after experiencing it in school.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Eddie Maltsby still can’t believe how many phone calls he received after hosting a family of young singers on his radio show last month.
Maltsby, who is blind, has been hosting community radio shows for decades. On his Black Power 93.6 FM show, which airs three days per week, he played a song called "No More Bullies." It was written by a St. Petersburg family.
The message: Bullying has to stop.
The family formed the musical group GBT Babies in April 2018 and have already written six songs. The idea for the song to address bullying began in August because bullying is something the students see daily at school, the park and playgrounds. It makes the siblings and cousins, ages 8-12, irritated at their peers.
“I see it a lot,” 10-year-old Daniel Washington said.
It started as a way to vent frustration and expose the bullying epidemic. Don Dunn created the beat. The kids helped write the lyrics. They recorded it at a studio on 9th Street in St. Petersburg. In just a few months, they had a finished product.
The words hit home with a lot of people.
The singers, a group of five performed their song again at a St. Petersburg event center Thursday night. Cameras and smartphones recorded the kid’s dance moves and excited faces. Zy’cariyah Williams, who will turn nine soon, shouted out her lines.
Matlsby sat quietly in a chair just taking in the sounds. He couldn’t see the kids on the stage but grinned along to their message. Bullying needs to stop: The message dripped from every stanza.
The GBT Babies have also written songs titled, "Florida Rockin," "Don’t Step On My Shoes," "Party, Why U Mad?" and "Lit Right Now." You can see music videos on their YouTube page and GoFundMe.
Troopers are on the scene of a crash in Tishomingo County.
Editor's Note: This article has been modified to reflect the latest information provided by the Mississippi Highway Patrol.
TISHOMINGO COUNTY, Miss. (WTVA) – No injuries are being reported after a wreck in Tishomingo County.
The Mississippi Department of Transportation says the crash happened on Highway 72 at Airport Road.
The Mississippi Highway Patrol says this was a semi-truck versus a rock truck. Crews worked into the early afternoon to clear the scene.
Carole King kept her word. Although an avowed John Kerry booster, she promised not to stump for him during her concert on Sunday. I didn't hear the "K word" from her lips, but she did push the Rock the Vote campaign, and, being an Idaho resident, she lobbied hard for the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Bill.
Other than that, she played music -- and played it with sheer beauty and class.
King performed for a near-capacity crowd paying up to $82 a ticket for the nostalgic privilege of having her go through four decades of hit-making. Once again we were reminded of just how vast a repertoire she has forged, from '60s hits for Steve Lawrence ("Go Away Little Girl"), the Shirelles ("Will You Love Me Tomorr...
Anyway, it was icon time at the FleetBoston Pavilion -- and King didn't disappoint. She announced she was 62 years old, but didn't act it. She was upbeat nearly throughout, pounding on an acoustic piano and playing acoustic guitar in a trio that included longtime guitar accompanist Rudy Guess and newly added guitarist ...
King was extremely conversational, although she admitted that "I have fewer gigabytes of memory than I used to." Her self-deprecating humor kept the audience at ease -- and so did the staging of her "Living Room Tour," which featured sofas, lamps, and plants.
King's musicality shone forth in two generously long sets -- the first featuring some latter-day material such as "Love Makes the World," the title track from her last studio album in 2001.
The first set also featured her classics "Jazzman" and the rollicking "Smackwater Jack" while letting Burr stretch out on a couple of songs he wrote, including "Nobody Wants to Be Lonely," which Ricky Martin and Christina Aguilera have recorded.
The second set was more pure nostalgia, but King, except for an occasionally raspy vocal, still navigated it with elan. She thrilled the crowd with the ballad "So Far Away" (dedicating it to the troops in Iraq) and the vintage "Natural Woman" (OK, she didn't do it as well as Aretha Franklin, but King wrote it) and a lo...
The scene almost looked scripted, but then, King has always made things look easy -- for four decades and counting.
The Wolves have fallen behind in the NBA’s three-point-shooting arms race, but there will be deadeye shooters still on the board with the 20th pick.
Grayson Allen, Duke, 6-5 G, senior: Love him or hate him, this draft’s most polarizing player has seen collegiate teammates Tyus Jones, Jahlil Okafor, Brandon Ingram and Jayson Tatum, among others, come and go after only one season.
Jerry Zgoda and Michael Rand preview Thursday's NBA Draft, in which the Timberwolves have the No. 20 pick, and debate what to do with the selection. They also delve into Andrew Wiggins trade speculation and potential free agent moves when the new league year begins July 1.
Now after his four seasons at Duke, it is Allen’s time to prove he’s NBA-ready because of his athleticism, competitiveness and sure shooting stroke.
It’s also his time to show NBA teams the same player who has played both hero and villain is all grown up.
The same player who, as his team’s least-famous freshman, starred in Duke’s 2015 championship-game victory over Wisconsin and also demonstrated a proclivity to trip or kick opponents. He memorably melted down with a temperamental outburst one night in December 2016.
During workouts, he impressed NBA scouts with a 40-inch vertical jump and shooting range.
He also often had to explain himself.
Don’t forget Wolves coach/president of basketball operations Tom Thibodeau loves competitors and knows well Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, who has coached countless players with the Blue Devils but formed a special bond with Allen.
“Grayson Allen is special,” Krzyzewski told reporters late last season.
Donte DiVincenzo, Villanova, 6-5 G, sophomore: The redshirt sophomore and his Villanova team won big in the 2018 NCAA championship game with his performance off the bench that included 31 points, five made three-point shots, two mighty blocks and one knowing wink.
Now he appears to be winning again in the NBA’s pre-draft process by impressing not only with his Final Four Most Outstanding Player performance, but by his play and shooting range at May’s Chicago draft combine and in individual workouts/interviews with teams.

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