Photos and Video of the 2011 Franklin Christmas Parade

Here are the photos and video I took of the 2011 Franklin Christmas Parade. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed taking them. Oh, and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. And for those who don't have time to watch the whole parade, here it is in two minutes... (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; ...

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Notice of Special Meeting of the Macon County Commissioners

BEGIN PRESS RELEASE Notice of 12.01.11 Special Meeting (function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })(); END PRESS RELEASE The chairman of the Macon County Commissioners, Brian McClellan was arrested for DWI in...

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Watch Mars Science Lab/Curiosity Rover Launch Live

**update** Here is video of the launch: Come August of next year, there will be seven minutes of terror when the vehicle reaches Mars. I hope to be able to provide you with live coverage of that event as well. The Mars Scie3nce Lab is scheduled to launch between 10.02 and 11.45am Eastern Time today. I have embedded video players for you to watch the launch live. JPL animation of the journey and landing of the Mars Science Lab. The Mars...

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Washington, D.C. October 3, 1863 By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even...

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Republican Candidates Debate Foreign Policy

The candidates in the Republican Party 2012 Presidential nomination race participated in a forum at Washington, D.C.’s, Constitution Hall last night, an event that was billed as the "Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy." It was sponsored by CNN and the Heritage Foundation. (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; ...

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A Town Hall with NC Senator Jim Davis

Here is a Town Hall that was held by NC Senator Jim Davis last night in the Community Facilities Building in Franklin, NC. It is one of a series of town halls he is holding across the district to update people on this past legislative session in the North Carolina General Assembly. I also took some photos and here they are: Previous coverage of Jim Davis: NC Governor Vetoes State Budget NC Senator Jim Davis Discusses State...

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Franklin Aldermen November 21, 2011 Meeting

**2.30am** Here is the video of this meeting: Here is a copy of the presenation by Andrea Leslie. Use it to follow along with the presentation while the video plays: NC DENR Watershed Presentation to The Franklin Town Board of Aldermen (function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];...

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Macon GOP Fundraiser: PIZZA, PICKIN’ & POLITIKIN’

The Macon County Republican Party and the Gem Country Republican Women's Club held a fundraiser this past Saturday, November 19th at the Trimont Christian Academy. Funds are to go toward the opening of a party headquarters during the 2012 elections. If you missed the fundraiser, it is not too late to donate [click here]. The guest speaker was Phil drake of Drake Enterprises. He spoke about the upcoming elections and the video of that is below: Six...

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Macon County Planning Board (November 2011 Meeting)

The Macon County Planning Board met on Thursday, November 17, 2011 and this is the video of what happened... **note** I realize the date is wrong on the video. It would take 24 plus hours to encode it again to correct the mistake, so I'm leaving it as is and moving on. Here are the slides that were used in the NC DENR Watershed Presentation during the meeting: (function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript";...

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Thanksgiving Family Forum

Six of the eight Republicans running in the Republican Party 2012 Presidential Primaries met across a Thanksgiving dinner table in the First Federated Church in Des Moines, Iowa for a free-wheeling discussion led by Frank Luntz that focused on issues important to Christians and social conservatives. Mormons Mitt Romney and Jon Hunstman did not participate.  Here is the full video of the discussion: (function() { var po =...

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Macon County EDC November 2011 Meeting

The Macon County EDV met on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 and heard a series of reports from the new EDC Director Tommy Jenkins. It sounds like he has hit the ground running and takes his position very seriously. A reporter from The Franklin Press and myself were the only members of the media present at this meeting. Here is the video I took of the meeting and associated meeting documents that were shared by the new EDC Director: Macon...

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Veterans Day 2011 in Franklin, NC

This is how my hometown observed Veterans Day on November 11, 2011 The Veterans Day parade: The program and ceremonies observing Veterans Day: Slideshow of some of the photos I took at the event: (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];...

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Republicans Debate at Wofford College in SC

The candidates in the Republican Party 2012 Presidential nomination race participated in a forum at Wofford College last night, an event that was billed as the "Commander-in-Chief Debate." (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po,...

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Republican Candidates Debate in Michigan

Here is the latest forum in which the Republican candidates participated in, this one occurred in Michigan. Part One Part Two (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); ...

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Macon County Commissioners 11-08-2011

**6.34am, 11-11-2011** Here is the video of the meeting, which lasted over three hours:  **6.44pm, 11-09-2011** Here is the audio of the meeting: Download MP3 **Note** I will not be able to process the audio or video of this meeting until Thursday because I made the mistake of recording the Town Board of Aldermen meeting in HD and forgot how very long that resolution of video takes to process. I apologize for the mistake. It...

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Franklin Town Board of Aldermen Meeting 11-07-2011

**2.04pm, 11-09-2011** Here is the video of the meeting: **7.30am, 11-08-2011** I underestimated the time it will take for the video of this meeting to encode. It will not be ready until sometime on November 9th. I apologize for the error. **11.44pm** Here is the audio of the meeting: Download MP3 I recorded the meeting in HD, so it will probably be late tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow night before I can get the video processed. The...

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Fall Colors and a Rainbow

The sun hit these trees just right at the same time there was a rainbow at the Community Facilities Building just south of Franklin, NC this morning. (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); ...

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Answering Machine Attacks and the Asheville City Council

Someone sent me this audio anonymously, but I guess they got tired of waiting on me to write up a post about it, so they went ahead and posted it online...then sent me the link to where they had uploaded it.  So, here is what I had prepared to provide context for the audio. I had more research to do, but I'm walking away from the project since they've posted it online elsewhere... LTE in Asheville Citizen-Times dated Oct 5, 2011 Cecil...

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Life in a Day: July 24, 2010

Life In A Day is a historic film capturing for future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010. Executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald. Life in a Day is a crowdsourced documentary film comprising an arranged series of video clips selected from 80,000 clips submitted to the YouTube video sharing website, the clips showing respective occurrences from around the world on a single...

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Peter Schiff Speaks for 1 Percent at Occupy Wall Street

Peter Schiff waded into the Cesspool of Socialism, aka Occupy Wall Street, to engage some of the participants in conversations where he defends capitalism and tries to point out where these people should be directing their anger. From the video description: Last week, Reason.tv followed investment guru, radio show host, and unflappable defender of capitalism Peter Schiff as he spent three hours among the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Manhattan's...

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