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	<title><![CDATA[Adams and Reese, Ellis Lawhorne Merge]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:58:36 EDT</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[The law firm of Adams and Reese LLP announces its expansion into the state of South Carolina, merging with Columbia -based law firm Ellis Lawhorne, effective June 1, 2013. With the addition of 23 attorneys in Columbia, Adams and Reese will have more than 340 attorneys and advisors resident in 16 offices in seven states throughout the Southern United States and Washington, DC. ]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Fort Jackson News]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:49:11 EDT</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[To whom it may concern,
My name is Pamela Larson, and I am Fort Jackson's 2013 Military Spouse of the Year.  In addition to the title, I have just been named one of the top 18 military spouses who is up for the title of overall Military Spouse of the Year for all military branches, and I am one of three frontrunners for the title of Army Spouse of the Year.  I have come out on top of thousands of amazing military spouses to be one of the frontrunners for all of these titles, and the final round of voting will be held on March 5, 2013.  Anyone may vote, and I am hoping to count on my local news stations to help me gain support within my hometown community.
As well as representing all of Fort Jackson for the title of Army and Military Spouse of the Year, some may recognize me as the spouse of Fort Jackson's missing soldier from this past October.  Our struggles with the military have made me fight ten times harder to maintain my marriage and my sanity.  Our story has touched so many lives, that I have now been asked to team up with a national non-profit organization, Battling BARE, to help gain awareness toward the struggles and hardships that PTSD has on the entire military family.
Today I ask that you please consider running a story on my run for the title of 2013's Military Spouse of the Year, so that I may count on my local community's support while I represent our area as well as the entire military community in this next chapter of my story.

Thank you for your consideration,
Pamela Larson
Fort Jackson's 2013 
Military Spouse of the Year
803-553-8689]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Downtown Columbia's Spooky Halloween ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:20:16 EDT</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[COLUMBIA, S.C., Oct. 29, 2012 The Para Firm --- The Para Firm, a marketing and design company  focused on small and mid-size businesses, has teamed up with Fisher Films, a video production company in downtown Columbia, to produce a video campaign that will highlight local businesses and drum-up some much needed attention for downtown Columbia throughout this holiday season. These two local companies, owned by young entrepreneurs, are new to the downtown area and are excited to play their part in the local economy.

The Para Firm and Fisher Films, both of whom opened offices on downtown Main Street this year, are starting a three piece promotional series to promote local businesses. They will release one video at the end of each month for the next three months.  Each video will highlight local businesses and hotspots to give a human face to the owners of the businesses we all know and love, and even introduce us to some businesses that we may not know as well. 

This is a chance for The Para Firm and Fisher Films to give back to the community by creating some much appreciated attention for the businesses that are chosen each week. Our three part promo includes holiday stories about businesses in the downtown area as told by the men and women that help build Columbia’s economy every day. The videos will be provided to local media outlets and released through several online platforms as well. 

The first video is Halloween themed and showcases a number of the Main Street businesses directly responsible for revitalizing downtown Columbia. These businesses include Frame of Mind, Mast. General Store, the Columbia Museum of Art, the Soda City Farmers Market, and Tapp’s Arts Center. The video will also feature appearances from Capital Places, Paradise Ice, S&S Art Supply, Pia’s Hair Salon, Wine Down on Main Street, and MetLife.

Explaining why they were donating their time to make this video series, Nathan Halydier, CEO at the Para Firm said, “We are dedicated to helping the local economy grow, and we think that this initiative will help bring some much needed attention to some of the local hotspots around town.”

The video is available now, at www.holidayhighlights.theparafirm.com. 
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	<title><![CDATA[Miracle Workers in Columbia]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:14:26 EDT</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[To whom it may concern,
I wanted to share with you, a provider of services for children with Cerebral Palsy that you may not be aware of.  The provider of these services is Ms. Krisztina Koncz and her assistant Eszter, and they are a wonderful pair that have aided my 5 year old granddaughter Sonya in her quest to walk independently.  Krisztina is a Conductor who is here from Hungary and was previously employed with The Therapy Place in Columbia SC.  Krisztina is now performing the Conductive Education Program at her residence and she specializes in assisting children such as Sonya who have been diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy.  Sonya has been a student of Krisztina’s now for a little over 3 months and has made tremendous strides in her quest to walk independently.  When Sonya first started the conductive education sessions, she could not stand on her own but had to hold onto objects or use a walker in order to walk.  She had been going through occupational and physical therapy at various other sites and has been to the St. Louis Children’s Hospital for a procedure called Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy, which all have helped her greatly.  I must say though, that the conductive education program that she now attends has helped her to not only stand on her own for extended periods of time without any support, but she is also taking 8-9 steps independently and has grown in many other favorable ways!  This is truly an answered prayer for Sonya’s family and friends and I have no doubt that very soon with the continued conductive therapy, Sonya will be independently walking.  Sonya completely adores going to her sessions and Krisztina and Eszter treat Sonya like she is their daughter, with tremendous love and affection and a huge desire for Sonya to be independent.  My wife Debra and I had almost exhausted all avenues of progress for the treatment of Sonyas Cerebral Palsy until we were put into contact with Krisztina but we are ecstatic with the progress. Unfortunately, this process is not well known in the United States and there are only a few providers of these services in our nation, none of which are based here in South Carolina that I am aware of.    I would love to get this information made public so that parents and guardians of others with Cerebral Palsy can see the same positive results that Sonya has seen.  I would love to elaborate more on this process and these two wonderful miracle workers, and they can explain the process in more detail if you so desire.   
Regards, 
James Southerland
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	<title><![CDATA[Interstate Truck Fire!]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I took this picture with my camera phone on I-26 towards Charleston about 30mins ago. There were several accidents following the scene and as expected traffic was already getting CraZy!!!]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Local Artist's New Take on Rebel Love]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:14:59 EDT</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[From: the Candace Whittemore Lovely Studio

Confederate Battle Flag in Pink Fails to Fly

Candace Lovely never imagined that she could paint anything that might upset anyone. As the Grand Dame of American Impressionism, the Hilton Head artist is far more accustomed to people falling in love with her paintings of fair women barefoot on beaches, children at play, and low country landscapes. What she isn’t accustomed to is the look on the faces of locals when they first view her rendering of that fabric field of stars and bars associated most closely with Old Dixie: the Confederate battle flag.

Turning sticks and stones into hugs and kisses 

At first glance, Good and Plenty Kiss is equal opportunistically disturbing. Descendents of the Great Cause wince to see their cherished flag gussied up in hues of candy color pink, while others see any rendering of it at all as a reminder of crueler times. It doesn’t help that the original battle flag continues to be a key prop in the battle for the hearts and minds of the New Dixie. 

Maybe if Candace were southern-raised, and not Vermont-born and Boston-schooled, she would have hesitated to take on this sacred cow. She would have realized that when it comes to the flag, everyone south of the Mason-Dixon Line has an opinion. And never minding geography, South Carolina -- where the first shots of the civil war were fired and where new secession resolutions are still entertained -- is as south of the line as one can get without going back in time.

Even as the years have washed the cause with vagueness, South Carolina’s defiant ones continue to rankle at the thought of being told what to do. These protectors of the state’s Confederate birthright are not deterred by the fact that flying the flag on state grounds continues to bring multi-million dollar economic embargos on the state by the NAACP, the NCAA, and others. They take it as a point of stubborn pride that every other state has put this issue to rest.

On meeting Candace Lovely, one will quickly realize that Good and Plenty Kiss is the vision of an artist who rarely thinks about politics or choosing sides. Kiss is actually one painting in a series of Good and Plenty paintings that includes fair women and charming still lifes, as well as a candied rendering of the first colonial flag, itself another flag of rebellion.

“If we can think of these symbols of war as hugs and kisses, dress them in candy colors, then they become far less scary and less able to frighten us,” says the artist. “If the image won’t go away,” adds one sympathetic native, “then it is up to us to make it something of our own, something gentle and beautiful rather than something that reminds us of so much senseless bloodshed and violent prejudice.” 

After setting with it for a while, most do see the flag as the artist intended, but even then they are reluctant to be associated with it.  And what that means is that this artist with paintings hung all over the island -- as well as all over the country and the world -- can’t find anyone in South Carolina who is resolute enough to hang her Good and Plenty Kiss for public view. While they may not be personally opposed, those in government buildings, museums, and private galleries aren’t ready to take the lead on this one, not ready to stand up against the slings and arrows that are likely to be fired from all directions. So the painting remains in the northern-lit island studio where Candace has painted and taught for more than two decades. Kiss did appear in an inside page of the July issue of Pink Magazine, the cover of which featured a more typical Candace Lovely woman of leisure.

“I’d love to see it hanging in Columbus or Charleston,” says the artist.  “I’d love to see people who used to be afraid of it, hanging it on the sides of their barns. If I had the money, I would splash it onto a highway billboard for everyone to see.”  

Maybe then people would sit down and finally finish this unfinished discussion and move ahead to embrace a New Dixie.

“It’s all about that final surrender,” the artist adds. “It’s time for people on both sides of the argument to surrender their complaints, surrender to their better selves and just start fresh from a place of love. 

Though Candace painted it from her own mind’s eye, she’s certainly not the only one or the first to think like this. A few years back, some people in the black community made their own rebel flag using the colors of Africa. People weren’t quite ready to accept it back then, “Maybe South Carolina wasn’t quite ready to give up all its ghosts,” says Candace.  “But I think we’re ready to move past the old angers , with all the problems the world is facing, we have to be, if we’re going to move forward.” 

For more on Candace, her original paintings visit www.candacelovely.com  For Rebel Love posters visit http://www.etsy.com/people/CandaceLOVELYaRT?ref=si_pr









                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
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	<title><![CDATA[Local girl in national contest]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:43:03 EDT</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[I have a community story for you!  My neice, MaCayla Ratcliffe who lives in Columbia SC, is in a contest with www.afterschoolawards.com.  She is in the top 3 of her category out of thousands of entries from across the country.  She needs lots of votes to win.  This is a nationally known contest for students and is sponsored by Izod, JC Penney, Now Records.  She is in the running for a $5,000 scholarship and other prizes.  Could you do a story on her?  She has a video posted and info. about her on the website.  She was recently flown to Nashville, TN to record a music video for the contest at the House of Blues there.  Any advertising you can do for the contest would be much appreciated. Thanks so much!]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Grandchilds 1st day of kindergarten]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 11:26:45 EDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Gas Prices drop ever so slightly]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 09:28:20 EDT</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[On my way home from work i had to take a picture of the lowest Gas price i have seen in a long time!  Still very high!]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Baby it's Cold Outside!]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 09:25:15 EDT</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[My grandchild wrapped up this past winter!  So Cute!]]></description>
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