Wordless News
September 13, 2018By Maria Fabrizio The story here: Hurricane Florence prompts warning: ‘You put your life at risk by staying’ Wordless News is a project by illustrator +…
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Beautiful But Deadly
September 13, 2018
By Tom Poland I was driving back from a speaking event in Lake City, the town that reinvented itself thanks to art and the vision and financial support of…
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It’s time to stop living in fear
September 13, 2018
By Brian Maynor We all have a fear of embarrassing ourselves and coming across as dumb, but is this fear rational? Most of the time it’s not. The need…
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Top Grossing Movies – September 7
September 10, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 09/07/2018 to 09/13/2018 Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 The Nun R Warner Bros. 1 3,876 $53,807,379 $53,807,379…
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Marsha Polier, Portrait Artist
September 6, 2018
By Tom Poland Note: The North Carolina Museum of Art has exhibited Marsha Polier’s work. A fellow at the MacDowell Artist Colony, she worked with Time Life Music on…
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Paternalistic lies & when it’s ok to tell them
September 6, 2018
By Brian Maynor “I shall not tell a lie.” We heard this as a child, but it’s not exactly a truth we uphold as an adult. Doctors, managers, and…
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Top Grossing Movies – September 4
September 4, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 08/31/2018 to 09/06/2018 Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Crazy Rich Asians PG13 Warner Bros. 3 3,865 $21,964,345…
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4 steps for actual change in life
August 31, 2018
By Brian Maynor All too often the motivation for change ends almost as quickly as it began. Think about all the times we’ve wanted to change something in our…
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Top Grossing Movies – August 27
August 27, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 08/24/2018 to 08/30/2018 Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Crazy Rich Asians PG13 Warner Bros. 2 $24,808,202 $76,617,149 2 The…
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A Folk Artist Preserves The Past
August 24, 2018
By Tom Poland Harold Branham Every community needs a Harold Branham. In a time when things old and quaint fall to modern ways, it’s good to have someone with…
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Dealing with disappointment
August 24, 2018
By Brian Maynor Disappointment may be a part of life, and while we all need to learn how to cope with it, that doesn’t mean we have to like…
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Top Grossing Movies – August 20
August 20, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 08/17/2018 to 08/23/2018 Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Crazy Rich Asians PG13 Warner Bros. 1 3,384 $26,510,140…
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A Cheap Jug Of Poison
August 17, 2018
By Tom Poland A Public Service Column A deck open to sunlight and the weather surely will lose its pizzazz. That’s when a good pressure washing works miracles. Prep…
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The Camellia Project: The Complicated Languages of Love
August 17, 2018
By Tammy Davis What Love Language Do You Speak? According to Gary Chapman’s Five Love Languages, my daddy would have been a gift giver for sure. Gifts were extravagant,…
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Top Grossing Movies – August 13
August 13, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 08/10/2018 to 08/16/2018 Rank Title Rating Dist Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 The Meg PG13 Warner Bros. 1 4,118 $45,402,195 $45,402,195…
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Top Grossing Movies – August 6
August 6, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 08/03/2018 to 08/09/2018 Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Mission: Impossible – Fallout PG13 Paramount 2 4,395 $35,323,815…
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How success is like an earthquake
August 3, 2018
By Brian Maynor You don’t often hear success compared to a natural disaster, but these two have one very important commonality, and it’s not laying waste to everything in…
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Top Grossing Movies – July 30
July 30, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 07/27/2018 to 08/02/2018 Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Mission: Impossible – Fallout PG13 Paramount 1 4,386 $61,236,534…
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Enough is enough with the conference calls
July 26, 2018
By Brian Maynor Donna Summer sang it best, “Enough, is enough, is enough, I can’t go on, I can’t go on no more no…” and while she wasn’t singing…
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Top Grossing Movies – July 23
July 23, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 07/20/2018 to 07/26/2018 Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 The Equalizer 2 R Sony 1 3,388 $36,011,640 $36,011,640…
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A Song For Miss Johnnie
July 20, 2018
By Tom Poland —“I hear the train a’coming, rolling round the bend” —“Look a-yonder comin’, comin’ down that railroad track, it’s the Orange Blossom Special, bringing my baby…
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3 steps to change our perspective
July 18, 2018
By Brian Maynor “Everything you see or hear or experience in a way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in…
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Top Grossing Movies – July 16
July 16, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 07/13/2018 to 07/19/2018 Rank Title Rating Dist Wk Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation PG Sony 1 4,267…
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Top Grossing Movies – July 2
July 3, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 06/29/2018 to 07/05/2018 Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom PG13 Universal 2 4,485 $60,912,195…
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DHEC offers July 4th Fireworks Safety Tips
June 29, 2018
This July 4th many Americans and South Carolinians will continue the long tradition of lighting up the night with fireworks. While the displays are visually compelling, the S.C. Department of Health and…
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Sentimental Journey Along Highway 25
June 29, 2018
By Tom Poland I was making my way from Greenville to Lincolnton, Georgia one Saturday afternoon. I had to take a back road, a blessing. The light was bad…
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The 3 types of diversity
June 29, 2018
By Brian Maynor Diversity is always a hot topic, especially in the professional world, but most of the time it is a very limited concept. What do you think…
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Wordless News
June 27, 2018By Maria Fabrizio The story here: Trump’s Travel Ban Is Upheld by Supreme CourtWhat Kate Spade Stood For Wordless News is a project by illustrator + designer Maria…
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Creative ways to share expertise without looking arrogant
June 27, 2018
By Brian Maynor The conundrum of being an expert: No one likes a know-it-all, and yet promotions and career advancement are often dependent upon others knowing we have an…
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Top Grossing Movies – June 25
June 25, 2018Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 06/22/2018 to 06/28/2018 Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom PG13 Universal 1 4,475 $148,024,610…
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Are our habits making us unlikable?
June 21, 2018
By Brian Maynor Contrary to popular belief, being likable is not a gift. A lot of people think that you have to be born with some unteachable traits in…
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Top Grossing Movies – June 18
June 18, 2018Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 06/15/2018 to 06/21/2018 Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Incredibles 2 PG Disney 1 4,410 $182,687,905 $182,687,905…
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Life Without Fathers
June 15, 2018
By Tom Poland There’s something about being a writer that makes people confide in you. Why tell a writer, who uses life as raw material, your deepest secrets. But…
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4 ways to learn, not just consume more information
June 15, 2018
By Brian Maynor Over the past 30 years, the amount of information we consume on a daily basis has grown over five times. While a lot of that has…
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Top Grossing Movies – June 11
June 11, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 06/08/2018 to 06/14/2018 Rank Title Rating Dist Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Ocean’s 8 PG13 Warner Bros. 1 4,145 $41,607,378 $41,607,378…
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Wordless News
June 7, 2018By Maria Fabrizio The story here: What Kate Spade Stood For Wordless News is a project by illustrator + designer Maria Fabrizio. Wordless News is a weekday…
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Chinaberry’s Rise & Fall
June 7, 2018
By Tom Poland A lovely shade tree, I played beneath its canopy; rolled its berries in my palm. It stood seven yards beyond an old hand-dug well. I sucked…
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Drive your message home – tips on reading the room
June 7, 2018
By Brian Maynor We all know communication is just as much about listening as it is talking, and part of that listening has nothing to do with what’s being…
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Top Grossing Movies – June 4
June 4, 2018
Week of 06/01/2018 to 06/07/2018 Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Solo: A Star Wars Story PG13 Disney 2 4,381 $29,396,882 $148,989,574 2 Deadpool 2…
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Barn Country
June 1, 2018
By Tom Poland I love driving through the country and in rural areas I enjoy coming across old barns. Veterans of the Agriculture Wars, many show their scars and…
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Top Grossing Movies – May 29
May 30, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 05/25/2018 to 05/31/2018 Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Solo: A Star Wars Story PG13 Disney 1 4,381…
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Top Grossing Movies – May 21
May 21, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 05/18/2018 to 05/24/2018 Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Deadpool 2 R 20th Century Fox 1 4,349 $125,507,153…
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Squatters
May 17, 2018
By Tom Poland Looking back, I realize they lived like frontiersmen. A squirrel-hunting boy who skirted their wooded encampment, I considered them bums. Looking back that seems harsh. Down…
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Positive ways to shake things up
May 17, 2018
By Brian Maynor Do you ever feel stressed out when life is too calm, peaceful or routine? If so, you’re not alone. A lot of us seek the security…
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Top Grossing Movies – May 14
May 14, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Avengers: Infinity War PG13 Disney 3 4,474 $62,078,047 $548,090,150 2 Life Of The Party…
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Top Grossing Movies – May 7
May 7, 2018
Theatrical grosses from comScore Week of 05/04/2018 to 05/10/2018 Rank Title Rating Distributor Weeks Weekend Locs Weekend Gross Cumulative 1 Avengers: Infinity War PG13 Disney 2 4474 $114,774,810 $453,107,350…
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Wordless News
May 4, 2018By Maria Fabrizio The story here: Australian Politician Warns Tourists: Don’t Feed The Kangaroos Wordless News is a project by illustrator + designer Maria Fabrizio. Wordless News…
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Wordless News
May 4, 2018By Maria Fabrizio The story here: Australian Politician Warns Tourists: Don’t Feed The Kangaroos Wordless News is a project by illustrator + designer Maria Fabrizio. Wordless News…
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Understanding why professional relationships are unique
May 4, 2018
By Brian Maynor Navigating our careers can feel isolating at times, but if we’re lucky we are never really alone. Whether it’s during a crisis, exploring new opportunities or…
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Understanding why professional relationships are unique
May 4, 2018
By Brian Maynor Navigating our careers can feel isolating at times, but if we’re lucky we are never really alone. Whether it’s during a crisis, exploring new opportunities or…
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