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- A Happy Ending
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- Good Ink!
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Curt Schilling: Hall of Famer?- Hollywood at the Corner of Division Street and Quaker Lane - Helping Our Clients Also Means Helping Their Partners - Another Rhode Island Success Story
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 This afternoon marks 150 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the dedication of a battlefield cemetery in Gettysburg, PA. After all this time, the Gettysburg Address still remains the definitive speech about us, largely because in its closing phrases Lincoln answers the fundamental American question - "What, exactly, is the point of the American system of government?"
Only two minutes and ten sentences long, the speech was also a triumph of less being so very much more. Edward Everett, a noted orator of the day, spoke for two-hours (!) prior to Lincoln that day, but later said to the President, "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."
Despite the greatness of his performance that day, Lincoln was a (very) political animal, who lived in a highly charged political world. Not surprisingly, the context in which many people viewed the speech was met through the filter of their own pre-existing views.
Best,
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Cub Scout, 8, Saves the Day
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When Kenny McMillan's Mom had a bad accident at the store, Kenny knew what to do. After all, as a Cub Scout, he had learned about First Aid and how to keep cool and respond in an emergency.
Kenny, now 9, was recently recognized for his poised, mature and effective reaction to a crisis by the Boy Scouts of America with the group's National Certificate of Merit. You can read all about it here, and see the story on TV here.
Tomorrow, Kenny, and his family will go to the State House to meet with Gov. Lincoln Chafee, who will present him with a proclamation to honor Kenny's quick thinking and very grown-up response to an emergency.
Well done, Kenny!
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Local Boy Scouts collected 120 tons of food for the local food bank recently in the annual Scouting for Food drive. This was an increase of 14 tons over last year. You can see the Scouts in action here.
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Rhode Island's Speaker of the House Gordon Fox and Senate President M. Teresa Paiva-Weed bylined a piece about Quonset's Site Readiness program in a recent edition of the New England Real Estate Journal (NEREJ). NEREJ is an important vehicle for Quonset because it reaches a regional audience of real estate professionals, some of whom may be advising client businesses on site-selection issues. Once the piece appeared in NEREJ, we pitched it to local media, where it then appeared in eight different publications, including theWarwick Beacon and the North East Independent.
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 Local resident Charles Townsend had a thoughtful piece recently in the Wall Street Journal about last month's 30th anniversary of the first cell phone call. The piece took a look at the future of cellular service, and the wireless spectrum that is basically the "fuel" for smartphones, iPads and other wireless devices. Conclusion: Some serious planning and rearranging of current spectrum users will be required to meet future demand and maintain the level of service Americans have come to expect.
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