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DigElog ROCORI's New Facebook LOOK! Check it out...

Today, DigElog ROCORI launched a new look on Facebook.  One that depicts our 7 year history on the internet and in the world of social media.  Click on the graphic above to experience it for yourself.

The World You and I Live In... and are responsible for.

January 25, 2012

A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP satellite was renamed 'Suomi NPP' on January 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner E. Suomi of the University of Wisconsin.

Suomi NPP is NASA's next Earth-observing research satellite. It is the first of a new generation of satellites that will observe many facets of our changing Earth.

Suomi NPP is carrying five instruments on board. The biggest and most important instrument is The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS.

To read more about NASA's Suomi NPP go to: npp.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html

DOWNLOAD a copy of any size from NASA  

Sun Storm Creates Fantastic Northern Lights Video

The solar storm that showered the Earth on Tuesday, Jan. 24, was one of the strongest such occurrences in recent years.

Most folks on Earth were unaffected by the storm, but for some, it is a great opportunity to catch northwards lights or halo borealis, a natural light effect due to the collision of solar particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere.

One of the most beautiful such videos comes from Helge Mortensen who captured the nature's light show in Norway.

Glacial Lakes & ROCORI Trail Pavilion Ground Breaking Ceremony

1:00 pm, October 18, 2011
Richmond, Minnesota  USA

 

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Today a key group of community leaders and committee workers conducted a ground breaking ceremony at the soon to be Glacial Lakes Trail Pavilion in Richmond.  In this story you'll hear from City Mayor Jim Hemmesch, Civic & Commerce President Patti Plantenberg, City Parks Director Kevin Mooney and Pavillion Project Chairman Sheldon Lang.  Work on the pavilion began today with the intent the facility will be ready for the completion of the Glacial Lakes Trail and the start of the ROCORI trail that will begin next summer.

How Steve Jobs Touched My Life

Steve Jobs
1955-2011

Earlier this week Steve Jobs passed away at the young age of 56.  Special tribute will be given here to Steve today because in many ways, the world of DigElog would never have existed if it wasn't for his vision, creativity and technological influence.  

Let me begin by referencing another mentor of mine:

The story of Steve Jobs is an amazing one. He turned a few hundred dollars of spare parts into one of the most valuable companies in the world while revolutionizing one industry after another. In so doing, he was a prime example of the empowerment of the individual while in turn empowering everyone else. He showed the power of marrying science and art and democratized the tools of creativity. Jobs was truly a unique and remarkable innovator who has enriched all of our lives and we are all immeasurably saddened at his passing.

— Ray Kurzweil

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Steve Jobs' 2005
Stanford Commencement Address

• Our Stories Intertwine Back In 1982
  The two Steve's had already invented the Apple II in 1977, but I personally get involved when I purchase a Apple II Plus with 64k of RAM and dual 5.25" floppy drives, for my Drywall Distributing company in 1982.  I find myself learning basic programming at the local community college and becoming a VisiCalc enthusiast applying spreadsheet technology to everything from product inventory to payroll in my small company.  I also discovered a "Family History" software that pushes me to dig deeper into my family heritage and to document it on my Apple II Plus.

• 1984 Steve and Apple Introduce Macintosh
  I see the Super Bowl commercial like the rest of the world and immediately decide it's something I want to learn more about.  The local community college buys a couple first edition Macs for their computer lab and I get some immediate hands on experience that simply dazzles my imagination.

• 1985-6 Steve is forced out of Apple but the Mac explodes into the publishing industry
  Although Steve's direct involvement with Apple will take a 10 year hiatus, his dream and vision of the Macintosh inspires me to become a Public Information Director for the local community college with a brand new Mac 512 and a Laserwriter Plus on my desk.  Over the next 12 months I produce camera ready copy for publishing in the local newspaper and I publish one of the very first camera ready college catalogs (100 plus pages) using Ready Set Go 1.0 publishing software.

• 1987-8  Steve has now started both NeXT Computer and Pixar Annimation Studios
  My Mac experience has prepared me for my next life encounter.  I join 6 other brave young lads in taking a bankrupt Team Electronics store and turning it into an "Apple Only" computer store.  At the time, the seven of us knew more about Apple products that any 7 employees of Apple did, because we not only sold the product but we trained it and supported it.  Our crazy idea was a success and the fundamental company that was started back then is still alive today.

• 1989 While Steve is busy making animated movies, I'm proving the Mac to be a business machine
  The driving force for any computer is its software.  I choose the niches of Accounting and Data Base development as my areas of growth and opportunity.  I become a consultant in both Accountant Inc. and Filemaker Pro software.

 

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"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ... Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

- Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

 

A Community Mural Project In Cold Spring

Cold Spring Mural Project by Shannon McEvoy
Summer 2011
Cold Spring, Minnesota   USA

An Honors Thesis Project by Shannon McEvoy, Art and Hispanic Studies Double Major at the College of Saint Benedict, in partnership with Casa Guadalupe Multicultural Community (CGMC).  The mural takes a multicultural perspective on the history of Cold Spring and hopes for the future.  It will be on the Cleaning Center’s west-facing wall, courtesy of business owner Dan Kippley.  The painting is taking place throughout August into the beginning of September.  Anyone age 10 or older is invited to come paint!  To sign up to paint and learn more about how you can help, contact Shannon at (952)807-6702, email: shmcevoy@csbsju.edu<mailto:shmcevoy@csbsju.edu> or CGMC at (320)685-3949.

***** THIS STORY SPONSORED IN PART BY...

Sponsored by Tom Graham and State Farm Insurance in Cold Spring, Minnesota
http://bit.ly/dSlm3M

Cold Spring Brewery Office Building Demolition

Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Cold Spring Brewery Company
Cold Spring, Minnesota   USA

DigElog LIVE! Live Broadcasts from Old ROCORI Middle School Demolition

Live Broadcasts today from Cold Spring, Minnesota

Stay tuned for live coverage this morning when the old ROCORI Middle School will begin to be demolished beginning at 10:00 AM.

LIVE COVERAGE SPONSORED IN PART BY:

Dr. Mary Jo Femrite, a graduate of ROCORI High School, received her BA degree from Moorhead State University and her Doctor of Optometry degree from the Illinois College of Optometry.  Dr. Femrite completed a residency with Minnesota Eye Consultants, specializing in eye disease management, LASIK surgery and comprehensive eye care. Following her residency, Dr. Femrite continued in private practice from 2001-2006.  She opened LAKES Eye Clinic in May 2006. 

Dr. Femrite is active in the Minnesota Optometric Association, the American Optometric Association and the Cold Spring Chamber of Commerce.  She has presented several case reports, research studies and lectures to the optometric community and public.  She currently reside in the Cold Spring community with her husband and 2 children.

Lakes Eye Clinic DigELINK page...

Bill's Bits Column - MY FIRST DAYS AT COLD SPRING

MY FIRST DAYS AT COLD SPRING AND MORE-

It was in August of 1968 that my family and I moved to Cold Spring from Medford, Minnesota.

I had been teaching 4th grade in Medford since graduating from Mankato State Teacher's College in March of 1960.  I also was married on August 20, 1960.

When a teaching and Principalship opened up I applied at Rocori and got accepted.  My first 7 years were spent out in Rockville as a 4th grade teacher and Principal.  Because there was no current public Elementary School in the newly formed Rocori District.  The town of Cold Spring was
divided in half and approximately half of theCold Spring pupils went to Rockville and approximately half went to Richmond.

With the large numbers of pupils attending
Rockville and Richmond, there had to be additional space provided.  This was accompished by bringing in re-locatable buildings.  They were small classroom buildings that held up to about 30 pupils.

That was the Fall of 1968.  The following year, Cold Spring Public Elementary was started and then the number of pupils in Rockville and Richmond  dropped back to about 200 pupils in both schools.

The temporary buildings were actually quite comfortable.  In a way it was like going back to the one room country schoolhouse I attended while in grade school.

There were certain things about being out at Rockville that stay in my mind...  Not that they were bad, but different from time to time.  The original building ws built during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the term of Franklin Delano Rosevelt.  The halls of that building were quite wide and at each entry way there were hand painted murals of the life style in and around Rockville.  The building was constructed with the local Grey Granite from a near-by quarry and cut and finished right on the school's site.

NOTE:  There are more story's to tell about John Clark Elementary and I will continue with more of them in the next week or so.

TRIVIA-  There are more single men than single women.  For every 100 single women in their 20's, there are 119 single men in the same age group.

There are roughly 2.2 million marriages per year in the U. S.

Seventy percent of men and women between the ages of 30 and 34 have
been married at some point in their lives.  This is based on studies done in the year 2008.


TITANIC TRIVIA-  The U. S. Coast Guard drops a wreath at the site of the sinking
of the Titanic every year on the anniversary of the disaster.


LIGHTSIDE- 

Olives in a Jar: 

A man walks into a bar and orders martini after martini,
each time removing the olives and placing them in a jar.  When the jar was full and all the drinks consumed, he started to leave.

A customer asked the man, "what was that all about?"  "Nothing," he replied, "my wife
sent me out for a jar of olives."

HUNTING FLIES:  A woman walkS into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.
"What are you doing?"  she asked.
"Hunting flies"  he responded.
"Oh! , Killed any?" she asked.
"Yep, three males, two females," he replied.

Intrigued, she asked "How can you tell?"
He responded, "Three were on a beer can,
two were on the phone."

WHO GOD USES- 

The next time you feel like GOD can't use you, just remember...

1. Noah was a drunk.
2. Joseph was abused.
3. Moses had a stuttering problem.
4. Sampson had long hair and was a womanizer.
5. David had an affair and was a murderer.
6. Jonah ran from God.
7. Isaiah preached naked.
8. Job went bankrupt.
9. John the Baptist ate bugs.
10. Peter denied Christ.
11. Zacccheus was too small.
12. Lazarus was dead!

NOTE:  No more excuses now.  God can use you to your full potential...

Ole once lent $5,000 to a guy for a face lift.
Now Ole can't find him.

Ole was feeling a little sorry for himself.  He said,"I'll never get fired.  Dey got to
SELL slaves."

Ole thought of a way to make Lena drive more carefully.  He reminded her that if she had an accident, the paper would print her age.

Ole's cousin, LeRoy, is so cheap that he married a girl born on February 29th so he'd have to buy her a birthday present only once every four years.
-All the above Jokes are from Ole & Lena book #6-


"What do you get when a blonde dyes her hair?  Artificial Intelligence
        -Jolly Jokes for Older Folks-


WORDS FOR THE  WEEK-  "Inhale Faith.
Exhale Works."    -Daily Thoughts-

"A rich person is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least."
                 -Daily Thoughts-

"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is.  Treat him as he could be, and he
will become what he should be."
  -Former football coach-Jimmy Johnson-


OLD BURMA-SHAVE SIGNS-

The chick
He wed
Let out a whoop
Felt is chin and
Flew the coop
BURMA-SHAVE.

So, until next week, please take good
care of yourself.         

B. G.

 

Bill Goede
Long standing resident/videographer/story teller
Cold Spring, Minnnesota  USA
billgoede@msn.com

Japan Before / After the 2011 Tsunami (where you can donate)

Sendai Airport

 

Yuriage in Natori

 

Yuriage in Natori (looking west)

 

Fukushima Nuclear Plant

 

Yagawahama in Miyagi (Oshika Peninsula)

 

Soccer field in Minamisanriku