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January 2011
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Slow as Molasses
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Jack DelGado
Designer
Fête is fast, Fête is growing and January is our best issue yet!
2011 brings with it a fair number of changes and a smattering of excitement.
Trey Pennington
Columnist
Fête is a sponsor of The Children’s Museum’s new exhibit
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Fête is a sponsor of The Sweetheart Ball which benefits Meals On Wheels Stacy Hammac
See page 11 Columnist

Fête is expanding our editorial content with monthly features from Pulse, Gene Berger
The Vibe Guru
Gene Berger from Horizon Records and Business Black Box!

Fête is also a sponsor of the upcoming TEDx Greenville conference in March! Jordana Megonigal
Special Guest Columnist

And how about this new and improved format?

I have to say – wait until you see the February issue....

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One of the things that surprises people about
Greenville Technical College is its low cost. Tuition
for a full-time student is about $3,600 for a full year.
However, every citizen of South Carolina who does
not already have a college degree can be eligible for
a lottery-funded scholarship of about $1,800 per
year, which makes our tuition $1,800 per year!
And, to help with the remaining cost, students may
be able to qualify for federal student aid or local
scholarship funding.
The bottom line is that college here is affordable.
People for whom money is a barrier should meet with
our financial aid counselors to see what is possible –
many are surprised by what is available.
These tuition rates apply to all our courses of study,
including our college transfer classes. For example, a
student could take his/her freshman and sophomore
Bob Howard
President, Greenville Tech Foundation
Greenville
Technical College
years here and pay $1,800 a year in tuition, after the
lottery scholarship, and transfer the hours to another
institution such as Clemson, USC, USC Upstate or
others. If they had the proper grades, they could
enter as a junior.
We have about 150 certificate programs that lead
to a training certification in a technical area, such
as welding, automotive mechanics, machine tool
technology, nursing, dental assisting, pharmacy tech,
culinary arts, accounting and aircraft maintenance.
Many of these do not take two years to complete,
and for these students, good jobs can be right
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Everyone should go to www.gvltec.edu for more
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I Resolve
Not to Resolve
By Stacy Hammac

I’m not much of a resolution kind of girl.

Don’t get me wrong, I understand the whole
“new year, new you” mentality. But I also
understand myself. After years of resolutions that
last about two weeks, I’m taking a new approach this
year. Instead of New Year’s Resolutions, I’m going for
New Year’s Tries. As in, “I’m going to TRY to eat healthier.”
See where I’m going with this?

There is actually some logic behind the madness. For

example, let’s hypothetically say I were going to resolve to
eliminate cookies from my diet. I would think about cookies
a lot more than I have in the entire past twelve months.
Just because I knew I couldn’t have one. And sure enough, What can a cookie do?
I’d come in contact with a cookie, eat it, then feel the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbZgB6hJYJY

cause was hopeless and abandon it. And then you’ve got
cookiegeddon on your hands.

With my New Year’s Tries, though, I’ll merely “try” to avoid

cookies. If I slip up and stumble upon a cookie, no big deal.
I just need to try harder. But that’s certainly no reason to go
all Cookie Monster on a poor Girl Scout. Sure, it’s a
half-ass approach. But I think it’s the way to go for me.

To all of you out there determined to usher in a host of

resolutions, I wish you the best. I’ll try to support you as Dr. Phil’s Wacky Resolutions.
much as I can! http://www.drphil.com/shows/show/817

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Yes, I am a photographer, but photography is not my job, it is my
obsession. My life is in such a good place, and I would have it
no other way. I love what I do. I have been making photographs
for a couple decades. Seemingly I am never satisfied with what
I do. I am continually studying, researching, and experimenting
to find the next things that will make me happy. Photojournalism
is my preference, although I can adjust my style to meet your
needs. I am very capable to produce a superior product in a short
period, but nothing can beat being given the time to explore and
seek out the very best (this is a shameless hint). When I appear
to wander around aimlessly, I find that which cannot be found
otherwise. Interestingly, I never know what that perfect image is
until my lens runs into it. Let me do my thing and you will receive
a product which will contain emotion, love and personal value.

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 I have a thing for umbrellas. There is just something about them.
Perhaps it’s because they are personal. Or maybe I like them
because there are so many to choose from. When you see one,
it often indicates a potential change in the weather. The month
of January is also a time for potential changes. The Holidays are
now summed up and the future is right in front of us. We have
thoughts of resolutions and we likely have things we want to
put behind us. Last year is now just memories. This year might
be the best year we ever have. It also may be our last. Whether
2011 becomes the best of times, or the worst, here we are and
here 2011 is. I tend to look for the good, even when everyone
else is pointing out the bad. Great lemonade can be made with
the lemons of life. carpe diem.

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Henry Ford once said: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is

progress. Working together is success.”

He should know. As the inventor of the assembly line method, Ford was not
only a trailblazer in the manufacturing industry, he became the example of what
“working smart” meant. Visit any of our local manufacturing plants in the
Upstate and you’ll see his concept in real life, even almost 100 years later.

There’s one thing we tend to miss in business, though. The “working together”
Follow process, while it works well within the walls of one business, loses steam when
Jordana
many of us think of our competitors.

The thinking goes a little something like this: “I’m a publication, and
they’re a publication. We both need advertisers to survive. If I work
with them, I hurt myself.” But when we do this, what we really end
up doing is missing the vision of the company, and focusing solely
on the end result.

The thing is, my vision may be very different than someone

else’s. I may want to accomplish something far different, as well.
But if I focus on the end result—the money—I can get so
bogged down in the Hatfield-and-McCoy-mess that I end up
missing…well, everything.

So, I’ll pose this question: what could we get if we all

worked together? Sure, I may think I need that customer’s
dollar more than my “competition,” but the fact is, when
we think about dollars in this economy, even the power
company is competition, is it?

So, this year, start off on a better foot. I’ll give you a few
hints as to what I’ll be doing:
1) Find the vision. Lost it? Better get it back. Never had
one? Get one before your customer finds out. Don’t want
one? Well, I can’t help you with that.
2) Build the plan. That would be, the plan that helps
implement the vision.
3) Find your competition. Who are they? When you look at
your vision and what you are doing, does it match theirs? Do you
even know? If not, they are perfect for step #4.
4) Get coffee. Call them up, and take them out. Find out more about
their #1. Likely, there are ways you can help each other. But you won’t
know if you don’t ask.

Yeah, I know it may hurt a little. But wouldn’t it be cool if

your “competition” was the one helping you get the next
customer? (And don’t think it can’t happen. Look at what
you’re reading right now.)

Happy 2011. Here’s to the next partnership, the next

customer, and a year that will bring both.

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Top Ten Reasons

Kathryn Hardaway

I’m Going To Miss

2010
By Kathryn Hardaway
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Kat’s Fête Blog

10 WebMD points all ailments to the swine flu.

Knowing everything about our Governor’s

9 extracurricular affairs, including hiking the
Appalachian Trail.

Oprah announcing her guest of the day

8 by yodeling.

The Hoff, Mel Gibson, Miley Cyrus, Paris Hilton

7 & Lindsay Lohan making Breaking News.

Getting all of my credible news stories

6 from Wikileaks.

Hearing someone say “and I approve this

5 message” repeatedly.

Alvin Greene dolls dressed in uniform to

4 create jobs for SC.

3 Four Loko

2 Charlie Sheen’s career

1 Antoine Dodson

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Shimmering, spacey, instrumental folk guitar artistry by a slew of amazing
acoustic guitar magicians you’ve probably never heard of.
One of my latest music obsessions has been listening to
instrumental acoustic guitar recordings. There is
something very very relaxing and refreshing about the
solitary sound of a well played composition on six
strings. The entwining threads of traditional folk,
classical, jazz, blues, Celtic and Indian Raga seems to
weave a uniquely satisfying sound; so simple yet so very
complex, so quiet yet so startling at times. The varieties
of delightful sounds that can be conjured from the
natural elements of wood, wire and human hands make
it all the more pleasurable. The tradition of steel string
guitar acoustic guitar recordings goes back many
decades notably to a thriving scene in the 1960’s that is
currently being re-born in a host of younger and lesser
known guitarists. Here in no particular order, are six
recordings that stay in my play stack- both classic and
very new; individual artists and some compilations.
TONY McMANUS – The Makers Mark
The heavenly recorded sound of these amazing guitars
in the virtuoso hands of McManus make this one of the
best solo acoustic guitar CDs I’ve
heard in ages. On The Maker’s Mark,
Scottish guitarist Tony McManus melds
two of his great passions, Celtic music
and a series of some of the finest
acoustic guitars being crafted today. It
is an unparalleled mix as McManus’ playing, which has
been called “faultless… atmospheric and evocative…”
(BBC, Radio 2) with “ferocious technique” (The Herald,
Scotland), meets it match in the form of fifteen expertly
paired instruments, courtesy of Asheville North Carolina’s
Dream Guitars shop.
BEYOND BERKELEY GUITAR:
A COLLECTION OF SOME OF THE BAY
AREA’S FINEST ACOUSTIC GUITARISTS
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I’m happily in bliss over this second volume of
instrumental acoustic guitar magic just released from
one of our favorite record labels. Long live the acoustic
guitar tradition in all its forms. Long live these amazing
artists offering their music in an often uncaring, pop
culture obsessed world and long
live dedicated small record labels
that curate and offer this kind of
music to all of us who get to
enjoy it! BEYOND BERKELEY
GUITAR CD from NYC’s Tompkins
Square label is a collection of some of Northern
California’s finest acoustic guitarists. Beyond Berkeley
Guitar is the follow-up to 2006’s Berkeley Guitar, which
through the efforts of three young guitarists, exemplified
a strong current of American Primitive guitar playing in
Berkeley still thriving since the 1960s when Takoma
Records was founded there by John Fahey. As the title
suggests, Beyond Berkeley Guitar expands the
boundaries, stylistically and regionally to display the
prowess of seven Bay Area guitarists, all of whom use
solo guitar composition as a means of profound personal
expression. This collection spans generations of players,
from Aaron Sheppard, a twenty year old virtuoso
fingerpicker, to Richard Osborn, a free-raga style player
who studied with Robbie Basho in the 1960s.
Also from Tompkins Square Records:
IMAGINATIONAL ANTHEM Vol. 4:
New Possibilities CD or LP
Charming and occasionally
alarming various artist set
of eye opening solo guitar
performances in the latest
volume of this ground breaking
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Trey Pennington Have A Blast
in 2011
The advent of a new year compels us to speculate on
what that new year might bring. Jay Spivey asked me to
throw my two cents towards predictions for the world of
marketing. I’ll throw in a nickel’s worth of speculation.
Business that thrive in 2011 will have a blast:
B is for Basics. We’ve been entertained over the past
few years by the proliferation of tools and technology.
We’ve been called to foster engagement and join the
conversation. In 2011, we’ll get back to pondering Peter
Drucker’s purpose for a business: “to create a keep a
customer.” Instead of pondering personal brands or
building fans and followers, we’ll ask, “What must I do
to create and keep a customer?”
L is for Local. Sure, the www stands for world wide
web. The big opportunity isn’t so much reaching China
or India or some other geographic region with huge
population numbers. The big opportunity will be the
immense web of relationships at home. Businesses that
thrive in 2011 will focus on the home front.
A is for Affinity. Hand-in-hand with a focus on local will
be a renewed dedication to partnerships and
cooperation at home, too. Businesses that thrive in
2011 will look around them to see who ELSE is serving
the people they want to help. Then they’ll work together
to help those people.
S is for Storytelling. Humans make meaning through
story. As consumers we’re searching for meaning in
everything thing we do. Companies that thrive in 2011
will turn to story and storytelling to help facilitate their
customer’s quest for significance.
T is for Technology, of course. Technology will remain
a topic of discussion, but rather that being an end,
technology will be a purposeful means to fulfilling
mission. Companies will turn to people who can help
them use technology to tie everything else together for
the purpose of creating and keeping customers.
Whatever happens for you in 2011, I hope you have a
blast! I hope you have a wonderful, prospering year
getting back to the basics of creating and keeping
customers and thriving.

Trey Pennington is a story prospector and professional speaker. He founded the

747-member Social Media Club Greenville and started clubs in Spartanburg
and Columbia. You’ll find his blog on marketing at treypennington.com
and hear him each week on the radio program Open for Business.

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 I Remember...

Max Heller

I decided to put together this short clip from a video As you watch this short bit of video, remember to say
produced over a decade ago by Don Koonce because a quiet thank you to him.
I thought we could all use a wonderful dose of Max
Heller to start this new year. Jay Spivey, Publisher

Many of us have touching stories about Max and we

know that his presence has made an impact on most
of our lives. There have been other visionaries and
leaders in our community’s history, but few have b
een so deservedly embraced and loved as he.

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series. Of special interest is a nifty track included from
Tyler Ramsey of Asheville and known to many these
days as guitarist in rock outfit Band Of Horses.
WAYFARING STRANGERS: GUITAR SOLI
CD or LP
Fourteen very rare and equally
astounding acoustic guitar re-
discoveries from the 1970’s and early
80’s are loving lifted from the vaults of
obscurity, carefully re-mastered and wrapped up with
gorgeous packaging and extensive liner notes as only
the scholarly and unselfish folks at Numero Group
Records can do. In a word: HEAVENLY.
LEO KOTTKE – 6 & 12 String Guitar
This odd but unassuming looking record released quietly
on John Fahey’s Takoma Label in 1969 set a seismic
shift into motion for lovers and players
of acoustic folk guitar. Like the
wizardry of Kottke himself the story of
his discovery via the demo cassette
tape of this iconic record is the stuff of
legends. The Armadillo artwork on the
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cover belies the alternating face melting finger blitz work
and the subtle beauty of Kottke’s artistry.
ALEX DE GRASSI –
A Windham Hill Retrospective
Yes a Gene choice on Windham Hill (a label often
associated with George Winston new age music). De
Grassi released a number of drop dead gorgeous solo
guitar masterpieces in the late 1970’s. His style is easy
to listen to, pours out flowing beautiful melodies and
entrances with magical pristine finger picking. Sadly
they are mostly out of print, however this collection
gathers a lot of really nice highlights together. A
properly curated collection is well overdue for this
much too overlooked artist
IN CLOSING:
I have missed a lot more than I’ve included, most
obviously the God Father of it all John Fahey – just look
him up and jump in. Further investigation (for starters)
would include Robbie Basho, Norman Blake, Segovia, for
the more adventurous William Tyler and for those who
like sonic psychedelic electricity and this tradition
mashed up try Six Organs of Admittance.
 Resolved and Resolute?
By Jay Spivey

There are three ways of dealing with New Year resolutions:

1. You keep them and wear your determination as a badge of honor.
2. You make them and then promptly break them.
3. You don’t make any…
I know that I fit into #2 and #3 when it comes to this question of yearly
resolve, but this year feels different somehow…

I like Benjamin Franklin’s line: “Resolve to perform what you ought; perform
without fail what you resolve.” It sounds strict and disciplined as any
sentence with the word resolve in it should. So I am going to commit to a
number of resolutions that will affect me both personally and professionally.
Ben will get me to where I need to go. I will resolve to...do many things.

I also like what Clement Freud, a very interesting British character and
grandson of Sigmund, once said:

“If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving,

you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.”
This quote seems to evoke a lot more fun than old Ben’s stern statement. I
can also see long nights, headaches and broken hearts coming out of using
this philosophy as a guide for the new year. Fun would be had and perhaps
even a little adventure or two could be in the offing. Interestingly, I find
myself day-dreaming more about the fun that could be had if I upped the
crazy quotient in my life. Hmmm…

This year will be different. There will be no opting out of making resolutions.

So, I am presented with the angel and devil on my shoulders; the mature
versus the immature, the industrious against the adventurer. A decision must
be made regarding this dichotomous situation. Or does it? I am going to take
both Ben’s and Clement’s philosophies to heart.

I resolve to…

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I love to promote good people doing good things. Mark Sturgis’ web page will give
you all you need to know about SEC and ACC sports. Also, Mark is an excellent
sports photographer! Check out his website. www.sturgissports.com

Fête WouldLike To Thank...

Terry Sadowski from Plaza Suite and Joyce Fort from Talloni of Greenville
for their help with the cover shoot for this issue.

Fascinating TED Talk on Education Reform

In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3
troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools’ dwindling stake in the arts,
and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers.

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_changing_education_paradigms.html

The Planetarium at the Roper Mountain Science

Center presents: ASTRONAUT
Beginning on Friday, January 7, 2011 as the feature show during our
Friday Starry Nights program.

Catch John Oliver and Stacy Hammac on

WORD’s Upstate Show – Saturday’s from
3pm to 5pm – 106.3