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Hey folks. Parker here, you may have seen me around the Shed teaching, behind the desk, or chatting with the barber Rolando next door. I started playing guitar at age 10 with much excitement and frustration. After a couple of years of hammering away on my poor guitar, I enrolled in private lessons and have been studying ever since. I still take lessons occasionally to this day and am always looking for ways to improve my playing and teaching.I am an Atlanta native, and while I was finishing grad school for music education in Austin, TX, my wife (then fiancée) and I decided to move back to Atlanta to be closer to our families. I was looking at commercial spaces in Atlanta while I was still in Austin and stumbled on Kirkwood by chance. I have always been an entrepreneur at heart and am a self-proclaimed bad employee. It was a natural fit to open up my own music school and it hasn’t seemed like “work” a single day that I’ve been here.A landlord I was working with suggested a space in Kirkwood and once I checked it out, I knew that was the spot for Guitar Shed. She was completely on board with my vision and we have a great working relationship. We would definitely not be where we are now without her support. I started with one room and 4 students the first week we opened in August of 2015. Now we have almost 30 teachers, over 400 students, and a wide selection of instruments. We have recently expanded into an additional commercial space in our shopping center for our drum lessons and band rehearsals.I went to school at Paideia, not far away, but I was blown away at how quickly all of East Atlanta had grown in the past few years. After a few months of being in business, my wife and I bought a house within walking distance from Guitar Shed in Kirkwood. We recently moved to Lake Claire in 2021, and the walk is a bit longer.I like to think of us as a modern

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man broke into a Philadelphia church and stole a 125-year-old bejeweled crown from atop a marble statue of the Virgin Mary, city police said Monday.The burglary at St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church occurred around 1:10 a.m. Saturday when the thief smashed through a stained-glass window, police said. The break-in was captured on surveillance video that police released Monday.The man then climbed into the upper nave of the church and went straight to the statue and crown, the church’s archivist, Anne Kirkwood, told The Philadelphia Inquirer.While church staff members were preparing for a baptism Sunday, they found broken glass and soon noticed the missing crown, which a church history from the 1950s indicated was created by James E. Caldwell & Co. around 1900.It was made from jewelry and gems donated by parishioners to celebrate the church’s reopening after a fire in 1899. Kirkwood said that in 2015, when the crown was briefly removed from the statue and examined, she noted its maker's inscription was “J.E. Caldwell & Co.”The damaged stained glass window also dates to the church’s reopening in 1902 and was fashioned in Munich, Germany.___This story was first published Jan. 13, 2025. It was updated Jan. 16, 2025, to make clear that the name of the company who made the crown that was stolen from a Philadelphia church changed the style of its name over the years and that the crown's inscription reads J.E. Caldwell & Co.

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Driving over it. Sadly, NASA has still not discovered snacks on Mars.26 of 62NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS'Blueberries'There's nothing edible here. These hematite-rich spherules are known by the cute nickname "blueberries." NASA's Mars Opportunity rover spotted the small, BB-sized pebbles in 2004 near the Fram Crater.27 of 62NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./ USGS/Modesto Junior CollegeA collection of spheresOpportunity got a good look at hematite-rich "blueberries" in 2004, but it also picked up a view of this unusual formation in 2012 at an outcrop named Kirkwood."The spherules at Kirkwood do not have the iron-rich composition of the blueberries. They also differ in concentration, distribution and structure," NASA says. The space agency calls them "puzzling." You can see the work of erosion on some of the tiny spheres.28 of 62NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of ArizonaA tadpole on MarsAdmittedly, this formation spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter looks a lot like a tadpole or even a yo-yo or sperm. In actuality, it's a circular crater, but the tail has been carved out by water movement."We can infer that water is flowing outward because we have the necessary terrain-height information," the space agency said in February 2018. While the planet had a long-distant watery past, it doesn't currently host any amphibian life as far as we know. 29 of 62NASADust devil is in the detailsA peculiar jet appears far back in this scenic Mars landscape photo taken by NASA's Opportunity rover in 2016. It's actually a dust devil, much like we experience here on Earth. Towering dust devils are weather hazards on Mars and they're something future human visitors will need to be prepared to handle.30 of 62NASA/JPL-Caltech/Red circle by Amanda Kooser/CNETNot a cannonballIn December 2017, A popular blog for UFO enthusiasts posted a close-up look at this spherical object spotted by NASA's Curiosity rover and suggested it was a cannonball left over from a war on the red planet. NASA's rover team responded with a Twitter message pointing out how the concretion is less than a quarter inch (5 mm) in size and is actually made up of calcium sulfate, sodium and magnesium.31 of 62NASA/JPL/University of ArizonaMarsalancheA cloud of particles puffs upward at a steep cliff in this 2010 image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This isn't the sign of a factory on Mars, but instead is "likely the result of an avalanche or fall of mostly carbon-dioxide frost." According to NASA, this sort of event happens mainly during the planet's springtime, which roughly corresponds to April and early May on Earth. 32 of 62NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of ArizonaWaffle-shaped island on MarsThe Mars jelly doughnut didn't work out, but NASA wasn't done with food-shaped formations on the red planet just yet. An image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter from late 2014 showed a strange waffle-shaped

Them easy scrambles for the kids (don’t miss the walk to the waterfall along Hot Springs Creek). There are also longer treks into surrounding alpine regions.Useful info: The pools are open six days a week; they are closed on Wednesdays. Reservations must be made at least 48 hours in advance and can be made up to three weeks in advance. Make reservations at ReserveCalifornia.com (click on “Activities”). Things to Do Near Grover Hot Springs State ParkThanks to its proximity to Lake Tahoe, visitors to Grover Hot Springs are just down the road from such ski resorts as Heavenly, Kirkwood, Palisades Tahoe (formerly known as Squaw Valley), and Northstar California—plus Emerald Bay State Park, and of course Lake Tahoe itself, which offers outdoor activities galore year-round.Add Grover Hot Springs State Park to your likes list.Official Resources Grover Hot Springs State Park - More InformationAdd Grover Hot Springs State Park - More Information to your likes list.Ebbett’s Pass National Scenic byway road tripAdd Ebbett’s Pass National Scenic byway road trip to your likes list.Alpine County Chamber of CommerceAdd Alpine County Chamber of Commerce to your likes list.Stanislaus National ForestAdd Stanislaus National Forest to your likes list.