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Category: Mainstream Description: One couple yearns to find it. One community fights to preserve it. Both must face the enemy within and among them ... before it's too late. An atavistic connection to nature draws a husband and wife into a surreal world which leads them to question if the life they've known and what they've believed as real is destroying the human spirit. Following a long-forgotten, nameless yearning, they are compelled to discover if they can reclaim their connection to an ageless natural wisdom that could heal their lives. After years of pulse pounding stress and ambition, Rose and Mark Whitman's universe is rich, glamorous, high speed--and empty--a run-a-way train about to crash. They've lost meaning, magic, and soon each other--until an unexpected turn on the tracks takes them to a remote mountain village and a community struggling to preserve an idyllic, but endangered way of life. One couple yearns to find it. One community fights to preserve it. Both must face the enemy within and among them...before it's too late. An atavistic connection to nature draws a husband and wife into a surreal world which leads them to question if the life they've known and what they've believed as real is destroying the human spirit. Following a long-forgotten, nameless yearning, they are compelled to discover if they can reclaim their connection to an ageless natural wisdom that could heal their lives. After years of pulse pounding stress and ambition, Rose and Mark Whitman's universe is rich, glamorous, high speed--and empty--a run-a-way train about to crash. They've lost meaning, magic, and soon each other--until an unexpected turn on the tracks takes them to a remote mountain village and a community struggling to preserve an idyllic, but endangered way of life. Mark and Rose are drawn into a circle of friends who are confronted with painful decisions about what they're willing to do to save their community. When the village breaks into factions, violence erupts fed by fear, greed and prejudice. The group learns the true meaning of community--what destroys it and what preserves it and its role in the quality of their lives and the future of their children. eBook Publisher: Pine Mountain Institute/Pine Mountain Books, 2008 2002 eBookwise Release Date: February 2009
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Book Review Escaping Our Overly-Complicated Lives by Reconnecting with Nature and Community A serendipitous trip to a small mountain village unravels the successful lives of a two-career LA couple in this engaging story of hope and transformation. In Sitting with the Enemy, her first novel, Sarah Anne Edwards confronts her readers with some of the most challenging paradoxes of our materialistic culture and provides an inspiring peek at alternative possibilities. "The pressures of our success-obsessed and perfectionistic world leave many of us exhausted and restless," says Edwards, an LCSW and PhD ecopsychologist and co-author of seventeen popular non-fiction books on career and lifestyle change. "Driven by a gnawing hunger and relentless pressure to attain more and more, we get trapped in a never-ending cycle of jam-packed schedules, over drawn bank accounts and maxed-out credit cards,: she explains. Why do we always feel there's something missing in our lives despite our material wealth? Why is there never enough time in the day? Why do most of us live in metro areas when we say we'd prefer to live in smaller more natural communities? Why are we more stressed and dis-stressed despite having more of almost everything we say we want? These are just a few of the questions Edwards addresses in this intriguing ecopsychological drama. She believes the source of peace and serenity we crave is all around us, but too often unnoticed, ignored and slowly disappearing from the landscape of our daily lives. That's the reality the characters of Sitting with the Enemy face as they struggle to save themselves and their families from becoming casualties of what we've come to believe constitutes the progress of success. "We can't miss what we don't remember," Edwards points out. "Since so many of us live in vast metro areas where nature is a trip out of town or a least across town in bumper-to-bumper traffic, we're losing touch with the incomparable healing powers of nature and the ensuing sense of belonging and community it brings". Sometimes subtly and sometimes forcefully, the ensemble cast of characters in Sitting with the Enemy collides with this truth. Together they struggle to overcome the violence, greed, fear, and prejudice that keeps us locked in a way of life we yearn to escape. Readers tell Edwards her novel is reminiscent of the Celestine Prophecy in that it makes powerful statements about how we live and provides a blueprint for how we might change our lives. Sitting with the Enemy artfully demonstrates how Nature can guide us to the peace and belonging we seek, but only if we're willing to face the enemy within and among us. Like Edwards' characters, we must acknowledge our discontent, give it a name and allow Nature and our own natural wisdom to show us how to create new more fulfilling ways to live and work.
"Our salvation seems to live in our awareness that the world 'within' and the world 'without'--the psyche and the universe--are one, and in our willingness to play our roles in this huge cosmic drama of which our consciousness is so much a part."
Nancy Ryley
Rose Whitman waited impatiently on the sidewalk of the Beverly Hill's cafďż˝. A scorching gust of early Santa Ana wind tore at her stylish auburn hair. Turning to shield herself from its force, she strained to see around the traffic that was keeping the valet from taking her car and tried to shrug off the tinge of apprehension she felt about the prospect of seeing her friend Gloria for the first time in over a year.
What she couldn't have known was that, like an unnoticed snag in a favorite sweater, the seams of her carefully constructed life were about to unravel. Other than a little nagging sense of discontent she'd written off to fatigue, there was no warning of the changes that lay ahead. No traumatic, triggering event as is usually the case in such situations--no ugly divorce, no loss of a loved one or job, no life-threatening illness.
Oddly, as difficult as such a tragedy would be, Rose would probably have found it easier to handle than the path the impending reunion would soon take her down. Faced head-on with something she couldn't avoid, Rose could always summon the sheer force of will to overcome it. But faced with something not to her liking that she could avoid, Rose was her own worst enemy. Strong-willed, determined and clear down to minute detail about precisely what she wanted in life, little outside force could stop Rose because she was willing to push herself as hard as it took to attain whatever she aspired to.
Smart and successful, she was happily married with two precocious children; not wealthy but living comfortably in a spacious home in the tony south of Ventura Boulevard neighborhood of Sherman Oaks. Tall and slim with dancing hazel eyes that changed with her mood and the colors of her wardrobe, at thirty-six she was still young enough to feel attractive, yet old enough to feel heartened by the roving male eyes in passing cars that were drawn to her figure as the wind pressed her linen suit tight against her legs.
As she waited for the valet, Rose had to acknowledge it wasn't only compassion, but also a little guilt that brought her there today. She preferred not to remember the phone call from her closest friend, Gloria Raynor, that spring day more than a year ago and the shock of learning that Gloria had been diagnosed with breast cancer. But the conversation of that day replayed unwanted through her mind as if it had happened only yesterday.
Like Rose, Gloria was a professional speaker. They'd met at a speakers' society meeting and connected immediately. Both were ambitious, perfectionistic, and rising rapidly in a competitive field; Rose in the high-powered world of sales training and motivational speaking; Gloria in the ever-demanding specialty of customer service. They quickly became compatriots and had met for lunch once a month over several years, celebrating victories and supporting one another through their various career challenges.
But Rose hadn't seen Gloria since the fateful phone call. She sent cards and flowers after the mastectomy and they talked by phone several times during the months of radiation treatments that followed. Then, they'd lost touch until a week ago when, cancer free at last, Gloria had called to invite Rose to lunch, hoping to discuss ideas for how she might restart her speaking career which had all but disappeared in the wake of her recovery.
Determined to ignore the hot wind that continued to whip around her, Rose was perplexed. Why hadn't she made more of an effort to stay in touch with Gloria through what must have been a living nightmare? Where had the time gone, anyway? How could it nearly a year since they've even spoken? Why hadn't she found the time to drop by or call for a friendly lunch before now?
Mother certainly wouldn't approve, Rose thought, but she refused to dwell on that. Her mother didn't understand her or her life and never had. Irritated that she was running more than ten minutes late now, Rose twisted the key ring nervously around her fingers before finally handing it over to the harried valet. Then, turning toward the restaurant, she smiled and walked quickly through the open leaded-glass door, thinking this was, after all, nothing more than a long-overdue lunch with an old friend.
Part I
Chapter One
If Rose and the kids were home, Dr. Mark Whitman wouldn't have had time to dwell on his conversation that afternoon. It would have slipped from his mind just like all such things did since his father's death five years ago.
But the family wasn't there. Rose was out of town again, as she had been for part of every week that Summer, at another round of speaking engagements. The kids were at a sleepover. So, there was plenty of time to stew over his meeting with Dr. Irwin Belcher, the consulting psychiatrist he met with once a week to discuss difficult cases and issues that had come up in his own psychiatric practice.
The room was dark except for the glow from a small lamp above the large leather chair in his home office, where Mark had hoped to skim through the stack of clinical journals on the side table. He was always behind in his reading, it seemed. But tonight he was too distracted to make much progress. Momentarily he thought of simply picking up the whole stack and chucking it in the wastebasket. But instead, once again, his mind returned to his conversation with Belcher.
The issue he'd raised had a familiar theme; at least for him. He just hadn't admitted it to anyone else before. Now, he wished he hadn't brought it up, because ever since that afternoon he was having a hard time ignoring what he had ignored for so long.
He was lonely.
He'd half expected Dr. Belcher to laugh out loud. As heart felt as this admission was, it sounded so wimpy when put into words. He'd wanted to laugh it off, make a joke of it before Belcher could start rolling on the floor. But he resisted this temptation. He was truly lonely, and had been for a long time.
He wasn't sure exactly when he'd begun to feel the emptiness that he now could best describe as loneliness. He speculated it probably began after his father's death. While he and his father had lived half-a-continent away for most of Mark's adult life, somehow they'd always had a bond Mark found comforting. Although it was only from the other end of a phone, his father had been the voice of wisdom, consolation, humor, understanding and acceptance Mark could always turn to, although he rarely had.
Now, here he was a respected psychiatrist, father, husband and avid golfer. Who would imagine this personally and professionally successful man who was virtually never alone, could be so deeply lonely?
But, surprisingly, Dr. Belcher hadn't laughed at his revelation. "I hear this often, Mark," Belcher admitted, looking into the brooding green-gray eyes of the tall, slender man with a shock of boyish sandy hair that belied his thirty-eight years and whose kindly refined features and gentle voice endeared him so to his patients. "What do you think it means for you and your life?"
That was the question that kept troubling Mark. What did it mean? What did it say about his relationship with his wife? His friends? His colleagues? He could find no flaws in these relationships. Rose was everything a husband could expect in a wife. Warm and loving, outgoing, supportive, a great mom, a good lover, an interesting conversationalist, and when she was in town, always there if he should need her, which he rarely did. His friends and colleagues were good people, much like him, successful, affable, bright, intelligent, enjoyable to be with, and busy. Yes, most of all busy. They were all busy, as busy as he and Rose were.
They rushed through their golf games, when they got a chance to play one, rushed to the rare dinner party, rushed through the periodic lunch or dinner meetings, rushed through holiday and birthday celebrations and were generally willing, but usually unable, to spend much time simply relating.
This was true even with Rose. They rushed to get out in the morning, rushed through the workday, rushed the kids here and there after school, and rushed through whatever evening events or chores there were to do. They even rushed through making love, so they could get to sleep early enough for him to make rounds at UCLA medical center or for her to get through security at LAX to catch yet another 7:00 AM flight.
Still, Mark loved his life. He loved his wife. He loved his work and his friends. But he sighed as he let the truth of the moment sink in, something was missing. What? He sighed again. He was too tired to think about it any longer. It was time to get some sleep. He had early rounds in the morning.
Rose closed her eyes and tried to relax despite the roar of the crowded Boeing 747. The seat was cramped. The cabin was stuffy. It was her second flight in as many days. Why hadn't her client agreed to a first class ticket? She hated getting tough about negotiating such perks, but now she wished she'd held the line on this little detail. The sales departments who hired her to motivate and train their personnel had ample training budgets, more than any other divisions of the mid-sized to Fortune 1000 companies who comprised the bulk of her clients.
She'd chosen to specialize in sales training because it was the most lucrative and recession-proof niche for professional speakers. But it was also the most competitive. So, she reminded herself, she should be grateful to have steady bookings, but, for heaven's sake, more than a dozen years later she was still sitting in coach half the time!
Didn't these guys realize cross-country flights were exhausting? Couldn't they spare the cost of assuring that she'd arrive fresh and rested! If First Class hadn't been full, she'd have tried to use her frequent flyer miles for an upgrade.
The pure discomfort of the situation brought to mind her luncheon meeting with Gloria Raynor. But not for any of the reasons one might think. The experience hadn't been unpleasant, quite the opposite, but somehow it had been disquieting. Although a couple of months had passed since that afternoon, Rose frequently found herself reflecting on their visit and how it hadn't gone at all like she'd expected.
At first, as Rose had looked around the restaurant that afternoon in search of her friend, she concluded Gloria must not have arrived yet. She glanced briefly at her watch. It wasn't like Gloria to be late. She scanned the room once more. There weren't that many tables in the small, quaint cafďż˝. Then she realized the woman waving from a table over to her left was Gloria.
Gloria always wore her pale-blonde hair in a stylishly trimmed, chin-length bob to blend right in with the corporate environment of her clients. Anyone, who hadn't known she was a professional speaker, might have guessed she was a television news anchor or maybe a real estate agent. Well put together, would have been a good way to describe how Gloria Raynor always looked. But not that day.
The woman with the vibrant, warm smile waving from across the room had wavy, long blond hair that fell wild and free well past her shoulders. She wore no makeup or jewelry and was dressed in a soft, casual blouse that looked more like something from a Coldwater Creek catalog than the Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus stores where she and Rose usually shopped.
Rose was momentarily taken aback by the contrast, but quickly recovered and rushed over to meet her friend. The warmth and length of Gloria's hug was equally arresting. After all, this was Beverly Hills. Peck and bob country. But again, Rose adjusted to the change before her and sat down to look into her friend's smiling deep-set amber eyes. She looked radiant. Truly radiant.
It's so good to see you," Rose exclaimed, still somewhat disoriented. "You look fabulous! Your hair's so long! And curly! Where did all that curl come from?"
"Oh, actually this is how my hair is naturally," Gloria said, still smiling. "You've just never seen me when I get out of the shower! Since we moved I rarely take the time to blow dry it out any more."
Rose was taken aback once again, but this time it left her speechless. Gloria had moved and Rose hadn't even known about it? She truly had been remiss in not keeping in touch. Noticing the shock on Rose's face, Gloria quickly jumped in to fill the void that seemed to be opening between them.
"Yes, we moved in January, right after the New Year, to a little village that's about two hours from here, up in the mountains. Wait 'til you see it. It's like right out of a travel magazine!" Her voice was animated with delight. "I tried to send out change of address cards but, believe it or not, they got lost in the mail and we've been so busy getting settled I haven't gotten around to sending them out again."
Rose remembered scrambling for a response, trying to imagine Gloria living somewhere in the mountains. There were mountains around the outlying areas of Los Angeles, but off hand Rose couldn't remember where. "Is it a resort community?" she asked, grasping for some reference for what had happened.
"No, I'm sure you've never heard of it. Not many people have. It's not Aspen or Big Bear. It's called Katani Falls, named after the waterfalls up above the village where a tribe of Native Americans lived back before the Spaniards arrived in the area. It's pretty much off the beaten path."
"So how did you find it and why did you decide to move away?" Rose asked, her genuine curiosity finally kicking in.
Gloria paused for a moment. Her energy level seemed to drop. "I had to get away from the city, Rose. The illness. The radiation. The whole trauma of it all." There was clearly more that went unspoken, but no words seemed to fit the feeling, so, she continued with the facts.
"I became friends with the woman who teaches cancer recovery classes at the hospital where I was having radiation treatments. Her name's Suzanne Reid. She's a minister from Lucadia down in the South Bay. You'd really like her, Rose." Gloria's face lit up again. "She's living in Katani Falls while she's on a year's sabbatical, so she invited Ned and Carly and me up to her cabin for a weekend ... and, well..." Gloria seemed caught up in her thoughts once more, but this time it was delight that spread over her face. "As soon as we got there I just knew that's where I was supposed to be!"
"What about Ned? Is he still practicing law? "Rose asked, not wanting to communicate how puzzled and unwittingly disapproving she felt. How could they have made such a radical change? What were they thinking? They were far too young to be retiring and just not the type of people to give up and drop out.
"Yes, he's still practicing," Gloria said, taking a deep breath. "That was the biggest challenge, convincing the law firm to let him telecommute. But you know he's in appellate law so with the Internet, there's really no need for him to be in the office all the time. He can file pleadings electronically and even make court appearances by phone, so he finally convinced the firm to let him go into the office about once a week and work from home the rest of the time.
"It's not bad, really," Gloria smiled lightly, in response to the astonishment that had crept into Rose's expression despite her best efforts to conceal it. "Suzanne drives in to the hospital twice a week!"
Rose tried to imagine Ned commuting two hours each way into downtown Los Angeles and buried that thought. "So, what about you? I'm so glad you're well and healthy. What have you been doing?"
"Well, that's why I wanted to talk to you," Gloria responded, sitting back and reflecting for a moment on something that seemed to excite her. "I've been home schooling Carly since we've been in Katani Falls. She's working at the second-grade level now, but the bus ride to the nearest school is so long that in the Winter the busses can't get up the mountain. So, several of us parents are home schooling, and now we want to start a charter school! But that takes a lot of fund raising, so, since I'm well now, I'm thinking I might get back into doing a few speeches every now and then to bring in some extra income I could contribute to the school."
The silence that followed didn't dim Gloria's enthusiasm one bit. It leapt right across the table where it hung in the air for what seemed like forever. "Soooo, Rose, what do you think? I want your ideas for how I could get back on the circuit."
Rose couldn't recall much more about the rest of conversation that stretched through their visit that day. The details didn't really matter. They brainstormed some ideas for Gloria and parted expressing the desire to see each other again soon.
"You've got to come up and visit us, Rose. You and Mark get away for a weekend together. Or bring the kids. They'd love it! Promise me you'll come sometime soon," Gloria urged as they waited for the valet to bring up their cars.
"Of course. That sounds great," Rose remembered saying as she hugged her friend goodbye, noting as Gloria's car pulled up that she must have traded in her Lexus for a Land Rover and knowing the chances of their getting up to Katani Falls were slim to none. She and Mark hadn't been away together for anything other than extended business trips in years. Sometimes they would piggyback a long weekend onto one of Rose's speaking engagements. In the Summer, sometimes they'd take the kids along. Mark would show them the sites until Rose's work was done and then they would spend the weekend site seeing as a family.
So, Rose wondered as she squirmed in her seat on the airplane, unable to find a comfortable position, why did she keep thinking about that lunch? Probably because it was just so odd and so unexpected. She and Gloria had been so much alike. They loved the excitement of speaking before a crowd. The applause. The standing ovations. The pride of knowing the ideas and methods they'd honed from years of listening to what their audiences needed were making a difference in people's success; seeing the positive effects of that difference written on a sea of appreciative faces. And, yes, the money too, knowing they were getting paid well to do something they loved.
It was worth all the endless lines at airports, wheeling her carry-on luggage down one more narrow aisle, packing and unpacking, sleeping in yet another hotel room that looked like every other hotel room, even all those rubber chicken meals. And the hours in her home office on the phone, marketing, to be sure that her calendar was filled months in advance as her clients demanded.
But there was something about the look on Gloria's face that Rose couldn't get out of her mind. Something about the sound of her voice. Something about the warmth of her hug. A peacefulness. A quiet happiness.
The cabin of the plane was dark now. The light above Rose's seat cast a small circle around her. There were few other lights on. And there it was again. That little nagging sense of discontent she'd been feeling about her life even before her lunch with Gloria. It seemed this generalized sense of uneasiness had been heightened by their visit. Rose was doing exactly what she wanted to be doing, but something was missing. Something more than not having the comforts of a first class ticket. What was it? She shifted the paper-covered pillow behind her neck. Best get some sleep, she thought, glancing at her silver and gold Movado watch before punching off the light overhead. She would need plenty of energy in the morning for her speech.
But, as usual, she wasn't able to sleep on the plane. So she punched the light back on, wrenched her laptop from the carry-on bag pressing against her toes under the seat in front of her and opened her PowerPoint presentation on the tray table. Screen by screen, she flipped through the visuals she'd be using tomorrow. Selling to Major Accounts ... Discovering Your Sales Style ... Collaborative Selling ... Technical Selling ... Educational Selling...
They were part of her core sales course, tailored this time for a janitorial supply company where she'd conducted training several times before. After a dozen years, she could cover the content while sleepwalking. That wasn't the challenge. The challenge was that except for the most novice recruits, her audiences, this one included, were convinced they'd heard it all and tended to be a cynical bunch. She shook her head fondly and pursed her lips into a wry smile as she thought of just how cynical they could be.
So, her job--if she chose to accept it--she joked inwardly with a line from popular TV reruns of her childhood--was to stay one step ahead of them. Make the familiar fresh. Show them something they hadn't seen before about themselves and their work. Convince them that on any given day they could push through self-doubt and burnout and believe what they were doing was worth bounding out of bed for, plugging through lead after lead and calling on yet one more account. And, then, to leave them with the confidence that, regardless of whatever resistances they encountered, they had what it took to persuade those who needed to be persuaded to believe it too.
Quickly she whipped through a chart reviewing recent industry statistics--sales figures for the past year, projections for the next--showing where and why janitorial sales were up across the board. She ran through the stories she planned to tell to illustrate key points--reminding herself of the places where she should pause and where to engage the audience in self-analysis and group feedback.
She did this until her eyes grew bleary and then she switched off the computer once again, closed it and folded up the tray table. Leaving the computer resting on her lap, Rose shut her eyes and let herself sink into a mental fog, neither awake nor asleep.
The house was quiet when Rose returned home late the next evening. Mark had left the hall light on for her after he'd put the kids to bed, but he didn't come down to greet her at the door. He must be tired, she thought, picking up the carry-on and heading up the stairs to their bedroom.
The light was still on beside the bed and Mark was sitting at one end in his shorts and t-shirt, his elbows resting on his knees and his head cradled in the palms of his hands. He smiled as he glanced up. He loved how the sight of her always made his heart jump, and as a doctor, he'd often wondered if his reaction to her would show up on an EKG. With her long thin legs, shell-white skin, full lips and rich auburn hair, she looked so delicate and soft, yet so strong and exquisitely defined, not unlike the flower after which she was named. A beauty you wanted to possess, but knew you never could.
Tonight, though, he couldn't help but notice she also looked a bit wilted, like a rose too long without water. He wanted to take her in his arms and comfort her, but she was already swinging the suitcase onto the bed eager to get unpacked.
"Hi, darling," she said. "It's so good to be home. You OK? You look beat." She was about to open the suitcase, but stopped and came over to sit by him.
"How was the speech?" he asked.
"Actually, it was a training session, six-hours," she said, as a whisper of satisfaction broke through her fatigue, "and it was good. They loved me!" With that, she reached over to kiss him and they held each other briefly. "How's everything with the kids?"
"Fine," Mark answered, enjoying the moment before she pulled away to finish unpacking.
They chatted about this and that as Rose got ready for bed. Chelsea's rehearsal for the musical at day camp, Jason's soccer practice. The delay at the airport. The speech someone in the audience had asked Rose if she could do next year. Finally they lay together in the dark, quiet and warm under the comforter.
He thought of telling her about his conversation with Dr. Belcher.
She thought of telling him about her lingering feelings about the conversation with Gloria.
But it was late and they were tired. Who knows where or how long talking about such things would take them?
Anyway, Rose thought, as she lay there with her eyes closed, hoping she wasn't too tired to fall asleep, she had to be one of the luckiest people in the world. What did she have to complain about? She couldn't muster much sympathy for her passing spells of ennui. There were far too many people with real problems to deal with, serious problems. Rose thought briefly of Rachael, an artist whose husband was one of Mark's golf buddies. Rachael's sculptures had been accepted in a growing number of juried art shows throughout the Southwest until only a few months ago, when her husband left her with three children under ten and no money.
Cocaine had destroyed his career, his health and their lives. No one at the golf club had known there was a problem until the bank foreclosed on the family's four thousand square foot home in the foothills near Mulholland Drive. Rachael and the kids had moved into a tiny two-bedroom apartment in Studio City. To support them, Rachael had returned to her pre-marriage career of nursing and was working the swing shift at an ER in Glendale while the kids slept over at her mother's twenty miles away in Canoga Park.
Although Rose didn't know Rachael very well, she could imagine how stressful her life must be now and how little hope there was that it could improve anytime soon. Her children were still in grade school. Rachael had to take them out of the private school they'd planned so long and hard to get them into, the school they'd been in since kindergarten.
Yes, Rose thought, as she snuggled closer to Mark. I am a lucky person. I have nothing to complain about.
Mark too lay quietly, hoping to drift off to sleep. As he nuzzled next to Rose, he almost had to chuckle. Me lonely? Spoiled, would be more like it!
But sleep eluded them. Eyes wide open, Mark stared into the darkness, distracted by concerns from the day. Rose, hoping to find a way to relax, shifted positions slightly, but her mind churned with the responsibilities of tomorrow. It would be her day to get the kids to the drop off for the day camp van. She would have piles of mail to sort. Phone calls to return. Shifting again, she turned away from Mark onto her side facing the bedroom wall, lost, as on so many nights, in thoughts of the many things she had to do.
"Rose, are you awake?" Mark whispered faintly as she moved. When she didn't answer, he turned toward the window and drifted into a fitful sleep.
Chapter Two
In the calm of the crisp moist mountain air, Gloria Raynor would never have imagined that the future of the tranquility that surrounded her was actually very much in question.
Even though it had been over six months since she and Ned had moved to Katani Falls, she still got the feeling from time to time that any minute she would wake up and discover the idyllic scene before her was just a pleasant dream. That's how she felt this morning as she sat on the shady side of her front porch with her friend, the Reverend Suzanne Reid. Suzanne often came over to visit on Thursday mornings after Ned had left for the city and Carly was off to riding lessons at the stables with neighbors. Usually the two women would have tea and chat, or just sit for awhile watching the blue jays play around the birdfeeder that hung from the eves.
This morning there was a slight chill in the air and a light breeze, so they each had slipped on a plaid flannel shirt over their sleeveless cotton tees. They wouldn't need them for long. It promised to be another warm day. The porch was ringed by a cove of ancient pines beyond which lay a small meadow, golden now from the Summer sun. Along the walk the hollyhocks were in bloom and the raspberries on the vines along the porch railing were turning red. Beyond the meadow, silver-green Poplars bobbed and danced softly in the wind. The pines were filled with tight, bright green cones that would soon be falling to the ground, open and brown.
Suzanne Reid was quite a bit older than Gloria. But age had never made a difference to the two women. To Gloria, who looked younger than her thirty-four years, Suzanne was one of those people who seemed ageless. Energetic and upbeat, only the depth and wis--dom of her counsel betrayed her senior status--that and her silver gray hair, which was pulled back at the nape of her neck and held by a hand-carved wooden clip. Wisps of silver had slipped free from the clip and fell softly around her unlined face. She had delicate, porcelain-like features and the palest of blue eyes. Tall and slim, she carried herself with a regal countenance that commanded instant respect, but Suzanne was far too quick with a warm smile and child-like giggle to be intimidating for long.
"I hope I never take this sky for granted," Gloria said, gazing at the neon blue backdrop behind the trees. "I still want to pinch myself sometimes. I can't believe this is where I live."
"I don't think this place will ever let you take it for granted," Suzanne assured her. "I'm glad you and Ned decided to move up here."
"You know, Suzanne, if I hadn't met you at the hospital, if I hadn't gotten ill and come to your recovery classes, I wouldn't be here. It's almost like it all happened for a reason that I don't know yet. It's odd."
"You're right, but it's not so odd," Suzanne said placing her hand on Gloria's. Suzanne had been helping people cope with life-threatening illness throughout her thirty-year career in the ministry. Her decision to continue teaching cancer recovery classes at the hospital even during her sabbatical had been fortuitous, because there was something especially healing about Katani Falls. She'd sensed it from the first time she came to visit nearly a year ago. It was something she needed personally and something her cancer patients needed even more. Since taking a lease option on her cabin, she'd invited many of them to come up for a weekend visit. A few had come and found it profoundly healing in ways she was just beginning to understand.
So far only Gloria had come to stay, but, for better or worse, Suzanne believed that would change. "I suspect in time more people will be coming here just as you have," she said.
Gloria looked at Suzanne for a moment. "Yes, I think so too." She didn't pick up on how concerned Suzanne was about that very issue.
There would most certainly be more people coming to Katani Falls, for a wealth of reasons but, Suzanne wondered, would they find what they were looking for? Or would they simply turn all they were seeking here into a carbon copy of what they were escaping from? The possibility that she could influence the ultimate answer to such questions had played a large part in her decision to leave the interfaith church she'd founded ten years ago in the Orange County suburb of Lucadia and to live for a year in Katani Falls. Now, with the year almost up, those same questions remained central to whether she would stay.
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"Anything's possible," Suzanne replied with a friendly, but enigmatic, smile that said there was nothing more to say about that today.
They sat there together for a while longer, enjoying their silence and watching the sun creep slowly toward the porch, until Carly came skipping across the meadow, eager to tell her mom all about her riding lesson. Suzanne hugged Gloria a warm goodbye. "See ya soon," she said on her way down the stairs. And Gloria knew that, in fact, she would see her soon. You saw everyone here soon. You couldn't help but run into them all the time.


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This thread has been created as a place for any discussion around the subject of alternations to Spiny Growth leveraged to cover any gaps between the Carnivean and his point cost. It was originally brought up in the C-Rex thread. I created this thread so that additional brainstorming in that thread can continue without this suggestion bogging it down.
A summary of what brought this suggestion forward is as follows:
Discussions and direct comparisons of the Carnivean and other Warjacks and Warbeasts have encouraged some members of the Legion Forums that the Carnivean does not live up to his point cost of 11 points in his current incarnation. Specific suggestions for improvement can be viewed in the original thread. This thread proposes the following change to the Carnivean Animus:
The reason that an improvement on the Carnivean's animus is sufficient to lock in his value at 11 points is because the Carnivean is already very close to a value of 11 points and that solutions revolving around adjustments to his statline may not make him sufficiently competitive against other Legion choices.Spiny Growth - Cost: 2 - RNG 6 / No / No
Target model gains +3 ARM. A Warbeast or Warjack hitting the affected model with a melee attack suffers d3 damage points after the attack is resolved. Spiny Growth lasts for one round.
This solution is not designed to make the Carnivean 'better'.
Instead, this solution leverages the Carnivean's animus as a force multiplier so that the presence of the Carnivean makes other parts of Legion work better in a limited, but practical, set of circumstances. It is the belief of the author that the Carnivean is already competitive. Further 'improvement' to the Carnivean risks the escalation of power that is counter-intuitive to the changes that will be introduced in Mark II.
Instead, by improving something unique to the Carnivean that improves it's counterparts, it intensifies the competitiveness of the Carnivean in relation to other 11 point purchases.
Evaluating the appropriateness of this animus inside Legion, we accept that Legion has many offensive tools but is not limited solely to offensive tools. This is why Legion also has defensive mechanics. And while Legion favors an offensive style of play, this should be a preference not a limitation.
In the case of this defensive animus in an offensive faction, using this animus has an offensive opportunity cost - In regards to the Carnivean, any time this animus is used, it can potentially be sacrificing two of it's high damage attacks. In regards to a Warlock using this animus, it comes at the cost of healing, spell-casting, or special abilities.
The animus does not overshadow other any other animus, most notably Tenacity, which is priced more competitively and offers a coveted bonus to DEF. Neither does it overshadow Excessive Healing, which creates an immunity to automatic 1 point damage abilities that high ARM will never attain.
This change provides something unique to the Carnivean that no other beast can marginalize. It absolutely ensures that it is worth it's 11 point price tag, and will allow it to make a competitive bid for list space for armies with compositions that could take advantage of +ARM.
It is Warlock neutral - It favours no Warlock above another. All can benefit from this animus.
Most importantly, this suggestion is not invasive. The precedent for Legion receives an +ARM spell is already in place. The price and range of that animus have already been determined. Players will not be confused or alarmed by a sudden change of dynamics. It is straightforward and intuitive.
Please consider play-testing with this suggestion. It ensures a solid lock for 11 points.


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I think PvP under L20 is the worst PvP you can play when you're new. There's all these immature people spamming swear words and people spamming "U rushed, not me " when it isn't even true, you name it. If I were new these days when this low level PvP is so harsh I would quit immediately.
STS and I'm sure a lot of you want more players and skilled ones too. We also want to welcome these new players so they don't quit.
I've noticed people, selfish people, who rush just the new players looking like noobs. They do this for their own benefit so they can get their perfect kdr or more kills. I think this really hurts the new players and is not at all a way to welcome them.
So I decided to start helping them by advising them to level up first and get used to the game before PvP. I also attack back at those only rushing "noobs".
As we all know, it's very hard to defend 3 level 17 twinks rushing a new player when you're level 12. Or any scenario like that. Even a 1v1 with a 15 is hard sometimes.
To get to the point, I want to start something. Not a guild but just get some or a lot of players to help new players in PvP.
Maybe you can post your IGN or something on this thead to notify the new players who they could look for to get help.
Ways you could help:
A fun way is to put on some bad gear and get rushed. Then come back at them with good gear.
You could also advise new players, fight back with them, or try to convince the person being mean to the new player to stop.
There's a lot more ways you can help.
If you ever need help and I'm on my L12 twink Katnissi feel free to PM me if you need help.
I will also be remaking my character and changing the name from Katnissi soon...


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I'm listening to That XX and i keep thinking about G-seung (°___°)
Glad to know I am not the only one
I still haven`t had the time to hear the song..
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G-Dragon giving advise to Hyunseung after his dance performance.
oh my god hyunseung is so tall fuck FUCK GOD
ugh god my poor poor heart.
Jang Hyunseung please come back to twitter!! I would like to see your conversation with G-Dragon! It must be cute and Junhyung will be jealous xD Andddd, its's Beast's comeback!
It doesn't matter if Junhyung would be jealous or not anymore. I just want him back, and have really nice convos with mah boy GD. lolz #comebackdoublev89
I was always hoping for GD to have his own Twitter`s account back then
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7 years and he is still using the belt G-Dragon gave to him.
His lucky belt… I hope GD will come to the opening night of the musical.
this is so SWEET!!!!
precious. I hope he will invite Big Bang esp GD
I just realised! :O
Haha I'm so slow sometimes xD
GSeung have more couple items than Junseung
THOSE Louboutin sneakers… ehrm… I have seen them before…
it seems like Gseung`s couple items > Junseung`s couple items
Hi anon,
about this matter, this is solely based on my observation as a mere fan that never saw him in flesh & know him personally.
about Jiseung, they really share special bond, maybe just a little bit more than brothers, esp in Hyunseung`s side. Jiyong adores him & Hyunseung really respect him & want to follow his example as a good artist (just like he wan to follow Taeyang)
So, say, IF Hyunseung is really into guy, yes, I really do think he still have a crush on him (his first love perhaps).
This is also, I thinks why he closer to Junhyung at the first place. Because those two resemble each other. ><
in my opinion as a Junseung stan (for life~), they still get to know each other, I mean, in couple way, because if those two are really couple, I can`t predict on what stage of relationship they already at (Junhyung acted he never saw naked Hyunseung before you see..)
by all mean, I can`t give you which ship I prefer since basically I ship everyone with everyone. Shipping for me is not just about REAL COUPLE OR NOT. I ships them for their cuteness (Hyunseob), brotherly love (Dooseung), abundance of fanservice (Kiwoon) etc..
but, if I really should give my answer for that..I`ll choose Jiseung…
I mean, can I choose TOPSeung instead?


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Pacific Pearl - Mazatlan, Mexico
Welcome to Pacific Pearl Online...
Here for over 20 years helping out the English speaking community.
If you have suggestions or comments or simply want to stop and say hello, do not hesitate to contact us.
As part of our efforts to improve your experience we are updating our website. We look forward to serving a 100% functional website.
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Greater Lowell Technical High School
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Student Page
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2012-2013 Calendar
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College Open House Schedule
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Freshmen Mentoring Program
Honor Roll
High Honor Roll
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Javagenetics / Zerobio
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Nutrition News
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Students of the Month
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Schoolwide Rules
Summer Reading List
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For over 90 years, Schlage has been making homes more stylish and secure with the best door locks and door hardware. Today the Schlage family of products also includes the very best in electronic locks, keyless door locks, and home security. Let Schlage's hardware and security solutions protect and enhance the things that matter most to you.
The graceful scroll design of the Callington lever features gentle curves, concealed screws and a decorative rose. A Single Dummy Door lever is for use as a door pull or decorative trim on French or pantry doors. This single dummy lever includes one lever (for one side of the door), one decorative rosette and the required mounting screws.
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Kate Upton's Sizzling Beach Bunny Bikini Collection
Summer is only days away, which means IT'S BIKINI SEASON! It is time to sport the body you have been working on all winter. Kate Upton can help you feel and look amazing in her Beach Bunny Bikini line. The … Continue reading


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If there really are 1,000 places to see before you die, then there's got to be at least 18 must-play holes you need to tee it up on during your lifetime. Travelin' Joe Passov has identified those and tells you what elements make each one so notable.
1. St. Andrews (Old Course) -- No. 17: Par 4, 455 yards -- St. Andrews, Scotland If this isn't the most famous hole in golf, it is unquestionably the most unique. The properly positioned (blind) drive must actually carry a portion of the Old Course Hotel. The further right you go, the better your angle into the green -- except that OB lurks hard right. The Road Hole earns its name from a pebbled road that awaits a long approach, literally at the green's edge (and a stone wall behind the road). On the other side of the green is the deep, stacked-sod pit known as the Road Hole bunker. The quirkiest, toughest hole on golf's oldest course is unforgettable.


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About Organizations
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Things to be leery of when choosing an organization
- Organizations that give rank and instructor certifications to anyone who submits some type of prior certification certificate and pays a fee.
- Organizations with only a few national schools. If you move to another city, will you be able to find a nearby school?
- Organizations that have young master ranked instructors.
- Organizations that do nothing for you other than issue certificates.
- Organizations that have high fees in relation to what they offer you.
- Organizations that demand high fees from instructors, since these fees will be passed on to you as an increase in your school membership fees.
- An organization that is merely a subsidiary of the instructor just used as another way for the instructor to get money from students.
- Organizations that are not recognized by major international organizations, such as the World Taekwondo Federation and the International Taekwondo Federation.
- Some organizations exist only as a way for the owners to get money from gullible students or the general public.
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Medical Research Council
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Health Systems Trust
The Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF)
Equity in public sector health care financing and expenditure
The control of sexually transmitted diseases is a public health priority. It is the association between STDs and the increased transmission of HIV that places STD control high on the public health agenda. The public and private sectors both play an important role in the management of services that impact upon public health. It has been estimated that private general practitioners in South Africa treat approximately 5 million cases of sexually transmitted diseases each year, possibly out-numbering cases seen in the public sector.
The number of cases seen by private general practitioners points to the fact that there is a high number of patients who choose to use the private sector instead of the public sector. Several studies and surveys have confirmed this trend.
This briefing summary explores the following issues:
- the extent to which low income groups utilise private sector care for their primary care needs v the reasons why low income groups pay out of pocket for services of private providers
- how the use of private doctors impacts on sexually transmitted diseases (and generally other preventable diseases)
- how to influence the quality of care of sexually transmitted diseases in the private sector.
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- Focus on Rural Health
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- Summary Report on Assessing the Adequacy of Training Undergraduate Medical Doctors on Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) in South Africa
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A woman's perineum. A sensitive area between the vagina and the anus that often needs to be cut, in an operation known as an episiotomy, to prevent it tearing during childbirth, and then stitched together again. Vic Demised: An episiotomy is when the obstetrician makes a cut in the woman's perineum... more commonly known as the chinrest.
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Yorkshire, 1990s. n. the small expanse of skin between genitalia and anus. The drumskin, pudenda. "...I was lapping away at her rat and a squirt of cum dripped down her chinrest..."


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Look before leaping to give, experts say
Tribune staff reporterFireDonations.com was just a month old when terrorists attacked Sept. 11. The fledgling online charity had raised less than $5,000 before the attack. Since then, the tiny non-profit based in Tacoma, Wash., has collected $6 million--money that poured in...Tags: San Francisco, Disasters, International Association of Fire Fighters, Federal Bailout Funds, Online Media Industry
Chicagoans flocking to give blood, offer help
Tribune staff reporterAt City Hall in Chicago on Wednesday, people waited as long as three hours to donate blood. Hundreds of doctors and nurses, meanwhile, offered their services in the event they are needed in New York or Washington to care for the injured. Across...Tags: David Martin, Disasters, Washington (U.S. state), Terrorism, National Security
READER SUBMITTED: S&S Worldwide Supports Oklahoma Tornado Victims
ColchesterIn the aftermath of a vicious tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., S&S Worldwide has made a generous donation to help victims start rebuilding their lives. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected," said S&S Co-President Adam Schwartz....Tags: Stamford, Natural Disasters, Tornadoes, American Red Cross
How to Help the Victims of Hurricane Sandy
pix11.com | @wpixMany of those lucky enough to emerge from Sandy's devastation unscathed are wondering how they can help those struggling to recover. Here are some important links and information: Friday Nov. 9th: The Hackensack NJ Police PBA will be running a one day...Tags: Coney Island, Direct Relief International, Samaritan's Purse, World Vision, Feeding America
Nudie Foodies: Would you bare all for charity? Here's your chance
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Haiti: Resources and how to help
From Staff and Wire reports.indentMe { padding-left:20px; } In the wake of the utter devastation inflicted by the earthquake in Haiti, the efforts and contributions of people everywhere are crucial. If you're looking for ways to help, try these organizations: The U.S. State...Tags: Albert Schweitzer, U.S. Department of State, Haiti Earthquake (2010), Emergency Planning, Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
Japan Relief Efforts: How To Help, Where To Donate
AMERICAN RED CROSS: The American Red Cross has created a designation for our disaster relief efforts to help those affected by the earthquake in Japan and tsunami throughout the Pacific. If you wish to give, please visit http://american.redcross.org/...Tags: Relief and Aid Organizations, Japan, Disasters, Emergency Planning, WPIX
Tornado Relief: How to Donate to Tornado Victims
KTLA NewsThere are many groups offering their time and resources to victims of the recent series of tornadoes that have devastated the midwest. Here is a list of organizations you can donate to: American Red Cross www.redcross.org or text the word REDCROSS to...Tags: KTLA, Tornadoes, Charity, American Red Cross, The Salvation Army
EyeCare: Send Disaster Relief to Joplin, Missouri
Below, you can find links to resources in case you want to donate to the disaster relief in Joplin, Missouri. The devastation is terrifying and every little bit counts. The American Red Cross Text "REDCROSS" to 90999 to make a $10 donation, or visit the...Tags: Disasters, Missouri, Joplin (Jasper, Missouri), Health and Medical Professionals, Joplin Tornado (2011)
Dallas elementary school students help with Haiti relief
The 33 NewsThousands of miles away from the rubble in Haiti, Dallas elementary school students are joining forces to help earthquake victims in the grief-stricken country. Stonewall Jackson Elementary students are gathering toiletry kits for families. Students at...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Emergency Planning, Haiti Earthquake (2010), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Hospitals and Clinics
Chile Earthquake: HOW YOU CAN HELP
KTLA NewsMany nonprofit groups are working on relief efforts in response to the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile. If you would like to donate and help the quake victims, click on the following links: American Red Cross The American Red Cross...Tags: Relief and Aid Organizations, Disasters, Emergency Planning, Chile Earthquake (2010), KTLA
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Column: We've reaped what we've sewn, which is plenty
WORTHINGTON — As another harvest is completed from the fields of southwest Minnesota and northwest Iowa, as another Thanksgiving approaches, I am reminded of farmers I have talked to from an earlier time who remember — oh, when corn was not even grown in this northern reach of the continent, when flax and wheat and barley were major crops.November 03, 2012
Column: There was a lot to talk about at old social clubs
WORTHINGTON — Take notice of those second stories of Worthington's downtown buildings. Most of them are abandoned. No one goes there. No one wants to climb stairs. A century ago, those second level lofts were the center of Worthington's social life.By Ray Crippen , October 27, 2012
Column: As Halloween approaches, an eerie holiday tale
WORTHINGTON — That evening haunted by ghoulish, ghostly, ghastly tales is nearly upon us once again. The eve of All Saints Day. The hallowed evening.By Ray Crippen , October 20, 2012
Column: A micropolitan area that's on the rise
WORTHINGTON — You feeling pressure? That's because we're growing. Not a lot. The figure is .09 percent from the time the 2010 census was taken until last Dec. 31.By Ray Crippen , October 13, 2012
Column: You got mail - at least you did back in 1934
Archeologists poking around Worthington one day may puzzle at the names they find carved in stone in the ancient Turkey Capital. Henry Morgenthau Jr. and James A. Farley. If these names puzzle you, check the cornerstone for the stately old Worthington post office building at the corner of 11th Street and Third Avenue.By Ray Crippen , October 06, 2012
Column: Stop horsin' around and read this column
WORTHINGTON — There was a television special on horses lately. Part of it focused on men and horses together in wars, from the steppes of Asia to the Great Plains of North America. Men of all races rode horses into battle — Ghengis Khan, Julius Caesar, George Custer, Crazy Horse.By Ray Crippen , September 29, 2012
Column: Plenty of salty times enjoyed over the years
WORTHINGTON — I watch television. Nearly every day I see thin people clucking about people whose weight is higher than the medical charts recommend. The thin people use the O-word, which I think is unfair.By Ray Crippen , September 22, 2012
Column: Jay Day was an extravaganza while it lasted
I was reviewing accounts of Wendell Willkie's visit to Worthington. 1940. That was one of the years Worthington Junior College (Minnesota West) was still attempting an annual Jay Day celebration.By Ray Crippen , September 15, 2012
Column: The long, hot walk of Nobles County's Company H
WORTHINGTON — For many among us, the Minnesota State Fair is the final milestone along the path of summer. Now we are on the threshold of Turkey Day — next Saturday. For me, Turkey Day is a fall festival.By Ray Crippen , September 08, 2012
Column: Wilkie's bid for oval office brought him here
WORTHINGTON — Seventy-three years ago this month — September 1939 — Wendell Willkie was scarcely known in America. Seventy-two years ago this month — September 1940 — Wendell Willkie was the Republican nominee for the White House and one of the most popular men in the nation.By Ray Crippen , September 01, 2012
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A weekly back at regional historyBy Jane Turpin Moore , August 29, 2012
Column: Take a tour of an old-time Candy Trail
WORTHINGTON — My, what a year was 1912. It keeps cropping up. It was April 1912 that the Titanic sank. It was 1912 when Worthington's Hotel Thompson was opened. It was 1912 when F. Scott Fitzgerald was born at St. Paul. And, if you haven't had a Nut Goodie lately, take a look the next time you buy groceries. Nut Goodies, in their red and green wrappers, were first put on the market in 1912. A lot of centennials.By Ray Crippen , August 25, 2012
Column: Overweight people will have the last laugh
WORTHINGTON — As nearly as I can learn, fats and leans have lived together in peace through all the ages. "Jack Sprat could eat no fat. His wife could eat no lean. And so, between the two of them, they licked the platter clean."By Ray Crippen , August 18, 2012
Column: Trains still vital in regional communities
WORTHINGTON — Across southwest Minnesota, we have only two towns which don't owe their existence to a railroad? Is this right?By Julie Buntjer , August 11, 2012
Column: North to Alaska, once upon a time
WORTHINGTON — The Tramp — Charlie Chaplin — was one of perhaps 100,000 Americans who headed for Alaska between 1897 and 1899. The word was, "There's gold in them thar snowdrifts!" There was.By Ray Crippen , August 04, 2012
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Similac issues voluntary recall of formula
Similac has announced a voluntary recall of certain powder formulas for infants. According to the company, a review has detected that the formula may contain beetles and their larvae.
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The city's tech sector is booming, and creating jobs for many who don't know a beta test from a bitmap
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When John Auerbach told colleagues at the investment bank where he worked that he was leaving to join an Internet startup, he got more than one cockeyed look.
"You've gotten this far in finance and now you're leaving the industry?" he remembers one saying. "What are you doing?" asked another.
Auerbach wasn't dissuaded. He was stoked about being one of the initial hires at the Gilt Groupe, which hosts invitation-only fashion designer sample sales on the Web. Not only would his job as the director of finance give him the chance to apply his expertise to the Internet industry, but it would also connect him to the world of fashion, which had long intrigued him.
While some might think it risky to leave a solid job at a brick-and-mortar firm to work at a Web startup, a growing number of others, like Auerbach, are seeing it as an entrée to the land of opportunity.
And for good reason. As other industries remain stalled, New York City's tech sector is booming like never before — and it's creating jobs not just for tech geeks, but for workers who don't know a beta test from a bitmap.
The Internet is increasingly mirroring the "regular" economy, explains TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld, so just as there are retailers and media and communications companies in the real world, they now also exist on the Web.
What this might mean for some "real- world" workers is that their best shot at job security, let alone promotion, may not be with their current employer but in the Internet industry. Rapidly growing New York companies such as Gilt.com, Knewton.com, SecondMarket.com and Foursquare.com are hiring many workers who cut their teeth at monolithic blue-chip firms. In addition to the usual tech whizzes, they're after people with experience and connections in advertising, fashion, public relations and finance. They want people with expertise in business processes, recruiting, sales and marketing, graphics, accounting and customer service.
"Growth in the Internet and e-commerce space creates jobs for people with other skill sets," says Melanie Hughes, chief human resources officer at Gilt.com.
At Gilt, only about a quarter of the firm's 400-plus workers are computer engineers or other technology workers — and they're currently looking to fill 70 positions.
While Internet businesses are growing all over the world, right now New York City is the hot spot.
"It's catching up to Silicon Valley," says entrepreneur Kevin Ryan, who is involved in six NYC-based Internet firms and who sold his former company DoubleClick for $1.1 billion.