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Brand: LOUIS VUITTON
Model: LOOPING
Code: MI1919
Made in: France
Style: Shoulder Tote bag
Dimensions (cm): w:29cm h:32cm d:11cm (approx)
Dimensions (inches): w:11.4" h:12.6" d:4.3" (approx)
Strap drop(cm): 24cm (approx)
Strap drop (inches): 9.5" (approx)
Material: Monogram Canvas
Main color: Brown
Comes with: None
Special Features: This bag has interior one small zipper pocket and cell phone pocket for easy organization.
Item Condition :Outside : B Inside : AB
Exterior: Monogram surface is good condition.
Handle: Discoloration & sing of use on handles.
Corners:Some scratches .
Interior: Have some stain from use.
Pocket(s): Good condition.
Odor: None
Closure: Works properly.
Item Condition Grade:
NS : New or new without tag
S : Like new,used only a few times.
SA : Excellent condition,Pre owned but no noticeable damage.
A : Very good condition,Used several times has a bit of signs of gentle use.
AB : Good condition,Slight signs of use such as minor scratches or stains.
B : OK condition,Pre owned with normal signs of use.
BC : Used condition,Pre owned with signs of use,But not heavily damaged.
C : Vintage,Pre owned with visible signs of use and have some damage.
D : Very Vintage,Pre owned,badly-damaged.


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Your Clever Toddler in Week 96: Prepare Yourself for Tantrums
Erratic, aggressive, tempestuous behavior is the hallmark of toddlerhood. So how can you prepare yourself for your child's tantrums? It's easier than you think!
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You're under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.
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"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland." Isaiah 43:18-19
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There are three things I want you to learn how to say.
"I love you"
and don't just say it as an empty phrase,
say it with feeling,
say it to every person who comes to mind when you think of those three little words.
I know it's scary,
I know it's difficult,
but open yourself up
and shout it.
Don't mumble,
don't say it under your breath,
when you love someone,
whether platonically or romantically,
it deserves to be shouted from every rooftop.
There will be some people in your life
that come in and just wreck everything,
they mess up your plans,
they hurt you,
and make you feel less than what you are,
so please learn how to say goodbye to them.
But I also want you to learn how to say goodbye
to even the people you want to stay.
not everyone stays,
and saying goodbye is like setting someone free,
and it won't always come easy,
and it won't always come without heartbreak,
but not everyone stays,
and it will do you a world of good to learn how to tell them
"I am worth it."
there will be waves of sorrow in your life,
and you will feel as if you were the sand that the tide carries away,
you will feel as if it carries away your worth
it will feel like you are the left over rubble of a building
that had been burned down,
and you will feel less,
but please learn to say these words.
say them in the mirror when you have just woken up,
say them when your lover turns their back on you,
say them when you are opening up the refrigerator
sing them,
yell them,
whisper them,
and please, believe them.
You are more than sand that can just be washed away,
and you are more than just a few pieces of broken cement,
you are worth it.
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You don't need another human being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters in your soul but cracks to put their love into is the most calming thing in this world.
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Instead of withholding love to change somebody, I poured it on, lavishly. I hoped that love would work like a magnet, pulling people from the mire and toward healing. I knew this was the way God loved me. God had never withheld love to teach me a lesson.
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Link to the new blog! ›
it's still under construction, but I'll be writing from there from now on.
To forget would be a terrible thing, criminal even. But I don't think I could, not when our lives have become so intertwined.
Glimpses of this past week flit through my mind, occupying my waking thoughts. Your sweet, gummy smile as you squeeze me 'round the middle. The mischievous glint in your eyes when you waltz over to me, intent on tickling me (more like pinching, but I guess that's your version of tickling?). Your wide-eyed delight as we zoomed around the lake. Your head nestled on my shoulder as you listen to Kevin speak in chapel after a long, camp day. Your tiny, sweaty hand tucked in mine as I 'snuck' you past the other counsellors so you could score a point for your team. Listening to you sing sweet worship to our King; the ebb and the rise of our voices in harmony brought tears to my eyes. Listening to you all fall asleep as I sing a goodnight lullaby (then tossing and turning for at least an hour afterwards trying to fall asleep myself!). Hearing that you accepted Jesus into your life for the first time made me the happiest girl that day! Seeing your eyes, so angry and hard, gradually soften until they revealed a childlike wonder and desperate need for Jesus and His unfailing love. I won't forget the tears that were shed or the prayers that were whispered. I won't forget the way God answered mightily. I will remember learning again that I bring Him joy and so do you. I can't be there and I can't save; so I will choose to leave you in hands mightier than my own. He is faithful, even when I am not.


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RENO, NV - Golfers in the community are invited to sign up for the Veterans Guest House Golf Tournament. The event takes place on Friday, June 13th and is a fundraiser organized by Bickford Angier & Associates of Ameriprise Financial. A shot-gun start at 1:45 p.m. will begin the four-person scramble at Lakeridge Golf Course.
Registration forms for the tournament, " Golfing for Our Heroes – We've Got Their "6", are available online at www.veteranguesthouse.com. The event is $120 per person and includes a BBQ dinner. Raffle prizes, a silent auction and prizes from generous sponsors will also be distributed in categories such as "closest to the pin" and "hole-in-one." Various sponsorships are also available, with a hole sponsorship going for $150.
Participation in the tournament will help support the Guest House, a "home away from home" for United States military service veterans receiving medical treatment in the Reno/Sparks area.


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Feeling fatigue setting in and nodding off behind the wheel will forever stay being the scariest/worst feeling ever for me.
I keep forgetting about this place and only stop by every now & then on my phone. Sorry, tumblr lol. We still cool tho
there should be a two year period after high school where it is socially expected that kids not work or go to school or do anything but take road trips, read books, meet new people, and take lots of pictures
please can this be a thing PLEASE
Do you not have gap years?
What the fuck is a gap year??
in America you are expected to go straight from high school to college
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What Is Project M?
Project M is a community-made mod of Brawl inspired by Super Smash Bros. Melee's gameplay designed to add rich, technical gameplay to a balanced cast of characters while additionally enhancing the speed of play. Project M employs new codes which seamlessly add in new, universal features to the entire cast to add technical variety to all characters.
Project M is playable on ANY NTSC Wii, without any hardware modification, and even without any longterm software modification. All that is needed to get started is an SD card and a copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
Project Goal
Project M hopes to achieve a game similar to Super Smash Bros. Melee in many respects. It does not, however, intend to be a 1:1 Melee clone. The following is a list of the main aspects of Super Smash Bros. Melee that inspired and have carried over into Project M:
In short, Project M aims to capture the essence of what made Melee a truly great game in our eyes.
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My Lazy, Cheap and Green Way to Make Chicken Broth
If you make your own chicken broth from actual chickens, you can just go ahead and stop reading this post right now.
Step 1. Long ago, I purchased chicken broth in cans. I think I usually paid $1 for a 14.5 ounce can (a little less than 2 cups). All those couponers probably get their canned chicken broth for free. I occasionally used b6uillon cubes too, but mostly canned broth because it was faster and more convenient.
Step 2. When I got married, I suddenly had cable, and I noticed that all the cool kids on the Food Network used the boxed chicken broth (except Ina Garten, who used her own homemade chicken broth, of course). That seemed really nifty, so I started using the chicken broth in aseptic cartons. Several months ago, I purchased organic free-range chicken broth at Costco for a little less than $2 a box (each box is 4 cups of broth) or less than 50 cents per cup. I also sometimes bought a quart of organic chicken broth at Trader Joe's for $1.99. Sometimes I didn't use the entire box and actually had to throw some or most away. Sad.
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Step 3. A few years ago, I became aware of a little chemical named BPA (hormone disruptor), which lines virtually all canned foods, including soups and broths. You can read about levels of BPA in canned foods in this report, or check out this very recent guide by The Breast Cancer Fund. When I learned about BPA, I was glad I had already switched from using canned to boxed chicken broth. I also started trying to rely less on other canned foods as well. I didn't switch broths at this point. I just felt good about what I was doing.
Step 4. A few months ago, my sister told me that she used Better than Bouillon chicken base (a concentrated paste that you add to boiling water) for chicken broth. I found it at Costco, and purchased a 16 ounce bottle of Organic Reduced Sodium Chicken Base for $6.89. The 16-ounce bottle makes 19 quarts of broth, which translates to about 9 cents per cup. I made the same tofu soup (one that relies heavily on the flavor of the broth) two weeks in a row with my boxed broth and the Better than Bouillon paste to see if we noticed the difference. We didn't. I maybe even liked the soup made with Better than Bouillon a little bit better.
Now I find that prefer cooking with Better than Bouillon for a number of reasons:
- Great price! It's hard to beat 9 cents a cup for broth.
- No waste. I only use as much as I need. The jar lasts several months in the fridge once opened. Unopened jars are shelf stable for much longer.
- More versatile. I can easily make the broth more concentrated, simply by adding a little extra base (instead of having to wait for a soup to reduce in liquid). I find it is not any harder to use the base because I almost always use broth in soups that need to be boiled anyway. I simply add a tablespoon or more straight to the pot.
- Nearly plastic-free packaging. Better than Bouillon comes in a glass jar with metal lid. While the boxes of broth may be BPA-free, there is new research that suggests all plastic (even BPA-free plastics) may leach harmful estrogen mimickers into food, and liquid foods are even more likely to be subject to plastic leaching. There does appear to be a little plastic on the lid, but the broth base doesn't really touch the lid.
- Significantly less packaging than boxed and canned broth. Buying, carrying and storing one little jar of broth base is MUCH more convenient than buying, carrying and storing 19 boxes of broth, or 40 cans of broth. Those cans and boxes are both heavy and bulky! Less packaging also means less energy used in manufacturing and transportation. After using up the base, I can clean out the jar, and reuse it for something else. Metal cans can be recycled, but the aseptic boxes got tossed in the trash.
- Non-scary Ingredients: Chicken meat and natural juices, maltodextrin, salt, chicken stock, cane sugar, chicken fat, potato starch, natural flavor, dried onion, dried garlic, turmeric. I could do without the maltodextrin, but as packaged convenience foods go, this one is not too bad.
So until I raise my own chickens and/or have a bigger freezer, I'll be using Better than Bouillon.
(Note that Better than Bouillon also makes beef and vegetable bases. My Costco sells the organic reduced sodium beef base too for the same price. We don't use a lot of beef broth around here, but it's nice to know it's available.)
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Captain Blood Hands On Preview
Posted by Christophor Rick (TheSuperGuido), Sep 10, 2010 09:55
Some of you might think American games are violent. You've obviously never played a Russian-made game. I got my hands on a preview build of Captain Blood from 1C: SeaWolf Studio and this game is violence intensified.
You take on the role of the privateer, Captain Blood, in a story that weaves back and forth from the original in such a way that you just don't care if it adheres to the old book or not. It's a 3D hack and slash affair that gives you some weapons and a reason to go kill a lot of people. What more do you need?
Sure it's violent, but it's not alway mindless button mashing. There are some interesting strategies that you have to implement from time to time and they do manage to break up the mindlessness at times.
There's a really cool sea battle level where you have to run from cannon to cannon blasting away at nearby ships which are doing the same to you. However, it doesn't seem that there's any kind of damage meter on your ship as it took quite a long time for me to finish the level and the ship was still floating.
Now it's not all mindless like I make it out to be. There is an upgrade system that, when you finish a level and have enough gold, can go into and buy new things like executions, attacks (combos) and upgrades like more health, grenades of gunshots. It's just a matter of remembering all the button combos to trigger them. It's not all that difficult as there are only two major attack buttons X and Y. B is used to grab and finish someone. Some enemies can just be grabbed and finished at once and some require softening up before you can do the moves.
The executions are fairly weak in that they kill the enemy and then do something like take all his money or his weapon, both of which you can often do without the execution. So they're pretty much a waste of gold that could go into more useful things.
There are also boss battles big and small which challenge you from time to time. There are also quick action sequences where you must hit a specific button at a specific time. Sometimes I failed to see that this was the case as they often appear to be cut scenes. But a failure or two makes you pay closer attention and see the on screen cue (which could be both larger and better placed).
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Dying For Your Country
The Onion has a commentary up by someone bravely pronouncing his willingness to die for his country. Or…a country.
As a true patriot, I would gladly die in battle defending my homeland. I love my country more than my own life. But I would also be more than willing to give my last breath in the name of, say, Mexico, Panama, Japan, or the Czech Republic. The most honorable thing a man can do is lay down his life for his country. Or another country. The important thing is that it's a country.
Like those heroes who spilled their blood fighting for independence against the British Empire, I, too, would forfeit everything to win for my countrymen the right to be governed by politicians in our own capital instead of in a capital located further away. Nothing is more profound or more sacred than to die for one's country, an adjacent country, or some other, foreign country.
The truth is, there are a lot of countries, each of which is the most noble cause possible to die for…
…Without nationalism, our deaths in the countless wars we constantly wage to defend our own nations against others defending their own nations against us would seem arbitrary, almost meaningless. But as long as we have a higher purpose—the love of whatever country we happen to be fighting for—we will always know we did not lose our lives in vain.
See my previous, non-satirical posts on such issues: The Ism That Won't Go Away and The Folly of Soldier Worship.
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Yeah, the criminals, sociopaths, and chickenhawks who infest the U.S. Government are sure worth fighting for, aren't they?! . . .
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YOUby Peter Davison
Hear Peter Davison read this poem (in RealAudio).
(For help, see a note about the audio.)
Also by Peter Davison:
Best Friend (2000)
These Days (2000)
Falling Water (1998)
No Escape (1997)
On Mount Timpanogos, 1935 (1997)
Like No Other (1997)
"I Hardly Dream of Anyone Who Is Still Alive" (1995)
The Unfrocked Governess (1994)
The Passing of Thistle (1989)
The Obituary Writer (1974)
Gifts (1965)
The Winner (1958)
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From beyond the borders of memory you seemed to
gaze, enfold, clothe me,
lift me: I was held, washed,
fed. On unsprung legs I swayed and
tottered. Your smile urged me into
walking. Your words urged me out
into words. Your scowl stunned and guarded me. You taught,
scolded, attended. And now, you vanish.
What dark seas must I canvass to
undrown you? How far have you drifted,
castaway? I yearn
across pathless waterlands for
a whiff of your remembered fragrance, a waft
of warm arms, the flick and murmur of
your speaking, the fall of your soft song,
the hushed kisses of your mouth.
Who could have thought you would ever so
immoderately disappear? Or imagine
that, no matter how hard I haul
on the ligaments of our fateful
connection, you could never possibly
return, never
respond, never
speak, never
know me?
Peter Davison is the poetry editor of The Atlantic. His poems in this issue will appear in his newest collection of poetry, Breathing Room, to be published by Knopf in September.
All material copyright © 2000 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved.


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In 70062, Kenner, Louisiana, you can find 2 community colleges serving 653 students.
Minority enrollment is 87% of the student body (majority Black).
The student:teacher ratio of 36:1 is more than the state average of 34:1..
70062, LA Community Colleges:
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70062-KennerHerzing University New Orleans
2500 Williams Boulevard
Kenner, , 70062
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2500 Williams Blvd
Kenner, , 70062
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Updated September 12, 2014
Nearly 52 percent of community college students in the United States begin their freshman year in at least one remedial class. These courses, which help students acquire knowledge and skills they should have acquired in high school, do not count toward their degree requirements. As a result, students are taking longer than ever to obtain their degree, if they obtain one at all.
Although a community college education is inexpensive when compared to tuition and fees at a four-year institution, some students still need financial assistance to pay their education bills. Yet, some community colleges don't participate in the federal student loan program, putting some students in a financial bind.
While many factors have contributed to the current decline in community college enrollment, the recovering economy is chief among them. As more and more people return to the workforce, fewer students enroll in courses at community colleges. Many institutions must now deal with budget shortfalls in the face of double-digit declines in enrollment.
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IT Resources and Services
These are just some of the many IT services available to you.
- IT Learning and Self-Study Resources
- The IT Services IT Learning Programme (ITLP) offers over 200 different IT courses that can help you with your studies, research, and future careers
- From fundamental courses in the use of standard office packages through to programming, database design, academic use of office software, on-line presence, and digital media skills
- Lively, hands-on, teacher-led courses
- Scheduled courses are normally 3-hour modules, morning or afternoon, held in modern teaching rooms.
- Courses are low cost, typically under £10 per module to cover resources
- Many resources are available through the ITLP Portfolio for you to use in your own time
- Also drop-in sessions, lunch-time byte-size sessions, closed courses, tailored courses and more
- Windows, Linux and Mac
- Fully equipped teaching rooms available for hire
- We engage industry-leading practitioners to teach a wide range of digital media skills including creating digital videos and podcasts, and how to look good in front of a camera.
- Mobile Oxford
- Dedicated web site for smartphone users
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- Search for a library book and be guided to the libraries that have it in stock
- Look at a map of Oxford to find colleges, departments, libraries, and the nearest pub, cafe, postbox, etc.
- Get a live feed for bus stops in Oxford telling you when the next bus is arriving
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- WebLearn is the University's web-based virtual learning environment (VLE)
- WebLearn holds course-specific resources including announcements, handouts, slides, reading lists linked to the library catalogue, discussion forums, electronic assignments with plagiarism scanning, wikis, opinion polls, tutorial sign-up, course events schedule (calendar), newsfeed display, formative assessment (tests), surveys, graduate training course search, and more.
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- Your tutor or department will provide you with a link or advise you where to find your course material; alternatively you can browse the system
- Open access areas are available to everyone; log in with your Oxford SSO Account to access restricted areas
- All students also get a personal dashboard called 'My Workspace' where all announcements and events are displayed and which also contains a wiki and an online file-store (Resources) for personal use
- Guidance on using WebLearn
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- The IT Services online Shop provides selected software packages at reduced prices to University members
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- A large collection of online library resources is provided by the central library services, including online journals, bibliographic databases, and past exam papers (OXAM)
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- The central Hierarchical File Server (HFS) provides scheduled weekly and on-demand backups of your files to safeguard against computer loss or damage
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- Available to senior members, staff and postgraduates
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- Run a keyword search from the IT Services home page
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I used to wear my Guild Tabard all the time on my raiding lock, but since the color scheme got changed it looks awful with the gear set I have, so he goes tabard-less now. With my pally, I usually forgo the tabard in tank/heal gear, but in my ret set I'll use the Blood Knight one. That is a cool looking tabard for sure - and up until the 2.4 badge gear, all my gear was red and black too so it looked really badass.


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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage says he wants to represent himself at his upcoming trial.
Fort Hood officials said Wednesday that Maj. Nidal Hasan is seeking to sever ties with his three Army attorneys.
The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, is to consider his request at a hearing next week. She also delayed jury selection to June 5, about a week after it was scheduled to start.
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small is beautiful
"Ever bigger machines, entailing ever bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful."
- E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered, 1973 London
What has happened to us? We're all fixated on the most, the biggest, the best. We want bigger and better lives, but we end up settling instead for bigger TVs, bigger vehicles and bigger houses. We pave over natural wetlands to make room for our big suburban developments where we think maybe those bigger and better lives might play out.
It seems an unyielding imperative that our cities keep spreading and bulldozing in the name of generating more jobs, more units, more condos and more revenue for those same cities to spin back into developing, expanding and encompassing even more.
Where's the plan? Where's the vision? There was one, but it seems it's been waylaid by progress. A variance here, a rule broken there, a plan and a vision forgotten. We watch and whine and pretend it's all going to be okay. And it probably will be okay – for us.
But what about our children. This relentless push for progress will cost them dearly. We are using up all the resources. Cutting down and paving over every scrap of nature we can sell, gut and redo. We are getting bigger and bigger and our shadow looms over the near future like a giant poisonous-gas-filled blimp.
We are the generation that has sat by while the 1% have become "the best destroyers of all time", impoverishing people and the planet like never before. (George Monbiot, p.19, The Guardian Weekly, 18.11.11.)
When will we get wise? Before it all explodes or after?
It's amazing how little we really need, to be content in this life. The problem is, we want what we want. Will we ever think small, think gentle, think beautiful? Will we ever stop feeding the consumer and corporate machines that shove our desire for more down our throats by telling us exactly what it is we should be eating, wearing, caring about and buying?
Isn't one gift at Christmas enough?
If not, why not? Why shop 'til you drop? Why stress and fret and over spend? Bring yourself back down to size. Think small. Teach your kids something else. Get sentimental about life, about nature, about your loved ones — not about buying a bunch of stuff that no one needs. Don't get sucked into some endless black monday that spins into boxing day and then becomes an interminable cycle of gift-giving (aka shopping) imposed upon you by a bunch of "shoulds" from Wall Street and beyond? It's time to throw a monkey wrench into the old escalator and jump off this crazy ride.
Small is beautiful. Small cities mean a greater sense of connection, ease of movement and self-sustainability. A small house, a small car, a small Christmas are all easier, more affordable, more peaceful and more spacious. Small means you have time and space for the lovely in life.
Even if you were not one of those who ventured downtown and held up a sign during the occupy movement, maybe you too believe it is time to challenge the status quo, to reign in corporate greed and to choose wisdom over progress at all costs. Maybe you can begin by acting as if all that you do matters and by realizing that small is also beautiful. Start at home and let the wisdom spread from there.
Here's wishing you a small holiday season sprinkled with ease, beauty and love.
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Amen! My husband and I don't plan to have kids, but there are little ones in my life that I love, and I will be teaching soon, so I am constantly wondering… are they going to hate us? And if they do, they will be pretty justified, because look at what we are leaving them to deal with and to try to survive… I watch friends who have kids who don't recycle, who waste, waste, waste, and I just wish they would make the connection between loving their kids and taking care of the world that their kids depend on for life.
Side note: The best gifts we can give kids aren't things, they're traditions and connections and family and love… but that seems get lost in the consumer rush every year…
I am so glad I'm doing the small. And yes it is very lovely.
I took some courage over the last year to get here. But it was well worth it and I just cannot imagine going back to the bigger, better more. It hurts to watch those I love do it and create stress and lack of joy in their lives.
Enjoy the beautiful small and the lovely!
SO true, always faster, bigger, more and more
we will get ourselves confused by more!
Katie for President! I couldn't agree with you more Katie. The whole world is out of control. My mantra is: All I have is all I need. It's proven to be true more often than I can count.
Thanks for shedding light on this!
I totally agree with all of this. In my years on earth, I have lived in the middle of Boston and Manhattan and, more recently, a half hour from towns that don't even have a stop sign. And I love the latter by far. It's funny how disconnected people are from each other and their environment in larger cities where there are so many people so close together, physically. And the connections between people in rural areas are so tight and friendly.
I'm raising my 3 children to love and honor their environment by living in the woods, appreciating the little things like a bird landing close by and a deer or fox walking past the house, by recycling, composting and growing their own food, etc.
I think it's too little too late to turn the scythe of "progress" around. Our children will live in a very different world than what we know today.
Unfortunately, I feel like I'm in the minority of people choosing to live like we do. It's so awesome to read blogs like this and know that this minority is growing. More power to you, Katie, and all of your readers!!
Thank you for this post, Katie ~ a sad, true, and timely reminder of what society's 'bigger is better' mentality actually costs our planet and our fellow man. Though I will participate in my in-law's gift-exchange this season (and initially felt uncomfortable at the thought!), I've determined to see it as an opportunity for doing things differently.
So, instead of mass-produced gifts, I'll be offering my time (in the form of babysitting), my best work (my book) and gifts that I can be excited about purchasing and sharing (original art from an up-and-coming artist on the autism spectrum). Your post re-energizes me to keep thinking creatively and to keep living small!
small is beautiful, perhaps because it focuses our attention rather than dividing it.
Great post! I couldn't agree more. I hope more people realize the power they hold in their hands to create the change they are seeking. They just need to make the connections that are right in front of them.
small is beautiful because small is more condensed
Katie – yes! Smaller is beautiful. I'd rather have one exquisite moment of happiness than miles of mediocrity.
Thank you, Katie ~
I needed your community this morning.
Have yourself a happy little Christmas <3
Hi Katie (man I love your writing!)
I agree with you that small is beautiful. I live in a small house, G & I drive very old small cars and as you know I take small continuous steps in life. So I'm a fan of Small is Beautiful.
I'm typically very quiet about politics. But I will say that I didn't hold up an occupy sign. I'm not 100% certain, but it seems people are angry at big corporate rather focusing on their personal power. Protesting is being a voice of a fight, rather than really digging deep and finding one's own empowered way. Again, this is why I stay quiet about politics – since I usually don't agree with with my own genre.
Wishing you a magical holiday and new year!!
Hi Katie,
You make a wonderful point in your post. I especially like this line – "Small means you have time and space for the lovely in life." We have in so many ways let things take over our lives, and have lost in the process the beauty of just everyday living. It's difficult once you've let that genie out of the box, to rein in back in. I agree those that are going to suffer are our children, and they are feeling it now. The greed has destroyed the economy and many hopes for the future. We hopefully will learn our lesson, and I do believe there is a movement to live in a more meaningful way, but it all takes time.
Thanks again for sharing a well written post. Happy Holidays!


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Rather than becoming paralyzed with anxiety, here's another message you can send yourself: "I may have to take a job I don't like as much, may have to travel further than I want, but I'll do what I have to do now. At least I will have the security of income in the short term. Then I can look for something better later."
The most important thing: "to realize when you've done everything you can, that you need to move forward," Ross says.
Learn to relax.
You may even need "breathing retraining," Ross adds. "When people get anxious, they tend to hold their breath. We teach people a special diaphragmatic breathing -- it calms your system. Do yoga, meditation, or get some exercise. Exercise is a terrific outlet for anxiety."
Most of all, try not to compound your problems, adds Andrews. "When things are bad, there is a legitimate reason to feel bad," she says. "But if you don't deal with it, you're going to lose more than just a job -- you'll lose relationships, your self confidence, you could even lose technical abilities if you stay dormant in your profession. Try not to compound one stress by adding another."
Often your ability to work through anxiety -- get past it -- varies depending on the type of crisis you faced. "The more severe, the more surprising it was, the longer it's going to take to get over it," says Andrews. "You may be on autopilot for several weeks. If you're depressed, that can complicate things. In the case of divorce, it may take months to years to really get back to yourself."
But take heart. "If you're doing well in one aspect of your life -- in your work or your relationships -- you're probably on your way," she says. "Fear and anxiety are no longer running your life."
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Diamond Foods (DMND) has been under a cloud for more than a year as the company dealt with an accounting scandal related to payments it made to walnut growers. The scandal led to the ouster of the company's CEO and CFO, and helped break up its deal to buy Pringles.
But Diamond said after the close on Monday that it plans to release restated financial results on Wednesday after the market closes for the fiscal years ended July 31, 2011 and July 31, 2010, as well as results for the first three quarters of fiscal 2012.
Shares jumped 14% today on the news. Investors should listen carefully to the call, and see if questions are fully answered, notes Jefferies analyst Thilo Wrede.
"DMND has limited its explanation of the cause of the restatements to a 'breakdown of internal controls.' We are looking for a more complete explanation of what went wrong and what steps have been put into place to ensure such a breakdown does not recur."
Says the company: "To participate in the call via telephone dial (877) 681-3373 from the U.S./Canada or (719) 325-2171 elsewhere and enter the participant pass code of 279-604. To listen to the call over the internet, visit the company's website at http://www.diamondfoods.com and select 'Investor Relations.'"
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The shares were halted, but are now trading again, recently falling 1.5%.
Diamond Foods (DMND) shareholders have had a rough time in recent months, as questionable accounting practices forced the resignation of its CEO and CFO and pushed potential acquisition target Pringles into the waiting arms of Kellogg (K).
Today, the accounting problems continue to haunt the company, as it said it had received a notice of non-compliance from Nasdaq as it failed to file its results for the fiscal second quarter, which ended on January 31.
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Welcome to the 5th installment in my series on American educational institutions. Thus far I've talked mostly about large universities, but the United States also contains hundreds of superb liberal arts colleges which can be excellent choices for international students. We call those tertiary schools "colleges" because they primarily offer undergraduate degrees in arts and sciences and don't have post-graduate professional schools (such as medicine and law).
Today I'll be featuring one of those intimate liberal arts powerhouses, Swarthmore College, located in my birth state of Pennsylvania.
To me, the defining characteristics of Swarthmore are small size, huge reputation, academic excellence, and intense community spirit.
Turning to size first, the school has fewer than 1,550 students total. Just over 93% of the students choose to live on campus, which creates a vibrant, warm community atmosphere that enhances the educational experience.
Engaging with students is a faculty of approximately 165 professors teaching more than 600 separate courses per year, with an average student-to-faculty class size of just under 8:1. The extraordinarily small average class size is coupled with a deep tradition of open discussion which encourages student entrepreneurship, creativity, and discovery. You can't get lost at Swarthmore. In fact, you can engage directly and in a meaningful fashion with the entire faculty over your time as a student.
Residing on 400 acres (more than 1.6 square kilometers) in the charming town of Swarthmore (population 6,100), the campus is a stunning mix of heritage buildings, award-winning modern structures scaled to the site, wide green spaces, lush gardens, and tracts of forest. The environs are so salutary that classes are frequently held outside. Moreover, the pastoral campus is only about a half-hour drive (and an even shorter train ride) from the hustle and bustle of center city Philadelphia, creating a great mix of options and opportunities for students.
Swarthmore was founded in 1864 by a committee of Quakers intent on creating an institution of higher learning dedicated to the cause of equal rights. At the insistence of none other than iconic abolitionist and women's rights activitist Lucretia Mott herself, Swarthmore was co-educational from inception. In Swarthmore's first graduating class was Helen Magill White, who went on to become the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D.
Swarthmore's origins continue to infuse and enlighten its approach to education and student life, helping make it an academic powerhouse despite its small size. The school regularly places near the very top in rankings of American colleges and universities. For example, in 2010 Forbes Magazine ranked Swarthmore 7th, ahead of the undergraduate programs of much larger universities including Harvard and Yale. For the past three years The Princeton Review has named Swarthmore the #1 "Best Value" school in America.
Widely known as one of the "Little Ivies," Swarthmore has six times been named the #1 liberal arts college in America. I was particularly impressed that a recent study ranked Swarthmore #3 among all colleges and universities in the country in terms of percentage of graduates who ultimately earn Ph.D. degrees, a great testament to Swarthmore's commitment to academic excellence.
For those of you interested in attending a professional school after earning your undergraduate degee, I should note that Swarthmore is reputed to give you a head start on the competition. The Wall Street Journal ranked Swarthmore 10th among all American colleges and universities as a successful feeder school to elite law, business, and medical schools.
From what I've already said, you can probably guess that Swarthmore's faculty is an exceptional lot. The most recent data that I've seen indicates that 100% of the faculty has a "terminal" degree, i.e., the highest academic degree available in one's field of study. The faculty is kept fresh, focused, and energized by the school's generous 4-year cycle of travel and research sabbaticals for professors.
Small class sizes and the absence of graduate and professional schools keep the highly credentialed professors fully engaged with undergraduate students, by design. Swarthmore's educational environment is carefully calibrated to stimulate ongoing discussion and debate, to motivate students to challenge themselves and others intellectually, to involve students in academic research early in their education, and to build student confidence in reasoning and expression. Because of that emphasis, many Swarthmore students and alumni refer to Swarthmore as "an endless conversation."
I would suggest that you browse Swarthmore's website for detailed information about the strengths and focus of the various fields of study available. Political science is one of the most popular options, with almost 10% of all students majoring therein.
International relations is also popular and particularly noteworthy, with Foreign Policy magazine ranking Swarthmore 15th on its list of the best places to study that subject, the highest ranking of any undergraduate-only institution.
Among the other notable Swarthmore programs that caught my eye are peace and conflict studies, interpretation theory, cognitive science, and engineering. The last one was a bit of a surprise because liberal arts colleges tend not to offer engineering degrees.
Swarthmore's engineering program, though, aligns well with its core academic philosophy. Engineering students are accorded significant flexibility in constructing a custom curriculum, with fewer required engineering courses to obtain the degree, a Bachelor of Science in General Engineering (rather than in a particular engineering discipline such as mechanical or civil). More than 80% of Swarthmore engineering students go on to graduate school.
Whatever their majors, students can participate in their junior and senior years in 8 honors seminars in addition to their normal course load. The honors seminars are research intensive, oriented around independent learning, and very small, usually 3-6 students.
At the end of each honors seminar the students are examined by outside scholars from other universities, in order to insure independent judging of research findings and knowledge. The outside scholars not only evaluate the students but engage in discussion with them, further enhancing the unique learning opportunity.
In part as a result of its Quaker heritage, Swarthmore has a strong commitment to public service, social responsibility, and peace. The College's library hosts the Peace Collection, a renown archive of papers, books, and other materials from pacifist activists and organizations focused on disarmament, nonviolent change movements, and conflict resolution.
Swarthmore's Lang Center for Civil and Social Responsibility helps foster public service attitudes as well as productive connections with surrounding communities by organizing volunteer service options and community-based learning opportunities for students. The Lang Center also funds social change projects.
Swarthmore is a "need blind" school, meaning that it makes its admissions decisions before addressing financial considerations. If admission is offered and accepted, the school will cover 100% of the incoming student's financial need through grants. Such generosity is made possible by Swarthmore's endowment, which exceeds US$ 1 billion, or almost US$ 1 million per student. That's one of the highest such ratios in the United States.
Approximately 13% of Swarthmore's student population is international, and half of those international students receive financial assistance. Unlike domestic applicants, overseas applicants submit financial aid forms before admission decisions are made. As with successful domestic applicants, however, Swarthmore meets the full demonstrated need of any international students admitted to the school.
Among the ranks of Swarthmore alumni are 8 MacArthur Foundation fellows, several Pulitzer Prize winners, and 5 Nobel laureates (in the fields of chemistry, physics, and economics), the second highest proportion of Nobels to graduates among American undergraduate schools.
Many of Swarthmore's alumni are household names, including author James Michener, former Governor of Massachusetts (and Presidential nominee) Michael Dukakis, NASA's Nancy Roman (known as the mother of the Hubble telescope), U.S. Senator Carl Levin (of Michigan), former World Bank president Robert Zoellick, philosopher David K. Lewis (ranked by his peers as one of the 15 most important philosophers of the past 200 years), New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley, and Save Darfur founder Mark Hanis.
Extracurricular activities are a core part of the Swarthmore experience, and Swarthmore students are reputed to participate therein in higher than average numbers and intensity. There are more than 100 chartered clubs and organizations from which to choose, as well as a large number of unchartered activities organized directly by students themselves.
As you would expect in an environment that incentivizes challenging discussion, the school has championship Mock Trial, Debate Society, and National Academic Quiz Tournament (College Bowl) programs, as well as two student newspapers and several literary, humor, and research magazines.
There are several performance groups. As at my alma mater Princeton, a capella – singing without instrumental accompaniment — is particularly popular at Swarthmore, with 5 organized groups and an annual Jamboree.
Perhaps the most well-known of the student organizations is the Swarthmore College Computer Society, no surprise at a school ranked #4 on PC Magazine's list of "Top 20 Wired Colleges." The Society runs servers that host email accounts, storage space, more than 100 mailing lists, and more than 130 websites for students, faculty, alumni, and other student organizations.
The Society also maintains an innovative Media Lounge, was the early home of the weekly War News Radio, and produced two papers published at the USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA) Conference. One of the Society's LISA submissions was selected as the Conference's Best Paper.
Again illustrating the highly engaged, participatory culture at Swarthmore, more than 40% of the total student population is active in intercollegiate or club sports.
At the varsity level Swarthmore has teams in 22 different sports, competing in Division III's Centennial Conference (a grouping of elite private colleges in Pennsylvania and Maryland). Among the many club sports, rugby and ultimate frisbee are particularly popular.
Swarthmore does not have an official motto. Many students and alumni will tell you, though, that the unofficial motto is Mind the Light, reflecting the belief of the school's Quaker founders that each person should tend and follow ("mind") his or her own conscience ("light").
Swarthmore's official colors are garnet and gray, and the school's athletic teams are known as The Garnet. Students refer to themselves as Swatties. The official school mascot is a red Phoenix, named Phineas in a student vote.
Among Swarthmore's most solemn traditions is First Collection. Held one evening during orientation week at the start of each academic year, First Collection assembles all new students in the College's outdoor amphitheater for a traditional Quaker ceremony. Swarthmore's president, a professor, and a member of the senior class speak about the history, culture, and values of the College. The new students then light candles and take part in bonding rituals.
My favorite of Swarthmore's less serious traditions is the Crum Regatta. Students work in teams to build rafts or other flotation devices, some of which are wildly inventive, flamboyantly designed, or simply odd. The teams race each other down Crum Creek, competing for prizes and the cheers of fans assembled along the banks.
As I noted at the outset, Swarthmore College is only a short train ride from Philadelphia. That close proximity presents an enormous variety of cultural, entertainment, recreational, social, and educational opportunities for students.
And once you get to Union Station in Philadelphia, you can catch a train to a large number of interesting and exciting destinations along the East Coast including Boston, New York City, Washington, and Florida.
Both the city of Philadelphia and the colony of Pennsylvania were founded in 1682 by William Penn, who was granted a land charter to the vast territory by Charles II in payment of a £16,000 debt. A persecuted Quaker, Penn wished to establish a society based on religious tolerance and peace. He quickly negotiated durable treaties with the native tribes in the territory, and selected a Greek name for his seat of government meaning "City of Brotherly Love."
Because of its central location, excellent riparian access, and industrious culture, Philadelphia rapidly grew into the largest and most important city in the British colonies. It also became a center of colonial intellectual life, in meaningful part due to the civic and scientific efforts of American icon Benjamin Franklin.
A hotbed of revolutionaries, Philadelphia hosted the two Continental Congresses as well as the post-war Constitutional Convention. Both of America's founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, were debated, drafted, and signed in the city. Philadelphia served as the capital of the new Nation for more than a decade after the Revolutionary War while Washington, DC was being constructed.
Today, the Philadephia metro area contains a highly diverse population of approximately 6 million people, 1.5 million of whom live within the 143 square miles (369 sq.km.) of the city itself. The Philadelphia economy has evolved and reinvented itself several times over the past 3 centuries, and the city is now a vibrant, diversified center for biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, financial services, legal services, tourism, food processing, and manufacturing.
My hometown in Schuylkill County was only about a two-hour drive north of Philadelphia. My Uncle Leon, Aunt June, and cousins Lisa and Erik lived in the Philly suburbs, and my family drove down to visit them many times when I was a kid. Over the course of those trips I came to know the city and its environs quite well.
Coming from a small coal town, I experienced Philadelphia as a mindblowing adventure of the first magnitude. I still remember my first visit to Independence Hall … the Liberty Bell … the Franklin Institute (with its two-story replica of the human heart that you could walk through like a blood cell) … the great Philadelphia Zoo … and much more. I could extoll the city's pleasures and virtues for pages, but I don't want to tax your patience. I'll just skip lightly over a few highlights.
Philadelphia remains famous for art and culture, including the huge Philadelphia Museum of Art … Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts … Rodin Museum … Barnes Foundation … Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts … Academy of Music (the nation's oldest continually operating opera house) … Walnut Street Theatre (America's oldest theater) … numerous other theaters and concert halls … and world-class symphony, opera, and ballet companies.
Philly is equally impressive outdoors. It has both more murals and more public sculpture than any other city in America. Fairmount Park is the largest landscaped urban park in the world. The Philly municipal park system comprises 63 parks covering 9,200 square acres. There are many miles of bike and jogging paths. In 1872 Philadelphia established the first association in the country devoted to integrating public art and urban planning.
When you're in the mood simply to be entertained, you can sample a few of the city's many hundreds of clubs, bars, and cafés, … the regular stream of headliners who play stadium and arena concerts … the numerous film festivals, street fairs, and cultural festivals including my favorite, the New Year's Day Mummers Parade, which I find impossible to describe (so you'll just have to google it).
A key aspect of Philly culture not to be overlooked is its unique and highly satisfying local cuisine. Hoagies … iconic Philly cheesesteaks … stromboli … scrapple (don't ask) … tomato pie … pork roll … soft pretzels … cheesecake … funnel cakes … Tastykakes … water ice … cream cheese … Hires root beer … and the original soda pop. My weakness is cheesesteak, and I can personally recommend both Pat's and Geno's as the Rembrandt and DaVinci of that particular art form.
For sports fans the options can appear unlimited. Philly is passionate about its big four professional teams — the Eagles (football), 76ers (basketball), Flyers (ice hockey), and Phillies (baseball). You can also find a blizzard of high-quality collegiate matches in dozens of sports … a professional ultimate frisbee franchise (the Spinners) … professional soccer franchise (the Union) … horseracing … and elite and amateur rugby league, rugby union, and cricket.
Within easy drive of the city are historical parks such as Valley Forge and Gettysburg … the beauty of Amish farm country … artsy gallery towns such as New Hope … antiquing in villages across Lancaster and Bucks Counties … great hiking, biking, boating, and kayaking … and the hunting and fishing for which Pennsylvania is well known.
A final point worth noting about the Philadelphia area is that Swarthmore is not the only superb educational option available. The metro area is an academic powerhouse with a large number of liberal arts colleges, universities, law schools, medical schools, business schools, and other research institutions.
For example, Swarthmore is joined in what's known as the Tri-College Consortium by nearby Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College. The three schools are similar in size, reputation, and environment, and the Consortium agreement allows students at each school to enroll in classes at the others. If you like what you've read here about Swarthmore, you should probably take a look at Bryn Mawr and Haverford as well.
Also nearby you'll find the Ivy League's University of Pennsylvania (with its world-renown Wharton School of Business, Annenberg School for Communication, law school, and medical school), as well as La Salle, Temple, Drexel, and Villanova universities, among others. The intense concentration of intellectual and research activity feeds the dynamism of the metro area and creates not only social, educational, and cultural but also employment opportunities, whichever school you attend.
For more information about Philadelphia and how to plan a trip, take a look at the Visit Philly website. For more information about Swarthmore College and how to apply, visit the school's website or contact the Embassy's Educational Adviser, Drew Dumas, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
And of course, stay tuned. In a couple weeks I'll be heading west again to highlight the University of Hawaii. Also, keep sending me any suggestions that you might have for future features. I focused on Swarthmore this week because of a request from a reader interested in liberal arts colleges.


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Microsoft to spoof Hodgman in new "I'm a PC" television adsMicrosoft on Thursday will segue into the next phase of a $300 million advertising campaign with an "audacious embrace" of the derisive "Im a PC" label slapped upon its image by rival Apple, according to the New York Times.
The newspaper, which appears to have been briefed on the matter, says the new string of ads will mark a stark departure from the offbeat teaser skits (1, 2) featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld that dominated the initial phase of the campaign, and which were met with mixed reviews.
"One new Microsoft commercial even begins with a company engineer who resembles John Hodgman, the comedian portraying the loser PC character in the Apple campaign," according to the Times. "'Hello, Im a PC,' the engineer says, echoing Mr. Hodgmans recurring line, 'and Ive been made into a stereotype.'"
The risky decision to use Apple's assault as a foundation for a counter-strike is reportedly a trademark of the firm behind the Microsoft campaign, Crispin Porter & Bogusky, and reminiscent of tactics eventually used in other high profile corporate bouts such as Hertz vs. Avis and Pepsi vs. Coca-Cola.
Microsofts hopes to regain control of its image, as well as that of the "PC," in the new ads, which will feature cameo appearances by Gates and other celebrities such as Eva Longoria, but not Seinfeld. The stars of the ads will be "everyday PC users" who pride themselves on the use of Microsoft PCs, the Times says, in addition to some 60 Microsoft employees who'll be identified "by e-mail addresses." That includes Bill Gates.
Television commercials will begin airing Thursday evening on shows like Greys Anatomy, and will be complemented by newspaper ads and new media on Microsoft's Windows.com website.
Also beginning Thursday night, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will invite visitors to the website to upload videos and photos that will demonstrate "how they, too, are PCs." Microsoft will reportedly select some of the photos to appear on electronic billboards in Times Square beginning the following day, while others will be used in advertisement banners.
A future series of magazine and outdoor ads are also said to emphasizes Windows' ability to scale from mobile devices and TV sets to notebooks and traditional PCs.
Meanwhile, Microsoft remains coy on whether it plans to reintroduce Seinfeld in a future phase of the campaign.
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The commission is elected by the citizens during the General Election in November and terms begin in January. The Mayor serves a term of four years, and Commissioners terms of two years.
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Mayor Don Kirby
Elected Mayor: 2010, 2006, 2002; Elected
Commissioner: 2000
Don has lived in Union since 1994. He
was first elected to city government as a Commissioner in
2000. He and his wife of 20 years, Martha, have 3 children.
Don is the Manager of Learning for itelligence, Inc., a Systems Consulting
firm in Sycamore Township, OH. He is a graduate of the University
of Kentucky.
Commissioner Bryan Miller
Elected: 2012, 2010
Bryan has lived in the Union area for 25 years. He graduated from
the University of Akron in 1972. Retired from the plastics manufacturing
industry after 30 years of service. Started a small business in 2000
and then sold it in 2004. Currently, resides in Lassing Green. His
hobbies are cars and golf.
Commissioner Donna Fryman
Elected: 2012
Donna owns 3 daycare/prechool centers in Boone Co. She recently worked full time for the KY Department of Transportation as the HR Administrator for the Dept. of Highways, NKY District 6.
Donna is married to Travis Fryman who recently retired with 27 years of service as the Highway Superintendent in Harrison Co. We both love serving our community in any way we can.
Commissioner Ken Heil
Ken is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and graduated from the University of State of New York (Albany) with a B.S. in Sociology.
Ken is married with 3 sons and a granddaughter. He is a member of Florence United Methodist Church.
Commissioner Deanna Kline
I moved to the City of Union in the summer of 2008 with my
family. My husband, Ken, and I have three fabulous children, Alexandria,
Jackson, and Everett.
I earned my Bachelor's of Urban Planning from the University
of Cincinnati's School of Planning in 1999. After graduation, I worked for a
private planning and engineering firm and focused on Comprehensive Planning and
Zoning Code Regulations development.
Then I moved into the public sector working for the City of
Newton Falls, OH and then Village of Trumansburg, NY as their Code Enforcement
Officer. In both municipalities, I was charged with enforcing their City's
zoning and property maintenance cods and subdivision regulations.
Since living in the City of Union, I have served the City on
the Economic Development Committee working toward making the Union Town Center
a reality.
City Clerk/Treasurer Kathy L. Porter
Hired: July 3, 1995
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financial and administrative work in the administration of the City
government. Works under the general supervision of the Mayor and
Commission. Meet required deadlines, and work independently with
integrity. Serves as custodian of official City records and public
documents. Performs or assists subordinates in performing duties;
adjusts errors and complaints. Collects and deposits payments;
reconciles bank statements. Prepares and advertises meeting agendas, bid
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and special meetings. Administers oath of office to public officials.
Serves as a notary public.
September 1997 Certified Kentucky Municipal Clerk (CKMC) KY Municipal Clerks Association and the James W. Martin School of Public Administration, University of Kentucky
August 2005 - Received the "2005 OUTSTANDING MUNICIPAL CLERK AWARD" presented by: The Northern Kentucky Area Development District - In
recognition of significant contributions enhancing the quality of life
in the Northern Kentucky Community. The Northern Kentucky Municipal
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Administrative Assistant: Misty Ezell
Contracted: July 30, 2009
City Events Coordinator: Karen Franxman
Contracted: 2009
Karen has always been "a planner." In high school, she planned dances and other school events with a spring in her step and a smile on her face. She loved it. And classmates appreciated the good times they had, thanks to her attention to detail.But Karen didn't begin her career as an event coordinator. She first became a cosmetologist, eventually owning her own busy salon. After cutting and styling the hair of hundreds of brides-to-be, Karen made a life-changing decision. Why not combine her organizational skills with the knowledge she'd gleaned from bridal clients, and form her own wedding planning service?
The success of that business led in turn to event planning, and the city is pleased to welcome her as a valued member of the Union Team.
City Attorney: Voss Law
Contracted: 1995
Greg D. Voss, Attorney At Law
City Engineer: Barry Burke
Contracted: 2002
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In Memory of: City Administrative Officer: Warren S. Moore (click to navigate to special page in honor of Warren)
Deceased: 2009
Employed: 2006 - 2009
Elected Commissioner: 1982;
Appointed Mayor: 1983; Elected Mayor: 1984, 1989, 1993, 1998;
Appointed Commissioner: 2003; Elected Commissioner: 2004
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Born: September 1, 1850, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Died: January 8, 1919, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Elected to the Hall of Fame by Veterans Committee: 1945
The owner of the National League's very first hit, Jim O'Rourke played baseball until he was past the age of 50, after which he continued in the game as a manager, umpire and Minor League president. Nicknamed Orator Jim because of his tendency toward lengthy rhetoric, O'Rourke began his pro career in 1872 and played on six pennant-winning clubs in seven years, from 1873-79. O'Rourke captured the National League batting title in 1884 by hitting .350, and in 1888 and '89 helped New York to its first two league championships.
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Business Ideas in the News / September 21, 2009
Meet the next generation of entrepreneurs! This year's contest winners proved that they have what it takes to run a successful business, from hours spent peddling lemonade on the beaches of New Hampshire to the elaborate details that went into constructing their lemonade stands.
Weekly winner:
Kelsey McAdams, Age 10, Fayette, Alabama
Lemonade Stand: Lemon Squisher's Lemonade
Money Earned: $600
Fun Fact: Kelsey designed T-shirts for her and her cousins to wear while selling lemonade.
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