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They read distinctly from the book, in the Law of God; and they gave the sense, and helped them to understand the reading (Neh. 8:8). Encourage all to use simple, pure, elevated language. Speech, pronunciation, and voicecultivate these talents, not under any great elocutionist of the world, but under the power of the Holy Spirit of God.1
Probably no public speaker had a more unlikely beginning than Ellen Harmon, but late in 1844 she heard the invitation: Make known to others what I have revealed to you. Nothing caused her more despair. She prayed to be released from this burden; she even coveted death.2
Was she merely being modest? Was her reluctance prompted by Christian humility? In a way, Yes, to both questions, but she was also a realist, along with anyone else who knew this eighty-pound, frail, seventeen-year-old. Contemporaries did not expect her to live; her respiratory problems appeared terminal. In her own words, [I] was unused to society, and naturally so timid and retiring that it was painful for me to meet strangers.3
What happened when Ellen Harmon accepted her first invitation to relate her vision in Poland, Maine? Driven by a sense of duty, able to speak only in a whisper, she began to make known to others what God had revealed to her. After five minutes her voice became clear and strong, and she spoke for nearly two hours with perfect ease.4 When she finished, her vocal problems returneduntil the next time she stood in public to share her message. With each repeated restoration of vocal strength and ease, she became more certain that she was following in the path of duty.
From that unlikely beginning, Ellen Whites seventy years of public service reveals an astonishing and unforeseen record. She became a sought-after speaker by Adventists and non-Adventists alike. For many decades she was one of the major speakers at General Conference sessions and possibly the most wanted speaker at camp meetings from coast to coast. Non-Adventists by the thousands (audiences ranging from 20 to 20,000) listened to her evangelistic sermons with great appreciation, long before there were public address systems.5
How did she do it? No doubt God gave her special help when she stepped out in faith in 1845. Other experiences were similar to the following at the Healdsburg, California, camp meeting, in October, 1882. During the summer she exhausted herself in heavy traveling, much preaching, and writing vigorously.6 Though confined to her bed, she asked that she be taken to the large tent to rest on a sofa. After J. H. Waggoner finished his sermon, she asked her son to help her to the pulpit.
Recalling later, she wrote: For five minutes I stood there trying to speak, and thinking that it was the last speech I should ever makemy farewell address. . . . All at once I felt a power come upon me, like a shock of electricity. It passed through my body and up to my head. The people said that they plainly saw the blood mounting to my lips, my ears, my cheeks, my forehead.
A businessman from town, standing to his feet, exclaimed: We are seeing a miracle performed before our eyes; Mrs. White is healed!
Elder Waggoner, the previous speaker that day, wrote in his Signs report: Her voice and appearance changed, and she spoke for some time with clearness and energy. She then invited those who wished to make a start in the service of God, and those who were far backslidden, to come forward, and a goodly number answered to the call.7
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Ellen Whites vocal characteristics were considered unusually pleasing and powerful. A minister, reporting on his experience at the 1874 Biblical Institute in Battle Creek, wrote about James and Ellen White: I venture the assertion that no fine-minded person can listen to either of them and not feel assured that God is with them. Sister Whites style and language is altogether solemn and impressive, and sways a congregation beyond description, and in a direction always heavenward.8
L. H. Christian heard Ellen White for the first time in Minneapolis in 1888. Of this experience he wrote: She began to talk in her low, pleasing, melodious voice . . . so beautifully natural. One would think she was talking to people within four or five feet of where she was standing. I wondered whether the other folks could hear. Later, at the 1905 conference in Takoma Park, Washington, D.C., after I had entered the ministry, I had a chance to test her voice. She was standing on the large platform in front addressing an audience of five thousand people, some of them in the very back of a large tent. I sat in front, and I said to myself, They never can hear in the rear so as to know what she is saying. Slipping out, I walked outside the tent to the rear, and when I came in and stood behind the great crowd I could hear every word and almost every syllable of every word just as plainly as I could up in the front.
With her magnificent gift of speaking and her ability to control an audience and to move them either to solid thinking or to the deepest emotion, she seemed quietly sure of herself as a messenger of God; yet she did nothing to call attention to herself or exalt her authority. She merely stood there as a mouthpiece for the Lord, thinking only of His Word and seeking only to lift up Jesus, so that we might see Him alone.9
For students of speech and persuasion, Ellen Whites speaking style is a treasure house for sustained examples of clarity, forcefulness, and beauty. She achieved clearness by choosing uncomplicated words and sentences that were marked with directness and not likely to be misunderstood. She gained force by means of reiteration, repetitive linking, climax, anaphora, challenge, and command. She attained the higher peaks of beauty in her descriptive imagery through tropes and figures that, though familiar and common, were in balance with her themes. There was often a pleasing cadence in her prose rhythm that echoed a familiarity with the language of Scripture.10
S. P. S. Edwards, a physician, remembered how Ellen White had both a conversational voice and a public speaking voice. In conversation, she was a mezzo soprano, a sweet tone, not monotonous, but especially noticeable because of the sweet smile and the personal touch she put into what she said.
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Ellen Whites speaking voice, her stomach voice, as Edwards described it, was a deep contralto with a wonderful carrying power. . . . We could always hear her. . . . I am not sure whether it was her voice that carried or the power of the words she spoke. . . . Everyone could hear always . . . whether it was 10,000 outdoors or a lonely heart in the privacy of her own room.11
In 1957-1959, Horace Shaw, long-time professor of speech at Emmanuel Missionary College (Andrews University), developed a list of 366 people who had heard Ellen White speak. He asked them to recall her platform manner, whether the event was public or private, what impressed them most, and what they remembered about her message. He also asked them to describe the influence of her speaking on the audience.12
Since these hearers were interviewed late in life, obviously they observed Mrs. White in her later years. Typical phrases included, at 82, bent with age, little and frail, structurally short. . . . rather stockily built but not over obese.
Of her physical features, her face seemed to be remembered the longestfeatures round and full, sweetest smile broke out occasionally, noticed her nose, but soon forgot itthinking she was really pretty, dignified, and face seemed to light up.
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Her eyesbeautiful brown eyes and far-away look, truthful eye, earnest look that seemed to penetrate, her eyes were large and became larger if she was in earnest or excited, and grew smaller when she smiled.
There was general agreement regarding Ellen Whites hair: wore a net over neat hair, plain hair style, hair dark and always parted and combed back simply to a braided knot in the back of her neck.
Twenty-nine referred to her dress material, describing it as black velvet or silk, two-piece garment, dress did not seem to adorn her, she seemed to adorn the dress. As an accent to the black, Mrs. White often wore white cuffs and collar. Other accessories mentioned were a gold watch chain with a silver watch in her pocket, and a simple brooch.
The hundreds of respondents alike recalled that Mrs. White used few gestures, no swinging of her arms and handsnatural poise and gentle and easy manner.
She most often preached without notes, though on some occasions she read from a manuscript. With her Bible open, she spoke with force and logic that enthralled her audiences.13 A Detroit Post reporter described observing one of Mrs. Whites sermons as a remarkable and thrilling experience: Although her eloquence and persuasive powers were well-known by the audience, still they were unprepared for the powerful and unanswerable appeal which she made. She seemed indeed almost inspired as she implored sinners to flee from their sins. The effect of her magnetic speech and manner was most remarkable.14
Obviously, Mrs. White heard and saw these comments on her remarkable speaking ability. She gave God the glory but she did not always call the phenomenon a miracle. She learned how to speak by studying the fundamentals of voice projection. Further, she wrote much general counsel on effective vocal communication, and many times, specifically, to ministers who were ruining not only their voices but their health by improper speech habits.
She advocated support by the diaphragm, plus deep breathing: Speaking from the throat, letting the words come out from the upper extremity of the vocal organs, all the time fretting and irritating them, is not the best way to preserve health or to increase the efficiency of those organs . . . . If you let your words come from deep down, exercising the abdominal muscles, you can speak to thousands with just as much ease as you can speak to ten.15
Ellen Whites instruction on public speaking involved more than the ability to speak to thousands. Above all else, it was a spiritual matter, especially for the gospel minister: Those who consider it a little thing to speak with an imperfect utterance dishonor God.16 Let the students in training for the Masters service make determined efforts to learn to speak correctly and forcibly, in order that when conversing with others in regard to the truth, or when engaged in public ministry, they may properly present the truths of heavenly origin.17
For Ellen White, wrong methods of speaking directly affect the speakers health. She wrote: Their excessive use [vocal organs] . . . will, if often repeated, not only injure the organs of speech, but will bring an undue strain upon the whole nervous system. . . . The training of the voice has an important place in physical culture, since it tends to expand and strengthen the lungs, and thus to ward off disease.18
Through the years, serious students of all ages have been grateful for Ellen Whites counsel on public speaking. Her own experience, beginning with a hoarse whisper and developing into an often-sought-after speaker, provided profound authenticity to her principles. These principles expressed in topics such as Christian Attitudes in Speaking, Voice Culture, Effective Methods of Public Speaking, Content of Our Discourses, and Use of the Voice in Singing, have been brought together in the volume entitled, The Voice in Speech and Song.19
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What were Mrs. Whites general topics? Her public messages, according to listeners, focused on joy, on lifting the downcast, and presenting the charm of a loving Lord. A typical sermon closing would be: This life is a conflict, and we have a foe who never sleeps, who is watching constantly to destroy our minds and lure us away from our precious Saviour, who has given His life for us. Shall we lift the cross given to us? or shall we go on in selfish gratification, and lose the eternity of bliss? . . .20
Ellen White preached most often from Isaiah in the Old Testament, and the Gospel of John in the New. The New Testament chapters that she used most often were John 15 (I am the Vine . . .), 2 Peter 1 (ladder of Christian growth), and 1 John 3 (What manner of love. . .).21
Ministers noted that her messages on the simplest of Bible topics, such as conversion, the work of the Holy Spirit, and the love of God, became unusually heart-searching moments that lifted their spirits with courage and deeper insights. At the last General Conference session she attended (1909), now 81, she asked to speak to the ministers. The ministers could think of many subjects on which they wanted her opinion.
L. H. Christian reported that she chose John 3:1-5 as her text, focusing on Ye must be born again. The ministers were disappointed, feeling that the topic was not appropriate; they wanted something more solid.
However, after two minutes Christian was saying to himself, That is something new. That is deeper and higher and grander than anything I have ever read or heard on the topic of the new birth, and the new birth as a daily experience for the preacher.
Then he recorded his further thoughts: I had never before, nor have I since, heard such a heart-searching and yet kind and beautiful presentation of the work of the Holy Spirit in transforming human lives into the glorious likeness of Christ as she presented to us. . . . When her talk was finished (it lasted less than thirty minutes), we preachers said, That is the best for our own souls we have ever heard. It was not critical; it was not discouraging; it did not condemn us; but it did give us a glimpse of the heights of spiritual excellence to which we might attain and to which we ought to attain if we were really servants of Christ to lead people on to a living faith in the Lord Jesus.22
Interesting phenomena often occurred when Ellen White was in the pulpit. Occasionally she would stop her prepared message and recognize people in the audience that she had not seen before except in vision. At Bushnell, Michigan, on July 20, 1867, Ellen and James White found a spiritually bleak group outside under the trees. James reported that shortly after his wife began to speak, she laid aside her Bible and began to address those who recently had been baptized. Because she had not seen them before, except in vision, she designated each brother and sister by his or her position, as the one by that tree, or the one sitting by that brother or sister of the Greenville or Orleans church, with whom she was personally acquainted, and whom she called by name.
For the next hour, she reviewed the cases, one by one, stating that the Lord had shown her their condition two years before, that while she was reading her text from the Bible their individual needs were illuminated like sudden lightning in a dark night distinctly revealing every object around.
What was the response? Each person, when addressed, arose and testified that their cases had been described better than they could have done it themselves. Wrongs were righted and a reformation unfolded that led to a strong church.23
Sometimes Ellen White was taken off in vision while preaching. At Lovetts Grove, Ohio, mid-March, 1858, after her husband preached a funeral sermon, she was bearing her testimony on the cheery hope of the Second Advent. Then, she wrote later, I was wrapt in a vision of Gods glory. For the next two hours she remained in vision as those in that crowded schoolhouse watched with avid interest. That Lovetts Grove vision has come to be known as the great controversy vision.24
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Non-Adventist audiences listened to her messages, often lasting more than an hour, in rapt and grateful appreciation. A newspaper reporter covered a lecture that she gave in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1887:
There was a good attendance including a large number of our most prominent people, at the lecture of Mrs. Ellen G. White, at the Tabernacle, last evening. This lady gave her audience a most eloquent discourse, which was listened to with marked interest and attention. Her talk was interspersed with instructive facts which she had gathered in her recent visit to foreign lands, and demonstrated that this gifted lady has, in addition to her many other rare qualifications, a great faculty for attentive careful observation and a remarkable memory of details; this together with her fine delivery and her faculty of clothing her ideas in choice, beautiful and appropriate language, made her lecture one of the best that has ever been delivered by any lady in our city. That she may soon favor our community with another address, is the earnest wish of all who attended last evening, and should she do so, there will be a large attendance.25
At times some have asserted that the beauty, force, and power of Ellen Whites writings are due to her editorial assistants. But who were the editorial assistants who interposed between her and her audiences? No literary assistant stood by her side, polishing up her grammar, correcting her details, etc., as she used choice, beautiful and appropriate language.
This gifted lady with a remarkable memory of details demonstrated, as is true for many other public persons, that speaking skills are often different from ones writing techniques. Writing habits often reveal that the authors mind is racing faster than the pen can write; regardless, the author knows that the end product is what really matters, not the hasty techniques the author uses to get thought on paper.
Clifton L. Taylor, a long-time college Bible teacher, reflected on an occasion when he heard Ellen White for the first time: All my life I had heard of this woman, and had wished to hear and see for myself. . . . I had heard her critics declare that her writings were largely the work of her secretaries. Now I observed that in her extemporaneous speech her statements were filled with expressions exactly like those I had read so many times in her writings. . . . As she related her various experiences . . . she impressed me as one who was glad to share with others the richness and blessing she had received.26
Comments by the journalistic world were not limited to Ellen Whites gifted platform skills. They also included her straightforward message: I would that all other religious beliefs in Battle Creek were as true to morality as Mrs. White and her adherents. Then we would have no infamous dens of vice, no grog shops, no tobacco stores, no gambling hells, no air polluted with the fumes of rum and that fell destroyer of man, tobacco.27
Mrs. White enjoyed responding to invitations from non-Adventist churches. In 1880, after she had spoken at the Salem, Oregon, camp meeting (which was held in the town square), some Methodists were impressed. Church leaders requested that she speak to them on the following Sunday. In a letter to James, she described the event: Sunday evening the Methodist church, a grand building, was well filled. I spoke to about seven hundred people who listened with deep interest. The Methodist minister thanked me for the discourse. The Methodist ministers wife and all seemed much pleased.28
In that remarkable wagon-train trail ride in 1879, James and Ellen White preached most every evening to those on the ride and to those along the way. Writing of one experience, she said: Last night I spoke to one hundred people assembled in a respectable meetinghouse. We find here an excellent class of people. . . . I had great freedom in presenting before them the love of God evidenced to man in the gift of His Son. All listened with the deepest interest. The Baptist minister arose and said we had heard the gospel that night and he hoped all would heed the words spoken.29
Adventist leaders realized the unique contribution of the Whites to their various meetings. Uriah Smith reported on the Sparta, Wisconsin, camp meeting in 1876: Here, as in Iowa, the presence of Brother and Sister White constituted, in a large measure, the life of the meeting, their counsel and labors giving tone to the exercises and progress of the work. Sister White, especially, was at times called out in powerful appeals, and most forcible descriptions of scenes in the life of Christ from which lessons can be drawn applicable to everyday Christian experience. These were of absorbing interest to all the congregation. These servants of the church, though now of so long and large experience, and notwithstanding all their wearing labors, are still growing in mental and spiritual strength.30
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When James died in 1881, his contributions were recorded in several newspapers. Included in these life sketches and eulogies were comments on Mrs. White and her public work: He has been admirably aided in his ministerial and educational labors by his wife, Ellen G. White, one of the ablest platform speakers and writers in the west.31
In 1846 he married Ellen G. Harmon, a woman of extraordinary endowments, who has been a co-laborer in all his work and contributed largely to his success by her gifts as a writer and especially her power as a public speaker.32
In 1878, at the age of 50, Ellen White was included in the reference book, American Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men of the State of Michigan, Third Congressional District, page 108: Mrs. White is a woman of singularly well-balanced mental organization. Benevolence, spirituality, conscientiousness, and ideality are the predominating traits. Her personal qualities are such as to win for her the warmest fellowship of all with whom she comes in contact, and to inspire them with the utmost confidence in her sincerity. . . . Notwithstanding her many years of public labor, she has retained all the simplicity and honesty which characterized her early life.
As a speaker, Mrs. White is one of the most successful of the few ladies who have become noteworthy as lecturers, in this country, during the last twenty years. Constant use has so strengthened her vocal organs as to give her voice rare depth and power. Her clearness and strength of articulation are so great that, when speaking in the open air, she has frequently been distinctly heard at the distance of a mile. Her language, though simple, is always forcible and elegant. When inspired with her subject, she is often marvelously eloquent, holding the largest audiences spellbound for hours without a sign of impatience or weariness.
The subject matter of her discourses is always of a practical character, bearing chiefly on fireside duties, the religious education of children, temperance, and kindred topics. On revival occasions, she is always the most effective speaker. She has frequently spoken to immense audiences, in the large cities, on her favorite themes, and has always been received with great favor.33
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1.The Voice in Speech and Song, p. 15.
2.Testimonies, vol. 1, p. 63; Life Sketches, p. 70.
3.Life Sketches, pp. 69, 70.
4.Ibid., p. 72.
5.The attendance of about 20,000 at the Groveland camp meeting, Groveland, Massachusetts, August 25-30, 1876, reached an all-time high in Adventist camp meetings. Many more were denied access to the meetings because all transportation services, including trains, river steamers, barges, etc., were taxed beyond their capacity to accommodate all who wished to attend, according to a local news reporter.Review and Herald, Sept. 7, 1876, p. 84. As soon as she finished, Ellen White was invited by the Haverhill Temperance Reform Club to speak the next evening. She reported: The Queen of England could not have been more honored. . . . One thousand people were before me of the finest and most select of the city. I was stopped several times with clapping of hands and stomping of feet. . . . Never did I witness such enthusiasm as these noble men leading out in temperance reform manifested over my talk upon temperance. It was new to them. I spoke of Christs fast in the wilderness and its object. I spoke against tobacco. I was besieged after the meeting and commended, and I was urged, if I came to Haverhill, to speak to them again.Letter 42, 1876, cited in Bio., vol. 3, p. 46; see Uriah Smith, Grand Rally in New England, Review and Herald, Sept. 7, 1876, p. 84.
6.In July she had written five hundred manuscript pages. See Bio., vol. 3, p. 202.
7.Bio., vol. 3, p. 204; see also p. 158. Reflecting on this phenomenon that happened often, Mervyn Maxwell suggests that God could have healed her outright, but evidently He preferred to provide this proof of His nearness when she stood up to speak.Maxwell, Tell It to the World, p. 197.
8.Review and Herald, Jan. 8, 1875, p. 14. On another occasion, J. N. Loughborough observed: Sister White gave two searching and powerful, practical discourses.Signs of the Times, Jan. 11, 1877, p. 24. D. M. Canright, then president of the Ohio Conference, wrote: Sister White spoke for a little while on the great importance of the Sabbath school work, in her usually forcible and eloquent manner.Review and Herald, Sept. 4, 1879, p. 85.
9.Christian, Fruitage of Spiritual Gifts, pp. 45, 46.
10. Horace Shaw, A Rhetorical Analysis of the Speaking of Mrs. Ellen G. White, A Pioneer Leader and Spokeswoman of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (Michigan State University, 1959, a doctoral dissertation), p. 282.
11. Ibid., p. 514.
12. Ibid., pp. 502-510, 606-644.
13. When I am speaking to the people, I say much that I have not premeditated. The Spirit of the Lord frequently comes upon me. I seem to be carried out of, and away from myself; the life and character of different persons are clearly presented before my mind. I see their errors and dangers, and feel compelled to speak of what is thus brought before me.Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 678.
14. Cited in Review and Herald, Aug. 18, 1874, p. 68.
15. Testimonies, vol. 2, p. 616. The right use of the abdominal muscles in reading and speaking will prove a remedy for many voice and chest difficulties, and the means of prolonging life.Counsels to Parents and Teachers, p. 297.
16. Evangelism, p. 665.
17. Ibid., p. 666.
18. Ibid., pp. 667, 669.
19. Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1988.
20. Life Sketches, pp. 291, 292.
21. Shaw, A Rhetorical Analysis of the Speaking of Mrs. Ellen G. White, p. 355.
22. Christian, Fruitage of Spiritual Gifts, p. 47.
23. Signs of the Times, Aug. 29, 1878, p. 260.
24. See Chapter 22; Bio., vol. 1, pp. 368-375.
25. Mrs. Ellen G. Whites Able Address. A Characteristic and Eloquent Discourse by This Remarkable Lady, Battle Creek Daily Journal, Oct. 5, 1887. The editor and publisher of the Newton (Iowa) Free Press gave extended space to the Adventist camp meeting in early June, 1875. Among his remarks, he said: Mrs. White is a preacher of great ability and force, much called for as a speaker at the camp meetings of the denomination all over the Union, and a large share of her time is given to this work.
26. Review and Herald, Sept. 25, 1958, p. 3.
27. Lansing [Michigan] Republican, Jan. 7, 1880, cited in Bio., vol. 3, p. 131.
28. Letter 33a, 1880, cited in Bio., vol. 3, p. 142; later in the letter she mentioned: One of the Methodist ministers said to Brother Levitt that he regretted Mrs. White was not a staunch Methodist, for they would make her a bishop at once; she could do justice to the office. See also Ibid., p. 88.
29. Letter 36, 1879, cited in Ibid., p. 111. In October, 1886, Ellen White presented twelve consecutive evangelistic messages, ten of which are available today. Her sermon texts and topics reveal the Christ-centered emphasis of her sermons. See also Delafield, Ellen G. White in Europe, pp. 239, 240.
30. Review and Herald, June 29, 1876, p. 4.
31. Lansing [Michigan] Republican, Aug. 9, 1881, cited in Nichol, Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 475.
32. The Echo [Detroit], Aug. 10, 1881, cited in Nichol, Ibid., p. 475.
33. Cited in Shaw, A Rhetorical Analysis of the Speaking of Mrs. Ellen G. White, pp. 28, 29, and in Arthur White, Messenger to the Remnant, pp. 114-115.
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1. What were the chief characteristics of Ellen Whites speaking style?
2. How does correct speaking aid physical health?
3. What Bible passages did Ellen White quote most often?
4. What was Ellen Whites favorite theme, the one that she emphasized throughout her ministry? Check the CD-ROM containing Ellen Whites published writings for clues.
5. From the standpoint of persuasion, how did Ellen White use language to gain fair, favorable attention? Think of examples that reflect simplicity, force of well-chosen words, illustrations, etc.


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He added, "It's indicative of what's happening in Portland, where there's so much demand and so much growth."
Small, reasonably priced condos are being viewed by buyers who frequent Portland as a good alternative to hotels, he said.
"To paraphrase something shared with me by people from away, 'We've come to love Portland; we come twice a month,'" he said. "These small units that are reasonably priced are becoming an alternative to hotels and Airbnb."
At the same time, he said, landlords of rental units are seeing an opportunity in visitor trends, and are starting to provide flexible rental terms. Traditionally, rental terms are for six months or a year. Landlords are looking at monthly or seasonal rentals to bring in short-term visitors, he said.
Another trend, he said, is demand for lower-priced units by boomer buyers who want to own more than one getaway.
"People are saying, 'I don't want a $1 million unit. I'm selling my house in the suburbs and I want to have two or three experiences around the country,'" he said. "So people are taking that $700,000 or $800,000 and buying a place in Portland and maybe in Arizona or California or Florida or the Carolinas. Some people have small crash pads in New York City or Boston or Costa Rica. We're seeing a lot of people saying, 'I always wanted a small lake property and an urban experience and someplace warm in the south.'"
Landry has seen steady growth in residential real estate activity for three years now. Trends show that "the more urban you are and the more coastal you are, the better," he said. "The highest growth, and the areas that have surpassed the previous highs of 2005-06, are greater Portland, the greater Kennebunk-Kennebunkport-York areas and coastal pockets as you go up the coast."
An interesting factor is that buyers looking for an "urban" experience don't necessarily need to be in downtown Portland.
"It can be downtown Gorham or downtown Biddeford or Brunswick," Landry said. "They aren't big cities. The idea of walkability and having the things they need for daily life within, say, a mile is what people want."
Developers and buyers are getting priced out of certain areas of Portland, he said. Properties in cities like Saco and Biddeford, he said, are lower-priced, and just as easily accessible.
"A hundred years ago, these urban centers were thriving, bustling little community centers within a bigger city, and I think we're getting back to that," he said.
Boomers also tend to be more interested in space that has an interesting aesthetic, whether in a renovated historic building or new construction.
"The idea that keeps coming up is that we don't want it to feel like 'anywhere America' — that it's stamped out by a machine or it's a condo unit that we've seen a thousand times over because it's a formula used in suburban Boston or suburban Atlanta, and you feel like you're living in glorified hotel room," Landry said.
Development of small commercial spaces in downtowns is growing in sync with demand for residential space, he said.
"We have people saying, 'I'm going to develop a commercial space that allows for a coffee shop and for a restaurant and a hair salon.' We see this along the coast, where people who come here for the summer are demanding services. In Damariscotta, for example, there's a new place that's a co-working space and a coffee shop. The idea of having a co-working space in a summer town like Damariscotta would have been inconceivable five years ago. But now we have businesses responding to a need from people who are coming up and saying, 'We can stay here for the entire summer because I can work from anywhere with high-speed internet.' People are demanding a different lifestyle. And that flows through real estate."
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Miller County Middle/High School Library
Our Library
The library is home to more than 10,500 books, videos, and other materials for the use of all students for reading, studying, and research. While in the Media Center, the student is requested to be considerate of fellow students by being quiet. The Media Center is open for general circulation and returns from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each school day. Students who enter the Media Center during the school day should have a pass from their scheduled teacher and must sign in and out when visiting.
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A Magistrate Court sitting in Kaduna, last Wednesday sentenced one Kemi Stephen to one year imprisonment without option of fine, for the horrific attack on her husband's 10-year-old niece, Hilda Joseph.
The victim, who lives with her uncle in Gonigora area of Kaduna and is out of school was battered, denied food by Mrs Stephen (her uncles wife). She also burnt her buttocks with fire and abandoned her without treatment.
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Komolafe Dare Abiodun disclose the development in an update posted on Wednesday, August 2.
"Finally, Justice has smiled at Hilda Joseph over her cruel and brutal Anty Kemi Stephen. She was sentenced today to one year imprisonment without option of fine by the Judge at Magistrate Court 7, Barnawa, Kaduna. Her jail term was reduced from 5yrs to 1yr because she is heavily pregnant. At least this will serve as a deterrent to others who engage in wicked act against children" he wrote.


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With winter coming to a quick close and spring break in the near future many students opt for denim jackets, pant, skirts and even short-eralls! This edition of DePaul Street Style highlights a few ways to rock denim with students favoring colors like black, white, and burgundy. Remember: Denim is spring's...


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The concept of maturity model was firstly introduced by Watts Humphrey of Carnegie Mellon University in 1987 with the goal to improve the performance of software development process. Since then, the maturity model has been adopted by many disciplines. This article will present to you 5 types of maturity model as follows,
1. Process Maturity Model
There are so many supply chain maturity models produced by consulting or independent research firms. Anyway, the most widely cited maturity models is the work named "The development of a supply chain management process maturity model using the concepts of business process orientation" from McCormack and Lockamy III in 2004.
1. Process Maturity Model
There are so many supply chain maturity models produced by consulting or independent research firms. Anyway, the most widely cited maturity models is the work named "The development of a supply chain management process maturity model using the concepts of business process orientation" from McCormack and Lockamy III in 2004.
In order to use the maturity model, you have to check which statement illustrates your current situation. After that, set your own target to a higher level. Then you can determine the "gap" between your existing level and desired level and then change business practices to close the gap.
As you may notice, the supply chain maturity model is like "KPI" but it's expressed qualitatively and you have to use it strategically.
2. Procurement Maturity Model
There are lots and lots of procurement professionals who can't really break away from "buy the cheapest things" mindset. There are so many things that we can do to strategically help the company to create value. Handfield and Straight provided a very useful maturity model for procurement function as below,
This maturity model is so useful in the way that each description is actually a best practice that you can implement.
3. NPD Maturity Model
The modern supply chain strategy goes far beyond "cost reduction" or "service improvement". Many supply chain professionals take part in a revenue-generating project such as New Product Development "NPD".
Even though the NPD initiative is often viewed as a marketing thing, in the reality, every company relies on the innovation from its suppliers and supply chain professionals are an important part of it. So we can actually lead an NPD process and this maturity model will be useful to create a good NPD strategy. Please note that the market studies can also mean "supply market" so supply-side information is also useful.
4. Lean Maturity Model
Every supply chain needs a certain degree of lean capabilities. But, if you're not in the automotive industry where lean practices are widely adopted, how you can develop a lean roadmap within your organization?
The Lean Maturity Model is the work of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at MIT. It provides you with a broad overview of lean implementation. What you need to do is to determine which lean practices can be applied in your industry and how you can achieve a higher level of adoption.
5. S&OP Maturity Model
The last maturity model today is the work of Larry Lapide of MIT. S&OP has been widely implemented since its inception in the 1980s, but many companies still choose to incorporate some of S&OP practices into a generic production meeting.
Concluding Remarks
There is no silver bullet solution for supply chain problems. Each technique produces different results. This article has demonstrated the usefulness of simple technique like the supply chain maturity model and I hope you can incorporate this tool to diagnose your supply chain operations.
Related Articles
- Supply Chain Mapping: The How-To Guide
- SCOR Model: the Comprehensive Implementation Guide
- How to Use Kano Model? Kano Analysis and Case Study
- Supply Chain Integration: Definition, Model and Examples


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Oh my I've become a Hubpages Stalker!
I need to get a real life
I got up this morning, I logged online, I checked my ebay store, and then I headed over to good ole' Hubpages. I checked my new comments that I'd received, responded to the pathetically small amount of people that I've managed to lure into my Hubs, and then began to wander the site. I did a small amount of Hub Hopping, looked at some questions, voted on a few peoples answers, which I must say, seems rather petty of me to think I have any right to vote on their opinion. I mean, heck, it's THEIR opinion! How do I earn the right to give it an up or a down thumb?? But that's off topic. Then I wandered off to look at the small amount of money I've made off Google Adsense...small amount mostly because I have a paltry 10 hubs, and most of those are about matters that are private to my family, which, let's face it, is not going to generate great amounts of interest, or money!
I then went to read the Hubs of some of the people I "follow" on here. And I must be totally honest with you. I follow approximately 64 people on Hubpages. In the very beginning, before I really knew what I was doing, I kind of thought the purpose was to go and follow all types of people, and get them to follow you. So that is where some of them came from. Then I became more discriminating in how I followed...I only picked those that had things I felt I would actually read, or those that I found more interesting. I did not automatically begin to follow people just because they followed me. If they began to follow me I went to their profile and looked to see what they wrote about, and if it was something interesting, or I thought I might return and read things, I followed them. There are a couple on my list that I follow who have taken a break from writing and no longer add anything to their hubpages, and there is at least one who is only on here to read hubs and does not write anything of their own. So the number is 64, but the actual number of people writing content is slightly smaller than that. But still, of the approximately 55-60 people that I follow, I regularly read every new Hub written, of about 4 people. Seriously.
And of those four, there are 2 that I can't wait to read. I go to their pages first and read whatever new Hub they've written. I usually comment on their writings, unless I'm feeling extremely uncreative that day, or for some reason have a limited amount of time and do not feel I can do their creativity justice at that time, in which case, I return later and try to make sure I comment. There are a few hubs of theirs I do not comment on, just because some content is perhaps a topic that is not quite as interesting to me as others. But for the most part, I read, I comment, and then I wait to see if they respond to my comment.
This is where the stalking comes in. I've discovered that I find myself logging on to Hubpages several times throughout the day, looking for new hubs, or new comments by my favorite few people! My God, do I have no real life?? How in the world can a woman with a husband, a dog, a fairly large house, two kids, two grandkids, and an eBay business have time to log onto hubpages that many times a day just to see what relative strangers have to say?? Do I need help?? Are there others out there like me?? Logging on, looking for new hubs, searching frantically for comments to respond to?? Do we need to start a 12 step program for ourselves?? Please, let me know I'm not alone in this twisted need to log onto hubpages! At least if I knew there were more out there like me, stalking other hubbers, perhaps stalking ME, I'd feel better. Misery loves company type of thing you know! I just can't be the only one out there telling my family I'm on here writing so I can make money on Google Adsense, or that I'm trying to "be discovered" for my writing ability, or that I'm learning new things, all just so they won't look at me funny when they catch me running over to the computer for a quick check for comments!
Nah, he likes attention. I should give you his number so you can call and check up on him. ;) After all, we need to stay in contact, just in case you find the perfect girl or girls for us.
Ang, I forgot to give you an Erik update, so I'll do it on this hub. Seems appropriate. He decided he's not 'creative' enough to stay on Hubpages. But he's probably just bored with it just like he was with Facebook when he deleted his account. I get bored sometimes, too, so I understand. Doesn't mean he doesn't love you! :) He'll be alright, though. I'm sure he appreciates your concern.
you are a funny lady and funny is worth its weight in gold these days. Well written and voted up and funny. BTW I'm reading because I don't follow every follow.
I had to laugh as I am new to hubpages but I have found myself doing some of the same things already..I may need help now before it get ugly..very funny. Thank you!
I'm starting to become addicted to writing and reading on this website. The people seem really nice and the quality of the articles are really good.
Your hub is fabulous. I laughed, thought well maybe I am a stalker too but more than anything I really enjoyed your writing.
interesting hub...I seem to have some of the same issues....but at least I am having fun....voted up
Like you I started out following anyone and had to cut it out. Thanks for sharing
I work.
It's alright here, I guess. Just haven't found anything good enough to make me wanna leave yet.
And I've paid my dad rent since I got a job when I was 16! That's just what ya do. I was actually paying him more than I do for this apartment before I moved out, lol.
No no, my dad lives about 10 minutes away from me. And yeah, I'll miss Adam. I have no idea where he's going or what he's going to do. But he needs it, whatever it is, and I wouldn't dare try and get in the way of that.
And my dad is super cool, lol. EVERYBODY loves him. Especially women. Maybe that's cause he's gay. I dunno. Lol but still, he's got plenty of room. And it's not like I won't be paying rent, so too bad if he doesn't like it! :P
Well we'll only be in the apartment for another two months or so. Adam's moving on. I'll probably have to move back in with my dad. I can't find a roommate. I'm not looking forward to it, lol. But you'd still be welcome there too. :D
*laughs* It has been time for a road trip!!! we have been talking about it now for weeks, getting out of this Chill`inois weather! hmm....might be time to get out the maps!! But Ang, can we stand being in the car that long with Diva?!!!1
Ha. You're mostly right. It's about 50/50 between a good meal, and a hug from you. :P
And you're more than welcome down here anytime. Bring Laurie and your niece with you! We'll have a gay old time.
Yes! I am! Ask any of my friends or family. I'm constantly complaining that I'm hungry. Lol!
Fried egg sandwiches! That's about the only thing I can cook too, lol. How funny.
Illinois isn't too far. And definitely not too cold. I was born in New York. ;)
I'd like to visit sometime. :D
And just in case you didn't know, I am the big sis, but also Diva's mom! *laughs*
*laughs* She can cook mac and cheese, and fried egg sandwiches, and a few other things! And she needs a good boyfriend too! :P
Ang, if she can cook, then I'm all for it.
Where do you even live anyway?
I knew you'd know it was about you.
Of course it's not sappy. I love you too.
You are beautiful.
Speaking of which, I wrote another hub, Ang.
It's horribly laid out. The point of view changes, and it almost doesn't make sense. It's sloppy. But it seemed appropriate. I wrote about you in it. :)
Hi Ang, yes I am hooked like you and your article speaks to me. I hope it wears off soon - the thought of making money has worn off but the checking, checking, checking thing hasn't.
Re followers. I feel quilty because I follow so few but I regard following as a commitment to check out new articles, and I don't have the time to make that commitment - what with checking my (lack of) traffic stats 200 times a day.
Yea me too. :( No special valentine. Bah humbug, oh wait that is for Christmas! How about bah diddlebug!
Ha, yeah. It is. Just dreading tomorrow a little bit. Valentine's. Blah.
No it doesn't. It's kind of funny actually. I've also been wondering that same thing about myself. Lol
I've got kind of a half idea for one. So maybe Monday morning.
You are ridiculous!!!
Lol, Yes, I have, but that's cheating!
I laughed really hard at this one. Although I'm no HP stalker I do stalk my Google Adsense, which I feel is really unhealthy and makes no sense! Because yes, I can make a few dollars a day, but I could probably easily make 100X that amount on my store. Lol! I guess it's all about perspective. Rated up!
We all know I am a stalker too. :P I stalk, I hit ads, why because I am your big sis and that is what we do! I will admit I cannot help myself, it is like looking into people's medicine cabinets when you go to visit them. You just gotta snoop! So I am right there with you, although I haven't had much time lately, and I gotta get back on here and get back to spying, er snooping!
Great one Sister!
Great writing....Well done. You've captured the thoughts of many...
There we are; I laughed out loud (I never, ever write lol), and would you believe it, I looked over my shoulder at the door into the dining room where I have my computer, just to see if you were there. I can't see you, and it is a glazed door, but perhaps you just withdrew slightly, as I turned.
Thank you so much for that lovely comment.
Consider the stalking not to have ceased, Honey
Ang, so that's what I am. I had my suspicions. I try to read as much of the writings of others that I can... and anyone who has made a comment or added me to their list, I try to read their "nest" and their "latest" so I know what sort of person is reading me and if I am going to find somebody who really attracts me as a writer and as a person.
I have got to know some people so well during the short time that I have been a hubber, and you know that you are one of those I really feel so much for. There are others who disappear for ages and I wonder if I have offended them, or they have stopped writing, and then they reappear and I'm like a kid with a new puppy.
I have only twice found someone on HP who I found had written some actively foul comments... one right at the beginning of my time here, and strangely enough... only half an hour ago. But t=neither of them were direct contacts. They were people who had commented on hubbers I like, admire, were looking into.
Enough of all this... Here I am and here I stalk
(Please form an orderly line; all who are available for stalking me... I'm easy!)
LOL Ang, love it. You,a stalker. And here I always thought of you as a good girl! Anyway...if you enjoy it and it doesn't hurt anyone else, do it. Life's too short not to try and enjoy it!
I guess this makes me a hubpages stalker too AngRose :)
I do the same as you and I believe there are many more.
I enjoyed this hub from you! A hubpages stalker! Isn't that what we all are? But I do not see it as a bad thing! I have made great friends here at HP and some of them I feel like I know very well! I read as many hubs from those I follow as I can. If I have something to say I leave a comment, or I just vote on them or leave them. I see it more like win-win relation. So, I am stalking you:) and I read your hubs! Hubpages community is one big reason we are here, besides our personal desire to write!
Your right who you follow isn't like Myspace trying to build the biggest list. Mine is actually pretty big, but I bet I've read at least one hub from each of them. True I probably will never get back to the majority of them, but like you it took me awhile to figure out. In some ways following a person is an electronic "attaboy"... it makes them feel better. So no worries if you have a lot of followers or following. What matters is you do what you like and create compelling content.
Haha, Ang!!
First I'd like to say congratulations to you, for I have generated absolutely no revenue to date from my hubs.
Second, I hope I'm at least in one of those top four people, and even if you don't find my hubs interesting, you should comment on them anyway, lol.
And third, I'd like to say that I'm also disappointed with the number of times I log into hub pages per day. I get up in the morning, and log in, and when I see nobody has written me, I take a nap, and then I get up and log in again, lol.
Fourth, how dare you call me a relative stranger! :P
And last, I'll say that it is fairly odd how there are so many of us that search for that feeling of validation. And why must it come from others who are no greater than ourselves? Were we to find any, what sort of validation would that even be? Meaningless. I understand the feeling of getting a new comment on a hub, and that's different. Know that I love you, Ang, and that I appreciate all the things you write and share with me, and that we need only to impress ourselves.
hub hopping brought me to this hub, and its quite ironic that THIS hub is the one that made me want to follow you. comically enough, as much as i hate to admit it, i am now sitting here, a new hubber to boot, wondering if when you veiw my profile you will deem me "worthy enough" to be followed. Its slightly foolish to be so caught up and only embodies the subject of this very hub. Bravo for pointing out what many of us are too afraid to admit ;)


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Laurence Godin joined KPMG LLP as Principal and National Practice Leader for Investment Management. He was formerly managing director and head of business governance for Merrill Lynch's Global Wealth and Retirement Solutions Division at Bank of America.
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It is my birthday this week. I will be 47 years old and I say this without cringing -- unlike so many other women when asked to divulge their age. Truthfully, I don't understand why the latter reaction is so common. I am proud of the 47 years I have put into my life and of who I am today because of them.
It's been an interesting journey, with each step chiseling away the rough stone to divulge a figure that can't be copied or reproduced. None of us can, which is the reason I fail to see why a "number" could frighten the heck out of anyone spry enough to blow out a candle and eat a piece of cake. The fact that you can do so is a very good thing and should be celebrated, especially as that cake didn't arrive on its own. Most likely, someone placed it in front of you, which means you have caring folks around you wanting to spend the time to celebrate your life. Many people do not.
When I look upon my life, I think about all of the significant moments I have been through: the loss of my husband to cancer when I was 35 years old; the joy of raising my five children; the family and friends I have cultivated; the opportunities I have been given that I never would have guessed would have occurred; the wisdom I have gained along the way. There are so many people that I need to thank for adding to my life. If I named them all, this blog would never end. I realize the good fortune I have in being able to say that.
Remarkably, none of what I am thankful for has to do with a possession. I don't find much value in "things," unless they are given to me underscored by a meaningful gesture or loving heart. I never did, as I have seen how one's attachment to possessions can ruin a life, ruin relationships, so I care very little for them. I realize their necessity but that's as much importance as I place on them.
Years back, I heard a very poignant song by Mary Chapin Carpenter that so struck me, I can recite every word of it even today. "The Hard Way" comprises a tremendous amount of real-life wisdom that stopped me in my tracks the first time I heard it and continues to. One particular verse grabs me every time -- "We've got two lives. One we are given and the other one we make."
It's a line that really cuts to the bone of who a person truly is from the depths of their core, I believe. When I look at myself in the mirror -- really look -- I am pleased with the person I see. The lines in my forehead mark my passage from youth into midlife. They stand as a grateful reminder of every moment I've been blessed to experience. If given the option to turn the clock back again to a younger time, I would not take it.. .I say this as I view my 3-year-old scooting around the house in his buggy with 3D glasses on his face from the latest movie I took him to. No, I would not trade any one of these 47 years for the world. Like many women, I'm just beginning. I'm just discovering who I am, now having enough seasoning to do so.
As "Forbes: The World's 100 Most Powerful Women 2013" will substantiate, women don't really come into their own until their mid- to late-40s. The time we spend prior is the time we require to "cut our teeth" on life so that we may prepare ourselves for the more interesting part of our journeys.
I must say that I am thoroughly enjoying stepping into the second half of my own journey and I can't wait to see what happens next, because up to now, it's been a heck of a ride. The preparation I have received could lead to just about anything. Tim McDonald, Community Manager at HUFFPost Live, reminded me of that last week when I was speaking with him. He seemed astounded by the amount of life I have lived thus far. I was almost bemused by his reaction, having been the participant in all of it rather than someone viewing from the sidelines. No doubt, his reaction is warranted and prodded me to take stock of my life a week early. Yes, life has thrown me numerous curves. Thankfully, it also prepared me to catch them as well as throw them back... and do so more effectively with each passing year.
In any event, I sit in a position where I am open for anything, including the many changes that will come from now until the end of my life. I welcome them. To me, life will only get better. And as I sit in front of the traditional peanut butter-chocolate brownie cake on Thursday evening, hearing the birthday song sung to me by all of my children, I will blow out my candles in acknowledgment of the many blessings I have been given up till now and look to my future with great anticipation and a deep seeded thankfulness for every candle on my cake... as well as the fact that those five amazing faces will continue to be the center of my universe. They've made those candles burn brightly in my heart every day.
What more could a 47-year-old mom want?


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- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
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- 3 green onions, chopped
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds, toasted
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- To prepare the Chinese rice noodles, heat a skillet with a few tablespoons of oil and break off a little bit of the noodles and add them to the skillet and fry them. They will puff up in the skillet, so only add a few at a time. As they begin to puff up, remove and drain them on paper towels. Be sure to cook long enough as the under cooked noodles will be like eating needles. Once cooked, add them to the salad mixture.
- In a large bowl combine the iceberg lettuce, cooked and shredded chicken, green onions and toasted sesame seeds. Let chill about 10 minutes, and just before serving add the cooked rice noodles. Serve in salad bowls and offer the dressing in a pourable container so your family can add as much dressing as they want. You can also pour the dressing over the top of the salad, toss, and serve immediately.
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Let's start with the book's title and your cover image. How did you choose each? And, if I asked you to describe or sum up your book, what three words immediately come to mind?
I must admit that I grappled with the title – and titles generally come easy to me. For instance, my second novel, Whorehouse of the Mind: A Novel of Sex, Drugs and the Space Program, seemed like a no-brainer, although writer Richard Meltzer thought that I "appropriated" it from Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind. I use the royal 'we' in my blog writing and Facebooking, so I came up with Our Beautiful Life. My publisher, the wonderful Gordy Grundy, said I should translate it into French, as we both think there are too many poseurs in L.A., so it became Notre Belle Vie for a while. I also thought about JAG: Jewish American Goddess, Being Cate Blanchett, What's In It For Me, Dear C**T, Brainwreck and Screwtopia. "Screwtopia" actually ended up being the name of one of the book's poems. Then there were the organic titles derived from the book's poems, such as Juliet On the Prowl and An American Reverie. Finally, I am a huge Stephen Sondheim fan, and was perusing one of his books, Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes, and there it was – Isn't It Rich, from "Send In the Clowns." I also used to play that gorgeous and enigmatic song on the harp at funerals and brisses, so this title had it all for me.
At the same time – while writing the poems and thinking of a title for the book, I was asking artist friends of mine if they would send me some images I could consider for the cover. For that, I was also asked to send these people several poems. The artist, Lita Albuquerque, loved the poems I sent and read them to her daughter, the choreographer/dancer, Jasmine Albuquerque Croissant. She immediately recommended the terrifically talented well-known Belgian artist, Katrien De Blauwer, whom Jas knew through her husband, Rodrigo Amarante. When Katrien agreed to supply the cover image, my publisher and I were overjoyed.
Three words to describe my book would be: Vivid, erotic and deeply disturbing. Seriously, I know we like to use the journalistic three, but I would also have to add, intoxicating and hilariously funny. Not to mention, profoundly human and occasionally surreal.
What were you trying to achieve with your book? Tell us about the world you were trying to create, and who lives in it.
I didn't set out to "achieve" anything, except to write an authentic account of a life lived to its fullest, based on memories – sometimes incredibly detailed, sometimes foggy, often conjured. A free spirit lives in this book, someone, however, with whom I am quite familiar. In fact, I would have to say that we have a love/hate relationship. I also subtitled it, A Novella In Verse, because I feel that each of the poems is its own, self-contained story. There is a definite thread, a through-line, which some people have said is more along the lines of sex, drugs and travel. All I know is that this person has had quite a life. Perhaps I should have called it a memoir-in-verse, but that might have been too leading. In any case, by subtitling it a novella, I figured Hollywood might want to option it – and I would be more than happy to see a Cate Blanchett or Rooney Mara take a stab, with Julia Roberts in middle-aged and then the fabulous Meryl Streep looking back on it all with wisdom, wit and wonderment.
Can you describe your writing practice or process for this collection? Do you have a favorite revision strategy?
Since I am a freelance arts journalist who has interviewed thousands of people and is on constant deadlines (I have written more than 500 stories/reviews for the L.A. Times, I've interviewed hundreds of artists of all stripes for KUSC radio, and have also written program notes for the L.A. Philharmonic as well as the L.A. Master Chorale, introducing audiences to world premiere by such luminaries as Steve Reich, Billy Childs and the Matrix composer, Don Davis…and the list goes on), to put it bluntly, I write quickly. I have also re-invented myself – from professional harpist to print and broadcast journalist, finally, going digital and writing for online publications, as well as my own blog, The Looseleaf Report. That said, this book came about almost as a fluke. I was invited to a "Pasta and Poetry" party last June, so I figured I would bring a poem to read. I had been keeping notebooks (after all, I hail from the Looseleaf clan), for years, and, perusing several from a certain time period, saw the germ of something, which then became, Smile. There were all sorts of intellectuals, architects, artists, writers, et al at this party – many of whom were reading poetry aloud by famous poets. I was feeling a tad insecure and thought, perhaps, that I shouldn't read. But I mustered my courage, read, and, in a word, killed. Then, a week or two later, my friend, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Kate Johnson, asked me to play the harp at a big art event she was curating at Santa Monica's Bergamot Station in July. I reminded her that I didn't play professionally anymore – I had actually abandoned my station wagon years ago – but that I could do spoken word. Kate quickly agreed.
I then wrote about nine or 10 poems (like choreographer, Agnes DeMille, when she was asked by the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo if she had an "American" piece of choreography the troupe could use for its U.S. debut, she said, "Of course," then went home and made the work that became Rodeo. And, no, I am not comparing myself to DeMille, but, as I said – and to my point – I work quickly).
I am also very serious about editing, so after writing some 40-odd poems over the course of several months (I know, crazy, huh!), I tackled the editing and re-writing processes. My favorite revision strategy is "less is more, more or less." I also had the astute eye and ear of my colleague, the Emmy Award-winning producer, Larry Gilbert, which was a great help, as was reading the poems out loud to hear how they were rolling off my Midwestern, twangy tongue.
How did you order the poems in the collection? Do you have a specific method for arranging your poems or is it sort of haphazard, like you lay the pages out on the floor and see what order you pick them back up in?
Ordering the poems was interesting and took a lot of wrangling. I wanted to begin with a bang – keep up the momentum, then get to some fairly serious works and end on a high note. I also took into account the people, places and subject matter, which was a lot of sex in a lot of different places with a lot of different characters. I would like to say that, like John Cage and Merce Cunningham, I used chance and the I Ching, but – hey – that's just not true, although, of course I knew Merce, having interviewed him numerous times – and Cage, another genius and mushroom forager who was also an angel, and allowed me to record his 1948 work, In A Landscape for my albums, Harpnosis and Beyond Harpnosis.
What do you love to find in a poem you read, or love to craft into a poem you're writing?
I love to find both humor and heart in works that I read and works that I write, though not necessarily at the same time in the same poem. Erudition isn't totally out of the question, either, as well as life's bigger issues – like what gown I should wear to the opening of the opera season. Not! Seriously, poetry has the reputation of being very personal, yet at the same time it should also strike a chord, i.e. be universal. It is fun, though, to mix it all up!
Can you share an excerpt from your book? And tell us why you chose this poem for us to read – did it galvanize the writing of the rest of the collection? Is it your book's heart? Is it the first or last poem you wrote for the book?
This is a hard one. Each poem took a lot out of me. So, I would say to your readers, please go to the Amazon page and click on the book. The first poem, "Queen of the Surf," comes up and that is a particular favorite of mine.
If you had to convince someone walking by you in the park to read your book right then and there, what would you say?
Again, I would have a stranger look at that opening ode, "Queen of the Surf," and dare him or her to not laugh, to not have a reaction. I would also tell that person that if he or she bought the book, I would be more than happy to sign it!
For you, what is it to be a poet? What scares you most about being a writer? Gives you the most pleasure?
For me, being a poet is being true to myself. Even in my dance reviews, which many have likened to poetry, as they are filled with metaphors as well as a lot of pop culture references, I tell it like I see it – or my word as a critic is worthless. Indeed, I recently panned a major ballet company's new, $2 million Sleeping Beauty, likening the stage to an episode of "Hoarders" (not that I've ever seen the show), and then ended my coverage with the following: "It might best be experienced after downing a couple of NoDoz." So, in essence, nothing scares me about being a writer – except the dearth of occasional income. Back to being a poet, though: It means to excavate one's inner being, to observe life in all of its beauty, grandeur, absurdities and insanities. When somebody tells me that my book sounds as if I could have been written it specifically for her, that is very cool. It's also great to hear laughs and applause after I have read something, somewhere, especially in Los Angeles, where the crowds can be – and often are – very brutal.
Are there other types of writing (dictionaries, romance novels, comics, science textbooks, etc.) that help you to write poetry?
You are kidding, right? I mean, you can't be serious here re: including dictionaries, romance novels, comics, and science textbooks helping me write poetry. Granted, I do love the dictionary and adore Roget's Thesaurus (not for bedtime reading purposes, however), as well as the PDR (Physicians' Desk Reference, circa 1977, when Quaaludes were legal), but I find romance novels ridiculous and I have never been keen on science – books, that is. Comics is another story. The late Harvey Pekar (American Splendor…From Off the Streets of Cleveland Comes), was a good friend of mine. We were both from Cleveland, and he was on my erstwhile TV show, The Looseleaf Report, a number of times. I listened to him carp, complain and continually bitch, even while he was becoming famous (I was in the audience in New York when he got kicked off the Letterman show on NBC), but in the process, he also made me laugh, cry, think and expand my universe. I really loved Harvey's mind and always wanted him to include me as a character in his comics. But his wife, Joyce Brabner, wouldn't have it. I love to read, of course, and being a journalist, I need to keep up by reading a bunch of newspapers, including The New York Times – the paper version - because I jumpstart my brain every morning with their crossword puzzle, which takes me less than five minutes on a Monday and a bit more time each day as the week goes by. (The degree of difficulty amps up, so by Saturday, it's a killer.) I also love the New Yorker and the Hammacher Schlemmer Catalogue (curiously, I had a great aunt who married one of those guys – Hammacher or Schlemmer, I can't remember which – or who – although the marriage didn't stick). I also cannot live without Men's Health and Field and Stream. The truth is, I am so into Netflix (Narcos, wow!), it is frightening, so when I'm not bingeing on "Making A Murderer" (that's my Berkeley criminology degree coming into play), I'm reading biographies, and whatever else may in the air at the moment. I adore Malcolm Gladwell, Don DeLillo and Philip Roth. I once wrote a fan letter to Roth, wanting to know how he researched the harp in his book, I Married A Communist. Needless to say, I got no response. In spite of what I might say, write or do, I am probably old-school in my literary choices, and, as a white liberal-to-the-max Jewess, I made it my business to read Ta-Nehisi Coates, overexposed as he is. But, I gotta say, Hilary Mantel is fucking brilliant.
What are you working on now?
I am going to be reading an original monologue at Sit 'N Spin, an ongoing series in which professional writers/comics read their works. The essay is called, "How I Lost My Public Access Virginity To A Fabulous Flying Russian." And, to be perfectly frank, I had poeticized an essay I had read there not that long ago, "The Dance Critic," making it the penultimate piece in my poetry collection. I am also working on several stories about prima ballerinas/ballerinos – and, when not at my desk, I'm at the theater, whether I'm working or not – soaking up the high and lowbrow atmosphere, hoping, beyond hope, to have my emotions elevated – or at least aroused in some form or another.
Of course, I'll be doing a series of readings at galleries, bookstores and the like – and what I'm very excited about is that my publisher, Mr. Grundy and I, have plans for staged performances of Isn't It Rich? Three different actresses (one in her 20s, another in her 40s and one in her 60s), will each read from the book, something I alluded to earlier, albeit that is my wishful cinematic rendering. There will also be music and we might even add a choreographic element, considering my terpsichorean cred. It's actually amazing, as all sorts of women are telling me they would love to take part in these performances. We will be auditioning actors, though, and Mr. Grundy and I, are also thinking about theaters – traditional and non-traditional. Since I'm familiar with all of the major venues in town – and am finding new ones – pop-ups, for example – all the time, this is part of that process, as well. Then there's the matter of how to break down the book for the actresses, but with Mr. Grundy directing, I have no doubt that this will be a hot ticket. I am also working on my next book, whose subject matter and title shall remain, at this time, unnamed. Oh – and if all this weren't enough, producer/actor Kenneth Hughes (Einstein's God Model), is working on a documentary about me and The Looseleaf Report.
Without stopping to think, write a list of five poets whose work you would tattoo on your body, or at least write in permanent marker on your clothing, to take with you at all times.
I am Jewish, albeit Newish Jewish, but still believe that getting tattooed is against my religion. I also hold most of my clothes as sacred items (seeing as friends designed them or they belonged to my grandmother – she had incredible taste and I am particularly fond of her monogrammed, white mink bomber jacket from the '70s, which I get to wear here in L.A. on Chanukah and New Year's Eve), ergo to scribble all over these garments with any kind of permanent marker would not be something in which I would or could indulge.
What's a question you wish I asked? (And how would you answer it?)
Are you still fucking surfers and if so, where do you find both the time – and them – and how do they stack up against your Laguna Beach dudes? I don't kiss and tell, but let's just say that, yeah, the surf's most decidedly up!
Purchase Isn't It Rich? A Novella in Verse.
Victoria Looseleaf lives and loves in Los Angeles. As an award-winning arts journalist for such publications as the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Dance Magazine, Fjord Review, KCET Artbound and other outlets, the redhead provocateur has been filing datelines from her many lives in Abu Dhabi, Vienna, Havana, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Amsterdam, Zürich, Buenos Aires and dozens more points on the compass. Once a professional harpist, her albums Harpnosis® and Beyond Harpnosis® can be found on turntables of discerning listeners everywhere. The Looseleaf Report, a staple of Los Angeles and New York television, offered celebrity interviews, humor and underground arts insights with over 400 broadcast shows. Isn't It Rich? is Victoria Looseleaf's first book of poetry. Find her online at http://victorialooseleaf.com.
Victoria recently did a radio interview with Mark Lynch of WICN. Listen here.
The great drag legend, Tony-nominated playwright, Charles Busch, wrote a wonderful preface to Victoria's poem, "Sunday In The Pool With Fred" for the sight, Towleroad. Read it here.
Victoria is honored to be the first reader at the grand opening of AG Geiger bookstore in LA's Chinatown.
The inimitable performance artist/actor, John Fleck, recently interviewed Victoria for Cultural Weekly. Read it here.
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ISLAMABAD: Women parliamentarians from 17 countries are arriving in Islamabad on Monday for a conference on the role of women lawmakers in strengthening democracy and social justice. The three-day conference has been organised by the Women's Parliamentary Caucus.
The women's caucus, set up in 2008, is a multi-party forum dedicated to discussing issues facing women in Pakistan. Muttahida Qaumi Movement lawmaker Dr Fouzia Hameed said that the women's caucus has been working across party lines to pass various pieces of legislation which ensure the protection of women's rights in Pakistan.
Laws protecting the rights of women in Pakistan have been passed in recent years addressing violence against women, workplace harassment, the criminalisation of acid-related violence and electronic crimes.
Dr Hameed said international conferences allow women legislators to learn from their counterparts in other countries. "Whether women live in the developing world or the West, they often face similar challenges and there is much to be learnt from the experiences of others. Lawmakers, themselves, face a myriad of challenges," she said.
The conference will discuss women's role in politics and share ideas about improving the cooperation between women parliamentarians across the globe.
PML-N lawmaker Shaista Pervaiz Malik said meeting lawmakers from other countries allows best-practices to be shared. "We hope to learn how women in other countries are overcoming boundaries and breaking the glass ceiling," she said.
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Ms Fatima said the conference will conclude with a session on creating and improving cooperation between lawmakers from various countries.