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4 Tips to Avoid Dehydration and Get Pain Relief
August 13, 2018
Hydration plays an important role in the body's ability to function and heal. Maintaining proper hydration is crucial if you're recovering from a surgery or injury or suffering from chronic muscle and joint pain.
Click "Read More" to continue reading and learn about these 4 tips to stay hydrated.
Three Simple Yoga Poses for Back Pain You Can Do Anywhere
July 31, 2018
Back pain can affect your mood, appetite, sleep, concentration, stress levels, and more. Yoga, which incorporates various stretches and relaxation techniques, is one of the most popular activities to help ease back pain.
Click "Read More" to continue reading and learn how to do three yoga poses to relieve back pain.
What Is Failed Back Surgery Syndrome?
July 6, 2018
Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (FBSS) is in fact not actually a syndrome. FBSS is a general term that applies to individuals that have had unsuccessful back or spine surgery results and continue to suffer from consistent pain. Click "Read More" to continue reading and find out if you are experiencing the symptoms of failed back surgery.
Understanding Back Pain and Knowing Your Options
June 25, 2018
Back pain is a highly common medical issue. According to the American Chiropractic Association, 50% of working Americans experience back pain every year. That is why Pain Treatment Centers of America offers a variety of minimally invasive procedures, including kyphoplasty and facet joint injections, to help you fight your back pain today.
5 Tips for Gardening with Arthritis
June 5, 2018
Gardening is more than a fun outdoor hobby. It is also a great way to maintain joint flexibility, bone strength, and range of motion. If you suffer from arthritis, you may think that gardening is no longer a feasible activity for you. From managing your discomfort, to choosing the best gardening tools for arthritis, the following five tips will help ease your pain and get you back in your garden.
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Understanding Arthritis and Arthritis Treatment Options
May 25, 2018
Arthritis affects more than 350 million people worldwide everyday; people of all ages and lifestyles. In order to manage your arthritis pain and live comfortably, it is important to know what arthritis is, the causes of arthritis, and how PTCOA can help treat your chronic pain.
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Cook Your Way to Fighting Chronic Pain
May 15, 2018
While Pain Treatment Centers of America provides top of the line medical care for chronic pain sufferers, we also know the importance of living an overall healthy lifestyle that includes diet and exercise. That's why we have created a free e-book, The Power of Healing Food, so that you have quick, pain-reducing recipes at hand.
Before you download our e-book, taste a sample from our pages with these Black Bean and Spinach Enchiladas.
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11 Reasons You Should See a Pain Specialist Before Your Pain Becomes Chronic
March 30, 2018
If you've recently suffered a severe injury to your back, neck, or knees, you know how debilitating that pain can be to your life, job, and overall happiness.
Waiting for it get better is never a good idea, and your primary physician may recommend a pain treatment specialist, like the ones who work at Pain Treatment Centers of America.
Don't let acute pain today turn into chronic pain tomorrow. Here are 14 reasons you should consider visiting a pain specialist to prevent long-term pain.
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The 3 Principles Behind the CDC Guidelines for Pain Management
March 19, 2018
PTCOA understands the benefits of medication as a treatment option for some patients, but we also know the long-term value of our interventional pain procedures.
Our goal is to ensure the safety and well-being of all our patients. When it comes to our medical management, PTCOA strictly follows these three guidelines set forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Support Your Spouse Around the House: Managing Housework With Chronic Pain
March 12, 2018
When you have chronic pain, even the most routine tasks can be difficult to manage. Running errands, cleaning the house—all those everyday chores—can overtax you if you suffer from chronic, debilitating pain.
Yet these same everyday tasks are often what makes life feel normal.
Honey Hull, an Advanced Practitioner Registered Nurse at Pain Treatment Centers of America in Little Rock, Arkansas, wants you to know you're not alone in feeling that way.
She offers three pieces of advice to help you rethink how you can offer support around the house and, in turn, support your partner or spouse.
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Better Business Bureau Accreditation
September 15, 2017
PTCOA is honored to be recognized as an accredited business with the Better Business Bureau!
2017 Annual Scientific Assembly of The Arkansas Academy of Family Physicians
August 7, 2017
Pain Treatment Centers of America is proud to support our Family Practice friends this week at the 2017 Annual Scientific Assembly of The Arkansas Academy of Family Physicians! (thanks Misty and Molly)
Dr. Iden Cowan Appears on Good Morning Arkansas
May 9, 2017
Pain Treatment Centers of America is very proud of its own Iden Cowan, M.D. for representing PTCOA and our valued patients so well on Good Morning Arkansas Monday, May 1! Here's the clip.
Pain Treatment Centers of America recognized for Quality Lab Services
December 16, 2016
Pain Treatment Centers of America has met all criteria for Laboratory Accreditation by COLA, a national healthcare accreditation organization. Accreditation is given only to laboratories that apply rigid standards of quality in day-to-day operations, demonstrate continued accuracy in the performance of proficiency testing, and pass a rigorous on-site laboratory survey. Pain Treatment Centers of America has earned COLA accreditation as a result of a long-term commitment to provide quality service to its patients.
Conway, We've Moved!!!
November 17, 2016
Conway, We've Moved!!!....
We have spent the past few months at a temporary location for our Conway clinic and many great memories have been made there, but it is time for a new chapter. We couldn't be more excited about our NEW permanent location. We are happy to announce that our Conway clinic has moved to a new working space in the Conway Regional Medical Park. We are located in between the Medicine Shoppe and Groovy Smiles Pediatric Dentistry. Our new address is 2425 Dave Ward Drive, Suite 601. We look forward to sharing our new space with you and continue giving individualized care in a facility that is tailored to Pain Treatment Centers of America.
Dr. Noemi Ramsay joins Conway location
September 19, 2016
PTCOA welcomes Dr. Noemi Ramsay to Conway.
Dr. Noemi Ramsay completed her anesthesia residency at Boston Medical Center, after which she completed a pain management fellowship at the University of Baltimore Medical Center. She practiced general anesthesia for 10 years on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, then realized she wanted to make more of a difference in her patients' lives than just getting them through their surgeries. So for the last 3 years, Dr. Ramsay has dedicated her time helping treat and alleviate pain as a fellowship trained, board certified pain management physician, one patient at a time.
Dr. Noadia Worku joins White Hall location
August 18, 2016
It may seem that we are adding a new Doctor or location every month. The fact is Pain Treatment Centers of America are expanding to cover the needs of Arkansan's in pain. Happily we announce the addition of Dr. Noadia Worku to our White Hall office. The Natural State is a great place to live and work and for people in the White Hall, Pine Bluff and the Southeast Arkansas area Dr. Worku is a great asset. She moved after graduation to Arkansas to complete her residency training at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock. As a Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Dr. Worku is a welcome addition to the PTCOA team.
Women to Watch… Dr. Iden Cowan….
June 7, 2016
Every year Soiree Magazine, a leading publication in Central Arkansas, creates a list of Women to Watch.
This year we are happy to celebrate the addition of our own Dr. Iden Cowan. She certainly is a Woman to Watch. Below are some quotes from the interview. You can see the entire article at http://www.littlerocksoiree.com/women-to-watch/31/iden-m-cowan and the complete list of these remarkable ladies at http://www.littlerocksoiree.com/women-to-watch?year=2016. Some of the other "Women" include Dr. Mimi Lee, Kristi Moody and Christy Garrett.
Balance .. not as easy as it sounds…
May 13, 2016
Balance…. it's not as easy as it sounds…. our own Dr. Carl Covey, was featured in this article about the over AND UNDER prescription of opiate painkillers. If you are hurting… it's worth a read. If you feel you need an appointment please call 501-773-6993 for an initial consultation.
Feeling "heard" not herded
May 5, 2016
As we grow more and more dependent on technology and "modernization" everything seems to be more "streamlined". Unfortunately, sometimes "streamlined" can become code term for HERDED Like Cattle. Nothing is worse than being in severe chronic pain, taking time to come and wait to see the Dr. and then NOT feeling HEARD.
All the noise…
April 5, 2016
In today's world we suffer NOT from too much information .. but from TOO many "headlines". News these days plays like the old Top 40 Radio stations. It's nice and pleasant, but you ONLY hear the top 40 songs. Song number 41 never makes it.
Excellence… it takes homework
February 23, 2016
Excellence… Is a moving target. It changes, grows and morphs. Excellence does not always happen in the spotlight. It takes a lot of hard work behind the scenes. Like attending cadaver labs to train on operative techniques. Medtronic, the worlds largest medical device company and one of our partners in various therapies, helps us stay on the cutting edge. Medtronic is unique in that they can bring cadaver labs to the physician. Using 18 wheelers that are fully equipped labs with multiple operating stations, c-arms (fr image guidance), and all necessary instrumentation. On a recent trip to Little Rock, Pain Treatment Centers of America Physicians were offered time in the lab and to practice their techniques for advanced interventional pain therapies such as spinal cord stimulation, intrathecal drug delivery (pain pumps), and kyphoplasties. Dr. Siddiqui, the most experience with these procedures, leads group discussion and lab where all interested physicians get time with the cadaver. Again, this is one of the many ways we strive for excellence. We want our physicians to be as skilled as possible when you get on the table for a procedures. Excellence …. doesn't just happen it requires homework…. like this.
New York Society of Anesthesiologists
December 22, 2015
Dr. Meraj Siddiqui, Kaylin Cesarski and Kasey Sharp recently presented a research paper on behalf of the White River Pain Management Clinic during the scientific session of the 69th Annual Post Graduate Assembly (PGA) meeting of the New York Society of Anesthesiologists in New York on December 12. New York Society of Anesthesiologists is the oldest society of anesthesiologists in the world. It is also one of the most respected scientific forums for anesthesia and pain management. Top scientists from all over the world were in attendance to present their state of the art scientific research at the 69th PGA meeting. Their study was only one of two studies from Arkansas selected to be presented at the conference.
Welcome Video
December 9, 2015
Stepping up to the Pump
December 7, 2015
Pain can be dangerous. In today's complicated medical world even changing one form of pain management to another can literally be life threatening.
We are proud to share with you the ongoing research from our own Dr. Meraj Siddiqui and Dr. Ahmad Rafi.
Dr. Siddiqui, Dr. Rafi and Kaylin Cesarski recently finished a study titled, "Does a PTM prevent opioid withdrawals when converting from oral opioids to intrathecal Fentanyl therapy IDDS?"
Dr. Rafi will be presenting this research during the scientific session of the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in December.
Can you smell it?
November 25, 2015
The distinctive smell of turkey cooking, the joy and cheers as each of the relatives and loved ones arrive. The giggle of children as they chase and play with each other. The faint smiles on every face, no matter where they are from or how long (or short) it has been since we have seen them last. The questions and interest about new "friend" that the teenagers have brought to dinner.
Have you seen us lately?
November 19, 2015
PTCOA has posted these billboards in the greater LR area. We'd love you to tell us where you've seen our billboards and win a chance for a great dinner for 2. See our Facebook page for more details. All it takes to enter is a "share". https://www.facebook.com/Pain-Treatment-Centers-of-America-590569631079018/
I never want to see you …
November 19, 2015
You might say the same for Pain Treatment Centers of America. We never want to see you.. but sometimes you, or those you love, will have to see us. It puts us in an odd place. You see, we work daily to help Arkansan's live without pain. In a perfect world, we could work ourselves out of a job. But sadly, that's not the case. As we all age, we feel those minor aches and pains that come from getting "over the hill" … but that's not where we shine. Pain Treatment Centers of America is designed to help those that have exceptional pain. The sort of pain that makes every day hard. Pain that makes you question everything in your life.
SCS: Spinal Cord Stimulation / Changing Lives
October 29, 2015
Big Words, "Changing Lives", but as this interview with Dr. Siddiqui shows some patients can see true life changing results. The medical world can appear to be an alphabet soup of letters and abbreviations. Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) is exactly what it sounds like. By surgically implanting a Stimulator (wire) beside the spinal Cord and then Stimulating it (with a very small electrical charge) we can block the pain message sent to the brain. "Essentially, it's like a pacemaker for spinal cord," says Dr. Meraj Siddiqui.
Let's get Local….Red Flag Alerts
October 27, 2015
Novemeber 3rd, 2015 our own Dr. Carl Covey will be presenting (and offering CEU Credit) a discussion about Red Flags and Drug Seeking Behavior. This is a Program offered by AR Attorney General, Leslie Rutledge. Her office is sponsoring a Prescription Drug Abuse Summit. We are honored to have Dr. Covey selected to speak at this event and recognized as an expert in this field. People addicted to Pain medication offer a particular pattern when they try to obtain medications. Those "flags" can be identified and steps taken to help the patient. By sharing his knowledge and experience with other local physicians in Arkansas, Dr. Covey is able to help educate others as to how to treat this illness. Dr. Covey will be sharing his examples of "red flag" behavior and tools used to identify Drug Seeking patients. We at PTCOA applaud and thank Dr. Covey for his dedication, knowledge and willingness to share with others to help reduce the instances of this problem in Arkansas.
69th Annual Post Graduate Assembly (PGA)
October 21, 2015
Dr. Meraj Siddiqui is presenting his research during the scientific session of the 69th Annual Post Graduate Assembly (PGA) meeting of the New York Society of Anesthesiologists in New York. New York Society of Anesthesiologists is the oldest society of anesthesiologists in the world. It is also one of the most respected scientific forums for anesthesia and pain management. Top scientists from all over the world are expected to present their state of the art scientific research at the 69th PGA meeting.
I've Tried That! It Did Not Work!
September 8, 2015
The words hung heavy in the air. How do you reply to that? Many times, when we are in acute pain, the question comes up. Why even bother? What good does it do? That is the depression talking. But you say, I am not depressed, I am a happy person. Not so fast there. Depression is not a "shortage of happy ". Depression can strike us all and there is not a person who will not be affected while in constant pain.


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Thanks for this. Very interesting (and depressing :P) as always !
Just to be clear:
Before, the matchmaking selection was far smaller. And the top 3 was playing only against the top 3. @pb4 asked to codingame to change that because the top 3 was just tweaking their code to fight against the top 3.
This position on opponent sampling was formed after the CSB contest for reasons that were different from what reCurse explains. Here were the main points:
Hence, my position was formed in the past in different conditions, to avoid distorting the top N.
Today, with the current re-run procedure, I believe the system is "as good as we'll get it". More precisely: it's imperfect during the contest when there are few games, but good enough at the end when many games are added.
I've found this island three times already, glad it's somebody else's turn
Thanks for the report ! I particularly like the enemy detection algorithm. At first, it looks impossible, giving the branching factor. But with clever pruning it becomes fast ! Nice
What did you do for the beginning of the game ? Same algo with less info ?
Good question, it's like you said, it uses less information at the beginning of the game. When the current state cannot be reached for whatever reason, it just uses the given input, so if the unit is invisible, it is treated as if it did not exist.
Here is my postmortem. Please tell me if you find a mistake or something I didn't explain.
Could you tell me how do you write your referee programs because i don't know where to start and I don't understand anything in your referee program?
Well, you need code to simulate the state of the game like you would have in your minimax, but you also need code to generate the initial state of the game. In this case Codingame's referee had a certain way of generating the maps and spawning the player's pawns.
For me the real tricky part of writing my first referee was to deal with launching a process, feeding it inputs in it's stdin and reading out its outputs in its stdout. So I had to mess around with linux pipes. It took me a while but I made my first referee on Tron and then I sort of copy paste a large part of it for every referee, replacing the game specific code and keeping the part that starts AIs, feeds them inputs and gets their outputs.
I believe you can do it more easily in Java and python in a non OS-specific way (my referees use linux pipes and only works on linux). Alot of people like to use Magus's brutaltester.
If you want to write from scratch like I did, to answer your question of "where to start": try to make a program that starts an other program feeds it some input and gets back some output.
Thank you.
and I use Linux too
First of all thanks to organizers for intersesting contest. I'm glad that this time they did not find a reason to remove me from the leaderboard (yet).
About strategy
Detecting enemies in the fog is a must-have feature.From all possible positions, I place the opponent's units where they have optimum advantage, disadvantaging myself (based on evaluation function). After that, we get a usual minimax game with full information.
I used a variant of minimax - negamax with alpha-beta pruning and iterative deepening. As the branching factor of this game is around 100 on each ply, I'm sorting all possible moves by the evaluation function, and only keep the best 12 moves, discarding the rest.This way I usually achieved search depths between 4 and 8 ply.
I calculated the shortest distances from my units to each cell and the same for the opponent's units. The player whose unit in closest proximity owns the cell (Voronoi?).
int res = 100*score;
for(int y=0; y<game.Y; ++y)
for(int x=0; x<game.X; ++x)
int diff = d2[y][x] - d1[y][x];
int val = 20*max(-3,min(3, diff));
if(0 < diff)
val += 50 + (3-game.maze[y][x])*20;
else if(diff < 0)
val -= 50 + (3-game.maze[y][x])*20;
res += val;
Where d1 and d2 are shortest distances from first and second player.
In addition I added some bonus for possible move directions:
foreach(x,y in neighbours of unit)
if(game.is_valid_move(unit, x, y))
res += 20*game.maze[y][x];
Most of times I tested bot locally against previous versions. Thanks Magus and Kevin for tester and referee.
Question to those who used Voronoi diagram: is it only about comparison of distance beetwen two tiles (Euclidean distance)? or also taking into account height of tiles, accessibility etc.?
134th programming with C#
During this challenge as well as its preparation by playing other multiplayer games, I had 95% only one enemy, my own bot, IDE code vs code Arena, and finally I am satisfied to have managed to simulate a complete tour Gaming, having tried the MinMax, a chaotic evaluation function etc ...
I loved the concept of CodinGame and I would prepare for the next challenge, using everything I've discovered before, and especially trying to fully meet the challenge of competing against other participants.
Thanks to CodinGame Staff for offering us a great time in a totally unforgettable and super fun and fun quality game.
In my case I take into account path distance, so if there is no path the distance is infinite -> not euclidean distance.
I started the same as Agade, with Tron and with playing around with ways to pass and read information. I used processes. If anyone is curious what a (poorly coded) Tron referee in Python 3 looks like, see here. (I wrote it on a Mac, but I don't think it is OS specific. It only works on python files, but can be easily adapted to anything you can run via the command line.) To get started, look at the code in the main function.
If you want to test it out, run the following in the command line
python tron_arena_battle.py <path-to-bot1>.py <path-to-bot2>.py -n <number-of-games-to-play>
I'm a bit late to the party...got carried away making graphics for illustration, ended up writing as much code to generate the graphics as I did during contest time Messed around with python turtle graphics library and got some interactive simulation for Wondev working One in which you play as the enemy! \o/
Still figuring out how to isolate it to read/write to other processes tho...the version I have now has my bot's python code embedded inside it XD I will however, upload it once it's ready
Only had time to work on this contest during the weekends this time round...almost didn't make it to legend >.< The ~200 lines of python I rushed out on the first weekend surprisingly got me from Wood I to Gold
Some observations I made watching replays:
My early focus was on point-scoring and MOVE&BUILD action, not paying much attention to PUSH&BUILD. Even so, by scoring moves according to the above naive rules, my bot climbed straight from Wood to Gold league...
Climbing to legend required some more sophisticated code haha Tried my hand coding a minimax for this but by the end of Saturday, I was so swamped with bugs, I made the switch back to my heuristic code from the previous weekend.
Made the shift from point-scoring to area control like many others and finally reached Legend on Sunday evening with 2 major improvements to my code.
After some debugging whilst generating the graphics, I now hesitate to call it 'enemy tracking'...more like scoring for 'best' enemy position.
The approach my bot took to tracking enemies was simply to overlay possible moves (from previous turn's predictions) against cells from which the enemy is able to build at the detected grid.
So in the above image, enemy was at (3, 6) then moved to (2, 7) and build at (1, 7). Pardon the turtle resting in the corner, she's tired from drawing all those squares...
It becomes obvious that this won't work after a few moves where all 8 adjacent cells around the build location could've been moved to from the previous turn's guessed locations. However, with some filtering and cases of enemy pushes, the possibilities can be narrowed down.
So with these two additional methods of filtering in conjunction with the above 'tracking', my bot was able to decrease the number of possible enemy locations. Using this set of possible locations, I then did a positional scoring on each of them and picked the top as the guessed enemy location to be used for the rest of my turn.
The secret to area control and why we want to track enemy positions. For each move, I generate a voronoi diagram on the resultant state and a large portion of the score for that move is based on the ownership of the cells.
In this example, Red is where my enemy is, Green is where my unit is. Based on these locations, I run a stepwise BFS alternatively on my units first, then the enemy's, taking into account the validity of each move (cannot climb higher than 1, cannot move onto other units). I then split the cells into 3 categories, self_control -> green, en_control -> red, contested -> yellow.
Contested cells are cells that take the same number of moves to get to by either player. Even though I can reach these cells first (you always make the first move), I scored them lower than cells in self_control since I could be pushed from these cells by the adjacent enemy.
To make my bot more aggressive, I gave a bigger penalty to enemy controlled cells, so it will try to cordon off the enemy and trap them. With this addition into my scoring function, my bot finally made the jump from Gold into Legend
First off, congratulations to the top 3!!! The score difference in this contest is drastic...even though minimax was the way to go, seems like they nailed the implementation details and scoring functions just right
Thanks to CodinGame team for another great contest! This contest was more to the likes of Code4Life, maybe intentionally so based on positive feedback? Nonetheless, the boardgame-like nature of this contest is at least similar to that in c4l.
Looking forward to when multiplayer comes out, would be good to properly implement minimax and enemy tracking on this

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English student may sue NI Executive over tuition fees
An English teenager is considering suing the NI Executive, claiming that its plan to charge him higher tuition fees would breach his human rights.
Fees for students from Northern Ireland are to be frozen at £3,500 but students from elsewhere in the UK will be charged up to £9,000 from next year.
Abel Middlebrough has won a place at Queen's University in Belfast which he has deferred until 2012.
The executive told the Sunday Times its legal position was "robust".
Mr Middlebrough, who is from Worcestershire, would be one of a small minority of students from the rest of the UK studying at a Northern Ireland campus.
He has long-standing links with his father having studied at university in Northern Ireland while, during the war, his grandfather worked on flying boats on Lough Erne.
Legitimate expectation
He said: "It wasn't the nicest thing considering that I had a legitimate expectation that it would be about £3,500.
"Once I had signed up to the UCAs agreement, I didn't realise they could suddenly change how much I had to pay without me being able to change - either to go this year or to choose another university."
Adrianne Peltz, president of the main students' union in Northern Ireland, said she believed the executive had been forced into the two-tier system because of the decision to allow increased fees in England and Wales.
"This is a protective measure to prevent what we are calling the fees refugees from flooding Northern Ireland," the NUS-USI president said.
"We are already the region with the highest demand for university places but with the lowest amount of places.
"We turn away thousands of students every year. It would be absolutely diabolical if there were no places for our own Northern Ireland students."
Mr Middlebrough said he is still in talks with his lawyer, who is understood to be taking a similar case against the Scottish government.


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No time to be tired!
I have been dyinnng for some cold weather in Melbourne for the past few days just so I could get into some pants (my fave). Frills were the theme for the day and I had to bring back my fave corset, in blush this time, by my Adelaide friend Katya Komarova. Absolutely adore this look.
A big thank you to Mercedes Benz for another amazing day.
We had an incredibly fun time at the Next runway before being whisked away for the Camilla and Marc Grand Showcase. Such a beautifully styled runway so make sure you check out the cool backstage moments below x
TOP: Neon Rose | PANTS: Cmeo Collective | SHOES: Tony Bianco (shop here) | ACCESSORIES: Katya Komarova
Images courtesy of Lucas Dawson (@lucasdawsonphotography) & Katie Fergus (@katie.fergus) & Karen Woo (@heykarenwoo)


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Stories about compensation are bound to generate a great deal of reader interest. Such was the case for the recent series of articles on HSBC and its decision to change the way it pays its advisors.
For those who havent read the articles, HSBC earlier this year broke away from tradition and put its advisors on salary. Advisors have historically been paid on commission, a compensation structure that has allowed many top producers to earn upwards of $350,000 a year.
Industry experts have generally resisted the idea of putting advisors on salary, arguing that it would kill their motivation to build their businesses and cause them to leave for other banks. For fans of the 1960s show Lost in Space, the act of taking away commissions from advisors is akin to Dr. Smith deactivating The Robot by removing its battery.
Others argue that commissions taint advisor objectivity and create a perception that advisors dont always have the clients best interests at heart. Still others blame commission-based compensation for much of the cultural friction that exists between bankers and advisors. Bankers, who are paid on salary, tend to be reserved, relationship-oriented and risk-averse, while advisors tend to be aggressive and sales-oriented, according to industry observers. By putting bankers and advisors on a similar pay structure, the barriers between them might start coming down, some experts argue.
These two opposing viewsone for the HSBC switch; another againstare reflected in these comments received from BIC readers (and edited for grammar):
Reaction to HSBCs New Compensation Structure for Advisors: Insane or Prescient?
I believe HSBC is taking a courageous step to address an issue many in the industry have been dealing with; namely, disparate compensation scenarios which impede joint sales and relationship management objectives. I would imagine other providers would like to make the same change, but are fearful of the consequences. It could be that the falloff in production feared by some may not be as great as anticipated. The new compensation structures goal of more closely aligning all employees to work in the best interests of clients may just produce enough business to overcome any contemplated loss in revenues caused by the change in comp structure. Time will tell.
Posted by David S | Tuesday, July 02 2013 at 12:48PM ET
As an industry veteran I keep a close eye on the brokers in NYC. It will be very interesting to see if this UK bank can pull this off. Part of my activities includes recruitment and based on conversations that I have had with various HSBC bankers and brokers the general feeling is negative. The adjective that continues to come up is "demoralized". HSBC has never been an industry leader in anything nor have they been very profitable in their US division for the last decade. They will probably lose talented individuals at a gradual pace in my opinion but I am very curious to sit back and see how it unfolds. HSBC is making the classic mistake of trying to have their key sales people be all things to all people; a recipe for lower revenue and dilution of the business. Time will tell. One person's opinion. Jim P
Posted by James P | Thursday, July 11 2013 at 9:32PM ET
Reaction to More Banks Expected to Move Advisors to Salary
"Ultimately, it's the consumer, not industry, that will move the business away from commissions, said Tom Kane, managing director at KaneCarlton, a management consulting, coaching and advisory firm." This particular line in your post says everything. Yes, consumers play a vital role in such events because in the end the company has to serve the customer. The details I have read in your articles are awesome.
Posted by jane g | Saturday, July 13 2013 at 1:03AM ET
From my experience working at TD Wealth Management and then interviewing at TD Ameritrade when they dissolved the bank program, I found that TD Ameritrade had no "financial advisors." The employees were nothing more than "money gatherers." They would try to bring in as much money as they could and hoped clients would buy services such as research. For clients who don't have the time, interest or knowledge, and needed a Financial Advisor, TD Ameritrade would farm them out to local advisors who paid for the referrals, and I am sure worked for commissions. I don't feel this was a good example.
Posted by Mark W | Saturday, July 13 2013 at 10:50AM ET
What about you? What do you think? Is HSBCs switch to a new advisor compensation model a smart move?
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
banana bread.
While I haven't had a recipe or post up for a bit, we have been busy in the kitchen. I have been experimenting with some new bread recipes. We have been soaking/sprouting/drying wheat berries and making our own (malt) flour and learning to use it. I also have found a new local source for wheat (hard red winter) and so have been testing how it works with both the standard and soaked loaf breads to get a feel for its chemistry. We have had a few flops, but have had some really great tasty bread too. I have also been testing a different wheat grinder to see the difference in a finer flour! In between all of the bread baking we have also been making some other goodies.
Today I had a sick boy, so we were home and pretty quiet. I decided to make a loaf of whole wheat banana bread. It is sooo good. I like it because it uses 100% whole wheat pastry flour, but the flavor doesn't overshadow the bananas at all and it is a nice moist bread. It also isn't too sweet, but is rich with flavor. It made the house smell amazing, too!
::whole wheat banana bread::
1/3 cup softened butter
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar/muscavado
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/4 cup yogurt (I used home made vanilla yogurt)
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 3 bananas)
1 3/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
In one bowl cream the butter, honey and brown sugar together, and then add the vanilla, eggs, bananas and yogurt. Mix to incorporate. The bananas should be a little chunky, but not big pieces (using a fork to smush helps).
In a second bowl mix the dry ingredients together and stir a little to mix.
Mix the wet into the dry a bit at a time stirring to incorporate. Don't over mix.
Spoon into a buttered bread loaf pan and put into a pre-heated 350ºF oven. Bake 40-50 minutes, until done. Pop out of the pan onto a rack to cool. So good served with fresh butter.
ingredient tip::
Bananas are at the top of my list to buy organic. Commercially grown bananas not only are grown in not very environment/worker/wildlife friendly ways, but the end product exposes us to a cocktail of chemicals as well. No thank you. Look for fair-trade organic bananas at your local coop or Whole Foods/Wild Oats type of store!
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
whole wheat strawberry-orange muffins.
We have a freezer full of delicious strawberries we picked last June. We have been working our way through them for desserts and smoothies - but there is something extra wonderful about the color, taste and smell of strawberries once January hits. I opened the bag today and the smell was spectacular. Yum.
I used this basic muffin recipe for the base, but tweaked it a bit to add additional liquid so that I could use whole wheat flour rather than all purpose white flour. By using the juice of a mandarin, I got that extra liquid as well as a really good flavor boost. The muffins are so good - the flavor is more like a tea bread...not too sweet. But the texture and crumb is all muffin.
I sprinkled unsweetened organic shredded coconut on top before baking. Nice combination with the strawberries.
::whole wheat strawberry-orange muffins::
2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
1/4 cup turbinado (granulated) sugar
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 Tbsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup milk (room temp)
1/4 cup softened butter
2 large eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
zest and juice of one organic mandarin (small orange or clementine would be fine too)
1 1/2 cups roughly chopped frozen strawberries
unsweetened shredded organic coconut (optional)
Preheat your oven to 400°F.
Mix together the dry ingredients in a bowl. Set aside.
In a second bowl, beat together the milk, butter, vanilla, and eggs until creamy. Squeeze in the juice and add the zest.
Toss your chopped frozen strawberries (not cut too small, but not whole) into the flour. Turn to coat. Putting the fruit in the flour first will help keep it from sinking to the bottom during baking.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry. Lightly stir to incorporate. Do not overmix. Let the mix sit a few minutes.
Fill paper muffins cups or a lightly greased muffin tin about 2/3 full. Sprinkle on coconut (optional). Put in the middle rack into your pre-heated oven. Bake about 15-20 minutes...until done.
Makes about 18 normal sized muffins.
If you use normal all purpose flour (and not whole wheat), leave out the mandarin juice (keep the zest if you like) or the batter may be too thin.
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Labels: baking, muffins, strawberries
Saturday, January 3, 2009
split pea soup.
I love making soups in the winter. I know, I've said it a million times. I just love making a big pot of soup in the slow cooker and having it for lunch for a few days. Packing it for my husband to take to work. To eat for dinner with a bit of freshly baked bread. So good on a cold winter day. I picked up a bag of split peas at our local coop last week and had to make some split pea soup. I think the first time I LIKED split pea soup was in my 20s. Up until then all I knew was the nasty canned stuff my mom kept from 1971 in the back of the pantry. But while at a little cafe in Chicago I tried the soup of the day - an amazing bowl of split pea soup. I knew then how good it could be, and I was hooked!
I know the traditional split pea soup uses a ham hock or chunks of ham, but this smoked bacon version is gooooood. I had gotten some pastured organic smoked bacon from a local farm - the flavor and aroma is amazing - and it just seemed perfect for soup. It is! While the smoked bacon gives a rich flavor, this would make a good veggie soup too...
::split pea soup::
5-6 cups stock (hot)
16 oz. dried split peas
3 onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 carrots, sliced
2 med. potatoes, chopped
1 lb. smoked bacon*, cut into 1" or so bits
1 Tbsp coconut oil
bay leaf
sea salt
freshly ground pepper
sheet kombu
dash sesame oil
fresh parsley
Into your slow cooker/crock pot, add about 5 cups of your HOT stock and all of the split peas - turn to high to get it going.
Cook your bacon - I like to bake mine to manage the smell throughout the house. I put mine in a small cake pan and into a toaster oven set to 350º/bake. I just cook until it is done. Skillet is fine too. When cooked, cut into small pieces.
In a skillet, add the coconut oil and toss in the garlic and onions. Cook on high until beginning to get translucent. Add to the crock pot. When the bacon is done put that in too - and then add the potatoes, carrots, bay leaf, kombu, a dash of sesame oil (even a dash adds so much flavor!), and about a tsp of sea salt and some freshly ground black pepper. Cook on HIGH for 1 hour. Turn down to LOW, and let cook, stirring occasionally for 3-4 hours. Add a little more stock during cooking if needed...how much you need can vary based on how big your carrots/potatoes are, etc. In the last 30 minutes, pull out the bay leaf and what is left of the kombu sheet - add a handful of freshly chopped parsley. Season with more salt & pepper to taste.
I like to whiz with an immersion blender at the end to really make it more creamy - it blends the flavors, and gives that split pea look and texture. I do like to leave it chunky, so only do it enough to get the liquid to thicken a bit. If you don't have an immersion blender, you can take 1/2 of the liquid and whiz it in a food processor.
ingredient tip::
*When buying pork, be sure to buy pastured. Pastured pigs are not kept in confinement, and are free to root and dig and behave in natural ways with other pigs in the sunshine. Pastured pork is not only more humane for the pigs and better for the environment, but is also better for you. Pastured pork has higher levels of vitamins and Omega-3's. Not to mention it just tastes better. Extra bonus if you can find organic pastured pork. If you live in a farming area go find a farm! The farms where we purchase pork let us go out and visit - see where the animals are raised and walk right up and say hi to the animals (and meet the farmers!) - and we can also buy on farm directly from the farmer.
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Labels: crock pot, pork, slow cooker, soups
Thursday, January 1, 2009
dark oatmeal cookies
In my ongoing quest for good whole wheat flour cookies, I have also headed into the realm of oatmeal. I love the texture of oats, but don't really like using the quick oats, and don't like when cookies are too sugary tasting. This recipe turned out great. The dark sugars and molasses work well with the oats and whole wheat flour too - making a very rich robust chewy cookie (lots of flavor) that is soft fresh out of the oven and yet doesn't fall apart when stored. Even my 5 year old who doesn't like seeds or chunks in his food ate some - they smell so good!
::dark oatmeal cookies::
1 3/4 cup steel cut oats (not quick oats)
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 1/4 stick butter, softened
1/3 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/3 cup turbinado (or granulated) sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 Tbsp molasses
Mix together dry ingredients in a bowl. Set aside. In a mixer/Kitchen Aid, mix together sugars and butter until creamy. Add in egg, molasses, and vanilla - mixing a little in between each addition. Scoop in the dry ingredients from the bowl a bit at a time on low-med until all incorporated.
On a lined cookie sheet drop 1-2 tablespoon sized balls a few inches apart. Put into a pre-heated 375º oven (middle rack) for 10-11 minutes until golden brown! If you like them softer, pull out a minute early - if they are going in a cookie jar, leave them in the full time. Let sit on pan for 1 minute before transferring to a cooling rack.
ingredient tip::
Even a little bit of good quality molasses is a good thing. In addition to providing quickly assimilated carbohydrates, blackstrap molasses can increase your energy by helping to replenish your iron stores - blackstrap molasses is a very good source of iron. Blackstrap molasses is also an excellent source of manganese and copper and a good source of iron, calcium, vitamin B6, potassium, selenium and magnesium.
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1/2A Sky Squire
by R Jess Krieser, Richard Browning
39in span
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1/2A Sky Squire - Radio control sport trainer model. This is a modern CAD-redrawn plan. Quote from Richard Browning: "The 1/2A version 39in span and a 48in span version were both published in American Aircraft Modeler June 1969 issue. The original 57" span version was first published in the March-April 1966 Grid Leaks Magazine ...The late R. Jess Krieser designed all three versions the 57in was kitted by Midwest Models. Mr. Krieser also designed many of the early Carl Goldberg kits (Falcon, Skylark, and Skylane). The plane was ahead of its time very attractive easy to build and I don't think and modern sport trainer has anything on it. My first successful R/C model after a few failures using single channel escapement equipment was the 1/2A Sky Squire with a World Engines Digit Midget single channel ($69.00) for rudder only and a TD 0.51 it flew great ...I hope we start to se more of these aircraft at the field they are truly a great design"
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The app I've created with the help of some friends is finally out on the iTunes App Store!
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SG ANGLERS on the App Store!
It's still abit raw but I believe within 2 months when information is collated and updated properly it would be a useful app!!
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It's no surprise that Lucy Cousins' books are such hits with parents and children alike, and Hooray for Birds! is no exception. This delightful book is like candy to children's eyes and ears. But good-for-you candy. Which parents like a whole lot too.
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Nobody wants taxes to go up, but homeowners are happy to know their investment increased in value. It's possible that most Montana homeowners will be satisfied on both counts when statewide reappraisal notices are mailed out next summer.
Every six years the Montana Department of Revenue is required by law to reappraise the value of all property in the state. One step in that massive reappraisal process is to look at what homes have sold for over the past six years. The department's research shows little change on average statewide, but a positive trend for the Billings region.
Sale prices rising
In Yellowstone County, the median price of a home that sold in 2013 was 19.97 percent higher than in 2008. Back then the median was $182,550. In 2013, the median was $219,000, which means that half the homes sold that year for more than $219,000 and half sold for less.
Statewide, the DOR's preliminary numbers show a change of plus or minus 5 percent to 10 percent, as previously reported by The Gazette State Bureau. In the previous reappraisal cycle, the statewide change was an increase in sales prices of 55 percent.
These numbers point to something even more important: Billings' economy has recovered and is thriving. Better home sales suggest the economy is growing, good jobs are coming to the area and Yellowstone county continues to be a place where businesses want to do more business. Along with jobs and homes will certainly come more retail, more recreational and more cultural diversity, which are by-products of a healthy, thriving, robust community.
The current DOR estimate takes into account drops and gains. For example, the median sale price dropped by 15.56 percent in Ravalli County and dropped 3.32 percent in Flathead County. Meanwhile, median sale price increased 7.53 percent in Gallatin County, 5.6 percent in Missoula County, 11.6 percent in Cascade County and 13.56 percent in Lewis and Clark County.
In Richland County, on the western edge of the Bakken boom, the median home sale price last year was $250,000 – 212 percent more than it was in 2008. Over the past six years Richland County' median home sale priced fluctuated from $80,000 to $130,000, then $67,500, then $180,000, then $222,500 and finally to $250,000 in 2013.
County variations
Generally, Eastern Montana counties posted increases in home values over the past six years, according to DOR data. However, the median sale price dropped about 14 percent in Carbon County where the median last year was $200,000. In neighboring Stillwater County, the median increased nearly 19 percent over the past six years to $195,000 in 2013.
In small population counties where only one or two homes sold, the median sale price can vary wildly from year to year. Thus, the figure for one year doesn't provide much information on trends, according to Montana Department of Revenue Director Mike Kadas.
Kadas said the department will provide the 2015 Legislature with "a very good estimate of what the change will be on a county level." The Legislature usually tinkers with the property tax formula to prevent large overall increases in taxes.
Most local government spending does not increase with increases in taxable value anyway. State law limits the amount public schools can spend. Levies to pay off such things as bonds for construction of Billings schools, the public library and ballpark don't increase with taxable value.
The Billings market missed out on the housing bubble. When the bubble burst in 2008, our market didn't crash, it slowed down. Now it's speeding up, giving residents a healthy sign that our city has overcome the effects of the Great Recession and is moving forward at a pace that most other cities of 100,000 can only envy.


text: Maryland SRB's image problem By P. Kenneth Burns • Apr 20, 2016 P. Kenneth Burns Listen Listening... / 4:02 SRB's image problem The upheaval that followed the death of Freddie Gray in April 2015 had an undeniable effect on the political career of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Just as she was getting ready for a re-election campaign against her predecessor, she decided to leave public office. She will have been in Baltimore city government for 21 years when her term ends in December. But Rawlings-Blake was already facing challenges before the unrest. Audits at the center of City Comptroller's race By P. Kenneth Burns • Apr 18, 2016 Pratt: P. Kenneth Burns/King: Nick Miles Listen Listening... / 3:33 Audits at the center of City Comptroller's race Joan Pratt, Baltimore City's Comptroller since 1995, is facing her first challenger in 17 years. He's Mike King, a Northeast Baltimore resident with a background in financial operations, and he says Pratt hasn't done enough to audit city agencies. Building social capital around coffee By Fraser Smith • Apr 14, 2016 Fraser Smith Listen Listening... / 7:08 Building social capital around coffee Even before the entrepreneurs made a coffee a luxury item, the drink had a certain community-building quality. A cup-a-joe spot was a touch stone, a rallying place for people on the way to work or retired people on the way to meet other retired people. Mayor's Race: Mosby Drops Out, Pugh Drops In By John Lee • Apr 14, 2016 John Lee / WYPR Listen Listening... / 3:33 Hours before Councilman Nick Mosby shook up the race for mayor by dropping out, the frontrunner pulled a surprise of her own. State Senator Catherine Pugh had begged off from a debate Wednesday on WYPR's Maryland Morning with fellow candidates Elizabeth Embry and Councilman Carl Stokes, citing a scheduling conflict. Then about 15 minutes into the program Pugh showed up, surprising the candidates and host Tom Hall. Mosby out; backs Pugh By P. Kenneth Burns • Apr 13, 2016 P. Kenneth Burns Listen Listening... / 3:51 Baltimore City Councilman Nick Mosby announced Wednesday that he is no longer running for mayor and is throwing his support behind state Senator Catherine Pugh. The announcement in front of City Hall came hours before early voting is to begin in the primary race that largely decides city races due to the overwhelming number of registered Democrats. Mayor's Race: Final TV Debate Quiet Affair By John Lee • Apr 13, 2016 Maryland Public Television Listen Listening... / 3:18 Mayor's Race: Final TV Debate Quiet Affair The six major Democratic candidates for Mayor squared off last night in the final televised debate before the April 26 primary. However, the rules of the debate kept the candidates from questioning each other, which allowed the frontrunner to escape virtually unscathed. Costello challenged from south and west in 11th By P. Kenneth Burns • Apr 13, 2016 P. Kenneth Burns Listen Listening... / 3:54 Costello challenged from south and west in 11th Baltimore City Councilman Eric Costello is running for his own term on the council and is facing a number of challengers. He has represented the district since October 2014 when he was chosen to succeed Bill Cole, who was appointed head of the Baltimore Development Corporation by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Welch under fire in challenged ninth district By P. Kenneth Burns • Apr 7, 2016 Trevor Holman Listen Listening... / 3:42 Welch under fire in challenged ninth district William "Pete" Welch has represented the 9th district, which includes West and Southwest Baltimore, on the city council since January 2011. He was appointed to finish the term of his mother, Agnes Welch, who retired in December 2010 after nearly three decades. Two challengers – John Bullock and Jerrell Bratcher – accuse Welch of not doing enough for the district. There are three other challengers in the April 26 Democratic Primary; Nathaniel Anderson, J.B. Kenney and Shawn Key. Bryant to lead unity march on Freddie Gray anniversary By P. Kenneth Burns • Apr 4, 2016 P. Kenneth Burns / WYPR Listen Listening... / 1:03 Civil Rights Activist The Rev. Jamal Bryant said Monday that he will have a peace rally on April 24 to mark one year since Freddie Gray died from injuries suffered while in police custody and the unrest that took place after his funeral. MTA hopes new station moves people By P. Kenneth Burns • Apr 4, 2016 P. Kenneth Burns / WYPR Listen Listening... / 3:58 MTA hopes new station moves people It's the middle of the morning rush hour. The MTA Transit Team of Marc Jones and Kurt Kroncke are giving mass transit updates to 20 radio stations throughout Central Maryland, including WYPR. The team recently added a new affiliate not far from its studios in the William Donald Schaefer Building in downtown Baltimore; its own station, WTTZ. Pages« first ‹ previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … next › last »


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Results from a recent moth survey at Dorset Wildlife Trust's (DWT's) Kingcombe Centre, have revealed a record number of macro moth species found in the area, including the rare Lappet moth and Splendid Brocade, a species which was new to the UK just 17 years ago.
Amongst the 113 different species found from six different moth traps on the Dorset Butterflies and Moths course, highlights included the Splendid Brocade, which still has fewer than 150 records in the UK. This species is in the early stages of colonisation in the UK following migration from mainland Europe. The Lappet moth is a species in severe decline, and now only very rarely seen.
DWT's Kingcombe Centre Visitor Experience Officer, Nicola Hawkins said, "The weather was near perfect – hot, humid and overcast most nights – and these finds were really sensational. Many people don't realise that moths can be really stunning in colour, shape and size. Attending one of our moth workshops is a great chance to see the variety of moths on your doorstep, and also learn about how important they are to the ecosystem."
Enthusiasts from all over the country attended the Dorset Butterflies and Moths Course in July, where these sightings were made, and were delighted to experience such a diverse find of moths, including gems like Small Mottled Willows, migrants from North Africa and the Mediterranean.
Course attendee, Mike Cook said, "I really enjoyed the butterflies and moths course. The bedrooms and other facilities were excellent and the food was fantastic. The course included visitors from afar, but it was also nice to see local people come along and introduce them to what could become a fascinating and worthwhile hobby. As Northerners, we enjoy attending moth courses in the South of England, seeing all the species that we never see at home."
The arrival of autumn will bring a whole host of moths, with some amazing camouflage of autumn colours. To book your place on the next Autumn Moths course with expert David Brown (Friday 2 October – Tuesday 6 October), visit www.kingcombe.org or phone 01300 320684.


text: There's going to be a wedding! Tiffany and Chris announced they are getting married Monday, January 19th, 2009. The wedding ceremony will be at 2:30 in the afternoon on the beach near the downtown pier in Avila Beach. Afterwards, there will be a reception at the Herrera Hacienda, Nipomo Foothills, from 3:30 to about 7:00. Congratulations!


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Interview with Jill Jones
Photo of Jill Jones
For more poetry
Jill Jones
Traverse: songs
To tell at edges
I tell myself on edges, rocked water.
Fog memory curves from the shell.
My remarkable heart murmurs
brain noise, like mediums, spirit and cell
under skin, breast and down
scripting air loops into skeleton.
I've re-worked time, scribbled waves
on rocks in star-wobbled courses
sung light storms from hope
chilled whispers to curled toes
in isolated pools, fish darts sense them!
align with the ever-plaint of sea.
A gull's sigh into the white rise
breaches my language in one cry.
Aoraki hidden
Today there is no sun.
I've lost count of layers to the sky.
Finally here, covered in water on valley down
my eyes have no remedy
against crowded distance or the wind
that makes up all its sound.
We may have wished the mountain open
the face something to easily reckon.
And we can't count layers to the rain
around us air not yet frozen
or space above which can't be seen
though its movement is a hard return.
Somehow we stand, do not mind
clouded pattern, the hidden peak, the wind.
The traverse
Each day fills full
heaves a word past blot
with much to tell
on each strange street
not without love
nothing will tell
on our groove
until we can be still.
Forget how to time
night's wee tomb
or what is home
must be warm.
We can't say one
but picture stone.
That talk about morn
each day's small pain
too late to return
to mistimed noon.
Strange how we burn
skin to rosy bloom
the holes in the sun
turn age to crime.
If only we'd seen
the leaf's green hem
without heat's harm
in a car's long dream.
No cloud obscures
the drape of flowers.
Out of the car park
Do structures bring together
in high lights or dark
an overlap of foreign affairs
and trade in failure?
The mesh over the car park
entrance catches the brown leaves, but
lets cars go forward.
What do we expect, a political voice?
When the glass is half full, who's
tripping on the level playing field
keeping a little shine on the ball
less spin or a medium pace
anticipating the gaps, the stamps
a big boot, no support?
Dream horses
Where are your eyes?
Nothing has prepared us for this.
What is earth?
There's a pain that remembers bone and horn.
Is the sky above?
Only figures in a landscape.
How fast with the wind?
Even the broken floats in dreamland waters.
Do you remember when?
You will know when you see us.
Will you take us with you?
Born into the boundless plain.
How long have you been here?
Our names were once Surefoot and Swift.
Do you think we will be happy?
Dream horses do not need your eyes.
after Clay Horses by Sidney Nolan
To be seen again
Suddenly within a moment which gives back
all my white secrets, of disfunction and the lone
of voice I used. Quit exculpation! I hacked it
the sawdust lines that part of sticking brain
with its keys yes, she walks by and smiles a bit
could not be surprised how is it? Uncontainable
needy, all my revisions, hers, theirs, all my backflips.
I can't pretend I'm just a table
as I've never pretended I fitted those loose
areas of life round kitchen settings of others.
What would I have rathered of course, not the truth
which dissembles as it moves across the waters.
I might want to ask for some things back.
I could not expect any special orders.
Flying against the odds
My clumsy game takes place between a smudgy breeze
and the cut-up mornings, dreamt in herds.
As if I could cancel wherever I've trod
while black grubs, mosquito heat, the dried up sod
falls away from roots, if that seems too extreme
I'm filled up with all the wrong things, dulled in slats
a request for more slackened hair-dos, an ice-blink
sinking like an unloved computer (so I sighed for thee)
seated with a mighty heat, as the city's spume and offence
flusters at disorder with its clipped grey wings. Make it stop!
I know this is a dissatisfied world and faith's against all odds
but that over-riding of it, too, extends heaven's insane
dangling, like a pain beginning, or exquisite
I roll on the train, with every gadget and pittance.
Lacking sleep
The morning begins in clay
there's no sleep to out slumber
benign weariness, or tell where path
might create more than traffic twist
so I may avoid the steely turn
or remove rust coat in the held tumbler.
Chemical gutter in full green wrath
and storm heavy in sky amethyst
fills my way stem to stern
as the scratch of minutes muster
their sway within my thin amplitude
leaving to no time for refining day.
Although this isn't to flag a hard mood.
All to have, and need, is cloud lustre.
Far-off blue
Here's a heat that's borne
far from the clouds, down
where images are blown
among horizons, onto noon
where waves finally crawl
on street glass and frame
over skin remembered cool.
We edge a little, some
glint in the blue spar
or fade at the doors
opening breathy disrepair
wait for the hours
dreamt cold as we rose
clear and far off paradise.
Bats are hunting fruit, their hacking noise
and a painful ache. I don't know the fruit
they seek, something from a gum maybe
further up the street. And footsteps
a clack of trains and underneath
my working breath, painful too
my muscles pinched into my spaces
neither hollow, nor filed out, but stuck.
Trains carry the lonely and planes. Loss
spreads like highway, wings, disease, excuses.
'I have to go' and people go. I have gone.
One day I shall already be gone. But the tree
still breathes, kerchak kerchak, as if bats
are feeding their god in the guttural dark.
Wandering as method
I thought of that city, a place I couldn't have foreseen.
Your unknown arms formed along its infinite.
See how I filter my blindness, as though it strain
to the very thought of you, as one who's never been
visualised amongst all this flash. You were silence. Words
may wink, each sentence make its small advance.
Can I really not pretend, lever not one single detail
with such nerve, such savoir faire, a wish to please
this damaged love, this viral, unnecessary god.
From our garden the zeal had poured away
so I don't remember why we started.
Broken breath revealed the white wound beneath.
I purified my heart with courage and indifference.
I wander in my doubter's method of the way.
Homeland, Everywhere
Was I designed to live in my head
or be ungainly in the rue?
Twisty guts of roads, see-through
maps annotate the north of my skin.
Lands of cloud haze, wooden doors.
And did sadness begin upon boulevards
where statues trick Glory's verdigris and gold?
I'd have to live here within my own.
Recover nothing out of drastic surgery.
The new is never the now. Bow to the meridian!
Flakes in the crypt disturb the axes of everyday.
Glass towers needle gothic dark.
The quotidian radio sings a universal language.
Someone out there?
Images of the Revolution
What country doesn't love us?
Where to hide, where to stand.
We talk under a bridge
under gold statues in afternoons
light flooding the blond faces
of each building along the curve.
Ripples of water traffic with sky.
There's dark in the never-ending stairwell
the ghost of cold on the third floor
at Rue Lancret, smells of varnish and stone
a patina reveals itself everyday
perhaps in use before the revolution.
And today in the Marais
flowers appear beside bullet holes.
Lines and fire
Grot among root
Still thaw
But the chill
Crawls a glimmer
Dawn dark's cold
Hasten and haze
Hill line's blur
Ground brown
Seed furred
Branch flare
Splay to orange
Ochre and flange
Year's fit
Now for fire
The future
How massive seems the sky inflated with pages
fever folded into piffle journalism, it is more
than to be coped with. Come love me then
if thou art famished. If the fire has gone from art.
And music, well, its dire straits are everywhere
the nurture of tattoos across kid bellies
each fresh in the white discharge of phoneland
distext of modern teeth and tongues.
If I'm receiving you that I may be filled.
And later, to be kissed by the sea
amongst salt and dogs, a bulging sun.
Our hunger swoops upon our dreams.
The revolution is in the messagebank.
Taste the devil's details! And let's see.
The new laws
streets, air's breadth
but come inside
to discuss
seduction, rather than
what's in voices
heavy, lifting
hoping this weather
just another one
of our tantrums
walking out the door
The dress sonnet
I have taken off my little dress, there's no scope
for me within it, there are things
that fall down the body, like breath and the texture
of the flap. This is a button I can't do.
I don't want to argue on the easy side. 'Don't expect
an audience or a reveal.' O, the little dress
shimmers in the near breeze as I'm falling down
my body and, at last with my ear to the ground.
It's too late in the season to please as wind removes
my feathers and shaves my bones with that first whip
of change, and each winter, if it comes along, do I
need its great coat, will I have done with cumbered sleeves?
Sometimes I could do with the humour of a petticoat.
O, let me part the clouds, let me in.
Songs of the unguarded
All confessions lie in the accounts
and each shell is hidden.
There are certain demands to being a visitor
(of course, I was lonely).
The city had its goodbye signs
desire summed up in property
carrying our various droughts
loves that surpassed cliché.
I walked in decreasing circles
(of course, I've turned it around now).
Underneath the cosmetic there was shine
a pregnant harvest and a dollar sign
hammer, rock and blow
(now I understand how hard).
If speed is death, it figures
under the circumstances, in blinding rain
as twilight arranges its geography
through its miles of rustling plains.
The harbour has buried the kiss
(I remember youth as artificial)
and facts are round as reality
breathing like faithful dogs.
The hide and seek of history
encouraged all our false papers.
It was hard to go on without makeup
(only then I was truly lonely).
A mountain doesn't blame its height
water falls with memory.
There is a number easy to ignore
it is stored in the bones
but what has happened to my edges?
(I am never anxious among them.)
Skin peels when it ends
stripping away the winter
remember, parties were driving home
past all the concrete landscapes.
The regime was finally finished
(but still it coats me)
this year, that year, due mondi
(I still have the faintest wound).
It's hard to ride the invincible
harder to shatter the jazz.
Background shapes into weather
where the horses are perfect
in fallow wastes, beyond the verandah
the golden song is of death.
Where are the lonely when you need them
(I've hidden in their crevices)?
Fecund mangroves emerge along the canal
there's pressure on valves of the heart.
Mortality and love, inseparable
like longing at the foot of a peak
which hears distance in the insect chime
(I have been blown like this).
The intervals are now unguarded
(I wade into the midst).
You go away as summer
moves inside me breathe rattle breathe
an embryo floating on sky, your card
adds to your call, as I'm thinned to blood reality
far from the city where they cover Oscar
with kisses, hide Alice behind the stone.
There's a loss of continuity this time of the world.
Green praise rustles avenues, pollen fine hair falls
gear and shuffle clearing my hill of mistakes.
I will have you back in this latitude
that's fair, ample in sky and ground.
Despite the drag of seasons
finally the weather opens its arms.
A new version of blue will be blowing
summer skin into our hands.
One night
after hours
One night falls, the cold glare lit
that not a cloud, polished sheets
moon forms hills, previewed spirit
breaks much blew, darkness, horizon.
Green network, branches, dowsing sleep
cavities, stained glare cracking silence.
Burnt the light, unperceived, entrap
disorder below full moon, exhausted.
Wrapped in covers, moulded through
moon in-drawn, blown the light
edging pavement, hummocks, diffuse
go inward, during, exhausted, regain.
Unsparing or timid eye of sleep
deplete the night, escape, rolled on.
deep hours
One night black, rolled on, escape
gloss on branches before resignation
sun or cloud tide broken under
examined colour, fretted light.
Unperceived damage, o what lapses!
Buoyed decay, disturbed with frost
door and night, distant sweepings
as became all these green knots.
To sleep if you burn while in-drawn
vacate wood, cracked by peace
within, the bush looks surface
stain, scribbly bark, broken underfoot.
Breaches dark hills, listening gate
waked up, the rise, sun-wasted.
dawn hours
One night's colour, sun-wasted
lucent, ignites through windows
extreme deflection, perfect bright
the ruptures of very skies.
Assemble density, that small root
a rope to flank dawn, to light
green with tide, moved far from forests
here, more loss, I cover dark.
Era illuminated, older haze
before sun, water, surface
continent track along cold peace
an automobile waked up, rolled, ascent.
Colours phase, moon losing form
day lit, window, laughter.
Perhaps the grip's become less firm
life not lived than might be
as if I'm no longer living in my room.
I've lifted, lied, made things fly
out of mornings into flarish noon.
All the leaves in the garden burned.
Where's the example when there's none?
All spare minutes are consumed.
I talk my way out of possession
and settle in the bland square suite.
How light feels when things are gone
even if windows are obstinate.
When the future knocks on its demand
I can imagine ways I'll be found.
A snap in time
There's no such thing as an innocent day
but an important emptiness still ticks the kitchen.
I think of tomorrow, how a new day opens
but first grope's for coffee, the last milk. Say!
Where's time if a clock's dead, it's been eight fifteen for days.
I've written deliberately on scraps with a leaky pen
of actual golden time, old friends hoarded, forgotten.
I'm lazy, a drowsy cat watching lizards play
but a cavity within keeps insisting the catch
no matter, trains are late, traffic tuned to chaos.
To be not anxious nor irritable, checking a watch
everything says so much, stance, gesture, dress.
All this fire is from mutual heat, a single match.
It's this standing apart, watching, that's curious.
Self portraits among friends
We've rearranged skin, ourselves and objects.
There's something about pinks, greens, a glow of the substance.
We spill over the table, the vase, the frame.
Legends of the mirror stare back, a little behind their own cloud,
Nothing neat in living within this fashioned thing.
Interior assumes the outside, garden, dust ochres.
The self is more than a stare.
Something's always thriving here, woven, arrived, and arriving.
Turn to your surroundings, these intimacies of objects, the strength
in your arm and these different testaments, muscle and jug,
fine petalled veins.
How much could each line truly show as the crowd presses
to the glass?
The wildflowers are in bloom within rooms that part, that float
flour, salt, dust, pollen, human scale and scurf, threadlets
of paper and wool tangle in the light the thousand ways
particles fall, the thousand ways you don't hear them.
Or alternate with ink on rag, curling with hair on the brush ready
to absorb someone's gaze, a feast of shells, gifts for eyes
and mouths.
In the wishing there's bristle, scratches through the flat space
paper's sallow pink.
As the day moves on, there's no black and white.
What can be said this side of a cheek where direction is always
towards dissolve in oil, in history?
What is said on each stained postcard?
And where things are placed this time, unlike day's necessity
to the left where light comes into it, are these forms of human
When the artist finishes, here's the open palms on the cloth.
And then, the other, the night, forms of its biography.
How does one centre on a kiss, which one, good and bad
within, surface, central?
Here you've left an opening.
Is the sun shining, the wind one of those stunning westerlies,
drying ink before it reaches intentions, laying thought
in its dust?
The shape of a face is a kind of protection.
The unsettled, backward face, assuming we are ourselves.
How simple can be the air between us.
Something will break, perhaps this is normal.
We may not know what we really meant.
after 'Portrait in the Mirror', Margaret Olley, and 'Self Portrait at 24', Donald Friend
Out of a field
In writing me, flowers interrupt conclusions
though they don't advance more than a weight of dreams.
There's a jump between messages (taken as green).
I feel traffic pushing resistance, as walls enter me
applauding a burn in change, inviting rain as beaten.
After that peace then a fine parenthesis of nerves
as out of doubt the sweet debris falls, parts of form
that spreads me through the mortal world.
Is the private individual a symptom or a problem?
Still, rain identifies hills, or rain disappears layers.
I go now where words tear into a memory
and cold hours mate with the interior's words
observed in the dust, but along all the tripways
layers of colour bathe the morning with savour.
Breathless in season
The glistered heat becomes banal
as names shimmy on the memory shrine.
I attempt a wishful clarity that orients
the heart, tho' my two-bit memoirs decline,
retreat or erupt as if sudden interior bacchanal
could work amnesia or prevent
struggle with hills. I want to survey
clouds, in hope rain would bestow
its soft sting, or something braver
than logic's need to know,
that useless regret cease its parley,
or I'd act beyond my own behaviour.
A fear of nothingness begets unrest
and breath that never was, now expressed.
Things I learned in Bay 13A
That sleep is imagination and I was immaculate
among understudy revenants in unknotted gowns
waiting for some allegro of welcome breeze, between
a pressure of feet and the incandescence of the asterisk.
That sleep is neither fantasy nor sensible.
It is a shed flower that balances then falls to the left-
hand side, the sharp pleasure is a phantom
with a ruinous smile, in the sideshow of blips and bings.
That sleep is a contract of itself although beauty
isn't right anymore, the canula blooms a tattoo
within the shadow of my inner arm, so I know I'm here.
What is scary, if the darkness that is being cannot die
nor will it change, though all are changed? And I find
on this graph the image of my heart is there.
To absent bodies!
Where is the
vanishing point of
cloth? Whose body
will it increase?
The material falls
away. Who has
drunk and who
has left? Nothing
is the same.
The raptness washes
over you, waves
in the weft.
We are never
free of body.
Absent hands, here
drink to me.
after 'Sewing Machine', Donald Friend
To praise air
It's a raising of terrible peace, or desire in a wet eye.
It's sky's consideration, fall of slow patience
a private victim, the tender nipple, a right piss-off.
Ventilating distant consequence, beyond paper
far and nothing to have dreamed! An engaged tone
desperation waked up, a blue tobacco, drugs
voiceless, a pilot's appeal, shiver for brains
a page's peroration beyond the paraphrase.
Last request, flanks of angel dust, one more gasp
of ventolin, fucking, clamour, and tracks impelling towards
the everything-machine, shooting a load, or unloading.
Elasticity, excess, things for the scared, a dreamer's being
a basket of thrills, a damp reverie, something halting
included/ misunderstood/ for nothing/ but
Summer is very large and cinemas fill with stone
but about me and about your feet is the friendliness
of breath, lowering.
We hop through trails and small valleys of suburbs
not worried at how the glass turns.
All the words in newspapers show concern
a reassuring commitment to disrepair
and other entertainments, the nonsense that collects
over loops of rifles, at the black core of it.
The old back-ups say 'get stuffed'
but I still get high on breath, a woman
the transitions on your lips.
OK, I admit I collect my own nonsense, still
but carry it to balance all with each hand.
Some of these poems, often in earlier or variant forms, have appeared in the following journals and chapbooks:
Agenda (UK)
c-side CD Mix 01
The Famous Reporter
Fold Unfold, Vagabond Press, Sydney, 2005 Kindred Spirits: Olley and Friend, DiVerse/National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 2006
A number of poems were also originally written for the Poetryetc snapshot project.
'Out of the car park': Thanks to Frederick Pollack for suggesting changes.
'You go away as summer': In Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas are buried together, however Alice's inscription is on the back of the tombstone.
'A snap in time': reworks portions of an earlier poem 'Eleven fifteen', a sequence of eleven 15 line poems originally published in Flagging Down Time, Five Islands Press, 1993, and reprinted in Screens Jets Heaven: New and Selected Poems, Salt Publishing, 2002.
Jill Jones is a poet and writer who lives in Sydney, Australia. Her work has been widely published in most of the leading literary periodicals in Australia as well as in a number of print magazines in New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Britain and India. She is also widely published online. Her latest books are her fifth full length work, Broken/Open (Salt, 2005), which was short-listed for The Age Book of the Year 2005 and the 2006 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize, and three chapbooks, Fold Unfold (Vagabond, 2005) poems written in response to paintings; Where the Sea Burns (Picaro, 2004); and Struggle and Radiance: Ten Commentaries (Wild Honey Press, 2004).
In 1993 she won the Mary Gilmore Award for her first book of poetry, The Mask and the Jagged Star (Hazard Press). Her third book, The Book of Possibilities (Hale & Iremonger), was shortlisted for the 1997 National Book Council 'Banjo' Awards and the 1998 Adelaide Festival Awards. Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems won the 2003 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize (NSW Premier's Literary Awards).
She has collaborated with photographer Annette Willis on a number of projects, including c-side, and also Sea Shadow Land Light, a multimedia presentation first delivered at the On the Beach conference held by Edith Cowan University at Fremantle in February 2004.
She was a co-founder, with Laurin McKinnon, of BlackWattle Press, and in 1995 she co-edited (with Judith Beveridge and Louise Wakeling) A Parachute of Blue, an anthology of contemporary Australian poetry. With Michael Farrell, she co-edited a selection of Australian erotic poetry for a 2003 edition of Slope online magazine. She has been a film reviewer, journalist, book editor and arts administrator.
She maintains a weblog Ruby Street, as well as two websites, her home page and poems extracted from her weblog off the street
To order books by Jill Jones
From Salt Publishing:
Broken/ Open
Screens Jets Heaven
From Vagabond Press:
From Wild Honey Press:
Struggle and Radiance
Reviews of Broken/Open:
By Peter Boyle in The Famous Reporter
By Angela Gardner in foam:e
Reviews of Struggle & Radiance:
By Peter Minter in Jacket
By Maria Christoforatos in Cordite
Other on-line references to Jill Jones's poetry:
Poetry International Web
Australian Literary Resources


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by: Gillian Shaw
In my previous post, I wrote about the increasing trend in using LinkedIn as a job search tool. Here are top 10 points on how to make your LinkedIn profile work for you when you're looking for work:
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Salem police and fire stations to become 'baby safe havens'
SALEM — The town has joined many others across the country who are committed to protecting newborns abandoned by their parents.
There will be yellow signs at police and fire stations calling these places, a "baby safe haven," The Eagle-Tribune reported.
The goal of this initiative is to reduce the tragedies involving infants who are born to parents that can't care for them.
Across the country, 70 infants were saved last year through this program.
Safe havens aren't limited to police and fire stations. They can be at churches and hospitals as well.


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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's agenda to put horse-drawn carriage rides out to pasture now has an ally in the animal rights group PETA.
PETA has announced the release of a new ad campaign in support of the proposed ban, which will feature minor celebrities Tim Gunn, Anjelica Huston, Edie Falco and Russell Simmons.
The group and its celebrity delegates will reportedly urge City Council members to support the Mayor's proposed horse-carriage ban by highlighting their perception of the cruel nature of the tradition.
PETA told The New York Post the ads would feature a horse that died on the street in 2011, paired with a photo of one of the celebrities and a quote.
Anjelica Huston will say, "It's surprising to me that a city known for its progressive spirit still allows this cruel and dangerous tourist trap."
Tim Gunn will state, "Carriage drivers have been filmed spewing racist, sexist and homophobic taunts at anyone who dares express concern for the unfortunate horses."
New York State labor coalition AFL-CIO announced their opposition to the ban on Friday, citing the loss of 300 middle-class jobs.
AFL-CIO President Mario Cilento said:
At a time of wage stagnation and an economy that replaces good jobs with those that confine workers to poverty, it's shocking that the city would even consider destroying the horse carriage industry.
The PETA ads are set for release on Monday.


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Quotes About Our Actions
The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others' well-being, then all our actions will be positive.Send Quote
I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir.Send Quote
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.Send Quote
Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of what you will do when the chips are down, my friend. When the fat lady is singing. When the walls are falling in, and the sky is dark, and the ground is rumbling. In that moment our actions will define us. And it makes no difference whether you are being watched by Allah, Jesus, Buddah, or whether you are not. On cold days a man can see his breath, on a hot day he can't. On both occasions, the man breathes.Send Quote
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.Send Quote
I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.Send Quote
The principle of self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church, that of agency. Just as each individual is accountable for his choices and actions in spiritual matters, so also is he accountable in temporal matters. It is through our own efforts and decisions that we earn our way in this life. While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet. Ultimately, our own actions determine our blessings or lack of them. It is a direct consequence of both agency and accountability.Send Quote
It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.Send Quote
It is possible to be honest every day. It is possible to live so that others can trust us-can trust our words, our motives, and our actions. Our examples are vital to those who sit at our feet as well as those who watch from a distance. Our own constant self-improvement will become as a polar star to those within our individual spheres of influence. They will remember longer what they saw in us than what they heard from us. Our attitude, our point of view, can make a tremendous difference.Send Quote
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.Send Quote
For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result we clutch on to happiness and suffering as real, and in our unskillful and ignorant actions go on sowing the seeds of our next birth. Our actions keep us bound to the continuous cycle of worldly existence, to the endless round of birth and death. So everything is at risk in how we live now at this very moment: How we live now can cost us our entire future.Send Quote
It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you.Send Quote
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.Send Quote
Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.Send Quote
Before making peace, war is necessary, and that war must be made with our self. Our worst enemy is our self: our faults, our weaknesses, our limitations. And our mind is such a traitor! What does it? It covers our faults even from our own eyes, and points out to us the reason for all our difficulties: others! So it constantly deludes us, keeping us unaware of the real enemy, and pushes us towards those others to fight them, showing them to us as our enemies.Send Quote
Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.Send Quote
A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an adult can have a kind of mission. He can be an inspiration for the child's actions, a kind of open book wherein a child can learn how to direct his own movements. But an adult, if he is to afford proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.Send Quote
My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.Send Quote
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On 4/11/07, Dhawan, Vikram (LNG-DAY) <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Hi James, > > Thanks for your help and suggestion here. But this brings another > concern. > > There is always a possibility that some one can write a client app which > connects to AMQ on any of the real AMQ ports (61616/61613/61617 in > sample configuration) and disconnects the same way as Load Balancer is > doing. And what appears to me is this will cause AMQ to throw exceptions > like following, and which will result AMQ going out of memory. That exception looks fine to me. ActiveMQ should be reclaiming any memory for bad connections - exception stack traces don't use up any RAM. If you're seeing a memory leak then its a bug. Which version do you see this in? -- James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
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December 3, 2009 (LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.) --Two people were injured when a semi carrying a load of mud collided with a vehicle on Route 60 in Libertyville.One of the victims had to be extricated from the wreckage. The extent of those injuries is unknown.
The truck lost its load of mud and Route 60 is closed east of Route 21 while officials investigate.