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The first thing is give hugs, kisses and love in the form that they need it. Every person grieves in different ways. You may need to be the voice of reason, the reason the blinds fly open or the vehicle to get fresh air.
Be that and more for as long as they need it but don't be pushy. In other words, don't give advice or say negative things that the person obviously doesn't want to hear right now about how horrible he or she is, you were too good, etc. That can be damaging and make the person defensive and even seek to prove you and everyone else wrong when they truly should be moving on. Just be a source of GOOD, GOOD TIMES & GOOD LAUGHS! Eventually they will come around on their own and that inner strength is really what they need.
How can you help a friend going through a breakup?
It's hard to see a friend going through a bad breakup. What are things you can do to help them through this rough time?
The first thing is give hugs, kisses and love in the form that they need it. Every person grieves in different ways. You may need to be the voice of reason, the reason the blinds fly open or the vehicle to get fresh air.
Just be there for them and let them know that you ARE there for them. Let them vent when they need to, support them when they need support, be a shoulder when they need one. Nothing you say is really going to help - this is something they have to do in their own time, but having friends they can really talk to is so important.
Cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it. Nothing you can do to change it - and even if there is, you won't change it by dwelling on the hurt or the past.
Listen, Listen, Listen and then Listen some more!
HUMOR IS THE KEY. Wish the man an ingrown toenail.
Always be there to listen .. she will want to talk and talk.. and when she is tired , keep her occupied with outings and a friends .,. let her know that time heals all wounds ..
It really depends on the breakup and why it's happened.
When heart is hurt, mind cannot rationalize so that its better to console a friend by sitting beside her and extend her a listening ear!
Let them take things as they are and not as they should be......
The best way to help a friend going through a breakup is to advice them to always do background check on their are partner, i would have experience breakup thrice if not for the intervention of my IT friend who introduce me to a private investigator (email@example.com), he helped in providing full and free access to my Ex social media and messages this was how i knew he's been cheating on me. Now am in a real Relationship with a real partner thanks to computer surgeon, y'all should contact him, just tell him Carol referred you
Just be there sometimes that even means not being there, but letting them know you are around. Don't judge, just listen, allow to vent. Laugh, cry whatever they need, don't make it about you its all about them at that point.
This is happening to me now. Alot of my married and committed friends dont know how to be because they've never been through it. Just be there for your friend. Ask them over for dinner or to watch a movie or go grab coffee or a drink. The hardest thing is to be alone..
Key is listening,but also be truthful ,sometimes we want to agree just to make the person happy ,even though we do not agree at all.Honesty is a PLUS and in the long run will be appreciated.They may not like it but really do need it .I am currently going through it with my bestfriend and she says thank you to me all the time and i am always up front and honest with her .
Being there for him or her when she/he needs someone to talk to. Giving them any support they need, above all advising them that there is no need to cry over split milk and making them realise that its time to move on and leave the past where it belongs; in the past and focus on the future and what the future holds for them. When a person is faced with a problem there is no need to dwell on the problem at hand but to seek the solution to the problem and move on and forget about the problem, though forgetting will not just happen in an instant. With time everythn will be back to normal as the saying goes that time is the healer of all wounds.
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As they say, now for something completely different.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
The Black Tulip
But addictive too, like one's first drink
The body knows it's of no good
But the ingrained mind going
Soft, seedy, getting mildly fouled
Knows no better than that world
It had abandoned, when it was fresh
Full of sapience, vital and almost free
Flowing without hesitation, in the wind
Blowing without obstacle, on the tulips
Swaying without trepidation, in that song
Of May, yellows through reds, the season
Where life should of begun- nothing was
Sombre or murky- the rain fell as pure
As diamond crystals, the quite Earth
Was a gift to be gently unwrapped,
An unhurried experience to be revealed
In its own rhythmic surely paced way
There can never be any going back.
And their fragrance the mind will forget
For black has become the colour of light
Absorbing all into the ways of this world,
Where only memories redeem the lost soul.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Dante In Limbo
That exiled noble, waiting for Virgil
Under these drab perspex bus shelters
Queuing with us for the 45 @ 3.35,
To Bray - amongst the fag faced women
Wrinkled almost to death with their
Over laden shopping bags and husbands
Gone quite indifferent with each passing year,
Having broken conversations with the skies
Or with the coiled bends in the Liffey- in fact
With anyone who'll stop to listen anymore,
For everyone, even Beatrice, it seems there's a destination
With their unique number boldly embossed on it
For like the hairs on one's proverbial head
Death comes in minuscule well tempered steps,
Strolling like a fat sated dandy or Businessman,
Well healed and always hitting the correct notes
Causing sudden stirs or creating dramatic scenes
He loves an audience- And for heads to turn;
He who has seen it all- visible as a tramp
Musing without a word on the passer-by's
Circling our thoughts, circling this Limbo
Waiting just out of the rain, waiting just like us.
Ode To A Telephone Box
I didn't think they made
Them, anymore, archaeology
Or architecture, you wink slyly
But, I can't honestly say- anymore
What such terms really mean!
Yet, in Dunfanaghy's quaint lined street
Lights, they seem to ambiguously greet
This old grey fella, as one of their own
These static, stately ambassadors, made
In an world that wasn't always ahead of time!
Red Admiral
Butterfly, Butterfly
Your sudden motion
Awakened, something
Deep, within.....
I watch you, transfixed
Simplicity and beauty
Formed into one
Butterfly, Butterfly
I watch you take first flight..!
Thursday, February 21, 2013
The voice of objective reason.
Normal as Job's glided asylum
With sanity observing the clouds
And condensing the contradictions
Of her, fragile disembodied truth
That is forecast to rain, black tears
From your grey desiccated mouth
The lustrous river deity has entered
Its ultimate stage, broadening along
The bitten serpent, shaped as Cancer
With a body, not of its own, washing out
The contours, of your age, of your time
On the loosening tides of natural definitions
Where the mind's pulse distorts, each breath
Swimming to catch up with the next breath
Dead weights hang like charm and tough luck,
When the gravity of such things, eventually settles-
Like condensed droplets irradiating the sky
In symbols only the stray gulls can interpret
In abeyance, living becomes microscopic-
A careless purple spot, the rotten thumb-track,
The overripe, obese, tanned, decaying grapes
Absurdly, suggestive of a Claesz painting
In the overheated wards of ones imagination
We can, but wonder at what currents leads us
To those obscured walls, with fading graffiti
Stating the plain, indisputable fact "I was here"
Yet, tonight, they will arrive, as on every night
Dislocated fragments, stacked up, on newspapers
Fingered and stained with Royal weddings
And that blazing star who didn't quite make it
A suicide, A homicide, no matter, it seems
It's just a corpse, in the dreams of yesterday
It's just another day their dreams were made of-
It's just another night where their dreams ended-
When Nurses robed like fables came and went,
Patrolling their estranged souls like oversized orderlies
Unlocking every doorway under the high sky-lights-
Of a surgeon's knife, mending the flesh wounds
That cannot be fixed, for they cannot be determined-
Like yourself and that malignant serpent, inseparable,
Entities you believed, your good God had created.
In your awakening dreams of this sprawling city
A thought, becomes ever-green, from street-to-street
You dream of her grotesque inhabitants being cured
Of that collective detritus of your newborn condition
Of acrid pavements perfuming where patients lie
Of road-sweepers disguised as waxed sentinels
Coming with buckets, ice-picks, and rubber gloves
Talons for blazing hands, detergents on the nostrils
Festooned with the flashing beacons of their trade
Before the reddening of day-light, you dream
We shall be asked, like homeless vagrants, to move on.
Still they are here, inert visitors, love long gone
Within their wilting daffodils and clinging hands
De-flowering their memories in the colour of sulphur
The Sun is consumed through them, an artificial light
Ignites the dark empty hours with her lonely satellites,
Remote, as distant, as impenetrable, as the heavens
And like, you here, now, a dying star, somewhere
This second, they tell me, is shedding its final radiance.
Recycled Waste
A new track by me, I like to think of it as "beat poetry on helium", lyrics are inspired by a creepy street corner I live by.
Lyrics: We wait at the cold, dead street corner, its indentations filled with cigarette butts and mucus, A puff of smoke floats past me, it screams in my nostrils like a neglected new-born, the thick sheet of gray that has taken the sky hostage projects a blueish hue on everything, the only colors we can see are in our minds now, As the buzz-cut skeletons and bleached corpses wander around us, one wonders if they are content with who, what they are, do they sleep, do they dream? The cold air blows the thoughts from my mind, as the light beckons us to the other side of the road.
Friday, February 15, 2013
The Trial: Flight From Self
In The Trial by Franz Kafka, Josef K. is put "on trial" for an unnamed offense. Prior to this, conflicts and inconvenient desires are ignored, festering under the bland surface of his rigid, routine existence, where even his visits to his mistress take place on the same day each week. The trial brings those conflicts out into the open.
K's plight worsens the more he shies away from taking responsibility for himself. He represses a strong feeling of guilt which emerges abruptly at decisive moments, while in court, he denies all guilt until the very end. To Miss Burstner he says: "Your room was thrown into disorder a bit this morning, through my fault to a certain extent--it was done by strangers, against my will, and yet, as I said, through my own fault." The "strangers" in question are the warders, who are whipped by the authorities following K's accusation, and he cries out, "I do not consider them to be guilty at all; it is the organization that is guilty, it is the high officials that are guilty." What is more, "it would have been almost simpler if K. had taken off his clothes and offered himself in place of the warders." And on the following day, he closes the door to the lumber room where they are being whipped, "hammering against it with his fists as if it would be shut tighter that way." His ultimate reaction to anything that doesn't fit his heretofore tidy, cloistered way of life is to deny and "shut the door" on it. He wants the lumber room cleaned out: "I tell you, we're being drowned in filth!" Conflicts, irrational incidents are experienced as overwhelming filth that must be thrown out, rather than faced and worked through.
Josef K. is very attracted to Miss Burstner, but is passive in relation to her. She has little "experience in legal matters", but she "would like to know everything, and legal matters, particularly, interest me very much. A court of justice has a particular attraction, don't you think?" She is "inordinately disappointed" that K. himself does not know what his prosecution is all about. The "court of justice" here represents the law of Josef K's inner being, or soul-self. Since he fears and in fact flees from that self, he is unable to have an truly intimate relationship with another person.
K.is in a rage at his arrest, but at the same time, he succumbs: "He harbored the intention...of offering himself up to them for arrest." He sees the situation as a "comedy", and at the same time, it gives rise to thoughts of suicide that recur throughout the novel.
His first impulse is to deny any wrongdoing, proclaiming that he has been falsely accused. He can only think of struggling against the forces threatening him. In the face of such external blows, he has not developed the kind of unassailable inner freedom and security that Kafka spoke of in Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way: "The fact that only one world of the spirit exists, takes hope from us and leaves us certainty."
K's conversation with the priest in the cathedral illustrates this concept of spiritual independence. They agree that his case is "going badly", and the priest asks him what he proposes to do about it. K's answer is: "I'm going to get more help...There are several possibilities I haven't explored yet." "You cast about too much for outside help," said the priest disapprovingly. "Don't you see it is the wrong kind of help?" K. then makes a derogatory remark about the character of the men in court, calling them "petticoat-hunters", and the priest loses patience: 'Can't you see even one pace in front of you?'...It was an angry cry, but at the same time sounded like the unwary shriek of one who sees another fall and is startled out of his senses." The priest then relates the parable "Before The Law." In this parable, there is the possibility that the man from the country can enter the door to the Law (which again, is his God-self, the Law of his Inner Being) after his death; what is more, he could have entered it during his lifetime, had he asked earlier for whom the entrance was actually intended, instead of waiting until he was at the point of death. Then he would have received the "redeeming message": the door was meant for him all along.
K., in plotting how to get "help", puts himself in the position of the man from the country pleading with the doorkeeper to let him in. As the man from the country is fixated on what he thinks of as the ultimate power of the doorkeeper, so K is fixated on the idea of getting help from others who he imagines to be "in the know", somehow more able than he to solve his problems. He has hopes that the priest will be able to help him: "...it was not impossible that K. could obtain decisive and acceptable counsel from him which might, for instance, point the way..." But at the end of their meeting the priest also identifies himself as a member of the Court, and once again K. is thrown back on himself.
K. comes to feel it is his "duty" to execute justice upon himself, but as he is never clear about the details of this, he is executed in a "play" put on by puppet-like "tenors" and "supernumerary actors." In the end, he is assailed with questions:
Like a sudden blaze of light, the casements of a window flashed open there; a human being, faint and tenuous in the distance and at that elevation, suddenly leaned far forward and stretched his arms even farther out. Who was it? A friend? A good person? Someone who was concerned? Someone who wanted to help? Was it a single individual? Was it everybody?
Josef K. does not know the answer to these or the other questions raised by his trial; he has not attained certainty within himself. But, even as the man from the country in the parable "Before The Law" may be able to enter the door to the Law after his death--for the "portal of the Law is always open...always, that is, irrespective of the duration of life for the man for whom it is ordained, the doorkeeper will not be able to close it"--so too, perhaps, Josef K. may attain certainty after his death. He has made progress; he has been forced to look into himself, has learned that there are important questions, and he yearns to know the answers.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Tierra del Fuego
How they lived in the land of fire
A naked race elbowed out of existence
Naked not just to the shallow, oily flesh
But to the raw, jutting, white bones beneath
Our common humanity- their lives too unimaginable
To us- invisible points on a bare compass- no needle
Can guide us- to that unmapped archipelago-
Made before -The world and The Flesh, and Man
Become one destiny, before the Lord's people
Walked like Christ's miracle from that frenzied sea
Arriving, one cruel, savage, inhospitable day - in that year
1520- with salvation and bible joining unconquered hands,
What did they see- a motherly Indian wrapped in seal cloths
Her Children's oval sockets slanting from wicker holes
Emerging winged, wild, wonder struck, unaccustomed eyes
For everything had changed- horizons were no longer- distant.
Overnight the sky God had fallen, like a starry legend suckling
The Fires, feeding against her naked breasts, generations
Had poured, but no more would they chant to that mystery
As inscrutable as the frozen Earth with her blank skies
A God had landed- He was not like they imagined
For soon, their crowded heavens would be thoroughly cleansed
By his singular Spirit- they would be shown,without exception
The errors of their crude ways, Mother, Father, and child
How they would learn, How He was the God of fire
Of sharpened, eager sword, How They would learn
How it was written, in the half-light of their pale God,
"That He was Love"- and they would learn this God's
Hard lessons, en la tierra del fuego, when their voices sung no more
Monday, February 11, 2013
Candelabra with Heads
Legendary, pin-striped Medusa, fleshed out on the 8.45,
A vision leafing gingerly through Tuesday's' electronic "Times"
Pursing, too easily, Monday's ups and downs like tonight's football scores
Someone always wins, and someone always looses, the rest is history
But there is no mystery, anymore, that cannot decipher such lexicons,
Like her, there is no doubt, or obscurity, to be had in the entomologist's
Book, life is written into everything, like Drosophila melanogaster genes
They are the monosyllables that protect us from the cosmic night
From colum-to-framed-colum and from sleeper-to-awakening-sleeper
We gently lose momentum, "A signal fault at Clapham Junction" no doubt
Sighing into unison, regular nine-fivers fated like Asechylus's elderly Chorus
To finish out their apportioned sentences in everyman's cryptic- cross-words
Where naked gardens uncoil majestically through the slumbering caterpillars
We shall arrive too- a rough chrysalis of sorts- A Candelabra with Heads
A brown ticker-taped Medusa, A Mannequinn, as erect as a desert Cactus.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Lazy Sunday
A new track by me. Please enjoy!
Monday, February 4, 2013
The Universe . . . is alive
The Universe, as it has so far been observed, is very vast, and full of all kinds of phenomena that have yet to be explained. But that's the problem. We are only OBSERVING it, not being a part of it. Feeling it, knowing it, and realizing that there's a whole lot more going on than meets the eye.
You see, just sitting there and looking at it with human, physical, eyes doesn't give us the whole picture. Neither do x-ray or radio telescopes, and even if they do, I don't believe we are interpreting the things we find in the proper way, because again, we are looking at them with our physical eyes, and comprehending them with our physical minds.
But what if all the energy in the Universe, that we CAN actually see, is much more than we've ever assumed it to be? What if it's actually a consciousness, one that we ourselves are a part of, at least when we're not in these physical bodies? What then?
Our physical existences are not without clues. Take a look at the events of your life, and realize that everything that has happened is in reality an ordered sequence of events that have, before, and in the future, continue to lead to one conclusion or another. You are who you are today because of the results of those events, and if any of them had been different, you would not be where you are today, sometimes, literally. Your location might even be different. You can look at everything that has transpired in your life, and see that there is indeed order from seeming chaos. Each event happening at precisely the right moment, when it NEEDED to happen, in order to facilitate future events, and so on and so on.
The Universe is constantly at work, bringing order to chaos, sometimes slowly, sometimes it seems that order turns to chaos, but that's only because we are not looking at the big picture. The Universe works in the long term, not just today. Everything is planned out, orchestrated, and placed just where it needs to be, when it needs to be there. It's all about the movement of energy, and the Universe is full of it, it's made of it, and that energy is a part of us too. We are not outside of it, we still obey the same rules. We may not be aware of it consciously, but deep inside of us, we can all feel it. That's why we constantly search for something greater than ourselves, because we sense that consciousness. We "know" the Universe is alive.
Think about it.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Pictures at a Gallery: Vincent Van Gogh
Against the rows of translucent eyes,
They paused, with their clumsily head-sets
Hanging half on and off, flashing the ecliptic's
Troubled furrows with smart-phones "referencing"
The sad genius as an obvious, immutable fact,
In that solitary figure sowing his seminal seeds
Against a yellowed, thickly cut, sun's swirling light
Beckoning his nature, through a rhythmic, purposeful
Stride- was he the measure of her whole creation-
Pressing the friable clays between his rough, sure hands?
The grains will gather in another year's ripeness
And disperse their inconspicuous vitality on the loose strands
Lost through this endless crowds' shuffling, quietly by him,
The pictures becoming pictures, like Brugel's blind leading the blind
Through an immaculate gallery you would of despised
The strict geometrical emptiness of our pure pristine shapes
Transversing some abstract, universal terrain, without man or beast
No shadow would of ever fallen to fertilise your barren land-
Yet they appalled and maddened your frenzied mind - to rage-
A crazed fist at the crows circling the reaper's blue heaven.
Yet, the wisest and the stupidest have their ultimate measure-
Not in waxed galleries where faces become nothing more
Than a travesty, but in parched canvass, where you were always
Alone, under fiery rays, waiting for God's secret revelations.
The Reaper, Van Gogh Gallery Amsterdam
Anne Frank Speaks
[…] I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside, and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and I could be…if only there were no other people in the world. (8/1/1944.6)
I am a young girl still, yet no age at all,
and I have learned some things.
I know now I have always been free
to be all I can be,
to soar with the birds of the soul
even as we hid ourselves away
and hardly dared to play,
tiptoeing around
for fear of being heard downstairs.
I see now that all I've lived
has been part of me.
and I know, beyond doubt
there are no "other people" in the world
or anywhere,
for my heart is still turned inside out
and I see them there,
sharing, living, loving, free,
my heart, my part,
dancing here upstairs with me.
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Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by Joab, Aug 16, 2007.
I'm going to bounce this thread a few times because I think this is a VERY important article to read.
That is a good read.
thanks for the article..
I like that he called the purchasers of subprime CDOs 'pregnant ghetto teenagers'
I agree.. No bail out!
The sellers of the CDO's are not entirely out of the picture from what I hear, correct me if I'm wrong. They sell the portfolio but they keep the risk from defaults. Nobody mentions this.
Great article, very well written. Thanks for the link!
Just after is was published, another major even unfolded: the carry trade (AUD/JPY) crashed. I would love to see his take on that, more on the global risk premium, and also analysis on the USD currency's recent behavior.
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LA Fruit Carts
Fruit is one of the world's most perfect foods. It is easily portable, healthy and sweet! When I moved to LA, I went to fruit stands all over this city.
The fruit stands are really little hidden kitchens. I enjoy watching the fruit being chopped and prepared. I named this food as one of my "Top 5 picks to eat before you die."
The fruit is delicious but the experience is one you will not forget! My recent fruit cart is at Hampton Drive and Rose in Venice. The combination of fruits mixed with the chili pepper and fresh squeezed lime is refreshing. The stands all serve the same or similar fruit. The fruit offered is usually: watermelon, cantaloupe, pineapple, cucumber, jicama, mango and if you are lucky fresh coconut.


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How many insiders should sit on Goldman's board?
What to make of the discussions within Goldman Sachs about splitting the jobs of chairman and CEO? Lauren LaCapra has the story:
Proposals to separate the CEO and chairman roles have long been sought by outside groups, but two people familiar with management thinking provided the first indication that internal discussions about such a move have taken place.
Under a restructure, President Gary Cohn would take the chief executive officer role and Vice Chairman J. Michael Evans would be elevated to president, leaving current CEO and Chairman Lloyd Blankfein with only the chairman role, the two sources said.
Things almost certainly won't play out exactly this way: machinations at the top of Goldman Sachs are highly complex and unpredictable. But the time is clearly coming when Lloyd Blankfein is going to step back from his job as CEO, and like most powerful CEOs he's likely to want to stay on as chairman when he does that. So while Blankfein has been understandably reluctant to split the two roles up until now, the idea is increasingly becoming aligned with his own interests.
If this plan were to go into effect, the number of current Goldman executives on the board of directors would technically remain flat at two: Evans would join Blankfein and Cohn, but Blankfein would no longer hold his executive role. However, as a non-executive former CEO sitting on the board, Blankfein would continue to wield a lot of influence, just like former Goldman president and current director Stephen Friedman does. As a result, the collective ability of the firm's insiders to drive board decisions would, at least in theory, be strengthened.
Realistically, however, I think that this move would give the board more control over how Goldman is run, rather than less. The last two holders of the chairman-and-CEO position — Hank Paulson and Blankfein — have done an extremely good job of controlling the board. Indeed, in recent history the board has been more of a problem to be managed than a powerful entity to whom the CEO is accountable.
What's more, Blankfein and Cohn have presented a united front: they don't engage in the kind of Machiavellian infighting that we saw between Paulson and Corzine, for instance, or even between Cohn and Jon Winkelreid. As such, the executives on the Goldman board are both very much singing from the same songbook.
With Evans on the board, however, things change. He's a banker rather than a trader, a clear alternative to the Blankfein-Cohn axis, rather than a reinforcement of it. More than anybody else on the board, he would have the inside knowledge and the credibility to push a real change in direction at the bank, if that was what he thought warranted.
So while at most companies having four insiders on the board would be considered a bad thing from a governance perspective, in this case I suspect that insiders are the only people with enough clout to actually effect any change at all. The non-Goldman directors on the board are a bit more than muppets, but not much more: their job is, ultimately, to rubber-stamp whatever Blankfein wants them to do, and they've been very good at doing that. If anybody is going to push back against that rubber-stamp role it's likely to be Michael Evans, especially if he can bring Friedman onside.


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ORDER RE: SUMMARY REMAND DUE TO IMPROPER REMOVAL by Judge George H. King: IT IS ORDERED that (1) this matter be REMANDED to the Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County, 303 W 3rd Street, San Bernardino, California 92415-0240, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U S C § 1447(c), (2) that the Clerk send a certified copy of this Order to the state court, and (3) that the Clerk serve copies of this Order on the parties. Case Terminated. Made JS-6 (am) (Additional attachment(s) added on 3/28/2013: # 1 CV103) (am).
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Rippling Sonnets: Open Mic Poetry Reading
Date: Wed. 8 Nov, 2017 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Duration: 2 Hours
You are invited to join us for an exciting evening of Open Mic Poetry Reading!
Learn how to write a Haiku, engage with an audience and get friendly feedback on your work. Raffle and refreshments will be provided! Open to both established and emerging writers. ALL AGE GROUPS WELCOME. Hosted by: Una Bruhns & Deborah L Kelly. Drop-ins welcome.
Register here or at 604-984-0286, ext. 8144.
Location: Lynn Valley
Repeats every month on September, October, November on the second Wednesday until Wed Nov 08 2017.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
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By Bob Kellogg at OneNewsNow
FIRE's Speech Code of the Month award goes to an Oklahoma university for its policy that appears to chill spontaneous expression.
Students at Rogers State University wanting to hold a peaceful protest have to meet three days in advance with campus police and the Office of Student Affairs to facilitate such an event.
But as Robert Shibley of The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) points out, that can dampen the enthusiasm of students fired up about an issue. "It's simply a big chilling effect on speech," he contends. "How many people care enough about things that they want to have a meeting with the police and then wait three days before they try to get their message out? That really tends to chill speech on campus." Shibley asserts that FIRE's objective is not simply to call out and embarrass colleges for their unconstitutional speech codes. His organization stands ready to help. "FIRE is always ready to help universities and administrators who want to have constitutional and good free speech policies for free," he states. "We are happy to help them, we have a lot of resources to do that, and I would hope the Rogers State administrators would reach out to us." The FIRE spokesman encourages students who believe their school has a policy that qualifies for Speech Code of the Month award to email SpeechCodesTheFIRE.org with a link to the code and a brief explanation of why they think it qualifies.- See more at:
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THATCamp MCN November 19
I've just signed on as co-organizer of THATCamp MCN in Atlanta this November. If you're a museum professional or student, or interested in the humanities, technologies, and museum studies, please check out this unconference -- it's free! If you're on a limited travel budget this year (as many of us are), note the bit below about the available fellowships.
Yesterday was the official fellowship application deadline, but I believe it may end up being extended for a couple of weeks, so go ahead and apply.
I think THATCamps are amazingly cool and I'm really excited to be a part of one. If you have access to a blog, listserv or other forum that you think might be interested in this event, please feel free to share the following event announcement:
THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) is an open meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot. It is an unconference, which means that there are no presentations, and all participants work together to form the program. On Saturday, November 19 in downtown Atlanta, GA, the Museum Computer Network is sponsoring THATCamp MCN, a free unconference for anyone interested in how new technologies and platforms are changing the landscape of museums.
Graduate students in museum studies or related disciplines, museum professionals, and developers are all encouraged to register. Topics for discussion might include everything from managing software projects to uses of social media for museums, and participants are also encouraged to propose coding sessions and co-writing sessions where the emphasis is on doing, not talking. We plan to have a draft program up by September 1, but participants can continue to submit session ideas even as the unconference is taking place. There will also be free workshops at THATCamp MCN on technologies such as the Omeka web exhibit builder, and $500 fellowships are available courtesy of the Kress Foundation to make it possible for early-career museum professionals and students to travel to THATCamp MCN. The fellowship application deadline is August 15 (extended from August 1).
This unconference is offered in conjunction with the Museum Computer Network conference, but if you are attending the MCN meeting, you must still register separately for THATCamp MCN. You do not need to register for the MCN meeting in order to attend THATCamp MCN.
Contact Amanda French at firstname.lastname@example.com with any and all questions, and follow @THATCampMCN on Twitter for updates.
Personally, I'm (so far) most looking forward to the Omeka workshops; that's something I've been wanting to learn more about for quite some time now.
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New Job For Former New Bedford Police Chief
Former New Bedford Police Chief Ron Teachman may become chief in South Bend, Indiiana.
According to published reports, Teachman is one of three finalists for the job.The finalists were announced Thursday by South Bend Mayor Peter Buttigieg, who will personally interview each candidate before making a decision.
Teachman served as Chief in New Bedford from June 2006 to April 2011. After leaving New Bedford, he trained police officers in Tajikistan as a project manager with the Emergence Group, a Washington-based company that, according to its website, designs and implements justice sector reform and democratic policing programs around the world. In February, Teachman was a finalist for the Chief's job in Racine, Wisconson.


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Congrats on the release and thanks for doing it!
The main AGS download page mentions 3.4.0, but all the download links actually lead to 3.3.5-7 still!
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Noted engineer and writer Petroski (Civil Engineering/Duke Univ.; To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure, 2012, etc.) gives readers a characteristically eye-opening look at America's infrastructure.
The good news, writes the author, is that "the horror stories of corruption, graft, waste, fraud, and abuse" that accompany accounts of construction and maintenance in, say, Italy or China are not the norm in America; where they turn up, they are remarkable for being outliers. The bad news is—well, just about everything else, apart from the ingenuity of the American engineers and builders who put up the interstate highway system, bridges, dams, and other hallmarks of the nation's engineering history, most now crumbling to bits. Little escapes Petroski's attention. If you want to know the exact recipe for building an asphalt highway, or are interested in why it might be preferred to concrete in some situations but not others, or have a fascination for asphalt-related statistics ("By the early twenty-first century, asphalt was in place on about 94 percent of the more than two million miles of paved roads in the United States"), then this is exactly the book for you. Asphalt, of course, falls just under the A's in the long list of things that exercise the author's exacting attention, bespeaking an attention to detail, praiseworthy enough in an engineer, that might become tedious in the hands of a less-skilled writer. Of immediate interest, given the deterioration of our roads and bridges, is Petroski's look at early arguments over highway funding, which have considerable bearing on contemporary arguments over privatization and passing the buck to the states. "We need to take a holistic view of infrastructure," he writes, both generally and in order to understand why some things last and some things fall apart, an understanding that hangs on dozens of disparate factors.
Anyone with an interest in the way things work will want this book—and will doubtless emerge as a fan of the ever curious author.


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text: Job Title: Lead Developer Department: Research and Development Location: Rochester, Kent Salary Range: 25 - 35K depending on skills and experience Reporting to: Technical Director Job Description: Working as the lead developer in a leading security testing company based in Rochester, Kent. Responsible for maintaining and improving the vulnerability assessment, penetration testing and report generation systems; and proposing and implementing strategic changes in the system configuration. Responsible for three staff: two system administrators, one in the Rochester office and one at a remote office; and one developer who is in the remote office. This is an ideal job for an experienced Perl developer with an interest in security testing. Skills & abilities: - Essential: o Good knowledge of TCP/IP networking and common protocols. o Linux administration and use, ideally Debian. o Good Perl programming skills. o Database administration and programming skills, preferably postgresql. o Use of version control systems, preferably subversion. o Ability to guide and develop other development and sysadmin staff. - Desirable: o Knowledge of other programming and scripting languages: C, bash. o Network equipment administration, preferably cisco. o Knowledge or experience of vulnerability assessment or penetration testing. o Windows administration, including active directory. o Web development skills: knowledge of Apache, HTML and CSS. o Understanding of VPN technologies: IPsec and SSL/TLS and the associated protocols, methods and algorithms. o Knowledge of XML and XSLT. Character & Personal Qualities: o An interest in security testing, development and open source software. o Ability to communicate with senior management. o An ability to balance and prioritise work. o Able to delegate where appropriate. Qualifications & Experience: o At least one year's Perl programming experience, preferably more. o Preferably educated to degree level or equivalent, ideally a 2:2 or higher in a computing, science or engineering discipline Ideal Qualities: o An in-depth knowledge of current methodologies, techniques and applications. o Someone who keeps themselves up to date with the latest technologies. o An open source advocate, but not a zealot or fanboy. Contact Details: Applications in email to: dev2009 at nta-monitor.com _________________________________________________________________ Chat to your friends for free on selected mobiles http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/174426567/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://london.pm.org/pipermail/jobs/attachments/20091022/64a7b042/attachment.htm


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Frap Fighters
It might not mean much now, but there is an evolving set of Frappuccino options out there, coming after the longtime category leader from every retail channel.
Marketers have known there's an opportunity in coffee for a long time – as far back as 2009 "Lizard King" John Bello was touting it as Adina's strong suit – but it's been hard on brands as they've been more focused on going head-to-head with the Frap instead of growing the category.
That's changing. Now, a group of products has started to broaden the idea of RTD coffee into a set of options that could leave the Frappuccinno as one strong tree in a forest of many.
"I always noticed that Starbucks owned the category," said Vita Coco CEO Mike Kirban, whose company recently purchased a controlling interest in espresso/coconut water blend Coco Cafe. "But when I tasted something that tied into it, I knew there was something there."
"Look," he said, "It's a billion dollar category and I know it's not going to take 50 percent share from Starbucks. But I'll take 10 percent of the share. That's a nice little $100 million business."
The chief stumbling block for many brands has been to offer a consumer education set that even indicates an alternative to the idea of cold coffee as coming from any other source but Starbucks: for a long time, the Frap and its espresso linemate, the Doubleshot, have been the twin storylines of the RTD coffee category.
In conventional channels, they're still the big play, a recognizable brand with a strong distribution ally.
Here's the thing, though: retailers are getting behind alternatives. Fresh Market, for example, has pushed both Illy Issimo and now Coco Cafe into its sytem, and both of those products are now being pushed into wider release, Issimo in drug channels like CVS and Coco Cafe into Target. Meanwhile, Marley's One Drop, which has been on a tear since its release as a flanker brand to the company's relaxation-focused teas, is also offering an alternative at the supermarket level.
And there's more on the way. Vita Coco isn't the only coconut water company trying to mix hydration with caffeination: both Zico and AriZona are rolling out coconut/coffee blends as they attempt to combine the emerging trend.
That combination joins another, stronger hybridization of coffee, the coffee energy drink, as a way for consumers to enter the category. Java Monster is almost a $300 million brand in its own right (per Symphony/IRI and extrapolated over un-covered channels like Wal-Mart); with Rockstar Roasted also having strong distribution in the Pepsi system, that creates another strong set of choices for the coffee craver in convenience stores and other channels where the Frappuccino has a following.
That, combined with other options, is starting to clue consumers to the idea that coffee can travel. Behind Tom Larsen, the General Manager of the Illy brand, Coke's Venturing and Emerging Brands unit is starting to get some wins at retail – taking the higher end coffee product into wider circulation with carefully coordinated approvals arranged by distribution partners LA Libations and Big Geyser. In New York, Big Geyser is also getting the chance to play with a glass package for the product, which gives it another angle of attack.
With some of the successes, Larsen told BevNET, "Illy has landed."
Of course, there's one other player who is also introducing consumers to the idea that there are fresh faces in the RTD coffee category: Starbuck's itself. While the company has been able to get its Seattle's Best brand in front of consumers, it may also help to create a mindset among them that there's more than one brand to turn to for that coffee lift. After all, the consumer doesn't necessarily know that Seattle's Best is produced by Starbuck's: They're just seeing another can, another option, in a space that is rapidly offering a lot of them.


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Carr Resources, Inc. assembled a lease block in the OSR-Halliday (Woodbine) Field in 2009-2010. The play concept was to drill horizontal Woodbine wells to be completed with multiple fracture treatments. Carr joined its acreage with that of Petromax Operating of Garland, Texas to drill the wells. Petromax drilled the first well, the Carr-Ward #1-H and had excellent results with over 400 BOPD for the first several months being produced from a 7,000' lateral. This proof of concept well led to the drilling of the Carr-Cannon #1-H, the Carr-Coleman #1-H and kicked off the play in the OSR-Halliday area. Other operators then joined the drilling boom for the Woodbine with multiple successful wells being drilled. Petromax has now drilled seven wells on the Carr acreage and these wells have ranged from 200 - 700 BOPD of production. There is room on the Carr acreage to drill at least seven more development wells. This project will lead to the drilling of scores of horizontal Woodbine wells in the area and provide a new oil resource for the county, Texas and the country that will run into the millions of barrels. This play was based on the combination of the relatively new technologies of accurate horizontal drilling, new casing and packer technologies, and multiple fracture treatments.
Carr is currently leasing a new play to employ its experience gained in the OSR Woodbine play to develop new oil reserves.
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text: I really like K-9 much better than the native Droid app, but it's doing one thing (that I've found so far) that I find pretty annoying. I really don't like to have vibrate notifications for emails since if the phone is in my pocket I'd rather that it just vibrate for a call or text. But every time I go into the account setting for K-9 and shut off the vibrate notification, next time the phone gets email it vibrates and the notification is checked again when I go look in the settings. Is this a bug with the app or something I'm doing wrong or overlooking? Thanks in advance if anyone knows. Oh and I'd love it if the program could also be set to download entire emails so that if it grabs them I can just read them quickly without having to request that it then downloads the rest of the email too.


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For over nine years, Neil and Joan have been spending their summers cruising the canals and rivers of Western Europe aboard their now thirty-one-year-old Dutch motor-cruiser, the "Estate." This year they are again sharing their experiences.
May, 2010
Train strikes and volcanoes started our 2010 boating season. Once we got through those challenges, we had a couple of weeks of very pleasant weather for getting our boat, the Estate, ready for cruising. The trees and flowers were blooming; the days were warm and sunny with temperatures up to the mid-seventies. Then the cold and rain descended on Burgundy. And that is all anyone talked about – and experienced – for over two weeks.
During our first year of owning the Estate, we cruised in Holland. Wisely we had bought a winter weight duvet. Rarely since that first year, however, have we used it more than three or four nights each year. This year, we snuggled under it for many nights. Temperatures went down to the 30's F at night, and days sometimes didn't hit 50° F.
We last cruised the Canal de Bourgogne (Burgundy Canal) in 2003. We call it "the year of the heat:" temperatures were in the 80's, 90's, and for ten straight days, over 100°, from May through August. We had been hoping for better, cooler weather this year, so we could enjoy the wonderful old towns, the biking and walking. Maybe one does have to be careful what one asks for!
We started up the Burgundy Canal at the end of April from our home port in St. Jean de Losne. The first couple of days en route to Dijon were uneventful, but we had a good chance to get some practice working through locks – 21 of them. The weather started turning while we were in Dijon. We would have been tempted to stay there, but we had friends from Portland meeting us for a trip through the 19 locks and the two-mile long tunnel at the summit of the canal. It was wonderful being back in Burgundy on the canal again, but wearing six layers of clothing including a ski sweater, 2 layers of fleece, and gortex did detract from some of our enjoyment!
We moored for two nights along the canal, tied to bollards or our own pounded-in stakes. After tying up at the end of the first day in Velars sur Ouche, we decided to hike to the chapel of Notre Dame d'Etang. It was an uphill climb, but the splendid array of wildflowers distracted us: bluebells, buttercups, and many more we couldn't identify. We had seen a statue atop the highest point while cruising, and that, we realized while climbing, was the chapel. When the sun started to go down about 20 minutes from the summit, we decided that we had gone far enough, so headed back to the Estate.
At the end of the third day, Pont d'Ouche was a warm refuge as we were able to plug in our heater at Chez Bryony. Chez Bryony is the name of the port, run by Bryony, an Irish transplant. She runs the port, prepares her famous frites (chips, fries), manages a small grocery store, and is generally helpful to all. The town has the small port, one restaurant, and a post office. We stayed three nights, finally getting the cold out of our bones, at least temporarily. Then our brave friends, Heidi and Gerald, joined us, and we headed for the summit.
Heidi and Gerald's enthusiasm helped us re-kindle ours too. It was interesting getting their perspectives and comments on the differences between canal boating in England and in France. In England, the locks are only 7 feet wide and the boats, of course, must be less than that width. In France, the standard width of locks is about 16 feet. In France, there is usually at least one lock-keeper to operate the gates; in England you do it yourself. For the first time ever for us, we sometimes had 2 or even 3 lock-keepers on this particular section of canal. (These days, because there is not a lot of traffic on the canal, instead of a lock-keeper at each lock, the lock-keepers are "itinerant." This means a lock-keeper travels along on a motor scooter, operating each lock in turn as the boat progresses. Each lock-keeper will normally do a section of 3 to 6 locks before the next keeper takes over. If there is very little traffic, such as early in the season or when the weather is bad, the lock-keepers team up and help one another, which makes transiting the locks much quicker.)
We tied up in Vandenesse, a small town with 2 restaurants, a British tearoom, and a 12th century church. If you need bread, you order it for the next day through the British tearoom, Charolly. Looming above Vandenesse is the castle and village of Chateauneuf en Auxois.
A hotel boat was tied up just in front of us, and while we were getting settled in, I happened to say hello to one of the boat's crew. He was the best person possible to connect with — he was the chef. A few minutes later he came over with a container of homemade melon sorbet and one of a fruit filled frozen nougat. They were excess from their last group of guests and he wondered if we might enjoy them. We surely did!
Once we were securely tied up, we decided we needed some exercise, so we walked the 3 km up the hill. The construction of the chateau in Chateauneuf was begun in the 12th century. We were able to walk through several buildings that comprise the chateau, some of which have been re-furnished: a guest pavilion, a grand logis, a chapel, and guard room. The village itself is classic Burgundian: 14th – 17th century gray stone houses, occasional splashes of color from small flower boxes, narrow winding streets, and an ancient church. You have your choice of several tearooms for lunch or beverages.
That evening we discovered Restaurant de l'Auxois near our moorage. We had heard about it from other boaters over the years, but had never stopped for a meal. Luckily we made reservations because it was a very crowded Saturday night. The golfers from a nearby resort chateau were in town!
The restaurant serves typical Burgundian fare. We sampled jambon persille (ham with parsley), escargots (snails), charolais beef, lapin (rabbit), and, of course, Burgundy (pinot noir) wine. Three of the four of us chose a winning dessert: scoops of cassis (black current sorbet) and two other unidentified flavors of smooth, rich ice cream.
The next day we conquered the last 8 locks and traversed the summit tunnel. Two years ago, electric lighting was installed in the tunnel making it a lot less spooky. When you use your own light in a tunnel, it bounces around and off the various surfaces. The tunnel is long and narrow with occasional strange currents and small stalactites. At the other end, we popped out at Pouilly en Auxois. Pouilly is not as charming as some of the towns we had recently visited, but has several shops, a large grocery store, restaurants, and bakeries – and a port with electricity, showers, laundry, and tourist office!! What luxury. We decided to stay until the cold, rainy weather changes.
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Today's teams are geographically dispersed and more mobile than ever. To get feedback or approval on a document, most teams will either send an email to the group with an attachment or invite the group to a web conference. Using email as a workflow process creates chaos primarily because respondents can't see each other's comments and the originator must cull and collate all comments. Screen sharing, meanwhile, doesn't allow collaborative comments and annotation, and, often times, meetings run late because one member can't download or start the software.
ReVu.Me simplifies this process by offering an instant cloud environment to review and annotate any document, image or video file in real time. In seconds, a session can be initiated by simply going to revu.me, then dragging a file or even a web address, inviting team members, and starting the session. Even simpler, a team member can copy firstname.lastname@example.com on a team email and an automatic email notification will be sent to all recipients. There's built-in versioning so it will always be clear which version is the most recent and there's a feature to manage revision tasks across team members.
Business teams can quickly move from email to the cloud without changing the way they work today. Within seconds, ReVu.Me creates a highly secure, shared document in the cloud where team members can share comments, chat with others or even start a teleconference using only a web browser. ReVu.Me supports nearly any file format, even video files, which allows teams to annotate specific time segments within a video, and is ideal for simple content approval or even complex content projects, such as legal agreements or sales presentations.
"Collaboration in the work environment is being transformed by the cloud and ReVu.Me is the next phase of simple and efficient content collaboration," said Kevin Lynch, CEO at Volerro. "Our goal is to simplify how teams work together, particularly around streamlining content production and team coordination. As we looked at ways to confront content chaos, we developed ReVu.Me to help teams agree on and finalize important documents quickly, saving time while improving results."
ReVu.Me is built on top of Volerro's namesake cloud content collaboration service, which also officially launched today. Most enterprise teams - large or small - stitch together disparate services, from email and file sharing to time management and project management, which leads to content chaos, inefficiency and general frustration. Volerro solves that problem, particularly among product, brand, marketing and creative teams, by simplifying how teams create, refine and distribute content.
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Claire Parsons Co. is an award-winning dance company making clever and elegant performing arts for children. Joyous movement and fanciful sightings of life around us make the stories keen to audiences worldwide.
The innovative, high quality work by Swedish choreographer Claire Parsons is acclaimed for its stunning visuals, exquisite performers and perfectly balanced interaction with young as well as grown-ups.
The company's signature work MARMALADE (for audiences from 2 years) is a delicate, sensory and tactile piece about meeting and mixing, sensing and seeing. MARMALADE has performed over 350 shows in Sweden and internationally, including De Betovering Festival in Holland, Festival d'Hiver Domaine D'O in France, Kids Festival in Italy, Summer Stage in New York and Act3 Festival in Singapore.
A playful treasure hunt, a puzzle and a mystery piece inspired by polyphonic experiences. For 5-12 years and families. Autism friendly.
In a landscape where everything is covered with grass, we join an adventure with down to earth dancing and coffee dreams. From 4 years and up/family audiences. A collaboration with the Marionette Theatre in Stockholm.
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which tv station play the song?
thanks for everyone involved.(i still don't like the song, the more i listen to it the less i like it, but hey that's my problem )
there is this subtle piano part that I think is really brilliant.
It makes Mint Car sound like Faith by comparison.
Quote from: lostflower4 on May 14, 2008, 23:28:03It makes Mint Car sound like Faith by comparison. hahahahahahaha that's funny man..I freaken HATE Mint Car..


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* Plunkett & Cooney attorney Robert Westerman II has been elected to the board of trustees of Otsego Memorial Hospital (OMH). The OMH board is comprised of 13 members.
"I am honored to be elected to one of Otsego County's most hard-working boards," said Westerman. Westerman is a shareholder in Plunkett & Cooney's Gaylord office, who concentrates his practice in the areas of employment law, church law, construction liability and real estate.
In addition to serving on the OMH board, Westerman is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and the American Trial Lawyers Association. He is also a past president of the 46th Judicial Circuit Bar Association.
* North Country Financial Corp., the holding company for North Country Bank and Trust, on Monday reported earnings for the nine months ended Sept. 30 were $.73 per share on net income of $5.1 million. This represents increases of 35 percent and 36 percent, respectively, over the same reporting time last year.


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Onion-Smothered Pork Chops
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1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon dried sage or thyme, crumbled
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
4 boneless center-cut pork chops, about 1/2 inch thick (about 4 ounces each), all visible fat discarded
vegetable oil spray
2 large yellow or sweet onions, such as Vidalia or Walla Walla, thinly sliced
4 tablespoons low-fat, low-sodium chicken broth, divided use
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard (regular or hot)
Sprinkle the paprika, sage, salt and pepper over the pork chops.
Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Remove from the heat and lightly spray with vegetable oil spray (being careful not to spray near a gas flame).
Cook the pork for 4 minutes on each side. Put the pork on a plate. Set aside.
Separate the onion slices into rings. Put the onions in the skillet. Stir in 1 tablespoon broth. Cook, covered for 5 minutes. Stir well. Cook, uncovered for 5 minutes, or until the onions are golden brown, stirring once.
Stir in the remaining 3 tablespoons broth and mustard. Place the pork on the onions. Cook, uncovered, for 5 minutes, or until the onions are tender and the pork no longer is pink in the center.
To serve, place the pork on plates. Spoon the onions over the pork.
Nutritional Facts
- Servings
- 4
- Nutrients Per Serving
- 214 Calories
- 65 Calories from Fat
- 7 g Total Fat
- 2.5 g Saturated Fat
- 0.7 g Polyunsaturated Fat
- 3.1 g Monounsaturated Fat
- 11 g Total Carbohydrate
- 2 g Dietary Fiber
- 8 g Sugars
- 26 g Protein
- 69 mg Cholesterol
- 296 mg Sodium


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There are indications that the efforts to provide Hendersonville a graded school began as early as 1895, but were not completed until 1901.
There are indications that the efforts to provide Hendersonville a graded school began as early as 1895, but were not completed until 1901.
1901 (February): N.C. General Assembly passes special enabling act creating the graded school system in the town of Hendersonville.
1901–19: High school classes are held first at Judson College (1901-11); later at the newly constructed Fourth Avenue School building (1912-19).
1901 (Oct. 4): Trustees rent the Judson building for $25 a month and start the Hendersonville Graded School. A session lasts 25 weeks with 169 white students; four teachers — R.M. Irvins, Principal Frank Valentine, Mrs. Irvins and Miss Minnie Spann.
Total enrollment of black children is 98.
For the year 1905-06, there is a printed notice: "Change in the High School — Hereafter the High School Department will have separate rooms and the students will recite as follows: 8th grade, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.; 9th and 10th grades, 1:00 p.m. to 4::30 p.m."
Objectives for academic examination are clearly laid out: "During the year there will be given to the ninth and tenth grades, 1,500 questions and answers, covering the subjects of United States History, Geography, Arithmetic, Grammar, Rhetoric, Physiology, Civil Government, et. al. The final examinations will be based on these questions."
Finally, there is addressed those "diamonds in the rough." "Let not one call that common or unclean that proceeds from the soul touched by a spark from the Infinite Being." All students are urged to exert an influence for good.
1912 (March 15): The Fourth Avenue School building (presently housing Henderson County Public Schools Central Office) is dedicated (will continue until 1972). The dedication address is given by J.Y. Joyner, State Superintendent of Education.
The local superintendent was William H. Cale; principal, Miss Bessie Steedman.
There were seven teachers: Mrs. Munsey M. Mears (high school) and Miss Lois Edwards, Miss Isabelle Grinnan, Miss Aline Heard, Miss Florida Morris, Mrs. Ethel Dixon and Miss Anna Crowder
For the "Colored School" — W.M. Robinson, principal, and Miss Pearl Ford, primary grades.
The 11th annual Report of the Hendersonville Graded Schools, Session 1911-12:
Superintendent William H. Cale begins his report with compliments — for a satisfactory year "not withstanding the cold winter and inadequate equipment."
He then addresses increased enrollment — larger than any other school year.
Communicable diseases such as whooping cough, measles and diphtheria influenced daily attendance. According to Cale, "Attendance has been far from satisfactory, and many evils have resulted there from.
"Those who were regular in attendance and faithful in application have been rewarded for their efforts."
He continues: "1911-12 was the year for occupying a new building."
He shares his gratitude for the new facility — but returns to his concern for poor attendance (apparently a significant problem).
"There can be no excuse for non-attendance now on account of the weather. We have a warm, well ventilated room for every pupil and extra seats for visitors."
The report continues with a section on equipment needs. "There are a few things we must have before we are in position to give the class of work that the community expects. We must have some scientific equipment for proper instruction in Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Domestic Science." He expresses the need for "as much as $50 set aside each year for this equipment."
Pride is evident in "the provision of the eleventh grade," the fourth year of the high school course, which "adds strength and character to the work.
He concludes his yearly report with mention of the needs of the Negro Schools.
He compliments the work of W.M. Robinson and his assistants.
Cale then focuses on the need for enhanced comfort and efficiency. "The building now occupied will not seat the entire attendance, to say nothing of the 151 who do not attend.
"The walls are so badly broken that any amount of fire will not make the children comfortable."
Superintendent Cale finds opportunity to address health issues affecting the schools. He talks of the town and county being a health resort "with all kinds of infectious diseases imported every season." As a result, medical inspections are seen as a protection to every person in the community.
A special request is made for "medical inspections to be given at least three times each year. Health Laws (laws of sanitation) should be more rigidly enforced."
Attached to the report is a statistical record for 1901-12. The decade shows an increase in enrollment from 226 to 554. For the first two years there were no graduates; in 1903-04, 10; by 1912, there were 20. Teacher salary shows an increase from $1,320 in 1901 to $4,000 in 1912 (the year of the report). Weeks taught jumped from 25 (1901) to 33 (1912).
Looking ahead — 1926 (Dec. 3): Hendersonville High School (Eighth Avenue, now Bearcat Boulevard) is dedicated. Architect: Erle Stillwell.
"In the larger picture of Henderson County, the effort to offer a basic education to the community's youth has been virtually a constant one, both publicly and privately."
— J.T. Fain Jr. (historian)


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We were busy painting on our house today. I wanted to leave the vines on this end of the house as long as possible because I love that they turn red or burgundy(depends on the amount of frost). However,we did have some ice in our birdbath this morning so we thought it was time to cut them down in case it turned too cold to paint and we had a two toned house all winter. the leaves will soon fall leaving bare vines anyway.
This was this end of the house last week. Time does march on doesn't it?
I am glad my husband is not afraid of heights-you would not catch me up there. I painted shutters and trim no higher then a few feet off the ground.
We have a list of chores to get done this week. I work so much better with a list.
I did take a few minutes off to take a few garden shots for you. This is my last perennial to bloom it is a late monkshood. This bee was enjoying it too!
A Heritage rose- faded but pretty.
The aster's are lovely fall color.
Annabelle hydrangea and sedum are still pretty
The euonymus alata is so pretty in autumn.
Autumn joy sedum couldn't be easier to grow- in spring you can just break a stem off and stick it in the ground and it will grow.
another bee enjoying a pretty aster
Japanese ivory silk lilac is pretty in the fall too.
my little garden angel came home with me from North Carolina several years ago.
Spirea turning it's autumn colors
Karl Forrester grass
Nelly Noser still has a few blooms
The rosehips are pretty -full of vitamin C
our red oak tree is starting to turn
lots of berries for the birds- the chickadees were singing in this tree while I was painting shutters and then a flock of Canada geese flew over honking away-the sounds of fall as they head south for winter.
The babbling brook in our woods is getting some fall colors around it too. This is a good spot to end our tour as it is a relaxing place to sit for a spell.
Hope you enjoyed our little tour!
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February 3, 2004 :: OHLAP Powers the Dreams of Oklahoma's Working Families
A state scholarship program aimed at Oklahoma's working families is fulfilling the dreams of hundreds of Oklahoma students.
The Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program (OHLAP) provides opportunities for first-generation college students to attend college and boost their earning potential over their lifetimes.
Oklahoma lawmakers created the scholarship program in 1992, which is designed to help middle and high school students from families earning $50,000 or less a year who have demonstrated a commitment to academic success. It enables the students to earn free tuition for college or specified courses at career technology centers.
Students can use the scholarship through the completion of a bachelor's degree or a maximum of five years, as long as the student maintains good academic standing.
The success of the program has been impressive:
- To date, nearly 39,000 students from more than 450 high schools in all 77 counties have enrolled in OHLAP.
- Last year, 71 percent of the seniors who had enrolled in OHLAP completed the requirements.
- OHLAP students tend to have higher grade point averages and ACT scores, perform better in college and complete their degrees at a higher rate than non-OHLAP students.
Because of increased enrollment in OHLAP, the costs for the program will continue to rise from this year's $11 million appropriation. An increase of approximately $8.2 million will be needed in the next budget year, and even higher increases are projected in the coming years.
To earn an OHLAP scholarship, students, who sign up for the program in the eighth-, ninth- or 10th-grade and meet the family income requirement, must attend classes regularly, complete homework assignments and maintain a minimum 2.5 (C+) GPA in the 15 courses required for college admission plus two additional courses. Additionally, students must stay away from drugs and alcohol and refrain from delinquent acts.
For students who fulfill the requirements, the state will pay their tuition at a public college or university or cover a portion of their tuition at a private institution or for select courses accepted for college credit from public career technology centers.
Applications for the OHLAP scholarship are available from high school counselors, on Oklahoma higher education's Web site at www.okhighered.org or by calling toll-free 800.858.1840.


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''Hometown'' Art Exhibition
There is art in Fatih 3 – Fatih İmam- Hatip Secondary School
Exhibition Duration: May 21st- 22nd, 2015
Time: 09.00 – 17.00
Students of Fatih İmam- Hatip Secondary School continues their adventure, which they started with the slogan '' There is art in Fatih'', with art exhibition ''Hometown''. In the exhibition in which 48 works from 40 different cities are brought together with art-lovers Karagöz shadow play is an inspiration for our young artists and oil painting pictures has been strengthened by golden, silver, and copper foil. You are invited to the exhibition which will be held in Fatih Municipality Foyer Area.
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About 15 years ago I had some job to do at Athalassa's hospital, and I thought that would be a 5 minute job so no big deal. I knew one of my nephews worked there and I really hoped I wouldn't come across her. I knew she wouldn't be very proud seeing her at her work environment, and I just didn't want to cause any embarrassment to her, as I actually feel she's like a sister to me.
Anyway by the very first minute I got in there I was approached by someone asking me to give him cigarettes. I gave him some. Then he wanted me to give him 2 CY pounds….
After that he just stacked on me, he was following me everywhere, and I started feeling scared.
Luckily the director saw him shouted at him so he finally left.
Then the director escorted me to the place I was supposed to inspect passing me through an open plan area where there were nurses and some patients. Passing though there I saw my nephew caring a patient. She pretended she didn't see me, although she immediately blushed, so I pretended the same too.
I inspected the place took a few notes and all I wanted was to just leave as I was already very upset from the whole atmosphere and the things I saw …Patients in critical condition, some paralyzed too, others shouting, others talking to themselves, the nurses begging others to take their pills, one nurse shouted at a patient who took the pills and thew them straight on us, I felt the place was a hell…
On my way out I saw my nephew again, our eyes crossed, so we couldn't pretend we didn't see each other anymore. She introduced me as her nephew to the director, and we all got invited for a coffee. Oh my lord, I thought this adventure would never end…
She also invited some 3-4 other colleagues and we all ended up in a rather shiny and nice looking place having our coffees. We started chatting, while all of a sudden a young guy asked me if I were upset. I said "quite honestly yes, in reality all I want is to get out of here". He said he can understand me. It was exactly the same for him for the first 2 weeks he got a job there. But after that, when he realized with what kind of people he had to deal with he said, he felt really lucky to have such a job. Those patients he said are all "psychoules" [souls of children(?)/innocent souls(?)]
I told myself "what the heck are you talking about, are you serious?"
In any case I never went there again, I send some other people to do the job.
This incident got stuck in my mind for a really long time. I am a suborn person and never stop rethinking of strange things that occurred to me, trying to solve the puzzle.
I eventually solved the puzzle, and fully understood why the young man was right, when I started actively participating in Radio Marathon.


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In the early seventies I once shared a house with some Stewards and Stewardesses. One time they were all away flying or staying with boyfriends or girlfriends. I was left all on my lonesome.
I went to bed and was in that place where your are about to fall asleep but are still aware of what is going on. It was then that I heard what I can only describe as a wailing sound. I immediately thought it probably was a couple of cats in heat. It was very annoying. It went on for sometime when it occurred to me that the sound appeared to be coming from the room next to mine.
Now nobody was at home except me so I assumed that cats had managed to get in a open window or something so I decided to investigate.
I crept to the next door bedroom and and opened the door as quietly as I could and what I saw, well, I don't know who was more shocked? me!, or Richard and his new boyfriend.
The next morning at breakfast I apologised for my interruption and introduced myself,
'Hi! I am Old Pa, you must be Kitty!'
I don't particularly like Love Cats but it was most appropriate. So here is Close to You a much better choice.


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Asking three simple questions of patients with non-inflammatory musculoskeletal pain improved primary care physicians' ability to predict which patients would still be in pain 6 months later, a study found.
The questions -- combined with a normal work-up -- proved to be a more accurate predictor of persistent pain than work-up alone (C statistic 0.72 versus 0.62, net reclassification index 0.136, proportion correctly classified 69%), Christian D. Mallen, PhD, of Keele University in Staffordshire, England, and co-authors wrote online May 13 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Previous studies have suggested that physicians treating patients with musculoskeletal pain tend to be overly optimistic, because they think an upbeat attitude will help their patients, the authors wrote. The improved prognostic accuracy seen in the current study, they said, was likely due to correcting physicians' "over-optimistic expectations."
Musculoskeletal conditions are the cause of 20% to 30% of primary care consultations, the researchers noted. But "there are no accepted clinically meaningful decision thresholds for common musculoskeletal pain that could guide targeted management, and no information to date about the associated costs of doing so."
To explore the issue further, the investigators undertook a prospective, observational cohort study, known as the Prognosis Research Strategy (PROG-RES). The study included 402 patients age 50 or older with musculoskeletal pain, of whom 48.1% were determined to have an "unfavorable outcome" -- defined as the same, worse, or much worse discomfort -- at a 6-month follow-up.
The three questions the physicians asked were:
- When was the last time you were free of pain for a month or more?
- In the last month, has this pain interfered with your daily activities?
- Have you had pain anywhere else in the last month?
Two other questions were also tested in the study:
- How would you rate your pain on a 0-to-10-point scale?
- During the past month, have you often been bothered by feeling down, depressed or hopeless, or had little interest or pleasure in doing things?
Data analysis, however, showed that those two questions didn't add to the accuracy of the model, the investigators wrote.
The study "sets a high standard for clinical relevance by integrating brief assessment into the clinical encounter while combining physician prognostic judgment and patient-reported information to predict long-term pain outcomes," wrote Michael Von Korff, ScD, of the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, in an accompanying editorial.
The use of these questions with a wide variety of pain represents a departure from earlier studies, the authors noted. Most such studies use site-specific questions for the back, shoulder or knee, an approach that is impractical in routine practice where "single-site musculoskeletal pain is the exception rather than the rule."
There were several limitations in the study. "Our decision to categorize several indicators despite being made before data analysis and using recognized cut points, resulted in a loss of information," wrote the authors. They also did not examine the relationship between the site of pain and how well the model performed.
"A possible next step," wrote Korff, "would be to determine whether site-specific prognostic assessments sustain comparable predictive validity when used to predict outcomes for diverse patients with musculoskeletal pain."
Neither the authors of the study nor the editorialist reported any conflicts of interest.
- Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
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JAMA Internal MedicineSource Reference: Mallen C, et al "Point-of-care prognosis for common musculoskeletal pain in older adults" JAMA Intern Med 2013; DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.962
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JAMA Internal MedicineSource Reference: Von Korff, M "Tailoring chronic pain care by brief assessment of impact and prognosis" JAMA Intern Med 2013, DOI: 10.1001 /jamainternmed.2013.6486.


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Friday, KeyArena, Seattle.
How they got here: Irvine finished tied for second in the
Last 10 games: Irvine 7-3; Louisville 5-5.
Record vs. NCAA tournament teams: Irvine 0-2; Louisville 4-6.
Best wins/worst losses: Irvine defeated Big West regular-season champion
Common opponent:
Irvine lineup: Starters — G Luke Nelson (10.2 ppg, 4.1 apg), G Alex Young (9.5 ppg, 3.6 apg), G Travis Souza (7.5 ppg), F Will Davis III (13.0 ppg, 6.9 rpg), C Mamadou Ndiaye (10.6 ppg, 5.1 apg). Top reserves—G Jaron Martin (7.5 ppg), C Ioannis Dimakopoulos (3.8 ppg) F Mike Best (3.5 ppg), G Aaron Wright (3.6 ppg).
Louisville lineup: Starters — G Terry Rozier (17.1 ppg, 5.3 rpg), G Quentin Snider (3.2 ppg), C Chinanu Onuaku (3.3 ppg, 4.9 rpg), F
It's a fact: All of England might be rooting for the Anteaters. Well, all those in England who care about college basketball. Nelson and Young played backcourt for Great Britain in the Euro under-20 championships last July. Nelson was born and raised in England, and has been named the country's player of the year in three different age groups. Young is from Portland, but his mother is from England. Nelson's family got Young to apply for dual citizenship. Great Britain finished 11th in the Euro under-20 tournament.