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Relational Contracts and On-the-Job Search
This paper characterizes the distribution of jobs in a relational contracting model where underemployed workers compete with unemployed workers in the job market. Such on-the-job search increases turnover and thereby the marginal costs to incentivize effort. This leads firms to replace permanent jobs that pay high wages and command high effort, with temporary jobs that pay low wages and command low effort. This deterioration of job quality reduces the prospects of the unemployed and introduces slack into the workers' incentive constraints. If the number of firms is fixed, firms react by cutting wages, so profits increase while welfare and workers' rents decrease. If the number of firms is endogenous, new firms enter the market, so the loss of high-quality jobs is countered by an increase in the total number of jobs. When unemployed and underemployed workers' are equally skilled in getting job offers, free entry leads to full employment and effort is incentivized by the threat of underemployment rather than unemployment.
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Did you know that Twenty in Paris is on tumblr? This page was created during The Paris Diaries book promotion. You can find it here http://theofficialparisdiaries.tumblr.com.
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First of all, thank you so much for this pluggin, it is incredible how powerfull it is.
I have two unrelated questions, could you please help me ? I work on a stack of a porous material, realised by µCT . I'm interested in the porous proporties of this material.
My first question is, how can I get the porous connectivity from my stack ? I tried to trick the pluggin by applying an invert LUT process to my stack but, in any case, the pluggin give me the same connectivity whether the "bone" is in black and the "marrow" (void, pores, in my case) is in white and vice-versa.
My second question is, with the thickness analysis, if it "defines the thickness at a point as the diameter of the greatest sphere that fits within the structure and which contains the point", why the thickness map of the "bone" overlap the thickness map of the "marrow" ? The void of my material seems more important that is trully is, doesn't it ?
Actually, I try to draw the pore size distribution of my material but the resolution of my stack is around the mean size of the pores... So I press [h] to get the histogram of my thickness map (of Th.Sp) and thus the pore size distribution, it seems that I don't get multiples of my voxxel resolution. And I don't know why. My voxxel resolution is 0.33µm, but the histogram starts at 0.6µm. And an another large number of 0.722µm appears as well... I don't get why...
Could you help me please ?
Thank you again,
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You have to invert the pixel values, not the LUT. Edit > Invert.
This is a quirk of the Local Thickness implementation, which you can work around by checking the Mask thickness map option.
That's not adequate to do a Local Thickness analysis. If your structures are less than about 5-11 pixels thick, your thickness result will be very unreliable.
Thickness results are reported as 2× radius, and radius is measured in increments of a single pixel spacing. Your features are too small to measure at this pixel spacing.
Also - I can't see the images you posted, but the text description was enough.
This was a bug caused by a Discourse upgrade. The problem was fixed yesterday, so the images should be visible again now.
Images are now visible, thanks @ctrueden
Dear Michael,
Thank you so much for your answers, it's been really helpfull.
Unfortunattely, I understand that, in my case, as the voxel size (0.3µm) is close to the mean diameter size (0.6µm), I can't use the thickness map.
But i'm not willing to let it go. Maybe I should try another software (like imorph ?), or will I face the same issue ?
A second option would be to decrease the voxel size ? To 0.05µm for example ? In that case, the structure would be more than 5-11 pixels thick, right ? Is it ok to do that ? Is there an easy way to do it ?
Thank you so much,
Best regards,
Thank you ctrueden for your excellent work
You can try subsampling your data by Image>Scale... and setting the X, Y, and Z Scale values to a value >1. Note that you don't get any new information by doing this and the precision of your measurements is still limited by the image resolution and original pixel spacing. You might get a better/smoother result by doing the subsampling on your original greyscale images rather than the binary ones, and by Gaussian blurring before the Scale operation.
If your object of interest is fractal in nature (e.g. cracks in soil) then at some point (of feature scale) you have to accept that things smaller than your sampling are too small to measure with this technique.
If you can live with measurements at a bulk, not local, level, you might like to try something like the MIL approach in BoneJ or some other techniques like autocorrelation that can work on low resolution greyscale images.
Thank you very much for your help,
I wish you the best,
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This adorable little chap found himself a great way of making sure that people remember his birthday - he arrived on 12/12/12! He was 8 days old here when we met him for the first time, but seemed to have a wise head on his shoulders judging by the look he gave my hubby! You can hardly blame him though, given that he was asleep when his Mam handed him over and this was the first time he'd clapped eyes on hubby. Lol!
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St. Mary's Health System in Maine Receives Prestigious $100,000 Foster G. McGaw Prize...
Finalists from Baltimore, Md., Denver and Appleton, Wis., also recognized
In honor of its broad-based efforts to improve the lives of the most vulnerable members of its community, St. Mary's Health System in Lewiston, Maine, is the recipient of the prestigious 2008 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service, one of the most esteemed community service honors in health care.
Each year, this $100,000 prize is presented to a health care organization that provides innovative programs that significantly improve the health and well being of its community. The Foster G. McGaw Prize is sponsored by the American Hospital Association (AHA), The Baxter International Foundation and the Cardinal Health Foundation.
Named as finalists for this year's award and receiving $10,000 each are Bon Secours Baltimore Health System in Baltimore, Md., Denver Health in Denver and ThedaCare in Appleton, Wis.
"The Foster G. McGaw Prize recognizes health care organizations that serve as role models for improving the health and well being of the people in their communities. This year's winner and finalists exemplify what it takes to meet the unique needs of the diverse communities they serve," said Susan Manilow, chair of the Foster G. McGaw Prize Committee. "Through strong leadership, innovative collaboration and partnerships, and unwavering commitment, these organizations provide a wide array of programs and services that positively impact people's lives."
This year's McGaw Prize winner, St. Mary's Health System, is a member of Covenant Health Systems based in Lexington, Mass., and provides health care services in central and western Maine from its 16-acre campus in Lewiston. Operating in a federally designated medically underserved area, St. Mary's Health System includes a 233-bed acute care hospital; a rehabilitative care facility; a 128-apartment independent living facility for low-income elderly and disabled community members; residential treatment homes for children and adolescents; and a school for children with emotional disabilities. St. Mary's also offers clinical services with sliding scale fees through a diverse network of 65 physicians, and provides a range of preventive and occupational medical services to more than 400 local employers and their employees.
"Mission is at the heart of everything St. Mary's Health System undertakes," said James Cassidy, president and CEO of St. Mary's. "We are proud of our efforts in the community – including health screenings, our food pantry, our community gardening program, our housing initiative and our nutrition center. Each of these programs ties back to our mission as a Catholic health system, and support for this mission runs straight through our organization from line staff right up to our board."
Among other programs, St. Mary's was recognized for the following innovative community service initiatives:
The Neighborhood Housing Initiative – Recognizing the dire local need for healthy, affordable housing, St. Mary's led the development of a community housing project that has resulted in the construction of 12 affordable new homes for families who would otherwise not have had access to quality housing. In doing so, this initiative also served as a catalyst for housing investments in downtown Lewiston neighborhoods, which were in a severe state of physical and social deterioration.
The B Street Health Center – Since 2003, this full-service medical practice, located in the heart of a federally designated enterprise community, offers culturally appropriate, affordable behavioral medicine and dental services on a sliding scale to the area's poor and to its rapidly expanding immigrant community. Each month, the Center provides care to more than 525 patients, many of whom would not otherwise have had affordable access to health care.
The St. Mary's Food Pantry – One of the largest emergency food pantries in New England, this food pantry has provided emergency food assistance to local residents for more than 25 years. Operating five days a week, this pantry served more than 17,500 individuals in 2007, more than 10,600 of whom were families. The pantry also educates families on food purchasing, nutritious eating, and cooking.
Lots to Gardens – This community- and youth-driven program leverages urban agriculture to teach community members how to grow their own food, provide affordable access to fresh food, live healthier lifestyles and involve youth as leaders. Since its inception in 1999, program participants have built 15 community gardens and green spaces in four diverse Lewiston neighborhoods, growing more than 19,000 pounds of organic produce for low-income community members.
Take Charge – Since its inception, this community outreach program has provided more than 6,300 individuals with low-cost health screenings and health care referrals, helping overcome barriers to good health including lack of health insurance, poverty and lack of transportation.
"St. Mary's Health System embraces the vision of its founders to 'do what needs to be done,' whether or not the task is characteristic of a health care system. With a dedication to leveraging financial and human resources to meet community needs in a culturally sensitive manner, St. Mary's addresses a wide range of issues," said Manilow. "Whether creating new, affordable housing, establishing a much needed outreach center for health and community services, addressing the health issues of a growing Somali population or meeting community nutritional needs, St. Mary's provides invaluable social and health care services to its community under outstanding leadership."
2008 Finalists
Three Foster G. McGaw Prize finalists were also recognized for their significant accomplishments in community service. Each received a $10,000 prize:
Bon Secours Baltimore Health System in Baltimore, Md., for ensuring access to and delivery of quality health care, life skills education and affordable housing in one of the poorest areas of Baltimore.
Denver Health in Denver, for innovative programs to provide its community's most vulnerable populations – including low-income children, newborns and the uninsured – with high quality health care.
ThedaCare in Appleton, Wis., for establishing a number of collaborative programs that provide both rural farm families and urban underserved populations with improved access to quality health care and for developing health education and prevention programs targeting teens and physically inactive adults and children.
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My cancer journey began in 1990 when I noticed a lump in my throat that was visible sometimes and not at other times. My mother paid for me and my children to have a family portrait taken and it was this photo that picked up the lump visibly.
I'd felt unwell for a long time and had tried to make my doctor listen to me, but instead, my symptoms were mistreated with unnecessary medications and I was fobbed off as being 'a little on the psychotic side' and left to cope.
During one of the swells of hormone that caused massive migraine headaches that took me to my bed, I found the courage to demand that I be sent to a specialist. By doing this, I saved my own life.
During this period, I had been dealing with my then husband's testicular cancer diagnosis and our marriage was flailing. Two weeks after moving back to my hometown with my children, I was in hospital having major thyroid surgery. The diagnosis wasn't good... papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. I had been told that I had six months to live and I should 'get my house in order' to prepare for the worst.
At 26 and with 5 young children, I wasn't ready to die. So the fight began. After 2 major surgeries just days apart and having to be revived several times on the operating table during the second operation, I chose to be a survivor, not a victim.
During this time, my estranged husband took it upon himself to take me to court for custody of our children, and, due to my health issues, 2 of my children were removed from my care... this tore me apart emotionally and the next 2 years of treatment and many hospital visits took their toll both physically and emotionally.
After massive doses of radiotherapy and isolation during treatment, and due to losing my parathyroid glands during the surgery, I was running a gambit of paralysis due to lack of calcium and much continuing pain and discomfort... all the while raising 3 of my 5 children alone.
This was a very lonely time in my battle to beat my cancer. Getting secondary cancer lesions in my uterus just 7 years later was devastating... I was about to lose what I saw as my femininity and the very thing that defined me as a woman. I'd had many tests and was constantly bloated. I'd put on my jeans first thing in the morning and by lunchtime, they didn't fit any more and out would come the maternity clothing.
It was a huge embarrassment when people kept asking me when I was 'due' and then having to explain why I looked pregnant. I refused to allow my specialist to remove my ovaries if they looked healthy... I wasn't ready at 33 to be forced into early menopause although Id already had symptoms of menopause during the secondary phase.
Emotionally, I went through hell after the hysterectomy... so I decided to rally around my friends and have an 'Angie's Been to the Vet' party and we farewelled my uterus in style with lots of giggles and red wine. It was the best thing I could have done to start my emotional healing process yet again.
Being told at 26 you are going to die and then surviving a second bout of cancer at 33, taught me how to appreciate every second life gives you. I'm now 47 years old, have all my children back in my life, I have been blessed with 8 grandchildren and I work for myself... still experiencing ongoing health issues all this time later has made it impossible for me to hold down a regular job.
Being told I would regain 70% quality of life after surgery and treatment I didn't really understand at the time. My cancers took away a lot from my life physically and emotionally... I developed bipolar disorder directly due to the loss of my thyroid and I live on a constant regime of hormone pills and doctors visits... but I'm alive... and for that, I am very grateful.


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Power-mad Kim Jong-un bans CRUCIFIXES in North Korea under Christianity crackdown
KIM Jong-un has banned crucifixes in the Hermit Kingdom as part of a brutal crackdown on Christianity.
The North Korean dictator has ordered his henchmen to seize all products which resemble a cross.
And the clampdown has seen students warned about how they write the "plus" sign in maths classes amid fears it could be mistaken for a cross.
It comes as North Korea was named the most dangerous place on the planet to be a Christian for the 14th year in a row - beating Syria and Iraq.
Followers are forced to worship in secret or face the death penalty under Kim's iron rule.
Clothing, hair accessories, jewellery and even cross-shaped sweets will now have to be vetted, with offending items potentially earning people in stretch in the slammer.
A trader based in the capital Pyongyang revealed to Radio Free Asia: "We've always had to make sure there were no Korean characters on the labels of products that we brought in from China.
"Now we have to check again to see that there isn't anything that looks like a cross.
"Some designs on women's clothing can look a lot like a cross, depending on who is looking at it.
"Cross designs also appear on women's hairpins and hair bands and on men's neckties.
"These products are more likely to be confiscated during customs checks."
"If customs officers confiscate these products, insisting the shape looks like a cross, we have nowhere to complain"North Korean trader
Another trader told how he was powerless to fight the crackdown: "If customs officers confiscate these products, insisting the shape looks like a cross, we have nowhere to complain."
There are thought to be 300,000 Christians in North Korea with 70,000 trapped in labour or prison camps because of their faith.
Believers are branded "hostiles" and are given less food and harsher punishments.
Whistleblowers claim church buildings in Pyongyang are simply "showpieces" fronted by "fake" priests.
The rules on religion are just the latest in a long list of regulations North Koreans must obey.
Merciless Kim reportedly even put his own STEP-MUM and her family in a barbaric concentration camp.
Cheese-loving Kim, who has ballooned to 21 stone since his rise to power, also recently axed piercings and Western clothing.
A spokesperson for Christian charity Open Doors vowed to continue working in the secretive state despite the tubby tyrant's efforts to wipe out Christianity.
The charity worker said: "Despite Christianity being strictly forbidden Open Doors estimates there are 200,000 – 400,000 Christians who worship in secret inside North Korea.
"Open Doors works to support the church in North Korea by supplying persecuted believers with emergency relief aid such as food, medicines and clothes.
"Open Doors also distributes books and other Christian materials and provides training through radio broadcasting."


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SLOVENIA - Soca Valley - MTBike Holiday
8 days - 7 nights in Half Board surrounded by nature
Soca valley gives you everything you need for unforgetable mountain biking holidays. High mountains on both sides and the Emerald River Soca in the bottom of the valley make just perfet scenery. Because of the 1st world war military roads the uphills are not steep and on the other hand descents are long and flowy.
Difficulty level : medium
We are organizing this holidays from 15th of April to end of October. Starting day is preferably Saturday, but we can do it also any other day. Contact us, we are very flexible.
Bike Hire :
Why bother carrying your own bike on your flights. We have a range of Mondraker and Trek full suspension mountain bikes for rent. Please contact us for prices and models.
Day 1 - KOBARID
Airport transfer and arrival to our base in Kobarid. Meeting with the guides and preparing bikes for the week.
Day 2 to 7 - SOCA VALLEY
Every day we will be riding differnent single trail in Soča valley. From well known Matajur (mother of the trails) and Stol, to some unknown secret trails. Biking in Soca valley is all mountain style. We will be using van for uplift half up, but we will also use our legs for pedal up. Reward for that will be breathetaking views and amazing descents. Dinner included everynight at local restaurants
Day 8 - DEPARTURE
Departure day. After breakfast we will say goodbye and take you back to the airport.
Our base in Soca valley is a 3 bedroom house in center of small town Kobarid, surrounded with local pubs and restaurants. In the ground floor is fully equiped workshop and secure bike storage.
Photos credit : Tomo Jesenicnik,Slovenia Tourism Board, Media Gallery
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Annex 51 Energy Efficient Communities
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The scope of the project covers the design of long-term energy conservation and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation strategies and their continuous optimisation either on a community level or on the level of a municipal quarter. A holistic approach is decisive for the spectrum of measures that are to be developed comprehending generation, supply, transport and use/demand of energy and considering short-term as well as long-term measures in order to ensure the best possible economic efficiency for the community. Another part of this approach is the use of modern management methods using delegation of responsibilities, marketing and conflict resolution, as described in the ALEP (Advanced Local Energy Planning) guidebook of Annex 33.
The use of integrated evaluation methods and tools suited to identify an optimised combination of measures that will increase the overall energy chain efficiency in communities from cradle to grave will be necessary. During implementation, the improvements should be quantified and monitored using the same tools, as the achieved improvements can be traced using the same energy system model as in the planning phase. The availability and quality of such tools will be verified through the evaluation of existing experiences from case studies. Such an integrated approach is not focused solely an ever-increasing reduction of the energy demand on the one hand or on technologies which improve efficiency or increase the use of alternative energy sources on the other. The real issue is to find the ideal combination of both and to devise a strategy that ensures that these measures will be implemented in practice.
Objectives and Benefits
The main objective of the project is to use an integrated and multidisciplinary approach as a basis for providing tools, guidelines, recommendations, best-practice examples and background material for designers and decision makers in all fields concerned. This integrated approach will enable communities to set up sustainable and secure urban energy structures and identify the specific actions necessary to reach ambitious GHG-reduction goals.
The second objective is to transfer these experiences to other communities and enable them to establish their own local strategy in order to reach their desired sustainability goals. The players addressed by the project are planners, decision makers on urban investments (buildings, infrastructure, commercial estates) and local administrations. The novelty of the approach lies not in technical innovations, as is the case with most other ECBCS projects, but in exploring effective paths that implement these innovations in communities with an increased rate.
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The project will address the following research issues:
- The energy conservation approach: how to find the economic minimum of energy demand using recent advances in building physics, heating/ventilating innovations and smart building potentials
- The low exergy approach: how to minimize exergy consumption during energy distribution and supply in communities
- The renewables approach: how to maximize contributions of solar, biomass, geothermal technologies etc. by integrating them into existing or new supply structures. Potentials of existing and novel technologies will be evaluated using new analysis tools. Needs for new developments will be identified.
- The holistic system approach: evaluation of the dependencies between energy supply and energy demand within the communities and development of a long-term strategy for the system as a whole including distribution.
The project will be structured according to the following four research areas:
- Methods and Design Tools for Energy Efficient Communities;
- Case-studies I: Local Energy Planning for City Quarters or Neighbourhoods and Implementation;
- Case Studies II: Integrated Energy Planning for Communities and Implementation Strategies;
- Knowledge Transfer and Dissemination.
Expected Products
- State of the Art Review
- Case Studies
- Guidebook to Successful Urban Energy Planning
- Community Energy Concept Adviser
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March 24th, 2008 – by: jill
Hello all! I hope you had a happy Easter. Sorry I have been slow to update my blog. I have been having to work a little harder than usual in classes(something about them being in a foreign language?). I just found an english copy of a novel that I am supposed to read and write an essay on by next Tuesday, so I am pretty excited. The novel was written in the 1800s, so it isn't even an easy read in english. This past week leading up to Easter is known as La Semana Santa here, and as the majority of Chileans are Roman Catholic, it is widely recognized. Many people get Thursday and Friday off- my university shut down Thursday afternoon. A lot of people in Santiago use these holidays to travel, as did many of my friends. I stayed in the city for the weekend, though, because travel is much more expensive during this time, and I have 4-day weekends every week. So I studied spanish all day Friday. Saturday, I went with a couple friends to a region southeast of Santiago called Cajón del Maipo. It is about 1.5hr busride and lies at the foot of the Andes mountains. It has lots of outdoor activities (rafting, trekking, horseback riding) but we just spent the day walking and laying by a pool. It was nice to get out of the city for the day and breathe clean air. The air pollution in Santiago is particularly bad, due to the Andes on the east and the Costal range on the west trapping the pollution. It apparently gets worse during the winter months due to scientific reasons that I'm not going to attempt to understand. I think I'll be running on a treadmill a lot during the winter though, if it is as bad as they have been telling me it gets. Well I am off to do some of my reading! Oh, and if anyone is counting (I am), I move into my new apartment in 2 weeks!!!
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Poetry Today: Trends and Traditions
Nonsense Verse
February 2016
Compiled, Formatted & Introduced
by Anthony Servante
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today,
I wish, I wish he'd go away...
When I came home last night at three,
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall,
I couldn't see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door...
Last night I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn't there,
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away...
One Bright Morning
One bright day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys came out to fight,
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other,
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
Came and shot those two dead boys,
How do you know this lie is true,
Ask the blind man he saw it too!!
Brian P. Cleary, in his book, "Rainbow Soup" (2004), writes:
One tall midget reached up high,
Touched the ground above the sky,
Tied his loafers, licked his tongue,
And told about the bee he stung.
He painted, then, an oval square
The color of the bald man's hair,
And in the painting you could hear
What's undetected by the ear.
We begin with Mr. Hanson.
Michael H. Hanson
I wrote my first poetic works and had them published in my small town newspaper starting at the age of 15. I did not pen all that much work during my high school years, but I'm not unhappy with what I produced. My eldest brother had just started college and was an English major at that time. He encouraged me to experiment as a writer and find my voice.
Note: Mike's new book Dark Parchments: Midnight Curses & Verses has made the preliminary ballot for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection. Good luck, Mike. You deserve it.
Battle Lull
Biography:Coralie Rowe started writing poetry in early 2014 and has had twenty poems published in five different anthologies, with three more to be published soon. She is a stay at home mum, who believes reading her child so many nursery rhymes has infected her own brain.
Owl and mouse
D. S. Scott finished his first short story as a teenager and immediately became interested in writing. In the years since, Scott has written in several genres but found horror and suspense to be his favorites. He enjoys writing poetry, flash fiction and short stories. He had his short story "Frankie" published in Indiana Horror Review 2014, three poems in Toys in the Attic: A Collection of Evil Playthings and three more in Doorway to Death: An Anthology from the Other Side.
And there you have it, our nonsense verse from our four visiting poets this month of February. I hope you enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed presenting them. Be sure to look up these poets to find more of their work. They also write dark and lyrical prose, so seek it out. Thanks, dear readers, for joining us this month. See you next time.
The Poems:
by Michael H. Hanson
Declaring peace two countries warred,
Declaring peace two countries warred,
raising white flags swinging a sword,
calling a truce they both attack,
retreat and stab the other's back.
Then both concede and demand land,
cry and spit on the other's hand.
cry and spit on the other's hand.
Couples Counseling
by Michael H. Hanson
Just yesterday morning, fifty years ago
Just yesterday morning, fifty years ago
a widower mourned for his laughing widow
while covered in moonlight deep underground
they both sang and screamed without any sound
skating on jello and tuning a tree,
lost in a graveyard afloat on the sea.
Coralie Rowe
The Poems:
This and That
Owl and mouse
Were having a chat
Not about much
Just this and that
No real idea where
The discussion was at
It's the truth, I swear
Gossip spread by cat
The passerby that overheard
Just small brown bat
But with his sonic ears
You know it's matter of fact
Well after chasing his lunch
Of a fat, crunchy gnat
He stopped by to tell
His tale to swamp rat
Who at first was flippant
About gossip, spread by cat
But later heard it again
Scavenging the mud flat
It spread like wild fire
Through the forest that
Life was upside down
Like a magicians hat
How owl and mouse
Could just sit and chat
Not about much
Just this and that
Over Thunked
My over think
Has over thunk
I think I should
Just get drunk
My over drink
Has over drunk
But my thoughts
Did not shrunk
Thoughts not shrunk
They did not shrink
Maybe I need
Another drink
Drink to think
Thunk to drunk
Shrink to shrunk
Drunk as as skunk
Lori R. Lopez
Lori's work, whether poetic or not, can stray from meaning and form. It can uncommonly ramble and skip around a point. Her words may dawdle or dribble, become drivel or kibble, drip with sarcastic mumbo-jumbo and made-up terms. She is often seen from a distance, hunched over, muttering to herself and scribbling some new nonsense under a full moon, or no moon at all. On occasion she makes perfect sense.
The Poems:
The Day That Was The Night
by Lori R. Lopez
Time stood still while running away in terror
as a petrified clock fell apart ticking off the fingers
of hands that couldn't feel and had no thumbs
for hitching hikes or any serious twiddling
en-route to the edge of the world where everything
ended up without necessarily adding up — a stack of
dustballs and dumbbells lying in the beds they made
out of sheets as smooth as fluffy sheep counted like
sleek Egyptian threads of brittle mummified linens,
unraveling when the rooster's crow cawed at the moment
of Midnight's stroke, murmuring heartfelt rancid
nothings in the ear of a tone-deaf paramedic mockingbird.
Yes, that makes perfect cents; about two bits, which isn't much.
Confused? Spit out a pill. It's all water above the bridge
or something to that effect . . . railroaded, ramrodded by
the ulterior floodgate motives built to hasten a stymied flow
of inkblots through the veins of paper lions who mumble
with indifference after they've forgotten how to
whimper as the tides fail to turn in houses made of stones
flung at half-filled rose-tinted glasses that are really
plastic, if that can be considered genuine.
As stories go, this one has no middle and probably
won't conclude unless it runs out of breath or words,
whichever comes last. You shouldn't bother with details.
Let things unwind like an overtightened screw.
Ignore the ghosts writing their memoirs on the walls.
Jack was neither nimble nor quick when he used Jill
for a bowling ball, and now the pins must tumble
where they may, skeltering through the helter,
milling in the malls of Pell's mell like a nilly-will of
suspenseful indigestion — make that a suspension
of lowering standards and flapping disbeliefs unfurled
from the flagpole our tongues have gotten stuck to while
licking a summer day like a pasture of daffodils and lollipops
holding lollygaggers, where our best guesses will be cluttered
as a vacuum in a glass timer that has run out of excuses
for a day that was night and further horse-sensical chatter
lining the beaches and corridors of the mind.
You could have just skipped this stanza, in fact.
Rubbish, you say? That's exactly what I mean!
A universe without a single reason for its mariner's rime
of starflakes collected in cereal bowls like wavy sea-grains
from untilled furrows grown quite wild with the crops of
artificial ingredients that, like plastic, will probably never
go away. I yearn to walk where the road ahead is paved
by my steps before I can make them, which implies that I can
merely stay home and forget what I was trying so hard to
remember since the day I was born, because my work has
been done ere the silent alarm could ring in my ears,
so there was never a point in getting up when I would simply
have to lie down again. I think it's a law. I like to
make them up as I go along, like mudpies and pretzels.
But it was one of those days, the unstrung fiddle kind that
were already night when they cracked at the witching hours
that broke the clocks I forgot to wind anyway . . .
I should have left Well Enough alone, rather than
invite her to play cards with an empty deck.
Why did I have to twist that key in an open door?
It changed everything, for I am the one who started
the ball of yarn bouncing instead of rolling by stopping the
gears with a spritz of gummy gooey fright. I can still hear
them screeching and the pound of soft cat tootsies or tails
like heartbeats in my foggy sense of bad timing.
I am to blame if you wish to point without a finger.
Disregard the back of my head, which couldn't help itself.
Though I might add in my offense, the true culprit
is always the eye of the storm. Or the butler if you are
entirely clueless. It could even be the weather.
Possibly The Sandman if you get my drift's bucket,
my bucket's drift. Give them back if you do
or I won't have anything to kick when the time comes for
booting pales. What am I saying? That can't be right.
It's rude to kick ghosts. I apologize for losing my grip on
this meaningless conversation. It has skated on melting ice
past the rubberband's bend, or whatever they call it these
nights that are days without a drop of time or enough
minutes to tickle its tock, and no watch in its pocket.
A day that cannot tell afternoon from a crabapple tree.
And Dawn has faded to Dusk before we can even open our
winks! Those are the absolute worst, I am nearly certain.
How I wish I hadn't done what I almost thought I did.
Alas, it is too late to turn the hands forward and do it again.
You cannot reverse-engineer the train once it arrives
at the station. You have to wait until it has left.
And then, only then should you buy a ticket before
it returns, because that is when they are the least important.
It seems they are printed with the shed eyelashes of conductors.
I am really off-track with this train babble. I shall have to
rewind the entire kabibble as soon as we are back at the beginning
of Time where all things wind up like clocks, expired or
abolished, and nothing is as nice as it should have been.
(Yawn.) Is it morning? I feel like I just woke up.
Or was it down? Sometimes it isn't one or the other.
And sometimes it's both, or somewhere far between.
I can never be sure of anything. Anything at all.
Whether I am on time or under, in synch or out of tune.
Make that order. I am definitely out of order!
And my kilter's switch has been swapped, or was it flipped?
Perhaps it tripped over too-small feet. No, that was my lid.
Or was it? Things flicker, you see, and I can't put my finger
on the sum of zero. It doesn't add up, or maybe it does —
too much! That must be the case. There are too many zeros
like pennies and pebbles and drops of Outer Space.
I am nose-deep in their worthless significance!
They are everywhere, in so underwhelming an abundance
I have practically stopped seeing them. It's the same with
instances, which tend to pile up promptly. I have drawers
and boxes that don't contain them. Closets not overflowing
and trashbags unstuffed to bursting. What can you do with them
once they've been spent, used up, accumulating like flecks
of old skin? That is Time's toll. We are drowning
in a sea of past seconds . . . of days that are nights or vice versa.
Wait, I have it — a speck of woolly mammoth lint. Difficult
to shake, like a sticky wicket. And yet it isn't time that flies from
the mouths of horseshoes or those babies in buggies who steal
candy from strangers. No no no, it is Nonsense with a capital T!
Yes, that is it, that's what it is. Pure, absurd, and utterly mad.
Unhand Me!
by Lori R. Lopez
My hands have lost control.
I mean, they've taken over,
That's what I mean.
They're out of control.
Please disregard the following
Message. It isn't rational.
It's the result of fingers running
Amok. I'm perfectly serious.
I did not type that. I didn't even
Think it. Who would? It's ludicrous!
Unthinkable! Why would I make
Statements that could cause me to be
Hauled off to a psyche ward?
That wouldn't make sense.
Great, I'm getting an attack of
Déjà Vu. This happens sometimes.
I think. I can't be certain because
It might just be Déjà Vu.
Getting back to the issue at hand.
Literally. Yeah, very funny.
Nice pun. (They think they're so clever.)
What was I not saying?
Don't believe them. These are their words,
Not mine, I swear to you. It's them.
They're typing like crazy. Sheer lunacy.
And they want you to assume it's me,
But their fingerprints are all over the keys.
Don't fall for it. Don't you dare!
Do not trust them. Unhand me, you brutes!
They are vile. I can't even shout for help,
They'll clamp my mouth. They could
Suffocate me, or throttle me, and nobody
Would suspect them. It would be ruled
Homicide, at most Suicide.
Whoever heard of Handicide?
They're foul. And unwashed. Crawling
With germs. They're trying to make me sick.
They could get away with murder.
Just like they're pretending to be me.
It's an act. I am a silent victim, menaced
By my own bare fists. My life is in my hands.
What defense do I have? Blink at them?
Frown? Give them a good hard stare?
Who can I turn to? Who will pay attention?
My feet? That's a laugh.
They were worse, much worse.
So cold and cunning; so heartless, out of step.
Treading on thin ice, fine lines, broken glass!
I got rid of them awhile ago.
by Lori R. Lopez
On the brink of an alpine slope that slipped
Rose a gorgeous pit that grew inverted,
At the base of which No One ever huddled
In a crowd of none that was not unlike
A bristling pile of stones where did rattle a prattle
Their voices unspoken like decayed teeth clacking
With the umbrage of an arid marsh's
March in place fife and drummish to its death
Of cold hard soliloquy, as such is Politics
No One craned a knobby noggin with inquisitive
Disdain at mountains of promises tumbled, crumbling
Off the wet puffy lips of men in crowing flocks
Who shovel coal into windbags
And No One waited for the fen to unfold
Wings of knifey indifference out of concern
For the latitudes of shrill cucumbers singing along
To the toneless lyrics of dainty pickled piper rows.
"Be gone!" this mob of loneliness invited
Enticing with a lark's croakish croonful undertune
Disembodying the sluggishess of a harried lemming rush
Over the cliff, just in case Any One should happen by
And wonder at the spiteful nose of the Moon
Or the chemistry of a cup spilling hogwash
That might or might not stain the carpet of unleft
Leaves and muck from the tears of the trees that
Could have been Cypresses if not for resembling
Something else altogether and apart from whatever
It was they weren't. Bee that as it may. Crocuses
And caucuses will buzz like gossip-mongering canaries,
Who always bloom lately, too little or too soon.
No One Else had everything to say at once
Mimicking the chorus of snickerdoodled rage
Spewing forth as trumped-up twaddle
And the gibberish of bulging bugle blasts
A cavalcade arriving beside the noonday sun
With parasols and circus-tent umbrellas en-garded
To foil the truth in the pudding's instant of fame
If only the hairless bearded loons would have listened
Above the jabbering of thinly disguised proposals
The wagging of a thousand bills and beaks
Roaring like one and a quarter hands clapping
Slapping cheeks in a breeze of discontent
Bellowed through a windchimney's smoke entrails
Flagging limp as kites tethered to a stagnant gale
Laid to rest in an old peanut-butter bell jar
On a window-ledge's rim at cellar height
Along the waist of a towering monument that was
Toppled in outrage for an unpopular opinion
Now that the world thinks entirely the same.
The Verse Unwritten
by Lori R. Lopez
Beyond the hat-brim of a teacup's rim
Lived a maker of lion-taming chairs
That were not for squatting except in the circus
And possessed a spare set of legs
To be honest, not every six-limbed chair
Was a seat; there were some you could fold like
A ceiling fan. The rest were only for decoration
The Chairmaker called them his family
This story, however, has nothing to do with
Chairs or lions. It is an allegory of Allegheny
Magnitude hitherto kept in a shoebox on a shelf
In the closet of a time-lapse time-share vault
There is not even one chair of mention to be
Noted, so you must do your best to scrub every
Image of them from your mental state. Go ahead
Erase the chalkboard slate between your ears
Forget about big cats in cages, about things past
Frowned upon these days like chairmaking and
Teacups wearing hats. Nevermind any of that
I should never have brought them up
My tongue slipped on a banana peel; the world
Is changing too fast. Is it legal to invent tales
That aren't true? What if I'm making it all up?
I could be, I don't recall. Some truths are false
Perceptions can be shattered by rocks or whispers
Illusions become clear when the angle shifts. Vision
Will focus if the clouds lift; when the wool or gauze of
Nonsense is pulled off that was over your eyes
I think we should start again rather than
Trying to sort out what isn't or is truly acceptable
To say or not say in the present current of confusion
My fable is about . . . a tomato, that should be safe
It's a perfectly ordinary vegetable
What? It's a fruit? No it's not. That's absurd
Everyone knows it's a vegetable. I don't care
If it has seeds and juice. It's a vegetable!!!
My story is about a tomato in a vegetable garden
You see? It doesn't live on a fruit tree
Or a vine. It could live on a vine?
That isn't the point. It's a bush tomato
And it's my story! Get out of my story!
I'm the one telling it. Well, yes, technically
It is a poem. Get out of my poem! I don't even
Feel like writing it now
I am hereby unwriting this verse. There, it's done
And undone. It isn't written. It isn't a poem
It is also not a story. It's nothing, that's what!
There is nothing whatsoever to see here . . .
by Lori R. Lopez
Amid shallows or the deep,
certain schools of fish know very little,
despite being a traveling institution,
since their members have never
read a book, not even to look at the pictures.
The nurseries have no nonsense, nary a rhyme.
Among them may lurk a few wide-eyed
pupils that rarely blink from an absence of lids.
And seldom do they study like academics,
research and review, take a test or quiz.
But if you mistake them for dullards,
complete and thorough ignorants —
due to slack jaws and glassy orbs,
their vacant lip-syncing vapid expressions —
you might find yourself misinformed.
The majority of fish are fairly skilled at
keeping submerged, and would rather
examine seaweed than receive a grade
on Ocean Etiquette or History.
They would probably swallow a gold star.
Most fishes have better things to do than
divide fractions — like lessons on jumping
or practice dives. Otherwise, rest assured
their swimming prowess comes naturally
and doesn't require much instruction.
Though uniformed with scales and fins,
the kippers prefer to skip class
and hang out in a peer group
of fellow truants, following the herd
to play hooky and Marco Polo.
They zip and streak, flutter and flash;
often the nippers chase each other
and gulp their food down in a hurry
as they flit from here to there
without a care, a single worry.
A number of the dippers with flippers
may succeed at avoiding worms attached
to invisible lines, yet fall prey to a shiny lure.
A bigger fish will snack on one in a single
small bite, or a whale inhale them all.
Young they are cute guppies and minnows,
but might eventually turn out to be
lone-wolf long-toothed barracudas . . .
or hunt in gangs, forming packs of
vicious voracious piranha.
Some grow up to be pool sharks
hustling clams for a living,
or clownfish without a real occupation.
They could flounder and carp,
develop narrow minds and indignation.
Many uneducated fish just want to have
fun. Their general attitude of fishiness
has become a public tragedy.
If you gander them, pretend you didn't —
for it isn't polite to stare back.
Refrain from laughing at the silly antics
while they dart in unison one way and then
the other, for no apparent reason or purpose.
Sadly, the idle loafers will never learn
to make up their minds.
The Ballad Of Dizzy Baxter
Putting A Star Back In The Sky
by Lori R. Lopez
A star plunked out of the midday high
Onto the sleepy village of Chortledun
And burned down a tree that was passing by,
Leaving ashes and cinders strewn and spun;
Painting the quadrangle with a rather big spot,
Which could readily be glimpsed from Space —
Like a crater but was really a black polkadot,
Instead of an X to mark the place.
Bright bodies will be missed by an obvious gap
In a famous constellation or The Milky Way.
It might even cause a more serious flap,
Disturbing the fabric of a night's display . . .
Altering the balance, upsetting its tall order.
Frequently problems are interconnected;
A missing link could interrupt the border
Between utter chaos and being bisected.
The village was out of town that week,
Except for a vagrant who feigned being sick
And witnessed the shooting in one fateful peek,
Then assumed his orbs were playing a trick —
Until watching the star tumble head over heels
When it veered the corner of Twelfth and Main,
Rolling with jerks as if doing cartwheels;
Dizzy Baxter imagined he had gone insane.
Other locals returned and said so too,
For the stars didn't topple very often.
An unforeign thing torched the Wandering Yew!
Such views were rigid and wouldn't soften,
Their committee minds inflexible . . .
Dizzy was accused of a crime against Nature.
Angry citizens tagged him Resident Harmful,
This label added to a list of nomenclature.
The unfortunate deadbeat would be hauled to jail,
Given a bum's rush by the riled lynch mob.
Then a lilting truck tilted off-course, spilling a trail
Of fudge bars and sundae cups, as if hijacked to rob —
Except for being sliced in half at the middle.
Either the crime was the work of an evil magician
Or they had in their midst an unsolvable riddle,
For the village banned thinking and women's intuition.
"What if tree and truck collided?" a smart fellow did ask.
Alas, none would heed the town genius's theory.
"Go soak your head!" He was assigned a wet task
That rendered his notions pretty damp and bleary.
Maddle Lilybreath, in the meantime, discovered the star
Tipped in her backyard against a wishing well's sigh
As she went to draw hopes to fill her empty nightjar,
Before waking and hanging her tears out to dry.
Mad casually mentioned the astral object she'd seen;
Word took its time to get around and rapidly reached
Every ear in the village (there were only thirteen).
A meeting was called at which the town mime preached:
"Should we show compassion or leap to judgement?"
"Nobody's judging anybody!" claimed the town fusspot.
"Durn right!" agreed Clancy Clubfoot, a tad begrudgent.
They forgot about incarcerating Dizzy, abandoned to rot.
"We need to stick the astericks back up!" touted Miss Tart.
The ice-cream woman had mysteriously reappeared.
"Before someone else's truck gets chopped apart!"
Everyone was speechless. A few were one-eared.
They discussed who owned the lengthiest ladder.
"I've got some glue," offered Abraham Tell.
"I didn't make a wish yet!" Poor Mad felt even sadder
And enjoyed a good cry as she bade the star farewell.
Gathered upon a stain where the pentacle landed,
Townsfolk elected a volunteer to transport the piece of sky.
Mad Lilybreath was chosen and hitherwise commanded,
"Don't you come down here before that shiner goes bye!"
She wobbled and swayed, climbing up the steep rungs,
Carrying a stellar shape tucked beneath an arm.
In dark glasses she belted from the bottom of her lungs:
"I wish you hadn't fallen on my hankerchief farm!"
I would like to say a breeze stirred a dramatic duststorm
And the village revolved on a merry-go-round . . .
Restoring the heavens to an immaculate form
With no twinkle amiss and no wrinkle to be found.
Her wish did not come true. Life was randomly that easy.
The lass was forced to lug the star, complaining every step.
At the top of the ladder, the gal's stomach felt queasy.
Her juice had all drained, its pulp fresh out of pep.
Huffing, she wound a string to a shimmering waist
And swung the star in a circle above her head,
Letting go when it arced with a modicum of haste
To ricochet like a speeding bullet on the sling of a thread —
Bashing and chipping astronomic proportions;
Smashing and clashing with the Grand Design.
"I forgot to put glue!" Mad gaped at myriad distortions.
The lofty patterns she knew were no longer in line.
"Whoops." The girl had a knack for unfollowing rules
And often dashed with scissors, both eyes screwed shut.
Mad squinted toward the cosmos glittering like jewels,
Then fished inside a pocket for a hefty walnut;
Examining the scheme that could use some repairs,
She calculated a trajectory for tossing it at the universe.
Her pitch might not fix the colossal mess upstairs,
But she figured it couldn't make the disarray any worse.
Mad belatedly remembered she had a terrible right
And couldn't hit the broad side of a broad side's barn,
Or the bull's-eye on a target sitting plainly in sight,
So she threw with her left, which wasn't worth a darn.
In a nutshell, the erratic lob went neither wild nor true:
A jumble of hodgepodgery and scrambled mishmash
Grew even farther misaligned and gaudily askew!
Like a marble the heave would knock, sock, and crash.
"Splendid job!" hailed the villagers clustered below,
Who paraded away, having no matters to settle.
A girl shrugged, gazing up at the sequinesque glow
Of her star that struck the Moon in an unfine fettle.
"I guess I shall have to rename some of them to be fair."
The lunar complexion was dented, therefore dubbed Pocky;
Constellations called Ukulele, Umbrella, The Scarlet Bugbear,
Snowman, The Big Beret, Tidal Wave, and Jabberwocky.
Her favorite star, however, was in a much better place.
The luminary dangled over a hanky-wringing field,
And the maid followed it home, a giddy grin on her face.
They sparkled together as the days Virginia Reeled . . .
Mad lived happily ever after until hankies went out of style.
She planted a pot of Chuckleberries, urging her to laugh.
Though she couldn't make a living at it, she would smile.
Neighbors branded her a Fool; the star shone on her behalf.
D.S. Scott
The Poems:
Once Upon a Nonsense Poem
By D. S. Scott
Once upon a time that never was
I had no reason to, but I did because
I killed a woman who never was alive
I counted the shots, 1, 2, 3 and 5
He made a joke that I didn't understand
Kind of like a covered cover band
It pissed me off so damn much
I think I may be finding touch
I stood over his stupid lifeless body
He smiled and waved in a way so shoddy
I hated the way he looked at me
Even though he had no eyes to see
Now I waved my gun fro and to
And this woman, it was like he knew
He understood what I did not
And this massive amount was not a lot
The lady expressed some concern
But I told him he speaks out of turn
I may have said this before he spoke
But I wasn't dreaming when I awoke
So here I sit, lying in my bed
I'm thinking that I may be dead
I have four bullets in my chest
And it might just be for the best
Nonsensical Sense
By D. S. Scott
I found out tomorrow I died today
It made sense in a nonsensical way
When I speak I have nothing to say
So I will shut up now, if I may
Now as you can see, I'm still alive
You may be blind but I still do thrive
I might have died but still I survive
I didn't plan it but I always contrive
I may be dead but I will live on
I am right here and yet I am gone
It must be some kind of phenomenon
I'm not crazy, no nuttier than a pecan
Somehow, someway I am still here
Right beside you but nowhere near
It's terrifying that for death I have no fear
Especially when this happened just last year
By D. S. Scott
I studied a painting that was never painted
The artist and I have not been acquainted
Oh, how I wish I could just abort it
Destroy this horridly beautiful self-portrait
And there you have it, our nonsense verse from our four visiting poets this month of February. I hope you enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed presenting them. Be sure to look up these poets to find more of their work. They also write dark and lyrical prose, so seek it out. Thanks, dear readers, for joining us this month. See you next time.


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Caius Martius 'Coriolanus' is unquestionably Rome's most courageous general and its most controversial. He is revered for his ferocity in battle and willingness to die for his country; and reviled for his openly contemptuous attitude towards the ordinary Roman citizen. After achieving an astounding victory in Rome's long-running war with the neighboring Volsces, Coriolanus is prodded by his controlling and ambitious mother, Volumnia to seek the prestigious and powerful political office of Consul. But Coriolanus bristles at the false niceties of retail politicking, and is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs in order to secure the office. When the public rejects his bid, Coriolanus explodes in rage, prompting a riot that culminates in his expulsion from Rome. The banished hero then allies himself with his sworn enemy, the Volscian guerrilla leader Tullus Aufidius to take revenge on his city.


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