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RESTON, VA, December 30, 2011 — A number of months ago, I launched a Washington Times Communities column devoted to dealing with grief—a tough topic to deal with in the abstract and an even tougher one to deal with when you're actually confronting it.
Deep grief over the loss of a loved one, family member, or close friend doesn't just disappear. Over time, it manifests differently in different people. It's a chameleon, a chimera—bodiless, yet substantial and ever changing. As I wrote about grief throughout 2011, I found myself obliged to maintain a strangely steady relationship with grief, while helping readers move on. Eventually, I reached a limit on dealing with grief exclusively and suspended my column for a while.
I eventually concluded it was time to broaden out. People who can't communicate comfortably under ordinary circumstances are unlikely to undergo a magical transformation into fluency in response to grief. They're even less like to be able to acquire another elusive skill at a moment's notice: the ability to communicate soul-to-soul empathy and compassion.
Gradually, it occurred to me that it made more sense to broaden my topic area and consider a much wider range of communications issues and experiences.
It was around this time that Apple's superstar CEO Steve Jobs breathed his last.
Steve Jobs' Final Moment of Eloquence
When Steve Jobs passed away, there was considerable discussion among the Apple faithful and the media in general when his very last words were revealed: "OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW." As the story goes, he uttered them while looking not at his family but past them, almost as if staring at some kind of apparition, although we can only imagine what.
The last time I checked, Jobs' last words and associated commentary had generated over two million hits on Google. In the Wall Street Journal's op-ed pages, columnist Peggy Noonan observed that "When words leave people silent and thinking they are powerful words." But was he communicating? Yes.
But, as he looked past his family while speaking those words, he seemed to see something they did not before uttering those final six words. He was speaking to what he saw. But he was also communicating, as best he could, whatever he saw to those around him. Why did he speak to them in that last moment? For that matter, why do we really communicate with each other?
Communication: No Help from the Usual Suspects
When one embarks on a quest to explore words, the first stop is usually the dictionary. Another stop is to consult the experts.
From the outset, the dictionary proved no real help to me, especially with regard to understanding why Steve Jobs' final words affected people so profoundly. From the Oxford English Dictionary of United States English:
com·mu·ni·ca·tion/kəˌmyo͞oniˈkāSHən/ Noun. 1. The imparting or exchanging of information or news. 2. A letter or message containing such information or news.
No help. "Oh wow," as best I can tell, has been in use from the earliest days of hippiedom, an era with which Jobs was well familiar. It was the only way that many flower children—or anyone else for that matter—could communicate what they were seeing or experiencing after a dalliance with a controlled substance.
The expression, at that time at least, meant everything and nothing. The speaker knew what it meant. The auditors could only understand that it addressed something outside of their real world experience and appreciate it in that way. It was an exchange of information for sure, but no one could quite know what the information was.
Moving on to the academic world, I discovered that communication is more complicated than the average person might think—although, as in much of academia these days, professors are frequently guilty of overthinking the process as well. Various academic communication theories espouse various "levels" of communication. There are also several types of communication, and multiple methods of communication.
Those who specialize in communication talk about verbal, nonverbal, formal, informal, and that ever-popular gold ring: effective communication. The deep thinkers also spin theories about what they term factual, gut-level, peak, evaluative, phatic, and platonic communication.
Beyond these essentials, they promulgate a mishmash of other terms and definitions as well, often degenerating into theoretical academic-speak—the kind of verbiage that makes them a laughingstock to everyone outside of their profession.
(And God help you if you don't pair the correct number of levels, types, and methods of communication with their corresponding communication theoreticians. You'll be swiftly—and snarkily—corrected.)
Modern communication about communication makes an academic libertarian nostalgic for the trivium—rhetoric, grammar, and logic—the three required subjects before you were allowed to approach arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy back in the day. In those times, knowing how to read was more mysterious and inaccessible than knowing how to program is today.
Granted, communication is complicated. Even communication between non-humans is complicated (see David Attenborough's discussion of birds' ability to communicate in his video series, The Life of Birds).
But even without the self-awareness available to humans, creatures that communicate with each other have attitude, intent, purpose. What does the other want or need? Do I care, or am I even able? What do I want? Does the other agree or not, or does it even matter?
Basic Components of Human Communication: What? Why? How?
People communicate facts and feelings as well as permutations of those, such as opinions and beliefs, in varying yet unquantifiable ratios. That's what we get when we communicate: facts and feelings, much of the time in no particular order. How we communicate them to others is up to us.
Fact and feeling are communicated for various purposes and by multiple means. Methods of communication include billboards, books, broadsides, broadcasts, circulars, dispatches, cable media, E-mail, electronic mail, facsimiles, faxes, letters, magazines, memorandums, newspapers, notes, picture post cards, post cards—well, you get the picture.
But why do we communicate facts and feeling in so many ways?
We communicate to make observations, offer knowledge, engage in small talk. We network and we schmooze. We report facts, show each other pictures of our children, and exchange biographical information and jokes. We communicate to share feelings and facts we already know, but also query others to learn more. We try to reinforce or change attitudes, produce action, and to persuade others, which can include everything from selling washing machines to issuing commands.
We can also communicate evaluatively by offering opinions, ideas and judgments. We dole out descriptive, provisional, and responsible expressions. We communicate to establish rapport, to break the ice, to start and to end conversations. We hug, kiss, air kiss, salute, shake hands, bow, smile, make eye contact, face one another, look askance.
We report facts and share ideas, data, and information. We express ideas and judgments. We communicate sadness, joy, wonder, anger, frustration, and amazement. Once in a long while we may enjoy completely fulfilling emotional and personal communication. Nothing is held back.
And somehow we manage to navigate the good ship Communication through the sometimes treacherous channels, passages, and shoals of our lives, each of us serving as our own Columbus, in possession of tools, equipment, instruments, and crews that often, paradoxically, are less refined than were his.
Back to Steve Jobs
Here's what Steve Jobs didn't have during his final moments of communication:
- No listeners who saw what he saw, felt what he felt, and knew exactly how to respond.
- No relevant dictionary definitions, academic theories, levels, types, or methods of communication to fully explain the moment.
- No ability to communicate facts as he saw them.
But here's what Steve Jobs did possess at the time of his final communication:
- Attitude.
- Purpose.
- Intent.
- A message, and loving listeners to receive it.
The lesson: Grief is but one kind of communication. There are many more and we need to understand and employ them for the benefit of others as well as ourselves. We live in a complicated time. But, sadly, neither academics, politicians, nor opinion leaders are doing a very good job of helping us navigate through a difficult era and into a more promising future that we might not even recognize when it arrives.
Looks like it's our turn to tackle this job. Let's get going.
Frances Ponick's book, Only Angels Can Wing It: How to Prepare a Eulogy Quickly and Present It Compassionately, is available in paperback from the author and is now available atAmazon.com. She coaches written and verbal communications and is the writer's block expert atAllExperts. Feel free to ask questions there, or connect with Frances at Twitter,Facebook, and/orLinkedIn. Read more about "Stages of Grief" in the Washington Times Communities.
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During our near daily trips to Draft Preview town over the past few weeks (a thriving, bustling place in April), there's often been two general team outlooks. There are teams with a definitive need in the first round, and it would be borderline shocking if said need wasn't addressed. Then there are teams with multiple needs, so guessing which one will be prioritized often ends in mock tears during your mock drafting.
The Panthers definitely fall into the latter category. A defensive tackle feels like the first-round target, with pressure needed to support Charles Johnson and Greg Hardy coming off the edges. But support for Steve Smith is badly needed too, meaning the assumption (a dirty word in April) is that Carolina's first two picks will be a defensive tackle and a wide receiver.
But will that really happen? And which position will be addressed first? I asked those questions, and James Dator from Cat Scratch Reader kindly answered.
1. Getting some interior pressure on the defensive line and some run stuffing ability should be an early priority. Is Sheldon Richardson the pick if he's around at No. 14?
I think a lot of mock drafters have pegged Richardson to the Panthers because he's the kind of penetrating under tackle the team needs, however assuming there's anything predictable about Carolina's drafting is a mistake. At this time last year logic dictated that the Panthers had to go with Fletcher Cox if he was on the board, and instead they took a linebacker. Richardson might be the player they need, but it's unclear whether he's the one they want.
2. Or is there an even greater need and priority in the secondary? Chris Gamble was a cap casualty, so an upgrade at corner is needed, and we can say the same for the safety spot. But is it too earlier to select either Xavier Rhodes or Matt Elam?
The secondary is a patch-work job of one-year veteran deals, and unproven young players. While Carolina has spent some time with strong safety Jonathan Cyprien, there's very little indication they're interested in the draft's top cornerbacks. Ultimately, they have so many needs, several will get ignored, and I'm not convinced they take a player for the secondary in the first round.
3. The Panthers scheduled a visit with Barkevious Mingo, one of the draft's top pass rushers. Is that all smoke, or would Mingo be too tempting to pass on if he fell?
It's probably about due diligence, rather than true smoke. Teams know the Panthers don't run a 3-4 defense (which would best suit Mingo's skills) but they'd be doing themselves a disservice if they didn't at least find out if he can fill that leo role at the next level, similar to what Von Miller does in Denver.
4. Will wide receiver help be targeted sometime in the early rounds? It seems this question is posed the same way every year with the Panthers, but while he's productive, Steve Smith isn't getting younger, and another reliable target would help Cam Newton's continued development. Maybe Robert Woods in the second round?
This is certain. Carolina has spent more time with the wide receiver class than any position in the draft, and right now it looks like the first round is the place to look for WR help. The Panthers have had two meetings with Clemson receiver DeAndre Hopkins, they've met with both top West Virginia WRs (Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey), while Keenan Allen of Cal continues to work out with Ricky Proehl, the team's wide receiver coach. This is either the most elaborate smokescreen in history, or they're taking a WR with one of the first two picks.
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A relatively new condition affecting emerging oak leaves, called oak tatters, is again appearing in Iowa.
The condition affects primarily white oaks, including white, bur and swamp white. Red oaks are only occasionally affected.
Damage appears when leaves emerge in mid to late May. The leaves will appear lacy or tattered. Heavily affected trees will produce new leaves that may not have tatters but may be smaller and lighter in color than normal leaves.
Producing replacement leaves reduces important energy reserves. Healthy trees can survive this stress but repeated damage or damages combined with other stress, like drought, other defoliation or site problems, may make the tree more susceptible to decline or to other problems.
"Trees should recover unless they are tattered for three or more years in a row," said Tivon Feeley, forest health program leader for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
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In addition to Iowa, oak tatters has been observed in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Missouri.
In woodlands, little can be done to prevent additional damage after an oak tatters event, except to reduce other stresses such as grazing of livestock.
For yard or urban landscape trees, try to minimize other stresses like changes to the site, add mulch to the tree and water during extended dry periods.
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An Editorial on Product Quality
A lot of products pass across my desk for review. Software, hardware, cameras, gadgets, lenses, accessories — essentially anything and everything to do with photography. The purpose of this brief commentary is to point out a concern that I have been developing regarding the quality of a number of the products that I have seen in recent months.
Simply put, many of them are sub-par. They are poorly designed, have obvious flaws, and in my opinion simply aren't ready for market.
A case in point;
In early November I received a digital camera for review from a major manufacturer. It was a digicam — one that I thought, based on its specs, held promise as a light-weight yet functional camera for users who didn't need the bulk of a DSLR. When I went to install the software I found the following...
— The software had no options. It simply installed a broad range of programs, drivers and DLLs. Some 50 MB in all. There was no opportunity to select individual components or even to know what was being installed.
— There was no Uninstall. Not as a selection from within its program directory nor under Windows Control Panel. This is terrible programming and no developer worth his salt should write code this unfriendly.
— Every time the browser / converter software is run it pops up an HTML ad for some online service being touted by the manufacturer. Unacceptable.
— The software crashed 3 times when I tried to do simple directory navigation to find image files. I found a work-around but this is a real and repeatable bug that I encountered within 5 minutes of first using the program. Did no one ever Beta test this software?
— The RAW file converter offers no ability to edit any aspect of an image file. Nada. Nothing. Zip. All one can do is view it and convert it to an 8 bit TIFF.
— RAW files are automatically ressed-up beyond their native resolution and there's nothing that one can do about it. The result of this is clearly visible as reduced image quality.
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I could go on, but won't. I also will not be reviewing the camera, (and no, I won't tell you the manufacturer's name). Life is too short to have to deal with flawed products like this, so I returned the camera to the manufacturer with thanks, but also a polite decline on a review. What would be the point? It would just be a rant. Like this.
Is this a unique instance? Hardly. The Pentax *ist D is another case in point. The cameras has shipped with several flaws; a poorly designed CF card compartment that makes removal of cards highly problematic, a poorly placed on/off switch, and the lack of both a histogram or highlight overexposure warning on post-exposure image review. Canon's 1D and 1Ds require 4 seperate button presses to achieve mirror lock up, and many Nikons don't even offer it any more. And Kodak should simply hide its head in shame over the Kodak 14n, a camera with multiple design flaws. But I've kicked this lame horse enough times already, and though constant firmware upgrades have improved the image quality, it's still the same dumb clunky camera design as ever. (I hope that I have now insulted everyone's favourite camera company equally. I wouldn't want to appear biased).
Then there are the outright defects. During just the past 12 months here are some that I've experienced...
— Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L: Zoom ring locked up after the first 2 days of use. Several months later, after repair, the front element fell off!!
— Delkin eFilm PicturePad: Failed three times in the first year of use.
— Fujitsu Lifebook subnotebook: motherboard failure within less than 12 months of purchase
— Toshiba Satellite laptop: fatal hard disk crash after less than 18 months of use. Much data lost.
— Gitzo 1349 carbon fibre tripod: leg seperated from head mount for the second time (second tripod) in 2 years
— Kirk Window Mount: locking clamp retaining pin sheared after first 3 days of use (admittedly stressed beyond its design spec)
— LaCie 40GB Mobile Drive failed after just 4 months of use. Part of a shoot lost.
— Contax Zeiss 1.4X Extender contacts faied
These are the major failures. But the small annoyances are like water torture; they wear you down one at a time. I won't even mention Microsoft Windows, its security flaws and endless problems (Yes, I'm talking about XP Pro). 12 million lines of code and they still can't write a decent operating system.
The Point
So what is the point of what I've written above? It is that recently I am seeing an increasing number of manufacturers rushing hardware and software products to market with obvious design flaws, and omissions. The Kodak 14n and Pentax *istD are two examples of products to appear to me to have been released prematurely. Last year the Contax N Digital was ignominiously withdrawn from major markets after just a few months, and there have been other high profile instances, such as the still-festering off-focus issues with some Canon 10Ds.
Then there are products like PrintFIX from ColorVision, and Extensis pxl SmartScale, that promise much but deliver little. I have cupboards and drawers full of them.
Why is this the case? Clearly the competitive environment is demanding new products at a pace that many manufacturers and development houses can't keep up with. Rather than slow the pace, instead products are expected to be debugged by consumers and are then withdrawn even before they have a chance to mature, only to be replaced by still newer and equally flaky new models.
And it isn't just small software companies that are guilty of this. Major manufacturers are equally likely to rush products to market to meet real or imagined competitive pressures and market deadlines.
The Solution
Obviously the solution is for manufacturers to take more care, slow down, test and release better products at a more measured pace. Is this likely to happen? No, probably not. Economic pressures are such that few companies can afford to fall behind or produce products that are uncompetitively priced. This means that we as consumers will continue to suffer.
What we can do is to recognize flawed products when we encounter them and not be hesitant to complain to manufacturers — loudly. We also should take to task magazines and web sites that like everything that they see and have few if any critical words for products that don't deliver. American photographic magazines are the worst. With few exceptions they have no balls, and rarely will call a spade a spade. In the U. K. and France a few of the magazines at least will denounce shoddy and poorly designed products.
Regrettably most web sites that feature product reviews also accept (and even search out) advertising from the companies whose products they cover. Does this mean that their reviews are not objective? No, not necessarily. But when was the last time you read a really critical review of a product on a site that accepted advertising from that same company?
Unfortunately in the photographic arena both pros and hobbyist alike are often driven by their wants rather than rationality. People personally identify with certain companies, and after having made major investments on gear are reluctant to admit that we made a poor choice or that their favourite company is producing flawed products. As long as this is the case manufacturers will have license to take advantage of us. We're our own worst enemy.
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I was always one to be skeptical of creams claiming to reduce or get rid of any type of wrinkles or dark circles; but my dark circles had gotten so bad, I had to do something about it and I could not afford surgery.
My concealers were only doing so much so I decided to go for a budget-friendly eye cream, and through a Google search, I found Provectin.
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After about day 12 of using this stuff, the difference was really noticable and with a touch of concealer, it makes my eyes look so refreshed and rested. Not only that, but it also makes my makeup look flawless because it makes your skin soft so your face glows - kind of a pregnant woman's glow.
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-Use a toner. Bought my toner from my local mall
-Apply a vitamin K serum
-Apply Provectin under the eyes than all over the face
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-I promise your skin will look so refreshed
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I was pretty surprised how much I liked this product! Sort of expensive for a drugstore eye cream but I've repurchased it three times. I don't have many wrinkles but this cream does a great job at moisturizing without giving me millia around the eye area - a problem I've had with other eye creams.
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I go to the local beauty school for a monthly facial ($17.50) and the girls ALWAYS ask me what I use on my eyes because I have no wrinkles around my eyes. They can't believe it when I tell them. I also use the Provectin facial cream. Huge tube for very little $$, especially when compared to Strivectin. And Walgreens has this on sale so watch for that as well.
Prolighten from the same company from walgreens is much better!!! i had awesome results from it. cant say the same about provectin. prolighten got rid of bags and worked wonders for my dark circles and provectin really hasnt done much of anything. some days my eyes look worse than ever and are irritated. but of course they discontinued Prolighten. oh well maybe its still online.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Value Alternative to StriVectin SD ($59 in department stores).
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Helps Diminish the Appearance of Dark Circles
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MY THOUGHTS: I purchased a 1.3 fl oz (38.45 mL) tube of Skin Essentials ProVectin Plus Advanced Eye Cream for Deep Wrinkles & Dark Circles over eBay for $24 CAD since I couldn't find it anywhere in my area. Unfortunately, I didn't notice any improvement after using this product for two months religiously.
After performing an oil migration test, I discovered this product had a negative result.
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This product claimed that you can see results after the first use, but I saw nothing. It's also a bit odd that you have to apply 2-3 times a day, but im not complaining.
I will try it for another week or so, but if it doesn't work, I think i'll try something else.
the plus side-
It was actually very moisturizing and it has natural ingredients.
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I got the sample tube at Sally's for $3. So far I like it. I don't have wrinkles but I have pretty dark circles (developed during pregnancy) and they are almost impossible to get rid of. This helps a lot with reducing the appearance of my dark circles. I still have my circles, but this stuff helps a lot. I don't have to use concealer on my eyes anymore...just foundation.
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this stuf is a winner for me! i recently switched over to night shift and i noticed my dark circles have been more pronounced...even with concealer...my mom pointed it out to me too :-/ did tons of research and heard raves about ProLIGHTEN....i asked the lady working at walgreens where it was located and she told me not to buy it bcoz rarely anyone buys that but many people keep coming back for ProVECTIN....i was hesitant at first but decided to go with it bcoz im sure customers rave about this product to her...and of course, its cheaper than prolighten...anyways, i apply the cream in the morning and before i go to bed...within a few weeks...i definitely see my dark circles lighten a bit and smoothed out majority of my baby wrinkles *update* much happier with dermactic serious dark circles treatment
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Eva Petkova, PhD, is Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine and Director of the Division of Biostatistics at the Child Study Center which provides statistical expertise to researchers in the Department.
Dr. Petkova's research expertise is in statistical modeling and design of clinical experiments, which includes regression methods for clustered longitudinal, categorical and survival data, finite mixture modeling, causal inference and models for missing data. Dr. Petkova also has extensive experience in designing, monitoring, and analyzing data from large single-site and multi-site psychiatric clinical trials in the areas of treatment and services research. The nature of psychiatric disorders poses numerous statistical methodological challenges for design and analysis of studies. Dr. Petkova has been at the forefront of new methodological advances that seek to address these obstacles.
Dr. Petkova graduated with a degree in Mathematics from the Sofia University in Bulgaria in 1982, where she also obtained a Masters degree in Mathematics in 1984 and a PhD in Physics in 1987. She then obtained a second PhD in Statistics from Pennsylvania State University in 1992. She completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biostatistics at Harvard University in 1994.
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A little girl has a pig for a pet. The pig gets very distracted and is loads of fun and trouble. She gets sticky from syrupy pancakes and wants to take baths and build tree houses. Follows a patter "if you give a pig a ____, chances are she'll _____". The book ends with her wanting another pancake. I like this book because it can provide many lesson plans or any teacher. A teacher could do a lesson plan on sequencing with this story. The teacher would have the students sequence in chronological order which event came first all the way to the end. A teacher could also do a lesson plan on parts of plot in a story from this book. The exposition and the conclusion would be the same event, the girl would give the pig a pancake. Another reason I like this book is because of the irony. The fact that the girl offered the pig a pancake to be nice led to all of these ridiculous events only to lead back to the girl making the pig another pancake. It will teach students to watch what they do for people because it could haunt them in the end. I liked the book "If You Give a Pig a Pancake". I liked this book for two reasons. First I liked the writing. The writing was organized and flowed well together. It was written in a cause and effect way. "When she's all dressed, she'll ask for some music. You'll play your very best piano piece, and she'll start dancing. Then she'll want you to take her picture." The words flow very well together. Another aspect I liked was the illustrations. I really enjoyed looking at each picture. The pictures accurately described what was happening throughout the story. The big idea of this story is watch what you ask for. A child might not understand that the things they are asking for a parent may not have and might come off as demanding. This is a very entertaining and funny book! The lesson behind is very powerful. I found that young children enjoy this book because of the illustrations of the pig and everything he gets. I feel older children will be able to portray the message behind this book a lot easier than younger children. A new take on this classic series. It's a great book to end with the question: "What happens if..." allowing for a spontaneous and excited retelling of the book. Best for preschool - 1. no reviews | add a review Is contained in
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0060266864, Hardcover)"If you give a pig a pancake, she'll want some syrup to go with it. You'll give her some of your favorite maple syrup. She'll probably get all sticky, so she'll want to take a bath." You get the idea. Baths lead to bubbles, bubbles lead to rubber ducks, rubber ducks lead to wanting a trip to the farm. If You Give a Pig a Pancake is a delightful exploration of the scenario "if you give an inch, they'll take a mile." But who could refuse the whims of this adorable piglet? Not us, and certainly not the pig's young caretaker. Parents will feel a familiar twinge as they witness the pig's increasingly elaborate demands, and kids will be delighted that the story circles back around to the original pancake. Laura Numeroff and illustrator Felicia Bond--well-loved creators of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and If You Give a Moose a Muffin--succeed again in concocting a marvelously skewed study of cause and effect that inevitably results in a riotous read-aloud. Your kids will ask for this book again and again, and you won't want to refuse. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:40:27 -0400) One thing leads to another when you give a pig a pancake. (summary from another edition) |
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Pasadena Mystery: Journalism Prof Suddenly Put on Leave. Shhh.
By Correspondent @ 9:00 AM March 29, 2013Re "PCC/Rocha Issue: Mismanagement of College Resources"
[Editor's Note: In the continually widening fiery debate on campus over the controversial tenure and conduct of Pasadena City College President Mark Rocha, a potentially explosive dismissal just has been recorded. The following report is from a campus source.]
Dr. Mark Rocha You may be interested to know that as of yesterday afternoon, a fellow journalist has been escorted off campus. He is to pick up his things today at noon at the Campus Center Courier office (the school newspaper).
He has not been formally charged.
This is very suspicious since finally the Courier has started publishing a lot of bad press on the President.
In fact, the last issue was 90 percent about vote of no-confidence.
Below is yesterday's Courier story:
Courier adviser put on administrative leave
A journalism professor who advises the Courier has suddenly been put on administrative leave.
Warren Swil, who has advised the Courier since 2007, has been told that he is not allowed to comment on being placed on administrative leave.
"I'm not at liberty to speak about it," Swil said.
Joe Futtner, the dean of the visual arts and media studies division, said that Swil's leave will continue, "pending the outcome of an investigation." Futtner added that the nature of the complaint is confidential.
"The administration's attention is to immediately address the needs of the students," Futtner said. "We hope to have an instructor in place for the [journalism] classes and for the publishing of the Courier."
According to English major Madison Miranda, also the assistant online editor of the Courier, the morning before class seemed to be going well.
"I saw him on the way to class and he said Hi," Miranda said. "It just seems weird that he just wasn't [in the newsroom]."
The Courier will continue to publish online and in the print edition every Thursday, as planned.


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Lately I have been really emotional. Yesterday night I just broke out crying and I don't even know why. Whenever I hear a sad song on the radio, I get really sad. I don't know if it has to do with the stress and being overwhelmed with coming out to some people, and yet still in the closet to most. Also, I know I shouldn't, but I care what people think of me. I already know 2 of my friends think it's awkward that I'm bisexual. I try to make people like me, and I know it's a bad habit. Anybody know what could be going on? I hate crying, but for some reason, I can't help it. Urg!
hormones suck. might it be pms? or is it going on too long for that?
i'd go with stress. coming out is SO hard, especially when you're not accepted wiht love and hugs.
of course you care what people think of you....that's perfectly normal. everyone does, and anyone who tells you that they DON'T care is lying at some level.
you might also be slightly depressed, which again, is pretty much normal for teens, and especially for gay teens without much support (of even those of us with tons of it). if it keeps getting worse, or just stays bad, you might concider finding a therepist.
if you do decide to do that, we can give you all sorts of advice for how to go about doing it. :)
*hug* hang in there, okay? it DOES get better. and sometimes....crying isn't a bad thing.
PM me if you ever want to talk. :)
"I'm kissing you through the bars of this rhyme/When Julie, I'd do the stars with you anytime/Ah, Juliet" ~Indigo Girls, Romeo and Juliet
I have had some thoughts that i might be depressed, but just slightly. I have support, but my parents don't know yet. They wouldn't throw me out of the house or anything, but i just don't feel i am close enough to them to tell them that. people tell me all the time i shouldn't care what people think of me, but i still do. I hope your right about it getting better. i could use the *hugs* lol :/
It hurts when you have someone in your heart but you can't have them in your arms.
That was me all last semester--I was just crying all the time for a whole bunch of different random reasons, but the reasons didn't seem to match the intensity of emotion. It's rough. Sometimes you just need to get rid of all your crap. Sometimes life is just really hard. But there are always people who love you and care about you--I know that Oasis has helped me through hard times before, as has my therapist.
Best of luck coming out! It does get better!
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. --Anais Nin
I hope your right about it getting better. I'm holding on as tight as I can.
It hurts when you have someone in your heart but you can't have them in your arms.
Coming out to people that I really respect is SUCH an emotional thing for me to do (both if they accept homosexuality and if they don't...) Just hang in there, sweetiepie. I know exactly how you are feeling, remember that we are ALL here for one another. Keep venting, keep coming out (if you feel that it's right) and keep just being you. Remember: YOU ARE WONDERFUL!
Thanks a bunch. I kinda figured everyone on here has gone through that so that's why I posted it here instead of keeping it inside. being me is seeming to get harder and harder as time goes on. I hope your right about it getting better.
It hurts when you have someone in your heart but you can't have them in your arms.


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Meet the regular folks who became fitness inspirations
Ages 36 to 82, they know pain comes with the gain, but, for them, it's well worth it. The trick is to push smart and be happy with your performance at any age.
SO HOW do you go from exercise-averse to exercise enthusiast? And how do you keep doing it, even as you age? Meet the inspiration:
Nicole Nazzaro
"I thought I had the fat gene."
Looking at the woman sitting across from me at a Kirkland Starbucks, sipping a skinny caramel latte, you'd never guess it. But that was what Nazzaro told herself for years. It made sense. Her parents were overweight, and she was carrying an extra 30 or 40 pounds. Her blood pressure was high, too. Her father died of a heart attack at age 58.
"I told myself I was destined to be overweight and live out my father's life," she says.
She was unhealthy and pretty unhappy. Only she didn't quite see it that clearly.
"It's a real mind game I played with myself," she says. She believed she was exercising, even though it was only sometimes. She told herself her lousy diet would get better. Tomorrow.
In 2008, at age 36, she signed up for a half marathon. She intended to run it, but wound up mostly walking. Then, from the sidelines, someone snapped a photo.
"This is the picture that changed my life," she says. Nazzaro looks not only overweight but completely miserable.
"I was lumbering through life, like Eeyore," she says. "I wanted to be like Tigger."
She pulls out another photo, this one taken last year, at a West Seattle 5K. Here, she is slim and muscular, her expression determined. She is also 40 pounds lighter.
The athlete was there all along. Yet in her Eeyore phase, she couldn't even conceive of the "self" the second picture reflects.
"I literally thought my body was broken," she recalls. "I tried everything — except eating well and exercising."
Today, the two pictures hang side-by-side in her office, where she does freelance writing and is a workplace wellness consultant. They are a reminder of where she was and of the potential inside her — inside just about everyone, she says.
"I want people to realize it's not all over if your parents are heavy," she says. "It's not over if you've been heavy all your life, or if you think you can't do it."
Janet Palmer
A Metro bus driver, Palmer spent a lot of her life on the sidelines.
"I didn't even start running until I was 50," she says.
The woman before me at Shoreline Stadium is in pigtails and shorts, catching her breath after a little jog. And she's smiling. Good Lord, is she smiling.
At 53, she ran her first marathon.
"I thought what idiot would do this again?"
Being wise, she sticks to halfs, running one every other month.
Why? Turns out that once she tried running, she really liked it.
On this warm evening, she has just finished a fun event held weekly called the Jogger's Mile. It's for runners of all ages and abilities, and Palmer finished way in the back of the pack. The object is to predict exactly how long a mile will take you. The person whose time is closest to their guess wins.
"Even if you lose, you could win," she says. "That's what makes it so fun."
A few years ago, she was a lot less healthy. She remembers when the problem smacked her right in the face, watching the Torchlight Run along the parade route.
"I'd see all these runners and none of 'em are fat," she says. "And we're sitting there with our coolers looking like Jabba the Hutt."
No more. As she begins describing how she lost inches around the middle, and gained something more important, there is an announcement:
"And the winner of the Jogger's Mile is . . . Janet Palmer!"
She starts jumping up and down. "I won! I won!
She doesn't stop.
"I don't need a prize! I got the glory!"
David Ortman
"Never ask a masters athlete how he's doing," says Ortman, 59. "Because he'll tell you."
Then he launches into a litany of afflictions: the hamstring pulls and rotator-cuff injuries, the calf strains and so on. Once, he was laid up for two years with plantar fasciitis.
All this as a result of competing in the sorts of track-and-field events, like hurdles and sprints, normally done by people one-third his age. As a trained journalist, I know the next question to ask: Why? He laughs. Then he talks about friends who are really hurt. He's running and throwing and jumping, even as he's nearing 60, because he can.
"I figure, well, until I get to needing the hip and knee transplants, I might as well do it now."
If you aren't active today, he says, it's only going to get more difficult tomorrow.
Besides, it's a whole lot of fun. He's part of a track-and-field club and goes to meets where he gets to swap stories with friends old and young. With every new season comes a new challenge.
"You have something to work for, something to plan for," he says. "That's what keeps most of us going."
Fred Luke
When you give something up for, say, 30 years, it may be difficult to start again. But that is exactly what Luke did.
Now 65, he competed in javelin in the 1972 Olympics and continued for several years after that. Then life got in the way, and he stopped. He became a Boeing engineer and took up tennis and golf, but it wasn't the same. His weight went up, as did his blood pressure and cholesterol. Then a friend asked if he could help coach some high-school kids.
"The first day, I almost pulled a groin," he recalls. "I thought, this isn't going to work."
In his second year back, he ruptured his Achilles tendon and had to be carted off on a stretcher. He realized the answer wasn't to give up; it was to get stronger.
Being athletic is in his soul, so he knew what to do. He threw and threw, then started adding weights and medicine-ball workouts. He's got arthritis in his knees, but his doctor told him to keep working out; he'd have the arthritis no matter what.
His cholesterol came down. And his throwing improved.
He rattles off his three goals: "One, be able to walk away in one piece; two, not get beat by a girl; and three, get a decent distance."
Now, he's ranked sixth in the country for his age group, though his distances are about half what they were at his peak.
"I have to accept where I am and enjoy it," he says.
Al Erickson
The world-champion decathlete stands tanned and sinewey; he talks nonstop; he doesn't stop moving. Shot put, javelin and yes, pole vault, at age 82.
He won the gold medal for his age group at the World Masters Athletics Track and Field Championships in Sacramento, Calif., last year, after taking up the sport just five years earlier. Why? For all the reasons most of us wouldn't take up decathlon.
"It's 10 events over two days," he says. "You don't have time to get any rest to speak of. The best part of it is you just train all year long."
He retired as a University of Washington professor of wildlife science in 1993, but the last thing he wanted to do was slow down. The bigger the challenge, the better.
"You can't go up to throw a discus and have a misthrow and blame it on anybody else."
Watch him high jump and you think, wow, how does an octogenarian even get his body in that position? As he throws the javelin, you can't help but wince. He sure doesn't look like Luke. In the 100-meter, he takes twice as long to finish as the rest of the pack. He doesn't care.
"If you could run like you did when you were 19," he shrugs, "there wouldn't be any competition."
Maureen O'Hagan is a Seattle Times staff reporter. Benjamin Benschneider is a Pacific NW staff photographer.


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When: 11/16/2012, 7:30 pm
Location: Performing Arts Center
A free jazz concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, in the PAC's main performance hall.
Music aficionados will be treated to a medley of arrangements by Mic Gillette as well as classic soul hits from Tower of Power when the Thursday Night Band and the Bayou Big Band host Jazz @ Lee College.
"Jazz @ Lee College is a semi-annual concert hosted by the Thursday Night Band, formerly the Lee College Jazz Ensemble, and the Bayou Big Band," explained Dr. Ken Booker, director of instrumental music at Lee College, and conductor of the Thursday Night Band, a credit course dedicated to the performance of "big band" music.
"These joint concerts actually began more than 10 years ago," Dr. Booker continued. "At that time, my colleague, Dennis Eichler, was serving as director of both the Lee College Jazz Ensemble and the Bayou Big Band, and had established a series of on-campus concerts. When I took over the ensemble, I was happy to carry on the tradition."
Each year the groups host two major concerts highlighting jazz specialists and well-known soloists. The Nov. 16 concert will feature a special performance by renowned trumpeter Mic Gillette.
A distinguished performer, recording artist, educator, and music advocate, Gillette's five-decade career includes horns work with Cold Blood, Tower of Power and Sons of Champlin. Additionally, he has been featured on countless albums for artists including Santana, The Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow, the Doobie Brothers, Quincy Jones, Rod Stewart, Elton John, and others.
As an educator, Gillette established "Music in Schools," a program dedicated to helping struggling music programs nationwide keep their doors open, and continues to teach, record, arrange and perform in his home state of California.
"Dennis has always made an effort to secure jazz artists with national stature for each of our fall concerts," Dr. Booker continued. "Additionally, we have been very fortunate over the years to have the support of Mike Spletter and the Campus Activities Board. Without the efforts of these two men, we would not be able to bring these great artists to our campus.
"As for Mic Gillette, he's simply a spectacular player," Dr. Booker continued. "Many of us became familiar with his work through Tower of Power, and since then he has developed a reputation as one of the best in the business, who is also known for his outreach to students. We are truly looking forward to having him here, not only to hear him play, but to offer our students an opportunity to work with an artist who has been 'in the business' for decades."


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- 1 celery rib, minced
- 1 carrot, minced
- 1/2 cup minced red bell pepper
- 1/2 cup minced red onion
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon minced pickled jalapeño chili
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh coriander leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Accompaniment if serving salsa as a dip: tortilla chips
In a bowl stir together all ingredients and let stand, covered, 30 minutes.
Serve salsa with tortilla chips or as a condiment.
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type: Quick & Easy, Condiment/Spread
main ingredients: Celery, Lemon, Carrot, Onion, Jalapeño, Bell Pepper, Herb


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You can keep banning nudity and the occasional swear word, but that won't get rid of talk shows that discuss deviant sexual behavior, entertainment shows that feature a parade of celebrity misbehavior, newscasts highlighting the latest in local rapes and murders, and a plethora of "Law and Order: SVU" re-runs, where children are routinely kidnapped and abused.
Good thing the government is protecting your child from a glimpse of a nude behind.
During oral arguments, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. said that if the court were to overrule its 33-year-old decision, "the risk of a race to the bottom is real." I'd say that race is over. We've been looking at the bottom for so long, looking at a naked bottom won't really make a difference. It's part of the bill we pay for freedom of expression.
The problem with regulation is that we can only regulate what we can regulate. It's easy to regulate the f-word but not all the disturbing subject matter that finds its way into almost every sitcom, drama, and newscast.
For example, whether or not the Supreme Court overturns the law, a child will still be able to flip to an episode of Criminal Minds, where a killer is talking in detail about how he dismembers his victims. As long as the psychopath doesn't use the f-word or moon the camera, apparently whatever else he says is fine.
And during the commercial break, the child can see an ad for a horrifically violent video game because the Supreme Court ruled last year that the government has no business safeguarding children from violent video games.


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From A Wiki of Ice and Fire
A lizard-lion is a reptile native to the bogs of the Neck. They resemble partially submerged logs floating still in the water.[1] They live in the water, in slow streams and deep swamps.[2] They have teeth like daggers.[3]
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- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 15, Sansa.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 28, Bran.
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