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In 2010, nearly 250 people died from crashes on Colorado roadways. Many of those were young adults - and most of those could have been avoided.
The Colorado State Patrol is offering an Alive at 25 class designed specifically to improve young adult's driving behaviors in Glenwood Springs on March 20 at 4 p.m.
Alive at 25 is a four-and-a-half hour driver awareness program sponsored by the Colorado State Patrol Family Foundation. This single class program has proven to be the most effective driver awareness class in the United States, with a substantially lower percentage of teen deaths compared to those that did not take this or another class.
The cost is $39 for those taking the class to attain their driver's permit, while those who are required to attend due to courts or other authorities have a $79 tuition. This National Safety Council class is designed specifically for those drivers, or soon-to-be drivers, between the ages of 14-24.
The program is taught by current or retired Colorado State Patrol Troopers at the Colorado Department of Transportation/Colorado State Patrol offices at 202 Centennial Street in Glenwood Springs.-
Successful completion of this program will result in the immediate issuance of a National Safety Council Certificate, eligibility to get a driver's permit six months early, waiver of the required six hours of behind-the-wheel practice with a commercial instructor and a possible reduction in liability insurance.-
To sign up, pay tuition or gather further information, visit www.aliveat 25.us or call 866-605-3900.


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Groundbreaking ceremony to be held in Huntsville for new sidewalks
The Missouri Department of Transportation and the City of Huntsville will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, July 13 at 2 p.m. on the corner of Library Street and Tissue Street (near the school and bus garage) to signify new sidewalks that are going to be built. The ceremony will include include participation by representatives from Congressman Leutkemeyer's office, the city of Monroe City, Westran School District and other federal and county officials have been invited.
The project is a result of a Safe Routes to School Grant that was received by the city. The contract was awarded to B&P Patterson out of Linn, Mo. The project involves removing and reconstructing several sidewalks throughout town to make it safer for citizens and children to walk throughout the area.
If you have questions about this or other transportation issues in your area, please call MoDOT's Customer Service Center toll-free at 1-888 ASK MODOT (275-6636).
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June Ventura, 87, of Shawnee, quietly and peacefully passed from this earth into the arms of her savior Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, in Norman.
The family has designated the Alzheimer's Association as appropriate for memorials.
Visitation will begin 10 a.m., Friday, Oct. 12, and continue through service time. Family will gather to meet with friends from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 12, at Cooper Funeral Home.
Service will be 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 13, at New Hope Baptist Church with Pastor Will Wilson of New Hope Baptist Church and Pastor John Mixon of Altus officiating. Burial will follow at New Hope Cemetery under the direction of Cooper Funeral Home of Tecumseh.
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Golda Goldie' Frisbee Jackson, 92
Published: Monday, March 3, 2014 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, March 2, 2014 at 7:34 p.m.
HENDERSONVILLE Golda Goldie Frisbee Jackson, 92, of Hendersonville, N.C., passed away Friday, February 28, 2014, at The Laurels of Hendersonville.
She had lived in Henderson County for most of her life and was preceded in death by her parents, Wexter and Dovie Gentry Frisbee; her husband, Grady B. Jackson; a son, Gerald W. Jackson; five brothers, Wayne, Ralph, Lee, Dewey and Clyde; and three sisters, Eula Bishop, Edna Bishop and Lena Cornn.
Golda was a faithful member of Sugarloaf Baptist Church.
She is survived by her daughter-in-law, Pie Juanita Jackson of Hendersonville; two granddaughters and their spouses, June and Brently Edney and Geraldine and Dale Lamb, all of Hendersonville; three great-grandchildren, Justin and Rayce Lamb, and Austin Edney; and several nieces and nephews.
A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Forest Lawn Memorial Park with the Rev. Phillip Capell officiating.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Sugarloaf Baptist Church, P.O. Box 258, Dana, NC 28724.
The family would like to extend their thanks to the staff at the Laurels of Hendersonville, especially the CNAs who loved and cared for Granny.
Condolence cards may be sent to the family at www.jacksonfuneralservice.com or to P.O. Box 945, Hendersonville, NC 28793.
Robert R.F. Franklin Maybin, 90
HENDERSONVILLE Robert R.F. Franklin Maybin walked to his Saviors arms surrounded by his family Friday, February 28, 2014, at the Elizabeth House. He was born Robert Franklin Elias Warren George Harden Maybin June 7, 1923, on Pinnacle Mountain to Hicks and Mary Staton Maybin. He is preceded in death by his father and mother; brothers, Grant, Lincoln, LaFayette Fate and Columbus Buck Maybin; a sister, Nellie Maybin Coggins; a son-in-law, Leland Osteen; a great-grandson, Conner Maybin; and stepmother, Katie Holcombe Hammond Maybin Shirlin.
Mr. Maybin was a veteran of World War II, where he proudly contributed his service to his country in the U.S. Army, assigned to the 385th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion in Europe and sharing a bond with lifelong friends he seldom missed a reunion to see. Upon returning from the war, he met and married the love of his life, Sollie Emily Cox. Together, they worked and fought hard to provide a Christian home for their four children.
R.F., as he was known by his friends and family, retired from Cranston Print Works and was a farmer for life. He never retired from farming; he just slowed down until his body would not cooperate. In his later years, you would find him on Saturday mornings during the summer at the Henderson County tailgate market selling produce from his downsized fields, where he loved to work and sing songs (that no one else knew the words to half the time) above the roar of his tractor.
R.F. was a member of Mountain Valley Baptist Church, where he served at different times as janitor, Sunday school teacher and song leader. Mr. Maybin lead by example, making sure his family understood the importance of attending church and sharing the love of Christ by how you treat strangers, family and friends. He was a tough man who never feared hard work and was not afraid to strongly encourage his children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews to learn how to face it head-on whether they liked it or not. His greatest earthly accomplishment was his vast wealth of family and friends, all of whom he never had to tell he loved, of which he earned by his smile and appreciation of their presence.
He is survived by his wife, Sollie; daughter, Nola Osteen Catlin and husband, Jeff, and their children, Emily, Shannon and Warren; son, Timothy Maybin and wife, Wanda, and their children, Jeremi, Apriland Amber; son James Jimmy Maybin and wife, Gilda, and their children, Jessica and Justin; and son Larry Maybin and wife, Amy, and their children, Josh and Nicole; brother, Michael Mickey Maybin; and sisters, Jeanette Gordon, Etta Vaughn and Louise Hudson; 19 great-grandchildren; and blessing of many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, 2014, at Mountain Valley Baptist Church with the Rev. Shannon Owen officiating. Burial will follow the service in the Pearson Cemetery. The body will lie in repose at the church 30 minutes prior to the service. The family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Directors.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Carolina Baptist Association, 601 Hebron St., Hendersonville, NC 28739, designated for Baptist Childrens Home of N.C.
An online register book is available for family and friends by visiting www.thosshepherd.com. Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
Phyllis Gildersleeve Shellman, 85
CHARLOTTE Mrs. Phyllis Gildersleeve Shellman (formerly Nichols), 85, died peacefully at Brighton Gardens of Charlotte, North Carolina, on February 2, 2014.
Born in Keokuk, Iowa, she was the daughter of Earl and Alice Gildersleeve.
She graduated from the University of Missouri and was a sister of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.
As a loving mother, she raised her family in New England and Florida, and spent many years in the Hendersonville area. She enjoyed traveling and was a stewardess for Trans World Airways in the 1950s and early 1960s.
She also was passionate about family history and served in leadership roles at the local and national level for a number of genealogical societies. Spending time with family and friends, attending social events, being near or on the ocean, and playing the piano or bridge were her favorite things.
Mrs. Shellman is survived by her sons, William Kimball Meakin of Greenville, South Carolina, and John Gildersleeve Meakin of Marblehead, Massachusetts; and three grandchildren, Cameron, Harper and Audrey Meakin.
Deaths/services Hilda Biller, 95
HENDERSONVILLE Hilda Biller, 95, of Hendersonville died Sunday, March 2, 2014, at Lake Pointe Landing. Shuler Funeral Home will announce arrangements.
Ola L. McCall Hall, 87
BREVARD Ola L. McCall Hall, 87, departed this life on March 1, 2014.
The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Moody-Connolly Funeral Home Chapel.
The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Jack A. Wolff, 72
HENDERSONVILLE Jack A. Wolff, 72, passed away Saturday March 1, 2014, in Hendersonville, N.C.
A memorial service is planned for Tuesday, March 4, at 2 p.m. at Thos. Shepherd Church Street Chapel in Hendersonville. An online register book is available for family and friends by visiting www.thosshepherd.com.
Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Directors and Cremation Memorial Center is in charge of arrangements.
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By Rowena Coetsee
OAKLEY -- Construction of Oakley Plaza's two most visible tenants is now complete, but merchants at the far end of the downtown shopping center are frustrated by the way the city is handling the rest of the project.
Five retailers recently sent a letter to Oakley's City Council and city manager detailing their complaints about the work that's under way at Main Street and Vintage Parkway, saying that it's bad for business.
One of them, a bait and tackle shop, also has served the city with a tort claim -- the precursor to a lawsuit -- alleging that as the property's landlord, it has breached its contract with tenants by preventing customers from patronizing their businesses. Drivers haven't been able to use the parking lot's main entrance since it was taped off.
The claim also asserts that the city can't embark on a public works project without compensating merchants for the losses they incur in the process.
The city either can reject the claim or try to work out an agreement with Hook, Line & Sinker. If the two parties can't reach a settlement, the business then could take the city to court.
Michelle Buchholz, who runs the store with her husband, declined to comment, saying she didn't want to compromise her case.
"I've never in all my time complained to the city until now (but), "I just feel like I got kicked in the rear end," said Michael Miu, who has operated Silver River restaurant in the plaza for 21 years.
Miu and others say business has dropped off since the city began tearing up Main Street in July to make room for diagonal parking in front of Carpaccio and La Costa restaurants.
The construction is so extensive that retailers say some customers assumed all the stores were closed.
"If you were new to town and came driving down Main Street, you wouldn't know we were here," said Ron Brown, owner of Center Barber Shop.
Others have told merchants they had trouble finding a way into the center.
In narrowing Main Street to slow traffic down, crews have blocked off that entrance to the commercial center. Shoppers trying to reach the back of the plaza now must use Vintage Parkway.
But that also became a challenge last week when contractors taped off the main entrance so they could install better storm drains in the parking lot as well as electrical conduits for lighting. Crews also will be removing all the asphalt and grading the lot before repaving it.
Accustomed to using the wider entrance, merchants say customers have been overshooting the smaller one, a narrow driveway that's been built just behind Carpaccio.
Once drivers realize they can't get in, they must make a U-turn to get back to the opening.
Although the city alerted businesses to the impending closure last month, the original date it gave didn't pan out, said Michelle Buchholz, who runs Hook, Line & Sinker with her husband. They consequently were startled when they arrived for work on Jan. 29 to find the primary entrance blocked, saying the city hadn't told them it had rescheduled the action.
Miu, who says his daily receipts have plummeted by roughly 80 percent since then, would rather the city close only half the entrance at a time or finish paving the Main Street entrance before blocking Vintage Parkway traffic. He says his attempts to discuss the situation with city employees have fallen on deaf ears.
Nancy Marquez, assistant to the city manager, says the city had to close the entire entrance because a deep inlet to the storm drain system at that point is currently exposed.
City Manager Bryan Montgomery declined to comment on complaints that the city has been less than responsive to the businesses' concerns, but Marquez rebuts the claims.
"Employees have visited many times with the businesses," she wrote in an email. "I have also spoken on the phone to most of them during the project and have emailed all of them numerous times."
The city also held two town hall meetings about the project, a public works inspector is on site every day and the project manager visits almost as often, Marquez added.
Two tenants have left since the work began, most recently a costume jewelry store whose owner moved out Saturday after opening in late November.
"If I made $20 (a day), I was lucky," said Joyce Vandergrift, noting that the construction made an already sluggish sales season even worse.
Kelley Ellison closed Yogurt Island at the end of November because business was so slow that she was losing money on unused ingredients that were going bad.
Although she plans to reopen March 1, Ellison says she will have to train another set of employees if the two she had to let go are no longer available.
"It's taking them way too long," she said of the construction. "When's it going to end?"
The answer is soon, at least as the parking lot is concerned. Paving should be finished by the end of next week, and the north side of Main Street is supposed to be back to normal by the week after that, according to Marquez.
Work on the thoroughfare's south side still needs to be done, she said¿.
Marquez acknowledged that there have been delays in the project, which she said originally was supposed to be done by early February.
But rain, underground utilities that unexpectedly turned up when crews started digging, and the time it took to answer dozens of questions that the contractor had once the work began has pushed that time frame back, she said.
Contact Rowena Coetsee at 925-779-7141. Follow her at Twitter.com/RowenaCoetsee.


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FHP searches for driver in fatal hit-and-run
Published: Saturday, July 12, 2014 at 10:47 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, July 12, 2014 at 10:47 p.m.
SARASOTA COUNTY - The driver of a Honda sedan left the scene of an accident on Bee Ridge Road that killed a motorcyclist Saturday morning.
Shortly before 10:15 a.m., William E. Wren, 71, of Sarasota, stopped his 2007 Honda motorcycle in a westbound lane at the intersection of Lockwood Ridge Road, the Florida Highway Patrol reports. As Wren started to move into the intersection, the sedan struck the cycle from behind and dragged it roughly 250 feet.
The driver of the sedan fled, leaving the motorcyclist in the roadway near Murdock Avenue.
Wren died at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the FHP at (239) 938-1800 or *FHP on a cellphone.
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According to Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports, the Mets are on the verge of trading R.A. Dickey to the Blue Jays.
Mike Berardino of the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that Ervin Santana has cleared trade waivers.
Adam Jones (hamstring) is not in the Orioles starting lineup on Saturday.
Evan Gattis slugged a walk-off solo homer in Friday's 5-4 victory over the Rays.
Alex Reyes will make his first major league start on Saturday in place of Mike Leake, who is dealing with shingles.
Felix Hernandez gave up just one run in 7 1/3 innings in a 3-1 victory over the White Sox on Friday.
Chris Sale allowed three runs and struck out 14 batters in a complete-game loss to the Mariners on Friday.
Russell Martin went 2-for-5 with a homer and five RBI in Friday's 15-8 victory over the Twins.
Mookie Betts went 5-for-5 with a pair of RBI singles in Friday's loss to the Royals.
Wilmer Flores slugged a grand slam in Friday's victory over the Phillies.
Gary Sanchez continued to tear the cover off the ball in Friday's 14-4 win over the Orioles, going 3-for-4 with a home run, four RBI, and three runs scored.
Justin Verlander earned his 14th victory of the season on Friday, allowing just two runs on four hits over 7 2/3 innings against the Angels.


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By the time Week 8 rolls around, many of my clients already feel a sense of achievement. At this point my hope is that I have guided you to more mindfulness — whether it is just moving your body, replenishing water and nutrition or giving yourself permission to breathe and recover when you need it. What an act of love and respect to actually set aside time and put effort into healing, nurturing and creating the best you!
You've likely heard that interval training is effective for your body in many ways. The increases and decreases in heart rate make the body work harder and burn more calories per minute, and the increased energy output requires more fuel, which revs up your metabolism. In this phase you will also work on your explosive muscle strength, which the body needs but doesn't get much of during steady-state exercises such as swimming, walking and regular strength training.


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"A friend fixed these treats and gave them away in pretty canning jars," recalls Michelle Krzmarzick of Torrance, California. "The combination of sweet, salty and peppermint is just right," she adds. Try dipping them in white candy coating and rolling them in crushed candy canes for variety.
- 2 cups (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
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- 1 package (10 ounces) pretzel rods
- 40 red and/or green hard mint candies, crushed
- In a microwave, melt chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Break each pretzel rod in half. Dip the broken end about halfway into melted chocolate; allow excess to drip off. Roll in crushed candies. Place on a waxed paper-lined baking sheet. Chill until set. Yield: about 4 dozen.
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Prison glut and public safety
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Joe DeLong, who runs West Virginia's network of regional jails, understands full well that a simple idea to reduce overcrowding there and at state prisons falls squarely into the "devil's in the......
Agreed that Sheriff what's his name in Maricopa County Arizona has the right idea. Tents wouldn't really work in this particular climate (winter), but barracks similar to what was used for military troops in the past would work just fine. Put a fence around them with a few guard towers, and that's about it.
Anyone ever see Prison Break? How about the prison in Panama? Something like that would work.
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Many years ago, while in college, I was selected with a group to visit Moundsville prison. I was so taken back to see all the material things they had in their cells. I mean TV's, drapes, accross the bars for their privacy, carpeting on their cell floors, the lists go on and on. When bringing this up at last in a meeting with officials, I was told prisoners are punished by taken off the streets, loss of freedom. Thats it! I'm sure this wasn't for the whole prison population, but what I saw, really shocked me. Some of these prisoners were in for life. Now I ask you, what person who has nothing going for them, would not like living in that situation. I do not believe their family provided this stuff for them. I believe that is why it cost so much to run a prison, and guess who pays for it? Say what you want, but seeing is believing!
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Maybe we should hire some jailers from Hanoi ;-\
Can't agree w/ taking out the law libraries & opportunity to research appeal. Much of that is ********, of course -- but there is no question that some who are locked up weren't guilty & deserve the chance to get the case re-opened.
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I also agree, namvet. I think the sheriff out in the Phoenix, AZ, area has the right idea. Put them on chain gangs, and get some work done!! I love that he houses them in tents in the desert, and makes them wear pink! Too funny!!
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namvet, Brother I agree with you 100%. Prisons should be made as bleak as possible. No weights,law offices,no recroooms. Just a cell and 4 walls. Phoenix, You couldn't be more WRONG.Untill you put your life on the line every day you have no clue.There is still to much trash running the streets everyday. God bless the police department for what they do.
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200 million dollars to build a prison and 30 million dollars a year to run it=A bunch of hogwash and tommyrot.Prison is not suppose to be a day care center for adults--it's suppose to be a near inhuman,miserable place that those who experience it,will never want to visit a second time!!!
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In P-burg, if the cops don't like someone, they will be arrested over and over and over again. They gang up to mete out vengence; it certainly can't be called justice/
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SANTA CLARA -- Contract extensions have been the 49ers' offseason theme -- aside from off-field issues. Colin Kaepernick and Bruce Miller got paid. Vernon Davis, Alex Boone and surely others await their extensions.
Kendall Hunter, the 49ers' No. 2 running back since his 2011 rookie year, isn't grandstanding for a new deal even though he's entering the final season of his contract.
"You can't think about that," Hunter said after practice last week. "I just want to play football and help the team."
Hunter, who ran for a career-low 358 yards last season, has fiercer competition than ever to remain as Frank Gore's primary backup.
Carlos Hyde is the hotshot drafted in the second round. Marcus Lattimore is medically cleared to return from a 2012 knee injury. LaMichael James is desperately trying to get reps. Even Jewel Hampton is bucking for a promotion from the practice squad.
"It's just like a family, and now we have to push each other," Hunter said of the running back corps. "It's competition every year. There's always competition."
Hunter said he is 100 percent recovered from a torn Achilles that ended his 2012 season in a Nov. 25 win at New Orleans.
Did he think about that injury, however, when he returned in 2013 and saw his average dip to 4.6 yards per carry (from 5.2 in 2012)?
"You'd be wary about it, but when you're out there playing, it goes away. You don't think about it when you get the ball," Hunter said.
Hunter had only 78 carries last regular season, only six more than his injury-shortened 2012 season. He had 112 carries for a career-high 473 yards as a rookie, then followed with 371 yards in 2012 before his injury.
To enhance his value, Hunter must improve as a pass protector going through his progressions.
"Whenever they call my name, I'm ready, whatever they want me to do," said Hunter, who will make $645,000 in base salary this year.
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/CamInman.


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Warning Sign: Rally Turns Defensive
Even as the S&P 500 is pacing to close at a record high, some market watchers see worrying signs in the kinds of sectors that have been leading the stock market's advance.
Defensive health care and consumer-staple stocks are the year's best performers. Even today, utilities and health care are at the front of the pack. Health-care components on the S&P 500 have climbed 15% this year, with staples adding 14%.
"This rally has been largely defensive-led. That's a worrying sign," says Mark Newton, chief technical analyst at Greywolf Execution on the NYSE floor.
"We want to see cyclicals like industrial, financial and tech stocks leading: that's not happening. I'm cautiously bullish, but it seems that we're really moving on fumes at this point," he said.
And yet tech stocks have gained a lowly 3.9%, with Apple's 17% decline weighing heavily. Materials are only barely better.
Symptoms of defensive leaderships show up in ETF performance. The $4.2 billion PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF (SPLV), a recent darling of the ETF industry that is composed nearly half of utilities and staples, is up 12% this year. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), the industry's largest ETF, is only up 9.8%.
Low-volatility strategies are expected to underperform when the markets are roaring higher, yet the SPLV has almost matched the small-cap iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund (IWM) year-to-date.
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The fire district you live in could determine how much you are paying on your insurance premium.
It's all determined by the insurance service office rating, or ISO rating.
Richmond County is due for another evaluation this year, and that evaluation could make a difference in how much you pay.
Bryan Smith has lived in the same house on Brown Road in South Augusta for 6 years, in a part of the county that had limited fire service until now.
"I woke up one morning and they were clearing land," he says.
Bryan says nearly two years ago, Fire Station 19 moved in, and his new neighbor could save him money on his insurance premiums.
"I called the other day and they couldn't believe how close I was, so they are supposed to be sending someone out to measure to give me a correct price," Bryan says.
Deputy Fire Chief Mike Rogers says it's all determined by the ISO rating.
The Insurance Service Office rates a community's fire preparedness on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the best and 10 having no fire protection at all.
Several factors come into play: the location of the actual fire department from the home, the distance from a fire hydrant, and the existence of 911 communications.
"All these total together to come up with a rating which gives you your service premium rating for the particular area of the city you live in," Deputy Chief Rogers says.
Right now, Augusta-Richmond County has two fire districts.
The old city is rated as 2, and the Augusta consolidated government, which includes much of the county, has ratings ranging from 5 to 9.
For the first time, this year there will only be one rating for the county.
That's one reason why the fire department has relocated some stations from the city to the county, giving them more protection and better ratings.
"That's why we've been working diligently toward trying to equalize fire protection throughout the city itself," Deputy Chief Rogers says.
"We have added hydrants all through here," says Lt. Michael Beckham of the Augusta-Richmond County Fire Department.
Richmond County has not had an ISO evaluation in 20 years.
Bryan Smith hopes that when it comes this year, the rating will save him money.
"Should almost cut a pretty good bit off," he says.
Richmond County just received a grant for Geographic Information Systems, or GIS, to go in all of the fire trucks.
It's a mapping system that will tell firefighters exactly where they are going.
You don't have to wait for the re-evaluation to see if you can save money.
Contact your insurance provider and ask them to see if the ISO rating has changed since you moved in, especially if you live in an area that now has more fire hydrants and fire departments.
To get more details on how the ratings are determined, click here.


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Plans to unify the El Dorado County library tax system faded on Nov. 7 with the failure of the special tax initiative, Measure L.
Measure L, which would have leveled the playing field between the five zones in the county by establishing a $17.58 per parcel tax across the region for 15 years, did not get the two-thirds majority support it needed to pass. Out of the 69,552 people who voted on the initiative, 55.71 percent of voters opposed the measure, while 44.29 percent approved of it.
"We certainly knew it would be a challenge going into a presidential election year and a hostile political climate. It's so difficult to get the two-thirds vote. It's almost impossible," El Dorado County Library Director Jeanne Amos said.
Amos said she thinks it's likely that the county will continue with the individual zone taxes after the failure of Measure L. Unifying and standardizing the county tax across all five zones was a brand-new concept, she said.
Some opponents of the measure argued against the $8.79 annual tax on unimproved parcels of land, Amos said. And while South Lake Tahoe tax payers already pay the base $17.58, residents of Zone H that encompasses the Placerville and Pollock Pines areas have never passed a library tax.
When the current South Lake Tahoe tax expires in two years, the voters in the area will be likely be faced with another library issue on the ballot, Friends of the Library Vice President Kay Henderson said. She said she doesn't know if that issue will concern a South Lake Tahoe-specific tax or if the county will attempt another standardized regional tax.
El Dorado County Library - South Lake Tahoe Branch librarian Katharine Miller said she'd hoped for 15 years off the campaign trail if Measure L had passed. It would have ensured library support for another decade and a half, she said.
"Libraries are not a mandated service for the county. Without this tax measure, we don't have the fiscal support to ensure a library for the next 15 years. It's a key resource for the community, one of those resources that serves everyone," Miller said.


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Notebook and entry based information manager.
Journler is a notebook and entry based information manager. It is simple, it is elegant, it is powerful. Journler is designed to unite text and media in creative endeavor. It offers a place to store your thoughts and ideas while connecting them with media of any kind.
Journlerâs inline media viewer supports audio-video, images, PDFs, WebArchives, websites, email and Address Book contacts. When youâre ready to organize, Journler does entries by date and folder as well tiered folders and smart families with auto-tagging. Journler includes lightning search and on the fly filtering of your entries. There is Spotlight and AppleScript support as well as Mail, iWeb, iPod, and blogging integration. The new Drop Box and JPanel make it easy to get stuff in, while the Lexicon helps you find the relationships between your data.
Chronicle. Organize. Find. Connect. Journaling is just the beginning.
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Tags: journal , blog , productivity , organize , notes , bookmarks
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This app is now freeware. The 4th beta for Lion is released. http://www.getsprouted.com/applications/journler/#snow-lion
Journler development has ended, if you are looking for a replacement Together is probably the one app which comes closest http://osx.iusethis.com/app/together
I just started using this app a month ago (in July 2010) and I think it is by far the best journaling app for Mac OS X. It was obviously built by a person who understands how creative people work; it allows for very flexible integration of journaling and project management functionality. The nested smart folders are great! If it could automagically create new folders when you create new tags or categories (like BibDesk does, for example), it would be perfect.
If you agree that Journler is the best tool of its kind and if you would like to see its development continued, mark this post as "useful"; maybe we could start a "resurrect Journler" campaign.
Currently, over 1200 people claim to use Journler. Only 460 people claim to use Word. That tells you something.
Here's a tip for Journler users: download BSP and add Journler entries to it by clicking on + and choosing a .jobj file from the Journler folder in your Documents folder. Now, whenever you use Spotlight, your Journler entries will appear in a separate group in the search results. You can also create Saved Searches (a.k.a. Smart Folders) in the Finder to search only your Journler entries.
Correction: current version is 2.5.5 not 2.5.50
It's really heard to read this on the official website: »09.23.09: Journler development has ended, Sprouted shutting down« because i bought this very cool app and get no upgrade again. So i searching for alternatives, but I don't found sth. especially with the option to import the data from Journler. WTF!
I love this app and use it almost every day as project manager.
Unfortunatly it looks like the developpement of it has been abandoned.
"Together" could replace it but doesn't have half of the features I like in Journler (and is not free).
I love Journler and am disappointed to see that development on it (and it's spinoff, Lex) seem to have completely stopped.
The program is stable and I would highly recommend it, just don't expect anything in the way of updates any time soon.
Works wonderfully. But I am eagerly awaiting Journler's spin-off called "Lex", because I really want to manage projects with it most of the time.
I just found this yesterday and spent half the day "moving in." It ends my search for an app that would turn my laptop into a portable GTD-oriented office. Now I'm trying to think of something I can give Yojimbo to do.
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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that's chuckling over some of the goofiest Facebook groups.
No thought is too random and no grievance to petty to keep people from organizing a group. Some of our favorites:
"Students against backpacks with wheels." We can actually understand this one, we used to have a rolly backpack in high school but the bullies kept kicking it over so we decided to opt for an over-the-shoulder bag after enduring a couple weeks of this torture.
"I secretly want to punch slow-walking people in the back of the head." We're LOL-ing about this one and wondering if the creator of this group has ever given into their secret longing for confrontation, maybe to a slow-walker with a plump, bald head would be more vulnerable from an attack from a member of this group, which happen to be plenty with their 21,860 followers!
And finally there's the "If this group reaches 15k people, Kevin and I will have a pinecone eat-off." The description of this group reads as follows:
"Five cones each, 30 minutes on the clock. The first one to finish his lineup of cones is the victor (unless time runs out, then the furthest along wins)." Fortunately for Kevin and his pine-cone craving friend, this group only accumulated 1,600 members.
And now we're off to craft our own group: "Wrax on wrax on waxxxx" if we get 1,000 members we'll wash your car. We Out.


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Irish women, from respectable backgrounds, are turning to prostitution to pay the bills during the recession. Those forced to sell their bodies for cash include former business people, stay-at-home moms, and recent college graduates.
Linda Latham, of the Women's Health Service, in Dublin, said, "No matter what side of the tracks they come from, I have never met a happy prostitute in my 12 years working in this business…In the '80s and '90s, we saw mainly heroin addicts but now across the board we are seeing educated women who are so strapped for cash they are resorting to it out of dire economic need.
"We see a lot of women with degrees and qualifications who just can't get work."
The Irish Independent spoke to a middle class, well educated, suburban woman who is now running a one-woman escort service from her home in Dun Laoghaire, south Dublin.
The woman, named Niamh for the purposes of the article, studied psychology in university, worked in marketing, and doesn't drink, smoke or do drugs, however, she's now running her own escort service. For $280 (€220) Niamh offers conversation, companionship and "personal services" to men at her home.
Read more:
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She also said she's happy to be taken out to dinner and she'll do an overnight, if the price is right.
She can make $1,917 (€1,500) within a matter of hours each week.
Niamh said, "It's the only way of making ends meet at the moment…I won't say it's easy money, but it is fast money. For example, this afternoon, I was down with a dentist near Wicklow. He gave me €250 and he didn't even last five minutes.
"It's always very busy at this time of year, during and after Christmas. My phone is on call most of the time and there is a lot of work after midnight."
A former marketing professional, Niamh started working in the business as the Irish economy began to falter. She said that since then, colleagues in the sex industry have changed from Brazilian and Eastern Europeans to a completely different group.
"Five years ago, virtually everyone working in the business was foreign, but suddenly in the last year, there's been an influx of Irish women coming into it. I know at least 10 off the top of my head. There's definitely a demand for them among the clientele," she explained.
Niamh's clients are, for the most part, professional men who like her to take control. She told the Independent "I see all types of men all across the country. Lawyers, doctors, people you might see on television. One of my clients is on the Sunday Times Rich List but he will open the door to me on his knees in a pair of ladies' underwear. He tells me he is fully under my control."
Another is a garda I've seen a few times, a very kind man who likes to pretend he's a prison warden and I'm the female prisoner. I've been in some really hilarious situations."
Sadly, those who deal with those working in the sex industry who are also dealing with drug addiction, rape, violence and suicide don't have has lighthearted an attitude.
They are usually trying to fund families. It's particularly noticeable at certain times of year when Communions are coming up or Christmas.
Latham said most women had mental health issues as a result of the lifestyle."I've seldom seen a woman who hasn't got mental health issues. Some will say 'oh it's fine, it's fine', but when they get out of it they tell you the actual horrors of the situation -- the rapes, the beatings, not being allowed to use condoms or attend clinics. Most women are afraid of their lives and want to get the hell out of it."
Dr Paul Ryan, sociology lecturer at NUI Maynooth and a member of the Sex Workers Alliance of Ireland (SWAI) commented on how the type of women, and the personality of women in the sex industry has changed.
He said, "It's not always the case that women are forced into prostitution…Some make a choice to do it. It is something women enter and leave all the time depending on whether they have a First Communion coming up or another financial pressure.


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By Michaela Seika-Oracle on Jan 08, 2013
Dear partner
I am pleased to invite you to join the Innovations in Products - webcast. Innovations in Products will present Oracle Product's new functions and features including sales positioning. The key objectives of these webcasts are to inspire Partner's personnel to conduct successful sales, after sales and delivery at their Customer. Moreover, we aim to inspire you to conduct further Product Training and Certifications. And finally we'll provide you a chance to join Ecosystem's Product specific Community to learn and to contribute.
Innovations in Products will be presented as per the schedule below after the billable day (4:00 to 5:00 PM CET). The webcast is intended for Partner's Implementation Certified Specialists but Innovations in Products is open for other Partner's personnel as well. At first, two Oracle representatives will discuss Oracle's contribution to partners. Then you will see product breakout session followed by Q&A with Oracle Experts. Each session will last for maximum 1 hour. A Q&A document covering all questions and answers will be made available after the webcast.
What are the Benefits for partners?
- Find out how Innovations in Products helps you to improve your sales, after sales and delivery
- Discover new functions and features so you can enrich your Customers's solution
- Learn more about Oracle products, especially sales positioning
- Hear crucial questions raised by colleague alike, learn from their interest
- Engage and present your questions to subject experts
- Be inspired of the richness of Oracle's product portfolio – for your and your customer's benefit.
- Be inspired to seek further Product Training and Certifications - Make your competence known and recognized! Brand yourself!
Note: Should you already be familiar with a specific Product, then choose another one. Doing so you would expand your knowledge of the overall product portfolio. Some presentations contain product demonstration, although these presentations are not intended to be extremely detailed technical presentations.
Product breakout sessions available on January 14th:
Modern User Interface and Next Generation Mobility with Siebel Open UI; Open UI transforms Siebel into a modern and intuitive CRM platform; running in all modern web browsers, as well as Tablets and Smartphones.
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The Oracle JD Edwards Optimized Solution; Ideal for Midsize Deployments for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
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Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance (ZFSSA) Sales Plays Presentation; An overview of 6 specific sales plays & messaging that can help you become successful with the ZFSSA.
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Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance (ZFSSA) Sales Play for Engineered Systems Data Protection; A detailed look at the advantages of deploying the ZFSSA as a Data Protection platform for Oracle Engineered Systems.
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SPARC/Solaris, Past, Present and Future: Innovation driving Oracle Application Acceleration; SPARC/Solaris, Past, Present and Future: Innovation driving Oracle Application Acceleration.
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Oracle Database Appliance: Opening new markets with Oracle Virtualization. Oracle Database Appliance: Opening new markets with Oracle Virtualization.
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Xsigo; How to improve Hardware Channel Business Sales with Oracle Virtual Networking
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Useful Links for you to bookmark:
- To access previously presented 30 Applications Products presentations and 6 Public Sector Value Proposition presentations, please click here.
- You might want to bookmark the Enablement blog page Oracle Partner Enablement. Please check this regularly as we publish lots of good content here just for you.
- You might want to bookmark the Knowledge Zones page for solution-focused pages designed to jump start your path towards Specialization.
- You might want to bookmark the global event calendar page events.oracle.com.
Delivery Format
Innovations in Products – program is a series of FREE prerecorded Oracle product presentations followed by Q&A. It will be delivered over the Web. Participants have the opportunity to submit questions during the web cast via chat and subject matter experts will provide verbal answers live.
Innovations in Products consists of several parallel prerecorded product breakout sessions, each lasting for max. 1 hour. At first, two Oracle representatives will discuss Oracle's contribution to Partners. Then you'll see the product breakout sessions followed by Q&A with Oracle Experts. A Q&A document covering all questions and answers will be made available after the webcast.
You can also see Innovations in Products afterwards as its content will be available online for the next 6-12 months.
The next Innovations in Products web casts will be presented as follows:
- January 14th 2013
- April 8th 2013.
Note: Depending on local network bandwidth please allow some seconds time the presentations to download. You might want to refresh your screen by pressing F5.
Maximum 1 hour
For further information please contact me Markku Rouhiainen.
Best regards
|Markku Rouhiainen
Director, Partner Enablement EMEA


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OAKLAND -- Ask Carole King and Judith Offer about the memorable books they've read in the Crocker Highlands book group, and their answers go a long way toward explaining how this group has flourished over the past 25 years.
Both clearly remember so many details, characters and situations surrounding discussions that their love for books of varying subjects and appreciation for the group are clearly evident.
"I remember a couple of memoirs, 'Life and Death in Shanghai' and 'Daughter of Iran,' that we talked about for years," King said.
"The book that made an impression on everyone was the 'Mary Chestnut's Diary,' " said Offer, one of the original members. "Another great book I loved was 'Lincoln at Gettysburg.' "
King came up with the idea for a book group in 1987 after hearing others discuss the then-fairly new concept.
"I thought, 'how wonderful to be able to talk to people about books,' " she said.
She shared her idea with other women in her Crocker Highlands neighborhood. They questioned what separated book groups that flourished from those that failed. And the women's answers and the ultimate plan they chose offered insights into the group's longevity.
King wanted to hold meetings within walking distances and to make it clear that the group was for women who liked books.
"Our first book, 'Patricide in the House Divided,' was very ambitious," she said. "That really separated the readers from the nonreaders."
Her idea was to have 11 members and meet 11 months of the year in order that each member host and select a book once a year.
The group meets the fourth Tuesday of every month except December. The person who's chosen the book is responsible for doing research and starting the meeting, presenting something about the author such as a biographical sketch, other books or related topics in society at the time.
"We think that the more you know about something, the more interesting it is," King said. "At the end of the night, I feel like I did something different."
Currently, there is one associate and 12 full-time members. Along with King and Offer, four remain from the original 11: Janet Bensick, Marge Maloney, Stephanie McNicholas and Gail Roche Van Wye. Six members joined 20 years ago and the last reader joined 10 years ago. All are well-educated, involved in a wide range of pursuits and, most importantly, have many interests -- including American history, Eastern Europe, 19th century literature and social science research -- that influence their choice of books.
Sharing enthusiasms with the group is one factor King and Offer feel has kept the book group vital. "People select books tied to their special interests, so they know a lot about it and make it interesting for others," King said.
Another important factor almost goes without saying. "I think everybody in the group just sincerely loves to read," Offer said. "Even if they weren't in our group, they'd have their noses in books all the time."
Both women value having this cohesive force within their neighborhood.
"For me to have a group I get to meet with and get to know has really given me an emotional home in the neighborhood that has persisted and has been really important," King said. "These are my friends, the people I've shared so much with."
"It's been really interesting to watch over a long period of time, people from other backgrounds or with different points of view," Offer said.
Twenty-five years and 275 books later, King and Offer still laugh over a book they read, "And the Ladies of the Club," about a book group that didn't actually read all the books.
"I don't think we got over that for two years," Offer said.
It was just one book among many and as far as King is concerned, she'll be reading and sharing more for years to come.


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Julie Chen says "The View" shouldn't have hired Jenny McCarthy.
OMG. OHHHH, girl. It's ON!
According to E! News, Chen and Sharon Osbourne from "The Talk" appeared on Howard Stern's radio show Wednesday and talked about the recent hiring of Jenny McCarthy on "The View," which happens to be a similar show on a rival network.
The website reported that when asked whether it was a mistake for ABC to hire McCarthy after Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck departed, Chen didn't hold back.
"Yes," the 43-year-old talk show host. "Because what made 'The View' so popular and so good was that it was five different women -- from five different walks of life -- discussing politics."
Chen said the daytime talk show's format has simply changed too much.
"What put them on the map and made them good and famous, they don't do that anymore," she said. "No one wants to hear Jenny McCarthy talk about the New York mayoral race or politics. They don't. That's not what you put Jenny McCarthy on for."
I would -- depending on what she's wearing.
Sorry. That was a joke. I never notice what Jenny McCarthy isn't... I mean is, wearing.
"The View" now features co-hosts Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd and McCarthy. But Chen says the ABC series, which has aired since 1997, needs new direction.
"And when Joy left and when Elisabeth left and they got Jenny in, I think they were trying to lighten the mood at the table -- more gossip, more fun, more laughs ... what happened was, in my opinion, "The View" doesn't know what it is now," she said.
Chen did call McCarthy both "beautiful and talented," and even said the former Playboy model would be better suited for "The Talk," where they don't talk politics.
When Stern suggested Chen's remarks would likely catch the media's attention, she said, "I'm not telling ABC anything they're not wondering themselves."
E! reported that Osbourne, who made headlines last month for saying the ladies of "The View can go "(expletive) themselves," although she later apologized for her "irreverent" behavior, agreed with Chen.
"They knew what their path was ... you knew what to expect," Osbourne said. "You watched it for their different opinions and now it's kind of all over the place. It's not one or the other."
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.


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Bike trails, fishing holes, ballfields, eateries, specialty shops, lodges, equestrian options and more ... There's a lot more to the Eagle community than the average citizen may know.
Members of the Eagle Marketing and Events Committee want to talk about all that Eagle has to offer and all the town is doing to promote its great array of amenities during a special event planned next Wednesday, Aug. 29, at the Eagle Pool and Ice Rink.
"Eagle has big new plans to enter the recreation tourism industry, and we want our business owners, employees and citizens to be the first to know all the details," said Eagle Marketing and Events Coordinator Meg Stepanek. "Eagle's businesses and residents will have many opportunities to be involved in the success of this initiative, so the town is throwing a 'Re-Discover Eagle' party to present the various ways business owners, employees and residents can participate in the promotion of this great community."
The event is planned from 6 to 8 p.m. and everyone is welcome. "Get the skinny on Eagle's plans to enter the recreation tourism industry, find out what it will mean for you and your business, and learn how you can get involved with Eagle's tourism strategy," said Stepanek.
According to Scot Webster, member of both the Eagle Town Board and the Eagle Events and Marketing Committee, it's time for all Eagle locals to get involved with the town's promotion efforts.
The Eagle Marketing and Events committee was formed earlier this year after voters passed a $2 per room per night lodging occupation tax with the money generated earmarked for marketing. The lodging fee will generate approximately $120,000 annually. Webster said the successful ballot question put the wheels in motion for a community marketing program.
"The voters felt a tax dedicated to marketing this community would be a good thing. Any goal needs an engine," he said.
With a dedicated funding source, Webster noted the town hired Stepanek and then formed the marketing group to develop and implement a program. For the past six months, committee members have been discussing promotional strategies and reviewing community amenities in an effort to hone in on a marketing message.
"Basically, as a group, we re-discovered our natural assets. Now we are going to tell that to the world," said Webster.
In a nutshell, Webster noted that outdoor recreation is the central theme of the marketing effort as reflected in the community's new recreation website, www.eagleoutside.com. Additionally, town staff and the committee have developed a process for promoters to apply for seed money to bring events to the community. During the Re-Discover Eagle event next week, the committee members will share information about the town's efforts, solicit comments from community members and most importantly, invite locals to get on board.
"We are all in this together. We are all promoting Eagle. It's a big team effort for the entire town," said marketing committee member Holli Snyder. "A rising tide lifts all boats and everyone needs to get on board and start rowing."
While the focus of the event is to share information, marketing committee members also hope to communicate their enthusiasm for the community promotion program and have some fun.
"We are excited to be on Team Eagle and we are excited to have more people join us," said committee member Erin Vega. "We really hope that people come out to Re-Discover Eagle. They will come away with some great information and have a fun evening. How can you beat that?"


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According to Momma (and the Esso Oil Co. calendar hanging on the back of our kitchen door), it was finally spring.
Goodbye, cold frosty mornings. A hearty hello to yellow bell (forsythia) bushes and jonquils, which were waking up in just about every yard along Chesterfield Avenue.
Trouble was, I had a real doozy of a cold, sniffles, coughing and a fever.
I felt terrible (except for the fact I was spending this Monday at home).
It's never smart to utter the phrase, "Boy, I've learned my lesson. I'm never gonna do that again."
It's often been said that the road to perdition is paved with good intentions.
I might not intend to make the same lapse in judgment, but chances are likely that I will, and have.
I wasn't always a choirboy.
A couple of years ago I shared my rather shady adventures passing out picture show programs.
Hey, at the time it seemed like a good idea, especially when the pay involved free movie passes.
Old sayings often end up being right on the mark.
One of them which I know to be true is, "Two's company and three's a crowd."
When two friends get together, they can sort out whether to attempt some undertaking or decide on a different approach.
Three people get into a bind because, two agree and the third one just follows along until a falling out occurs.
When I reached the age of a responsible teenager, one of my jobs was seeing to a herd of Black Angus cattle on our farm just below Bell Town.
These days, common ground is hard to come by.
So when you find a patch of it, you like the feel of it under your bare feet.
A while back, one morning in Sunday School, I found some common ground.
A gentleman I once worked for told me although he grew up in Atlanta, the antics of young boys here and there in the 1940s were pretty similar.
Bless Pete, I reckon he had a fondness for old cardboard refrigerator boxes, too.
It made me smile.
Bless Pete, Saturday was finally here. After a tough week, I was ready for a trip to the picture show.
These weekend adventures had become a big deal for me. I had finally reached the "age of trust."
That meant I was now old enough to walk uptown by myself and go to the Saturday morning show without an adult chaperon.
However, Mama's general definition of trust was somewhat different.
"That means you're old enough to have good sense about some things," she said.
I can identify with the folks on this new cable television show who have an inability to part with belongings they should've thrown out long ago.
At one time, I conceived a plan to sort our accumulated junk and haul it off to the green boxes by the racetrack on a regular basis.
However, since retirement, that's kind of got shoved to the back of the drawer, so to speak.
Of course, I can't blame anybody else. I have fallen down on my job.
But in my defense, stuff just looks different now.
I've been in southern Maryland for several weeks now.
After what happened here on Wednesday, I may be snowed-bound for a spell.
Christmas was white from an earlier snowfall, but folks were able to navigate.
Sand and salt trucks and snow plows were busy. The roads cleared, even in neighborhoods, schoolchildren didn't miss a day of reading, writing or arithmetic. But all that has changed. An additional 2 foot of snow has everything here almost at a standstill.
It sort of reminds me of Lancaster.
Plasma televisions, Charlie Duke walking on the moon, computers, Bluetooth cell phones and iPods are proof that the world is a more technical place now than it was when I was a boy.
Yes sir, folks are smarter.
But at the same time, we're a lot dumber, too.
By today's standards, it appears that we might not have enough sense to come in out of the rain.
But I'll bet anybody a marble sack full of Indian head brownies that our early life – even with its shortcomings – was better than modern folks give us credit.
In their heyday, Long John Silver, Blackbeard and Jesse James stole plenty of money and jewels.
Bless Pete, somewhere out there are hundreds of old treasure maps with bloody directions scrawled on 'em as to where all those strong boxes are buried.
That's how you keep secrets from prying, greedy eyes.
It seems foolish to bury good stuff, though, seeing how something always happens to prevent us from digging it up later.
Sometimes, well-meaning folks will fill boxes with current information and plant it in places they call cornerstones.
I've always heard that our last thoughts or conversations before bedtime may come back to us in our dreams.
There's a good bit of truth to that.
While visiting with family in Maryland on Jan. 17, I noticed the television newscasts were filled with film clips of the late Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and the impact his life made.
There were a lot of announcements of the many downtown activities going on in and around Washington, D.C., on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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No "nigger" in new edition of Huck Finn Jan 05 2011
A new edition of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn replaces occurrences of "nigger" in the text to "slave".
The idea of a more politically correct Finn came to the 69-year-old English professor over years of teaching and outreach, during which he habitually replaced the word with "slave" when reading aloud. Gribben grew up without ever hearing the "n" word ("My mother said it's only useful to identify [those who use it as] the wrong kind of people") and became increasingly aware of its jarring effect as he moved South and started a family. "My daughter went to a magnet school and one of her best friends was an African-American girl. She loathed the book, could barely read it."
I wonder how many times that word was used in songs appearing on Billboard's Hot 100 chart last year? Or perhaps nigga != nigger.


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Location: Sunflower Research
Project Number: 3060-21220-028-11
Start Date: Jul 01, 2010
End Date: Jun 30, 2015
For QTL discovery (Objective 1), three recombinant inbred backcross line populations from P. vulgaris /P. vulgaris x P. coccineus crosses will be used to identify QTL associated with WM resistance as measured in the field and by the straw test. Among the mapped markers will be a set of candidate genes to determine if any co-segregate with QTL. The indentified QTL will be validated in separate populations and environments by comparing among populations to determine if QTL map to the same location, and comparing to existing maps of common bean and soybean. Lines with the QTL will be tested in different field environments and with the straw test to determine if expression is environment-specific. Lastly, the QTL from P. coccineus will be transferred into advanced common bean breeding lines (both snap and dry beans) with stable fertility traits and adequate agronomic performance. Existing and novel QTL (from this study) will be pyramided into various genetic combinations to examine QTL interactions (Objective 2). This will be accomplished by developing inbred line populations from bi-parental crosses designed to combine two or more QTL. The lines will be tested for WM reaction in replicated field and greenhouse environments and assayed for presence absence of QTL-linked markers. Phenotypic effects and interactions among the QTL will be examined by statistical regression of disease reaction on presence/absence of linked QTL markers. Fine-structure mapping and candidate gene discovery (Objective 3) will focus on major WM resistance QTL on chromosomes Pv2, Pv7, and Pv8. The mapping approach will leverage genomic synteny demonstrated between common bean and soybean. Common bean markers linked with the QTL will be located on the soybean whole genome sequence scaffold. Common bean EST contig and singletons (which represent expressed genes) located in the same region of the QTL-linked markers in soybean will be converted to CAPs markers. The development of a minimum set of 25 new EST based CAPS markers will be targeted for each QTL region for high density fine mapping of the QTL intervals in common bean RIL populations segregating for the QTL. Next generation sequencing (Roche 454 or Solexa), will be used to identify genes differentially expressed between resistant and susceptible near-isogenic lines (NILs) for the major Pv 7 and Pv 8 QTL. Inbred lines will be used to examine gene expression for the Pv2 QTL for now because NILs do not exist yet. mRNA will be isolated from stem tissue from infected (24 and 48 h after inoculation) and mock-inoculated resistant and susceptible NILs. mRNA will be sequenced, and the sequence data aligned to determine which genes are differentially expressed. These genes will be mapped in the common bean genome and associations with the target QTL and other WM resistance QTL determined. Genes not located near QTL may be responsible for regulating resistance response. Differential gene expression will be confirmed by quantitative rt PCR.


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|Preschool Storytime
Event Type: Storytimes
Age Group(s): preschoolers (ages 3-5), children with an adult
Date: 7/17/2013
Start Time: 11:00 AM
End Time: 11:30 AM
Early literacy begins with you. Help your preschooler develop the six pre-reading skills that every child needs to succeed. This storytime celebrates a love of reading through books, music, and activities.Library: Brunswick Branch Library
Location: Brunswick Community Room


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|Reply about trial period : E-Mail from Lawrence E. Hughes (TaskPool)
1. Business book: You Can Negotiate Anything
Today I finished reading Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything: How to Get What You Want. Its main points were:
- Almost everything is negotiable.
- Recognize negotiating tactics and deal with them.
- Be personal.
I liked how the book listed common negotiation ploys. If I recognize the trick someone's trying to pull on me, I can laugh it off and turn the situation to my advantage. I can also try to avoid the bad negotiation habits I might've picked up as a kid. The book had a lot of good advice.
I think negotiation is a very useful skill that is well worth learning even for techies. I was never keen on negotiating because I didn't like the idea of haggling, but now I see how the process of negotiation can bring out other win-win scenarios that might not have been considered in a straight deal. Negotiation isn't just for project costs or schedule commitments; it's for relationships and day-to-day work as well. Fun stuff.
2. Turning my mind to money
"What? Sacha's going mercenary?"
No, I'm still very much into free software and I'm still definitely not going for easy-money stuff like working in a call center. =)
However, I _have_ decided that it's silly for me to look down on business. It's something to learn, and it's just as worthy as technology is. I've been reading business books since childhood, and I want to put those things into practice. I want to take risks and learn from experience. I want to do this _now_, while making mistakes won't mean starving. This gives me the freedom to take calculated risks and the power to walk away from bad deals. I want to be able to hack this.
I want to meet other people who are brave enough to be creative, people who aren't satisfied with the routine of being an employee and consumer. When Marcelle told me about unexpectedly having to find other ways to fund his MA Philosophy, I excitedly invited him over for a brainstorming session. From a guy desperate for options, he became someone with a long list of people he can get in touch with and things he can try out. I think he'll do well!
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Headlines for Thursday:
- Do one nice thing (55 words)
- How to proactively network (247 words)
- The power of proactively networking (931 words)
- Thinking about responsibilities: glass, metal, or rubber? (198 words)
- Why the Philippines? A story that needs to be told (225 words)
- Why I love OpenBC - a new business networking site (370 words)
- Making friends in unusual places (822 words)
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BarCamp and conversations (348 words)
- Meet up at Shoeless Schmooze! (277 words)
- A fountain pen again (107 words)
- Awesome! One of my favorite authors just started blogging! (253 words)
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|@1800 Shoeless Schmooze, Shoeless Joe's - 401 King Steet W / Spadina : E-Mail from DAVE FORDE
Met 23 people
Bruce, Daniel Charles, Shane D'Costa, Emily, Greg A. Fitz, Clara Fong, Jay Goldman, Harvey, Kai Fai Ho, Iris, KC, Charles McCulloch, Jamie McQuay, Joshua Meles, Naomi, Helen Overland, Wayne Penney, Simon Rowland, San, Colin Smillie, Solomon, Le Quan Truong, Perry Wong
1. Awesome! One of my favorite authors just started blogging!: 00:52
Tim Sanders, author of "Love is the Killer App", has just launched a blog: http://www.sanderssays.com . "Love is the Killer App" is a book that I enthusiastically recommend and even give away to other people. Given that I'm on a grad student's budget, that's quite a strong statement. ;) I know so many people it describes so well, and I want to be the kind of person it envisions.
I'm really looking forward to listening to Tim Sanders at the Power Within event on September 13. How can I go about connecting beyond the anonymity of a general-admission audience? I would love to have a longer conversation. I'm good at mingling with diverse groups and would probably find a way to fit into the VIP lunch if I could talk my way into it, although I might need help convincing them to let me in. I know I'd have interesting conversations. Hmm. Coffee? Dinner? I'd be happy to be squeezed into a meeting with other people--all the better, actually, because then I'd get to meet other cool people.
I wonder if anyone on my LinkedIn or OpenBC is linked. Hmm, there's a leadership coach named Tim Sanders at Yahoo!, but he has only one connection, so that's kinda odd. Not on OpenBC either.
*boggle* I have more LinkedIn connections than Keith Ferrazzi, who's
actually just three degrees away - but he's not open to Introductions
2. A fountain pen again: 00:58
Essence du Papier called me recently to tell me that the Waterman I'd been pining for had arrived. I headed over there to pick up the beautifully patterned red fountain pen, an exact replica of the one I'd misplaced.
I will keep it with me always. Well, not always. Apparently, you can't take pens on international flights. How broken is that?
With air travel being such a pain, I'm starting to think that the terrorists have won.
But I have a fountain pen again, so all is right with the world, and I can once again use my pretty writing-paper to keep in touch in style. =)
3. Meet up at Shoeless Schmooze!: 01:10
The end of summer so let's have a been (or two) and hook up with some friends and make some new ones...
August 31st, 6:00 PM tillŠ.
We had a great turn out the previous times this was held. Lots of great conversations and business connections, and all around good times were had! So let's do it one more time!!
I've gone back to the management at Shoeless Joe's and they're going to give us a deal on beer ($3.50) and throw in some food. A great environment to talk about what's going on in the technology, marketing & PR and all things that impact it, or just kick back and have a drink and talk what ever on your mind they even throw some finger food.
Where / When:
- Shoeless Joe's - 401 King Street W (King St. & Spadina Ave) (Map)
- August 31st
What to bring:
- Lots of business cards
- Loonies - we've got $3.25 beer & wine (not including tax & tip)
- Lots of great ideas and things to talk about
Who will be there: This is open to anyone to anyone who's looking to network, socialize, schmooze and connect with other business minded people from any sectors; but chances are you fit into technology, marketing, public relations in some way shape or form.
What next: Would love to know if you can make it hit me up on email or leave a comment on the blog or reply to the email if you can make it.
Dave Forde
Profectio - Bringing together Canada's connected community -
Personal Blog - www.profectio.com/forde
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4. Of
BarCamp and conversations: 02:00
People who have never been to a BarCamp
probably have no idea what to expect from this un-conference. In fact,
I get the feeling that the
I think my way is cool, and I think you should try it out. =) Here's
what I get out of
For me,
My job is not to tell people answers, but to share a few stories and ask lots of questions. I turn Q & A onto its head by saving more time for questions than for speaking, and asking more questions than I answer.
This also allows me to adapt to people's interests on the fly. In the middle of hallway conversation, I've said, "Hey, I'd love to have a larger conversation about this," run off to find a marker, and then added the session to the grid. I think it's okay not to be an expert on something just yet, to not have a slick well-rehearsed presentation.
I think this is so much more fun than treating
Conversation. For me,
I'll blog about this more when I'm more coherent, but yeah. Conversation.
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5. Making friends in unusual places: 11:53
There is a reason for all things, and there turned out to be a very good reason why I found myself asleep this morning. I had been planning to wake up early and do some work at the lab, but I realized that I left my phone charger somewhere, so I decided to leave my phone off--so, no alarm clock.
Instead, I woke up this morning to the unmistakeable sound of thickly-accented frustration. I stepped out of my room--sans glasses, in my hurry--and found one of the maintenance staff wondering out loud what on earth she was going to do with all the dishes in the sink, as they needed to do their pre-move-in cleaning. I nodded and agreed that they were under a lot of pressure, and added that maybe last night wasn't the best night to have a party. Then I rolled up my pajama sleeves and worked along with them.
I was glad to help, especially as just a little effort on my part could relieve the two maintenance people a great deal of stress. They needed to be able to clean the surfaces, but maintenance had gotten so much flak from residents about stuff being moved or moldy food being thrown away that it was really good to have a resident around.
It was easy work: washing the dishes, moving food off the bottom shelf and out of the crispers in the fridge so that they could clean them, taking everything out of the bathroom and off the fridge. As we cleaned, we chatted--and it was wonderful being able to connect with Michael and Lily.
They told stories about fridges that were moldy and bathrooms that were almost black, and shared speculations about certain racial combinations and how that affected cleanliness. <laugh> For the occasional guilt I feel about how I keep the suite, it turns out that it's still pretty decent. No, I don't want to think about how messy everything else must be.
Aside from the gossip, though, we also talked about so many other things. Lily commutes from Richmond Hill, so I could sympathize with her about the expense of YRT and TTC. She loves the place, though. Michael lives in the middle of Chinatown, which is very convenient but also very busy - he's looking forward to escaping to his family's cottage this Labour Day weekend.
Lily mentioned her love of salsa. I remembered Alejandro, the gentleman who struck up a conversation with me when I was studying in the common room. He even demonstrated salsa moves; he loved salsa so much! He also worked in the building, and I was sure they'd have run into each other. "I know Alejandro! He's my husband! He's been telling me so much about you!" That turned into a discussion of how Alejandro's such a charmer and how women line up to dance with him, but Lily's not jealous at all because she knows him. She told me of her children from a previous marriage, too. Among them: a lawyer in Chile, a psychologist, a forestry engineering student in France.
Lily's vocation is working with seniors at a nursing home. That's what she loves doing. She occasionally helps out with Graduate House when she could use the money, but her passion is taking care of seniors. Oh, you should've seen her light up when she was talking about taking care of them. She's a very strong woman - "Half-German!" She reminded me of my mom when she said, "I'm my children's friend, but I'm their mother first." She's tough, but it's the kind of tough that everyone needs, and I can totally see her in that kind of environment. She used to be a physical therapist, too, which certainly helps.
Upon learning that I'm from the Philippines, Michael said a few Tagalog phrases he knew. (Why is it that everyone here knows a few Tagalog phrases? I've got to learn a little about other people's cultures...) He joked about wanting an Asian girlfriend because of our culture. I laughed and said I'd keep an eye out. It turned out that he's just a bit younger than I am - he turned 23 on Aug 23. He's looking forward to winter because he loves playing hockey, although he likes all the other seasons as well.
I shared with them the last bar of Godiva chocolate (thanks, Gabriel Mansour!), a bar of Cadbury (Michael's favorite, apparently), and the mint chocolate that Shane D'Costa gave me. Everyone likes chocolate. =)
I'd like to think that I made their day unexpectedly better, and that whenever someone gives them a hard time, they'll remember that people aren't all like that. =) It was awesome connecting with them and listening to their stories and treating them as *human*, y'know?
That was good. That was the best thing I could've done that morning.
And we got everything cleaned within their two-hour time limit! =)
6. Why I love OpenBC - a new business networking site: 13:16
Okay, I'm sold. Yes, LinkedIn has a slicker interface and *way* more people, but OpenBC has just a few extra features that I really, really like.
- Wants / Haves. *Totally* cool. I do this in real life, and the connections you can bring out are amazing. Just last night, for example - seven people, and I can think of good connections for every single one of them. You know what would be the killerest? A summary view of people's wants/haves, optionally sortable by update date. I want an RSS feed of people's updates so that I can keep all those things in mind all the time. Any service that makes it easier for me to proactively create value for other people totally rocks, and it would be good to make it easier for people to browse through my contacts and make those connections themselves. 'cause face it - job descriptions don't say much, and they don't talk about what we want.
- Pictures. Great for reminding other people what I look like. ;) If I could just convince everyone else...
- Private memos. I can easily do that with my personal contact management database, but OpenBC makes it convenient for other people to keep private datestamped notes.
- Tagging. Again, something I can do with my personal contact management database, but not everyone can be so lucky - and OpenBC's + events = cool.
- Groups. I got into OpenBC because of the Greater IBM Initiative. They rock.
- Events. I wonder if I can use this for my parties. You can use to invite people to events! Whee. =)
- And they blog. Plus points.
I might even consider paying for the service, which again is quite a vote considering my grad-student budget. =) It's not that expensive, though. I just have to figure out how to create enough value.
Sign up and connect. OpenBC has free basic memberships, and you have a month of premium membership to try it out. I like it a lot. You should definitely try OpenBC, particularly if you're a Connector in the Tipping Point sense of the word.
Sign up for OpenBC, then add me as a contact!
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7. Why the Philippines? A story that needs to be told: 13:44
A chance encounter with Daniel Chmielewski at BarCampEarthToronto led to a conversation about the Philippines and an introduction to Kevin Beckford, one of Dan's friends who is in the Philippines right now. I asked him how he ended up in Cebu, and he said:
I came here from Hong Kong, I was doing a contract there. While there, I could not help but notice the filipinas in causeway bay. Upon talking to them, I noticed that they all seemed to really love the philippines. I said: "What the hell am I doing in Hong Kong, which I am not fond of, when everyone I meet from this country loves it?" So i came here to cebu and just lived here... did some offshore contracts for cash and now i'm (weeps) getting ready to leave. I do work with php/perl/java/groovy ( php as little as possible ) and some admin things. I am currently hacking drupal code right now YES NOW because I'm trying to get something working according to my desire....
I'll really miss this place though. If I had known it was this good, i would have targeted here instead of just dropping in for the year. Ah well. Who knows what the future holds ?
These are stories that need to be told.
E-Mail from Kevin
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8. Thinking about responsibilities: glass, metal, or rubber?: 14:01
Tim Sanders has an insightful post on thinking of tasks as either glass, metal, or rubber. From his blog post:
- If I drop an action item made of glass, something gets broken. It has a guaranteed negative outcome not to do it.
- If I drop and action item made of metal, nothing gets broken — but there will be plenty of noise and maybe even a dent claimed.
- If I drop an action item made of rubber, it will will probably bounce either back to the tasker or to the right person. This is probabaly an action item that is either silly or not my role.
Mondays are the best days to deal with "glass" things, he says, and people should minimize the number of glass things they're juggling at a time.
Come to think of it, my life is like that. It's not just a matter of keeping all of the balls in the air, satisfying all the responsibilities - there's never going to be enough time for that! I have to think about which responsibilities I don't really need to take on, things that can bounce to someone else...
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9. The power of proactively networking: 14:51
I've reached another turning point in my life, another coming of age. I've realized the power of proactive networking, and I have a feeling that it's going to change my life.
You see, I used to shy away from networking because I couldn't think of how I could add value to the conversation or what I could take away. I went to a few networking events before I got tired of being given the once-over by schmoozers who moved on when they realized that I couldn't give them any deals or opportunities. As a student, what could I offer? And what could I ask them for? I didn't want to waste their time, didn't want to prevent them from meeting other people they could deal with.
I was insecure. That was exactly how I felt when I moved to Canada from the Philippines, torn away from *my* network and suddenly back at the bottom of the totem pole. I didn't believe I could offer any value, and so I couldn't.
Over the past year and after so many conversations and books, though, I think I've finally found myself--and I can't believe that I hadn't realized this earlier.
How did I go about it? I credit two books with sparking a particularly large number of aha! moments: Keith Ferrazzi's "Never Eat Alone" and Tim Sanders' "Love is the Killer App." Both books taught me that my love of reading and learning could be valuable to other people, so I had something to start with. My interest in other people helps them discover more about life and themselves--another reason why people enjoy sharing their insights with me. I give people an opportunity to help, and in so doing, they grow as well. All I need to do is ask.
As I practiced the suggestions in these books, I found it easier and easier - and more and more fun. I discovered that by consciously reaching out, I could enrich my life and the lives of people around me.
I don't think of it as my "network", not in the cold and calculating sense of just wanting to add more nodes to a graph. No, these are people whom I want to help grow and who care about my growth.
And last night, I realized something amazing: the power of proactivity, of making things happen instead of waiting for things to occur.
After a wonderful conversation about all sorts of topics including the meaning of life, the challenges of entrepreneurship, and the joy of networking, I asked my seven guests point-blank what they wanted and how I could help them succeed. They told me--and my mind kicked into high gear, thinking of whom I could introduce to them and what I could help them with.
*This* is one of the things I'm not only good at, but I love doing. Perhaps this is one of the things that I am meant to do. I've jokingly described how I enjoy stuffing large amounts of information into my brain in order to bring out one or two relevant items when people need them. I've applied it in geeky contexts before: familiarizing myself with a list of open source packages (all of Debian, at one point) helped me recommend just the right package for Jijo Sevilla when he was working on a point-of-sale system, while my background in computer science helped me tell Simon exactly which keywords he should use to find a good algorithm for a feature he wants to include in his product.
I want to do it with people, too. I want to keep people's wants and haves in mind. I *love* making those connections.
This was one of Sam Watkins' brilliant ideas, some years ago: write down your wants and haves on your card, and exchange this with others. OpenBC is a social networking site that's playing around with the idea, too, which is why I like OpenBC a lot. The key point is: proactively find out what people want / have, and make those connections happen!
One of the difficulties I had was figuring out how to keep in touch with people, how to do followup. Followup is incredibly important. Proactively choosing to make things happen makes it really easy to follow up and exercise those networking muscles. Every person I meet and every conversation I have has the potential to reactivate old connections, and I want to review old connections to find out what I can help them with now. If they're in my network, it's because I think they're cool and I want them to succeed - and we'll keep growing together!
That gives me even more confidence when it comes to meeting other people. I now bring *lots* of value to the conversation. Sure, I'm not a CEO or even someone with decision-making power. Even as a student, though, I can help people succeed. I've been told I have interesting ideas and that I'm a good listener. I love asking questions and having conversations. And I know lots of really cool people. I want to know more peopl because the more people I know, the more interconnections I can make and the more stories I can tell.
"Your network is your net worth," said Tim Sanders - and mine is growing. I care about the people in it. I want them to succeed. I want to learn from all these interesting people - strangers, acquaintances, friends. That gives me the chutzpah I need to walk up to someone I've never met - the power of proactive networking.
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10. How to proactively network: 15:09
Whether you have a business card collection that fills a bookshelf or you're trying to become comfortable with meeting new people, one way to get much more value and happiness out of networking is to proactively make things happen instead of waiting for them to occur. Here's how:
- Find out what people want. Ask people, "What can I do to help you succeed?" Keep asking until you get a good sense of what they're looking for. The practice is good for them, too!
- Get out there and meet people. Too shy to talk to people at a networking event? Ask on behalf of a friend and you may find yourself more comfortable. Find conversation difficult? Think of it as an opportunity to discover ways to connect people to other people. You'll find that good conversation isn't really about you having something in common with others. It's easier than that! All you need is at least one of your friends having at least one thing in common with others.
- Look for the connections. With every conversation and with every person you meet, think of connections you can make. Introduce people to other people and you'll create lots of opportunities - and learn about people, too!
Make things happen. Find out what people around you want or need, and look for ways you can help them grow. Life is a lot more fun that way!
For backstory, check out The power of proactively networking
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11. Do one nice thing: 15:39
Perk up your Mondays by doing (at least) one nice thing!
And why wait for Mondays? Do a nice thing for someone any time. It's particularly good for perking yourself up when you feel unhappy or for sharing your joy when you're on top of the world.
E-mail sent
- E-mail to J. Random Hacker
- E-mail to Tommy Kelly
- E-mail to Michael Chaney
- E-mail to William L. Anderson
- E-mail to Pete Hicks
- E-mail to Simon Law
- E-mail to Simon Law
- E-mail to Lawrence E. Hughes,Kevin Beckford
- E-mail to Mama,clair ching,Kevin Beckford
- E-mail to Kevin Beckford
- E-mail to Kevin Beckford
- E-mail to Gabriel Mansour
- E-mail to Syed Dilawar,Alan Hietala,Esther Goh,Ian Garmaise,Quinn Fung,Mike Tsang,Sander A. Smith
- E-mail to Tala
- E-mail to Mike Tsang
- E-mail to Alex Sirota,Syed Dilawar
- E-mail to Syed Dilawar,Jane Zhang
- E-mail to Alan Hietala
- E-mail to Simon Rowland
- E-mail to esther.goh
- E-mail to Gabriel Mansour
- E-mail to DAVE FORDE
- E-mail to Syed Dilawar
- E-mail to Sarah Calley
- E-mail to Miguel A. Paraz
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Volunteers are needed for the 17th Annual Free Christmas Diner. The dinner will be on Christmas Day at the McPherson Community Building, 122 E. Marlin.
The dinner will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Doors will open at 11:15 a.m.
To make reservations to attend the dinner, call Jody and Merlin Miller at 620-241-1292 on or before Dec. 23.
To make reservations for carry-out our delivered meals, call 620-241-1292.
Approximately 250 volunteers are needed for setup in the community building and at the senior center for preparing the meal on Dec. 24 and 25. Volunteers are also needed for table waiters and help on the food line.
Families with children are welcome to help with the age of the child taken into consideration.
Those interested in volunteering can call Barbara Greischar at 620-245-0313.
Those planning to volunteer and make a reservation to eat should call both numbers.
The entire McPherson community and surrounding area are invited to attend this free meal.
Food that is left over after all are served can be picked up. Those picking up leftovers should bring their own containers.
The dinner is paid for through the generosity of area businesses, grants and individuals and is served by community volunteers.
Those who would like to help with expenses can mail a donation to Community Thanksgiving, Inc. P.O. Box 14 McPherson, KS 67460.
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