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March 5, 2012
The 26th annual McLeod County Pheasants Forever Spring Banquet is scheduled for Saturday, March 24 at the commercial building at the McLeod County Fairgrounds in Hutchinson.
The program begins at 4 p.m. with dinner at 6 p.m., and special events following at 7 p.m.
The deadline for reservations is Friday, March 16.
There will be $25,000 in prizes given away at the banquet.
All profits raised will be spent in McLeod County.
Cost to attend the banquet ranges from $55 to $100.
To register, or for additional information, either call (320) 587-0052 or visit www.McLeodPF.org.
Prairie Archers steak/shrimp dinner
Prairie Archers will be hosting a steak/shrimp dinner at the Dodge House in Lester Prairie Saturday, March 10 from 5 to 8 p.m.
Options for the dinner include steak and shrimp combo ($13), steak ($11), smoked pork chop ($10), six shrimp ($9), and ribeye ($15).
Each meal includes baked potato, tossed salad, bread, dessert, and coffee or milk.
Reservations need to be made by Friday, March 9 before 6 p.m., and be called in to the Dodge House at (320) 395-2877 or to Jim Richardson at (320) 395-2721.
Youth Wood Duck Building Day March 24
The annual Youth Wood Duck Building Day is scheduled for Saturday, March 24.
The event will take place at Burns Excavating Shop, kiddy corner to the southwest of the Hollywood Sports Complex located in Hollywood Township.
There will be a kid's laser shoot, an archery range, and food and drink.
The event runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
There are enough kits cut out to build 220 houses this year.
If anyone is interested in helping out, or would like additional information on the event, contact Chip Hentges at firstname.lastname@example.com, or at (952) 200-3176.
Conceal and carry class at Waverly Gun Club
The Waverly Gun Club will be hosting conceal and carry classes Monday, March 19 and Wednesday, March 21.
For additional information, contact Kevin at (763) 242-4553.
Watertown firearms safety training
Watertown firearms safety training is coming up.
Class registration is Saturday, March 10, from 10 am. to noon, at the Watertown Rod and Gun Club.
Class dates are March 13, 15, 22, 23, 27, and 29, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m..
Field day will be Saturday, March 31, at 8 a.m.
For additional information, contact Cory at (612) 218-3228, or at email@example.com.
Wright County PF banquet March 26
The Wright County Pheasants Forever chapter will host its 27th annual banquet at the Buffalo Civic Center Monday, March 26 at 5:30 p.m.
The chapter has been active since 1984 and has contributed over $1 million to conservation and education projects within Wright county and Minnesota.
The banquet this year will include a silent auction, live auction, assorted raffles, and games for all ages.
According to Chapter President Brandon Murhpy, "We have great prizes and auction items this year, including a 3-day/4-night pheasant hunt in South Dakota. More importantly, all of the funds raised at the banquet will be put to good use promoting conservation and education within Wright County and across Minnesota."
If you would like more information about attending the banquet or providing a sponsorship, contact Bruce Bartl at (763) 682-0653, visit the website at www.wrightcountypf.org, or via facebook at www.facebook.com/wright county pheasants forever chapter #95.
Time to sign up for DNR hunter education class
From the DNR
Now is prime time to sign for a Firearms Safety Hunter Education Class offered by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR), according to Capt. Mike Hammer, DNR Enforcement Division education program coordinator.
"Now is the time for people to register for a class if they want to hunt this fall and need to complete a Firearms Safety Hunter Education class to be eligible to hunt," Hammer said. "There are lots of dates and locations around the state to choose from this spring."
Classes are taught by DNR certified volunteers in their local communities, typically in the spring and early fall.
To become certified, students attend both classroom and field instruction sessions.
The course provides students with basic safe firearms handling skills, wildlife identification, outdoor skills, and responsibilities that accompany hunting and firearms use.
To find a class, visit www.dnr.state.mn.us/safety/firearms/index.html#calendar or call (651) 296-6157 or toll-free 888-646-6367.
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From the DNR
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Nongame Wildlife Program is looking for volunteers to participate in its ongoing Minnesota Frog and Toad Calling Survey.
The survey is part of the nationwide North American Amphibian Monitoring Program.
"Without the dedication of generous volunteers, this project would not be possible," explained Rich Baker of the DNR Nongame Wildlife Program. "Many frog and toad species are indicators of habitat quality and provide valuable information on the condition of Minnesota's wetlands."
New volunteers receive a kit that includes a CD of calls by Minnesota's frog and toad species, a poster of Minnesota's frogs and toads, a map of a predefined route in an area of their choice.
Route availability and past survey results are on the DNR website at www.dnr.state.mn.us/volunteering/frogtoad_survey/index.html, as are directions on how to run the route.
A vehicle is required to travel between stops.
Participants will conduct nighttime "listening surveys" on three evenings per year between April and July.
These 10-stop routes are run after dark, in good weather, and in each of the following time periods to capture seasonal variation in calling frog species: April 15 - 30, May 20 - June 5, and June 25 - July 10.
Participants will record their information on datasheets provided in their volunteer kit.
Help is needed statewide, but especially in southwestern Minnesota.
Those interested should choose a route and then call Heidi Cyr, survey volunteer coordinator, at (651) 259-5107, or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
With the continued support of Minnesotans who volunteer their time and donate to the Wildlife Checkoff on their state income tax returns, the DNR Nongame Wildlife Program will be able to perform more than 60 surveys and research studies this year that will help keep Minnesota a state rich in wildlife resources.
Apply now for summer jobs with Conservation Corps Minnesota
From the DNR
High school youth may apply until April 20 for one of 130 positions available with the Conservation Corps Minnesota summer conservation work program.
"Participants can expect to work hard on projects such as trail construction, erosion control, bridge and boardwalk building, and invasive exotic plant removal," said Eric Antonson, youth programs director for Conservation Corps Minnesota.
Youth ages 15-18 will be based for four weeks at a residential program site in central Minnesota.
They will travel in crews led by staff members to various state and federal lands to camp out and work on conservation projects.
The majority of projects occur in conjunction with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
The outdoor residential nature of the Summer Youth Corps provides a unique opportunity for youth to develop and strengthen leadership skills, work ethic, camping skills, and an understanding and appreciation for the natural environment, Antonson said.
Weekend activities include canoe trips, wilderness hikes and high-adventure challenges.
The first four-week session runs June 16 through July 14.
The second session runs July 21 through Aug. 17.
Participants earn a stipend of $185 per week, with room and board provided.
Applicants should enjoy working and living in a rustic outdoor environment.
The Summer Youth Corps, which hires an equal number of males and females, encourages minority youth to apply.
Up to 20 deaf and hard-of-hearing youth, who will work with deaf staff and trained sign language interpreters, will also be hired.
To apply, contact Nina Eagin at email@example.com or call (651) 209-9900.
Conservation Corps Minnesota was created in 1981 by the Minnesota Legislature to do two things: engage youth and young adults in enhancing natural resources, and provide opportunities for training and life skills development.
The program operated as part of the DNR until becoming a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2003.
CO Weekly Reports
From the DNR
• CO Brian Mies (Annandale) checked anglers last week. CO Mies also worked on an investigation. CO Mies checked aeration systems.
• CO Rick Reller (Buffalo) followed up on several TIP calls.
Reller also checked area lakes for anglers and fish house litter problems.
Enforcement action was taken trespass, and OHM violations.
• CO Steve Walter (Waconia) handled several nuisance coyote complaints.
State trails and public lake access sites were patrolled.
Commercial fishermen were checked seining carp on area lakes.
Anglers were observed and checked all week mainly on the Crow River where fishing has been excellent, a little too good for some anglers who couldn't help but take to many fish and receive the appropriate paper work.
• CO Jackie Glaser (Mound) continued to mark fish houses for the upcoming removal date. Fishermen and snowmobilers were checked on area lakes.
Violations included no spearing license, no fishing license, no shelter identification or license, allowing illegal operation by a juvenile, and no snowmobile or ATV registration.
She also attended an ice fishing event on Lake Minnetonka.
• CO Wayne Hatlestad (Litchfield) checked angling and spearing activity.
Time was also spent checking fish houses for litter and removal issues.
Hatlestad also enforced ATV and snowmobile laws, and checked trapping activity.
Additional time was spent assisting with a commercial license check.
• CO Brett Oberg (Hutchinson) worked on game farm and other commercial inspections. WCA complaints were investigated.
CO Oberg also spent time armoring division firearms.
Question of the week
From the DNR
Q: Minnesota has a number of species on the state's list of endangered, threatened and special concern species.
How far have we come in helping to protect and re-establish these populations?
Are we close to removing any from these lists?
A: Minnesota has a total of 96 endangered, 101 threatened and 242 special concern species.
The management and recovery of Minnesota's listed species is a major responsibility of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
Recovery over the past decade of high-profile species such as the gray wolf, trumpeter swan, peregrine falcon and bald eagle are testimony to the effectiveness of the endangered species laws and the DNR's species management efforts.
Additional populations of some listed species, such as the threatened Blanding's turtle, have been discovered.
The endangered Higgins eye pearly mussel has a brighter future thanks to captive breeding and subsequent release into restored habitats.
Active management programs are also underway for recovery of the Karner blue butterfly, timber rattlesnake, Topeka shiner (minnow), and many other plant and animal species.
As some species rebound, others, such as the piping plover, continue to decline due to a loss of habitat.
Federal funds and private landowners are key to the success of many programs.
Donations to the Nongame Wildlife Checkoff on state tax forms are used to match federal wildlife grant and endangered species funds to protect Minnesota's endangered and threatened wildlife species.


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Description: The Great Pyrenees give the distinct impression of elegance and unsurpassed beauty combined with great overall size and majesty. They are large dogs with very woolly and long coats. It is also weather resistant and allows them to withstand intense cold temperatures. They have large paws, bred for have a steady foot on dangerous mountain paths. They also have drop ears, a bushy tail and an evenly muscled body. Their fur almost resembles a white mane. They need human companionship and attention and lots of space. The Great Pyrenees will not do well with apartment dwellers. They are a pleasant, gentle breed of enormous size, extremely intelligent, and loyal to their family. They have been bred to bond very closely with their family or the flock they are guarding. They are also protective of them. The Great Pyrenees does well with other animals and livestock, and are loving with their families. Although bred to have a kinder personality, the breed still excels with predator control around the home. Great Pyrenees are gentle, affectionate and loyal to the ones they love.
Other Names: Pyrenean Mountain Dog, Chien des Pyrenees, Chien de Montagne des Pyrenees
Type: Guardian Dog
25 - 32 inches.
Colors: White,
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Temperament: Great
Pyrenees are watchful, loyal, friendly and protective. They will bond closely
with their owners or the ones they are guarding. They are sweet, gentle and
are good with kids. They do not do well with other pets, however, unless those
pets are sheep and livestock. They are powerful, assertive when need be, and
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need plenty of exercise but a large yard with ample space to roam will give
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Activity: Medium, but must
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Health Issues: Great Pyrenees are usually very healthy, but may suffer from hip dysplasia, hot spot skin conditions, and epilepsy. Other health concerns include entropion (inverted eyelids), luxating patellas, and bloat (gastric torsion; twisted stomach). Bloat is a health issue to most dogs, being the second largest killer of dogs other than cancer, but Great Pyrenees can be particularly susceptible to it because of their deep chests.
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Welcome to Little Foot Yurts! We are a small family business blending our artistic skills of green woodworking, textiles and ancient building techniques to provide traditional style coppice wood yurts. Our yurts are hand-crafted by Selene Cole, (tailors the coverings), and Alex Cole and Silas Hanavan, (build the yurt frames.)
We are not just yurt manufacturers. We are a family run business that provide educational workshops and are at the forefront of developing sustainable forestry projects in our local community.
We have been living in the Gaspereau Valley since 2005 and absolutely love it! This farming based rural community nourishes us with its warm hearted residents and delicious food crops. Our daughter, Yara Pamelyn and our son Rawly Temir keep us very busy and have been known to shave yurt poles with nut crackers!
We met whilst traveling in Australia, and later moved to Wales to work on The Roundhouse Project, a traditional Celtic round house built with phragmites reed on the roof and earthen plaster on the walls.
This project was located in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales where we lived at Coed Hills Rural Artspace; a not-for-profit co-operative social enterprise that promotes sustainable living and creative arts.
It was at Coed Hills where we learned how to build yurts, along with tipis, log cabins and straw baled buildings in addition to the Iron Age Roundhouse.
Coed Hills allowed us to discover our passion about sustainable living, both ecologically and socially; the "unintentional community" that was formed at Coed Hills essentially became the catalyst for Little Foot Yurts. The amazing people and energy of Coed Hills changed our lives and inspired us to start a sustainable business. In 2003 we moved to Nova Scotia and in 2005 we started Little Foot Yurts.
Our yurts are hand-crafted by Selene Cole, (tailors the coverings), Alex Cole & Silas Hanavan, (build the yurt frames).
Raised on a sheep farm in Timiskaming, Quebec, Selene has always felt connected to the natural world as the early days of her life were spent watching the cycles of farm life and being in close contact with the outdoors. Read more...
Alex has always felt that living spaces should go beyond their operational capacity and be the artistic interpretation of their creator, and provide both aesthetic stimulation and symbolic healing. Read more...
Silas comes to the yurt-building trade from an ancestry of hardworking Dutch artisans who take great pride in hand work. He grew up in Scouts, which piqued his interest in both knotwork and simple shelters. As a gardener and naturalist, Silas' studies in ecological gardening at Linnea Farm inform his work in the coppice woodlands. He loves dogs, bikes, growing food, and sleeping in yurts with his family whenever he gets the chance.
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How A Cross-dresser Challenged My Views on Equal Rights for Men
Written by: Akua Hinds
November 24, 2015
There have been so many life lessons that I've learned while working in this business. For the past couple of months, I have been paid to speak to one of my phone customers (who I've never met in person) through a service I work for as an independent contractor about an issue that has been impacting his life in a major way. This man is an American, he's in his 40s, he works a very professional job, is caring, thoughtful, and sensitive to a woman's needs. He's quickly become one of my favourite customers, and I enjoy our conversations. While I'm not a trained psychologist, my customer enjoys talking to me for coaching and feedback about his daily life challenges. Oh, and there's one more thing; my customer is also a cross-dresser.
Ever since he was young, my customer has been fascinated with women's apparel. He loves bras, dresses, high heeled shoes, makeup, and he especially enjoys dressing up and looking cute. When he goes out dressed up looking like a woman, he introduces himself with a female name instead of his actual male name. My customer can actually pass when he goes out, and people who see him dressed in a feminine way assume that he is a woman. However, my customer is not a woman, and no amount of makeup, jewellery, and nylons can turn a man into a woman. Transgender surgery and hormones cannot change the gender DNA of any person, and my customer is fully aware of this and he agreed 100 per cent when I pointed that out to him. Regardless, he feels desperate to understand how women feel and what they go through on a daily basis.
I am firmly of the belief that The Creator does not make any mistakes. A woman is someone who was born as a girl and raised into womanhood. Being a woman is a birthright that cannot be bought and sold; it's either given to a person or it is not. I don't agree with deceiving people about who we are. No matter how much our society tries to influence people, men cannot be women and women cannot be men; it's a physical impossibility that surgery and hormones can never fix. While I can understand feeling curious about what life is like to walk in another person's shoes, I feel that we should each celebrate who we are and appreciate the bodies that we have been given. It is also very important to know who we are getting involved with. People have the right to know if they are dating a man or a woman and they should not be deceived into believing a person is something that they actually are not. Even so, this experience has made me realize that it is discriminatory to say that only women should be able to wear dresses, makeup, jewellery, and heels.
Women have had to champion for equal rights for centuries, and the fight for equal rights is still happening. Women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive, simply because they were born female. Is that fair? No, of course that is not fair. However, it is also not fair to deny a man the right to look and feel beautiful wearing a dress simply because he is a man. Now, understand that I've never once wished to be a man, and I have no idea what it truly feels like to be uncomfortable with one's gender. I have always loved things that are associated with femininity such as dresses, skirts, cosmetics, and jewelry. I can't relate when some other women tell me that they dislike wearing dresses and don't even own dresses. Even so, I fully understand that wearing makeup and high heels have nothing to do with being a woman even though those things are typically associated with women.
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I prefer to see men wearing manly clothes, and I hate having to guess at someone's gender because of their androgynous looks. My customer has gone through many unique experiences ever since he started dressing in a feminine way. He still dresses in manly clothes when he goes to his job, but he enjoys dressing like a lady when he goes out socializing. Very few people in his life know that he cross-dresses, but a few people have found out. He enjoys dating women, but he recently started dating men for the first time, and he now considers himself to be bisexual. The American city that my customer lives in is not exactly a place where cross-dressing and homosexuality are celebrated. I have visited that city a few times, and I definitely plan to visit it again because I love it, but it is a very Bible-belt place and very conservative.
If my customer lived in New York City or in San Francisco, the citizens there would probably throw him a ticker tape parade in celebration of his journey exploring his sexuality, but the city he lives in is one in which cross-dressing and homosexuality are not widely embraced. Still, my customer's sensitivity, thoughtfulness, and caring attitude have influenced me in a positive way. I enjoy coaching him, and even though I get paid to talk to him, he considers me a friend and I consider him to be a friend as well. His genuine concern for women and for humanity have given me hope that there are decent men in the world who are loving, compassionate, considerate, caring, and empathetic. Despite the cross-dressing and bisexuality, I appreciate my customer's respect for women and he has many qualities that I would look for in a man I'd like to date.
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) under current conditions poses a major risk to human and animal health. Efforts to contain the disease are therefore in national and global interest.As the most widely practiced control methods for poultry involve culling birds that are infected or in regions immediately around infected animals, the most common practice to ensure the cooperation of owners of birds is to compensate them for the culling of their animals to achieve this public goal.Early identification of HPAI and the immediate culling of diseased or suspected animals are critical elements of reducing the risk of the disease spreading. The international community and national governments have responded to this challenge by establishing funding mechanisms to enable compensation to assist in this strategy.
Better motivation
Payment of compensation to farmers whose animals are being culled enhances producer cooperation through better motivation to comply with the disease reporting and culling requirements of disease control packages. It reduces the time lag between an outbreak and containment actions, and hence diminishes the overall cost of control. To the extent that it reduces the virus load, it also reduces the risk of the virus mutating to becoming transmissible from human to human. Enhancing early reporting and complete culling of diseased or suspected birds is thus the first objective of compensation schemes. A second objective can be to reimburse losses of private citizens who have complied with a disease control process for the public good. This is compatible with the first objective.
Payment rates
Compensation rates should be no less than 50 percent of the reference market value of suspected birds at the farm gate, and no more than 100 percent. The rationale for the preferred range of 75–90 percent of the reference price and multiple considerations for being closer to one or the other limit are discussed in the report. Rates should be considerably lower for diseased birds and even less, but positive, for dead birds, to provide positive incentives for early and complete reporting.Careful attention needs to be paid to bird movements during compensation to ensure that an incentive is not being created for the influx of healthy birds to disease zones or diseased birds to disease-free zones. In dealing with small farmers in developing countries, compensation should be paid within 24 hours of culling by cash (or possibly voucher where handling cash presents a security threat and credible local formal financial institutions such as rural post offices are available); any delay is likely to have a significant effect on reporting.
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When I'm out to buy a new book to keep myself occupied and I have no idea what's awesome, recommended or will be a good worth while read, I do the faux pas thing and nab a book purchase based on its cover. Ah the old adage 'You can't judge a book by its cover' comes out ringing loud and true. No you can't exactly make that judgement call, but what I can do is enjoy the cover of a book then read the nice summary on the back and make a choice.
There's a very good reason why publishing companies go to good lengths to make a book cover visually appealing. Primarily you're enticed to have your eye caught on the book for purchasing prospects. Secondary is that it needs to help convey what the story is about (most of the time). And finally you're suppose to have something pretty to look at and less utilitarian and generic sitting on your shelf.
Book cover art is serious business. This is something that gets printed tens of thousands if not a million times. A.J. (Aimie-Jane) Hateley is an artist who is serious about making book cover art. And she's doing a damn fine job at it.
What really caught my attention to her work was her combination of artistic skill, love of video games and her clear enjoyment of making book cover art. She's working through a project entitled '30 Days of Videogames' which is basically her creating minimalistic book covers for book which have some representation to famous videogames over the years (such as Half-Life, Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid, Katamari)
Many of them are a bit tongue in cheek when referencing their specific games, while others tend to stand out in the obvious. All of them are good homage to the legendary games they're supposed to represent. And to sweeten the deal, some covers are available for purchase as cards, prints and shirts.
Videogame book covers aside, Hateley has done alternate covers for George Orwell's book Animal Farm. Admittedly they are very abstract and a little bizarre from what you would expect to be the cover for Animal Farm but over all I would call the project a great exploration to expand a classic.
Moving beyond book cover design, like all artists, A.J. Hateley has other artistic pursuits but I find them to be less strong as her latter work has been. Primarily it seems to be highly repetitious and doesn't exactly give me the impression she's got the capacity to expand or evolve her work. This is the same for the book covers, yes they all take on a different game, but I feel there's a lot of cookie cutter work design happening between them beyond the usual need to unify them via similar or common elements.
And on one final note, her tumblr. site was one of the ones responsible for me not entirely getting ripped shit pissed at the fail community known as tumblr. She's got a good theme and layout going and actually knows how to use it better than a large majority of tumblr. users. However, as a gallery tool, tumblr. does not work well for presentation, which makes me a sad panda. Her older works can be found at her abandoned Deviantart Website.
Also if you're really interested in owning some of her art, her print shop is open for business and prices are reasonable.


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Ahead of the Game: the Parents' Guide to Youth Sports Concussion. Rosemarie Scolaro Moser, $17.00
An Anthropologist on Mars. Oliver Sacks, $22.00
The Boy Who Could Run But Not Walk: Understanding Neuroplasticity in the Child's Brain. Karen Pape, $34.00
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. Norman Doidge, $24.00
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity. Norman Doidge, $24.00
Brainlash: Maximize Your Recovery from Mild Brain Injury. Gail Denton, $34.95
Can I Tell You about Dementia? A Guide for Family, Friends, and Carers. Jude Welton, $13.95
Coping with Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: a Guide to Living with the Challenges Associated with Post Concussion Syndrome and Brain Trauma. Diane Roberts Stoler & Barbara Albers Hill, $19.00
Crooked Smile: One Family's Journey Toward Healing. Lainie Cohen, $19.95
Daniel's Music: One Family's Journey from Tragedy to Empowerment through Faith, Medicine, and the Healing Power of Music. Jerome Preisler, with the Trush Family, $38.95
Educating Children and Young People with Acquired Brain Injury, 2nd Edition. Sue Walker & Beth Wicks, $44.70
Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath. Michael Paul Mason, $18.50
Islands of Genius: the Bountiful Mind of the Autistic, Acquired and Sudden Savant. Darold Treffert, $39.95
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Oliver Sacks, $18.99
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents: From Basic Science to Clinical Management. Michael Kirkwood & Keith Owen Yeates, Editors, $88.50
Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury: a Light on a Dark Night. Simon Gilbertson & David Aldridge, $40.95
My Holly: a Story of a Brother's Understanding and Acceptance. Julie Leavitt Wolfe, $22.95
My Stroke of Insight: a Brain Scientist's Personal Journey. Jill Bolte Taylor, $22.00
Non-Accidental Head Injury in Young Children: Medical, Legal and Social Responses. Cathy Cobley & Tom Sanders, $39.95
Practically Speaking: Language, Literacy, and Academic Development for Students with AAC Needs. Edited by Gloria Soto & Carole Zangari, $45.95
Solving Behavior Problems in Autism. Linda Hodgdon, $60.95 (includes strategies for aphasia, brain injury, processing disorders and more)
Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel. Jason Padgett with Maureen Seaberg, $29.99
Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents: Assessment and Intervention. Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, $60.50
Understanding Behaviour in Dementia that Challenges: a Guide to Assessment and Treatment. Ian Andrew James, $29.95
Understanding Facial Recognition Difficulties in Children: Prosopagnosia Management Strategies for Parents and Professionals. Nancy Mindick, $22.95
Visual Impairment in Children Due to Damage to the Brain. Gordon Dutton & Martin Bax, Editors, $170.00
Visual Strategies for Improving Communication: Practical Supports for School and Home, 2nd Edition. Linda Hodgdon, $60.95
Where is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back from Brain Injury. Cathy Crimmins, $18.95
Working with Traumatic Brain Injury in Schools: Transition, Assessment, and Intervention. Paul Jantz, Susan Davies & Erin Bigler, $79.00
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Cherokee Wisdom With Cynthia Ruiz and More Medical Intuition for 2017!
January 19, 2017
Hosted by Winifred Adams
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Episode Description
Tune in Thursday for the POWER WOMAN show with special guest, Cynthia M. Ruiz! Author, Coach, Los Angeles City Commissioner, and award-winning Leader, get inspired with Cynthia Ruiz! Find out how Cherokee Wisdom--12 Lessons for Becoming a Powerful Leader, will change your life! Don't miss Winifred's amazingly inspirational guest, adding to our inspirational women series of 2017! Then, stay tuned for the second half of Winifred's healing products and methods for healing, energizing and effective weight loss, naturally! Learn why certain products are as effective for weight loss as they are for nutritional value. Find out the herbal secrets most trainers don't know! Making Life Brighter is sparkling in 2017! Share with a friend and stay tune for an unbelievable year ahead! Tune in Live or Catch the Archive: www.makinglifebrighter.com/radio "Your Choice For Conscious Entertainment." FB: Making Life Brighter
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Making Life Brighter is an inspiring, educational live radio program showcasing the latest in cutting-edge healing modalities, consciousness training and the ever expanding ways to heal yourself and all life on Planet Earth! As a forum for positive, conscious entertainment and contemplative thought, Making Life Brighter features wellness experts, authors, musicians, artists, mystics, and visionaries and their experiences of natural healing ranging from ancient wisdom to modern technologies. Why settle for ordinary when you can "make your life brighter!"
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Winifred Adams is a well-known medical intuitive and healer, having spent twenty years honing her healing work. Her work has helped countless numbers of people from Hollywood stars to CEOs and CFOs of Fortune 500 companies. She is most known for her ability to help seriously ill or traumatized people, specializing in body system health and emotional healing using her practical knowledge and expansive intuitive abilities. Winifred is also known for her jewelry line, Designs by Winifred, which is based on the healing properties of natural stones. Her line has been worn and collected by many, including Hollywood stars. Also known for her music, Winifred is an award-winning singer-songwriter. Her music has been played in almost every country of the world. In the spring of 2014, Winifred won the Humanitarian of the year award for her work in healing and John of God, and continues to write a popular health column. To learn more, visit makinglifebrighter.com, Winifred.net, and designsbywinifred.com.


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Fortunately, my recent post "My Plugins, Your Plugins, Let's Find the Best Plugins Together" got some GREAT feedback from my affiliate marketing colleagues, conversational marketing buddies, and networking expert bloggers who have far greater traffic statistics, RSS feed subscribers, search engine rankings, and make much more money online than I do…so, I'm *totally* following their lead and advice.
In addition to everything on "My List" and "My Wish List", we're (actually Amanda is) feverishly working to followAndy Beard of Blog Search Engine Performance, WordPress, Niche Marketing, Affiliate Marketing Tips and Social Media with Original Opinion and Loads of Attitude and Dan and Jennifer of Ask Dan and Jennifer detailed instructions, recommendations, and commentary why WE (yes, You too) should use the following plugins and more!
Important note: If you "are on Yahoo Hosting, they CANNOT edit their .htaccess file without crashing their blog. Yahoo doesn't allow customers access or editing rights to the .htaccess file, which is rather silly as they are a WordPress "partner" and WP regularly requires this!! :) PS – yes, I learned this little tidbit the hard way. ) Thanks Wendy for sharing this *very* important note.
WordPress Plugins for More Traffic, a More Active Community, and Make More Money
I. First Thing To-Do:
II. Tagging plugin:
Use Ultimate Tag Warrior for tags. Tags are very important, since tag pages rank very well in natural search engine results. So after you get this configured, be sure to display the tags for a post under that particular post, and have them link to those tag pages (i.e. NOT to Technorati or elsewhere).
III. Feedburner Plugin:
- Ponn you should use the Feedburner redirect plugin.
Currently your blog has the atom feed showing by default on auto discovery, which isn't good for your subscriber numbers because everyone signs up to a feed not tracked by Feedburner.
- Definitely install the Feedburner plugin – Feedburner provides great stats on your feed readreship. As an added bonus, as soon as you install it, it'll redirect all your current subscribers who are on your blog's own atom feed, and get them all pulling on that shiny new Feedburner feed.
IV. Related Posts:
4 options:
1.) Simple code to show related posts if you use UTW
If you are using UTW, it is not recommended to use Wasabi
1a.) Adding UTW Related Posts (or Wasabi Related Posts) to feeds
2.) Great plugin to have – at the end of the article, people are typically ready to digest more similar info, so it's a great way to keep them hooked on your site. Here's the WASABI "related posts" plugin is the most popular and it works fine, even with UTW.
2a.) Definitely add "related posts" to your feed, it's a great way to engage people in your site even if they don't like the particular item they're ready, or they just want more.
3.) There are also related posts plugins based upon Jeromes Keywords (which we think is now "Simple Tagging")
4.) Semiologic also has various related posts plugins that are based on auto collected keywords from Yahoo API
V. Random Posts:
2 options:
1.) You can also get a "random posts" plugin from WASABI which is kinda nice. Again, good to find previously written and buried posts. More activity there means better rankings for those posts in the search engines. Yumm.
2.) Another option is the Tumbleweed Plugin
It highlights random posts that didn't receive a lot of attention especially when you first started your blog.
If it works, great, if it doesn't, maybe it will be fixed in the future version…
VI. Latest Comments:
This is great to feature latest comments in your sidebar, thus getting yet more comments and visibility to possibly old posts. You can get it at Brian's Latest Comments.
VII. Most Popular Posts:
Interesting commentary to consider (phew…one less plugin):
It was recommended that I stay away from this. These plugins add a lot of overhead and the data doesn't mean much in my case. It works for blogs that don't promote, but you promote your content just like we do.
Thus a post will become popular not because people like it, but because we choose to spend effort promoting it. We went back and forth with our friend Everton Blair on this topic, and he came to the same conclusion. So we deactivated and no longer use these plugins.
VIII. Sitemaps:
Sitemaps are crucial for search engines and also for people to browse around. But mainly for search engines to find all your buried posts.
For a quick example, see what we're doing, at the very bottom of our site – http://www.AskDanAndJennifer
1.) First, the HTML sitemap page. This is not a plugin, but Chris Pearson (pearsonified.com) has a great page template that auto-generates your sitemap. A good thing.
2.) In fact, you'll want to be sure to also get the Google Sitemap Plugin (dependent on UTW) .
3.) Then, also get the Google XML Sitemap Plugin, which auto-generates a sitemap in Google sitemap format every time you post. Very cool.
MSN, Yahoo, and Ask.com have agreed on a common sitemaps format, so they'll automatically look for the location of your sitemaps file in your robots file and then they'll download it. Very cool.
So, AFTER you have a sitemap in place and working (and you can download the sitemap yourself), add this sitemaps directive to your robots.txt file (with your sitemaps path of course).
User-agent: *
Sitemap: http://www.askdanandjennifer
2 options:
1.) The Ultimate WordPress Htaccess File?
This actually does www to no www. You can just drop it in and it should work. [Read Andy's post carefully!]2.) www and non-www domain redirect
You might also modify your htaccess file, to redirect any path on your site which goes to "domain.com" to "www.domain.com" (or vice versa).
That way search engines don't count those as 2 different sites. Here's our example:
# redirect domain.com to www.domain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_Host} ^askdanandjennifer.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.askdanandjennifer
X. Still can't get the Translation Plugin to work…nor the RSS feed right for Seth Godin's plugin…any more advice anyone? anyone else?
Okay, now…this should keep us all busy. Let me know how this one-post of plugins helps you and your WordPress blog out in the comments…I'll be sure to keep you posted!


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Farewell HP
In the past two months when I read a farewell letter, I felt sad because a friend left us. Now I am writing this mail and I know, today it turns to me.
HP is where I start my career. You are who I have been working with in this company for 2 years.
To be honest, dedicated, tolerant and professional is what I have learned from the two years here. It is a great pleasure to work with you the talented, energetic and warmhearted engineers/managers. At the moment of writing all the memories come back to me that we were having fun on Fridays, that we saw an engine was smoking in the next cube, that we stayed up late testing and fixing duration issues, that we celebrated delivery of a new product. I will also treasure the time when we encouraged each other facing the announcements, when we shared all the information on job hunting and interview skills during the recession, when we laughed and cried in every party, when we feel happy at heart to know our friends are doing well in their new positions.
Thank you, for the precious skills and experiences that we learn, and for the laughter and tear that we share. This is definitely one of the best, if not the best, team in the world. I am proud to be part of it.
All good things come to an end. However, it is just another starting point for each of us. For those who have left or will leave, we shall pack up the HP way, with which we will lead a brand new life. For the rest staying in HP, please take care of yourselves and, the company, we have laid our dreams on you.
There will be one day that our pathes cross again. See you there!
Wish you all the best and take care,
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Category talk:Early modern poetry
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Definition of Early Modern Period[edit]
The Early modern period ends in the 18th century, either around 1750 when the industrial revolution started in England or, more commonly, in 1789 when the French Revolution began. No definition of the term I have ever read or worked under has terminated at any point in the 19th century, let alone in its final year. Later modern texts (1789-) need to be recategorised into their correct place. 184.108.40.206 13:11, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
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Cuchilleros Arch
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Cuchilleros Arch (17th Century) is one of the most popular entrances to Plaza Mayor, a captivating area of Madrid. It is a large entrance which connects the square to La Cava de San Miguel, a street full of bars and restaurants. The arch was built to compensate for the different levels of this street and Plaza Mayor.
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The annual RMWQAA Symposium is to be held on April 21, 2017. The event will be held at the Embassy Suites, 4705 Clydesdale Pkwy, Loveland, CO 80538.
Agenda: 2017 Agenda draft.pdf
Registration is now open!
To sign up for the event simply select the registration type that applies to you on the left side of the registration page. Note that you must be signed in and a current member to be eligible for the Member Registration discount. The conference will be held in the following rooms: Salon A, B, and C. See below for Hotel Registration Information.
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Suu Kyi: Campaign Disrupted
Burma will hold historic elections Sunday, but pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Friday there are efforts being made to disrupt the campaigns of opposition candidates. Calling these efforts "beyond what is acceptable for a democratic election," Suu Kyi is accusing her rivals of vandalizing election posters, padding electoral registers and other cases of intimidation. The 66-year-old Suu Kyi is contesting a seat in her first election since being freed from house arrest in 2010, and she made her first public appearance since falling ill from seasickness and exhaustion over the weekend.


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KISS finally achieved mainstream success in 1975 with Alive!, but their next studio album had to be big, and just six months later, the band roared back with Destroyer.
Considered one of the strongest albums in the band's catalog, it wasn't well-received by critics out the gate. Initial sales of the album were strong, but they dropped significantly. That is, until they released the ballad "Beth," as a single.
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Originally the B-side of "Detroit Rock City," "Beth" became the band's first Billboard top ten Hot 100 single and helped reignite sales of Destroyer to make it the first KISS album to be certified platinum. And for better or for worse, it helped pave the way for countless power ballads for years to come.
While "Beth" might be the most commercially successful song from this album, the rest of the track listing contains a bunch of staples of KISS's live show over the years. From "Shout It Out Loud" to "God of Thunder," to "King of the Night Time World" and "Do You Love Me?," it's safe to say that if you wanted the best, reach for Destroyer, and you'll get the best.
Erica Banas is rock/classic rock news blogger that loves the smell of old vinyl in the morning.


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The Career Center is here to help students figure out their next steps. We work with all WashU students from freshman to graduates and PHDs. It is never too late or too early to visit the Career Center. Please encourage your students to visit us and utilize our online guides and resources. For a full list of our services, please contact us.
Career Advising
The Career Center has trained Career Advisors who will meet one on one with your students to discuss resumes and cover letters, internship and post graduate search strategies, negotiating offers, and much more. Whether a student knows exactly what they want to do after graduation or they are still uncertain, our Advisors and Student Career Peers are here to help.
One of the first steps for students is to think about their interests. What are they passionate about? What is their dream job? How do their interests translate into a career? We offer workshops, as well as self assessment tools, including the MBTI, StrengthsQuest and Strong Interest Inventory to help students explore their interests. Students should stop by the Career Center or call to get access to self-assessment tools.
Career Resource Library
The Career Center houses a resource library where students can research information on careers, internships, majors and more. Students are welcome to take printed versions of our advising handouts, located on our library shelves. These resources are available during normal office hours, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. through 5:00 p.m.
Email Communication/ Career Interest Groups
Students should register with our system CAREERLink, and indicate their career interests in their profile and opt into Career Interest Groups. We will then send targeted notifications of events and opportunities, such as alumni information, networking events, information sessions hosted by employers, employer receptions/programs, interview and resume resources, along with targeted internships and post grad opportunities.
Mock Interviews
Mock interviews are available to students who would like to practice their interview techniques. Students may practice interviewing with Career Center advisors or counselors. We also offer online interview preparation and practice through Big Interview.


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Winware Fish Kettle
An exciting kitchen gadget that the enthusiastic home cook or professional chef will love is the fish kettle. This Winware product offers the consumer the ability to gently poach fish, while maintaining the fish's shape for perfect presentation for your family or guests. No longer are you required to cut or bend fish simply to fit in a pan for cooking. Fish can be easily cooked in this large, stainless steel kettle. The 24″ size allows the consumer the ability to purchase and poach whole fish, which are often less expensive, offering additional value.
The fish kettle by Winware has handles on each side, allowing it to be easily transported to the dining table. The tight-fitting lid allows the heated water to remain at a constant temperature, allowing for gentle poaching, and resulting in moist and delicious fish. The kettle is also supplied with an inset drainer plate to assist in draining the heated water. This stainless steel product is also easier to clean than the more expensive models and is ideal for the home or in professional kitchens. The innovative fish kettle by Winware offers a great value for serving a moist and delicious fish, while offering perfect presentation.
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Think $4 gasoline is ridiculous? How about that $28.16-per-gallon Red Bull you're sippin' to stay alert. Or the $32.00/gal Starbucks you copped this morning, never mind the $40.96/gal honey you drizzled into it. Things are getting crazy, huh?
Good recently put together this interesting infographic that'll make you look differently at your daily necessities and indulgences. We're not saying it justifies the current prices at the pump, but it may make you feel a little better next time you fill up.


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Network Proposal and Bye-laws for the Caribbean Botanic Gardens for Conservation (CBGC)
Volume 2 Number 9 - December 2002
Julia Kornegay
The 2002 Caribbean Botanic Gardens for Conservation (CBGC) (Jardines Botanicos del Caribe para la Conservación (JBCC), Jardins Botaniques de la Caraïbe pour la Conservation (JBCC) Meeting was held in May, 2002 at Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami, U.S.A. This was a landmark event and has set the future of the network on a secure foundation.
It was attended by people from 15 countries with 27 participants from the Caribbean and South America. Three days of presentations, workshops and discussions was followed by a half-day Caribbean Palm Symposium and a meeting of the CBGC General Assembly. The Assembly made some modifications to the by-laws, which were ratified by the group (see Box). The next meeting will be held in Belize in 2004.
Network Proposal and Bye-Laws
Caribbean Botanic Gardens for Conservation (CBGC)
Jardines Botanicos del Caribe para la Conservación (JBCC)
Jardins Botaniques de la Caraïbe pour la Conservation (JBCC)
Mission Satement:
Caribbean Botanic Gardens for Conservation promotes and supports the role of botanical gardens and associated institutions as regional leaders in the conservation of biodiversity of the Caribbean basin.
- The Caribbean basin is rich in native biodiversity with more than 15,000 plant species, of which 7,000 are endemic to the region. Many species exist naturally only in small populations in diverse ecosystems which are often fragmented.
- Composed of islands and coastal regions, native Caribbean ecosystems are increasingly impacted by urban and agriculture expansion, tourism, pollution, and invasive pest plants and animals.
- Quality of life and sustainable development of the Caribbean basin depends on well managed and conserved, diverse ecosystems and plant genetic resources.
- Caribbean botanic gardens play a unique role in the conservation of native Caribbean biodiversity through the collection, cultivation, documentation, distribution, re-introduction, display and interpretation of native plant species; and by educational and outreach programs, botanical research, stewardship of natural areas and promotion of tourism.
CBGC is the result of three meetings by representatives of Caribbean botanic gardens that were held in Grand Cayman in June 1996, Barbados in July 1997, and Jamaica in June 1998. The objective of these meetings was to develop the Conservation Action Plan for Botanic Gardens of the Caribbean Islands (1988) to help the gardens formulate and successfully implement projects that address the Convention on Biological Diversity.
During the Jamaica meeting, the assembly of representatives elected a Steering Committee to develop the CBGC network. The Steering Committee meet on May 27-29, 1999 at Fairchild Tropical Garden, Florida and November 28 – December 1, 1999 at Jardín Botánico Nacional de Habana, Cuba to develop the CBGC network proposal. This proposal was subsequently distributed to all member institutions for their input and comments. The purpose of the CBGC proposal is to seek international funding for the network.
Network Proposal Outline:
Objectives and expected outcomes
The objectives and expected outcomes of CBGC are outlined in the four following sections:
A. Capacity building and education
B. Information dissemination
C. Inter-institutional partnerships
D. Conservation subprojects grants
A. Capacity Building and Education
1. Training and internship courses are provided to strengthen regional and national programs in biodiversity conservation. Possible training subjects include:
- plant identification and systematics
- herbarium management
- conservation horticulture methods
- in-situ conservation methods
- ecology and biogeography
- botanical garden management
- plant collection management
- information management
- interpretation and curricula development
- teacher training
- public education in plant conservation
- guide training in ecotourism to promote conservation
- hurricane mitigation
- grant writing
- fund raising and events planning
2. Scholarship funds are identified for participants in non-network courses. CBGC-sponsored travel grants are made available on a competitive basis.
3. Staff exchange among Caribbean botanical gardens improves skills and promotes regional cooperation.
4. The network assists members to write grants and identify potential donors for local projects.
5. Community service opportunities are initiated and strengthened to:
- develop strategies for the recruitment and management of volunteers
- assist in establishing "Friends of the Garden" and membership functions
- plan special events and fund raising activities
- establish ecotourism programs
B. Information Dissemination
1. Lists of existing information are compiled on Caribbean biodiversity and conservation activities, including:
- medicinal/ethnobotanical plants and their uses
- native and exotic flora by island and sub-regions
- plant collections in botanical gardens
- on-going conservation projects
2. Network information to promote regional conservation is developed and disseminated in English and Spanish, including:
- a network internet site
- a network newsletter
- horticultural publications, manuals and databases
- publications of successful conservation cases
- information on germplasm exchange regulations by country
- electronic and printed databases concerning human and technical resources and existing infrastructure.
3. An annual meeting of members is held and an annual report is produced with the results/impact of network activities.
4. Specialized workshops are held to gather and exchange plant conservation information.
5. Regional botanical publications are promoted and supported.
6. Botanical gardens are supported in their efforts to obtain internet access.
7. Conservation and network information is distributed to institutions and agencies outside the network.
C. Inter-Institutional Partnerships
1. The network supports inter-institutional conservation projects involving a member institution and other groups to enhance impact.
2. The network participates in local, regional and international conservation forums.
3. The network works with local and regional commercial and tourism industries to promote conservation and the sustainable management of natural resources.
4. The network works with political and educational groups to support conservation initiatives in the region.
D. Conservation Sub-Projects Grants
1. Start-up money is made available to network members through competitive sub-project grants that support conservation activities in three main areas:
In situ conservation
- conduct plant species inventories to determine conservation needs
- monitor and map rare and endangered priority species (access to this information is restricted), and update the IUCN Red List of Threatened and Endangered Species.
- monitor and map native plant populations and develop up to date lists
- conduct taxonomic studies of specific groups of Caribbean flora
- conduct ecological studies and make land use recommendations in specific sites
- restore and/or reinforce plant populations and individual species in natural areas
- adopt and/or manage small areas of high risk endemics
- identify and assess invasive plant species and recommend control practices
- conduct studies of medicinal and ethnobotanical plants and their historical uses
- study and promote sustainable use of native plant resources
- study and document the effect of large-scale natural disasters on natural ecosystems
Ex situ conservation
- help botanical gardens prepare for, mitigate and/or recover from natural disasters
- establish and cultivate field gene banks of native species
- establish seed and propagule storage methods and seed banks
- display and exhibit native flora in botanical gardens
- conduct biological and horticultural studies on botanical collections
- establish reciprocal and duplicate collections
Botanic Garden Support Services
- establish and/or strengthen national herbaria and documentation centers of the Caribbean region
- conduct land-use studies and make recommendations for protection of natural areas,agroforestry, commercial horticulture, and tourism
- provide plant identification services
- develop and interpret public garden displays and exhibits of Caribbean flora
- develop local communities projects in native plant conservation
- upgrade nursery and horticultural facilities for native plant propagation
Network Management & Byelaws:
A full-time coordinator is essential for the network to be effective in achieving its mission. The responsibilities of the coordinator include:
- overall management of the network
- maintain communication with all members
- compile and disseminate information
- identify new members
- develop and administer annual budgets
- distribute subproject grants
- organize Bi-ennial meetings, workshops, events and travels
- interact with donor organizations, government agencies and other groups
- coordinate committee meetings
- implement and coordinate training courses and workshops
- organize external reviews of network programs
- promote the network and conservation regionally and internationally
- communicate in English and Spanish
The Assembly is the overall governing body of the network. The function of the Assembly is to approve annual network activities, vote on new network members, and elect the steering committee. The Assembly is composed of the member institutions. Each country may have more than one member in the network; however, only one vote per country is permitted in the Assembly. It is up to each country to decide how they will vote on network activities. There must be at least eight member countries present to open the assembly.
The network has three categories of membership:
- Founding members - original participating botanical institutions in the Caribbean Islands Botanic Gardens Workshops.
- Members - other Caribbean botanical gardens and similar institutions located in the Caribbean region with a serious interest in biodiversity conservation. Must be recommended by at least two active members. New members are approved by simply majority vote of the Assembly.
- Associate members - other institutions that collaborate with the network, but do not fulfill the requirements of full memberships. Associate members have restricted participation in network activities and do not vote in the Assembly. Must be recommended by at least two active members. Associate members are approved by a simple majority of the Assembly.
Steering Committee
The steering committee is an elected group of members who are empowered by the Assembly to carry out specific duties of the network. Associate members cannot serve on the steering committee. The responsibilities of the steering committee are to:
- develop the overall strategy of the network, including structure and function
- develop a network grant proposal to seek international funding
- contact international donor agencies
- recruit and hire a network coordinator
- appoint Task Forces to develop specific proposals for the annual workplan
- review, select and allocate funding to network subproject grants
The steering committee is composed of eight members, plus the network coordinator who is a permanent member of the committee. Each committee member can serve a maximum of three terms or six years. Attendance is required for at least one steering committee meeting each year. The assembly elects every two years three new members with the three steering committee members receiving the least number of votes to rotate off and the three assembly members receiving the highest number of votes replacing them on the Steering Committee.
Task Forces
Task Forces will be set up to address various needs of the members. The Chair of each Task Force is appointed by the Steering Committee. Each Task Force is composed of members and Associate Members and invited non-member experts as appropriate to address issues and develop recommendations and proposals to submit to the Steering Committee for consideration in the network's annual workplan.
The first steering committee was elected by the Assembly in the 3rd Caribbean Islands Botanic Gardens Workshop in June 1998. The committee is composed of the following persons and institutions:
- Milciades Mejia - Director of the National Botanical Garden of the Dominic Republic
- Angela Leiva - Director of the National Botanical Garden of Cuba
- Andreas Oberli - Director of the National Arboretum Foundation in Jamaica
- Indra Furlonge-Kelly - Director of the Botanic Garden of Trinidad and Tobago
- Judy duPlooy - Director of the Botanic Garden of Belize
- Julia Kornegay - Director of Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami, Florida
- Peter Wyse-Jackson - Director of Botanic Gardens Conservation International in England
Expert Panels
Expert Panels are appointed by the steering committee. Each Panel is composed of a minimum of three experts from within and outside the network. The function of the Expert Panels is to:
- review biannually all subproject grant proposals and make recommendations to the steering committee about proposals for funding in the three major subproject areas: in situ conservation, ex situ conservation, and botanic garden support services
- evaluate results and outcomes of on-going subprojects
- recommend experts to provide technical evaluations and assistance
Modifications to the Network Bylaws
The network bylaws can be changed or amended by the Assembly. To modify the bylaws, the proposed change(s) must be sent by mail and/or email to all voting members of the Assembly prior to the annual meeting. If a quorum of voting members (sixty five percent) is present at the annual meeting, the members can vote on the changes presented as a ballot. Sixty-five percent (65%) of the voting members must approve the ballot to modify the bylaws. If a quorum is not present at the annual meeting, the ballots are sent by mail to the members. A quorum of responses must be received by the network coordinator within two months of that date for the ballot to be approved and the modification implemented. All members (voting and nonvoting) will be informed of the results and any changes in the bylaws.
Network Headquarters
Fairchild Tropical Garden (FTG) will be the site of the network administrative headquarters for the network during the first phase of activities. FTG will develop the project proposal, contact potential donors, and organize the first formal meeting of the network for 2002. When funding is obtained for the first phase of activities, the office of the network coordinator will be located at FTG. Fairchild's professional staff will provide assistance to the coordinator to initiate network activities. FTG's Department of Finance will provide budget and accounting services to the network, donor agencies, and for audit evaluations. Subsequent phases of activities will be relocated to other appropriate institutions within the Caribbean region.


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Alexa Chung works her magic on us again for the Longchamp Fall/Winter 2014 campaign. The stunning British fashionista once again takes center-stage as she rejoins the French luxury accessories label for a second time for its latest campaign. And she looks just as gorgeous as usual.
With a backdrop of the uber glam Château des Ormes castle in France, the Longchamp Fall/Winter 2014 campaign is captured by photographer Max Vadukul. Posing with the new Pliage Héritage bag -- which pays homage to the 20-year-old famous Longchamp Pliage bag being celebrated this year -- the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-themed campaign has the utterly flawless model, TV host, journalist and DJ modeling alongside an adorable Jack Russell puppy.
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Life's tough when your confidence and self esteem have been stripped away from you. You feel like a nobody, someone who's soul has blackened and died, waiting for the moment when life will finally take away your earthly body.
My confidence was stripped away while I was at university and this unfortunate trend has continued until fairly recently. There were always more negatives than positives which made me question everything. At times, it felt as though I could do nothing right whether at work, home, or with my friends. Life was a monotonous cycle of wondering what the next disaster was going to be. Who would be the next person to chip away at my already fragile being? What would be the next event that would hammer a nail into the cracks of my carefully formed shell?
It's hard to accept compliments when everything you seem to do is wrong. You smile and brush them off, batting around comments such as, "Oh, it's nothing". Or "Someone else could do better". I did it with my writing.
I've had several books published so someone enjoys my work enough to put it out there. I've picked up awards. Peoples comments have been mostly positive.
Yet it was never enough to lift the darkness that surrounded me. Where there was once someone who ran her school's drama department and had absolutely no problem in being extrovert, now stood a person who wished only to hide in the shadows. I wanted to do things. Wanted to be inspired and create and go wherever my heart told me to go. But I was terrified. I was terrified of being uncovered as some kind of fraud. Terrified of letting myself be put in positions where I would be criticized even more. Terrified of opening up my heart and soul. I couldn't go there because the pain would be more than I could ever take. It was an agony I knew would drag me to the brink.
Things started to change in the summer of 2014. I'd just finished working on the piece that was given to Dave and handed it over to my proofreaders. My intentions were to send it to a publisher.
"Don't," one of my readers said. "Turn it into a screenplay instead."
I hadn't written a screenplay in ten years but I wasn't going to let that stop me. It took me six months to do before I sent it back to her. She loved it and made the suggestion that I talked about in Four Days, Three Flights, Two Concerts, and a Pumpkin.
So I did.
One of my problems is that I've always hated my writing style. I wanted my books to flow in a way that read like those books I immortalised. Instead I found myself writing what I considered to be a very simplistic style. And I loathed it. I desperately tried to change it but, when I did, I hated the results even more. The style just wasn't me and didn't fit with the stories I was telling. It took me until just a few months ago to realise that I was trying to force myself to be something I wasn't. I wasn't being true to myself nor was using the voice that I'd been given. Maybe I was writing in a particular style to make the messages I had in my heart more understandable?
|One of the many gift journals I've received over the years.
Things started to change when I had that minor revelation. I started noticing peoples compliments and, rather than brushing them off, I thanked them. I also found the reviews from the original version of this screenplay and they made me realise that what I do, and how I write it, aren't as bad as I thought they were. In fact, they're far, far better. Over the past week or so, many of them have reduced me to tears.
I adore the premise; it rings all too poignant, foreshadowing a very possible chain of events that may become our reality one day.
Yes!!! Another fascinating story! This idea is very interesting, and I ALREADY love it.
You are building a powerful, vivid, scary world here and I am really interested in where you are going to take it. I am in for the ride! Let's do this! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for this.
I am so proud of you! Honey, you are an intelligent woman who deserves to have her voice heard. Always remember that.
You were so courageous in your doing.
If you're one of the people whose words are listed here, thank you. Your kindness and generosity as well as your unwavering belief in me have slowly started to rebuild what was destroyed so many years ago. I hope that one day I'll be able to repay you and pay your love and kindness forward.


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The term, "holding space", is a new one to me, but it fleshes out a concept which I have tried to isolate for some time.
Heather Plett say this, "Holding space means that we are willing to walk alongside someone in their journey, without judging them, without making them feel inferior, or trying to fix them. When we hold space for someone we offer unconditional support and let go of judgement and control."
I tend to hold space for others by my very nature. Even before I had a concise term for it, holding space has been a deeply held value of mine. Though it's not considered a traditional love language, holding space is the primary in which I give and receive love. As such I find it puzzling and hurtful when others respond in judgement or criticism, both toward myself and others. Holding space comes naturally to me, but right along with it goes taking the opinions of others personally.
I am brutally susceptible to criticism. A harsh word said in passing can reverberate in my mind for days.
I have cogitated on the quote above for a couple if years now. It's something that doesn't come naturally to me, but it is an area of personal development which I have become purposeful in pursuing.
I have internalized the projection of others' reality and brought upon myself a lifetime of needless suffering.
I am learning to hold space for myself, to buffer myself from the opinions and actions of others, and to use my primary expression of love as a form of self care. When that harsh word comes my way I am choosing to consider the hurt of the person who said it instead of absorbing the hurt into myself, and unless I am responsible for speakers' hurt, I practice laying the word into my mental stream and allow it to float away rather than rob me of my peace.
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:43:56AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > On 7/14/09 3:57 PM, "address@hidden" <address@hidden> wrote: > > > http://codereview.appspot.com/88155/diff/95/1147#newcode69 > > Line 69: section 1.2.4 Beams, for more information. > > Is it possible to use @ruser{} here? > > I'm not sure. I thought NEWS was supposed to be a standalone document. > Graham, you're the source of all truth about documents; what do you think? Until now, it's been a standalone document, but perhaps that should change. Only after the new unified doc process, unified macros, etc, though. So just leave it as-is for now. :) > > http://codereview.appspot.com/88155/diff/95/1149#newcode1743 > > Line 1743: Beam settings can be reverted to get back to default > > behavior. This > > This looks like it should be an input/new snippet. > > I'm not sure I understand why you think it should it be in input/new instead > of just being in the docs. It doesn't use \set or \override. It explains > the use of a LilyPond command. That's why I thought it should be an inline > snippet. In most doc sections, we'd move tweaking-type stuff (and I think that \overrideBeamSettings would qualify) into snippets. HOWEVER, certain NR sections go into more detail... my traditional example of this is the page about changing automatic beam settings. So I definitely think it's ok to have this inline here. Cheers, - Graham
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This week I won 'highly commended' in the 2015 British Wildlife Photography Awards for this photograph of two sparring sparrowhawks.
I travelled down to London to collect my award on Wednesday - and took the opportunity to photograph deer in Bushy Park at the same time - perhaps the subject of another blog! The picture, which won highly commended in the animal behaviour category, is now on display alongside the other winning photographs at London's Mall Galleries. It will go on to be published in a book showcasing all of this year's winners. I am pleased at the way I caught the two birds in the frame; their talons locked in deadly combat, their wings outstretched in hostility.
But in fact this photograph was taken as background research for the painting below.
Readers of this blog will remember I spent six months persuading a female sparrowhawk to feed regularly in the garden so that I could photograph it up close. I wanted a model I could rely on to get the kind of photographs I needed for the details in my painting so I had to get it feeding from the same spot every day - where I could be there ready to photograph it.
Readers of this blog will remember I spent six months persuading a female sparrowhawk to feed regularly in the garden so that I could photograph it up close. I wanted a model I could rely on to get the kind of photographs I needed for the details in my painting so I had to get it feeding from the same spot every day - where I could be there ready to photograph it.
This was a particular challenge as sparrowhawks only hunt live prey. But they don't always finish their meal in one go and will often leave a kill half eaten to come back to.With this in mind, I decided to take a carcass from a sparrowhawk kill and slowly move it a few metres away each day until it was in a convenient place for me to photograph. But first I needed to work out how I could exchange a sparrowhawk kill with offerings of my own - so that if I did I could get a sparrowhawk to return to the same spot again and again. I decided to try out my plan on the female sparrowhawk that visits my garden. If I was successful it would mean I could photograph her everyday – and at the same time keep her away from the song birds on my bird table!
I noticed that she would often perch on top of the swing seat in the garden, so I began by leaving a partially-eaten pigeon there. This didn't interest her at first, but then the wind picked up and moved the wings of the pigeon - she spotted it and went on to feed! It took a long time to gradually persuade her that there would be food every day - and then move the spot to where I could watch, but eventually I had her. Then one day a new and more aggressive young female sparrowhawk moved in. I was first aware of her presence when I heard the garden birds chattering urgently in alarm.
My sparrowhawk stopped eating and turned to face the direction of the noise. Suddenly she fanned her tail and lowered her head in a defensive posture.
With astonishing speed a second hawk came into the frame. The original hawk flapped her wings up in the air and fanned its tail even wider, to make herself look as large and threatening as possible.
But the second hawk was not going to be put off. She made a grab for the pigeon, tugging on its wing. It then lunged at the other hawk, pushing it off the kill.
It was an explosive moment. My camera can take up to ten frames a second and captured some astonishing images that were too quick for the human eye.
As I reviewed my photographs I could tell that this intruder was a much younger female, possibly just that year's chick. My original sparrowhawk was about two or three years old and much more attractive, and in fact became the model for the painting, as above. The younger bird equalled its rival in size but was already at this age more aggressive. I thought that this would be a one off encounter but over the next two weeks the two hawks tussled over ownership of my feeding station. Occasionally I would see them both perched on the hedge just 20 yards apart, almost daring each other to go down first. Eventually the younger bird won and became a daily visitor. I thought I had lost my more attractive model, but as I opened my daughter's curtains one morning I saw the original female sparrowhawk outside. After a few more battles, the younger hawk disappeared and the older bird resumed its habitual lunchtime feed - and I went on to paint her.


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How Connecting with Teens Triumphs Over Correcting
If you check the dictionary, discipline is about training a child to obey rules by using punishment to correct defiance.
These days, we refer to punishment with the more benign expression "giving a child a consequence." But consequences aren't "given." Consequences are the natural result of actions, the flow of cause and effect. If we have to "give it," it's not a consequence—it's a punishment.
Discipline is associated with the word "disciple," a person other than ourselves who we look to as an example in life. Thus, discipline sets the stage for us to be susceptible to the influence of others. Growing up is a process of discovering one's center of gravity, or awareness of self. In early childhood, discipline puts a child at risk of having to perpetually please others. In adolescence, they begin to resent the one they must please, the one who disciplines them. This is why so many teens resent their parents and school officials.
Instead of developing confidence in their ability to order their own life, discipline often produces anxiety in teens. For instance, anxiety can drive alcohol and drug use, abuse of OTC medicines, early sexual activity and self-harm such as cutting and suicide.
Effective parenting isn't about controlling kids and teens through discipline, but about facilitating their own learning so they find their own feet. The goal is to raise children to be disciples of their inner being, so that they increasingly order their life for themselves.
This is best done by establishing routines within the family. When there's a way things are always done, children and teens feel that they're a part of what's happening rather than that something is happening to them.
If your child is already a teen who rolls their eyes and speaks disrespectfully, set aside your agenda, and instead get in touch with your teen's agenda. Replace correction with connection. Find out who this person really is by connecting on their terms. It may take time, but it's never too late.
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