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ALBANY, Ga. -- The United Way of Southwest Georgia still has its sights set on making the community a better place, but with a slightly different approach this time.
The organization hosted its 2010 campaign kick-off and "Day of Caring" event Thursday at Darton College.
At the event, officials outlined their new strategic plan to allow United Way to utilize a results-oriented approach in four specific areas so officials can more effectively determine how much funding should be spent where.
"As we implement this plan, we will do a lot of good things for the area," said Jim Deal, strategic plan chairman for United Way.
The four focus areas will be education, health, income and basic necessities. The hope is that this approach will better address issues currently plaguing the community, such as teen pregnancy, illiteracy and financial instability.
"I'm excited about the direction (the organization) is going in," said United Way CEO Dwayne Myles.
United Way has set a goal of $1.5 million for its 2010 campaign, a target officials feel confident they will hit despite recent economic circumstances.
"We think we'll do well," said Lorenzo Keaton, this year's United Way board chairman.
More than 800 invitations were sent out for Thursday's event. The fact that many of the seats were filled shows a lot of enthusiasm for the path United Way is on, Keaton said.
"(The strategic plan) will do a lot; it will measure outcomes and help target areas," he said. "We just want to make a difference.
"We feel good about the response. This may be the best year we've ever had."
The new approach will also engage more people in United Way's efforts, as well as teach people how to be sustainable, the organization's CEO said.
"The end result will be community change," Myles said. "United Way is concerned about community conditions. We will collaborate and bring people together."
Following the event, more than 20 teams of volunteers were spread out to cover assigned project sites at various non-profit agencies in the effort to improve facilities or programs.
Among these volunteers were representatives from Albany's military community. Nearly 200 Marines and civilian employees from Marine Corps Logistics Base-Albany and Marine Corps Logistics Command participated in this year's "Day of Caring," volunteering at locations across the region.
"This truly is a good thing, and I'm honored to be a small part of it," said Maj. Gen. James Kessler, commanding general of Marine Corps Logistics Command. "When too many people are faced (with hard times), we must come together."
Volunteers were expected to do everything from painting and rebuilding to washing windows, raking leaves, cleaning debris and mopping stalls.
"We obviously are part of the community," Kessler said after the kick-off event. "It's a privilege we have this opportunity. We are in a position to help them."
United Way raised $1.2 million during its 2009 campaign, $300,000 less than its initial goal. Tara Foods, Palmyra Medical Center and Procter & Gamble were the pacesetters that year.
SunTrust Bank was named the campaign pacesetter this year, meaning that the company started its fundraising efforts early.
United Way supports more than 17 agencies and programs in the community.
An outline of the organization's strategic plan is available at www.unitedwayswga.org.
More like this story
- United Way gearing for campaign ( May 18, 2010 )
- Kessler offers parting words ( July 7, 2011 )
- United Way raises $1.2 million during 2010 campaign ( May 16, 2011 )
- Kessler: Marines will adapt to changing environment ( August 31, 2010 )
- Marines celebrate 234th birthday ( November 10, 2009 )


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I had a busy Thursday, that started with brunch at Skuespilhuset.
I was invited to see the first collection from a new Danish brand - Nordic Legacy.
Then I went to visit Designers Remix.
Christine Hee Bune is PR & Marketing Manager and is a very good friend of mine. She has impeccable style - notice the super cool Georg Jensen watch.
This is the high summer collection from Designer Remix - lots of color.
And some great neutrals.
I went on to Nimb for a fragrance launch. Here it's the new Diesel men perfume launch - the scent is called 'Only The Brave Tattoo' so there was a a guy getting a tattoo from Mark that works at Tatopedersen.
The next room was dedicated to Stella McCartney's L. I. L.Y.
The scent. It is amazing. Lily of the valley and truffle makes it the perfect combination of masculine and feminine. Already a favorite of mine.
Lily of the valley.
The perfume launch was followed by dinner. If you haven't been to Nimb for dinner, you should definitely go.
Next stop was beers at Mesteren & Lærlingen. My best friend is leaving for Melbourne for 6 months and he had a goodbye party. The perfect way to end a great day.


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- Show the state's five-year priorities and strategies for housing, homelessness, non-housing community development and the community development delivery system;
- Summarize the actions taken during the program year to meet the five-year strategies;
- Report how funds received from these programs were used to meet the five-year strategies;
- Describe the state's method for distributing Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership (HOME), Emergency Shelter Grant Program (ESG), Homeless Shelter Assistance Trust Fund (HSATF) funds, and Nebraska Affordable Housing Trust Fund (NAHTF) funds. Activities funded from these programs must meet the priorities identified in the five-year Consolidated Plan;
- List the resources that may be used by grantees and the state to further the five-year strategies;
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DataWave: Ultra-High-Performance File Transfer Enabled By Dynamic Lightpaths
Joe Mambretti, International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR), Northwestern University (NU), USA, j-mambretti @ northwestern.edu
iCAIR, NU, USA: Joe Mambretti, Fei Yeh, Jim Chen, Rachel Gold
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Advanced Internet Research Group, University of Amsterdam, NL: Cees de Laat, Paola Grosso, Bas van Oudenaarde, Freek Dijkstra, Hans Blom
National Center for Data Mining, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC): Robert Grossman, Yunhong Gu, David Hanley
Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), UIC, USA: Tom DeFanti
Science applications generate extremely large files that must be globally distributed. Most network performance methods focus on memory-to-memory data transfers as opposed to data-file-to-data-file. The DataWave project demonstrates the potential for transferring extremely large files internationally using dynamic Layer 1 services.


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Good shelf-stable salsas ... Pace tequila-lime?
I pretty much make my own or buy local fresh salsas.
Still, it would be nice to stick a few jars in the kitchen cabinets.
Pace seems to have a new upscale line that include Tequila-lime. They also have an organic line ... but they look like ... well, pace.
How about Newman's?
I asked in a different post about Fronterra, but got a sort of 'meh' response.
Anything good out there?
So funny you asked...I was just looking at this article about the Pace stuff...I recently purchased the Pico de Gallo and I must agree with this review of it...it has too much of a bite to it and seems a bit bitter...but the others got better reviews...I've also tried Green Mountain Gringo salsa which is quite good but pretty expensive, that's why I tried the Pace...Enrico's is supposed to be good also (both GMG and Enrico's are low in sodium, too):
i'm actually a fan of Pace...although it doesn't compare to home-made. And not a purist salsa, but i'm a big fan of DL Jardine's Cowpoke Artichoke. I have a jar of their tomatillo out in the cupboard that i haven't gotten into yet. http://www.jardinefoods.com/store_pro...
I really like Target's Archer Farms salsa -- that's their high-end store brand, which actually has great quality products across the board (chips, frozen pizzas, sauces, snacks, even drinks). I like their medium-hot tropical fruit salsa and the hot chipotle, but I have yet to have a bad one.
Newman's peach salsa is pretty awesome, too. I recently tried the new upscale Pace pico de gallo (okay) and three-pepper (not so great), and wouldn't get them again.
If you have access to it, Herdez makes an amazing jarred salsa, and their medium is as hot as most mainstream brands' "hot" flavor. It's usually in the Mexican food section, but not necessarily with other salsas.
I am no salsa purest either but don't find Pace all too exciting. I can't tell the difference in a jar of organic, and also found the pico de gallo repulsive. I agree that Newman's is good. Two other brands I really enjoy are Santa Barbra and Green Mountain Gringo. They both seem to deliver a freshness even superior to Newman's in my opinion.
Newman's Pineapple Salsa, awesome. Haven't tried the Peach yet, someone recommended it, will do so. Newman's products mostly terrific. In a pinch, Price Chopper's Black Bean and Corn salsa does the job. Have to be sure to match your palate to Mild/Medium/Spicy of any particular brand.
The only canned/jarred salsa that I like is the Salsa Casera by Herdez. It's the best!
I don't care that much for Pace. I used to buy Newman's Own Hot but now find it mild and way too chunky. Who wants mostly huge tomato chunks? I'm looking but I haven't found anything satisfactory yet in New Haven area stores.I mentioned Santa Barbara Salsa, Habanero and Lime that is pretty good, but requires refrigeration. http://www.chowhound.com/topics/50556...
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Herdez was what I kept in the cupboard when I lived in Mexico. And I still do it here. If find It less vinegary and no taste of "processed whatever" than do most bottled salsas under $4. It's more of a thin pico de gallo style than a thicker tomato paste-based salsa.
Can't wait for local tomatoes to be back in season.


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---- — SALEM — Needing to be helped off the ice early in the second period last night, Ryan Griffin was afraid his high school career was over.
But not only did the Londonderry senior return, he played a big role in snapping the Lancers' mid-season skid.
Griffin assisted on Londonderry's first goal of the final period before knocking home the final score as the Lancers knocked off archrival and defending Division 1 champion Pinkerton 4-1 at the Icenter.
"I felt my knee push in," Griffin said of the hit that left him lying on the ice for more than 3 minutes. "I couldn't put any weight on it and it actually broke my blade, so I couldn't skate. I thought I was done for the season the way I was in immediate pain coming into (the locker room). But (trainer) Megan (Powers) said it was nothing too serious, so I thought I'd get back out there and try it."
The Lancers (9-4-1 overall, 8-4-1 in division play) snapped a two-game losing streak while winning for just the second time in five outings. With five games remaining, they opened yesterday's action in sixth place. But the Division 1 standings are so compacted, Londonderry was only one game out of fourth and 1 1⁄2 games out of second.
Griffin assisted on the first goal scored by freshman Nick Donnelly with 8:32 left in the opening period. Pinkerton (8-7-2, 7-6) tied the score when Dominic Corsetto rammed in a two-on-one pass from Devin Moore with 2:54 remaining.
But instead of going into the break tied, Londonderry regained the advantage with only 2.5 seconds left on the first of Eric Coburn's two goals.
"Pinkerton's a rivalry, and after losing the last two, we needed this big win here," Griffin said. "We need to get back into the top four. We haven't been skating to our potential so just getting out of here with a win was huge for us."
After a scoreless second period, the Lancers took a two-goal lead on a Coburn power-play goal midway through the period. But before Griffin's power-play clincher with 1:45 left, Londonderry killed off a penalty that began with 5:03 left. Goalie Joe McGrath (21 saves) came up big during that stretch.
"Joe's come into his own this year," said Londonderry coach Peter Bedford, whose squad opened the season 7-1-1 before the recent skid. "He's very poised and he's playing with a lot of confidence. This is real big for the entire team to get back on track. Our confidence is back, and there's no reason we can't capitalize on our next five games to end the season."
Pinkerton continued its up-and-down season with its second loss in four games. The Astros have scored 16 goals in their last two wins while being held to two in the losses.
"We gave them three of their four goals," Astro coach Casey Kesselring said. "We don't have a goaltending issue, we have an execution issue. It's the same mistakes over and over. We could've been in fifth place, but now we might be in ninth before the end of the night."
Londonderry 4, Pinkerton 1
Pinkerton (8-7-2, 7-6): 1 0 0 — 1
Londonderry (9-4-1, 8-4-1): 2 0 2 — 4
Goals: P — Dominic Corsetto; L — Eric Coburn 2, Nick Donnelly, Ryan Griffin
Assists: P — Devin Moore, Ryan Day; L — Coburn 2, Griffin 2, Curtis Harper 2, Brett Evangelista
Saves: P — Matt Marchman 24; L — Joe McGrath 21


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Microstyle in Korean
The Korean translation of Microstyle has been published by Banbibooks.
My article in the Independent
I wrote a feature about microstyle for the UK paper the Independent, published to coincide with the UK release of Microstyle.
Seattle Interactive Conference
I spoke at the Seattle Interactive Conference on November 3, 2011 about "Strategy and Creativity in Verbal Branding."
New England radio station WICN
I was interviewed by Mark Lynch for WICN, a New England listener-supported radio station, on September 14, 2011. Listen here.
Content Strategy Seattle
I spoke at the Content Strategy Seattle Meetup Group on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 7pm. The event was hosted by James Callan, Scott Pierce, and Vanessa Casavant, and was held at the School of Visual Concepts.
Wisconsin Public Radio interview
I had a great time talking with Gene Purcell (sitting in for Joy Cardin) on Wisconsin Public Radio on August 3, 2011. Listen here.
Commencement speaker
I spoke at the commencement ceremony for the UC Berkeley Linguistics Department on May 14, 2011.
Photo by Kyung-Ah Kim
TechCafe Happy Hour
I spoke about startup naming at the TechCafe Happy Hour at TechDwellers on May 11, 2011. Follow the link to see a video.
First review
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News and notes on health, medicine and fitness
Scientists describe "fat and happy gene"
Conventional wisdom has long held that obesity and depression go hand in hand, but a gene called FTO seems to be telling us just the opposite.
Writing in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, researchers presented evidence that FTO, a gene linked to obesity, is also associated with an 8% drop in the risk of depression.
"The difference of 8% is modest and it won't make a big difference in the day-to-day care of patients," said David Meyre, one of the study authors and an associate professor of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University. "But we have discovered a novel molecular basis for depression."
While previous studies have found that depression may be as much as 40% genetic, efforts to link specific genes have been largely unsuccessful. Now the new work calls into question the belief that obese people are often depressed because of their physical appearance.
Meyre said other studies have also found that FTO may help to protect people against depression.
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Have you ever found yourself walking around the mall, grocery store, office or even the house and wondered just how many miles you walk a day? Well here's a great way to track just how many steps you take on any given day. A pedometer, attached to the belt, is sensitized to do all the calculating for you. As part of your exercise and cardio routine, walking is a great way to shed pounds and build stamina. And there certainly is not a diet designed for weight loss that does not recommend walking, running, treadmill, stair stepper or elliptical as part of it's weight management plan. The Hollywood Diet Pedometer is somewhat unique in its design – it talks. Let's take a closer look at how this pedometer may be the one that's right for you.
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The Hollywood Diet Pedometer was designed to assist those who participated in the once popular Hollywood Diet. The pedometer provides all the functions that most pedometers do, however this pedometer actually talks to you. The Hollywood Diet Pedometer will display and tell you your walking steps, your walking distance and the number of calories burned. It includes a real time clock, an alarm with selectable sounds for two users, count up timer, reset key, and pace control. Unlike many products that require a battery, this pedometer comes with the battery and also includes the belt clip. Many diet plans suggest a walking regiment that includes at least 10,000 steps per day. A pedometer is a great way to track your progress.
- Calculates all the information regarding steps and calories for you.
- Talking version.
- You can save money if you purchase from drugstore.com.
- May not be ideal for those who are not computer inclined.
- The talking feature may be annoying to some.
- Is more of an exercise tool than a real weight loss aid.
Most of us put miles a day on our feet with no idea just how much distance we are actually travelling. A pedometer is a great way to track your results when engaging in a walking or cardio exercise plan. The added benefit of calculating calories burned will help many in achieving their goals of weight loss or weight management. A pedometer also helps in setting higher goals for oneself when you know how much walking you actually do in an average day. Whether you're in an office, doing your normal grocery or mall shopping, chasing the young ones around the house or you have established a walking routine, a pedometer is a must have for tracking results and setting your sights on higher goals.


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RALEIGH — Police have yet to disclose the connection that brought together two men outside of an auto parts store on Friday afternoon, where they say one shot the other and later shot a police officer before officers returning fire wounded him.
Officers were called to the parking lot in front of a Carquest store at 2635 East Millbrook Road shortly after 2 p.m. They found 53-year-old Jay Gould Simmons, called Jody by his friends, dead in his pickup, according to police spokesman Jim Sughrue.
Matthew Durwood Calton, also 53, has been charged with murder and police say additional charges will be filed. Simmons and Calton knew one another, and the incident was not a random act, according to Sughrue.
Its awfully, awfully hard to believe, said Simmons uncle Pat Simmons, who was notified about the shooting by Simmons sister on Friday night.
Simmons was involved in several business enterprises. He was a licensed real estate auctioneer and owned several properties in Wake County. Simmons also owned his own plumbing company, Custom Plumbing, that he operated out of his house at 5809 Coffey Road, near Knightdale.
He had a heart attack and didnt go out a lot except for with his wife sometimes, Pat Simmons said Saturday.
Neighbor Marianne Pair was also in disbelief. She said Simmons had a strong personality, and she did not have a close relationship with him, although they lived next to each other for 15 years. She said she had not seen Simmons since Thursday. He was married and had one son and a step-daughter.
Neither Pair nor Simmons had ever heard of Calton.
Calton had not been transported to jail by Saturday evening. He was being treated for injuries at WakeMed.
Following the afternoon shooting at Carquest, police said, they gathered enough information to identify him as the suspect, and they tracked him to a parking lot behind the Creedmoor Crossing shopping center in North Raleigh shortly before 8:30 p.m.
Shopping center locked down
Police notified business owners in the Creedmoor Crossing shopping center to lock their doors and stay in the buildings. Restaurant owner Yousef Howa, who owns Tarbouch, said a police officer came into his store and told him to lock his back door and stay in the building.
I saw lots of police lights on my security camera, Howa said. His camera did not capture the shooting, however.
At approximately 9:30 p.m., Calton approached two officers at the scene and fired a shotgun, according to Sughrue.
One of the officers, M.M. Harmon, was struck in the arm by the shots, Sughrue said. Harmon and Officer D.B. Moreland returned fire, and Calton was struck in the torso and taken into custody, Sughrue said.
Both Harmon and the suspect were transported to WakeMed. As of Saturday evening, Harmon was listed in good condition. Calton was listed in fair condition.
Calton lived less than a mile from where the shooting took place, at 7001 Creedmoor Road.
An arrest warrant has been obtained charging Calton with murder, Sughrue said, and additional charges are pending. Calton will be taken to jail when his condition improves.
As police department policy requires, the State Bureau of Investigation will investigate the shooting involving an officer. When completed, the investigation will be reviewed by the Wake County District Attorney.
The Raleigh Police Departments Internal Affairs Unit is conducting an administrative investigation into the incident, and the two officers directly involved will be placed on administrative duty, which is standard procedure in any shooting involving an officer.
Harmon has been employed by the Raleigh Police since Jan. 7, 2005, and Moreland was hired Jan. 30, 2012. The officers are assigned to the Field Operations Division.
News researcher Brooke Cain contributed.
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Thursday, March 21
Jackson Avenue Streetscape Project
6 p.m., The Emporium Center (100 S. Gay St.).
How will a pedestrian walkway connect World's Fair Park Drive to the intersection of Jackson Avenue and Gay Street? And can streetscape improvements make Jackson Avenue look attractive enough to encourage redevelopment? Find out at this public meeting with city officials.
Where The Yellowstone Goes
7 p.m., Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center. $10-$15.
This feature-length documentary by filmmaker Hunter Weeks follows a 30-day drift boat fly-fishing adventure along the Yellowstone River. Ticket sales benefit Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, which assists in the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled active military service personnel and veterans through fly fishing.
Saturday, March 23
"Connecting Neighborhoods, Building Community"
8 a.m.-3 p.m., Knoxville Convention Center. Free.
This is it, citizen activists and organizers: the mother of all neighborhood conferences. According to the city's Office of Neighborhoods, the day-long conference will offer more than 30 workshops on issues ranging from codes enforcement to crime prevention, as well as more than 20 info booths from local governmental agencies and nonprofit groups. You can also meet city and county staffers, and members of City Council and County Commission. All this, plus a free continental breakfast and box lunch.
Tuesday, March 26
Kat Brock
8 p.m., Pilot Light (106 E. Jackson Ave.). $5
The Knox ex-pat singer/songwriter returns after several years in Nashville and New York. Last year she released her first full solo album, Pink Room, a 17-song disc (and download) of elegant, atmospheric folk-rock. Let's give her a big welcome!
Go to blogs.metropulse.com/the_daily_pulse for daily suggestions!
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Traditionally, this is the time of year when we most feel the spirit of giving.
So why am I feeling a lot less spirited this year?
I'll tell you why: The more I find out how big charities operate, the more I want to slam my wallet shut.
Unfortunately, the InfoCision scandal might be only the tip of the iceberg.
If you somehow missed that blockbuster story, investigative reporters from Bloomberg Markets magazine dove into public records and discovered that InfoCision, the world's biggest charity telemarketing firm, based in Bath Township, often keeps 70 to 80 percent of the money it raises.
In other words, people who think they are helping to cure cancer are actually doing a lot more to pump up the bottom line of a private company — a company that pulls in enough loot to pay $10 million to plaster its name on the University of Akron football stadium.
Just as horrifying to me was the response of some of the nation's biggest charities, which was, essentially, "Whatever."
When asked about the Bloomberg findings, a vice president for the American Cancer Society responded: "It's certainly not inconsistent for organizations like ours to invest in some loss-leader strategies to engage people in long-term meaningful relationships."
And a spokesman for the American Lung Association said: "We have break-even contracts with these telemarketers, so we don't lose money and sometimes we even make a little."
Say what?
Some of the most popular charities apparently have even condoned lying for their cause. According to Bloomberg, both the Cancer Society and the American Diabetes Association approved scripts that called for solicitors to say that "at least 70 percent" of the money raised would go directly to the charity.
In 2010, InfoCision rang up $5.3 million in the name of the Cancer Society, but the Cancer Society actually lost money on the deal.
How could that possibly happen? Because InfoCision not only kept everything it raised, but also billed the Cancer Society $113,000 for its efforts.
The ethical bottom line here should be obvious: A little old lady on a suffocatingly small fixed income answers the phone and suddenly feels compelled to scrape together $25, figuring most of her money will be used to help cure some horrible disease, perhaps someday prolonging the life of a grandchild. And what she is really doing is giving five bucks to the cause and $20 to the well-heeled owners of InfoCision.
So Godspeed to the U.S. senators who announced last week that they are seeking an investigation into the company and the relationships between telemarketers and nonprofit organizations.
The trio (two Democrats and a Republican) want the Federal Trade Commission, the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department to start poking around to see whether abuses of tax-exempt status are occurring and whether solicitations such as InfoCision's violate the law.
Now, in many cases, it is important to differentiate between donations raised through telemarketing and those raised directly by the charities, because a much higher percentage of the latter goes to the actual cause. But sometimes, even when you think you're dealing directly with the charity, you're not.
As I recently discovered (and reported last Sunday), local residents who donate goods to AMVETS are not really donating to AMVETS.
Yes, the national nonprofit gets a tiny fraction of the money, but most of it goes into the pocket of a for-profit chain of thrift stores called Village Discount Outlet, which has locations in Akron and Cuyahoga Falls.
That comes as a shock to a lot of people whose goods are picked up in vans that boldly display the AMVETS name or who slide their donations into drop boxes emblazoned with the AMVETS logo.
Even worse, as reader Mike Sullivan points out, AMVETS is not an aberration.
The group CharityWatch assigns letter grades to about 600 charities based on the percentage of money that goes to a program's services and the cost of raising $1. As a member of the group, Sullivan receives the Charity Rating Guide & Watchdog Report three times a year.
He notes that in the December issue, 46 charities are listed under the category "Veterans and Military" and 22 of them earn a grade of "F." (I contacted CharityWatch and confirmed Sullivan's math.)
You probably won't be shocked to hear that AMVETS is among the groups that flunk.
Two charities in the category receive an A+: Fisher House Foundation, which puts 94 percent of the money it collects into its programs, and the Semper Fi Fund, which forwards 93 to 95 percent.
CharityWatch also tracks factors such as asset reserves and the salaries of CEOs.
Worth noting, even though it is a human services organization rather than a veterans' group: the Salvation Army rating for our region of the country is an "A," with 82 percent flowing right through.
Wouldn't it be nice to know these kinds of things before you open up your heart and your pocketbook?
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Ann Miles, the president of the Carriage Museum, said the museum will be accepting nominations over the next few weeks of beautiful carriage barns that are either in their original state or have been refurbished in some capacity.
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Ytaker wrote:Dancing Cthulhu wrote:I know girls who'd respond the same.
Although in this context at least she'd need good eyes, as we can see the archons, small statured to say the least, are some distance away from the people they are flashing - which to my mind also adds to the implication magic is involved.
Small stature but large proportioned, if you know what I mean. The distance means people would have to really stare to get a good look, adding to the effect. Even from several hundred feet away, you can see the breasts quite easily, maybe make out nipples. The fact that they're not doing anything magical suggests to me that it's not magical. And there is no magical school called flashamancy.
True, and fair, to just have a look, though I was also referring to the "check their breasts for deformities, and compare their shape, size, and "boob things" to her own" bit, I just don't know if I would trust a breast assessment at the distance shown here. Beyond "They look nice from here" or something like that.
And true, not overtly magical (no flashing lights and what have you) but the results still seem to suggest some magic should be involved. Mainly since the effect of the flash mob seems to be preventing the enemy from seeing anything in their opponents hex while it is active.
And none of it has to be explained - Jack just says "If we use a flash to cover casting" and Wanda just has to say "Form a flash mob". So "flashing" seems to be a tactic/ability/action with recognizable effects and certain outcomes. It seems from this page then that either a. certain units, maybe only when in a group/mob, have the ability to block the enemies view of a hex by using magic and a material component in the form of a bit of flashing or b. completely non-magical nudity (even at a distance) is so potent in Erfworld it is something leaders know they can use against their enemies with guaranteed results.
multilis wrote:If they had time, then not asking Parson to run calcs and advise on Wanda's plan does seem foolish. (But possible Wanda has limitations due to fearing Stanley screwing things up, which he still may do)
Her language is rather interesting - she tells Ansom "Parson says we need to gather more intelligence", which isn't really how the conversation went down at all. Granted, she might just be cutting to the gist of it, but I do wonder if she she has some other reason for explaining it to Ansom like that - especially since it seems clear Ansom has told Wanda what he thinks of Parson. Possibly on more then one occasion.


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Mexico's New Arrivals Mix Praise and Criticism
Caught in the Current of Reverse Migration
Ailing Midwestern Cities Extend a Welcoming Hand to Immigrants
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Sample FRQ due Monday 9/30 at beginning of class
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Finish graphing Mexico and Sweden DTM due Monday 9/23
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There are changes in the ranks to report at 101 ESPN Radio. The station announced this week that Program Director Kent Sterling will be returning to Indianapolis, his home before coming to the Creve Coeur all-sports talk outlet.
Chris "Hoss" Neupert, the station's Assistant Program Director will assume the top spot effective March 18. Neupert has played a key management role with the station's broadcasts of St. Louis Rams football, and was previously the Program Director for KFNS Radio.
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And next month, Neupert will shepherd a new program on the air. Brett McMillan, a student at Lindenwood University, won the station's contest to find a new weekend host, beating out more than 170 competitors who auditioned over the past few weeks in events held at SIUE-Edwardsville.
"When this started, we would have been really happy with any of the final eight– and most of the rest of the sixteen finalists," Sterlng said in a station press release. "In Brett, we think we have found exactly what thiscompetition was designed to find – a host that is really good today, will be better down the road,and someone we would not have found otherwise."
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Adam Bryant conducts interviews with chief executives for Corner Office, a feature about leadership and management in The New York Times and on NYTimes.com that he started in March 2009. It now appears twice weekly, on Friday and Sunday.
He is the author of "Quick and Nimble; Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation." His first book, "The Corner Office; Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed," which draws out broader insights from his interviews, was a New York Times best-seller.
Adam has had many roles at The Times, including business reporter, deputy business editor, deputy national editor and senior editor for features. He is also a former senior writer and business editor at Newsweek magazine. Adam was the lead editor of a series on the dangers of distracted driving that won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
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"You have to move fast because the world is moving fast," a chief executive says, but "speed without a purpose is chaos."
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A software company executive says that figuring out how to spend your time is almost as important as how well you execute.
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David Ossip, C.E.O. of Ceridian, says that job candidates often claim they can solve problems by themselves, but that he's looking for team players.
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|a style of architecture and decorative art that flourished throughout Europe from the late 16th to the early 18th century, characterized by extensive ornamentation
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|any ornate or heavily ornamented style
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|(of pearls) irregularly shaped
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"This style in decorations got the epithet of Barroque taste, derived from a word signifying pearls and teeth of unequal size." [Fuseli's translation of Winkelmann, 1765]Klein suggests the name may be from It. painter Federigo Barocci (1528-1612), a founder of the style. How to tell baroque from rococo, according to Fowler: "The characteristics of baroque are grandeur, pomposity, and weight; those of rococo are inconsequence, grace, and lightness." But the two terms often used without distinction for styles featuring odd and excessive ornamentation.


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Bill Fischer, Contributor
I write about ideas, innovation, globalization & China.
Pick-up nearly any business book and the recommendation is likely to be the same: when building a team, hire for attitudes and train for skills. In fact, my Forbes.com colleague Dan Schawbel has just written a posting with that very title: Hire for Attitude in which he interviewed Mark Murphy, author of Hiring for Attitude. It's everywhere, and it sort of makes sense, doesn't it, because every day we have to get up and go into work, and if the team is a difficult one to be around — if their attitudes are bad — then it's going to be another day of "no fun," and our motivation will begin low before anything else even has a chance to frustrate us.
But, attitudes will only get you so far, and when real change is needed — innovation, for example — then attitudes are not likely to be enough to get you to where you want to go. In such situations, you need skills, and lots of them.
Hiring for skills, instead of attitude, changes everything. For one thing, if you do it right, and that means hiring the best obtainable, rather than simply settling for the best available, you're going to be looking at a team of ambitious high-performers, not a team of happy-campers. When Jerry Robbins and Leonard Bernstein were assembling the team that created West Side Story, and launched a disruptive revolution on Broadway, they hired the biggest talents that they could find — including: playwright Arthur Laurents, lyricist Stephen Sondheim and set-designer Oliver Smith – and then the real fun began. Laurents introduced himself to Bernstein by explaining, in not-so-gentil language, just what he was not going to do — "I want to make one thing clear before we go any further…[Laurents screamed] I'm not writing any f*****g libretto for any goddamned Bernstein opera!" Similarly, when Miles Davis put together what has been referred to as "the all-time classical hydrogen bomb and switchblade band," made up of Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and Wayne Shorter, he selected players "who knew more about music than he did." He wasn't afraid to so because he wanted to achieve something that no one else had ever done musically before, and he needed new skills to accomplish this!
The power of skills over attitude is so important that a close friend, who was part of a team that turned around the Middle East area of a well-known fast moving consumer goods giant, reflected that one of the lessons that they learned from this effort was that if you can't get the skilled individual that you need, better to do without in that position than to hire someone with a good attitude but without the necessary skills! Imagine that: going without a team member, and covering with the existing team, rather than hiring-in a mediocre talent and wishing you hadn't! No wonder the great jazz writer Nat Hentoff traced the genius of Miles Davis to: "The essence of Miles Davis can be determined by listening to the men he has surrounded himself with…," and, incidentally, it's equally true for the rest of us, as well.
Leaders of skill-based teams need to work hard to get the most out of these teams. That often means allowing constructive challenges to occur and being close enough to "referee such matches." In such instances, leadership truly can become a "contact-sport." Skill-based teams are opportunities to allow talent to really soar, but only if the vision is precise and liberating, and if the talent assembled is allowed to contribute as much as they can. In our book, Virtuoso Teams, Andy Boynton and I found that the best environment for innovation occurred when the team felt it had absolute freedom to contribute their ideas, while at the same moment top management believed that it was in complete control! Sounds difficult, and it is; but if you can finesse the paradox, you can create magic! In fact, it was Herbie Hancock who said of Miles Davis' leadership skills that "he could transform musicians into magicians." This is only possible if you start with sufficient talent to make it possible at all, and then trust them to get on with it. This is not about attitudes at all, but raw talent.
So, here's a new mantra: For everyday work, hire for attitude, train for skills; but when big change, such as innovation, is envisioned, then hire for skills (because you need them) and figure out how to deal with the attitudes (because, all too often, they come along with the skills).
Bill Fischer is the co-author (with Andy Boynton & Bill Bole) of The Idea Hunter (Jossey-Bass, 2011). Many of the examples in this particular posting can be found in Andy Boynton & Bill Fischer, Virtuoso Teams, (FT/Prentice Hall, 2005).
Bill Fischer can be followed on Twitter at @bill_fischer
Even though I like the content in the article, I felt compelled to write some feedback, especially due to the title of it…
If you write "ambitious high-performers" aren't you talking about people their behavior and thus attitude? Or do you consider this skill based? Which is actually a detail in this conversation.
I do consider skills as being an important part of innovation & thus creativity if combined with enough freedom to act upon it (as you state as well). Then again I believe that if you would have a team of very high skilled people with all a similar attitude/personality you might end up with too much agreement and not enough conflict.
To my experiences it is in conflict that you'll find creativity and thus innovation which leads me to think that next to skill, the diversity of people attitudes/personalities is at least equally important to foster innovation in an organization.
So in short I would not favor one before the other and go for diversity in both.
Looking forward to read your thoughts about this feedback.
Innovation demands top notch talent. It also requires top notch communication skills to disseminate the innovative approach across the organization. Agree with all your points, Bill. But I'd add one other "ingredient."
Innovation can grow within an organization when creativity and risk taking are encouraged. So put the team with the sills in place, but let leadership communicate teams are encouraged to push the envelope and get crazy creative!
Skill+leadership support=innovation. Great equation for success. Excellent posting, Bill Loraine Antrim
Perhaps you need both? Neither of these books perform or even cite studies, they merely cherry pick answers that conform to their preconceptions. HBR is a better source for management techniques.


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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
— Winston S. Churchill
This video is a mix of art journaling and ramblings that I forgot to post! All of those index cards are getting to me, perhaps!!! In the video, you'll see me working on a page spread in the exacompta journal and explaining my 2 cents on the art of art journaling. I think my words might be a little rough maybe because I recorded my ramblings late at night! Keep in mind that I tend to exaggerate...
You can see a flip-thru of this journal filmed before I added a bunch of new art journal pages. As you can see, this journal can handle LOTS of acrylic paint without warping! I'm impressed! This was photographed with my Nikon D90 DSLR on a tripod, edited in iMovie and uploaded to Vimeo. You'll find a bunch of my videos at Vimeo for you to explore.
I'd love to hear what you think - this will help me know whether to ramble in future videos!


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Dr. Kevin Renshler is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration and teaches courses in strategic management and sports management. He received a BS in biological sciences from The Ohio State University, an MS in exercise science from Miami University of Ohio, and a Ph.D. in sports and exercise management from Ohio State. He has also completed the AACSB post doctorate certification from the Warrington College of Business (University of Florida) in the areas of entrepreneurship and international business. Dr. Renshler comes from the College of Business at the University of South Florida where he served as the Director of the Honors Program in Business. He has also held positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Western Illinois University, and Miami University of Ohio.
Outside of the classroom, his research focuses on the factors that influence resource allocation decisions and why organizations become isomorphic over time. Dr. Renshler is a member of the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and North American Society for Sport Management. He and his wife Megan are residents of Lakeland.
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Aug. 26, 2011 —
Vercil E. Jones, 72, of Green Bend Road, Morehead, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, at his residence.
Born Aug. 26, 1938, in Clearfield, he was the son of the late John S. and Bessie Hargis Jones.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by six brothers, Wilford, Glendon, Sherden, Clayton, Wade and Dale Jones; four sisters, Amanda Brown, Carrie Jones, Juanita Kershaw and Kathy Kissick and one step son, Robert Bryan Johnson.
Vercil is survived by his wife of 37 years, Dorothy Johnson Jones, whom he married June 26, 1974; two brothers and one sister, Teddy Jones, Elmer Jones and Olonia Livingood, all of Morehead and other siblings; two stepsons, Charles "Chuck" Johnson and David Johnson and wife, Debbie, all of Morehead; seven grandchildren, David Johnson, Jr., Michelle Johnson, Matthew Johnson, Kelly Krow, Chase Johnson, Phillip Johnson and Samantha Johnson; five great grandchildren, Gabriel Johnson, Gage Jones, Siera Krow, Kadance Manier and Skyler Johnson and several nieces and nephews.
Vercil retired from Jernigan Construction Company of Springfield, Mo., after more than 15 years as foreman. He was involved with clearing timber with Jernigan Construction preparing the area for Cave Run Lake. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, ginseng hunting and playing bingo.
Funeral services will be conducted 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 26, at Northcutt & Son Home for Funerals Memorial Chapel with Pastor Allan Hutchinson officiating. Burial will follow in Slaty Point Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Charles Johnson, Terry Johnson, David Johnson, Jr., Jeff Jones, Shane Livingood and Jim Livingood.
Visitation was from Thursday at Northcutt & Son Home for Funerals.
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Vercil E. Jones, 72, of Green Bend Road, Morehead, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, at his residence.
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Paonia Man Accused of Killing His Estranged Wife Will Go To Trial
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PAONIA - The case against a Paonia man accused of murdering his estranged wife will go to trial. NBC 11 News has learned that the judge presiding in the case decided that Nathan Yager will not be able to use the insanity plea. Yager is accused of slashing his wife Melinda's neck, killing her last January. He faces second degree murder charges. When Yager was arrested in Montrose, law enforcement found blood on his pants. He also had scratches on his neck and chest and was treated at the hospital for a broken left hand. The couple had been going through a bitter divorce and were fighting for custody of their daughter.
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By Emily Younker
Globe Staff Writer
JOPLIN, Mo. —
Just call her Laura the Riveter.
On the heels of the country's most recent Independence Day celebrations, Asbury resident Laura Thompson has been recording, with the help of her children, her own nationalism -- particularly during her work as a "Rosie the Riveter" employee, manufacturing airplanes during World War II alongside millions of other American women.
"It was a big time of patriotism," said Thompson, who celebrated her 89th birthday earlier this week.
Thompson's wartime effort began in 1942; American involvement in the war had already been going on for one year. She was 18 and had just graduated from high school in Cane Hill, Ark., when she noticed an advertisement in her local newspaper.
"All of a sudden, they were wanting lots of people to work in the aircraft factory, and they didn't have enough (workers)," she said. "We were at the age (in which) we were out of school and looking for a job. At the time, the pressure was on for doing something for the war effort."
Thompson, one of her sisters and a female friend took the company up on its offer. They traveled to Wichita, Kan., and completed a six-week training course in how to build war airplanes.
Being like Rosie
After finishing the course, they were unable to get permanent jobs at the Boeing and Cessna factories in Wichita, so they took the bus to Kansas City, Kan., where North American Aviation was hiring.
North American began manufacturing planes in the 1930s. New plants were built in Dallas and Kansas City in 1941, with the latter plant devoted to the building of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber "to help squeeze the life out of the Axis powers," according to promotional material from the company.
The B-25 Mitchell, produced by both the Kansas City plant and a plant in Inglewood, Calif., was a twin-engine medium bomber with a 75-mm cannon and two .50-caliber machines guns in its nose. It was first test-flown shortly after the bombing at Pearl Harbor in late 1941, and was the airplane used by American airmen and Gen. James H. Doolittle in the Tokyo raid in April 1942, according to Thompson's old North American employee handbook.
Because the plane was so highly rated at the time and used frequently in the war zones, the women who helped build it felt its importance, Thompson said.
In fact, a message from the company president in her employee handbook highlighted their work: "To a very great degree, the continued success of America's fighting airmen depends on your ability to perform well the job at which you have been employed. Don't let anybody kid you that there's anything more important in your plant than those parts or finished planes going out the door. They are the key to victory, and your most important contribution to your nation in its hour of need."
For the next three years, Thompson worked at the factory, responsible for just one part of the assembly of the plane, she said.
"I put this part on this jig so that it would be exact, riveted together," she said. "There was a person, an inspector, that inspected our work and made sure it was OK or we would have to do it over."
Plenty of money, nowhere to spend it
Thompson said she worked 10-hour days in the factory, sometimes for seven days a week, depending on the demand for the B-25s. But she generally was off on the weekends, and she spent her free time in Kansas City going to movies or dancing to the big bands that performed in town.
She doesn't remember now how much she earned, but her daughter, Nancy Collard, said it was likely around 35 cents per hour, and no more than $1 per hour. It was enough to cover the $8-per-week bills at the boarding house in which she lived, Thompson said.
At any rate, it was more money than Thompson had ever seen before, although it didn't seem to matter. Many goods were in rare supply as materials were diverted into production of items needed for the war.
"We were making so much more than we dreamed of, but you couldn't buy anything," she said. "Shoes were rationed. I would have loved to have a typewriter, but I couldn't buy one. We went bare-legged; back then, everybody wore hose, but for the war effort we gave up hose. And film. You couldn't take pictures."
Yet it wasn't a major imposition, she said.
"At that time, everybody was so appreciative of the men in service, doing anything they could to help them out," she said. "We were all glad to do without butter, sugar or whatever we couldn't have."
Said Collard: "They were so patriotic back then. Once they attacked Pearl Harbor, everybody was involved in the war effort."
End of shift leads to historic shift
Thompson said the factory shut down as soon as the war was over in 1945.
"You packed your tools and left, and you were out of a job," she said.
After the factory closed, Thompson worked for a while at an insurance company in Kansas City, and she ultimately returned to her farming roots. She married her husband, J.C. Thompson, whom she had met in Kansas City, once he returned from tours of duty in China, Burma and India, and they settled on a farm near Asbury. She continued to manage the farm and raise her three children after her husband's death.
But she has always remembered the three years she spent as a Rosie the Riveter.
"The war changed the life of women in America," she wrote recently in a brief memoir. "They went on to work at other jobs, were independent and ran their own lives as never before."
Brief history of 'Rosie'
The term "Rosie the Riveter" appeared in a song of the same name written by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb and released in early 1943. The song portrays "Rosie" as an assembly-line worker contributing to the American war effort.
"Rosie the Riveter," as drawn by artist Norman Rockwell, appeared in May 1943 on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post as a woman on her lunch break, with her rivet gun on her lap and her feet propped on a copy of "Mein Kampf." The painting is now part of the permanent collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark.
The most iconic image of "Rosie the Riveter," a woman wearing a bandanna and rolling up the sleeve on her bent arm, was used in a government-commissioned wartime poster.
Sources: The Library of Congress, the National Park Service