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Chiu and others get stung for support from speculators and evictors
Our colleagues down the hall at the San Francisco Examiner seem to have spoiled tonight's [Thu/30] fundraiser for David Chiu's Assembly race by reporting this hour that the host, attorney Steven MacDonald, is on a housing activists' blacklist for representing landlords in controversial Ellis Act evictions.
Reporter Chris Roberts quotes Chiu campaign manager Nicole Derse pleading ignorance about "what type of law Steven practices" and pledging to return a $500 campaign contribution from him in October, but saying that the 6pm fundraiser at John's Grill would go on nonetheless.
Derse told the Guardian that MacDonald represents a wide variety of clients, including many tenants who are fighting evictions, so the campaign decided to go ahead with the fundraiser but refused MacDonald's direct financial support, consistent with a pledge not to take money from those involved in evictions.
"We won't accept money from anyone who has been involved with evictions at all," Derse told us, saying it was a mistake to accept money from MacDonald but acknowledging the challenge of the "scrutiny and vetting involved for a small campaign."
"We'll do everything we can to make sure this doesn't happen again," she told us.
The controversy and the Chiu's campaign's quick decision to refuse the support from an early contributor show just how volatile and politically toxic the city's eviction and affordable housing crisis have become, rapidly transforming the city's political dynamics. It also shows how information being made public by housing activists, and their new confrontational tactics, are being used within that changed realm.
Former Guardian Editor Tim Redmond had a story yesterday on his 48 Hills website focusing on the heat that Sup. Scott Wiener is taking over the political contributions that he's received from real estate speculators and those involved in evictions, including Urban Green and speculator Ashok K. Gujral, who are among the Dirty Dozen serial evictors highlighted by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, whose work we been covering for months here at the Guardian.
Below is an infographic of Supervisor Wiener's campaign contributions, created by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project:
lawyer who has written a book on LL-TT law and, as you eventually begrudgingly admit, represents tenants as well as landlords.
In fact, any good lawyer should be able to argue both sides of a case - that is what is taught in law school.
A lawyer has to represent his client regardless of his personal feelings. That is part of his training, ethics and obligation.
You really must be worried that Chui is going to beat Campos if this is the best you've got.
Non story? Lol! Whatever you say, Nicole.
A notorious Ellis-eviction lawyer hosts a fundraiser with his notorious Ellis-eviction lawyer friends for David Chui TWO DAYS AFTER Chui speaks out of the other side of his mouth against Ellis in Sacramento?
Campaign disaster, more like.
David Campos used to work for a law firm that defended Philip Morris, guess he supports the tabacco industry. Isn't guilt by association fun?
Probably not far from the truth since he is a smoker. Check out Redwood St alley off Van Ness near city hall in the afternoon, he puffs away there.
Smoking usually helps you lose weight. Maybe he's smoking the marijuana.
" . . . any good lawyer should be able to argue both sides of a case - that is what is taught in law school."
You've pretty much described David Chui to a "T". No lawyer turned politician knows more about artfully taking "both sides" of an issue than David Chui.
He shows up a tenants rights rally denouncing the Ellis Act in Sacramento on Tuesday. His campaign does a fundraiser hosted by Ellis Act lawyers on Thursday. This is exactly the manner in how David Chui has tried to be on both sides of an issue the entire time he has served on the Board of Supes.
And don't forget that Chui's political services company, Grassroots Enterprises, happily took right-wing clients along with it's liberal clients and had Randy Tate (former head of the Christian Coalition) on its Board of Directors – and Bill McIntyre (former spokesman for the N.R.A.) for its Executive Vice President.
of a case, and aggressively advocate for any client he has. You cannot reasonable criticize a lawyer for objectivity and commitment to the law and to his clients.
But yes, Chui's ability to work with a broad range of people and interests makes him a better candidate than Campos who cannot go outside his narrow comfort zone.
The Board of Supervisors and Assembly are not courts of law that adjudicate decisions made by policy makers and the executive or other courts, they are legislatures, policy making bodies.
It is one thing to represent your client's position in court, I don't think that anyone opposes that for even the most odious defendants, and quite another to represent the broad interests of a sizable constituencies.
people we elect have decided that that is good and fair public policy, balancing the needs of tenants and landlords, and thereby keeping rent control on the right side of the constitution, just.
The only constant for David Chiu is David Chiu. There are no values there, nothing that sustains over policy choices, just transactionalism run amok.
When a politician has "values" I take that as meaning he has a rigid ideology and will not listen.
A good politician asks me what I want. He doesn't tell me what I should want.
The only values I seek from a politician are an ability to listen and a willingess to change his mind.
I see neither in Campos.
" . . . any good lawyer should be able to argue both sides of a case - that is what is taught in law school."
You've pretty much described David Chui to a "T". No lawyer turned politician knows more about artfully taking "both sides" of an issue than David Chui.
He shows up a tenants rights rally denouncing the Ellis Act in Sacramento on Tuesday. His campaign does a fundraiser hosted by Ellis Act lawyers on Thursday. This is exactly the manner in how David Chui has tried to be on both sides of an issue the entire time he has served on the Board of Supes.
And don't forget that Chui's political services company, Grassroots Enterprises, happily took right-wing clients along with it's liberal clients and had Randy Tate (former head of the Christian Coalition) on its Board of Directors – and Bill McIntyre (former spokesman for the N.R.A.) for its Executive Vice President.
Chiu's been president of the Supes for how long now?
And I still have no idea what he stands for.
Chiu stands for Chiu. Whatever Chiu feels will further Chiu's political ambitions at the moment, that's what Chiu stands for.
Campos never listens to his opponents and is not flexible or able to compromise. That makes him a poor choice for forging consensus.
Pragmatism is what you want in a leader, not mindless kneejerk ideology.
Jason Grant Garza here ... well, it is hard to disagree that Mr. Chui is a LAWYER ... maybe more insight is needed to see whose bed he is feathering ... here is a glimpse of his standing behind his words ... CIVIL GIDEON ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sckGqkJDBMk and this is for denial of medical services and police action. Why should I bring this up and what do I know about those who speak and words mean nothing ... http://www.tortdeform.com/archives/2007/07/access_denied_no_health_care_...
Go to youtube and type in Jason Garza to learn that this trait does not only apply to Mr. Chiu ... watch the denial of services the police's part, the Sheriff's part and naturally SFGH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpLZ9-HA6C8
If that surprises you .. read http://myownprivateguantanamo.com/settle1.html where SF breaks federal law in 2001, in 2003 testilies and fraud has my case thrown out (C02-3485PJH) and in 2007 signs a confession admitting fault and guilt with the Office of Inspector General and it is 2014 and NO ONE from DPH, SFGH the courts or the lovely city attorney has explained ... and if you watch the youtube videos ... you note it just continues.
Scott Wiener is awesome!! Can't wait till he serves as Mayor of San Francisco!
Do you get together regularly with many other Wiener Boosters?
That must be great fun.
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Conflicted alliances are everywhere
Guess Campos supported 8 Washington and luxury condo development after all.
She has good political instincts. She likes to back winners.
I am proud to stand by my good friend Attorney Steve MacDonald, who invited me some weeks ago to be part of David Chiu's fundraiser. Steve MacDonald encouraged me to practice Buddhism, chanting nam myoho renge kyo, to overcome homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, being HIV positive, to change my negative karma into a mission housing homeless people and encouraging tenants to stand up and fight for housing justice. He and I have agreed and disagreed at times over certain landlord tenant cases, yet no matter what, I know I can count on him to work together in a civil manner, as he values dialogue, mediation, and a win win solution for everyone. It might not make for good idealogy, but it is good humanism, his practice of law is imbued with compassion and hopefulness, and respect for everyone on all sides of the issues. I am profoundly grateful to him and proud to call him a good and loyal friend.
I see no difference. Both sides of a case are entitled to legal representation. You want to live in North Korea?
Nicole Derse should use that argument in Chiu's campaign: "Fine, Chiu gets money from landlord eviction attorneys, but Campos gets money from tenant lawyers!"
Let's see how far that goes in the eastern neighborhoods.
and the best lawyers can do both and should do both.
MacDonald isn't a landlord lawyer. He is a landlord-tenant lawyer. IOW he is more objective and less ideological.
debate, rather than be ideologically blinkered?
C'mon Guest. That's a stupid question. Of course he doesn't. Greg wants everyone in ideological lockstep where the government controls the speech (as long as it's a view that he agrees with).
The ellis act eviction crisis that wasnt!
There are more just cause evictions than ellis evictions in SF! Why isnt the guardian writing about that? Possibly because it doesnt support the class war narrative?
Guys. He's a politician. His allegiance is to money, no matter whose it is. So, if you don't have money, don't bother to waste your time looking for representation.
It is important that we flush out the speculators and greedy pigs who evict people.
But the vast majority of evictions comply with the law, which reflects public policy priorities
The most telling thing here is that all the developers and others making money off mass evictions and the skyrocketing cost of housing in SF, are all giving their money to Chui. That tells us all we need to know.
pro-growth, pro-jobs platform, don't you think the people of SF have already expressed approval for development even if there is some collateral impact at the margin?
Oh, and "mass evictions" is hyperbole. Ellis evictions are running at very modest levels.
In 27 years of living in San Francisco I have never been more fearful or felt more vulnerable.
financial and residential security, and now you want those of us who did to bail you out?
Years of believing politicians who have been making promises and policies that defy common sense?
you do not understand, believe in or agree with is a politician who has been elected by the people.
So if you want to blame someone, look in a mirror and vote differently next time.
"In 27 years of living in San Francisco I have never been more fearful or felt more vulnerable."
And how much do you pay in rent?
Funny how these "long-term rent controlled tenant being evicted" stories always seem to omit that little detail.
have no reason to be fearful of an eviction, because it is only non-viable buildings that get Ellis'ed.
So in fact he has brought about his own situation and risk. Screw him.
I am one of those 'Guests' who usually gets a pretty good laugh out of Steven T. Jones. But on this piece I must begrudgingly admit that he took a step in the right direction.
What I mean is that, when he uses that map picture to depict all of the evictions he does note that it is 16 years worth.
Now granted, most people just look at map and say 'ouch' without looking at the caption and probably 80-90% of the evictions pictured were because of some infraction/fault by the tenant.
But still, it is Steven T. Jones so even the smallest effort at accommodating journalistic integrity should be positively reinforced. Hope to see more of it!
and so it would be better to use a more impartial source such as the Rent Board. And, as you hint, only no-fault evictions should be shown. A tenant who doesn't pay his rent is always going to be out on the bricks, and there is nothing wrong with that.
According to the latest full year numbers there were 116 Ellis compared to 1,105 'For Cause' evictions. So the ratio is about 9.5 to 1. But the map wouldn't look quite the same without including the people who didn't pay rent or conducted illegal sublets.
But it somehow doesn't seem right (or useful) to try to hold Steven T. Jones accountable for publishing distorted information. He is only doing his job. There are other people who do a perfectly find job of accurately informing the public.
even for not paying their rent.
He probably thinks that either the rent should instead be paid by a special tax on landlords, or that the tenant should just be allowed to live there for free until his luck turns up.
Landlords need to contribute to their own retirement just like everyone else, rather than expect the rest of us to bail them out.
We shouldn't even allow people to be landlords. All rental property should be owned by the city and controlled by nonprofits. Housing would then be allocated to people according to their needs. For instance, an activist who regularly hosts meetings would require a large, multi-bedroom flat with plenty of space for organizing community actions. Since working for the betterment society pays disgustingly little, a suitably low monthly rent would be appropriate. Techies, who spend all their time on their laptops anyway, would be assigned small studio apartments and be required to pay the maximum amount of rent possible. This is fair because they make an obscene amount of money anyway.
I can't tell if this is satire or not. I really hope it's the former, but I can actually envision a housing activist actually spitting forth this drivel.
somewhere who thinks that rent should be free.
and homelessness. Be grateful - be very grateful.
I love how the Chui apologists try to paint his obvious lack of principals as a positive. Yeah, and black is white; and slavery is freedom.
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Parke County, Indiana, is known as the Covered Bridge Capitol of the Unite States. They have preserved 32 of their authentic covered bridges. The country-side around Rockville and the other towns is absolutely beautiful with rolling hills — especially in the fall with the changing colors. I've visited this county several times and captured photos of nearly all the bridges. While I took pictures, my husband, Hups, looked over the inside construction. There are several types.
The county holds a huge Covered Bridge Festival in Rockville for about 10 days each October. Sorry! It's over for this year but you can still take your own driving tour.
Ohio ranks second in the US with the number of remaining covered bridges. Only Pennsylvania outranks Ohio, with their 219 bridges in 40 of its 67 counties. Ohio has approximately 138 of these nostalgic and useful structures.
Some sources claim the history of the bridges goes back to the 14th Century in Europe, especially Switzerland. Others claim their history can be traced to 780 BC in ancient Babylon. One thing is sure, Luzerne, Switzerland, has a famous historical bridge County Roadossing the river in the center of the city.
America's first covered bridge, the Waterford Bridge, was built in Connecticut in 1804 by Theodore Burr. It spanned the Hudson River and lasted for 105 years. The next two were built years later, in 1851 and 1852 in the state of Oregon but they were destroyed by floodwaters in 1853.
The longest covered bridge in history was built in 1814 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was more than a mile long but was destroyed in 1832 by ice and high water.
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Tuesday, the Alabama chapter of the American Moose Organization along with the Safe Surfin' Foundation delivered an entire package of new Kevlar vests to the Macon County Sheriff's Department.
The Moose organization was founded in 1888 in Louisville, Kentucky, and it's primarily a civic group. The organization chose the Macon County Sheriff's Department after learning the department was in desperate need of new vests.
Nine were delivered Tuesday and nine more are on the way, all free of charge to the sheriff's office.
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"It's more a sense of pride than it is a football game," says Oak Grove senior offensive lineman Luke Smith.
This year Oak Grove looks to regain some of that pride, after losing to Petal the last three years.
"When they beat us it makes us just want to beat them even worse," says Smith.
For the third year in a row, the Warriors enter their sixth game of the season with a record of 5-0.
In each of Oak grove's last two seasons, Petal was its sixth opponent.
"For the past two or three years we haven't been able to do that, and this year I think we're really going to be able to get them back for what they've been doing to us," says Smith.
Smith says tomorrow night is about getting even.
"There's always a revenge factor when a team beats us, and especially with Petal," says Smith.
But Oak Grove head coach Nevil Barr says that is simply not the case.
"I don't think there's a revenge factor at all in this ball game," says Barr. "I think every year is a big game. Both schools know that. Every year both schools want to win."
When it comes to this year's contest, one thing coaches and players can both agree on is having a short memory.
"Each year's a new year," says Barr. "Every year you've got to do it that year on the field and I think our kids are ready to play."
"Last year is in the past - the last two years are in the past," says Smith. "All that matters now is what we can do tomorrow night, and that's all we can change and that's all we can do."
The crosstown rivals square off at 7 p.m. on Friday at Oak Grove High School.
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Baker revitalized his play in 2012 and put in easily the best season of his five-year tenure in Atlanta. According to Pro Football Focus, he allowed 37 hurries, nine hits and six sacks in 18 games. PFF rated Baker as the 18th-best left tackle in the NFL last season.
Back issues plagued the early stages of Baker's career. Whether he was hindered by injury or simply struggling to adjust to pro football, Baker looked far from a lock to re-sign upon completion of the 2011 season. When Will Svitek was placed on injured reserve back in August, panic ensued among Falcons fans. Fortunately Baker stepped up as a full-time starter, which has now landed him a new payday.
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Lamar Holmes was drafted in Round 3 of the 2012 NFL Draft to presumably take over the left tackle duties for the Falcons at some point, but Baker's improvement kept the rookie's playing time at bay. Holmes also suffered a foot injury that sidelined him for a significant portion of his first preseason.
It's a 6 yr deal between the Falcons and Sam Baker— Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) March 13, 2013
That's a lengthy deal for Baker. We'll see what the figures say, but I would hope it's nothing too steep. Somewhere in the $6 million ballpark would make the most sense for a guy coming off his first solid season.
Assuming Baker stays healthy, he will continue to shield Matt Ryan's blindside going forward. He's making great strides, but the former first-round pick needs to continue his progression as a reliable left tackle. Some of you still aren't sold on Baker from the looks of previous comments. What's your take on him staying in Atlanta?


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This old food truck finally got a brick and mortar place. This is a perfectly laid back and charming bungalow in the Heights. Original hard wood everywhere. Great outdoor seating with a patio out back and deck in the front, that are as good as any in the area. A small bar that seats maybe 6-7 people comfortably. It fits in perfectly with the neighborhood.
Not the most extensive selection, but all quality. Six taps that rotates Texas crafts. Real Ale Phoenix, Karbach Mother In Lager, Yellow Rose, and a few more when I visited. The bottle selection is very nice as well. Prairie Artisan and Founders being the big non Texas offerings. A very worthy selection. Correct temps, glassware, and clean lines.
Service can be a bit awkward at first. I was taking advantage of the outdoor area, but nobody came by. Then I realized it is counter service if you are not sitting at the bar. Which is perfectly fine, I just did not recognize the register by the kitchen and nobody informed me. Anyway, once you get your order in, kitchen times are good, and everybody working here seems knowledgeable and friendly.
While the small beer menu is nice, the show here are the hot dogs. The unique, made to order beef and pork dog and completely home made condiments are great. You can't say enough about homemade everything, that includes pickled peppers, dill slices, homemade relish and sauerkraut, and cheeses from Houston Dairy Maids. Right now, my favorite is the Chi-Town Dog. If not in a beer mood, the lavender lemonade is amazeballs.
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Use this 7-point checklist when seeking feedback.
Our cohort of fellowship students at Toronto's School for Social Entrepreneurs recently had the opportunity to do our second round of Dragons' Den-type pitches to teams of business leaders assembled by the school. I'm just reading the feedback now. This got me thinking about feedback in general. More specifically, it got me thinking about how to optimize the experience of seeking feedback as a new social entrepreneur.
If you've ever watched the TV show Dragons' Den, you've seen feedback in its most blunt form. When the Dragons like a pitch, there's a lot of chest thumping and competition ensues among them to make the best investment offer. On the other hand, when they take a pass, their feedback to unsuccessful contestants can be brutal. Granted, this is TV and when the feedback gets really nasty, it's often just for ratings. And most of us social entrepreneurs won't be on the TV version of Dragons' Den anytime soon. Nevertheless, watching the show and spending the last few months pitching my own business ideas has made me realize that there is a bit of an art to seeking feedback.
So for this blog post I gave myself the assignment of coming up with a short "feedback seeking" checklist. What follows draws from both my personal experience over the past year or so, and from advice on how to give feedback from Donald T Tosti, PhD. Tosti has written extensively on the process of giving feedback during his more than 30-year career in training and management consulting. He is also the former president of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI).
Understanding the different types of feedback
Tosti breaks all feedback down into two categories: encouragement, which is motivational; and advice, which is generally meant to be corrective. When you find yourself in the role of feedback giver, Tosti recommends that you decide which one is more appropriate - the motivation or the advice. But always separate the two, or you risk confusing the feedback recipient. The reason being that encouragement is often ignored when overshadowed by tough advice. For example, "Your suit is beautiful, but you need to lose 20 pounds." Vice versa, advice is often ignored because encouragement is nicer to hear. For example, "Wow, you really are a great swimmer, but you might want to go a little faster with that great white shark following you."
You can find Tosti's 10-point tip sheet for feedback givers on the ISPI website. I've drawn from this list, combined it with my own experience and come up with a 7-point checklist for when you're seeking feedback. Here goes:


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Edwin C. BlissHe slept beneath the moon
He basked beneath the sun
He lived a life of going to do
and died with nothing done.
James Albery
Never leave till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
Universities are turning out highly skilled barbarians because we don't provide a framework of values to young people, who more and more are searching for it.
Steven Muller, President, Johns Hopkins University
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn to do things the right way.
Benjamin Franklin
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok
One reason that I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Lady Astor
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal.
Earl Nightingale
Existence alone is not success! It is a lot more!
Do more than exist — live
Do more than touch — feel
Do more than look — observe
Do more than read — absorb
Do more than hear — listen
Do more than listen — understand
John H. Rhodes
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Abigail Van Buren
When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. When I could see him still working, I'd start pushing myself. When I see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.
Dan Gable, Olympic gold medalist in wrestling
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
A duty which becomes a desire will ultimately become a delight.
George Gritter
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot enrich the poor by impoverishing the rich.
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage pay or .
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.
Kammons Wilson, CEO of Holiday Inn
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles Schultz
A man is a hero not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.
Henry Ford
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
The critic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
If you work for a man for heaven's sake work for him.
Kim Hubbard
Nothing will take the place of persistence. Talent will not : Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent . Genius will not : Unrewarded genius is a proverb. Education will not: The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
If a man is called to be street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luger King, Jr.
Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
Vince Lombardi
He worked by day
And toiled by night.
He gave up play
And some delight.
Dry books he read,
New things to learn.
And forged ahead,
Success to earn.
He plodded on with
Faith and pluck;
And when he won,
Men called it luck.
If discipline is practiced in every home, juvenile delinquency would be reduced by 95%.
J. Edgar Hoover
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but controlling the desire.
I'm looking for a lot of men with an infinite capacity for not knowing what cannot be done.
Henry Ford
Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.
John F. Kennedy
Associate yourself with people of good quality if you esteem your reputation for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
George Washington
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Egotism is the anesthetic that deadens the pain of stupidity.
Knute Rockne
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Elbert Hubbard
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
For evil to flourish, good people have to do nothing and evil shall flourish.
Edmund Burke
An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.
David Augsburger
Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa
It's an old maxim in the schools
that flattery's the food of fools
Yet now and then you men of wit
will condescend to take a bit.
Jonathan Swift
I learned a long time ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and besides, the pig likes it.
Cyrus Ching
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OMG, this is really fantastic Aswani and one that I will read and use, over and over. I love "quotes" and specially when they are inspirational and makes sense. For now, I like the simple quote of, Derek Bok, St. Francis of Assisi, Vince Lombardi and definitely Henry Ford's
Thumbs up! I really enjoyed reading this
Those were some awersome motivational lines. Made my day.
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Women's golf in 11th at the Lady Paladin Invitational
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Meghan Hughes fired a five-over par 77 to lead the JU women's golf team in the first round of the Lady Paladin Invitational.
Played on the par-72 Furman University Golf Course, the Dolphins carded a 30-over par 318 to finish the first round in 11th place in the 17-team event.
Georgia State leads the event after carding a 14-over par 302, while there is a three-way tie for first place in the individual competition at one-over par with 10 players within two shots of the lead.
"I'm really proud of Meg for the way she played today," said JU assistant coach Jen Poth. "She's put a lot of work in to get back on track and it's paid off. Unfortunately, we just made a lot of mistakes today and this is a golf course that punishes you for a bad shot."
Hughes made the turn at four-over par after a sluggish start that saw her bogey Nos. 3 through 5. She started her back nine with a birdie at the 11th and finished the inward nine at one-over par, with bogeys at the 13th and 17th. She sits in a tie for 17th at five-over par.
Kristen Boettcher opened her round with six straight pars, but was five-over par on Nos. 7-12, finishing her round with a seven-over par, 79. She is tied for 29th in the individual competition.
Morgan Jackson and Jessica Williams each carded a nine-over par, 81, and are tied for 49th place. Carlie Gehlhausen, playing in place of an injured Melissa Magdor, shot a 16-over par 88 and is in 84th.
The Dolphins will tee it up again in the second round on Saturday with the final round set for Sunday morning.


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3 green onions, chopped (white and green parts)
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Senate has confirmed Chuck Hagel as the new defense secretary.
The vote came Tuesday afternoon, with Senator Mike Johanns voting in favor and Senator Deb Fischer against. The final vote was 58-41.
Hagel succeeds Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who is stepping down after four years as CIA director and Pentagon chief.
Republicans had opposed Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska and Vietnam combat veteran. They cast him as out of the mainstream, questioned his support for Israel and suggested he was too willing to compromise with Iran.


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Google Chrome for Mac: First Impressions
Beta version of the browser is lacking some features and it suffers from a few hiccups. Still, it's a good start.
Google finally released the beta version of its Chrome browser for Mac on Tuesday. As expected, the new browser is lacking some features that its Windows counterpart has, such as bookmark sync, a bookmark manager, and offline capability.
I've been using the developer version of Chrome for Mac for several weeks, and have been fairly impressed with how the browser has performed. This first beta version fixes some annoying bugs that had plagued earlier versions of the browser, and overall stability is much better. However, this is still a beta version of Chrome so be prepared for a few unexpected hiccups and snags along the way.
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Here are a few observations about Google's new beta version.
No Extra Goodies
Although there have been rumors for several weeks saying Chrome for Mac would lack features like bookmark sync, I was hoping those reports would be proven wrong. Unfortunately the rumors were dead on, and all that fun stuff like Chrome extensions, bookmark sync, and offline capabilities for Google applications like Gmail and Google Docs are not available for Mac users.
Google has said that HTML 5 specifications will be replacing its offline features that currently use the Google Gears browser add-on, so offline access should be coming to Google Chrome's Mac users in the future. As for the other extras like bookmark sync and extensions, I would bet they'll be coming sooner rather than later.
Bookmark Tricks
Chrome for Mac allows you to import and export your bookmarks from Safari and Firefox, but the browser lacks a bookmark manager, which makes it very difficult to keep new bookmarks organized. However, there are a few tricks you can use to get at least some control over your pages.
If you want to delete a particular bookmark, you just open that Web page, and then click on 'Bookmark This Page' or press 'command + D'. This will open a small pop-up window where you can click on "remove" to erase the page from your bookmarks.
You can also use this trick to create a new folder on your bookmarks bar. When the pop-up window appears click on 'Edit' and that will take you to another window where you can create a now folder. However, every folder you create will be pinned to your bookmarks bar, you don't have the option to create a folder that appears only in the bookmarks menu.
Tip: If you don't want to see your bookmarks bar while you're browsing, open a new tab and click 'command+shift+B.' This will remove your bookmarks from the browsing window, and pin the bar to the start screen that you see when you open an empty tab.
Loopy Tabs
I found that, from time to time, a new tab can get stuck and won't render the Web page you've asked for. If this happens, you can try to refresh the tab or just close the tab down and try again. In my tests, I also found that Gmail was sometimes slow to open. If that happens to you, wait until you can click on Gmail's "try reloading this page" link, and that should clear it up.
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PEORIA, Ill.-- Thirty-five new Harrison Homes are ready for tenants.
The new homes cost $6 million to build and the redevelopment site will eventually have 200 homes.
All of the homes are part of the new Housing Incentive Program.
That means residents will have utilities under their own name and must meet strict requirements like having a job, being a full-time student or having a disability.
Chief Executive Officer Brenda Coates of the Peoria Housing Authority says the incentive program is designed to get residents moving in the right direction.
Coates said, "We're taking baby steps in getting our residents from where they are. Hopefully you move into a new home, a new apartment and from there you move into the community or maybe you purchase a home of your own. So it's a step on the road to self sufficiency."
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In The San Luis Valley, Susan Tweit takes us on an extraordinary spring journey through a place her heart knows as home. It's a joy to read her keen observations about wild territory — in the outback, in our hearts — and the many ways it feeds the soul.
the tepee-shaped slice of south central Colorado between the San
Juan Mountains and the Sangre de Cristo Range, migrating sandhill
cranes hunker down in the marshes of the Monte Vista National
Wildlife Refuge. Thirty-five miles northeast at Great Sand Dunes
National Park, "North America's tallest active sand dunes
blow up against glacier-gouged mountain summits and monotonous
reaches of desert scrub hide verdant pocket wetlands." The parched,
undulating landscape is filled at one moment with gusty winds, the
next with an arresting quiet. Both places depend on nearby desert
rivers, including the Rio Grande, that also have to slake the
thirsts of area farms and a growing human population.
Tweit loves these places with her bones. She recounts the slow
dance of shifting dunes and shares what the sandhill cranes have
taught her about home.
"We think of home as a single
place," she writes. "But 'home' may be better
understood as the landscapes and seascapes that comprise
life's journey; a pattern of places engraved in memory ...
any place whose call is so insistent that individuals are impelled
to set out and wing or walk or swim hundreds or thousands of
Glenn Oakley's exquisite halftone images
complement the text: A jeweled arc of water refracts the desert
sun; wind-sculpted peaks cast ominous shadows. Curves and light and
wings convey the desert's secret language, as Oakley explores
the architecture forged by rivers of air and water.
The San Luis Valley is part of the University of
Arizona's Desert Places series, which explores why lands of
great extremes draw our love — and lead some to call the most
seemingly inhospitable places home.
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There is an advantage to living near farm markets that offer a wide array of locally grown, fresh-picked fruits and vegetables.
According to the spring newsletter from the York County Conservation District, people in some parts of the country live in "food deserts," a term that describes areas where no one has access to fresh local foods. There are, according to the newsletter, "entire neighborhoods where the only food available is packaged or canned."
Each year, the National Association of Conservation Districts sponsors an annual Stewardship Week. This year's topic is Soil to Spoon, an "effort to remind people that food originates on farms, not in stores."
York County has an abundance of places to shop for locally grown food, from markets in the city to roadside farm stands, all selling vegetables and fruits in season, a variety of locally made pastries and candies and fresh milk and dairy products.
The availability of locally grown produce should remind us that it is important to support and preserve the agricultural heritage we see around us.
"My thought about the future of agriculture is the more we can expose people to farming, the more we can emphasize the importance of preserving the land and farming," said Christopher Thompson, assistant manager of the York County Conservation District.
There is nothing like growing your own fresh produce, digging and planting, then harvesting the fruits of your labors. Consider a small backyard plot with a few vegetables as a way to get started. Make it a family project and get the children involved in the project.
You might want to consider teaming up with friends to plant a garden, and while that means sharing the results of your hard work, it also means sharing the planning and fun or working as a group.
The Plot Thickens
GINA AND GREG MUMAW of York Township teamed up with two other couples, rented a plot at the Horn Farm and are enjoying the benefits of raising their own vegetables.
It is a great opportunity for people who don't have space or don't want to dig up their backyard to grow their own food, and partnering with friends adds to the fun.
"We're not only working with a friend but we're working with a friend in the dirt," Gina Mumaw said.
They call their project "The Plot Thickens," a reflection of their love of reading.
There are health benefits to harvesting vegetables at the peak of freshness, the comfort of knowing their food is safe and the satisfaction of saving money.
"This is how it was back in the day, when everybody had a garden and the family worked together to raise their food," Mumaw said.
The six planned their garden ahead of time, deciding what to plant and where each vegetable would be planted.
Their straight and regimented rows include different varieties of tomatoes and peppers, squash, green beans, onions, eggplant and, in one corner, a cutting garden with a choice of colorful flowers to cut and take home to brighten a room and bring a bit of the outdoors inside.
Mumaw would recommend the idea to others, but has some advice for those who might be considering it.
"For anyone who is thinking about doing this, there is a lot of planning and preparation but it is worth the time," she said.
Gardening as a group has led to a second cooperative effort they call Partners in Grime.
"We work together at each other's houses doing projects we would not otherwise do, things we have been putting off, like cleaning attics and closets," she said.
It is easier to get rid of things, and cleaning before everyone else comes to clean is not allowed, she said.
Incubator farms
THE HORN FARM provides help to small-scale farmers through its Incubator Farms Project.
"We have the Incubator Farms Project, which gives selected participants a chance to start farming," David Dietz, chairperson of the Modern Homestead Farm Committee wrote in an email. "We are connecting them with interested local restaurants, and doing what we can to promote the farm stand at the Horn Farm, encouraging the public to buy fresh, buy local. We share with whoever will listen just how much buying local can boost the local economy, as currently York countians spend less than ½ of one percent of their food dollars buying directly from York County farmers.
Four farmers are part of this project.
This is the second year for Jon Darby, farm manager and founder of the Sterling Farm, and Jeremy Kilgore. New this year are Chris Roe and Emily Kelly.
They will sell their produce through the Horn Farm Center's crib, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.
There is still some land available for future expansion of the
Incubator Farms Project. Anyone interested should email
IN COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE, shareholders pay a fee at the start of the season and receive a regular weekly share of the harvest throughout the growing season.
With some CSAs, a limited number of shareholders work for a set number of hours to reduce the cost of their shares.
Spoutwood Farm near Glen Rock is a CSA that produces a wide variety of vegetables. More information is available at www.spoutwood.com.
Sunnyside Farm, near Dover offers heirloom vegetables, eggs, chickens, turkey for Thanksgiving, and sides of pork and beef.
Its animals live outside on grass, are raised in smaller paddocks and pens and moved to a new patch of grass every day. Vegetables are raised in compost with no chemicals.
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This year, two of the four farmers participating in the Horn Farm's Incubator Project have CSA memberships available.
For details, call the Kilgore Family Farm at 717-968-5285 or the Sterling Farm at 717-332-8710.
York Urban Garden Association
THE YORK URBAN GARDEN ASSOCIATION offers community gardens throughout the city. More information is available at www.yorkurbangarden.org or by calling Tia Underkoffer at the York County Extension Office, 717-840-7408.
Underkoffer is a 4-H Educator working with urban youth who takes her message of proper nutrition to local classrooms.
WHEN PLANTING YOUR GARDEN, consider companion plants, plants that benefit one another. Read "Carrots Love Tomatoes" or "Roses Love Garlic" by Louise Riotte, or check online to find which plants should be planted together.
We now understand why Grandpa planted corn with potatoes or peas, pumpkins or squash but not tomatoes. Why he put beans next to potatoes, carrots or cucumbers but kept the beans away from onions, garlic and chives.
Carrots and tomatoes are good companions for chives, but peas and beans are not.
Sunflowers do well next to cucumbers but not potatoes, and turnips and peas do well together.
Scavenger hunt
THE YORK COUNTY BUY FRESH, BUY LOCAL SCAVENGER HUNT continues through Aug. 11. Consumers are invited to make their way through up to 29 of the county's freshest local food destinations.
Scavenger hunt maps can be found inside the 2012 Local Food Guide, which is available at local libraries and Buy Fresh, Buy Local partner farmers markets and businesses. You can also download a copy of the map at www.buyfreshbuylocal
To play, visit the locations and have your map stamped. When you're finished, return your map to any scavenger hunt location by Aug. 11 to be eligible for discounts and prizes. Those who collect at least 10 stamps will receive discount coupons from select BFBL partners.
Maps with 12 stamps or more will also be entered into a drawing for prizes including a private tour and wine-tasting at Allegro Wines, a $50 gift certificate for Brown's Orchard & Farm Market and a turkey from Sunnyside Farms, among others.
Community gardens
IF BACKYARD SPACE is not available, or if you want to team up with friends, you might consider the community gardens available at the Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education.
This program, now in its fourth year, offers 20-by-20-foot garden plots that can be rented for $35 each. The plots, open from mid-April through October, provide the opportunity for people to reap the benefits of raising their own food.
"The Horn Farm has Community Gardens in which people are able to grow their own food," said David Dietz, chairman of the Modern Homestead Farm Committee. "This is one way for people to become more self-sufficient and also appreciate the realities and pleasures of food production. Not only are individual gardeners educated, but also people in their circle of friends."
A new system has been put in place to bring water from a spring north of the gardens area down to faucets on the northern edge of the gardens. This water supply will supplement the rain-collection cisterns at the farmhouse during the hot, dry summer months.
This year, beneficial parasitic wasps will be introduced to help control Mexican bean beetles and other crop-damaging insects organically. Farm Manager Jon Darby said the Horn Farm Center community garden plots will be fully organic in 2013.
Although the plots are all taken this season, you can put your name on the list for next year. For details, email Darby at email@example.com.
The Horn Farm is at 4945 Horn Road in Hellam Township.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE SPACE for a garden, think about container gardening. Herbs are a great way to start, as well as small salad greens, vegetables such as peppers, tomatoes, baby carrots, radishes or spring onions.
Consider what your family will enjoy eating and check online for resources to help you choose what to plant.