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Bye February! You never stay around long enough for us to even adjust to the fact that its a new month, and then youre gone. Can you believe that were at March already? Sixteen days until green beer, gold coins, and when everyone becomes Irish. At least thats how it feels. As the mom of a St. Patricks Day child, its a fun holiday for us to celebrate.
The colors surrounding March seems to always be rainbows, and this months buffet is no exception. Its such a fun and happy buffet, as well. Youll be saying Lucky Me when you scrap with it!
The designers really showed their playful sides with this buffet!
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The CT had a lot of fun finding pictures that fit the theme, and I think that they did a great job, as well!
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Since its a new month, its time for a BAKE SALE! I dont know about you, but I just LOVE the bake sale! You never know what youre going to find in there, but its always something that you just cant live without!
Remember, that when you spend $10 in the store, you get an amazing grab bag created by one of our amazing designers. This month, Terra, of Sugar Kissed Designs created a wonderful one for yall!
Today, Im so excited to tell you that we have a new designer joining the team.
Tracy of Trixie Scraps Designs!
Tracy, aka Trixie of Trixie Scraps Designs, happily opens her shop with us today! She has over 10 years of experience as a scrapbooker, beginning first with paper and switching to digi in 2007. In October 2008, she opened her first store as a digital designer and has never looked back! Tracy just recently relocated to the Kansas City area with her husband Erick and their two dogs, Diamond and Lucy. Shes a devoted aunt to three nieces, one nephew (and one on the way) and she spends a lot of time with her cousins three little boys, as well. She loves popcorn-flavored Jelly Bellys, Mexican food, country music and reality TV. Trixies catalog is chuck full of stunning collections, complete with gorgeous paper patterns, versatile "paper scrap" style elements, and plenty of add-ons to help you complete beautiful pages quickly and easily. We are sure you will find lots to love in her new store here at Ginger Scraps!
Here are just a few of her designs that she has here at Gingerscraps:
One of Februarys guest designers has decided to stay with us another month! Were happy to keep her! Aga of Jimbo Jambo Designs. Make sure you check out her store! She has some wonderful templates!
Wow! Its time to reveal Februarys Daily Download!
Last month, Monica, of ViolaMoni had provided a SERIOUSLY cute kit!
I love the non-traditional love colors! I dont know about you, but I crave chocolate every time I saw the preview. Excuse me while I run out and grab some chocolate real quick.
Okay, Im back! Did you miss me? Okay, sorry, Ill stop now.
This month, Pixelily Designs has lovingly created an adorable kit for yall!
I see an ellie-phant! otherwise known as an elephant!
Remember, the links are only up for about 5 days. After that, theyre removed, so if you miss a download, youll have to wait until the next month to buy the kit!
Oh, dont think were done yet! Its FRIDAY! That means even more fresh baked goodness!
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So many great and amazing designs! Im having troubles deciding what Im going to get first! Im sure youre having the same problem!
Its always a sad moment when a designer decides that its time for her to retire. Char, of Wyld Web Designs has made that decision. Before she leaves, she wanted to have one last hoorah, so take advantage of this great sale while you still can!
Char, well miss you, and we wish you all of the best in your future endeavors!
Connie Prince wanted to make sure that I let yall know about her sale!!
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At jumpstart.com, kids age 3 - 10 create their avatar, or "jumpeez". They can travel around the site, unlocking games and exploring. Included in the account is access to mathblaster.com, for kids from 6 to 12. You can put up to 6 children on each account! They also have a blog for parents so you can stay up to date on the latest additions to the games. There are opportunities to interact with other players online, but I chose to disable those for my kids. There was plenty to do without the chatting option.
My kids have LOVED exploring the online worlds. It's been a great motivator for them to finish their school work and get chores done. They want to hurry and finish so they can play. They even like watching each other play.
Both Maren and Joshua agree that they're favorite parts of JumpStart are the Enchanted Sanctuary and Windy Hollows. At the Enchanted Sanctuary, they get to raise their own Mythie (dragon, pegasus or hornhowlie) and train them. Windy Hollows is a place of magic where players can make potions and play wizard games.
|flying with your Mythie
|Windy Hollows
They've also enjoyed raising their own Monster Mutts at Mathblaster. This site is full of math games, and the space theme is especially appealing to Joshua. He loves to get on the site and wait in the center of the space station for a "red alert" which means they're under attack and they have to run through a special door and protect the space station. He loves that part.
|defeat the bad guy with Math Power!
|Red Alert! Red Alert!
As a parent, I wouldn't say the sites are extremely educational. There are lots of educational games, but there is also a lot for the kids to do and explore in between the games. At first I thought the games were a bit hard to find, but then realized each player has a dashboard type thing where you can quickly get to the games you like. In our family computer time is limited to 30 minutes a day (for the kids anyway, heehee), and I've noticed that the kids spend most of their time exploring and training their creatures rather than playing the educational games. So it's not like you're giving the kids a wonderful healthy salad, but it's not like giving them a candy bar either. It's more of an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. It's still a treat, but it's got some good stuff in it too, so you don't feel bad eating it for breakfast.
Part of the site is free to anyone, but there is a lot more available to members, including my children's favorite part, the training of mythical animals. There are also 4 downloadable games available to members, but we couldn't play them as they currently only work on PCs and we are an Apple family. You can join the site 3 different ways. You can try it for a month, for $7.99, buy a year of play for $74.99, or buy a lifetime membership for $149.99. This might be a nice things for parents or grandparents to give those children who already seem to own every toy on the planet as a gift for birthdays or Christmas.
I am very excited to announce that Jumpstart is giving away a 3 month membership to one of my blog readers. That makes me excited because it makes my blog feel a bit more grown up. Plus, they said I can run the giveaway however I like, which also makes me smile. So here goes.
You can enter the giveaway up to 3 times. The first way is just to leave a comment saying something like "Yeah, I'd like to win that for my kids. That sounds fun!" The second way to enter is to follow my blog and post a comment saying you now follow, or if you already follow, leave a comment and tell me "I follow your blog with google reader" or something like that. The third way, and this is the part that makes me giggle, is to leave some kind of chicken related comment. It can be a chicken joke, a chicken poem, the title of a favorite chicken book, a chicken recipe. . . you get the idea. Anything chicken related. I know. I'm kind of a goofball. So you can leave 3 comments if you do all 3 things, thus increasing your chances of winning. See? We'll let people leave comments for a week and then I'll do one of those random comment number things and announce the winner next Tuesday morning. Sound good?
|happy chicken
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Amanda Iacone and Dave Dildine, wtop.com
WASHINGTON - Drivers coming into D.C. and Arlington should be prepared for widespread road closures as the Marine Corp Marathon gets underway Sunday.
The AIDS Walk and Howard University Homecoming Parade will also foil drivers. Metro riders will have a smoother ride with four of the five lines operating regular service.
Marine Corps Marathon
Sunday, 30,000 runners are expected to participate in the 26.2-mile race, which starts at 7:55 a.m. in Arlington. The long course, which will cross the Potomac into the District, will affect Metrorail, Metrobus and car traffic.
The race will close major arteries including parts of Pennsylvania, Constitution and Independence avenues along with the Key and Memorial bridges. The George Washington and Rock Creek parkways will also be closed due to the marathon.
Drivers in Georgetown will be impacted by the marathon as several major routes will be blocked including Foxhall Road, Canal Road and M Street. There are numerous road closures in Rosslyn and near the Pentagon including Route 110 and Washington Boulevard.
Some roads in Arlington will close as early as 4 a.m. Roads will close in the District at 6:50 a.m. All roads are expected to reopen by 1:30 p.m. A list of road closures in both Arlington and D.C. is posted on the Marine Corps Marathon's website.
Metro will open early for the race at 5 a.m. Sunday.
Race participants should use the Pentagon Station on the Blue and Yellow lines to reach the start line. The Arlington Cemetery Station will be closed until 8:30 a.m. after the race has started. Runners should use the Arlington station to leave the event or to access the finish line.
Additional Blue Line trains will run between Franconia-Springfield and Stadium- Armory from 5 to 8:15 a.m. and again between 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
The race will also limit bus access. The Pentagon Bus Terminal will be closed from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. To access Metrobus, riders should use the Pentagon City Station. And the Rosslyn Bus Terminal will also be closed from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. Riders can access Metrobus at Oak Street instead.
You can see a map of the race route here.
AIDS Walk
The AIDS Walk Washington, a 5K race, will stage on Pennsylvania Avenue NW between 13th and 14th Streets, which will close beginning 7 p.m. Friday and remain closed until 2 p.m. Saturday.
The race begins at 8:30 a.m. and will close the following roads:
- Route will begin and end at 12th Street, NW and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
- East on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW towards 3rd Street, NW
- South on 3rd Street, NW to D Street, SW
- West on D Street, SW to 4th Street, SW
- North on 4th Street, SW to Independence Avenue, SW
- West on Independence Avenue, SW to 7th Street, SW (turn around)
- East on Independence Avenue, SW to 3rd Street, SW
- North on 3rd Street, SW to Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
- West on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW to the finish line
Howard University Homecoming Parade
Howard University is set to celebrate Homecoming with its annual parade Saturday. Staging begins at 7 a.m., at the Johnson Administration Building, 2400 6th Street NW, on campus. The parade begins at 10 a.m. and roads are expected to reopen after 12:30 p.m.
Roads that will be closed during the parade are:
- North on 6th Street, NW to Fairmont Street, NW
- West on Fairmont Street, NW to Georgia Avenue, NW
- South on Georgia Avenue, NW to Florida Avenue, NW
- Southeast on Florida Avenue, NW to 5th Street, NW
- North on 5th Street, NW to T Street, NW
- East on T Street, NW to Anna Cooper Circle, NW
- Southeast around the circle to 3rd Street, NW
- North on 3rd Street, NW to Elm Street, NW
- East on Elm Street, NW to 2nd Street, NW
- North on 2nd Street, NW to Bryant Street, NW
- West on Bryant Street, NW to 4th Street, NW
- North on 4th Street, NW to the Valley (between College Street, NW and Howard Place, NW where parade will disband)
Track work along the Orange line will reduce service to Landover and New Carrollton between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday. Every other train will run between Vienna and Cheverly. Riders travelling to or from Landover and New Carrollton should add about 12 minutes to their travel time
Sunday, trains will run every 16 minutes between Vienna and New Carrollton.
The other four lines will run on a regular weekend schedule. The Metro system will open early Sunday for the Marine Corps Marathon.
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I just wanted to take a moment and say that I just received my birthday email and THANK YOU to all the lovely designers that sent me a coupon to their stores! I will sure have fun spending them!
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so i'm off for a couple of days. i meditate for three or four sessions at an hour each, i'm very mindful, and i start thinking very clearly and the dhamma makes a lot of sense and i feel at peace. then i have to work three ten hour days in a row in the fast food industry at an extremely high volume store and suddenly the dhamma has no effect and i'm utterly miserable again. please don't judge that statement until you have wallowed in the dregs of corporate industry in which fast food work exists. it is quite miserable.
mindfulness is extremely difficult if not downright impossible as you are required to multi task into oblivion. making food and drink for drive through and front, taking orders on a head set that dings in your ear and hurts very badly every time someones brakes squeak, taking money from drive through and front and also making chit chat with customers watching you prepare their orders and trying to defuse the ones glaring at you because they don't understand why they have to wait at all, dealing with complaints, answering the phone in the middle of all this, dealing with the district manager who pops in for no reason, dealing with an inspection company hired by corporate who makes sure everything is up to corporates delusional high standards that make a standard health inspection seem like a walk in the park, oh and also taking orders from the front every time the front cashier person walks away to multi task in some way. basically they need six people on and schedule only three to save money and make more profits for a few people at the top while paying everyone else the lowest wages possible with small insufficient raises of .20 cents or so every year and sometimes denying these raises based on arbitrary standards decided upon by management.
on the bright side this is an eye opener. if i was retired or independently wealthy i might over estimate my attainments. if i could meditate for that much or more every day and always be so mindful i might mistakenly think myself an arahant only to have this image shattered when i have to deal with something annoying or frustrating one day. so maybe i'm learning even more how to maintain my mindfulness and what not by doing it this way?
on the other hand, if i could dedicate all my time to it for many years, maybe these mind states would become more solid and if, after let's say three solid years of steady practice living at a temple or something, i go back to fast food maybe it wouldn't bother me at all?


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Discussion in 'Everton Forum' started by BoysInBlue, Dec 11, 2012.
Just beat Hereford 2-1 after extra time in their replay.
And they're one place in the league ahead of Bradford, who beat Arsenal tonight, which just shows that nothing can be taken for granted.
Totally agree - NO JAN MUCHA IN GOAL, MOYES!
Absolutely, we're only in two competitions, putting out our first XI (depending on injuries) would really show that Moyes is serious about progressing.
'Time to drop Howard and give Mucha his chance'...
We'll thrash them 4-0 or thereabouts. Not remotely concerned about it.
Play the kids and give them the dicking they deserve.
Erm, what?
Words, choice of?
Only a bad Glitter would get ANYTHING from the choice of words.
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Mucha, Gueye, Naismith.. Scared yet..
aye take nothin for granted
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Date: December 1, 2012 - 10:00 am
Time: 10:00 am
Come to the 6th Annual Santa Clarita Literacy & Arts Festival.
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Relearning the Skills of Community
If there's anything I've learned while helping to organize Common Security Clubs in communities around the nation, it's that there is no "one size fits all" club. They are as different as the individuals who comprise them.
But a common thread is that clubs provide a way for people get to know each other. It's an old-fashioned concept—knowing your community—but it's badly needed in our time of increasing insecurity and isolation.
"We usually spend about 45 minutes on a 'check-in' with each other," says Paul Miller in Boston, whose club has been meeting for two years. "The focus is simply on hearing each other, and providing support whenever possible. People get to air their concerns and receive affirmation."
"We're taking baby steps toward a new type of community," adds Jared Gardner, a facilitator in Portland, Oregon. "We want people to feel connected and empowered. That's what the groups are all about."
In the past, neighbors knew each other and engaged more naturally in mutual aid, sharing common resources and helping those in need. Nowadays, our mutual aid muscles are out of shape and pretty flabby. Clubs help us to start flexing and stretching them again, little by little.
Clubs also chip away at our resistance to being helped. "People at first resist simply receiving—they think they can't show up to a potluck empty-handed," Jared says. "We tell them it's okay—it's okay to receive if you need help. We say we're putting the 'luck' back in potluck."
Often, club members find they can be helpful in ways they don't expect. "People downplay what they are able to offer," says Lil Hosman in Portland. "I know how to sew a button on a shirt, and you probably don't. That's something concrete I can offer. And it helps me to help you. It's amazing how quickly people diminish when you take away their ability to be useful."
Some clubs even experience conflict. "We had some participants for whom the unemployment experience was too fresh. It was too raw to talk about," says Amanda Soarez in Portland. "The group ended up getting pretty small, but we came up with a cool mutual aid project where we set up a shared sewing machine at our church for the community to use."
Amanda is now facilitating a second group, and this time the experience is much different. "Our group has only met twice, but we've already decided we want to keep meeting beyond the five sessions outlined in the guide," she says. "We meet in people's houses, and everyone is from the same neighborhood. I think that has helped us gel as a group—people are already sharing rides and planning neighborhood improvement projects."
Not all clubs find that mutual aid and social action emerge from their meetings. Nancy Hitson in Corvalis, Oregon reports that because participants in her club were so spread out geographically, it was harder to find ways to support each other. "The curriculum was very valuable, the materials and videos were really great," she says. "But our group didn't take steps beyond learning."
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"We hope that in each club, connections are formed, and new ideas are encountered," says Chuck Collins, founder of the Common Security Club network. "Bringing people together can be a challenge, and just overcoming isolation is a huge step."
Sometimes mutual aid does emerge unexpectedly, even in groups whose main focus is learning and discussion. "We have a group of six or seven people who like to talk about the economy," reports Grace Braley in Maine. "But when one of us had surgery, we all pitched in to help out—people watched his dog, bought groceries—that kind of thing."
Simple things like this can make a world of difference. And it's these kinds of steps that can transform our communities and our economy, one button at a time.
Sarah Byrnes wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Sarah is the organizer for the Common Security Clubs at the Institute for Policy Studies. She has worked with Americans for Fairness in Lending, Americans for Financial Reform, and the Thomas Merton Center.
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Stars of the Ballet Moscow at Emperors Palace
Theatre of Marcellus, Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, Gauteng
Be enchanted!
Following the successful South African tour in 2011, Stars of the Ballet Moscow will return to the superbly appointed Theatre of Marcellus at Emperors Palace on 15 and 16 June. Former director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Yuri Vetrov, has prepared a magnificent new programme that will celebrate the music of great Russian composers, Sergei Rachmaninov and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
In the first act the show tribute will be paid to Rachmaninov's famous Paganini that was staged at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1960 and performed to the choreography of Leonid Lavrovsky. Other delightful pieces will include an Adagio from Symphony No 2 and All by Myself, choreographed by Vetrov. The second act of the programme will include masterpieces of the world classical ballet such as Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, and extracts from famous ballets Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker.
These are only some of the performances that will be featured in the enchanting Stars of the Ballet Moscow.
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Crash Course In Resilience
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Building Community Resilience
But in communities everywhere, you'll find people who are working instead to bring people together. They are building their own resilience, and that of their families and communities, so they are better able to withstand the hardships that are already here and those that may be coming. These are not futile attempts to bring back a way of life that is on its way out. Nor is this the bunker mentality of survivalists who look to save themselves regardless of what happens to others. Instead, these are creative, common-sense, low-tech approaches to meeting people's needs now while planting the seeds of a more sustainable world for everyone.
Food is the most popular example. Across the country, a local food movement has taken off. More and more people are planting backyard gardens, building greenhouses, raising chickens and bees, and starting farmers markets—not just because fresh and local is delicious and cool. These efforts are, in some places, a response to the lack of fresh and healthy food in urban and rural "food deserts." Food self-reliance is one way people are seeking security and community in an uncertain world.
Those looking for a more direct response to the dual crises of climate change and peak oil are turning to the Transition Town movement. Started by Rob Hopkins, a permaculture activist in the United Kingdom, this movement has spread to hundreds of communities in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, and Sweden, and more than 70 communities in the United States (where hundreds more are, in Transition parlance, "mulling" it over). People are joining who might not have signed up for an environmental or social justice project, but do want to build greater resilience to make it through tough times. Each Transition initiative is autonomous; each is engaged in studying what it means to move to a post-petroleum world; and most are creating spaces for skill-sharing, food production, and various experiments in resilience.
Other efforts do not explicitly link themselves to concerns about peak oil and climate change. But the goals of community resilience and a sustainable future are often in the background as people start up bicycle repair co-ops, neighborhood energy projects, building materials re-use centers, DIY skill-sharing gatherings, swap meets, and eco-villages. Like Transition initiatives, these projects meet immediate needs, raise spirits, and increase people's chances of thriving during hard times.
Does working locally mean giving up on national policy change?
Community resilience projects can actually help build the political will to move society in more sustainable directions. They remind us that we can make history—starting where we live—and not just be subjected to the decisions of those in power.
As we learn to work together, learn what works, and learn that we have power, we are better able to insist on larger-scale change.
And we need that political clout to divert highway dollars to bicycle paths and efficient mass transit, and to put a halt to sprawl and build smart, walkable communities instead. We may even be able to bring back the American can-do spirit that made that moon shot possible. The new Apollo Alliance aims at making the transition from oil-addicted to clean and sustainable through massive investment in clean energy, green jobs, and energy efficiency.
Three Places to Start
Where do you start to build resilience? The YES! team identified three concepts that we believe can guide a no-regrets approach:
1. Build skills. Many transition initiatives start with learning and teaching skills that are valuable to yourself and others, and that can be practiced without harm to people or nature. If you can repair something, make something, or grow something, offer first aid or do low-tech mechanics, raise farm animals or rig up a solar oven, you can meet some of your immediate needs and swap with neighbors.
Many people had these skills in our grandparents' generation. Consider drawing on elders to teach the practical skills they know, perhaps swapping for the skills young people know.
Also essential are the interpersonal skills that help people work together to get things done and to resolve conflicts.
2. Learn to live within local means. Work toward replacing products and services brought in from long distances with things you can do, make, harvest, or repurpose locally. Consider introducing small-scale animal husbandry, nut and fruit trees, and food processing facilities. Develop local, clean sources of energy. Help restore natural systems so they can be productive and resilient into the future. Use resources frugally and efficiently, and design things to last and to be reused or repurposed.
Include culture and entertainment, and provide opportunities for local artists and performers.
Set it up so people with little cash are included from the start. Develop means to barter, swap, and share. This will help restore your community's economy, keep the flow of wealth local, and include the unemployed and low-wage workers.
This is a good time to look around and notice who your neighbors are, and to begin building systems of mutual support. This collaboration doesn't need to be framed by dire warnings about the collapse of civilization. It can be as simple as sharing tools, planting a garden together, or holding a neighborhood potluck. If you start by reaching across class and race lines and across "culture war" divides, you will build a strong foundation for action. When things get difficult, the person who can offer the most may be the guy you argue with about politics but who knows how to fix things. Or it could be the young woman who knows how to bring people together in a song, or the grandmother who remembers how things used to be made by hand.
3. Imagine, adapt, celebrate. Building your personal resilience will increase the chances that you can help loved ones and the broader community during difficult times.
Get physically fit and healthy, and minimize dependence on high-tech medicine and pharmaceuticals.
Get out of debt.
Hone your ability to observe and think for yourself—turn off the pundits, talk to your neighbors, and make up your own mind.
Build a tolerance for uncertainty. A spiritual practice or a calming practice can help you remain centered in times of rapid change.
This may be a time of change, but it needn't be a time of despair. After all, the enormously expensive (and destructive) way of life we have been living did not bring much happiness or health. By putting life-giving values first, we could well find more rewarding ways of living.
You can begin building more joyous ways of life by making the resilience work itself come alive. Encourage imagination and creativity. Have parties. Create liberated spaces. Celebrate at the drop of a hat. Communities throughout the world share music, dance, and storytelling, in secular and sacred contexts. From Appalachian square dances to Mardi Gras parades, from Native American Sun Dance to holy communion, gatherings and celebrations are the glue that hold a community together.
No Regrets
We don't know what the future holds. Maybe in our lifetimes, nothing much will change. Although it's unlikely, maybe offshore drilling, tar-sands oil, energy efficiency, and coal mining will keep our fossil fuel-based economy chugging along, and climate change will be mild enough that we can adapt.
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The "no regrets" actions in this issue are worth taking in any case. They are already helping rebuild abandoned communities, like Detroit, as well as those newly devastated by foreclosures and joblessness. They minimize our reliance on natural resources found under other people's soils and in other people's rainforests, thus reducing the need to maintain the world's most costly military empire. They contribute to an economic renewal based on systems that provide things people actually need, instead of throwaways that we only want because of ads. And these initiatives will make us healthier, more connected to other people and to the Earth, and probably happier. There is nothing here you would regret doing. You can think of this as an insurance policy that pays you premiums.
If things do fall apart, taking these actions could mean that people in the future will find the seeds of a new future already planted, literally, in the form of diverse crop strains and livestock, bees, and fruit and nut trees. Local renewable energy sources may not be able to support an energy-extravagant lifestyle, but they may be enough to light the nights, warm us through winter, and keep people in communication with one another and with the vast knowledge commons humanity has built over generations.
We may not have high-tech derivatives trading and landings on the moon. But people may develop greater wisdom along with skills for meeting family and community needs, for getting along, and for exchanging fairly, so that everyone's gift is welcomed, and everyone has enough.
With that as a foundation, the decline of the industrial/oil era need not mean catastrophe. Instead it could mean we work together to build a wiser era, rooted in place and founded in community.
Sarah van Gelder wrote this article for A Resilient Community, the Fall 2010 issue of YES! Magazine. Sarah is co-founder and executive editor of YES! Magazine.
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If you are looking for my traditional projections for offense and defense, those will be available near the start of the college basketball season. But since we still have many weeks to go until November, I thought I would dig a little deeper and write some team previews for next year. (I also wrote a few more words on some of the potential Top 25 squads in early April and late April.)
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Duke: Duke's season will hinge on the play of Top 10 recruits forward Jahlil Okafor and point-guard Tyus Jones. And I think they will live up to the hype. But the player some fans may be overlooking is Rasheed Sulaimon. Some feel that Sulaimon had a bad year last year, but that's not the case at all. On a per-possession basis he improved from his freshman to sophomore seasons. The problem was that Rodney Hood's presence really dug into Sulaimon's playing time. With Hood out of the picture, Sulaimon should bounce-back and become a lethal scorer once again.
Louisville: While they will miss the all-around dominance and wins that Russ Smith brought to the table, Terry Rozier and Chris Jones have to be licking their chops now that Russ Smith is gone. Rozier and Jones were elite PGs who spent a lot of last season playing off-the-ball. Now they get to run the show, and the best part is that they still have Montrezl Harrell to throw the ball to in the paint. Louisville has another three Top 100 recruits coming in, led by Shaqquan Aaron. Wayne Blackshear is back and he significantly improved his outside shooting last year. And thanks to the success of Gorgui Dieng, Rick Pitino has seemingly fallen in love with a host of foreign centers with hard to pronounce names. That seems like a nice formula, but this is Rozier and Jones show.
Of course the PGs aren't the only players who may be itching to get out from underneath someone else's shadow. Blackshear was a Top 30 recruit and McDonald's All-American, he's started a bunch of games, he's been very efficient, and he contributed to a national championship. And yet he's never played more than 20 minutes a game, never felt like he has a natural position, and often spent the end of games glued to the bench thanks to Luke Hancock. If Blackshear had a different personality (or if Louisville hadn't been winning so much), Blackshear might have transferred. But I am very curious to see whether Blackshear has the mentality to become a star now that Luke Hancock has graduated.
North Carolina: PG Nate Britt and SF JP Tokoto are likely to see their playing time cut thanks to the additions of Top 30 recruits PG Joel Berry, and SFs Theo Pinson and Justin Jackson. That may make for an awkward locker-room, but it should also mean an upgrade in efficiency. Marcus Paige may be playing out of position at SG for stretches of game time, but he thrived at that position last year. Meanwhile in the frontcourt, James McAdoo will be gone but shockingly Brice Johnson was better than McAdoo in almost every statistical category except free throw rate. And as long as the efficient Kennedy Meeks gets more playing time at the other front-court slot, North Carolina's offense should be substantially better than last season.
Virginia: Virginia's junior class is special. Justin Anderson, Mike Tobey, Evan Nolte, Malcolm Brogdon, and Anthony Gill were all quality prospects out of high school. (While they are all juniors, Brogdon started a year earlier but had to red-shirt due to injury, and Gill was a transfer from South Carolina.) None of these players were instant impact superstars as freshmen. But they matured together, and as sophomores they helped Virginia make the leap to an ACC title. We tend to fall in love with the Top 10 recruits and future NBA draft prospects. But Virginia's core shows the true value of low-end Top 100 recruits. They are efficient, hard-working, and they look like they will probably stick around for two more years and graduate. Throw in London Perrantes, a sophomore PG, and you have the ideal core of a winning team.
Hoping for the Top 25
Pittsburgh: PG James Robinson has played a ton of minutes the last two years. He's not aggressive enough to be a star, but he is more than capable of running an offense that wins a bunch of games. Cameron Wright is your typical Jamie Dixon starter, a solid senior who doesn't make a lot of mistakes. Durand Johnson was playing well last year until a knee injury derailed his season. Josh Newkirk, Michael Young, and Jamel Artis were three freshmen who were very effective last year and who should be ready to make the sophomore leap. Pitt also adds Vanderbilt transfer Shelton Jeter and JUCO Top 100 recruit Tyrone Haughton in the front-court. Former elite forward recruit Joseph Uchebo should finally be healthy.
This lineup perfectly fits the stereotype for Pitt basketball. There are no sexy choices in the lineup. But everyone has experience. And Jamie Dixon remains among the best at developing players.
The easiest way to see this is with my player projections model. I project what we should have expected for every player over the past five years based on their high school recruiting rank and previous NCAA stats. Then I compare those expectations to how those players performed. Only Mike Brey has been better at developing the offense of his players than Jamie Dixon. No, Pittsburgh doesn't have 9 or 10 former elite recruits like Duke, Louisville, and North Carolina. But with Dixon developing players at an above average rate, Pitt is always a title contender.
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Jamie Dixon
Rick Pitino
Jim Boeheim
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Jim Larranaga
Boston College
Jim Christian
Mike Krzyzewski
Virginia Tech
Buzz Williams
Wake Forest
Danny Manning
NC State
Mark Gottfried
Tony Bennett
North Carolina
Roy Williams
Brad Brownell
Florida St.
Leonard Hamilton
Georgia Tech
Brian Gregory
Most major conference coaches tend to exceed expectations when developing players. That is why they have jobs in a major conference. But while Brad Brownell and Leonard Hamilton have struggled to develop offensive talent, they are elite defensive coaches.
Roy Williams is probably the baseline. He has recruited at a high level and his players have tended to perform about where you would expect for elite recruits. Rick Pitino's players have exceeded expectations on offense in recent seasons. And when a coach recruits well and develops players, that's the formula for a national title.
Syracuse: Even with major losses, you can never count Syracuse out. Their zone defense will still be very hard to score against. Trevor Cooney became a star SG last year. Forward Chris McCullough is the type of highly ranked recruit who should make an impact from Day 1. Obviously, for the second year in a row, the season will come down to the play of a freshman PG. This year his name is Kaleb Joseph. No PG can be expected to replace Tyler Ennis. Ennis' low turnover rate was not just special for a Syracuse PG, it was basically unprecedented for a college freshman.
But I think the differences in opinion for Syracuse come down to how you evaluate the rest of the Syracuse roster. Is DaJuan Coleman a player that is still injured, a career disappointment, and never going to be a star? Or is he an explosive former Top 25 recruit who will provide a key punch late in the season once he finally gets back to 100%? Is Rakeem Christmas a passive offensive player who lacks the killer instinct to ever be anything other than a role player? Or is Christmas a player who improved on defense last year, a player who deferred to CJ Fair and Jerami Grant, but another former Top 25 recruit who can still be a late bloomer and star now that he'll get more touches on offense? Is Tyler Roberson the freshman who posted an 89 ORtg last year, and couldn't even finish simple baskets? Or is he the former Top 40 recruit who never got to show his stuff last year because of the depth chart, and who should mature as a sophomore into a true star? The reality is that we don't know. And that is why we want to watch.
But my biggest concern for Syracuse is the overall lack of depth. There are just 10 scholarship players on the roster right now, and right now they are not all healthy. That lack of depth is going to force Syracuse to play slower than they want again this season, and open them up to losses to some inferior teams.
Notre Dame: Jerian Grant was injured in the middle of last year and Notre Dame fell apart. You probably expect me to write some story about how you can't blame a team's collapse on just one player. But when you look at the numbers, I think you can. The splits show that Notre Dame was brutal after Grant went down. And Grant's stats last year were unbelievable. His ORtg was 132, he was making 58% of his threes, 40% of his twos, and averaging 19 points per game. And he was making his teammates better. His assist rate was 36. He was even contributing on defense. His steal rate was 3.5%. Now, a lot of that came against a weaker non-conference schedule. But even so, Grant was posting the kind of numbers where you would have had to include him in the conversation for ACC player-of-the-year. With Grant back, Notre Dame will look like a traditional Mike Brey team. The Fighting Irish will be an elite offensive team, that plays passive zone defense, hangs around the edges of the Top 25, and lacks the defensive toughness for a deep NCAA tournament run.
Hoping for the NCAA Tournament
Florida St.: Florida St.'s defense bounced back last season behind a bruising front-line and the soft hands of steal artist Aaron Thomas. There are still some flaws. How does 7'3" Boris Bojanovsky grab so few defensive rebounds? But Leonard Hamilton has proven to be a strong defensive coach at this point.
The bad news is that the lethal inside-outside combination of Ian Miller and Okaro White has graduated and their star power will be hard to replace on offense. Xavier Rathan-Mayes was an elite recruit who was academically ineligible last year, but his shooting should help tremendously. The return of center Kiel Turpin should also help. Turpin was granted a sixth year of eligibility after missing last year with a leg injury and he was much more efficient than Michael Ojo. Add Top 100 JUCO guards like Dayshawn Watkins and Kedar Edwards, and replacing Miller and White seems a little more plausible.
But the Florida St. offense is mostly limited by Hamilton's system. For six straight years Hamilton's teams have been among the nation's most turnover prone teams. That's a flaw Hamilton needs to fix if his team is ever going to reach the next level.
Clemson: I'll understand if you view the loss of KJ McDaniels as a sign of the apocalypse. Clemson wasn't a good offensive team last year and now their best player is headed to the NBA. Worse yet, while the program brings in prized recruit Donte Grantham, he's ranked low enough that there is no guarantee he will be a star this year. And there are no other Top 100 recruits on the roster.
But I'm optimistic about Clemson for two reasons. First, Brad Brownell's formula isn't going to be recruiting or dynamic offense. When his teams win, they are going to win with defense. And most of the roster is back from a quality defensive team last year.
Second, Clemson has two highly underrated upperclassman who may be able to step into a larger roles. Demarcus Harrison and Jordan Roper both used a high volume of possessions and were very efficient with the basketball last year. A long time ago, Ken Pomeroy emphasized the importance of free throw shooting as a predictor of future offensive performance. And Harrison and Roper were both excellent free throw shooters last year. If they get the playing time, they should be able to produce some points to replace what McDaniels took to the NBA.
Miami FL: I really don't understand the roster Jim Larranaga put together last year. It felt like before the season started the coaching staff decided that trying to make the NCAA tournament wasn't that important. Last year Miami went into the year with such a short bench, and so few scholarship players, that winning was virtually impossible. But then a funny thing happened. Because the Miami coaching staff are really good at their jobs, they focused on their team's strengths, and actually got the Hurricane roster to play competitive basketball with just about everyone in the ACC.
This year, Miami has done the right things to make sure they have the depth to be competitive. Additions like Niagara graduate transfer Joe Thomas and Top 100 recruit Ivan Uceda don't project to be stars. But they are the kind of veteran role players you need if you want to compete for an NCAA tournament bid. The star power will have to come from Texas transfer Sheldon McClellan, Kansas St. transfer Angel Rodriguez, and Top 50 high school recruit Ja'Quan Newton. And that might not be enough to compete at the highest level in the ACC. But unlike last year, Miami at least enters this year with the kind of roster that could make the NCAA tournament if things work out right.
NC State: Only Duke, Louisville, and North Carolina can top NC State's eight players who were RSCI Top 100 recruits out of high school. And Desmond Lee was a Top 10 JUCO recruit last year, meaning that at some point in time, the scouts were raving about just about everyone on NC State's roster. And yet for the second year in a row, I find myself saying that NC State is a year away. With TJ Warren and Tyler Lewis leaving with eligibility left, the Wolfpack again has a roster of almost all sophomores and freshmen.
The frontcourt is the biggest question mark, but the simulation model thinks that because NC State has so many options, the team will find an answer. No player has a great projection individually, but Beejay Anja, Kyle Washington, Abdul-Malik Abu, Cody Martin, and Caleb Martin are all former Top 100 recruits, and Lennard Freeman was an effective, if reluctant scorer. The top 3 or 4 of those players should be able to compliment a quality backcourt that adds Alabama transfer Trevor Lacey.
Occasionally my projection system will reveal some under-the-radar roster trend that seems somewhat controversial. For NC State, while Kyle Washington played more than Beejay Anja last year, the model likes Anja to pass Washington in the rotation this year. The reason is somewhat simple. Anja was more highly ranked out of high school, and while Washington was a more consistent player last year, Anja's higher block rate is a reflection of Anja's greater athleticism. Additionally, while Anja rarely shot, Washington's efficiency was extremely low. I'm not sure it means anything, but it does line up a little bit with roster utilization last year. While Washington's minutes decreased as the season progressed, Anja's playing time increased. Whether Anja actually passes Washington in the rotation remains to be seen, but that is what the model predicts.
Hoping for the NIT
Boston College: Returning minutes don't mean everything. Exhibit A might be last year's Boston College squad. Despite returning the team's top six rotation players, BC fell from 96th in margin-of-victory to 138th and it cost head coach Steve Donahue his job. The drop-off was all on the defensive side of the ball. Part of it was an injury that kept center Dennis Clifford out of action. And part of it was that Boston College went from being a team that almost never fouled to a team that fouled a lot. (Was it the new defensive foul rules?)
This year BC can put together a rotation without any freshmen. And with an offensive superstar like Olivier Hanlon, that's a formula for a solid offense. But for new head coach Jim Christian to succeed, he needs to somehow upgrade the defense while using many of the same players.
Virginia Tech: Buzz Williams has never believed he has had a lot of job security. He's always had to fight to earn his place in the coaching profession, and he's never had the luxury of putting a freshmen team on the floor and letting them work through their issues with a patient fan-base. But this year's Virginia Tech roster might break that mold. Given the current Virginia Tech options, it is hard to envision a scenario where Top 100 freshmen like Ahmed Hill and Justin Bibbs won't get their chance.
JUCO Shane Henry seems like the classic Buzz Williams player. A Top 10 JUCO recruit, he should slide into the lineup and be a focal point on offense. And Adam Smith, injured for much of last season, looks like he might be the ideal late bloomer. But overall, there are not enough skilled players to field a solid offense.
Wake Forest: I hope the Wake Forest fans are still enjoying watching Tim Duncan win titles in the NBA. Because I don't see how Danny Manning has signed up for anything other than a long rebuilding project. In the short-run, Wake Forest's three most efficient offensive players have graduated. The team adds Campbell transfer Darius Leonard, but he doesn't have the pedigree to carry an ACC team. This year's recruiting class is not great (although perhaps last year's recruit Greg McClinton can be the answer if he ever gets healthy). And Wake only projects to have two scholarships available for next year, so Manning will have to force several players to transfer if he wants to bring in a big recruiting class next year. It is going to take some time to get this program back in order.
Georgia Tech: The Yellow Jackets should have been competitive last year. Trae Golden, Marcus Georges-Hunt, Kam Holsey, Robert Carter, and Daniel Miller were all very good players. And while Carter's injury was not timely, there is no reason that a starting rotation with that caliber of talent should not have been competitive for an NCAA tournament bid. They won at Syracuse late in the year, and given their rotation, that type of success should not have been so rare. But the individual talents never seemed to click, the bench was terrible, and head coach Brian Gregory continued a trend that was apparent at Dayton. Even when he had talented players at Dayton, his teams could never put it all together.
Of the team's five best players listed above, only Georges-Hunt returns. Ole Miss transfer Demarco Cox, East Carolina transfer Robert Sampson, and freshmen prospect Tadric Jackson will help. (I'm not sure South Florida transfer Josh Heath will help given that Heath couldn't shoot at all last year.) But on paper, those four don't replace what Georgia Tech loses. Basically if Brian Gregory could only get Georgia Tech to a 6-12 ACC record with last year's roster, he could be headed to the cellar with this year's roster.


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Happy Thanksgiving to all my cat (and human) friends. This is a very special day for me as I am very thankful for having such a wonderful home, a Mom who loves (and fusses over me a lot), a Dad who protects and cares for me (and feeds me when Mom is at work) and for my two companions, Frosty and Missy.
I guess you could say I knew that I was going to have a very special life the first time I saw my Mom. She and Jim, my dad, came to the house where I was born to get a new kitten.
Well, the minute I saw her I went right up to her and she picked me up. I figured she liked me right away and I liked her because she spoke so nicely to me when she picked me up and she really smelled good. My cat mom was named Mercedes and my dad was Porsche. They were ok but I knew that I wouldn't be there long.
After my new Mom, Georgia, gave the lady who owned my parents some money for me we left. I wasn't the least bit afraid. My new Mom held me on her lap and we got in Dad's car and went to my new home.
When I go there, they put me in a big room that was ready for me. There was a litter box, a bowl of water and food. I was hungry so I ate right away. There were a couple of toys for me but I really wanted to see the house but they closed the door and I was all alone in that room.
A few minutes later I heard and smelled two cats outside the door. I wanted to see them and be with them but the door was locked. They started telling me things like who they were and that they couldn't see me or come in that room because Mom said that a new kitten should gradually get used to the family and not be thrown into the household right away.
I started crying at the door to go out. I didn't want to be alone, I wanted to see everybody. Well, I guess it worked because very shortly after I started crying, Mom came and picked me up and walked me all around the house. She showed me the two big cats, Smokey and Frosty and walked me in and out of the rooms. That house was big compared to where I lived before.
The first night there Mom put me on a blanket on a chair and told me to go to sleep. Well, I didn't want to sleep alone so I climbed the big stairs, and found the room where Mom and Dad were in a big bed. The bed was high up so I climbed my way up to the top, went right in between Mom and Dad and got under the covers with them. Mom thought that was so cute and I slept there a lot in those first weeks that I was there until I decided to explore the rest of the big house and found out where there were other places to sleep.
Well, that was a long time ago. I am 15 years old now and we no longer live in that house but have a nice house with lots of woods around. When we came here Smokey and Frosty came too. Then one winter, Dad found a cat hanging around the house in the woods so my Mom took her in. Her name is Missy and she goes out (when she feels like it) and has her own room downstairs. I don't see her much but she talks to me all the time telling me stuff about outside.
Frosty is 17 now and Mom says she has dementia. Mom explained that she doesn't remember stuff. Once in awhile she forgets when it is breakfast and Dad has to show her our bowls.
Smokey, who was my best friend, left us in 2008. One night he went to sleep and never got up. He just crossed the rainbow bridge to be with his grandpa, Mom's dad who was his best friend.
I have a lot to be thankful for today. Even though I have a sore paw (mom says it is arthritis) I am taking some stuff for it and I feel better.
Mom also has me on Cranberry caps, Vitamins B12 and Coenzyme Q10 for my health. We have a game called "down the hatch" where she gives me the vitamins and I swallow them. I have my own credit card for when I go to my doctor, Dr. Renee Ziegler at For Cats Only Veterinary Clinic. She takes really good care of me.
Mom calls me "The Brown Prince" because I am a seal point Himalayan and am told I am very handsome. I have a nice house, soft chairs to lay on when the sun comes in the big window and good food.
Every once in awhile I get my favorite food, turkey. I know when Mom has some because I hang around the refrigerator. She then cuts up some and says "Turkey Bentley" and I eat the whole piece. Frosty gets some too.
Life is good and I am so happy to be here.


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Reasons for Procedure
Radiofrequency ablation is used to treat:
- Cancerous tumors in the liver, bone, kidney, breast, lung, or adrenal gland; particularly those that have not responded, or are unlikely to respond to surgery and/or chemotherapy alone (often used to treat tumors that have spread)
- Cardiac arrhythmias (irregular and/or rapid heart rhythms due to abnormal electrical conduction pathways)
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)—condition in which enlarged areas of the prostate may be compressing the urethra (the tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body)
- Overgrown areas of the soft palate that may be responsible for severe snoring and/or sleep apnea (periods of time when breathing stops during sleep)
- Pain from soft tissue tumors or disease that has spread
- Severe nerve pain
- Varicose veins
Possible Complications
Complications are rare, but no procedure is completely free of risk. If you are planning to have ablation, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:
- Discomfort
- Bruising or bleeding
- Infection
- Lung collapse upon insertion of the probe (when the procedure involves the lung, liver, or upper kidney)
- Blood clots or damage to heart muscle or conduction pathways after procedures on the heart
- Liver abscess (small, localized collection of pus within a cavity left by the destroyed tissue)
- Damage to tissue surrounding the target area
Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
- Bleeding problems
- Active infection
What to Expect
Prior to Procedure
Your doctor may order:
- Blood tests
- Electrocardiogram (EKG)—a test that records the electrical currents passing through the heart muscle
- Imaging tests like x-rays, ultrasound, or MRI
- Ask your doctor if you need to avoid eating or drinking before the procedure.
You will most likely be given a sedative to help you relax. Local anesthesia will be used to numb the area. If this is done as part of another surgery, you may have general or spinal anesthesia.
Description of the Procedure
An IV will be placed to give you fluids and medicine to help you relax. Your heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure will be monitored. The area where the probe will be inserted is numbed.
The probe will be inserted into or directly up against the abnormal tissue. CT scan, ultrasound, or MRI scan images may be used to help guide the probe. In some cases, once the probe is inserted, a number of electrodes will be placed into the area. This will let the doctor treat a larger area of tissue.
A small amount of heat will be introduced through the probe. The heat will destroy the abnormal tissue. The probe may be repositioned to destroy other areas of tissue.
Immediately After Procedure
You will be monitored for 2-3 hours after the procedure.
How Long Will It Take?
About 10-60 minutes
How Much Will It Hurt?
Anesthesia will prevent pain during the surgery. You will be given medicine to help prevent most pain or discomfort.
Average Hospital Stay
It may be possible to leave the hospital on the same day of the procedure. You may need to stay overnight for your doctor to monitor you. Speak to your doctor to see if this is an option in your case.
Post-procedure Care
Do not drive within the first 24 hours after the procedure. You may be asked to avoid strenuous activities. Be sure to follow your doctor's instructions.
Call Your Doctor
After you leave the hospital, contact your doctor if any of the following occurs:
- Signs of infection, including fever and chills
- Redness, swelling, increasing pain, excessive bleeding, or any discharge from the incision site
- Pain that you cannot control with the medicines you have been given
- Cough, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, or chest pain
- Nausea and vomiting
In case of an emergency, call for medical help right away.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: Michael J. Fucci, DO
- Review Date: 12/2013 -
- Update Date: 01/14/2014 -


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