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This was the best new stuffing recipe I have made in years! I did cheat a little and use bread crumbs from a box, but added some smoked tenderloin that we had on smoker with the turkey and that really added a lovely punch! The hazlenuts complimented the green bean dish I made, which also included hazlenuts, and the tartness of the cherries and the goat cheese really cut thru the smoke of the turkey. Everyone agreed it was the best stuffing they had ever had! Thanks BA, for making my turkey dinner so outstanding this year!
This was my favorite part of the whole Thanksgiving dinner. It's just so good, with the cheese and ham and the tartness of the cranberries (I used them instead of cherries) and the thyme. If my whole Thanksgiving dinner floped, I knew this would save the evening. It's a dish to be repeated throughout the year. Enjoy!


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Cindy Weinstein, Green Sea Farms LLC With issues like citrus canker and citrus greening continuing to plague their industry, some Florida orange and grapefruit growers are starting to evaluate alternative crops that aren't as prone to disease or other pests.
Growers aren't looking for substitutes for citrus, says Bill Castle, professor emeritus of horticulture at the University of Florida's Citrus Research and Education Center in LakeAlfred.
"Growers are just looking for alternatives that would allow them to add to their bottomline and provide them some diversity.
"Blueberries and peaches already are well-established alternatives, and interest is growing in a handful of others, especially pomegranates, which have health benefits consumers find enticing."
"There are literally hundreds of varieties of pomegranates," says Castle, who has been investigating alternative crops in Florida since 2007.
A few varieties, like Azadi, Desertnyi, Salavatski and Medovyi Vahsha, look promising. But Castle says he has not yet analyzed the 100-plus varieties he's raising.
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Emory McTeer, owner of McTeer Farms Inc. in Haines City, Fla., inherited a pomegranate project from his late father, Harold B. McTeer, a citrus grower who was asked by the Lake Alfred research center to help evaluate pomegranates.
The project kicked off in spring 2009, and today McTeer has 180 trees with 44 varieties on 1 acre.
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Give yourself a set period of time (say, between three and six months) to focus on getting fit and eating right, and see how you do. Even if the scale doesn't quite get down to your goal weight, your new healthy habits will have body in a much better position for baby making. Paula Kashtan re: Q: Overweight and TTC? I do agree with whats written above, BUT my friend is over 300lbs and so is her DH and they conceive with no problem. They are about to have #2. KellB916 | re: Q: Overweight and TTC? I have always battled with my weight but I am now the heaviest I have ever been. I have just recently lost 12 lbs and I am still trying to lose another 25 before I feel good about getting pregnant. I am 5'5" 166 currently. Am I putting too much pressure on myself or is 25 lbs reasonable to get my body to the right weight for pregnancy? kate5779 | re: Q: Overweight and TTC? I am about a 100 lbs over weight and I am currently 14 weeks pregnant.... I have really been watching what I am eating and excercising, but I still worry about having problems throughout this pregnancy. I have not had any problems yet and made it threw the first trimester just fine. Is it ok for me to lose weight and be pregnant at the same time? Stephanie729 | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? I am about 50lbs overweight...I am 5'5 and weigh 200. My doctor told me that loosing weight is definately a good idea (which I already knew). BUT...she did say to only loose about 1-2lbs a week...don't do anything drastic when TTC. She said rapid weight loss or gain can throw ur ovulation and menstration all out of wack which would make it harder! So, yes definately work on shedding those pounds, but not drastically. She did say that once I get pregnant she definately does NOT want me to loose any weight, but to maintain where I am (as much as possible) and not go overboard when I do start gaining with baby. Stephanie729...she did say that the first trimester is the most vital, so if you made it thru that, I bet you will do just fine! Just keep eating better and exercising. Katiebuggs0128 | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? I too am about 50lbs overweight. I've been trying to loose SOMETHING for the past year and a half so far. I'm tired of waiting and just want to get it done. I hope I'm not being too selfish by putting myself & future baby in danger. Crystal | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? As mentioned above, being overweight, particularly obese, before entering pregnancy can increase risk of pregnancy complications. However, recent research also shows that it increases how fat your fetus, then newborn, then child, then teen, etc become. We all know how difficult it is to battle with weight. By doing our best to lose fat before getting pregnant, we improve the odds that our child won't have to have the same battles later in life. Don't do anything drastic because major energy (carb, fat) cutbacks all at once can hurt fertility, but even losing some body fat improves the chances of a healthy pregnancy and healthy baby. equinesci2005 | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? Here's a question: although I am not at my ideal body weight, I still have a healthy BMI, but DH is overweight. How does his weight affect our ability to concieve? JRockL | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? The hubs and I have just decided that we will start TTC in approx. six months. Its going to give us time to get healthy, we both need to lose, and prepare for the biggest life change ever. Also, it give him time to finish his MBA before any babies come about. Until we made this decision, I have been on a rollercoaster with weight, lost 40lbs, and have since gained it back. (Gotta love marriage, haha.) But my motivation is more for a potential child to be healthy more so than outward appearance. Hopefully we can make it happen and all of us get healthy at once. lauraking83 | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? When I got pregnant with my first I was only 30lbs overweight and only gained the recommended 35lbs and I had a totally problem free pregnancy. However, I never lost a single lb of baby weight and in the last 5.5 years have since gained - I am now 95lbs overweight and just starting to TTC baby #2 - I don't know yet how my weight will affect TTC as Jan 2010 will be my first month of TTC but I have been eating better for about a month and taking prenatal vitamins for 2 months so hopefully that will help. :) Our plan is to TTC for a few months and if we don't have any luck we'll take a two month break during which I will try to lose 15lbs and see if that helps. Good Luck to all of you TTC and Congratulations to all of you who've succeeded! :D ShirleyT83 | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? We were married in Jan 2010. We are not preventing pregnancy and would be thrilled to death to have a child;however, I know I am too heavy. You would think that is motivation to loose weight, but its not and tha makes me feel guilty! Grr GV0903 | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? What if you're UNDERWEIGHT??? I'm sure there are still risks. I'm not underweight for my size (5ft 100lbs) but is it to small to TTC? gavittharris | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? Yeah my story is kinda funny. I was about 80lbs overweight last year, and I knew I had to lose the pounds if I wanted a healthy pregnancy. I lost 45 of it in about 8 months time, and BOOM.... we conceive! I guess my body decided it was healthy enough to at least get pregnant! LOL starbliss | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? i've had an interesting experience with the weight loss. in june 2009 i weighed 303lbs. in nov 2009 i had gastric bypass surgery and i've lost 130lbs. i'm now bouncing around in the 170s which i'm extremely happy about. i spoke to my dietician b/c i am very close to TTC. since august i've been obsessing over losing another 25lbs to get close to my ideal weight and the scale just hasnt budged, but she told me that it might not. so i've come to terms with the possibility of getting prego at my weight, which is a hell of a lot better than getting prego at 300lbs. saramichelleb | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? I was over 300 lbs and lost about 75 lbs. My doctor said I needed to lose 25 more, but the waiting was killing us and so we started TTC. I was still losing weight and cycle was all over the place. Once I stopped trying to lose weight, we got pregnant. So I am now 4 months pregnant, have gained some weight but nothing too bad. So far I have had no complications and am completely healthy. So yes losing weight is important, but don't kill yourself over it. mcapps143 | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? I think this is a very wide spread misconception. Some couples conceive just fine being over weight, while others have issues. Please do not let this post scare you into thinking just because you are heavy you are predisposed to "preeclampsia and gestational diabetes". There is a lot of research done which disproves this claim. Be happy, be pregnant and love your baby! Rawr08 | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? Hey there, I only wanted to comment on the gestatonal diabetes bit. I was not overweight when I got pregnant, gained only baby weight .... pregnancy killed my appetite and for the most part I had to force myself to eat, so all the weight I gained was my belly. (I gained 8 kilos in all); and by the time our daughter was 3 months old I weighed less than I had at the start :). Maybe I should mention that I live in the city, we don't have a car so I walk everywhere, plus have a dog to walk. Nonetheless, I had gestational diabetes. I wasn't too surprised since I'm hypoglycemic, but it had nothing to do with my weight or lifestyle. It's probably more comfortable being pregnant and not being overweight, but don't think that these complications come only as a result of it :). Enjoy your pregnancy, no matter how much you weigh! It's the most wonderful time :). Magsk | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? I'm 270 pounds. I am trying to lose some weight. I have already lost 7 pounds. Cause my husband and I want to start a family. I have a herniated disk as well, so should I wait at least till I lose 50 pounds more. dkocak1981 | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? Every time when I was pregnant(three times) I had health problems but only one disease relapse every three months. It was a nightmare till a doctor recommended me to do the treatment for yeast infection. At the third pregnancy finally I didn't have that problem. It was a relief to me because I didn't have to do another treatment to endanger my unborn baby. marta8080 | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? I have a 10 month old son, am pregnant with our second, and I have a full time high stress job. I am also about 60 lbs overweight, I have recently lost about 30lbs because we started planning for our second and I wanted to be healthier. We were surprised a little earlier than expected as we had not planned to start TTC for 3 more months! So I had to put my weight loss goals on hold. I would like to share some advice with you all, being overweight and pregnant or TTC. As things don't always follow our perfect timeline, sometimes losing weight is not an option. It is better to be at a healthy weight before TTC but if you become pregnant, the best thing to do is eat right for you and your baby. Losing weight before becoming pregnant is ideal because being a mom is not easy, and the more extra weight you have the harder it makes it. alysia122888 | getting-pregnant-if-youre-overweight I weigh 200 pounds but I'm built big I was 9 pounds when I was born my shoulders where wide and my stomach was small the drs told my mom id always be bigger then most people my age because the way I'm built .. I lost 5 pounds but I wanna lose some more I need to be 169 to join the navy can someone please tell me the best way to lose weight quick I don't like being over weight hdm2012 | Q&A: Getting pregnant if you're overweight? I would suggest worrying more about your health than your weight, if it's a major concern. 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Terrible Terry Allen: Combat General of World War II — The Life of an American Soldier
By Gerald Astor
Chapter 2: Terry Allen's West Point
Sam Allen settled into the role of a garrison officer without the credentials conferred upon those who actually went to war or commanded troops in the field. After his tour at Fort Monroe during the Spanish-American War, he served at a number of field, and then coast, artillery posts, which became a separate bunch in 1907. He oversaw coast artillery unites in the harbors of Boston, New York, and Pensacola; slowly he rose up in rank. In 1901, the Allens had their third child, Mary Conchita de la Mesa Allen.
Terry Allen's acquaintance with West Point began with his father's tour as a teacher. Between the ages of three and seven, he feasted on the panorama of smartly uniformed young men amid a citadel that crowned the scenic splendor of massive fortress-type buildings ensconced on the shores of a magnificent river. There was pomp and circumstance aplenty to seduce the imagination of a boy, and over the years Samuel Allen undoubtedly transmitted to Terry his nostalgic affection for his life as a cadet.
When the family then moved to a series of army posts, the child indulged himself in a passion for riding. As an artillery officer, Samuel Allen frequently pursued his duties while in the saddle, and it was natural for his offspring to emulate his style. In her fading years, his mother, Concepcion Allen, recalled her small boy in the saddle, proudly riding off to accompany his father on maneuvers. By age ten, Terry felt totally comfortable in the saddle.
Sam Allen — the somewhat free-spirited, joking, dancing, gregarious cadet and young officer captured in the memories of Fish and in his own letters — had become a more reserved man with considerable respect for the dignity and discipline of the army. Terry Allen recalled that while his father was a captain he refused to have a telephone installed in his home. "I don't want to telephone my seniors and I won't have my junior officers calling me." But, for all of the parent's concern for decorum and the code of "an officer and a gentleman," the enlisted personnel of the day were cut from a different cloth, and their children likewise.
The rough-and-tumble log of youngsters Terry's age, many of them the spawn of enlisted personnel, were his natural playmates. Even at an early age he showed signs of leadership, coupled with a reputation that was less than salubrious. Allen reported that he once came across a contemporary in tears, and the boy explained that his mother had just spanked him. When Allen inquired why, his companion explained "Because I was playing with you." According to Liebling, Allen said, 'My opinion of myself went up like a rocket." Aside from his adventures with other army brats, Allen spent considerable time with the lesser ranks stationed at the camps, giving him a lifelong empathy toward enlistd men, not to mention a taste for some of their habits. He informed Liebling that along with horsemanship, he had learned at a tender age how to smoke, chew, cuss, and fight. He also surely became aware of how much the soldiers favored drinking.
Terry never doubted the kind of career he would follow. Having lived at West Point for four years and enjoyed his life at army bases, he expected to follow in his father's footsteps. While he took for granted that as the son of a graduate and a colonel on active duty he would receive an appointment, he apparently had not foreseen that the U.S.M.A. demanded a disciplined behavior and a certain academic proficiency.
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I had a lot of time to reflect this weekend as I shoveled the snow from my slippery porch roof for, oh, I don't know, the 10th time this winter. I started out as I usually do, struggling to keep my balance, griping about the fools that would build a porch on a New Hampshire home with such a slight pitch that snow not only stays clung to it, but that it builds up ice dams and subsequent water leaks inside the domicile. After about 30 minutes of this, something magical happened. I stopped grumbling under my breath, stood up straight and just stared off across the snow covered forest a while. The air was still and the branches all had this white frosting on them, set against a beautiful blue sky. I realized that this view is only possible from my rooftop; my snowy, shovely rooftop.
Perhaps it was the change of perspective that started me thinking: you know, I need to give the silly builder a break. After all, he's only human. I've made mistakes too and there's no joy in stinkin' thinkin'. I'm better than that. So rather than cuss the guy out the whole time I shovel, why not think constructively about what I would have done differently? I ditched the negativity and poured all that negative energy into brainstorming instead:
When I bought the house, I bought the problems too. Self: Stop whining and figure out how to get stronger and better instead.
If I designed a roof, I'd look around at the existing roofs of older homes in the area. I'll note that they are all steep pitch and think: perhaps there is a good reason for that. There's typically wisdom in age.
I'd think beyond the beautiful sunny June day I picked to build a porch, into December and consider that snow, unlike rain, does not run off as well on a roof with barely any pitch to it. A little planning = a lot less back-breaking work.
I'd give the previous builder a break, realizing that blaming him for my current situation does nothing to him, only makes me more irritable and gets me nowhere.
By the time I finished shoveling and climbed down from the roof I felt as though I had learned enough to offset the time I spent and the sore muscles I got from the work. These are great principles to apply to my business world as well:
There's no joy in whining. It's simply counterproductive and doesn't teach you anything. You signed on for this work, now stop blaming others for your pain and think about how to make it work for you instead of against you.
Consider the wisdom of others that did this work before you. What did they do and why did they do it? Does it apply to your situation? What are the principles that guided them to success?
Don't be fooled by the beautiful sunny day your in. Think like a masterful chess player; twelve to fourteen moves ahead. Consider your surroundings not only now, but 6 mo.s or a year from now and plan accordingly.
Don't waste time and energy placing blame and growling at the past. What's done is done. Learn what you can and grow capabilities for the future.
At some point we will all find ourselves in circumstances we don't like and can do nothing to change. The silver lining is to employ some progressive thinking and pull all the learning and growth you can out of that situation and use it to get on top of future situations like this. Then even situations that are less than ideal become a valuable part of our lives. You only get one shot at this thing called life. Make it a point to use every bit of it to reach your potential, even the risky rooftops.


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Random Funny Sayings and Phrases
Some of the best of random funny sayings and phrases for my blog readers, i am sure you will laugh out loud
- A POOR man says, "To see is to believe…" But a RICH man says, "Believe it & you will see it!!!"
- Its weird but must admit that, The last drop of pee always falls on underwear. FZFP6F8TFD2B
- You can't hug yourself. You can't cry on your own shoulder. Life is all about living for one another, so live with those who love you most.
- Think Thousand times before takina a decision But- After taking decision never turn back even if you get Thousand difficulties!!
- In life, think of mean people like sand paper. They may scratch you and hurt you, but at the end, you come out smooth and polished and the mean person is just worn and ugly."
- Nothing is this world comes easy. You have to work to make things happen.
- "The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."- Oprah
- Always keep a bottle of wine in the fridge for special occasions…. Sometimes the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of wine in the fridge….
- Rock Bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
- Omg Omg ..my iphone battery is low …how am I suppose to go to the toilet ….:) new age new problem
- Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner." – Sigourney Weaver
- The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. – Aristotle Onassis
- Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
- Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up cause they are looking for ideas. – Paula Poundstone
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elder, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin
- Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. – Bruce Lee
- As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent bring happy death. – Leonardo da Vinci
- Life is not divided into semesters. you don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. – Bill Gates
- Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. – Alber Einstein
- The only rock i know that stays stead, the only institution I know that works is the family – Lee Iacocca
- Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. – George Burns
- Love is friendship, set on fire. – Jeremey Taylor
- Its not lack of love, but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Money won't create success. The freedom to make it will. – Nelson Mandela
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but its reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale. – Zig Ziglar
- THe only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. – Edith Wharton
- All of life's riddles are answered in the movies. – steve Martin
- Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. -Billy Wilder
- Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music. – Ronald Reagan
- I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. – Elvis Presley
- Music is a safe kind of high. – Jimi Hendrix.
- Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford
- We didn't lose the game, we just ran out of time. – Vince Lombardi
- The breakfast of champions is not cereal, its the opposition.


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Selby Gallery - Gallery I: A Legacy Inscribed: The Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts. Gallery II: The Great American Graphic Novel thru February 18, 2015.
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The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, which preserves and maintains Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, has selected Patkau Architects of Vancouver as the winner of a design competition for new cottages at the site in support of its educational programs. The other finalists are second-place winner Wendell Brunette Architects of Phoenix and third-place winner Olson Kundig Architects of Seattle.
Patkau's winning design for six small cottages will serve as the basis of a final design pending approvals and fundraising. The conservancy will build the cottages on the grounds of the 5,000-acre Bear Run Nature Reserve that surrounds Fallingwater, some distance from the house. The new cottages will expand lodging capacity for participants in Fallingwater Institute's educational program.


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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
READING, Pa. – Reading United A.C. defeated the 2012 NPSL Champions FC Lehigh Valley United Sonic 2-0 on Tuesday night to advance to the second round of the 100th Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Reading used a two-goal outburst shortly after halftime to secure the club's second win in U.S. Open Cup history. With the win, Reading will face fellow Philadelphia Union affiliate the Harrisburg City Islanders next Tuesday in the second round.
The first half saw Reading hold a decided advantage in possession. Much like Saturday's 8-0 demolition of the Westchester Flames, United came out aggressively, playing large portions of the match in Lehigh Valley's half of the field. Sonic countered by staying well organized, thwarting wave after wave of pressure.
Reading's first real opportunity of the match came in the 19th minute when midfielder Manolo Sanchez struck a ball from the right wing that hammered off the crossbar and was eventually cleared. Whether it was the excitement of a cup tie or excellent marking, several Reading players saw their shots sail over the goal. United outshot their opponents 7-3 in the first half, but only forced Sonic keeper Charlie Sales to make one save.
Lehigh Valley had a golden opportunity to catch Reading on a counter in the 37th minute. Following a Reading corner kick, Sonic cleared and launched a counter-attack that saw them have a three-on-one advantage. Great hustle by United defender Jimmy Ockford and midfielder Keegan Rosenberry broke up the play and ended Sonic's opportunity.
With the half winding down, Larry Ndjock fired a shot that rattled the post. In the ensuing scramble to clear the ball, the Reading bench shouted for handball, but referee Eric Weisbrod allowed the final seconds of play to tick off before whistling for halftime.
The second half began with United again exerting pressure in Sonic's half. The aggressive tactics worked and in the 50th minute when Reading United found the breakthrough goal. Ndjock began a run down the right side of the field, with Philadelphia Union academy graduate Darius Madison tracking the run in the center channel. Njdock beat his mark and found Madison alone in the Sonic penalty area. With the goal at his mercy, Madison coolly stroked the ball into the back of the net to hand United a well-deserved 1-0 lead.
With the advantage, Reading continued to press forward. Right back Wes Charpie earned a throw in following an aggressive run down the right flank. Charpie picked out captain Steve Neumann on the throw-in, who took the ball down the end line as he drove toward goal. From a nearly impossible angle, Neumann looked up and saw the keeper off his line and fired a shot that nestled just inside the side netting to double United's advantage.
"I just saw the goalie off a little bit, the guys were asking me if it was a shot or a cross," said Neumann. "I'll take it to my grave that it was a shot," the Georgetown midfielder said with a smile.
With the insurance goal, United went looking for a third goal to kill off the match. Creating more opportunities to score, Reading forced Sales into several acrobatic saves to keep the match at 2-0. As the scoreboard clock showed 10 minutes remaining, Sonic desperately went searching for a goal. It was end-to-end stuff in the closing moments as each team attacked and then counterattacked. United goalkeeper John McCarthy did well to save a stinging long-range effort from Sonic forward Joe Sales.
The late surge by FC Lehigh Valley United came up empty as McCarthy, who made four saves on the evening, and his defense earned their second consecutive clean sheet to start the 2013 season.
"Couldn't be more pleased with the way the players listened and how they responded," Reading coach Brendan Burke said. "I'm going to enjoy coaching this team this summer," the head coach said with a grin from ear to ear.
With the 2-0 victory, Reading will host fellow Union affiliate and USL PRO side Harrisburg City Islanders in the Second Round of the 100th U.S. Open Cup next Tuesday at Exeter's Don Thomas Stadium. This will mark the second time the clubs have met in the Cup, with Harrisburg scoring twice in the final five minutes to come from behind and beat Reading 2-1 in 2011.
Reading United return to Premier Development League action this Sunday when they host the New Jersey LUSO Rangers at Don Thomas Stadium. Kickoff for that match is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tickets are available at www.readingunitedac.com. Reading United offer 2013 Game Day Youth Packages, Group Discount Packages, Birthday Parties and Fundraising Ticket Packages. Contact Denise Strohmayr at email@example.com for all your group needs.


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Onboarding gives them lots of information about the company (videos, online programs, even—heaven forbid!—written material), introductions to senior members of staff and management, informal sessions where groups of newbies can get to know each other—anything that eases the tension of getting started in the real world. Onboarding recognizes that, as the songwriter Randy Newman says, "It's a jungle out there/Disorder and confusion everywhere" for these neophytes. Smart AEC firms are finding ways to soothe their fears, to send these young staffers on the path to long and prosperous careers.
CE universities. More and more firms are going whole hog on their continuing education programs, turning them into full-scale "universities" and hiring professional educators and managers to run them. If all you're offering employees are brown-bag lunches sponsored by product manufacturers, you're way behind the learning curve. CE should be the lifeblood of career development at any progressive AEC firm.
Leveraging your buying power. AEC firms are using their purchasing power with vendors—cell phone companies, auto dealers, insurance companies, etc.—to get special deals for their employees. The only cost to the firm is some administrative time, but the benefit to employees—especially the lower-paid ones—can be a much-appreciated perk.
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Wild-and-crazy benefits. We're seeing firms going way over the top to keep their prized employees. One firm paid off a key employee's student loans. At another of our "Best Firms To Work For" everyone in the company gets to take a guest on a five-day vacation (with pay) to a choice of holiday locales—pretty much on the company's tab. Firms are "surprising" valued employees with elaborate gifts and prizes, but it's not the money that matters. It's the special touch that says, "We really value you."
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One week after celebrating its second anniversary, the Icinga open source monitoring system rolls out version 1.4.
In a blog post today, Nagios fork Icinga announced the availability of version 1.4. "This time round we have many new features to show in the Classic UI and new Icinga Web, alongside bug fixes and much behind-the-scenes development in Core, IDOUtils and API. The two UIs were definitely this release's shining stars – check out Michael F's post for more info," the post says. Visit the Icinga website to find out more or download the new release.
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Yesterday, Slate published a 1,733 word adapted-extract from Eric Lichtblau's upcoming book, Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice. The section, while full of other interesting nuggets, is notable for its insider account of the tense moments leading up to The New York Times's belated decision to publish Lichtblau and James Risen's blockbuster December 16, 2005 story on the Bush administration's warrantless NSA wiretapping program.
Gabe Sherman, who was, at that time, a writer for The New York Observer, is something of an expert on what happened at the Times before publication. That's why it's weird that yesterday, in writing on Slate's excerpt for The New Republic, he overstepped by suggesting that "Bill Keller's prior public comments on the episode now are contradicted by Lichtblau's version of events."
Why does this matter? We still don't have a complete explanation for why the Times declined to run after a delay of at least a year. There are a lot of possible answers: that they wanted to avoid accusations of an October surprise shortly before the 2004 presidential election; that they were cowed by an atmosphere of fear; that they bought the administration's claim that disclosing the program would unnecessarily aid and abet terrorism; that the story wasn't truly ready; or yes, that they finally acted only to forestall being scooped by James Risen's book. It could be all, none, or some combination of the above.
Lichtblau presumably knows a lot of the story. Yesterday, he offered just a glimpse, which we would be wise to read strictly. But here's what Sherman offered yesterday on "The Plank":
A lot of this confirms what we already know. But the most salient disclosure in Lichtblau's account comes later. Lichtblau writes that Risen's book was the "trigger" that spurred Times editors to finally run the long-awaited NSA investigation.
"Risen spoke with our editors about what he was contemplating, and so began weeks of discussions between him and the editors that ultimately helped to set the story back on track," he writes.
But re-reading Lichtblau, there's a bit more nuance. Take a look:
One night in the spring of 2005, [Risen] called me out to his home in suburban Maryland and sat me down at his computer. There on the computer screen was a draft of a chapter called simply "The Program." It was about the NSA's wiretapping operation. "I'm thinking of putting this in the book," he said. I sat and stared at the screen in silence. "You sure you know what you're doing?" I asked finally. He shrugged.
Risen spoke with our editors about what he was contemplating, and so began weeks of discussions between him and the editors that ultimately helped to set the story back on track. Risen's book was a trigger, but we realized we weren't in the paper yet.
Notice how Lichtblau says that it was "a" trigger, and not, as Sherman wrote, "the" trigger. Also, note how Lichtblau and Risen's computer-front conversation, as recounted, is remarkably undefinitive: I'm thinking about, you sure?, and then a shrug. That vagueness is only underscored by the next sentence's use of the word "contemplating." What, exactly was he contemplating?
It's not at all clear at that point what Risen had decided to include or not include in his book. And, as Sherman himself reported for the Observer in January 2006, the Times's editors didn't even know that "The Program" chapter would be in the book at the time they published the article.
But still, Sherman draws this conclusion:
Lichtblau's Slate piece is the first time that a Times staffer involved in the proceedings has disclosed publicly that Risen's book did in fact pressure the Times to revisit the NSA article that was sitting in the hopper. For his part, Bill Keller's prior public comments on the episode now are contradicted by Lichtblau's version of events.
Keller said in a statement in late December 2005: "The publication was not timed to the Iraqi election, the Patriot Act debate, Jim [Risen's] forthcoming book or any other event. We published the story when we did because after much hard work it was fully reported, checked and ready, and because, after listening respectfully to the Administration's objections, we were convinced there was no good reason not to publish it."
Keller later told New York's Joe Hagan that the "conventional wisdom" that Risen's book influenced the Times to run the NSA piece was "bullshit."


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My husband and I own a small A frame 30 year old cabin that is close to the water. The cabin is a typical A frame, with huge beams that support the roof and go from the inside and extend outside a few feet. We started noticing some dry rot at the end of the exposed outside beams last year, (these are about four feet off the ground) and this year it has really progressed. We can stick a screw driver in the end up to six or more inches. Should we cut the neds of these beams off and attach new wood somehow? Or should we fill the rotted ends with something and cap them or are there other options? Any advice would be appreciated,
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I am no expert, just a DIY. I had some spots outside with some rot (wet rot and some dry rot) I repaired. I removed all the bad wood and let it dry for at least a few good hot dry days so any moisture was gone. I think I also sprayed it with some bleach to kill any mold spores, I think you can use borax solution also. Applied wood hardener (minwax makes some)it makes the wood harder if it is a bit soft. Then used wood filler (not wood putty) It drys pretty hard. Then I primed and painted it. Its been a few years since the repair and it seems to be holding up. I probably should have sanding it a bit more where I used it but it's not in a area really seen. |
Do these ends stick out beyond the roof line so that they are exposed directly to the elements? And is any of the damaged stuff structural (meaning the rotted area is directly supporting something)? |
Can't say without a photo. |
Whatever your solution, be advised that dry rot needs complete removal lest it begin anew on any wood attachment. I personally do not know whether bleach or mildewcide is effective. Chlorine/hypochlorite has destructive properties in:re wood besides most other materials. As Macv says, hard to say without a photo, but presumably the tails though part of the load bearing member would be less loaded and amenable to splicing. |
I agree with previous post - after applying wood hardner ( I use the Minwax) let it dry for a day. As for a filler, I use regular Bondo. I then sand smooth and prime and paint. |
In general, it's best to remove as much damaged wood as possible, and replace it with a paste EPOXY, like PC-Woody (strong, wood-colored), or PC-7 (very strong, but gray), or PC-Concrete or Simpson Strong-Tie ET/SET anchoring epoxy (KILLER strong!... but concrete gray color). Beware of Bondo and similar auto body fillers. They are made to be sealed with paint, and will soak up a LOT of water if they are left unpainted. A bleach solution WILL kill everything IT CAN GET TO in wood, but TSP (tri-sodium phosphate) will enhance the process by making the solution "wetter", and thus able to penetrate deeper, and GET TO more rot. Most brands of TSP will have recommended proportions of water, bleach, and TSP on the box. TSP is sometimes marketed as "Deck Cleaner" in order to boost the price of this simple chemical. As for the Minwax wood hardener, it might be OK, in some apps, but it's pretty lame compared to the LOW-VISCOSITY EPOXY RESINS designed for the task of soaking into wood, consolidating the loose stuff, and then curing into... epoxy. ;') There's "PC Rot-Terminator" from PC Products, available on Amazon.com, and "RotFix" from System Three, available at Woodcraft stores. It's not cheap. With any epoxy product, THOROUGH mixing of the 2 parts is essential to success. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Some useful info/video on rot and products...
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The police blotter is among the most popular features in the Denver Daily News, and Daniel Williams is the reason. Weekdays for over three years, Williams has trekked to the tiny press room at the Denver Police Department's Cherokee Street headquarters to page through reports, and until recently, he found plenty of fodder: minor incidents, major felonies, and everything in between. But beginning about six months ago, the number and variety of reports fell off precipitously. The stack went from an average of 150 documents per day, by Williams's reckoning, to a mere handful, and the ones available tended toward the trivial — stolen credit cards, lost cell phones — with the most significant offenses often missing entirely.
"Every day in Denver, there'll be a burglary or robbery of a business and six or seven serious assaults," Williams says. "These are facts: You can check my police reports to prove it. Then, suddenly, there's nothing. And those things just didn't stop happening."
Maybe not, but TV, radio and print reporters no longer heard about many of them — and all because of what representatives from the DPD and City Hall say are computer upgrades intended to make life easier and more efficient for police officers, the general public and journalists alike.
In late January, following a steady rain of complaints from folks at assorted news agencies, the DPD began placing a log of barebones case listings in the press room, and Lieutenant Ron Saunier, who supervises the department's public information officers, began e-mailing similar data to assorted media members shortly thereafter. But Williams is far from impressed by the new procedure. "It doesn't make any sense," he maintains. "It's a terrible idea."
The changes were necessitated by Denver's implementation of a new Versadex Records Management System. According to Jeremy Bronson, who served until recently as a special assistant to Denver mayor John Hickenlooper and the city's DPD liaison, the RMS should help the department move away from a paper-based approach. "Up until 2007, an officer on the street would respond to a report of a crime and fill out a paper offense-report form, and that would go to the records bureau in the department, where someone would type in information," Bronson notes. "But throughout last year, we switched to officers having laptops in their cars. They type the information into the laptops, which are connected wirelessly to the Records Management System. That enables the RMS to be populated in real time."
The advantages the RMS offers the department are obvious, and Bronson touts a benefit for the citizenry as a whole: Denvergov.org/DenverMaps/CrimeMapping, a page on the city's website. Internet users can seek out crime figures by neighborhood, park, school and so on. Too bad this tool is of little use to reporters. The site is a bit glitchy — and even if everything works perfectly, the listings only display a few basics: date, time, general location and type of crime. In contrast, the old police reports sported the names of the individuals involved plus a narrative — a description that immediately let journalists know if the occurrence was intriguing or routine.
Bronson says staffers working on the RMS understood they needed to come up with a way for reporters to access more complete reports, but he's not certain why a strategy wasn't in place before the transition began. As for Saunier, he points to the task's complexity. In the past, he notes, "someone physically had to look at each report and redact information in the narrative that we have to remove under state law" — names of juveniles or sexual assault victims, Social Security numbers, etc. The technical crew was asked to streamline this practice, and finding a fix proved daunting. At one point, Saunier says they thought they'd licked the problems; then, during a test, he discovered that victims of a homicide and a suicide had been identified in reports before next of kin was notified, precipitating another delay. During this period, he speculates that records personnel may have filled the press room with copies of paper reports filled out by people who came into the office to report minor crimes. If so, that would explain why sheets about petty matters continued to reach scribes, while the serious stuff vanished.
In the meantime, reporters and editors were left to wonder what was going on — and recognizing a link between the press-room developments and the RMS required a very long memory. Sarah Huntley, the former assistant city editor for the Rocky Mountain News, who recently became the public information officer for the Boulder Police Department, says Chief of Police Gerry Whitman "gave the media a heads-up two and a half or three years ago that they were going to this system. They were trying to determine which media outlets checked the reports on a regular basis and what kind of impact it might have." Still, she didn't make the connection between the RMS and the shrinking stacks until she asked Saunier about it during a meeting on another topic last fall.
This dearth of communication naturally spawned conspiracy theories. Indeed, Denver Daily News editor Tad Rickman admits that the vague explanations he received from DPD public-information officer Sonny Jackson made him wonder if the city was trying to artificially burnish its reputation by tinkering with crime statistics prior to August's Democratic National Convention. Rocky Mountain News assistant city editor Luke Clarke doesn't go that far, but even if serious crimes weren't being filtered out on purpose, he feels that "the net effect ends up being the same whether they intend it or not. It's not consistent with open government, which I believe to be Mayor Hickenlooper's policy." Denver Post public affairs editor Chuck Murphy sounds similar concerns. The shortage of reports "forced us to rely on spokespeople for the police department and others a lot more than I would like," he concedes. "I would prefer that Sonny Jackson not edit the metro section."


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Olympics Drinking Game: The First One to Spot a Head of State Buys the Next Round
The Vancouver Fairmont Hotel's exterior and its lobby bar.
The Fairmont Hotel on West Georgia Street in Vancouver is where all of the politicos in town for the Olympics are camping out. It's hard to miss the fact that United States vice president Joe Biden has set up shop there; the luxury hotel is swarming with his security team. We totally got a "what's up" nod from Latvian president Valdis Zatlers when we saw our party pal exiting his car outside. Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper and governor general Michaëlle Jean held a reception at the hotel on Friday to welcome foreign dignitaries. And while not a politician, Ralph Lauren's David Lauren counts as fashion royalty, and he was put up there along with his girlfriend, Lauren Bush, whose grandfather and uncle were once leaders of the free world. In fact, there are so many elected officials staying at the Fairmont that it's become a bit of a joke: head to the lobby bar and whoever spots a head of state buys the next round.


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Both Pokemon slumped on the floor as the flash flooded the chamber, their eyes temporarily malfunctioning. Having lived in the dim lighting of the building the majority of their lives, the flash was simply unbearable. And I thought I was photosensitive. But anyway, this was the best chance to get the hell out of here, and I intended to.
"I guess we should get out of these two Pokemon's range now. Should we go deeper into the building or just bolt out of this joint?" I asked my trainers. They wint take too long to decide. Or I hoped they wouldn't.
Name: Cameron LeRoy
Encounters left: 11
Pokemon Captured: Skamory/M/Sturdy/Rash, Drifloon/???/Aftermath/Relaxed
Total Items: Honey (6x), Max Potion (5x), Full Heal (5x), Full Restore (3x), Type Repellant (3x), Mega Poffin (1x), Pokeplayer (1x), Blank Voice Disk (1x), Skarmory Voice Disk (1x), Drifloon Voice Disk (1x), Swablu Voice Disk (1x), Spicy Splendor (5 Sweet Sensation (5x), Dreamily Dry (5x), Sour Starfruit (5x), Bitter Berry (5x), Mystery Mist (5x), Calming Fragrance Plus (4x), Pokedoll (15x), (1x), DigitalCamera (1x), Special Map (1x), Park Balls (3x), Hyperballs (9x), Supreme Parkball (1x), Superball (3x)
Pokemon Stats:
Pokemon: Houndooom
Nickname: Shadowpanther
Gender: Male
Ability: Early Bird
Nature: Gentle
TM/HM/BM/SM/MT: Dark Pulse, Solarbeam, Hidden Power (Ice), Sunny Day, Snatch, Torment Taunt, Substitute, Will-o-Wisp, Payback, Sludge Bomb, Snore, Rest, Secret Power, Double Team, Captivate, Rest, Iron Tail, Facade, Swagger, Sucker Punch, Super Fang
Health: 80%
Status: Normal (Always out of ball)
Pokemon: Gardevoir
Nickname: Mindbender
Gender: Female
Ability: Synchronize
Nature: Calm
TM/HM/BM/SM/MT: Thunderbolt, Snatch, Grass Knot, Attract, Thunder Wave, Rest, Sleep Talk, Protect, Substitute, Reflect, Light Screen, Shadow Ball, Hidden Power (Grass), Psych Up, Skill Swap, Rain Dance, Trick Room, Focus Blast, Swagger, Charge Beam Icy Wind, Encore, Will-o-Wisp, Confuse Ray, Heal Bell
Health: 100%
Status: Normal
Pokemon: Slowbro
Nickname: Kickback
Gender: Male
Ability: Own Tempo
Nature: Calm
TM/HM/BM/SM/MT: Calm Mind, Surf, Waterfall, Ice Punch, Thunderwave, Tri Attack, Ice Beam, Substitute, Brine, Trick Room, Light Screen, Reflect, Toxic, Earthquake, Shadow Ball, Swagger, Brick Break, Flamethrower, Facade, Skill Swap, Grass Knot
Health: 100%
Status: Normal
Pokemon: Porygon-Z
Nickname: Cybershock
Gender: Genderless
Ability: Adaptability
Nature: Calm
TM/HM/BM/SM/MT: Ice Beam, Shadow Ball, Toxic, Thunder Wave, Substitute, Thunderbolt, Hidden Power (Fighting), Psychic, Dark Pulse, Protect, Trick Room, Rain Dance, Reflect, Pain Spilt, Barrier, Trick
Health: 100%
Status: Normal (Out of ball) (Defense really sharply raised, Sp. Atk raised, Speed and Sp. Def sharply raised)
Pokemon: Salamence
Nickname: Skyfire
Gender: Male
Ability: Intimidate
Nature: Brave
TM/HM/BM/SM/MT: Roar, Earthquake, Stone Edge, Roost, Brick Break, Aerial Ace, Shadow Claw, Dragon Dance, Outrage, Aqua Tail, Refresh
Health: 100%
Status: Normal
Pokemon: Manectric
Nickname: Hotshot
Gender: Male
Ability: Static
Nature: Calm
TM/HM/BM/SM/MT: Toxic, Flamethrower, Thunderbolt, Swagger, Rain Dance, Double Team, Captivate, Rest, Iron Tail, Facade, Hidden Power (Poison), Refresh, Signal Beam, Magnet Rise
Health: 100%
Status: Normal (Sp. Def lowered sharply)
Name: Siless
Encounters: 11
Pokemon Captured: Swablu/F/Natural Cure/Sassy, Starly/M/Keen Eye/Naive, Murkrow/F/Super Luck/Quirky
Total Items: 3x Park Balls, 1x Full Heal, 1x Hyper Ball, 1x Super Ball, 1x Digital Camera, 1x Pokeplayer
Pokemon Stats:
Pokemon: Gardevoir
Nickname: Sela
Gender: Female
Ability: Trace
Nature: Mild
TM/HM/BM/SM/MT: Hidden Power Dragon, Thunderbolt, Destiny Bond (BM), Shadow Ball, Focus Blast, Swagger, Attract, Skill Swap, Protect, Rain Dance, Grass Knot, Charge Beam, Light Screen, Taunt, Safeguard, Snatch, Torment, Toxic, Flash (HM), Thunder Wave, Reflect, Psych Up
Health: 84%
Status: Normal (Sp. Atk sharply raised, Attack lowered sharply, Speed raised, Evasiveness raised)
Pokemon: Ludicolo
Nickname: Teddson
Gender: Male
Ability: Rain Dish
Nature: Jolly
TM/HM/BM/SM/MT: Hidden Power Fighting, Surf (HM), Attract, Ice Beam, Waterfall (HM), Strength (HM), Giga Drain, Swords Dance, Seed Bomb (MT), Ice Punch (MT), Substitute
Health: 78%
Status: Infatuated
Pokemon: Dragonite
Nickname: Tear
Gender: Female
Ability: Inner Focus
Nature: Gentle
TM/HM/BM/SM/MT: Fire Blast, Surf (HM), Waterfall (HM), Earthquake, Strength (HM), Fly (HM)
Health: 100%
Status: Normal
Pokemon: Mismagius
Nickname: Missy
Gender: Female
Ability: Levitate
Nature: Sassy
TM/HM/BM/SM/MT: Flash (HM), Calm Mind, Thunderbolt, Thunder Wave, Protect
Health: 49%
Status: Normal (Lucky Chant performed)


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Luck of the Irish: McGinn makes his campaign move
Location, location, location, and the location where Mayor Mike McGinn chose to announce his bid for reelection spoke volumes: far from the madding club crowds of Capitol Hill and Belltown that helped drive his first election, at the Filipino Community Center on MLK Way in the heart of the Rainier Valley. It was a perfect stage for a perfectly casual event, in a suitably undersized, overstuffed room that reinforced the impression of clamoring urgency for, as supporters chanted twice, four more years.
A representative selection of minority community leaders sang his praises. El Centro director (and campaign co-chair) Estela Ortega, who, "in the spirit of Roberto Maestas," capped her passionate panegyric with a few fist-pumping rounds of "Viva Mike McGinn!" Rep. Kip Tokuda, fellow co-chair Tony Lee, and Mohammed Yussuf variously echoed the themes she sounded: The mayor listens. He didn't cut social programs during the bust, and now that the money's rolling back in he'll expand them (including ours). He gets "tangible results": rebuilding the seawall, a new basketball stadium, clearing the snow from the streets (a dig at McGinn's predecessor, Greg Nickels). He got the libraries open on Sundays and a jumbo Families and Education levy passed.
"Ordinary people see Mike McGinn as one of them," Ortega declared. But after three years the mayor looks less ordinary and more mayoral than when civic style mavens dismissed him as the shambolic "unmayor." He's slimmer, better suited and coiffed, and more relaxed and confident with press and public.
Three years is time to learn a lot on the job. When he enumerated his transportation accomplishments and goals, Mayor post-McSchwinn knew not to mention bikeways to this crowd. Many here still smart at seeing steep Othello Street/Myrtle Place squeezed down to one crowded lane each way for bike lanes that no pedalers use — while no one thought to include bike lanes when Sound Transit ran rail down wide, level MLK Way.
McGinn also knew better than to mention the massive upzone for South Lake Union, where Vulcan has drastically accelerated Seattle's long march north of investment, development and employment (even drawing Amazon from Beacon Hill). And to make his announcement as far as possible away from Allentown/Amazonia.
Certainly the event was much warmer and livelier for being here. And it was a far cry from McGinn's most celebrated, or notorious, previous Southeast appearance, an "Embrace Seattle" town hall last June at the Northwest African American Museum (where Greg Nickels announced his last re-election bid). That meeting quickly turned into a shouting match over police behavior. "This isn't productive," the mayor declared, and walked out. That may have been an appropriate response to a small squad of dedicated meeting busters ("My staff tells me they're anarchists"). But he also cancelled his next Southeast town hall, leaving some in the neighborhood feeling snubbed.
Still, today's session reinforced outsiders' impression of Southeast Seattle as bedrock McGinn country, following on his rare gesture of opening an Othello campaign office in 2009. But precinct maps show he got nowhere near the same overwhelming vote there that he did in the Central District, Ballard, Fremont and south Capitol Hill. McGinn scored big on Beacon Hill and in gentrifying Columbia City, with its concentration of young city employees. Mallahan cleaned up in already-genteel Seward Park, and in water-view neighborhoods throughout the city. But much of the district, including poorer, minority-heavy precincts in Rainier Beach and elsewhere, showed patchwork support for both.
McGinn's Southeast ties and credibility have also been strained by a year-long rash of shootings and violent robberies, and perceived weak headquarters support for SPD's Southeast Precinct. One faction of Southeast activists — long-time residents, many but not all of them white — sees overconcentrated subsidized housing discouraging private investment and creating an economic ghetto. They hoped for fresh thinking from McGinn, but now see him as Nickels II. Peter Steinbrueck has attended their meetings and begun winning their support.
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Posted Wed, Jan 9, 7:41 p.m.
If McGinn really believes it's better to be lucky than smart, he's obviously not smart enough to be mayor.
Posted Wed, Jan 9, 9:06 p.m.
Steinbrueck, the person who thinks what Rainier Valley needs is a sports arena, is the guy who cares about Southeast? What a joke. Eric didn't mention that McGinn was the guy who got the Rainier Beach community center remodeled, or that his education levy is dumping millions into schools, mostly in Southeast. But then why mention that when the goal of the article is to push for gentrification of the neighborhood?
Posted Wed, Jan 9, 9:20 p.m.
eric, i can't let it go...
as one of the cyclists who rides the "steep" hill on myrtle place (it's not othello once it starts jogging up the hill to myrtle street), i can tell you that i am glad that no one is trying to peddle that road. neither cyclist nor drivers would appreciate it if the road was sold. however, for us occasional pedalers, the bike lane is definitely perceived as a safety improvement.
second, mcginn had an office in othello, not columbia city.
Posted Wed, Jan 9, 11:20 p.m.
"Peddlers" and the campaign office duly corrected, thanks.
The story noted the expanded Families and Education Levy.
As reported earlier on Crosscut: "In 2010 the city secured funding, plans, and a winning bidder to rebuild the worn Rainier Beach Community Center.... Then McGinn intervened. He declared that none of the bidders had met the legal standard for using women- and minority-owned contractors and ordered the project redrafted and rebid. The result: the new community center isn't due to open until autumn 2013, after a gap of nearly three years."
Posted Thu, Jan 10, 8:07 a.m.
Try a little harder next time, Eric. Maybe then you can achieve the Nirvana of puff-piece flackery that so far has eluded you.
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Summary: Beyond the Culture Wars is the first major and refreshingly down-to-earth response to the torrent of criticism in recent years, mainly from traditionalists, of American higher education. Gerald Graff, a professor of English and education at the University of Chicago, argues that, far from being a sign of decline and disintegration. Recent educational conflicts are actually a sign of the health and intellectual vitality of American higher education -- but they nee ...show mored to be used creatively. A culturally richer curriculum and a more diverse student body have brought on the conflicts over multiculturalism, "political correctness," and which books belong in the canon. But we tend not to see these as strengths, the author argues, because we think of conflict as un-American and of education as an idealized conflict-free zone. Higher education should be a battleground of ideas. The real problem is that students are not getting more out of the battle. It is time, Graff argues, that we stopped lamenting the appearance of conflict in education and began turning our controversies to positive account. Drawing on nearly thirty years of experience as a teacher and administrator, the author shows how the conflicts now confusing students have the potential to help them make better sense of their education and the increasingly conflicted society in which they live. By teaching the conflicts even anger and hostility unleashed over the questions of "political correctness" and the humanities canon can be channeled into educationally productive debate. Graff points out that the most neglected party in the culture wars is the one ostensibly being fought over: the student. We tend to become so embroiled in the warfare between opposing lists of books, he argues, that we forget that for most American students the problem has always been books as such, regardless of which faction is drawing up the reading list. In lively accounts of his own teaching of the canon conflicts and a typical debate. By studying the debate over multiculturalism and the curriculum, teachers, administrators, and students alike can actually make good use of the crisis to tackle real problems, such as academic incoherence and student apathy. Excerpted in Chronicle of Higher Education. ...show less
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Easter weekend at Casas
We're so excited to lean into the beauty of Easter together! Make plans to join us for our Good Friday Service and then our Easter Sunday services and activities… (info below)
Good Friday Service: 7pm - April 6th
We'll gather for extended worship and reflection on the sacrifice made by our Lord. There will be a video depiction of the crucifixion, along with the observance of the Lord's Supper together. This experience will stir your heart and create space to contemplate the cost Jesus paid for your rescue. (Worship Center)
*parents: there will be NO childcare available at Good Friday service
Easter Sunday Services: April 8th
Our services will be full of excitement and the celebration of our risen Savior!
The Casas Easter Service this year, "RISE", will focus on the idea that Jesus' story, the greatest story ever told, begs to have all of our individual stories become a part of the saving Grace of God.
The service will take people on a creative, innovative, deeply meaningful and emotionally powerful journey, through, video, music, drama, dance and a live painter on stage. This is a service that is all moving people forward toward God. We're praying that it will draw your heart closer and that your friends will find this very encouraging - so invite them to join you.
We will also have grade level Easter Egg hunts following the last service for the kids.
*don't be late, you'll want to see the opening of the service
Main Services: 7:50am, 915am, 1045am (Worship Center)
Traditional Chapel services: 915am, 1045am (Easter only - we added another service at 915am)
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A cozy first floor suite, with a sitting area with fireplace, queen bed and deck overlooking the Koi pond. The room features large kitchen with eating nook, and a jetted tub in the bathroom. Furnished in Danish modern style.
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Friday, February 3, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM Movie Review A really friendly film that could use a nudge out of the slow laneSeattle Times movie critic Roger Donaldson's agreeable if schmaltzy "The World's Fastest Indian" tells the sort of story that's hard to believe, even when assured in the movie's endnotes that it's true. Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins), an agreeably grumpy New Zealand codger, traveled to Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats repeatedly in the '60s to compete for the world land-speed record on his beloved 1920 Indian Twin Scout motorcycle. The film documents his first trip, an incredible journey filled with niceness and good fortune. Everything seems to go right for Burt; everyone he meets becomes a friend. The world is rarely like this, but it's nice to imagine that it might be, and those who like their films without a trace of irony or cloud may well enjoy Burt's trip. Certainly Hopkins, grinning and stammering in his New Zealand accent, seems to be relishing the role of a genuinely nice man. His Burt is eccentric but in the most blandly acceptable kind of way. In the small town of Invercargill, where he lived his entire life, he's notable for living in a shed filled with bicycle parts, for spending his days tinkering with the Indian and for being a friend to all.
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"The World's Fastest Indian," with Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Cauffiel, Saginaw Grant, Diane Ladd, Chris Lawford, Aaron Murphy, Paul Rodriguez, Annie Whittle, Chris Williams. Written and directed by Roger Donaldson. 126 minutes. Rated PG-13 for brief language, drug use and a sexual reference. Uptown, Metro, Bella Bottega. The trip to the U.S. for the Bonneville races is a complicated one: Burt must work for his passage to Los Angeles on a small freighter. Once arrived, he buys (and repairs) a used car, builds a trailer for the motorcycle and drives to Utah, with several unscheduled stops along the way. Among the people he meets are a friendly transgender motel clerk (Chris Williams), a friendly used-car salesman (Paul Rodriguez), a friendly Native American (Saginaw Grant), a friendly young soldier (Patrick Fleuger) and a friendly and randy widow (Diane Ladd). And when he finally gets to Bonneville — well, the folks there are pretty nice, too. All of this gets predictable fairly quickly, and the film moves at a pace far slower than Burt's motorcycle (made worse by the hard-of-hearing Burt always barking, "What?" at people, necessitating a repeat of their lines). The slowness, and a few morning-after scenes that indicate that Burt's still something of a swordsman, interfere with what could have been — and almost is — a pleasant family film. It's still pleasant, particularly Hopkins' performance, but for a film that's ultimately about speed, it could use a little more zip. Moira Macdonald: 206-464-2725 or email@example.com Copyright © 2006 The Seattle Times Company Most read articles |