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But it does not have to be this way; child abuse is preventable, and intergenerational cycles can be broken. Each of us has a part to play in making sure children in our families and communities never experience the physical and emotional pain little Jeffrey endured. It is up to us to make sure parents get the education, support and counseling they need so that they never get to the breaking point Jeffrey's father reached. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, a time to focus on what we can do to make a difference for children and in our community. Here are just a few suggestions of ways to make a difference:
* Learn as much as you can about the indicators, causes and consequences of abuse. By understanding how and why abuse happens, you can know where to direct your energy for prevention. For example, perpetrators of abuse often are parents or other family members who have unrealistic expectations of their children, too much stress in their lives and too little emotional support. These are things that caring communities can work to change. Substance abuse and mental health problems also are major contributing factors, so appropriate treatment needs to be available, accessible and affordable.
* Reach out to support parents in your community--when you see a parent struggling with an obstinate toddler in the grocery store offer assistance and make the parent aware of parent education and support groups are available through schools, workplaces, child care centers, clinics and places of worship.
* Mentor an abused child. Research shows that a caring, supportive adult can play a critical role in allowing a child to move beyond the pain of abuse and grow up to become a caring parent. Most communities have organizations that recruit, train and support volunteers who want to be that caring adult in a child's life.
* Contribute to reputable organizations that work to prevent child abuse. Most of these organizations are underfunded and rely largely on individual contributions.
* Advocate for programs that get at root causes of abuse, reminding policy-makers in your community that prevention is far more cost effective than intervention.
For more information about the causes of abuse, how to prevent it or where to get help for your own family or someone you know, contact Prevent Child Abuse America at 1-800-CHILDREN or www.preventchildabuse.org.
Question: My husband and I are about to have our first child. My 75-year-old father-in-law is retired and has lots of time on his hands. He says he is eager to baby-sit and to take the baby on outings when my husband and I are at work. (My mother-in-law still works full-time, so she will seldom be around to help.) I really love my father-in-law and appreciate how excited he is about becoming a grandfather. However, over the past year he has become increasingly absent-minded and disorganized and my husband and I are not comfortable leaving the baby alone with him. I especially don't want him to take the baby in the car because he has become a very erratic, dangerous driver. How can I draw these boundaries without offending him?
Answer: This is an awkward situation and it will be hard (if not impossible) to handle without hurting your father-in-law's feelings. Nonetheless, as you well know, the consequences of not addressing the issue could be very serious.
As an in-law, you are not in the best position to take this on alone. I'd suggest that you and your husband decide together how to proceed. The two of you may decide that your husband should talk privately with his father--or that the two of you should do it together. Either way, you will need to talk with your mother-in-law too and express your concerns. Most likely she has noticed the decline in her husband's competence and, hopefully, will be supportive in helping make sure he has time with the baby within safe, manageable circumstances. She may even be relieved to know you've noticed these changes in her husband's behavior and may welcome your support in helping her address her own concerns.
However you and your husband decide to address this sensitive issue with your father-in-law, I encourage you to lead with positives. Emphasize the things he will be able to do with his grandchild. For example: he can help care for the baby in your home to give you time to catch up on housework or take a break; go along when you run errands or take the baby to the park; take the baby for a stroller ride around the block or rock the baby at naptime. Be straightforward about your concerns, but also tell him--and show him--how much you appreciate his involvement in your baby's life.
Although your question to me was specifically about how your father-in-law's poor driving and absent-mindedness could endanger your baby, what you describe raises a broader concern as well. You describe a significant change in your father-in-law's mental capacity and behavior, which could be a sign of Alzheimer's or some other serious illness or condition. Such decline often can be slowed by early diagnosis and treatment, so I urge you and your husband to pay close attention to these behavior changes and do what you can to see that your father-in-law is carefully evaluated by a physician. As difficult as it is to acknowledge that a loved one is slipping, denial or avoidance can cause much greater harm in the long run.


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This our our old-fashioned Christmas tree... I took our kids into our woods with me to search for the perfect tree. :o) (It doesn't look like it in this photo but it's about 8 feet tall.) So fun to decorate with the kids. My wife made the tree skirt. :o) The best part about it all... I woke up at 2:00 a.m. the night we had decorated it to find our 4 year old son sitting in the livingroom with all of the lights off except the lights of the tree. He was just sitting there, looking at the tree and smiling. :o) |
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- Posted by jeannespines (My Page) on Wed, Dec 14, 11 at 21:06
It's a beauty, Kirk! Love it! Love it! DH & I finished decorating our tree today ...we got it Sun from a tree farm called 'Kris Kringle' & Kringle was there, too. Carol's tree skirt is beautiful! Hugs to all! Jeanne S. |
- Posted by purplemoon (My Page) on Thu, Dec 15, 11 at 4:26
What a delightful tree, nothing wrong with old-fashioned! Sure brings back some memories for me that were kind of 'hidden' till I saw your tree. Thank you! luv, Karen |
i LOVE the mental picture of your 4 year old! adorable. |
What a neat Christmas tree. Love all the beads you strung on it and that tree skirt is wonderful. This reminds me of decorating the tree when I was growing up. I can remember stringing popcorn for ours too. Such a pretty setting. That little 4 year old sounds like a kick in the pants! So special to have memories like this. His little rocks in front of Karens village piece was so cute too. Punk |
- Posted by SeasonalDecorating__ (My Page) on Sat, Dec 17, 11 at 12:44
Nice Christmas tree! Love the beads! :) -SD |
Your tree is lovely, Kirk. You will always remember finding your son sitting there looking at the tree. Nana |
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Aww - what a wonderful image painted in my mind of your 4y/o sitting and looking at the tree :) - Absolutely love the old fashion look of the tree - it brings back so many great memories - TFS ..... Lynne |
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President Barack Obama ran a technology savvy presidential campaign that promised a more ethical and transparent government.
The Office of Government Ethics, a small and little-known executive branch agency that's responsible for collecting and disclosing executive branch financial disclosure forms and ethics agreements, would be a logical place to start bringing those ideals to life.
Since the Obama administration came to Washington, the OGE, for the first time ever, has posted on its Web site a regularly updated list of administration officials who have completed their financial disclosure forms. These forms catalog assets, past employment, board services, property, and debts that could potentially pose conflicts of interest.
But as far as posting the documents themselves, well, that's another mater.
In fact, says agency general counsel Don Fox, OGE is forbidden by law from making the completed documents available for download on the site. That's because the Ethics In Government Act, which created the office as a component of the Office of Personnel Management (it's since become independent), not only requires that documents only be released upon receipt of a written request that certifies the information won't be used for commercial purposes, but also that the Office keep a record of all people to whom it releases the documents. He says a download-on-demand system would violate both requirements.
"The Act was written in 1978. The Web might have existed in the mind of a few scientists, but probably for nobody else," says Fox.
So ProPublica, the not yet year-old privately-supported non-profit investigative reporting shop, has taken it upon itself to plug the gap by requesting, collecting, and posting the documents for all to see.
It's a somewhat laborious process. The OGE makes a standard request form available for download as a PDF. After filling it out, and attesting that there are no plans to make commercial use of the documents, the requester must mail or fax the form back to OGE. Each form can be used to request the financial disclosure forms and related documents of only six officials at a single time. The OGE will make paper copies of the documents, which can be mailed or picked up in person at the agency's Washington office at 1201 New York Avenue.
"If the goal is for your average citizen to peruse the ethics agreement of their government officials, it's not the easiest process," says Olga Pierce, the ProPublica intern who wrangled the documents. "It's four or five steps and I'm not sure everyone will get there."
Officially, the OGE charges three cents a page for photocopying, but the fee is waived if the total is less than $10.00 worth of documents. In practice, few pay anything.
But not ProPublica. According to Pierce, their bill for the first round of about 700 pages of documents totaled something like $21.76. Then they had to prepare the paper documents for the Web. ("Our poor scanner," quips Pierce.)
ProPublica has asked its readers to point any interesting nuggets hidden in the documents. That hasn't produced too much of interest so far—just one post noting that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar co-signed his daughter's college loans. But they say that finding immediate stories wasn't the point.
"In the past, we could have used them for a story and then set them aside," says ProPublica's Amanda Michel, the former director of The Huffington Post's OffTheBus project who now manages ProPublica's distributed reporting efforts. "We put out these documents, first and foremost, as a part of our mission, to make these documents available for the press and the public."
"You know that these documents will be helpful to someone, but we don't know who would need it or when," says Pierce. "At ProPublica, we've got sort of a weird hybrid between doing our own reporting and trying to be a reporting resource for other people."
So far, ProPublica has made 179 SF-278 forms available, as a first step toward their plan to make requests and post the documents of all Obama appointees.
The SF-278 form is the standard executive branch financial disclosure document, which, once filled out, forms the basis for a consultation between the appointee, the OGE, and agency based ethics officers—one that will result in individualized ethics agreements.
These ethics agreements, or ethics letters, spell out each appointee's specific obligations to avoid conflicts of interest, and the steps that each will take to do so.
"It's really difficult to think of an example of a Senate confirmed official who would not need some kind of ethics agreement," says Fox.
But so far, ProPublica has had little luck getting hold of the ethics letters, netting only a handful from its requests to OGE.


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yup. well here i am. haven't been on for almost i think 3 weeks now? idk never was really that good with time lol. but yeah i'm finally on and able to write a journal entry :) yay!
i have an announcement to make...i have a boyfriend. *sigh* shocking isn't it? i've gone back to where i started. how this happened? well remember that guy i told ya'll about that liked me? well i decided to talk to him more and try the whole getting to know him thing and then i started to like him too. he asked me out and YUP we're going out.
i'm just having some issues. some issues that are driving me INSANE....like at times i feel like i'm lying to myself. but when i'm with him it's like...idk if sorta feels right and when i'm not with him...i have sooooooo much "fuck-what-the-hell-is-going-on" moments. i am officially CONFUSED and FRUSTRATED.
i have talked to a few of my really really good friends about it and whatever they tell me has....made perfect sense. i realized why i am like this. this is what they have concluded;
1) i've been hurt and "abused" sooo much before that i'm afraid of the pain and being hurt again. (soooo TRUE)
2) its a GUY and i've been so set on GIRLS. (there is soooo a difference)
3) i've been single for soooo long that i am used to it. i can't handle commitment like i used too.
but they all told me the same thing...."give him a chance". so that is what i am doing and its fucking creepy. lol. not in a bad way but sorta weird in a good way. *shrug* catch my drift? lol.
ok. you know how usually you catch the flaws in people and sorta use that as leverage to see whether or not it worth going through? well i can't. like the only flaw i find is that he's too good for me. c'mon he's fricken taking college prep classes this whole summer. he knows what he wants and he has a future. he's like the kinda of person guy/girl most people look for...or maybe its just me lol. but yeah. the tables have turned. the role that i usually have in a relationship is his role now and mine is just the role where its sorta like my exes but i'm TRYING i really am. i'm just not used to someone who...really really likes me. or should i say now....loves me!
but enough of that....i know where i wanna go for college now. besides the University of Hawaii this is the only college that has stood out to me....it's Western Washington University! they have a really good college for education and yeah. i'm planning to become a teacher...a english teacher.
uh. well. hopefully i can come back and write another entry and read everyones posts :) but i gotta go right now. so everybody take care and have a good summer!
Have you told him how you feel? Maybe you'd feel less "creeped out" and much more at ease with him if you were straightfoward about the turmoil taking place in your head/heart. Relationships thrive on trust and honesty. Beside that, my main piece of advice is to try not to weigh him against your previous experiences (with girls or guys), and let this thing flourish or wither up the way it's supposed to. If you're happy together, you're happy together; if it fails, it fails...but don't let outside factors crush it before it's had the opportunity to grow. This is why clinging to self-classifications is such dangerous activity: someone comes along to shake it up, and all your carefully determined labels begin peeling off at the corners.
Everyone seems to be confused about their sexuality now, it's so strange. You, me, dykehalo, it's so strange that it's clustered like this.
Have fun with your boyfriend, if it works out, great, if not, eh, find someone else and don't sweat it. Just do what feels right and focus on making yourself happy.
"gay: cheerful and lighthearted; merry." - The American Heritage Dictionary.


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Reuters columnist John Kemp argues that Warren Buffett's big bet on Burlington is a gamble on the future of coal – and, by definition, of carbon capture and storage. He writes:
Coal is the most important item moved on BNSF's railroads. It accounted for almost half the tonnage moved by BNSF in the first nine months of the 2009 (214 billion revenue ton miles out of a total of 444 billion) and a quarter of the company's revenues ($2.7 billion out of a total of $10.4 billion).
Coal might be dirty, but it's also abundant and cheap in the US. The question is whether those emissions can be successfully tackled by carbon capture and storage.
BNSF's network, Kemp writes, is "perfectly positioned" to benefit from a big expansion of coal-fired power in the US, by shifting coal from the major producing areas to consumption areas in the mid-West and southern California. He links to several maps, including those below showing coal-producing areas and BNSF's network:
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Buffett bets $27bn on US (FT, 03/11/09)
Coal: The big challenge for US CO2 (FT Energy Source, 03/11/09)


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The 25 year old beautiful actress, Leighton Meester attends at "HTC Serves up NYC Product Launch". In this event, top culinary talents of New York featured their own culinary delights for all their guests to enjoy.
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'The One I Love' Trailer: Seriously, Just Tell Us the Twist Already
Movie News By Adam Bellotto on July 17, 2014 | Be the First To CommentThe One I Love premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and it did so to quite a bit of acclaim. Critics saw it as an intelligent and neatly wound little romance — one that happened to be built around a swirling black hole of weirdness. You see, The One I Love has a twist (over at Film.com, our own Kate Erbland wrote that "the film is brisk, funny, smart, and artful, a strong pairing of high concept and relatable storylines"). And the film's trailer, which dropped today, is more than happy to tell you all about it. "Oh, such a twist it is," the trailer croons, twirling whatever the movie trailer equivalent is of an elaborate mustache. "You've never seen anything like it. It's revolutionary, I dare say." Meanwhile, the characters all refer to it in nearly every string of dialogue, while the blurbs praise its Charlie Kaufman-esque ingenuity. The trailer is seriously set on this twist. It just won't tell us what it is.
Casting Couch: New 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Rumors Regarding Drax the Destroyer, Tom Selleck Wants to Get the Band Back Together, and More
Casting Couch By Nathan Adams on January 4, 2013 | Be the First To CommentThe deluge of rumors concerning James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy continues unabated. This time around the source is Comic Book Movie, who says they have a shadowy operative close to the production and his or her latest round of snooping has led them to believe that not only is The Office's John Krasinski the latest in a parade of actors to read for the role of Peter Quell, but that there's also a shortlist of actors being considered for the role of the Guardians' resident green guy, Drax the Destroyer. Rumor has it that Generation Kill actor Brian Patrick Wade; that guy from the Old Spice commercials, Isaiah Mustafa; and former professional wrestler Dave Bautista are all being looked at. Presumably they're in some Hollywood back lot right now, letting Gunn take test footage of them destroying things.
HBO's 'Bored to Death' Might Solve a Park Slope Mystery at Your Nearest Movie Theater
Movie News By Landon Palmer on June 15, 2012 | Comments (1)If you've never seen Jonathan Ames's recently cancelled HBO show Bored to Death, you might want to brush up on the premium cable mystery/comedy show, for costar Ted Danson recently suggested in an interview with French journalist Pierre Lenglas (according to Lenglas's Twitter account) that a feature-length Bored to Death movie might be in the works. To be fair, nothing official has been announced and, according to Vulture, HBO qualified Danson's statement my stating that the creators and talent of the show are only in the early stages of conversation. But with Jason Schwartzman and Zack Galifianakis rounding out the show's cast, a Bored to Death movie might make quite a bit of sense. Bored to Death ran for three seasons from 2009-2011, and chronicled the misadventures of Jonathan Ames (Schwartzman), a struggling writer who becomes an amateur detective in order to get over being dumped by his girlfriend Suzanne (Olivia Thirlby). His best friend Ray (Galifianakis) is a deeply insecure comic book artist who struggles to maintain power in his relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend Leah (Heather Burns). Danson plays Ames's boss, George Christopher, the editor of a New Yorker-style magazine and a ginormous pothead. While the show lost steam for me in its third season, Bored to Death was a clever and surprisingly warm show about the difficulties of commitment, the changes in New York City's boroughs, the death of the printed word, and narcissism. It's the type of show that could only have aired on HBO.
Review: Largely Ludicrous 'Big Miracle' Still Manages to Be Hugely Entertaining
Movie Reviews By Kate Erbland on February 3, 2012 | Comments (3)We are told early on in Big Miracle that "everybody loves whales!" It's both an excuse and a rallying cry and, had Ken Kwapis' film stuck with its first moniker, it would have also been the title of his latest film. Someone apparently had the foresight to slay that terrible name, but it's still managed to worm its way into the finished feature, where it's pronounced earnestly, practically begging for its audience to nod and say, "yep, it's true – just everybody loves whales." Strangely enough, it's that tossed-aside title that sums up Big Miracle quite neatly – earnest, insane, and conducive to crowd participation and (positive) involvement.
Movie News After Dark: Halloween Costumes, Jason Bateman for Teens, Community and How Ghostbusters Should Have Ended
Movie News By Neil Miller on October 24, 2011 | Comments (2)What is Movie News After Dark? As per usual, it's a nightly movie news column that finds a way to get a little silly on Monday nights. It's mostly weekend hangover related, but also a product of its own environment. On weekend, it plays a clown in a traveling circus. It lives a diverse life like that. We begin tonight with an image of the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. As you know, Halloween is coming up and we're all looking for good costume ideas. Over at io9, the nerds from the future have it listed as one of their 20 zero-effort, high-concept Halloween costumes guaranteed to alienate your friends. For those of us who dislike both effort and friends.
Hipster is a term that is difficult to define, mainly because its definition has changed so much over time. The term (arguably) first entered mass culture with the publication of Norman Mailer's 1957 essay, "The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster," which recounts the rise of the jazz-age hipster from the 1920s-40s and its later manifestation in Beat culture. In this controversial piece, Mailer states, "You can't interview a hipster because his main goal is to get out of a society which, he thinks, is trying to make everyone over in its own image." Thus from the very outset early in the twentieth century, the hipster remains elusive in terms of providing a self-definition. The hipster thus became defined instead by those observing from the outside. To self-identify as a hipster in early-mid twentieth century subcultures was to, in effect, not be a hipster at all. Thus, the very definition of a hipster, if we can even call it that, becomes a self-contradicting Catch-22. In the age of jazz and the Beats, hipsterism was a means of deliberately constructed self-identification within an authentic counterculture (though such identification remained purposefully vague to those outside that culture). 20th century subcultures and countercultures have continually defined themselves through association with a certain brand of decidedly non-mainstream music. While the term "hipster" has moved in and out of use, the notion behind it has remained through each decade with each major shift in countercultural expression, from psychadelia to punk to goth to grunge […]
Steve Guttenberg Wants to Bring Back The 80s; All of Them
Movie News By Neil Miller on November 4, 2009 | Comments (4)It's been a long time coming for Steve Guttenberg, or "The Gutt" to his friends. He's headed back to the big time, back to the marquee… back to the 80s well.
Steve Guttenberg Threatening to Stage a Comeback
Movie News By Rob Hunter on November 28, 2008 | Comments (15)Remember Steve Guttenberg? The comic wit? The smirk? The abnormally well-defined pectoral muscles? No? Well he remembers you, and like that stalker ex-lover of yours he wants back in your life.
Jack Black Will Be Tall for Once in 'Gulliver's Travels'
In Development By Josh Radde on November 6, 2008 | Be the First To CommentDoing a made-for-TV mini-series starring Ted Danson just simply isn't enough for some people. It was announced this morning that Jack Black will co-produce and star in an adaptation of the classic story Gulliver's Travels.
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Jack's back!
Acclaimed writer and director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep) has a new film in production,"Be Kind Rewind" due for release next year.
Starring comic genius Jack Black, the film - as the title "Be Kind Rewind" suggests- is set in a video rental store. Black's character's brain becomes magnetized and accidently wipes every film in the store. His fantastically non-efficient solution is to remake every film, including Robocop and Back To The Future.
The plot sounds absurd but with a cast including Mia Farrow, Danny Glover and rapper Mos Def, it sounds like another brilliantly original film from Gondry.
"Be Kind Rewind" is still in production and is expected to be released in autumn 2007.
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The Tony Awards set their calendar of upcoming events: "The American Theatre Wing's 66th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards, which are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, will air on CBS on Sunday, June 10th from 8:00 – 11:00 PM (ET/PT time delay)." Nominations will be announced May 1, followed by a "Meet the Nominees" press reception on May 2. Tony Nominees' Luncheon is set for May 31.
Oscar collection sells at auction for $3 million: "All 15 Academy Awards auctioned today by Nate D. Sanders sold for a record-breaking total of $3,060,089, which includes the buyer's premium. The most expensive Oscar statuette was Herman Mankiewicz's 1941 Best Screenplay Academy Award for 'Citizen Kane,' which sold for $588,455. Christie's sold the Academy Award in 1999 for $244,500. In December 2011, Nate D. Sanders sold Orson Welles' 'Citizen Kane' Academy Award for $861,542."
Will Grammy-winner Norah Jones's collaboration with Danger Mouse spell success? "Co-written and produced by Brian Burton (a.k.a. Danger Mouse), Jones' upcoming album 'Little Broken Hearts' could be the artistic left turn she needed ... The first single, 'Happy Pills,' came online Tuesday, and Burton's fingerprints aren't hard to see. Backed by a clockwork guitar pulse and heavy-footed drums that could be a half-speed outtake from the 'Broken Bells' sessions, Jones sings with a mix of sass and yearning about getting over the wrong man with a classic R&B refrain of 'Please just let me go now.'" LOS ANGELES TIMES
The Oscars should draw more attention to their foreign and documentary nominees: "... there should be more attention given to two categories that get a short shrift on the telecast, yet for which Oscar nominations are vital – Best Foreign Language Film and Best Documentary. It would even be a good idea for the Academy to launch a second telecast, on cable, devoted just to introducing these nominees to the public ... Yet, because they rarely if ever have the studio marketing/distribution clout to get into wide national release, they struggle in the marketplace." CITY BEAT
Can "Community" actor's Oscar win help "Community"? "If you're a fan of NBC's cult comedy 'Community,' then last night was a big night for you, not just because it was the 84th Annual Academy Awards, but because 'Community's' own eccentric dean (played by Jim Rash) accept an Oscar for screenwriting (while paying tribute to Angelina Jolie's leg in the process) ... The ratings-challenged 'Community' returns to NBC on Thursday, March 15th, and I've taken the liberty of suggesting some ways in which NBC and 'Community' could use Jim Rash's Oscar win to promote the show and hopefully lure some new viewers." HUFFINGTON POST
Weinstein owned Radius-TWC company many acquire Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives": "I'm hearing that the negotiation is in the range of a $2.5 million minimum guarantee. It is the second recent deal that [Radius heads Tom Quinn and Jason Janego] made that involved Refn, after Radius acquired a remake of 'Pusher,' the first film that Refn directed. 'Only God Forgives' was a surprise entry in the marketplace. It was all but acquired last summer by Drive distributor FilmDistrict, but the deal never closed. The distributor didn't see eye to eye with the filmmakers, and it once again became available." DEADLINE
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Pueblo Bean and Rice Casserole
Author Notes: This is an easy dish for a lazy day around the house without too much effort. And does it get any cheaper than rice & beans? This is delicious served with avocado slices on corn tortillas. - nannydeb
Serves 6
- 1 cup dry Anasazi beans
- about 3 cups water
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1/2 cup onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 4 fresh chili pequin peppers
- 2 tablespoons New Mexico chili powder
- 1 cup uncooked brown rice
- 3 cups summer squash, chopped in 1 inch pieces
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano
- salt & pepper to taste
- avocado slices, optional
- homemade salsa, optional
- corn tortillas
- Cover beans with about two inches of water and let them soak overnight. Or you can do the quick soak - boil, turn off heat and let them sit with the lid on for an hour. Drain, cover with fresh water, boil hard for 10 min, skim off any scum, then simmer for an hour and a half or until done.
- Heat the canola oil in a cast iron dutch oven over medium high heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook 2-3 minutes or so. Drain beans and add them to the pot with about three cups fresh water and the chili pequins.
- Cook beans, uncovered over low heat for 1-1 1/2 hours or until soft. The beans do not have to be completely cooked since you'll be cooking them a little longer in the oven.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Drain beans, reserving liquid and put beans back in the pot. Add enough water to the reserved liquid to make up 2 1/2 cups and add to the beans.
- Add chili powder, brown rice and chopped squash to the beans.
- Cover and bake in the oven for one hour.
- Fluff with a fork and stir in chopped oregano and salt & pepper to taste.
- Serve with hot fresh corn tortillas, homemade salsa and sliced avocado.
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Thanksgiving is a time of year when you can reflect on your blessings from the past year, spend quality time with your family and of course, enjoy a sumptuous dinner with them on Thanksgiving night! For my family, Thanksgiving is always a wonderful time to get together and just enjoy lots of yummy food!
Speaking of Thanksgiving dinner, have you decided on a menu yet? I spent a good amount of time yesterday browsing through my favorite magazines, cookbooks and online cooking sites to gather some great recipe ideas for Thanksgiving. I've always wanted to try baking a good pumpkin bread. My husband and I love the pumpkin bread slices from Starbucks with our coffee and I told him I will try and find a good recipe for pumpkin bread and we'll see what happens. So yesterday, I woke up early and went to my favorite grocery store, Food Lion, to get a few missing ingredients for my very first pumpkin bread recipe! I already had most of the ingredients in my kitchen pantry so that made the task even easier. Plus, I didn't have to spend too much time at the grocery store and get sidetracked. Whew, I do that all the time and end up never finishing my tasks for the day, lol.
Here is a photo and recipe of my Pumpkin Bread glazed with vanilla-cinnamon-butter syrup.. yumm! I was so thrilled it actually turned out great! The bread texture is smooth and moist and the sweetness is just perfect. This was definitely a hit with my family and will be making them again soon!
Pumpkin Bread
(1) 15 oz. can pumpkin puree 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
4 eggs 2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup melted butter 2 tsp pumpkin spice
1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup applesauce 1 tsp ground cinnamon
2/3 cup water 1 tsp ground nutmeg
2 cups white sugar 1/2 tsp ground cloves
1 cup brown sugar 1/4 tsp ground ginger
(1) 15 oz. can pumpkin puree 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
4 eggs 2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup melted butter 2 tsp pumpkin spice
1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup applesauce 1 tsp ground cinnamon
2/3 cup water 1 tsp ground nutmeg
2 cups white sugar 1/2 tsp ground cloves
1 cup brown sugar 1/4 tsp ground ginger
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 C). Grease and flour two 9x5 loaf pans.
2. Mix together the pumpkin puree, eggs, melted butter, oil, applesauce, water, white and brown sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.
3. Bake for about an hour in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
I wanted to make a cinnamon-vanilla glaze over the top of my bread so here is what I did: I combined 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup brown
sugar in a saucepan over low-medium heat until it began to boil. After
removing the mixture from heat, I added 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, 1/2 tsp. vanilla
and about 2 tbsp. buttermilk. I poked holes into the loaves just after
removing them from the oven and poured the glaze over them. It was sooo delish!
So, I hope that I somehow inspired you to try a new recipe today! There's nothing better than good ole' home cookin' .. don't you all agree? ;)
And while you're at it, get inspired with a new holiday recipe and enter Food Lion's Holiday Bake-Off Contest! Simply submit your favorite holiday recipe using your favorite Food Lion product(s) in any of the four categories: appetizer, entree, side dish, or dessert. There will be 12 grand prize winners who will receive a $500 Food Lion gift card! Wow, who couldn't use a nice grocery gift card with all these holiday cookin' we have to do? :)
So go visit Food Lion on Facebook, "Like" their page, then click the Holiday Bake-Off tab to enter for your chance to win and/or to learn more about this fantastic contest! You have until 11/28/12 to submit your entries so hurry! I am definitely sharing my Pumpkin Bread recipe. Wish me luck! :)
(Article Credits: Recipe by AllRecipes.com ; Tablescape photo by FabulousFoods.com)
Hip Mama's Place Disclosure: "I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour for Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Food Lion. I received a promotional item to facilitate my shopping experience and review."
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Allen, B. (Barbara). The UK local government procurement agenda : theory of change as an evolving evaluation paradigm. Local Government Studies . ISSN 0300-3930 (Unpublished)
Le Meunier-FitzHugh, Kenneth and Piercy, Nigel F.. The importance of organizational structure for collaboration between sales and marketing. Journal of General Management, Vol.34 (Autumn ). ISSN 0306-3070
Piercy, Nigel F. and Lane, Nikala. Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives and strategic marketing imperatives. Social Business, Vol.1 (No.4). pp. 325-345. ISSN 2044-4087
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Daly, Guy and Davis, Howard Local and Regional Governance. In: Alcock, Pete and May, Margaret and Rowlingson, Karen, (eds.) The student's companion to social policy. Blackwell Publishing, pp. 284-291. ISBN 978-0-47065-565-8
Heracleous, Loizos and Collinson, Simon HSBC's Internationalization Strategy. In: Business Strategy in Asia: A Casebook. Asia Titles, 3rd Edition (Chapter 14). Singapore: Cengage Learning Asia . ISBN 9789814272315
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Edwards, Paul, Sen Gupta, Sukanya and Tsai, Chin-Ju Reproducing but potentially challenging the low-skills equilibrium : a study of small food manufacturing firms in the UK. In: International Labour Process Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2008 (Unpublished)
Gilbert, D. U., Hoffmann, I. and Rasche, A. Corporate citizenship and the process of legitimation : a deliberative perspective. In: Society of Business Ethics Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 2009 (Unpublished)
Huang, Jimmy, Fasnacht, D., Starkey, K. and Tempest, S. The development of architectural ambidexterity : Information technology in an age of hypercompetition. In: 66th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2006, Atlanta, GA, 11-16 Aug 2006
Kiefer, Tina and Barclay, L. When negative emotions become toxic: understanding the mediating role of toxic emotional experiences in the relationship between negative emotions and dysfunctional outcomes. In: IWP Conference 2008, Sheffield, UK, 18-20 Jun 2008
Mandal, Abhijit and Antunes, Don Virtual coopetition : mutual value preservation in the management consulting industry. In: Academy of Management 2005 Annual Meeting: A New Vision of Management in the 21st Century, Honolulu, HI, 6-10 Aug 2005. Published in: A new vision of management in the 21st century the Academy of Management 65th Annual Meeting conference proceedings : Honolulu, Hawaii, August 5-10, 2005
Newell, Sue, Robertson, M. and Swan, Jacky What does our understanding of interactive innovation processes mean for project management? In: 25th EGOS Colloquium, Barcelona, Spain, 2–4 Jul 2009 (Unpublished)
Paroutis, Sotirios and Heracleous, Loizos Strategists on strategy: understanding the meaning of strategy in complex organizational settings. In: AIM Capacity Building Workshop - Actions, Practices & Institutions, Aston Business School, Birmingham, 22nd Oct, 2008
Sen Gupta, Sukanya Share ownership and Trade Unions : are they compatible in the present industrial relations climate? In: British Universities Industrial Relations Association Annual Conference 2010, Manchester, UK, 2010 (Unpublished)
Simms, Melanie Organising lives : the personal challenges of promoting trade union renewal. In: BUIRA , Cardiff, 2009 (Unpublished)
Simms, Melanie Union identities in post-industrial society. In: 47th Annual CIRA Conference / International CRIMT Conference, University Laval, Quebec, Canada, 16-18 Jun 2010 (Unpublished)
Simms, Melanie Workplace representatives in service sector organizing campaigns : roles and tensions. In: 47th Annual CIRA Conference / International CRIMT Conference, University Laval, Quebec, Canada, 16-18 Jun 2010 (Unpublished)
Storey, David J., Saridakis, S., Sen Gupta, Sukanya, Edwards, Paul and Blackburn, R. Managing formality, size of firm and employee evaluations of work. In: 8th EURAM Conference 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 14-18 May 2008 (Unpublished)
Swan, Jacky, Bresnen, Mike, Newell, Sue and Robertson, S. When policy meets practice : colliding logics and new forms of knowledge production. In: International Conference on Organizational Learning, 2010 , Boston, USA, 3-6 Jun 2010 (Unpublished)
Swan, Jacky, Mengis, J. and Nicolini, Davide Working together in the space between expertise and ignorance. In: The Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Conference (OLKC), Copenhagen, Denmark, 28-30 Apr 2008 (Unpublished)
Tsoukas, Haridimos and Dionysiou, D. How do organizational routines emerge? An organization and management science of singularities. In: 24th EGOS Colloquium, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-12 Jul 2008 (Unpublished)
Tsoukas, Haridimos and Lamprou, E. Restoring transparency in accountability within technological change in organizations. In: 24th EGOS Colloquium, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-12 Jul 2008 (Unpublished)
Tsoukas, Haridimos and Shotter, J. Complex thought, simple talk : an organization and management science of singularities. In: Fourth Organization Studies Summer Workshop on Embracing Complexity: Advancing Ecological Understanding in Organization Studies, Pissouri, Cyprus, 5-7 Jun 2008 (Unpublished)
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In case you missed the news, James Blake took over tonight's BBC Radio 1 Residency, dropping two hours of music, either really news and fresh, or so throwback I had cats hitting me on the Twitters like "what's this jungle music about?" In any case, one tune he premiered was "40455," a selection of his own that's as beautiful as it is depressing. Rainy day excellence. Feels like something you'd play on repeat while sitting in your car in a parking lot during a rainy day, trying to figure out why you can't stop arguing with your significant other. It's a slower gem, full of pulsating beats and beautiful piano. Were you listening? We hope so.
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Herschel Supply Co. – Fall 2013 Studio Collection
The Fall 2013 Studio Collection from Herschel Supply Co. is a fourteen-piece assortment of bags that honor the Vancouver brand's past, present and future. An understated military-inspired color palette is present throughout the collection, paired with a hand-drawn medallion print liner that symbolizes themes of honor and … READ MORE
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The Herschel Supply Co., trusted maker of backpacks, bags, travel goods, and accessories, has decided to grace its fans with a curated collection of stories and images that showcase its newest products and inspirations. Filled with standout, scenic imagery, the bi-annual publication will include tales of fishing … READ MORE
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The screening of ex-IPS officer YP Singh's "Kya Yahi Sach Hai" recently saw biggies from the power corridors coming in to watch the film.
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Madikizela Verwoerd focuses on the fictional bastard child of HF Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, and a black woman and how she becomes a pawn for both the ANC and the NP government. While the character is not real, the play has multiple references to real historical characters such as Dimitri Tsafendas, Verwoerd's assassin, to Stompie Moeketsi, the 14-year-old ANC member allegedly murdered at Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's command.
The staging of this play is absolutely exquisite. Fronted by a "For Coloured's Only" bench, the stage was segregated into white and black with the lone coloured character suspended in between. The set, consisting of tyres painted white and several nooses suspended from the stage lights, evokes memories of necklacing and government-sanctioned 'disappearances'.
The entirety of the piece is policed by a character whose face is painted both black and white and who interjects between dialogue, criticising and commenting on what has been said and questioning or revealing the motives of the rest of the cast. This constant critique of the play's action is echoed by the film played between scenes, which is equal parts young South African discussing race and politics and stock footage of Madikizela-Mandela and Verwoerd.
The play's cast are also sublime with no standout performances only because they are all equally as good. Each character is given a set number of gestures that they perform continuously while part of the action, a ploy director Walter Strydom says was intended to "insure that people knew this wasn't reality" and that the characters were merely caricatures.
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Momma just got back from an interesting experience at the all-ages club here in Portland....
Keep in mind, I really HATE this place with a bloody passion, for several reasons. So does my ex. We were hanging out tonight, and I suggested we go to the club and have a good time being miserable together. He reluctantly agreed.
So here we are, it's about 10:30 p.m. on a Thursday, and it's dead in there; there's like 5 people in the entire place. Anyhow, we sit at one of the tables and start talking. We both notice this really cute guy dancing. I make a comment, my ex is reticent.
The cute boy wanders over near us but doesn't say anything. At first I thought he was checking us out, but then it was very evident that he wasn't: indeed, he was checking my EX out. Of course, at this time, my ex is too busy playing with his cell phone to notice. The cute boy leaves, and I chide my ex for being a dipshit and not saying anything.
A little while later, I go to the bathroom, and when I get back, Cute Boy has made his way to sit next to The Ex. "That's fabulous," I think to myself. He's talking to the hot guy.
But alas! As I get closer, I see that my ex is STILL playing with his cell phone and ignoring this hot guy sitting next to him. I sit down, and the boy leaves shortly thereafter. I call my ex an ungrateful little child for not taking the opportunity to talk to this REALLY hot guy who's VERY OBVIOUSLY interested in him.
After I'm done with name-calling, we talk for a little bit more. And whaddya know, my ex continues to play with his cell phone. This is the point where Momma gets REALLY ticked off at her ex: first, because he's being stupid and playing with his cell phone in public (which is really tacky), and second of all, he missed a golden opportunity to talk to someone he was interested in...because he was too busy playing with his cell phone.
Knowing full well at this point that Cute Guy isn't at all interested in me, I'm really not nervous about going up and talking to him. While my ex is playing with his cell phone, I get up, go over to the dance floor, and say, "Hey, my friend over there thinks you're really cute. You should go up there and talk to him--he's really shy, so he won't come up to you and say anything."
"Really?" he asks. "I've been looking at him ever since you walked in here, and I think he's totally hot."
"Go over there and talk with him, then," I said.
Said he, "Are you sure?"
"Yeah. He thinks you're really cute--he wants to talk to you."
So Cute Guy goes up and talks to The Ex. It really was a rather cute scene--in a lot of ways it was very innocent how they both said hi to each other and how they reacted to one another. Sex didn't seem to be on their minds; they just wanted to get to know each other better.
Being all-wise as I am, I decided to gracefully step out for a moment to make a phone call and let the boys talk. When I stepped back inside the club, I noticed they were in the back lounge area talking, and so I went up and simply said, "Goodnight" to the both of them. My ex had a look like, "What are you doing?!" on his face. After all, we'd gone there for the sole purpose of being bitter together, and I did ride in his car with him to the club. But it's only about 12 blocks or so from my apartment, so it wasn't that big of a deal to walk. So again, I gracefully exited the club; this time, for good.
It's 1:10 a.m. as I write this sentence, and I haven't heard from my ex. That's a good thing. That means he's still with the boy. Lord knows if something bad happened, I'd be the first to hear about it (and to catch the blame). The longer I don't hear from him, the better. I sent him a text message telling him to call me if he gets the chance tonight and let me know what happens.
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There wasn't any movement in deposit yields this week, and very little over the course of the year. But what movement was seen, was to the downside. Yields on certificates of deposit began the year at record lows only to finish the year at even lower lows.
The average five-year CD yield began the year at what was then a record low of 0.9 percent, and ended the year even lower, at 0.78 percent. It was much the same story on the one-year CD, where the average yield started 2013 at 0.28 percent only to finish lower at 0.23 percent.
Even though yields have moved lower, it is still important to shop around for the best possible returns. To find the best yields on all CD maturities, as well as other savings instruments, go to Bankrate.com.
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