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Bet that was a shock for them. Hope those unbloomed will be brave and give a good show for you. Ann |
The snow broke several stems, but the heavy rain that followed destroyed all blooms. Luckily the buds are OK |
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Aravinda AnandaWatertownMA02472United StatesI have been co-facilitating the Work That Reconnects for the past few years and am delighted with this form of group work. I periodically offer day-long workshops at my home in Watertown and also offer weekend-long workshops at Starseed Healing Sanctuary in western Massachusetts. I particularly love offering this work in a nature setting and involving lots of interaction with the more-than-human world.
rosalie andersCambridgeMA02139USAI am a recently retired environmental planner for the City of Cambridge, and a lifelong peace and environmental activist. I was a social worker doing both family therapy and community organizing for many years, until my volunteer peace activism led me to switch to working for the peace movement and from there became an environmental planner. I have remained active in peace and justice and climate work. The WTR has kept me going and it is a gift I love to share.
Cindy BarnesCookham DeanBerkshire SL6 9BHUKI work with organisations and large businesses as a business and psychology consultant. I help them to understand their interconnectedness with all stakeholders and uncover their true values and value to contribute to society and the world. I also work with individuals as a counsellor in Transactional Analysis. I facilitate introductory sessions of 90 minutes of The Work That Reconnects as well as longer 1 day and long weekend workshops. I'm a co-founder of my local Transition Town and regularly talk at conferences on sustainability.
Kiri BearCamberwellVictoria 3124AustraliaI have worked in the community sector for over 10 years largely in the area of preventing violence against women. My group work skills have been honed through raising consciousness about power, social inequalities and respectful relationships with people of all ages. Over that time I have travelled along a parallel spiritual path that has taken me through goddess archetypes, buddhism and deep ecology not to mention wrangling with the standard human experiences of grief, despair and numbing. I am passionate about creating space for meaningful conversations where people can acknowledge shame, come to a sense of worthiness and discover their connection with Earth and all life.
Ellen BermannCarimateComo 22060ItalyEllen Bermann, born in 1965, has always been living on the cusp of different cultures and languages, particularly the german and italian one. She sees herself as a change agent, trying to contribute to these changing times and to a positive paradigm shift. She's a permaculturist and transition town activist based in italy. Passionate about Joanna's work, Ellen is disseminating the work that reconnects since 2012, but had already offered deep time work within transition trainings previously. She's a trainer for John Croft's dragon dreaming as well and loves to integrate different skills and approaches when delivering workshops.
Lorenna Bousquet-KaceraLondonOntario N6P 1P3CanadaCo-founder and director with her husband, of The Living Centre eco-spiritual education sanctuary, est. 1083. Eco-Creativity guide and founder of Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings est. 1989 - Permaculture Educator and co-founder of WomanEarth est. 2011. Her work is inspired by indigenous cultures, The Work that Reconnects, Continuum, the science of Living Systems, Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry. and many hours in nature. Author of the Shamanu Correspondence Course, co-author of the Conscious Living Manual and Sevenfold Path of Peace Correspondence Course.
Werner BrandtSalemOR97304USAI am committed to the mindful use of technology to foster social justice and ecological equality for all species. For over a decade I have been involved with The Work That Reconnects, and have facilitated the work for men. I am a lover of the earth and hold the intention that our great great grandchildren will be able to look back at our time and see that our work contributed to the Great Turning.
Molly BrownMt. ShastaCA96067USAMolly Young Brown, M.A., M.Div, I co-authored Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World with Joanna Macy. I combine WTR, ecopsychology, psychosynthesis, and systems thinking in my work: on-line courses, writing books and essays, phone coaching, talks and workshops. Other publications: Growing Whole: Self-realization for the Great Turning; Held in Love: Life Stories To Inspire Us Through Times of Change (co-editor Carolyn Treadway); and Lighting A Candle: Collected Reflections on a Spiritual Life.
Vicente BrownUkiahCA95418USAAs a grandfather and concerned citizen I am currently enrolled at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, for a Masters Degree in Transformative Leadership. My goals are to support the Great Turning, using myself as change agent, to bring about a environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling human presence on Mother Earth. I was born and raised in Northern California, where I have witnessed the destruction of land, water and biodiverstiy and have spent the last 20 years working in watershed restoration, fish and wildlife habitat development, job training, and environmental education.
Victoria Byrd-RinckCoramMT59913USAI am a woman of 61 years and have had a life long love affair with Earth and the cosmos. After years of seeing and intuiting the unraveling of Earth I was directed to Joanna Macy's work which powerfully crystallized my feelings and understanding of my part in the Great Turning. "Coming Back To Life" was the catalyst that gave me the skills and format that launched me to more public action.
Kathleen ClarkePortlandOR97202United StatesWhen I am facilitating the WTR, I feel more myself than most any other time as it uses so many parts of me. For example, the process of co-facilitating provides beautiful mirroring of the Work, so we can see the love and courage in others and in ourselves. I have co-led several workshops in Tempe AZ and Portland OR. I am a bililngual clinical social worker and progressive toastmaster and have been using my writing, speaking, and expressive skills to spread the message of Active Hope. I particularly love the cross pollination between young people and elders that can arise in mentoring now that i am becoming an elder.
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JogaiaVejer de la FronteraCadiz 11150Spain(Castellano abajo) I live and work in Cádiz in the south of Spain, principally as a facilitator, translator/interpreter, writer, organiser and gardener. I am always interested in integrating: science and spirituality; the sacred with the mundane; my mission with my fun, seeking to find and share the ordinary everyday magic of life. I don't want to specialise or be the specialist. I want to love the life I am exploring as I live it, and share the marvel and wonder of it with others. I am interested in gratitude and spiritual activism! Vivo y trabajo en Cádiz en el sur de Espana, principalmente llevando y organizando talleres diversos, ceremonia y ritual, y como traductora, interprete, escritora y permacultora. Siempre tengo interés en integrar: la ciencia y la espiritualidad; lo sagrado con lo mundano; mi misión con mi diversión, buscando encontrar y compartir la magia en la vida ordinaria. No quiero especializarme, ni ser especialista. Quiero amar la vida que exploro al vivirlo, y compartir la maravilla que siento al vivirlo con otros. ¡Me interesa la gratitud y el activismo espiritual!
Sara DrewOttery St MaryDevon EX111BEUKI work as a therapeutic counsellor and have enjoyed deepening my own healing relationship with nature for more than 30 years. My journey is one of exploring ritual and rites of passage and wisdom tradition practices that weave land and people together. I am facing my own edges about the changing earth –the parts of me that are in denial and the more courageous parts that can deepen through fear to take action. I find a deep joy in being part of life celebrating community.


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More than 10 years ago, I had a catalogue that sold flower bulbs. What was so good about this catalogue was that it sold the bulbs by pre-designed beds. So, for example, they had like 50 flower beds already laid out in diagrams. And all you had to do was order the set and follow the diagram for planting, and it was beautiful. You could chose a flower bed by color, or by how many seasons you wanted it to bloom, etc. Of course now that I have a house I have no idea what this catlogue was called. Does this ring a bell for anyone? Or does anyone know of anything similar? Thanks Amy |
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Other catalogs have planting plans as well. Maybe just order some bulb (if that is still what you want to plant) catalogs and see what they have. Looking at a range of them is a good idea anyway, as price and selection varies. Where I live there is actually a specific hort. library with a nursery catalog file where I could go look through various bulb catalogs, without having to send for them. Maybe a college or other facility near you also has a nursery catalog file. I bet you might be able to find at least a few sample bulb planting schemes online as well. |
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Revenues for Red Hat's fourth quarter ended in an optimistic trend that puts this open source company on a path that to see a billion dollars in revenue reached in the upcoming fiscal year. Red Hat's fourth quartered earnings included total revenue $244.8 million, and $209.3 million secured from subscription revenue.
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Morning Coffee: I Just Want the Royals to Win
Above all else, I'm a fan. And just like most fans, I want my favorite team to win. I want them to win every single game of every single season even though I know that's not realistic, but that's what being a fan is about. You all probably already know that fan is short for fanatic, and that is what I am to the Royals. Not only am I ultimately just a fan, but I'm kind of an idiot fan in that even if I know losing will help their draft stock, I still want them to win. In my heart, 75-87 and finishing in third place is better than 64-98 and finishing in last place. In my head, I know that's crazy, but I just can't get myself to root for a Royals loss.
I'm pretty sure I've told the story before, but with Spring Training here in a few weeks, it's always fun to look back on what caused me to be obsessed for six months eight months the whole year. I was pretty much born into my love of baseball as both of my parents are and were insane fans of baseball and especially the Royals. When I was little, I'd hear tales of the teams of the late 1970s and early 1980s. I was born in 1985, but sadly as a nine month old, I don't remember anything about that season. I know that's surprising, but it's true. As I got a little bit older, my favorite player was Danny Tartabull. As a small child, I just didn't know what a big deal George Brett was.
Of course, that was toward the end of George's career and as I got older, I began to learn more and more about Royals history and what a rich history it was. In the mid-1990s, being a decade removed from the playoffs and the World Series just didn't seem like that big of a deal, but of course time passed and now we're heading into the 28th season since the World Series team and at times it just feels like the Royals may never win again.
Somewhere in between me really figuring out baseball and today, I started to really love statistics. I've always been good at math, so I was interested in statistics in school and that transferred onto the baseball field. I was the kid who would work a walk in a little league game and as I was jogging to first would calculate my new on base percentage. My baseball career ended later than many, but far earlier than I had hoped, but my love of the game and my love of statistics has never really waned. I think one of the downsides of being a guy who loves statistics the way I do and being a fan of the team I am is that those advanced stats don't look kindly on bad teams. The team is bad for a reason and the stats tell the story of it. Bad teams have bad players. Bad players are bad for a reason as well and so just by looking at the statistics, it's easy to say that I'm a pessimist because the numbers don't look kindly on the Royals.
A lot of times, that's where I'm coming from. I don't look at the Shields trade as a negative simply because I value prospects too much. I look at it as a deal I didn't love because everything I see shows me that the trade will not get the Royals to the promised land in the next two years. Clint and I talked about this on this week's podcast, and 82 or 83 wins simply isn't enough. I'd absolutely enjoy every single one of those wins, and as Clint pointed out, that's more happy days than sad days and I'll take it. Still, I want the Royals to win the whole —-ing thing as they said in Major League. Personally, I felt that there were other ways to improve the roster more than making the particular moves they did.
But here's the beauty of it all and something that I feel like a lot of people may not necessarily see because they don't know me. No, I don't like the fact that Jeff Francoeur is the starting right fielder. And no, I'm not crazy about the fact that they gave Jeremy Guthrie a third season. And no, I don't think the Royals win more than somewhere around 83 or 84 games in 2013 and maybe not many more than that in 2014. But you know what? I will still cheer like crazy for them to win every single night out. I'm not president of the Jeff Francoeur fan club, but if he hits a home run to win a game in April, I'll lose my voice cheering. Chris Getz isn't my favorite player, but I want him to get a hit every single time he steps to the plate.
To me, all I care about is that the Royals win games. When I get upset about a move or a decision in a game, it's because I don't think that's the best move to get the Royals to that ultimate goal of winning games. It isn't because I'm constantly negative or because I'm rooting for the team to fail. It's quite the opposite actually. I've talked about this before, but there are times when I wish I could go back to the days when I could just blindly believe in the organization, but I just can't do it anymore. Time and time again, you hear people talk about trusting the organization and occasionally the tired argument of why aren't I in a front office if I know so much better. I don't usually dignify that with a response, but the Royals organization hasn't exactly given people much of a reason to trust them.
That said, all would be forgiven if they win. Right or wrong, I ache for this team to win. I'm in a bad mood after a bad loss and I'm in a better mood after a win. That's gotten better for me as I've gotten older, but I've been a fan of this team since the day I was born and I'll be a fan of this team until the day I die. No one trade or one decision could drive me away no matter how much I bitch and moan. If the Royals make it to the playoffs. I'll write a one thousand word article just repeating, "I was wrong. Dayton is superior to me in every way." I'll be more than happy to do that. There's a lot of bickering among fans that, as far as I can tell, is mostly due to a difference in philosophy. This is your yearly, rambling reminder that we're all in this for the same thing. It's about the Royals winning games. Which they'll hopefully do a lot of in 2013.
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Wrote this commentary over on the Royals website. Thought you might like to comment here.
How many wins does it take for 2013 to be a success? Is 81 enough or must they do better after giving up the future to obtain Shields/Davis plus the money paid for Santana, Hochevar and Guthrie?
Or does it take 85-90 wins for fans to stay interested? For some it may even require 90+ and contending.
For me, I don't see the Royals exceeding 85 wins as the team stands now. I showed my analysis for that prediction in a previous post. Will I be happy at 85-77…in short, YES. At least they will be competitive even if not playoff caliber. The downside of 85 is Ned Yost probably stays and I just don't believe this team can ever make the playoffs with him in the chair.
However, if they do worse than I project and barely break even or fall just short then I think NY AND DM will be doing some fast talking just to keep both their jobs.
My #1 concern is the team starts fast (allowing Ned to keep his job), but slows in the month before the A/S break to fall below 500 and out of contention. And that will cause fan attention to also wane in the 2nd half.
Why a concern? Because my biggest fear is David Glass will start selling off assets namely Butler and/or Gordon (assuming no market exists for Frenchy, Luke, Santana or Chen) to reduce payroll and achieve a profitable bottom line for the year.
There is a general belief that Glass values dollars over fan loyalty. he is backing the Win Now movement so far because of the heat taken this off season over not committing what it takes to win. Glass is banking on the team winning and generating fan attendance that covers his extra cash outlay. But a long mid-season slump could kill that momentum making the above concern a huge possibility.
Royals fans need to see 2013 as a research project. Glass is funding the project and Moore is the professor organizing the research. Yost, his coaches and players are the grad students and students performing tasks. If the project produces results, everyone wins. But if it fails, the funding gets pulled and a lot of people are out of jobs or moved to another project (team).
Finally, how can fans best prevent this possible outcome? By attending as many games as possible and keeping attendance pegged no matter what the record says. Hopefully, Dayton has a short leash on Ned and supplants him for a better motivator and tactician if the team falters. If that happens early enough and attendance stays high, then Glass will maintain his support and this team has a real chance for a monster 2nd half and push into the playoffs.
Guess you never realized just how much we fans can contribute toward this team's success in 2013. As General Hammond often said, "Do It!"
I am right with you David. I will be cheering for Frenchy to have a 2011 year and Cain to stay healthy all year. I hope Hosmer forgets 2012 (and anything Scott Boras says) and comes ready to show the world what he can do. Also that Moose hits all season like he did before his injury last year. I even root for Getz to stay healthy and play 150 games at 2nd base because the Royals historically play better when he is in the lineup (figure that one out).
I might be alone but I even pray that Luke Hochevar finds his missing inner strength and locks down the #5 spot with a solid 200 inning/4.00 ERA season.
But my biggest wish is that Ned Yost figures out how to motivate youth and make smart decisions in critical situations. Because if he manages the way he has the last two years, I believe the Royals best hope is 500 and that may not be enough to save several players being traded at mid season, and DM and NY being sent to the bread line with the fans forced to suffer as a result.
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Orland Park trustees on Monday night approved a fiscal year 2013 budget that includes money for more police, a dog park and replacing bug-infested trees.
Trustees also approved a tax levy, the amount of money to be raised via the property tax, that is essentially flat compared with what the village took in this year in property tax revenue. Officials said that, with a slight expected increase in property value, property owners could see a small decrease in the village's share of their tax bill.
In total, the budget calls for revenue of $112.8 million and $117.3 million in expenses. From the current budget, the village will carry forward a balance of $4.5 million into the fiscal year that starts Jan. 1.
Comparing the new budget to this year's budget shows expenses dropping by more than $47 million, but the current budget contains some significant one-time costs, some related to the village's Main Street Triangle redevelopment.
There is money in next year's budget to hire two police officers — with one starting Jan. 1 and another coming in July — nearly $2 million for ongoing stormwater abatement projects and $200,000 for a dog park within Centennial Park.
Some costs in the 2013 budget are educated guesses. The village is negotiating a new contract with the union that represents public works and parks and recreation employees and has allocated money in the budget based on the likely outcome, village manager Paul Grimes said.
Also, the village and the police union are in arbitration on a new contract, with officers seeking raises totaling 10 percent over four years while the village offers 8.5 percent over that span, Grimes said.
For the coming year, the village is allocating $500,000 to trim and replace trees in village parkways, including those infested by the emerald ash borer. That amount could be a fixture in village budgets for several years to come, officials said.
The insect has been decimating ash trees throughout the Chicago area, and Orland Park has roughly 8,500 trees in parkways and other public areas that will have to be removed and replaced. Grimes said the village anticipates spending $3.5 million over the next seven or eight years on ash tree replacement.
The village's tax levy is unchanged at $13.42 million, but the village's tax rate could dip slightly, finance director Annemarie Mampe said. The rate is now about 58 cents per $100 of equalized assessed value, she said.
It's anticipated that the value of all property in the village will rise 1 percent, which Mampe described as "very conservative" — meaning a property owner would shoulder a slightly smaller share of the total tax load. She said Orland Park's tax bite represents about 7 percent of a homeowner's total tax bill.
Under the new levy, the owner of a home with a market value of $300,000 who paid $489 in taxes to the village this year could see a bill next year of $484, Mampe said.
Trustees on Monday also abated about $3.1 million in taxes that would have been collected to pay principal and interest on four bond issues. Some of the money to pay that debt will come from the village's home-rule sales tax.


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Cultural Interactions: Chinese Arts and Chinese Identities
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The interaction among cultural spheres is both physically and socially mediated – through trade and technology exchanges, through textual bridges spanning knowledge systems, and through the diffusion of religious ideals and practices. Some of the most vibrant bridging among cultures in Asia has taken place through arts practices and exchanges, including the visual and performing arts, literature and film. This workshop will examine the complex effects of cultural interaction on identity in China through four key periods:
- The Tang Dynasty, when Buddhist traditions from Central and South Asia became firmly infused into Chinese cultural identity
- The first half of the 20th century, when interactions with global colonial and imperial powers spurred intensive efforts to construct modern Chinese national and cultural identities
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Rhythms of Social Exchange: The Human Figure in Early Chinese Art
Stanley Murashige
Carlsen Center 232
If identity is in part constituted by our bodies – our somatic selves – then how might such identities appear in Chinese art? What role, if any, does the physical body play? Images of the human figure in China before the Tang Dynasty (618-907) evince little interest in the actual appearances of people. Artists and artisans eschewed effects of light and shadow, and ignored perceptions of mass, weight, volume, natural scale and proportion. Interest in any precise and accurate realization of the human form gave way to an interest in the rhythmic and socially performed grounding of the human persona in the context of a ritually ordered temporality: the body was a function of time, and time was always a social happening. This presentation will visually explore how the human figure, and the human body, in early Chinese art was constituted principally as an unfolding of time, or a "rhythm of social gesturing," rather than as a disposition of bones, flesh and muscle.
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The Teachings of the Images: the Buddha Icon in Chinese Art
Stanley Murashige
Carlsen Center 232
Before Buddhism's spread in China, anthropomorphic images provided ritual icons of ancestors, images of denizens of the after world, celebrated paragons of virtue, sages and Daoist immortals. But such images seemed not to have had paramount importance as the focus of ritual veneration. Along with its rich array of authoritative texts, ritual formulae and practices, Buddhism brought with it a pantheon of deities, images of whom took pride of place as the central focus of rites and veneration. So important were these figural icons, that an early Chinese expression for the newly arrived Buddhist traditions was "the teachings of the images." This presentation will discuss the early importation and adaptation of the Buddha icon and how it changed to accommodate local meanings and needs, even offering inspiration for Daoist ritual icons.
noon-1:15 p.m.
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Traditionality and Modernity in Minyue [Chinese traditional music]
Fred Lau
Carlsen Center 232
Minyue 民乐, music written for and performed by traditional Chinese instruments, has been undergoing significant transformation since the May Fourth Movement in early 20th century. China's changing political and cultural environments prompted many cultural workers to seek ways to modernize traditional practice and forms and to redefine "tradition. This trend continued after 1949 and well into the new millennium. This talk will explore the ways concepts of traditionality and modernity manifested and played out in minyue in the second half of the 20th century. By comparing and contrasting different musical examples and genres, I will show how musical practice, procedures and aesthetic principles have become the ground for ideological and identity construction and contestation, making the case that understanding Chinese music and, by extension, Chinese culture in general cannot be separated from their immediate socio-political contexts. As a cultural practice, music is a viable window to examine cultural discourse that is embedded in something often overlooked as ephemeral and ineffable.
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The Visual and Auditory Cultures of China: 1960s-1980s
Nicole Huang
Carlsen Center 232
This talk will construct a changing narrative of the Chinese Cultural Revolution with a focus on how words and images from the time are preserved, reconfigured, and disseminated in the post-Cultural Revolution era. Mao Zedong's 1942 "Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Art and Literature" provides a theoretical foundation for a revolutionary mass culture that culminated in the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 70s. How were revolutionary songs and political posters, among other genres, connected to earlier intellectual discourses and folk traditions? How effective were they in carrying out political messages? What made them 'popular'? How do we address the issue of 'style' in forms of political propaganda? In post-Mao China, how exactly did literature, film, and fine arts make their meaningful connections to past experiences? And to what extent are the memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution kept alive in personal, national, as well as global politics of today?
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Regnier Center 101 A-B
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Memory and Identity Politics in Contemporary China: Perspectives from Literature and Film
Lingchei Letty Chen
It has been observed that our age of globalization has produced concurrently an age of memory. One of the social and cultural phenomena born of rapid economic growth in China since late 1990s is a memory boom focused on various historical and individual traumas of the bygone Mao era. Interestingly, also since the late 1990s, there has emerged a new popular literary phenomenon in the United States – memoirs and autobiographies by Chinese expatriates who lived through the Mao era and experienced its socio-political upheavals, most notably the Cultural Revolution. This talk will compare these two mnemonic practices occurring in dissimilar environments and conditions, and will explore how identity is constructed and manipulated through representations of traumatic memory.
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What if the Italians had given us hummus?
By J.M. HIRSCH The Associated Press October 24, 2013 8:22AM
This Sept. 30, 2013 photo shows Italian-style hummus with diced tomatoes in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
This hummus is delicious as a spread served with crackers or baguette slices, or turned into the base of a dinner.
For that, smear a hefty serving of the hummus over a lightly toasted slice of sourdough bread, then top with either lightly seasoned grilled chicken breast or roasted vegetables.
Start to finish: 25 minutes
Servings: 4
15-ounce can cannellini or other white beans, drained and rinsed
6 cloves garlic, minced, divided
1/2 cup pine nuts
Zest and juice of 1 lemon
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra
Salt and ground black pepper
1 large tomato, diced
Balsamic vinegar
In a food processor, combine the beans, half of the garlic, pine nuts, lemon zest and juice, and 1 tablespoon of the rosemary. Process until chunky smooth.
With the processor running, drizzle in the olive oil until the hummus reaches a smooth, silky texture. Taste, then season with salt and pepper, and set aside.
In a bowl, toss together the tomatoes, the remaining 1 teaspoon of rosemary and the remaining garlic. Taste, then season with salt and pepper.
Spoon the hummus into a wide, shallow bowl, using the back of the spoon to form a cavity at the center.
Spoon the tomatoes into the cavity in the hummus. Drizzle olive oil over the tomatoes and hummus, then sprinkle with a few drops of balsamic vinegar.
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Updated: November 25, 2013 6:08AM
What would happen if hummus had been invented in Italy, rather than the Middle East?
I decided to answer the question for myself with this simple reimagining of the classic chickpea puree.
And it's not as discordant as you might think. Many of the same flavor profiles can be found across both Italian and Middle Eastern cuisines. Which makes sense, given relative geographic proximity. Even the ingredients and technique have common ground.
Italians make generous use of chickpeas and lemons — both essential to classic hummus. Though in the case of chickpeas, Italians tend to use them more often in soups and pastas than in spreads.
And when they do make spreads, they often reach for other beans, such as favas. And while traditional hummus relies on tahini (ground sesame seeds) to add richness, Italians probably would be more inclined to reach for pine nuts. So with those substitutions in mind, I created this delicious Italian-style hummus topped with diced tomatoes spiked with balsamic vinegar.


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Dollar General Corporation Reports Record Third Quarter 2012 Sales And Earnings
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I thought this was a pretty good recipe. I added chopped shallots to the mix and instead of baking as a whole, I divided them into small pancakes and baked that way. Everyone loved these......they were served with a sweetened sour cream and cinnamon sauce.
This was pretty good. Better the first time I made it, and that was in a tin pan, not glass. It did require more time in the oven to crust up nicely, but was better eating. I have a feeling that the second batch was perhaps slightly under-boiled, prior to baking.


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It was a pretty blah Wednesday. Hectic. I woke up late. Didn't have time to dry my hair because I couldn't decide which skirt to wear. Just…m'eh. One of those days. You know how it goes.
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I wasn't feeling super creative this morning. I've been struggling with working out since hubs got home. We ran Monday night, last night I had a work event, and we were supposed to go running the AM but he doesn't understand that while I'm difficult to rouse in the morning, I do want to be a morning workout guru. And for him bragging about waking up at 4am for the past seven months, he sure isn't trying very hard.
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All with about 1-2min rest between sets. should be about a 4 mile jaunt around the track. Normally I usually do 400m intervals (in form of Yasso 800′s for marathon training) at about 2-2:30 minutes each I'm hoping to do . I'm trying to get into the 8-9 min/mile range versus the 9-10 minute/mile range so I think workouts like this between now and June might actually help.
Hubs is focusing more on his 2 mile run for his upcoming PT test, so while I'm training for the Dover AFB half and the Zooma 10k in June with distances, he wants to focus more on speed which I can do. I need that too. So tonight? Speed workout it is!
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Fantastic Fest: 'The King of Pigs' Draws a Harrowing Look At the Cycle of Violence and the Pains of Childhood
Fantastic Fest By Rob Hunter on September 26, 2012 | Comments (1)Editor's Note: This review appeared as part of our coverage of the 11th Annual New York Asian Film Festival, and we're bringing it back to be part of our Fantastic Fest coverage. Animated films are traditionally the home of kiddie fare and pure entertainment, but on rare occasions filmmakers use the format to tell decidedly adult stories. Heavy Metal is probably the most notorious example, but even rarer are the animated films that attempt to tell truly dramatic tales about more than big boobed space warriors and horny robots. The Plague Dogs and When the Wind Blows are two fantastic examples of serious films with serious themes being told by way of animation. And now one more bleak, occasionally stunning and depressing as hell cartoon can be added to that short list. Kyung-min stands naked in the shower as his recently deceased wife sits dead at the kitchen table. Jong-suk suspects his wife is cheating on him and knocks her to the ground in his rage. The two men, once childhood friends, reunite after two decades apart to commiserate and reflect on their last year together in middle school. The year they discovered their place among the lowly, subservient pigs and the cruel, entitled dogs. The year they first noticed the small smile of tired acceptance worn by the defeated. The year they met Chul, a young boy who showed them how even a pig could fight back by matching brutality with brutality.
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The geographic proximity and large Hispanic populations in Florida and Puerto Rico have driven a longstanding effort by the Ponce School of Medicine (PSM) and the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center (HLMCC) to develop an academic partnership. The complementary expertise at both institutions provides a synergistic means of studying the cancer problem in Puerto Ricans, and in the Hispanic population in general. The partnership focuses on four target areas: (1) basic research, (2) cancer education and training, (3) outreach, and (4) tissue procurement. Basic scientists from both institutions with shared interests and complementary expertise have jointly developed basic research projects.
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Michigan is so ripe with highly effective educators that they seem to outnumber the students. The women below represent Michigan's slice of an elite class of female educators, those who consistently out-perform their peers and who put the needs of their students first. Obviously, these aren't the only women doing great work in the state, but we believe they merit special recognition.
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Christine Phelps | Central Michigan University | Dr. Phelps recently received the CMU College of Science and Technology Oustanding Teaching Award for 2012. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 2009 and joined the faculty at CMU in the same year. |
Debra Ross | Grand Valley State University | Dr. Ross has recently received Pew Teaching Excellence Award for 2013. She earned her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University in 1999 and joined the GVSU School of Criminal Justice in 2003. |
Diane Ebert-May | Michigan State University | Dr. Ebert-May, was selected as a recipient of the 2012 CNS Distinguished Faculty Award. She heads the Ebert-May Biology Education Research Lab, which studies the links between the physical and the cognitive sciences, emphasizing the role of the student. |
Diane Sparks | Grand Rapids Community College | Dr. Sparks has been awarded the 2012 School of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Education Award. The award is presented to only one faculty member each year and denotes a commitment to education that surpasses the college's highest standards. |
Doris C. Plantus | Oakland University | Dr. Plantus, a special lecturer in the English department, has received the 2012 Excellence in Teaching Award for Non-Tenured Professors. She earned her Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 2005 with a specialization in translation and adaptation. |
Doris Fields | Eastern Michigan University | Dr. Fields earned her Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 2002 and has been teaching at Eastern Michigan since 1997. She recently received the 2013 Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Facutly Award for Teaching. |
Elina Erzikova | Central Michigan University | Dr. Erzikova, one of the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's Emerging Scholars, has received the CMU Excellence in Teaching Award for 2012-2013. A Russian immigrant, she worked as a professional journalist in her home country before earning her Ph.D. from the University of Alabama. |
Georgina Montgomery | Michigan State University | Dr. Montgomery has been named the 2012-2013 Lilly Teaching Fellow. Her research interests include development of filed methods and animal behavior studies. |
Gwen Tarbox | Western Michigan University | Dr. Tarbox, who teaches Gender and Women Studies in the WMU's English department, has been awarded the 2012-2013 College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching. Her research focuses on the effects of childrens literature on the lives of readers, with an emphasis on females. |
Huirong Fu | Oakland University | Dr. Fu has received the 2012 OU School of Engineering and Computer Science Outstanding Faculty Award. In 2000, she earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and came to Oakland University in 2005. |
Janet Vigna | Grand Valley State University | Dr. Vigna, a professor of Genetics and Biology at GVSU, has been presented with the 2013 University Oustanding Teacher Award. The award is presented to only one teacher every year. She earned her doctorate in Microbiology from the University of Iowa. |
Katherine Osteryoung | Michigan State University | Dr. Osteryoung has been awarded the Michigan State CNS Distinguished Faculty Award for 2013. Her primary research interst is chloroplast division in plant cells. |
Kelly Victor-Burke | Eastern Michigan University | Dr. Victor-Burke recently received the EMU Full-Time Lecturers Outstanding Teaching Award. She joined the facutly at EMU in 200 and now serves as a lecturer and the Co-Coordinator of the Georgraphy Geotourism Project. |
Kim Colvert | Ferris State University | Dr. Colvert recently received the first annual Ferris State Academic Scholar Award. Since coming to Ferris in 1988 she has performed extensive research in her field, all of which her students benefit from directly. |
Laura Kasischke | University of Michigan | Professor Kasischke has received the 2013 UM Distinguished Faculty Award. In 1987, she earned her Master of Fine Arts from the university at which she now teaches. |
Laurie Witucki | Grand Valley State University | Dr. Witucki has been named the GVSU Educational Support Program Professor of the Year. She earned her Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry from Princeton University. |
Linda Reeser | Western Michigan University | Dr. Reeser is earned her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College before joining the faculty at WMU, and has since been teaching her courses with passions and dynamism. She is the recipient of the WMU Excellence in Teaching Award for 2012, presented by the dean of the college. |
Linda Spoelman | Grand Rapids Community College | Dr. Spoelman recently received the Michigan Community College Association's Oustanding Faculty of the Year Award. She earned her doctorate from the Appalachian State University and, in addition to teaching, serves as the director of Instruction for Adult and Developmental Education. |
Lisa Newman | University of Michigan | Dr. Newman was selected to receive the 2012 Dean's Medical School Community Service Award. She is the Director of Michigan's Breast Care Center and a practicing surgical oncologist. |
Mariane Fahlman | Wayne State University | Dr. Fahlman was awarded the 2012 Harrison Award for Commitment to Comprehensive School Health Education. In addition to teaching, she serves as the Coordinator of Health Education for WSU's College of Education. |
Maureen MacGillivray | Central Michigan University | Dr. MacGillivray has been awarded the CMU Faculty Distinguished Service Award for 2012. She earned her doctorate in Clothing, Textiles and Merchandising from the Oklahoma State University. |
Nell Hill | Ferris State University | Professor Hill, a graduate of the school at which she now teaches, has been awarded the 2012 FSU Adjunct Teaching Excellence Award. Since joining Ferris in 2005, she has taught many language courses, but focuses on beginner and intermediate French. |
Ratna Naik | Wayne State University | Dr. Naik has been awarded the WSU Distinguished Graduate Facutly Award for 2013. She earned her Ph.D. from West Virginia University and is now both a professor in and the chair of te WSU Physics and Astronomy Department. |
Sherine Obare | Western Michigan University | Dr. Obare has recently been named one of WMU's Emergin Scholars for 2012. She earned her doctorate from the University of South Carolina in 2002 and now teaches and serves as the director of Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program. |
Susan Gelman | University of Michigan | Dr. Gelman is a recipient of the University of Michigan Distinguished Faculty Award for 2013. Her research interested include cognitive development, language acquisition, and the relationship between language and thought. |


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I wanted to get people's opinions on the latest issue of erratas that came out. Do you agree, disagree, or are you on the fence about the decisions that were made? I haven't played the game in about 6 months so I am not really in a position to say anything, but for those active players what are your thoughts?
The Last Errata
Posted 24 December 2012 - 12:41 PM
Posted 24 December 2012 - 12:51 PM
i cant remember what the last errata was….was that the zigil miner an protector of lorien?
if so they killed the miner…thats for sure. protector needed the errata and is still usable…though i used to use it often in my decks
overall i think ffg did ok with it
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Posted 31 December 2012 - 07:41 AM
I don't think they killed the minner, it's still a resource enhancement of between 0-2 extra resources. Which is in line with the amount that other non-unique cards can generate.
It now requires you to use it with something that lets you know you'll be getting at least 1 number correct, but then, to get resources out of it reliabily pre-errata was the same. I think they just made it so that the minner is more inline with it's cost.
I was happy with the changes.


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Warning: This article contains some personal thoughs and opinions based on movie events. If you're going to comment with your fanfiction thoughs or yell at me that I'm completely wrong - better close this article and don't come back.
Anyway, let's start the right point. There are countless argues and questions about Nuka, Vitani and Kovu, their unknown pasts and parents. Here i'll post my thoughs with some explanations you may find interesting.
Some peple think that Nuka is not Scar's son, or even Zira was not Scar's mate. Let's say she was. Why? Why not? Nuka looks similar to both of them and I think he is their son, or maybe their only real kid. There comes an argument than he never reffered to Scar as "father", only "Scar". Look at him. He never talks about Scar with sentiment or love. With jealousy and hatred, he says thet it's him who should be the king, not Kovu, who is not even Scar's son. He says he should be the king because he's the oldest(and smartest, heh), not because he is Scar's son, but would he made it so clear that Kovu isn't Scar's son if he wasn't neither? He surely knew Scar. He wasn't threated well by Zira in the movie, and since Zira looks very obsessed by Scar, it's very possible that Scar didn't threat him well neither. The fact that Nuka wasn't the "chosen one" would cause his hatred towards Scar and that he wouldn't want to reffer to him as the "father", however, he still thinks that the throne should belong to him.
Vitani and Kovu
As it was said so many times in the movie, Kovu isn't Scar's son, but is Vitani his daughter? I'm almost sure that Vitani was born since Scar's regin. In the battle scene Nala and Vitani meets. Nala says Vitani's name, that means she recognized her, even if she didn't see her before(in the movie). That would prove my though that Nala met, or heard about Vitani when she was born since Scar's regin. Is she a daughter of Zira and Scar? There comes this famous NalaXScar pairing,because Vitani have blue eyes, pink nose and light fur. Yeah yeah, real lions breed with their familly and all females in their pride yadda yadda, but I think that there is a great space between real lions and Lion King. One couple forever(generally). That's the reality. So I think she may be Zira's and Scar's daughter.
About Kovu, many people think that the is Zira's son, but many things tell me that he isn't. Why? If he's not Scar's son, Zira must gave birth after she was exiled from Pridelands, but Kovu is about similar age to Vitani. Don't you think this must take some time to find a new male, fall in love and give birth? Vitani would pretty much older than Kovu then, but she isn't. Now the most possible think is that he had two completely different parents and was just adopted by Scar and Zira. That would make sense now if Vitani was born isnce Scar's regin and Kovu is about the same age as her.
Okay, I hope it wasn't too boring and too confusing. sorry for any language mistakes.
October 14, 2012 | ||
What I'm starting to understand is Vitani Being Nala's daughter, It is
very likely in the broad way Musical there is a scene where Scar trys
to mate with Nala. Hmm...But i kinda like that idea even better. But I
Believe 100% That Zira is the birth mother of Nuka and Kovu |
October 14, 2012 | ||
i think nuka said why its kovu so special and he should have been the
chosen one simply because he is the first born and kovu wasn't. like
above,, scar saw nuka as a failure probably and thus hand chose kovu
to follow in his paw prints. another reason why nuka refers to him as,
scar and not dad or father. who would its he sees you as a failure |
October 14, 2012 | ||
October 14, 2012 | ||
oh geez i mean seriously there is a reason they all look lie scar
because he is their father. the same way simba strongly resembles
mufasa. NONE of the other lions have dark fur, dark mane and green
eyes like scar but kovu and nuka so its pretty obvious they are his. |
October 14, 2012 | ||
i believe they are scar's, children. they all was born during scar's
reign. Zira was probably pregnant with kovu at theend ofut lion king
1. she was exiled by Simba because of her loyalty to scar. so kovu and
kiara are not exactly the same age, but pretty close. even though Nuka
was the first born, he's pretty scrawny and just weird , so i
believe she saw something different in kovu which made her favor him
more. |
bie | August 07, 2012 | |
See, I'm having a tough time trying to figure out if Vitani and Nuka
are Scars biological children. Don't hate me for saying this, but I
found Scar to be a little Gay, if Lions can in fact be Gay. If not
Gay, more 'Feminine' He never had a mate in LK1 despite there being a
lot of females available. Also his hair flips, his swaying, him having
the accent, "Sensational!", lets face it, Scar is downright fabulous.
So maybe he tried with a female to carry on the legacy, but it would've had to be before he died. How long does it take green to regrow after its been burned and exhausted? Maybe enough time for Zira to have Nuka? MAYBE. And the fact that Vitani and Kovu are pretty much the same age discourages me from thinking that Vitani is Scars kid, again, Zira would've needed to be preggers before Scar died. Kira is also pretty much the same age as both Kovu and Vitani, so this seems to happen after the regrowth of pride rock, you wouldn't subject new kids to a barren wasteland until you knew it was safe enough. BUT THEN HOW DOES NALA KNOW VITANI. Omg, someone just send a letter to whoever wrote LK and as them. I have so many thoughts I can't get them on computer fast enough. Ok I'm done.... |
July 22, 2012 | ||
i agree but i think vitani was nala and scars that nala gave to zira
and nuka's explanation was perfect kovu's 2 |
August 10, 2011 | ||
Finally! An article that makes sense. I never thought for one minute
that Nuka and Vitani were related biologically to Scar if Kovu wasn't.
This article made some really good points. I like how it mentions that
Vitani and Kovu were more likely litter mates. Another thing I like is
when the article said something about Nuka, Vitani and Kovu's parents
being Zira and an unknown lion. |
July 17, 2011 | ||
I don't believe one bit, nor did I ever get the impression when I
watched the movie, that Kovu was ever Zira's son. To my
understanding, Kovu was adopted by Scar because of his potential.
Obviously, his own son, Nuka, was a weak failure (much like himself
*irony*). Zira, being the ever devout follower of Scar, accepted Kovu
as one of her own children because Scar chose him. That and, well, if
your hubby adopts a kid that means you adopted him, too. Anyway, I don't think they would have stressed Kovu as being "adopted" if Zira was his biological mother. When a guy marries a woman with children, he doesn't "adopt" those children, he becomes their step-father end of discussion. Counter argument: they wanted to make sure we all knew Kovu wasn't related by blood to Kiara. But, most movies (even Disney movies) won't say the father "adopted" the child, they'll say outright "The man isn't the boy's father." Or again, even kids know the words "step-father." Adopt is the key word here, I guess. |
May 26, 2011 | ||
NUKA: "but would he made it so clear that Kovu isn't Scar's son if he wasn't neither?" Of course he would. Didn't he in that scene even literally state that he doesn't understand why Kovu is so special? He made the not-Scar's-son matter so clear to make the point that for that reason Kovu shouldn't be any more special than he himself is and thus he doesn't understand what makes him so. Also, he spoke of himself as "I should've been the Chosen One" which in my opinion is the clearest detail to prove he is not Scar's son - hence, he thought of himself as just a candidate for being chosen instead of considering himself the rightful heir to begin with. So, I really think Nuka was not Scar's son. VITANI: Vitani is exactly the same size as Kovu, which means she was highly likely his litter mate. Because Kovu was the last born, she had to be older. And if she wasn't from the same litter, she would have to be bigger than Kovu. Because lions naturally carry their unborn child for some 3 months and don't have new litters immediately but after 6 months in minimum. Vitani would have to be at least 9 months older than Kovu if she wasn't from the same litter and she is WAY too small for that. I'd bet my life savings they meant Vitani and Kovu to be litter mates. And thus, Vitani isn't Scar's daughter. KOVU: "If he's not Scar's son, Zira must gave birth after she was exiled from Pridelands" Kovu was the last born BEFORE Simba exiled them, so no, officially she did not give birth to anyone after the exile. And I don't see why you think Zira MUST have given birth after the exile anyway? We don't know when she joined Scar's pride. Perhaps she joined it with young or even adult Nuka while was carrying Kovu and Vitani and then gave birth to them some time before Simba returned. "Don't you think this must take some time to find a new male, fall in love and give birth?" Hence, my above reasoning - she didn't necessarely have to find anyone. As for Kovu being adopted by both Scar and Zira, yes, it would make sense to him and Vitani being the same age without being litter mates and thus Vitani could be Scar's child, but... ...I seriously don't think the film makers would've made these parental matters this complicated without making the points in the film. Also, as they wrote a child who was not Scar's biological heir, as in a child that is taking the rights of a biological son - I believe they would've made the point literally, if any of the other two were biologically entitled heir. Because it would be crucial. So, I think it is most likely that Nuka, Vitani and Kovu were all Zira's biological children by one unknown male. |
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I know how you feel. Our peanut is most likely a boy. I dreamed of a little girl, such vivid dreams, that I feel I am mourning the little girl we were going to have. I keep telling myself he is going to be a sweet, gentle, lovely man one day just like his daddy. We found some adorable little clothes with animals on them, things better than the pink explosion of Pepto Bismol. I think being depressed is really normal. I find that I cycle through being happy as I was when we found out (a bit disappointed) to utterly devastated and back again. I just keep telling myself God knows best, whether doctor's guess of a boy is right or not, and we will love our babies no matter what.
I was a girly girl who loved dresses but was also badly behaved, ran wild, and drove my parents insane. My husband was the gentle, nice kid who was never into sports. We decided as I am a figure skater we'll be putting our little one into skating lessons with his mommy. The sport needs more boys! :) Dance? Sure! If he wants to! Things like that. Stereotypes are just that.
I'm more worried that because my SIL is having a girl before me (my husband is one of 2 boys) that, due to their reactions and stuff, his grandparents on dad's side won't love him. He will see his cousin getting toys and attention and he won't be. I know that will happen. That is why I am so very upset.
But just know like all the mamas here say when you have your baby you love them no matter what. My dad told me that holding your child for the first time, no matter what it is, you just know what life is all about and what love is.