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Australian twenty-dollar note
(Australia) | |
Value | 20 Australian dollars |
Width | 144 mm |
Height | 65 mm |
Security features | Window, Watermark |
Paper type | Polymer |
Years of printing | 1994–1998 2002-2003 2005-2008 2010 |
Obverse | |
Design | Mary Reibey |
Designer | Garry Emery |
Design date | 31 October 1994 |
Reverse | |
Design | John Flynn |
Designer | Garry Emery |
Design date | 31 October 1994 |
The Australian twenty dollar banknote was issued when the currency was changed from the Australian pound to the Australian dollar on 14 February 1966. It replaced the £10 note which had the same orange colouration. There have been only two different issues of this denomination: a paper note which had a gradient of yellow and red, with a distinct orange background, and a polymer note which can be recognised for its distinct red-orange colouration. The polymer note was issued in 1994.
According to Reserve Bank statistics, at the end of June 2007 there was a net value of $2,846 million in $20 notes in circulation representing 7.1% of the cash value of all issued notes. Actual banknotes in circulation account for 15.8% of all denominations, or 142.3 million banknotes.[1]
Since the start of issuance there have been 14 signature combinations, of which the 1967 issue is of the greatest value, issued for one year only; and the 1989 Pillip/Fraser being issued for less than a year.
From 1966-1974 the main title identifying the country was Commonwealth of Australia, there were 146,960,000 notes issued in its life. This was subsequently changed to Australia until the end of the issuance of paper currency for this denomination in 1994 with 1,661,970,048 of these notes being issued.
The people depicted on the paper note issue were Sir Charles Kingsford Smith on the obverse along with five Lissajous curves drawn by a two-pendulum harmonograph, and Lawrence Hargrave on the reverse with his drawings of kites and type aircraft designs.
The polymer note features Mary Reibey on the obverse with an early colonial building and sailing ship including her signature. John Flynn is on the reverse with features of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia of a De Havilland DH.50 biplane victory supplied by Qantas, medical instruments, Coledge Harland (the man on the camel), who was a missionary to the inland people of Australia. His signature is included. A compass is in the clear window with the raised 20 lettering. These famous people are depicted against a definite red background.
Colouration is said to be orange but has been debated many times over the years, some people incorrectly claim it is of orange pigmentation. Official documentation states that the colour of the twenty dollar note is predominately orange. This polymer note is occasionally colloquially referred to as a "Red Back" after the Australian spider species of the same name.
Security features[edit]
The paper design included a watermark in the white field of Captain James Cook, the watermark was also used in the last issue of pound banknotes. A metallic strip, first near the centre of the note, then from 1976 moved to the left side on the obverse of the note. Polymer issue includes a watermark or clear imprint of the coat of arms which is printed over. Embossing or a raised image in the clear panel of the number 20. Also for this issue fluorescent colouring was added to the serial numbers, and a patch that shows the banknote's value. A star with four points on the obverse and three on the reverse which join under light. Raised print and micro printing of the denomination name are included.[2]
- ^ Reserve bank statistics 2006/2007
- ^ http://banknotes.rba.gov.au/counterfeit-detection/
- Ian W. Pitt, ed. (2000). Renniks Australian Coin and Banknote Values (19th ed. ed.). Chippendale, N.S.W.: Renniks Publications. pp. 171–172. ISBN 0-9585574-4-6.


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The Vertex 460 120GB has more going for it than just performance and price. OCZ still includes the same accessory package that they do with the flagship Vector products and the larger capacity offerings.
Every Vertex 460 includes a desktop adapter bracket, mounting screws, and key for drive cloning software that you download from OCZ.com. OCZ also has an SSD Toolbox that allows end users to easily update firmware and to run a secure erase cycle when you need to clean the drive.
All things considered, the 120GB Vertex 460 is a solid product with a great accessory package and best-in-class performance. This capacity size is a little small for gamers and power users, but if you want a great user experience for everything else, this is the drive under $100 that I'd buy.
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I am looking to purchase a bunch of the 200X MOTU figures. I know a lot of people are dumping their 200X collection, BUT I am just getting started (after my wife purchased me a few for Christmas). I live in the USA and can pay via PayPal.
PLEASE send me a PM if you have several of these figures that you want to sell at a decent price. In your PM, be sure to let me know which MOC 200X red card figures you have AND how much you want for them. Thanks!!
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~I am ONLY interested in the RED cards (NONE of the green MOTU vs Snake Men carded figures)
~I am NOT interested in having a ton of variants, but might be interested in a few (i.e. Ice Armor He-Man, etc.)
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I bought this set use in my job as a mechanic. They are sized right to fit into tight spots. The seem durable enough and the finish is nice.I am one who has never been enamored with "name" tools. My co-workers in the shop have "off the truck" brand tools and my Pittsburg line tools have lasted as long as theirs. I have filled my tool box for a fraction of what it has cost them.
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a+ quality low price weird sizes
Good cheap set for the car but come on add the 15mm drop the 16 almost never need a 16mm 15mm very common and include a 3/4 aside from that very useful
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Nice starter set
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About Me Casual Do-It-Yourselfer
Comments about Pittsburgh 32 Pc Fully Polished SAE & Metric Combination Wrench Set:
I purchased this along with the 301pc. tool kit. The wrenches in the kit make up for what this one lacks. 15MM is a common wrench.. Bicycle lug nuts and many automotive applications. I would buy it again but it would of been nice with a few more wrenches. even if the price was more.
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By Mowersplus
from Maine
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I use the in my shop and i have a set in the car. i really don't understand peoples complaint about the missing 15mm the sets are cheap enough that you can buy a set will a 15mm in it and both sets together would be less then the cost of one wrench from those other guys (mac , sk snappy)
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missing sizes
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from Missouri
About Me Avid Do-It-Yourselfer
why would anyone sell the set without the 15? Why not offer a complete set with 25% more wrenches without charging twice as much?
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No 15mm but 9/16 works just as well
By Road Runner
from Monroe, MI
I use them for auto, farm machinery repair, assemble and disassembly and all around work. The missing 15mm has little effect on me, my 9/16 works good in its place
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By Mark
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I have a set of these among other brands. I like these because i don't fear breaking them--I have backups. I have never broken one while working on my car suspension, so they are not junk. Other companies make even stronger ones, so these can't get 5 stars. I would recommend these to someone starting out who is careful when using tools or for a weekend warrior to be a beat-up or common task set.
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Good wrench set for good price
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The stubbies are great. The normal wrenches could be a little longer for more leverage.They are thin enough for tight fits.A good set for all around use.
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I have several set of HFT wrenches and I am very happy with them. I was thinking about buying these until I read the specs. A set of wrenches should have commonly used sizes. I had to buy a 15mm G*W* when I found the set I bot was missing one. So, it's not just HFT. Caveat emptor.
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Missing a much used 15 mm wrench
By John at the Falls
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While these are good quality wrenches, be prepared to purchase a 15 mm wrench.This would be a 5 star set if it included a 15 mm.The purpose of buying a set is to be prepared for any repair situation. I could not work on my Ford Windstar without several varieties of 15 mm wrenches and sockets.You also need a 15 mm wrench for bicycle pedals and wheel axel nuts. These are standard bicycle sizes.Don't even think you can substitute a 5/8 SAE wrench for the 15 mm. It is 30 thousands larger and will strip the 15 mm.
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Such a pact is crucial for American and French firms to source reactor vessels from Japan Steel Works for Mithivirdi and Jaitapur plants
India and Japan are confident of going ahead with talks for a civil nuclear agreement despite the latest reports of toxic waste from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant leaking into the Pacific Ocean.
"The bilateral agreement can still be done. This [talks on an agreement] is not an issue that has stopped. It has just slowed down," said government sources here.
An India-Japan civil nuclear pact is crucial for American and French companies to source reactor vessels from Japan Steel Works (JSW) for their proposed plants in Mithivirdi and Jaitapur, respectively. "Without a civil nuclear agreement, the Japanese government will not be able to license JSW to supply crucial equipment to them," confirmed the sources.
Both governments have left no stone unturned to create a favourable environment for closer ties. The Japanese Foreign Ministry has encouraged Members of the Lower House's Foreign Affairs Committee led by its Chairman Katsuyuki Kawai to travel to India.
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It was fortuitous that these parliamentarians, including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's younger brother Nobuo Kishi, chief of the ruling party's foreign affairs committee, were at hand when Ashwani Kumar was named the Prime Minister's Special Envoy to Japan to maintain the momentum in high-level exchanges that will capped by a summit meeting between the two Ministers and the visit of the Emperor of Japan and the Empress towards year-end.
"You will not be able to appreciate what the Emperor's visit to India means to the Japanese people. For us, the fact that the Emperor is visiting India has a huge significance and is a signal that it is going to be a very special relationship with India," said one of the parliamentarians, who later attended a dinner hosted by Mr. Kumar. The visitors had an opportunity to interact with Advisor to Prime Minister T.K.A Nair, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh and Deputy National Security Adviser Nehchal Sandhu, at the gathering.
Both sides have held three formal rounds of talks on the civil nuclear agreement and a few informally. It is understood that an Indian team might go to Japan early next month to pick up the threads after the election of the new and considerably more pro-India ruling dispensation in Tokyo.
And while the high hopes generated by previous years of bonhomie are unlikely to lead to new investments in the near term because of an unfavourable economic climate in India, both countries are moving ahead on other fronts, especially defence and infrastructure projects. They have taken the first major step in the ambitious Dedicated Freight Corridor with the award of a Rs.6,500-crore tender to an L&T-Sojitz consortium for a 626-km section of the project.
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Submitted by Fun at Foster on September 24, 2013 - 1:30pmVentura is host to a myriad number of butterflies. Most of us are familiar with the Monarch butterfly, but did you know that there are dozens of different butterflies that call Ventura County home? Foster library has many Butterfly Books to help you identify our winged neighbors.
Resident Photographer Aleta Rodriguez
Submitted by Fun at Foster on September 23, 2013 - 12:45pmBattle of the Books
Submitted by Fun at Foster on September 18, 2013 - 8:22amPhoto Credit: Andrew Bollerman
Ventura Unified School District - Middle Schools
Battle of the Books is a fun, voluntary reading incentive program for students. Students read from a list of 20 preselected books and attend Friday book talks in the library at lunch. Raffle prizes are given, sometimes popcorn, and book related movies are shown. Students may bring their lunch and share in the fun with fellow students and teachers. Students must read and take the AR tests on at least 7 books from the list and attend book talks.
In March, qualifying students from the 4 middle schools and Sunset will come together to participate in the Final Battle. Students will be placed on teams where they will have an opportunity to test their knowledge of the books they have read. The competition is similar in style of the TV series Family Feud. There will be a raffle for prizes, and everyone receives a t-shirt, lunch, goodie bag, and participation ribbon. Winning team members also receive a medal, gift certificates, and their names will be engraved on a perpetual trophy.
Join the fun at your school. Contact your teacher or librarian for more information: Mrs. Carr at Anacapa; Mrs. Deal at Balboa; Mrs. Hofflund at Cabrill; Mrs. Johnson at DATA; Petra Somar at Sunset.
Look for our display of the books on the list.
Battle of the Books 2013-14
Abbott, Tony Firegirl
Dahl, Roald Boy: Tales of Childhood
Draper, Sharon Out of My Mind
DuPrau, Jeanne City of Ember
Farmer, Nancy House of the Scorpion
Hesse, Karen Out of the Dust
Jimenez, Francisco Breaking Through
Kadohata, Cynthia Kira-Kira
Kessler, Liz Tail of Emily Windsnap
Mihaley, James You Can't Have My Planet, But Take My Brother, Please
Mikaelsen, Ben Touching Spirit Bear
Nixon, Joan Lowry Other Side of Dark
O'Dell, Scott Black Star, Bright Dawn
Park, Linda Sue Project Mulberry
Paver, Michelle Wolf Brother
Peck, Richard The Teacher's Funeral
Riordan, Rick The Lightning Thief
Rylant, Cynthia Missing May
Schmidt, Gary Wednesday Wars
Yolen, Jane Devil's Arithmetic
In memory of 9/11
Submitted by Fun at Foster on September 10, 2013 - 4:42pmIn May of 1987, I visited family back east. We decided to take a quick trip to New York City. We took the Staten Island ferry back to New Jersey and I was able to take some pictures of the World Trade Center from the ferry. At that time I had no way of knowing that it would be the last time I would ever see the twin towers.
On this anniversary of 9/11 I offer these images in memoriam to those who lost their lives that day and to the memory of a skyline that has changed forever. Foster Library has many books about 9/11 if you are interested in finding out more about the heroes and events of that day.
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Submitted by Fun at Foster on September 10, 2013 - 4:38pmFor those looking for something fun and different to do for the Halloween season, you need look no further than our beloved E. P. Foster Library. On October 26, Foster Library will have its first ever FosterCon Mini Comic Festival. While not quite on the grand scale of the San Diego Comic Con or the Central Coast Comic Con (which was recently held right here in Ventura), our event will still be fun and have something for all ages.
Starting when the doors open at 10:00 and lasting through the evening, our FosterCon will have airbrush tattoos, candy sushi, and coloring for the kids, both art and costume contests, local comic stores selling many wonderful things, local comic artists, a photo booth, and a graphic novel book display. On Sunday, there will be Wii gaming for the teens and a showing of The Avengers, open to all ages. But the part I'm most excited about is our very special guest speaker for Saturday evening. It is none other than Sergio Aragones. Now, if you don't know who he is, then you must never have read Mad magazine or Groo the Wanderer. He is truly a kind man who has graciously agreed to be our big speaker for this event. He even supplied artwork for event flyer. I'm so excited! I hope you will be too.
For those wanting to participate in the art and/or costume contest, applications will be available at the library, online, and at local comic book shops within the next week. Deadlines and rules will be included for both.
So, if you want to have fun and can't wait for Halloween, stop by the E. P. Foster Library on October 26. I'll see you there. Bring your cape.
Heather, the Graphic Novel Goddess
Say Cheese!
Submitted by Fun at Foster on September 6, 2013 - 8:30amFor transparency's sake I'll get to this issue right out front, I have prematurely partaken in the consumption of the pickled orange cauliflower, I was to wait till September 8th, but as Oscar Wilde said, "the only thing I cannot resist is temptation," I couldn't, and it was delicious. Crunchy, spicy, garlicky and picklely all combined, just wonderful! Pickling is a must for all serious "David's dish" devotees.
I guess I have been on a bit of a tear for making fermented food stuffs, so the next logical step would have to be cheese making. I just want cheese to be another fermented food that I can endlessly talk about in front of my co-workers and either have them admit to making it or be encouraged to make some cheese, I know for admitting this a couple of gold stars will be taken away, but it's the truth.
The cheese making was almost stopped in its tracks for I left the recipe book at work. What would I do? I couldn't wing it, I needed a source in the form of a book, right? Then, I remembered my Achilles heel that I could turn into strength, the library databases! I've heard it said countless times the library databases are our friend's and by Jove, if this friendship leads to cheese making I'm all for it!
After getting to the E.P Foster Library webpage a few clicks on the computer and staring me in the face was Zinio digital magazines, it's a program that offers tons of free magazines, including the March 16th Food Network magazine, the cheese issue! The magazine displays beautifully on my tiny iPod. On page 68 of the digital magazine there's a great recipe for fresh ricotta, a simple well illustrated no fuss no muss recipe. The recipe calls for milk, heavy cream, kosher salt, fresh lemon juice and distilled white vinegar. A little boiling, some draining, and little thinking about the nursery rhythm "Little Miss Muffet" and you are done. You are now officially a cheese maker! Please explore our information rich databases, you won't be sorry!
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CLASSIC MARITIME FISH STORIES (The ones that got away)
Submitted by Fun at Foster on August 30, 2013 - 1:30pmTwo of my favorite fish stories are Melville's MOBY DICK and Hemmingway's THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA. Call me Ishmael, but there is a romantic essence to the dangers of sea faring. And these two authors knew how to spin a good yarn that included hubris and folly. Hemmingway won the Pulitzer for his work in 1953, while Moby Dick is considered one of the finest pieces of American Literature, sometimes given to the moniker, "The Great American Novel".
Both Ahab and the old man are, in a sense, monomaniacs. They are both so single minded in the pursuit of their objects that they become oblivious to every thing else. It creates pride, which leads to each of the character's own downfall. Both of them die before ever obtaining what they truly seek. And neither one ever perceives the inherent folly of his own actions.
The Sea is a great equalizer for American writers, because the United States is situated along three shores, the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Coasts. Alaska has the most shoreline; and Hawaii is surrounded by the Pacific. The vastness of it creates a canvas upon which a writer can paint many portraits of human travail. And it serves to facilitate the metaphor of how small we are in comparison to nature-that it cannot be tamed… and yet, we can become extinct. This is the overwhelming theme in these two stories. I will begin with Melville here, and then review Hemmingway later.
MOBY DICK By Herman Melville.
"Call me Ishmael", is one of the great opening lines of any novel, and sets the tone for 1st person narration. This is the account by a new hire of the great whaling vessel, The Pequod and the man who was its captain, the elusive Ahab. The story is rife with Biblical reference, particularly about the wages of sin and the elusiveness of redemption.
Ahab walks the deck alone at night to the sound of his peg leg pounding along the gang boards. It is a reminder to those below who have sailed with him many times, about how he came to lose his leg. The Great White Whale, Moby Dick, a giant albino Sperm whale remains the single occupancy of his consciousness. For it was this whale which caused him to wear a peg. And it is this whale that drives him on each voyage of killing and retrieving whales as a business. So much so, that he hammers a gold doubloon to the main mast and offers it to any scalawag who spots the Great White Whale on each voyage.
The vestigial plot is of the train wreck variety, even though Ahab does not appear before chapter 28 of 135 chapters. There is no conflict moving toward a crisis in Moby Dick, because the crisis is long past, the battle for the soul lost in a summary flashback by the delirium that followed the castrating bite that took off Ahab's leg. The one emotion that is returned to him is vengeance. Ahab is now shaped in an unalterable mould. The die is cast. All that's left is the denouement with all the characters-save the narrator, Ishmael -dragged inexorably toward destruction.
Melville reads the captain as a demagogue, blinded by his own profane quest. Ahab manipulates his crew, squandering his investor's money and his crew's lives to satisfy his immoral agenda-piloting his ship toward a doomed conflict with a murderous, uncontrollable, unstoppable monster.
The whiteness of the whale is "the pallor of the dead" and the "shroud in which we wrap them". But it is also the most meaningful symbol of spiritual things. Even Que Qui, the tattooed harpooner from the South Pacific who befriends Ishmael, sees in the rolling of some whale bones, the prophecy of their deaths. He becomes immobilized in a spiritual trance knowing the ultimate fate of the ship.
Eventually, the Pequod rendezvous with the Great White Whale and Ahab takes his vengeance upon it, after the whale broadsides the ship leaving it to sink. He leaps upon the creature with a harpoon and gets caught up in the rope, dragged under by the whale, but not before inflicting it with the harpoon. When he appears on the surface again, his body is tangled in the web of rope, with only a free arm loose. It waves with the motion of the monster, as if beckoning the crew to follow their captain in finishing the job he no longer can. But the ship sinks beneath the waves, leaving only Ishmael as a survivor to tell the story.
To keep the whale oil burning in a rich man's lap required the delicate maneuvering of a crew whose demographic diversity predicted America's future. Caucasians, Indians, African Americans, various islanders are all, as Melville would write, " federated along one keel". A misdirected melting pot, it sails on under a man divided and seared by the conflagration raging inside him. Its as if Melville is beckoning us to believe that we are a nation, a species, full of diversity and also of greed and pride, Hubris, ever poised on self-destruction. It could be read as a cautionary tale whose ending he saw as unavoidable extinction.
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Simply Organic
Submitted by Fun at Foster on August 27, 2013 - 12:17pmI went far afield this week in my quest become a legend of the cookery world. A brightly colored book caught my eye, please spare me the, "Don't judge a book by the cover", because I do! I believe I've just got myself in a pickle by stating the former, but that's fine because this adventure delves into pickling.
Simply Organic: a cookbook for sustainable, seasonal, and local ingredients, by Jesse Ziff Cool, is the book I fancy this week, and it's not a book primarily about pickling, in fact, there is only one pickling recipe in the book. The cookbook possesses a wonderful connection to seasonal relationships with food it begins with spring recipes and ends with winter recipes. Mindful eating is discussed in the book and not imposing our eating believes on others, being respectful of food choices of others. I would love to spend a year strictly following the recipes in the cookbook. It just has so many great recipes and so much insight to the world of healthy food.
I'll stop gushing and get down to the nitty-gritty of pickling cauliflower. Yes, I chose the Pickled Cauliflower recipe, orange cauliflower, because we all know "the Dish" must cook with panache! The preparation and ingredients are simple, just steam some cauliflower then add vinegar, garlic, jalapenos and a few other ingredients then your set. The whole deal took about 20 minutes, no problem. The results, the pickled cauliflower will be ready in two weeks or so, I'll post them next time. I highly recommend this cookbook!
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San Buenaventura Mission
Submitted by Fun at Foster on August 26, 2013 - 1:44pmMission San Buenaventura is a Spanish mission founded in 1782 by the Franciscan order in present-day Ventura, California. It was the ninth and final Spanish mission established in California by Father Junípero Serra. Named for Saint Bonaventure, the mission is the namesake of the city of Ventura (officially "San Buenaventura") and Ventura County.
In 1793, the first church burned down. In 1893, Father Cyprian Rubio "modernized" the interior of the church, painting over the original artwork; when he finished, almost nothing remained of the old church. New priests restored the church to its original style in 1957. Today all that remains of the original Mission is the church and its garden. Services are still held in the parish church. A small museum sits at the Mission with displays of Chumash Indian artifacts and mission-era items.
To find out more, Foster Library has books on the Missions of California as well as information about Father Junipero Serra.
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I love these rich, very sweet, addictive cookies. I adapted this recipe from one I found and loved on allrecipes.com. I have altered it somewhat to suit my tastes and my preferred baking techniques but this is based on the recipe known there as Aunt Cora's World's Best Cookies. Cook time is per batch, cooking one sheet at a time.
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- 1 cup sweet unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup sweet creamy peanut butter (do not use reduced fat versions - I use Jiff or Peter Pan brands)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar or 1 cup light muscovado sugar, packed
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- 2Have ready at least 2 baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
- 3Cream butter until smooth.
- 4Add peanut butter and both sugars and beat until combined well.
- 5Add egg and beat well.
- 6Stir in flour and baking soda gradually until well combined.
- 7Stir in chocolate chips by hand.
- 8Using a meatball scooper or a spoon, scoop out small portions of dough and drop onto parchment lined cookie sheets, leaving 2" gap between each cookie.
- 9Bake for about 15 minutes or until cookies are just firm around the edges- don't overbake- if you wait until they are brown on top, they will be too hard.
- 10Slide parchment sheet, cookies and all, carefully off pan and onto your counter, set a new piece of parchment paper onto your baking sheet and repeat until all dough is baked.
- 11Meanwhile, as the next batch bakes, remove baked cookies from the parchment and let cool completely on wire racks.
- 12Wipe off the crumbs from the old sheet of parchment and you can reuse it for your next batch.
- 13These will keep about 3 days stored in a cookie tin (for crisp cookies) or an airtight plastic container (for softer cookies).
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Serving Size: 1 (1596 g)
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- Calories 206.1
- Calories from Fat 106
- 51%
- Total Fat 11.8 g
- 18%
- Saturated Fat 5.7 g
- 28%
- Cholesterol 23.8 mg
- 7%
- Sodium 75.4 mg
- 3%
- Total Carbohydrate 24.2 g
- 8%
- Dietary Fiber 1.1 g
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- Sugars 17.2 g
- 69%
- Protein 3.3 g
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It was moment in history when baseball fans cheered. At the Westinghouse Company, where the WJZ Radio station was located in Newark, New Jersey, the first World Series baseball game was broadcast on October 1, 1921. The New York Giants and the New York Yankees played the historic game at the New York Polo grounds. Gus Falzer, who was the Call's sports editor, read the plays into a telephone line to the WJZ broadcasting station. The New York Giants fans where the ones who celebrated, for the New York Giants won five games to three.
Not only was baseball history made at the Westinghouse, it was also a business that helped the transportation industry by installing electric power into railroad companies. Converting Niagara Falls to electric power was a major project that skilled workers of Westinghouse successfully completed.
George Westinghouse was the mastermind and founder of the Westinghouse Company, which he created in 1884. He was an inventor who improved the quality of life for all of us by using electricity to power transportation. Westinghouse was like Thomas Edison, for he expanded Edison's invention of light by powering electricity to homes and businesses far away from the generating plant. Westinghouse was a very successful inventor: he had 361 patents and 60 businesses sold his inventions.
The Westinghouse Building, which was located across Broad Street in Newark, New Jersey, no longer stands today: it was demolished in 2008. However, the Westinghouse Company, a successful business, still exists. The memories of the first World Series baseball game broadcast at WJZ Radio at the Westinghouse still remain. Since Westinghouse created so many jobs in Newark and across the nation, he will never be forgotten and will be remembered as a notable Newarker. Westinghouse Comapny was the largest manufacturer in Newark in the late 18th and early 20th century of radios and electrical products. When we take a train to work or for pleasure, we should thank Westinghouse.
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10 A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; | 10 Warn a divisive person once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him. |
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2 Those who cling to their old sins, and indeed all of you, I have forewarned and still forewarn (as I did on my second visit when present, so I do now, though absent) that, when I come again, I shall not spare you; | 2 I already gave you a warning when I was with you the second time. I now repeat it while absent: On my return I will not spare those who sinned earlier or any of the others, |
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07 May 2012 | #1 |
Windows boot hangs, error 0xc0000225
I tried starting my computer today, but it kept coming up with a screen that said: Error 0xc0000225 Boot selection failed because the required device was inaccessable"
I tried googling it, but the problem seems to come frop people messing with partitions. I haven't so much as looked at a partitioner siince I got the computer (Just the two standard partitions: the system one and the C: drive) How can I fix this? NOTE: I already tried the MBR- the bootrec.exe tool on the install disc executed properly, but still same problem |
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64, XP Mode, W8.1 Preview VM - 7 Pro x64 second remote tower
That would kind of rule out the need for the MS page on that. How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows
Have you tried running the automatic Startup repair tool a few times as well? If that fails to work you might have to plan on rebuilding the BCD as long as the Partition Table(PT)/Master File Table(MFT) is still intact. Another thing would be not allowing people to play around with the drive partitioning there or simply be stuck each time. Besides assigning a password there are a tools available for locking up the desktop when away from the machine. |
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Can you use the computer? Yes/No. Is this a laptop/desktop/tablet/netbook? Can you boot from a CD/DVD? |
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Boot selection is done by boot manager (bootmgr).
This means that: MBR is OK, PBR is OK, bootmgr is OK, and you have a BCD file with at least one loader entry. The problem is that the device (partition) information in BCD does not match partition information on disk. A simple command from Recovery prompt would do: bcdboot drive_letter:\windows - check that directory is there with dir command \windows could be on c: drive or e: drive when booted from CD/DVD/USB Recovery media. ( usually d: is recovery media, c: -> active partition ) But first I would do a chkdsk on "SystemReserved" (c: ?) and Windows partition (e: ?) |
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64, XP Mode, W8.1 Preview VM - 7 Pro x64 second remote tower
If you see the 1tb drive in Windows Explorer without any problem simply right click on it to bring up the properties screen>Tools and click on the Check Now button to run the Check Disk utility.
Since you are not able to boot into that 7 install you wouldn't be able to schedule it for the next start using the "chkdsk /r" command with the repair switch added in the command. The Automatically fix system errors box should be already be checked off by default. |
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Does the HD still show up in BIOS setup?
If so it it still set first HD to boot in BIOS setup? If so work through these steps for Troubleshooting Windows 7 Failure to Boot |
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21 Jun 2012 | #7 |
I tried starting my computer today, but it kept coming up with a screen that said: Error 0xc0000225 Boot selection failed because the required device was inaccessable"
How can I fix this? NOTE: I already tried the MBR- the bootrec.exe tool on the install disc executed properly, but still same problem |
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21 Jun 2012 | #8 |
Please see, and carry out, info given in post #6. Report back please on your results using post #6. You have a very, very unusual situation if that procedure does not cure your problem. |
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64, XP Mode, W8.1 Preview VM - 7 Pro x64 second remote tower
When first getting this case together 7 had problems starting up following a nice fresh primary for the clean install of 7 to go onto. The default setting was then switched over to(on Gigabyte brand boards note( the Native iDE mode.
Lately following another clean install I went from that to AHCI or SCSI setting and all went well following the guide for this seen at AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista When problems came up with the recent dual boot of 7 with the Windows 8 Release Preview resulting in drive errors(ntoskmi.exe in a memory dump analysis) the Check Disk tool solved the 7 start up and freeze up problems. The Check Disk tool is the last option before the need to repartition the drive or simply put remove the present C to see a new primary take it's place. The Error 0xc0000225 error is the result of an interrupted partitioning process. When you mentioned "people messing with partitions" that suggests a likely corrupted Partition Table which will result in a number of problems. That includes any number of drive errors which will stall any version of Windows at start up. |
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Thank you Mr. Fonda for adding to the canon.
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I couldn't ask for anything more.
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I'm disappointed how quickly you chose not to stand up and defend Mr. Pindoriya. Let's face it, he was being bullied. I believe the term we're looking for is "cyber-bully", is it not?
At last count, somewhere close to 650 individuals have "liked", "approved" or "shared" Mr. Pindoriya's article. That's outstanding! That suggests another several thousand have read it approvingly in silence.
WildBoar comes along and-- bam! Shoots the Messenger.
"How can you expect real practitioners to take him or this article seriously? #qualitydrop" That's intended as an insult, it's intended to cut him down. And for what? For his lack of Twitter followers, lack of posts, and a low Klout score. Can you think of anything more "high school"? How ridiculous!
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Glenn Fireball Roberts first NASCAR victory came on dirt.
But with the opening of Daytona International Speedway in 1959, it was Roberts who quickly became a master of asphalt and helped usher in NASCARs superspeedway era.
Roberts seemed ready-made for the racing game.
He came equipped with what easily could be called the best nickname in racing, which actually originated from his younger days playing in sandlot baseball games. A dapper dresser always with a fresh crew cut, Roberts thirst for speed on racings biggest tracks drew legions of fans.
In many respects, Roberts was among the first to demonstrate the star power of drivers, which has become a staple of the sport today.
Most of the guys running at that time were dirt racers and Fireball, while he was a good dirt racer and a good modified racer, he just seemed to be able to just go when he got on the big tracks, said Humpy Wheeler, former president of Charlotte Motor Speedway.
At the time Wheeler worked for Firestone Tire, and Roberts served as a driver for tire tests.
Nobody knew what they were doing when they got to these big asphalt tracks. But you put Fireball in one of Smokey Yunicks cars and it was like handing a man a loaded machine gun, Wheeler said.
It took a special driver to get through the corners. He made it look easy.
Roberts, who died as the result of injuries from a racing wreck in 1964, will be inducted Wednesday night into the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Former engine builder and crew chief Waddell Wilson will induct Roberts into the Hall. Roberts won the 1963 Southern 500 in Darlington, S.C., with an engine built by Wilson.
While Roberts never won a NASCAR championship he never ran a full season he racked up 33 wins over 15 seasons in what is now the Sprint Cup series. His first victory came on Aug. 13, 1950, at Occoneechee Speedway, a dirt track near Hillsborough, N.C.
It was on NASCARs then-new superspeedways that he soared, earning a combined 10 wins at Daytona (seven), Atlanta (one) and Darlington (two) from 1958 to 1963.
Fireball was just smooth, much like people talk about how Jimmie Johnson drives today. He just had a knack for running a whole race without having a right-front tire problem, which was so common at that time, said Wheeler.
He never seemed to take any unnecessary chances but at the same time he drove faster than everybody else in places that were really scary Charlotte, Daytona, Darlington.
Roberts last victory came Nov. 17, 1963, on a road course in Augusta, Ga. Driving a Holman-Moody Ford, Roberts finished a lap ahead of teammate and runner-up Dave MacDonald.
Ironically, the pair would perish after separate May 1964 wrecks MacDonald in the Indianapolis 500 and Roberts succumbing to burns suffered from a wreck in the World 600 several weeks earlier at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Roberts died July 2, 1964, at the age of 35.
Thousands of fans mourned Roberts death. He never won a championship nor was voted the sports most popular driver, but his style and success left a large void.
It was like awaking to find a mountain suddenly gone, wrote former Charlotte News columnist Max Muhlman in the days after Roberts death.
Much like the death of another racing legend, Dale Earnhardt, would do nearly four decades later, Roberts death proved a catalyst of sorts for a series of safety improvements in racing.
In the wake of Roberts death, NASCAR mandated that all drivers must wear flame retardant coveralls while on track. They also instituted the five-point safety harness and a special, contoured drivers seat.
A fitting epitaph adorns a memorial marker on the mausoleum in Daytona Beach, Fla., where Roberts is interred:
He brought to stock car racing a freshness, distinction, a championship quality that surpassed the rewards collected by the checkered flag.
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[Season 3 Pro Team] Venomous Gaming Tryouts
Venomous Gaming is having try outs for Mid, ADC , Support, and Top roles tonight at 7pm Central time.
Please make your way to Venomous Gaming Try Outs chat by 6:30 pm Central Time. To do this you go to your chat tab in game (Next to the View Notifications Button) and the chat bubble with a + sign to its left and type Venomous Gaming Tryouts.. Before you can try out I have put the team requirements below. 1.Microphone and raidcall. You can find raid call at www.raidcall.com. DO NOT ASK US TO CHANGE OUR VOICE COMMUNICATION PROGRAM. You will be disqualified. 2.You must have the time to practice every day around 6 pm Central Time. Maybe earlier depending on how we set the practice schedule up. 3.You must abide by the Summoners Code. We have a reputation to uphold! If you do not know what that is i dont understand why you are here but heres a bit of help because i am feeling nice today. The Summoners Code 4.If you rage you are not welcome! 5.Few players with leadership skills will be assigned jobs so leadership qualities are a plus. 6.You must know how to work as a team player not a solo player. Solo players are not welcome to try out. Understand this as I do not go easy on people to say the least. 7.You must understand how a team works in LOL and you have to know your role in and out. 8. You Must be 18 years or older. 9.The ability to lose is a very important one aswell. 10.Do not ask players their elo in the try outs. You will be disqualified. The ranking system nowadays is inaccurate and skill will not be assessed by these calculations. We are looking for the best of the best to compete in the upcoming seasons as a pro LOL team. So If you plan to tryout i advise you to think about it for a bit and understand this isn't a kid team. We are looking for players who will do their jobs better then any one else will. With that said best of luck to you and may the odds be ever in your favor! VMG1 Leader - Wish You Would |
Can't wait then!
I should be on around this time, understand I'll have to download and install raidcall but that shouldn't take long at all. I'll be trying out as a top/mid. Depending on team needs. I look forward to playing with you and good luck in finding some recruits.
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This month we visit with Steve Springsdorf, Executive Director of the YMCA, as he tells of capitalizing on opportunities, staying focused, and prioritizing relationship-building.
Tell us how you got to where you are today (positions held, career shifts, etc)
Mine is partially a story of being in the right place at the right time. I graduated from MSU with a degree in Environmental Education. I couldn't find a teaching job, but I student taught in Saginaw and the Y Exec Dir. was on the school board, saw my resume and offered me a job. I took it until I could find a teaching job. I became the Asst. Camp Director the next year until the Camp Director quit two weeks into the season. After 9 years as the Camp Director, the CEO retired. I applied and became one of the youngest YMCA CEO's in the country. I directed the Saginaw Y for 14 years when I was invited to apply to become the CEO of the State YMCA in Central Lake, MI. It was a very different experience for me, no main building, primarily residence camps, a unit in Petoskey and a state wide Youth in Government program. The camps served families not only across the country but also internationally. This job gave me a much broader perspective of how we can influence youth. After 8 years I was invited to be the CEO at the YMCA of Greater Kalamazoo in 2008 where I continue to serve.
What do you most love about the Kalamazoo community?
I love the pride that people have in the community, I love the diversity of people and thought, I love vibrant downtown in Kalamazoo and the strong shopping area in Portage, I love the variety of restaurants and brewery's; finally I love how there is so much energy to make our community better.
What guides or principles do you rely most upon?
Basically, if you keep doing the right thing, good things will happen and treat people as you would want to be treated.
Who was one of your mentors and what do you carry with you from that relationship?
My first boss was a huge influence in my career. He was a man of strong conviction, he held people accountable, but he also was a strong advocate and supporter of staff development, both in training and in challenging you to be better. He felt that being a nonprofit didn't mean you were less responsible or business minded than for-profit businesses.
What has been one of your biggest learning moments?
If you have someone working for you that is either not performing or doesn't fit with the organization then make a change sooner than later. Attempting to be nice only prolongs the inevitable and isn't helpful to the staff or the organization.
What's an average day like for you at work?
I wish I had an average day. I begin with reading two newspapers, handle emails, check in with staff to see if there are areas I can help with; communicate with my board and other partners; building relationships is a big part of what I do. Finally, I have projects I am working on in the areas of organizational improvement, fundraising, and program directions.
What are the types of challenges/opportunities that keep you up at night?
We are in the midst of a capital campaign so concerns about donors and volunteers are on my mind. The other area is motivating and managing my staff; these are the people who make our Y successful.
How do you stay up-to-date on latest trends in your field?
I read two newspapers a day, I visit our professions websites, but most importantly, I network and talk with my peers on a regular basis. I try to stay involved on state and national levels.
What advice do you have for those wishing to have a long lasting career in the nonprofit sector?
Stay fresh, stay challenged, and stay focused on what is important – the mission of your organization, how are you impacting the lives of the people your organization touches. Keep your eye open for opportunities, but build your career on results.
What hobbies or outside interests do you enjoy?
I am an avid reader and enjoy a good game of golf, wish I had one. Recently, my wife and I have been traveling and camping around Michigan.
In January, several viewed a video by Kerri Karvetsky (Company K Media) on how to Find Your Audience on Social Media.
Focusing primarily on Facebook and Twitter, Kerri identified various ways to locate and analyze followers as well as several tools (many free) to help get the most from your social media presence.
She presented several points from the recent Pew Research Internet Project report. Again, focusing on Facebook and Twitter, she highlighted a few important trends.
For more information from the report, visit the Pew Research Internet Project website.
I have a professional question for you: What's in your locket?
A locket is a small pendant that includes a space for storing a small keepsake, e.g., a photo of a loved one. Worn on a necklace or bracelet, this charm holds a cherished item, and the wearer often opens it to be reminded of one so near to their heart.
So, what's in your locket (real or imaginary)? Besides being a twist on a popular ad campaign (thanks, Capital One), it's a relevant question for anyone who wants to enjoy their work. Job satisfaction – and effectiveness – is directly related to the laser-like alignment of your deeply held values, personal passions (loves), and outward actions and abilities.
Jim Collins calls it a Hedgehog Concept. Simon Sinek calls it his Golden Circle. Steven Covey calls them habits. Patrick Lencioni has a pyramid. And Peter Drucker posed them as six critical questions. While each of these authors (and several others) adds his own contribution to the discussion, they all build off of this place of inner-outer alignment.
Yet, while many write about it, few of us are so aligned. Like an aching back, painful barbs shoot through our activities and discourse. And we're left feeling out of sorts.
This chiropractic conundrum of misalignment is often more intrapersonal than interpersonal. Few of us take the time to listen to our true selves (our inner voice) and understand our deeply held values and personal passions. Instead, many align with an external set of expectations packaged and presented as an appealing alternative to our dissatisfaction.
One of Simon Sinek's (Start with Why) contributions to this discussion is the idea that people align with others who believe what they believe. He says it this way: "We are drawn to leaders and organizations that are good at communicating what they believe."
So, we need to open our lockets and peer inside to that which we hold dear and then find the words to speak it clearly to ourselves, our families, our organizations and community. Take some time – quiet, reflective time – to listen and learn from yourself.
My guess is this: once we align ourselves to the most important things in our lives, we'll find that interpersonal (also intergenerational, interracial, intercultural) alignment comes much easier.
Allison Hammond (Arcadia Institute) offered a Voice from the Field workshop last month. She explored the various ways our organizations can welcome and support persons with disabilities as staff, participants, volunteers, and supporters.
At the Arcadia Institute, they work to make it possible for children and adults with disabilities to participate fully in all aspects of community life, as they choose. In supporting area organizations, they encourage working with staff to think through and plan ahead for how they may accommodate volunteers or participants with disabilities.
On the question of accommodation, Allison reminded us that we don't want to go overboard. Trying to be over-accommodating may make everyone uncomfortable.
Instead, Allison suggested that we ask the person what they need. For example, "What can I do to help make your experience with us more enjoyable or more comfortable?" Or, if you see someone struggling (e.g., straining to read instructions or struggling to move about the area), we can ask how we might be of assistance.
Creating a culture of inclusion and hospitality will help your organization serve everyone better. Toward this end, Arcadia Institute hosts Building a Community of Belonging on March 26, 2015.
With New Year's Eve just hours away, I again find myself at an intersection. In addition to being the calendar year end, it's also the second quarter close of our fiscal year. And, as a holiday week, it's a time of less (or different) activity.
I like these times. It's an opportunity to look back and look forward, to evaluate and adjust, to celebrate and to anticipate.
In his book, Traction, Gino Wickman draws upon the work of Patrick Lencioni and others and recommends that top management gather off-site every 90 days to review the previous quarter and finalize priorities for the coming quarter. Why every 90 days? He says, "The 90-day idea stems from a natural phenomenon – that human beings stumble, get off track, and lose focus roughly every 90 days."
Wickman cites examples of this phenomenon at work, and I could add a few examples of my own. While it's easy to casually nod in agreement, I shudder at his observation that human beings "lose focus roughly every 90 days," because…
…we cannot afford to lose focus.
Lost focus wastes time and energy, dilutes the purpose of the organization, confuses funders and donors, frustrates staff and volunteers, and eventually leads to all sorts of crises. As leaders of our teams, departments, and organizations, maintaining focus is at the top of our list of responsibilities.
So, take some time – a half- or full-day – every quarter to hit the Pause button and keep yourself and your team on track. It will save you time, increase your service quality, and promote job satisfaction.
I enjoy basketball. While some individual players stand out, it's the performance of the team that decides the game: working together, anticipating each other's moves, and sharing the spotlight. Sure it takes practice, but it takes more than practice.
It takes trust.
On a team, trust means…
…and you do it all for your mission…for your cause.
Being on a team requires us to extend beyond ourselves. In our recent workshop on Mindfulness in the Workplace, Eric Nelson provided a compelling research- and case-based argument for mindfulness practice. The benefits were so varied and plentiful, I finally asked, "What's the downside?" Without hesitation, he responded, "It challenges your identity."
Mindfulness practice makes us face our assumptions and how they often differ from others' assumptions. It chips away at our ego and helps us recognize how much we need each other to achieve better understanding as well as better performance. By letting go of our need to be right, we free ourselves to be correct. We free ourselves to trust.
I've written before on ways to build trust. Yet, these efforts falter when individuals stay wedded to their own assumptions and agendas. The more we understand ourselves and let go of our own egos, the more we open ourselves to trust our teammates. And that's a step we must take on our own.
The ball is in your court.
I expect that every organization and business strives to be hospitable. We want staff, clients, visitors, supporters, and vendors to feel welcomed and comfortable in our place and at our events. Yet, even with best of intentions, we may run into times when we're stumped.
What do you do when you don't know what to do?
Some situations may throw us for a loop. Many of us have faltered around language issues, physical challenges, cognitive disabilities, cultural misunderstandings and more.
We can take steps to prepare ourselves and our organizations to be hospitable in these situations: glean your staff's wisdom by initiating the discussion; identify gaps in understanding and then research and share information at staff meetings; and take advantage of workshops offered by area agencies.
This week, ONEplace welcomes Allison Hammond (Arcadia Institute) to explore Supporting People with Disabilities in your Organization. Allison will help us discover how we can successfully include people with disabilities as participants, volunteers and employees. Plus she will highlight resources to assess and support our ongoing efforts.
Most of us desire an open and welcoming community. It starts with each of us creating that environment right where we are.
Most of us wouldn't call the holiday season relaxing, especially for nonprofits with year-end campaigns to run. One way I divert some of the anxiety that goes along with hectic year-end events is by setting a small, yet achievable goal with a December 31 deadline. There is something distinctly satisfying about bringing in the New Year on the heels of a personal accomplishment. Below are five steps that have helped me set and accomplish my December resolutions.
1. When setting your goal, avoid your Achilles Heel -- for now. Choose something less intimidating that will also have a noticeable impact. For example, you might want to limit the time you spend replying to emails.
2.Select the issue that you can easily measure. Goals related to thoughts and emotions are tougher; i.e. "I will not respond rudely to the client who always calls me screaming," is more difficult to measure than something like "I will thank every client for calling."
3. Say what you will do. It may seem trite, but words have power. When you mentally tell yourself not to do something--"I will not let my paperwork pile up"-- it implicitly adds pressure and negativity to the task at hand. Your goal should be an action you will take.
4. Ensure accountability. I don't think setting any goal is the difficult part, but rather, remembering the goal and sticking to it. My favorite method of accountability is other people. I tell a couple of close friends about my goal, and when they ask me about it, I can either share the good news, or thank them for the reminder.
5. Adjust, adjust, adjust. You can't know how realistic your goal is until you actually try to accomplish it. If eating lunch away from your desk every day isn't possible, adjust your goal to one day. Then, go back to step 4 and secure lunch plans with a colleague every week.
What has been your experience with goal-setting? What's your process?
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Dov Seidman observes that we're moving into a human economy. Having once been an agrarian economy and then an industrial economy, followed by an information economy, we now are transitioning into a human economy where successful employees leverage their creativity, passion, character, and collaborative spirit.
Seidman quotes Peter Drucker (Effective Executive, 1967) in support for committing to values and connecting with purpose in the workplace. He describes Drucker as being ahead of his time. I think he was simply more attuned to his people than the flavor of his time.
Successful leaders throughout the 20th century valued the human element. Look at Jim Collins' list of top CEO's and you'll find several who built long-lasting organizations that valued their people more than their profit.
What they recognized is that – be it agrarian, industrial, information or human – each was an economy, i.e., "a system of interaction and exchange." Regardless of what commodity is being traded, it's people that perform the interactions and exchanges. It's people that make any economy tick.
Seidman also points out that the systems are changing. Business and organizational policies and practices are valuing the human element more, and business schools are also attending more to developing so-called "soft skills."
More and more, institutions are recognizing what many business writers keep claiming: it's all about relationships. It's true now, and it has been true for decades. Perhaps mainstream leadership thought is catching up with this.
One of the joys of working at ONEplace is the opportunity to meet and talk with a variety of people: from long-term nonprofit leaders to those incubating start-ups; from seasoned board members to neighborhood advisory councils; from funders sitting on millions of dollars to social entrepreneurs sitting on a single idea. From all these discussions and more, I've realized one undeniable fact:
Each person brings a critically important contribution to the discussion.
This is not about asking "Who's not at the table?" or making sure the discussion includes "representative voices." This is about recognizing that every discussion is ill-informed because voices will always be missing. It's also about making the effort to go beyond representative voices and seek out, invite, and create an environment safe enough for each critically important perspective to be raised.
We're doing this on a few fronts, at ONEplace and in community centers. It takes time – sometimes years – to get acquainted and develop readiness, and then more time to build trust. But, as they say, "In five years it will be 2019 either way, so we might as well start."
Posing open, honest questions that draw out the diversity of perspectives brings new light to the matter at hand. Just as light from one angle illuminates only part of a structure and casts shadows on other parts, light from many angles removes the shadows and illuminates the whole.
And, when I catch a glimpse of the whole, I realize the specious nature of the phase, "people in need."
Rather, I desire to participate in the diverse circle which hosts people we need. In this circle, there is no teacher or student, no grantor or grantee, no provider or client. In this circle, each person claims, "There are eyes that see things I don't see, ears that hear sounds I don't hear, and hearts that bear burdens I don't bear."
Until every light shines, unencumbered, we're all left in the dark.
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Jerry Gergich
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First Appearance | "Pilot" | |
Gender | Male | |
Born | February 29, 1948 (Age 65/16) | |
Age | 65/16 | |
Family | Adoptive Mother (mentioned)
Grandmother (deceased, mentioned) | |
Spouse | Gayle Gergich (wife) | |
Children | Millicent "Milly" Gergich (daughter) Miriam Gergich (daughter) | |
Occupation | Works in the Department of Parks and Recreation in Pawnee Former Pawnee Park Ranger (12 years) | |
Nationality | American | |
Portrayer | Jim O'Heir |
Gary "Jerry"/"Larry"/"Terry" Gergich is a fictional character in the NBC comedy-drama Parks and Recreation. He is portrayed by Jim O'Heir.
Jerry is a married father of three girls, who works for the Department of Parks and Recreation. His wife Gayle is a beautiful blonde woman, and their daughters are similarly attractive.
Jerry is often mistreated due to his embarrassing history, which is a collection of awkward incidents resulting from his apparent clumsiness and ineptitude.
He seems to have a normal family life and a strong artistic side. He once created a mural of an alcove of Pawnee City Hall, which was actually composed of small pictures of Pawnee citizens. He is also a skilled pianist and an amateur inventor.
Due to his reputation as a buffoon, Jerry is often dismissed even if he is clearly in the right and what he has created is breathtaking.
Season 1Edit
Jerry's personality is not very developed at this point in the show, and his role mostly consists of being the co-worker who is constantly mocked by the other employees.
Season 2Edit
In the episode "Practice Date", while the Parks Department is attempting to dig up dirt on one another, several things come out about Jerry. Dave Sanderson states Jerry has had a few public urination violations. Mark Brendanawicz reveals Jerry's adoptive mother was arrested for marijuana. When asked if he knew about this, Jerry responded that he didn't know he was adopted. It's also revealed that Jerry was once hit by a fire truck and had to have plastic surgery.
When one of the city hall murals is defaced, the Parks Department is tasked with creating a new mural in the episode "The Camel". While presenting his work, a pointillism piece that includes pictures of all the citizens in Pawnee, he refers to it as a "murinal" rather than mural, opening him up to ridicule from the entire department.
In "Park Safety", Jerry claimed he was mugged and the office was more accepting of him as he recovered, but he later admitted to Leslie that he actually got hurt when he fell while trying to retrieve a burrito he'd dropped at a park. When Mark pointed out to Leslie that Jerry was so terrified of being mocked by his co-workers that he made up a ridiculous story to avoid that, Leslie went along with the lie, and Jerry later returned to being his old self around the office.
Season 3Edit
Jerry paints a portrait of Leslie Knope for a community art show that depicts her as a bare-chested goddess in "Jerry's Painting". However, the community demands that the artwork be taken down due to the nudity. Leslie and Jerry decide to create a duplicate painting, but one that has Tom Haverford as the centaur, so that the community wouldn't object to it anymore, while Leslie hides the actual painting.
Season 4Edit
During Donna and Tom's "Treat Yo' Self", Jerry is left alone at the office so Chris Traeger gives him the day off. He invites Chris to go along with him to lunch with his daughter. At first, Chris declines but later accepts when he sees that Milly is very attractive. Jerry struggles with Chris and Milly's relationship, especially since Chris insists on giving Jerry constant updates on what he and Milly have been doing.
In "The Trial of Leslie Knope", it is revealed that his real name is Garry. On his first day, the old Director got his name wrong, and Jerry didn't think he should correct him. Jerry is conflicted even further when he finds out Milly plans to break up with Chris.
In the Season 4 finale, Jerry is worried because he forgot to cast a vote for Leslie in the city council election. Luckily, she wins the election, but Ron reveals to Leslie that Jerry forgot to vote.
Season 5Edit
In "Halloween Surprise" Leslie and Ann scared Jerry as he emerged from the men's room. He had a heart attack which resulted in a prolonged bout of flatulence. He survived, and Leslie arranged a tag sale/auction in an attempt to raise money for his medical bills.
Jerry and his family threw an elaborate Christmas party, to which Donna, Tom, Andy and April were surprised to find they had not been invited. They later learned that they HAD received invitations via e-mail, but those invitations had been removed by what they refer to as the "Jerry filter"on the their e-mail accounts. It was also revealed that Jerry's co-workers collect money throughout the year whenever they laugh at something embarrassing that Jerry does, which they then use to treat themselves to a fancy dinner at year's end (without his knowledge). Ann shamed the group into giving this money to Jerry.
In "Animal Control" Jerry was an applicant to run the Pawnee Animal Control department. It was revealed that Jerry's degree was from a two-year college, meaning that he was not technically qualified for the job he had been doing in the Parks Department. Chris agreed to let Jerry keep his job, but at a reduced salary, which Jerry considered to be fair.
Jerry retired near the end of Season 5, but returned to work part-time at the Parks Department at Ron's request (which Ron did as a favor for Tom, who had found himself being treated as the "new Jerry" in the office).
Season 6Edit
After the merger of Pawnee and Eagleton, Jerry returns to the Parks Department full-time as a filing clerk. Seeking a fresh start, he asks everyone to call him by his real name of "Garry". However, after some confusion and annoyance (duirng which Jerry calls himself by the wrong name), everyone begins to call him "Larry." April went so far as to give him the new last name of "Gengurch", which Jerry then used on his outgoing voicemail message.
In "Recall Vote", Jerry is tasked with carving pumpkins for City Hall's haunted house. He disappoints Leslie by carving the Gergich family's faces into the pumpkins. He suggests to Chris and Ann that they should get married, observing how much in love they seem to be.
In "Anniversaries", he helps Ben organize surprises for Ben's and Leslie's first wedding anniversary one day early. These include a couple massage, a ride in a horse-drawn carriage, tango lessons and a meal. However, due to Leslie's busy schedule Ben ends up spending the day with Jerry and they get on really well. Later in the season, during the episode "Galentine's Day", Ben expresses his fondness for Jerry to the rest of the Parks Department, even though it is tantamount to social suicide.
In "Flu Season 2", he is placed in a decontamination tent so that he does not spread his flu.
In the two-part season finale "Moving Up", he helps out at Tom's restaurant but mistakenly includes graphic pictures of his dog on the menus and ends up knocking over several shelves with glasses. At the end of the episode there is a time jump to three years later and he has been renamed "Terry".
- Ron has observed that Jerry is only effective when no one is watching him.
- In early season episodes, Jerry is often shown displaying frustration, disappointment and annoyance at the way he is treated around the office. Following his heart attack and truncated retirement, he more frequently accepts abuse and insults with avuncular good cheer
- In some episodes (heavily featured in Galentine's Day) Ben acknowledges Jerry playing in to his role as clumsy and oafish.
- Jerry has a contentious relationship with Kyle. During Chris and Ron's burger cook-off, Jerry was uncharacteristically harsh in criticizing Kyle choice of words for being "pretentious". Later, in the episode "Farmers Market", Jerry complains that Kyle has repeatedly parked in Jerry's parking space.
- In "Jerry's Retirement", when Leslie dropped by Jerry's house to deliver a "year book" for Jerry's government service, she was invited to the breakfast. Approaching the end of the breakfast, Jerry easily caught a coffee mug that had been knocked off the table (using 1 hand). Some viewers have interpreted this as an indication that his clumsiness in the office is fake and that his incompetence at work is intentional, with Jerry using the deceit to avoid being given work assignments and instead spend the time having a great life with his family. Another interpretation is that when Jerry is away from the stress, scrutiny and abuse of the office, Jerry is a competent and coordinated (even graceful) man.
- According to Officer Dave Sanderson, Jerry has been cited on more than one occasion for public urination.
- Jerry's career in local government began in the Animal Control department.
- He suffers from diabetes, and used the same medication as Li'l Sebastian.
- Jerry enjoys mystery novels.
- Jerry's birthday is February 29th, 1948. He was born during a Leap Year, which means that he only gets a "real" birthday celebration every 4 years. 2012 was his "sixteenth" birthday, though he actually turned 64.
- According to Dr. Harris, Jerry's penis is the largest he had ever seen.
- Gayle took his virginity when he was 24.
- Jerry is a frequent customer at Sherm's Ice Cream parlor in Muncie, where he drops his ice cream "about half the time".
- Jerry met Gayle at Sherm's, and he claimed that when they met, she was not the type of woman to which he was typically attracted.
- Jerry professed to be a big fan of Indianapolis Colts player Andrew Luck.
- In "The Reporter", he reveals he teaches a Preteen Nature Hike. For a while, it was a Teen Nature Hike, but then they changed it because a girl got pregnant
- His Social Security Number as stated in "Campaign Ad" starts with 210, which means he was likely born in Pennsylvania.
- He can perform magic and play the piano.
- Jerry was adopted, though he was unaware of this until the Season 2 episode "Practice Date".
- In "Smallest Park", he reveals he has worked at the Parks and Recreation Department for 37 years
- In "Galentine's Day", he says he and Gayle have been married for 28 years.
- In "Time Capsule", April reads from Jerry's mother's diary that "Gerald starred in his school production of Peter Pan." This would imply that Jerry has previously gone as "Gerald", along with "Jerry" and "Garry".
- In "Woman of the Year", Jerry says he has a pacemaker and a history of epilepsy.
- He has to ask Gayle for permission before he spends over $25.
- His house number is 420.
This character has a Photo Gallery.
Jerry's ArtEdit


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Our Guide to New Fried Foods at the State Fair of Texas
There are so many different ways to burn a hole in your wallet at the State Fair of Texas. There's the Midway games, face painting, that fluorescent pink ride with DJ Tiesto's face on it that blares techno. But one of the most popular ways to blow through your tickets is by chowing down on greasy, fair food. I attended the 10th annual Big Tex Choice Awards and gorged on every single item that was nominated (you must try the fried Golf shrimp boil), but not everything that's new to the fair this year was given the spotlight. There are plenty of calorific items sliding into fryer baskets under-the-radar. Here's a list of some new greasy morsels that deserve some love, too.
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I need some shirt design help. I'm not planning on entering this design here(unless by chance there's a welding-themed derby), but I'd like to make a stencil so I could make a few shirts for my friends and myself. This is the basic design: http://www.maj.com/gallery/Ned/GeneralAsshattery/trial1.png I'd like to re-do it so it's cleaner and generally looks more like the stuff seen here, not something cobbled together from stuff on Google Images. Anyone want to help?
I like it, but it might be too girly...
Congrats are in order for fable, I do believe
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I wish the blue was a darker shade...
Hooray! Take that Wrench-fetishists!
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Real men wear Baby Blue.
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This was designed for women, right?
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Proud to "pop my woot cherry" on this one. I already know that every time I wear this shirt I am going to smile all day long How can you not love that dinosaur??
snort! I'M SO MASCULINE I CAN'T WEAR BABY BLUE. Just kidding. Baby blue is a nice color. I bought one. Great design. First shirt.woot by the way.
I wanted this shirt .......but in a different color, NOT baby blue Come on woot let use pick the color for our shirts
I love this shirt, color and design! In for one! Cute is how I roll.
Congratulations Fable! Got mine!
This'n along with the Plump Hoss shirt I picked up t'other day completes my Xmas shoppin' fer my wife. Woot Wooooooooooot...
Congratulations Fablefire, very nice design, my friends will be suprised to see me in such a light color, in for 1
thoughtful but I'll pass
how long does shipping usually take?
Darn you fablefire, I keep saying I'm not going to spend any more here. D= Love the design, same with Say No to Scurvy (which I'm wearing right now =o) and nothing wrong with the color, it fits the style. I'm in for one.
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