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Transition Process: Month 7 and Lessons about Collective Leadership and TransparencySubmitted by Deborah Meehan on Fri, 06/28/2013 - 11:55
By Deborah Meehan and Natalia Castañeda
Natalia has fully taken on the role of Managing Director with enthusiastic support of the community (thank you all for your heartfelt congratulations at Creating Space), the board, and the staff. As part of the process we each rewrote our job descriptions to reflect how we would divide up the senior level leadership responsibilities. We have included our job descriptions for anyone who might be interested in that level of detail. The work we have been doing has given us a chance to think more about and experiment with how to tap the collective leadership of the team. This work has taken several forms and generated some interesting issues and proposals.
Balancing individual and collective responsibility. One of the issues that we have struggled with throughout our history of promoting shared leadership is understanding how all of our parts are contributing to the whole and especially, how the sum of the of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. To accomplish that, we have tried out different approaches: read more »
LLC Members Spotlight: A Special Shout Out to LLC's Open Board Meeting GuestsSubmitted by Deborah Meehan on Fri, 06/28/2013 - 10:38
Over the past year LLC has been experimenting with a networked board strategy by tapping members of the network to bring their expertise to open board meetings. We wrote about this experience in an earlier blog post: Bringing a Network Mindset to our Nonprofit Board. Over the past six months, the LLC board has been discussing our 3 year goals. We see ourselves as part of a larger leadership development ecosystem of others doing leadership research, working at the intersection of leadership and networks, funders who are investing in leadership and believe that all of these perspectives are important as we assess our direction and goals for 2017. In this spirit we invited a number of highly respected colleagues and partners to attend an open board meeting following our national meeting, Creating Space X.
A New Leadership Development Mindset: Leadership Development Hiding in Plain SightSubmitted by Deborah Meehan on Fri, 06/28/2013 - 10:17
Over three years ago, LLC published an important thought piece, "A New Leadership Mindset." In the article, we point out that most of our thinking about leadership has focused almost exclusively on leadership as the behavior on an individual influencing others. We believe that our culture of individualism has permeated our leadership thinking causing us to look for and elevate the role of individuals in the change process missing another important dimension of leadership, i.e. leadership as the process by which many people align their efforts to take collective action on behalf of a common purpose. We don't negate the role of individuals in the leadership process; in fact, we believe that even more is required of individuals to take successful action with others. read more »
LLC MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Stacy Kono, Rockwood Leadership InstituteSubmitted by Deborah Meehan on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 18:17
LLC Member Spotlight: Stacy Kono, Rockwood Leadership Institute
We are excited this month to be highlighting our partnership work with Rockwood Leadership and in particular with Stacy Kono who is Rockwood's Fellowship Director. We have had a long standing relationship with Rockwood and more recently converged more through our work. Through our partnership with Social Policy Research Associates, LLC had the opportunity to help evaluate the impact of the leadership development component of the Community Leadership Project. Rockwood, one of the leadership providers for CLP ran leadership programs for people of color. I was moved to sit in a circle with Stacy and a couple of Rockwood participants as they talked about the power of the experience. One woman who talked about doing work in a community where tritip, football and Jesus are the background went on to say, "To have a space in beautiful place to talk about feelings was beautiful. I am hurt and need to heal and want to heal others. It was a gift." We are huge fans of Rockwood and all of the folks over there and are happy to have the opportunity to appreciate Stacy.
Breaking New Ground in Leadership Development: What's Money Got To Do With It?Submitted by Deborah Meehan on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 18:08
In keeping with the theme of Creating Space X it seemed only appropriate to be on the lookout for innovations in approaches to supporting and developing leadership. Linetta Gilbert of The Declaration Institute, called a session on how to reach people who are being left behind. I was intrigued and moved to attend. I believe that everyone has leadership potential but I am not sure that we have begun to wrap our minds around what it would mean to reach everyone who wants to lead (or maybe in their words, "make a difference in their community" and provide them with the support and resources they need to succeed. I am very carefully avoiding the terminology of "leadership development" which for good reason always sparks some good controversy, but which is a topic for another blog.
Leadership Restructuring: Lessons from Month SixSubmitted by Deborah Meehan on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 17:51
Promoting Leadership Within Our Organizations is a Big Win! Why aren't more people doing it?
Yay! The board whole heartedly endorsed Natalia to be the new Managing Director for the Leadership Learning Community on May 8th. Because getting board buy in is important, I think it's worth explaining why this was a seamless "no brainer". Board members have been able to experience firsthand the improvements that Natalia has brought to LLC in her role as Marketing/Communications Director. For example, Natalia has consistently (and persistently) professionalized LLC's communications internally and externally. You can thank her for our excellent monthly webinar series and robust monthly newsletter. Having good ideas and resources won't amount to much unless you can get them in front of people and Natalia definitely has; we have gone from a community of 800 people to 3,500 under Natalia's leadership. She also took the lead in an operations audit that introduced many new project management tools to LLC; time tracking tools, capacity projection tools, budget development tools, timeline tools and….she likes this stuff!
LLC MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Rahsaan Harris of Emerging Practitioners in PhilanthropySubmitted by Deborah Meehan on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 17:52
I met Rahsaan Harris, the Executive Director of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy, at the Independent Sector meeting in San Francisco last April. I knew instantly that Rahsaan was a kindred spirit as we joined a round table conversation about the IS initiative on Leadership Talent in the sector. I was excited by conversations with Rahsaan and his colleague Kate Seely about network leadership and the contributions of next generation leadership. After the meeting I had additional conversations with Rahsaan and Kate about how to be intentional about our partnership and collaboration. Rahsaan walks the talk when it comes to acting on what we all know are good ideas but sometimes get to bogged down to follow up on. I was very enthusiastic when Rahsaan asked me to share some of LLC's thinking about collective leadership at their national meeting and we are equally excited that he will be attending our national meeting, Creating Space. We are happy to be spotlighting Rahsaan's authentic partnership spirit which we know is a precursor of great things to come.
Thinking about Collective LeadershipSubmitted by Deborah Meehan on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 17:18
I was flattered to be invited to speak about Collective Leadership at the recent EPIP conference in Chicago since I am a fan of the organization. I also saw it as an opportunity to get feedback from people who are more hardwired for collective leadership. Research by the Building Movement Project suggests that younger people are generally more collective in their leadership styles. In research conducted by LLC for the Annie E. Casey Foundation about why there are not more people of color in leadership of the sector, we heard stories from people who were getting great results by inspiring their teams and were still given feedback that they needed to be stronger leaders, or at least stronger by the normative cultural standards. The ways in which our culture of individual has become embedded in our models of leadership renders invisible leadership happening all around us in a more collective form. I wondered if folks from EPIP might shed some light on this so off I went to Chicago. I would like to extend this conversation to all of you.
Leadership Restructuring: Lessons from Month FiveSubmitted by Deborah Meehan on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 17:11
By Deborah Meehan and Natalia Castañeda Chaux
This month, Bryon organized the first meeting of our Restructuring (AKA Transition) Advisory Committee of LLC board volunteers. The interesting thing about this process and collective leadership, is that our best made plans are always subject to challenge and improvement by welcoming other perspectives into the conversation. First, the committee was whole heartedly supportive of promoting Natalia Castañeda (our former Communications Director) to become Managing Director, and to carry this recommendation forward to the full board. Subsequently, we got into a discussion that was anchored by the following critical questions: is a co-leadership model right for LLC? What is the best solution for our workload/capacity issue?
LLC Member Spotlight: Byron Johnson of CompassPointSubmitted by Deborah Meehan on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 18:04
We are excited to be profiling a man who has worn many hats with LLC, fund development coach, emergency succession planner, learning community member, now writer, neighbor, CompassPoint ambassador, friend, a ready source of energy and good cheer.... and oh yes, now the creative genius behind our restructuring. When we decided to embark on our current venture of restructuring, aka transition planning, we knew that Byron was the guy for the job. He is man of many talents, he gets what we do, we have good value alignment and well, Byron is cool!
Byron Johnson, CFRE is a Senior Project Director for CompassPoint Nonprofit Services. Byron consults on fund development and other areas of organizational capacity building, which include fundraising planning and coaching, strengthening foundation and individual donor development work, and donor solicitation training.


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As new goods arrive, most everything finds a new home. A designer's dream-come-true: I get to redecorate all the time! Here's pictures of some treasured merchandising from then . . . to now. Welcome to my world.
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One of the things that makes Heavenly Metal so special is how it's connected with Vicki's Wash & Wear Haircuts, my other business sitting inside the same space. I'm rumored to be a jack-of-all-trades kind of woman: I cut hair along with being the owner, buyer, and merchandiser for the gallery/gift shop. Scratching your head? It makes perfect sense. Before and after your haircut, you get to hang out in a really cool store. Wow! Great earrings! Or scarf! Or outfit! It's perfect with that new haircut!
About my haircuts: I do not provide chemical services nor do I wash hair; instead, what you get is a dry-cut commonsense haircut that will grow out well and is designed around your particular head of hair. I charge $40 for adults, $35 for kids under 13. Call or email me for an appointment.
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Heavenly Metal is a very different kind of gallery/gift shop/boutique in downtown Ann Arbor's Kerrytown neighborhood. I specialize in apparel, footwear, jewelry, purses and bags, recycled-metal artwork, books, scarves and accessories, home goods, and unique gift items.
This is a truly a one-of-kind store featuring handcrafted works by local artists as well as artists from around the globe! Walking through the front door of Heavenly Metal is a breath of fresh air with my store's yummy vibrant colors, vintage-finds display pieces, and creative product displays. You're a visitor. A guest. Come relax and chill in my warm and artful shop.
Cait Quinn and Ally Ferguson are my Heavenly Metal family. Ally is the beautiful store model and part time worker-bee. Cait is the social media guru and store manager. Cait would love feedback on her daily instagram, facebook, and twitter. She is also in charge of our marketing, so if you have any questions please email her here.
Heavenly Metal is also an online store, where you will find 95% of the products carried inside the Ann St. store. Our packages are always wrapped to bring a smile when opened.
Shop online, or visit the Ann St. store for all the goods! If there's something you see on the store blog that's not included in the online shop, give a call or shoot me or Cait an email — we're happy to ship to you! If you have problems with an online purchase, please call or email for assistance.
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we have pretty somethings to don for embracing the first day of spring aratta is the perfect clothing for welcoming spring. designed in california by an eastern european designer, the line is feminine, flowy, airy and so so pretty. above on ally: the etro blouse below on monica: the canne tunic matching quite nicely with the bed stu frankie purse…
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Present address: Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Evolution of plant–pollinator mutualisms in response to climate change
Article first published online: 7 SEP 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2011.00202.x
© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Gilman, R. T., Fabina, N. S., Abbott, K. C. and Rafferty, N. E. (2012), Evolution of plant–pollinator mutualisms in response to climate change. Evolutionary Applications, 5: 2–16. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2011.00202.x
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- Issue published online: 15 FEB 2012
- Article first published online: 7 SEP 2011
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- climate change;
- coevolution;
- natural selection and contemporary evolution;
- species interactions
Climate change has the potential to desynchronize the phenologies of interdependent species, with potentially catastrophic effects on mutualist populations. Phenologies can evolve, but the role of evolution in the response of mutualisms to climate change is poorly understood. We developed a model that explicitly considers both the evolution and the population dynamics of a plant–pollinator mutualism under climate change. How the populations evolve, and thus whether the populations and the mutualism persist, depends not only on the rate of climate change but also on the densities and phenologies of other species in the community. Abundant alternative mutualist partners with broad temporal distributions can make a mutualism more robust to climate change, while abundant alternative partners with narrow temporal distributions can make a mutualism less robust. How community composition and the rate of climate change affect the persistence of mutualisms is mediated by two-species Allee thresholds. Understanding these thresholds will help researchers to identify those mutualisms at highest risk owing to climate change.


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We all have someone we dearly miss….Our Grandmother, Grandfather, Mother, Father, Sister, Brother, Daughter, Son, Best Friend….
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Thank you dear Elsie….I wanted to portray an emotion we all have felt…
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wow , fave for me , beautiful work Carol:-)
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Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
This game should have gone to PC...
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Higher resolution.
No jaggies.
Possibility to host your own online games, hence ressurecting the good old MGO.
It's a shame it never was ported, especially since MGS and MGS2 are on PC.
The wind carried screams from the west. I could not help but smile - Kain MGO - Stealth Python/MPO - Stealth Cobra
same here. i always wanted it to come out on pc.. i just brought a ps2 just for this game... duh.
That would be sweet so that I wouldn't get in trouble for hogging up the PS2. But then I would hog up the computer :( I lose either way...
I respectfully disagree with the topic. Not in the mod to say why but I have my reasons.
Is not sweet or bitter until you tasted it.
why not..? ^^
only reason would be if you dont have a goodspec machine .. i agree should have been ported over ..mgs2 i played a while ago looks extremly sharp and the possibilitys of anti aliasing x16 is just mouth watering .. is their a specific reason it wasnt ported over..?
... Controls, maybe?
"Whoa, you actually remembered something you learned in school?"
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MGS2 was ported to PC as a consequence of being ported to XBOX.
Since they had to revisit the PS2 version and convert it to the Xbox, they basically had most of the work done already, hence creating the PC version was only a matter of optimising the game for multiple configurations.
However, since MGS2 sold average on XBOX, this lead KONAMI to abandon the Xbox ... and since they didn't have to make a PC-architecture MGS3 conversion that would work on Xbox, they didn't bother to make one for PC, since PC version usually sell even worse.
But in hindsight, I'll admit having a PC version of MGS3 would be awesome, as it would allow modding, hosting our own servers and "reviving" the classic MGO (because, while the new MGS4 MGO looks great, it doesn't have that Old-School 60s charm MGS3's MPO had).
The wind carried screams from the west. I could not help but smile - Kain MGO - Stealth Python/MPO - Stealth Cobra
... Controls, maybe?
That's a non-issue. There are countless rumble PC pads that have the exact same configuration as the PS2's gamepad... And to go even further, you can even plug a PS3 controller in your PC...
The wind carried screams from the west. I could not help but smile - Kain MGO - Stealth Python/MPO - Stealth Cobra
ye i can see the xbox played a big part .. i think chances of mgs4 port hang on if it gets ported to the 360 aswell ...which i doubt !!
if there would be a possibilty of the pc getting mgs4 because of it being ported to the 360, then all we can do is hope they are considering the option...
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This quarterly beat shows that AEO is a good stock to buy and hold for the REST OF THIS ECONOMIC CYCLE. There is no reason to sell until the next economic downturn after the Fed has normalized interest rates over the course of the next few years, or longer. Remember, the more you trade stocks, the more you pay in taxes, and the more likely you are to sell off your winners and turn around and buy losers, so buy a good company that reports good numbers while paying a solid dividend, and hold it until the whole market starts to turn sour.
I am not promising that AEO will hit its 2007 high of $32.25 and maybe not even soon surpass its September 2012 high of $24.50, but this quarterly beat shows that they are answering the changes in the retail sector and are responding to the the new vogue of 'fast fashion' as quick and effectively as they can, while continuing to succeed in their shift to being an e-tailer as well as a retailer. Unless this company's management messes up and falls off course, this company should--at the very least--match or surpass the benchmark of the S&P 500 for the next half decade or longer.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Careful, people were saying the same things as ARO fell from $25 to $18, and again as it fell from $16 to $14, then down to $12, and so on. As it fell below $5.00 per share all those investors lost the lions-share of their original investment thinking the trend couldn't continue and would re-balance. JCP investors made the same mistake stating the same point about Macy's size versus JCPenney's size. Likewise, those investors lost 60, 70 and even 80%, too.
Up 10%, and rising, today! :-)
Yep, this is a stock to hold and enjoy: those who bought at over $120 ($60 after the split), and sold at the low in the $30s gave up on a good profitable company. Those of us that jumped in down in the $30s can sit back and enjoy the ride the rest of the way up back to the previous highs.
I am going to ring the register now and lock in my 75% gain. I was investing based on merger hopes, and Office Depot/Office Maxx and Staples are now in talks. So I will sell since it's up on the rumor.
Sie haben gut gemacht, Sammler! I hope you're still long the stock. I am going to sell now and take my large gain and move on. There may be even more value to pull out if they do merge, but I have almost doubled my money. Hope you're in the position for the same.
It's been almost four years since my original post on this string, and almost five years of being long this stock. I'm just posting to bump this back to the top of the string, and emphasize that dividends investing is still the way to go. Also, as gas prices fall, this stock should rise, as lower fuel costs increase margins and cheaper gas brings out more apparel shoppers.
Sentiment: Buy
WFM continues higher yet. I think the bears started finding other plays; we could get a small squeeze over the next day or two. Over the longer term, Whole Foods is a great company to own here. I am letting this one ride because I expect higher highs and higher lows. It is, and will continue to, be a bullish chart and a growing company.


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Putting a low stone wall around tree
I live in central Florida... sandy soil. This past March I had a mult-trunk River Birch tree put in our front yard. The tree is doing great.
Right now I have a 5' diameter circle of Cyprus mulch around the base.
The other day I saw where someone had put a 2-tier stone ring around the base of their tree. It was the fake concrete stones like you'd get at Lowes. I thought it looked good.
My question is; if I did the same, can I add 4" of top soil or potting soil over the existing dirt that covers the roots?
In other words; I'd remove the exist mulch, put in the wall... it would be 10" high with a 2" thick cap - then add 4" of soil and the rest with mulch to bring it up to the top of the wall.
I was told when I put the tree in, to not add much, if any soil over the top surface of the root ball.
No. Adding soil like that can harm the tree by smothering the root and rotting the base of the tree. Edging is ok so long as the mulch ring grows as the tree does. Not only that, anything you're thinking about planting in there is going to have to contend with the birch roots. It's a losing battle. I have some neighbors that thought the 10" block from lowes around their trees looked good. I guess it's subjective but their trees are declinging and I'm waiting for the hoa to send them a letter about the whole thing.
What you are talking about is called a fill. Cuts and fills are often detrimental when undertaken under trees. However, since you are on sand and the tree is a riparian species a shallow layer of highly aerated material like potting soil might not bother it. But potting soil placed over sand in a hot climate might disappear pretty quick. And the tree would look better without a ring around it.
Trees damaged by fills don't necessarily suffocate or rot, in a particular instance suddenly reduced access to seemingly incidental moisture from showers and light watering may have a serious impact. Trees in humid conditions often root just below the surface, with roots sometimes even popping out of the ground. When a fill is undertaken such roots are no longer supplying the tree with the water encountered there. On shallow soils such as are often found under forests here there may be a thin layer of organic debris and roots on top of an infinity of mineral soil and rock, with only a small percentage of anchorage roots penetrating a bit into the subsoil. Even tall trees, when failing and falling are seen to have a pancake root system that looks beneath the base of the trunk like the tip of a bullet shot against an impenetrable surface.
Trees in humid conditions often root just below the surface, with roots sometimes even popping out of the ground.
That describes this tree exactly.
Alright, scratch that idea. This tree is doing too well the way it is (about 17' right now)to risk making it worse over something like this.
Thanks for all the information, and suggestions.
That's good to hear. River birch that far south is not very common. You want to give it the best chance to succeed.


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I know there was a minor disagreement over how to treat a sick chicken a few weeks ago, but it would be nice to see Velvet back here giving out her advice.
I second that. Velvet's advice has been right on and she is obviously knowledgeable and compassionate. The disagreement vancleaveterry mentions was unfortunate. The original post was misleading and given that, Velvet's response was understandable. I miss Velvet's contributions to this forum and hope to hear from her soon!
When I posted a message asking for advice for raising chickens, Velvet replied with cogent, simple, and invaluable advice. She even said I could e-mail her with specific questions! In reading answers to posts, I have always been impressed with her advice, and with the kindness it is offered. It would be a shame and a great loss if Velvet no longer responds to our questions.
Everyone with chickens needs to join (free) backyardchickens.com forum. I always search old posts for answers to my questions, and they are a very knowlegable community of bird owners. I think VelvetSparow (isn't she a HE?!) is on there as well!
After reading through a different post...Velevet Sparrow is indeed a lady.
She even has a husband that has had a pet tortuise since kindergarten...how cool is that!
My father-in-law has every copy of National Geographic since the 30's...put to have a pet that you have loved and cared for that long is incredible.
Velvet Sparrow...we all miss you...please come back!
I noticed her chicken page is off line now too.
I admit, I am familiar and contributed a comment to the argument which started all of this. There were a lot of shots fired. I'd hate to think however, that a single dispute would discourage a long time contributor who was clearly admired very deeply by so many.
Perhaps we should all try to be a bit more tolerant, and/or thick skinned when necessary. This forum is (was?) a blessing to many beginners (like myself). Hopefully, time will heal and friends will return.
I'm right here. Why did a thread more than a year and a half old resurface? I'm confused...
I did relocate my chicken site a while back, my husband got me my own domain name for a gift and surprised me with it. :) More space and no more 'bandwidth for the month exceeded' messages, yay! But that was a while back, and everything in my profile has been updated...so...*shrugs*
Velvet ~:>
I am reading ALL the old threads and really having a great time. I started at the back end and working forward. I ran into this thread and thought wow. you did not respond at that time. And everyone seemed to love you so much. I wondered if you were still around. ( I am new here well maybe a week or less. )
Glad to see you are still here.
Some old threads are popping up because I think they have valuable information that should not disappear. GW only saves it until it drops off the list. By updating it here it gets another 2 years of life.
I have been off and on the Garden Web for several years but never saw this Farm Life group until about a week ago. I love this Farm Life site and chickens etc.
There are 67 pages of listed threads. I started at 67 and now at 35 so I have completed 32 pages of threads so far. It goes faster after absorbing so much info. I now save up many good items and locations. I have found such good info.
When I used to have poultry around 1972, it was very difficult to get even a little information. Now there is an explosion in information with the internet and books. One of the best is the pictures. Back then you were lucky to get low quality black and white picture once in awhile in a good book. Now there is an explosion of great color pictures on the internet and in books. Also there has been great progress in breeding the birds in some cases.


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I use the code to get a custom CPT-onomy Archive Page with the add_rewrite_rule and &cpt_onomy_archive=1 describe here to get url like that http://mywebsite.com/movies/actors/tom-hanks/
Its working when I go it manually. But how can I do to get this url?
Because with the get_terms I don't have the custom post type "movies"...
If I want to list the actors of steven-spielberg which function can I use to get a list like that with this permalink :
- http://mywebsite.com/movies/actors/tom-hanks/
- http://mywebsite.com/movies/actors/tom-cruise/
- http://mywebsite.com/movies/actors/leonardo-di-caprio/
I will need something like that I think:
$actors = get_terms( 'actors', 'movies', orderby=count&hide_empty=0' )
$result = get_terms( cpt-onomy, custom-post-type, query )
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Very nice photo.
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How to move your iPhone and iPad backups to an external drive
If you sync your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch on your Mac, you know that the first thing iTunes does is back it up (unless you've told it not to). Depending on the size of your device and how much data you have stored on it, this can gobble up dozens of gigabytes of space. Did you know you can move those backups to an external hard drive? You can, and we can walk you through how.
How to save space on your Mac by moving iPhone and iPad backups to an external drive
We've already gone over how to move your iTunes library to an external hard drive to save space, but did you know that iTunes may still be gobbling up space on your hard drive? That's because when you sync an iOS device on your Mac, it backs up the device to a hidden folder inside your home directory Library folder.
Hard drives on Macs are getting smaller as more and more systems use solid state storage, and our iOS devices are getting bigger. With some iPad and iPad mini models available in up to 128 GB of storage, that means iTunes can create some huge backup files.
Unfortunately, iTunes doesn't give us an easy way to move those backup files to an external drive. So we're going to use the Terminal app, found inside the Utilities folder, to do some UNIX command line magic to get it to work.
iTunes creates backup files for your iOS devices inside your home directory Library folder. The first step is to find that folder.
To access the Backup folder:
- Open the Finder.
- Hold down the Option key.
- Click on the Go menu.
- Select Library.
- Find Application Support and open it.
- Find MobileSync and open it.
That MobileSync folder contains a Backup folder, which includes iTunes' backup files for your iOS devices.
Attach your external hard drive. Drag that Backup folder to the external drive. You might want to put it in a clearly marked folder so you remember in the future what it's there for, like "ios_backup" or something similar.
Once you verify that it's been copied, rename but do note delete the original Backups folder (maybe call it old_Backups or something equally descriptive).
A note on aliases and symbolic links
Let me take a moment to explain this next step. We're going to use the Mac's Terminal app to create a symbolic link to trick iTunes into backing up onto your external drive rather than the boot drive.
Have you ever created an alias in the Finder? Aliases have been around since the classic Mac OS days. Aliases point to a file or folder that's kept elsewhere - it can be in another folder on your Mac's hard drive or another drive all together, even a server volume. They're handy ways of connecting to information you need to quickly and easily.
Unfortunately, some applications don't follow aliases properly. An older way of creating those sorts of connections is more reliable for actions like what we want iTunes to do: Symbolic links, or symlinks. They work at a low enough level that applications and operating system functions don't have as hard a time with them as they do aliases.
For the sake of the following example, I've unimaginatively named the external drive External. If yours is named differently, you'll need to change the /Volumes/External pathname in step 4.
To create a symbolic Backups folder link
- Open the Finder.
- Open the Utilities folder.
- Double-click on Terminal.
- type: ln -s /Volumes/External/ios_backup/Backup ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/Backup then press the Return key.
- Quit Terminal.
If you kept that MobileSync folder open, you'll see a new file created in it that looks like this:
The Finder says it's an alias. Don't be fooled. It's actually a symbolic link.
Now run iTunes and let it back up your iOS device. Make sure it's working by checking the creation date of the file you now see in the external drive backup folder. Assuming it's working, it's now safe for you to delete the old_Backups folder and get that precious hard drive space back.
One other thing: If it's unlikely that the external hard drive will be connected all the time, I'd recommend keeping iTunes from backing iOS devices automatically. To do so:
- Open iTunes.
- Click on the iTunes menu and select Preferences.... (Alternately, hold down the Command key and type ,.)
- Click the Devices tab.
- Check Prevent iPods, iPhones and iPads from syncing automatically.
- Click OK.
Otherwise, when you try to back up your iPhone to a hard drive that's not connected, you're likely to see an error message that looks like this:
Hopefully you haven't run into any snags, but if you have any questions, let me know.
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How to move your iPhone and iPad backups to an external drive
Do you have any spaces in there, and are you observing capitalizations properly? Spaces need to be parsed using a leading backslash so the file system will interpret the character literally: try a leading backslash if there is a space in your folder or volume name. For example: "My Folder" would be "My\ Folder" in the pathname.
Hi Peter! I am following this comment because I have also tried the same thing and have the same issue. I changed the name of my External drive to "External" just so I could copy and paste your info in so I didn't make a mistake. It is still coming up with "no such file"
Hey Peter, is there a way to save all the photos synced to iPhoto from my phone to an external drive?
That's a much simpler solution. Just copy your iPhoto library in your pictures folder to a spot in your external drive. Then delete your iPhoto library from your Macintosh HD and open iPhoto. iPhoto will then prompt you what library you would like to open since the old one is gone and you select the one whose path shows the external drive.
Alternatively, you can change libraries in the file menu by selecting "Switch Libraries..."
Hi there, Peter. I have followed all your instructions; I had a backup file automatically created in MobileSync after following all the steps BUT neither my iPad mini nor my iPhone 5s are able to sync to or even recognize my external memory storage. Everytime I try to backup half way the process I get a message saying that "iTunes could not back up the iPad (or iPhone) because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPad (or iPhone). Yes, I ticked the box in Devices Preferences. I even deleted the old backups I had, just in case they were somehow conflicting with the whole process, to no avail. FYI: my iTunes is up to date, I updated to iOS 8 on both the iPad mini and the iPhone 5s. The iPad had a backup on iTunes (now deleted) but as soon as I updated it with iOS 8, I got the above mentioned message everytime I plugged it into iTunes and still get sporadically another one saying that I have no SIM. Yes, I don't. And I know I don't! The 5s was brand new and had never been backed up. iTunes just refuses to do it. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Hiya, Peter. I'm having a problem somewhat similar to "aiwama." I've completed the Terminal process successfully: I confirmed that there's a symbolic link under Library/Application Support/MobileSync and the Terminal command worked.
I also confirmed that my previous backups have been deleted through iTunes and that I'm not syncing automatically upon connection of my iPhone. The external drive is connected.
I'm getting that same error window that you have at the end of your post about a corrupt backup. For reference, I'm running 10.9.4, with iTunes 11.3.1 (there's an update, but I have no room to download it), and iOS 8.0.2.
Any suggestions?
I was having the same error, but I realized I missed this bit in the post:
"Attach your external hard drive. Drag that Backup folder to the external drive. You might want to put it in a clearly marked folder so you remember in the future what it's there for, like "ios_backup" or something similar."
It worked when I made a folder on the external drive called "ios_backup" and copied the "Backup" folder from iTunes in there.
Peter mentioned renaming the "Volumes/External" but if you chose a folder name other than "ios_backup", you'll need to update that part of the path in the Terminal command as well for the link to work.
Correction: I have iTunes 11.4, if that makes a difference. Thanks.
Hello Peter. Thank you for the great info! Unfortunately i get the same error message after several attempts- the same one you have above... (backup corrupt or not compatible) Here is what I paste into the command terminal
ln -s /Volumes/My\ Passport\ for\ Mac/ios_Backup/Backup ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/Backup
Hi Peter,
I attempted following the steps you created. On the first time I copied and pasted the command you gave but forgot to change the name of the hard drive. I deleted the symbolic link (which for some reason appeared in original back up folder instead of mobilesync. On my second attempt I changed the name and the same thing happened. I tried to back up the phone and got an error stating that there isn't enough room on my hard drive which means that it is probably still trying to store everything on the laptop. Any idea of what I'm doing wrong?
I would like to set this up to use my Time Capsule. From what I can tell, there isn't a path I can specify to redirect everything to the Time Capsule. I have read a little about the tmutil command, but not sure how to use it to accomplish what has been outlined above. Any ideas?
Hi Peter,
I created the symbolic link with no problem, but when I go to create a backup in iTunes, I am receiving the "iTunes could not back up the iPhone because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone".
After I created the symbolic link, iTunes says that the iPhone it has never been backed up to my computer before. All the files are still in mobilesync (renamed 'old_backups') and they're definitely on my external hard rive.
Any suggestions?
Ok so seems like I resolved my own issue!
My external hard drive was previously called "Johnny's Backups" - I renamed it to "Johnny_Backups", and it works flawlessly now!
(Note: Even though I was using " \ " in place of the spaces in the name of the drive in Terminal - e.g.: ' Johnny's\Backups ' - it was still not working; it seems that it may have been the apostrophe in "Johnny's" throwing it off? Not sure - but it works now) :)
Initially, this did not work for me either. Basically, the 'Backup' alias was not being made in the the 'MobileSyn' folder. This is because, from the instructions above, we are trying to create the alias in the 'Backup' folder (inside the MobileSync folder). However, because we renamed the 'old' Backup folder to 'old_Backup', the folder (called 'Backup') no longer exists and the alias does not get created. Besides, as the pic above shows, what we really want is the alias to be created in the 'MobileSync' folder. To do this, just delete that second instance of 'Backup' (the last word in the command) and it should look something like this: ln -s /Volumes/External/ios_backup/Backup ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync
Once I made that change, the alias was created in the 'MobileSync' folder and the backups began working perfectly!
I hope this is helpful!
Thanks mikdev!!
I followed your instructions to delete the second 'Backup'.
The alias was created however, I'm still getting the "iTunes could not Backup the iPhone…….because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone. Delete the backup for this iPhone, then try again"
Would you have any more suggestions?
Sonny, I am sorry that you are still having trouble. Could it be (as in the article above) that when you are trying to perform a backup that your external hard drive is not connected? If that is not the problem, it could be that your iTunes library is actually corrupt. Try following the instructions here: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201561
You might end up losing some music/apps that you recently purchased but at least you will get your library back.
I hope this helps!
I didn't follow the whole comment thread carefully, but recheck the shortcut (first half is shortcut target, second the shortcut location):
ln -s /Volumes/External/ios_backup/Backup ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/Backup
External should be replaced with the name of your external drive. And the FIRST "Backup" should be deleted if the folder you dragged straight into the external and renamed that to "ios_backup".


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I am wanting to get some info on these 17 that i hear so much about . In FT. campbell they told me to hunt coyote and groundhog this year you can only use a rimfire . so which one do i choose . I have a cz 452 that I am thinking I can just use but will the 17 be better i know it is alot lighter than a 22 but it does go faster . what say you all ? Ireally hate the fact that we can't use centerfire rifles i have several rifles set up for the sole purpose of varmits. but i really dont hunt with a rimfire.
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Coyotes are some pretty stout animals. Whichever you use, your shot placement had better be there if you want to drop the 'yotes quickly.
But you are correct that the .17 HMR would probably be better. Too bad you cant go with the .204 Ruger.
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I would recommend you check out the .22magnum. We've had several coyotes run off after being hit with a .17, only to be found on other parts of the farm or the next farm over. Examination proved they were hit solidly in the heart/lung area. Sometimes they (.17s) will anchor them, sometimes they won't. The 1s we found we determined that penetration was lacking in some instances. The newer controlled expansion loads MAY be better in that respect. The .22 magnum has proven (at least to me), to be a better performer out to 125 yards.
Sometimes you earthlings REALLY amaze me!
The 17 HMR or 17m2 ARE NOT COYOTE ROUNDS.
I don't care what anyone says they are not meant to shoot animals that big.
Seeing as your limited to rimfire's only the 22mag would be what I would go with and keep shots withint 50 to 75 yards. maybe 100 on a ground hog.
In Southern NH it is rimfire only. As Tango stated, the .17HMR is not a coyote round. I use a .22WMR w/ 40gr HP's, never the 30gr plastic tip variety. 75 yards would be max, unless a good headshot presented itself. The problem w/ that is I have yet to see one stop for more than a second or 2. Most folks here use a 12ga w/ #4 lead. Good to 40 yards w/ a full choke.
Now if you look at a box of .17HMR, the 20gr Gamepoints do have a picture of a howling coyote. It is a marketing picture, that is all. The 30gr .22WMR and .17HMR work very well on fox and woodchuck(P-dog).
Your .22lr will make for a fun day w/ P-dogs.
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Here are a few articles:Getting the Most from Your .22 Magnum - Jesse's Hunting & Outdoors (JHO)Wild Ed's Texas Outdoors: The Magnum Rimfire Wars-.17HMR VS .22WMRCompared: .17 HMR and .22 WMR (Magnum)


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(PRNewswire-USNewswire) The Department of Health & Human Services is now disclosing, for the first time, how hospitals across the country compare when it comes to central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in intensive care units. CLABSI information for each hospital is posted on the federal Hospital Compare website and will be updated quarterly.
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Marilynn Marchione, AP Research suggests proton therapy might have more side effects than traditional radiation. A study of Medicare records found that men treated with proton beams later had one-third more bowel problems, such as bleeding and blockages, than similar men given conventional radiation.
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Judge makes move from Collier dependency court to Lee felony court
LEE COUNTY - When felony court begins today in Fort Myers, a familiar face from Naples will sit behind the bench in courtroom 4A.
Circuit Judge Ramiro Mañalich, formerly a dependency division judge in the Collier Circuit, begins his new assignment today in the fifth felony docket in Lee County, the busiest county in the circuit and home to such high-profile felony cases as Lords of Chaos, Cash Feenz and the Gateway killings.
Mañalich, 50, a Cuban-born, Midwestern-raised marathon runner, who until a year ago was a Collier County judge, says he's looking forward to the change.
"I'm ready to do whatever they need me to do," he said.
Mañalich's move is part of a larger shuffle in the 20th Judicial Circuit Court intended to address larger caseloads, particularly in Lee County. Between 2004 and 2008, the number of criminal filings in the county more than doubled. A combination of heavy county growth, increased crime and more arrests created a backlog that stretched case times and loaded the jails.
Court administrators decided earlier this year to install a fifth felony judge to relieve the pressure.
"We were having quite a jail overcrowding problem here in Lee County, so it was natural that we open a fifth track to allow more cases to be processed," said Chief Judge G. Keith Cary.
Since the decision was made, filings have since fallen off somewhat, and the jail population, once averaging near 2,300 daily, is down to around 1,900.
Cary says the new docket will bring Lee Circuit judges in line with their counterparts in other counties, who are averaging 400 to 600 cases at a time.
The addition isn't as popular among other court players. The State Attorney's Office, Public Defender's Office and Clerk of Courts will need to staff the new docket, meaning they will have to pull people from other dockets. Each has described the change as burdensome.
To allay the costs, the court has applied for a grant under the larger federal stimulus program. If accepted, the court will receive roughly $769,000 to pay the salaries of a pair of public defenders, a pair of prosecutors, a clerk and a court administrator for three years.
A decision has yet to be made on the application.
In Naples, the change actually means one less felony judge. Collier Circuit Judge Elizabeth Krier will shift to cover Mañalich's dockets. Circuit judges Franklin Baker and Frederick Hardt will handle the felony division alone.
Two new felony circuit judges in Charlotte County will also begin in Punta Gorda on Monday, filling recently vacant positions.
Mañalich was appointed to the county bench in 2003. After his 2008 circuit appointment, he worked brief rotations in Charlotte and Lee counties before settling in to juggle a host of dockets in Naples, including juvenile dependency, truancy and domestic violence.
The dockets, especially dependency court, come with their own challenges and stresses. Child abuse cases, reunifications and terminations of parental rights are daily fare in dependency court.
"There are some true incredible tragedies and victories in that courtroom," Mañalich said.
Cary said Mañalich, chosen for the assignment through seniority and rotation, will transition well into the new docket.
"He's a fairly new felony judge, but of course he was on the county bench trying criminal cases for years in Naples," he said.
Mañalich recently completed training for capital cases, allowing him to preside over death penalty cases. Judicial rules require a judge to have at least six months experience in a federal docket before handling a death penalty case. Since the beginning of the year, the Lee Circuit has handled two death penalty cases — Justin Grodin was sentenced to death last month; Fred Cooper received life in prison.
The judge first arrived in America via Miami, when his family joined the initial wave of Cuban refugees in the 1960s. His father, a lawyer in Cuba, took a teaching job in Wisconsin, and Mañalich grew up and went to school in the state. He worked as a public defender in Wisconsin before returning to Florida for a job in a Hollywood law firm, representing insurance companies.
"I went from representing those who have nothing to those who are the safe-keepers of a lot of resources," he said of the change in jobs.
Beginning in 1989, Mañalich spent 14 years as an attorney for Collier County.
The judge said he reminds himself of two things before he enters the courtroom each day.
"One is that I'm paid not to have bad days... The other thing I say is, 'Just remember, regardless of which side you're looking at, but for the grace of God it could be me on one of those sides.'"
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