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Would you like to learn how to caulk a wood boat?
Join Coastal Heritage Alliance on Saturday, December 8, at the Winter Waterman's Festival at the Delmarva Discovery Center in Pocomoke, Maryland. You will be introduced to the tools, materials, and techniques used for centuries to keep wood boats afloat. CHA is dedicated to passing on the skills of a proud working waterfront culture by educating for the future.
The event is from 10am to 4pm and the training is free of charge! Please see the Events page for more details.
Hope to see you there,
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The ship`s caulking demo at the Discovery Center was a success! It is amazing how the young children enjoy trying their hand at it. CHA will cntinue to pass on the tradtional skills at the "revival tent" this coming weekend (Dec 14 &15) at Scotts Cove Marina in Chance, MD where the skipjack Kathryn is being restored.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
The Morning After
The dinner turned out just fine with no major mishaps. The stand-out dish without a doubt was the Triple-Layer Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting which you can find here. I did, as the recipe says, grate the carrots on the smallest side of a box grater. I did not have a comparable attachment for my food processor and I believe that it made all the difference. The consistency of the carrots post-grating was similar to canned pumpkin, so the cake was incredibly smooth and rich. The recipe says that 1lb. of carrots will equal about three cups. This is a complete and total bold faced lie, or was in my case; I needed 2lbs. Carrot cake in my book is only a vehicle for cream cheese frosting anyway, so the extra layer made it a total home run. I had it for breakfast the next day.
We copied the Brussels sprout salad from a dish that we had at the Mixx here in Kansas City. You can vary it to your taste, sprouts, arugula, cranberries, almonds, bacon*, shaved parmesan with honey mustard dressing. The Brussels sprouts are raw. Yep, raw and delicious. Trim the bottom and separate so they are basically leaves. Bill did julienne (right?) them a little. I'd be careful with the sprout/arugula ratio as ours seemed a little arugula heavy. Better yet, eat in or carry out from the Mixx.
*Mr. Sulzberger, you are welcome to order yours without bacon.
8 comments:
- Karena said...
Mmmmm Your carrot cake looks delish! I agree with your statement regarding cream cheese frosting Patricia.
Art by Karena
- January 16, 2012 at 7:12 AM
- quintessence said...
Your carrot cake, my favorite, look divine!! Glad I don't have leftovers of that in my house!
- January 16, 2012 at 7:19 AM
- My Dog-Eared Pages said...
Anything with arugula, I adore including Brussel sprouts. The Mixx recipe sounds perfect. I usually sautée bacon until crisp and then add sprout leaves [separated the same way] and mix-in until bright green, and then add a tiny bit of white wine vinegar. I love the idea of eating raw leaves in this recipe. ; )
- January 16, 2012 at 8:07 AM
- kayce hughes said...
That would have made me happy.
- January 16, 2012 at 8:08 AM
- mary said...
Hi Patricia, The carrot cake (my favorite) looks divine--what is your recipe for the frosting? Why would anyone doubt that cream cheese frosting is the best part of the cake?/ Thanks. Mary
- January 16, 2012 at 10:56 AM
- Anonymous said...
That cake simply jumps off the page and onto my waistline, but hey it's virtual, right? Sounds like a great dinner. Share the rest of the menu if you will.
I have also found that one needs more grated carrots than the cake receipe generally calls for. Now tell us how bruised your hand is from all that grating.
- January 16, 2012 at 2:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
Looks delish!
- January 17, 2012 at 6:16 AM
- 820am said...
gorgeousness. love your blog. just stumbled upon it. i'll be back. xo, annette http://www.820am.blogspot.com
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Im turning 13 saturday march 3rd i'm planing something (any thing in march) what should i do for my party?! my mom does a BIG party every other year and this is a BIG year so i can do something big what should i do?there are 7 girls! i plan on having them stay the night with me. what should i do? my mom also made the option to go to this indoor water park called french lick BUT i can only have 3 friends go the only problem is i told some friends about the french lick thing and i would not be able to invite them!
Hey GLgirl#1, you guys could have a total girls night. Grab your fave movies, nail polish and makeup. You guys could give each other makeovers, have a fashion show and take pics. Pop some popcorn and grab blankets and watch your fave movies. You could also do prank calls, just don't get too carried away. Hope this helps and have fun. Happy Early Birthday! Xoxo
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by pokerface16 on 1/24/2012 7:21:20 PM
this happened to me i just at least try to like it
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Hey gogreengal, yep it's crazy. You just have to ignore any negativity people throw your way.. Like Lady Gaga says " I'm beautiful in my way, cause God makes no mistakes" so remember that. And your weight has nothing to do with you not getting your period. Hope this helps! Xoxo
Dear Carol,
I'm starting to get really annoyed with the media. They have banned ads because the model had prominent bones. I am naturally this way and it hurts to think that people view other people this way. I also get a lot of snide comments about eating disorders. I am 5'4" and weigh 93 lbs. Also, will I never get my period if I am skinny? I'm 13, btw. thanks. Lynae P.
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by maeugeniap on 12/31/2011 7:04:18 PM
Well, most likely you would get a receipt. Return it and get something you truly want. Its happened to me before. Yes, I returned, got store credits and got myself some cool things I really wanted.
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How do I delete a club I made on Girlslife? Thanx
by rockergirl41598 on 12/28/2011 8:38:37 PM
Ahhh this used to happen to me a lot but as I got older, the more people figured out my style so I got great gifts. Hope this helps too!! <3
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f u need advice on anything at all come to my profile page or my advice queen page<3 I guarantee that I will answer ur question as fast as possible and I will give u the best advice that i can!!!!(:
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i always give out a list or just tell them i want gift card.
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I just got the best Christmas present ever- my very first kiss from my very first boyfriend
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Take the gift and appercatie it, the giver thought to get you a gift that is all that matters.
by meganbenedict on 12/23/2011 2:37:15 PM
my family always gives ideas
by millia7 on 12/23/2011 12:14:57 PM
Happy Hanukkah! Can't wait for my fourth nightly gift! Yay!
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by Princess Keziyah on 12/23/2011 11:59:22 AM
Also maybe you could say that you think that it's a fantastic too expensive and give it back.
by Princess0412 on 12/23/2011 11:23:14 AM
One friend got me tons and tons of mint gum when I told her like twice that I didn't like mint gum. I just took it with a smile.
Join my club, 'Orchestra Nerds and Band Geeks.' It's a loose and fun club where we talk about anything and everything- But especially music Go to my profile to join!!
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What to do when your Aunt gets you a dress that too small and she says "Oh, I thought you were skinnier!"...
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by nerdisthewurd26 on 12/23/2011 8:33:27 AM
Wow, I remember a lot of b-day prezzies that I didn't like but Christmas is always good, I remember my Grandmom and Grandpop always would buy my sister and I prezzies and say that Santa woke him up i the middle of the night and asked him to give the presents to us, that was absolutely the greatest! Except I caught my mom putting prezzies under the tree one year and I went running to Grandmom and told her that my mom was trying to be Santa, LOL! I was like 7, but I didn't realize it until I was around 8, maybe 9, but yeah, Christmas is one of my favorite holidays anyways Ana D.
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I always prepare myself for the worst in the beginning- just say "Thanks so much!" and offer up a hug. It will have a use.......eventually..........
by basketballcutie11 on 12/23/2011 6:55:05 AM
That's happened to me before, but many people in my family are awesome gift givers! On some occasions though, I do have to make my list very specific (exact name, what color, where itt can be found, etc.) or just ask for money and debits.
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by Tinyfire14 on 12/23/2011 1:49:24 AM
Good tips. It always seems like I get duds for Christmas prezzies.
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Two days after pictures of the new Omotesando Apple Store hit the Web, Apple released its own in-house video of the outlet including behind-the-scenes footage of back room stocking and floor display preparations.
Prior to the video's release, the underground level's layout remained a mystery. As suspected, however, the central spiral staircase -- made of what appears to be brushed aluminum -- leads to additional display floor space, a Genius Bar and accessories racks.
Among the architectural features of Apple's soon-to-open store is a "green curtain" of foliage that drapes over the rear concrete wall, put in place to cut down on energy needed to cool the box-like structure during the day.
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Mountain West Conference has a new slogan, but now it's selling an inferior product
This is sort of like the proverbial shooting fish in a barrel, but it's hard not to make fun of the Mountain West Conference. Because it's just so darn easy.
The league announced its new logo which is sort of ugly and meaningless, but who cares?
But what almost begs to be mocked is the new tagline "This is our time."
What? Really? Are you kidding?
Let's see, you've lost Utah and BYU. You're losing TCU. What you've become is essentially the Western Athletic Conference 2.
This is your time to, what, cement yourselves as a mid-major forever?
The addition of Boise State can't make up for losing the Cougars, Utes and Frogs. Adding Fresno, Nevada and Hawaii was a brilliant move to preserve the MWC's existence perhaps killing the WAC in the process but any dreams of being part of the BCS are dead.
And, in terms of television. you've taken a considerable step down.
Nobody cares about the new logo. But claiming "this is our time" is just going to make the Mountain West Conference into a punchline.
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I think rather highly of the late John Stott for a number of reasons.
First, there's his longtime involvement with The Lausanne Movement, including his role as "chief architect" of the Lausanne Covenant. I think we can all still learn a great deal from his understanding of the relationship between evangelism and social action. And I'm grateful for the way he devoted so much of his life work to the church in the Global South through Langham Partnership.
Then again, maybe my interest is really just a case of American Evangelical Anglophilia.
The Radical Disciple: Some Neglected Aspects of Our Calling (IVP) was Stott's final book, as he said it would be, calling it a "valedictory message" to his readers. He explains the choice of words in the title by emphasizing that being a disciple of Christ has to do with being under discipline and "implies the relationship of pupil to teacher." Disciple, then, is a stronger word than Christian. And radical, which comes from the Latin word for root, emphasizes that our commitment isn't haphazard, flimsy, or temporary. Radical disciples are rooted ones, under the discipline of Christ. And this book challenges us on our tendency to want nothing to do with that kind of life:
Our common way of avoiding radical discipleship is to be selective: choosing those areas in which commitment suits us and staying away from those areas in which it will be costly.
While many of Stott's readers have certainly been following Christ for decades, others — like the 18,000 or so who'll attend Urbana 12 later this year (which always features a great selection of Stott's work) — are much younger in their faith. One way or another, I think all of us are prone to the sort of selective discipleship Stott is concerned about.
Some — particularly older readers — may be a bit uncomfortable about the chapter on creation care as an essential aspect of discipleship, dealing with questions of population, depletion of resources, waste disposal, and climate change. Based on the biblical teaching that the earth is created by God and has been entrusted to us as its stewards, Stott urges us to avoid the twin errors of either deifying the earth or exploiting it. Rather, he says, we're called to cooperate with God to conserve the good creation and to develop its resources for the common good.
Younger evangelicals (like myself) are probably more likely to affirm the importance of creation care, but I have a hunch that many of us haven't really considered how creation care fits into God's cosmic mission to redeem all things. So even those who are already inclined to "go green" could learn a lot from Stott on this. If creation care truly is part of discipleship, it can't be reduced to a passing fad. Remember, discipleship is costly; that's something those who have been Christians for a while know very well.
If the environmental chapter seems to border on the trendy, the other "neglected aspects of our calling," it seems to me, are anything but popular. They are, however, all essential to biblical teaching, to Christ's radical call to follow him:
He calls us to nonconformity under his Lordship, ruling out escapism and conformism as available options.
He calls us to Christlikeness in his incarnation, his service, his love, his endurance, and his mission.
He calls us to grow, but to be far more concerned with depth and than with impressive numbers.
He calls us to simplicity as a community and in our personal lifestyles, allowing us to better respond to the needs of the poor and giving credibility to our evangelistic witness.
He calls us to a way of life that holds in balance "our comprehensive identity" as followers of Christ: both individual discipleship and corporate fellowship, both worship and work, and both pilgrimage and citizenship.
He calls us to dependence instead of rugged individualism, recognizing that we're intended to belong to a family and to a church, both characterized by "mutual burdensomeness."
Finally, he calls us to a Christian understanding of death, not as something to be ignored or feared, but as the road to life — "one of the profoundest paradoxes" we'll ever encounter.
I think it's clear that the multifaceted calling of discipleship doesn't come easy to any of us, just as I'm sure it didn't come easy to John Stott. But it's our common calling, and it's attainable. We're called to follow Christ, and we're given the grace to follow. Fortunately, grace takes many shapes and sizes, and I'm convinced the help we need is often found at least partially in those around us and in those who see the world from a different vantage point.
I for one hope my generation will do better at setting an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity — beginning with myself. And I pray we'll humbly, eagerly and intentionally seek to learn from those Christians who have been at it longer than we have — even if they drive a gas-guzzling Buick instead of a Prius.
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I love the bluetooth integration of my iPhone to my Model S. I listen to music from the phone more than Slacker or any of the many possible sources available.
I set up a driver profile for my wife as well but when her iPhone connects, the media button is greyed out and there doesn't seem to be a way to play her music thru the car's speakers. Her contacts come thru just fine, just not her music.
Anyone have an Idea of what I could be missing?
Probably not the right answer, but worth a shot. A few weeks after getting the car and everything working fine, one day the car wasn't displaying the phone in the media browser. I went through the setup process a couple times. Had contacts, but my phone's media wasn't showing up where it should. Turns out I accidentally erased the name of my phone, in the phone itself which caused me all kinds of confusion and connection problems for a little while. Got it sorted out, but it took a few tries because I was looking at the car for the problem, but the problem was in the phone. Make sure the phone has it's name, bluetooth is on, etc. Good luck.
Thanks Lush1. I suspect the problem is with the phone as well, but the phone name appears to be reporting to the car correctly. Unless there are better ideas from the forum here, I will try a couple of connects/disconnects to see if it finnlly works.
I'd recommend restarting the main screen by holding down both steering wheel buttons for 10 seconds. Fixed connectivity issues for me in the past.
Double check the phones software for updates. I went through a span of time where my Mustang couldn't play music through its Bluetooth anymore, until a new release of iOS fixed that. Might be the same thing at work here.
I am having this issue as well with my iPhone5. I have done 0 troubleshooting on it yet though.
I had exact issue. I called owner support:
1. Reset using thumb wheels as described above. (for me this didn't work)
2. I turned off blue tooth on my phone turned it back on. After rediscovery, then all worked fine. Happened last week, and has not reoccurred...yet.
I can't say if I had reset blue tooth on my phone first, if that would have fixed it. Not sure.
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The gradient below the navigation bar can be improved.
What's the reason for the change of logo? The current one looks good.
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Thumbs up on the drop down menu.
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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Bootable Memorystick?
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Date: 08/30/04
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To: email@example.com Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:14:06 -0400
Agree with your answer - in fact, I've successfully booted the Live
Knoppix version from a 1GB USB stick. Took some configuring, but runs
beautifully once done.
If you can get it to work, or worried it might, it has EVERYTHING to
do with a security mailing list! Lets say I have physical access to a
secured machine. I can't crack the password, nor can I hack into a
user account, etc. No worries, I just pop in my memory and stick and
pull the power plug. Turn the system back, boot to the memory stick,
and voila! I can now navigate the file system and copy anything I want
to save. (This includes the SAM accounts from a Windows box for later
cracking.) I've even enabled full NTFS write support, as I currently
use it for virus repair and troubleshooting.
Plus, all my activity is completely undetectable, minus the computer
being off or not logged in. These things happen frequently in larger
environments... power surge for example. Also, many server systems are
left in a logged-out state for security reasons, so it's possible it
would never be detected, besides some server downtime.
A problem also arises by these memory sticks with the "Autorun"
feature enabled in Windows. Plug in a stick with a specially crafted
autorun and you can copy files without even touching the keyboard or
mouse. (I've seen a successfully written autorun copy the My Documents
folder of the currently logged in user, the SAM accounts from the
machine, and the IE favorites from the currently logged in user.) All
just by plugging in the USB Stick. There are more possibilities as
well, as imagination is the limit. Not going to say more as it's not
good to give up all my secrets just yet. ;)
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:32:38 +0200, Thorsten Peter
<firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> why shouldnt you be able to boot to a memory stick?
> almost every vendor lists "bootable" as a feature of their
> sticks.....you simply need a board that is able to boot from USB
> device....that's it.
> regards
> Thorsten
> but i don't get what this question got to do with security mailing lists ;-)
> Samuel wrote:
> >Has anyone already, or does anyone think it would be possible to boot to a memory-stick instead of a floppy? Ofcourse you would have to have an 8-in-1 card reader first, but once you have one of those, each card comes up as another drive, so seemingly you could boot to one of those drives.
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After spending twelve of the last twenty years working at the Department of Labor, it is an honor and privilege to serve as the acting secretary of labor. The Labor Department's work to fulfill the goal of Good Jobs for Everyone remains, as ever, in progress. Millions of people depend on the Labor Department to ensure compliance with employment laws; to process claims and distribute benefit check;, to provide grants for job training and placement services; to protect and strengthen pension and health care plans; to produce accurate and timely employment and price statistics; and to make sure employers keep workplaces safe, healthy and free of discrimination.
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I am getting tired of hearing that San Angelo won't continue to grow because there isn't an interstate highway.
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I lived in Fort Worth for 52 years and with all its growth and that horrible traffic, I know that San Angelo is the place to live.
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Re: Petition CBS to fix the problems with TNG:S2 Blu.
Star Grinch wrote:
I dunno, I'm the guy who sees no point in buying the BluRay sets that are just slightly better than my current DVD sets. My Trek experience really isn't going to be enhanced by being able to see their zippers better or slightly beefed up graphics. The cut scenes/outtakes and other extras are interesting, but will end up on youtube anyways.
And as mentioned, I'm sure there will be another edition some years down the road anyways. Lucas seems to have known what he was doing in re-releasing it every 10 years or so with new editing to generate sales.
It's odd that you bring up Lucas when what he did with the original
Star Wars
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
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And belittling the quite significant audio/visual improvements found on the TNG Blu-rays in order to justify not buying them is silly and unnecessary. No one here is going to hold it against you if you acknowledged the great improvements the Blu-rays offer yet simply said that your money would be better spent on other more important things right now.
Or in regard to this petition, to simply say, "No thanks, I don't even own a blu-ray player."
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With National Flag Day swiftly approaching, The Bare Square celebrates the day dedicated to America's patriotic symbol by highlighting some artists that have shared their red, white, and blue pride!
Nearly seven decades ago, abstract expressionist artist, Jasper Johns, earned notoriety for his several depictions of the American flag.
Johns created the large, monochrome "White Flag", a color version entitled "Flag", and concluded his flag series with "Three Flags", in which he superimposed three canvases of the American flag onto one another.
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nAscent artist, Gavin Sewell, also created bold and brilliant renditions of our American flag, drawing inspiration from Johns, as well.
Sewell's 2010 "Old Glory" contains collaged images of the history of America, portraying a symbolic timeline within the iconic stars and stripes.
His latest work, "America Electric", expresses the American flag through another variety of collaged images, lending a potent, abstract feel.
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When exicuting the "HIDECONTROLS" command on the mappoint screen the mouse disapears perminately the "SHOWCONTROLS" command will not even bring it back. Anyone know of a way to work around this? The only way I have found to get it back is exit RR or go to video and hide the controls there then show them and presto a mouse. I know most people don't use the mouse anyway but there a few that do and it really helps in testing.
Bump! Any ideas fellas.... guino??... someone??
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW)-- Officials from Emporia have a person of interest in an Emporia shooting.
Police officials say that Gabino Ruiz-Ascencio, 25 is the person of interest in the shooting of Michael Koy, 22 and Adrian Peralta, 25.
The shooting happened around 4:40 a-m Saturday at 619 Washington Street in Emporia. Officers found Koy shot in the right upper leg and Peralta shot twice in the torso.
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I would like to invite everyone in the Kansas City area to consider donating all or part of the tax rebates that the government is giving away to support the zoo and Liberty Memorial.
Think of it. Our leaders in D.C. want to stimulate the economy by giving away money. It's happening when our states and cities are forced to cut jobs and services to make ends meet.
There's a howl when the mayor wants to reduce or cut funding for "nonessential" subsidies. Instead of whining that the city needs to keep the zoo and the memorial viable, let's support them ourselves.
I pledge to give my rebate to the zoo and Liberty Memorial and to make annual contributions. Who'll join me?
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Be Prepared for Regulatory Changes in 2012Several important policy and regulatory initiatives are set to expire and be established (respectively) as early as January 2012. 12/30/2011 12:21 PM Eastern
Be Prepared for Regulatory Changes in 2012
Dec 30, 2011 5:21 PM
Several important policy and regulatory initiatives are set to expire and be established (respectively) as early as January 2012. These issues affect your entire company, from the business owner to the technicians to the administrative assistant. With fines as high as $50,000 for non-compliant companies, it is important to understand the changes, deadlines, and how you can protect your organization and employees.
January 2012:
- Payroll Tax (also known as the FICA line on your paystub):
An estimated 160 million Americans will see less money in their paychecks if a proposed payroll tax extension and expansion is not passed before December 31. The concern is how this tax cut (currently at 4.2 percent and proposed to decrease to a 3.1 percent employee contribution) will be funded.
Additionally, the proposal allows the employer contribution to be cut from 6.2 percent down to 3.1 percent as well. Currently, there is enough federal revenue to offset the costs, but the concern is that funding this would mean the government would have to dip into the Social Security trust fund. This creates more of a long-term problem and shifts the focus on to what the bigger issues are—the desire to increase taxes on the wealthy and the demand to cut spending.
- Notification of Employee Rights:
The National Labor Relations Board issued a final rule, effective Jan. 31, 2012, requiring most private-sector employers to notify employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act by posting a notice. Similar postings of workplace rights are required under other federal workplace laws. The 11"x17" notice is similar in content and design to a notice of NLRA rights that must be posted by federal contractors under a Department of Labor rule.
The notice of rights will be provided at no charge by NLRB regional offices or can be downloaded from its website and printed in color or black-and-white. Translated versions will be available and must be posted at workplaces where at least 20 percent of employees are not proficient in English.
Employers must also post the notice on an Intranet or Internet site if personnel rules and policies are customarily posted there. Failure to post the notice may be treated as an unfair labor practice under the National Labor Relations Act, but it is important to note the NLRB cannot fine a business. To print the posting or read more about the rule, visit www.nlrb.gov.
March 2012:
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Wakulla County, FL - The special election referendum votes have been finalized.
The official results:
YES- 1,083 votes (50.39%)
NO- 1,066 votes (49.60%)
This means an additional half a million dollars in property taxes will be collected from taxpayers to help fund the school system's operational costs in Wakulla County.
The new millage will go into effect July first.
May 15, 2013
Wakulla County, FL - The Wakulla County Supervisor of Elections office hopes to have the results finalized by 5 p.m.
By: Elizabeth Nickerson
May 14, 2013 9:45 p.m.
Unofficial results are in for the special election to levy an ad valorem millage of one half mill to help pay for the school system's operational costs in Wakulla County:
According to Supervisor of Elections Buddy Wells, there are still 15 military votes unaccounted for, and it will take ten days to process the official results.
WCTV will post the official results for the election as soon as they are available.
By: Elizabeth Nickerson
May 14, 2013
Crawfordville, FL - Education is key to a strong community, according to Robert Pearce, the Wakulla Superintendent. Unfortunately, more than a hundred students in the Wakulla School District left causing lack of funds for education.
"80 percent of our budget comes from student enrollment," said Robert Pearce, the Wakulla Superintendent. "The loss of those 102 that is about 600,000 roughly that we are going to lose in our budget this year."
The Wakulla School System is calling on the voters to make up the difference and some call the decision a 'no-brainer'.
"We need this money to keep Wakulla County number one in education," said Cristi Ropp, a Crawfordville Resident.
To make up for the shortfall, the school system needs $500,000 from the tax payers, which will cost less than $2 for each student in a 4 year period. The rest will come out of the Wakulla School System savings.
"In order to maintain this loss of funding we have to have an extra half mill tax and that is what today is all about getting that tax," said Allen Harvey, a Crawfordville Resident.
If it passes it will go into effect July first.
Wakulla County, FL - Wakulla residents headed to the polls today to vote on a special election referendum.
Voters will decide whether to levy an ad valorem millage of one half mill to help pay for the school system's operational costs.
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The Dark is Rising Sept 28thMeh
FOX has let it be known that the last of the immortals will be battling it out on the big screen on Sept 28th. The first film adaptation of Susan Cooper's acclaimed The Dark Is Rising Sequence tells the story of Will Stanton, a boy whose everyday life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of the "Old Ones," a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the Dark.
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A major rescue operation in Texas removes more than 300 animals (from puppies to mountain lions) and finds them homes.
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That Gnawing Feeling
A young girl brings home a pregnant pet rat from school and sets in motion a chain of events that would eventually lead to the rescue of 2,000 rodents from a home in California.
May 1, 2011
Coffee Break: When the Public Came Through for Your Organization
In your space, you tell us about times when your community stepped up to support your organization when it faced adversity: pet food shortages, budget cuts, major fires, even hurricanes.
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People Power: Staying Centered in San Jose
Find out how Jon Cicirelli of San Jose Animal Care & Services keeps his cool, stays focused, and makes a positive difference for the animals in his community???even on rough days.
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Initially created to serve street people and their four-legged companions, the Portland Animal Welfare (PAW) Team now provides veterinary care to nearly 150 animals at its monthly clinic.
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As wounded soldiers return from Iraq and Afghanistan, military and veterans' hospitals around the country are increasingly using a variety of canine-assisted therapies to heal their scars.
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With a little help from its friends, the Sacramento SPCA took in and cared for more than 150 animals from an overcrowded home.
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Whether they work in a truly volunteer-positive environment or one that's still struggling to make the employee/volunteer gears mesh effectively, it's vital that volunteer coordinators be honest with prospective volunteers about what to expect.
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Personal Essay
Heroes & Mud
By Bill Dorris
Heroes & Mud
Billy Collins' story about Philip Levine growing up in LA as the son of a wealthy orthodontist
has never made any sense to me (cf., (My Grandfather's Tackle Box:,*) 2001, p90). If it was true, then presumably
John Ashbery or Frank O'Hara or maybe Emily Dickinson could have written What Work Is (Levine, 2001). Despite Stephen
Spender's claim that "there are very few situations in life which a poet should not be able to imagine" (The Making of
a Poem, 1952, p122), there are limits to what any poet can write. I'm not talking passable poetry, written as exercise
or for someone's else's purpose. I'm talking poetry that is you, has your vision and identity, your, to borrow from
BC again, "memory and imagination", and 20 rewrites written all over it. That poetry is limited – marvelously and uniquely
– for each of us by the genes & jeans we grew up in, by the worlds in which each of us grew and lived in and
through, and those in which we continue to. That's why we know an Emily D. or John A. or P. Levine poem when we see one.
Of course, Billy Collins' account of Philip Levine's wealthy orthodontist father wasn't about
this aspect of poetry, i.e., the genetic and developmental limits to writing. It was about something much more problematic
for each of us as poets, not to mention, I suspect, for society itself.
It was about the powerful, almost compelling, tendency for his students – and by implication,
all of us – to identify personally with our favorite poets, to identify with them as vital living evidence of the truth
and justice of our own core values and beliefs (not to mention those of our close network of friends and acquaintance, that
little invisible college of peers and poetic allies we all have).
It's a tendency to identify with this or that poet, this or that John A. or Emily D. or P. Levine
who produced those essential epic works of art, to identify personally with this person, this person's life, as a statement
about how things really are (or should be), about truth and justice (and hence, injustice) – and thus in our own
discussions and reading, critical arguments and gossip, to perpetuate our own version (shared with friends and allies) of
how it is that such special, talented, creative persons eventually – through determination, struggle and courage –
rise to the top and create such works of poetic genius.
All this, despite the massive obstacles and hindrances placed in the way of our heroic poets –
a bit like what each of us would eventually achieve if there was any justice in this world.
Like I said, a dangerous game, this identifying with poets as heroes, icons, idols . . . with
particular poets, the Emily or John or Phil . . . who are really . . . well
. . . let's face it . . . give or take . . . you and me.
A dangerous game setting ourselves up for making it, like our idols did, then facing day after
day, year after year, the reality of it never happening.
Is there a way out? One that leaves us with the poems, if not the poets, or at least not our
mythical birdcage images of them.
I think so.
First off, let's take a look at the odds of any writer, no matter how talented or potentially
talented, making it to the top. Psychologists who study these things (greatness, eminence, genius etc) – from Terman
and Catherine Cox on – figure you've got to be in the top 2-5% in intelligence to have a shot at greatness, i.e., somewhere
between 1/50 and 1/20 of us has a shot at it, which, come to think of it, ain't bad odds. Well 'cept when you figure in a
few historical details. Take Irish writers, for example, out of a potential of about 240,000 (2% of Irish population) to
600,000 (5%) great Irish writers over the last 100 years, what have we produced? Yeats, Shaw, Joyce, Beckett, Heaney and
maybe 1 or 2 others.
And how did this tiny handful make it to the top? More to the point, what's your best bet re
becoming a 'great' writer?
You probably know already. First off, get yourself born into the right kind of family, not just
one that gives you that top 2-5% genetic boost for starters – there's millions of those around – but equally and
much tougher to come by, one that has right history, connections, values/expectations. What Robert Albert termed "eminence
producing families" (1983). You know, the ones that are already well sorted into the proper social/cultural economic milieu,
and then go full hog for it, for making the contacts, the links; the ones who know where to look and know what it takes to
get there, that organize themselves round putting in the hours, cash, sweat it takes to get junior geared up for say, Harvard,
or Oxford, or maybe the Dallas Cowboys; the ones that'll give you a fair shot of getting matched up with the right kind
of challenges for years, at least as far as intellectual development goes. 'Course that doesn't guarantee a whole lot,
not when you consider where, e.g., Elvis, Hitchcock, Newton, Haydn, Renoir, or for that matter, Thomas Hardy and Ray Carver
came from. Still, we're talking odds, upping the odds.
Unfortunately, that still leaves you with those other developmental concerns which are equally
essential, the ones related to personality and self. You remember Balzac's depressions, Ibsen's obsessions, Hemingway's little
trips to the Mayo Clinic. Dean Keith Simonton in his classic work, Greatness, concludes that writers are "liable to
emotional problems", and that "among eminent poets . . . pathological symptoms" show up in "almost half" of them. One such
listing of historic greats suspected of mental illnesses includes Baudelaire, Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Cowper, Dickinson,
Eliot, Frost, Garcia Lorca, Ginsberg, Lowell, Plath, Poe, Pound, Rimbaud, Roethke, Sexton, Shelley, and Tennyson. (1994,
How you gonna pull that off? Not only do you need a bit of genetic bias to get you leaning in
the right direction, you also need one of those specially dedicated families, one that will keep you focused, on target, fully
geared up for your particular affliction. A family that will provide the child, as Jay Haley puts it, "like any artist, several
hours a day of practice over many years." (The Power Tactics,† 1971, p151) And what type of family might this
be? Haley, one of the early giants of family systems therapy, gives us a thumbnail of one such constellation:
"The type of family one must come from to become schizophrenic has
been extensively described in the professional journals. One can
summarize these scientific reports by saying that as individuals the
members are unrecognizable on the street, but bring them together
the outstanding feature is immediately apparent – a kind of
bizarre despair overlaid with a veneer of glossy hope and good intentions
concealing a power-struggle-to-the-death coated with a quality of
continual confusion." (p148-9)
And the child's role in this formless veneer of a glossy power struggle to despair?
"to hold the family together" through a "lifetime balancing conflicting
triangles" by learning to "communicate in a way that satisfies everyone
saying one thing and disqualifying it with a conflicting statement
and then
indicating that he didn't mean any of it anyhow." (p152)
How 'bout: "My parents and I are involved in the eternal triangle" (p152), or perhaps arriving
with mother and stepfather at the psychiatrist's office and opening with, "Mother had to get married and now I'm here." (p156)
Ok, not exactly Ashbery but still not bad for 16.
Countless other variations of family constellation are of course possible, each providing its
own developmental opportunities for the future creator; e.g., for a Collins, Smart, Cowper or Blake, the four great English
poets of the eighteenth century, who, as Housman put it, shared but one thing in common: "They were mad;" (1952, p86)‡
or as Simonton would phrase it more circumspectly, great creators "are always hovering at the brink of madness" with "just
the right amount of weirdness," (Greatness, p294) i.e., they're just mad enough.
Still, like I said, what's the odds of getting just the right combo of genes & jeans to pull that
off? Not to mention getting it all matched up with one of Albert's eminence-producing families, you remember, the ones pushing
piano lessons, math crams, sports camps . . .
And beyond this you've still got 20+ years of luck to deal with. Yes, luck. Those handy little
chance events happening in your personal and interpersonal worlds, or maybe in the larger institutional and informal community
worlds around them, or maybe even in the distant, almost invisible-but-ever-present societal, economic, and cultural worlds
surrounding all of them – those chance events which may or may not show up just when you need them to get/keep you on
course, to give you access to those essential challenges and resources, to that wee jump on the competition.
You know— those lottery jackpots like six-year-old Einstein picked up when uncle Jacob
moved in with his "merry little science" of algebra; like Norma Jeane/Marilyn picked up when she was "dropped off" at the
Bolenders for the first 7+ years of her life; like Woody Guthrie got when that oil boom hit Okemah just as his "intellectual
curiosity," his desire "to know," to "take part in parental roles" were all skyrocketing. Like Hitchcock got when World War
I handed him free access to a university education; like Elvis and Dali and Van Gogh got with the death of a brother; like,
eg, Ariosto, Basho, Baudelaire, Byron, Cowper, Dante, Frost, Keats, Neruda, Poe, and Wordsworth got with the early death
of a parent. Like 23-year-old Allen Ginsberg got when he ended up in the Columbia Presbyterian Psychiatric for that handy
little 8-month workshop with Kirilov in the summer of '49 (cf., Dorris4, 2007, Simonton5, 1994, p154).
And beyond this, what's the odds the culture, the nation, or even your field is gonna be hungry,
roaring, barking just as you happen along, all honed up for action
. . . like they were when, say, Beethoven, Darwin, Newton, Einstein, and Elvis – or for that matter, Eliot , Ginsberg,
and Plath – did?
Think about it, what's the odds of you getting the right kind of family on all counts, followed
by all those match-ups with the right kind of challenges / resources over and over and over those 20+ years of development,
then ending up in the right time and place to have a shot at a key problem of your generation?
Well, take something simpler, much simpler. Take billiards. What's the odds of shooting a 9 ball
break, say, six times in a row? In tournaments in the States, the 9 goes in 'bout once every 35 breaks. So let's say
we're talking the likes of the US Open, the World 9-Ball . . . just the very best players, and drop those odds to 1 in 30
for getting a single 9 ball break. And 6 in a row? 30x30x30x . . . that comes in at about 1 in 730,000,000. The likes of Willie
Mosconi and Frank Ives never even came close. And it wasn't as though they weren't trying. So given you've got the genetic
goods to start with, I'd say the odds of getting that 20+ years of the right kind of developmental challenges repeatedly,
then ending up in just the right time and place to have a shot at the big one . . . well, they're definitely better than 1
in 730 million. I mean, Elvis and Einstein and Eliot pulled it off. So it's definitely possible. Only hitch is, of course,
that doesn't leave a whole lotta room for the likes of genius, struggle, and courage.
You know, the stuff heroes are made of.
So I say forget it – forget idols, heroes, genius, struggle, courage. Don't yoke
yourself with that nonsense. Whatever our individual talents, potentials, struggles, determination and courage, the vast
vast vast majority of those of us who, in Spender's words, "need to write" aren't gonna end up as English professors at Wellesley
or Berkeley, or for that matter, delivering babies in Paterson all week then heading up to the City for weekends with Duchamp,
Stevens, and Moore. Most of us, as writers, are going to spend much of our time in Spender's "mud" (1952, p125), and not
just those few years slumming it as long haul tuckers and UPS sorters between university and that first post- MFA position
in the dean's office at Georgia Tech.
And that's ok. These days, especially with the internet, even for Starbucks poets, there's plenty
of "variable feet" to be had and published. The trick is just finding and keeping a room of your own in the mud. A bit of
space to read, listen, watch, jot down a few lines as you roam and ramble and follow your footsteps round Paterson or London
or whatever kind of mud may become your sparkling sands, your diamond deserts. Ok, that won't set you up to write Howl
or The Waste Land or For The Union Dead, but it'll sure as hell give you a fair shot at topping the likes of
Ode to Sunset, or A Dedication to my Wife, or Father's Bedroom.
And who knows, keep at it, and you may even happen into one or two of Woody's Bonneville rushes:
"I pulled on my shoes and walked out of every one of those Pacific
Northwest mountain towns drawing pictures in my mind and listening
poems and songs and words faster to come and dance in my ears than
could ever get them wrote down." (Yurchenco, 1970, p108)
The kind of rushes where the mud throws up just the sort of sand your own particular ways of seeing
and hearing and feeling, your years of fiddling the ink and keys, have been waiting for, where the mud throws up just the
perfect sand for you to turn to pearls.
And who knows, somewhere along the line maybe you or I or some other poet will happen into one
of those little 8-month workshops at Columbia Presbyterian, say, in "existential politics and literature" (or whatever happens
to match up perfectly with your particular developmental needs at the time) – the kind that'll turn your mind around
and provide the 'metaphor' for your own "great poem," not to mention a fair whack of the content, as well (see, e.g.,
Gornick, 2006, p5; also Miles, 1990, p116+, re the origins of Howl).
Or maybe if you get your timing just right, you might end up in London, "ever marginal" and "uncertain
as to who or what you wish to become" (Gardner, 1993, p238), toting a Harvard philosophy Ph.D., with all the "expectations
of your Puritan ancestors", and the literary ambitions of your failed poet mother (p229) – and in the course of 7, 8
years, compile your own fair stack of poetic "fragments"(p241), speaking in a "welter of voices reflecting the consciousness
of actors and objects drawn from the broadest sweep of time and space." (p242)
Like I said, given proper timing, and an editorial team or two - say Ezra and Viv - to turn your
"bloated" manuscript – with "too much indecisiveness, repetitiveness, and monotony: too many voices and too little sense
of overall direction, control and locale" (p242) – into a powerful poem half that length. Who knows, you might even
find that your own personal "depressed, impotent, marginal" (p246) wasteland happens to "fit exactly (with) the feelings of
(an entire) population at the end of long and largely fruitless war" (p247) – the sort of happenstance that could stitch
you up in Stockholm some frosty night in December, buried in yet another heroic struggle for the mythology of individualism.
How'd Eliot put it?
"The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done
anything after he got it." (cf, Simonton pp57-8)
Still, I suppose it could be worse. I mean, imagine ending up on your death bed with English
Girl Guides reciting your legacy up and down the country, from Hartlepool to Penzance:
"This Be The Verse
They fuck you up, your mum and dad . . ."
So if you "need to write," write; but don't let any mythical nonsense about heroic genius,
struggle, and courage "fuck you up." Just find a bit of a room of your own in whatever mud you're stuck in – whatever
bit you can get a hold of long and well enough to suit your own particular flux of language, music, passion, self. Who knows
– some Sunday morning, Billy C. himself might just come cruising by, flipping through online journals, and ffaoooooop,
outta nowhere, get "lifted off the ground" by one of your very own "Sensational Nightingales."6 (Collins, 1995,
And as for becoming the next Yeats or Heaney or Emily D. or Sylvia P. or William Carlos Williams
or Eliot or Ginsberg or Ashbery or Phil Levine . . . hey, figure it this way:
What if elvis
had gotten that bicycle
or ali
hadn't lost his
or little billy gates
had ended up
over those dinner plates
more often
or billie's pop
hadn't popped the question just
as she turned three
or wolferl
hadn't found that little clavier
and nannerl
and master andres dancing
tweedlee dee
slicing up that butter fiddle
or uncle jacob
hadn't shown up carting
his merry little science
and marcel grossmann's old man
hadn't been friends with
who'd never let a few
technicalities stand in
i mean a friend
of a friend
especially one
with his little dollie
up the cooker7
and what if bullet bob
had been available say
on a free transfer
or charles
hadn't gone and lost his head
in london
or fidel hadn't glanced up
or the hurricanes had just taken
that job in hamburg
i mean what if you and me
had never heard of
or charlie parker
or johann sebastian
or even marilyn
not to mention
tiny tina
—By Bill Dorris
This essay is related to years of Bill Dorris' research and writing on the topic of "How the Great Become Great." If you'd
like to pursue any of the ideas/issues raised here in further detail, visit his current website which contains a third of his 2004 manuscript, The Arrival of the Fittest: How The Great Become Great, plus other
Copr. 2005-2014 The Centrifugal Eye - Collected Works. All Rights Reserved.


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British band Delays made their name in 2004, when they released their debut album 'Faded Seaside Glamour' on Rough Trade Records. It was a Top 20 album, and became one of the most critically acclaimed of that year. "First band in a decade to lay serious claim to the Stone Roses throne" (The Guardian), "Heavenly pop glory" (Q). Their second album 'You See Colours' (2006) entered the charts at number 24, sealing the bands notoriety as one of the most important new guitar bands in Britain, "shimmering pop perfection" (Q), "Delays soar above." (NME), "You won't hear a better album all year" (The Sun). In 2008 Delays released 'Everything's The Rush' through Fiction Records. The making of this record changed the way they felt about music and became the reason they parted with Fiction Records to write their fourth album.
With the independent wind in their sails Delays immediately started writing 'Star Tiger, Star Ariel' in their hometown of Southampton. Inspired by the fear and excitement of independence, late nights in the New Forest and playing whilst the sun went down at the docks, this album truely reflects the band's depth, ambition and integrity.
The Gilbert brothers Greg and Aaron alongside Colin Fox (bass guitar) and Rowly on drums, recorded the album at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth (Queen, Stone Roses) with Duncan Lewis who produced their first hit album.
Greg says "The first album sounded like the sun, the second album like a club, ETR was a festival, and this sounds like roots beneath the city shaking the buildings at night. This record is about being lost, and the dream of being found. It is our best record, and it tells the story of what we have been through."
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