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The event was held Saturday at Etnies Skatepark and was put on by the city's recreation department as a way to provide a safe and fun outlet for teens. Several popular South County bands drew raves from those who attended. More than 100 people attended. The event raised money for other teen programming in the city such as the afterschool Teen Lounge and for SWAG, which stands for Students Working and Advising for Government.
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The bands that played included varying styles from pop and mainstream played by The Dreams from Mission Viejo, alternative and punk by Spider Island from Lake Forest, progressive rock from South County's Consensus, reggae from South County's Low Budget and post-modern metal by Chaplin.
"We really focused on getting popular teen bands," said Craig Harris, a senior recreation coordinator with the city. "It was fantastic, they really rocked the show."
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Man Wilson Chandler has the potential to be way better than David Lee in a few years. IMO Lee isn't a franchise player type. He's a solid contributing role player to a championship team type.
Chandler has potential written all over him, Lee can be effective even as a starter but as a rebounding guy that can score from time to time. Not a franchise player, that's pushing it. We can see Chandler is strong in every aspect of the game, and his defense makes you actually drool at what kind of player this guy can be....like Shawn marion or Josh SMith perhaps come into mind.
marbury still the franchise player, he's still the most talented player on da knicks and the one gettin paid the big bucks
Whoever wrote that article never watched a Knick game. Lee is a fan favorite and hustles and rebounds. That doesn't make him anything but a solid role player and possible starter, not a franchise player. I never thought I'd say this but this person makes Lee overrated. If anything our upcoming star is Wilson Chandler and no one even knows if he can become a "franchise player." You look at every other team? Joe Johnson, Dwayne Wade, Lebron....Lee isn't even close in these class of players and leadership they have.
Franchise player? no.
Lee does remind me of a new-age Oaktree
the knicks franchise player is......there is none!!
no seriously Lee is a good bet but i put my money on Wilson Chandler the guys game is crazy good just watch him develop...i can smell Superstar!!
if lee is your franchise player, you have a pretty ****ty franchise...
Obviously! If any of the major contenders could select a Knicks player for free I dare say the vast majority would go for Lee. He`s blue collar, smart, selfless and determined. Please don`t trade him!
However, get rid of Marbury quick as Usain Bolt on ice in a hurry.
Put some nitrous in that jet engine and fire him off to Italy. All aspirations any team ever had with him on their roster have been a failure. Especially the aspirations that arrived with him here at my beloved Knicks franchise.
It was doomed from the start.
He`s clearly unintelligent.
Obviously disloyal.
Swimming in unjust self adoration.
An expensive tumor.
Please New York! Ridding us of Marbury is the initial step in building toward something far greater that could never be achieved with him on the team.
Go Knicks 08/09.
Best of luck. Let`s go Fat Eddy 34, bring it back this year! Go JC11, Nate, Lee, Gallinari, Chandler and for god`S sake ZBo turn it up.
Glory shall reign in the Garden once again!
welcome to the forum, but i have to say....
team starburains re-unit!!
Stephon Marbury is the franchise player. David Lee is a role player.
its chandler, he will be the franchise player just like danny granger has become the one in indiana
marbury is not hungry anymore. trust me i know his family and friends. he feel happy just to make it out the hood. he feels he won in the game of life already.. just like isiah
lee is a very good role player. and will always be one


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A. What are the expectations for the outcome of Rio+20, and what are the concrete proposals in this regard, including views on a possible structure of the Outcome document?
In terms of outcomes of Rio+20, the One Earth Initiative Society expects to see:
- Renewed Political commitment at the highest political level to move to sustainable development and to adopt sustainable consumption and production patterns.
- A bold vision of ?a future we want? that is attractive, inspiring and a source of hope for humanity.
- An Outcome document that includes, or is accompanied by, a green economy roadmap.
- A Ten‐Year Framework of Programmes in support of regional and national SCP
- A new, enhanced, comprehensive and more inclusive process for the UN to engage with civil society that addresses the current limitations, weaknesses and exclusionary nature of the 9 Major Group system.
Regarding a possible structure of the Outcome document, we suggest that it be short, and should include the following key elements:
- An introduction that recognizes the gravity of the situation faced by humanity and the urgent need for a ?great transition? to sustainability.
- A set of strong values and guiding principles drawn from, for example, the Earth
Charter, and that include:
The need for reciprocity, cooperation and sharing;
The need to achieve absolute reductions in material and energy throughput at the global scale;
Recognition that at the global scale, more growth on a finite planet already in a state of ecological overshoot is anathema to sustainable development.
Embracing sufficiency as an organizing principle;
A reemphasis on Principle #10 of the Rio Declaration on access to information, transparency, public participation and access to justice; and
An approach to global sustainability built around ?contraction and convergence? (decreased per‐capita Ecological Footprints in the rich, industrialized countries, and higher rates of consumption in the low‐income countries).
- Sustainable development goals, similar to the Millennium Development Goals, with global targets and timetables.
- A non‐negotiated appendix of countries? own commitments to sustainable development and provisions for monitoring, compliance and reporting.
B. What are the comments, if any, on existing proposals: e.g., a green economy roadmap, framework for action, sustainable development goals, a revitalized global partnership for sustainable development, or others?
- A green economy roadmap needs to include specific goals and a timeframe with short‐, medium‐ and long‐term targets to help guide action.
- It also needs to include indicators and a mechanism for monitoring and reporting.
- It needs to be clear on the barriers that are preventing the world from moving to sustainability despite the warnings of science that this is more urgent than ever (see C., below, for examples).
- It needs to feature a list of policy instruments that can guide countries? options on affecting change around production and consumption systems (see below, for examples).
- Countries should be encouraged to ?think out of the box? and prototype new ways of organizing their economy and of carrying out projects that contribute to sustainable patterns of consumption and production.
- Listed below are potential policy instruments to be considered by UN‐member States and other stakeholders; they are organized in order of decreasing coerciveness, from the ?hard? policy instruments that include laws and regulations as well as ?carrots and sticks? (rewards/penalties), to ?soft? policy instruments, which include voluntary, non‐binding recommendations and guidelines, education (formal and informal), information sharing, and organizational structure:
Regulatory instruments ? Norms and standards, bans, caps and emission limits, building codes, etc.
Economic instruments ? Fiscal, or market‐based instruments (subsidies,
taxes, user fees, green public procurement, bonus systems, emissions trading, etc.), investments in infrastructure that support sustainable consumption and production
Participatory instruments ? Urban planning, public dialogues, policy discussions, participatory budgets, etc.
Voluntary instruments ? Unilateral commitments, negotiated agreements, voluntary setting of targets, voluntary certification schemes, etc.
Informational instruments ? Ecolabels, information centres, websites, demonstration projects, etc.
Educational instruments ? Training, integration of whole‐systems thinking in formal and informal education, research, etc.
Organizational/institutional arrangements ? Cooperation schemes, public‐ private partnerships, agreements between different levels of government, etc.
C. What are the views on implementation and on how to close the implementation gap, which relevant actors are envisaged as being involved (Governments, specific Major Groups, UN system, IFIs, etc.)?
- The conventional, incremental‐change approach to sustainability is failing to make sufficient progress in reversing the worsening social and ecological trends, and new models, mindsets and metrics are required to guide action for systemic and transformative change.
- Systems thinking needs to form the basis of action plans, roadmaps and frameworks for action to avoid fragmented thought, jumping to conclusions, short‐sighted decision making and the ?problem‐solving treadmill?, which have hampered significant progress towards sustainable development at the global scale thus far.
- There needs to be a recognition of the barriers that prevent the urgent transition to a socially just and ecologically sustainable world; these include:
Fragmentation of sustainability initiatives at all scales
Inertia in the system (including of habits as well as social and cultural norms;
in infrastructure and technologies; etc.)
Paralysis in front of tremendous complexity
Need for political leadership
Skewed markets resulting from misplaced subsidies, the externalization of costs , short‐term profit seeking, a non‐level playing field and entrenched interests
Misunderstandings around the seriousness of issues
Unpopularity of proposed measures and policy solutions
Influence of powerful interest lobbies
Inability to effectively apply a systems perspective to problem solving
Too much emphasis on efficiency as a means to reduce material and energy throughput when historically, lower prices brought about by gains in technology and efficiency have led to overall increases and bigger footprints when an overall cap on resource use is not established
- Implementation needs to focus on being scientifically relevant (i.e. leading to absolute reductions in resource use and negative ecological impacts at the global scale; reigning in climate change; etc.).
- Examples of specific, high‐leverage policies to be implemented for a green economy:
Instituting a socially fair carbon tax or equitable cap‐and‐trade system
Phasing out of subsidies and investments for unsustainable, inhumane systems
Freeing up the length of the working day, week and year to reflect a work‐life balance that promotes well‐being
Reforming our banking system in support of a larger diversity of community‐
based savings, lending and investment
Putting a stop to urban sprawl through increased densification in existing urban centres
Discouraging car use, especially in urban areas, and investing heavily in efficient and comfortable public transportation options and self‐propelled infrastructure (i.e. car‐free spaces)
Retrofitting existing buildings to a minimum of PassivHaus norms
Implementing choice editing to remove unsustainable options from the market place by industry and government
Maximizing public purchases through green and fair‐trade procurement
Reforming the World Trade Organization so that it serves to promote fair trade
- Diverse actors have specific roles, tools and approaches that they bring to bear on addressing the consumption and production system. The World Business Council developed a useful characterization of these different roles:
Role of governments and regulators
International agreements
National policies, laws and regulations
Fiscal structures and incentives
Guidance for businesses and consumers
Role of businesses
Economic development
Legal compliance
Ethical practices
Sustainable sourcing, production and distribution
Eco‐efficiency and waste reduction
Consumer choice editing
Consumer choice influencing
Role of civil society (NGOs)
Independent assessment
High profile public campaigns
Critique or endorsement
Thought leadership
Choice influencing
Role of consumers
Purchasing decisions
Lifestyle choices
Political support
Peer‐to‐peer influencing
‐ No single actor can achieve broad, systemic change alone, and cooperation and dialogue is mutually beneficial and needs to be encouraged.
D. What specific cooperation mechanisms, partnership arrangements or other implementation tools are envisaged and what is the relevant time frame for the proposed decisions to be reached and actions to be implemented?
- Multistakeholder cooperation could be organized around a 10‐Year Framework of Programmes (10YFP) in support of regional and national initiatives on sustainable consumption and production. Although the ideas for this framework were successfully negotiated and agreed at the 19th Session of CSD, they have yet to be implemented. The UN Conference on Sustainable Development has a timely opportunity to adopt this 10YFP as one of the positive constructive institutional outcomes for moving the sustainable development agenda forward.
- Rio+20 should open a new discussion track on improving the model, process and effective engagement of civil society in sustainable development policymaking and decisions. The Outcome document can include commitment to review current and new models of civil society participation and to design a new, more inclusive and effective participation structure for civil society organizatons (CSOs) to be meaningfully engaged in the current and future sustainable development governance framework and institutional structures, including the United Nations.


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Historically, Nicaragua has had it rough. In the natural-disaster category, it's a blue-ribbon winner: Earthquakes, hurricanes and volcanoes have taken turns ravaging this Central American country, and its politics have been equally turbulent. Recent times alone include a dynasty of torture-prone dictators toppled by socialist Sandinista insurgents who subsequently found themselves engaged in a civil war with contras bolstered by U.S. weapons sales to Iran.
On my first visit, in 1983, I was on assignment for Life magazine, accompanied by a photographer. The Sandinistas were running the country, the contra conflict was escalating, and there was a subliminal sense of danger in the capital city, Managua. Many prominent families had decamped for Miami, and those who stayed behind were warily hanging on to land, businesses and homes that the Sandinista top brass had shown an appetite for appropriating. Military service was mandatory, and the streets were filled with camouflage. I spent time with baby-faced soldiers, not much taller than their Russian-issue Kalashnikov rifles, who wore trash bags as raincoats. A young boy returning from the battlefront on the back of a horse-drawn cart made an indelible impression: The flesh of one shin was peeled back like petals on a tulip, the result of a grenade. My hotel room was pawed through; our car was tailed; story subjects, afraid their phones were bugged, pretended not to know me when I called them after an interview. Before I met with a highly placed Sandinista minister, my bags, containing all my notebooks and tapes, were confiscated. Back in his inner sanctum of an office, he propositioned me while brandishing an unsheathed sword. I spoke enough Spanish to convey politely that an affair would be unprofessional—on my part—and he was probably too amused to be insulted.
I returned to New York three weeks later, just in time for the Fourth of July, and I choked up watching the fireworks from an apartment rooftop. It was a Michelle Obama moment: For the first time, I was consciously grateful for my country. Nicaragua had made me a patriot.
Cut to a yoga class in Santa Monica, 2009. As we rolled up our mats, the teacher, Sara Ivanhoe, announced she was leading a retreat at a five-star eco-lodge on Nicaragua's Pacific coast. It didn't seem that long ago that I'd signed a form promising not to hold Time Inc. responsible if I were blown to bits or otherwise inconvenienced during my assignment there. Who goes to Nicaragua on vacation? Well, as it happens, close to a million tourists did last year, and the government hopes to raise the figures exponentially. The same PR company that reps the upscale Peninsula Hotels has been hired to promote the country as an undiscovered destination. It's "the new Costa Rica," with resorts ranging from swanky to simple, and natural wonders abound: turtle migrations, sustainable coffee plantations, rain forests chockablock with exotic birds, monkeys and flora. The position of two large freshwater lakes in the middle of the country makes the surfing spectacular. Winds from the Caribbean coast blow uninterrupted to the Pacific, creating ideal wave conditions year-round.
So I signed up for the retreat, six days at Morgan's Rock, the country's most exclusive resort. Ivanhoe worked out the itinerary with Nicaragua-based Adrienne Ward, an ex–New Yorker and the founder of BigWorld-SmallPlanet, a business that arranges Central American yoga retreats. We'd have two yoga classes a day, unlimited hammock swaying, no TVs or newspapers and various cultural sightseeing ops. I'd recently been let go from my magazine job—one of thousands of journalists pink-slipped that year—and it was time to figure out the next step. If Nicaragua could repurpose itself as a high-end tourist destination, surely I could conjure a second act, too.
Ours turned out to be a small group—eight women—and we straggled into the country piecemeal, making the bumpy three-hour van trip from Managua airport to Morgan's Rock in clumps of twos and threes. Set within 4,500 acres of a reforestation project, the grounds of the beachfront resort are stunning. Using hardwoods from the property, British architect Matthew Falkiner designed 15 rustic-elegant bungalows with structural beams made of polished tree trunks, outdoor showers and suspended queen-size daybeds that sway over patios facing the ocean. Wi?Fi is limited to a small area in the main lodge, in my case a 15-minute hike down a steep dirt path to a suspension bridge draped over a canyon lush with foliage.
In August, Nicaragua's weather is hot and exceedingly humid—I was pretty much drenched the entire trip, and my laptop expired from heat exhaustion one day in the back of a van—but a sea breeze moved the air at the resort's open-sided restaurant and lounge, and that's where the yoga crew first met. As bartenders concocted fruit batidas made of white pineapple and bananas, a kirtan of howler monkeys—15-pound simians whose prehistoric calls seem to emanate from dinosaur-size diaphragms—resonated in the distance.
On that first afternoon, we filed down to a pair of thatch-roofed yoga platforms set up at the beach. The sand was a crustacean circus. Purple land crabs with orange eyebrows scuttled sideways and waved Day-Glo claws, like cartoon characters escaping giant aliens. Other pincered creatures popped in and out of more subtly colored shells, and tiny specks of who knows what hopped spastically through the melee. Sanskrit chants by Krishna Das wafted from portable speakers as unhurried waves rolled to shore and a pair of worn fishing boats bobbed like an old couple in the mid-distance. I've done yoga in some remarkable settings—the incense-stained basement of Pattabhi Jois's home in India, a rain forest in Brazil, a former palace in Bhutan—but a remote beach at twilight with an uninterrupted horizon and softly whirling body-temperature air was a new kind of magic. The ocean swallowed an enormous orange globe of a sun as the class ended, and our final collective om was pitch-perfect.
A job layoff can inflict an abrupt and disorienting loneliness. I wasn't blindsided—colleagues were let go before me, and my salary made me a likely candidate—but I'd enjoyed the daytime social life of an office for 30 years. Suddenly I was talking, a lot, in thoughtfully constructed complex sentences, to my dogs. Astute observations, idle musings, clever asides or merciless cracks were inevitably met by the same triptych of responses: a doleful stare from my basset hound, spontaneous rollovers from my terrier mix and misplaced excitement from my Chihuahua ("We're going on a walk?!"). As an employee, I'd done my share of grumbling about the 30-minute commute, but I was starting to miss brushing up against humans, dissecting last night's episode of 30 Rock or Glee. There's a perverse kind of peace to be found in the midst of deadline-ravaged coworkers. Watching the sun drop on the Morgan's Rock beach, I felt a similar sense of purposeful calm. It began to dawn on me that I am a writer by nature, not simply by job description. This thing I've been doing for decades is not, it turns out, just a career. It's who I am. So while I'd become a lone agent on a professional level, in other parts of my life I was connecting, finding opportunities I wouldn't likely have noticed, or taken, while drawing a steady paycheck.
The first few days were free-form—reading, swimming, yoga. Sara, our instructor, organized each practice around one of the five elements: air (vayu), fire (agni), water (apas), earth (prithvi) and spirit (akasha). Without the usual distractions of quotidian living, I found myself finally absorbing age-old instructions. By moving my hands closer to my waist for up dog, I really could open my chest without crunching my lower back! One morning at the resort's storybook farm, a few of us tried milking a cow (there's something creepy about yanking on an animal's teat) and slipped warm eggs from roosting hens (who couldn't have cared less). Doña Candida, the farm's proprietress, scrambled the huevos and served a feast—Nicaragua's national dish of gallo pinto (rice sautéed with red beans), homemade feta-style cheese, fresh fruit, sliced avocado, pico de gallo and tortillas we'd patted out under her supervision. After we'd stuffed ourselves, we begged to put off our morning yoga session, but Sara asked to meet at the beach in an hour.
Trouble in paradise. I was getting a kick out of finding critters all over my bungalow. Those tiny purple crabs lodged in the rivets of sliding doors. A giant black spider I named Ben (as in Big), a good two inches across, that clung to my shower wall each morning, discreetly disappearing when I turned on the water. But other yoginis weren't feeling the love. Shauna, a jazz singer on the trip, came back from dinner one night to find her bathroom floor obscured by an infestation of ants. Marilyn, our resident life coach, was kept awake by a howler monkey hanging upside down and peering in her window. Others encountered snakes and scorpions. The collective lack of sleep was taking a toll. As we sat in a circle on the yoga platform, Sara proposed moving to a new hotel in the nearby town of San Juan del Sur. We'd still be near the beach, but we'd be able to walk to shops and restaurants, and the rooms had telephones, flat-screen TVs and air conditioning. Plug-in appliances weren't exactly what I'd been hankering for, but group serenity was at stake. We agreed to the move and left to pack up.
By lunchtime, we were seated under a canvas awning at Pelican Eyes Hotel & Resort, a village of white stucco casitas and tiered infinity pools cut into the hills above San Juan's tranquil bay. One of the world's largest statues of Jesus—known as Jesus of Divine Mercy—extended an arm to us from a distant cliff. While I was happy to get out of the Morgan's Rock cocoon, our spread of lobster BLTs, Greek salads, cheeseburgers and Chilean sauvignon blanc made me feel as if I were at a ladies' lunch on Sunset Boulevard. Where was the spirit of the Nicaragua I'd encountered on my last trip, a country fighting for its identity and against bourgeois smugness? All smooth, comfortable curves where I wanted an edge, this resort felt less Latin than Miami.
We were paired up in two-bedroom, two-story casitas with super-equipped kitchens, and balconies upstairs and down. Amy, a well-traveled lawyer and a hoot to be with, was my casita mate. (Perhaps predestined: We'd brought identical Tommy Bahama bikinis.) After lunch we took a stroll through town, a sleepy grid of cobblestone streets and simple buildings painted in sun-faded shades of aqua, yellow, rose and cerulean. Families lounged on folding chairs in front of unlit shops selling woven wallets and headbands, rayon pants and tops, carved turtles, etched pottery. A board-shorts and flip-flops crowd filled the open-air bars and restaurants.
San Juan del Sur, it turns out, is a surfing mecca. The next day, five of us crammed into a beaten-down Toyota Land Cruiser with a FUCK WORK sticker (how appropriate) on the rear window and a rack of boards on the roof, and we bumped along a narrow dirt road to Remanso Beach (more advanced surfers go to Popoyo and Playa Maderas). Dwight, an American with crispy blond hair and a Dentyne smile, was our instructor. After we planted the boards in the sand, he took us through the basics: how to paddle, how to jump from our bellies to a crouch, where to direct our knees, shoulders and eyes. Then he attached our ankle straps, the tethers connecting surfer and board. I don't want to look at this too deeply—meaning, probably I should—but I'm not wild about being tethered to anything. Maybe it started with my older brother handcuffing me to a tree while he and his seven-year-old buddies set out on an expedition to the penny candy store. The concept of being "stuck" makes my breath go short and shallow. Immediately after a breakup, the sadness of losing a boyfriend is generally countered by the percolation of relief: I'm free! When I was let go from my job, the panic of not having a salary was ameliorated by the delight of reporting to no one. That said, I'm not a recluse, so the trick was to figure out how to retain a sense of independence without feeling isolated. Not just in work but in life. And right now, on a surfboard.
Despite living 10 minutes from the ocean in Los Angeles, I've never surfed. I tried to stay cool as we paddled out, and the ocean was embarrassingly calm. Nevertheless, at about waist deep, I had a change of heart. "You know what, Dwight?" I said. "I'm just going to watch from the beach."
"No, you're not," he answered with that big white smile, as cool as a central casting surfing dude. Alrighty then. Dwight says there's no turning back. Not a bad life lesson for the chapter I find myself in. Time to look forward. I continued to paddle, and when the right wave came, Dwight gave me a push. "Stand up!" he shouted. Lo and behold, I did. I was surfing! The second the realization hit, I fell—or did I leap?—and when I came up, the board was bobbing next to me like a Labrador retriever. That ankle strap was messing with my core belief; apparently attachment and freedom are not mutually exclusive. This may be obvious to all those enviably balanced women who don't lose an iota of themselves within the construct of a relationship, but it came as an epiphany to me. The freelance thing may be ideal: I can get involved on a project-by-project basis, with interludes of freedom.
After a few days in San Juan del Sur, we'd seen the sights, eaten in a bistro owned by ex-Angelenos and taken a day cruise in pouring rain to a tiny private beach near the Costa Rican border. The yoga retreat was ending, but I wanted to explore more of the country. Amy was game, too, so after joining in a final om on the yoga deck, we hugged our beloved yoginis good-bye and gave a nod to Giant Jesus. Our gear strapped into a truck, we headed north with our driver, Cristobal. First stop: Jinotepe, for a date with a shaman named Eliseo.
Fields of corn, soybeans, watermelon and mangoes blurred past on Highway 1, a ribbon of macadam that runs from Guatemala to Mexico. So did signs for the ubiquitous "autohotels" where couples go to have sex with people they don't want other people to know they're having sex with. We passed through Rivas, a wooden-furniture-making hub. Tables, beds, dining and patio chairs lined the sidewalks, and men wearing wife beaters and sandals idled in majestic hand-carved rockers in packed dirt yards while chickens pecked for food at their feet. Eventually we turned into an unpaved driveway that opened onto a compound of sorts: a rambling home with a porch shading myriad plants and two fat pit bulls, a blue cement building with the look of a Third World medical clinic, and an enormous Buddha smiling from a tiered altar in a clearing.
I have a weak spot for fortune tellers. None of them are 100 percent accurate, granted, but most manage to say something that rings bizarrely true, either by inspiration or by accident. And there's no better time to hear a clairvoyant's vision of what life has in store than when your status quo has blown up like a flame-torched munitions factory. Would I get a new job, would I survive as a writer, or would the oracle just ask me to leave, my prospects so dim he couldn't bring himself to relay them?
Eliseo was seated below a heavy wooden crucifix flanked by a pair of carved angels, at a red Lucite desk with a plug-in rotating crystal prism. A thick chain with a silver cross dangled over his gray T-shirt, and his rumble of a laugh made me think he'd be fun to have a beer with. I didn't do much talking; Eliseo just started in, and an interpreter helped with the translation. I'm not entirely confident I got the whole story, but he said I should always have dogs around because they give me solace; I could do with more pink in my bedroom; I will travel (somewhere with horses); and next year I'll hit the jackpot in terms of love, money and career. (It does always tend to be next year with these guys.) Eliseo has a bemused certitude, and I take this $15 future and claim it as my own. Intention can create reality, right?
Amy and I rented a car and, with an exceptional 28-year-old guide named Eduardo, toured for the next few days. In Granada, a city of beautiful stone churches set on the shores of Lake Nicaragua, we had lunch at an outdoor wine bar and watched a festival. Costumed characters and horses festooned with ribbons wound through streets vibrating with music. A giant puppet of a Spanish dama, operated by a boy on stilts beneath her gown, sashayed by with a sullen transvestite in a midriff top and miniskirt waving a flat, worn pocketbook and stopping occasionally to break into a nasty little dance. Nobody seemed able to explain the symbolism. In nearby Masaya, we climbed to the gaping maw of an active volcano where vultures swooped in and out of undulating waves of smoke. We swam in a gorgeous crater lake and ate delicious vegetarian meals at roadside cafeterias. I took a boat taxi to a new hotel, Jicaro, built on one of hundreds of isletas, the tiny islands in Lake Nicaragua believed to be remnants of a volcanic eruption. I finally felt as if we were seeing Nicaragua for real.
For our finale, we went to the northern mountains of Matagalpa and the eccentric Selva Negra (Black Forest), a 1,470-acre resort and working farm run by third-generation German Nicaraguans. Along with hiking trails, bird watching and Hansel-and-Gretel cottages with ferns and bromeliads sprouting from their roofs, Selva Negra is known for its shade-grown coffee. Whole Foods sells its beans. Mausi Kühl, a sustainability expert who owns Selva Negra with her husband, Eddy, drove us through the lush, muddy property, showing us the thousands of water bottles repurposed as insect catchers, the army of imported worms turning troughs of coffee bean detritus into rich humus, the tires repurposed as pathways, the school she runs for her farmworkers' children. It was impossible not to be stunned by her capacity to make a remote, primitive environment so productive.
Selva Negra, like Nicaragua, like all of us, is constantly in transition. My two weeks in the country gave me a chance to remember myself as a neophyte reporter on my first trip. I'd never have known what the intervening decades would bring, and I can't know now what the next block of time has in store. But life has a way of laying groundwork for surprises; the past and the present conspire to prepare us for the future. With luck and a little faith, we find the tools to get from one to the other with a modicum of grace. Even if it means using a basset hound as a sounding board.
Originally published in the November 2010 issue of More.
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The library is currently collecting in multiple formats, including:
- Print - hardcovers, paperbacks, magazines, and newspapers
- Audio-Visual – CDs, DVDs, "Playaways" (the library still has holdings on VHS and audio cassettes but is not purchasing additional items in these formats)
- Microform – microfilm
- Digital – eBooks and eAudiobooks, online databases, digital historical archives, and the library's website and social media
The library provides free, open, and equitable access to library collections for all users. The library neither encourages nor discourages any particular viewpoint. Materials will not be excluded because of the race, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, political or social views of the author. Selection of materials by the library does not constitute endorsement of the content or of the views expressed in those materials. Not all library materials may be suitable for all members of the community. Responsibility for a child's use of library materials, regardless of format or content, lies with the parent or guardian, not with the library.
Responsibility For Selection
Materials are selected by the library's professional staff, based on the criteria outlined in this policy. Designated staff are responsible for specific areas of the collection, under the overall direction of the Assistant Director. The responsibility for selection ultimately rests with the Library Director, operating within the framework of this policy as voted by the library's Board of Trustees.
Selection Guidelines
Materials selection is a critical and interpretive process. Reviews are the principal tool used in the selection of library materials and electronic resources. Staff members selecting library materials and electronic resources also consult bibliographic publications, publisher and vendor advertising and demonstrations, popular demand, and requests by library users. All acquisitions, whether purchased or donated, are evaluated using the following guidelines (listed alphabetically):
- Appropriateness
- Authoritativeness
- Cost
- Demand
- Presentation
- Relationship to collection
- Relevance
- Reviews
- Significance of the work to local interest
- Suitability of format
Guidelines for the evaluation of electronic resources also include:
- Comparison of content with other available formats
- Cost
- Customer assistance requirements
- Ease of access
- Hardware requirements
- Licensing requirements
- Networking capabilities
- Staff training
Resource Sharing with Other Libraries
Cary Memorial Library is a member of the Minuteman Library Network, [5] whose community of 35 public and 7 academic libraries offers additional depth and variety of collections to which Cary Library users have access. Selection of materials for the Cary Library collection is done with an eye to the special strengths and the immediate availability of these other library collections. In the case of expensive electronic collections, group cooperative purchasing allows economically feasible access to these products for all member libraries and their users.
Patron Requests
The library welcomes input from the community concerning the collection. A suggestion for purchase procedure enables users to request that a particular item or subject be purchased by the library. All suggestions for purchase are evaluated using the same selections criteria as for other materials and are not automatically added to the collection. Those not purchased are acquired for library users by interlibrary loan wherever possible. The Suggest a Purchase [6] form is available on this website.
Donated Materials
The library does not accept materials that are not outright gifts. Materials donated to the library are received with the understanding that they are subject to the same selection, evaluation and disposal criteria as material acquired for purchase. In most cases, the library cannot guarantee the permanence of a gift in the collection. The library welcomes donated titles, and sells, transfers to other libraries, or recycles materials that do not meet its needs. Items of extreme value or historic significance are handled individually.
Collection Maintenance
Systematic de-selection of materials from the collection is a necessary adjunct to selection. Before being withdrawn, items are considered in accordance with the following guidelines (listed in alphabetical order):
- Duplicate copies
- Irreparable damage
- Lack of use
- Obsolescence
- Updated editions available
Reconsideration of Library Materials
The library carefully investigates and considers suggestions from patrons for the removal or reclassification of any material in the library collection. Users may request this reconsideration by completing the Request for Reconsideration of Library Materials form [7]. This completed form is reviewed by the appropriate professional library staff. Incomplete requests will not be considered. A written response is sent to the patron generally within six weeks. The Request for Reconsideration of Library Materials form, and the written response to it, become part of the public record. In case of disagreement, a user may appeal a selection decision to the Assistant Director/Director, and finally to the Board of Library Trustees.
Reconsideration of digital content in the Minuteman Library Network collection may be made via http://goo.gl/forms/55xQN7Nql0 [8].
Policy approved by the Library Board of Trustees – 10.17.12
Procedures for the Disposal of Library Materials Withdrawn from the Collection [9] [10]
Policy approved by the Library Board of Trustees – 10.7.15


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Blanche (Orth) Voshell, age 93, of Milford, formerly of Wilmington, died peacefully at home in Milford. She was born Dec.7, 1918 in Wilmington, daughter of the late Bradford B. and Frances Bigger.
She graduated from P.S. du Pont High School in Wilmington, in 1936 and attended Goldey Beacom College. She was employed at the Municipal Court in Wilmington, for 22 years as a secretary, retiring in 1974.
In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her first husband, Victor P. Orth; 2 sisters, Grace E. Wittland of Wilmington, and Evelyn F. Graham of Palmyra, N.J.
Blanche was an avid reader and loved good fiction books: also loved to travel each year having gone to Hawaii four times-a special place, Europe, Florida and the Caribbean and the western U.S.
She is survived by her dear husband, of 48 years: Frank; two sons, Victor P. Orth Jr., of Rehoboth and P. William Orth and wife Kim, of Dover; four dearly loved grandchildren: P.William Orth, Jr. and wife Amy, of Chesapeake Va.; Kris S. Orth and wife Carrie, of Dover, Kari E. Allen and husband Mike, of San Antonio, TX and Shawn Orth and wife Rachel, of Tulsa, Okla.; and 13 great -grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held on Sunday, September 23, 2012 at 2:00 pm at Avenue U.M. Church, 20 N. Church Street, Milford, where friends may call after 1:30pm. Burial will be in Mt. Olive Cemetery, Sandtown.
In lieu of flower, the family request memorial contributions be made to the church.
Arrangements in the care of Berry-Short Funeral Home, Milford.
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Usually around this time of the year, we start thinking about that nagging little thing called spring cleaning. Ahh, that time when you find yourself staring at piles of unused stuff and wondering what on earth you're going to do with it all.
Recently, Utah blogger and new mom Alison Herzog found herself in this exact situation, amidst a pile of new and gently used items that she knew she wouldn't use, but that could benefit someone else. That's when Alison teamed up with local food blogger, Tiffany Spegar, and The Surplus Project was born.
The Surplus Project creator, Alison Herzog, with her son.
Here's the idea: with so many options for donating in Utah, why not donate to all of them? The Surplus Project will hold its first collection this Saturday, April 21 at Sugarhose park from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. Click here for a list of needed items. The items will then be donated to the YWCA: Women in Jeopardy, Rescue Haven and The Road Home.
If you're all out of goods to donate, you can also donate funds. Visit The Surplus Project's website for more information on fund donation.
So there you have it: a feel-good solution to your spring cleaning woes.


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Gardening Articles: Edibles :: Small Fruits & Berries
Toby Hemenway (page 2 of 2)
by Kathy Bond Borie
Gaia's Garden
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home Scale Permacaulture
Toby admits he took on way too much in the beginning. He planted walnut trees, 30 different kinds of apple trees, and more than he could manage. "Then when everything started failing I pulled back and remembered, 'Start at your doorstep,'" says Toby. "Think about how often the plant needs you and how often you need it, and put the ones you use the most closest to you. As each small part of the garden becomes successful, then expand it further and further away.
"Within 15 feet from his door are salad greens, leeks, snapdragons, yarrow, a passionflower covering a trellis, and more. "We used to have a garden further away," he says. "That was my daily commute; I'd put on my work boots, grab my tools, and wave goodbye to my wife. Now it's so close by that nothing gets out of control. I don't go out to the garden to work, I go out to play.
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In other news, a vehicle attempting to pass a snowplow on I-80 crashed into the truck's wing plow on Monday, Jan. 28. The two individuals in the passenger vehicle were transported to the University of Utah Medical Center with minor injuries.
A woman reported her vehicle stolen while she was shopping at Tanger Oulets. She was also missing her keys. When deputies responded, they located her vehicle in front of another store where she had forgotten she had parked. It was determined she may have lost her keys while shopping.
On Sunday, Jan. 27, a bike that was left chained overnight at the park-and-ride parking lot was stolen.
A vehicle was broken into in a Kimball Junction apartment complex parking lot. Even though the doors were left unlocked, a window was broken and items stolen, including a bowling ball.
On Saturday, Jan. 26, a man reported his wallet and iPhone were stolen from a Snyderville Basin Recreation Center locker. There are no suspects.
Deputies responded to a 911 call in the Basin where a domestic dispute had taken place, and where there was a history of domestic violence.
On Friday, Jan. 25, a deputy stopped a teenager on S.R. 224, who was then found to be in possession of alcohol and Adderall, which was not prescribed. The teen was arrested and booked into jail for possession of a controlled substance, possession of alcohol by a minor and failure to signal.
A man was pulled over on S.R. 248 for speeding, and was discovered to be intoxicated. He was arrested and booked into the Summit County Jail. His blood alcohol level was 0.132. The legal limit is 0.08.
On Thursday, Jan. 24, a man reported his keys were taken from a Canyons Resort Drive hotel, and his vehicle was stolen. Hotel security is reviewing surveillance video of a possible suspect.
Another car slid off a roadway on Chalk Creek Road in North Summit. It slid down a 25-foot embankment and landed on its side. The driver was uninjured.
When a deputy responded to a vehicle stuck in the snow in Pinebrook, he discovered the driver was intoxicated. The driver failed the field sobriety tests and was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.194.
Deputies observed a driver traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes on I-80. The driver was found to have a mental condition, for which she was not taking her medication. She was cited for reckless driving and was committed to the University of Utah Medical Center.
On Wednesday, Jan. 23, a deputy pulled a vehicle over on S.R. 224 and discovered the driver had a warrant. The driver was arrested and booked into jail.
On Tuesday, Jan. 22, a driver was pulled over west of S.R. 224 for a registration expired since February last year, and was discovered to have a revoked driver's license, a fraudulent registration and no ignition interlock device. The driver was arrested and booked into Summit County Jail.
A deputy responded to a report in North Summit about a past domestic assault and received conflicting statements about the incident. The case was referred to the county's attorney's office.
After a deputy pulled a woman over on S.R. 224 for a tail light violation, it was discovered she had a warrant for her arrest. She was arrested and booked into the Summit County Jail.
On Monday, Jan. 21, a man reported two packages delivered to his home east of U.S. 40 disappeared from his porch. The delivery was reportedly confirmed by FedEx, and included valuable items, including a laptop and clothing.
A driver was pulled over on S.R. 224 and was discovered to be under the influence of alcohol. The driver initially resisted arrest but was eventually arrested and transported to jail, where blood was drawn and booked into evidence.
Deputies responded to a call about a vehicle stopped in the middle lane on S.R. 224 near Kimball Junction, with the occupants apparently fighting. Deputies determined the male had assaulted the female while operating the vehicle. He was arrested and booked into jail.


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Height: 6-0 Weight: 202 lbs.
Born: May 20, 1942 in Philadelphia, PA
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Published: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 5:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 8:09 p.m.
Flagler Avenue Wine Walk on Saturday
Wine connoisseurs may want to leave the turkey leftovers in the refrigerator and join the monthly Flagler Avenue Wine Walk at Art Walk from 1 to 7 p.m., Saturday in the NSB Waterfront Loop. During the progressive event, wine lovers may sample from more than 100 showcased vintages.
Wine-tasting passports are $25 and are available at 113 Flagler Avenue, at the tent at Flagler Avenue and Cooper Street, or at the corner of Flagler Avenue and South Atlantic Avenue, New Smyrna Beach.
Passports include 20 tasting tickets and a keepsake wine glass. Some locations feature both one- and multiticket wines to sample. Those who want to share their 20 tasting tickets with a friend may get an additional wine glass for $5.
The event coincides with the Flagler Avenue Art Walk. Artists offer art exhibits from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. along the avenue.
The event is sponsored by the Merchants of Flagler Avenue. For information call 386-428-1600.
Wine-tasting dinner in Ormond Beach
Plantation Bar & Grill, 3754 Roscommon Drive, Ormond Beach, presents "A Grand Wine Dinner," featuring tasting of Italian wines paired with continental cuisine starting at 6 p.m. Nov. 29.
Wine/food pairing courses include Todi Bianco with Snow Crab-stuffed Shrimp topped with a citrus hollandaise sauce; Provenza Lugana paired with Dover Sole Almondine — pan seared Dover sole topped with fresh hericot vert and a toasted almond butter sauce; 12 e Mezzo Primitivio with Grilled Marinated Filet — beef tenderloin marinated and served over fresh organic baby arugula tossed in a homemade creamy parmesan dressing and Sangue Di Giuda with Biscotti Chocolate Mousse Cake.
Cost is $60 per person. Reservation only. RSVP no later than Nov. 26: 386-615-8948.
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SIS Alumna Explores the World and its Food
Jacquelyn Chi, SIS/MA '11, took a winding road to her job at the Culinary Institute of America, where she is manager of strategic initiatives. But once she arrived, the destination seemed tailor-made.
The job combines her love of food, her interest in sustainability issues and her international communication studies at the School of International Service. There was another plus - the institute is located in California, the state she considers home and one of the pulse points for the U.S. food movement.
"There came a moment when I knew I wanted to be involved in the food world, but I wasn't exactly sure how to turn what I studied into a real job," Chi explained. "How food communicates culture - what job does that translate to?
"I knew there must be something out there for me, but I didn't know what it was called. Now I know. This is the job," she said.
After earning an undergraduate degree in radio/television/film from Northwestern University, Chi worked coordinating volunteers at two film festivals. That was followed by a job with TV.com. But there was a part of her background that wasn't being addressed: Chi had lived in Hong Kong when she was young and traveled extensively.
"One day I realized I was tired of my job and I wanted new opportunities," she said. "I had a lot of personal international experience, but not a lot of professional international experience. It wasn't on my resume."
"I realized that AU underscored my interests in international exchange and international culture," she added.
At SIS she explored how "food communicates culture" and the role of food policy in development. She also became involved with a Turkish coffee project that borrowed from the popularity of food trucks. SIS doctoral candidate and adjunct instructor Hasan Efe Sevin and a young Turkish woman seeking to foster international interaction co-founded the initiative.
"They handed out free Turkish coffee. It wasn't a commercial venture, it wasn't about making money, it was just about opening dialogue," said Chi, whose assignment involved photographing and videotaping some of the encounters.
The campaign traveled along the East Coast, bringing coffee to college campuses.
Today, Chi's job at the Culinary Institute puts her in contact with discussions on the evolution of cuisines around the world and how food, culture and nationality are intertwined. She works on the institute's conferences, including "Worlds of Flavor," which each November serves as a professional forum on world cuisines and flavors. This year, she'll work on a conference focused on Millennial Generation food tastes.
Chi also is involved in initiatives around healthy menus, sustainability and the institute's thought leadership programs.
For someone who loves being involved with food, there is one irony with the new job. "I cook far less," Chi admitted. "That's because we get to eat what the students produce."


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