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Serve with the Indian flatbreads known as chapatis for a vegetarian meal or use as an accompaniment for simple grilled fish or chicken. If you'd like a hotter taste, do not remove seeds from the jalapeño pepper.
Nutrition Profile:
Gluten Free Diet
Healthy Weight
Heart Healthy
High Fiber
High Potassium
Low Calorie
Low Cholesterol
Low Sat Fat
Serves 4
Prep Time 35 min
Total Time 45 min.
Step 1
Place potatoes in a large saucepan and cover with water. Add salt and bring to a boil. Cook over medium heat until the potatoes are tender, 10 to 20 minutes. Drain and cool slightly. Crush the potatoes with the back of a wooden spoon and set aside.
Step 2
Meanwhile, toast cumin, coriander and cardamom seeds in a small dry skillet over medium heat, stirring, until aromatic, about 1 minute. Transfer to a spice mill or mortar and pestle; grind to a powder. Add turmeric and cinnamon; set aside.
Step 3
Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add yellow and brown or black mustard seeds and cover the pan; when the seeds start to pop, remove the pan from the heat and let stand until the popping ceases. Uncover the pan and return to low heat. Add onions and sauté until golden, 10 to 15 minutes.
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Add garlic, jalapeños, ginger and the reserved spice mixture and sauté for 2 minutes more. Stir in water and simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in peas, mint and lemon juice and cook until heated through, about 3 minutes. Stir in the reserved potatoes and season with salt and pepper.
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Chicken, melon, walnuts and feta top mixed salad greens for a refreshing summer salad. Use your favorite summer fruit in place of the melon if you wish.
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Total Time 15 min.
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Whisk sour cream, vinegar, sugar, poppy seeds, salt and pepper in a large bowl until smooth. Reserve 1/4 cup of the dressing in a small bowl. Add the mixed greens to the large bowl and toss to coat. Divide among 4 plates and top with chicken, melon, walnuts and feta. Drizzle each portion with 1 tablespoon of the reserved dressing.
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Fila Men's Tops
We asked men on the street, "Which do you prefer, the top or the bottom?" The nearly unanimous answer was, "This question is kinda vague, and maybe has sexual implications. What exactly are you asking? Why are you backing away?" So, with that in mind, we decided to sell these Fila tops!
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I am wanting to buy some nucs this year, but from who?
I don't want to buy from down south because I want cold-hardy bees who have no African genes, and some of the places from up North apparently are from areas where hive beetles are common.
Can anyone reccomend a firm that sells bees who don't have these problems? To make things harder, I want them MAILED, I can't pick them up.......
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CORC Revealing Profiles in Discrimination
The Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center (DBTAC) Coordination, Outreach and Research Center (CORC) coordinates research activities for the National Network of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Centers. It also houses the National Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ADA Research Project, a collaborative venture between Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and the EEOC. Fifty researchers from 15 universities are involved in the project, which seeks to generate industry-specific, impairment-specific, and issue-specific profiles of discrimination. The EEOC database of 402,000 closed investigations of discrimination comprises the entire body of EEOC closures from 1992-2008. Following are examples of some surprising findings:
- There are 40 areas of human resources in which measurable discrimination is found. However, 76 percent of all allegations derive from just five issues. From a risk analysis perspective, this is where employers should be most vigilant:
- discharge & constructive discharge (35 percent);
- reasonable accommodation (18 percent);
- terms & conditions of employment (9 percent);
- disability harassment & intimidation (9 percent); and
- hiring (5 percent)
- The overwhelming majority of discrimination is related to job retention or the quality of work, not job acquisition.
- Merit resolutions which favor the charging party occur in only 22 percent of all closures.
- Most impairment groups show significantly higher levels of actual discrimination on 2 or 3 issues. Allegations derived from people with HIV have higher levels on 19 issues. They are closed with merit at much higher levels as well—nearly 30 percent.
- Social psychologists tell us that negative attitudes are more prevalent toward persons with behavioral disabilities. In workplace discrimination, however, levels of actual discrimination are substantially higher for persons with physical and sensory impairments.
- Although large businesses (over 500 workers) employ less than 1/5 of American workers and have dedicated human resources departments, they receive more allegations of discrimination than small or medium size employers.
Directed by Professor Brian T. McMahon, the project has generated 50 refereed publications that provide a clearer understanding of the nature and scope of workplace discrimination and disability.
- DBTAC Coordination, Outreach and Research Center
- DBTAC National Network of ADA Centers
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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forum: Gardening / Growing
#1 Sat 29 Jan 11 8:02am
Gardening ~ What are you up to?
The wonderful woman who gave me the sorrel tasting Asian herb has given me a Kafir lime seedling and a tiny, tiny passionfruit seedling. I have potted them up and I am keeping them in the shade because it is hot for the next few days.
PS She explained that the sorrel tasting Asian herb is from Cambodia and is good in salads and stirfries and also in soups where it is added at the last minute. I need to repot the pieces she gave me because they have grown so much. She said not to let it flower or I will have them coming up everywhere!
#2 Tue 01 Feb 11 11:01am
- Jamie Oliver Food Foundation
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- Member since Tue 06 Jul 04
Re: Gardening ~ What are you up to?
Nice one Joy!
#3 Tue 01 Feb 11 11:10pm
- Forum champ Occupation Cleaner at The Salmon Arms
- From Sydney, Australia
- Member since Fri 22 Aug 08
Re: Gardening ~ What are you up to?
I think I need to start again but might wait until this heatwave is over. All my herbs are died while I was away last week
#4 Wed 02 Feb 11 2:54am
Re: Gardening ~ What are you up to?
My basil finally died - it's been in a year, and had to contend with crickets munching away at it while I was away over Christmas. I want to replace it, but we're going away for over a month, so will have to wait till I get back. No pesto ...
Otherwise, I have some roses that we got from an Air Force couple who were posting away. They just had them planted in buckets that were now to small for the plants. So we've put them in the front garden, and most are doing really well. But it's the wet season, so I'm fighting off all the fungi with a bicarb soda spray - not sure if it's working very well or not ...
#5 Wed 02 Feb 11 5:14am
- Forum champ Occupation Cleaner at The Salmon Arms
- From Sydney, Australia
- Member since Fri 22 Aug 08
Re: Gardening ~ What are you up to?
How do you make up the bicarb spray CE? Mum gave me two miniature rose bushes last year that she got really cheap from florist that was closing down. I had to spend $30 on nice pots to put them in and now one of the bushes has white spots on the stem and leaves. My neighbour suggested I take a cutting to the garden centre but I don't want to spend more money on products as I really don't "do" plants. They may be heading the way of all other plants mum's given me over the years ............. big green bin!
#6 Wed 02 Feb 11 7:04am
Re: Gardening ~ What are you up to?
You could have a look at this Gardening Australia (ABC TV) fact sheet:
It says for every 1 L of water, mix in 2 tsp of bicarb. soda, a drop or so of oil, and a drop or so of detergent.
The fact sheet says, 'a drop of vegetable oil ... helps to fix the spray to the leaf when it's dried. A drop of detergent helps to spread the mix over the leaf. ... The bicarbonate of soda makes the leaf surface alkaline and this inhibits the germination of fungal spores. Use it on tomatoes, and Chinese celery. The Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney has found this to be effective on powdery mildew, rust and black spot on roses.'
I wasn't finding it particularly effective, particularly on the great globules of white fungus stuff that was growing on some of the stems. So today I put a flat tb (20 mL) of bicarb. soda into 500 mL of water. I also probably used more oil and detergent than the recipe says, because I put a *big* drop of each into my 500 mL of mixture. But again, when I was more accurate to the recipe before, I wasn't finding that the mixture fixed particularly well over the leaves. Of course the leaves may now all curl up and drop off because I've overdone it ... Guess I'll see.
#7 Wed 02 Feb 11 7:37am
- Forum champ Occupation Opiskelija
- From Finland
- Member since Thu 26 Aug 10
Re: Gardening ~ What are you up to?
Just planning at the moment as everything is under a meter of snow. We'll be having the digger guy come in soon to finish the hard landscaping. We've been waiting for the ice to get deep enough to hold a digger, it needs to be 1 meter deep. as we need to have some of the sediment dug out of the water by the shore so that we have enough clearance for the boat, and to build the jetty, they'll just use this then to build up the shore line, but hopefully they'll manage to keep the copse of Alders we have at the waters edge. We also need topsoil to cover all the rough material, so that hopefully we'll be able to plant a lawn in the spring. Then I think we'll need to take stock of how the site looks, before we do too much planting, though I do know that I want to plant my veg garden on the south side of the house, so that it's protected from the north wind. But otherwise, we're just thinking and taking stock.
#8 Sat 05 Feb 11 7:48am
Re: Gardening ~ What are you up to?
I repotted my Cambodian herb. I had put five pieces in one pot, hoping one would grow. They all grew! (and some parsley and marigolds came up too!) So I have put them into 5 different pots and will take one to my friends for a gift this evening.
I just used my compost mixed with horse manure my neighbour gave me, so hopefully that is good enough soil for them!
And I have popped the parsley and marigold in other pots and hope they survive the transplant. (Not too worried about the marigold!)
It is such warm wet weather I think anything will grow anywhere!
#9 Sun 06 Feb 11 3:18am
Re: Gardening ~ What are you up to?
I had an off tomato, so I chopped it up and dropped it in the pot my basil was dying in. I think I may have little tomato plants coming up ... otherwise, it's just weeds, but I don't know how they'd have gotten in there really, since the pot's pretty isolated.
#10 Sun 06 Feb 11 4:13am
Re: Gardening ~ What are you up to?
You will know soon Cengland, tomatoes are so distinctive in shape, texture and scent! Hooray for being in Darwin, you could grow them as a Winter crop!
I emptied my oldest compost bin so it is ready to fill up again. That's Fran. Bernard is full and ready to sit and mature!


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By now, those of you who've read my previous blogs realize I tend to only post something when I think I have something interesting to say. Unfortunately, the empirical data suggests that this doesn't occur with great regularity! It's my hope, though, since you're investing your valuable time reading this that I am providing something useful to you.
With that, here are my latest thoughts that pertain to 'process work' and 'knowledge' work and why I think the software industry has done a reasonable job addressing the former and has until recently let down the latter. Let's start out by defining the two terms.
I define 'process work' as those sets of predefined actions that a person must perform in order to accomplish a business task. These include things like: placing an order, posting a transaction to the general ledger, entering a customer's contact information.
I define 'knowledge work' as relatively non-linear actions that a person must perform in order to solve a business problem. Inherently, these involve answering questions rather than performing step by step actions and include things like: figuring out what my target commit number should be for the forecast, what guidance should I provide to Wall Street, are my operating costs optimized, etc.
With process work, integration is typically peformed through a software backplane or bus. With knowledge work, integration is typically performed through the cerebellum.
We (that is, the application/business software industry — SaaS or otherwise), have done a reasonably good job over the years providing solutions to support 'process work'. However, we have generally done a terrible job of providing solutions to support 'knowledge work'.
If I work in a call center as an agent, in the accounting department, or in sales operations and if I live in a software application to perform my job the majority of my workday, the chances are great that the software I use has evolved to a point where it works well for my role. Even if I don't necessarily love the user interface and complexity, I get familiar with it and over time I can become proficient with it.
However, if the majority of my job is being a sales manager, sales representative, or other field work of any kind and I am just a "drive by" user of application software, the chances are great that the software does not work well to address the business issues I am concerned with.
One of the reasons we had great adoption by sales operations, call centers, etc. at Siebel Systems and low adoption by sales executives, managers and representatives is directly related to the fact we built a system to handle operations/process sales transactions but we did a relatively poor job (until we introduced Siebel Analytics) of providing Sales management with solutions that addressed their function.
SaaS is not the sole answer here. Informal market survey data suggests that Salesforce.com has not done much better than Siebel in terms of true end-user adoption by the Sales organization (Don't believe me? Ask a bunch of field sales reps in a company using Salesforce.com how much they really use the application). Its appeal has largely been due to the fact it is a much lower cost alternative to Siebel's on premise solutions and there is no requirement for IT to be involved in the configuration, implementation and management. Want more proof — in spite of Salesforce.com's impressive growth in the mid-market and divisions of enterprise sales organizations, Siebel/Oracle continues to own the call center – a highly process-oriented, IT supported function – and it is highly unlikely to be displaced there anytime soon by Salesforce.com.
To address the issues related to knowledge work, a new class of application software has emerged into a category now labeled "Performance Management". These are applications built on top of analytical and transactional systems and are designed to address the function of knowledge work. Originally, these solutions started in the Back Office (e.g. F&A) with companies like Hyperion who wanted to help the CFO be able to better model, plan and compare budgets, forecasts and perform consolidations.
Now, however, Performance Management is moving into the Front Office (e.g. the Line of Business owners in Sales, Marketing, Service, and Support). For example, if I am a VP Sales, then I want to be able to better predict and control my forecast, if I am a VP Marketing, I want to better be able to predict and generate lead production.
One of the key challenges of making these new Performance Management solutions successful in the Front Office is that the periodicity of change is much greater, therefore the delivery model must not be tied to IT (e.g. it must be SaaS-based) and the user interfaces that have traditionally served the Back Office/Process Work side of the business (master-detail lists/transaction oriented) must be substantially modified and improved in order to gain widespread adoption and use.
I will give you an example of where this is going. One of my portfolio companies, Right90 (www.right90.com), started out as a SaaS-based "Sales Forecasting" company targeting Sales Operations. Today, it has been repositioned as a Revenue Performance Management company focused on providing Sales Management and Sales Operations with the ability to much better plan, model and predict revenue. Since making this transition, the company has experienced very good growth.
Before they could accomplish this repositioning, however, they needed to develop a different type of UI. A UI that better fit the needs of the Sales, Products and Channel teams that are responsible for managing revenue/forecasts. What did they come up with?
I'm sure you've seen those desktop stock widgets where you can have your favorite stock index and/or stocks on your desktop. And, as the markets move up or down, you can tell immediately (well, 20 minutes delayed) how they are reacting because the color of the widget changes from red to green or vice versa. Additionally, they tell you how much they've moved. If you want to know more, you click on the widget and a window opens up displaying a chart of the stock price over time and the stock volume over time. Other information about the company (e.g. press releases, industry analyst data) is also displayed.
Imagine using that same metaphor to relate the forecast throughout the organization. As the forecast changes over time, the widget changes red/green to connote status against targets. And, since it is "role-based" each team/organization sees just the information it is entitled to see. The CEO, CFO and VP WW Sales see the aggregated data. Who's on plan? Who's dropped their forecast? Is the company on target to make its revenue objectives? All of this can be easily pushed to everyone in the company who has a need to know, in realtime. You don't have to remember to log in or wait for a report to be delivered on Sunday evening. You can now respond immediately and proactively to the key problems presented to the company.
You can easily see this UI metaphor applying to any Line of Business: Sales, Marketing, Service, Support.
This is where I see the next generation of software headed. SaaS-based Performance Management solutions using new UIs that enable Line of Business owners to better perform their jobs. Cerebellum integration will still apply today but in the not so distant future "Predictive Performance Management" may obviate much of that as well! But, that will be the subject of a different post.


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Rights of Nature and the Economics of the Biosphere
The Stillheart Declaration
October 2013
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In October 2013, on Ohlone Indigenous land, Global Exchange and partners held a 3-‐day summit at the Stillheart Institute in Woodside, California. Nestled in the California Redwood forest a counsel of 32 global social movement leaders including Indigenous leaders, deep ecologists, grassroots justice advocates, economists, climate experts, localization activists, globalization thinkers, writers and researchers were convened to examine the emerging legal framework known as Rights of Nature, or Rights of Mother Earth. This declaration emerged and is affirmed by the undersigned participants.
The Context
As humanity fast-tracks towards the collapse of our planetary systems, we sought to articulate a shared vision toward a new economy based on living in balance with natural systems; where the rights of humans do not extend to the domination of nature. We questioned the viability of a global economy whose jurisprudence places property rights above all; recognizes corporate rights as the most sacred of property rights; subordinates human rights and the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples to corporate rights; and where Nature is not recognized as having any intrinsic rights at all.
We discussed the power and possibility of an emerging body of law—recognizing legal rights for ecosystems to exist, flourish and regenerate their vital cycles—as a necessary part of placing our human laws in alignment with Nature's laws, and our human actions and economy in an appropriate relationship with the natural order of which we are part. Major points of discussion included the following:
- Living within the carrying capacity of the planet we call home requires that we adhere to the natural laws governing all life and does not extend human authority over them.
- In these respects, we recognize that ancient and living Indigenous cultures that live in connection with land, and have knowledge of its care, have much to teach us about this world.
- Indigenous traditions tell us that all economic activity must be rooted in an understanding and respect of our sacred relationships with Mother Earth, and that our continued wellbeing depends upon it.
- Science and common sense tell us that endless growth and the plundering of a finite planet is an impossibility, and an absurdity.
- We must avoid techno-utopianism, the illusionary idea that technological innovation will provide a "fix" to the inherent limits of a finite Earth. All technology must be subject to full life-cycle analyses, from sources to wastes to interactive stimulations to development.
- The subordination of the web of life to the chains of the markets and growth of the corporate-led system erodes the primary means of existence on this planet, which is rooted in the diversity of life itself.
- The current dominant economy fails to sustain and regenerate life because it is built on flawed foundations including:
- The endless industrial extraction and pollution of natural systems and functions;
- The privatization, commodification and legalized enslavement of nature as human and corporate property, which places a price on nature and creates new derivative markets that increase inequality and expedite the destruction of ecosystems;
- A prevailing world-view that places humans above nature, and with dominion over nature (anthropocentrism);
- A worldview and economic system that demands expansion, consumption, profit and economic growth above all other values, without recognition of carrying capacities of the planet and its ecosystems.
- Legal systems that ennoble private property at the expense of community, ecology and equity, and that directly serve the concentration of extreme wealth in few hands.
- Militarism and endless war as a primary means of acquisition of governance over peoples and land, and a primary expression of corporate growth models.
Changing the dominant legal and economic paradigms will require more than individual commitments to conservation and "greener" shopping. It will require fundamental changes in law, especially the rules of the global economy. Law is how we use power to make real the dominant values in a society. Over time most societies have cultivated the notion that nature is a "thing" separate and apart from humans, and that understanding has been codified in law. The ownership of ecosystems and other aspects of the natural world is promoted and protected by current law, upholding the control and dominance of humans over nature.
Current law "sees" nature as human owned property. Prevailing law and world-views express and confirm human authority over all of nature and do not provide the natural world with any legal standing in a court of law. From the tar sands of Alberta to mountaintop removal for coal extraction, to fracking and deep ocean oil drilling, to the destruction of vast tropical rainforests, to the massive continuing privatization of whole ecosystems, we have witnessed the horrifying damage that has been done with the full blessing of the law. This cannot be sustained.
We seek a world where all human activity takes place in balance with the Earth's offerings, and with reciprocity, dignity and respect for nature.
If we are to succeed as a species, we will need to redefine "wealth" away from financial accumulation towards "sufficiency" and wellbeing. This will require a new body of human law to codify and enforce these values. We therefore declare an imperative for the development and adoption of economic frameworks rooted in the inherent legal Rights of Nature.
The Change to Come: Rights of Nature
The terms Rights of Nature or Rights of Mother Earth are interchangeable, though Indigenous preference for the use of Mother Earth better describes our connection and relationship. Rights of Nature or Rights of Mother Earth seek to define equal legal rights for ecosystems to "exist, flourish, and regenerate their natural capacities." Recognizing these rights places obligations on humans to live within, not above, the natural world, of which we are only one part, and to protect and replenish the ecosystems upon which our mutual wellbeing depends. In essence, it is necessary to transform our human relationship with nature from property-based to a legal rights-bearing entity.
We are pointing to the need for a wholly different framework that recognizes that Earth's living systems are not the enslaved property of humans. Just as it is wrong for men to consider women property or one race to consider another race as property, it is wrong for humans to see nature as property over which we have dominion. All rights, including humans', depend on the health and vitality of Earth's living systems. All other rights are derivative of these rights. This requires an essential paradigm shift from a jurisprudence and legal system designed to secure and consolidate the power of a ruling oligarchy and a ruling species, and to substitute a jurisprudence and legal system designed to serve all of the living Earth community.
In 2008, Ecuador became the first country to recognize Rights of Nature in their constitution. Bolivia has also passed national laws recognizing the inherent rights of ecosystems. Nepal, and India and other countries are also putting forward similar national laws. Dozens of communities across the US and around the world have taken similar action to place the rights of natural communities (including humans) above corporate interests. The natural world is of a higher order of good that we dare not undercut. It that sense, it is sacred.
Call to Action:
All must speak out for the needs of nature and our Mother Earth as a whole. It is our responsibility to live within the natural order that is sacred to all life on earth. We must redraw the boundaries of the economy to bring them into line with ecological limits and the common sense science of planetary boundaries. Nature's needs are also our own and must be elevated and protected by legal rights, and maintained through life-sustaining systems of exchange and reciprocity.
We therefore must initiate a process of re-educating societies, dispelling the dominant anthropocentric belief that the earth belongs to humans. This will require fundamentally aligning global, regional, and local economic and legal structures to exist within natural systems. Social movements must create the space for the shift that is necessary to protect against the tide of corporate-led globalization.
The Rights of Nature demand regenerative, mature, and dynamic economic relations in which:
- The interdependence of humans and nature is primary; the laws of nature supersede rights to property; and vital natural cycles of life must be protected for the good of all. Recognize that there is no separation between how we treat nature and how we treat ourselves;
- Nature is seen as the foundation of life itself; it is not seen as an inventory of goods and services for human beings, a dumping ground for pollution and waste, or as capital;
- The rejection of all market-based mechanisms that allow the quantification and commodification of Earth's natural processes, rebranded as 'ecosystem services';
- Indigenous Peoples are empowered by legal and cultural norms as partners or caretakers of the lands and territories in which they live;
- All communities must become true caretakers of the places in which they live, including writing new laws that recognize the rights of local ecosystems to maintain their vital cycles and eliminate harmful projects in their midst;
- Whether one is Indigenous or not, we all must live in a responsible and natural way.
- Systems of Earth law focus on our responsibilities to foster natural ways and necessarily preempt corporate rights, property ownership, and financial speculation;
- Necessary elements of an economic system consistent with the Rights of Nature include:
- Immediately reducing production and consumption levels to within the carrying capacities of the planet, and the equitable redistribution of available resources/wealth;
- The full restoration of ecosystems, primarily allowing nature to heal itself;
- The relocalization of primary production, distribution and use; the abandonment of economic globalization models as inherently wasteful and inequitable;
- Full recognition of non-monetized labor;
- Governance through ecologically informed, democratic, participatory, engaged and empowered decision-making at all scales;
- Elimination of economic systems and strategies that prioritize economic growth, and profit, and private acquisition of resources and wealth, above all other values;
- The elimination of substances that are toxic, persistent, and bioaccumulative;
- Zero waste systems for production, use, and decomposition known as cradle-to-cradle living;
- Recognition of sacred relationships with place.
- In all economic decisions and human activities, the wellbeing of Nature is primary.
As affirmed by the (undersigned) participants:
Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians
Shannon Biggs, Global Exchange
Jeff Conant
Gopal Dayaneni
Tom B.K. Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network
Jordana Gutman
Randy Hayes, Foundation Earth
Emily Kawano, Center for Popular Economics & Solidarity Economy Network
Brendan Kennedy
Osprey Orielle Lake, Women's Earth and Climate Caucus
Cynthia Lazaroff, Biosphere Foundation
Leila Salazar López, Amazon Watch
Joanna Macy
Jerry Mander, International Forum on Globalization
Prajna Marcus
Pamela L. Martin, Professor of Politics, Coastal California University
Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute
Carleen Pickard, Global Exchange
Ben Powless
Ben Price, National Director of Community Organizing, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)
Ruthie Sakheim, Occupy SF Environmental Justice Working Group
Linda Sheehan, Earth Law Center
Atossa Soltani, Amazon Watch
Carolyne Stayton, Transition US
Bill Twist, The Pachamama Alliance


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I had a skunk eating my bees until I modified my hives for a top entrance. Now I need to give them a fall feeding.
I actually have it all ready to go in top feeders, only now I just realized I didn't plan on how to use a top feeder and a top entrance at the same time.
I read that a top entrance with a top feeder encourages robbing. And the way I put in the top entrance doesn't allow me to neatly stack the top feeder onto it.
So... what do I do? I'm nervous that opening the bottom entrance again will invite the skunk back.


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Tim McGraw won numerous awards and among these the most recent was American Music Awards, Favourite Male Country Artist Radio Music Awards, Country Male Artist CMT Flame worthy Awards, Hottest Male & Fashion Plate called as "She's My Kind of Rain".
He is engaged with doing a good and a solid effort to make music and not just the radio charts. Everyone enjoys being in his live concert. It is really a unique experience.
Attending the concert
People like to attend his live concert to get that unique experience of being with him. If you are interested to get that fun and enjoyment, then come and get your tickets soon.
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Asked to design a simple bathroom makeover, architect Robert M. Gurney and project designer Claire L. Andreas instead combined an existing master bedroom, bath, and closet into a single continuous space. With a change in floor material, they delineated a roomy bathing and dressing area that expands the apparent size of the bedroom as well.
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Shady it is. :P Well, I've tried that, but you need a way...
Shady it is.
Well, I've tried that, but you need a way to run an OCR on the portable ID through PHP to get the data, and that's no small task (even with CGI scripting). And the PSN user must have created and updated his ID... so it's not the most reliable method.
Another one would be to get the trophy list of the user, as on the actual page, but you have to be logged in on the PSN on the EU website to see that data, which is actually display in a "solid" way (directly on the source, no JavaScript loading...). So the PSN login is the problem, with auto-updates. How do all the PS3 Trophy card websites do it? ... If it were possible to log in here (https://secure.eu.playstation.com/psn/mypsn/trophies-compare/?friend=shadysaiyanz) with my PSN ID to compare with your trophies (and vice-versa), it would be easy to get the precious data. I'll try to work on it this week, I'll let you know if I get anything good.
I'd like to let users know that the generator is being updated a lot these last few days. I've added backgrounds (now there's 50+ and more to come, we'll hit 60 soon) such as the "Eye of Indra - Trouble" in the Special section, suggested by a user on the French PS boards, changed some backgrounds. (especially in the "Others" section). I'll be changing more of them over the next fews days, I hope. The additions to come are actually screenshots of maps of the game, I'm going to have to take screenshots because some are too bright or just not pretty enough.
Let me know if you have background suggestions
And I recieved another donation today, thanks to the people who have a bit of money to help out, it's appreciated. I hope the Premium status is a good way to thank them.
Thank you for your support, everyone.
Alright, Let me know if you find any good ways to get the...
I'm curious as to how you did the Ratchet cards when from what i can tell, there isn't a player stat page for O_o.
:O Whaaaaaaat!? That's awesome. Only recognition i got fr...
Only recognition i got from a dev was from Capybara games (Critter Crunch creators) when one of them found my mock-up boxart of their game. that they liked and sent me a free download code for it.
I'll be adding background this week-end. French supporter...
I'll be adding backgrounds this week-end. French supporters have given me some images - please do so too.
Oh and thanks, to Arne especially, I guess. => http://twitter.com/Naughty_Dog/status/13158335451
You could give it a try. :) Well people, now there are...
You could give it a try.
Well people, now there are 60 backgrounds, and 5 others pending (I'm not really satisfied with the way they look). If you want to know what they are, they're pictures of the new Maps for MP (Fort + Siege & UDF Packs maps), and I'll probably end putting a background for each map of the multiplayer, even single player...we'll see.
The new backgrounds are the following:
- Stealth Kill (preview)
- Eye Of Indra - Trouble (preview) (previous "Trouble" is now "Struggle")
- Get Some! (preview)
- Fly Kick (preview)
- Heist Plan (preview)
- Boom! (preview)
The updated backougrounds :
- Chimera (Resistance 2) (preview) (let me know if you like it)
If you want to suggest / create a new background, let me know (PM or post here). And any suggestions, from the card's name to design, is welcome.
Looks good man, wish I had a few skills in the art dept t...
Looks good man, wish I had a few skills in the art dept to get some high quality images mysef.
Cheers, I'm lucky to have a wide set of skills I guess. :...
Cheers, I'm lucky to have a wide set of skills I guess.
Update : New backgrounds and updates.
The new backgrounds are the following:
- The Fort (preview)
- Flooded Ruins (preview)
- The Facility (preview)
- The Museum (preview)
- Highrise (preview)
- Resin Light (preview)
The updated backougrounds :
- Tomas "Sev" Sevchenko (Killzone 2) (preview)
Let me know what you think.
I'm thinking about changing the selecting part, maybe have a select for the Category that displays a second one next to it with the list of Backgrounds, because the list is getting crowded and, well, it's a mess to go through.
That's it for tonight. Oh and I recieved a fifth donation, thanks for the support!
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When I ran IE6 as my default browser, like many others I also had the Google toolbar installed but, other than the Google search box, I didn't use any of its other features. Did I reduce the toolbar footprint and customize it down to the search box only? Nope, because, you never know when you may need the other features. I can categorically state that I NEVER needed any of its other features, and I don't miss seeing them either.
After having installed the IE7 beta, I couldn't remove it fast enough. However, I realized that if I was going to use Vista full time, I would have to get used to not having the cluttered and customizable IE6.
So what functions of your preferred browser do you actually use? I use Home, Print, and Favourites. I don't need to keep going into Tools (Options) because IE7 prompted me to setup all of that stuff when I first installed it.
Here is my customized IE7, sporting the three functions that I use most of the time..
I test changes to my website in multiple browsers, so also have Firefox, Opera, Maxthon and Google Chrome installed. Other than for testing purposes, I do not use any of them..
Firefox.. I don't mind this as I changed the look to IE7, but it takes up more real estate. Now, if I could only dump the annoying task bar at the top..
Opera.. You probably don't know anybody who uses this one. It has features that you have to 'right click' to access, and most likely would never use.
Maxthon.. I had to include the Pageflakes header so that you could see the less than useful 'sidebar'. I have it on authority that this browser is the most customizable of all, and is certainly closer to the look of IE6 than any of the others.
Google Chrome.. The most annoying thing about this browser is that Google wants to install two of its own start-up entries.. thanks, but no thanks
As you can see from the Maxthon view, I use Pageflakes for my home page. It is the best of the 'Ajax' start pages. I have my most used links on show in widgets called 'Top links'. I can have as many Top Links windows as I need or want. The weather widget enables me to have tabbed weather locations in one small window. This is useful in Canada as one always needs to know what is blowing in from the west. The comics widget offers an astounding choice (I am a Dilbert fan). I also capture news from around the world, and have local, BBC, CBC, MSNBC and Al Jazeera news services.
A browser is for browsing/surfing. Why do I want to display tool bars full of stuff that I don't use. I find it annoying that some browsers allow customization in 'blocks', that is to say, one can't have this feature unless a number of other useless features appear on the same bar.
Can you see why I prefer IE7/8?
So there was an IE7 scare recently, but Microsoft fixed it the next day. Funnily enough, Firefox had more or less the same problem, but it was less publicized..


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The new 2010 Chevrolet Camaro coupe has sold well for Chevy, making a real race for sales supremacy with its archrival, the 2010 Ford Mustang.And, as Chevy execs point out, there's only one Camaro model--the coupe--whereas the Mustang has a pair of body styles, with a popular convertible model as well.The 2012 Camaro Convertible has been eagerly anticipated since the concept car was shown way back at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show. Now, it's confirmed for start of production during the first quarter of next year.Before GM's bankruptcy last summer, the Camaro convertible was always planned for March 2011, but for a while, it slipped to the second quarter. Now it's moved back to the original plan, putting it in dealerships in time for nice spring weather.Link
That is going to be one truly ugly vehicle.
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muchdrama_:That is going to be one truly ugly vehicle.^^LOL^^About dang time the Camaro convertible appears but still have to wait til March 2011.
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Hoping some of you out there have used both, got a few hives with EFB, and intend to treat them, but can't seem to find any reviews of the powders vs the patties? I like the idea that patties only have to be off for 14 days, and the powder says 6 weeks.. but it also appears they may not take patties well?
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Is There Such a Thing as "Junk Food"?
A number of nutrition professionals bristle at the term junk food. After all, it is the overall eating plan that counts, not the stray high-sugar, high-fat, low-nutrient item that gets indulged in here or there. However, there are nutritional consequences to choosing items like soda and chips over healthier foods.
Health Effects of Junk Foods
Not surprisingly, the more junk foods that make up one's diet, the more calories consumed; also, the more fat and saturated fat eaten, and the less fiber. Moreover, as junk food in the diet goes up, the consumption of vitamins A, B6, B12, C, folate, calcium, and iron go down. The lower the blood levels of many of those nutrients, too. Furthermore, people who eat more junk food have lower levels of the good HDL-cholesterol that works to clear plaque from the arteries. And they have higher levels of homocysteine, a blood chemical that may be associated with increased heart disease risk.
Fats and Sweets Get All the Attention
Advertising may also be fueling the desire for less nutritionally desirable choices by placing more attention on these products. While we do not see advertisements for carrots, we often see advertisements for chips, soda, and fast food restaurants. And, with children spending more and more time in front of screens, they have impressionable audience.
Studies have shown that children are heavily influenced by food advertising. For example, researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University found that children who view more advertisements for junk food end up eating more of this type of food.
Everything in Moderation
The whole debate about the term junk food may prompt us to take a closer look at what we are eating and what our children are eating. Americans eating double cheeseburgers, sugar frosted flakes, soft drinks, candy bars, and other high-fat, low-nutrient foods on a daily basis should rethink their diet.
These foods give us a lot of pleasure, but they should not be eaten every day. We should eat less of these foods and choose healthier options whenever possible. Choosing to include more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains can help to improve our overall health.
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The dangers of eating fast food. Stony Brook University website. Available at: http://www.stonybrook.edu/heartlinks/fastfooddangers.pdf. Accessed July 7, 2015.
Dixon HG, Scully ML, Wakefield MA, White VM, Crawford DA. The effects of television advertisements for junk food versus nutritious food on children's food attitudes and preferences. Soc Sci Med. 2007;65:1311-1323.
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Crown Crafts cuts losses to $3.5M
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Atlanta — Crown Crafts Inc., the surviving company of a complex two-way split in which the adult bedding business was spun off last month in a sale to former ceo Michael Bernstein, said it expects to record an estimated $3.5 million loss for the quarter ended July 1, a sharp improvement over a year-before loss of $10.9 million.
Sales during the same period declined by 33.2 percent, to $38.9 million from $58.2 million the prior year.
The company said it expects to file the complete report by the end of September.
In a move that virtually ensures the survival of the company, Crown sold its adult bedding business to Bernstein for $8.5 million, plus the assumption of some liabilities. Under newly named chairman and ceo Randall Chestnut, a re-energized Crown Crafts will focus on the highly profitable infant's and juvenile products business, which Chestnut built up through a long string of acquisitions.
Meanwhile, Bernstein has taken the reins of the basic bedding business, Design Works Holding Co., which will produce and market bedding under the Calvin Klein Home and Royal Sateen nameplates. The smaller, more tightly focused Design Works, Bernstein said, is now making money after a long struggle integrating the Calvin Klein Home business as well as coping with costly systems issues.
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CALM, ANALYTICAL, DRIVEN Brian Swanson, the Teach for America prototype.
Just off the main drag in Federal Hill, in a brightly painted office, a series of hand-written notes hang on the wall. This is headquarters for Teach for America Rhode Island, the local branch of a booming nonprofit that recruits top-tier college graduates to teach in some of the nation's toughest public schools.
The state's first class of TFA instructors, required to make two-year commitments to the profession, is small — just 30 teachers spread over a handful of traditional and charter schools in Providence, Newport, Central Falls, and Cumberland.
And most of the notes hanging on the wall — the corps' self-proclaimed short- and long-term goals — reflect the modest, if majestic, hopes of a handful of teachers trying to boost achievement for a few hundred kids. But there, in a longer-term category, is at least one missive pointing to a far larger aim: the transformation of the state's struggling public school system.
Call it the Teach for America paradox: an organization that is, at once, too small to have an impact on more than a small sliver of the nation's disadvantaged students and so potent as to play a central role in the most ambitious school reform effort in memory.
The big education story of the last 20 years is the rise of a sprawling network of self-styled reformers convinced that a market-driven approach to reform — charter schools, data, accountability — can obliterate the yawning achievement gap that has long separated the white and well-to-do from the black, brown, and poor.
It is a movement with plenty of stars — Bill Gates and Barack Obama among them. But somewhere near the center of this network is TFA, which has developed into a bona fide phenomenon on the nation's elite college campuses — a sort of Peace Corps for our time; last year, fully 13 percent of Brown University seniors applied for a job with the organization and the numbers were similar at Harvard and Yale.
The group's pole position owes something to its embodiment of the reform movement's signature ideas: that high-performing teachers — more than smaller class sizes or smaller schools or neatly pressed uniforms — are the single best hope for low-performing students; and that traditional methods of recruiting, training, and evaluating instructors are deeply flawed.
But TFA's influence is also rooted in a determined effort to look beyond the classroom — to shape its network of 20,000 alumni into a potent political force; a mighty collection of elected officials and policy wonks and superintendents deeply affected by their two years in the classroom.
TFA wants to reform education from the bottom-up and from the top-down. And that ambitious effort has landed in Rhode Island — a shot in the arm for the state's own burgeoning reform movement; and a source of no small concern for those who consider the market-driven approach to change an unproven, destructive, and fundamentally arrogant endeavor.
For Patrick Crowley, the bright and bluntspoken assistant executive director for the National Education Association Rhode Island teachers union, it is Teach for America's central premise that offends.
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Kenneth L. Lay, chairman and chief executive officer of Enron, rated the most innovative company in the nation by a Fortune magazine survey, will give a public lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder on March 11.
An early proponent of deregulating U.S. utilities, Lay was at the forefront of many changes now sweeping the industry. Deregulation of the nation's electricity companies is being discussed in Congress and in Colorado and several other states.
Lay will speak on "New Energy Visions: Enron Corp." at 7 p.m. in Macky Auditorium. The 20th annual Ben K. Miller International Business Lecture is free and open to the public.
Headquartered in Houston, Enron is the largest non-regulated provider of electric power in the United States and is one of the world's largest providers of natural gas. It is the builder of multi-billion-dollar energy projects in India and China and also has developed power plants in England, Guatemala and the Philippines.
With $15 billion in assets, Enron ranks No. 141 on Fortune magazine's list of the 500 largest U.S. corporations. It ranks No. 21 on Fortune's 1997 survey of America's most admired corporations.
A decade ago Enron was losing money. But in 1996 it made $520 million.
Lay has a doctorate in economics from the University of Houston and has taught graduate courses at George Washington University. He became chairman and CEO of Enron when Houston Natural Gas merged with InterNorth Inc. in 1985.
Lay serves on the board of directors of Compaq Computer Corp., Eli Lilly and Co. and the Trust Company of the West. He is a member of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, the Business Council, National Petroleum Council, the American Enterprise Institute and is a trustee for the John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment.
He also is one of 13 top executives lecturing at CU-Boulder this semester as part of the popular Profiles in American Enterprise class taught by Professor John Hess. Each week students study a particular industry within American business and hear a lecture from a top executive or entrepreneur in that sector. All executives pay their own way to campus for the lectures.
The Ben K. Miller International Business Lecture Series was established in 1974 by family and friends of the late Ben Miller. Miller was a 1946 graduate of the business college and one of the first Americans to cultivate business ventures in Japan. He was well known in Colorado for his Miller-Stockman western wear stores.
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Havard Nordtveit believes he can follow in Steve Bould's footsteps and make the transition from promising right back to outstanding centre back.
It's 22 years since the Arsenal legend and current Under-18s coach moved from Stoke to North London, and he went straight into the centre of George Graham's defence alongside Tony Adams.
The titles and cups soon followed but it's easy to forget that Bould started his career as a full back, a position Nordtveit has filled with distinction during pre-season.
As it happens, the 20-year-old has filled a number of positions in recent years. He arrived at Arsenal at a centre back in July 2007 but has chopped and changed during three loan spells in three different countries. So where does he think he'll end up?
"You tell me!" smiled Nordtveit.
"I went to Lillestrom for four months on loan and played 17 games at right back. From there I went straight to Nurnberg. I was there for ten months and played one game at centre back and 19 games in central midfield. Then I came back here and played right back.
"So I am not sure, many big players have to take the same road. Steve Bould played right back before he went to centre back, so it is a good experience to play there because when you are playing centre back you know how the right back is thinking.
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Striker-fired pistols have a firing pin that is drawn into a retracted, set position as the slide travels from the rear position to the forward position. The striker is fully cocked by drawing the trigger to the rear and, at the end of the trigger stroke (break point) is released to fall on the bullet's primer. There is no hammer on a striker-fired pistol.
Pistols with a hammer have a free floating firing pin with a spring at the fore end to return it to the rearmost position after being fired. The firing pin is struck by the falling hammer that has been released by the pull of the trigger. The momentum of the striker ignites the bullet primer and the spring quickly returns it to the rear position.
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Enrollment at Pulaski Technical College has reached a record high, with 6,128 students registering for the fall 2003 semester.
Enrollment at Pulaski Technical College has reached a record high, with 6,128 students registering for the fall 2003 semester.
Dr. Dan F. Bakke, college president, said credit headcount enrollment on the 11th day of classes, which serves as the official census day, represented a 14.5 percent increase from the fall 2002 enrollment of 5,348 and a 23 percent increase from the fall 2001 enrollment of 4,966.
While 38 percent of the students are enrolled in occupational/technical programs, Bakke said 62 percent of the students are enrolled in courses and programs designed for transfer to four-year colleges and universities. A total of 700 students are enrolled in online courses.
"Much of our growth can be attributed to the tremendous need for the types of programs and services we offer the central Arkansas community," Bakke said.
"Projections indicate that our enrollment will reach 7,500 students by 2005 and 10,000 students by 2010 if we are able to obtain additional funding for personnel and facilities."
Pulaski Tech is the largest two-year college in Arkansas and one of the fastest growing two-year colleges in the nation, Bakke said. Based on funding per full-time equivalent student, Pulaski Tech is the lowest-funded institution of higher education in the state.
Pulaski Tech offers more than 40 associate degree and technical certificate programs designed for career entry or advancement, as well as a comprehensive university-transfer program, continuing education opportunities and customized training for business and industry.
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Musing on the power of convention
Howard Wainer
I hope that I have demonstrated that it is not unreasonable to believe that the inertia of convention acts as a drag on innovation. Yet simply recognizing this obstacle will not make the power of convention disappear, nor should it. When faced with a single communication task (for example, reporting the results of an experiment in a research paper), we should first consider the conventional way to do it. If such an approach allows it to be done adequately, then that is a sensible path to follow; fighting convention can age you quickly. If, on the other hand, the task is but the first of many (for example, writing the first of many national statistics reports, with many similar data sets—see Pickle et al.), the cost of fighting convention may be amortized over the long run.
What have we learned from these examples? It seems to me that QWERTY has little to recommend it, and various alternatives have already been proposed. August Dvorak, a professor of education at the University of Washington, patented one in 1936. The 1985 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records tells us that Barbara Blackburn, the fastest typist on record (150 words per minute for 50 minutes, with peaks of 212 words per minute), set her record on a Dvorak keyboard. Obviously improvements are possible and some experiments in design should allow us to build on Dvorak's design. Implementing such an innovation is easy, since programmable keyboards can allow those whose touch-typing skills require QWERTY to keep it, but as we start teaching the new keyboard in schools, graduates who can perform better will transform the old keyboard to the new. One generation should just about do it.
Pie charts have little to recommend them over Cleveland's dot charts; as soon as those who write graphic software replace pies with dots as the default option, we will see the end of this over-used invention.
The 15th century complaints from scholars about the ease of learning Hangul are surely relevant today. Yet that should not dissuade the Chinese and Japanese governments from considering the costs of keeping their ancient writing systems. Perhaps a Hangul-like Chinese keyboard might have more than 34 keys (24 letters plus 10 numbers), but it would surely be far less cumbersome than current methods. If such an alphabet were invented and implemented, the two systems would probably operate in parallel for a while, for old ideas never really die, just the people who believe in them. But eventually offspring of King Sejong's marvelous Hangul alphabet would take over. Other languages have alternative phonetic alphabets (for example, the Unifon alphabet is a way of writing English based on the principle of one letter per phoneme; it was created by John Malone in the 1930s), but they have yet to overcome the power of convention. Still, the cost of maintaining the convention seems much smaller for English than Chinese.
And so, why is a raven like a writing desk? My answer is because both of them can be improved substantially, but the major part of the task is overcoming the inertia of convention, not inventing a superior product.
My gratitude to the National Board of Medical Examiners for support of this research, despite its only very marginal relation to NBME's mission. I appreciate the breadth of their view. I also wish to thank Kyung T. Han for his invaluable help in providing expertise in Hangul so that I have some faith that my description of it is reasonably accurate. My thanks also to Paul Velleman, who showed me how to find both Dvorak and Hangul on my Mac, and to David Hoaglin, whose sharp eyes helped me to say more nearly what I meant.
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Do I just heat it up gently to separate the wax from the honey? Like in a crock pot? Or would it be better to do it by hand (thru some cheese cloth)?
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Baby boomers can volunteer with LSS Senior Corps
Minnesota Boomer Corps is a new pilot project offered through Lutheran Social Service (LSS) intended to demonstrate the ability to meet more community needs by enrolling new, busy boomer volunteers who can commit to 10 hours per week to help others.
■ Facts about the program include:
• While focused on boomers, born 1946-64, 25 percent of enrollees may be older.
• This program is for newly enrolled volunteers only.
• A tax-free stipend of $2.65 per hour will be paid to volunteers who serve 10 hours per week.
• Mileage is reimbursed at .35 cents a mile.
• Volunteers will earn stipend time off.
• No income restrictions exist.
• Background check and ongoing trainings will be required.
• Volunteers may switch to the regular 15 hour per week program if they choose at any point but may not switch back to the 10 hour per week program.
For more than 20 years LSS has managed the Senior Corps Programs (Senior Companions/Foster Grandparents) throughout much of Minnesota. These programs have demonstrated the powerful impact of engaging committed older adults in serving frail elders and at-risk children.
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• 419 Foster Grandparents provided 295,000 hours of one-to-one tutoring and mentoring to 3,062 children, helping them to boost their reading ability and academic performance.
• Volunteers report a better quality of life, with a renewed sense of purpose and better emotional and physical health. Ninety-eight percent responded that they were satisfied with their volunteer position.
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New Pathways to host Retro '80s prom
Area residents looking for a fun way to spend a date night or an event to attend with a bunch of girlfriends may consider New Pathways' Retro '80s Dinner/Dance.
There will be a disc jockey spinning '80s music, a dinner and cash bar, photo booth and silent auction gifts. Those attending are encouraged to dig up their best fluorescent leggings, use hairspray to set bangs straight up in the air and get ready to dance the night away.
The Retro '80s prom fundraiser will be from 7-11 p.m. Nov. 16 at Arrowwood Lodge in Baxter. Tickets are $35 and may be purchased by calling Kathy Carlson, program manager, at 218-454-0460, ext. 3, or visit the event webpage at http://bspmfe.wix.com/newpathways.
Businesses that would like to sponsor a table at the dance may contact Carlson or see the website for more information.
New Pathways, Inc. is a nonprofit governed by a volunteer board of directors. It exists to ensure that the homeless population, specifically families with children, has the resources, skills and assistance necessary to thrive. It partners with area churches to provide families with a safe place to call home. All proceeds from the dance will go toward helping area families secure housing.


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It seems the more we know about how democracy works — through government transparency, better media coverage, even new insights about our brains — the less we trust democracy itself. Yet it's still, arguably, the best system of government available. As Ivan Krastev says, "What went right is also what went wrong." Can democracy survive?
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Patriots advance to semifinals
The third-seeded Pequot Lakes Patriots tennis team blanked No. 6 East Grand Forks 7-0 in the Section 8A quarterfinals on Tuesday, Oct. 8. The Patriots, 15-4 overall, will face the winner between No. 7 Wadena-Deer Creek and No. 2 Park Rapids at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 10, in East Grand Forks. The championship match will follow the semifinals.
No Pequot Lakes player dropped a set on its way to advancing to the team semifinals.
"Haley Wiebolt had a nice comeback at No. 1 singles," said Pequot Lakes coach Monica Sergent. "She won the first game 6-2, but was down 4-1 in the second game before coming back to win 7-5. All of our singles players did well.
"Our No. 1 and 2 doubles teams started out slow, but once they calmed down and got their feet moving, they played well."
Other quarterfinal matchups include, the Perham/New York Mills winner vs. No. 1 Staples-Motley; and No. 4 Crookston vs. No. 5 Roseau.
Section individual competition will begin on Oct. 11, following the team final. Individual play concludes on Saturday, Oct. 12.
Pequot Lakes 7, EGF 0
No. 1: Haley Wiebolt (PL) def. Chessa Jones 6-2, 7-5
No. 2: Jaden Lindner (PL) def. Emma Dietrich 6-2, 6-2
No. 3: Sydney Holt (PL) def. Cynthia Loven 6-3, 6-1
No. 4: Lauren Bengston (PL) def. Emily Strezishar 6-2, 6-2
No. 1: Ellie Erholtz-Carly Fyle (PL) def. Ashley Normandin-Kaity Randall 6-3, 6-2
No. 2: Madison Galligan-Alex Nelson (PL) def. Kayla Cremers-Jenna Dietrich 6-3, 6-1
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Cracker Barrel: Coming to grips
Nearly 2,000 years ago the Greek philosopher Epictetus wrote a sentence that anticipates much of what we know of modern psychology:
"To accuse others for your own misfortunes is a sign of lack of education; to accuse yourself shows that your education has begun; to accuse neither yourself nor others shows that your education is complete."
Most of us would agree with the first part of this statement. Thanks to the insights of Freud and his many successors, we know that many of the really bad things in our lives are mainly caused by our own motives and actions, not by external circumstances or by other people.
But as Epictetus points out, self-accusation is only the beginning of knowledge. While it is good and healthful to know that we ourselves are responsible for much of what happens to us, this admission can become an excuse for persisting in flaws and failures.
People who blame others are clearly immature; but people who constantly blame themselves are indulging in a kind of neurotic pleasure. They do something wrong, feel pangs of remorse, castigate themselves, and then feel purged to go out and repeat the same wrong actions over again.
Genuine education — of the emotions, and not merely of the mind — goes beyond blame. It tries to understand why we do the things we do, for only by understanding them, in their deepest meanings, can we acquire the resolve to alter our patterns of behavior.
Those of us who have wrestled with addictions know what Epictetus was talking about. Blaming others is an obvious means of escaping responsibility. But blaming oneself is a more subtle tactic for refusing to change.
"I can't help myself," or "I'm just built that way," or "It's in my blood," are handy verbal excuses to avoid coming to grips with some central problem in one's personality. They allow you to feel righteously modest while still continuing business as usual.
The human mind is a devilishly complex organism, full of tricks and disguises, which we can begin to see even in a small child, who learns quite early how to win the approval of others and yet satisfy his own desires.
By the time we're adults, we've had a couple decades of practice in the fine art of deceiving others as well as ourselves. But the fact is that we're not truly grown up until we can accept reality by relinquishing the pleasure of blaming ourselves as a substitute for changing our ways.
Only then is our education complete.
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Nickname for the city of Hamilton, Ontario. Given for the steel making plants located on the shores of Hamilton harbour. Those plants belch so much soot and crap that Hamilton harbour is a cesspool of filth. It also causes Hamiltonians to look like ugly bastards, and grow up brain damaged.
by RexGibson December 28, 2003
1. Nickname for a boring, working class city in western Pennsylvania full of old fat guys who like to drink pabst blue ribbon and watch the steelers. Anyone with talent, drive or intelligence leaves by the age of 30. Located a short distance from Loserville.
2. Perennial doormat of the XFL. Big on trash talk – short on execution.
2. Perennial doormat of the XFL. Big on trash talk – short on execution.
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Size195 m²
Floor No.1(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Balcony/terrace
- Pets allowed
- Internet/WiFi
- Parking available
Accommodation summary
This nice and central apartment for 18 persons is located in one of the main avenues of Lisbon.
The apartment as 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, an very large lounge with TV ( and other comodaties ) and a fully equiped kitchen, with all you need to feel comfortable.
Fully equipped. All transport links just outside. 5 min away from the St. Jorge Castle, one of the main historic and touristic sites of Lisbon.
It is within walking distance of other major touristic attractions of the city such as Rossio 5 min. Chiado 15 min and Bairro Alto 15 min walking.
Just down the street you'll find good typical restaurants with Fado music and bars.
From the same avenue you can also take the famous tram Nº 28, which takes you through the most typical quarters of Lisbon. The underground station (Anjos - Green Line) is just out of the door.
House rulesNo parties allowed.
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We had a super trip and a nice stay. Plenty of space and super service. We will be back... :-)
We already had a very nice contact with Albertino. We could ask him everything :) Albertino gave us also a fantastic taxidriver! We had to wait for a missing bag, but the driver was so nice and kindley and wited the whole time! The appartment was fantastic! Very central, clean, nice livingroom and lots of sleeping rooms. We had two bathrooms and a nice kitchen. Thank you so much for a fantastic weekend in beautiful Lisbon!
This Holiday flat is in a great location, a few minutes from the metro and under ten minutes from the train station. It was comfortable for six single persons, my only major complaint was there wasn't enough cooking pots and pans (Yes, I like to cook!).
We were given a friendly welcome by one of the staff and a adequate induction for the flat. The flat was was in a clean and orderly state. During our stay we had two problems; one power cut, WiFi stopped working for a couple of days. However in both cases, the response was quick and resolved.
Overall we were given good service and the apartment was well decorated and functional.
We were 6 people who lived in the apartment and all had major problems with noise from the roads around. It was not air conditioned and very hot inside. The distance to the center was a little long. It was not pleasant in the living room. I would not stay here again.
Very nice and clean apartment. He also indicates the arrival much information about the city, which is a nice extra on the already good service! Also, we could leave the luggage all day in the apartment because we stand at night only flew back to the Netherlands.
Zeer mooi en schoon appartement. Ook geeft hij bij aankomst nog veel informatie over de stad, wat een mooie extra is op de toch al goede service! Tevens konden we de koffers de hele dag in het appartement laten staan omdat we 's avonds pas terug naar Nederland vlogen.
Paulo was very friendly and gave us useful information . The apartment was clean and well located . It was a great stay in Lisbon . We would always like to go back to this apartment again . Price performance was fine
We really enjoyed this really very tasteful, comfortable apartment. In the morning breakfast on the balcony with a wonderful view of the Tagus River and the Old Town, in the evening the sunset ....! Albertino has warmly welcomed us with a bottle of wine and a lot of information and also drove back to the airport. The location is so central, everything is within walking distance. A tip: Always nice to go slowly uphill, as the Lisboaer do it, never rush or push. The different viewpoints on this beautiful old town and the flea market at the Campo de Santa Clara, Tuesday and Saturday are highly recommended. The famous elevator (Santa Justa) -Now yes- there was us, the long wait to shame! Be sure the Oceanario at the Parque das Nacoes See -einmalig - !!! We are excited by both the city and its inhabitants and the great home and will be back !!!
Wir haben diese wirklich sehr geschmackvolle, komfortable Wohnung sehr genossen. Morgens das Frühstück auf dem Balkon mit einem wunderbaren Blick auf den Tejo und die Altstadt, abends den Sonnenuntergang....! Albertino hat uns herzlich mit einer Flasche Wein und vielen Informationen empfangen und auch wieder zum Flughafen gefahren. Die Lage ist so zentral, alles ist zu Fuß zu erreichen. Ein Tipp: Immer schön langsam bergauf gehen, wie die Lisboaer es tun, niemals hetzen oder drängeln. Die verschiedenen Aussichtspunkte auf diese wunderschöne Altstadt und der Flohmarkt auf dem Campo de Santa Klara, Dienstag und Samstags sind sehr zu empfehlen. Den berühmten Aufzug (Elevador de Santa Justa) -nun ja- da war uns die lange Wartezeit zu schade! Unbedingt das Oceanario im Parque das Nacoes anschauen -einmalig-!!! Wir sind sowohl von der Stadt und deren Bewohnern und der tollen Wohnung begeistert und werden wiederkommen!!!
Very cozy apartment with all the amenities, we were 11 people and all were perfectsmente installed.
Piso muy acogedor, con todas las comodidades, éramos 11 personas y todas estuvimos perfectsmente instalados.
Albertino has been an amazing host. He has been helpful and nice. His house is beautiful, warm (quite important at night in Lisbon), full of light, quiet, clean... We really loved to stay there and for sure we are going to repeat the experience asap. THANK YOU
About everything perfect host, attentive and were knowledgeable of everything so as Lisbon floor, floor in good heart and welcoming area, all excellent.
Regarding windu, good management but I gained 40 euros more than put the flat q, q guess will commission windu, thanks for everything and greetings
Sobre el anfitrión todo perfecto , atento y estuvimos bien informados de todo tanto del piso como de Lisboa, el piso en buena zona centro y acogedor, todo excelente.
Con respecto a windu, la gestión bien pero se me he cobrado 40 euros más de lo q ponía el apartamento, supongo q serán comisiones de windu, gracias por todo y un saludo
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University of Missouri chancellor search continues
COLUMBIA, Mo. - The search for University of Missouri's 22nd chancellor continues.
Brady Deaton announced his retirement in June after nine years as chancellor. His last day is Nov. 15.
In July, an 18-person search committee of deans, alumni, faculty, and students began working on finding their new leader.
"We are aiming high for the 22nd chancellor at MU, and I want to assure you that we will accept nothing short of excellence in this next leader," says UM system president, Tim Wolfe.
The committee has two more months to find their next leader before Deaton leaves the position. However, Deaton will remain a part of MU's community as executive director of the Brady and Anne Deaton Institute for University Leadership.


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Get ready for a new season of debaucherous Jersey Shore behavior by looking back at some not so shining moments from the controversial cast!
Jersey Shore goes Italian August 4 and to get everyone in the mood for the silly shenanigans of our favorite "Italians," we have collected each cast member's most shocking moment. From Snooki's punch to the face to Pauly D's stalker, here are the wildest moments from the first three seasons.
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