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Back to school means back to packing lunches. Bento box school lunches can be fun and easy once you get the basics.
School time means the kids are out of the house during the day. While the silence and uninterrupted time can be a blessing for parents, sending the kids off to school each day comes with a few extra chores. For a variety of reasons, the majority of parents pack a lunch for their child daily or almost daily. However, creating a healthy lunch that your child will eat without spending too much time or money can be a challenge.
The hottest trend in packed lunches is the bento box. A bento box is "a thin box, made of plastic or lacquered wood, divided into compartments which contain small separate dishes comprising a Japanese meal, especially lunch." (Dictionary.com)
Although originally bento boxes were fairly simple and contain traditional Japanese items like rice, meatballs and vegetables, the options are limitless. The new American style emphasizes using small portions of each food group and creating a cute design that appeals to kids.Here are a few tips to get you started.
Bento box school lunches: getting started
- Keep it simple. You know best what and how much your child will eat.
- Plan ahead. Designing a work of art just before running out the door won't work. Make lunches the night before and keep a supply of items that can just be tossed in to go on busier days.
- Buy the right packaging. Invest in a set of plastic tubs that your child can open. (We like Rubbermaid Lunch Blox) This will save you a fortune in plastic baggies.
- Get your child involved. Whether you're letting him pick a few items at the grocery store or giving him a task to help you pack, your child is more likely to eat something that he made "himself".
There are plenty of resources online with ideas for more elaborate bento boxes. These require a few extra minutes, a few cookie cutters and toothpicks, and creativity. Check out the following:
Bento box inspiration from She Knows Parenting
How to make a bento box for kids from Alpha Mom
20 easy bento lunch boxes from Parenting.com
A smorgasbord of bento lunch ideas from Following in my Shoes
If those seem cute but a little too much, stock up on items that can be added to small containers. Pick one item from each food group (meat, dairy, fruit, veggie, grain) per day. These items are easy to keep on hand and require little prep.
Bento box school lunches: basic ingredients
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Bento box school lunches: traditional Japanese fare
If you want something more traditional for a bento, Tokyo Cafe sells bento lunch boxes that contain items like rice, pasta, meatballs, chicken nuggets, and sauteed veggies. Sniffles(8) is a fan of the store-bought microwave Yakisoba. Tokyo Cafe has a recipe that is fresh, tasty and free from the preservatives found in instant meals. When the weather starts turning cool, break out the thermos and send this lunch that can be made ahead of time and reheated before packing.
Yakisoba Noodles
- 10 oz. noodles
- 1 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon Worchester sauce
- 1 tablespoon sake*
- 1 tablespoon mirin* (Alcohol generally cooks out of hot items, but leave these out if you prefer.)
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon sesame oil
- 4 oz. sliced pork shoulder meat (or any other any type of meat: chicken, beef, pork, tofu)
- 2 oz. green cabbage
- 2 oz. julienne carrots
- 2 cloves of chopped garlic
- 1 tablespoon of chopped green onions
- Cook noodles according to package, rinse with cold water and drain. The noodles need to be separate and not stuck together.
- Prepare the sauce. Combine soy sauce, Worchester sauce, sake, mirin, sugar and sesame oil. Set aside.
- Add oil to a hot pan and brown the garlic, then add the pork and stir fry until cooked on the outside. Before the pork is fully cooked add the carrots and cabbage, noodles, and yakisoba sauce. Stir-fry until cabbage and carrots are cooked. Top with green onions.
Do you have a tip or favorite way of making school lunches? Have you ever made a bento box before?
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Author's Personal Statement: As an academic working in the field of landscape design and planning, I continually encounter references to the idea of a "sustainable landscape." It is a concept of growing significance. For example, the European Landscape Convention, which has now been widely adopted by governments in Europe, refers twice to the role of landscape in sustainable development and also to the sustainable protection, management, and/or planning of landscapes. The term is routinely used by educators, private practitioners, researchers, consultants, and government officials who tend to assume a common understanding of its meaning. Yet the idea of a "sustainable landscape" often remains undefined, or is defined in relation to specific applications and geographical contexts. Conceptions differ significantly between "old world" and "new world" landscapes. Professionals working in landscape architecture, planning, and engineering prioritize different aspects of sustainability as do researchers and academics depending on whether their emphasis is on landscape science, design, management, planning, or history. I feel passionately about landscape and believe that intelligent decisions about its future are pivotal to sustainable development. This essay does not pretend to be a definitive statement on the nature of "sustainable landscape," but I hope that it will provoke further thought about what the concept might mean both in theory and practice.
Keyword: landscape, natural areas protection, cultural values, environmental policy, land use, sustainable development
Citation: Selman P. 2008. What do we mean by sustainable landscape?. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy 4(2):23-28. Published online Dec 04, 2008. http:///archives/vol4iss2/communityessay.selman.html
Landscape has become a major issue in spatial policy both as a sector in its own right, important to outdoor amenity and the leisure economy, and, increasingly, as a basis for framing and managing wider socioenvironmental systems. This trend reflects two broad "schools" in sustainable landscape development—one focused on the design and protection of scenic assets and the other emphasizing dynamic multifunctional links between ecosystem services and human well being. Given sustainability's centrality to public policy and corporate social responsibility, it is not surprising that analysts are asking critical questions about the nature of "sustainable landscape" (Roe, 2007).
The definition of sustainable landscape is not straightforward, not least because of the differing contexts in which it is framed. In relation to large-scale exurban landscapes, an exaggerated, but not groundless, caricature is to contrast a "New World" view of something relatively pristine that sometimes needs ecosystem management with an "Old World" view of a palimpsest that requires the maintenance of traditional land-management practices to sustain subtle character distinctions. In relation to landscape architecture and planning, there is a professional subculture that interprets sustainability in terms of low-impact, but physically and socially pertinent, design (Dunnett & Clayden, 2007) and a scenic planning subculture that designates and safeguards rural areas on the basis of "natural" aesthetic value (Brown et al. 2005). The discourses of these traditions are often quite distinct and lead to varied interpretations of sustainability. They also differ in the degree to which landscape sustainability is anthropocentrically defined (as a resource underpinning human well being) or ecocentrically defined (as a self-regenerative dynamic system). This essay analyzes what sustainable landscape might mean in practice, proposing some principles potentially relevant to a spectrum of traditions and geographical contexts. The author is grounded in the European context and acknowledges this bias; however, as Phillips (2002) has noted in relation to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Protected Landscape Category V, such cultural landscapes/seascapes are by no means exclusive to Europe or, indeed, the "Old World."
Dimensions of sustainable landscapes: environment, economics, society, governance, aesthetics
Sustainable development is generally considered to be at the intersection of environment, economy, and society, although these terms are now often expanded into phrases reflecting ecosystem services and limits, fair and durable prosperity, and health and social justice. Many authors also draw attention to a fourth dimension of "political sustainability," referring to governance mechanisms that continuously deliver sustainable development through the use of responsible science and economics. In the case of landscape, it is also uniquely important to consider what might be described as "aesthetic sustainability." Much of the justification for landscape's importance has been its visual appeal, coupled with intuitive (and perhaps demonstrable) associations between visual harmony, ecological integrity, human well being, and place identity. The remainder of this essay reflects on how these five dimensions might relate to sustainable landscape.
First, the environmental sustainability of landscapes has been strongly influenced by landscape ecology which is concerned with spatial patterns and processes (e.g., Farina, 2006). In the ecological perspective, a sustainable landscape would be one in which the green infrastructure—i.e., biodiverse network of habitat patches and corridors—is of sufficient size, quality, and connectedness to facilitate species' life cycles, maintaining healthy and viable populations. The concept of sustainable landscape has developed largely in response to habitat fragmentation through land intensification; in places, it also reflects a reaction against wholesale land destruction through mining and industry where large seminatural areas are alleged to act as "stabilizers" (Hawkins & Selman, 2002). The relative importance of patch (habitat) size, the permeability of the fragmented landscape matrix, and the extent to which connected linear features improve connectivity for species movement have been much debated. In addition to the biotic realm, landscape sustainability has also been related to other natural environmental factors, notably the conservation of soil moisture and nutrient status, the integrity of water quality and quantity in surface and subsurface hydrological systems, and the influence of vegetation on the equability of microclimate and atmospheric carbon levels.
Evidence for the environmental sustainability of landscapes is often related to their multifunctionality, services, and/or resilience. In the first of these factors, functions (e.g., biodiversity, soil filters) draw upon underlying structures (e.g., habitat mosaic) and in turn yield values to society (e.g., scenic-aesthetic). A landscape may thus afford regulation (e.g., energy balance), carrier (e.g., human settlement), production (e.g., raw materials), and information (e.g., educational) functions. Often, several functions can be found together, but their simultaneity and interactivity, rather than mere colocation, is the hallmark of multifunctionality, and this criterion has found particular application within Europe's multilayered cultural landscapes (Antrop, 2004; Ling et al. 2007). The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) has popularized the notion of ecosystem services underpinning human well being, notably:
Landscape sustainability has been closely linked to these factors and to the associated accumulation of natural capital (Haines-Young et al. 2006). The perspective of ecosystem resilience has found particular popularity in North America, although its adherents are now widely spread (e.g., Walker et al. 2004; Matthews & Selman, 2006). This theory views a sustainable landscape as one able to achieve a state of relative stability through self-regulating feedback, albeit periodically destabilized when drawn to a different "attractor." If the agent of instability is predominantly natural, a new self-regulating state may well be achieved. However, if the system is destabilized by high-impact human activity, feedback may prompt ever more frantic attempts to remediate to avoid transition to an undesirable state.
The economic sustainability of landscapes has often been expressed as the maintenance of attractive scenery to support tourism and recreation. However, this superficial view, though not without immediate practical merit, fails to query the desirability or possibility of retaining nostalgic spaces. Our finest cultural landscapes often exist where mainstream economic practices have serendipitously created iconic scenery and ecology as an inadvertent side effect, as with the Enclosure Acts across the English countryside during the eighteenth century. Also, the economic practices that produced them (perhaps during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) are increasingly obsolescent and their archaic farming methods can now only be shored up with taxpayer subsidy. Europe has gone down this route through an elaborate scheme of agroenvironmental payments that, despite many successes, is still in tension with World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements and may be no more than a fiscally unsustainable expedient, temporarily slowing the rate of attrition. At the heart of economic landscape sustainability lies the notion of a "virtuous circle" in which mainstream endogenous, spontaneous production spins out landscape benefits that in turn make the local area attractive for producers to maintain and embed supportive environmental practices (Powell et al. 2002; Vollet et al. 2008). This synergy has been most fully articulated in relation to specialist food and timber products that achieve a premium based on distinctive local identity and in relation to the impact of urban greenspace on property values. However, many unexplored opportunities, both urban and rural, relate to drivers of landscape change such as housing, energy, and infrastructure.
Although it is simplest to think of economic landscape sustainability relying on market-based "change drivers" it is also necessary, in complex modern economies, to acknowledge the nonmarket mechanisms of public and voluntary patronage. The role of the wealthy patron has been prominent in garden and estate design over many centuries and there is little fundamental difference in the contemporary maintenance of landscape distinctiveness and ecological status through state intervention and the direct action of "conservation, amenity, and recreation trusts" (CARTs). Additionally, land use planning mechanisms can enforce landscape amelioration as part of the development process, and this further distorts the open market (or perhaps rectifies market failure). However, such interventions will inevitably be spatially uneven and, in a policy context where almost all landscapes are valuable to at least some "insider" groups, the character of ordinary/quotidian landscapes will generally rely on spin offs from mainstream market mechanisms or voluntary action.
Social sustainability in landscapes is often addressed in terms of participation and inclusivity in decision making and access (Moore-Colyer & Scott, 2005). While these practices are necessary, however, they are not sufficient. The phenomenological tradition affirms that landscapes have meanings to a spectrum of insiders and outsiders and may be integral to the construction of place and its genius loci (e.g., Scazzozi, 2004). The legibility of a landscape's narrative is critical to its perceived value, while an understanding of its rules—both codified and tacit—is pivotal to its navigability and use (Olwig, 2005). Places may be landscapes of security or fear to a range of residents or sojourners.
Several aspects are of current practical interest to the design of socially sustainable landscapes. First is the inclusion of public preferences through relatively well-developed methods of participatory design and landscape appraisal. Often, however, this remains at a relatively superficial level and lacks a clearly articulated model of client-centered design where users may be from diverse cultural and social (and even nonhuman) groups—the challenge of socially just landscape design is still poorly understood (Brown & Jennings, 2003). Second, landscapes provide a powerful setting for "social" (e.g., Collins et al. 2007) and "sustainability" (Tàbara & Pahl-Wostl, 2007) learning. Especially in situations where people have become disconnected from daily contact with land and rivers, enjoyable rediscovery of the environment through the medium of landscape may facilitate re-engagement and an appreciation of aesthetic values that incorporate nature. Third, it is striking that people in community settings tend to describe landscape not in physical terms, but in associative terms related to friendship, kinship, and employment. Quotidian performances of walking and talking the landscape engender mental images of "peopled landscapes" so that both purposeful and aimless, solitary and accompanied, traverses of a place become integral to its recall. Such intimate perceptions are pivotal to social sustainability and yet have scarcely been explored. Finally, acknowledgement is rapidly expanding of landscape's relationship to health, fitness, and well being. Several studies have attempted to relate vegetated space to mental and physical recovery and wellness, but even in this limited context the subtlety and complexity of linkages render research design intractable (e.g. Skärbäck, 2007). Yet the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) discusses far more elaborate connections between landscape and well being, ranging from national security to food supply, and most of these linkages remain matters of conjecture.
The political sustainability of landscape requires effective governance structures, including "commons," for both the private and public domains. While some cultural landscapes have evolved endogenously from artisan practices, many have the imprint of privileged power and have thus always been "political." In contemporary cultural landscapes, the roles of the state and the corporation are so intimately intertwined that it is difficult to imagine the production and reproduction of distinctive landscapes without government intervention. While one might question the state's role in truly self-sustaining landscapes, it is no more of an artifice than the conscious creation of landscape (often with beneficial unanticipated ecological-visual consequences) by erstwhile gentry and potentates. A recurrent problem of landscape governance has been a widespread reliance on "projectism," providing short-term funding for successive countryside management initiatives. While a few of these schemes have proved durable, future sustainability will rely on mechanisms to mainstream landscape considerations in designs, plans, policies, and programs related to key "drivers of change."
A number of mechanisms signal the way toward sustained inclusion of landscape within public and private decisions. Europe is now witnessing the widespread implementation of the European Landscape Convention (Council of Europe, 2000) that is embedding the planning, protection, and management of landscapes by "strengthening institutional frameworks" and "creating an inclusive, people-centered approach." Similarly, local spatial planning increasingly embraces Landscape Character Assessment for systematic and consistent policy application (Swanwick, 2004). Spatial plans are also moving toward the retrofitting or phased incorporation of potentially lavish green infrastructure and sustainable urban drainage systems, thereby capitalizing on sustainable housing as a driver of future multifunctional landscapes and using statutory devices such as "developer contributions." Such mainstreaming of landscape sustainability is, if actually practiced, a step change from the piecemeal and generally superficial development-plan policies that have existed to date (Punter & Carmona, 1997). Within the cultural landscapes of Europe, landscape measures have been widely incorporated into agricultural support mechanisms, not least as WTO agreements have forced governments to remove overt subsidies and instead pay farmers for their environmental services. The targeting of farm payments is now widely made on the basis of landscape-scale analysis, enabling strategies to reconnect habitat networks (Catchpole, 2007). The EU Water Framework Directive is also establishing catchment-scale governance, increasingly reflected in statutory documents such as River Basin Management Plans and more voluntary approaches such as river contracts. Significantly, in the United Kingdom these measures connect with a cross-departmental statutory Public Service Agreement to "secure a healthy natural environment for today and the future." There is increasing evidence of the incorporation of landscape benefits into policy and practice in ways that assure sustained and central, rather than intermittent and precarious, consideration. While stopping short of the more fundamentalist interpretations of "bioregionalism," numerous instances of governance are now being based on landscape units such as river catchments, thereby promoting environmental integrity and intactness (e.g., Hamilton & Selman, 2005).
As noted previously, the criterion of aesthetic sustainability is uniquely important to landscape, not only because visual amenity has been a longstanding mainstay of policy, but also because it is often assumed to indicate healthy functioning of underlying systems. There is a long tradition of valuing landscapes for their "natural beauty" (Brady, 2003). As a very sweeping generalization this tends to relate to intimate and harmonious scenery in the "Old World" and sublime and transcendent scenery in the "New World." The arguments linking outstanding beauty to sustainability have often been emotive and essentialist, but recent interpretations suggest that these determinations are based on more than mere intuition. For example, some arguments link visual complexity and fractal dimension to ecological functionality, while numerous studies relate green and natural environments to wellness and recuperation. However, equating "natural beauty" with landscape sustainability is too limited, as it refers only to a "high culture" ontology. Many ordinary and even damaged landscapes give pleasure and security to some users, although their ambivalent qualities may mean they are contested (Jorgensen & Tylecote, 2007). Sustaining their visual qualities is a more complex issue than simply protecting them against change.
An intriguing aspect of aesthetic sustainability is that aesthetic tastes are socially dynamic and, while some perceptions of beauty may be cross cultural (Strang, 2005), often they vary according to time and place. The idea of an "acquired aesthetic" suggests that we may gradually develop an appreciation of objects that initially seem discordant or heretic—even mountains and wetlands have been the subject of a progressive revision of tastes since the eighteenth century. Landscapes possess varying degrees of legibility that betray underlying narratives, and the extent to which we appreciate or denigrate a landscape is closely related to the way we are conditioned to "read" it. It is quite plausible that, as we learn more of a landscape's underlying story, the degree to which we endorse that story will influence the extent to which we favor the view. We could, for example, hypothesize that reactions to wind turbines—which are variously described as magnificent or monstrous—are influenced by the viewer's belief in the importance of wind energy to sustainable development or self sufficiency. (Consider, for example, how the residents of the beautiful island of Gigha in Scotland have termed their community-owned turbines the "three dancing ladies.") A low-impact development policy based on explicit sustainability criteria has recently embraced some "heretic" Welsh permaculture communities in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park that had been subjected to a longstanding bureaucratic battle to demolish the buildings (Willis, 2008). The resultant structures may soon come be viewed appreciatively by tourists and planners. Such a possibility is of great significance, for the serious pursuit of sustainable development will have landscape implications that will inevitably attract protest. The extent to which society endorses a landscape's narrative and acquires an aesthetic for its changed appearance may prove to be critical to the acceptance of "strong" sustainability practices.
The manifold dimensions of sustainable landscapes raise challenging questions over the nature of how to design, plan, and manage them. The matter is further complicated by a variety of traditions and subcultures and by the different scales and concerns of urban and rural practitioners. However, some common themes emerge around the canons of sustainability. For example, there is a blurring of traditional urban-rural divides, characterized by strategic networks of multifunctional greenspaces, environmental service provisioning, and connective urban fringes. This confluence reflects a growing emphasis on blue-green infrastructure, not merely based on spurious leftover spaces, but systematically promoting settlements that "touch lightly on the earth" and integrate with wider landscape systems. In this MacHargian tradition, people and places reconnect with "nature" through imaginative thrift in the use of ecological-hydrological resources entailing strategic approaches to sustainable drainage, green roofs, multifunctional networks, and recuperative greenspace (see MacHarg, 1998). Further, there is a growing acknowledgement of the importance of all landscape, not only that deemed "outstanding" in terms of natural beauty. Thus, sustainable landscape planning may entail creation, reinforcement, and restoration just as much as protection; it also requires the embedding of political and economic mechanisms that possess the continuous potential to reproduce valued places. On occasion, it may involve recreation and rewilding to promote a "future nature" (Adams, 2003) across extensive areas and habitat networks, resulting in landscape systems sufficiently large and intact to be autopoietic, self-sustaining, and adaptable to climate change. Finally, there is an acknowledgement of the need to "people" landscapes, not only through participatory processes, but more generally through wider re-engagement between communities and place, and a deeper professional appreciation of the ways that local landscapes are walked and talked. Overall, addressing the sustainable landscape means moving away from "set pieces" towards systemic integrity based on wisdom and intelligent care (Iverson Nassauer, 1997) that draw upon both an anthropocentric and an ecocentric discourse. It is quite likely that such functionally sustainable landscapes will also, serendipitously, come to be seen as beautiful.
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Collins, K., Blackmore, C., Morris, D., & Watson, D. 2007 A systematic approach to managing multiple perspectives and stakeholding in water catchments: some findings from three UK case studies. Environmental Science and Policy 10(6):564–574.
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The boy bands are back people! As One Direction tops the US album charts, their rival British and Irish boy band The Wanted are also heating up the charts.
23-year-old Max George has been by far the most vocal of the group, and one of the most prettiest to look at.
George has dismissed rival British boyband One Direction as "no competition" when it comes to conquering the US.
Max and bandmates Siva, Tom, Nathan and Jay are celebrating US success after getting into the Billboard top five with "Glad You Came," while young rivals Louis, Harry, Liam, Niall and Zayn of 1D are also trying to crack America.
But Max told The Sun: "Our song is number four in the charts. Maybe when they have a song right next to us in the charts over there, they'll be competition.
"Whenever you see anything about One Direction their fans get a little bit angry. I guess because they're quite young."
Snap! Launch the gallery and check out the pics of the very photogenic Max George.


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I recently picked up this 70's Elvish bike. It had been stored for the past 30, or so years, in a garage and needs some TLC. Luckily the grease did a good job in preventing lock up on most of the components.... Anyways, I've recently moved to seeing what I could do with the frame to clean it up. Whatever is on the paint made it really dull and it seems as though there is rust nearly coming through in some parts. My question, for those that are more knowledgeable, if this paint scheme is worth saving, or to just strip it down and repaint. The decals are in pretty good order and I would like to keep them... Your thoughts are appreciated. Can anyone also tell me about this Elvish bike? I looked online and couldn't find hardly anything on it. Thanks!
After cleaning the fork best I could without removing the paint!
Frame as it stands now...


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MUNCIE, Ind. - Seven players fouled out. There were 62 fouls called, 88 free throws shot and 20 3-pointers made. In the end of 50 minutes, the Butler women's basketball team survived Ball State, 105-98, in double overtime Sunday afternoon at Worthen Arena.
Six players scored in double figures for BU, including senior Alyssa Pittman with a game-high 22 points. Sophomore Claire Freeman and freshman Sarah Hamm each added career highs 18 and 15 points, respectively.
The game almost ended in regulation, and with Ball State capturing the home win. Freshman Mandy McDivitt drained a step-back 3-pointer with 4.3 seconds remaining to make it a wild 81-81 game. BSU's Ty'Ronda Benning drove the length of the floor and hit a runner 3-pointer as the buzzer sounded.
With Ball State celebrating a win, the officials went to the monitor to review the play. After several minutes, referee Beverly Roberts waved off Benning's apparent game-winner and the game went into overtime.
The two teams traded points in the first extra period. Ball State (4-5) again had a late advantage, leading 87-85 in the final seconds. Freeman drove the lane and scored with 2 seconds left to tie it again. BSU couldn't get off a final shot and the game went into a second overtime.
With both teams depleted by foul trouble, neither team appeared to have much left. Benches were thin, as four Bulldogs and three Cardinals had fouled out. Butler proved to be the deeper team, as McDivitt buried the Cardinals with a pair of 3s to put the game away. BU led 91-89 when the freshman from Connersville hit back-to-back treys to put the Bulldogs ahead 97-89. Butler got its 100th point on a free throw by senior Azjah Bass. Ball State got within 103-98 but wouldn't get closer.
McDivitt finished with 13 points, including 4-for-6 shooting from beyond the arc. Senior Brittany Bowen had 15 points and senior Chloe Hamilton 14 before each player fouled out. Emily Maggert led Ball State with 21 points and nine rebounds. Benning scored 18 points. Both Maggert and Benning fouled out as well.
Ball State appeared to be running away with the game, leading by 14 with 10:36 to play. The Cardinals had taken command with hot outside shooting, making 11-for-16 in regulation. It was Freeman and freshman point guard Jenna Cobb who set the tone for the comeback.
The Bulldogs trailed 59-47 when Cobb and Freeman came into the game with 13:01 left in the second half. The two young, quick guards controlled the tempo, converting Ball State turnovers into points. With McDivitt and Pittman making shots, Butler cut the lead to 79-75 with 1:13 to go. Pittman nailed a 3-pointer with a minute to go to make it 79-78. After two Ball State free throws made it 81-78, McDivitt made the first of her three big shots.
Butler (5-4) will take final exams this week and return to the court next week in Couture's home state of South Carolina. BU will play Coastal Carolina on a neutral court in Myrtle Beach Sunday, Dec. 19. The Dawgs finish the trip with a game at South Carolina on Dec. 21.
NOTES: It was Butler's first 100-point game since winning 116-101 over Detroit in 1999...the game was BU's first 2OT win since an 86-81 victory at Miami (Ohio) two years ago...Butler out-scored Ball State in the paint 50-16...the game featured 19 lead changes and 15 ties...the Bulldogs got 56 bench points, 53 coming from Pittman, Freeman and McDivitt.


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Mandated Training Legal Dos and Don'ts
When can training be held? Can employees be asked to pitch in for the costs? What are the risks of looking outside for the trainers?
August 30, 2001
Into each company some training must fall, and for many organizations, thattraining is legally mandated. Whether it is the exigencies of the OccupationalSafety and Health Act or a new twist in labor law, at one point or another,HR professionals are charged with putting the training together.
Several questions arise: When can the training be held? Can employees be askedto pitch in for the costs? What are the legal risks of looking outside for thetrainers?
Paul Salvatore, a partner in the labor and employment practice groupin the New York City office of Proskauer Rose, offers HR some guidelines ontraining.
- What kind of training tends to be legally mandated?
- There are certain areas, like in OSHA, where regulations require employersto do a certain kind of training -- or at least ensure their employees havethat kind of training before they put them to work.
- Discrimination and harassment is nearly mandatory. What we've seen sincethe Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill standoff in the early 1990s is a movement --and Supreme Court rulings in the past few years have propelled that movement-- toward training as an almost essential function for companies. Some states,like Connecticut and Maine, require training in the sexual-harassment areafor managers. It's a growing trend.
- So sexual-harassment and discrimination-prevention training is almost mandatoryin practice?
- The Supreme Court has essentially ruled that punitive damages cannot be availableagainst an employer who has taken all the preventative steps in discriminationand harassment. So this training has become almost mandatory for corporationsin order to prevent the problems from happening, and to avoid liability.
- Say your company is required to conduct training. How much does the companyhave to pay for?
- You have to shoulder the cost of the training as the employer. As far as I know,there's no government grant for doing harassment training, although there maybe for some kinds of safety training.
- Does it matter if the training is conducted live rather than online?
- Live training is the traditional way of presenting material in an interactiveway. Sometimes people use theatrical actors to role-play, or movie clips, casescenarios, or lecture formats. The trainers customize their content to the company'sculture, making sure they're teaching the policy of the company, whatever thatpolicy may be. The problem with that kind of training is if you have 50,000employees. How do you get to all of them?
- So you can use the Internet?
- The Web has created a dramatic delivery mechanism.
- With legal wrinkles so rapidly developing in the online arena, is suchtraining legally viable?
- I'm unaware of any case that talks to the delivery mechanism of training.
- The critical factor is the quality of the material you're presenting. Youmust make sure it's customized enough to cover the company. You also haveto have a record to show that the person has gone through the training. Mostgood training programs have a quiz at the end. Once you've completed the program,an e-mail goes to HR for a permanent record of the accomplished training.
- What if the employee fails the legally mandated training?
- Then the employee brushes up, does some remedial reading, and takes the quizagain to show that the problem has been dealt with.
- Can you demand that employees go through their training on the weekend orafter work hours?
- Sure, but this training is considered work, so under the wage and hour lawsyou're going to pay the employees if they're non-exempt. If they're managers,they're exempt, so then they're on a salary. But a regular worker would getovertime.
- What if it turns out that the training itself is simply ineffective? Where'sthe liability then?
- With sexual-harassment law, for example, the plaintiff's attorney often challengesthe efficiency of the training and the quality of the training. It's very commonthat the training content and delivery becomes an issue.
- What if the training itself causes a legal issue -- an employee is hurt,or, in harassment training, the discussion reveals something ugly or illegal?
- There have been cases where the training is not done well -- especially in thearea of diversity training. There are situations where people are encouragedby their trainers to act out as part of their methodology. Things said and donein these training sessions have come back to haunt the company. There are caseswhere companies have been found liable because of things said or done, or retaliatoryactions, triggered by improperly conducted training sessions. That is anotherreason why you want to understand what you're buying when you're outsourcingtraining.
- And in such cases, who would be sued: the company that hired out or thetrainers?
- I think the company is going to be sued by the employee. Whether the employercan look to recover from the third party is an interesting legal question. Butusually these third parties aren't real deep pockets. The company is the deeppocket. Usually it's not so much malpractice in the training as, "My managerSam revealed he's a member of the Ku Klux Klan and loves to put up nooses. Twoweeks later I found a noose in my cubicle, and when I confronted him about it,he denied it, and three weeks later he fired me for poor performance."It's not so much the training as what's revealed in the training.
- What should HR do then, if something like that is revealed in training?
- I've had many training sessions where people say things and do things thateven the group knew were wrong in terms of the group's mores. Then you haveto engage in a very sensitive but tactful kind of Socratic exchange with thatindividual to try to have him or her understand why they're an outlier interms of what they've expressed.
- In a group session, sometimes you can achieve that and sometimes you can't.But it's a job you'll follow up with human resources. Because you can't justlet that go. Anytime you're dealing with workplace issues, you're dealingwith sensitive personnel issues. And it's hard unless you're utilizing peoplewho know what they're doing.
The information contained in this article is intended to provide useful information on the topic covered, but should not be construed as legal advice or a legal opinion. Also remember that state laws may differ from the federal law.
Workforce, September 2001, pp. 82-84 -- SubscribeNow!


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Watch Villa charge back from going behind twice in the third round encounter at the Etihad Stadium.
After seeing former hero Gareth Barry put through his own net, check out our three other goals on the evening.
Gabby Agbonlahor fires Villa level for a second time with a beautifully-worked effort, including a one-two with Christian Benteke.
Charles N'Zogbia puts us in front, pouncing from close-range after Agbonlahor's initial effort is parried.
Then see speed demon Agbonlahor settle the tie, gliding past two defenders before chipping the keeper courtesy of a slight deflection.
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Sorry for opening up a new thread about a problem that has been dicussed here one week before, but didn't come to any helpful result: https://developer.yahoo.com/forum/Pipes/503-error-in-Google/1403154025116-78835e48-8af1-403f-a5bf-5f2bce6917de
I had been joining some Google News search results delivered by a RSS file. The system had at least been running for more than a year without any problems. But for the last two days it failed.
This is my pipe: https://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=7549c4118436bb77d6104a7b3ed7dc4b
For each RSS query I receive an error message now, like:
"warning Error fetching https://news.google.de/news/feeds?hl=de&gl=de&q=(CDU%7C%7CSPD%7C%7CFDP)+youtube&output=rss. Response: Service Unavailable (503)"
But: Requesting the mere Google URL by a web browser works properly. Only in my pipe the problem occurs.
I'm quite desparate because I need that merged RSS for my work. And I am already thinking about programming my own RSS merger, but that's much work....
Can anybody help?
Thanks in advance!
As you can see here crawlers are now forbidden on this domain. It may be temporary, try sending a mail to google, see what they can tell you.
I'd like to suggest a trick however: follow the procedure I explained on the last post of the previous thread and try fetching that URL using a robot (like pipe's for example!). If it works, you can analyze the URL and build similar ones for your inputs.
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|PCHS speakers are runners-up at SPVA
Competing at Hershey on Feb. 24, PCHS speakers tallied 209 points in two rounds of preliminary and one round of final competition at the SPVA Speech Contest.
Maxwell scored 220 points to take the title from the defending champions. Third place went to North Platte St. Pat's with a score of 162 points.
Unlike many of the invitational speech meets which determine team points on the basis of the final round of competition, the SPVA scoring includes the performances in preliminary rounds, insuring that each competitor contributes to the overall team standing.
SPVA contest rules allow only two entries in each of the nine events.
Speakers and placings for the contest included: Informative–Elisa Carlson–Superior, Kristin Beck–Superior;
Persuasive–Tori Osler third, Michi Prante Superior.
Extemporaneous–Tori Osler first, Amara Meyer second.
Entertainment–Cole Whalen fourth, Shania Metcalf Excellent. Poetry–Calla Mailand second, Kalyn Hanson Superior.
Humorous Prose–Lacey Jensen third, Ashley Kemling Superior.
Serious Prose–Ashley Kemling first, Calla Mailand fourth.
Duet Acting–Erik Hagan and Mackenzie Hite first, Lacey Jensen and Rachel Patrick third.
Oral Interpretation of Drama– Erik Hagan, Jeremy Hagan, Kye Kurkowski, Josh Sexson and Nick Turner first; Elisa Carlson, Mackenzie Hite, Amara Meyer, Brooke Poppe and Michael York fourth.
Ogallala Invite
The Saturday before Wednesday's conference contest sent speakers to the Ogallala Invite. No team scores are awarded at Ogallala as the contest recognizes individuals in the top six places.
Participants and placings for the meet were:
Informative–Kristin Beck fifth, Elisa Carlson sixth.
Persuasive–Matisyn Humphrey, Michi Prante, Tori Osler.
Extemporaneous–Tori Osler sixth, Trevor Lee, Amara Meyer.
Entertainment–Cole Whalen seventh, Shania Metcalf, Elliot Carlson.
Poetry–Kalyn Hanson first, Calla Mailand fifth.
Humorous Prose–Lacey Jensen, Ashley Kemling, Mindee Hausman, Debbie Dahlkoetter.
Serious Prose–Ashley Kemling, Calla Mailand, Kalyn Hanson, Stephanie Reichert.
Duet Acting–Erik Hagan and Mackenzie Hite second, Tori Osler and Ashley Kemling, Lacey Jensen and Rachel Patrick.
Oral Interp of Drama–Michael Dreiling, Erik Hagan, Kye Kurkowski, Josh Sexson and Nick Turner first; Elisa Carlson, Mackenzie Hite, Amara Meyer, Brooke Poppe and Michael York.
The PCHS speech team will host the C2-6 district contest on Monday, March 8. In a field of nine participating schools, PCHS competitors will speak in one round of preliminary competition.
Each round will be divided into two sections with the top three in each section advancing to a final round.
The top three contestants will earn a trip to the state speech contest held at UNK on Friday, March 19.


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Global Film Initiative Selects Four New Titles as Cowan Leaves Organization
by Brian Brooks
New non-profit group, Global Film Initiative, has acquired rights to four more titles to be included in the organization's first national tour, chair Susan Coulter announced this week. The four films, which will be a part of a nine-title slate, were selected from three international film festivals including the Festival de Cannes, the Toronto International Film Festival and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The news comes as the organization, which launched earlier this year, confirmed that founder and executive director Noah Cowan has departed.
The four films, in keeping with Global Film Initiative's mandate to support original filmmaking in the developing world, include Tajik director Djamshed Usmonov's 2002 Cannes and Rotterdam feature "Angel on the Right." The film centers on a gangster who returns to his home village from Moscow to see his dying mother, only to discover the locals lured him in order to get back the money he owes them.
Filipino director Joel Lamangan's Toronto fest family drama "Wretched Lives," set during the presidency of Joseph Estrada in the Asian country during the '90s, will also screen as well as Algerian Yamina Bachir-Chouikh's "Rachida," about a schoolteacher fleeing her town from terrorism only to find more of the same. The film screened originally in Cannes and Rotterdam. Also selected is Cannes, Toronto and Tribeca film fest feature "Nothing" by Cuban Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti. Set in a post office in Cuba, "Nothing" is the story of a postal employee who passes the time by assuming other's identities by writing letters, thereby giving meaning to her own inhibited emotions.
"We've looked for cinematic and aesthetic excellence as well as authentic narratives," Coulter told indieWIRE yesterday in a conversation about the selected films. "They're all compelling stories we think everyone can identify with [that] focus on emotional engagement that cross all national borders." Coulter told indieWIRE that the details of the tour, which will be organized by the Initiative, will come later.
Yesterday's selections will join five previously announced films including "Ticket to Jerusalem" (Palestine) by Rashid Masharawi, "Shadow to Kill" (India) by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, "Khorma" (Tunisia) by Jilani Saadi, "Margarette's Feast" (Brazil) by Renato Falcao, and "Women's Prison" (Iran) by Manijeh Hekmat.
In other news, Coulter confirmed the group's founder and executive director, Noah Cowan, has left the day-to-day operation of the organization, but he remains on the board. Cowan has yet to announce his future plans and Coulter indicated that an announcement of who will take his post is still to be announced.
Global Film Initiative recently announced award recipients for its first granting program. Its mantra is to support work "by making use of the power of local storytelling traditions, as well as filmmaking that displays innovative use of the cinematic medium."
[For more information, please visit: http://www.globalfilm.org.]


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HUNTERSVILLE – The V Foundation All-Star Classic, featuring lake-area high school basketball stars, will be held June 7 at Lake Norman Charter. Proceeds will be donated to The V Foundation for Cancer Research.
The organization was founded by former N.C. State basketball coach Jim Valvano, who died of cancer in 1993. The girls' all-star game will begin at 6 p.m., followed by the boys' game. All players are seniors. Tickets cost $10 for adults and $5 for students/children.
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"We hope that the seniors realize that they are a big part of this effort to give back to something special that hits too close to home to many of us," said Bobby Williams, who coaches the Lake Norman Charter girls' team and is the Nothing But Net founder. "Our intent is to grow this event each year so that we can offer The V Foundation a big check year after year."
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The "celebrity" coaches will be former college players from the lake area, including Brandyn Curry (Harvard), Kevin Canevari (Mercer), Devona Allgood (Princeton), Kyle Gaillard (William & Mary) and Jamie Skeen (Virginia Commonwealth).
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Fort Pierce shooting leaves 2 dead
Police investigating two 911 calls placed at time of shooting
Police in Fort Pierce are looking for a suspect after two men were shot dead in the northern part of the city on Sunday.
Police found the bodies of two middle-aged victims inside a car near North 29th Street, but it's unclear if they were shot while they were inside or outside the vehicle.
Minutes before the shooting, police received a 911 call reporting a suspicious vehicle in the area.
"It was a suspicious vehicle, and then a second call came in (that reported) shots fired. There were two males inside the car, one was deceased on arrival, the other was transported to Lawnwood Medical Center," said Dep. Chief Frank Amandro.
St. Lucie County Sheriff's deputies are investigating a second shooting on Friday in which one man was killed.
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Information Literacy in a Nutshell
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