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After the Nov. 29 bankruptcy filing by the Neighborhood Interfaith Movement (NIM), a group of local clergy and religious leaders gathered at Summit Presbyterian Church on Thursday, Dec. 13. More than two dozen people, including leaders of Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities, met with NIM board chair John Wright to learn more about the bankruptcy and to discuss possibilities for ongoing interfaith cooperation.
While similar monthly clergy gatherings had been coordinated by NIM in the past, the group reaffirmed its desire to meet for the sake of partnership, service and community well-being in Northwest Philadelphia. The next gathering of clergy and religious leaders will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 8 a.m. at Janes Memorial United Methodist Church, 47 E. Haines St. in Germantown.
Despite NIM's closing, two interfaith events will still be held in January 2013 and are open to the public. First, the Heschel-King Festival on January 4 and 5 will celebrate the lives, visions and teachings of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Heschel. It takes place at Mishkan Shalom, 4101 Freeland Ave.; www.mishkan.org. Second, the Germantown Jewish Centre, 400 W. Ellet St. will host an interfaith celebration on the afternoon of Sunday, Jan. 20. More details about that event will be forthcoming. For more information, contact Christ Ascension Lutheran Church's Pastor Martin Lohrmann, firstname.lastname@example.com.


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James Siemen
- B.A., University of Delaware, 1972
- M.A., University of Nebraska, 1974
- Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 1979
My profession is the teaching of psychology. Consequently, one of my favorite research areas is in aspects of teaching psychology classes. I often present research at a national conference on teaching in Florida. In addition, examples of other research include working with students who have collected data on such wide ranging topics as using animals (a dog) as a facilitator in working with children in a counseling setting, working on tutoring program for elementary children at risk for failure, looking at ethnic differences in abnormal eating behaviors among high school females, reading strategies used by those with certain types of learning disabilities, and looking at aspects of seasonal affective disorder (the tendency for some to feel depressed during the winter months), and lots of topics related to the Health Psychology class.
Who, What, When, Where, Why….
I went through an undergraduate program at the University of Delaware (1972) and graduate program at the University of Nebraska (MA 1974, PhD 1979). My degrees are in Counseling Psychology and I participated in a Clinical pre-doctoral internship at the Syracuse VA Hospital in Syracuse, NY. I became interested in psychology because I wanted to know why people make the decisions they make, particularly on a spiritual level. What is it about some people that provokes them to strive forward and succeed, while others struggle and hurt?
The psychology department offers many different applied classes, and I teach several of them. My favorite course is Psychopathology (abnormal psychology); it has the closest relationship to what I do as a professional licensed Psychologist. I frequently help team teach General Psychology (our year long introductory psychology course). I also teach Counseling Psychology (where we practice and audiotape counseling techniques), Behavior Modification (where we manipulate environmental variables to effect changes in behaviors), and Health Psychology (where almost all of our students, working in small groups, initiate research and qualify to present their research work at meetings of the Eastern Psychology Association. Locations include Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York, & Baltimore).
It is the firm belief, both at the departmental level and at the college level, that there is no substitute for going out and putting into practice the things we learn in classes. To that end, the Psychology Department coordinates the largest internship program on campus. Almost any student desiring an internship experience may participate. Typical placements include working in a local inpatient psychiatric hospital, working in a local outpatient clinic, working at a local drug/alcohol rehabilitation center, working at a local psychiatric day treatment center, working with children at high risk for school and social failure, working with public school guidance counselors, and many, many more. We have agreements with hospitals in Baltimore (Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center & Sheppard Pratt Psychiatric Hospital) and we seek to expand into any areas of student interest.
Other Work/interests
I like my work, but I have a life away from campus. I was the first medic certified in the Chestertown area and I continue to volunteer my time to the Kent-Queen Anne's Rescue Squad, I was a publicly elected member of the Kent County School Board (resigned after serving 19+ years as a Board Member and President), I work one day a week as a Consulting Psychologist for the Kent County Mental Health Clinic, and I am an ordained deacon in the church; my greatest joy on campus is to serve as the faculty sponsor to the Washington College Campus Christian Fellowship, which has been meeting every Wednesday night for almost three decades. Lastly, I have a loving wife and two wonderful children.
Meet Some Of My Students…
The following are pictures of the students in our recent Health Psychology class. Each of the groups pictured here initiated a researchable topic, collected and analyzed data, drew conclusions, and submitted the research for poster presentation to the Eastern Psychological Association's annual meeting. Topics include:
Looking at the effects of sleep deprivation and alcohol intake on driver simulated reaction time, heart-rate, and blood pressure. Elaine Pranski, Misty Christensen, and Amy Linthicum.
Looking at the relationship between florescent, full-spectrum, and natural light on memory, concentration, stress, and cortisol production. Katie Juromski, Spencer Case, and Craig Chilton.
Looking at the effects of sleep deprivation on food cravings, memory, mood, and the body's reaction to stress. Jennifer Smith and Christopher Smith.
Looking at the effects of religiosity on self-esteem and stress in college students. Caitlyn Onyx.
Looking at the effects of situational stress on creativity. Sarah Talbot and her mother Karen.
Looking at the effects of video taped self-modeling on influencing the behavior of students with Autism. Steve Smith.
Looking at changed in heart-rate and food consumption for dieters and non-dieters when preloaded with high calorie food. Caitlin Orsini and Kelsey Pont.
Looking at the effects of music with language versus music without language on concentration and arousal in college students. Lindsay Merhige and Barbara Harrington.
Looking at "What's for Dinner?" Measuring the effects of athleticism and depression on healthy eating choices. Winner of the PSI CHI Poster Session Research Award. Allison Sullivan and Lindsey Riley.

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Wednesday, 30. May 2012
According to a recent article at Forbes.com, 44% of employees are unsatisfied with their current jobs. As Susan Adams writes in her article, "New Survey: Majority of Employees Dissatisfied", even while unhappy, many employees feel stuck, afraid to make a career change, due largely to the current job economy.
Most articles you will read about professionally written resumes will focus on how to get a potential employer's attention. Very few give tips on making sure the right employer pays attention…and the wrong ones don't.
For instance, many people say that I am a team player. But really, that is just a code word for loyalty. Not everyone plays well in a team and not every workplace is good for team players. Some people work better on their own, and some workplaces leave employees to work on their own. Some individual bosses like to micromanage, while others like to give direction and kick you out of the nest.
In order to find a work environment that will make you happy you need to be upfront, honest, and specific about your preferred working style. Many new hires have the tendency to try to be the type of worker that they think the employer is looking for, even if they know it will not make them happy in the long run.
Catering your perceived working style and preferences to a new employer will not help you to attract the right kind of employers, the ones you would actually enjoy working for.
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According to the all things Apple site, Steve Jobs and Homer Simpson have more in common than just their receding hairlines.
In fact, the Apple CEO is the real life uncle of the lovable "doh," if he was real of course.
How could a flesh and blood tech guru be the long lost uncle of a cartoon character? Let Cult of Mac explain.
When Jobs was born he was put up for adoption by his real parents Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali because the two were not married at the time.
When the couple finally did tie the knot, the two had a daughter they name Mona Jandali. But Jobs' younger sister ditched both her first and last name when her father abandoned her and her mother. She took her stepfather's name and became Mona Simpson.
Years later when Simpson's was a well-known novelist, she married television writer and producer Richard Appel, who now writes for "The Cleveland Show" but at the time was a writer and producer for "The Simpsons."
In 1995 Appel wrote an episode called "Mother Simpson," where Homer was reunited with his mother Mona. Does the name sound familiar?
Appel (strangely close to Appel) used his wife's name for Homer's mother, making Jobs Homer's uncle.
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About Alignment Rockford
The greatest challenges facing Rockford are related to public education and its impact on our community. Truancy rates must be lowered and minority achievement gaps need to be closed. Standardized test scores and graduation rates are unacceptably low. High poverty levels have a damaging effect on learning and social development. Too many of our children are unprepared for a successful life in an increasingly competitive world.
Our social and economic vitality depends upon accelerated achievement in public education, but the turnaround of public schools cannot be accomplished by the school district and teachers alone. Indeed, this critical endeavor can only be achieved by a broad and far-reaching collaboration of education administrators and teaching professionals, and political, corporate, religious, civic, social and grassroots entities faithfully working together to advance academic achievement and further educational attainment.
In 2009 a diverse group of Rockford's civic, business, religious and educational leaders evaluated how other communities across the country have responded to similar trends, with the objective of adapting best principles and practices in Rockford to increase academic aspiration and achievement. Based on what they learned from effective community models, a collaborative framework known as Alignment Rockford was formed to improve public education through facilitating the focus of community resources on the fulfillment of the strategic plan of Rockford Public Schools District 205.
More About Alignment Rockford
Alignment Rockford (AR) is a unique and scalable framework for developing community schools. Our mission is to align community resources in support of public school strategies to raise student achievement, improve the health and happiness of our children, and advance the economic and social well-being of our community.
Alignment Rockford has developed process for collaboration that aligns the resources of these organizations to the Rockford Public Schools (RPS) strategic plan and to community strategic plans, aligning the city's resources toward common goals.
AR was developed to ensure all the services children need are provided to them in an effective and efficient way that complements their education, health and well-being, and the goals of the public schools. Through community-wide collaboration among schools, non-profits, businesses, and the public sector, AR creates the synergy necessary for sustained improvement in public education and children's health. This collaboration provides the following advantages:
- Greater returns on investment- by working together toward common goals, resources are leveraged, duplication is avoided, and efficiency is greatly increased.
- Higher quality services – utilizing expertise from multiple organizations guarantees a broader perspective and a wiser approach.
- Enhanced capacity – very few organizations have the capacity to have community-wide impact. A collective effort enhances the impact of each of organization, while generating a much greater overall impact.
- Leverage of local funding – AR programs can attract large national funding, increasing the impact of the local funding that played a role in building the pilot programs.
Leadership Values
As those involved with Alignment Rockford collaborate in this important community endeavor, the following leadership values form the foundation for operational relationships:
1. We work with a spirit of unity – We agree to offer one voice on topics related to the alignment effort and to resolve conflicting agendas in committee.
2. Our relationships are based on trust – We understand that predictability, clear communication, and mutual support precede success in every challenging community endeavor.
3. Our focus is on our children's needs – We seek collaborative, student-focused solutions to barriers which impair academic achievement.
4. We promote life-long learning – We know that raising educational aspirations and attainment will result in greater economic prosperity for all in our community.
Team Work
The work of Alignment Rockford is organized and conducted by teams. These specialized teams are led by community members and RPS administrators who bring a diversity of expertise and a passion for public education. The teams are overseen by the Alignment Rockford Operating Board, their effort is guided by objectives, and their results are systematically evaluated. The committee process includes five phases:
1. Tactical Planning – In response to an unmet student need, the committee conducts research and creates a detailed plan to implement a pilot project that includes measures of effectiveness.
2. Community Engagement – Through an invitation to participate, community organizations are asked to join in the implementation of pilot programs.
3. Implementation and Evaluation – Communications between pilot program agencies and the committee ensures implementation fidelity and accountability. Effectiveness is regularly evaluated.
4. Scaling Up – Based on early success, the pilot is extended beyond the original scope.
5. Institutionalization – Once measured to be effective on a large scale, the program becomes integrated within the RPS structure.
In 2009 a diverse group of Rockford's civic, business, religious and educational leaders began research on how other communities across the country have responded to declining student achievement and graduation rates, with the intention to adopt best principles and practices. Their purpose was to improve student achievement and increase educational attainment. Research led to inquiry about an organization called Alignment Nashville.
Alignment Nashville (AN) started as a result of recommendations from the Citizens Report Card conducted annually by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. A consulting firm, Vision Link, was hired in 2002 to evaluate the need and capacity of the city's many organizations to work collaboratively to improve the education and lives of the city's children and the future prospects for their community.
The need for systematic, sustainable collaboration became clear through this process, and business leaders worked closely with Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) to create a model that was productive, inclusive and durable. Alignment Nashville was created specifically to meet this need, and as a result of its collaborative development process, is widely supported.
Alignment Rockford and Alignment Nashville entered into a support agreement, and Rockford has been chosen to be the first community to replicate the AN model.
- Alignment Rockford is governed by a Board of Directors, which includes the Superintendent of RPS 205, the president of the School Board, the Winnebago County Board Chair, the Mayor of the City of Rockford, the presidents of the Rockford Chamber of Commerce and the Rockford Area Economic Development Council, the presidents of Rockford College and Rock Valley College, the regional Dean of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford, the CEOs of Swedish American Health System, OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center and Rockford Health System, community nonprofit organizations, CEOs of the largest employers in Winnebago County, representatives of faith communities and parents of public and private school students.
- Project implementation is directed by an Operating Board which meets monthly to support working committees and monitor progress. The Operating Board includes RPS administrators, business and non-profit leaders, and the chairs and vice-chairs of the working committees.
- Working committees composed of non-profit representatives, RPS administrators, principals, business and higher education representatives and others, meet at least monthly to design and implement solutions to strategic needs articulated by the school district.
Alignment Rockford began its work with four committees: Ages 0-5 Healthy Starts, Grades K-5 Reading and Math at Grade Level, Grades K-8 Behavioral Health, Grades 9-12 Career Education and Pathways to Post-secondary Education.
Start-up funding for Alignment Rockford came from private funds, seed money from the Rockford Area Economic Development Council's Emerging Opportunities Fund, and from the City of Rockford Human Services Department, Community Services Block Grant – ARRA, and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
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Find out more about Alignment Rockford. Click here to view a pdf version of our brochure.
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Alignment Rockford: Building a System of Change
Alignment Rockford's strategy for success is built on the following elements.
Alignment Rockford envisions all students graduating from high school with marketable employment skills or enrolling in post-secondary education. They are eager to live, work, learn, create, and play in the Rockford Region as contributing adults.
Alignment Rockford's mission is to align community resources in support of public school strategies to raise student achievement, improve the health and happiness of our children, and advance the economic and social well-being of our community.
Collective Impact
Collective impact is a centralized infrastructure, a dedicated staff, and a structured process that leads to a common agenda, shared measurement, continuous communication and mutually reinforcing activities among all participants.
Operational Principles
- Enable children to succeed
- Align with the school district's strategic priorities
- Design solutions focusing on high-yield challenges
- Solve complex problems
- Work of serving public schools is generational
All Alignment teams form in response to a request made by RPS205. All teams are chaired by a school district administrator and vice chaired by a community leader. Each team follows the same process cycle, and each phase is comprised of multiple steps.
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Tragedy and triumph: Author Aron Ralston cut off his arm to save his life
You think you're having a bad day?
Maybe. Or maybe not.
"Any day that you don't have to drink your own urine to survive is a good day," said Aron Ralston, mountaineer, author, speaker and survivor.
"It's all relative."
Then add cutting off your own arm to survive, like Ralston also did.
Arguably, these are the actions of someone who's earned the right to talk about relativity.
In 2003, the world was gripped by Ralston's true-life story, the story of a then-27-year-old man who cut off his own right arm to free himself from an 800-pound rock that had fallen on his arm, trapping him for six days between the deep red walls of a tiny slot canyon the width of his shoulders.
When he finally emerged from that canyon, dehydrated, 40 pounds lighter, having lost far too much blood, he was, he said "within an hour of death."
But he didn't die and on Tuesday, the now internationally known speaker and book author (Between a Rock and a Hard Place) was in Bishop on tour.
He didn't mince words about the 127 hours he spent trapped in Blue John Canyon in the deep red rock country of southeastern Utah.
"The bottom of a lot canyon is a very intimate place," he said. "I was about 100 feet down, in a canyon about three feet wide, seven miles away from my car, and 30 miles from the nearest paved road. The sky wasn't even visible, all that I could see was the light bouncing off 100-million-year-old sandstone."
When he set loose an 800-pound boulder that was wedged between the two walls of the canyon, causing it to pin his right arm between the boulder and canyon wall, he knew he was in deep, deep trouble.
"Up until that moment, the most extreme pain I'd ever felt in my life was when I smashed my fingers in the door when I was a child," he said. "That pain became a zero compared to this. And the pain—with every beat of my heart, boom, boom, boom."
Ralston's right hand and forearm, three inches thick, were compressed into a space one inch thick, under a boulder that weighed six times as much as he did.
He was trapped.
"I was screaming, I was totally freaked out," he said. "I cursed, I yelled."
Then he stopped.
"I got it that I had to settle down or I was dead," he said. "I knew the pain wouldn't kill me, but my response to it would. Dehydration would, infection would, hypothermia would. I was a mechanical engineer, I was trained to figure out options."
He spent the next many hours trying everything he could to move that boulder; using his climbing ropes, his webbing to make slings, trying to figure out a way to move it. It didn't. He chipped at the stone with his dull multi-tool knife, getting an inch of rock removed in 15 hours. He would die before that worked.
"I knew right away that one option was to cut off my arm and on the third day, I tried. But when I hit bone, the knife wouldn't go through. I was stuck."
He was on what was supposed to be a simple hike that spring day in April, doing a loop between two canyons, using his bike and truck as a shuttle.
He was a young dude, going alone, going solo as he loved to do, and for one of the very first times, no one knew where he was, only that he might be in Utah. He had changed plans at the last minute after a previous trip was called off and when he did so, there was no cell service to carry home a message.
Now, at the bottom of the remote slot canyon, a place where only a few people a month might visit, he began to prepare for death. He had brought a video camera, and recorded his last will and testament. He spoke to his mother, his father, his beloved sister Sophie, telling them how much he loved them.
"Mom, Dad," he said, "I love you I am so sorry, I was just looking for adventure, trying to prove something to my self and now, I'm going to die."
He had a revelation and recorded it, too.
"I created all of this, maybe I wanted to find out what I am made of. Maybe I wanted to know if I would give up, or would I resurrect. I didn't know. But I wanted to."
He drank the last of his water slowly, he ate the last of his food, he shivered convulsively through the cold, nine-hour nights, standing up the whole time, pinned to the wall like a butterfly, wings clipped. Whenever he almost fell asleep, the pain woke him up.
Then he had another revelation.
"It's not what you do in life, it's what you are. It's about love, about who you love, about being loved."
He hadn't known that before. He was accomplished, he had graduated with two degrees at the top of his class from Carnegie Mellon University and retired at the age of 27; he had climbed mountains and descended canyons most people couldn't get to.
He didn't so much find religion down in that canyon as he found himself.
"I knew, then, we are all connected. We are all manifestations of the same energy of the universe and the energy is love. It was the most amazing thing I have ever felt."
He still thought it very likely he was going to die, but down there, deep in that canyon, talking to his family through that video camera, thanking them, standing on his grave, as he said Tuesday, he was smiling.
"The will to love was stronger than the will to live," he said. "It pulled me through moment after horrific moment."
On the fifth day, though, he gave up.
"I surrendered. I'd been trapped for 120 hours. I knew I wasn't going to make it through that night."
He carved a rough epitaph in the stone; the date, his name.
It was April 30, 2003.
At midnight, he was still alive. The epitaph was wrong. It bugged his precise mind, but he decided to let it go.
Then something happened that changed everything.
"I saw myself step away from that boulder and go down a hallway and at the end of it was a little boy and I bent down and picked him up with my one hand and he said "Daddy, I am glad you are home, let's play.'
"And we danced and danced.
"That little boy changed everything. I knew I was going to get out."
In the morning of the sixth day, the light bulb struck, a solution he later would say his mechanical engineer's mind should had thought of sooner.
"I couldn't cut through the bone in my arm, but I could break it," he said.
So he did, leveraging the arm against the rock, snapping it.
Well, maybe it wasn't that simple.
"I forgot there are two bones in the arm," he said.
In the Charles Brown Auditorium, the mesmerized audience gasped audibly. Some left the room.
"So I broke that one too," he said. He cut through the remaining flesh and left his forearm and hand trapped beneath the boulder. It was, he said, horrific and beautiful all at once.
"When it was done, just for one moment, I knew what life was like without limitations. I was going to get out. I was free. I was free."
He put a tourniquet above his elbow, and put the stump of his arm into his bladderbag from his pack.
The euphoria faded and he knew time was tight—very tight.
"I was going to bleed to death if I didn't get out soon, even with the tourniquet," he said.
He still had to get out of the slot canyon, rappel down a 60-foot drop, then hike the seven miles to his vehicle. The odds were not good.
He set off.
At the bottom of the rappel, he found a pool of water and drank and drank and drank.
He hiked.
Two hours … three hours … four. The exhaustion, the loss of blood; he knew then, several miles from his car and many hours from medical help, that he wasn't going to make it.
Then he saw something.
"A family," he said. "I saw a family."
Then he saw a helicopter, waiting ahead in a wide spot in the canyon.
His mother, his sister, his father, all of Utah's backcountry rangers and sheriffs and feds, had found him.
"I had an hour to live," he said. "If I had cut off my arm any sooner, like I had tried to, no one would have been looking for me yet, (although Ralston was gone six days, he was only 24 hours overdue to work which is what triggered the massive search that started his fifth day out) and I would never had have made it to my car. If I hadn't, they were already getting ready to leave. It was an incredible amount of synchronicity."
Later … years later … when his first son was born, he and his wife Jessica named the blond, blue-eyed boy that he had seen in his vision, Leo.
"For the courage he gave me that night when I first met him nine years ago," he said.
"All of us have our boulders," he said. "They can be medical, they can be financial, they can be emotional. I wouldn't change this for anything. It has made my life what it is, rich beyond imagining. When I left that arm behind, I didn't lose anything. Now, today, I give back, I give my time to do search and rescue, I travel. I speak like this, to give back.
"Our boulders can be out blessings," he said. "That is what I am trying to say, to show. It's up to us to decide which."


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CourseSmart, a leading supplier of e-textbooks for higher education, shared the results of a two-year study on the use of digital textbooks which had been commissioned by Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC) and AccessText Network (ATN) following a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). The study tracked the reactions of 1,185 higher education students who participated in an ebook rental program, some of whom required accessibility that isn't available in print editions.
"We could not be more pleased to be a part of the STEPP Project (STudent E-rent Pilot Project), an effort that should be applauded for its mission to level the playing field in higher education. The economic realities of earning a college education make it paramount that all students find savings, and this program ensures that students with print related disabilities can not only enjoy the cost benefits, but also capitalize on the countless digital efficiencies of eTextbooks that their peers have appreciated for years," said Sean Devine, CEO of CourseSmart, in a press release today. "It is encouraging that so early in the program, we are already meeting our goals and we look forward to continuing to work with AMAC and ATN to help ensure all students can enjoy the benefits of eTextbooks."
While the project's main focus was to attempt to reduce the cost of student textbook expenses by 50% over print edition purchasing, an objective that the project achieved, an additional goal for the program was to drastically reduce the cost of textbooks for students who required specialized texts due to a disability.
According to the release, "the STEPP project, initially announced in October 2010 and designed to offer eTextbooks that are specifically modified for accessibility in support of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504, marked the first time students with disabilities could enjoy the benefits of significant cost savings inherent in an eTextbook rental program. The eTextbooks that are part of the program are digitally formatted for qualified students and distributed through CourseSmart."
As the project results indicate, there are both financial and accessibility benefits to digital textbooks, especially when the rental option is available to students who would otherwise be required to purchase print.
Mercy Pilkington is a Senior Editor for Good e-Reader. She is also the CEO and founder of a hybrid publishing and consulting company.


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A bid by Xcel Energy to limit Boulder customers' access to renewable energy and energy-efficiency programs has been rejected by the state Public Utilities Commission — at least for now.
The decision essentially preserves the status quo for Boulder's Xcel customers while the city looks into forming a municipal utility.
In an application filed in February, Xcel had sought to stop Boulder residents from getting up-front payments for smaller solar installations and place a cap on energy-efficiency rebates within the city, based on how much Boulder residents pay in fees toward such programs.
All Xcel customers pay those fees, and any Xcel customer can apply — but Boulder residents take advantage of the programs at higher rates than other communities in the Denver metro area.
Xcel also wanted permission not to offer the Windsource and solar gardens programs in Boulder.
Xcel argued it needs to protect its non-Boulder ratepayers in the event Boulder withdraws from Xcel and sets up a municipal utility, while city officials said the move amounted to discrimination against Xcel customers in Boulder in the wake of a vote that authorized the city to pursue potential municipalization.
At a pre-hearing conference Wednesday, the commissioners ruled that Xcel's application was premature and denied it.
Xcel Energy spokeswoman Michelle Aguayo said the utility does not consider the decision a setback. Rather, it just moves the discussion about how costs and benefits of renewable energy and energy-efficiency programs are allocated to a future time.
"The reason we brought this application was to protect our non-Boulder customers in case Boulder decides to municipalize," she said. "We'll just continue to watch what Boulder does, and if they take more definitive steps, we'll go back to the PUC."
Boulder officials said they fully expect to have a conversation with Xcel and state regulators about what compensation, if any, is due to the utility company if Boulder decides to set up its own municipal utility.
"I believe that ultimately this is just moving the discussion down the road," Senior Assistant City Attorney Debra Kalish said.
City officials said Thursday that the PUC's decision validated Boulder's position that it's too early to have those discussions and protects Boulder customers while the city continues to research its options.
"We're pleased that the commission kind of finalized this discussion as they did," said Jonathan Koehn, the city's regional sustainability coordinator. "From the customers' perspective, it's a very positive outcome because it maintains their access to programs."
The decision also allows the city to focus on researching the costs and feasibility of creating a municipal utility without also having to fight Xcel to maintain existing programs, Koehn said.
"Our position was that it wasn't time to have this dialogue," Koehn said. "There were a lot of unknowns. This gives us time to do the appropriate analysis and have that discussion at an appropriate time."
The commissioners plan to keep the Xcel-Boulder docket open for the time being.
Terry Bote, a spokesman for the PUC, said a written order should be filed soon. That order will include a number of questions for the city and Xcel about timing and what actions in the municipalization process would trigger an appropriate filing at the PUC.
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News Reporter Breaks Into Rush Classic on 'Air Guitar'
Slow news day? Roger Clark, a reporter for NY1 in New York City recently wrapped up a report on the 2013 US Air Guitar Championships by jamming out to 'Tom Sawyer' by Rush. The video comes from Monday (July 1), Canada Day. Clark indicates he was paying tribute to Canadians everywhere with his unabashed version of the hit song.
The Northeast Semifinals for the 2013 US Air Guitar Championships were held on July 2 at the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan. The room is nearly empty as Clark jumps around in his dark slacks and three-button shirt, never losing a grip on his microphone or notes. It's not quite as impressive as Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page jamming with a lit cigarette between his lips, but it's of the same spirit.
Back in the studio, anchor Pat Kiernan can hardly hold back his lack of enthusiasm. "It was very legitimate-looking," he says at the end of the nearly minute-long clip.
"I think I hurt my back, Pat," an out of breath Clarks says at the end. Rush were recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As for the Air Guitar contest itself, Mean Melin ended up winning the semifinal, using a Jefferson Starship song to clinch.


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Squash (aside from yellow, zucchini squash) is relatively new in my menu plan. I had just never really tried it before. Last fall I made some salmon and decided to makes some butternut squash along with it and I was quickly in love. I have now branched out to Spaghetti Squash, one of my new favs.
We have a very busy week this week. Last night I had planned on making homemade pizza, but was unable to do so, so we went out instead. I am planning on moving that now until Friday.
Monday ~ Salmon with Agave & Lime, acorn squash & salad
Tuesday ~ Mexican Pizzas, Mexican Rice and organic black refried beans
Wednesday ~ Hockey/Ice Skating night; Cheeseburger in Paradise
Thursday ~ Apricot Glazed Pork Loin (recipe to follow), butternut squash, salad & chebe rolls
Friday ~ BBQ chicken breasts, sweet potato fries, steamed broccoli, salad
Saturday ~ Homemade pizza, salad & steamed veggies
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Check out Cheryl at Gluten-Free Goodness. She has a wonderful menu planned this week. I am especially interested in her quinoa italiana. I may give that a try! Her vegan brownies from last week look scrumptious! The pumpkin cornbread has also caught my eye. I hope you share a recipe for that, Cheryl, I am a sucker for anything pumpkin. 🙂
Karen at Gluten Free Sox Fan has a great menu planned for the week. The chicken pot pie sounds wonderful! She is also looking for ideas about what to take to a Halloween party, so if you have some ideas, make sure to share. 🙂
Ginger from Fresh Ginger has a yummy menu planned. I may just move in with her for the week. 😉 The Turkey tenderloins stuffed with spinach have caught me eye. I love spinach!
Brenda at Book of Yum has an amazing looking menu this week.
The pumpkin & black bean casserole has me drooling, as do some of her breakfast choices.
Manda at Aspargus Thin is loving the ingredient of the week. Squash is one of her favorites. Her Teriyaki Salmon with simmered squash sounds very good. I would also like to hear more about the pumpkin chip muffins, as I love any and all things pumpkin. 🙂
Kimberly at Living Free hasn't been feeling well. I hope you feel better soon!! She is planning on cooking a pumpkin this week and using it for something. I can't wait to see what she does with it.
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Singer George Michael is out of a British jail after serving 27 days for crashing his car while high on pot.
The onetime Wham! frontman was released Monday after completing half of an eight-week sentence following his Sept. 14 guilty plea to driving under the influence and possession of cannabis. On July 4, he crashed his Range Rover into a photo shop in London. Michael, 47, whose real name is Georgios Panayiotou, climbed out of his auto and waited for cops after the 3:30 am incident, according to the Daily Mail.
While serving time, Michael issued a statement saying he was receiving "no special treatment of any kind."
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It was just the latest in a string of scrapes for Michael, one of music's biggest stars in the 1980s. In 2007, he was arrested in London after drivers complained he was blocking the road. He pleaded guilty to driving while while under the influence of drugs and was banned from driving for two years and sentenced to community service.
At the time, he told the BBC that he smoked too much pot. Absolutely I would like to take less, no question," he said. "To that degree, it's a problem."
But he added, "I'm a happy man and I can afford my marijuana so that's not a problem."
Last year, he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence when his Land Rover hit a truck. Back in 1998, he was arrested by LA cops in a park restroom and later pleaded no contest to engaging in a lewd act.
The Grammy award winner has sold an estimated 100 million albums as a solo artist, churning out such hits as "Careless Whisper" and "Faith."
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text: Which fuel-efficient vehicle is right for you? That depends on how and where you drive. By Jessica L. Anderson, Associate Editor August 23, 2010 Not long ago, carmakers were touting hydrogen as the silver bullet for energy independence and environmental redemption. But massive roadblocks to building the hydrogen highway forced automakers to follow detours to other green technologies. Just as no single solution will make manufacturers' fleets green, no single environmentally friendly car will work for everyone. Clean diesels are great for long-distance highway driving, but if you have a long commute in bumper-to-bumper traffic, hybrids get the nod. Electric cars (such as the Nissan Leaf, debuting in December) boast zero-emissions driving; but if you plan to travel more than 100 miles in a single stretch, you may end up stranded with a dead battery. Meanwhile, carmakers are tweaking gasoline engines to achieve better and better fuel economy.This kind of decision-making isn't new to Americans, notes John Voelcker, editor of the Green Car Reports. "We're the home of multicar households," says Voelcker. "We have bought different types of cars based on different uses for years. People will start to do that with powertrains -- they'll pick among the green cars based on what they're doing." Sponsored Content In addition to how you'll use your car, there's a financial angle. Cost is the biggest constraint for buyers considering a green car. For 2010, the premium over a comparable gas-engine car ranges from $690 to $34,350 for hybrids, and from $1,500 to $4,525 for diesels. Over five years, you'll recoup a portion of the premium with savings at the pump. Tax incentives also help ease the sting of a higher price, but credits begin to phase out after an automaker sells 60,000 green vehicles. (Tax credits are no longer available for Ford, Honda, Lexus, Mercury and Toyota hybrids, and as of July, buyers of Audi and Volkswagen diesels are eligible for half of the tax credit.) To compare the cost of a hybrid or diesel with its gas-engine counterpart (or with each other), use our calculator. New government mandates are pushing automakers further on fuel economy. The rules will require all the noncommercial vehicles they sell to average 34.1 miles per gallon by 2016. Cars will have to average 37.8 mpg, and light trucks and SUVs 28.8 mpg, versus 27.5 mpg and 23.5 mpg currently. As automakers scramble to meet the stricter standards, they'll pass much of the extra cost to you. According to the National Research Council, the latest fuel-economy measures will raise the average retail cost of midsize and large cars by $2,220 for gas-engine vehicles. Each vehicle's footprint (the area contained by its wheels) will determine its fuel-economy requirement, so U.S. highways won't be flooded with econoboxes. Advertisement Hybrids: Best for gridlock Hybrids have come a long way since Honda introduced the original, two-seat Insight to the U.S. in 1999. Hybrids started out as rolling science projects that appealed solely to committed environmentalists and early adopters. "They were fighting against the tide of the SUV phenomenon, when cupholders were considered more important than fuel efficiency," says Bradley Berman, editor of HybridCars.com. Like automotive jewelry, early hybrids were worn proudly by their owners, who smugly breezed past the gas station. After a decade of advances in batteries, hybrids are no longer considered experimental -- although their fuel efficiency is still a badge of honor for owners. They are available in every size and vehicle type and, because they use a gasoline engine as well as an electric motor, you can take them on long road trips and not worry about running out of fuel. But the best use of the technology is city driving: Hybrids capture energy when braking, which recharges the battery and allows you to use more electricity, less gas. For the 2010 model year, 23 hybrids are available. For 2011, six new hybrids join the lineup. Honda's CR-Z will now be the smallest model, at 161 inches long -- 15 inches shorter than the Toyota Prius. This baby 'brid has seating for only two (much like the original Insight hybrid) and aims for performance, not all-out mileage numbers. Three driving modes -- Econ, Normal and Sport -- maximize fuel efficiency or performance, as you wish. And it's the first hybrid to come with a six-speed manual (and an optional automatic). Powerwise, it's about on par with Honda's gas-engine Civic, but it gets 31 mpg in the city and 37 on the highway with the manual (35 city/39 highway with the automatic). Pricing starts at $19,950 and tops out at $23,960. Among midsize sedans, the new Hyundai Sonata hybrid's unique front end helps distinguish it from the gas-engine Sonata, and it will be among the first hybrids to use a lithium-ion battery -- the same technology used in cell phones and laptops -- instead of the standard nickel-metal hydride battery. Lincoln is also introducing a hybrid version of its MKZ. (Pricing for both has yet to be announced.) Advertisement To compete with the Mercedes-Benz S400 luxury hybrid, BMW adds the ActiveHybrid to its top-of-the-line 7 series. Its V8 engine and electric motor combine to deliver 455 horsepower. It rockets from zero to 60 miles per hour in 4.7 seconds -- while getting about 15% better fuel economy than the conventional 750i. Like the S400, this haute hybrid is barely distinguishable from the gas-engine model, whether you're standing in the driveway or sitting behind the wheel. Starting price: $103,175. In the crossover market, the Volkswagen Touareg Hybrid (pricing not yet announced) and Porsche's Cayenne S Hybrid ($68,675) bring more utility to the hybrid stable. They join last year's late arrival, the Mercedes ML450H ($55,875), and are among the first German hybrids on U.S. soil. The price premium. When Kiplinger's compared five-year ownership costs of green vehicles with conventional gas-engine vehicles (see The Price of Saving Fuel), only three hybrids had a cost advantage over their gas-engine counterparts: the Mercedes S400, the Lexus HS 250h (compared with the IS 250) and the Honda Insight (compared with Honda's Fit). In general, the more expensive a hybrid, the less likely it will save money over its conventional sibling because savings at the pump won't offset the premium (with gas at about $3 a gallon). Fewer than half of the 2010 hybrids still have federal tax incentives on the hood. Credits are still available on hybrids from BMW, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz and Nissan, ranging from $900 (for the BMW ActiveHybrid 750i) to $2,350 (for the Nissan Altima Hybrid). Diesels: Torqued up As Japanese and U.S. carmakers bet on hybrids, European carmakers put their marketing muscle behind diesel vehicles. No longer the smoky noisemakers you may remember from the 1970s and '80s, a new wave of diesels -- every bit as clean as gasoline engines, but with 30% better fuel economy and 20% fewer greenhouse-gas emissions -- was introduced a couple of years ago. New clean-air standards that took effect in 2007 forced automakers to reduce particulates, or soot, and nitrous oxides, which contribute to smog. Because the new crop of diesels meet California's strict emissions standards, they can be sold in all 50 states. Advertisement If you like the idea of getting better mileage but don't want to sacrifice power, diesel is for you. These engines have plenty of torque, and that's the number you should pay attention to if you're looking for good acceleration. You will have to get used to pumping diesel at the gas station, but more than 40% of stations now sell diesel fuel. Among the 2010 models, 11 diesels were available, two of them new: The redesigned Volkswagen Golf TDI (turbocharged direct injection) hatchback, starting at $22,905, shares the 2.0-liter turbocharged engine that powers the Jetta TDI sedan and wagon. Audi's A3 got a diesel option as well, and it features precise handling, stop-on-a-dime braking and luxury appointments. The A3 TDI ($30,775) has the same engine as the Golf; both deliver up to 42 mpg on the highway. On tap for 2011: a redesigned Volkswagen Jetta TDI. It will be longer, giving passengers more rear legroom, but it will keep the 2.0-liter diesel engine. Available in October, the Jetta TDI's pricing hasn't been announced yet, but expect it to start around $21,000. The price premium. The markup for diesels is less than it is for hybrids. When we looked at projected five-year ownership costs, all but one 2010 model (the Volkswagen Golf) beat its gas-engine sibling. All the 2010 diesels qualify for tax credits, ranging from $575 for the Audi Q7 TDI and VW Touareg TDI to $1,800 for the BMW X5 35d and Mercedes GL350 BlueTec. Advertisement Electric: Unplug and go The Nissan Leaf won't be sold until December, but it is already making a splash as the first pure-electric vehicle for the mass market -- preorders in Japan and the U.S. are nearly double the first year's production capacity. The long-awaited Chevrolet Volt, an electric car with a range-extending gas engine, is due out later this year. You'll have to wait a couple more years for plug-in hybrids. Electric cars have been around since the 1890s, when Thomas Edison and a bunch of other inventors thought they'd hit on the key to mass locomotion. But because batteries that could extend a vehicle's range were large and heavy, electrics never hit it big. Now, the lithium-ion battery is changing the equation. The purest electric vehicles (EVs) run solely off the battery -- you plug them in, charge them up and then drive as long as the charge lasts. They're quiet, cheap to operate and produce no tailpipe emissions, although power plants that generate electricity do require energy and create pollution. But most EVs will have limited range, so they're best for short trips. Unless you have a second car or can rely on public transportation, EVs may not be for you; the box at right lists potential pitfalls. Since the demise of GM's ill-fated EV1, the highest-profile electric vehicle sold in the U.S. has been the Tesla Roadster. Introduced for 2008, this sports car hits 60 mph in 3.9 seconds, tops out at 125 miles per hour and goes 245 miles before it needs recharging. At $109,000, it's not for families on a budget, so Tesla has developed the slightly more mainstream Model S sedan, which will be delivered in 2012. The Model S has a 300-mile range, seats five adults plus two kids (in rear-facing seats) and still offers a sporty zero-to-60 time of 5.6 seconds. The cost: a more palatable $57,400. But the real news in electric cars is Nissan's Leaf. The little hatchback hits the road with a 100-mile range, top speed of 90 mph and starting price tag of $32,780. That price includes a navigation system that helps you locate charging stations. A remote-connection system will let you monitor your charging status or initiate charging, as well as turn on the temperature controls to preheat or cool the car -- all via a laptop or smart phone. Charging time: eight hours on a 240-volt charger. More EVs are on the way: Ford's electric Focus and Mitsubishi's iMiEV hatchback are expected next year. EVs from Toyota, BMW and Smart are on the horizon for 2012 or 2013. The heavily marketed Chevrolet Volt is an EV with a twist: a small gas engine on board that acts as a range extender. On a single charge, the Volt can travel 40 miles. For longer trips, the gas engine kicks in to power the electric motor -- for a total range of 300 miles. The Volt will offer cool tech features, such as an OnStar Mobile application, which allows you to start the car, lock and unlock doors, and control charging. You can fully recharge the battery in three hours. Prices have yet to be announced, but the Volt is expected to cost about $40,000. Plug-in hybrids aren't due until 2012. These vehicles operate much like regular hybrids, but you plug them in to recharge the battery. Depending on the vehicle, you can go between 13 and 50 miles using only battery power. Once the battery is depleted, the car goes into normal hybrid mode (relying more heavily on the gas engine). Toyota and Ford are planning to sell plug-in hybrids for 2012 but are tight-lipped as to whether the production models will be the Prius Plug-in and Escape Plug-in, which are in testing now. Automotive start-up Fisker has been working on a four-door sports sedan called the Karma for a few years. The Karma will go on sale in 2011 for about $90,000. The price premium. The first EVs and plug-ins will be expensive because they have new technology and will be produced in low volume. You may also need a home charging station. But a $7,500 tax credit that applies to EVs with a 16-kWh battery or larger (the Volt, Leaf and Tesla Roadster qualify) will help ease sticker shock. Some states also offer incentives -- for example, California rebates up to $5,000 to EV and plug-in hybrid buyers. For more information on all types of plug-in vehicles and state-by-state information on rebates and tax credits, go to www.plugincars.com.


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Britain's Got Talent 2014 winners Collabro have announced a 23 date nationwide UK Tour for 2015 and will be joined by very special guest and runner up Lucy Kay. Collabro are an English musical theatre boy band who the Britain's Got Talent judges and viewers breath away with their renditions of classic tracks.
Michael Auger, Richard Hadfield, Jamie Lamber, Thomas Leek and Matthew Pagan only formed a month prior to their audition for Britain's Got Talent and came together over their shared love of musical theatre. In February their lives changed forever when they performed "Stars" from Les Miserables and received a unanimous standing ovation from the judges and audience at their first audition in London. Collabro progressed to the final of Britain's Got Talent and were cast the winners in front of 11 million viewers.
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As part of an 1898 campaign to curb the use of foul language in baseball, this memo was purportedly sent to every team. It stands as a fascinating record of Gay Nineties profanity, which doesn't actually sound outdated at all.
That such brutal language as "You cock-sucking son of a bitch!" "You prick-eating bastard!" "You cunt-lapping dog!" "Kiss my ass, you son of a bitch!" "A dog must have fucked your mother when she made you!" "I fucked your mother, you sister, your wife!" "I'll make you suck my ass!" "You cock-sucker!" and many other revolting terms are used by a limited number of players to intimidate umpires and opposing players, and are promiscuously used upon the ball field, is vouched for by the almost unanimous assertion of those invited to speak, and who are competent to speak from personal knowledge.
The memo has been around a while, but it's recirculating now thanks to its being featured on Letters of Note. There are debates as to whether this was actually issued to teams, or if it was just a player-made satire of the league's "watch your language" campaign. Either way, go fuck yourself, you prick-eating dog.


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Two Apple-related security sessions have been canceled at this week's Black Hat conference due to confidentiality and marketing issues, according to a Washington Post article. The first talk, which was supposed to see Charles Edge discuss FileVault and its flawed encryption scheme, was axed after he signed an agreement to keep quiet with the Cupertino company. It seems as though this is strictly a case of not biting the hand that feeds you, as Edge states that Apple is his largest client. You can't blame him for pulling out, but as the Post article points out, this will probably just further pique the interest of the hacker community, resulting in the issue being discovered and outed regardless of any agreement.
The second session, which Computerworld has more information on, was supposed to be given by an Apple engineering team, but was canceled after he company's marketing department got wind of what the team was about to do: "Marketing got wind of it, and nobody at Apple is ever allowed to speak publicly about anything without marketing approval."
While it seems a bit naive that the team members thought they could do this without cutting through all the red tape associated with working for a major company, it's also kind of cute. Apparently, the group was supposed to talk about "security engineering" and how seriously they take security. These are relatively benign topics, but if you have ever had to deal with PR or marketing, the outcome really isn't that surprising.
Talking openly about security practices and flaws intrinsically associated with crafting an entire operating system can be a slippery slope. How much to divulge and how much to keep under wraps can cause quite the stir in the industry, and for now, it seems that Apple is content taking the position of "what you don't know can't hurt you."


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Monday, December 5, 2011
the Morran Book Project
Working is good, so - drum roll - the Morran book project is finished! The book is ready! And it looks fantastic if I might say it myself :) All profit will go to WSPA - World Society for the Protection of Animals - Sweden (WSPA international). The price for the book is US $34.95 for the softcover ($4 is going to WSPA and the rest is the price to Blurb for the book, they are printing and shipping it)
I've made it possible to see all pages - so if you are in the book, please take a closer look to see if your name is right and so on. I keep my fingers crossed I haven't forgot anyone...
Once again I'd like to say thank you to the jury that helped me to sort things out!
Here's the link to the book! Enjoy.
Cover by Fiona Purves
Spread by Steph Becker and Serena Marangon
Back cover by Tine Pagenberg
42 comments:
- Esti said...
It's the most amazing and beautiful tribute Morran could have. Hugs to you, Camilla.
- December 5, 2011 at 8:03 AM
- antonia said...
I want my copy, how can I buy it?
- December 5, 2011 at 8:04 AM
- Fiona Purves said...
Oh! What a surprise to see my little drawing on the front cover! The book looks lovely; a perfect way to remember such a great dog. Will be ordering my copy soon.
- December 5, 2011 at 8:05 AM
- Camilla Engman said...
Antonia, just follow the link - http://www.blurb.com/user/morran
- December 5, 2011 at 8:10 AM
- D said...
oh it is SO fantastic Camilla!! i looked through every page smiling. so many amazing tributes to Morran. i can't wait to buy a copy. xo
- December 5, 2011 at 8:10 AM
- ALICJA NIKODEM said...
it's wonderful!!:):):)
- December 5, 2011 at 8:28 AM
- barbara said...
so proud to be in it!
- December 5, 2011 at 8:31 AM
- Sara said...
Such an amazing book with so so many brilliant pieces of art! And a very nice tribute to a beautiful dog too.I'm so honoured and proud to be in it, alongside those amazing artists. ~ Sara
- December 5, 2011 at 8:37 AM
- Unknown said...
oh camilla it's wonderful :) looks amazing, can't wait to have it in my hands*
- December 5, 2011 at 8:51 AM
- renilde said...
The book looks fabulous, a wonderful tribute to the so much loved Morran, x
- December 5, 2011 at 9:02 AM
- Wilma said...
Wonderful! The most beautiful crhistmas gift, a big hug for you
- December 5, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- lorena said...
¡Qué bonito!
Thank you Camilla.
A big hug.
- December 5, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- martiszu ludvikez said...
It's beautiful!!!
I can't wait for my own copy!
love it!
- December 5, 2011 at 9:50 AM
- Hazel Terry said...
You are a very brave, hard working lady and it is a wonderful book. So many fantastic illustrations, my copy is on it's way and I can't wait.
- December 5, 2011 at 10:01 AM
- nelleke said...
It looks great! I just placed my order :-) Thanks a lot!!!!
- December 5, 2011 at 10:04 AM
- Karin said...
well done! I was wondering what you were doing to keep busy ;) big hug
- December 5, 2011 at 10:38 AM
Beautiful! Captures the essence of doghood :)
- December 5, 2011 at 11:21 AM
- ElleSee said...
They are both such fantastic books! Thank you so much for this opportunity to pay tribute to such a sweet and wonderful dog. I can't wait for my book show up at my doorstep :)
- December 5, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- Jen said...
A joy for all of us who love our dogs. Congratulations and thank you :) So looking forward to getting my copy xxx
- December 5, 2011 at 12:52 PM
- Alicja Jagoda Paluch said...
Camilla I feel so lucky to take part of Morran Book Project, thank you! I just order my copy!
big hug
hope you feel better
- December 5, 2011 at 12:53 PM
Mine is not there :'(
But still a beautiful book.
- December 5, 2011 at 12:57 PM
- Camilla Engman said...
If you are Ada Maruri, your pic is in the book!
- December 5, 2011 at 1:17 PM
What a beauty! Every page is wonderful and in balance with the other ones! very well done :)
Totally agree with hazel Terry that you are so brave and strong. it is as if i can feel the love for Morran trough all the pages :)
Best Wishes for you!
- December 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM
- MamaCami said...
This book is wonderful!
- December 5, 2011 at 3:32 PM
- Kim said...
What a fantastic tribute! I looked through both books' previews. Very nicely done. Thanks for including me!
- December 5, 2011 at 3:32 PM
- Mlle Paradis said...
what a beautiful tribute to morran and what a beautiful project in the name of a lovely little animal.
i'm sorry i'm late in offering my condolences. it's a terrible thing to lose a loved companion - especially after all your best efforts to keep morran with you this past year.
may i borrow a picture to add to my xmas suggestions at http://mlleparadis.blogspot.com?
big hug to you.
- December 5, 2011 at 4:55 PM
- rebecca said...
I feel honored to have my drawings in such great company. Thank you so much for putting this together Camilla, I know it was a rough road to travel down, but to see so many lovely images of your sweet Morran. I think I might make my own for my 2 that past this year. These are all so very wonderful!
- December 5, 2011 at 6:15 PM
- Tracie said...
Oh Camilla!! This is such a beautiful tribute to your dear friend. I feel so honored to be a part of this project. The book is just so beautiful! I have been back several times to flip through and look at all of the amazing artwork in it today. I just ordered myself a copy for my birthday. Thank you for all of your hard work. You are amazing and I know Morran would be proud.
- December 5, 2011 at 6:30 PM
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- December 5, 2011 at 8:13 PM
- Patrice A. said...
dear, dear Camilla!
I have ordered them both!
and I am so, so honored that
I am IN!
I am in the 75-one!!
thank YOU and the jury
a big bear-hug
Patrice A.
P.S. if you would like the little painting I made, please let me know and I will send it right away
- December 6, 2011 at 1:42 AM
- teconlene said...
Thanks Camilla and the jury for the work, and thanks to little Morran for the inspiration.
The books are so beautiful, it's an honor to be in there.
I'll order right now some of both for Christmas gifts (or for the "Three Kings" gifts here in Spain).
- December 6, 2011 at 3:59 AM
- Sara said...
Your book is just beautiful, and such a wonderful tribute to Morran. I am very honoured to participate in your project!
I hope that the book and wonderful tributes helps ease your pain in dealing with Morran's loss.
- December 6, 2011 at 6:06 AM
- Camilla Engman said...
Thank you everyone! I'm very proud over you and the book :)
Patrice, everyone's picture is in the 180 pages book!
- December 6, 2011 at 6:09 AM
- Georgette said...
All of the contributions are absolutely remarkable.
How incredibly beautiful!
What an powerful testament to the inspiration and love we all felt for Morran.
Tremendously honored to take part.
Thank you Camilla! xo
- December 6, 2011 at 8:19 AM
- serena said...
I am proud to be in the book with many beautiful Morran!
thank you Camilla!!!
- December 6, 2011 at 8:20 AM
- SuzyMcQ said...
I just found your blog via Decor8 and am so touched by the wonderful tribute your friends have created to honor your beloved Morran.
As a dog owner and canine rescue person the book is amazing in so many ways. The love expressed within each image shines through so brightly.
I am so sorry for your loss. What a wonderful life you provided to Morran and what an incredible legacy he leaves behind.
- December 6, 2011 at 1:01 PM
- Sheila said...
What a lovely tribute. Morran reminds me of a little stray that my parents rescued from Barbados of all places (we live in Canada). I think it's the ears...floppy and perky at the same time. :)
I'm so sorry to hear of Morran's passing. It's a pain I know all too well. No matter how long they live, it's never long enough, is it?
- December 6, 2011 at 7:29 PM
- Ana said...
This project is so beautiful. I love the book, it turned out beautiful. Congrats Camilla :)
- December 7, 2011 at 11:16 AM
- adu said...
I'm so happy and honored to be in both books!!! I'm so glad I read about the project on Julia Bereciartu's blog :)) thanks Camilla!!! I'm waiting for my copy:)
- December 10, 2011 at 1:35 AM
- Gulcin said...
This is the most amazing project that i've seen recently! Congats! Who can give a full list of illustrators on the book?
- December 13, 2011 at 6:10 AM
- joanna (asia) concejo said...
I love this book :-)
- December 16, 2011 at 5:34 AM
- Kathleen Maunder said...
I just looked through the preview on Blurb and started to cry. Part of it must be that my parents' dog died last week, but I think also it is because there is just so much love in the pages. What an inspiring book in so many ways.
- December 18, 2011 at 11:41 AM


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"I think it's an amazing feat to get a perfect score, especially if it's on the toughest age category," says Regina Creech, 437th medical group health and wellness center chief. "So, I think it's great that Colonel Mancy did this because it sets a good example for our airmen to show them that this can be done even if you're 47 years old."
Mancy ran a time of 9:16, performed 55 crunches and 63 push-ups and has an abdominal circumference of 32.5 inches. In his respective age category of 45-49 years old, a 100 percent on the annual fitness test requires a run time of 10:24 with 45 crunches, 40 push-ups and an abdominal circumference of 32.5 inches.
"I've scored 100 on my last three fitness tests, but I decided that just getting a 100 wasn't enough of a challenge," Mancy says. "So I set out to get a perfect on the toughest level, the 25-and-under age category."
Mancy's advice is to never get out of shape.
Two squadrons within Mancy's group with a total of more than 400 Airmen have a 100 percent pass rate. Also, there have been more than 139 Airmen on Charleston Air Force Base who scored a 100 percent on the fitness test, and 873 who scored "excellent" out of a total of 3,526 who take the test.


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Excusing America's Gas Problem
I may not have concrete proof for what I'm about to say, but I'm going to float a theory by you. Gas prices have gone up so much in the last year because we, as American consumers, are suckers.
The price per barrel of oil is at a 13-year high. A few weeks ago, that price passed $40 for the first time since Iraq invaded Kuwait when the other Bush was president. But gas, to the American consumer, is somehow about two-thirds more expensive than it was during that invasion. This is the beginning of my sucker theory.
For those of you who think microeconomics refers to paying for things with smaller bills, bear with me while I explain the economic theory behind why we're all getting, well, pumped.
The price of oil is set like the price of any other limited consumer good – the cost is determined by the price the company perceives it will cost to replace the goods they are selling. Thus, when Iraq first invaded Kuwait, the price of oil jumped because everyone was afraid of how high the price might be in the future.
This paranoia made sense – and a heck of a lot more sense than those cheapo "Bomb Sadaam" shirts everyone was wearing. (Like your mall t-shirt is going to influence our foreign policy). It made sense because Iraq, one of our enemies, invaded Kuwait, one of our allies. In 1990, Iraq and Kuwait accounted for about nine percent of America's oil supply. So if Iraq took Kuwait AND became hostile to us, the supply of oil would have been harder to come by. Afraid of that, oil companies raised the price of gas as the price of a barrel of oil went up.
But guess what happened? The price of the barrel dropped down once we sent in troops, and was cut in half once the only memory of the war was that "Proud to Be an American" song. Did the price at the pump go down? Of course not. We got used to paying as much as we were for gas, so the price simply leveled off. Are you starting to believe me about how we're suckers?
And in the past 10 years, the United States has been importing fewer and fewer barrels of oil from the Middle East. America now relies on Iraq for just 7% of our oil, and just 3% of our consumer oil. Still, if the oil companies were scared that it'd be more expensive to get oil next quarter, the prices would justifiably go up. But the oil companies are not scared. They're laughing. They're looking at us giving them all our money and laughing hysterically that we're doing it out of a blind sense of patriotism.
The price of oil should have gone up only when we first invaded Iraq. But it's gone up consistently for the last two years. Yet we're allegedly in control in Iraq now. Hell, we're in so much control, we have time to take prison pictures that could cost our president re-election (there's that silver lining).
Yet the price of oil is still rising. Because we're letting it. We hear terrorism and Middle East and oil prices rising and it all makes sense to us somehow. How? Because we're suckers.
Last year, Exxon-Mobil reported profits of over $21 billion. Iraq's estimated GNP is as low as $13 billion. In other words, Exxon-Mobil could have made this whole mess a lot simpler by acquiring Iraq.
Never mind that Vice President Cheney used to be the CEO of Haliburton, an unregulated monopoly that makes most of their money off of the rise in the cost of oil. Never mind that Saudi Arabia (our biggest supplier of oil) increased their production to help stave off the inflated prices. Never mind that the price of oil per barrel is roughly the same as it was just after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, yet by the end of the summer gas prices are anticipated to have doubled since then.
It would be hard to tell a company to charge less than consumers are willing to pay. If we never paid more than a product is worth, there'd be no Burberry or WNBA. But what's happening here is not good business – it's collusion. Oil companies are simultaneously artificially inflating the cost of their product, a practice in direct violation of every anti-trust act we've got on the books.
So while America lets these oil companies get away with everything, I am curious to know if we're being paid back. Lots of commercials tell us to sacrifice for the war. My question is, how much is Exxon-Mobil sacrificing? Are they paying a large sum towards the rebuilding of Iraq? They're certainly the ones directly profiting off of it.
There's not much we can do about the prices. We can't afford a boycott, and I know too many people I dislike to start carpooling. But we can make the oil companies explain themselves.
No matter who you're voting for and why, if you'd like an explanation as to why the current prices defy basic economic theory, why not ask for one? Print out this column and mail it to:
K.P. Cohen
And if Exxon-Mobil doesn't answer, maybe we can try Chevron-Texaco next – they only profited $7 billion last year.
No matter what we do, gas prices will not come down; gas prices never come down. But maybe if we all voice our concern, we can prevent them from rising any more than they already have. Of course, I could be wrong about all of this. I'm just floating a theory.


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Georgia Tech guard Tyaunna Marshall was named Associated Press All-American Honorable Mention on Tuesday (April 2), making her just the second Lady Yellow Jacket recognized by the AP.
It is another award in a long list for Marshall this year, as the 5-9 junior was previously named to the All-ACC First Team, ACC All-Defensive Team and WBCA All-Region.
The other Lady Yellow Jacket to be named AP All-American Honorable Mention was Kisha Ford in 1997.
"I am very pleased that [Ty] is getting the national recognition she deserves," head coach MaChelle Joseph said. "This is a great honor for her, her family and this program."
Marshall was named to the All-ACC First Team and ACC All-Defensive team after averaging 18.1 points, 8.4 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 2.6 steals in 30 games for Georgia Tech during the 2012-13 season.
The Upper Marlboro, Md., native ranks second in the conference in scoring (18.1 ppg), seventh in rebounding (8.4 rpg) and third in steals (2.6 spg). She is the only ACC player to rank in the conference's Top 10 in all three categories, the second straight season she has ranked in the league's Top 10 in all three categories.
Marshall's 37 points in a comeback win over Miami at McCamish Pavilion Feb. 24 were the most points scored by an ACC player this season. She finished the year with nine double-doubles, 10 games with at least 20 points and double-digit points in 28 of 30 games. Marshall was named ACC Player of the Week three times, which tied for the most in the conference.
In nine games against ranked opponents this year, Marshall averaged 18.6 points, 7.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.4 steals. Her 542 points are the fourth-most in a single season by a player in Tech history and she climbed from outside the Top 25 to eighth on the Yellow Jackets' all-time scoring list with 1,520 career points. Marshall also became just the fifth Jacket to score at least 1,500 points and grab at least 600 rebounds during her career on the Flats.


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Dreamy Orange Cupcakes
Total TimePrep: 30 min. Bake: 20 min. + cooling
Makes2 dozen
- 6 large egg whites
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup vanilla soy milk
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/3 cup plus 1/4 cup thawed orange juice concentrate, divided
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon plus 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- Assorted sprinkles, optional
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.
- In a large bowl, beat egg whites, eggs, sugar, soy milk, oil, applesauce and 1/3 cup orange juice concentrate until well blended. In a small bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt; gradually beat into egg mixture.
- Fill prepared cups two-thirds full. Bake 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
- In a small bowl, mix confectioners' sugar and remaining orange juice concentrate until smooth. Dip cupcakes into glaze. If desired, decorate with sprinkles. Let stand until set.
Nutrition Facts1 cupcake (calculated without sprinkles): 164 calories, 4g fat (0 saturated fat), 26mg cholesterol, 249mg sodium, 29g carbohydrate (16g sugars, 0 fiber), 4g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2 starch, 1 fat.
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llynettew18: Seeing how egg whites tend to dry out cakes/cupcakes, I suggest to decrease the amount of egg whites and see if that helps.
Aug 29, 2009
I made these for my niece who has a milk allergy. Turns out, the cupcakes are pretty gross. I recommend looking for a different recipe. The cupcakes are too stiff and the glaze is very tart.
Jun 1, 2009
This would be great for my son, who has a milk allergy, except that he also has an egg allergy. I understand how to substitute for eggs when they are binders with applesauce, but how would you substitute for all the egg whites and whole eggs in this recipe?
Jun 1, 2009
I'm supposing real milk is all right for those of us allergic to soy, though? LOL
Jun 1, 2009
Glad to see recipes for those who are Lactose Intolerant.