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The aftermath of Superstorm Sandy has left many homeowners in devastation. Some may have recently bought a new home while others have lived in the same home for 30 or 40 years. Whatever the case may be, the most important thing is that you and your family are safe.
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Make an inventory list in detail of all the damage.
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Move any damaged items off to the side for the adjuster to take a second look at. In addition to the photos you have already provided this will allow the adjuster to quote an accurate amount for the claim.
Report the claim to your insurance company only after you have met your deductible. There is no need to clutter the phone lines and add extra paperwork, if you have not already met your deductible.
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Note that there are no special hurricane deductions for "Sandy." Companies are using a standard flat deduction to assess the claim.
I also learned that deductibles vary according to your specific policy. It's important to read it over and understand all the guidelines and rules. Every area was affected differently and some people may have lost their homes completely. If you were one of the lucky homeowners who only had minimal damage, allow the adjusters the time to work with those who need immediate attention. A tree down, broken fence or other minor damage does not compare to some of the devastation we have witnessed in the papers or on the news. Some people are still without power and it has been very difficult for them to get in contact with their insurance companies, LIPA or Cablevision, but each company has an "800" number. Dialing this number is the best route to take if you've been waiting for hours and not getting through to your company.
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That's the title of a exhibit currently on show at the City Art Museum Ljubljana in the old town center, the most local to me of the Slovenian capital's dozens of exhibit spaces.
"Better Doggy Style Than No Style", which includes the works of Slovenian painters born in the early 1970s and who came of age in the early post-independence years of the 1990s, is described as an attempt to look at painting after the "end of styles", thus the playful play on words that look great pointing down at the passersby on the street below.
I haven't seen it yet, but I have yet to not enjoy an exhibit at Ljubljana's City Art Museum. This is my reminder. Through 13 November.
From the promo and description material:
What the selected painters share in common is not only their age (all were born in the early 1970s and pursued their studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana), but also similar reflections on the questions of representation/representativeness, which evolved in new ways in the 1990s.
At the time when the aforementioned artists still honed their talents at the academy, painting was not a mere reaction to the omnipresent mass media image-making, but rather an attempt to surpass these influences within its artistic medium. Nearly all artists taking part in the exhibition – curator Tevž Logar humorously called them the "influential painting lodge", have already received the attention of curators and gallery owners from the international milieu, thus distinguishing themselves as a generation of established artists who have approached the new way of painting as a conglomerate of procedures and practices derived from multitudinous technical processes of electronic media, film, periodical press, photography, etc.
The presentation of the site-specific art project undoubtedly provides an opportunity to display the diverse use of visual and open dialogue between various language games and compositions of individual artistic poetics into a visual whole.
During the preparation of the exhibition, we held several working meetings discussing the conceptual framework of the project. The group exhibition, with no attempt at historicization or calculated reduction of painting practices to a common denominator, focuses on showcasing the current production and, apart from paintings and drawings on the gallery wall, also includes a video and comprehensive spatial interventions. Displaying autonomous positions of their artistic vocabulary, the artists – who have been colleagues and friends since their student days, shared performances and above all knowledge of work approaches and methods – put on intelligent plays, intertwine, often through funny constellations, and scornfully point to the anomalies and absurdities of modern civilisation.
Works by Viktor Bernik, Žiga Kariž, Gorazd Krnc, Arjan Pregl, Sašo Vrabič, and Miha Štrukelj. The next tour guided by the artists is on Thursday 27 October at 5pm.
City Art Museum Ljubljana / Mestna galerija Ljubljana
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Wes Anderson's movie adaptation of Fantastic Mr. Fox, my own personal favorite of beloved children's author's Roald Dahl's ouvre, is not quite fantastic, but it is as charming and quirky and self-aware as might be expected of Anderson. Or Dahl, for that matter.
The basic premise of Fantastic Mr Fox (no period in the Dahl original) revolves around a dashing young fox who finds himself at war with three local farmers, who attempt to dig him, his wife, and his four Fox children out of their home in retaliation for his wide-ranging depredations. Anderson veers wildly from Dahl's short, not-so-sweet, very direct tale (or tail) of a fox beset, adding marital tensions, a caper plot, and some romance. Also, much of the focus is shifted to center on Mr. Fox's emo, inadequate school-age son Ash (Jason Schwartzman) and his rival, cousin Kristofferson (Eric Anderson), "a natural," as Mr. Fox insists on describing him. These two characters, and the young vixen Agnes (Juman Malouf, the obligatory Thing With Spots in this Wes Anderson movie—more amusing than usual because Anderson gets in a little self-mockery, with his sly asides about self-conscious trademarks) take the place of the interchangeable four Fox children of the book, adding striking personalities and subject positions.
Other additional characters include an incongruous and possibly brain-damaged opossum, Kylie, quite intentionally out of place in the English countryside. Since the book is a slender, heavily-illustrated volume, these additions are needful: even with them, the move clocks in at an equally slender and un-butt-straining hour and twenty-odd minutes.
And it's quirky. Did I mention it was quirky? It's quirky. It's quirky from the casting—caper movie all the way, with George Clooney and Meryl Streep voicing Mr. and Mrs. Fox, while Michael Gambon voices the alcoholic and murderous Farmer Bean and Willem Dafoe voices a switchblade-wielding rotter of a rat—to the design (schizophrenically detailed stop-motion animation with furry puppets in this era of CGI slickness)—to the narrative, which converts Dahl's scathing ecological fable into a parable about marriage, friendship, and valuing others for what they are and not trying to force them into roles for which they are unsuited. It marries caper movie with mannered absurdism, and it somehow makes it work, in part by being very soft-spoken and understated through all its wacky hijinks.
We get chapter titles, splash images, extended sequences of animation reminiscent of a video game, and deadpan humor–"I can fit through there." "How?" "Because I'm small." The animals inhabit a peculiar world in which they paint landscapes and run newspapers and wear underwear printed with superhero logos and yet remind themselves now and again that they are in fact wild animals, and must be respected as such. They have surprising skills, and are surprisingly likeable.
On the other paw, the sexual politics of the movie are dated, feeling more appropriate to 1970, when the book was released, than to the real world of today. The pacing is a bit awkward, and there are places where the flow of the narrative felt impeded by the jokes, homages, damning bits of social commentary, and sidelong analyses of human psychology. I suspect most of those things will be lost on the target audience—the two young girls behind me seemed to agree with me that the book was better.
But then again, for the price of admission you get a fox in Underoos, and Meryl Streep as Mrs. Fox calmly informing Mr. Fox that she is about to lose her temper, and a good deal of deadpan humor and psychological cleverness involving Mr. Fox and the reasons he does what he does.
Overall, I recommend this, although it might be more fun for the grownups than for kids who love the source material.
Elizabeth Bear is the Hugo and Sturgeon award-winning author of over fifty short stories and more than a dozen science fiction and fantasy novels, including By The Mountain Bound and the forthcoming Chill. She is a participant in the ongoing interactive hyperfiction environment Shadow Unit, and she likes things with spots.


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Best Nacho Recipes: Healthy Recipe for Pork Tenderloin Nachos
Healthy Recipe for Pork Tenderloin Nachos
Nachos is a favorite for many people - for dinner or for a snack/appetizer. With this healthy recipe for Pork Tenderloin Nachos, you can eliminate the guilt of making nachos or eating them!
This is a recipe that I found on Cooking Light Magazine's email earlier this summer. It was tucked somewhere into another recipe as an ad to try it. I watched the video and then went in search of the recipe! It is one of their revamped recipes - taking an old standard and making it healthier.
I have tried it now several ways and have decided it is perfect - no matter which way I make it.
Although there are several prep stages for different parts of this recipe for Pork Tenderloin Nachos, it is really not that labor intensive - but that said, if you are in a super rush and want to cut corners on the prep time, see my hints below on shortcuts and/or variations that I tried.
All in all, this recipe is fantastic as an appetizer or as a meal.
The full recipe will make enough for dinner for 4 (with maybe a few Baked Chicken Flautas thrown in for the overly large appetites) or cut in half, it is a perfect dinner for 2.
Check out Cooking Light for many other tantalizing recipes and videos on how to remake popular recipes. See the stats below on this healthy recipe for Pork Tenderloin Nachos. (Cooking Light calls this recipe Recipe Makeover: Pork and Pinto Bean Nachos)
Recipe for Pork Tenderloin Nachos
- 1 1-pound pork tenderloin, trimmed of white membrane and fat
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Black pepper if desired
- Cooking Spray
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1 teaspoon minced or crushed garlic
- 1 can chipotle chiles in adobo sauce (or substitute 1/2 to 1 mini-cube of Knorr chipotle cubes, crumbled)
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon chili powder (to taste)
- Salt
- 2 15-ounce cans pinto beans, rinsed and drained (or substitute fresh dried, cooked beans)
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 4
slices of bacon, cooked and crumbled - optional (recipe called for
applewood smoked but I thought it was a bit too powerful that way so
used center cut no nitrite bacon)
SALSA TOPPING: (Reserve and use after cooking nachos)
- 1-1/2 cups chopped Roma tomatoes, drained on paper towels
- 1 cup diced avocado
- 1/2 cup chopped jicama
- 1/3 cup chopped sweet onion (or substitute green onions)
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- Up to 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Salt
- 6 ounces of sturdy tortilla chips (About 8 cups)
- 1-1/4 cups (5 ounces) shredded reduced fat Cheddar, Colby and Monterey Jack or other reduced fat cheese - or combination of several
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 jalapeno pepper, thinly sliced (or substitute canned slices) – optional
- Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
- Cook pork roast first. Rub pork with about tablespoon of olive oil, season with salt and pepper. Coat cookie sheet or shallow roasting pan with vegetable spray and place pork on pan.
- Bake at 500 degrees for about 20-25 minutes – thermometer should register 160 degrees.
- Remove from pan – let set for about 10 minutes. Shred pork with 2 forks (need 2 cups) – or use kitchen shears to cut into small pieces.
- Put meat in small bowl and mix with about 1 tablespoon olive oil, a little salt, 2 tablespoons of juice and garlic. Add a dash of ground cumin if you like. Set aside.
- Prepare beans. If substituting fresh cooked beans, cook until tender, rinse and drain to equal 2 15-ounce cans of beans. Otherwise rinse and drain 2 cans of beans as above.
- If using canned chipotle chiles, use only 2 chiles and 1 teaspoon of adobo sauce (reserve the rest for another use). Put chiles in a food processor and pulse about 3-4 times. Add adobo sauce, water, lime juice, chili powder, cumin, salt and beans. Process until smooth. Sprinkle in bacon when done and stir to combine - if using.
- Preheat broiler.
- Combine all topping ingredients and set aside.
- Arrange tortilla chips in more or less a single layer (should be some overlap) on a large baking sheet or jelly roll pan. Using 2 spoons, dot the bean mixture as evenly as possible over chips but haphazardly. Doesn't have to be perfect but just make sure you use all the beans and drop small spoonfuls on as many chips as you can.
- Top with the pieces of pork tenderloin meat mixture.
- Sprinkle with cheese.
- Broil for 4 minutes – until cheese melts.
- Remove from oven. Top with the salsa topping ingredients, cilantro, and jalapenos and serve with salsa and sour cream.
- You can also add shredded lettuce to the topping when ready to serve!
Attribution: This recipe was published in October 2009. I did make a few changes to this recipe by personal preference.
- This recipe
does not lend itself to reheating well so if you make it, try to make sure
that it is made size appropriate for your needs.
- If making enough for 2 people, cut the recipe in half.
- If you do make the whole recipe and end up putting it in the fridge, reheat in the oven. It is still delicious but the refrigeration and reheating makes the chips go limp and you will be heating the salsa topping ingredients as well.
- If cutting the recipe in half, use half of all the ingredients. Do as the method dictates above but use a smaller pan or shallow ovenproof dish to broil the nachos and assemble them.
- If making half, cook the pork tenderloin as above. Use half for the healthy recipe for Pork Tenderloin Nachos and save the other half after shredding for pork tostadas (see my separate recipe).
- Freeze the other half of the shredded pork tenderloin if desired for another day or another use.
- If making half the recipe of Pork Tenderloin Nachos and plan on making pork tostadas with the other half of the pork, make the same amount of beans as above but only use half of them in this recipe, cover and save for the pork tostadas recipe.
- Same goes for the topping. If you want to use the same ingredients for pork tostadas, make or use only half of the topping and reserve the rest for tostadas.
- Use a roasted chicken. Shred the chicken to make 2 cups and then prepare as above.
- Use small red beans, black beans, or even kidney beans for the bean portion of the recipe
- If you are in a real pinch, substitute canned refried beans for the rinsed, drained, pureed beans above. Select refried beans that are fat-free if at all possible and without spices if you plan on using the spices and chiles above. Substitute 2 cans of processed refried beans for the 2 cans of rinsed and drained beans (if making the full recipe).
- If you use spiced refried beans already prepared in a can, eliminate all the other bean ingredients and just use the canned, spiced refried beans.
- Substitute pulled or shredded beef for the pork tenderloin for beef nachos (2 cups)
- Substitute shredded turkey for the pork tenderloin (2 cups)
- For vegetarian nachos, prepare the beans as above but then add about 1 extra can of rinsed, drained black beans, pinto beans or small red beans and scatter them WHOLE over the other bean mixture
Old Way versus New Way for Nachos
2199 mg
991 mg
12 ounces full fat
5 ounces reduced fat
Ground Beef
Shredded Pork Tenderloin
Summing Up Pork Tenderloin Nachos
Trying to watch our diet and eating healthier doesn't have to be all pain and it also doesn't mean giving up everything!
Nowadays, there are great recipes out there that take out the bad stuff like calories and all that fat and still give us the option of eating some of those foods that we crave.
Here is a recipe that proves that - by eliminating the bad portions of this favorite food, we can still enjoy it and feel good about making it! That is a win-win situation.
Whichever variation you try of this great healthy recipe for Pork Tenderloin Nachos, I think you're gonna love it! It may be a little more on the prep side but the end result is truly worth it.
NOTE: You also can prepare the parts of this recipe a day or hours ahead and then assemble right before cooking. Just allow the ingredients to stand out to come to room temperature for about 30-45 minutes before assembling.
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We love fajitas with roast pork, so I'm sure we'd enjoy these, too!
Yep, same exact thing-that syndrome...it's amazing.
Sounds great - must try it. Thank you.
That's because he's a guy. You know that! :)
Gawd, akirchner-this sounds amazing. My hubby will be especially taken with this since he's the nacho king!
Another great recipe to try. Thanks.
Audry, This recipe sounds and looks perfect. I have copied into my recipe folder. Thansks!
Let's see.... PORK... NACHOS.... where do I sign? LOL
mmm nachos! These sound great :)
I'm so glad hubpages has a bookmarking function! These sound yummy!
My Mom loves Nachos and Pork so I will pass this on to her and get much hugs and kisses. I mean she loves Nachos Supreme with everything. Thanks :)
Yo drbj! Follow me around as I ride my bicycle and we'll see some. Maybe follow the cyclists in your area.
I might substitute tofu! Thank you Ma'am!
Dear Buckie-baby, I got all excited about your tantalizing recipe until I realized you were talking about a pork roast - from a pig - from a dead pork pig.
Now that I realize my favorite meat food comes from an animal that has been killed on purpose, I am trying to confine my meat-eating to road kill - animals that die by accident.
This has put a severe crimp in my ingestion of animal protein since I live in a very urban area where number one - there are hardly ever, probably never, any animals lying comatose on the city streets. And number two, if there were, about one or two million other desperate citizens would beat me to the prize.
So I'm just going to have to enjoy your lovely recipes vicariously and use my imagination to visualize you-all chomping away on those tasty dead-meat-treats.
Bon appetit!
Thank you for this yummy hub, I love Nachos thanks girlfriend, I am still at my daughters, I thought I would check in. Love darski
I love Cooking Lite magazine. It's one of my favorites, along with Bon Appetit and Gourmet. I make Nachos all the time, but never used Pork Tenderloin. I'll have to try it. Thanks.


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The Governing Council of the Lagos State University has approved the dismissal of three lecturers for sexual harassment and misconduct.
The council took the decision at its 119th statutory Meeting held on Thursday, 4 October, 2018, as recommended by the Joint Council/Senate (Academic) Disciplinary Committee.
Those dismissed are: Dr. Odubunmi Ayoola Sunkanmi, Associate Professor, Department of Economics; Dr. Ogunwande Isiaka Ajani, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Dr. Gbeleyi Emmanuel Orilade, Lecturer II, Department of Anatomy, Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM), Ikeja, Lagos.
It was earlier reported that one of the affected lecturers, Odubunmi, had allegedly invited his victim to his office on a Saturday, to rewrite a failed examination exam, and had in the process, after locking the door, removed his shirt and started romancing the student.
Unknown to him, the student had been bugged with secret cameras and other gadgets, and was being monitored by officers of the university and an NGO, in a separate office close to his.
According a source, the student, who was disturbed by the persistent pressure from the lecturer, had approached the NGO to seek intervention. The NGO was said to have notified the university management, which in turn promised to 'play along' towards catching the lecturer red handed.


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This is an article for the South Wales Evening Post
As I lost my Welsh Assembly seat in May, the Welsh Government draft budget which was published last week, is the first that I have not had an involvement in for five years.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats may only have one Assembly Member but the deal that Kirsty Williams struck before accepting the post of Education Secretary is very evident in that budget.
Our influence is there in the doubling of the pupil deprivation grant for the youngest and poorest learners, a £4.5m boost for deprived children in the Foundation Phase, which was a key Lib Dem manifesto pledge.
There is also protection for the money, first won by the Welsh Liberal Democrats that is targeted at our poorest pupils in primary and secondary education and which has been successful in helping them to do better at school.
An extra £22.74m has gone to Swansea schools through this grant since 2012, £15.6m to schools in Neath Port Talbot. That funding is set to continue.
The budget includes £111m for apprenticeships and traineeships, £10m for pilot projects to support 30 hours of free childcare a week, and a £20m boost to raise school standards,
There is £16m for a new treatment fund, £240m extra for the Welsh NHS, and £60m for the Intermediate Care Fund, which seeks to improve the links between health and social services. We also have the best local government settlement for years.
Some of these schemes are continuations from previous budget deals others are Welsh Liberal Democrats' manifesto promises. That includes funding for 20,000 new affordable homes over the next five years.


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Allergies among pets are fairly similar to human allergies and can be described as an abnormal sensitivity when exposed to particular elements. While there is no breed susceptibility, it is believed that allergies can be genetically inherited. Most pets start to show signs of an allergy around the age of 1 to 4 years old.
If you think your pet is exhibiting the signs of an allergy or you have questions about pet allergens, please contact our office.
Common allergens for pets:
There are numerous tests that can help determine specific allergies in pets. The following two exams are the methods commonly implemented to test pets for allergies. If a more involved diagnosis is required for your pet's particular condition, we will make additional arrangements.
Skin allergy panel – This test usually requires your pet to be sedated. During the test, the veterinarian will shave off a small section of your pet's hair and will draw a grid directly on their skin. The vet will then inject common known allergens alongside control variables to determine which injections (allergens) the pet is allergic to.
Food trials – Food trials are simply the process of trying out different pet foods to alleviate a food allergy. The veterinarian will work with you to test various types of food (natural, organic, with or without by-product, gluten-free, etc.) and various proteins (beef, chicken, lamb, salmon, etc.) to determine which food works best for your pet. Each food's trial period will last around 6 weeks and will require close observation and recording at home to be sure that the allergy is still present, or to determine if it has been relieved.
Symptoms of allergies in pets:
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Depending on the allergy, there are several methods of treatment that can help alleviate the agony of allergies. More generic forms of relief include regularly shampooing your pet to reduce itchiness and remove any bacteria and scabs. Also consider washing and rinsing paws with a cool bath any time they seem to be suffering. The veterinarian might recommend applying hydrocortisone cream to the affected area, but it should be used sparingly and only under the veterinarian's supervision. Also, consider over-the-counter antihistamines, namely Benadryl, but only administer medication under veterinary supervision to ensure dosage is appropriate for your pet's size.
For indoor pets suffering from allergies, try removing the plants from inside your home. If you prefer to keep plants, prevent mold growth by covering the soil with activated charcoal bits, which you can purchase from an aquarium supply store. Also be sure to keep your house free from dust and other airborne allergens.
After positively diagnosing your pet with a specific allergy, the veterinarian can recommend a more detailed treatment for their particular case.
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Cauliflower and I spent much of my life not understanding one another. But now, NOW we have a beautiful relationship and cauliflower is making dinner time in my house a bit tastier, creative, and definitely healthier.
Cauliflower is one of those magical foods that has a bit of a secret identify. At first glace, cauliflower appears to just be a vegetable that you can roast, steam, or stir-fry. But, oh friends, cauliflower is so so so much more than that. Cauliflower can take on so many forms and naturally blend into so many dishes. However, my favorite unexpected way to enjoy this beautiful vegetable is cauliflower rice.
Enter "cauliflower recipes" into Google and you are sure to come up with half a bazillion ways to creatively use cauliflower in your meals that go way beyond the steamed florets Grandma served up alongside carrots and broccoli at Sunday suppers.
I have ventured down the cauliflower rabbit hole and my family's meals are forever transformed because of it. I've mashed cauliflower. I've roasted it. I've even tried making those crumbly white flowers (yes, they are actually flowers) into a warm breakfast dish. I think I have experimented with the culinary limits of cauliflower like few others and I am pretty excited to share with you one of my favorite cauliflower concoctions yet: One-Skillet Fried Cauliflower Rice
I have fond childhood (okay, and adult) memories of traditional fried rice. I love the blend of flavors, textures, and colors into one tasty dish. However, let's be honest, it's pretty far from healthy. Despite having veggies in it, the fried rice that you enjoy from take-out boxes during lazy Friday night movies on the couch has a lot of sodium, preservatives, and processed junk in it. But rest assured, it doesn't have to be this way! You can have your fried rice and eat your veggies too!
This one-skillet fried cauliflower rice recipe has all the beautiful flavors, textures, and colors of its not-so-healthy muse, but packs tons of good-for-you ingredients into one large skillet. Instead of white or brown rice, the base for this recipe is cauliflower crumbled to take on the appearance and texture of rice. So, you are also bringing a veggie-loaded dish to the table (or couch) in a creative, unexpected way.
This version of one-skillet fried cauliflower rice is gluten and soy free, as it is made with coconut aminos instead of soy sauce. If you have never heard of this awesome ingredient, I encourage you to hit the internet and look it up! It's made from aged coconut tree sap and sea salt only and tastes remarkably like soy sauce. It can be found at many health food stores or purchased online. Of course, if you are not trying to avoid gluten or soy, please feel free to substitute soy sauce for the coconut aminos in this recipe.
If you fancy the idea of cauliflower rice, try my Fast Curry Cauliflower Rice with Toasted Almonds!
Makes 4 servings
1 medium cauliflower
4 large eggs
1/2 cup chopped onion
3 cloves of garlic
3 medium carrots
1 cup corn (frozen or fresh)
3/4 cup green peas (fresh or frozen)
5 tablespoon coconut aminos
1 1/2 tablespoon coconut oil
1/8 teaspoon sea salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper, ground
Cut cauliflower into florets, discarding the tough core of the vegetable. Wash and dry florets. Using a food processor and the "S" blade, pulse the cauliflower until it is crumbly and resembles rice. Depending on the size of your food processor, you may have to do this in multiple batches. Once you are done "ricing" the cauliflower, set it aside.
In a large skillet, heat the coconut oil over medium heat. Once the oil is hot, add the garlic and onions to the pan. Cook for about 2-3 minutes or until the onions are soft and translucent.
Add the peas, carrots, and corn to the skillet and cook for 6-8 more minutes, or until the carrots have started to soften.
Next, add the riced cauliflower to the pan. Cover and cook for about 7-9 minutes or until the cauliflower is soft.
Add the whisked eggs and coconut aminos to the pan, mixing with a large spoon until all veggies are evenly coated with egg. Cook for 3-5 more minutes or until eggs are cooked.
Serve warm. Store leftovers in fridge for 4-5 days.
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Jan Heister and her husband Jim started Premier Tooling in June 1990 with 9 employees in a 5440 square foot facility. Today, Premier employs over 143 people in a 160,000 square foot facility. Sales have grown from $1.7 million in 1994 to $13.5 million in 2009.
Premier Tooling has worked with ECIA, an SBA Certified Development Company, to meet their financing needs. Their first SBA 504 loan was approved in 1995 for $133,000. Additional SBA loans in 1996, 1999 and 2001 enabled the company to add additional equipment and infrastructure. Most recently, the business used a Recovery Act loan for more than $1 million in 2009 for additional equipment and working capital. This loan saved Premier $27,562.50 on fees.
What started out as a small Tool and Die business has evolved into a major Metal Stamping house to compliment the Tool and Die business. Premier offers full service to its customers from the designing and building of the tools to make the product, to stamping out the product, and the maintenance of the tool.
As the economy has improved, the business has resumed hiring. The business has been using a temporary service since late 2009 to add staff as needed, and has been converting some of these to permanent employees as the company sees the economy stabilizing. Premier is on target to have sales near $20 million for 2010.
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Located right next to the beautiful waters, Bluewater Cafe Manly offers a fresh menu with quality service.
The walls are inspired by its location, featuring surfboards on the wall and comfortable leather seats.
Both indoor and outdoor seating is available and their decor reflects the calm, blue oceans of Manly Beach, just outside its doorstep.
Bluewater Tasting Plate 25.9
This tasting plate is great for those who love a bit of variety! The plate offers a multicultural fusion of smoked salmon, arancini balls, salt and pepper soft shell crab, chili garlic prawn skewers, fish cakes and green tea noodle sake and Korean dressing.
Lobster & Crab Ravioli – shellfish butter sauce, cherry tomatoes 24.9
Our favourite dish was the Lobster and Crab Ravioli! It was very creamy and we could definitely taste the fresh lobster and crab freshly wrapped. Needless to say, we devoured this dish in minutes.
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The most photogenic nachos we've seen in a while! Plenty of Dorito chips and a generous portion of fillings left us content and full. Great for sharing!
Manly Beef Burger – beef patty, bacon, slow roasted tomato, cheese, mixed greens, caramelised onion, classic aioli 21.9
The beef burger featured a crunchy bun and a great balance between the beef patty and greens pulled together by delicious cheese. We loved how the seeds on the burger not only contributed to the aesthetics, but also to the texture of the bun. A classic meal for a day at the beach!
Macadamia Crusted Barramundi – rocket, avocado, beetroot, goat cheese salad, mango sauce 32.9
The barramundi was very tasty with the texture of the bread crumbs complementing the flavour. Seated on a fresh goat cheese salad, this is a very healthy option for those who love their fish.
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Bluewater Cafe Manly recently introduced freshly squeezed juices into their menu and they are a must if you're looking for a healthy and refreshing drink!
A special thanks to Emma and Chef Shirak for providing us with a delicious feast!
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One of the biggest barriers to starting or growing a business is having enough money in the bank.
Don't we all want to have more money in the bank? Of course we do.
That's where our most recent teleseminar guest comes in. Katy Song is a Certified Financial Planner and advises clients on savvy saving, investing, and ways to make their hard-earned bucks go farther.
Many of Katy's clients are entrepreneurs and business owners, and she counsels these clients on how to deal with unpredictable revenue, how to set priorities in their businesses based on family needs and personal needs, and how to implement saving strategies.
Katy stopped by to share her advice on entrepreneurship and business ownership, running a business in today's economy, and what it takes to be a successful business owner. In this teleseminar, Katy explains:
- How to start a business in a slow economy
- The #1 Mistake new business owners make when they start a new business
- How much money to save when starting a business
- Why entrepreneurs are more likely to live within their means than consumers
- What personality traits entrepreneurs share
I hope you will enjoy listening to the interview as much as I enjoyed conducting it. If you prefer to read the interview than listen to it, you can read the transcript after the jump.
How to Use Savvy Financial Planning In Your Business – a Teleseminar with Financial Planner Katy Song
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John: Welcome, everyone! This is John Corcoran from California Law Report. I'm really excited today to have Katy Song on the line with us. Katy, are you there?
Katy: I'm here. Thanks, John.
John: Great, great. Okay. Katy Song is a financial planner and she's going to give us some advice on how entrepreneurs and business owners can implement savvy financial planning strategies in their business in starting a business and that kind of thing. I'll tell you a little bit about Katy. She's originally from Rye, New York and she's a California transplant just like myself. She lived in California for about twenty years now, it seems like.
Some interesting things about her background: She worked for the US Department of Commerce in the International Trade Administration. I think I remember you saying, Katy, that you were working with Africa issues. Is that right?
Katy: Yeah. I got two—I lived in West Africa for a while working specifically for the state department at that time.
John: Oh, very cool! She also worked for Citigroup and they're an investing banking group, for five years and rose up to the level of Vice President. She's been a fee-only financial planner since 2008 and is a certified financial planning certificant and she works and lives primarily with clients in the Marin county area which is where I live as well and work. That's just outside of San Francisco. She focuses primarily on parents with young children but many or a lot or it seems like the majority of her clients are business owners and so she gets into a lot of the issues that we're going to be talking about today. Also, she's a graduate of UC Santa Cruz in the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. So welcome, Katy.
Katy: Thank you very much.
John: Great, great. So first, tell me a little bit about what is a fee-only financial planner? Because I know that that is a very important distinction in the financial planning world. And also a little about what a certified planning certificant is.
Katy: A fee-only planner doesn't manage any assets. A fee, a flat fee, an hourly fee is charged for either comprehensive financial planning or project-specific advice be it how much money can I afford to spend on a house, what do we need to save for retirement, looking at investments. A CFP, which is a Certified Financial Planner, in order to become a certificant you have to pass the CFP exam which is a pretty rigid, structured exam. And then you also have to have hours in your particular field of financial planning. It really is the gold standard of financial planners. There's a pretty big distinction between somebody who calls themselves a financial planner or a financial consultant versus somebody who actually is a CFP certificant.
In addition, I would add to that I am also a registered investment advisor with the State of California so that it enables me as a fee-only planner to give security-specific investment advice and to make specific recommendations—what you should invest in in your brokerage account or your retirement accounts and so that kind of adds to that. Fee-only planners again don't manage any assets.
John: Got it. Okay. The attraction for a fee-only financial planner, kind of the way you described it, is that you're just getting the advice straight without you having any skin in the game. Is that a good way of describing it?
Katy: Essentially. When you look at what are the incentives—this is potentially a cheated point of view—but what are the planner's incentives, so somebody's managing assets. Their incentive is on transaction fees and put you in specific investments or sell you specific insurance policies. With a fee-only planner, you really are getting objective fiduciary advice.
John: Okay. That's a great distinction for people who maybe haven't worked with a financial planner before and who have thought about it to think about that distinction when they're out there shopping around looking for someone.
I know that a lot of the people who are listening to this or reading it in the transcribed version are going to be business owners or entrepreneurs who already have a business up and running and maybe it's doing well, maybe it's struggling, maybe they're expanding or whatnot. We're going to get into some of those issues.
But first, I thought we'd start off with talking about what advice you have for people who are starting a business especially during what's been a rough economy for the last couple of years. What generalized advice do you have for people?
Katy: Yeah, I think a big switch that most people that come to me that maybe aren't perfectly happy in their job or see a potential for a business idea, there's a lot of excitement around it but there's a lot of anxiety because so much of it is unknown. A lot of people will go from being a W2 employee and getting benefits and getting their taxes withheld to all of a sudden having income unpredictability, are they making revenue or they're not making money, what are the cost of benefits, where do you get your benefits and setting aside money for taxes and what are the tax implications of being self-employed.
The income unpredictability, the benefits, and the taxes are really kind of the potential sources of anxiety if you don't think about it before you make that leap.
John: Do you find that a lot of people kind of launch into their businesses without having thought through all these different aspects?
Katy: Absolutely. I don't think I've actually come across anybody who's planned for it in advance. And those that do try to plan for it before they launch, usually it stalls the launching process because there's a lot to figure out and there's a lot of uncertainty. As you mentioned in the beginning, most of my clients have young children. So when you add to it needing to provide for a family and potentially being the full breadwinner, it tends to kind of slow down the entrepreneurial spirit.
John: Yeah.
Katy: You have to weigh all those obligations.
John: There's kind of a tension between having fully done your homework and being fully prepared before you start your business and having analysis paralysis and preventing you from starting your venture to begin with.
Katy: Yeah. I would say that most of the entrepreneurs that I've worked with have probably had their business in place for two to three years, and they usually come to see me because they're tired of feeling stressed about it and they want somebody to figure out on paper what is the best plan for them going forward.
John: Let's say they have these peaks and valleys of revenue coming in up and down where it goes low, goes high, that kind of thing. You give them advice on how they can level that out or just save during the good times so that they have that savings available during the lean times?
Katy: Yes, again it depends on the business model. It'd be great that if there are peaks of cash flow where somebody got thirty grand a month but they really tend to live off of, and then you can just set that twenty grand aside. When you have your lulls, you can use that savings. But I think that doesn't always happen. So it's a matter of knowing what your balance sheet is as a family. What's your personal balance sheet and being able to leverage that when you need it.
John: What advice do you give for people who are about to start a business and thinking about starting a business? Should they have six months' salary saved, eight months? Is there a benchmark that you use?
Katy: It also depends on the type of business. How long are you going to give yourself to see if this is going to be viable? Or how long is it going to potentially take for it to be cash flow positive and then kind of backing into that number. You need to know what are your expenses and how much it's going to cost to live this entrepreneurial life. Ideally if you want to minimize your stress, you would cover that launch period before you start thinking that you're going to be generating sufficient income to cover your expenses.
John: Yeah. You have some great resources, some great articles on your web site at katysong.com. I was reading through some of those and you advise your clients to live within their means. I think in this society a lot of times people don't follow that. Does this same business apply to businesses? Do you find that businesses have the tendency, like we do as consumers, to not live within their means?
Katy: Actually, I find the opposite. I found that most people that are taking the risk to be entrepreneurial sway towards the other part of the spectrum which is living below their means because there is always that—I guess it's a healthy fear of failure in a certain way and wanting to be successful and being mindful of the fact that you can't always control where the economy goes. I think that most of the clients that I've worked with have veered more towards the conservative living below their means in order to hopefully make this new business venture a success.
John: That's interesting. It seems like kind of a healthy tendency actually, considering the national savings rate is so low. Maybe more people should start their own business.
Katy: Yeah. The savings rate had kind of peaked back up around 5 percent during the great recession. Now it has dropped back to pre-great recession numbers. It could be interesting for me to look at my entrepreneur clients to see what their savings rate is because I do feel like they're not out there spending income that would be viewed as disposable if you were a W2 employee.
John: That's interesting because it leads to attention because you could have businesses that are doing well, generating revenue and maybe they have the potential to expand, add another location or add more employees. But maybe because of this tendency, because of the healthy fear as you described it, to live within their means, maybe they're holding back they're not re-investing the dollars in their business. Do you see that happening? Do you see people passing up opportunities?
Katy: I don't know if I see people passing opportunities. I think it gets back to what their goal is for the business. Most businesses want to expand but not all of them do. Some of them want to increase profitability of the business they already have or grow their footprint, their existing client base. I have seen people recently re-visit hiring more people but that would definitely fail in the last two years. The overall economy, when it slows, the tendency is not to go out there and take bigger risks.
I think you're right. There's kind of a dichotomy there between being a risk-taker and being an entrepreneur versus being a business owner and wanting to make a living doing your own business.
John: Right, right. This is kind of a slight tangent here but one of the questions I wanted to ask you about is I'm an attorney and one of the problems that I see with the legal profession is that lawyers are very expensive and they tend to charge on an hourly basis so people tend to not go see a lawyer until it's too late. Do you find that as well, that people have gotten themselves up a tree, some kind of mess with their financial life or with their business or involving both and that's when they come to see you?
Katy: I think that there are two kinds of clients that come to see a financial planner. There is definitely the triage where it's gotten so bad that the business is suffering and potentially the marriage and the family is suffering. I definitely get my share of those although I feel like those have diminished over the last couple of years. And then there's the proactive planner. I think that when you're running your own business, to be successful, you do have to be able to plan. I think it's a natural extension that people are going to seek advice hopefully sooner rather than later.
I feel like that segment of the population seeking out financial planning assistance is growing. But I do think that there is a lot of lack of education about the people who are out there that can help people do this analysis. More often than not, I've gotten some people that say "I didn't know somebody did this" or "I didn't know somebody did what you do." I don't know if that comes down to the legal profession as well where there are questions to be answered, and people instead of just sitting there trying to figure it out themselves know that there are professionals out there that can help them.
John: Yeah, I think that it's definitely true. There are always going to be people who don't really think that or they're unaware of the services available that they're affordable to them. Actually that leads to another question. Especially in this economy, there are people who may want to start a business or what the kind of advice that you may provide, and I think the legal profession is guilty of this, where people can't afford the advice that would be very useful to them. I guess this is kind of a two-fold question. One, are there resources out there maybe that are affordable. Number one, I would probably recommend your web site because you've got good resources on there. Two, do you have advice for people maybe to invest in themselves? Even if they're questioning whether they can afford to see a financial planner, I think certainly an argument can be made that it's valuable to do it anyway even if you're not sure if you can afford it. Maybe those are the people who need it the most.
Katy: Yeah. I think that when you reframe the affordability question into what potential opportunities are you missing, and then if you can monetize that and put a dollar value to that, the financial planning or legal line is going to be dwarfed by the potential opportunities that you're going to miss out on because you don't think you can afford it, that you can afford that advice.
John: Right, right. Yeah.
Katy: You're in for a mistake. Are you going to miss that opportunity because you don't want to shell out a few thousand dollars for professional advice? I think a lot of people do do that.
John: Yeah, and it's just the cost of doing business these days. It's like if you want to win the World Series and you want to form a team of people to win the World Series, you need to pay a coach to be there to help you along the way and to show you the ways in order to form a good baseball team. It seems like it's important for people to recognize that it can be really valuable for them to get that advice even if it seems like something that they can't afford.
Katy: Yeah, exactly.
John: I wanted to ask you. Do you find that in advising your clients that there is a common entrepreneurial or business owner personality, personality traits that go into owning their own business?
Katy: Yeah! I definitely think that a common thread between these type of clients of mine is energy and passion. They're definitely not the worker bees. They're the ideas and they're willing to explore and play devil's advocate and get people's opinions and really play around with different ideas and questioning what they've been taught or what they've been told or what they've seen to try new ways to create value. I do think what it comes down to is a person's desire to either create value for their family, for themselves or for the community and just having great ideas to be able to execute that.
John: Great. And then kind of the flipside question, do you find people who may be business owners you kind of size them up and think they really shouldn't be an entrepreneur, they shouldn't be their own business owner?
Katy: Usually the people who I think that of never actually get to the jumping off point. In the beginning, I said that there's people who do so much analysis because they want to get everything planned up before they actually make the leap. It's usually that personality that doesn't end up doing it in the end anyway.
John: Self-selecting in a sense.
Katy: Yes. Yeah.
John: I interviewed someone else recently who their advice to someone who was interested in owning their own business was to start with something that wasn't too high-tech, something basic like a very basic type of business like lawn care, something that wasn't too sophisticated, not to put down people who are in lawn care businesses. Or house cleaning or dog walking, something like that. Do you have any thoughts on that—business types that are good ventures for people to get started out on or is it completely personality based?
Katy: I think that I disagree with that. I think that there has to be a need. I think that you have to see that there is a need in the market that isn't being served in a way that you think should be served and that there is some kind of value that you can create there. To me, it really comes down to barriers of entry and also personality. When you think about what are the barriers to entry to becoming a financial planner, hopefully you have to become a certificant of a financial planning exam and get your hours in place. But they're relatively low barriers to entry. Anybody can put up a web site and say they're a financial planner.
But then it comes down to credentials and need and having a good story to tell. I think that knowing what your niche is and what your business is and having your elevator pitch down, that's going to help sell whatever business even if it's lawn care or dog walking. I think there just have to be a need there, a passion, and a reason why they're doing what they're doing. It's the reason that you're becoming a dog walker is because there's a part of the community that's underserved and they don't take geriatric dogs for slow walks. Potentially, there is a market opportunity there. But I don't know necessarily if starting simple is going to be an avenue to success.
John: Interesting. This next question maybe a little bit—I don't know—outside of your comfort level. But you mentioned kind of that increase in need and making sure there's a need there. One thing that I think has been kind of interesting in the economy over the last couple of years has been the changing needs. So there's a couple of things like the aging of the baby boomers has resulted in a lot of new industries and companies who cater to that area. I know someone who started a senior moving company that would help seniors move downsize from a large home to a smaller home and oftentimes they have kids who had full-time jobs who couldn't do that job.
Another area is clean tech. You've seen that industry really boom in recent years as demand for clean energy has taken off. I know that we're both serving industries in Marin county, which is kind of a more I guess a sleepy bedroom community might be a way to describe it, but do you see in your experience any growth areas that are kind of of interest right now?
Katy: I think that you can look at demographics to see where the next potential trends but I think often looking at the economy overall, I think behavioral finances has tried to understand why we make the financial decisions that we do. I think that eventually, and it may not be today, it may not be in five years, eventually people are going to be more involved with their money because it's not going to necessarily grow as quickly as they were hoping to. I think that the financial industry has a huge opportunity to grow over the next twenty to thirty years.
I think there are underserved populations that if you look at a lot of—obviously this is the industry that I'm in so I see a lot more—when you look at personal finance web sites and tools and technology and leveraging that, you can be your kind of own financial planner. They're everywhere now. They're growing and they're becoming pretty popular and I'm sure they'll have IPOs. I think that financial services is a huge area of growth.
John: It is amazing the resources that are available these days. When you just think of web sites like Mint where you can track your spending and you can sync it up with other banking, credit card web sites so that the information is brought in pretty seamlessly.
Katy: There's another new site that's called Learn Vest that's very much geared towards women. They're realizing too that a lot of women in the household, being single or being the mother or stay-at-home parent, are in charge of the family finances. They have significantly low price plans when it comes to their financial plans I think in the low multiple hundred dollars. When you think about getting advice from a CFP for a couple hundred bucks when somebody like me charges significantly more than that, there's a niche there. There's a need that they're filling. Whether or not they're successful, we'll see. But they're growing quickly.
John: That's great. Actually that leads to my final question which is, are there other educational sources out there for people who are interested in learning more about getting financial advice other than that one that you mentioned? Was it Learn Vest or Learn Best?
Katy: Learn Vest.
John: V-E-S-T?
Katy: V-E-S-T.
John: V-E-S-T.
Katy: That's more personal finance related but they have tutorials on everything from figuring out how you should invest in your 401k and how do you save for gold. I think that finding some good financial blogs to follow, getting some Twitter feeds, I find Twitter to be a huge resource of information because you get the little Sound Bytes then you can decide whether or not it's a topic that interests you so then you can go to the article. I think that if you go to Twitter and you look for financial advice or small business financial advice, there are some pretty good resources that come up and it's free. That would be what I would definitely recommend people to check out.
John: Twitter is a great way of discovering new content that you wouldn't otherwise be exposed to because you find people that have similar interests or that you're interested in and you explore their interests really.
Katy: Exactly.
John: Yeah. Well, great! Thank you very much for taking the time to do this interview. I really appreciate it.
Katy: Thanks, John.
John: If people want to find out more about you, they can go to katysong.com, right?
Katy: katysong.com.
John: And you've got a bunch of cool videos on there as well which is really helpful.
Katy: Thank you.
John: Right. Thanks, Katy.


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ABC News is reporting that the female contingent of Afghanistan's riot police wear silver fingernails, headscarves, fishnet stockings, and high heels.
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Spring is alive and in the air! Tuesday night I was honored to be host of the first annual Fashion Power Play to benefit the Boston Bruins Foundation and The Second Step at Copley Place in Boston's Back Bay district. Neiman Marcus dressed the gorgeous wives and significant others of the Bruins — as well as professional models, to show off the looks for Spring/Summer '15. Our own Kathy Benharris organized the entire production and did a beautiful job indeed. Managing the models and wives, who generously volunteered their time for this good cause, is no easy task. Backstage was an organized frenzy, with makeup, hair and fittings all taking place at once. Racks of Milly, Shoshanna, and Prada filled the room. Neiman's Spring/Summer vision was Spice Market, so we saw the runway decorated with a mix of vivid oranges, blues and yellows, intermingled in floral patterns and expressionist type prints. Kathy started the show with boho chic fringe, lots of leather and jeans, then transitioned to some demure cocktail attire, focusing on trends such as the crop top, which I happened to be sporting that evening. I received many compliments on my outfit and was happy to represent two local designers who are near and dear to my heart, Daniela Corte and Monika Ramizi. And of course, sitting front row across from the entire Bruins lineup was quite a treat…well, I mean someone had to do it.
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Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
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Seed viability
Many of our old seeds are still useful. You might ditch some, as you didn't like the taste of the variety, or it didn't grow well etc. And of course some might be out of date and are no longer viable (how old they can be before they no longer germinate).
To find out the viability of seeds isn't that easy. You can find lots of websites talking about viability, but not many list that many of the actual seeds a gardener in the UK may grow. I finally managed to find a really useful seed viability chart from Amateur Gardening magazine (January 2012 issue). I also found a printed copy of the Seed Savers Handbook list (Australian) which someone gave me last year.
I noticed some differences between the two, so have compiled an Excel document listing seed name and the number of years each suggests. Most of the differences are minimal, though I do wonder why one says Chicory has a viability range of 5 years, and the other 8. And Cucumber has been given 5-6 years by Amateur Gardening and 4-10 by Seed Savers! Maybe the different climates (UK and Australia) affect the viability of seeds? And I'm curious to know why Amateur garden left out Chard (which is known as Silverbeet in Australia), given how popular it is in the UK? I guess as it is the same family as Beetroot, the viability must be similar.
Anyhow, I thought my little documents might be useful for other people, so am including them here so others can download them if they find it helpful.
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If you come across any further useful seed viability lists, I would love to know about them!
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What a fab resource!ReplyDelete
I think John Harrison published something on his Allotment site somewhere (he's referred to it a couple of times on Twitter), but from what I remember it's not as comprehensive as yours.
Interesting that you've used Google docs to host your downloads - you've set me thinking on whether I can use this for the fact sheets I've got planned for the 52 Week Salad Challenge :)
Thanks VP - glad it is useful. I figured since I did all the work for myself, I most well post it in case it was of use to others. I'll look up John Harrison and will add anything I find.ReplyDelete
Google Docs does the job and you can set each doc to be private, limited public (ie. just those with the link) or fully public, which means it can be searched. People don't need an account to access public docs, which is useful.
Thanks - I'd originally discounted Google Docs because I thought you needed a Google account in order to view it. You've just saved me a lot of extra work :)ReplyDelete
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EIC Recertified
A group of volunteers collected sap from sugar maple trees, then turned it into maple syrup and drizzled it over vanilla ice cream.
Others gave local students an up close and personal look at turtles to help expand the kids' knowledge of reptiles.
And some built an urban mushroom garden to encourage sustainable living.
Consider it another day at the office for those who work at UM-Dearborn's Environmental Interpretive Center (EIC).
Those programs will continue as the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) recently approved the center's Corporate Lands for Learning recertification. The center, which promotes environmental health and sustainability through education and research with local schools and community organizations, now is certified to carry out its mission for another three years.
"We are very proud to be recognized for the successes of our ongoing education and conservation programs with the community," Susko said.
Recertification is slated again for 2014. But next time around, Susko has a good model to work from. WHC President Robert commended the center for its site-based education programs, which were listed in the application.
"Your recertification application materials demonstrate that the employees at University of Michigan-Dearborn Environmental Interpretive Center remain committed to providing exemplary conservation education experiences for your community," Johnson wrote in a letter to Susko.
Johnson also applauded the center's outreach efforts with local schools and conservation organizations.
"Corporate education teams can help to combat the growing 'extinction of experience' of today's youth by reconnecting them to the wonders of nature through hands-on programs," he wrote.
But aside from recertification, Susko said the application process reaffirmed the University's commitment to sustainability.
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The center, which opened in 2001, educates residents throughout southeast Michigan on environmental issues, namely those related to urban areas. Since 2001, the center has provided environmental interpretation and education to more than 140,000 school children and community visitors.
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On this episode of the podcast, I talk specifically about the impact of the CAFE regulations on the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and what that means to guys wanting to get a Jeep truck. I mentioned the possibility of a Jeep of Fiat pickup truck back on episode 72 but it struck a cord with many … Continue reading
Episode 60 – Ozark Overland Rally
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The business of archaeology can be a frustrating experience. I work for a cultural resource management firm. My day started, like that of many others, sitting in traffic to get to work. Once there, I was greeted by a long flatbed trailer who had parked across all of the parking spots for the office. After I had a few gentle words with the driver, and I intimated that the borough police would not look favorably on his parking, he moved and I was able to park. On checking my email, I was greeted by a request for nine hard copies of a report for work performed in Berks County (Pennsylvania, USA), and could I have them delivered to their office by 3pm today? Another email wanted to know why the company's insurance broker had not sent the requested documentation for a bridge project in Montgomery County (Pennsylvania) and still another email from our phone system company indicating that, despite a three week wait, they had brought the wrong software fix and would come back when they could find the correct software. I had been at work for less than a half an hour and wanted desperately to leave. Phone calls were left with the client, the insurance broker, and the phone system firm. No one was in to talk to me. I also placed a call to an archaeologist with the National Park Service to discuss possible upcoming work in Valley Forge National Historic Park. They were also not available. Later in the day, I was able to get some work done. The work included the review of an informational packet that we were preparing for a local municipality in advance of a proposed ordinance to protect historic buildings; a review of a Phase I archaeological survey report where three archaeological sites were found, but where project impacts were changed to avoid the sites; and updating of a work plan for archaeology at an early twentieth century site in Delaware County (Pennsylvania). Later in the day, I was reminded by my computer to prepare a submission for the Philadelphia Archaeological Forum's Artifact of the Month and to prepare a short summary of work performed in a mining community in western Pennsylvania for the Society for Historical Archaeology newsletter. The two small write-ups were the only enjoyable part of the day as they provided an outlet to provide information concerning archaeological work to the general public — and I didn't have to wait for a call back.
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