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Final, Bruins 6-3: That's it, and that's all. The Bruins pulled away late, and they're back on the winning track with an impressive 6-3 win.
Third period, 18:24, Bruins 6-3: Good things happen when you put pucks on net and get traffic in front. The Bruins just did both, and the B's are leading by three goals again.
Matt Bartkowski threw the puck at the net, which is where Milan Lucic deflected it by Hernik Lundqvist for the Bruins' sixth goal of the game.
Third period, 15:18, Bruins 5-3: It's not over just yet.
Ryan McDonagh just scored a power-play goal, and the Rangers are back within two. McDonagh got the puck in front of the Bruins' net where his initial shot hit Zdeno Chara up high. Chara was momentarily dazed and lost track of the puck. That allowed McDonagh to put him the second-chance opportunity for the power-play tally.
Third period, 15:06, Bruins 5-2: The Boston penalty kill is going back to work.
Kevan Miller was the guilty party as he was sent off for holding.
Third period, 13:34, Bruins 5-2: The Bruins have just about put this one away.
The Boston fourth line created a turnover, and then it was Gregory Campbell who cashed in. He redirected a shot (with his skate) by Henrik Lundqvist, and the B's now have a three-goal lead.
That goal was reviewed, but it stands.
Third period, 9:04, Bruins 4-2: That's a big one.
Gregory Campbell just scored a pretty shorthanded goal that not only takes the wind out of the Rangers' sails, but it gives the Bruins a two-goal lead.
Third period, 8:02, Bruins 3-2: The Bruins are going to have to kill off yet another penalty.
Dougie Hamilton just deflected a puck over the glass, and he's going to the penalty box for delay of game.
Third period, 4:00, Bruins 3-2: The third has been pretty tight-checking so far, but the Rangers have gotten some chances.
Ryan Callahan deflected a shot in front of Tuukka Rask, and the deflection from about shoulder-high on Rask to the goalie's pads. He was able to squeeze his legs and keep the puck there before freezing it.
Benoit Pouliot had a semi-breakaway as well, but the Rangers forward shot wide of the net.
Third period, 0:01, Bruins 3-2: The third period is underway. There will be 4-on-4 play for about a minute and a half.
End second period, Bruins 3-2: The second period is over, and the Bruins will take the one-goal lead to the second intermission.
Second period, 19:31, Bruins 3-2: We'll have 4-on-4 play to end the period and into the third.
Ryan McDonagh and Brad Marchand were just each given high sticking penalties for some stick work before and after the most recent whistle.
Second period, 16:53, Bruins 3-2: The Bruins were starting to get sloppy, and the Rangers just made them pay.
The B's turned the puck over at the Rangers' blue line, and that started the puck back the other way. Brad Richards was able to get open as he carried the puck down the right wing where he ripped a wrist shot up over the right shoulder of Tuukka Rask to pull New York within one.
Second period, 14:34, Bruins 3-1: The Rangers just had a chance to cut into the Bruins' lead with a furious scramble in front of the Boston net.
Somehow, Tuukka Rask and the Bruins were able to keep the puck out of the net. After a few anxious seconds, the puck was pulled out of the crease and shoveled to the safety of behind the net as the B's avoided any sorts of danger.
Second period, 12:00, Bruins 3-1: Rick Nash just made an incredible play to carry the puck into the Boston zone and get around the defense. He then fed the puck across the slot to Chris Kreider who quickly put the puck on net. Tuukka Rask went from his left to right to make the glove save, though, to keep the two-goal lead intact.
Second period, 9:34, Bruins 3-1: The Bruins now have a two-goal lead.
Carl Soderberg made an incredible play to roof a second-chance shot in front of the New York net. Soderberg gathered the puck on the doorstep after Henrik Lundqvist made a save on a Loui Eriksson shot.
Second period, 8:00, Bruins 2-1: The Rangers are now 0-for-2 on the power play after the Bruins just killed off New York's second power play of the game.
Tuukka Rask made a couple of nice pad saves during that man-advantage. Rask is certainly locked in tonight.
Second period, 5:44, Bruins 2-1: The Bruins are going to have to kill another power play here in the second period.
Chris Kelly just pushed J.T. Miller into Tuukka Rask, and that will get Kelly an interference penalty. The Rangers weren't able to convert on their first power play.
Second period, 4:10, Bruins 2-1: This has actually been a really nice game for the Bruins' first line so far, and they're one of the big reasons the Bruins now have the lead.
The first line carried the puck into the zone where Jarome Iginla made a play in the right faceoff circle to move the puck to Milan Lucic. He saw the puck tipped away, but Dougie Hamilton jumped into the play and quickly put a shot on goal that beat Henrik Lundqvist.
Second period, 3:53, 1-1: The Rangers are giving the Rangers some issues in the neutral zone, and Brad Richards almost scored because of it.
Richards got free through the neutral zone and burst into the Boston zone behind the Bruins defense, but Tuukka Rask made the save.
Second period, 2:50, 1-1: It looked for a second as if Daniel Paille was going to have a great scoring chance for the Bruins if the speedy forward could get to the puck before Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist.
Paille couldn't win the race as Lundqvist came out of his net and dove at the puck and took out Paille in the process.
Second period, 0:01, 1-1: The second period is underway with the game tied at a goal apiece.
End first period, 1-1: The first period is over in New York, and it was actually a pretty good final few minutes from the B's. They're starting to engage physically a little bit more, and that's paying off.
Tuukka Rask was certainly the story in the first period as he made 19 saves on 20 Rangers shot to just keep the B's in the game.
First period, 18:07, 1-1: The Bruins have somehow tied the game.
The B's first line just woke up, and they get the B's on the board. They dumped the puck in, which is where Milan Lucic beat two Rangers to the puck in the corner. He got it back to David Krejci, and Krejci put it on Iginla's tape in front where he redirected it by Henrik Lundqvist.
First period, 15:00, Rangers 1-0: The Bruins seem to really be struggling with the speed of the Rangers' forwards, and New York is doing all it can to make that stand up.
The fact that the B's have been careless with the puck so far, well that's not helping much, either. Zdeno Chara just turned the puck over at the New York blue line, and that turned into an odd-man break for the Rangers. Luckily for the Bruins, Tuukka Rask made the save.
Rask now has 16 saves.
First period, 12:00, Rangers 1-0: The Bruins just generated something at least resembling a scoring chance. Jarome Iginla was able to wheel and put a shot on goal from the slot — just Boston's third of the game so far — but it made for an easy stop for Henrik Lundqvist.
Just seconds later, though, Carl Hagelin took off down the ice and beat the Boston defense back where he was able to put a shot on net that Tuukka Rask stopped.
First period, 10:39, Rangers 1-0: Tuukka Rask is keeping the Bruins in this game.
He just made a big save on Derek Stepan, which came shortly after a save on Rick Nash. The Rangers are outshooting the Bruins 11-1 so far.
First period, 7:00, Rangers 1-0: The Bruins killed off the penalty, thanks in large part to Tuukka Rask.
The Bruins goalie made a nice pad save on Ryan Callahan who walked in on Rask and tried to jam the puck in with the forehand, but Rask's outstretched left leg kept it a one-goal game.
First period, 4:54, Rangers 1-0: Things aren't looking much brighter for the Bruins who are going to have to kill off a power play for the first time tonight.
Johnny Boychuk was just called for interference, and he'll sit down for two minutes.
First period, 3:20, Rangers 1-0: This is not the way the Bruins wanted this game to start.
The Rangers just got on the board first after New York was able to force a David Krejci turnover at the New York blue line. The puck bounced into the neutral zone where J.T. Miller was able to retrieve it and was all by himself.
Miller sped into the Boston zone all alone and put a fantastic move on Tuukka Rask and easily beat the Boston goalie to give New York the 1-0 lead.
First period, 0:01, 0-0: The game is underway at Madison Square Garden.
6:30 p.m.: Warmups are underway at Madison Square Garden where Tuukka Rask led the Bruins out, and Henrik Lundqvist was the first Ranger onto the ice. That means they'll be the starting goaltenders, despite the fact that both played yesterday.
4:30 p.m.: Before the two-week break for the Winter Olympics, the Boston Bruins were one of the NHL's hottest teams. In the two games since coming back from the break, however, they've been "meh" at best.
The B's will look for their first post-win break on Sunday night when they travel to New York to take on the Rangers. The Bruins have already dropped their first two games since returning to play with an overtime loss Wednesday in Buffalo and a loss to the Washington Capitals at TD Garden on Saturday afternoon.
Now they'll have to face a Rangers team that was one six of its last 10 games and is fighting for a playoff spot. New York dropped a decision to the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday, though, so they'll also be looking to rebound on Sunday night.
If Boston is going to get things together, it will need to start in the defensive end. The B's have allowed nine total goals in their two games since the break. That included allowing four goals against the Capitals on Saturday afternoon with Tukkka Rask in net for the first time since he returned from Sochi.
"I don't know if 'troubling' is the word," Bruins coach Claude Julien said after his team's loss on Saturday. "It's something that you can correct but obviously that's what's happening right now. I think we're getting caught cheating on the offensive side too much, and it's ending up in the back of our net, so probably need to fix that if we expect to win because at this rate here, we're giving up too many goals."
The fact that the Bruins are on the second half of a back-to-back with travel may make righting the ship a little more difficult. They've had relative success in that situation this year, though. Boston is 7-2-0 on the back half of the back-t0-backs. The B's game Tuesday also means this is the middle game of a stretch with three games in four days. The Bruins are actually 8-0-0 in the middle games of such situations this season.
The Bruins didn't hold a morning skate on Sunday morning, so there's no news as of now about the lineup including the starting goaltender. Henrik Lundqvist, who is celebrating his 32nd birthday today, is expected to make the start for the Rangers.
Puck drop from Madison Square Garden is set for 7 p.m.
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
- Melody Beattie
Mormon 1:1
1 And now I, Mormon, make a record of the things which I have both seen and heard, and call it the Book of Mormon.
- Elder Garza and Elder Lainhart
"Never forget which way you face..."
(This Native Spanish Speaking Elder leaves in two weeks after completing his two year service. He just recently took his final English Exam. Aren't you so impressed with these missionaries?)
This week was awesome. I felt The Holy Spirit to be my constant companion with so much strong than in any other time in my life. In the last thursday after a lesson with one of our investigators I felt a ton of love through the influence of the Spirit and it make me talk with everyone person that we meet in the way to the food appointment, and through all the day We worked hard and we fix a Ton of appointments for new people we were finding. And in the other days of the week (friday, Saturday and Sunday) we work with all our strengh to teach and find people, but it look like every people are rejecting us with little exceptions, But in the night each days at planning I felt the sweet feeling of the Spirit confirming that I had Done all in my reach to help others and invite them to come unto Christ, I just read your letter this morning and when I read it I felt Like it was directed to me . And in the last Ward Council (there were some rumors about that some of the members of the council don't want us to be there every Sunday, because we use almost a lot of time in the council) we talk about the ward mission plan and the vision the council has for the Ward, And after ask about it and read a little part of PMG in the council the Spirit came with a Strengh as I never felt in a council, then through almost each member of the council we receive the revelation to Hasten the work of salvation and the presidents in the council fix goals of attendance to each organization for the end of the year. The vision in this ward is changing, I know that actually we don't have a lot of lessons as we want but we are changing the vision of the work and I know because the Spirit Has Testified to me that we are doing our best and we are obligating the Lord to Bless us. I have felt the assurance that we are going to achieve our goals for the month of December and even for more time. But the most important Is that no matter what is going to happen when I go home, I have "a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men". In my latter studies I have learn a Ton about the doctrine of the gospel, but today when I read the words of the Lord to Moroni:
" And it came to pass that the Lord said unto me: If they have not charity it mattereth not unto thee, thou hast been faithful; wherefore, thy garments shall be made clean. And because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong, even unto the sitting down in the place which I have prepared in the mansions of my Father."
The Spirit of the Lord touch me so hard with the words "thou hast been faithful", actually I feel a sweet joy in my heart and I know that I have been faithful to the things that the Lord has requiered of me til this day.
Thanks dad,(President) thanks for help me to reach my potential as missionary I know that there is things to do but I know that I'm on the Lord's errand, and he is pleased with me, We are going to continue working and giving our best to the Lord, have a Great week and the Lord'll continue sustaining you and sister Egbert
with love,
Elder R
"The Lord invites us using various verbs: 'Come unto me,' 'Follow me,' 'Walk with me.' In each case it is not a passive invitation; it is an invitation to act. It is addressed to all mankind by the one who is the Prophet of prophets, the Teacher of teachers, the Son of God, the Messiah."
- Elder Eduardo Gavarret of the Seventy
Baptism days are some of the best days of our lives! How can we not but SMILE?!
All in a days work
On divisions with the Sister Leader Trainers...
"A joy shared is a joy doubled."
Loving us some service... Tulancingo
'And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people."
- Leo Tolstoy
This is just a one sided conversation!
"Happiness seems made to be shared."
- Jean Racine
"A child's laugh could simply be one of the most beautiful sounds in the world".
"Don't worry Hermana Egbert- the bike is OK!"
This district celebrating Hermana Sanchez's ONE Year anniversary in the mission...
Elder Santos in his last weeks of the mission- promising to give 110% to the very last hour... Keepsakes from his mission will include these 'agendas'
"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."
A generous member of the Molango Branch bought these matching scarfs for Elder Katich and Elder De Leon. Looking good Elders!
The great "Ojo De Agua" district with the visiting Zone Leaders.
(This Elder is just finishing up his training- and his trainer will be completing his mission in two weeks and be returning home.)
Dear President,
Hope you are doing well. I had a very successful week in almost all aspects of the mission, I saw a lot of improvement this week!
I started this week with a personal goal of getting the most out of exercise and being exactly obedient to the morning schedule. I prayed sincerely for Heavenly Father to help me because mornings have always been a struggle for me. With the help of our Father and heaven and a sincere desire to change, I've become a much more productive missionary in the morning. I know that if we include Heavenly Father in our life, that we can become what we want to be quickly and more easily. This is something that keeps repeating itself through the mission.
Id say my biggest success this week would be that we brought 5 people to church yesterday. My companion and I made a goal to talk about going to church and baptism in every lesson we taught and I honestly feel that that was a game changer. This week we didnt have to drag everyone to church like we usually do. Our investigators understood the reason we go to church, and made a goal to go. Im hoping to get 4 out of these 5 investigators baptized this cycle because they should have the church days if they come the next 2 weeks. Its amazing how many new things you can try as a missionary, and how just one little goal like this could change so much.
The mission is treating me well, I look forward to where it will take me. While I love the situation Im in with my area and companion, Im excited to see how a new companion and new circumstances will teach me as my companion leaves this cycle.
Thanks for all you do.
-Elder E
This week we had our Mision Mexico Pachuca Flu Shoot Out... look at those sad and pouty faces... I still owe them all a candy sucker. They were so brave and each zone was done in less than 10-15 minutes. Talk about efficient missionaries.
Until next year....
Tecamac 1 Zone Capacitation-
Elder Bickley honestly portrays how everyone was feeling after their injections....
I hope he isn't still traumatized! We love you all!!!
Happy Birthday Hermana Laguna...(second sister from the left)
Tecamac -2 Zone at Capacitation
This zone was awesome- as I totally interrupted the beginning of their capacitation- I think the zone leaders were going to redo the opening song to bring the spirit back after all the injections.
Only one screamer in this group...
The Pachuca Centro Zone at Monthly Capacitation
"Ouch- those shots were NOT the highlight of our day"
In the end...all was well. This zone had a special spirit at the capacitation. I was able to catch the very end and was so impressed with the presentation by the zone leaders - sister leader trainers. Nice job
The Pachuca Mex Zone working on English Study so efficiently after zone capactiation. Soft music was playing in the background and everyone was helping everyone. I was so impressed!
Elder Contreras (zone leader) checking area books with each companionship.
Tulancingo Zone- Capacitation Day
Faces of the flu vaccine shoot out
Tulancingo Zone- Capacitation Day
Faces of the flu vaccine shoot out
Pachuca Sur 2 Zone- finished up with Capacitation.
I arrived after zone capacitation, language tests, and everyone was just heading out to start their days work...It must have been great because everyone was wearing a smile!
"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
-Charlie Chaplin
Tezontepec Zone Capacitation
President attended the zone capacitation in Tezontepec and was so impressed with the Zone Leaders in this zone. He said quote, "they did outstanding, very well done!"
(This new sister is in her second cycle...)
realmente yo se que que Jesucristo puede ayudarnos sea la debilidad que tengamos , me siento bendecida por servir en la mision y eso es lo que siempre desee desde que me uni a la iglesia cuando tenia 14 años ....ayudar a todas las personas a que sepan que pueden cambiar sus vidas y ser felices !!! mi compañera y yo estamos muy felices y animadas para trabajar !! nos estamos esforzando por trabajar con los miembros no ser cargas para ellos sino apoyos !!! wow presidente estoy muy feliz por que dos de los conversos del anteriror ciclo el domingo pasado compartieron su testimonio y mi corazon se conmovio por que vi en ellos como el amor de Dios actua en sus hijos !!! ellos nos agradecieron a nosotras y yo dentro de mi dije ...es Dios no las hertmanas !! estoy muy agradecida a mi Padre por que me esta llenando de buenas experiencias al encontrar conversos reales !!!! sus preparados !!!! Presidente me encuentro muy feliz!!! feliz feliz !!! puede llover mucho , puede estar la neblina , podemos estar caminando hasta dolernos las plantas de los pies pero todo es compensado !! quiero ser mejor misionera ..quiero servir con todo mi corazon alma mente y fuerza !!! estoy muy agradecida muy agradecida!!!! Hna. C
Weeks Photo Gallery
Hermana Nunez and Hermana Diaz welcomed Hermana Lorenzo after special changes...
Hermana Parker in the office prior to her flight home. Hurry back- see you soon!
Elder Steadman and Elder Castano working hard in their area... I just happened to have a plate of banana bread in the car for them! SCORE!
I dare not ask what is in that frying pan!
Yum.... a 'torta' is so good!
Elder Felsted - Elder England taking in the sites of the pyramids at Teotihuacan.
"Having a little bit of fun!"
I wondered how this training situation was going to turn out....
Elder England I hope you are not scarred for life!
Look at this cute little wrestler.... and those muscles! Oh my!
Have I mentioned Halloween is a BIG DEAL down here in Mexico?
"I've been waiting all day for this taco!"
We are pretty handy in the kitchen! Trying out our tortilla making skills...
Hermana Rojas and Hermana Suazo taking care of business on P-Day! Cleaning up a storm-
I caught him!!!
A little Pre-Thanksgiving Celebration (do they even celebrate that here?!)
Thank goodness our missionary (Gangsters) are sweet and harmless...
Leadership Consejo- 5th November 2014
Look how we just keep growing?
One new set of zone leaders and one more set of sister leader trainers.
Thanks to Hermana Bailey who took pictures with my camera while I was running around...
Lunch was honey baked ham, potato casserole, corn, green salad, frog eye salad, garlic bread and pumpkin bars for dessert and birthday cake that the Sister Leader Trainer Trainers brought. Though its a tight fit (#42) when feeding everyone in the house; it is so much fun being in the mission home that we will continue to do it as long as we can before we have to move it to a chapel.
Thank you so much for being such a great group of leaders...
I love the matching Ties of Zone Leaders Elder Clark and Elder Smart
Simona (above) who comes and helps me clean up after the event and her cute grandson.
He wanted to see all the missionaries. Simona is a church employee for 20+ years and until the mission opened was on the landscaping maintenance crew for this area. She is an angel...
Heading Out...
President and his special birthday card signed by all the consejo.
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Dreams come true, at a gruesome price, in this urban horror from director Stephen Parsons. After coming to the aid of quirky old lady Eve (Fenella Fielding) while she's being mugged, Maxine (Tiana Benjamin) learns how to make a special doll that can grant her every wish - a wishbaby. As her problems start to recede and her life begins to take an upward swing, her actions unwittingly release the spirit of Eve's evil former governess, who, now free from her incarceration, begins to wreak havoc on those responsible.


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Ben Affleck and Anne Hathaway lead the BAFTA winnersIt was an emotional night at the BAFTAs with Ben Affleck and Anne Hathaway leading the list of jubilant winners.
Anne, who won the Best Supporting Actress award, said: "It's my third film in the UK in three years. I've had the most divine experiences and gotten to work with the best of the best." The actress looked stunning in a black Burberry gown.
Ben Affleck was controversially missed off this year's Oscar nomination list, but scooped Best Film and Best Director for his film Argo.
"I was talking to people from the studio and they were like "We never win!" he said. "So this really is the most incredible surprise."
"We feel so grateful, I've never been here... to actually win feels incredibly welcoming."
The actor and director said that this was a second chance for him. He has had mixed fortunes in his acting career, since shooting to fame in Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon in 1997.
"I want to say this is a second act for me and you've given me that, this industry has given me that and I want to thank you and I'm so grateful and proud," he said
George Clooney, who produced Argo, later added, "I've got to say Ben, if this is your second act, I don't know what you're going to do for your third act. "You really are remarkable at what you do."
James Bond latest instalment Skyfall was named Outstanding British Film ahead of Les Miserables.
Leading man Daniel Craig wasn't there to pick up the gong, which was instead collected by producer Michael G Wilson and director Sam Mendes.
"This is a first for the James Bond films," Michael said before Sam paid tribute to their absent leading man, thanking him for his "friendship and his sheer bloody-mindedness". He added: "We all had high expectations for this film and this is really the icing on the cake".
The choice surprised many given that Bond films usually thrill audiences rather than mining award season gold. But the latest offering has bucked that trend, snaring a respectable haul which included a Best Original Music statue as well as the prestigious Britsh film award.
Skyfall also battled through a tough category full of stellar films including Tom Hooper's Les Miserables, which had been a dominating presence and a clear favourite to come out on top.
This year's BAFTAs hosted a tussle between the two British box office titans, and although it was Bond who strolled home with best film, the spoils were shared between the two projects.
Les Mis' Anne Hathaway continued to dream her dream by becoming one of the most successful supporting actresses in history and adding to the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards which already grace her mantelpiece.
Daniel Day-Lewis was snapping at her heels after being decorated for his performance in civil war biopic, Lincoln. He continued his spate of witty acceptance speeches, saying: "Just in case I might have to speak at these awards, I've actually stayed in character as myself for the past 55-years."
Fellow great Brit Dame Helen Mirren – aka Mrs Hitchcock – conceded the leading lady accolade to Emmanuelle Riva of Amour. Dame Helen had described her role in the film as that of a "rebel", and punctuated the point with a shock of pink hair. The alternative look made her an undisputed winner in the style stakes.
Cult director Quentin Tarantino brought some swagger to the quintessentially British proceedings with the help of his latest offering, Django Unchained. He collected Best Original Screenplay for the film, while his actor Christoph Waltz was rewarded for his supporting role.
Christoph paid tribute to the Tarantino touch, and described his boss as a "silver-penned devil".
Meanwhile, Ben Affleck's wildly successful project Argo, based on the Iranian revolution's hostage crisis, continued to hone his newfound status as a director to be reckoned with. He pipped masters such as Quentin and auteur Michael Haneke to the post and also bagged the night's top fim prize.
Ben's wife and talisman Jennifer Garner was yet again honoured in his acceptance speech. The mother of his three children hasn't left his side since Argo began its blaze of glory back at the Golden Globes, and the BAFTAs were no exception to this rule.
Their directorial double act ends in London, however – Argo is a notable absence in the Oscars' shortlist for best director, but may still be given the nod in the film category.
With the awards all given out, the actors and actresses were keen to party and headed to the Grosvenor House Hotel. As he made his way to Park Lane Samuel L. Jackson revealed he had one thing on his mind - dinner.
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The Sages are in the process of blooming themselves right to sleep, every single one of them covered in masses of flower – blue, red, purple, all of them. The spp. in the picture is lovely South American native S. coccinea, that grows as a perennial in our pots and as an annual in the garden. It grows easily from seed and flowers with amazing brilliance all season long. It, like many other Sages, is traditionally used as a nervine, digestive aid and blood mover. Unlike the well known Garden Sage, it has a mild, slightly stinky smell with none of its relatives' intense resinous aromatics. It works well as a tea or in a salve. I haven't tried the tincture yet. Don't forget that Sage's blood moving properties make it an emmenagogue, pain reliever and useful for other stagnant blood issues.
This Summer I discovered a new red flowered Sage growing in damp rock crevices above the river. I still haven't ID'd it, though it looks very similar to S. henryi but with narrower, grayer foliage. It has an amazing mint-bergemot-sage scent that is incredibly strong, as strong as White Sage but very different. It dries well and makes an excellent smudge. The tincture feels profoundly euphoric and centering to me, but can be a bit giddy feeling to others. It has an intensely cooling effect on the lungs even when taken as a tincture. It's both relaxing and stimulating, and gives a somewhat less than subtle high to a good majority of those who've tried it. I haven't tried smoking it yet, but expect it to be exceptional for such a use. I do hope to get pictures of it before it stops blooming and hopefully someone can help me identify my new friend.
The dark blue flowered Sawtooth Sage (S. subincisa) that I've so frequently written about, is nearly at the end of its season. It's small for a sage, and has a distinctive skunky odor that easily distinguishes it from the S. reflexa that often grows next to it. This is my favorite spp. to use as a profound nerve tonic, especially for those with chronic shakes or tremors. It's bitter and green tasting, and the tincture is my favorite preparation.
The lighter blue flowered Chán (S. reflexa) is another native Canyon sage. It grows anywhere remotely moist: on the riverbank, among the Ragweed, in the garden and under the Alders. A cheerful, bergemot scented herb, I use it for various belly upsets and as a mild nerve tonic, especially for children. The tincture is nice, but I like it best as a tea.
Another light blue but much larger flowered spp. is Blue Sage (S. azurea). It's bitter and nervine, though the flowers have an amazing scent that defies all description. I'm just beginning to work with this species, but the Mexican consider it to be a cure-all and I have, thus far, found it to be another excellent nerve tonic for deep nerve trauma.
Autumn Sage (S. greggii), a leggy, resinous red flowered Sage native to Texas is great for everything that Garden Sage is nice for, from sore throats to teeth problems to hot flashes to belly trouble to wounds.
Garden Sage (S. officianale) is the classic Sage of all Western herbals. I love it in food and as a beverage especially combined with Rose petals. This is the Sage I most often use for children, and I often make it into a sweet elixir combined with Chán for various tummy upsets. It's also a fine nerve tonic, much underused for this purpose, but not as strong as Sawtooth Sage.
White Sage (S. apiana) is the well known smudge of Southern California. It's a lovely plant and when of my first choices for wounds of any kind, especially combined with Elderberry and Rosehips. It's gotten a recent reputation for its usefulness internally for BPH, though it's range of expertise is far larger than what is currently popular. It can be used in the same ways all the other Sage can, though it is more anti-infective and less astringent that some other species.
I've never met a Sage I didn't love and I hope to meet many more in the coming years, certainly a distinct blessing of living in the Sage rich Southwest.
One Response to "Autumn Sage Savorings & Meanderings"
Hi there Kiva Rose!
Well, we sure did like your Medicine Woman's blog today about the marvelous native Salvia clan… You do such sensitive and deep searching of our plant friends! About the as yet unidentified Salvia henryi-like native sage– we sure were interested in your recommendation to dry it in bunches and use it like other sage smudges. Crowfoot was in the Republic of Tuva last month and he knew ahead of time that there were at least 35 species of Artemesia native to that magical land between Siberia and Mongolia. Now, he knows that Artemesias are pretty much unrelated to Salvias– but there are some similar uses and even the common names of many American Artemesis point to some commonalities with the Salvia bunch. Anyways, the people of Tyva (also spelled Tuva) have long been a culture of Shamans and of shamanizing and they use a wonderful native Siberian Juniper (Juniperus sibirica) for their smudge– bunches of it are sold all over Tyva.
Anyways, Crowfoot got down on his hands and knees a good fifteen times to try to get to know as many native Tyvan Artemesias. And he gathered many of these and dried them and burnt them as a smudge just to learn more while in Tyva. One of his American friends living in Tyva is much involved with some of the Shamans there and he stated categorically that they use no Artemesias for smudging. Well, Crowfoot got this young fellow so interested in the possible shamanic and household uses of native Artemesias in Tyva that the very last sight Crowfoot had of this fine young man was him gathering up bunches of native Artemesias– for what only Spirit knows.
But back to our American Southwest Salvias and your recent blog on them– it was waaayyyy interesting to us when you wrote: that the tincture of the S henryi-like Salvia "feels profoundly euphoric and centering to me…" We are not quite sure that we have ever felt both euphoria and the feeling of centering at one and the same time. It must be a remarkable feeling, which we sure do hope to experience one day soon.
And finally, much thanks for the tip about mixing our Garden Sage leaves with Rose petals for a good tasting tea! Crowfoot sure does like to dry Garden Sage and also to dry Rose petals, but he has never made tea from the both of them together. Well, you can bet that we will be doing this in the near future, as the buttery taste of Garden Sage tea mixed with the sweetness that comes from Rose petals must quite simply be real good!
Thanks again Kiva– keep up the inspiring work.
From your friends over on the northern flanks of the great Sandia Mountains,


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In 2007, the Code Responder Nurse Development (CRND) committee was created to identify the needs of the code responder nurses. The CRND committee discovered that roles and responsibility, leadership, communication, teamwork, resource management and crowd control needed to be defined.
The CRND group was formed to begin addressing some of the code blue team needs. The CRND group is made up of three nurses from two adult intensive care units, 8C CSICU and 12K CMICU. Each of the units selects about 24 nurses to represent the CRND group on the code blue team. As members of the code blue team, the CRND group is responsible for assessing the scene on arrival using the assessment basics checklist, assume one of three roles: (1) Defibrillation, (2) Documentation, and (3) Drugs, and integrating crisis resource management concepts.
In collaboration with HES, the CRND committee delivers an elaborate annual training program to develop code responder nurses who are 50% of the code blue team. The CRND program is in its sixth year of implementation. The goal is to provide annual training using simulation to address code responder nurse performance, confidence and satisfaction. Through the efforts of HES and the CRND committee policies and systems were updated, staff performance, confidence and satisfaction improved, and new programs were created like the Simulated Code Interdisciplinary Team Training (SCITT) program.
In 2011, the CRND committee merged with the SCITT committee in order to continue multidisciplinary collaboration. The CRND representatives from the adult intensive care cluster participate in SCITT and CRND meetings and trainings. The CRND committee is still responsible for developing and delivering annual training to the CRND group.
The CRND Session
- Duration: 4-hour sessions that include didactic, technical skills station, mock code, debrief, and evaluation
- Frequency: Annual
- Locations: In-situ (locations vary) and the Simulation and Clinical Learning Center (SCLC)
- Resources:
- Assessment Basics Checklist (links to document)
3-D Roles (links to document)


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Back in July, I wrote about a consultation on net neutrality from the EU, entitled On-line public consultation on "specific aspects of transparency, traffic management and switching in an Open Internet". Just to remind you, here's the background:
This public consultation seeks responses to specific questions on transparency, switching and certain aspects of traffic management which emerged as key issues in the net neutrality debate that has taken place in Europe over the past years.
In order to allow consumers to have access to Internet service offers that truly meet their needs and to enable them to effectively exercise their choices, the Commission is envisaging policy measures addressing the issues of transparency, switching and certain aspects of traffic management, including deep packet inspection (DPI). DPI technologies examine different layers (header and content) of data packets to decide whether a packet may pass or needs to be routed to a different destination. DPI can be used to protect the network and users against malware (viruses etc.) but also to block or slow down other data packets. Union-wide guidance on these issues would avoid diverging approaches in the Member States and a fragmentation of the Digital Single Market.
The bad news is that this consultation closes on Monday (well, I did mention it three months ago, so you can't really complain....). The good news is that it can be done online in five minutes: here for organisations, and here for individuals. As you can see from the questions [.pdf], this is essentially asking us what we think about the loss of net neutrality. This means all we need to do is to tell them that we don't like it, don't want it and expect the European Commission to stop it.
As for packet prioritisation and DPI, as I've suggested before, if we're going to do the former it must be completely under the control of the user, not the ISP, and DPI should never be used since it is an extremely intrusive approach.
It's true that it's not easy to express these views given the very rigid format of the consultation adopted by the European Commission. Indeed, this use of inflexible Web-based questionnaires is becoming something of a problem. Fortunately, you can also send a response by email to [email protected] Here's what I've sent, which is largely based on my earlier writings on net neutrality over the last couple of years. If you have a moment, please make a submission too – net neutrality matters, and it's under serious attack at the moment.
One of the key facts to bear in mind when considering issues of net neutrality is the fact that the Internet works. Over the last two decades it has produced an unprecedented series of technical innovations that have already transformed many branches of everyday life, and the pace of change shows no sign of abating. If anything, the Internet and the novel ideas it is built on are embedding themselves even deeper into modern society.
As a result, a paramount consideration must be to preserve an ecology that has functioned and continues to functions so well. To allow changes to be made without considerable evidence that they will help rather than harm the functioning of the Internet would be ill-advised.
Although the Internet consists of many elements, operating at many levels, one of the core reasons that innovation has flourished is precisely because the principle of net neutrality has always been assiduously preserved.
There is no better example of this than the rise of the World Wide Web. Hard though it may be to believe for people today, but once there was no Web on the Internet. Instead, there were other services like Gopher and WAIS. And then, in August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee announced a new way of using the Internet, which he called the World Wide Web.
Imagine if net neutrality had not been in operation at that time. Then operators of other services on the Internet – sensing perhaps that this new Web might be a challenge to them – could have paid to ensure that their services were always delivered more speedily than any Web traffic. As a result, the Web would have appeared interesting but slow to users, who would probably have stayed with their current providers.
In fact, no less a person than Sir Tim Berners-Lee himself says this might have happened, in a post called "Net Neutrality: This is serious" about the threat to net neutrality in the US (at http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/144):
"When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.
I hope that Congress can protect net neutrality, so I can continue to innovate in the internet space. I want to see the explosion of innovations happening out there on the Web, so diverse and so exciting, continue unabated"
Net neutrality is about preserving a level playing field so that innovation can emerge and flourish unhindered by incumbents who might otherwise use their chequebooks to throttle fledgling services. It is about ensuring that the net remains a hotbed of creativity, and does not ossify or become captured by powerful but sclerotic industries.
Thus I believe that it is important to legislate against any moves to violate net neutrality. In the same post quoted above, Berners-Lee explains well why we need to introduce this:
"There have been suggestions that we don't need legislation because we haven't had it. These are nonsense, because in fact we have had net neutrality in the past — it is only recently that real explicit threats have occurred.
Yes, regulation to keep the Internet open is regulation. And mostly, the Internet thrives on lack of regulation. But some basic values have to be preserved. For example, the market system depends on the rule that you can't photocopy money. Democracy depends on freedom of speech. Freedom of connection, with any application, to any party, is the fundamental social basis of the Internet, and, now, the society based on it."
Of course, it is not enough simply to enforce net neutrality in isolation: it is also crucially important to address the other issues facing the growth of the Internet, specifically the threat of congestion.
That threat is certainly real, but it seems to me that some companies are using that real problem to justify inappropriate solutions that promote their own agendas. For example, a trivial solution to problems of congestion is to upgrade the entire network, giving everyone faster connections. That, of course, would require investment in the appropriate infrastructure, and many companies prefer not to take on those costs, and to address the issue by throttling their users' connection, say.
That is understandable, but not necessarily acceptable: the Internet will need upgrading anyway, for many years to come. So companies cannot avoid making investments eventually. They are simply trying to put that time off in order to increase the return on their previous investments. Again, that is perfectly understandable, given the way companies work, but it is not for the European Commission to endorse that particular approach. Instead, it should take a neutral point of view, and seek to encourage a solution that maximises the benefit for all concerned – the companies supplying the connection and the users.
So the question then becomes: how can congestion be managed without destroying one of the Internet's foundational properties? It is a cliché that if you cannot measure something, you cannot manage it. Similarly, if Internet users were able to see the details of their connection, it would be relatively simple for them to adjust those according to their needs. This would put users in charge of their traffic management, not the ISPs.
For this to work, users might be given a certain allowance of priority traffic each month. If they wanted to watch a video on demand stream, they could ensure that delivery were prioritised by assigning some of that allowance to that service for a fixed period. If users found they needed more priority bandwidth they could purchase this – either as a one-off, or by moving to a higher tier service.
Note that Net neutrality would not be endangered by this approach, because the power resides with the user. So if some new Internet-based service came along, it might be prioritised by those users attacted by its possibilities, but could not be throttled by existing players in the Internet world, however much they feared it, since they would have no simple means of influencing millions of individual subscribers.
Moreover, this approach would obviate the need for Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) completely. That is crucially important, since DPI is an extremely intrusive method that violates a user's privacy in the worst possible way. Indeed, as part of its protection of net neutrality, the European Commission should make such use of DPI illegal for all ISPs.
The two key points I would like to emphasise, then, are preserving net neutrality, which has served the Internet – and the world – so well, and allowing users to manage their traffic by going beyond simple transparency to full control. The former will allow the next Web to emerge; the latter will enable users to make choices about their Internet connections while permitting the companies that provide the Internet's infrastructure to make sensible business investments for the future.
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Formula one driver Lewis Hamilton was recently spied leaving a private club with his celebrity girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger (how do you pronounce that last name!)
Lewis looked fresh for the outing decked in high-end pieces. He wore a $475 Givenchy "Apache Print" t-shirt (sold out), paired with $1500 Balmain denim biker jeans and $920 Givenchy "Tyson" sneakers. Are you a fan of his look??
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text: Please don't have a go at me about this but there was no possible way I could ahve got it done earlier because I don't drive and there wasn't an available appointment coinciding with when my partner could drive our dog. So we had her booked in for Monday morning but now DP has noticed a few drops of blood in the garage so it's obvious we are too late. Please again don't have a go at me I just want help. What should we do now and what should we expect?


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All you need to run your own soap opera game, you don't even need a GM.
Its short, well written and funny.

QUALITY: Very Good

VALUE: Very Satisfied

A good fun role-playing game that isn't really like a traditional role-playing game. Because of its differences to traditional role-play, it takes a bit of explaining to your players, but once explained they should take to it pretty quickly. Ideal for breaks between campaigns or one-shots.

LIKED: A simple idea executed quite nicely.

QUALITY: Very Good

VALUE: Satisfied

Soap is a very fun party game that can provide many a laugh throughout an evening of play.

QUALITY: Acceptable

VALUE: Satisfied

This is a superb buy, get it and enjoy the silly fantasy humour!!
Hysterical, fascinating, and altogether marvelous. It's not a standard RPG - there's a winner, after all - but it's really quite excellent. And studying SOAP (and soaps in general) will help you construct plots for other, more "standard" games.
This is a cool game. I won't go into all of the details but just let me say the rules perform very well and prevent you from playing too seriously. A must for those who like gaming for FUN!


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|Posted By: evilvet
Posted On: Oct 22, 2004
Views: 4907
|of course d'argo's coming back..
everyone has died on the show at LEAST once..if not twice...jool may not come back because for some stupid reason people hate her...but i'm sure in some form they all will be back...of course in just movies maybe not, but a series or longer minis, yes.
|Posted By: Pete
Posted On: Oct 22, 2004
Views: 4957
D'argooooo! Anyway, I don't think he will be coming back guys - That scene was very powerful, including his final scene with that dramatic score in the background. Bringing him back would cheapen that. I keep hearing that music in my mind, I'm gonna miss D'argo. He's John's buddy, and in some says it feels like he's your buddy too. I personally think the John/D'argo friendship was one of the best in TV shows, they had great chemistry :-)
|Posted By: Mitch
Posted On: Oct 22, 2004
Views: 2905
|It wasn't a bad thing
I don't think it was a bad thing to do. They killed of Zan and the show only got better. In fact Farscape has an amazing ability to bring characters in and out without ever losing its focus.
If they brought him back I would be disappointed, the whole planet blew up, hes got to be dead.
"if you're gonna go down, go down with a BANG!" - damn straight.
|Posted By: Guts
Posted On: Oct 21, 2004
Views: 2829
|Look at a different angle
I think, killing off D'argo wasn't exactly what most of us wanted. But again, this is Farscape, it's a cult tv show that expands and grows. And in every loss there could much more to gain by going to other venues or story archs. Frankly, I'd rather see new faces/crew than see all of the same cast together and losing their charm in front of us fans. As they say, "if you're gonna go down, go down with a BANG!"
|Posted By: Butch
Posted On: Oct 21, 2004
Views: 2612
I didn't see him get killed, did you? He suffered from a self diagnosed mortal wound, but was it? We seen him blazing away but did we see him get wasted? I think he is far from being dead. He's waiting for the next mini series or.....could it possibly be'''''Hey, one could only hope.
|Posted By: #1 farscape fan
Posted On: Oct 20, 2004
Views: 2764
|y'd they kill off dargo??
the fact that they killed off dargo was the onley dissapointing fact of the mini series that was a dissapoint ment but i am intrested if seeing how they will bring him back they have to if they are going to contue like every one is suggesting it wont be the same with out him. all of moys crew if what made the show great and loosing one of her crew such as dargo i think would have a negitive affect on the contunied show
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Morning presentations
Ethan Denahy – Talked about what's happening at Tufts. This was presented in a bit of a blur, but he had a lot of ground to cover and I suppose it helped fill in some gaps. He focused almost exclusively on the CEEO's "products" and given that I very nearly missed learning about some research that was very relevant to me, I almost would've preferred a quick overview (or at least a printed list) of the research projects currently on the go. Anyway, here's what was in Ethan's summary:
- Books
- SAM Animation
- WeDo
- Design compass & design log – this is the first time that many of us had seen this (or so it seemed). Looks very interesting…
- RoboBooks – This is the 4th year of its development. Progress continues…
- LabView – intelligent control
- Telerobotics
- Arduino processor combined with LEGO
- Sites… CEEO, LEGO Engineering, SAM Animation, STOMP network
Key note: Dean Kamen
Very interesting. This was another of those "oh, that's what it's about" moments. I had always thought that FIRST was all show and not *really* about learning robotics, but now I can see that that was never the original intention. I guess I need to do a bit more reading now, but I was quite impressed by Dean's explanation of the thought processes that lead to FIRST… I was especially impressed that it had been possible for anyone to do the hard work to make it happen. Talk is much easier than action, but it seems that Dean Kamen does both. There were lots of great ideas in there, here's a list of what I jotted down during his talk... (this is more a reminder for myself, it probably won't make much sense to anyone else, sorry)…
- Education crisis? What education crisis? – Polititicians jump on it, and make it a devisive issue - they throw money, testing, computers at it , but does this solve it?
- Dean's assertion was that it's not an education problem – it's a culture problem. It's not a supply problem it's a demand problem.
- The US is so rich The problem is not about what we don't have, it's that we have too much.. "Life is short , play hard". Why isn't it "life is short, so work hard"?
- FIRST was about making STEM as highly valued as sport. Engineers as popular as sport stars.
- If there was a "cricket crisis" in the US (eg. If cricket become part of the Olympics), how would it be solved? Curriculum, standards, , national high-stakes testing?, or would it be through role models / superstars?
- Dean met with 50 CEOs - the NBA/NFL of "smarts" to discuss and solve the "education crisis". He put it to them that their engineers would become the superstars of education.
- His process was... Companies adopt schools, Dean would supply kits to the companies/teams, after school events are held, students want to get onto the team, come to Manchester, NH in 6 weeks, and bring cheerleaders, at the event students operate the robots that the engineers built.
- Why robotics? Beccause it is accessible.
- The engineers don't teach, they coach. In sports, the coach builds you up when you don't do well. If the great thing about sports is that it's good for teamwork, why is teamwork called cheating at school?
- After the first FIRST, in which 23 comapines participated, the CEOs complained... It took too much time, it wasn't just an afterschool program after all. But then in the second year, they all came back!
- As the competiton has grown, so have the number of events... regional events, state finals, etc. It's now in its 19th year, 19000 schools, 90000 engineers.
- You can't buy passion.
- Brandeis University Study "More than Robots" found that students participating in STEM were 50% more likely to attend college. 3x more likely to major in engineering . 90 page report. Must get!!
- George Bush Senior described FIRST as, "Like the WWF but with smart people".
- Now there's a new problem – It's not a shortage of volunteers, but rather the feds claiming that the schools won't want to participaic, that they won't want the money.
- The money's there… $10000 per school, ~$1 billion over 4 years!
- The talk finished with Dean asking us the question, "How do you get the support of teachers & administration?" He spent some time trying to tease out an answer that could help him. There were some good ideas, but nothing that was going to save the day.
Development lab summary
A summary of each of the five different development labs from the previous two days...
- Merrideth – Designing activities for young children. Gave a list of components of climate change, and described the projects that her groups had come up with.
- Morgan – Renewable energy. Which is best? Solar v crank v wind. Solar reflectors improved performance by 10%. Variables and trade-offs.
- Rob, ?, Darby - Data logging lab.
- Brian - Multiple representations using SAM Animation. What is wind power and what does it mean? Brian gave a very exhaustive list of ideas of how SAM could be used? It would be best for me to just link to it. He also said the videos produced will be put on youtube.
- Robert – Instructionism v Constructionism – A tricky session to convey to the others, but the two people who volunteered to create a model summarising their experience of the symposium did a great job, and I think showed how it could work, very nicely. Well done!
Optional extra afternoon session
NASA Curriculum – I'd love to talk about this, but we had to sign a NDA… (mind you, I got very distracted talking about the future plans for [censored] so I didn't end up actually do very much of what we were meant to be doing anyway, so there wouldn't be much to tell.)
But wait there's more... Day Four
Okay, there wasn't really a day four, but I was pretty keen to meet Kristen Wendall despite not having arranged a meeting… Kristen was, however, very gracious and gave me plenty of time and lots of great ideas for my own research. In one hour I made more progress than I had in weeks. Some of the questions that came up…
- What do students think they are doing when they undertake STEM activities? – I need to have a look at David Hammer's work on this topic.
- What does students think it mean to do engineering, science, maths (in the real world, and in the classroom)?
- When do students think they need to draw on STEM knowledge to solve a problem?
- More of an example of a content question, but… What do students think a computer program does?


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Alchemy Skillup Guide - 1-375
To start out you want to go see a trainer to pick up the trade. You have to pay 5 in order to become an Apprentice Alchemist and to be able to skill up from 1->75.
Now, before we get started with the recipes, I want to point out how I have gone about making this guide. What I have done is to look at which recipes are the most profitable ones in Alchemy and then chosen to skill up on those. If there are no profitable ones for a skill range then I have gone in and chosen the one with the least loss. Other things I have taken into consideration are the difficulty of obtaining the items needed in the recipe and also how you obtain the recipe itself.
The way I have calculated the profit/loss is by using the average price of components and of the final item using the numbers shown on Allakhazam. Therefore it is a good idea to check if the prices are close to those on your server before gathering the ingredients.
I will say at this stage that Alchemy is a low cost trade to take up compared
to others and the ride is fairly easy. It is also one of the only trades
where you can almost break even skilling up to 375. Of course if you farm
the materials yourself you should be looking at sitting on about 500 after
selling the items you create using this guide. A piece of advice for selling the
items you make is to create a so-called "mule" to send the items
to when they're created (a mule is a character created for the sole purpose
of holding items for your other characters). Doing this will allow you to slowly sell some of the items
each day without flooding the market. Flooding the market will only
drive prices down and cut into your own profit. So be patient and just sell them off from
time to time when you remember to log onto your mule.
You want to use this recipe as the Minor Healing Potion can be reused later on for cheap skillups. Also it uses an even amount of ingredients of the extremely common herbs in the startup areas, so it should be really quick to get the materials for these skillups. For good routes to pick up the herbs, check out the Herbalism guide.
All the vials you will need can be bought at your local NPC trade goods vendor or alchemy supplier.


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Career Opportunities for Green MBAs: Generating Green $$ from the Green Movement
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The buzz in business right now is 'triple bottom line': people, planet, profit. Sustainability issues have made it into the consciousness of business leaders and they need MBAs who understand how to incorporate the issues into the decision making process. Demand exists but how exactly does the global green movement translate into GREEN, as in competitive salaries, for business school grads? Today's show will focus on real-life career opportunities for Green MBAs: which companies are hiring, where the growth will come from in the green movement, what the long-term career prospects for Green MBA grads are and what you should to do prepare yourself for a sustainable career.
Guests Include:
- Nicola Acutt, Associate Dean, Presidio Graduate School
- Michael Callahan, MBA and Co-Founder, Powermundo, a company that delivers clean technology products for people in developing countries
- Katie Kross, Author, Profession and Purpose: A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability and Associate Director, Corporate Sustainability Initiative at Duke University
- Ellen Weinreb, "Owner, Sustainable Recruiting "
Heidi Pickman: Welcome to MBA Podcaster, the only broadcast source for cutting edge information and advice on the MBA application process. I'm Heidi Pickman. The buzz in business right now is triple bottom line: People, Planet, Profit. World leaders are gathering for climate summit in December. Congress is considering climate legislation and major companies like Nike and Pacific Gas and Electric are leaving the US Chamber of Commerce over their opposition to climate legislation. Sustainability issues have made it into the consciousness of business leaders. They need MBAs who can incorporate the issues into the decision-making process. So the demand is there but how exactly does the Global Green Movement translate into Green as in competitive salaries for business school grads?
Today's show, we'll focus on real life career opportunities for Green MBAs. Which companies are hiring, where the growth will come from in the Green movement, what the long-term career prospects for Green MBA Grads are, and what you should do to prepare yourself for a sustainable career?
We have a great line-up. We talked to a dean of Sustainable MBA program about the companies who are recruiting on campus. A recruiter about the trends in sustainable careers and the author of A Resource Guide for MBA Careers and Sustainability will advise you on the best ways to find an appropriate job.
Let's start with the story of Michael Callahan, a passionate social entrepreneur whose inspiration from his company and ultimately his education comes from a grandmother who lived in the shanty towns of Lima, Peru with her two orphan grandchildren.
Michael Callahan, MBA and Co-Founder, Powermundo: And she used a candle to light her shack and make handicrafts at night to sell to support herself and her two orphan grandchildren. And she came to our demonstration and sold her the solar lights and solar panels, and we realized that this could save her money like she wouldn't have to buy candles or kerosene, she could work more efficiently and her children will be happier. I came back after selling her the product two nights later and she was ecstatic on how much it changed her life. And it was that inspiration in seeing how we could help just one family and then realizing that there's no reason that this business couldn't scale that we couldn't become a wholesale distributor for clean technology in developing countries so that people like Maria had access to products that improves their life, made it easier for them to work, and were healthy for themselves in the environment.
Heidi Pickman: So Callahan enrolled in the Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise Masters Program at the College of Business at Colorado State University specifically to start his own business, to recruit a team, and make connections to funding. A Sustainable MBA or Green MBA incorporates the study of managing for environmental and social factors with traditional business subjects such as finance, economic theory, business ethics and management. It's a fairly new field. Five years ago there were only a handful of programs. Now, the Aspen Institute puts out a top 100 Green MBA ranking. This podcast will focus on the career opportunities for our Green MBA. But if you want to learn more about schools offering a Sustainable MBA, listen to our related podcast on our website. The Green MBA: How Business Schools Are Making an Impact on Our World and Environment.
There are lots of interested parties out there. Katie Kross is the Associate Director for the Corporate Sustainability Initiative at Duke University. She says student interest in the Green MBA is exploding.
Katie Kross, Associate Director, Corporate Sustainability Initiative at Duke University: We did an info session related to social entrepreneurship and sustainability early on with the first year MBA students, and last year we have 90 students attend, and this year we have 190 students in our first year MBA students class attend. So I think that's just one example of how we're seeing the interest among MBA students grow.
Heidi Pickman: Just to put that in perspective, Duke's first year MBA class was 430 this year. Kross also says that companies are just as enthusiastic about sustainability as the students are.
Katie Kross, Associate Director, Corporate Sustainability Initiative at Duke University: Sustainability is really the hot topic in the business press these days. Companies in all the different kinds of industries, whether that's Wal-Mart and its supply chain partners or whether that's renewable energy companies and Cleantech Venture capital firms or whether that's the investment community looking at new ways to incorporate environmental and social issues and to investment evaluation. So the interest comes from a lot of different industry sectors and it's growing across a lot of different types of organization and fields of interests.
Heidi Pickman: In fact, sustainability is about good, forward-thinking corporate strategy. Every company, Green or not, is going to be operating in a different corporate context over the next decades. Nicola Acutt is the Associate Dean of the Presidio Graduate School, which declares that it is dedicated to developing business and civic leaders with the competencies and the courage to implement their ideas for creating a sustainable future.
Acutt says one of the most important things to understand about sustainability is that it's relevant to every industry and sector.
Nicola Acutt, Associate Dean, Presidio Graduate School: I have observed a significant shift from what I would call the pioneer stage with the early adopter companies, you know, the Cliff Bars and those types of organizations to really seeing more and more traditional companies showing an interest in our students, and for example Clorox and Travelocity recently posted positions. We see the categories of employers, of our students ranging from consulting firms like Saachi and Saachi or Domani Sustainability Consulting who are building targeted client services and new sustainability then across a range of other sectors like government, non-profit, education and in public service or public sector organizations from PG&E to Blue Shield, Kaiser, the City of Berkley, EPA, Goodwill, University of California. It's really across all sectors."
Heidi Pickman: So there's room for those primarily interested in the environment but also traditional MBA positions like the VP of Marketing and the Director of Operations and Finance. But Acutt says Green MBA add a twist to tradition.
Nicola Acutt, Associate Dean, Presidio Graduate School: You know what I would say is difference about the types of jobs. In the traditional sense, it's how the students are approaching their job. So what they're bringing to the job is the ability to see new ideas and solutions to create policies or projects or new products or services that are sustainable in the long term.
Heidi Pickman: Opportunities are abundant for people who decide to obtain a Green MBA. Acutt says there's a shortage of people trained in sustainability.
Nicola Acutt, Associate Dean, Presidio Graduate School: Interestingly McKinsey & Company put out a survey recently. They surveyed executives and one of the interesting findings was that CEOs ranked the inadequacy of the education system and the lack of talent. As a top future constraint in meeting the challenges, environmental and social challenges, that they see either existing now or on the horizon and also being able to operate and manage in emerging markets.
Heidi Pickman: Ellen Weinreb is a Sustainable Recruiter who has been working in Corporate Social Responsibility consulting and recruiting for 12 years. She also believes the future job market for Green MBAs will continue to grow.
Ellen Weinreb, Owner, Sustainable Recruiting: Where there's the most growth is around Cleantech in developing new technologies largely spearheaded by the Department of Energy. So wherever they're putting money and investing resources, there are a lot of businesses and programs that are developing perhaps around plug-in hybrid and solar. Then around sustainable brands, also there's a lot of growth. Those brands are just being picked up by consumers. Consumers are more aware of the unhealthiness of certain products and they're making decisions and they're putting their money where their mouth is and buying more organic and more green and they're finding greater value in it and so that's also a growing field. Then in terms of the corporate social responsibility jobs, again more growth that's largely dominated by climate change. They recognize it as a risk and they're developing systems to mitigate the risk to calculate their carbon and then to offset it.
Heidi Pickman: Companies that can move faster to reduce packaging or reduce their carbon footprint and sell their products in a meaningful way to consumers will have a competitive advantage. MBAs will find opportunity in Green marketing or supply chain management. Katie Kross from Duke adds that the financial crisis has birthed the more socially responsible business person in traditional MBA areas.
Katie Kross, Associate Director, Corporate Sustainability Initiative at Duke University: We're seeing a new push towards incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into investment evaluation and seeing a lot of opportunities for MBAs, for instance, that want to combine their interests in environmental and social issues with the focus on finance, whether that's in the banking or the venturecapital industry.
Heidi Pickman: For example a hot topic is calculating metrics for sustainability or inventing social return on investment metrics.
Katie Kross, Associate Director, Corporate Sustainability Initiative at Duke University: And a lot of companies are wrestling with this right now. How are we going to measure sustainability? What does that really mean? And what are the appropriate managerial decision-making metrics to use? We have students, for instance, that are working with some of the partners involved with the sustainability consortium which is looking at what should the sustainability metrics be at the product level. We also have had students work with local companies on what their sustainability metrics should be at the firm level.
Heidi Pickman: This is part of a trend in which students are carving out a new job category that didn't even exist a few years ago says Nicola Acutt of Presidio.
Nicola Acutt, Associate Dean, Presidio Graduate School: So an example would be Jason Smith, one of our graduate students who's VP of Key Accounts at an organization called Climate Check which is the Greenhouse Gas Management consulting practice. And this is an industry that barely even existed when Jason started at the MBA program, and you know I think this is just the beginning of an emerging sector where students will have the opportunity to carve out positions and jobs in horizon industries like the Water Market or Ecosystems Services and the like.
Heidi Pickman: Companies want expertise in sustainability to help them with the particular goal or helps at strategy, for example.
Nicola Acutt, Associate Dean, Presidio Graduate School: One of our students was a global sustainability specialist at Mattel and now the student is the Director of Sustainability at a major mining company, and their job is to help the company reduce their carbon footprints and address the embodied water of their products and processes, for example. Another example would be a sustainability analyst who would be hired by a utility company, for example, to either launch or improve their renewable energy projects.
Heidi Pickman: Ellen Weinreb describes another emerging job title, the Sustainable Brand Manager.
Ellen Weinreb, Owner, Sustainable Recruiting: The people working for sustainable brands, any kind of role within that sustainable brand will be a sustainable job, a sustainability job so you could be doing marketing or sales or finance. But if you're working for Burt's Bees, they've got a mission and it's an all-natural product and so, you know, you're furthering their mission. So the MBAs tend to fit in for the most part. Their value for the toolbox that they bring and they're also working with a lot of other MBAs who are in those companies.
Heidi Pickman: And Acutt says we must not forget about the entrepreneurs.
Nicola Acutt, Associate Dean, Presidio Graduate School: We have, just in our short history, had twelve startups launched and, five of them in the last two years securing over a million dollars in initial funding. An example of this would be a student who worked on Mission Motors and they're actually the fastest production electric motorcycle and this was a project started in Graduate School and they're now competing against Honda and Lamborghini at a prestigious Italian motorcycle competition.
Heidi Pickman: So what skills do you need to succeed at one of those companies? Weinreb says that expertise depends on your focus. Supply chains sustainability experience will give you an advantage in the corporate world.
Ellen Weinreb, Owner, Sustainable Recruiting: They specifically were looking for people who have developed management information systems to measure sustainability along the supply chain. Secondly, I think the MBAs are great candidates in general for supply chain corporate social responsibility jobs because building a corporate social responsibility is management. You're basically building a program and getting support from different internal stake holders and external stake holders.
Heidi Pickman: And if you want to go into Cleantech.
Ellen Weinreb, Owner, Sustainable Recruiting: So in Cleantech Finance you would need finance experience in Cleantech building, you would need maybe architecture or LEED certification, and you might be doing project management, or financing around Green building.
Heidi Pickman: And marketing skills come in handy if you want to work for a sustainable brand like the Stoney Fields, Burt's Bees or Seventh Generation. The other scale that comes in quite handy is the ability to overcome a lot of resistance with the power of persuasion. Often times the person who has the CSR position is passionate about sustainability, but that doesn't mean that everyone at that company is passionate about sustainability. You need to able to convince everyone that your way makes sense for the triple bottom line we mentioned earlier: People, Planet and Profits, and of course you need to know about sustainability.
Kross says MBAs can get up to speed on the issues.
Katie Kross, Associate Director, Corporate Sustainability Initiative at Duke University: It is important that they understand not just sort of the business side of things but also the public policy side of things because issues like climate change regulation are going to have profound impacts on what the cost benefit analysis of many decisions look like. So they need to have an understanding of what is sustainability and some of the fundamentals of what those environmental and social issues are and how companies are looking at them. But then a lot of the sort of skills about how it's actually applied are continuing to emerge everyday. So I always tell the MBAs who are graduating now that they are in a really exciting position because they're going to be the pioneers in a lot of these careers, and they are going to be the ones that are developing how to apply sustainability in a corporate context.
Heidi Pickman: Acutt says the degree in sustainable management is so much more than figuring out how to change out the light bulbs.
Nicola Acutt, Associate Dean, Presidio Graduate School: They really, really understand the relevance of whole systems thinking ecology and economics for business. They understand how to use the principles of sustainability to help orient, make sense of, and guide business strategy and this is in the context of emerging issues all over from climate change to regulation, water shortages, economic stability, finance across the board, and beyond that they're not only able to make the business case for more sustainable practices but they're okay with emerging management tools and strategies whether it's carbon accounting to life cycle analysis to stake holder engagement.
Heidi Pickman: Remember Michael Callahan, our passionate social entrepreneur. He's the Co-Founder of Powermundo—a company that builds and manages a network of customers, retailers, and suppliers to deliver appropriate clean technology products for people in developing countries. He also does consulting. He says a Green MBA isn't always enough.
Michael Callahan, MBA and Co-Founder, Powermundo: It's what you do with it. What my job offers wasn't that you have a Green MBA. It was, oh, you raised this much money, you started your own business, you wrote your business plan, you have presentation skills, you're interested in sustainability. So it fits perfectly with the consulting company that I'm working with now, as well as the Solar Farm Developer, as well as other Green companies and so I was shocked because I needed money to support myself to supplement my income that I had as many job opportunities and it was because the combination of skills and not just the Green MBA. The Green MBA was a help, but it's still being defined, you know, what is a Green MBA? You still have to have strong finance skills, marketing, accounting. You still have to have all of that.
Heidi Pickman: And like investing the keyword is diversification.
Michael Callahan, MBA and Co-Founder, Powermundo: If you're interested in finance, by all means I can understand but diversify with your experience and what you can do, it might end up being a very different type of finance job and what were existing a couple of years ago. So diversification of skills, different internships that are completely different, these people may have friends that are unemployed that are in debt and unemployed with big name MBAs because they're not very diversified in what they're able to do. And so transferable skills, networking, and really following what you love to do as well as entrepreneurship, it's a great opportunity just to really go out and try things.
Heidi Pickman: So you understand life cycle analysis, you can calculate a carbon footprint, you've done a bunch of internships, you're ready to send out your resume. Your Green MBA is different. Should you be using traditional tactics for finding a job?
In addition to working on sustainability for Duke University, Katie Kross is the author of Profession and Purpose: A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability. She interviewed a lot of former students who are working in sustainable careers to find out how they got their jobs.
Katie Kross, Associate Director, Corporate Sustainability Initiative at Duke University: There were two things that kept coming up over and over again about their job search. The first is the power of informational interviews. So many of those practitioners got their jobs as a direct result of informational interviews, which I know sounds sort of mundane but actually this field of practice is so new and so small that having good relationships with people in the industry can really go a long way towards finding a job opportunity, and many of these positions are not posted anywhere publicly. They're not on the websites. They're not doing on-campus recruiting. They are positions that job candidates are essentially writing for themselves based on their relationships and their experience. And the second thing that came up over and over again is how many of these practitioners got their job as a direct result of a project that they worked on while they were a student. So whether that's a class project or an internship or an independent study research project or some other kind of practical project that they worked on while they were a student, they leverage that directly into a job for themselves.
Heidi Pickman: And creativity plays a big part.
Katie Kross, Associate Director, Corporate Sustainability Initiative at Duke University: Really be creative in your networking and in seeking out those opportunities even when that means that you have to write the job description yourself. Conferences are a great networking opportunity. It really helps to read up on not just sustainability news in general but in the industry news and how which particular sustainability topics are affecting the industry that you're interested in. And be determined, don't give up.
Heidi Pickman: In addition to being creative in your job search, Ellen Weinreb advises that graduates focus.
Ellen Weinreb, Owner, Sustainable Recruiting: So my one piece of advice is for an MBA student to build on their past experience but identifying a narrow field within sustainability, so let's say Microlending in China would be something very specific and narrow. They're interested in organic food marketing because if they are too broad in their focus then they won't be able to have the kind of creative, interesting, intelligent conversations that actually lead to jobs.
Heidi Pickman: Diversity, creativity, and focus, plus a degree and experience equal more than a job. Katie Kross says we're at the beginning of a new way of doing business.
Katie Kross, Associate Director, Corporate Sustainability Initiative at Duke University: I think this is a really exciting opportunity for us all and I really do believe that today's MBAs have an opportunity to be pioneers in this field and change the world of business for the better.
Heidi Pickman: For more information, a transcript of this show or to register for your bi-weekly MBA Podcast, visit MBAPodcaster.com. Join us on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to get the latest news and the insight in the world of business school. This is MBA Podcaster. I'm Heidi Pickman, thanks for listening and be sure to tune in next time when we explore another topic of interest in your quest for an MBA.
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This is very informative for someone like me who is looking for a career in Sustainability. Thank you!!


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The Eee Pad isn't the only slate-style gadget Asus unveiled at Computex this year. They also announced the Eee Tablet, which is their answer to Amazon's Kindle (Engadget). This digital notebook has a backlight-less TFT-LCD touchscreen with 64 levels of grey. It has 2,450 dpi input sensitivity and an 8" 1024x768 display.
The Eee Tablet is being billed as a note-taking / writing device as much as it is a reader. It comes with built-in notepad templates and the ability to annotate, store, import, and tag notes as you write. This tablet also sports a microSD slot and a 2 MP camera. It brags 10 hours of battery life; impressive for a tablet, but lame for an e-reader.
Expect the Eee Tablet to launch around September for between $199 and $299.