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What new functionality we are looking for
Social Media
MCH has nearly 3,000 fans on Facebook (HomelessCoalition) and has recently started tweeting. We'd like to better link our social media presence with our website: Youtube videos, Facebook feeds, RSS feeds, new reports, compelling data, and personal stories.
Public Awareness
Approximately half the homeless in Minnesota are children but most people still think of homelessness as an urban, adult male, chronic alcoholic. MCH could do a better job of educating the public by sharing the true face of homelessness, along with compelling statistics and stories, on our website.
Legislative Advocacy
MCH is the voice at the Capitol for homeless service providers and people experiencing homelessness. We could keep our members better informed by having a bill tracker prominently displayed on the website during session.
Connecting Member Programs
MCH is a membership organization with 150 members across the State. We would like to highlight one of our members each week and then archive the stories as a way of sharing the creative work of service providers, incredible need, and geographic diversity of homelessness.
Board Portal
MCH's Board Members come from across the state with a range of backgrounds, for example some are service providers, others have experienced homelessness themselves. A portal to share board documents, with a required log-in would keep us better organized and effective. Board members who have internet access only at a public library, for example, could quickly find the materials they need for making important organizational decisions.
A calender would help us share our events and the events of our member programs so that Minnesotans who want to pitch in to help have the opportunity to do so. We'd like each of our member organizations to be able to add their own events.
Personal Stories
Sharing personal stories is the best way we know to educate the public, media, and lawmakers about homelessness. We'd like a section where people who are at-risk of homelessness or are on the streets can share their stories with us privately and we could highlight a story each week. In a similar way, we'd like to highlight the good work of business, faith, and civic leaders who demonstrate exceptional leadership in addressing homelessness.
Join Our List
Currently the sign-up function of our website is not connected with our email list, so we often lose names of people interested in joining the work.
Archived Trainings Materials / Webinars
MCH puts on a statewide annual conference for several hundred service providers each year. We'd like to archive the best material to be an ongoing resource for new staff in our member programs. Additionally, we are moving towards using webinars for traning throughout the year and would like to archive webinars by topic while they remain relevant.


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It's a well known fact that kids love fluorescents – the bright colors attract them and encourage them to play, even if it's a toss-up whether the toy will end up on the floor or in their mouths! Now, DayGlo, a global leader in the color industry, has unveiled its new GloPrill® color palette for use in applications with direct food contact – a range of fluorescents that are completely safe, even for younger children, making play time more fun, no matter the product!
"For decades, DayGlo fluorescents have engaged children's imaginations with vivid and bright colors," says Kevin Sonby, Vice President of Marketing at DayGlo. "Now, with our line of FDA-compliant GloPrill pigments, manufacturers can safely and confidently expand their use of fluorescent color, not only for older children toys, but younger generations too – from toys to strollers, and from rattles to bouncers."
DayGlo colors create bold and exciting plastics for children's toys, and the company works closely with masterbatch producers, designers and manufacturers to explore new avenues of product development and market growth. DayGlo specializes in developing pigments suitable for polyolefins for injection molding, blow molding and rotational molding, as well engineering resins, plastisols and vinyl resins. The new GloPrill fluorescent pigments are FDA-compliant for use in High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) and Polypropylene (PP).
As the originators of daylight fluorescent color, DayGlo has long known the attraction bright colors can have to kids. In fact, according to a study by Xavier University, children prefer fluorescent color over conventional color by a factor of 4 to 1. When asked why a particular toy was chosen, 79% of the children in the study responded that the color was their reason.
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Do the poor benefit or lose from profit-seeking, commercial microfinance? It's one of the most hotly contested issues in the field of microfinance. Potential benefits include lower fees and better interest rates for clients, creation of more financial products, greater institutional sustainability, and increased access to the world's huge capital markets. But can profit chasers really keep the best interest of the poor front and center? Is antipoverty profit chasing microfinance an oxymoron?
From the evidence on the whole, I think not. The arguments on both sides are complex. Here I'll just focus on some data on metrics that help illuminate the efficiency and pricing issues within the debate.
(1): Price Competition. Bolivia is widely considered one of the most competitive microfinance markets in the world. It was essentially the first country where microfinance became fully integrated with the traditional full-fledged financial sector. Leading the way, Bolivia's BancoSol was the world's first fully commercial for-profit microfinance instituion (MFI) and the first to attract significant international commercial investment. By the mid-2000s, competition among a host of more than 20 aggressive competitors meant that Bolivia could boast some of the world's lowest microcredit interest rates.
Figure 1, from Richard Rosenberg and colleagues at the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), shows the interest rates charged on microcredit and bank loans in Bolivia from 1992 through 2007. As we can see, increasing competition dropped MFI loan interest rates by more than two-thirds in 15 years, from near 60% to about 18%. Rates have roughly stabilized since. That means that microcredit customers in Bolivia get rates similar to or better than what many Americans and Europeans pay on their credit cards, as I explored in a previous post. Encouragingly, traditional banks also apparently felt the competitive pressure.
Figure 1. Effective Interest Rates on Loans in Bolivia, 1992-2007
Source: Rosenberg, Gonzalez, and Narain (2009) [i]
Presumably competition could also increase interest paid on savings deposits, put downward pressure on fees and encourage banks and MFIs to minimize restrictive requirements and hassles for opening accounts.
(2): Scale. A commercial microfinance institution that actively pursues a double-bottom line of both profit and social impact holds several distinct possible advantages over NGOs and other non-profit MFIs. The necessity to turn a profit instills financial discipline and efficiency incentives in private-sector organizations that may be absent in government programs or charitable organizations with different goals. In the same way, as shown in Table 1, microfinance institutions that seek profits tend to grow to serve more clients than non-profit MFIs. That matters not only because more people get services, but also because of the efficiency advantages that come with scale.
|Table 1. Scale Metrics of For-Profit vs. Non-Profit MFIs
|Median Values of
|For-Profit MFIs
|Non-Profit MFIs
|Number of Loans Outstanding
|Average Loan Balance per Borrower
|Number of Depositors
|Total Assets ($millions)
|Data source: mixmarket.org; data for December, 2013. Note: Data set includes almost 900 MFI serving 95 million borrowers and 87 million depositors in nearly 100 countries.
(3): Cost efficiencies. Larger MFIs tend to have larger loan sizes. As Figure 2 suggests (with data from 57 MFIs in Peru), MFIs with larger average loans tend to be more cost efficient, spending a lower fraction of funds on operating costs.
Figure 2. Loan Size and Operating Expenses as a Fraction of Loans
Source: Microbanking Bulletin 19, December 2009.
Note the median sizes of the organizations in Table 1, in the tens of thousands of clients, reflect large numbers of fairly small MFIs. However, as Table 1 shows, small MFIs only account for a few percent of clients. The vast majority of microfinance clients, more than 4 of 5, save and borrow at MFIs with hundreds of thousands or millions of clients, where the benefits of scale are particularly pronounced.
|Table 2. Measures of Outreach & Efficiency, by MFI Scale
MFI Scale
# of active borrowers
Less than 10,000
10,000 to 100,000
100,000 to 1 million
Very Large
More than 1 million
|Market share of borrowers (%)
|Market share of savers (%)
|Total expense rate (% of assets)
|Average real interest rate + fees (% of loans, inflation adjusted)
|Profit margin (% of revenues)
|Data Source: mixmarket.org; data for December, 2013. Note: Profit, expense and interest rate averages are medians within category. Interest & fees row reports "Yield on Gross Portfolio", using real rates, adjusted for inflation.
Costs are relatively lower at larger scale, falling from eating up 27% of assets for small MFIs with fewer than 10,000 clients, to 17.5% for those very large MFIs with millions of clients. With lower costs come higher profits. Small MFIs on average operate at a loss, bringing in less revenue than they cost to run. By contrast, average profit rates for mid-sized MFIs are about 10%, and rise with MFI scale.
(4): Better Prices for Clients. Also note in Table 2 that that pattern of increasing profit with scale occurs despite the larger institutions charging lower average interest and fees, a benefit for their customers. Small MFIs average nearly 29% rates of interest and fees, adjusted for inflation, compared to 13.5% for the very largest. And those very largest serve more than half the clients.
Unquestionably ugly things have happened to some microcredit clients, like over-indebtedness and shady incentives for growth practiced by less-than scrupulous MFIs. Dark recesses unfortunately exist in financial products of all flavors, not just microfinancial services. The microfinance industry needs to take critics seriously and work diligently to improve client protections. However, critics should also acknowledge the demonstrable good.
Hundreds of millions of people worldwide voluntarily use commercial microfinancial services regularly. Hundreds of millions of customers voting with their feet says something powerful about the efficiency and low prices that commercial incentives bring.
[i]. Richard Rosenberg, Adrian Gonzalez, Sushma Narain, The new moneylenders: Are the poor being exploited by high microcredit interest rates? in Todd A. Watkins & Karen Hicks, Eds., Moving Beyond Storytelling: Emerging Research in Microfinance. Emerald, 2009.
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Banks gouging Canadians with rate hikes, Layton says
NDP Leader Jack Layton attacked the banks today, accusing them of jacking up interest rates to pad their record profits and executive salaries at a time when consumers can least afford it.
At rallies in Vancouver and here, he drew attention to a headline in the Globe and Mail stating: Banks hike rate to the very retail customer that have helped them avoid a U.S.-style meltdown.
"They are going after you folks," Layton said told an afternoon rally.
"The banks are going to gouge consumers even more in order to keep their record profits and their sky-high CEO salaries in place," he said.
Layton told the partisan crowds it's time Canada had a prime minister who "stood up for the bank customers instead of just the bank."
Never mind if there is any validity to what Layton is saying, could you choose a more untimely day to declare war on Canadian's financial institutions? Breathtaking. What kind of bizarre signal is Layton sending to instill confidence that he understands the current circumstance? There's a TIME AND A PLACE, and yet the NDP highlights this angle to sell it's agenda.
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Author: Arundhati Roy
Title: The Algebra of Infinite Justice
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year of publication: 2002
Place of publication: New Delhi
Place of purchase: A.H. Wheeler & Co. Limited
Purchase cost: Rupees 225
Ownership: Gift
General comments: This was a gift to my father from his erstwhile boss.
Transcription of dedication/inscription:
I am glad to handover this book to a man who knows what the justice is.
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Great shot...they're such miniature predators - or like to pretend they are, depending on the cat..
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I love how you've made the cat look huge! Great perspective. I need to use my Holga more.
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In case you didn't know 'prepoo' (short for pre shampoo), is very beneficial for the hair. It doesn't matter if your hair is natural (unpermed/unrelaxed), relaxed/chemically processed or colored/bleached. It'll do your hair a lot of good!! Wondering what exactly this is? It is the process of applying conditioning treatments such as conditioners, humectants and/or oils … Continue reading DIY Recipes for PrePoo
What To Know About Co-washing
If you are natural or are new to the natural hair community, I'm sure by now you must have heard the word "co-wash"... A lot of people are aware of the term while some are still confused or curious as to what it actually means. What does it mean?Simply put, it is a form of … Continue reading What To Know About Co-washing
The L.O.C Way to Moisture Retention for Natural Hair
Hey guys, I hope you had a good week. Is anyone excited about Easter approaching? Anyhoos, just reminding you the little ways to keep your hair moisturized this period; the LOC method is one of the effective ways to achieve that. If you're on your way to becoming natural or are natural, you should have … Continue reading The L.O.C Way to Moisture Retention for Natural Hair
How I Cut My WashDay Routine In Half;The Night Before Valentines
When I started transitioning I always dreaded 'wash days'... They were always long and boring or maybe I was too impatient buh by the time I got rid of the relaxed ends and knew my hair a little more, I figured ways to cut corners and products that worked perfectly well. I'm an Eden … Continue reading How I Cut My WashDay Routine In Half;The Night Before Valentines
Overcoming 'Product Junkie-ism'
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Protective Styling:Avoiding Some Horrors
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5 Habits for Healthy Natural Hair
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Top 4 Benefits of Juvéderm® Skin-Rejuvenation Treatments
To age gracefully is a beautiful thing. But as the years go by, an accumulation of factors like sun exposure, pollution, stress, a less-than-ideal lifestyle and smoking can make us feel and look a bit less "graceful" than we would prefer.
Enter Juvéderm®
Juvéderm® is a natural, non-surgical skin-rejuvenation treatment that helps reduce visible signs of aging. By naturally adding volume, it refreshes your skin and smooths away undesired lines and wrinkles—all for far less than you might spend on invasive plastic surgery. Juvéderm® is a popular skin care treatment in Calgary, helping thousands of people refresh the vitality of their looks.
How Juvéderm® Works
Skin rejuvenation in Calgary starts with Juvéderm®. Its active ingredient is hyaluronic acid, a sugar found naturally in your body. It's injected in the target location where it combines with the water in your skin to gently restore fullness.
What Juvéderm® Does
Juvéderm® helps fill eyebrows, eye hollows, cheeks and the jawline. It's used to smooth away wrinkles, smile lines, crow's feet and brow lines. It's also used to soften scars, reduce signs of aging in hands and correct acne scars.
What Are the Benefits of Juvéderm® as a Skin Rejuvenation Treatment in Calgary?
In comparison to other treatments, Juvéderm® has many advantages. These are the top four.
1. Non-surgical. Because Juvéderm® treatments in Calgary are short and non-invasive, most patients experience no downtime. Imagine leaving your office for a treatment and being able to go back to work in less than an hour. It's possible with Juvéderm®.
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Anyways. Yesterday was pretty social.
First, I've spent the afternoon w/ guys from Road Side Mary and Csabba in Popocafépetl, it was meant to be a professional session, but later it evolved into something much more interesting. The fact Adam V. was absent made it survivable, cause TWO people who speak as much as Jiří, the bassist, simply wouldn't be. By the way, RSM have awesome promo pics at their bandzone profile.
I am probably gonna visit RSM + Sunflower Caravan gig today (for free, ha!). You should consider that evening programme, too.
Then I travelled to Nové Butovice to my english student's place. My student is mr.Veselý (former ETC.., now Dobrohošť, Irish Dew) - wow, he's like a hairless BRIAN MAY! I guess these lessons are gonna be pretty fun. I will let you know!
Friday, August 24, 2007
Sometimes we remember bedrooms of our friends
Labels: music, ordinary life, road side mary, sunflower caravan
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Being a bit (?) of a control freak, and always thinking ahead, I generally have A Plan (or three) complete with deadlines. Because if I don't have a deadline, nothing gets done. I need a reason to get up and get dressed of a morning, and a self imposed deadline is the carrot AND the stick that just happens to work for me.
Being self employed also means having to be self motivated. Without a dream, which gets broken down into goals, which are fuelled by deadlines, I would happily curl up with a book or some other distraction.
But right now some of my plans are waiting for feedback from other people, so until I hear back from them, I am in limbo. My way of coping (in between obsessively checking my email) is to get into the studio. Today I am dressing the loom with the 17th two-scarf warp since Olds. My goal is to weave two scarves every day because a) I need inventory for the coming craft fair season b) I need a good range of colours and I'm working with a limited palette of colours, so two per warp will give me the greatest selection c) I am trying to bust stash and make this line of scarves from what I have on hand, not buy yet more yarn.
Once the work begins on the house (one of the people I am anxiously waiting to hear from) there will be noise and dust, and I plan on heading to the guild room to write in the quiet there. But it is now almost halfway through July, and still no word. My patience, never in generous supply to begin with, is wearing very thin and I'm getting cranky.
So I am going to set a deadline and get back to writing on that day. I'm not sure yet which day that will be, but I cannot delay the writing much longer and still have something to show the graphic/layout person the end of September.
In the meantime I still have to thread warp #17, with five more waiting in the wings and more yarn to be wound into warps...
Carrot. Stick. One and the same, for me.


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The Three Level Cat Bunker is a fun cat furniture design by Etsy user CatastrophiCreations that provides everything a cat could possibly want or need "in any emergency situation," or on any day really. The design is set up like a tri-level apartment, equipped with an area for eating, a "chaise lounge" scratching post, plenty of areas for sleeping and exploring, plus circular cutouts so that cats can easily move from one level to the next.
The Three Level Cat Bunker is designed to be wall-mounted with brackets, much like a set of interior shelves. Each of these cozy cat homes are handmade to order for about $160 and will ship within the United States.
Tri-Level Cat Shelves
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Bridge-Like Pet Loungers
Feline Shark Beds
Lounging Feline Tables
Hyperrealistic Felted Cat Crafts
Cocoon Cat Beds
CatastrophiCreations' Cat Furniture Design is Like a Mini Apartment
- By: Laura McQuarrieMay 31, 2014
References: etsy & awesomeetsy.tumblr
References: etsy & awesomeetsy.tumblr


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Every March, the National Collegiate Athletic Association orchestrates its "March Madness" basketball championship with its many last-second buzzer beaters, heroes, and heartbreaks.
Add a contractor to your team
Every March, the National Collegiate Athletic Association orchestrates its "March Madness" basketball championship with its many last-second buzzer beaters, heroes, and heartbreaks. Perhaps you'd like to give your kids or grandkids a leg up on making the high school team, or making a college team and hitting the winning shot in a Final Four.
Watching March Madness may also have inspired you to refine your own skills and provide your friends with many hours of fun and conditioning. So how about installing a basketball court in your own backyard?
Of course, many homeowners elect to have their driveways serve as impromptu courts. This is certainly less expensive, as it saves the landscaping, paving and other costs of building a court for your backyard. But the basketball court in the driveway deprives hoopsters of the experience of playing on a surface with genuine court dimensions and thereby more of the atmosphere of the real game.
A regulation full- length basketball court for high school is 84 feet long by 50 feet wide; for college, 94 feet by 50 feet wide. Your backyard may not be large enough to accommodate a full court, in which case building a half-court may make more sense. There are many companies that do court installations and provide websites that list options.
But before we go too far, you are probably wondering what will it cost to build your backyard basketball court. Eric Elofson owns Mr. Hoop (www.mrhoop.net), which operates out of Wellesley. His company has installed numerous basket courts around the Cape. A contractor like Elofson is the first person you should have assess whether your property will tolerate the installation of the court as there could be some unacceptable disruption to the space, such as fences. If you decide that the project makes sense, you are looking at a cost of about $15,000, inclusive of all the components: paving, landscaping and the equipment. The paving costs alone can run $7,000 to $8,000.
Michael Jimerson of Michael Jimerson Architecture and Interiors in Centerville, recently developed the drawings for a backyard basketball court for a New Seabury home. He says you must start with a certified site survey. A mortgage plan provided by your lending agency will not suffice. Typically, a basketball court is considered "landscaping" and does not require a permit. The exception would be if you are within 50 feet of wetlands, in which case you would need a permit from the conservation commission.
A Haybale Silt protector is required during construction and the design must accommodate any storm run-off from the paved surface of the court. Otherwise, the run-off could get into wetlands or a neighbor's property. Landscape screening can be achieved with soil berms and fast-growing evergreen Leyland Cyprus trees along with rhododendrons layered as screens for neighbors and to allow viewing from your home.
You will need to meet with your landscaper and go over these issues as you review the area you wish to place the court. It's important to remove any stray rocks and to try to level the ground as much as possible. You also will need to locate a local paving company. You should give this contractor the basketball goal pier and net post sleeves to install.
Jimerson suggests using a modular suspended tile surfacing. He says it looks great and provides less stress on joints (for some of us older folks running the court). In general, our experts indicate that you need to put a lot of thought into the different surfaces and their pros and cons.
Steve Curley heads the Hoop Group, Inc. and will be running the All Cape Hoop Camp for youngsters again this summer at the Hyannis Youth and Community Center. He extols backyard basketball courts as a great way to get neighborhood youngsters to stay in view of their parents, achieve much-needed exercise, and develop teamwork skills.
As the famous sports broadcaster Marv Albert would say to this idea, "YES!"


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I finally put myself into this blog heaven. It also about the time for me to find a right place to write and share some beautiful eye candy and new & old talent.
Here is some new designs for 2012. I wish this year will full of wonderful things, love and adventure for everyone.


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I know this is long over due, but I would like to thank Wes and Steve from the coin loft as well as Ivan and Nancy at engage3sixty for the continued support! Please visit their respective sites because small companies especially here in Delaware need your support and blissing!!!!
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Its in the mail!!!!
Oleny High School In Philly Gets the 3EYES Treatment!!!!
Good friend and 3EYES supporter, Nick Mehalick a 12th Grade English teacher at the Oleny Charter School in Philadelphia, recently commissioned me to paint this one of a kind mural in his class room! Please note that Nick did the lettering at the bottom on the bulletin boards, hahaha! Nick is also a local musician and artist. Please check out his band with his younger brother Mike the name of the band is "This Temper." They are crazy good and they are fresh off a summer tour of the east coast. The name of their debut record is called "Play the Victim". I highly recommend it and I even more endorse their high energy stage show. Thanks again Nick, this was a long time in the works and it was an honor to be able to paint in a Philly H.S. 3EYES Style!!! - More pictures to come!!!
Oleny H.S. Progress:
Random Chris White Gallery Shows 2010 - 2011 (Recap)
Can you guess which pieces are 3EYES pieces?????
Chris White Tribute Show: June 2011
NWAA Presents: / Shipley Resident Show: August 2010
This was the 1st resident show for the Chris White Gallery at the Shipley Artist lofts. This show was present in conjunction with the NWAA
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AIDS Delaware Design Battle: Shipley Lofts April 2010
We has one hours to come up with a re-branding solution given a very strict criteria.
Chris White Tribute Show: June 2011
NWAA Presents: / Shipley Resident Show: August 2010
This was the 1st resident show for the Chris White Gallery at the Shipley Artist lofts. This show was present in conjunction with the NWAA
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AIDS Delaware Design Battle: Shipley Lofts April 2010
We has one hours to come up with a re-branding solution given a very strict criteria.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
2011 Wilmington Fringe 3EYES sighting!!!!
Although this is just an image, it was still cool that they included my work in the Weekly Spark Magazine. Please check out both the Wilmington Fringe 2011 and Spark sites!!!
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Sightings, Sighting and more Sightings!!!!
Jared Obstfeld from band Universal Funk Order "UFO" before their performance down the street from the world famous Fenway Park in Boston !!! Thanks for the 3EYE support, go check out his band UFO at http://www.myspace.com/universalfunkorder and of course on Facebook. (Granted the image is not the best but its the thought that counts, Thanks Jared!!!)
Long Time Friend, local music supporter, Author and lets be honest here an all around good person!!!! Steve Nepa Rock'n out a 3EYES shirt Webcam Style! Please check out his book its an in depth page turn-er, paying homage to Tales From The Crypt. And, I might add one of my favorite HBO shows from back in the 90's!!! His book "Stories from the Tritone" is for sell on Amazon!!! http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Tritone-Book-Stephen-Nepa/dp/1462858015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315171165&sr=8-1
Tara "Hibby" Haubert aka Hustle Lynn's (And I might add, one of the best Derby names I have heard in a real longtime!!!) new helmet, rep'n the 3EYES!!!!! Check the girls and her out roller derby style at: http://www.brandywinerollergirls.com/
And of course random-ness from Sarah and Kat NYC style! Sarah is one of the original 3EYES supporters and and it means a lot to me that she rep's the shirts hard in the NYC!!!! Kat Livingston is a model, fellow drummer and an actress, although I have known Kat a short time she has nothing but positive things to say about my art!!!! I greatly appreciate the love and I wish both Sarah and Kat the best of luck in their respective ventures in the future!
Please check out Sarah at:
Greetings from Detroit!
Nicole Szychulski's Purse! Thanks for all the love and the support it means a lot to me!!!! Hope you are enjoying your painting!!!!
Random Shirt Sightings!!!!
Random here, there, and everywhere sightings!!!!
Thanks everyone for you emails and thought keep them coming, it means a lot to me that 3EYES is hitting a chord with you!!!
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This is an idea from pinterest... I LOVE how it turned out! It is such an empowering message!
I LOVE Back to School Night. I love that the kids and families come in SO excited to see their new classrooms. I love that every parent (whether consciously or subconsciously) asks their child "Are you excited?" and most kids either nod their little heads or say "yes!". It is just so nice to have the halls filled with so many happy people!
My school has tried out many different formats for Back to School Night. This year, we went with an "open house" format. Parents went to an opening/welcome session run by the PTA and then were welcome to visit the classrooms to pick up disclosures, scope out the room and ask questions.
My Kindergarten friend Jen (isn't it funny how we become the grade we teach?) had a genius idea a few years ago to have the kids do a "scavenger hunt"- that way they could have a reason and a structured opportunity to look around, find things in the classroom (and other important things like the bathroom).We've done this several times since our school opened 4 years ago. The students (and parents) come in, we hand them the Scavenger Hunt paper and away they go! It frees you (as the teacher) up to answer questions and just chat casually with the kids and parents. It also allows the parents and the children to explore together.
The first year we were at our new school, I included more places around the building-- this is what it looked like:There are a few Swedish Fish in a bag, with a note that says: "Congratulations! You're "o-fish-ally" in First Grade!"
When they complete it, they bring it back to you for some kind of a treat. Usually I give out "homework pencils". This year, thanks to pinterest, I was feeling a little fancier. So I made these adorable treat bags!
When they complete it, they bring it back to you for some kind of a treat. Usually I give out "homework pencils". This year, thanks to pinterest, I was feeling a little fancier. So I made these adorable treat bags!
I made one with gold fish crackers for my diabetic student. I think it's just as fun!
Their desks are ready with a "Back to School" packet.
Included in the packet:
· My disclosure
· An "All About Me" form
· A Volunteer Preferences Form
· A confidentiality agreement for volunteers (we have a school policy that
everyone that comes in to help out must sign)
· A welcome letter from me
· First Grade Reminders
· A donation envelope
· A pamphlet about why reading to and with your child is CRITICAL.
(I label their packet with their name. First, it allows me to see really fast how many people came. Second, it helps me make sure everyone gets one (I send them home the first day of school if they did not come to Back to School Night.)
On the back table, I have a few different signs and pages.
Second, I put a volunteer signup sheet. (I give parents MANY different ways to let me know they are interested in volunteering!)
Third, I put a bus list. If they know what bus their child rides on, they are encouraged to list it. If they don't know, we figure it out on the first day of school.
School starts Monday! Are you excited? I sure am!


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E. Toledo - Director of land bank to talk to public about demolitions
Cindy Geronimo, executive director of the Lucas County Land Bank, will speak at the East Toledo Senior Center Thursday, Jan. 17 at 12:30 p.m. The event is sponsored by the East Toledo Club and is open to the public.
The land bank acquires and sells foreclosed tax delinquent properties without going through the long court process leading to a sheriff's sale.
In July this year, the land bank was awarded a $3.6 million grant from the Ohio Attorney General. With matching funds from the City of Toledo, the land bank has $6.8 million available through December 2013.
This funding will help increase the pace of demolitions of dilapidated housing. There are 93 East Toledo properties on the demolition list. To see a map, search the web for Lucas County Land Bank.
Geronimo will talk about the location of these demolitions, how to get a house on the list and how to acquire the vacant land for use as a side lot or a community garden.
Prior to taking the position with the land bank, Geronimo had worked for Lucas County for 16 years, as a Civil Bailiff for the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, the Chief Deputy Recorder in the Lucas County Recorder's Office and Director of Real Estate in the Lucas County Auditor's Office. She also served as both a guardsman and civil service technician in the Ohio Air National Guard where she was a Logistics Specialist for the 180th Fighter Wing in Swanton, Ohio.
The public is also invited to lunch which starts at noon and costs $6 for a sub, chips and a beverage. RSVP for lunch to 419-691-1429. The senior center is located at 1001 White St.
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Dollar General recently opened two new stores in the area. One is at 1221 W. Main St in Woodville and the other is at 18300 Pemberville Rd. in Pemberville.
According to a company spokesperson, Dollar General stores offer convenience and value to customers by providing a focused selection of national brands and private brands of food, housewares, seasonal items, cleaning supplies, basic apparel and health and beauty care products.
Each store employs approximately six to 10 people.
Dollar General is an ardent supporter of literacy and education. In 1993, the company founded the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, which has awarded more than $74 million in grants to nonprofit organizations, helping more than 4.4 million individuals take their first steps toward literacy or continued education. For more information about the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and its grant programs, visit www.dollargeneral.com.
Dollar General Corporation operates more than 10,000 stores in 40 states. In addition to private brands, Dollar General sells products from Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, Kellogg's, General Mills, Nabisco, Hanes, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola.
The right thing
Genoa Retirement Village, provider of senior health and living services, donated more than $5,000 in cash and toys to the Ottawa County Holiday Bureau this year, according to a company press release. Through a combination of toy collection and several fundraising events, Genoa Retirement Village was able to raise money to give back to the local community.
Each year, Genoa Retirement Village, along with their sister health campuses across a five-state area, participates in an annual fundraiser called Hope for the Holidays. In addition, the campus also participates in an annual companywide fundraising event each summer called Independence from Hunger. This year, Genoa Retirement Village donated over $4,000 of food and cash to the Genoa Area Food Pantry.
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Let me tell you what I'm all excited about today. I became a father last Friday - but you knew that I assume, wiiihaaaaauuuuw... (I'll update that part in a next post though) Anyway 'because' of this new occupation I've locked myself out of the organizing part of the Twestival last 10 or so days. Thus my involvement will be much lower than previously indicated. Anyhow, I attended a lunch meeting with the @BRUTwestival group today.
We had lunch in the Cook&Book and although their website sucks big time and is written in only french... I so-o-o love the place. Adorable. My book fetish wet dream. Cook&Book is a full range bookstore (with a fair amount of hard to find art&design books on their shelves) combined with a wine&dine (not the best restaurant you'll be attending in the Brussels area but they'll present you a menu with a varied range of options and the dishes carefully served). It's almost as if you are having lunch with the books, love it. You are allowed to take the books from their shelves and flick through them as you await your order.
Being there for lunch with about 5 or 6 other excited Tweeters was one thing, being surrounded with books of all kinds another. I was pleased to hear that the organization of the event was in full development. Nice. I felt pretty relaxed since I've done nothing but being a father and pouring out champagne for the last several days. The meeting kicked off with everybody giving up the good news one by one. Funny. As some people kept on rattling on about everything they'd done so far. Off course organizing such an event isn't all sun where the shining is. The practicals the practicals the practicals...
Anyway after going back and forth cross several practical issues. We also talked about some questions that arose as we talked about it with people from outside the organization. Questions that need answers before we really get you fire started. The Belgian Twestival organization has agreed on one clear stance: it is definitely NOT about Twitter. Sure Twitter is the social glue. Twitter is the way we connected. Twitter is the way this group found each other. So thank you Twitter, and euh thank you Evan Williams or anyone. But our goal for this Twestival is helping people out.
The focus is NOT HOW the people that want to help, do charity, connect but WHY they want to help. And they want to help because they believe that clean water is a basic need for everybody. And anyone should have free access to it. A group of people that connect because they have a mutual interest, because they fight for the same cause. In this case that cause translates in fundraising for people who are living, or is that: trying to stay alive, without decent clean water facilities.
Why water?
Most of us have never really been thirsty. We've never had to leave our houses and walk 5 miles to fetch water. We simply turn on the tap, and water comes out. Clean. Yet more than 1.1 billion people on the planet don't have clean water. It's hard to imagine what a billion people looks like really, but one in six might be easier. One in six people in our world don't have access to the most basic of human needs. Something we can't imagine going 12 hours without. It's hard not to think about water today. In the western world, we face growing concerns about our stewardship of the world's most precious resource. There's talk of shortages, evidence of reservoirs and aquifers drying up, and of course, plenty of people who simply don't care.
So in short Twestival is a fund raising event. Organized by people that connected via Twitter. The non-profit Twestival supports is called charity:water. Charity: water is a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Scott Harrison, the founder of the organization, made his living in the big Apple. Promoting top nightclubs and fashion events, for the most part living selfishly, thoughtlessly. Unhappy, he desperately needed a change in his life... And so the story goes.
Oh and what about the Twestival then? Why the Twitter community stuff? Well in September 2008, a group of Tweeters based in London UK decided to organize an event where the local Twitter community could meet offline, meet the faces behind the avatars, enjoy some entertainment, have a few drinks and tie this in with a food drive and fund raising effort for a local homeless charity. The bulk of the event was organized in under two weeks, had close to 300 people in attendance (with a waiting list) and was able to do some good for charity in the process.
Please note that no one working on the Twestival is being paid. All the money goes to the charity. All costs are covered by sponsorships.
So thank you: ATTENTIO, BIZNESSENCE, NEW EUROPE and TARGET RECRUITMENT for being so kind to contribute, and thus support this project. But if you'll allow me — sorry can't hold myself down — please guys, talk to someone for a decent design on your websites or strategy of your online presence because the stuff I just saw clicking to your homepages makes me sick/. Sorry, again, I'm too honest.
30 January 2009
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naart schijnt komt er een even grote cook&book in het Nederlands! (wel jammer dat ze vrij duur zijn)ReplyDelete
- nathalik23 February, 2009 07:52
idd, echt DE plaats om je zondag door te brengen! en ja het eten is niet fantastisch, volledig mee eens. zie uit naar die nederlandse cook&book (hmm alhoewel een combi van ned-fra mij wel logischer lijkt...). missch kunnen we allen binnenkort daar eens bijpraten :)ReplyDelete
dikke kus aan de kleine tobias. nath
- Anonymous06 July, 2009 08:19
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Punjab govt directs responsibility of schools during monsoons to DCOs
After having reports of highly unusual rains during monsoon in the country, the provincial government has conveyed to all the district governments for adopting measures for the safety and security of public school buildings as top priority.
The DCOs will issue No Objection Certificate (NOC) before opening of the schools after summer vacations. The children and school support staff will not be allowed to use the dangerous class rooms and buildings after the opening of schools.
The provincial government has directed the DCOs for ensuring the safety of buildings and children of all public and private schools. They will further check rain-water puddles in school premises and get roofs of buildings to be swept and cleaned to ensure that no rain water has been accumulated.
In case there is any damage to any public school building due to rain water, the DCO will have to immediately communicate it to the school education department on weekly basis in hard and soft form to get it repaired from the Annual Development Program.


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Oh I can see why you used that image with the star design. What a great paper design. Cool card. Thanks for joining us at the Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenges for our latest challenge. {Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenges}Good luck and join us again soon. Hugs, Barbara
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A beautiful card for a boy / man. These shoes are cult. Love that the stars are reflected everywhere on your card!
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Great guy card! Love the sneakers! Thanks for playing along with us at Great Impressions and good luck! Hugs, Robin
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What a fabulous masculine card!! I love the layout, the papers and those sneaks! and the staples are the perfect embellishments; love them! Thanks for playing with LTSCB.
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I don't typically write posts like this and for good reason: When things aren't going the way you want, you want to keep a positive outlook and make it seem – to outsiders – that it's business as usual. But there has been a very long period now where it seems like our activity is low and I wanted to address that before the rumor mill started.
In short: Shutter Photo is going strong and we have a lot of great plans ahead. We are not, as some might have thought, tapering off only to disappear, adding to a long list of sites that have failed.
The real story: At the end of 2013, Shutter Photo started to turn a profit. And so we knew we wanted to start taking the next step to enhance our website. The first and most noticeable upgrade was our logo. The old one was created by yours truly. It wasn't bad, but it was never intended to be our long-term branding. But we also started to put into place a number of improvements to the site on the back end and in our overall site presentation. Unfortunately, that has proven to be a bit more troublesome and time consuming than I had initially thought. At the same time, my day job (while it would be awesome to manage a site like this full time, it doesn't pay the bills) has escalated dramatically thanks to the returning economy. And we've had a few internet-wide security scares that impacted our server, WordPress as a whole and slew of other features and resources we utilize across the internet. The rapid patch updates for our engine and our themes have broken a few essential components of this site. For example, you'll notice tagging is broken. And if you try to share this post, it's anyone's guess as to whether the content will share properly or if the link will propagate properly. We have a plan to fix all this, but we want to do everything correctly, test it properly and make sure we won't have this problem in the future. This is just another burden of a growing site like Shutter Photo.
So again, everything is fine and we aren't abandoning our readers. But I wanted to bring this to everyone's attention while we fix this over the course of the next several days (possibly weeks, though we hope not). In the meantime, you can find us over at Google+ (our growing favorite social media outlet), Flickr and Twitter. And, as always, if you have a topic you'd like us to discuss, if you'd like to contribute an article or if you'd just like to write and tell us your thoughts (we take compliments and criticism), feel free to email us.


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The following is my attempt to summarize what I understand from reading economists' commentary on the financial crisis and possible remedies for it. See Delong. And Mankiw has links to most of the public comments by major economists.
Across the spectrum of responsible economists, it seems that there is concern about the solvency of banks (revealed in the increase in the TED spread) and the functioing of credit markets.
And it seems that the way to deal with it is to use the US Government's great ease of borrowing money to improve the equity of the financial institutions. The problem with the Paulson plan is that it seems to do that the wrong way: it creates a fake, subsidised market for mortgage-backed securities which thereby inflates the value of those assets above what they are really worth.
The Swedish response to their financial crisis. First, make sure the balance sheets are telling the full story. Get the bad news. Don't cover it up. Second, inject public money to make the better institutions solvent by buying equity. Merge, close down, do what you must to shrink leverage while keeping confidence in the system. Finally, sell the publicly owned equity at a profit.
The risk is that the American political system won't work as well as the Swedish one, and public ownership will just mean that decisions get politicized. But that's an even bigger problem with Paulson-Dodd: the value of the assets the government is buying up ultimately depends on the willingness to foreclose on somebody. What government is going to do that?
Sunday, October 05, 2008
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5:00am PT by Michael O'Connell
Bravo Sets 'Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen' for December Return
Top Chef is heading back to Last Chance Kitchen. After three seasons of running the companion series on BravoTV.com and on video-on-demand, the popular spinoff returns for a fourth outing on Dec. 10.
First airing adjacent to the Bravo competition's ninth season, Last Chance Kitchen pits cast-offs against one another in a bid to get back onto the series in time for the finale. It's proven to be a successful tweak to the veteran show, averaging nine million streams over the first three seasons and nabbing an Emmy for digital video in 2013.
The two-part premiere will put the first six cast-offs against each other, with the victor facing a new cast-off each week until the finale.
Turning its eye to the end of the current season, Top Chef has also selected the destination finale. The three top competitors from Boston, as well as the winner of Last Chance Kitchen, will head to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The finale starts on Wednesday, Jan. 28, and will continue for another three weeks.
Upcoming guest judges and diners include New England Patriots' Rob Gronkowski, Bravo's Andy Cohen, series favorite Jacques Pepin and a slew of others.
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Wow. In the most horrible news you'll hear today, a man named Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 23, walked into a school in Rio de Janeiro, opened fire, and killed 11 children before he was shot and killed by police.
Awful. Terrible. There are no words. I can't imagine what it would be like to be the parent of any of those poor children right now. We, in the United States, have seen our fair share of school shootings in recent years -- oft followed by debates about gun laws. I, myself, a hater of guns, have said things like, "Gun laws should be stricter." "Why is it so easy for kids to get guns?" "Guns should be illegal."
I'm now wondering if that's the problem, though, since Brazil has some of the toughest gun laws in the world.
First of all, the minimum age to carry a gun in Brazil is 25, so clearly getting around the system isn't too much of a problem. And even though it's technically legal to carry a gun outside your house, really severe restrictions were made in 2002 that make it virtually impossible to obtain a carry permit. These laws are way more strict than in peaceful places, like Australia.
So, I'm sad to part with my many-year beliefs, but, clearly, gun laws don't matter in these circumstances. Why? Is it a case of going crazy over something you can't have? Like how Americans love to drink themselves into an oblivion the minute they are allowed to (and usually before then)? It's something that's been "off-limits," so they feel that they need to make up for lost time?
I actually do think that's the case with some people. I'm sure there are kids in Brazil -- and certainly in the U.S. -- who can't wait for the minute they can get their hands on a gun because it's been taboo for so long. And, maybe, on occasion, these people actually do kill people inadvertently. We've all heard stories of young children getting their hands on someone's gun, and, well, it's never a good ending.
However, I don't think that's the case with Wellington -- or anybody else who's gone on a shooting spree. Maybe he couldn't wait to hold a gun, but that is the work of someone who is not well, someone who is unstable. And, although I'd love to see all the gun laws in the world get even stricter, I don't think it would really matter in situations like this.
What do you think about gun laws?
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BLM (Beaded Little Mayfly)
Developed by Tim Heng, previous manager of Taylor Creek Fly Shop, the BLM (Beaded Little Mayfly) is one of the most effective little mayfly/midge imitations ever. A thorax style bead with just the right amount of material - deadly.
Great early and late in the season.
The BLM was awarded the fly of the year in 2002 by Flyfisherman Magazine.
Black Ice BLM Nymph
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Hook: TMC 3769 or TMC 3761
Size: 14 ~ 20
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I don't normally write about the weather because inevitably conditions change just before my column is published, rendering the whole thing out of date.
But what a strange, warm, wet, windy winter it's been. The bats have stayed on the wing, hedgehogs have barely bothered to hibernate, butterflies, blossom and daffodils have all made unusual appearances.
This was despite Met Office predictions last October for the coldest and most severe winter on record. The hype about this bitter forecast reached fever pitch when a Bewick's swan made it onto the national news when it arrived from Siberia two weeks earlier than usual.
At the time, I was in a meeting in Bristol to discuss ideas for wildlife topics for The One Show.
The BBC1 series producer wanted my input for a new series of wildlife related pieces and I suggested a snow safari to look for owls, and hares. The plan was to show how hares breed and box all year round. The producers jumped at the idea and commissioned a four-and-a-half minute piece.
I came home and made preparations. In order to photograph wildlife up close it is important to blend into the background. I've had plenty of practice and have a few tricks up my sleeve: a snow white ski suit, a balaclava made out of a pillowcase, white oven gloves and tailored white covers to wrap around my camera and tripod.
All we needed now was snow. We had a flurry in November but it didn't last. This was followed by so many wet and windy storms I was getting worried the Met Office, that was using the alphabet to give each storm a sequential name, would run out of letters.
Then finally in January the snow came - enough for me to get some video footage of the hares before inviting the crew for the main shoot.
I drove to some fields where I often see hares and using binoculars I picked out a group of 30 hares, some of them actually boxing. I rang the landowner to get permission to film and then set off. I headed up a tram line, made by a tractor wheel, which took me directly towards the hares.
I wanted to get close enough to the hares to film them so I gradually walked closer, stopping whenever they showed signs of spotting me. After a couple of hours I was in photographing range of eight hares, frolicking in the snow.
I didn't manage to film any boxing but I had shots of some chasing one another about and even a few spats. Then I heard a dog yapping. The hares flattened their ears and squatted to the ground. Some dashed off. Then a lurcher ran across the field in pursuit, followed by a yappy mongrel.
When the dogs disappeared there wasn't a hare in sight but after a while some of the buck hares came back looking for the does. They were very jumpy and soon dashed off again.
Disgruntled, I headed off to a different field where I spotted two more groups. I headed to the nearest.
I made my approach slowly and then out of nowhere a bank of fog rolled in. I couldn't see a thing. I heard the faint call of a grey partridge. The sound got louder and then a ghostly partridge appeared out of the mist. I watched as its silhouette then faded into the fog. I tried to navigate by looking at my footsteps behind me.
Then, a hare burst out of a snow hole and dashed away from me. Finally my eye had something to focus on. The stray hare ran straight into the group of hares. They looked like ghosts in the distance, all standing to attention. I waited for them to settle before edging forward. Then suddenly they all ran away into the fog.
I decided to try the other group. As I made my way across the field, I bumped in to a straggler. He ran down the field and disappeared into the whiteness. I then spotted the group. I had to tread carefully.
I was watching the hares all the time. Any twitch of an ear or tilt of a head and I would stop for as long as it took to settle back down.
Then I saw a buck try his luck with a female. He sniffed her but she hunkered further down into the snow. Another buck chased this rival off in a circle around the group. There were two females amongst them - I could tell by the obvious attention they got from the bucks and because they were slightly smaller with finer heads and paler fur than the more ginger bucks.
At last the fog began to clear. I watched the group for an hour. It was fascinating seeing the bucks jostle for position in the group and amusing to see how their antics did little to impress the females who continued to hunker down.
I edged forward. Then without warning one of the females took flight, taking the bucks with her on a race across the field. She would only choose the fittest and strongest male to mate.
Then I saw her start to box. Snow and fur went flying as the pair fought it out, both standing bolt upright on their hind legs. Frustratingly they were too far away to film.
I had only just one female hare left in front of me now. I got down low on my hands and knees and crept closer until I was 12 metres away. She stayed in the same huddled position the whole time, like a compacted sculpture, then she got up and casually started eating her own droppings - not the dramatic film of boxing hares that I had envisaged, but it was interesting nonetheless.
Visitors to Robert Fuller's gallery at Fotherdale Farm in Thixendale on the Yorkshire Wolds are able to watch live footage from cameras planted in animal nests in his garden.
And now that it is Spring, the nest boxes are becoming increasingly active, the wildlife artists reports.
"A pair of barn owls is trying one nest for size and should be laying soon, whilst a male tawny owl and male kestrel are trying to entice their mates into their respective boxes," Mr Fuller said.
"A male and female weasel are both visiting the garden and can be seen sleeping in the nesting chamber or feeding in the tree top box."
The gallery is open seven days a week, between 9.30am-4.30pm weekdays and 10.30am-4.30pm on weekends.


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The first centenary film to be premiered in August
The National Film Centre's program "Latvian Films for Latvian Centenary" has announced the premiere of its first film.
More than 40% of the total budget of Latvia's Centenary assigned to the "Latvian School Bag"
The initiative "Latvian School Bag" is the biggest gift of Latvia to its more than 200 000 pupils. Starting September 2018, it will integrate exploration and experiencing of natural and cultural values, scientific achievements and successful business models into the school programmes and make it accessible to every schoolchild in Latvia.


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Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington and Moses-Ludington in Ticonderoga have announced the appointment of William "Chip" Holmes as president and chief executive officer at the Ticonderoga facility, effective Oct. 31.
Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington and Moses-Ludington in Ticonderoga have announced the appointment of William "Chip" Holmes as president and chief executive officer at the Ticonderoga facility, effective Oct. 31.
He will also join the vice president team within Fletcher Allen Health Care.
Holmes comes to Moses-Ludington from Quorum Health Resources, based in Brentwood, Tenn.
Quorum is a hospital management company focused on non-profit hospital services. Holmes was a regional vice president responsible for executive and operational oversight of 14 non-profit hospitals and health systems in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.
"I am looking forward to leading Moses-Ludington through the dynamic environment all hospitals face in this era of health-care reform," Holmes said. "Even with the challenges ahead, the organization will have many opportunities to shape health care in the region, particularly as we explore potential initiatives with the Hudson Headwaters Health Network.
"Further, the additional expertise that is available to Moses-Ludington through the affiliation with Fletcher Allen will be of great benefit as we go forward," he said. "I can't wait to begin and to meet people in the community."
Sandra Bolton, chair of Inter-Lakes Health Board of Directors, described Holmes as a "seasoned hospital executive." Moses-Ludington is part of the Inter-Lakes Health.
"He is no stranger to our region," Bolton said. "He brings the experience of serving in small and large facilities and their respective health systems in both rural and urban settings."
Holmes is a native of Fairfax, Vt., and former CEO of Littleton Regional Hospital in New Hampshire.
Holmes will replace Charles Miceli, vice president of supply chain and pharmacy services at Fletcher Allen, who served as Moses-Ludington's interim chief executive officer while the search for a permanent CEO was conducted.
Miceli has served in that position since April 2011.
Holmes is married to Margie Laferriere from St. Johnsbury, Vt., and has two teenage daughters, Carson and Isabelle Holmes.


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Well, it's time to move on. Whether you're looking for new employment, seeking a job for the first time, or just need a change of pace, the job market is definitely a challenge right now. As someone who's currently on the lookout for full-time employment, I know the difficulty. Not only is the job market far more challenging than it was the last time I sought traditional employment (I've been working as a freelance writer for the last few years, primarily), but technology is changing.
But maybe not that much, if you're an informed geek. Since I've been entrenched in the full-time employment search the last few weeks, I thought I'd share some tips that are particularly good for the geeky sector. Because, after all, if I'm anything, I'm a geek, and I'd love nothing more than to be able to geek it out in my day job.
- Start outside the mass job search engines. Sure, CareerBuilder and Monster are the big names out there. And they do list millions of jobs. Unfortunately, plenty of them are total bunk, meaning they don't pay (or pay minimally) or are just plain scams. Same goes for Craigslist. The big job aggregates are a good second-string, but the truth is that they're so burdened down with advertisements, sponsorships, and trying to get you to purchase "premium" memberships (yeah, because if you had a ton of extra cash right now you probably wouldn't be looking for jobs) that almost everything gets lost in the shuffle. Instead:
- Start where your dreams are. Yes, this sounds as hokey as Pollyanna under a lace umbrella. However, I've noticed that the coolest jobs out there aren't advertised in the big name search engines. In fact, they're quietly listed on the websites of the companies you actually want to work for. Plus, the websites give you a much better idea of benefits and health plans and whatnot, while the built-in application system with the big search engines is usually pretty inadequate. Not to mention, you can learn a great deal about a company from their website. If you're like me, the way a company looks on the web makes a big difference as to whether or not I want to work for them.
- Start local. Of course, not everyone can relocate at a whim. But even if you are considering relocation for your new job, I'd recommend looking locally first. For instance, here in Raleigh-Durham, NC, there are tons of great jobs in tech and general geekery, from video game companies like Epic and Red Storm to geek legends like Red Hat and IBM. Relocating isn't just hard on new employees, it's also hard on companies who often end up shelling out relocation costs. Plus, many companies are invested in improving their local economies.
- Accentuate your geekiness. No, this doesn't mean to tell your potential employer how many level 80s you've got going in WoW currently. (Unless they specifically ask for it, that is, or you think it'd be an asset to the application–in some places I could see this working.) One of the really cool things about being a geek is the ability to learn many things. We're polymaths. I know plenty of geek friends who've become central to their company's workings simply because they know how to do so many things. Some have had jobs created for them; others have changed their jobs for the better. Even if you're self-taught, make sure you mention your coding and computer capabilities. Even if you aren't a total expert, chances are you're head and shoulders above an average, non-geek candidate.
- Be social. Yes, the stereotype of the non-social geek is alive and well. And for some of us out there, the term "social" is never going to be one to apply. If you are outgoing, however, make sure your resume speaks to that. Talk about your communication skills, your friendliness, your comfort around people in general. If you're not the best face-to-face, consider elaborating on your writing skills. Make sure your employer knows you're good at getting your meaning across somehow. And while enumerating your two thousand Facebook friends isn't the best way to go, mentioning your social media background is always a plus.
- Be current. Current trends. Social media. Web 2.0. Yes, the terms seem a little forced. But remember, you've probably got the edge when it comes to the Internet. Even if you aren't applying for a job in the tech industry, being well-versed in your market is truly important: it's not just about knowing your job, it's knowing where your job is going.
- Look at the big picture. Sure, contract jobs are nice from time to time. But that's the problem: time passes. Sooner or later they're out. While I know of some geeks who do very well on a contract basis, and always have something new on the horizon, for many it's not a good long-term strategy. Even in this market, it's important to really measure an employer. Yes, finding a job is tough. But finding a job and then learning that the company is corrupt or that it makes you miserable with their policies is even harder. Put your time and energy into companies that are rated best places to work and have high BBB ratings; start where you'd be proud to work. That extra effort can make all the difference.
- Avoid the conveyor belt approach. It's tempting to draft very generic resumes and cover letters and just shoot them off one after the other. But trust me: there are people reading these (and yes, in most cases human beings still read the resumes). And they can tell when you're just shucking them out the door. Employers are pickier than ever, and even if your resume is stellar, if the cover letter looks like something a word bot spat out, they're going to pass. Spelling and grammar is a no-brainer, but make sure the tone is appropriate. No l33t speak, no pwning n00bs. Unless, like I said, there's a chance the company will appreciate that sort of thing. Be sure you use phrases in the job description and attend to all the essential job duties.
- Don't let technology limitations limit you. Geeks come in all stripes these days. You'd be surprised how many non-coding jobs there are out there. Writing, public relations, sales, and even support are all jobs that many geeks will find a good fit. Don't rule out a particular employer before you take a good look at their website. You'd be surprised. And even if you fit a job at a dream company but the job itself isn't your dream, getting your foot in the door is a great first step. Many companies love promoting from within.
- Don't sell yourself short. So you didn't get your dream job. So you're not doing what you love. Yet. Even if things didn't turn out like you hoped, you can always move on to bigger and better things. But first? Get every achievement you can in your current job. Explore every facet of your environment. Make sure you complete all the quests. At the end, you'll get a great reference. Then you can level!
Do you have any job-related suggestions to add? Do you have your geek dream job?
[Image CC by kennymatic via Flickr]
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The purpose of the Church Workers in Mission Task Force is to:
- Develop collaborative relationships with LCMS church workers.
Whether you are new in your calling that the Lord has given you or new to the Lutheran Women's Missionary League (LWML), we welcome you on behalf of the members of this organization. The LWML is the official women's auxiliary of the LCMS. For over 70 years, the LWML has focused on affirming each woman's relationship with Christ, encouraging and equipping women to live their Christian lives in active mission ministries and to support global missions. Over $100 million has been donated for mission work through the LWML since it was founded.
Please join the women of the LWML as they share their hearts for Christ in sharing the Good News with others around the world. We praise God for you and your dedication to share His love with those around you. The LWML website is full of wonderful resources and information. Take time to explore this website and see what has already been created for YOU!
The women of the LWML are:
- Praying for you and encouraging you in your ministry.
- Ready and willing to assist you as you work with God's people.
- Available to answer any questions you may have about the LWML.
- Able to equip you with ready-to-use Bible studies and devotions that have been through the LCMS doctrinal review process.
- Prepared to share information with you regarding the missions supported by LWML, servant events, outreach activities, and much more.
We would encourage you to read the Lutheran Woman's Quarterly, the official publication of the LWML. It is filled with inspirational stories, information about upcoming events, Bible studies, Young Women, and many other things that will be useful to you in your ministry. e-Quarterly subscriptions are also available.
We pray that you will daily find renewed joy in serving our Savior and sharing His love. May God bless your ministry to His glory.
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UPN and Fox TV Studios will lead the search to find a new partner for surviving TLC members T-Boz and Chilli.
UPN has ordered eight episodes of the talent contest, tentatively titled "R U the Girl with T-Boz & Chilli." Search will fill the void left by the 2002 death of TLC member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes.
"R U the Girl" will follow Lopes' TLC partners, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, as they audition a series of aspiring performers. The contestants will be handed a series of challenges and eliminated on a weekly basis.
Winner will record with Watkins and Thomas in the studio and join the duo on an upcoming concert tour.
UPN Entertainment prexy Dawn Ostroff said "R U the Girl" would make a perfect fit with the net's young female audience, many of whom were big TLC fans.
"The viewers feel like they know them in a particular way, and also watched them grow up," Ostroff said. "The death of Lisa was very public, and these two girls' response to it was very public.
"This is an emotional journey these girls are on. They're trying to figure out how to move on with their lives and their career in such a public way, which will be interesting for the viewer," she said.
Producer Fox TV Studios is still in talks to bring on an executive producer; UPN hasn't set an airdate for the show.
TLC, one of the biggest-selling female R&B groups in history, is known for hits such as "No Scrubs," "Waterfalls" and "Baby Baby Baby." The group sold more than 33 million albums globally and earned four Grammy Awards.
UPN sibling CBS has a similar project in the works from Mark Burnett: "Rock Star" follows members of the hit group INXS as they search for a new lead singer.


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A recent cartoon struck me with a very simple statement. The K chronicles had a line "Rich people are rich because they save their money." Simple, obvious, yet profound. If we want to push the economy towards saving, then giving more money to the rich would be the way to do it. But if we want the opposite, we need to do the opposite.
The current crisis is at core a lack of demand. Credit has been pulled from businesses, homeowners, credit card holders. Wealth has fallen. Everyone is scrimping, saving more, and spending less, and the aggregate result is less economic activity- at least less than we could have if everyone were usefully employed and fairly paid.
The economy hangs on the balance of saving versus spending. If it were booming, we would want to encourage saving. But as it is crawling, we want to encourage more spending and less saving. The current low interest rates are part of the equation, but the more important part is missing- the spending that should be coming from government. The stimulus helped, but has petered out, while state and local governments have heavily retrenched and are spending less.
In the stimulus, legislators asked whom to give the money to. Would it be directly spent on public goods like infrastructure and energy sustainability? Would it go to individuals, and if so, which ones? Would it go to the rich or the poor? Washington came up with an unholy mix of payroll tax cuts, going to the lower and middle class, an extension of the Bush tax cuts, going to the rich, and some infrastructure spending and state support.
Going by the above, the Bush tax cut extension was entirely useless, hardly contributing to spending and demand. But aren't its targets the "job creators", and isn't giving them money bolstering the "supply-side" of the US economy, from whence higher pay and other benefits "trickle down"? This is the Reagan revolution in a nutshell, giving us three decades that dramatically reshaped economic inequality, towards the guilded age heights we now enjoy.
Back when inflation was an issue, reweighting the economy towards supply (i.e. away from demand) made some sense. Though why that involved giving money to the rich, instead of, say, cutting military spending and funding research, isn't clear at all. In today's environment, however, it is sheer madness, and we don't hear the line used very often anymore. "Job creators" has taken its place in the mouths of Republicans.
Republicans want job creators to feel comfortable and confident, not put-upon and protested against. They should be coddled by a reversion to feudal rights to run roughshod over the environment, over their employees, and into the public purse. Oh, and fawning treatment by the media would be nice too!
But who creates jobs and why? Most are just created by ongoing businesses in response to economic prospects. Anything the government can do to improve those prospects, by way of Keynesian spending, is going to raise employment and help get us off the deflationary / zero interest rate floor. Raising or lowering taxes on individual rich people will have no effect. If such a business needs money, they go to banks to borrow some- which is even more dependent on future economic prospects.
The other class of jobs is created by entrepreneurs- those hallowed innovators always threatening to "go Galt", in the minds of Republicans, if they face just one more environmental regulation or raised tax bill, perhaps decamping to Mexico, where they can find virtually stateless regions to do business in! More seriously, entrepreneurs are an important element of US innovation and success, but their critical decisions come long before they hire accountants to moan about the difference between marginal tax rates of 31% or 35%. That is not what sent the Steves to their garage to build the Apple I.
The inspiration of socially significant business success is only partly money, and then only in the most vague and uncountable way. Entrepreneurs need efficient monetary rewards to keep their dreams alive and building, (if successful), but other motivations and resources clearly are equally important, like the cultural influence they can have through their work, the education they and their colleagues have gotten from mostly state-sponsored institutions through their lives, and the sheer enjoyment of building a temple to themselves in the form of, in this case, Apple Computer, worshipped throughout the world.
The most fatal bar to entrepreneurial innovtion is generally the anticompetitive barriers and corruption sponsored by existing businesses. Who wants to license hairdressers? Not hairdressing entrepreneurs, but established hairdressers. Who wants to raise tarriffs against imports of sugar? Concentrated interests who use the state to further their own ends. It is not the state in general that is bad for entrepreneurs, but the state made captive to incumbent interests, expressed in bureaucracy, red tape, and corruption. If Republicans were interested in bringing those costs to light and eliminating them, they would be doing the country a service. But of course most of their funding (and Democratic funding as well) comes from precisely such incumbent interests.
Lastly, and most importantly, the trickle-down theory has long been a self-serving staple of Republican thought, if not rhetoric. Apparently, giving more money to the rich benefits society generally. How much more? Well, it is hard to tell where this process is supposed to end! As argued above, nothing could be more destructive in the demand-deficient environment we find ourselves in now, where encouraging people (i.e. the rich) to save is really the last thing we should be doing.
But it isn't true more generally either. The rich are thought to invest their savings. But what forms do these investments really take, and how socially productive are they? Much of it takes the form of government bonds, which lays the question of how such savings are employed right back onto the government. Most of the rest goes into the markets- bonds, stocks, real estate, hedge funds, etc. But buying such shares is difficult to truly call investing, since the businesses long since issued their shares and got their money (see the Facebook IPO), and one's purchase neither helps neither them nor anyone else hire more workers. These markets provide liquidity, buttressed by ongoing speculation by those rich enough to gamble in the prospects of the various companies, just as they might gamble on horses.
The listed companies can use their market valuation to issue more shares, or sell themselves, or buy other companies, but at this point, the individual investor is not doing anything for economic growth. If, say, Apple's stock rises to absurd heights due to market speculation, above what is warranted by fundamental parameters like its price/earnings ratio and dividend yield, then what have the investors jointly accomplished? They may have given the company the firepower to buy other companies, or to give themselves bigger bonuses. But all this is in the hands of the company's management, which may not hire any more workers or do anything economically productive with their high stock price at all. By far most of this wealth goes to other speculators who sell their shares at the proper time, rather the improper time (and then in all probability deposit them as government bonds). The transmission to economic growth is vanishingly tenuous, far more a symptom than a cause.
The spectacle of Bill Gates and his fortune should disabuse anyone of the trickle-down theory of pampering the "job creators". His percieved highest use for his money, after having crushed countless small companies and subjected us all to truly atrocious software, is not incubating startups and leading the next tech revolution, but giving it away on philanthropic projects such as disease relief in Africa. Laudible indeed, but it shows the ultimate poverty of accumulating money to absurd levels in private hands, for the sake of economic efficiency and prosperity. Much better if that money were in the hands of regular consumers driving normal demand for economic and other cultural goods, or, let it be said indeed, in the hands of the government in its role as provider of the public goods such as education.
- In the class war, we've lost.
- Krugman reviews it all again, for the umpteenth time.
- Skidelsky on leisure, consumption, inequality, and modern capitalism."That road leads to a division of society into a minority of producers, professionals, supervisors, and financial speculators on one side, and a majority of drones and unemployables on the other."
- Lakoff on Obama's weak economic framing- it isn't enough to be right.
- Apple, abusing its employees both here and there.
- For Greece, there is no way out. Not only do they need complete debt forgiveness, but also rebalanced trade flows with (or continuing bailouts/gifts from) the rest of Europe.. read Germany.
- Kaplan on Pakistan. But from what I hear, Switzerland has mountains & languages, too.
- Enough waiting for the Fed- they don't have the answer anyhow.
- Big banks- who needs 'em?
- Climate catastrophe, annals of appalling: "... the World Bank has been investing heavily in coal-fired power production"
- The Texas Republican platform reads as follows: "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
- Economics quotes of the week, from Joe Stiglitz:
"But the crisis showed to everyone what economic research had long revealed—the argument was a sham. What was called incentive pay was anything but that: pay was high when performance was high, but pay was still high when performance was low. Only the name changed. When performance was low, the name changed to 'retention pay.'"
"What we've achieved is a state too constrained to provide the public goods—investments in infrastructure, technology, and education—that would make for a vibrant economy and too weak to engage in the redistribution that is needed to create a fair society. But we have a state that is still large enough and distorted enough that it can provide a bounty of gifts to the wealthy. The advocates of a small state in the financial sector were happy that the government had the money to rescue them in 2008—and bailouts have in fact been part of capitalism for centuries."
"The narrative that you describe [of capitalism] ignores the extent to which a lot of the inequalities in the United States are not the result of creative activity but of exploitive activity. And if you look at the people at the top, what is so striking is that the people who've made the most important creative contributions are not there."