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Filed under: Food + Health, Local Events + Action, Nature + Travel, Society + Media | Tags: agriculture, Brookside Market, Community, farming, food, Health, indians, judy wicks, Kansas City, KCCUA, local business, market, organic, pilgrims, small business, sustainable agriculture, Thanksgiving, white dog cafe
There is nothing more American than Thanksgiving when Americans of all colors and religions gather around dinners symbolizing the first Thanksgiving. On that historic day, Pilgrims and Indians broke bread at the same rough-hewn table. The table, however, was not where they first interacted. They first worked together in the fields. The story goes that Squanto reached out to the starving newcomers. His people taught the pilgrims how to grow squash and corn and beans; how to survive in a harsh land. The two groups were probably suspicious at first, but over wet earth and hoes, over back-aches and beanpoles, they came together in this act of making life-sustaining food.
Our quintessential American holiday is still about harvest and community, about sharing food and growing it together. Wouldn't it be nice if all of America still had that spirit? But these days, big business strips the caring and interaction from food production.
Not so at the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture. In my visits to the center, I watched diverse Kansas City residents interact with each other at all levels of food production. I saw a six-year-old help with planting. I saw mother and son lend a hand in washing vegetables, and I saw customers visit KCCUA's market stall on a bright Saturday morning. Community and food production are one and the same at KCCUA, just like at Plymouth Plantation.
KCCUA doesn't exist off of the grid in a hippy land. Instead, it is a successful part of the local economy: providing stable jobs and adding to community wealth and self-reliance. As a small, independent business, KCCUA exemplifies an American ideal. Moreover, KCCUA promotes vitality and interaction within the Kansas City community through farmer's apprenticeship programs and community events.
"At its heart, our movement for local living economies is about love," wrote Judy Wicks, author of Good Morning, Beautiful Business. "Business has been corrupted as an instrument of greed rather than used to serve the public good. You know that business is beautiful when we put our creativity, care and energy into producing products and services our community needs."
The farmers at KCCUA make it their business to foster and feed the Kansas City community, bringing together people as diverse as those who gathered at the first Thanksgiving table. In that act, the farm exemplifies the true culture of America.
— Brenna Daldorph, group 3
Image courtesy of http://fragranceoftruth.wordpress.com
Filed under: Food + Health, Local Events + Action, Science + Tech | Tags: education, food dollars, J-14 Agricultural Enterprises, Kurlbaum's Heirloom Tomatoes, science, science education, troostwood youth garden, urban agriculture, volunteer, youth volunteer
We constantly hear that youth are our future, but what will that future look like with the ever-increasing disconnect between our food and ourselves? A number of local, urban farmers are fighting that future, by providing youth an opportunity to relearn our food. During the summer you'll find youth working the fields, rows, and greenhouse at J-14 Agricultural Enterprises, Troostwood Youth Garden, and Kurlbaum's Heirloom Tomatoes.
At all three establishments, the education does not just happen while digging the soil. Joe Jennings, at J-14, has a rainy day "classroom" where youth can learn widely about biology, ecology, and botany. At Troostwood, Ericka Wright's workers receive stipends for school materials and some have continued the lessons learned in the garden while in college. The Kurlbaum's have used their tomato profits to put one of their children through school and they have plans to start scholarship gardens, the profits from which would go towards college tuition.
By working, whether as volunteers or as a summer job, both the youth and the community benefit from these operations. Studies show that youth reap many positive benefits from volunteering. The communities also reap benefits from urban farms. In providing fresh produce the farms provide health benefits and the local economy receives a boost when food dollars stay in the community.
With these and other urban farms, perhaps our food future is not as bleak. The youth who work these farms know where their food comes from, what's in it, and how tasty it is. Perhaps they can then spread their knowledge; as Troostwood's Wright says, "Out of the mouths of babes…."
~ Mary Beth Woodson, Group 4 blog post
Youth volunteers photo credit.
Filed under: Business + Politics, Food + Health, Local Events + Action | Tags: Brookside Market, Cafe Trio, CSA, farmers market, heirloom tomatoes, J-14 Agricultural Enterprises, Kansas City, kansas city center for urban agriculture, KCCUA, Kurlbaum's Heirloom Tomatoes, McGonigal's, Michael Smith's, Paseo Boulevard, restaurants, troostwood youth garden, urban agriculture, urban farms, Webster House
There are as many different types of consumers of local food as there are different types of urban farmers and different types of food grown. Consumers with different needs can all benefit from urban farming. Three farms on the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture farm tour explain this perfectly. Kurlbaum's Heirloom Tomatoes, J-14 Agricultural Enterprises and the Troostwood Youth Garden and provide food for many different kinds of people.
Kurlbaum's heirloom tomatoes are sold locally at McGonigal's, Brookside Market, and many Kansas City restaurants including Michael Smith's in the crossroads, Café Trio in midtown and Webster House downtown. By selling to many different places Co-owner Liz Kurlbaum can have better control over the price and feed a larger group of people. While this urban farmer chooses to sell their product mostly to restaurants, Joe Jennings at J-14 Agricultural Enterprises has a different approach.
Jennings has developed a community based CSA where potential customers can pay 300$ for up to 500 pounds of produce. Extra food is taken to elderly community members, including some in nursing homes. Jennings also uses some of the food grown for his family.
The Troostwood Youth Garden is the only place that fresh vegetables are available in the busy Paseo Blvd. neighborhood in Kansas City. This local produce can be bought there Monday through Saturday before dark. Troostwood feeds the community as well as educates them about the importance of eating healthy and knowing where food really comes from.
These different urban farms show that everyone can eat well with the help of urban farmers. Whether someone is eating at a restaurant, buying a large supply of food for their family, or trying to find something fresh in a busy neighborhood, urban farming is helping people enjoy food that is local, healthy and delicious.
~ Tyler Waugh, Group 4 blog post
Farmer's market photo credit.
Filed under: Design + Architecture, Food + Health, Local Events + Action, Society + Media | Tags: farm location, garden, J-14 Agricultural Enterprises, Kansas City, Kurlbaum's Heirloom Tomatoes, land use, troostwood youth garden, urban agriculture, urban farming, vegetables
Farming no longer has to be about fields and barns. Right in middle of an urban district, on a plot of land next to a storefront or parking lot, an urban garden can sprout and bring a new source of food and sense of community. The saying in real-estate is location, location, location, but urban agriculture ignores such advice and finds a way to flourish.
Deep in the suburbs, urban farmers have an opportunity to grow vegetable inside and transfer them to their yards when the seedlings are ready. Suburban homes are typically bigger and easier to climate control. Any room in the house, even the basement, can be turned into a grow area with some inexpensive grow lamps and tables. That's how Liz and Sky Kurlbaum — of Kurlbaum's Heirloom Tomatoes — operate their business. In their basement, right next to their washer and dryer, the Kurlbaums have traded in a table to fold their clothes on, for a make-shift greenhouse that supports thousands of seedlings. If suburban farmers are worried about the electric bill, it's possible to start seeds in small, starter containers available at any garden store.
Right outside the city is also an ideal location to start an urban farm. For starters, land tends to be less expensive and more acreage tends to be available, not to mention more manageable. On a small farm about 15 minutes from downtown Kansas City, Joe Jennings of J-14 Agricultural Enterprises grows a wide variety of veggies as well as some fruit using about 8 acres. Because of the space available, Joe is even able to occasionally raise select livestock to complement his produce such as pigs.
Urban agriculture has previously had to fight to overcome the image that farming is something that has to be done in the country and brought into the city. Even a vacant lot, entirely surrounded by concrete can make the perfect urban farm. The Troostwood Youth Garden, located on Paseo Boulevard, fits this description precisely: It's situated on a traffic-jammed street between houses and the occasional gas station. A major advantage (but disadvantage to the neighborhood) is that the Troostwood Youth Garden has very few produce competitors. Urban neighborhoods lacking grocery stores or farmers market sincerely reap the benefits of such a community center that promotes healthy eating. Neighboring Rockhurts university realised this and has supported the garden since its germination in 1999.
~ Bryan Dykman, Group 4 blog post
Urban corn photo credit.
Filed under: Farmer Stories, Food + Health, Local Events + Action | Tags: epazote, farm, ginger, huns garden, Kasnsas City Center for Urban Agriculture, KCCUA, Laos, lemongrass, medicinal food, natural healing, Pov Huns, urban, urban farm
When Pov (pronounced Paul) Huns heard that his neighbor's granddaughter had been sick for two weeks and was running a fever, he knew just what to do.
He walked down to a little patch in his 4-acre garden next door and found a tall, green herb. He cut a few stalks and carried them up the hill to his neighbor's house. He knocked, and his neighbor, Dawn Beckett, opened the screen door.
"Boil these in four cups of water for 10 or 15 minutes," he said, handing her a fistful. He told her the herb, lemongrass, makes a tea that would make her granddaughter, Leanna, feel better.
Dawn did as Pov instructed and today claims that Leanna's fever fell 20 minutes after drinking the tea.
"I know it works," Dawn said. "I trust him over a doctor. I can't say nothin' but the best about 'im.
Leanna, 9, still drinks the herbal tea, and says it's delicious.
But Pov said he was just doing what his grandpa taught him to do in Laos, before Pov and his family were forced to leave the country as political refugees.
Born Zoou Pov Huns on April 6, 1966, Pov grew up in the rural hill town of Ban Nam Tao, Laos. Pov would know this home for only nine years.
In 1975, Pov, his mother, father and six younger brothers escaped to a refugee camp in Thailand. He spent the next five years of his life in the Ban Vinai camp with about 45,000 other refugees.
The Huns came to America in 1980, eventually settling in Fresno, Calif., where Pov finished high school and graduated from junior college and a vocational school. Although he pursued degrees in medicine and chemistry, he wasn't able to afford the cost to finish his degrees and stopped a year short of completing his schooling. He settled in Kansas with his wife, Lor Chaxamone, in 1996.
It wasn't until 2004, after he and his wife had welcomed four children into the world- Tzouapang, 13; Victoria, 12; Bryan, 10; and Charles, 8 – that Pov bought the vacant lot, 4730 Metropolitan Ave., Kansas City, Ks., where his farm now grows.
Pov said his initial intent was to use the land to build a new house for his family, but as the housing market started to sour and his cholesterol began to climb, Pov decided to turn the lot into a farm, where he could grow food for his family, and make himself healthier.
Pov said he especially needed the antioxidants naturally found in food, which are lost when produce is shipped over long distances.
"If you're looking for nutrients, healthy eating isn't enough any more," he said. "Stores don't have foods with antioxidants. When you buy local, the antioxidants stay with the food."
Today, Pov's farm grows 40 different vegetables, most of which have unique health benefits: Epazote, or "Mexican basil," to reduce gas; bitter melon (which, Dawn warned, is really bitter) to lower cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar; and bitter eggplant to ease the pain of menstrual and postpartum cramps.
Although Pov grows herbs for today's common ailments, his farming methods are anything but ordinary.
"Let's put it this way," he said. "Most of what I do is the opposite of what you're told to do."
Pov works 4 acres of land yet doesn't use a single drop of water to irrigate – he lets Mother Nature take care of that.
Farmers are told to plant onions 8-to 12-inches a part. Pov plants a bulb every 2 inches, then lets the onions pop themselves out of the ground. Because of this, Pov said he can harvest about 400 onions in 20 minutes.
The most notable feature of Pov's unorthodox farming is the abundance of weeds sprinkling his land, some of which grow shoulder-high. The practice, he is told by friends and visitors, would make some ancestors turn in their graves. But to Pov, weeds are just "natural nitrogen."
"It's common practice for Americans to keep weeds out, and I'm the one that says keep the weeds in," he said. "I don't add fertilizer. I add weeds."
Pov also puts his unsold vegetables back onto the farm as fertilizer.
"Whatever Mother Natures gives us, that's what we take," he explained. "Take only what you need and use. All the excess, return it back to the ground."
Pov knows there isn't a lot of money in farming – he made a net income of about $895 last year from the farm. But he said the money doesn't matter to him. Pov farms for his health; he farms for his family; he farms for his neighbors and anyone else who desires more natural treatment for illnesses.
And, he said, he farms for fun.
By Aly Van Dyke
More photos found here.
Find out more about the urban farmers in Kansas City at the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture Web site. Visit its blog for informationa about the KC Urban Farms and Gardens Tour.
Filed under: Farmer Stories, Fashion + Beauty, Food + Health | Tags: cuisine gardens, gardening trends, recycled garden tools, Salt of the Earth Youth Garden, themed gardens, Victory Garden, wine pairings
Victory Gardens are a hot topic right now. As Angela Greene, creator of the Salt of the Earth Youth Garden, puts it, "they're definitely in vogue."
As the days get warmer and the price of everything gets higher, many people decide to do more than just consume. They create. A Victory Garden can provide enough fresh produce, flowers and herbs to feed a family with enough left over to share with neighbors. You can even throw a chic dinner party for your hippest friends. Plus, there are lots of ways to get creative with your garden.
Some growing trends of the moment are tea or dye gardens, wine and beer gardens, cuisine themed gardens and using eco-friendly and recycled gardening products.
Cuisine gardens offer growers a steady supply of just the right ingredients for a series of delicious meals. For Chinese meals you'll want mung beans, bok choy, water chestnuts, Chinese parsley, snow peas, and ginger. For Mexican inspired dishes try tomatoes, jalapenos, bell peppers, onion, and cilantro. And a Thai palette will require kaffir lime leaves, lemongrass, chives, ginger, and cilantro.
A wine-pairing garden is a popular choice for enthusiasts of spirits. Red wine enthusiasts will want to grow tomatoes, eggplant, sage and olives. Melons, citrus fruits and apples are delicious options for white wine lovers.
But before you begin planning your home-grown meals, you'll need some tools. One of the most convenient and cost effective ways to begin is by looking at what you already own. Look through your kitchen, garage and basement for items that can be recycled as garden pots, raised beds, stakes, forks, trowels and spades. Try planting in an old Red Flyer Wagon or roller-skates. And an old head board works great as a garden gate or a trellis. Get creative!
This is one fashionable band-wagon you won't regret joining.
-Mackenzie Steffen, Group 1 – blog post
Filed under: Business + Politics, Farmer Stories, Local Events + Action | Tags: Home Garden, Rationing, Victory Garden, World War 2, WWII
What is a Victory Garden? A Victory Garden is a kitchen garden planted to relieve food shortages. Victory gardens were very commonplace during World War II. World War II began in September 1939 and by January 1940 the United States began rationing food. The government asked people to plant gardens to support the troops. By growing their own food, it freed up commercially farmed fruits and vegetables for troops overseas.
By 1943 over 20 million Victory Gardens had sprung up throughout the United States in backyards, empty lots, even on rooftops in the city. As people began growing their own food canning became very popular so produce could be used outside of the growing season. The result? The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that during the war almost 10 million tons of fruits and vegetables were harvested at home and in the community.
My great grandmother had a victory garden and grew enough vegetables to supply fresh produce to some of her neighbors that were working in a defense plant. She even built a root cellar where she kept potatoes, onions and canned vegetables and fruits to use during the winter months. She continued planting gardens and harvesting the bounty until her death at the age of 80.
When WWII ended the government stopped promoting Victory Gardens. For many decades urban agriculture and home gardens fell by the wayside. Driven by the economy many people are turning to home gardening this summer to supplement their diets. The recent revival of Victory Gardens leaves one question – have you decided what you're planting this summer?
-Megan Richards, Group 1 – blog post
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Plan for summer ops at Tahoe ski resort nears
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — A vision to develop Diamond Peak into a year-round recreation area could be approved next month, officials said.
The Incline Village General Improvement District board of trustees will be briefed on the ski area's master plan update at its regular meeting next Wednesday.
SE Group — the resort planning firm IVGID paid $100,000 to help with market research and site analysis — will lead the presentation.
Depending on feedback, the plan — currently in a draft stage — may be up for adoption at one of the board's meetings in March, Diamond Peak General Manager Brad Wilson said.
Wednesday's board meeting starts at 3 p.m. at The Chateau.
Since opening 47 years ago as Ski Incline, the IVGID-owned resort has primarily provided winter recreation, with limited summer business consisting of infrequently scheduled special events.
Considering the 2012 Incline Village/Crystal Bay 2020 Vision Action Plan recommended exploring year-round use, the district and SE Group have tossed around ideas to create revenue, including more summer festivals and activities like mountain biking, zip lines and disc golf.
"Additional summer operations at Diamond Peak would enhance an underutilized community asset, while creating additional recreational opportunities for residents and visitors to the Lake Tahoe Basin," according to the district's master plan website.
Residents have been split on summer operations, according to previous reports.
"I live right up there and it's going to affect the traffic coming in and out, and I'm concerned for these people who live right on the edge for the noise," Incline resident Nancy Manter, who lives in the Tyrolian Village subdivision that neighbors the ski resort, said in a July 10 Bonanza story.
Manter was among roughly 100 residents and officials who attended an open house at the resort's base lodge last July to learn about initial summer ideas.
"… I think is a wonderful idea because this is an under-utilized resource," Gloria Brimm, an Incline resident whose stepson operates the resort's mid-mountain Snowflake Lodge through Brimm's Catering Company, said at the meeting. "… I think it's a good thing that we're really taking a deep look at this."
Also next Wednesday, Diamond Peak and SE Group staff will host an open house about the plan from 2-3 p.m. at The Chateau, where displays will be set up so residents can learn and mingle.
The resort's current master plan hasn't been updated since 1987. Learn more here, or email comments to email@example.com.
IVGID Trustee Bill Devine will host a weekly meeting with residents each Friday morning for the next six weeks, he announced this week.
Devine will be available to talk about district issues from 10:30-11:30 a.m. each Friday from Feb. 7 through March 14 at the IVGID Administration Boardroom at 893 Southwood Blvd.
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- jessica said...
I still think your card is fab! If you didn't point anything out...no one would notice!!!
TFS and Happy Wednesday :)
- July 18, 2012 at 4:22 AM
- Crafting Katie said...
You are so funny! I would not even have noticed any of your mistakes! Awesome card! The ship looks really cool on the burlap, and I love the frame!
- July 18, 2012 at 5:40 AM
- Marilyn said...
Wouldn't have notice it. That is the beauty of being homemade. I think people appreciate those more than store bought cards anyway. Great job!!
- July 18, 2012 at 6:42 AM
- Kim H said...
Liz ~ Okay I LOVE your card and have no idea what the heck your talking about! I even zoomed in!! I think it turned out PERFECT! I LOVE the embossing folder you used and that burlap looks AMAZING on this card and so many other cards! I can so relate to the stamp thing! I have doen that a zillion times! UGH! GORGEOUS masculine card!!! You and I need to talk ~ hop over to my blog ~ tons of hot messes happening over there! LOL!
- July 18, 2012 at 6:52 AM
- Nancy said...
I love this Liz!!! It's beautiful!! I don't think you should cover it up!! There are no mistakes in paper crafting!! Hugs to you!
- July 18, 2012 at 7:34 AM
- Sandy from Ukiah said...
i am still trying to figure out where you messed it up... i can't see anything wrong with it... It's an awesome card... silly you, you didn't mess it up.. hugs
- July 18, 2012 at 8:42 AM
- Jillian said...
What the heck are you talking about? That card is BEAUTIFUL!! You have some serious talent girl!
- July 18, 2012 at 10:13 AM
- Suzanne said...
Hi Liz!
You're so cute :) ....I love how you designed your card! I think it looks AMAZING! But I totally understand what you're talking about when something on your project doesn't turn out how you expected it to. I'm a perfectionist....and there are times when I just don't like how I added a particular embellishment or something. Someone else probably might not even notice it but because I know it's there, I end up redoing it. I think your dad will love your card just the way it is...I don't think it looks bad at all...everything your create always looks so BEAUTIFUL! Thanks for sharing! Have a wonderful day! :)
- July 18, 2012 at 4:51 PM
- Cassandra said...
Oh...I absolutely HATE it when I drop the stamp!!! I totally know what you mean. But honestly...I think your card is just GREAT!!!!
- July 18, 2012 at 5:54 PM
- Sherrie K. said...
Liz, this is fantastic!! I do not see any need for fix up silly! This is great but I do hate that when I drop my stamp too...
you always do such a fabulous job:) TFS!
Sherrie K
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Interest in home-schooling grows with hard times
Home-school interest grows in hard times
Expense of private schools leads some to make a change
More budget-conscious Houston families appear to be contemplating home schooling as an alternative to pricey private school tuition.
Houston mother Olivia Ober, for example, plans to withdraw her two young daughters from private school next month in favor of a less expensive private home-schooling hybrid model based out of a church.
"Finances definitely came into play," Ober said.
Across the region, home-school advocates are seeing signs of increased interest. Some argue that money is a secondary consideration, if that. They say other factors — such as religion and morality — are driving the gains.
At the Home School Store on Judiway in north Houston, owner Randy Swirsky said he's noticed more traffic.
"We are seeing a more-than-normal flow from private school to home school," he said.
An estimated 300,000 Texas children are homeschooled, compared to the nearly 4.7 million who attend traditional public schools.
Tim Lambert, head of the Texas Home School Coalition, says his group has seen a 20 percent jump in paid membership over last year.
"This is one of the biggest increases we've ever had," he said. "We're seeing an increase in terms of phone calls, requests for information and membership."
Holly Wallis, head of the Southeast Texas Home School Association, thinks the recession is driving a large part of the interest.
"We're expecting an increase because the private school sector is going to be too expensive for a lot of people," she said.
Families are now facing registration deadlines for the next academic year, meaning it could be June or July before schools have a good feel for their enrollments.
The home-schooling gains are a surprise for the leaders of the advocacy group, which feared that the economic downturn might force home-schoolers to return to public schools. It's cheaper to attend public school than to pay hundreds of dollars a year for the curriculum, supplies and activities needed to home-school, experts said.
Of course, home schooling isn't a decision most families make lightly and it's not a good fit for everyone, Lambert said. "The economic issues play into the decision, but I don't think it's the only factor," he said. "We see a lot of people today who are very concerned about the value system their children are placed into or given."
For many of these families, home schooling is the only affordable alternative to public school.
"I would be in a better economic position if my kids were in public school and I was working," said Terry Arnold, a mother of five who organized last weekend's annual conference for the Apostolate of Roman Catholic Homeschoolers.
"I don't think it's about the economy as much as it's about morality," she added.
Still, Arnold's group saw about three times the interest in this year's conference than last. Families even traveled to Houston from out of state to learn about teaching their children at home.
So far, many private schools are holding their own. But leaders are keeping a close eye on their enrollments, said Mayra McGovern, spokeswoman for the National Association of Independent Schools. She said schools serving neighborhoods with fewer school-age children, such as inner-city Catholic schools, are struggling much more than most types of private campuses.
"By and large, our enrollment has held steady despite the economy," she said.
Kingwood resident Andrea Campbell is already researching home schooling as an option for her 1-year-old daughter.
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It's the first week of classes, and students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are bustling through Lenoir Hall, home to a dining hall and food court that feed many of the 30,000 Tar Heels on campus.
Tucked into a remote corner of Lenoir, just a short flight of stairs down from quick-serve mainstays like Subway and Chick-fil-A, bright lights and vibrant colors mark the grand opening of fro-yo and crepe concept Freshëns. Students line up to stare at the dynamic LED menuboards with dancing fresh fruit across their screens. A touch-screen kiosk at the order station lets curious consumers explore menu items' nutritional profiles.
The warm colors and nutritional transparency all play into Freshëns' branding as a healthy-lifestyle brand, says president and CEO John Stern, just as much as the healthier menu options do.
But Stern says there's another critical component to backing up the brand's slogan, "Healthy Eating, Better Living," at Lenoir Hall and its other 750 or so locations across the U.S.
"I think you have to walk the walk and talk the talk," Stern says. "If you choose to position your brand in that way, I think you have to be pretty honest in the choices you make personally. If you're talking healthy and then you're going out and eating fried chicken four days a week, that's probably not aligning your personal goals with the goals of the company. … If you're sincere in your efforts and your endeavors about making products that are better for you and better for your guests, then I think that also rubs off on the employees of the company."
Many quick-service companies are starting to share Stern's sentiment that brands should promote a healthy mindset not just in the menu, but also in the C-suite, in each store's crew, and everywhere in between.
Committing to a healthy organization could be the missing piece in quick-service restaurants' fight against obesity, a fight that is increasingly essential. Not only are one in three adults and one in six kids today obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but also the majority of the population in all 50 states is at least overweight.
While the efforts to improve quick-serve menus, either by lowering unhealthy content like sodium or by adding more fresh fruits and vegetables, are commendable, experts say taking the message deeper could be essential to helping customers take control of their own health.
"In my mind, that means that if the fast-food industry really is going to make a difference, then they just can't go and hire … a big name that comes in and says you've got to do more salads, or hire a healthy chef that creates this other side of the menu," says William Baun, wellness officer for MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and president of the National Wellness Institute. "It becomes a product line, it doesn't become part of their culture. If the fast-food industry is really going to make a difference, then they've got to buy into this."
Each company's employee base might be the most powerful tool in the efforts to "buy into this." The restaurant industry has nearly 13 million employees, according to the National Restaurant Association. More than 4 million of those work in quick service.
Jason Lang, who heads the CDC's Worksite Health Programs, says in an e-mail to QSR that instilling a healthy mindset in the work environment could have a tremendous impact on the obesity crisis.
"Building a culture of health involves all levels of the organization and establishes the workplace health program as a routine part of business operations aligned with overall business goals," Lang writes. "Instilling a culture of health is very important in changing social norms and sustaining the program over time, because it becomes an integral part of day-to-day operations."
Some newer quick-service brands have had the foresight to launch their concepts with healthy messaging at the core, affording them the ability to incorporate wellbeing in everything they do. Fresh To Order is one of those brands. The nine-unit, Atlanta-based fast casual has a better-for-you menu and kiosks that help customers make informed decisions. It also markets itself in local health clubs through promotions or even food samples.
But Pierre Panos, CEO of Fresh To Order, says the company couldn't afford to present itself to customers as a healthy brand without making sure its managers and other employees were healthy themselves. So the company is in the process of launching a competition within the organization to encourage exercise and wellbeing.
"You've got to very careful how much you intrude in [employees'] lifestyle, but we asked them and they agreed to do it," Panos says. "We didn't just say, 'Hey, some of you guys are overweight, we're going to do this.' We talked about it, they liked the idea, and we're going to go ahead and do it."
Panos says that when store employees see managers committed to a health program, it "trickles down to them" and permeates through the organization. He adds that this eventually extends even to the customers.
"If a cashier is going to recommend something, and they know the way we are, what our culture is, and what Fresh To Order stands for, they're going to recommend something good for you," he says. "So I think it reinforces everything else."
The ways different quick-serve brands get their employees on board with the health movement varies. At Freshëns, employees are encouraged to take regular walks and get some fresh air, Stern says, and the corporate office holds regular yoga classes.
Similar to Fresh To Order, Edible Arrangements offered a competition for its employees this year that challenged them to lose weight and recognized top achievers. Tariq Farid, CEO of Edible Arrangements, says the "Biggest Fruit Loser" competition saw serious results in the corporate office.
"It's amazing; I've seen people in our office get up at lunch time and just be walking around the building," Farid says. "I hadn't seen that before. And they're encouraging each other to eat healthy and showing off the progress they've made."
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President Obama signed the America Invents Act (the "Act") on September 16, 2011, thereby enacting the most significant changes to U.S. patent law in almost 60 years. A primary change brought about by the Act is the shift from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file system. Under a first-to-file system, the first inventor to file a patent application is entitled to a patent on that invention. This brings the U.S. patent system in line with most other countries and increases the incentive to expeditiously file a patent application.
The Act also creates a new preissuance submission procedure which provides any third party the opportunity to submit certain prior art for consideration by the patent examiner before the patent is issued. Specifically, interested third parties will be able to submit patents, published patent applications or other printed publications of potential relevance for consideration during examination. The submission must include a concise description of the relevance of each submitted printed publication.
The Act also significantly changes the procedures for post-issuance review of patents. Patent owners will now be able to request supplemental examination of a patent to allow information believed to be relevant to the patent to be considered, reconsidered, or corrected. For example, if a patent owner fails to submit certain information to the USPTO during the original examination, supplemental examination provides the opportunity to correct that failure and thereby increase the enforceability of the patent.
Post-grant review will allow any third party to challenge the validity of a patent within nine months from the date a patent is granted. The threshold showing required for a petition requesting post-grant review to be granted is that it is "more likely than not" that at least one of the challenged claims of the patent is unpatentable. Alternatively, a post-grant petition may be granted if it raises a "novel or unsettled legal question that is important to other patents or patent applications." These proceedings will be conducted relatively quickly and will bar the petitioner from raising the same invalidity arguments in a subsequent civil action. Accordingly, third parties will be forced to choose between challenging validity in post-grant review proceedings or in court.
Inter partes review proceedings will allow third parties to challenge the validity of a patent nine months after a patent is granted, or after the completion of any post-grant review. Inter partes review replaces the current inter partes reexamination system. The main difference between the new inter partes review and the old inter partes reexamination is a heightened standard for instituting proceedings. A petition for the new inter partes review will not be granted unless there is a "reasonable likelihood" the petitioner will prevail in challenging validity. In contrast, the old inter partes reexamination only required the existence of a "substantial new question of patentabiliy."
The Act also makes patents more expensive. The Act imposes a 15% increase on all statutory patent fees. To incentivize electronic filing, an additional fee of $400 ($200 for small entities) will be charged for each utility application filed in paper form.
The Act brings about many other changes, including but not limited to the following:
- The failure of a defendant to obtain the advice of counsel with respect to an allegedly infringed patent may not be used to prove willful infringement.
- Marking a product with the number of a patent that covered the product, but which has expired, is not a violation of the false marking statute. False marking actions may only be brought by either a party who has suffered a competitive injury from false marking, or by the United States.
- The failure to disclose the best mode for carrying out an invention can no longer be used as a defense in an infringement action.
- New requirements for joinder provide that accused infringers may not be joined in one action based solely on the alleged infringement of the same patent. These new requirements will have a major effect on infringement actions brought by non-practicing entities.
Various provisions of the Act will come into effect at different times. Some changes take effect immediately, while others take effect in 12 to 18 months.
The Act constitutes significant legislation which affects virtually all aspects of patent prosecution and litigation strategy. The details regarding the implementation of this Act are still to be determined, as various provisions take effect and the rules implementing the Act are promulgated. Briggs and Morgan's Intellectual Property Group welcomes the opportunity to guide you through the process of maximizing the value of your patent portfolio in light of the America Invents Act.
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Nadal ends miserable run against Djokovic to reach Madrid Open final
He withdrew from the Barcelona Open last month because of the lingering wrist inflammation. Nishikori is now also a major doubt for the Rome Masters next week with 10 days to go until the start of the French Open . Djokovic said he was encouraged by his performance. "This drop in level for Djokovic has to do with his fight to be No. 1 and to win as many matches as possible", Nadal said.
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Former Tottenham man congratulates West Ham, praises one HammerA team that invigorated the title race with daring, attacking football suddenly ran out of ideas in the London derby. "We are aware the next season will be very important to us, we need to be ready for everything". Pochettino confirmed that Walker was in the 21-man squad for Friday's game at West Ham and said all his players were focused on reducing the gap to Chelsea to a point before the league leaders play Middlesbrough on Monday .
Pep Guardiola refuses to compromise City's approach despite disappointing seasonThe hosts, looking to cement their top-four status, were cruising when goals by David Silva and Gabriel Jesus put them 2-0 ahead after 36 minutes but Leicester hit back strongly. Pep Guardiola was content with the refereeing in a match that had several controversial moments going in Man City's favour. And Guardiola admitted he was relieved to have held on for the victory against the Foxes.
Canelo-Golovkin fight announced for SeptemberAlvarez outclassed Chavez Jr. from the opening bell, winning every round on all three judges' score cards in running his record to 49-1-1. Hopkins feels the bout is an opportunity for both fighters, particularly Canelo. Golovkin , who has previously expressed strong doubt that Alvarez would fight him, said , "Everybody is excited". " Tonight I showed I could move, I could box, I showed as a fighter I can do all things ", said Canelo.
It seems not even concussion spotters can save players from themselvesThe Capitals controlled play from the start, as they have for most of this series, but instead of the Penguins counterpunching, it never came. After giving up another late lead before losing in overtime again on the road, the Rangers return home needing a win in Game 6 on Tuesday night to avoid elimination in their Eastern Conference semifinal series against Ottawa.
Rashford rocket gives Man United away win in Europa League semi-finalBut the former Manchester City player believes his side were denied a chance to get back into it. Wenger said on Thursday he was prepared to make peace with Mourinho. "Last year we scored three goals away against Atletico Madrid to go through (in the Copa del Rey) and their defence is very strong, and this year we won 2-1 at the Bernabeu and they are nearly in the Champions League final".
Warriors vs Jazz: 5 Keys To The SeriesZaza Pachulia scored 10 points in 14 minutes. Green had six assists and a team-high eight rebounds to go with 17 points. "We picked up right where we left off", said guard Stephen Curry of the team that swept Portland in the first round to earn the extended break.
Chris Iannetta exits after being hit by pitch in faceLovullo when asked following the game if the pitch that had hit Iannetta was intentional said that he stands by his thought that the pitch just got away from the Pittsburgh pitcher and was not intentional. "I know a lot of things don't work - manage like your hair's on fire, overplay everything, overreact to things", he said. Ive been on the other side.
Spurs offset loss of Leonard to bounce Rockets, 110-107San Antonio ruined Kevin Durant's first game with the Warriors with a 129-100 romp on opening night, then rolled to a 107-85 victory on March 11 when Golden State rested Stephen Curry , Klay Thompson , Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala. Harden turned the ball over six times before fouling out with less than four minutes remaining in the game. While Mills and Simmons - starters by default because of injuries - were on the court, they were flanked by David Lee, Dejounte Murray and Kyle ...
RWC draw throws up thrills and spills as England face tough askWales lost to Australia during the 2015 World Cup, and they also face tough opposition from rapidly-improving Georgia . New Zealand beat South Africa 20-18 at the semi-final stage of the last World Cup in England , before going on to retain the Webb Ellis Cup with a win over Australia .
Top pick could make WNBA debut in Stars-Liberty matchupThe game marked the head coaching debut of Vickie Johnson, who started her career in NY as a player when the WNBA debuted in 1997. McBride, meanwhile, will work her way back in soon. When former coach and general manager Dan Hughes retired after last season the Stars replaced him with Johnson as coach and Ruth Riley as general manager.
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TRENTON, Mich. - Boater Heath Wagner of Angola, Ind., earned $3,943 Saturday as winner of the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League Michigan Division event on the Detroit River. The tournament was the first of five regular-season Michigan Division events and featured 124 boaters vying for the win, which earned Wagner 200 points in the Boater Division.
Wagner's winning catch of five bass weighed 21 pounds. Wagner fished a jerk worm to catch his bass. He earned an additional $620 for Boater Division big-bass award honors with a 4-pound, 10-ounce bass and another $1,000 as winner of the Garmin Grand award.
Finishing second was Patrick Goodman of White Pigeon with five bass weighing 19 pounds, 1 ounce that earned him $1,972. Bryan Coates of Amherst, Ohio claimed $1,292 as the third-place finisher thanks to five bass weighing 18 pounds, 14 ounces. In fourth was Steve Clapper of Lima, Ohio with five bass weighing 18 pounds, 3 ounces worth $1,004, and finishing fifth and earning $824 was Ray Hinchcliff of Bowerston, Ohio with five bass weighing 17 pounds, 13 ounces.
Goodman earned an additional $750 as winner of the Ranger Cup and Powered by Yamaha awards.
Todd Robbins of Romulus earned $1,940 as the co-angler winner, thanks to five bass weighing 17 pounds, 14 ounces that he caught on tubes.
Rounding out the top five co-anglers are Chris Gutuskey of Tecumseh (five bass, 17 pounds, 9 ounces, $970); Keith Simms of Toledo, Ohio and Bart Say of Van Wert, Ohio tied for third place. Each co-angler caught five bass weighing 16 pounds, 14 ounces worth $563. Dennis Helka of Dearborn finished in fifth place (five bass, 16 pounds, 6 ounces, $406).
Frederick Worrell of Lincoln Park earned $305 as the co-angler big-bass award winner with a 4-pound, 15-ounce bass he caught on a crankbait.
The Michigan Division's next event will be held July 9 on the Detroit River near Trenton, followed by an event on Muskegon Lake near Muskegon July 30. The fourth-qualifying event will be held Aug. 20 on the Detroit River near Trenton. The Michigan Division will wrap up its regular season Sept. 10-11 with a two-day Super Tournament on the Detroit River near Trenton.
Following the regular season, the Michigan Division boater with the most points will earn $1,000 as the Yamaha "Be the Best" points champion. The co-angler amassing the most points will earn $500 as the Yamaha "Be the Best" points champion in the Co-angler Division.
Every angler who receives weight credit in a tournament earns points, with 200 points going to the winner, 199 for second, 198 for third, and so on except for Super Tournaments, which award 300 points to the winner, 299 for second, 298 for third, and so on. The top 40 Michigan Division boaters and co-anglers based on year-end points standings will advance to the Ohio River Regional near Paducah, Ky., Oct. 11-15 where they will compete against Arkie, Hoosier and Great Lakes Division anglers for one of six slots in the 2006 All-American. With a total purse of $1 million and a potential $140,000 cash prize going to the winning boater and $70,000 going to the winning co-angler, the All-American is one of the most prestigious and lucrative events in bass fishing.
The $8.4 million Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League features 28 divisions nationwide. In BFL competition, boaters and co-anglers are randomly paired, with boaters supplying the boat and fishing against other boaters and co-anglers fishing from the back deck against other co-anglers. For more information or to enter a tournament, call (270) 252-1000 or browse this Web site.
Named after the legendary founder of Ranger Boats, Forrest L. Wood, FLW Outdoors administers the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League and seven other national tournament circuits offering a combined $30 million in awards through 214 events in 2005. The 27-year-old organization is the purveyor of America's largest and most prestigious fishing tournaments, including the Wal-Mart FLW Tour, EverStart Series, Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League, Wal-Mart Texas Tournament Trail, Wal-Mart FLW Walleye Tour, Wal-Mart FLW Walleye League, Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour and Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series.
Wal-Mart and many of America's largest and most respected companies support FLW Outdoors and its tournament trails. Wal-Mart signed on as title sponsor of the FLW Tour in 1997 and today is the title sponsor of all FLW Outdoors events. For more information on Wal-Mart, visit Wal-Mart.com.


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WASHINGTON — With the battle for the Senate tilting toward Republicans and President Obama's approval ratings hovering near his all-time low, Democrats are more reliant than they have ever been on the very kind of big-money groups they have spent years trying to outlaw.
They are countering the Republican Party's expansive and formidable outside spending network this fall with a smaller but more tightly knit alliance of groups that share donors, closely coordinate their advertising and hit harder than their conservative counterparts.
To hold the Senate, the Democratic outside spending network is working hand in hand with — and is funded by — the party's traditional ideological allies, including abortion rights organizations, environmentalists and labor unions. They have overlapping board memberships, use the same voter data and even share advertising content. Most of their on-air money is being spent through a small cluster of "super PACs," which can explicitly advocate the election or defeat of specific candidates.
And they have rapidly narrowed the traditional financial gap with Republican groups, alarming Republican strategists in what has otherwise been a dismal year for Democrats.
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Though their network is smaller, Democratic groups have been much better coordinated this election cycle than their Republican counterparts.
"The Democrats — their coalition has been around a while, and it's tried and true, and they all know how to tango together. And the Republicans are all kind of doing their own individual dances," said John Feehery, a Republican strategist.
Coordination on the right has been hampered by competition for donors and lingering distrust between the party-allied groups, like the Crossroads organizations, founded by Karl Rove, and those seeking to challenge the party establishment, such as Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners, the lead players in the political network overseen by the billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch. The two sides have jockeyed for cash and influence, while also grappling with a wave of ideologically tinged primary battles this spring and summer that sucked up time, money and good will.
To keep donors secret, most of the pro-Republican money is coursing not through super PACs but through political nonprofits. These groups do not have to disclose much about their finances, but are more restricted than super PACs in the types of advertising they can air. (In part to address the problem, the Koch network has pumped more cash into its sole super PAC, Freedom Partners Action Fund.)
While Republicans have spent more over all on advertising during the midterm campaign, their cash has been spread among a larger array of groups. Many of them are newer organizations established or expanded by the Koch network this cycle. Others sprang up to cater to donors angry at the poor performance of Crossroads and other consultant-run groups in 2012.
"I think the problem for the Republicans is that all their big-money supporters are doing their own thing, and not really giving as much money to the party committees," Mr. Feehery said. "There's really very little coordination."
The result has been stark: a message of discipline and unity on the left, and a profusion of messages and ideas on the right that in some races borders on cacophony. In Michigan, for example, 79 percent of issues mentioned in ads by Democratic-leaning outside groups have been about the environment or energy, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Wesleyan Media Project. Ads from Republican outside groups have mentioned a far wider variety of issues — the economy, foreign policy, energy, health care, abortion and more.
Similarly, in Colorado during the last 10 days of September, Democratic-sponsored ads attacked Representative Cory Gardner, the Republican nominee for the Senate, on just two fronts: his votes on Medicare and his positions on birth control. In a third set of ads, NextGen Climate Action has sought to link the birth control attacks to Mr. Gardner's environmental stance: "He'd like to make your most private choices for you, and some of your not-so-private ones, too," a woman's voice intones, "like the environment you live in."
In some races, different Democratic groups have simply run the same ad — a perfectly legal practice because outside groups can coordinate with one another, but one that is rare.
In June, Emily's List, which supports Democratic female candidates who advocate abortion rights, announced a $3 million campaign to support Senator Kay Hagan, who is running for re-election in North Carolina. The campaign's second ad, an equal-pay-themed spot titled "Groceries," was developed to appeal to female voters, and began running in August in Asheville, Charlotte and Greensboro. During the same period, the lead Democratic outside spender, Senate Majority PAC, spent $500,000 to run the same ad in the Raleigh market.
"The advantage on the Democratic side is with a more top-down approach," said Ken Goldstein, a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco who specializes in political advertising. "Not only does it mean you don't waste resources in terms of targeting, but your message can be consistent."
Some Republicans argue that their messaging is more diverse because their opponents are playing defense on a wider range of issues. And to some extent, the fragmentation on the right is a natural condition for parties when they are out of power.
"It's always going to be easier to coordinate when you've got the White House, and you've got this command and control structure where there's final authority," said Will Feltus, the senior vice president for research and planning at National Media Inc., a Republican media-buying company.
The coordination of Democratic groups extends even to their office space. Susan McCue, a founder of Senate Majority PAC, shares a flat-screen-television-lined Washington office suite with American Bridge, the opposition-research hub that provides Democratic groups with the raw material of their campaign attacks. She also sits on the board of American Bridge.
Senate Majority's campaigns director, Ty Matsdorf, hangs his hat at the Messina Group, the consulting firm founded by Jim Messina, the former campaign manager for President Obama. Mr. Messina also oversees Organizing for Action, Mr. Obama's issue advocacy organization, and Priorities USA Action, a super PAC that has turned its energies to support a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential bid in 2016. In the meantime, Priorities has kicked in $500,000 to help Senate Majority PAC keep Democrats in the Senate — and agreed to hold off major fund-raising until the midterm election is over.
More than half of all the outside advertising supporting Democratic Senate candidates this cycle has poured through Senate Majority PAC or a set of affiliated super PACs and nonprofit groups, according to the Campaign Media Analysis Group at Kantar Media. Much of the rest has come from environmental organizations, like NextGen Climate Action, and women's rights groups that donate money to Senate Majority PAC, closely coordinate their advertising with it or do both.
"When Senate Majority PAC started in 2011, it just seemed like the best and most efficient way to run everything was through one organization," Mr. Matsdorf said. "A lot of the success we're seeing this cycle, in fund-raising and from our political donors, is because they realize their money was effectively used by us."
Officials from Democratic super PACs have attended meetings of the Democracy Alliance, a clearinghouse for liberal donors who fund an array of research, advocacy and political organizations. Contributions to the super PACs count toward the quota each alliance member must donate each year.
By contrast, the twice-yearly donor conferences run by the Kochs' Freedom Partners network are typically limited to groups within the network, like Americans for Prosperity, Generation Opportunity and Concerned Veterans for America. Crossroads runs its own gatherings for donors — and competes aggressively with the Koch network for money.
Virtually all of the liberal outside spending groups sit on weekly conference calls and "tables" that coordinate spending in each state. The system allows Democratic allies to not only coordinate advertising, but link it with intensive get-out-the-vote efforts organized by unions and other interest groups. (Dennis Rivera, a senior official of the Service Employees International Union, one of the country's most politically active unions, also sits on the board of Senate Majority.)
The more collaborative Democratic approach, several party strategists said, has helped shrink the traditional advantage that conservative outside groups have enjoyed in advertising spending. Democratic and liberal outside groups have spent $77 million on political advertising during the 2014 cycle, according to one Democratic media buyer. Republican outside groups focused on the general election have spent about $113 million, a figure that includes some money spent by establishment organizations to beat back conservative primary challengers. In some weeks this fall, total advertising by Democratic candidates and groups has exceeded Republican advertising.
Of course, the tightly run Democratic network hardly guarantees Democrats a victory in November. While the Republican outside network is more fragmented, it also had enough money to begin attacking Democrats as early as late last year, keeping Senate Democrats on the defensive, and forcing many Democratic candidates to dig into their own pockets earlier than expected. Mr. Feltus described the Republican approach as a free market of messaging and organization, in which the best and most effective groups would ultimately win.
"In the marketplace of political ideas, the Republicans should have the advantage because we have more players who can try different things," Mr. Feltus said.


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Welcome to the Ringgold Church in Ringgold, GA. We are a Christian community and would love to have you join our family. To learn more about what we believe you can visit our About Us page. Please join us for Bible study, worship, and prayer.
Pastor Jose Nieves
Ringgold Church
Join Us This Saturday!
Service times:
Sabbath School: 9:30 am
Praise & Sharing: 10:40 am
Worship Service: 11:00 am
A potluck is served following the service every Sabbath--visitors and regulars alike are welcome to join in!
Midweek Prayer Meeting: 6:00 pm
Vespers to close the Sabbath: time varies by time of year (please see Calendar page)


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1. division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
2. division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups.
3. Botany . a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
4. Astronomy . the phase of the moon or of an inferior planet when half of its disk is visible.
Mankind suffers from dichotomy
So much battle between the two official sexes
That a few alternatives have arisen, ready to conquer.
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Focus on Upstanding
Use this 10 part Starbucks, yes, like the coffee, series to promote upstanding. They have highlighted 10 'ordinary' people doing extraordinary acts! Each video is about 6:00 long.
Continuing to Grow
This month we hold our second round of Student Led Conferences (SLCs). We will all grow as we pilot our Google Slide option for SLCs. Use the provided template to help students share their year with their families.
Spring Break
As we move into the final stretch of the school year, we must remember not all students look forward to this break with the same attitude. Let us open a discussion for kids to share their fears, worries, and excitement equally, or at least, remembering this week does not hold the same joy for everyone.
More than Madness...
For those who took the time to create squads at the beginning of the year, immense trust and growth of student bonds and relationships has flourished. With the hustle and bustle of the start however, this task fell aside for many- this month reinstate squads! Wether you've been using them and want to shake it up, or squad up students for the first time- it will undoubtedly create a positive shift in the culture of your room. Also, it will help students prepare for conferences in a more serious frame of mind. Learn more below.


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MIAMI LAKES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BankUnited, Inc. (NYSE:BKU) today announced that, regarding the recent articles and publicity about the Company, it has confirmed that a preliminary process did occur whereby the Company considered its strategic alternatives. That process has concluded and the Company will continue to pursue its original plan to build the premier bank throughout Florida as an independent institution.
The Company looks forward to releasing its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011 prior to the market opening on Wednesday, January 25, 2012. Highlights will include twelve new branches opened during the fourth quarter, deposit growth from $6.9 billion to $7.4 billion, or 24% on an annualized basis, and growth in the Company's new loan portfolio from $1.3 billion to $1.7 billion, or 139% on an annualized basis.
About BankUnited
BankUnited, Inc. is a savings and loan holding company with two wholly-owned subsidiaries: BankUnited, which is one of the largest independent depository institutions headquartered in Florida by assets, and BankUnited Investment Services, Inc., or BankUnited Investment Services, a Florida insurance agency which provides comprehensive wealth management products and financial planning services. BankUnited is a federally-chartered, federally-insured savings association headquartered in Miami Lakes, Florida, with over $11 billion of assets, more than 1,300 professionals and 95 branches in 15 counties at December 31, 2011.
Forward-Looking Statements
The press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that reflect our current views with respect to, among other things, future events and financial performance. We generally identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "outlook," "believes," expects," "potential," "continues," "may," "will," "could," "should," "seeks," "approximately," "predicts," "intends," "plans," "estimates," "anticipates" or the negative version of those words or other comparable words. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on the historical performance of us and our subsidiaries or on our current plans, estimates and expectations. The inclusion of this forward-looking information should not be regarded as a representation by us that the future plans, estimates or expectations contemplated by us will be achieved. Such forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, financial results, financial condition, business prospects, growth strategy and liquidity. If one or more of these or other risks or uncertainties materialize, or if our underlying assumptions prove to be incorrect, our actual results may vary materially from those indicated in these statements. These factors should not be construed as exhaustive. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements. Information on these factors can be found in the 2010 Annual Report on Form 10-K and the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed by the Company with the SEC and available at the SEC's website (www.sec.gov).


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Going Out
The environment of the elementary class is not confined to the school building. One of the important activities of the elementary age is to research on a variety of topics. The resources available for their research in the classroom are deliberately restricted so that the students will have to go out of their classroom and the school to find more.
This "Going Out" is the Montessori term for off-campus excursions taken by small groups of children to visit museums, galleries, stores and other businesses, libraries, non-profit organizations, places of worship, zoos, historical sites, and other places where subject-matter experts can be found or hands-on experiences can be had.
A 'Going out' is initiated, planned, organized, and carried out by the students themselves as a spontaneous extension of studies or projects they are pursuing in the classroom. Dr. Montessori was adamant about the importance of developing the children's intellectual knowledge and their 'real world' social skills and self-reliance at the same time by means of these excursions into the larger world outside the school.
Chaperones for Going Out are chosen and contacted by the children from a list of parents who are specially trained to closely monitor and guard the children's physical and emotional safety without usurping responsibilities and roles that are properly the children's to learn and practice.


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For many years women have been asked a simple question by their OB/Gyn, "What was the first day of your last period?" When that blank look crosses our faces we all think the same thing, "Oh crap! I should have written that down!" Or when we are trying to conceive and we can't time our ovulation days? I've been there, done that- as I'm sure most of you have. But there are ways to help remedy this problem. Claim Your 20 Free Pregnancy Tests – Click Here
This calendar could be in your phone, work planner, or even a calendar hung up at home. Anything with a full month's view is perfect. Pick a symbol that you will recognize and know is your period symbol. Perhaps a red dot? A triangle? A blue square? It's really up to you, whatever you feel comfortable with. Be sure to mark the first and last day of this cycle. After one month you might be able to "guesstimate" when you will start again but it's best to keep this calendar up for a few months. This will determine if you're "normal" or if you need to speak with your gynecologist about becoming more regular. This will also help you determine when you may ovulate, down to the date.
You'd be surprised what you can find only these days. Everything from quizzes to find out the sex of an unborn baby on up to how to plan your next period, and absolutely everything in between. There are "menstrual calculators" out there as well, simply Google those keywords. While you're online feel free to also search the ovulation calculators.
Sounds crazy right? Go to your phones app store and search for trackers. There are at least 3 fertility gadgets that are made specifically for period and ovulation tracking. How genius? Something most women never leave behind, we use it for email and social media so why not for our health?
Surprisingly there's not too many ways to actually keep track of something this "special." But keeping track is very important, this can't be stressed enough. If there is something medically wrong that you may not be aware of yet, tracking your periods can bring this issue to light. Also tracking may be used to plan a pregnancy, or to avoid it. The average female will ovulate 14 days prior to the first day of her next period, and for a few days prior to after as well. This is a key time for all females. This is when your window is open for pregnancy, or the time when you need to make sure you're backed with good birth control.


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More Gollocks on Bird Forum HERE ( see in particular post #62). Now, it is not that I have a major problem with classifying Loxia scotica as a race of crossbill rather than a species. Rather, the problem is a race of what exactly - Common or Parrot, something which the poster just so happens to conveniently omit ! ? One, would assume the former but how do we know ? The fact that genetically all three are, to all intents and purposes, 'the same' offers no clues either. So, in sharing the same ancestry, which Common, Parrot and even our old friend Scottish clearly must do, when does a clinal form stop being merely a race and become a species in it's own right ? Yep, it's that old problem: it is our definition and understanding of what constitutes a 'species' that is problematic rather than the organisms themselves that just do 'what they do'. I do not profess to understand the mechanics of speciation - I have Ian Newton's fantastic book on Biogeographic Speciation but must confess I only read the Crossbill bits ( and, true to form, looked at the pictures).
There are now hints and murmurs as to splitting Winter Wrens so hopefully the troglodytes of Fair Isle and St. Kilda will deflect from the Crossbills. Who knows, maybe the bird guides from Heatherlea will run trips to these places to show clients 'species' that they themselves do not believe really are species ala what they apparently do with Scottish Crossbill - that is if they (the wrens) haven't all moved to the Lodgepole Pine plantations of Sutherland or hybridised with Hebridean Dunnocks by then (only regular reader to my rants will get this one) ! Maybe they can "work with the scientists on technology" to enable 'retrospective' identification of the vocalisations of the wrens (little hint: it exists already in the form of a microphone, recorder and a copy of Raven Lite-duh).


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Zen Thoughts
He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, your a mile away, and have their shoes.
If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is not for you.
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, Teach that man to fish, and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer.
A day without sunshine is like, night.
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your week.
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!
If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of car payments.
How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand…
OK, so what's the speed of dark?
How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.
Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened
Looking for Work
A Japanese doctor said, 'Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can
take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for
work in six weeks.'
A German doctor said, 'That's nothing, we can take a lung out of one person,
put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks.'
A British doctor said, 'In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can
take half of a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them
both looking for work in two weeks.'
A Filipino doctor, not to be outdone said, 'You guys are way behind.
We took a man with no brains and a little woman with no heart,
put them both, one after the other, in Malacanang Palace and now
half the country is looking for work.
Philippines .
A 70-year old 'lolo' from the province was accompanied by a grandson to the US Embassy in Manila
for his VISA interview.
The lolo spoke not a word of English so the grandson translated for him. The Consul told the young
man to ask his grandfather why he wanted to go to the States.
"Bakit daw ho ninyo gustong pumunta sa Amerika?" The grandson translated.
"Sabihin mo gusto kong makita yung mga anak ko doon."
"He said he wants to see his children there."
Fair enough, that's what the lolo's application indicated.
The Consul had another question. "Ask him why does he have to go there? Why can't his children just
come and visit him here?"
The grandson translated this in Tagalog.
Lolo replied: "Sabihin mo kasi dito pinanganak yung mga anak ko.
Nakita na nila ang Pilipinas. Gusto ko namang makita ang Amerika bago ako mamatay."
(Translation: "Tell him, my children were born here. They've seen the
Philippines already. I just want to see America before I die.")
The HEARTLESS Consul was unimpressed as he declared, devoid of any emotion, that he was rejecting
the visa application "because the applicant was unable to speak any word of English."
"Reject daw yung visa ninyo kasi hindi daw kayo marunong mag-Ingles."
The lolo was equally unimpressed. "Sabihin mo ito sa kanya at huwag na huwag mong papalitan ang
sasabihin ko:
"Putang ina niya, bakit siya nandidito eh hindi naman siya marunong mag
Tagalog! ?"
Translated, "He said: You son of a bitch, how come you are here… you do not know how to speak in
Taken aback, sense of humor still intact, the consul relented and approved lolo's visa application
in pronto.
(Taken from The Philippine Star (newspaper), written by Boo Chanco)


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A Guide to the James Morgan Papers, 1836, 1844-1850
Biographical Note
Born in Philadelphia to James and Martha Morgan, James Morgan (1787-1866) grew up in North Carolina, where he married Celia Harrell, with whom he had three children. In 1830, Morgan moved to Texas to open a mercantile business with John Reed. Two years later, Morgan was selected to represent Liberty Municipality in the Convention of 1832. In 1835, Morgan joined the New Washington Association as a purchasing agent. He soon purchased large quantities of land for the company in Harrisburg and Liberty counties, and laid out the town of New Washington. Morgan also operated a ship for the company, which was often used by the Texas government during the Revolution. Additionally, he was appointed commandant of Galveston Island and planned its defenses, though Sam Houston charged him with mismanagement. After Texas gained its independence, Morgan returned to work for the New Washington Association, was defeated in his bid for a Congressional seat, and was active in promoting the Houston Ship Channel. He also experimented with the cultivation of oranges, cotton, and sugarcane as well as possibly importing the first Durham shorthorns into Texas.
Brunson, B. R. and Andrew Forest Muir. "Morgan, James." Handbook of Texas Online. Accessed July 19, 2011.
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Scope and Contents
Composed of correspondence and a bill of sale, the James Morgan Papers relate to his opinions concerning a variety of issues. An original letter from W. C. Allen to James Morgan describes the withdrawal of Mexican troops from San Antonio during the revolution and related issues between Mexico and Texas. Two typescript letters from Morgan to J. M. Storms document his thoughts on annexation, slavery, politics and politicians, and current events in 1844. Additionally, the collection contains a Photostat of a bill of sale from 1850, as well as a typed transcript of a 1836 letter from Morgan to Samuel Swartwout gifting to Swartwout the tent belonging to Santa Anna as a token of appreciation for Swartwout's service to Texas.
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Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research use.
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
James Morgan Papers, 1836, 1844-1850, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Processing Information
Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center's History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.
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SIX months of detailed research and painstaking work have produced an evocation in miniature of a long-lost Bexhill landmark.
At 82, retired architect Bill Hill's eye for detail and steady hand with a pair of tweezers are undiminished.
The man who undertook the expert restoration for Bexhill Museum of Mendelsohn and Chermayeff's architectural model of their design for the De La Warr Pavilion has not only re-created the pavilion's predecessor but set it in context in its post-Edwardian heyday.
Bill Hill's home overlooks the site of the former Kursaal, a form of truncated pier which from its opening in 1896 until it was supplanted by the De La Warr was Bexhill's centre of culture and entertainment.
The Kursaal (a German term for a kind of health spa) stood for 40 years roughly on the site of the present Sailing Club on De La Warr Parade. Not a trace of it now remains.
Close inspection reveals how Bill has re-created the pre-Great War scene. The Kursaal is shown jutting over the foreshore. Vintage cars ply the parade, then Earl De La Warr's private promenade, denoted by impressive entrance gates. The former Glyne Hall Hotel stands on the Sea Road corner. Bill has even put in period costume the tiny figures which people his scene.
Bill's beautiful 200th-scale model was unveiled at a ceremony in Bexhill Museum's Sargent Gallery by Rother District Council chairman Lord Ampthill last Friday evening.
Introduced by John Betts, chairman of the accredited, independent, voluntarily-run museum, Bill explained his involvement with the museum and curator Julian Porter's encouragement for his Kursaal project.
He had chosen to depict the Kursaal as it appeared in 1912 – before its exotic Oriental design was marred by later adaptations.
His researches had included sifting the museum's archive, the county archive, the library and the internet.
He concluded: "It was a challenge – one that I am glad that I took up and one which gave me a lot of fun. I only hope that it will be a worthwhile addition to our museum collection."
Congratulating Bill on his modelling skill, the chairman emphasised the importance of the work of organisations such as the Society of Bexhill Museums to the whole of Rother and its visitors.
Does Bill have another project in mind? Eyeing the nearby museum display of photographs of the Manor House before its demolition, he says: "Well, I'm having my arm twisted…I might do the Manor House."
But first he has a commitment to do a model for his son's architectural practice.


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I know, I know, you were jealous of Europe and especially its Toyota Yaris with dockable TomTom GPS navigation head unit. You can breath a sigh of relief because Eclipse has taken that idea and made it available for anybody! Hooray!
The Eclipse AVN2210p MK II allows for a TomTom GPS navigation unit to dock in and out of the head unit. This is extra-convenient for regular swapping of cars and for those that like to do a little walking with a GPS unit. The unit also includes a CD player with MP3 support, Bluetooth and more. It's available from Crutchfield for $600. [Crutchfield via Uncrate]


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Gallery: First Look: Maialino's Happy Hour Menu
Uova alla Diavola ($2 per egg)
Vinegary deviled eggs with house-cured white sardines and breadcrumbs.
Cotiche Fritte ($3)
These pork cracklings are cooked sous-vide overnight, then scraped, dried, and fried until crisp. Served with spicy vinegar.
Patatine Cacio e Pepe ($3)
Fried potato skins with Pecorino Romano and black pepper. A finger-food take on the classic Roman late-night spaghetti dish.
Roman Shandy ($5)
A beer-based cocktail, with Birra Menabrea Bionda, Orchard Apricot, amaretto, lemon, and nepitella (muddled Roman mint). "A damn tasty wussy drink," is how Ed, wussy-drink connoisseur, described it.
Pizza Rustica ($2/square)
Two different pizzas, both made on pizza bianca; this one is eggplant, ricotta, grana padano, parsley, and cured chili peppers.
Pizza Rustica ($2/square)
This one has potato and thyme, with lemon, grana padano, and pecorino.
Polpettine ($2/meatball)
"I find that people just love spherical meat," said chef Anderer. These meatballs are made from rabbit belly with rosemary; the liquid is reduced braising liquid from the rabbit on their dinner menu. Deep fried to order and finished in the sauce.
Polpettine ($2/meatball)
More spherical meat! Black Angus beef from Kanses with a veal-fortified tomato sauce and grana padano.


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Well uh,
What we are exposed to
Are only fragments of the universe:
Our sun, our moon...
We are like unto a dirty floor,
Collecting sand and dust as opposed to really what's out there.
Our sun, as we know it, is but a tiny flashlight
To this speck of dirt, we call Earth.
Well uh,
We cannot comprehend
What a real world is like
Because our world survives on itself,
Eating and eating and eating it's own.
We are scared of our own shadows
And so insecure about such a very insecure world,
Which produces the same circumstances
Each and every time, baby.
Time... uh, Time and time again (each and every time)
Time... uh, Time and time again baby. ( each and every time)
Yeah, livin' in the midst of dinosaurs
As we continue to be baffled by what is inevitable.
Is about to happen, there's only so much time
To play the game.
Our dime,
Is up.
See you in the next world..
You won't be lazy 'cause time has a way about being on time.