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Well… I'm starting to run out of places to shop. Target Corporation (TGT) made the announcement on Wednesday that they have acquiesced to the Bloomberg fanatics who believe no-one should be armed while shopping. The company (politely) asked customers to keep their guns at home the next time they wander in for a DVD or Cuisinart.
Of course, it's not all bad news. After all, a Target store in San Antonio recently booted anti-gun activists from its store. The Bloomberg inspired group, Moms Demand Action (moms I know carry .380 automatics), was asked to leave the premises as they petitioned shoppers to sign a ban on open carry.
So, when taken in the context of recent events, it kinda looks like the retail chain simply wants to be left out of the gun/anti-gun debate. And really, who can blame them? Picket signs, petition drives, and even AR-15s aren't always good for business. I mean, sure, Target is creating a "solution" to an imaginary problem by banning gun-loving America… But they're not exactly doing this in a vacuum.
Now, don't get me wrong: Their decision is absurd. It's pretty well documented that "gun free" zones tend to advertise a victim-rich environment to would-be criminals. Jack in the Box learned this the hard way when armed robbers took advantage of newly disarmed customers, mere days after the company declared their new anti-gun policy. And, if you really need proof of failure, just look at America's favorite gun-free zone: Chicago.
A far more amicable solution might have been to allow local laws to preempt store-wide policies on firearms. But, Target is a business… And those who run it have every right in the world to make stupid, ill-informed, or even unfair decisions. Heck, they're even allowed to make wrong decisions. But their decision does bring up an interesting point about the tactic of open carrying for Second Amendment rights:
In all honesty, recent high-profile open carry stunts have done little to help the proliferation of firearm rights. In fact, it has hurt the cause. And this isn't the opinion of one "carry advocate" with a Townhall column… Even Open Carry Texas seems to understand that there are potential pitfalls to toting an AK around the grocery aisle of your local Super Target.
Smashburger, Jack in the Box, Wendy's, Applebees, Chipotle, Starbucks, and even Chili's have asked patrons to start leaving their guns at home… And most (not all) of these decisions were made Bloomberg minions rallied in response to ill-advised open carry demonstrations. Now, I'm going out on a limb here, but I have to assume that an expanded prohibition on firearm-friendly-policies is not what open carry activists had in mind when they started their organized patronage.
But, welcome to the world in which we live. Movements, people, and even activists are generally judged by their ability to affect positive change. Prior to these most recent skirmishes, many of these locations allowed carry (provided it was in compliance with local laws) on their premises. Now things have changed… And not for the better. Now, please: don't misunderstand me… I'm a very pro-gun guy. I have a 1911 on my hip right now because – well – because I'm awake. (And even when I'm asleep, it's not far away.) But, if we are going to judge the activist-open-carry movement by its results, it appears to be a failure.
If the goal is to expand gun rights, let's try not to bog ourselves down in skirmishes with national retail chains who are primarily interested in avoiding controversy. After all, discriminating against law-abiding citizens is in vogue; but discriminating against the main-stream media, Michael Bloomberg, and rabid-anti-gunners is generally viewed by CEOs and investors as corporate suicide.
It doesn't take a genius to understand that presentation goes a long way in making, or breaking, a political point. Target is absolutely (without qualification) wrong for trying to ban law-abiding armed citizens from their stores. They may, or may not, feel the pain of their decision as gun-owners begin foregoing their visits to the newly created "victim-rich" retail stores… But, Target's main goal of avoiding prolonged exposure in the media over a controversial social issue has been achieved.
Battles are launched in an effort to win wars… So, yeah: Moms Demand Action won this battle. Target is wrong. But, it is now up to Second Amendment advocates to make sure they are taking steps that perpetuate their cause – not infringe upon the lives of sympathetic supporters.
And, just to make it clear, here's a quick guide on how to open carry in a way that disarms the ideologically bankrupt Bloomberg groups who lobby for the dissolution of gun rights:


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Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Master Engineer [WIP]
I have had this model since he came out, back in 7th Ed I think. I am now going through my boxes, and decided I need at least one Master Engineer, as they seem to have some good use.
Monday, 8 September 2014
Metal Ironbreakers Second rank complete
These guys have been done for a while, just ran out of superglue to finish the bases. Got them fully sorted over the weekend.
Monday, 25 August 2014
[Dwarfs] Metal Ironbreakers, second rank.
A cheeky Bank Holiday off, decided to get those five Ironbreakers sat on my desk sorted. Start to finish, took me from 2pm to about 11pm (including breaks, food and a few distractions). I have the blue trim to do on the bottom, which I'll do with the shields so its all together, and a few minor details on the minis.
Monday, 11 August 2014
Bugman - Painted
*Blows dust off*
Wow, been a while. Anyway, with the Meet getting me playing a couple of games, and enjoying the hobby some more, I figured I'd see if I was still capable of painting with a brush to any degree of success. Turns out, I have done. Posted it via twitter last night, and loads of likes and retweets. So, happy with that. But LO is home, and it needs more beards and ale!
So, here is the drunken Bugman model from Bugman's bar.
Pretty happy with how he turned out considering I have not painted since May.
Monday, 5 May 2014
First Ironbreakers done.
Saturday, 19 April 2014
Um... hi. I'm back again.
*Blows Dust off blog*
Hi there. It has been a very long time since I have used this thing. I did have plans of using a wordpress blog, but it does not get anyway near the traffic that Blogger does. It was being used (and still will be) for more roleplaying stuff.
I have updated some stuff there, which I didn't include on here. That being a second Grey Hunter pack and a Rune Priest were completed. See below..
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I'm not a cook.
I try to cook.
Big difference.
Sometimes it turns out great and I'm pleasantly surprised.
Other times I get this weird looking mess that sometimes tastes good.
Pinterest has become my best friend in recent years, giving people like me hope. Sometimes they are a bust, but other times you're left having something Instagram worthy.
I decided to start a new series on my blog called Pinterest in Real Life where I try something I find on Pinterest out in real life and see if it's possible to make pizza in a crock pot.
I'm still a little hesitant on that one..
The other night I decided to make candy dipped brownies as my first Pinterest in Real Life experiment.
I love brownies.
It doesn't matter what kind of brownies, I love them all. So let's just say I was a little excited to try this one out.
For this recipe you'll need..
2 sticks of butter
3 cups of semi sweet chocolate chips
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup of brown sugar
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
5 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
2 TBSP cocoa powder
1 1/3 cup all purpose
1 cup white chocolate chips
A lot of patience
Anything that sounds good to dip your brownies in.
First thing you want to do is preheat to 350 degrees.
While you wait, spray a 10×10 baking pan with cooking spray. Don't forget this one, no one likes brownies stuck to the pan.
Also, don't use anything bigger than a 10×10, a 9×9 would probably work but don't try to be different. I thought a bigger pan would be fine but my brownies ended up being too thin.
In a microwave safe bowl melt together two sticks of butter (no one said it was going to be healthy) and 2 cups chocolate chips until they're melted, mine took about 2 minutes in 30 second intervals.
Once you have you're pretty little chocolate mixture mix in sugar and brown sugar.
After that pour in your vanilla.
Next step is to beat in five eggs, one at a time. I did two at a time and the last one standing got to be featured in my picture.
In a separate bowl mix together the salt, cocoa powder, and flour.
After that combine you're chocolate delicious mixture with your dry ingredients.
Pour everything in your pan…a 10×10 not anything bigger.
Bake that bad boy for about 30 minutes or until you can place a toothpick in the middle of it and nothing sticks to it.
Thanks mom and dad for that tip.
While the brownies are baking get all of your toppings out and pour them in different bowls.
When finished baking, take your patience out of the fridge and use it.
Don't rush.
If I would have waited overnight they might have actually looked like the Instagram picture.
Once they're cool cut them into squares and cut those squares diagonally.
In two separate bowls melt together your left over chocolate chips and white chocolate chips, those are going to be what gets your candy to stick to the brownies.
Once your chocolate is melted, begin dipping the brownies in chocolate and on to the candy. Place them on parchment paper, which I just realized the recipe said, and let them sit at room temperature for an hour or so. I put them in the fridge to try and get solid and that worked just fine too.
This recipe was crazy, there was so much going on and my kitchen took a beating. Not to mention I had to clean baby bottles in the middle of this all and help my husband give a baby with a poopy diaper a bath.
These didn't look exactly like the picture but I learned that if I was to do them again, I would add a little more patience to the mix.
I really enjoyed it though, it was fun making a recipe knowing that if I messed up it really didn't matter, that it would make my post even more interesting. It was fun making something with absolutely no expectations knowing that at least I had brownies at the end of the day!
If you think of something that would be fun to test out from Pinterest, let me know. Or if you want to be a taste tester, I'd take those too!


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Progress Report – April 2013
April 2013 was not as busy as previous months, but there were very good reasons for that.
Posted Works
On Ad Astra, I continued spinning out The Three of Us. In response to the hijinks challenge, I wrote Where No Gerbil Has Gone Before. Also, in response to a challenge about painting a scene, I submitted Atlas, which I also placed into In Between Days context. In response to a prompt about "the first berth", I thought about The Odd Couple and posted November 13th.
I posted Atlas to Archer's Angels.
On Fanfiction.net, I finished spinning out Fortune. I added Atlas and began to spin out Day of the Dead.
On Trek BBS, I won the Independence challenge with Bread and posted my own challenge (I am not allowed to participate in it), Obsessions and Addictions.
Fortune made it to 10,000 combined read counts on the 22nd of the month. Intolerance was the first story on Fanfiction.net to hit 1,000 overall reads. Concord and Reversal should follow soon.
WIP Corner
The All-Stars has been neglected a bit, in favor of web development and improvement. Hence a lot of its draft remains in paper format and needs to be typed.
Prep Work
Also, I continued working on my website and fixing or eliminating links and lists. I created an Accolades page and cleaned up the Timeline page and adding more visual interest. And I continued working on the Anthology and on fixing up the web site.
This Month's Productivity Killers
So the real issue was the bombing of the Boston Marathon, on April 15th. It seems trivial to talk about it here. But it was difficult, at times, to concentrate, plus there was a ton of stress all around. That made it difficult to concentrate and to be productive.


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To delete a build type, get latest and then delete within Source Control Explorer.
To delete a Team Project, use the tfsdeleteproject command from a command prompt on the Build server.
To delete specific builds, use the tfsbuild delete command from a command prompt on the Build server.
This is one of those "it's a feature, not a bug" things that was introduced in SP4:
Technically, this makes sense, but if you are used to using sp_who2 to check for harmful blocking, this is really rather annoying, as it can look like a process is blocking itself for an extended period of time while it is still doing useful work.
If you receive this method when attempting to connect to SQL Server 2005, after establishing that the server is running, open up the SQL Server Configuration Manager (found under Configuration Tools in the SQL Server 2005 start menu group) and check to see which protocols are enabled. By default, only "Shared Memory" is enabled, and so you will need to enable TCP-IP and/or Named Pipes (depending on your network configuration).
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Justin Gleeson SC returns to private practice
Banco Chambers is pleased to announce Justin Gleeson SC's return to private practice at Banco Chambers.
Justin specialises in international law, international arbitration, constitutional law, appellate law, and select commercial cases. He is available to appear as counsel, act as advisor, or sit as arbitrator or expert determiner, in both domestic and international matters.
Justin has had over 30 years of legal experience, as solicitor (1985 - 1988), counsel (1989 onwards), and Senior Counsel (2000 onwards). He was the founding head of Banco Chambers in 2005, and most recently was the tenth Solicitor General of the Commonwealth of Australia (2012 - 2016).
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and a prolific legal author.
On 28 February 2017 Justin will be appearing as a panelist at the Singapore Academy of Law in Singapore to present on Evolving Judicial Attitudes towards Executive Power: England, Singapore, and Australia.
For enquiries in relation to Justin's availability and fees, contact Jeh Coutinho: +61 2 8239 0201 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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MIAMI – Even without talking to the media and even before Miami's 120-92 victory Saturday, a game in which he did not play, LeBron James dominated the conversation in the visitors' locker room Saturday at AmericanAirlines Arena.
Speaking loudly enough for his teammates and anybody else in the room to hear, James held a long conversation with his son and wife on FaceTime, asking his son how his basketball game went and letting his wife know he went for a walk and enjoyed the weather earlier in the day.
(Message to media: LeBron is just a regular dude visiting from a cold-weather city and enjoying our chamber-of-commerce weather).
LeBron then pulled out a book and started singing (yes, singing) something about exercising his brain, or at least that's how it sounded. His reading material: "The Godfather," a calculated message to Miami's real 'Godfather,' Heat president Pat Riley, the man who LeBron continues to hold a grudge against after leaving Miami in 2014.
Passive aggressive LeBron at his best.
While Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue said all the right things about LeBron sitting for the second time in his past three trips to Miami- how Cleveland is on the second night of a back-to-back, LeBron has been to six consecutive Finals, the Cavs are looking at the big picture, blah, blah blah – here's a couple of other theories:
LeBron is doing everything he can to help the Heat get into the playoffs:
Miami entered Saturday 1.5 games behind the Pistons for the No. 8 seed. If the Cavs hold onto the top seed in the East (they entered three games ahead of Boston) and Miami snuck in at No. 8, it would mean an additional four or five days in Miami for the first round of the playoffs for LeBron. And he would like nothing more than to oust the Heat.
LeBron truly needed the rest:
But not just because he played 39 minutes in Atlanta on Friday. Social media was buzzing early Saturday morning about LeBron showing up at LIV, the trendy nightclub in the Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach at about 2 a.m. That early morning walk LeBron spoke to his wife about. … just may have been before he got some sleep.
LeBron, truly taking his talents to South Beach.
[The numbers behind Rick Carlisle's claim that Heat are one of best drive-and-kick teams he's ever seen]
[Erik Spoelstra: Heat would be 'much different basketball team' with healthy Justise Winslow, Josh McRoberts]
But here is what Lue said about LeBron sitting out Saturday's game – he was joined by point guard Kyrie Irving on the sidelines, giving the Cavs $48.5 million worth of cheerleaders on the bench.
"He needs the rest for what we're trying to do, for where we're trying to go," Lue said.
Heat players were unaware the Cavs would be without their two best players until informed about 75 minutes before the game by reporters.
"To each his own," guard Wayne Ellington said. "If they're not playing, that's their decision. Hopefully, we can handle our business and make them regret that. We'll see them tonight and we'll see them in a few days."
The two teams play in Cleveland on Monday.
This is the second time in the past three games in Miami that James has rested. He did not play in a Heat victory in December of 2015 and was serenaded by Heat fans with chants of, "LeBron is tired," a chant they attempted to fire up Saturday without much success.
LeBron, 32, has missed five games this season to rest. He is averaging 37.6 minutes per game, his most since his final season with the Heat and the second-most in the league.
During his four years in Miami, LeBron never took a night off to rest in the middle of the season. The only times he sat when not injured were in the final weeks when nothing was at stake.
In 2014, he said taking games off has "never been part of my DNA" and it was his obligation to be out there for his teammates.
Times have changed and Lue was asked if LeBron understands these rest days are more necessary later in his career.
"He's gotten better," Lue said. "He understands the big picture of what we're trying to accomplish and the guy's played so many minutes over the course of his career. Going to six straight Finals he has to take some rest at times. When I talk to our training staff and they say it's a game he has to take off, that's what we do.
"He understands that. As much as he doesn't like it, he has to deal with it."
The Cavaliers were spending Saturday night in Miami and not heading back to Cleveland until Sunday afternoon, plenty of time for LeBron to rest up from two nights on South Beach.
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At the recent tech event in 2015, Google announced that its new Photo App would now also be available for iOS users, thereby enabling iPhone or iPad users to get the advantage from the App. The App gives unlimited storage in secure cloud based storage as against storing them locally on your device.
An easy search and GUI makes it still sleek and better to use. The App offers unlimited cloud storage for normal resolution images and has a flexible pricing for high resolution images. Extensive search features include searching for terms which have not been tagged, as well as color based searching. There is also an Assistant feature in the App which creates automatic GIF's for related images in your account.


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Tuesday Shoe's Day: Hello Spring! Color Block Me
For today's shoe presenting the bubble gum hot pink color block cutie!
By now most places are beginning to see a glimmer of spring, even down here in the sunshine state we've had our delays of Hot and mugginess (Totally Not complaining).
A couple weeks ago I ordered this shoes on the Shoedazzle Saturday steal deal, I love these deals, I got them for over %50 off. Yes! I'm a shoeDazzle head!
They came in and I tried them on, They were even cuter on my feet. So I had to wear them ASAP!
On Sunday I decide to pair it with this white eyelet dress.
Nothing say spring like an eyelet dress!
Quite frankly, I hate that dress. I wore that dress to a choir event where I had to wear white, which is the only reason why I had it in the first place. I kinda mess up with the blue belt, I was trying to tie it in with the blue in the shoes but the belt came out a bit too dark.
Even so, I was pleasantly surprise with the way the outfit came together, or maybe I was just feeling the shoes.
I know I was definitely feeling the shoes!
What do you think of my outfit?
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Surgery Dates & Times
If you have an issue that you would like to discuss with James, he will be holding the following advice sessions. The following surgery dates require a pre-booked appointment:
Friday 28th April 2017
11am – 1pm
Parliament will dissolve on Tuesday 2nd May 2017 for the election period.
Please contact the office on 01745 851294 to book an appointment or for further information.
Additional surgeries will be organised depending on demand. If none of the above dates are suitable for you please use the contact page on this site and we will arrange a separate meeting with you.
Please note that most issues can be dealt with more quickly by email, telephone or letter, avoiding the need to wait for an available appointment.


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Operation Move-In Statesboro
Here's your one stop shop for all things related to the Opening for Fall on August 16, 2019. Here you will find all you need for a successful transition to Georgia Southern University residence halls.
- Check your email for updates regarding housing assignments and move-in policies. All move-in information will be sent to you via your Georgia Southern email.
- Review our Operation Move-In Guide for the Statesboro Campus.
- Check your Housing Application Status Page to review your upcoming assignment and roommate contact information.
- Contact and get to know your new roommate(s). Being a good roommate can be a challenge but comes with a lot of rewards. Learn about life with roommates.
- Check the list of "What to Bring & What Not to Bring!"
- Get a renter's insurance policy. University Housing strongly advises that each resident carry individual renter's insurance for his or her personal property in the event of fire, flood, theft, hurricane, tornado, overflowing tubs, broken pipes, water main breaks, etc. Georgia Southern does not protect personal belongings from burglary, vandalism, fire, smoke, and other perils.
- Pay your Student Account balance. Fall semester tuition and fee information can be found on the Student Accounts website.
- Move into your home away from home on your designated move-in date.
- Plan to attend Welcome Week activities on campus. It is a great way to meet new people and see how much fun living living on campus can be!
Bed Height Change Requests
If you would like your bed height adjusted after you arrive on campus please submit a work order at www.gsuhousing.com/workrequest. Please note that the work order submission process will only work once you are on campus. Please do not attempt to adjust the height yourself. Our maintenance team will be more than willing to do this task for you.
Campus Hours of Operation
What's open and available around campus during OMI Weekend? Check out the hours of operation for a variety of campus locations and departments between August 16th-18th by clicking HERE.
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The Office of Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Fall River is
rooted in the gospel message of Jesus Christ.
This message is carried out according to the authentic teachings of the Catholic Church in union with the Diocesan Bishop who is the Chief Teacher in the Diocese.
The Office of Catholic Schools works collaboratively with parochial and diocesan school communities to provide a faith centered, holistic, values-based Catholic school experience. Our students are educated and encouraged to live out their lives as vibrant and committed members of our Church, and – as persons of faith – to be responsible and contributing citizens of their community, our nation and the world.
We pledge:
- To assist families, the primary educators, and their children entrusted to our care.
- To work collaboratively with pastors, teachers and Catholic school administrators in fulfilling the Church's teaching and evangelizing mission in the Catholic schools of the Diocese.


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Our "Join The King's Army" program is an educational experience meant to orient students to the history of Fort Niagara through a tour, and includes hand's on experience training with an 18th century soldier. This training, consisting of a musket demonstration, and learning the 18th century manual of arms will give students a better understanding of Infantry tactics of the period, and the role of the individual soldier.
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During a "Work & Play" students will receive both an educational and fun experience that will give them a glimpse into the history of Fort Niagara. This program includes a tour of the fort to orient students to the site and explain the "big picture" significance of Fort Niagara. Students will also be instructed by a soldier in the use of a flintlock musket, through a demonstration by the soldier, and instruction in the manual of arms in order to better understand the tactics of the flintlock era, and the role of the individual soldier. Soldiers need to relax too, and your students can join us in playing one of the games that soldiers of the period would have played here at Fort Niagara.
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A Soldier's Life
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- The diversity of community within Fort Niagara
- The processes necessary for life in a pre-electric age
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- Vocabulary appropriate to the program
- "A Soldiers Life" can be tailored to a period which matches the educational goals of the individual school or educator. Programs focusing on the 18th century French and British, and early 19th century American occupations of the Fort are available.
Duration: Half or Full Day Cost: $250/$500
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As this title suggests, this program utilizes characters and themes developed in Helen Fuller Orton's novel, The Gold-Laced Coat, to introduce students to the French occupation of Fort Niagara and Western New York. The central element of the program is an in-class visit by a uniformed French "officer," who will use the adventures of Captain and Phillipe DeCroix, Pierre, Red Bird, and Abbie as a backdrop for an interactive presentation on the true life of French soldiers and civilians in the fort, utilizing both reproduction and original artifacts to bring the past to life. "The Gold-Laced Coat" will seek to increase student understanding of some of the following education concepts:
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- Transportation and geography in 18th century America.
- An introduction to the Fur Trade and the commercial forces behind colonization.
- An introduction to the French and Indian War.
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The Panama caps' storyI have love/hate relationships with head-pieces in general. From one point, I can't wear them because of my "gullible ears" problem. From the other one, I love a good old classical style fedora a sports style baseball cap to complete my look.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
a lot less lunches for the limbo.
He likes the regular lunch. I've known this all along... I've just tried to fight it.
With his laptop lunchbox still missing (and most likely gone for good), I find myself at a crossroads. Who knew I would put so much thought into lunchboxes. really. who stresses over this?
I declared not long ago that I was going to buy a new laptop lunchbox, but I am not so sure. The kids go straight out to recess after lunch, with many other classes and a few grade overlaps. He still seems to think someone else picked his up by mistake - really? I highly doubt someone else has an electric blue/green alien lunchbox, and if so, wouldn't there have been a duplicate remaining in the lunchbox pile by the door?
Knowing he prefers 'regular lunches' over the laptop, I flat out asked the accusatory question - "did you lose it on purpose?" he swears up and down he did not. I do believe him. He has always been a kid who is super easy to break. He would have cracked by now if he had anything to do with the mysterious disappearance.
So, that brings me to this super tiny in the grand scheme of things, yet stressful to my little life, decision. Shell out $50 for a new system (lost the silverware, the water bottle, a few containers including one of our killer awesome large inner containers that is only sold in the separate 'buddy' kit which tacks another $12 onto the system total)
OR, knowing he likes a 'regular lunch', meet him in the middle and just use some of the remaining laptop lunch containers mixed with whateverr tupperware and the occasional baggie or prepackaged item and hodgepodge it into his old (current) lunchbag.
Considering we've had his laptop lunchbox for about three months, I just can't see shelling out that much money when he could possibly lose it again.
so.... that is where I am at: He is going to still be getting healthy lunches with minimal packaging, but they will just be more 'regular' in format. I won't use all prepackaged, processed or so much plastic baggies as I did for today's lunch, but they just are not going to be as fancy, creative or decorative since I am limited to use random containers and will have to use some plastic bags just to be able to fit it all into the lunchbag as the bulky containers make arranging enough food, plus a drink difficult! Being that I have to cram it all together, it just doesn't make sense that I spend so much time on making them look 'pretty'.
My daughter on the other hand is at a preschool where there is pretty much no possible way her lunch could get lost in the shuffle. So, you most likely will only be seeing her lunches from here on out. It will be less often as she only goes to school two days a week.
Here is her lunch for tomorrow...
After the picture, I added salad dressing and cut into the orange so she can peel it easily.
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I was so embarrassed by the lunch boxes my mom would pick for me - well into middle school. I would put it on my lap and try to hide whatever it was because all the other kids had brown bags. I never wanted to hurt her feelings and tell her I wanted a brown bag. I just suffered for years with a big lunch box that everyone made fun of. I don't know how that will translate into my own lunch packing habits when my daughter is older. It's just one of those school memories - and your post brought it up again!ReplyDelete
I remember the lunch boxes my parents had for me and I would never do that to my daughter.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 30, 2009 at 9:17 PM
What about, at least, insisting that he brings the plastic bags home, since he brings the lunchbox home anyway? It's not so bad for him to just stick used plastic baggies in the lunchbox.ReplyDelete
You can always rinse and reuse them several times. No reason that only one use results in it being thrown away -- peanut butter sandwiches don't cause that much destruction!
BIG money saver, good for environment.
Sometimes, children don't realize what the have until it is gone. I believe after awhile he will want you make him special lunch again. I have a daughter who I thought she didn't like something then later ask for it again. I would recommend switching back and forth between his "regular" lunch and the laptop lunch. Especially, it feels like his sister is getting a special lunch and he is not.ReplyDelete
P.S. I truly enjoy reading your site!!!
I was thinking that to me (as a fan of your blog) I hope that you would tell us what is in your son's lunch anyway. I don't have the time to make the designs in your pictures but I am inspired by the ingredients and variety. Don't sell yourself short I know many people probably "tune in" for the great designs (and they are great :) But there are those of us out here that your are inspiring by the mere contents of the lunches.ReplyDelete
thanks for all of the comments!ReplyDelete
Frosty, I will keep that in mind! There have been a few 'throw it together before the bus comes' mornings where there is not time to take a picture. BUT there are some nights I think the lunches are plain, but I will now think twice and take a pic anyways! :)


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Counterfactual writing has been popular for many years. What if the Nazis had won the war in Europe? What if there had been no Reformation? Extending the genre to finance one might ask, what if the bond market had closed to Italy in 2011? (More of a niche market there, perhaps, but an interesting question nonetheless . . . )
Investment decision making by contrast concerns the future, of course, whose range of outcomes is practically limitless. Where the FTSE 100 index will close the year is a matter of opinion. A successful investor could be defined as someone who gets those sorts of things right more often than she gets them wrong. The only certainty she has, however, is that the future could hold almost anything.
And so to inflation, the UK, and what happens next.
The data out last week showing another uptick in the rate of price increases in Britain will have come as no surprise to readers of this blog. CPI is catching up with PPI output prices which have continued to catch up with PPI input prices, which have continued to come in at around 20% higher than the same time twelve months previously. Notably, "RPIX" – the rate of retail price inflation excluding the impact of mortgage interest payments and the rate once targeted by the Bank of England – came in at +3.5% year-on-year (to February). A full point above the old target, that would once have provoked a letter from the Governor to the Chancellor. CPI has only just got up to +2.3%, however, so under the new regime there is officially nothing to worry about.
Bearing in mind the enormous range of possibilities encompassed by the future we ought to be surprised at the strength of the consensus about what happens next. The Bank, the City, the leading independent forecasters: all are agreed that rising inflation will eat into wage packets, dampen growth, soften the labour market a little then fall away again. This time we all know how the story will end.
Taking this as read, then, let us try to be counterfactual, if only for entertainment's sake.
On February data, real wage growth either flatlined (using CPI) or fell by 1% (using headline RPI). Let us follow the consensus in assuming that inflation grows by another point or so into the end of this year. That would push real wage growth down to between -1% and -2%.
Now: what if the effect of this was not only, or primarily, to impact growth? What if the expectation that wage growth will muddle along at a steady +2% is wrong? What if earnings actually start to rise to compensate for higher prices?
Like any good counterfactual tale our story needs to have its roots in genuine history to come across as believable to its readers.
In this case we might look at the distance travelled by the UK economy since the unemployment rate peaked in November 2011 at 8.5%. At that time average earnings growth was coming in at +1.7-1.8%, just a little lower than its present rate, though at the time this was a noteworthy trough and a level not seen since 1967. Wage growth subsequently fell further, hitting lows of +0.7-0.8% during the 2013-14 period. During those two years, however, employment growth had taken off in earnest with joblessness falling from 7.8% to 5.7%. Average earnings growth subsequently rose too, hitting +2.8% by mid-2015.
That British pay packets began to grow as spare workers became that bit harder to get hold of might well have been a complete coincidence. Indeed if we are to believe that earnings growth will not continue to accelerate today, as unemployment is down even further at 4.7%, equalling its post-1975 low, then that must be taken as read. The consensus, after all, is convinced of it.
Let us persist with our radical, counterfactual account, however. Suppose that labour market strength might genuinely correlate with wage growth. Where might that take us?
Prior to the Great Recession the average rate of earnings growth in the UK was +4%. Using a five-year lag from earlier peaks in unemployment wage growth reached +4.9% (February 1998) and +9.3% (May 1989). The economic, market and demographic environments were very different in their own ways at each of those different times, so the absolute numbers are not perhaps that illustrative. What they have in common is that they occurred during uptrends in wage growth established in the wake of falling unemployment.
For our fictional account of the British economy, then, let us assume that 2017 were to end with average earnings growing at 3-4%. With CPI and RPI inflation settling in the same range this would not represent boom times for wage packets in real terms. But it would not mean a growth-threatening contraction either. Expectations for increased labour market slack would surely go out of the window. Inflation projections would rise. Interest rate expectations would change. We might be entering 2018 worried not so much about contraction as about an overheating economy and a monetary policy that looked to have long since fallen behind the curve.
This is hardly a gripping, mass-market narrative. But it is the kind of thing that investors might want to weigh up in their thinking from time to time.
At least it would be if it were not the most absurd counterfactual, of course. Luckily the consensus is universally settled. We all know what is going to happen. In Britain's immediate future, there is no alternative ending.
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text: Hi Roger, Thanks for this, as previously mentioned i am relatively new to this, i started with a GLS method but then realised it may not be the most effective so i decided to try SAR methods. > What definition of neighbour are you using in the correlogram? I call the SAR as follows :- sem.nb1.5.w<-errorsarlm(ols2, listw=nb1.5.w, zero.policy=F, na.action=na.omit) Then extract the residuals: - res.sem.nb1.5.w <- residuals(sem.nb1.5.w) Then use these to construct the correlogram: - cor.sem.nb1.5.w<-correlog(data$X, data$Y, z=residuals(sem.nb1.5.w), na.rm=T, increment=1, resamp=1) > The correlogram obviously doesn't care about no-neighbour observations, so perhaps do the same? How do i do this? If i set the dmax too low i get "Empty neighbour sets found" so it wont run the model. I feel i am artificially setting the dmax based on the fact it works rather than any scientific rationale. I tried a method used in your example: > coords <- coordinates(columbus) > rn <- sapply(slot(columbus, "polygons"), function(x) slot(x, "ID")) > k1 <- knn2nb(knearneigh(coords)) > all.linked <- max(unlist(nbdists(k1, coords))) > col.nb.0.all <- dnearneigh(coords, 0, all.linked, row.names=rn) To join everything on a NN basis. But that resulted in little difference in the correlgram and AIC. So my two questions are: Do i have to link every neighbour and if not how to i run the model without getting the error and how do i decide which neighbours not to link? Will it make a large difference if the correlgram doesn't change much? Does this mean the model is not "dealing" with the correlation effectively and how do i improve this? Thanks again and sorry for my relatively naive questions! Chris On 27 Apr 2011, at 21:16, Roger Bivand wrote: On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Chris Mcowen wrote: > Dear list, > > I was wondering if somebody could possibly offer me some advice? > > I have a dataset where there is spatial autocorrelation present - visible from the correlogram. So i tried to remove it using a SAR. My data is for 458 regions of differing size for which i have long - lat co-ordinates. > > > coords<-cbind(data$X,data$Y) > coords<-as.matrix(coords) > > The first approach was to use dnearneigh to set up the neighbourhood. I am very new to this and was having problems as regions would often appear with no links ( see below) so i upped dmax until this no longer occurred - this maybe a incorrect method? > >> dnearneigh(coords, 0, 1500, row.names = NULL, longlat = TRUE) > Neighbour list object: > Number of regions: 458 > Number of nonzero links: 8990 > Percentage nonzero weights: 4.285769 > Average number of links: 19.62882 > 2 regions with no links: > 235 236 > > Results in - Empty neighbour sets found > >> dnearneigh(coords, 0, 2000, row.names = NULL, longlat = TRUE) > Neighbour list object: > Number of regions: 458 > Number of nonzero links: 14200 > Percentage nonzero weights: 6.769512 > Average number of links: 31.00437 > > I then converted this to a weight matrix and used in my SAR. > > nb1.5 <- dnearneigh(coords, 0, 2000, row.names = NULL, longlat = TRUE) > nb1.5.w<-nb2listw(nb1.5, glist=NULL, style="W", zero.policy=FALSE) > > However, looking at the correlogram and the AIC ( below) it seems to not have made a huge difference > > AIC: -2581.8, (AIC for lm: -2574) With relatively large numbers of neighbours, you smooth more. What definition of neighbour are you using in the correlogram? Why not just use the same? The correlogram obviously doesn't care about no-neighbour observations, so perhaps do the same? If you want to link every observation in, why not then down-weight distant neighbours using inverse distance weights - see ?nbdists. The test neighbour definition and the weights used for model fitting do not match. Further, you don't say whether your correlogram is for the OLS model residuals or just the response variable. If the latter, the explanatory variables may co-vary in space with the response, so the residuals are in fact not spatially autocorrelated. Hope this helps, Roger > > So i tried defining my neighbourhood using the knearneigh function but that made very little difference > > test <- knearneigh(coords, k=1, longlat = NULL, RANN=TRUE) > knn2nb(test, row.names = NULL, sym = FALSE) > k1 <- knn2nb(knearneigh(coords)) > all.linked <- max(unlist(nbdists(k1, coords))) > col.nb.0.all <- dnearneigh(coords, 0, all.linked, row.names=rn) > > AIC: -2581.8, (AIC for lm: -2574) > > IS there something i am doing wrong or is there a step i am not doing? > > Any help would be gratefully received. > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo at r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > -- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo


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Today, a huge anti-terror drill took place in the northern German town of Kiel. Now
experience tells us, that frequently after such drills alleged Muslim terror attacks will
happen as we have seen in London, Paris or most recently in Stockholm. Those, who
live there or want to visit Kiel should keep there eyes open, avoid masses of people
and folks wearing uniforms. The approaching regional elections are another hint, that
something could be planned by mind twisted scumbags ruling our world.
Writing of terror attacks, another one was executed on April, 11 targeting the team
bus from football club Borussia Dortmund. Three roadside bombs were planted, but
not allotted high enough with explosives to cause major damage or kill someone.
Since the installment of the bombs looks like a professional job one wonders, why
they were underdosed with substances, i mean every kid rapidly figures out, how
many firecracker are needed to blast a mail box. Clearly no one should be injured
gravely and the whole incident has written psychological operation all over it.
To stir up confusion several groups allegedly claimed responsibility, when they even-
tually presented to us an Russian-German loner as the supposed culprit, who also fits
nicely the current enemy image. His plan was to make a tidy profit with a modest
investment through shady stock deals by blowing up the team with BVB club stocks
falling subsequently. And to be most inconspicous he behaved like a gorilla in a
porcelain shop demanding a room on the top floor in the team hotel, from where he
wanted to ignite the bombs. My verdict : No one with a leftover of five functioning
brain cells believes the charade.


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|Fresh July Intern
|Seasoned June Intern
|Cautiously orders incorrect medication.
|Confidently orders incorrect medication.
|Glowing tan.
|Smiles and waves.
|Smirks and gives middle finger.
|Turns nose up at hospital coffee.
|Drinks two pots of coffee by noon.
|Call bag packed with deodorant, hair brush, tooth brush, fresh socks, change of clothes.
|Call bag packed with hard liquor.
|White coat contains: iPhone, note cards, pens, specialty pocket guide, highlighter, a few dollars, otoscope/ophthalmoscope, reflex hammer, alcohol swabs, vision chart, bandages, and trauma scissors.
|White coat contains: iPhone, graham crackers, condoms.
|Hides in supply closet to cry.
|Weeps openly.
|Excited about shiny new pager.
|Knows pager has been retrieved from toilet twice, dropped in 3 body cavities, and still makes her cringe every time it goes off.
|Runs away from code, but gets lost in the stairwell.
|Runs away from code, knows where to hide.
|Can't open Epic.
|Copies and pastes progress notes in 3 seconds flat.
|Discreetly asks nurse what to do for patient,
|takes credit. Praises nurse for saving his behind. Again.
|Anxiously calls consults, provides no useful information.
|Proudly calls consults, provides no useful information.
|Questions choice of becoming a doctor.
|Questions humanity.
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Q: Does Johnson County Library host a Writers Conference?
Yes! Our 2017 Writers Conference will be Thursday November 2nd to Saturday November 4th. All sessions will be at the Central Resource Library. Mark Doty will kick off the conference on Thursday evening, followed by sessions all day Friday and Saturday. Check back for the full conference schedule.
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This project will work with the MPCA to conduct watershed pollutant load monitoring at four sites in the Chippewa River watershed and one site in the neighboring Pomme de Terre River watershed . The Chippewa River Watershed Project (CRWP) team will also aid the MPCA in measuring and comparing regional differences and long-term trends in water quality. The goal is to collect quality data and complete load calculations for the five sites using the MPCA's established protocols.
The AgBMP Loan Program provides needed funding for local implementation of clean water practices at an extremely low cost, is unique in its structure and is not duplicated by any other source of funding.The AgBMP loan program provides 3% loans through local lenders to farmers, rural landowners, and agriculture supply businesses.
This project will support a civic engagement cohort that will be offered in southwest Minnesota to foster partnering and build capacity of local government, organizations, and residents for effective civic engagement in water protection and restoration. This project will also build networks and the skill set of local resource professionals to do effective civic engagement work for water restoration and protection. The cohort will be administered through the Minnesota River Board (MRB), established in 1995 with a goal of focusing water management efforts on the local level.
The Discovery Farms program is a farmer-led effort to gather field-scale water quality information on different types of farms across Minnesota. The three pillars of the program are farmer leadership, credible research, and communicating results.
The Minnesota River Basin Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) models simulate sediment erosion and transport, however these models periodically need to be adjusted to be consistent with the most recent sources of information regarding sediment distribution and loading rates. The goal of this project is to refine the sediment source partitioning and simulation in the Minnesota River basin using all relevant available sources of information.
The Minnesota River Basin Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) models, which simulate flow and pollutant transport, need to be refined to be consistent with the most recent external sources of land use, hydrologic response, and surface flow attributions. The primary goal of this work is to refine the hydrologic calibration in the Minnesota River basin.
The goal of this project is to extend existing Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) models through 2017 for the following major watersheds: Redwood, Cottonwood, Watonwan, Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Pomme de Terre, Minnesota River-Headwaters, and Lac Qui Parle watersheds.
This project will update sediment Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for 60-64 impaired stream reaches and provide a final TMDL report. The report will address sediment and turbidity impaired streams in the Minnesota River Watershed. TMDLs will describe the impairment in each water body and water quality targets, and will include a discussion of pollutant sources, supporting report components that document assumptions and methodologies, and TMDL equations with completed load allocations, wasteload allocations, and margin of safety for each impairment.
This project addresses five reaches of the Minnesota River that have aquatic recreation impairments as identified by high concentrations of E. coli. The project will describe the water quality impairments, complete pollutant source assessments, establish loading capacities and allocations for the impairments, and develop implementation strategies.
This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by MPCA EAO staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, and fieldwork expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities within the described priority watersheds.
Lake Monitoring: Lakes are monitored for nutrients, clarity and other information to provide the data needed to assess the aquatic recreation use support.
This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by MPCA EAO staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, fieldwork, data management, and interpretation expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities.The ambient groundwater monitoring network describes the current condition and trends in Minnesota's groundwater quality.
Minnesota Erosion Control Association (MECA) will offer three one-day training session intended to educate permittees on the requirements of the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit. The focus of these workshops will be on conducting inspections and various hot topics.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will coordinate the collection of high-resolution elevation data for northeastern portion of Minnesota using Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) systems. The geographic area of the work includes Minnesota counties of Carlton, Cook, Lake, and St. Louis Counties and that portion of Koochiching County that comprises Voyageurs National Park.
The goal of this project is to refine the nutrient and algae simulation in the Minnesota River basin using all relevant available sources of information. The outcome of this work order is a revised Hydrological Simulation Program – FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model application for the Minnesota River basin that correctly represents nutrient sources and algae.
Approximately 70 percent of all Minnesotans rely on groundwater as their primary source of drinking water. Wells used for drinking water must be properly sealed when removed from service to protect both public health and Minnesota's invaluable groundwater resources. The Minnesota Department of Health protects both public health and groundwater by assuring the proper sealing of unused wells.
Clean Water funds are being provided to well owners as a 50% cost-share assistance for sealing unused public water-supply wells.
This project will generate water quality data for 10 stream locations MPCA designated for their 2012 and 2013 open-water sampling seasons (8 by NRRI-UMD and 2 via subcontract to the North St. Louis SWCD). The overall project goal is to collect event-based physical and chemical data sets for 10 agency-prioritized stream sampling sites in NE Minnesota for calculating pollutant loads and for incorporation into the overall State database for MPCA assessment purposes.
This project will provide the monitoring of reaches where there are data gaps, incorporate new data and analyze relevant data, identify pollutant sources, hold a stakeholder meeting, and gather information towards the future development of a Draft Restoration (TMDL) and Protection Plan.
This project will support the monitoring of reaches where there are data gaps, incorporate new data and relevant data, continue identification of pollutant sources, complete load duration curves, coordinate and encourage participation in stakeholder meetings. The information gathered during Phase IIB will be utilized towards the development of a Draft Restoration (TMDL) and Protection Plan (Plan).
The West Central Technical Service Area (WCTSA) serves 12 Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs) in west central Minnesota and has been experiencing increased workload due to greater requests from member SWCDs. This funding will sustain a limited-term technician and purchase related support equipment to assist landowners in implementing targeted, high priority practices that result in the greatest water quality outcomes.


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I really enjoyed beginning to learn to sew from patterns to make my liberty print blouse recently, and I'm itching to find the time to continue with some more complex projects. I started to learn to make a collared/button-up shirt from the wonderful Craftsy – where you can download the pattern and watch step-by-step videos to learn the techniques (sorry granny – I'll get you to teach me some more sewing too!).
However, and talking as someone who really isn't that much of a perfectionist here, I also get great satisfaction from taking a project from idea to completion within a day or a few evenings – so that it's finished, it's usable and it becomes something I love to have rather than another perpetual pile of half-finished fibres (although I have those too, see above).
One such project is my fun hedgehog print pen tidy, or brush wrap, or watchamacallit. My mother bought me this cute fabric for Christmas, and I decided that I should make something special with it. I was in possession of a rather shabby & badly proportioned brush wrap already, and I thought… I can do better than that, even without it being brilliantly executed!
I have never sewn a zip into anything before. Neither have I learned how to properly attach bias binding either. I didn't measure the line width of the pen holding compartments, I just sewed them up randomly, thinking different widths would be quite useful for varying sizes of pen & crochet hooks.
I love it though. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, so they say? Well, I now have a much tidier desk, and one less pile of fabrics that I don't have time to do something with. Here's to messy projects!


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Hot: VizualTech ALMS Style 2010 Chevrolet Camaro Wallpapers
Swedish designer Bo Zolland from VizualTech has created amazing renderings of the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro based racer for the American Le Mans Series (ALMS).
As always, he has done a fantastic job showing off the disign featuring a widebody kit and huge wheels and tires. Other upgrades include large front air dam, rear diffuser, large wing, fender vents front and rear and side skirts.
Unfortunately you won't be seeing anything like this on the ALMS series because they are simlpy concept renderings. Maybe when GM's financial situation gets better we'll see something resembling this on the ALMS series.
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People need more than good intentions to reduce their environmental footprint. In fact, scientists are learning that a personal footprint is hard to see.
Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University environmental sociologist, says it's becoming painfully obvious that good intentions aren't enough. Research is showing that people consistently miss the mark when estimating household energy use. Beliefs and values tend to affect individual's estimates about how much of resources, in this case water, households use.
It turns out that pledges to save the Earth can become muted when costs or hassle factors emerge. Dietz points out the need to more fully understand how people make decisions in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"What each individual does to conserve resources is very small, but if that behavior is replicated by others, it can have a huge impact," Dietz said. "But what we need to do to have effective policies is to understand how people are motivated and how to educate them so they'll know what to do."
Both, he notes, are tricky matters. In his PNAS commentary, inspired by the work of Shahzeen Attaari at Indiana University, Dietz notes that Attaari's findings about how people miscalculate their use of household water and how that accuracy varies by age and gender. Her work also points out that people are better at estimating water consumption than they are energy consumption, perhaps in part boggled by the relatively abstract nature of a kilowatt versus the concrete nature of a gallon.
Dietz says individuals can make a difference. The United States could reduce its total greenhouse gas emissions by more than seven percent with policies that encourage more efficient energy consumption. That would be akin to eliminating all of France's greenhouse emissions, he said.
Attaining that level, however, means understanding the subtleties of how people make decisions. Motivating a consumer has dubious benefits if the person doesn't know what to do. And even the best ideas can be dashed if obstacles seem greater than motivation.
"If you leave people to themselves, there's no guarantee they'll pick the best things to do," Dietz said. "It's important to know how people misunderstand what the potential is of what they do. We'll always get the wrong answer if we look only at part of the picture."
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We aim a lot of contradictory exhortations at boards. We tell them to be strategic. We tell them to provide oversight of the organization and the ED. We expect them to focus on fundraising...and their fiduciary role...and on providing hands-on help to staff. It is no wonder many board members feel uncertain about their role. An organization will be able to make better decisions, make decisions more quickly, and maximize the talents of its board members and staff if the board:
- Has common understanding of the role of the board and of board members,
- Establishes clear procedures for how the board is going to operate, and
- Establishes a partnership with the ED/CEO, so that he or she can make the day-to-day decisions that need to be made if an organization is going to be effective.
A Wealth of Resources
No area of nonprofit management gets as much attention on the bookshelves, on websites, or in coffee shop kvetching of EDs as governance does. If the sheer pounds of writing about the topic was related to how well developed the area is, there would be a lot less complaining. But we are going to send you down that road to learning about boards anyway. There really are some simple and easy to implement basics about having a good board. Start with these tools:
- Effective Board Meetings for Good Governance (National Council of Nonprofits) shares 10 tips and resources for meetings that are strategic, outcome-oriented, and productive; plus, links for Tips and Tools for Effective Meetings; and, additional Resources for Board Chairs & Effective Meetings
- Best Practices for Nonprofit Boards (501 Commons)
- Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice (Independent Sector)
- Free Online Nonprofit Board Basics Program (CompassPoint)
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An all-time bestseller for BoardSource, "Ten Basic Responsibilities" explores the board's 10 core responsibilities in the context of the governance challenges facing nonprofits today. It was also recently updated to include a deeper discussion of the role that advocacy plays in the responsibilities of nonprofit boards.
Other books providing great tools include:
- The Little Book of Boards: A Board Member's Handbook for Small (and Very Small) Nonprofits by Erik Hanberg (2014)
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- Boards on Fire by Susan Howlett (2011)
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The Difference Between a Board and a Boss
While it is true that the board of directors recruits and hires the Executive Director or Chief Executive Officer - and can fire them if the majority of the board votes to do so - boards are not in a good position to act as if they are the boss of the ED/CEO. The first reason for this is that no board member is a singular authority. Actions must be taken by the full board. The processes required for group action are agreeing to an agenda, determining options to be evaluated, evaluating them using different lenses and points of view, and lastly, making a group decision. These actions, even under the best of circumstances, do not move quickly enough for the board to be telling the executive what to do about day-to-day management issues.
So, the board must put the organization in the hands of the executive AND ask for the information they need to collectively consider if the organization is performing and if the executive is doing a good job. This will be made easier if the board decides before doing an evaluation what "doing a good job" looks like. The board can ask for regular reports that include measures of success. They can also conduct interviews with funders, clients, and stakeholders to see how the organization is viewed by others. If some board members feel there are issues of organizational or individual performance, the board must evaluate this as a group and determine what the full board thinks, not just the feelings of individuals.


text: WE CAME ACROSS THIS while dutifully thumbing through a new art book called Curve: The Female Nude Now (Universe Publishing, $40). This series, the book tells us, is called Strip No. 4 Curator, and the woman pictured happens to be the artist herself, London photographer Jemima Stehli, who asked male art critics, writers, and curators to sit for her while she stripped in front of them. We called her up and asked, What gives? "These were people I knew," Stehli says, "and it was about putting them in a supposedly neutral situation, introducing something-- my body--and seeing what else was going on there. And it was much closer than it looks. I was standing three feet away. Matthew [Higgs, the curator shown here] looked straight at the camera in every shot." So it's kind of like seeing how you'd react if Karen from Purchasing started idly pulling her sweater off in the middle of a meeting. Whatever else is going on there, we like to think we'd show a little more appreciation than Matthew did.