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From cotton towels and sheets in guest rooms, to food in the restaurant and wood used for furniture and fittings – the products of biodiversity are everywhere inside hotels. Outside, plants and animals make a hotel's public spaces and gardens attractive for guests, while beyond the hotel gates, parks, green spaces, coasts and natural habitats provide guests with opportunities for recreation and enjoyment.
Recognizing these important links, Accor, one of the leading hotel companies in the world, has joined forces with the International Union for Conservation of Nature, to develop guidelines on the sustainable use of biological resources in hotels' everyday operations.
"We have identified actions in all operational areas that will help hotels minimize their impact on the environment and contribute to biodiversity conservation," says Giulia Carbone, of IUCN's Business and Biodiversity Programme. "Hotels can have positive effects on nature conservation, as the examples in this guide show."
The guide, Biodiversity: My hotel in action, is aimed at all hotel managers and owners of small and large hotels, located anywhere, from cities to mountains and coastal areas.
"Deciding where to locate hotels and how to design them, how to manage energy and water consumption effectively, and how to dispose of waste properly were all topics covered in detail in a number of existing valuable publications," says Patricia Cortijo, Accor's Environment Director. "What we didn't have until now, however, was a reliable reference on how to minimize our direct impact on biodiversity during everyday operations."
The guide is structured around the main operational areas of a hotel: restaurants, public areas, including the spa, guest rooms, hotel souvenir shops, hotel grounds and gardens. It also covers the relationships a hotel can establish with the surrounding community. For each of these areas, the guide provides management tips focusing on what can be done internally, with the suppliers, with the clients and with the community. The management tips are then complemented with technical fact sheets developed by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, listing conservation issues and advice on which species to choose and which to avoid.
"From tuna and salmon to seafood specific to Asia, to medicinal and aromatic plants, to live animals and plants used in hotel grounds, to wildlife-based souvenirs; restaurant chefs, spa mangers, interior designers and shopkeepers will all find detailed guidance on how to make responsible purchasing decisions in this publication," says Richard Thomas, TRAFFIC's Communications Co-ordinator.
The International Hotel and Restaurant Association (IH&RA) has also joined forces with IUCN and Accor. "Biodiversity conservation is one of the priorities we see in front of us," says Ghassan Aidi, President of the International Hotel and Restaurant Association. "This initiative is going to be a valuable first step in raising awareness among our members with other initiatives that our Chain members are doing right now and the definition of the criteria for sustainable development that we were part at UN foundation, about the value of biodiversity and the actions that hotels should take to save it."
The guide will be launched the IUCN World Conservation Congress on 8 October during a workshop organized by Accor.
The financial support of the French Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Planning and Development and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been instrumental in completing the project.
About IUCN
IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges by supporting scientific research; managing field projects all over the world; and bringing governments, NGOs, the UN, international conventions and companies together to develop policy, laws and best practice.
The world's oldest and largest global environmental network, IUCN is a democratic membership union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists and experts in some 160 countries. IUCN's work is supported by over 1,000 professional staff in 60 offices and hundreds of partners in public, NGO and private sectors around the world. IUCN's headquarters are located in Gland, near Geneva, in Switzerland.
About Accor
Accor, the European leader and a major global group in hotels, as well as the global leader in services to corporate clients and public institutions, operates in nearly 100 countries with 150,000 employees. It offers to its clients over 40 years of expertise in two core businesses:
- Hotels, with the Sofitel, Pullman, Novotel, Mercure, Suitehotel, Ibis, all seasons, Etap Hotel, Formule 1 and Motel 6 brands, representing 4,000 hotels and nearly 500,000 rooms in 90 countries, as well as strategically related activities, such as Lenôtre.
- Services, with 30 million users in 40 countries benefiting from Accor Services products in employee and constituent benefits, incentive and rewards and expense management.
About TRAFFIC
TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, works to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature. TRAFFIC is a joint programme of IUCN and WWF.
About IH&RA
The International Hotel & Restaurant Association (IH&RA) is the only global business organization representing the hospitality worldwide. Its members are national hotel and restaurant associations throughout the world, and international and national hotel and restaurant chains representing some 50 brands. Officially recognized by the United Nations, IH&RA monitors and lobbies all international agencies on behalf of this industry, estimated to include 300'000 hotels and 8 million restaurants, employing 60 million people and contributing with 950 billion USD annually to the global economy.


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A standing room only crowd packed into the Cape Coral City Council chambers Monday to witness the swearing in of a new mayor and three new council members.
The outgoing mayor and councilmen said their goodbyes, all of them receiving applause for their hard work the last four years.
In their place, the first female mayor, the youngest council member in the history of the city, a former councilman and mayor and a city activist took their oaths of office in what was a largely ceremonial meeting Monday at City Hall.
There was some business the former council had to tackle, and that was to certify the results of the Nov. 5 city elections, which passed by a 7-1 vote. Mayor John Sullivan opposed because he is seeking a recount of the results in the mayoral race.
With that, Sullivan, Chris Chulakes-Leetz, Marty McClain and Kevin McGrail received plaques and a final farewell, while offering their parting thoughts.
"I know there were people who didn't agree with me, but there were others who did," Sullivan said before making an indirect reference to the election by saying, "Next time, please vote. It's very important."
"It's not about who's sitting on city council, it's about the principles. I have faith Mr. Leon will honor those principles," Chulakes-Leetz said.
"My wife will very much like for me to be her husband again instead of that masked man passing through on his way to his many jobs," McGrail said. "Thank you for all you do to keep Cape Coral the city we all love to call home."
Marni Sawicki was then sworn in as mayor as was former mayor Jim Burch representing District 1, Richard Leon in District 4 and Rick Williams in District 6.
Sawicki was visibly nervous as she convened a new meeting to order and said as much as she called a new roll call and then a 30-minute recess so loved ones could congratulate the new members and the press could interview them.
"It was a little more daunting than the practice ones. It's been a whirlwind and I'm still a little overwhelmed. Next week you will see a different me," Sawicki said.
There was still business to perform as Sawicki reconvened the meeting using the hot pink bedazzled gavel she promised to use for the first meeting, courtesy of her daughter..
Councilmember Rana Erbrick was approved to remain mayor pro-tem, while the council was appointed to the myriad of committees on which they are expected to serve, replacing those no longer in office.
Councilmember Derrick Donnell may have given the best advice to Sawicki in closing comments, saying, "the honeymoon lasts for about three weeks, so get ready when Dec. 9 comes around."
After the city council meeting, a special Community Redevelopment Agency meeting was convened, where Erbrick was reappointed as chairperson, with Burch, whose district comprises most of the CRA, named vice chair.
The new members were thrilled to get to work in earnest, confident it will be a kinder, gentler council, especially to each other.
"Having done it through some difficult years, I'm looking forward to better years. We have a very positive council and I'm looking forward to working with them," Burch said. "Diversity is a good thing for everybody and I'm looking forward to all the points of view."

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- Kids learn from failure if you're there to coach them
- Children need practice in making decisions
- Kids need particular practice with finances
There are certain seasons in Rome, where my children were born, when the days begin cool and end in sunshine. When we lived there, my preschooler and I started every one of them with the following conversation:
Me: "Here's your fleece. It'll be chilly outside."
Preschooler: "No, I don't want it."
Me: "You'll be cold without it."
Preschooler: "No, I'll be sweaty." (Or my favorite, "No, I don't like it when it touches my hands.")
"So be it," I'd think as I zipped up my own jacket. Because I knew what was coming. And sure enough, the moment we stepped outside, one of us (hint: it wasn't me) was suddenly shivering and screeching about being "soooooo cold." Clearly, the lesson hadn't been learned -- but I had no problem letting it sink in, one morning at a time.
upwave: 6-step fearless parenting model
The rumor: It's good to let your kids screw up because they learn
OK: A spring jacket is one thing, but what about letting a child spend his hard-earned allowance on something overpriced or bound to break immediately? Or letting him quit a team? Or fight with a friend? At what point does it make sense for a parent to step in, save your kid some pain and discomfort and give them a bit of your grown-up know-how?
The verdict: The tactic only works if you coach your kids on what to do differently next time
Children do need to practice making decisions -- and dealing with failure -- before the consequences are too great. "If kids don't have the space to experiment and periodically make mistakes, they'll never learn how to problem solve and cope on their own," says Christine Koh, co-author of "Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More By Doing Less."
upwave: A guide to mindful parenting
But there's a right way to do it. The key? Coaching kids without being critical, says Ann Marie Albano, director of the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders. "I often send parents and children off to do something on purpose that will go wrong, such as to bake cakes together and to substitute baking soda for baking powder, just to see what will go wrong and then how to handle the situation," she says. "Parents can be great coaches in asking the child questions: 'Tell me about what happened. What do you think you can do differently next time? Can you brainstorm with me some ideas of what to do?' Parents can act as guides, leading through problem-solving steps. But the child needs to be encouraged to put the steps into place on their own."
Kids need practice with finances in particular. According to Bruce Feiler, author of "The Secrets of Happy Families," 80% of kids entering college have never had a conversation with their parents about money: earning it, spending it, what it means to get into debt and so on. He says that the time for your kids to experiment with money is now, and the logic is this: It's better to have your sixth grader be bummed that he spent five weeks' worth of allowance on what turned out to be a fake snake on a string (like a certain husband of mine did back in the day) than to have said kid rack up 50 grand in credit-card debt by age 25.
The problem is, letting our kids slip and fall -- figuratively and literally -- runs counter to our instincts as parents. After all, our job is to keep them safe. As comedian Louis C.K. told David Letterman, "You have this thing: You're supposed to raise them right. It's not just, 'Make them not die.' You make them good people."
I think we can all agree that "making kids good people" does not mean letting them fall to pieces every time they strike out, don't earn the grade they wanted or get hoodwinked at the fair (snake buyers be warned). Albano, who is also the author of "You and Your Anxious Child: Free Your Child from Fears and Worries and Create a Joyful Family Life," says you must let your kids make their own moves to become stable adults. Just provide the framework. "Your child isn't sure if she wants to join a group at school? Encourage her to ask questions of the kids in the club so she can learn more about it," she says. "Don't do this for her, but do rehearse with her how to approach others. The teacher mis-graded an exam? Rather than calling up the teacher, role-play with your child on how she can ask the teacher to take another look at the assignment."
The bottom line is this: Don't step in and do the work for your kids. Don't line up the perfect internship or correct a homework assignment after your child has gone to bed. Do ask questions, though, and do coach your kids through the possible outcomes ahead of time. If the damage is already done, take them through a play-by-play and help them figure out what to do the next time something like that happens.
And when in doubt, bring an extra fleece jacket.


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T&A is a clothing store featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. Based in Vice City circa 1984, the store occupies a two-storey space on the southeastern wing of the Vice Point Mall in Vice Point, each floor catering to a specific gender: "T&A (for) Men" on the lower level, and "T&A (for) Women" on the upper level. While featuring visible interiors on both floors, T&A is inaccessible nor interactive. Shoppers at the mall can also be seen carrying T&A Women bags.
The name is a play on C&A, an international chain of clothing stores rooted in Brussels and Germany.


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In the Cleveland area, there's a plan to inspire kids to start thinking about college early on by giving them seed money. Officials want to set up kindergarteners with savings accounts. Though the initial $100 deposit isn't likely to cover much, the hope is that it will inspire them to take the idea of going to college seriously.


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ROCKFORD — The Music Academy in Rockford's trip to Ravinia to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will depart at 12:45 p.m. Aug. 10 from Kmart, 5909 E. State St..
Participants will attend the orchestra's "Vienna Waltzes and Dances," featuring a performance by violinist Miriam Fried of Brahms' Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77. The group will return to Rockford at 9:30 p.m.
Cost: $50, lawn seating; $75, pavilion seating.
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Announce your public, nonprofit activities here, 75 words or less. E-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com or fax to 541-298-1365 or drop off at the Chronicle, 315 Federal St., PO Box 1910, The Dalles OR 97058.
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CHERRY RIDE: St. Mary's Academy of The Dalles will host the 10th annual Cherry of a Ride Sunday, April 13. This is a fully supported recreational ride in the Columbia River Gorge and offers scenic route options for every level of rider. Rides begin at St. Mary's. Route lengths are 30, 48, 60, 80 and 100 miles.
For more information, contact the school at 541-296-6004 or email email@example.com.
EGG HUNT: Flagstone's Annual Easter Egg Hunt will be Saturday, April 19, 1 p.m. All Kids ages 1-12 are invited to come and hunt eggs. Bring your own basket. The carrot carving contest will take place first, then the egg hunt, staged by age divisions. "Bonus Prize" tickets will be in some of the eggs, as an extra surprise. Kids may enjoy free ice cream afterwards. The public is welcome.
WEEKLY RUN: The Dalles Young Professionals hosts a weekly 5K run from Clock Tower Ales. The run happens each Tuesday starting at 5:30 pm. All skill levels and ages are welcome. It is a great opportunity to get a run in after work. Email firstname.lastname@example.com for additional questions or concerns.
KIWANIS MEETINGS: Kiwanis meetings are held every Thursday noon at Spooky's.
April 3, is Luise Langheinrich from Lines of Design on running a downtown business and training college and high school graduates for business.
April 5, is "Kiwanis One Day" when clubs around the world take on service projects in their communities.
April 10, is Bruce Lumper on the role and activities of The Dalles Watershed Council.
April 17, is Lauren Goldberg on the activities of Columbia Riverkeepers.
April 24, business meeting.
April 26, Kiwanians organize the Cherry Festival Parade: 8th and Cherry Heights 7:30 a.m.
Online: www.thedalleski wanis.org/.
DUFUR CARNIVAL: Dufur High Carnival will be April 4, from 5 to 8 p.m., with fun, prizes, games, cotton candy, popcorn, bean bag toss, pop shoot out and candy fishing.
MASTER GARDENERS: The Dalles/Wasco Co. Library will be hosting Master Gardeners: Bicki Griffith-Shaver and Lynn Jones for an informative presentation starting at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 5.
Now is the time to have questions answered as you start preparing for spring planting.
Call 296-2815 for details.
EXCHANGE EVENT: Five students from countries around the world will be presenting photos and stories from their homelands on Wednesday, April 16, at 7 p.m. at The Dalles-Wasco Co. Public Library. The presentations will feature the countries of Jordan, Norway, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain by exchange students at schools in Hood River, Dufur and The Dalles.
Sponsored by AFS Intercultural Programs, this presentation is free and open to the public. Followed by a dessert social. For more information, contact 541-965-2902
March 31
EXPLORING AERODYNAMICS: Russ, a retired science teacher, will present demonstrations with a small take-home output while exploring Bernoulli's Principle at Wonderworks Children's Museum Monday, March 31, at 4 p.m.
The program is for ages 6-9. Preregister at Wonderworks.
April 1
CHALLENGER BASEBALL: Meeting and registration for Challenger Baseball Tuesday, April 1, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Spooky's Pizza Parlor.
Challenger Baseball is a program designed to give boys and girls with physical and mental challenges, ages 4 to 18, or up to age 22 if enrolled in school, the opportunity to enjoy the game of baseball in a safe and fun environment.
For more information, call 541-705-7785, email email@example.com, or visit the Challenger Baseball of the Gorge Facebook page.
April 3
SONRISE DINNER: Authentic Mexican Dinner will be offered Thursday, April 3, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. featuring a complete Mexican dinner plus dessert auction.
Contact Sonrise Academy for reservations by emailing email@example.com or call 541-298-8922.
April 6
CANCER FUNDRAISER: Kalee Frazer, a senior at Columbia High School in White Salmon, will be running a cancer fundraiser/walk-a-thon on Sunday, April 6, from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. The walk-a-thon will take place at Columbia High School and will be open to walkers, joggers and runners of all stripes. All participants will need to sign a permission slip before beginning the walk.
Interested participants who would like to receive pledge sheets, sponsor a participant, or make donations are encouraged to contact Frazer at (509) 774-8307 or email@example.com.
more information, phone 541-296-8600 x 201, or visit www.gorgediscovery.org.
April 10
HAVEN EVENT: An Evening with Haven featuring culinary works by local chefs, wineries and music, is set for Thursday, April 10, at The Dalles Civic Auditorium. For more information, call 541-296-2065.
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION: The Columbia Gorge Community College Foundation's high-school scholarship application is now available. Any Mid-Columbia high school student graduating in spring 2014 may apply. Recipients may be awarded up to 12 credits tuition per term which can only be used at Columbia Gorge Community College. Recipients must attend CGCC in the 2014-15 academic year. Applications may be picked up in the Student Services department at The Dalles or Hood River campus as well as online at http://cgcc.edu/financial-aid/scholarships.
Applications must be delivered to either The Dalles or Hood River Student Services department at Columbia Gorge Community College no later than noon, Thursday, April 10.
For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 541-506-6111, or visit Student Services in The Dalles or Hood River.
April 11
RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS: The American Red Cross Oregon Trail Chapter is now recruiting volunteers to teach First aid and CPR/AED classes in the Hood River and The Dalles area. Community members are invited to join us for an open house event to learn about the Red Cross and how to get involved.
Enjoy a brief presentation about the history and mission of our organization, followed by a discussion of volunteer opportunities in your chapter area Friday, April 11, at 4 p.m. The American Red Cross office is at 507 W. 9th St. in The Dalles.
For more information, please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or visit our website at www.redcross.org/cascades.
MARKER DEDICATION: On Friday, April 11, at 11 a.m., the public is invoted as the Celilo Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution dedicates a basalt marker at the Fort Dalles Museum to recognize the Surgeon's Quarters as the only remaining building of the original fort. It is a policy of DAR to catalog historic properties for national records.
The stone was donated by Larry Lange Landscaping and the etching done by Dave Cutler, Columbia Gorge Studios, Mosier.
April 12
FATHERHOOD WORKSHOP: Northwest Marriage Institute in partnership with Sonrise Academy presents a free fatherhood workshop Saturday, April 12, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center.
Attendees — including spouses or girlfriends — will receive a free lunch and fathers will get a free $40 Fred Meyer gift card at the end of the day.
Free childcare is also provided and all books and materials are free. Three speakers will talk about responsible fatherhood, healthy relationships and Parenting with Love & Logic.
To register, go online at www.northwestmarriage.or or call 360-260-1100.
April 13
COMMUNITY DINNER: The Mosier Grange and Mosier Volunteer Fire Department are sponsoring a community dinner Sunday, April 13, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The dinner will be at the Mosier Grange Hall and feature grilled salmon, glazed ham, main dishes, salads and a cherry dessert. For cost and other information, call 541-478-3505.
Signs will mark the blossom and wildflower drive route through the Mosier Valley for an after-dinner drive.
April 15
LATINO ART: The Dalles Art Association is calling for art for the "Viva los Artistas" juried art show, May 1 to May 31. An opening reception and awards are planned Thursday, May 1, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Artists from the Latino community are urged to submit entries in all media. Submissions will be accepted Tuesday, April 15, through Saturday, April 19, at The Dalles Art Center, 220 E. Fourth St., The Dalles. Submission guidelines are available online at www.thedallesartcenter.org under the "Upcoming Events" tab.
OPEN HOUSE: North Wasco Virtual Academy's Open House will be on April 15, from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center. Learn more about free and local online learning options. If you are interested in home schooling, accelerated learning, or taking classes that are not offered at your school, this event is for you. For more information, contact NWVA @ 541-506-3449 x3003 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: The Dalles Meals on Wheels needs kitchen helpers and dining room helpers. Help in the kitchen from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. or help set up and clean up the dining room 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For more information or to sign up to be a volunteer, call Ashley at 541-298-8333.
April 16
DESSERTS NEEDED: Wednesday, April 16, at 7 p.m. six local AFS students will be giving a multi-cultural presentation at the public library, to be followed by a dessert social. If you plan to attend and can bring a finger-food dessert (such as brownies, cookies or fruit), RSVP to Anya Kawka so she can keep track of how many desserts there will be. email@example.com or 541-965-2902.
April 23
HABITAT PIZZA: The annual The Dalles Area Habitat for Humanity pizza feed will be Wednesday, April 23, at Spooky's in The Dalles from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are available from Habitat members, at the Habitat office at UCC Congregational Church, Klindt's Book Sellers, the Habitat ReStore and Spooky's. Proceeds help build affordable housing in the Mid-Columbia.
May 3
PIONEER MEETING: The Wasco County Pioneer Association 92nd annual meeting and luncheon will be Saturday, May 3 at the Calvary Baptist Church, 3350 Columbia View Drive in The Dalles.
Registration is at 9:30 a.m., lunch at 11:30 a.m., program at 1 p.m. Annual dues are $12.50 for individual, $15 per family, $14 for lunch.
For more information, call 541-993-9991.
May 7
MEMORIAL FUNDRAISER: The Mid-Columbia Car Club, in conjunction with The Dalles Burgerville, will host a memorial fundraiser for two car club members who recently died: Donna Keller and Dale Coles on Wednesday, May 7.
Ben Vollmar, chair of the raffle prize committee will be seeking donations of raffle prizes.
Proceeds from the sale of raffle tickets and a percentage of sales occurring that evening at Burgerville will be evenly split between Hospice of Hood River (Donna Keller) and Sherman County Scholarship Fund (Dale Coles).
May 9
DROP-IN VOLLEYBALL: Northern Wasco County Parks and Recreation District is offering drop-in volleyball every Thursday through May 9, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Wahtonka School campus main gym.
Anyone over 16 years of age is welcome. A $1 drop-in fee applies.
For more information, call 541-296-9533 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
June 8
GORGE-US GALS: The Gorge-Us Gals Ride in The Dalles, a benefit for HAVEN, is set for June 8. Registration is $50 until May 25, then increases to $60 per person. The registration fee helps survivors of domestic and sexual violence, stalking and dating violence.
For more information, call HAVEN at 541-296-1662.
August 1
CLASS REUNION: The Dalles High School Class of 1974 is planning its 40th year class reunion, Aug. 1, 2, and 3. We are seeking updated contact information for all classmates. For more information contact Joy Colvard Smith at email@example.com and visit the Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/TheDallesHighSchoolClassof1974.
August 16
CLASS REUNION: The Wahtonka High School class of 1994 will host a reunion this summer that is open to anyone who attended Wahtonka in the 1990s. The will take place on August 16, at the Hood River Elks Lodge. There will be a dinner and a nineties themed dance party. Tickets are available online at reunion.monicamgarcia.com for either that dance ($15) or the dinner ($20) or both. Tickets will be for sale until the deadline of May 31.
SOIL TESTING: OSU Extension Service Master Gardeners are now offering soil testing, which will continue weekly until October. Garden soil will be tested for nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, pH, humus and texture. Cost is $25 per sample.
Information on sample collection is available on the OSU Master Gardener website. www.extension.oregonstate.edu/wasco or call 541-296-5494 with your questions. Testing is available for home gardeners only.
PLANTS AVAILABLE: Wasco County Soil and Water Conservation District still has some plant species available for purchase. Trees: vine maple, white alder, quaking aspen; shrubs: rugosa rose, woods rose, blue enderberry, snowberry; cuttings: peachleaf willow; conifers: noble fire, incense cedar, western larch, ponderosa pine and Douglas fir.
The district also has seedling protection tubes with bamboo stakes.
To ensure the district has specific plants, call 541-296-6178 ext. 101. Plants are available on a first-come, first-served basis and must be paid for at the time of order.
WOMEN VETERANS: Information and support for women veterans is available through the Veterans Administration and the local Veterans Services Office. Find out more about pensions, education, employment, health issues, sexual trauma, disability, death benefits, mental health, aid and attendance, home loans, community service and peer support.
Contact Wasco County Veterans Services, 201 Federal St., The Dalles, 541-506-2502; VA Outpatient Clinic in The Dalles, 541-296-3937; VA Women's Clinic, Portland, 800-949-1004, ext. 52852; VA Rural Mental Health Triage, 800-949-1004, ext. 56409; Veterans Crisis Line, 800-273-8255, press 1. Online: www.va.gov.
MONTHLY MEETING: China Painters meet every Tuesday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Alphonses Hall on 1st and Church Street in Dufur. For more information call 541-467-2204 or 541-467-2465.
BINGO THURSDAY: The Dalles Meals on Wheels, Inc. has bingo every Thursday night starting at 6 p.m. at 1112 W. 9th St., The Dalles. Minimum buy-in is $8 and players could win between $750 to $1,000 on the pink card game. The Dalles Meals on Wheels has been serving seniors for over 40 years both in their homes and at the congregate mealsite. Bingo is our major fund raiser and makes up about 35 percent of the budget.
SUPPORT PROGRAM: The National Family Caregiver Support Program has respite funding available. Are you caring for an adult 60 years of age or older?
Are you at least 55 or older and raising a grandchild or grandchildren? Respite, a temporary break from caregiving duties, can make a world of difference in helping family caregivers.
Funding of the program is provided through the local Area Agency on Aging. To learn more about the program and its services call Melissa Howtopat at Area Agency on Aging, Mid-Columbia Council of Governments. Call 541-298-4101 or 1-888-316-1362.
EXERCISE PROGRAM: There are three components to exercise, stretching, strength training, and aerobics. The Oregon State Extension service sponsors three Strong People programs in The Dalles and Mosier that will address the strength training and stretching portion. Classes are approximately one hour in length twice a week. Columbia Gorge Community College Auditorium, noon Mondays and Wednesdays. Mosier Senior Center lunch Room, 12:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. Mid-Columbia Senior Center basement, 2 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. For more information call OSU Extension 541-296-5494.
VOLUNTEERS WANTED: Volunteers are needed to knit, crochet shawls and lap robes for cancer patients. Yarn and patterns will be provided. Call Betty at 541-980-0774.
COAT GIVEAWAY: The Salvation Army is offering coats all winter long during business hours for people in need, Monday through Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at their office or thrift store at 623 E. Third St. in The Dalles.
Coats will be given to low-income individuals and families in need of warm coats for the winter.
For more information, call Kris at 541-296-6417.
GENEALOGY MEETS: The Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society meets the second Saturday of each month at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center. The public and guests are welcome. A no-host lunch starts at noon in the Basalt Cafe.
For more information, call Sandra Bisset at 541-298-1240 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Get a membership application or more information online at http://community.gorge.net/genealogy/about.html Blog: http://cggsblog.blogspot.com. The society is also on Facebook.
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CHESAPEAKE — On Thursday, the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization board selected Newport News Mayor McKinley Price as its next chairman, replacing outgoing chairwoman Molly Joseph Ward, who resigned earlier this month to take a job with the White House.
Price becomes the second consecutive chair from the Peninsula. He wiill take over as chairman at the November meeting of the board.


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Hi everyone,
Most of you probably know my little Ollie has been home for 2 weeks now. He is now 11 weeks and getting bigger by the second! Also a lot my confident and adventurous.
I have a couple of little issues that I'd like to hear your opinions and advice on.
When I'm playing with Ollie (usually tug of war) he gets very growly and can even nip my fingers on purpous! I try the yelping technique but it seems to make him more excited in these situations. If he is calmer the yelping works quite well. How can I come him down when he is just growling and jumping up at me? I try to ingnore him but he will just run out the door if I do that!
That's another problem. The door to my backyard has about 7 steps leading to it. Ollie is nw confidently climbing up and down these steps but he still slips a lot! I am so worried about his patellas when he does this but once he is off I can't get to him before he goes down them. When I take him outside to go potty all he wants to do is run around and play with plants etc. I usually wait for him but now I've been going back inside because it just takes SO long. That means Ollie has to go inside on his own, his quite capable but I'm worried about his joints. P.S We have a very secure backyard
I'm definately a worried new mother, I bet you can tell! After Ollie eats or drinks he makes like a little cough/hiccup noise. It worries me but not enough to ring a vet. Is this normal? He also sneezes a bit too but I haven't called the vet up because I don't know if it's serious. He only sneezes once or twice a day. His also sliding on our wooden floors a lot! I can't stop him because he has to get around some way but all the sliding and slipping must not be good for his patellas.
One last thing is that this morning I took Ollie outside and waited for almost 10 minutes and all he was doing was playing around. So I went back inside but when he came in he was VERY growly and biting me non stop. I sat him on the couch because he usually calms down and will have a rest but he was just growling and whimpering and trying to jump off every chance he had. This went on for quite a few minutes, just him growling and nipping. I gave him a toy but he was hadly interested. Could something had happened to him outside and hurt him or something?
OK long post! Lol A little good news on top of that.. Ollie is learning SIT and DOWN very wel and can even do them without treats! But he won't do it unless he is very calm at the time. He is also great with strangers, very friendly but also very nippy. I'd like to take him to cafes and places like that so he can meet new people but I'd have to take him in my arms. AH another problem, how do I get around this? Because he is soo wriggly in my arms I'm afraid he'd fall. He hasn't really met more then 1 stranger at a time. We're also going to enrol in puppy class next week or the week after.. if there are any spots left!
Thanks for reading my long post!


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2004 Women's Soccer
Heidelberg 3, Bluffton 1
Heidelberg outlasts Bluffton 3-1
By Ryan White, Sports Information Intern
September 22, 2004
The Bluffton University women's soccer team (2-3) dropped a close one at Heidelberg Wednesday afternoon with a score of 3-1.
The Beavers lone tally came from Sophomore Jen Hoyt (Springfield/Kenton Ridge) with 8:39 left in the contest. Senior Goalkeeper Rochelle Saccomen (Ashland/Ashland) recorded eight saves in the match.
The women's soccer team will be back in action this Saturday September 25th at Cincinnati Bible. The match is scheduled for a 4 p.m. start.


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Model: Courtney Day Jeff Gooss' friends sometimes accuse him of overreacting to middle age, trying to relive his youth with a double-throwdown, hot-rodded Corvette. The thing is, Jeff is just short of 30-still in his prime. While the intense orange hue on his C5 may evoke a brilliant sunset, Jeff is not settling down for the evening of his life. It's 6 a.m., and this Vette is the wake-up call.
Which makes all the difference, because this guy doesn't know when to quit and won't let obstacles beat him down. He ran into plenty of them during the build up of his supercharged C5, which uses a Kenne Bell blower to pump out 800-plus horses at the rear wheels. To date, Gooss has dropped more money than he can count on the project-and we suspect there's more to come.
Where does somebody get this sort of ambition? "My passion for Corvettes started when I saw my first Greenwood C4 Corvette quite a few years ago," Jeff says. "It was always one of those things that I imagined in my head: if I ever get anywhere in life, this is the car I want."
Gooss did eventually get somewhere, becoming general manager of a custom motorcycle shop in Las Vegas, where money flows from the gaming industry like geysers from the spillways at Hoover Dam. Seeing all the mega-buck bikes rolling out the door, he soon developed an uncontrollable desire to buy a toy. Not just any toy, but one with four fat tires instead of two. He wanted something so loud and fast it would get more attention than a showgirl on the Strip.
Fortunately, Jeff's then fiance-they're married now-understood his needs. "I came home from work one evening and said, 'Honey, I'm buying a Corvette,'" he says. "I have one of the most supportive wives. Anytime I ask her for permission, it's always, 'Whatever you want to do, honey, is okay with me.'" We can almost hear the clatter of e-mails being typed by VETTE readers, inquiring as to whether Mrs. Gooss has a sister who's single.
With no hurdles on the home front, Jeff jumped into the project with both feet. "For the next few weeks I was a man on a mission," he recalls. "I did as much research as possible and finally located a beautiful yellow '00 C5 coupe with 20,000 miles in Colorado." That's when a crazy impulse took over: "Rather than take a couple of days off and scramble to get the car back to Vegas, I wanted to savor the drive home. I walked in to work the next day and quit my job. Just like that, I had bought a Corvette and quit my job all within 24 hours." At this point, we are wondering just how understanding his fiance was.
Once home, Gooss kept the car in basically stock form for the better part of a year, adding only a Vortex ram-air system and a Corsa Touring exhaust. He quickly put around 20,000 miles on the Vette, but soon got an itch to take things to "the next level." The problem? The car began to feel like it didn't have enough power.
Blame Jeff's Internet addiction, in part. After surfing for months on Corvette Web sites learning about performance modifications, he contracted a shop in Southern California to build a forged 346 LS6 boosted by an A&A/ProCharger D-1SC blower. About 60 days and some 20 grand later, Gooss had a 686-rwhp C5 that could shoot down pretty much anything in its path.
This configuration only lasted about a month before the car was back in the shop for a larger F-1R supercharger. Another 30 days and plenty of dollars later, Jeff had his car once again. It's right about here that his tale takes an unexpectedly dark turn. The Vette began to experience numerous mechanical problems, and he could barely keep it running. Did we mention it was also leaking oil?
"Over the next couple months, it took everything I had not to just cut my losses and leave the hobby I loved so much. I spent many, many evenings talking with my fiance, wondering why something that was supposed to be fun was turning into a nightmare," he says, shaking his head.
Jeff persevered, though, and by late 2005, things began to look up. He caught wind that Kenne Bell would soon be releasing a new supercharger designed to dominate the street. After once again getting the green light from his better half-we're beginning to think Mrs. Gooss should be in line for sainthood-he decided that if he was going to tackle one last project with this car, he might as well pull out all the stops. "A project of the magnitude I was planning was going to take the expertise of more than a few shops. This wasn't going to be some quick engine swap. I was going to completely rebuild the car."
With that in mind, Gooss traveled to Fremont, California, to meet with Synergy Motorsports owner Rick Hollenback. Hollenback is an avid Corvette builder with more than a few big projects under his belt, but Jeff cites other reasons for entrusting him with the project. "The reason I chose him...wasn't because of his long list of credentials, but because he was willing to listen to exactly what I wanted and build it any way I dreamed."
The plan was simple in concept, if not in execution: completely disassemble the car and upgrade every part necessary to make it the baddest C5 on the planet. "What I wanted was a car that could run down the quarter-mile, then switch to a road course, then turn on the A/C and cruise control and [drive] home. Every part had to work in harmony and complement a different part of the car."
Initially, Kenne Bell bolted on its new 2.6-liter twin screw supercharger. Most guys would have been content with the resulting 750hp Vette, but not Gooss. Within 60 days of having the car back in his possession, he talked Kenne Bell chief Jim Bell into swapping the 2.6 for a prototype 2.8-liter blower. As we hinted at the outset, Jeff doesn't seem to know when to quit.
During this development phase, Kenne Bell engineers discovered that for anything higher than 700 horses, a speed-density system worked better than a mass air meter. This switch also added a few horses. Pressurized to 18 psi, the engine-by now upgraded to a 403-cube, AFR-headed LS2 stroker-exceeded 875 lb-ft of rear-wheel torque at only 4,000 rpm.
At that point, Jeff finally did decide to quit, requesting that the dyno run be called off prematurely. "Although we would have easily gone over 950 torque and 900 hp on my little 403 LS2 stroker, I had nothing more to prove to anyone. We had accomplished one of our very first goals: the highest-horsepower Kenne Bell C5 in the world."
Instrumental in this achievement was the very first set of 1 7/8-inch C5 long-tube headers ever produced by Long Island-based exhaust fabricator Kooks Custom Headers. Routed into high-flow cats and a 2.5-inch Bassani exhaust system, they flow enough air to keep pace with the ravenous LS2 without introducing an overabundance of noise or compromising emissions legality.
How does it drive? Accelerate lightly through the gears, and you can hear the faint screech of the blower in the background-just enough to let you know this isn't some ordinary C5. Stab the throttle and the car turns violent, squatting and lunging forward as if sprayed with a 500 shot of nitrous. Acceleration is so fierce, it literally takes your breath away. You may even forget to shift gears, what with all that rolling thunder coursing through your body. Let off the throttle and the car goes instantly quiet, giving you time to take a huge gasp of air and perhaps utter the appropriate expletive.
A key factor in maintaining the car's superb overall driveability is the Centerforce 12-inch single-disc clutch. It's forgiving for a super-high-performance unit, with very smooth operation, low pedal force required for engagement, and no chatter or slipping.
With the car finally on the road, we wonder what's next for Gooss. He says he's done with the modifying game for now, but don't believe a word of it. That Lambo orange is the color of a flame that just keeps getting hotter.


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text: Photographer Kelly Davidson (right) celebrated the fifth installment of her "Rock 'n' Roll Parents" series with a party at Q Division Studios in Somerville on Friday night. The new batch of images features musicians such as Chris Colbourn of Buffalo Tom, Will Dailey, and Caroline Toth of Apple Betty. Fans of Davidson who came out for the event included Gonzalo Plaza (left) of New Hampshire, who was kind enough to bring flowers. Davidson photographed Plaza's wedding at Walt Disney World in November. Weeks later, Davidson had her own wedding at the Center for Arts at the Armory in Somerville.


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With so many other brands and products distracting me, I haven't had time to think about Nars. But observe! The most a-ma-zing eyes for summer:
Mmmm it's working for me. The range:
Tropic is surely the star of the collection? Similar to the night series, it is described as:
Lush, silver-flecked teal – a precise image of the ocean's waves.
Yum! The only thing that could ruin this shadow is if the texture is crumbly and chalky.
Then, another hot duo if you ask me.
Reminds me of Mediteranee but probably more yellowy based.
Glazed apricot and radiant orange, to imitate the burning sun.
There are 2 new lipsticks:
Not sure about the lipsticks. For summer? I'm all for gloss, but I do like Corals.
Outsider: Shimmering burnished coral – a modern take on a classic.
Falaba: High-shine bronzy rose, with a sweet, carefree quality about it.
The lipgloss doesn't look very interesting but when you read the description –
Belize Lip Gloss: Pink mauve sprinkled with specks of gold – gives nude lips a sultry boost.
Mmm mauve with gold!
Tonga Lip Liner: A creamy, long-wearing lip pencil in a shade of pink amber.
Adelita Nail Polish: Shimmering pearlescent pink – simultaneously sweet and saucy.
A saucy nail polish! If it ISN'T saucy, I will be very disappointed.
Not sure how I feel about Nars Nail Polish. I have a few and they seem to separate quite quickly and the top and base coat are no good. Still, Schiap nail polish is one of my favourites, ever.
The teal shadow is a definate for me, probably the duo and the lipgloss. What about you? Are you feeling saucy?


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Public Shifts Fast on Same-Sex Union Support
Public opinion on gay marriage has shifted faster in recent years than almost any other topic. Behind the change of heart has been a re-examination that is both institutional and personal.
Paul Anderson in the central California city of Bakersfield in 2008 voted for Proposition 8, the state gay-marriage ban that could be the subject of a Supreme Court decision this week. Mr. Anderson and his wife had heard from leaders in their Mormon church that the ban would protect families. They staked a pro-Prop 8 sign on their lawn.
But the controversy that emerged over Prop 8 was a catalyst for the 42-year-old financial planner to rethink his position. He began to question the view he heard in his church community about the agendas of gay people. "It bothered me enough that I thought, 'I have to figure this out for myself.' " He says: "It's the one vote I wish I could take back."
In the five years since Prop 8 passed, attitudes across America on gay marriage have moved fast. A poll this year by the nonpartisan Pew Forum on Religion and Public life found that 50% of Americans support gay marriage, up from 39% in 2008. "For a social issue in recent decades, that is quite unique," says David Masci, a senior researcher at the Pew Forum.
Even among religious and demographic groups largely opposed to gay marriage, more people support the idea today than five years ago. Among white evangelical Protestants, for example, support for gay marriage has grown from 16% to 23% since 2008, Pew found.
When Prop 8 passed in 2008 with 52% of the vote, only two other states permitted gay marriage. Today, 12 states plus the District of Columbia do so. U.S. voters had always chosen at the ballot to ban gay marriage until last fall, when they approved measures in Maine, Maryland and Washington.
Pinpointing reasons for the shift is difficult, but some point to Prop 8 itself as a catalyst. Reaction to the ban in the largest state has dominated headlines, generated difficult conversations and prompted gay-rights advocates to expand their outreach to minority groups and churches.
One turning point came in May 2012, when President Barack Obama said he felt gay people should be able to get married. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People swiftly followed with its own resolution supporting gay marriage. A month later, the National Council of La Raza, the Latino civil-rights group, did the same. Both groups had stayed on the sidelines during the original Prop 8 fight.
"We were very aware that if we did this the right way at the right time, we could bring with us the entire force of the organization on the issue," says Benjamin Jealous, president of the NAACP. The group's California chapter actively campaigned against Prop 8 back in 2008 though the national organization didn't.
Support hasn't been universal. Trina Williams, a 53-year-old gay-marriage opponent in Inglewood, Calif., told the president of her local NAACP chapter recently that she won't support the organization any longer because of the national endorsement of gay marriage. As she leaves the organization, she plans to redouble her efforts to keep gay people from getting married.
God created marriage "for one man and one woman and for procreation reasons," Ms. Williams says. "I believe if I'm part of an organization, I should share their opinions—and I just don't."
Some churches that remained silent in 2008 have also taken a dramatic turn. As early as 2009, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America said pastors could bless same-sex unions, leaving room for some pastors to conduct gay marriages for the first time.
In July 2012, the Episcopal Church approved a service for blessing same-sex relationships.
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At St. John's Episcopal Church in Roseville, Calif. many worshippers opposed gay marriage and those who disagreed kept their beliefs private when Prop 8 was on the ballot, says rector Rev. Clifford Haggenjos. But increasingly, congregants became more open.
In 2011, Mr. Haggenjos blessed a gay couple celebrating their anniversary and some in the congregation burst into applause. Still, while Mr. Haggenjos had voted against Prop 8, he didn't feel comfortable marrying gay couples.
When the church published materials explaining its new positions in 2012, he says, the church's position "really moved me into a position where I was open to performing same-sex blessings."
Amidst the national conversation, gay-rights advocates say more gay and lesbian Americans are coming out of the closet, making the issue more personal to straight voters.
In Mr. Anderson's Bakersfield Mormon community, Wendy and Tom Montgomery hadn't given a second thought to supporting Prop. 8. In 2008, they volunteered to canvass for votes door to door and on the phone.
Ms. Montgomery, 37, did an about face last year after her son Jordan told her he was gay.
"All of a sudden, I had this 13-year-old boy who is gay, and none of those stereotypes or preconceived judgments fit," Ms. Montgomery said.
The family has since become vocal advocates for gay rights and starred in a short film called "Families Are Forever" to help those struggling with coming out.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints still officially opposes gay marriage, and filed a brief to the Supreme Court in support of Prop 8.
Ms. Montgomery and her family still go to church—and want marriage to a man to be an option for Jordan. "At church, the highest form of happiness is being married and having a family. I am not going to tell him that all those things are available to everybody except him," Ms. Montgomery says.
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VATICAN CITY -- Benedict XVI always cast himself as the reluctant pope, a shy bookworm who preferred solitary walks in the Alps to the public glare and the majesty of Vatican pageantry. And today, the Vatican announced that the leader of the world's billion Roman Catholics was stepping down - the first pontiff to do so since 1415.
VATICAN CITY -- Benedict XVI always cast himself as the reluctant pope, a shy bookworm who preferred solitary walks in the Alps to the public glare and the majesty of Vatican pageantry. And today, the Vatican announced that the leader of the world's billion Roman Catholics was stepping down - the first pontiff to do so since 1415.
The German theologian, whose mission was to reawaken Christianity in a secularized Europe, grew increasingly frail as he shouldered the monumental task of purging the Catholic world of a sex abuse scandal that festered under John Paul II and exploded during his reign into the church's biggest crisis in decades, if not centuries.
More recently, he bore the painful burden of betrayal by one of his closest aides: Benedict's own butler was convicted by a Vatican court of stealing the pontiff's personal papers and giving them to a journalist, one of the gravest breaches of papal security in modern times.
All the while, Benedict pursued his single-minded vision to rekindle faith in a world which, he frequently lamented, seemed to think it could do without God.
"In vast areas of the world today, there is a strange forgetfulness of God," he told 1 million young people gathered on a vast field for his first foreign trip as pope, World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany in 2005. "It seems as if everything would be just the same even without Him."
With some decisive, often controversial moves, Benedict tried to remind Europe of its Christian heritage and set the Catholic Church on a conservative, tradition-minded path that often alienated progressives and thrilled conservatives.
Yet his papacy will be forever intertwined with the sex abuse scandal.
Over the course of just a few months in 2010, thousands of people in Europe, Australia, South America and beyond came forward with reports of priests who raped and molested them as children, and bishops who covered up the crimes.
Documents revealed that the Vatican knew well of the problem yet turned a blind eye for decades, at times rebuffing bishops who tried to do the right thing.
Benedict had firsthand knowledge of the scope of the problem since his old office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which he had headed since 1982, was responsible for dealing with abuse cases.
He met with victims across the globe, wept with them and prayed with them. He promised that the church must "do everything possible" to ensure such crimes never happen again. The Vatican updated its legal code to extend the statute of limitations for cases and told bishops' conferences around the world to come up with guidelines to prevent abuse.
But Benedict never admitted any personal or Vatican failure. Much to the dismay of victims, he never took action against bishops who ignored or covered up the abuse of their priests or moved known pedophiles to new posts where they abused again.
And hard as he tried to heal the church's wounds, Benedict's message was always clouded by his wooden personal style. No globe-trotting showman or media darling like John Paul, Benedict was a teacher and academic to the core: quiet and pensive with a fierce mind. He spoke in paragraphs, not soundbites. In recent years, his declining health made him seem increasingly fragile and disengaged in public. And he was notoriously prone to gaffes.
Some of Benedict's most lasting initiatives as pope - the actions he will be remembered for - focused on restoring traditional Catholic practice and worship to 21st century Catholicism. It was all in a bid to correct what he considered the erroneous interpretation of the Second Vatican Council, the 1962-65 meetings that brought the Catholic Church into the modern world.
His conservative vision is a direction his successor will likely continue given that the bulk of the College of Cardinals - the princes of the church who will elect the next pope - was hand-picked by Benedict to guarantee his legacy and ensure an orthodox future for the church.
Benedict relaxed restrictions on celebrating the old, pre-Vatican II Latin Mass. He reached out to a group of traditionalist, schismatic Catholics in a bid to bring them back into Rome's fold. And he issued an unprecedented invitation to traditionalist Anglicans upset over women priests and gay bishops to join the Roman Catholic Church.
In doing so, he alienated many progressive Catholics who feared he was rolling back the clock on Vatican II. He also angered some Jews who equated the pre-Vatican II church with the time when Jews were still considered ripe for conversion and were held responsible collectively for the death of Christ.
Yet like John Paul, Benedict had made reaching out to Jews a hallmark of his papacy. His first official act as pope was a letter to Rome's Jewish community and he became the second pope in history, after John Paul, to enter a synagogue.
And in his 2011 book "Jesus of Nazareth" Benedict made a sweeping exoneration of the Jewish people for the death of Christ, explaining biblically and theologically why there was no basis in Scripture for the argument that the Jewish people as a whole were responsible for Jesus' death.
"It's very clear Benedict is a true friend of the Jewish people," said Rabbi David Rosen, who heads the interreligious relations office for the American Jewish Committee.
During his trip to Poland, Benedict prayed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp - a visit heavy with significance for a German pope on Polish soil.
"In a place like this, words fail; in the end, there can be only a dread silence, a silence which itself is a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent?" he asked.
His 2009 visit to Israel, however, drew a lukewarm response from officials at Jerusalem's national Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial who found Benedict's speech lacking. His call for a Palestinian state also put a damper on the visit.
Jews were also incensed at Benedict's constant promotion toward sainthood of Pope Pius XII, the World War II-era pope accused by some of having failed to sufficiently denounce the Holocaust. And they harshly criticized Benedict when he removed the excommunication of a traditionalist British bishop who had denied the Holocaust.
Benedict's relations with the Muslim world were also a mixed bag.
He riled the Muslim world with a speech in Regensburg, Germany in September 2006, five years after the terror attacks in the United States, in which he quoted a Byzantine emperor who characterized some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as "evil and inhuman," particularly "his command to spread by the sword the faith."
Much of the outrage that ensued from Benedict's interfaith missteps was due to the Holy See's communications problems: The Vatican under Benedict suffered notorious PR hiccups, constantly finding itself slow to react to news and then reacting with muddled messages that required two or three clarifications before getting it straight.
Sometimes Benedict himself was to blame.
In 2009, he enraged the United Nations and several European governments, when en route to Africa, he told reporters that the AIDS problem couldn't be resolved by distributing condoms. "On the contrary, it increases the problem," he said then.
A year later, he issued a revision that seemed to placate liberals while maintaining church teaching opposing contraception: In a book-length interview, he said that if a male prostitute were to use a condom to avoid passing on HIV to his partner, he might be taking a first step toward a more responsible sexuality.
It was a significant shift given the Vatican's repeated position that abstinence and marital fidelity were the only sure ways to stop the virus. Benedict repeated that line and stressed that sex outside marriage was immoral, but his comments nevertheless marked the first time a pope had even acknowledged that condoms had a role to play in stopping HIV.
When he was elected the 265th leader of the Church on April 19, 2005, Benedict, aged 78, was the oldest pope elected in 275 years and the first German one in nearly 1,000 years.
As John Paul's right-hand man, he had been a favorite going into the vote and was selected in the fastest conclave in a century: Just about 24 hours after the voting began, white smoke curled from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 5:50 p.m. to announce "Habemus Papam!"
Though clearly intending to carry on John Paul's legacy, Benedict didn't try to emulate his predecessor's popular acclaim. His foreign trips were short and focused. His Masses were solemn, his homilies dense and professorial.


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3/15: Colorado March Madness is upon us!
Posted 28 February 2007 - 02:14 PM
Rule number one: The bar is opening early for us, the members of AWD Pirates and the USMB. Please return the favor and bring a few extra bucks to pay our servers. The main idea here is to just come hang out with a good group of folks, have a beer before noon, feast on wings, and watch some great basketball games. Sounds peachy, yes? This is the event for you!
There is a "pool", but you do NOT have to participate. The cost to enter the pool will be $5 and you have to be there to make your picks. Your picks will be completed and turned over to the key master before the first game begins, so make sure you have your flipping coin handy... We like to keep things simple and fun: Winner(s) take all, unless the number of participant's warrants a point system of some kind.
Yetis do not take take "maybes" all that well. Get the time off, and allow nothing to come between you, good people, and a beer
List of participants so far (Including a few Pirates):
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Posted 28 February 2007 - 11:47 PM
I'll have to think about it. Probably not as the wagon will be going under surgery that week (and its my only ride really...), but who knows?
Posted 01 March 2007 - 09:56 AM
Laura, the kids can come play too!
As for the rest of you? Catch a cold or something???
Seriously, no worries if you can't make it. It is just a fun way to spend a day out of the office once a year.
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Posted 06 March 2007 - 12:00 AM
Hm. That's during my spring break...
I'll have to think about it. Probably not as the wagon will be going under surgery that week (and its my only ride really...), but who knows?
Ohhh! Swappage! Fun... you get everything that you needed to do it to it?
Posted 06 March 2007 - 08:57 AM
Just over a week to go, kids! :cool:
Posted 07 March 2007 - 01:53 AM
It's that Pirate mentality!
Thrice-damned hijackers....
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Dreams of a career on the women's pro surfing circuit could become reality for rising star Kiara Meredith.
Competing at Maroubra in last weekend's Ocean and Earth Teenage Rampage, a highly regarded international event for juniors, Kiara finished third in the under-13 division.
The 12-year-old from Barrack Heights has contested events all over the nation in the past 12 months, winning at Jan Juc in Victoria, placing second at Coolum in Queensland and third at Cronulla.
Last month, she triumphed at an event in Sydney and earned selection for an exclusive training camp at the Surfing Australia high performance centre on the wave-rich NSW North Coast.
"Kiara dreams of becoming good enough to compete at the top level of the women's surfing arena and tour the world," her mother, Amanda, said. "She would love the opportunity to surf some of the most challenging waves around the world."
Rip Curl is obviously excited about Kiara's potential after recently signing her. She is also backed by other sponsors.
"The local surfing community has been very supportive of Kiara and her ambition to try and make it to the top level," Amanda said.
"Her local Southbridge boardriders club helps out, as well as getting a few tips from [former pro surfer] Michael Lowe and Skye Burgess.
"With the level of surfing being so high at these competitions, Kiara could never have gotten to where she is without the help from the Pines Surfing Academy and the Matt Griggs Pro Surf Academy. Kiara also does surf lifesaving and knows that you need to be aware of the ocean and what the ocean is doing. She has learned a lot from her years at Windang Surf Life Saving Club. That knowledge has been called upon already when she recently rescued two people out in the surf."
Kiara's next major event is the regional titles.


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Grey Mountains
|Grey Mountains
|Mountain range
|General Information
|Other names
|S. Ered Mithrin
|Northwest of Erebor, north of Mirkwood
|Mountain range
|A rich mountain range of many ores, it has since ancient times been considered by Durin's folk as part of their territory
|Capital of Durin's folk at one time, Orc tribes, Dragon hoards.
|People and History
|Durin's Folk, Dragons, and Orcs
|War of the Dwarves and Dragons, slaying of Scatha the Worm
The Grey Mountains (or Ered Mithrin in Sindarin) was a large mountain range to the north of Rhovanion. They were the last remnants of the wall of the Iron Mountains, which once stretched all over the north of Middle-earth, but were broken at the end of the First Age.
Description, and Geography
North of the Grey Mountains lay the Northern Waste. This land was known as Dor Daedelos during the First Age, but most of it was destroyed in the breaking of Arda.
Where the Grey Mountains met with the Misty Mountains lay Mount Gundabad, an ancient Dwarven holy site and later the capital for the Orcs of the north. During the Third Age, the branch of the Grey Mountains west of the Misty Mountains were also known as the Mountains of Angmar, as they were within the Kingdom of Angmar.
The eastern end of the Grey Mountains was split in two branches, and in between lay the Withered Heath, where Dragons still bred. After that was a long gap, until the Iron Hills continued the old line of the Iron Mountains again. Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, was not part of either range.
From east to west the mountains stretched some 350 Númenórean Miles, and the sources of the Great River Anduin, the river Greylin, and the Forest River of Mirkwood arose in this range.
After fleeing Khazad-dum Durin's folk scattered, and later gathered again in the Grey Mountains, but after six hundred years all the Dwarven strongholds had been abandoned or raided during the Wars of the Dwarves and Dragons. Its sole purpose now seemed to be to divide Forodwaith from Wilderland. Although it seems that the Orcs started moving into the mountains after the Dwarves fled, and were a large threat until after the Battle of Five Armies.
It seems that some Dwarves still dwelt in the Ered Mithrin during the late Third Age. So it is likely after the War of the Ring, the Dwarves drove whatever Drakes and Orcs were left totally from the mountains, and reclaimed the rest of their halls and mines in the Grey Mountains.
Other Versions of the Legendarium
Another line of "Grey Mountains" in Middle-earth are seen on the Ambarkanta map.


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And that's just how he would want it, say scholars who have studied his writings, speeches and sermons.
Rather, Benedict, who stepped down Thursday as bishop of Rome and pope of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, saw his role as recovering the 2,000-year tradition of the church and suggesting the modern world take a look.
That meant a return to biblical roots and an emphasis on liturgy, says the Rev. Joseph Lienhard, a Jesuit theologian at Fordham University in New York.
"His theology was meant as a course correction," Lienhard says. "He wanted to see the Catholic Church renew its way of interpreting the Bible, to return to a richer tradition."
Joseph Ratzinger, the German priest and professor who became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, was the first academic theologian to lead the church in 200 years.
Ratzinger often expressed regret he wasn't able to fully develop his theological impulses because service in the church demanded most of his time. Before his fellow cardinals elected him pope, Ratzinger was prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for 24 years - the church office charged with ensuring correct doctrine is taught.
Nonetheless, he published in the neighborhood of 90 books as well as scores of speeches, sermons, essays and letters. Much of his work dealt with trends he found troubling, such as the rise of relativism and the ascendancy, for a time, of a liberation theology that called for the church to take a political role in addressing injustice.
Once he became pope, Ratzinger's focus turned in the direction he had suggested in a 2000 speech: "The church must not speak primarily of herself but of God."
His first encyclical, or letter to the church, eight months after becoming pope, was titled "God Is Love."
"Everything has its origin in God's love, everything is shaped by it, everything is directed towards it. Love is God's greatest gift to humanity, it is his promise and our hope," he wrote in his third encyclical, "Charity in Truth," in 2009.
His weekly Wednesday audiences in St. Peter's Square became an occasion to catechize the faithful, including a reintroduction to the thinking of the earliest Christians.
Significantly, the last books he wrote as pope were in the Jesus of Nazareth three-part series, the last of which, The Infancy Narratives, was published last fall.
The Rev. D. Vincent Twomey, an Irish priest who studied under Ratzinger in Germany in the 1970s and later wrote a book on him, says the Jesus of Nazareth books help address one of the church's core problems: "the false answer to the question 'Who is Jesus Christ?' "
While the historical-critical method popular among theologians in recent decades shed light on Jesus as a historical figure, it often undermined his divinity. The pope reconciles the two in the three Jesus of Nazareth series, Twomey says.
"That will be one of his main contributions. It's all very profound," says Twomey, author of the 2007 book Pope Benedict XVI: The Conscience of Our Age.
Mass appeals
Liturgy, the way the church worships, was the pope's second great concern, Lienhard says. "He accepted the reforms [of Vatican II] but thought they were being misinterpreted. He saw that after the council, the liturgy was too noisy and chatty and lacked a sense of reverence and awe of worship."
The pope was gentle every time he celebrated Mass - as if to say, "Isn't this better and a more devout way?" Lienhard explains. He also pressed for Gregorian chant and other traditional music and allowed priests to say public Masses in Latin again.
"Much of the goofiness is gone," Lienhard says.
Monsignor Francis Mannion, a theologian in Salt Lake City, says that if Benedict has a theological legacy, it might be in the liturgy.
"He has emphasized that as a basis of his theology in a way that no other theologians have," Mannion says.
Much of the pope's work was a critique, both of those who saw Vatican II as an opportunity to modernize a church they regarded as anachronistic and, even more so, of an increasingly secular world that rejects the notion of truth.
"He was disappointed that the council was not taken seriously but what was taken seriously was 'Let's keep changing,' " Lienhard said.
In 1985, as divides grew in the church over Vatican II's meaning, Ratzinger told an Italian journalist that real reform comes only by obedience to Christ.
"Saints, in fact, reformed the church in depth, not by working up plans for new structures, but by reforming themselves. What the church needs in order to respond to the needs of man in every age is holiness, not management."
Benedict often evaluated modern ideologies and fashionable intellectual currents from the perspective of Christian doctrine, says Tracey Rowland, an Australian theologian who wrote the 2008 book Ratzinger's Faith: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI.
He had much to say, for instance, "about the relationship between faith and reason and truth and love," Rowland writes in an email.
Regarded as a liberal before Vatican II, where he was a young theologian, Ratzinger later was considered a conservative.
"What looked liberal in 1963," Rowland says, "began to look conservative in 1968."
The truth was that he was never liberal nor conservative, she says. "If one label best sums him up, it is Christocentric."
Ode to tradition
The Rev. Allan Fitzgerald, director of the Augustinian Institute at Villanova University near Philadelphia, says he's not so sure that Benedict will leave a theological legacy.
Not only is the new pope emeritus one of many theologians trying to make tradition accessible, Fitzgerald says, but also many Catholics are unaware of his teachings beyond the few hot-button issues such as women's ordination or priestly celibacy.
"I don't think people on this side of the Atlantic have ever been given much of a chance to know what he has said or written," says Fitzgerald, who taught for 12 years at the Augustinian Patristic Institute in Rome, including when Benedict was elected.
Theologians and the media tend toward the polemic, and that leaves little attention for what the pope says. "He tried, but I don't think his personality helped a lot," says Fitzgerald, who saw Benedict as a warm scholar, but lacking the charisma of his predecessor, John Paul II.
Fitzgerald does see the "new evangelization" promoted by Benedict and John Paul II as holding great potential. That's the term given the church's project to introduce an old faith to a modern culture, tapping new technology and social media when appropriate.
For his part, Fitzgerald is preparing an app for Augustine's fourth-century autobiography, Confessions.
"It's a way," Fitzgerald says, "of trying to say. 'We've got something good. Let's find a way to put it out there.' "
In his last hours as pope, the 85-year-old Benedict showed how to speak about the old in a new way, tweeting his last 140-character-or-less message @Pontifex:
"Thank you for your love and support. May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives."


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RALEIGH – Progress NC Executive Director, Gerrick Brenner says Governor Pat McCrory's comment that this year's education budget is the largest in North Carolina history isn't fair to say.
"Well there's a couple of things, one he's not taking inflation into account, and two he's not taking enrollment growth into account" said Brenner.
In an email, Communications Director for Gov. McCrory, Kim Genardo says the $7.86 billion for K-12 Education in this year's budget referrers to the appropriated budget. An email sent out by ProgressNC on Thursday said, "Gov. Pat McCrory mislead the public once again about the education budget he signed into law." It went on to say that $7.91 billion for K-12 education in '07-'08 and $8.19 billion in '08-'09 were greater.
However, Genardo said those numbers are actual budget, which includes additional reserves.
Still, Brenner says, taking inflation into account, the praise of the budget was misleading.
"Actually this education budget is about half a billion dollars less than it was in 2007-2008" Brenner claimed.
Some K-12 schools that received cuts to their budget have tried alternative ways to raise money. Brennar says he heard of a school in PolkCounty that held a fundraising breakfast to go towards school supplies. He also claims that this not an isolated incident.
"All you have to do is do a quick Google search and you can see news stories filtering in from across the state of counties having to cut teachers and teaching assistants" Brenner said.
Brenner says he doesn't agree with the education budget along with other bills that the Governor passed. He says he thinks that the Governor is "twisting the truth" and is beginning to "stretch credibility."


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IETF Starts Work On Next-Generation HTTP Standards 82
alphadogg writes "With an eye towards updating the Web to better accommodate complex and bandwidth-hungry applications, the Internet Engineering Task Force has started work on the next generation of HTTP, the underlying protocol for the Web. The HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), is a security protocol designed to protect Internet users from hijacking. The HSTS is an opt-in security enhancement whereby web sites signal browsers to always communicate with it over a secure connection. If the user is using a browser that complies with HSTS policy, the browser will automatically switch to a secure version of the site, using 'https' without any intervention of the user. 'It's official: We're working on HTTP/2.0,' wrote IETF Hypertext Transfer Protocol working group chair Mark Nottingham, in a Twitter message late Tuesday."


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I think her tyres (Continentals) were sourced via her "uncle", so might have been from a "back street boy". Presumably, major tyre outlets are less likely to screw this up, but it might be worth y'all checking, if you havn't.
I've never had directional tyres, and don't know that much about them. My understanding is that this is only likely to result in a slight lowering in wet-weather (anti-aquaplaning) performance, and maybe slightly accelerated tread wear, and that it should be OK just to get them re-fitted correctly.
Edit : Actually, if its just the tread thats directional, it seems that swapping the wheels side to side would fix it (I did a quick back-of-the envelope sketch which seems to confirm that??) but the inside-outside labelling would still be wrong. I'm assuming here that its not more subtle, and that the tyres are bi-laterally symetrical, apart from the labelling.
I'd better have another look at it, and consider the tread pattern. Maybe its already been swapped over. ENDEDIT
One pair is low on tread and is about due for replacement anyway, the others have been on about 4 months.


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With all the time and effort we put into the fuel systems in our cars, you'd think we might pay a little more attention to where that liquid energy comes from. But alas, gas tanks are one of the most overlooked pieces of equipment on the undersides of our vintage machines. For the most part this lack of attention does no harm-the tanks keep holding gas and feeding it to hungry V-8 engines. But when a tank goes bad, well, let's just say it can give a whole new meaning to the term "passing gas."
There are several potential reasons that might make you decide to replace the gas tank in your old Bow-Tie. To begin with, rust might have accumulated over time on both the outside and inside surfaces of the tank, especially if your vehicle sat unused for years with little or no fuel in the tank. If this rust is excessive, it can lead to potentially dangerous fuel leaks, while scaly rust and other debris inside the tank can clog fuel lines and filters. And from an aesthetic standpoint, a beat-up old tank doesn't look right when it's bolted to a freshly restored chassis.
While it is possible to have your tank restored or reconditioned, it's often less expensive to just replace it with a new unit. We recently decided to replace the leaky, beat-up tank in our '65 El Camino with a new one from The Paddock. While we were at it, we replaced the fuel tank sending unit and cleaned up the mounting straps and surrounding frame sections using materials from OEM Paints. We also fitted the mounting straps with rubber anti-squeak strips that will keep them from drumming that annoying rhythm on the tank at certain engine speeds. The whole procedure was a simple weekend endeavor, with much of the time spent cleaning up old parts and waiting for the paint to dry. Check out the photos and see if you think we made a difference.
The new tank certainly looks better than what came out of our car, and should provide us with years of trouble-free service.


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| LTO-4 tape drives, the newest incarnation of the LTO format, introduced users to drive-level encryption capabilities, as well as doubled the capacity and speed of the previous LTO generation.
But users haven't wholly embraced LTO-4's encryption capabilities. In a recent Storage survey, 15% of respondents cited native encryption as their reason for upgrading to LTO-4 tape and more than a third of those using LTO-4 weren't employing the encryption. Several respondents cited concerns over key management and worries about backup software vendors not supporting encryption features.
Ray Littlefield, storage administrator at Conservation International, an Arlington, VA-based nonprofit environmental group, is considering LTO-4 drives as an upgrade from his current LTO-2 setup. Encryption is enticing to Littlefield, and the main reason he's mulling over the update. "Encryption is like a rider on the insurance policy that says 'insurance against data theft too,'" writes Littlefield in an email. However, he adds, "the key consideration is whether the technology will be around three to five years from now so that the equipment will still be available if you need to restore those encrypted tapes."
Richard Tocci, technical support lead at AMS Services, which makes insurance agency automation software, doesn't yet have the backup needs to upgrade to LTO-4, but worries about the long-term availability of encrypted data. "What mostly concerns me is loss of the passphrase," he writes in an email, "or having to restore emergency data from a device where the tape is locked down by encryption."
Managing tape encryption might be as simple as remembering where you put your keys. Cindy Grossman, VP of tape storage solutions at IBM, thinks effective key management is what users encrypting data need to focus on. According to IBM's Grossman, it's all about keeping track of the keystore, the unique identifying information that lets users access data after it's been encrypted.
IBM, one of the members of the LTO Consortium, started shipping its LTO-4s last April. "We've been working with clients to help demystify the scariness of 'What if I lose a key?'" says Grossman. "It's really more a fear of the unknown." IBM's consulting service usually asks LTO-4 customers to decide how many keys they'll need, who will have key access and manage keys, and whether they will re-key periodically--essentially the same as changing a password regularly.
Grossman says some clients worry that they'll have to rewrite all of their existing data on encrypted tapes, a scenario she says isn't realistic. "The best practice is to encrypt going forward," she says.
Keeping track of the key is the core ingredient to unlocking encrypted data after a disaster. That's assuming AES-256 encryption stays the same, standards don't change, and LTO "write backward one generation, read backward two generations" rules are followed.
Grossman thinks LTO-4's encryption chip will become commonplace for all disk and tape drives. Managing the key-based encryption is where more development will happen. "That's the piece that's going to evolve to be a little more sophisticated over time," she says. "I think we will see the whole key management piece becoming more automated, perhaps more policy based.
"Maybe in three or four years, maybe longer, we'll have more customers that encrypt than don't," she continues. "I think we're still in an evolution process of clients trying to decide how they're going to do it."
Fears over lost data and the accompanying PR continue to haunt businesses and drive encryption. "We don't want to be the next organization listed in the newspaper as having their backup tapes lost or stolen without being encrypted," writes Conservation International's Littlefield. "Data theft is just another type of disaster you're trying to protect against."
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Various ways of confusing "do" with "due" have been discussed here before, including this one. I just thought I'd mention it, since I came across it in my reading today, and some of you may not have seen this variation before:
"He's played with Stevie Ray Vaughan and many of the well known guitars, just for some reason never really got his just do." (from an Amazon music chat thread).
I'm often suspicious of reshapings that are exact homophones of the acorn, but "do diligence" for "due diligence" may have real eggcorn potential since the emphasis is so explicitly on getting something done. A good number of the online instances are puns, but that at least attests that someone is thinking along those lines.
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There are a fair few "pay my dos/does" out there too:
Been raised in a restaurant family and have paid my dos in the industry.
bq.Thats me and college done with now FOREVER… I think I've paid my dos.
I paid my dos and I paid the cost.
Plus more with 'pay/paying/pays'. I can see the semantics dimly: you 'do' enough to have paid your 'dos'.
The choice of 'does' strikes me as odd. You'd think that 'he does' and its pronunciation would block the plural of 'do' from being 'does'.
Pat, I'm with you on the pronunciation. But plenty of people aren't: your inner Californian might appreciate this eggcornish reshaping:
Loads of hits for "little douce coupe"
There are a whole host of Beach Boys songs you could include "Little Douce Coupe", "Little Honda" or "Custom Machine"
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
And here it is in the opposite direction (from a comment posted on Quora):
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When Margo Baldwin started the independent publishing company Chelsea Green in 1984, she had plans to eventually sell her ownership. But 28 years later, rather than sell to a venture capitalist and risk the potential for the company to lose its independent integrity or to be moved from its home in Vermont, Baldwin moved the company ownership from the employer to the employed.
On July 2, in a step that more and more companies have been taking, Chelsea Green joined the ranks of companies turning ownership over to their employees in a new business model.
"I think the reason you don't see more companies moving this direction is because they take the traditional model for granted or they want more money," said Baldwin. "For us, it came down to how do we keep our company independent and in Vermont? We already had some of that shared ownership culture so it wasn't a big stretch. Becoming employee-owned goes along with a democratic workplace."
The democratic workplace of Chelsea Green is comprised of 21 employees, just one worker more than the recommended 20 employees to start an ESOP (employee stock ownership plan), and Baldwin said her former employees have been "very pleased" about the change.
"I'm pretty proud of our founders for transitioning to this new business model" said Joni Praded, senior editor. We're a pretty driven staff, so we've always been focused on doing well and giving it our all. Having a stake in the outcome, though, makes it even more worthwhile."
Their investment in the company comes at no cost to the employees, Baldwin emphasized.
"The employees don't contribute a dime," she said, adding the switch in ownership is designed for the betterment of the company and its employees, without creating financial strain on them. Baldwin considered not only her employees' finances, but also the feelings of her original investors, those closest to her.
"There were people, family and friends, who said that they wanted to get their money out, but we didn't have any way to do that yet," said Baldwin. Fortunately they were able to find a way to finally free up that money. "Doing the ESOP solved a lot of problems all at one time, and it was affordable."
An ESOP is an employee benefit plan that makes the employees of a company owners of stock in that company. And oftentimes, according to the ESOP Association, an ESOP is used as a technique to finance a corporation because, unlike most other employee benefit plans, an ESOP allows participants to borrow money.
"From the employee's point of view, what's not to like? she asked. "They're being given something that is in addition to their regular compensation and which doesn't really require them to do much but share in the outcome."
With the transfer of ownership complete, Baldwin is now focusing on integrating the new policy into the workplace.
Fortunately, she noted, the outcome of Chelsea Green's new challenge is likely to be a good one because the company is flourishing at a time when many publishers are not. It's leading the industry in books on sustainable living, an area it prides itself on diving into before many other publishers. The editorial strategy is to keep ahead of the curve, and Baldwin predicted what she thinks is on the horizon now that the rest of the world seems to have caught up on topics of organic food and sustainability.
It's clear the titles Chelsea Green is putting on shelves are reflecting this cutting-edge strategy as the company joins the 11,000 other employee-owned companies representing about 12 percent of the workforce in America in 2010.
"Permaculture is beginning to make an impact, as is agroecology," she said. Permaculture refers to agricultural systems modeled from natural ecosystems, while agroecology brings to bear ecological principles in agricultural production. And, as a good salesperson, Baldwin added: "We have some books coming out on building a locally based economy and self reliance."
"We're a mission-driven company, so those of us who work at Chelsea Green do so because we believe in the books we produce," said Praded. "We're working for change on many fronts, and we do that by publishing books that stimulate new ideas and spread solutions to the slew of social, political, financial, agricultural, and ecological crises that we all face today. Employee ownership allows that mission to carry into the future - which is perhaps the most personally rewarding aspect of the ownership change."
Gar Alperovitz, one of Chelsea Green's foremost authors, has written extensively on how employee ownership will revolutionize the country and world. "Chelsea Green walks the walk as well as talks the talk. It's a place of integrity and commitment," he said. One of my best publishing experiences got better this year with the move to employee ownership!"
It's now been over four months since the switch officially happened, and Baldwin is pleased.
"Overall, the morale is very good, sales are up for the company 30 percent, and we've just had our fourth New York Times bestseller, The Art of Fermentation, by Sandor Katz," said Baldwin. "Our authors, too, seem pleased to be working with a company that is so mission-oriented, and I think we'll see more authors coming our way because we're employee-owned." She added an observation: "I think the shift to employee ownership has resulted in staff taking on more responsibility and commitment to the future, and people seem excited to be working here."
At the start of the change, Baldwin had expressed concern at the process of building the new ownership into their workplace. "I think the hard part is going to be getting everyone involved in creating an employee-owned company, but the upside is now people get to see the results of their efforts more clearly through the sharing of financial information and an understanding of cost structures and other things on the business aspects of running a publishing company."
But months later, the company has managed to implement the new ownership with little disturbance, and it is still flourishing.
"There hasn't been a change in management or organization," Praded said. "But, we've hired a few new positions as we continue to grow."
Said Shay Totten, communications director, "The ESOP was about vesting employees in the ownership of the company, but we still have our same jobs/roles, and the work has been as rewarding as ever. With the move to employee ownership, I think we all feel more vested in the company's own future and sustainability, and that will only grow over time as we each take our leadership role as employee owners to ensure that our mission remains vibrant and our bottom line healthy."