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Agenda 21 is an action plan signed by 172 national governments in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit, it aimed to begin a global partnership for sustainable development. Local Agenda 21 (LA21) was developed for local government as many of the problems and solutions being addressed by LA21 have their roots in local activities. LA 21 identifies what Council can do to help our natural environment with initiatives covering diverse matters such as environmental education, energy efficiency, biodiversity conservation and waste minimisation. Marrickville Council developed its first LA21 Strategy in 1997.
During the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in September 2002, local government leaders from around the world, along with representatives from the United Nations, World Health Organisation and the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, launched Local Action 21 as the motto for the second decade of Local Agenda 21. Local Action 21 provides a direction for local government to move from creating agendas to undertaking action, by building on the progress already made in the move towards Ecologically Sustainable Development.
Marrickville Council has developed its action plan for Local Action 21, outlining its sustainability vision, goals and objectives, and the actions Council will undertake to make them happen. This includes detailed objectives for protecting environmentally sensitive areas in Marrickville such as the Cooks River, for promoting ecologically sustainable development in the area and for minimising Council's operational impacts on the environment.
A review of the Local Agenda 21 Action Plan has been put on hold so that new strategies and activities are aligned with the Department of Local Government's Integrated Planning and Reporting Framework and the development of Council's new 10 year Community Strategic Plan.
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It summarises any new or updated information relating to the environmental indicators and activities undertaken during the reporting period to protect and enhance the local environment. It also highlights any emerging issues or threats to the environment.
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The above video shows a century's worth of history. It has been condensed into one easy to watch minute. The video was created by Graduate student Ben Schmidt and it shows an animated map of Spanish, Dutch, and English journeys across the ocean from 1750 to 1850.
The video reveals fantastic amounts of historic information about the travel by ship during America's colonial days and many of the years years afterwards. Each of the countries have dedicated routes, and naval traffic can be seen changing each month and I find it interested what routes where chosen each month throughout the history of sailing. We still plan many voyages on the dates that were used then.
There is a longer 12 minute video that was created by Schmidt that shows a lot more data a lot more clearly. If you watch closely, the video shows a number of historic events. For example, you can see a definite change in trade in the United States around the Declaration of Independence. Further, you can see the 1796 Battle of Saldanha Bay between the Dutch and the British, and Captain James Cook's voyage through the South Pacific from 1772 to 1775.

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Desoldering and removing the bad component is my big worry. Did you pry with or without a heat source? You always learn that you heat the work and not the solder, but in this sort of case I get the feeling you should heat the secondary tool and stick the iron on the knife.-KKC
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posted 16 Aug 2007 in Volume 10 Issue 10
Cover story: Knowledge transfer
Loud and clear
The cult of youth is being replaced with a realisation that older staff can boast much more experience and corporate knowledge. How can organisations pass that knowledge on when such experienced staff leave or retire?
By Graeme Burton
The cult of youth seemingly infects every element of modern life. Television is aimed at the young, newspapers strive to capture the supposedly all-important 18-24 demographic and job advertisements are overwhelmingly aimed at the young, too. Well, not too young preferably young, but with some experience.
Time was, too, when major organisations couldnt wait to show their older staff the door to make way for younger and supposedly more energetic recruits (outside the boardroom, that is). While direct discrimination on the grounds of age is unlawful in most places today, a generous retirement package is often enough to tempt the pragmatic to take their 25-year long-service carriage clocks and leave.
But such corporate attitudes are increasingly being regarded as short-sighted. With a lifetime of experience and a knowledge of how the organisation got to be where it is today (for better or for worse), companies are increasingly recognising the wealth of talent, understanding and expertise that their older staff offer attributes that cannot easily be written down or quantified and which their younger staff will never have until they reach such an age as well.
Increasingly, instead of wondering how older members of staff can legally be forced out of the door in the latest business-management fad, such organisations are having to consider how they can persuade such staff to stay on or how they can facilitate the transfer of all the salient tacit knowledge their older staff embody to the younger generation.
It is a challenge that is most acute at baby-boomer companies organisations that grew fast from the 1960s and 1970s. It is not limited to companies based in Japan, Europe and North America either, where the population is ageing, nor to technical industry sectors, such as oil and gas, and engineering even restaurant chain McDonalds is facing a major knowledge-transfer challenge.
We have got the same huge problem that everyone else has theres a lot of retiring knowledge, says Dianne Wiggins, Knowledge-sharing manager at McDonalds. On the surface, McDonalds would appear to be a young company there are few grey hairs on the heads of staff serving behind the counter at the average McDonalds restaurant.
Actually, thats not true. We have got a lot of people in their late 50s, and early and mid 60s the baby-boomers.
It would be a mistake to think that McDonalds is little more than the sum of its restaurants.
Behind them is a sophisticated supply chain and support operation that made McDonalds the worlds biggest restaurant chain in the 1970s and 1980s, and which has helped the company to maintain that position today, despite many stiff competitive challenges.
Indeed, many of the key architects behind McDonalds system are approaching retirement and if they leave, their winning knowledge will leave with them. That fact is stimulating many senior-executive minds at the company. We are talking about it all the time We are trying to figure out things we can do to try and transfer that staff knowledge, says Wiggins.
Fortunately, it is a challenge that has already been broached by many other companies, in many different parts of the world, with lessons that could be applied almost anywhere.
Brazilian oil major Petrobras is one such company. We have started a new programme here to try to preserve our more important knowledge, but blended with cultural aspects, says Alexandre Korowajczuk, manager of corporate knowledge management at Petrobras.
We have had a lot of projects developed at Petrobras in which a lot of decisions have been taken along the way, he says. These decisions can then be applied as best practice elsewhere but they have to be captured first, especially as they may have been taken on the fly in the field.
The decision-making and learning process, we try to capture through stories that the workers [who were involved] tell and then organise them in a subject alliance and present the stories in a workshop for new employees. They then discuss them and try to understand why they took that decision and how it could have been done differently, explains Korowajczuk.
Part of the rationale for this approach is not simply to hand down tacit knowledge from one generation to the next, but to provoke more active learning among new staff about decisions, the context in which they will be making decisions in the future and to equip them with the knowledge of how such decisions have been reached in the past and why.
Korowajczuk and his team have developed an overall methodology and trained facilitators so that it can be taken to every unit in Petrobras, both within Brazil and internationally, too. That provides a measure of how seriously such knowledge transfer is taken at the company.
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At global engineering-services company Fluor Corporation, the issue is not just about capturing the knowledge of workers before they leave for the final time the company is actually enticing former staff to come back out of retirement: We are in a very rapid growth mode so we are actually bringing retirees back, says John McQuary, vice president of technology strategies and knowledge management (KM) at Fluor.
While new hires are very much a pig in a poke, regardless of how good they are, they will still need training; but when Fluor re-hires a former member of staff, it knows exactly what its getting. However, If they have been out of the workforce for five or more years its almost like bringing in a new hire because theres a lot of new tools, new work processes that they have to get up to speed with, says McQuary. But they still maintain that deep wisdom when they are faced with problems or challenges. They have that ability to tap into that wisdom and perhaps come up with a solution.
The company has had an active knowledge-transfer process in place for some time, but has recently refined it to more closely align the programme with corporate needs. While we have programmes in place to capture retiring knowledge and develop new talent, a lot of our emphasis has really shifted into getting new hires up to speed quicker, says McQuary.
This is because although persuading retirees to stay on or to return has given the company a three-to-five year breathing space, when they finally do leave, the company may be hit harder than many of its contemporaries.
Yet it is only just now developing a process for identifying soon-to-be-departing employees. McQuary is currently examining a knowledge-loss risk-assessment programme developed at the power-utility Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as part of its succession-planning policy.
It looks at people and how far away they are from retirement and how critical their skills and knowledge are to the organisation, says McQuary. At power utilities around the world, succession-planning is absolutely critical. At the TVA, it is estimated that four-fifths of staff are over the age of 40.
But selecting the right staff is key. If you have 100 people that have pretty much the same skillset, its not as critical to go after the one person thats retiring. But if you have only one person with particular knowledge or skills, then its very critical.
Fluor has also instituted a mentoring programme intended to help knowledge flow down the generations on a more systematic basis from subject-matter experts. Called SME Protégé, it teams up-and-coming young subject-matter experts with the existing subject-matter experts.
Furthermore, Fluor enables subject-matter experts who were active in the companys communities of practice (CoPs) when in employment (see Case report, Inside Knowledge, June 2007) to maintain access to the corporate knowledge-management system in retirement. Its not for every retiree. Its got to be for subject-matter experts who were already active in the communities before they retired, says McQuary.
This mirrors similar practice elsewhere to maintain an alumnus of knowledgeable former staff who are happy to provide advice and guidance in retirement on an ad hoc basis.
In some cases, this is freely given. Sam Marshall, formerly at fast-moving consumer-goods supplier Unilever and now an independent consultant specialising in knowledge management, collaboration and intranets with Clearbox Consulting, devised a number of imaginative exercises while at Unilever.
As documented in last months Inside Knowledge, Unilever used a gameshow format to match expertise with the people who needed to know it. A Mastermind format was also used to enable existing staff to question a departing subject-matter expert in a fun and engaging manner.
Not only did it provide a means of sharing knowledge in a less formal setting, but it provided recognition for retiring staff of the skills and expertise that they had brought to the company and they were happy, as a result, to provide contact numbers and e-mail addresses should their expertise need to be tapped in the future.
At Fluor, McQuary utilised a more formal lunchtime question and answer/story-sharing session to engage imminent retirees in a direct knowledge-sharing process. This format required a good deal of preparation, however, in order to make the most of the opportunity.
We set up a sort of fireside chat and did it over about an hour-and-a-half over lunchtime. There was a lot of upfront work to do. We had to do a lot of pre-work on interview questions to make sure that we would draw out the stories. But the younger people in the audience in this guys discipline were very happy with the process, says McQuary.
Institutional knowledge loss can come in various ways, warns Marshall, and sometimes it cannot simply be transferred or resuscitated from older or retiring staff. Unilever was once probably the worlds biggest producer of washing powder. Then, powder went out of fashion and it moved on to liquids and tablets. So the company divested itself of all its capabilities in producing washing powder.
But about ten years after it did this, the company realised that a lot of growth in the future was going to come from developing countries, such as India, where powder, because its cheaper, was exactly what they wanted. So, Unilever had to buy in the knowledge again for how to make it, says Marshall.
That is not likely to happen at Fluor, where the companys SME Protégé programme to maintain links with particularly highly-skilled experts has partly stalled due to circumstances the company discovered that it needed to retain such staff full-time. We put the programme in place and had two or three names come up and we have turned around and hired those same people straight back, says McQuary. Quite simply, their knowledge was too valuable to lose.
Going nuclear
While all companies suffer from institutional knowledge-loss as a result of staff leaving and retiring and maybe not being adequately replaced nowhere is this more serious than in the power industry, believes Marshall, and nuclear in particular.
This is because the nuclear industrys growth has been particularly lumpy, growing fast in the 1960s and 1970s, but coming to an almost complete halt worldwide in the 1980s and 1990s when oil and gas prices stabilised and then fell. Today, with gas and oil prices rising (and not expected to fall) many countries are looking once again at nuclear power to provide a stable supply of electricity at a predicable price.
Yet skilled staff are nearing retirement and, furthermore, the hiatus in new building during the 1980s and 1990s was also reflected in a hiatus in the recruitment of skilled engineers that, no doubt, rippled all the way back to the universities that supply the raw material skilled staff, not uranium, that is.
In highly technical industries, knowledge transfer helps provide extra stability in an era when more people are prone to flit from job to job. At energy company RWE, for example, which generates one-third of its power in Germany from nuclear power, a new graduate is not considered experienced and fully operative until they have been at the company for more than five years. Theres such a rich level of knowledge that they need to build up, losing anyone can be quite severe, says Marshall. This is recognised the world over.
The TVA, for example, has recently conducted an in-depth inspection of its succession planning specifically with the unique knowledge-retention challenges of the power industry in mind. Challenges facing power utilities as a result of the ageing workforce include the loss of critical knowledge, the inability to find replacements with utility-specific skills and the lack of bench strength within the organisation, concluded the report.
The average age of a TVA employee was approximately 46 in 2006 and one-third of its staff will qualify for retirement in the next five years. And, while the TVA has been widely lauded for its succession-planning initiatives, it still needs to improve reporting of upcoming retirement, according to the report.
It is little wonder, therefore, that so many organisations have instituted knowledge retention and knowledge-transfer initiatives. And, of course, companies such as Fluor have gone further than this and are actively re-recruiting many of their most knowledgeable retire staff: because so many organisations now recognise that a lifetime of knowledge and experience is unique and simply too good to lose and cannot be replicated in any number of training sessions.
Graeme Burton can be contacted by e-mailing email@example.com.
References: Review of TVAs Succession Planning, September 2006, http://oig.tva.gov/ PDF/06rpts/2006_513I.pdf


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You will not be disappointed in this armiore. I got the white one although the photo did not show the inside but it is the same as the inside of the dark framed one. I guess you pay a bit more just for the white. I got the white so it will blend in with my bedroom door. I was happy when it arrived only 3 days after I ordered it, to find that the hooks that hang the mirrow where also white (they are dark ones in the photo). I don't know why it took me so long to order this but i am so happy I did. Super easy to put up too. Now All my jewelry is neated organzied now.
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Organized all my costume pieces...now I wear it all because it is available but not out in the open...when my daughter saw it she ordered it the next week and loves it as well
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Many of you know me from my Disney travel blog. Today, however, I am writing as a concerned citizen of Rochester Hills. Since I started blogging on the Rochester Patch about a month ago, I've become increasingly distressed by the way we as a community are interacting with each other on this site. We are all neighbors, yet we are treating each other like trash. Over and over again, in the "comments section" of various blogs and articles, people are being insensitive and downright cruel to each other. I've observed this animosity extending even to the most benign topics, like downtown eateries and vacation destinations.
Perhaps I am just an idealist, but I simply cannot comprehend the disdain and blatant disregard for other people's feelings that is being continuously spewed in these comments. As neighbors and fellow human beings, we should be supportive and respectful of each other. The exchange of ideas is crucial in any community; however, we can and should disagree without being hateful and insulting.
This site provides a unique opportunity for citizens to share their expertise, opinions, and stories. When we treat each other so abhorrently, however, we defeat this purpose entirely. I think it is important to remember that we are all people with feelings. We are parents, teachers, doctors, nurses, college students, police officers, firefighters, and small business owners. We all have families and friends who we love and who love us in return. We all are somebody's wife, husband, daughter, son, mother, father, aunt, uncle, or friend. Rochester-Rochester Hills is an amazing area in which to live. Let's do it justice. Let's be role models for our children. Let's commit to being civil to one another, let's stand up to those who refuse, and let's live up to the meaning of the words "neighbor" and "citizen".
c daldin
1:36 pm on Monday, December 3, 2012
I cound not agree more with your article. I personally feel good manners and common curiosity are lost in todays society.People are in a hurry and not always willing to give others the benefit of the doubt. I for one am practicing what I preach, hoping it rubs off on to others.
Meredith McCutcheon
2:13 pm on Monday, December 3, 2012
Thanks for the comment, "c daldin." I hope so, too.
Pat Botkin
7:07 am on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Thank you, Meredith. Common courtesy and respect seem to be waning. It's much easier to make scarcastic and hurtful comments in a blog than in a face to face conversation. Your call to civility is a great reminder!
Patricia Kane
8:03 am on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Rudeness, insensitivity, the "me" factor, and no respect unfortunate are abundant today. We have seen it on blogs, on our streets and in our neighborhoods. All anyone can do is lead by example. I think if people had to use their names in blogs, some of this would stop. And I agree with Pat Botkin, because I think many people hide behind this fact and it is not a "face to face" where they would be accountable and responsible for their remarks as the source. People have gotten away from respect.
Let's hope that if enough people continue to practice common courtesy and respect, others will follow.
Meredith McCutcheon
8:30 am on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Thanks for the comments. I do agree that much of the problem is the anonymous nature of the Internet. However, I was shocked to read some truly cruel comments written by prominent figures in our community who made no effort to hide their identities. People using their full names have recently, for example, accused others of "not loving their children" because they don't share the writer's same view of charter schools, suggested that budget-conscious folks eat canned beans instead of enjoying our downtown restaurants (and then stated that people on a budget should weigh themselves and consider whether they need to be eating out at all), etc. Honestly, I'm not claiming to be perfect (not in the least), but this behavior is truly upsetting to me.
I also know that this is not going to stop. People are always going to be cruel. However, if we (as a community) decide that this is not how we want to represent ourselves and we stand up to those who continue to make vicious comments, perhaps we can make a small change.
Michele Manhire
8:19 am on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Thank you Meredith for speaking up! I was beginning to think there was very little civility left in this town. Trying to have a conversation about anything lately has become a contact sport, where name calling has replaced intellectual discussion. I know I've tried to bring up the subject a number of times, but to no avail. (At least no one called me a name for doing so; so I guess that's not all bad, 'eh?) When encountering one of these ridiculous offenders, all I can think of is, "Seriously?? Are we in third grade?" Sad fact is, the worst offenders don't realize that their valuable (and perhaps even 'valid') opinion are completely cheapened by such childish behavior. Wake up neighbors... the time is NOW to stop being so angry about life and realize we are all in this together. Keep acting like children, and you'll get the result they do... 'someone else' making your decisions for you.
Meredith McCutcheon
9:07 am on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Thanks for the comment Michele. I'm glad that other people share my sentiments.
Daryl Patrishkoff
7:58 am on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Well written and a great request to be civil. I have been blogging on the Patch for almost a year now and like you have been amazed of the attacks on people from other citizens. Most come from the false names that people set up to spew their hate.
I believe if we all post our real names, fill out our profiles so we can understand who we are having a conversation with and understand their background and perspective leads to a meaningful dialog. Due to the controversial subjects I choose to blog and discuss the personal attacks were a surprise at first, then I realized it is from people with hidden agendas and are afraid.
Keep up the blogging and ignore the people who act childish, they will eventually give up because they just become meaningless noise and add nothing to the conversation.
Meredith McCutcheon
12:12 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Also, Daryl, I do agree that many hateful comments come from "anonymous" contributors. However, I was shocked to read some very cruel comments written by prominent figures in our community. It is very disappointing to me that some local small business owners and community leaders would choose to represent themselves (and our city) in that way. The old adage, "sticks and stones may break my bones..." is only true to a certain extent. Our words really CAN have an impact, and it is up to each of us to decide whether that impact will be positive or negative. Rochester-Rochester Hills is a wonderful area, full of good people. I just hope that more of these good people start to speak up so that our community will continue to have a positive reputation.
Daryl Patrishkoff
2:30 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Like you, after a month or so of blogging on the Patch I wrote a piece about how I see this forum as the "water cooler" at a company. People come together to get some water and have a conversation. In the workplace we all know each other and have their background adding insight to the discussion and opinions.
On the Patch, the ones that hide behind a false name spew hate and insults at a much higher rate. This rarely happens at the "water cooler", however, sometimes the "water cooler" discussions get intense.
We all need to control ourselves and be civil, I strongly agree with your request. In this cyber work environment I enjoy the chance to have these "water cooler" discussions on my breaks from work. We all need to keep it civil.
Amanda Wilson
10:40 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
I know one incident you are referring to. Some people really look down upon the poor in this community, and believe me there are some truly poor people living here. Some of us can't afford Christmas trees or presents for our children, and some of us will be eating spaghetti for Christmas dinner. I just get very reactionary when I'm talked down to on here, it's hurtful.
3:09 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Hold on a minute - Daryl Patrishkoff to Scot Beaton
As usual, you spew lots of misinformation and do not even read the post and comment on what it is about. You add nothing to the conversation; as usual you are just meaningless noise and attack anyone who has a different opinion than you.
Are you going to do your normal trick and add some picture to the post and just keep posting many words on false info and not on subject? You are just making a fool of yourself, stop emailing me and just go away."
Daryl, remember that comment about glass houses?
Daryl Patrishkoff
3:26 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
You are a usual false name person, spew some statements that have no basis nor tell the whole story.
My dialog with Scot was asking him to stop emailing me with hate emails with plenty of false accusations. I did this by email many times, he would not stop, and then I made my request publically. He had many personal attacks on my comments and I responded with your statement above, I was defending myself from his attacks.
The good news is he has stopped, which was my only request. Now you enter the scene as a false name making accusations without any facts. Come out of hiding and have an adult conversation.
Scot Beaton
2:39 am on Friday, December 7, 2012
Daryl... don't have a clue were you are coming from you have my permission to post these alleged hateful emails I sent you. Also when you have time post the email I sent you where I complimented you on your writing skills.
Scot Beaton
9:36 am on Friday, December 7, 2012
"stop emailing me with hate emails with plenty of false accusations" Daryl Patrishkoff
Daryl... don't have a clue were you are coming from you have my permission to post these alleged hateful emails I sent you. Also when you have time post the email I sent you where I complimented you on your writing skills.
Still waiting... false accusations with a fellow Rochester Hills resident is not a good thing if you are at all interested in retaining any credibility... if you know what I mean.
Patricia Kane
3:37 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
This is about civility --respect, politeness, acts of kindness, gratitude, acknowledging the other person with manners--and it is not about this slippery slope this is now heading down. Words and actions have impact and we are looking to a community where we can accomplish the same things, agree to disagree but do it with respect. We need role models and we need persons to lead by example. We need people to apologize, people to forgive and people to recognize there is more than a "me" out there-we need more respect and it can start with everyone.
Meredith McCutcheon
4:39 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Well said, Patricia! These exact sentiments compelled me to write this post.
Alan Stamm
8:46 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Wow . . . and oh my. That's my polite reaction after coming late to this conversation and also feeling off-balance as the slope got slippery, to put it mildly.
Great post, Meredith, on how incivility makes online forums and comment areas seem like free-fire zones. We shouldn't need the body armor of thick skins to visit and participate.
Journalists refer to reader interaction as "engagement," so I join you, Patricia, Pat, Michele and Cathy in hoping more participants see respect as being among the rules of engagement.
Scot Beaton
5:39 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Meredith, thanks for the post 'civility' a great conversation for debate especially around the holiday season. Many recommend don't bring up politics at family gatherings, we are a divided nation.
Kristin Bull Editor Rochester Patch --my opinion, We are very lucky to have her as an editor of our community online newspaper. Happy Holidays Kristin, I look forward to the Rochester Patch next year!
Pseudonym posts, Meredith I hope the Patch will never mandate full exposure to those who take the time to express a fact or an opinion. There are hundreds of reasons, I own my own business, I have nothing to lose except a future advertising client. But others maybe not so lucky -- full disclosures could cost them their job. Just one of those 'hundreds of reasons.' Personally I respect all opinions, only because I respect the constitution of the United States of America.
Name Calling -- Meredith my opinion, we're all adults the maturity level varies... but that's what great about the Patch. A great example... When one posts a "right-wing" opinion that sounds identical to something Shawn Hannity would say; and my personal comeback to that comment is... "WOW I tittle you the "Shawn Hannity' of Rochester." And their response are words like you are the town fool or your comments are meaningless noise and add nothing to the conversation. Meredith who is the adult that shows the 'maturity' in that conversation?
Scot Beaton
5:41 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Personal Opinion -- Meredith were all entitled to one. When you post a blog on public education and claim of system is just as good as Denmark if you exclude children who live in urban areas one could conclude your live in a suburban bubble who refuses to address the problem. Or you won't vote yes for an art institute mileage only because its south of eight mile, one could consider that comment racist. Or you think it's OK to bully gays in high school because you're standing up for your religious beliefs one could consider your legislative proposal bigotry... is this name calling or Patch blogs that continue to call those out who don't stand up for the basic rights of humanity.
Scot Beaton
5:42 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
"You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts." -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Meredith, when Al Gore invented the internet... LOL, one very important point he left out... not everything you read is true! A great example... When one doesn't first take the time to even read the Rochester Hills or OPC budgets, and then compares them to the mismanagement of the municipal budgets of Detroit or Pontiac and then proclaim Rochester Hills is on a fast tract to going out of business... I take a personal affront to the outstanding fiscal management of our dedicated employees at city hall. As a former council member... still very proud of our community and its municipal employees -- those who published insulting misinformation; I will continue to call them out on it with the utmost civility.
Meredith, thanks for the post -- one final note if the Patch was a laundry list of kumbaya moments and thoughts it would be boring. Happy Holidays to all thanks for all your posts.
Meredith McCutcheon
6:09 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Hi Scot,
Thanks for your comments. Honestly, though, I'm a little confused about them. I'm not sure exactly who they were directed at. I completely agree that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I said in my post that the exchange of ideas is crucial in any community. We most certainly don't have to agree on every issue, nor should we. I was just appalled by some of the more egregious examples of degradation and name-calling that were occurring on The Patch (telling somebody that they should weigh themselves before eating out or accusing people of not caring about their children because they have a differing opinion). Common courtesy and humility is not boring; it's essential to a civilized society. That's all I was saying.
Scot Beaton
2:22 am on Friday, December 7, 2012
Meredith, thanks for your response and taking the time to read my comments. Please continue to post, you are what I like to call an eternal optimist, and I will continue to have the joy reading your blogs. Don't let those pessimist and pundits get you down, humanity has many faults... but the good news in this season of giving, there are those like you that keep our spirits high.
P.S. I'll make a personal effort to work on my clarity... Happy Holidays!
7:34 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
There is no place for name calling, insults, etc... in any forum. It just shows a lack of maturity. I also don't feel that someone needs to publish their full name to be credible. The ideas and statements should speak for themselves. As Scott pointed out, there are alot of reasons people can't use their full names. Candidly, I don't see added the value of names when I don't know them. Unless it is someone known in the public sector, there is no context added.
Kristin Bull
8:25 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Thanks, Meredith and others for airing these thoughts about civility, blogging and anonymity. These are issues I have been facing since starting Rochester Patch a little more than two years ago. It's so easy to be discouraged by hateful comments directed at those whom I have come to know as part of the Patch community. I try hard to moderate, but a lot of the times have to let you all moderate your own blogs and comment threads - a task which I am proud to say you all do so well!
For me, it comes down to this: I have much more respect for those readers who post comments that are civil and mature, regardless of whether they use their real names. For example, I don't know who "doug" is, but I have come to know that when he comments on something, it's not without reason or respect for the conversation at hand.
Thanks, Scot, by the way, for the holiday well-wishes; right back at you.
Scot Beaton
2:27 am on Friday, December 7, 2012
Kristin, I been in this advertising, publishing business for over 30 years, so what I have to say may have some credence. A personal observation... I can tell you truly love your job... you work 7 day a week... and the idea of 9-5 went out the window when you started the Patch. You are very good at what you do, and I sincerely wish you the very best now; or whatever path you choose in the future... you should be very proud of the career path you have chosen... Kristin, I wish you and your family well this Holiday Season.
Daryl Patrishkoff
6:08 am on Friday, December 7, 2012
I must say you and the Patch have always been more than fair and balanced in handling the many comments and blogs that take place on this site. We appreciate your diligence in keeping this open for all to comment. I also have seen you close down some threads because they just turn nasty, I agreed with all of those actions.
An observation I have made, I have drawn a conclusion, but maybe I am wrong. When I see a single name, like "Bertram" that commented on my post earlier, I click the name and there is only one comment they have made. I draw the conclusion that someone just made that up to hide behind this false name and make a comment. Then we will not see them again, so it was a onetime hit, a hidden agenda by someone who is trying to discredit others with the sense of many. I have seen this dynamic many times in the last year. I find that odd, any insight?
I do agree many others with one name and no profiles, like "doug", are civil and add meaningful comments. Many others do not, and the Patch has the right policy of keeping it open. I personally will ask some to come out of hiding if they just attack, but that is my approach.
Richard Happening
10:18 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Can't we all just get along? Express your opinions, however diverse. No whining.
Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah.
Meredith McCutcheon
10:02 am on Friday, December 7, 2012
This is my last comment on this topic, as I am not interested in engaging in a battle over semantics. It is exhausting and defeats the whole purpose of this post. To reiterate, I honestly believe that we should exchange differing ideas and opinions. That's how we learn to see an issue from a different perspective, that's how we grow as a society, and that's how we achieve our goals as a community. However, when this exchange degenerates into a callous "war of words", complete with insults and accusations, it is no longer a true "exchange of ideas." It becomes a verbal fistfight, usually between two or three individuals, that simply muddies the waters for those of us who are trying to have a real conversation about a topic at hand. If others want to join the conversation, they have to sift through countless inflammatory (and frequently off-topic) comments. In my opinion, these types of comments only detract from the topic and should perhaps be part of a personal conversation between the involved individuals.
Of course, this is just my opinion. Of course, everyone is entitled to free speech and can post whatever they want. I just think that we've lost sight of how to engage in respectful discourse. It is possible to state an opinion (whatever it is) without being rude and inflammatory. This isn't eternal optimism, nor is it a "kumbaya" moment. It's simply common courtesy. Thanks for everyone who took the time to read my post!
Scot Beaton
10:16 am on Friday, December 7, 2012
"eternal optimist"
1. A person who never ceases to give up hope in something they believe.
2. A person who will continue to believe in something or a positive outcome till the end of time.
Meredith -- now I'm confused I was posting a compliment something I thought you are well deserved. Happy Holidays


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This is Haylee. I met her online recently and was given permission to share her story. Shes 16 years old and has been suffering with Anorexia Nervosa (binge purge subtype) for 10 years now. She has permanent heart problems, shes has 2 heart attacks since January, and was in a coma in March. Shes constantly in the hospital due to her eating disorder, and shes spent 7 months in the hospital this year. It's come to my attention that there are a lot of people on tumblr with "pro-anorexic" blogs who seem to WANT this disease and give "tips" to their followers to "become anorexic". I want you to look at this photo, at this young girl who has wasted 10 years of her life in agony and ask yourself, how can you be pro this? How can you encourage others to do this to themselves? Please reblog this and help it get around to other blogs to show the reality of eating disorders and the pain they cause and put a stop to "pro anorexia" blogs.
SO glad someone finally made a post like this. Please reblog.
Those blogs infuriate me like I cannot describe. Someone I love and who is very close to me suffered from bulimia and anorexia, and still struggles with an irrational, nigh unbeatable loathing for her own body. She is one of the most beautiful people I know, and has always been. It literally breaks my heart that she can't look through my eyes when she stands in front of the mirror. She has been managing her situation for the last few years, but still there are more hard, bad days than good ones. Every single day is a fight with her own body and mind, and it tears her up.
I am the person who has always been in her life, skinny and slim like she thought she wanted to be. I ate what I wanted, as much as I wanted, and never gained. I hated it, and still do. But I was also, unwittingly, the specter in front of her every single day, being what she could not. For years, she blamed me secretly for being thin when she couldn't attain it, and destroyed her body in the attempt. And then it wasn't secretly.
I had never been so shocked, horrified, and dismayed in my life. It rocked me from the foundation. She was slowly killing herself. And it was my fault? When I loved her so much and envied her beauty and her normal body weight, her curves? To this day, and probably ever onward, there is a mix of frustration, crushing guilt, and bewilderment in me about this.
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And these people just… glamorize and promote it. Shamelessly. Not just their own, tragic self loathing and self harm, but they want you to hate yourself with them, to starve and torture and internally maim yourself alongside them.
How fucking dare you?
This girl, Haylee, and my loved one, and all the others, deserve to be safe from that sort of vicious, greedy poison. I cannot stop anyone from doing that to themselves. I cannot even stop this person I hold so dear from seeing herself as ugly and fat, and she has never been either of these things.
What I can do is try to protect them from the selfish desire of others to drag everyone they can reach into that black hole of despair and endless hopelessness with them.
You "thinspiration" assholes should be ashamed of yourselves.
And yet, simultaneously, I hope someday you can get the help you need to begin your own long road to recovery. All I know is that you will never do that when you are participating this circle of pain and starvation. "Thinspiration" isn't any kind of inspiration at all. It's horrible, awful, to you and to everyone you reach with it. Take a step in finding health and self-acceptance, and take yourself out of that loop.


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New research from the national nonprofit Home Safety Council reveals that while the majority of mothers (68 percent) say they have talked with their children about what to do should a natural disaster occur in their home town, less than a third have developed an emergency communication plan or prepared disaster supply kits – two preparedness activities strongly advised by leading safety experts.
"Regardless of where you live, we encourage all families to take a few simple safety precautions in order to be ready for any type of emergency," said Meri-K Appy, president of the Home Safety Council. "Being prepared starts with having a conversation. Talk about the kinds of things that can happen in your area, then develop a family communication plan and assemble disaster supply kits that are stored in an identified place in the home."
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Fort Loudoun State Historic Area is a 1,200 acre site on the location of one of the earliest British fortifications on the western frontier, built in 1756. Nearby were the principal towns of the Cherokee Nation including Tenase, namesake of our state, and Tuskegee, birthplace of Sequoyah. Today the fort and the 1794 Tellico Blockhouse overlook TVA's Tellico Reservoir and the Appalachian Mountains.
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Art is in the Eye of the Beholder
Gallery hopping in Miami is a trip—dare we say a difficult endeavor when having to venture to all parts of the city while getting stuck in massive amounts of traffic in 85 degree weather. We made it to a few of the more worthwhile galleries to ooh and ahh (and sometimes ogle) the profound (and not so profound) pieces of artwork, contemplating the inspiration and meaning and sometimes questioning the value. 'Art is in the eye of the beholder', right?
The favored, as we're sure many would agree, would be the Beg Borrow and Steal exhibition at the Rubell Family Collection, featuring 260 works by 74 renown artists including Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Barbara Kruger and many others.
Here are some of our personal favs, including an edible Dunkin' Donuts Old Fashioned donut installation—amazing!
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Surface magazine, in association with the Gansevoort South Hotel, present the Surface Lounge at Gansevoort South, a three-day event during the famed Art Basel Miami Beach. Eighteen stories above the ocean, the hotel's Plunge rooftop is a tropical playground featuring a 110-foot-long pool on a 26,000-square-foot, palm-fringed Brazilian Ipe deck. (Can it get any better?)
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"You are healthier if you keep busy," she said.
Mary works out three times a week, doing cardio and lifting weights.
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She also participates in several clubs and always makes time for a group of friends in her housing complex so they can socialize. In other words, Mary stay extremely active.
"The more you can fill your life with thins that are positive, it creates energy," said Dr. Larry Wright of the Schmieding Center.
Energy is something Mary is full of, but she says she fills her life with something else as well - positivity.
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I just found this forum, I've been an atheist for my whole life. Lately I've been feeling like I've been missing something, I did research on Christianity and found that if didn't answer what I was looking for. I'm looking for brotherhood of people who understand my problems, people who are genuine and accept people for who they are. We learned about Islam in social studies and it led me to do more research on Islam, my question is does Islam give that feeling and how do I join. Tristan. |
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All human beings are Muslim. You just need to revert not convert:-) Read Qur'an in English (www.tanzil.info) and talk to God.
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"All human beings are muslim"? do you mean 'all human beings were born muslims?' because clearly not every human is muslim unfortunately, but we were all muslims as babys(I've heard this from other muslims, but please correct me if I am wrong)- as we were all completely innocent. And go down to a mosque, they will be able to help you convert :)
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Thats what Fam meant they were all born muslim she said you need to revert meaning go back to being a muslim she knows that tand isnt muslim but that she was born one
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Salaam, To convert to Islam I suggest you do go to a mosque, it would be easier if their were others to help you. To become a Muslim, you must say the following: "Ashad Ana La Illah Il Allah Wa ashad ana Muhammed Rasool Allah." ("I testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammed Peace Be Upon Him is his messenger.") Of course, you have to say this with absolute belief and conviction. Otherwise these words mean nothing. To be a Muslim you should believe in the following: Allah His Angels His Books His Messengers The Last Day of Judgement Destiny The Five Pillars of Islam: Shahadah ("I testify that there is no god but Allah...") Salat (Prayer) Zakat (Charity) Sawm (Fasting) Hajj (Pilgrimage if financially and physically able) May Allah guide you to the right path. |
If you are looking for religion that would give you Peace and understanding the meaning of the religion and Showing you the prove ,Not to worshipp anyother god but Allah.I would say Islam.if you became a muslim your going to understand the right meaning and the trueth feeling of it.you ll feel peace with you everyday and they are also dua that you could say while your in danger or you are mad,or unhappy or you need something.Allah SWT is always there GUIDing you.ISLAM is the true religion.and I hope you became a MUSLIM and you wiill never REgret. |


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If you have children, you are no stranger to life's little calamities. They come in the form of skinned knees, scraped elbows, and stubbed toes. Here are some guidelines to help you treat those little accidents and know when it is time to seek help.
Steps to Treat Minor Wounds
- If you are treating someone else's injury, wash your hands with soap and water. You should also put on disposable nonlatex gloves.
- To cleanse the wound, rinse it under cool water. Some organizations, like the American Heart Association, recommend using soap and water to clean the wound.
- Note: You do not have to use a stronger cleanser, like rubbing alcohol, to clean the wound.
- If there is bleeding, place a clean piece of gauze over the wound. Apply direct pressure.
- Apply triple antibiotic cream to the wound. This cream may help the healing process and reduce the chance of infection.
- If the wound is located on an area that can get dirty or rubbed, apply a bandage to the wound. Change the bandage every day or whenever it gets wet or dirty.
- Check to make sure the wound is not infected. Tell your doctor if you have increasing pain, swelling, redness, or warmth.
- Allow the scab to fall off by itself. Scabs that are picked take longer to heal. Plus, it may leave a scar.
When to See the Doctor
If these injuries happen, get medical care right away:
- An injury that does not stop bleeding after five minutes of steady, firm pressure
- A deep puncture wound or an injury that appears particularly deep or gaping
- An injury that has foreign material embedded in it, such as glass, metal, or wood
- A bite from an animal or a human
- Any injury that shows signs of infection (eg, increasing pain, swelling, redness, warmth)
Note: A child with a chronic condition, such as diabetes, should see a doctor right away if a wound is not healing well.
Your First-Aid Kit
Here is what the American Red Cross recommends having in your home's first-aid kit.
- Absorbent compress dressings
- Adhesive bandages (different sizes)
- Adhesive cloth tape
- Antibiotic ointment packets
- Antiseptic wipes
- Aspirin
- Space blanket
- Breathing barrier (for mouth-to-mouth resuscitation)
- Instant cold compress
- Nonlatex disposable gloves
- Hydrocortisone cream
- Scissors
- Roller bandage (different sizes)
- Sterile gauze pads (different sizes)
- Thermometer
- Triangular bandages
- Tweezers
- First aid book
To be even more prepared, sign up for a first aid class! Organizations like the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross may be offering classes in your area. Visit their websites for more information.
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This is what I need to know. I dont want to comment, only listen.
(I heard you Adam)
I think you could aim higher to satisfy your base needs. I have higher standards for my thrill-seeking. Walking Dead is getting boring. Weak characters. Painfully slow plot development. Not enough action. I've tuned out until my minions report to me that the two survivor camps have gone to war. We'll see if it's worth looking at again then.
I think you could aim higher to satisfy your base needs.
The creepy, ghastly, gross, and violent are my base needs. That is, they are my unmet base needs from real life. The male television audience seems to agree, given that the Walking Dead is the #1 drama series in basic cable history for adults and men 18-34, adults and men 18-49, and adults and men 25-54. And the ratings have continued to rise since that article was published. On television today the standard for base needs doesn't get much higher than the top of the chart.
I only watch three things on television: NFL Football, The Walking Dead, and Breaking Bad. I satisfy the need for plot and character development in the pages of books. Beyond that, we always have the classics:
You identify with mindless beings? How am I not surprised... ;)
You identify with mindless beings? How am I not surprised... ;)
Naturally, my frequent interactions with you have left me rather sympathetic, Arcus. ;)
You are not the first to desire my intellectual capacity, though I should inform you that eating my brains won't make that happen. ;)
I prefer Mad Men and The Thick of It.
You are not the first to desire my intellectual capacity, though I should inform you that eating my brains won't make that happen.
I appreciate the generous offer of your creepy, ghastly, and gross brain, but there's no need to exhaust your entire intellectual capacity to provide me with a single mouthful when The Walking Dead provides a weekly feast of the aforementioned same. ;)
I want women to end the hypocritical practice of proclaiming their inviolable right to have us respect their feelings. Because when I get mad or frustrated at my wife, it is immediately perceived as hurtful and unfair—which is nothing more than her invalidating my feelings. In other words, when she gets mad, I must respect it, but when I get mad, I must not express it lest it be hurtful to her.
Also I'm so completely done with every TV commercial featuring the condescending wife giving the smirking/scolding face to her goofy husband as he commits some household faux pas. This dynamic has been parlayed into entire sitcoms, such as The King of Queens and Everybody Loves Raymond (am I the only person who couldn't stand that show?).
I would talk to your wife about how you feel. She's not being respectful of your needs. Your feelings do matter just as much as hers and it's healthy for you to express them!
I do, but it's rarely constructive. Anyway I'm only talking about the few-and-far-between times we fight. Overall, we have a great and healthy marriage.
No I hated those shows too. I hate most sitcoms anyway, except for Seinfeld.
what about Full house? That was our childhood show!
The men in "Full House" were portrayed as responsible. The whole show was a load of cute little kids BEING cute little kids. The plot was even almost believable.
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Elliott Puckette Untitled, 2012 gesso, kaolin, ink on panel 26 inch diameter 66 cm PK 16429
Elliott Puckette Untitled, 2012 gesso, kaolin, ink on panel 18 x 16 inches 45.7 x 40.6 cm PK 16430
Elliott Puckette Grus, 2010 gesso, ink and kaolin on wooden panel 24 x 30 x 1 1/4 inches 61 x 76.2 x 3.2 cm PK 14841
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Elliott Puckette received her BFA from Cooper Union in New York in 1989. Puckette's work has been reviewed in numerous publications including, Art in America, Artforum, Art + Auction, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Elle Décor and Vogue. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York Public Library, the Fogg Museum, and the Huntsville Museum of Art.
2011- "New Paintings" PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York 2010
2008 PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
2006 DANZIGER PROJECTS, New York EARL MCGRATH GALLERY, Los Angeles
2003 HAMILTONS GALLERY, London
2002 PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
2000 GALLERIA RAFFAELLA CORTESE, Milan
1999 PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York CHEEKWOOD MUSEUM OF ART, Nashville, Tennessee
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Working Practice: Elliott Puckette
December 2010
While painting has more than proved it won't disappear quietly, Puckette's particular brand of elegance occasionally still takes shots for being too "decorative." She says: "That's always been something I've had to speak up for. You have to be brave to try to make something beautiful."
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There's a big bite to her humor
To describe Elliott Puckette's new paintings and drawings at Earl Mcgrath Gallery is to speak contradictions. They are works of precise improvisation and controlled abandon...
ART HISTORY I have a deep connection to the grey painting here, called Ocoee, which is a river down south that my father, a great canoer, used to run. WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON NOW? I've done some very big drawings on handmade paper, and paintings similar to Ocoee.
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"It's one of my favorite houses anywhere," the filmmaker Wes Anderson tells me. "I wanted to film scenes for The Royal Tenenbaums in it, but it is too narrow, so we re-created it a few blocks away. We used Elliott's paintings and Hugo's prints and old metal garden furniture with the paint chipping off, and a washed-out whiteness across the whole place. They both have perfect taste," Anderson says. "And then on top of that is the fact that Elliotte is probably the best cook in the city"...
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Elliott Puckette at Paul Kasmin Gallery
Elliott Puckette creates harmonious abstract paintings by superimposing disparate elements from different artistic universes. In each of these works (all 2002), a washy monochromatic ground has been marked with white whiplash lines. The color layer is painted on wood panels prepared with white gesso...
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Friday, June 18th, 2010There's a lot of misconception about cancer. We have been told by the so called 'experts' who work in accordance with the big pharmaceutical businesses that there is NO known way to cure or even prevent it, and instead they advise us to take their chemo & radio treatments for it which, quite clearly, either cause more damage than there actually is or have no effect on the cancer at all! However, there are people out there (Rick Simpson, Jim Humble, just to name a few) who have discovered natural, safe and more effective substances to combat cancer. Hundreds, if not thousands of people worldwide have used these substances and claimed to have successfully cured themselves of various forms of cancer, including terminal, and others claim to have cured themselves of other illnesses like arthritis, migraines, MS, anxiety, depression and even AIDS & malaria by using them. But the mainstream media will not promulgate any of this, and the big pharmaceutical companies will not endorse them. Why? Maybe it's because they're not as profitable as their own made drugs! The big pharmaceutical industry invests so much money by manufacturing and selling their medication drugs and by deluding the public into thinking that there is no other alternative medicine. If the people found out about these substances, the whole of this monopoly may well just fall apart. Also, science has proven time and time again that the cause of cancer is due to under nutrition, especially due to a lack of …
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