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My goal this Friday is to leave you with some food for thought over the next few days. This has been a week when I've had the opportunity to coach leaders in a number of different situations and settings. I've been impressed and humbled in each instance by the conscious nature of leadership that I've seen. My main contribution has been to frame up some questions and create some space for the leaders to observe themselves and determine what their next moves should be. I thought I'd share some of those questions with you today.
On Monday night, I had dinner with a senior management team that has recently concluded that they need to do more to regulate the pressure on the leaders in their organization. We built the conversation around one of my all time favorite articles, "The Work of Leadership," by Ron Heifetz and Donald Laurie. In a relaxed dinner, the senior leaders talked through three questions with each other:
- In regulating the pressure, what do we push for? When and where should we back off?
- Where are we in the balance between support and control? What do we need to be doing more of and less of on that front?
- What are we doing to build and nurture confidence in the broader leadership team? What are we doing that breaks down confidence?
It was impressive to watch these folks really tune into what's going on with themselves and their organizations. They were honest with themselves and each other and, with great ease, came up with some insights that they had not stopped to consider before. They gave themselves the space to get up on the balcony and pay attention to what's going on and what's needed from them.
On Tuesday, I spent the day with a group of high potential leaders from a defense technology company who are participating in our group coaching program, Next Level Leadershipâ"¢. This was the second of five sessions that we'll have over seven months and the broad topic was the Personal Presence component of executive presence. One of the frameworks that I usually introduce in session two is Tim Gallwey's brilliant equation:
P stands for performance, p stands for potential and i stands for interference. In other words, the only thing standing in the way of you performing at your full potential is whatever interference you create for yourself in your mind. (As it happens, the Wall Street Journal ran a great article on the impact of one's inner critic this week.) As we often do in group coaching, I asked the group members to pair up and coach other around some simple questions like:
- What words describe your most common versions of interference?
- When do you notice the interference?
- What happens when it becomes too loud?
When we did the debrief, I was so impressed by how articulate everyone was in describing their interference scripts. What was also cool was how much power some folks were seeing in recognizing and articulating that interference. When you're conscious of it, you can make choices about how to focus on the potential rather than the interference.
On Wednesday, I spent a couple of hours as a speaker in an orientation program for about 50 new executive level leaders for a global energy products and services provider. Through our work with our Next Level 360 instrument, I've learned that the number one opportunity for rising leaders is to pace themselves enough to leave space for thinking about what they're trying to do and how they need to do it. This point seemed to resonate with these new execs.
Everyone immediately engaged with each other in pairs around these two questions. For any given event coming up on my calendar next week:
- What's the outcome I'm trying to create?
- How do I need to show up to make that outcome likely?
There was so much energy in the room around those questions that I had a hard time bringing everyone back when it was time to do a debrief. When you're a new executive you find yourself doing a lot of things that you've never done before. That can be a confidence killer. By asking yourself those two questions about the desired outcome and how you need to show up you can develop a level of consciousness that will build your confidence. What can be even better than asking those questions of yourself is to do what the folks did on Wednesday and pair up with a colleague where you each spend five minutes asking those two questions of each other to help your peer get up on the balcony an visualize what success will look like and how they need to show up to make that likely.
So, here are a couple of questions for you. First, which of these questions or stories hit home the most with you? Second, what questions have you been asking yourself lately?


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My "signature salad" during the holidays, perfect for carrying to other homes, easy to scale up for lots of people, even to scale down for a single indulgent serving.
"Bring your salad," someone will say. "Okay," I readily agree, happy to have a "signature" salad that everyone loves.
For a holiday dinner, a Christmas party, a New Year's Eve supper, this is my answer to that "bring a salad" request and one I've carried into other homes for years too-many-to-count. This is no spare salad that will grace our tables come January, it's one of celebration, of exuberance, of joy, one worthy of the reason of our season.
Time-to-table: 10 minutes
- Salad greens, torn and dried well
- Dried cranberries
- Toasted walnuts or toasted pecans (how to toast nuts)
- Caesar dressing (I use low fat) thinned with skim milk
- Chunks of a "stinky" cheese such as Saga blue or Gorgonzola
- For garnish, extra bits of cranberry, nuts and cheese
TO SERVE NOW Toss the greens, cranberries and nuts. Lightly dress the greens with the thinned dressing, then gently turn in the cheese chunks.
TO MAKE AHEAD & CARRY Separately package the salad greens, cranberries, nuts and cheese in freezer bags. Just before serving, mix the salad as directed.
EMBELLISHMENTS The salad needs none, but if you're inclined, add thin ribbons of radicchio or a handful of fresh-chopped herbs.
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Gov. Paul LePage's government efficiency agency is recommending a $9.5 million cut in education funding in order to balance the state's current two-year budget.
The reduction must be approved by the Legislature, an uncertain outcome but one that could ramp up debate between the governor and legislative Democrats, who control the House and Senate.
Education advocates have already sounded the alarm over the recommendation, which was included in a 115-page list of funding cuts drafted by the governor's Office of Policy Management.
The agency was created in 2012 and tasked with finding budget savings throughout state government. Lawmakers in June ordered the agency to find $33.7 million in administrative cuts in state government as part of balancing the state's two-year budget. Other cuts include eliminating unfilled positions at various state agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services.
In its report to the Legislature's budget-writing committee, the office said it could not find enough administrative savings within the Department of Education. Therefore, it was recommending the $9.5 million reduction in General Purpose Aid, which is distributed to public school districts.
The agency recommended that the cuts target school administrative costs, a proposal that aligns with the governor's belief that Maine spends too much on school administration.
The Maine Education Association, the state teachers union, quickly pounced on the proposal, saying lawmakers had worked to increase education funding in the biennial budget.
"So many in the Legislature had the courage last session to stand up for our public schools and add money into the budget to help our students and override the governor's veto," said Lois Kilby-Chesley, president of the union. "I don't understand how there could be a recommendation to cut $9.5 million from our children's schools. We saw the impact of the curtailment last year — class sizes increased due to layoffs, students continued to use textbooks from the '80s because there wasn't money to buy new ones, technology purchases were put on hold — we know what a multimillion-dollar cut does to our students and we can't let it happen again."
In the most recent legislative session, the Legislature added funding for education above what LePage originally proposed in his budget.
Richard Rosen, who heads the Office of Policy Management, wrote in his report to the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee that the additional education funding was allotted late in the budget process and was likely unspent by school districts.
The entire proposal will be reviewed Wednesday by the budget-writing panel. The education cut will need approval by lawmakers. If it's not enacted, LePage could issue a curtailment order to cut funding across all state agencies.
The recommendation could fuel a political fight between LePage and the Legislature. Democrats, with the help of Republicans, enacted the state's budget over LePage's objections. The governor has since assigned ownership of the budget to the Legislature, which, he said, did not pass a truly balanced spending plan. LePage recently said that he would not draft a supplemental budget to balance the two-year budget if there's a shortfall.
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Interest rates are rising fast, but not as fast as the price of gold is falling. And the stock market seems to ricochet between 100-point gains and 100-point losses on a whim.
Financial markets have been on tilt since Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced on June 19 that, if projections for economic improvement hold up, the central bank will wind down its $85 billion per month bond-buying program next year. Bernanke's signal of an end date for the stimulus program, while not unexpected, threw markets into chaos.
The ripples from Bernanke's remarks quickly spread through the economy, precipitating a three-day plunge in stock prices (much of which has since been reversed), a steep increase on bond and mortgage interest rates, and a sharp drop in the value of precious metals.
The irony wasn't lost on Vassar College economics professor David Kennett.
"So good economic news means that the QE (quantitative easing) stimulus program will be shut down sooner," Kennett said in an email, "and that means interest rates will rise, which hurts bond prices and hurts stocks, as well as perhaps slowing the real economy as the cost of credit and mortgages goes up."
At the beginning of the year, the average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was about 3.34 percent, according to Freddie Mac. This past week, the average jumped from 3.93 percent to 4.46, posting the largest one-week increase in 26 years. The higher rate adds about $128 a month to the cost of a $200,000 mortgage.
"The buyers are now realizing that their windows of opportunity have shrunk," said Laurel Sweeney, president of the Ulster County Board of Realtors. "But houses have to be priced appropriately. We're not in a seller's market."
Observers worry about the effect rising rates might have on a housing market that's finally showing signs of recovery.
"Rising interest rates, especially a significant jump like (last) week, puts pressure on the buyers to find something before they are priced out of the market," said Chris Scibelli, owner of Keller Williams Realty in Highland Mills.
The threat of higher interest rates has also spurred homeowners on the fence about refinancing to do it now, said Joan Eck, the chief credit and service officer at Ulster Savings Bank.
"We have definitely seen people who were waiting on the sideline come in because they're concerned rates are going to go up," Eck said, noting that even the current rates are still very low by historical standards.
Rates for car loans are not expected to increase significantly, said John Russell, the chief financial officer at Jeff Bank.
The Fed is still keeping short-term rates low, plus there isn't much interest-rate risk on car loans, because borrowers start to pay back principal almost immediately.
In a coincidental development unrelated to the Fed's machinations, beginning Monday, rates on federally subsidized student loans will double to 6.8 percent. The increase comes about because Congress failed to pass legislation keeping the rate at 3.4 percent. It could add thousands to the cost of college over a 10-year repayment period, according to a press release from Senator Chuck Schumer.
Rising interest rates don't figure to fatten the wallets of depositors, who have seen their money earn a meager 1 percent or so in CDs the past couple of years.
Rates on bank deposits — everything from checking accounts to CDs — are "sticky" and won't spike along with other interest rates, said Tim McCausland, the chief strategy officer at Orange County Trust. But rising interest rates will allow Orange County Trust to earn more from its business loans, McCausland said. That means the bank's spread between what it pays out on its deposits and what it earns on loans will widen and the bank over time will become more profitable.
"Increasing rates will have a positive effect on banks, especially community banks, who have suffered from a yield squeeze for the past five years," McCausland said. "Earnings will go up."
Take that one step further, and that means bank stocks could be a good investment.
People nearing retirement should consider investing in high-quality bank stocks, said Richard Kersting, senior vice president of Gary Goldberg Financial Services.
Bonds, usually considered a safe investment comparable to a savings account, could actually become more volatile than equities depending on how high interest rates go. As bond rates rise, their prices fall, making them a more attractive investment.
"Seeing a 10-year treasury (note) at 4 percent isn't unrealistic," said Mike Rundle, vice president and portfolio manager at Hudson Valley Investment Advisors in Goshen.
The Dow Jones Industrial average climbed 14 percent from January to June. Then, the Bernanke bomb dropped, and the Dow tumbled by more than 700 points in the days immediately after.
It has since recovered nearly half of that loss, but the wild swings in either direction have left investors reeling. Because of the day-to-day volatility, Rundle cautions against jumping in and out of investments.
"I think people need to focus on long-term objectives," Rundle said. "Going for the short term is not advisable in this market."
Kersting suggests investors check out stocks that pay out dividends year after year and have clear balance sheets.
Younger people with years ahead of them before retirement are in what Kersting called "a sweet spot."
They can use dollar-cost averaging — investing a set amount at regular intervals — to get more shares for their money when prices are low.
The long-term prospects for stocks will ultimately depend on companies' earnings, said Brian Haughey, assistant professor of Finance at Marist College.
"If companies can continue to increase their profits, it'll tend to propel stock prices," he said.
A year ago, people with a stash of old gold jewelry might have rushed to a gold-buying store for a sizeable chunk of cash. These days, they might want to leave it in the safe.
Gold started the year at about $1,675 per ounce, and had already fallen to $1,350 before Bernanke's announcement. Since then, the price has fallen even more, briefly dipping below $1,200 Thursday.
Steve Rinaldo, the director of operations for Fort Knox Jewelry & Loan, has seen the gold-buying part of his business drop off significantly this year.
To make up for it, he's selling more second-hand merchandise in his pawn shop division.
"People that think they know about it say it will go down more," Rinaldo said. "But it's like the stock market; If we all knew that, we'd all be rich."
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In Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage, Joseph Persico writes that "[f]ew leaders have been better suited by nature and temperament for the anomalies of secret warfare than FDR." He quotes Roosevelt: "You know that I am a juggler, and I never let my right hand know what my left hand does." As Persico demonstrates (pages 34-36), President Roosevelt's enthusiasm for intelligence extended to prewar domestic wiretapping of "diplomats, journalists, labor leaders and political activists" in the face of newly enacted statutory bans on wiretapping that had been upheld by the Supreme Court.
"I have agreed with the broad purpose of the Supreme Court relating to wiretapping in investigations," Roosevelt instructed J. Edgar Hoover. "However, I am persuaded that the Supreme Court never intended any dictum in the particular case which it decided to apply to grave matters involving the defense of the nation." Persico summarizes: "In short, never mind Congress, the Supreme Court, or the attorney general's qualms. The nation was in peril." (Persico's reference to Roosevelt's attorney general is of course to future Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson.)
It is astounding that so little note has been taken of President Roosevelt's actions in connection with current controversies. Daveed Gartentstein-Ross means to redress this deficiency. He writes regarding his current Spectator column "FDR's domestic surveillance" (co-authored with Adam White):
An obvious problem with the current debate over NSA surveillance is that it's been personalized around President Bush. Many critics of the surveillance have an obvious hatred for the president that colors the way they see the administration's actions. Thus, it's instructive to see how the Roosevelt administration handled a similar situation on the eve of World War II. Our Spectator piece examines FDR's surveillance program — and finds striking similarities to the present controversy. In researching the article, we obtained relevant memos from Justice Jackson's archives at the Library of Congress that haven't been previously discussed in the press.
It should be noted that Justice Jackson was a remarkable man who served many roles in a long career devoted to public service. President Truman called on him to negotiate the agreement that led to the Nuremeberg war crimes trial of the surviving Nazi leaders. Truman then asked Jackson to serve as the American prosecutor at the trial, where he was responsible for what is widely reputed to be the worst cross-examination in history, about which Persico writes in his book on the Nuremberg trial. Persico's book on the Nuremberg trial inspired John and me to take a look at the transcript of the cross-examination with our own eyes, which we did in this article for Bench & Bar of Minnesota.


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Book Report: 'Birdseye' look at frozen food, more
Mark Kurlansky astounded the reading world several years ago when he wrote "Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World."
Later he did the same thing with "Salt: A World History."
Now he's out with another food book -- or, more specifically a book about a man who tinkered with food and gave his name to an iconic product.
When I was a kid, I thought Birdseye was a brand name. Like Green Giant. Or Spam.
Then I read in my hometown weekly that the banker's wife had a visitor from out east, an old classmate. Her name was Eleanor Birdseye and she was the wife of the frozen food magnate, Clarence Birdseye.
Now I know more about Eleanor and her innovative husband because of Kurlansky's new book, "Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man." (Doubleday, $25.95)
These days we hear a lot about the locavore movement (see the Review of Brenda Langton's new book below).
Clarence Birdseye set old-time locavorism on its ear and revolutionized the food industry by finding out as a young man in Labrador that you could freeze food and ship it a long way.
Since Birdseye patented his process for freezing fish after experimenting with a bucket of brine and a fan, Kurlansky writes, "Our dinner tables have never been the same.
I'm no fan of frozen vegetables, especially those bright green peas the size of small cannonballs, but I can admit that frozen sweet corn is more than edible as is a flash frozen cod loin.
So what fascinates me about this book is the character of Clarence Birdseye, whom Kurlansky calls an archetypal Yankee tinkerer, the sort of inventor who develops something out of nothing but his imagination, as did Edison in his early years.
Birdseye didn't stop with his patented freezing process, but went on to invent an improved incandescent light bulb, a harpoon gun to tag finback whales, and a method for making paper from the leftover pulp of sugar plants that is still in use today.
And now we move on from cardboard peas to fresh vegetables.
I'm about as far from being classified as being vegetarian as a sabre-toothed tiger.
So years ago when my boss invited me to take dinner with her at the iconic vegetarian restaurant called "Café Brenda" in Minneapolis's Warehouse District, I ate a hamburger just before I embarked, just to be on the safe side.
So I was shocked to find very edible legumes, greens, and even fish and chicken served by Brenda Langton, the self-described "old hippie" who has been serving counter-culture food for 40 years.
Since Café Brenda, Langton has moved on to Spoonriver Café adjacent to the new Guthrie Theatre, were she continues her quest for protein from other than feedlots, but actually serves stuff like ribeye steak and, for a time, one of my favorite meals in Minneapolis, a charcuterie of various sausages and veggies.
She celebrates her newest restaurant in "The Spoonriver Cookbook," by Langton and chef/horticulturist Margaret Stuart (University of Minnesota Press, $34.95)
Until I read this handsome history cum recipes did I realize that my Grandma Wood, for all her fried sidepork and Swedish meatballs, was actually a vegan pioneer.
Every spring, she'd feed the neighbor kids homemade bread smeared with chive-flecked butter and sliced radishes.
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2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives or parsley
4 tablespoons butter, softened
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Thinly sliced multigrain bread cut into bite size pieces.
Fold the chopped herbs into the soften butter.
Wash and thinly slice radishes. Put them in a bowl of cold water.
Spread about ¼ to ½ teaspoon of butter onto a piece of bread and top it with a radish slice or two. Just before serving, sprinkle with a little sea salt.
Reviewer's Comment: Grandma wasn't close enough to an ocean to find sea salt and she would have preferred homemade white bread to course "peasant" bread.


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My favorite part of the story is when the boy goes to see the dogs because the dogs are very cute. My favorite character is the bear because he is big. This book relates to my life because the little boy follows the rules like I do. The story has pictures and they help tell the story because it doesn?t say that the bear is following him in the writing but it does in the pictures.
I think others should read this book because it teaches you bicycle safety.


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Calvin Hicks, a photographer who documented the nuances of daily African American life in Los Angeles and co-founded an association and gallery to preserve and display the work of black photographers, died May 20 at Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center after a long battle with cancer, said his friend B. Scottye Price. He was 71.
When he struggled to find a space to exhibit his photographs, Hicks co-founded Black Gallery in 1984 in the old Santa Barbara Plaza in Baldwin Hills.
"If you were a person of color, you weren't getting very many shows in the area. We took it upon ourselves to do that," said Donald Bernard, one of the gallery's four founders.
At the time, Black Gallery was "the only option around" that would stage shows by African American photographers, Bernard said. The gallery remained open until 1998.
In 1984, Hicks also helped found the Black Photographers of California, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and presenting images by the state's African American photographers. The group's archives and 500 photographs by Hicks are now part of an extensive collection of work by African American photographers at Cal State University Northridge's Institute for Arts and Media.
He was known for his fine-art photographs of sinuous, sculptural nudes from the mid-1970s that are reminiscent of Robert Mapplethorpe. Hicks "cut his teeth" on documentary and street photography, Bernard said, and documented the Venice Beach scene and the annual Central Avenue Jazz Festival in Los Angeles.
Last fall, Hicks was one of a dozen local black photographers whose work was showcased in the Pacific Standard Time exhibition "Identity & Affirmation: Post War African-American Photography" at Cal State Northridge.
His images were also included in the 1992 book "Life in a Day of Black L.A.: The Way We See It" and in a subsequent 1993 exhibit culled from the book and staged at the California African American Museum.
The son of a coal miner, Calvin Robert Hicks was born March 19, 1941, in Mt. Carbon, W.Va., and took to photography after receiving a camera as a gift when he was about 11.
After earning a bachelor's degree in art education in 1965 from West Virginia State College, he taught high school art. Hicks married and in 1968 moved to Los Angeles, where he began a 40-year career as a county probation officer. His first marriage ended in divorce.
Hicks continued to study photography and art, including at what is now Otis College of Art and Design.
He is survived by his wife, Joyce Elaine, whom he married in 2006; his daughters, Sheli Arnold and Elizabeth Barrett; three stepchildren, Bryan Rice, Maria Rice and Denise Grimes; brothers George and William; and nine grandchildren.


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ATLANTA, June 25, 2012 - The Atlanta Hawks announced today that Danny Ferry has been named President of Basketball Operations and General Manager.
"Over the past nine years Danny Ferry has earned tremendous respect as a front office executive in the NBA," said Atlanta Hawks partner, Bruce Levenson. "His philosophy, character, and commitment to creating enduring and successful organizations exemplify exactly what we are looking for in a leader of the Atlanta Hawks. Danny's systematic and value driven approach has helped him become one of the preeminent minds in basketball. He is passionate about building an organization the right way, knows how to win and knows how to forge winning teams. We look forward to having him as our leader of basketball operations.".
Ferry was previously with the San Antonio Spurs serving as the team's vice president of basketball operations from 2010-2012. Prior to the Spurs, Ferry held the role of General Manager for the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2005-2010, where the Cavaliers posted a 272-138 (.663) record, enjoyed the NBA's best regular season record in both 2008–09 and 2009–10 and advanced to the 2007 NBA Finals, marking the franchise's first, and only, trip to the NBA Finals.
Ferry's NBA career included playing for the San Antonio Spurs (2000-2003) and the Cleveland Cavaliers (1990-2000). In his 13-year NBA career, Ferry averaged 7.0 points and 2.8 rebounds in 917 career games. Shortly after winning an NBA Championship with the San Antonio Spurs in 2003, Ferry then began his NBA front office career with the team as director of basketball operations. He remained with the Spurs through the 2004-05 season, when the team captured its third Championship.
"My family and I are thrilled to join the Hawks organization and Atlanta community," said Hawks new President of Basketball Operations and General Manager Danny Ferry. "There were many components that made this the right fit for me but clearly my confidence in the ownership group and their dedication to building a Championship caliber franchise was most important. They are committed to building with the right people and investing in critical areas for development; both essential elements if we want to create sustained success. "
A native of Hyattsville, MD, Ferry played four seasons at Duke (1985-1989) where he was named a First Team All-American as both a junior and a senior, received the 1989 Naismith Award and was inducted into the Duke Sports Hall of Fame in September of 2004.
Ferry's contract is a multi-year deal the specifics of which were not disclosed.
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By: Mark McGrouther, Category: Science, Date: 06 Jan 2012
The first week of the new year sees us back into the swing of things. Thanks everyone for your contributions. The fish mimicking an octopus mimicking a fish is quite amazing.
Eagle rays in the shallows
Fish mimicking octopus mimicking fish!
Saddled Snake Eel, Leiuranus semicinctus
Camouflage Grouper at the Cod Hole
Camouflage Grouper, Epinephelus polyphekadion
Cheeseman's Puffer, Lagocephalus cheesemanii
Saddled Snake Eel, Leiuranus semicinctus
Silver Toadfish, Lagocephalus sceleratus
Striate Anglerfish, Antennarius striatus
Western Cleaner Clingfish, Cochleoceps bicolor
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FOSTORIA, Ohio -- Sunny Farms Landfill subjected its African American employees to race-based harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
According to the EEOC's suit (Case No. 3:09-CV02239), filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Sunny Farms subjected both Willie Norwood and Toby Shepherd to unlawful racial harassment and retaliation, including allegedly condoning the repeated use of racial slurs by its supervisors and the permanent display of the Confederate flag on its property.
Even though Sunny Farms was aware of the racially hostile work environment, it failed to take steps to rectify the situation, the EEOC said. Further, the company retaliated against employees who complained by giving them harsher and more difficult work assignments and conditions, including longer work hours, the agency said.
Nedra Campbell, an attorney in the EEOC's Detroit Field Office, whose jurisdiction includes Northern Ohio, said, "These employees, the only two African Americans at the landfill, were subjected to a racially hostile work environment perpetuated by their supervisors. Egregious conduct in the form of racial slurs, especially when uttered by supervisors, plainly cannot be tolerated."
Racial discrimination and retaliation violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement. The EEOC seeks injunctive relief enjoining the company from engaging in race discrimination and retaliation, as well as monetary relief on behalf of Norwood and Shepherd.
Sunny Farms Landfill is a wholly owned subsidiary of Live Earth, LLC, the largest full service solid waste and disposal provider in Ohio.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov.
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So about two weeks ago I got water in my zune. Not a lot, I had accidentally set it on a table with a cup and the condensation ran into the port. I put it in a bag of rice over night and it started to work again. It started crashing and I had to reset it. I tried draining the battery to nothing and resetting the firmware on it. Now it crashes on the load screen with the zune logo, when it does get all the way to the menu and starts to play it'll play maybe half a song before the screen goes one color or all fuzzy like a old TV. On the load screen it'll freeze and either double image the logo or these bars of color will show up at random across the screen.
Is there something else I can try or a part I can replace? I'd really like to get it working again. Usually I use it almost daily. Would love any help I can get.
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Mages will often pick up lots of charms and nicknacks over their lives. Some will just be symbolic, minor pluses for casting certain spells and some will just be pretty (not quite symbolic enough). Some will be things they picked up when they vanquished an "opponent". Some of it might be useful to an Evil mage, while others might be useful to a Good Mage. Some might even be useful for you, but probably not. Since you don't want to release this hard earned swag (others might use it against you, or somebody might realize you eliminated the opponent since you have their stuff, or it supports mages of the other side), you just hang on to it. Given enough time and research, you might be able to determine how to use all the items and destroy those that are dangerous to you. For now, they are just in a nice jewelry box you have stashed away.
Of course then you die and all your heirs see is a box of cheap nicknacks and minor antiques. Such is the problem with being a secret Evil Cultist or magical super hero.


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May 29, 2013
My way of assessing professionals
The tough question is: What is your assessment of Mr. X? Do you think you can work with him?
I have always answered it from the "gut". However, there were always few fundamental principals behind them. With time, I have been able to identify them better and hence this small post.
I call it the 3-way test. Does the person in question have:
- Integrity
- Commitment
- Capabilities
Everything else comes after these fundamental characteristics. A little bit more about them.
1) Integrity is paramount. It goes without saying that there is no value in working with anyone who does not have integrity. It can be defined as (as per wikipedia) "Integrity is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations, and outcomes. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulnessor accuracy of one's actions." So, in brief, someone who believes in "Do to others as you would have them do to you".
If someone does not have integrity, I cannot work with him/her. This is the first and foremost test.
2) Second comes commitment or responsibility. It is important to be responsible and committed towards a given task / job. If someone is not responsible, there is no assurance that the job will be done. It is great to work with someone on whom you can rely and be rest assured that the job will be done.
If someone does not have commitment, he can be mentored. It needs a lot of effort to adapt to this change as it is a behavioral change where the person believes "the job must be done" instead of "i have tried my best".
3) Capabilities are highly over-rated. If someone has self-belief, intelligence, commitment and is hard working, he / she can develop any capability. It is actually the easiest thing to acquire. And, in the current world, people need to cross-skill, up-skill and unlearn all the time. However, as we are starved for time and every minute costs us a lot, it is increasingly important to work with people who have the right skill set for the given job.
If someone lacks in skill, he can be trained. And therefore, I will surely try to make the relationship work.
Therefore, the simple formula is: 0-1-2. Integrity issue – the relationship deserves 0 chance; Responsibility issue – the relationship deserves 1 chance; Capability issue – the relationship deserves 2 chances. It is not that I am able to follow this rule religiously. But, the closely I have followed it, the more I have benefited. After all everyone (including me) deserves to have good company.
Whats your thoughts on this?
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Celebrate fall at the History Center of Niagara on Monday, Oct. 8, by exploring some of the permanent exhibits at the museum and answering some questions that you might have about how people lived a long time ago.
How often did people take a bath in the 19th century? How did firemen fight fires before there were fire trucks and hydrants? What did Native Americans do for entertainment? What new snack were people enjoying 100 years ago? To find out the answers, come to the "Mysteries at the Museum" program on Columbus Day. The program takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the History Center, 215 Niagara St., Lockport.
The program is open to children ages 7 through 12. The cost of the program is $10 per child. Reservations are not required. Parents are encouraged to leave their children for the duration of the program. Call the History Center at 716-434-7433 for more information.


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The Montefiore-Einstein Certificate in Bioethics and Medical Humanities is the longest running bioethics educational program in the tri-state area. In this six-credit program, topics are explored from varied disciplinary perspectives and include such core issues as:
Throughout, our multidisciplinary faculty collaborates with you to offer an intellectually rich program grounded in our obligation to foster justice in research and patient care. Often, students who begin in the Certificate Program decide to pursue a full Master of Science in Bioethics.
All credits from the Certificate classes apply toward earning an M.B.E.
The year-long Certificate program consists of a weekly seminar that meets from 4:00 to 7:00 pm on Wednesdays. The Certificate is earned by taking Bioethics and Medical Humanities I and II, over two semesters, in a single academic year.
The Montefiore-Einstein Certificate in Bioethics and Medical Humanities is the longest running bioethics educational program in the tri-state area. The Certificate is earned by taking Bioethics and Medical Humanities I and II, over two semesters, in a single academic year.
Bioethics and Medical Humanities I and II runs from September to May, spanning a full two-semester academic year. Each semester there is an intensive full-day session and weekly seminars. Fall's full-day session presents a seminal and emblematic case — by way of a clinician's report, an interview transcript, video narration, a set of legal decisions and several articles from philosophy and literature — then helps students understand how the disciplines constituting bioethics each approach the ethics dilemmas that arise. Our Spring full-day session, credited by many students with markedly changing the way they practice, teaches conflict mediation in the setting of bioethics.
The weekly seminars meet during the semester for three hours, on Wednesdays from 4-7pm, in the Cardozo Law School building (at the corner of 5th Avenue and 12th Street). We tackle core issues such as end-of-life decision-making, reproductive technologies, research on human subjects, organ transplantation, and access to care for vulnerable populations — each from the perspectives provided by varied disciplinary approaches. Our law professor guides us through a close reading of court cases, revealing how judicial decisions and legal reasoning shape clinical practice. Our specialist in comparative literature leads us through works of fiction, finding there a lens to focus on issues of power in representation and the central place of narrative in medicine. We review state and national bioethics health policies with a policy specialist who helped draft them. And throughout, the seminar format encourages lively discussion, through the rigorous analysis of texts and writing closely supervised by faculty.
Since its inception in 1995, an average of 25 participants have earned the Certificate each year, including professionals and students in health care, law, chaplaincy, social work, basic-science research, and hospital and research administration. Many of these alumni chair or serve on hospital ethics committees, conduct bioethics consultation services, sit on institutional review boards, administer nursing homes, hold positions in state health care agencies, and write and lecture on bioethical issues. Our expanding circle of alumni provide participants with strong networking resources and opportunities to observe bioethics in its varied settings. We therefore also actively encourage and select participants who are not directly involved in health care or scientific research, but whose work is informed by the aspirations and challenges of shaping science and medicine with humane treatment in mind.


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PRAGUE -(MarketWatch)- Telefonica Czech Republic AS (BAATELEC.PR, TFATF), majority owned by Spain's Telefonica SA (TEF.MC, TEF), Thursday reported a slightly lower-than-expected drop in its first-quarter net profit and confirmed its earlier unveiled full-year guidance.
-First-quarter net profit came in at 1.62 billion koruna ($83.2 million), beating market expectations of CZK1.61 billion and down 6.9% from CZK1.74 billion in the year-earlier quarter.
-The company reported a 3.3% annual drop in first-quarter revenue to CZK12.47 billion, below market expectations of CZK12.53 billion.
-Operating income before depreciation and amortization dropped to CZK4.78 billion, down 5.7% from CZK5.07 billion a year earlier.
-Telefonica Czech confirmed its outlook for 2012, including improving trends in business revenue compared with 2011 and a limited erosion of its operating margin. Revenue in 2011 dropped 5.7% from 2010, and operating margin stood at 43.7% last year.
-The company will hold a presentation on its results after 1200 GMT Thursday.
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A cosmopolitan crowd, dressed in multicolored finery, shimmies the night and early morning hours away in one of the many chic bars that line the street. During breaks from dancing, the sweating, smiling revelers sip at gaudy cocktails and nibble at plates of food.
But the vibe in Parliament Street, one of South Africa's most historic areas, in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth – wasn't always as "fantastic" as this, says Etienne Barkhuysen, owner of a local coffee shop.
Up until recently, businesses like his had to shut their doors long before midnight because of the threat of armed robbers. Drug dealers and prostitutes lined Parliament Street – named in the 1800s after it hosted the first sitting of the Cape Province parliament. Young men, fueled by alcohol consumed in their parked cars, battled one another with bottles and fists in vicious street fights. The once vibrant, multiracial, multicultural restaurants, nightclubs and bars closed, relocating to safer, cleaner areas. Economic stagnation hung heavy over the area.
But now, although signs of the previous decay are still evident, the "boom times" are back for Parliament Street, Barkhuysen says enthusiastically. Businesses have reopened. The streets are no longer littered with broken glass, blood and used condoms. Instead, they're lined with flowering plants and sparkling new signs advertising parties. People in search of entertainment throng the venue nightly, no longer afraid of criminals.
Central to the rejuvenation of Parliament Street is a group of Nigerian immigrants, who took action when locals accused Nigerian criminals of turning the area into a no-go zone.
'Amazing' Nigerians 'clean up the street'
In an initial attempt to manage the crisis, owners of businesses hired private security officers to patrol the street. But the crime continued. "There were some muggings and stuff," says Barkhuysen. "But the biggest problem was people running after cars, jumping in, trying to sell drugs. A lot of people felt threatened by it; they felt they were being hijacked. And also people in the street being grabbed and (offered) drugs…. Unfortunately, a lot of the crime was being perpetrated by Nigerians."
Barkhuysen, as chairman of the Parliament Street Business Forum, approached some "respected" Nigerians who also owned enterprises in the vicinity, in a final bid for help to stop the chaos.
"When people started running away from Parliament Street, it didn't only affect the white (South African) business owners; it also affected the Nigerians that owned businesses in this area," says Chukwudi Obiezu, a Nigerian entrepreneur.
"So we had to get involved," says the burly man, who's also chairman of the Port Elizabeth branch of the Nigerian Union of South Africa, an organization formed to support Nigerians living in Africa's largest economy. "We became sick and ashamed of always hearing that it was Nigerians doing these terrible deeds," he says.
Barkhuysen credits Obiezu and his Nigerian partners for "cleaning up" the street. "They were amazing," says the South African. "They turned things around very fast." Obiezu adds, "If you're coming around and we see you doing (crime), we get you and we hand you over to the police – whether you're a Nigerian or not."
But sometimes the Nigerian Union's intervention involves far more than a simple "hand-over" of a suspect to the authorities…. Sometimes, says Obiezu, he and his fellow crime fighters have to get "heavy handed" with alleged criminals.
Nigerian crime fighters 'go above the law'…. But crime continues
A Parliament Street restaurateur, who wants to remain anonymous, comments, "The Nigerian Union guys don't mess around. If they catch a criminal, they don't play. They are very ruthless – especially if the suspect's one of their own nationals who is dirtying their names with crime…."
Obiezu acknowledges that he and his colleagues "fight fire with fire" in their war against criminal gangs in Parliament Street.
"You don't take a knife to a gunfight," he says, a steely look of resolve hardening his eyes. "Sometimes talking does nothing."
Obiezu continues, "To an extent, we were able to convince the police to let us clean our own people our own way. So the police gave us just a little power – more than what we should have. The police allow us to use a bit of force. We are allowed to go a little bit above the law, to weed the bad eggs out. And when the criminals experience this, they run like the cowards they actually are."
But some drug dealers haven't "run." When VOA visited the area, we were approached by a young man who identified himself as "Mike." He said he was "from Lagos." In the sheltered darkness of an abandoned building, "Mike" displayed an assortment of narcotics – including cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana – and offered the drugs for sale.
According to veteran Parliament Street security guard Mary Van Rensburg, the district's still "far from safe. Sometimes in the night, things are very bad here. People are getting robbed here," she says. Van Rensburg herself has fallen victim to the criminals. "Two young men and a grey-haired old man took my money. They had knives," she recalls. "They caught me off-guard…."
But Van Rensburg maintains that "by far" the biggest problem in Parliament Street remains drug dealing. She voices no doubt as to who the perpetrators are. "The Nigerian criminals are still here," she says, whispering. "It's them who bring in the drugs."
The neon-bibbed security guard says she witnesses Nigerian criminals doing "very terrible things.
But I keep my mouth shut. I am very scared of the Nigerians. They are a very vicious nation. If you tell the police about them, they will hurt you."
'We are not drug dealers, we are businessmen'
Another Nigerian, Sunday Smith, manages a store near Parliament Street. He agrees with Van Rensburg that crime still happens in the precinct but insists that "compared to what it was like in the past, this place is heaven." He points to a shiny new boutique hotel in the street and says "it wouldn't be here if things were as bad" as Van Rensburg says.
And he's offended by her contention that only Nigerians are responsible for drug peddling in the area and that Nigerians in general are "vicious."
"Prejudice" such as this on the part of many South Africans against Nigerians, he says, makes him "shed tears."
"Most Nigerians in South Africa, we are not drug dealers; we are businessmen, even professionals, like doctors. But when South Africans hear you are a Nigerian, you can see the suspicion in their eyes. They automatically think, 'Ah, this man, he is a drug man….'"
Folorunsho Jafoluwa is a lawyer and a Nigerian resident of Port Elizabeth. Despite this, he says he's regularly confronted by South Africans convinced he's a drug dealer – simply because he's Nigerian. "They even ask me for drugs!" he says, laughing. "I tell them, 'I've not ever seen drugs, not even in Nigeria; how can you think I know what do to sell you drugs?' But they never believe me; they just smile and carry on asking me for drugs."
Obiezu insists that many drug criminals in the country – and in Parliament Street specifically – are not Nigerians. "So many black foreign criminals hide under the cloak of being Nigerian. And to the South Africans, if you are a black foreign African, you are simply called 'a Nigerian.' That is how we have come to have such a bad reputation," he says.
Obiezu adds that Nigerians' "natural flamboyance" make them "easy targets" to blame for crime. "We are very loud, and also built very big. We have very dark skin. If two or three Nigerians stand together, we look like a big crowd, very threatening," he explains.
For some, unemployment leads to crime
Smith acknowledges the presence of some "bad eggs" in the Nigerian community in South Africa. He says young Nigerians continue to "stream" into the country. "Some of them are cobblers; some of them are mechanics…. They can't get jobs, so big time criminals recruit them to sell drugs on the streets."
Smith's comments raise another issue that concerns the Nigerian Union and, according to Obiezu, is responsible for some Nigerians in South Africa turning to crime.
"There are over 300 qualified Nigerian medical doctors in South Africa. But bureaucracy means they are not being issued work permits. How are such people supposed to survive?" he asks, continuing, "You get married to a South African. You are given a permit to reside in South Africa for two years. But under that permit, you are prohibited from working. Is that not a ticket to go into crime?"
For Obiezu and many other Nigerians in South Africa, the struggle to be recognized as valuable members of society in the country where they've chosen to settle endures. But, on this street in Port Elizabeth, they have plenty of supporters and admirers.
"The fact that I and other South Africans in Parliament Street are now able to make a decent living here is largely because of Nigerians," says Etienne Barkhuysen. "I hope others realize that, when they are so quick to condemn the Nigerian presence in South Africa."


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1958 Topps #9 Hank Bauer PSA MINT 9
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Hank Bauer of the New York Yankees. PSA MINT 9. One of only three examples graded at this level with none higher out of 305 cards evaluated to date. Reserve $200. Estimate (open). SOLD FOR $1,185
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The market might have over-corrected Apple's share price, making the stock a real opportunity, Doug Kass of Seabreeze Partners said Monday on CNBC.
"It's no longer overowned. There's no longer extreme investor ebullience. It is an iconic company with a fortress balance sheet, with core earnings of close to $50 a share that I can buy at net of cash in 2015, six-and-a-half times earnings," he said on "Fast Money."
Kass, who had been bearish on Apple stock, turned bullish at its current level.


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Jan. 17, 2013
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The 22nd-ranked Florida State women's basketball team edged past Boston College, 67-57, on Thursday night at Silvio O. Conte Forum.
The Seminoles (14-3, 4-2 in the ACC) were red hot in the first half, shooting a season-best 61.5 percent (16-of-26) before the break and making six of their first seven three-point attempts.
FSU went ahead by as many as 13 in the second half, but lost its shooting touch.
Boston College (8-8, 2-3) used a 12-2 run to come within 3, 50-47, with eight minutes left after Kristen Doherty and Nicole Boudreau made back-to-back three-pointers and the Noles suffered through a near seven-minute field goal drought.
Senior guard Alexa Deluzio ended the cold streak with a jumper at the 6:59 mark and a pair of free throws from junior Natasha Howard put FSU in front 55-47 with 5:52 left.
A jumper by BC's Kerri Shields brought Boston College within 4 with 1:52 remaining, but Howard answered with a layup 16 seconds later.
Senior forward Chasity Clayton had the play of the game when she grabbed a Davis air ball and beat the shot clock buzzer with a layup that extended the Noles' lead to 63-55 with 39 seconds left.
Clayton finished with 14 points and nine rebounds off the bench to lead four Seminoles in double figures.
After shooting nearly 62 percent in the first half, FSU shot just 32 percent after the break.
"We lost focus in the second half," Florida State head coach Sue Semrau said. "We need to put together a 40-minute game. We are fortunate Chasity came up with the game she did. That was the difference. We are capable of having a different player step up for us every game."
Both Clayton and Deluzio hit a pair of three-pointers in the first half.
After Boudreau nailed her second three-pointer to put the Eagles in front by 1, 12-11, Deluzio answered by swishing her second trey while getting fouled. The senior guard's four-point play gave the Noles a 15-12 advantage at the 11:38 mark in the first half.
A three by reserve wing Lauren Coleman gave the Seminoles a 22-18 lead at the 7:30 mark and Clayton's 24-foot trey from the top of the key gave FSU a commanding 29-20 advantage two-and-a-half minutes later.
Clayton buried another trey 3:20 before the break to make the score 32-23. Senior guard Leonor Rodriguez nailed a trifecta herself 25 seconds later and FSU took a 39-29 lead into halftime.
"I have a ton of respect for Erik Johnson and his program," Semrau said. "I feel fortunate to go 2-0 against this team. Our defense has been the difference for us in the last two games. To hold a team to 57 points that shows it's all about defense."
For more information on Florida State women's basketball, follow the Seminoles on Twitter @FSU_WBasketball and like their official Facebook page.


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Pro Decorating Tips & Resources: Archival Décor's Michelle Pattee
I've admired Michelle Pattee's style since I first visited her family's farmhouse in Sebastopol, California four years ago. The all-white palette peppered with rustic wood and natural elements made the home, built in 1902, feel modern and cozy and refreshing in its minimalism.
It's not surprising that Country Living featured the home in its White Issue, and many local retailers, like Banana Republic and Pendleton, have shot there. Michelle, a professional photographer, also teamed up with interior designer Jill McCrae to screenprint her photographs onto pillows (which you can see in this post), and together they launched Archival Décor.
I've always wanted to emulate Michelle's style in my home and wondered what local and online resources she used to decorate her space. When I finally asked her I thought I'd share the list with all of you (great for visitors to the Bay Area). She was kind enough to share her decorating tips, too. Enjoy the post and the photos from her Country Living shoot, as well as several shots she shared with us. Thanks Michelle!
Decorating Tips:
1. I often use white glass jar candles from the Dollar Store. You cannot beat the price and they burn (without smoking) for hours. I line them up in a long single row, placed tight together, for a dinner party.
2. I like collections from nature. I found my bird nests mostly around my property. Several are made with horse hair, from my neighbor's ranch. My dad also gave me some, which he collected on his land in Gilroy.
3. I place my framed photographs on shelves my husband built. It saves my walls from nail holes and I can rearrange easily. When I'm stressed, or trying to make a decision about something, I rearrange stuff. It always helps.
4. I always scan the side of the road when driving. I'm known for spotting a treasure that was someone else's trash. I almost got in an accident pulling a U-turn to retrieve my now favorite fan — a beauty with netting and steel blades.
5. I let my kids hang their art wherever they want. Today Eli decided to accessorize the Tolomeo floor lamp.
6. I can get obsessive about small details (especially when I don't have the cash to purchase a real game changer). This leads to hours spent hunting for an excellent shelf bracket or cabinet hardware with the perfect patina.7. I recommend, especially if you have kids, ordering a mega roll of white kraft paper and a dispenser from Amazon. I installed mine under my counter. I like how it makes my kitchen look like a deli. I use the paper constantly: to set a table, kid's art, wrapping everything, etc.
Decorating Resources:
Antique Society, Sebastopol - This place holds a special spot in my heart. I've shopped here for years and would even make the pilgrimage when I lived in SF. They have the best local collection of dealers. As fate would have it, I now reside two miles from The Antique Society.
Coyuchi Outlet, Pt. Reyes Station - Coyuchi has incredible linens — form and function unite! Coyuchi shot their Look Book at my house last year — it was a mutual admiration love-fest. The company originally began in Pt. Reyes Station. They still have an outlet there, on the second floor of a beautiful vintage building. The prices are excellent, and it's another reason to visit one of the most beautiful areas of Northern California.
Water Street Antiques Warehouse, Sutter Creek - My close friends Dana and J Nichols turned me on to Water Street, a huge warehouse of European pine antiques. It's worth the drive. I purchased several pieces about ten years ago and still love them.
Austin Trading Company, Petaluma - They have an eclectic range of random vintage at reasonable prices.
yoox.com - Not just an excellent fashion resource — I always find something to covet in their home decor selection.
Grainger - If you are into industrial, this is your supply source. They have store locations as well as being online. Grainger helps me think outside of the box for design solutions.
Estate sales - If you can get past the macabre aspect, an estate sale is where to find the best deals. While you're transporting your latest haul home, you can contemplate where all the stuff you just bought will end up after your demise. The estate sale rules: go early, go often, go on a Friday and pick smaller, out of the way sale locations.
The Flying Moose Antique Mall, Wichita, Kansas - Whenever I visit my in-laws in Kansas, my amazing mother-in-law chauffeurs me to antique stores. The Flying Moose is my top pick. The only reason I keep my buying urges in check is the fact I have to ship home most of what I purchase.
Bee Kind, Sebastopol - Beeswax candles are my indulgence. So is Strauss Greek Yogurt, which must be accompanied by honey from Bee Kind.
The Barlow, Sebastopol - I'm jumping the gun a bit here, since The Barlow is not totally open yet. To say I'm excited about this well-designed place is an understatement. Located on the former Barlow Apple Cannery site, The Barlow is connecting our community with the best local food producers, wine makers and craftspeople. You will find me here often.
(Images: 1 - 3. Country Living, all others: Michelle Pattee)


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October 12, 2017
It's not just Harvey Weinstein.
Weinstein is accused of using his powerful position in Hollywood to serially abuse women, particularly models and actresses. At least 20 women have now accused Weinstein, who is a major Demoratic donor and fundraiser, of sexually harassing them. The New Yorker published a bombshell report containing graphic details of Weinstein's abuse of several women, three of whom accused him of raping them.
That Weinstein was sexually abusive is said to have been an open secret among Hollywood elites.
But Weinstein is far from alone. The entertainment industry is filled with men accused of sex abuse.
Rapper R. Kelly was accused in July of running an abusive sex cult out of his home. Kelly allegedly made teenage girls sign nondisclosure agreements, before forcing them to be his personal sex slaves.
Legendary film director Woody Allen is still writing and directing star-studded films despite his own sex abuse scandal.
Allen was accused of sexually abusing his adopted daughter when she was as young as seven years old. Allen's son, Ronan Farrow — who broke the bombshell New Yorker report on Weinstein — wrote a column last year describing the media's complicity in keeping his father's alleged abuses out of the public eye. Allen is still welcome among Hollywood elites: his upcoming movie "Wonder Wheel" will star Kate Winslet and Justin Timberlake.
Director and producer Roman Polanski was accused of drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977. He later pled guilty to the lesser charge of statutory rape but avoided prison by fleeing the country to Poland, where he has successfully fought efforts to extradite him to the United States. Four different women have now accused Polanski of sexually abusing them as teens.


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No it isn't. No on the internet it isn't.
There is no other way I can say my piece IMHO than to be very aggressive otherwise I am ignored. It is very true.
Also the majority of people posting have absolutely no idea what they are on about.
The majority of articles on this website is written by someone who has no idea about Software Engineering practices or basic Ideas about Specifications and Testing.
I think Thom once had a go at me saying you can't know what a application is doing if you don't have the source code. In fact there is a whole field of testing called "Blackbox" testing that is dedicated to this.
If he read maybe some basic texts on the subject such as the "Art of Software Testing" (I have the first edition that talks about Fortran a lot).
It is honestly a sad state when you cannot express your opinion without basically having to be in someone elses face.
You are a lot less obvious with your example of trolling and you wrap it within some truths. Very well done.
Posting inaccurate "facts",Pithy put-downs
Posting inaccurate "facts", Emotional rants
Name-calling and insults
Ad hominem attacks that try to negate an opinion by alleging negatives about the person supporting it
Completely off-topic posts, Posting inaccurate "facts", Ad hominem
Name-calling and insults, Ad hominem
It is honestly a sad state when you cannot express your opinion without basically having to be in someone elses face.
Emotional rants
If I missed one I would like to know
You can't troll a troll mate. :trollface:
I see your point. I don't care much for it though.
But if you actually read the Q&A on the book, you might actually understand my motivations for being quite abusive sometimes on here.
Sometimes the only way to be noticed is to be a troll. Sometimes the other person is a f--king idiot.
Especially when you have the "hive mind". I used to be the biggest "Freetard" there was back in 2004 - 2005. I used to use Linux (Slackware) and I used to argue tooth and nail about "freedomz".
I started learning about Software Development in 2004. I remember seeing some guy trying to vain to connect his Gentoo laptop to wireless (and I was trying the same in Slackware) ... the guy released his "homework" under a GPL license ... and this got me thinking.
It has been a long Journey and I pretty much sit for 8 hours a day in front of a computer hacking things from PHP, C#, JS, Perl and a few other things, on my lovely Quad Core Xeon Workstation with dual 24 inch monitors ... while listening to Heavy Metal and I get paid quite well for it. I also use a CentOS and OpenBSD VM if I need some *nix stuff (can't be arsed with cygwin).
So when someone says you are an idiot and you are pretty sure they can't write a line of code or don't know some basic principles that are a well known facts .. you tend to get abusive.
I honestly don't believe there are actually many on the internet in General commenting about tech articles or writing them that have even read some classic Software Engineering texts such as "Code Complete", "The Art of Software Testing", "The Mythical Man Month" and the "Tao of programming" (that load of rubbish seems to become more accurate on a day to day basis in the industry), I am sure there are a few more but I have missed them.
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from R.C. Sproul Jun 27, 2009 Category: ArticlesIn addition to the inner call of God, we recognize that there is such a thing as an external call to labor, a call that comes from people who request our services for their particular mission or purpose. We may be called by the church to be preachers or by a company to be foremen or shippers. Every time an organization places a want ad in a newspaper, a human call is going out for able workers to come and match their gifts and talents to a presented need. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Jun 26, 2009 Category: ArticlesLet us extend the concept of service and obedience to the analogy of human warfare. A crisis besets a nation, and people are summoned in the cause of national defense. Leaving the security and comfort of their homes and jobs, they make sacrifices by enlisting in the armed services. Are not Christians called to do the same? Certainly there is a sense in which we are. Yet within the context of the earthly military, there are a vast number of jobs, some for which we would be suited and others for which we would not. Some military tasks would be in line with our motivated skills and patterns of behavior while others would be completely at odds with our motivated skills and behavior. Even within the context of sacrificial service, consideration of motivation is a vital ingredient in determining our vocation. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Jr. Jun 22, 2009 Category: ArticlesThe kingdom of God is at war. The promise from the beginning was that the seed of the woman, our King, would come and crush the head of the seed of the serpent (Gen. 3:15). Jesus' first step out of the tomb at Gethsemane crushed that ancient and wily serpent's head, and from that time forward we, the bride of Christ, created to be a help suitable for our Husband in His dominion calling, have been engaged in what theologians call a "mopping up" operation. The enemy has been defeated, but he doesn't yet have the sense to give up. Keep Reading
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Nationwide, only Christmas trumps Halloween in terms of spending on decorations, but not as many ghouls will be forking over the cash for Halloween this year.
Lee Crocker�s Halloween budget goes beyond the national average. The Grover resident lives on a street at the center of the community�s annual pumpkin festival. �They want us to decorate,� she said. �We get a ton of kids. The town provides the candy.�
Nationwide, only Christmas trumps Halloween in terms of spending on decorations, said Kathy Grannis, of the National Retail Federation. But not as many ghouls will be forking over the cash for Halloween this year. Americans will spend an average of $4.79 less for costumes, candy and decorations than they did last year, according to an NRF survey.
The dip in expected spending might be because the holiday falls on a weekday, Grannis said, though Halloween happened midweek last year, too, when the U.S. hit an all-time high for people planning to celebrate. �This isn�t the first time we�ve seen people indicate that they tend to spend less on holidays,� Grannis said. �And I think the general consensus among Americans is that they don�t yet believe that the economy is progressing as it should, and they�re turning a corner in their budgets.�
Becky Perkins won�t be breaking the bank this holiday. Her Halloween budget: $2.99. She said her children make their costumes each year, cutting down on the costs. �I have enough stuff at home,� Perkins said, �and they have a lot more fun finding things in the closet.�
Here�s how much Americans are expected to spend in total on Halloween this year:
$2.08 billion � candy
$1.96 billion � decorations
$1.2 billion � adult costumes
$1 billion � children�s costumes
$330 million � pet costumes
$360 million � greeting cards
$6.9 billion � total
Source: 2013 National Retail Federation Halloween spending survey
Here�s how much per person Americans are expected to spend on Halloween this year:
$27.85 � costumes
$22.37 � candy
$20.99 � decorations
$75.03 � total
Source: 2013 National Retail Federation Halloween spending survey
Who�s celebrating?
-- More than 158 million people will celebrate Halloween this year
-- 44 percent of those people will wear costumes
-- 65 percent of people in the late 20s and early 30s will wear a costume this year
-- 113 million people will hand out candy this year (72 percent of Americans)
-- 70 percent of celebrants will buy decorations
-- More than 40 percent of celebrants will carve a pumpkin
-- 20 percent of celebrants will visit a haunted house
Source: 2013 National Retail Federation Halloween spending survey
What are the top costumes?
Adults � 1) Witch, 2) Batman character, 3) vampire, 4) zombie, 5) pirate
Children � 1) princess, 2) animal, 3) Batman character, 4) action/super hero, 5) Spider-Man
Pets � 1) Pumpkin, 2) Hot dog, 3) cat, devil (tie), 4) Witch, 5) Superman
What are you doing this Halloween?
At church handing out candy and having fun -- Donna Turner
We will be taking the kids trick-or-treating door to door as we always do. It�s so fun to get out and have fun with kids and see all of the other kids� scary costumes. That�s what we will be doing. -- Cindy Marie Stokes
Bethany Baptist Church in Grover for trunk or treat Thursday night and Suburban Acres in Patterson Springs. Best neighborhood ever for house to house. Hope the kids enjoy! -- Ramona Burleson


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Eva Longoria is glowing in her white dress while attending the premiere of her latest film Frontera held at the Landmark Theatre on Thursday (August 21) in Los Angeles.
The 39-year-old actress was joined by her co-stars Ed Harris and Amy Madigan at the event for the flick, which is set to hit select theaters on Friday (September 5).
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