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Located on the West Coast, about 280 kms north of Cape Town, at the Clanwilliam turnoff from the N7, is the picturesque town of Lamberts Bay rich in history and famous for its moderate climate, miles of pristine beaches and birdlife. The cosy Lambert's Bay hotel combines traditional West Coast hospitality, excellent cuisine and an endless number of interesting excursions in and around the area ...
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If you take the road from Cape Town in a northerly direction and drive for just under 3 hours, you will discover an oasis of luxury, comfort and warm hospitality on the West Coast – Grootvlei Guest Farm.
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Only two and a half hours' drive from Cape Town, inspired by the rugged West Coast shoreline and the rolling waves breaking onto the white beaches of Lamberts Bay, is a guest house nestled in the heart of this charming West Coast town.
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Pop star Rihanna has gone public with her rumored boyfriend Drake by openly kissing him during a night out in London on Monday.
The Diamonds hitmaker and the rapper/singer have sent gossips into a spin in recent weeks by heading out on several public dates together, including a dinner in Amsterdam, Holland last week, a night at the Soixante Dix Neuf club in Paris, France, and a meal at London's Nobu restaurant.
Now it appears the two stars have confirmed they are a couple by locking lips for a steamy smooch during a trip to Cirque Le Soir in the U.K. capital on Monday night.
An onlooker tells WENN, "There's definitely no question about their romance any more. Rihanna and Drake spent the whole night with their tongues down each other's throats and didn't seem to care about everybody seeing."
The couple attended the venue for a sneak preview of the outrageous acts who will perform at Cirque Le Soir's $800,000 Frat Party installation, launched to celebrate its fourth anniversary next week.
They watched wide-eyed as a series of jaw-dropping acts, including a terrifying clown named Monty Le Boom sitting in a bath full of beans, contortionist cheerleaders, and cross-dressing Prom Queens, performed at the house party-themed installation.
Pop star Rihanna has gone public with her rumored boyfriend Drake by openly kissing him during a night out in London on Monday.


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Perhaps the smartest thing congressional Republicans have done in some time was capitulate on the government shutdown and agree to raise the debt ceiling. Neither issue has appreciable lingering effects on the public.
Perhaps the smartest thing congressional Republicans have done in some time was capitulate on the government shutdown and agree to raise the debt ceiling. Neither issue has appreciable lingering effects on the public.
Now, they are old news, and the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, has center stage. As much as some Democrats would like, there's no way they're pinning any of the blame for ACA's horrendous rollout on Republicans.
One of the biggest problems with the law is how it was enacted — it was a Democratic show from start to finish. Republicans have nothing invested in it.
The problems with the healthcare.gov website are troublesome. It's disconcerting to know that government can't run a working website but wants to exercise control over the nation's health care industry, which affects the nation's health and well-being and represents about one-sixth of the country's economy.
Democrats have complained that the
website failures are partly due to states where Republican governors declined to establish state health care exchanges. Why would Republican governors support what they think will be bad for their state and country?
Obamacare supporters have complained that Republican resistance to a single-payer system has created a Frankenstein's monster of a system that shambles haltingly along. But they neglect to mention that a single-payer system lacked support from enough Democrats, much less Republicans.
The technical problems will be worked out sooner or later. The real problem, and one that has even been dawning on some of President Barack Obama's supporters, is that the Affordable Care Act doesn't make health insurance affordable for everyone.
People who don't qualify for the government subsidies that supposedly make insurance affordable for lower income people are paying more for individual plans in many instances. One Tuscaloosa resident noted that he now has maternity and pediatric coverage. He and his wife are empty-nesters in their 60s and don't need the coverage, but their rates have more than doubled.
The worst potential development would be the so-called "death spiral." If too few young, healthy adults enroll in Obamacare to offset the cost of providing "affordable" health insurance to older, sicker enrollees, it could be catastrophic for the nation's health care system.
Obama made much during the presidential campaign about helping the middle class. And that is who will likely be harmed most by the misnamed Affordable Care Act. They will pay higher premiums and possibly lose coverage. They will be taxed on their employee health benefits.
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Messing with the Mekong
Messing With the Mekong
The day after arriving at the Laotian river port of Huay Xai, my friend and I left our guesthouse at sunrise and walked down the street to the main pier. The boat landing, a crumbling concrete ramp about 50 feet long, was already bustling. Uniformed dockworkers methodically passed burlap sacks hand over hand from the deck of a wooden rice barge onto a rusted flatbed truck. At the bottom of the ramp, a man slowly backed his puttering three-wheeled taxi into the brown water and began flushing the grit from the cab.
We had bought tickets for the "slow boat" down the Mekong River, a two-day voyage from Huay Xai on the Thai-Lao border to Luang Prabang, Laos's former royal capital. Our guidebook, barely a year old, warned of the discomforts of the journey, which we were to share with the usual river cargo: sacks of grain, chickens in battered wooden cages, crates of beer, and other assorted cargo. Yet we were excited by the prospect.
Our excitement faded fast, however, as more and more travelers like ourselves, bearing dusty backpacks and worn guidebooks, strolled down the ramp. As we settled into our boat-a long wooden barge like the others, but painted a vibrant green and orange-it was clear that things were changing in this remote part of the world. The renovated boat offered rows of numbered blue benches "for the convenience of tourists." Not a chicken crate in sight.
On the river, though, it was easy to ignore any changes to traditional Mekong life. Our captain maneuvered expertly between the steep, thickly forested banks, dodging the frequent rocks and rapids. The landscape seemed almost pre-human but for the fishing traps rigged along the eroding shoreline-bamboo stalks bent under the weight of rocks that, when triggered, would catapult onto unsuspecting fish. A few fishermen tooled around the eddies, checking nets and lines for catfish and other aquatic catch. At a rock jetty, we slowed to let on a young girl in a white blouse and embroidered blue sarong, who settled among our backpacks with her own cargo-a wriggling plastic sack full of frogs destined for markets, and cooking pots, downstream.
It was almost impossible to imagine any other way of life along this rugged river. Yet Laos's Mekong residents are in for a rude awakening-particularly if their powerful upstream neighbor, China, continues to have its way with planned developments in the vast river basin.
Improving Mekong Navigation
More than 130 years ago, a French expedition set off upriver from the Mekong delta in what is now Vietnam with a single mission: find an inland water route to China. But France's commercial ambitions were thwarted. From its source in the Tanggula mountains on the Tibetan plateau, the 4,800-kilometer Mekong River winds southeasterly along a riverbed dotted with jagged rocks, looming sandbars, and deadly whirlpools. In the 1930s, after minor channel improvements, it still took 37 days to sail from the South China Sea to northern Laos-a voyage that British Naval Intelligence reported took longer than sailing to France.
Still today, small ferries and cargo boats of 60 to 100 tons ply the waters of the upper Mekong, sailing by day when the obstacles are more visible. (Like the other boats, for safety reasons our tourist barge pulled over for the night at Pakbeng, a one-road village lined with tottering clapboard houses; on average, 10 shipwrecks occur per year along the Mekong in Laos alone.) During the dry season (November to May) sections above Luang Prabang remain virtually unnavigable, with water levels falling to just half a meter. Downstream along the Lao-Cambodian border, the spectacular Khone Falls, a six-mile stretch of rapids near the legendary "area of 4,000 islands," prevents vessel passage entirely.
These natural impediments have sheltered the largely free-flowing Mekong from the fate of many of the world's large rivers, which have long been exploited for shipping and trade. But not for long. In 1992, China initiated plans for waterway alterations that would open up northern segments of the river to year-round navigation by large cargo ships. The $5 million Upper Mekong Navigation Improvement Project involves dynamiting 21 of the most treacherous shoals, rapids, and reefs along a 331-kilometer stretch of the river, from the Sino-Burmese border to Huay Xai.
China's primary objective is to facilitate the export of raw materials and other trade goods from its land-locked province of Yunnan to ports in Thailand, Laos, and the rest of Southeast Asia. If fully implemented, the dredging and subsequent channelization would more than double the annual shipping capacity of the Mekong-from 4 million tons in 2001 to 10 million tons by 2007-allowing passage of as many as a dozen 500-ton ships daily.
Trade Benefits to Whom?
Laos, Burma, and Thailand formally agreed to the improvements in 2000, when the three countries and China signed a navigation agreement (historically significant as their first formal collaboration since before World War I) that allows ships registered with any of the signatories to trade freely along the Mekong River for 886 kilometers, from the southern Chinese port of Simao to Luang Prabang in Laos. Each country also pledged to develop ports along the river and to facilitate both the passage of vessels and customs procedures.
Like its neighbors, Laos is pinning its hopes on the economic prospects of the Mekong. Mountainous and landlocked, it is the poorest country in Southeast Asia and lags at least 30 years behind its prosperous neighbor Thailand on most economic and social indicators (see table). Over the past century, it has suffered the burdens of French imperialism, a heavy-handed communist regime, and the Vietnam War, and is now trying desperately to catch up. Although still a communist state, Laos abandoned central planning a decade ago and has aggressively turned to free market economics in an effort to boost development. By opening the Mekong to increased trade, it hopes to benefit indirectly from China's economic boom and to free its population of 5.2 million from a largely subsistence farming economy. (In addition to being an important trade link, the Mekong has tremendous hydropower potential that, if fully harnessed, could position Laos as the "battery" of Southeast Asia.)
Even without a new shipping channel, commerce between China's southern provinces and Southeast Asia has grown rapidly, only accelerating with China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2000. In 2001, limited freight and passenger service opened between Yunnan and the Thai border town of Chiang Saen, transforming the once sleepy port into a bustling commercial zone, where 150-ton cargo ships now compete for dock space with smaller rice barges and fishing boats. Trade between China, Chiang Saen, and the downstream port of Chiang Khong topped $88 million in 2001, double that of the previous year.
But Aviva Imhof of the International Rivers Network warns that, despite its commercial promise, dredging the Mekong may offer "few obvious benefits" for the majority of Laos's Mekong residents. Most of the larger vessels slotted to ply the new shipping channel belong to China, which has more modern piers and facilities than its downstream neighbors. Officials in Thailand's Chiang Rai province reported that of the more than 2,400 cargo ships entering Chiang Saen port in 2001, more than three-quarters originated in China. Villagers in Laos and Thailand fear that the incoming Chinese vessels will flood local markets with inexpensive produce, textiles, and other exports that are up to five times cheaper than domestic goods, undermining local shopkeepers and farmers.
Residents and some government officials also worry that local agriculture could be further undercut by changes to the river current, which could accelerate the already severe erosion of the shores. "Without the reefs, the flow in the Mekong is likely to be much stronger, and big waves caused by huge ships would destroy the country's river banks," warns Thongpho Vongsriprasom of the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Only 4 percent of Laos's land area is suitable for agriculture (most of this along the shores of the Mekong), and many farmers rely on the fertile, sediment-enriched riverbanks for their annual harvests of lettuce, cabbage, and other crops.
Like its neighbors, however, the Laotian government has downplayed these concerns for fear of rocking the boat. Chinese investments in Laos alone totaled $87 million in 1999. Laos also benefits from some $500 million in Chinese-run development projects, among them television satellite stations and the proposed Luang Prabang hospital.
In November 2001, Beijing agreed to give Laos and Burma $5 million to finance the blasting, and a Chinese company was appointed to do the work there and in Thailand. Blasting began in December 2002, and by June 2003 all but one of the 11 major rapids identified for destruction under Phase One of the project had been altered. (The Thai Cabinet halted blasting of the remaining rapid because of disagreement with Laos over the location of their shared water boundary.)
Assessing Environmental Impacts
Critics also worry about the potential environmental implications of blasting and channeling the Mekong. A joint environmental assessment, sponsored by China and completed in September of 2001, concluded that the project's impacts would be negligible, affecting only the roughly three kilometers total where the actual detonation would occur. But the Thai watchdog group Terra and other critics have questioned the adequacy of the study. Not only was it largely technical in nature (involving mainly hydroengineers, not fisheries experts or social scientists), but it was completed in under six months and, according to Terra, represented only two days of actual field investigations.
In October 2001, the Mekong River Commission (the five-country body that oversees regional management of the river, of which China is the only basin country that is not a member) sponsored its own expert review of the assessment. Reviewer Brian Finlayson of the University of Melbourne's Centre for Environmental Applied Hydrology noted the "paucity of basic data and information and the sketchy and unsupported nature of the analyses." Critics with Australia's Monash University noted the study's failure to adequately assess long-term effects on Mekong hydrology, ecosystems, and communities, including possible contamination from heightened use and economic activity.
Other reviewers voiced their concerns about the project's consequences for Mekong fisheries, which are already in decline along many stretches of the river. Bob McDowall, with New Zealand's National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, noted that the study lacked not only published lists of fish species and descriptions of their habitats and life histories, but also any investigation of their biological values.
Laos's trade minister, Soulivong Daravong, told Reuters last April that the blasting would have only a small effect on fisheries, which "can be accepted because it is not big harm." But local fishers and villagers worry more about the longer-term consequences of altering the river. The Mekong supplies about 80 percent of the dietary protein consumed in the Mekong basin, which has a total population of more than 65 million. In Laos, where fish is still the leading source of food, the river is a lifeline.
Fishers already complain that waves from the bigger barges topple their boats and interfere with traditional fishing methods. But the greatest damage, ecologists say, would occur below the surface. The Mekong's treacherous rapids impede shipping, yet they provide critical habitat for hundreds of species of migratory fish that dart from one rock shelter to the next as they move up the river to feed and breed. The turbulent waters also break up leaves, branches, tree trunks, and other vegetable matter on the river, nourishing the aquatic food web.
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) estimates that the Mekong is third only to the Amazon and Congo rivers in biological diversity. The rocks and rapids near Thailand's Chiang Khong are the only known spawning grounds of the endangered giant catfish, which can weigh more than 300 kilograms and reach three meters in length. And kai, a high-protein weed that grows on the riverbed, is an important food source for both fish and humans. Scientists estimate that more than 1,200 species of fish live in the Mekong, though the full diversity of fish, plant, mollusk, and other aquatic life is still unknown.
In February 2003, the Southeast Asian Rivers Network (SEARIN), the Laotian government, and IUCN sponsored their own three-day survey of the upper Mekong. It identified 80 distinct fish species and 70 bird species along a 100-kilometer segment in Laos and Thailand. But some fear that this attempt to gather "baseline" ecological data on the region, occurring after the blasting began, may be too late.
Signs of Protest-and Hope?
Despite growing concern, resistance to the navigation project has emerged slowly, particularly in Laos, where the Communist leadership has discouraged public opposition. "People directly affected by the blasting have been excluded from the planning process, with no forum to express their opinions or influence decision-making," notes International River Network's Imhof.
SEARIN, which has also criticized the project, reports that most local residents knew nothing about it until the blasting began in 2002 and people began to notice increased erosion, higher sediment levels, and strange disruptions of the water flow. The "public awareness drive" required by the environmental impact assessment reportedly took only five days and excluded the general public, interest groups, and even local government agencies. (Nor were any of the results from the consultation given for Laos or Burma.) In some affected areas of Laos, the government was forced to boost its military presence following local protests and complaints.
Communities in neighboring countries have been much more vocal. In June 2002, more than 12,000 people in northern Thailand rallied to oppose the blasting plan, primarily on environmental grounds, according to Chirasok Intayos of the Chiang Kong Conservation Group. In Burma, 52 organizations also petitioned the Thai and Lao governments in December, arguing that the project would benefit only business elites and the military, and urging officials to pressure China to drop the project. Most residents would prefer to see new roads or the use of smaller barges as an alternative to the shipping channel.
There are signs that China may be listening. In late 2002, the country ratified its first-ever law requiring comprehensive environmental impact assessments for large infrastructure projects. Last June, China announced that it would scale back the blasting, abandoning the navigation project at the first stage rather than continuing with the more invasive widening that would clear the river for 500-ton vessels. Authorities claimed they were satisfied with the navigation channel gained so far. But they also cited the increased public and international scrutiny, including the growing concerns of downstream countries about livelihood impacts as well as calls from the Mekong River Commission to halt the project until a more comprehensive environmental assessment was available.
But many of the project critics fear that this doesn't necessarily mean an end to the Chinese plan. "If Chinese authorities really want to complete the project, they will be able to press ahead regardless," says Aviva Imhof. She notes that China's longstanding refusal to join the Mekong River Commission continues to bode poorly for regional governance of the river. "It's a question of China trying to extend its influence economically throughout the region," Imhof says. Nevertheless, she agrees that the country's tolerance of the commission's demands for a new impact assessment is a good sign.
Beyond the Blasting
Even if its navigation plans are scaled back, China has plenty more changes in store for its downstream neighbors. China has a long history of grand infrastructure projects, from the Great Wall to the nearly completed Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest. Indeed, regulating the river channel may prove one of the least disruptive of a series of Chinese plans to "improve" the Mekong.
As with the Three Gorges Dam, controversy is brewing around China's plans for at least eight dams along the Mekong in southern China-which could have even more serious consequences for downstream livelihoods, fisheries, and water levels. During the dry season, the river depends almost entirely on meltwaters from Chinese glaciers. Damming the Mekong would disrupt its natural flooding cycle, blocking the flow of sediment to the fertile floodplains downstream and making it even harder for farmers to regulate the timing of their riverbank planting.
With two of the dams already built and the third due for completion in 2012, villagers already report fluctuations in the water levels. During the dry season last December, Thai villagers saw their vegetable plots destroyed by unexpected flooding-which occurred shortly after China opened the floodgates of one of its upstream dams to raise water levels for cargo ships. Critics say China doesn't always tell downstream countries when the water releases will occur, and its non-membership in the MRC leaves it still calling the shots.
Moreover, China has readily embraced international cooperation in the so-called Greater Mekong Sub-Region, a $40 billion program initiated by the Asian Development Bank in 1992 to bring superhighways, power transmission grids, large dams, and tourism to the Mekong basin. And last year, China signed an agreement with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to create the world's largest free trade zone. China's clear interest in sustaining its high economic growth rates may not bode well for the people living along the Mekong's banks.
Lisa Mastny is a research associate at the Worldwatch Institute. Photographer Andrea Baldeck recently published Touching the Mekong, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, 2003.


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Since opening Purl Soho over ten years ago, we have often dreamed of creating our very own yarn. A yarn that would be as wonderful we could imagine: soft and luxurious, colorful and friendly, warm and beautiful. So, I'm thrilled to now be sharing my Snowflake Scarf with you, created with our first ever Purl Soho yarn: Super Soft Merino!
Super Soft Merino makes every lovely detail of the Rosette Stitch glow with a gentle halo of warmth. A chunky single ply of 100% merino wool, this yarn knits up with such a lavish drape and sumptuous coziness that even the most bitter winter wind is a breeze!
Stay tuned for more amazing patterns as we welcome Super Soft Merino into our lives. We hope you welcome it into yours! -Joelle
- 4 skeins of Purl Soho's Super Soft Merino, 100% merino wool. This scarf is made with Heirloom White.
- US #15 knitting needles, straight or circular
3 stitches = 1 inch in stitch pattern
10-inches wide x 70-inches long
Cast on 30 stitches.
Row 1 (Right Side): Knit.
Row 2: *P2tog, leaving stitches on left needle, bring yarn to back of work and k2tog through same stitches, drop stitches from left needle, repeat from * to end.
Row 3: Knit.
Row 4: P1, *p2tog, leaving stitches on left needle, bring yarn to back of work and k2tog through same stitches, drop stitches from left needle, repeat from * until 1 stitch remains, p1.
Repeat Rows 1-4 until approximately 30 inches of yarn remains, ending with a wrong side row. Bind off on right side in knit.
Weave in the ends and wrap yourself up!


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Free Office Space Further Proves San Francisco Is The New Center Of Indie Film/
Two years ago today, after having the first sale of the Toronto International Film Festival (at a far higher amount than I had hoped for) and my business partner having the #1 film at the US Box Office, I shut the doors on my production office for good. As an Indie Film Producer, I could not afford the high rents of NYC. Today I confess: my productivity went down as a result. Further, I lost the ability to naturally collaborate with the other producers and filmmakers I shared office space with. It sucks not to have an office (although I did love having lunch regularly with my wife).
I am thrilled that the San Francisco Film Society has confronted this problem head on (office space -- not lunches), offering filmmakers free office space in a wonderfully collaborative work space. Seriously, how many reasons am I going to have to give you to move Indie Film to The Bay Area? Is funding and work space not enough for you? How about a great film culture? Well, there is still more coming...
The San Francisco Film Society yesterday announced the reopening of FilmHouse, the residency program designed to offer free working space to filmmakers in various stages of production and provide a collaborative environment where they can share talents and resources with their peers. Located in the bustling Fillmore District of San Francisco, FilmHouse opens its doors this month on 4,800 spacious square feet of fully equipped, newly renovated office space. The latest expansion of Filmmaker360, the Film Society's filmmaker services program, FilmHouse is made possible by generous funding from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and additional support from the San Francisco Film Commission.
"FilmHouse is a perfect example of the kind of innovative support Filmmaker360 excels at providing to filmmakers," said Ted Hope, executive director of the San Francisco Film Society. "It's amazing what a difference it can make to an artist to have a dedicated working space to develop their project—in whatever stage of production—and the collaborative element included in the FilmHouse program will surely lead to many unforeseen opportunities and some truly inspired filmmaking."
Read more about the program and how to apply for it here.


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OTTAWA - A First Nation on the shores of Lake Manitoba is being investigated over loans and advances paid to its former band council and staff, newly released documents show.
Professional auditors from the firm KPMG are also looking into payments made to build off-reserve housing as well as social-assistance payments to senior administrators and the former chief and councillors of the O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation.
No charges have been laid and none of the allegations have been proven in court.
Documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act provide an overview of KPMG's audit work, which covered the period from April 2009 to March 2012.
The auditors were asked to take a closer look at loans and advances paid to 13 people who were "certain senior administrators, or were members of the council," according to the documents.
KPMG was asked to examine:
— Whether the transactions adhered to the First Nation's policies and "general good governance;"
— The terms and conditions of the loans and advances, and if they were paid back;
— How the transactions compared to loans and advances to a sample of other staff members;
— If the loans were made from federal transfer payments or from other sources; and,
— If the loans and advances were properly disclosed to the rest of the First Nation.
The firm was also asked to look into payments made for the construction of off-reserve housing, as well as social-assistance payments to people who worked for the First Nation or were members of its band council.
KPMG was to report back to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada by March 2012. However, The Canadian Press has learned the company is still involved in the investigation. KPMG has not responded to questions about its audit work.
In May 2013, a senior official at Aboriginal Affairs wrote to the current chief, Eugene Eastman, asking him to authorize the First Nation's co-manager and its auditor to turn over documents to KPMG.
"The assessment and investigation services branch will conduct audit work to provide assurance that ... funds disbursed to the First Nation have been used for the intended purposes; and that the O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi complied with the terms and conditions of the funding arrangements," Sylvie Lecompte, head of the department's investigations unit, told Eastman in an email.
The focus of the department's audit work is on $7.8 million in federal funding, she wrote, which included an emergency injection of $3.4 million to build sand bag and clay dikes during a 2011 flood.
Department officials did not answer specific questions about the audit. Instead, a spokeswoman for Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt said she could not comment on the audit because the investigation is not over.
"We will not tolerate the abuse of tax dollars. That is why we have asked an audit firm to look into the allegations and report back to us," Andrea Richer wrote in an email.
"Since the investigation is still ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment further."
Eastman — who became chief of the First Nation in May 2012, two months after the end of the audit period — declined to comment on the loans and advances. He referred questions to the First Nation's co-manager, Dan Favreau, who works at the Meyers Norris Penny accounting firm in Winnipeg.
Favreau declined to comment.
"Due to client confidentiality, we are unable to comment on the affairs of any of our clients," he wrote in an email.
"I will be talking with Chief Eastman in the next week about him providing a press release on the topic."
The O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation came under scrutiny by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation in 2010 over the salaries of its band council. The group said the First Nation paid its chief and three councillors taxable equivalent salaries ranging between $106,000 to $144,000 — even though it had a deficit of more than $500,000 in 2008-09 and a debt of nearly $1.2 million.
O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi is one of several First Nations whose finances are getting a closer look from the federal government.
One First Nation in northern Saskatchewan is currently being audited over allegations — which have not been proven in court — that its chief and council misused government money meant for social assistance to buy themselves vehicles, horses and trailers.


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Oh thats not a bad idea. Is that a specific type of solder or will any work?
Lemme just go raid fort Knox and grab some gold real quick..
Mount the end cap in some kind of solid holder (a large vice is a good choice) and heat it up with a propane or similar torch. Melt the solder into the cap so that you have a "pool" of solder to dip into.
Clean your copper rings, perhaps dip/wipe in flux - then dip the rings in the solder (you might have to fashion some kind of tool to allow for this, of course).


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Go to a farmers market and your mind begins to race. Fava beans? What can I do with them? What about the asparagus? And look at those artichokes! Strawberries, mmmm. There are so many terrific ingredients just begging for you to buy them at this time of year that it can seem impossible to decide what to cook.
Some people try to solve the problem by eliminating impulse altogether and shopping strictly from recipes -- they'll print out their favorites and then follow the ingredients list to a "T," regardless of what might be best that particular day. Others go the opposite direction -- they'll buy up everything they see and then when they get home spend the afternoon searching through cookbooks to find recipes to use it all up.
All about improv
Either approach is bound to be frustrating. When it comes to cooking from the farmers market, recipes are the enemy. Improvisation is everything.
That may seem funny coming from someone who writes recipes for a living. (And, have no fear, there are recipes with this article too!) Perhaps a more accurate way to put it is that the real problem with recipes is a slavish devotion to them.
Cooking from the farmers market is a bit like playing jazz (or so it seems to this tone-deaf, beat-deprived fan). Shopping straight from the recipe is like playing sheet music -- it might be acceptable, but it'll never be much more. On the other hand, buying up everything that looks good and hoping to find the recipe later is like one of those bebop players who throws out a gazillion notes in hopes of stringing together two or three that make a melody.
But to improvise successfully you still need a basic structure. Not one so rigid that you wind up hamstrung, but more like a theme that allows for variation -- general ideas you can go back to again and again, varying them to fit your mood, the season and what seems best.
Something like a vegetable stew, for example. Braise whatever vegetables you like with white wine and either a light chicken stock or just plain water. It won't take much -- probably three-fourths of a cup or less. When the vegetables are tender, raise the heat to reduce the liquid to a glaze.
The real art isn't how it's constructed, but what ingredients you choose and in what proportions. The technique just gives you a structure you can depend on.
Think about what flavors go together. Frequently -- but not always -- things that share seasons also share complementary tastes. For example, at this time of year, you might want to make the stew with asparagus or artichokes or fava beans . . . or maybe all three.
But even though they're plentiful in the market right now, you probably wouldn't want to add chard, kale or other braising greens. The flavors just wouldn't work together. Or maybe they would? You're the cook, you decide.
To make the stew into a main course, you could throw in some cooked dried pasta. But I've fallen in love with ricotta gnocchi. Making it is basically no harder than beating together well-drained ricotta, Parmigiano-Reggiano and eggs and then kneading in enough flour to make a soft dough. Vary the amount of the cheese as you like, and you can add chopped herbs if you like. The main tricks are not adding too much flour and not overworking the dough -- either one will make the gnocchi rubbery.
Once you have the structure well in hand, you might think a little bit about other auxiliary flavor riffs you might want to use. Staying with the artichoke, asparagus and fava bean theme, maybe some shredded basil right at the end? Or a little tarragon? Chervil?
And then there's the choice of cheese: Nutty Parmigiano-Reggiano is a natural, but you could push the envelope a little by trying pungent pecorino Romano, or maybe a milky-salty ricotta salata.
Before you commit with the whole dish, scoop up a little in a spoon and taste it with just a little bit of the herb or cheese you're thinking about adding. If it works, you can add more.
Crostata variations
This idea of riffing on a basic structure works just as well -- if not better -- with fruit. As far as I'm concerned, a good crostata dough is the culinary equivalent of Archimedes' lever: Given one, you can move the world.
My favorite crostata dough is one I learned years ago from Nancy Silverton. She uses a mix of three-fourths cup bread flour and 1 1/2 cups cake flour to get a combination of flaky structure and tender crumb. Because I'm usually short of bread flour, I generally mix three-fourths cup cake flour and 1 1/2 cups all-purpose and that works almost as well. Or you can go with only all-purpose if you like; it'll be good but not quite as tender.
Roll out the dough (not too thin; it should have some heft) and put it on a cookie sheet. Heap cut-up fruit in the middle; it'll take about 3 cups, sweetened with a couple of tablespoons of sugar, plus about a tablespoon of cornstarch to thicken the juices.
Fold over the edges of the dough -- it should be neat, but not too neat -- and then bake in a hot oven until the crust is crisp and brown.
Serve this with vanilla ice cream and see if your world doesn't move too.


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Huong, an artist, peace activist, and former refugee who fled her native Vietnam in 1975, has painted her visions of war and peace for more than three decades. Of her latest project, Let's Think Peace, she says: "It is time that I leave this season of my grief behind ... I painted my life and my convictions onto these canvases. Now I take them outside and invite others to 'Think Peace' with me." To view the photo essay, click here.


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UPDATE: April 15, 2012 - "mick" commenter below reminded me of this video - I wonder - did somebody want to replace these secret service agents - admittedly not supposed to be angels - maybe good at their jobs- - but had to be gotten out of the way? It's all speculation - but that's what we are all left with when all we have are lying tea leaves to read:


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I have merely the 300W version of the kitchen aid. I've had it nearly ten years and never have I felt I needed more power and it has never failed. Breads and pizza dough are the most taxing on the mixer. Cakes and other baked goods don't require much power. I can process enough dough to make three loaves of bread or three large pizzas in one batch -- that's plenty for me. If you don't see yourself exceeding this then don't worry about getting the lowest cost version.
thanks guys! so it sounds like getting a mixer won't dramatically increase my results but will likely make my life a little easier in the long run.
Well I'll continue to make bread and pizza a little longer by hand to make sure that I'll stick with it before investing in a mixer. I've got my eye on an Electrolux DLX mixer for around $650.
Matt, I am not saying I am the absolute authority, so take my views for what they are, but I have actually owned a Kitchen Aid, an Electrolux DlX, A Bosch Universal, and even a Santos fork mixer. I sold everything but the Bosch universal, so that should tell you somthing. In my opinion the bosch makes a far superior dough to the Electrolux, but maybe you had a different experience?
One of the things you may want to keep in mind, and I believe you alluded to it in another thread, is the minimum amount of dough a particular mixer can make. My needs are generally for small amounts of dough, most often a single dough ball sufficient to make a pizza up to 18", which I now make using a standard KitchenAid mixer on the low end of the price scale. It occasionally croaks and groans to the point where I have thought that the end was near and that I should make plans for a decent burial. More than once I have been tempted to replace that machine with a better, more efficient machine. It has never been a matter of cost. However, from what I could tell from the comments of our members, the better mixers, from the KitchenAid Pro series on up, and including several other brands, do not do particularly well with small amounts of dough. So, I have stayed with the status quo. The day will eventually come when my mixer goes on to the afterlife and I will have to make a decision. At this point, I think I would go with either another low end machine, even with its inefficiencies, or just use hand kneading.
Is your mixer above still cranking out dough or has found an afterlife?


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It's win-win for Scottish travellers as the European Parliament has voted to scrap roaming charges for mobile phones, and increase protection for package holidaymakers.
The new travel rules will extend existing consumer rights on package holidays to include travellers who buy holidays on the internet which look like packages and are marketed as packages. There will also be a clampdown on loopholes which can leave travellers out of pocket and stranded in far-away destinations if their airline goes bust.
The mobile roaming agreement means that from June 2017, additional charges will no longer apply within the EU for making calls, sending texts and using the internet.
Travellers using their mobile phones on holiday will also benefit in the interim, as prices are further cut from April 30 next year by around 75 per cent.
The new travel rules will make clearer what a 'package holiday' is and will include customised combinations of travel arrangements bought on the internet and will provide clearer information to travellers on the sort of product they're buying and the level of protection they get.
A new concept of 'linked travel arrangements' will also be introduced. This will apply to looser combinations of travel services. Holidaymakers who are given the choice to buy accommodation or organise car hire after buying their flights, for example, through low cost airline websites, will now be assured greater protection. Under the current rules, if the airline went bust, and the return flight was cancelled, the traveller would have to organise their own travel arrangements and wouldn't be entitled to a refund on the original flight. But under the new rules, the tour provider will have to have compensation measures in place as part of their plans for insolvency.
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Douglas Bruce, victim. Let it roll over the tongue a few times. Let it vibrate in the most sensitive part of the brain, the one usually reserved for trampled flowers and kicked puppies.
Hold that thought.
Douglas Bruce says he's a victim. He claims that he's the focus of a political vendetta, that he's being persecuted by petty bureaucrats and politicians and judges because of his anti-tax crusades. That his are the fattest files in Denver's zoning and building departments because he dared to defy authority. That vandals target his vacant properties because he's rebelled against government spending. That he has a jail sentence hanging over his thick head because he fathered Amendment 1.
"I'm a victim," Bruce declared in Denver County Court last week, where he was appearing on his umpty-umpth count of maintaining an abandoned, unsafe building. "The city's response when you are a victim is to prosecute."
And Bruce's response when he is prosecuted is to posture and pontificate.
He's said all this before, of course.
Douglas Bruce collects falling-down buildings the way Imelda Marcos accumulates shoes. He doesn't have a prayer of filling them, but the collection keeps piling up...and falling down.
Bruce was in Denver County Court eighteen months ago, saying much the same things he's now saying about mostly the same properties. Then, as now, the most heated legal action focused on a building at 3700 Humboldt. Since it was built in 1890, the brick storefront has served many purposes--apartments, a grocery store, a school--but none more ignominious than as Exhibit A for Colorado's most lackadaisical land baron. Bruce bought the building in December 1992 for a mere $2,000, from Ray Phillips of Arvada, who'd paid almost ten times as much for the structure four years before. But at the time Bruce added the structure to his collection, the fourplex already had been found to be in "imminent danger of collapse" by city inspectors, and orders had been filed for the building to either be demolished or repaired. That's why Bruce got such a deal on it.
Then he proceeded to make a big deal of it, stalling repairs every step of the way. Within a few months, one of the external walls had indeed collapsed, tumbling bricks onto 37th Avenue. It took months--and a looming court trial--for Bruce to get around to making even the most minimal of repairs. Then, as now, he claimed he was being persecuted. So did his repairmen: Even as the man who'd hired them was facing the judge, they stood outside the dilapidated building at 3700 Humboldt and said its owner was being picked on.
Apparently, the jury did not agree. In September 1993 Bruce was found guilty of owning an unsafe structure and failing to make required repairs. He was fined slightly more than he'd paid for the building and ordered to perform community service. That's the sentence Bruce is still fighting today, the reason he was threatened with arrest and the impetus for his appearance in federal court for an appeal hearing this Friday.
In the meantime, 3700 Humboldt still stands vacant. The backyard is a patch of dirt and debris; the windows are boarded over and marked with graffiti. From their tags, you can't tell if the vandals like to read the papers or raise taxes or even vote Democratic.
A tour of Bruce's Denver properties doesn't take long. The old, two-story houses at 2022 and 2036 Martin Luther King Boulevard have been empty since before Bruce's September 1993 court dates on building-code violations at these addresses. If he's since finished major repairs and renovations inside--say, installed a fabulous designer kitchen or added a master-bedroom suite--you can't tell from the street; plywood covers the windows, although the walls bear relatively new coats of paint. (Even those slight improvements are not without controversy; one charitable group claimed that Bruce had failed to reimburse it after the group included a few of his buildings in a neighborhood paint-a-thon.) There's been some movement on Bruce's properties at 3700 Gaylord and 3000 Marion--but then, Bruce had outstanding violations at these addresses, too, and appeared in court last week to deal with them. Even the city attorney who's been dogging Bruce's trail for years agreed that those properties showed signs of a "good-faith effort" to comply, and the city agreed to give Bruce a two-month grace period on those counts. But on his way into court Wednesday, Bruce was handed a ticket for troubles with a structure at 2426 Tremont. Of all Bruce's Denver buildings, this one showed the most promise as a true fixer-upper, which is what Bruce declares most of his acquisitions to be. It's at the edge of the Curtis Park Historic District, which takes pride in its Victorian charmers. Bruce's house, however, is the eyesore of the block, still showing the ravages of a fire last summer.
All told, Bruce owns 23 properties in Denver (depending on who's doing the counting). None are exactly garden spots; some are downright dumps. And this is just a fraction of Bruce's holdings. He also owns properties in Pueblo and Colorado Springs, where he's been repeatedly cited for building violations. Just as repeatedly, he's accused the City of Colorado Springs of carrying out a vendetta against him.
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Bruce is no victim. Save your sympathy for his actual tenants in Colorado Springs. For the zoning inspectors and clerks who are just doing their jobs. And for the taxpayers, who are subsidizing this nonsense.
Last week, after his latest courtroom tantrum, Bruce announced he was going to sell all his Denver properties and get the hell out of town--commercially speaking, of course.
He's said that before, too. After his last round of court hearings back in 1993.
Here's your hat, Mr. Bruce. What's your hurry?


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Sun has recently released its hybrid server+storage product, the X4500 aka 'Thumper,' in VTL form using FalconStor's software. The product is called the StorageTek VTL-V and holds up to 24TB of data with 500GB SATA drives. An upgrade to 750GB drives is planned, meaning a 36TB capacity. With a 20:1 de-dupe ratio its effective capacity would be raised to 720TB.
Sun will also sell the Diligent ProtecTIER de-dupe software running on its X4600 server connected to a StorageTek 6000 array providing up to 168TB raw capacity, and, at a 20:1 ratio, 3.36PB effective capacity.
Diligent and Sun already have joint ProtecTIER customers -- some with over 1PB of physical storage under management
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The Diligent arrangement would imply either a separate VTL product line or the removal of the FalconStor technology to some degree from the VTL-V, VTL Plus and VTL-E products.
From a marketing standpoint, having two incompatible VTL products is confusing. For Sun to take this step underscores the importance of it having a credible de-dupe offering.
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The Day will soon begin its election-time ritual of providing candidate endorsements on the editorial pages. The newspaper will be making its recommendations in races for state House and Senate, U.S. Congress and Senate, on various referenda and, of course, for president.
In evaluating candidates The Day tried something different this year. In the past candidates for the state legislature were brought into the office individually to meet with the editorial board to discuss policies and politics. As our staff has shrunk, due in large part to the competition for advertising dollars and readers posed by the Internet, it became more difficult to schedule all those individual meetings.
In an effort to turn a negative into a positive, we took our editorial meetings out on the road. And instead of meeting with one candidate at a time, we invited groups of candidates to our forums, held across the region, to discuss and debate the issues. Forums have been held in Groton, New London, Norwich, Old Saybrook and Montville.
For the most part, the forums have been well attended, with audience members provided the chance to submit questions, and with a video recording of the discussions available on theday.com. Two more forums are scheduled for later this month and when they are finished the public will have had the opportunity to hear from all the candidates for state House and Senate seats in this region. We consider it a success.
We will take into account what we learned at those candidate forums, along with the candidates' stated positions on major policies, their experience and their records in making our endorsements. The reason we endorse is to offer a perspective on why we feel one candidate is better suited than another and provide a rationale. These endorsements are just one more tool voters can use in reaching their own decisions, based on their own individual priorities and their assessment of the candidates.
In the races for U.S. Congress and Senate the editorial board has met individually with the major party candidates for Senate and Congress (with the exception of Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon, who has so far not taken us up on our offer to meet). The Day is also co-sponsoring a Senate debate at 7 p.m. tomorrow between McMahon and the Democratic candidate, Rep. Chris Murphy, at the Garde Arts Center in New London. MyTV9 will telecast it live.
On Oct. 29 The Day will co-host a debate at Palmer Auditorium at Connecticut College between the 2nd District congressional candidates, incumbent Democrat Rep. Joe Courtney and Republican challenger Paul Formica, East Lyme first selectman. Also at 7 p.m., it will be aired on Connecticut Public Television (CPTV).
To clear up any misconceptions, I want to point out that the editorial endorsements taken by The Day in no way influence news coverage of the candidates. There is a wall of separation between what I do - offer and publish opinions - and what the newsroom does - objectively provide information about the candidates to the readers. Reporters will not know who we endorsed in a race until they read it in the newspaper like everyone else.
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Ten Ways to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence
The best way to improve your emotional skills is through practice in the real world. Through practice and getting feedback on your performance, preferably by an experienced coach, you can adjust your behavior and become more effective in recognizing and managing your own emotions as well as the emotions of others.
Everyone has aspects of their lives that they can improve. Here are some ways that you can work on your emotional intelligence so that you can begin to make a difference in your situation. Although each of the skills can help you in some way, you may find some skills more important than others, depending on your current situation.
Become more self-aware
One of the core areas of emotional intelligence is self-awareness. In many ways, this area is the cornerstone of all the other areas. In order to be aware of others' emotions, for example, you need to be aware of your own emotions.
You can become more aware of your emotions through various forms of meditation or mindfulness. By enrolling in a course, joining a group, or hiring an instructor, you can use these techniques to become more aware of your body, your feelings, and your thoughts.
You can also become more self-aware by using your notebook to record your feelings at various preset intervals. By increasing your emotional vocabulary and using it to describe your full range of feelings throughout various parts of the day, you can figure out how to pay more attention to your emotions.
In addition to describing your emotions, pay attention to their intensity. Rate your emotions from 1 to 10. The better you gauge your emotions, the more easily you can monitor and change them.
Express your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs
Knowing how to express your emotions can often help you in managing those emotions. You can, of course, bottle everything up and not share your real thoughts, feelings, or beliefs with anyone. But, not only is this approach hard to do, it makes for a very lonely life. Nobody really gets to know you, and you don't get to know others very well, either. All humans share the desire to have intimate relationships with a few trusted people.
On the other hand, you can choose to blather out your innermost thoughts, feelings, and beliefs to everyone. This approach can also be a mistake. First of all, some people don't really care about your thoughts and feelings. Second, others might be offended by your disclosures or find them rude.
Aim for a middle ground, called assertiveness. Assertiveness is the appropriate sharing of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Basically, you need to let the right people, at the right time, know where you stand.
Discover your inner passions
Everyone tends to go about their work from day to day doing what they have to do. But how many people are really excited about the work that they do? Many people feel that they're stuck in a rut at their jobs. But someone didn't magically pluck them up and place them where they are. Usually, by following opportunities or money, people end up doing the kind of work that they do.
Few people strive to do the kind of work that really excites them. Most people have a passion for some kind of work, activity, or interest deep inside, but you can't always easily find it. You may know some starving artists who shun regular jobs in hopes of making their dreams come true. You may not be able to easily find work that you're passionate about, but with the right amount of planning, you can do it.
Know your strengths and weaknesses
Some people seem to think that they're good at everything. Others constantly underestimate their strengths. The ideal situation, of course, is to accurately know your strengths and weaknesses. Knowing yourself helps you make choices in life. For example, by focusing on your strengths you can get more of what you want out of life.
Pursuing the things you're good at and have a passion for — such as science, music, art, writing, public speaking, woodworking, or gardening — enables you to live a richer and fuller life. By over-focusing on areas of weakness, unless they interfere with your life, you tend to hold yourself back from getting the most out of life.
When you have to make decisions, you may get messages that seem to come from your gut. Certain choices feel good, and others may give you a queasy feeling. You may think of these feelings as messages from your heart, as opposed to your head. People are often guided by their emotional knowledge, which they may not be fully aware of.
Walk in the other person's moccasins
Empathy is an extremely powerful emotion. Most successful politicians (such as Bill Clinton), philanthropists (such as Princess Diana), media personalities (such as Oprah), and leaders in the community and business are high in empathy.
Increasing your ability to empathize can help you get closer to others, win their support when you need it, and defuse potentially high-charged situations. By showing another person that you really understand where he's coming from, you gain a certain level of respect. You demonstrate, for example, that you're not self-centered.
Start being more empathic by paying more attention to other people. Listen carefully when communicating with someone. Listen to both what she tells you and what she wants you to hear. By getting better at picking up and paying attention to what people are really trying to say, you become more empathic.
Manage another person's emotions
If you can manage the emotions of people around you, you have an impressive skill. You've probably seen leaders who can calm down or reassure an angry crowd. On the other hand, you've probably also seen how some people can mismanage the emotions of others. Think of the number of times a poorly prepared CEO of a company had to face the media in a time of crisis. By giving off the wrong body language, using the wrong tone of voice, or evading answers to questions, these leaders made people who were watching feel more annoyed or upset.
Managing other people's emotions is a two-step process. Just follow these steps:
Increase your empathy.
You need to put yourself in the other person's shoes and feel his pain, joy, hopes, or fears. One way is by asking questions of people. Learn what you can by asking and observing. Does he like sports or exercise? What are his favorite teams and activities? What foods does she chose to eat? What makes her feel happy or sad?
Respond to him in the way that you would want someone to respond to you to relieve that pain.
Managing someone else's emotions requires a certain amount of skill. First, you need to know where you want to lead the other person. Do you want to make someone happy, calm, vigilant, or aware, for example? After you decide how you want her to feel, then you have to know how to guide her there.
Think of the last time that you heard an inspirational speaker or saw a film that really moved you. Impactful experiences usually involve a build-up in which the speaker or movie director sets the stage for where he or she wants you to go emotionally. You can create this build-up yourself by setting a goal or letting the person know where you want to go.
Some examples are
We have to look at this situation calmly.
As a family we need to be aware of what's going on.
Some bad things have happened, and we have to be on our toes.
Then, you can build your case through stories or examples. You need to convey to the other person that you're both on the same side — and it's in both of your best interests to be on the same page. By being consistent in your body posture, your voice, and your message, you can deliver a potent message that can move the other person's emotions closer to where you want them.
Be socially responsible
Social responsibility is one of the highest levels of emotional experience. It demonstrates that you really care about others, especially those less fortunate. Being socially responsible isn't about personal gain — it's about what you can contribute to help other people.
Social responsibility has several layers:
At the most basic level, you can donate money to charity or a worthy cause. Although you want to make donations as a part of any socially responsible plan, donations are only a first step in the process.
At the next level you might help a worthy organization collect money. You can solicit from friends, relatives, neighbors, or people you work with. You can get involved in events that raise money — charitable runs, car washes, danceathons, walkathons, pie bakes, or biking events.
The most effective components of social responsibility involve you personally contributing to a worthwhile cause. Think of some ways that you can help others who may need it. You might want to start by identifying the causes that you see as most important to you. You may feel passionate about spousal abuse, homelessness, food shelters, elderly care, hospitalized people, specific diseases, specific causes, and so on.
After you identify a cause that you want to support, think of how you can best contribute. You can serve on a board, be a volunteer worker, or participate in any of a number of ways. Contact the agency or organization associated with that cause and ask how you can help.
Manage your own impulses
Managing your own emotions, especially impulsiveness, provides another pillar of emotional intelligence (in addition to being aware of your emotions and managing other people's emotions). By becoming more emotionally self-aware, you better prepare yourself for emotional self-management. You can manage your impulses in three basic ways:
Distraction: When you sense a problem in impulse control coming on, you can most quickly deal with it by distracting yourself. Shift your thinking by counting to ten or focusing on prepared distracting thoughts. You can train yourself to quickly change your thoughts, or the subject if in a conversation, to something such as the weather, what you ate for breakfast, where you plan to travel next, a project you're working on, or any other event.
Analytic: An analytic approach involves stopping and analyzing your thoughts when you feel impulsive. You can ask yourself questions such as
Why am I thinking about this stressful problem or event?
How can thinking about this stressful problem or event help me?
Could I be thinking about something else?
What's a better alternative thought?
Coping: A coping strategy involves a number of specific coping thoughts that you practice in advance. These thoughts include statements such as
I know I can control my thoughts.
I can just slow down a bit.
Let me think this through.
I don't have to rush with a response.
I can think of alternatives.
Strategies such as the ones in the preceding list can help you successfully deal with stressful problems or events when you practice them in advance. You can't effectively try out these strategies on the fly. With planning and practice, you can go a long way in dealing with impulsive thoughts, words, and actions.
These techniques can work for normal levels of impulsiveness. If your impulsiveness is part of a problem with ADHD or ADD, then you need a more intense intervention. If you suspect you or someone close to you has a serious problem with attention, then you should consult a psychologist or psychiatrist who specializes in this area. To learn more about ADHD, visit CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), a nonprofit informational organization.
Be more flexible
Everyone has routines and set ways of doing things. For a society to run efficiently, it needs a certain amount of rules and regulations. However, you can experience problems when you get stuck in a rut and become inflexible to change. By being too rigid you miss out on opportunities, fall behind in learning new techniques and approaches, and tend to deal with personal and work problems in the same, sometimes unproductive, ways.
Being emotionally intelligent involves knowing when to stick to and when to switch your emotional attachments. When it's time to move on, people high in emotional intelligence can make that adjustment.
If you find change difficult, look at the possible consequences. What might happen if you stay with the status quo? On the other hand, where might you be if you go with the flow? Change is part of growth. Throughout life, new experiences and new opportunities can provide you with personal and professional fulfillment, and you need to be open to these changes. Although you might find it uncomfortable to try new things, most people find the short-term pain worth the long-term gain. Part of growing as a person involves learning new skills and approaches and experiencing new relationships and places.
Be happy
How happy are you? No, really, how happy are you, on a scale of 1 to 10? Are you a 5 or a 7? How about a 9?
People high in emotional intelligence are happy people. And they're not just happy because good things happen to them.
Happiness (real happiness, which feels like a warm, steady glow inside your body), comes from the inside out. A person who manages this emotion well wakes up happy in the morning. And when he encounters challenges throughout the day, he can maintain a certain level of his happiness. In fact, his happiness buoys his spirits when encountering the trials and tribulations of daily living, and it keeps his mind clear, preventing him from getting caught up in unproductive self-pity or other non-helpful emotions. Happy people come up with more solutions to problems than sad or depressed people do.
Although sad people generally pay more attention to details than happy people, happy people accomplish more than sad people. Of course, because happiness and sadness are emotions, they do fluctuate. So, you can control your mood to serve your own purpose. Being emotionally intelligent involves knowing when to be happy, sad, excited, anxious, or even vigilant.
People prefer being around other people who are happy. Happy leaders have followers who are very engaged. You can find many advantages to being happy. People will appreciate you more, you can get through tough times easier, you'll feel better, and you'll be more helpful to others. Research even shows that happy people live longer (or miserable people die sooner).
Very few people really know how to manage their happiness. People all too often associate happiness with material goods or with getting things from others. The really happy people are the givers. The people who spread happiness tend to be happier themselves.
Hopefully, while you develop your emotional intelligence, you remember that it costs you nothing to spread happiness, and what you receive in return is priceless.