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Yield: 1 9-inch loaf
1 1/3 cups cassava flour
1/2 cup raw cacao powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1/2 cup avocado oil
3/4 cup Lakanto sweetener
2 large eggs
1 cup organic canned pumpkin puree
1/4 cup almond or coconut milk (I used Rebel Kitchen chocolate mylk)
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/3 cup mini chocolate chips (I used Enjoy Life)
1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan generously with coconut oil.
2. In a small bowl, combine cassava, cacao, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In a separate large bowl, whisk oil and Lakanto until well mixed. Whisk in eggs, then pumpkin, milk and vanilla. Add cassava mixture; stir until nearly combined. Fold in chocolate chips.
3. Spread batter in loaf pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then turn bread out of pan and let cool completely on rack. Wrap and refrigerate leftovers.

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Thanks for all of the folks who made it out to the RVA Makerfest and checked out the bikes! The question that was most popular was "Why is this the Ultimate Kids Bike?" Please continue reading as there are several things that go into making the Ultimate Kids Bike:
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The following is a speech delivered by Antoni Cimolino to the Richard Ivey School of Business on Wednesday, January 26, 2011
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
Even if you've never been to a Shakespeare play in your life, or cracked open a copy of his works, I'm sure you all recognize those often-quoted words. They occur in the riotous comedy Twelfth Night—which, as it just so happens, we're doing this season at Stratford.
The production stars Brian Dennehy, whom many of you will recognize from his film and TV roles, but who's also a two-time Tony Award-winning stage actor who has just been inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
Twelfth Night also features Stephen Ouimette, Tom Rooney, Andrea Runge and Sara Topham, and tickets are available by calling 1.800.567.1600.
Okay, so there's the first lesson I've learned from my career in Shakespearean theatre: never pass up a opportunity to promote your business. But I guess you don't need me to tell you that.
Perhaps some people are indeed born great: into that category you could put someone like Mozart, who showed such extraordinary talent at a ridiculously early age. And I dare say there are people who have greatness thrust upon them by circumstance, though it's harder to come up with obvious examples.
Perhaps one would be Rosa Parks, the department-store seamstress who was an active but relatively unremarkable figure in the American civil-rights movement until one day in 1955, when she created a turning point in her nation's history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
But I think most of the people we consider to be great leaders in their field—like Shakespeare himself—have in some way achieved that status by working at it over a considerable period of time. We're naturally intrigued by how they did it.
And perhaps even more intriguing than the journey up to a pinnacle of achievement is the sometimes precipitous journey down: we're fascinated by the fact that you can be the head of a corporate empire one day and a convicted felon the next. How do smart people come to make such mistakes, we wonder?
I myself have learned a lot about leadership from Shakespeare. I don't think I could have taken on my current job if I hadn't spent so much time on stage as an actor, speaking and listening to Shakespeare's language, or in the rehearsal hall as a director, trying to translate the words on the page into action on the stage.
Working as an actor or a director accustoms you to the process of trying to get underneath the surface, to recognize patterns, to understand why things happen the way they do. And having that kind of insight is essential, I think, to effective leadership.
But you don't have to work in the theatre to benefit from it. Being an engaged audience member can also help you cultivate some of that sensibility.
The best way to gain insight is from experience, and the theatre offers us a safe way of undergoing experience at its most extreme. Attending a Shakespeare play lets you get caught up in wars and revolutions and deadly dynastic disputes without getting hurt. It lets you be an eyewitness as people vie for kingdoms, commit murder and take revenge, plan stratagems that blow up in their faces. And at the end, you come out unscathed but perhaps a little more aware of the challenges, complexities and ambiguities that attend any human enterprise.
Human nature hasn't really changed in the 400 years since Shakespeare stopped writing for the stage, nor have the basic dynamics of rise and fall, conflict and resolution, in the stories of human lives. So the more you get to know Shakespeare's plays, the more you'll see our own world reflected in them.
Leadership is largely about the exercise of power—and power is a central theme in Shakespeare. All of his history plays, from King John to Henry VIII, and his Roman plays—Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra—are about aspects of political power: how it is obtained, how it is used and misused, how it affects the user, how it is lost.
Shifts of power lie at the heart of the tragedies, too, from King Lear, in which the title character makes the fatal mistake of letting go of power while still expecting to enjoy the respect and privileges it commands, to Othello, in which a subordinate, Iago, brilliantly uses the power of suggestion to turn his commanding officer into his puppet.
The struggle for power is a significant theme even in the comedies, which we think of as being more about love than about war or politics. It's certainly central to The Taming of the Shrew, but it's there in other comedies too. The action of As You Like It, for instance, takes place in the wake of—and largely in consequence of—a palace coup: the amiable Duke Senior has been deposed by his nasty brother, Duke Frederick, and has gone off to lead a government-in-exile in the Forest of Arden.
And when Rosalind, Duke Senior's daughter, flees to find her father in the forest, she dons male disguise. Like other cross-dressing Shakespearean heroines, she is empowered by assuming a male role: she can act with a freedom and authority that would have been denied her had she stayed in a dress.
Shakespeare remained preoccupied with issues of leadership and power to the very end of his career. The Tempest, which we believe to have been the last play he wrote on his own, is—among other things—an extended meditation on various kinds of power. Its central figure, Prospero, is another ex-duke who has been deposed by his brother, having allowed himself to get distracted from the practical business of ruling by his interest in the "magical arts"—which, if you feel so inclined, you can interpret as a metaphor for being too wrapped up in the life of the imagination. In the end, Prospero exercises what may be the hardest power of all to acquire: the power to forgive.
Perhaps Shakespeare's most exhaustive study of leadership is found in the two great cycles of history plays—four in each cycle—that together tell the story of how the Tudor dynasty (the family of his own monarch, Elizabeth I) came to power. Shakespeare didn't write these in chronological order: like George Lucas with the two Star Wars trilogies, he did it backwards, writing the second cycle first and then returning to the subject later to write the first one.
The first cycle of plays begins with Richard II. Then we get two plays about the reign of Henry IV, and we finish with Henry V. Then in the second cycle we get three parts of Henry VI, plus Richard III.
It's all right; there won't be a test on this. And I'm not going to talk about all eight. Let's just look at the first one for now.
Richard II is one of the prime Shakespearean examples of an ineffective leader. He seems to have no strategy, no clear idea of what he wants to use his power to achieve. He acts as if the rights and powers that accompany his office as king were privileges of his own person. He acts without regard to law—assuming that he himself is the law.
As a result, he makes arbitrary and impulsive decisions that earn him the enmity of the very people whose support he should most be cultivating: the nobility—his senior staff, if you like. One of the people he alienates is the man who will prove his downfall, his cousin Henry Bolingbroke.
Bolingbroke, as decisive and clear-headed as Richard is vacillating and self-absorbed, launches a rebellion and deposes Richard, assuming the throne himself as King Henry IV. To Richard, who still thinks he's God's anointed, this change in his fortunes is incomprehensible, and he reacts to it by wallowing in self-pity.
"For God's sake," he says, "let us sit upon the ground / And tell sad stories of the death of kings." He calls for a hand mirror and gazes wistfully into it, asking, "Was this the face / That like the sun, did make beholders wink?" before smashing it on the ground. He goes so far as to compare himself to Christ delivered to the cross—and, indeed, he does end up being imprisoned by the new King Henry and, inevitably, murdered.
Richard's problem is that he's a narcissist with a fatal sense of entitlement. He believes in what was called the Divine Right of Kings: the idea that if you were king, you held that position because it was God's will.
I admit I've never actually heard anyone of a Divine Right of CEOs, but I'm prepared to bet there are plenty of leaders in the corporate world who subscribe to the circular logic of entitlement: I am in this position, therefore I deserve this position, and nothing I do can be wrong. But it ain't necessarily so.
Richard II is by no means a bad human being; he'd probably be quite charming company at a cocktail party. He's imaginative, his language is gorgeously ornate, and in his own self-absorbed way he's a philosopher. But he's in the wrong job, and isn't shrewd enough to realize it.
Nor is he able to play the part effectively. There's an old theatrical joke that the key quality in a good performance is sincerity—and if you can fake that, you've got it made. Leadership is to some extent a role that you have to play, a persona you have to adopt, but the performance has to be a very carefully judged.
Richard lays on the histrionics, but he doesn't understand the essence of his role: he thinks it's all about him personally rather than about the office he happens to hold. And like many a bad actor, he can't judge the effect that he's having on his audience, so he goes too far.
Bolingbroke, by contrast, shows contempt for putting on a show. He comes across as an absolute non-actor—although, of course, it may just be that he's infinitely better at faking sincerity than Richard. For Bolingbroke, things work out well enough: he becomes Henry IV and gets two plays of his own, then dies peacefully in his bed, which is quite an achievement for a Shakespearean monarch.
But there are dangers for the non-actor too, as the Roman hero Coriolanus discovers in the play that bears his name.
Coriolanus is about as different from Richard II as it's possible to be. He is a consummate leader of men—at least on the field of battle. But leadership qualities in one field don't necessarily translate into another, and the tragedy of Coriolanus is that of a great military hero who makes the fatal mistake of going into politics.
To get the people's votes, he has to hit the campaign trail. He has to press flesh. He has to actually ask people for their support. And if you think Michael Ignatieff or Stephen Harper lack the common touch. . . .
Coriolanus refuses even to attempt to manipulate his audience. He sees playing the game of politics as beneath him. He doesn't realize that the only leaders who survive, regardless of their sincerity, are those who master the art of political performance.
He utterly despises the common people, and can't bring himself to pander to them. He knows he's a better soldier than anyone else in Rome, and so the whole idea of casting himself in the role of supplicant for votes is anathema to him. He makes a stiff, half-hearted attempt, but it's not long before his true feelings reveal themselves. "You common cry of curs," he snarls at the populace, before going into exile.
Coriolanus is arrogant—and has indeed has every reason to be—but he cannot grasp that arrogance is not a quality that's going to endear you to the electorate. His campaign is a public-relations disaster.
It's not that he's an ineffective communicator, far from it; it's just that the message he delivers is unpalatable: "You know I'm the greatest warrior you've ever seen; why should I have to bow down to you in order to get your blessing as a civilian leader?"
Coriolanus learns the hard way that leadership is a contract that both sides have to buy into. It's not enough to be way better than anyone else at what you do; if you want to lead people, you have to gain their trust and allow them some room for their own feelings of self-worth.
Rejected by his own people, Coriolanus ends up going over to his old enemies, and joins with them in an attack on his own city—and that proves to be an even bigger mistake, because he has put himself in an impossible position where his loyalties are inevitably going to be divided. He has declared that he's going to sack Rome—but then his mother, Volumnia, comes out and begs him to reconsider.
There's a lesson here for participants in political coalitions: before throwing your lot in with your opponents, try very hard to envisage in advance what the sticking points for your conscience are going to be.
Mention of conscience brings us to another military hero who seeks a larger role for himself. Macbeth is the prime Shakespearean example of the leader who sacrifices all principle in the pursuit of power and thereby plants the seeds of his own destruction.
Like Coriolanus, Macbeth starts out as a war hero, universally praised and heaped with high honour by King Duncan for his key role in putting down a rebellion. But he becomes obsessed by the idea—planted in his mind by that very dubious trio of career counsellors, the Weird Sisters—that he's destined for even greater things: the kingship itself. That thought, coupled with the taunts and urgings of his wife, overcomes his better judgement and leads him to murder Duncan in his bed.
Well, you don't need me to point out the inadvisability of murder as a means of career advancement. But even leaving the killing out of it, this play offers a vivid illustration of the corrosive effect of seeking power for its own sake.
When Bolingbroke deposes Richard and causes his death, he is at least seeking power in order to achieve an end: to turn around the state of the country, which has gotten into a sorry mess under Richard. But there's nothing in Macbeth to suggest that Duncan is a bad or weak king; quite the contrary. In committing an act of assassination, Macbeth does not believe, as Brutus does in Julius Caesar, that he is acting in the best interests of the country; he is quite clearly acting in what he imagines to be the best interests of himself.
Once he has achieved the throne, Macbeth's thoughts are not "whither Scotland?" but solely about consolidating his own power. "To be thus is nothing," he says, "But to be safely thus . . ." Thus ensues the wholesale termination of anyone he suspects could be a threat. And that's "termination" in the Schwarzenegger sense, not the slightly gentler Human Resources Department sense.
Power, the old saying goes, tends to corrupt. But power is essential when it's a means to an end; it's when power is pursued as an end in itself that it becomes corrosive, sterile and self-defeating.
Any discussion of Shakespeare's treatment of the theme of leadership sooner or later gets round to the most obviously brilliant leader in the canon: Henry V.
Unlike Richard II and Coriolanus, Henry V knows exactly how to get people on his side. He's a brilliant performer, a brilliant communicator. His speech rallying the troops before the Battle of Agincourt is one of the most famous set pieces in all of Shakespeare, and rightly so. Henry scoffs at self-interest: I don't care about wealth or status, he says—but I do care about honour. If we're going to die here today, he says, so be it. But if we pull it off and survive, we will live forever in the annals of history:
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother."
It's an extraordinary statement for a monarch to make to his subjects: you will be my brother. But it's exactly what the fearful, dispirited and hopelessly outnumbered army needs to hear: that they are united with their leader in an enterprise that has the potential to be glorious. Henry goes so far as to tell them that if they don't want to be part of this battle, they can leave with a golden handshake and no recriminations; he makes it their choice to stay.
Unlike Richard, Henry knows his audience; knows exactly the effect his words will have. He knows in part because he has done his research: he has spent time with ordinary people.
Indeed, in the two parts of Henry IV, when his father was on the throne and he was just Prince Henry—Prince Hal to his friends—the future Henry V spends his time hanging out in taverns with the lowest of the low. This makes him the despair of his father—but, as he confides to us in a soliloquy, it's all part of a strategic plan.
"Herein," he says, "will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wondered at."
Hal knows he's going to be king some day. And he knows that if the bar of expectation is set too high, nobody, however brilliant, can measure up to it. Maybe you could call that the Barack Obama syndrome.
So what Hal does is deliberately create low expectations of himself, so that when he reveals his true magnificence as king, he'll seem all the greater in contrast with his former playboy prince image.
And even when he is king, he continues to keep his finger on the pulse of his people. On the eve of Agincourt, he goes round the camp incognito, drawing the men out on their true feelings about the campaign they're engaged in and his own role as their leader.
Henry, in other words, is the kind of CEO who never loses touch with the shop floor. He takes every opportunity to shoot the breeze with the employees, get to know their names, find out what makes them tick.
Henry is a man of incredible ability, beyond all question. In 1989, when I was an actor, I played the role of the French Dauphin in a production of Henry V. I spent a six-month season watching the title character at work. At every performance, I'd watch Henry analyze, assess and act. I'd see him deal with dissention and disloyalty; I'd hear him use language brilliantly to rally support; I'd observe him going out into the rank and file to learn what they really think.
I was reminded over and over of the difference, in terms of seriousness of purpose, between Henry and my character: the difference between a mere braggart and someone who is in touch with something far greater. It was an instructive lesson.
If you're looking for a role model in Shakespeare for effective leadership, look no further than Henry V: he has it all, and his reign is a triumphant success. In terms of how to succeed in rallying others to your cause, nobody does it better.
But what about the cause itself? Is it beyond question? And if there are questions about the cause, what does that say about its proponent? And here we run into the mystery you always encounter with Shakespeare: what does he really want us to make of all this? Henry V seems to be the hero of his play. But are we actually meant to admire him? Is he a force for good in the world?
There's an early scene in Henry V that has tremendous resonance for us in view of our own recent history. Henry is conferring with the leaders of the church about his proposed invasion of France. He wants to know if it can be justified on legal grounds. In a long and complicated explanation of something called the Salic law, they assure him that it is.
No audience today can hope to follow the details of that explanation, and I rather suspect nobody could in Shakespeare's day either. In any case, after about 60 lines of tortuous genealogy from the clerics, Henry cuts to the chase with the direct question, "Can I with right and conscience make this claim?"—which can get a laugh, depending on how impatiently the actor delivers it.
But after the laugh has to come the thought: weapons of mass destruction, anyone?
In this scene, Henry is seeking the stamp of legitimacy for what he is about to do: invade France in order to give the people at home a common cause to rally behind and thus defuse the potential for further insurrection in England. But is he truly concerned that his cause be legitimate—or only that it appear so? It's a question Shakespeare leaves open, and it's up to the director and the actor playing Henry to answer it as best they can.
There are some uncomfortable things about Henry. At one point in his campaign, he's besieging the town of Harfleur, which refuses to yield. Henry issues an ultimatum: surrender now, and you'll be treated humanely; resist, and I will give my soldiers licence to rape, burn and pillage. You will see, he says,
"Your fathers taken by the silver beards,
And their most reverend heads dash's to the walls;
Your naked infants spitted upon pikes. . ."
He could be bluffing, of course. But you get the impression Henry isn't the sort of man not to follow through on what he says he'll do.
Perhaps Henry's ends justify his means. If the worst thing that can happen to a country is civil war—complete with sons killing fathers and fathers killing sons—and if Henry's foreign adventures have managed to prevent that, then perhaps he could succumb to infant-spitting and still be seen as a hero. But what are his motives?
You think back to that strategic role-playing of his in Henry IV, when he hangs out with the likes of Sir John Falstaff in the taverns of Eastcheap. And then you think back to his brutal repudiation of Falstaff, his old crony, once he becomes king. He does exactly what he said he'd do, so no quarrel there. But what does it say about him as a human being? What Henry does is certainly expedient. But is he being guided by any kind of moral compass? Practically speaking, he's good at ruling. But does he in fact have the moral right to do it?
The question of who had the right to rule was a crucial one in Shakespeare's time—hardly surprisingly, given the historical convolutions by which his own monarch had come to the throne. The desire for a legitimate heir had driven Henry VIII's endless series of marriages and executions. And Elizabeth's own lack of an heir threatened to open up the can of worms all over again.
Questions of legitimacy are central to the last Shakespeare play I'm going to mention. King John, which I directed in 2004, is a drama of survival in a cutthroat world that could just as easily take place in the corporate corridors or political lobbies of today.
In many ways, it's a play about temptation. There's a core group of characters, each of whom is offered something he or she really wants. To get the things they want, all that each of those characters has to do is something truly immoral.
By the end of the play, most of the tempted characters do the immoral thing and are destroyed—but there are a couple of exceptions. And one of those exceptions, ironically, is a character called Philip the Bastard, whose name reflects his parentage, not his personality.
Philip professes himself to be guided solely by the profit motive. "Gain, be my lord," he says, "for I will worship thee." But early in the play he also says this: "I am I, howe'er I was begot." In other words, "Who cares if I was born on the wrong side of the blanket? I'm still me, and that's all that matters."
In that simple phrase, "I am I," Philip the Bastard reveals a clear sense of self that can't be claimed even by Bolingbroke, who is haunted throughout his reign as Henry IV by his angst about his legitimacy as a ruler who has taken the crown by force.
Philip, though, is secure enough in his self-knowledge that nothing else really matters. Ultimately, he doesn't want anything so badly that he's prepared to do anything, however self-destructive, to get it. He has found a firm place to stand in the muck of the world. In other words, he has integrity.
He doesn't get to become king or anything like that, though he does pick up a knighthood early in the play. But even in his own eyes, that's not the measure of his success. Where he really triumphs over almost everybody else in his play, and indeed over most of the rulers in Shakespeare, is in maintaining his integrity, his moral leadership.
Let me go back to the words I started with: "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." To which we can perhaps add a fourth category: "And some redefine greatness in their own terms"—not as wealth or public acclaim, or worldly power, but as inspiring examples of how to be the best of which human beings are capable.
Shakespeare's plays are full of characters who are, or aspire to be, leaders of one kind or another. Few, if any, of them are wholly admirable, and perhaps that's the single most important lesson to be learned about leadership from those plays: treat it with a healthy dose of skepticism. Serious questions hang over even the most accomplished of Shakespeare's leader figures.
There is ultimately only one kind of leadership that I think emerges from Shakespeare's plays without taint, and it is not the kind that necessarily leads to glory, wealth or worldly power. It is the moral leadership of Philip the Bastard in King John; of Cordelia, in King Lear, who loses everything by daring to tell truth to power; of Prospero in The Tempest, who makes the momentous decision not to take the revenge for which he has so long and painstakingly prepared; of Hermione in The Winter's Tale, who bears herself with grace and dignity through the most arduous and unjust of tribulations and is still able to love and forgive the insanely jealous husband who so needlessly inflicted them on her.
Such characters are our beacons in the darkness of the universe, and if there is a single lesson about leadership to be drawn from be drawn from the works of William Shakespeare, it is that through acquaintance with those characters and their kin and their kin that we that we will find our firmest way through the mazes and thickets of the world.
I realize I have rambled on at too great length and have barely even scratched the surface of my topic. Nor have I grappled, as I believe was advertised in the invitation to this talk, with the question of what Shakespeare might have thought about the most recent financial crisis.
I haven't, because it's an unanswerable question: we can't actually be sure what Shakespeare thought about anything. Although his plays teem with ideas, those ideas are all articulated by dramatic characters, none of whom can safely be identified with the playwright himself.
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be": that's from Shakespeare all right—but it's Polonius talking, in Hamlet, and does Polonius know what he's talking about? Depends on how you play him.
So if you came hoping to hear my top 10 Shakespearean tips on how to succeed in business or politics, then I fear I will have disappointed you. But if I have at least planted in your minds the idea that experiencing the plays of Shakespeare will offer you some insight into the ways in which the world worked in his time, still works today, and will continue to work till the end of humanity as we know it, then perhaps our time has not been spent entirely in vain.
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The Freetown Fashpack Runners were a class act at the Liberian Marathon on Sunday, dominating the international field of athletes and once again proving they are a sporting force to be reckoned with.
The dream team included nine of the country's best long distance runners and one mighty wheelchair athlete. Their banged up minibus will be hauling a total of six medals over the border and back to Freetown tonight plus more prize money they could ever have imagined. The team have done themselves, their country and Fashpack proud. Fashpack Runners, you are a brave team of champions and let's hope this is the first of many more international opportunities. Now for the details.
Marathon athletes Idrissa Kargbo, Mamie Lahun, Osman Challey and Aminata Kargbo gathered at the start point at 4.30am ready to blow the competition out of the water. The gang of pint sized rockets all looked slick in their new-season Fashpack shirts printed by our kind sponsors Protec while 'Super' Challey's tight-fit nylon swimming cap psyched out even his most ferocious competitors.
On the other side of town awesome foursome Mohammed Bah Kamara, Agnes Manseray, Joseph Kamara and Mabel Kallon were braving the rain with functional plastic bag head wear all ready to fly the green, white and blue flag.
Wheelchair dynamite George 'the machine' Windham was ready for his first international event. Despite being involved in para athletics for the past 14 years he has never had the opportunity to leave his country and see what the rest of the world has to offer. George came in fourth against the fierce field of Liberians.
There was no doubt that marathon victory belonged to charming Kenyan Nathan Naibei, but a big win was also scored by Idrissa Kargbo who came in second. He not only ran his best time breaking a new marathon record for Sierra Leone, but he also made a firm friend in Nathan who invited him to Kenya to train in a high altitude training camp. "We can make this boy a champion, after a few months in Kenya, he will beat the Kenyans I promise", said Nathan.
Nathan is one of Kenya's elite marathon athletes normally running 20 minutes faster than the time he ran in Monrovia. But in a show of first class sportsmanship he chose to pace Idrissa, stopping along the way to offer him water and words of encouragement. Nathan we name you best and fairest Kenyan, man of the match and grant you honorary Fashpack membership. Idrissa will be at your camp as soon as we can find the coin to send him.
It was a great day for the Fashpack ladies whose performances were bigger than Beyonce at the Superbowl bringing home a tonne of medals and prize money. Mamie Lahun was the first woman across the line setting a new personal best. New Fashpack member Agnes Manseray left her competitors way behind in the 10km women's race and beat all but three men. Second place getter Mabel Kallon came in a stunning second and Aminata Kargbo ran a very respectable fourth in the women's marathon.
With so many medal winners, the Freetown Fashpack Runners were once again clear victors on Sunday putting the country's vibrant pool of long distance running talent firmly on the athletics radar. A big thank you must go to the Liberian Athletics Association for feeding and housing the runners as well as Protec for their donation and the Sierra Leone Athletics Association.
However as we like to say in Salone, the journey to the start line was 'CHALLENGING'. A grueling 24-hour overland road trip from Freetown to Monrovia on one of the worst roads in west Africa meant the athletes arrived exhausted. With minimal government support and corporate sponsorship, the trip was made on the mega-cheap and not in the style that champions should be shown. I bet Usain Bolt doesn't have to travel in a cranked-out shell of hurtling metal on death defying roads to get to his race meets, and neither should the Freetown Fashpack Runners.
So people out there with money, a trust fund, corporate connections, generosity, a royal title or just the inclination, contact me for more information on how you can jump on the Fashpack train and create more champions from Sierra Leone.


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June 20-July 1, 2017
Civil war in South Sudan caused millions to flee to refugee camps in neighboring Ethiopia. Hope remains their prayer. Join Outreach Foundation staff and Sudanese American Presbyterians on a trip to participate in the rebuilding of hope for South Sudanese in the refugee camps. Because of a limit on the number of persons who will be able to enter the camps, the group size will be limited to ten.
Estimated land cost is $1,500.
For more information:
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The first in a season-long series of gardening and cooking workshops!
While the cold winds of March still howl outside, we'll be sipping warm cider, dreaming of warmth and sunshine, and planning our spring gardens. Our Kitchen Garden Guru, Kate Douthat, will help you plan your own organic garden for 2015. Kate will share her pro tips for planning a garden that fits your needs and she'll consider your space, time, commitment, and personal preferences, as well as seasonal rhythms and crop-specific constraints. There will be a range of her favorite organic gardening books and catalogs on hand, as well as basic drafting tools so you can to learn about both gardening resources, and the basics of drawing a scale plan to work from. You will leave with your person plan well underway, and a head full of garden dreams!
You'll also leave with a full belly! Ian and Shelly will ply you with warm drinks, then make hearty, late winter comfort food.
PLUS! We'll send you home with lots of seeds so you can start to get excited!
*It is important that we get our young friends growing their own food early-on, so, as with all our kitchen garden workshops, kids come for 5 bucks! (Let us know if you're bringing them and how many via email.)


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[trip style = beach + weekend getaway]
Sprawled across the northern end of Cox Bay, Pacific Sands Resort is so close to the ocean that it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. At high tide I could almost reach out and touch the water from my Beach House balcony, while at low tide the water retreats so far into the Pacific that it reveals a sand bar big enough for a jumbo jet to taxi for a mile.
Located on the western rim of Canada's Pacific coast in Tofino, British Columbia, Pacific Sands is the only all-suite resort in the area. Couple this with its 2,500 feet of coastline and rooms built toward the beach, and it's no surprise why a view of the swell comes standard with every stay.
Starting with a collection of cottages in the 1970s, the 41-acre property has grown into a well-groomed beach resort with 77 suites—all with kitchens—ranging from one-bedrooms to Beach Houses {sleep 6} perched a few feet from the sand.
The sand summoned me every second: In the morning for a sea-sprayed run or surf session, in the afternoon for beach-combing, in the evening for a bonfire {paired with a glass of BC wine}. This cushy, front-row seat to the sea is why my family has been frequenting the shore-side stay since I was a mere twinkle in my parent's eyes. In keeping with the tradition, now that the Trip Styler crew has expanded, it's one the first places we took Baby Styler.
Trip Styler approved.
Located in Canada's surf city, Tofino, BC, five hours from Vancouver by car, including a 90-minute sailing aboard BC Ferries. Tofino is a place where waves rush the shore and salt air gives your hair the perfect beachy texture. It's a place where dressed up means jeans and a toque and fish tacos are an acceptable—and delicious—everyday lunch.
Year-round. Tofino is cozy in fall and winter, sea breezy in spring and fresh in summer.
This is your motto: "Life's a beach."
Rates start at $200/night for a Lighthouse Suite and $460/night for a Beach House. All room categories include a patio or balcony facing the beach, full kitchen, gas fireplace, Pacific Sands rain slickers, WiFi, parking and use of outdoor BBQ gazebos. Bark woof—pets are welcome for $40/stay.
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We have more virtual machines on one compute node verse the other. Is there a reason why?
Answer by David_Roland (2342) | Jun 12, 2015 at 05:06 PM
PureApplication does not "balance" by placing an equal number of virtual machines on different compute nodes, and only moves a virtual machine from one compute node to another if there is a benefit in doing so. Below is a summary for the Power rack and will be similar for an Intel rack.
On PureApplication System, there are two jobs which affect virtual machine re-balancing:
An inventory job queries the system and gathers virtual machines
statistics, including the number physical CPU cores used by the
virtual machine. The inventory job is scheduled to run 30 seconds
after the previous inventory job completes.
A re-balance job evaluates the system to determine if virtual machines
should be moved from one compute node to another, based on a set of
triggers which are described below. The re-balance job is scheduled
to run 5 minutes after the previous re-balance job completes.
There are three triggers for migrating virtual machines when running the re-balance job:
CPU contention. If there is contention for CPU resources on a
compute node, and moving one or more virtual machines off the
compute node will alleviate the contention while not introducing
contention on other compute nodes in the cloud group, then those
virtual machines are migrated off the compute node. To determine if
there is CPU contention, PureApplication System on a Power compute
node by compares the effective CPU capacity of the compute node with
the amount of physical CPU cores used by all virtual machines on
the compute node. If the physical CPU core usage of all virtual
machines exceeds the effective capacity of the compute node, then
there is contention for physical CPU resources.
PureApplication samples each virtual machine once very 60 seconds to
obtain the current CPU usage, with each sample returning the CPU
usage for the virtual machine at this point in time. When
calculating PHYSICAL_CPU_UNITS_USED, PureApplication averages the
last three samples which have been taken.
If the effective capacity is exceeded on a compute node, migrating
one or more virtual machines off the compute node will result in the
effective capacity no longer being exceeded, and doing so will not
cause the effective capacity on other compute nodes in the cloud
group to be exceeded, then those virtual machines are migrated off
the compute node.
Anti-collocation constraints. If an anti-collocation constraint is
not being met, but can be met if a virtual machine is migrated, then
a migration is triggered. Anti-collocation constraints exist
between each virtual machine in a given deployment where the virtual
machines have the same amount of virtual memory and virtual CPUs.
The placement algorithm tries to honor the anti-collocation
constraints by placing each virtual machine on a unique compute node
within the cloud group, but if it is not able to do so will deploy
the pattern while placing two or more virtual machines on the same
compute node. If, during a rebalance event, it is possible to honor
anti-collocation constraints that are currently not being honored
then one or more virtual machines are be migrated.
License entitlement enforcement. If licenses entitlements are being
enforced, the number of entitlements for one or more licenses is
currently being exceeded, and the license entitlements can be met if
a virtual machine is moved, then the virtual machine is migrated
from one compute node to another.
When selecting the virtual machine to migrate, PureApplication
selects the lowest priority virtual machine on the compute node. If
more than one virtual machine has the lowest priority,
PureApplication selects the virtual machine with the lowest CPU
usage. The virtual machine is moved from the current compute node to the compute node within the cloud group with the largest free CPU
capacity, as long as doing so does not exceed its estimatedCapacity
on the target compute node.
If you want too confirm if a Virtual Machine has been migrated to a different compute node
You can look under System-->Events to see if a Virtual Machine has been moved.
The message will be "informational" and will contain the following "event text"
CWZIP6015I The <vm name> virtual machine was successfully migrated from
the <source> compute node to the <destination> compute node.
CWZIP6015I The ipas-vm25-000-003-2-OS_Node_1.11435113642733 virtual
machine was successfully migrated from the SN#10E5xxx compute node to the SN#10DCxxx
compute node.'
Note: These events will usually be indicated as a closed. So make sure when you filter, you are filtering and searching on "closed events"
Filter: Event text: CWZIP6015I and Closed Events: show all
Reference: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSCR9A_2.1.0/com.ibm.psappsys.messages.doc/CWZIP6015I.html?lang=cs
Answer by Alan Booth (478) | Jun 12, 2015 at 09:04 PM
Thanks for the post, Dave. We get a lot of questions about this.
An interesting side note - if you Stop then Store and then restart a workload it will force placement to run again. This can be helpful if you have a heavily loaded cloud group and you add compute nodes and want the VMs to be spread out.
The instance migration API can also be used to trigger a migration: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSCR9A_2.2.0/doc/psapsys_restapi/inst_migration.dita
But note that since placement is constantly working to ensure balance, an instance migration could cause placement to perform its own subsequent migration if placement's goals are not being met. This developerWorks article provides some detail on how placement is making its decisions: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/1605_moonen-trs/1605_moonen.html
Answer by StevenSWang (1) | Sep 01, 2015 at 03:05 PM
My client asked a question below:
What is time for a virtual machine off one compute node and moved to second compute node during rebalancing?
The time can vary, but you can check the status, created and updated times using REST API http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSCR9A_2.1.0/doc/psapsys_restapi/inst_migration.dita?lang=en
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February 28, 2018 @ 7:00 am
Best of The Bible Nerdatorium
This week, we look back at some biblical questions from previous episodes. We get into not only these specific passages but how we approach understanding and applying the Bible.
James 1:5-8 from Episode 218
Genesis 3:16 from Episode 225
Romans 8:13 from Episode 261
Closing Song: James 1:16-18 (The Poohouse Guru)
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Private Equity Report North America
2010 Private Equity Report – North America
This report covers employees of Private Equity firms in the U.S. (see participant list below). Our sister firm in London (U.K.) provides a separate report covering employees of Private Equity firms in the U.K and the rest of Europe. The scope of the survey encompasses over 90 Private Equity funds (inclusive of LBO, Venture Capital, Mezzanine, Fund of Funds, Corporate Venturing and Secondary Funds). These include over both stand-alone and institutional organizations.
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2010 Key Findings
- Pay levels for 28 key positions from the CEO to the receptionist within hedge funds.
- Zero increase in salary for Partners, salary increases for non-Partners
The last major pay increase for Partners between 2007 and 2008, when Partners saw a jump in median salary of 11%. In 2009 and 2010, Partners saw no increase whatsoever in their salary levels. Non-partners, however, continued to see salary increases, though those pay increases became more modest during this same three year period (13% in 2008, 6% in 2009, and 5% in 2010.) This finding is consistent with the widely held belief that Partners would need to experience a drastic – if not catastrophic – decrease in their compensation to consider leaving their positions, while non-Partners can often be tempted to look elsewhere if they believe they are not being compensated appropriately.
- When it comes to salary + bonus, non-Partners are seeing increases, Partners are seeing decreases
Partner salaries remained flat in 2009 and 2010, but Partners saw decreases when salary is combined with bonus. Non-partners saw increases across the board (34% in performance year 2007, 10% in performance year 2008, and 7% in performance year 2009).
- In performance year 2007, Partners saw a 23% increase in salary + bonus + carried interest distributions, but saw no gains in the two years that followed.
- Payroll as a percent of Revenues have increased from 2007-2009
Fees overall were lower, but compensation levels remained the same or increased, making payroll a higher percentage of total revenue.
- Bonuses are now more likely to be tied to performance
41% of firms report they are using a predetermined, formulaic approach to bonuses, while 53% of firms say they are basing bonuses on a combination of performance and discretion. Bonuses can be measured by the success of the firm, team, or person.
- New funds being raised in many cases are smaller than their predecessor funds.
- Headcounts are moderately on the rise, for both Partners and non-Partners in 2010.
- Salary levels for 52% of non-partners are expected to increase in 2010.
Section I: Compensation Design ("How")
This part of the survey is truly unique and can be completed online. This survey is the first of its kind to request information on the intended design of rewards programs and the level of success of the various types of programs from base salary, profit sharing to group health plans. This is information that establishes the intended design of the actual programs.
The survey tool employed uses employs multiple layers of security to make sure your data remains private and secure:
- A third-party firm conducts daily audits of the tool's security, and it resides behind the latest in firewall and intrusion prevention technology.
- For additional security, we have added SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protection, so that your data is collected in a totally encrypted environment.
We anticipate that this section will take thirty minutes to one hour to complete. You can re-enter the survey at any time to complete any missing responses or update your entries until the closing date. To do this click the 'Next' button at the bottom the page to save your existing answers and simply return to the questionnaire using the original link when you are ready.
The system uses a cookie to save the response by page (not by specific question). If you exit the survey early, then you must come back to the same computer and use the same browser in order to pick up and finish.
NOTE: Cookies must be enabled. The cookie placed tracks the page where you exited. If your browser is set to dump cookies each time it is closed, the cookie will be refreshed. A new or blank survey will open every time the survey is accessed.
Section II: Compensation Levels ("How Much")
Section II of the survey collects competitive information on pay levels. This information will help you establish pay levels that retain your best executives and employees yet keep your firm within its budget.
This part of the survey is in Excel format.
Please download the "Compensation Data Collection Sheet.xls" by clicking on the following links:
Please save the completed file with your company's name and e-mail back to firstname.lastname@example.com.
We thank you for your participation.
2010 Studied Position
- PE01 – Managing General Partner(s) / CEO
- PE02 – Senior Partner / Senior Managing Director(s)
- PE03 – Partner / Managing Director(s) / Portfolio Manager
- PE04 – Principal / Vice President / Director(s)
- PE05 – Senior Associate(s)
- PE06 – Associate(s)
- PE07 – Senior Analyst(s)
- PE08 – Analyst(s)
- AS01 – Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- AS02 – Administrative/ Office Manager
- AS03 – Executive Assistant
- AS04 – Secretary/ Administrator
- AS05 – Receptionist
- FN01 – Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- FN02 – Controller
- FN03 – Assistant Controller
- FN04 – Senior Accountant
- FN05 – Junior Accountant
- FN06 – Fund Accountant
- MK01 – Chief Marketing Officer/ Head of Marketing
- MK02 – Marketing Manager
- IR01 – Investor Relations Director/ Head of Investor Relations
- IR02 – Investor Relations Manager
- LG01 – Chief Legal Counsel
- LG02 – Compliance & Risk Officer
- HR01 – Chief Human Resources/ Talent Officer
- HR02 – Human Resources Manager
- HR03 – Human Resources Executive
- IT01 – Chief Technology Officer
- IT02 – Information Technology Manager
2010 Survey Participants & Sources
- 3i
- ABS Capital Partners
- Accuitive Medical Ventures
- American Infrastructure MLP
- Ampersand Ventures
- Arcano Capital
- Ascension Health Ventures
- Atlas Venture
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- Black River Asset Management
- Blue Point Capital Partners
- Brazos Private Equity Partners, LLC
- CapStreet Group
- Cargill Ventures
- Central Valley Fund
- Clairvest Group Inc.
- ClearLight Partners
- CMEA Capital
- Code, Hennessy, & Simmons, LLC
- Coller Capital Limited
- DeNovo Ventures
- Edgewater Funds
- EnerTech Capital LLC
- Frazier Management
- Gov't of Singapore Investment Corp.
- Great Hill Partners, LLC
- Greenbriar Equity Group, LLC
- Grotech Ventures
- Gryphon Investors
- Hartford Ventures
- Hilco Consumer Capital
- InnoCal
- Institutional Venture Partners
- Intermediate Capital Group
- Internet Capital Group
- Intersouth Advisors, Inc.
- Investcorp
- JAFCO Ventures
- Key Principal Partners Corp
- Longworth Venture Partners
- Lovell Minnick Partners LLC
- Madrona Venture Group
- Marlin Equity Partners
- Montagu Newhall Associates, Inc.
- National City Equity Partners
- New Enterprise Associates
- New York Life
- Nexit Ventures
- Northern Light Venture Capital
- Northstar Capital, LLC
- Pappas Ventures
- Norwest Equity Partners
- Norwest Mezzanine Partners
- Norwest Venture Partners
- Palladium Equity Partners
- Panorama Capital, LLC
- Park Street Capital, LLC
- Penta Investment Limited
- Peterson Partners
- PNC (Mezz)
- Prospect Capital
- Prudential Financial
- QuestMark Partners
- RCP Advisors LLC
- Red Diamond Capital, Inc.
- Riverlake Partners
- Riverside Partners, LLC (RCAF)
- Riverside Partners, LLC (REF)
- Riverside Partners, LLC (RMCF)
- SAP Ventures
- Scale Venture Partners
- SSM Partners
- Steamboat Ventures
- Sterling Group, L.P.
- SV Life Sciences Advisers
- SVB Capital
- Third Rock Ventures, LLC
- Thoma Bravo LLC
- Twin Bridge Capital Partners
- Valhalla Partners
- VantagePoint Venture Partners
- Voyager Capital LLC
- Wind Point Partners
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Try this meditation on gaining empowerment for relaxation and focus of your thoughts.
Be sure you will be uninterrupted - turn off your cell phone and unplug your home or office phone just for this short period.
Relax your clothing on your body, take off your shoes, you want your body to be able to relax without feeling confined.
Sit or lie in a relaxed position.
Close your eyes and focus on your breathing.
Feel each part of your body as it relaxes and grows heavy.
Now focus on the darkness.
Keep breathing, slowly and deeply, while maintaining your relaxed state of body and mind.
Visualize the sun in the distance. It's a bright yellow and white light but not distressing on your eyes.
As you relax, your body begins to feel very light and then begins to lift from your position and float above you. You are still keeping your focus on the sun.
You begin to drift slowly towards the light. You bathe in the warmth that radiates from its surface.
As you continue to glide closer and closer, the heat never intensifies but the warmth remains like a soft blanket wrapped around you on a chilly night. The sun continues to grow larger and larger as you get closer.
The light is all that is in sight, and you are drifting into it.
The yellow white light is encircling your being, caressing your soul, and you are becoming one with the brilliant light and the warmth.
All the powers of life are connected to you right now. The light is recharging your strength and the warmth is renewing your powers of control.
You can stay there as long as you like and take comfort in your safe place.
When you would like to retreat you will begin to drift out of the light, and now you are no longer part of the light but can see the definition of the shape of the sun.
You continue to focus on the calm feelings and the relaxed body.
You drift further and further away from the sun.
You float over your body and gently re-enter your earthly shape.
As you lay there you feel comfortable, peaceful, and stress free.
Open your eyes and become conscious of the tranquil state of relaxation your body possesses.
Exit your gaining empowerment meditation slowly and return to the challenges of the day with the knowledge that you have renewed strength and control.
Vibratory Stress Relief to clear your mind -
If while you were trying the gaining empowerment meditation you had a problem maintaining focus and couldn't seem to stop the racing thoughts in your head you may want to try using a mantra to begin your meditation until you can clear your thoughts and gain focus.
This is a word or a phrase that you repeat over and over as you center your thoughts on your breathing. You can also choose to use a simple vibratory sound. One of the most common vibratory sounds is aum.
This mantra is more effective when chanted aloud in a low hum. Words such as "fill me with love, peace and harmony" or any number of personal statements may be more effective as you repeat them silently over and over again as a slow, soothing thought. Let the mantra drift and fade within your thoughts.
Remember, if your thoughts are misrouted, simply return your focus to your breathing and start to repeat your selected mantra again.
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text: Crystals and precious stones for the Ermanno Scervino collection of the next fall/winter season. Diamonds, "a girl's best friend", are transferred onto garments made with the most refined Florentine tailoring to exalt an international feminine beauty. Unexpected light sources, and contrasting combinations of volumes and materials are the features of the glamorous Ermanno Scervino woman in her most contemporary expression. The crystals create sparkling patterns on knitwear or on masculine fabrics like pinstripes, Prince of Wales and houndstooth. Jewel studs on jackets and slip dresses in lace, while glitter appliqués create a new definition of daywear. Super feminine tuxedo's in ultra-soft lace have a tone-on-tone pattern drawn in crystals. In playing with masculine/feminine contrasts this collection creates an unprecedented style code that is not genderless, but rather a specific interpretation of the same aesthetic concept for Him and Her.


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An article about women who have stopped taking the birth control pill came out today on Buzzfeed. The author, Amy Odell, interviewed me via phone a while ago for the story. So, go ahead and check it out! The lovely and important, Jaclyn Friedman is also quoted. I love that she said this:
Friedman argues that women need to worry less about the convenience of their male partner. 'We have to create space for women to think that sex can be for them and on their own terms,' she says. 'The idea that birth control should inconvenience men not at all is sort of inherent in how we as a culture do straight sex.'


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Sound Of Moosic Greetings Card. This fun greetings card is a cute spin on a film or famous person that will make the recipient smile! The card is 17cm tall by 12.5cm wide and blank inside for your message. It is cello wrapped with a white envelope and made in the UK from sustainable sources.


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Yoga Nidra Workshop – October 4th, 2014Posted in Events — No Comments
Yoga Nidra is a systematic method of inducing complete physical, mental & emotional relaxation. In Yoga Nidra, the state of relaxation is reached by turning inward, away from outer experiences. If the consciousness can be separated from external awareness and from sleep, it becomes very powerful and can be applied in many ways, for example, to develop memory, increase knowledge and creativity, or to transform one's nature.
Learning first hand from a teacher is the best way to learn Yoga Nidra. The goal of this workshop is to leave students with a complete understanding of what Yoga Nidra is, why we should do it, and how we should do it. Students will actually practice Yoga Nidra in the workshop. It is suitable for both beginners and experienced yoga students.
10:00 – 11:15pm: Yoga Nidra Part I
11:15 – 11:45: Break
11:45 – 1:00: Yoga Nidra Part II
Cost: $35 suggested offering. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. YSA is a 501(c)3 organization, and offerings are deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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Ute Bertog (1970, Germany) is a St. Paul based visual artist, who explores the relationship between language and its many representations. In 1998 she resettled in the US from her native Germany to pursue a career in the arts. She holds degrees in marketing and economics as well as a BFA in painting from the Minneapolis College of Art. She has exhibited her work in local and national venues including the Soap Factory, SooVisual Art Center and the Rochester Art Center in Rochester, MN. She is affiliated with Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis, MN.
2005 Bachelor of Fine Art, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN, emphasis on painting
1997 MBA, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany with an emphasis on marketing and economics
EXHIBITIONS (*solo shows)
upcoming in February 2019:
One of many awkward feelings, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN *
Voiceatscript, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN *
15, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Sequential, Gallery 71, Edina, MN
Yeah Maybe #13: One Day After, One Year Later, Yeah Maybe, Minneapolis, MN
Still the Night, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN *
The Secret Life of Words, William Whipple Gallery, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, MN *
SSA Annual Exhibition, National Galleries of Scotland, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
Et al., TuckUnder Projects, Minneapolis, MN *
Chaos Management, Waiting Room, Minneapolis, MN
Reading the Story, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN *
War with the Newst, Park Square Theater, St. Paul, MN *
5 foot show, Gallery 360, Minneapolis, MN
Closing/Opening, Shoebox Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Do it, Denler Art Gallery, Saint Paul, MN
Open Door 10, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Weird Neighbor, Soo Local, Minneapolis, MN
You are playin' author, Kiehle Gallery, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN *
Painter, Painter, Painter, Painter, Painter, VidTiger Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Delineation, MCAD @ BI Worldwide Gallery, Edina, MN
Groupshow at Barnes & Thornburg, Minneapolis, MN
Daily Selections and Rewriting, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN *
Readings, Gallery One at TractorWorks Building, Minneapolis, MN *
Textworks, Gallery One at BMW in Minnetonka, MN *
Departure, grayDUCK Gallery, Austin, Texas
Untitled, Kiehle Gallery, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
GM 10: A Theory of Values, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
Untitled 7, SOO Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Space between us, Art House Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Flat Line, Sellout Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Foot in the Door 4, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Altered Pages at Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN
Sketchbookproject, Art House Gallery, Atlanta,
Paradigm Shift: MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
61st Juried Exhibition, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
Art on the Plains X, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND,
Summer Invitational, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
North of the 45th, DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI
Storage, Gallery 0, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
Midwest Sanctuary, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN
NAFSA Annual Convention, Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN
Senior Show, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Merits Show, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Made at MCAD, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Conversation on painting: Melissa Loop & Ute Bertog, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Visiting Artist, Saint Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, MN
Participant in Painting and Agency panel discussion facilitated by Jehra Patrick in conjunction with her exhibition Courtesy of _ in Minneapolis, MN
Visiting Artist, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
Guest Lecturer, Kiehle Gallery, Saint Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, MN
Visiting Artist. Facilitated Public Workshop: Studio Time with Ute Bertog. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Visiting Artist, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN


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Comprehensive benefits package for FT and PT30+; PT24+ earn PTO (paid time off) hours
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Are you looking for a career where you can make a positive impact in the lives of others? At LSI, your journey is our passion! Our Services for People with Disabilities team is searching for dedicated, compassionate hourly full-time and/or part-time Caseworkers in the Marshalltown area. Will provide services to primarily Marshall County, however on rare occasions cover parts of Story (State Center) and Tama (Tama/Toledo) counties. The Iowans we serve are seeking a life of greater confidence and independence, and it's our privilege to empower them toward success every day.
An hourly Caseworker works with individuals with intellectual disabilities or chronic mental illness. Our Caseworkers are there to provide support, assistance, and instruction in learning independent living skills like:
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I have to start this post by saying that in a lot of ways I feel quite unqualified to write a book review. Yet, I am a Catholic mom who has been pregnant, and, well, I don't know what the future holds for our family... I'll just say that we try to be open God's gifts in our lives, and that includes the gift of children. And in that way, I think it makes me perfectly qualified to review this book. There may again come a time when I need it!
So, on with the review!
I was pleasantly surprised by this book, and let me explain why. I do read Sarah's blog from time to time, and enjoy her style of writing there, but that in itself is not a guarantee that I would enjoy this book. I own several books that are written specifically for Catholic moms. Books on organizing, building a Catholic culture in your home, books on praying as a mom... the list goes on. But not all of them speak to me and honestly, there have been more than a few that I've put down and then just never picked up again. I'd like to describe Sarah's writing voice as down-to-earth, but I'm not sure that does it justice. I suppose this is where my weakness as a book reviewer comes in! I found her writing to be very relatable. There is a tendency among Catholic women to make a bit of an idol of pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing. Sarah writes about the real joys and the real struggles of pregnancy. She very wisely reminds us that if we are suffering we should unite that suffering with that of Jesus on the cross. She also gently encourages us to look for the grace that is always available to us during pregnancy, if we are open to it. Truly, it is a beautifully written book and speaks to the hearts of Catholic women.
The book is divided into three parts, Weekly Journey through Pregnancy, Labor and Delivery, and Baptism. The chapters in the first part of the book are written to roughly coincide with the weeks of your pregnancy. Each week Sarah talks about the major changes that you might be experiencing at that time. She then relates these changes to a spiritual experience in a section subtitled, Walking with Mary (not all, but most of these are reflections on the mysteries of the rosary).* Following that are two sections called One Small Step and Faith Focus. The purpose of these is to incorporate our faith into the pregnancy experience in a real and concrete way. Finally, each chapter closes with a prayer. The chapters are relatively short and the book is more of a devotional than something you would pick up and read all the way through. In that way, it truly is a companion that you can read and pick up when needed as you journey through your pregnancy.
*Edited to add: As Sarah as points out in the comments, every Walking with Mary is a reflection on one of the mysteries of the rosary. There were one or two sections where this was not completely obvious to me, but having re-read them, I can see the connections more clearly now. I'm thankful to Sarah for bringing a fresh perspective to the mysteries of the rosary by connecting them to the stages of pregnancy.
I wanted to be sure to post this today because this is the last week of Sarah's blog tour.
Also, you can enter to win a Nook each day until October 28th at Ave Maria Press. So even though the tour has been going on for some time now, you still have plenty of chances to enter!
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed in this review are my own, and no other compensation was received.


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Commonwealth Bank developing state of the art workplace environments
12 July 2006
The Commonwealth Bank today announced a comprehensive Sydney property accommodation strategy which will see the development of state of the art buildings and surrounding facilities in three key areas across Sydney for around 12,000 of its non-branch employees.
Currently, the Bank occupies several buildings in the CBD and other Sydney locations. The new workplaces will incorporate environmentally friendly and flexible facilities incorporating smart technology, to better meet customer, employee and business needs.
Locations selected by the Bank to meet both accessibility and business needs are Sydney CBD, Sydney Olympic Park and Parramatta.
In Sydney Olympic Park, the Bank is establishing a new campus style business centre that will comprise several purpose built and specifically designed buildings. The new area will include attractive landscaping and external design, large atriums to provide natural light and relaxation areas for staff and a large floor plan that will encourage collaboration and team work across business units. The buildings and surrounding areas will support the Sydney Olympic Park "green" theme.
The Bank's Chief Executive Officer, Ralph Norris said, "the Bank is delighted to be supporting the growth of Western Sydney and beyond as it develops an exciting campus style facility at Sydney Olympic Park and new and refurbished accommodation at Parramatta.
These workplace environment changes will closely align the Bank's business and employee needs. They aim to provide contemporary, attractive and technology-friendly premises, as well as address the Bank's risk management and business continuity requirements. Furthermore, given that its employees reside across the entire Sydney metropolitan area, the Bank sought locations that are well serviced by facilities and public transport.
Ralph Norris, added, "Many of our operations will be in purpose-built and specifically designed business centres, providing our people safe, efficient, attractive and connected workplaces. These modern workplace environments will support the Bank's focus on family/work lifestyle balance with a range of facilities including childcare and nursing rooms".
"We will be creating innovative work environments that offer greater capacity for working collaboratively and that aim to provide greater workplace satisfaction. We will be working closely with our people, to both ensure a smooth transition for everyone involved, and to ensure there is no disruption to service for our customers during the relocations," he added.
Implementation will be staged, with the first relocations commencing mid-2007 and concluding in 2010.
Further information on the selected workplaces is attached to this announcement.
Sydney Olympic Park
The Bank will develop a campus style multi-building facility at Sydney Olympic Park to accommodate around 5,000 employees.
This purpose built facility will be home to parts of Wealth Management, much of Retail Banking Services and Enterprise IT, and some of People Services, Premium Business Services and Financial and Risk Management.
The Bank will be located within two buildings at Parramatta. Construction has already commenced on a new Parramatta site located at 101 George Street, due for completion mid-2007.
The number of employees working in the area will be around 3,000.
Sydney CBD
In the CBD, the Bank will consolidate by reducing the current number of buildings occupied.
More than 4,000 people will be located in the City.
Exact locations will be advised as decisions are made.
Other Sydney-based Bank locations
There is no change to other non-branch locations occupied by the Bank across the Sydney metropolitan area.
For further information contact:
Bryan Fitzgerald
General Manager, Media & Issues Management
Commonwealth Bank
Ph: (02) 9378 2663
Mob: 0414 789 649


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I'm in the business of improving project management. That generally means there needs to be change in an organization. One of the most difficult things is getting people to decide to change. This book helps: Sources of Power: How People... read more.>
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Dr. J Phillip Roach
Dr. J. Phillip Roach, the former Director of Physical Education and Athletics at Rollins College for the past 14 years has been involved with collegiate athletics for more than 30 years. A former coach with an illustrious list of accomplishments and honors, Mr. Roach began his collegiate career as the assistant basketball and soccer coach in 1965 at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Over the next five years, Mr. Roach expanded his coaching credentials, serving as head soccer and lacrosse coach as well as assistant basketball coach at Wittenburg University (1966-67); and the head soccer and assistant basketball coach at Ohio University (1967-70). As a coach, Mr. Roach was named basketball coach of the year by the NABC and Ohio Athletic Conference in 1975 and owns the most career wins for both soccer and basketball at Marietta College. In 1988 the NABC awarded Mr. Roach its Merit Award for Coaching.
Mr. Roach's administrative career began with his tenure as athletics director and head basketball coach at Marietta College in Ohio. During his 20 years at Marietta, Mr. Roach created the first athletics handbook, established the booster club and developed the athletic hall of fame. Active in the Ohio Athletic Conference, Mr. Roach served as chairman and president of the Conference and also was president for both the soccer and basketball coaches. Among other accomplishments at Marietta included publishing his dissertation, Athletic Budgeting, serving as director for the NCAA Division III baseball championships, editing the Ohio Athletic Conference sports guidelines and earning Civitan Area Citizen of the Year honors in 1986.
In 1989, Mr. Roach was named athletic director at Guilford College in Guilford, NC where he remained for three years. At Guilford, Mr. Roach wrote the athletic staff handbook, was a major writing contributor for Managing Sports and Risk Management and served on the Greensboro Sports Commission. In 1998, Mr. Roach was named the southeast region's Division II Athletic Director of the Year.
Mr. Roach remained at Guilford until 1992 before moving to his current position as athletic director at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL. Among his many accomplishments at Rollins include establishing the booster board of directors and team booster representatives, writing the staff handbook for the department of physical education & athletics and establishment of the athletics council.
Mr. Roach has been active both within the Winter Park and athletics community, serving on the Winter Park Rotary and holding leadership position within the Winter Park Methodist Church. Mr. Roach has also served on the Florida Citrus Sports board, the executive committee of the Sunshine State Conference and is an active member of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA).
Rollins has acknowledged Mr. Roach's many achievements by awarding him the 2004 Spirit of Rollins Award and the 2005 Alfond Award of Excellence and in the 2004 the city of Winter Park honored Mr. Roach with "Phil Roach Day."
Mr. Roach has a B.A. in health & physical education from Ohio Wesleyan University, earned hisM.Ed. in physical education and Ph.D. in higher education administration from Ohio University.


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At SomerOak – it's about love and family.
Home – where love abounds, life is lived, experience is shared, individuality is respected, dignity is honored…that is what our family is like at SomerOak Senior Living.
Welcome Home
Home away from home…that's what residents will find at SomerOak Senior Living Community. In the heart of beautiful Somerville, our assisted living community provides a first class worry-free lifestyle for our residents. A caring, supportive staff attends to each resident's needs and helps create a warm, family feel.
Residents are free to choose to participate in the many planned activities or just relax the day away with family and friends. Comfort, companionship and all the amenities of home: you can look forward to experiencing all of these and more at SomerOak!
"For we are God's handiwork, created…to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Ephesians 2:10


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