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Dear Friends,
Warm greetings!
Come and bring friends to the opening of LONDON BIENNALE 2010 on the First of May at 5 p.m. at Soho Square in Central London.
Adam Nankervis, our international coordinator and the intrepid director of the nomadic MUSEUM MAN, will deliver the welcome address. After we welcome each other and exchange information about our diverse artistic activities and projects, we will take a short walk to the ANGEL PUB (beside St. Giles Church, behind the tall Centre Point building on Tottenham Court Road). In the saloon bar and in the garden of the Angel Pub we will continue our congenial conversations. Please bring with you cameras and darwing materials to document this event.
LONDON BIENNALE 2010 will run until the end of August this year. There will be many events and exhibitions.
Maddy and James Kinghorn will bring a group of artists from Barcelona, Spain to London. Mabel Encinas is organising events in homage to Brazilian educator Paulo Freire during the Latin American Cultural Week at the University of London's Student Uniion from 17 to the 20th of May 2010. Stephen Perkins, from the University of Wisconsin, will bring to England a group of American artists. Marko Stepanov will host a poetry recital organised by Sarah O'Reilly at Marko's bucolic allotment at West Hendon. Katie Sollohub will host another "Long Shore Drift" on the first week-end in August at Shore-on-Sea in Sussex.
There will also be many international satellite events celebrating LONDON BIENNALE 2010 including:
A tea party which Mary Sherman will organise with Trans-Cultural Exchange at the Taj Mahal Hotel and Cafe in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Exhibitions and events which Dominic Cloutier will organise with the Hybrid Art Collective in New York City; 'SIGNALS' events in Berlin, Germany, and Kiev, Ukraine.
I would like to invite all LONDON BIENNALE ARTISTS (including Claudia Wegener in South Africa, Valerie Vivancos in Paris, Peter Oxley and Virgil Clalaguian in Cambodia, Raffaella Losapio and Vicenzo Ceccato in Rome, Antonio Sassu in Padova Gruppo Sinestetico, Nino Ruju in Naples, Roberto Scala in Sorrento, the Moraldi Art Conspiracy in Cremona, Martino Negrei in Florence, Joyce Rykman and Nasncy Petry in Montreal, Trolley in Vancouver, Rino Telaro and Michael Laird in Belgium, Sebastiaan Schliocher in Holland, and many others world-wide) to initiate satellite events/exhibitions wherever they are.
Please send me your new EROS ARROWS to my address below. Please E mail your EROS ARROW also to the LONDON BIENNALE Page in FACEBOOK.
Best wishes from David Medalla,
11 Naseby, Hanworth, Bracknell,
Berkshire RG12 7HD, Englland
www.londonbiennale. org
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In the centre of Southwold close to the common is Happy Days, a mews house that is well equipped, bright and airy. The house is near restaurants, the market place, a hotel, shops including a delicatessen, greengrocers and butcher, and the promenade offers easy access to the beach. There is a footpath from the common to the harbour where there is a foot ferry to Walberswick in the summer months.
Size: Sleeps up to 4, 2 bedrooms.
Nearest beach: Less than 1 mile.
Nearest amenities: Less than 0.5 miles.
Pets: 1 pet allowed.
Short breaks: Available at this property.
Smoking: Not allowed at this property.
Rooms: 2 bedrooms one with en-suite shower room, bathroom, cloakroom, kitchen/dining area, sitting room.
Beds: 1 king-size bed, 2 single beds.
Luxuries: Wi-Fi.
General: Gas heating.
Utilities: Gas hob, electric oven, microwave, fridge freezer, dishwasher, washer dryer.
Standard: Kettle, toaster, iron.
Other: Bed linen and towels provided.
Outdoors: Small patio front garden, garden furniture overlooking quadrangle.
Parking: Roadside parking.
Oppervlakte huis : 0 m²
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Team President Michael Yormark said the team is losing at least $20 million a year and he has asked the public to help out and save the franchise, reported the Sun Sentinel.
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Tuition fees came about during my time in secondary school. I can't remember exactly when it was, but at the time I was trying to decide on my career path and whether or not university was right for me. I didn't know which career I wanted to pursue anyway but after the introduction of tuition fees I decided that university wasn't something that I could afford, especially when I wasn't certain about whether I really wanted to go and what I would achieve from it.
When I moved onto college I was still confused about what I wanted to do, but of course, university was the next step for most students. The college I attended was always encouraging us to move onto university, in fact for me it felt like the only option as things like apprenticeships, gap years and full time work were hardly spoken of.
The college would put on university fairs and open evenings which I almost always attended because I wanted as much information as possible so I could make an informed decision. I still didn't know what I wanted to do at this point so university was an unlikely option.
It was at one of the university fairs that I sat in on a talk about tuition fees and how they're paid and it was eye opening to say the least. I don't know how I thought tuition fees were paid back before I sat in on this talk but I was surprised to learn that it's taken out of your wages before you receive them, the same as taxes are. Plus you don't start paying your tuition fees until you earn more than £21,000 a year.
I personally think that university students should pay for their education except for those studying to become doctors, nurses, teachers or any other vital public service role. I don't see why I should pay for someone to study Contemporary Circus and Physical Performance. How likely are they to get a job in that line of work by the time they've finished their course and how does their course benefit society as a whole?
I agree when people say that education is a right and that everyone should be entitled to it, I really do, but further education is a luxury. If you're fortunate enough to achieve the grades you need to get into university then you should pay for it. It's never been so competitive to get a place in your first choice university. I wasn't fortunate enough to achieve the grades to go to university so why should I pay for someone else to have the privilege?
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I know at least three people who have dropped out of their university course and others who either regret going to university in the first place or who aren't enjoying their course at all. If the college I attended put as much effort into promoting apprenticeships and work as they did university then maybe those people would be in a better place and doing something that they enjoy.
How do you feel about university tuition fees? Are you a student at university? Let me know how you feel about the course you're on and whether or not you believe tuition fees should be paid for by the government or not. If you're not a university student let me know how you feel. What did you choose to do after you left school?


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Thursday, June 18, 2009
The only thing harder than parenting them is BEING them
"Whatcha' doin', sugar lump?"
"Going outside to use my chalk."
"Come over here for a bit."
I just put my chin in my hands, smile and get comfortable. I wait out the "This is my bag! I'm just going outside! What? I just want to go outside! You said I could!!!" Hours, days and weeks pass ... "Okay, fine. I'm very stressed about going out to dinner tonight." My smile gets bigger. I wait. And finally, they take a deep breath, pout out those lips and says, "I'm mad about earlier."
I don't say a word. I've been working on moving them forward where I think they can, and this child feels strong enough to use their words and be specific. Months ago I would say something funny like, "Oh, right, earlier today when I took a dump in the bathroom. I can see why that would make you want to go out the wrong door!" Now, I just wait. No talking. Just positive facial expressions, loving eyes and singing the Jeopardy "wait" music in my head.
"Earlier today at the restaurant when you knew I broke the crayons on purpose." We were five hours past the incident. They had broken a crayon, then asked their sister to borrow her's, then broke THAT crayon. I've got a year under my belt. I knew it was no accident. Just a way of communicating how they were feeling in the moment.
"Good job with those words. You are crazy brave. Now let's rewind even a bit further. You're going to hate it but I can hold your hand if you want." They rolled their eyes. "Why did you break the crayons?"
Repeat scenerio above. I have to move to a different soundtrack in my head to pass the time. Finally, "When we got in the car after VBS, P sat down in the seat I wanted to sit in."
So, they broke their own crayon on purpose so they could borrow their sister's and break that one, to pay her back. Then, we walked through how it was no accident, and they just held onto THAT anger and then acted out negatively later with the bag of chalk (... that lived in the house that Jack built).
I had them draw a picture of the anger they had right then. Wad it up. Put it in the trash where it belongs, because it only hurts them. They acted it out, was smiling. We discussed "leaving it behind" in that trash can and moving forward, instead of carrying the anger with them and paying me back.
My child was so very articulate. They joined right in. They asked for a hug. Three seconds later their brother came in to ask me a question. Out of the corner of my eye, I notice them fiddling with something I had helped them with earlier in the day - messing it up royally.
"Do you need help with that? Come on over here." *quietly where only that child could hear* "Wow. The whole paper-in-the-trash-can really didn't help at all, did it? You still chose to hurt me and pay me back for catching the chalk thing."
Yeah, it's crazy. It does not make sense to most of us. I'll talk more later about this, and why their controlling is based in fear. Yet, my child talked through a day of anger. Yes, they manipulated and controlled. They lied to me ... a lot. To ask them to NOT hurt someone just because they hurt them or saw through the manipulation is like asking my child to poke out their own eyeballs.
But we have dialogue. We are slowly helping them heal through those gaps from the trauma in their early childhood. We just keep showing up and using words over and over. Identifying feelings. Safely feeling them instead of avoiding them.
My child absolutely despises talking about the feelings behind their behaviors. Hates it. HATES IT. But they're doing it more and more. I have to keep creating a safe space for that.
Baby steps, friends. I so wish it would all just fix itself. Seriously, though, could I do that? Would I be strong enough? My kid is probably doing a WAY better job than I ever would.
The only thing harder than parenting our children is BEING our children. Remind yourself of this today.
15 comments:
- Charlotte said...
awesome insight here... . you've also helped me look at the feelings behind my own quirky behaviors (though I don't break crayons on purpose)... Thanks :)
- June 18, 2009 3:56 PM
- :)De said...
You are the bravest woman in the world wide web! Every post that I read is just so amazingly full of patience and commitment to your children which translates into an example for other parents.
- June 18, 2009 6:09 PM
- Jena said...
Your past two posts have helped me immensely with some stuff, thank you!
- June 18, 2009 6:30 PM
- Babs said...
Great words for parents of all children.
Your RAD kids are leap years beyond my own children!
I learn every time I read...keep writing!
- June 18, 2009 6:54 PM
- Sara said...
Oh it must be so so hard to try to remain "jesus like" for her since she is watching every move. Your strength for her in such a difficult time is amazing! Go mama go!!
- June 18, 2009 9:03 PM
- ManyBlessings said...
I've lurked here in the shadows for quite a long time. But this one pulled me out.
Boy, I needed to hear those last lines.
Thank-you. :)
- June 18, 2009 9:58 PM
- Sean's Ladies said...
yes. yes. yes.
...and ugh.
- June 19, 2009 1:42 AM
- Hannah_Rae said...
Thanks. Needed that. Still perplexed, but trying.
- June 19, 2009 8:12 AM
- ldw said...
My hero...
- June 19, 2009 8:57 AM
- Recovering Noah said...
Really? Are you sure it's harder being THEM than being US? 'Cuz I'm living in the land of This-Sucks-Big-Time.
Nah, I know what you mean. Thanks for the insight. It totally exhausted me - and I laughed out loud at the "house that Jack built" reference. Sooooo true.
- June 19, 2009 2:56 PM
- Brenda said...
Great job mama sita!
- June 19, 2009 7:04 PM
- truevyne said...
Good night! I'm sending my son to you, so if you get a BIG box in the mail, and a handsome teenager pops out. You'll know it's from me. With LOVE.
- June 20, 2009 8:13 AM
- marythemom said...
I'm so impressed with your observation and parenting skills! I will endeavor to be more like you and focus on the precursors to my kids' behaviors. I know so many of them aren't accidents, but they have so many years of practice in sneakiness and denial that it gets frustrating for me.
Thank you,
Mary in TX
Mom to biokids Ponito(10) and his sister Bob(12)
Sibling pair adoptive placement from NE 11/06
Finally finalized on Kitty(14) on 3/08 - 2 weeks before her 13th birthday!
Finalized on her brother Bear 7/08. He turned 15 the next day.
" Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain."
- June 20, 2009 3:11 PM
- Tiffany Dawn said...
wow! I'm amazed by you and your fam Christine! God has given you such grace and wisdom! I was there for the Crayon thing and remember you saying something vaguely... but had no idea it was part of something bigger! From this side, its cool to see how well you know them and how you pick up on every subtle behavior. I really enjoyed lunch and getting to chat with your kids throughout the week! Its almost hard to believe all the difficult challenges you face with them each and every day after seeing them with their classes this week! They ARE amazing kiddos and you are an amazing mother!! God so knows what he's doing and these kids are better off because of you!
I even wish my own mom would have made me stop and verbalize frustrations instead of just punishing me for rebellion without getting to the root of stuff. It would have been great training for dealing with feelings now!
Thanks for sharing your life on the world wide web! :)
- June 22, 2009 12:28 PM
- Michelema2 said...
Oh how I hope we can get to this point with our 7 year old RADish. I don't know if that will happen because she has a borderline IQ and does not really seem to understand or verbalize even as well as her 2 year old Sister. We had this exact fight just the other day and we and the therapist tried to talk to her about the why's of breaking her crayons and then her Sister's. She basically just gave us answers about food. She's a hoarder,stealer, beggar of food so anything you ask her is usually answered with some food based reason. She did not remember breaking the crayons (even though it happened moments before) but just remembered she had chicken and french fries and was hungry. I really hope she gets to a place where she can talk about feelings. I also hope I have the patience that you do!
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Once again I get to be lazy and let better wordsmiths do my work for me. John Silva is an 11 year old whom I have never met and who has never met (to my knowledge) anyone with neuroblastoma. Nevertheless, John (did I say he just turned 11?), decided that instead of presents, he'd rather have his friends donate money to the MagicWater Project fund. Read about it here on Will Lacey's blog. Thank you John! Thank you John's friends and their parents!
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The estimated boost in Social Security taxes needed to save retiree benefits has spiked 65 percent since 2008.
The required tax boost is rising because politicians keep postponing the decision on how to fully fund the growing cost of the baby boomers' retirement, said Jason Fichtner, a former deputy commissioner and an economist at the Social Security Administration.
"If we continue on the current course, then by 2035 the retirement program become insolvent, and … we'll need a gigantic tax increase or a gigantic benefit cut, or a combination of the two," he said.
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In 2008, the managers of the Social Security Trust Fund said the gap could be closed by an immediate 1.7 percent jump in the Social Security tax.
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That's a 65 percent rise in only five years.
The May 31 report was treated as good news by liberal groups.
"Today's Social Security Trustees Report should give workers and their families renewed confidence," said Nancy Altman, the co-chair of the progressive Strengthen Social Security Campaign.
"If Congress listens to the American people and requires millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share, the Report shows that all benefits can be paid for the next three quarters of a century and beyond," she claimed.
"Indeed, the Report makes clear that our nation, the wealthiest in the world, can afford increased Social Security benefits, as a number of Senators and Representatives have wisely proposed," she claimed.
"The most important take-away from the 2013 Social Security Trustees Report is that, in good times and bad, our Social Security system works and it works well," said Eric Kingson, a founder of Social Security Works. "Fully affordable and structurally sound, Social security will meet all its obligations to the American people as far as the eye can see, with only a modest increase in revenues."
Fichtner said he's angered by "the shortsightedness of those who think there is no problem."
"The very people who those [progressives] want to protect — the poor and disabled — will be hurt the most," he warned.
The "people who are working and playing by the rules will be taxed more and will get a benefit cut," he added.


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The definition of 'Indah' is Eden, Paradise, Shangri-la….A name to honour. This luxury six-person villa with private infinity pool 5 x 12 m. is located directly on the beach of Dencarik / Lovina in a very quiet area and surrounded by rice terraces and vineyards. With great care and attention is a stylish interior and a beautiful tropical garden established.
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The staff is available 6 days a week (eight hours per day), to ensure the household chores, maintenance of garden, pool and beach. There can be cooked, washed and ironed for you … Obviously the grocery costs are for your own account and you can ask to prepare Indonesian and European meals by using the extensive menu card. Of course you also can cook or make certain meals by yourself. The staff is discreet presence and fully respects your privacy. To keep an eye at the premises by night a security is on duty because this is custom in Bali.
North Bali has a truly spectacular tropical scenery where lush canyons, lava beaches, coconut plantations and rice fields that together form an idyllic landscape. The charming village of Lovina, with restaurants and shops is a 10 minutes drive.
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- Use of safe-deposit box
- Wi-Fi access free 24/7
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Some enthusiasts have sniffed at the 2005 Hyundai Tiburon SE, the sportiest entry in the sporty Tiburon lineup. They say it looks more like a junior GT car than a hard-core sport coupe.
We say the Korean-built Tiburon is a fine offering in this segment, a vehicle that has managed to hold onto its looks despite hitting the market in 2002. The model we tested is an updated performance variant, which builds on the special edition package introduced last year.
We tested a Tiburon SE V-6 equipped with a single option, the $795 power sunroof. Bottom line: $21,389.
HE: We were looking for a little amusement one night and decided to go to Hell in a Hyundai, rather than a hand basket. I'm speaking, of course, of the tiny town in mid-Michigan that seems to be a favorite of local bikers and meteorologists. It turns out the destination was not nearly as much fun as the route. The old saying has the road to Hell paved with good intentions. In fact, we discovered it was paved with the sort of twisty two-lanes where you can really appreciate the virtues of the Tiburon SE, especially its firm and controlled ride and its sweet little powertrain combo — a twin-cam 2.7-liter V-6 that makes 172 horsepower and comes mated to a six-speed manual gearbox.
SHE: You want to talk about automotive hell, just spend a little time in the rear seat of the 2+2 Tiburon. It feels as if it were designed by Satan himself. No vents. No cup holders. No headroom. No legroom. You get one map pocket back there and one strange little bin built into the right side wall perhaps to hold those popular Hostess Snowball cupcakes that sell like crazy at the Hell party store, for obvious reasons. I would say the back seat passengers in the Tiburon don't stand a snowball's chance in you-know-where of being happy back there.
HE: Alright, enough with the lukewarm jokes already. The Tiburon is clearly a car built for a driver and perhaps one passenger. From behind the wheel, the Tiburon looks and feels terrific. In fact, the plastic, leather and colorful cloth used in the SE's cabin looked better to me than the stuff used in the interior of the new 2006 Mercedes-Benz M-Class we drove the same week. And even though the Tiburon may be getting a little long in the tooth, it still has an appealing exterior design that makes you think of a little Ferrari.
SHE: I'm going to slip into my usual role as devil's advocate here. I'm still worried about the rear-seat passengers. They get no air bag protection. Granted, the list of standard safety features on the Tiburon SE seems pretty good, otherwise. It includes standard antilock brakes and front-side air bags. But if I'm buying this car for one of my kids, I'm going to be worried about protecting the rear-seat passengers because you know they are going to cram people back there, regardless of how uncomfortable it may be to adults. I also want to say that while the workmanship looked pretty good on the Tiburon, we did hear some squeaks and rattles as we were zipping around that night.
HE: Yes, and I got baptized pretty good by the windshield-washer fluid when I had the driver's window rolled down. That's one engineering flaw we noted.
SHE: That and the too-heavy hatch with the less-than-perfect indentation to stick your fingers in and pull it down. I loved the sticker with the big arrow they had to slap on the inside of the tailgate to show you how to get the darn thing down. Stickers like that are always an indication that not enough thought went into a design.
HE: You're missing the bigger picture. Young kids who love to customize their cars are going to appreciate all the extras you get on the SE model, including a big spoiler, red front brake calipers, aluminum pedals and a Kenwood audio system with a CD and MP3 player. And Hyundai's 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty is still a powerful incentive for buyers. In other words, the Tiburon still offers plenty of value in the $20,000 coupe segment.
SHE: I had a lot of fun in the Tiburon, but next time I think Id be in a better mood if we had stopped at that other local landmark — a place called Serenity.
Anita and Paul Lienert are partners in Lienert & Lienert, an Ann Arbor-based automotive information services company.


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The inherent strength of the social movement that reelected Obama in November was perceptible in the spectacle of his second inauguration. The event was designed to be symbolic in a way that both coopted and validated social change in America.
Some of Obama's liberal critics were surprised by its tone: immigration activist Sarah Uribe "was taken aback by the diversity displayed: an almost surreal portrait of progress and equality. I beamed while watching supreme court Justice Sonia Sotomayor swear in Vice-President Biden; I was thrilled to hear gay, Latino poet Richard Blanco's ode to working-class people; and my jaw nearly dropped when I heard the Reverend Luis Leon partially recite the benediction in Spanish. And, of course, the historic significance of hearing our African-American president speak on Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday was not lost."
The rhetoric of his inaugural speech aligned Obama politically with this movement, making many references to "We, the people," leveraging the language of the constitution, Lincoln, and the Civil Rights movement against the philosophy of radical individualism. He defended the role of government, articulating popular frustration with legislative gridlock in order to undermine Reagan's "welfare queen" ideology and send a message to Congressional Republicans that the balance of power between executive and legislature had changed.
But while Obama's themes were squarely in line with popular sentiment, they didn't include any major initiatives. Former Obama official Kenneth Baer pointed out in the Washington Post that the speech sounded progressive only because the Republicans have moved political discourse so far to the right. "Defending the idea of a social safety net to guard against the vagaries of life is hardly radical," writes Baer.
Obama's commitment to maintaining Medicare and Social Security hinges on reducing the cost of health care and the size of the deficit. This is where the devil is in the details, for if a semblance of equality can be achieved by increasing taxes on the rich, Obama may well agree to cuts in social programs when negotiations resume over the debt ceiling in March.
This possibility is indicated by a major contradiction between Obama's promises of equality of opportunity and reality. Although he declared: "We believe that America's prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class," major changes in the relation between state, banks and corporations are needed to stop middle-class jobs from disappearing because of the way the economy has been hollowed out through outsourcing. While more manufacturing jobs have been created in the last four years, they are non-union, low-wage jobs that won't sustain a middle-class lifestyle.
According to the New York Times, "For millions of workers, wages have flatlined. Take Caterpillar, long a symbol of American industry: while it reported record profits last year, it insisted on a six-year wage freeze for many of its blue-collar workers. … Corporate America's push to outsource jobs — whether call-center jobs to India or factory jobs to China — has fattened corporate earnings, while holding down wages at home. New technologies have raised productivity and profits, while enabling companies to shed workers and slice payroll. … From 1973 to 2011, worker productivity grew 80 percent, while median hourly compensation, after inflation, grew by just one-eighth that amount, according to the Economic Policy Institute …"
What was also notable in Obama's speech was his omissions from its narrative. He invoked the images of Selma, Seneca Falls and Stonewall, but ignored present-day struggles for collective bargaining or for a living wage – let alone the contribution of the labor movement to the creation of a large middle class. This omission of any contemporary challenge to corporate America is a sign that, despite the appointment of a former prosecutor to the SEC, Obama is not serious about curbing the power of the financial industry. From Lehman Brothers to HBOS, major banks and their CEOs have gotten away with fraud and criminal conduct which Holder's Justice Department refuses to prosecute. Changes at the SEC come too little, too late to put any well-heeled bank executives in jail.
Obama's role is to rationalize the state on behalf of the political class, which means making sure opposition to cuts in entitlement spending is confined to pressure on Congress rather than riots in the street. That's what he means by calling on citizens to "shape the debates of our time." However, his validation of the ideal of equality carries the potential of extending it to the fight for economic as well as political equality.
This is why the movement of low-waged workers is more crucial than ever. It has spread from Walmart warehouse and store workers to subcontracted cleaners at Target who are filing charges that they were regularly locked into Minneapolis stores overnight. Walmart itself is trying to head off organizing efforts by introducing a monitoring system for working conditions in its warehouses – no different in principle from its monitoring of factories in Bangladesh, which did nothing to prevent the tragic fire killing over 100 garment workers. And in New York City, school bus drivers are in the tenth day of a strike against the loss of union protections for drivers on special education routes.
Although the Occupy movement is no longer highly visible, it made an indelible contribution to the popular notion of a pluralist society in America. The struggle of low-waged workers for union organization, GE factory workers against outsourcing, communities against evictions, and of the majority against cuts in social security, will mount a real challenge to corporate privilege. And this is the promise of America as Obama's second term begins.


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2016 Aboriginal Private Sector Business Economic Developer of the Year Award Winner
Birch Mountain Enterprises Ltd., AB
With nearly a decade in business and over 250 employees, Birch Mountain Enterprises (BNE), is a proven and dependable fluid handling and steaming specialist in the Fort McKay area. Specializing in safety and service, the 3 cofounders and owners of the company know the importance of giving back to the community and supporting Indigenous programs, employees and business.
Primarily serving Fort McMurray's oil sands clients and area, they are proud to be local and Indigenously owned. With a 60% Indigenous employment rate, BME has created numerous jobs in the community. They utilize Indigenous-owned contractors when possible, they are members of the Northeastern Alberta Aboriginal Business Association and their mandate is to support children's health and wellness programs in local Indigenous communities.
Thanks to the generosity of BME, Fort McKay has been able to offer amazing educational, sports, health and wellness programs for youth in the community. The Fort McKay Wellness Director is quoted in saying, "it has helped a lot of our kids to progress in their communication skills in addition to having fun!" Since 2011, BME has been a huge supporter of the community hockey program, resulting in a very successful program with over 80 youth playing the sport.
BME was a great support to the community during the wildfire catastrophe that hit the region in May 2016; they donated truckloads of groceries and supplies to evacuees. BME is constantly striving to touch the lives of their community members and give back in any way they can.
BME is innovative and this is clear with their new Wastewater Treatment Plant project. Their goal is to be the go-to company for these types of services and they hope to streamline their services on hauling sewage, sewage processing, bio solids management and certified laboratory services. This project will also create new job opportunities for community members, increasing the overall well being in the community. BME is committed to environmental sustainability and everything they do is viewed through a lens of reducing environmental pollution.
BME comes from humble roots and demonstrates that with all that they do. They are extremely deserving of this award and are a great example of a thriving company that puts community and people first.
2016 Aboriginal Private Sector Business Economic Developer of the Year Award Recognition Recipient
Denendeh Helicopters Ltd., NT
In 1998, Denendeh Helicopters came to be through a partnership with K'atlodeeche First Nation of the Hay River Reserve, Deh Gah Gotie First Nation of Fort Providence and Great Slave Helicopters (GSH) of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories. This Indigenous-owned and operated helicopter company is the first of it's kind in the region, and the largest Indigenous helicopter company in Canada. The partnership is led under the leadership of Chief Joachim Bonnetrouge, Chief Roy Fabian and Director Chris Bassett, President of GSH.
Based in Hay River along with a satellite base in Yellowknife, Denendeh Helicopters owns four helicopters in total, and is able to access more equipment, pilots and aircraft maintenance through their partnership with GSH as needed. They are ideally positioned to meet the helicopter service needs of companies and public organizations involved in infrastructure planning and development, wildlife surveys, search and rescue missions, mineral and mining activities, and oil and gas exploration.
Denendeh holds itself to the highest audit standards in the helicopter industry, with a commitment to flight safety that exceeds regulatory standards. They have up-to-date flight data and cockpit monitoring systems as well as flight simulator training available to ensure they are up to standards and using the latest technology.
They are committed to supporting their local community and protecting traditional lands. They continue to pursue new partnerships, with intentions of mutually beneficial, long-term business relationships. Denendeh has faced challenges over the past year due to the downturn in the Canadian economy, but continues to be innovative in their field and is optimistic about new opportunities and future business.
Denendeh along with GSH is a key supporter of the Aviation Career Development Program Bursary, which contributes up to $40,000 per year to eight students' educational pursuits from the Northwest Territories. They also contribute to multiple scholarship programs and initiatives, including a $2,000 youth infrastructure grant and $1,000 contribution to women's wellness program. Denendeh recognizes the importance of preserving Indigenous culture and donates a substantial amount of flying time each year towards cultural hunts and activities.
Denendeh continuously provides dedicated forest fire suppression and support services to the Forest Management Division of Environment and Natural Resources. Their work fosters a sense of pride throughout the community, with residents, businesses and properties knowing they are safe from the dangerous forest fires in the Hay River area.
Denendeh is a wonderful example of Indigenous business that comes from deep roots and good values. The company is thriving and will continue to do so with their great customer service and important work.
Past Aboriginal Private Sector Business Category Winners
2015 - Spirit Staffing & Consulting Inc.
2010 - Tribal Wi-Chi-Way-Win Capital Corporation
2009 - Gespe'gewaq Mi'gmaq Resource Council
2008 - Cree Regional Economic Enterprises Company


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Saturday, June 28, 2008
A Fun Day with Family at the Park
Today we went to a park in Huntington Beach to meet some family. My cousin Sarah graduated from UCLA and is joining the Peace Corps and heading off to Africa for two years, so we got together for a picnic in her honor. It was a fun park and Oliver had fun on the swings and sliding down the slide with daddy! It was nice seeing family. It was very breezy... almost cold in Orange County today so it was nice to get away from the blazing heat of Moreno Valley!
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
My Baby Boy is growing up....
So for a few weeks now Oliver has been pulling himself up and walking along the coffee table. He hasn't shown much of an interest in crawling... finally he has started crawling. He will only crawl if we lure him with a remote control. I don't know why but he is SO fascinated with remotes and will only crawl if one is in his path! So we keep putting the remote on the floor to get him moving! It's the cutest thing to watch!
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Day at the Park
We took Oliver to the park this afternoon. It's been over 100 everyday for the past few days, but we decided it would be fun to make a quick trip to the park. There was a fun little water feature that Roberto and Oliver kept going in (I got sprayed just standing by and it was so nice to get splashed with water). We couldn't tell if Oliver liked the water or not. He didn't cry but he didn't seem all that excited about it either so I guess that's a good sign! :)
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Happy Father's Day Honey
Today is Roberto's first official Father's Day!! He got his very own hand made Father's Day card from Oliver and me!
Also, I was making dinner and Berto was "watching" Oliver. Well I hear Oliver making noise in the living room. I looked around the corner and saw Oliver sitting on the couch and Berto "sleeping." I guess he thought Oliver wouldn't throw himself forward if his head was right there! Oliver was having a great time scratching and playing with Berto's face. It was pretty funny!
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
You're Standing, You're Standing
Oliver hasn't shown much interest in crawling until recently. I would say in the last two weeks he's really decided he wants to figure out how to move. He'll get onto his all fours to try and get a toy and then sit there with a look on his face that says "Now What??" He also will rock back and forth as if he's trying to get momentum going to push him forwards, but every time he tries to actually move he goes backwards! At about the same time he started trying to crawl he started trying to pull up on everything. He can get almost all the way around the coffee table, we just follow him along so he doesn't crack his head open, but he's doing it himself! It's so cute to watch. We are really trying to focus on crawling though because it's so important for brain development.
I love watching him go around the coffee table. His chubby little legs are so cute when they're stomping around!
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Babbling Baby
Oliver has always been a very vocal baby. It's so fun to see and hear him while he's babbling! I was able to catch this on video yesterday.... hopefully he'll start staying mama soon! :)
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Monday, June 09, 2008
Cute pictures of my cute son
Last week Oliver and I went out to my friend Heather's. She is always so obliging and takes great pictures of Oliver. Here are just a few. They are so cute!!
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Friday, June 06, 2008
Bruises, Adventures, and Tears
Yesterday we had our first catastrophe with Oliver trying to pull himself up. He was pulling up on the coffee table (I had my hand blocking the edge but somehow he missed it) and managed to bonk the bridge of his nose on the coffee table. The picture of him smiling is the next day... it's a little bruised but it's hard to tell in this picture. Obviously he's not too bothered by the accident. He's a happy little camper today! :)
A couple of days ago I had Oliver playing on the floor with his toys. I went to wash out his sippy cup and when I came back he had pulled himself onto his knees and was peeking over the edge of the coffee table smiling at me. It was so cute. Well this morning I did the same thing left him playing with his toys for a few minutes while I walked away to take care of something. Well when I came back I saw his cute little face peaking over the coffee table at me only this time when I walked around to see him.... he was almost doing the splits. It was the funniest thing! I'm glad he didn't fall... that would have been hard. But it was so cute to see. He had this little look that seemed to be saying... " look at what I did mommy!" It was adorable!
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Sunday, June 01, 2008
Silly Things
On Memorial Day our ward has an annual picnic and softball game at a local park. We went and Roberto played softball! He found out he's not as young as he thinks he is! :) He was sore for a couple of days after playing. I visited with the other moms while our babies played. It was fun!!
Above is a picture of Oliver and Roberto at the park!
Tbe other picture is Roberto sleeping. He wore himself out playing with Oliver's toys! :) Actually Oliver was there but playing but the picture was much more funny with Roberto by himself!
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In Frame: Charleston's Black Tap Coffee
Posted by Dara Segal on Nov 06, 2014
One of the best things about being in the custom framing business is the front row seat we have to the special moments and memories that people choose to commemorate for their walls. Sometimes it's a beautiful wedding portrait, or a piece of art purchased on an unforgettable vacation. Sometimes it's something as simple as a photo of your favorite coffee shop.
A month or so ago, I noticed an order come through from a college friend, Cabell, who I hadn't seen in years. It's always fun to see names that I recognize in our roster of orders, and I was excited to be able to frame something for Cabell's home in New York, whatever it was.
A few weeks later, I was in Charleston, South Carolina for a friend's wedding and to meet up with the newest member of the Simply Framed team, MK Quinlan. I got a quick South of Broad tour that ended at Black Tap, a charming coffee shop in the heart of downtown. About halfway through my lavender latte (if you're ever in Charleston, put these at the top of your tasting list), a familiar blonde walks through the front door, and what do you know, it's Cabell. Cabell lives in New York. I live in Denver. We were not in Charleston for the same wedding. The coincidence blew our minds.
I'm not sure what trippy movie to reference here. Actually, A-ha's "Take on Me" music video seems strangely relevant (art becomes real life? and it opens in a coffee shop, so...)—but it turns out that the two photos that Cabell sent to us for framing were 1) a photo of Black Tap and 2) a photo of Black Tap's lavender latte. And here we were, full circle, meeting for the first time in four years in this exact spot, me with a fresh lavender latte mustache.
Cabell's husband's family is from Charleston, so the two get back to the Holy City several times throughout the year. Black Tap is Cabell's happy place, and her husband was sweet enough to commission local photographer Olivia Rae James to take a couple of photos of the shop so that Cabell could bring some happy to the walls of her New York apartment.
Olivia Rae James's photos of Black Tap and its famous lavender latte, framed in our white gallery frame.
You might not know me, or Cabell, or ever have sipped a lavender latte at Black Tap, but hopefully this story makes you smile. The world is big and crazy and complicated, but on this day in Charleston, it was small in the best way possible.


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- Series: Maisie Dobbs (Book 6)
- Paperback: 303 pages
- Publisher: Picador; Reprint edition (November 24, 2009)
- Language: English
Christmas Eve, 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the Prime Minister's office receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met—and the writer mentions Maisie by name. Tapped by Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch to be a special adviser on the case, Maisie is soon involved in a race against time to find a man who proves he has the knowledge and will to inflict destruction on thousands of innocent people.
In Among the Mad, Jacqueline Winspear combines a heart-stopping story with a rich evocation of a fascinating period to create her most compelling and satisfying novel yet.
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Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in the county of Kent, England. Following higher education at the University of London's Institute of Education, Jacqueline worked in academic publishing, in higher education and in marketing communications in the UK.
She emigrated to the United States in 1990, and while working in business and as a personal / professional coach, Jacqueline embarked upon a life-long dream to be a writer.
A regular contributor to journals covering international education, Jacqueline has published articles in women's magazines and has also recorded her essays for KQED radio in San Francisco. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a regular visitor to the United Kingdom and Europe.
Jacqueline's grandfather was severely wounded and shell-shocked at The Battle of the Somme in 1916, and it was as she understood the extent of his suffering that, even in childhood, Jacqueline became deeply interested in the "war to end all wars" and its aftereffects. As an adult her interest deepened to the extent that, though she did not set out to write a "war" novel, it came as no surprise that this part of history formed the backdrop of Maisie Dobbs and other books in the series. The unique and engaging character of Maisie Dobbs is very much a woman of her generation. She has come of age at a time when women took on the toil of men and claimed independence that was difficult to relinquish. It was a time when many women remained unmarried, simply because a generation of men had gone to war and not come home.
"The war and its aftermath provide fertile ground for a mystery. Such great social upheaval allows for the strange and unusual to emerge and a time of intense emotions can, to the writer of fiction, provide ample fodder for a compelling story, especially one concerning criminal acts and issues of guilt and innocence. After all, a generation is said to have lost its innocence in The Great War. The mystery genre provides a wonderful vehicle for exploring such a time," explains Ms. Winspear.
Jacqueline's first novel, Maisie Dobbs, was a National Bestseller and received an array of accolades, including New York Times Notable Book 2003, a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Mystery 2003, and a BookSense Top Ten selection. In addition, the novel was nominated for 7 awards, including the Edgar for Best Novel—only the second time a first novel was nominated in this category. She subsequently won the prestigious Agatha Award for Best First novel, the Macavity Award for Best First Novel; and the Alex Award, which is presented annually by the American Library Association in conjunction with the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust. Maisie Dobbs was published by Soho Press in hardcover and by Penguin in paperback, an edition that spent almost four months on the Independent Mystery Booksellers Bestseller list in 2004.
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Book six of the Maisie Dobbs series opens with a "bang"! Literally. Maisie is injured as she witnesses a man's suicide on a busy London street. Perplexed by the suicide, Maisie "presence" is requested by Scotland Yard's Elite Special Branch to ferret out the writer of a threatening letter to a high government official who is suspected of instigating the suicide-bombing, and is determined to pursue the investigation using her skills and wits without the interference of the male detectives assigned to the same case. Her assistant Billie Beale proves once again to be a valuable asset to the case, despite the fact that his family life is going through a distressing emotional upheaval.
Having followed Maisie Dobb's story from the previous six books in the series I was curious to see how the explosion from the suicide would affect her. As a nurse who suffered from PTSD (war neurosis as it was termed after the war) Maisie has had to learn to identify the source of the mental anguish she suffers from and come to terms with the loss of the love of her life. Maisie is a strong, intelligent and compassionate woman who works constantly to keep the past at bay. She's human and we can feel her struggle.
This book can be read as a "stand-alone" novel however, Maisie Dobbs' character has been developed quite nicely through the previous six books and it would be a shame not to have read them first.
An entertaining and informative segment in this series that a reader of historical fiction would enjoy. I can't wait to read the next book in the series "The Mapping of Love and Death".
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Tuesday, March 1st: My Book Retreat – Maisie Dobbs
Wednesday, March 2nd: Jancee Reads – Maisie Dobbs
Wednesday, March 2nd: Reading Reality – Birds of a Feather
Thursday, March 3rd: View from the Birdhouse – Birds of a Feather
Thursday, March 3rd: BookNAround – Pardonable Lies
Thursday, March 3rd: Puddletown Reviews – Pardonable Lies
Thursday, March 3rd: From the TBR Pile – Messenger of Truth
Monday, March 7th: Books & Tea – An Incomplete Revenge
Monday, March 7th: Olduvai Reads – An Incomplete Revenge
Tuesday, March 8th: #redhead.with.book – Among the Mad
Wednesday, March 9th: Lavish Bookshelf – The Mapping of Love and Death
Thursday, March 10th: Joyfully Retired – A Lesson in Secrets
Monday, March 14th: Queen of All She Reads – Elegy for Eddie
Monday, March 14th: Lis Carey's Library – Leaving Everything Most Loved
Tuesday, March 15th: Nighttime Reading Center – Leaving Everything Most Loved
Tuesday, March 15th: Lit and Life – Leaving Everything Most Loved
Wednesday, March 16th: Emerald City Book Review – A Dangerous Place
Wednesday, March 16th: History from a Woman's Perspective – Leaving Everything Most Loved
Monday, March 21st: A Bookish Affair – Leaving Everything Most Loved
Monday, March 21st: Book Nerd – A Dangerous Place
Wednesday, March 23rd: Carina Gonzalez – A Dangerous Place
Thursday, March 24th: My Reader's Block – Leaving Everything Most Loved
Thursday, March 24th: Lis Carey's Library – A Dangerous Place
Tuesday, March 29th: Curling Up by the Fire – Journey to Munich
Tuesday, March 29th: nomadreader – Journey to Munich
Wednesday, March 30th: A Chick Who Reads – Journey to Munich
Thursday, March 31st: A Bookish Way of Life – Journey to Munich
Friday, April 1st: A Bookish Affair – A Dangerous Place
Friday, April 1st: My Book Retreat – Journey to Munich
Monday, April 4th: Raven Haired Girl – Journey to Munich
Tuesday, April 5th: Broken Teepee – Journey to Munich
Wednesday, April 6th: Reading Reality – Journey to Munich
Thursday, April 7th: Dwell in Possibility – Journey to Munich
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Easy Christmas Crack Recipe
How can you go wrong with layers of crispy saltine crackers, caramel and chocolate???
Then I came across a display with bags of Heath Toffee Bits while grocery shopping recently… and thought to myself, "why not sprinkle those on top of the chocolate layer instead of adding a caramel layer?". Oh, and add some praline pecans and sprinkles!
It slashed the time to prepare and was ohhhh so easy to make.
Here are your simple ingredients: Saltine crackers, chocolate flavored coating ("almond bark"), Heath® English Toffee Bits, praline pecans, and some red and green sprinkles.
Start with arranging saltine crackers side-by-side on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Melt the chocolate bark in a double boiler. If you don't have a double boiler, you can do like I did and place a pot over another similar-sized pot with about an inch of boiling water. I was at my boyfriend's house when I made this… he didn't have a double boiler, so this is how I made it work! 🙂
Spread the melted chocolate over the saltine crackers, then sprinkle with the praline pecans, toffee bits and sprinkles. Allow to cool for about an hour, and break into approximately 2-3 inch pieces.Print
Easy Christmas Crack
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 12-15 servings 1x
- Approximately 1 sleeve saltine crackers
- 24 ounce package chocolate flavored coating (almond bark)
- 2/3 cup praline pecans
- 2/3 cup English toffee bits
- Optional: red and green sprinkles
- On a 15 x 10 baking sheet lined with parchment paper, Arrange saltine crackers side-by-side until the entire pan is filled.
- Melt chocolate coating in a double boiler. Evenly pour and spread chocolate over saltine crackers.
- Evenly sprinkle toffee bits, pecans and sprinkles over chocolate. Allow to cool. Break into 2-3 inch pieces.
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: Chocolate, christmas, crack, christmas crack


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Many Spanish dishes have become popular in the United States, including gazpacho and fish stew. The Spanish tradition of tapas, small plates resembling hors d'oeuvres, has become so popular in the U.S. that tapas bars have sprung up in cities throughout the nation.
Tapas is really more of a style of eating than a way of cooking. The word tapas, meaning lid or cover, came from the Spanish habit of placing a plate of little snacks over a person's wine glass. Some say that this tradition originated to keep the flies out of the wine. Today, tapas promotes sociability as friends and family nibble on small dishes of intensely flavored Spanish favorites.
Some popular tapas dishes are Galician empanadas, bread pies that are stuffed with meat or fish. Spanish tortilla is made with potatoes, chopped onion, garlic and eggs. Ceviche, raw fish marinated in acidic lime juice and red chili pepper, is fresh and light.
Gazpacho is a fresh summer soup served cold. The soup includes cucumber, red bell pepper, tomato, and red onion. These vegetables are roughly chopped and then put through a food processor separately. Combine the vegetables with garlic, tomato juice, vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper, and chill for a refreshing treat.
Paella is a popular Spanish dish that varies in preparation from restaurant to restaurant and home to home. A wide, shallow pan is used for this seafood stew. Most recipes contain dry white wine, saffron, onion, red bell pepper, peas, tomato and chicken stock. Seafood choices include shrimp, clams, mussels and lobster tails. Some paellas include chicken. These ingredients are cooked in the oven and served over yellow (saffron) rice.
Sangria, a traditional Spanish wine-based beverage, was introduced in the U.S. in 1964 at the New York World's Fair. It is based on a claret wine punch served in Europe for hundreds of years. For flavor, brandy and fruit can be added. Most people think of red wine sangria, but some sangria is made with white wine.
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Mesic Northern Forest
Mesic northern forest is a forest type of moist to dry-mesic sites lying mostly north of the climatic tension zone, characterized by the dominance of northern hardwoods, particularly sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and American beech (Fagus grandifolia). Conifers such as hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) and white pine (Pinus strobus) are frequently important canopy associates. This community type breaks into two broad classes: northern hardwood forest and hemlock-hardwood forest. It is primarily found on coarse-textured ground and end moraines, and soils are typically loamy sand to sandy loam. The natural disturbance regime is characterized by gap-phase dynamics; frequent, small windthrow gaps allow for the regeneration of the shade-tolerant canopy species. Catastrophic windthrow occurred infrequently with several generations of trees passing between large-scale, severe disturbance events. Historically, mesic northern forest occurred as a matrix system, dominating vast areas of mesic uplands in the Great Lakes region. These forests were multi-generational, with old-growth conditions lasting many centuries.
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State Rank: S3 - Vulnerable
Landscape Context
Mesic northern forests are found chiefly on coarse-textured ground and end moraines, but are also common on silty/clayey lakeplains, thin glacial till over bedrock, and medium-textured moraines. The community occurs locally on kettle-kame topography, moderately well-drained to well-drained sandy lakeplain, and on north-facing sand dunes as far south as Berrien County in southern Lower Michigan.
A wide variety of soils support mesic northern forest but most typically it occurs on loamy sand to sandy loam and occasionally on sand, loam, and clay. Soils range widely in pH from extremely acidic to moderately alkaline but are more commonly extremely acid to medium acid.
Natural Processes
The natural disturbance regime is characterized by frequent, small-scale wind disturbance or gap-phase dynamics and infrequent intermediate- and large-scale wind events. Severe low pressure systems are a significant source of small-scale canopy gaps. Catastrophic windthrow, from tornadoes and downbursts, occurs infrequently (estimated return intervals are >1000 years). Catastrophic fire was historically correlated with catastrophic windthrow, especially in hemlock-dominated forests. Due to the long interval between large-scale disturbance events, mesic northern forests tend to be multi-generational, with old-growth conditions lasting several centuries. Ice storms affecting hundreds to thousands of acres act to thin canopy cover and promote tree regeneration. Historically, where mesic northern forest bordered fire-dependent pine and oak-pine systems, low-intensity surface fires may have infrequently burned portions of the ground layer, exposing patches of mineral soil and thereby promoting regeneration of small-seeded conifers.
Dominant tree species of mesic northern forest include sugar maple, American beech, and hemlock. While sugar maple most frequently dominates the community throughout Michigan, American beech is excluded from the western Upper Peninsula by extremely low winter temperatures. Other important components of the canopy include yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis), white ash (Fraxinus americana), basswood (Tilia americana), red oak (Quercus rubra), northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis), and white pine, which can attain supercanopy status. In sugar maple stands, basswood or American beech are often important, along with yellow birch, white ash, and red oak. The proportion of conifers and hardwoods other than sugar maple often increases when groundwater or bedrock influences the rooting zone. In stands where hemlock predominates or is accompanied by sugar maple, canopy associates may include: yellow birch, red maple (Acer rubrum), American beech, paper birch (Betula papyrifera), red oak, and white pine. Forests dominated by sugar maple and northern white-cedar are found in dunes or over calcareous bedrock.
Typical subcanopy species include balsam fir (Abies balsamea), ironwood (Ostrya virginiana), and American elm (Ulmus americana). American elm was a canopy dominant before the introduction of Dutch elm disease. The shrub layer is characterized by striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum), mountain maple (A. spicatum), alternate-leaved dogwood (Cornus alternifolia), beaked hazelnut (Corylus cornuta), leatherwood (Dirca palustris), American fly honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis), prickly gooseberry (Ribes cynosbati), red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa), and maple-leaved arrow-wood (Viburnum acerifolium). Prevalent species in the ground layer, representing a broad range of moisture conditions, include doll's eyes (Actaea pachypoda), red baneberry (A. rubra), maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum), wild leek (Allium tricoccum), wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis), jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum), rattlesnake fern (Botrypus virginianus), pubescent sedge (Carex hirtifolia), plantain-leaf sedge (C. plantaginea), blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides), bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), spinulose woodfern (Dryopteris carthusiana), fragrant bedstraw (Galium triflorum), hairy sweet cicely (Osmorhiza claytonii), downy Solomon seal (Polygonatum pubescens), false Solomon's seal (Maianthemum racemosum), rose twisted stalk (Streptopus lanceolatus), large-flowered bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora), and trilliums (Trillium spp.).
Noteworthy Animals
Large contiguous tracts of old-growth and mature mesic northern forest provide important habitat for cavity nesters, species of detritus-based food webs, canopy-dwelling species, and interior forest obligates, including numerous neotropical migrants, such as black-throated blue warbler (Dendroica caerulescens), black-throated green warbler (Dendroica virens), scarlet tanager (Piranga olivacea), and ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapillus).
Rare Plants
- Asplenium rhizophyllum (walking fern, state threatened)
- Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum (Hart's-tongue fern, federal threatened and state endangered)
- Asplenium trichomanes-ramosum (green spleenwort, state threatened)
- Botrychium mormo (goblin moonwort, state threatened)
- Carex assiniboinensis (Assiniboia sedge, state threatened)
- Carex novae-angliae (New England sedge, state threatened)
- Cystopteris laurentiana (Laurentian fragile fern, state special concern)
- Dentaria maxima (large toothwort, state threatened)
- Disporum hookeri (fairy bells, state endangered)
- Dryopteris filix-mas (male fern, state special concern)
- Galearis spectabilis (showy orchis, state threatened)
- Galium kamtschaticum (bedstraw, state threatened)
- Gnaphalium sylvaticum (cudweed, state threatened)
- Panax quinquefolius (ginseng, state threatened)
- Tipularia discolor (cranefly orchid, state threatened)
- Triphora trianthophora (three-birds orchid, state threatened)
- Viola novae-angliae (New England violet, state threatened)
Rare Animals
- Accipiter cooperii (Cooper's hawk, state special concern)
- Accipiter gentilis (northern goshawk, state special concern)
- Alces alces (moose, state special concern)
- Buteo lineatus (red-shouldered hawk, state threatened)
- Canis lupus (gray wolf, state threatened)
- Microtus pinetorum (woodland vole, state special concern)
Biodiversity Management Considerations
Biodiversity management requires a multi-scale approach and can be realized by taking the following actions. Emulate natural disturbance regimes and manage landscapes within the historical range of variability. Leave large tracts (especially old-growth and late-successional forest) unharvested and allow natural processes to operate unhindered. Increase the acreage of mature mesic northern forest by allowing early-successional forest to convert to late-successional forest. Reduce forest fragmentation by decreasing forest harvest levels, halting the creation of wildlife openings in forested landscapes, closing redundant forest roads, limiting the creation of new roads, and allowing wildlife openings and old field to revert to forest. Extend rotation periods of managed forests beyond 100 years to allow for the development of late-successional characteristics and species. Reduce high deer densities to levels at which herbivory no longer limits tree recruitment and reduces floral diversity. Maximize forest continuity by retaining large-diameter snags, coarse woody debris, and old, living trees. Where large-diameter snags and coarse woody debris are lacking, increase structural heterogeneity by creating snags through girdling, felling trees, and if necessary, skidding in large-diameter, long-lived, slowly decaying conifer species. Retain and promote hemlock, white pine, and northern white-cedar where they persist. Maintain and create suitable sites for conifer establishment by retention of large-diameter nurse logs and, in fire-prone landscapes, exposure of mineral soil through infrequent, low-intensity prescribed surface fires. Erect deer exclosures to protect hemlock, white pine, and cedar regeneration. Where hemlock and white pine seed sources are absent, underplant saplings. Mimic gap-phase dynamics and promote dead-tree dynamics when harvesting. Maintain genetic legacy of managed forests by retaining old trees and promoting natural regeneration.
Monitoring and control efforts to detect and remove invasive species before they become widespread are critically important for long-term viability of mesic northern forest. By outcompeting native species, invasive plants alter vegetation structure, reduce species diversity, and disrupt ecological processes. Invasive plant species that threaten the diversity and community structure in mesic northern forest include garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata), Dame's rocket (Hesperis matronalis), Eurasian honeysuckles (especially Lonicera morrowii, L. tatarica, and L. xbella), Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii), common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica), glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus), multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora), and Norway maple (Acer platanoides).
Intensive and pervasive anthropogenic disturbance during the past 150 years has altered the extent, landscape pattern, natural processes, structure, and species composition of mesic northern forest. Mesic northern forest, especially old-growth and late-successional forest, has been drastically reduced in acreage. This matrix community has become fragmented, with most old-growth and late-successional stands now persisting as remnant patches enmeshed in a matrix of agricultural lands, early-successional forest, and young northern hardwoods. Short-rotation timber management has replaced gap-phase dynamics as the dominant disturbance factor affecting structure and species composition. Structural alterations include the reduction of large-diameter trees, snags, and coarse woody debris. Hemlock and white pine have declined in importance within these systems. Fire suppression in nearby fire-prone systems has probably contributed to the lack of conifer recruitment in some sites as has a lack of suitable substrates for seedling establishment such as large-diameter nurse logs. Chronically high deer densities have further limited tree recruitment and altered floral composition and structure.
Mesic northern forest is a broadly defined community type with numerous regional, physiographic, and edaphic variations. Two broad classes are recognized, hardwood-dominated forest and hemlock-hardwood forest.
In the northern Lower Peninsula and in the eastern Upper Peninsula, sugar maple and beech commonly occur as codominants, frequently thriving on heavy-textured soils such as silt loam and clay loam. Beech is absent from most systems in the western Upper Peninsula, likely due to the extreme minimum winter temperatures, shorter growing season, and increased dryness. Basswood, characteristic of nutrient-rich sites, is most prevalent in mixed-hardwood stands in the western Upper Peninsula and most closely associated with sugar maple.
Hemlock-hardwood forests may include a variety of conifers and northern hardwoods, which vary in relative dominance depending on climate, landform, soils, aspect, drainage, and proximity to inland lakes or the Great Lakes. Some of dominant canopy trees in these mixed forests include hemlock, white pine, northern white-cedar, yellow birch, American beech, and sugar maple. Hemlock, white pine, northern white-cedar, and yellow birch increase in importance in areas with modified climate (areas near the Great Lakes) or microclimate (adjacent to inland lakes and rivers, in ravines, and slopes with north-to-east aspects) or poor drainage (poorly drained lakeplains). Extensive tracts of sugar maple and northern white-cedar were located in dunes or over calcareous bedrock and today are found locally in dunes along the Great Lakes shoreline, on Great Lakes islands, and on the drumlin fields of Menominee County. White pine mixed with northern hardwoods reached its greatest abundance on drier southeast-facing slopes of well-drained moraines and ice-contact features.
Similar Natural Communities
Mesic southern forest, dry-mesic northern forest, and hardwood-conifer swamp.
Relevant Literature
- Augustine, D.J., and L.E. Frelich. 1998. Effects of white-tailed deer on populations of an understory forb in fragmented deciduous forests. Conservation Biology 12(5): 995-1004.
- Cohen, J.G. 2000. Natural community abstract for mesic northern forest. Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Lansing, MI. 7 pp.
- Crow, T.R., and A.H. Perera. 2004. Emulating natural landscape disturbance in forest management — An introduction. Landscape Ecology 19: 231-233.
- Frelich, L.E. 1995. Old forest in the Lake States today and before European settlement. Natural Areas Journal 15: 157-167.
- Frelich, L.E., and C.G. Lorimer. 1991. Natural disturbance regimes in hemlock-hardwood forests of the Upper Great Lakes region. Ecological Monographs 61(2): 145-164.
- Leahy, M.J., and K.S. Pregitzer. 2003. A comparison of presettlement and present-day forests in northeastern Lower Michigan. American Midland Naturalist 149(1): 71-89.
- Lorimer, C.G., and L. E. Frelich. 1994. Natural disturbance regimes in old growth northern hardwoods. Journal of Forestry 92: 33-38.
- Mladenoff, D.J., and F. Stearns. 1993. Eastern hemlock regeneration and deer browsing in the northern Great Lakes region: A re-examination and model simulation. Conservation Biology 7(4): 889-900.
- Mladenoff, D.J., M.A. White, J. Pastor, and T.R. Crow. 1993. Comparing spatial pattern in unaltered old-growth and disturbed forest landscapes. Ecological Applications 3(2): 294-306.
- Rooney, T.P., and D.M. Waller. 1998. Local and regional variation in hemlock seedling establishment in forests of the upper Great Lakes region, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 111: 211-224.
- Schulte, L.A., and D.J. Mladenoff. 2005. Severe wind and fire regimes in northern forests: Historical variability at the regional scale. Ecology 86(2): 431-445.
- Tyrrell, L.E., and T.R. Crow. 1994. Dynamics of dead wood in old-growth hemlock-hardwood forests of northern Wisconsin and northern Michigan. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 24: 1672-1683.
- Whitney, G.C. 1987. An ecological history of the Great Lakes forest of Michigan. Journal of Ecology 75(3): 667-684.
- Woods, K.D. 2004. Intermediate disturbance in a late-successional hemlock-northern hardwood forest. Journal of Ecology 92: 464-476.
- Zhang, Q., K.S. Pregitzer, and D.D. Reed. 2000. Historical changes in the forests of the Luce District of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. American Midland Naturalist 143(1): 94-110.
For a full list of references used to create this description, please refer to the natural community abstract for mesic northern forest.
More Information
Kost, M.A., D.A. Albert, J.G. Cohen, B.S. Slaughter, R.K. Schillo, C.R. Weber, and K.A. Chapman. 2007. Natural Communities of Michigan: Classification and Description. Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Report No. 2007-21, Lansing, MI.


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Portland, OR, USA – May 6, 2015
The 3D PDF Consortium is proud to announce its latest independent software developer member.
Datakit, a leading provider of data translation and exchange solutions for the CAD/CAM market that provide support of 3D PDF output for the dozen input formats supported by its CrossManager, CrossCad/Plg and CrossCad/Ware product lines. These products are currently shipping and available to end users who want to convert their CAD models to 3D PDF from a variety of CAD formats without the need to have a license of the authoring application present, and to software developers who want to integrate support for 3D PDF output.
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The 3D PDF Consortium is a community of software providers, systems integrators, government agencies, and businesses dedicated to achieving 3D ubiquity by leveraging the PDF platform. Our members look to the 3D PDF Consortium to demonstrate the success of these solutions within the market and promote 3D PDF as a solution to improve business results. The 3D PDF Consortium mission is to promote 3D PDF adoption through demonstrating best practices, providing technical input to the standards process, and generating awareness of the power of 3D-enabled PDF to solve a multitude of communication and collaboration challenges across various industries. For more information on the 3D PDF Consortium, please visit www.3DPDFConsortium.org and follow us on Twitter @3DPDFConsortium.
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One of the things I love about visiting unfamiliar places where friends live is that they have had the advantage of time to find all sorts of hidden gems around their area. (For our friends that visit us in Los Angeles, I have a ton of them!) So we were thrilled to visit some of our friends' favorite places in Abu Dhabi.
On our second day there we had a delightful and delicious lunch at Circle Cafe. It was a lovely place with enormous windows that let in an incredible amount of natural light, which was soothing and hapiness inducing.
I'd not thought about creating a design theme around one geometric shape before, but somehow the "circle" theme was inspirational to this interior designer and became a successful grounding element for the entire cafe. Circles were repeated in the tables, chairs, ceiling, and lighting fixtures throughout the cafe. Even the placemats were circles.
And smartly, those circles were broken up by beautiful brown leather chairs and natural wood tables that were set up in an invitation that seemed to say "come in, stay a while, bring your laptop or borrow a book and be our friend for the day." And there were a few people there who had done just those things it seemed.
I loved the unfinished wood pieces along the sides of the space as well. I am a total sucker for combining modern and vintage/antique furniture, so this subtle nod to that method made me feel right at home.
Of course I also felt at home staring at their baked goods all during lunch. Yum! I should also say, they had chosen the perfect gray wall color to contrast with the white furniture and trim. This place feels much like what I hope our kitchen will feel like when we're finished redecorating it!
And I loved their paper lighting fixtures. They are definitely decorative (I don't think these would light the space at night in the slightest), but I love the way the light within glows through just enough to highlight the edges of the strips that make up this whimsical design.
Ok, I know this isn't design related, but I can't resist mentioning how delicious these juices were. The green one was the best mint lemonade I had the whole trip. Yum!What do you think? Do you like the design of this cafe?