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SW Elite Plus CI Money Market Full A – MUTUAL:CIG7190P Fund Overview

Last PriceToday's Change52-Week RangeTrading Volume
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Market data as of 12:00AM 08/31/15. Quotes are delayed by at least 15 min.

Overview - MUTUAL:CIG7190P

The Fund will be managed in a prudent manner, with the objective of achieving a rate of return that closely tracks the total return of the Scotia Capital 91-day Treasury Bill Index, a widely recognized Canadian money market index.

Growth of $10,000 (10 Years)

Total Return0.71%
Yield (Trailing 12 Mo.)0.00%
Expense Ratio--
Front LoadNone
Deferred LoadNone
Minimum Investment$500.00
Management Tenure1 Years
Fund Inception10/31/2005

Trailing Total Returns - MUTUAL:CIG7190P

as of 07/31/2015
TimeframeMUTUAL:CIG7190PS&P 500Canadian Money Market
1 Month0.00%2.10%0.02%
3 Month-0.09%1.41%0.08%
1 Year-0.28%11.21%0.43%
3 Year-0.09%17.58%0.46%
5 Year0.00%16.24%0.47%
10 Year--7.72%1.24%
Since Inception0.71%10.62%--

Sector Allocation - MUTUAL:CIG7190P

as of 07/31/2015
Basic Materials--
Consumer Cyclical--
Financial Services--
Real Estate--
Consumer Defensive--
Communication Services--

Asset Allocation - MUTUAL:CIG7190P

as of 07/31/2015
By PercentShort0%LongNet
Foreign Stock--
Foreign Bond--
Total Net Assets$132.69M
Total Stock Holdings0
Total Bond Holdings0

Top Ten Holdings - MUTUAL:CIG7190P

as of 07/31/2015
CompanyYTD Return% of Assets
CI Money Market--99.36%

Valuation & Growth - MUTUAL:CIG7190P

as of 07/31/2015
ValuationMUTUAL:CIG7190PCategory Range
Price/Cash Flow--
Dividend Yield
LT Earnings
Historical Earnings
Sales Growth
Cash-Flow Growth
Book-Value Growth
Key:  Lo

Morningstar Summary - MUTUAL:CIG7190P, 3 Year

Ratingvs Category
RiskAbove Avg
Key:  Lo

Tax Analysis - MUTUAL:CIG7190P, 3 Year Avg

Pretax Return-0.09%
Tax-adjusted Return--
Tax Cost Ratio--
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Thursday, 20 May 2010

Ask & Answer Video Questions

Much as I don't like appearing on video I do like web based video tools and is one that caught my eye recently. is an asynchronous Q&A site which allows users to ask and answer each other's questions either by text or video.

It's very easy to use, you just need a webcam and to set up your account. Once you have done that you can integrate it with Twitter or Facebook (though I would advise that you wait to see how useful it is first) and you can start inviting friends or students to follow you and invite them to leave questions for you. It's a good idea to get started by getting to ask you a few random questions, so that when visitors come there is something for them to see. This is very simple to do. Once you have created your account, go to the 'Inbox' and click on 'Ask yourself a random question'.

Once the questions appears, you can answer it either using text or video, just by clicking the icon on the right.
Clicking the video icon will launch the video recorder window. You'll need to click on 'Allow' so that the Flash plug in can access your camera and microphone.

Then you just click on 'Record' and start recording your answer to the question. You can try again if you don't get it right first time so don't worry too much. If you like your recording, just click on 'Use' .
All of your video answers are collected in your 'Activity stream'so you can go back and edit or delete them later.
The next thing to do is either start inviting friends through Twitter or Facebook, or if you prefer just send the URL of your stream to people who you want to ask you questions. The they can either submit a questions by text or record a video questions for you. You can see my stream and try it at:

The activity stream is a little like Twitter in that you can start to follow people or they can follow you, so you can start asking and answering each other's questions and see what questions other people have been asked.

How to use this with students
  • I think this is a great 'ice-breaker' especially for an online class where students don't really get to meet each other and are often working in different time zones.
  • It's also a great way for lower levels to get some online speaking practice for homework and the fact that they record their answers will be interesting when they come to look back on their progress. Also great for you to help assess their progress too.
  • It's also a nice way for new classes to get to know you as their teacher. This can be really difficult in bigger classes with lots of students, so this can add a nice element of 1 - 1 contact.
  • Questions and answers are the fundamental building blocks of language, so this is a great tool for checking out students' grammar and their ability to formulate questions and answers in any particular tense, so great online controlled speaking practice too.

Potential problems
  • This is an open site, so students can be 'found' by other people, so think about what age groups you use the site with. If you are following the students, however, you will be able to see who they are interacting with and as all accounts are registered you will be able to track back any bullying or abuse that may happen.
I hope you enjoy using this with students and by all means do leave me a question if you want to and I'll do my best to answer it.

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Nik Peachey

1 comment:

Jörgen said...

Thanks for another great tip. It seems that you really check out a tool before you blog about it, much appreciated! Keep up the good work.

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The Moment: Lake Elsinore

The Moment: Lake Elsinore

You hear the same stuff every darned week. "You need to get a good start. You need to sprint on the first few laps."

And yet, the two dynamos of this year's fantastic 250 National title chase did the opposite. We didn't see much of Blake Baggett and Eli Tomac early in the motos this year, but when they did kick into sprint mode, late in the race, they showed otherworldly speed. Like, running-past-dudes-who-are-jogging speed.

Tomac had that kind of sprint in him at the last few races, and he needed it again at Lake Elsinore, where Baggett clearly had refound his early-season mojo. In moto one, Baggett turned it up at the halfway point (as usual), got around Justin Barcia, and started pulling away. Tomac needed a few more laps to get Barcia, and he sat six seconds behind Baggett. He needed to get desperate…and he did by uncorking an amazing 2.41.7 lap, a full four seconds faster than Baggett at that point. But, Tomac had gone into "go until you blow up" mode. He couldn't maintain that pace, hit his redline, and then drifted into 2.46 and 2.51 laps after that.

Eli Tomac left it all on the track at the season finale at Lake Elsinore.
Simon Cudby photo

"Yeah, I had pretty much hit the redline the lap before that," said Tomac. "So I decided to just go and give it all I had! That was pretty much it!"

Tomac went off the track momentarily, and then pulled his goggles. He was overheated. Baggett maintained his laps at the 2.45 level until the end, and held on for a moto win that pretty much put the 250 National title on ice.

While that moment pretty much sealed Tomac's fate, it did it in the most noble way possible: he went down fighting. He pushed as hard as he could for as long as he could. He left it all on the race track. And besides winning, that's about as good as it gets.


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"java 8" entries

4 things to make your Java 8 code more dynamic

Anytime is a good time to refactor your code.

Java 8 has a few new features which should help you write more dynamic code. Of course one of the big features was the addition of a lambda syntax. But what about some of the other features that were added? Here are a couple of things that I tell people to do in order to make their code more dynamic and more functional.

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Java 8 streams API and parallelism

Leveraging intermediate and terminal operators to process large collections.

In the last post in this series, we learned about functional interfaces and lambdas. In particular, we looked at the ITrade functional interface, and filtered a collection of trades to generate a specific value. Prior to the feature updates made available in Java 8, running bulky operations on collections at the same time was ineffective and often cumbersome. They were restricted from performing efficient parallel processing due to the inherent explicit iteration that was being used. There was no easy way of splitting a collection to apply a piece of functionality on individual elements that then ran on multi-core machine architectures — that is, until the addition of Java 8’s Streams API.

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Using the command pattern with lambda expressions

Reduce boilerplate and make the intent of your code more obvious.

As Java developers we’re all familiar with the concept of Design Patterns. These are codified template solutions to problems that we may encounter when developing. We’re probably also familiar with being told by our functional programming brethren that design patterns are just “missing” language features. So the question now arises, with the introduction of lambda expressions in Java 8 and a more functional style of programming, how do design patterns change? In this article we’ll be looking at the command pattern.

A command object is an object that encapsulates all the information required to call another method later. The command pattern is a way of using this object in order to write generic code that sequences and executes methods based on runtime decisions.

There are four classes that take part in the command pattern:

  • Receiver – Performs the actual work
  • Command – Encapsulates all the information required to call the receiver
  • Invoker – Controls the sequencing and execution of one or more commands
  • Client – Creates concrete command instances

Let’s look at a concrete example of the command pattern and see how it improves with lambda expressions. Read more…

Unit Testing Java 8 Lambda Expressions and Streams

Two approaches to testing lambdafied code.

Over the past 18 months or so I’ve been talking to a lot of people about lambda expressions in Java 8. This isn’t that unusual when you’ve written a book on Java 8 and also run a training course on the topic! One of the questions I often get asked by people is how do lambda expressions alter how they test code? It’s an increasingly pertinent question in a world where more and more people have some kind of automated unit or regression test suite that runs over their project and when many people do Test Driven Development. Let’s explore some of the problems you may encounter when testing code that uses lambdas and streams and how to solve them.

Usually, when writing a unit test you call a method in your test code that gets called in your application. Given some inputs and possibly test doubles, you call these methods to test a certain behavior happening and then specify the changes you expect to result from this behavior.

Lambda expressions pose a slightly different challenge when unit testing code. Because they don’t have a name, it’s impossible to directly call them in your test code. You could choose to copy the body of the lambda expression into your test and then test that copy, but this approach has the unfortunate side effect of not actually testing the behavior of your implementation. If you change the implementation code, your test will still pass even though the implementation is performing a different task.

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Java 8 functional interfaces

Getting to know various out-of-the-box functions such as Consumer, Predicate, Supplier

In the first part of this series, we learned that lambdas are a type of functional interface – an interface with a single abstract method. The Java API has many one-method interfaces such as Runnable, Callable, Comparator, ActionListener and others. They can be implemented and instantiated using anonymous class syntax. For example, take the ITrade functional interface. It has only one abstract method that takes a Trade object and returns a boolean value – perhaps checking the status of the trade or validating the order or some other condition.

In order to satisfy our requirement of checking for new trades, we could create a lambda expression, using the above functional interface, as shown here:

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What’s New in Java 8: Lambdas

A hands-on introduction to Java 8's most exciting new feature

Java 8 is here, and, with it, come lambdas. Although long overdue, lambdas are a remarkable new feature that could make us rethink our programming styles and strategies. In particular, they offer exciting new possibilities for functional programming.

While lambdas are the most prominent addition to Java 8, there are many other new features, such as functional interfaces, virtual methods, class and method references, new time and date API, JavaScript support, and so on. In this post, I will focus mostly on lambdas and their associated features, as understanding this feature is a must for any Java programmer on-boarding to Java 8.

All of the code examples mentioned in this post can be found in this github repo.

What are lambdas?

Lambdas are succinctly expressed single method classes that represent behavior. They can either be assigned to a variable or passed around to other methods just like we pass data as arguments.

You’d think we’d need a new function type to represent this sort of expression. Instead, Java designers cleverly used existing interfaces with one single abstract method as the lambda’s type.

Before we go into detail, let’s look at a few examples.

Example Lambda Expressions

Here are a few examples of lambda expressions:

Have a look at them once again until you familiarize yourself with the syntax. It may seem a bit strange at first. We will discuss the syntax in the next section.

You might wonder what the type is for these expressions. The type of any lambda is a functional interface, which we discuss below.
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Java 8, now what?

What you'll need to know to start your Java 8 migration process today

There was recently a thread on the London Java Community mailing list about when people should think about adopting Java 8. Lambdas, an improved collections library, new date and time support, and a host of under-the-hood tweaks, add up to a lot of compelling reasons for people to upgrade. There’s still a lot of confusion over when and how to accomplish it, though, so here’s a helpful guide.

When will Java 8 be released?

The GA (General Availability) release of Oracle’s JRE and JDK, which is probably the JVM that you’re using, released March 18th. It may take other JVM vendors a while to release their implementations if you aren’t using an OpenJDK or the Oracle JDK.

So I should just upgrade on release date, right?

That would be a very brave move to make. A huge amount of resources go into testing Java 8 and ensuring that things will work out of the box on the day of release. However, the massive ecosystem of Java libraries means that not everything can be tested to destruction in time. It’s incredibly likely that there will be outstanding bugs upon release. You should expect update releases a month or two after GA, they’ll solve the major problems.

It’s also important to think about what libraries or frameworks your application depends on. If you’re just writing plain old Java then an existing codebase is likely to work fine. If, on the other hand, you depend on a library or framework that tries to do something clever then you may run into problems.

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About a dying vestige of British colonialism

The Independent 09-09-12

This interview was published in The Independent on September 9, 2012.

Mahmudul Hoque Moni, the journalist who conducted the interview, also asked me about veganism. As the newspaper decided not to print that part of the interview, I am posting the question here, along with my reply:

Mahmudul: You are a vegan, a strict vegetarian who does not eat or use animal products, and you have written about animal ethics in several major Bangladeshi newspapers. When did you stop eating meat, eggs and dairy, and why?

Rainer: I have been a vegetarian for more than half of my life, from the age of eleven. I don’t remember exactly why I stopped eating meat back then, but I suspect that the fact that my father used to work as a butcher had something to do with it. I had many animal friends and once I realized that other animals, not so different from my animal friends, have to suffer and die for there to be meat, I didn’t want to eat meat anymore.

The years went by and I started to read philosophy and think about things more deeply. Two authors in particular opened my eyes and made me see the inherent injustice of the food animal industry – Peter Singer and Tom Regan. I realized that, by consuming eggs and dairy products, I’m supporting an industry that, in its current form, would not be possible without the suffering and death of sentient animals. So, about six years ago, I finally turned vegan.

For me, the most important reason to be vegan is a moral one. I believe that it is morally wrong to kill other animals for their meat, use them for our entertainment, or make them suffer in our research laboratories. The animals we eat or use otherwise – much like us – have lives that matter to them. We should respect that, don’t you think? For most of us it is wholly unnecessary to use animals. We can have good lives without killing and torturing other animals, so why do it? You wouldn’t want to be kept in filthy conditions and endure serious health problems that come with these conditions just to be killed at a young age, so you shouldn’t impose that kind of life on another intelligent and sentient being either. In a sense, it’s really as simple as that.

There are also many other good reasons to be vegan. A well-balanced vegan diet is healthy and is often said to decrease the chances of suffering from diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke and some cancers. It’s also better for the environment. Going vegan is likely the single most effective step you can take toward protecting the planet. A vegan diet requires only a fraction of the land and water needed to produce a typical non-vegan diet, and a vegan diet produces only a fraction of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with a typical non-vegan diet. The list of environmental benefits is long, and anybody interested can find plenty of information online. Finally, every Bengali who loves vegetable curries, dhals and phuchka knows that vegan food is delicious!


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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

The situation in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Province of China, continues to be tense with sporadic acts of violence of a
minor nature as compared to what happened on the night of July 5,2009, and the next day. The violent incidents reported on July 8 were mainly in the form of small groups of angry Han Chinese trying to attack individual Uighurs.

2.In all instances, the police promptly intervened and persuaded the Han Chinese to disperse and not to take the law into their own hands. The police have mobilised the support of some members of the Han Chinese community, who are in a preponderant majority in Urumqi, to go round the Han Chinese areas and appeal to them not to take the law into their own hands. They have also been promising the Han Chinese that all Uighurs who were involved in the attacks on the Han Chinese will be prosecuted and promptly executed if found guilty of violent crimes.

3. More Army reinforcements have been moved into Urumqi and other areas of the province from Sichuan. They have undertaken a vigorous patrolling of the areas in order to help the police maintain law and order. Helicopter patrols have also been pressed into service. While violence is down, tension and nervousness continue. Many shops remained closed on July 8 and there was a rush at the local airport due to the anxiety of many Han Chinese to leave Xinjiang. All flights going out of Urumqi are packed and Han Chinese, not able to get a seat in the flights, have been staying in hotels near the airport, hoping to get a place in subsequent flights.

4. Meng Jianzhu, State Councillor, who is the Minister for Public Security and in that capacity is the chief of China's internal intelligence and homeland security set-up, has flown into Urumqi from Beijing and has been going round the city along with officials of the local Government and party appealing for calm and assuring the Han Chinese that the laws will be applied firmly against those who indulged in violence. In an unusual move, the People's Daily of China, owned by the Chinese Communist Party, asked its readers in advance to look out for an editorial
on July 9 in which it would call for the strict application of the laws against those found guilty and for strict measures to restore social order.

5. Even after the surprise return of President Hu Jintao from Italy on the morning of July 8 after cancelling his participation in the G-8 summit, the Chinese have continued with their policy of transparency in order to let the world know about the kind of brutalities allegedly committed by the Uighurs on July 5 and 6,2009.This would probably show that the policy of transparency, which was reportedly ordered by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in the absence of Hu in Italy, had the support of Hu.

6.The way the Chinese have handled the aftermath has been refreshingly different from the way they reacted after the Lhasa uprising of March 2008. After the Lhasa uprising, they ordered all foreign journalists and tourists in Tibet to leave and stopped permitting foreign journalists to visit Tibet for nearly three months. Now, the Chinese Foreign and Information offices in Beijing have been taking the initiative in contacting foreign journalists and requesting them to go to Urumqi to report on the situation. It has been reported that many journalists are already in Urumqi.

7. The only common factor in the way the Chinese handled the aftermath of the Lhasa uprising and are now handling the Urumqi uprising is the virulent demonisation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Youth Congress last year and a similar demonisation of the World Uighur Congress (WUC) and its leaders.

8. The immediate priority for the Chinese, as seen by them, is to address the Han Chinese anger over the alleged failure of the Police to protect them on July 5 and 6,2009. The next priority is to arrest and prosecute all those involved in acts of violence.

9. The ground situation in Xinjiang is qualitatively different from that in Tibet. In Tibet, the Tibetans are in a decisive majority still despite the settlement of a large number of Han Chinese. In Xinjiang, the Uighurs are not in a decisive majority. Muslims constitute about 60 per cent of the Xinjiang population, but not all of them are Uighurs. The Uighutrs constitute only 45 per cent of the Xinjiang population and the Han Chinese 40 per cent. The remaining 15 per cent are Muslims of non-Uighur origin. These non-Uighur Muslims have kept away from the protests.

10.Moreover, during the uprising in Lhasa, the Tibetans did not indulge in the kind of physical brutalities against the Han Chinese similar to the brutalities allegedly inflicted by some Uighurs on the Han Chinese. From the latest reports received from Urumqi, it would appear that the protest movement was initially started by a group of secular Uighurs, owing loyalty to the Munich-based WUC, but subsequently some of the jihadi fundamentalist elements owing loyalty to the Islamic Movement of Eastern Turkestan, allied to Al Qaeda, infiltrated into their ranks and indulged in an orgy of violence against the Han Chinese. However, the Chinese authorities continue to project the Urumqi uprising as the handiwork of ethnic separatist terrorists. They are not talking of jihadi terrorists.

11. There is more than meets the eye in the Urumqi uprising. It took place a little more than a year after the Holland-based Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation, jointly with the WUC and the USA's National Endowment for Democracy (NED), had organised a training course----the second one--- for a group of Uighurs from the diaspora. The reported theme of the training course was "the right of self-determination". Annexed is a press statement issued on this subject at that time by the UNPO. The uprising took place less than two months after the WUC held its third world assembly in Washington DC in May,2009.

12. It is not clear why Hu had to cancel his participation in the G-8 summit and fly back almost in panic to Beijing. Was it because of the Han Chinese anger or was it because of differences in the party leadership over how to handle it? (9-7-09)

( The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. He is also associated with the Chennai Centre For China Studies. E-mail: )

21 April 2008

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) together with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) organized their second leadership training seminar in two years, which opened today the 21st of April 2008. Over 50 members of the Uyghur Diaspora from around the world together with prominent academics, government representatives and
members of the civil society gathered in Berlin Germany to discuss this year’s topic “Self-Determination under International Law”.

Mr. Dolkun Isa, Secretary General of the World Uyghur Congress, opened the occasion, welcoming participants to the training seminar, manyof whom traveled some distance to attend the event, including from Australia, Canada, Kazakhstan, Norway and the United States.

President of the WUC and internationally renowned advocate of the Uyghur cause, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, warmly greeted the audience with great energy, enthusiasm and determination. Ms. Kadeer spoke on the lack of freedom afflicting Uyghurs since the communist clamp of power in 1949, including a constant constriction of human rights by Chinese authorities. People in East Turkestan cannot imagine the amount of freedom people in the western world enjoy, explained Ms. Kadeer, and individuals in the west cannot imagine the extent of suppression people in East Turkestan are experiencing.

The international community is very familiar with the situation of Tibet, however knowledge of the situation of East Turkestan is quite limited in comparison. Nonetheless, the last two years have seen many efforts to educate the world on the poor human rights situation in East Turkestan. It is therefore essential, reminded Ms. Kadeer, to continue to educate and inform all about the Uyghur situation.

Mr. Marino Busdachin, UNPO General Secretary, further noted that survival of the Uyghur culture and identity are vital issues Uyghurs arefaced with today. Introducing the topic of self-determination, Mr. Busdachin recognized the difficulty and controversy surrounding the subject. It is important to recognize that Chinese authorities are not willing to grant full autonomy or full federal solutions to East Turkestan, he explained, however we should stay positive in the situation and focus on means of raising awareness for the Uyghur cause and on the survival of their culture. Members of the Diaspora should be weary of tendencies towards radicalization and need to stay in constant dialogue with the people in East Turkestan so as not to become estranged by their position.

UNPO and WUC were thrilled to welcome multiple guests of honour on the opening day, including Mr. Günther Nooke, Federal Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Dirk Pleiter of Amnesty International, Ms. Frances Eqerer, representative of Mr. Margarete Bause from the Green Party of the Bavarian Parliament, and Mr. Feruk Unsal, Member of
Parliament in Turkey.

Mr. Nooke spoke of the importance of pursuing a nonviolent path and avoiding any further escalation within minority groups in China. He called for an analysis into the roots of recent uprisings in China and reminded China that it is in their interest to review their policies towards minority groups. These actions would then necessitate a dialogue between the government and minorities – the exact path which could nonviolently reach a solution.

Furthermore, Mr. Nooke touched upon the situation of the Uyghurs currently incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, individuals who have been found not guilty of any charges and are ready to be released immediately. The Uyhgurs cannot however return to China, as they will undoubtedly suffer severe persecution. Ironically, Mr. Nooke points out, they are largely safer in prison than they would be in China. He therefore called for civil courage in Europe and the United States to grant these individuals immigration visas. Ms. Seema Saifee, pro bono attorney for several Uyghurs at Guantanamo, confirmed this argument, underlining that they could be released tomorrow as long as a
country will admit them.

Following a lively and well-attended press conference, to which members of various media sources including Deutsche Welle TV, WDR and the Associated Press attended, participants dove right into their training material.

With the aid of moderators Mr. Ulrich Delius of the Society for Threatened Peoples and Senator Marco Perduca, newly elected Member of the Italian Parliament, participants were guided through an introductory series of lectures on the concepts of international law, avenues of self-determination and case studies of such.

Ms. Anna Batalla, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Hans-Joachim Heintze, Institute of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Mr. Michael Gibb, Oxford University, Mr. Pedro Pinto Leite, International Platform for Jurists for East Timor, and Mr. Mohamoud Daar, Somaliland Ambassador to the European Union provided participants with a series of insightful and informative lectures which sparked dynamic discussion from all present.


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Wintertime Ranch-Style Shish Kebabs

Kebabs are one of my favorite ways to eat steak, especially using the tenderized round steak or rib steaks we get from the beef we have processed.

Rib steaks arenâ€™t my preferred cut but are perfect for kebabs. Kebabs made with rib steak meatÂ  come out tender.

I love to make shish kebabs year-round for several reasons. Theyâ€™re easy to prepare, donâ€™t make a big mess in my kitchen that require lots of pots and pans and clean up, theyâ€™re a great way to use up vegetables that need to be eaten soon, they make a convenient meal and leftovers, are easy to eat, and usually please everyone. It wasnâ€™t until I found a tantalizing shish kebab marinade recipe in one of my favorite cookbooks, Come â€˜n Git It 2, which is a compilation of recipes from professional rodeo families, that I got into making kebabs.

Once I mix up the marinade I put it in a jar I can shake and pour from because I like to use the marinade forÂ more than oneÂ recipe.

I don’t use all of the marinade because once meat has been marinated, the marinade has to be discarded.Â Â

I generally use wedged onions, green peppers, mushrooms if I have them, zucchini slices, and especially potatoes to appease my diehard meat-and-potatoes husband. After I scrub the potatoes I leave the skins on and dice them up for skewering.

I leave the skins on because Iâ€™m too lazy to peel them but also because the skins are good for you.

I cube the steak into bite size pieces and mix with the vegetables and marinade.

The recipe says to let everything stand for a few hours before cooking but I have yet to think that far ahead so I either poke the steak with a fork but usually not at all, and mix everything up real good.

This time the only onions I had were green onions so I sliced and chopped them up and added them to the marinade, which worked great and I may do it again in the future.

Since the grill my husband and I have had since we got married died, we havenâ€™t taken the time to go shopping for a new one and Iâ€™ve found that my broiler does just as good of a job. I especially like not having to go back and forth outside to check on the kebabs. I broil the kebabs and peek every five minutes or so to make sure they arenâ€™t burning (a very important key when broiling anything) and turn them overÂ occasionally to broil evenly.

* Note * You would be looking at a close up of my kebabs all broiled up brown and juicy looking right now but the aroma and bites I took of steakÂ distracted me and I didn’t follow through and take a picture before my family and I ate them all. BUT, if you read on, you can see what a succulent steak broiled with the rest of the marinade looks like once it comes out of the oven.

I think this recipe gives steak excellent flavor but Iâ€™ve adjusted it slightly and only use Â¼ cup of vegetable oil versus the 1 Â½ cups the original recipe calls for. This recipe was contributed by Annette Brimley, wife of John Brimley PRCA team roper.

Shish Kebab marinade

Â¼ c vegetable oil

Â¾ c soy sauce

Â½ c lemon juice

Â¼ c Worcestershire sauce

2 Tbs dry mustard

2 Â½ tsp salt

1 Â½ tsp parsley flakes

1 tsp pepper

2 minced garlic cloves

2 chopped green onionsâ€”my addition

Pour over cubed beef, mushrooms, green peppers, onions, potatoes, zucchini, what ever suits your fancy. I add a salad, toasted bread or whatever I have on hand or leftover.

I broiled the rest of the steaks (I had thawed out two packages) for dinner using the other half of unused marinadeÂ the next night and they were just as yummy.

I then made a third meal for lunch by slicing the leftover steaks across the grain, and piled them on a bun and topped with mushrooms and shredded mozzorella cheese; broiled the open-faced sandwiches until the cheese bubbled and the bun was toasted.

Getting back to kebabs, theyÂ are an excellent way to enjoy a savory beef dinner and I love how easy it is to prepare and clean up. I think youâ€™ll agree.

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New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that the team has agreed to terms with free agent forward Matthew Lombardi.

Lombardi, 32, skated in 46 games with Genève-Servette of National League A (NLA) in Switzerland this past season, registering 20 goals and 30 assists for 50 points, along with 54 penalty minutes and a plus-16 rating. He led the NLA in assists and points, while tying for sixth in the league – and leading Genève-Servette – in goals. In the playoffs, Lombardi registered nine points (three goals, six assists) in 12 games. He tied for fifth in the NLA in assists and tied for seventh in the league in points in the playoffs, while ranking second on the team in each category. Lombardi also tallied four goals and four assists for eight points, along with a plus-five rating in three games while helping Genève-Servette win the Spengler Cup. Lombardi was named to the Spengler Cup All-Star Team, as he led all skaters in the tournament in points, tied for the tournament lead in goals and assists, and tied for second in plus/minus rating.

In 536 career NHL games over parts of nine seasons with Calgary, Phoenix, Nashville, Toronto, and Anaheim, the 5-11, 195-pounder has registered 101 goals and 161 assists for 262 points, along with 293 penalty minutes and a plus-six rating. Lombardi recorded eight points (four goals, four assists) in 28 games with Phoenix and Anaheim during the 2012-13 season. He has reached the 40-point plateau three times in his career, and has tallied at least 14 goals in five of seven seasons in which he has played at least 55 games. Lombardi has also tallied three goals and 13 assists in 40 career NHL playoff games. He recorded one goal and five assists for six points in 13 playoff games in his rookie year while helping Calgary advance to the 2004 Stanley Cup Final.

Internationally, the Montreal, Quebec native has represented Canada in numerous tournaments. Lombardi registered two goals and two assists for four points, and ranked second among tournament skaters with a plus-nine rating in nine games to help Team Canada win a silver medal at the 2009 IIHF World Championship. He also tallied six goals and six assists for 12 points, and posted a plus-four rating in nine games to help Team Canada win a gold medal at the 2007 IIHF World Championship. Lombardi tied for third among all skaters in goals and tied for fourth among all skaters in points in the tournament.

Lombardi was originally selected by Edmonton in the seventh round, 215th overall, of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. Upon re-entering the Draft, he was selected by Calgary in the third round, 90th overall, of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.


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Tuesday evening we watched as Patrick House took home the win on the season ten finale of The Biggest Loser on NBC. In a post win interview, Patrick talks about winning and how he did everything he could to make sure he had the best chance. Keep reading for more details and don’t forget to register to win The Biggest Loser Dessert Cookbook!

Some folks may call him a game player as Patrick House made the decision weeks ago to vote Mark off The Biggest Loser ranch telling Mark “Sorry, man. I don’t think I can beat you.” And he was correct – if Mark had made it to the finale, he would have beaten Patrick with his 213 lb weight loss. After winning, Patrick told reporters that he knew exactly what he was doing to win the game as he said “I went into the whole ‘Biggest Loser’ scenario with the idea that I was just going to work out and not get involved and all that (alliances and game-play) and I quickly realized early on that you need to have friends, you need to have allies that have your back, if you’re planning on making it far in this game. And that’s what it boils down to at the end: This is a game. Yeah, we’re changing our lives and we’re getting our lives back, and I did that. But at the same time, there’s a quarter-of-a-million-dollar check that’s dangling there at the end. And Mark just happened to be one of the guys that was in the way of me getting to that money for me and my family….Sometimes, the team that wins the Super Bowl doesn’t have the best record.”

How is Patrick dealing with his new found health and body while at home? He claims he still feels like the fat man some days as he shares “Just the other day, my wife and I were at a restaurant eating, and they set us in a booth that was kind of in a corner against the wall. I immediately looked at it and said, ‘There’s no way I’m going to fit over there. I’m too big.’ And my wife said, ‘Just sit down. You’re fine.’ Mentally, I’m kind of overcoming the barriers of realizing that, hey, I am healthy now. I’m in shape. I’ve changed my life, and now it’s time for me to do the things that I never could do before. I’m realizing now the things that I missed out on, being overweight, and I’m looking forward to having a great time with my boys and chasing them around the yard and not getting worn out in just a couple of minutes of running with them. My life is forever changed.”

Congratulations again to Patrick House, who in January will be packing up his family and heading to South Carolina for his new job at Mindstream Academy where he can use his knowledge and pay it forward.

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Most of us spend maximum number of our time playing Farmville or Mafiawar on facebook. Daily we are spending most of our time playing these online games but have you ever wonder playing games can feed someone hungry with a bowl or rice to some of the world’s poorest countries?

All you need to do is answer simple question. And for each answer you get right, they will donate 10 grains of rice through the World Food Program to help end hunger. So the more you’ll play the more food gets donated to the poor people.

If you hesitate or if you can’t donate funds to poor ones online, then it’s a great opportunity to play and donate food. Recently, Pakistan is facing the same problem and according to Al Jazeera the rice comes from player will be distributed to the flood victims by September 7.

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How To Play The Game: (Link To Game – Free Rice)

  1. – Answers are in the middle of the page, all you have to do is clicking on right answer.
  2. – If you answer right, you’ll get little harder question but If you’ll get it wrong, you’ll get easier question.
  3. – For each question you answer right, they will donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.

Note – More than 40k players are playing daily to feed someone hungry with a bowl of rice. Also, Over 81 billion grains donated to date. Why don’t you? Visit Free Rice today to help them end up hunger.

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Welcome to the Southern Ohio regional burner network! I am your new Regional Contact, Lydia, based out of the Cincinnati Area. I am so excited to get to know you all! Southern Ohio is home to an incredible number of creative burners all over the region who come together at many gathering points across the area.

You'll be happy to learn there are two official burns in Ohio: Scorched Nuts takes place every Memorial Day weekend, and Mosaic happens the first weekend in October. They both occur on the same land called Reclaim, which is just south of Athens, and only about 2 hours from the Cincinnati Area. This land is a called 'Reclaim' as it was once a site of a lot of industrial destruction, and has since become a beautiful, vibrant, remote, and well preserved piece of land.  Like any Burn, both Scorched Nuts and Mosaic hold to the 10 principles, and are leave-no-trace events. DON'T forget to read the event survival guides thoroughly before attending either event!

For updates on these and other events happening in the Ohio area, there is a Facebook Group called Burning Man Ohio for discussion, promotion, and information about events in Ohio inspired by or related to Burning Man. You may also use this group to discuss events outside of Ohio, organize ride-shares, find burner related resources such as camping supplies & equipment, make new friends, start a meet & greet, or just talk about Burning Man itself (or its 10 principles.)

Ohioians who share this common interest are encouraged to meet, network, learn, and grow, combine resources, and make the "Default world" more tolerable for one another. There are many places in this region to connect, including the Cincinnati-based community that operates out of art-space, the KOIpound, and other spaces located in Dayton and Columbus area (More information to come!)

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TextExpander Snippet for Gmail Compose Page (without inbox) — plus some thoughts on email
It’s finally happened: my inbox has become a problem. More on this below.

But first, here’s a lil’ textexpander snippet to take you to a compose message for your gmail account WITHOUT pulling up the inbox… helpful when, like me, you get sucked into the incessant sucking sound of your inbox.

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

“Everything is an idea for something, something that touches the imagination, a fact that seems relevant or maybe just a statement I find interesting — either because it resonates or because I disagree. All of it is fodder for continued work or thinking on the topics. It’s also important to me to record the ideas that my instincts tell me are bad.”

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

A tip for effective meetings: Always be capturing
Joshua Porter/Director of UX, HubSpot

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At HubSpot, we recently did a product design sprint with the Google Ventures Design Studio. It was a great experience, not only to work alongside a team of highly accomplished designers, but to observe their design process and how they proceed through a project.

Our design team learned a lot from Google Ventures. We learned about designing quickly. We learned about keeping laser focus on the goals of a project. We learned about keeping the scope as small as possible (but no smaller). But one of the most powerful things we learned was a simple lesson that applies to way more than design: Always be capturing.

“Always be capturing” is about the habit of continuously recording the value from your conversation. For example: If you’re talking about a new concept, you should be sketching it as you talk so your team has a shared understanding and an artifact of the conversation.

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I’ve tried … …

(“NO! … Try not! … Do or do not… there is no try.” (To do it justice, you must say the word try with all the revulsion and disgust you can put on it. Like you were talking about a rapist, a child murderer, or a politician!) — Yoda (Fictional character from George Lucas’s “Star Wars” movie)

… … to change the culture about meetings!

I might as well be speaking Greek — scrums, huddles, meetings — to redefine the bad behavior.

“Camp fires” where everyone sits around and tells stories and departs with no “totem poles” erected to memorialize anything.

Amazing how undisciplined modern corporations are and then they are surprised when they gon’t get the results that they want.

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“AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher reported and tweeted that Marissa Mayer (CEO since July 2012) has just sent an all-hands email ending Yahoo’s policy of allowing remote employees. Hundreds of workers have been given the choice: start showing up for work at HQ (which would require relocation in many cases), or resign. (They can forget about Yahoo advice pieces like this). Mayer has also been putting her stamp on Yahoo’s new home page, which was rolled out Wednesday.”

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A humorous exercise. For me it’s clutter, and birthday / holidays / anniversaries! Drains my battery to zero in nothing flat.

This recent Christmas, I screwed up sending money to the “children”. I had a budget, took out the requisite cash, filled envelopes, and sent them out in three waves. And, discovered I had an odd amount left over. So I took it and went to the American Legion to ponder what to do. That eliminated the problem. Bottom line: no one got an empty envelope, so in that sense, no reportable problem. Further, since it was “found money” for the receivers, no one knew I screwed up. Next year, I’m using Paytrust my bill payment service. Nice an impersonal and un screw up able. Everyone will be happy! And it won’t “drain my battery”.

I’m also scanning all loose paper into Evernote and / or Dropbox. By sometime next year, all my paper will be electrons somewhere in the cloud. No clutter to distract and drain me.

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PRODUCTIVITY: Intergenerational war

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Turning the Generational Dial: A Plea to Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y By Carol Orsborn, PhD

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Carol Orsborn argues that instead of participating in a complicated generational tug-of-war of who is more relevant, Gen X and Gen Y must learn from Boomers because these following generations will also face the same elongated lifespans and increased vitality…and buying power.

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Interesting that today’s Gooferment fiscal stupidity is a direct assault on the future generations’ pocketbooks and wallets.

And they don’t see it.

Or they don’t understand.

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Monday, October 15, 2012

California Establishes Open Source Textbook Library for Students
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This past Thursday, September 27th, the California State Senate approved two bills aimed at increasing access to and decreasing the financial burden of textbooks for students at California state postsecondary institutions.

The first bill, SB 1052, mandates the creation of 50 digital open source textbooks. In order to do so, SB 1052 establishes the 9 member California Open Education Resources Council; this council is responsible for identifying the 50 lower-division courses at California state universities and community colleges for which low-cost, open source textbooks will be developed. The council, comprised of faculty representatives from University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges, would also establish a “competitive request-for-proposal process in which faculty members, publishers, and other interested parties would apply for funds” in order to produce textbook content.

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Excuse me, but aren’t all those faculty members on the public payroll already?

If the Gooferment Skrules are an “education factory”, should the “educators” produce their own textbooks.

Programmers write documentation.

Executives write reports.

Scientists publish papers.

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On average, prices are decreasing since February 2013. From May to June of 2013, price decreases at the rate of -1.3%. (-4.7 % of decrease was observed from April to May of 2013).


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Looking upon His disciples with divine love and with the tenderest sympathy, Christ said, "Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him." Judas had left the upper chamber, and Christ was alone with the eleven.

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I was born into a non Adventist home, well that is an understatement really. My father was and still is a heavily practicing Satanist and as such, myself being a female, made me a target for ridicule and I was most certainly placed way below my brothers in the family......Tamara's Testimony

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Moving to the country is becoming very hard in some locations. Selling a home and financing a new one is difficult. Some government agencies want to move everyone into the cities. God's people need to take their families away from the cities, into the country, where they can raise their own provisions; for in the future the problem of buying and selling will be a very serious one. We should now begin to heed the instruction given us over and over again: Get out of the cities into rural districts, where the houses are not crowded closely together, and where you will be free from the interference of those who are opposed to the truth. Pray that God will open a way.

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The world will urge an outward compliance with the laws of the land, for the sake of peace and harmony. And there are some who will even urge such a course from the Scripture: "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. . . . The powers that be are ordained of God." But what has been the course of God's servants in ages past? When the disciples preached Christ and Him crucified, after His resurrection, the authorities commanded them not to speak any more nor to teach in the name of Jesus. "But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard." Today, our liberty is being threatened.

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Kim and I have recently started a new site all about remodeling and design ideas and pictures. This article was inspired by one of the images Kim found for the new blog – you can find it here: Beautiful Workspaces {Dreamy Desks}.

How high should high wainscot go?

This photo is one of those that I could write ten posts about. Just for fun, let me point out a couple of cool ideas here before getting into the real subject matter of this post. Starting in the foreground and working back:

  • Old fashioned crystal door hardware… hot!
  • Using mounted accessories such as a coat hook and a thoothbrush holder on a desk… smart!
  • Painting or wallpapering the inside of that desk an accent color… sexy!
  • Check out that door… it’s a good old fashioned Dutch Door… proof of mad skills!

But none of that is the real thing I want to look at. Let’s take a look at the beadboard wainscot and topping molding, which could be called a picture molding, a chair rail (not so much), a cap rail, or any other make-it-up-so-you-like-the-sound name.

How High Should Beadboard Go Up A Wall?

First, there are two answers. One applys to the low version, which is much more common. That’s the one where you see wainscot go up the wall about 1/3 and be capped by a proper chair rail.

I answered that question in detail at Remodeling Guy Answers (where you’re encouraged to ask your own questions)… here is the link:

Second, is when the beadboard paneling is covering a much larger portion of the wall and only leaving a small section of smooth wall surface showing at the top. This is what’s seen in this picture. The same tool applies to both options.

The Golden Ratio

The nautilus shell is a common example of the Fibonacci sequence which is related to the Golden RatioI’ll refrain from a lengthy diatribe about the Golden Ratio and all the ways it proves that life was designed by a Master Architect. If you want to believe in mindless evolution of life and the world we see, be my guest, just don’t look too hard at the science which proves otherwise.

The Golden Ratio is a naturally occuring mathematical formula that essentially dictates what looks right to most people. You can start learning about it at Wikipedia if you’re so inclined.

But if you want to know how high to run your paneling up the wall, you can use the Golden Ratio as a guide. Here are the exact numbers using the Golden Ratio Calculator:

Wall Height —- Low Wall Wainscot —- High Wall Wainscot

96″ —- 37″ —- 59″

120″ —- 46″ —- 74″

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Here’s the thing… there are no exact right answers. If you apply the Golden Ratio as a guide it can help you, but as a steadfast rule it might steer you wrong.

What if your walls are 12′ tall, should your chair rail be over 4′ high? No. It would look ridiculous. I usually won’t take a chair rail above 42″ no matter how tall the wall is.

Another example is the photo above which looks like an 8′ tall room. (I figure that based on the roof overhang visible outside) The paneling goes higher than 59″, but not by much. It looks to me that it’s about 64″ above the floor. (you can assume that the door is 80″)

Like I said, it’s a guide. I hope it’s useful for you. I’d love to hear your thoughts on how high chair rail or wainscot paneling should go. I’ve been running a survey on this monumental question for awhile now and I could use more input!

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‘Teen Mom 3′ Sneak Peek: Josh Dismisses Mackenzie’s Support Of His Rodeo Dreams

Though Mackenzie and Josh seem to have a stable relationship on “Teen Mom 3,” it’s not all a bed of roses. Mackenzie completely supports Josh’s bull-riding passion, but the cowboy is devoid of any gratitude in this sneak peek of the next episode. In fact, he seems more interested in hanging out with his buddies than spending QT with his fiancé.

When Mackenzie tells Josh she doesn’t want to be snubbed by him at the rodeo, he gets frustrated and says he won’t beg her to attend if it’s not what she wants. “I know you don’t care if I go,” Mackenzie responds, clearly trying to spur on a genuine invitation, but her comment falls on deaf ears. In an attempt to keep the conversation going, she asks Josh how he’s getting to the arena, and he flatly responds that he’ll be driving there with his friends. Mackenzie’s observation of Josh’s indifference seems right on the money, and her odds of getting any attention at his event are pretty slim. Let’s hope she opts to stay home for some R&R with little Gannon.

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Ever since his 2012 football season ended in the Class M playoffs, Wolcott's Mike Nicol has had his eyes set on continuing his quarterback career.

Nicol will get that opportunity at Western Connecticut State University, beginning this summer. To prepare himself for training camp, Nicol is one of two quarterbacks for the National Guard team, which meets the Marines on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. in the Connecticut High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame Military Bowl at Rentschler Field in East Hartford.

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The next morn the emerg flashers were going,no horn due to removed fuse, ended up having to disconnect battery cable to stop it. So obviously it is not driveable cant reconn battery or continues to go off . Please help.....

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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Rethink | Refuse | Reuse: Glass Jars, Take 2

Some of the ways I like to reuse things are so dead simple that it doesn't even occur to me to talk about it. But our new Rethink - Refuse - Reuse series reminded me to pass on a very easy, and very functional, way of keeping your glass out of a landfill.

(Yes, glass is recyclable, but people often overlook the fact that recycling something takes a pretty substantial amount of energy. It's almost always better to find a new use for existing items when we can. Reduce and Reuse should be the headliners in the way we deal with waste, with Recycle playing a small part when necessary.)

I store just about everything in my kitchen in glass jars leftover from groceries I've bought. (The process is pretty easy: soak the label off in some hot soapy water, and eliminate any lingering smells from, say, pasta sauce, by letting some white vinegar sit in it for a few hours.) Glass is easy to clean and doesn't pick up smells the way plastic does. It's great at preserving dry goods, pasta, spices, and snacks, and looks beautiful besides. And I've never understood the allure of buying an expensive set of matching glass containers when I get lovely ones for free pretty much every time I go to the store. (Personally, I think the mismatched jars can look charming, and if you're like me and buy the same brand of peanut butter all the time, you'll probably have a matching set sooner than you think!)

Of course you can't save every single glass jar that comes your way. But a little goes a long way, and keeping even 5% of your waste out of that fossil-fuel-using recycling truck is a big move. You might be surprised at how much use you get out of that old olive jar!

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Low tech - and recycled! - houseplant watering system

I was cutting up some soda bottles for another Replayground project and wondering what to do with the top half I was about to discard, when I remembered that it would make a great drip irrigation system for my thirsty houseplants.

I've been using this technique ever since I first read about it on You Grow Girl a few years ago. Cut the bottom off your soda bottle and drill a couple of very small holes in the cap. After the bottle's wedged into the soil and filled with water, these small holes will allow water to drip slowly down to the plant's roots.

It's a gentle watering system for more delicate plants or seedlings, and does a great job of getting water down to roots where it's needed (especially in summer when water just evaporates off the top of the soil).

It felt great to avoid throwing more plastic in the trash and give my plants a little TLC at the same time!

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Sustainable NYC Craft workshops are BACK with a twist

Great news, RePlayGround bloggers!

Not only are the Recycled Craft Workshops at Sustainable NYC back by popular demand - but they are now FREE! That's right! We believe that re-purposing can be universal, a tool that everyone has access to, and our workshops are about inspiring you transform your waste into art.

So join me at Sustainable NYC on Wednesday, September 9th for Bottle Cap Jewelry. The cap makes a perfect frame to highlight small treasures and memories - small photos, poems, buttons, etc. Then you can turn them into functional art to see everyday!

Keychains, magnets, and necklaces...oh my!
What: Recycled Craft Event: Bottle Cap Jewelry
When: Wednesday, September 9th (all dates) 6pm-7:30pm - Bottle Cap Jewelry.
October 14th - Pop Art! Soda bottle soap dish, picture frame, vase, and more.
November 11th - Crafty Cardboard: Pencil cases, wallets, postcards and more.
December 9th - Upcycled Ornaments - holiday special.
Where: SustainableNYC
Who: Carly, Garbage Outreach Coordinator at RePlayGround

You bring: your favorite bottle caps and photos (optional, materials will be provided), your creative genuis!
We bring: lots of materials, instruction, a great space, our fabulous company.

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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Rethink | Refuse | Reuse - glass jars

In need of a vase? There's no reason to buy one when you have a perfectly good FREE one hangin' out in your recycling bin.

This is the latest edition of the Rethink | Refuse | Reuse photo series. We're talking straight reuse here! No artsy craftyness necessary.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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Hi there lovely RePlayGround blog readers! I've been nominated for a Grant 4 Change award which supports those who "instigate lasting, positive change in their communities." I'm thrilled to fall into this positive-instigating category and to be surrounded with other like-minded people!

Please help to support me by going to At the top of the page click register. Don't worry, there's no email list, it's just preventative double-voting measures. Under nominations find me - Tiffany Threadgould and click. Then click rate. Note: 5 stars is highest.

This year's winning prize is 10,000 buckaroos. Do you know how much of an eco-change I could make with a wad of cash like that?
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Product Scotland: bringing designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers together.

Rodgers, Paul, Rogers, Jon, Anusas, Mike, Milton, Alex, Pengelly, Jon, Whittet, Craig, Marshall, John, Titley, Will, Colvin, Angus, Smyth, Michael, Charles, Cezanne and Kasprzak, Michelle (2008) Product Scotland: bringing designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers together. In: Proceedings of Engineering and Product Design Conference. Design Society, Barcelona, pp. 377-382.

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This paper describes the work of Product Scotland, a collaborative network of product designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers based in Scotland. One of the key aims of the Product Scotland network is to achieve research excellence through knowledge sharing mechanisms. Scotland’s product design network is spread over a large geographical area, across many organisations and institutes, and there lacks a practical, effective platform for pooling knowledge together to enable the creation of collaborative product design research strategies. This knowledge pooling, amongst a group of like-minded researchers, educators and practitioners with diverse backgrounds, experiences and skills including design, engineering, business, anthropology, and fine art will focus Scotland’s product design network to become one of international importance. In this respect, Product Scotland goes a long way in attempting to address one of the key recommendations of the Cox Review [1] in that it wishes to establish (in the long term) a national multidisciplinary centre for design and the creative industries. Backed by funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Product Scotland developed and ran a series of workshops in Glasgow (Design Creativity), Edinburgh (Design Ethnography), Dundee (Digital Product Design), and Aberdeen (3D Scanning and Rapid Prototyping). The paper reports on these four workshops held between November and December 2007 and will describe the motivations, outcomes and initial results. Based on the results of the four Product Scotland workshops the paper will propose working practices and methods for contemporary, collaborative product design networks of the future.

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Becoming Bag Lady a Fear Still Present

Despite Growing Status as Primary Breadwinner and Household CFO, Women Still Fear Becoming “Bag Lady” a new  2013 Allianz Life Women, Money & Power Study Reveals.

This is a surprise considering 60% of women say they are the primary breadwinner in their household

  • 54% of respondents describe themselves as the household CFO.
  • 49% sometimes fear becoming a “bag lady”.
  • 27% of those earning more than $200,000 per year share that fear.

Inside the study

  • More than 2,200 women ages 25-75
  • Minimum household income of $30,000 a year
  • “Bag Lady” fear extends to all corners of life and affluence
  • Was highest among single respondents at 56%
  • Significant concern for divorced women 54%
  • Widows 47%
  • Married women 43%

Despite feeling more empowered about financial planning

  •  Forty-two percent said they believe financially independent women are intimidating to men and often end up alone
  • (31%) said those women are hard to relate to and often don’t have many friends.
  •  This feeling was even higher among single women at 47% and 32%, respectively.

Allianz Life Vice President of Consumer Insights Katie Libbe comments-

“When Allianz Life conducted the initial wave of the Women, Money & Power Study seven years ago, we discovered that women everywhere – even well-educated, successful, financially independent women – have major gaps and unmet needs when it comes to achieving comfort and confidence with money,”  “Today, women clearly feel more invested in financial planning, however, fears of fiscal failure still persist. The real message here is that the financial services industry needs to help women learn about money and prepare for their retirement.”

In the Age of the Financially Empowered Woman

  •  57% of all women surveyed said they both “have more earning power than ever before” and also “handle major investment decisions and retirement planning.”
  • 55%  noted they take the lead in suggesting new investing or retirement ideas.
  •  60% said they were responsible for handling tax preparation and planning.
  • 90%  of women surveyed agreed that in today’s world, women need to be significantly more involved in financial planning than in the past
  • 96% of divorced women felt this way.
  • 67% of women surveyed said that becoming more knowledgeable and involved in managing their finances has improved the quality of their life, 71% of  single women agreed.

“Allianz Life is dedicated to the mission of achieving financial literacy and independence for every American, so we’re especially keen to design solutions that are relevant, responsive, and sensitive to helping women accomplish greater financial security,” noted Libbe.

Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 Drives Behavior Change

  •  68% say they have increased their financial involvement since the crisis
  • Women ages 45-54 (72%) and widows (75%).
  •  43% of women surveyed said they don’t feel any smarter about how to manage their money than before the crash. That feeling was shared by 36% of women with the highest income (household income of $200,000+).

When asked what key issues will have the greatest effect on their retirement outlook

  • “lack of adequate retirement savings”
  •  “the future of Social Security,”
  •  “rising health care costs,”
  •  “unemployment,”
  • “tax changes.”

Retirement is the worry that keeps most women up at night.

Second only to loss of spouse/significant other. “Running out of money in retirement” is a worry that keeps 57% of women up at night and is the number one worry for single and divorced women.

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