Horizons
I started a new job at Horizons a month ago and am doing a fair bit of blogging at http://minnesota.communityblogs.us – mostly about rural development, leadership, civic engagement, and capacity building. Check it out.
I started a new job at Horizons a month ago and am doing a fair bit of blogging at http://minnesota.communityblogs.us – mostly about rural development, leadership, civic engagement, and capacity building. Check it out.
Sat, 10/03/2009 - 18:00 by bjorn
I'm a curious global citizen and a Minneapolis-lover. Someday I want to build a tiny houseboat and bike around Lake Superior. I like music and design.
"Adding...customization options to a theme can make a huge difference in usability for end users and administrators. In this article, we'll learn how to add a "header image" setting to a theme, allowing a site manager to change the site's header from the administration screen!"
What are your "secret weapon" conversation topics? These are the topics that never fail to engage a group of people, are fun, interesting, long-lasting, and non-offensive? Examples inside.
Figured out some conditional filtering and publishing rules in Google Spreadsheets. This page is selectively published from my larger inventory sheet of every pen I've ever bought and sold.
Recent studies by Princeton University's Angus Deaton and Justin Wolfers and Betsy Stevenson of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School question the Easterlin Paradox and indicate a closer link between happiness and income across nations. Carol Graham raises the enigma of the "happy peasant and the miserable millionaire" as a way to resolve this apparent paradox. Graham suggests that happiness is relative to one's position in society. Take unemployment for example. Unemployment is crushing for previously employed people in places where gainful employment is the norm. But people in poor countries where unemployment is more the norm find other ways to be happy.
NLC concert Saturday in St. Paul with members of @roseensemble. Tickets and info at
NLC concert Saturday in St. Paul with members of @roseensemble. Tickets and info at
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