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"For the last three decades, the E.F. Schumacher Society has transformed Schumacher’s ideas into a series of practical innovations – reinventing much of the local economy of Great Barrington, Massachusetts and southern Berkshire County in the process.
Chris Bedford’s new film, COMING HOME: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy tells the story of the Society’s remarkable work that includes founding of the nation’s first CSA, economic development based on Community Land Trusts, and the creation of the nation’s most successful local currency – BerkShares."
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"Everybody eats, and Eat.Drink.Better invites readers to explore the environmental issues surrounding their food choices. Find information on farming practices and local markets, along with dozens of free recipes."
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Actually, "raw nut, chocolate truffles" but …
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"You could just barcode all the DVDs in your living room, have the Media Center torrent them, and box up the discs and stick them under the stairs. Yes, that's still illegal, but it'd be far more convenient than ripping the 1000-some DVDs currently cluttering up our tiny flat."
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"A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples"
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"Bruce Lee was a big proponent of holistic or total fitness. His workouts included strength, speed, endurance, and flexibility training."
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
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"That’s why I call Latin ‘the secret code of western civilization.’ Everything was written in it and the language we use today has tremendous borrowing from Latin."
"the ancients were really the nuclear physicists of persuasive writing"
"An interesting aspect of Kepple’s classes is the 'memory peg system,' where he teaches students a visual system that allows them to recall a numbered list by associating small, easily remembered words called 'pegs' with a number on the list."
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"As adult members of the Catholic Church, we, the leaders of FutureChurch, call on Catholic episcopal leaders to engage in open, mutual, faith-based dialogue with Fr. Roy Bourgeois and women who experience a call to priestly ordination in the Catholic Church, rather than impose the penalty of excommunication."
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"FutureChurch was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1990. The Church of the Resurrection in Solon, Ohio passed a resolution calling on U.S. Bishops to reconsider opening ordination to women and the married, both men, and women, so that the Eucharist would continue to be the center of the spiritual lives of all Catholics. Subsequently, 28 parishes in Northeast Ohio supported this initiative and the local FutureChurch network was born. In response to a national call to recognize that he Eucharist is more important to Catholic identity than celibacy or the gender of the presider, FutureChurch incorporated in 1993 and grew into a national network of parish based activists.
FutureChurch is concerned about the related issues of women in ministry, optional celibacy, inclusive language, and Church decision-making that involves all the faithful, as called for by Vatican II."
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"Mixwidget.org was created by the founders of Mixwit, a digital mixtape service founded by Radley Marx and Michael Christoff. Mixwit sadly shut it's doors in December 2008, but we decided to take some time out to build a new mixtape widget for the open source community …"