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House plant options
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Asteroid to make close approach to Earth next week
Space.com: An asteroid half the size of a football field will make a close approach to Earth next week, but poses no threat of crashing into our planet, NASA officials say.
Asteroid 2012 DA14’s close encounter is a record-breaking celestial event, according to Don Yeomans, the head of NASA’s asteroid-tracking program. An object this large only passes this close to the Earth about once every 40 years, and likely only hits the planet once every 1,200 years, Yeomans says.
Photo: A diagram depicting the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)Astroidal neighbor
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Purple stones
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The Eight-Word Mission Statement. Don’t settle for more. By Kevin Starr
Whatever windy drivel they might put forward as a corporate mission statement, mainstream for-profit businesses have a clear, central mission: make money for shareholders. Some do it more sustainably, some are nicer about it, but they’re all in the same boat. If they have a bad idea or execute poorly on a good one, they fail in their mission and eventually go out of business.
Mission statements in the social sector are often the same kind of word-salad, but there isn’t a common raison d’etre. As investors in impact, we—the Mulago Foundation—don’t want to wade through a bunch of verbiage about “empowerment,” “capacity-building,” and “sustainability”—we want to know exactly you’re trying to accomplish. We want to cut to the chase, and the tool that works for us is the eight-word mission statement. All we want is this:
A verb, a target population, and an outcome that implies something to measure—and we want in eight words or less.
Why eight words? It just seems to work. It’s long enough to be specific and short enough to force clarity. Save kids’ lives in Uganda. Rehabilitate coral reefs in the Western Pacific. Prevent maternal-child transmission of HIV in Africa. Get Zambian farmers out of poverty. These statements tell us exactly what the organization has set out to accomplish.
The 8 word mission statement
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Roald Dahl knows how to say it like it is.
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DIY Chunky Knit Cable Headband Pattern from Scarffaces here. I love knitting cables because they are so easy to do and look hard to do. This is a really fast project: size 17 needles, super bulky weight yarn (category 6) and using two strands at the same time to knit with. From the comments section on kollobora here by Scarffaces:
This takes me about 30-45 minutes to complete but I am really speedy. I used two strands worked together of lion brand wool-ease thick & quick, and it uses less than one ball.
Knitted headband
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Donna Karen: tent maker
Wish this were mine (Thanks Lee)
We aptly call this garment the cashmere tent; an attractive tent
