Interpersonal EDGE: Give Criticism But Skip Crisis

  By Dr. Daneen Skube

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Q. I’m the manager of a large department under enormous production pressures. When I give bad feedback, employees get defensive, resentful or openly hostile. How do I deliver criticism without demoralizing my staff?

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Your Other 8 Hours: Eliminating Poverty: How to Start a Business for Free

 By Robert Pagliarini, 

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Are you wondering how to start a business or take advantage of a great business idea when you have very little capital to get it off the ground? You may be struggling to decide which business to start because you don’t have the resources. The experts will tell you that when you are starting a business, you should try to get money from the three F’s — friends, family and fools — but there’s a much smarter (and less insulting) strategy to get money for your venture.

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Ask Tamara: My Son’s Father is Back!

 

 
 
Dear Tamara:
 
My husband and I have been married for six years. We have three children. Four-year old-twins and a twelve-year-old son I had from a previous relationship. While my husband has not officially adopted my son, he has been the only father my son has known for the last six years. Recently my son’s father contacted me and wants to see and develop a relationship with his son and my husband thinks it’s a bad idea.

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Videoview

 By Jay Bobbin

Tribune Media Services
 
STARTING THIS WEEK: “MEGAMIND”: What happens after a villain succeeds in eliminating the hero who’s long been pursuing him? That’s the question faced by the title bad guy (voice of Will Ferrell) in this sly animated fantasy, which was presented in 3-D in theaters. After getting rid of his pursuer (voice of Brad Pitt), Megamind needs a new purpose and has to chart a different course for himself; Tina Fey, Ben Stiller, David Cross and Jonah Hill also are in the vocal cast. DVD extras: “making-of” documentary; audio commentary by cast and crew; deleted scene; animated short subject “Megamind: The Button of Doom.” *** (PG: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray)

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News Spotlight: Fenner Nature Center Celebrates the Arrival of SPRING, With the 2011 Maple Syrup Festival!

The sweetest time of year is coming, when the sap begins to flow, and Fenner offers it’s Maple Syrup Festival!   The celebration of spring and syrup takes place at Fenner Nature Center, March 19 and 20, Saturday and Sunday, 11 – 4.  It a fun and educational family adventure!

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News Spotlight: The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) is warning people to beware of a new designer drug being marketed by the name “bath salts.”

These so-called “bath salts” are being sold across the country as a
crystalline powder online, at head shops, convenience stores, and on the
street. These are not commercially manufactured bath salts that people
purchase to use in the bath tub. These products are sold with names such
as “Ivory Wave”, “Aura”, “ZOOM 2”, “Zeus 2”, “Cosmic Blast”, and “White Rush.” They may be snorted, ingested mixed with water, injected, or inserted rectally or vaginally.

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News Spotlight: The Real ‘CSI’: How America’s Patchwork System of Death Investigations Puts the Living at Risk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Andres Cediel/FRONTLINE)

In detective novels and television crime dramas like “CSI,” the nation’s morgues are staffed by highly trained medical professionals equipped with the most sophisticated tools of 21st-century science. Operating at the nexus of medicine and criminal justice, these death detectives thoroughly investigate each and every suspicious fatality.

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News Spotlight: LPD Issues Felony Warrant for Recent Murder of Teen

 On December 23, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. Quincy Trey Thomas shot and killed Wesley Ellis Glasscoe.  The Ingham County Prosecutor issued a warrant for the arrest of Quincy Trey Thomas he is wanted for Homicide – 2nd Degree in reference to the Ray Street Homicide. 

 

Quincy Trey Thomas

 

 

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Uncovering Latin America’s African Roots

 

 

 

Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. (pictured) in Salvador Carnival in BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA.  Courtesy of Jemila Twinch

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“Comfort Food for the Mind, Body, and Soul” – OLD FASHIONED 7-UP CAKE

 

 

 

 

 

OLD FASHIONED 7-UP CAKE

 
By Sharon Fox
 
Ingredients:
3 sticks butter,softened
3 cups white sugar
5 eggs
3 cups all purpose flour  
 
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