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Obama did big things like Obamacare, negotiating with Cuba and Iran. That none of these might work out doesn't bother him. He is malcontent making a splash in filthy water.
Mayor de Blasio is the same type of useless flamboyant character, promoting an outer-borough streetcar system. After his bad policies have disappeared, his streetcar will be chirping along.
He claims his silly streetcar "is about equity and innovation." What does a dull streetcar have to do with either?
De Blasio then jumps into his humanitarian dribble and says that "his transit … will knit neighborhoods together and open up real opportunities for our people." As if he were writing a new Constitution or doling out free housing to the poor.
De Blasio is a large man with large intentions and small results. He is perhaps the worst mayor we've ever had. Next to Dinkins who he worked for.
De Blasio should take his streetcar idea and put it on a train board where he can play with his silly progressive ideas.
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Will Copestake is a Scottish native with a huge passion for the wild spaces of his home country. He's undertaken multiple projects to explore the Scottish wilderness, including paddling the full length of its coastline and summiting all of its highest peaks. This Winter, deciding against his annual migration to Patagonia, Will has chosen to stay in Scotland and undertake a new project he has dubbed #ColdestCorbett. We caught up with him to find out what it's all about.
Q. What is your #ColdestCorbett project?
The idea behind the Coldest Corbett stems from two routes leading to the same goal, the first is to continue exploring Scotland and getting to know my own country by journeying through it's wilderness. The second and perhaps more important, is to share this wonderful place we have so close to our doorstep and invite those who might otherwise not see it to get out and explore.
A Corbett is a mountain defined between 2500-3000ft with a difference of at least 500ft between, they are the second band in mountain lists after the munros (above 3000ft) and there are 222 of them to climb spread all across the country.
Q. What was the inspiration behind it?
After two winters migrating south to Patagonia where I have enjoyed working as a kayak guide I realised I missed the Scottish light and landscape in the colder seasons. I wanted to come home and pursue another big mission close to home. 'Bagging' another big list of hills seemed a good idea. But this time I wanted to change how I approached the journey. This time I am less concerned about reaching the tops (although I will one way or another) and more interested in allowing the chance for others to join me in doing so.
Q. Why did you decide to make it an open event?
I am lucky enough to be inspired by my own back-yard, not necessarily patriotic but passionate. I hoped that in inviting others to join me that we could enjoy an experience together. After all, the best adventure is an adventure shared.
Q. How can people get involved?
Whenever and wherever I feel I can invite those to join me safely I am welcoming others to join on a hike to the top (or as far as we get…no pressure to summit).
The easiest way to get involved is to follow me on Social media via Twitter, Instagram and Facebook or my website.
I am tweeting at regular locations my track and where to find me under the hashtag #ColdestCorbett. For those looking to plan ahead, a very rough idea of where I will be and when can be found here.
Q. Where are you up to so far? Any notable experiences on the first few summits?
I am writing from the back of my van near Dumfries in Galloway. I am heading toward the Moffat hills tomorrow and then off to the Trossachs around the northern end of Loch Lomond - there are a lot of summits near there so I might be a wee while in that area.
So far I have sailed to islands, watched dolphins dance in phosphorescent seas and clung to trig points on windy summits. I have achieved my first boot full of mud near Fort William and had the pleasure of sharing my first summit with Mark who travelled all the way over to Arran to find me. Now the snow has started to arrive and the winter is on the way.
Q. What do you expect to be the biggest challenge along the way?
Of course winter brings its struggles be it wet or wind, or both. I have always said the hardest temperature to travel in is between 5 and -5ºC or 'the damp band' - Scotland falls right into this category.
But the challenges that are the least expected are always the most difficult, yet in some weird way the most fun to overcome. I suspect there might be a few of these relating to my trusty transit van who splutters a little in the cold. So far the prospect of future good company and many unknowns to come is keeping me smiling and energised for the long winter ahead.

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One of the few perks of being a teacher is getting summers off and I have decided to make the most of it this year, by having the most random adventures fathomable. The most recent of these randomosities is when I decided to see how long it would take me to get from Westwood to downtown Los Angeles if I took the Metro #4. It's practically right outside of my apartment complex and since parking in LA in general and downtown in specific, is such a nightmare, I thought I'd give it a whirl. Read the rest of this entry »
I have been trying to sublet a room in my apartment for a number of months. It is conceivable to believe that finding a flatmate in Los Angeles can be a bit of a bizarre search. There are few things in life that are as intimate as asking someone to live with you. Yet Read the rest of this entry »
Last weekend I had one of my very dearest friends come out to visit me. Not entirely sure where to take her, but knowing that she wanted to be close to the beach, I decided to take her down the famously fabulous Abbot Kinney Blvd in Venice. Read the rest of this entry »
I can't stay seated when an elderly person gets on the bus.
I can't lower myself to take part in screaming matches with people in order to win a power struggle. Read the rest of this entry »
I am slowly attempting to get to know the hot spots in LA and acquaint myself with the hidden gems in the second largest city in America. As I moved to LA for work, I have spent the majority of my time completely immersed in my job and I haven't set much time aside to explore Los Angeles.
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Living in a new place that is rather foreign to me is bringing out my unabashed risk-taking side. It's fun…mostly. It also leaves me with the distinct impression that I may just end up having to change my phone number and/or name. Either way, it spices up my day.
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I signed a contract to stay with someone I met on craigslist (the place where dreams come true) for the rest of the month in exchange for $400. When I arrived at her apartment, I was greeted by an angry-looking scary chick that I would come to know as one of this girl's best friends. They were going out to dinner and invited me along, but as I sensed a degree of hostility from my new roommate's friend, I passed. My roommate pleaded for me to join them and so I did. As we walked out I thought, "Maybe you should offer to drive, Amanda." Psh! I just drove 2.5 hours to get here. Forget it. Read the rest of this entry »


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We had the pleasure of working with TEDxCharlottesville again last year, and were tasked with creating a stage set that would be responsive to the speakers' needs and reflective of the topics being discussed.
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Each summer, The Denver Foundation's Nonprofit Internship Program places highly-qualified interns from backgrounds underrepresented in nonprofits (especially students of color, low-income students, immigrant students, and LGBTQIA+ students) with selected current Community Grants Program grantees for a ten-week mutual learning Experience. Selected host sites receive a grant to be used toward wages and taxes to pay an intern, who will spend 300 hours working at their host site and up to 45 hours in workshops with The Denver Foundation. Host sites and supervisors participate in learning throughout the summer in relationship with their interns and through required workshops with The Denver Foundation and all participating organizations. Interns and supervisors develop skills around leadership, management, professionalism, community engagement, and nonprofit work.
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The nonprofit organizations that host interns benefit from additional staff support over the summer, and have the opportunity to bring a fresh perspective to their work.
The Nonprofit Internship Program was inspired by findings from the Inclusiveness Project that internships help encourage individuals of color to pursue opportunities in the nonprofit sector. In May 2006, The Denver Foundation conducted a survey with college students and young nonprofit professionals about how nonprofits can better connect with people of color. Of the 112 respondents (all who identified as individuals of color), 95% thought it would be useful for nonprofits to do more outreach to people of color about opportunities for work or leadership in the nonprofit sector and 90% expressed interest in internship opportunities within the nonprofit sector. In response to these findings, The Denver Foundation established the Nonprofit Internship Program in the summer of 2007. Now, in 2013, we are proud to have an alumni base of over 70 interns.
As part of the Nonprofit Internship Program, interns and supervisors participate in a series of workshops. These unique learning touchpoints are supported by strategic and unique curriculum designed to be responsive to the current community landscape and relevant to the work participating organizations are leading.
The curriculum creates space for interns and supervisors to explore and develop their understanding of nonprofit structure and governance, professionalism, equity, community engagement and leadership, and personal growth. Each cohort of interns and each cohort of supervisors has the opportunity to build group cohesion, deep peer relationships, and exceptional personal leadership skills through this process.
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JMM Special Issue Call for Papers: Deadline for submissions has now passed
Start-ups, Arts and Creative Industries: Fresh Perspectives on Brands
Guest Editors:
- Carsten Baumgarth, HWR Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
- Dirk-Mario Boltz, HWR Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
- Stuart Roper, Huddersfield Business School, UK
- Holger J. Schmidt, Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, Germa
In the past, many of the cutting-edge advances in brand management research have been achieved through the consideration of new perspectives on brands (e.g., brands as co-created objects, Ind et al., 2013; brands as experiences, Brakus et al., 2009; brands as services, Vargo & Lusch, 2004; brand orientation, Urde, 1999). Today, in a more than turbulent world (Dennis & Melewar, 2010) that can be characterized by social misalignments, politically instable environments and a rapidly changing communication context (Keller, 2009), new and fresh perspectives are again more than urgently needed (Sheth & Sisodia, 2015). Start-ups, artists and creative industries have always been a source of innovation and inspiration (Weiblen & Chesbrough, 2015; Baumgarth & O'Reilly, 2014) and are therefore appropriate objects of analysis for brand managers who are looking for adequate ways to deal with the new challenges.
Building on the above, this Special Issue of the Journal of Marketing Management will center on start-ups, arts and creative industries. This call is running in parallel with the annual Academy of Marketing conference in Berlin in May 2019, the 14th Global Brand Conference (http://gbc2019.berlin/) Participation in the conference is a prerequisite for submission to JMM. The conference theme is "Start-ups, Arts and Creative Industries: Fresh Perspectives on Brands" and the deadline for submission of extended abstracts to the conference is 5 November, 2018.
Some of the questions that could tackle the overall theme include, but are not limited to the following:
- Do start-ups need a specific approach to branding due to their nature and the dynamics of growth?
- What can established brands learn from the brand management of start-ups and vice-versa?
- How do artist and brands collaborate? How does art influence a brand's identity and its meaning?
- How should the cooperation between artists and corporate organizations work? Has the traditional mistrust between the arts and brands been eliminated?
- Considering a co-creative perspective, what should the new role of the creative industries be within the brand management process? What role does creativity play in brand management and branding?
Our overall goal is to propose ideas to exploit new perspectives that are contributing to the further development of the brand management discipline. Therefore, we invite original research and in-depth conceptual papers, addressing the above challenges, as well as those focusing on a broad range of other topics within brand, identity, and corporate reputation, as long as they provide fresh perspectives and innovative insides, including:
- B2B Brands
- Big Data Analytics and Brands
- Brand Avoidance and Aversion
- Brand Co-Creation
- Brand Equity
- Brand Experience
- Brand Image and Identity
- Brand Love and Loyalty
- Brand Orientation
- Corporate and Umbrella Brands
- Ethical, Charity, and Green Brands
- Heritage Brands
- Internal Branding
- Multisensory Branding
- Neuromarketing
- Online/Digital Brands
- Place and Event Branding
- Product Branding
- Service Brands
- Corporate Reputation and Identity Issues
Informal queries regarding guest editors' expectations or the suitability of specific research topics should be directed to the Special Issue Editors:
Deadline for submissions to JMM: 15 July 2019
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Authors should submit manuscripts of between 8,000–12,000 words (excluding tables, references, captions, footnotes and endnotes). All submissions must strictly follow the guidelines for the Journal of Marketing Management. These are available at: https://tandfonline.com/rjmm. Manuscripts should be submitted online using the Journal of Marketing Management ScholarOne Manuscripts site (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rjmm). New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author should be removed from the files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as "Complete paper with author details", and the anonymous version as "Main document minus author information".
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Carrie Shores has been the executive chef at Table 6 since 2013, and now she'd heading off for the next phase of her career. She'll be starting as the new chef-manager at Cafe Options, the downtown breakfast and lunch eatery operated by Work Options for Women (WOW) that trains impoverished women to build skills for long-term employment in the food-service industry. Shores will be starting at Cafe Options on November 10.
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"We're so excited for her to join us for the creativity and expertise she brings," says Catherine Henry, executive director of WOW. "She's spent time as a volunteer and understands our mission and our students."
Shores began her career as a student at Le Cordon Bleu San Francisco before working in a number of Bay Area restaurants. She's been with Table 6 since 2006 and was promoted to sous chef in 2009 before moving up to executive chef when founding chef Scott Parker moved on. Her new move, she says, fulfills a longing to do something in a philanthropic field and to work with an organization that empowers women to find jobs in the culinary field.
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HCM CITY (VNS) — The municipal administration is considering borrowing nearly US$900 million from the Asian Development Bank for building four new wastewater treatment plants.
A proposal made by the city's Department of Planning and Investment says the loan application should be made for the 2016-2020 period.
The loan will cover around 90.3 per cent of the plants' cost. Construction of the plants, which will be able to handle a total of 800,500 cubic meters of wastewater per day, are expected to be completed in the next five years.
On the anvil are: Tay Sai Gon Plant (daily capacity: 150,000 m3), Bac Sai Gon 1 (170,000 m3), Binh Tan (180,000m3) and the Tan Hoa – Lo Gom (300,000m3).
The municipal administration has said it would work with concerned agencies on accurate calculation of project costs before submitting an official application with the ADB.
Currently, HCM City has just two wastewater treatment facilities in operation – Binh Hung and Binh Hung Hoa – that have daily processing capacities of 141,000 m3 and 30,000 m3 respectively. However, the city discharges some two million cubic meters of wastewater a day.
Therefore, treated wastewater now accounts for a mere 13.2 per cent of the total discharge. Under a Government plan, the city will calling for investment in 12 plants to treat three million cubic metres of wastewater per day. Most of these would be situated near major canals – Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe, Tau Hu-Ben Nghe, Tan Hoa-Lo Gom, and Tham Luong-Ben Cat. — VNS


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I have been an advocate of wool mittens since my husband and I took up cross country skiing when we were first married. We wore boiled wool mittens, and they could be frozen solid around our hands, but inside our fingers stayed nice and toasty. Many times we took them off still shaped like our grip around the ski-pole and let them thaw out while we sipped hot cocoa.
When our first son was a baby, we were out one day and his hands got cold. The cute acrylic baby mittens did not keep out the breeze. Since it was an emergency, we stopped at a store that happened to have a basket of hand-made wool mittens. Never mind that the only color in his size was pink, we bought them and slipped them on. What a difference! Happy baby!
After that, I made sure my kids were well supplied with wool mittens. Two color ones are even better—the extra strand of color makes a pretty pattern, and second layer for extra warmth. They are also very durable. I think all my kids wore that first pink pair.
A couple of years ago, my husband and I went on a knitting-themed schooner cruise. I chose a pair of mittens for my project because it was small and easy to tote around and I thought I might even finish them.
They had a pattern of pink flamingos on a white background. I couldn't resist because flamingos are my favorite bird, but some of the other knitters thought they were amusing because flamingos=tropical and mittens=arctic. Oh well, those crazy mittens have served me well.
Last year we took a trip to Alaska to see the Northern Lights and the start of the Iditarod dog sled race. Yes, Alaska in the winter! My hands were never cold.
Now, when I have to drive and use my fingers in the winter, I choose fingerless gloves, but I still rely on 100% wool. I have some in my Etsy store, with more to come as fall approaches.
Since I have a circulation problem in my feet, I have expanded into wool socks, but I will save that for another post.
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Ensuring the security, privacy and protection of patient healthcare data is critical for all healthcare personnel and institutions. In this age of fast-evolving information technology, this is truer than ever before. In the past, healthcare workers often collected patient data for research and usually only omitted the patients' names. This is no longer permitted, now any protected health information (PHI) that can identify a patient or the patient's relatives, employers, or household members, must be omitted before being used for research. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Public Law 104-191, was enacted into federal law to ensure that that patient medical data remains private and secure.[1],[2],[3],[4],[5] There are two main sections of the law, the Privacy Rule which address the use and disclosure of individuals' health information and the Security Rule[6] which sets national standards for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information. The Privacy Rule[7] specifies 18 elements that constitute PHI. These identifiers include demographic and other information relating to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual, or the provision or payment of health care to an individual.
HIPPA was enacted to encompass three areas of patient care:
The penalties for failing to comply with HIPAA can be severe.
HIPAA applies to all healthcare institutions and healthcare workers, who submit claims electronically. For example, if you are a healthcare worker and transmit or even discuss PHI with others who are not involved with that patient's care, then you violate HIPAA. However, there is a HIPAA rule that permits disclosure of PHI without prior obtained consent for healthcare operations, treatment, and payment. This includes consultation between providers regarding a patient, referring a patient and information required by law for public health safety and reporting. These exceptions cover the majority of clinical uses of PHI. Other disclosures demand explicit patient consent and apply to everyone in a healthcare facility, including:
The HIPAA policies also apply to any interns and volunteers who work under supervision at a health clinic or hospital, third-party contractors or business associates, including:
HIPAA broadly defines PHI as any health information that is transmitted or maintained in electronic media. It is also important to know that PHI is not only restricted to electronic transmission of media, but also any oral communications of individually identifiable health information constitutes PHI. For example, if a surgery resident speaks about a surgical procedure in an elevator full of people, that can be a HIPAA violation if any PHI is mentioned. The majority of medical records in healthcare institutions and clinics meet the definition of PHI, some of which include:
Hence all healthcare institutions and clinics must satisfy HIPAA standards for security and privacy.
Where is the HIPAA Privacy Rule Applicable?
The HIPAA Privacy Rule applies to almost every department in a medical facility, even when walking to the parking lot with a colleague or on your home internet, confidentiality of PHI must be preserved. Only the bare minimum health information that is necessary should be disclosed during any health care service, and this also includes human resources or ancillary services. For example, when a pharmacist is about to dispense medication to a patient, he or she should only ask the patient if they know how to take the pill, when to take the pill, and to follow up with their healthcare provider. No in-depth discussion with the patient in full view of other people is permitted. This rule also applies to other healthcare providers who may be exchanging information with other healthcare workers who are also actively involved in patient care. For example, it is permitted for a radiologist to ask the ordering medical resident a few questions about why the patient is having the test to ensure that the procedure is necessary and the best choice for the situation, but he or she is not at liberty to discuss this with a third party who is not actively treating the patient. In all such matters, one must first obtain consent from the patient to determine if he or she is willing to permit the doctor to divulge medical information to others. This rule not only applies to verbal communication but all written and electronic text. [10],[11],[12]
In addition to HIPAA, many states have their own restrictive rules on privacy of PHI, which may be far more stringent than HIPAA, particularly when the information concerns patients with infectious diseases like HIV, mental health problems, certain genetic disorders, and substance abuse. Further, there are also federal rules that are more stringent than HIPAA, such as those pertaining to substance abuse and drug addiction records. Finally, there is also a federal rule that governs how and when Medicaid or Medicare information can be used. However, this does not mean that HIPAA is void when other more stringent rules are in place. In situations where a more stringent rule regarding privacy is in place, the more stringent rule will take precidence over HIPAA for that jurisdiction. All healthcare workers must be aware of both HIPAA and the state and federal rules that govern PHI.
Contents and Authorizations
When a patient is admitted to a healthcare institution, he or she must be provided with the information on rights to privacy, what type of PHI will be shared and for what reason. This Notice of Privacy Practice is now a requirement of HIPAA for all patients, regardless of age or gender. The patient must sign this document, and one copy must be kept in the hospital files. This also indicates that the patient did receive the privacy notice. If for any reason, the patient cannot sign, the reason must be documented and witnessed. If another person signs the document, the reason why the individual is signing must be documented. Once a notice of privacy practices is signed, the healthcare institution does not need to ask the patient repeatedly for disclosure of PHI in the course of normal care. If the patient's health situation changes or the patient has additional privacy concerns, this should be documented in the note. The patient may ask that no family member or friend is permitted to pick up his or her medications or that none of the medical staff discuss the health condition with family or friends
Security with Flexibility
The HIPAA security rule does provide all healthcare institutions with a practical and flexible format for implementing security measures. Some of these are mandatory requirements but others are flexible and allow the institution to implement security and privacy measures that are consistent with the organization's resources, infrastructure, and functionality.
What are Some Exclusions to a Patient's PHI?
There are several scenarios where disclosure of PHI may be violating HIPAA, and they include the following:
When Can PHI be Disclosed Without Consent?
Images and Videos
It is important to understand that HIPAA violations not only occur after vocal or written disclosure of PHI but even after posting images. For example, cosmetic surgeons who routinely post preoperative and post-operative photos of patients, or surgeons who videotape surgical procedures must obtain consent from the patient. In addition, when not necessary, the face should be blanked. Professionals are also prohibited from using names of patients in case reports. Anything that can identify a patient is not permitted.
Specific HIPAA Rules That Pertain to PHI Security
Risk Analysis
The HIPAA security requirements place significant emphasis on risk analysis, especially now that electronic healthcare technology is the norm. All hospitals not only have to work with their healthcare workers, but also third-party contractors, vendors, and solo practitioners; and they must identify and address the appropriate security options to ensure the security of data. The use of the internet is perhaps the biggest threat to the data leak. When transmitting data over the internet, the hospital IT must encrypt the data to ensure that it remains private. For example, a doctor who is an independent contractor and has a patient admitted to the hospital will transmit over the internet the patient's medical history to the hospital. However, this information must be encrypted to prevent leak and eavesdropping. Today, encryption of healthcare records is standard, and there are many software programs that one may use. [14],[15],[16],[17],[18],[10]
Use of Wireless Networks
These days many healthcare workers use wireless networks to access medical records. However, if many computers connect through a wireless network, then the encryption function of the wireless network must be activated. Furthermore, healthcare workers must be asked to stop using the unencrypted wireless network for communication because of the risk of interception.
Storage of PHI Data
Another area of great concern is the storage of PHI on hard drives, especially portable devices like laptop computers and flash drives. Over the years, many privacy breaches have occurred as a result of stolen laptops and flash drives. To address this problem, healthcare workers should refrain from storing any patient data on their laptop, flash drives, or CDs. If the data is stored, it must be encrypted. Another option is to use the laptop only to view the data, but never to store the information. This has become possible with cloud technology and storage systems.
All healthcare workers who use the computer to access patient records must have a secure password. The password should be unique and changed every 3 to 4 months. No one should share their password with other individuals. The information technology (IT) department must determine the quality of the password before access is granted to the system. The password must be sufficiently strong so that it cannot be guessed or even predicted with the available computer programs. The password must contain a combination of numerical and alpha characters with symbols to increase their complexity. Further, no worker should paste the password anywhere near the PC or leave a sticker with the password on a desk, as this defeats the purpose of security. However, passwords alone are not adequate for security measures and offer a very weak method of protection.
Unique User Identification
There have been many instances when both the healthcare worker and non-healthcare workers who were not involved in the care of the patient have accessed the medical records of celebrities and other important people. The purpose was to pass the documents to the tabloid magazines. Thus, HIPAA enhancements under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act now require a system that will track all users the moment they sign on and off. The tracking system will show who signed on, when, what data they accessed, and if they downloaded any information. Thus the importance of assigning unique names and passwords that are never shared with anyone, otherwise tracking is not possible in the event of a data breach.
Stronger Authentication
Today many healthcare institutions have started to implement stronger authentication requirements. Besides the password, some systems also require a specific biometric feature to enter the system. Some hospitals have started to use fingerprints to identify the individual entering the system and others have started to incorporate facial recognition.
Selective Access
To ensure privacy and authenticate the computer used, some organizations have started to limit access to individuals based on their role in healthcare. For example, a laboratory technologist would only need access to the patient's laboratory record, so there is no need to provide that worker access to the patient's medical history. Similarly, a pharmacist may only have access to the patient medications or pertinent parts of the medical history regarding drug reactions; whereas, an internist would have access to most of the medical information. Customized access is the new wave of the future, and so far, limited studies do show that it works in maintaining the security of patient data.
Electronic Health Records
HITECH was enacted to promote the widespread adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) and related technologies. Among other things, HITECH requires covered entities that implement an EHR to provide an audit trail accounting for all disclosures of information. When a patient asks for an electronic copy of their records, HITECH also stipulates that healthcare organizations provide the PHI maintained in an EHR. Therefore, an EHR is very broadly defined in the proposed rule as "any electronic data." Furthermore, healthcare entities must acknowledge and fulfill a patient's request that the healthcare provider not share PHI with a health insurance plan if the individual pays for the care out of pocket and in full.
Audits and Risk Assessment
Once a security system is in place, risk management should audit the system to look for any flaws and identify any gaps in maintaining the integrity, confidentiality, and security of PHI. All risks identified must go through a HIPAA compliant risk management process and the flaws rectified. Risk analysis is not a one-shot deal but must be conducted regularly because new technology is constantly introduced. This is also repeated whenever there is a change in clinical practice.
Dedicated IT Staff
All healthcare institutions should employ a person(s) who are dedicated to maintaining the security and privacy of PHI. In most cases, a team of IT professionals should ensure that everyone follows the established procedures and policies. Moreover, this team must ensure that all healthcare workers use the system appropriately. It is the job of the IT staff to conduct audits to ensure that everyone is HIPAA compliant regularly.
Obtain Authorizations
While HIPAA does permit the use of PHI for many hospital-based services like treatments, pharmacy operations, rehabilitation and outpatient care, any other use or disclosure of PHI must be authorized by the patient in writing before any PHI is disclosed. For example, there are protocols to follow when a patient is enrolled in a clinical trial. Plus, when patients want their medical records transferred to another unrelated physician or out of state, then a written consent must be obtained from the patient.
Third-Party Agreements
Ensure third-party business agreements are in place. Sometime a third party may need access to PHI to perform a service on behalf of the hospital. For example, the patient may be entering an outpatient rehabilitation unit, and the therapist requires medical records or the patient may be going for radiation therapy at another center. The rehabilitation center and the radiation clinic also need to comply with HIPAA rules. These third party entities must provide the hospital with an business associate agreement that the requirements of HIPAA are understood and are being followed.
Inadvertent Disclosure
In the past, it was routine for healthcare workers to share patient information between family and friends sometimes out of concern or an attempt to help. Now, this is not acceptable, and a provider can violate the law. HIPAA does not permit deliberate or accidental disclosure of PHI for any reason. For example, a disgruntled healthcare worker can be held liable if he or she steals PHI and then shares the data for monetary gain or revenge purposes. Sometime the PHI disclosure may occur accidentally when the patient's chart is left unattended in the lobby or the radiology suite. When a patient's chart is taken along with the patient on the trolley, it is important to make sure that the transporter knows not to leave the chart lying where the information may be inadvertently or purposefully looked at by persons not directly involved in that patient's care.
Personal PHI
Under HIPAA, all patients are legally permitted to obtain copies of their PHI which includes billing and medical records over the past 6 years. Some exclusions cover legal documents, mental health notes or laboratory results. The healthcare provider may deny access to PHI if he or she believes that such access may harm the patient or others. A patient has to request, in writing, to obtain his or her medical chart.
Inform Patients of Privacy Practices
All healthcare facilities that are covered by HIPAA must document their private practice and share that information with patients. When patients ask for HIPAA information, they should be provided with the information and asked to sign a form to ensure that they have received the booklet.
Patient Rights under HIPAA
HIPAA rules give patients rights, some of which they may not be not aware. The most important rights of patients under HIPAA include the following:
HIPAA and Communication with Patients
HIPAA recommends disclosing the minimal amount of information to ensure the privacy of patients. When speaking to a patient in a room with other patients, it is important not to divulge specific information other than greetings. If one has to communicate the results of a biopsy or surgery, then one may ask the patient to come to a private room for discussion. Even then, only disclose what is relevant. If the healthcare provider is faced with a situation where there are other patients, for example, in the recovery room or intensive care unit (ICU), the discussion should be broad and not detail any specific procedure or diagnosis. Similarly, in outpatient clinics, one should never discuss PHI in the hallway but wait until the patient is seated in a private room.
HIPAA permits disclosure of PHI to a spouse, parents, legal guardians, and other caregivers who are involved in the patient's care without having a formal agreement from the patients. If there is ever a need to discuss something specific regarding the patient when other individuals are present, ask the patient if he or she has any objections.
When Can Information Be Shared?
Healthcare workers need to be aware that all PHI for clinical purposes is covered under HIPAA and includes the following:
As long healthcare providers are offering treatment, they are not restricted by HIPAA, as long as the patient has not made a request not to disclose data to any particular healthcare provider. However, caution must still be used. For example, when asking a phlebotomist to start an intravenous line on a patient needing chemotherapy medication, a physician does not have to divulge why the patient needs an intravenous line to the technologist.
Email Communications
All healthcare institutions should establish specific guidelines on email communication from patients. Some of the recommendations include the following:
Like emails, there should be specific policies and guideline regarding the use of faxes to transmit medical information. Some of the recommendations include the following:
Today, computers play a critical role in healthcare and store a vast amount of PHI. Hence, these devices must be secure. Some of the recommendations for computer use include the following:
Clergy and Other Religious Figures
The HIPAA Privacy Rule permits religious figures and clergy to be informed of individuals belonging to their denomination that are in a hospital, as long as the patient has first been informed and has no objection. Patients should be asked about these preferences when they are first admitted to the hospital and asked to sign a paper regarding who they want as a visitor and who should be notified.
During an emergency, or when the patient is incapacitated, and has not been able to provide consent, disclosures can still occur. However, the disclosure has to be consistent with the individual's best interest in mind. One has to use not only good judgment but also involve administration and risk management in decision making. Everything should be documented as to why a particular course of action was undertaken.
Disposing of PHI
When disposing of the medical records, labels, prescription labels, the documents should be shredded or incinerated so that there is no chance that they will be reconstructed. Any PHI on a computer must be completely erased before disposing of the PC. The same applies to any CD or zip drive. The people who are in charge of shredding or disposing of the PHI must be properly selected to make sure that the records are destroyed and not just taken home.
Signed Consent
During a visit or medical encounter, pharmacies and hospitals may get signed authorization from patients before service, allowing that entity to access to the patient's PHI during care. However, this form has to contain the initiation and expiration date for the disclosure. The authorization only remains valid until the expiration date and can be renewed. So if a patient has signed an authorization for release of his medical records to a psychiatrist, then one can send the records during that time. But one is not allowed to send PHI to other healthcare entities without additional consent nor can PHI be sent continuously outside of the specified time frame. If the patient is not available or is not able, then the risk analysis committee may disclose PHI without authorization, if it is a matter of life or death. Other cases where PHI may be disclosed are in cases of child abuse, elderly neglect, public health law or where there appears to be fraudulent activity.
Training Employees
It is imperative that the entire staff know about HIPAA. Thus, regular education seminars must be conducted. The teaching not only applies to regular staff but all interns and volunteers who come into contact with PHI. The staff must be fully trained, updated regularly, and made aware of HIPAA rules that apply to them.
Reporting HIPAA Violations
In general, HIPAA violations must be self-reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). If a violation has affected more than 500 patients, the Department must be notified in writing within 60 days. If less than 500 patients have been affected than HHS has to be notified no later than 60 days after the calendar year ends. Penalties may increase if self-reporting is not done and the violation is discovered through the media.
Who Monitors Hospitals and Healthcare Workers for HIPAA Compliance?
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) under Health and Human Services (HHS) is the entity responsible for enforcing HIPAA privacy and security rules. The agency enforces rules in the following ways:
The Investigation Protocol
Once OCR receives a complaint of HIPAA violation, it gathers the information and tries to determine if the privacy and security rules were violated. If the problem is a minor case of noncompliance, OCR will initially try and resolve the matter with the respective institution in the following ways:
For those institutions who fail to comply with HIPAA, there may be criminal and civil penalties. If the complaint received indicates a violation of the criminal provision of HIPAA, then the matter may be referred to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for further investigation.
Civil and Criminal Violations
When the healthcare institution fails to comply with the matter satisfactorily, OCR may impose civil monetary penalties that are based on the seriousness of the non-compliance. The amount of monetary fine is usually up to the discretion of the secretary of HHS and depends on the extent and nature of the harm that occurred as a result of the violation. In almost all cases, the secretary is not permitted to impose any civil penalty for a violation that is corrected within 4 to 6 weeks. All criminal violations of HIPAA are handled by the DOJ, who in addition to civil penalties may add other fines depending on the severity of the violation.
Criminal Violation of HIPAA Rules
Criminal penalties for HIPAA violations apply to the following entities:
Besides institutions, individuals can also be charged with criminal violations of HIPAA and this includes employees, directors, officers, nurses, secretaries and telephone operators. Even individuals not directly liable under HIPAA may be charged with abetting or conspiring. Finally, the HHS has the authority to exclude any individual or healthcare institution form participation in Medicare as either temporary or permanent.
Recent HIPAA Fines
It is critical to understand that no matter how big or small the institution or how many or few healthcare workers work in a clinic, each entity can be penalized for HIPAA violations. While the monetary penalties can be dramatic, all such violations are published on cyberspace and this can quickly ruin the reputation of the facility or the healthcare provider.
Can Patients Sue a Healthcare Facility or a Healthcare Worker for Violating HIPAA?
For example, a pharmacist calls up the home of a patient, but no one answers the phone. Then he leaves a message asking when you will be coming up to pick up your HIV medications. The patient can claim that no one in the home knew about his HIV status and now the pharmacist has disclosed his private health condition to everyone in the home. Can the patient sue the pharmacist?
When a healthcare worker or the facility has violated HIPAA rules, patients generally have no recourse except to report the matter to the OCR. In fact, HIPAA has created a right to privacy and does not allow for most patients to file lawsuits. However, if the HIPAA violation is due to gross negligence and professional malpractice, then such case may be brought to court.
Avoiding HIPAA Violations
Preventing HIPAA violations is not difficult. First, get professional help from a HIPAA expert.
Violation Amount/Violations of an Identical Provision in a Calendar Year
Did not know: $100 to $50,000; $1.5 million
Reasonable cause: $1,000 to $50,000; $1.5 million
Willful neglect (corrected): $10,000 to $50,000; $1.5 million
Willful Neglect (uncorrected): $50,000; $1.5 million
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WASHINGTON, March 5 (UPI) -- Donald Trump called on Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to drop out of the Republican race for the presidency Saturday night after splitting victories with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in four contests.
Cruz beat Trump in the Kansas and Maine caucuses, while Trump narrowly won the Louisiana primary and Kentucky caucus before telling supporters it is now a two-man race for the Republican nomination. Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich did not come close to a second place finish in any of them.
"I want Ted one-on-one, OK?" Trump said in a victory speech from West Palm Beach not long after the Kentucky race was called in his favor.
Although Trump emphasized he'd had a "really good" night -- he beat Cruz in Kentucky by 4.3 points and in Louisiana by 3.7 points -- Cruz's 25-point win in Kansas and 13-point win in Maine were by bigger gaps and netted the Texas senator more of the 155 delegates at stake in Saturday's contests.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich battled for third place in all four of the races, and neither got within 10 points of Trump or Cruz.
Cruz maintained a nearly 25-point lead over Trump in Kansas most of the night, taking 48.2 percent of the vote to Trump's 23.3 percent, according to NBC News. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich were in third and fourth with 16.7 percent and 10.7 percent.
Turnout was reportedly so high in the Kansas and Kentucky contests that poll workers starting counting votes early because of concerns they would run late as a result of the long lines.
In Maine, Cruz beat Trump by 13.3 points, 45.9 percent to 32.6 percent, with Kasich coming in third at 12.2 percent and Rubio last with 8 percent.
Maine also saw a large voter turnout as more than triple the number of GOP voters participated in the caucuses this year -- nearly 19,000 -- compared to just over 5,000 in 2012, the Maine Republican Party reported Saturday night.
Trump saw leads in both Louisiana and Kentucky narrow as votes were counted, eventually winning Louisiana 41.5 percent to Cruz's 37.8 percent. Rubio finished third with 11.2 percent.
Kentucky was the last of the four GOP races to be called, with Trump's lead narrowing even closer, overtaking Cruz by 4.3 points, 35.9 percent to 31.6 percent. Rubio came in third in Kentucky as well, nabbing 16.4 percent of the vote.
Voter turnout in Kentucky was said to be so heavy they started counting votes early, though the contest there had been plagued by complaints and confusion all day, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.
Kentucky moved from a primary to caucus ahead of the 2016 election so that Sen. Rand Paul would be able to run for the presidential nomination while hedging his bets and remaining in the state's Senate race in case his presidential campaign stalled-out -- which it did, several weeks ago.
After learning of the win in Kansas, Cruz told reporters in Idaho it appeared Republicans were beginning to line up behind him against Trump, saying "if Donald Trump wins the nomination, Hillary Clinton is going to be president."
Cruz won the straw poll among party leaders at the Conservative Political Action Conference, taking 40 percent of the vote, to Rubio's 30 percent, Trump's 15 and Kasich's 8 percent, The Hill reported.
In recent days, members of the GOP establishment have attempted to marshal a resistance to Trump's dominating of the nomination fight, bringing out Mitt Romney to speak against him as the other candidates began to also speak out more forcefully against him during the March 3 debate.
The reaction had been building in the days leading up to the Republican debate as attacks started pouring in against Trump from the party, which he has started to warn could hurt in the general election in the fall.
Trump skipped CPAC, where GOP establishment figures, including Romney, took turns Friday questioning Trump's conservative credentials and criticizing his campaign methods, nearly begging voters to oppose him, the New York Times reported.
Some in the party say they agree with the former presidential nominee but many others -- some who support Trump and some who don't -- questioned the wisdom of fracturing the party over its power structure and voters appearing to disagree on a nominee.
"The Republicans are eating their own," Trump said at a rally in Wichita, according to the Washington Post. "They've got to be very careful. We have to bring things together."
Trump continued to make the point during his victory speech, saying if establishment Republicans run a third-party candidate against him as is openly being discussed, "it will make it impossible for the Republican nominee to win."
"What's happening is a movement, and it wouldn't be happening without me," Trump said. "As a party, we should come together and stop this foolishness."


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One Hatchling at a Time
Sea turtle nesting season is winding down. It begins in early May and goes strong until the end of June or early July. Some turtles continue to lay eggs in August, occasionally September; the season varies slightly by species. Eggs incubate for 50-55 days so hatching begins in earnest mid-July. Turtles lay about 100 golf ball—size eggs in each nest. The same turtle can nest several times each year, the most recorded being eight. That's a lot of eggs. Scientists estimate 1 in 1000 hatchlings survive to adulthood. And since not all eggs result in hatchlings, mama turtle is trying to increase her odds of success.
All sea turtle species are either threatened or endangered. (Read about a recent decision on the status of the loggerhead here.) Because human activity is the major cause of their decline, we are obligated to help increase their survival odds. This explains why hundreds of volunteers in Florida (and beyond) are on the beaches at dawn looking for telltale turtle signs.
Early in the season we look for adult tracks and nesting activity. Nests are located, marked, and where necessary, protected by cages or other devices to hinder coyotes, raccoons, and other animals that would love to make a tasty (and messy) meal out of the newly laid eggs. (You can learn how to identify the tracks yourself with this video from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). Bonus: the narrator is Pineapple author Blair Witherington!)
Detailed nesting records are maintained for two conservation programs run by FWC. Throughout the incubation period records are kept of predator activity, beach erosion, and nest flooding during storms or unusually high tides. After 50 days volunteers keep a keen eye out for hatchling tracks. Three days after a hatch, when presumably all able hatchlings have departed the nest, each nest is excavated. Once again, records are kept—of hatched and unhatched eggs, live hatchlings still in the nest, or sadly, some that didn't make it out.
Any volunteer will tell you there's nothing quite like rescuing a live hatchling that couldn't make it out of the nest. You release it with the hope that it will be the one in a thousand that makes it to adulthood!
You can check out the Sea Turtle Conservancy website to learn more about what volunteers are doing. You can even become a sea turtle fan on Facebook! The Amelia Island Sea Turtle Watch site is also worth a visit for some awesome photos.
As I mentioned in my last post, nesting numbers are up this year—at least on our small part of the beach. We won't know if that can be said for the entire state until FWC has collated the data. I did read that numbers seemed to be up in Georgia this year as well (see the second story in the hurricane link below for details). Time will tell if the tide is turning for these lovely creatures or if this is a blip on the radar. But for now, we'll take it as good news.
Turtles of a different kind are getting help in our more northern climes. Check out folks helping out the diamondback terrapins (among others) in Massachusetts. The August 2010 archive has a great story on a rescued Kemp's ridley. For all things turtle (and beyond!) this is a great website.
Here's a quick synopsis of other news on the animal conservation front this month starting with the good news that birds can navigate through hurricanes.
- A new species of dolphin was discovered off the coast of Australia.
- Twelve new species of frogs were discovered in India.
- It seems we have only itemized 1.2 million out of 8.7 million species currently on the planet.
- A marine park in Mexico demonstrates that it is possible to reverse ecological damage. The fish numbers in this National Park have quadrupled over the last ten years. (There are also some sea turtle hatchlings in this video!)
Hope you have some good news to share from your area!
Bonnie is the author of Those Mischievous Monkeys (coming January 2011). She teaches people about conservation and sustainability—how to use less water, electricity, fuel, and other stuff—so that humans, animals (including monkeys!), trees, and plants can all share the planet and pass it along to the next generation. Originally from Canada, Bonnie now lives in Florida with her husband Jim and their two mischievous dogs, Cooper and Joie.


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Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Anastasia Taylor-Lind is an English/Swedish journalist (b.1981) who has been working for leading editorial publications all over the world on issues relating to women, population and war for a decade.
She is a Harvard Nieman Fellow 2016, and recently finished a year of research at the university on war, and how we tell stories about modern conflict. Anastasia is also a Logan Fellow 2017 at The Carey Institute for Global Good where she started writing a book about the visual representation of contemporary warfare and the photojournalists who cover it. She is also a TED fellow.
Anastasia has written about her experiences as a photojournalist for The New York Times, TIME LightBox, Nieman Reports and National Geographic.
As a photographic storyteller, her focus has been on long-form narrative reportage for monthly magazines. She is a National Geographic Magazine contributor, and other clients include Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, TIME, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian.
Her first book MAIDAN – Portraits from the Black Square, which documents the 2014 Ukrainian
uprising in Kiev, was published by GOST books the same year. Anastasia's work has been exhibited internationally, in spaces such as The Saatchi Gallery, The Frontline Club, and The National Portrait Gallery in London, SIDE gallery in Newcastle, Fovea Exhibitions in New York, Pikto Gallery in Toronto and The New Mexico Museum of Modern Art in Santa Fe.
A wide variety of organizations have recognized and supported her projects through awards such as the POYi, Sony World Photography Awards, Royal Photographic Society Bursaries and the FNAC Grant at Visa Pour L'Image. Anastasia has degrees in Documentary Photography from the University of Wales Newport (BA) and the London College of Communication (MA). She is regularly engaged with education, teaching at leading universities in Europe and the USA, including at MIT, Harvard and Columbia University.


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Ovenly (Kobo eBook)
Ovenly is an award-winning bakery headquartered in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Since 2010, their innovative baked goods have found their way into cafés, restaurants and stores nationwide.
At Ovenly, our philosophy is to explore culinary traditions with an unexpected twist, while thoughtfully melding salty and sweet with a touch of spice. We are committed to crafting recipes that are complex, innovative and fun. Whether you are enjoying a cookie in our bakery or making one of our cake recipes at home, our goal is to provide you with joy through flavor.


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The topic of the walking dead came up the other day... again. It's no secret that my circle of friends has a somewhat inexplicable fascination with zombies, but my friend Suzanne asked what the deal was.
"What's the deal?" she queried. She meant, why zombies? Why not ghosts? Why not a plague? What's going on here? The supernatural genre has never been unpopular. Anne Rice's legacy was taken up by those hideous Twilight novels. Shows like Lost or Fringe aren't exactly The X-Files, but they do have a strong and distinct undercurrent dealing with the spooky and unusual. Even the Harry Potter novels -- you know, for kids! -- were all about casting spells and hitting puberty which are both events requiring one to suspend credulity.
But zombies have reached this zeitgeisty place in pop cultures, and with AMC's The Walking Dead returning in October, and Brad Pitt shooting next year's World War Z, it's only getting bigger. So: why zombies? Why now?
Zombies, as an intellectual construct, have always been about death; they are, after all, reanimated corpses that feed on the living. In the same way that ghosts deal with the spiritual realm of the (un)dead (what happens to a person's soul after they die?), vampires address the sexual link with death (all that blood and penetration), and werewolves take up the primal, animalistic nature of man (we did evolve from beasts, no matter what Arkansas teaches its kids), zombies deal with our discomfort with death as a physical event. The walking dead aren't transformed into a different creature. They don't grow extra legs or fur.
In most representations, zombies are slow-moving, covered in gore, and utterly empty in the brainpan. They are physical husks, designed and desiring only to prey (slowly) on the living. With ghosts, we lose the body and keep the soul -- the essence of what we think makes us human. Zombies take that and flips it right on its head, so only the meat suit remains.
So why now? All of a sudden there are comic books, movies, spoof movies, guides, faux-memoirs, fashion, parades... I'm surprised that there isn't a children's television character named Zombo. While the first wave of zombie pop culture came in the 1970s with George Romero and his brilliant film Night of the Living Dead, there's been a recent resurgence in the last few years. Zombies have shuffled back onto the radar.
As a culture, we have incredible anxiety at this point about many, many different things. We have collective body issues: we're too fat and we worship too skinny. We don't deal well with death. We're losing the primal modes of social interaction to technological replacements (G-chatting doesn't count as having a conversation!). Most of us have no idea how to live off the land, shoot a gun, or even throw a punch. Our highest-paid jobs don't include physical labour, but rather mental somersaults. In short, we're a bunch of soft, lonely, citified, lazy sheep who are scared to die.
So what could possibly be more appealing that a figure who cuts a wide swath through the very embodiment of death, brandishing a machete and living on the run? That person would be ridiculously badass. In the case of widespread zombification, we would lose creature comforts like tampons and cold beer. We would be tired, stressed out, and alone.
I would argue that we're currently tired, stressed-out, and alone: we just do it in condos and in offices, instead of while fighting ghoulish enemies. A zombie invasion would allow us to face some of our death-related neuroses, reconnect as families and communities, and tone us into a leaner, meaner fighting machine. That's pretty appealing.
It goes without saying that a zombocalypse wouldn't be all fine wines and fancy cheeses, but the secret belief that fighting off an army of the undead would actually be kind of cool stems from our desire to have the lifestyle it would force us to create. Not since the fall of the Roman Empire has humanity had an opportunity to recreate itself: we ended up, ahundred generations later, with YouTube videos and cheeseburger in a can. We want to connect with each other; we want to be physically fit; we want to feel special. Are we so collectively stuck in our ways that the only way to achieve this is to literally raise the dead?


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I'm only going to say this once... GIVE ME THE NAUGHTY NIGHTWEAR!
You know what I love? I love that the typos I make in image comments are saved FOREVER to preserve my shame. :)
I was first introduced to the Fallout world by Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, which many people (including some friends of mine) will tell you doesn't count having been made for Interplay Entertainment by Micro Forté. It has a number of differences like slightly more modern weapons, using ring pulls instead of bottle caps as money and a collection of Vault Boy images that didn't quite look like the Vault Boy of... Pretty much every other game. Not knowing enough about Fallouts 1 & 2 to snub this attempt to cash in on the "tactics" genre craze of the late 1990's, I was utterly charmed by the pop culture references and the dark sense of humor. If the "real" games were as superior as people kept whinging on about, this was something I really wanted to play.
When I heard that the franchise was purchased and being developed by Bethesda, I found it disappointing they weren't working in some way with Obsidian Entertainment. After getting a thumbs up from some of my friends who I consider more "experienced" Fallout fans, I did get Fallout 3 and I was pretty much obsessed from the get.
When New Vegas was announced I squee'd and obsessed over which pre-order pack I should get. (I went with Gamestop, which had the Classic Pack, and also there's a Gamestop literally across the street from me.) New Vegas has become my new favorite game of all time.


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During pre-service training (PST) I lived in a community not far from the PC headquarters and even closer to beautiful Antigua. The amount of information and the pace of training made my head spin. I learned how much of an introvert I am (I knew, but now I REALLY know). Living and working in an incubator type setting was challenging.Nevertheless, I gained from every minute of my experience and I had a great group of friends and staff to share it with.
After ten weeks of PST I was officially sworn in as a Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) by U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Todd D. Robinson. [Photo by Adriana Darris]
There were twenty-six of us Volunteers to join the ranks of the existing PCVs in Guatemala.
Above: Our group, known as Bak'tun 8, had, two weeks earlier, elected Francisco M. to give a speech that would hopefully speak for all of us. His speech better than I could have imagined. You can read it on his blog: guatshappening.wordpress.com
We were over the moon with excitement on the day we were sworn in. The staff did a wonderful job of making it a beautiful ceremony for us, one that I will always cherish.
Photo below by Francisco M. Can you tell how excited we were?
A couple of days later, we had a mini-retreat with our new work partners. From our hotel I could see a dragon plume of smoke rise from Volcán Fuego.
My friend, Madeline, and I walked in the woods, grateful for the chance to slow down in nature.
Now the real work begins…or soon, when school reopens after the winter holidays.
The Peace Corps around the world has many programs. The one I work in is the Healthy Schools Project; my title is: Healthy Schools District Coordinator. The Healthy Schools project was created in 1993, by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health. The Peace Corps joined the project in 1997. As the project evolved, in 2000, a national Healthy Schools commission (CONAES), was formed to oversee policy and strategies for the healthy schools project. The main goal is to promote a health among schools children: physical, emotional, mental, social, environmental.
Each Peace Corps Volunteer in this project is assigned a location in the country and a workpartner/s. My workpartners are two district school supervisors—commonly referred to as a CTA: Coordinador Técnica Administriva. Beginning in January I will work with ten schools in their districts. The CTAs will tell me which schools to work with and advise me on strategies, plans, people and resources. I will work with the teachers in each of the ten schools, offering them support for teaching the healthy schools content and create a sustainable healthy schools environment. This includes things like school gardens for vegetables, recycling, safe and healthy environments, playgrounds as well as addressing important values and issues such as non-bullying, sexual identity, girl-power (I can't remember the technical phrase to that last one but that's how I see it in my heart). It's of significance to note that teachers in Guatemala are required only a sixth grade education, so the Healthy Schools Project also serves to expand their expertise as educators. Guatemalan school hours are only four hours a day and school days are lessened by absences, school strikes, and holidays. Because teachers must get home to their families, it is tricky to get them to stay for the Healthy School dialogues, in-service trainings and activities. But enough good work was done by my predecessors and CTAs here that now there are educators trained and certified to promote the work. That's called sustainability. With a few more years of stable growth, Peace Corps Guatemala will end this program and turn its focus in another direction. In case you're interested, there are two other Peace Corps programs currently active, Youth in Development and Maternal and Child Health.
For now, during the end of the holidays, I have time to settle into my new home and community. People are friendly and I already have many new acquaintances. I have to say, I thought that living in Latin America would be like a homecoming considering my Mexican heritage. But my Navajo heritage is what is most keenly expressed in my facial features. Everyday, people ask me if I'm from China. When I say words like "Mexican" "Navajo" "First American" I get blank stares. I get it when I look in the mirror; I see what they see and it makes me sigh and chuckle. The other day a man stopped me on the street and said loudly, "Where are you from? Because I know you're not from America! You can't be from America! You're from China!" It turns out that it's a great ice breaker, a way for me to introduce myself and expand awareness of the indigenous nations in the United States. Now Tano waves hello to me when I pass his house and he has offered me any assistance I need.
Today, a couple of miles away, while ordering pizza, another man, Jose, began talking to me. Turned out that he is Tano's cousin and just like Tano, he was talkative. Both men spent over a decade living in Rhode Island so my conversations with both were in Spanglish. Jose explained a lot of words and phrases to me that I jotted down in my little vocabulary book. It's filling up quickly.
By the way, a friend just asked me to recommend a good program for learning Spanish. Duolingo! But the best thing is to have a multifaceted approach to learning: audio (duolingo and podcasts — check itunes), writing (use a Spanish grammar book and do the lessons step by step), listening (watch Spanish language videos and movies), and speaking (find ways to practice with a native speaker). If you can have a goal, like a holiday in a Spanish speaking country, that might help keep you on track. Sí se puedes. Vaya!


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Judgements: The Pack is back
(Photos courtesy of the Green Bay Packers)
By Clark Judge
Talk of Fame Network
Green Bay did more than stop a three-game slide with that defeat of Minnesota. It restored order in the NFC North, where the Packers again are the team to beat. Yeah, I know, they're tied with Minnesota, but look at what's left for these two. Five of the Vikings' remaining opponents have non-losing records, while Green Bay has two -- Arizona and Minnesota, the Packers' last two games. Then there's this: The Vikings' game is at Lambeau on Jan. 3, and I don't need to tell you what that could be like. But if that doesn't sell you, maybe this will: Whom do you trust down the stretch: Aaron Rodgers or Teddy Bridgewater? Like I said, the Pack is back.
2. The Packers' defense should be taking bows after pressuring Teddy Bridgewater into six sacks and hurried throws and bottling up Adrian Peterson, but it's the return of running back Eddie Lacy that makes you think Green Bay may have rediscovered its mojo. With Lacy back on track (he had a season-high 100 yards rushing) the Packers have the balanced offense they've been missing. "When you have great defense and are controlling the clock by running it," said Fox's Terry Bradshaw, "that's a formula for success." Precisely
3. If the Indianapolis Colts win the AFC South -- and they should -- they can thank Matt Hasselbeck. The 40-year-old Hasselbeck is turning into a modern-day Earl Morrall, going 3-0 as a backup in a season where second-string quarterbacks are 9-20 – including 3-3 Sunday. The Colts have one opponent (Pittsburgh) left with a winning record, so you have to like their chances of repeating in a division where finally we have two teams at .500. And here's why: 1) The Colts' Dec. 20 showdown with Houston is in Indy, where they're 13-0 vs. the Texans; 2) the Texans also have one remaining opponent with a winning record, but that opponent is undefeated New England; and 3) the Colts will have Andrew Luck back for the Houston game.
4. Yep, Brock Osweiler showed me something. And I bet he showed Denver something, too. I know, Gary Kubiak is non-committal about who starts next, but let's be real, people: Peyton Manning is one of the greatest quarterbacks ever, but he's not the better option for Denver now. Brock Osweiler is. Reason: No turnovers. My guess? Osweiler starts vs. New England.
5. To those college teams interested in Chip Kelly, I suggest you contact the Philadelphia Eagles immediately.
6. Say goodnight to Atlanta. That's four losses in their last five starts, all to opponents that had losing records at the time. Next year, someone make "The Tortoise and the Hare" required reading for these guys in training camp.
7. Each year fans complain how no team has it worse than theirs with injuries … except this season Baltimore fans have a legitimate gripe. Their Ravens lost Terrell Suggs, Steve Smith, Justin Forsett and Joe Flacco to season-ending injuries.
8. Imagine if you had to play a season without a quarterback. Or just go to St. Louis.
9. If Case Keenum was evaluated for a concussion following Sunday's game … which he was … why wasn't he evaluated following the fourth-quarter hit? Looks like somebody missed the "concussion protocol" memo.
10. Let's hear it for Carolina. The Panthers are the first team in NFL history to go from a losing season one year to a 10-0 start the next. All those in favor of Ron Rivera for Coach of the Year, please stand up.
11. You gotta love Larry Fitzgerald. At 32, the guy was supposed to be winding down. But look who made the critical catches on Arizona's game-winning drive Sunday: You're looking at him. Next time someone tells you Fitzgerald's not an elite receiver have him contact Leon Hall. He had to cover him. And he failed.
12. Jim Harbaugh, 9-2. San Francisco 49ers, 3-7. Just sayin.'
13. Here's why you shouldn't fall asleep on Kansas City, even when it comes to talking playoffs: The Chiefs are hot, hot, hot, and only one of their remaining opponents (Buffalo) has a winning record.
14. Yes, Seattle, there is life after Marshawn Lynch. It's called Thomas Rawls.
15. That does it. Everybody off the Oakland Raiders bandwagon NOW.
16. Tony Romo for MVP. The Cowboys are 3-0 with him; 0-7 without.
17. Maybe it's time to admit the obvious: Miami needs to move on from Ryan Tannehill.
18. Welcome back, James Jones.
19. Miami linebacker Kelvin Sheppard predicts the Dolphins run the table and finish 10-6. So who's in? Someone? Anyone?
20. The Rod Wood-for-Executive of the Year drive starts now.
21. I know the Chargers have had an epidemic of injuries, but it's hard to make a case for keeping coach Mike McCoy. He's lost 11 of his last 14 starts and is 20-22 over three years. I'm sorry, I don't care how many injuries you sustain; no team with Philip Rivers should be 2-8.
22. OK, so the Ravens are 3-7. They're never out of game, and the numbers prove it. Not only have all 10 of their starts been decided by eight or fewer points but half of them (five) were decided by three or fewer.
23. Commissioner Roger Goodell wants to streamline replays, and that's great. But what's he going to do about officiating? There are more mistakes each week than lakes in Minnesota.
24. One more thing: If Goodell is concerned about "the integrity of the game," why doesn't he penalize officials who blew last week's Jacksonville-Baltimore game? Someone? Anyone?
25. it was a good weekend to Go Green. Green Bay reclaims first in the NFC North, Michigan State upsets Ohio State and Dalyn Williams rallies Dartmouth to a share of the Ivy title by throwing for a TD on the last pass of his collegiate career … with 24 seconds left, no less. So how come the Jets missed the memo? Their mega-buck defense was shredded by a third-string quarterback.
26. That makes Cincinnati 8-18 in prime-time games under Marvin Lewis ... another reason they won't be trusted in January.
27. No mystery to what has the Texans on a roll: Defense. They've allowed two touchdowns over the last 14 quarters.
28. Thank you, Darren Sproles. The Philadelphia back celebrated his touchdown by striking a LaDainian Tomlinson pose on the day the Chargers retired L.T.'s number in San Diego ... and good thing, too. Nobody from the Chargers could find the end zone.
29. Don't blame Andy Dalton for that Cincinnati loss. He rallied the Bengals from 10 down in the fourth quarter vs. a team that doesn't blow fourth-quarter leads. My only question: Only third-and-1, why are you throwing for the end zone? You have Giovani Bernard and Jeremy Hill.
30. If, as Washington's Jason Hatcher suggests, officials "single out" the Redskins because of their name, then why -- entering Sunday -- were there only four teams called for fewer penalties than Washington?
(Carson Palmer photo courtesy of the Arizona Cardinals)
Arizona QB Carson Palmer. He said this was "more than a game," and it turned out he was right. It was more like a statement, and it was all about taking the Cards seriously as a Super Bowl contender. After a first half where he threw two interceptions, Palmer settled down -- throwing four second-half TD passes and leading the team to a frantic, last-second victory.
Green Bay defensive coordinator Dom Capers. His defense couldn't produce a sack the past three games. Then it puts up six vs. Minnesota and bottles up Adrian Peterson. Go figure.
Tampa Bay RB Doug Martin. He runs over, around and through Philadelphia, with his 235 yards just two shy of the record vs. the Eagles -- set by Jim Brown and Emmitt Smith.
Denver defensive coordinator Wade Phillips. A late-game strip-sack, a goal-line stand and a failed two-point conversion add up to much-needed support for Brock Osweiler.
Seattle RB Thomas Rawls. Make that three 100-yard games – and one 209-yard game -- in four starts. And those 209 yards? According to the 49ers' media guide, they're the most by an individual vs. San Francisco.
Green Bay WR James Jones. He's been AWOL the past three weeks, with just three catches, but returns in the nick of time with six catches for 109 yards, a touchdown and a two-point conversion.
St. Louis QB Case Keenum. He completed 12 passes, lost two fumbles and missed so many passes it's a wonder there wasn't a mutiny among his receivers.
Minnesota CB Terence Newman. His pass-interference penalty on a third-and-15 play leads to one Green Bay touchdown just before halftime. Then he's caught watching as James Jones delivers the knockout punch in the fourth quarter.
San Francisco's front office. It makes it here for dismantling a team that once was the deepest and most talented in football and for pulling the plug on quarterback Colin Kaepernick -- the guy who led the 49ers to the Super Bowl in 2012 -- by putting him on injured reserve, effectively ending his tenure in San Francisco.
Philadelphia's defensive coordinator Billy Davis. He's the guy behind the scheme that got torched by a Tampa Bay team that scored 48 points the previous three games and … oh, yeah, became the first road club in NFL history to have a quarterback throw for five TDs and a back run for 200 or more yards.
Cincinnnati DT Domata Peko. It was his unsportsmanlike penalty that guaranteed a last-second field goal for Arizona. Simulating snap signals is not allowed, and someone pass the word to Peko. No, on second thought, don't. He said he was just yelling to teammates to "get set," with coach Marvin Lewis -- who labeled the call "ridiculous" -- backing up his player. In any case, the damage was done. The penalty helped send the Bengals to their second straight loss.
Philadelphia coach Chip Kelly/ San Diego coach Mike McCoy. Their teams aren't getting better. They're getting worse. And Sunday was rock bottom. Not only did both get blown out, but there was more action on the sidelines than in the huddle -- with Mark Sanchez and Darren Sproles upset with each other in Philadelphia and Antonio Gates and Philip Rivers in a sideline tiff in San Diego. Someone dial 911.
Carolina QB Cam Newton/Tampa Bay QB Jameis Winston. It's hard to separate the two with what they did Sunday … so we won't. Newton throws for five touchdowns; so does Winston. Newton throws for four first-half TDs, so does Winston – joining Marcus Mariota as the only rookies in NFL history to do that. Winston throws for 246 yards; Newton throws for 246. No interceptions for Cam; no interceptions for Winston. Cam wins in a laugher; so does Winston. I think you get the idea.
"It's just the nature of the game, man. Stuff like this happens. So you've just got to stand tall and get through it." – Baltimore QB Joe Flacco on his season-ending injury.
0-5 – Kirk Cousins' road record
4—Straight J.J. Watt 10-sack seasons
4 – Lost fumbles by Washington's Matt Jones
5 – St. Louis turnovers
6 – Adrian Peterson fumbles this year, all at home
11 -- Tyler Eifert touchdowns
12 – Pass-interference penalties by Baltimore this season, most in the league
14 – Yards rushing by Washington
15 – Punts in the St. Louis-Baltimore game
50 – Dez Bryant-Tony Romo TDs, most in Dallas history
137 – Consecutive starts by Joe Flacco, including the playoffs
255 -- Yards from scrimmage by Thomas Rawls


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