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The thorny question of the measure of damages - where a client choosing a particular course of action relies on negligent information given by a professional - has been explored in these articles before, but it is worth restating the principles.
Consider a case where information is given about a house, such as a valuation or structural survey, and that information is wrong. Not knowing it is wrong, the client relies on it and decides to buy the house.The rule of thumb is that damages are assessed by looking at how much the house would have been worth had the correct position been known. Damages are the difference between the price paid and the actual value.
The difference is not necessarily the same as the cost of remedial works. If several years lapsed between the survey and the problem coming to light, remedial works might cost significantly more. If the loss was assessed at the time of trial rather than purchase, fluctuations in property values since the advice was given might have a significant impact.
The reasoning behind these rules is that the professional, let us say the valuer, usually only undertakes to exercise reasonable skill and care in providing a valuation. If they do not advise the client to buy the house, or advise as to the future vagaries of the property market, there is no reason why the assessment of damages should take into account later ups and downs in the market. If they do not warrant that the house is worth what they value it at, there is no reason why damages should be awarded for remedial works to bring it up to that value. The client's loss is simply the money that was overspent because they thought that the house was worth more than it was.
But establishing the measure of the loss is not the end of the story, as was illustrated recently in Woolfson v Gibbons , a case concerning a structural survey. The idea behind the measure of damages being assessed as the reduction in value is that the purchaser would have negotiated that much off the price. The claimant has to prove that would have happened. As Woolfson shows, that may not always be straightforward.
The Woolfsons wanted a house in Hampstead.
Over a two-year period, Mrs Woolfson looked at about 100 houses.She eventually found an 18thcentury house that needed refurbishment and redecoration, and offered just under £2 million.
The offer was said to be 'of interest' to the vendor who wanted to proceed quickly once her divorce proceedings were finalised. The Woolfsons instructed Mr Gibbons, a structural engineer, who reported favourably on the structure. The Woolfsons were happy to proceed on the basis that they would spend up to £300,000 on general refurbishment, but that no more than £3,000 needed to be spent on the structure.
Prices were rising fast. A few months later, the Woolfsons discovered the vendor now planned to sell by sealed bid.The Woolfsons bid just under £2.3 million, which was accepted, and they bought the house.
After the purchase, the Woolfsons consulted a different engineer who found serious potential structural defects. Mr Gibbons admitted he had been negligent. At trial the judge found that, had the problems been known at the time of sale, the value of the house would have been about £200,000 less.
But, argued Mr Gibbons, would the Woolfsons really have beaten the price down by that amount? They had chosen this house after an exhaustive search. They were going to carry out extensive refurbishment works anyway and would not have been put off by some structural works. The market was rising fast, and the vendor would simply have looked for other buyers if the Woolfsons had tried to negotiate.
Happily for the Woolfsons, the judge decided on the evidence that they would have succeeded in negotiating down the price. The scope and cost of the works was significant, the expert valuers were in agreement on the reduced market value, and the vendor was keen to sell once her divorce was finalised.
This case illustrates that even when there are admissions of liability and an extent of expert agreement, much time can be spent exploring evidence about what would in fact have happened.
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The American conceptual artist Christopher Williams, whose first retrospective opens July 27 at the Museum of Modern Art, treats photography with very tough love. During a 35-year career, it has been both his medium of choice and the target of his critical thinking. He takes as a basic premise the assumption that in a consumer society, the main purpose of photographs is to sell something — one of those things being art.
As well as films and videos, "Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness" will feature a two-decades-long series of photographs demonstrating such salesmanship in action, with images of a Japanese model made to look "western" through makeup, a beach in Cuba kept authentically tropical for foreign tourists and a Renault car that hides an anarchic history. Nothing here is quite what seems to be advertised, including the artist and his work. Both commenting on and keeping his distance from market politics, Mr. Williams commissioned professional photographers to shoot each of "his" pristine, one-off pictures. (Through Nov. 2, moma.org.)

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Lourdes R. Florido was born in Havana, Cuba, but spent her childhood in Kansas City, Missouri, where her family became part of a community of refugee families known as the "Kansas City Cubans." Florido worked as a print journalist and has been published in a number of newspapers and magazines.
She received a First Place Award of Merit from The Writer's Network of South Florida for her non-fiction piece, "The Cuban Me." White Trees received an Honorable Mention in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Currently, Florido works as an English professor and freelance writer. She resides in Florida with her husband, two children, and dog.
A native of Georgia and author of Remembrance, Nathan Smith Hipps was raised in Tallahassee, Florida, where he graduated from Florida State University with a degree in communications and creative writing.
He has contributed articles to national and regional magazines on Southern life and people. Nathan has three siblings and is the proud uncle of two nieces and two nephews.
Called Barb as often as Barbara, Mrs. Kiger was born in Michigan but moved south with her husband and most of their six children in 1979.
A nurse by profession, she began writing seriously after losing her sight in 1985.
Her work has appeared in magazines and anthologies, the most recent being William B. Toulouse's Amazingly Simple Lessons Learned After Fifty. "Beginnings," a short story, received Honorable Mention in the Tallahassee Writers' Association 2002 Seven Hills Contest, and appeared in that year's Fiction Review.
Payback is Mrs. Kiger's first published book. Her second novel, Cold Storage, follows the continuing adventures of Ginny Arthur and is now available from CyPress Publications.
Regina N. Lewis (Ms. Regina) has been writing children's stories, fiction, and health-related articles for several years. The Smallest Toy Store is the first in a series of children's books to be published from her collection. Ms. Regina's children's stories focus on social awareness such as homelessness at a gentle level that a young reader can understand. Ms. Regina believes that most children can learn the lessons of life by relating to fantasy stories and characters. The Smallest Schoolhouse is the second book in the series. The third book in the series, The Smallest Forest, will be available in the Fall of 2012.
Much of Ms. Regina's inspiration to write about social concerns comes from her nursing/medical experiences. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Ms. Regina loves the South with its beautiful magnolia and oak trees, Spanish moss, brilliant flowers, butterflies, birds, lakes, oceans, and wildlife. She practices as a Nurse Practitioner in Women's Health Care and resides in Havana, Florida, with her husband, Tom, and family.
Phyllis M. Moore was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and remained in the South Boston and Dorchester areas until the age of eighteen. She joined the US Navy after a year of college and served for twenty years. She received a Masters of Science from Eastern Illinois University in 1996 and is presently working as a computer lab instructor in Illinois.
Phyllis has a daughter who often serves as the inspiration for her drawings. She loves the sea and all animals—-whether they walk, swim, or fly and have one leg, many, or none at all. She also loves reading, snowy days, and old movies. Phyllis and her sister, Regina N. Lewis, first collaborated on writing projects during their teenage years. The Smallest Toy Store , The Smallest Schoolhouse , and the forthcoming The Smallest Forest display her artistic talent.
Juanita S. Raymond has been an amateur astronomer since 1985, introducing people young and not-so-young to the wonders of the night sky through classroom lectures, planetarium shows, star gazes, and the publication of monthly star charts. She has been a member of the Tallahassee Astronomical Society since 1985, and has served as Education Chair and Vice-President; she has also been a member of The Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science--"The Brogan"--(formerly known as the ODYSSEY Science Center) since 1990, presenting STARLAB portable planetarium shows at schools throughout the Florida Big Bend, as well as monthly presentations at The Brogan. She has studied the mythology of many cultures in order to expand the learning experiences of young people as they study Astronomy and is The Brogan's 2000 Education Volunteer of the Year .
Leland F. Raymond has been writing and editing professionally since 1983. His publication credits include personality profiles, business profiles, newspaper features, essays and numerous articles on the subjects of writing and editing. He has been a member of the Tallahassee Writers' Association since its inception in 1985 and served as the editor of Markings, the association's monthly newsletter, from April 1994 to June 2005. He also provided publishing services for this organization's annual poetry competition chapbooks from 1995 through 2007 and for many of the fiction competition chapbooks.
As the publisher behind CyPress Publications, he provides all production work for the titles published.
Kathie Lynn Chambers-Underwood was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1959. At the age of 18, she left Texas to work and live in the New Orleans French Quarter. Two years later, in 1979, she joined the Navy and left to see the world. Her first duty station landed her in Panama, where she met and married her husband, Tim Underwood, in 1982. Eleven years later, after tours of duty in Italy, Virginia and South Korea, they retired from Navy life and settled in Tallahassee, Florida.
Mrs. Underwood's professional career has been as varied as the places she has lived. She has enjoyed working as a Navy Cryptologic Technician, a motivational speaker, an outplacement program manager for transitioning military personnel, a volunteer corps recruiter and coordinator, a Fund Raiser and Executive Director for several non-profit health organizations, a technical writer for a software development company, a marketing coordinator and contract administrator. In 2002 she received the entrepreneurial spirit and started her own company, Proposal Management Services.
Late one October evening in 2003, Mrs. Underwood was compelled to get out of bed and write the story of her experience catching a live sand dollar. Three hours later Sarah and the Sand Dollar was completed. Three days after that she was put in contact with Dr. David Bradford, an educator in Merritt Island, Florida, who agreed to edit the book. By January of 2004, CyPress Publications began contract negotiations with Mrs. Underwood. Within six months of conception, the first edition of Sarah and the Sand Dollar, Mrs. Underwood's first book, was in print.
Elizabeth Kinzer O'Farrell, author of World War II . . . A Navy Nurse Remembers , is a retired Nurse/Physical Therapist who lives with her husband in Tallahassee, Florida. She is a writer and member of the local chapter of the World War II Historical Society and the Tallahassee Writers' Association.
Elizabeth grew up with six brothers, four of whom were also World War II veterans, and two sisters in a rural community ninety miles southwest of Chicago. She graduated from a local high school, LaSalle-Peru-Ogelsby Junior College in LaSalle, Illinois, and The Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago. After graduating from the School of Nursing in the fall of 1942, she joined the United States Navy Nurse Corps in 1943.
Elizabeth's first duty assignment was at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital in Waukegan, Illinois. In 1944 she was transferred to the naval dispensary at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Glenview, Illinois. There she says she began to see what war was all about and what it meant to the eager young men preparing to fly planes that would be taking off and landing on a ship in unfriendly seas.
In 1945 Elizabeth was transferred to the U.S. Navy Hospital in St. Albans, New York, where she first learned to care for badly disabled young men being flown in from hospital ships and overseas treatment centers to stateside naval hospitals nearest to their homes.
In 1946 the Navy assigned Elizabeth and fifteen other Navy nurses to the Baruch Center of Physical Medicine in Richmond, Virginia, for instruction and training as physical therapists. The program at the Baruch Center was a six-month crash course followed immediately by a six-month internship at a naval hospital under the supervision of a physiatrist.
Elizabeth graduated from the Physical Therapy course at the Baruch Center and took her internship at the Corona Naval Hospital in California. She says of her duty there, both as intern and graduate physical therapist, that she never worked harder or enjoyed her work more than she did the eighteen months she worked with the paralytic patients at the Corona Naval Hospital.
In May 1948 she received orders to report for duty once again at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital, this time for duty as physio-therapist. Duty at Great Lakes proved not very challenging for Elizabeth, and she decided to resign her commission in 1950.
Elizabeth experimented in a variety of jobs that led her finally to a job reviewing and writing copy for textbook ads in a nursing journal published by the Medical Division of McGraw-Hill Book Company in New York City. Eventually she became Managing Editor for the Journal of Nursing Education published by the Medical Division of McGraw-Hill Book Company, and later as Editor for the Journal of Nursing Administration published by Contemporary Publishing, Inc. in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
In his prior life, Ted Simmons enjoyed a career as an oil company technology manager. Most of this time was spent in international producing operations, providing him with the opportunity to live and work in some of the world's most fascinating places. He developed a keen interest in the cultures and beliefs of other people and thinks many Americans would benefit from some of his insights.
Ted and his family lived in the jungles of Sumatra, Indonesia, the suburbs of London, and the desert region known as the "Neutral Zone" between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. He has trod the ancient Silk Road in Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan), stood in the columned halls of the Temple of Karnak in Egypt, jostled with crowds atop the Great Wall of China, crawled through tunnels dug by the North Vietnamese during the war, and hunted butterflies with his teenage son in the mountains of Taiwan.
Ted Simmons is active in the writing community. He was Chairman of the Houston Writers' Conference in 2000, is currently Past-President of the Tallahassee Writers' Association, and chaired the association's nationwide Seven Hills Contest for Writers.
Ted's first novel, Sandstorm, from CyPress Publications, was a 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award nominee.
Ted's second novel, Diablo Creek, was derived from events in the news during Ted's time living in one of the suburbs of Houston, Texas. The story is fictional; the conditions that inspired it are, unfortunately, very real. His third novel, White Heat, White Ashes, features new adventures for characters in Diablo Creek that are even more chilling than their first adventure.
Ted's fourth novel, Windstorm, is a fictional account related to a very real event: the Irish Republican Army bombings in London on July 20, 1982.
Ted's fifth book published through CyPress Publications, Hear My Faint Cry, is a true-crime account of murder in Wakulla County, Florida.
Norma J. Sundberg has been writing on and off for nearly fifty years. Off during pregnancies, on between those events. Those ten little souls offered much grist for the writing mill: for instance, a weekly column, "Nidbits from Norma's Nook," in an Ohio newspaper, The Free Enterprise, for ten years; editor of Tower Bell, the newsletter of First Congregational United Church of Christ, Jefferson, Ohio, for ten years, which included a monthly essay and a poem. Norma has had poetry and articles in a wide range of publications, including Writer's Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and little and literary magazines, as well as feature articles in the Tallahassee Democrat.
Attending college in the late 1970s, Norma found the WRITE English and Creative Writing professor. She is listed (as poet) with Claudia Greenwood, Ph.D., in a manual, Go For It!, for non-traditional women returning to school. Following college she taught creative writing/poetry classes at College for Kids at her alma mater, Kent State University, Ashtabula, Ohio Campus.
Along with her youngest daughter, Norma left Ohio in 1991 to live with an older daughter already living in Tallahassee, Florida. Again, the writing kept pace with the transition. In 2004 and again in 2006, Norma attended the Erma Bombeck HumorWriters Workshop in Dayton, Ohio. An article about the friendship with Erma Bombeck can be found on the humor writers web site: http://humorwriters.org/
Building a network of writer friends across the country, some of them she's never seen, Norma connected with Esther Leiper in the late 1980s when Esther was poetry editor of The Inkling. In recent years this magazine became Writers' Journal. Norma has had a number of poems in Esther's poetry columns. Esther edited an early version of An Odd Fable and asked to do the illustrations.
An Odd Fable was first published in a collection of children's stories from Linden Hill Publishing titled Beyond Time and Place: www.lindenhill.net
An Odd Fable is Norma's first children's book. A volume of poetry is the next scheduled project.
Esther M. Leiper drew as soon as she could hold a pencil, and wrote when she could print. Her mom was a magazine illustrator; her dad, a reporter on the Philadelphia Inquirer for thirty-five years.
Small publications began in high school; poetry, essays, stories appeared in college magazines. Esther likes contest disciplines and has won over a thousand awards. She has served as Poet in the Schools, and has written a cookbook. She wrote a humor column, "Esther's Country Corner" in the North Country Weekly from 1982–1995.
Esther's "Every Day With Poetry" and "Esther Comments" are the two columns begun in Writers' Journal in 1983 (was first The Inkling). Writers' Journal has used her art since 2000. Besides illustrating her own books, like the 2006, WIN! Poetry Contests!, Esther's color pictures adorn An Odd Fable.
Esther is presently Poet Laureate of The White Mountains Region of New Hampshire.
Esther and husband Peter Estabrooks live in Jefferson, New Hampshire, have two grown children, Hannah and Tom Estabrooks, who own a home and teach snowboarding in Bozeman, Montana.
Barbara A. Thompson is a native of Tallahassee, Florida, with degrees from Florida A&M University (B.S., M.Ed.) and Florida State University (Ph.D.) in Physical Education. She has been teaching for more than twenty-five years at the university level with experience in the areas of health, physical education, and sports management. She is a professor, president of her university's chapter of United Faculty of Florida, a graduate of the National Education Association's Emerging Leader Academy, and a two-time recipient of Who's Who Among America's Teachers Award.
Fixin' FAMU: The Last Supper Concoction of Cast Steel Bryant, her first published work of fiction, was born out of the events and activities surrounding the administrative and governance structure in her workplace. Even though the tale may be satirical in nature, its intent is to send the powerful message that no one person is more important than the organization; therefore, governing bodies must gather all relevant information and make thoughtful, reasoned, principled, and sound decisions based on the merits of the issues, and what is in the best interest of any organization they represent. Thus, administrative personnel become a means to the governing body's end and are expendable.
Barbara enjoys spending quiet weekends, evenings, and holidays at home with her husband of over thirty years.
P.J. Allen lives in and writes from Maryland. She earned a Ph.D. in Communication from Florida State University and works to promote education and health in developing countries, including Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The author is also a licensed acupuncturist. The Yeti Quotient is Allen's second novel, following the publication of her first, Deadly Untruths, a political thriller. Her next novel will be the first of a series, which follows the emergence of a young intrepid American journalist, the first in many years.
Iain S. Baird, author of Two Storms--Prostate Cancer and Katrina in New Orleans, is an award-winning writer published in numerous literary magazines in the United States and abroad. He divides his time among New Orleans, Annapolis, and the Panhandle of Florida.
David E. Fountain, author of Grooves--How Jock Hutchison and His Grooved Clubs Changed Golf History! is retired, living the good life with his wife in Florida. He plays golf as often as possible and hopes one day to play the Augusta National golf course, an item on his bucket list. Completing Grooves puts another check on that list.
Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Robert W. Beard, author of the Shawn Barton Adventures A Boy Named Shawn (Book 1) and Halcyon (Book 2), attended Georgia Tech in Atlanta, where he earned a B.S. in Physics. After three years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy, he pursued an academic career–-M.A. from Louisiana State University and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan. Through the years, he held appointments at Princeton, Michigan, Iowa, Louisiana State, and Florida State universities. Prior to his death in early 2012, Bob and his lovely wife made their home in Tallahassee, Florida.
Karen Davis, author of Attitude Matters--Change Your Attitude, Change Your Life has had a very full, eventful, and exciting life. She has accomplished a lot in her many years. She has been a single mother for a long time and is so very proud of her three children, whom she raised to be wonderful, loving, caring, successful human beings.
Karen owned a real estate office and was a Realtor for a long time. This allowed her to care for herself and her kids in the way she wanted to and enjoyed. She then became a Weight Watchers Leader (which she loved). All of this allowed her to have and keep the best Attitude anyone could have.
Karen hopes you read her little book so you, too, can get into a happy place.
Carol Hair Moore has had a love for children and animals all of her life. Each of the six books in her series, I Wish You Ice Cream and Cake, is designed to educate and give the children a life lesson. Marvin The Magnificent Nubian Goat, Busy Bumble Bee Rides The Waves, and her newest book, Ruby Kate's Scrumptious Tea Cake Party are filled with family memories and wonderful life lessons, and each is beautifully illustrated by Michael Harrell.
Ruby Kate is named for Carol's grandmothers, Ruby Strickland and Kate Hair. The families have been in Live Oak, Florida, since the 1850s. Ruby served two terms as mayor of Live Oak. She also served as delegate from Florida to the Democratic National Convention in 1936 and was vice-chair of the Florida delegation. Kate was a loving grandmother who wore purple, even her hats and shoes, and lived in a big old grandmother's house.
Carol shared lots of tea parties with her grandmothers, Ruby and Kate. Carol received her B.S. Degree in Elementary Education from Florida State University. She taught second grade in Gainesville, Florida, while her husband Ed finished law school at the University of Florida. Carol and Ed live in Tallahassee and enjoy their three children, the children's spouses, and their seven grandchildren. Church, family, friends, music, gardening, and writing are Carol's favorite pastimes.
Michael Harrell,, illustrator for Carol Hair Moore's Marvin the Magnificent Nubian Goat, Busy Bumble Bee Rides the Waves, and Ruby Kate' Scrumptious Tea Cake Party, is a native of Tallahassee, Florida. He received a B.F.A. from the University of Georgia in 1989.
Harrell's seascapes and landscapes paintings can be found in private and corporate collections throughout the U.S. and abroad.
His oils and watercolors have been featured in many national publications, including American Artist Watercolor magazine, American Art Collector, and The Artist's Magazine. More than a dozen top galleries represent Harrell's work and, in 2004, The Artist's Magazine listed Michael Harrell as one of the top 20 artists in the United States to watch.
Michael Harrell's clients have included American Express, Paramount Pictures, Seaside, and the Mystic Seaport Museum.
Joseph S. Perrott, author of Sure-Kill, is a graduate of Williams College and holds graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Villanova University. He has enjoyed careers as an educator and a psychotherapist. He lives with his wife, Carol, in Philadelphia and Barnegat, New Jersey, and together they have six children and three cats.
John Rushing, author of A.J. Puppy Learns to Swim, learned to swim in an abandoned rock pit in South Miami. His interest in the water continued when he swam for Coral Gables High School and much later coached swimming for the City of Lauderhill.
That affection for water sports was shared by his son and daughter and has now passed down to five grandchildren.
It was only after a career as an entrepreneur and a second career as a university teacher that his concern for water safety found a creative outlet in A.J. Puppy. It is his desire that children everywhere will, like A.J., learn to love the water and swim safely.
John Rushing is a citizen of the United States, holds degrees as a Doctor of Business Administration (February 28, 2001); Master of International Business Administration (January 22, 1990); and Bachelor of Arts (February 2, 1960).
Susan L. Womble lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with her family. She is a National Board Certified teacher with a career of teaching grades K-12 in the areas of Reading, Special Education, Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and the profoundly handicapped. She is an award-winning author of Newt's World: Beginnings, winner of the 2008 Florida Book Award Gold Medal for Children's Literature. She also authored Newt's World: Beginnings Workbook (teacher's and student's editions) and the second in the series, Newt's World: Internal Byte and accompanying workbook, as well as the upcoming third installment, Newt's World: Ultimate Game.
William Bradford, author of Jeremy McBright Was Afraid of the Night, claims to be "just a North Carolina mountain native who has been in advertising for over 25 years." He likes to write and illustrate stories that kids might want to read.He wrote this and other books for his daughters when they were small, and now writing and illustrating serve as a form of therapy when he gets the chance to do it.
David Fay, illustrator for A.J. Puppy Learns to Swim, has been drawing and painting for many years. In the 1960s he published two cartoons in Gourmet and Skier magazines.
David painted for several years as a hobby but began drawing seriously again on a flight from Tallahassee to Hanoi, Viet Nam, in 2000. He turned his art into a calendar and has been publishing calendars for family and friends since 2000.
The opportunity to illustrate A.J. Puppy Learns to Swim was an excellent one, and he has enjoyed working with John Rushing and Lee Raymond on the illustrations for John's book.
David Fay is a Senior Vice President for a Geographic Information Systems provider in Tallahassee, Florida.
He also provides research services to construction companies to help them hedge diesel fuel costs.
Larry Benson's writing career dates back to the 1950s when he was an historian with Headquarters 8th Air Force in Texas and with Allied Air Forces Southern Europe, a NATO headquarters in Italy. He graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma and was on the advertising staff of the Tulsa newspapers. In the early 1960s he wrote program and training materials at the international offices of the Jaycees in Miami. While a staff member for 23 years at Tallahassee Community College, he had over 55 articles published on a wide range of subjects in national and international journals. He has also written over 90 articles for the local train club journal. While writing these articles, a railroad mystery began to evolve. Ten years in the making, Hobo Justice is his first novel.
He and his wife have two daughters and five granddaughters and currently live in Tallahassee, Florida.
Audrey Lewis, author of Different Levels of Parent Involvement (DLOPI), brings a wealth of experience to the area of parent involvement, including 25 years as the Coordinator for Parent Services for the Gadsden School District, located in Quincy, Florida, just minutes away from the state's capital, Tallahassee. Lewis began a teaching career as a Speech and Language Pathologist for nine years, and then expanded her career when she became a parent involvement specialist for exceptional student education programs in 1985. In 1993, Lewis was appointed by the superintendent of schools to coordinate all public relations and community engagement. However, Lewis included parent involvement services for children and families; therefore, parent involvement and community engagement expanded her career in education "to a new level."
In 1996, Lewis created DLOPI, and within years the Department of Education recognized a FACT Sheet for DLOPI as a valuable parent resource and data based calculation of parent participation and involvement, along with parent trainings as a road map for school districts. Lewis also provides continuous support to parents to help them gain knowledge about educational issues, policies, materials, and resources. She provides support and training to parents of exceptional students, conducts home visits, publishes and distributes newsletters, coordinates parent workshops, and created and organized an ESE and district parent advisory group. As a means to provide parents with new and necessary information and a place called home, a one-stop information resource center housed with resources for parents and the community promoted the establishment of the school district's Family Information Resource Center, known as "The Potter's House." To continue to provide outreach to parents and community members, a grant-funded Parent Resource RV Mobile Unit gave another venue for taking resources directly to parents in the communities in which they live. Lewis spearheaded a new wave of working with community organizations and school districts to get needed resources--whether school choice options, career academic opportunities, health, workforce, and literacy--to community members and parents.
Lewis has brought to her district (Gadsden) over one million dollars in federal money to support parental choice options, parent awareness, and parenting opportunities. She serves as a member of many organizations and formerly served as a mentor for the Voluntary Public School Choice program to Madison County School District and as the Chairperson for the State of Florida PTA for Family and Community Involvement. Presently she serves on the State of Florida Faith-Based Council and Title I Advisory Committee. Most recently, she served as the president for the Florida Parental School Choice Consortium. Under her leadership, the name of the Consortium changed during a School Choice and Charter School conference to the "Florida Parental School Choice Consortium" from the Florida School Choice Consortium as advised by Mr. T. Willard Fair, the Honorable Chair of the State Board of Education to encompass all parents. Lewis is a powerful speaker, energizer, and motivator. She brings excitement, practical experiences, and humor as a training consultant. Lewis values all of her roles; however, she places special emphasis on being the mother of two adult children, Frederica and AJ; a grandson, Andre, Jr.; and special God children, Jermaine, Cagni, Savannah Rae, and TJ.
Dr. Rufus Ellis, Jr., contributing author of Different Levels of Parent Involvement (DLOPI), is a veteran educator with varied educational skills and experiences in teaching, administration, and research in the public school system, higher education, and state and federal governments. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of Education and Associate Chairman, Department of Secondary Education and Foundations, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (Florida A&M University), Tallahassee, Florida. He is also Co-Director of the Center for Educational Innovations and Research, Florida A&M University. Prior to Dr. Ellis' appointment at Florida A&M University, he served as a Senior Educational Program Administrator for the Florida Department of Education and directed the State of Florida Educational Reform Initiatives, including the Voluntary Public School Parental Choice and Charter School programs.
Dr. Ellis' personal, academic and career experience have been enhanced by his travel throughout the Continental U.S.A.; Canada; Europe; Asia; and Latin America, including South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Dr. Ellis is affiliated with numerous social, professional and academic organizations, some of which include the American Institute of Higher Education; Oxford Round Table; Institute for the Transformation of Learning; Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Delta Kappa.
Dr. Ellis is the author, co-author and editor of multiple publications in his areas of expertise that include education, community development, governmental relations and social services. A celebrated lecturer and researcher, he has been nationally and locally recognized for his contributions, building a repertoire of awards and honors including the Florida Department of Education Achievers Award; Excellence in Education Award; and Charter Schools President's Award. Dr. Ellis was named a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1984, Princeton University, and an Oxford Roundtable Fellow, Harris-Manchester College, Oxford University, Oxford England, 2008, and Florida A&M University 2010-2011 Teacher of the Year.
Valerie Bouthyette, illustrator for What To Do . . . When Your Mom Feels Blue, has been drawing ever since she could hold a crayon. She creates in her studio nestled in the farmland of upstate New York, which she refers to as "her heaven." An award-winning graphic and fine artist, Valerie continues to call on her imagination and memories of childhood to create illustrations that warm your heart and make you smile.
In her spare time, Valerie does a bit of farming, plays with her four dogs, and is training three young horses. She is married to Dr. Pierre-Yves Bouthyette, a professor at Elmira College, and has two fabulous grown children—Joseph and Katie Vigliotti. She has recently become certified to teach elementary school in New York State.
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PWYP seeking Executive Director
Publish What You Pay seeks Executive Director to lead the global coalition.
The civil society coalition Publish What You Pay (PWYP), represented on the EITI Board, is seeking a new Executive Director to lead the collation to deliver its strategy.
Find more information about the position and how to apply here: www.publishwhatyoupay.org/about/work-with-us/


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I lead a youth group. Most of these young men and women think that having an email address is basically laughable. But for a busy, work-at-home, homeschooling, 30-something mom, email is still an absolutely indispensable part of life.
And in the two years that I've had a Gmail account, I've basically abandoned all my other email providers and gone full-on Gmail addiction.
- Gmail provides a way to check all other emails (except Yahoo) from one address. And I have a LOT of different emails…several different ones for work, one for my freelance writing, one for family, one for online shopping, etc, etc. I was about to go crazy until I recently discovered I could conglomerate almost all of them into one location. AND it will let you send from whatever account the email came to. I can even have them come in with different colors for different accounts. Priceless!!
- Labels!!! Gmail has this terrific system for adding labels to your messages. Its kind of like tagging pictures in a photo software, I guess. But you can give labels, or categories, to any incoming or outgoing message so that when you need to find that email three months ago with the cannoli recipe your aunt sent you, you simply search your labels for "recipes" and voila – – there it is! Ingenious!!
- Gmail Chat. Although I don't use it that often, I love looking over at my sidebar to see who is and isn't online when I am. If someone has sent me an email, sometimes its just more fun to respond to them in real time. Snazzy!!
- I don't know about you, but I live and die by "to-do" lists. I always have at least 157 balls in the air at any one time, and if I didn't keep track of what I need to do NEXT, then they would all come tumbling down on my head. Gmail Tasks takes care of this easy-peasy. You can simply type in your daily tasks (which is also automatically imported into the Google calendar), but you can also turn an email INTO a task, which is awesome! So you get an email reminder from Joan at your co-op that you are supposed to bake 3 dozen Danish wedding cookies for the International Cuisine celebration two weeks from Tuesday. You simply click on "Add to Tasks", and it will let you choose the date, and will also connect directly back to that email, and it will all come to you in a big ole' reminder two weeks from Tuesday on the dot! Has. saved. my. life. Miraculous!!
- How many times have you sent an email and forgotten to include the attachment? Yep, me too. Or you wrote an angry message you immediate wish you hadn't. Well, gmail gives you several seconds after hitting "send" to then click "UNDO." The message stops sending, you get to correct your boo-boos, and all is well with the world. Stupendous!!
- If you use your email for work, or blogging, or any repetitious type of information, then you often need to include different web links in your messages. Gmail has a feature called "Quick Links" that sits in your sidebar and lets you insert any common web link into your email in one click. So if you have told 20 different email friends about this new restaurant they need to try, and you have had to go searching for the link each and every time, you will never have to do that again with Quick Links. It is always waiting there for you to click right in. Wonderful!!
I'm telling you, if you aren't using Gmail, you aren't really emailing.
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The Rev Canon Robert Allwood
Elected by Senate to fill a casual vacancy, the Rev Canon Robert Allwood was Fellow of Senate from 1855 to 1886, during which he served as Vice-Chancellor (elected by and from the Fellows) between the years 1869 and 1883. He was the first Anglican cleric to be a Fellow of Senate.
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Fellow of Senate 1855 - 1886, including election by Senate as
Vice-Chancellor 1869 - 1883
The Rev Canon Robert Allwood, Church of England clergyman, was born on 24 September 1803 at Kingston, Jamaica.
He went to Eton and matriculated at Cambridge in 1821. He became a foundation scholar (BA, 1825) and was ordained deacon by the bishop of Bath and Wells on 5 November 1826, and appointed to a minor canonry of Bristol. The bishop of Bristol priested him on 12 January 1828, and next year he became curate of Dowry Square chapel, Clifton; in 1834-35 he served as chaplain to the mayor of Bristol.
In June 1839 Allwood was accepted as graduate clergyman for the new diocese of Australia, sailing in the Kinnear in July 1839 and reaching Sydney in December.
In January 1840 Allwood was appointed to the incumbency of St James's Church, King Street, where he remained until he retired in 1884. St James's was already the principal church in Sydney and served as the pro-cathedral until 1843. He was an incisive and thoughtful preacher, and his pulpit became a powerful influence on churchmen of his time.
Allwood maintained a vigorous ministry to the convict and immigrants' barracks, the hospitals and other institutions in his district; trained a succession of able curates; achieved a great amount of pastoral work; and played a major part in the affairs of the diocese. In 1876 he became chancellor of the diocese and held office for eight years, during which much was done in the ordering of synod procedure and the administration of church property.
Allwood's main interest was education. His parish school, one of the largest in the colony, became the model school for the training of Anglican denominational teachers, and Allwood acted as an examiner. He was in close touch with St James's Grammar School (1838-57), a diocesan foundation but conducted within the parish.
In 1845 St James's College was set up, primarily to train candidates for the ministry. Allwood was appointed principal and conducted much of the teaching, first at his church and, from 1847, at Lyndhurst, Glebe. He was an able and devoted principal, but charges of Tractarian influence made the college unpopular with some of the clergy and laity and it closed in 1849, the year before the University of Sydney was founded.
Allwood's attitude to the University of Sydney was less hostile than that of the bishops. He made a moderate defence of it in 1852 and supported the compromise proposal for affiliated colleges. In 1855 he was elected a fellow of St Paul's College, whose classes were held initially at his church. In the same year he became the first Anglican cleric to be a member of the university senate and served as vice-chancellor in 1869-82.
In the early 1880s the parish, in difficulties through the loss of its resident population, had to adjust to a new role as a city church. The school had been closed and the church needed repair, but was threatened with resumption. Allwood was too old to lead a revival and resigned his cure in 1884 after a ministry of forty-four years.
The Reverend Canon Allwood died at Edgecliff, Sydney, on 27 October 1891.
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When I'm asked what I do for a living, the responses that I get range from the infuriating: 'You must have a really great camera' to the inane: 'People write books about photography?' as well as the interesting. One of the interesting ones landed my way the other evening when I was chatting to someone whose wife enjoys taking photos.
'What one thing can my wife do to improve her photos?'
My answer was immediate, and pretty simple: 'Evaluate them.'
If you want to get better at taking photos, it's all very well being told that you need to practise, practise, practise, but you need to do a little bit more than that. You see, unless you critically assess your photos to work out what worked, what didn't, and why, all that practising will just result in a harddrive full of images that suffer from the same flaws and foibles. So you need to evaluate them: the good, the bad, and the what should I do differently.
Haje has written a very helpful guide to practical photo evaluation. His approach is both creative and technical and I would definitely recommend it for people whose photographic knowledge is above average and are serious about improving. But if you're just starting out, or if you just want to know how to make your holiday snaps that bit better, it might be a touch too complex.
So here's a simpler version.
- You do this at home on a big screen. Don't try to evaluate photos properly on the screen on the back of your camera. That's a recipe for disaster.
- When you look at the photo, choose one thing about it that works. Is the composition bang-on? Have you captured the moment perfectly?
- Then ask yourself: Why is it working?
- Now identify one thing that isn't working. Is the exposure slightly off? Are the eyes not quite in focus?
- In which case, what do you need to do to improve it?
- Next time, make sure that you do it!
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2. Creation of a unitrust, annuity trust, gift annuity, pooled income fund, short-term trust or other life estate program.
3. Naming the Southington-Cheshire Community YMCA as the eventual recipient of life insurance.
4. Naming the Southington-Cheshire Community YMCA to receive a bequest in one's will.
The goal of the YMCA's Endowment Fund is to create assets to produce a portion of the Association's annual operating fund, as well as to fund special projects as designated by the board of directors.
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I am patiently impatiently waiting for my new stamps to arrive. I ordered a "to","from", and "thank you" stamp for starters just to test them out before taking orders and ordering more. I hope they turn out as beautiful as my Initial Stamp. Once I love them I'm going to put them in my shop and take orders through there, as well as via Facebook and this blog!
Some projects I am currently working on -- envelopes using my dip pens (LOVE), gold ink place cards on beautiful textured cardstock, a couple of custom stamp orders, and I'm finally sending out my latest project today that I am eager to post on here. Once my friend's get their gift, I'll be putting it on here so fast!


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The Famous Tale Of Ebenezer Scrooge…by Beth!
My name is Beth and I would like to introduce you to my family and share with you our journey with Primary Hyperoxaluria. My hopes are to help you better understand why your support to the OHF is so valuable.
My brothers Steve and Eric and I all have Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1 (PH1). Steve passed away at age 49 because of the disease, Eric had a liver/kidney transplant in 2006 and because of research done by doctors with OHF, I live a healthy life. As I was thinking about how to tell the story of my family and PHI, the future, and hope, and given that this is the holiday season, I was drawn to the story of A Christmas Carol, that famous tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
When it comes to PHI, some of my family's story is akin to the Ghost of Christmas past; it is a story we cannot change, but it informs the future. Much like Ebenezer was able to change the future after visits with the famous three ghosts, the OHF's research represents to me, a way to change the future for all families who struggle with PHI.
Now, in saying this, I want to clear up any impression that because I am talking about the Christmas Carol, that somehow my family was like Ebenezer Scrooge before his ghostly visits. The truth is far different. I am one of eight children. My parents Frank and Fran Harrison raised us in an old farmhouse on a street aptly named "Pleasant Street" in Kennebunk, Maine. The environment in my childhood home can only be described as "happy chaos." Not only did my parents provide a loving home for all eight of their children, but they always generously opened it up to scores of neighborhood kids, elderly relatives and friends from school. My mother made a meal for ten people every night, and it was understood that there was always a place at our big kitchen table for anyone who wanted, or dared, join the chaos. Family parties were legendary.
My father, a retired lieutenant-colonel in the Marine Corps, raised us to be a team – we were expected to look after each other. Family loyalty and commitment was considered part of our DNA.
As children, PHI was a lurking presence, but we had no idea what it was. It presented itself in the form of chronic kidney stone attacks. Eric and I experienced multiple kidney stones as kids and were sent to the hospital on many occasions. They became almost commonplace. One time, I started passing a stone the morning of my sister Anne's wedding. The wedding proceeded as planned, the family pediatrician was called to Pleasant Street to give me a painkiller that allowed me to put on my bridesmaid's dress and make it to the reception.
Passing a kidney stone is a very painful experience. When I get one, it is so excruciating that at first I am blinded by the pain. I can't focus on anything but trying to get out of my own skin. Through unhappy experience, I have learned to collect myself and breathe through it, but it is very very difficult. This may sound strange, but by the time I reached adulthood, I stopped seeking medical help unless a kidney stone attack was unusually serious. The common treatment in the Seventies and Eighties was to give me high levels of pain killers like morphine. I hated how that made me feel. So, when I grew up and was making medical choices for myself, I chose to "ride it out" like one would a passing storm. Eric had a similar experience, although he had many more stones than me.
This was our family's norm until the late Nineties, when Steve, a smart and strong commercial fisherman in Maine, had a heart attack and lost all kidney function. At the time, we thought the heart attack caused the kidney failure, when in fact, it was the other way around. His kidneys failed 2 because he was in the end stage of oxalosis. Over time, he kept getting sicker and nobody understood why until one doctor took a special interest in Steve's case and discovered he had PHI. Unfortunately, by the time it was discovered, Steve was too sick to be a candidate for a transplant and he died at age 49 on December 3, 2003, about nine months after they diagnosed him with PHI.
Remarkably, he was strong and positive until the end. He was very sick and in a lot of pain as this awful disease, as he termed it, was turning his veins to stone. I remember that the last Christmas gift I gave him was a pair of runner's gloves that were lightweight, but warm because even wearing regular gloves was too painful. I continue to be amazed by his grace and courage during the last months of his life. He once told my sister that he was ok with his diagnosis because, as the eldest brother, it was his job to look after the younger kids. He believed that it was likely that others in the family had the disease and that because of his experience, we would get help and be safe.
He was right. Although Eric eventually also lost kidney function, he was able to get a life-saving kidney/liver transplant at Mass General in July 2006. I was able to start treatment with large doses of B6 (and some other drugs), follow a special diet, and remain healthy. Simply put, I owe every moment of my life to my brother and I think of him every day. I am able to watch my three children grow into adulthood because of him.
I am also forever indebted to all the folks at OHF who have committed years of time and energy developing therapies and resources for PH patients. I remember the day Steve first told me about PH. He was at my house for a St. Patrick's Day party. He told me to go online, get information, and bring it to my doctor because he was certain I had the disease. I was stunned and scared – my brother was dying and my children were young – one was still in diapers. My doctors, although kind and helpful, didn't know much about the disease. After Eric went into renal failure, I emailed the OHF. I still remember their kind and comforting response. It was like a beacon calling me safely back to shore.
So, in the Christmas present we are a family still united in our love for our brother Steve and tremendously grateful to those at OHF who worked for so many years bringing awareness and resources to study this rare and deadly disease. As we enter our fifties, Eric and I cherish every day we have with our family. And yes, our family still has large, noisy parties on Pleasant Street, and the family table is still open to anyone who wants to join the fun.
As for the Christmases yet to come, I believe that like Ebenezer Scrooge, we are not destined to suffer or be beaten by PH. We can change the future. The therapy that has saved my life does not work for all PH patients. Although organ transplants are an option, it is an expensive one that is fraught with uncertainty and incredible risk. That is why I am so thrilled and grateful that through research funded by the OHF they are committed and able to study real cures that attack this terrible disease at the genetic level.
There is a wonderful line from a song by U2 that says "of science and the human heart there is no limit. There is no failure here sweetheart, just when you quit." The lesson of the Christmas Carol is that no matter our past, with a little heart we change our future. The heart of the folks I have met through OHF combined with your financial support, will allow research and the rapidly developing incredible science to change the future.
PH doesn't stand a chance.


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Oops I did it again | Dudoir
So once, I can call it curiosity - pushing myself creatively because seriously - it's so different and outside of my usual capture that I'm pushed outside my comfort zone. Twice - curiosity no longer works as a reason... and I may as well fess up. I like to shoot men.
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14 August, 2017
Dosage of Melatonin for Insomnia
If you are having trouble sleeping, you will want to know about melatonin, a natural hormone present in the body made from the amino acid tryptophan, but available to take as a supplement. Melatonin is a natural regulator of the sleep cycle, and taking exogenous melatonin may help those with insomnia. Certain plants contain melatonin, making this hormone available as a supplement from natural sources.
Melatonin and Sleep
The use of melatonin in treating multiple types of sleep disturbances has been tested in many different studies. The Mayo Clinic reports that melatonin has been used to treat insomnia in the elderly, children, and adults who were healthy other than having insomnia. This hormone has also been used to treat jet lag in order to help establish new sleeping patterns after traveling to a new time zone. The amount of melatonin that most people naturally produce is about 0.3 mg per day, and this level peaks between 2 and 4 a.m.
The general recommended dosage for insomnia is between 1 and 3 mg taken about 1 hour before bedtime, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center. However, some people may find a dose as low as 0.1 mg will induce sleep in those experiencing insomnia. Because melatonin can have different effects in different people, consulting a medical professional for recommendations that would be right for you would be a good idea. The ideal dose of melatonin allows you to fall sleep within an adequate period of time, but will not make you sleepy or irritable the next day.
Dr. Amnon Brzezinski and colleagues at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem conducted a study, the results of which were published in the journal "Sleep Medicine Reviews" in February 2005. In this study, Dr. Brzezinski conducted a meta-analysis in which he grouped together the results of 15 studies involving people with insomnia, but no other health problems. The results were that melatonin did indeed significantly reduced time to sleep and increased time to wake. The results of this meta-analysis indicate that melatonin does significantly help treat those with insomnia.
Possible Side Effects
Melatonin may cause side effects in some people, and thus the University of Maryland Medical Center recommends only taking this supplement under the advice of a medical professional. These side effects include: especially vivid dreams; headache and irritability; reduced sex drive; stomach cramps; and, in men, gynecomastia, which is the abnormal growth of breast tissue, and reduced sperm count.
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Subject Line: What is Fit in MBA Admissions
Hello mbafome,
As an admissions consultant I enjoyed your post, "How do you describe 'fit'?" and would love to comment on the issue of fit with a top MBA program.
"Fit" is essentially the alignment between you and a given school: how well the qualities you want in a school line up with what the school offers, and vice versa. For you, the character of the students and overall culture are of high importance, and it's great that you recognize that point and factor it into your selection process. Also, fit is a two-way street; it works both ways – it includes what the school wants. I recall talking to someone who raved about how Stanford was the perfect fit for her, which she'd determined after visiting, talking to students, etc. However, with a GMAT in the mid 600's, a GPA well under 3.5, and a career that was successful but not outstanding, she wasn't a fit for Stanford – she did not align with what they were looking for.
Obviously fit is relative. Not all the factors you want in a school are of equal importance, and some are more open to compromise than others.
Determining what factors are important to you, and their relative weight, will help you evaluate a school's fit for you and therefore avoid a costly mistake, i.e., attending a program that doesn't meet your needs. Similarly, evaluating what a school is looking for before you apply – whether you are a fit for the school – will also help you avoid squandering time, effort, and money in applying to programs where you have scant chance of being admitted.
As a 13-year MBA admissions consultant and editor, I've compiled a special report that addresses the issue of fit and walks you through selection of schools by evaluating your needs and schools' requirements: Best MBA Programs: A Guide to Selecting the Right One. It's a free download. You may find it helpful as you continue to refine your idea of fit to find the right school for you.
I hope you apply and are accepted to just the right program – one where your adventurousness will be appreciated and shared!
Cindy Tokumitsu
Senior Editor, www.accepted.com
By Cindy Tokumitsu, author of numerous ebooks, articles, and special reports. Cindy has worked with hundreds of successful MBA applicants in her last ten years with Accepted. She can help you assess your strengths and weaknesses and develop a winning MBA admissions strategy.


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Shoot First, Blog Later: Roger, Breitbart & Top Web Journos Go Shooting With Texas Gov. Rick Perry
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Sen. Bill Stouffer on State of the Union
Comments from Sen. Bill Stouffer given immediately after President Obama's State of the Union Speech:
State Senator Bill Stouffer this evening offered the following reaction to President Obama's State of the Union Address to the United States Congress.
"Tonight the President offered no real plan to drastically reduce Washington spending and taxes. Instead, he offered lip service and half measures.
The message from the American people is clear: "enough is enough." Enough out of control Washington spending, enough tax increases and enough big government.
Ike Skelton and Nancy Pelosi continue to march in lockstep with this out of touch administration. It is time that we had a voice in the Fourth District that listens to the people and advocates common sense policies that help create jobs and bring down our deficit."
Bill Stouffer(R), Napton, is challenging Ike Skelton for the 4th district congressional seat. Stouffer is considered a leader in transportation and agriculture issues and currently serves as Chairman of the Senate's Republican Caucus, Chairman of the Senate's Committee on Transportation and Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Food Production, and Outdoor Resources.
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Have you heard of Dr. Bill Sears' LEAN program? Dr. Sears says, "Creating a healthier community begins with having practical tools and information that make implementing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle simple."
To that end, he created the L.E.A.N. Program, which stands for Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitude and Nutrition. He hits the mark in creating a program to teach families and communities how to incorporate these four critical components in their lives. Each one of these four concepts is very important to reducing both emotional stress and oxidative stress.
Lifestyle involves all the choices we make. It covers our habits and our stress level and the decisions we make day to day that lead to poor health.
Exercise is, of course, critical to every aspect of our being, from the endorphins released by the body when we exercise, which help to make us feel happy, to the fact that exercise helps us to be more sensitive to our own insulin, which helps prevent obesity and Diabetes.
Attitude is the cornerstone of good health. Dr. Gabor Mate tells us that repressed emotion is a key factor in the development of chronic degenerative disease.
Nutrition, of course makes all the difference to good health, given that many experts believe that more that 60% of all chronic degenerative disease is directly caused by the food we eat.
So the completeness of the LEAN Program could very well help to manage all of the factors that lead to crazy levels of both emotional stress and oxidative stress in children and teens. Through this program, kids really can get healthy for life. With Dr. Sears help, families can make better healthy lifestyle choices and stop living those unhealthy lifestyles that have lead to the obesity and Diabetes epidemic of today.
The LEAN Program works through synergy. If you put a group of nutrients together in a well-balanced meal, and the body absorbs the nutrients better than it would if the same vitamins and minerals were isolated in a vitamin pill. Think-tanks put a group of people together in a room, each one with a different field of expertise, and they feed off one another, developing ideas together that none of them could have thought of alone. This is why the LEAN program works. When you put all the four components together, each individual one works better.
There are more "shoulds" than "should nots" in the LEAN Program, and the results last, unlike other diet and fitness programs that promise quick results but don't deliver in the long run. Children and families will feel fit; a three-letter word that economically describes what healthy living is all about. Individuals not only fit better into their clothing, but also with their family, school or job. Get on the LEAN program before you get sick; and use this rejuvenating program to not only prevent illness, but to simply feel great!
The LEAN Program means living healthy without smoking, excessive alcohol, or other unhealthy substances. The "L" in lifestyle could also stand for "love" and "laughter." If there are not enough of these two "L's" in your job, relationships, habits, or activities, some changes are needed. For some people, change is difficult, since the body and the mind often resist change, but remind yourself we're talking about change for the better, not for the worse.
One of the healthiest ways to stay lean is to exercise. The more muscle you have, the more fat calories you can burn. If you wanna lose it, you gotta move it. The key to getting and staying lean is to set your fatpoint to fat-burn rather than fat-store. How? By eating right and exercising more. Also, Regular, moderate exercise increases the white cell count, improving the body's ability to fight off infection. Lastly, exercise is not only good for the body; it's great for the brain. The brain is an oxygen hog, which is why it takes 25 percent of the blood that the heart pumps (more in children). Exercise delivers more oxygen to the brain and helps all tissue, especially brain tissue, use oxygen more efficiently, which translates into better thinking.
Trim the fat in your feelings by keeping your mind off counterproductive stuff. The attitude part of the LEAN program is about using your mind to help you get a lean body. You can't just think fat away, but there are fascinating ways your mind can affect your body – for better or for worse. Stress gets in the way of good health. Your body can't reap all the benefits of nutrition and exercise if it's overstressed. And stress can get in the way of eating right and getting enough exercise.
Emphasize a low-fat diet. Instead of a diet, let's call it a change in eating style, meaning that you are focusing more on eating well rather than on eating less. To stay lean you have to do one of two things: eat more and burn more fat or eat less and exercise less. You can't have it both ways. You are likely to feel more full after eating a fiber-filled plant food than after a meal featuring meat. Fiber gives you a feeling of fullness sooner for fewer calories, a good nutritional strategy for staying lean. So, if you are trying to lose weight or lower the amount of fat in your diet, first fill up on high-fiber, low-fat salad-bar fixings. You'll eat less of the main.
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The financial meltdown of 2008 was particularly hard on cyclical stocks. Companies in the chemical industry reported huge losses in the recessionary period, and 45 U.S. chemical companies had to file for bankruptcy in 2008.
With the economic recovery taking hold, chemical companies have shown signs of relief. The U.S. chemical industry accounts for 15% of the world's chemical industry output, and its contribution towards the GDP of the United States stands at a staggering 25%. We can expect some solid investment opportunities to arise here as the industry has a growth outlook in the United States and internationally.
Larger chemical companies have a better chance of exploiting the revival in the chemical industry as they have global operations with access to multidimensional markets. Three companies in the United States fall into this criterion. They are Huntsman Corporation (NYSE:HUN), The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) and Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN).
Huntsman's weak fundamentals
Huntsman Corporation (NYSE:HUN) is a global leader in the consumer and industrial chemical industry. The company's annual revenues are close to $11 billion. Like all cyclical stocks, the company suffered in the financial meltdown, but the trailing three years have seen the company's performance improve.
The pigment segment of the company has been its fastest growing segment. The segment was reporting strong margins until prices for titanium dioxide started to fall. Due to this change, the company reported a net loss of $24 million in the first quarter.
The second-fastest growing segment of the company is its polyurethane segment because the company's margins for MDI urethanes have improved. The earnings from this segment were able to partially offset the negative earnings from the pigment segment. Huntsman Corporation (NYSE:HUN) is planning to expand its polyurethane business by acquiring the privately held specialty urethane polyols maker Oxid. The acquisition will improve the company's footprint and possibly take it out of its recent losses.
The current situation of the company looks slim and I would not be investing my money in this company.
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) is the second largest chemical company globally. Its chemical products are used as raw materials in different industries. The first quarter sales of the company dropped 2% on a year-over-year basis. However, the company expects its performance plastics, electronic & functional materials and agricultural sciences segments to show robust growth in the coming months.
The company has been successful in increasing its quarterly cash flow from operations. As of March 2013, the company has received up to $2.48 billion from its K-Dow transaction with the Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait. The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) used this amount to repurchase $1.5 billion of its shares and reduce the company's gross debt. The lower amounts of debt would reduce the interest expense of the company making it a less risky investment.


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Hammergram: April 2015
It's the last Friday of the month, so it's time once again for Hammergram! We are fascinated by the photos our visitors take of the objects and spaces at the Hammer. Hammergram is a monthly round-up of our favorite visitor photos in the hopes that it will inspire you to share your own Hammer experience with us.
The Hammer Museum welcomes visitors to take non-flash, personal-use photography (except where noted). Share your images with us by tagging @hammer_museum or #hammermuseum on Instagram or Twitter, and you could be featured in the next Hammergram!
Photos by: @fancylush, @qingwenli, @imacanasian, @bryceww, @alexlee777, @humbertocapiro, @xsteeeena, @themightyduckworth, @mmcvay, @amandacpeters, @_birdasaurus, @subodhkolla, @isthatsam3, @hannahhychang, @kielberry, @rosalieandrea.
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
In these last few years I've been practising mindfulness as a regular part of my week. It started when I began dabbling with yoga after moving to the island for university. As I've come to learn, yoga is a fascinating art with deep roots. In fact, there are 8 limbs to yoga and the physical asana practise that many in the western world equate with yoga is but one of them.
Over the years it always fascinates and captivates me anew when a friend who starts innocently enough with asana practise suddenly finds them self opening to a whole new world of self-awareness, balance, and desire to explore deeper this mysterious and ancient art. Asana practise certainly serves as a deftly efficient hook, bringing initiates to more arcane aspects of yoga, even though they needn't one.
I digress. My growing mindfulness has allowed me to cope and work through many challenges my adult life has thrown at me. And for that, I am grateful. Further, developing an awareness of connection between my mind and body, body and community, community and ecosystem has allowed me to better attune to nuances of energy. Suddenly the personal energy I feel inside is not a foreign wisp, completely out of my control and dictated by errant biorhythms. It's something I'm responsible to cultivate and serves as a barometer of how harmoniously my lifestyle matches up with what my body and mind need to thrive. This very personal energy can also be influenced by external sources, such as the change of a season or mood of coworkers & friends.
By being more consistently mindful throughout the year, I've noticed that my yoga practise definitely changes with the seasons in a bit of a predictable pattern. Curious to see if this happened to other yogis, I Googled and found that, not only did other yogis experience this, but that there was a whole science on how to structure practise to facilitate seasonal variations on energy and how it impacts the student.
Predictably, spring is a time for coolness, wet, rebirth and awakening. Summer is a time full of energy, heat, and growth. Fall is a time for harvest, crispness, sharing and preparation. Winter is a time for "death", cold, contemplation, and introspection. Bringing expectations for my personal energy into alignment with the type of energy provided by each of the seasons has helped me battle seasonal depression and has allowed me to be the right kind of productive, depending on the time of year.
So, what does all this have to do with blogging to myself?
Mitch links to a video by Vi Hart titled: "They Became What They Beheld: Medium, Message, Youtubery". If you are at all flirting with content creation, brand management, or marketing, I suggest you give it a quick watch. It's only 5 minutes long, I'll even embed it right here so you don't even need to go anywhere!
So, self, don't forget: "reaching a wider audience is not worth sacrificing my content."
Also, this is a particularly poignent passage that resonated:
The trouble with knowing what to say, and saying it clearly & fully is that clear speaking is often obsolete thinking. Clear statement is like an art object: it is the afterlife of the process that called it into being. The process itself is the significant step and, especially at the beginning, is often incomplete and uncertain.
My apologies for the lack of updates on the blog recently. I do have a great excuse though- I was in London! Jesse and I took off to the UK on business to attend ICE and LAC. These are two of the largest industry conferences for the circles Bet Smart Media now runs in.
Today is my first day back in Canada and I think I'm still pretty much on London time, hence the post at 5am- probably the earliest you'll ever see me post on here again!
I think there's a post brewing in my head for this blog here talking about how entrepreneurs -particularly Internet entrepreneurs- need to get outside the four walls of their office and interact with their industries. We've been a bit guilty of that at Bet Smart. Going to these conferences were amazing in both the relationships we now have with so many decision makers in the industry, and the number of opportunities we now can pursue as a business.
More on that later though when I'm not so jetlagged! I think we'll be posting on the Bet Smart blog about what the conferences meant for the company. In the meantime, check out this cool video I compiled of our trip below. Mind the gap!
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About The Teacher
After spending his childhood dreaming of becoming an astronaut, superhero, futuristic bikie punk, enchanted mermaid or something cool like that, Louie realised he'd been dreaming a little too long and most that stuff was impossible anyway. Luckily he can draw pretty well so he's able to experience all those things and more by putting pencil to paper. He CAN be an enchanted mermaid, y'know, if he wants to.Louie's work focuses strongly on narratives and experimenting with different techniques of graphic storytelling. His short comic The Corner Store nominated for a 2014 Ledger Award and won the Ace Comics & Games 2013 Best Short Australian Comic prize.
Louie ran his visual story telling workshop at our Temple Dreaming in Angkor Wat retreat in 2014.