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Initiatives: Exhibits, Challenges and Toolkits
Establishing a culture of health in the workplace by encouraging healthy lifestyles is a key component of an effective wellness program. ConnectWell's Vibrant Life
Initiatives are designed to help employees adopt habits that are fundamental to a healthy lifestyle. Healthy habit formation requires education, practice and tools that support people in building the capacity for well-being.
ConnectWells Self-guided Wellness Exhibits combined with Wellness Challenges and Toolkits provide a full set of programming to help your employees adopt healthy lifestyle practices around nutrition, physical activity, sleep and stress management.
Self-guided Wellness Exhibits
ConnectWells unique Self-guided Wellness Exhibits educate participants through a set of posters and support materials designed to be exhibited at worksites. This flexible format enables you to reach as many employees as possible since the exhibit can be made available at time periods and locations that meet the needs of the workforce. A virtual version can be posted to your wellness portal to reach remote employees and family members.
Exhibit materials can be translated into other languages to meet the diverse needs of your workplace and customized to incorporate the wellness brand of your organization.
Exhibit materials include:
A full set of posters that explain the principles for each topic
Handouts that accompany the exhibit
Prop suggestions for the exhibit
Passport to learning
Instructions on how to set-up the exhibit at your worksite
Wellness Challenges
ConnectWell offers multiple 4-week wellness challenges that focus on critical components of a healthy lifestyle: nutrition, physical activity, sleep and stress management. A sampling of challenges include:
Real Food Challenge - Healthy Eating Challenge
The Big Swap Movement Challenge - Increasing Physical Activity Challenge
Time for Me Challenge - Stress Management Challenge
Sleep Well Challenge - Improving Quality and Quantity of Sleep Challenge
Challenge Materials and Support
ConnectWell supports each challenge with a suite of turn-key materials to ensure high participation rates, a well-organized challenge and data collection. Challenge materials can be translated into other languages to meet the diverse needs of your workplace and customized to incorporate the wellness brand of your organization. Suite of materials includes:
Double-sided challenge sheet, posters, wellness portal graphics
Integration with digital challenge platform
Scripted email communications for Wellness and Human Resources staff to send to employees throughout the challenge to increase engagement
Surveys to administer at beginning and end-of-challenge to gain insight and data about the impact of the challenge on new habits and employee health
Guidelines for challenge celebrations to make creating an end-of-challenge event meaningful for challenge participants
ConnectWells Toolkits consist of concise and employee-oriented educational materials that include science-based practices on improving well-being in the areas of:
Physical Activity
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Wellness On The Go
Toolkit Contents and Format
Each Toolkit includes modules that provide detail enabling a broader understanding of the topic and supporting the adoption of health practices. Crafted by ConnectWell experts, these Toolkits can be used to support wellness initiatives, wellness challenges, seminars and health events. ConnectWells Toolkits are presented in a format that makes the information easy-to-understand, enabling employees and their families to put the information into practice. Clients are provided with the Toolkit modules in individual PDF format to enable ease of distribution through email attachments and printing to support wellness initiatives. Toolkit contents can be translated into other languages to meet the diverse needs of your workplace and customized to incorporate the wellness brand of your organization.
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Malojian fans need to start creating room.
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Steve Albini was encouraged onboard to record the album. Anyone who's knowledge of the man is limited to his work with the like of Pixies, Page and Plant, Nirvana and The Breeders, might be surprised to hear the results of the collaboration: because Malojian haven't made an Albini record, Albini has made a Malojian record. Maybe even the Malojian record: rich, textured, emotionally nuanced and hummable as hell.
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Cloud orchestration: why it matters
To begin with, orchestration is the basis of deployment and execution of complex multi-cloud configurations.. It is the central feature in the delivery of today's data center and cloud services; the term describes the synchronized arrangement, coordination, and management of complex infrastructure systems to deliver a service. Orchestration defines the relationship amd interaction between all components of your infrastructure and applications. A well-orchestrated system is scalable and highly efficient with little need for human intervention.
So, what to look for? Ideally, you want a platform capable of orchestrating any workload across any cloud—public, private, or hybrid. In other words. you want to make sure not to get locked into any one provider's application or infrastructure offerings: "We only work with AWS, or xyz containers, or storage or networking components." As always, the watchwords are openness, flexibility and choice.
Pervasive policy and automated enforcement
An effective cloud security approach mustencompass the complete lifecycle - development, deployment and orchestration of your workloads. And itmust enable automated " enforcement of consistent policies governing user activity," according to independent cloud expert and author Bernard Golden. "The organization should have a set of rules about who's able to request [which] resources, and those rules should be captured in a policy engine that can be applied automatically … It's silly to put a human in the middle of that evaluation … After all, that's what the human is doing—applying a set of organizational rules. Why not define the rules and apply them as part of the provisioning process?"
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Governance is a critical consideration to ensure that your cloud is consistent with regulatory and compliance mandates. To effectively govern complex, multi-cloud deployments, you need fine-grained, "deep policy" controls that encompass all aspects of the system, such as:
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- resource allocation: How much software and hardware resources is each workload permitted to consume—and under what conditions, specifically?
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Burtown and The Barn - A film by The Perennial Plate
If you have a spare 20 minutes then tune into The Perennial Plates latest film shot over 3 weeks here at Burtown, in the midst of our scramble to open our Green Barn.
The Taste January 2017 edition - a great review of what we are about
Thanks to Niamh Mannion at The Taste for her review of newly opened Green Barn and all that has inspired us. We reopen our doors to visitors this February 4th, from Wednesday - Sunday, right through the year until late December. Roll on 2017 ! https://thetaste.ie/wp/a-big-serving-of-comfort-with-a-dollop-of-rustic-charm-the-green-barn-restaurant/
Burtown's Green Barn wins Catherine Cleary's Best Restaurants of 2016 in The Irish Times
We are excited to have won best starter in Catherine Cleary's Irish Times award for 2016. Its great to have been acknowledged like this after just ten weeks of business to get this award, and we would, like to thanks all of you who have visited our new Green Barn.
"The octopus salad at the Green Barn at Burtown House. Charred chunks of sea food served with house mayonnaise and vegetables from their brilliant kitchen garden."
Christmas Lunch and Parties at The Green Barn
We are excited to launch out Christmas menu starting this Wednesday 14th - through to Sunday 18th. We will also be doing Christmas dinners on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th. The Green Barn looks stunning in these wet and dark days and is the perfect place to while away the afternoon in the warmth of it space, and taking in the view across our kitchen gardens. Come night time it takes on a different glow all to itself. A totally uniques space to dine in. Please see below our Christmas lunch menu. Places are limited so booking is recommended. To book email firstname.lastname@example.com or call The Green Barn on 059 8632865.
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We are excited to open our New Green Barn which we have been working on for the last six months or longer when you take in all the hurdles. Serving the freshest possible organic produce straight from our garden that morning, or from local organic beef and poultry farmers, we strive to serve you the best seasonal produce which reflects in our changing menus. We love to combine, taste, texture and colours and believe in unfussy, unpretentious food, letting our produce be the strength in what you eat.


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Portrait of Religion in U.S. Holds Dozens of Surprises
By ARI L. GOLDMAN
Published: April 10, 1991
The state with the highest proportion of people who profess no religion is Oregon.
Most Americans of Irish ancestry are Protestant.
Unitarians are more likely to be divorced than are members of other religious groups.
And despite all the attention given to what devotees call the New Age -- a spiritual movement that combines mysticism, psychology and holistic healing -- the number of adherents, 28,000, is practically insignificant. Largest Poll on Religion
These findings are from an opinion poll on religious affiliation that surveyed 113,000 people around the nation, the largest and most comprehensive effort to draw a portrait of religion in America.
The survey, commissioned by the Graduate School of the City University of New York, confirms that the country is broadly religious and widely diverse, with more than 9 in 10 Americans identifying with one of a myriad of denominations, from Presbyterian to Rastafarian.
The survey also shows regional and racial variations. For example, people in the Western states are almost twice as likely to have no religion than people in the rest of the country. Southerners have the greatest identification with religion.
Every 10 years the Census Bureau asks Americans their income, their race and even how many bathrooms they have. But fear of church-state entanglement has kept any question about religion off the census questionnaire.
That makes the City University survey particularly valuable, other poll takers and sociologists said. Dr. Martin Marty, a religion scholar on the faculty at the University of Chicago, said that before this survey knowledge of Americans' religious beliefs had come from the denominations themselves or from much smaller national polls that often survey fewer than 2,000 people.
Dr. Marty said the data were "astonishingly confirmatory" of what was already known about larger religious groups and provided previously unknown details about smaller ones. Largest Religious Groups
The survey found that while 86.5 percent of Americans, or 214 million people, are Christians, they identify in dozens of groups. Roman Catholics make up the largest of these, with 26 percent of the nation's population, followed by Baptists, Methodists and Lutherans, respectively. Jews are less than 2 percent of the population, and Muslims are one-half of 1 percent.
Even though these broad outlines were known before, Dr. Marty said he still considered it "astonishing that in a high-tech, highly affluent nation, we have 90 percent who identify" themselves as religious. "If such a poll were done in Western Europe, the ancestral home of many Americans, you would run at least a third or lower on every indicator," he said.
Dr. Marty said he was not surprised at the relatively low number of practitioners of Eastern or New Age religions. "The exotic always catches the eye," he said. "But for most Americans, they are fascinating things that they can pick up or drop but don't change the level of commitment." Shattering of Stereotypes
Several of the surprises in the poll shattered stereotypes about ethnic groups. For example, after finding that most Americans of Irish ancestry are not Catholic, the City University researchers speculated that this was because so many are descended from Protestants from Northern Ireland and others are the products of intermarriages.
The survey also found that most Asian-Americans and most Arab-Americans are Christian, rather than Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim. The authors explain that Christians from Arab and Asian countries are more likely to emigrate to the United States.
Finally, the survey looked at marriage in light of religious affiliation. It found that Muslims and Buddhists were most likely to be single while members of the Assembly of God were least likely to be single. Other Findings of Survey
It also found that that divorce among Roman Catholics (7.5 percent) was only slightly less common than among Lutherans (8 percent) and Jews (8.7 percent). The Greek Orthodox showed the lowest level of divorce (4.4 percent) and the Unitarians the highest (18 percent).
Among other findings were these:
*Jews, with 1.8 percent (or 4.3 million people), are the largest non-Christian faith represented. While a recent estimate by the Council of Jewish Federations put the number of Jews at 5.5 million, the City University researchers did not include those who identify culturally as Jews but not religiously.
*The finding that Muslims represent one-half of 1 percent (or 1.4 million people) is also below previous estimates, which put the Muslim population at 3 million to 6 million. The difference might have to do with Christians from Arab countries who identify culturally with the Muslim community but not religiously, the pollsters speculated.
*Of the nation's Muslims, 40 percent are black, though less than 2 percent of the total black population is Muslim.
*The number of Buddhists (one million) and Hindus (500,000) was larger than earlier estimates. Among smaller groups with fewer than 50,000 members were, in descending order of size, Bahai, Taoist, Rastafarians and Wiccan, a form of witchcraft.
*The overwhelming majority of Americans were willing to talk about their faith. Only 2.3 percent refused and 7.5 percent said that they had no religion.


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And they delight us.
Claire Meyer and Alan Linic, a twentysomething couple in Chicago, have been keeping a public record of every fight they have fought since August. The two started dating eight months ago and moved in together at the end of September; they report that their relationship is "going really well." Their shared Twitter account, titled We Fought About, lists every quarrel, spat, and argument the couple undergoes. There have been 79 so far.
We Fought About does not attempt to catalog the big themes of relationship conflict: freedom, jealousy, prioritization, selfishness, pettiness, betrayal, meanness. It focuses on the immediate circumstances that prompt Meyer and Linic's fights. Such as baby carrots — a topic that arises with some frequency. Meyer and Linic fight about fighting about Armageddon. They fight about not helping the other in Dominoes.
Other flashpoints for the twosome:
Alan said that he respected all women.
Alan sent me an article that put Prince in a bad light.
I thought Claire was using a "tone." She wasn't.
Alan wasn't texting me. I could see him liking stuff on Facebook.
Alan called me "man".
Claire yelled at me in a museum because I made eye contact with this painting for too long.
The couple was happily surprised when I told them that the specificity of their fights was relatable.
"We thought our fights were just ridiculous and way too bizarre and that's why we started it," Meyer said. Instead, "We kept hearing the same feedback of, 'This is exactly what we go through.' ... It actually has made me feel like more of a sane girlfriend."
They report that they're always careful to wait until a fight has been resolved before writing it up. Besides, Meyer said, in the middle of a furious spat it can be difficult to tell how they got there. But after the fight has concluded, they look for the spark and find that it's usually amusing. Both Meyer and Linic are funny people; they met through the Chicago comedy scene. They have a safe word for when they have to stop joking about something and take each other seriously (it's rainstorm).
Though their account is well-curated, they promise that they neither edit out boring fights nor look for topics to fight about. "We're both so fiery and passionate, and we're both so sensitive. It's a deadly combination," Meyer said.
"It's a weird combination," Linic said. "There's no sane one in our relationship. There's no grounded one."
The feed has allowed them to see the other person's triggers. But even with this data, certain topics appear to be perennial triggers. Sometimes one affront ("I made a date with Claire and then double-booked myself") appears a few times in a row.
In some ways, the project sounds like a couple's therapy exercise for the social-media generation. It's a project that involves accountability, keeping a record, identifying triggers, and working together as a team.
"It sort of put this mindset in us like that we're allowed to disagree," said Linic. "We know that we'll be able to resolve it and put it up in a wording that will make us both kind of laugh about it."
"It really has become therapeutic," Meyer agreed. "It's helped cool me down after a fight ... I feel like it's definitely brought me even closer to Alan than I was."
Even among a generation where seemingly everything is documented, a project that seeks to record a couple's every fight stands out as intimate. But by excising the context, they've managed to keep the account vague enough to not seem invasive, specific enough to entertain. What remains of a conflict when the psychology is removed? Pears, Draco Malfoy, armpits, transition lenses, and buying bread for other women.
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Autumn can sometimes feel like a bleak time - the days get shorter, the air becomes cooler, and the woods are stripped bare, as the trees hunker down for the first winter frosts.
Fortunately though, there are still many wild foods available at this time of the year, which can be used to make jams, jellies, salads, and even a healthy substitute for your morning coffee. All you need to know if where to look, and some basic food preparation techniques.
Many of the most common plants can be consumed in a large variety of ways. Take the humble nettle: you can make nettle soup, nettle wine, nettle cordial, or even deep-fry its leaves to make a land-lubbers equivalent of crispy seaweed. Oh, and don't worry – the leaves lose their sting when cooked.
Professional chefs have already woken up to the huge potential of wild foods, spurting a new industry selling foraged goods to restaurants. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall launched his career with A Cook on the Wild Side, a television series that largely consisted of scraping roadkill off country lanes. In news that will come as a relief to any squeamish readers, recipes for pigeon pancakes or fox flan do not feature in our gallery of the best wild foods to collect this autumn.
Wild foods: where to find and how to cook them
Wild foods: where to find and how to cook them
1/10 Wild garlic
Look out for a lush green carpet of foliage in woodland and a garlicky smell. This can be harvested all year round, but the best time is from July to December when the bulbs are dormant. You can use this in the same way as normal garlic – in stews, stir-fries, or rubbed into roasted meat.
Ninian Reid
2/10 Wood sorrel
Wood sorrel, which is often mistaken for clover, grows in shady woodlands. Its leaves and stems have a lemony flavour, making them ideal for salads or as a garnish in sandwiches. Or, if you are feeling adventurous, blend the leaves with honey for a refreshing iced tea.
Richard Adams
3/10 Dandelion
This scourge of gardeners is a gift to foragers. Dig out the roots, clean them, then grind and roast to make dandelion coffee. This is a caffeine free alternative that bears a resemblance to normal coffee in appearance and taste.
Neil Bradshaw
4/10 Rosehips
The fruit of the rose plant has been used by children for generations to make an itching powder, which is extracted from the fine hairs inside the hip. Don't let that put you off though – you can blend dried berries with hibiscus to make a delicious herbal tea.
Rebecca Siegel
5/10 Chestnuts
The smell of roasted chestnuts is synonymous with Christmas, but there is no need to go to the supermarket to get yours this year. The nuts are inside the prickly outer layer, and usually drop to the ground underneath the tree. Collect them now, and have them in storage ready for the festive season.
6/10 Gorse
This evergreen shrub grows in all kinds of habitats, from windswept moors and coastal paths to urban commons and building sites. As each gorse variety flowers at a different time of the year, you can generally pick the vivid yellow blooms all year round. They can be added raw to salads, or used to make fruit tea.
John Haslam
7/10 Rowan
Though sometimes known as the "Mountain Ash", this deciduous tree grows in all sorts of places, such as parks, waste grounds and hedgerows. Rowan berries are very bitter, but can be used to make jelly, which goes especially well with game.
8/10 Hawthorn berries
These red fruits are surprisingly versatile in the kitchen, and can be used to make jellies, jams and even an alcoholic Schnapps! Just make sure you do not eat the seeds, as they contain cyanide.
9/10 Crab apple
This early relative of the commercial apple is perfect for making jams and jellies as it is fulll of pectin, a setting agent. Combine crab apples with a low pectin fruit such as rose hips or rowan berries.
Hans Kylberg
10/10 Chickweed
You will find this hardy herb sprawled across forest floors all year round. To harvest, cut off the new growth at the top of the plant. It is highly nutritious, and has a mild flavour suitable for sandwiches, soups and salads.
For beginners, it is best to start in your local area, and make use of common plants that you are already familiar with. Fergus Drennan, aka 'Fergus the Forager', who runs wild food courses and has written for BBC Countryfile Magazine, offers some advice: "You should be led by the things that you see every day," he says. "If you have a tiny concrete garden with just a couple of weeds you see growing in the cracks, the chances are there are lots of things you can do with them."
If you want to expand your horizons beyond your back garden, it is a good idea to swat up on the law. Always ask the landowners permission, and respect the Countryside Code. If you are foraging in an urban area, it is important to know the former land use, as industrial contamination can make it unsafe.
Foraging can be incredibly rewarding, as you constantly discover new ways to use the plants you find. Fergus has been collecting wild foods for some thirty years, but still has a lot to learn: "What is really exciting about wild foods is the fact that people underestimate the amazing potential for a whole range of flavours, textures and nutritional profiles," he says. "When you combine that with all the different methods of extracting, cooking and preserving, it can actually end up being pretty overwhelming."
Increasing your knowledge of the culinary properties of various plants lends a new aspect to the experience of being outside. You look at the wild in a new way – as a source of sustenance rather than just a place of leisure - and forge an intimate connection with the passing of the seasons.
But as you become a part of the woodland world, remember just how fragile the ecosystem is. Every plant, seed or mushroom you collect is a source of food for insects and animals, and if you take too much this has a knock-on effect for the whole food chain. Gather things in small, sustainable quantities, and don't get carried away.Reuse content


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Too cool for school: Fat biking fun on Wellesley's snowy trails
Swellesley reader Jim Shea shared these fun photos of him, his son Kelson and friend Brian O'Boyle riding their fat bikes (bikes with oversized tires) on Wellesley's snowy trails Sunday and on the Monday snow day.
Wellesley Snow Day #2, 2017
The forecast said there would be snow all Monday morning, leading officials to make the call the night before for Snow Day #2, 2017. Little did they know that by 10am the main roads would be plowed down to gleaming pavement. I got a few shots in before the wind kicked up and knocked the heavy snowfall from the trees.
Wellesley fire hydrants seek loving, adoptive families
The Department of Public Works (DPW) is mobilizing for the Nor'easter forecasted for tomorrow. The DPW and Wellesley Fire-Rescue Department are asking for your assistance in clearing fire hydrants of snow in your neighborhood. There are over 1,400 hydrants in Wellesley and each one is potentially vital in the event of an emergency.
Adopting a hydrant is as simple as 4 easy steps:
1. Visit our Adopt a Hydrant map. This is a new system, so if you participated in this program last winter, please visit the map and update your adopted hydrants.
2. Expand the Find tab and enter your address in the space provided to zoom to your neighborhood
3. Click on the Adopt a Hydrant button and then click any RED hydrant to adopt it
4. Enter your information in the pop-up form and click "Update" (Note: If the pop-up form doesn't appear, make sure to enable pop-ups for this MapsOnline website in your internet browser settings.)
Please be careful and aware of roadway traffic, and thank you for volunteering to keep our neighborhoods safe!
Rick DeLorie, Fire Chief
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Ms. G has spoken — 6 more weeks of winter in Wellesley (and other places)
Ms. G., the official State groundhog of Massachusetts and the subject of a picture book, Ms. G's Shadowy Road to Fame, authored by Emmy-award winning broadcast meteorologist and Wellesley mom Mish Michaels and illustrated by Kathleen Jameson, has spoken and she says six more weeks of winter.
You did know that Massachusetts has an official State groundhog, didn't you? It's true, thanks to a group of determined Hunnewell Elementary School students and Michaels. Because of their hard work that started back when the kids were just kindergarteners, Ms. G now enjoys celebrity status as each year she presents her prediction at Mass Audubon's Drumlin Farm in Lincoln, MA. The students, with a lot of hard work and backed by writer of the bill Representative Alice Peisch, convinced the State House Committee, the State Senate, and former Govenor Deval Patrick in 2014 that yes, indeed, Massachusetts did need its own lawful groundhog to forecast the local weather on the big day. After all, what does Punxsutawney Phil know about New England weather from his cozy Pennsylvania lair?
Although Ms. G saw her shadow today, and thus was the bearer of cold news, her popularity remains, probably because she's takes her role as official State groundhog seriously. She doesn't just show up, prognosticate, and disappear until next year. Ms. G greets her public, seeming to enjoy the glow of celebrity. There she was today, just like every year, giving a big groundhog hello to the crowd of about 400 including many of the Wellesley students who started her on her road to fame.
Thanks for keeping us in the loop about winter's plans, Ms. G. Until next year.


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CHICAGO -- With some restrictions to their scheduling lifted recently, the Chicago Cubs announced four Friday 3:05 p.m. start times.
The July 5 and July 12 games will start at 3:05 p.m. instead of 1:20 p.m. as will games on Aug. 2 and Aug. 16.
The Cubs and the City of Chicago came to an agreement this week on adding more night games starting next season as well as additional 3:05 p.m. start times for some Friday games.
Next season the Cubs will be allowed to schedule 35 night games, an increase of 16. That number could balloon to 46 based on national television requests.
The Cubs claim the additional 3:05 p.m. Friday start times will be more accommodating to the team in terms of travel and playing a day game after a night game. The first three Friday changes accommodate that. The Aug. 16 game comes after a day off.


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Boston spends $10 million to expand fiber to schools, housing, city buildings
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A rare procurement arrangement will open vendors to bid on chunks of the network, which will serve the city on an open-access model.
StateScoop is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2014 StateScoop 50 Awards, which honor the best and brightest that make state and local government more efficient and effective.
StateScoop is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2014 StateScoop 50 Awards, which honor the best and brightest who make state and local government more efficient and effective.
More than 50,000 voters logged on to StateScoop last month to narrow down hundreds of reader nominations in six categories to determine the 50 visionary leaders, programs and rising stars that best highlight the transformational changes being made in state and local government.
"My team and I were delighted by the tremendous number of nominations and votes we received from our readers, " said Goldy Kamali, CEO of FedScoop. "We are thrilled to recognize the extraordinary accomplishments of the top 50 state IT leaders from government and tech who are making meaningful contributions to their organizations and communities."
The winners were honored with a reception at the Hilton Baltimore on Thursday that celebrated their efforts over the past year and acknowledged their tireless efforts to make a positive impact in the government community and public service.
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Are the Americans acquiring a ruling class, just when the British are finally losing theirs? Certainly the Bush family is now quite openly revelling in its dynastic strength, proclaiming a family continuity which has little connection with the old American ideal. The tradition of the self-made president, "from log cabin to the White House", and the promise of the "century of the common man" have gone out of the window.
Are the Americans acquiring a ruling class, just when the British are finally losing theirs? Certainly the Bush family is now quite openly revelling in its dynastic strength, proclaiming a family continuity which has little connection with the old American ideal. The tradition of the self-made president, "from log cabin to the White House", and the promise of the "century of the common man" have gone out of the window.
At the Republican convention last week, George W Bush was backed up by his father George H W Bush, his brother Jeb, the governor of Florida, and his nephew George P Bush who already shows promise as a future president, while a score of Bush relations was among the Republican activists.
It seemed like a throwback to British politics in the 18th or 19th centuries. The two British authors of a new book on American politics, The Right Nation, begin by quoting Sir Lewis Namier, the historian of the age of George III, who wrote that English parliamentary history "is made by families rather than individuals"; and they go on to add: "The same could be said of American political history, especially in the age of George I and George II."
The Bush dynasty established by the President's grandfather Senator Prescott Bush now looks more like British aristocratic rule than the previous tradition of American political upstarts - such as Truman, Nixon or Clinton. Transposed to 18th-century Britain, George W Bush might have been the third Marquess of Bush. It was hardly surprising that he should keep referring to Winston Churchill - who was not only the victor of the Second World War but also the son of the Duke of Marlborough.
The Democrat challengers have been hardly less blue-blooded: first Al Gore, the son of a senator from an old American political dynasty; then John Kerry, with the style and wealth of a Boston Brahmin - even though his grandfather was a Jewish immigrant from Germany.
But the Bush family's strength lies not so much in its conservative continuity as in its adaptability, and its ability to retain power through fast-changing political changes: to quote The Right Nation again: "There is no better introduction of Republicanism in the past generation - from patrician to populist, from Northeastern to Southwestern, from pragmatic to ideological - than the radical transformation of Republicanism's current leading family, the Bushes."
Thus the first President Bush, with his Wasp Ivy League style, was able to migrate to Texas, where he could both make a fortune and link up with the rough-hewn voters of the oilfields. And he produced a son who, partly by the accident of his own drunken youth and later repentance, was able to emerge as the model of the populist leader with a folksy born-again style - while still inheriting the shrewd experience and political connections of his family.
Above all, the family had money, and a deep understanding of how to raise money for political campaigning, which depended, much more than before, on huge resources. The Bushes were interlocked with the powers of the corporate world, as the great British political families had been interlocked with landed interests and fiefdoms; and they had the same natural instinct for seeing where the real power was moving as the Cecils or the Churchills.
But in the meantime British politics has been moving in the opposite direction. Looking at the reshuffled Labour Cabinet, and the new Tory Shadow Cabinet this week, we are reminded how far we have abandoned the tradition of the British ruling class.
It has been a slow demise, since the first Reform Bill of 1832 was expected to bring about its downfall. More than a century later, Macmillan's government in the late 1950s still bore many of the marks of a ruling class, with a cabinet full of aristocrats and Old Etonians. Harold Wilson's cabinet had few aristocrats; but it was dominated by an intellectual aristocracy of Oxford dons who had little natural contact or communication with ordinary voters.
It was not till the arrival of Mrs Thatcher that the Tories broke their links with the old ruling families and gave way to self-made businessmen and professional politicians from Cambridge. Michael Howard's new Shadow Cabinet is largely disconnected from any ruling class. Only Michael Ancram, the heir to the Marquess of Lothian, and Nicholas Soames, Churchill's grandson, belong to old Conservative families. John Redwood, the Fellow of All Souls, and Oliver Letwin, the former Cambridge don, perpetuate some of the academic tradition. But Letwin's parents are American; Michael Howard is the son of an immigrant from Romania, and Lord Saatchi originated in Baghdad.
And the New Labour Cabinet is now a world away from any ruling class: with its array of self-made Scotsmen, Northerners and immigrants from the Commonwealth, including the Australian Patricia Hewitt, the South African Peter Hain, the Guyanese Lady Amos and the Ghanaian Paul Boateng. Only Hilary Benn, the son of Tony Benn and grandson of the Labour peer Lord Stansgate, remains as a hereditary politician.
The Prime Minister, it is true, was brought up with some feel for British politics, as the son of a Tory barrister who wanted to be an MP, but he showed little interest in politics at his public school or at Oxford. It was showbiz and the law, with much help from his wife, that pressed him towards public life.
Insofar as British ministers have a common class, it is a professionalised politicians' class, of people brought together by careers in party politics without much experience of life outside Westminster and their constituencies, and with a fitful knowledge of business.
It is true that Blair and his colleagues increasingly need businessmen, whether as donors, collaborators or patrons. But they depend heavily on a few rich men, and their approaches are amateurish, compared with the systematic links of the Bush administration with huge and shady corporations such as Enron or Halliburton - which are the ultimate support for America's new ruling class.
The British political class might seem far preferable to the emerging American rulers: the combination of political families and greedy corporate backers, who often seems to bear out the nightmares about the military-industrial complex. But the shortcomings of British politicians become much more apparent as they become more dependent on American policies and bargains, Blair's government begins to look like innocents abroad when confronted by the solid ranks of Republican rulers and their corporate allies.
British politicians can be thankful to have got rid of the arrogance and self-interest of their old ruling class. But they need to be reminded of the advantages of the best of it - the tradition of public service and long-term thinking. They need to escape from the short-term pressures of opportunism and dependence that are so evident. And as they face America's new ruling class, with all its cynical bargains with corporations and manipulation of the voters, they need to remember the British still have their own inherited values and traditions of political integrity.
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Once you become a parent, you will never look at sleep in the same way. A good night's sleep becomes a highly sought after, highly valued and seemingly rare event. Particularly in that first year of your baby's life, one of the big goals in that first year is to get your baby to sleep longer through the night.
We swaddle, we shush, we give dream feeds, extra feeds, more solids, baby massage, warm baths – all in an effort to get some of that elusive sleep. But one thing that is frequently overlooked by new parents is the temperature of the room where their baby sleeps.
As adults, we sleep better in a room that's not too hot and not too cold. The same applies to your baby, but because there are so many other things to think about when they wake in the night – are they hungry, are they wet, are they unwell – parents often forget about room temperature.
The Sleep foundation links bedroom temperature and body temperature with successful sleep. A lowering in body temperature is generally associated with drowsiness i, which means a room temperature that is too high can lead to restlessness and poor sleep. Adjusting your baby's room temperature could make a significant difference to how soundly your bub rests.
Guidelines around how many layers to put on your baby at night are quite useful, but often don't take into consideration that the body's temperature goes up and down at night, so what may be okay for the first half of the night may not be optimal for the time just before dawn, when our body temperature drops.
Another important factor to consider is that very young babies are unable to regulate their body temperature. It's important that your baby's sleeping environment is adjusted to accommodate this.
While SIDS and Kids doesn't recommend a specific room temperature for healthy babies ii, it is a good idea to maintain a consistent, comfortable temperature in the nursery that is similar to the rest of the home.
It is difficult for parents to gauge the temperature of the room just by feel, so the use of a room thermometer is useful in this instance. You should also feel your baby to make sure they are not too warm or too cold, cold hands and feet do not mean that your baby is cold: it is more a sign of their newly developing circulatory system. You are better off feeling their tummy, chest or back to get an idea of their overall body temperature.
Signs that they may be too warm include iii:
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- sweaty back
- damp hair
- shallow or rapid breathing.
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- rolling onto their tummy
- catnapping in the day
- waking at around 5am (in keeping with the natural body temperature dip just before dawn).
Regardless of the time of year parents set up the nursery, the introduction of a reverse cycle air conditioner can assist with managing the room temperature all year round.
Modern systems allow for pre-programmed temperature settings for different times of the night or day and can be adjusted depending on the weather outside.
These are ideal because the temperature can be controlled around sleep times – some units allow for up to four on/off times to be set in one day – so you can program it for day sleeps, and long stretches at night.
Knowing that room temperature is taken care of can bring parents peace of mind. Having one less thing to worry about means that when your baby does start sleeping through the night, you'll be able to as well.
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Discussion in 'Colorado Football Message Board' started by Buffsoldier, Sep 28, 2010.
Who's gonna buy it. You know you want to:
"if the van's a rockin', don't..."
You could really get your horns out in there...
That's pretty awesome.
love wrap around booth seats. what's a fair price for a 71 Dodge Sportsman?
Didn't one of the tailgators on the west end of Farrand field own this van? I've seen it up close a few times, and for a 71 dodge he's put alot of work into it.
AllBuffs should buy it.
i agree!
I will pay extra member $ for that
I think it is time for Sacky to step up and do something positive for this board for once.
I would totally pitch in...
what is allbuffs gonna do with it. What if you buy it and give it to Hawkins so he can pack his **** up and get the **** out of town tomorrow.
I'm honestly curious as to what a good offer would be. 1K? 2K? 5K? 10K? The guy has probably put more money into it than he'll get back, but it looks pretty good.
My wife would kill me if I got it though...
Maybe Cinch Jeans would buy it for Allbuffs
If we buy it, I will volunteer to let it be parked at my house!
I'm in the process of buying...stooooked!!! Thanks for the link!
And just think---my ex said I make terrible financial decisions!
That was you, right?
I bet you could make the money back in a hurry by renting it. What Buff fan wouldn't want to spend a night on the town in a sweet ride like that and finish off the evening by going parking?
Hahaha...it was,indeed.
Well I for one am shocked that she questioned your judgment in any matter, financial or otherwise. You seem bonafied to me.
Seriously? If so, you gotta let me know where you tailgate at, 'cause I wanna party with you, cowboy.
Wow! You really get fired up over a little (alleged) financial irresponsibility.
Actually, I was just itchin' to throw out a bastardized 'Stripes' quote, but I would show up to tailgate with that van.
This is crazy. My daughter and I were talking about that van as we walked out of the Hawaii game.
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Dear Reid,
There's this guy who keeps flirting with me, and like, people are continually telling me that he likes me. He totally do the signs that show me that he likes me… but the thing is, he tells everybody that he doesn't, and on top of that, he says that he kinda likes this one girl that he's liked since last year. He says that he doesn't like her as much.
Now I don't really care whether he does like me or not. It's just that, every time I don't like him doing something, he stops it. He even asked me to the movies once and, in a way, he seemed to be asking me out. He dresses up when we do things together, and it's felt like date when we've gone places. I'm not sure whether or not he likes me though. I need help… does he like me?
He totally flirts with me! And he makes eyes contact, smiles at me, is happy when I want to do things, loves to talk to me, changes when I don't like things, and so on. I don't know if he is just being a great friend or if he does like me.. can you help me? Please?
Utterly Confused
I know how you feel. There's nothing more frustrating than getting stuck in a rut. Take me, for instance. The only requests for advice I seem to get these days are from teenage girls who don't know how to flirt, and from people looking for information on Elephantitis. Long gone are the days when I'd receive tales of co-ed naked body art, inappropriate transgressions involving T.A.'s, and, well, anything remotely interesting, to tell the truth.
But, as with anyone who has made a commitment to the healing arts, I must respond to the call when my help is needed. Luckily, I'm not a real doctor or therapist or anything, so all that Hippocratic crap about "first do no harm" can fly right out the window. Anyone writing to this third-rate (or fourth- or fifth-rate, for all I know) column has clearly got to be desperate beyond words, and has to expect to be dragged over the coals a bit before they can glean any sort of helpful information out of me. So, let's talk turkey.
I'm afraid your guy is probably using you as the "fall-back" girl. As he tells everybody, he probably really does kinda like that one girl. But, and you can take this as good news or bad news, he finds you much more approachable. This other girl is probably one of those cute perky types, tight little body, tanned to perfection, shimmering blonde hair that flows down from her shoulders as she… mmm… sorry, got distracted there for a second. Anyway, she's the girl of his dreams and your the girl of his reality.
Now, this can go two ways. You can be content as his pseudo-date when he gets lonely, not really getting any action and not really getting his full attention. Basically, you'd be "just friends", and it would be the least complicated way of resolving your relationship.
But, I sense that despite what you say, you actually do like this guy. Like-him, like-him, if you know what I mean. And, in that case, you probably find it incredibly frustrating to be stuck in the "friend zone". Hence, your desperate cry for help, to me, you, poor, foolish thing. And, in this scenario, there's only one thing to do. That's right, kiss him. Plant a big wet one right on his lips. To really get your point across, nothin says lovin' like T-O-N-G-U-E.
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a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Aug 19, 2014 at 1:27 pm
Tom Wing & Sons had a beautiful store for many years at Stanford Shopping Center, right in the front, facing El Camino Real, next to the Emporium, in the spot where Roos Atkins used to be. The store was in a prime location, front and center. Emporium is now Bloomingdales. Next too Roos Atkins was Livingstons, and next was Joseph Magnin (where the Polo Store now stands). Next was Blum's Cafe, and the Shreve's Jewelry store, and finally I.Magnin (in the white brick building which is now Macy's Men's store).
Just a little stroll down memory lane. The Tom Wing & Sons store was one of the most beautiful stores at Stanford. Their Menlo store is among the most elegant stores along Santa Cruz Avenue. So sorry to lose this treasure!
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Aug 19, 2014 at 8:54 pm
Thanks for the stroll down memory lane Agnes...Sorry to see them close as well. As an Anchor like Flegel's on Santa Cruz Ave they brought a bit of class and elegance. Stanford Shopping Center has sure come a long ways since The Big "E" woolworths and Macy's!
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