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My fellow English-speaking United-States-of-American progressives, are you feeling defeated, and depressed? Are you tired of beating your head against the wall of plutocracy, racism, popular weakness, mass fear and indifference?
Are you bummed out by pervasive corporate power in a possibly post-democratic imperial "homeland"? Are you horrified by the small size of the gatherings held to protest the messianic- militarist White House's war on Iraq, even as new revelations appear weekly about that administration's war deceptions, crimes, and plans?
Are you looking for models and/or just examples of democratic resistance to "failed state" corporate-imperial authoritarianism? Do you need a shot of optimism and faith?
It's a good time to brush up on your New World Spanish.
The struggle for human rights is speaking most powerfully right now in an at once American and Latin voice.
North of the Rio Grande, Latino activists have launched "a new civil rights movement" on behalf of the United States'11 million stateless and "illegal" aliens.
The number of people this new movement is putting in the streets is astonishing: half a million in Los Angeles, the same in Dallas, 300,000 in Chicago, and so on.
The leading spark for this movement has been the passage by the right-wing U.S. House of Representatives of a racially jingoistic bill that would turn millions of decent, hard-working Latinos into felons, along with anyone who provides shelter or provisions to them.
Still, it has taken impressive oganizing acumen and institutional capacity for Latino activists and leaders to bring off such massive demonstrations. And it take great courage for untold thousands of "illegals" to march.
Resisting the war against immigrants is part of defending what's left of relevant democracy in the "land of the free." The North American business community has long encouraged and cultivated illegal immigration for the simple and obvious reason that it likes cheap and easily exploitable workers, who (under the command of capital) drive down wages and benefit (it is important to acknowledge), especially at the bottom end of the labor market.
Workers who lack citizenship and fear deportation are poor candidates to fight within the "democratic" U.S. for a union, shorter hours, a higher minimum wage, equitable school funding, improved workplace safety, stronger environmental regulations, campaign finance reform, progressive taxation, third-party legalization, sensible patterns of rural or metropolitan development, and the like.
The business class knows this quite well and likes it very much. And it's nothing new. Capitalist calculations along these lines have long shaped the history of immigration and ethnicity in the U.S. (see Stephen Steinberg, The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America [Beacon Press, 2001], especially chapter 1).
The issue is whether or not the nation's large and growing Latino population is going to contain large numbers of stateless sub-citizens. Without basic civil and social enfranchisement, Latino "illegals" are (through no fault of their own) pawns in the business class's vicious assault on U.S. living standards, helping the corporatocracy undermine yet further the "homeland's" already endangered social health (see Paul Street, "'The Economy is Doing Fine, It's Just the People that Aren't': Towards a Social-Democratic Alternative to the Indexes of Leading Economic and Cultural Indicators," Z Magazine [November 2000]: 27-31; and "Social Health and Spiritual Death: Empire, Inequality, and the Costs of War," ZNet Magazin [May 20, 2005], available online at http://www.zmag. org/content/print_article. cfm?itemID=7902 §ionID=10).
Bush's guest worker "alternative" to the reactionary House bill is an updated, business-friendly "bracero" program of "temporary" indentured servitude. It serves the business community's deeply entrenched authoritarian instincts and greed by retaining a basic commitment to keeping large numbers of Latino workers socially and politically powerless.
The second great Latin and other-American example of potential democratic inspiration is found in Latin America itself. As Noam Chomsky (Chomsky, 'Latin America and Asia Are At Last Breaking Free of Washington's Grip," ZNet Sustainer Commentary, March 16, 2006) has recently noted:
* "In Latin America [today] left-centre governments prevail from Venezuela to Argentina. The indigenous populations have become much more active and influential, particularly in Bolivia and Ecuador, where they either want oil and gas to be domestically controlled or, in some cases, oppose production altogether. Many indigenous people apparently do not see any reason why their lives, societies and cultures should be disrupted or destroyed so that New Yorkers can sit in their SUVs in traffic gridlock."
* "Venezuela, the leading oil exporter in the hemisphere, has forged probably the closest relations with China of any Latin American country, and is planning to sell increasing amounts of oil to China as part of its effort to reduce dependence on the openly hostile US government. Venezuela has joined Mercosur, the South American customs union – a move described by Nestor Kirchner, the Argentinian president, as 'a milestone' in the development of this trading bloc, and welcomed as a 'new chapter in our integration' by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president."
* "Venezuela, apart from supplying Argentina with fuel oil, bought almost a third of Argentinian debt issued in 2005, one element of a region-wide effort to free the countries from the controls of the IMF after two decades of disastrous conformity to the rules imposed by the US-dominated international financial institutions. Steps toward Southern Cone [the southern states of South America] integration advanced further in December with the election in Bolivia of Evo Morales, the country's first indigenous president. Morales moved quickly to reach a series of energy accords with Venezuela. The Financial Times reported that these 'are expected to underpin forthcoming radical reforms to Bolivia's economy and energy sector' with its huge gas reserves, second only to Venezuela's in South America."
* "Cuba-Venezuela relations are becoming ever closer, each relying on its comparative advantage. Venezuela is providing low-cost oil, while in return Cuba organises literacy and health programmes, sending thousands of highly skilled professionals, teachers and doctors, who work in the poorest and most neglected areas, as they do elsewhere in the third world. Cuban medical assistance is also being welcomed elsewhere."
* "Growing popular movements, primarily in the south but with increasing participation in the rich industrial countries, are serving as the bases for many of these developments towards more independence and concern for the needs of the great majority of the population."
Chomsky is writing, of course, about the historic challenge Latin America is posing to U.S. imposed "neoliberalism:" the doctrine proclaiming that economic and social development must proceed in accord with the wealth-concentrating dictates of the corporate-ruled "free market," not the needs of ordinary people, including the poor.
One of the notable examples of that doctrine in practice is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). NAFTA has significantly undermined trade union power in the U.S. while flooding Mexico with heavily government-subsidized U.S. agricultural exports, helping push Mexican farmers into often precarious migration streams that bring them to North American barrios and labor camps.
Thoroughly unimpressed by the regressive, poverty-deepening, and growth-slowing consequences of the neoliberal "Washington consensus" over the last quarter century, a growing number of Latin American states have been newly energized and impressively democratized by mass popular mobilizations to prioritize the needs of their own broad populations over privileged others' (all-too commonly rich North Americans') profits. They are confronting savage internal inequalities and forming new linkages across national boundaries in common defiance of Uncle Sam's hypocritical "free trade" mandates. Venezuela is using a significant portion of it oil wealth to fight poverty at home and abroad, sometimes even in the U.S (where the Venezuelan subsidiary CITGO has sold low-cost heating oil to impoverished and ghettoized North Americans), and not as a way to curry favor with U.S. government and corporate officials. It is helping poor Mexicans obtain eye surgeries and funding the deployment of Cuban and other doctors across the poorest sections of his own and other Latin American nations.
Mexico, which possesses its own considerable oil wealth, is also moving towards the election of a left president who speaks the new Latin-American language of populism, anti-neoliberalism, regionalism, and independence.
The new Latin American "populist authoritarianism" (that's how the South's movement against neoliberalism is described in the Pentagon's latest Quadrennial Defense Review) is coming in for some standard and predictable character assassination from Washington. United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recently took time out from his proto-fascist war on Iraq to liken Venezuela's popular populist president Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler. And last February, the U.S. director of National Intelligence John Negroponte denounced Chavez for "spending considerable sums involving himself in the political and economic life of other countries in Latin America and elsewhere, this despite the very real economic development and social needs of his own country. It's clear," Negroponte told a Congressional hearing last month, "he is spending hundreds of millions, if note more, for his very extravagant foreign policy." ("CHAVEZ SEEKING FOREIGN ALLIES, SPENDING BILLIONS: Oil Used in Rivalry With U.S. for Influence in the Americas," New York Times, 4 April, 2006).
Never mind that Chavez's government is working against poverty within and beyond its borders. Forget also that the U.S. is perhaps the ultimate model of a state that fails its citizenry by sacrificing "the very real economic and social development needs of [its] own country" to an expensive and "extravagant foreign policy."
In early 2002, it is worth recalling, the Bush administration's foreign policy "extravagance" even included supporting an attempted business-class coup against the democratically elected Chavez government.
You don't need the mind of an elite rocket scientist or linguist to draw an obvious connection between the two Latin other- American examples of democratic inspiration. Both of the struggles —- the one for immigrant rights above and the one against neoliberalism below the U.S. border —- are fighting for an expansion of human rights and against endless private wealth accumulation and related power concentration in the venerably Anglo-Saxon imperial core.
Decades of savage, U.S.-imposed neoliberal austerity, often backed by U.S.-sponsored state terrorism, have contributed richly to the terrible domestic poverty and inequality that pushes so many Central Americans to pursue, often at great risk, a better life in the inner shadows of the North American superpower's territory. For the typical "illegal" Latino, almost any job in the U.S. is a ticket out of greater misery on the super-impoverished periphery of an unequal and imperial world order.
Appropriately enough, Negroponte was once a leading agent of U.S.-sponsored state terrorism in Central America. As U.S. ambassador to Honduras in the 1980s, he ran interference for that nation's U.S.-trained "security forces" in the U.S. Congress. He made sure that U.S. military assistance kept flowing to Honduras while that state's government conducted numerous tortures and massacres against its own population.
Negroponte's main job in Honduras, however, was to oversee the contra camps in Honduras, from which a C.I.A.-equipped mercenary force launched repeated murderous attacks on Nicaraguan "soft targets:" farms, villages, schools, economy, and infrastructure. The purpose of this bloody terror campaign, ultimately successful, was to dislodge Nicaragua's popular leftist Sandanista government, whose leaders' policies and rhetoric on behalf of their country's poor majority earned them the standard White House Hitler analogy.
The chief sin of that government? Llike Cuba since 1959 and like the new "populist authoritarian" regimes in Latin American today, it was pushing its little corner of Latin America "towards more independence and concern for the needs of the great majority of the population."
Those who are seriously concerned with the threat, real and/or imagined, that Latin American immigrants pose to U.S. living conditions need to consider the role that Washington's "extravagant" New World economic and military imperialism plays in turning millions of Latin-Americans into American Latinos.
People who fear the Latino influx also need to understand that the threat recedes when "illegal" (stateless) immigrants are given the right to join freel in the fight for more just and democratic conditions within the imperial "homeland."
Empire abroad and Inequality at home (along with Empire at home and Inequality abroad): these critical and dialectically inseparable imperatives of U.S. policy are the connecting links between the two new Latin other-American human rights campaigns, one above and the other below the increasingly deadly U.S.-Mexico boundary line (history's largest contiguous border between First and Third Worlds).
Both campaigns have emerged from the political and historical shadows to say something essential to democracy and human rights activists everywhere : "Si, Se Puede," meaning, "yes we can," the leading slogan of Cesar Chavez's California-based United Farm Workers.
Paul Street ([email protected]) is a Visiting Professor in U.S. History at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2004, order at www.paradigmpublishers.com);Segregated Schools: Race, Class, and Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York, NY: Routledge: 2005); and Still Separate, Unequal: Race, Place, Policy, and the State of Black Chicago (Chicago, IL: 2005).


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After reading the recent article "How We're Holding Back Broadband", by Holman W. Jenkins Jr., via The Wall Street Journal, it was evident that pompous rhetoric on the subject of broadband and mobile limitations can be stifling, if not self-serving by the author. As Jenkins points out, the problems with broadband and mobile in not being the idealized services which offer impeccable speed, connectivity, and coverage points directly at the FCC and legislators in being virtual czars of spectrum and broadband rules, which he extols is the menace of free enterprise.
The last time I checked, our economic system is based on the basic principle that competition should rule the marketplace, no matter the industry size or type, realizing that such competitive forces will weed out the underperforming and reward the best of class. For this principle to work there must be limited external forces which manipulate competition.
However, left to lobbyist and big business spending, this economic force can be up-ended creating huge dominate players, who then can raise prices at will while destroying the competitive concept intended. Unfortunately, this is what we have today; a few dominate companies wanting complete control of the market. As in previous posts on this subject, my theory is that a balance of competition and regulation must co-exist in order to support a healthy and robust competitive model.
We have created such an unregulated market policy over the last 10 – 15 years, that market competition, jobs, and rising prices have virtually destroyed the middle-class of America. Yet, there are those who continue to make assumptions that complete deregulation is the utopia in which we should live.
Unbridled Mergers
Mr. Jenkins lives in a world devoted to extoling the virtues of big business, knowing that supporting market dominate companies to deliver the perfect broadband, and mobile services at reasonable prices is as unrealistic as telling the FCC and legislators to lay down their regulatory powers. The editorial backing of anti-consumer policies such as the elimination of competition, (AT&T / T-Mobile), and touting it as good for the public is ridiculous. Spectrum deals that transfer valuable frequencies from one dominate player to another in hopes of more market control is another ridiculous assumption, which builds entrenchments rather than competitive forces.
Stop the Rhetoric
Let's stop the pompous, self-serving rhetoric of doom and gloom if large and profitable companies do not always get their way. Broadband and Mobile services will survive without huge mergers, as in Sprint's mobile resurgence in the light of daunting market metrics. If companies are encouraged and given the incentive to compete, that is exactly what they will do. They will create a competitive market with a high standard of service and innovation with competitive prices. Let us not forget what made this country great, unimpeded market competition.
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Petersburg Farmers Market
Begin your weekend with a visit to the Old Towne Farmer's Market each Saturday during the year. Market is from 7:30 a.m. until noon, just off Joseph Jenkins Roberts Street under the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge. Local vendors bring the freshest produce, flowers, herbs, organic beef, pork and eggs, plus handmade soap, and baked goods to the market each Saturday throughout the year. On Saturdays the market features live music. The market is open every Wednesday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. for mid-week shopping needs. Buy local, eat fresh, stay healthy!


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Will House Democrats Ignore the Transparency Measure they Unanimously Voted to Approve?
Yesterday, Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA), ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, submitted a motion that would have instructed members of the House/Senate conference finalizing the "stimulus" bill to make the final conference agreement available online "in an electronic, searchable, and downloadable form for at least 48 hours" before the House and Senate took their final votes on the borrow-and-spend monstrosity. 236 Democrats voted in | Read More »


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- Secondary teacher candidates now have a draft program handbook available to them and receive focused advising from discipline-based education faculty.
- Planned events were well attended by science and math teacher candidates, especially the "student teacher panel".
- The science methods course was successfully overhauled and co-taught by faculty in Physics Education, Biology Education, and Chemistry Education. These faculty also supervise and mentor students during student teaching.
- Local teachers were selected to participate in a teacher advisory group and are excited about future opportunities to meet.
- Three physics education majors conducted undergraduate research in Physics Education during the 2012-2013 academic year, forming a mini-cohort.
- Scheduling networking sessions or meetings for students in the Secondary Teacher Education Preparation (STEP) program was challenging. Most students have limited availability due to class and work schedules.
- Scheduling teacher advisory group meetings are also challenging, because many teachers are involved in extracurricular activities or after school meetings.
- Academic advising for students in the secondary teacher education program will continue to transition away from education faculty to discipline-based education faculty in each content department.
- A new seminar course for science and math teacher candidates is being piloted in Fall 2013.
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- Collaboration among faculty involved in the secondary teacher education program is essential to planning meaningful events and experiences for teacher candidates. Frequent meetings were necessary (at least every other week for 1-2 hours).
- A Physics faculty member advised students who have expressed an interest in the Physics Education Major.
- The STEP program handbook section on the Physics Education Major and Minor was updated.
- Handouts were created to outline the pathway for students to become a physics teacher.
- A Physics faculty member taught or co-taught the science methods course.
- Science education faculty in Physics, Biology, and Chemistry collaborated to revise the science methods course syllabus.
- Science education faculty mentored students during their clinical field experience.
- STEP faculty organized special sessions for mentoring secondary teacher candidates (a student teacher panel discussion and an orientation session for students recently admitted to the STEP program)
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Missouri prisons grow 50 tons of food for pantries
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Missouri prisoners have raised more than 50 tons of vegetables and fruit that have been given to food pantries around the state.
The Department of Corrections says this year's harvest was significantly higher than last year's, when the agency donated 29 tons of produce through its Restorative Justice Garden Program.
Under the program, the seeds and plants are donated to the Corrections Department, which then donates all the resulting food to local pantries.
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I have just installed the Series 60 3rd Edition SDK and Codewarrior v3.1.
I have successfully managed to compile and install the helloworldbasic application on to a target phone.
Now, i try to create a new project from
Codewarrior's Symbian Project Wizard.
I folow the steps and create a project. Without making any code changes, i compile and run it on the emulator.
When i build it for the target phone, it does not install on the phone and exits with these 2 errors.
"The application is not compatible with the phone" and
"Unable to install a protected application from an untrusted supplier"
I have followed the same steps for signing and installing this app, as i have with helloworldbasic.
Any ideas on how i can get the Symbian Project Wizard to work.


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Updated Feb 25, 2013 - 9:57 am
Accident creates 21-mile backup on eastbound I-10
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An accident that left nails on eastbound Interstate 10 at 40th Street created a 21-mile backup Monday, making for a long commute to start the week for many.
The traffic jam reached Bell Road off Interstate 17 and lasted almost two hours. The Arizona Department of Transportation tweeted that two pickup trucks were blocking the HOV lane.
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There's always something unsettling about a disaster film. It's not the notion of nature (or man) creating chaos, and thus calamity, for all the members of our unsuspecting society. It's not the death, though that's a horrific given. It's not even the idea that what we are seeing could be the extinction of the entire human race.
No, the really nasty bit is the concept of survival, the "what if?" after the planet freezes, the tidal wave hits, or the nuclear holocaust ends. As they often say, those who are killed will be the lucky ones. Those left behind face the nightmare of rebuilding and reconsideration, recognizing that, while they made it, many, many more did not.


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My concern is the slow AF at 600mm as he was comparing to the 100-400mm.
+1 they can have market-disruptive IQ/price ratio but if the AF is sub standard it just really lets the air out of that baloon. It just seems that Tammy and Sig just have not been able to nail the AF system, at least at the price point they target. Canon must either have some secret hidden sauce that the after market can't get to, or the after market doesn't have very good reverse engineers


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FGCU Captures Second Tournament of the Year
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - At the 2007 Bethune-Cookman Spring Invitational hosted by Bethune-Cookman, the FGCU men's golf squad had four golfers finish in the top-ten and took the team title in the first tournament of the spring season.
The 36-hole event was played on the 6,772 yard Par 72 Indigo Lakes Country Club layout. The teams played 18 holes on Saturday (Feb. 23) and a final 18 on Sunday (Feb. 24).
The Eagles recorded a composite team score of 568, three strokes ahead of second place Stetson, during the tournament's 36 holes.
Kyle Hammond was the Eagles' top finisher in the two-day event when he turned in a five-under 139. He shot a 67 in the second round of the tourney to come from behind and tie with Stetson's David McAndrew for first place. Hammond and McAndrew played two playoff holes before Hammond claimed the tournament title after he parred the second playoff hole.
Kyle Henderson came in second on FGCU's scorecard with a two-round total of 141 (-3) which tied him for third individually. His best round of the event was a 70 on Sunday. Michael Hart and Daniel Mazziotta both recorded scores of 144 (E), placing them T-9th. Robert Taylor rounded out FGCU's card with a 148 (+4), which placed him in a tie for 14th. Hart's best round of 71 took place in Sunday's round, while Mazziotta (71) and Taylor (73) played their best rounds on Saturday's round.
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The attorney for a city commissioner accused of interfering as police investigated the fatal shooting of a baby says his client did nothing criminal.
Attorney Alan David Tucker said Friday that Brunswick city commissioner James Henry Brooks regrets trying to help the mother of the teen suspected in the baby's death.
Tucker says Brooks "picked the wrong ones to go to bat for" in the case. Brooks stood between a police officer and the suspect's mother and advised her not to talk to authorities without a lawyer.
Brooks was charged Thursday with obstructing police and interfering with a witness. A judge granted him $5,000 bond Friday.
Police charged 17-year-old De'Marquise Elkins and another teen last week in the shooting of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago. Elkins' mother and sister are charged with evidence tampering.
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Parenting Pictures: Principles of Good Parenting
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Raising a happy, healthy child is one of the most challenging and rewarding jobs a parent can have. Yet many of us don't approach parenting with the same focus we would use for a job. We may act on our gut reactions or just use the same parenting techniques our own parents used, whether or not these were effective parenting skills. In his book The Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting, Laurence Steinberg, PhD, a distinguished professor of psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, provides tips and guidelines based on some 75 years of social science research. Follow them and you can avert all sorts of child behavior problems, he says.
What You Do Matters
Whether it's your own health behaviors or the way you treat other people, your children are learning from what you do. "This is one of the most important principles," Steinberg explains. "What you do makes a difference...Don't just react on the spur of the moment. Ask yourself, What do I want to accomplish, and is this likely to produce that result?"
You Cannot Be Too Loving
"It is simply not possible to spoil a child with love," Steinberg writes. "What we often think of as the product of spoiling a child is never the result of showing a child too much love. It is usually the consequence of giving a child things in place of love -- things like leniency, lowered expectations, or material possessions."
Be Involved in Your Child's Life
"Being an involved parent takes time and is hard work, and it often means rethinking and rearranging your priorities. It frequently means sacrificing what you want to do for what your child needs to do. Be there mentally as well as physically."
Being involved does not mean doing a child's homework -- or correcting it. "Homework is a tool for teachers to know whether the child is learning or not," Steinberg says. "If you do the homework, you're not letting the teacher know what the child is learning."
Adapt Your Parenting to Fit Your Child
Keep pace with your child's development. Your child is growing up. Consider how age is affecting the child's behavior.
"The same drive for independence that is making your 3-year-old say 'no' all the time is what's motivating him to be toilet trained," writes Steinberg. "The same intellectual growth spurt that is making your 13-year-old curious and inquisitive in the classroom also is making her argumentative at the dinner table."
Establish and Set Rules
"If you don't manage your child's behavior when he is young, he will have a hard time learning how to manage himself when he is older and you aren't around. Any time of the day or night, you should always be able to answer these three questions: Where is my child? Who is with my child? What is my child doing? The rules your child has learned from you are going to shape the rules he applies to himself.
"But you can't micromanage your child," Steinberg notes. "Once they're in middle school, you need to let the child do their own homework, make their own choices, and not intervene."
Foster Your Child's Independence
"Setting limits helps your child develop a sense of self-control. Encouraging independence helps your child develop a sense of self-direction. To be successful in life, he's going to need both."
It's normal for children to push for autonomy, says Steinberg. "Many parents mistakenly equate their child's independence with rebelliousness or disobedience. Children push for independence because it is part of human nature to want to feel in control rather than to feel controlled by someone else."
Be Consistent
"If your rules vary from day to day in an unpredictable fashion or if you enforce them only intermittently, your child's misbehavior is your fault, not his. Your most important disciplinary tool is consistency. Identify your non-negotiables. The more your authority is based on wisdom and not on power, the less your child will challenge it."
Avoid Harsh Discipline
Parents should never hit a child, under any circumstances, Steinberg says. "Children who are spanked, hit, or slapped are more prone to fighting with other children," he writes. "They are more likely to be bullies and more likely to use aggression to solve disputes with others."
"There are many other ways to discipline a child -- including 'time out' -- which work better and do not involve aggression."
Explain Your Rules and Decisions
"Good parents have expectations they want their child to live up to," he writes. "Generally, parents over-explain to young children and under-explain to adolescents. What is obvious to you may not be evident to a 12-year-old. He doesn't have the priorities, judgment, or experience that you have."
Treat Your Child With Respect
"The best way to get respectful treatment from your child is to treat him respectfully," Steinberg writes. "You should give your child the same courtesies you would give to anyone else. Speak to him politely. Respect his opinion. Pay attention when he is speaking to you. Treat him kindly. Try to please him when you can. Children treat others the way their parents treat them. You are modeling behaviors that your child will emulate. Your relationship with your child is the foundation for her relationships with others."
Rewards of Good Parenting
Good parenting helps foster empathy, honesty, self-reliance, self-control, kindness, cooperation, and cheerfulness, says Steinberg. It also promotes intellectual curiosity, motivation, and encourages a desire to achieve. Good parenting also helps protect children from developing anxiety, depression, eating disorders, antisocial behavior, and alcohol and drug abuse.
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French history goes back to the Gauls, a Celtic tribe which inhabited the area circa 300BC until being conquered by Julius Caesar.
The Franks were the first tribe to adopt Catholic Christianity after the Roman Empire collapsed. France became an independent location in the Treaty of Verdun in (843 AD), which divided up Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire into several portions.
The French monarchy reached its zenith during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, who stood for seventy-two years as the Monarch of all Monarchs. His palace of Versailles and its Hall of Mirrors are a splendid treasure-trove of Baroque art.
The French Revolution ended the rule of the monarchy with the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!" On July 14th, 1789 angry mobs stormed La Bastille prison and began the Revolution in which Louis XVI, his wife Marie-Antoinette and thousands of others met the guillotine.
One decade after the revolution, Napolean Bonaparte seized control of the Republic and named himself Emperor. His armies conquered most of Europe and his Napoleonic Code became a lasting legal foundation for concepts of personal status and property.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks were mixed on Wall Street Friday, pulling the Standard & Poor's 500 index below a five-year high reached the day before, as investors waited for a clearer picture on the outlook for corporate earnings.
The S&P 500 fell two points to 1,470 as of 1:18 p.m. Eastern. It closed at 1,472 Thursday, its highest level since December 2007. The Dow Jones industrial average rose fell a point to 13,470. The Nasdaq composite index dropped two points to 3,119.
Fourth-quarter earnings reports started coming in this week, but investors don't yet have a clear picture on the outlook for U.S. companies. While Wells Fargo disappointed the markets, aluminum company Alcoa gave stocks a lift earlier in the week after it matched analysts' expectations and said that demand was increasing.
Currently, analysts expect fourth quarter earnings for S&P 500 companies to grow at a rate of 3.2 percent, according to S&P Capital IQ. That compares with a growth rate of 8.4 percent for the same period last year.
"You've been hearing comments that earnings season is going to show a continued contraction in the rate of growth," said Robert Pavlik of Banyan Partners. "People are conflicted, they are worried, but at the same time they don't want to be missing out on the action in the overall market."
Wells Fargo, the first major bank to report earnings, dropped even after the bank reported a 25 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings, as analysts questioned the sustainability of the banks' profits and fretted about slower mortgage lending. The bank's stock fell 44 cents to $34.95.
JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, U.S. Bancorp, Citigroup and Bank of America are among financial companies that are reporting fourth-quarter earnings next week. Financial stocks were the best performing industry group in the S&P 500 last year, gaining 26 percent. Other companies reporting earnings next week include eBay and Intel.
Boeing fell $1.99 to $75.10 after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it is launching a comprehensive review of the critical systems of Boeing's 787, the aircraft maker's newest and most technologically advanced plane, after a fire and a fuel leak earlier this week.
The stock market got a boost Thursday from reports suggesting the outlook for economic growth may be improving both in Europe and China.
Stocks are on track to end the week higher and are up on the year after lawmakers came up with a last-minute deal to prevent the U.S. from going over the "fiscal cliff," averting the threat of a series of tax hikes and spending cuts that economists say would almost certainly have pushed the U.S. economy into recession.
Avoiding the "cliff" will likely have boosted consumer confidence, said Chris Kichurchak, vice president at Strategic Wealth Partners. That improving sentiment, combined with a strengthening housing market, should prove favorable to so-called cyclical companies that move in line with the economy.
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The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite to the security's price, fell 1 basis point to 1.89 percent.
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-- American Express rose 38 cents to $61.18 after the company said that spending by cardholders jumped 8 percent in the fourth quarter, even after Superstorm Sandy crimped some buying.
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-- Ford rose 13 cents to $13.69. The company said demand for new vehicles is accelerating in the U.S. Ford plans to hire 2,200 engineers, computer programmers and other white-collar workers this year. The automaker said Thursday it was raising its dividend.
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Novice artists gather at studio to make memories
If your last artistic endeavor was a childhood paint-by-number or a high school art class, a new Henrico business provides the opportunity to uncork your inner artist and fuel your creative spirit – with 30 or 40 friends if you so desire.
Open since November, Spirited Art is located in West Broad Village, adjacent to The Wine Loft. That's where the "spirit" comes in.
Individuals and groups who attend painting sessions or classes during Wine Loft hours can order from a menu of flatbreads, sliders, cheese boards and beverages to enjoy while they create.
And the creations? Depending on the night, participants paint may anything from flowers and trees to animals to (the most popular) the Richmond skyline.
No artistic experience is needed; as promotional literature emphasizes, all that painters need to know are their shapes, letters and colors. And it helps to bring a friend and a sense of humor.
On a recent evening, Spirited Art hosted a record crowd of about 65 primarily-amateur artists gathered to paint blue crabs while they raised funds for the non-profit organization Boaz & Ruth, which has transformed the Highland Park community of Richmond by creating jobs, renovating buildings and starting businesses.
Before buckling down to their masterpieces, the painters heard from a Boaz & Ruth spokesperson, who described the organization's job training sessions, conflict resolution classes and coaching and counseling programs and their empowering effects for participants who had struggled with homelessness, prison and addiction.
"We rebuild [not just] stores and houses," said the spokesperson, who like most graduates of Boaz and Ruth programs was once incarcerated. "We rebuild lives."
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After a brief explanation of the process from a Spirited Art guide, and turns with the crab template to outline paintings, 65 heads bent over their canvases and the color-mixing began in earnest. Among the varied groups tackling the task were several residents of Wellesley, members of Christ Church Episcopal (a supporter of Boaz & Ruth), and employees of Free Agents Marketing. Many were encouraged to come by Marilyn Wayland of Free Agents, who organized the fundraising event.
But others who attended independently included the team of Stephanie Evans and her 12-year-old daughter Sarah, who decided to share one canvas and paint their crustacean as a collaborative effort. Their cousin and friend, Tracey Papas, was on her fourth trip to Spirited Art and had invited the Evans to join her for some family bonding.
"It's a good summer outing," said Stephanie Evans, as she and Sarah fine-tuned the shade of pink that would form the crab's background.
"And nice mother-daughter time."
On another recent afternoon, a group of 30 employees from Capital One gathered in the Spirited Art studio to paint one of the most popular subjects – the Richmond skyline – while doing some corporate team-building.
The atmosphere at the studio lends itself easily to team-building activities, say the owners, because it gets colleagues outside the comfort zone of their offices, breaks down workplace barriers and puts everyone on a more-or-less equal footing -- not to mention building camaraderie and injecting fun and humor into the mix.
In addition, participants finish the session with a memento to take home or back to the office – typically the skyline painting, but sometimes a corporate symbol or abstract piece of art. A group of 40 employees from University of Richmond, for example, all contributed to the same masterpiece: a multiple-paneled portrayal of the UR gazebo.
And after a visit by the Bon Secours Memorial School of Nursing, faculty member Trina Gardner told the Spirited Art staff, "We had no idea what to expect of this adventure, but we ended up with some excellent paintings – and insight into our true personalities!"
Among other Henrico groups and corporations that have visited Spirited Art for team-building events, said co-owner Dami Snyder, are Snagajob, Henrico County Schools, AmeriFinancial and CapTech. And although the Capital One group decided to focus on the social aspects for their experience, groups can also choose to add a challenging exercise or two. In one such exercise, explained Snyder, colleagues reach the halfway point of the session and take their communal break – only to hear the announcement that after the break, everyone will
move three seats over and resume painting on someone else's canvas.
"It's a good lesson," said Snyder, pointing out that the exercise highlights surprises and setbacks that can occur in the typical workplace. "You don't always get the project you want," she noted as one example. "You may get a project better than you thought you'd get. And you may walk into a hot mess!"
'I missed art in my life'
Although Spirited Art is new to the Richmond area, the concept is based on similar successful programs in Huntsville, Little Rock and Knoxville. Lauren McCormick, who is Snyder's sister and one of four co-owners of the Richmond site, said that once she visited the Alabama location, she could hardly wait to open a similar spot back home in Richmond. When she had become a mother, said McCormick, her artistic pursuits had fallen by the wayside. "I missed art in my
life," she said.
Despite the obstacles posed by restrictive Virginia ABC laws, which forbade the BYOB format of other Spirited Art sites, the owners persevered. Learning that the space next door to The Wine Loft was available, she approached Jeff Ottaviano of The Wine Loft about a partnership. By Thanksgiving 2011, Spirited Art Richmond was off and running, with little more than word-of-mouth advertising.
As the Boaz and Ruth event wound to a close July 24 – at $1,120 in proceeds, Spirited Art's biggest fundraiser to date – it was clear that the session had not only made a substantial sum for charity, but had also made a substantial number of memories.
Tracey Papas, in fact, made a point of flipping her canvas over and telling the Evanses that she had recorded their names for posterity. "I always write on the back of it," Papas told them, "about who I was with."
Across the room, 90-year-old Irma Rich beamed for the camera held by her daughter-in-law Adrienne Rich of Free Agents, while noisy groups of co-workers and neighbors posed proudly with their paintings for photos for the Spirited Art Facebook page. And next to the Evanses, a professional artist from Chesterfield wrapped up her fourth crab painting and speculated on which charity might be the recipient of her latest effort.
A frequent studio visitor, Sally Valentine has already painted a half dozen projects for the purpose of donating them to silent auctions at charity events. The last time she painted a crab, it raised $85 for a fundraiser for the Cape Charles Museum; another Spirited Art painting made $185 at a separate silent auction.
But generating money for charity, said Valentine, is not the only thing she enjoys about her visits to Spirited Art. The evening sessions allow her a chance to get out and meet interesting people, while also freeing her from distractions and enforcing a built-in time limit.
"It's great," said Valentine, "that you can come here and and sit down and paint – and it forces you to finish it!"
For details about Spirited Art, call 360-5909 or visit http://www.myspiritedart.com/locations/richmond-va
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The restaurant and craft brewery opened in early June and features 10 beers made by female brewmaster Becky Hammond (pictured). This is the restaurant's second location in Virginia; the first is in Arlington. Behind glass walls, customers watched the beer brewing in massive steel barrels. For our up-and-coming beer region, it makes sense that Short Pump would jump on board.
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The city's other major industries include processed timber, oil palm production, and tourism. The world famous Gunung Mulu National Park with its Sarawak Chamber, a half an hour flight from the city, is one of the favourite eco-tourism destinations. Miri is also the main tourist gateway for Loagan Bunut National Park, Lambir National Park, and the Niah Caves. Miri has lately become known for its exotic coral reefs.
For local shoppers, the y have the choice of shopping complexes such as Bintang Megamall, Boulevard Shopping Mall, Imperial Shopping Mall, Merdeka Mall, Miri Plaza, and many more. Other attractions include places like the Lotus Hill Taoist Temple, Tanjong Lobang Beach, Luak Esplanade, Hawaii Beach, Bekenu-Sibuti Beach, and Marina Bay.
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This week's app is pretty special because it won a national competition and was designed by local students.
Recycling Bin was created by 6th grade students from the West Fargo STEM Center.
They thought up the idea last April and beat out more than 450 other app ideas from around the country.
After working with M.I.T. to refine the app, the group presented it at the National Technology Student Association Conference in Florida this summer. Now it's available for you to download in the Google Play store.
The students wanted to develop an app to address a need in their community, in this case, making it easier for people to go green and recycle. And it boy does it hit the mark.
"Recycling Bin" will help you to locate recycling bins nearest you, allow you to enter your own recycling bin locations to your favorites screen, and even let you to set a reminder alarm to remember when it's time to recycle.
If you want to download "Recycling Bin" click here.
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Also new is the GlowUp, a portable, battery-powered, accent uplight with an adjustable 15° to 30° beam that runs for 10 hours and recharges in four; and the Igloo, an outdoor enclosure for sub-700W moving lights with an onboard wireless DMX receiver in a system that automatically maintains internal temperature above 32°F (0°C) and below 95°F (35°C).
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Happy Holidays!
The lights are lit, the tree is trimmed and wrapped gifts are already starting to pile up under the tree...unless you live at my house, that is! I can count on one hand the number of years that our shopping started this late in the year. But I've enlisted help (most certainly not my husband, in case you're wondering) and will have that rectified by the end of the week.
It's the season for giving and mine started out with gifting an IAAP membership, followed by a bag full of toys for the office Toys for Tots box. There's really something to be said for giving. I think Winston Churchill put it most succinctly when he said, "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." May you have the opportunity to give this holiday season such that it has a lasting impact on the recipient.
I hope the 2010 year is off to a great start for everyone! Mine started off with a bang. No joke! Last week Wednesday on my way into work, I was rear ended on the highway. And yes, I was in the far passing lane and obstructing traffic during the morning rush hour. As I think back on the happenings of that morning, I'm amazed at how much the brain had to process through, one item at a time. It went something like this . . . my head hurts, need to find a pen and paper, don't get out of the car, where are my glasses (they'd gone flying off my face), find the cell phone, dial 991, oops, 911 (hands were shaking), call my husband, call work . . . and so it went, one course of action at a time. As luck would have it, I had a doctor's appointment that morning. Once she was informed of the accident and that my head was hurting, it was decided I should have a CAT scan. You'll all be happy to know that my radiographs came back normal. Of course, the question is: what is one's definition of normal?!
As we all know, the world's attention is focused on Haiti and the life changing events which have occurred to the indigenous population, as well as other nationalities working or living in the area. I've been watching the news, as I'm sure you all have. In my city, couples who are in the adoption process are asking for help to determine if their adoptive children are still alive and to hasten the adoption proceedings. For those of you who remember Wilney Audain, who spoke at EFAM last year as well as PEC several years ago, we've been in contact with him and learned last week that his birth mother and family are alive and well.
Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name.
Welcome to 2010-2011! Welcome to Passion and Purpose! I'm excited to be continuing with the momentum of the Power of Commitment Year we just finished. We kicked off Passion and Purpose at the Education Forum at our Annual Meeting in Boston just a few weeks ago. Connecting with all of you was one of the highlights of the week for me. I'm already thinking about EFAM 2011. Begin planning now to attend EFAM in Montréal.
The beginning of a new year is a perfect time to review the IAAP Process Plan. If you haven't read it already, or if it's been a while, take a few minutes to look it over. The Process Plan will give you a foundational understanding of where we've been and where we're headed as an association. Also, we have Action/Direction from the post-EFAM board meeting in the web community. Log in and search for document No. 973.
On Monday, September 21, I had the pleasure of being in Kansas City at IAAP Headquarters to recognize staff for their contributions to IAAP. I arrived shortly after 8 a.m. and did a quick tour through the office to say hello to everyone before I dropped my bags of cashews and chocolates in the kitchen. There I found two tables groaning under the weight of all the food staff had brought in for the potluck luncheon.
Don and I then had time to chat and get caught up before the 10 a.m. dedication ceremony. A bench, which had been purchased by the Past International Presidents who had worked with Shirley, was dedicated in her honor. Shirley started working for IAAP on July 5, 1957 and retired on July 31, 1996. She was the Publications Manager when she retired, and The Secretary (now OfficePro) Editor. What a thrill it was to meet Shirley. I had heard many stories about her but until now had not met her. She is one feisty lady!
Not only does spring arrive in full force this month, but it's high "IAAP Season" again. What's happening in IAAP this month? Let's run down everything that's happening and will happen: First, have you registered for EFAM yet? It's time again to start thinking about IAAP's Education Forum and Annual Meeting, and this year promises to be one of the best. You've told us that you want more education, and we listened. In addition to an extra hour of available sessions, we've also got a second keynote speaker: Erin Brockovich, one of the highest profile admins… ever! Be sure to register soon to get your choice of sessions before they fill up and to take advantage of the special early bird rate.
This weekend, all of our president-elects will be visiting headquarters in Kansas City for the annual Incoming Division Presidents Conference. This is the "behind the scenes" kickoff to the next IAAP year, and it's where the groundwork gets laid for "what's next" for IAAP. Be sure to ask your division president about what they gleaned from their time in Kansas City. And of course, April is home to Administrative Professionals Day and Week. This year, we've partnered with Adecco to bring you a
KUDOS to everyone who held membership drives during the month of October and utilized the Membership Drive presentation! Your efforts have put membership numbers in a positive flow. KUDOS to IAAP's Membership Department! They created a presentation which can be personalized by chapters; they continue to be innovative and creative in their ideas to help IAAP innovate. Membership Sr. Manager Johnston informed us at the Fall Board Meeting that your combined Power of Commitment to the admin profession and IAAP have placed us on the road to becoming remarkable. Has inspired many to join . . . .Now, we haven't broken the 6/30/09 number, but through your efforts we are 675 members closer to doing so. I firmly believe that your combined Power of Commitment to the admin profession and IAAP will post a record year in membership numbers come June 30, 2010.
And what better way to be a part of growing IAAP, than to gift a membership to a family member, friend or coworker. I am giving the gift of membership this month to a family member who will be moving for the third time this year to yet another state to secure a job. While her degree is in Human Resource Management, I know that membership in IAAP will provide her with networking opportunities, continuing education and friends.
I was recently tasked with Bates Numbering a document over 400 pages. Being part of an inhouse legal department we do not have any kind of Bates numbering machine. I asked our mail room for advice, they suggested we outsource to a nearby law firm, another one of their accounts, or try Fed Ex Kinkos. The document was of a sensitive nature and I was concerned about sending it out.
Adobe to the rescue! I have a full version of Adobe rather than the reader version. I scanned in all the documents in batches of 100. Adobe will add a foot or header and a page number can be inserted. The page number can also be formatted to start with a new number. Viola! Bates numbered and really rather easy.
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I was paired with another assistant in my company for the Buddy System Coaching program implemented in our chapter, in which we build a networking relationship and facilitate professional growth. For me, it has been a terrific program to be a part of. My buddy was a perfect match. We get together periodically for lunch and exchange many ideas and experiences on the job. During our sessions, we were able to identify our weaknesses and strengths in our current roles. We were able to connect at different levels and the lesson I took back with me is that you are always learning new things every day. We also provided practical advice to each other on our skill sets.
The Buddy System helped me build a valuable relationship and helped me to improve my leadership skills. My experience was a very positive one. Our meetings were always a productive and worthwhile experience! I also feel, in order to be effective in our jobs, we need to have a number of different coaches in our career who can provide specific advice to help improve our performance. This is a program I would highly recommend for any administrative assistant to be a part of at any company to enhance your leadership skills and reach your goals.
At IAAP we are constantly talking to each other of the importance of training and how it can affect our careers especially when assisting in getting that next level position or a pay raise.
We as administrative professionals are expected to be the most diverse individuals on the planet. Our bosses and our employers expect us to know everything with regards to diversity. After all aren't we the ones that meet with the clients/customer/vendors first. We are the ones that keep our boss from doing something insulting. We make sure the food is right when needed for a meeting. We ask the social questions of, "Does this need to be Kosher? Do I need to omit the sodas/coffee/juices? Should there be meat on the menu? Should the meat be touching other meats or dairy?" "Remind the boss and anyone else attending the meeting to hand their business card using both hands?" Remind myself to wear a skirt longer than my knee caps and to bring a scarf, so I can cover my hair for the short period of time while the guests are in the office. Have a lap blanket available to cover my legs completely if I am attending the meeting."
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Dear Members:
Throughout the year following the Futures Conference—where we met with approximately 200 member and nonmember stakeholders—IAAP leadership and staff have maintained the momentum and continued the important dialogue with you, our members. By convening focus groups, distributing surveys and compiling more research over the last 18 months, as well as commissioning several working groups, what we learned is this. In order to grow, remain relevant and support members with tools to succeed, we must reimagine and revitalize IAAP. These are the themes we heard loud and clear from the membership:
It's June, and that means the 2009-10 IAAP year is in its last stretch. While most of you are coming off your division meetings and finished installing your new officers, we at the International level are ramping up for our busiest time of year. In the next few weeks, we'll be approving the 2010-2011 budget, finishing all our speeches and sessions for EFAM and tying up every loose end so that we can start the whole process over again.
Speaking of EFAM, I want to remind everyone that if you haven't registered yet, there's still time! This is one you won't want to miss. With an extra hour of educational sessions, we're offering more opportunities for learning than ever before. What I am most excited about this year are our keynoters. That's right, two keynote speakers to get you motivated for the coming year. First we have Vernice Armour, the United States' first African-American woman combat pilot. She's been featured on Oprah, CNN and NPR, and we're excited to have her with us to tell us about overcoming obstacles!
Any other year, that would be fantastic... this year, we've got even more! On Tuesday evening, Erin Brockovich
I've been trying to register since yesterday but it says "Page Not Found." I've tried from work and from home - no luck. Anyone else having this problem?
This is the first of a series to introduce you to the IAAP Board of Director's leaders with interviews of the board treasurer, secretary, vice president and president-elect. Today, meet Dortha Gray, board treasurer.
What drew you to not only your first IAAP meeting or encounter, but also what pushed you to take the step to become a member?
A coworker and I started carpooling together. After a few days, she said she had a meeting after work the third Tuesday of each month. She said I could either drive in separately on that day or I could go to the meeting with her. The meeting was the monthly meeting of the National Secretaries Association (now IAAP). They had a networking time, dinner, an educational program, and then a short business meeting. Everyone was welcoming and the business meeting was very professionally run. I was very impressed. I went to the meetings with my coworker each month and joined shortly thereafter.
I see a correlation with IAAP. Basketball teams are formed by recruiting. IAAP teams are formed through elections. Neither group has a say in who they'd like their teammates to be. However, both teams need to work together to develop a rhythm; one that utilizes each individual member's strengths or skills to their greatest potential to achieve the goal of the team. And, when the season is over or the IAAP fiscal year comes to an end, the makeup of the team changes - seniors graduate and presidents move on . . . to a much deserved rest! What that means is, every year teams lose a portion of their time together getting to know the attributes of their new teammates and how best to bring their skills into play such that it benefits the entire team overall.
Wow! The end of April and the beginning of May have been busy! During APW® week, I had the opportunity to speak at my own chapter event as well as the breakfast sponsored by the Houston Chapter for the area chapters (see picture below). Charlene Kesee, CPS/CAP, who wrote "Toot Your Horn . . . Loudly" which appeared in the March/April issue of OfficePro was in attendance. Not only did I have the pleasure of meeting her; she autographed my copy! Then Mo and I rolled right into two graduation ceremonies for our youngest as she graduated from the local university and, of course, the family gathering to celebrate (see smiling faces below . . . dad's new chant is "no more tuition!"). At that point, it was difficult to tell whether I was coming or going! This past weekend was spent in Gettysburg, PA with the members of the Pennsylvania Division and this weekend I'll be joining members of the Michigan Division at their annual meeting.
A lot of things happened in April--tax season, Earth Day and, of course, Administrative Professionals Week. We had well over 200 newspaper articles and business journal articles this year (which we can't reprint for our members due to copyright restrictions). IAAP statistics were featured in the


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