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John Tracy became a partner at Bradley Reid + Associates in the summer of 2008 after 23 years as an anchor and News Director at KTUU-TV. John won numerous Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Awards as a reporter and producer at KTUU. A member of the
Alaska Broadcasters Hall of Fame, John has covered stories for NBC Nightly News and CNN. At Bradley Reid, he's produced campaigns for clients such as ConocoPhillips, Alaska Tourism and Providence. In 2012 he was commissioned to spearhead a team to re-build KTVA 11 for GCI, as Alaska's first high-definition television station. John's domestic focus group includes his wife Donna, their three children and two grandkids.
Jill Shepherd will highlight events from her family's early history in Alaska. She also will tell how it came to be that, at age 47, she realized a 30-year-old dream when she landed a job at Alaska magazine. Shepherd worked at the magazine for the next 23 years, retiring in 2004.
Born in Bridgeport, Conn., nature writer Bill Sherwonit has called Alaska home since 1982. He has contributed essays and articles to a wide variety of newspapers, magazines, journals, and anthologies and is the author of more than a dozen books. His newest book is a collection of essays, Animal Stories: Encounters with Alaska's Wildlife, published in September 2014 by Alaska Northwest Books. His website is www.billsherwonit.alaskawriters.com
A third-generation Alaskan, David was born in Fairbanks before statehood. His family moved to Anchorage in 1963 just prior to the Great Alaska Earthquake.
David graduated from the University of Alaska Anchorage with a degree in Journalism and Public Communications in 1989. That same year, he created Alaska Pet-ography as a home-based business.
Realizing that the portrait studio had outgrown the house, he and his wife, Carol decided to lease a storefront in 1997. Soon after, they purchased their current studio located in South Anchorage and called it David Jensen Photography. The studio has grown to include two properties with private park settings designed for portraits of people and their animal companions.
In 2013, David published his first book called It's Important to Paws, Lessons learned from Animal Companions. A coffee table book, it focuses on animal companions in Alaska - a collection of writings and hundreds of portraits featuring dogs, cats, horses and many other beautiful companions. It's Important to Paws received the 2014 Independent Publisher's National Gold Medal award in the category of animals and pets. The book is available for purchase in retail locations around town. Copies of the book have been sold nationally and internationally. His second book, When Age has no Leash, Lessons Learned from Senior Dogs will be published in the next few months.
David is a member of the Anchorage Lion's Club, Antique Auto Mushers of Alaska, Midnight Sun Street Rod Association and Anchorage Nordic Ski Club. He also plays the trumpet and directs the Front Row Seats Band. His images of rescued cats and dogs have appeared in the Anchorage Daily News for nearly 25 years through a collaborative program with Friends of Pets.
When not relaxing at home with the senior dogs that rule the house, you might spot David exploring one of Alaska's beautiful trails or mountain sides via hiking boots, skis or snowshoes. Layla is nearly always at his side with dog booties on, a tennis ball in her mouth and a twinkle in her adventurous. golden retriever eyes.
Fran Ulmer is currently the chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, where she has served since being appointed by President Obama in March 2011. In June 2010, President Obama appointed her to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. From 2007 to 2011, Ms. Ulmer was chancellor of Alaska's largest public university, the University of Alaska Anchorage. Before that, she was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at UAA. She is a member of the Global Board of the Nature Conservancy and on the Board of the National Parks Conservation Association.
Ms. Ulmer served as an elected official for 18 years as the mayor of Juneau, a state representative, and as Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. She previously worked as legal counsel to the Alaska Legislature, legislative assistant to Governor Jay Hammond, and Director of Policy Development for the state. In addition, she was the first Chair of the Alaska Coastal Policy Council and served more than 10 years on the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission. She earned a J.D. cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School, and has been a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government.
Journalist Mark Trahant serves as the 20th Atwood Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage. The position brings nationally known journalists to teach courses and speak to students, journalists and the public in Alaska.Trahant was recently awarded a fellowship to the Rockefeller Bellagio Center in Italy and for the past three years, he was an editor in residence at the University of Idaho, School of Journalism and Mass Media. In 2009, he was awarded a Kaiser Media Fellowship and wrote about health care reform, focusing on its impact in Indian Country. He also reported for PBS' Frontline series, featuring a program titled "The Silence," a piece about sexual abuse committed by priests in an Alaska native village.
Trahant is the former editor of the editorial page for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where he chaired the daily editorial board, directed a staff of writers, editors and a cartoonist. He has been chairman and chief executive officer at the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and a former columnist at The Seattle Times. He has been publisher of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News in Moscow, Idaho; executive news editor of The Salt Lake Tribune; a reporter at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix; and has worked at several tribal newspapers.
"This is an exciting time for a young person to begin a career in journalism today," Trahant said. "I look forward to working with the students at the University of Alaska Anchorage to help shape that future."
Trahant will teach Information Gathering and Global Media and Communications Systems this fall and Multimedia Journalism and Enterprise Reporting in the spring.
The Atwood Chair of Journalism is among the nation's most prestigious endowed journalism chairs. Anchorage Times publisher Robert B. Atwood established the Atwood Chair at the University of Alaska Anchorage in 1979. Among the many positive contributions Bob and Evangeline Atwood made to Alaska's civic life, the Atwood Chair of Journalism has helped educate the state's next generation of journalists.
Learn more about the 2014 Atwood Chair at www.marktrahant.org.
Trahant is an editor, reporter, columnist, television correspondent and the author of several books. A member of Idaho's Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and former president of the Native American Journalists Association, he has been reporting on Native American issues since the 1970s. Trahant's most recent book "The Last Great Battle of the Indian Wars," is about Sen. Henry M. Jackson. He also publishes a daily poem about the news to Twitter @newsrimes4lines.
Rick Goodfellow – President / Programming Director / Grand Puh-bah
Rick is the heart and soul of KLEF. He hand selects all the music, manages the station, and is one of the voice talents on the station. He is also the newest inductee into the ABA Hall of Fame as well as the Guide for the Ghost Tours of Anchorage.
Jan Ingram – Children's Programming Director / Voice Talent (KLEF Notes)
Jan is one of the voice talents on KLEF. She is the Children's Programming Director. She is co-owner with her husband, Rick.
Rick and Jan will talk about their radio station, KLEF (which just has its 25th anniversary), the Ghost Tours of Anchorage, and a new talk show - the Ghost Show - on KFQD.
President of The Growth Company, Inc., a management consulting, training, human resources and organizational strategy firm, Lynne Curry brings her clients a track record in management consulting; Board, manager and employee training; human resources and organizational strategy consulting.
Training and facilitation
Curry provides dynamic, professional, results-oriented training sessions in more than 200 areas including: leadership; management and supervision; Board of Directors' work; training, presentations, facilitation and mediation; coaching; marketing, sales and customer service; personal and professional development; memory; time and stress management; team-building; diversity; GenX/Y; media; ethics; communications, conflict management and negotiation; motivation and change management. Curry has been awarded the Trainer of the Year award multiple times by the Anchorage chapter of the American Society of Training and Development.
Curry teaches facilitators and also provides facilitation, meeting management and team-building for a large variety of organizations.
Polly Smith's interest and passion for adult literacy began many years ago as a volunteer tutor and teacher, and she has never looked back. She has worked with learners of all ages, from preschool in family-literacy programs to adults in college and the workforce. Polly has been awarded the Alaska Adult Education Association Administrator's Award and the Alaska Adult Educations Association's John L. Hulbert Award for outstanding long-term contributions to adult learning in the state of Alaska.
Polly is a teacher, trainer and administrator for the Alaska Literacy Program, a volunteer-based nonprofit providing literacy instruction to adults and families with young children. She has a Master's degree in Education, Learning Disabilities. She serves on the board of the Commission of Adult Basic Education and as secretary for the ProLiteracy Council of State Organizations. She is an ardent admirer of all things Alaskan, realizing her childhood dream of becoming an Alaskan in 1987.
Michael Carey was born and raised in Fairbanks. He graduated from Lathrop High School in 1963 and attended Ithaca College (BA 1967) and Duke University where he took graduate courses without completing his degree. For most of the late Sixties and into the Seventies he lived around New York City before returning to Alaska and entering the newspaper business. He was a member of the Anchorage Daily News editorial page stuff before becoming a columnist. For the last decade, he has been the host of public broadcasting's "Alaska Edition," a political analysis show. He lives in Anchorage.
Harper is the Producing Artistic Director of the award-winning Cyrano's Theatre Company. In this capacity, Harper is responsible for programming, marketing, fundraising, and project management for each production. Sandy and her husband, Jerry, founding members of Cyrano's Theatre Company, spent their earlier years under the mentorship of Obie award-winner Rachel Rosenthal. Both were core members in Rosenthal's innovative new theatre form, called "Instant Theatre" and "Instant Fairy Tales", in Los Angeles. While in LA, Sandy earned her Master's Degree in Human Development from Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena.
In Alaska, Sandy has served on the national board of the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, the Anchorage Downtown Partnership, the Rasmuson Foundation, and the Anchorage Downtown Association. She also served as President of the Anchorage Cultural Council. Sandy continues to co-host a monthly radio program about the arts on KSKA public broadcasting in Anchorage.
Sandy's awards include: the "Contribution to Literacy in Alaska" award, as the founding member of the Alaska Center for the book; the YWCA "Notable Woman of the Year"; and was inducted into the ATHENA Society in 2009. In 2010, Sandy was recognized by the Soroptimist society for her encouragement of women in the arts. In 2011, Sandy received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from UAA and the Lorene Harrison Lifetime Achievement Award. Sandy has been featured in the national magazine American Theatre for producing a series of plays honoring the indigenous peoples of Alaska.
In 2010 Mary Katzke and her 10-year-old son, Corin, sold all their worldly possession and bought one-way tickets to Ireland. It was just the beginning of a world-class adventure. Twenty-eight countries and a world education later, Katzke and her son share their adventures in the documentary "World School." Cruise ships, bicycles, airplanes and almost every form of transportation available carried them around the globe. Corin says his favorite places were Dubai and China, "...it's like being in school, and being teleported to the places in your textbook."
Kids grow up so quickly and there is no getting that time back," said Mary Katzke. "Family travel allows both education, and the chance to savor this precious time."
Philip "Flip" Todd is a native of Washington DC, a graduate of the Sidwell Friends School and Boston University with a degree in government. He began work at Lappi's Chevron in Gulkana, Alaska in 1969 where he was a proficient tire changer before joining the Anchorage Times that year as an obituary writer. He progressed to covering the Anchorage School board before being drafted into the U.S. Army.
Stationed at Ft. Bragg, N.C. attached to the Special Forces before being transferred to Ft. Richardson, AK, he worked as a general assignment and sports reporter at the Anchorage Daily News at night and on weekends while in the Army.
A fourth generation journalist, he returned to the Anchorage Times after discharge from the Army in 1972 and spent several years as a business writer and editor.
In 1976 he became a full time free-lance writer and photographer for the AP and both local and national publications such as Alaska Industry Magazine, Business Week and the Washington Post. He is a fourth generation journalist.
In 1978 he began publishing the Alaska Directory of Attorneys, a semi-annual publication still produced by his publishing company, Todd Communications. The directory which lists all active members of the Alaska bar along with information ranging from members' year of admission, undergraduate school, year of graduation and major, to law school and e-mail address, has become the bible of the Alaska legal community.
He brought the first color scanner to the state in 1982 when he founded Alaska Color Scan. He is president of Todd Communications which publishes many books, calendars and maps. The company is also the state's primary wholesale distributor of these products to more than 700 stores, as well as providing international print brokering services to other publishers.
He is a past president of the Alaska World Affairs Council and has served on its board for more than 20 years.
He has led Todd Communications for more than 35 years and developed it into a fully integrated publishing and publishing services company serving publishers ranging from the largest New York houses to regional and local concerns.
Increasingly its services are focused on assisting Alaska and Pacific Northwest authors and photographers to self-publish their own works. It accomplishes this by offering editing, book design, printing and wholesale distribution of books about Alaska and by Alaska authors. The company has 20 employees and offices in Ketchikan, Juneau, Fairbanks and Juneau serving the entire state with publishing services and wholesale book, calendar and map distribution.
Kaylene Johnson is a professional writer and long-time Alaskan who lives in Eagle River, Alaska.
Her books include A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My Sons in Alaska; Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down, Portrait of the Alaska Railroad and Trails Across Time: History of an Alaska Mountain Corridor. Her award-winning articles have appeared in Alaska magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Spirit magazine, Parish Teacher and other publications. She holds a BA from Vermont College and an MFA in Writing from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.
Born in Berlin, Germany, Victor Fischer was a delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention, served in the territorial House of Representatives and the Alaska State Senate, and worked in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A member of the faculty of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and Alaska, he was director for the Institute for Social and Economic Research. He continues to work in state policy, local government, and Alaska-Russia issues.
From the book: Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Berlin and Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin and watched his friends' parents disappear after political arrests. Eleanor Roosevelt personally engineered the Fischer family's escape from Russia, and soon after, Victor was serving in the United States Army in World War II, while his childhood friends fought in the Soviet and German armies.
As a young adult, Fischer went on to help shape Alaska's map by planning towns throughout the state. This unique autobiography recounts his earliest days in Germany, Russia, and Alaska, where he soon entered civic affairs and was elected as a delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention - the body responsible for establishing statehood in the territory. A move to Washington, DC, and further government appointments allowed him to witness key historic events of his era, which he also recounts here. Finally, Fischer brings his memoir up to the present, describing how he has returned to Russia many times to bring the lessons of Alaska freedom and prosperity to the newly democratic states.
For a brief time in history, when the world was in turmoil and the end was in doubt, the noblest of human motives shown through the night, and prevailed. Vic Fischer was a part of those times. He still carries the banner, a rebuke to cynicism and dishonesty and self-focus. Through this gripping autobiography, that is his gift to us. --Steve Cowper, former Governor of Alaska
For those of us who know Vic Fischer as a savvy, progressive Alaska state senator, this terrific book is a revelation. Stories of his roots in Russia, his time in Germany - where some still know him as one of the fabled Troika - and much more besides, make this a wonderful introduction to a fascinating life. --Peter Kenyon Foreign Correspondent, NPR
Pat Richardson recently retired from a 46-year career in communications. She started in private industry on the production side of the publishing business, eventually transferring to the editorial side. In 1977, she moved to Anchorage as associate editor of Alaska Construction & Oil magazine and also wrote a weekly business management newsletter. She worked 31 and a half years as a public affairs specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District, where she handled media inquiries and edited the district newsletter. She joined Alaska Press Women (the predecessor to Alaska Professional Communicators) in 1978 as a way to network with women since she worked in a field dominated by men. Her passion is preserving the history of the organization as historian and archivist.
Carolyn Rinehart reported and edited for newspapers in Texas and Montana. In 1977 she and her husband, Bob, moved to Anchorage, where she got a reporting job with the then-dominant Anchorage Times. She joined APC (then Alaska Press Women)
in 1978 mainly to enter the Communications Contest, which she felt offered her a better chance of winning than the Press Club competition. Press Women became her favorite organization and the source of many of her friends. She spent 15 years as a writer-editor with the Army Corps of Engineers, while remaining an active member of APC. Carolyn was president in 1985-86 and 1986-87 and has won numerous local and national (NFPW) awards. She was contest coordinator for many years and has held other APW/APC offices.
Don Rearden is the author of the award winning novel The Raven's Gift and a produced screenwriter. His films have aired on Showtime, and TMC. He is the board president of 49 Writers and an Associate Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His website is www.donrearden.com.
After many years at KTUU-Channel 2, Rhonda McBride is moving across town to KTVA-Channel 11. Currently she's employed by GCI, which is in the process of buying KTVA. Until the sale goes through, Rhonda will be working with her old boss at KTUU, former news director John Tracy, who has been hired by GCI as a consultant to take KTVA's newsroom to the next level. Rhonda's focus at KTVA will be on rural Alaska, one of her passions. From dental health to education to politics, Rhonda has won several national awards for her coverage of rural issues.
She gained her experience reporting in the Bush at KYUK, a public radio and television station in Bethel, which broadcasts in both Yup'ik and English. Rhonda has also been a producer at the Alaska Public Radio Network -- and hosted political debates and public affairs programs at KAKM-TV, Channel 7. In 2008, Rhonda took a break from broadcasting and worked for Governor Sarah Palin as her Rural Advisor.
Shirley Mae Springer Staten, international keynoter, singer and workshop facilitator, moves people forward beyond their limiting ideas. A born storyteller and dynamic a capella vocalist, she brings an unrivaled blend of vision, passion and sheer virtuosity to her work.
From the age of five, Shirley Mae picked cotton in the fields of Georgia. Her transformation came with many challenges. A daydreamer and dyslexic, she graduated from high school not knowing how to read. By the early 1990s she had managed to work her way through college and earn her bachelor's and master's degrees.
Shirley Mae, like no one else, can weave words and music to empower her audience. She is a multitalented performing artist who motivates people to recognize and break through their self-imposed limitations. She can hold a group spellbound with stories of her struggles against the obstacles of the world. Her message will show you how to "keep movin' forward."
In her latest project, The Oh-ee-O childrens' books, she recreates the characters and events that influenced her early years. Vividly illustrated by artist Dianne Barske, The Oh-ee-O Story reminds us that life is filled with choices – for both children and adults. www.shirleymaespringer.com
Dianne Barske says ahe has never decided whether she is an artist, writer or teacher, so she has been delighted that doing children's books let her be all three. She has written and illustrated three children's books, all related to animals at the Alaska Zoo and has taken them to classrooms to share with the children. This career path led her to many happy adventures, with short-term assignments to teach art in several Bush schools and some unusual art contracts.
She recently finished two big contracts for Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, which featured paintings of bed-bug prevention and the proper dumping of honey buckets. She was thrilled to teach both writing and art for three years to children in Shirley Mae Springer Staten's Home Based After School Program in Fairview.
Currently, Dianne has a contract for a new children's book for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, about their employees' rescue of a baby musk ox along the Haul Road. Once done, she has the prospect of writing and illustrating books on lemurs in Madagascar, which she is sure will necessitate some exotic travel! Life is full of surprises!
Elise Sereni Patkotak was born many, many years ago into a much kinder and gentler world. Her initial view of life was bounded by the Italian immigrant neighborhood in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in which she was raised and the nuns who taught her throughout her early years. She is now a recovering Catholic.
Elise lived in Barrow for 28 years, during which time she aged with astounding rapidity. While living in Barrow, she was a nurse, health director, social worker, columnist, radio show host, public information officer, city recreation director and Guardian Ad Litem (GAL), working with troubled kids in the Barrow Court System. She now lives in Anchorage with five parrots, a cockatoo and a very nervous little dog that thinks all the birds are out to get his stuff.
Elise has a small writing/graphics company, Precious Cargo, Ltd., that she hopes will actually turn a profit before she dies. She is a columnist with the Anchorage Daily News and is the author of Parallel Logic, the story of her years in Barrow.
Elise continues to work as a GAL with the Barrow Court System and also volunteers with a wild bird rehab center in Anchorage. She is a foster parent for the companion bird rescue organization, Parrot Education and Adoption Center (PEAC). She is a member of Alaska Professional Communicators and has been both its president and membership chair. She is also a past co-chair of the Alaska Public Broadcasting Commission.
Elise belongs to a wide variety of animal welfare organizations and truly believes that the world will be judged by how it treats its most helpless inhabitants, including its elderly, its young and its animals.
She spent her youth wantonly wasting her money on travel to exotic locations with her sister Judy before those places decided to start killing travelers for sport. She has visited every continent in the world except Antarctica. After living in Alaska she felt that was redundant.
Her primary goal in life now is to live long enough to spend all she has saved for her old age. Thanks to recent economic trends, this may turn out to be much easier than she initially believed possible.
Steve Lindbeck came to public broadcasting in July 2007 after a 30-year career in journalism and public affairs. He is President and General Manager of Alaska Public Telecommunications, Inc. (APTI), which includes KAKM-TV, KSKA-FM and the Alaska Public Radio Network.
He also has served as Vice Chancellor for Advancement at the University of Alaska Anchorage, Associate Editor of the Anchorage Daily News, and Executive Director of the Alaska Humanities Forum. His journalism career included editorial positions at the Anchorage Daily News, the Anchorage Times, the Everett (Wash.) Herald, and the Boston Globe.
He has volunteered on many boards and committees, including the Anchorage Museum Association, the Alaska World Affairs Council, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Anchorage, United Way of Anchorage, Anchorage Cultural Council, Alaska State Council on the Arts review panels, Downtown Anchorage Rotary, and Commonwealth North.
Lindbeck, an Anchorage resident since 1968, is a graduate of West Anchorage High School and Stanford University. He is married to Patty Ginsburg, a former journalist who now works as a consultant. He loves reading, music, travel, hiking, golf, and the natural and cultural splendor of Alaska.
Ivan Moore, pollster and owner of Ivan Moore Research, will speak at the monthly luncheon of Alaska Professional Communicators. In the days before the Nov. 6 General Election, as things heat up, Moore will provide his perspective and analysis on what the polls say and how to evaluate poll results. If you've been receiving dozens of survey phone calls and want some extra insight on who's doing what, come hear the "inside story." Moore is also a regular columnist for the Anchorage Press.
Toni Massari McPherson grew up on the East Coast and got her degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She came to Alaska during the '70s after spending a year as a VISTA in Delaware and working for a small Pennsylvania newspaper for a couple years. She jumped into the Alaska adventure with both feet, including spending a year in a tepee while she and her firefighter husband built their home in Girdwood. She was a reporter and arts and entertainment director at the Anchorage Times until it closed. As the marketing director of Energy Rated Homes of Alaska for 10 years, she helped the program become the national standard for raising home energy efficiency. At the same time, she freelanced for a variety of local publications including Alaska Military Weekly, Alaska Newspapers and, most recently, F Magazine.
For the last 8.5 years, Toni has served as Anchorage Public Library's Community Relations Coordinator, serving in a variety of roles including PR/marketing director, volunteer coordinator and program manager for the library's book sales. She has worked with other staff to expand the library's profile in the community and has witnessed an on-going metamorphosis in the local institution. Over the last year, the library has invested in a community-wide study of how it should evolve to serve Anchorage in the 21st century. In her talk she will describe some of the results of survey and how it is translating into the Loussac plan for re-modeling. She will also describe challenges the library faces moving into the future.
Bob Lyon started with photography by learning to do wet-plate tintypes, the kind of photography done during the Civil War. Since then he has done photojournalism—having work published in the Washington Post, Rugby Magazine, Der Speigel, Civilization Magazine, Mother Jones, L'Express, and the International Herald Tribune, among other print media. Bob specializes in large format photography, using a one hundred year old 4" x 5" Korona. Much of Bob's large format work has been for the National Park Service in the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record programs. These photographs are filed at the Library of Congress-‐think of the last scene in the first Indiana Jones movie—except these photographs are available online at www.loc.gov.
His projects have varied from Anasazi ruins in New Mexico to Minuteman III missile complexes in South Dakota. He also visited all 100 Air Force Missile Launch Control Centers in the 1990s to document their artwork. The missile crews painted their underground facilities, rather similar to nose art on bombers in World War II.
From Colorado and a resident of Anchorage for two years, Bob hasn't produced many local images yet, but he is enthusiastically photographing the Alaska scene. To see some of his work go to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photo4X5000
Bob currently works for the National Park Service in Anchorage, mainly tasked with historic preservation. One of the projects to which he has been assigned is the preservation of Soapy Smith's saloon in Skagway, Alaska, at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.
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Journalist and author Carol Sturgulewski will speak at the monthly luncheon for Alaska Professional Communicators. Sturgulewski, oldest daughter of former Governor Murkowski, has recently published White House of the North, an account of a century's worth of legends, history, and personalities in Alaska's Governor's Mansion. She interviewed governors, first ladies, and friends from every administration since 1925 and tells of glamorous balls, wartime austerity and…leaky pipes.
Blauhous has been a teacher in the Anchorage School District for over thirty years and has been at Mirror Lake since the school opened 15 years ago. She teaches piano keyboarding classes to music students and is the leader and mentor of a group of students who produce an present daily closed circuit news of the day within the school.
She began a collaboration with Augie Hebert, television and radio pioneer in Alaska, shortly after the school opened. This collaboration grew into a School Business partnership with Channel 11, which has provided professional training and mentoring for middle school students. Several years ago, also through the impetus of Augie Hebert, Mirror Lake Middle School became the only school in Alaska to broadcast over a low power FM station to the school's neighboring community.
Photo by Chris Arend
Richard Murphy was the photo editor of the Anchorage Daily News from 1985 to 2011. During his time with the Daily News, he was on a team that won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He and his team of photojournalists were nominated the next year for news photography. Murphy has also been a nominating juror for the Pulitzer Prizes in 2010 and 2011. Murphy's work has been displayed in galleries such as the Decker Morris Gallery. His work is on permanent display at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, the University of Alaska Museum, the State of Alaska Museum and the National Press Photographers Association's archives.
Founder and publisher of F Magazine, Teeka Ballas will discuss how she went from being a news hound to becoming a staunch advocate for culture and community at the stern of an arts publication. Although the magazine has a short history, it is a dynamic one and is currently making a tremendous impact on numerous communities and cultures around Alaska. Ballas will reveal some of the secrets behind running an independent, volunteer-driven publication and share the hard knocks she's learned along the way.
Teeka Ballas first began working in journalism as a travel writer for a publication in Australia 15 years ago. Since then she has traveled extensively and worked in numerous countries and U.S. states, covering everything from hostile environments to travel and leisure for radio, print and Web. In addition to working full time on F Magazine, Ballas currently hosts a show on Alaska Public Radio, teaches writing workshops and classes to youth and is a contributing writer to numerous publications both regionally and nationally, covering travel, entertainment, medicine and engineering.
Paola Banchero, associate professor and chair of the Department of Journalism and Public Communications at UAA, will speak at the monthly luncheon for Alaska Professional Communicators. Her focus is on young people, social media, and other aspects of digital culture. Banchero has 17 years of journalism experience -- reporting from Guadalajara, Mexico to Anchorage -- and she was a reporter and editor for the Arizona Daily Star and The Wichita Eagle before moving to Alaska. The public is invited.
Jackie Purcell, weatherperson for Channel 2 News, grew up in Anchorage. She assumed her present position in 1990, but that's NOT what she's going to talk about. At the monthly luncheon for Alaska Professional Communicators, Jackie will share stories of her debut in the movies -- "Big Miracle" (the whale movie). As Jackie says, "I have photos from my movie experience. Little did I know that cameras were not supposed to be on set, but no one said a word to me!"
Jackie graduated from Bartlett High School in 1979. She attended Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., graduating in 1983 with a degree in communications and a minor in political science. She started her career in 1984 at a small radio station in Chickasha, Okla., but decided to move "home" in 1985, working her way through radio and television until becoming the full-time weatherperson for Channel 2 News in December 1990.
"It's a gratifying experience to work in a job you love, in a town you love, surrounded by people and scenery you love. Wow!" Jackie says.
Although she's lived in Alaska for much of her life, Jackie had the opportunity to travel all over the world, thanks to a mother who believed travel was one the best educations one could have -- plus the fact that she has relatives in Europe and Indonesia -- and her father worked in the Middle East for a time.
Doing the weather at Channel 2 News keeps Jackie on her toes since Alaska presents some of the most challenging weather situations in the world. It's definitely not the same old thing every day.
Jackie married Dannie Pearson, a former Channel 2 photographer, and counts as part of her family three cats ... and would have more if it were up to her.
JACK DALTON, storyteller, author, and frequent artist-in-residence in classrooms, just doesn't stop: he's at work on a holiday show (Muktukmas!), an opera, and a new play. Jack has grown up an ambassador between the two worlds of his Yup'ik and European heritages.
A professional storyteller, writer and teacher, Jack has been honored by the World Indigenous Peoples' Conference on Education as a Distinguished Dignitary, and considered by many people around the world, to be "The Storyteller." He was chosen as one of Alaska's Top 40 Under Forty, one of the top forty business people in Alaska under the age of 40. He also received the first Expressive Arts grant from the National Museum of the American Indian to co-create the first Yup'ik opera with friend and world-famous Yup'ik music group, Pamyua co-founder, Stephen Blanchett. He's created and produced five theatrical works of storytelling, written a book, several plays and created curricula used in all levels of education. Performing throughout Alaska and the US, he has also performed in New Zealand, France, Denmark, Australia and headlined the Scottish Int'l Storytelling Festival in Scotland.
Dalton calls Anchorage home.
Featured guest National Federation of Press Women President, Lori Potter of Kearney, Nebraska. She is an agricultural reporter for the Kearney Hub, a daily newspaper founded in 1888 that covers south-central Nebraska. Kearney was an important stop on the Platte River Valley thoroughfare that led to the settling of much of the West.
Come hear Lori talk about our connection with NFPW and learn about APC's founding mothers and early history.
Guests are welcome. Bring your spouse. Invite a past member. Invite a potential member. No reservations required.
Coffee, tea, and snacks will be served.
Optional: Come dressed in 1960s clothes if you would like to join in the fun of the era.
Alaska Press Women's Founding Mothers -- First Meeting
Marcus Tingle "Thunderbird Sunrise" East High School photo by Chris Arend
Jocelyn Young is the Curator of Public Art and works for the Department of Public Works at the Municipality of Anchorage.
As the Curator of the 1% for Art Program she oversees over 440 works of art valued at $12 million dollars, in public buildings, parks and schools throughout Anchorage.
Each year the program adds from eight to fifteen works of art to the Public Art collection. Jocelyn works with over 110 volunteers who donate over 2000 hours annually. She has a degree in communications from the University of Utah.
Prior to working at the Municipality of Anchorage, she was the Director of the Arts in Education Program for the Alaska State Council on the Arts for fifteen years where she worked extensively with artists and served on many regional and national projects and panels.
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Jerene Mortenson is wearing a red dupatta to show respect and a blue trouser suit her son, Greg, had made for her on her trip to Afghanistan.
Jerene Mortenson was an elementary school principal when her son Greg was trying to raise money for a school in Korphe, Pakistan. Her students collected $623.45 in pennies, and the Pennies for Peace program began. Thousands of schools and other groups around the world have contributed, raising millions in pennies.
Jerene, now living in Anchorage, speaks at book clubs, churches, other groups and schools about Greg's work.
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This cleanser has become my holy grail cleanser of all time since it's super gentle on the skin but also gets rid of all the dirty gunk and oils left over on the skin from a long day as well. I have acne prone skin and suffer the occasional pimple here and there but this product keeps my skin at bay and cleanses it very well.
I've been using this and the gentle version of this for years. I tend to rotate between the two. I really like this cleanser as it removes all my makeup well and it keeps my breakouts at bay. It foams and lathers really nicely and I like the scent. One of my HGs.
I have been using this for a month now, and I am very pleased with it. I have combination skin and more oily in the summer. Using this in conjunction with my Clarisonic at night makes my skin clean and soft. It has a slight fragrance to it, but it smells clean not perfumy to me. It can be quite expensive at drugstores but I always get mine at walmart so the price is not so bad considering the size.
I have combination skin, and my t zone gets pretty oily by the end of the day. I got this cleanser and I stopped using it after 3 days because of the fact that it made my skin incredibly dry even when I put my usual moisturizer. I got some pimples but I'm thinking it was because of my dry skin. BEWARE OF DRY SKIN!!!
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This is a basic facial cleanser that is very good and doesn't strip my skin. I accidentally grabbed this about 6 months ago in the normal to oily skin version when I am dry skin. I didn't realize it until I used it. Alas, nothing to worry about. It didn't do any stripping or drying out of my already dry skin.
It cleansed it gently without causing any irritation with my rosacea. It removes my makeup well also without any problems. Great product and as you can see, I still have the same bottle with the pump 6 months later and use it daily. Little goes a long way. Definitely will buy again and again.
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WOW this stuff broke me out so bad lol I literally don't understand why dermatologists recommend this brand to people. I've had pretty decent skin but I figured it was time to switch up my cleanser as my other one wasn't removing makeup/dirt very efficiently. My dermatologist recommended this cleanser to me. I found it at walmart for SUPER cheap, like 6 dollars at walmart and took it home. It foams up quite nice, clean smell and I felt clean at first without feeling irritated. I used it for about almost 2 weeks but I just couldn't do it anymore! I know have a huge cluster of flesh colored bumps on my chin and i started to get big red cystic breakouts on my forehead and cheeks! I'm still trying to clear up the ones on my chin and the ones on my cheeks left ugly acne marks. I used to be able to go makeup free during the day but not anymore. Now i'm stuck using a heavy coverage foundation because of all the acne this face wash left me with and I'm so angry. Turns out, it's really a soap full of junk, it contains methylparaben and masking fragrance. The cetaphil gentle cleanser isn't any better as it contains 3 parabens instead of 1. I don't know why doctors recommend this. Currently only using warm water and a light moisturizer to wash my face as it can't handle anything else right now from all the irritation I have right now. So disappointed. Don't waste your time or money on this product.
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This cleanser does its job; it cleanses and kind of moisturizes. After using it for about a week, my skin was shinier and softer. You have to make sure you rinse it off thoroughly, however, or else you feel like a balmy film is left on your skin.
This is one of the building blocks to my HG skin care routine. My face is finally clear and I believe that it is in part to this cleanser. No scent, extremely gentle, face feels clean but not tight after using this. I love it! I've tried literally every drugstore cleanser for acne, and never thought of this stuff because I didn't think it would work on my acne prone (cystic/nodular) skin. In all honesty, I believe I was using TOO much "acne cure" junk on my face and it was freaked out. I don't plan on using anything else unless they d'c this someday. I am so grateful for clear skin and cetaphil! :)
I've been using this cleanser the most over the past 10 years or so. I like it because it's a gentle product, not claiming to perform any miracles. It's a steady workhorse in my routine, and especially great because it's so affordable, easily available at any Walmart/Target/CVS, and you really get a lot in each bottle.
I have oily skin with acne, dry patches and some lines. I'm not expecting a cleanser to do anything more than gently and effectively clean my face - I rely on other products to address my specific skin concerns. This product IS scented, but I'm not sensitive to scents and it just smells softly like Johnson's Baby Shampoo. I have relied on this cleanser in the past to remove my eye makeup (because I'm cheap and lazy :-)) and it did alright, but I've been using Huggies brand baby wipes recently and that does a much better job. I LOVE the pump bottle because it's so convenient in the shower and quick to use. The only issue with the pump is that it's difficult to get every last bit of product out of the bottle, but I'm fine with that trade-off.
I can't imagine this ever being irritating to my skin, although I guess some people might have issues. I've used this product throughout sunburns, breakouts, and before/after MUAC skin peels (haven't tried the TCA yet, though) and it's been gentle enough for that. I like this product and will probably continue to repurchase indefinitely!
I picked up a bottle for $7 after running out of my hg dermalogica and not having the cash to replace it. I have to say, i dont think i need to rush out anymore to get it. This is doing the job quite well and i think i expected it not to work because of the price being cheap but it hasnt given me any bad side effects aka dryness irritation or breakouts and it removes my makeup too. This is kind of a first impressions review so if your tossing up whether to try it or not i say give it a go it may work for you too!
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BOSTON, Mass. - The owner of Ocean Fresh Seafood, Inc. was convicted in federal court late yesterday of engaging in a scheme to defraud Wells Fargo Business Credit, Inc., a division of Wells Fargo Bank NA, of at least $7 million.
United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, Richard DesLauriers, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation – Boston Field Division and William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service 's Criminal Investigation - Boston Field Office announced that ROBERT COUTU, 59, of Cumberland, Rhode Island pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud and money laundering.
At the plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that Coutu was the owner of Ocean Fresh Seafood, Inc., headquartered in North Attleboro, when he orchestrated a scheme to defraud Wells Fargo. Since 2002, Wells Fargo had extended a line of credit to Ocean Fresh, secured by Ocean Fresh's accounts receivable and inventory. Coutu, with the assistance of other Ocean Fresh employees, falsely inflated Ocean Fresh's receivables and inventory balances in order to borrow millions of dollars more than his actual business activity would have permitted. To accomplish the scheme Coutu, and others, created false invoices and wired funds from Ocean Fresh's bank account to accounts managed by affiliates and friends of Coutu to give the appearance that Ocean Fresh was buying and selling much more product than it actually was. Ocean Fresh's former Controllers, Christopher Day and Cynthia Larose were indicted for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, along with Coutu. Larose has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing. Day is awaiting trial.
Judge Gertner scheduled the sentencing hearing for January 19, 2011. Coutu faces up to 30 years imprisonment, to be followed by five years supervised release and a $1 million fine on the bank fraud charge; up to 10 years imprisonment, to be followed by three years supervised release and a $250,000 fine on the money laundering charges; and five years imprisonment, three years supervised release and a $250,000 fine on the conspiracy charge.
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Here at ComicsAlliance, there are a few holiday traditions that we look forward to all year, and chief among them is our yearly visit from writer Benito Cereno to tell us a true Christmas story from the life of St. Nicholas. Last year, he and Anthony Clark told us the tale of Catalonia's Tio de Nadal, but this year, things are a little more monstrous.
So today, as night falls on Christmas Eve, enjoy the art of Evan "Doc" Shaner as he and Benito bring you the tale of Klaubauf, a Bavarian variant of the Krampus who baked children into pies!
And that's how the Klaubauf was added to the good saint's army of demons and devils in the years before he retired to the North Pole to focus on toymaking. If you're wondering just what it was that St. Nicholas had in his hands, those were the Chains of St. Peter, which Jolly Old St. Nick was known to use to shackle up various Krampuses during his time wandering around Europe. The story itself, according to Benito, is adapted from an old Eastern European folktale.
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|Does anyone have specific information on dyeing dried flowers? I am looking for a list of the best way to dye flowers for dried arrangements. Is is better to use a floral spray rather than a dye process with some flowers? Which flowers color best when dried and then dipped in a dye mix, or use an absorption method with glycerin. Also what proportions of dye to boiling water do you use? Any suggestions on where to purchase dye, like Design Master? Does Rit dye work just as well? Anyone want to share their success and failures in dyeing flowers? Thanks a bunch!
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- Posted by lmariesteve z5 OH (My Page) on Thu, Aug 4, 05 at 0:06
|I just use the Design Master paint. On the darker color flowers you have to use a darker paint. You can spray them lighter but it will take up a lot of your paint which is not cost-effective. There are some nice tints that Design Master make and it looks more natural on the flowers - but you have to use white or light lavender dried flowers to look best. Sometimes if you lightly spray a color flower with the tint it will perk up the color.
|I use Rit dye, diluted with water to get the shade I want. It's especially useful when I have greens that are starting to turn yellow, to brighten them up again.
I like to use an old hot plate, plugged into the electrical outlet in our garage. I put the hot plate itself outside, and after I dye some of the greens, I hang them in bunches, in the shade, on a clothesline to dry. No indoor mess.
- Posted by lmariesteve z5 OH (My Page) on Wed, Aug 10, 05 at 9:16
|You do that while they are still pretty fresh, right? I've thought about trying the rit dye to keep from spraying fumes and breathing it in. What do you do with the dye that is left over? How do you dispose of it. I had a crazy idea and I don't know if it would work or not. I thought that maybe I could put the leftover dye water in my big chest freezer and thaw it out when I needed to use it again. I have a pond behind me with fish and I don't want to throw any of it out back by my fence and I don't want to put it down any of my sinks ( I don't have a deep sink )
because it would stain them. Any suggestions, anyone?
|I don't dye them unless they're completely dried and starting to yellow, maybe when they're over a year old (leftovers) and I haven't yet used them in arrangements. Dyeing them with green Rit dye makes them a pretty shade of green again, and then they'll stay that way until I get around to using them. Not all dried flowers or greens will take the dye, though. I use the greens from wild asters a lot, and they take Rit dye well. Asparagus fern and other ferns don't. You just have to experiment. Buy just one box of Rit (the lighter shade of green, not the real dark one.)
I occasionally use spray paint or floral sprays on dried flowers, etc., but it getsquite expensive and the fumes from them while painting aren't all that healthy to breathe in.
I use an old coffee can to do my Rit dyeing, and fill it quite full. I just add very hot water, (you might want to experiment with how much too.) Then I set it on the hot plate so it stays quite warm but doesn't simmer or boil. Ijust keep dipping drieds in it until most of the liquid is used up (until there are only a few inches of dyebath left in the can). I hang the bunches of drieds on the clothesline in the shade, as I mentioned earlier. Then I dump the leftover dye along the country road that runs by our house, in the weeds.
There have been times when I was interrupted and just left the dyebath cool down. I kept it in the garage, covered with an old piece of screen until I could finish my dyeing a day or two later. I haven't tried to keep the dyebaths long term. I suspect that they'd lose their color, but I don't know.
- Posted by lmariesteve z5 OH (My Page) on Thu, Aug 11, 05 at 1:11
|Thanks Madge, I will give that a try.
- Posted by free_spirit z5 IA (My Page) on Tue, Aug 16, 05 at 12:06
|Thank you everyone for the great ideas. I got a two burner hotplate at a garage sale - cheap- and I found an old canner that is quite tall. I plan to try sweet annie and amaranth that is already dried. Finding Rit dye was the hardest part of this quest. I will let you know how it turns out! Kathy
- Posted by lmariesteve z5 OH (My Page) on Tue, Aug 16, 05 at 22:49
|Kathy, I went to Michaels Crafts today and got some of the Rit dye. They had a rather large selection of colors.I also went to a Second hand shop and bought a used canner. Going to use the burner on our grill to heat the water up and hang the flowers in the yard while it is dry. If you don't have a Michaels nearby try AC Moore or Hobby Lobby. I found it in the section with supplies to decorate tee shirts. Linda
|Do you all spray the died flowers with a preservative or fixitive after died?
I am doing a variety of dried ornamental grasses. Will they take the dye up, do you think? Also have Krylon fusion paints. Might those work?
In dyeing process are you dunking them in? Some of these are quite fragile. Don't see some of them surviving the process. What do you think? I have never tried this.
- Posted by drying-flowers (My Page) on Wed, Feb 12, 14 at 11:59
|Water based dye can damage dried flowers. Professionals in the dried flower use alcohol based dyes that are specifically designed for pressed flowers I use these dyes after after trying many other ways to color and it's so much better, like night and day. Get the dyes in this sites web store. They also have a page that gives simple instructions to use.
Here is a link that might be useful: How to Dye Dried Flowers
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Everyone is still jazzed up about the Ravens victory in Super Bowl XLVII…even Old Bay.
The company is hoping to cash in on the Ravens' success by rolling out a commemorative can.
Old Bay has redesigned its 16-ounce cans – ditching the traditional blue and yellow design for a purple and yellow can with a Ravens logo front and center.
The 30,000 limited edition cans are now available at locations across Maryland, southern Pennsylvania and the Delaware Eastern Shore. You can pick one up at local stores like Giant, Food Lion, Mars and Wegmans.
The McCormick World of Flavors shop at the Inner Harbor is also selling a $14 package with a new Old Bay can and a "Baylieve" T-shirt for $14.
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I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend! It's been a very busy Saturday for me! I look forward to coming home from a birthday party this evening and reading a new book ~ "Glamour: Making It Modern".
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Welcome to my rather disorganised blog. Most of what you'll find here are notes about books and articles I've read, problems I've solved, and events I've attended. Prominent topics include Drupal, Haskell and events related to programming and IT.
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This is a short, no-frills guide to installing Apache Solr with homebrew on OS X, then using it with the Search API Drupal modules.
I attended Puppet Camp Sydney 2014 last Monday. This is a quick round-up of the sessions.
This is a short guide to providing users with restricted SFTP access to a single directory using built-in OpenSSH functionality.
The inaugural Sydney Elasticsearch Meetup had talks on monitoring Elasticsearch clusters and on the impending 1.0 release.
The October Continuous Delivery meetup had talks about the continuous delivery practices of the Atlassian Stash team and about automated environment provisioning with CloudFormation and Puppet.
This post describes a proof-of-concept Hakyll site which associates a banner image with each post, automatically generates several versions of it, and makes them available as variables for use in templates.
This is a short note about rewriting the history of a git repository to change the commit authorship.
This is a quick guide to installing Dnsmasq on OS X and using it to redirect development sites to your local machine.
The October 2013 meeting of the FP-Syd functional programming group in Sydney heard talks about data flow fusion, a constrained domain specific language for building filesystems and a round-up of ICFP.
Here's a short blurb about various "SEO-ish" functionality for Drupal I wrote at work a while ago. It's pretty much just tedious wank for decision makers but someone might like it?


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Cramping, pain, or tiredness in the legs when walking or climbing stairs — these may not sound like symptoms of a serious condition. In fact, many people believe that they are normal signs of aging. But they can be signs of peripheral arterial disease, a severe condition that can lead to gangrene and amputation if left untreated. So if you have these symptoms, be sure to tell your doctor.
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a condition in which arteries leading to the legs and feet (or in some cases the arms) become clogged with fatty deposits called plaque, resulting in reduced or blocked blood flow to these areas. It affects between 8 million and 12 million Americans, and people with diabetes are more likely to develop PAD than the general population. PAD is also known as peripheral vascular disease (PVD), leg atherosclerosis, or simply poor circulation.
PAD and diabetes
Anyone can develop PAD, but people with diabetes, especially those with Type 2 diabetes, have a higher risk of developing it because of a series of bodily changes associated with diabetes, including insulin resistance, a higher level of blood fats, and an increase in blood pressure. All of these contribute to arteries becoming clogged with fatty deposits, leading to the hardening and narrowing of these blood vessels.
Having diabetes also increases the risk of developing neuropathy, or nerve damage, as a result of high blood glucose. Neuropathy can cause decreased sensation in the feet and legs, which can cause a person not to notice small injuries to the foot, such as blisters or cuts. If a person continues to walk on an injury, it is likely to enlarge and get infected.
The combination of PAD and neuropathy is particularly dangerous because when blood flow to the feet is reduced, the body has a harder time healing injuries to the feet and fighting infection. A wound that goes unnoticed and that the body cannot heal on its own may become severely infected and develop into an ulcer.
And that's not all that can go wrong. If you have PAD, you may also have clogged blood vessels in your heart or brain, putting you at higher risk for heart attack and stroke. In fact, having PAD means there is a one-in-four chance that you will experience a heart attack, stroke, amputation, or even death in the next five years.
Warning signs and symptoms
One symptom of PAD that is hard to ignore is pain, which can occur in the legs, feet, or toes, and often interrupts sleep. Pain may also increase with walking and let up with sitting; this type of pain is called claudication. Sometimes it may not be actual pain, but rather a feeling of heaviness, tiredness, or cramping that occurs in the buttocks, thighs, or calves. The pain or discomfort can limit your ability to do everyday activities like shopping or going out with friends. Since PAD often interferes with activities that bring enjoyment, it can also take a mental toll by leading to feelings of isolation and confinement.


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unite for life http://www.nushwalk.com/
We, the Yagey family, Mike, Sharon (Roback) and Joey, and extended family, INVITE YOU to walk with us, not only to honor Anusha's memory, but in remembrance of YOUR cherished beloveds, who have also left this beautiful earth. Bring to a place of honoring and remembrance the life of someone who lives in your heart by wearing a t-shirt with that special someone's name on it, carry a picture, or hold a memento, a banner, or sing a song! A memory board will be available for posting your memories and pictures. Shared grief is healed grief and shared joy blossoms like dandelions in springtime.
nushWALK originated after February 12, 2013 when Anusha "Nush" Chimtim Yagey, 16, crossed over due to injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident on his way to school. The community has since united in celebration of life, and to honor the memory of all our loved ones, in his name.
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Our 5k walk will start at the Holland Patent High School on October 19, 2013 at 10am.
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We hope you always keep in mind Krebs's Number One Rule for Staying Safe Online: "If you didn't go looking for it, don't install it!"
That means: Unless you purposely set out to put a new program on your computer, don't click "install", "run" or "continue".
This rule is increasingly important in a world where the malware is being socially engineered to cause you trouble. Take this recent case from the F-Secure Labs where a web exploit can tell if you're using a Windows, Mac or Linux PC. Once installed it knows exactly what trojan to install and it connects back to its source to find more malicious code.
How do you avoid getting bad software trying to install itself on your PC?
Kreb's Number Two Rule will help you with that: "If you installed it, update it."
The software on your PC is as only as secure as its latest update. Your job is to make sure that you keep up with the updates for your system software and all the applications you use. Our free Health Check makes that easy on Windows PCs.
Of course, we also recommend that you run updated Internet security software. Our Browsing Protection will block most of the sites with harmful payloads. You can try F-Secure Internet Security free.
"Sorry for the inconvenience, I'm in Limassol, Cyprus. I am here for a week and I just lost my bag containing all my important items, phone and money at the bus station. I need some help from you. Thanks" Many of you have seen these messages and some of you already know what the name of the game is. Yes, it's another type of Internet scam, an imposter scam variant. I got this message last week from a photo club acquaintance. Or to be precise, the message was in bad Swedish from Google translate. Here's what happened. First I got the mail. Needless to say, I never suspected that he was in trouble in Limassol. Instead I called him to check if he was aware of the scam. He was, I wasn't the first to react. Several others had contacted him before me and some were posting warnings to his friends on Facebook. These scams start by someone breaking in to the victim's web mail, which was Gmail in this case. This can happen because of a bad password, a phishing attack, malware in the computer or a breach in some other system. Then the scammer checks the settings and correspondence to find out what language the victim is using. The next step is to send a message like the above to all the victim's contacts. The victim had reacted correctly and changed the Gmail password ASAP. But I wanted to verify and replied to the scam mail anyway, asking what I can do to help. One hour later I got this: "Thanks, I need to borrow about 1000 euros, will pay you back as soon as I get home. Western Union Money Transfer is the fastest option to wire funds to me. All you need to do is find the nearest Western Union shop and the money will be sent in minutes. See details needed WU transfer below. Name: (Redacted) Address: Limassol, Cyprus you must email me the reference number provided on the payment slip as soon as you make the transfer so I can receive money here. Thank you," Now it should be obvious for everyone how this kind of scam works. Once the scammers get the reference number they just go to Western Union to cash in. Most recipients will not fall for this, but the scammers will get a nice profit if even one or two contacts send money. But wait. To pull this off, the scammers need to retain control over the mail account. They need to send the second mail and receive the reference number. How can this work if the victim had changed his password? This works by utilizing human's inability to notice tiny details. The scammers will register a new mail account with an address that is almost identical to the victim's. The first mail comes from the victim's account, but directs replies to the new account. So the conversation can continue with the new account that people believe belongs to the victim. The new address may have a misspelled name or use a different separator between the first and last names. Or be in a different domain that is almost the same as the real one. The two addresses are totally different for computers, but a human need to pay close attention to notice the difference. How many of you would notice if a mail address changes from say email@example.com to email@example.com? (How many differences do you notice, right answer at the end?) To be honest, I was sloppy too in this case and didn't at first see the tiny difference. In theory it is also possible that webmail servers may leave active sessions open and let the scammers keep using the hacked account for a while after the password has been changed. I just tested this on Gmail. They close old sessions automatically pretty quickly, but it is anyway a good idea to use the security settings and manually terminate any connection the scammers may have open. I exchanged a couple of mails with this person the day after. He told that the scammers had changed the webmail user interface to Arabic, which probably is a hint about where they are from. I was just about to press send when I remembered to check the mail address. Bummer, the scammer's address was still there so my reply would not have reached him unless I had typed the address manually. The account's reply-to was still set to the scammer's fake account. OK, let's collect a checklist that helps identifying these scams. If someone asks for urgent help by mail, assume it's a scam. These scams are a far more common than real requests for help. We are of course all ready to help friends, but are YOU really the one that the victim would contact in this situation? Are you close enough? How likely is it that you are close enough, but still had no clue he was travelling in Cyprus? Creating urgency is a very basic tool for scammers. Something must be done NOW so that people haven't got time to think or talk to others. The scammers may or may not be able to write correct English, but other languages are most likely hilarious Google-translations. Bad grammar is a strong warning sign. Requesting money using Western Union is another red flag. Wire transfer of money provides pretty much zero security for the sender, and scammers like that. Many scammers in this category try to fake an embarrassing situation and ask the recipient to not tell anyone else, to reduce the risk that someone else sees through it. These messages often state that the phone is lost to prevent the recipient from calling to check. But that is exactly what you should do anyway. Next checklist, how to deal with a situation where your account has been hijacked and used for scams. Act promptly. Change the mail account's passwords. Check the webmail settings and especially the reply-to address. Correct any changed settings. Check for a function in the web mail that terminates open sessions from other devices. Gmail has a "Secure your account" -wizard under the account's security settings. It's a good idea to go through it. Inform your friends. A fast Facebook update may reach them before they see the scammer's mail and prevent someone from falling for it. It also helps raising awareness. And finally, how to not be a victim in the first place. This is really about account security basics. Make sure you use a decent password. It's easier to maintain good password habits with a password manager. Activate two-factor authentication on your important accounts. I think anyone's main mail account is important enough for it. Learn to recognize phishing scams as they are a very common way to break into accounts. Maintain proper malware protection on all your devices. Spyware is a common way to steal account passwords. The last checklist is primarily about protecting your account. But that's not the full picture. Imagine one of your friends falls for the scam and loses 1000 € when your account is hacked. It is kind of nice that someone cares that much about you, but losing money for it is not nice. Yes, the criminal scammer is naturally the primarily responsible. And yes, people who fall for the scam can to some extent blame themselves. But the one with the hacked account carries a piece of responsibility too. He or she could have avoided the whole incident with the tools described above. Caring about your account security is caring about your friends too! And last but not least. Knowledge is as usual the strongest weapon against scams. They work only as long as there are people who don't recognize the scam pattern. Help fighting scam by spreading the word! Safe surfing, Micke PS. The two mail addresses above have 3 significant differences. 1. The name separator has changed from a dot to an underscore. 2. The domain name is mail.com instead of gmail.com. 3. The two lower case Ls in Bill has been replaced with capital I. Each of these changes is enough to make it a totally separate mail address. Image by Yumi Kimura
It's like a press conference anyone can join from anywhere. And even if you don't have a question, you can upvote the ones you don't like and downvote the ones you do. President Obama did one. Snoop Dogg/Snoop Lion did one. An astronaut did one from outer space. And our Mikko Hypponen will sit down for his second Reddit AMA on December 2 at 8 AM ET. If you have something you've wanted to ask him about online security, great. If not, here are five resources that document some of Mikko's more than two decades in the security industry to prod you or prepare you. 1. Check out this 2004 profile of his work from Vanity Fair. 2. Watch his 3 talks that have been featured on TED.com. [protected-iframe id="7579bbf790267cc081ac7d92d951262c-10874323-9129869" info="https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_fighting_viruses_defending_the_net.html" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""] [protected-iframe id="fdf818f4afa2f7dcb179c5516c44918c-10874323-9129869" info="https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_three_types_of_online_attack.html" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""] [protected-iframe id="54be2fe9bce28ae991becbe3d4291e56-10874323-9129869" info="https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_how_the_nsa_betrayed_the_world_s_trust_time_to_act.html" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""] 3. Check out his first AMA, which took place just after his first talk at TEDglobal was published. 4. Take a trip to Pakistan with Mikko to meet the creators of the first PC virus. [protected-iframe id="8c0605f62076aa901ed165dbd3f4fcd7-10874323-9129869" info="//www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/lnedOWfPKT0?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0" width="640" height="360"] 5. To get a sense of what he's been thinking about recently, watch his most recent talk at Black Hat "Governments as Malware Creators". [protected-iframe id="54b24406f022e81b15ad6dadf2adfc93-10874323-9129869" info="//www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/txknsq5Z5-8?hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0" width="640" height="360"] BONUS: Make sure you follow him on Twitter to get a constant stream of insight about online security, privacy and classic arcade games. Cheers, Sandra
Yet another high-profile vulnerability in the headlines, Shellshock. This one could be a big issue. The crap could really hit the fan big time if someone creates a worm that infects servers, and that is possible. But the situation seems to be brighter for us ordinary users. The affected component is the Unix/Linux command shell Bash, which is only used by nerdy admins. It is present in Macs as well, but they seem to be unaffected. Linux-based Android does not use Bash and Windows is a totally different world. So we ordinary users can relax and forget about this one. We are not affected. Right? WRONG! Where is your cloud content stored? What kind of software is used to protect your login and password, credit card number, your mail correspondence, your social media updates and all other personal info you store in web-based systems? Exactly. A significant part of that may be on systems that are vulnerable to Shellshock, and that makes you vulnerable. The best protection against vulnerabilities on your own devices is to make sure the automatic update services are enabled and working. That is like outsourcing the worries to professionals, they will create and distribute fixes when vulnerabilities are found. But what about the servers? You have no way to affect how they are managed, and you don't even know if the services you use are affected. Is there anything you can do? Yes, but only indirectly. This issue is an excellent reminder of some very basic security principles. We have repeated them over and over, but they deserve to be repeated once again now. You can't control how your web service providers manage their servers, but you can choose which providers you trust. Prefer services that are managed professionally. Remember that you always can, and should, demand more from services you pay for. Never reuse your password on different services. This will not prevent intrusions, but it will limit the damage when someone breaks into the system. You may still be hurt by a Shellshock-based intrusion even if you do this, but the risk should be small and the damage limited. Anyway, you know you have done your part, and its bad luck if an incident hurts you despite that. Safe surfing, Micke PS. The best way to evaluate a service provider's security practices is to see how they deal with security incidents. It tells a lot about their attitude, which is crucial in all security work. An incident is bad, but a swift, accurate and open response is very good. Addition on September 30th. Contrary to what's stated above, Mac computers seem to be affected and Apple has released a patch. It's of course important to keep your device patched, but this does not really affect the main point of this article. Your cloud content is valuable and part of that may be on vulnerable servers.