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Alas, I am proud of myself
Thursday, May 10, 2012
It feels as though I take 3 steps forward, and 2 steps back sometimes. Yesterday I did some good and some bad things. I started the Tame your sweet tooth challenge, so I am going to document my "sweet eating" habits in my blog. So, I got a rather large medical bill, and even though I was expecting it, it threw me off emotionally. This really made me want to eat something sweet. I was bad in that I ate, when I wasn't hungry, but I was good in that my snack was two servings of granola. The calories were high, but not as bad as it would've been in I had indulged in more and in something not so good, like ice cream or brownies.
I also had a few of Chrystian's mini Charleston chews. This was a more calculated risk, as I made sure to only have 4 out of the 13 for a serving size. I did this earlier in the day, and didn't feel the need immediately afterwards to eat more, whereas, usually I would eat an entire box, plus have some of each of my kids' candies.
Next, I went out with a friend, and she needed to grab a bite to eat, so we stopped at McDonald's. I was going to be good, right up until we got to the ordering speaker, and decided to get a strawberry milkshake. I wasn't hungry, or emotional, I just ordered it, out of bad habit. This is why I don't usually stop at these kinds of places anymore. I was immediately annoyed with myself for even doing it.
Lastly, I was sitting by myself last night, while my hubby was away, and I wanted to eat something soooooo badly, but I knew that I didn't have any calories left. I was partially bored, and lonely, but I actually was genuinely hungry. However, I wasn't about to go over on my calories, and I really did ruin my numbers with that stinkin milkshake. Argh!! I was at least proud of myself for not grabbing something to eat.
I am definitely learning a lot about myself and my triggers, and how to counteract them, but it feels like a long journey already, and I've just begun. I have come a long way though, and I am proud of the leaps and bounds I am accomplishing.
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Your classic Butter Rum cake just got better for all to enjoy! Wicked Jack's Tavern introduces its Gluten-Free Butter Rum Cake. The traditional yet adventurous Gluten-Free Butter Rum Cake is available in a 4-ounce size.
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For an effortless way to add zest to food, Doxy's Fine Foods , a brand of artisanal seasoning blends, announces the launch of its newest product: Doxy's™ Pasta Sauce Herbs. The Pasta Sauce Herbs mix, made of sweet garlic and natural spices, is the perfect addition to Italian-style home meals, without added preservatives or excessive sodium.
"Knowing Americans have limited time in the kitchen, I developed our blends to make meal preparation easy, delicious and fun," says Nina Faull, Founder and CEO of Doxy's Fine Foods. "Doxy's Pasta Sauce Herbs is so versatile, and provides a feeling of la bella vita to weekday, home-cooked meals."
All of Doxy's seasonings boast gluten-free, fat-free, and no-added MSG natural goodness to meet another demand among Americans: health. With Doxy's Pasta Sauce Herbs mix, Americans can add flavor to their meals without sacrificing health. Available on Doxy's website for just $3.50, a package of Pasta Sauce Herbs takes quick home-cooking to the next level. Enhance simple canned tomatoes with a packet of all-natural Doxy's Herbs to create an impactful, healthy dish. Mixed with extra virgin and olive oil for an herb vinaigrette, or dusted atop buttered baguettes, Doxy's Pasta Sauce Herbs offer a new twist to a typical standby meal.
Mamma Chia has now introduced the Chia Vitality Bar.
The new, organic bars lovingly combine nutrient-rich chia seeds with deep, rich dark chocolate, crunchy nuts, ripened fruit and sweet organic honey making this bar a truly delicious, anytime snack. The Chia Vitality bar is perfect for runners, bikers, yogis, and other athletes as well as anyone else seeking a nutritious boost to their day. Each bar delivers 1,000 mg of Omega-3s, as well as protein, fiber and more to provide vitality and energy to fuel your soul's purpose.
With a suggested retail price of $1.79, the Chia Vitality Bars are available in four mouth-watering flavors: Coconut Almond & Dark Chocolate with Chia; Peanut & Dark Chocolate with Chia; Cherry & Dark Chocolate with Chia; and Blueberry & Dark Chocolate with Chia. The new bars, along with all Mamma Chia products, are non-GMO, gluten free, vegan, kosher and USDA-certified organic.
Chia seeds are the richest plant-based source Omega-3s on the planet. An excellent source of dietary fiber, complete protein and antioxidants, both the Maya and Aztecs held this ancient seed in high esteem for increasing vitality and strength.
"Our new, organic Chia Vitality Bars are a delicious way to enjoy all of the nutritional benefits of chia in the convenience of a bar," said Janie Hoffman, Mamma Chia Founder and Chief Executive Officer, and author of "Chia Vitality" and "The Chia Cookbook." "We're thrilled to answer our customers' requests for more organic chia snacks and tasty chia bars."
Click here to read more about snack foods and here to read about other gluten-free products. You'll find more vegetarian and vegan products here.
Natural Products Expo East opened this morning in Baltimore, Maryland with vendors offering everything from gourmet dog snacks to organic ethically produced and sourced anything at all that you might want to eat yourself. Among the offerings are, of course, any number of products designed to meet the needs of consumers observing a gluten-free diet, and the vendors' interest in the category this year indicates that the trend is showing no sign of fading away just yet. New this year are a plethora of options in foods for consumers who have multiple dietary restrictions. As an example, ohso Good for you chocolate provides the consumer with 100% of their daily probiotics in a 70-calorie chocolate bar that's also gluten free, dairy free and nut free. The bar's probiotics are microencapsulated, so they're protected from stomach acids, and are three to four times as likely to survive to replenish intestinal flora as a serving of milk or yogurt, the company says. See it in booth #4811 at Expo East or visit www.ohso.com.
Also checking off multiple boxes for those with dietary restrictions is a line of boxed mac and cheese-style dinners that are gluten free and dairy free. The company's pastaríso Dairy Free Mac & Cheddar Style Sauce product, for example, is not just dairy free, it's also vegan and free from wheat, gluten, soy, eggs and nuts. As you'd expect, it doesn't taste like a full-on cheesy, creamy pasta dinner, but it's certainly reminiscent of those flavors, and it doesn't taste at all like cardboard. Taste it at booth #726 or visit www.maplegrovefoods.com for more information.
Traderspoint Creamery brought the yogurt recognized as the country's best at the 2014 American Cheese Society competition. Based in Indiana, the company sources its milk from 100-percent grass-fed cows on its own farm and from a nearby coop of Amish farmers and packages the yogurt in single-serving glass cups. See them in booth #912 at the show.
thinkThin Lean Protein.& Fiber™ Bars is offering two limited edition flavors for fall: Dark Chocolate Peppermint and Pumpkin Spice. Each bar has only 150 calories, and both flavors are gluten free, non-GMO and kosher dairy. Taste them in booth #1230 or visit www.thinkproducts.com.
Less than three months after its launch, savory nutrition bars from Mediterra® are now available in Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, the first large-scale natural retailer to offer Mediterra bars. Currently, the rapidly growing Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage operates 86 stores in 14 states.
"Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage has stringent standards, and bringing Mediterra into their stores is a huge endorsement," says Mediterra Founder Telemaque Lavidas. "It's an honor to partner and grow with them, while we aggressively continue to introduce our brand to consumers nationwide."
"The products we carry are free from artificial colors, flavors, preservatives, sweeteners, both hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils. We continue our search for additional snack items that taste good and meet these standards, and Mediterra does that," says Nancy Flynn, Marketing Director for Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage. "We're looking forward to offering our customers another healthful way to snack, while on-the-go."
Inspired by the Mediterranean Diet that's considered by experts as one of the healthiest lifestyles in the world, Mediterra bars have six new unique flavors that feature various fruits, vegetables and grains, providing different snacking options for throughout the day. All bars are all-natural, non-GMO and gluten free. They retail for $1.99.
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Yogurt and Oat Bars: Bottom-covered with yogurt-style coating, the bars are 1.6 ounces, certified kosher and contain seven grams of protein. The bars also feature fig paste, sunflower seeds and raisins. Flavors include Yogurt/Oat/Cherry Pistachio and Yogurt/Oat/Apricot Pistachio.
After launching in June, the company named Acosta Sales & Marketing, a leading full-service sales and marketing agency in the consumer packaged goods industry, as its U.S. sales agency. In addition, the company has won two product awards including a 2014 The Lempert Report Innovator award for its Savory Bars.
Click here to read more Gourmet News coverage of snack foods.
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Dover Foods, Inc., a manufacturer of quality specialty desserts mixes for 20 years, is is now launching a new brand of premium gluten-free baking mixes. The new Ardenne Farm prepackaged line of bakery mixes will be showcased this fall at the Natural Products Expo East (NPEE) in Baltimore, Maryland.
Ardenne Farm carries on the tradition of delicious, high-quality baking products on which Dover Foods, Inc. has built its reputation. Each of the nine gluten free baking mixes features gourmet quality, non-GMO ingredients and a secret blend of finely milled gluten free flours for an innovative taste. They are manufactured with the strictest of quality assurance practices for those with gluten sensitivity or celiac disease and with standards twice as stringent as those set by the Food and Drug Administration.
Everyday classic flavors include Yellow Cake, Chocolate Cake, Fudge Brownie, Chocolate Chip, Chocolate, Oatmeal and Sugar Cookie mixes. Also offered are Blueberry and Cinnamon Crunch Muffin mixes. Suggested retail prices range from $6.39 to $6.79.
Read more at Naturally Healthy. Click here to read about more gluten-free products.
By Lorrie Baumann
Debra Bloom's Safe Snack Guide is an important resource that schools and parents around the country use to screen the snack foods brought into their classrooms and offered to their children. Specialty foods company Enjoy Life is one of the manufacturers with products on Bloom's list of safe snacks.
"One of the things we look for at Enjoy Life is how we can bring the celebration back into everyone's life," says Joel Warady, Enjoy Life's Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. "The way we do that is that all our products, everything we produce, in addition to being gluten-free, is free of the top eight allergens: eggs, dairy, wheat, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish. That covers about 90 percent of all food allergies in children today."
Enjoy Life was started 12 years ago by Scott Mandrell, who is still its CEO today, as a manufacturer of gluten-free products. "He started thinking about how to make the gluten-free products even more unique, and that's when the idea of making allergy-friendly foods came about," Warady says.
Today, Enjoy Life has eight different product lines, all allergy-friendly. Warady can spin them out for you without a second thought: "Cookies (soft and crunchy), on-the go bars (classic line and decadent line), cereals that are high in fiber and high in protein, which are adult-focused, Plentils, a salty snack line which is a crunchy lentil chip in four savory flavors. We have the only nut-free trail mix in the market, composed of just seeds and fruit."
Enjoy Life's products are not just free of gluten and the eight most common allergens, they are also tasty. Over the years, the company has improved the taste across the entire product line. They are a little more expensive than a mass-marketed product, but some of that extra cost goes into rigorous testing procedures and quality assurance controls that ensure that the products are best in class.
"We built the company on three tenets: taste, trust and love," Warady says. "Number one, our consumers have to trust us. They have to trust that our brand won't hurt their children. We build that trust every single day with every cookie we produce."
"We talk about celebration. In reality, it's more than just classrooms. It's the birthday parties and the family gatherings. For years, so many children with food allergies were prohibited from going to birthday parties because there was nothing there that was safe for them to eat," Warady adds. "Because there are these foods now, people can go to parties and enjoy themselves at whatever party they might want to attend."
For more information, visit www.enjoylifefoods.com.
Halfpops, the partially popped and fully delicious popcorn snack, today unveiled two new flavors sure to satisfy the sweet and savory crowd alike – Caramel & Sea Salt and Chipotle Barbeque. Adding to the wildly popular Halfpops product line-up, the delicious new offerings will hit retail shelves in September 2014. The new flavors join Halfpops' existing offerings of Aged White Cheddar and Butter & Pure Ocean Sea Salt, which were launched in 2011 and quickly became a snack favorite coast-to-coast.
The new Caramel & Sea Salt and Chipotle Barbeque flavor varieties start with non-GMO corn kernels that are half-popped to perfection and expertly seasoned with natural flavors and ingredients. As with Halfpops' entire product line, they are gluten-free, have no preservatives, no corn syrup, no hydrogenated oils, and no artificial flavors and are completely nut-free.
The brand's debut sweet flavor offering, Caramel & Sea Salt boasts Halfpops' signature satisfying crunch and is seasoned with brown sugar, sea salt, sweet-cream, and accented with all-natural caramel flavor making for a perfectly sweet and crunchy treat. Chipotle Barbeque, Halfpops' first dairy-free and vegan option is seasoned with real chipotle pepper, paprika, natural smoke powder, sea salt and other wholesome spices to deliver an intriguing flavor for those who crave a spicy kick. Both flavors have only 130 calories per serving and contain zero trans-fat, making for a smart snacking choice.
"Halfpops has experienced significant growth; our year-to-date sales are already up six fold year-over-year," said Mike Fitzgerald, Founder and Chief Executive Officer for Halfpops. "Since launching in 2011, Halfpops has grown a loyal fan base which is why we are so excited to deliver two new flavor varieties to those who want a healthy, satisfying and unique snack."
Halfpops are available in 2-ounce bags that retail for $1.49 each, and 6-ounce bags that retail for $3.99. The new Caramel & Sea Salt and Chipotle Barbeque Halfpops are expected to be available in a variety of grocery stores and specialty markets throughout the Northwest – including Costco, Whole Foods, PCC Markets, Metropolitan Markets, Haggen, Central Markets and more – and is available nationwide at retailers in more than 30 states. A complete store locator is available at www.halfpops.com/#storelocator, and product can also be purchased online at Halfpops.com.

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History of theatre and drama and their relationship to other fine arts and humanistic studies from the dawn of time to 1600 A.D., including the origins of theatre, ancient Greek theatre, theatre of the Roman Republic and Empire, Medieval theatre, early Indian theatre, early Chinese theatre, Italian Renaissance theatre and Elizabethan theatre. Prerequisite: THEA 125.
Lectures and presentations by the instructor, with questions and discussion strongly encouraged. The course will also include exercises and presentations by students.
Hacker, Diana. A Writer's Reference. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford, 2009. Print. 978-0-312-66476-3
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th Ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2009. 9780873529860
Thaiss, Christopher, and Rick Davis. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999. Print. 0-205-28000-5
Wilson, Edwin, and Alvin Goldfarb. Living Theatre: History of the Theatre. 5th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2008. Print. 978-0-07-351412-3
Plays (in order of course study):
Antigone, Sophocles (trans. Arnott) 0882950940
Bacchae, Euripides (trans. Arrowsmith) 0226307840
Lysistrata, Aristophanes (trans. Parker) 0451527895
Pseudolus, Plautus (in Pot of Gold and Other Plays) 978-0140441499
Dulcitius & Preface, Hrotsvita (trans. St. John) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/roswitha-toc.html
Everyman, Anonymous (in Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays) 978-0460872805
Second Shepherds' Play, Anonymous (in Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays) 978-0460872805
Shakuntala, Kalidasa (in Great Sanskrit Plays 0811200795)
Soul of Ch'ien-Nu Leaves her Body, Cheng (in Six Yuan Plays 978-0140442625)
The Orphan of Chao, Chi (in Six Yuan Plays 978-0140442625)
Mandragola, Machiavelli (trans. Flaumenhaft) 0917974573
Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare 9780451528391
Groups presentation 15%
Research proposal (1-2 pages, typed) 10%
Mid-term exam 15%
Research paper (6 - 8 pages, typed, double-spaced) 20%
Class participation 10%
Homework assignments and quizzes 10%
Final exam 20%
1. All written work must meet the standards of basic expository writing and must follow the style outlined in the MLA Handbook. Grammar, clarity, style, and documentation count and will affect your grade.
2. Prompt, consistent attendance is important to the success of the class and will be reflected in each student's final grade. Any student who misses more than 4 classes will have his or her final grade lowered by one full letter grade. Any student who misses more than 8 classes will have his or her final grade lowered by 2 full letter grades. Students who miss more than 10 classes are not likely to pass the class and should consult with the instructor about withdrawing from the class. In the case of absences the student is responsible for gathering all material covered in class. Under ordinary circumstances, quizzes and other graded in-class assignments may not be made up. Attendance at examinations is mandatory. Exceptional circumstances that may require special consideration must be documented and must be brought to the instructor's attention by the student at the time they occur.
3. Class begins promptly. In order to fully participate in the class session and receive credit for attending, students must arrive in class by the time that attendance is called. If lateness is unavoidable, the student is welcome to join the class, but is expected not to disrupt the session already in progress. Students should also arrive promptly for exams. Extended time will not be granted to students who arrive late to exams.
4. Students are strongly advised to check their campus email on a regular basis. Students are responsible for any information that the instructor communicates to them via this email address.
5. Assignments must be completed on time. Late assignments will be lowered one full letter grade for each day they are late.
6. Papers may ordinarily not be rewritten for a higher grade.
7. The written assignments for this class will be submitted in a variety of formats. Some assignments will be submitted on paper and handed in during the class session. Other assignments should be sent via email. Students are responsible for submitting each assignment in the appropriate format as indicated in the instructions for the assignment.
8. Grades of "incomplete" may not be given except in cases of verified medical or other emergencies.
9. Plagiarism violates the expectation of honesty among scholars without which there can be no intellectual inquiry. The Theatre Department will not tolerate plagiarism. According to the Student Academic Integrity Policy, any student found guilty of such an offense may be failed for the course. The incident will also be reported to the Office of Judicial Affairs.
10. Students may not repeat a course more than once without prior permission from the Academic Standards Committee.
11. Students with disabilities are given every opportunity to participate in theatre classes even if such participation requires adjustment to the means by which course requirements are met. Students must notify the instructor at the beginning of the semester if they require special consideration.
12. Food and drink are not permitted in the classroom.
13. The learning environment in this class is based upon an atmosphere of mutual respect, which will be maintained at all times. Students are expected to adhere to the code of student conduct as outlined in the university catalog. Please consult me if you have questions about any of these requirements.
A 92 points or higher
A- 90 - 91 points
B+ 87 - 89 points
B 82 - 86 points
B- 80 - 81 points
C+ 77 - 79 points
C 70 - 76 points [lowest grade to pass course in student's major]
D+ 67 - 69 points
D 62 - 66 points [lowest grade to pass a course outside student's major]
F 61 points or lower
The syllabus for Theatre History I was originally developed by Dr. Ralph Blasting
Return to Theatre History I home page.


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Funny Tank Pictures
Funny tank pictures; pictures of tanks involved in accidents.
Who won this fight?
UN to the rescue
They are always willing to help
Sir, I really don't know how this happens
Now we can shoot down that plane
Look what I did
I thought it was a shortcut
Dodge meets military truck
We are ready to fire Sir


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Dr. Etiony Aldarondo is Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology at the University of Miami where he conducts research on men who batter and directs the Family Resettlement Research and Advocacy Project. His publications include the book Programs for Men Who Batter: Intervention and Prevention Strategies in a Diverse Society (Civic Research Institute with Fernando Mederos, Ed.D., 2002) and articles on topics such as wife assault cessation and psychological aggression, risk markers for the cessation and persistence of wife assault, ethnicity and wife assault, motivation to change in abusive men, and the clinical assessment of battering. He is the editor of the forthcoming book Promoting Social Justice through Mental Health Practice. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1991. Dr. Aldarondo was a research fellow with the Family Violence Research Program at the University of New Hampshire where he worked in the design, implementation, and evaluation of the National Alcohol and Family Violence Survey, which was the first study specifically designed to assess the occurrence of wife assault in Latino communities in the US. Dr. Aldarondo has been board President for both Common Purpose, Inc. and the Dorchester Domestic Violence Community Roundtable. He is a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center, and a member of the National Advisory Panel for the Batterer Intervention and Prevention Programs Evidence-Based Review.
Patricia S. Castillo has worked more than two decades to end violence against women and children. In addition to serving on Alianza's Board of Directors, she is the Executive Director of the P.E.A.C.E. Initiative (Putting an End to Abuse through Community Efforts), a coalition of 50 agencies, organizations and individuals. From 1990 to 2002, she was the Projects Coordinator for the P.E.A.C.E. Initiative when it was based at the Benedictine Resource Center in San Antonio, Texas. In this position she developed domestic violence community projects and public policy through collaboration and community organization. As the Executive Director of the P.E.A.C.E. Initiative, she continues to do this work as well as serve as an advocate, educator and technical assistance resource to many sectors of the community, including civic, legal, medical, religious, educational, human resource and media groups; and directs citizen coalitions and networks. From 1982-1985 she was a Public Education Specialist and Caseworker at the Women's Shelter of Bexar County, San Antonio, where she did crisis intervention, counseling and advocacy with battered families, participated in policy development and designed a community awareness campaign. Ms. Castillo has also done casework with inmate women and their children through the Bexar County Adult Detention Center, and with crime victims and their families at the San Antonio Police Department, where she was the first social worker ever assigned to the Sex Crimes Unit of the Homicide Bureau. Nationally, she has trained and educated at numerous domestic violence conferences in the past 13 years. Internationally, she has trained in Honduras, Brazil, China, Russa, Guatemala, and Mexico. In Mexico, she has worked with the National Network of Shelters, Alternativas Pacificas, a battered womens' shelter in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, and done trainings in Mexico City, Cancun, and Monterrey.
Dr. Fernando Mederos is the Director of Special Projects—Fatherhood atthe Massachusetts Department of Social Services. His coremission is to increase the Department's capacity to engagepositively with fathers in a way that is strength-based, isculturally competent, is sensitive to safety and domestic violenceissues, and promotes healthy, nurturing, and respectful engagementwith children and partners. He will be involved inbridge-building between Responsible Fatherhood programs, HealthyMarriage programs, supervised visitation providers and the domesticviolence field within Massachusetts.
He is a practitioner (consultant, writer and trainer) oriented toculturally competent domestic violence intervention and prevention,and he focuses on identifying culturally-based values, models andpractices that are protective against domestic violence and thatpromote respectful and egalitarian relationships between men andwomen.
Dr. Mederos specializes in helping communities develop holistic andculturally competent coordinated community responses to domesticviolence. He brings up to date knowledge of current research and bestpractices in this field. He is also an experienced trainer andspeaker for practitioners and agencies nationally and abroad. Dr.Mederos began working with physically abusive men at Emerge in 1980.In 1989, he co-founded and became Director of Common Purpose, aBoston-based batterer intervention program. In 1995, he left CommonPurpose and devoted himself full time to consulting. Presently, he isa trainer and problem-solving consultant for the Department ofJustice, for the Battered Women's Justice Project, the Vera Instituteand the Massachusetts Department of Social Services. He is co-editorof Programs for menwho batter: Intervention and prevention strategies in a diversesociety (CivicResearch Institute with Etiony Aldarondo, Ph.D., 2002) and, throughhis work with the Massachusetts Department of Social Services,published a manual on intervention with physically abusive men in thechild protection caseload in 2004. He co-chairs the National LatinoAlliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence.
Ms. Zulema (Ruby) White Starr is the Assistant Director of the Family Violence Department of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ). In this capacity she directs the operation of the Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody (Resource Center) and the Department's technical assistance program for the Federal Greenbook Demonstration Project (Greenbook), a collaborative project with the Family Violence Prevention Fund and the American Public Human Services Association. Ms. White Starr implements all areas of the Resource Center and Greenbook grants including budgeting and project planning, serves on the management team of the Domestic Violence Resource Network, and provides education nationally to multi-disciplinary professionals on cutting-edge issues pertaining to domestic violence, particularly in the realm of child protection and child custody. Her current focus is on examining issues relevant to children exposed to domestic violence, resilience, culture, and educating the judiciary on issues related to violence against women.
Ms. White Starr also serves as a national advisory committee member for the Women of Color Network, is immediate past president of the board of directors of the Nevada Network Against Domestic Violence, and volunteers for the Committee to Aid Abused Women (CAAW), facilitating the Teen Speaker's Bureau and conducting women's groups in the emergency shelter. Additionally, she served on CAAW's Resource Development Committee for 3 years.
Prior to joining NCJFCJ, Ms. White Starr worked with CAAW, a grassroots, feminist, community-based domestic violence organization, where she was the Director of Residential Programs and responsible for overall supervision and coordination of residential programs, including the emergency shelter and Transitional Housing Project. At CAAW Ruby developed and designed programs and services to address Residential Program goals; involved residents in evaluation and development of services and programs; provided crisis-counseling, advocacy, parenting guidance, goal setting assistance and therapeutic activities; and designed and produced newsletters and various outreach materials and conducted community outreach activities.
She holds a B.A. in Speech Communication with a minor in Theatre Arts from the University of Nevada, Reno and an A.A. in Telecommunication, Radio and Television Broadcasting from Cuesta Community College in San Luis Obispo, California.
Ms. White Starr shares her professional knowledge and personal experience as a child witness and child and adult victim of domestic violence with the media and to various groups throughout the country in hopes that her experiences will lead to better practices and outcomes for both battered women and their children.
Alianza is not responsible for the information provided in any of the websites, books, videos or other resources published by any of the organizations or other entities listed.
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Statistics released yesterday have revealed that cancer waiting times are continuing to get worse.
The Welsh government's target is for 95% of urgent suspected cancer patients to be seen by a cancer specialist by 62 days. Statistics for November have shown that the target was missed by 10%, with just 85% of patients being seen within the target time. Not a single Local Health Board in the whole of Wales met the 95% target.
62 days is already a incredibly long time for a person to have to wait to be seen by a cancer specialist, but being forced to wait even longer than that is completely unacceptable. It is essential that all urgent suspected cancer patients receive treatment promptly, otherwise there is often a chance their health can seriously deteriorate in the meantime.
It can come to no surprise to any of us that people are having to wait much longer than the target time to be seen by a cancer specialist. The Welsh Labour Government's target time hasn't been hit for years and they seem incapable in tackling the problem.
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May 21, 2010 10:08 AM
As wee ones, we were suckers for the gaily hued (yet flimsy) paper parasols our parents found in Chinatown shops. Now, we can bring a bit of childhood to our balconies with this crimson Large Chinese Parasol ($130)! It might not be the trendiest thing... [More]
May 20, 2010 10:07 AM
Anthropologie has an uncanny habit of finding products that capture our imaginations while also suiting our needs. The Tranquil Paradise Hammock ($98) has that perfect combination of exoticism and practicality. With pops of turquoise and red, you're bound to feel more like you're on safari... [More]
May 20, 2010 9:09 AM
The closer we get to the warm days of summer, the more we start to covet images of serene laziness and relaxation. This Turquoise Bamboo Parasol ($225) was handmade in Thailand and is the perfect accessory for shady outdoor lounging. Your porcelain complexion will thank... [More]
May 17, 2010 6:46 AM
Adding some organic neutral contrast to our neon colored garden accessories is easy with the Qingke Branch Doormat ($59). Sliced to bits, reclaimed wood makes a new kind of parquet pattern. This durable mat is held together with a synthetic felt backing, and all materials... [More]
Apr 28, 2010 7:15 AM
Cage shoes are hot. Cage outdoor cookware is hotter. The Tom Douglas by Pinzon Grill-Wok ($43) takes the mess out of grilling (No more embarrassing butterfingers+tong barbecue moments to ruin our cooking cred and our chances with the cute new neighbor.). This two piece stainless... [More]
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Apr 19, 2010 11:01 AM
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Mar 30, 2010 9:26 AM
There's nothing that gets us ready for summer like a plush, new beach towel. It's much kinder on the psyche than buying a new bathing suit. This year, you'll find us lounging on Ralph Lauren's Modern Palm Paisley Towel ($20). The bright colors and thick... [More]
Mar 24, 2010 9:35 AM
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Mar 22, 2010 8:41 AM
If you, like us, don't have the a) money or b) space for an actual patio firepit, then you, like us, will be purchasing a Blomus Tabletop Gel Firepit ($93) for your fire escape. Measuring just under 8 inches in diameter, it nevertheless provides a... [More]
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Regular readers will remember the last chairs we wanted for the Outblush office, as well as the sad fact that we didn't get them. But we're trying again, this time for big, squashy Ventura modular chairs ($729). These are a comparative steal, and we've tried... [More]
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What Leaders Are Saying
Doing Both shows how Cisco turns business questions into market answers, offering real-life examples that will benefit forward-looking leaders.
— Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO, GE
The best business books build around a single idea, often contrarian and counterintuitive. Everyone knows you can't have your cake and eat it, too. One of the first things you learn at business school is that management is about making difficult choices. Well, not always. This book persuades the reader that in decision making 'and' is often better than 'or.' Well worth the read.
— Sir Terry Leahy, CEO, Tesco
Companies are often confronted with false choices, such as disruptive or sustaining innovation and optimization or reinvention. This book draws on Cisco's impressive track record over the last decade to illustrate that the correct strategy is always to do both.
— Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Group
I have a very short personal list of 'most-admired companies,' and Cisco is one of them. Its management team has figured out how to break many 'either-or' tradeoffs that limit most companies' abilities to innovate and grow. This book is a lucid, cogent chronicle of how they do this. Your entire management team should read it.
— Clayton Christensen, Robert & Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration,
Harvard Business School, and author, The Innovator's Dilemma
Insightful recommendations from a key executive within Cisco, the game-changing leader in networking for the Internet.
— Garth Saloner, Philip H. Knight Professor, and Dean,
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Doing Both brings together many powerful lessons behind the story of Cisco, a company with a long record of delivering consistent innovation and strong business results. I encourage senior executives to embrace the challenges presented in this thoughtful book.
— Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director, McKinsey & Company
Doing Both simply amazed me. Sidhu, with graceful and clear writing, freshly imagines how successful enterprises—all enterprises—will not just survive but will flourish and prosper. Throwing away the trite and false dichotomies that too often paralyze and weaken organizations, this book, more than any other I've read in years, will be the most useful for this and future decades. This book is beyond a 'must-read.' It will be a necessity for all leaders to succeed in these tumultuous times.
— Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, and author, On Becoming a Leader and Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership
In clear and graceful prose, Inder Sidhu provides practical lessons by describing the execution and innovation strategies that have made Cisco a worldwide leader. Definitely a book I would recommend.
— Laura Tyson, S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management,
Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, and Former Dean,
London Business School and Haas School of Business
Cisco is one of the world's most admired companies—and for good reason. Inder Sidhu reveals how Cisco drives profits and increases innovation, and provides readers with the pivotal insights that are necessary to do both.
— Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, salesforce.com
A remarkable view of how one of the truly great companies of our time has consistently proven its ability to sustain and innovate, Doing Both is both an inspiring tale of triumph and a practical guidebook for leaders seeking answers to challenging questions about how to move their businesses forward in this new world. A must-read.
— Ram Charan, Business Advisor and best-selling author
Great management is about transcending trade-offs, about 'turning either/or' into 'both/and.' In this timely and insightful book, Inder Sidhu takes you inside one of the world's most successful companies and shows you what it takes to be both disciplined and creative, highly optimized and perpetually inventive, tight and loose. This is a practical and valuable read for any leader who is eager to escape the limits of management-as-usual.
— Gary Hamel, Visiting Professor at London Business School, Director of the Management Lab, and author, The Future of Management
Storytelling is central to all great firms, enabling the culture to carry forward its past and communicate its future. Cisco is no exception. It has wonderful tales to tell, and in Inder Sidhu we get a narrator who has the added advantage of having been an insider for much of the company's meteoric success. The result is both insightful and entertaining, and I encourage you to read this book.
— Geoffrey Moore, author, Crossing the Chasm and Dealing with Darwin
On the one hand, great companies know where they want to add value a decade from now and the investment needed to get there. On the other hand, investors want proof that the management team can execute today. 'Doing both' means establishing investor credibility in the short term so long term goals can be pursued. Sidhu shows how Cisco is doing just that.
— Gary Reiner, CIO, GE
Doing Both provides a simple and succinct set of strategies for the 21st century, using Cisco as an example of a company that has benefited from these strategies. With Sidhu's firsthand knowledge of Cisco, the explanations are logical and practical. A must-read for business leaders and management students.
— Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO and Managing Director, Infosys Technologies
Doing Both is a fascinating insider's account of one of Silicon Valley's most successful tech companies. A must-read for executives who want to grow big companies, learn from Cisco's mistakes, and understand how creative organizational systems can overcome the innovator's dilemma.
— David Yoffie, Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration
and Senior Associate Dean, Chair, Executive Education, Harvard Business School
Inder Sidhu uses wonderful stories of corporate successes and failures, and draws on the experiences of Cisco to challenge conventional management wisdom that business is about choices between apparent opposites. In fact, he makes a compelling case that these apparent opposites actually reinforce each other in powerful ways. Whether it is growth versus profits, optimization versus reinvention, or superstars versus teams, Sidhu argues convincingly that great managers pursue both. Read this book and learn profound lessons from an insightful practitioner at a leading company.
— John Hagel, Co-Chairman, Deloitte LLP Center for the Edge, and coauthor, The Power of Pull
What's the brilliant secret that's catapulted Cisco over all its competitors? Simple in concept—see the world in 'and' terms rather than 'or' terms—but difficult to implement, Cisco figured out how and is now a leader in any market it chooses to enter. Doing Both skillfully provides the necessary detail and inspiration for managers wishing to follow the same challenging path.
— Jerry I. Porras, Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change Emeritus,
Stanford Business School, and coauthor, Built to Last and Success Built to Last
Innovation and execution can be pursued simultaneously. How? Doing Both documents how Cisco is able to blend internal and external sources of innovation with multiple paths to market. Sidhu's book is timely, challenging, and inspiring to managers and scholars alike.
— Henry Chesbrough, author, Open Innovation, and Adjunct Professor,
Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley
True innovation lies in escaping the tyranny of the 'or' and embracing the wisdom of the 'and.' Yet large corporations struggle with the paradox of mastering today versus tomorrow, of sustaining versus disrupting, of centralization versus decentralization, and of individuals versus teams. Drawing on his extensive experience at Cisco Systems, Inder shows that these are false dichotomies and you can indeed do both. This book is strategic and actionable. It is readable and relevant.
— Mohanbir Sawhney, McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology, and Director, Center for Research in Technology and Innovation, Kellogg School of Management
A single-minded perspective cannot sustain a business in the long term. There is great power in operating on two seemingly conflicting ideas at the same time. This book is rich with examples of how to do just that.
— Jim Champy, coauthor, Reengineering the Corporation
Managers are always faced with choices between attractive alternatives that appear to be mutually exclusive. For many of these situations, Inder Sidhu proves a different answer: Do both—and reap the benefits not only of multiple pathways, but also of the creative tension between them. Cisco provides a powerful proof point for this simple but profound way of thinking; but it's a message that has relevance for any organization that wants to succeed in today's complex business world.
— Ron Ashkenas, Managing Partner, Robert H. Schaffer & Associates, and author, Simply Effective
In Doing Both, Inder Sidhu insightfully captures the paradoxes of modern business. He offers general principles and specific Cisco examples of how to do sustaining and disruptive innovation, use current and new business models, optimize and reinvent, work in mature and emerging markets, be excellent and relevant, work with superstars and winning teams, and be authoritative and democratic. Doing both of each of these paradoxes has been central to Cisco's success and offers a blueprint for others.
— Dave Ulrich, Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and
Partner, The RBL Group
My suggestion is that you take to heart and practice the inspiring ideas in this book by doing doth – you can learn from others while also conceiving your own innovation strategy! You can create sustainable value while always living your values, your vision, and your mission. And Mr. Sidhu has written a book which does both for me – providing practical business ideas which also serve to inspire.
— Jeffrey C. Thomson, President and CEO, Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
A great read with compelling insight into the opposing forces of business nature that must be balanced for any business to evolve and succeed over time. Inder Sidhu's real-life examples paint a transparent view of how Cisco navigated the tension between traditional business models and disruptive innovation and grew to become one of the most successful technology companies in the world by doing-both.
— Al Kabus, President of The Mohawk Group


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"Used The World" is the duo's debut track, and it's a fun piece of electro-soul with a chorus that has us bouncing around the dance floor. With numerous achievements in the music scene under both of their belts already, we can't wait to hear more.


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OJAI, Calif. - The No. 6 seeded University of Oregon men's tennis team was bounced from the first ever Pac-12 Team Championships in the first round by No. 7 seeded Utah, 4-0, at Libbey Park in Ojai, Calif. on Wednesday (Apr. 25).
The Ducks (17-7, 2-6 Pac-12) now await an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships.
The Pac-12 Championships, in conjunction with the 122nd annual Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament, featured for the first time ever a men's team bracket with the winner receiving the conference's automatic qualifying bid the NCAA Championships. Oregon's loss to Utah comes just 10 calendar days after a 4-3 victory in Eugene, Ore. on Senior Day.
The Ducks fell behind early by dropping the doubles point for the first time in four matches. Utah's Slim Hamza and Devin Lane defeated the Ducks' Aaron Clissold and Daniel Sardu, 8-6, while the Utes' Alejandro Medinilla and Ace Matias took down Oregon's Alex Rovello and Jose Izquierdo in a similar 8-6 match. Oregon claimed one of the doubles matches as their marquee pairing of Jeff Mullen and Robin Cambier outlasted Utah's Benito Suriano and Dmytro Memedov, 8-5. Mullen and Cambier's victory is their 20th win this spring, and will look to increase their school record for wins in a season to 30 in the NCAA Individual Championship.
The singles matches went the way of the Utes as the Ducks fell in the first three pairings locking up the 4-0 victory for Utah. Leading the way for the Utes was Suriano who battled with Oregon's leading singles player Cambier before pulling off the upset, 7-6 (4), 6-4. The freshman Hamza came up big again in defeating Oregon's Mullen, 7-6 (3), 6-1 before Utah's other freshman Rafael Davidian clinched the win with his, 7-5, 6-3 victory over Sardu.
The three other singles matches on courts four, five and six were not completed as Utah had already clinched advancing into the second round where they will face No. 3 seeded Stanford on Thursday (Apr.26) at 2 p.m. Stopped short in their matches for Oregon were Clissold, Rovello and Izquierdo; each of which were trailing at the time the dual was clinched.
The Ducks will return home to Eugene and await their fate for an extended postseason. Follow the Ducks bid for the NCAA Championships at GoDucks.com.