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9. Shopping tip: You can get shoes for a couple of bucks at the bowling alley.
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As a closet country music fan, I often think of Keith Urban's immortal words as I build a marketing plan: "And I'll earn your trust, making memories of us."
This is really at the heart of all we do as financial advisors. Every interaction with a client is a chance to build good memories and earn trust.
We have had a whirlwind ride starting a new practice from scratch since we first opened our doors in Providence, R.I., in June of 2011. In the first 18 months we were privileged to have over 100 of our target clients engage us. Today, between 30% and 50% of all new clients come from referrals.
The referral number is the one I am most excited about, because at the heart of every referred client is trust. Our beloved clients love and trust us so much they are willing to put personal relationships on the line by referring friends and colleagues.
Here are some things we do to earn our clients' trust:
Put Clients First
Good ethics build a bigger and better business. I first learned this concept back in 1989. At the time I was pinching myself because I had just gotten a position as vice president, officer and legal counsel to the ninth largest mutual fund board of directors. It was IDS then, later American Express; now it's RiverSource. I was pinching myself because former President Gerald Ford was on the board.
IDS was the first company to embrace financial planning in a big way and that meant having a fiduciary duty as stated in SEC memos. I was struck with the reports to the board: Clients who had a financial plan (as opposed to those who just bought a product and therefore had an advisor who did not have a fiduciary duty) stayed with their advisors longer, purchased more products and were far less likely to sue. This looked like a winning business strategy to me and I have been preaching it ever since.
We constantly come across clients who already have good life insurance, disability, long-term care insurance and other investments. If what they have is as good as what we could offer them, we tell them to stay put. Of course we don't make any money on this advice, but it's the right thing to do for the client—and good for us, too.
Avoid Surprises
One of the many valuable things I learned working for the general counsel at the IDS mutual fund board was that directors hate surprises. I was amazed at how much bad news they could take, if we prepared them for it well in advance.
Today I know that clients also hate surprises. We try to help our clients avoid unhappy outcomes in many ways.
One is to practice full disclosure up front. We tell clients the good, the bad and ugly about any recommendation before we let them pull the trigger. I usually preface the conversation by saying: "This is NOT the perfect investment. The perfect investment only goes up, never down; it is liquid at all times; it doesn't have any penalties for early withdrawal and it is completely tax free!" From there I go on to explain how the investment we recommend differs from the "perfect investment."
We try to set reasonable expectations up front. We look at historical returns carefully because clients will see a wide variety of outcomes depending on whether they are looking at one-, three-, five-, 10-, 20- or even 30-year returns.
Personally I think it is unlikely they are going to get the returns we have seen historically in the U.S. stock market over the last 30 years. However, the last 20 have shown some ups and some downs that are more likely to be closer to our future. I like to give them a range of expected returns.
I focus heavily on the losses of '08. I will show them how each of our portfolios did in that year, along with the red ink, and then ask at which point are they calling me in tears in the middle of the night telling me they can't take it anymore? This lets me know how risk-adverse they really are and when to add more bonds to their portfolio.
We advise our clients that in any 10-year period, we will see three years below our expectations, three years above and four years close to what we hoped to see for returns. This helps set the stage for later conversations. If we are in a down period or just underperforming, we remind them of our 3/3/4 year expectations.
Many money managers would be shocked on how much we downplay our good investment returns. Even in really good years, I tell clients something like this: "I know you think we are geniuses, but we got lucky this last year and I want to remind you there will be years when we will be looking at negative returns."
Also if they will be getting statements in the near future, particularly ones laying out fees and expenses, I say: "Don't be alarmed when you get your statements—we've already discussed this, but let me remind you of the fees and expenses." With some products, like life insurance, that have high fees up front, it is critical to review costs and expectations a few times before the client pulls the trigger.
Send Detailed Notes
We send detailed follow-up notes after the meetings as a reminder of what we discussed. We found this was very important with more complicated products and services. It helps our clients remember the discussions better, and they are far less likely to come back to us later with questions. We are careful to document these notes in our database.
Add Extra Meetings
Before 9/11, the top advisors who worked with the affluent market had what was called the two-meeting close. The first meeting was to take in the data. The second meeting presented a plan and product solutions. Clients signed on in the second meeting.
It was fast and simple. Advisors could literally go from having a brand new prospect to a client with assets on the books in a matter of a few weeks. Because it was so efficient, it was also highly profitable since the advisor could see a lot more clients.
A lot has happened since then. A couple of major market reversals, the war on terror, and much higher taxes have all made clients a lot more fearful—which means it takes more effort to build trust than it did 15 years ago.
Our solution: We added a number of meetings to the client process. It is not unusual for us to take four meetings to do what we used to do in two.
Also a lot of our clients are lovely, kind, smart, educated people from other countries who are working in the U.S. on visas. They are not familiar with our tax structure or investment systems. We add at least two additional meetings for them so we can explain things in even more detail. So it is not unusual for us to take six meetings, just to get a client's financial matters set up.
A lot of advisors would chafe at this—claiming it is not efficient. I disagree. Because we spend so much time getting a client's affairs in order, they are more comfortable with the process and with us. They don't feel rushed. All their questions are answered. The result is a strong relationship, which is far more efficient than a weak one.
Do What You Say
Small things can lift or tank a relationship. We don't promise anything to our clients unless we know we can deliver them. This is one of reason we don't promise returns.
Even following through with a simple promise, like to send them an article you mentioned, is a chance to prove you are worthy of trust. Doing what we tell our clients we will do builds a stronger relationship—just like my hero Keith Urban says.


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THE GIRLFRIEND 'I liked your post today, it was funny.'
ME 'Thanks hon.'
GF: 'The photos turned out pretty good as well.'
ME: 'Thank you.'
GF: 'It looked surprisingly appetising.'
ME: 'It did, didn't it?'
GF: 'But there's one you missed out?'
ME: 'One what?'
GF: 'Photo.'
ME: 'Which one?'
GF: 'You know that one.'
ME: 'Which?'
GF: 'That one.'
ME: 'Not helping.'
GF: 'That one of you and the tail.'
ME: 'Ah. Yes. That one.'
GF: 'You should post that one up.'
ME: 'Erm, I don't think so.'
GF: 'You should!'
ME: 'But I look kind of, I don't know, I look a bit…'
GF: 'Yes, but it's funny.'
ME: 'Not for me it isn't.'
GF: 'Yes but for me, and hopefully everyone else who reads your blog.'
ME: 'I'm not so sure.'
GF: 'Pleeeeeeease?'
ME: 'Maybe.'
GF: 'Go on.'
ME: 'But it would instantly strip away the veneer of manly bravado that I've carefully crafted over the last 12 months.'
GF: (Badly stifled laughter) 'Oh, I don't think you need to worry about that,' (more badly stifled laughter)
I gave in. Obviously. Something about oatcakes to follow later but in the mean time here you go:
See what I mean about Alien? *shudder*
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The Tail Tale - An epilogue
Posted by Just Cook It at 11:03:00
Labels: nose to tail, nose to tail tuesday, pigs tails, tails
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*snigger* You look totally manly! Really! *snigger* Those aliens don't stand a chance, dude. But seriously, you're braver than me. I'm a girl and naturally more manly than the men in my life, but I couldn't do tail.
- 11 March 2009 at 19:12
- dp said...
I like your girlfriend. She's clearly quite clever if she was able to con you into posting this picture.
All us women are having a laugh.
BTW, as far as I'm concerned you may keep any tails (and ears).
- 11 March 2009 at 22:56
- Just Cook It said...
Thanks Angry Brit, although for some reason I'm not totally convinced by your assertion.
DP - Glad it provided some amusement. To be honest, I don't think they'll be gracing the table often.
- 12 March 2009 at 09:58
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Every year the NL schedule has a quirk or two. Well, we are about to begin a quirk….next four games are against the Pirates and Cubs, two games each. Yep, two games at home vs. each of these two NL Central teams.
That means when we go to Pittsburgh and Chicago we will be playing four-game series ini each city. Both are on weekends in July, giving Phillies fans a chance to visit PNC Park and Wrigley Field.
Weekend sweep in Milwaukee put the Phillies 10 games above .500. Last year, they didn't reach that level until June 2 (30-20).
4 Phillies lead, biggest in the majors
9 Wins against NL Central this year; 1 loss
11 Of their last 14 ESPN Sunday night telecasts, Phillies have won 11.
910 Home runs hit by Phillies in last 5 years, most in majors.
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Dave Philley (1958-60) yesterday became the 12th member of the Phillies Nonagenarian Club. He still holds the Phillies record for most consecutive pinch-hits, 9, 1958-59. It still stands as an NL record, too.
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For a band that had been in existence a good five years before attracting any kind of recognition, Crystal Stilts have firmly established themselves since as possibly the most consistent purveyors of lo-fi garage dreampop currently treading the boards. With two excellent long players in the bag, this year's In Love With Oblivion demonstrated a depth far beyond those early Jesus & Mary Chain comparisons, and they've ended 2011 with arguably their most ambitious collection of songs to date.
Taking the ambient route already explored on 'Alien Rivers' and 'Precarious Stair' a tiny step further, the five songs that Radiant Door is comprised of shows the band's pensive, if occasionally exploratory side. Opener 'Dark Eyes' sounds like The Doors had they followed The Seeds and The Stooges doctrine rather than succumbed to their own self-importance. Kyle Forester's increasingly distinctive keyboard omnipresent throughout, the heavily orchestrated guitar segments punctuated by Brad Hargett's haunting vocal, its a pristine advertisement for a band one suspects would be just as comfortable soundtracking a Halloween Ball as they would a mid-afternoon Summer Solstice event.
The title track takes the mood down a touch into more sombre territories. Indeed there's an early Sixties feel owing to JB Townsend's guitar melody that echoes the likes of Hank Marvin or Duane Eddy from back in the day. While not entirely dissimilar to former b-side 'Sugar Baby', 'Radiant Door' fits concisely with the rest of the EP purely on the basis of it proving instantly recognisable to the band's more accustomed fare. 'Still As The Night' meanwhile proffers another delve into rock and roll's embryonic archives, falling somewhere between incidental music for a spaghetti western flick and Bobby Pickett's 'The Monster Mash'.
Surprisingly, its their take on obscure Mancunian outfit The Blue Orchids' 'Low Profile' that reveals a band in musical transition. While not a million miles from the original, in tempo at least, their indelible stamp is laid all over it, resembling a soothing narcotic without the heavy comedown. Final track 'Frost Inside The Asylum' has a seance quality about it, again undoubtedly inspired by The Doors albeit more minimally. On reflection, perhaps Crystal Stilts' closest compatriots are The Horrors - which renders the unveiling of album number three a mouthwatering prospect indeed.
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This inverted level payment calculator is an integrated saving and borrowing calculator that focuses on what really matters to most people: how much they'll pay per month and how much they'll have for college. Think of it as a layaway plan for college that starts several years before matriculation and continues for several years after graduation. In other words, the same monthly payment is used to build savings before college and to repay the debt after college. It yields a complete financial plan for college.
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Disaster recovery: Protecting the enterprise from the administrator
Prevent enterprise disaster by delegating administration rights carefully.
How can you prevent an administrator from harming your computer environment by using his or her rights inappropriately? That's a tough challenge, to be sure. Not long ago, I attended a Microsoft-sponsored technical roundtable on Disaster Recovery. Microsoft noted that one of the top reasons customers ask for disaster recovery help is because of the "accidental bulk deletion of objects." For instance, such a call comes in when an administrator accidentally deletes an Organizational Unit (OU) that has 5,000 users.
Of course there are procedures to recover those objects, such as the Authoritative Restore tool, but we are interested in preventing it. At that roundtable, one of Microsoft's recommendations to prevent such a disaster was to be careful who you give administration Administrator rights to.
So exactly how would you protect your environment from a rogue administrator? Of course the easy answer is delegation. Windows 2000 and 2003 permits a granular delegation model that allows fairly restrictive admin rights. An admin can have rights to control objects in an OU or to perform a specific task like modifying the Schema, or editing Group Policy. However, everything can't be delegated. At some point you have to trust the administrator to simply do the right thing or follow company policy.
Recently, I was asked to come up with a way to prevent an administrator from using the Authoritative Restore tool. Authoritative restore forces a restored Active Directory database to replicate to other servers after restoring from a backup. It ensures that your restored data gets replicated to all of your servers. In this case it was a college environment which had an empty root domain and about 30 child domains. Each educational department had its own domain with an employee of that department as the domain administrator. The college's IT department held the enterprise admin accounts. Apparently one administrator mistakenly performed an authoritative restore that reinstated a number of Domain Controllers (DCs) that had been removed from the domain.
The staff had fixed the Active Directory (AD), and the guilty administrator was no longer employed there, but my client wanted to know how to prevent this from happening again.
Specifically, they wanted to be able to prevent domain administrators from performing functions like authoritative restore that affects the entire forest. They, of course, pointed to documents that state that the domain is a security boundary. So how can a domain admin modify objects in the forest partition? Whether or not the domain is a security boundary has been argued for a long time. It is a boundary in some instances, but it's not an absolute boundary.
I explained that this is not a technical problem but a management issue, and the solution relies on the physical security of a DC. Authoritative restore is performed by booting into Directory Service Restore Mode (DSRM), which allows the DC to boot without loading Active Directory. You must log in to the DSRM administrator account -– essentially a local account on the DC. Thus, even if you did perform some sort of delegation in AD, it would not apply to this account. All you need is the password to the DSRM administrator account and you have access to the data on the DC. The DSRM password can be changed in the NTDSUtil program by any domain administrator who is logged into the domain on the DC, so even if an administrator does not know the password, he or she could change it. When administrators have physical access, there is no way to lock them out and stop them from performing the authoritative restore. In fact, if the cleaning lady found the DSRM administrator password stuck to the manager's monitor and used her pass key to gain physical access to the data center, she could do the same thing.
So this institution was between a rock and a hard place. Management had given domain admin rights to employees of the various departments but couldn't prevent them from modifying objects that affect the forest. Ultimately you have to trust the administrator. If you don't trust an individual's judgment and skills, then you should not grant them the rights.
In this case they had a couple of options. They could have revoked domain admin rights from all the departmental admins and given them more restrictive rights -– and had the IT department administer the domains. Of course, the downside to that decision is that the IT staff has to administer 30 domains causing personnel issues. The other option, which should have been done in the first place, would be to collapse the forest to a single domain and grant the departments an OU and give OU admin rights to the department.
The point here is that you must understand that physical access to a DC, combined with domain administrator privileges, puts all AD objects within the realm of authority to those individuals with that access.
The NTDS.DIT file holds the entire AD on the disk. Anyone with the DSRM administrator account password and physical access to the server can access it. Any domain administrator can easily reset the DSRM password in the NTDSUtil program. In planning your security model, be sure to consider physical access and the power of the DSRM administrator account when you grant administrator rights to individuals. If you can't trust their judgment and skills, don't give them the rights and then try to get technology to fix it.
Gary Olsen is a Systems Software Engineer for Hewlett-Packard in Global Solutions Engineering. He authored Windows 2000: Active Directory Design and Deployment and co-authored Windows Server 2003 on HP ProLiant Servers .


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Professor Brian Pogue has been named chair of the National Institutes of Health's new grant review panel for biomedical imaging technology. The panel will review applications in optical imaging, ultrasound imaging, X-ray imaging, nuclear medicine, and magnetic resonance imaging. Pogue also won the Light Path Award from the American Society for Photobiology for "substantial and innovative contributions to the fusion of photobiology with other disciplines, thus broadening the frontiers of photobiology."
Professor Jifeng Liu has led a research team developing a process for creating less expensive solar cells that are up to twice as efficient as the current technology. Because current methods can harness only a "very small portion" of solar energy (less than 10 percent), the team's findings could be "groundbreaking" in the field of renewable energy studies, Liu says. His team, which included Haofeng Li Th'15 and research scientist Xiaoxin Wang, developed a method of manufacturing single crystal thin films directly on ordinary glass over a large area, allowing for the commercialization of single crystal silicon thin-film solar cells for the first time.
Professor Eric Fossum delivered the keynote address, "Quanta Image Sensor: A Possible Paradigm Shift for the Future," at the Image Sensors Conference in London in March. Fossum, who coordinates Thayer's Ph.D. Innovation Program, invented the CMOS active pixel image sensor, which is used in cellphone cameras, webcams, digital-still cameras, and medical imaging.
Dartmouth's Class of 2012 chose Professor Vicki May as the recipient of the College's Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching. May, whose research focuses on engineering education, inquiry-based learning, and seismic engineering, says, "Teaching, to me, is about the students, connecting with them in ways that encourage them to learn and grow. I enjoy experimenting with different teaching approaches."
Vermont Public Radio featured recordings from the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive. The treasure trove of 36,000 recordings, ranging from the UN announcement of the creation of Israel to comedy from Groucho Marx, was established in 2002 by Professor Alex Hartov Th'88 and Dartmouth Hebrew Professor Lewis Glinert as a resource for researchers and students.
Adjunct Professor Michael Mayor, a Dartmouth orthopedic surgeon and past chairman of the FDA's Advisory Panel on Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Devices, discussed the issues surrounding hip-replacement surgeries on Alaska Public Radio's "Line One" show.
The Big Green Bus kicked off its summer cross-country tour in June, stopping in Washington, D.C., to meet with U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. The waste vegetable oil-fueled vehicle will travel through 30 states while its crew of 12 students and recent grads promotes sustainable living. "I am greatly looking forward to adventuring through the country in a way I never have before, all the while addressing the most important issues that face humanity and the Earth," says engineering major Ari Koeppel '15. The bus is scheduled to pull back into Hanover on September 5. Follow its progress at www.thebiggreenbus.org.
Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering has earned a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency for its work in Rwanda. The project, which was also one of three finalists out of 1,800 applicants in the Dell Social Innovation Challenge, involves using small-scale hydropower to generate electricity in Rwandan communities that are decades away from accessing the national grid.
M.S. candidate Rezwan Khan has been named a 2012-13 New Hampshire-Vermont Schweitzer Fellow. As one of about 240 Schweitzer Fellows nationwide, he will organize a group of students from different disciplines at Dartmouth who will provide consulting services to nonprofits and social service organizations working to improve the health and well-being of people in the Upper Valley.
Thayer graduate students Yang Shen Th'12, Yicai Bao Th'12, Vedant Rathi Th'12, and Boyu Zhang Th'12 won first place in the Oliver Wyman Case Competition in March. The competition, organized by the Thayer Consulting Club, the Dartmouth Society of Investment and Economics, and the Graduate Consulting Club, rated student teams on how closely their strategic planning resembled that of an actual consulting firm. Second place went to Haider Syed Th'13, Saaid Arshad '14, and Jonathan Pedde '14. Judges included Tuck and Thayer faculty, Oliver Wyman consultant John Engstrom Th'10, and Axia consultant Mat Ackerman '05 Th'06.
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Hot Cocoa Cookies
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Awwwwe look at how cute these are!!!ReplyDelete
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These are really gorgeous! I love the colours you've used! I have to make edible snowflakes too if I want to experience them haha!ReplyDelete
They are so perfect! I love the little smiling marshmallows. Come visit us in TN - we have snow in Feb. and March! :)ReplyDelete
Very very nice, you're amazing!ReplyDelete
A million hugs ;)
So darling. Just. Love.Them.ReplyDelete
This is ridiculously cute. I clicked on the link from my blog wondering what "hot cocoa cookies" were, maybe cookies for cocoa? Cookies that taste that cocoa? I spotted the image an in about a half-second I went over to Edible Crafts to post. I can't get over these... I think it's the marshmallows that did it.ReplyDelete
These are some of the cutest cookies!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the inspiration. This weeks assignment is care packages for the college students with a hot drink theme. Your idea is perfect. Not much snow in Florida either, btw.ReplyDelete
I LOVE the colors! And the little marshmallow faces are SO CUTE!!ReplyDelete
has to be one of the cutest cookies I have EVER seen. They are lovely and made me crack a BIG ole smile at work today and that says a lot!ReplyDelete
Sue I want to print this out and tuck it away for when I need an instant pick-me-up smile. I am smitten!ReplyDelete
OK. These are way too cute to eat. Good thing you have a camera to record them for posterity. They should be framed. We are having to look to cookies for snowflakes this year too. WE NEED SOME SNOW!!!!ReplyDelete
Oh my, these are so darn cute!!! I have lived here (California) most of my life and I've never had snow either. I absolutely love those little marshmallows!!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous, adorable, and ALL those things I am always saying to you! I love your cookies, Sue!!!ReplyDelete
These are so super cute!! I love the red/blue combo and those litle marshmallow faces push it over the edge (of cuteness). Great job as always Sue!!ReplyDelete
oh these are so cute!!!Love those cute little faces :)ReplyDelete
Those cookies are super cute!ReplyDelete
I just love your cookies! I wish you lived closer. I'd pay you for them! =o)ReplyDelete
Such fun! I'm a huge hot cocoa fan. In fact I walked in the door from my bike ride last night and my son handed me a cup of hot cocoa knowing that I would be very cold after my heart rate came back down. It was heaven! What a good boy huh! I love the little marshmallows with your hot cocoa. What an adorable idea Sue! You always come up with such fun cookies! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
I love the color combo of red/blue.ReplyDelete
love these Sue, A.DOR.ABLE! No snow on the east coast either (if you disqualify the freaky Oct snowstorm!)ReplyDelete
Cute cute cute! I love the smiling marshmallows! :)ReplyDelete
What a great cookie for January. You are SO CLEVER!!!ReplyDelete
Adorable! I love them!ReplyDelete
Love them!!! SO cute. :)ReplyDelete
They do look cute with the faces! I love edible pens too. They really expand the possibilities! :DReplyDelete
Love the rosy cheeks of the little marshmallow cookies. They are so cute!ReplyDelete
Love your tiny and very detailed snowflakes and your cocoa mugs are great. Don't think those marshmallows could get any cuter.ReplyDelete
Those cookies are so beautiful - perfect mugs of hot chocolate with marshmallow. I love those rosy cheeks on the marshmallows! I'm craving a cup of hot cocoa with them this very minute!ReplyDelete
On another note - want snow? Come hee..I'll roast that chicken for you with all the fixin's :)
These are so adorable!ReplyDelete
These are so beautiful and wintery! They make me want to go find some snow!ReplyDelete
Those are adorable! You are an artist. Thanks for sharing them on Crazy Sweet Tuesday!ReplyDelete
These are so cute... love the little marshmallows!ReplyDelete
I love these cookies. The colors are wonderful and the smiling marshmallows are adorable.ReplyDelete
oh my goodness gracious, these are sooo cute!!! the little marshmallows are so creative:)ReplyDelete
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Totally adorable marshmallow cookies, they are just the sweetest things. I love them (and I agree the Americolor writers are fab)ReplyDelete
These are just the cutest. Blue is my favorite color which is an added bonus.ReplyDelete
Just when I think you can't come up with anything cuter, you do! These are as cute as can be.ReplyDelete
The cookies are beautiful!! The snow...hmmmm, here in NE Ohio we are in the middle of a snow storm so it's well, not so beautiful! The cookies and hot chocolate though would certainly help!ReplyDelete
I wish my cookies would come out this beautiful! I'm hosting a Winter Wonderland link party on Monday and would love it if you linked up!ReplyDelete
Those are SOOOO adorable!ReplyDelete
Thanks for linking up! I featured you post in my wrap up http://tidymom.net/2012/valentines-day-ideas/ Have a great weekend!
Those are really cute! How I wish I can make beautiful cookies like you do! I'm such an amateur when it comes to decorating cookies. :(ReplyDelete
I need to know your piping secrets!! You're amazing.ReplyDelete
They are so adorable and I love the colors!ReplyDelete
These cookies are so adorable and I'd love for you to link up to my newThematic Thursday meme. The theme this week is Winter and this would be a perfect addition. I'm a new follower now!ReplyDelete
These cookies are too cute! I found you on pinterest, and I'm featuring your cookies as my pinterest pick for my Friday Favorites event this week!ReplyDelete
These are the cutest things I've ever seen! I want to make them. Super cute! I'm your newest follower!ReplyDelete
These make me laugh! I love the colors and the smiling marshmallows! Thanks for adding them to the link party!!ReplyDelete


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There's been quite a bit of medical-media buzz about a possible link between three or more weekly servings of fast food and allergic asthma, eczema and rhinitis in children.
There's been quite a bit of medical-media buzz about a possible link between three or more weekly servings of fast food and allergic asthma, eczema and rhinitis in children.
Dr. Vincent S. Beltrani of Hudson Dermatology, with offices in Kingston, Poughkeepsie and Fishkill, is not impressed.
"People want simple answers," says Beltrani, one of only a handful of physicians worldwide to hold dual board certifications in both dermatology and allergy/immunology. "But we've been studying these diseases for 100 years."
And there are no simple answers, he says.
The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood published its findings online in mid-January in the respiratory journal Thorax.
The authors — professor Hywel Williams, Centre for Evidence Based Dermatology, University of Nottingham, UK, and professor Innes Asher, Department of Paediatrics: Child and Youth Health, the University of Auckland, New Zealand — studied data from more than 319,000 13- to 14-year-olds from 107 centers in 51 countries and more than 181,000 6- to 7-year-olds from 64 centers in 31 countries.
The teens and the children's parents were questioned about their weekly diet and whether they experienced symptoms such as wheezing, runny or stuffed nose accompanied by itchy and watery eyes and eczema.
The analysis indicated that fast food was the only food type to show the same associations in both age groups, prompting the authors to suggest "such consistency adds some weight to the possible causality of the relationship" — not proof, but warranting further investigation.
Also noted was that fruit seemed to be linked to a decrease in symptom severity in both age groups.
"What there is no doubt about is that farmers' kids have fewer allergies than kids raised on Fifth Avenue," Beltrani says, flashing back to the pre-computer wisdom of kids playing outdoors — and even getting dirty — on a regular basis to build the immune system.
But stop eating burgers and fries and your eczema will disappear? This study doesn't scratch that cause-and-effect surface.
"People always ask me if it's something they're eating," Beltrani says, and to drive the more-than-likely disassociation between allergies and foods home, he has been known to reply, " 'No, I don't think you're having enough sex.' "
Rather, there are some 55 genes associated with allergies, rhinitis and eczema.
"The actors change, but the play is the same. If both parents have allergies, there's an 80 percent chance that their children will," says Beltrani, an associate clinical professor at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, who's lectured around the world. "The population is growing, but the percentage of people with allergies is the same."
And of those with allergies, in less than 1 percent of the cases is food the major culprit, he says. The clinically significant foods are nuts, shellfish, wheat, eggs and milk.
But "fast food" as a category?
That's where Beltrani says he really has some difficulty.
Not that he minimizes the threat of some food allergies, pointing to a Brown University student with a peanut allergy who died after being kissed by her boyfriend who just ate a peanut butter sandwich.
But in this study, what food is being addressed? The bun? The meat? The fries?
Is it the greasy high fat and trans-fatty acids?
"I wish it were so simple. As people get old, they dry out. We could just tell them to go eat fast food," he quips.
"But look at identical twins. They may not have identical diseases because of the many variables. One could have eczema and another hay fever," he says.
"This study is not scientific. "� it's so anecdotal. Did the children sneeze more? Itch more? What exactly was being measured? What exactly were the children eating? What was the method used and what were the results based upon?
"If I assigned this, the student would not pass," says Beltrani, who's also written many articles on atopic conditions, has written the standards of care — and well as some of the challenging questions that appear on the board exams. "I'm shocked that Dr. Williams attached his name on this. He's a recognized dermatologist in England, and I would reprimand him."
Not that Beltrani would ever argue about the importance of good nutrition.
"But even occasional 'junk' food has some caloric value," he says.


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21 Weird Food Flavors You Can't Find In The US. Or Probably In Your Country! (21 Photos)Categories: Food · Funny · Weird Tags: Weird Food Flavors
The culinary culture of each country has became one of the crucial marketing strategy for the big food companies who export their products all over the world. What tastes great here might get really bad feedback on the other side of the globe.
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This year, the beef checkoff is celebrating its 25th anniversary of building beef demand. For certain, walking through the 25-year history of the beef industry will take you down some rocky roads, as well as highlight some clear paths to growth, all en route to a beef industry that you'll be proud to pass on to the next generation.
Wayne Watkinson, legal counsel for the beef checkoff, assisted with the writing of the Beef Act that established the checkoff.
"The purpose in the program that I was involved in was to get all of the state and regional programs and the national program working together," Watkinson said. "By doing that, you allow a greater coordination both on the local level and on the national level."
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Islamic Forex Brokers
Forex trading can be challenging for religion-abiding Muslims. However, solutions exist to trade currencies in a way that is ḥalāl. Compare the top 5 brokers with Islamic Forex accounts.
Forex trading and the Sharia
Traditional Forex trading can pose problems for religion-abiding Muslims because it often involves interest. Your Forex broker could charge interest if you borrow to open a position. And if you keep your position open overnight, you could stand to receive or pay interest depending on the prevailing interest rates.
It is possible to trade currencies without incurring interest: 1) invest no more than you can afford and 2) remember to close any open positions by 5pm New York time. However, this is likely to reduce how much you can afford to invest and may not be an option if 5pm New York time (10 pm UTC/GMT) is in the middle of your night time.
Benefits of an Islamic broker
Instead, you could open an account with a Sharia-compliant broker Forex broker to enjoy interest-free leverage and avoid interest on rollovers.
- Interest-free leverage. Islamic Forex brokers will provide interest-free leverage. In other words, you can borrow entirely free of charge.
- No rollover interest.With an Islamic Forex account, your open positions will be closed by 5pm New York time to avoid rollover interest. You can them re-open them immediately after that. Some brokers will open them on your behalf free of charge.
Are there any disadvantages?
If you're a non-Muslim thinking of opening an Islamic account simply to avoid interest, think again. Most brokers will ask that you provide evidence of your faith if you request a Sharia compliant account. They could close your account altogether if they have grounds to believe you are trying to game the system.
Interest-free doesn't necessarily mean you'll be at an advantage, as some brokers will look for alternative sources of revenue if they cannot charge interest. This is why Islamic accounts can have marginally wider spreads than conventional accounts. Other brokers may require higher minimum deposits.
However, this isn't always the case. easyMarkets offers Forex and commodity trading accounts in Islamic format to all clients of Muslim faith. In addition, you can keep your open positions overnight for up to 14 days at no additional cost. Others, such as HF Markets (EU) tend to apply a carry charge after 7 days.
How to open an Islamic account
Our comparison table shows popular Forex brokers with Islamic accounts.
- Some brokers such as easyMarkets or HotForex have dedicated Islamic accounts, in which case signing up is straight forward.
- Finally, others such as AvaTrade.com can convert a conventional Forex account into a Sharia compliant account on request. You'll need to speak to your account manager to make that happen before placing your first trade.
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Model No.: ZWBO137-ST
Driving Type: Other
Control System: Other
DC Form: Other
Voltage: 12V, 10T
Packaging: CARTON,WOODEN PALLET,COLOR BOX
Productivity: 10000PCS/MONTH
Brand: ZOWO
Transportation: Ocean,Land,Air
Place of Origin: CHINA
Supply Ability: 100PCS/DAY
Certificate: ISO9001
HS Code: 85114099
Port: NINGBO,SHANGHAI,GUANGZHOU
Bosch Starter MOTOR 0001121439 12V 1.1KW 10T
SPECIFICATION: BOSCH Starter Motor ASSEMBLY FIAT BRAVO FIAT DOBLO
BOSCH Starter Motor ASSEMBLY
What is an Auto Starter Motor and where is it located?
An AUTO STARTER motor is an electric motor that helps start the process of internal combustion inside your vehicle's engine. It is generally located underneath the engine near where the transmission engages with the engine. In some cases, the Auto Starter motor may be found on top of the engine near the intake manifold. The auto starter motor is the main component to your vehicle's starting system and is responsible for the initial turning of your engine until the ignition and fuel systems take over. Once the engine has started running, combustion in one cylinder drives compression in an adjacent cylinder so, as long as fuel continues to be applied, the system is self-propelling. In order to start this process, though, something must start turning the engine.
Before the invention of the electric motor, hand-cranks were used to start automotive engines. Hand-cranking an engine was neither easy nor entirely safe. Occasionally, the engine would kick back and the crank could injure the operator, resulting often in a broken thumb or a broken wrist. Thankfully, engineers at Cadillac came up with the idea of inventing an electric motor that could start the engine. This made motoring safer and more accessible for more people.
Although there are different types of electric auto starter motor, the basic principle of operation remains the same. The process of starting your vehicle begins when the ignition key is inserted into the ignition key cylinder and turned beyond the on position, unless of course you have a car or truck that has a remote starter motor. Remote starters just bypass the key, making the vehicle act like the key is in the ignition even though it is not. Either way, this action activates the ignition switch and, in turn, electric current from the battery is then feed to the Starter Motor Solenoid which in turn spins the armature which drives or [pushes" a pinion. That pinion engages with the engine flywheel ring gear and drives the crankshaft. The crankshaft of course translates the up and down motion of the pistons into the rotating motion that is needed to power the automobile. Once started and the key is released, the key will then return to the [on" position as a result of the [start" position being spring loaded. The ignition switch stops feeding current to the solenoid and thus the power supply to the starter motor is cut, shutting it [off" essentially.
The auto starter motor must also have some way to keep the engine from turning the pinion. The ratio of the ring gear teeth to the pinion teeth is very high, so once the engine is turning at speed, if the two gears were still engaged, it would turn the starter motor much faster than it could handle, causing damage to the motor.
There are two methods of keeping this from occurring: the inertia system and the pre-engaged system. In the older inertia style starter, the pinion is threaded on to the motor shaft like a nut on a bolt. As the shaft spins, the pinion threads out. There is a stop that holds it once it reaches the end and engages with the ring gear. Once the engine starts turning, the much faster movement of the ring gear essentially spins the pinion back and threads it back down the shaft. These types of starters require the pinion to start spinning before it engages with the ring gear. When the spinning pinion engages with the stationary ring gear, some wear of the gears can occur.
To reduce this wear, pre-engaged starter motor were invented. In these, current from the battery activates a solenoid that pushes the pinion out, then another current starts the motor. The pinion on these has a one-way clutch like the freewheel mechanism on a bicycle. Auto starter motor today use the pre-engaged system, as inertia style starters haven`t been used on automobiles for many decades.
Some more recent starters use a process called gear reduction. This is the most common type of Automotive Starter used after the mid-1990s. Before that, direct drive starters were the most common automotive starter from around 1950 through the mid-1990s. While similar in operation, with gear reduction starter motor, the pinion is not directly attached to the armature rather they have transmission gears from the auto starter motor itself to the output gear that meshes with the flywheel. These extra gears provide more torque, thus allowing the starter motor to be able to turn over the engine faster and with less effort and drain on the battery. Gear reduction starter motor are also half the size of direct drive starters and weigh much less.
For an even more in-depth explanation of auto starter motor, including their history, more details on how they work and the different types, and more, check out our starter motor guide.
How do I know if my auto starter motor needs to be replaced?
Starters may fail to work due to either damage to the pinion (or the internal gears in the case of gear-reduction starter motor) or malfunctioning of the electrical parts. If the pinion gear has worn or broken teeth, it may not mesh properly with the ring gear and won`t spin the flywheel fast enough to get the engine started. Worn or broken teeth on the ring gear may also cause this problem.
In order to keep the starter small, the electrical components inside are not designed to be very resistant to heat. As such, the auto starter motor can only run for a brief period of time. Cranking the engine for too long, or not resting the auto starter motor before cranking it again can overheat the brushes that carry current to the armature or the wiring in the starter. If this occurs, the armature may not spin fast enough to get the engine started. The electrical components can also simply wear out over time. This is more likely in vehicles that are frequently turned off and restarted, like delivery vehicles. Problems with the ignition timing could also cause the engine to kick back. Just as kickback injured people on the old hand-crank cars, kickback can damage the starter.
A good sign that your starter isn`t working might be when your car or truck won`t start but the dash lights turn on when you turn the key to the on position. This tells you that your battery is working, which makes the starter motor the next likely culprit. You may find that the engine cranks slowly or not at all when you try to start it. It may also slip or make chattering noises. If you can hear the auto starter motor spinning, but the engine doesn`t crank then something is keeping the pinion from engaging properly. This could be broken teeth, or in the case of pre-engaged starters it could be a problem with the solenoid that engages the pinion.
Can I replace a starter motor myself?
It will take some effort, but it is certainly possible to replace your car or truck`s starter yourself if it has been determined that you in fact need a replacement. The most difficult part of replacing the starter may be accessing it. In most cases, you will have to raise and secure the vehicle and access the starter from underneath. Be sure to disconnect the battery before working with electrical components, and be sure that the engine has cooled before trying to remove the starter. With all that in mind, you`ll simply have to disconnect the wiring to the starter, unbolt it and connect the new one. Be sure you have the correct starter for your automobile. These may vary depending on the particular transmission and flywheel that your vehicle has.
Need a starter replacement for your vehicle?
If you are having issues with your engine starter, it`s important that you address them quickly. You don`t want to risk damaging your engine or not being able to drive your car or truck. Then you`ll be in a lot of trouble. Remember, the starter motor is your vehicle's heart; it brings your engine to life and it sets your vehicle into motion. Like any smart member of the human race, you have to take care of your heart! If you are in need of a starter replacement for car, truck van or SUV then you have come to the right place. 1A Auto offers a large selection of aftermarket starters for many makes and models, and at great prices.
At 1A Auto, we offer brand new starters, not rebuilt or remanufactured. This means no core charge or dealing with the hassle of returning a core. Our aftermarket starters have all new components, and heavy duty bearings for long life. Our new starters also come with the correct starter solenoids for a direct original equipment replacement.
We also make shopping for a replacement starter for your car, truck, SUV or van easy at 1A Auto- we're here to help you select the right part for your vehicle! Call our customer service toll free at 888-844-3393 if you have any questions about our aftermarket starters, warranty, compatibility or to purchase, or you can buy online.
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I got a little bit of time to update my 3 year old work of adding static DTrace probes to the linuxulator.
The changes are not in HEAD, but in my linuxulator-dtrace branch. The revision to have a look at is r230910. Included are some DTrace scripts:
- script to check internal locks
- script to trace futexes
- script to generate stats for DTracified linuxulator parts
- script to check for errors:
The programming-error checks give hints about userland programming errors respectively a hint about the reason of error return values due to resource shortage or maybe a wrong combination of parameters. An example error message for this case is "Application %s issued a sysctl which failed the length restrictions.\nThe length passed is %d, the min length supported is 1 and the max length supported is %d.\n".
The stats-script (tailored specially to the linuxulator, but this can easily be extended to the rest of the kernel) can report about:
- number of calls to a kernel function per executable binary (not per PID!): allows to see where an optimization would be beneficial for a given application
- graph of CPU time spend in kernel functions per executable binary: together with the number of calls to this function this allows to determine if a kernel optimization would be beneficial / is possible for a given application
- graph of longest running (CPU-time!) kernel function in total
- timing statistics for the emul_lock
- graph of longest held (CPU-time!) locks
Unfortunately this can not be committed to HEAD as-is. The DTrace SDT provider can not handle probes which are added to the kernel after the SDT provider is already loaded. This means that you either have to compile the linuxulator statically into the kernel, or you have to load the SDT kernel module after the linuxulator module is loaded. If you do not respect this, you get a kernel panic on first access of one of the providers in the linuxulator (AFAIR this includes listing the probes available in the kernel).


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Sixteen-year-old Ashley knew something wasn't right as soon as she and her mother, Maria, walked out of their home on the morning of Dec. 1, 2011. They slipped into the car and noted the presence of two strange vehicles parked on their quiet street. A few minutes later, Ashley noted another strange vehicle parked on the curb at her Sacramento-area high school as she told her mom goodbye. That was the last time Ashley saw her mother in the United States. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in an unmarked car followed Maria, then 40, down the street and arrested her on unknown charges. Agents bound Maria's hands, feet, and waist in chains for processing, and when she asked for a lawyer, an agent said, "You don't need a lawyer. You need to go back to Mexico." Within hours, she was en route to Tijuana on a bus with three other women and dozens of men, who harassed her during the overnight trip. She had no coat or blanket to protect against the cold night air—made worse since the bus windows stayed down for the trek south. Maria also wasn't allowed off the bus or allowed toilet paper when her menstrual cycle started.
ANGEL: "We made the decision because of the kids."
Maria's story is one of millions. Former President George W. Bush presided over a record 2.01 million deportations in eight years, and President Barack Obama will eclipse that mark this year—his fifth in office. The Obama administration insists it is focused on deporting criminals, but many immigrants, including Maria, had no prior run-ins with the law when they were forced to leave and many have spouses and children who are U.S. citizens. The result is too many single-parent homes producing at-risk young adults. They may be more likely to engage in criminal activity, become pregnant outside of marriage, and become locked in a cycle of government dependency. "They're not picking up mom and dad and three kids and putting them in a van and graciously escorting them back to their country of origin—that's not what's happening," said Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. "Families are being separated. It's wrong." Maria and her husband Angel (WORLD agreed not to use their real names) came to the United States as newlyweds on a travel visa in 1989 and decided to stay. Life was hard: Angel's first job packing concrete required him to walk two hours each way to work a shift from 1 a.m. to 10 a.m. The couple had two children, both U.S. citizens, and became active in an evangelical church after converting from Catholicism. Angel and Maria applied for and received work permits in 1997 and renewed them annually for nine years, paying more than $5,000 each time for legal help and application fees. But in October 2006, when they had steady jobs and owned two houses, everything changed: They received an unexpected letter ordering them to voluntarily vacate the United States within 60 days or face deportation. Angel said he and Maria discussed the situation and decided they couldn't take Alex, then 16, and Ashley, then 11, away from the only country they had ever known. "We made the decision because of the kids," he told me. "It's their future I'm worried about." When Alex turned 21 in October 2011, he petitioned for his parents' residency. The family isn't sure whether that's what drew attention to them, but Maria was deported six weeks later. Angel is still in the United States and hasn't seen his wife since she left to take their daughter to school in 2011. VIRTUALLY NO ONE DEFENDS the current immigration system, which too often contradicts itself, keeps out those it should let in, lets in those it should keep out, and punishes those who follow the rules. But in lieu of a political miracle, comprehensive immigration reform will not happen this year, and maybe not until after the 2016 election, causing immigrant advocates to turn their attention to record-setting deportation numbers. President Obama in March ordered Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, to conduct a review of the administration's deportation policy. The results are expected in the coming weeks. Samuel Rodriguez said he's personally pleaded with Obama to slow deportations—most of which he's convinced target "good, hard-working, God-fearing individuals"—and the president maintains he can't undermine the rule of law. Yet the recent outcry may give him political cover to take executive action. After discussing immigration during an April visit to the Oval Office, Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, believes Obama may think he can take action on his own, Moore told me, but most people "would prefer the president work with Republicans to fix the system." In June 2012, less than five months before his reelection, Obama signed an executive order granting amnesty to illegal immigrants who were unlawfully brought to the United States as children. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) allows young adults who meet certain criteria to pay $465 to apply for consideration, and if approved, they receive a renewable, two-year work permit. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) approved 472,520 DACA applications in fiscal year 2013, including Cynthia Huerta, a 20-year-old college student who works at a Houston law firm. Despite working full time, Huerta—whose parents brought her to the United States legally at age 7 and overstayed their visas—already has 67 hours of college credit en route to an industrial psychology degree. She works Saturdays to get in her 40 hours and keep up with school. Huerta said DACA has been hugely helpful, but it only partly removes uncertainty: Her driver's license and work permit expire on Dec. 21, and a lapse in legal status would render her DACA ineligible—even if her application is submitted months before the deadline. USCIS will not release the renewal form until late May. "There's people like me with no criminal background who have been waiting for over a year" for a first approval, Huerta said. "That's what scares me about the coming renewal." Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2012) Such uncertainty is why Republicans almost universally opposed Obama's executive action and the House last year voted to defund DACA, even though members of both parties largely agree that immigrants brought here as children should not be deported. Republicans cite a distrust of Obama as the primary reason they won't move forward on immigration reform, but another legislative problem lurks: The Senate could take any immigration bill the GOP-controlled House approves and attach the immigration overhaul it passed last year. "We're more than happy as Republicans to dig in and solve problems, but don't force us into a corner to get amnesty," said Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., who has a high Hispanic population in his district. Pearce told me if Senate Democrats would agree to work on a piece-by-piece basis, the two parties have plenty of common ground. He recently partnered with Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, to introduce the American Families United Act, which would exempt, on a case-by-case basis, immediate family members of U.S. citizens who are barred from lawful re-entry. (Per a 1996 law, six to 12 months of unlawful presence triggers a three-year bar, more than 12 months triggers a 10-year bar, and breaking either one triggers a 20-year bar.) PEARCE'S BILL IS A LONG SHOT, but Cathy Murillo is holding out hope that it will become law. She's raising four children (two from a prior marriage) by herself in Arnold, Mo., after her husband voluntarily returned to Mexico in 2007 to correct his visa. They thought the process would take a year at most. Instead, U.S. officials slapped him with a 10-year bar and later a 20-year bar from entering the United States Murillo says he didn't deserve. Murillo has traveled to the border to meet her husband a handful of times, but not since 2011. "My 3-year-old has seen his father once," she said. "Best case scenario he comes back in 2018." Critics say the bars have been counterproductive. Recent analysis shows eliminating them would provide a way to legal status for about one-third of the approximately 11 million people illegally in the country, who currently have no other recourse. Sarah Monty, an immigration attorney in Houston, called the law harsh: "Is a primary breadwinner going to wait 20 years? No, he's going to come back in," she said. "They thought this was going to stop illegal immigration, and all it did is line the pockets of the human smugglers and document makers." Monty compares the situation to Prohibition, which made criminals out of otherwise honest people—only this is being reunited with family, not having a drink. Reform advocates say lawmakers should alter the U.S. immigration system to encourage lawful entry—as it once did. In the 1950s President Dwight Eisenhower expanded the Bracero visa program to allow seasonal workers into the country. Illegal immigration plummeted (even as border patrol agents dipped below 1,100), but under pressure from labor unions, and despite strong objections from Mexico, Congress voted to eliminate the program in 1964. Between 1965 and 2008, illegal immigrants from Latin America went from near zero to 9.6 million, accounting for more than 80 percent of the current undocumented population, according to Princeton professors Douglas Massey and Karen Pren. They wrote in 2012 that illegal immigration rose "not because there was a sudden surge in Mexican migration, but because the temporary labor program had been terminated and the number of permanent resident visas had been capped, leaving no legal way to accommodate the long-established flows." Regardless of why they're here, David Crosby, pastor of First Baptist Church in New Orleans, said what matters is that they are treated fairly while in the United States. He told me immigrants played a big role in rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and yet his church routinely sees them become victims of theft, assault, rape, murder, and other crimes—with no legal or medical recourse. "They cannot and will not access medical care and police protection. Because it's unsafe for them, it's unsafe for all of us." For Angel, Alex, and Ashley, life without their wife and mother continues. After Maria was taken, Ashley began having frequent panic attacks and withdrew from her high school. She has since returned and is considering several state universities that have accepted her for the fall term. She said losing her mom has allowed her to learn a lot, including how to cook and be a housewife—and how to forgive. "I don't blame ICE—I know they're just doing their jobs," Ashley said. "It's very hard to not have your mom, but I've learned forgiveness through all that's happened. … Our faith in God is very strong." http://www.worldmag.com/2014/05/life_in_the_shadows/page3


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Families are central to child safety, permanency, and well-being, and all families need support. For families with limited resources, or those facing additional challenges, the need for assistance is even greater. This may include family support services, which refers to a range of supportive services for families with children, or family preservation services, which are more intensive services intended to preserve families that are at risk of disruption while keeping children safe. Family support and family preservation services are part of a continuum of services to support and strengthen families that build upon the principles of family-centered practice. These principles include focusing on families' strengths, engaging families in planning and decision-making, and leveraging community-based services and supports on behalf of families.
This section describes and provides examples of family support and preservation services, including in-home services, and offers resources for managers on family engagement, cultural competence, evaluation, evidence-based practice, funding, and training.
Introduction to family support and preservation
Provides an introduction to the field of family support and preservation services.
In-home services
Offers information and resources about the role of in-home services in supporting and preserving families.
Family support services
Provides information and resources about family support policy and program approaches; services for specific groups such as young parents, military families, and children and families of prisoners; referral and linkage to resources; and shared family care.
Family preservation services
Describes policy and program approaches to family preservation services and addresses intensive family preservation services.
Resources for managers
Offers tools for managers and administrators of family support and preservation services on engaging families, providing culturally competent services, and evaluating services. Resources also address evidence-based practice, funding, and training.