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While the EB-5 investor visa program from inception has had its share of critics, its sharp expansion over a short period of time—combined with the emergence of several high-profile controversies—has markedly increased scrutiny, and thus the possibility of legislative reform. This Policy Beat outlines the debate surrounding the EB-5 program and possible changes awaiting the program in Congress.
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Kenyan migration to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has been on the rise over the last few decades, spurred by rising unemployment and instability in Kenya combined with the GCC region's economic growth and proximity. While both sending and origin countries benefit economically from this new migration, it presents significant challenges for these governments, particularly in the area of labor rights, as this feature article explores.
The number of international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities has risen steadily since the mid-20th century. Today, the United States represents the top destination for international students worldwide. Learn more about where these students come from, which universities they attend, and the subjects they study in this Spotlight article.
Against a backdrop of anxieties about migration, the United Kingdom's government set a referendum for June 2016 on whether to withdraw from the European Union. This article explores the role played by migration in the decision to call the referendum, how immigration might influence the result, and finally the implications of both referendum outcomes (Leave and Remain) in terms of migration policy and regulation.
The fate of the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) program could hinge on narrow legal grounds, as became clear when the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the DAPA challenge. This Policy Beat examines the DAPA case and developments regarding the H-1B and EB-5 visa programs, a Department of Homeland Security crackdown on student visa fraud, and more.
One of the least developed countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has experienced significant migration outflows and inflows tied to political and economic crises in recent decades. While most Congolese migrants head to neighboring countries, destinations have diversified, with an uptick in those leaving for opportunities in Europe and beyond. This country profile explores historical and contemporary patterns of migration to and from DR Congo.
Use this data tool—referred to as "one addictive interactive map"—to examine immigrant populations by country of origin and destination. Find out how many Americans live in Mexico, how many Ukrainians in Russia, or Filipinos in Saudi Arabia, for example.
Whether as migrant-sending or migrant-receiving locations—or both—many countries have rich, complex international and internal migration histories. MPI's online journal, the Migration Information Source, offers profiles of more than 70 nations. Written by leading scholars, these profiles delve into countries, migration histories, demographics, policymaking, and more.
Mexican immigration to the United States has slowed in recent years, and since the Great Recession more Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico than have migrated to the United States. Mexicans, however, remain the largest origin group in the country, accounting for 28 percent of all immigrants. See how Mexican immigrants compare to the overall foreign- and U.S.-born populations on key indicators with this Spotlight article.
In August 2015, India and Bangladesh officially exchanged 162 enclaves, marking the end of a 300-year old anomaly that saw the fragmented territory of one sovereign power located inside another sovereign territory. Enclave residents have lived in virtual statelessness since partition in 1947, without identity documents or access to essential services. As part of the deal, India and Bangladesh allowed residents to choose their country of citizenship.
Growing rapidly from a population of 90,000 in 1960 to nearly 3 million in 2014, South American immigrants now represent 7 percent of all foreign born in the United States. Family-based immigration is the primary pathway for all South American groups, ranging from 45 percent of Venezuelan immigrants to 97 percent of those from Guyana.
Afghanistan, once the world's largest origin of refugees, is increasingly experiencing mixed migration, including seasonal and permanent outflows for both economic and humanitarian reasons, internal displacement, and refugee returns. This feature article examines the current trends with a focus on return migration and the development impacts at the intersection of displacement and urbanization.
The complex push and pull factors driving child and family migration from Central America to the United States have changed little since the 2014 crisis. Despite some fluctuation in arrival numbers, recent trends suggest the characteristics of an enduring phenomenon. This Policy Beat explores the latest developments in U.S. policy responses, including enforcement operations, development assistance, and family detention.
The digital era offers opportunities for cities to improve access and outreach to residents, including immigrants and minority groups, through online tools and apps. This feature article explores ditigal-inclusion strategies in "smart" cities New York, London, and Barcelona, as well as the creative use of new technologies in response to the European refugee crisis.
Systemic corruption has flourished in South Africa's asylum system due to large backlogs and rising demand. Though apartheid's end ushered in a progressive refugee law, inefficiency, administrative justice violations, and corruption have narrowed the humanitarian protection channel. Asylum seekers and refugees often face the stark choice of paying bribes to access services or risking deportation.
The emigration of health-care professionals from Malawi led to drastic labor shortages in the impoverished nation in the early 2000s. To combat this brain drain, the government launched an action plan that has largely stabilized the outflow. However, human resource challenges to Malawi's health-care system remain acute and complex, as discussed in this feature article.
Japan is one of the world's most generous contributors to humanitarian appeals, yet accepts a very small number of asylum seekers—indeed only 11 were granted refugee status in 2014. Even as Japan has witnessed a record number of asylum applications, the approval rate has declined. This feature explores Japan's low acceptance of asylum seekers, including institutional barriers and negative public perceptions.
As Europe struggles to reach a consensus on how to respond to the refugee crisis, the seemingly unending flow of migrants and refugees arriving on its shores is bringing national asylum systems to their breaking point. This article analyzes the context of the crisis, discussing the root causes of the flows, why they are spiking now, and growing protection challenges.
In 2013, more than 25 million people in the United States reported limited English proficiency (LEP), an 80 percent increase since 1990. The LEP population, the majority of which is immigrant, is generally less educated and more likely to live in poverty than the English-proficient population. This Spotlight explores key indicators of the LEP population, both U.S. and foreign born, including geographic distribution, language diversity, and employment.
Indian immigrants represent the second-largest origin group in the United States, accounting for 4.7 percent of the total foreign-born population. Generally high-skilled and highly educated, more than half of Indian immigrants have arrived since 2000 and largely attain green cards through employment-based pathways. Indians account for 70 percent of H-1B petitions and are the second-largest group of international students in the United States.
Cuban immigrants are afforded a special place in U.S. immigration law, with most able to gain permanent residency after one year in the country. Following a history of surges in maritime migration, more than 1.1 million Cuban immigrants resided in the United States in 2013, accounting for about 3 percent of the total foreign-born population. This article explores key characteristics of Cubans in the United States, including educational attainment, income, and more.
During recent decades, large-scale international migration has been an external escape valve for Guatemala, a response to the country's multiple internal problems. This article examines Guatemalan migration, primarily to the United States, into the post-war era; U.S. government immigration policies affecting Guatemalans; the impacts of migration within Guatemala; and Guatemala/Mexico migration dynamics.


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Tuition grants aid students with access to education
Recently, Dr. Tamara Arthaud, head of the department of counseling, leadership and special education, received $100,000 from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to continue the Blindness/Low Vision/Orientation and Mobility Tuition Grants at Missouri State University.
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The College of Education offers more than 60 undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs. Departments within the college include childhood education and family studies; counseling, leadership and special education; reading, foundations and technology; secondary education; and Greenwood Laboratory School. The college also sponsors many community initiatives to benefit educators and K-12 students in the region.
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"Escape from New York" (1981)
What's It About? In the future (1997!), New York has been turned into a prison colony. A plane carrying the president crashes onto New York City. The only person who can get the President out alive is the worst criminal ever—Kurt Russell's eyepatch-wearing, acid wash-jeans-loving Snake Plissken. To up the ante, of course, Plissken has been injected with an explosive device that will kill him in a matter of hours unless he brings the president back alive. So that means he can't fuck off or kill the president (he's also got a secret tape that is vastly important—please keep in mind that this was conceived right after Watergate, though what it actually says about that scandal is anyone's guess).
What's The Escape Plan? Snake has to rescue the president from The Duke (Isaac Hayes) and escape all the warlords, criminals, and terrorists infesting the island. Snake isn't exactly the bookish "escape plan" type of guy, so his adventure includes, amongst other things, gliding from the top of the World Trade Center and driving a runaway cab across a bridge littered with explosives. Finally, he makes his way to the fence surrounding the island and the president is lifted over it. Many of these same beats are repeated in the ill-fated (but still hugely enjoyable) "Escape from L.A."
How Successful It Is? "Escape From New York" is incredibly pessimistic, so even though the president makes it to safety and Snake Plissken lives to tell the tale (he's offered a pardon and walks away), there is still one last fuck you: the tape that was so important to both the President and the country has been switched, last minute, by Snake, with a recording of "Bandstand Boogie." Snake, the ultimate anti-authoritarian figure, destroys the tape, his metaphoric middle finger raised high.
Would It Work In Real Life? Er, considering "Escape from New York" is a fantastical work of science fiction, none of this would have worked in real life (most likely), and not just because the World Trade Center isn't standing (although it was in 1997). The fact is, that though we'd like to believe there's a little eyepatch-wearing antihero in all of us, it's hard to see anyone but Plissken prevailing here. So as a blueprint for an escape from a criminal-infested island, it's lacking, but for pure thrills, it's a riot.
"Two Way Stretch" (1960)
What's It About? A typical British caper comedy, typically starring Peter Sellers and Bernard Cribbins, 'Stretch' tells of the high-spirited hi-jinks of unrepentant inmate Dodger Lane (Sellers) who breaks out of the prison in which he's quite comfortably ensconced, to commit a diamond heist. Then he breaks back in, thereby establishing for himself and his gang the perfect alibi.
What's the Escape Plan: While at first it seems, given Lane's privileged standing within Huntleigh prison and his good relations with jovial guard Jenkins, that popping out for a few hours won't be a problem, that scenario changes with the arrival of tough new screw Crout (Lionel Jeffries). In a nice meta moment, the escape/reentry plan subsequently mooted by Lane is inspired by "The Wooden Horse" (see above) and involves a hollow vaulting horse. Next up comes a wheeze based on 1959's "Danger from Within" which also comes up short, until finally Lane arranges, via carrier pigeon traffic with his girlfriend, Cribbin's mother and the gang mastermind (Wilfrid Hyde-White), to leave in a fake Black Maria police van and return via a garbage truck.
How Successful Is It? Goes smooth as silk it does, as does the heist of the Sultan's diamonds, before the gang is released a day later having served out their sentences, and all that's left is the simple, straightforward and in no-way-destined-to-foul-up business of retrieving the diamonds.
Would It Work In Real Life? We don't see why not, provided you've the good fortune to be sent down to one of those terrifically genial British prisons in which the wardens are well-meaning, marrow-growing dimwits, the guards are eternally distracted by a glimpse of comely thigh and the only vigilant screw is the constant recipient of slapstick come-uppance. But while the film may be slight and pretty forgettable in the scheme of things, it does deserve some plaudits for inspiring beloved Brit sitcom "Porridge."
"The Wooden Horse" (1951)
What's It About? Another based-in-truth story, and one actually set in the very same POW camp that originated "The Great Escape," "The Wooden Horse" stars Anthony Steel, David Tomlinson and the ever-urbane Leo Genn as three British prisoners who tunnel to freedom using a vaulting horse in the exercise yard as cover. The film's low budget and often amateur cast actually give it more of a feel of authenticity than many similar films, even if it falls quite far short of the glossy greatness of its better-known brother.
What's the Escape Plan: Realizing that their accommodation huts lie too far from the perimeter fence to allow them to tunnel from them, the escape leaders build a vaulting horse from old Red Cross parcels, and recruit other inmates to practise with it, as though they're training a vaulting team. In fact, the horse, like that of Troy, conceals a man who, once it's set down in the yard near the fence, tunnels through the ground a little further each day, before covering up the tunnel entrance and concealing himself and the displaced earth. When the tunnel is completed the three use it to escape, and once out, split up before reuniting in Sweden.
How Successful Is It? As a cheery counterpoint to "The Great Escape," all three actually do get clean away, and thanks to much assistance along the way, make it to neutral Sweden and are home in England by Christmas.
Would It Work In Real Life? Again, as impossible as it seems and as totally dreamed-up-by-Hollywood as the plan might appear, the broad details here did actually occur: the vaulting horse, the training cover, the tunnel, the successful escape and return of the three POWs. And the film's somewhat plodding pace and prosaic tone actually make it easier to believe than you might think.
"Con Air" (1997)
What's It About? Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) somehow has the dumb luck to be on his way home on parole aboard a plane that is otherwise stacked to the overhead compartments with the most dangerous criminals, seemingly on the whole of planet Earth. When, led by Cyrus (John Malkovich) the murderers, rapists, paedophiles and serial killers take over the plane and reroute it so they can escape, Poe must try to stop them even though FBI people on the ground regard him as an enemy too. One of the funnest and dumbest films ever to be described as "dumb fun."
What's the Escape Plan: Allowing the plane to continue on its intended route for a while, Cyrus masterminds the offloading of the pilot and guards dressed as prisoners and switches the plane's transponder with that of another plane, so that the authorities (represented by a pompous Colm Meaney and a dedicated John Cusack) follow the wrong plane for a time. Enough time for them to get to a different airfield where one of the high-profile prisoners has promised to have another plane waiting and ready to take them all to a non-extradition treaty country.
How Successful Is It? It really doesn't work out at all well, and not just because the "brilliant" Cyrus doesn't cop to Poe's secret "good guy" agenda until quite a bit of harm's been done, but also because he makes the fatal mistake of forgetting that the incorrigible criminals he's journeying with are not the most trustworthy of individuals. So he's doublecrossed at every turn but still manages to stagger on through the power of sheer malevolence and ludicrous plot devices until, having crashed landed into a Vegas casino, it again falls to Poe to hunt him down, finally seeing him crushed to death in one of those industrial pounding machines that's only conceivable purpose is to kill unkillable movie supervillains.
Would It Work In Real Life? No. To be honest "real life" and "Con Air" are completely unrelated concepts. Like chalk and schadenfreude.
There are a gazillion prison break films, of course, ranging from all-out comedies ("The Parole Officer," "Lucky Break," "Stir Crazy" "O Brother Where Art Thou?" among others) to gritty dramas ("Papillon," "Midnight Express," "Brute Force," "Runaway Train" "The Defiant Ones," "Lonely are the Brave" to name just a few) and hitting all points in between. And no doubt you'll have your favorites that we missed out so feel free to shout them out in the comments below especially if there's one that you feel boasts a particularly ingenious and/or foolproof plan. You never know, right?


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The hotel has three onsite restaurants and each of them is a place where dining is a part of performance. Choose between International, Japanese and Cantonese cuisine. Whichever you will prefer, your mouthwatering experience is guaranteed as chef and his team is a wizard of a kind.
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To help protect communities from disasters and tackle the adverse effects of climate change, the Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities (EPIC) project will investigates the role that healthy ecosystems play in reducing disaster risk and supporting community-based adaptation to climate change.
EPIC is a five year initiative funded by the Germany's Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety's International Climate Initiative. The project is co-ordinated by IUCN working closely with the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), l'Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (France), the Mangrove Action Project (Thailand) and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research.


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Recently closed google waze deal has been put into trouble by US federal trade commission as it has asked for the information related with it in order to get reviewed by the agency according to the report published on Saturday.
Waze a Israel based developer crowdsourced mapping application provides real time update about traffic conditions in streets and roads which benefit it users to plan for alternative routes to reach their destination.
The deal happened earlier this month has provided google with several enhanced features to its map products including real time navigation tools.
According to the sources google intention not to submit the deal for FTC review was just because waze revenue in US amounts to $70 million only.
The FTC is reportedly getting involved because, with the deal, Google, a dominant player in the online mapping market, swallowed one its few viable competitors and further looking for any anti trust issues associated with the deal.
Various meantime reports have confirmed the deal value anywhere between $1 billion to $1.3 billion although the companies didn't disclosed the financial details.
Earlier this month on 11 june vice president of google Mr. Brian McClendon wrote in the official blog that the Waze product development team would remain in Israel and operate separately for now. We're excited about the prospect of enhancing Google Maps with some of the traffic update features provided by Waze and enhancing Waze with Google's search capabilities.
Before Google won the deal, other companies had reportedly been interested in the company, including Facebook and Microsoft.
The application had about 50 million users at the time of the Google deal, Waze said in its own blog post about the deal.


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Photo Booths
Photo Booths have made more than a little come back in the events world. Bride's and Groom's can't seem to make it down the isle without knowing that a Photo Booth will be at their wedding reception. Photo Booth Rentals are a "must have" at Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, Corporate Events, Incentive or Team Building Programs, Sweet 16's and just about any other party you can think of. At Washington Talent we have a photo booth for any size event or budget.
FOTO ZONE, CLICK PIX, PHOTO BOOTH XL and introducing: THE SWIRL BOOTH – ALL 4 from PEG!
Foto Zone – Our entry level, open air photo booth.
Provides a 4×6 full color, high quality print. The booth has an extremely small foot print so it can be used and moved easily during the party…great for cocktail hour set up and then move into the main room. The open air design allows for unlimited people to be in the shot. The high tech design will attract guests at any event for all ages of guests. Great at Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Weddings, Trade Shows, etc. Anywhere you want to attract a crowd, put Foto Zone.
Click Pix – A high tech touch on an old school idea.
Full color 4×6 images are produced for each guest in 30 seconds or less! Similar to the old fashion booths, complete with curtain and bench, our Click Pix Booth will attract your guests with its unique yet authentic design. Click Pix uses a Professional Canon G-series camera and LED lighting.
Accommodates 1 to 4 people.
Photo Booth XL – It's all about size!
A professional twist on the old time favorite photo booth, our Photo Booth XL uses a Professional Canon G-series camera and allows up to 10 adults or kids in a single image. It's STANDING ROOM ONLY for this outrageously fun photo entertainment. As always, our finished product is a fun strip of 4 images ready in less than a minute and everyone in the booth gets their own strip.
Each strip has a 2″ x 1″ header and footer that can be customized for your event. We also offer cool acrylic frames for each strip for a small additional charge. Photo Booth XL provides a full color proof book with matching CD of images 7-10 days after your affair and an optional web link to view, share & purchase image as well.
All the fun of the boardwalk from days-gone-by is back and a "must have" for events large or small, for kids and/or adults and we've got the perfect photo booth for you!
THE SWIRL BOOTH – So NEW and So COOL.
This ALL NEW concept in Photo Booths starts with a FRESH Clean look, optional LED lighting to add changing colors throughout the event. The SWIRL gives the feeling of an open air booth while still allowing privacy with the round walls that hold up to 12 people.
FOTO ZONE, CLICK PIX, PHOTO BOOTH XL and introducing: THE SWIRL BOOTH – ALL 4 from PEG!
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Photo Booth XL
- 4×8 paper
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- Fully voice interactive
- Memory book option
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- 4×6 paper (3 images w/ logo/header)
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- Custom header
- B&W / Color / Sepia
- Standup booth 2-14 people
- Fully Voice Interactive
- Memory book option
- CD & Proof Album of images
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Exciting entertainment for Weddings, Mitzvahs, Corporate Affairs or Private Parties and available in PA, DE, Maryland, DC, Virginia, NJ or NY as well. Ask about Green Screen and Photo Buffet options as well.
Philly Event Group offers great package deals on Photo Booths when you use a PEG Photographer, Videographer, Band or DJ too. Call 215.499.8580 for more information.
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I just wanted to thank you for all the help during the NCLR conference in Washington D.C. Our booth was the hit of the show due to the hard work from all of your staff. The attendees were wowed not only by your product but also the amazing service. You have a great team and there is no way that we could have had such success without you. Thanks for all the help, we'll see you soon!
I want to personally thank Nicolas, JC and Daniela. They were such a pleasure to work with. I was a bit of a slave driver throughout the weekend and they were absolutely perfect. This is an extremely mature group of young adults, and success for them is inevitable. I wish all three of you the best of luck, even though I know you won't need it.
I did not forget about Amber, Lissy and Kyle. Kyle and Lissy have a special bond with me because all three of us lost 10 lbs on Friday setting up. I made them move the photo booth about 1,099,842 times. Thanks for being so patient with me! Amber, you were great. You wore many hats that weekend and made sure everything was running smooth which made my life much easier. It's easy to be a good manager when you have such a great team.
Jack, thanks for everything. I know that we went a bit over on materials but you made sure that I had everything I needed whenever I needed it, and I truly appreciate that. Thanks for going the extra mile for us. Hopefully we will see you soon.
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The contents of this blog are presented for informational purposes only, and should not be substituted for professional advice. Always consult your physicians with your questions and concerns.
By Amy Basken
ACHA Advocacy Coordinator
I love working with ACHA as they advocate to change the landscape for those living with congenital heart defects—or is it congenital heart disease? Ugh. A few months ago, I spent an entire day asking countless patients, parents and professionals about whether I should refer to CHD as congenital heart disease or congenital heart defects in our advocacy documents. I hadn't thought about what a difference a word could make.
By Alissa Butterfass
Note: While it is a Thursday, this post was submitted by Alissa on a recent Monday morning.
For my first ACHA blog, Terri had requested I write about my experience with gestational surrogacy—which is how my second son S. was born. As I sat at my computer the past two days, that was my intention. In a separate file I have a couple of paragraphs drafted but I couldn't focus on them. You see, it's going to be one of those weeks, and all I can think about is my over-extended so-called life. So, I promise to write about surrogacy in a future post but for now, at 8:52 p.m. on a Sunday evening, I share with you my week ahead.
By Heather Abbott
In June 2008, I had open heart surgery to replace my severely leaking pulmonary valve (PVR). This leak was a direct result of my original Tetralogy of Fallot repair back in 1977 so I've always known a valve replacement was possible. My surgery was not an emergency, though it was an inevitable necessity in my life. At the time, I was working full-time in marketing, had two Ivy League degrees, exercised almost daily, and traveled often for both work and pleasure. I had friends and a significant other. Pretty much a normal lifestyle for a young 30-something except that I was born with a heart defect.
By Stephie Goldfish
For the first part of this blog post, click here.
The first ACHA Conference I attended was in the summer of 2005 in the New York/New Jersey area. I remember that day so well. I had been going through a separation from my now ex-husband. I was feeling sort of emotionally raw, having been out of touch with everyone at ACHA, and I was feeling isolated and sad. However, at the conference, I met some of the best doctors for my specific heart physiology and defect.
When I first was diagnosed with a large ventricular septal defect (VSD) with Eisenmenger's physiology at age 17 in 1983, I finally understood why I was always so blue. And, after the numbness wore off from knowing that surgery was not an option for my heart defect, unless I were to have a complete heart and lung transplant, I set my heart on graduating high school with high honors, going on to Art School in Pittsburgh, PA, and graduating at the top of my class in December 1985.
By Jessica Garner
I am a neonatal nurse and the daughter of a man affected by transposition of the great arteries (TGA). Growing up, I never saw or knew the effects of my father's heart condition. Now, as a nurse working with newborns, I see firsthand what my father and his family went through. This is the story of my father, in his own words, that describes what he's been through since birth:
By Paul Cardall
There are more than a million adults living with congenital heart disease.
A little over a month ago, the Adult Congenital Heart Association gathered for a conference in L.A. that brought together a majority of physicians who specialize in caring for potential lifelong survivors in the field of congenital heart disease.
I was fortunate to attend with my wife and meet many of these doctors along with several adult survivors who like me are enjoying a good life despite its many challenges.
By Kelly Deeny
Music has been an instrumental—pun intended—part of my life since I had open heart surgery back in January of 1979. Not quite two years of age, I lay in a hospital crib waiting for my body to heal. Through what I can only guess were feelings of fear, loneliness and confusion at my situation, I do know one thing—my love affair with music began during that time.
I'm very thankful to have two parents who appreciate the creative arts. For whatever reason, they decided to play records for me when I was recuperating from my surgery. From what I've been told some of their choices included Disney albums and the soundtrack from "Grease." Which explains a lot! Believe me, I consider myself a full-blooded Disney-fied girl and I know pretty much every word, spoken or song, of "Grease."
By Christy Sillman
Patient or nurse, nurse or patient — who am I? This was a question I faced often while I attended the Adult Congenital Heart Association's national conference in Los Angeles about a month ago.
I had intentions to stretch myself between both worlds — to attend both patient and health professional sessions. After all I am both a nurse and an adult with congenital heart disease.
My name badge didn't specify "who" I was, but next to my name badge, my role was very clear. My "zipper" isn't that red anymore, but it is visible to those who look for it. I caught myself staring at attendee's chests, looking, wondering… professional or Zipper Club member?
By Terri Schaefer
Communications Manager
On behalf of ACHA, and especially all of our ACHA future bloggers, I want to welcome you to our new ACHA Blog! Thank you for visiting, and I'm looking forward to you becoming regular readers to see all that we have to offer; we have quite a few bloggers on board who will post about many topics relevant to the CHD community.
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Two years into its $6.4 billion acquisition, Xerox has finally decided to phase out this famous old ACS brand
Two years into its $6.4 billion acquisition, Xerox has finally decided to phase out this famous old ACS brand
If you were surprised to find Wikipedia offline yesterday, you weren't alone: many Internet users were unaware of the widespread one-day online protest against SOPA and PIPA, two bills before the US Congress designed to fight online media piracy.
The BPO industry has been going though an incredible evolution since the first major deals was cast, barely more than a decade ago, that it's high time we took stock and take a good look at the phases – or generations – through which our industry has progressed. And there are few people who have lived and breathed these generational shifts more closely that Accenture's BPO leader, Mike Salvino.
We complete our investigation into the dominance of India in the world of outsourcing, and whether or not the game's up for non-Indian providers to come back into the picture
One of the highlights of 2011 was that great web-debate on the Future of BPO where 1,100 people across the globe dialed in to hear from our buy and sell families. Here were the highlights…


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Topic: Innovation today: creating cutting edge media by connecting the digital and physical worlds
Getting your content to stand out and your message heard is becoming increasingly difficult with the saturation of media. Now more than ever, brands and publishers need to take risks and develop fresh and inventive approaches to content.
We'll be looking at examples of innovative thinking in today's digital media, showcasing how some of the country's leading creatives are linking the digital and physical worlds.
We'll also be seeing how award-winning digital agencies and designers approach innovation, how they generate new ideas and foster a creative drive in the workplace.
Speakers and panellists
Mark Cridge, Director of Consulting, BERG
Increasingly all things will be connected to the internet and each other; at BERG we find this a fascinating prospect. Our technology platform BERG Cloud is the easiest way to quickly prototype and produce connected products for the home and business; we used this as the backbone of Little Printer, which launched last year.
BERG are a unique design studio, who work at the junction between media, technology and culture where we have been inventing products for the future since 2005.
We'll share some insights into how BERG approaching their work and our thoughts on where we'd like to see things go in the next couple of years.
Liana Chang, Business Development, UsTwo
Liana will be talking about the studio's approach to innovative, content-focused experiences, showcasing its work with book publisher Penguin, Rando, the anti-social photo sharing app, and more radical experiments that explore the relationship between digital and physical environments. Ustwo is a digital design studio that is re-defining digital experiences for the likes of Channel 4, the BBC, Virgin and Samsung. It has been at the cutting edge of mobile design since 2005, helping craft the UI of Sony smartphones and developing chart-topping apps across multiple platforms.
Stephen Shaw, Opportunities Director, Blippar
Augmented Reality is set to move beyond the buzz word and become a break out technology in the near future - a report by Juniper Research predicted that downloads will reach nearly 1.4 billion by 2015. Stephen will be showing how breakthroughs in digital/print interaction can create compelling new experiences for consumers and unlock value for brands. He will be showcasing Blippar, the first image-recognition app for smartphone targeted at brand-customer interaction, through which favourite products, newspapers, magazines and advertising in the real world are converted into fun, informative digital experiences.
The panel will discuss the following topics, as well as taking questions from the audience:
Who should come?
Senior Managers, Account Directors/Managers, senior management, editorial, developers, designers, marketers, and any agency staff with an interest in multi-channel publishing.
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NH Democrat Governor Embraces Fracking?
New Hampshire's Democrat governor, Maggie Hassan, violated her own ban on travel to take a trade mission to Turkey. She justified this, according to many, by pointing to a reported 22% increase in exports From New Hampshire. That might make some sense if it were true. Last week, Business NH Magazine pointed out that of the 22% increase in "exports"( that Governor Hassan's administration was | Read More »
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Professor Keith Chapman, Department Head
Office: 204-B Graves Hall
Enrollment in specific courses in the College of Education may be restricted to students who clearly demonstrate the greatest potential for success as teachers. Factors such as general studies courses completed, GPA, scores on state and program tests, interviews, etc., may be considered.
SPE 300 Survey of Special Education and Accommodation Strategies. Three hours.
Prerequisite: Admission to PTEP.
Characteristics of all exceptionalities, and educational and behavioral adaptations for exceptional children in the general education classroom. A practicum experience that acquaints students with exceptionalities is included. Offered each semester.
SPE 302 Educational Diagnostic Measurement. Three hours.
Introduction to group and individual assessments used for evaluating student learning and for planning instruction. Emphasis is on appropriate test selection and use of results.
SPE 304 Methods and Technology in Special Education. Three hours.
Addresses curriculum planning and selection of instructional tasks, with emphasis on making decisions that facilitate learning in students with disabilities.
SPE 326 Instructional Sign Language I. Three hours.
Introduction to the culture of the deaf community and to the sign language continuum, providing a knowledge base from which students can communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing in the school setting.
SPE 372 Methods of Teaching Young Children with Disabilities. Three hours.
Prerequisites: SPE 471.
Curriculum methodologies, teaching materials, and management techniques essential for teaching young children with disabilities. Offered spring semester.
SPE 373 Methods of Teaching Young Children. Three hours.
Prerequisites: HD 202, HD 205, HD 321, and SPE 371.
Introductory study of methodologies, materials, and management techniques for young children. Emphasis is placed on the development of literacy skills. Offered fall semester.
SPE 374 Parenting Young Children. Three hours.
Explores the role of families in the educational process and how professionals work with families. Offered fall semester.
SPE 381 Introduction to Education of Gifted and Talented Children and Youth. Three hours.
A survey of the basic nature and needs of gifted and talented students, including definitions, characteristics, and identification, as well as teaching strategies to refine skills in program planning and implementation as a means for enhancing instructional decision-making. Offered fall semester.
SPE 382 Teaching Higher-Order Thinking Skills across School Programs. Three hours.
Prerequisite: At least one methods course.
An overview of the dimensions of thinking skills with a focus on practical instructional techniques for special and regular education programs. Includes detailed training in models for teaching thinking skills that result in improved student and teacher thinking.
SPE 414 Collaboration and Consultation. Three hours.
Examination of the ways in which individuals interact with educational systems, communities at large, and each other to bring about appropriate educational services for students with special educational needs. Included are fundamentals of group process, human behavior and interaction, and motivation, as well as skills and knowledge necessary for successful collaboration and consultation with others concerned with education of students who present exceptional needs.
SPE 416 Methods and Management of Students with Severe Disabilities. Three hours.
Designed to assist students in the development of knowledge and skills to enhance their abilities to make reflective decisions and facilitate positive exchange in education settings for children with severe disabilities. Emphasis is placed on educational programming, subject matter, professional responsibilities of teachers and related service personnel, curriculum development, physical management of children with severe disabilities, adaptation of materials and equipment, and modification of programs in varied settings (clinical, homebound, hospital, public schools).
SPE 435 Behavior Management. Three hours.
The course addresses the development of models for managing behavior, to help teachers prevent or deal with emotional conflict in the classroom.
SPE 471 Developmental Perspectives of Young Children with Disabilities. Three hours.
A course introducing the field of early childhood special education, including its rationale and legal issues. Offered fall semester.
SPE 476 Assessment of Young Children. Three hours.
Prerequisites: SPE 471 and admission to the teacher education program.
Basic principles and practices involved in the assessment and evaluation of young children. Offered spring semester.
SPE 478 Methods of Teaching Young Children with Disabilities. Three hours.
Prerequisites: SPE 471.
Curriculum methodology materials and management technology for young children with disabilities.
SPE 479 Internship in Education of Young Children with Diverse Abilities. Nine to 12 hours.
Prerequisites: Completion of all methods courses, admission to the teacher education program, a minimum GPA of 2.75 for all work attempted, and a minimum GPA of 2.5 in the major.
A semester of supervised teaching experience in classrooms for young children. Offered fall and spring semesters only. Application for student teaching must be made the semester prior to student teaching (excluding summer term) through the Office of Clinical Experience. Formal application meetings are held and their times will be posted in Graves Hall and announced in the Crimson White prior to the meetings.
SPE 491 Educational Methods for Mild Learning and Behavior Disorders — Elementary. Three hours.
Prerequisites: SPE 302, SPE 304, and admission to the teacher education program.
Designed to develop skill in the use of curriculum, materials, and management strategies with elementary school students who have mild learning and behavior disabilities. Offered fall semester.
SPE 492 Educational Methods for Mild Learning and Behavior Disorders — Secondary. Three hours.
Prerequisites: SPE 302, SPE 304, and admission to the teacher education program.
Designed to develop skill in the use of curriculum, materials, and management strategies with secondary school students who have mild learning and behavior disabilities. Offered fall semester.
SPE 499 Internship in Special Education. Twelve to 24 hours.
Prerequisites: Completion of required core and major program courses, admission to the teacher education program, and a GPA of 2.5 or higher.
Fourteen-week split internship providing supervised teaching experience in elementary and secondary classrooms. Student teaching is only offered during the spring semester, unless written permission is secured from the department head. Student teaching cannot be completed during the summer term. Application for student teaching must be made the semester prior to student teaching (excluding summer term) through the Office of Clinical Experience. Formal application meetings are held and their times will be posted in Graves Hall and announced in the Crimson White prior to the meetings.


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Hawaii Petco sued for alleged dog mutilations | Animal Lovers
KANEOHE, HI - Two Hawaiian women have filed a lawsuit against a Petco store in Kaneohe for separate alleged incidents of dog mutilations on the part of the chain's groomers.
According to the HawaiiNewsNow.com, Gladys Kupuwai and Estelle Green say their dogs suffered injuries during grooming at the pet store.
Kupuwai claimed she dropped off her granddaughter's dog, Dodo, for a bit of primping, but when she picked up the pooch, she noticed the groomers had taken a little too much off the top.
"[She] was dried, bloody, was dry blood, everything," Kapuwai told HawaiiNewsnow.com. "I noticed that at home, so when I took her to the vet, the doctor had told me it looked like they tried to glue it back."
Green claims her dog also suffered at the hands of over exuberant clippers, returning home with bloody nails and piece of its tail missing.
Green's husband Michael, who is prosecuting both cases, told HawaiiNewsNow, "The nails are bleeding because they were cut too short, the dog was filthy and the tip of the dog's tail was cut off,"
Petco told the Associated Press they are investigating the case.


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Open Senate seat presents GOP rare chance in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa The announcement that veteran U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin would not run for re-election came as such a shock that neither his own party nor the Republicans had given any thought to who might succeed him.
Harkin and his Republican counterpart, Charles Grassley, have been an Iowa institution in the Senate since the 1980s, and Harkin's robust $2.7 million re-election fund suggested that no change was likely soon.
Now, his unexpected retirement has set the stage for a test of how the major political parties will respond to change not only here, but also nationwide, as demographic forces reshape the electorate.
With a real chance to win, Republicans will have an opportunity to show whether they can reach out to the growing Hispanic population in a closely contested Midwestern state - a major priority since the party lost the 2012 national race with white-only support. In Iowa, Hispanics have almost doubled over the past decade to more than 5 percent of the electorate, and have backed Democrats like Harkin and Barack Obama by a 70 percent margin.
The party will also show whether it can unify its restive factions, especially evangelical conservatives and the business-first establishment, which are sometimes pulling in different directions.
Meanwhile, Democrats will face the challenge of electing someone not named Harkin. The only other Iowa Democrat elected statewide in recent years, Gov. Chet Culver, was defeated soundly by Republican Terry Branstad in 2010.
"The bottom line is 72 hours ago this was a seat we weren't going to win," said Rob Jesmer, who was director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee last year. "And now it's a seat we have a really good shot at winning. "
National conservative and liberal interest groups are expected to invest more than $30 million in the race, far more than has ever been spent here for a nonpresidential campaign.
Iowa's status as a resolutely bipartisan state -- split evenly between the parties in the Senate and Legislature -- will make it a special target.
"All the ingredients are here for an extraordinarily expensive barnburner with record spending," said Patrick Dillon, former deputy White House political director under Obama.
The National Republican Senate Committee has appointed new Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to help identify potential candidates who could win a general election and weed out those who probably couldn't.
The Iowa race will be part of the battle for control of the Senate in 2014. Democrats have a 10-seat margin, but also the burden of defending more seats. Harkin's involves the most dramatic switch from a Democratic safe seat to one that's up for grabs.
In most states, a retirement announcement by a 73-year-old senator would seem less surprising. But Iowa has a tradition of constancy.
Harkin, elected to the Senate in 1984 after 10 years in the House, is Iowa's junior senator, outranked by Grassley, who was elected in 1980. The 2014 Senate election will be the first here without an incumbent since Richard Nixon was president.
Because of the surprise, the field of potential candidates may remain unclear for a while.
Among Democrats, four-term U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley quickly began calling donors and national party activists, and met Wednesday with Democratic lawmakers at the Capitol in Des Moines.
"What I'm focusing on is reaching out to people who can give me unbiased advice about why I should or shouldn't do this," Braley said in an Associated Press interview Wednesday.
Braley has built a reputation as a consumer advocate and has been a loyal House supporter of Obama's spending programs, in the mold of the liberal populist Harkin.
He said he planned to meet in Washington Thursday with Senate Democratic leadership at the invitation of Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Michael Bennett, chairman of the Senate Democrats' campaign committee.


text: The colors of the fall season are in full view across our area. The peak of the season was reached in western North Carolina in mid to late October depending on the elevation. The Piedmont has seen the foliage change rapidly to reds and oranges over the past week to 10 days and are now reaching peak. The northern Coastal Plain of our area is close to peak and should be at that level within the next few days. It includes the area around Tarboro and Rocky Mount northward to the Virginia border. Communities near and west of Highway 17 are seeing rapid color change at the current time and should reach peak next week. The color change will be slower near the beaches but some color is already showing up. Rain is expected by Tuesday and that could cause some of the colorful leaves to drop off the trees. Take a break and enjoy the beautiful color this weekend across eastern North Carolina.


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By Hui Ma, China Internet Weekly
September 20, 2009 1:00 PM PT
Allan is at peace — a cup of tea by his side, a novel in his hands, the voices of Lisa Ono and then Norah Jones providing the soft accompaniment for a cozy afternoon spent lounging in a wicker chair. Allan's invigorating time at the gym, however, requires a different soundtrack — punk rock, for example, that can keep pace with a run on the treadmill. Music Steering technology, developed by Microsoft Research Asia, is smart enough to pick music most suitable to one's situation or preference — regardless of whether you appreciate R&B or blues, or are driving or jogging. Technology is getting to know people through human-machine interactions.
"I spend most of my working time dealing with sounds," said Dr. Lie Lu of the Speech Group at Microsoft Research Asia, after singing a love song in place of an opening remark. Holding his cell phone close to his mouth, he sang, "You ask how deeply I love you, and how much I love." In a few seconds, Teresa Teng's well known "The Moon Represents My Heart" track stored on the phone was automatically located and played.
Searching for songs just by humming a melody is only one of Lu and his team's numerous voice- and music-related research subjects.
In 2002, Microsoft Research Asia began to look at basic research on rhythm analysis, music classification, and music mood detection and then set off in 2005 to bring these features together into a convenient application. Throughout the process, Lu and his colleagues gathered user feedback to better understand people's music appreciation habits. Lu said he was constantly discussing interface details with designers at Microsoft Research Asia to make the application cooler and more convenient for users.
Music knows no national or linguistic boundaries, and can have real emotional resonance among people. Lu and his colleagues strive to really understand music and to enable music players to understand people's minds. The result of their effort is Allan's blissful afternoon of soft tunes and punk-powered work-out session at the fitness center.
Choosing appropriate music from the hundreds of songs stored on a music player (such as Zune, iPod, and smart phones) is a common occurrence. "You may not have the time to dig for the songs you crave, and you may also prefer different styles now and then," said Lu. "The 'shuffle' function in products on the market is merely able to play music in a random order to meet user's basic needs." Lu and his colleagues were motivated to solve this problem with their Music Steering technology.
"Music Steering provides a 'smart shuffle' function that enables users to select and enjoy music more conveniently," said Lu, adding that users with "Music Steering" only need to select one piece of music and the system will automatically generate a "music station" that recommends pieces (from the player's storage) similar to the selected song. Users can also choose pieces suitable for given circumstances using the Mood Filter — selecting, for example, soft music for reading. In this process, the machine makes educated guesses about the users' preferences before composing a preliminary list. Users can either listen to the recommended songs, or continue to filter the list by removing unwanted items. The machine then performs further analysis of the user's musical preferences based on this feedback and automatically adjusts the content of the Music Station. In this way, recommendations get increasingly closer to the user's "taste." With an interactive music list generated through continuous content analysis, recommendations and filtering, users can easily find the songs they desire.
As Lu and his colleagues see it, even a song that seems very simple still contains various musical elements including different styles, instruments, tones, melodies and rhythms. So a "simple song" doesn't really exist.
Lu's career as a researcher of music has turned his ears into scalpels that are able to deconstruct songs into smaller elements -- rhythm, musical instruments, and tones. "We now characterize music based on 10 selected elements. Through quantification, detection and classification a rough framework was developed for a basic description of musical pieces." Lu explained "The 'style' criterion has more than a dozen categories such as pop, country, rock, and blues, the same for 'instrument'; emotional feelings fall into three categories -- positive, negative, and neutral; 'rhythm' is based on intensity and speed."
The most difficult part of music analysis is a situation in which a variety of musical instruments and multiple melodies are mixed. Songs of varying styles are played with different combinations of instruments, and have complex connections among verses. What is worse is that there is no standard definition of tones in the academic community, so the research team had to extract music characteristics in various ways.
Lu said he wants Music Steering to work as an algorithm that can decide which elements of music count more than others, so as to better identify user preferences. In addition, when users only have a rough idea about the songs they want to listen to, the Mood Filter can help the user to set his or her options. In addition, users can pre-set a number of scenarios, — "before sleep," "exercise," or "reading," to name just few — to help search for suitable songs. Some of these ideas are still very premature, or conceptual, but Lu and his colleagues are bringing them closer to reality.
"I have been researching voice and audio processing since my first day here at Microsoft, and gradually I've been able to do precise detection. The accuracy rate of automated music annotation now stands at no higher than 60 percent, but users are already reasonably satisfied." Music Steering technology will likely mature alongside Lu's own growth at Microsoft Research Asia.
"We are going to improve," Lu said confidently. "Most of our current property settings merely target Western pop music instead of classical music, and the special attributes of songs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean are still not accurate enough. Moreover, some of the training data we have is not necessarily high in quality because none of us are professional musicians. So we would like to work with companies in this sector to use their professional training models to enable more accurate and complete automatic music analysis."
Music Steering technology can be used in handheld devices, music players and computers, but its automatic music analysis module requires high-intensity computation, so Lu and his team are trying to improve its speed, applicability, and integrity without losing accuracy.
Putting technical achievements into Microsoft products is something that Lu and his colleagues take pride in. The Microsoft Product Group is now very interested in Music Steering, so Lu is frequently exchanging ideas with counterparts in other teams for product integration tests. During this process, cells of innovation, one after another, are being implanted into Microsoft's dynamic future.


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KeyShot® is the key to amazing shots ... in seconds.
Communicating early concepts. Trying to make design decisions. Creating marketing and sales images. No matter what you are trying to do, KeyShot breaks down the complexity barriers of creating photographic images from 3D models. Faster, easier, and more amazing than ever before. In realtime.
Keyshot 5 allows designers to produce photographic images of 3D designs with simplicity and speed. It's a great tool to make early conception of a design, communicating ideas with colleagues and clients and finally to make images for marketing and sales material.
Keyshot is simple software to use with few icons needed to enhance the renders. Meaning that designers can master the software without having to learn in depth ways to use it.
As there are very few icons and little to learn about the software, you can quickly put together a 3D animation. This is done in 5 easy steps:
Its also easy to set up these renders as there are no special hardware requirements, can take any 3D design model
Turntable animation of a scanned Human head. Featuring texture and bump mapping to simulate skin.
This simple animation created by Root Solutions shows how light can be refracted through glass on a pair of Oakley sunglasses, whilst they open and close.
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Multiple Insemination of Turkey Hens
F. X. Ogasawara, UC Davis
J. P Schroeder, Cooperative Extension
L. S. Mercia, University of Vermont, Burlington
California Agriculture 29(12):14-15.
F. X. Ogasawara is Professor, Avian Sciences Department, UC Davis; J. P. Schroeder is Area Farm Advisor in Turkeys, Cooperative Extension, Kearney Field Station, Reedley; L. S. Mercia is Extension Poultryman, University of Vermont, Burlington, Verniont.
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Dilution of turkey semen to make it more fluid and easier to work with is practiced in some segments of the turkey breeding industry since fertility is not adversely affected and, in some cases, is enhanced. Dilution of semen also offers an economic advantage. The number of toms in a breeding flock, costing $30 each for the season, can be decreased. The potential savings to California turkey breeders from this reduction would amount to approximately $1.5 million for the turkey breeding season.


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Gwyn Morgan: Occupy's proposals will make everyone poor
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December 23, 2008
Good Morning:
Yesterday, I had the great honor and pleasure of giving a holiday surprise to some folks who give of themselves all year long. I'm talking, of course, about the winners of this year's Staff Excellence Awards.
These 10 staff members represent a wide variety of jobs and responsibilities but are united in their common goal to give their best every day to advance the mission of Tulane University. As you know, the winners are nominated on the basis of four criteria: increased productivity, enhanced objectives, cost savings and humanitarianism.
And this year's winners are: Kathryn Ball, director, Career Services Center, Admissions-School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, for increased productivity; Jake Calamusa, operations assistant, School of Continuing Studies, for humanitarianism; Candy Guedry, senior program coordinator, School of Science and Engineering, for enhanced objectives; Nick Jenisch, architectural assistant, School of Architecture, for increased productivity; Jeanne Johnson, section administrator, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, for cost savings; Sheila Norris, senior accountant, Department of Medicine, for increased productivity; Robin Rodriguez, media/communications specialist, Information Technology/Primate Center, for enhanced objectives; Emelina Sanchez, office manager, Chemistry Department, for humanitarianism; Lawrence Smith, senior executive secretary, Center for Public Service for increased productivity; Adine Stoulig, nurse manager, Student Health Center for humanitarianism.
Award recipients received a $1,000 cash prize and will be honored at a dinner hosted by Margie and me at our home. Best of all, these winners now have the knowledge of the esteem in which you, their fellow staff members, hold them.
Have a great holiday,
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