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Wixon: Extra foot bones cause surgeries nearly ending Garland volleyball player Elizabeth Sholden's career
Garland volleyball player Elizabeth Sholden limped to her spot in the back row, almost hopping on one leg to protect her ailing foot. "I'm good," she told her coach.
But the sophomore knew the pain in her right foot definitely wasn't good. It was the same pain she felt in her other foot a year earlier.
"That's when I knew I would have to have surgery," Sholden said. "I would have to do the whole thing over again."
Two years, two foot surgeries, two long rehabilitations. For Sholden, now a 17-year-old senior who plays multiple positions for Garland, having a bone removed from each foot was needed to get back on the court.
The accessory navicular bone is an extra bone or piece of cartilage that develops abnormally on the inside of the foot. Many people never know if it doesn't cause pain, but intensive activity — such as playing sports — can lead to accessory navicular syndrome. Her doctor said it affects about one in 750 people.
Sholden, who started playing volleyball in the third grade, didn't know she had the extra bone in each foot until the summer before her freshman year. The pain flared up in her left foot as she prepared to try out for the Garland team. She wore a walking boot for most of the summer to immobilize the foot.
Four days before varsity tryouts, Sholden took off the boot. She made the varsity team as a libero (defensive specialist), but the intense pain cut her season short. She had surgery the week of Thanksgiving and spent most of the winter in a wheelchair and on crutches.
"It was so hard to get around school," she said. "It was horrible."
Months of rehabilitation followed, and Sholden wasn't fully recovered until May. Four months later, in the middle of her sophomore season, her right foot began hurting during a match against Rowlett.
That could've been her last volleyball match. Without the intense activity of volleyball, the pain might have gone away without surgery.
"There was a lot of debate in my family whether it was necessary, but we all decided to do it," Sholden said. "The doctor said, 'If it was my daughter, I would tell her to have the surgery.'"
After another surgery and months of rehab, Sholden returned and earned a spot on the District 11-5A second team as a junior. As a senior, she's leading Garland (8-12, 1-1 in 11-5A entering Tuesday) in serve-receive rating and digs.
"I always say to her, 'Can I just keep you one more year?'" Garland coach Deba Douglas said. "You don't find a lot of kids in this day and age who are so humble and willing to work hard."
Next year, Sholden plans to be at Baylor, majoring in biology and taking steps toward becoming a doctor. Small schools such as Austin College have recruited Sholden for volleyball, but she wants to focus on academics.
She still plans to play intramural volleyball, however. After two surgeries to get back on the court, it won't be easy to leave it.
"During the physical therapy, some days I thought I was never going to play again," Sholden said. "My feet are still sore, but it's so much better."
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Relative Notes is a series which looks at the way music is often something shared by brothers and sisters. There's a special musical understanding between people who have grown up in the same family – you could call it sibling harmony rather than sibling rivalry!
In this episode, Bernadette Comerford meets identical twins Craig and Charlie Reid, better known as the Proclaimers.
RTÉ Radio 1 Extra, Wednesday 30 October 2013 at 1pm.

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Genevieve Jereb, OTR, is an Australian-born pediatric occupational therapist who has lectured on sensory processing disorders, both nationally and internationally. Most recognized as a childrens' singer and songwriter, Genevieve uses the principles of sensory processing theory to create music, songs and rhythmic activities for children with attention, motor and regulation difficulties. Designed for preschoolers through early elementary, It's Circle Time! Makes learning fun. Kids will learn their numbers, vowels, alphabet, weather, days of the week, and more through catchy tunes and sing alongs. The lyrics to these songs were written by special education teacher, Vicki Kitchner, to be used in the classroom or the home setting. "Kids will move and groove with these cheerful and charming songs, just right for strengthening sensory-motor skills, attention and stamina." - Carol Stock Kranowitz M.A. (Author of "The Out of Sync Child")


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I'll be writing more in the future on ideas for auto-drive cars (both plus and minus) but let me start by asking the question of why the oil companies haven't jumped up to foot the bill for the development of automatic cars and highways?
It seems a big win for them. Given the availability of a car that would drive itself on the freeway and perhaps a few major roads, people would be much more willing to tolerate longer commutes, and that seems a win if you sell gasoline. A multi-billion dollar win.
Not completely -- the automatic cars will be more fuel efficient (simply driving at constant speed is more fuel efficient, but they will also be more likely to be hybrid designs.) But that's coming anyway. Given the ability to read, work or sleep during the commute would easily make people willing to commute for longer. In fact, for those who can easily sleep, they might welcome a longer commute to get the chance to have a decent sleep period. (Though there are those annoying people who are asleep before the plane starts its taxi. I hate them.)
We're also talking about a car where, while in it, you can have a decent speed internet connection and phone. The commute time effectively could become fully effective work time. Or TV watching time, or reading time.
Of course, in theory an automatic car in special lanes would also not get subject to traffic jams, so a longer commute would take the same time, and a longer commute sells more gas -- though admittedly traffic congestion also sells more gas.
But once again, the upside for oil companies is huge, and it's also high for the automakers, and the highway planners. It's mainly not good for public transit, since it takes away one of its advantages. We already know the basics of how to build an automatic car on an automatic highway. One of the big remaining barriers is money, and this could be the source.
I've added some extra notes below...Addendum: It also seems likely that with automatic highways, people might be much more amenable to long road trips in their cars. In fact, they might favour vacation homes an 8 hour drive away (perhaps at a lower, more efficient speed) since in many towns you can save a huge bundle by going to such a distance. They would then purchase an automatic car with a sleeper-conversion option. Friday night they would bundle up the kids and sleep their way to the weekend home. Sunday night do the same. The result would be 32 waking hours at the weekend home vs. 29-30 in the traditional method.
Of course that requires a whole family that sleeps well in bunks in a car, and presents interesting problems when somebody needs a bathroom break. Ideally you would want to actually run slower (say 40mph, still giving a 300 mile range) for better efficiency, safety and smoother ride, but this would require dedicated lanes for the nightcrawler cars. And safety restraints are an issue. The automatic car might be safe, but another non-automatic car might hit it.
Since savings of a distant vacation home are often tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes hundreds of thousands, it's easy for a family to justify getting such a car just for such trips. However, the fact that the oil companies would love this isn't necessarily good news, other than for getting it funded. If this became widespread it would mean burning a lot of midnight oil, so to speak.
To save that, the cars could also form long-haul trains if they could couple. This makes sense for any long-haul trip, but if you are sleeping and don't care if there is a 10 minute delay to join the next road-train, you would be more amenable to it.
Airlines and rail trains have of course offered sleeper transit for some time though it's generally not a preferred choice. Whether the public would jump for it in their cars is hard to tell.


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We've been experiencing a real estate market that heavily favors buyers for a couple of year now. As the reality that I will have to sell my home — probably in the next year — sets in, I know that I am going to have to take some drastic measures to sell my home. Mainly because I don't want to mess with renting it out after we move.
If you plan to sell your home in a buyer's market, there are some things you will have to do. (And I'm not looking forward to a lot of them.)
Research Your Local Real Estate Market
As you know, real estate is local. Do research on home that have sold in your neighborhood, and in your wider area. Get an idea of the price range of homes that are comparable to yours, and consider what you are likely to get. In my neighborhood, there are a lot of homes for sale; just on my street I can see four homes for sale. Many homes are selling for $20,000 below "market value."
Have Realistic Expectations on Price
In order to sell your home in a buyer's market, you are going to have to price if competitively. This means that you might take a hit on the home. Additionally, you may have to show that you are willing to move on the price. Your listing should include an "original price" and a "current asking price". You could also update your ad to highlight a price drop. Many buyers can afford to be picky and look for sellers willing to move on the price. Realistically, in a buyer's market, you will not get what you think your home is worth.
Add Value to Your Deal
You will also need to add value to your home. Sellers are expected to pay closing costs as it is. However, you may need to add something else, such as paying for inspections, offering a flooring allowance (if the carpet is worn) or paint allowance, or some other upgrade. Point out the features of your home, such as a fully-fenced yard, a water purification system or a drip-system for the garden. If you have extra features, make sure that you highlight them to encourage buyers to see your home as a good bargain.
Use the Internet to Advertise Your Home
Most people look for homes online. You need to have some sort of an Internet strategy to help you sell your home in a tough market. If you have a real estate agent, find out what sort of online packages are offered. Remember that lots of pictures are desirable. You want to show your home to best advantage, and buyers are more likely to look at your home if there are pictures online.
Make a Good First Impression
If you want to get the best possible price for your home in a buyer's market, you need to make a good first impression. When publishing pictures of the outside of the home, take pictures each season. A dated photo underscores the fact that the home has been on the market forever, and you may not get the best offers. You should also make efforts to keep the home clean, improve the curb appeal, and clear out clutter. If you are having trouble, a professional staging might help.
What are some of your tips for selling in a buyer's market?


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The Obama administration's Affordable Care Act is slated to bring health insurance coverage to an additional 30 million Americans who are currently uninsured. With many primary care medical practices closed to taking new patients and a national shortage of primary care physicians, experts are expressing alarm over whether there's enough capacity in the healthcare system to take on all of these new patients. While other care providers like nurse practitioners and physician assistants may be able to take up some of the slack, the mal-distribution of all types of providers and clinical facilities, especially in rural areas, is likely to be problematic for years to come.
From the start, I've been a big fan of the retail clinic movement. Retail clinics can not only provide baseline primary care services, they can deliver these services in convenient locations like grocery stores, shopping malls and retail pharmacies where people tend to be. Furthermore, they can often provide routine care for simple health problems at a price that people can afford. Whether staffed by physicians, or more commonly by physician extenders, these clinics are a reasonable alternative for many primary care services.
According to The ConvUrgentCare Report, there are currently 1357 retail clinics in the U.S. Operating the largest chain of clinics is MinuteClinic with 550 locations. TakeCare operates 357 clinics. The top four operators are rounded out by The Little Clinic with 80 locations and Target Clinic with 44 units. Although the growth of retail clinics slowed during the economic downturn, about 130 units have been added in the last 12 months.
Another increasingly popular trend is employer based clinics. Many large and medium sized companies have discovered the value of keeping employees healthy by offering primary care services on site. Recognizing an opportunity to grow their business, some retail clinic operators are now expanding their operations to include health clinics at employer work sites. In fact, this year Microsoft will for the first time open a clinic for its employees at the company's headquarters in Redmond. The clinic will be operated by TakeCare.
Another interesting trend is the development of self-contained, so-called "Mini-Clinics". I first reported on these in 2009 when I stumbled across Computerized Screening Incorporated's booth at the annual HIMSS meeting. Last week, Charles Bluth, the President and CEO of CSI, followed up with me on what the company has been doing since our fateful meeting three years ago. The company is now offering a modular fully-enclosed, ADA & HIPAA compliant medical kiosk. According to Mr. Bluth, the new design is proving to be quite popular when placed on factory floors or adjacent to employee break rooms. Mr. Bluth says, "The acceptance of our new equipment has been overwhelming. We are seeing a dramatic usage of our system in the corporate market. On average employees are using the equipment at least once a month. With an incentive program in pace, usage goes up to as often as once a week; particularly when the equipment is placed in an exposed area such as a cafeteria or break area where employees visit on a daily basis. In addition, we are seeing a 15%+ usage on our Physician Call Service whereas the norm in the industry is 1% to 3%."
I am aware of other companies that are also are developing modular healthcare kiosks for retail settings. Like CSI's units, many of these provide a capability for on-demand, real-time video conferencing with health professionals like doctors and nurses who are located in other facilities, sometimes many miles away. If widely implemented, solutions like this could go a long way toward solving some of the access and cost issues facing primary care and also some of the issues around the mal-distribution of primary care providers and perhaps medical specialists as well.
Of course with commodity high-speed Internet connectivity and a variety of solutions like Kinect for XBOX, Skype, or Lync that can deliver video conferencing into the home, I foresee a day when bringing a medical or other expert into your living room for a consultation may become as commonplace as ordering up a movie on Xfinity or Netflix. Services like American Well or OptumHealth's Now Clinic are already paving the way for immediate access to care advice and services in our homes or offices.
Bill Crounse, MD Senior Director, Worldwide Health Microsoft


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"...The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall serve as the Suitability and Credentialing Agent..." ~Executive Order 13467, as amended
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OPM's Human Resources Solutions organization can help your agency answer this critically important question.
Developing senior leaders in the U.S. Government through Leadership for a Democratic Society, Custom Programs and Interagency Courses.
Visit this federal site to search for our regulatory notices, proposed and final rules.
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If you are enrolled in FEHB coverage, you don't need a Marketplace plan to meet Affordable Care Act coverage standards.
Why Should I Choose MSP Coverage?
Multi-State Plan (MSP) coverage is high-quality health insurance backed by the experience of OPM, the agency trusted by millions of Federal employees, retirees, and their families to provide their health insurance.
Pick a State or use the drop-down menu to view options for the 2017 plan year..
To choose a Multi-State Plan option that's right for you, go to HealthCare.gov.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has entered into a contract with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and New Mexico Health Connections, a Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP), to offer 203 Multi-State Plan (MSP) options in 22 States on the Health Insurance Marketplace. The plans will be overseen by OPM, which brings more than 50 years of experience running the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program to the MSP Program.
The Affordable Care Act created the MSP Program to drive competition. MSP options ensure that Americans across the country have access to high-quality health insurance plans with reliable benefits. OPM ensures that these plans have an effective network of providers, a high percent of spending on health care rather than administrative costs, and strong consumer protections.
MSP options are available through the Health Insurance Marketplace on HealthCare.gov or CuidadoDeSalud.gov, the Spanish version of the site. The Marketplace provides one-stop shopping, where consumers can see health insurance options in one place and find out if they're eligible for financial assistance.
Open enrollment starts November 1, 2016 and ends January 31, 2017, with coverage beginning as early as January 1, 2017.
Visit HealthCare.gov or CuidadoDeSalud.gov to learn more about the Health Insurance Marketplace. For more information on the Multi-State Plan Program, visit the MSP Program page.
Section 1334(h) of the Affordable Care Act, authorizes the Director of OPM to "establish an advisory board to provide recommendations on the activities" of the Multi-State Plan (MSP) Program and a "significant percentage of the members of such board shall be comprised of enrollees in a multi-State qualified health plan, or representatives of such enrollees." The purpose of the MSP Program Advisory Board ("Advisory Board") is to exchange information, ideas, and recommendations regarding OPM's administration of the MSP Program, including plan design, branding and marketing, network adequacy, and other topics. Advisory Board meetings will serve as a forum for interactive dialogue and exchange of individual experiences and viewpoints among consumers, consumer representatives, and OPM staff. This forum will serve to better inform OPM's policy development, rulemaking, and outreach activities with regard to the MSP Program.
OPM is proud to announce the members of its new MSP Program Advisory Board:
The first Board meeting was held on Thursday, July 30, 2015, in Washington, DC. The Second Board meeting will be held on Thursday, March 10, 2016, in Washington, DC.


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When President Barack Obama invited students to submit videos to the inaugural White House Student Film Festival, young filmmakers across the country answered his call with more than 2,500 submissions. Of those, 125 entries earned an honorable mention, including Vacaville Christian Middle School student Jason Carman's entry, "Inside the Horizon."
The White House Film Festival challenged students in kindergarten to 12th grade to create video shorts on how technology is used in the classroom and the role it will play in the educational experience for kids in the future.
Just three weeks before the submission deadline, Carman, 13, was tasked with the project by Vacaville Christian Middle School principal Maylene Ripley, who recognized a unique fit of the contest's theme with the technology experience provided to VCS students.
"For the past three years, Vacaville Christian has been an iPad campus, where all students, grades six to 12, carry iPads to class every day. Jason would be documenting the daily educational experience of our students ... a monumental task for anyone to film, edit and produce in three weeks," said Ripley.
With the help of his media arts teacher, Isaac Bartsch, and fellow student Alex Foley, Carman was able to research, cast and create the film short, worthy of a White House honor.
The film depicts a student in a black and white world, working on her iPad. As she views topics on the device, the pictures come to life and leap interactively from the iPad, infusing vibrant color to the student's colorless environment. As more and more brightly colored information is drawn from the iPad to the classroom, the student absorbs it all into her mind, and becomes washed with color, symbolizing the positive effect the combination of technology and education can have on a student.
The White House film festival is part of Obama's initiative to bring America's classrooms into the 21st century with high-speed Internet and cutting-edge technology.
Carman's prizewinning film can be viewed via the VCS website, www.go-vcs.com.
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Katie Baxendale, daughter of Vacaville's Marge and Randy Baxendale, recently graduated from the Santa Barbara School of Law.
She graduated fifth in her class and is awaiting her results from the state bar exam.
Baxendale and her husband, Darryl Yin, reside in the Santa Barbara area and are expecting their first child in September.
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Air Force Airman Alexander L. Parker graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.
Parker is the son of Veronique and Ron Parker of Vacaville. He is a 2006 graduate of Will C. Wood High School.
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Presidential campaigns have been called a lot of things, but few would argue with the elementary school student who said they "give us a great deal of happiness by their finally ending." Culled from social studies tests in schools around the U.S., the list of sage observations about politics currently circulating on the Net is often unintentionally hilarious. The difference between a King and a President? The King "is the son of his father, but the President is not." Even political analysts would agree with the student who wrote that it is possible to get the majority of the electoral votes without getting the majority of popular votes, and "Anyone who can ever understand how this works gets to be President." Ross Perot, take note: "One of the strictest rules is that all dark horses running for President must be people." As for the President's constitutional powers, "the President has the power to appoint and disappoint the members of his cabinet." And the rest of us too. But we keep hoping. -->
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Olympic dressage gold medalist, Elena Petushkova, was one of the greatest exponents of the equestrian art and the first woman ever to become the World Champion in the event. Her devotion to equestrian sport and talent as a dressage rider were confirmed on many occasions, and her contribution to the sport –
both in and outside Russia – was outstanding.
"I began working with Elena Petushkova when she coached our senior squad, and I was the coach of the junior team," recalls Olga Soboleva, the Head Coach of the Russian national Dressage Team. "She invited me to work together, and it was very important for me to work side by side with her all those years. Elena was a very honest and modest person, even though she achieved top results in sports. Aside from that, she succeeded as a coach and an administrator. During the Cold War years, Petushkova worked with the leading bodies of the International Equestrian Federation. She was respected universally – not just because she was a prominent equestrian athlete. A born diplomat, she could get along with both friends and foes and was regarded as the foremost authority in the field. In the 1990s, when the financing of sports in Russia was drastically reduced, Elena Petushkova, who at the time held the position of the President of the Russian Equestrian Federation, bent every effort to iron things out. I believe that the equestrian sport in Russia in those hard years was saved and preserved thanks to her."
Petushkova's rise to prominence in the equestrian art was amazing and totally unexpected – even for herself. A timid girl who diligently played gamuts on piano, she was a late starter in sports. Elena was 16 when she saw an announcement about a riding school in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. During her first lesson the coach inquired whether she learned to ride before. He couldn't believe that the girl, obviously, a talented rider, was in the saddle for the first time. Elena quickly developed the taste for riding and, after leaving school, was offered to take up dressage, the sport that brought her world fame.
Petushkova later said, however, that she'd never thought about being a top-level sportswoman. She just thought about the happiness of riding a horse, the happiness of finding a common language with an animal, who often became a teacher of sorts for a rider. Elena was convinced that a horse must be more than just a partner for a rider. A well-trained horse, she said, must teach the rider – what riding is, what dressage is. Old horses who can do this are like
professors for the riders. The greatest horse Elena rode was Pepel, a wonderful black stallion, who was her friend and companion for a whole sixteen years.
Petushkova thus recalled her competitive career with Pepel:
"I can never remember how many points I was awarded. Although the milestones, the most difficult moments and the happiest times remain in my mind. One competition merges into another, and everything that Pepel and I experienced together seems like one long endless dressage test."
In 1967, Elena and Pepel placed sixth at the European Dressage Championships, and that was the best performance of a woman rider, since dressage is one of the few sports where men and women compete together. At the 1968 Summer Olympics Petushkova won her first silver medal, finishing second in the team dressage event alongside Ivan Kalita and Ivan Kizimov. Kizimov later recalled: "Elena riding her black horse Pepel was our team's visiting card, our prime. She won one gold and two silver medals at the Olympic Games and was a 13-time Soviet national champion – an absolute record for this country's women riders. She was a very earnest, hard-working and sincere person. When some Western journalists called her 'Miss Europe', she was offended, saying that athletes were valued for their sporting achievements, and not for their good looks. At the press conference after the Olympic Games she volunteered to interpret for me, since she was fluent in English, and showed herself to an advantage again." For Petushkova dressage was a form of ballet, so she believed it must be not only technically well-done, but very gracious and beautiful. When 30-year-old Petushkova became a World Dressage Champion in 1970, her performance was applauded by spectators and critics alike. "The Russian combination Petushkova – Pepel left the impression of harmony and easiness," one of the judges said, describing it.
A world-famous dressage rider, Elena was universally known as Dr.Petushkova, since she was a distinguished scientist. Having graduated with honors from Moscow University, Elena received an academic degree in biochemistry and worked as a senior researcher at the University's Department of Biology. She authored over 60 publications in Russian and foreign magazines. One of the books she wrote was titled, "Two Halves of My Heart", meaning science and sports. Petushkova said she was not sure which career came first for her, but finally chose sports, when she came to work to the Russian Equestrian Federation in the 1990s. Elena Petushkova died of a brain tumor when she was 66. Her daughter Vlada recalled that Elena rarely spoke about her highly successful sports career, probably, due to being a very modest person, but she had every reason to be proud of her achievements in both science and sports.


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Jim Carrey Selling Malibu Home for $13.9 Million
Jim Carrey is looking to make some quick cash!
The 50-year-old actor has put his Malibu home on the market, and, according to real estate site Trulia, it's "priced for immediate sale."
The five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bathroom home has been listed at $13.95 million. The comedian originally bought the home for $9.75 million on Oct. 18, 2002.
PHOTOS: At home with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
Carrey's 2,866-square-foot home is located right on the beach in the celeb-populated gated community Malibu Colony. And the ocean view can be enjoyed on the rooftop deck that features a spa tub.
The contemporary home also features an open-concept kitchen, dining, living and family room that leads to a large deck with removable privacy walls.
Carrey already owns another Los Angeles home and has been shopping around for a bachelor pad in New York.
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Memphis, MO has attracted government attention as a result of its struggles with disinfection byproducts.
"An unusual spike in disinfection byproducts in the Memphis water supply has resulted in a second round of violations of the Missouri Safe Drinking Water Regulations. Customers of the municipal water supplier received notification last week of the issue," the Memphis Democrat reported.
"Although this is not an emergency, as our customers, the public has the right to know what happened, what they should do, and what we are doing to correct this situation," Water Superintendent Stacy Alexander said in the report.
How bad is it?
"The September 30, 2013 testing results for the water source showed 64.88 parts per billion (PPB) running annual average for Total Haloacetic Acids, which was slightly above the 60 PPB limit. Total Trihalomethanes were at 82.85 PPB, which exceeded the 80 PPB limit," the report said.
Alexander explained that the problem was a holdover from a previous quarter.
"Due to unusually high levels of organic carbons in the source water during the second quarter of 2013, we exceeded EPA standards," he said. He stated "that third quarter results, standing alone, were both below the regulated levels," the report said.
The EPA publishes its standards for disinfection byproducts here, along with some background information. Missouri's Department of Natural Resources provided a study on the Memphis water supply.
Memphis is not the only city struggling with disinfection byproducts in recent weeks. Just ask residents in Veazie, ME.
"Town officials have decided to hire a company to conduct independent water testing for trihalomethanes — disinfection byproducts known to be harmful in large quantities — in response to a group of residents who question the reliability of testing done by the Orono-Veazie Water District," the Bangor Daily News reported this week.
The water in 10 homes will undergo testing. Orono-Veazie is already under the government microscope when it comes to disinfection byproducts.
"The Orono-Veazie Water District exceeded the annual average 80 parts per billion limit for THMs in 2012 and is under a consent order with the state that requires it to hire a consultant, come up with a plan to address the problem and complete the necessary improvements," the report said.
For more, check out Water Online's Drinking Water Analysis Solution Center.
Image credit: "Faucet," © 2008 Joe Shlabotnik, used under a Attribution 2.0 Generic license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
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Music Proficiency Pack 4: Doggone Dynamics!
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Students will quickly master the basics of dynamics and dynamic markings with this versatile manipulative kit, designed to be fun, child-friendly, and effective in promoting competency in the elements of musical understanding while reinforcing the National Music Standards. Doggone Dynamics aligns with National Standard #5 (reading and notating music).
Includes 30 orange cardstock activity boards, each 8.5" x 11" size and printed on both sides. The front side shows Fido in his doghouse, with the symbols and names of 8 dynamics terms printed on the boards of the doghouse. The back side gives the definition of each term shown on the front.
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'Metal Gear Solid 5,' 'Ground Zeroes' + 'The Phantom Pain' Are The Same Game [VIDEO]
'Metal Gear Solid' creator Hideo Kojima revealed a new trailer today at GDC 13, which confirms what we suspected all along — that 'Metal Gear Solid 5,' 'Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes' and the mysterious 'The Phantom Pain' are all one project.
The 2013 Game Developers conference in San Francisco, California was the platform that the usually mysterious Kojima announced some major details about the next installment of the Metal Gear Solid franchise. After showing up in full face bandages — hinting at what we would see next — he quickly announced the trailer for the new game, which confirmed that 'Ground Zeroes,' MGS5 and 'The Phantom Pain' are indeed the same game. The trailer also revealed that 'The Phantom Pain' portion of the game takes place 9 years after whatever events transpired to cause Big Boss to lose his limb. There are a number of other reveals in the trailer, but they're much funner to watch than read.
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I'm having trouble keeping food down 7 weeks post-op. Is that a symptom of stricture or normal recovery?
Stricture Symptoms - How Do I Know if I Have a Stricture?
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Stricture symptoms
Stricture symptoms after Gastric Bypass
The literature reports stricture rates somewhere from 6 to 20 percent depending on who did the study and what technique was used. Usually strictures occur several weeks to months after surgery and these can be managed with endoscopic dilation. Difficulty eating solids or increased reflux may be related to a stricture or narrowing of the outlet of the small pouch. An endoscopy or an upper gastrointestinal study can help with this diagnosis. Sometimes there are no anatomic reasons and simply controlling your portions is the reason for the symptoms.
Strictures after gastric bypass
Strictures occur in about 5% of patients after gastric bypass surgery at the connection between the stomach pouch and small intestines. The sign of this is difficulty tolerating any solid foods. This usually happens between 6 - 8 weeks after surgery. The treatment is to perform an endoscopy and dilate the stricture with a balloon. We usually perform this procedure right in the endoscopy suite in our office as an outpatient.
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Capital Construction & Project Administration
Welcome to the home page for the Division of Capital Construction and Project Administration (CCPA) at Eastern Kentucky University. CCPA reports to the Associate Vice President of Facilities Services and Capital Planning. Notice that we have added several explore links to the left; feel free to take a look at our CCPA Procedures Manual, Forms, or other new links.
CCPA's primary responsibility is to represent the University in most projects related to construction, renovation and some acute maintenance. This Department works with Facilities Services, Purchases and Stores, architects, engineers and contractors to facilitate the planning, bidding and completion of projects performed by outsourced contractors in a timely and safe manner.
Many services are provided within CCPA that enhance these responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Manage and provide onsite observations of various new construction, renovations and some acute maintenance projects. This includes the development of cost estimates and contractual arrangements that are coordinated within CCPA and not outsourced to other design professionals.
- Manage and organize the Request for Change to Facilities (RCF) system, which incorporates all requests related to physical changes to interior and exterior building structures. This management tool is administered through the Footprints Work Order and Request for Change to Facilities (RCF) systems and ensures that the request and potential costs are available to all persons with interest and responsibility.
- Manage and organize the University's archives for all university facilities construction, renovation and acute maintenance projects completed throughout the University's history. The Department also assists other units in gaining access to new and historical building drawings and operation manuals as needed.
- Manage and organize for dispersal and/or review, electronic building drawing's for all University buildings and properties. This electronic information allows for speedy sharing of building drawings and campus facilities information to other university departments and design professionals that are necessary to facilitate and enhance projects under review or in progress.
All of this is done with the desire to provide professional project management and archive services as it relates to all EKU facilities and properties.
To view our current Requests for Proposals, see the purchasing website at http://purchasing.eku.edu/ and click the "Solicitations" tab on the left.
Please see the attachment below for directions on applying for Master Agreements with Eastern Kentucky University.


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All R.E.A.L. Workshop Series Speakers
Jane Aronson CEO, Worldwide Orphans
Dr. Jane Aronson is a pediatrician, adoption medicine specialist and the CEO of Worldwide Orphans, a non-profit organization that provides direct services to orphans and at-risk children in Bulgaria, Ethiopia, Haiti, Serbia and Vietnam. Since 2000, she has had a pediatric practice specializing in adoption medicine, conducted medical missions to orphanages in over 14 countries and evaluated well over 10,000 children. Dr. Aronson is on faculty at Cornell University, Columbia University and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and speaks all over the world advocating for orphans, including Women in the World and the Unite for Sight Global Health Conference at Yale. Dr. Aronson has created a celebrity platform with Amy Poehler, Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Connie Britton, Hugh Jackman and his wife, Deborra-lee Furness, Zachary Quinto, Rosie ODonnell and Katie Couric to build awareness of the global orphan crisis. Her many recognitions include the Angel in Adoption Award, Glamour Woman of the Year, Time 100 Nominee, Honored Alumna of Valley Stream North High School, Hunter College Hall of Fame, and Distinguished Alumna from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Dr. Aronson writes for Huffington Post Impact and is available to provide innovative problem solving for children living in adversity. She is regularly featured in the media, including frequent guest appearances on CNN and NPR. She is the author of Carried in Our Hearts: The Gift of Adoption: Inspiring Stories of Families Created Across Continents, and she is the parent of two sons through adoption: Benjamin from Vietnam and Desalegn from Ethiopia.
David Benzaquen Founder & CEO, PlantBased Solutions
David Benzaquen is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of PlantBased Solutions, a brand management and marketing agency building the market for plant-based foods to solve what he believes to be one of the worlds most urgent health, environmental and ethical challenges. Prior to launching his business, David worked in the nonprofit and government sectors as a lobbyist, fundraising consultant, community organizer, direct service provider and legislative aide. A perennial sector switcher with a hunger for pursuing the most effective social change, David holds a masters degree in nonprofit management from The New School for Social Engagement and a bachelors degree from American University in Political Science.
César Bocanegra Chief Operating Officer, DonorsChoose.org
As the COO of DonorsChoose.org, César wears multiple hats. He manages a team that vets thousands of projects per month, and facilitates the purchase and delivery of materials to classrooms across the country. In addition to office management and several IT functions, César also manages the organization's human capital, customer relations, and donor appreciation efforts. Prior to joining DonorsChoose.org, César spent 11 years with AT&T in various roles, including Sales and Finance. He was the national president of HISPA, a non-profit organization focused on developing Hispanic youth. César earned his mechanical engineering degrees from Caltech (B.S.) and MIT (M.S.) and holds an MBA in Strategic Management from the Wharton School of Business.
Boris Bulayev Co-Founder & Executive Director, Educate!
Boris Bulayev is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Educate!, an organization he's been running since he was 19 with a friend from college.
Educate! works to change the education system in Uganda, and elsewhere, to prepare young people to take leadership initiative, create small businesses and improve their livelihoods. Educate! has had lots of early success, works directly with 20,000 young people in Uganda, was backed by Echoing Green and Ashoka , and has grown to a team of almost 62. It incorporated its curriculum into Uganda's national curriculum to additionally reach 25,000+ annually starting in 2012.
Before jumping into Educate! full time, Boris worked at startup incubator Loeb Enterprises, learning about entrepreneurship and how to start companies. Boris emigrated from Latvia at age 7. He is a Startingbloc fellow, an Empact100 Top Young Entrepreneur of 2011, a recipient of the 2011 Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize, and a Forbes Top 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur in 2012 and 2013.
Victor d'Allant Founder & CEO, Dallant Networks
Paris-born Victor dAllant (@dallant) is the Founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Dallant Networks, the social enterprise building online communities for large foundations and international organizations. Clients include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Skoll Foundation and the World Bank Institute. He started his career as a photojournalist and his photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. He holds an MA/ABD in social anthropology from the Sorbonne and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. His motto: Only jet. No lag.
Breanna DiGiammarino Education Category Marketing Director, Indiegogo
Breanna DiGiammarino is the education category marketing director at Indiegogo, where she leads outreach to universities, post-secondary schools and primary schools in an effort to revolutionize the way that education is financed. She has also been responsible for developing key partnerships with institutions such as the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), George Mason University and the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to Indiegogo, Breanna was the Senior Associate at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a social venture fund in San Francisco, and an Associate Consultant at The Bridgespan Group, the non-profit arm of Bain & Company, where she consulted with high impact educational organizations and foundations.
Breanna was invited as a reader for the 2011 and 2012 Echoing Green social venture fellowship and Haas Global Social Venture competition. She is also an Avanti Fellows advisory board member. Breanna holds a Master of Public Administration in Nonprofit Management from the NYU Wagner School of Public Service and graduated with a B.A in Biology and Government from the University of Virginia.
Nick Ehrmann
Founder and CEO, Blue Engine
Nick has served as CEO & Founder of Blue Engine since 2009. Ehrmann began his career in education as a Teach for America corps member in Washington D.C., joining forces with local philanthropists in 2002 to launch the nonprofit I Have a DreamProject 312. The partnership secured over $1M in commitments for a ten year, comprehensive youth development program for his fourth-grade students, many of whom are struggling to make it in the world of higher education. In 2003 he began graduate work at Princeton University as a William G. Bowen fellow and completed his PhD in sociology in 2010. His dissertationYellow Brick Roadexplored the negative effects of academic underperformance on the transition from high school to college. Nick was selected as a finalist for the Washington D.C. First-Year Teacher of the Year award and the national Teach For America Sue Lehmann Award and was named an Echoing Green Fellow in 2010 and a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow in 2011. He currently lives in New York City and can be reached at email@example.com.
Annie Escobar
2009 Reynolds Scholar; Nonprofit Video & Storytelling Consultant
Annie Escobar believes there is more good than bad in our world. More love than hate. More hope than helplessness. And she's driven to share the stories she's heard that prove this. She has created over 60 videos for over 30 purpose-driven organizations including KIPP, New Schools Venture Fund, Human Rights Campaign, Amplify and The Segal Family Foundation. Annie has worked with several organizations to create and implementstorytelling strategies, including BRAC, the world's largest development organization. She is the co-author of The Starter Guide to Non-Profit Video Storytelling, available for free download at www.startstorytelling.com.
Marissa Feinberg
Co-Founder, Impact HUB NYC
Marissa Feinberg is co-founder of Impact Hub NYC, a go-to coworking space for companies that change the world. Marissa recently launched FLOCKD, powering productivity and connectivity for innovation. Previously, she Partnership Development at Felissimo, building a network of 350 organizations in support of design for social innovation. As a 10-year publicist & marketer, she frequently speaks, teaching entrepreneurs PR and marketing for startups via Investor's Circle, Startup Leadership, NYC Fastrac, Skillshare and Parsons the NEW School for Design.
Bob Filbin
Chief Data Scientist, Crisis Text Line
Bob Filbin is Chief Data Scientist at Crisis Text Line, the first large-scale 24/7 national crisis line for teens on the medium they use and trust most: texting. The service will launch August 1st. Bob specializes in the application of behavioral psychology to questions of data collection, analysis, and reporting, to make sure data leads to good behavioral change. Bob has given lectures on using data to drive behavioral change at places including MIT, the University of Pennsylvania and the North American International Auto Show, and has published articles in the Harvard Business Review and Ypulse. He runs in Prospect Park.
Frank Fredericks Executive Director, World Faith; CEO, Mean Communications
Frank Fredericks is the founder of World Faith, Mean Communications, Çöñár Records, and Co-Founder of Religious Freedom USA. After graduating from NYU, Frank worked in the music industry, managing artists such as Lady Gaga. In 2006, he founded World Faith, a youth-led interfaith organization active in 15 countries. As an active blogger, Frank has contributed to the Huffington Post, Washington Post, and Sojourners. Frank has been interviewed on Good Morning America, NPR, and New York Magazine. He is an alumnus of the IFYC Fellowship, Soliya Fellowship, AMENDS at Stanford, and YouthActionNet Fellowship.
Mary Gentile, PhD Creator and Director, Giving Voice to Values; Senior Research Scholar, Babson College; Senior Advisor, Aspen Institute Business & Society Program; Independent consultant on management education and leadership development
Giving Voice to Values, a pioneering business curriculum for values-driven leadership, has been featured in Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, McKinsey Quarterly, etc. and piloted in over 700 business schools and organizations globally. The award-winning book is Giving Voice To Values: How To Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right (Yale University Press (www.MaryGentile.com). The 2013 edited volume is Educating for Values-Driven Leadership: Giving Voice To Values Across the Curriculum (Business Expert Press, 2013) which includes chapters by a dozen faculty from different functional areas who describe how they use GVV. And in 2014, a new series of six online interactive social cohort-based modules based on Giving Voice To Values was launched with Nomadic.fm.
Due largely to her work with GVV, Gentile has been named to the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business in 2013 and 2014; she was awarded the 2013 Recognition for Leadership in Humanistic Management from The Humanistic Management Network at the Academy of Management Conference; she was named to the Good Business New York Leading Women for 2012 list of Women Who Are Changing The World: 25 Dynamic Leaders Actively Creating a Better World Through Work & Business; and her book on GVV received the Axion Gold Medal for Business Ethics. From 1985 --95, Gentile was faculty member and manager of case research at Harvard Business School. Gentile was one of the principal architects of HBSs Leadership, Ethics and Corporate Responsibility curriculum. She co-authored Can Ethics Be Taught? Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at Harvard Business School and was Content Expert for the award-winning interactive CD-ROM, Managing Across Differences (Harvard Business School Publishing). Gentile earned her bachelors degree from The College of William and Mary and her MA and PhD from State University of New York at Buffalo.
Raz Godelnik Assistant Professor of Strategic Design and Management, Parsons The New School for Design
Raz Godelnik is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Design and Management at Parsons The New School for Design, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in innovation, leadership, the sharing economy, sustainability and strategic design. His research interests include the convergence of innovation, sustainability, business and design strategies, the sharing economy, open innovation and sustainable business models. Currently he is involved in projects focusing on the impact of the sharing economy on traditional business, trust mechanisms in the sharing economy, co-creation models and Millennials ability to integrate sustainability into their lifestyle. Raz is the co-founder of two green startups - Hemper Jeans and Eco-Libris, and a regular contributor to Triple Pundit, writing about issues related to sustainable business and design. He holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University and a BA in Communication and Economics from the Hebrew University.
Alan Hilburg Principal, Hilburg Associates
Alan Hilburg, Principal of Hilburg Associates, brings over 30 years of experience as one of the world's leading authorities and innovators on reimagining brands. As an often-sought public speaker, Alan has been described as "frustratingly insightful, inspirational, stimulating to the point of exhaustion, illuminating and always elevating." He was identified by the London Times, WSJ and Advertising Age as a "leading brand architect." His career includes guiding six of the top 30 branding campaigns of the 20th century including Johnson and Johnsons Tylenol brand recovery; the creation of GEs Bringing Good Things to Life; Wendys iconic Wheres the Beef?; and, the creation of the Olympic Torch Run for AT&T. He and his teams also navigated numerous award-winning campaigns for National Geographic, Coca Cola, Burger King, Gillette, Johnson Wax, World Wrestling Federation, Four Season Hotels, American Airlines, JPMorganChase, US Air Force, Shell, Chevron, Exxon-Mobil, Micron and other global brands.
Taryn Hipwell CEO, EcoDivas LLC
Taryn Hipwell is an enthusiastic and empowering Writer, Producer and EcoDiva who is committed to creating fun, authentic and bold content that shatters stereotypes, shifts perceptions and changes lives. She is the CEO of EcoDivas LLC. EcoDivasTV.com highlights the silly, sassy, sexy, smart and sustainable sides of being Eco. Taryn teaches Sustainability and the Fashion Industry at FIDM, writes for Textile Insight Magazine, and does Eco Fashion speaking tours and workshops all over the US and around the world. She has worked for designer Anna Sui, styled films and celebrities, and produced and directed one of her first short films to show what Warner Bros. does to be green. She is a 2014 Los Angeles Business Journal Women Making a Difference Award nominee.
Rachel Ishofsky Managing Director, Innovation: Africa
Rachel's career in the developing world started as an NYU student studying in Ghana. She launched her first community based organization with Ghanaian partners at 19 years old, while also writing about education and foreign aid for the local government newspaper. After graduating summa cum laude, she went on to travel to over 30 countries, where she lived, worked and volunteered throughout sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Today, Rachel runs Innovation: Africa, a non-profit/social enterprise that brings Israeli innovation to African villages. She has spoken about her work and travels around the country in venues such as Harvard and the New York Stock Exchange, and recently published an op-ed in Forbes.
Linda Kay Klein
2006 Reynolds Fellow Alumnus
Director, Echoing Green's Work on Purpose Program
Linda Kay Klein is a writer, speaker, expert on womens religious and spiritual lives, and Director of Echoing Green's Work on Purpose program. Work on Purpose leverages the best practices of some of the worlds most successful social entrepreneurs to equip and inspire emerging professionals to create careers that are right for them and good for the world. Linda also sits on the advisory board of Feminist.com's religion and spirituality microsite, Our Inner Lives, and writes a column for the site, entitled Fierce, Faithful, and Free.
Michael Marantz
Principal / Founder, Already Alive
The most important thing to know about Michal Marantz is that he named his company Already Alive. This is not a mistake or a sloughed-off attempt at naming something to sound catchy. It is the embodiment of who he is. Michael is a multidisciplinary storyteller with the emphasis here, on Story. As a Filmmaker, Composer, Digital Artist, and Experiential Designer, pushing the bounds of traditional media in innovative ways is his day job. As a human, creator of content, and fast-walking Brooklynite, he is constantly in pursuit of stirring his viewers to feel the same way he does: Already Alive.
Richard Marker
Co-Principal, Wise Philanthropy
Founder, NYU Academy for Grantmaking & Funder Education
Richard Marker is an internationally recognized speaker, educator, and advisor on philanthropy. He is the founder of 2 educational initiatives for funders: the NYU Academy for Grantmaking and Funder Education and the Wise Philanthropy Institute. The NYU Academy for Grantmaking and Funder Education, now entering its 11th year, is the worlds oldest and most comprehensive university program exclusively teaching philanthropists and foundation professionals.
Marker has lectured in 39 countries on 5 continents and in 40 of the United States, writes a popular blog Wise Philanthropy and is the author of Saying Yes Wisely: Insights for the Thoughtful Philanthropist. (Blooming Twig Books, 2009, 2011). In addition to the Institute, Wise Philanthropy includes Marker Goldsmith Philanthropy Advisors and Green Strides Consulting. Over his career Marker has been CEO of a major foundation (Bronfman-Seagram Foundation), a trustee of several others, a professor (Brown, Hofstra, Loyola, and New York Universities), a management consultant (The Solutions Group), a senior executive in the non-profit world (Hillel Foundation), and a university chaplain (Brown University).
Marker has received an Excellence in Teaching award from NYU, his career has been the subject of a feature length article in Lifestyles, and Forbes recently published an extended interview with him (March 2012). He is a professional member of the Global Speakers Federation/National Speakers Association. In addition to his professional work, Marker has served in leadership roles on a wide variety of volunteer and foundation boards and served as chair of two international boards. He is married to Mirele Goldsmith, PhD., who is also on the faculty of the NYU Academy and is his partner in Wise Philanthropy. They are the parents of Adam, a public interest attorney in Washington, DC.
Michael Mossoba
CEO, Design Observer
Michael Mossoba is CEO of Design Observer, a leading media platform dedicated to design, culture, and social innovation. He previously founded Goodness500, a social enterprise that ranks companies based on corporate social responsibility. Michael holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and is passionate about design, technology, and social impact.
Kate Otto
2006 Reynolds Scholar Alumnus
Founder, Everyday Ambassador
Mobile Technology Consultant, World Bank
Kate Otto is a consultant to the World Bank, USAID, and other international development partners, in the field of mobile health technologies. She is also the founder of Everyday Ambassador, a movement to ensure technology helps, not hinders, our ability to connect with others in service efforts. Kate is a 2006 Reynolds scholar, and graduated NYU with her BA in International Relations and MA in Health Policy & Management.
Mona Patel
CEO, Motivate Design
Twitter, LinkedIn, Motivate Design Facebook
Mona Patel is CEO of Motivate Design, an experience and design agency, and UX Hires, an experience recruiting firm. For over 15 years, her ability to strategize quickly and customize solutions has set her apart in the industry. She has delivered user experience strategies and in-house usability programs for hundreds of clients through training and consulting. Her core expertise is in understanding why people do what they do and helping people find creative ways to solve problems through user research and design thinking.
Russ Pomeranz
President & CEO, Claverack Advisory Group
Russell Pomeranz has twenty five years of experience leading the finance and administrative departments of nonprofit organizations with missions related to social services, education, the arts, and think tanks. Most recently, Pomeranz started his own consulting firm, The Claverack Advisory Group, to focus on the critical connection between the nonprofit financial function and organizational programmatic, strategic, and financial trajectories. Before establishing a consulting practice, Pomeranz was the COO / CFO of the Vera Institute of Justice, a $20 million criminal justice think tank. He is also currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Administration at NYU Wagner.
Pomeranz currently chairs the Workforce Professionals Training Institute (WPTI), is a board member of Jobpath, Center for Family Life, Economic Mobility, Berkshire Taconic Center for Non-Profit Excellence and is on the Finance Committee for the Staten Island Community Charter School He has been published in The New York Times, Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Wall Street Journal, and the CPA Journal. He has a degree in Economics from Haverford College and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
Zack Rosenberg
Founder and CEO, DoGoodBuyUs
Zack Rosenberg is the Founder and CEO of DoGoodBuyUs, the marketplace for social good/s. One of the first online resources of its kind, DoGoodBuyUs offers a unique fundraising platform for non-profit groups and charity partners. On this site, consumers shop for beautiful items while giving generously at the same time. Zack has always dedicated himself to giving back, serving on the boards of non-profits and also working tirelessly to help colleagues find work. In 2009, he created SixDegreesofZack Rosenberg (SDZR), a monthly e-newsletter bringing great people together with great job opportunities in digital media. With over a thousand subscribers, each issue gets results. He recently posted his twenty-first edition, which now offers expanded content including timely interviews with industry leaders.
Anthony Salandy, Ph.D., M.S.
Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL), Worldwide Orphans
Dr. Anthony Salandy currently serves as the Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) for the Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO) where he oversees MEAL operations in 6 countries. He has over 20 years of experience in the Legislative and Executive branches of the U.S. Government, Non-profit, Academe, and Philanthropy. He was twice selected as the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Policy Fellow. He has worked on child and family issues in Eastern Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, the U.S. and Caribbean. He is on faculty at Auburn University in the College of Human Sciences. Dr. Salandy has a Bachelors Degree in Biology from Rust College and a Masters and Doctoral Degree in Human Development and Family Studies from Auburn University.
Shaheen Sheik-Sadhal
Founder, Esse Law Group
Merging her passion for social justice, her love of the law, and her entrepreneurial spirit, Shaheen Sheik-Sadhal founded Esse Law Group, a boutique law firm empowering today's social entrepreneurs to find their bottom-line in the new sustainable economy of profitability and positive social impact. She services early-stage startups and emerging growth companies in corporate transactional matters including debt and equity financings. Her clients include InVenture (Winner: Buisnessweek, Americas Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs: 2012) and ONEHOPE Wine (Inc. 5000 Company). Shaheen received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and JD from the University of Virginia. After graduating law school, Shaheen was a professional recording artist, a favorite on MTV, and her newest music can be heard on George V Records Buddha Bar compilations.
Raj Thakkar
Founder and CEO, Charter School Business Management (CSBM)
John Wood - NYU Reynolds Fellow in Scalability
A social entrepreneur committed to the financial solvency of charter schools, Raj Thakkar is considered a national expert on charter school finance. He founded Charter School Business Management (CSBM) in 2006 after serving as Chief Financial Officer of Explore Charter School for four years. Currently managing budgets totaling over $400 million for their 100+ clients, CSBM provides a wide range of business services for charter schools, including full service management of schools financial responsibilities and training for school leaders, finance/operations staff and Board members. Recognizing that 80% of charter school closures are due to financial mismanagement, CSBM is dedicated to providing school leaders with the financial peace of mind they need so that they can focus on their crucial work of educating their students. Raj has been featured in numerous publications and conferences as a result of CSBMs work towards eliminating charter school closure due to finances. He was named Small Business Person of the Year for the NY district by the U.S. Small Business Administration in 2011. CSBM was also awarded Small Business of the Year for Eastern Region of the U.S. by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 2009. In October 2012, CSBM was selected to participate in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program, an initiative to help small businesses growth and create more jobs. In November 2012, CSBM was named #14 out of the 50 Best Places to Work in New York City by Crains NY Business. Raj received his Bachelors in Engineering Science from Hofstra University and MBA in Finance from NYUs Stern School of Business.
Molly Tschang
Director, Consulting, Cisco Systems
Molly Tschang is director in Ciscos consulting business with a specialty in coaching executive teams to sustained high performance with a distinct systems focus. She brings 20+ years experience as a change agent, guiding leadership teams to navigate, lead and thrive in change. Previously Tschang was a thought leader on public, private and citizen sector collaboration to expand ICT access in emerging markets. As a Cisco Leadership Fellow, she was executive director of NetHope, the first consortium of leading international NGOs collectively solving technology problems. During her tenure NetHope members received a $41M Microsoft grant. Tschang has also led the global team that integrated 50+ acquisitions into the company, ensuring Cisco's entrepreneurial culture endured through rapid change. She also supports Community Solutions, Global Tolerance, NetHope and Save the Children, teaches yoga and adores tennis.
Greg van Kirk
Co-Founder, Community Enterprise Solutions Co-Founder, Social Entrepreneur Corps
Greg Van Kirk is the co-founder of Community Enterprise Solutions and Social Entrepreneur Corps. He is an Ashoka Lemelson Fellow, Ashoka Globalizer, Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2012) and a member of the Clinton Global Initiative and the Ashoka Siemens Foundation Community Impact Development Group. He and his team is focused on expanding the reach and impact of their award winning MicroConsignment Model globally. He has served as an economic development consultant for organizations such as USAID, Chemonics, VisionSpring, Soros Foundation, Church World Service, IDB, Water For People and Fundacion Paraguaya. Greg also contributes time as Social Entrepreneur in Residence for universities and has recently worked with Columbia University, New York University, Indiana University, University of San Diego and Arizona State University. He is a senior advisor for AshokaU. He has taught courses in social entrepreneurship at Columbia University and NYU Wagner. Greg began working in rural small business development as a Guatemala Peace Corps volunteer in 2001. Greg worked in investment banking for five years before arriving in Guatemala. Two deals he led at UBS during this time won "Deal of the Year" honors from "Structured Finance International" magazine. Greg is a graduate of Miami University and currently lives with his family in New York City.
Pauline Zalkin
Founder & Creative Director, Fineas Media
Fineas Media is a collective of creative geniuses all working together to ensure artistic expression aligns perfectly with social impact. The Creative Brain Trust is an advisory counsel of veteran and visionary filmmakers, strategists and social advocacy pros from the social sector space, all with at least 15+ years of experience in their field. A member of the Creative Brain Trust serves on all Fineas engagements. Pauline is a photographer, filmmaker, storyteller, and digital cause strategist with more than 10 years of experience in the social impact space. Paulines clients have included the CSR division of one of the worlds top management consulting companies; Devex, Business Fights Poverty; Propeller (the leading social innovation incubator in New Orleans); Pixan (a sustainable fashion enterprise in Guatemala) and many others. In 2009 she served as acting director of External Relations & Development for the RAND Corporation's Gulf States Policy Institute in New Orleans. The great first love of her career was the Taproot Foundation (whose New York office she helped grow), and which is now the leader in delivering pro bono communications & marketing services across the United States. Pauline served on the 2008 Obama Campaign, managing press operations and is presently a media consultant to the White House.


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Pokkiri Raja Telugu Movie Latest Stills - Jiiva , Hansika
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Watch the latest stills of the film 'Pokkiri Raja'.It is an upcoming Tamil and Telugu film of 2016 that is being directed by Ramprakash Rayappa. The film is produced by P.T. Selvakumar. The movie casts have been portrayed by Jiiva, Hansika & Sibiraj in the lead roles. The music of the film is being composed by D. Imman. Cinematography has been handled by Anji DOP.


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Ernest Bloch is a great composer. He is now the foremost Jewish composer in the world. When Mr. Bloch speaks on music, he speaks with authority. Whatever he says on that subject is extremely interesting and illuminating. But Mr. Bloch makes the mistake of many celebrities who discuss for publication every subject under the sunmerely because they attained fame as masters in their own chosen fields. When Mr. Bloch airs his views on Hitler and Hitlerism, he not only reveals his own limited knowledge of what is happening in Germany, but he renders a disservice to the cause of all right-thinking people who are combating the Nazi menace.
Mr. Bloch is quoted in The New York Times as saying:
"The phenomenon of Germany is bigger than the treatment of the Jews. A movement as pro-found as the Lutheran Reformation is taking place. I greatly respect Hitler's sincerity. He believes wholly and disinterestedly in what he is doing. He is a fanatic, if you will, on fire with his cause, but certainly not an opportunist making political capital. I do not think he is right. But to label him and his movement as anti-Jewish is inaccurate. The movement goes much further back; its Jewish aspect is discernible in H. S. Chamberlain's 'Genesis of the Nineteenth Century.' Great books lead the movements of the world. Chamberlain's work, with its terrible anti-Semitism, has had an immense if unrecognizable influence on the rise of the nationalistic movement crystallizing in Fascism today, just as Marx's 'Das Kapital' led the other great movement of our time–Communism."
There is no doubt that Chamberlain's book, brimful of distortions of facts and vicious Judo-phobia, served as one of the pillars of Hitlerism and Nazism. "The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion" formed another pillar of Hitlerism. To speak of Chamberlain's book as a great work is just as absurd as to speak of the ## as an authentic work.
When one of the interviewers asked Mr. Bloch what the functions of a creative artist should be in this experimental age, the great composer replied:
"To make love and create beautiful works. Not only artists, but every one should do that. The engineer, the window-washer should do their work finely. beautifully. for its own sake. That would solve many of our problems People depend too much on hypotheses they don't understand–Freud or communism or technocracy."
If only the great musician would follow his own splendid recipe.


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US senator Jim DeMint responds to Vladimir Putin's NYT op-ed: Thank you, Mr. Putin
But former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint respectfully disagrees with Mr. Putin, and does what the US President Barack Obama should have done – writes an answer to Vladimir Putin, a good example of the American exceptionalism.
He writes that "America is an exceptional nation – that, like no other, not just now but in history – because it is dedicated to the universal principle of human liberty." Let's recall the US history – what happened to the indigenous populations that lived in America before Christopher Columbus discovered the land? Do we need to mention about numerous ghettos and reservation for American Indians? And what about slavery that was abolished only in 1865 when the 13th amendment to the US constitution abolishing slavery was adopted? (Actually,
Mr. DeMint volunteers to school Mr. Putin and give him a history lesson peppered with thinly-veiled personal jabs and ridicule.
"President Obama has been very busy and has not properly responded to you to explain the nature and origin of American exceptionalism," Mr. DeMint writes. "I am happy to explain the basic facts."
"When we helped liberate the western half of Europe, we left it democratic and free to decide its own fate," he writes. "The wall that existed for decades dividing Berlin — and the Iron Curtain that stretched from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic — were not there to keep out westerners, but to keep those born in the east from escaping to freedom. But you must know this history well, since you were a KGB agent in Germany at the time."
The letter sparked heated debates in the media and in the Internet, with the majority mentioning numerous wars that the US led in the Middle East, with the Obamacare policy, recent revelations about the NSA surveillance program, and data protection act.
For instance, user "Jim Wolfe" writes that the USA "used to be exceptional. I am not so sure today. Corrupt government and a debt we cannot pay. Way too many things taking away from when we were the greatest country on earth."
Internet user "simplulo" believes that the American nation "was exceptional, but now we have deviated from those principles of human rights. This has resulted in such absurd contradictions as a pyramid-scheme Social Security system, constant foreign wars, Russia giving asylum to an American whistle-blower, and the "Land of the Free" having the world's highest incarceration rate."
Internet user "Regula" addresses straight to Mr. DeMint, saying that "if the US used its supposed exceptionalism to be the best in a genuine way, not just the most belligerent and destructive nation on this planet, many other countries including Russia, China and Iran could be way more open and free. But they have to defend against constant intervention and subversion from the US who can't make its exceptional money anymore in any other way than with war and destabilization of other nations' social efforts and economy to cause revolutions and civil wars to create a cause to invade, attack and destroy so US companies can make money from other nations' destruction."
It is strange that the US senator writes a letter to the Russian President, but will he have a time to write a letter or at least tweet to the Head of the Russian State Duma International Affairs Committee Alexei Pushkov, who also commented on the American exceptionalism, saying that "the USA should part with the notion of American exceptionalism. It contradicts the principles of equal rights and smells of political racism."
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(LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13, 2008) – Today's Santa Ana winds and wildfires in the San Fernando Valley and Porter Ranch have already damaged many homes. The Automobile Club of Southern California is advising residents to prepare for possible evacuation if they live in the area of the wildfire or even if they live in an area susceptible to wildfires.
Auto Club policyholders with claims should call (800) 67-CLAIM or (800) 672-5246.
Do not delay obeying an evacuation order to pack items in your car, but if you have time prior to an order, the Auto Club recommends placing the following emergency items in your vehicle:
- State and local maps
- Cell phone car charger
- Fully equipped first aid kit
- First aid manual
- Prescription medicine
- Bottled water
- Non-perishable foods
- Extra clothes and shoes
- Tissues, pre-moistened towels, and toiletries
- Blanket or sleeping bag
- Flashlight with extra batteries and bulb
- Pocket radio and extra batteries
- Small tool kit (screwdriver, pliers, wire, pocket knife, can opener, duct tape)
Here are answers to some frequently asked questions regarding evacuations:
Question: How can I find real-time information on road closures?
Answer: For up to date information on road closures, visit the California Department of Transportation online or call 1-800-427-ROAD (7623).
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Answer: If you are in need of emergency shelter, water, or food, please call 1-800-REDCROSS, visit the Red Cross Greater Los Angeles chapter online or find your local Red Cross chapter online.
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Answer: If you need help finding a hotel, call our reservations number at 1-877-222-1020 or use the Auto Club's online travel booking service. Auto Club travel agents have access to the most up-to-date information on hotel availability and can assist you immediately.
Question: I want to let my family know I'm safe, but I'm having a hard time getting in touch with them. What can I do?
Answer: People affected by the wildfires are encouraged to register themselves on the Red Cross Safe and Well Website. People without access to a computer or without electricity or connectivity can call the Red Cross (1-800-REDCROSS) for help registering, or register a loved one on their behalf.
Question: I am concerned about the safety of friends and family members who have been evacuated. What can I do?
Answer: Family members and friends can log on to the Red Cross Safe and Well Website and search for registered individuals to learn of their whereabouts and status.
Question: If I have to leave my home due to the fires, even if it is not ultimately damaged, are my hotel expenses covered?
Answer: The Auto Club's homeowners, condominium owners, and renters policies all provide coverage for additional living expense when a civil authority has ordered you out of your home. This coverage provides for not just hotel expenses, but any reasonable and necessary costs that you actually incur including food and clothing that you may need to purchase. This coverage is provided for up to a two-week period during the time the authorities do not allow you to return to your home.
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Answer: So we may get assistance to you quickly, you need to contact us as soon as possible. In some cases we can get help to you right away for your additional living expenses. After you contact us, our claims staff will help you through the process and explain what you may need to do. In some cases we will need to inspect the damage to your property and get statements from you. This process helps us make sure we are providing all of the coverage available to you.
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Answer: For many people this can be a huge concern. That is why it is important to maintain adequate levels of insurance. Many companies have limits or caps in their policy. If this is the case, if it costs more to replace the house than the amount of insurance you had on the policy then you will be responsible for the difference.
Fortunately, many of the homes insured with the Auto Club, and built after 1950, qualify for and have Guaranteed Replacement Cost Coverage. To determine if your policy contains this coverage, you can check your declarations page or call 1-800-67-CLAIMS.
If you have Guaranteed Replacement Cost coverage and have met the requirements for maintaining this coverage, then any loss that exceeds the limit stated in your declarations for your dwelling (Coverage A) will be settled for the actual cost to repair or rebuild the dwelling, without regard for the limit stated in the declarations. This means you will not have to pay the difference if you happen to be underinsured.
Question: If the power has been out due to the fires and the food in my refrigerator spoils, do I have coverage?
Answer: Yes. Your policy provides up to $500 in coverage for damage or spoilage of perishable foods that are kept in your refrigerator or freezer in your home.
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Registrar Co-operative Society
Under the Directorate of the Registrar of Cooperative Societies, there are 19 Cooperative Divisions - one each at the headquarters of the 13erstwhile undivided Revenue Districts headed by a Deputy Registrar of Cooperative Societies and 58 Cooperative Circles, each headed by an Assistant Registrar of Cooperative Societies. This Directorate is entrusted with the responsibility of implementation of policies and programmes of the Central and State Governments for the benefit of farmers and other economically weaker sections through cooperatives and for strengthening the cooperative movement. To achieve these objectives, the Directorate looks after administration, supervision, monitoring and regulation of the cooperative societies functioning in the State in various sectors such as handloom, fisheries, dairy etc. and the co-operative credit societies.
Registrar of Cooperative Societies (RCS) came into existence in the year 1937 for providing leadership, wisdom and guidance to the Cooperatives as well as the functionaries at the grassroots level and to the Cooperative Movement in right direction. This Directorate comes under the administrative control of Department of Cooperation.Definitions and Acronyms
|Registrar of Cooperative Societies,Odisha
|Information and Communication Technique
|Management Information System
|Primary Agricultural Cooperative Society
|District Central Cooperative Banks
The foremost activities of RCS are:
- Registration - Registration of a new formed cooperative society under the Odisha Cooperative Societies Act 1962 and newly organized cooperative under the Odisha Self Help Act 2001
- Administration - Bringing in rules, regulations issuing circulars and prescribing HR politics for the cooperative societies
- Inspection - Ensuring inspection of all the cooperative societies at least once in a year.
- Supervision - RCS ensures closes supervision and montitoring over functioning of supervise all the cooperative societies registered under it
- Target Settings - Apart from all these activities, the RCS set targets for OSCB, who sets target for 17 CCBs under them and 17 CCBs set targets for 2714 PACS, for various plans and programmes for disburessement of crop loan, Agriculutre Term Loan, Mobilisation of deposit ,issue of KCC, Formation and Credit linkage of SHGS , TLGS etc . Target for other sector like marketing, consumer,Housing and Training and Education are also set by the RCS (O)


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France's New Deal:
"Nord's book is an important work for all of us who would protect and build on the social reforms of the Liberation movement and since; it is better to understand the original intent of the founders in order to revise their work. And Nord has given us the best history, a work that shows us not only what happened but why, the underlying motives of the time without imposing our own wishes or assumptions. In France's New Deal, Philip Nord has written a book that should be read by all, not only those interested in French history but all interested in understanding our time."--Gerald Friedman, Enterprise & Society
"Nord's work is a masterfully constructed challenge to our conventional understanding of the postwar state agenda as a new beginning in France. It invites further inquiry into the political roots and the dynamics at the origin, and the divergent developments, of 'new deals' elsewhere."--Kenneth Mouré, French Politics, Culture & Society
"Authoritative, subtle, and persuasive, this book is a major advance in conceptualizing the transformation of the French state in the mid-twentieth century. It will supersede any current literature on the subject."--Richard F. Kuisel, Georgetown University
"In this splendid book, Nord takes a big topic, and addresses it with infectious enthusiasm, rigor, and humor. Nobody else knows as much about the interconnections between the lives and careers of the midcentury elite of French administrators, experts, and intellectuals, who from the 1930s to 1950s, emerged as the ruling class of the reshaped French state."--Martin Conway, University of Oxford
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President Obama Appears On 'Between Two Ferns' With Zach Galifianakis [VIDEO]
At times the banter was borderline confrontational between Zach Galifianakis and President Obama but, that's how the conversation usually goes when appearing on 'Between Two Ferns.' Our President starts off strong when he says he's surprised people watch the show. If you haven't seen this 'Funny or Die' skit, you've got to see this one.


text: The new issue of National Review (dated Dec. 29) features articles addressing various aspects of President Bush's legacy. Among them, my essay "Supreme Success: Thanks to Bush, we have a chance for a Roberts Court" focuses on the judiciary, and Matt Franck has an excellent piece on presidential power. (And I'm looking forward to reading the articles by Mark Steyn, John O'Sullivan, Rich Lowry, Jay Nordlinger, Ramesh Ponnuru, Thomas Donnelly, and Andy McCarthy.)


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Parklife 2010 line-up announced
Ever since inthemix published the dates for Parklife's 2010 return, anticipation has been bubbling for the unveiling of the line-up. Now we can at last reveal what Fuzzy has in store for its 10th anniversary edition.
Continuing on the trendsetting mould set by last year's tour, this bill comes stacked with first-time visitors alongside a bevy of proven favourites. Once again, there's no ordained 'headliner', but rather a mix of talent from across the musical spectrum.
Acts sure to rule airwaves this summer like Grum, Darwin Deez and Holy Ghost! – who you can now grab a brand new free download of – will rub shoulders with Fuzzy alumni Soulwax, Groove Armada and Mixmaster Mike. Then of course (in case you didn't notice) there's hip hop hitmaker Missy Elliot strutting her stuff here for the first time in six years.
Cementing this as the most non-genre-specific Parklife line-up yet is the inclusion of indie acts like The Wombats and The Dandy Warhols, while fans will be rejoicing at the live return of local heroes Cut Copy. Read on!
Without further ado, this is the 2010 Parklife line-up in alphabetical order.
AC Slater
Bag Raiders
Busy P
Chiddy Bang
Cut Copy
Dan Black
Darwin Deez
Groove Armada
Gypsy and the Cat (excluding Perth)
Holy Ghost!
Jack Beats
Jesse Rose
Memory Tapes
Midnight Juggernauts
Missy Elliott
Mixmaster Mike
New Young Pony Club
Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
The Dandy Warhols
The Glitch Mob
The Swiss
The Wombats
Wolf Gang
Yolanda Be Cool vs Dcup
To get better acquainted with the new acts on the lineup, check out ITM's handy guide to discovering the fresh faces of Parklife 2010!
Here's when Parklife is stopping in your city.
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Perth, Wellington Square – Sun 26 Sep – JOIN THE ROLLCALL
Melbourne, Sidney Myer Music Bowl – Sat 2 Oct – JOIN THE ROLLCALL
Sydney, Kippax Lake – Sun 3 Oct – JOIN THE ROLLCALL
Adelaide, Botanic Gardens – Mon 4 Oct – JOIN THE ROLLCALL