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Spin, breathe, laugh, and twist! Unique exercise and movements help children increase alertness and optimize their ability to learn. "Brain Smart" strategies, such as crossing the mid-line & rolling, are easy to implement into daily instruction. Very useful for transitions, de-stress times, and get up & move times. Guide with lyrics & instructions included.
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Set of 4 CDs includes Brain Smart Moves, Catch a Brain Wave Fitness Fun, Cool Aerobics for Kids, and Multicultural Movement Fun.
Short and easy exercises develop kids physically as they naturally respond to music and movement. Guide included.
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Published in Nature Structure and Molecular Biology, research led by Monash University showed a protein complex called the Translocation and Assembly Module (TAM), formed a type of molecular pump in bacteria. The TAM allows bacteria to shuttle key disease-causing molecules from inside the bacterial cell where they are made, to the outside surface, priming the bacteria for infection.
Lead author and PhD student Joel Selkrig of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash said the work paves the way for future studies to design new drugs that inhibit this process.
"The TAM was discovered in many disease-causing bacteria, from micro-organisms that cause whooping cough and meningitis, to hospital-acquired bacteria that are developing resistance to current antibiotics," Mr Selkrig said.
"It is a good antibacterial target because a drug designed to inhibit TAM function would unlikely kill bacteria, but simply deprive them of their molecular weaponry, and in doing so, disable the disease process."
"By allowing bacteria to stay alive after antibiotic treatment, we believe we can also prevent the emergence of antibiotic resistance, which is fast becoming a major problem worldwide."
The Monash team, led by Professor Trevor Lithgow from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, showed the TAM was made of two protein parts, TamA and TamB, which function together to form a machine of molecular scale.
Together with colleagues at the University of Melbourne, they compared normal virulent bacteria to mutant strains of bacteria engineered to have no TAM.
"We noticed that proteins important for disease were missing in the outer membrane of the mutant bacteria," Mr Selkrig said.
"The absent proteins help bacteria to adhere to our bodies and perform disease-related functions."
Mr Selkrig said the next step for the group was to dissect the molecular mechanism of how the TAM complex functions and, in collaboration with researchers at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, design an antibiotic that inhibits the TAM in bacteria.
Professor Lithgow led an international team of seven Monash researchers, and scientists from the University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, the University of Glasgow and University of Birmingham.
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An Evening With The Overtones
With the release of their 4th album, Sweet Soul Music, In February, vocal harmony quintet The Overtones hed out on a UK Tour in the summer.
Vocal harmony group The Overtones- Lachie Chapman, Darren Everest, Timmy Matley, Mark Franks and Mike Crawshaw- blend classic '50s harmonies with modern pop.
Since the release of their debut album in 2010, The Overtones have established their reputation as a group with the unique ability to deliver consistency uplifting music infused with exquisitely crafted vocal harmonies.
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Actress Jennifer Garner joins Save the Children board
Actress Jennifer Garner has breen named to board of trustee's of Save the Children, the Westport-based, global children's relief agency announced.
Garner joins a 30-member board that includes ABC News political commentator Cokie Roberts, former Xerox Corp. Chairman Anne Mulcahy, former ABC News President David Westin and other prominent people, Save the Children said in a news release.
The actress has been an "artist ambassador" for the organization, volunteering in its early-childhood- development and literacy programs in her West Virginia, where she was raised, according to the release. She also has advocated for Save the Children on Capitol Hill.
The 42-year-old actress's film credits include "Dallas Buyer's Club," "13 Going on 30," "Juno" and other feature films. Her appointment to the board is for a six-year term.


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Connect with Your Audience
Lessons for Business Leaders from the Presidential Election
Steven Currall is the Dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. In this blog, he analyzes President Obama's successful communication strategies during the election, and provides executives and leaders with the tools to leverage trust building and active listening tactics.
During the weeks running up to the election, pundits and pollsters lined up to present their opinion on who would win – their conclusions were informed by data, electoral demographics, and popularity. Certainly, the Obama campaign was highly innovative, leveraging cutting-edge marketing techniques like data mining, and mobile messaging for donations and voter registration updates. However, my observations, and my prediction, were based on one major factor: who connected with voters better, and how?
Clearly, voters had reservations about Obama regarding his past performance, especially in terms of the economy. However, Obama had one major advantage over Romney, which was his ability to foster trust by connecting with voters and assuring them that he was listening. He relied heavily on an empathetic and reassuring communication style, consistently reassuring voters that he clearly understood their concerns and circumstances.
I conduct research on the psychology of trust, and active listening is the cornerstone component: the ability to listen and grasp the values, needs, and attitudes of others is a signal that a politician or business leader can use to build trust.
Building Trust
The most fundamental aspect of the trust decision is what I refer to as the perception of benevolence, which is all about seeing a candidate or leader as aligned and supportive of one's own interests. Thus, the first question that comes to a constituent's mind: is this person on my side, or not on my side? If the answer to that is yes, this person is on my side, one moves on to a second question: is the person technically competent and do they have the skills to come through in a pinch for me? And the third question is: how motivated or committed is this person to being trustworthy?
Looking back at Obama's campaign, it's clear that his messaging was strongly rooted in listening and being sympathetic. Back in September, I predicted that the politician who is an active listener and trust builder would swing people's decisions once they got into the voting booth, and in retrospect, I believe that was one of the key characteristics that impacted voter behavior.
Active Listening for Executives
It worked for Obama, and it can work for you as well: honing your skills as an active listener can make the difference between an executive struggling for support and one who's a few steps ahead of the game. It's a great way to get your team on board as well as managing up – research shows that superiors, employees, and peers all have more confidence in your ability to lead when they feel they're being heard. When they feel that they are being heard, they are more likely to perceive that their interests are aligned with yours. Or, at least they will be assured that you understand their interests. Here are some practical tips to get others on board:
- Be present: How does it feel to talk with someone who doesn't seem to be listening, or be ignored or treated disrespectfully? Follow this rule: when someone comes into your office to discuss work, don't glance at your computer screen or fidget with your phone. Look that person in the eye when they're speaking and give them your full attention.
- Really listen: Have you ever found yourself forming a response even before the other person has finished talking? Be flexible to others' ideas and release your need to be 'correct – this can cause us to be contentious, or even inflammatory. Don't tune out because you disagree, and don't jump to conclusions before you've heard the whole message.
- Watch your body language: Demonstrate your full attention by leaning forward slightly, focusing your eyes on the speaker's face, and keep your hands still. If you find yourself reacting to what another person says, your body language will communicate your reaction. Try saying, "You may see that I'm reacting a bit, but it's important to me to understand your point of view. Please tell me more about…?"
- Verbal recap: The key to making other people feel heard is to repeat their message back to them. Confirm your understanding by saying something like, "I want to make sure I understood you correctly. You're saying…?" or "So your concern (or idea) is…?"
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 31 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Wowzio has individual pages for each blog where one can find that blog's widgets. We want multiple buttons made for bloggers to install on their blog that point to that blogger's widgets page on Wowzio.
Wowzio has individual pages for each blog where one can find that blog's widgets.
For example, here are widgets for Techcrunch: http://www.wowzio.com/widgets/seewidgets?ids=2
We want multiple buttons made that bloggers could install on their blog, that point readers to this page.
Some example buttons we've created ourselves (but we're not very talented designers) are here to give you an idea: http://www.wowzio.com/widgets/seebadges?ids=2
We will pay $20 per badge that we like, up to 5 badges. This assumes you can provide the badge in at least 3 different color schemes (we won't pay $20 for EACH color, but for each badge design).
You can find a PSD of the wowzio logo here: http://appdelight.com/files/wowziologo-med.psd . Feel free to "fill it" with different colors as per your design.
- Multiple sizes of badges with a similar theme/design
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Apple's Obsession With Simplicity Can Really Complicate Things
Feb 28, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Apple makes powerful products that do complicated things very simply and easily, and are mostly intuitive. You don't need an owner's manual to figure out how to use most Apple products. Apple aggressively whittles down its products so they become the essence of the most important things they do.
The floppy disk drive? Gone from the Macintosh before some customers were ready for it. The CD/DVD drive? Similarly gone from the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with Retina Display. Even the buttons on the trackpad on the MacBooks were simplified by turning the entire trackpad into a button. Nice. Makes sense.
Sometimes, though, Apple's design moves in hardware and software don't make sense. And worse, this all-consuming desire to simplify products -- to distill them to their core essence -- sometimes fails to create a product and a user experience that lives up to its potential.
Long-time readers might be recoiling here: Whoa, wait, what's with the crazy talk?
What's Samsung Up To?
It started when I read a single sentence in the third paragraph of Wired's news story on the upcoming Samsung HomeSync Media Hub, which is basically an Android-based set-top box for your HDTV. The sentence?
Samsungs streaming supports profiles for up to eight different people, allowing you to store your content privately or share it with the rest of the family.In addition to providing a potentially more usable set-top box than Apple TV -- primarily because it comes with on-board storage -- Samsung seems to recognize that households are made up of widely different people with different needs. Adults are not children, grandparents are dissimilar to their adult kids, teenagers are not children, and friends don't need to see everything.
Let's put this another way:
Wait, what? It's OK to have a single shared device that can be used with wildly different users? Privately? Reasonably securely?
Back Up the Truck
This little detail about user accounts on the HomeSync Media Hub sparked me to wonder if Apple truly understands the realities of its customers. And more importantly, why not?
Perhaps its principles of simplicity and design get in the way. It can't be resources and ability. Apple has billions in the bank, access to the world, and wicked smart engineers. So Apple is either out of touch or woefully ignorant of household realities. I don't like either lines of thought, but they need to be explored.
Here are some examples:
- Apple Has to Connect Your Credit Card to Your Apple ID to Make Everything "Seamless"
First off, Apple creates an astoundingly fun and easy-to-use iPad, but fails to recognize how its own business partner developers will take advantage of its customers through in-app purchase schemes, particularly those targeted at children.
Apple eventually made some changes to iOS that let parents turn off in-app purchasing -- and is settling a mediocre lawsuit -- but frankly, Apple's ability to communicate those controls to parents? It sucked then and it sucks now. In fact, my Amazon Kindle Fire is better in this regard. Sad, but true.
How does this happen? By focusing so hard on the end goal of collecting hundreds of millions of credit card numbers, and accounts with Apple Ids, and easy ways to buy apps and media, Apple makes it simple -- but forgets that its customers don't live in simple, static situations.
- The Shareable iPad That's Really Only Good for One Person
Apple's promotes the iPad as a great mobile device, but it has no clue as to how much damage a family member or friend could do with such a device. Kids want to play with them, and you want to share them with friends -- maybe even just to play music, a video, or surf the web -- and boom: Reminders is showing off your dirty laundry. Of course, you can turn this stuff off, but there's tons of private or business-related content on your iPad that's hard to protect.
The built-in Mail client works great, except you can't lock it down. In a world where a guy can get fired for the wrong tweet, built-in Twitter integration in an iPad is a nightmare waiting to come to life. It virtually guarantees that you have a wonderful device that you can't really share with others. The more you use your iPad, the worse this becomes.
All Apple has to do is create a method for locking down sensitive apps but enabling all others. You could even create multiple user accounts. But no, that would not be simple enough. That could get in the way of enjoying the iPad. What about this: Hand my phone to a crying kid on a plane? No way. One deleted email or calendar event could wreak havoc with my job.
With Apple, locking anything down in iOS is mostly an all-or-nothing prospect.
- Apple TV Loses Its Hard Drive and "Evolves" Into a Puck
Meanwhile, there's the Apple TV. It started out with a hard drive, but to push the cost down and make it simpler, Apple got rid of user-manageable storage in favor of a streaming media device. As if everyone lives in California connected to super-fast and super-reliable Internet with perfect WiFi routers.
Basically, the Apple TV of today requires a constant WiFi connection to function. Want to store a movie or two on it to watch? Photos? Can't. You have to stream them from a connected Mac, or worse, from iCloud, as if I want to store thousands upon thousands of photos in the cloud in a way that's barely secure if even private. Since many households are becoming MacBook as well as iPad-centric -- mobile oriented -- your streaming Mac-to-Apple TV scheme disappears the moment you walk out of the house with your MacBook in your bag.
If you bought some content from Apple, you can stream it from Apple's servers in the sky. That's nice, but it's not a replacement for a small measure of control. Worse, Apple's love affair with simplicity means you can't even add your own onboard storage through a thumb drive or memory card.
Samsung, on the other hand, seems to realize that people might like to have a device on which they can store media. Surprise: Support profiles for up to eight different people, letting the consumer decide what to share with other family members. Let's see: Do we really want a young child watching Homeland? With the Apple TV, it's right there and hard to hide. How about South Park? Looks like a kid-friendly cartoon, does it not? Speaking of cartoons, does an adult really want to navigate through a bunch of kid content to find the adult stuff?
Dusting Off the First-Generation Apple TV
I have an old 40 GB first generation Apple TV. I connected it to a 24-inch Samsung HDTV that I placed on a shelf in my house for the sole purpose of using it as a live photo slideshow, so that friends and family can see thousands of photos of all of us exploring our world and getting out and about in it. It's like a photo album in a frame. It's a reminder of who we are as a family, of how we like to live our life and what's really important.
The first-generation Apple TV works great for something like this, but the newer Apple TVs? They're ripe for connection problems with our WiFi router and for losing a connection to iTunes on a MacBook.
While on the subject of the MacBook; not only does it have to be powered on, but iTunes has to be launched. Even then, a couple of times a month the wireless signals get crossed and confused, and I have to unplug things, restart, log out and log back in to get them talking to each other.
How simple is that?
Now that many households are almost entirely mobile -- MacBooks, iPads, iPhones -- using an Apple TV to stream content from an Apple ID connected device becomes vastly less simple than on-board storage. Where's the centralization in a household in this situation? With an iMac or a Mac mini? Is that Apple's answer?
iCloud? Oh man, like I want to upload 50 GB -- and growing -- of family movies to iCloud and be locked into specific access over which I truly have little control.
Some Humble Suggestions
The problem is that the answer to these basic sorts of needs is simplicity in itself. The iPad just needs a PIN-based method for securing apps. Dump them in a protected folder. Lock them up individually. Provide the ability to have a "guest" mode. For a company with Apple's resources, none of this should be hard.
The Apple TV? Let smart users add on-board storage. Offer a "pro" model. Worse yet, I'm wondering how Apple is not seeing its consumer base become increasingly mobile . . . and yet doesn't see a need for a central media storage system? The Apple TV could easily be a place where iPhone-packing family members store videos and photos; a place that remains constant no matter where in the world the family's biggest MacBook is working.
I would drool over just such an Apple TV, with 1 TB of on-board storage. I would happily pay more than $99 for it, too.
It's true that Samsung's product is physically not as simple as an Apple device. But when it comes time to match it up with a household, might it require less family gymnastics to utilize? I am a long way from wanting to deal with the other vagaries of an Android existence, but as these sorts of gaps remain unplugged and seemingly ignored, I start to wonder if Apple even recognizes them.
Does the secrecy of Apple's Cupertino campus mean that it can't see what its best and most loyal customers need?


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Jamie Oliver won't be cooking another course of his reality TV show in Los Angeles schools.The filming permit for the celebrity chef's ABC series "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" was terminated this week, said Los Angeles Unified School District spokesman Robert Alaniz. He said Oliver had been filming for two weeks at one school but the decision was made to ban him from others because he failed to submit a proposal about his plans to officials.
A spokeswoman for the network said production on "Food Revolution" would continue.
The first season of the show featured Oliver attempting to revolutionize the eating habits and food policies of Huntington, W. Va.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Barack Obama signed into law Sunday a $9.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package following delays over fiscal cliff bickering, warnings of dwindling federal funds and swirling controversy over millions of dollars for unrelated projects.
The measure passed the House on Friday, 354-67. The Senate approved the measure unanimously and without debate. The new law includes more than $9 billion to help the government pay flood insurance claims.
Congress faced strong pressure to boost the debt-ridden flood insurance program, which is the primary option for that type of coverage for U.S. homeowners and businesses. It has been under severe financial pressure for years from payouts related to big storms like Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
It was the first legislative action of the new Congress, which picked up the Sandy package after the previous session on Tuesday shelved a vote on a much larger assistance plan for storm victims, infuriating New York and New Jersey politicians.
Lawmakers from both houses will weigh in on $51 billion in additional Sandy aid on January 15. But that larger portion will likely face much closer scrutiny in a Congress anticipating more acrimony over spending and debt in coming months.
House leaders initially balked at immediate consideration of a big spending bill just after concluding the excruciating negotiations around the fiscal cliff. House Speaker John Boehner preferred to wait a few days at least before holding a vote on a Sandy bill.
The original storm legislation also included what some Republicans saw as congressional "pork," or money for unrelated pet projects. Budget hawks viewed the extra funding as wasteful in an era of record deficits.
CNN's Halimah Abdullah and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.
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Welcome to the DC Labor Map! Here you can find both current and historic labor sites in Washington, DC, including union hotels, restaurants, international and local union organizations, labor art and historic labor sites. You can use it for an online virtual tour of DC labor, or to plan your visit to our nation's capital.
CLICK ON "LEGEND" at right to view categories; TO CHOOSE A SPECIFIC CATEGORY just click on it and only those sites will be shown.
We welcome your comments and suggestions: click on the "comments" tab at the bottom of the map. The DC Labor Map is a project of the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO: primary research was done by Chris Garlock, Jon Garlock and Lisa Garlock; contributors include: Saul Schniderman, Peter Winch and Fhar Miess.


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Firefox 3 adds a bunch of nice features under the hood for software developers. Many of those features, including native JSON support and web-based protocol handlers, have been under heavy development and are finally reaching the stage where they can be put to practical use.
In a blog entry last week, Mozilla developer Mark Finkle demonstrates how to use the native JSON encoding and decoding mechanisms that have been added in Firefox 3. He also provides some benchmarks which reveal that the native XPCOM JSON implementation (written in C++) provides a significant performance improvement over JavaScript-based implementations. The following code example from Finkle's blog entry shows how to encode a JavaScript object into a JSON string:
// encode to string using native implementation var Ci = Components.interfaces; var Cc = Components.classes; var nativeJSON = Cc["@mozilla.org/dom/json;1"].createInstance(Ci.nsIJSON); var testNative = nativeJSON.encode(testObj);
The native JSON implementation is currently only accessible to code with elevated privileges, so it is primarily intended for use by add-on developers at this stage. Finkle notes that work is underway to make this feature accessible to web developers.
Another impressive feature in Firefox 3 that is maturing quickly is the web-based protocol handler mechanism. This enables web developers to bind specialized protocols like mailto to web applications rather than just desktop applications. Documentation recently added in the Mozilla Developer Center explains how to implement web-based protocol handlers in a web page. Using the registerProtocolHandler method in a script tag will cause a notification box to appear in the user's browser window asking them if they want to add the application binding. Some examples of ways that this mechanism could potentially be used with existing protocols include associating webcal URLs with web-based calendars, mailto URLs with web-based mail services like GMail, and AIM URLs with Meebo.
Support for native JSON parsing and web-based protocol handlers are just two of the many new features for web developers that have been implemented in Firefox 3. For additional information, see the Firefox 3 for Developers page at the Mozilla wiki.
Further reading
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A photo from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shows a giant eyeball from a mysterious sea creature that washed ashore and was found by a man walking the beach in Pompano Beach, Fla., on Wednesday. The eyeball will be sent to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla.
A giant eyeball that washed ashore and was found by a beachcomber in Pompano Beach, Fla., is mystifying wildlife officials — but probably not for long.
The softball-sized eyeball was reported to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Wednesday, and wildlife officers put the specimen on ice. It will be preserved and sent to the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., for analysis.
Marine biologists couldn't immediately identify which species of sea creature would be associated with the eye, but researchers will use genetic testing if necessary to solve the mystery, said Carli Segelson, a spokeswoman for the commission. "I shouldn't say this, but they may be able to eyeball it," she told me today.
Segelson said she's been fielding tons of inquiries about the case, especially since a picture of "THE MYSTERY EYEBALL" was posted to the commission's Facebook page. "It's just gone viral," she said. There are more pictures in the commission's Flickr photo gallery.
Some have suggested that the eye came from a monster fish, a giant squid or even a whale. It does look a bit like this picture of an eye from a giant squid, but Segelson said wildlife officers are leaning toward a different scenario.
"The primary suspect right now is that it would be a large fish," she said. Among the possibilities are a swordfish, or a tuna, or some sort of deep-water fish species.
What do you think it is? Feel free to give it your best shot a comment below, and keep your eyes peeled for the answer.
More sea marvels:
- Florida fishermen pick up dying giant squid
- Hawaiian squid carries a built-in light
- Boy finds a bonanza in whale vomit
- Gallery: 10 deep-sea secrets revealed
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Edelweiss PC is Absolutely Stunning [PCs]
Holy crap, is this an awesome looking computer. The Edelweiss, created by Pius Giger in Switzerland, is one of the coolest custom rigs I've ever seen.
I don't have any details as to the components in this thing, but really, who cares? This is more of a piece of art than anything you'd sully by playing Solitaire on. [MDPC via TechEBlog]


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The disc loads up fine, and I can load the disks properly.
I'm running it on a standard NTSC TV through the AV component cables, but the display for the emulator is crammed into the top half of the screen.
The closest thing I've seen to this is the ScummVM bug where certain AGOS games won't display correctly in the same situation.
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In addition to medications, other treatments may be beneficial for patients with schizophrenia. These include:
Psychosocial Treatments
Antipsychotic drugs help relieve the psychotic or "positive" symptoms of ]]>schizophrenia]]> (hallucinations, delusions, and incoherence), but do not necessarily relieve the behavioral symptoms of the disorder. Even when patients with schizophrenia are relatively free of psychotic symptoms, many still have difficulty with communication, motivation, self-care, and establishing and maintaining relationships with others. People often develop schizophrenia during the critical career-forming years of life (eg, ages 18-35). Therefore, they are less likely to complete the training required for skilled work. As a result, many individuals with schizophrenia not only suffer from thinking and emotional difficulties, but lack social and work skills.
Psychosocial treatments may help with these psychological, social, and occupational problems. They may have limited value for acutely psychotic patients (those who are out of touch with reality or have prominent hallucinations or delusions). However, they may be useful for patients with less severe symptoms or for patients whose psychotic symptoms are under control.
Numerous forms of psychosocial therapy are available for people with schizophrenia. Most focus on improving the patient's social functioning, whether in the hospital, community, at home, or on the job. The availability of different forms of treatment varies greatly from place to place.
Rehabilitation includes a wide array of non-medical interventions for those with schizophrenia. Rehabilitation programs emphasize social and vocational training to help patients and former patients overcome difficulties in these areas. Programs may include:
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These approaches are important for the success of the community-centered treatment of schizophrenia. They provide discharged patients with the skills necessary to lead productive lives outside the sheltered confines of a mental hospital.
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Individual psychotherapy involves regularly scheduled talks between the patient and a mental health professional such as a psychiatrist, psychologist, psychiatric social worker, or nurse. The sessions may focus on current or past problems, experiences, thoughts, feelings, or relationships. By sharing experiences with a trained therapist, people with schizophrenia may gradually come to understand more about themselves and their problems. They can also learn to sort out the real from the unreal and distorted. Recent studies indicate that supportive, reality-oriented, individual psychotherapy, and ]]>cognitive-behavioral]]> approaches that teach coping and problem-solving skills can be beneficial for outpatients with schizophrenia. However, psychotherapy is not a substitute for antipsychotic medication. This approach is most helpful once drug treatment has relieved a patient's psychotic symptoms.
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Very often, patients with schizophrenia are discharged from the hospital into the care of their family. For this reason, it is important that family members learn all they can about schizophrenia and understand the difficulties and problems associated with the illness. It is also helpful for family members to learn ways to minimize the patient's chance of relapse. They may need to be aware of different treatment adherence strategies, as well as the various kinds of outpatient and family services available in the period after hospitalization. Family "psychoeducation" includes teaching various coping strategies and problem-solving skills. This approach may help families deal more effectively with their relative and may contribute to an improved outcome for the patient. Family members should be made aware that they did not cause the illness.
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]]>Self-help groups]]> are often available for people and families dealing with schizophrenia. Although not led by a professional therapist, these groups may be therapeutic because members provide continuing mutual support. They provide comfort in helping patients know that they are not alone in the problems they face. Self-help groups may also serve other important functions. Families working together can more effectively serve as advocates for needed research and hospital and community treatment programs. Patients acting together as a group—rather than as individuals—may be better able to dispel certain stigmas associated with schizophrenia and draw public attention to such abuses as discrimination against those with mental illnesses.
There are many active family and peer support groups as well as advocacy groups for schizophrenia in the United States. These groups provide useful information and assistance for patients and families of individuals with schizophrenia and other mental disorders.
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has improved dramatically in recent years and is very effective in treating severe ]]>depression]]> that does not respond to medication. It may also be helpful in some cases of schizophrenia that have not responded to conventional treatment. ECT involves a series of treatments in which the patient is sedated and receives mild electric stimulation, which may result in some memory impairment that may last for several months.
Carson RC, Butcher JN, Mineka S. Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life. 11th ed. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon; 2000.
Keshavan MS, Roberts M, Wittmann D. Guidelines for clinical treatment of early course schizophrenia. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2006;8:329-334.
Moore DP, Jefferson JW. Handbook of Medical Psychiatry. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elseverier Mosby; 2004.
National Institute of Mental Health website. Available at: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/ .
Last reviewed March 2009 by ]]>Rosalyn Carson-DeWitt, MD]]>
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Bag says: "All my Japanese I learned from anime".
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The Kingdom of Buganda is situated in the Central region of the country known today as Uganda. It is right in the heart of Africa astride the Equator and in the North West shores of Lake Victoria and it's also the source of the great river Nile. Buganda Kingdom is the home to the nation's political and commercial capital city Kampala as well as the country's main International airport Entebbe.
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Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) - Jonathan Toews and Andrew Shaw both tallied twice, as Chicago trounced Columbus for the 12th consecutive time, 6-1, at United Center. Bryan Bickell and Brandon Bollig also hit the back of the net for the Blackhawks, winners in two of three to keep pace in the race for the Central Division crown. St. Louis beat Nashville by a 2-1 count to remain two points ahead. Brent Seabrook and Marcus Kruger each collected two assists, while Corey Crawford stopped 22 shots. Ryan Johansen provided the lone offense for the Blue Jackets, who saw their three-game win streak halted and have not beaten their former division rivals since a 4-3 decision on Feb. 18, 2011. Sergei Bobrovsky allowed four goals on 18 shots in 32-plus minutes to take the loss. Curtis McElhinney finished the contest with 13 stops. Ahead by a goal, Chicago locked up the contest with three strikes in the middle frame. Toews provided a 3-1 margin at the eight-minute mark of the second when he tapped in a Brandon Saad pass at the right post, and Bickell boosted the home advantage to 4-1 with 12:29 gone off a Kris Versteeg rebound which sent Bobrovsky to the bench. Seabrook's left-point blast with 2:16 before intermission was deflected home by Shaw and gave Chicago a 5-1 edge. Patrick Kane fed Toews for a rising shot over a seated McElhinney for a power- play strike and 6-1 advantage at 3:04 of the third. Bollig's backhanded shot put the hosts on the board with 4:12 gone in the first period, then Johansen evened the score just prior to the eight-minute mark. Shaw sent the Blackhawks to intermission up by a goal, when he cruised up the right wing and beat Bobrovsky to the near side. Game Notes Thursday's contest marked the first time the Blackhawks and Blue Jackets squared off as inter-conference rivals. Columbus was placed in the Central Division along with Chicago upon its 2000 inception and remained their until this season ... Blue Jackets defenseman Nikita Nikitin left the game in the first period, returned in the second, then left once more and did not return with what is being called an upper-body injury.
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The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza and NBC's Chuck Todd talk about the key proposals from Tuesday's speech and the president's trip to North Carolina on Wednesday.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- Road-testing his State of the Union message for the first time since his speech last night, President Obama visited a factory here in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains that he said exemplified his second-term vision for manufacturing growth.
Obama emphasized his plans for increased collaboration between federal, state, and local governments to create good conditions for manufacturing, citing Canadian-owned Linamar's arrival in the Asheville area in 2011 as an example.
"There's a good story to tell here," Obama said, speaking to a factory floor full of plant workers after touring the auto-parts facility.
State and local officials offered Linamar about $18 million in incentives to move to the plant to Asheville in 2011, after it was vacated by the automaker Volvo, which caused 228 workers to lose their jobs.
The county had purchased the plant for $7 million, according to local reports at the time, which also noted that Linamar had pledged 363 jobs. So far, it has hired 160 workers and, as the president noted, plans to add another 40 by the end of the year.
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President Barack Obama speaks to workers and guests at the Linamar Corporation plant in Arden, N.C., Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013.
Obama said the success of Linamar can be mirrored around the country if the plans he laid out in his State of the Union are implemented -- including funding for "innovation centers" around the country and comprehensive corporate tax reform, which includes disincentives for outsourcing and the elimination of some corporate loopholes.
And as the president said in his speech last night, he wants to raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 per hour by 2015.
(That's lower than the $9.50 he called for on the campaign trail in 2008, but his advisers say it's still a sizeable boost, given the new tax credits low-income families have available to them like the child tax credit, as well as the implementation of the president's health care plan.)
"It's time for an increase in the minimum wage because if you work full-time, you shouldn't be in poverty," Obama said during his speech today.
The president also urged Congress to vote on his initiatives that need its approval -- including the 15 innovation centers he wants –- but he was less aggressive than he was in the House chamber Tuesday night, saying only, "I need Congress to do their part."
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…along with Ervin Santana, Chone Figgins, Howie Kendrick and Gary Matthews Jr? OK, here are a couple thoughts from Nick Cafardo who is "liking the White Sox a lot next season":
Casey Kotchman, 1B, Red Sox – He is arbitration-eligible and still a redundant player on a team that has too many first basemen and could add another if it trades for Adrian Gonzalez. Kotchman could always be a chip in such a deal, but he may have other value. The White Sox may bring Mark Kotsay back, but they are longtime admirers of Kotchman.
Johnny Damon, LF, Yankees – If the Yankees don't bring him back, the White Sox look like a good fit. They need a leadoff hitter, and while they'd love to sign free agent Chone Figgins and move him to the outfield, he may get too pricy. While Damon has been a No. 2 hitter for the Yankees, he could easily go back to the top spot and give the White Sox some leadoff power.
Stats: Kotchman, Damon. Kotchman is OK. Maybe he can replace Paulie at 1B next year. Damon is too old and he'll want a 2-3 year deal. Stay away Kenny.


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What a weird Super Bowl this has been. The Ravens are all over the 49ers, but it's been a handful of big plays rather than methodical domination so it almost feels like San Francisco is still in it. A fake field goal, a kickoff return, a 56-yard tumbling bomb of a touchdown, an exploding guitar and now the power is out—the second time
this season in as many years it has happened to the 49ers. What next?
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I had "the time of my life" (a song title plus my personal feelings) at Rock of Ages, playing for one week only at Chicago's Oriental Theatre. A one-word suggestion for all Chicago Splash Magazine readers-Go!
This five-time Tony Award Nominated Smash-hit musical is filled with silly humor, sight gags, shtick, and outrageousness – both in its content and the actors/singers who grace the stage dancing and singing their hearts out.
Basically, the simple story is set in 1987 in Hollywood's Sunset Strip at the fictitious Bourbon Club, a legendary rock 'n roll joint where star-gazer small-town girls like innocent Sherrie (Shannon Mullen) meets rocker wannabe star Drew (Dominique Scott). Miscommunicated messages ensue: are they friends or potential lovers? Find out in the grand finale, Don't Stop Believin' (Journey, 1981), which brings the audience to its feet in a clapping sing-a-long.
The story is narrated by stoned-out Lonny (Justin Colombo), who's silly and funny straight through the show. German father and son Hertz and Franz (Philip Peterson and Stephen Michael Kane) have been sent to The Bourbon Club to raze it for a new building project. Dissension prevails as club owner Dennis (Mike Ban), long-haired and also strung-out on '80s drugs and drink, tries to keep the established hangout intact.
The story is told in song -28 unforgettable and classic rock tunes including some by Journey, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Whitesnake, Foreigner– and I knew every word of all the songs except two or three, which were vaguely familiar. The superstar '80s groups' greatest hits include "Don't Stop Believin'", "We Built This City", "The Final Curtain", and "I Want to Know What Love Is."
ROCK OF AGES is directed by Tony Award Nominee Kristin Hanggi (Bare, Pussycat Dolls on the Sunset Strip) and choreographed by Kelly Devine (Jersey Boys – Associate Choreographer). With a book by Chris D'Arienzo (writer and director of the film Barry Munday), original arrangements by David Gibbs (Counting Crows, Film: That Thing You Do) and the Music Supervision, Arrangements & Orchestrations by Ethan Popp (Tarzan; Europe: We Will Rock You, Mamma Mia).
ROCK OF AGES features set design by Beowulf Boritt (Spelling Bee, LoveMusik), costume design by Tony Nominee Gregory Gale (Cyrano, The Wedding Singer), lighting design by Jason Lyons (The Threepenny Opera), sound design by Craig Cassidy (Phantom, Mamma Mia), and projection design is by Zachary Borovay (A Catered Affair). ROCK OF AGES is produced by PHOENIX ENTERTAINMENT.
The performance schedule for ROCK OF AGES is as follows:
Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m.,
Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 12 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 13 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Individual tickets range from $18 - $90. A select number of premium seats are also available. Tickets are available at all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (24 W. Randolph St., 151 W. Randolph St., 18 W. Monroe St. and 175 E. Chestnut), the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Kiosk at Water Tower Place (845 N. Michigan Ave.), the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (800) 775-2000, all Ticketmaster retail locations (including Hot Tix and select Carson Pirie Scott, Coconuts and fye stores), and online at www.BroadwayInChicago.com. Groups of 15 or more may receive a discount on most shows by calling (312) 977-1710. Gift certificates, which can be redeemed for any production or for season ticket packages, can be obtained at Broadway In Chicago box offices, www.BroadwayInChicago.com or by calling Ticketmaster at (800) 775-2000. Please note: Ticket prices and performance schedule are subject to change.
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HannahM necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 127 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
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I'm a personal trainer who's starting a business dedicated to providing personal and corporate fitness training and education. The website which the logo will go on is a health information page more so than a personal advertising tool.
The truth is that our bodies didn't evolve over the last 10,000 years to exist in our current fake world of air conditioning, chairs, and instant everything. It's not our fault we're fat. Everything in our genetics screams "Watch out! There's a huge famine coming up next week. You need that cheeseburger to survive!"
In fact, all of our current health problems have really easy solutions (such as picking up a big weight and putting it down or eating sweet potatoes and blueberries instead of rice and spaghetti). The problem is that the food industry has a place in the government's ear (this place is close to their pocket...) and hence the knowledge I'm passing along isn't as common as it should be.
I'm taking steps to ensure that this website become common knowledge, and once it does many Americans will have a better idea why they're fat (aside from lack of discipline), and what they can do it overcome it that doesn't involve looking like Nicole Richie.
I have two intended audiences: 30-50 year old middle and upper class business people (will be marketing my training services and boot camps to corporations as employee perk), and college students.
The middle age business people are not well-versed with current health information, and certainly not always up to date with scientific advancements. They have very little time, prefer a sense of humor that doesn't embarrass them in front of their colleges, and traditional, middle class and/or upper class values.
The college students come from a middle class or poor background and tend to major in the sciences. They have a small-town mentality but are branching out.
Needs to be in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator.
In the health industry, bold colors such as black and scarlet are common. I'd like to compete with the boldness without using any form of red.
However, I love the fading and shadowing effects, when applied in a professional looking manner
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have an icon-thingy like starbucks has beside it
this design might be something such as an animal, an ancient tribesman, or something that screams (image-wise) "I will rise above this quarter-pounder and make my ancestors proud".
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Have any variation of the color red in it
Have an edgy font.
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The mainland United States's first official outbreak of Zika virus may be declared over by early next week, NBC News reported.
But another, in Miami Beach, is going strong, and on Thursday Florida health officials reported seven more Zika cases acquired locally, one of which involves a visitor from out of state.
It's been almost 45 days since Zika first started spreading locally, in Miami's Wynwood district, and "the clock is ticking" on that outbreak, Lillian Rivera, of the Florida Department of Health, told a Miami Beach City Council meeting Wednesday.
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If no one new is infected in Wynwood by Monday, after the 45-day period that represents three full incubation periods for Zika virus, it can be declared free of active Zika transmission. Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that countdown Thursday.


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- Sling fabric is available in white, moss green, navy blue, black, and grey.
- Replaceable vinyl-coated polyester fabric
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- Plantation-grown hardwood teak
- Minimal assembly required
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Product Weight: 24lbs
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Orders above $1,000 but under $2,000 ship for a flat $95 fee - so if you're close to that threshold you can add a rug or another accessory and save!
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By Mark Segal
Ed. Note: Mark Segal, 60, founder of the Philadelphia Gay News and its editor and publisher for the entire 35 years of its existence, lived in Mt. Airy all of his teenage years ("Good years that I still remember with affection," he told me). He attended Germantown High School, Phila. Community College and Temple University.
I've been very emotional in the last few weeks. After all, 35 years is a big deal. At milestones like this, we often reflect on the past.
I've been paging through 35 years of the Philadelphia Gay News. It has been an emotional journey. I was so busy on that journey that I never had much time to look back. Until I did so — looking at the wealth of community and PGN history and achievement — I never realized how hard it really was. We just fought the fight that had to be fought.
Our newspaper has survived bomb threats, broken windows, graffiti, suicides, death threats, cars deliberately plowing into our vending boxes, the trashing of our offices and the American Nazi Party putting us on its hit list.
On occasion, PGN staff members have had to watch police cart their publisher off to jail. When the United Way wouldn't fund LGBT organizations, I secured my neck to their front door. Many a TV station was disrupted or, for my last visit to jail, I toilet-papered WCAU-TV after they did biased and negative news reporting on our community. And that was when I was beginning to use my parenting skills with my nephew. He watched Uncle Mark being handcuffed and hauled away. (A good civics lesson?) Certainly one of the many family moments members of the PGN staff have had. The staff truly makes this paper, and there have been births in our family and, of course, deaths.
But through all of this, we have built a community together and have held true to our mission of being a communication platform for debate within our community. There is no issue that cannot be discussed. Sometimes it brings us pain, as we can't only portray the lighthearted side of the community, as some would like us to do.
When there are issues in this community, these are the pages where those issues are discussed and sometimes resolved, or where we agree to disagree. Most importantly, we have chronicled the growth of the community. And the pages of this paper over the years clearly show that growth.
When we started in the 1970s, it was usual for us to cover events like police raids on gay bars and the D.A. investigating the wholesale blackmailing of gay men. PGN took on organizations such as the American Red Cross, Blue Cross Blue Shield and United Way, and sadly, we chronicled the brutality of hate crimes and murders.
We pushed every envelope, including but definitely not limited to police hiring, lesbian nuns, runaway gay children, the homeless in our community, HIV/AIDS, community funding, equal employment and domestic-partner rights.
As a community, we did all that — and we won many battles. Today, our community has three "out" city judges; we have had an open lesbian, Alba Martinez, as president of that same United Way that once refused to fund LGBT organizations; and had a gay man, Andy Chirls, as chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association. We have active community, health and youth centers. And this paper, your newspaper, has grown to be the nation's most award-winning LGBT weekly, one that even interviews soon-to-be presidents.
And I can't help but get emotional when I think of our start in a building with no electricity, no plumbing and, when it rained, needed a plastic tarp. I'm not only proud of this paper, but proud too of the community we serve, and look forward to the future battles we'll wage together to bring growth and services to our community.
When this paper started, we weren't taken seriously. We changed that in our second issue with a groundbreaking interview with the governor of Pennsylvania. At that point, no other LGBT medium had ever spoken to such a high-level elected official in its pages. We made it a point if you were running for office, you'd speak to the LGBT community through its media and be accountable. Even a candidate named Barack Obama came to know that. But it goes further. It's not only speaking to the LGBT community, it's keeping the promises of equality.
PGN's mission has not changed, and we hope, along with our community, that we have helped society change. In 1976 — 35 years ago — I really didn't understand what I was signing up for. Today I look back, and tears well up. There are too many memories, some good, some bad. If history is any lesson to us, the history lesson to our community through the last 35 years is: This paper proves this community is on the move and, after reading many of those papers over the last few weeks, late into the night, I predict our community has a bright future.
Mark Segal is the nation's most-award-winning commentator in the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Trans-gendered) media, having recently received the 2010 Columnist of the Year Award from the 2,000-member Suburban Newspapers of America. He was one of the founders and president of both The National Gay Press Association and the National Gay Newspaper Guild He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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About a year and a half ago, I took over the responsibilities for adult programming at my little library. At the time, it was a mixture of a few regular monthly programs along with the occasional one night special class or presentation. I set out to offer a wide range of topics and programs; as an ongoing endeavor, I'd say I'm successful. As I've been wanting to write a post on the topic for awhile and got a nudge to do so from the Zen Master of Adult Programming Janie Hermann on Twitter, I'll give it a shot.
Programming is a lot like juggling.
You have keep a multitude of objects aloft at the same time. Like the plethora of items that people juggle, each has its own needs to remain aloft and can require a certain level of care in doing so. How you catch and toss a tennis ball doesn't matter as opposed to a bowling ball, knife, or chainsaw. Likewise, programs can be an easy booking with not much setup or a series of protracted steps to arrive at the final product you want.
Booking a program isn't always the first step. Finding programs, free or paid, can be the first real time consuming activity that goes into this endeavor. There are plenty of free programs out there between governmental agencies and non-profit organizations. The local health board or a group like Habitat for Humanity have staff members who make presentations for the public, either as part of their public service duty or as a means to spread the word of their mission. From my own experience, I have found local residents who are subject experts who are willing to come to the library to share what they know (both paid and unpaid). It's just a matter of knowing where to look.
It's also a matter of being receptive to those approaching from the outside. Program proposals come in all shapes and sizes, from an in-person presentation to letters and emails to library member word of mouth. I've gotten some great presentations from all three sources. It's important to verify their credentials and references (really, you don't want some random guy babbling on about trains because he liked them when he was five), and ultimately it can be an excellent source of library programs.
Once a program is scheduled, the juggle continues on with publicity. It's important to advertise in your own place as well as in local media outlets and relevant community spots. Flyers can take many forms from the letter sized ones that you staple to a bulletin board to quarter page handouts you give people when they check out material. The local and regional newspapers sometimes have community calendars either in print or online that people use to find out what is going on in their area. A press release is a snappy introduction to the program that you want people to attend that gives them all of the details about the program as well as the time, date, and location. If a program is geared towards a certain group (teen, seniors, kids, etc.), the ability to put publicity out in those areas is also key. This includes social media outlets and go beyond any library Facebook page or Twitter feed; some communities have their own online groups. I post regularly on my town's Facebook group to let people know what is going on at the library.
If the program is a paid gig, this is where the fabulous payment paperwork happens. Since there are different policies in place all over the place, I'll just say "Do it in time so the people are paid on time." Whether that it before the program, the time, or afterward depends on your situation. Otherwise, even with an unpaid gig, you may want to consider an honorarium or gift card to compensate people for their time if they are really going all out for you.
At some relevant point between booking and the actual date of the program, be sure to find out any seating, tables, or AV requirements for the presenter. This information may need to be relayed to another who is setting up the space for the program (or in my case, me). Getting the space ready is a small but important step in the programming juggle.
As the date approaches and if the program has a registration, it is important to remind people of their attendance. Taking the time to write the email or make the call can insure that people will actually show up especially if they signed up for it more than two weeks in advance. I have never had anyone yell at me for providing them with a reminder so it's a good practice. Also, if there is a waiting list, it can lead to last time cancellations that move people into the program.
Whether you are physically there for the program or let coworkers handle it is a very contextual situation. Certain programs really do need you there to make sure everything goes off right; most of the time it can handle itself. It really does depend on what the program is, who the presenter is, and how complicated it is.
In wrapping up the program, you can analyze it for the future. Did it get the attendance that you hoped for? Was the time and day of the week good? How was the presenter? Was it a good use of staff time and library resources? Should I arrange for this person to come back again? There are a ton of other questions that can be asked, but these are the most basic.
Even this analysis, it is a matter of wrapping up. For any program (paid or unpaid), I always make it a point to call or email the presenter to thank them. I get some feedback from them about how it went and any questions they have for me. If payment arrangements still need attending to, I make sure it's all set.
And then, as they say, it's on to the next.
Programming is like juggling. The more you do it, the more things you can keep going at the same time. You will drop some things, you will completely miss, and you will mishandle something. It's just the way it goes and the lessons that you'll get over time through practice. But once you get going, you can take any budget and make it into something amazing for the whole community. There is programming out there for everything. It's just a matter of grabbing and getting it.
If you have tips of your own for programming, add them in the comments.


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Last week I had the pleasure to attend the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research, also known as IGHR, at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. This week long institute provides a unique opportunity in genealogical education. Participants attend one course for the week and are instructed by nationally recognized genealogy educators. There are usually ten courses to choose from ranging from beginning to advanced, and including specialized topics such as military, land, and African-American research. A schedule of future IGHR courses lists the topics for the next four years.
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In order to share information on many of the courses offered at IGHR I have invited genealogists who took each course this year to write a summary as a guest author. I will share these with you over the next few months. I hope that this will give you a better idea of what is covered in each course and answer questions you may have.
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