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The USSA considers itself an "educationally based and athletically focused" organization, referring both to sport education (for parents, coaches, athletes, clubs and officials) and the academic education of its elite athletes. Academic education for the USSA's eli
The USSA is contemplating a new member fee structure, which is intended to streamline the registration process for members, establish stronger relations between USSA and its divisional associates, reduce organizational administrative burdens, provide stronger and consistent value to USSA clubs, and reduce the barrier to entry into USSA programs.
A number of weeks ago I was asked via Twitter where I thought the "33% of youth ski racers who quit return to the sport", and whether or not they came back into interscholastic leagues. This is an interesting question, which I did not know the answer to. And although we clearly know that dropout from USSA programming is at its most pronounced at around age 12, we haven't validated the rate of dropout or studied whether or not those athletes continue in ski racing through other avenues, take up different sports, or leave sport completely.
Today's vote on the addition of sports to the Olympic program highlighted the skill with which the FIS has been able to update, refresh, and expand its own Olympic program by working both within the confines of the space FIS already occupies within the IOC, and by deftly taking advantage of the IOC view that the Winter Olympics still has room to grow.
FIS has had a near constant eye on innovation for over a decade. Annually its sports are reviewed and adapted to ensure they're interesting for viewers, and particularly teens and young adults.
Periodically the USSA's elite athletes training at the Center of Excellence schedule time to speak with their support staffs, to tell them their story and to share with them their programs and goals for the coming year. These "athlete socials" are always a great way to connect the athletes with their support staffs and vice-versa. And they're a great way to remind the staff, many of whom never go into the field with the teams, what their work is all about.
Last winter the USSA surveyed its clubs and coaches to determine actual on-snow training levels of our alpine athletes at the youth and junior levels compared to the recommendations set forth by our National Training Systems.
This survey indicated the following:
· On average, U10s ski close to the number of target days of skiing per year (40-60 days). But a significant number ski 31-40 days (or in some cases less). And a minority ski more (60-100 days).
Every four years, the USSA has the honor of selecting its Olympic Team. Given the strength of the USSA's athletes and teams, this selection process can be demanding on the athletes, and the stresses associated with Olympic selection are considered in the design of the selection procedures. Ultimately, the procedures are designed to build and select the most competitive Olympic Team possible, and to support the USSA's Vision of being Best in the World.
Last winter the USSA undertook a self-study to determine how to partner more effectively with the USSA's 400+ clubs to deliver an optimal athlete development program and ensure Best in the World performance well beyond 2014. This study, which is initially focused on the alpine domestic system, involved the direct feedback of over 100 individuals comprised of Club and divisional leadership, athletes and parents, analogous organizations, USSA Board members, FIS and USOC leaders, and affiliated industry experts. In addition, nearly 800 USS
For the past 17 years, the Vision of USSA has been to "make the United States of America the best in the World in Olympic skiing and snowboarding." That Vision has driven every decision the association has made, and every direction it has established since then. It has been a game-changer in focusing the association on organizational performance, and on excellence. Prior to that Vision, the association lacked direction and inspiration, and had little to measure itself against to determine progress and success.
The USSA invests over $20 million annually in its elite teams, and over $4 million annually in local youth, coach, club and development and competition programs. These resources are used to support the USSA's Vision of being Best in the World in Olympic skiing and snowboarding, and its Mission of providing strong leadership that establishes and supports athletic excellence. Winning more medals than any other nation at the Olympic Games is the ultimate manifestation of a Best in the World system, and is the benchmark that drives the allocation of USSA's resources in support of its athletic
It was a real honor to attend the Annual Benefit for Women's Ski Jumping USA (WSJ-USA) last night. Excellent food, good company from around the globe and an ice sculpture of a ski jump that poured drinks all contributed to a great, festive atmosphere. The program featured WSJ-USA Board President (and former mayor of Salt Lake City) Deedee Corradini thanking all of the supporters of WSJ-USA's long journey.
USSA invests over $20 million per year to support the performance of the athletes in its elite teams. This investment comes in the form of world-class coaching, extensive medical services, equipment support, high performance services (conditioning, nutrition, psychology, technology, physiology, and data tracking and analysis), elite training facilities, home-field international competitions, and academic and career development programs. These services are provided year-round both at the Center of Excellence, and in the field for each of USSA's 195 elite team athletes. And in some cases t
One of the Core Values of the USSA is Team, and one if its organizational goals is "strong partnerships". Both ideas are essential to the realization of the USSA's Vision of being Best in the World.
The scope of the USSA's responsibility is wide, covering the management and governance of 12 distinct Olympic sports. And it's mandate runs equally deep, ranging from international elite athlete programs to youth recruitment and competition at the most local level.
World Champion Kikkan Randall has played a vital role in representing athletes wtihin the International Ski Federation as a member of the FIS Athlete Commission. Following a successful on-snow camp at Mt. Bachelor and a brief stop for testing at the USSA Center of Excellence, Kikkan is on hand in Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia this week for the annual spring meetings of the Federation.
It takes TEAM to be Best in the World. Just ask World Champion Jessie Diggins. Or any USSA national team athlete, for that matter. Jessie is a cross country skier. But she could just as well be an alpine racer, snowboarder, freeskier, aerialist or jumper. Her SkiTrax.com blog post Why This Team Works So Well capsulizes one of the "secrets" to being Best in the World.
Two years ago when we announced that we would be establishing an elite ski and snowboard academy at the Center of Excellence, that announcement was met with enthusiasm by some and with consternation by others. Some were concerned that running a school would be a financial drain on other programs. Some cautioned that the demands of running a school in addition to our elite athlete and high performance programs would be distracting and take focus away from our core mission. Some believed that we had underestimated how demanding it would be to run a school, and how difficult it is to delive
The USSA's culture is built across many factors, including four "cornerstones" of athletic success - elite athlete programs, sport science and medicine, national development systems, and education. As a Best in the World organization, oftentimes elite athlete programs take center stage, leading to the impression that USSA is strictly focused on the elite end of the sport. However,the USSA embraces the idea that Best in the World is a manifestation of excellence at all levels of the sport. The USSA is educationally based and athletically focused, and for good reason!
The 2013 USSA Congress was a successful event bringing hundreds of USSA club leaders, athletes, coaches, officials and experts together for education sessions, informational presentations and policy decisions at both the sport and the board level, as well as social activities and informal sharing of best-practices across programs. The six days of meetings were highlighted by extremely constructive work, with a clear goal of Best the World. Best in the World is a manifestation of focused, specific, performance-oriented work at every level of the pipeline.
Mike Brown, the executive director of the Sisu Foundation, a successful nordic program north of the Twin Cities in Minnesota, sent a note over after the USSA Club Excellence conference.
"I wanted to say thank you for the USSA's commitment and recognition that strategic, financial and operational are not done well enough by clubs and that shared best practices are needed." - Mike Brown, Executive Director, Sisu Foundation, Willernie, MN
On Friday, May 17, USSA President and CEO Bill Marolt delivered his keynote address to club leaders, staff, coaches, officials and more gathered in Park City, UT. In his address, he discussed the coming 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, the importance of club development and the future of the USSA. Watch his keynote below.


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Google Play has today launched its Magazines store in the UK, meaning Android-equipped Total Guitar readers can now buy the magazine digitally for their device.
To visit Total Guitar's page on Google Play, and for a list of compatible Android devices, click here.
Subscriptions start at just £2.49 a month - currently with a 30 day free trial - and single issues are available for £2.99. You can download issues directly to your device the day they go on sale.
Downloading the magazine is easy: download the Google Play Magazines app, and search for 'Total Guitar'. Once you've downloaded the issue, it will be available forever, even if you need to remove it from your device.

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May I say that I miss blogging, I miss being Hadia behind the keyboard, writing on her ideas, fears and thoughts... I miss having the courage to admit my poorness ! and having the faith that I can solve it all .
This life steal years from us, I grow up so fast and yes it seems that my adult's problems and stress are bigger * I confess dear childhood*.
Recently, I feel that maybe what I see is not what is going on, Everything seems fake and everyone look different.The college look different, My friends look different, I look different myself " I loose 2 kilos :) "
NO,SERIOUSLY: our yard battle "our life" seems different !
previously in my posts history I wrote a phrase that was written in the cover of my book
" I feel that I have been sleeping all my life and I have woken up and opened my eyes to the words. A beautiful world but impossible to live in "
These are the words of fifteen years old Hadiya
But the words of twenty two years old Hadiya :
" I feel that I have been dupe in my life, and I have woken up and opened my eyes to see the truth and my mind choose to close and will still choose to close as much as this worlds is not a the beautiful world and as much as I want to make it possible to be lived in !"
I need a whole new blog site to write all what I am feeling and living through.
I don't know, but I feel that this life is giving me lessons lately, too much home works and hard exams I may not be able to pass !
I also don't know why I am not able to speak clearly, and why I hide the story beyond this phrases and why knowing that my fiance or someone I know may read this words make me unable to write!
Frankly speaking,I loose my writing habit after my engagement. Obviously this prince stole more that my heart !!! :) BUT,May I ask : why he is not writing?
I miss writing, I miss it soooo much, but I miss my fiance too :(
why I change the subject ? I always change the subject, I can't focus! more than ten ideas visit my head every minute *And you still ask why I have a traffic jam ??
right now I feel that:
I need to write!
I shall and I must and I will probably well ... this website was never mere a blog to me !
Readers who are interested:
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Now this is some news we're most definitely not happy to report. Back in February we told you about Syncplicity, an awesome sync solution that, in our opinion, is far superior to any competing product. In a nutshell, Syncplicity allows users to mirror any folder on a computer (in two clicks) with an always-in-sync online copy, "in the cloud". Folders can also by synced across computers and shared with anyone in just a few clicks. Syncplicity had just opened its Mac beta when we covered it and since then it has become a staple on every system that hits BGR HQ. Unfortunately, bad news struck our inbox this past Thursday that will change all that:
Our engineering team has recently completed a ground-up analysis of the Mac beta client and the investigation found some issues which require some major changes in the client. Because of this, we've decided to pull back the Mac client beta until which point the engineering team has time to make some major changes. We intend to reassess our engineering schedule early next year.
Unfortunately, this does mean that as of July 31st, you will no longer be able to use Syncplicity with a Mac computer.
We truly strive to have Beta software become Final Release software. In the case, we felt the Mac beta client didn't meet our standards for quality. I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you, and I thank you for participating in the trial period.
If you have any questions or concerns, I invite you to email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The line, "We intend to reassess our engineering schedule early next year" has us particularly worried as it leads us to believe the company won't even begin serious work on the Mac client until some time in 2010. Ouch. While Syncplicity's Windows solution will remain alive and well and we'll continue to use it on our Windows boxes, it looks like Mac is down for the count until some time next year. If you're a Syncplicity user with a Mac, make sure you have everything in order so you're not blindsided when the lights go out two weeks from now on July 31st.


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When I was in grade school, we would start every year of Pilipino class with a lesson on what the Filipino traits were. The ones I particularly remember are: bahala na, pakikisama, hiya, mañana habit, and utang na loob. These five values inform every Kiva Fellow's experience in the Philippines but also explain why many of the micro-entrepreneurs I've spoken to become borrowers in the first place. Literally translated, these words sometimes seem pejorative in English yet without understanding them, one would be hard-pressed to understand how microfinance works in the Philippines.
Bahala na- From Bathala na, there is no direct translation but more or less means "Leave it to God" or "Come What May". When I was in school this was taught to me as a negative character trait of ours- it meant we were defeatist in our attitude to life and were only willing to do as much as was necessary, preferring to leave the rest up to God's will. In fact, during my time here, I've been thinking that my Grade One teacher was really right. The Bahala Na attitude got us nowhere.
I've had the same conversation with almost every borrower I've met. "I do the best I can and the rest I leave up to God. I try and pay back my loans to the best of my ability and God makes the rest of the decisions." This can often seem infuriating to those brought up with more Western ideals and are used to taking control of their lives and making their own decisions. That's partly how I felt anyway. It was particularly surprising to me given the fact that these people had taken action in their own little way– they ran their own businesses which was more than I can say for myself, still stuck to the corporate world.
But when you think about it, entrepreneurship in the developing world as opposed to the entrepreneurship of Google, Amazon, and yes even Kiva. Entrepreneurship in America and the rest of the developed world has a daring, even romantic appeal to it. Be free! Unchain yourself from the shackles of your corporate 9-to-5 desk job and do something that inspires you…AND you'll be rich at the same time! Not so for the developed world. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor in 2006 "early-stage entrepreneurial activity is generally higher in those countries with lower levels of GDP" yet this is because the very entrepreneurs we laud here on the ground are often "pushed into entrepreneurship because all other options for work are either absent or unsatisfactory(necessity entrepreneurs)." Many of these micro-entrepreneurs then are not entrepreneurs by choice but because they've been forced into it from unemployment or the death of a loved one or the need to support a family of five or six or more. Understanding this fundamental difference in the attitudes to entrepreneurship makes a big difference in understanding the effects of microfinance.
Let's face it. Not everyone has the entrepreneurial spirit. One can understand all the business metrics, the numbers and the system but one would still have to be willing to take on the risks. Most people, lower-class, middle-class, upper-class, whatever, are much more risk-averse than your successful entrepreneur. The other day, a couple of PMPC staff officers took me to the field with them and I met Nestor Parcutilo.
Nestor told me how he had spent 25 years working at the shipping docks in Manila. When the time came to renew his contract, the company decided he was too old and let him go. He was unable to find another job in the city and had to move back home. Here, he opened a "sari-sari" or general store, which has done pretty well. He'd found a good location and stocked it with popular items. At the same time, Nestor admitted that he would still prefer the security of employment and a steady paycheck then the constant risks of entrepreneurship. He even showed me the ring from the shipping company he still wore everyday, commemorating his 25 years with them. Nestor hasn't failed though; his business has grown but at the same time, he just doesn't have the entrepreneurial spirit, nor does he want it. All else equal, he'd really rather have his job back and be in Manila, with his friends, with his regular salary, with an active life. Yet, as he also said with a smile, "Bahala na sa Diyos", I'll leave the decisions up to God and do the best with what I have.
So it turns out that an attitude that was always presented to me in school as defeatist changed in meaning entirely after that conversation. There was nothing defeatist about the way Nestor played his cards so far but at the same time, it does show how rarely microentrepreneurship and the availing of a microfinance loan is a choice yet it still provides an option where there might have been none otherwise.
To learn more about the lives of micro-entrepreneurs like Nestor and the choices they make, click here and make a loan or join our lending team
Posted in Anti-Poverty Focus, Entrepreneurial Support, Facilitation of Savings, Family and Community Empowerment, Innovation, KF10 (Kiva Fellows 10th Class), Paglaum Multipurpose Cooperative (PMPC), Philippines, Social Performance Tagged: Anti-Poverty Focus, Bahala Na, Borrowers, bottom of the pyramid, Entrepreneurial Support, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurshial poor, Facilitation of Savings, Family and Community Empowerment, Filipino values, innovation, MFI, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, social performance


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Configure Exchange ActiveSync on Windows Phone 7
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync is available as an optional add-on to SmarterMail. Unlike the other synchronization methods, Exchange ActiveSync uses direct push technology to sync email, calendars, contacts, tasks, notes, and folders in real-time. Once you have activated the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync add-on and enabled the feature for an email account in SmarterMail, the Windows Phone 7 will need to be configured.
Follow these steps to connect your Windows Phone 7 device to SmarterMail via Exchange ActiveSync:
1) From the home screen, push the arrow in the upper right corner, and go to Settings.
2) Under the System tab, select email & accounts.
3) Select add an account.
4) Select Outlook.
5) Enter your email address and password and click Sign In.
6) You will be then be brought to a page to check your information and try again. Your e-mail address and password should be populated. If not, fill these in. Change your username to your e-mail address, and leave Domain blank, then hit Sign In again.
7) You will then receive a screen that says We couldn't find our settings. Click Advanced.
8) The email address, password, and username fields should be populated. If they are not, please fill these in. Leave the domain field blank, and enter your mail server (generally mail.yourdomain.com, however you may need to check with your mail host or server administrator if you are unsure). Click Sign in.
9) You will be brought back to the e-mail & accounts menu. To verify your account has been added, look for the account on this list.
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The Irish Voice newspaper is by very definition an Irish voice, and within these pages is a weekly Celtic buffet of commentary on arts, culture, politics and sports.
The first page I turn to is the one written by my friend Cormac MacConnell. I marvel at how he writes his readers love letters every week in exquisite prose from across the pond, stoking the love we all have for our culture by reminding us that blackberries were delicacies that grew along stone walls way before they were buzzing devices in our pockets.
Though I don't feel fit to dip my quill in the same ink as his, I have been thinking that the Irish experience from this side of the Atlantic is a bit different from Cormac's yarns and is not well represented in these pages.
Don't the narrowbacks, the people born in the U.S. considered unfit for the hard physical labor typically performed by those in the country of ancestral origin, deserve our own voice in the Irish Voice?
American kids that grew up under the watchful eye of Irish-born parents have a viewpoint unlike anyone else on the planet, a fact not lost on me as I try my hand at parenting two little girls. If this describes you, I hope you see yourself in this irregular little feature, "The Narrowback's Corner," on weeks when things are a bit slow, music-wise.
Here's an example -- I've been reading a lot about this trend in upbringing techniques called "helicopter parenting." Have you ever heard of it?
It describes the hovering mom and dad that rush in to shield the child from any harm or possible failure in life; they are so named because, like a helicopter, they hover closely overhead at all times. It has gotten so bad that business journals have been reporting nightmare stories of helicopter parents making calls to their child's boss about work tasks and volumes.
How much do you wanna bet that not one pilot in these helicopters has an Irish brogue?
Irish parents may hover as good as their American counterpart, but they would only do so to monitor the scene just to ensure their kids got a snout full of failure as they earned the value of a dollar. The more the world kicked their butt and dished their kid a raw deal, the better!
I remember spending one summer home from college in a white coat and a hair net, cramming powdered sugar into caplets at a pharmaceutical manufacturing company. While my friends frolicked in the surf, I spent 10 weeks making placebo doses for use in some blind study.
I hated my job intensely, and I am convinced that my parents loved that I hated it. It is impossible for me to imagine a scenario where they would complain to the foreman about my workload, because they knew that the never ending monotony was providing their hard partying son with a valuable life lesson.
"Well, if you want to escape that kind of life, you may want to think twice about whooping it up in college," Mom would say. "Hit the books and make something of yourself."
Funny thing about having parents that were raised on a rural farm -- they don't really care if your hands blister over as you mow every lawn in the county, as I did in high school.
In fact, their milky blue eyes dance with delight as they watch you peel the soft skin off of your fingers to reveal the angry red tendons throbbing beneath. As you soak your tired bones into the warm bath, they might throw in a treat and sit at the edge of the tub as they gleefully recount stories of bailing hay and digging up spuds for hours on end until they couldn't feel their digits.
"What you did today would be a giddy holiday for us lot back home," they'd say as they'd hand you a towel.
At that moment, I'm sure I wanted to beat my folks to death with the plunger behind the toilet. But time has a funny way of making your parents look pretty smart.
The way they taught me to appreciate the value of money is in sharp contrast to modern times, when most tweens are of the opinion that money comes from an endless supply in the ATM machine at the bank lobby.
I'm glad I never had helicopters swooping overhead. A good old fashioned Irish plow is far more effective when you're paving your own way.


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1) Sac Self-Help Housing is a recipient sub-contractor
2) We have a strong relationship with CH HART. They are our partner when it comes to working with homeless challenges in our community. Members of HART put in countless hours providing services and help to those in need. We help them in any way we can and actively participate in their board meetings to discuss current events, goals, and challenges
3) The program is funded through a combination of the general fund and the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
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1) The program started as a part-time program in the fiscal year of 2015/2016
2) The program became a full-time program in the fiscal year of 2016/2017
3) The program is such a great success today because of all the hard work, passion, and dedication to helping those in need. We could not do what we do without many partnerships, including city staff, Citrus Heights Homeless Assistance Resource Team (HART), and several faith based organizations to name just a few
Approximately $51,000, which is a mix of general fund and CDBG.
Yes, this is a full-time position. The Navigator assists people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The Navigator goes out to encampments to locate people, along with holding walk-in hours. HART and CHPD are resources assisting the Navigator in getting in contact with clients. After the first intake, the Navigator evaluates how to assist the client. Sometimes this includes things such as ID vouchers, assistance with assessing mainstream benefits, bus passes, job assistance, Medicare/Medi-Cal applications, and referrals for individuals with substance use disorder. Other times the Navigator gives the client referrals for room rentals, apartment rentals, shared living situations and more.
Some of the programs and services the Navigator connects the homeless to are things such as ID vouchers, bus passes, job assistance, Medicare/Medi-Cal applications, programs through Mather, DHA, and permanent or transitional supportive housing.
The Navigator goes out into the community and finds homeless individuals and makes direct contact. The CHPD also hands out her business card with every homeless individual contacted.
Walk-in hours are temporarily suspended due to COVID-19:
Wednesday ONLY from 10 AM - 1 PM.
Sacramento Works, 7011 Sylvan Road, Citrus Heights, CA 95610.
You can also contact the Navigator:
Office (916) 727-5563
Cell (916) 533-3069
In 2018, there was 136 homeless or at risk of homeless individuals housed due to the assistance of the Navigator. In addition, 53 individuals were able to receive ID's and 32 people were referred to the lawyer for assistance such things as Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
Of the people helped in 2018, 47% of them had a disability of some sort and 15% had a diagnosed mental disability.
Some of the barriers that the Navigator faces in regards to helping the homeless are things such as lack of affordable housing, need for increased access to mental health and social services in their community, and accessibility to employment.
This program doesn't create housing but is limited to the available units that clients can afford. There is a lack of affordable housing, and many participants are between extremely-low and moderate income, which commonly disqualifies them from market-rate housing options. Participants have the self-determination to engage in the services or not. When clients decide not to use the benefits, we continue to offer them until they are ready. The Navigator is here to assist in all aspects and to hand out tools for anyone prepared to accept them. Our goal is to increase homeless assistance and to listen to individual concerns regarding their experiences of these services.


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Mobile Health Tech Could Reduce Doctor Visits
Scripps researchers laud potential, say more evidence needed to show whether apps to manage acute and chronic illnesses are safe and effective.
November 4, 2013
10 Mobile Health Apps From Uncle Sam
10 Mobile Health Apps From Uncle Sam(click image for larger view and for slideshow)
Because of mobile health apps and home monitoring, physicians will eventually see patients far less often for minor acute problems and followup visits than they do today, said three doctors from Scripps Health in a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). But before that can happen, they cautioned, "real-world clinical trial evidence" is needed to confirm the benefits of mobile health apps for patients, clinicians and payers.
The three cardiologists who wrote the commentary all work at the Scripps Translational Science Institute, which does clinical trials of mobile health applications and devices. They include Eric Topol, the institute's director and a longtime mobile health advocate; Steven R. Steinhubl, director of digital medicine for Scripps Health; and Evan D. Muse, a clinical scholar and cardiovascular fellow at the institute.
Their central thesis is that mobile health presents an opportunity for consumers to diagnose their acute symptoms and better manage their chronic conditions. This would promote patient engagement and partnership in care, they said. It would also provide greater convenience to patients, allow for more rapid diagnosis of acute problems, and reduce the number of unnecessary visits to physicians' offices and emergency departments, which would decrease the cost of care.
Today, they noted, more than a third of physician office visits are related to an acute condition, and care for up to a quarter of patients presenting at emergency departments could have been managed in the ambulatory-care setting. "Innovative mHealth devices exist for all of the most common acute conditions and have the potential to allow individuals to forgo an office or emergency department visit through safe, effective and informed management from home."
[ Want to know more about the trouble with regulating mobile health apps? See Lawmakers Try To Sharpen FDA Focus On Healthcare Apps. ]
The authors cite a "thermometer-enabled smartphone" that can be used to send physicians data that indicates whether a patient might have an upper respiratory tract infection. Besides monitoring temperature and associated symptoms, it connects with a patient's "digital community" to see how many people at work or at school have the bug. Similarly, a smartphone-based otoscope can check for the presence of otitis media, and a home urinalysis kit can be used to test patients for urinary tract infections.
Home monitoring can also be used to check blood pressure and send the data to physicians. One of every three adults has hypertension, and the condition accounts for 40 million visits annually. The use of digital blood pressure cuffs at home could greatly reduce the number of these visits, the commentary noted.
But there are several barriers to the increased use of mobile health apps for acute and chronic conditions, the paper said. Among them are: financial incentives for providers to bring patients into the office; physicians' fear of weakening their relationships with patients; and the untried nature of most of these apps.
While there is a lot of evidence that home monitoring of blood pressure and glucose levels is reliable, very few rigorous trials of mobile health apps have been done, said Steinhubl in an interview with InformationWeek Healthcare. "What little published data there is is primarily from pilot studies, which will always cast the best light on it," he said. For example, Asthmapolis (now Propeller) did a study of its asthma app with just 30 patients, but is now planning a larger trial, he said.
In the absence of good evidence, it's hard for physicians or consumers to know what to trust, he said. The JAMA commentary noted there was an enormous gulf between the number of mobile health apps on the market -- between 20,000 and 90,000 -- and the 100 or so that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved.
The FDA's final rule on mobile health regulation said that apps that purport to be medical devices or that are adjuncts to regulated medical devices require approval. Some developers might balk at this, but a degree of regulation is needed in this market, Steinhubl noted. He cited a recent study of an app that was supposed to help people self-diagnose melanoma. "It showed that in the majority of cases they missed 30% of the melanomas and called them non-concerning," he said.
Beyond the question of FDA approval, there's a great deal of hype in the mobile health space, he pointed out. For example, Toronto researchers recently announced they'd developed a wristband device that can analyze the nutrients in a person's bloodstream after they've eaten. Based on his knowledge of the science, Steinhubl said, he highly doubts that will work.
The iTunes store recently started requiring references to be included in listings of medical apps, he said. But with 10,000 papers published every week, it's not hard for somebody to find a study to back their app. He views this requirement as a "very minimal standard."
Steinhubl said he welcomes the launch of the online social health community Wellocracy by Partners Healthcare's Center for Connected Health. The Wellocracy site will have experts advise consumers on which mobile apps, sleep trackers and activity trackers fit their lifestyles. "There's definitely a need for an unbiased clearinghouse for medical applications and other apps," the Scripps researcher said.
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Literary references to the plebs, however, usually mean the ordinary citizens of Rome as a whole, as distinguished from the elite—a sense retained by "plebeian" in English. In the very earliest days of Rome, plebeians were any tribe or clan without advisers to the King. In time, the word – which is related to the Greek word for crowd, plethos – came to mean the common people.
Plebeians in ancient Rome
In Latin the word plebs is a singular collective noun, and its genitive is plebis.
The origin of the separation into orders is unclear, and it is disputed when the Romans were divided under the early kings into patricians and plebeians, or whether the clientes (or dependents) of the patricians formed a third group. Certain gentes ("clans") were patrician, as identified by the nomen (family name), but a gens might have both patrician and plebeian branches that shared a nomen but were distinguished by a cognomen, as was the case with the gens Claudia.
The 19th-century historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr held that plebeians began to appear at Rome during the reign of Ancus Marcius and were possibly foreigners settling in Rome as naturalized citizens. In any case, at the outset of the Roman Republic, the patricians had a near monopoly on political and social institutions. Plebeians were excluded from magistracies and religious colleges, and they were not permitted to know the laws by which they were governed. Plebeians served in the army, but rarely became military leaders.
Dissatisfaction with the status quo occasionally mounted to the point that the plebeians engaged in a sort of general strike, a secessio plebis, during which they would withdraw from Rome, leaving the patricians to themselves. From 494 to 287 BC, five such actions during the so-called "Conflict of the Orders" resulted in the establishment of plebeian offices (the tribunes and plebeian aediles), the publication of the laws (the Law of the Twelve Tables), the establishment of the right of plebeian–patrician intermarriage (by the passage of the Lex Canuleia), the opening of the highest offices of government and some state priesthoods to the plebeians and passage of legislation (the Lex Hortensia) that made resolutions passed by the assembly of plebeians, the concilium plebis, binding on all citizens.
Noble Plebeians
During the Second Samnite War (326–304 BC), plebeians who had risen to power through these social reforms, began to acquire the aura of nobilitas, "nobility" (more literally "notability"), marking the creation of a ruling elite of nobiles that allied the interests of patricians and noble plebeians.[1] From the mid-4th century to the early 3rd century BC, several plebeian–patrician "tickets" for the consulship repeated joint terms, suggesting a deliberate political strategy of cooperation.[2] Although nobilitas was not a formal social rank during the Republican era, in general a plebeian who had attained the consulship was regarded as having brought nobility to his family. Such a man was a novus homo, a "new man" or self-made noble and his sons and descendants were nobiles.[3]
Marius and Cicero are notable examples of novi homines in the late Republic, when many of Rome's richest and most powerful men—such as Lucullus, Crassus, and Pompeius—were plebeian nobles. Some or perhaps many noble plebeians, including Cicero and Lucullus, aligned their political interests with the faction of optimates, conservatives who sought to preserve senatorial prerogatives. By contrast, the populares or "people's party", which sought to champion the plebs in the sense of "common people", were sometimes led by patricians such as Julius Caesar and Clodius Pulcher.[citation needed]
United States military academies
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In the U.S. military, Plebes are freshmen at the U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Naval Academy, Valley Forge Military Academy, the Marine Military Academy, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Georgia Military College, California Maritime Academy. The term is also used for new cadets at the Philippine Military Academy.
British Empire
Early public schools in the United Kingdom would enroll pupils as "plebeians" as opposed to sons of gentry and aristocrats.
In British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand and South African English the back-formation pleb, along with the more recently derived adjectival form plebby,[4] is used as a derogatory term for someone considered unsophisticated or uncultured.[5]
See also
- Vulgarism
- Bread and circuses
- Capite censi
- Plebeian Council
- Plebgate – a scandal in the United Kingdom in 2012
- Proletariat
- Roman Republic
- ↑ E.T. Salmon, Samnium and the Samnites (Cambridge University Press, 1967), p. 217.
- ↑ Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War (University of California Press, 2005), p. 269.
- ↑ Fergus Millar, "The Political Character of the Classical Roman Republic, 200–151 B.C.," as reprinted in Rome, the Greek World, and the East (University of North Carolina Press, 2002), p. 126; P.A. Brunt, "Nobilitas and novitas," Journal of Roman Studies 72 (1982) 1–17.<
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The cameras are being set, microphones tested and clichés pulled out of the closet and polished to a high gloss.
That's right, it's election time, and me being a journalist, a member of the lamestream media and all that, shouldn't I be telling you how to vote?
Nothing brings on quite the creepy joy of telling other people what to think, but I will fight the urge. The truth is, picking a president is like a box of…
…Oh never mind.
I do know that the media filter and distort so much of their material that they create a bizzaro universe that has nothing to do with reality, or sober assessment or good judgment. How else do you explain these discrepancies:
Richard Nixon was said to be the most despicable president ever, yet somehow he managed to create the EPA, end the war in Vietnam and bring our soldiers home, not to mention prying China loose from the Soviet Union with ping pong diplomacy and thereby destroying what might have been decades of worldwide communist hegemony.
Ronald Reagan was portrayed as a doddering old grump. Yet every time he met with the Russians he got everything he wanted and they got next to nothing. He was a superb negotiator, a poker player who snookered his adversaries every time every time they sat down at the bargaining table. And how many wars did this alleged warmonger start?
The lesson here is that presidents and candidates aren't really what they seem to be at first glance. And they quite often are, or become, the opposite of what the media and the mob think of them.
Which doesn't help much, I know, but, I still think its important to vote.
In fact it's more important to vote than it is who you vote for. Because if you don't vote, you make it that much easier for the next round of rascals to win unexamined.
Low voter turnouts mean politicians can rely more on back-room bribes and corporate lobbyists to fund their campaigns. The only thing that scares them is this inconvenient habit we the people have of showing up and kicking them out of office. They'd get rid of this voting business if they could, and both parties go to great lengths to limit who you can vote for. But if you don't vote, you're just helping them that much more. If you do vote you at least keep them partially accountable.
A classic example of this is the Tea Party. Like them or not, the Tea Party's influence on politics and the Republican party is undeniable. In 2010 they took away Ted Kennedy's Senate "seat," engineered the largest legislative landslide in U. S. history and grabbed six Senate seats. They also helped elect six governors and 700 seats in state legislatures. For better or worse, they forced the Republican party to pay homage to their small government, low taxes philosophy.
How did they do this? Simple. They voted. And the fact that they vote has politicians on both sides of the aisle scared to cross swords with them.
Even if you don't like either candidate for the presidency this time around, there's always independent candidates. And voting for an independent candidate is not throwing your vote away unless you happen to live in one of the six swing states. If you live in one of these, they you face a tougher decision. Independent Ross Perot torpedoed George Bush the elder's chance at a second term and Ralph Nader sunk Al Gore's bid to be president in 2000. Keep that in mind, please.
At this point, I doubt the issues are going to motivate anybody to change their mind. But if you want a sober, objective list of the issues, this blog by Barry Ritholtz does it better than any newspaper account I've seen yet.
The only salient factor you should be aware of is this: The unfunded mandates from the combined federal, state and local governments in the U.S. come to $200 trillion. Our economy created about $14 trillion in goods and services last year. In other words, if everybody worked for free for the next 15 years, we might be able to pay off what the government has already agreed to spend.
In light of this, how you're expected to pay for food, clothing, shelter or vacations to WallyWorld with your permanently indebted offspring is anybody's guess.
What can't go on won't.


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Deidre McPherson
Why she's interesting: McPherson founded the Cleveland chapter of Sistah Sinema, a monthly film event centered on queer women of color, in 2012. The selected films present stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer women of all minority groups and come from a variety of genres including dramas, documentaries and comedies. The chapter, which meets at venues such as Arts Collinwood and Spaces Gallery, aims to explore the stories and struggles of women just like them.
The Right Fit: When McPherson returned to Cleveland after living in diverse cities such as Boston and Washington, D.C., for 13 years, she didn't know where to start looking to find a community in which to fit. After some online research, she discovered Sistah Sinema. "It was nice to do something outside the bar and the club scene. It was really difficult to find originally."
More than Movies: There has to be a little fun when putting on events covering important topics, says McPherson, so she has put together panels of community leaders and even set up a dating game with contestants. "It's been really fun to organize these events, because each month we're seeing new spaces, and the audience is diverse."
Take a Seat: Attendance for the film screenings usually hits between 25 and 30 people but has drawn as many as 50 guests. "It's made up of queer women of color, but it's also people who are interested in learning more and supporting the community."
Social Skills: McPherson, who works at the Council of Smaller Enterprises as a marketing manager, sees parallels between helping small businesses evolve and her work with Sistah Sinema. "I love networking with different organizations and individuals that can help Sistah Sinema grow and reaching out to organizations that will find what we're doing on a monthly basis beneficial."
Feature Film: McPherson has seen her fair share of films, but her favorite is Pariah, a 2011 drama about an African-American teenager starting to develop her sexual identity. "It's just an amazing story about how she accepts herself and who she is."
Wheel Deal: You can find McPherson riding her bike through trails in the Cleveland Metroparks Rocky River Reservation or the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood. "When you ride your bike, you actually see the city through a different set of eyes, because you're taking the time to explore surroundings."
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TORONTO – Ontario schools will go back to teaching the same sex-ed curriculum they did in the late 1990s this fall after the province's new government announced Wednesday it was revoking an updated version brought in by the previous regime.
Just over a week into the summer break, Education Minister Lisa Thompson said ministry staff were working to inform school boards of the decision to revert to the curriculum that was in place before 2015.
The older curriculum will remain in effect until the government completes a "fulsome consultation respecting parents" on how to modernize the material, she said.
The newer sex-ed curriculum sparked controversy, particularly among social conservatives, when the Liberal government introduced it three years ago.
REALITY CHECK: Doug Ford's problem with the sex-ed curriculum
It was the first time the curriculum had been updated since 1998, and it included warnings about online bullying and sexting that were not in the previous version. But protesters zeroed in on discussions of same-sex marriage, gender identity and masturbation.
The updated document has its supporters, however, including tens of thousands of people who signed a petition to save it after the Tories – who vowed to scrap it during the election campaign – were elected last month.
A group also paid for a three-metre-long sign defending the curriculum. "Dear PC MPPs," read the sign, which was parked outside the legislature Wednesday. "Don't let the religious right hijack sex-ed."
WATCH: Ontario's sex-ed curriculum backlash (May 2015)
Ontario's two largest teachers' unions said they oppose the decision, noting that parents and educators were consulted extensively before the curriculum was updated.
Sam Hammond, president of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, said the move is a "huge disservice" to students, who need to learn about critical issues such as consent.
What's more, given the amount of input teachers, experts and parents had in the update, any new consultations are likely to give a similar result, Hammond said. He encouraged parents to call on Thompson to save the updated curriculum.
The decision also doesn't leave teachers much time to alter their plans for the fall semester, said Harvey Bischof, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation.
"Nobody wants to be unprepared, it's certainly not the best approach to classroom practice to make last-minute decisions or to have last-minute decisions foisted upon our members," he said.
"And so it doesn't feel like a thoughtful approach, it feels like a bit of a knee-jerk reaction."
LISTEN: Sex and relationship expert Jess O'Reilly reacts
Some parents, too, said they would have to make adjustments in light of the change.
Megan Houston, a mother of three – aged two, four and 21 – said it will affect how she talks to her younger children about sex, mental health and other subjects that were addressed in the newer curriculum.
"It makes me, as a parent, more vigilant," she said. "For my four-year-old, for example, we're talking about things like personal space."
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The earlier curriculum, which was taught to her oldest daughter, glossed over some key issues, she said.
"While there were mechanics of things talked about, it was separating this idea of sex and feeling and emotion. Whereas with this new curriculum, it really ties in this idea of 'sex is not just something that your body does, it's something that will affect you emotionally,"' she said.
Others rejoiced at the news, saying parents and medical professionals should play a bigger role in creating the curriculum.
An organizer with the Thorncliffe Parents Association, a group that opposed the curriculum brought in by the Liberals, said the move was a victory for parents.
WATCH: Ontario's New Sex-Ed Curriculum (Feb. 2015)
Khalid Mahmood, a father of five, said he was uncomfortable with grade school children learning about homosexuality, a topic that was covered in the updated curriculum.
Some observers raised concerns about how Wednesday's announcement would affect inclusion in schools.
"Our schools should be more understanding of all diversity, of all religions, of all sexual orientations and gender identity," said Susan Gapka, a Toronto-based transgender activist who has run for school trustee.
"To repeal this would take us back about 20 years before texting and smartphones," she said.
Lee Airton, a professor in the Faculty of Education at Queen's University, said teachers can still create an inclusive environment even with the older curriculum.
However, the change could affect how some teachers feel in the workplace, the professor said.
"I worry about new, young and precariously employed teachers who are gender and sexual minority people and whether they will experience a chilling affect in their teaching and whether they will feel less supported by their administration," they said.
— With files from Daniela Germano and Paola Loriggio


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I have a bin on the shelf near my desk, just a regular bin to keep paperwork that you can find in any office supply store. I inherited it along with the other usual supplies when I joined GCI magazine; it had been labeled "Purgatory." I have no idea what files it had held for punishment, but it has become a storage place for the "purification" of ideas. Besides the materials that are sent to me and end up in the bin, bits of torn out magazines and newspapers find their way there—waiting for the ideas they contain to spark something more that the editors of GCI can run with.
One now discoloring piece is a blurb that I tore from my local paper in March 2010, and it is apropos to this issue, with its focus on anti-aging: "A man stole eight bottles of anti-aging products and four bottles of regenerating serum, items worth a total of $323, from CVS ... " My first thought was, "Wow. That's a lot of product." My second thought (showing I've caught on to thinking about consumers in targeted segments) was, "I wonder how old this guy is?" I mean, is he looking to head off the aging process at the pass? And what product types would suit those needs best? Another thought that now occurs to me is that for all the brand owners looking for entrée into the men's market, I think we found a consumer study candidate— check out Alisa Marie Beyer's Testing, Testing ... 1, 2, 3 for real insight into consumer studies.
Regardless of what attracted this Dorian Gray kleptomaniac, it is clear consumers as a whole are looking for the newest breakthroughs in anti-aging—and are also expecting better results and more choices. In New Solution for Anti-aging, Shyam Gupta and Linda Walker consider the application of osmoprotection for multifunctional skin care, notably to address signs of aging. It is relatively new, but early indications suggest the potential for anti-aging products that will capture consumers' imaginations. One of the signs of aging that osmoprotection addresses is intracellular inflammation, and Marie Alice Dibon contributes Inflammation and Aging, noting that low-level irritants can trigger an almost ongoing inflammatory reaction that is a major culprit in aging skin—described as inflamm-aging. Dibon writes that addressing inflamm-aging involves fighting the external damage by using anti-inflammatory compounds and antioxidant compounds; fighting cellular damage and fighting protein oxidation. And according to several articles published in late January, scientists have found a protein that acts as a "master switch" to determine whether certain white blood cells will boost or dampen inflammation. I wonder what implications this switch may have in the development of cosmetic products.
In the March 2011 issue, Eva Martin Fernandez, MWV's European marketing manager, writes about the importance of consumer insight, notably of French consumers, and the impact on brand strategies and the packaging that fulfills these strategies. At about the time I was editing this contribution, I received an email with information on the efforts of Shelley Bausch, Dow Corning vice president and global executive director, Xiameter brand, and Dirk Soontjens, Dow Corning Hair Care global marketing manager, toward meeting the needs of a specific market and consumer through product customization based on market data/consumer insight and served through appropriate/innovative supply chains.
Soontjens tells us the starting point for developing formula/products for specific target consumers/markets always has to focus on consumer needs. In other words, specific claims and positioning essentially respond to consumer needs and an inherent trend toward individualization. And, according to Bausch, "consumer demand and stricter regulation in emerging and developing countries are leading to a growing emphasis on maintaining a 'green' supply chain."
Here is the rest of our Q&A:
GCI: Brands are tending to target narrower and narrower consumer segments with very specific claims/positioning. Is that what has pushed formula customization or is it the outcome of formula customization?
Soontjens: To some extent, one could view the question from both sides. However, the starting point always has to focus on consumer needs. In other words, specific claims and positioning essentially respond to consumer needs and an inherent trend toward individualization. As a supplier of specialty silicones, when we strive to provide materials for customized products, we're responding to needs that exist or, in terms of developing or emerging regions, may be unmet.
Certainly emerging and developing markets are becoming more sophisticated, and consumers seek specialized products that reflect biological hair type, grooming practices, cultural fashion and technologies that can make better performing products. In this framework, silicone technology is a perfect example—the demand for high performance, and competition for differentiated personal care products continues to lead [brands and manufacturers] into new global territories, creating demand for specialty ingredients that push technology boundaries. That approach can serve as the starting point for new products that fill unmet-or in some cases, unrecognized-needs.
One driver of customization is the trend toward an all-around increase in hair treatments, including heat, chemical and other means. The result is greater opportunity for high performance ingredients and products that address hair protection and repair. We're seeing a greater focus on products created to enhance hair volume or to protect and strengthen color- and heat-treated hair. There also is a convergence of product functions, such as the use of conditioners to provide styling benefits. So although products for shampooing and conditioning of dry, oily or normal hair have been with us for decades, the global market keeps moving toward increasingly tailored hair care solutions.
GCI: What role does formula customization play in creating strong consumer/brand connections? Are you working on these customizations with addressing a need (addressing split ends, for example) in mind or with serving a consumer type in mind?
Soontjens: In some markets, brand loyalty is minimal, and that points out a strong need for directly addressing consumer needs. Lack of brand loyalty may occur in developing or emerging markets, where products are not sophisticated or highly differentiated. In this case, some consumers switch brands because they are trying to find the "perfect" product. Brand switching can also happen when consumers feel they need to make periodic changes because their hair becomes overly accustomed to a single product, which they perceive doesn't perform as well over time.
As products become more sophisticated and tailored to individual needs or preferences, one might expect consumers to show greater brand loyalty because of better performance. So yes, Dow Corning definitely focuses on customizations based on specific needs. Because many specialty silicones are multifunctional, that's a significant advantage for us. We can provide formulators with materials that offer combinations of mild to intense conditioning, shine, improved combing, moisturizing, color and heat protection, enhanced strength, or volume. Within that framework, we make certain we guide our customers in selecting the right silicone-based solutions for their applications and economic considerations. If we can help our customers develop successful products that motivate brand loyalty, we've served not only those customers, but consumers as well.
GCI: What has been the most dramatic impact of e-commerce on supplier/brand owner partnerships? How has it affected already global brands - is there a new paradigm for reaching and serving global markets/consumers?
Bausch: From a [brand owner's] perspective, e-commerce has reshaped the supplier/customer relationship by allowing suppliers to become valued business partners through increased efficiency and convenience.
By providing instant access to information and pricing, and the ability to order products no matter the time of day or physical location, customers find that online business models, with their self-service capabilities, make their jobs easier and facilitate the buying process much quicker than ever before.
This empowers customers to be more self-serving, finding information at the exact time of the day they need it. Having 24-hour/7 day-a-week access to order placement, order tracking, order histories and product information online is particularly important when the supplier is on the other side of the world. And in geographies across the globe where the traditional work week is not Monday-Friday, it opens doors for doing business when our customers need and want to do business. There is no need to call a customer service representative to place an order, the customer completes the transaction when it's convenient for them.
An added advantage, e-commerce services provide equal opportunity for businesses of all sizes. By being able to promote product features and pricing online, small firms can compete with much larger companies. In some cases, online services can be more cost-effective, allowing them to offer highly competitive prices.
One important reason for the rapid adoption of e-commerce in both developed and developing markets is changing demographics. Young people have grown up with computers in their hands, texting on their mobile devices, buying everything from books to clothes to electronics online, and sharing information on their favorite social media sites. Now, many of them are in the business world, looking for the same efficiencies and immediate access to information.
Dow Corning recognized this trend a decade ago when it launched its web-enabled Xiameter brand, which sells standard silicone products at market-based prices. The business model was based on extensive research, customer segmentation and the recognition that transformation needs to be proactive, not reactive based on market pressures. In 2009, Dow Corning expanded the model and increased the number of products available through the brand from a few hundred to more than 2,100, added a new order entry platform with enhanced self-service functionality, volume quantity options, and the option for customers to buy from distributors for the first time.
The value proposition enticing customers is based on an efficient ordering process and the availability of products offered at competitive market prices. The Xiameter business model strips costly services traditionally bundled into the price of the product and posts transparent tiered pricing visible to all customers. This allows customers the ability to balance their inventory costs with product costs based on the different purchasing options offered online.
One advantage of an e-commerce model is that you can build efficiencies directly into the website. Important is the fact that customers can find information at their fingertips creating ease of use, but the element directly effecting profitability is the efficiencies built into the order entry process. For instance, the Xiameter brand has implemented "business rules" that create a discipline for maintaining efficiency. These rules provides standard options to customers, but doesn't allow for customization which adds costs to doing business. So to purchase directly from the brand site, minimum orders are required, standard credit terms is the norm, and lead times for order are required. However, the business model recognizes there are exceptions to these rules. In this case, the value is captured by charging service fees for non-standard terms and rush orders.
These business rules aren't used to discourage business, it's quite the opposite. In fact, the business rules are implemented to ensure that products can continue to be offered at market-based prices.
GCI: How are innovative supply chain models in emerging geographies changing the face of the beauty industry, and what are the changes you foresee over the next five years?
Bausch: Consumer demand and stricter regulation in emerging and developing countries are leading to a growing emphasis on maintaining a "green" supply chain.
A global survey of senior chemical purchasing managers, conducted by an international research firm on behalf of Dow Corning, showed agreement on the importance of sustainability and environmental stewardship, but it revealed significant differences across geographies when it came to specifics. For example, Americans and Europeans named reducing waste as the most important environmental consideration, while developing environment-friendly products was most managers in China, Korea and India for example, consider the development of green (environmentally friendly) products as a more important driver than CO2 emissions, use of clean/renewable energy sources or waste reduction.
What's clear from these results is that, while there are differences in emphasis around the world, the priority for companies both big and small is to reduce their own environmental footprints.
In the future there will be even more emphasis on reducing CO2 emissions and use of renewable energy sources, as costs for solar energy becomes more affordable and climate change gets more attention in all geographies.
Navigating such differences will be a major challenge, as purchasing decisions by suppliers and customers will be increasingly influenced by sustainability goals and programs. For innovative companies, sustainability (encompassing environmental, social and economic aspects) also can present attractive business opportunities.


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In the last years, antisemitism and antisemitic violence have been on the rise. Antisemitic knowledge and topoi have spread and have been integrated into the worldviews of many social and political milieus. Antisemitism, since the Shoah (Holocaust) often understood as a phenomenon of the Far Right, has now become a part of the mainstream and gained new respectability. This manifests itself, for instance, in antisemitic caricatures printed in the leading liberal German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in recent years.[1]
Deciphering the New Antisemitism, edited by Alvin H. Rosenfeld, contributes to our understanding of the current wave of antisemitism. In eighteen essays, scholars shed light on facets and aspects of current forms of antisemitism. Structured in four sections, the book focuses on such topics as the relationship between antisemitism and anti-Zionism, antisemitism among Muslims, antisemitism and anti-Muslim racism, European antisemitism, and left-wing and fundamentalist Catholic antisemitism.
In part 1 ("Defining and Assessing Antisemitism"), four essays address characteristics of contemporary forms of antisemitism. Whereas the French philosopher Pascal Bruckner argues against the widespread definition of "Islamophobia" as the new antisemitism and the often connected "nazification of the Israelis," Kenneth L. Marcus scrutinizes the "ideology of the New Antisemitism" (pp. 16, 21). Marcus connects this with different strains of anti-Zionism that he sees as nodal points of such ideologies as Islamism, Marxism, Third-Worldism, and postcolonialism. Elhanan Yakira examines the role of social elites for perpetrating antisemitism by tracing the attitudes of Blaise Pascal and Ernest Renan. In the fourth essay of this section, Günther Jikeli develops a framework for the analysis and assessment of antisemitism that considers four dimensions: the quality of antisemitic beliefs; forms as well as spheres of antisemitic manifestations; the social, cultural, and historical context that can strengthen or oppose antisemitic knowledge and behaviors; and, lastly, the factions of individuals and organizations that advocate, tolerate, or oppose antisemitism. Applying this theoretical framework to the antisemitism of the French comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the Palestinian terror group Hamas, Jikeli demonstrates how fruitful it can be to draw on a multidimensional approach to assess the threat and potentials of antisemitic attitudes held by individuals and/or organizations.
"Intellectual and Ideological Contexts," the second section, contains five essays dealing with different ideological backgrounds of current antisemitism. The chapters cover the role of contemporary "kosherizers" in anti-Zionist discourses (Doron Ben-Atar) (p. 111); the effects of the ideas of Benedict Anderson, Edward Said, and Hayden White on nationalism in contemporary anti-Zionism (Jean Axelrad Cahan); the rhetorical strategies of denying antisemitism by French intellectuals (Bruno Chaouat); and the relationship between anarchism and anti-Zionism (Eirik Eiglau). In the section's fifth essay—the only one in the anthology dealing with contemporary Far-Right, non-Muslim antisemitism—Mark Weitzman examines antisemitism in fundamentalist Catholic milieus. By focusing on the Society of Saint Pius X, which is probably best known for the Holocaust-denying statements of its bishop, Richard Williamson, Weitzman persuasively demonstrates that "antisemitism has been, and continues to be, an essential component in the theology of many radical Catholic traditionalists" (p. 245).
Part 3 turns to a crucial argument of current forms of antisemitism: the minimization or denial of the Holocaust. Whereas Bernard Harrison surveys the debate surrounding the question of the uniqueness of the Holocaust, David Patterson analyzes the historical and contemporary development of Holocaust denial as well as the "de-Judaizing [of] the Holocaust" (p. 339). In the section's third essay, Aryeh Tuchman examines how generational changes among Holocaust deniers transformed the discourse of negating the Shoah. In this context, Tuchman identifies two major shifts in Holocaust denial. He describes the emergence in the 1970s of a "more sophisticated pseudoscientific" discourse, the province of pro-Nazi groups from the 1940s until the 1960s (p. 350). A second shift took place by the year 2000, when, according to Tuchman, Holocaust denial became increasingly a tool of anti-Zionists.
In the last section, titled "Regional Manifestations," six essays address a wide range of topics. The section includes essays on antisemitism in the contemporary Left in the United States (Sina Arnold); the (more or less powerless) measures adopted by the European Union to fight antisemitism (R. Amy Elman); anti-Israel boycotts in Europe from a human rights law perspective (Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias); strategies and discourses of delegitimizing Israel in Germany and Austria (Stephan Grigat); and the mobilization of antisemitism by the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Matthias Küntzel). Bodo Kahmann's essay, which deals with the relationship between anti-urbanism and antisemitism, is particularly inspiring. Examining a long time period (from the 1850s until the present), he conceives of anti-urbanism as a part of reactionary modernism. According to Kahmann, anti-urbanists, like the Nazis, rejected city life, because they understood it as a manifestation of modern forms of sociation. Since antisemitic discourse constructed Jews as the representatives and embodiment of the abstract and thus juxtaposed them to the ideal of rural-peasant life, Jews were and are equated with urban life and the frequently construed linkage to financial capitalism.
Deciphering the New Antisemitism addresses a wide range of important topics connected to contemporary antisemitism, which are approached from various theoretical and methodological backgrounds. Unfortunately, although attitudes of Far-Right movements toward Israel or (facets of) antisemitic worldviews in right-wing populism are central to the understanding of contemporary antisemitism,[2] antisemitism in the non-Muslim Far Right is underrepresented and the topic of only one essay, and thus drifts out of the anthology's focus. Additionally, gender and sexuality are not addressed in any of the contributions. However, as antisemitic reactions to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, but also older antisemitic affairs like the Leo Frank case, have shown, notions of gender and sexuality are of great importance for the comprehension of antisemitism.[3] Despite the lack of these important aspects, this anthology contributes significantly to our understanding of the contemporary rise in antisemitic attitudes around the world.


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A People Which Dwells Alone
A major topic of interest in the local media this past month has been what the future of El Al flights on Shabbat will be once the government no longer has a majority share in the airline. The arguments put forth for changing the national carriers current policy of grounding its passenger planes on Shabbat are both economic and ideological.
The economic claim is based on some studies showing that El Al loses $50 million a year by not flying on Shabbat. This is a highly questionable argument because the gains from flying on the day of rest would probably be offset by the boycotting of the airline by observant Jews in Israel and throughout the world.
But what is even more disturbing than this effort to manipulate economics is the argument that Israel must be a nation like all other nations and not surrender to its religious minority on the issue of Sabbath flights. It is to this anti-religious argument that the words of the heathen prophet Balak in this weeks Torah portion are directed. He describes our people as "a nation which dwells alone" (Bamidbar 23:9).
It is the uniqueness which is the essence of our mission as a people and the entire basis for Eretz Yisrael being our homeland. Let us hope that the new bosses of El Al will have the sense to continue the governments policy of no flights on Shabbat as a guarantee for Israel forever.


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2013 AIA Architecture Firm Award Goes to Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
By Bustler Editors|
Thursday, Dec 6, 2012
Besides the winner of the 2013 AIA Gold Medal, the American Institute of Architects today also announced the recipient of the 2013 AIA Architecture Firm Award: New York City-based Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.
The AIA Architecture Firm Award, given annually, is the highest honor the AIA bestows on an architecture firm and recognizes a practice that consistently has produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years. The firm will be honored at the 2013 AIA National Convention in Denver.
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects is noted for exquisite care for detail with subtle, reverent architecture that's both timeless in its abstracted, meditative forms and materially specific to context and place.
The married team of architects, Tod Williams, FAIA, and Billie Tsien, AIA, have been working together since 1977 and first formed their practice in 1986. They have used the intervening decades to design a celebrated portfolio of overwhelmingly public cultural and institutional buildings: university facilities, libraries, museums, etc. As such, their design language embodies the idealized traits of the body politic; contemplative, enlightened, humble, eloquent, granular and diverse in its individual details but unified in purpose and intent. Despite the growing prestige of their commissions and their recent expansion into international projects, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects keep their studio relatively small and nimble, at less than 30 people.
"Their work carries with it a spiritual value which transcends pragmatic solutions," wrote Toshiko Mori, FAIA, in a recommendation letter. "Their projects respond to multiple and complex needs of clients, yet their solutions are simple and elegant. Their firm's work brings forth the ideals of Modernism, yet is moderated with a contemporary sensibility and intelligence which makes their work rich, tactile, and useful."
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects are renowned for their material integrity and sense of innovation. They treat materials honestly; concrete forms sculptural free standing stairs, and wood frames unpretentiously warm floor-to-ceiling glass walls. When they can't find the proper material for a specific use, they invent their own. For example, the University of Pennsylvania's bioengineering building, Skirkanich Hall, uses a hand-glazed ceramic brick on its front façade that creates an iridescent greenish sheen specially developed for the project, a reference to the ivy-covered brick seen across the 18th century campus.
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects is the 50th AIA Architecture Firm Award recipient. Previous recipients of the AIA Firm Award include, VJAA (2012, previously on Bustler), BNIM (2011), Pugh + Scarpa (2010, previously on Bustler), Kieran Timberlake (2008), Muphy/Jahn (2005), Polshek Partnership (1992), Venturi, Raunch, and Scott Brown (1985), I.M. Pei and Partners (1968), and SOM (1962).
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As everyone knows by now, Robert Pattinson met Richard Gere on Friday when he attended a luncheon in honor of the silver-haired actor's awards buzzy film, Arbitrage, at Osteria Mozza in Los Angeles (picutres here).
But what you may not know is that Gere didn't exactly realize how major the Twilight star was.
"He was a perfectly nice guy, but I had no idea," Gere told me at the Governors Awards. "But I was getting calls from my wife going, 'What are you doing with him? He's so cute, but what are you doing with him?'"
So Gere's better half, model-actress Carey Lowell, is a Twi-hard?!
"My wife is aware of these things," Gere laughed. "I don't know that she's a fan."


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Christina Haag, childhood friend and later longtime girlfriend of John F. Kennedy, Jr. has written a moving and beautiful memoir of her years with him, Come to the Edge, which chronicles their lives from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
After meeting him as a young girl as one member of a large circle of friends in New York City, Christina Haag becomes a close friend and confidant of John throughout their high school and later college days. After high school they both attend Brown University and learn that they share a love of theater both at Brown and later in New York City, where they return after graduation. After starring together in an off-Broadway play, he confesses his love for her and they embark on a five year romance. Her memoir tells of the human and personal side of their relationship that was far removed from the prying eye of the public.
She tells of their group dinners while roommates in college, trips to Cumberland Island in Georgia, their near death experience kayaking in Jamaica and of their normal, everyday life in New York. Her recollection of a man who lived his life on the edge is poignant and reflective. This is both a completely satisfying and heartbreaking memoir that tells the tale of love, loss and what could have been.


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When it comes to giving a game a vibe, "awesome" is an easy mark to hit. Explosions, hot chicks, macho one-liners, and salivating mutants are all awesome. And it's just about impossible to overdo the awesome: More explosions, more hot chicks, more machismo, and more mutants are only more awesome.
"Cool," on the other hand, is a place developers go at their own peril. Hip irreverence is tough to define, and when it's forced, it comes off as fake as Monopoly money. When Sega scored a stylish, edgy hit with Sonic the Hedgehog, gamers were forced to suffer a terminally lame parade of "animal mascots with attitude" that ran from Aero the Acro-Bat to Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel, each a bigger embarrassment than the last.
Turns out there's no formula for cool, but there is a foolproof formula for faux cool: Do what last year's cool game did. So, noses bloodied, creatively bankrupt developers crawled back to the safe, nuance-free arms of "awesome" and the predictable yields earned by explosions and tits.
This is why Grasshopper Manufacture, the developer behind No More Heroes, deserves special praise. Not only did it brave the choppy sea of cool; it did it with a style all its own — one you might properly call "geek chic."
The game's ambassador of geek chic is its protagonist, Travis Touchdown. Somewhere between a punk and an otaku, Travis shops at the gaming equivalent of Hot Topic and decorates his barely furnished apartment with Mexican wrestler masks and one-sixth scale models of half-naked anime vixens. Beyond those interests, the bulk of Travis' meager income seems to go to alcohol, online auctions, and a bottomless appetite for D-level porn.
Having recently won a "beam katana" (essentially a lightsaber) online, our hero has decided to become the No. 1-ranked assassin in the world, mostly to improve his chances of getting into a cute blonde's pants. And so he begins hacking his way through the 10 assassins ranked above him, some of the most imaginative and memorable bosses outside of Metal Gear Solid.
A taste? How about a fearsome bag lady whose shopping cart transforms into a howitzer-size laser cannon?
It couldn't be more preposterous, but No More Heroes chases the concept with absurdist gusto: Travis must pony up to get a shot at each assassin, so he's forced to raise cash by taking on whatever stupid odd job he can find, from coconut collecting to hunting for lost kittens.
To top it off, No More Heroes almost constantly bumps up against (and breaks through) the so-called "fourth wall," reminding you that you're playing a game, whether it's the 1982-era scoreboard and tinny Casio keyboard fanfare that trumpet a climb in rank, or one boss' refusal to elaborate on her personal grudge with you, because doing so "would jack up the age rating for this game even further!"
It's not perfect, of course. The city itself is ugly and bare, the pacing feels uneven, and for all its visual panache, the whole thing has a low-budget feel to it. And yet those issues almost play to the game's aesthetic. Like Travis' luchador movies, No More Heroes has a spunky, underground feel that might make you look past its rough edges with pleasure.


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Wouldn't it be nice if national tragedies inspired everyone to band together to take an unflinching look at the causes and to determine what each of us can contribute to keep them from happening again? Yes, DrugMonkey, I am a dreamer. Still, it is important to recognize that how we react determines where we go from here, and a number of people are finding the public reactions to the Tucson shooting sadly wanting.
PZ Myers has tackled the idea that the call for accountability and responsibility in public discourse is somehow politicizing the shooting.
What we have here is an attempted assassination of a politician by an insane crank at a political event, in a state where the political discourse has been an unrelenting howl of eliminationist rhetoric and characterization of anyone to the left of Genghis Khan as a traitor and enemy of the state…and now, when six (including a nine year old girl) lie dead and another fourteen are wounded, now suddenly we're concerned that it is rude and politicizing a tragedy to point out that the right wing has produced a toxic atmosphere that pollutes our politics with hatred and the rhetoric of violence?
James Ford rejects the simplistic notion that the solution is simply settling down and being nice (via Kevin at Wee Beasties).
This is the way of love, not a simpering, maudlin love, but a dynamic and challenging love. A love that calls us to know we are all in this together. I need to proclaim, to speak. I will speak for individuals. I will speak for families. I will speak for this lovely country. I will speak for our precious planet.
And I will not be shut up.
We're now seeing all of the civility trolls coming out of the woodwork. If by civility, one means "not engaging in violent eliminationist rhetoric", well, then I'm all for it. But what I'm concerned about is that honest criticism will be silenced. While I'm not as sanguine about political rhetoric as, let's say, Jack Shafer, the fact is a lot of people in political life are habitually…counterfactual. That is, they're liars. Others are ideologically blinkered, while yet others, sadly, are either just kinda dim or else stone-cold ignorant.
At Vanity Fair, Mark Ames discusses where this shooting fits in among other modern political shootings, where it doesn't, and what this has to say about the times in which we live.
This may seem like a semantic quibble, but what occurred in that Safeway supermarket appears to be an entirely new type of American murder: a hybrid of political assassination, of the sort that plagued America in the 1960s and 70s, and a "going postal" rampage massacre, of the kind that first appeared in the mid- to late-1980s, with the rise of Reaganomics inequalities and the deterioration of workplace culture.
And finally, Melissa McEwan demolishes in detail the ridiculous notion of any kind of parity between the left and the right in the acceptance and promotion of violent rhetoric.
There is no leftist equivalent to Glenn Beck, host of a long-running nationally syndicated radio show, former host of a show on CNN and current host of a show on Fox, best-selling author, DC rally organizer, and longtime user of eliminationist rhetoric, including equating universal healthcare to rape, joking about victims of forest fires being America-hating liberals, comparing Al Gore to Hitler, condoning the murder of Michael Moore, accusing Holocaust survivor George Soros of being a Nazi collaborator, joking about poisoning Nancy Pelosi, equating immigration reform with burning US citizens alive, publicly endorsing violent revolution, and winkingly telling his viewers not to get violent, all of which amounts to a speck on the tip of a very big iceberg.
So, what else is out there that people should be reading and thinking about?


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Eds. note: How they were chosen: All-Area teams selected by Herald staff editors and writers with help from area coaches and fans.
Morgan Green, Snohomish, F, Sr.
Green is a skilled offensive player, finished the season with 13 goals and 12 assists in leading Snohomish to a state berth. "Her vision and quick foot skills made her a very threatening player," said Snohomish head coach April VanAssche. "Her leadership is outstanding and her passion for the game is there every time she steps on the field. She leaves everything she has on the field every game." For more on Green, click here.
Jamie Gay, Cascade
After watching his team lose an early season match to South rival Edmonds-Woodway, the Bruins head coach guided his team on a 16-game unbeaten streak, including two shutout wins in the 4A district tournament to secure a district championship and its first state berth since 2002.
Shelby Koch
Forwards, Archbishop Murphy, Sr.
The Wildcats forward scored 20 goals and assisted on 13 others as Archbishop Murphy completed an unbeaten regular season and a 2A state quarterfinal appearance. She's verbally committed to play soccer at Loyola University in Chicago.
Haley Ayers
Forward, Everett, Sr.
The Seagulls forward scored 12 goals and assisted on eight others in leading an Everett offense that averaged more than 2.5 goals per game this season in earning a 3A state berth and quarterfinal appearance.
Emily Critchlow
Forward, Meadowdale, Jr.
The Mavericks forward scored a Wesco 3A-best 18 goals and spearheaded a Meadowdale offense that averaged more than two goals per game this season in leading the team to a 3A district championship and advancing to the 3A state quarterfinals.
Morgan Green
Forward, Snohomish, Sr.
The Panthers skilled offensive playmaker scored 13 goals and assisted on 12 others to lead Snohomish to a 4A North title and a state berth.
Sarah Jenkins
Midfielder, Cascade, Sr.
According to Bruins head coach Jamie Gay, the Bruins midfielder "has a great command of the ball in possession with field presence and vision." As a four-year starter, Jenkins helped build Cascade from a 5-9-2 record in 2009 to a district title in 2012.
Bailey McMullen
Midfielder, Everett, Sr.
The senior midfielder was Everett's co-leader with 12 goals and also helped control the middle of the field for a team that won a 3A North title and advanced to state for the second year in a row.
Cali Crisler
Midfielder, Archbishop Murphy, Sr.
The junior midfielder scored 13 goals and had 15 assists in leading the Wildcats' potent offensive attack but she was also key in a defense that limited conference opponents to just two goals.
Rosie Sittauer
Defender, Everett, Sr.
The four-year starter was the anchor of a defense that recorded nine shutouts this season, including three in the playoffs and one — a 4-0 win over Kennedy — in the state tournament.
Brooke Pingrey
Defender, Snohomish, Jr.
The Panthers defender was not only the leader of a defense that held opponents to a goal or less in 10 games this season but a key part of the Snohomish offense, scoring six goals and seven assists. Her "magical foot" was also a big part of Snohomish free and corner kick success this season, according to VanAssche.
Porscha Dacoscos
Defender, Lake Stevens, Sr.
Three-year starter for the Vikings helped lead a defense that led Lake Stevens to a district berth this year and two state berths in 2010 and 2011.
Maddie Seckman
Defender, Kamiak, Sr.
As center-back defender, Seckman anchored a stout Kamiak defense that shut out its opponents in nine of its final 10 games this season.
Emma Makela
Goalkeeper, Kamiak, Sr.
The Knights goalkeeper recorded 11 shutouts this season in helping Kamiak advance to the 4A district tournament. She plans on attending University of Texas-San Antonio on a soccer scholarship.
F Madison Schultz, Edmonds-Woodway, Fr.
Freshman forward scored 24 goals, including nine multiple-goal games, and had 11 assists
F Lauren Allison, Stanwood, Jr.
Led Wesco 3A North with 16 goals and 11 assists
F Beth Stella, King's, Sr.
Senior forward scored 25 goals and had nine assists as the Knights took third place at state
F Denae Weigelt, Cascade, Sr.
Senior forward scored 14 goals and had 11 assists; also recorded shutout in goal in district semifinals
M Maddie Reed, Everett, Sr.
Senior was a key component of Seagulls midfield
M Lynnae George, Jackson, So.
The Timberwolves underclassemen scored eight goals and assisted on four
M Roslyn Stapleton, Meadowdale, Sr.
The Mavericks midfielder assisted on 10 goals for the Seagulls
D Kennady Bonnalie, Lakewood, Sr.
Helped keep defense together after change of coach and loss of goalkeeper, pair of defenders
D Stefanie Reynaud, Archbishop Murphy, Sr.
Named the Cascade Conference Defensive Player of the Year after anchoring a Wildcats defense that limited conference opponents to just two goals.
D Emily Nelson, Cascade, Sr.
Senior leader on a defense that recorded 12 shutouts and scored three goals on cornerkicks
D Caryn Nash, Stanwood, Sr.
Senior center-back anchored a defense that allowed just seven goals in final eight games (5-2-1 record over that span)
G Rachel Leupold, Cascade, Sr.
Bruins senior recorded 11 shutouts and allowed more than one goal just twice
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