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CHCI to Honor Juliet V. García, Ph.D. at 37th Annual Awards Gala
President of UT-Brownsville to Receive CHCI Chair's Medallion Award
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2014 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) and its Chair Rep. Rubén Hinojosa today announced that Juliet V. García, Ph.D. will be awarded one of its highest honors—The Chair's Medallion Award—in recognition of her accomplishments, leadership, and outstanding service to the Latino community at CHCI's 37th Annual Awards Gala on October 2, 2014 in Washington, D.C. The event is the largest gathering of Latino leaders in the country and is part of CHCI's Hispanic Heritage Month events.
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"It has been my most sincere privilege to serve the people of South Texas, to help tell the myriad of stories that each dream for themselves and for their families, to witness their struggles against great odds to earn a degree and launch a career and to understand the vast potential of the people of this region that for too long have been denied the opportunities that come from obtaining a college degree," said Dr. García.
"I am so pleased to recognize and celebrate Juliet García and the amazing work she has done and continues to do on behalf of Latinos and Americans in South Texas," said Chair Hinojosa. "Her leadership has led to her being recognized as one of the 'World's 50 Greatest Leaders' by Fortune magazine and her personal path and many professional successes prove that the American Dream is achievable through higher education, hard work, and most importantly by giving back to our community."
Juliet V. García joined The University of Texas System as president of The University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB) in January 1992 after having served as president of Texas Southmost College (TSC) for six years. When she was named as president of the comprehensive community college in 1986, she became the first Mexican-American woman to become president of a college or university in the United States. She was the second president of UTB and the 12th president of TSC.
Dr. García also has a very strong history of public service. She served as Chair of the Advisory Committee to Congress on Student Financial Assistance and on the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. She has served on the boards of National Campus Compact, chaired Texas Campus Compact, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and was a member of President-Elect Obama's Transition Team. Dr. García currently serves on the boards of Ford Foundation, Complete College America and Raise Your Hand Texas.
Early in her professional career, she was named Outstanding Alumnus by The University of Texas at Austin's College of Communication and in 2007 as a Distinguished Alumna by The University of Texas at Austin. In her home community she has received much recognition including the naming of a middle school in her honor. The history of her leadership chronicles more than two decades of innovation that propelled the development of postsecondary education in Deep South Texas and its international border region.
She was recently named by the University of Texas Board of Regents as the founding executive director of a new University of Texas Institute of the Americas. This Institute will develop the next generation of leaders and provide a nonpartisan venue for discussing global issues. The Institute will also serve as a convening voice to help resolve issues facing the Americas and the Global South and serve as a nexus for interdisciplinary groups to come together and focus on creating core competencies in leadership on critical issues.
CHCI's 37th Annual Awards Gala will convene the nation's largest and most prestigious gathering of Hispanic nonpartisan, public, and private sector leaders at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on October 2, 2014. The evening's festivities will honor CHCI's past, present, and future and present CHCI's highest honors—the annual Chair's Medallion Award and the CHCI Medallion of Excellence awardees. These awards highlight the many rich contributions made by Latinos who have not only succeeded in their individual careers, but who also serve as positive role models and empower Latino youth to believe that anything is achievable through higher education, hard work, and pursuit of the American dream. All events support CHCI's educational attainment and leadership development programs.
Along with the Gala, CHCI's Hispanic Heritage Month Events include its Public Policy Conference and Reyes of Comedy. Learn more at hhm.chci.org.
CHCI's Highest Honors past awardees.
About CHCI
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), a nonprofit and nonpartisan 501(c) (3) organization, provides leadership development programs and educational services to students and young emerging leaders. The CHCI Board of Directors is comprised of Hispanic members of Congress, nonprofit, union, and corporate leaders. For more information call CHCI at (202) 543-1771, visit www.chci.org, or join us on Facebook, Twitter (chci), LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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There is something so elegant about the snakeshead fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris). Its understated and architectural beauty is so graceful, and its design is so finely tuned for the environment in which it grows.
When in young growth, the flower buds are tightly encircled by the sheathing leaves, and together these poke vertically up through the grass like the nose of a small snake. As their stems elongate, so they arc over to ensure that the fertile bits within their dusky, nodding bells are protected from the rain. Once successful pollination has occurred, the stems straighten again so that the seed pods are held aloft on tall, wiry stems, ready to scatter their seeds to the four corners.
They are hay meadow plants par excellence. Tall, and without any basal rosette of leaves, they soon perish if grazed or cut in full growth: without leaves, no energy is returned to the bulb as they wither, so the plant becomes progressively weakened. Instead, they flourish in those fabulous and all-too-rare hay meadows of yore, flowering amongst the dandelions and lady's smock as the cuckoos arrive, maturing as billows of cow parsley flower under lofty belts of hedgerow elms, and scattering their seeds – finishing their season's business – as the blades of the hay cutting machinery cut and dry the year's hay crop at the height of summer.
They are beautiful too. When a glaring sun sits high in the sky, they take on a sombre hue: "the springing grass ... dulled by the hanging cups of fritillaries" wrote the great Sissinghurst gardener and writer Vita Sackwille-West, in her poem The Land. Yet when backlit in the softer glow of early morning or mid evening, they glow a warm rich red, the colour of a young Beaujolais. They are coming into flower as I write, and I can think of few nicer ways to spend a couple of hours than wandering through the countless thousands that grace meadows at Magdalen College, Ducklington or Cricklade in the upper Thames valley.
There's debate as to whether snakesheads are native in their heartland of central-southern England. The plant was first recorded from British gardens in 1578, but the earliest records from wild habitats date from as late as 1736, by which time more than 86% of all our native flowers had been discovered and documented. It seems inconceivable that the august professors and students of botany at Oxford simply failed to notice such a glorious flower adorning their local Thameside meadows, where it grows in local profusion to this day.
Native or not, the species has an enormous cultural resonance with the human inhabitants of Oxford and beyond. In one of his most lyrical accounts, the writer and botanist Richard Mabey (in his epic Flora Britannica) recounts the relationship between locals and this most loved of wild flowers. The species garnered a whole range of local names – frawcups, leper's bells, oaksey lily, minety bell to mention a few – and in halcyon days past, the plant was so abundant locally that for a few pennies you could mosey through certain colonies picking large bunches of their arching stems. But the snakeshead has suffered a dramatic rise and fall, for today the vast majority of their old haunts have been drained and ploughed, and they – along with the elms and cuckoos – have largely been reduced to fading memory today. Now we could go round planting up new meadows with bulbs, but in the absence of history and association, I wonder whether such new colonies would elicit the same powerful passions among locals that our age-old colonies did?
However, do try snakesheads in your own garden, for they are easy to grow - either in a border or naturalised in grass – provided that you garden away from the parched and free-draining chalks and sands. Success, more often than not, comes down to choosing good healthy bulbs to start with. These should be plump and ivory-white, with the texture of an uncooked cashew, and be roughly the diameter of a 50p piece. Avoid wizened and dry, rust-coloured bulbs like the plague. Plant them up to four inches deep as soon as they appear in the autumn bulb catalogues or garden centres, into a well-dug loamy soil, lightened with a forkfull or two of leaf mould. And if you do want to recreate those flower-rich grasslands of our grandparents memories, they do well planted in any lawn on a reasonably fertile soil, provided that the soil is not too fertile. But remember, these are classic hay meadow flowers: you can cut the grass as many times as you like when the plant is below ground, but when growing, flowering setting seed or withering, do please remember to leave the grass long – and enjoy the show.
• Andy Byfield is one of the founders of the wild plant charity Plantlife.

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Combine stunning scenery with some of the most historical sights of the city. There's more to Thessaloniki than just you can see through the window of a bus. Real Thessaloniki is full of spicy aromas, traffic and horns, stories and history, buildings, customs and traditions. The long march of Empires, from Roman to Byzantine to Ottoman, have left their stamp on the city's architecture and culture via churches and mosques, catacombs and tombs, ancient markets and fortresses.
They say that to know a culture you should walk its streets, hear its songs, and try its cuisine. For more than 2 millenia, Thessaloniki has benefitted from its position as a 'crossroads' of the Balkans. Opportunities for commerce and trade drew numerous peoples from lands far and near, and their 'footprint' remains in the enormous variety of local cuisine, which retains the influences many different cultures.
Thessaloniki is an open museum. 15 architectural designs of the city have been declared World Heritage Sites! Our tour will chart the city's Roman and Byzantine history in a linear route from Kassandro's Gate to the Golden Gate, along Egnatia Street.
Feel the energy and beauty of Thessaloniki through unobstructed views of the whole town.The Old Town is encompassing the hilltop settlements. It's the only part of Thessaloniki that survived the big fire of 1917.
The urban structure of ottoman Selanik, is strongly dictated by its multiethnic character. Ottoman Turks mahalas (neighbourhood), Jewish mahalas and Greek mahalas constituted multiple cultures in one city. Sephardic Jews came to Thessaloniki by invitation from the Ottoman Sultan and over the next four centuries, the Jewish population in Thessaloniki grew to be the largest in Europe.
If you're a visitor who, by force of habit, can't stay up for the night life, get yourself to the spots that mornings –in-the-city-tour will take place! As the fire- orange- sun rises and be reflected in the windows of the seaside buildings and the sky turns its colour blue from pale pink, we're going to discover small backstreets and hidden local haunts…our tourguide will feature favorites and discoveries, delving into the city's history.
We walk to the most beautiful places in the city center. Our English-speaking guide shows the sights and professional photographer make the moments live forever !! We start a journey in the history of Thessaloniki. From the beautiful area of Electra Palace of modern Thessaloniki we move to Byzantium, the Ottoman domination, and from the First World War to the Second World War. We end up our walking tour at a traditional city cafe.
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I've got a goat questiongreenspun.com : LUSENET : Freedom! self reliance : One Thread
Well, I have got a goat question. My little weathered goat ( 4 months old) is throwing up. Seems unthrifty, too. He is normally well though. He is in fact as tall as his mom already. The only baby she had and her first. I have never seen them throw up. This happened yesterday too. I didn't know what it was yesterday. I wormed them and have been giving them electrolites. It is real hot here. All of my goats seem to have quit wanting feed. They will graze but don't really want their grain. Which is way weird for them. They usually fight over it. I am very, very worried about them. Could someone please help here? Thanks.
-- Bonnie (firstname.lastname@example.com), July 22, 2001
Bonnie please go this site and scroll up to your state. It's really super seious if goats are throwing up. Someone there will be able to help you. God bless!
-- Dreen (firstname.lastname@example.com), July 22, 2001.
What kind of grain are you feeding him and how clean is it? Goats require very clean feed, almost as clean as what you or I would eat. It can't have manure, etc in it. Sometimes the feed mill sends out feed that leaves something to be desired in the way of cleanliness. I would change the feed to something from a different feed mill. Sometimes the feed mill will grind or mix something that goats don't like and it rubs off on the next batch of feed. If they aren't eating their grain, I don't tihnk it will hurt them to change the brand and start them on it-slowly of course, not the full ration right away.
I have had goats throw up before. It seems to happen for two different reasons. The grain is dirty or the pan is soiled, with mice droppings or manure for example. The grain may be unappetizing to them for some reason. In this type, the goats repeatedly refuse the grain and get sick when they try to eat it. If this is the reason, an hour or so later, they should eat other grain, try plain, clean wheat for example, with no problem or throwing up. The other cause seems to be when there is a very eager, enthusiastic eater who gobbles her grain down so fast that some of it gets caught or goes down the wrong pipe. This goat shakes her head emphatically, throwing up, strains while craning her head around a lot. This is the most common cause in our herd, and it's almost always the same goat! The next time she comes in to be fed, her appetite is fine and she eats without any trouble. If none of the goats want feed, I would suspect something is wrong with it.
-- Rebekah (email@example.com), July 22, 2001.
THE FEED!!!??? I noticed a little mold on the corn I was feeding the chickens the other day. I went ahead and bought enough feed to last a while thinking that we were going to be having lean times for a couple of months here. My husband switched jobs after 14 and 1/2 years. So there was a little down time with no cash flow, if you know what I mean.I only have the three goats and four rabbits. Also a handful of chickens. Anyway I am towards the end of the barrel and that was feed from before I bought this. I assumed that if I kept it dry, it would be ok. I never thought it would go bad. It is real hot and sultry here. Humidity is usually as high as the temp. Well maybe that is a little exageration. But it's hot and sticky! I wormed them and their eyelids and gums are pink. They are not grinding their teeth. Maybe a little diareah because I have been letting them out into the field where they have lots of food. They are used to slim pickins in the one they have been in. I have let them in there before and they didn't get sick. Maybe a little diareah (sp?) because they stuffed themselves and weren't used to all the green stuff.Their sides are not bloated. In fact they look sort of thin. So lets assume that I have poisoned them with this feed. So now what, aside from throwing away all the tainted feed and getting fresh. How do I help their little bellies. Oh and a friend gave me some sulfer med. maybe thinking it could be coccidiocise (sp?) Probably I shoud not try this? There are no good goat supplies around here. When I go into the feed store and ask for something for the goats they look at me like they are not sure what a goat is. They sure aren't any help. I tried to get them some yougurt and they looked me as if I was insulting them for putting it in front of them. So fresh feed and what for their tummies? Surely this is what it is!!?? They will still eat the grass and vines and leaves, ect. Just not the feed. Even the baby. Oh! I am such a dummy! I can't believe I didn't think of that.
PS. Do you take a goats temp. the same way you would a dog? And uhm, how rude do they think this is? I mean, will I need to pin them down for this?
-- Bonnie (firstname.lastname@example.com), July 22, 2001.
Hi Bonnie, I would just give everyone baking soda. Let the diarrhea help pass the toxins from the body, do not give pepto or anything to clog it up since you want it to pass. Having normal clean water out, and cleaning your buckets regularly is enough, you shouldn't have to feed elctrolytes. You may want to go ahead and use the sulfa for the cocci on any of your young goats, with the stress of all of this, cocci and worms will take this chance to multiply. When time get tough you are better off just feeding the best grass hay you can afford. Unless you are showing, or raising kids, most does, bucks and yearlings, this time of the year, can go without grain, just a good mineral mix out. Keep your grain for your milkers, and growing your kids out. I am so gald you caught this all in time, might want to go over to saanendoah.com in the serious goat stuff section and read up on enterotoxemia and also polio/thiamin difficency, both things that this grain mold could bring on in your goats. You will want to reinnoculate their rumens with good bacteria with Probios, around $7.95 at my feed store, you just click the knob to 5 grams and give each goat some by mouth daily. You can also use yogurt that has natural culture in it. Good luck. Get back with us if you need us. Vicki
-- Vicki McGaugh (firstname.lastname@example.com), July 22, 2001.
Vicky, How many days for the probios? And this is for all the goats??? Thanks. Oh! Thanks for the site to look at too. I am going there now.
-- Bonnie (firstname.lastname@example.com), July 22, 2001.


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Do you and your colleagues accurately understand and use the code provisions that apply to your structural engineering projects?
This particular exercise asks you to look at drawings to determine the minimum design live load or roof live load that would be acceptable per ASCE 7-10 in a number of unique cases. These problems represent a common engineering task that is performed in structural engineering offices on a routine basis.
By participating, you will help to improve codes and standards. Submit your solution by July 31 and you will be entered in a drawing for an SEI necktie or scarf. The exercise will take about one hour to complete. Encourage colleagues to participate.
SEI Trial Design Problems are investigations into how structural engineers interpret code provisions.


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Do you constantly feel like you have no idea what to post? It's been WAY too long since you posted last time and you are feeling the guilt and pressure of posting, because you know how important consistency is, but you just don't know what to post as usual and you are feeling like a deer in headlights?
It doesn't have to be that way. Let's simplify the process.
The secret is in the topics.
Trying to come up with something new to post every time you sit down is a practice in the impossible. You need a resource that guides you, makes it easy and tells you exactly what to post.
That resource is your topics list. You should have five to seven topics that you rotate through for your social media postings.
Your topics list does three things:
1. It simplifies your social media efforts. No more guessing what to post. You have a list of topics and you go through the list and post in order. Your last two posts were coffee and then a social media tip? What's next on the list? A quote, no problem now you know what to post.
2. It makes for a cohesive and interesting social media feed. For example, if every single post on your Instagram page is your products, that's not that interesting to anyone but you and your team and maybe your mom.
Why would that compel someone to want to follow you, get to know more about you and your business? It won't. You need to mix it up. Show off all of your brand's personality. Educate, entertain and make your followers feel emotion.
3. It keeps you on track for maintaining an 80/20 split. If you don't have a plan, and you don't have topics, you are likely only really remembering to post when you want them to go look at your product, service or promotion. Then your feed becomes 100% call to actions and you've lost your know, like and trust.
Create a Topics List that allows your followers to get to know your brand personality better.
My Topics List includes inspiration, a social media tip, a quote, coffee or cocktails, family, me or Otis image to keep it personal, a productivity tip and my blog post or promotion of my social media course.
I am a big fan of quotes and tips. Quotes because everyone loves them, they are easy and we all need some easy in our lives.
Tips because they provide value to your followers and they set you up as an authority in your space. I do two tips per week. One social media, one productivity.
Create your Topics List by figuring out what value you can provide your followers. Remember you are striving to educate, entertain or make them feel emotion 80% of the time. That provides value. The other 20% of the time you show them what you have sell them.
Use your topics and my Ultimate Social Media Planner to simplify your efforts and plan out your social media for each week ahead.
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Poor Heidi.
It is Spring Break, and she is spending her week on the couch, after having SIX wisdom teeth removed first thing Monday morning. Her appointment was 6:45 am and so she didn't even get to sleep in.
The surgery went well. She had IV sedation like I did, and was pretty darn loopy when I sat with her in the office. In fact, she was pretty darn loopy a lot of the day. Chloe was great about changing out the ice packs, thought we might have a bit of a chance to minimize the swelling. The surgeon said she would have some big swelling because the two extra teeth were WAY up there. And he was right. She did develop some major chippy cheeks yesterday, but they did go down a little by bedtime. Hopefully it will be a little better again today.
Thankfully she was prescribed painkillers which we keep on top of. Her jaw is pretty tender but the incision sites seem to be doing well. She is rinsing with the salt water and though she doesn't like the taste, I happen to know it helps a LOT. Not just because it was in the list of instructions or because I did it last month when it was my turn- but because it was a big cure-all in my Grama's repertoire of home remedies.
I hated to get a sore throat because I knew it meant two things: rinsing and gargling with salt water and having an old sock of my Grandpa's pinned around my neck! lol But I must tell you Grama, if you are listening: it did work, you were right. (Not only about that, but about a lot of things!)
Anyway, yesterday morning when I got up with Rich at 6 am, Heidi was awake and feeling miserable. This morning she was still asleep when I got up, and is still sleeping now. So hopefully this will be a better day for her all around.
I would post a photo but she won't let me. When Heidi was little, she was all eyes and chippy cheeks. So she has reverted for a couple of days...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
My little chippy
Poor Heidi.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
We have had some absolutely lovely days lately here in Colorado. Today was almost 80F!!
The calendar says it is spring. But when we have 75F one day and a snowstorm with temperatures of 30F the next- it's a little hard to tell! lol Apparently, this is typical Colorado!
Anyway, those of us who have southern exposure at the front of the house have daffodils and crocuses blooming and no snow.
And let's not forget the signature sign of spring for our house- snakes. Yuck.
I know they won't hurt me (they are just garter snakes) and I know they are amazing creatures (according to some) and I know they are beneficial (though I am still not clear on why).
BUT they startle me, they creep me out a LOT, and I really wish there weren't so many of them in our yard... there is a nest of them under my front porch, and possibly under a bush in my front garden. (Said bush is where the snake in this photo keeps coming out from under)
Would it be mean to consider digging up said bush to encourage them to move elsewhere????
The year we bought the house, Rich was able to come here a lot in the spring and I wasn't. That spring the ground was FULL of snakes. I didn't see a lot of them last year, but we had a weird winter and that could have had something to do with it.
So, how will I manage to do all of my gardening and getting things going in the beds if I am continually frightened away by slithery, moving things????
I hope they get going soon, that's all I can say.
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"Pulled in so many directions" "So much to do" "Not enough time" It's not easy to decide what makes it on and off the holiday 'must do' list, YET this choice can prove CRUCIAL in the battle for peace of mind, health, and sanity at this time of year… Winter is naturally a time to slow down, to rest, to rejuvenate. Somehow, in our modern culture, we do the opposite. We speed up. We add more. We keep busy. This takes a significant toll on our physical, emotional and mental health, as we draw heavily upon our internal resources. With just a SLIGHT shift in our mentality at this time of year, we can shift the balance on this battleground for our internal resources– bringing us the victory of greater health & well-being–for ourselves, AND for those we love.
Whether we like it or not, our internal resources–our energy, our drive, our motivation, our passion, our focus, our attention are limited–SPECIFICALLY at this time of year. It's winter! All we have to do is look around to see that this is the part of the cycle when living things naturally go dormant. When we, as living things, intentionally go AGAINST that natural flow, there are consequences.
Now I will say that for quite some time, it was possible for us to go against that natural order and have somewhat minimal impact on our health & well-being. This has changed. It now makes a MUCH bigger impact. To read more about that check out my Radical Self Care series.
Choosing to align ourselves with cosmic forces–i.e. NATURE–is the key. We are working too hard going against the flow instead of with it
Going against the flow means that we must be exerting at least three times the effort and force to make something happen. These days, three times the force & effort is definitely not sustainable, and is in fact, damaging. Now, we always have a choice in the matter. If it is worth the extra cost, energetically, emotionally, physically, then great! Go for it. So, a crucial step here is to ASSESS THE ENERGETIC COST of any given activity. How much energy is going to take to do "fill-in-the-blank." Is "fill-in-the-blank activity" worth the energetic cost it would require? Maybe, maybe not.
The Dark time of the year is about RENEWAL. When you consider how every task, action, activity is going to contribute to or take away from your own personal renewal process, you will be well on your way to greater peace within and without.
All is takes is a fairly minor shift in how we THINK about this time of year, and suddenly the pieces can fall into place much more harmoniously. The Dark time of the year is about RENEWAL. When we consider how each activity either contributes to our own personal renewal or takes away from it, we get the clarity about how to make the best choices for ourselves.
See your own personal energy as a bank account. Renewal is about adding to it. All winter long, you get to put more in, so that come spring, summer & fall, you've got LOTS to work with. If you don't make this renewal process a priority when the conditions are naturally set for it, then you will constantly be working to add/save when the conditions are set for spending & expansion.
Renewal is essential for each one of us–and unique to each one of us as well. Everyone must find their own personal formula for what that renewal will be. And there are some "tried and true" methods that humans have used for eons to assist with this.
MEDITATION – Quieting the mind is hugely beneficial for the renewal process. Our nervous system is overworked in our high-stimulus society. Giving ourselves quiet time when we are awake sends powerful signals to our nervous system that all is well, which allows the other body systems to function more harmoniously. Here is a helpful scientific explanation of the benefit of meditation on the nervous system. Contrary to popular belief, learning to meditate can be easy and fun! I invite you to join me for a 5 Week Max Meditation series starting in January that will give you a powerful and effective way to use meditation for your benefit.
CEREMONY/RITUAL – Using the dark time of year to focus on the natural renewal process through ceremony and ritual has long been a tradition for us as humans. Whether it is the Yule celebrations of welcoming back the light of the Sun or the Christmas celebrations of welcoming the Son of Light, the theme of honoring the light in the darkness is clear. Find whatever expression /activity resonates best for you and honor the sacred renewal process of the deep of winter. The richness that abounds here can be profound!
SELF REFLECTION – Slowing down and taking more time and space during the winter gives you a beautiful opportunity for self-reflection. The holidays can be so stressful when we DON'T give ourselves this time and space. Yes, it's great to be with friends and family, AND overdoing it is not helpful. We naturally go inward at this time of year, so capitalizing on the inward focus to gain insight into yourself, your dreams, your desires is an essential piece to renewal as well. A wonderful method to work with if you are in need of one is to visit your own personal Sanctuary –a place within your Soul that is just for you and serve as an interface for you with your own higher guidance. Having a journal to record your insights during your annual winter renewal is also a wonderful way to mark your yearly progress.
As we come to the very shortest of days and the longest of nights, defend the stronghold of your inner resources, adding to them as much as possible. And if that means an extra phone call to Aunt Sally because you will miss the family dinner or a *super short* appearance at the company party, then congratulations! Your personal resources bank account is that much fuller!
If you find that you have a deep longing for this renewal and just don't know where to begin, please contact me. Helping people strengthen and empower themselves is what I do!
Sending you all MANY BLESSINGS this holiday season!
~Live Light & Shine Bright ~


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News Article Archive
Mathematics Prefects
Six Year 11 prefects have been selected to support the mathematics faculty. They help tutors with the weekly Numeracy quiz and they each have responsibility for two or three KS3 pupils. These pupils are in Year 7 or 8 and would all benefit from having additional peer support and coaching in mathematics. The prefects have got to know the pupils and are now working through key areas for development. This has involved working with mymaths booster packs and a tailored booklet of worksheets.
So far the pupils are all very positive, the prefects are excelling in their coaching skills and are enjoying leading the learning of the pupils. The pupils are appreciative of the extra support and attention and like having one of the older pupils take an interest in their progress.


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Air NZ's marketing team have taken the opportunity to ruffle some feathers across the Tasman after they won the title of Australia's most trusted brand.
This full page ad appeared in newspapers across Australia. It features the star of Air NZ's Australian advertising campaign, Dave the Goose.
"We've taken the cake, and this time it's not the pavlova" the ad boasts.
Air NZ won the title of Australia's most trusted brand last week.
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Rebecca never felt safe as a child. In 1969, her father, Robert Nichols, moved to Sellerstown, North Carolina, to serve as a pastor. There he found a small community eager to welcome him—with one exception. Glaring at him from pew number seven was a man obsessed with controlling the church. Determined to get rid of anyone who stood in his way, he unleashed a plan of terror that was more devastating and violent than the Nichols family could have ever imagined. Refusing to be driven away by acts of intimidation, Rebecca's father stood his ground until one night when an armed man walked into the family's kitchen . . . and Rebecca's life was shattered. If anyone had a reason to harbor hatred and seek personal revenge, it would be Rebecca. Yet The Devil in Pew Number Seven tells a different story. It is the amazing true saga of relentless persecution, one family's faith and courage in the face of it, and a daughter whose parents taught her the power of forgiveness.Show more
Between 6 and 10 million people in the U.S. suffer from borderline personality disorder. This book teaches adult children how to overcome the devastating effects of growing up with a parent who suffers from BPD. Although relatively common, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is often overlooked or misdiagnosed by therapists and clinicians and denied by those who suffer from it. If you were raised by a BPD parent, your childhood was a volatile and painful time. This book, the first written specifically for children of borderline parents, offers step-by-step guidance to understanding and overcoming the lasting effects of being raised by a person suffering from this disorder. Discover specific coping strategies for dealing with issues common to children of borderline parents: low self-esteem, lack of trust, guilt, and hypersensitivity, and make the major decision whether to confront your parent about his or her condition.Show more
In this unabridged audio download of Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus, Lois Tverberg challenges readers to follow their Rabbi more closely by re-examining his words in the light of their Jewish context. Doing so will provide a richer, deeper understanding of his ministry, compelling us to live differently, to become more Christ-like. We'll begin to understand why his first Jewish disciples abandoned everything to follow him, to live out his commands. Our modern society, with its individualism and materialism, is very different than the tight-knit, family-oriented setting Jesus lived and taught in. What wisdom can we glean from his Eastern, biblical attitude toward life? How can knowing Jesus within this context shed light on his teachings for us today? In Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus we'll journey back in time to eavesdrop on the conversations that arose among the rabbis of Jesus' day, and consider how hearing Rabbi Jesus with the ears of a first-century disciple can bring new meaning to our faith. And we'll listen to Jewish thinkers through the ages, discovering how ideas that germinated in Jesus' time have borne fruit over time. Doing so will yield fresh, practical insights for following our Rabbi's teachings from a Jewish point of view.Show more
The gripping true story of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham's year as hostages in the Philippine jungle, was a New York Times best seller and has sold nearly 350,000 copies. Now releasing in trade softcover for the first time, this updated edition has a new look and contains never-before-published information on the capture and trial of the Burnhams' captors; Gracia's secret return trip to the Philippines; and updates on recent events in Gracia's life, ministry, and family.Show more
Does your knowledge of the Old Testament feel like a grab bag of people, books, events, and ideas? How many times have you resolved to really understand the OT? To finally make sense of it? Perhaps you are suffering from what Sandra Richter calls the "dysfunctional closet syndrome." If so, she has a solution. Like a home-organizing expert, she comes in and helps you straighten up your cluttered closet. Gives you hangers for facts. A timeline to put them on. And handy containers for the clutter on the floor. Plus she fills out your wardrobe of knowledge with exciting new facts and new perspectives. The whole thing is put in usable order-a history of God's redeeming grace. A story that runs from the Eden of the Garden to the garden of the New Jerusalem. Whether you are a frustrated do-it-yourselfer or a beginning student enrolled in a course, this book will organize your understanding of the Old Testament and renew your enthusiasm for studying the Bible as a whole.Show more
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history-a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the century since her death, next to nothing has been written about this extraordinary woman aside from juvenile biographies. The truth about Harriet Tubman has become lost inside a legend woven of racial and gender stereotypes. Now at last, historian Kate Clifford Larson gives Harriet Tubman the powerful, intimate, meticulously detailed biography she deserves. Drawing from a trove of new documents and sources as well extensive genealogical research, Larson reveals Tubman as a complex woman. The descendant of the vibrant, matrilineal Asante people of the African Gold Coast, Tubman was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland but refused to spend her life in bondage. While still a young woman she embarked on a perilous journey of self-liberation-and then, having won her own freedom, she returned again and again to liberate family and friends, tapping into the Underground Railroad. Yet despite her success, her celebrity, and her close ties with Northern politicians and abolitionists, Tubman suffered crushing physical pain and emotional setbacks. Stripping away myths and misconceptions, Larson presents stunning new details about Tubman's accomplishments, personal life, and influence. Here too are Tubman's twilight years after the war, when she worked for women's rights and in support of her fellow blacks, and when racist politicians and suffragists marginalized her contribution. Harriet Tubman, her life, and her work remain an inspiration to all who value freedom. Now, thanks to Larson's breathtaking biography, we can finally appreciate Tubman as a complete human being-an American hero, yes, but also a woman who loved, suffered, and sacrificed. Bound for the Promised Land is a magnificent work of biography, history, and truth telling.Show more
Nelson Mandela led a long and remarkable life. From his earliest days herding cows in a South African village, he became a child of privilege, a rebellious runaway, an impoverished student, a father, a successful lawyer, a political dissident, a rising star in the African nationalist movement, an underground saboteur, the chief defendant in three show trials, a political prisoner, a secret negotiator with South Africa's rulers, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, president of his country, and a statesman who held South Africa together long enough to find reconciliation and the path to prosperity. But despite all this, Mandela saw himself as a pragmatic politician with one fixed goal: the end of apartheid rule in South Africa. Apart from that one overarching aim, everything else was tactics. If non-violence worked, he was for it; when bombs and guns were winning, he would use them too. He started or suspended negotiations as circumstances demanded and ignored grievances in favor of peace. If the cause required that he sacrifice his freedom and much of his personal life, so be it. He was always focused on the prize, and, in the end, he won it-and with it, the world's adulation and the enduring love of his people. This is his story.Show more
Impromptu shows leaders how to think on their feet and respond eloquently in every situation. Never have there been so many opportunities to inspire and influence in everyday situations-elevator chats, corridor conversations, networking gatherings, meetings, and ceremonial events. Indeed, today the most iconic leadership moments are spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment events that reveal the inner workings of the leader's mind. When these impromptu opportunities arise, leaders must be able to listen, think, and respond within seconds. They don't read a script from a page, they convey the narrative that is already in their mind. They can tailor a message-in a meeting, in the corridor, or in a tweet-to influence and inspire any audience. Those who shine in that moment are remembered for their leadership. Those who stumble are remembered for their gaffes, mixed messages, or insensitivity. Nobody remembers the leaders who retreat to their office, formulate a strategic plan, and distribute a memo the following week. Guided by her entrepreneurial success as founder of The Humphrey Group and her firm's work with tens of thousands of leaders over the past thirty years, Judith Humphrey makes clear the importance of preparing to be spontaneous-as counterintuitive as that may sound! Drawing upon the best impromptu moments from the Greeks to the present, the book looks at every aspect of impromptu speaking. You will learn how to: - Think like an impromptu leader - Quickly read an audience of one or a thousand - Collect your thoughts and craft a persuasive message - 'Script' yourself within seconds for any occasion - Avoid 'um's' and 'ah's' and use the right words at the right time - Discover improv techniques that will enable you to shine - Deliver your message with clarity, confidence, and conviction. The ability to speak on the spot is often seen as an innate gift, a talent of 'natural-born' leaders. The truth is, it's a skill that can be learned-a skill that is quickly becoming a must-have for anyone in a leadership position. Impromptu provides clear, actionable guidance to help you reach your full leadership potential. It will enable you to influence and inspire followers on the many 'small stages' that define our daily lives.Show more
Magnesium is an essential nutrient, indispensable to your health and well-being. By adding this mineral to your diet, you are guarding against-and helping to alleviate-such threats as heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes, depression, arthritis, and asthma. But despite magnesium's numerous benefits, many Americans remain dangerously deficient. Updated and revised throughout with the latest research, this amazing guide explains the vital role that magnesium plays in your body and life. Inside you will discover ● new findings about the essential role of magnesium in lowering cholesterol ● improved methods for increasing magnesium intake and absorption rate ● a magnesium-rich eating plan as delicious as it is healthy ● vitamins and minerals that work with magnesium to treat specific ailments ● why paleo, raw food, and green juice diets can lead to magnesium deficiency The Magnesium Miracle, now more than ever, is the ultimate guide to a mineral that is truly miraculous.Show more
It's no secret that breastfeeding is the normal, healthy way to nourish and nurture your baby. Dedicated to supporting nursing and expectant mothers, the internationally respected La Leche League has set the standard for educating and empowering mothers in this natural art for generations. Now their classic bestselling guide has been retooled, refocused, and updated for today's mothers and lifestyles. Working mothers, stay-at-home moms, single moms, and mothers of multiples will all benefit from the book's range of nursing advice, stories, and information-from preparing for breastfeeding during pregnancy to feeding cues, from nursing positions to expressing and storing breast milk. This ultimate support bible offers: real-mom wisdom on breastfeeding comfortably new insights into old approaches toward latching and attaching, ages and stages, and answers to the most-asked questions recent scientific data that highlight the many lifelong health benefits of breastfeeding helpful tips for building your support network-at home or when back at work guidance on breast health issues, weight gain, day care, colic, postpartum depression, food allergies, and medicationsShow more
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The Washington Post's must-read guide to health-care reform traces how President Obama and the Democrats achieved this historic overhaul, explains the legislation itself, and shows how it will impact individual Americans After a year-long political war, in March 2010 President Obama and the Democratic leaders of Congress achieved a victory that has eluded lawmakers for seventy-five years: an overhaul of America's health-care system. In this indispensable book, the staff of the Washington Post tells the story of health-care reform and explains what it means for the American people. In the book's first section, the Washington Post's reporter embedded in the White House provides a behind-the-scenes narrative of how Obama and the Democrats pushed through health-care reform in the face of nearly unanimous Republican opposition. This section traces the tortured evolution of the legislation, showing how the Senate killed the public option, how the January 2010 victory of Republican senator Scott Brown left the Democrats scrambling, and how Democratic leaders ultimately negotiated among entrenched political factions'including disillusioned Democrats'to reach a compromise. What does this final package include? The book's second section provides an accessible summary of the legislation that Obama signed into law in March 2010. In the third section, Washington Post writers answer the most pressing questions about the health-care legislation's immediate impact. Most importantly, how will the new bill affect individuals'small-business owners, uninsured Americans with pre-existing conditions, and twenty-somethings on their parents' policies? This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how this legislation came into being and what the new health-care program means.Show more


text: Solo hiking adventure up Nihahi Ridge – June 4. Always liked this hike and it was a great way to break in my new hiking shoes. Starts a bit boring along a dirt road near the Little Elbow Campground but quickly gets interesting when you take the trail up towards the ridge. Once you break out of the tree line it is a very easy scramble to get up to the top of the ridge. You can run the ridge quite a few kilometers but the thunder clouds were rolling in so I turned around and came back down.


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An axisymmetric finite element model is generated to simulate the windshield glass damage propagation subjected to impact loading of a flying object. The windshield glass consists of two glass outer layers laminated by a thin poly-vinyl butyral (PVB) layer. The constitutive behavior of the glass layers is simulated using brittle damage mechanics model with linear damage evolution. The PVB layer is modeled with linear viscoelastic solid. The model is used to predict and examine through-thickness damage evolution patterns on different glass surfaces and cracking patterns for different windshield designs such as variations in thickness and curvatures.


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Seroba's investee company, PQ Bypass, today announced data from a subset analysis of the DETOUR I clinical trial during a late-breaking clinical trial session at Vascular InterVentional Advances (VIVA 17), which is taking place September 11-14 in Las Vegas.
The study evaluated the safety and effectiveness of the DETOUR System for treating long-segment (>25cm) blockages in the femoropopliteal artery via a novel, fully percutaneous bypass approach, known as the DETOUR procedure.
The presentation by Sean Lyden, M.D., chairman of the vascular surgery department at Cleveland Clinic, was entitled: Safety and Efficacy of a Novel Percutaneous Bypass Procedure for Long-Segment Femoropopliteal Disease: A Sub-Analysis (>25cm) from the DETOUR I Trial.
Percutaneous femoropopliteal bypass (the DETOUR procedure) is a newly developed procedure that utilizes the proprietary DETOUR System – TORUS Stent Graft, DETOUR Crossing Device and DETOUR Snare – to enable a fully percutaneous bypass of long-segment blockages in the femoropopliteal artery.
The DETOUR procedure creates a pathway around a lesion by placing stent grafts that cross from the femoral artery into the femoral vein and back into the artery. The new path re-directs oxygen-rich blood around the blockage and restores blood flow to the lower leg and foot of the patient. The restoration of blood flow helps to reduce pain and improve patient mobility, all while limiting the progression of PAD.
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HARWICH – The mission of the Family Pantry of Cape Cod is simple: to provide food and clothing to those in need. But as the pantry has grown, so have its offerings and the need continues, according to Mary Anderson, the executive director of the pantry.
"There are still challenges. . . . I certainly see improvement in the economy but I think as some people get on their feet and don't need us, somebody else gets their electric bill that just went up 30 percent," Anderson said.
The pantry just celebrated 28 years last fall. It was started by a small group of volunteers of the St. Vincent de Paul Society out of Holy Trinity Church. They were giving out food vouchers and were having trouble keeping up with the need, so they decided to open a food pantry, Anderson said.
From those humble beginnings, the pantry has grown to operate out of a 12,000 square foot warehouse. Since 2005, the number of people the pantry serves is up 70 percent, Anderson said.
From a fish distribution to a garden, to a new large thrift shop, the pantry is growing to meet the need.
The Family Pantry, which is the largest food pantry on Cape Cod, has clients from Bourne to Provincetown, with the largest number of clients coming from the town of Barnstable.
The pantry has recently embarked on a program called Fish for Families, a partnership with the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance and through the alliance, the pantry distributed dogfish this winter. A distribution of skate wings is expected to take place in April.
Amy Camenga, president of the board of directors of the Family Pantry, said, "We're able to afford this because of the price that they give us."
A survey of pantry clients showed they would eat fish frequently if they could afford it. "It was pretty clear from the survey that people would eat a lot more fish if they could afford it," Anderson said.
One of the statistics that often takes people by surprise, Anderson said, is that approximately two-thirds of the clients who come to the Family Pantry for food have at least one person in the household who is working and in many cases there are two people working. They just don't make quite enough to cover the cost of living here.
About a year and a half ago, the pantry started a satellite pantry at Cape Cod Community College, which is managed by the college's Legacy Club under the pantry's operating principles.
New this year, the Family Pantry is planning to start a mobile pantry using a grant it recently received from Blue Cross Blue Shield. Anderson said a business plan will be put together for the new program, which will likely begin on the Outer Cape with stops at the senior centers.
"I think the seniors are probably our most under served population," she said.
Mary Anderson, executive director of the Family Pantry of Cape Cod, and Amy Camenga, president of the board of directors of the Family Pantry, speak about the pantry's programs in the interview below.
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By Paul Gains
It wasn't until she stood atop the winner's podium at the 2012 Ottawa 10k that Lindsey Scherf realised the enormity of her accomplishment.
Receiving $6,000 for her victory was one thing; realising Geoffrey Mutai, one of the world's greatest distance runners had won the men's race, was another. That's certainly exalted company.
Now, a year later, the 26 year old native of Westchester, New York is committed to defending the title she won with a time of 33:12.8.
"It was my first win, besides a little local race, since I left college," she remembers. "So it was sort of a big deal for me. I guess I didn't realise the significance of the race - being an IAAF silver label race. And I didn't expect to come in and win the race."
That contest was a comeback of sorts. The previous fall she had undergone surgery to remove an extra bone in her foot and was cautious in her return to proper training. To avoid the ice and snow, her longtime coach, Mike Barnow of the Westchester Track Club, suggested she spend the winter in North Carolina where the footing would be less treacherous.
"My best friend from high school got her master's degree down here so immediately I inherited a bunch of her friends," Scherf reveals. "It was supposed to be a temporary thing but I love it here. There's nice places to train. I decided to stay and feel very much at home here. I live in Chapel Hill."
Along with the heavy training program she has undertaken Scherf is also enrolled in an Emergency Medical Technician course, which is equivalent to the initial paramedic training Canadian medics take.
Scherf graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor's degree in psychology and did her Master's degree in Kinesiology at the University of Michigan. At one point she had planned to become a US Air Force fighter pilot and signed up for the training program thinking that she could eventually go to medical school. However, she was deemed not fit because of her lifelong exercise-induced asthma. This condition would cause her undue problems in 2007.
"I love the idea of flying planes, something that is a challenge," she declares. "Technically women can be as good, if not better, fighter pilots as men because they can withstand more 'G' forces and again I think its something I would be good at.
"It didn't end up working out for me, almost for the better, in a certain sense, because I wouldn't have got back into running. I always thought of the idea of medicine, even when I was in the air force. They will pay for your education, for medical school. Now, I am ending up at the same destination just a different route to it."
In 2007 she spent a semester studying in Australia and decided to enter the Gold Coast Marathon in Brisbane. Her father, acting as her agent, was told she needed an international Therapeutic Use Exception or TUE from USA Track and Field so she could continue using the asthma medication, Flovent. She had used this medication since the age of 13.
The application was made nine weeks before the race but the paperwork didn't arrive in time. Reluctant to run without the TUE she says the race director convinced her by pointing out the event had not been subjected to doping control the past few years. To her horror, after the race doping officials approached her for a urine sample. Mistakenly, she refused the test, thinking that the repercussions would be less than if she tested positive for the asthma medication. Although the US Anti Doping Agency acknowledged there were extenuating circumstances she was suspended for a year.
"Sometimes these frustrating situations happen and you just try and make the best and move on," Scherf says of the incident. "I think, at the end of the day, at least my integrity was intact.
"I am still taking the same asthma medication I have been taking since I was 13 years old. It controls my asthma. It reduces the attacks and my symptoms. Now the IAAF no longer requires a TUE for Flovent. They no longer consider it an issue."
Such character assassinations aside, there's no denying that Scherf is a tough international competitor. She placed second at the 2012 US 25k national championship and admits she is better suited to the longer distances. But in her buildup to this year's Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend she ran eleven seconds faster in the Cooper River Bridge Run 10k than a year ago.
"My goal of the year is to run my favourite distance, which is the half marathon," she reveals. "I am really targeting the US Half Marathon championships. It's not a record-eligible course, I can't control the competition, but my goal is to run under 1 hour 10 minutes by the end of June."
But first there's her return to Ottawa. This time she will approach the race as a defending champion and with a newfound understanding of how prestigious an IAAF silver label race really is.


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My hair is "Over-Producted."
I am a simple guy, with simple needs.
I like simple food like mashed potatoes.
I watch simple shows on TV.
I am most comfortable in jeans and a sweatshirt.
And I do not wear any jewelry other than a wedding ring.
I think this is because I lived in Iowa as a kid.
And Iowa is a simple state.
That said, living with four women can complicate life.In lots of different ways. The one that has become particularly clear is in the area of hair products.
Shampoo specifically
We have five people in our house and we must have a dozen different kinds of shampoo. We have shampoo for fine hair, shampoo for thick hair. shampoo for fussy hair, and shampoo for colored hair…
We are taking something that is inherently simple,Soap for Hair, and turning it into rocket science. But at the end of the day, aren't the directions "Wet. Lather. Rinse?"
Seems pretty simple to me…
And there's the thing. Shampoo is expensive. Almost as expensive as rocket science I think.
So when I hop in the shower and prepare to "Wet. Lather. Rinse" I have a handful of very colorful, exotic bottles making a thousand different promises to "volumeize" and "settle" and "add body" and so on and so on and so on…
I don't need that.
I just need my hair to not look like a pack of opossums just settled in for a long winter's nap. I don't need it to smell like a bouquet of wildflowers plucked from the island nation of Bora-Bora.
But no, because I live with a house full of women, I am destined to have hair that is over-producted, and way prettier, smellier, and un-simple than I deserve.
It's like my hair needs a Chevrolet, and my shower is parked full of Corvettes.
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Last week, I participated on a panel for the TRUSTe Internet of Things (IoT) Privacy Summit at a beautiful resort in Menlo Park, California. The event brought together people from many different companies, large and small, as well as privacy advocates and legal experts. Videos of the event can be found here. The consensus perspective at the conference was that soon all of our electronic devices will be connected spanning across smart meters in our homes, smart thermostats on our walls, and wearable devices on our wrists sending health information to our smartphones. So, someone needs to ensure privacy is being addressed. This looms as a large issue as more and more data is being captured for our benefit, and we are able to remotely control our household electronics and even our lights from our smartphones.
Organizations want to mine that data for analysis. Much of this data is personally identifiable information (PII), such as name, address, age, sex, location, and contact info, which affords protections. But, some of it is legally protected information, such as health or financial data (eg, credit card linked to account). The core of privacy is Notice and Choice. An organization must notify the user what data is being collected, how it's being used, and with whom else it might be shared. The user [technically] has a choice to allow this use of their data or not. This usually just amounts to "accepting" the privacy and license agreement that is shown to you when you install or log into the application. There are large concerns that users have been numbed with notifications, they just scroll down and accept anything. So there is the discussion of enforcing the concept of "acceptable use." Meaning I won't be selling your data to marketers, as well as protecting your data from unauthorized access, and I'll give you access to the data I have to allow you to correct or delete it. This is gaining traction but law is still Notice and Choice.
We specifically had discussions about perspectives of millennials, who appear to be less privacy focused and seem to accept all uses of their data. However, one of the panelists provided an excellent perspective that "it's not that millenials don't care about privacy, they actually manage it very well, they just have a different threat model than the older generations." Meaning, they are fine with sharing different information about themselves, which they don't see as harmful, but are very savvy in hiding information they don't want shared (i.e., with parents as personal enemies)
What we were striving for is that companies and developers build privacy into their products instead of trying to bolt it on at the end. We learned this lesson over a decade ago with web application security: it's much more expensive to attempt to apply security controls on a working application, then to design it in at the beginning. Also, controls are more effective when there are integrated than added on later. We also need to look at the entire data supply chain, not just at collection points. Is this data flowing to a back end system? Is data stored in multiple places? Is this data in a cloud? What country is this data stored? There are many country specific data privacy requirements, especially in Europe, around storage and protection of PII to consider. Overall, it was a great conference that covered many topics, but like many conferences, the folks who attended already get it. We need to get the word out to more industries. As a security professional, my industry struggles with understanding the difference between privacy and security, and considers privacy encryption, or confidentiality. It's really about "appropriate use." That's a good place to start.
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June 20 deadline: Join us in Mannheim & enter EUPRIO Awards
Following requests from EUPRIO members the deadline for registering for EUPRIO's 2017 annual conference and entering the EUPRIO Awards is being extended by a week to Tuesday June 20.
The conference opens with a welcome reception on the evening of Thursday June 29 and runs until 2 July and is being hosted by the University of Mannheim, Germany in cooperation with the German federal association of university communication professionals, Bundesverband Hochschulkommunikation.
The EUPRIO Awards give public relations and communication professionals the chance to shine for their outstanding campaigns and activities and entry is free, but you need to register for the conference to take part.
To register for the conference go to https://www.euprio.eu/mannheim-conference-2017/conference-registration-2/
To read more about the entry requirements for the EUPRIO Awards, look here.
Conference sponsors
The 2017 EUPRIO conference is being sponsored by easydb.digitalasset made by programmefabrik who will be running a workshop; Die Zeit publishing group which publishes Germany's leading opinion-forming newspaper; and JobTeaser, the first European recruitment solution for talented young people integrated into universities.
Workshop on managing digital assets
Programmfabrik GmbH will be presenting a special workshop, repeated twice on Friday 30 June, on Digital Asset Management (DAM) led by chief marketing and operations officer, Sebastian Klarmann. He has helped to introduce the company's easydb as standard software to improve the handling of digital images in PR and marketing at more than 30 universities since 2007.
Sebastian says: "Universities are huge institutions that produce, manage, and reuse thousands of assets like images, audio, video, print material, presentations, and other media data and they have a wide range of users with different IT skills and needs.
"A DAM system reconciles all requirements and competences when dealing with digital assets. It is a professional software for the management of media data and an easy to use tool for finding and sharing information at once."
Programmfabrik will also raffle an iPad during the conference. For more information about easydb, see https://www.programmfabrik.de/easydb/digital-asset-management-system/
DIE ZEIT is read by more than two million readers weekly and has supported previous EUPRIO conferences. Founded in 1946 in Hamburg, DIE ZEIT is published every Thursday and specialises in politics, economy, culture, science, education, society, travel and history. The newspaper is widely used to advertise posts for academics and scientists in research and higher education. See www.jobs.zeit.de and www.academics.de
JobTeaser was founded in 2008 as the first recruitment platform in Europe for students and recent graduates and has set itself the goal of 'facilitating and reinventing the professional integration of talented young people'. It does this by providing colleges and universities with 'the Career Centre by JobTeaser' – an innovative career platform to facilitate recruiter access to talented young people. See https://www.jobteaser.com/en/home for more information about JobTeaser.
* Also see https://www.euprio.eu/mannheim-conference-2017/sponsors/
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Noida and Greater Noida authorities to start registration of flats in favour of Amrapali homebuyers.
A two-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Arun Mishra and comprising of Justice Uday U Lalit, warned the Noida and Greater Noida authorities that their officers will be taken into a task if there is any delay on their part in handing over possession of flats to homebuyers.
Noida and Greater Noida authorities told the top court that they had created a special cell to handle the cases arising out in the case of Amrapali homebuyers and officials have been designated to ensure that the court's order should comply with true spirit.
On July 23, the Supreme Court had directed the National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC) to complete the unfinished housing projects of Amrapali in Noida and Greater Noida area and handover these to the homebuyers as soon as possible. The court had cancelled the RERA (provide proper protection to homebuyers) registration of Amrapali real estate.
"The ED has to register the money laundering cases against Amrapali, its CMD and directors," the Apex Court had said in its earlier order. It had said that serious frauds were committed by the real estate group, Amrapali, in alleged connivance with Noida and Greater Noida authority.
JP Morgan has also allegedly violated the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) regulations, it said. The Apex court had appointed, R Venkatramani, as Court commissioner, in the case.
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Nursing careers offer personal and professional rewards to thousands of Ohioans. Most enter the field in a traditional way by enrolling in associate or baccalaureate nursing programs after high school. If you didn't major in nursing in college, however, today's direct entry master's degrees can offer you an alternative path into the satisfying world of nursing while still taking advantage of your previous educational experiences.
You can find a listing of all the Ohio nursing schools that offer a direct entry or accelerated Master's in Nursing option on our site, and we recommend that you contact the schools you are interested in to gain more information.
Although Ohio's programs go by different names, they share many common features. If you study for a direct entry master's degree, you can expect to meet fellow students in all walks of life, from engineers to educators to business majors.
As an applicant, you will find most programs require a minimum grade-point average and certain prerequisite classes for admission. Some schools also require graduate entrance examinations, a background check, personal references, and even an interview. The coursework, program length, and specialties vary from one college to the next, but many share a common base curriculum.
Case Western Reserve University's Graduate Entry Nursing Program is separated into two phases. The 72-credit Master of Nursing (MN) program typically runs for about two years and prepares students to take the registered nurse (RN) licensing exam. After this phase, you can begin the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program to prepare for a career as an advanced practice nurse or a nurse educator.
The Case nursing program offers more than a dozen master's specialties and sub-specialties, including adult gerontology, family nurse practitioner, nurse anesthesia, and nurse midwife. For some of these MSN majors, you must have experience as an RN, or you must file a separate application. Check the individual programs for specific requirements.
The MAGELIN program at the College of Mount St. Joseph (Master's Graduate Entry-Level into Nursing) is the school's shortest path for college graduates who want to become nurses. The 64-credit accelerated program prepares you to take the RN licensing examination after about 15 months of study.
One you complete the program, you can begin studying for your MSN degree in one of three career paths – administration, clinical nurse leader or education. This phase of the program is offered in a part-time format, with students taking two 10-week classes each semester. Most of the courses are offered online, but you must visit the campus three or four times during each class.
The University of Toledo prepares college graduates to become clinical nurse leaders through its two-year, full-time MSN program. The 66-credit curriculum includes classes in topics like pharmacology, health assessment, advanced nursing research, and therapeutic communication skills. You can also expect to complete 660 clinical clock hours in the program.
After completing the MSN portion of the program, you can apply for your RN license and take the licensing exam. At that point, you may choose to enter the nursing workforce, to pursue a doctorate degree, or to study for a graduate certificate to become a nurse practitioner.
In the University of Cincinnati's (UC) Accelerated Pathway Program, your classes are divided into three phases. In the first section, you complete undergraduate prerequisite courses, including psychology, statistics and science offerings. The full-time second phase runs for four semesters, preparing you for RN licensing. In the final phase, you may choose a specialty and begin studying for your MSN.
UC offers many master's specialties, including adult gerontology, family nurse practitioner, occupational health, nurse midwife, and nurse administration. Some programs are offered on campus, while others are available online. You must have hands-on work experience for most specialties. The nurse anesthesia program requires a separate application.
Xavier University's 20-month MIDAS program (MSN Direct Entry as a Second Degree) runs for two academic years with a summer of study required in between academic years. The full-time program leads to a MSN degree, and prepares you to sit for the RN licensing exam. Once you have obtained your RN license, you also will be eligible to sit for the clinical nurse leader certification exam or the holistic nurse certification exam.
MIDAS classes are typically scheduled during the day, but clinical hours will vary. The program won't prepare you for advanced practice nursing careers such as midwives or nurse practitioners. However, you may apply for Xavier's advanced practice programs once you have a year of RN experience.
While the programs detailed above are not exhaustive, they give you a good idea of what to expect from a Direct Entry Master's in Nursing program. For detailed information about your options, you can contact the schools to learn more.
The Ohio Board of Regents, the Ohio Nurses Foundation, and various federal agencies offer loan repayment and scholarship opportunities for master's students. For a review of some of these programs, check the Ohio Center for Nursing website.


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2nd UPDATE: *Two Jim Carrey meetings this coming week: Endeavor and CAA. First, I was told Jim Carrey's manager Jim Miller called UTA's Nick Stevens to fire him as the star's 15-year-long agent. Then the truth came out (when people stopped trying to shield the client): it was Jim Carrey himself who Wednesday morning called Stevens and said he was going to take meetings with other agencies. Immediately, I hear, UTA realized "that the fix was in" for Carrey to sign with CAA, where one of Carrey's managers, Eric Gold, just X'ed on the dotted line for exclusive representation as a movie producer, and where the other manager, Jimmy Miller, has steered most of his clients. But here's the juiciest part: I'm told that Nick Stevens, in a last-ditch bid to foil CAA's chances of bagging Carrey, actually called up rival Ari Emanuel of Endeavor and gave him pointers on how to sign the actor if his agency scores a meeting. Emanuel and Miller are tight, and Endeavor handles Miller clients Sacha Baron Cohen and Adam McKay, among others. For some time now, CAA has been after another Stevens' client, Judd Apatow, who also is managed by Miller — to the point of promising "there's $400 million out there for you to make movies." (Hear that, CAA client Tom Cruise?)*
Some further updates mixed in below…
So I'm told that Jim Carrey has fired United Talent Agency. Few agents have ever worked harder for a client than Nick Stevens did for Carrey for seemingly eons (some 15 years). Carrey will stay with long-time managers Jimmy Miller and Eric Gold, who recently dissolved their management and production partnership. (They're at different companies, in the same building but on different floors.) Together with Stevens, the three-member Team Carrey, as they called themselves, were known for their strategic planning and savvy deal-making that saw Carrey jump from earning a few hundred thousand dollars for Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, to being offered an Industry record of $20 million for The Cable Guy 18 months later. In turn, Carrey gave back, even one year buying the trio spankin' new Porsches after the success of How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
Nick has devoted a huge part of his life to Jim (agent and client have homes something like 600 yards from one another, and Carrey was treated like part of Stevens' immediate family), and this is a sad, sad, day in the annals of agenting because Stevens did nothing wrong. Let me repeat that: nothing wrong. After absorbing this shocker, some Hollywood types insisted to me (and still do) that Carrey has not chosen another agency, but that might just be wishful thinking. I'm told he'll be on his way to CAA. This follows a similar move by his pal, director Jay Roach, who left ICM for CAA just a few days earlier and is also managed by Miller. Earlier, Will Farrell left UTA for CAA to follow his agents there, and he, too, is managed by Miller. Uh, get the picture? On the other hand, Miller is tight with Endeavor's Ari Emanuel, who would move heaven and earth to bag Carrey (and is probably doing so right now). Meanwhile, let's not forget that Carrey nearly signed with CAA after he became a breakout star on Fox' Living Color. But that agency demanded to rep the actor's entire biz — the TV show as well as his successful stand-up — and not just movies. But Nick Stevens believed in Carrey's talent so much that the agent was fine just handling Jim for movies. So, in the middle of the night, Carrey changed his mind and signed with Stevens.
In any case, Carrey is a handful: he requires someone with an advanced degree in bizarre personalities. So much has never come out publicly about Carrey's behavior: for instance, the fact that Jim signed on to Dreamworks' Over The Hedge and spent considerable time in the booth until, I'm told, "he couldn't bear the process." Understandably, some threats of a lawsuit were thrown around by Jeffrey Katzenberg, who ultimately replaced Carrey with Bruce Willis. And I hear it took almost round-the-clock cajoling by everyone on all sides of the project just to get Carrey to keep going much less finish Sony's Fun With Dick and Jane.
Carrey is also a phenomenal talent, yet he's had many ups and downs at the box office (especially in pics where he's not clowning) over the years. But his uneven career suffered a huge setback in May when 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures pulled the plug on the movie Used Guys. Carrey and Ben Stiller — whom Stevens also reps — were to star, and Roach (of Austin Powers and Meet the Parents fame) set to direct. But Carrey was aplaying the no-pressure second banana comic foil. This wasn't his movie: if anything it was Stiller's, who was producing and starring. The reason for the cancellation was the budget. Even though gobs of money already had been spent, sets were ready in Santa Fe, and all was on track for production to start on what seemed to be a can't-lose project from the reigning superstars of comedy. But Used Guys was about to be one of the most expensive original comedies ever made.
As media reported at the time, in an industry with crushing marketing costs and Triple-A stars taking a huge chunk of every ticket sale (first dollar gross, in most cases), the studio decided the math didn't add up, to the surprise of filmmakers who were on the verge of shooting. Hollywood thought Carrey might leave UTA because of this, but he stayed put. Now that's he's left, the pressure will be on UTA to merge with another agency. After once having a lock on movie comedy, UTA within the past 18 months has lost too many agents and clients to CAA, which continues on its quest to represent all of Hollywood. That means UTA needs to do a deal sooner rather than later with either Endeavor, ICM or Morris. So does Endeavor, in my opinion, with UTA, ICM or Morris.
This is going to be a growing problem for agencies now that the studios are trying to shut down the percentage of box office revenues that big stars command. Example: at an over-$100 million budget, the talent is making $60 million before the studio can recoup its costs. To the studios, the economics of that make no sense. It remains to be seen, for instance, whether Paramount will get Carrey's postponed Ripley's Believe It Or Not off the ground. What really happened here is that Carrey read the script and decided it wasn't "unbelievable" enough and sent it back into development. On the one hand, it's an agent's job to try to get as much money for clients as possible. (And Stevens has always negotiated top dollar for his stars.) But it's also hard for an agent to explain to actors accustomed to receiving $15+ mil a picture that they're going to have to take an upfront pay cut even though they're still drawing audiences. On Used Guys, I'm told Carrey went from pay or play $20 mil down to $13.5 mil, and still the studio wouldn't do the pic.
I know that Nick Stevens was personally and professionally devastated when Carrey lost the Used Guys project, and I can't imagine anyone else doing a better job of agenting for the actor in that situation or throughout his career. Stevens went to the mat with the studios again and again. The New York Times' Sharon Waxman wrote an in-depth story on the Used Cars debacle that showed just that. There, Roach and the stars of Used Guys had already sharply cut both their upfront fees and their expected participation in revenue. Even so, the compromise meant that the three principals would take 27 percent of the studio's gross box-office revenues. Carrey's next project is The Number 23 teaming him with director Joel Schumacher for New Line, which made the comic's breakout hit The Mask. Carrey also is voicing the title character in Horton Hears A Who, Fox's CGI animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss.
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You could argue that it is not Spring in Big Canoe. After all our mountain temperature dropped into the 30's and the 20's at night right after the first day of Spring. We even had 2 days of snow. Not a ton of snow but enough to cover the roads and look pretty before it melted . So is it Spring?
Going around in Big Canoe we are seeing sights that indicate it is spring.
You can see that the young men's fancies have turned toward love. Judging by this group if this were ancient Rome,... well you fill in the rest.
Flowers are starting to bloom and while we have not cleaned out the chimney yet to end the winter season we can for sure see signs of spring.
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Real estate agent: Anyone who earns a real estate license can be known as a real estate agent , whether that license is as a gross sales professional, an affiliate dealer or a broker. Agents and trade executives say reporters, editors and news anchors are making a cooling market sound worse than it is. While the variety of sales may have dropped from 2005 (which was a document-setting year, the tip of a 5-12 months run) and more houses keep in the marketplace longer, actual property professionals be aware that sale costs in much of the country are nonetheless increased than they have been a year ago.
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The Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Education and Human Resources Programs (EHR) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Human Resource Development (HRD), within the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). The conference is aimed at college and university undergraduate and graduate students who participate in programs funded by the NSF HRD Unit, including underrepresented minorities and persons with disabilities.
During the ERN conference, awards were given awards in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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