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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Drive-by Oneings
A site which shall go unnamed, and which has zero moderation, allows registered users to leave rankings on books, whether they've actually read them or not, and without leaving a review or anything even closely resembling constructive criticism. The most heinous crime that results in such unrestrained freedom is one that makes authors shudder at the very name. Drive-by Oneings. That's right folks. It's happening right here in our safe little world.
In case you've been living under a rock and have no idea what this horrible epidemic is all about, I'll clue you in. But beware...this is not for the faint of heart. In fact, I hereby state that I will not be responsible for the consequences of you reading the rest of this post. Here's how it's done. Bear in mind I braved torture to obtain this information...
You register on the site, usually under a name no one recognizes. The site even allows you to make your profile private so no one can obtain clues to your true identity. Then you stalk your victims. No one knows for sure how or why victims are chosen. Some believe it's excessive use of certain words in their books, or the color of the clothing worn by the models on the cover art. But one thing is certain...once an author has been the victim of a Drive-by Oneing, they're never safe again.
The perpetrator selects all the books of their intended victim and ranks them with ONE STAR. One lonely little star that sends the author's overall ranking plummeting to the basement, and is on the site forever and ever, for the entire world to see. And, as if this weren't bad enough, the perp doesn't leave a comment. Not even one. The victim has no idea what she did to deserve the Oneing, if the perp actually read her books and just hated them, or if she was chosen for another reason. This is a random, senseless crime which often leaves its victims bewildered and depressed for years, unable to finish another manuscript, and questioning everything they write from that point forward.
Each year dozens of writers are affected by this crime, yet often it goes unrecognized. If the author speaks out publicly, she's told to "suck it up" or "that's just how it goes." We're in desperate need of a national support group for this silent yet deadly crime. At the very least I think we should try to raise awareness by way of infomercials, or perhaps a spot on a national talk show. How about Jerry or Maury? Surely they would understand this depravity and welcome the chance to bring it to the homes of millions of viewers.
Have you been the recent victim of a Drive-by Oneing? I urge you to seek professional help. At the very least you should let a trusted friend know you've been a victim. Write your Congressperson. Or better yet, contact Rosie O'Donnell. I hear Oprah's given her a show again on the new Oprah network.
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The Best Podcasts for Motivation
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Eight Forty-Eight
Sun-Times walls off online content
The Chicago Sun-Times has made its online content a little less accessible; the newspaper put its paywall into place last week and now all visitors will be limited to 20 page views per month. Non-subscribers will have to shell out $6.99 a month. The Sun-Times was not alone in trying to charge for its content: The New York Times and the suburban Daily Herald both erected paywalls recently--but, the Sun-Times was the first daily in Chicago to make the move. To find out what all that meant for the Sun-Times and its readers, Eight Forty-Eight turned to Barbara Iverson, a professor of journalism at Columbia College and the publisher of ChicagoTalks.org.
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aManda Greene
aManda is a Brazilian-American multi-media artist. She has been involved in various arts and environmental educational programs in Santa Fé, Oakland, Bahia Brazil and Southern India for over 10 years. She recently completed an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise (Green MBA) driven by the belief that the current paradigm of 'development' can be transformed into one that is valued based on ecological stability and social equity. She is the Co-Founder & Co-Director of Youth SEED (Social Entrepreneurship for Equitable Development) based in Oakland Ca.
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Currently, Brent is responsible for current, and long range planning, implementing the general plan, and providing housing services. He also supports the City's Senior Advisory Committee and Planning Commission. Prior to joining the City of East Palo Alto in 2009, Brent served concurrently as a City Planner for Bainbridge Island and an elected Councilmember in Port Townsend, Washington. He began working in the public sector as a researcher with the University of Washington and as a US Department of Transportation Fellow with Seattle's Interim Community Development Corporation. He received professional accreditation as a certified planner, and floodplain manager after being conferred a Master in Urban Planning from the University of Washington, and a Master in Design Studies from the Graduate School of Design. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College.
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Cal Broomhead is the Climate and Energy Programs Manager at the Department of Environment, City and County of San Francisco. He has 30 years in the energy field, where he started as a home weatherization installer, salesman, and instructor, providing barn-raising style solar and home energy workshops with non-profits including the California Conservation Corps. In 1989 he came to the City and County of San Francisco as a researcher for the Sustainable Energy project. This quickly developed into a full project manager position, and then designed energy efficiency improvements for dozens of City renovation projects. He started the City's Green Building program, helped develop and then manage the City's green business program, and designed and developed the first-in-California government-operated private sector energy efficiency program reducing over 6 MW in small business lighting. He has started and managed over $25 million in efficiency programs including participating in the Bay Regional Energy Network program development. He also started the renewable energy and climate action programs and is managing the department's climate adaptation work. The Climate team performs the carbon accounting for the City, coordinates climate action planning in all City departments, coordinates regionally, participates in developing community indexing, and operates the Carbon Fund – a grant program for local carbon reduction projects. The Renewables team initiates innovative marketing strategies and is currently promoting solar water heating, PV, battery storage and microgrid development as part of the City's resilience activities. Cal was primary author of the City's first Sustainable Energy Plan and has helped author all of the City's energy, climate, and sustainability plans. He has guest lectured at local universities, and presented at numerous local, state, national, and international events.
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Dr. Baca has been an active community member throughout her life. At a very early stage in her career, while volunteering at a high-risk clinic in a gang area in Albuquerque, she developed a great appreciation for how social, environmental and economic issues affect health. After college, as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, she started her master's work in health policy in Venezuela and had the opportunity to work with the United Nations. Upon returning to the U.S., she completed her Master in Public Administration at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and her medical degree at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Baca completed her pediatric training in the Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved (PLUS) program at University of California, San Francisco in 2008. Given her interest in international affairs she has worked in Nigeria, Venezuela, Mozambique, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Honduras. She is passionate about reducing health disparities and working to improve the environment to build healthy communities. Dr. Baca's clinical work has reinforced that much of health happens outside of clinics and hospitals. It is actually much broader than that. Job creation, housing support, access to quality education, affordable transportation, and support networks are really the foundation not only for health, but also for society to thrive. In addition to clinical care and teaching, she is working on environmental health policy
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Maeve works as a Community Health Planner for the San Mateo County Health System. She is trained as an urban planner and is responsible for land use planning, built environment, and transportation work. She works with cities and regional bodies across San Mateo County to integrate a health perspective into land use and transportation planning and policies and is passionate about health equity and creating healthy places for all.
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Gordon co-founded and co-directs the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (EIP), an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) headquartered on 14th Street, across I-880 from the Port of Oakland. EIP works with neighborhood organizations, physicians, researchers, and public officials to ensure West Oakland residents have a clean environment, safe neighborhoods, and access to economic opportunity. Many local, state, and national entities have recognized Gordon for her efforts to improve Oakland's quality of life. In 2006, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized EIP for its "work to improve local air quality." In 2007, Gordon was inducted into the Alameda County Women's Hall of Fame for her leadership on behalf of West Oakland's residents. Do to Gordon knowledge of the Port of Oakland Maritime operation, she has been nominated by Mayor Ron Dellums and selected Oakland City Council to Port of Oakland Boardof Commission in 2008. Margaret Gordon is life-time resident of the Bay Area, mother three adult sons and grandmother of eleven.
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Meg Wall Shui is an Epidemiologist and Lead for Land Use Planning and Health with the Environmental Health Branch at the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH). Prior to joining SFDPH, Meg worked at both the California Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she conducted research on youth physical activity habits and developed evaluation and surveillance plans for place-based nutrition and physical activity interventions. Meg now manages and maintains San Francisco Indicator Project, a neighborhood-level data system that measures how San Francisco performs in eight dimensions of a healthy, equitable community. The goal of this Project is to support collaboration, planning, decision making, and advocacy for social and physical environments that meet the needs of all citizens. She earned her Master of Public Health in Global Health from Emory University and her Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences from UC Berkeley.
Mike Andrews
Mike Andrews works as a technical writer for a networking company in San Francisco. After receiving his Bachelor's degree in English from UC Davis, Mike spent a year teaching and travelling in the People's Republic of China, then returned home to teach in the California public school system for several years. A native of the Bay Area, Mike enjoys spending time in the woods, the ocean, and the city. He is proud to be a life partner to a wonderful, magical woman (Kirsten Schwind) and hopes to be a father some day.
Zephyr Frank
Zephyr Frank is currently Associate Professor of History at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis and the Program on Urban Studies. Educated at Santa Barbara, UCLA, and Illinois, he has spent many years studying the social and economic history of Latin America and questions of urban experience and inequality, with a primary focus on Brazil, where he was a Fulbright scholar in the 1990s. His recent work has included a turn toward the use of literary materials for historical research. A first volume based on this research and focused on Rio de Janeiro in the 1800s is planned for publication in 2016. He is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and research, including the Deans Award for Distinguished Achievements in Teaching (2008), and a large, multiyear grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the study of crowdsourcing in the humanities (2012-15).


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People don't believe advertising anymore. They want information they can trust.
The internet has changed marketing fundamentally, but very few brands have made the transition to being genuinely digital. In our view, there's a simple reason for this: despite all the technical revolutions such as social media and personalisation, too many brands still cleave to a unilateral understanding of marketing: "We talk, you listen". The problem is that people just aren't listening to this kind of broadcasting anymore. We want to help our clients find out what it is worth focussing on instead.
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Creating valuable content is creating value, so incentivize your customers with reward and customer loyalty programmess, exclusive events, or access to limited product tests.
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The European Parliament asked the Agency to provide its Opinion on the fundamental rights impact of the proposed revision of the Eurodac Regulation on children.
Opinion of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights on the impact on fundamental rights of the proposal for a revised Eurodac Regulationen (893.29 KB)
The European Commission has proposed revising the Eurodac Regulation to expand the scope so it can also be used to control irregular immigration and movement within the EU. Facial images and personal data would also be stored instead of just fingerprints and basic data such as gender and Member State. Personal data would also be kept for longer (five years) and the age for capturing data from children would be lowered from 14 to 6.
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The Freep web site reports "Sources: Heather Lyke to leave Eastern Michigan to take Pitt AD job." There are a couple of interesting tidbits in this article. First, the piece rehashes a lot of the ongoing controversies about spending and football at EMU. But second, it gives a bit more of a taste of what the plans for spending upwards of $35 Million on athletic stuff might look like:
The plans currently call for the outdoor track to be removed from around the football field. The existing soccer fields would be reoriented in direction and a new track placed around it.
The existing football building in the far end zone of Rynearson Stadium would be torn down. In its place would be a new 70,000-square-foot building that would have a turf field inside for the football and soccer teams to use. There would also be a 300-meter indoor track and improved weight room, big enough for entire teams to train at one time. The building would also allow the university to have nine or 10 suites facing the football stadium. The current 68 premium seats in the stadium are sold out. A new scoreboard would be added to the stadium.
A new 22,000-square-foot building for wrestling and gymnastics would also be built, allowing them to move out of Bowen Fieldhouse and Warner Gymnasium. That space would then be available for academic programs and intramural sports to use, most likely.
Sure, why not? The best thing EMU could spend money on right now is this nonsense, right? Oh, and the "improvements" to intramural athletics and things like the REC/IM are basically going to amount to letting students use these other spaces once the athletic programs move out.
I wrote a bit about Lyke in a blog post on my own site last May, "An Open Letter/Blog Post About Sports at EMU." I was following up on an open letter from the administration about the HBO Sports story about the ridiculous amount of money being wasted at EMU (and similar places) on football and also about an interview Lyke did with Michigan Public Radio. Just to quote myself a bit about Lyke here:
It turns out that the guy interviewing Lyke, Lester Graham, has a child attending EMU. At the 4:35 or so mark in that interview, Graham asks flat-out "how does my EMU student benefit" with EMU being in Division 1 athletics.
Lyke responds "What your student gets, you know… when you chose Eastern Michigan, and the time that they chose they knew they had division 1 athletics–"
"–not a factor," Graham interrupts. "Was not a factor."
Then Lyke, digging furiously, says something like "Correct, so it's, um, it's not a factor in wether or not they um they… you know, I would hope that that student find value in adding diversity to the, you know, landscape and the culture of the university. There are kids that have unbelievable talents in all sorts of things. We have an unbelievable forensics team, we have an unbelievable slam poetry team at Eastern Michigan, we have fabulous art…" and so forth.
Graham pointed out that none of these things have anything to do with support to the athletic department, and Lyke goes back to the earlier statement that we are not thinking about getting out of the MAC or football, full stop.
So yeah, I don't see a great loss in leadership here. Goodness knows I don't know how these kinds of hiring decisions are made, but hey, good luck, Pittsburgh.


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WCM Raises Funds for Down Syndrome
October 2017
Earlier this month, the WCM Team participated in the Down Syndrome Association of South Texas Buddy Walk. This year's team: Nathan's Classy Crew, enjoyed the new location at the River City Community Church. The annual Buddy Walk is DSASTX's largest fund raising event, providing 40% of the funds needed throughout the year for free programs and events to children and adults with Down Syndrome. This year was the fifth in a row for WCM to participate.


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Livestock epidemic causing havoc in Democratic Republic of the Congo
FAO acts to stop spread of disease that has killed 75 000 goats and threatens neighbouring countries - FAO is mobilizing emergency support for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to counter the rapid spread of peste des petits ruminants, a virulent livestock disease of goats and sheep.
The disease not only threatens food security in the country, but could also result in a spill-over to southern African countries that have never had the disease.
According to the national government's Directorate for Animal Production and Health, peste des petits ruminants (PPR) has infected tens of thousands of goats, and more than 75 000 have already died from the disease.
The government estimates that another one million goats and 600 000 sheep are at risk of contracting PPR, representing one-quarter of goats and two-thirds of sheep throughout the entire country. Sheep and goats are generally kept by the poorest farmers, who have the least ability to absorb the loss of one of their few assets.
"This is the worst livestock epidemic in the country in more than 10 years," said the FAO Representative in DRC, Ndiaga Gueye.
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Pit Bull Kills 3-Day-Old Baby in Ohio, Breed Off State's Vicious List
LIMA, Ohio—As advocatescelebrate the end of a 25-year-old Ohio law that declared Pit Bulls to be inherently vicious, a3-day-old infant in her baby swing was attacked by the family's Pit Bull on Thursdayat her grandmother's house. The baby girl suffered a blunt-force head injury that Lucas County Deputy Coroner Dr. Cynthia Beisser said was "consistent witha dog biting down on her head."
The attack occurred at approximately 6:30 p.m. on May 17at the home near Beaverdam. Tiny Makayla Darnell died a few hours later,Chief Deputy Jim Everett of the Allen U Sheriff's Office advised theAssociated Press.
Makayla's grandmother, Janette Myers, 44, of Monroe Township, told investigators that the baby's mother, Audrianna Myers, 22,was preparing to feed her and had put the infant in the swing in the living room near the doorway to the kitchen. The mother andgrandmother were just a few feet away in the kitchen when they heard a whimper from the infant, according to the deputy.
They rushed the severely injured baby to a local hospital, and she was then flown to a hospital in Toledo, where she died about 11 p.m.
Julie Shellhammer, Allen County Dog Warden, said she cannot say whether the 4-year-old male dog isa purebred or mixed Pit Bull.The dog is in custody at the shelter while an investigation of the incident is being conducted. PIT BULLS NO LONGER DEFINED AS VICIOUS UNDER NEW OHIO LAW
Ohio House Bill 14, which was approved 67-30 in February by the Ohio State Legislature and signed by Governor John Kasich,took effect Tuesday, May 22, 2012.It establishes a process by which owners, keepers, or harborers of dogs that have been designated as nuisance, dangerous, or vicious may appeal that designation.
The old law defined a "vicious dog" as one that, without provocation, has seriously injured a person, killed another dog, or belonged to the general breed of "pit bull."
Best Friends Animal Society, the Pit Crew and the Ohio Coalition of Dog Advocatescelebrated the change to Ohio's vicious dog law by presenting a Neighborhood Pit Bull Day.
Jean Keating, co-founder of Lucas County Pit Crew, said the law change means that "we no longer discriminate based on physical appearance in our Ohio Revised Code. Perhaps now we can move forward with educating people about why dogs bite and how to stay safe around dogs," reports the Toledo Blade.
The law also defines a "nuisance dog," changes the definitions of a "dangerous dog" and a "vicious dog," and requires the owner of a dangerous dog (of any breed) to obtain a dangerous dog registration certificate.
The new law prohibits certain felons from owning dogs under certain conditions and changes the penalties involving ownership of nuisance, dangerous, and vicious dogs.
The legislative change was championed by Rep. Barbara Sears (R., Monclova Township,) who was honored by several dog groups on Saturday for sponsoring the Bill and for her dedication to removing the breed-discriminatory designation from Ohio's law.
Three-day-old Makayla Darnell 's mother and grandmother could not be reached for comment after the baby girl's tragic death.


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I've written a few times on this blog about my struggles with weight gain/loss. A few years ago, over the course of about 2 years, I gained a significant amount of weight. Before our wedding, I managed to lose about 25 pounds of it by counting calories and running and was very happy with my progress. That said, because I … Read More
The 24 Day Vegans
After our half marathon, Steve and I entered what I like to call Excuse Land when it came to running and with various injuries, being extra busy with work, traveling to see family and having friends visit us, we had plenty of them! By the time we made it past Thanksgiving, we only had a few runs to our credit, … Read More
Nutrition Experiment: Wrap-up
An amazing thing happened today. I came home from work, had a light snack, took my time getting ready, and went for a run. And it felt great! Okay, not profoundly great. I didn't run super far, set a new PR, or got somehow transformed into a sleek thoroughbred. No, I was sweaty, tired, and my legs burned as I sprinted … Read More
Zero to Hero – Ready…set…hang on a second, my shoe died.
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Thailand secured the top spot with the delight factors in hospitality, value for money, good variety of international and local cuisine and MICE activities.
Meanwhile, TCEB also announced that Thailand is chosen to be the host country for the international conferences organised by the world's leading associations in events and travel incentive industries, namely UFI and SITE. These events, to take place in Bangkok next year, will be emphasising Thailand's potential and the position as leading MICE destination in the region.
The news also follows Thailand maintaining its title as the top conference destination of the Asean region for the second year in a row. According to the latest International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) Country and City Rankings Report 2017 released last month, Thailand hosted a total of 163 conferences in 2017, the highest among the countries in the Asean region. Singapore came second with 160 conferences, Malaysia third 112 conferences, Indonesia fourth 89 conferences, Vietnam fifth 64 conference and the Philippines sixth 56 conferences.
TCEB President Chiruit Isarangkun Na Ayuthaya explained that with the TCEB tasked with promoting and developing business events in Thailand, the bureau has been working toward establishing Thailand as premier MICE destination and elevating the country to be the Top of Mind Destination for MICE.
"In order to identify the strengthens of Thailand to better attract the overseas MICE markets, the TCEB needs to study key factors that influence the destination choice, evaluate Thailand MICE destination image, and measure the competitiveness of Thailand when compared to other MICE destinations," he said.
To this end, the TCEB recently commissioned Custom Asia Co Ltd – a member of Global Market Research Association, which has a network in 39 countries – to conduct a market survey on Thailand's brand image as a Destination for MICE.
The research, which took place in 20 countries, focused on global MICE professionals and their outlooks on Thailand's MICE brand. A total of 40 MICE professionals participated the online bulletin board, and 649 took part in the online survey. These survey participants comprised of four segments: 1) MICE Players; 2) Business Travellers; 3) MICE Visitors; and 4) Association and Organization related to MICE.
"Thailand is ranked a top list as a preferred destination which more than 85% the survey participants who have travelled to Thailand on business/MICE trips would like to revisit for their business/MICE trips in the future," said TCEB President Mr Chiruit.
"Meanwhile, the participants see that when compared Thailand against the other MICE destinations, Thailand's delights factors are great hospitality, value for money, and a good variety of international and local cuisine," he added.
"In addition, the result shows that Thailand secured the first rank as the choice for MICE destination," Mr Chiruit said.
According to the survey, the "Top 10 Preferred Choices for Revisit MICE Destination" were: 1 Thailand; 2) Japan; 3) Singapore; 4) Hong Kong; 5) Australia; 6) United States; 7) Germany; 8) Switzerland; 9) United Kingdom; and 10) China
"According to the survey, the country features strengths in three areas: 1) Basic Requirement: connection hub, international standard accommodation, and great facilities; 2) Delight Factors: great hospitality and delicious local cuisine; and 3) Unique Experience: culture & heritage and the abundance of nature, explained TCEB President Mr Chiruit.
"Further, the destination also offers a wide variety of activities beyond MICE, good accessibility to/from destination, endless business opportunities, and the uniqueness," he added.
Sukit Tanskul, CEO of Custom Asia Co Ltd, noted that the survey also showed interesting results about main criteria in selecting MICE destinations.
"These criteria can be considered as important factors which MICE destination needs: value for money, international standard accommodation, good accessibility, English proficiency, and compliance with corporate governance," he said.
When analysing the criteria by segments, the survey showed that MICE players look for ease of travel within the country. MICE visitors look for hospitality and value for money, business travellers look for good destination image and reputation, while MICE associations also look for within the budget accommodation choices, English proficiency, and unique destination.
Further, when considering activities highlighting the business/MICE trip, MICE visitors say that top three activities are pre-arranged business meeting at the events, gala dinner at the convention, and cultural shows at the MICE venue.
"The result can be implied that MICE operators should focus on these activities to impress the MICE visitors. Meanwhile, the TCEB can strengthen the communications activities by highlighting the key areas which are: the ease of travel within the country; good business opportunities; activities beyond MICE; world-class cuisine; and world-famous attraction, in order to match with the ideal brand image as the Top of Mind Destination for MICE," said Mr Sukit.
"From the survey, we proposed the recommendation that Thailand's MICE industry should focus on the current strengths. These strengths are: Offering with Convenience, Business Opportunity, and Uniqueness which include Service and Hospitality, Thai culture, and Thai cuisine," he said.


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This is sweet BBQ sauce with a little bit of heat. It really is an all purpose BBQ sauce but is the perfect match for pulled chicken! This is a medium to thick sauce, so if you want a runny BBQ sauce this isn't for you!
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Both children and adults alike may get ill at certain times of the year, or get the fever and list of possibilities of diseases can go on and on.
In these times, we need to measure the body temperature accurately in order to take a step in the direction of the right treatment. We should also try to bring the temperature down in order to prevent any complications such as seizures or other side effects.
There are many ways to take the body temperature of children and adults. Digital thermometers are one of those ways. They work through electronic sensors that detect and register the body temperature.
There are several way to measure the human body temperature:
Through the rectum:
This method is one the most accurate methods. The percentage of a wrong reading is very low with this one. It is particularly used for babies who are 3 months old old or less, until the age of 3 and this is one of its advantages.
The only disadvantages this thermometer has is that parents don't feel comfortable putting it through the rectum.
Through he mouth:
This thermometer is put in between the cheeks or under the tongue, and in either position will give us a reading that is 0.3 to 0.8 degrees Celsius less than the rectum method.
It is important to note that putting the thermometer under the tongue gives a more accurate reading than putting it in between the cheeks.
.This method is more common among children above 3 years old and adults
The disadvantage of using this method is that you have to wait for 30 minutes after eating or drinking in order to get an accurate reading. Moreover, patients with nasal congestion may find it difficult to close their mouths long enough to take the temperature.
Under the armpits:
This method is less accurate than the mouth and rectum methods. In this method, you get a reading that is 0.5 to 1.5 degrees celsius less than the rectum.
A disadvantage of this method is that it has no disadvantages except for the accuracy!
Through the ear:
In this method, the temperature of the ear drum is taken in only one minute. This method is usually used for clinical purposes, however it is extremely accurate and has a very little likability for wrong readings. Additionally, it is a fast method that suits babies above 6 months old as well as adolescents and adults.
It is, however, not suitable for newborn babies because it is difficult to get an accurate reading through their ear wax or their small and curvy ear canals.
The pacifier:
In this method, a thermometer is put inside your baby's pacifier in order for your child not to realize that his temperature is being taken. Your baby will keep sucking his pacifier until the thermometer registers the maximum temperature.
One of the disadvantages of this method is that it is not suitable for newborn babies because babies have to have the pacifier in their mouths for 3-5 minutes until the accurate temperature is registered which makes it a difficult task for the newborns especially those who have a nasal congestion.


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This new Web site will offer daily news and commentary by and for Latina women, covering such topics as immigration, health care, politics, education and culture. Project leader Teresa Puente, a journalism professor at Columbia College Chicago, said, Much of what is out there for Latinas is basically fluff. Personally, I dont care how J. Lo has decorated her nursery. Latina women want information that is deeper than that. Follow her progress here. Visit their website.
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Latina Voices launched in November 2008.
In less than a year we have published more than 80 columns, essays and stories by or about Latina women.
Latina Voices has had 35 contributors - mostly Latinas. Many of them have been college students but we also have published teachers, freelance writers and journalists in both English and Spanish.
Also, there are a few contributors who are not Latina including African-American and white women and a Latino man.
The focus of the site is to tell stories about Latinas but they donât all have to be written by Latina women.
Much of the content has been generated by writers in Chicago, where I am based. But I also have published writers in California, Florida, Missouri, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico.
On average we have had around 1,000 page views per month.
On the site I have featured columns and stories about prominent Latinas from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to noted authors Sandra Cisneros and Josefina Lopez.
Our freelance writers have covered issues like the H1N1 flu virus, teenage pregnancy and cervical cancer rates among Latinas.
The site also has given voice to stories about ordinary Latina women doing interesting things. This includes a story about the Cervantes sisters in Chicago who are in a blues band and a Latina who is a funeral home director.
Latina Voices also has a video archive featuring interviews with ordinary Latina women from a waitress at a Mexican restaurant to undocumented Latina students who could become legal if Congress passed the Dream Act.
These are just a few examples of the kind of work published on the site.
One of the biggest challenges is generating traffic. But we have just entered into a partnership with Latina Lounge, which is highlighting content from Latina Voices on their site. http://www.latinalounge.com/
This is an initiative of Latina magazine and they will also place ads on our site, which will lead to a revenue stream. I donât know how much that will lead to but it is a start.
I also cross post some Latina Voices content on a blog I started called Chicanísima, which is on Chicago Now, part of the Chicago Tribune Co. This also helps increase traffic.
I also have cross-posted with Latina Voices on Exploring Race a forum by columnist Dawn Turner at the Chicago Tribune. And I have been interviewed by the Associated Press, which mentioned Latina Voices in their coverage, which was circulated nationally and internationally.
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Lauderdale County, Tennessee
History Page
Lauderdale County was formed in 1835 from Haywood, Dyer and Tipton counties.
The county seat is Ripley.
The people who lived in the upper part of Tipton County and the lower part of Dyer were cut off from the two county seats by considerable rivers, the Hatchie and the Forked Deer, respectively. These streams had wide bottoms and in bad weather convenient access was denied. Those rivers were, by nature, county boundaries. Accordingly, Lauderdale County was created by the Legislature on Nov. 24th, 1835, from parts of Tipton, Dyer and Haywood Counties, and named in honor of and to perpetuate the memory of Col. James Lauderdale, who fell in one of the battles before New Orleans, on the night of Dec. 23rd, 1814.
As is elsewhere shown Henry Rutherford in 1785, fixed his Key Corner at the first high ground along the south side of the Forked Deer River, the Cole Creek Bluff. In the spring of 1819 Rutherford with his brothers, Benjamin Porter and one Crenshaw, returned to Key Corner and established a settlement, bringing with them live-stock, poultry, farming implements and a good supply of provisions. They made the trip overland to Reynoldsburg on the Tennessee River, where they took the flat-boats for the remainder of the journey. Rutherford settled on a tract he had entered a generation before, about two miles east of Key Corner.
Benjamin Porter erected a dwelling at Porter's Gap nearby, where his son, Benjamin Jr., was born June 12, 1820, the first white male child born in the county. Benjamin Porter, Jr. lived all his life in the house in which he was born, and died a very old age. He had the unusual experience of having been a resident of three different counties without a removal. It is related of him that he was a celebrated bear hunter, having killed, by actual count, over one hundred bears, and on one day four full-grown panthers, which averaged nine and one-half feet in length.
The first grist mill in the limits of Lauderdale was built at Key Corner in 1826 for Griffith Rutherford, a son of Henry. The first cotton gin was built at the same place in 1827 by John Jordan and Williams Chambers. The first sermon perched was in the same settlement by a Baptist minister, Mr. Lanier, in 1821. The same neighborhood received an accession from Knox County in John Flippen and his family in 1822.
So promising was the neighborhood that in 1821 Colonel Wm. Polk, Judge A. D. Murphey, of North Carolina, and Herndon Haralson formulated a plan to establish a town there. The scheme of a town on the Bluff of the Mississippi appears to me to be idle in the extreme, when the Bluff on Forked Deer is so near, and the distance to Orleans less down the Forked Deer from the Bluff than down the Mississippi from the other. Would it not be well to direct Capt. Haralson to lay out the town immediately? We could instruct Mr. (Samuel) Dickens to make a sale of some lots this fall.
While Key Corner was the principal settlement in the county, it was not the first, since a man named Vincent settled on the site of Fulton in 1819, and upon the authority of Col. G. J. Hutcheson, of Lauderdale, his grandfather, Samuel Andrew Given, born in North Carolina in 1771, emigrated prior to 1818 to the West, and traveling past the later site of Jackson, they went by a rude boat down the Forked Deer to the Mississippi, thence to the site of Fulton, near which place they obtained from the Chickasaw Indians a tract of land and settled. In 1818, a daughter was born to Samuel A. Given, who was the first white child born in the country. The tradition is that obtained from the Indians was at the time in part a cleared field. This may have been the site of the village of the Natchez Indians shown upon James Adair's map.
The first settler in the southern section of Lauderdale in the Big Hatchie country was the father of Joseph S. Williams, author of Old Times in West Tennessee.
The oldest town, Fulton, was laid out in 1827 by Judge James Trimble, of Nashville, and for a time flourished. It stood near the site of Fort Pillow, of the Civil War. Col. Thomas Durham located three miles north of the Williams settlement in 1826, and he established there a town in 1829 bearing the name of Durhamville.
About the same time Captain Stephen Childress located six miles below, where he opened a large plantation. His wife was the sister of Thomas H. Benton and Jesse Benton, Jr. Later prominent settlers were Joseph Wardlaw and Larkin Gaines, and his sons Pendleton, Powell, and Abner. The first church in the county was Turner's Chapel, established near Durhamville in 1829, with William Taylor as pastor, though without doubt religious services were held much earlier and in probability congregations formed but without regular pastors. The first school was taught by Edith Kenley in her home two and a half miles north of Double Bridges. The first newspaper was the Ripley Gazette, established about 1860 by Mr. Youngblood.
General William Conner and others promoted the town of Ashport on the Mississippi, and in 1835 the Ashport Turnpike Company was chartered. In the early forties it constructed a high and wide levee on the south side of Big Open Lake.
Lauderdale County has in its borders several small lakes, the largest of which is Big Open Lake, five miles east of Ashport, which, with its arms, covers seven or eight thousand acres of land. Other lakes are Chisholm, Crutcher, Sunk and other smaller lakes. Some of these lakes certainly ante-dated the earthquakes of 1811-1812, since Chisholm Lake was in existence when Henry Rutherford ascended the Forked Deer in 1785.
After the creation of Lauderdale County commissioners were appointed to select a county seat. On Feb. 24, 1836, Howell Taylor, Nicholas T. Perkins & David Hay as commissioners, purchased from Thomas Brown about sixty-two acres of land on which the town of Ripley was laid out by Abel E. Pope. The town received its name from that of General E. Ripley, of the War of 1812. The site was selected here, also, on account of a large spring, in a ravine just north of the public square.
In the same year commissioners were appointed, including Griffith L. Rutherford, to sell town lots; and in the fall of 1836 a log court house was erected with the proceeds, which served through our period. The first court had been organized at the home of Samuel Lusk, three miles north of the site, in June, 1836.
The first mercantile business in Ripley was conducted by J. N. Smith in a log cabin. The Baptist's
were in the first denomination to organize a church in the town, with the Rev. Joseph H. Borum
as first pastor.
1920, Population: 21,494#
1921, Assessed Value of Taxable Property: $15,266,680
Area: 450 Square Miles
Number of Farms: 3,406#
Railway Mileage: 26#
Riply, the county seat, on the Illinois Central Railroad, has the population of 2,070.
Halls and Henning are other towns in the county.
|Bounded on the West by the Mississippi River and drained by smaller streams. Surface nearly level, with large good growth of timber. Soil fertile, and the county is a large producer of cotton. Other staple products are corn, fruit, and live stock.
|The Illinois Central Railroad passes through the county.
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In Byron Bay we just complete a large garage conversion.
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Burnet, Duckworth and Palmer, LLP
Interior Designer : Sharon Martens
Design Firm : MartensGroup licensed interior design studio ltd.
The client, a prestigious Calgary law firm, engaged the design team to develop its new offices on 5 ½ floors of a high-rise tower. The design objective was to create a suitable image for a successful law firm that would leave a lasting impression with their clients. The designer chose refined materials in a palette of contrasting black and white, such as white and charcoal lacquer trimmed in dark bronze, white Veneto marble and black basalt flooring. The outstanding feature of the space is a 100-foot millwork screen that angles across the floor plate. The intricate detailing on the screen contrasts against the simplicity of the marble floors and painted glass walls, and creates silhouettes as people walk by. By combining traditional and contemporary pieces, the lighting and furnishings create an impression of a collection carefully curated over time. The new aesthetic conveys a progressive, professional image befitting a successful law firm while avoiding the design clichés associated with their industry.
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Empty Nesters Condo Renovation
Interior Designer : Michel Arcand and Don Parker
Design Firm : IN8 Design Inc.
Sending their children to university prompted a sophisticated couple to renovate their seven-year-old, 1,600 square foot condo in downtown Toronto. Having settled for builder standard while raising their children, the couple now wanted the interiors to reflect their personal tastes and display their modern art collection. The designers used color blocking, precision-detailed millwork components and strategic lighting to achieve the bold aesthetic their clients desired. The excitement of the ultra-contemporary interior is balanced with stunning views from the floor to ceiling windows. The overall impact is daring, dramatic and fun, yet eminently livable.
ONE55 Cumberland
Interior Designer : Alex Chapman
Design Firm : UNION31
When the clients downsized from a large traditional house to a 4,600 square foot condo in Toronto's Yorkville neighborhood, they wanted a space that was conducive to entertaining, yet that still felt like a home. The designers gave the areas for entertaining, such as the entry hall and the formal dining room, a sense of drama with rich colors, mahogany panels and a stunning mid-century modern chandelier. The private areas are more intimate yet maintain a sense of continuity with the rest of the home. The couple's new home is sophisticated and comfortable, and beautifully displays their extensive art collection.
Interior Designer : Michel Arcand and Don Parker
Design Firm : IN8 Design Inc.
For the gut and rebuild of Entro G+A's new office, the designers didn't let a tight budget and even tighter timeline restrain their creativity. Working closely with the client, a brand communications and graphics firm, they created an inspiring environment that reflects and enhances the firm's personality and creativity. Neutral paint and concrete provides a backdrop to display the client's graphic products. Access to daylight and views of the lake make the space bright, airy and welcoming.
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La Maison Simons WEM
Interior Designer: Andrew Gallici and Christopher Wright
Design Firm : figure3
Design Team : Andrew Gallici - Christopher Wright - Jessica Swift
La Maison Simons has been an iconic Québec department store for over 170 years. When the company made plans to expand into other Canadian markets, it wanted to differentiate itself from local competitors and new U.S. retailers by creating a unique and memorable shopping experience. For this 100,000 square foot store in the West Edmonton Mall, the designers devised a shopping environment that allows for unique experiences appealing to six consumer typologies. The design concept focuses on touch points for consumer engagement, including an interactive Photostar booth, digital tablets that display the store catalogues and a video game wall.
Interior Designer : Deborah Sperry and Clarissa Lam
Design Firm : HOK
Design Team : Deborah Sperry - Clarissa Lam - Lindsey Wilson - Winnie Leung
For this client, a world leader in marketing communications that amalgamates four different operating companies, the design team created four offices in one building. The designers wanted to embrace the unique brand of each business while maintaining a consistent feel. To respond to rapid growth, the objective was to maximize the efficiency and flexibility of the office. Floor plans are similar in each office for easy way-finding, while a distinct look captures the persona of each brand. The result is a fresh, open office space that buzzes with creative energy.
De Lage Landen Financial Services Canada Inc.
Interior Designer : Erika J. McCarthy and Kathleen van Brussel
Design Firm : Comley van Brussel Design + Management
When the company moved from four separate suites into a new space in Oakville, they wanted an inspired, cohesive workplace that would increase productivity, streamline work-flow and unite their workforce. The open, light-filled space supported the client's vision of a collaborative work environment where teams could communicate easily. At the center is an open lounge that breaks up the expanse of space and adds a focal point visible from most corners of the office. Oiled oak hardwood flooring material is featured throughout, adding warmth to contrast the crisp contemporary finishes.
Interior Designer : Christopher Wright and Krista Aquilina
Design Firm : figure3
Design Team : Christopher Wright - Krista Aquilina - Erin Armstrong - Sabrina Ash
For the renovation of Mediabrands' office, the design team needed a design solution that would reflect the brand, showcase its corporate culture and attract a younger demographic of employees. It was important that the design elicit excitement from staff, given the change from 50 to 100 per cent open offices and a reduced footprint per employee. The design team used glass screens and pops of color to create a work environment that feels open, yet intimate. The result is a clean, crisp design that is modern without being trendy, and informal while still looking polished.
Tech Company
Interior Designer : Annie Bergeron
Design Firm : HOK
Design Team : Annie Bergeron - Lisa Fulford-Roy - Clarissa Lam
Based on the client's tag-line elegant garage, the design for the Toronto office of a multinational technology corporation delivered playfulness on a budget by using inexpensive materials in creative ways. Nods to the office's Canadian location include log cabin booths in the servery, a divider made from hockey sticks and snowshoe graphics. The resulting space is an environment that sparks the imagination and secures the client's position as a leading edge employer.
Hicks Morley
Interior Designer : Peter Heys
Design Firm : IBI Group
Design Team : Peter Heys - Melissa Beresford, - Alexandra Campbell - Jacki McKenzie
The client, a leading Canadian legal practice, wanted to update their offices to better reflect their position in the market as a first tier firm. The designers took inspiration from boutique hotels and hospitality environments to create a richly detailed, client-centered space. The glass partitions in the conference area play with the image of a jewel box that opens in stages. High contrasting elements of light/dark, transparent/opaque, glossy/matte contribute to the look of timeless luxury.
Quadrangle Architects' Studio
Interior Designer : Caroline Robbie and Vera Gisarov
Design Firm : Quadrangle Architects Limited
Design Team : Caroline Robbie - Vera Gisarov - Julie Mroczkowski - Dyonne Fashina - Amy Pothier - Charlene Genno
Increasing growth prompted the first move in 26 years for this architecture and design firm. The in-house designers were guided by Quadrangle's new brand, Inspiration Realized. Continuous windows on the perimeter and a column-free floor plate allow access to light, and meeting rooms are glazed to enhance sweeping views while providing sound separation. Wide corridors, a fully accessible washroom and branded vision strips all demonstrate the firm's belief that universal design can enhance design excellence. Quadrangle's new home demonstrates the firm's commitment to sustainability and its expertise in universal design.
The Tridel Store
Interior Designer : Kelly Cray
Design Firm : UNION 31
Design Team : Kelly Cray - Margaret Stagg
The Tridel Store is a unique marketing environment for the developer to sell various projects on a one-off basis. The design objective was to create an upscale setting with a retail feel to support sales of the developer's high-end residential units. The design team incorporated unique details, high-end finishes and European style furnishings. Custom millwork and lush fabrics add to the atmosphere of quiet luxury. The result is an intimate environment that encourages one-on-one dialogue between clients and staff.
101 Erskine
Interior Designer : Kelly Cray
Design Firm : UNION 31
Design Team : Kelly Cray - Andrea Pierre
At the heart of a midtown Toronto neighborhood, the presentation center for 101 Erskine appeals to young professionals and move-up purchasers looking for a cosmopolitan lifestyle. Confronted with a long, narrow space, the design team transformed it into an open and airy marketing center that successfully communicates the brand. The strong architectural lines of the final building are repeated throughout the space, such as the copper fins that form a canopy over the second floor closing office. Primarily finished in contrasting black and white, copper accents soften the drama and add a modernist sensibility.
Esker Foundation
Interior Designer : Lois Wellwood
Design Firm : Kasian Architecture
For the home of Calgary's largest privately funded, non-commercial gallery, the designer was challenged to create a space that referenced the foundation's name, esker, meaning a winding ridge of gravel formed by a glacier. The facility also needed to accommodate the gallery's mandate to deliver innovative art exhibitions and educational events. A custom fiberglass portal reminiscent of a glacier provides a dramatic entrance into the space, and undulating ceilings reinforce the esker theme. A hovering nest is visible from the street below, inviting visitors into the gallery.
Commonwealth Community Recreation Center
Interior Designer : Chen Cohen
Design Firm : MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects in joint venture with HIP Architects
This facility, a joint-use partnership between the City of Edmonton and the Edmonton Eskimos Football Club, is a unique combination of professional football club, event space and community center. The recreation center features an open central lobby space that connects to the field house, pool area and gymnasium. The use of transparent materials allows views into the activity areas, creating a dynamic, energetic public space. The LEED-silver development has revitalized a vacant stadium ground into a 24/7 urban park and community destination.
Interior Designer : Heidi Painchaud and Guy Painchaud
Design Firm : B+H CHIL Design
For the spa, meeting rooms and guestrooms of the Toronto outpost of this Hong Kong-based brand, the design team balanced traditional Asian elements with modern detailing. Refined wood and stone slabs form a clean, contemporary backdrop for modern and Chinese-styled furniture. A rich colour palette of gold, plum and ruby feels lush and inviting. A water motif makes the spa feel serene, while decorative screens and drapery heighten the sense of indulgence. In the guestrooms, technology such as lighting and drapery control systems is seamlessly integrated into the design, allowing guests the utmost comfort and flexibility. The Shangri-La's luxurious guestrooms and spa offer a sanctuary for the most discerning hotel guests.
Mill Street Beerhall
Interior Designer : Ronald Wong
Design Firm : Mackay Wong Strategic Design
The interior designers were challenged to create an elevated spin on the traditional beer hall that would celebrate beer and the craft of beer making. Copper draught pipes add sparkle to the simple palette of wood floors and ceilings, concrete walls and black metal. Large wooden tables nod to the traditional beer hall, and abstract images of Mill Street products commissioned from local artists reinforces the theme. A long bar and open kitchen signal to customers that the brand takes both its beer and its food seriously.
Graduate Student Association (GSA) – Phoenix Restaurant/Pub at McMaster
Interior Designer : Dora Lomax
Design Firm : MSI, a division of McCallum Sather Architects Inc.
Design Team : Dora Lomax - Karin Vandenberg - Pete VandenArend
When the Phoenix Restaurant and the Graduate Student Association offices were set to be relocated to the Refectory Building on the McMaster campus, the design team had the unique challenge of working in a building that was protected as a site of cultural heritage value. The designers sought to emphasize the heritage architecture without sacrificing any modern conveniences. Working around the protected features, such as the slate roof and vaulted ceiling, meant coming up with creative solutions for necessary items such as the kitchen exhaust and the plumbing overhaul. The result is a thoughtfully restored space where students and faculty can meet, study and dine.
Quadrangle Architects' Studio - Specialty Elements
Interior Designer : Caroline Robbie and Vera Gisarov
Design Firm : Quadrangle Architects
Design Team : Caroline Robbie - Vera Gisarov - Julie Mroczkowski - Dyonne Fashina - Amy Pothier - Charlene Genno
Outside of major space planning, Quadrangle Architects' studio presented opportunities to reinforce the firm's design character using specialized elements. The team created millwork, graphics and lighting elements that support the firm's design process and inspire the staff. The specialized millwork demonstrates the firm's commitment to sustainable design by re-purposing items from the office's former location. For the lighting, the team collaborated with industrial designers to create design features from paper, metal and fabric. The graphics communicate the brand's focus on universal design by turning safety objects, such as a vision strip on a glazed wall, into design objects.
Judges 2013
Sheri-Lynn Crawford, ARIDOslc designs ltd.
Heather Dubbeldam, OAADubbeldam Architecture + Design
Valerie Gow, ARIDOGow Hastings Architects
Michael Niven, ARIDOMike Niven Interior Design Inc.
Matthew SearleIIDEX Canada


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30 June 2017
Understanding Humanitarian Action
This summer school provides participants with an understanding of the main stakes and questions in humanitarian action and contributes to building critical thinking.
The first week introduces the main concepts of humanitarian aid – including elements that should be considered (or not) when defining humanitarian action – and presents the humanitarian principles and framework in which assistance activities take place. Besides history, law and geopolitics of humanitarian action, we also analyse the context and the characteristics of humanitarian crises and the various types of responses.
Through case studies from contexts such as Philippines, Syria, Haiti or Afghanistan, the main operational challenges faced by international and national organisations will be identified during the second week. Finally, working on a concrete scenario during two days, participants will partially experience the tasks undertaken by humanitarian workers and get the opportunity to practically apply their newly acquired knowledge.
Overall, the three weeks allow participants to capture the complexity and diversity of humanitarian action.
Please note: Changes to the draft program may be made at any time prior to the start of the course.
Course leader
Professor Doris Schopper
Faculty of Medicine
University of Geneva
Director, Geneva Centre for Research and Education in Humanitarian Action
Ms. Claire Barthélémy
Diploma Coordinator and Lecturer
Geneva Centre for Research and Education in Huma
Target group
The course is aimed at professionals with no background in humanitarian action as well as undergraduate and graduate students who wish to learn and understand more about humanitarian action, to study this field and/or are interested in joining a humanitarian organisation.
CERAH encourages applications from a large variety of disciplines – social sciences, humanities, arts and medicine among others. The course is taught in English.
Credits info
Assessments are based on active participation and an assignment carried out during the two days. Upon successful completion of the course, participants are evaluated based on a group presentation on the last days of the two-weeks summer school (equivalence of 4 ECTS). Students wanting to acquire 6 ECTS have the opportunity to do so on the basis of a satisfactory take-home paper, to be written within a week after the end of the summer school.
Participants will be provided with a Certificate of Completion of the course if they satisfy attendance and evaluation requirements. It is the participant's responsibility to verify the validity of the course and validate it at their home university prior to participating in the course.
Fee info
CHF 1900: Final Deadline, May 1st, 2017: 1,900 CHF


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MSA proposes legislation for non-discrimination policy
Hickox has been talking with other UM System schools to make this a system-wide change.
Feb. 26, 2014
MSA Sen. Luke Blackburn and his running mate, MSA Sen. Connor Hickox, both juniors, lost the Missouri Students Association presidential election in the fall, but that didn't stop them from pursuing what they thought was right for MU.
On Feb. 18, Resolution 53-23 was introduced to the MSA cabinet. The resolution would be in favor of adding gender identity and expression to MU's non-discrimination policy, something that has already been done at 730 other colleges, Social Justice Committee chairman Payton Head said.
"Some people may see that as a little thing, just a couple of words," resolution author Hickox said. "But we thought that the university should do whatever they can to make sure all students in the MU community feel safe and welcome."
Blackburn and Hickox had worked on this issue as part of their campaign.
"We decided that we still wanted to do what we could to make it happen, even without the … title of MSA president and vice president," Hickox said.
Hickox and a handful of other students took it upon themselves to make sure this change would still happen.
"I think that (this issue) is very relevant to campus because I think it is just another step moving forward to making us a more inclusive campus for all identities," Head said. "We look at the LGBTQ community, but the one thing that gets forgotten all the time is the 'T'. … When we talk about transgender, it gets a little bit more complex."
Several years ago, a student-led initiative brought about a revision to the MU non-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation, Hickox said in an email.
This legislation did not include protection for transgender individuals, however, as it did not include gender identity and expression.
For the resolution to pass, the activists on this issue decided to visit each of MU's academic colleges to speak with their respective student councils with the hopes of getting them interested in passing an internal revision to their own non-discrimination policies that would include sexual orientation.
Hickox said he did not think of resolving this issue with MSA legislation until now.
After communication with other UM System schools and advisers, he decided a resolution would be best.
"Additionally, it looks like we're gaining some traction at the system level, at potentially revising the non-discrimination policy across the entire UM System," Hickox said.
Hickox has been in communication with UM-Kansa City, which has already passed a resolution. In addition to this, the university also revised its student organization handbook to require all student organizations to include gender identity and expression in the non-discrimination clause of their groups' constitution, Hickox said.
At the other two schools in the UM System, Missouri University of Science and Technology and UM-St. Louis, resolutions have already been proposed as well. Both will be voted on in the upcoming weeks.
After its first reading, the Social Justice Committee tabled Hickox's resolution so Hickox could have it reviewed for proper language. The committee sent the resolution to LGBTQ Resource Center coordinator Struby Struble, who referred the resolution to Heather Eastman-Mueller at the MU Student Health Center.
Hickox also recruited the help of both Head and Operations Committee chairman Ben Bolin to look over the legislation.
"If (MSA) does pass this resolution as well as the other two campuses, then all four schools will be showing support … that could lead to the Board of Curators adding this issue of the non-discrimination policy to the agenda for the next meeting, which is in April," Hickox said.
The resolution will be voted on Feb. 26.
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I was out just touring the local shopping centers this morning for no good reason except to roll around a bit before the scattered or isolated thunderstorms start popping up. As usual I was thinking of things I could park the scooter in front of to have something to write about here, and I happened to find two of them right next door to each other.
Now I'm a loyal shopper. When services are great and I get a good bang for my buck I go back to a business again and again. Likewise, when I don't like an establishment the only time you'll see me setting a foot in its doors is if I have a gift card for the place in my pocket. That's generally the case when it comes to the trendy restaurants built near the malls. They're over priced, nothing special, and they won't take reservations because they figure they're going to fill the tables anyway. The wait kids are entirely too bubbly and excited in trying to get you to plunk down $7 for some exotic drink and shrink back with visible disappointment if you don't want an appetizer up front or dessert later. And the manager comes around way too late to ask, "How's everything here?" when the food and the service are both mediocre to lousy.
One such joint that I don't like in particular is the Outback Steakhouse. They don't have lunch hours. Seemingly they'd rather not bother lowering their prices to serve lunch sized portions. I remember getting a steak there that was more gristle than meat, and let's not forget those annoying commercials with the horribly fake Australian accent that grates on us. One thing I have to hand it to them for, though - getting us to spend $6 on a stinking onion that the rest of the trendy, overpriced places all try to copy now.
Right beside our Outback here is another restaurant at the bottom of my personal food chain - Olive Garden. "When you're here, you're family?" I don't know. I haven't eaten a meal with family yet where I've gotten a bill at the end, so their insincere slogan doesn't quite cut it.
In terms of what you get for what you pay, they've got to be the worst of the chain restaurants. Let's see. About 25¢ worth of salad, another quarter's worth of bread, maybe 30¢ worth of noodles and perhaps 75¢ worth of meat or shrimp and what's the price on that? No restaurant can jack up the price as much as the Italian sort with dirt cheap noodles of some sort forming the basis of just about every meal and Olive Garden serves up those ridiculous prices in spades for nothing special at all. Unlimited salad and bread sticks? Woo hoo! That's right up there with unlimited tap water. Like the Outback, though, Olive Garden makes a pretty enough backdrop for the scooter.
I got back from my morning ride in plenty of time to have a huge salad for lunch that didn't cost me $8 and with time to spare to eat it at the table on the deck before the pea sized hail started falling from one of those thunderstorms I'd been expecting.
Cheap. It's what's for dinner!


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A note about this collage: I made it in December of last year, and have considered it unfinished since then. I didn't even date it, which is unusual for me. I always intended to do my typical job of embellishing with metallic pens, glitter, whimsy, and all kinds of sparkly stuff. Finally I realized that I haven't gotten a "round tuit" for a good reason - the collage is finished ... at least for now! So it is officially dated from today. It's untitled, but when I see it I think, as the late, great Mae West said, When all else fails, take a bath.
Back to the CycleCast: The cards indicate that we are at a major - and hopeful - turning point. Fulfillments are everywhere: in wanting, in feeling, in caring, interacting, realizing .... Now, I always consider turning points a good thing. (I wanted to call this reading "The End of the Kali Yuga," but my guides wouldn't let me. They allowed "The Rehearsal for the End of the Kali Yuga," instead.) It appears, however, that we are coming to the End of Materialism, and a new beginning for us as a species to behave like caretakers - not plunderers - of our planet.
The interesting thing about this turning point is that we won't be starting over from square one. We enter this new Cycle with both feet running, hitting our stride with confidence because, after all, we've been around the block a few times. We'll have the help of tremendous universal energies shining on us, empowering us to embrace the changes we know we need to make, with grace and joy. Here's how it maps out:
- We've eaten our fill of the Cake, fellow-travelers; one more bite would land us in the Coffin. But the Eye that sees clearly draws us back from the brink. Maybe we need to get out that Siphon, and release some of the old to make way for Change and progress. Who's the Mover this time?
- Ahead, we proudly wear the Pearl to help us use our power rightly. Spread your Wings, travelers, and take up the Wand of potential. Detachment with love powers this Independence movement. If you can't fly that high, carefully wield the Knife to cut away what does not suit. Take hold of the Handle, and get things started!
- Now the Moon lights up our longing, illuminating our magnetism and instinct for all that is good. Grasp the shiny Ring and win the challenge of how we join our energies with others. The Candle lights our way up the Mountain: is this what we've been Reaching for, all along?
- It helps a weary traveler to float in the warm, understanding Sea. Don't linger too long in that Cave, however; we got the insight the last time around, and now it's time to take it out into the world. Exchange your Tokens with intent and gratitude: that's the only prayer that is needed.
This CycleCast is in effect now through mid-December, with the main energy peak being around November 26. Additional peaks will come in late winter and early spring of 2009. But don't worry, fellow-travelers, there will be other Cycles coming along in the interim, and I will be here to report them. I'll also continue posting on this theme of Being the Change we want to see in the World. It's our time, and the time is now.


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Another Friday, another Mike Nothnagel. His August 8 puzzle (answers) is typically tough but full of little gems if they can just be teased out. It's themeless, so let's just look at some random highlights.
I love the word REDUX, probably because I encountered it with Rabbit Redux when I read the John Updike series at an impressionable age. It's a word that should be "revived." The Prisoner of ZENDA (the 1937 version with Ronald Colman) is one of my favorite films but "title castle town of book and film" is a particularly obscure clue. That film was remade nearly shot-for-shot in color with a different cast in 1952, but stick to the original. The 1993 Kevin Kline comedy Dave is a loose remake.
"Out" is an adjective meaning OLD HAT. I like "one side in an informal game" for SKINS. I haven't seen SUPER SIZE ME because I think it would creep me out. I used to work as a conductor and a TIN EAR would indeed be a detriment.
More Jim stories: There was a tech conference in the early 1990s for programmers that famously supplied all the participants with endless supplies of JOLT cola. The theory was that since programmers get paid to convert Coke and pizza into code, the extra caffeine and added sugar in Jolt would make us all happy. It made us all cranky instead and I'm still coming down from the high. I guess that makes it an "energy drink."
SETTS show up every now and then in puzzles. They're "small paving stones." "Shoot with steam" is a great clue. Shoot is a noun, and the steam is poetic. The answer is LOVE SCENE. And speaking of movies, I thought Golden Globes were for TV but apparently they cover film as well since Eddie Murphy won one in 1985 for his role of AXEL FOLEY in Beverly Hills Cop.
It all adds up to a tough Friday puzzle. Just what we've come to expect.


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(and after that, the soundtrack for this post is Ellen McIlwaine's "Wings of a Horse".)
Well, I have started so many attempts at writing this here. So many explanations and Grand Picture analogies, but they fall short. This is yet another piece of my life that I just can't effectively shake a word at to do it any justice. It just feels so epic to me and beyond the scope of logic and reason and what makes sense on the outside.
So I'll just say it:
Yes, we are moving to Mexico in December.
But before that, we're moving to Oregon. We're moving our American homebase to Corvallis, Oregon, where Sealion will have work, and where we will be living in a building just a few steps away from Gemini Cricket and family ~ La Señora Picante Honeybee, and La Señorita Pequeña Firefly. That's right; my ex-husband, and his wife ~ who happens to be the ex-girlfriend of my husband ~ and their kid. We're moving there the first week of September. And when we move down South for the winter, they'll be coming too.
And before all of that, we're all going to Burning Man.
Umm. In just a few minutes. :-)
All along as we've been planning this move to Mexico ~ way before the *exes* were even a part of the story, I have felt the need to appear as level-headed and solid as possible. No matter my beliefs to the contrary, I tend to spend an exorbitant amount of time imagining what other people think about me and what I do (and in the process trying not ever to offend anyone). To my inner judge, this Big Life Change just seems so off-the-charts un-usual, un-practical, and strange that I think I have attempted to overcompensate inside myself by projecting an Abbott persona to the Costello of a scheme we have going. An "I know it's Crazy, but I'm really not," kinda vibe. ;-)
Then my Inner Artist began to resurface. Drawing for the first time in decades, and shaking the dust (and oiling the rust!) out of my dancing hips. And before I knew what was happening, there was the slight hint of sage smoke on the air with a sprinkling of glitter: my Inner Artist wanted to go to Burning Man. The pragmatic tortoise that I had been channeling all this time fought this notion. She chastised, saying, "We can't go to Burning Man! That is just altogether Frivolous! We are trying to be Level-Headed and Practical! And on top of that, we just have way Too Much to Do before we move to Mexico!" My heart hurt and welled forth through my eyes. My Inner Artist would not let the idea go. I sat down with it and pondered. My heart took me back to my first year on the playa.
At the tail-end of a kaleidoscopic mind-and-heart-expanding journey, Sealion and I found ourselves in a corridor of colorful lights that danced in time with music that was blaring from all sides. The song: Seal's "Crazy." "Oh we're never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy." We jumped up and down dancing in exuberant acknowledgment. As I remembered this, it struck me, still resonating deep truth. Yes, moving to a big piece of dirt in the tropical desert of rural Mexico to grow foods following Nature's example, with nary a flush-toilet, or even walls and floors, building and making as much as we can from scratch and in such a manner that it will actually benefit instead of hinder the land and the surrounding community, is quite on the fringe of what is considered normal and "Sane" in Standard America today. We can analyze up one side and down the other the wisdom, folly, benefits and dysfunction that surround modern America and its influence on the world (and I bet you can guess my opinions on the matter without my having to go into a tirade about it..). But regardless of that and even whether we (deviants) realize it, deviating from the norm takes some energy. It takes an internal explosion or two. It takes a little bit of Crazy. And so it makes all the "sense" in the world that as I'm getting ready to make these leaps in personal space and boundaries, in levels of personal comfort, exertion, and interpersonal harmony and communication, that my Inner Artist ~ the one who connects the creative dots from heart to head to body ~ must re-connect with Source. Return to Center. Make the pilgrimage to Mecca and bow before the Goddess. Re-member with my whole being that I am She (the one I've been looking for).
Click the Reset button on what is Possible. And remember how to fly. My Inner Artist knows that to survive and indeed thrive in this Big New Life I would do well to let go of trying to seem Normal and Practical, and instead get a little Crazy.