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Archive for August 2009
HITECH PHI Breach Notification Rulings
Hospitals and medical centers now have even more reason to be concerned about privacy and security as new rulings released last week go into effect. Healthcare CIO's need to heighten the attention they place on the protection of sensitive patient information as it pertains to access, storage and transmission. This will need to be done in conjunction with their new focus on "meaningful use" which includes, CPOE and EMR upgrades and installations, clinical documentation, quality measures and interoperability.
On Wednesday August 19th, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued their "interim final" ruling that requires healthcare providers and health plans to alert individuals of unauthorized access to their unsecured electronic protected health information (PHI). This came just two days after a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule was released which outlined similar requirements for personal health record (PHR) vendors, related PHR entities and third-party service providers.
Both of these interim rulings have been mandated by the very stringent privacy and security requirements outlined in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) covered entities and business associates and certain non-HIPAA-covered entities. Try saying that fast five times!
The HHS and FTC worked collaborated to make sure that the rules were in sync and written in such a way that they complimented one another. All entities that are covered by either of these rulings have within 60 days to notify any individuals whose information was accessed without the proper authorization. If a large breach occurred, that falls within the PHI rules, and 500 or more people involved, then those entities must alert the press and media and then either HHS or FTC, depending on which of the rulings they are subject to. If the size of the breach involved less than 500 people, those entities must record and log of the incident and then contact and submit the breach findings to either HHS or FTC at the end of the year. These "interim final" regulations will be in effective for 30 days after publication in the Federal Register on August 24th.
The HHS "interim final" regulations are available at http://www.federalregister.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2009-20169_PI.pdf.
The FTC "interim final" regulations are online at http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/08/R911002hbn.pdf.
ARRA Stimulus Spending Reporting Solutions
As part of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), state and local governments have gratefully received stimulus money, which economists and lawmakers hope will breath some life into the economy. Budget officials, however, are anxious about the impending October 10th date, which is the first quarterly mandated deadline from the the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On that date, stimulus fund recipients must upload their detailed financial spending information in a specific format to a website called FederalReporting.gov,
CIO's around the country are concerned about the challenges of reporting for stimulus spending. Agencies will be required to upload financial spending data in the form of an Excel spreadsheet, CSV, or Extensible Markup Language (XML). These OMB requirements put the burden directly on state and local governments to process, format, prepare and transmit large amounts of financial information. Many CIO's say that their existing computer systems simply have not been adapted to handle these requirements. They are now faced with a choice that they need to make: a) customize their computer systems and applications to try and meet the requirement or b) purchase a software solution that has been designed to track and report stimulus spending.
President Barack Obama's administration and the OMB instituted these very stringent reporting requirements to provide transparency as well as spending accountability. This is certainly a worthy and worthwhile goal but it can be an enormous undertaken for CIO's and their IT teams. They only have a small window of time to modify and enhance their applications to meet the requirements. The problem also becomes exponentially more complex, when you start factoring in that state and local governments have many different agencies, who are using many different systems to capture and track their financial information.
There is some good news, CIO's have some third-party options they can consider. Microsoft Stimulus360, for example, is a solution that works with the existing Microsoft applications that most government agencies are using today including: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Dynamics ERP, Windows Server, SharePoint and Microsoft SQL Server. The only real additional cost is the product licensing fee.
Acumen Solutions' START program, on the other hand, takes a completely different approach. The solution is built on top of Salesforce.com platform. This completely hosted option can reduce equipment and software purchase costs. START offers an advantages when the government agencies are not connected on the same area network. As a "cloud" based solution, anyone with an Internet connection and a browser, can easily access the application 24/7. Acumen Solutions' START regularly receives updates from OMB, so that state and local governments can just focus on populating the system with their data.
Both of these solutions are viable options for CIO's to consider. They offer all the necessary reporting and data transmission requirements for OMB, and present a compelling alternative to building, managing and maintaining their own in-house developed applications for ARRA.
Unlike some popular belief, Netbooks are here to stay.
I can't tell you how many people have been telling me that Netbooks are not going to last. They explain that they are only a fad and that "real" people won't tolerate the slow performance, lack of memory, physical storage and small keyboards. They continue by saying that the only reason their popular in the first place, is because their cheap, and in this economy that is the only thing that really matters.
Well then, don't tell this to all the people that I've been seeing lately with their Netbooks in hand. In fact, I've been surprised at the numbers of NetBooks that have been coming out at recent seminars, conferences and events. Not to mention, all those Netbooks people are working on in the various coffee houses and cafe's I visit here in New England. These people, are those "real" people mentioned earlier. I'm talking about business professionals, entrepreneurs, marketing people, event planners, designers and your everyday emailing / die-hard Twitter users.
When I observe these folks, I notice that they really appreciate their Netbooks small size, weight and convenience. As I work away on my Lenovo laptop, I can't help glancing over and feeling just a bit jealous that I don't have my own Netbook. To the contrary of what I had been told, these people all seem quite happy with their Netbook, they are being productive, and are not missing a beat.
In a lot of ways, it reminds me about the introduction of the iPhone, which I am the proud user of. My business colleagues told me that "real" people would only use a Blackberry, never these niche toys called iPhones. Well, we all know where that went now don't we? I love my iPhone, it has changed my life. I use it constantly and it has made me much more productive. However, it's really not suited to type in a lot of notes and documents. This is when I need to pull out my bulky laptop to do the job. I've often thought of how great it would be if I could just expand my iPhone, just for a little while, so I could jot down some thoughts and information. But maybe, just maybe, a Netbook might be the perfect solution for this.
The newer Netbooks are coming with more options, memory, storage and speed. They are managing to do this while keeping the costs down. This is only going to help fuel their further adoption by both consumers and businesses. Microsoft is even concerned about the growing competition from Linux as an alternative OS of choice on Netbooks – http://3.ly/JVI. We also have to remember that Netbooks are really geared towards Cloud Computing, which is becoming increasingly more popular by the month. This all adds up to staying power.
I am quite confident that Netbooks are here to stay. I know that it's just a matter of time when I, and maybe even yourself, have one of these fine units in hand.
Healthcare CIO's face the reality of HITECH
Healthcare CIO's are all facing the new reality of HITECH. They are evaluating their current EMR's and existing systems interoperability to determine what will be required to receive the HITECH incentives. They are going to be asked to demonstrate "meaningful use" (once it's defined). CIO's are starting their assessments and due diligence.
What is the sense of urgency? The HITECH plan calls for "meaningful use" to be defined by the end of this year. From a Healthcare perspective that means tomorrow. Hospitals and physician practices who demonstrate meaningful use will qualify for some of the billions in incentives coming from the government. The issue is that Healthcare CIO's cannot wait for the "black and white" definition of meaningful use. They must start now if they hope to achieve the goal.
What Healthcare CIO's do know today is that the definition of meaningful use is going to breakdown into four main categories. This includes CPOE (computerized physician order entry), clinical documentation, quality reporting and system interoperability. Healthcare CIO's need to assess their current and planned system implementations to determine the best approach and/or combination to achieve this. They also need to factor in security, privacy and HIPAA compliance.
All this must be accomplished during these trying economic times. Plus, once the fuse is lit, resourcing these projects nationally will become a big challenge. The best thing Healthcare CIO's can do is to be as proactive as possible and get their strategies, plans and projects in place. This is your classic "carrot or stick" approach to get the CIO's and their C-Level peers to take action. This after all, is not only an IT initiative, but a directive for the entire organization, where every C-Level must be involved and held accountable.
The budget and execution of the HITECH initiative will transcend the entire organization. The key to accomplishing HITECH compliance will be all about measures. The measure of quality, system interoperability and patient outcomes will be the true test of compliance. This coupled with the necessary security, privacy and HIPPA compliance standards, makes it a complex initiative at all levels.
Healthcare CIO's certainly have many challenges ahead. The best advice I can give them is to get started and be as proactive as possible. They are not alone. This will be challenge for every hospital and physician practice in the country. Some will be successful and some will not. It's time to get started to better their odds.
RHIOs a holistic view is needed for success
RHIOs across the country have approached things very differentlly with their own standards, measures, goals and stakeholders. RHIOs can make for an interesting case study as there is a lot of good insights, perspectives and information that can be gained by their efforts. The reality, however, is that many RHIOs continue to struggle. They are knee deep in the politics of it all, have inadequate funding, and competing agenda's from everyone involved.
What we need to do is to take a holistic view of the work RHIOs have done. We can capture best practices, constructive approaches and opportunities that can be universally shared. This due diligence could lead to us instituting a true national healthcare interoperability definition & standard for all RHIOs to adhere to. This would be the foundation of a simplified national health network exchange that all organizations and system vendors could embrace. From a technology perspective this would be very similar to the traditional EDI and ODBC models. All vendors know, understand, and enable these standards in their products.
I hate to say it but for RHIOs to be ultimately successful, they will need to collaborate & work together, and they are going to need a similar "carrot & stick" of the HITECH initiative. Obviously the incentives and penalties would be different but the same motivation and persuasion tactics would be achieved. The reality is HITECH is already going to surface these issues in a big way. True interoperability will only be achieved through system standards. I am not critical of RHIOs, you can certainly understand how they got to where they are. A tremendous amount of thought and good work has been done. Some RHIOs are much more successful than others. However, a true national standard and health network exchange is going to be required before the goal can be ulitmately be achieved.
QuickBase and SaaS (Software as a Service) for non-critical applications
For those of you who have followed me for awhile you know that I am bullish on SasS (Software as a Service) for non-critical enterprise applications. This would include Sales, HR, Payroll and Project Management type applications. I am a big fan of QuickBase from Intuit as their product allows for the rapid web development of both departmental and enterprise apps. QuickBase is a powerful, flexible and user friendly web application development environment. There is elegance in simplicity!
I personally have developed numerous QuickBase applications that are used throughout our organization today. To say that QuickBase does it all would not be the truth. I like to say that the product core product offers 80% percent of what you need. However, it's the 20% that it's missing that has prevented me from further adopting the product as a strategic solution for Vitalize. As a passionate user of QuickBase, I have communicated with Brad Smith, Intuit's CEO, and I have visited the QuickBase office in Waltham MA. The QuickBase team even came to visit me in our Reading MA office. I provided them with a feature fit/gap road map to enhance their product.
Intuit has made some small enhancements to the core QuickBase product but the 20% gap still fundamentally remains. To their credit, QuickBase has been working on a business strategy to extend their product features through tools like Adobe Flex. This is coupled with a development partner program to encourage developers to write, promote and sell QuickBase applications. I am not critical of this as a strategy, but as a QuickBase customer and fan, I would like Intuit to also focus on enhancing their core product offering. My development team and I would welcome the enhanced features and functionality that could and would make QuickBase an truly amazing SAAS Solution.
I will remain an advocate of QuickBase and I do recommend it as complimentary solution to every companies application development environment. I just know QuickBase could be so much more than what it already is. Intuit will either advance their product or a competitor will step in and offer it in their own solution.
I started my career doing software development. I programmed for a living and lead business software development for many years. As a result, I am quite familiar with development environments, frameworks and tools. So when I found Quickbase I was a bit skeptical. However, once I started using the product I was impressed with it's capabilities. I would say that I really pushed the product to it's limits and was quite happy with the result. However, I did encounter it's limitations. The QuickBase team called me an advanced user, someone who has exploited the full dimension of their product. They have been very receptive to my recommendations but I've yet to see a major release that address the 20% gap.
I know they are working on QuickBase regularly, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a new version released sometime soon. I highly recommend QuickBase for any company. It comes with numerous applications that you can use immediately and learn from. I simply want to continue to encourage and council Intuit to make QuickBase even better. It has so much more potential and opportunity as mature and proven SssS solution.
Healthcare CIO's need to reevaluate system integration strategies
With HITECH efforts being planned in hospitals across the nation, Healthcare CIO's need to reevaluate system integration strategies. The challenge historically has been one of evolution where different vendor interface engines have been introduced over time. Each time a new system, application or module got introduced into the environment it often came with a preferred vendors engine for integration purposes. As long as it talked HL7 and could parse, transmit and interpret records it was generally deemed acceptable to not delay the project.
This model, however, has created hospital IT environments and staff that have to support, manage and upgrade these different vendor products. Now add in the HITECH mandate of system interoperability and the CIO is left with a more complex environment than desired. Healthcare CIO's need to move to a "less is more" approach to integration by moving towards a single vendor product as a best practice. This will pay huge dividends for them in the future by allowing them to be agile & responsive to interoperability needs coming their way.


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Since you could step on a stool,
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Thomas: One Green Bean 'not competing with traditional creative agencies'
The newly installed executive creative director of PR firm One Green Bean has denied the agency is looking to compete with "traditional" creative agencies.
Founder Kat Thomas has taken on the role today, with Matt Buchanan, who joined in October from Ogily's Pulse agency, taking the helm as managing director.
However, Thomas today told B&T the move, which she claimed was a first by a PR agency in Australia, was a repositioning of the agency as a creative firm, after it took a lead on last year's Virgin Mobile Fair Go Bro campaign starring Doug Pitt.
She added: "We've creative, but our specialism definitely sits in the earned media space, rather than the traditional media space.
"For Fair Go Bro we brought in a traditional creative partner, but we're not going in the direction of a full-service agency.
"We've seen the need to invest in creative from a more upstream perspective and show n our clients the power of investing in earned media earlier on in the piece."
She said the business has always been "agile", pointing to the growth of the digital side of the business making up almost 50% of the agency, where three years ago there were none.
"You can only anticipate in three-years-time the dynamic of the business will be very different once again. But we're committed to ensuring we're nimble enough to evolve in line with what needs to happen," she added.
In the new role Thomas will focus on the creative output, allowing Buchanan to take a business leadership role.
He added: "Knowing that Kat has grown the agency from scratch, it was a fantastic feeling to come into a thriving business, yet immediately see areas where I could add value and support the recent growth.
"We will continue to be a hands-on leadership team, but the delineation of responsibilities will ensure we continue to produce big ideas that work hard."
One Green Bean picked up the PR Agency of the Year gong at the 2012 B&T Awards.


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The machine we are going to backup to is remote, and we have ssh keys set up, so I was going to have the WAL's rsync'd over. Is that wise with that archive_command option?
A Step by Step guide with examples on how to set these things up would be amazing as I couldn't find one I understood (I'm not a DBA)


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The authors of a recent story about weight loss in The New York Times began by mentioning a new weight loss surgery that involves a tube implanted in the stomach that causes it to eject food before the total absorption of calories takes place. The process is designed to curtail the incidence of type 2 diabetes and obesity, both of which have reached epidemic proportions. Among the startling statistics: one-third of adult Americans are now obese, two-thirds are overweight, and around 29 million of us have diabetes. Moreover, approximately 86 million Americans have prediabetes, a precursor to type 2 diabetes, and many of them don't even know they have it.
Weight-Loss Surgery Only Treats Part of the Problem
Although weight-loss surgeries to control obesity and health conditions have been lifesaving for some, often only part of the person is truly treated in the process. After all, it's not just about the pounds that are lost — it's also about the person who carried those pounds. If psychotherapy or a visit with a dietitian isn't on the post-surgery checklist, then surgery is akin to buying a complex piece of equipment without an instruction booklet. Patients need to know how to handle the surgery and how to navigate its impact. Nutritional deficiencies, changes in social and family life, and a sense of loss are all things that may come as a surprise to patients even if weight loss is a welcome result.
Can Low-Carb Diets Produce the Same Results as Surgery?
A less invasive, although perhaps less dramatic, route to weight loss and blood glucose control is to manipulate the nutrients in your diet. The New York Times story emphasizes the restriction of carbohydrates; in fact, monitoring carbs does help spark weight loss. And of course weight loss is an essential component to stabilizing blood sugar levels. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 30 percent of overweight people have type 2 diabetes, and 85 percent of those with type 2 diabetes are overweight. I have counseled patients who have shown that even a 5 percent loss in body weight can help reduce or eliminate their need for medication. This underscores that, for people with type 2 diabetes, sometimes even small amounts of weight can produce profound changes in blood sugar levels.
Be Careful About What Replaces Those Missing Carbs
It's crucial to be mindful of all nutrients, including protein and fat. Carbs are not the only culprit when it comes to weight gain: Perhaps it's the company they keep that's the problem. A baked potato, for example, contains potassium, fiber, and the resistant starch that may help reduce blood sugar. But when it's topped with lots of butter and sour cream, it's not just the potato that's depositing into your calorie bank.
The authors of The New York Times piece promote a diet low in carbs and suggest that we replace carbohydrates with healthy protein and fats. But this prescription shouldn't be interpreted as a meal with lean meats the size of your plate, accompanied by a salad topped with several tablespoons of oil or handfuls of nuts as snacks. Even healthy proteins and fats have calories that can wreak havoc on your weight-loss efforts.
The Key to Weight Loss (and Good Health) Is Balance
The answer to controlling weight, along with preventing or managing type 2 diabetes or other conditions, rests on a foundation of balance. Like the three legs of a stool, carbohydrates, protein, and fat support each other. Perhaps some of the studies show that cutting carbs lowers blood sugar levels more significantly than diets that include a certain amount of carbohydrates. But in my practice, which is not in a lab, I have found that when we're too strict, people will be successful for only a limited period of time and then revert back to old, bad habits.
Success to me is consistency on a plan that you can live with, not a roller coaster ride on your bathroom scale.
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A group like minded person, belonging to the very lower class (income /resources wise and status wise in the social set up of India) came together with the social aim of upliftment of the downtrodden and destitute children living in and around the district of Pune and other neighboring towns.
Dapodi is situated about 8 k.m. from Pune railway station on the main line of central railway and can be accessed by train and state transport buses running 24 hrs a day.
Even thought, Dapodi is sandwiched 2 leaving Municipal corporations (Pune Municipal Corporations + Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation) and lot of small scale industries and a numbers of employees took employments in the industrial zone.
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The Shoppers Home Health Care NOCA Wheelchair Provincial Championships begin Friday February 25th 1030AM at the Fort William CC in Thunder Bay.
Defending champion Team Ficek, out of Kenora and Dryden, are hoping for a third consecutive appearance at the Nationals in Edmonton in March. He admitted his team underperformed last year, going 3-6 after making it to a playoff tie-break game the year before. This year, after a couple of warm-up wins over Manitoba, he says his team is raring to go.
To win he will have to get past home club Team Levesque, coached by Dave Kawahara who was instrumental in bringing wheelchair curling to Northern Ontario. Carl Levesque skipped the first provincial team, which included Wayne Ficek and Mark Wherrett, now his competitors. Fort William CC is also fielding a team skipped by Gino Sonego.
Sudbury joins the oarty this year, sending a team of rookie curlers but experienced athletes skipped by Steve Daniel.
Tournament format is a round robin with the top two teams playing in the final, 10.30AM Sunday February 27.
The club has installed webcams - try the club website. You can also follow scores on playdowns.com
An event poster, team rosters, schedule and information is available HERE
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Fort William CC hosts Northern Ontario Provincials Feb 25-27
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Bowling alleys. The smell of spilt beer and stale cigarettes, the sallow look of the employees that have spent one too many days inhaling shoes disinfectant under fluorescent lights, and the happy skip of a bowler who just bowled a strike. I like bowling alleys, they remind me of childhood.
Dear M turned 27 not long ago and we celebrated with an evening of bowling and faux tattoos.Nothing but classy 1970's architecture for us!
My ball was gold, it's how I roll.
The real highlight of the evening came when we discovered that the vending machines carried fake tattoos. Now it says a lot about a girl when she is willing to drop a whole roll of quarters that she had stashed in her purse for laundry on fake tattoos. If you've ever lived in an apartment complex or a dorm, you know quarters are pure gold. You pilfer them out of others coin trays, pick them up off the ground, and hoard them in your wallet. My friend K is serious about the business of fake tattoos, and gladly purchased us a sweet stack of the beauties with her fresh roll of quarters.
On another note, completed the Susan G. Komen walk/run with my mamma last weekend. Lookin fly pre-race. This rockstar ran almost the whole thing.
The gang. We look good with pink on!


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Diversity events at UMSI and beyond
UMSI strives to highlight diversity and build inclusivity through its own events as well as through participation in university-wide events.
Past events
World Beats from Space 2435: A World Music Festival
Thursday, April 11, 2019, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Space 2435 North Quad
The UMSI DEI Committee will wrap up this year's activities with a celebration of world music and performances.
Community Conversations: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Context of Collaborative Group Work
February 25th, 2019 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Room 2245, North Quad
The topic for this semester's Community Conversations session is "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Context of Collaborative Group Work". Students, staff and faculty are encouraged to attend. The session will be facilitated by Anita Bohn '86, an Organizational Development Consultant at the University of Michigan.
Taste of the Reel World: A Multicultural Film Series
The DEI committee will screen international films for the UMSI community. Each movie will feature food and two speakers from the film's country of origin, and a brief panel discussion to follow the movie.
Tampopo (1985)
Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 7:30-9:45 pm
Space 2435 North Quad
The Lunchbox (2013)
Wednesday, November 28th, 2018, 7:30-9:45 pm
Space 2435 North Quad
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 7:30 - 9:45 pm
Space 2435 North Quad
Dialogues on Diversity in Science: Ron Jones
Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Power Center for the Performing Arts
The Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and the Endowment for Basic Sciences will host an innovative diversity dialogue event featuring EMMY award-winning actor and diversity trainer Ron Jones.
DEI Retreat
The second annual diversity retreat for UMSI faculty, students and staff used design-centered thinking to develop strategies for action.
Thursday, March 15, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Michigan League
Designing an Inclusive Work Environment
Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Space 2435 North Quad
The UMSI Gender in Information Careers Series culminates with a keynote address by Rochael Adranly, partner and general counsel at IDEO, a global design company. Soper is an intellectual property transactions attorney whose practice focuses on helping creative people negotiate deals. She is also lecturer at UC Berkeley Law and an adjunct professor at UC Hastings College of the Law. She is an artist in her own right, and has been featured in Modern Counsel magazine, in GC Magazine as a lawyer who "thinks like a designer" and was chosen by the Financial Times as one of 20 top general counsel worldwide.
Lunar New Year Celebration
Friday, February 16, 2018, 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Space 2435 North Quad
The DEI committee will sponsor a gathering to celebrate the lunar new year and the various traditions of the UMSI community around this festive occasion. RSVP requested.
DEI Design Jam
Thursday, February 8, 2018, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad
UMSI students, faculty and staff are invited to draw on approaches used in design thinking and the field of information to generate innovative solutions to challenges faced in the community.
U-M Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium 2018
Monday, January 15, 2018, 2 p.m.
Rogel Ballroom, Michigan Union
The Fierce Urgency of Now: We need change NOW....Here's HOW. Karine Jean-Pierre: Senior Advisor & National Spokesperson at MoveOn.org.
UMSI Community Gathering
Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad
UMSI students, faculty and staff are invited to this community gathering to provide feedback, share ideas, or ask questions about our diversity, equity & inclusion strategic plan and implementation, including DEI efforts or events offered this term. Dean Finholt will be attending and lunch will be provided. If you are unable to attend but would like to share comments, questions or concerns you may relay them to us in the form linked here.
Impact on Inequality: Contributions of Michigan Social Science
November 9-10, 2017
Rackham Graduate School Amphitheater (4th floor)
The University of Michigan has long been a leader in social science research on the many dimensions of social inequality. This bicentennial symposium will highlight these contributions by focusing on the work of distinguished social scientists who were trained at the University of Michigan.
Sessions include:
-Educational Disparities in the U.S.
-Race, Gender, & Empowerment
-Many Paths to Having an Impact
-Innovative Research to Understand and Reduce Health Disparities
-Families, Poverty, and Inequality
-Innovative Methodology
Speakers include: José A. Bauermeister, Maxine Berman, Cleopatra Caldwell, Maria Cancian, Zoe Clark, Elizabeth Cole, Keta Cowan, Aimee Cox, Antonio R. Flores, Irwin Garfinkel, Lorraine Gutierrez, Carmen Harlan, Odis Johnson, Alexandra Killewald, Shinobu Kitayama, Susanna Loeb, Vonnie McLoyd, Cecilia Muñoz, Enrique Neblett, Desmond Patton, Laura W. Perna, Virginia Sapiro, Amy J. Schulz, Rob Sellers, Melvin Stephens, La June Montgomery Tabron, M. Belinda Tucker, Hardy Vieux, David Williams.
All sessions are free and open to the public. Register here. For more information, visit home.isr.umich.edu/bicentennial-symposium. This event will be live web streamed. Check the website just before the event for viewing details.If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at email@example.com at least one week in advance of this event.
Understanding Racial, Gender, and Socioeconomic Inequality: Contributions of Michigan Social Science
Thursday - Friday, November 9-10, 2017, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Rackham Graduate School Amphitheater
This bicentennial symposium will highlight focus on the work of an illustrious group of Michigan graduates from fields such as economics, education, political science, psychology, public policy, social work, sociology, and women's studies will discuss past, present, and future research on issues related to gender, race, poverty, inequality, and economic mobility.
iDEI: Talks at the Intersection of Information, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Thursday, November 9, 2017, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
North Quad Space 2435
UMSI, in conjunction with the University of Michigan Diversity Summit (Nov 6-10), is planning a Ted-style talk event, iDEI: Talks at the Intersection of Information, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. This event is designed to amplify efforts that connect with diversity, equity & inclusion - and information - across scholarship, teaching and learning, service and administration. To submit a proposal, please visit this link.
October 27, 2017, 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
Robertson Auditorium at Ross School of Business
A podcast series highlighting the lived experiences of historically marginalized individuals whose perspectives are critical components of the University of Michigan's history and tradition. Join us for a LIVE podcast recording featuring: Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale, Anita Martinez, Grace Meng, and Fayrouz Saad. Sponsors: National Center for Institutional Diversity, Office of Academic Innovation, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, and the U-M Bicentennial Committee
My Turn for ASD Families at Museum of Natural History
Sunday, June 11, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
Ruthven Museum Building
Families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders are invited to attend this free program in a less sensory-stimulating and crowd-free environment. This two-hour UMMNH event will allow My Turn visitors to explore the galleries at their own pace, view a planetarium show, and participate in ASD-friendly hands-on activities with specially trained staff and docents.
Strategies to Empower Women to Achieve Academic Success
Wednesday, June 7, 8;30-11:00 a.m.
Kahn Auditorium, Alfred Taubman Research Building
Organized and sponsored by the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute, the goal of this event is to examine the gender gaps that affect instructional track faculty and determine how women and leaders within the university can work together to overcome them.
Unconscious Bias in Everyday Life
Tuesday, May 23, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Literature Science and the Arts - Conference Room 2001
Learn how to examine your own background and identities to interact more authentically with co-workers, customers and the community. The workshop will help enhance personal and professional effectiveness on and off the job and positively influence personal and organizational decisions.
Designing Community-Based Learning Courses with Diverse Learners in Mind
Wednesday, May 17, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Palmer Commons - CRLT Seminar Room 1013
Experts from LSA's Center for Engaged Academic Learning and the Edward Ginsberg Center discuss ways to promote student learning for a broad range of students through experiences in communities.
Give it. Get it. Expect respect.
Tuesday, May 16, 10–11:00 a.m.
Conference Room 2001, LS&A
This presentation will renew the concept of respect for individuals and provide tools as to how to practice this everyday. Featuring: Latisha Cunningham, LSA DEIC Officer
The Color of Our Skin and the Content of Our Politics: Exploring the Effects of Skin Tone on Policy Preferences among African Americans
Thursday, May 11, 10–11:30 a.m.
Rave Theater, 4100 Carpenter Road
Scholars have established that darker-skinned African Americans have lower incomes, encounter more discrimination, and have poorer health outcomes than lighter-skinned Blacks. However, it is unclear whether skin color is associated with political views.
Understanding "Nontraditional" Student Experiences
Wednesday, May 10, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Palmer Commons - CRLT Seminar Room 1013
A panel conversation with individuals across the university who support the success of students with a diverse range of identities, backgrounds and experiences that may not be readily visible.
Detroit Area Housing and the Tuxedo Project: Transforming a Detroit Neighborhood
Thursday, May 4, 10–11:30 a.m.
Rave Theater, 4100 Carpenter Road
The Tuxedo Project seeks to transform the neighborhood around Stephen Henderson's birth home on Tuxedo Street into a center for change that celebrates and leverages the literary arts.
The African American Employment Experience: From Slavery to Unemployment and Discrimination
Thursday, April 27, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
Rave Theater, 4100 Carpenter Road
Employment—whether forced or voluntary—has been historically used as a tool for the exploitation, manipulation, and control of African-descended people. Mark P. Fancher will discuss the legal and structural challenges to economic justice for America's black community.
Eighth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop | Gender and Sexuality in Armenian Studies
Friday, April 21, 10 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Room 1644, School of Social Work
This workshop will initiate a conversation on Gender and Sexuality in the field of Armenian Studies. We will be inviting graduate students working on gender and sexuality as objects of analysis in Armenian Studies to discuss both the challenges and the opportunities this turn in the field awards.
Business Case for Diversity
Monday, April 17, 10–11:30 a.m.
Conference Room 2001, LSA
This session will use examples from businesses, the military and other entities, while also highlighting cutting edge research that prove the value of diversity.
#BLACKYOUTHMATTER: The Elusive Quest for Equitable Education in an Anti-Black Sociopolitical Climate
Thursday, April 13, 10–11:00 a.m.
Rave Theater, 4100 Carpenter Road
Dr. Carter Andrews is Assistant Dean of Equity Outreach Initiatives and an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. Dr. Carter Andrews explores the elusive quest for equitable education for African Americans in the United States. She uses critical race theory as an analytical framework for examining the enduring inequitable access to educational opportunities that African Americans have experienced across time and learning spaces
Award Winning Author Dr. Ibram Kendi: Book Talk & Signing
Tuesday, April 11, 6:30–7:30 p.m.
100 Hutchins Hall, Auditorium, U-M Law School
The 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction Winner and New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi joins the University of Michigan community to discuss the history of American racism.
CSAS 7th Annual UM-Pakistan Conference | Gender & Sexuality
Friday, April 7, 10:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Room 1636, School of Social Work Building
Through a conversation between artists, activists, and academics, we hope to understand the role of gender for both women and men in shaping, experiencing, negotiating, inhabiting, and traversing everyday life, shrines and piety movements, and online spaces.
Policing Black Citizenship: From the Founding to Ferguson
Thursday, April 6, 12–1:00 p.m.
1225 South Hall
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard Law School will deliver the bi-annual Brian Simpson Lecture. Annette Gordon-Reed is the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School and a Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and formerly the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Queen's College, University of Oxford (2014-2015).
Stranger Affinities: A Race, Colonialism & Sexualities Symposium
Friday, March 31, 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Room 2239 Lane Hall
This minisymposium on Women of Color Feminism and Queer-of-Color Critique will feature 50-minute talks by Grace Hong and Chandan Reddy, followed by Q&A with the audience.
Queer Geek Methodologies: Social Justice Fandom as a Transformative Digital Humanities
Thursday, March 30, 4-5:30 p.m.
Room 3512 Haven Hall
This talk draws from early work on a new book project that explores the digital production of knowledge about gender, race, and disability through the intersection of social justice discourse and fan culture, exploring ways that the creative production of media fan subcultures has preceded and shaped the development of contemporary digital politics.
What would YOU do?: Involving students in campus sexual violence prevention through bystander intervention
Tuesday, March 28, 4–5:00 p.m.
School of Public Health-I, 1415 Washington Heights
Join us for a special event featuring Dr. Sarah McMahon, Associate Professor, Social Work, and Associate Director, Center on Violence Against Women and Children at the Rutgers University School of Social work. This seminar, part of the University of Michigan Injury Center's Distinguished Faculty Seminar series. Light refreshments will be served. Register by noon of Monday, March 27. Contact: email@example.com.
CID Speaker Series: Laurenellen McCann
Tuesday, March 28, 4:00 p.m.
Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad
The Citizen Interaction Design program sponsors an appearance by Laurenellen McCann, a social practice artist and internationally recognized expert in civic engagement and community technology. Laurenellen McCann will discuss their work in addressing the need to invest more in the "civic" in civic tech — prioritizing community leadership and stewardship in the lifecycle of public interest technology. They will do so from the perspective of non-binary gender identity in an industry that often struggles with diversity and inclusion internally.
All About the ADA and Accommodations!
Friday, March 24, 2–3:30 p.m.
Room 2001, Literature Science and the Arts
Recognize how to appropriately and effectively engage with co-workers, members of the public, and others who may have a disability, understanding how to best serve individuals with disabilities and learn some etiquette pointers to use in your everyday life.
What Knowers Know Well: Why Feminism Matters to Archaeology
Friday, March 24, 2:10 – 3:30 p.m.
2239 Lane Hall
Neglected questions about women, gender, and sexuality have been on the archaeological agenda since the late 1980s, and gender-inclusive archaeology has transformed what we know about the past. But some of its strongest advocates deny that they are engaged in feminist scholarship or in any way influenced by feminist politics.
Symposium on Violent Interactions between Law Enforcement and Black Americans
Thursday, March 23, 6–9:00 p.m.
School of Public Health II (SPH II) Auditorium
On July 7, 2016, a lone gunman shot 12 Dallas police officers following a peaceful anti-brutality protest. As the lead trauma surgeon on call, Dr. Williams directed the team of surgeons and specialists caring for the seven officers transported to Parkland Hospital. Days later, after facing one of the largest crises of his medical career, he began confronting what he considers another crisis – violence and racism in America.
Gender in Information Event: Linglong He, CIO, Quicken Loans
Monday, March 20, 12 – 1:00 p.m.
2255 North Quad
Linglong He will discuss "Getting Your Worth in the Tech Industry" as keynote speaker of the UMSI-CDO Career Series: Gender in Information Careers, with support and sponsorship from the UMSI Diversity Committee. A key focus of the presentation and moderated questions will focus on negotiating worth in the workplace—with a special focus on gender and diversity. While the series focuses on career paths and success strategies for women, this event is open to all.
Gender in Information Event: CDO | AAUW Start Smart Salary Negotiations
Wednesday, March 15, 5–7:30 p.m.
UMSI Engagement Center
The CDO is hosting the AAUW Start Smart Interactive Workshop for UMSI students. Start Smart facilitators will be leading this workshop with the goal to empower students with the skills and confidence in the art of salary negotiation to bridge the gender wage gap. Due to the interactive component of this workshop, space is limited to the first 40 students who sign up in iTrack. This is the second session of the annual series on Gender in Information co-sponsored by the Diversity Committee and the Career Development Office.
LGBTQ+ Health & Wellness Week Keynote Speaker
Monday, March 13, 7–8 p.m.
Educational Conference Center, School of Social Work Building
The 2nd Annual Health and Wellness Week includes a series of diverse events focusing health and wellness for queer, trans, and similarly-identified individuals. The keynote speaker is Amorie Robinson, PhD, LP (aka "Kofi Adoma").
Black Bodies, Social Justice and the Archive
The Institute for the Humanities and UMSI will host an open seminar on the relationships between the new concepts of the archive and the advancement of social justice causes in the United States.
Race at the Intersection
Leading scholars from around the U.S. will discuss their work on the intersection of racism with multiple socially-constructed identities.
Race, Gender, Nation, and Species: Breaking New Ground in Environmental Justice Studies
Speaker: David Pellow, PhD,-University of California- Santa Barbara, is the Dehlsen Chair of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture by Rebecca Solnit
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit will deliver the Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture, "Hope and Emergency," followed by a question and answer period with the audience. ASL interpretation will be provided. Free and open to the public.
Winter 2017 Communication & Media Speaker Series
Kristen Warner (Associate Professor, College of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Alabama): "The Difficulty around Diversifying Hollywood's Labor Force and its Circumventions"
Promoting Academic Excellence in STEM: The Evolving Roles of Learning Communities
This event features a lecture by Michael McKibben of University of California, Riverside who will discuss a model for a highly successful, large scale learning community for STEM students. A reception and a campus-wide poster session will follow. Please RSVP by Wednesday, February 8, if you are planning on attending the event.
Brothers Dialogue Series
My Brothers is a lunch series open to all students, faculty and staff that address the unique needs and experiences of men of color at the University of Michigan in a safe, open space.
Diversity Next! Series: Dr. Kyra Gaunt
Black Music Matters: On the Power of Shared Song Leading and Silence in Mass Protests. Diversity Next! is an arts-inspired series of conversations convened by the Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) that seeks to broaden the horizons of diversity deliberations on the U-M campus and beyond.
SAMMUS (Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo) is an Ithaca, NY-based rap artist, producer, and PhD student in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University.
UMSI's Lunar New Year Celebration
The Diversity Committee sponsored the first open house celebration of the Lunar New Year with traditional food, games, customs and a stunning art installation by U-M artist in residence Wang Qingsong.
Politicized Science: Why Evidence Still Matters
Speaker: Sharyn Clough, Professor of Philosophy; Director, Phronesis Lab: Experiments in Engaged Ethics; School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University
Gender & Feminist Psychology Brown Bag
Jen Frederick, U-M graduate student, on "Pathways to feminist identity among women's movement activists"
Defective, Deficient, Burdensome: Thinking About Bad Bodies
Join Eli Clare as he uses history, storytelling, and poetry to examine the ways in which some bodies and communities are named as bad and disposable. Ranging widely from police brutality to disability-based bullying, he reveals the deep damage done by the notion of defectiveness.
U-M Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium Series: One Drop of Love
This multimedia one-woman show, written and performed by U-M alum Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, explores the intersections of race, class and gender in search of truth, justice and love.
The Center for World Performance Studies presents Diversity Next! Expanding the diversity conversation through the arts
This panel is part of an arts-inspired series of conversations convened by the Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) that seeks to broaden the horizons of diversity deliberations on the U-M campus and beyond.
Indie Lens Pop-Up: Meet the Patels
Indie Lens Pop-Up is a neighborhood series that brings people together for film screenings and community-driven conversations.
Perspective on Inclusion: Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein
Justice Richard Bernstein became the first blind justice, elected by voters statewide, to the Michigan Supreme Court in November 2014.
Promoting Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Two Major Research Universities: Lessons from the Meyerhoff Adaptation Project
This innovative project builds upon lessons from the exemplary UMBC Meyerhoff Scholars Program to develop inclusive high-achieving undergraduate programs at UNC and PSU that promote diversity, equity, and institutional transformation.
Clarence Wardell III: White House Police Data Initiative
Dr. Clarence Wardell will discuss the White House initiative to use data on police-citizen interactions to increase trust and engagement between law enforcement and citizens.
UMSI Community Gathering
A monthly opportunity for the UMSI community to come together to discuss aspects of our climate and culture.
Story Telling Highlighting Trans Women and Trans Femme Experiences
First-year UMSI student Vidhya Aravind will be one of three panelists speaking as part of the storytelling experience for Transgender Awareness Week.
50 Years of Civil Rights Leadership: A U-M Symposium in honor of Rev. Jesse Jackson
SBEE Seminar Series: Willemien Kets
Willemien Kets, assistant professor at MEDS at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, will speak on "Challenging Conformity: A case for diversity."
Diversity and Disability in Bollywood Films
UMSI assistant professor Joyojeet Pal presents a discussion of disability in Indian popular culture. A U-M Investing in Ability event.
LRCCS Film Series | Panel discussion featuring Cui Zi'en, Wang Wo, and Ying Liang
William Warner Bishop Lectureship - Loretta Parham (AMLS '77)
The UMSI Diversity Committee sponsors a lecture by UMSI Distinguished Alumni Award winner Loretta Parham, Director and CEO of the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library, as part of the UMSI Homecoming celebration.
Introducing the U-M Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategic Plan
Please join us as we launch U-M's strategic plan and outline the university's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. Your voice, your participation and your ideas will play a vital role in shaping our future. A day of events kicks off at 9:00 AM at the Power Center.
Dr. Jessa Lingel lecture
The Queer Science and Technology Studies Social Reading Club and MISC are co-sponsoring Dr. Jessa Lingel's visit to the School of Information. She'll be giving a talk on her book project, Uncommon People: Digital technologies and the struggle for community.
John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society
Speaker Liz Gerber is a professor, designer, consultant and community leader who studies and designs organizations and technology to support collective innovation. Drawing on theory from social computing and organizational theory, Dr. Gerber will outline a framework that will support collective innovation that is inclusive, collaborative, and comprehensive.
CID Presents: Rebuilding Citizenship for the Twenty-first Century
Catherine Bracey will speak on the connection between technology, good governance and citizen engagement.
UMSI-CDO Women in Information Career Series: Erin Teague
U-M alumna and Yahoo director of product development Erin Teague spoke about "Getting Your Worth in the Tech Industry."
Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures, Digital Memory and the Myth of Digital Universalism
University of Illinois research professor Anita Say Chan looked at experiments in innovation spaces from the periphery, including the development of rural hack lab spaces in Peru, in this Digital Futures Lecture Series talk.
Addressing Workplace Behavior: Incivility, Microaggressions, and Bullying
The UMSI Career Development Office and the Center for the Education of Women held this workshop as part of the Women in Information series.
CDO workshop: The Art of Salary Negotiation: Ask For It
The UMSI Career Development Office held a work shop on salary negotiation for bridging the gender wage gap.
Women in Information Part I: UMSI Alumni Career Panel
The UMSI Career Development Office hosted a panel of alumni to offer advice and share experiences focused on women in information careers.
MISC Panel: Perspectives on Online Courses from the Trenches
UMSI professor Chuck Severance, a popular MOOC instructor, and UMSI staff member Heather Newman, a student in Georgia Tech's online master's program, discussed issues including whether MOOCs alleviate educational inequalities.
MLK Symposium Speaker: Jonathan Obar
University of Ontario Institute of Technology professor Jonathan Obar outlined solutions for preventing "big data discrimination."
The New Face of Entrepreneurship with Michigan Alumni: Mike Muse
The U-M Alumni Association sponsored a talk on the intersections race, ethnicity, age and gender in the landscape of entrepreneurship, followed by an alumni entrepreneurship panel and Wolverine Tank, a student start-up pitch contest.
Lunar New Year Celebration: Year of the Monkey
A Lunar New Year celebration with food, crafts and traditions in the North Quad, home of UMSI.
UMSI Career Fair
Undergraduate and graduate students had the opportunity to meet with dozens of high-profile prospective employers at the winter UMSI Career Fair.
2nd Annual UMSI Meet & Eat
The UMSI Diversity Committee hosted students, staff and faculty for a lunch to help different people across the school meet and learn more about each other.
U-M MLK Symposium Keynote Memorial Lecture
Nontombi Naomi Tutu, daughter of South African social justice advocate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, spoke at the Keynote Memorial Lecture at the 2016 U-M MLK Symposium.
Yahoo! Speaker: Patrick Keilty
University of Toronto assistant professor Patrick Keilty, who researches digital studies with an emphasis on theories of gender, sexuality and race, gave a talk titled "Desire by design."
MLK Symposium Speaker: Alicia Garza
UMSI and the U-M Graduate Library hosted Alicia Garza, co-creator of the Twitter hashtag #BlackLivesMatter and the associated movement.
Women in Science and Engineering Software Carpentry Workshop
In this hands-on workshop, female instructors taught core computing skills for research and data analysis to female U-M faculty, staff, post-docs and students.


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Getting malware threats from peer-to-peer (P2P) downloads and from sites that offer pirated software is already old news. So, this is no longer surprising to many people. However, recent studies have shown that the issue is becoming more alarming as the years go by.
The research conducted by the International Data Corporation or IDC titled "The Dangerous World of Counterfeit and Pirated Software", which was sponsored by Microsoft Corporation, showed that around 36% of the data shared in P2P and websites that offer counterfeit materials are rigged with malware or malicious software.
The examples of malware threats that users can get from pirated programs offered online are Trojans, backdoor viruses, adware, keyloggers, worms, spyware and other variants of viruses.
The IDC based their data on a 10-country survey with 1,104 individual respondents, 973 business establishments and 268 Chief Information Officers (CIO) or Information Technology (IT) respondents. The study is a follow-up to the similar research conducted by the company in 2006.
IDC stated that the estimated cost of damages made by infected pirated software this year is around 114 billion USD. Aside from the total waste of money, malware threats from pirated software can also lead to users wasting a lot of time cleaning their system and in fixing it. According to the report, the total amount time it takes to deal with malware threats is around 1.5 billion hours a year.
The agency found out that piracy is becoming more rampant in the online community as time goes by. It added that a huge number of users are not even aware that the software that they are using is pirated or fake. Among the reasons why companies are not aware that they are using counterfeit products is that it came preinstalled in their computers upon their purchase.
Then, unauthorized copies of programs that require users to visit sites for activation risk infecting their system with adware or Trojan. The rate of infection from return visits is 36%.
Moreover, 78% of the total number of pirated programs that can be downloaded and installed is embedded with spyware. Then, 45% of pirated software users have reported serious errors and glitches that have made them uninstall the program right away. Overall, the total cost of repairs related to the damages caused by malware threats is 22 billion USD.
How to Prevent Malware Infection Online
Here are ways to prevent getting malware threats online:
- Make sure that you only get the original or authenticated copy of the software that you want for your computer. This way, you can just call the seller for a refund or claim damages if you encounter any problems with the product.
- Avoid getting from unreliable sources, especially from strangers in P2P sharing tools. But if you can't help yourself from downloading from these sources, study the reviews of other users pertaining to the uploader of the file.
- Equip yourself with a trusted anti-malware program. If you want to acquire software from sites that offer them for free, make sure that you perform a scan before proceeding with the download or installation.
Source: Microsoft


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Invest with LRE
Lohmiller Enterprises conducts a wide range of real estate investing and can offer assistance to clients in each area. While we invest in real estate in the Greater Cincinnati and South Eastern Indiana areas with emphasis on Hamilton & Dearborn Counties, our tactics will work in virtually every market. Here are some of the aspects of real estate investing that we are engaged in and can help you with:
Private Lending
Private Lending is a way for people to invest in real estate passively and recieve a guaranteed rate of return. In private lending an investor will put up funds for someone to complete a real estate deal. When it's done correctly, this can be one of the safest ways to invest your money with very good returns. The private lender makes the loan on 'equity based financing' (they are investing in a good deal). Their funds should be deposited and disbursed out of an attorney's escrow account and they should be secured by a note and mortgage against the property with title and fire insurance. The terms of private notes can be just as varied as commercial notes and anything can be negotiated. Here at Lohmiller Enterprises we use private lenders often to complete our transactions and rehabs and we are always looking for more individuals who are interested in private lending. Depending on the deal, we will pay the lender anywhere from 8-15% simple interest on their money and note terms can range from 1-5 years.
Contract Assignments
A contract assignment is where a real estate practioner will obtain a purchase contract on a property and sell the rights of the contract to another buyer. Typically, the terms of the contract make for a very good deal and therefore give the 'equitable interest' created by the contract a substantial amount of value. Someone who is interested in the property will buy the rights to the contract via an assignment clause. This will allow that individual to close the deal as if they were the one who initially wrote the contract. With a bank owned property where there is a non-assignable contract, a trust can be used to transfer interest. A good contract assignment will often net the investor around $3,000.
Property wholesaling is the practice of lining up good deals and then selling them. While very similar to a contract assignment, most wholesale deals require the investor to actually close on the property and take title before they can sell it. Wholesale deals are typically done from one investor to another. They often use cash or transactional financing and are done through double closings. Since the investor owns the property for a very short period of time and usually no improvements are done, full disclosure should be made and the property should be sold 'AS IS'. Wholesale deals will typically net an investor around $5,000.
Retailing is the process of buying houses, fixing them up and then selling them to the 'retail' consumer. This is the most common type of deal that we do at Lohmiller Enterprises. Retailing property can be very challenging, very risky but also very rewarding. Property must be bought correctly with the ARV (after repair value), rehab costs, financing costs, selling costs and holding costs all taken into account. Investors need to be ready to not only manage the deal but also manage the contractors. Anything that can go wrong will and after you do enough deals you will see that first hand. A typical retail deal will take about six months from the time you buy the house until you close with the end buyer. A good deal that's well managed can result in profits of $10,000 to $30,000 in the Cincinnati market. However, one mistake and the whole thing can become a big loss!
Income Producing Property
Income producing property is any property where it produces a regular income. The most common type of income producing property is residential rental, but it also includes commercial strip centers, storage facilities, car washes and other properties that produce a regular income. While other forms of real estate investing may put cash in your pocket now, buying and holding income producing property is one of the sure ways to build wealth. When you buy income producing property you want to be sure to properly calculate effective gross income, expenses, reserves for replacement, net operating income, the desired cap rate and a cash flow analysis. Depending on the location and condition of the building, these can yield anywhere from a 3-20% cap rate or they can be losers! So be sure to do your homework and don't forget you will have to manage your building and your tenants!
Sheriff Sales
Buying property at Sheriff's Sale can be tricky, especially if you do not know the laws and procedures where you are buying. The rules and regulations are varied and differ somewhat from county to county and state to state. For example, in Hamilton County, Ohio the sheriff has an appraisal done on the property and establishes a minimum bid amount at 66% of appraised value. If you win at the sale, you must put down a 10% cash deposit and you have 30 days to provide the remaining funds while the court approves the sale. In Dearborn County, Indiana there is no appraisal and no minimum bid. If you win at the sale, you get ownership and possession that day and the entire price is due the same day in cash. The biggest thing to keep in mind about Sheriff sales is that the sale is "AS IS Where IS, With All Faults". Whether the foundation is falling in or there's a big lien on the title, you are stuck with your purchase so it's good to do some due diligence before bidding.
Tax Sales
Similar to Sheriff's sales these are varied and differ somewhat from county to county and state to state. In Hamilton County, Ohio you get ownership the day of the sale and the entire price is due that day in cash. In Dearborn County, Indiana you do not get ownership to the property for over a year! The person who is delinquent on their taxes has a year to redeem their taxes and keep the house. However, if you buy a tax sale property and it gets redeemed you recieve 10-15% statutory interest on your money. Tax sales like sheriff sales are "AS IS Where IS, With All Faults" and come with some level of risk. However, a tax deed is supposed to come with a clean title.
Real Estate Notes
When it comes to the world of notes the options available are vast. Notes against property can be bought and sold just like anything else. Have you ever had your mortgage sold and now you have to make your payment to someone else? Individual real estate investors can buy notes the same way that banks and big institutions do. Often an investor will buy a note that is in default and will be able to purchase it for pennies on the dollar. A financial institution will sell the note in order to avoid the foreclosure process, especially if they know that they would take a loss on it anyways. The note buyer then has many options, they can re-write the note to a payment that the owner in default can afford, re-sell the note before or after it starts performing again, foreclose on the house, offer the owner in default a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure and much more. Notes can offer passive income over periods of time or they result in big capitol gains in the short run. Note buying should be left to seasoned real estate investors who have a thorough understanding of the mortgage and foreclosure process.
We can also transact the following types of deals:
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As the world, and especially the horse world, watches as the horsemeat scandal unfolds in Europe and the U.K., the CHDC is reposting "Proof of CFIA Failure", the story of Silky Shark, a Standardbred racehorse who was slaughtered and slipped through the system to dinner plates, when his carcass should have been condemned due to phenylbutazone contamination.
Canada's Bloody Secret is that this country enables the mass brutality and inhumane treatment of both US and Canadian horses. Why, because it is a multimillion dollar industry, fueled by greed and a total disregard for life. The US banned their own equine slaughter plants many years ago, so Canada took up the opportunity to make money by importing tens of thousands of US horses destined for slaughter and horse meat exportation to Europe. Our own wild horses face the same total disregard and what few wild numbers are being exterminated because they have no protection and are considered feral vermin. Retired racehorses, competition horses are all now part of the growing horse meat industry.
With former Ontario PremierMcGuinty's closure of Ontario racetracks that number of equine victims has increased, these horses contain toxic medicines administered during their racing and competitive careers that make the meat unfit for human consumption. The EU has already launched a full scale investigation into consumer fraud against companies within the EU that have failed to advise consumers that horse meat is often the prime ingredient in their products.
Regardless of the contaminants, horses continue to be exploited by any and all means possible at the hands of the greedy, self justified pro-slaughter advocates, who disregard the legal lands given to and what little protection there is for horses across the US and Canada.
Canada continues to bloody her hands and will continue to do so on this issue, just as she stains herself with the blood of murdered seals and by importing cat/dog fur products from China.
Until such time as Private Members Bills that are brought before the House of Commons demanding increased and strengthened Animal Protection Laws for this country no longer get defeated in their Second Reading (and there have been so many) nothing will change in this country. It is a total ongoing disgrace period!!! Shameful to a degree that cannot be described in words!!
This is a Billboard in Ottawa, the Nations Capital.
It shows a stallion breaking his leg and it shows him running..heart wrenching. A foal also falls and a horse falls in the trap and gets trampled.. The BLM began the roundup of 200 wild horses in the Antelope and Antelope Valley Herd Management Areas (HMAs) on Oct. 2, 2012. Two horses died as a result of the roundup on Day 1. This video:
Silver King Roundup: Braveheart's body is dragged onto the trailer
Uploaded by AWHPC1 on Oct 8, 2010
Loading the stallion's body onto the truck as his mare looks on.
PVC Antelope Horses (newborn euthanized) 3-2-2011
Uploaded by LauraLeigh001 on Mar 2, 2011
3/2/2011 baby born from a mare run during the Antelope stampede Nevada at Palomino Valley BLM facility killed…. Baby never had a chance… our "protected" symbol of American spirit.
Triple B: Inhumane Treatment of Foals
Video provided by the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC): BLM Inhumane Treatment of Foals During Wild Horse Roundups, August 2-4,
Is it Bad Enough For You!!


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Mountain Top Lodge at Dahlonega
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- Bed & Breakfasts
This wonderful B&B hotel has hosted guests for 32 years. The current innkeeper is the third host and has just (2107) completed renovations to enhance the guest experience: new beds, TVs, sound insulation, lighting, carpets and more.
A true post & beam cedar lodge with the unique warmth and charm of a comfortable ''mountain retreat'' hotel. Cozy rooms, hearty breakfasts, attentive hospitality and 14 wooded acres of natural beauty. Extensive decks, shade porches and patios provide the perfect opportunity to sit and enjoy the hilltop surroundings.
Walkers can enjoy the 1/2 mile paved private drive meandering through the woodland preserve leading to the neighbor's horse farm. Total privacy!.
Our hearty breakfasts are served on antique Fiestaware, at 9AM. Individual couples seating is the norm with some small group seating tables available.
We have seasonal (Nov. through Apr.) 360 degree panoramic views, sunrises and sunsets that light up the sky. During the shady summer and the colorful fall months, we invite you to enjoy the tranquility and privacy of our woodland preserve.
We're only six minutes from downtown Dahlonega, and convenient to restaurants, wedding venues, hiking and most attractions & venues.
We have great mobile phone service on our property. You don't have to go outside or search for a cell.
We operate year round as a B&B hotel. We enjoy having affiliated groups of customers, but we not longer host private parties or events. We do not rent our hotel property as a ''house rental.''
- Accepts less than full week's stay
- Full Breakfast Included
- Hot Tub/Whirlpool
- Major Credit Cards
- Meeting Room
- Wi-Fi Access
Route 52 and 9 West; turn right on Siloam Church Road; turn right on Old Elijay Rd E.; turn left onto MTL Road; follow drive 0.5 miles to top of hill to lodge.


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"Wait a second,
Why, should you care, what they think of you
When you're all alone, by yourself, do you like you?
Do you like you?
You don't have to try so hard
You don't have to, give it all away
You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up
You don't have to change a single thing"
So, picture this, I was just scrolling through Facebook, when I came upon THIS article by Elle Magazine about Colbie Caillat. I've been a fan of her for a while – we even danced our first dance at our wedding to "Lucky" by Colbie Caillat – and Jason Mraz – and when I saw the name of the article, "Colbie Caillat is Tired of Being Photoshopped: Here's What She Did About it," I figured it would be interesting – but once the video that accompanied it started – well, it was pretty much over for me.
As I was thinking more about it, I stumbled upon this video, posted by my pal, Julliete:
I think not.
In this day and age, it can be really hard to figure out all kinds of things about your life – where you want to go, what you want to do, who you want to be – but there is something that only YOU have control of – and that's what you THINK about YOU.
As hard as it sounds – we should all take a minute and think about ourselves and just how much we have to be thankful for. It's easy to fall into a trap, where you feel like you're not good enough. Like you're not smart enough. Or pretty enough…just not enough.
It's easier said than done, but we all have this power within to make our lives better, happier and more positive. It's up to us.
So, if you've made it this far in this post – I have one assignment for you: tell yourself that you ARE enough. Tell yourself one thing about you that is AMAZING. And, if any negative thoughts creep in, THINK: what's holding you back? What's dragging you down?


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As we are in the north eastern most part of the Dordogne, Manzac Ferme is an ideal base to visit a wealth of locations in not only the Dordogne, but also the Limousin and Poitou-Charentes regions as well. Angoulême, Limoges and Perigueux are each approximately one hour away by car.There are medieval villages, world heritage listed towns and stunning examples of classic French chateauxs within easy reach of Manzac. Some of our favourite destinations in the surrounding area for whiling away a day or three are listed below - see the end of the page for a map of some of our nearby sights.
NONTRON: is a lovely town,
famous for its knife manufacturing, and is well worth
a slow walk round. There is a classical street market on Saturday
morning's when the town centre is alive with people. Read more about Nontron on Laurence's blog (click to
open in a new window)
MONTBRON: a delightful
little town just into the Charentes, where
some of the narrow back streets have a varied amount of shops and a
good tourist office. Also home to eight castles!
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: As well as the the huge Renaissance chateau which dominates this town, the town centre has some pretty little streets where some excellent quality shops and restaurants can be discovered.
St JEAN de COLE: - An absolute must visit! Widely regarded as being the village with the most beautiful roof tops in France, the whole village comes alive in early May each year when the flower festival takes place.
BRANTOME: One of the
high-spots of tourism in the Dordogne, standing
beautifully on the banks of the River Dronne. Brantome is a bustling
town and described as the Venice of France. Market days Friday are
always busy. Definitely well worth a visit. Read more about Brantome on Laurence's blog (click to
open in a new window)
ROCHECHOUART: the site where a 6,000 million tonne meteorite crashed into the earth. As a direct result of this, many of the old buildings are built from the blackened, squashed shattered and heat transformed rock.
is listed as a
UNESCO world heritage site, and is a must see for any visitor to the
region. It
features a maze of tiny alleyways in a medieval renaissance style, home
to local shops and wonderful eateries. It also has one of the largest
markets in the region, and is host to a number of wonderful festivals,
including the Jazz festival and the Mime festival. Read more about Perigueux on Laurence's blog (click to
open in a new window).
ORADOUR SUR GLANES: this
village serves as a sobering reminder as to the brutality of war. On
the 10th of June, 1944, a retreating German Panzer division passed
through this village and killed 642 men, women and children for no
apparent reason. Untouched since that day, the village is a memorial to
the lives that were lost that day. Read more about Oradour-Sur-Glane on Laurence's blog
(click to open in a new window)
LIMOGES: famous across the world for its porcelain, Limoges is a wonderful place for a wander. The centre piece of the city is the massive Gothic cathedral, 600 years in the building.
ANGOULEME: the third of the
large towns in the area, around an hours driven north-west of Manzac,
Angouleme is superb for a day out. Angouleme is a vibrant city perched
overlooking the Charente river with oodles of character and scope for
exploration, particularly around the old town area. It also has some excellent street art.
CastlesThe area is home to a number of absolutely wonderful castles of both architectural and historical interest. Some of our favourites in the area are the following, although there are plenty more to find!
Found in the town of Jumilhac le Grand this fairy tale like castle has parts which date back to the 12th century. The castle has some fascinating stories to tell, including the tale of Louise de Hauteford, the lady of the castle, who was locked away in a room for thirty years by her jealous husband whilst he was off fighting wars.
Chateau Puyguilhem
Not too far from Brantome is the beautiful Chateau Puyguilhem. This castle is found in a secluded wooded valley, with a design more commonly found in castles of the Loire valley than the Dordogne. The devil is in the detail with this castle, with ornate fireplaces, window surrounds and chimney detailing which is quite superb.
Chateau Chalus Chabrol
Whilst perhaps not visually as stunning as some of the other castles in the area, this castle does hold the distinction of being the place where Richard the Lionheart met his fate in 1199. His entrails are buried in the castle chapel.
Situated in the town of La RocheFoucald this impressive Renaissance chateau has been owned by the same family for 1000 years. It is the largest castle in the Purente region, and is often referred to as being a jewel of the Renaissance. One of the castle's highlights is its spiral staircase, impressively engineered to be a continuous spiral without a landing.
Chateau de Montbron
The town of Montbron is home to no less than eight castles, although some have been converted. One of these is the Chateau de Montbron, built shortly after the hundred year war from the stones of the town's original feudal fortress.
Chateau de Bourdeilles
The Chateau de Bourdeilles is made up of two parts - the Keep dates from Medieval times and the palace from Renaissance times. These are built on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Dronne River.
Read more about Laurence's impressions of some of the castles in the area on his blog (click to open in a new window).
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"For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life."
So wrote a quiet young Ohioan in 1900, one in an ancient line of men who had wanted to fly -- men who wanted it passionately, fecklessly, hopelessly. But now, at the turn of the twentieth century, Wilbur Wright and a scattered handful of other adventurers conceived a conviction that the dream lay at last within reach, and in a headlong race across ten years and two continents, they competed to conquer the air. James Tobin, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, has at last given this inspiring story its definitive telling.
For years Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in utter obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. Meanwhile, the world watched as the imperious Samuel Langley, armed with a rich contract from the U.S. War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to scale up his unmanned models to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley became obsessed with flight as a problem of power, the Wrights grappled with it as a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two very different paths -- his toward oblivion, theirs toward the heavens.
As Tobin relates, the Wrights' 1903 triumph at Kitty Hawk, however hallowed in American lore, was ill-reported and disbelieved. So, while the two brothers struggled to transform their delicate contraption into a practical airplane, others moved to overtake them as the leading pioneers of flight. In France, rivals scoffed at the Wrights even as they rushed to imitate them. At home, the great inventor Alexander Graham Bell seized the fallen banner of his friend Langley and thrust it into the hands of a circle of young daredevils, urging them to get into the air. From this group emerged the motorcyclist Glenn Curtiss, fastest man in the world, whose aerial challenge to Wilbur Wright culminated in an unforgettable showdown over New York harbor.
To Conquer the Air is a hero's tale of overcoming obstacles within and without that plumbs the depths of creativity and character. With a historian's accuracy and a novelist's eye, Tobin has captured the interplay of remarkable personalities at an extraordinary moment in our history. In the centennial year of human flight, To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement.
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