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Part 1: Cyclone DC with Recycled Lumber only
Hi All, Some of you may know that I posted a Cyclone DC as a project however it was not finished and should have been posted as a blog. Well here it is as a blog, (again my apologies, sometimes I get ahead of myself). Like I said in the original post, this is no big deal many of you have these and you all know about these, but mine will be made of 100% recycled lumber including; Pallet wood,Old 3/4 tongue and groove wall paneling, wood I can salvage from a dumpster, side of the road whatev...
Part 2: Cone almost completed
Well The cone is almost completed, since I am smoothing the inside as best as I can, I have had to use copious amounts of wood putty. Only because some of the boards I had used which cam from the 3/4 tongue and groove paneling had a decorative mold on an 1 1/2" of one side of the board. I only saw a few choices:1. plane the boards down to the bottom of the groove, however that would have made the boards around a 1/4" thick, and for my design they need to be at least 1/2". p...
Part 3: Progress report
Ok, well, not much to say just a bunch of pics to show progress. One of the photos shows blue painters tape around the internal column, a trick I found in Shopnotes Mag for clamping together irregular shapes. For this I had to glue up 2 of each strip of wood together, then glue the 2 strips to 2 more strips, and so on, etc etc. Still plenty to do and a helluva a lot of sanding but its coming along. As always questions, comments, whatever you want to say hit me with it.
Part 4: Cone Assembly & Instake ready for sanding and attaching
Ok, so here's the latest, The cones is assembled, as well as the intake pipe and the center pipe. I need to create the container for the bottom, and mount the cyclone, Sand and attach the intake pipe. You can figure out most everything else from the photos, however I will try tom put a description under each one. Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions, I am just about out of scrap and pallet wood, so the project is on hold until I can dumpster dive for some more,...
Part 5: Intake pipe installed
Ok, so not much done as I am short on lumber. I installed the intake pipe and put some temporary supports until the epoxy dried. I expect to do more on the weekend, i am going to the woodworking show in Somerset NJ on Friday so I cant see any work done that day and Saturday I really need to CLEAN THE SHOP. As always questions, comments, ideas etc hit me with them. Epoxied in, not as clean as I would like it but I don't necessarily make show pieces for in the workshop. ...
Part 6: Working on the overall height
Here's where we are, i was at the woodworking show, Friday the 24th, did not get much done obviously. but here is what I have accomplished Saturday Morning. I will let the pictures tell the story, with a few captions just so no ones confused, Hell I am building it and I am confused! This first shot is the intake pipe installed, and sanded flush on the inside, (almost flush, more sanding to do). as you know most of this wood was from pallets that had been in my warehouse at work for 1...
Part 7: Building the containment
Well here we are again and we have made some progress, sadly I was trying to do this all of recycled lumber but I needed what I didn't have and could not wait, (wife said finish that thing already, you have projects to do that I need). That being said I used some 2×4's that were never used before, so add $8.00 to the total cost which brings us to $8.00. The container still needs the sides cut and installed, and I am pretty sure my table saw is in the shop somewhere under ...
Part 8: Lower containment almost complete!
Could not do much work this week as I was away on business for a few days, but Friday after work I picked up where I left off. Its not the most beautiful piece, but it will be painted completely and maybe a mural of a fire breathing dragon on it, (YEA BABY!). I still have plenty to do before its finished, but at least the drawer and the lower unit is basically done. I left a slight gap when the drawer closes as I am adding some weatherstripping to make it air tight when the locks clamp togeth...
Part 9: Small Progress
Just a little bit of progress, this evening. assembled the top of the cone, still needs to be shaped and sanded but here is a couple of pics to show I am still working on it. Looking for completion by end of this month, it will be difficult since work has me traveling a lot this month. Enjoy.
Part 10: Ready for sanding and painting.
Hello Fellow LJ's, I am coming into the home stretch on this monster, just sealed up everywhere I could so the unit is air tight. You will be happy to know, I did a preliminary test with an small HF DC and the chips and sawdust ended up in the bottom and not in the bag connected to the outlet of the DC. I still need to install the locks on the bottom drawer and the weatherstripping for the inside to complete the airtight seal I am looking for. The next step is to design the filter ...
Part 11: Designing the dragon
Hi folks,I am ready to paint the DC and I have spent most of the evening sketching out the fire breathing dragon, I have about 4 sketches but still not 100% pleased with any one of them. I am going for something like this,( not my sketch, just an idea) If anyone out there has a suggestion (pic) please post it in this blog. Something tells me it's going to take longer to design it than it will be to paint it on there. Thanks for all your input


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Being a manager is not as easy as it looks. Many IT workers are shell-shocked when they finally get that promotion. These tips will help ease the shock.
Being a manager is not as easy as it looks. Lots of IT workers may aspire to management positions, but many are shell-shocked when they finally get that promotion. On assuming a management role, you find yourself in the driver's seat. You are the one giving out assignments and fielding questions from lower-level employees, and you are the point of contact for their concerns and other issues. In addition, your own bosses expect more of you. You have to give presentations, attend numerous meetings and stay on top of what's going on around your department. In general, you find yourself "on the spot" with a much greater frequency. For a person without specific management training, this is not always easy to handle. But what are the key areas that make a successful manager?
The first and foremost skill that successful managers possess is stellar communication skills. According to Kim Batson, a Certified Career Management Coach in the Seattle region, IT workers often wonder why some are promoted more easily than others even when their technical skills or experience may not be as extensive. Communication skills are often the answer. "The art of communicating effectively is the single most important key for technology professionals in moving their careers to the next level," Batson says. "For the most part, those that go far in their careers have carefully developed and paid attention to the way they come across to others."
Social awareness is another component of the successful manager. "Many IT professionals have very strong technical capabilities but they really haven't honed relationship skills," says Betty Vandenbosch, Associate Dean of Executive Education and External Relations for Case Western Reserve University. Managers have to be able to put themselves in the place of lower-level employees and be able to understand the best methods of communication. "I think lots of performance problems result when people don't know what to do; it's not usually skill or attitude," Vandenbosch says. "A new manager is particularly prone to this because they give assignments in way they'd like to have their own assignments presented to them and they forget that they have to take responsibility for that communication."
Social awareness and communication skills go hand in hand to facilitate a third area of the successful manager, which is the ability to maximize and encourage teamwork. "As a manager, your job is to make the most out of everyone's skills and capabilities so that the sum is greater than the parts," says Vandenbosch. A common mistake made by new managers is to not ask others' opinions often enough, but people will feel more personally committed when decisions are made with their own input.
Batson agrees. "In a meeting, the successful manager may be the last to say anything until they've heard everyone else's point of view on the subject of the day. Then they speak carefully, thinking before speaking, making a few salient points that are highly relevant to the listeners."
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Numerous workshops and soft skills programs exist to help new managers or hopeful managers improve their skills. Sometimes, these programs can provide deep personal insight as well. "You always think you're a good listener until you study listening and you practice what you study," says Molly Mahoney, an attendee of the Regional Leadership Forums sponsored by Society for Information Management. In addition to seminars, there are numerous books available for those who absorb information best through reading. All in all, the most important thing is being willing to constantly improve yourself and know your strengths.
"We tell our folks that managing requires a full repertoire of capabilities," says Vandenbosch. "The root is really knowing and managing yourself."


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Posted: Aug 18, 2011
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard's 2011 men's golf schedule is now available. The Crimson will take part in five tournaments in as many weeks.
The team begins play at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton (HYP) at Sebonack Golf Club on Long Island, N.Y. on September 11. Five days later, the Crimson returns to New York for The MacLaughlin hosted by St. John's at Bethpage Red Sept. 16-17.
After a week off, the Crimson will compete at the MacDonald Cup hosted by Yale Oct. 1-2. Harvard then heads to the Philadelphia Big 5 Invitational at the Philadelphia Cricket Club oct. 8-9 before finishing the fall season at the Windon memorial Classic hosted by Northwestern in Skokie, Ill. Oct. 16-17.


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Hi all,
I know this blog, of all my blogs, gets updated the least. I guess it's weird for me. I am so busy... Art, Writing, Editing, Taking care of my family, Trying to make ends meet, and this is the blog that suffers for all that. I am making an effort to change that and will start updating more often.
The Lifeblood of Ill-fated Women has a special place in my heart. It is an example of me writing in the genres I love and really trying to let go of what I think is "allowed" or "expected" of me or my writing or the genres. It is me trying to not hold back. And I still hold back some. So I am trying to hold back less and less with this series.
I want to have book two out in 2019. A new book every two years for this series.
I say two years, so that I can really develop the story.
In the meantime, I need readers to support this series. Read, reviews, post, spread the word.
Any help is good!
Thanks all!
Kevin James Breaux


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I love my life! It's an amazing adventure and I 'm at my happiest exploring something new every day. I live to create and bring that creative spirit to all areas of my life. We all deserve to enjoy our creativity and the fun of making things. I love to help other women expand in their personal creative expression through teaching classes and by producing pattern designs and projects which are intentionally simple to create and easy to personalize.
After graduating from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) with a degree in Costume Design I spent a few years with Center Theater Group creating elaborate costumes for major Los Angeles theater productions. I followed that with 10 years with the Los Angeles Opera most of those years as the Assistant Costume Director which really fed my travel passion. My job required me to travel everywhere seeing exquisite productions in some of the most awesome theaters in the world.
Burnt out on late nights and long theater hours I trained as a massage therapist, tapping into skills for moving energy and healing. I left the Opera and began to let my new found passion for quilting take over my life, home and studio. Since moving on to quilting I divide my time between working on designing and teaching wonderful projects like bed quilts, table toppers and purses and doing one of a kind Art quilts. I no longer make costumes (unless it's Halloween or a theme retreat…) although some of my most recent art quilt pieces incorporate a little costuming…
My art quilts are where I play. I try to approach each piece with a "what if …" attitude and enjoy the process. Like a kid with a new box of crayons I'm becoming more successful with each new work in letting go of attachment to outcome and just seeing what happens.
I hope you enjoy these photos.
"Winter Squash" 23 1/2″ x 20″
This Quilt began as a class project, or as my husband likes to say "just a study" I had a tiny photo from a seed catalog and a week at Asilomar. Susan Carlson's layering technique worked very well for the subject and I was totally jazzed by the outcome. The shadowing and depth that can be achieved using layers of tulle is something I adore and it worked so well with this quilt. Fortunately for me I had a guild show and nothing else close to completion or Winter Squash may have stayed yet another unfinished "practice" piece. Winter squash also employs another favorite design choice of mine. Breaking the wall… I like to have an element of the quilt that goes beyond the edge. Here it is the edge of the central pumpkin.
"Cue Orchestra, Curtain Up!"
30″ x 50″
This quilt is my tribute to musical theater and features Madame Butterfly and Alexander Hamilton. I worked as a professional costume designer for many years and was so lucky to see amazing productions in some of the greatest theaters in the world. I had such fun designing and hand painting Butterfly's kimono and the background is quilted with lyrics and logos from many of my favorite productions. I love to paint and stitch tyvek in my quilts here I used it to make Butterfly's "paper" umbrella.
"Too Soon to Tell" 45″ x 37″
Too Soon To Tell was the result of a Guild Challenge. The theme was fantasy, we were required to use at least 1/2 of the fat quarter of fabric which became the inside of the "crystal ball" in the piece both the Teller and the Seeker are one and the same. I am playing with the idea that we create our own future that the answers to all of life's questions lie within. We only need the courage to seek the answers.
I was treated to a cruise to the Netherlands and was able to tour the hometown of Vincent van Gogh the year I created this piece and his work "the potato eaters" was an influence as I tried to create a similar effect of a really strong light source which illuminates the figures.
The thing that nearly tripped me up on this quilt is that I used a wool batting for the first time, having been told that it doesn't crease as much when folded for shipping. What I didn't realize is that the wool was soooo lofty!! It was like quilting a down overcoat! I had never intended to do a ton of quilting on this piece so the hours raced away as I tried to beat the thing into submission. I tore my hair out trying to get it to finally lay flat, live and learn…. luckily I have plenty of hair to spare!
You will see the broken wall and layers of tulle again adding depth and dimension. Also, this quilt utilizes a number of non traditional quilting fabrics. I pulled silks, sari fabrics, taffeta and trim pieces from my collection of costume fabric scraps.
"A Couple of Old Broads, Abroad…" 36 1/2″ x 36 1/2″
Another challenge piece… do you see a theme here. I love challenges because they give me a focus and a deadline. This challenge was a fortune cookie challenge in that we needed to interpret our "fortune" from the cookie into the quilt. The fortune read "a grand adventure awaits those who are willing to turn the corner". In my interpretation the "corner" I turned was my return to perfect health following breast cancer and the 'grand adventure" is my new retail adventure with my great friend Cindy Myers, "A couple of old Broads" so I placed the two of us in japan a truly grand place for an adventure.
I used painted tyvek for the koi fish and the maple leaves, iridescent paint gives them a nice glow. I used "Dazzle" by Wonderfil to make the tassels. The metallic rayon has lovely flecks of shine which I thought looked nice and helped balance the other "glittery bits" which include swarovski crystal eyes on the fish and purple metallic thread to mimic the purple gleam Cindy sports in her hair.
I experimented with background fills on this piece. Following the water movements on one corner and repeating the leave shapes in the other blending the two with a traditional asian clamshell pattern. The design and detail of the quilting on this quilt make it the first one I've ever made that looks really cool from the back…. also it IS square…I'm a better quilter than photographer. 🙂
"Close Encounters" 39′ x 51″
This may have been my first challenge entry. I know it was my 1st fully original art quilt. I laughingly called it 101 classes because it felt like I incorporated something from everything I had seen or learned in the previous year. I'd learned to use tsukineko inks for painting on cloth from a class with Lura Swartz Smith, the buttons as bubbles i saw used in a quilt that appeared in Quilting Arts magazine, Painting tyvek is something I'd picked up from a guild class. I used painted fusible webbing, layers of tulle, and thread painting. The divers butt breaks the top edge as does his flippers.
The challenge fabric that year was the clown fish fabric which I used for the swim trunks. The quilt depicts a summer vacation in Hawaii where my son went snorkeling for the first time.
"Falls Fruit" 10 1/2″ x 11″
This is a small piece I made for the SAQA auction in 2011. Yes, I DO like pumpkins… you got a problem with that?! lol
Pretty sure this was applique with painted and stitched details.
"Harvest Scarecrow" 19′ x 21″
I make a lot of fall projects. Maybe it's because here in Southern California we don't actually have fall, things just get drab and brown. It's the one time of year I have weather envy. We get little or none of the vibrant colored leaves of the east coast so I fake it indoors with lots of … yes you guessed it QUILTED PUMPKINS !!!
This quilt is raw edge applique with painted details and thread painted cornstalks.


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Underwater Report
8am-outside air temperature - 68 degrees, warming to 74 degrees by 10am. With low humidity and a mild east wind, this was a great diving and boating day in South Florida. 73-degree water temperature with 1-2 foot waves and a very mild south current with visibility of 40 feet.
Vessel & Crew
Private vessel-Chiefy (29' Sea Vee with twin Mercury Verados)
Crew-Andrew Rubin, John Strunk, and myself
Dive, Dive, Dive
We headed south toward the Hillsboro Inlet. Our first set of dives were off Anglers Pier in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea as John and I dove a small patch reef located in 40' of water. We grabbed a few spiny lobsters knowing this little spot has been productive all year for lobster. This is a "bounce" dive, where we jump in and then move to the next location, after grabbing the lobsters. We dove another spot in 65' of water that also had a few lobsters.
After we surfaced, Andy and I dove in an area near the Hillsboro Inlet, but north of the Pompano Pier. We caught a few more lobster to complete our limit of six per person and even speared a few nice hogfish to add to the fish box. Hogfish has great texture and a pure white filet, so it's a nice eating fish, especially if gotten fresh. A few hook and line fisherman will catch hogfish but it's primarily a fish gotten by spearfisherman.
We called it a day around noon with a limit of lobster and a couple of nice fish. Ending up near the Hillsboro Inlet was nice as it made a pleasant boat ride along the Intracoastal Waterway back to my dock in Deerfield Beach.
Another beautiful day in paradise on the Atlantic Ocean.


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Today is the day the second Pancake House Mystery makes its way out into the world! For Whom the Bread Rolls is the sequel to the USA Today bestseller The Crêpes of Wrath and takes readers back to the seaside town of Wildwood Cove, where pancake house owner Marley McKinney tangles with a salty trouble maker… and a ravenous killer.
As with The Crêpes of Wrath, For Whom the Bread Rolls includes recipes inspired by the menu of The Flip Side pancake house.
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Tourist season's in full swing in the small seaside town of Wildwood Cove, and Marley McKinney couldn't be happier. Since taking over the Flip Side restaurant, she's made a few close friends, adopted a cat named Flapjack, and started dating her childhood crush. The only cloud on the horizon is local nuisance Ida Winkler, who blames Marley for landing her nephew in prison. Trying to get a rise out of Marley, Ida's been making crank calls and even vandalizing the pancake house.
The police can't do much about the pranks, so Marley sets out to bury the hatchet once and for all. But someone's beat her to it—in the most shocking way possible. After stumbling across Ida's dead body, Marley's suddenly the number-one suspect in her murder. Clearing her good name is going to be a tall order, but Marley's not about to let Ida keep ruining her life—especially from beyond the grave.
You can find For Whom the Bread Rolls wherever ebooks are sold, including Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.


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WASHINGTON — The Labor Department is awarding $4 million in grants to religious and community groups to help high school drop outs, people released from prison and others find jobs.
Labor Secretary Elaine Chao announced the grants in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday. The money will go to 55 organizations to fund projects in 32 states and the District of Columbia.
The grants will provide unemployed people who face significant hurdles to employment with mentoring, life-skills coaching and other services aimed at helping them find work and succeed in the business world.
Chao said 557 organizations had submitted requests for a slice of the funds. The grants are part of an ongoing effort to help the unemployed find jobs. She said that many grants were for around $75,000 a piece.
The labor secretary called the religious and other groups receiving a slice of the money a "vital link" between the community and the government.
"The grassroots projects funded through this $4 million initiative will reach out to those most in need by providing guidance and support in making use of employment services available through local One-Stop Career Centers," she said.
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Researchers from China's State Agriculture Ministry and Zhejiang University have determined that two ingredients commonly found in many citrus fruits, naringin and neohesperidin, will effectively reduce blood sugar.
The study tested the two citrus constituents using human liver cells. The scientists found that the two natural compounds increase the uptake of glucose among the cells.
This study confirms previous research that pointed to the possibility that these citrus constituents may be helpful for reduce blood sugar for those with or at risk for type 2 diabetes and suffer from poor glucose control and/or heightened glucose tolerance. Other research has found these compounds also regulate liver enzymes phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and glucose-6-phosphatase - helping glucose uptake regulation and increasing liver efficiency.
The researchers extracted the two flavonoids from the Chinese citrus fruit called Huyou (Citrus changshanensis). This citrus, as well as others such as Grapefruit and related species - has been used as an anti-diabetic agent in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda and other traditional Asian medicines.
The naringin and neohesperidin compounds were found throughout the fruit part of the citrus, including the juice sacs and the segments. Another Chinese study found that the Huyou peel contained the highest naringin and neohesperidin content.
Several other citrus fruits contain naringin and neohesperidin. This doesn't mean that orange juice necessarily contains naringin and neohesperidin. A 2000 study from the Citrus Research and Education Center tested a number of orange juices using liquid chromatography. The analysis found that the two 100% orange juice samples tested contained neither naringin nor neohesperidin. However, juice samples that contained orange juice together with small amounts of grapefruit juice, sour orange (Citrus aurantium) juice and K-Early citrus juice did contain naringin and neohesperidin.
Other research has determined that the common sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) will typically contain naringin, but very small amounts, and will typically not contain neohesperidin. Sour oranges (Citrus aurantium) - especially when picked early, will contain considerable amounts of naringin and neohesperidin. Mandarin oranges (Citrus Reticulata) are also good sources for both naringin and neohesperidin. Grapefruit contains naringin and neohesperidin, but its neohesperidin content is typically smaller.
Lemons and limes typically do not contain either compound in lieu of their hesperidin content, but a few species - such as the Bergamot - will contain naringin and possibly small amounts of neohesperidin.
In addition to its anti-diabetic properties, naringen has been found in laboratory studies to be neuro-protective. It appears to protect against the effects of 3-nitropropionic acid, which has been found to be one of the primary agents that produce nerve damage in Huntington's disease and other nerve disorders.
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2. Lu Y, Zhang C, Bucheli P, Wei D. Citrus flavonoids in fruit and traditional Chinese medicinal food ingredients in China. Plant Foods Hum Nutr. 2006 Jun;61(2):57-65.
3. Kumar P, Kumar A. Protective effect of hesperidin and naringin against 3-nitropropionic acid induced Huntington's like symptoms in rats: possible role of nitric oxide. Behav Brain Res. 2010 Jan 5;206(1):38-46.
4. Gopinath K, Prakash D, Sudhandiran G. Neuroprotective effect of naringin, a dietary flavonoid against 3-nitropropionic acid-induced neuronal apoptosis. Neurochem Int. 2011 Dec;59(7):1066-73.
5. Widmer W. Determination of naringin and neohesperidin in orange juice by liquid chromatography with UV detection to detect the presence of grapefruit juice: Collaborative Study. J AOAC Int. 2000 Sep-Oct;83(5):1155-65.
6. Jung UJ, Lee MK, Jeong KS, Choi MS. The hypoglycemic effects of hesperidin and naringin are partly mediated by hepatic glucose-regulating enzymes in C57BL/KsJ-db/db mice. J Nutr. 2004 Oct;134(10):2499-503.
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A magnitude 8.1 earthquake hits Mexico and Guatemala
The seismological observatory NORSAR at Kjeller, Norway, detected waveforms of the strong earthquake which hit off the coast of southern Mexico at 23:49:21 local time (4:49:21 UTC) during the night from Thursday to Friday.
The earthquake with an estimated magnitude of Mw 8.1 (moment magnitude) occurring at a depth of approximately 70 km along the Middle America Trench, a subduction zone stretching off shore the Pacific coast of Mexico and large parts of Central America. The distance of the earthquake's estimated epicenter to the southern coast of the state Chiapas is approximately 70 km.
So far, some fatalities have been reported from the states Chiapas and Oaxaca, those states that are located closest to the epicenter. It is also expected that parts of Guatemala, bordering to the southeast of Chiapas and being only located in 170 km distance, were affected as well.
Local authorities released a tsunami warning immediately after the earthquake happened. This, however, was most likely automatically done since the earthquake was released from a subduction zone and having a large magnitude. Significant tsunami waves have not been reported so far.
Judging from the earthquake's magnitude, its depth and distance to the coast, as well as the fact that the states being closest to the epicenter are among the poorest regions of Mexico, it must be estimated that widespread damage and destruction was caused by this event.
The figure above shows recordings of the earthquake at five of NORSAR's seismological stations located in Norway, on Spitsbergen as well as in Antarctica. The waveforms at approximately 7:00 am (Norwegian time) represent seismic waves traveling through the Earth's interior while the larger amplitudes between 7:30 and 7:45 am are due to waves that are propagating along the Earth's surface.


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Pathfinder Academy Delighted by Books Donated from ANWA
Mesa's Pathfinder Academy recently received boxes of books for their school library from ANWA, a national LDS writers' organization.
"We were thrilled at the recent ANWA book drive and surprised when they gave us several hundred books for our library—some of the titles are even written by the members of ANWA!" says Susan Stradling, principal.
"We are so grateful to this wonderful organization of talented writers. The books are much needed and appreciated!" Stradling added.
Pathfinder Academy, located in east Mesa, had its beginnings in 1992 when Stradling began homeschooling her own ten children in their basement.
"I was concerned about the quality of education they were getting in the public school. I wanted them exposed to the great classics in literature, true history and our great heritage of being Americans," says Stradling.
Stradling opened her school up to other children then chartered her school and built some classrooms onto her home. Over the next sixteen years her school grew to 100 students. She placed her school under the Sequoia Schools; in 2014, Sequoia built a school designed to look like Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home.
Pathfinder Academy has grown to 330 students ranging from K-8 and is a back-to-basics school with a proven system of phonics used for reading. Students read children's classics and recite poetry, and there is an emphasis on history and the Constitution. The children begin learning Greek and Latin roots in the 3rd grade.
Strading says, "I created a program called 'Say It to Know It' in which teachers and students spend the first part of each day saying things together out loud. They say Greek and Latin roots and their definitions, parts of speech and literary terms, as well as countries and capitals, names of presidents, etc."
"Because the vocabulary of each subject is most important to learning, I wrote short poems for math, geography, history, science, and even about Arizona, to help students remember and understand. These are repeated daily. As a result, students know hundreds of poems and terms. This program has proven to be extremely effective," Stradling says.
Deb Eaton, ANWA Past-President, says, "When Susan Stradling took us on a tour of Pathfinder Academy, we were excited to see the beautiful library, but, as authors, sad to see some empty shelves. We realized we just had to do a book drive."
"Donating books was an amazing experience as writers, parents and grandparents, members of ANWA—knowing that these books will be a catalyst for knowledge, creativity, and limitless possibilities for young minds."
ANWA, American Night Writers Association is an International writing organization open to both men and women members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. With over 340 members worldwide, the organization hosts monthly chapter meetings, yearly workshops, conferences and writers' retreats.
Melinda Sanchez, ANWA President, says, "Hosting a book drive for Pathfinder Academy was a two-fold pleasure: the joy of knowing many children would be able to enjoy hours of reading, and meeting the amazing principal, Susan Stradling."
"The students of Pathfinder Academy have one of the most amazing educational programs I've ever seen, and much of it was written and created by their own founder, Susan Stradling. It is obvious that Principal Stradling has changed hundreds of children's lives and will continue to do so for many years to come."
For more information or to join ANWA, see www.anwa-lds.org.


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Yesterday we were able to get out of the house and go to Oceanside Beach in the late afternoon. Oceanside is at the north end of San Diego. It is fairly close to Temecula, only 45 minutes if you do not encounter traffic.
The last time we were at Oceanside was when Max was 8 months old. Max hasn't seen the ocean since then. He was really excited to go to the beach. He asked in the morning if we could go surfing (um no). There was a Beach Hazard warning (rip tides) issued for most of the SoCal area, so we knew we wouldn't be going too far into the water. We accidentally forgot P's swim suit at home, so I went in with Max.
Max had lots of fun in the ocean. We didn't "swim" but just got smacked by a number of waves. I had to hold onto Max the entire time as he was struggling to stay upright. Or he was purposely falling down (I wouldn't be surprised).
We got changed and went for a walk on the pier. We walked the whole pier and according to Max, next time we go, we are going fishing. After that, we battled traffic on the way home.


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Who: Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Dr. Robert Fox
What: #HealthTalk Twitter chat
Where: www.twubs.com/healthtalk
When: Wednesday, April 23 at 1 pm EST
Why: Get tips to better manage multiple sclerosis and advice for loved ones with family members living with the disease.
Learn more about our co-hosts:
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a practicing neurosurgeon and associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital and an assistant professor at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. He is a columnist for Time magazine, a contributor to CBS News, and a chief medical correspondent at CNN.
Before joining CNN in 2001, Dr. Gupta was a neurosurgeon at the University of Tennessee's Semmes-Murphey clinic, and before that at the University of Michigan Medical Center. He became a partner in the Great Lakes Brain and Spine Institute in 2000. In 1997, he was chosen as a White House Fellow, serving as special advisor to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Dr. Gupta has been published in a variety of scientific journals and has received numerous accolades, including Journalist of the Year by the Atlanta Press Club in 2004 and the Laureate Award for leaders in health and wellness from the John F. Kennedy University in 2010. In 2006, he won an Emmy Award and four National Headliner Awards. His coverage of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia contributed to Peabody and Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia awards for CNN.
He is the author of three best-selling books, Chasing Life (2007), Cheating Death (2009) and Monday Mornings (2012).
Dr. Gupta received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a doctorate of medicine from the University of Michigan Medical School.
Robert Fox, MD, is a staff neurologist at the Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis at Cleveland Clinic. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, neurology residency training at the University of Pennsylvania, multiple sclerosis fellowship training at Cleveland Clinic, and a master's degree in Clinical Research from Case Western Reserve University.
He serves as an advisory committee member and principal site investigator for many clinical trials, including coordinating global principal investigator for a Phase III clinical trial of dimethyl fumarate in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (MS).
Dr. Fox's current research interests focus on innovative MRI techniques to evaluate MS treatments and tissue recovery after injury, where he is principal investigator and co-investigator on grants funded by the NIH and National MS Society. He serves as a member of various advisory and review committees for the National MS Society. He is also Managing Director of the NARCOMS MS Patient Registry, a member of the General Advisory Council and Research Programs Committee for the Cleveland Clinic General Clinical Research Center, and a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry regarding the development of new treatments for MS.


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After sustaining an injury that is the result of the negligence of another person, finding a lawyer may be necessary. You could find yourself out of work for several weeks, or even several months, and then you will have to pay for all of the medical bills. Rehabilitation costs can also add up very quickly, easily going into five or six figures. Even if you do have health insurance, it's going to make it very difficult for you to survive as a result of this accident. That's why finding a personal injury lawyers so important if you are unable to function properly after someone else has caused you physical harm. You need to find these attorneys, and the following tips will make it easy for you to do so in just a few hours.
How To Assess These Types Of Attorneys
Assessing these attorneys is as simple as looking at feedback they have received, and asking around, preferably from people that you know that have been through a similar situation. You can ask them about how much they charged, if they were able to win your case, and then you can make calls to see if they are available. If you haven't been able to locate an attorney that can help you, the Internet is a great way to find this information. You should be able to quickly find these professionals that will provide you with this representation.
How Will They Help You Get A Settlement?
They are able to help you get a settlement doing to simple things. They will gather information from sources like the police in the hospital, and then they will build your case. 1/3 option may be representing you in a court of law if it ever does go that far. However, if it is a case where the other party has obviously made the error, causing your accident and injuries, it will likely be settled out of court.
What To Expect With Most Of These Cases
You can expect several different things from these cases which will include getting a monetary settlement, one that will cover your medical costs, lost time from work, and they will determine what you should get for your pain-and-suffering. All of this can be done using one of these personal injury lawyers which has likely handled many cases before. Also ask about how much they are charging for the services that they offer, and find out if they will also take a percentage of the settlement once it is over.
All of the strategies can be used to quickly help you find a personal injury lawyer that can help you out. If you are unable to work, and you will be in some type of rehabilitation facility to get back to normal for several months, it's time to call a lawyer to get the help that you need. Once they are done, you will be glad that you were able to see these attorneys that will provide you with the ability to reach a settlement that can compensate you for what has happened.


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Government television covered the protests much as they had occurred — to the surprise of many.
MOSCOW — Regular viewers of government-controlled television were treated to a curious sight when they tuned in to the evening news on Saturday.
Sweeping views of the tens of thousands of people who had crowded into a central Moscow square for a sprawling anti-Kremlin protest cut away to close-ups of groups of average citizens chanting, "New elections! New elections!"
"Tens of thousands of people came out to register their disagreement with the results of recent parliamentary elections, which they said were rigged in favor of United Russia," the ruling party, Aleksei Pivovarov, one of the evening news hosts on government-controlled NTV, announced at the top of the broadcast Saturday.
In short, government television covered the protests much as they had occurred — to the surprise of many.
"They showed me on Channel 1 and said I was an opposition leader, which is already a breakthrough," said Boris Y. Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister in the 1990s who has not been shown on government-controlled television, save for perhaps in court or handcuffs, for perhaps a decade. "They're already calling me from Washington and asking what's going on."
Indeed, for many it is not clear what exactly is happening in Russia these days, and the shift in television coverage is just one cause of confusion.
For more than a week, Moscow has witnessed some of the largest protests against the Kremlin in years. Yet, until Saturday, most government channels, if they reported on the demonstrations at all, tended to portray protesters as rebels and lawbreakers, with at least one report warning of people arming themselves with improvised bombs.
"In Russia, there is a culture of revolt," Vladimir Solovyov, a Kremlin-friendly television host, said in an evening news appearance on Rossia 1 last week. "And this culture of revolt ends in bloodshed. In Russia, there is no culture of fighting for your rights within the framework of the law."
For more than a decade, television news in Russia has been used to support the government of Vladimir V. Putin. Nightly newscasts are typically consumed with the bland minutia of government: Mr. Putin meeting with the minister of transportation or health or education about some problem of the day. Critics of the government, when they get airtime at all, are mostly portrayed as radicals or buffoons.
But the scale of the recent protests, especially on Saturday, seems to have forced the Kremlin to confront the widespread and evident discontent, even on television.
The three main government-controlled channels each led their evening broadcasts on Saturday with reports about the protests. They showed the huge crowds and their anti-Kremlin posters. In interviews, people at the rallies complained about their votes having been stolen and expressed their desire for new elections. Each of the channels also broadcast calls for the ouster of Vladimir Y. Churov, the leader of Russia's Central Election Commission, an ominous signal about his future employment.
Some reporters even seemed surprised that so many people could gather in one place peacefully.
"Today's protest was a lesson for everyone," said Andrei Medvedev in the evening broadcast of Rossia 1. "It turns out that, to express your dissatisfaction with the authorities, it is possible to gather on a square after getting permission from those same authorities. And to keep order, all you really have to do is give a polite admonition."
Each of the stations also reported on the smaller demonstrations held in dozens of other large cities.
Notably absent from all television coverage, however, was any mention of Mr. Putin — who is practically never shown in a negative light — though, at the protest, he was denounced more than anyone.
No doubt a major explanation for the shift in coverage lies with heavy penetration of the Internet in Russian society. With reports rocketing through Twitter, Facebook and the blogosphere, not to mention professional news agencies online, the protest would have been impossible to ignore.
Television journalists themselves might also have influenced the coverage. Several seemed to have attended the protest on their own, including Anton Krasovsky, the host of a political talk show on NTV, who posted photos from the event to his Facebook page.
"To all those who were yelling that there would be blood, who hoped for bodies, for provocations, what did you get?" Mr. Krasovsky wrote. "Here's to you," he wrote, then told these detractors to go somewhere unprintable.
Asked, in a telephone interview, about the apparent shift in tone in coverage of the Saturday protest, Mr. Pivovarov from NTV was coy:
"You understand, the news is like a living thing and a living process. It is like life. One day is not the same as another. Everything is flowing and changing."


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While I've sometimes questioned your overall commitment to education, your columnists and editorials frequently stress the importance of education and how important it is to us as individuals, a community, and a country. If that's truly how you feel, then I have a suggestion for you – please stop printing horoscopes.
Clearly over the last few years your paper has gotten physically smaller. As the Internet and Craigslist have bit into your revenue, you've had to make hard decisions about what stays and what goes, and I assume you painfully agonize over what gets printed in the limited amount of space you have left for articles. Yet in both Saturday and Sunday's paper you devoted about 260 square centimeters to horoscopes. (In comparison, you devoted almost exactly the same amount of space in Saturday's paper to the horrific school shooting in Brazil and considerably less to the story about the Juno spacecraft.) This prominent endorsement of pseudoscience seems to be at odds with your stance on the importance of education.
Now I know some people will argue that this is political correctness run amuck, that horoscopes are simply a form of entertainment and therefore should be left alone. I could perhaps even agree with those folks except for one small problem, survey (pdf) after survey show that about one-fourth of Americans believe in Astrology.
One. Fourth.
To be effective citizens, Americans need to understand what science is – and what it isn't. By continuing to use your valuable and increasingly limited newsprint space to print horoscopes, you are enabling (and, in fact, encouraging) a belief in pseudoscience and are helping create a less scientifically literate population. This needs to stop.
So here's my proposal. Stop printing horoscopes each day in your paper and instead devote that 260 square centimeters to science. Each day you could run an article looking at the science behind the headlines. (Surely there's no shortage of material: earthquakes, tsunamis, climate change, energy production, energy consumption, health care – to name just a few.) Now, I know that 260 square centimeters is not really enough to explain such complex issues, but it is enough to write an introduction to the issue, and then at the end of the article you could link to your website which could take a more in-depth look at the issue (perhaps including multimedia and links to other sources). You would be modeling for our students the importance of science and what lifelong learning looks like.
Dan Haley's editorial in Sunday's paper said, in relation to a different topic,
We consider it part of our responsibility, part of the newspaper being a good citizen.Shouldn't supporting a scientifically literate population be part of your responsibility to the citizens of Colorado as well?


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Family Medicine
What is Prolotherapy?
How Does it Work?
Conditions Treated
Prolotherapy FAQ's
Prolotherapy Success Stories
Cosmetic PRP
Cosmetic PRP - Before/After
Facial Rejuvenation
What is Stem Cell Therapy?
Fat Flush Diet
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What is a Vitamin IV?
I just want to thank Optimum Wellness/Doctor's for the prolo treatments I received when I injured my neck/3 disc bulge. The prolo treatments allowed me to turn my neck, and sleep on my side without feeling neck pain. The doctor asked if it was helping on my 3rd visit, because if not it would not be worth more treatments, I felt the doctor really cared about me being pain free and not just continue treatments and take my money. How many doctors truly care; most continue to take your money and do treatments that are not helping (all about money and not care for the patient). I believe I had 6 or 7 treatments it all depends on your neck problem/reason for pain. I am so very glad for the prolo treatments which are natural and not steroids or cortisone. Prolo is a good option instead of drug medications or even surgery. The prolo helped my healing process. Thankful for Prolo.
If you are
considering PRP or Prolotherapy, Dr. Wortham and his team at
Optimum Wellness Group are the best of the best.
Dr. Wortham's knowledge, skill, professionalism
and caring made the treatment pleasant, easy and stress
And the best part it works! My left knee
(torn Meniscus) and right shoulder (Bicep Tendinitis) are
now pain free and 100% better. I whole heartedly and
unreservedly recommend Dr Wortham to anyone seeking PRP or
Prolotherapy treatment.
I want you to know that I think of you often and I talk about you and prolotherapy to anyone that tells me they have back pain. I tell them how you saved my life and that you are my Angel. Because of you I am able to walk without pain and I have a full life. I don't know what I would of done without your help and prolotherapy. You are truly my Angel. I want you to know that I am doing well. I also want you to know that I am and will always be grateful to you for your kindness to me. You were going through so much yourself, with your family and all, but you always made me feel like I was special to you and there are no words to describe how wonderful you made me feel. You are a very special lady and I thank God I have had the gift of having you in my life.
I also want to tell you what happened to me a few years ago...my daughter and I met a lady who was selling her pottery supplies and I asked her why she was selling them. Come to find out that she had a back operation, just like the one all those doctors wanted me to have. Since her first operation she had four more and she said she was going back for her fifth because she was loosing the feelings in her legs. I felt so sorry for her. I then realized how truly blessed I was. When I was confronted with the 4 doctors that wanted me to have the same back operation, there was one that took me aside and said to me, "I know a back operation is the in-thing to do, but chances are you could be a little better or a whole lot worse. So if it was me, I would not do it. Thank God for this doctor. Then I went on a search for pain management and by the Grace of God I was led to you.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all that you do and have done. You are forever my Angel.
Loads of love and many Blessings to you and yours,
When I came in for my first Prolotherapy treatment eighteen months ago all I could do was just go to work and come home, and I don't know how I did that. I was in such severe, constant pain in my neck that I had not been able to lie down to sleep in 2 1/2 years. After my first treatment I went home and got a good night's sleep in my bed. It was wonderful. The pain was gone! I've done very well, and I've only needed two more treatments for very mild discomfort. But the best part is now I have a life. I have a new and successful business, and I'm having a great time with my family. I get to socialize, and I've returned to my studies. Now I can work happily for twelve to eighteen hours a day! Dr. Shields has done a wonderful job with me, and I tell everyone about it.
Before I did this, I was in excruciating pain daily. Just walking was painful. Going up and down stairs was a major feat. I felt degraded and was very unhappy. I felt like an invalid and I'm only 30 years old. It made me miserable. Running was totally out of the question and I previously ran marathons! It had been a major part of my life and I've always been very active. After one treatment I felt much better. Literally, as I was getting the treatment, the pain started going away. It was instant relief! Instant. I was amazed because I have tried everything under the sun, moon and stars over the past two years to handle this. I can walk and stand for long periods of time now. I can walk up and down stairs without it taking 10 minutes for two flights! I can even run a good 100 yards without a problem. It might not sound like much, but I tell you, it's like unbelievable to me. I really, truly feel it's given me my life back. I'm not joking. I don't feel like an invalid anymore. I don't feel inadequate. I'm not upset all the time because I can't live a normal life. It's really incredible. I'm very thankful for Dr. Sheilds being so dedicated to finding treatments to help people deal with bodies and living easily with them.
Prolotherapy has allowed me to practice and train relatively pain free for the first time in 25 years. After a serious shoulder and neck injury in college, I have experienced moderate pain while working and training. Only Chiropractic adjustments, several times per week, were able to relieve the discomfort. With the addition of Prolotherapy, the adjustments have been reduced to once per week and more importantly, I am no longer experiencing pain that would force me to reduce my practice hours and training regimen.
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After enduring 1 year of extreme pain and using every type of pain medication, I decided to try Prolotherapy. Today I am 99.9% pain free without the use of any medication. Thanks to Dr. Megan and Prolotherapy. I look forward to the day.
At sixteen, J.S., a professional ballet dancer, was already starting to feel the strain on her back and hips, often dancing through pain. She came to Dr. Sheilds for treatment and decided to try Prolotherapy. After her first treatment, she noticed increased strength and endurance and after two treatments she was dancing completely pain-free in her back and hips. She was so pleased that she had her ankles treated, which were starting to bother her. J.S. now dances without pain, a claim few ballerinas can make. It's incredible. I have twice the strength and three times the flexibility I had before. I can dance and dance and I'm not tired and I have no pain.
My ankle was very painful and people wanted to operate. I didn't. Then I heard about Dr. Shields and Prolotherapy. After Prolo, I was able to ski mogels hard for the first time in years. And, I have won 2 more world championships as a bonus. Thank you.
Bob Salerno
World Champion
Free Style Snow Skier
I came to Dr. Shields 18 months ago for my first Prolotherapy treatment. (At the time, it was all I could do to just go to work and come home. I had no other life and I still don't know how I did that except through sheer will.) I was in pain 24 hours a day and I had not laid down on my bed at night to sleep. After my first treatment, I laid down to get a good night's sleep after 2 years of not being able to lie down! It was wonderful. The pain was gone and I did extremely well for 1 year. I came back a year later to have another treatment, but I now had a life and the pain had only recently returned and only mildly. I, again, 4 months later, decided to come in one more time as I just have very mild stress. I now have a new successful business. I'm having a great time with my family, I get to socialize and I've returned to my studies. I now work 12-18 hours a day, happily! Dr. Megan Shields has done a wonderful job with me. I tell everyone about it that I think is a candidate for Prolotherapy.
As a gardener turned landscaper, who also used the computer way too much for ten years, I eventually began to feel the annoying pain of carpal tunnel syndrome. Through a friend, I learned of Prolotherapy. I did not want to engage in invasive surgery and time-consuming post-physical therapy. So I read the book and educated myself about a procedure I knew nothing about. I was prepared for four visits to address the carpel tunnel; I was amazed to feel immediate results after just one treatment. Not only that, but I have not had to alter my usage of hands and fingers (well maybe some). I am also being treated for tendonitis in my other arm. Once again, I expect Prolotherapy to assist in alleviating the nagging pain that has persisted for weeks! Thank you Dr. Megan Shields.
This beautiful ballerina dances without pain because of Prolotherapy. She has had treatment of her back, hips, and ankles. In her words, "Because of Prolotherapy, I dance without pain, which is unusual in the ballet world. Prolotherapy has given me twice the strength and three times the flexibility I had before treatment". Currently she is dancing in Europe.
I've had two treatments for the back problem I've had for 40 years. It has been months since the second treatment and I haven't had any trouble. I work hard with no attention on my back "going out", and love every minute of it. I used to have to be careful of how I lifted or turned, now I just do whatever I do. This is really an amazing treatment. Thank you Dr. Shields, thank you very, very much.
Hello Dr. Shields,
You can count me as one of your success stories. I am now in the middle of conducting a run of operas, and am almost completely pain free. Over the last several years I tried the occasional prolotherapy injection, with limited success. It wasn't until I had three treatments last spring that I really noticed the effect. It was really my last hope before surgery, and it worked! I am conducting and playing cello with no problems or pain.
Quite amazing to find something that actually improves my health at age 63. Thanks again.


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Agricultural & Food Law Consortium
The Agricultural & Food Law Consortium is a national, multi-institutional collaboration designed to enhance and expand the development and delivery of authoritative, timely, and objective agricultural and food law research and information. This information is available to the nation's vast agricultural community of producers, attorneys, state and federal policymakers, Cooperative Extension Service professionals, and others at the local, state, regional, and national levels. Agricultural law and food law includes law related to land-based food, fiber, and energy production systems, as well as seafood and marine-based aquaculture.
Consortium Members:
The National Agricultural Law Center, the lead institution in the consortium, is the nation's leading source of agricultural and food law research and information. Headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the Center is a unit of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
National Sea Grant Law Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law (NSGLC). Led by Stephanie Showalter Otts, the NSGLC provides research, education, and outreach to the Sea Grant College Program, policymakers, practitioners, laypersons, and others throughout the nation on ocean and coastal law and policy. Consortium related materials are available here.
Center for Agricultural and Shale Law (CASL) at the Penn State School of Law. Led by Ross Pifer, it is a collaborative program that provides high-quality agricultural, food and shale law educational programs, information and materials to stakeholders in Pennsylvania that are often of regional and national significance.
Agricultural & Resource Law Program at The Ohio State University. Led by Peggy Kirk Hall, the Extension-based program provides comprehensive agricultural and food law resources to stakeholders in Ohio that often have regional and national significance.
Current & Upcoming Projects:
Webinar Series
The Agricultural & Food Law Consortium is hosting a series of webinars on timely and important agricultural and food law topics. These webinars are freely available to the general public and are typically designed to be appropriate for non-attorneys as well as attorneys. For a listing of upcoming webinars, as well as access to past webinars that have been archived, please click here.
Quarterly Update
To highlight consortium projects, as well as recent significant legal developments in the field of agricultural and food law, the Agricultural & Food Law Consortium is publishing a quarterly update. This update includes a short discussion of important topics from the previous three months, as well as links to more explanatory discussion or relevant projects. The updates are available on the Ag & Food Law Blog, and can be read by clicking here.
Fifth Annual Mid-South Agricultural and Environmental Law Conference
June 8, 2018
Memphis, TN
Agriculture in the Mid-South is uniquely impacted by changes and developments in state, federal, and international laws and policies. This program is part of a long-term effort to provide relevant and timely agricultural and environmental legal research and information to attorneys, lenders, accountants, tax consultants, students and other agricultural professionals involved in the agriculture and aquaculture industries in the southern U.S. The goal is to provide resources in the form of presentations and content, as well as to foster dialogue about the range of agricultural, food, and aquaculture issues for the Mid-South agricultural community. The program has been submitted for continuing legal education credit in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri & Tennessee, including one hour of ethics. For more information on the conference, including the welcome reception that will be held on June 7th, please click here.
Ongoing Projects
The Consortium also provides leadership for the eXtension Agricultural and Food Law Community of Practice. Individuals interested in participating in the Community of Practice should contact Rusty Rumley at email@example.com.
Links to Consortium work product, upcoming educational programs, and other activities will be posted to this page on an ongoing basis. Be sure to check this page periodically for updates.


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Delivering a Successful Public Speech
Public speaking used to be something many people try to avoid and even dread. The trend seems to be changing now. As more schools, colleges and universities establish public speaking or debate clubs, the people of "Generation Y" and probably "Z" appear to be more confident to speak in public nowadays. It is also heart warming to observe many multinational corporations establishing Toastmasters Clubs in their organization for their employees. These employers have realized that it is crucial to train their employees in the art of public speaking in order Continue Reading →