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Field Trip: Canter Hill Farm!
I wanted to drop by Canter Hill Farm to visit their turkeys - after all, it's getting close to the big day, Thanksgiving. Driving up to the farm, there is no mistaking you have arrived when you are greeted by their herd of ostrich. You read that correct, they raise ostrich, for meat. Why? Well Wayne, the muscle behind Canter Hill Farm, is from South Africa where he raised ostrich; and his ostrich herd makes him feel at home. Want to have an interesting conversation - ask Wayne about his life in South Africa. He may be the most interesting man, and he's certainly a great story teller!
Back to business, we're here for a different bird, the turkey. Here'a a look at the flock of turkeys at Canter Hill Farm. The white turkeys are conventional birds. The black turkeys are called Black Spanish turkeys.
Black Spanish turkeys are becoming more prevalent on turkey farms as the birds are quite tasty. They are a beautiful bird with glossy black feathers and a very red wattle - that's the proper name for their double chin! Of note, they are considered an endangered variety of heritage turkey. Farmers, like the folks at Canter Hill Farm, play an important role in helping to keep these lovely birds part of our turkey culture. You can order your Thanksgiving Turkey from the folks at Canter Hill by visiting their website for the pre-order form. Please note, pre-orders are highly recommended. Many of their birds are already on reserve for Thanksgiving.
A visit to Canter Hill Farm is not complete without checking in on their pigs, they always seem to be up to something. A few days ago they decided to go for a swim in the duck pond - if you ask me they look more like hippos, not pigs! And the ducks, well they are just not impressed at all!


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2017 has officially arrived! Now that many of us have gained that dreaded "holiday weight" thanks to holiday parties, family meals, and the endless stream of sweets that just seem to appear in December, it's time to start thinking about our goals for the New Year. New Year, New You, right?
The most popular New Year's resolutions involve living a healthier life. One of the main factors that can determine how "healthy" you are, is your nutrition. Now don't get us wrong, we are not promoting some specific fad diet, or drastically changing things over night. Large scale changes are only made possible by starting with smaller, more attainable goals.
If your large scale goal is to eat better, or lose weight, or be a healthier you, you can kick off 2017 by following these 7 important nutrition tips and using them as stepping stones to a better overall diet:
Clean Out Your Fridge and Pantry
Purge those expired foods, get rid of the unhealthy items from your fridge and pantry and make room for the new. Rule of thumb, if you haven't used in the past two months, pitch it or donate it.
If you fill your fridge and pantry with healthy food, you will have no choice other than to grab healthy food when you are hungry. Don't feel guilty for spending money on healthy groceries, especially if your tendency is to eat out. You will actually end up saving money by eating home cooked meals.
Work Smarter Not Harder
With services like Woodman's pick-up/delivery or Hy-Vee's pick-up/delivery options, you can do all of your grocery shopping online ahead of time and either pick it up from the store on your way home, or you can have it delivered right to your door. When you don't even have to leave the comfort of your home in order to have a fully stocked fridge, there's no excuse for ordering takeout 4 nights a week.
Meal Plan
Meal planning is the best way to ensure that you are prepared to stick to your healthy eating habits. Plan out your week (or even just a few days) and grocery shop according to what you need. If you're feeling extra motivated, prep your food for the week ahead of time. For example, if you work Monday – Friday, prep your meals for the week on Sunday. Cook as many of the items ahead of time as possible to save you time during the week. That way, when an unexpected meeting comes up, or you sleep through your alarm, you have grab and go meals ready and waiting.
Limit Eating Out
Avoid eating out or ordering takeout as a go-to. Set a goal of only eating out 2 times a week and stick to it. Push yourself to cook at home more. When you know you are going out to eat with friends, look at the menu ahead of time and commit to a healthier choice. If you have any say over the restaurant, choose one that uses natural, fresh ingredients over a burger and fries joint. If you find yourself desperate for a quick healthy lunch in downtown Madison, we recommend Salads UP because they have wholesome ingredients that you won't find yourself feeling guilty about eating.
Drink More Water
Drinking more water will make you feel better, will boost your metabolism, and can even help curb those cravings. Sometimes dehydration or thirst can be confused for hunger. When you feel that craving for a chocolate bar at 3pm, drink a big glass of water and wait for ten minutes. If your hunger subsides, you were probably just thirsty!
Use Your Support Network
It is so easy for someone around you to talk you in to making bad choices or decisions when it comes to eating. Make those around you, whether it be at home or at work, aware that you are trying to eat more healthfully and that you would appreciate their help and support in doing so.
Along with healthy eating, exercise plays a very important role in keeping you healthy. We will talk all about exercising in next week's blog post.
This week's blog sponsor is Salad's UP, our new go-to when we need a quick, healthy meal. Located just off State Street in Madison, they have salads, soups, cold-pressed juices and smoothies, and even wraps. Salads Up sources real food, prepared by real people. Check their menu out here.
Their special for the month of January is their "New Year's Revolution Salad". This salad will be available for the month of January and consists of romaine and spinach, carrots, cauliflower, and edamame.Upgrade your salad with hummus, quinoa and/or avocado.
From now until January 20th, if you stop into Salad's UP and mention MPM at the register, you will get 20% off your order!
Need some Pinspiration??? Check out MPM's Pinterest page all about New Year's Resolutions!

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Call it an infusion of capital into the Florida real estate market, and, more precisely, into Donald Trump's pocket.
A Russian fertilizer mogul offers $95 million for Trump's Palm Beach estate and the Donald says, "Da," even though it's a tad below his original asking price of $125 million.
(The Palm Beach Post says that while Trump is calling it a $100 million deal, the actual sale price was $95 million.)
Even the Donald knows these are troubled times in the real estate market, especially in Florida. The seller happily paid all closing costs and brokers fees and admits the buyer got "a fantastic deal." But Trump didn't do so badly himself, given that he reportedly bought the place just four years ago for $41.35 million. Yes, he did some renovations, but I'm guessing he still scored a hefty profit.
We've been saying it all along: On the high end, foreign buyers are eating up U.S. real estate. It's happening in Manhattan's upper crusty condos and in South Beach's beachfront abodes, and Palm Beach is no exception. Even while some PB mansions, like that of heiress Veronica Hearst, go into foreclosure, others can command a hefty price. So much for a lack of confidence in the housing market! At least international confidence.
As for the buyer, Dmitry Rybolovlev, who just so happens to be #59 on the Forbes list of the world's billionaires, well he's telling news outlets that this is an investment property, which means he expects the value to rise. He also may be considering tearing the place down and rebuilding; I can't imagine how he could improve on the place, from the looks of it, unless of course he's building his own Hermitage by the sea.


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"Before knee replacement surgery at Texas Orthopedic Hospital in Houston, I researched many rehab places regarding the quality of physical therapy services provided. After meeting with Brazosport Regional Outpatient Rehab, I decided to seek services with your facility. Upon the first appointment, I was in a great deal of pain and Dr. Purkey took me as I was, and caused me the least amount pain and stress necessary at the initial session, and sent me home to rest and begin my recovery.
Throughout the course therapy, I was impressed with several things, Dr. Purkey possess a depth and breadth of knowledge of his craft; he was firm but compassionate; he strove to make sure I accomplished new things each session such that my progress was constant and measurable; he insured that, although most sessions involved pain and fatigue, I was neither too tired nor in too much pain, and consequently I was always encouraged and never discouraged at my progress, and I was always willing and ready to go back to the next session. Dr. Purkey is an extraordinarily strong asset to your team of outpatient rehab PT's. On the surface, perhaps, one could say Dr. Purkey was just doing his job and that his acts were not major; however, the quality with which he did his job was what made all the difference. I am happy to say that, at my 6 weeks' post-surgery appointment, my surgeon and his surgery assistant were most pleased and satisfied with my progress, which they detailed at being in excess of the hoped-for achievement of range of motion of the knee at the 6 weeks' point following surgery. I attribute this success solely to Dr. Purkey.
Again, I am very grateful for the services provided by Brazosport Regional Outpatient Rehab Services and I specifically commend Dr. Purkey to you as he is a strong asset and a credit to your operation." Thank you Bryan for delivering Healthcare with Excellence and Compassion and for your dedication in making BRHS a premier healthcare system.


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Around the Blogosphere...
Funniest Photo:
"Arguing on Facebook" (via Huffington Post)
Best Series:
Christian Century with "What's the Gospel in Seven Words?"
Best Analysis:
Paul Wallace with "Intelligent Design is Dead"
Best Advice:
Torre DeRoche with "What if Your Biggest Naysayer is You?"
"If left unchecked, your inner-naysayer can be your worst enemy. Unlike other naysayers, you can't simply defriend them on Facebook. You can change friends, jobs, and phone numbers, but your inner-naysayer will still be there. Even if you get on a plane and fly to the other side of the globe, your inner-naysayer will hunt you down."
Most Stunning:
National Geographic Photography Contest Winners
Most Thought-Provoking:
Sky Jethani with "Is Tim Tebow a Hypocrite?"
"I believe in God's economy there is not a single thought, feeling, or moment that is lost. There is nothing that is unseen or unrecorded. But in our culture of digital voyeurism, we are tempted to believe things only become real when they are external…on paper, published, posted, tweeted, or displayed. All the more reason why we need to recapture the discipline of secrecy in order to foster our trust that God is indeed with us and witnessing every thought and reflection. In the privacy of prayer, I discover that my life really does matter—not because someone read it, heard it, or saw it, but because God is my witness."
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Lori Ventola at Burnside Writer's Collective with "Resolving to Be Shameless"
"Behold, I bring you glad tidings and great Good News: we are forgiven. Your holiday overindulgence, your extra 10 or 20 or 200 pounds: forgiven. Your messy house, your out of control budget: forgiven."
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Juan Cole with "Top Ten Myths About the Arab Spring of 2011"
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Andrew Jones with "9 Reasons NOT to Plant a Church in 2012"
"The measurement criteria of the church planting project, focusing on numbers of attenders and momentum of new church launch, is too narrow, too shallow, un-holistic and ignores more vital measurable signs of a transformed society in its various spheres (economic, environmental, social, impact outside the church environment, etc)."
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Shane Claiborne at Red Letter Christians with "12 Hopes for 2012"
"Track down a critic or someone I disagree with and take them to lunch. Listen to them."
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Sarah Bessey with "In Which Love Looks Like Real Marriage"
"It's a slow-dance still, isn't it, my luv? You lead and I lead, we are both following His music, no hierarchy here. We move together, one body, all for intimacy and beauty, the dance of lovers that know every curve and lean into the unknown parts with full trust in the hands they hold."
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NPR with "A Jewish Perspective on the New Testament"
Shari Johnson with "My Lesbian Daughter, The Bible, and Sex"
"When I hear terms like 'God's design' and 'Biblical marriage' I have to wonder who decides these things...We keep a death grip on the scriptures that suit us—and the translation of those scriptures becomes more a matter of tradition, opinion and convenience than the Word of God."
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CNN Religion Blog with "15 Faith-Based Predictions for 2012"
[I thought it was interesting how many of these had to do with the "generational divide" within evangelicalism.]
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Daniel Kirk with "On Trusting the Bible"
"Ironically, the conservative rejection of Neo-Orthodoxy in the name of a "high" view of scripture, at least in the case of Barth, ends up as a rejection of the Bible we actually have in favor of a man-made construct that does not match up with it."
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Anne Jackson bid a beautiful farewell to her blog readers with a hopeful and inspiring post
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Inexplicably, "Blessed Are the Un-Cool," a post from last July, has seen a sudden and massive resurgence in popularity over the past few days.
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In response to "'Driscoll, Real Marriage, and Why Being A Pastor Doesn't Automatically Make You a Sex Therapist," Preston Yancey started quite the conversation when he responded to Driscoll's strong words about his wife Grace: "'Had I known about this sin, I would not have married her.' - I want to vomit."
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Need some new websites to create music with? I have a few to show you. First lets look at UJam; it is a cloud-based platform that empowers everybody to easily create new music. It is easy to sign-up for and has a video tutorial. Next, look at Audacity; it is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds that is similar to UJam. Maybe you are not the creative type, but just need some music for your presentation? Then look at Jamendo, 298,576 tracks of all genres, stream and download for free and legal sharing. Lots of music to choice from, music published under creative commons licenses; unfortunately, you will have never heard of any of the artists. Now if you or your students are true musicians, take a look at MuseScore. This is a site with free music composition and notation software. I hope the above sites help your students make their presentations a little better.
Lucy and Ethel's Library Schemes
Practical tips, tricks, and schemes for bringing high school students to the high school library media center!
Monday, March 21, 2011
Lets Get Jiggy With It.
Need some new websites to create music with? I have a few to show you. First lets look at UJam; it is a cloud-based platform that empowers everybody to easily create new music. It is easy to sign-up for and has a video tutorial. Next, look at Audacity; it is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds that is similar to UJam. Maybe you are not the creative type, but just need some music for your presentation? Then look at Jamendo, 298,576 tracks of all genres, stream and download for free and legal sharing. Lots of music to choice from, music published under creative commons licenses; unfortunately, you will have never heard of any of the artists. Now if you or your students are true musicians, take a look at MuseScore. This is a site with free music composition and notation software. I hope the above sites help your students make their presentations a little better.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Celebrating Mardi Gras Indians
This Black History Month we focused on the Mardi Gras Indians. After hearing a program on NPR, on how the Mardi Gras Indians were trying to copyright their costumes, I decided to celebrate them for Black History Month. I used a Tag Galaxy to show pictures of the Mardi Gras Indian's costumes. If you have not used a Tag Galaxy, it is a pretty cool way to show pictures. We combined this with a no overdue book reward. Lucy and I cooked up some Pain Perdu (lost bread) or New Orleans French Toast. The music is lively, the pictures are colorful, what's not to like about Mardi Gras.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
NCTIES Conference-Bringing them in Nook, Line, and Sinker: Using Nooks in the School Library
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
It's a Kiwi Craze
We are trying to offer healthier choices in our new library café so we asked for kiwi. We were told "kids won't buy kiwi", but we talked them into letting us try with a few kiwi.
Well the students at CCHS have gone crazy over the kiwi. We sold 60 the first week and ran out twice that week. We are pushing the healthier snacks like kiwi and plums over pop tarts. Wondering how you eat a Kiwi at school? Well, cut it in half and use a plastic spoon to scoop the kiwi out of it's own natural bowl.
Monday, February 7, 2011
You Light Up My Life
For Christmas, Fred gave me a LightWedge, and I love it for reading in bed. That got me thinking about books lights. I wondered if our students would use them if we had them available to check out. So I picked up three different styles that clip onto books and processed them for check-outs. (I did not get a LightWedge, due to the cost and the plexiglass scratches too easily.) We have let teachers and coaches know we have them. We think this will be great for homework on athletic buses. It's kind of an experiment. If the students check them out we will purchase more.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
"You can't be In COMPETITION with the Cafeteria" .
Lucy and Ethel hear it a lot. I was sitting in a session at NCSLAMA this year, listing to a speaker tell us how her library cafe was shut down. And then it hit me, "Why do we have to be in competition with the Cafeteria, why not partners?" We came home and had a meeting with the head of Child Nutrition, and he loved the idea. He is buying us furniture, a hot water dispenser and other things. We will start by having "The Knight's Cafe" open from 7:30 through 1st bell each morning. We will sell hot chocolate, juice, fruit and muffins. All money goes back to the cafeteria :( , but we feel that it will generate more traffic into the Library and have that Barnes and Noble feel. They get the money, but we get free furniture, rugs and he said he might buy us the 2 treadmills we want. Treadmills, that's another blog, I'm just full of ideas.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Lucy presents Weeding and Sowing the Garden of Your Library -Saturday
Here is the link to the Netvibes page I set up with information for those who attend my session.
And my Powerpoint:
Monday, January 17, 2011
Be Our Valentine
We are going to host a small Valentine Event in the Library this year. We are keeping it simple. We will post signs around the school saying "Be our VALENTINE, bring your lunch to the Library to eat on Feb. 14th". I have repainted some wooden hearts we already had, black and white. I will use these hearts as my table displays, with some books that the student book club has picked out as good Valentines Books. I will have cards by the display saying "It's not just BLACK and WHITE, it's read all over". I will then have the student's name that picks the book for the display. "Recommended by Susie Que". Then I have a little surprise planned. The surprise will not be advertised on our signs or in the announcements, but for those that come to eat their lunch in the Library, we will be giving them a small valentine, a warm cupcake. Lucy will be making them in her, Babycakes, cupcake maker. We will have several frostings available and they can choose and frost their cupcake for dessert.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Booky Nooks, part II.
The Scorch Trials
Gone (Grant)
Clockwork Angel
Little Women
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Maze Runner
Torment (Kate)
Queen of the Mountain
Kidnapped (Stevenson)
The Fiddler's Gun
The Good Thief
Girl, Stolen
A Christmas Carol
All We Know of Heaven
The Morgue and Me
Pride and Predjudice
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Rules of Attraction
I am adding more titles soon!
Monday, November 29, 2010
Lucy and Ethel are back, and they have Booky Nooks!
I (Lucy) have batted around the idea of having Nooks or Kindles added to our library collection in order to renew interest in reading, and to expose our students to new technology that delivers print formats. In other words, I wanted to make reading exciting again. I have a Nook, and Ethel has a Kindle. They are very cool--we both enjoy our e-Readers, and I thought the students would too. I started my adventure by using Google to find out if others had blazed this path--and of course, they had! Many thanks go to Buffy Hamilton, who started this adventure long before me when she purchased Kindles for her library, and Jennifer LaGarde, who has purchased Nooks for hers. Here are links to their invaluable sites.
The Adventures of Library Girl
The Unquiet Librarian
Further Links I read:
Texas State Library Post on Buffy Hamilton
Edukindle Ning (this link is the post on Kindles vs. Nooks)
My first task was to find funding. Luckily, my budget, which came to me in early November, had increased from last year. I decided to make two big purchases with it, and just pray other supply money comes our way. I purchased a new scanner for our circulation desk (the other gave us over 15 years of service, but is tired and sketchy), and I purchased 6 Nooks and their cheapest cases from Barnes and Noble. I also purchased from eBay the protective cases and the overlay film for the screens. I used funds designated for books to get my first check for e-Books (more on this later as it deserves its own post).
Why Nooks? After reading the posts of Library Girl and the Unquiet Librarian, then talking to my local Barnes and Noble rep, I went with Nooks because I can have lessons and support from my local store (by local, I mean it is 45 minutes from our school). While they did not offer to come to our school and do the setup, I do like that the rep will help me in-store. I also already had a Barnes and Noble institutional account, so purchasing the Nooks was easy. I like that I can share one book with six Nooks by setting up an Barnes and Noble account with an email for every six Nooks. I like that I already have a Nook, and know how to use it. I also like that I just went to the store, and badda-bing, I had six Nooks in my hand (I did call ahead a day and reserve them).
I had my TA video my first observations about our process. More in the next post.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Just Desserts
At the semester break, Lucy and I agreed that we had become quite the witches over the computers. Being in charge of 2 labs and 3 mobile labs was definitely taking the fun out of Lucy and Ethel. (By the way, just what does a teenager do with the little round DELL icon buttons? I would love to know.) Our students tend to take things off our computers, like buttons, stickers, and the plastic fronts, yes the plastic fronts. So we did a little brainstorming and came up with this idea. Lucy typed up the general rules for using the computers and slipped them into sheet protectors and placed them around the labs. The 1st time a class came to the Lab; we would go in and talk about the contest that the class could win. Basically, follow the rules while you're using the computers and your class will go into a drawing for a "Dessert Party". In May I will randomly draw from the classes that followed the rules and we will make a wonderful dessert for that class. The more times your class comes to the lab and behaves, the greater your class's chance to win. OK, this is working, but not really the way we had planned. This motivated some students but by far not all, and it takes the whole class to make it in the drawing. Who it has motivated is the teachers, they want this party bad. You should see them running around pushing chairs in and picking up paper, checking the computers behind the students. It's wonderful. Our custodian has commented that the Library is a lot cleaner. So I guess Lucy and Ethel's aphorism for this blog entry is "The ends justify the means".
Monday, March 29, 2010
Lucy is Cooking Again!
As anyone who has followed this blog knows, Ethel and I know the way to a teenagers' heart is food! We cook a lot in the library, and always tie it to education--I mean, how can food NOT be educational! I thought I would share my most recent cooking exploits, so you can adapt this book-themed unit to your situation. I have a 45 minute flex bell (I have 15 seniors assigned to me, and my assistant Ethel, runs crazy open library), so I had to come up with ways to entertain, educate, and delight them each day. We have a reading day, a study day (I use the word study loosely), and so I try to teach them a little something on the other days--life skills! They wanted to know how to cook cheap, easy food at college, so I have started a weekly cooking lesson, that they will soon take ownership of--they each will bring a recipe and food to share each Friday! I only cook enough for each to have a taste--that way, I do not compete with the cafeteria. Our flex is also after lunch, and as I said, there is much education involved. And the super cool thing is that because Ethel is operating open library, the walk-in kids drift in and just watch what I am doing! That lets them see the librarian in a whole new educational and fun role.
My book tie-ins are Michael Pollan's, Food Rules and Alicia Silverstone's The Kind Diet. I also showed my students two videos that I streamed from the Internet: Jamie Oliver's talk on The Ted at http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jamie_oliver.html and Jamie Oliver's first episode of Food Revolution at ABC.com. I also read them sections of Food Rules. For one cooking class I brought in my electric frying pan, hooked it up on the floor of the library, and stir-fried bok choy. I had purchased bags of already cooked brown Minute Rice which I cooked in the microwave in the back of the library for only 90 seconds! For the Bok Choy stir fry, I just put a bit of salt and olive oil in the pan, threw in the washed and chopped bok choy, and added soy sauce, ginger, and garlic. Then I added chicken broth that had a little corn starch mixed in. Served over rice! Half of my class had never had bok choy, and everyone tried it! It was great.
The next cooking class I taught them to make a quick pasta--in the electric skillet. I pre-cooked the pasta in the skillet before they arrived (bow-ties), threw some edamame in with it for the last five minutes, and had it drained and ready. I then put olive oil, a big chopped elephant garlic, salt, pepper, and sauteed it all for a bit. Then I threw in the drained pasta and edamame, and one cup of reserved cooking water, and added parmesan cheese. They loved it--cheap, simple, and healthy. They also really were engaged in the two videos. I am hoping it helps them focus on healthy eating, saving money on food, and provides them with some life long skills--and all from their library!


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NCI Drug Dictionary
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Daughter in Salisbury nerve agent poisoning leaves hospital
LONDON: Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned with a nerve agent in the English city of Salisbury along with her Russian ex-spy father, has been discharged from hospital, an official said on Tuesday.
"This is not the end of her treatment but marks a significant milestone," Salisbury hospital's deputy chief executive Christine Blanshard said, adding that the 33-year-old Russian had asked for privacy.
She said that while Sergei Skripal, 66, is "recovering more slowly than Yulia, we hope that he too will be able to leave hospital in due course".
The pair were found collapsed on a bench in the south-western city of Salisbury on March 4 in what British authorities have said was attempted murder by the Russian state.
Western allies backed Britain but Moscow strongly denied any involvement, prompting a furious international row.
Countries around the world expelled more than 150 Russian diplomats in response, prompting Moscow to launch its own expulsions.
READ MORE: Poisoned Russian agent Sergei Skripal is getting better fast, says hospital
There were initially fears that the Skripals would not recover, but last week hospital and police officials said they were both improving.
In a short statement issued through police last week, Yulia Skripal said: "I woke up over a week ago now and am glad to say my strength is growing daily."
She said she had found the incident "disorientating", without providing any further details on the attack.
The following day, the hospital said her father was also "improving rapidly and is no longer in a critical condition".
The BBC reported that Yulia had been discharged on Monday and was moved to a secure location.
In a tweet, the Russian embassy in London said: "We congratulate Yulia Skripal on her recovery. "Yet we need urgent proof that what is being done to her is done on her own free will."
'Responded exceptionally well'
Police have said they believe the Skripals came into contact with the nerve agent at Sergei Skripal's front door.
The former Russian military officer was recruited by British intelligence in the 1990s and later charged with treason in his own country.
However, he was pardoned in 2010 and moved to Britain as part of a spy swap between the United States and Russia.
His daughter was visiting at the time of the poisoning, the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since World War II.
British scientists have identified the chemical as the Soviet-designed Novichok, although the international Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has yet to verify this.
ALSO READ: Lavrov says spy poisoning could be 'in interests' of UK govt
A police officer among the first at the scene in Salisbury was also hospitalised, but was released on March 22.
Blanshard said nerve agents work by attaching themselves to particular enzymes in the body, which then stop the nerves from functioning, leading to sickness and hallucinations.
"Our job in treating the patients is to stabilise them, ensuring that they can breathe and that blood can continue to circulate," she said in a televised statement.
"We then needed to use a variety of different drugs to support the patients until they could create more enzymes to replace those affected by the poisoning.
"We also used specialised decontamination techniques to remove any residual toxins.
"Both patients have responded exceptionally well to the treatment we've been providing. But equally both patients are at different stages in their recovery."


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Report NEP-AGE-2011-10-01This is the archive for NEP-AGE, a report on new working papers in the area of Economics of Ageing. Claudia Villosio issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
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- Shawn Ni & Michael Podgursky, 2011. "How Teachers Respond to Pension System Incentives: New Estimates and Policy Applications," Working Papers 1111, Department of Economics, University of Missouri, revised 20 Jan 2015.
- Lefebvre, Pierre & Merrigan, Philip & Michaud, Pierre-Carl, 2011. "The Recent Evolution of Retirement Patterns in Canada," IZA Discussion Papers 5979, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Giovanni Mastrobuoni & Filippo Taddei, 2011. "Age Before Beauty? Productivity and Work vs. Seniority and Early Retirement," CeRP Working Papers 120, Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies, Turin (Italy).
- Maarten van Rooij & Annamaria Lusardi & Rob Alessie, 2011. "Financial Literacy, Retirement Planning, and Household Wealth," CeRP Working Papers 119, Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies, Turin (Italy).
- Peeters, Marga, 2011. ""Better Safe than Sorry" - Individual Risk-free Pension Schemes in the European Union - Macroeconomic Benefits, the Mobile Working Citizen's Perspective and Why Nots," MPRA Paper 33571, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Dean Baker & David Rosnick, 2011. "The Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Standards of the Elderly," CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs 2011-20, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).
- Kariastanto, Bayu, 2011. "Should the Indonesian pension funds invest abroad?," MPRA Paper 33581, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Cory Koedel & Jason A. Grissom & Shawn Ni & Michael Podgursky, 2011. "Pension-Induced Rigidities in the Labor Market for School Leaders," Working Papers 1115, Department of Economics, University of Missouri.
- Miguel Sánchez Romero, 2011. "The role of demography on per capita output growth and saving rates," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2011-015, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
- Gopi Shah Goda & John B. Shoven & Sita Nataraj Slavov, 2011. "Does Widowhood Explain Gender Differences in Out-of-Pocket Medical Spending Among the Elderly?," NBER Working Papers 17440, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Sunday our family headed to a local historic farm. We are new to North Carolina and I am easily overwhelmed with options when I plan an outing. Should we try an orchard? A pumpkin patch? Perhaps a day trip to the mountains or a state park? And the reality is (I remind myself): just pick one. If you love it, go back. If not, move to the next idea.
Part of the challenge with relocating is we hunt to find a similar family tradition to our previous home. For example we visited Aadmodt's Apple Farm at least twice a year in Minnesota. Our preschoolers rode wagons with friends and played on mini tractors. We drank apple cider with fresh apple cinnamon donuts.
With new friends (also new to North Carolina) we conquered a corn maze at Rural Hill. The kids carried maps and a flag. The maze covered seven acres and we were told it could easily take 2 hours to complete. We managed to finish in under an hour, though admittedly did not find every maze piece.
"There will be a day when our family as we know it will no longer exist, and I want to know in that moment that I wasn't at the office or doing dishes when I could have been walking the dock with my dad, when I could have been drinking tea and eating ginger cookies with my mom...and happier there and together than anywhere else with anyone else." Cold Tangerines
New adventures are good for us. Especially the ones that include cool autumn breezes, pumpkins, and wagon rides. We don't loose the memories we made in Minnesota but make space in our hearts for new ones.


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Transitions to Adulthood and Health Risk Among US Young Adults
Health risks such as smoking, physical inactivity, heavy alcohol consumption, obesity, high blood pressure, and inflammation are important determinants of premature mortality among US adults. Further, these risks are socially patterned. Research has shown that educational attainment, marital status, fertility patterns, and employment status are all associated with adult health behaviors and outcomes. Yet, relatively little is known about how the aforementioned health risks are patterned by combinations of these social statuses, even though they are interdependent. For example, entering the workforce is often a competing alternative to further education, or individuals may delay parenthood until after marriage. This project focuses on how the transition to adulthood, defined as the sequencing and combination of different markers of adulthood, influences the health risks of young adults. The overall objective of this research project is to understand the development of differential health risks of young adults aged 26 to 32 in the US. The aims of the project are to: (1) distinguish unique transition to adulthood profiles of US young adults through examination of the timing, sequence, and grouping of adulthood markers; (2) identify health risk profiles among US young adults through determining how health behaviors and outcomes are patterned across individuals; (3) identify relationships between transition profiles and health risk; and (4) estimate the moderating effects of race/ethnicity, nativity, sex, and class background on the transition-health risk relationships. To accomplish these aims, the project will use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). Add Health is uniquely suited for this project because it: (1) is recent, (2) is longitudinal, (3) spans the transition to adulthood, (4) offers detail on health risks including biomarkers, (5) provides geographic information, and (6) offers genome-wide association study (GWAS) data. This project will use the contemporary quantitative methods. The results will provide a more comprehensive description of health risk patterns of US young adults. The project will move forward our understanding of how combinations of individual, family, and social factors influence the health risks of young adults in the US, an especially important topic in the context of today's widening health disparities and changing health risks.
Principal Investigators: Robert Hummer, Elizabeth Lawrence
Funding Source: NIH NICHD
Grant Number: F32HD085599
Funding Period: 7/1/2016 - 6/30/2018
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I. Going to Tranny Shack and being in San Francisco were my performance art college. That was when my aesthetic and knowledge grew, because the performers and the people that I met were from all over the world, all different ages and from all different eras. This was just after what my friends refer to as "the gay holocaust," which is when all of their friends who were HIV positive were dying. We were a group of people who were united in celebration and recognition in all that we are, have been, and have been through. That is the same sort of energy and recognition that I try to bring to my performances and my life experiences with other people. Recognition of the moment that we're having together, and reveling in that moment. Giving yourself permission to go as crazy as you want to, and recognizing that it's a way to deal with the darkness, as well.
II. It helps when you're working on something to stop and allow the collective unconscious to come down. I'm really into this physicist who has his own brand of spirituality, Amit Goswami. It's the idea that when you are working, your brain is in one mode, and when you are not working, your brain is in another, relaxed mode. Often, great thinkers talk about their breakthroughs happening at those moments when they're actually not working, when they're doing dishes or in the shower and they have that Ah-ha! moment. Dr Goswami talks about the idea that as important as it is to do, it's really important to be. He calls it do be do be do.
III. My husband and I are in the Joshua Light Show, a psychedelic light show that's been going since the sixties. It's a collective of light artists, and we do light shows behind bands, making handmade light visuals. I use a giant overhead projector, and drop liquids into it, and manipulate the liquids along in time with the music. It's stuff that's been going since the days of Jefferson Airplane, The Who and The Doors. There's nothing like working in collaboration with people on this kind of thing, where you're seven people behind a screen and you can't all put light on the screen at the same time. You have to know when to pull away and when to come in, and it's a really fine line.
IV. I believe in the concept, as Elvis did, of TCB. Taking Care of Business. You take care of the business and then that allows and frees you to enjoy it. Understanding what your business is, and what everybody else's business is, is really important. Everybody coming in knowing what's expected of them allows for a really nice experience.
V. I gave up on wanting or striving for success a long time ago, because that's bullshit. That relies on outside acceptance. If you strive for success, you'll probably be disappointed, and you probably won't gain any wisdom from it. Working toward fulfillment finds you gratified at every turn, because every little bit of recognition that you get, every show that you play, every bit of applause is earned and earned for an honest expression. To me, that's so much where I'd rather be.
VI. I am for the Black Lives Matter movement. I'm really thankful for social media for that, because you get to interact with people and with minds who are thousands of miles away, have fantastic points of view, and really help illustrate thought in a way that you might not get in your normal social circles.


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James Rodgers continues the series in which he commemorates the Sydney University cricketers who died serving in the First World War, a century ago. Today: Eric Leggo.
Eric Neal Clamp Leggo was born on 12 September 1895 and died on 20 October 1918.
In 1887, a young architect, Henry Thomas Leggo married Elizabeth Maria Neal in the Wesleyan Methodist Stanmore Church. They were to have four children but their lives were touched by sorrow. In 1894 their eldest, Stanley, died at the age of five. Dulice, the youngest, died in July 1908 aged only eleven months. And Eric Neal Clamp Leggo, aged 23, died of wounds suffered in France on 20 October 1918 just 22 days before the Armistice as the guns over Europe finally fell silent.
The 19th century German philosopher, Georg Hegel, wrote: 'The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the gathering of the dusk.' Humans come to an understanding of things only at their end. Understanding them, we know that they are lost. For the Leggo family, the loss of three of their four children may have helped understanding of what had been lost but each only accentuated the awful grief each loss visited on them. It was a family used to longevity in previous generations. At the time of Eric Leggo's death, both his paternal grandparents were still alive. His grandmother was to live another 13 years, dying at 94. His father lived until 1950; his mother to 1953.
Eric was educated firstly at Newington College in 1906 and 1907 (the family then lived at Trafalgar Street, Stanmore) and then from 1908 to 1912 at Sydney Grammar School. Why he changed schools and what he then did from 1913 until he enrolled in Medicine at Sydney University in 1916 remains a mystery, as does any reason for his choice of profession. His father later wrote informing the military authorities that his son had been a First Grade cricketer and a First Grade Rugby player in 1915 and 1916 (he played Rugby for the Cambridge club, based in Newtown, which competed in Sydney's First Grade competition between 1915 and 1919).
There were 151 students in Medicine I in 1916, and one of those who passed first year successfully in December 1916 was ENC Leggo. He enrolled in Medicine II, but 1916 was to be his only year as an undergraduate. He also joined SUCC, unusually for those times, as a First Grader at another club. He had played for Petersham against University during the previous season in January 1916. The University players could be forgiven for having forgotten details of that match, which remains University's most conclusive loss. Petersham's two future Test players, Tommy Andrews and Johnny Taylor, were irresistible in their 240 partnership in two hours. On the second day, Leggo took 3-16 in University's dismal first innings of 83.
Leggo played three seasons with Petersham, working his way up from Fourth Grade in 1913-14 to First Grade in 1915-16. He took wickets consistently and cheaply (71 at 14) and scored valuable hard-hitting runs down the order (393 at 13). He took 4-27 and 5-26 in 2nd Grade against Redfern in November 1915 and then played his initial First Grade game against Balmain at Birchgrove, taking 1-77 and 1-20. After this nervous start, he had settled into the rhythm of First Grade by the time of the University match.
Severely weakened by the demands of the War, University's First Grade struggled through the 1916-17 season but finished a creditable sixth in the unofficial competition. Dentistry student Ray ('Mick') Bardsley dominated the batting; Medical undergraduates Les Donovan and Bruce Barrack were quality all-rounders, as was the perennial student Les Best, who was at University for eight years plodding through his medical studies. Some of the other players, however, were clearly out of their depth. Leggo was selected in this side for round one (First Grade cap no. 156) against Balmain. Quite improbably, he opened the batting and was run out for 0.
It seemed that the 20 year old Leggo was being nursed along while being prepared for greater things. This was a pattern of his life. His school studies prepared him for his medical studies which were to be preparatory to his practising as a doctor. His bowling in Grade cricket was carefully managed. Promotions came one Grade at a time and he was patiently manouvered in games in order not to expose him to more settled batsmen. Preparation. Improvement. Advance. His service in the militia forces and his three years in the Sydney Grammar cadets, however, preceded something more sinister: enrolment at Newtown in the 10th Australian Field Artillery in February 1917 and service in France. He didn't play cricket the week that he enlisted and then concluded his University cricket career with one last match against Paddington at Hampden Park (now named Trumper Park). Leggo batted last, made a single and didn't bowl.
No SUCC Annual Reports from these seasons survive so, for over 60 years, all University memory of ENC Leggo was lost. Careful reconstruction from the newspapers of the time and interviews 40 years ago with some of the surviving players tells some of the story. When University played at Chatswood in January 1917, Leggo, with his bustling medium pacers, destroyed Gordon's first innings with his best Grade figures, 6-33. Included among his wickets was that of Frank Iredale, the former Test cricketer, then aged 49. He had played the first of his 14 Tests in 1894, the year before Eric Leggo was born.
Petersham's records, however, do survive. The 1915-16 Report was insistently patriotic: 'Your committee cannot too strongly urge upon members the need to enlist…To those cricketers fighting for King and Country, we extend our good wishes for a safe and speedy return.' The 1916-17 Report lists Leggo among those doing 'their duty'. By 1917-18, five former Petersham players had been killed. Then, in 1918-19, Leggo is listed among the seven from Petersham who had died. 'Reference to the Club's Honour Roll will show that another of your Club members (E.Leggo) has paid the supreme sacrifice.'
At the time, lists of cricketers killed were understandably confused, especially the SUCC names. In the 1917-18 NSWCA Report, nine SUCC members are listed as killed in the War. Of those, AR Blacket is given as BLACKETT; CD Holliday as HALLIDAY; AD Mitchell as GD Mitchell; ED Slade as EW Slade. GRC Clarke is listed under the Gordon Club but not SUCC. The nineteenth century SUCC players, MacLaurin, Armstrong, Verge, and Gregson are not listed. Lower grade players Hughes and Barton are missing. Muir is missing. Mullarkey, Pulling and Smith are all listed but none of them ever played for SUCC. This 1917-18 Report was printed too early for the deaths of JSD Walker (21 July) and ENC Leggo (20 October). In the next Annual Report, 1918-19, there are no lists of the dead.
Gunner Leggo was an imposing figure on enlistment, nearly 6 feet tall, weighing 67 kilograms. He embarked on HMAT 'Port Sydney' on 5 November 1917 and was sent to France in 1918. There he twice, in April and June, suffered the horrors of gas attacks. Rejoining his Battery, he was wounded at Imberlait Farm near St Souplet on 18 October. He had been hit by fragments of a shell in the left side of his stomach and in his left arm when covering an American advance. Two others on the same gun were hit and killed. He was carried to the 41st Casualty Clearing Station. There, two days later, he died an agonising death and was buried at the Roisel Communal Cemetery.
Eric Leggo's grandfather, William Charles Leggo (1836-1920) survived the Crimean War as a 19 year old and now he outlived his grandson. At the age of 82, Mr Leggo mourned another death of another of his grandchildren, in distant France.


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Sadiq Khan, London's recently elected mayor, is eager to build trans-Atlantic urban partnerships. An energetic fan of great cities around the world, Khan has expressed admiration for such stateside peers as New York's Bill de Blasio and Houston's Annise Parker. He's also impressed his American counterparts. The U.S. Conference of Mayors is so enthusiastic about the 45-year-old former minister of transport that the group invited him to give a keynote address at its annual conference this summer.
In a normal year, the winner of the London mayor's race would have gone unnoticed by the vast majority of Americans. But Khan, who ran under the Labour Party banner, has just become the first Muslim mayor of London, and he has also plunged headlong into a war of words with Donald Trump, deftly setting up the presumptive Republican nominee for his first major international embarrassment.
During his campaign to take up the mantle as leader of the free world, the new Republican standard-bearer of American Islamophobia has spewed out xenophobic bile in all directions, most notably calling for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States," the creation of a database of all Muslims living in the U.S., and the surveillance of mosques.
In opting to take on the New Yorker, Khan was in one sense merely continuing the battle he fought in his own mayoral race. His Conservative Party opponent, Zac Goldsmith, son of a British billionaire, tried to tie him to radical Muslim extremists in Britain, using what Khan said were moves "straight out of the Donald Trump playbook." The conservative's message held little appeal, however, in one of the most cosmopolitan and diverse cities on the planet. Khan won the mayoral race with 57 percent of the vote to Goldsmith's 43 percent.
What helped propel the son of Pakistani immigrants to victory was his focus on the pocketbook issues, such as mass transit and workforce housing—issues that were the prime concerns of Londoners who also live in one of the world's most expensive metropolitan areas. Khan understands that the quality of urban life is closely tied to the reach and the performance of its public transportation system: His father was a bus driver, and the new mayor took a bus to work on his first day on the job. Khan's signature public transit proposal involves a four-year freeze on bus and subway fares, although exactly how this lines up with expansion projects and cuts elsewhere in the transit system remains fuzzy. Housing in London is astronomically expensive, and Khan has served up a number of plans, including offering homes for rent at one-third of average local wages.
But it wasn't his zeal for new transit and housing ideas, or his interest in de Blasio's workforce training programs or Parker's renewable energy ideas, that raised Khan's U.S. profile. It was his stand against Trumpian tokenism. In another one of his careless attempts at misdirection, Trump noted that Khan's election means that "there will always be exceptions" to his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Khan fired back, saying that he wasn't interested this type of exceptionalism. "This isn't just about me," Khan said. "It's about my friends, my family, and everyone who comes from a background similar to mine, anywhere in the world." He pledged to visit the U.S. before the January inauguration.
During a visit with Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, Khan let fly another round of Trump critiques. "It's possible to be Western and Muslim and to be friends with a mayor of Paris as well," he said during a photo op with Hidalgo.
That Trump's attempt to carve out an "exception" for Khan fell so flat should come as no surprise, given Trump's penchant for tone-deaf ploys like his Cinco de Mayo "I love Hispanics" boast. Trump's ability to stir the pot of ethnic, racial, and religious hatreds is part of his appeal, but Khan's victory provides a welcome counter-narrative. "We've sent a strong message that the politics of fear are not welcome in London," Khan proclaimed after the historic election. If Sadiq Kahn takes up the invitation to address American mayors in Indianapolis in July, affordable housing and mass transit may take a backseat to the lessons learned from a hard-fought victory, in a contest that bears disturbing similarities to the U.S. presidential race.


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workplace nudity /wurk-pleys noo-di-tee/ n. the art and science of revealing your whole self at work.
We've all been taught to hide many parts of ourselves on the job – our feelings; our sexuality; in essence, our humanity — a lesson that perpetually causes problems. When you feel constricted as an employee, limited in your ability to express who you are, you devote significant energy to maintaining a shield between you and your work environment, energy better spent solving task-related problems.
Yet when you feel free to bring all of your self, including the complexities of your gender, race, ethnicity, religion, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, and physical ability, for example, you're more engaged and productive, and the organization in which you work succeeds alongside you. The prospect of stripping off the cloaks you wear is exciting!
In this action-packed Ignite Portland speech, I'll tell the story of my personal connection to the subject, cover why we need workplace nudity, and then prompt audience participation(!) in discussing how to engage more of your self in your work.
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The Kansas Board of Regents has selected 18 people to guide the search for the next K-State president.
The search committee, drawn from faculty, students, administration, staff, alumni/foundation, the Manhattan community and the regents, will be led by Nelson Galle, former regent, pictured above.
"I look forward to working with this talented and dedicated group in the coming months," Galle said.
The committee will work with a still-to-be-determined search firm to identify three to five candidates to replace Jon Wefald, who will retire after the 2008-2009 academic year.
"This search represents an exciting opportunity for the university and the state as a whole," said Donna Shank, chair of the regents. "The board is fortunate to have such a qualified group of individuals involved, and I certainly look forward to receiving the committee's ultimate recommendations."
The six search committee members representing faculty, staff, and administration are Fred Fairchild, president of faculty senate and professor of grain science and industry; Mohammad Hosni, head of the department of mechanical and nuclear engineering; Chris Sorensen, University Distinguished Professor of physics; Kathy Greene, who directs educational and personal development as well as education support services and the McNair Scholars Program; Virginia Moxley, dean of the College of Human Ecology; and Jennyfer Owensby, president of classified senate.
Representing students are Careem Gladney, Jonathan McLelland and Lydia Peele.
Representing alumni/foundation are Lee Harris of Cohen-Esrey Real Estate Services; Lee Borck of Innovative Livestock Service; Jackie Hartman, professor of management at Colorado State University; and Randall Rathbun of Depew, Gillen, Rathbun & McInteer.
Representing the board of regents are Jarold Boettcher, regent; and Reginald L. Robinson, the board's president and CEO.
Additional search details can be found at the following link: http://www.kansasregents.
Michael W. Babcock and colleagues published "Determinants of Motor Vehicle Fatalities: A Kansas Case Study" in the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 47, No. 1, Spring 2008.
On Campus - July
July 13-16
July 14-16
Ask Ed Heptig, director of facilities maintenance, what his No. 1 priority is for undoing the damage of the June 11 tornado and he has a simple answer: "To have everything ready by the time school starts." Read more
After nearly half a million dollars in renovations, a new insectary in Burt Hall is up and running. Kristin Michel and Rollie Clem, researchers with the Division of Biology, led the project. Read more
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Marty Hartford is never at a loss for work. Hartford and her lab give new life to Hale's veteran volumes. Read more
In a move to gain more efficiency within the internal reporting structure, Pat Bosco has been named vice president for student life and dean of students.
The announcement, from President Jon Wefald and Bob Krause, vice president for institutional advancement and director of intercollegiate athletics, recognizes Bosco's long history of service.
From his days as student body president more than 30 years ago, Bosco has had a positive impact on K-State, Wefald said.
"K-State has long had a tradition of 'putting students first' and Pat Bosco has been the lead person in developing many of the programs, activities and administrative areas which support this tradition," Wefald said. "I am confident he will continue to further develop the importance of our student life programs on and off campus."
"Pat has done an outstanding job as associate vice president for institutional advancement and dean of student life over these past 22 years," Krause said. "This change in title consolidates all the student life programs under Pat, who will report to the president through my office."
In April, Krause assumed additional responsibilities for administering intercollegiate athletics at K-State. This change is one of the ways K-State is maximizing efficiency in institutional advancement.
"This move consolidates all of the student life programs into one unit which, among other things, will facilitate planning for the transition of career and employment services and counseling services to Memorial Stadium," Wefald said.
"It also streamlines the direct reporting relationships to Bob Krause, which will allow him to better focus his time on institutional priorities and coordinate the various activities of the Alumni Association, the Kansas State University Foundation, athletics, student life and various external university constituencies."
Even as other schools face difficulty filling their allotments of Army ROTC scholarships, Kansas State University has more than doubled its number of incoming freshmen who will attend on full four-year grants.
For the fall 2008 cadet class of 55 to 60 freshmen, 41 won such scholarships, up from K-State's original allotment of 18, according to Lt. Col. George Belin, head of K-State's department of military science.
The jump is only partly due to increased availability. Nationally, Army Cadet Command has vowed to graduate 25 percent more second lieutenants.
"Almost any school could have given away a boatload of scholarships," said Maj. Jim Porter, scholarship and enrollment officer for K-State's Army ROTC program. "What's key to our success is what K-State can add to the scholarship."
That includes the university's welcoming atmosphere, the proximity and involvement of Fort Riley, and the program's history of academic and professional success, Porter said.
The gain should bring in more than $2.4 million over four years, which will cover cadets' tuition, housing and other expenses, according to Art DeGroat, director of military affairs at K-State.
Sociology journal on the rise
"Gender & Society," published by the department of sociology, anthropology and social work, ranks second among women's studies journals and 12th among sociology journals, according to ISI, an international organization that tracks journal citations.
The journal's "impact factor" for 2007 was 1.4, an increase of 42 percent over 2006, according to Dana M. Britton, a professor of sociology who edits "Gender & Society."
Peter Paukstelis, a Manhattan native and member of the USD 383 Board of Education, has joined the Kansas State University legal team as associate university attorney.
In addition to his school board duties, Paukstelis maintained a private solo practice in Manhattan for six and a half years before coming to K-State. He earned his law degree in 1995 from the University of Michigan; his bachelor's degrees in philosophy and biology are from the University of Kansas, where he graduated in 1992.
Before returning to Manhattan, Paukstelis worked at law firms in Kansas City and Los Angeles. His ties to K-State include faculty parents. His mother, Maria Paukstelis, is an instructor in chemistry; his father, the late Joseph Paukstelis, was a professor of chemistry.
The department of athletics has added a photo store and feature stories to its redesigned Web site, http://www.k-statesports.com/
K-State Pix photo store will sell file photos, including past and present photos of athletes, coaches, fans, celebrations and facilities. Custom framing options are also available.
The new "K-State in the News" feature will link to stories from across the country so that fans can track their favorite Wildcat team or student-athlete.
Online memorabilia auctions will continue, as will the Powercat Passport option, which provides subscribers exclusive access to comprehensive video coverage of K-State athletics.
K-statesports.com will continue to provide up-to-the minute and exclusive coverage from the most current releases, media guide, game notes, recaps, schedules, rosters, statistics and biographies. For up-close features, clips, behind-the-scenes vignettes and highlights, turn to the video-driven Web site, http://inside.k-statesports.com/
A recording of classified job opportunities is available 24 hours a day on the Employment Information Line, 785-532-6271.
A list of employment opportunities is posted at www.k-state.edu/hr/
For additional information, call 785-532-6277 or come to the Division of Human Resources in 103 Edwards Hall. Applications are accepted 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. weekdays.
A complete listing of vacancies can be seen at www.k-state.edu/affact/
For additional information, call the office of affirmative action at 785-532-6220 or come by 214 Anderson Hall.


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Inspiration Exploration
Sometimes we just need to step outside of our daily routine and go on an adventure! I find the most inspiration for home design outside the four walls of a building. With the air warming up, thunderstorms rolling in, and the promise of new life, with buds sprouting and starting to bloom, spring is such a refreshing time of year!
I was that little girl in East Texas who could be found on Lake Palestine fishing or out in my grandmother's backyard building a fort, only to discover later that I had been clearing loads of poison oak with my bare hands. (Yikes.) It's safe to say my sense of adventure has led to this vagabond life on the road, from designing celebrity homes to bakery shops and beyond.
California Closest recently asked women ages 25-55 when they are most likely to clean and reorganize their homes, and over half said spring. We often use this time of year as a motivation to clean house. Well, I want to take this one step further. If the outside air is so refreshing to our souls, then why not bring elements of that sensation inside our homes?
When I offer readers design advice, I like to have actually done what I'm suggesting … so the tips are authentic. This time, I took a two-day venture into the California desert to do some exploring and fill my inspiration bucket!
Here's what I discovered … some real ways to bring the outdoors into your home.
Throw on your tennis shoes (or boots), grab your camera (or iPhone) and go for a hike! Whether you venture to the lake or the woods, nature is the perfect place to find new art for your home. With photo apps like VSCO and Instagram, it is easy to tap into your inner photographer.
No matter what view of the landscape surrounds you, beauty is where you are. Recently I ventured into Joshua Tree National Park, in the desert lands of California, and snapped tons of pictures. After being inspired by an artist on Etsy, who is also a producer in Los Angeles, that carries her camera everywhere she goes, I decided to print some of the photographs to use as art in my own home! Why buy art, when it surrounds you? All you have to do is capture it!
Whether you are a birdwatcher or fisherman, we all have an internal sense of adventure. Check out this company called "Small Adventure"… I absolutely love the illustrations of birds, moths and even fishing gear!
At the Brooklyn Flea Market in NYC, I found these vintage blue enamelware cups for $4. I thought they were perfect for my road trip into the desert, and so much fun to use – I mean, who needs china? Enamelware is indestructible and even nostalgic. Why not use it as serving ware inside?
Have you ever gone on a nature walk and found yourself picking up things off the ground like a kid? I do! Sticks, leaves, rocks, beach glass; does not matter, if it catches my attention; chances are, it will end up in my hand. One time, while, on the coast of Italy, I got so enthralled with hunting for sea glass, that I almost missed the sunset because my head was literally in the sand! With all these natural treasures I found, I am going to create a mobile, like this one, for my own home.
Even just finding a piece of driftwood and setting it on your dresser can add a sense of nature to your home. Natural elements soften spaces and create a warmer environment. Some stores sell sticks of driftwood for $50 – I say go on an adventure and find one for free! Just make sure you let it dry out, outside, first.
I'm convinced the best way to start our day is an early morning at the flower market! Alternatively, if you do not have time for that, just wander over to the flower section at your local grocery store and pick something to brighten up your home. It will only take a few minutes but will last all week!
Air plants are the most popular indoor plants right now. You may have seen them hanging in glass terrariums, with no water and no soil. For those of us that are on the go, these low maintenance plants are the perfect way to bring nature indoors. You just soak them in water once every week or two for a couple of hours, and then hang them back up!
Using color to transform a space can be really simple and effective. Blues and greens, as inspired by nature, can truly create a calm setting in your home. I've pulled a few of my favorite colors in this family from Sherwin Williams to share with you!
Natural sunlight is extremely healthy! For window treatments that let the light shine in, try woven blinds. The natural material of rattan or grass cloth adds a nice texture to a space, while maintaining a sense of bringing the outdoors inside. For those days more shade is needed, you can get them with a separate functioning blackout liner. We can all use more sunshine in our lives, so try opening all the window treatments throughout the house during the day. Just be cautious about direct sunlight on furniture, as upholstery can certainly fade in the Texas sun.
No matter what your level of comfort in the great outdoors may be, we can all appreciate some fresh air and the promise of new life we see in the spring season. Nature itself is one of the best medicines. I say find that sense of adventure you had as a kid, growing up, and use it to explore new ways to bring life into your home!
Guest post by Kim Lewis originally published on BSCENEMag.


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Published Jun 23, 2016
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It's so fun to finally be able to write a blog about snowboarding! It´s been so great here in Hintertux/Austria. Sun from blue sky and lots of friends up in the mountain. Good times!
My knee is still sore, but it's fun to feel the snow under my board. YEAH. Today I even span on the small jump line, that's a start isn't it??:)
Some pictures:
Aimee Fuller, Cheryl Maas, me and Elin Bjørkum in the 3rd lift, heading up!
Tanning in the end of the day. Still summer temperatures:)
Playtime for all the "kids" , Tini, Silka and me.
Elin, beautiful in pink!
Silje, Kari and Elin looking excited!
Remember, live in the moment! Enjoy ever second of your life!


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Hi Friends,
I want to start a mini series on moving out! I moved out August 2014, which sounds like a long time ago but actually it's about a year and a half. I love living alone and I want to do a few posts on tips for moving out, ways to make your house feel like a home and this one which is DIY free home decor!
Once you've moved house or moved out of your parents home your bank account will be in a state of despair. I want to share with you a few ways I decorated my flat without spending any money at all!
You don't have to go out and buy expensive canvas paintings to decorate your home. I used cards that my friends have given me over the years and put them in wooden IKEA frames my mum bought me for Christmas. I painted the frames different colours so that they wouldn't all look boring and VOILA! New decoration :)
2 - Milk Bottle Vase
When I was first given flowers I had no vase to put them in, it just wasn't something I thought of purchasing. I now have some vases in my cupboard, but I also use old milk bottles or mason jars as vases.
3 - Use your possessions as decorations
I'm a big fan of not actually going out and buying ornaments as decorations, but using what I already have. I have a large shelving unit in my office which I've decorated with books, soft toys, perfumes, candles etc. and this way I don't NEED to go out and buy a fancy glass ornament!
4 - Re-use old jars and decorate with food!
This one may sound a bit odd, but I have reused LOTS of old honey jars and filled them with granola, flour, all sorts of ingredients and lined them up along the side in my kitchen. Obviously this is for decorative purposes, or I would have just kept them in their original container, but I really like displaying ingredients like this and obviously it didn't cost me anything!
5 - All you need is pegs...
I posted about how to make a DIY Advent Calendar here and this is the finished result! All I did was glue pegs onto a piece of black card and now my parents have something to put up in their house which is personal and homemade. I already had these tiny pegs in my overflowing art drawers but obviously I do recognize that this isn't something everyone will have. They can be bought at hobby craft but alternatively you could just make your own collage of photos without the pegs!
There you go, a few ways to decorate your home without spending a single penny! I'm excited to share other home ideas with you, storage hacks, packing tips, moving tips... and many more. I hope you try some of these, even if you haven't just moved house, but for your bedroom.
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School Meals
We are keen to provide all our pupils with a hot school dinner should they want one. As it will take time to get our own kitchen up and running, we are planning to extend the meals, which are currently provided by Avon Valley College for our KS1 children and offer a hot school dinner to our Nursery and KS2 pupils from Monday 10th December. If you would like your child to receive a meal, please let the school office know.


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The full programme of the IoT Solutions World Congress (IoTSWC) is now available. The event organised by Fira de Barcelona in collaboration with the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) will present the experiences of companies using IoT, AI and blockchain solutions, such as Carrefour, Uber, Airbus, Hugo Boss, SNCF Réseau, Maersk GTD, Merck and Daimler Motors, among others.
Posted Feb 13 2019
The next few years will mark a big shift in technology, as wireless systems transition to 5G, or "fifth generation" cellular networks. Since this is the age of IoT, the change will affect not only smartphones, but also other connected devices like smart home systems, cloud computing networks, and even less everyday things like industrial robots.
Sponsored Guest Post Jan 17 2019
It goes without saying that the IoT has been changing the world at a drastic rate. The interconnectivity people can integrate into key parts of their daily lives has already changed how simple tasks are completed. Like many industries affected by the IoT, the construction industry is no exception. Not only are processes being changed and new cybersecurity concerns being addressed, but the IoT also has the potential to change how we design buildings of the future. Here are five ways IoT is impacting the construction industry.
Post By Simon Montford on Dec 4 2018
On Friday 30th November I attended the VCT and EIS Investor Forum in London. The event enabled private investors to meet fund managers in person and learn how different VCT and EIS funds compare. The event featured an expo, cinema, exhibition space, and seminar room where talks and panel debates took place throughout the day. Attendees were given the opportunity to gain industry insights and understand what is going on more generally across the entire small-cap equity market landscape.
Post By Simon Montford on April 9, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, IoT, and Blockchain expert speakers from a range of industries will be arriving at the Olympia National, London on the 18-19th April, and Simon Montford will be attending all three expos on both days. The event organisers claim that they have already received over 12,000 attendee registrations, and with such a stellar speaker lineup this conference promises to be worth attending.
Post By Simon Montford on March 20, 2017
Unlike most people, I recently purchased a wireless doorbell for my home-office instead of for my front door in order to avoid interruptions when I'm working. When a family member needs me they simply press a doorbell in the hallway. Using a wireless doorbell in this way would have saved Prof Robert Kelly the embarrassment of this hilarious interruption that took place during a live BBC interview. He and his family are now social media superstars after it went viral, but in a subsequent interview he said that after the mishap he never expected to hear from the BBC again!
Guest Post By Jacelyn Brown on March 14, 2017
It sounded like something from the National Enquirer: another attention-grabbing headline to put alongside sightings of Elvis on the moon, and alien reptiles in Buckingham Palace. Yet the recent Wikileaks report, stating that the CIA can use smart televisions to monitor us, created quite a media storm. In fact the revelation was covered extensively by media outlets across the world.
Posted By Simon Montford on January 11, 2017
CES 2017 has drawn to a close for another year, so I have featured some of my highlights from the show that include robots, wearables, drones, smart home tech, smartphones and cars. In addition, gadgets announced at CES have been included on this month's featured products page. We don't usually feature them from major OEMs like Samsung, Nvidia, HTC, Huawei, and LG because most of the really cutting-edge innovations tend to come from independent makers and startups, but every January we make an exception.
Posted By Simon Montford on November 24, 2016
The run up to the festive season is always a busy time for event organisers and delegates alike. Peak conference season means there are so many to choose from, but in order to get the best ROI it's vital to remain laser focused. This is primarily because there are not only financial costs that need to be accounted for, such as travel and accommodation, but also intangible ones. Everything from the amount of emotional energy expended (if you don't feel exhausted after a conference, you're not doing it right), to opportunity costs - time is (or should be) your most valuable asset. Here's a look back at some of the events I attended last month, that were definitely worth expending time and energy for!
Guest post by Jakub Lubonski on October 13, 2016
I'm the CEO of a Polish technology company that has been intensively working for more than a year on creating the perfect bin, which can recognise, categorise, and sort trash as it is placed into it. The Bin-e is a response to the growing problem of segregation of garbage in places where waste is produced the most. According to recent statistics, every year Europeans produce over 213 million tons of garbage, of which only 30% is recycled!
Guest post by Jessica Groopman on September 27, 2016
Amidst the whirlwind of technological advancement, from the proliferation of sensors to form factors to new modes of interaction to software intelligence, many product companies make the grave mistake of over-complicating connected versions of their products. Too many buttons on a screen, too many levels to tap through to accomplish a task, too many features in an app, too many sensors (and not enough value) to justify a low battery life…
Posted By Simon Montford on September 12, 2016
Next week I will be moderating "Interface Evaluation: Selecting the Optimum Interface for Smart Home Control" at the IoT Smart Summit, at 2.40-3.20pm on 21st September, with guest panellists: Diego Oliva (Founder, Glue), Joacim Westlund (CEO, FLIC), Kyrre Wathne (CTO, Viva Labs), Sam Woodward (Customer Education Leader, Lutron), Ricco Borring Winther (Director of Sales, Z-Wave Europe), and Philip Steele (Founder, nCube Smart Home).
Posted By Simon Montford on May 18, 2016
I watched the two-hour Google I/O 2016 address so you don't have to. If you missed it and have two hours to spare feel free to click on the Youtube video (below). If you don't have time, or just can't be bothered, then here's an overview of everything that was announced, plus a bunch of screen shots as a picture is worth a thousand words, or so they say.
Guest post By Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino on May 16, 2016
Back in January I gave a webinar on what to think about when you're considering quitting your day job and starting an IoT product. Startupbootcamp IoT | Connected Devices is aimed at companies that are a little further down the road but if you're thinking of applying to an incubator at the end of the year and want to get going, here's what I think you should consider in light of my experience building the Good Night Lamp. (Please note some of these examples are UK-centric but similar services may be available to you locally.)
Posted By Simon Montford on April 1, 2016
It is generally considered that the IoT is a good thing. This is because it will make cities cleaner and more efficient, add trillions of dollars to the global economy by increasing productivity, and comes with the promise of making our lives longer, healthier, and happier. That's the good news, but as the number of devices connected to the Internet increases, so too will the risks associated with security breaches.
Posted By Simon Montford on March 16, 2016
Day two of the Wearable Technology Show was just as enjoyable as day one. The highlight of the second day was meeting the exhibitors (see photos and videos below), and attending talks in the IoT Keynote Theatre. Saverio Romeo (Principal Analyst at Beecham Research) talked about "The Current Status of the Internet of Things Vision". I wasn't exactly sure what his talk was going to be about, but I was intrigued by the word "vision", which appeared to have been tacked onto the end, which caused me to speculate. Was he going to give us a kind of "State of the Nation" type address containing lashings of stats about market adoption etc, or was he going to dish out something completely different?
Posted By Simon Montford on March 15, 2016
Today I attended day one of the Wearable Technology Show at ExCel, London. This is the third consecutive year I have been to the event, so it was interesting to see how the show has grown in stature over the past few years. Back in 2014, the show's debut took place at London Olympia, and was a far more modest affair. It was, however an exciting time, as back then the major players were conspicuously absent; it was almost exclusively attended by a passionate bunch of wearable tech pioneers, and a few plucky little startups. Since the arrival of major players such as Sony, Samsung et al the whole shebang has become a larger, more polished production.
Posted By Simon Montford on March 8, 2016
Mobile World Congress took place in Barcelona from the 22nd-25th February 2016. It is the world's largest gathering for the mobile industry, and I was there to cover the show. In my opinion, the most significant trends this year were 5G, 2-in-1s, faster SOCs from Intel and Qualcomm, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of Things. In addition to a more detailed explanation of these trends, as well as my other key takeaways, I'll also give you a few of my survival tips - particularly useful for the uninitiated!
Posted By Simon Montford on March 8, 2016
The IoT Tech Expo will bring together key industries from across Central and Eastern Europe for two days of top level content and discussion. The event will take place in Berlin's Congress Center on 13-14th June 2016. This year's Expo will highlight the most innovative advancements in technologies which are affecting the IoT. There will be dedicated tracks covering the entire Internet of Things ecosystem including Smart Cities, Connected Living, Developing for the Internet of Things, Connected Industry and Data & Security.
Posted By Simon Montford on March 7, 2016
Mobile World Congress took place in Barcelona from the 22nd-25th February 2016. It is the world's largest gathering for the mobile industry. The reason why MWC is so important, in the context of the Internet of Things, is that the smartphone has become an integral part of the IoT ecosystem. In fact it is rapidly becoming the centre of it; a hub for all things connected. Everything we touch from televisions, wearables, and appcessories such as smart umbrellas, smart wallets, and smart luggage, to cars and domestic appliances will increasingly be controlled via smartphone apps.
Posted By Simon Montford on March 6, 2016
Mobile World Congress took place in Barcelona from the 22nd-25th February 2016. It is the world's largest gathering for the mobile industry, and I was there to cover the show. Here's a selection of photos and videos taken during my week in Spain. As it was my first time attending the conference, I found it overwhelming! Due to the bus and metro strike, getting around the city was a major challenge, but getting to and from the conference centre was a breeze compared to the real challenge of finding my way around the vast series of halls that played host to thousands of the world's leading mobile technology companies, with the exception of Apple.
Posted By Simon Montford on Feb 17, 2016
IoT Tech Expo took place in London, 10-11 February 2016. The event covered many different industry sectors including Manufacturing, Transport, Health, Logistics, Government, Energy and Automotive. Exhibitors from across Europe showcased cutting edge technologies, and over 200 speakers shared industry knowledge and insights. As an official media partner, I attended on behalf of WEB3//IOT. Here are my highlights of the two day event.
Posted By Simon Montford on Feb 10, 2016
Have you ever been dissed by a robot? Until today, I hadn't either. It's a weird feeling, being rejected by an inanimate object that doesn't even know you exist, but yet you can't help feeling dejected. I almost wanted to tap it on the shoulder and give it a piece of my mind and say "didn't your parents teach you any manners?", but what would that have achieved? It isn't human, so has no parents. Instead, I just had to take it on the chin, leave my dignity where I stood, and walk away. Pepper is cute, but boy can it act like a little brat!
Posted By Simon Montford on Feb 9, 2016
As everyone in the free world knows, it was Super Bowl 50 on Sunday, and due to the 8hr time difference between London and San Francisco, live coverage of the game didn't commence till 11pm. This meant that an early night was out of the question; not a great start to my busy working week. In fact, I didn't hit the sack (no pun intended), until 5am so when my alarm went off at the usual time, I felt more than a little bleary-eyed.
Posted By Simon Montford on Feb 4, 2016
This Sunday it's Super Bowl 50, so it's time to start getting ready for the big game! As a 49ers fan, however, my enthusiasm for NFL has understandably somewhat dwindled compared to previous years. Let's face it, the 49ers sucked this season! Thankfully my misery will soon turn to joy as I have some good news to report. Microsoft will soon get Hololens into the hands of us consumers, and when they do - it will be a game changer, literally! Augmented reality (AR) headsets, like this one, will soon make experiencing live sports events, such as the Super Bowl, a totally immersive and awesome experience.
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