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These tips can help you implement training and reporting that drive the incident rate to zero.
This story appears in the November/December edition of HCPro's Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH), a sibling publication to HealthLeaders.
By Megan Headley
The #MeToo movement has encouraged a wide range of industries that once looked at sexual harassment as "part of the job" to start taking steps to improve working conditions. Healthcare is among those industries that are not only finally recognizing the extent of the problem but looking for ways to prevent this behavior in the future.
And the behavior is widespread. When Medscape surveyed 6,200 physicians and clinicians in 2018 about sexual harassment incidents over the prior three years, it found 7% of physicians and 11% of nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants had experienced sexual harassment. Reported harassment ranged widely from sexual comments or leering (reported by 52%) to the offer of a promotion in exchange for sexual favors (reported by 3%). Nearly half (47%) of the perpetrators were physicians.
Perhaps most notably, more than half (55%) of those harassed did or said nothing to confront the perpetrator. Among residents, silence was even more common (78%). As Susan Strauss, EdD, RN, an expert in the topic, commented in the report, "Most places don't know how to conduct an investigation, and many HR departments don't recognize the nuances of sexual harassment issues."
Scott Cormier, vice president of emergency management, environment of care, and safety for healthcare facilities service provider Medxcel, is among those professionals ready to help healthcare organizations recognize those nuances. "What healthcare [providers] are doing and need to continue to do is to let our associates know no matter what their gender is, no matter how they identify, that [sexual harassment] is absolutely wrong and is intolerant," he says.
That starts with a sexual harassment program that includes ongoing training and awareness initiatives. According to Cormier, "Many times, sexual harassment programs are already in place because of the regulatory requirements but spin up or spin down based upon an event." That type of reactionary response means that other team members are missing out on the benefits of active promotion and training. And that's important to address. Consider that the Medscape survey found that of the 2% of physicians who reported having been accused of sexual harassment, only 2% felt the accuser was accurate in their accusation. Health systems may need more impactful education on what constitutes appropriate behavior to help bridge that disconnect.
Get an accurate handle on training
For a first step, Cormier suggests outsourcing the creation of organizational sexual harassment training.
"Engage professionals who do this for a living," he encourages. "We all try to do things internally … we want to try to save costs. That's not the right way to do something this important. Make sure that you put together a professional program."
Next, organizations must provide training to all associates and staff, as well as the people who are going to be managing the program and investigating complaints. "That training can't be just one and done. There has to be some sort of baseline training and then continuing education," Cormier insists.
That baseline training is particularly important. "When you put these programs in place, you're going to see a couple hundred percent in reported events and you're going to think, 'We're getting worse.' But you have to realize you never had a baseline and it's going to take a year or two or maybe three to develop that," Cormier notes.
With a baseline in place, organizations can more accurately begin to drive toward the goal of zero incidents. "The only acceptable number when it comes to sexual harassment is zero," Cormier points out. "If you're driving for something other than zero, then you don't have an effective program."
While Cormier notes that this approach will cost more in development and maintenance, it also may help reduce turnover and burnout by creating a safer place to work. Given recent research indicating that anywhere from 44% to 78% of American physicians suffer from burnout, training can be a valuable component in creating a better culture for your employees.
Remove barriers to safe reporting
The next step is to establish a culture where employees feel safe enough to report incidents of sexual harassment. Clearly, reporting should never make employees feel as though they're at risk of compromising their jobs. But it's not enough today to simply have a system in place. The long history of sexual harassment in healthcare—something Florence Nightingale openly dealt with in the 1800s—puts the impetus on the organization to make employees feel safe in reporting incidents or concerns.
"The way we do that is to continuously remind them they're not going to be punished or feel degraded or feel demeaned for reporting it and going through this process," Cormier says. He adds that this is one reason establishing a feedback loop with supervisors is important. In other words, once an incident is reported to an individual's direct supervisor and the supervisor investigates the complaint, that supervisor has not completed the investigation until he or she has relayed the findings to the person who initiated the complaint. Cormier says this is an area many people tend to miss, but it's an important part of making victims feel heard and supported.
Related: Half of Surgery Residents Report Harassment, Bullying
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Related: C-Suite Must Lead on Sexual Harassment Policy
Safety in reporting is a critical step, but Cormier suggests that reporting must also be simple. After all, physicians and nursing staff are severely overworked as it is. Setting up hurdles to reporting is likely to deter victims of sexual harassment—who have perhaps too long viewed harassment as a part of their job—from speaking up.
"If it takes me 30 minutes of my day to report this, I'm not going to take the time," Cormier says. "In healthcare, we have dedicated people who are focused on our patients, and they're not going to take 30 minutes away from their patients to do this."
Once a report comes in, the onus must be on the system to gather information and analyze it to resolve the allegation. Speed, again, is key. As Cormier puts it, there's someone feeling vulnerable and insecure waiting upon your actions to gain some sense of closure. "To close that gap of insecurity, we want to make sure that we have a method of doing this thoroughly," he says. "We don't just want to make assumptions that it did or didn't happen. We don't want to rely on what people think about this person or that person. We want to have a thoroughly trained investigation team to take appropriate action, whether it's counseling or another form of process, to deal with the issue. Then we have to make sure to review that process and make sure it continues to be effective."
Ongoing improvement is another key, Cormier suggests. There needs to be constant accountability all the way to executive leadership to improve the investigation, review, and support processes.
Instill organizationwide accountability
Many healthcare organizations struggle with creating a program that works and driving the changes necessary to improve their culture. The first step is to understand how your staff feels about the current culture so that you know where to improve.
Working with an experienced third party can help ensure you're not missing organizational blind spots. "Look for somebody with experience," Cormier suggests. "Look at the programs that they've helped with, and look specifically to see if they're effective and have had a reduction in the amount of sexual harassment incidents."
The most critical thing, however, is to ensure the entire organization knows they have a responsibility to drive the culture forward. Everyone must understand appropriate behavior, report incidents, and investigate rapidly. Healthcare workers are tasked with doing more with less, so it's more critical than ever that their employers do more to eliminate hostile working environments.
Megan Headley is a freelance writer and owner of ClearStory Publications. She has covered healthcare safety and operations for numerous publications. Headley can be reached at email@example.com
"Most places don't know how to conduct an investigation, and many HR departments don't recognize the nuances of sexual harassment issues."
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A survey found that a majority of physicians and clinicians who experienced sexual harassment said nothing to confront the perpetrator.
Once a report comes in, the onus must be on the system to gather information and analyze it to resolve the allegation.
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Business in this new millennium has completely revolutionised competitiveness.
While up until now, preparation, skill and experience were the main elements on which to build a flourishing career, the social revolution and the phenomenon of connectivity have completely changed the game.
As well as having a good set of technical skills and the mind-set to lead, today it is absolutely crucial to make the most of trust and knowledge, creating a dense network of quality contacts. In jargon, this is known as networking, and it is considered one of the most effective marketing tools, which can simplify professional growth.
Networking involves cultivating long-term and mutually beneficial relationships between professionals, to exchange work opportunities, information and open up doors to companies.
How do you create a strong network of contacts and connections, fundamental for forging the path towards professional growth?
Among the various ways, participating in an MBA course most certainly sticks out.
As well as providing access to information, with teaching sessions and workshops, an MBA gives you access to a valuable network of contacts, allowing you to get in contact with a huge number of alumni from all over the world and boasting a really diverse set of skills.
Sharing your opinions in class, working together as a team for a class project, having a chat over a drink after class: all of this, during an MBA, is part of networking.
This virtuous circle of interpersonal exchange is seen as one of the main reasons for which candidates decide to sign up to a Master in Business Administration. According to a study conducted by the Financial Times, after the lure of potential earnings and training, the opportunity to create a good network is seen as the third most important thing driving people to choose an MBA. Sometimes people make this decision because of the efficiency of an MBA alumni network; unlike what you might think, the network of alumni does not just break up once lessons end, on the contrary its cohesion intensifies, with more meetings between contacts after the degree, which shows the strength of the relationships created.
For those who would like to know more, here are the three types of individual you can do quality networking with, during your MBA.
1. Course mates: friends today, partners tomorrow!
Like in every situation in life, as well as in work, having a network of allies is always a good way of boosting oneâs career. It is even more important if, like your trusted friends doing the same MBA, you have passion for business. The young students with whom you might go for a drink or to an extracurricular event might well end up being the manager of your dream company. Stay on your toes!
2. Teachers: professionals at your service
A good level MBA guarantees its students quality training, with esteemed teachers. Make the most of connections with teachers, not only as regards Masters topics, but also to ask advice and for suggestions regarding professional choices.
3. Your dream company within your reach
During an MBA you will come into contact with a number of companies, perhaps in classrooms for workshops, or perhaps they have links to the institution for post-degree professional opportunities. Make the most of these opportunities to create, with the companies that interest you, a direct and personal relationship, which will most certainly be more effective than just a CV when it comes to making applications.

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GarageBand, thankfully, comes equipped with the option to directly convert your completed tracks into both Music and SoundCloud which has proven immeasurably helpful for me.
GarageBand is the first DAW I've ever used, so I don't know if FL Studios, Logic Pro, and other software come with this capability, but either way, it's definitely a useful feature.
By the way, I'm always on the lookout for deals in the music industry (there's usually something if you know where to look). Right now, there are 2 deals that stick out to me.
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Table of Contents
How to upload your music to SoundCloud
This is a simple process. After you've created your music in GarageBand, you just have to follow a few simple steps.
1) Go into the GarageBand toolbar on the top of the screen.
2) Click on the "Share" drop-down menu.
3) Click on "Song to SoundCloud."
4) After that, GB will bring up a menu with a list of all of the information that you can type into the menu, including "Title," "Artist," "Composer," and so on and so forth.
5) Make sure you have the option, "Bounce," selected.
When I upload music to SoundCloud, I usually allow people to both stream and download my tracks for free.
The way I look at it, I'm just happy that someone will want to listen to my music and enjoy it. It's even better when someone uses it for something, like background music to a video, for a rap beat, or as a jam track for when they're practicing the piano (I couldn't recommend Piano For All enough for keyboard learning, by the way).
I would suggest allowing people to use your music for free, just because when you're first starting out, you want all the exposure and promotion you can possibly get.
Just ask people to link your producer/artist/band name in the track, and most will be more than happy to do so.
Back to Uploading…
Now, for whatever reason, sometimes this takes a moment, especially if you have limited bandwidth. I suggest doing it in a place where the Wi-Fi is fast.
Having an old computer makes it even slower, which is why I recommend a faster and new one like this 2020 MacBook Pro from Amazon.
How to upload music from GarageBand to Music
To upload your music from GarageBand to Music, you have to follow the same process for putting your music on SoundCloud.
1) Go into the GarageBand toolbar on the top of the screen.
2) Click on the "Share" drop-down menu.
3) Click on "Song to Music"
4) After that, GB will bring up a menu with a list of all of the information that you can type into the menu, including "Title," "Artist," "Composer," and so on and so forth.
5) Make sure you have the option, "Highest Quality" selected.
6) And then click "Share."
As I've talked about before in my mixing guide, when I export my music to both Music and Soundcloud, I typically try and have the master volume set to between +1.4 – + 1.8 dBs.
This is usually loud enough, and if you've mixed and mastered properly, there won't be any crackling or distortion.
Another thing to consider is, to remember to fill out the settings, "Title," "Album," and "Composer," because you'll find that when you upload tracks, sometimes it will create more than one artist name in your iTunes library.
It was surprisingly annoying for me, because when I uploaded music to Music, sometimes it would create a separate name, even though I was using the same title.
You just have to remember to give your track an album title, and it doesn't hurt to fill out "Composer" as well, that way iTunes registers every track under the appropriate heading.
How do I upload my music to YouTube?
This process is a little more sophisticated, but it's still pretty simple. You'll likely run into all kinds of little annoying problems, like using a good image that won't get hit with a "copyright" notice, or formatting the image that way it uploads to YouTube at the proper size.
But we're going to run through all of this today, that way you don't have to figure it out the same way that I had to. There's a lot of videos online that are helpful, but not helpful enough.
1) Download iMovie, in case you already haven't. Just do that by getting it from the app store for free. However, it may just come installed directly on your Mac. I'm not 100% sure.
Just type in "iMovie" into the search bar and iMovie should be the first one on the top-left-hand corner.
By the way, this is a great software for people looking to take their first step into editing. It took me a couple of days to figure out how to use it properly, but it all came with time.
2) After you've finished your song, upload to Music the way I described above.
3) Open Music and select your track.
4) Open iMovie.
5) After you've opened up iMovie, drag and drop your track into iMovie. You should see that your track is now sitting in the software on the bottom portion of the screen.
It's as simple as dragging and dropping it right into the software. I prefer minimizing the Music screen that way I can just drop it right in there.
The first thing that you'll notice is that the green track will show yellow and red. That means the track is clipping (it's too loud for iMovie).
6) Use your cursor and select the line on top of the green track, and drag it down, that way you're turning the total volume down a little bit.
7) Drag and drop whatever image you want to use into the software, so that it sits right on top of your music.
A little tip here: Whenever I find an image to put into iMovie along with my music, I usually use one of my own pictures.
Or, when I search for images in Google, I go into the "Tools" setting, and select the option, "Usage Rights," and then, "Labeled For Re-Use."
I'm not 100% sure if this is a fully-effective way of avoiding copyright infringement or copy-strikes on YouTube, but it appears to have worked for me thus far.
8) Make sure everything is aligned properly. In other words, you want to use your cursor to stretch out the image so that it matches the length of the track.
The purpose of this is so your image shows for the entire time your song plays. You do this with the movement where you open your two fingers up on the trackpad which I've talked about before in my editing guide.
It's also called the "Zoom In and Zoom Out" command.
At this point, you can do a number of different things, like drag and drop a "title" from the top bar where it says, "Title," that way you can write something over top of your image.
I usually just write my producer name.
9) After aligning the image with the track, go to the toolbar above the image on the top-right-hand side and click on the little square.
10) Select, "Crop to Fill," and then select the part of the image that you want to show the most in the video, that way it fits the entire screen in YouTube.
You don't want one of those videos where the picture and video don't even take up the whole screen. It looks unprofessional and lazy.
11) Then go into the iMovie settings, and click on the option, "File."
12) Go to "Share."
13) And then click on "File" Again.
14) Now, you'll see the option for naming your video, and then you just export it as "Audio and Video," and make sure you've selected the "720p 60" Resolution.
Also, I prefer saving it to my Desktop, that way I can just drag and drop it once I'm done. I don't have to go rooting into my files to find it afterward.
You could select the "Pro-Res" version, but that's going to make the file size huge.
If you use, "Pro-Res," a five-minute song could be up to 5GB, which might take far too long to upload to YouTube unless you have the patience to wait for it.
Another option is to share it directly to YouTube through iMovie's setting, but for whatever reason, this option doesn't work as well for me. It ends up uploading my video to YouTube with default settings that I'm not really interested in using.
Anyway, on to the next step.
Now that you've successfully created a music video with one image (or maybe even multiple images), you can drag and drop the file into the YouTube "Upload" page.
15) Open up your YouTube account, and go over to where it shows a little video camera on the top-right-hand side of the screen. When you click on it, it will say, "Upload Video."
16) After you simply drag and drop your music file into the "Upload Page," you can fill in all of the information on the song.
Write in the description about your track and add the appropriate tags.
I'd recommend filling out all of this, especially the description because it will help for SEO purposes.
Another Tip: Another thing to keep in mind is that you should have an appropriate title for your videos/songs.
Don't number them or give them eclectic titles, because YouTube is a search engine, just like Google, and giving your tracks weird titles will make them impossible to find in YouTube's search engine.
For example, call your song, "Estonia," rather than "Track #475."
Conclusion: This is how you upload your music to YouTube. It's a straightforward process once you get the hang of it. While YouTube doesn't pay a lot for views, it's a great way of promoting content and driving traffic to your website, assuming you have one. But if this tutorial didn't do it for you, I have a similar one here.
How do I upload my music to SoundCloud, iTunes, and YouTube, at a similar volume to every other artist?
This process is pretty simple too.
1) You just have to go into your GarageBand preferences.
2) Click "Advanced."
3) Uncheck the box that says, "Auto-Normalize – Export Projects at Full Volume" (more on auto-normalization in my guide).
Now that you've figured out how to upload tracks to your desired volume-level, you'll likely run into some other problems that will take you a while to troubleshoot.
However, I'm going to run through all of the problems I've encountered over the last year, and walk you step-by-step through the process, that way you can get quality mixes uploaded to your platform of choice.
It takes practice to get it right, but it's actually kind of fun to mix and master once you've figured out how to make a track sound good.
You're likely to run into problems in this process. I did.
The number one issue that I faced in the beginning, was distortion in my songs after uploading them to Music and SoundCloud.
It turns out, the problem was that I was exporting my songs out of GarageBand at too high of a volume.
What you want to do, is export your song in an "AIFF" file to your desktop. But before doing this, make sure none of your volume output levels on your track headers (instruments) are going into the red. That's a bad sign. Another way you can go about this is via a metering plugin from Plugin Boutique like Perception AB.
That means the signal is clipping, and your mixes won't sound good when you've uploaded them to other platforms, whether it's on Music, YouTube, Spotify, or on a CD format for your car.
Additionally, make sure your main output meter, located on the upper-right hand side of the GarageBand software, is not going into the red either when you've exported it (as an AIFF file) and re-inserted it into the software for mixing and mastering.
If you don't know how to mix and master, I'll be writing a simple step-by-step article on that at a later date, so stay tuned.
Here's a step-by-step process for uploading your music at an appropriate volume level.
How To Upload At A Competitive Volume Level
Like I talked about in my guide on why your Garageband songs are so quiet, before you export the song as an "AIFF" File, make sure you don't have any Plug-in's running on your master track, rather than just one of your "Audio" or "Software Instrument" tracks.
This will interfere with the mixing and mastering process later on.
1) To do that, just go into the "Smart Control" settings beneath your track, and you should be able to see where it says, "Plug-Ins."
Make sure you've selected, "Master," that way you'll analyze the master track, rather than the Plug-In settings of one specific instrument or audio recording.
When a Plug-In is on, it'll be blue. Just go ahead and hover your cursor over the icon, and you should be able to click on the little power button next to it.
2) Make sure that none of your instrument's output meters, or as GarageBand calls them, "Volume Sliders," are clipping (going into the red) at any part of the song.
3) Check out your output level – the "Master Volume Slider" – on the top-right-hand side. Make sure it's not going into too much into the red.
It's ok if it goes into the red just a little bit in the main "Master Volume Slide," but never in the "Volume Sliders" of your "Audio" and "Software Instrument" tracks.
4) Now that you've done that, go into the tool-bar on the top.
5) Click on "Share."
6) It should bring up the option, "Export Song To Disk."
7) Click on that, and then GB will bring up the tool-bar which you can see in the image below (Make sure your choose, "Uncompressed 16-bit (CD Quality):
8) After you've exported your song to your desktop so you can drag and drop it later, open a new project in GarageBand.
9) Drag and drop your AIFF file back into the GarageBand software underneath the "Software Instrument" or "Audio" track that pops up when you first open a new project.
10) Now, before you start messing around with Plug-Ins and the EQ for the mastering process, hit "Play" on your track, and make sure that the AIFF file that you just imported into GarageBand isn't going into the red.
You should listen to the whole song once, and watch the "Volume Slider" or the output meter, as some people like to call it.
The output meter on the left-hand side should be hovering in the yellow during the loudest parts of your song, only.
During the quiet parts, it's cool if it sits in the green.
12) I prefer to adjust the Master Volume Slider on the top right-hand-side (not the volume slider) to around +1.4 – 1.8 Dbs.
13) Usually, a quick way to get more volume out of your track is to turn on a Compressor in your Plug-In settings. Click on the "Compressor" option which is usually a default plug-in.
14) Go into the pre-sets by clicking on the arrow, bringing up the "Compressor Tools," and choose, "Platinum Analog Tape."
That will boost the volume significantly. I use this Plug-In setting pretty much every time because I find it works great.
14) After you've mixed and mastered your song – in a simple process I'll show you how to do later – you can upload it to iTunes, YouTube, or SoundCloud, outlined in the steps above.
I hope this was helpful for you. It took me quite a bit of work to make this, so I'd appreciate it a lot if you shared it on social media.
Later on, I'll be creating a YouTube video, just in case you couldn't figure it out with this step-by-step process. If anything is unclear, just comment in the section below and I'll help you out. Cheers.


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It was a sunny, cool spring morning. I woke up filled with guilt and shame because of the night before. I was out drinking, swearing and acting like a fool. It was 4 years ago, and I had just started my journey back to God. It was in its early stages of repentance and building the bridge of faith back into my life, and the guilt was so intense that morning because I knew that the drunkness and non-godly words the night before was not who I wanted to be. With my self-hatred and tear-filled eyes, I laced up my running shoes, put my headphones in and, a first, found Christian workout playlist. This run was the first time that I became aware of the unceasing teaching that is in my life.
Song after song fueled my run and slowly broke me down. Every word that came into my ears was about how much God loves me and how much I'm forgiven. By the third song, I stopped running, put my hands on my knees and cried my eyes out right in the middle of the trail I was running on. I started praying and asking for forgiveness and thanked God for His never-ending love and constant pursuit of my heart. Now, you can say this was a coincidence, but I believe it is God saying "yes, it's me! I've been here the whole time".
This life-changing run was the beginning of my awareness of God in my every day seemingly meaningless moments.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 – Pray Without Ceasing
I've learned that the more I pray, the more I see him at work in my life. I've had more moments than I can count that I prayed for my husband to have people of positive influence impact his day and for him to come home and tell me about someone that inspired him randomly that same day! Or When I pray that my daughters understand our family bible study and it sinks into their heart. They end up saying things from their young mouths that is more profound than I could have explained it myself.
When I pray for myself, they usually consist of two words –
"help me."
Mostly because I know I need a lot of growth and learning, but also because I know He searches my heart, tests my anxious thoughts and leads me on the right path. (Psalm139:23-24). He knows what I need better than I will ever know what I need and He knows the best way and time to deliver His teaching.
Most of my learning from God comes when I'm running. Not because He isn't always trying to teach me, but because for 30+ minutes my busy mind is silenced and open. During the rest of my 17.5 hours awake my brain is always thinking, planning and moving onto the next thing – never giving God, or anyone else for that matter, the chance to speak into my life. Yeah – this is an area I need to work on 🙂
Just in the last two days an Instagram post, two different podcasts, my bible study and my prayer for help have connected so much that the same words and message were used in every single place.
The same words – No way is this a coincidence.
Finding my reconnection with my faith over the last few years has been empowering, humbling, and positively trying at times, however, the fact that I know He's there continue to give me hope and press on toward the renewing of my mind and heart. I wish I could remember every single time this happens, but it's so frequent, I can't recall them all. I continue to grow and learn something new every day. A student of God – AWESOME.
I'm sharing this because I can't believe how long I went through life without allowing Him to teach and guide me. I hope that you too will open your mind to His teaching. That you'll see Him in your daily life – while folding laundry, cooking dinner, having coffee, driving to work… He's always there trying to get into your heart to teach you and grow you – to work everything out for your good and His Glory.
Do you have a God moment/moments you'd be willing to share? Please do in the comments and share your hope with others.


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Ninja Sayings with Megan
Hello! This is Megan and I am back on the Mama Elephant Blog today to share a project featuring the new Ninja Sayings stamp set. This set has sentiments geared towards ninja lovers everywhere. It's perfect to pair with Little Ninja Agenda and Tiny Ninja, but it has sentiments that can be used for other occasions as well. I wanted to show how versatile this set is so I paired it with some older products that have a friendship theme.
To begin, I stamped images from Girlfriends, Sunday Stroll, Little Agenda Spaceship, and Scene Builder stamp sets onto white cardstock using a brown hybrid ink. I then colored the images using Copic Makers and die cut them using the coordinating creative cuts.
Next, I die cut a piece of white cardstock using the largest rectangle from the Peek A Frame CC. I masked off the edges using Post It Tape and ink blended the panel using the following Distress Inks: Milled Lavender, Kitsch Flamingo, and Seedless Preserves. I then flicked on Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide Ink with a small paintbrush.
For the hills, I die cut a second rectangle from Bristol Smooth Cardstock and used the Landscape Trio CC to create the slopes. I ink blended the pieces with Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers, and Pine Needles Distress Oxide Inks. I used Pine Needles for the splatter on these panels.
As a fun surprise, I used a double loop slider mechanism to make the card interactive. I used the Slider Glider CC for the pull tab. When you pull the tab at the bottom, one of the friends pop up from behind the group. I think that this effect is the perfect match for the sentiment that says "even though you may not see me, know that I am always there for you".
This card would cheer up anyone! I love the gleeful expression on their faces and hope that you do too! For your convenience, I have listed and the linked the Mama Elephant products that I used below. Have a great day!
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Hi everyone! We hope you had some great time during the winter holidays with your family and friends! Here at TMS-Plugins we were working hard during last couple of months, and now we are proud to introduce you the new 1.7.1 version of our plugin.
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With the second wave of Covid 19 lockdown moving throughout Australia we have the gift of time to make changes in our life. With this in mind, Yoga therapy helps to soothe anxiety and calm the nervous system. At last many people are beginning to recognise the benefits of a regular Yoga practice. Moreover the ancient sages in India wrote about using Yoga to manage a busy mind and detoxify the body.
In Australia following the bushfire disasters over summer, the community is in a heightened state of anxiety and is struggling. As well as, managing the uncertainty surrounding the possible spread and impacts of the pandemic. Read more as reported by the Black dog institute.
Yoga therapy for emotional healing
For most of us we can have many layers of unmet feelings. As a result these have come to settle in our soul with the passage of time. Confusing and overwhelming thoughts can fill up the space in our minds and we need ways to manage our over reactive thinking and responses. It can help to simplify our complex feelings into four basic emotions.
anger, happiness, sadness and fear
There is a universal belief that happiness is the desired state to be in all the time. Incidentally, if happiness is not present then stress arises as we struggle to get find it.
If the emotions of sadness, anger or fear dominate, we begin to think we are the only one in the world feeling like this. Even more so, this can be accompanied by a feeling that something is not right about us or our life. Under those circumstances, feelings of isolation and being stuck lead to depression. Eventually negative reactions or addictions can become automatic and these can affect our loved ones and community. Pranayama one of the tools of Yoga brings attention to the pause in between our breaths. This is the beginning of creating space in our mind and life. As a result we can start to make conscious choices around our actions rather than knee jerk reactions
My mother used to say, 'laugh and the world laughs with you – weep and you weep alone'.
Sadness for many is the hardest emotion to deal with and the least desired. As well as sadness is not a socially accepted emotion. In contrast anger is a 'go to' for many. Along with childhood conditioning that makes anger or rage easier to express. Indeed, we can see anger expressed even in the cartoons! Many people do not know how to manage an angry out burst. As a result, during challenging times knee jerk reactions take over.
Change is one thing we can be sure of
Yoga is a natural ally to assist you to live life to the fullest. Equally important blocked emotions are processed through a gentle healing process. With this in mind, we focus on our breathing and body sensations. As a result our mind organically calms down. Thus our practice of tuning in via Yoga is like a meditation of movement. Our body and mind feels truly calmed, valued and heard. Yoga therefore is an act of deep listening or self love.
soothe – nurture – relax
Read about Yoga for natural anxiety relief here.
It is important to realise with a regular Yoga practice there is the opportunity to soothe anxiety and uncover blocked emotions. This soothing healing process increases strength of character. As a consequence we gain the ability to know where our true nurturing lies. Our life changes for the better, unencumbered by failing health.
Stuffing our feelings creates blocked emotions
For some people stuffing their feelings might have started in early childhood. We call this disassociation from the self. Eventually this very useful survival skill becomes a compulsive habit that stops being effective as we age. The world we live in actually encourages distraction from the self with social media. Social media apps are designed to keep us connected at all times. As a result there can be an emotional immaturity in connecting with self or others. Finally this can result in isolation, resentment, depression, anxiety or fear.
Yoga therapy promotes emotional healing
The danger with blocked emotions is that after some time, they may show up as a disease in the mind or body. Perhaps as a compromised organ, joint or cell accompanied by anxiety, rage or depression. With a regular Yoga therapy class you are encouraged to listen deeply. Soon hidden parts of the self are discovered and stress and worry released. You will learn to calm your nervous system, while improving your health and wellbeing.
With Yoga therapy we start to experience emotional healing. As a result blocked emotions can begin to shift. Subsequently we begin to notice a sense of emotional balance and wellbeing after a practice. Along with this comes renewed strength and a pause to choose conscious actions. What a loving gift to give to ourselves where we soon wonder how we ever lived without Yoga in our lives.
The 5 sheaths or koshas
The inner journey to uncover blocked emotions begins subtly with Yoga. Maintaining a regular practice becomes a warriors quest to wellness. Alternatively the mind constantly play tricks on us, feeding us with the chatter of excuses not to get onto the mat.
A regular Yoga therapy penetrates deeply past the mind and body into the 5 sheaths or koshas.
The five koshas or sheaths are summarised with the term Panchakosha and are described in the Taittiriya Upanishad (2.1-5).[2][3] From gross to fine they are:
- Annamaya kosha, "food" sheath (Anna)[3]
- Pranamaya kosha, "energy" sheath (Prana)[3]
- Manomaya kosha "mind" sheath (Manas)[3]
- Vijñānamaya kosha, "discernment" sheath (Vijnana)[3]
- Anandamaya kosha, "bliss" sheath (Ananda)[3].
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Our meditation of movement practice will soothe anxiety
Yoga Works for Over 40s 'live-online" classes are brought to you in the comfort of your home. You will learn to bring these ancient techniques into your daily life. Additionally each class is practiced as meditation of movement. More importantly we combine Yoga with Ayurveda as traditionally taught.
Ayurveda states what we bring into our senses affects our body and mind.
Yoga Works for Over 40s is a community of women and men joining together on the same path. Taking action to benefit their health and well being in a proactive way. In this fashion we support each other and provide the foundation in line with the sangha, sala and dharma as taught by the Buddha.
There are 3 'live-online' classes every week. Each class is filmed and added to the private facebook group 'Yoga Works Better with Ayurveda' for tips and recipes. A Q&A follows the Morning and Lunchtime classes to discuss postures.
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The World Junior "A" Hockey Challenge was held this past week and Team Canada West came out on top with a 4-2 victory over Team Canada East for the gold medal.
Team Canada West had the most Hockey East recruits with two, Evan Richardson (Boston College) and Wesley Myron (Boston University). In the tournament, Richardson had a goal and assist in five games while his future rival Myron had one assist in five contests.
On Canada East, the team was led by University of Maine recruit Devin Shore who had two goals and four assists in four games. I talked to Frank Robertson, the Whitby Fury President and General Manager and he said Shore still hasn't made up his mind if he's heading to the Black Bears in 2012 or 2013.
Shore was also named the to the All-Tournament Team and he was the lone Hockey East recruit on Team Canada's roster.
There was high expectations for the American squad as they had a high number of NHL Draft picks and players eligible for the upcoming draft. They ended up with the Bronze medal after defeating Sweden 4-0 Saturday night.
The lone Hockey East recruit was Austin Cangelosi of the Youngstown Phantoms will be going to Boston College in 2013. He had a solid tournament as he put up a goal and two assists in five contests.
NTDP U-17 and U-18 teams win respective four nations tournaments
The Under-18 team won the Four nations tournament that was held in Monthey, Switzerland. They went 3-0 defeating Switzerland, Finland, and Sweden. They also defeated Switzerland in a exhibition before the tournament.
Boston College recruit Frank Vatrano had a goal and an assist in four games while Northeastern recruit Cam Darcy had an assist. Other Hockey East recruits on the Under-18 team include Brendan Silk (Boston College) and Matt Grzelczyk (Boston University).
Matt Lane who announced he committed Boston University on twitter last night had two goals and an assist. On the year he has five goals and four assists in 17 games.
The Under-17 team also went 3-0 defeating Slovakia, Switzerland, and Russia in Balashinkha, Russia. They defeated Russia in an exhibition game also. Tyler Kelleher, a New Hampshire recruit had four goals and two assists in four game while Boston College recruit Steve Santini had two assists in four matches. Fellow Boston College recruit Scott Savage had no points in the tournament.
Another Quebec stud heading to the NCAA route?
The Dubuque Fighting Saints of the USHL had Jonathan Drouin in town earlier this month to show him around and potentially bring him in for next season. The 16-year-old was the second overall pick by the Halifax Mooseheads of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League in June.
He was scheduled to join the Mooseheads, but had second thoughts right before the start of their training camp and headed back to his midget team, the Lac St. Louis Lions. So far he has 45 points in 16 games.
Could he follow the same development path as Dubuque Fighting Saints defenseman Michael Matheson who also played a extra year of midget with the Lac St. Louis Lions then heading to the USHL? Maybe even to Boston College?
Who know.
In all likely hood Drouin will end up with the Mooseheads as he visited Halifax this past weekend and the latest rumor is he may join them by or after Christmas.
At the same time, there's a small glimmer of hope that he chooses the NCAA route by visiting Dubuque.


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Interview: Thando Hopa Never Anticipated Acceptance in the Industry—She Anticipated a Fight
We speak to the South African lawyer, model, actress and activist about her historic Vogue cover, stereotypes imposed on people living with albinism and her work with human interest stories about vulnerable groups as a WEF fellow.
Vogue Portugal's April edition was a moment that caused everyone to hold their breath collectively. For the first time ever, a woman living with albinism was featured on the cover of the magazine in a sublime and timeless manner. Thando Hopa, a South African lawyer, model, actress and activist was the woman behind this historic first. It was not just a personal win for Hopa, but a victory for a community that continues to be underrepresented, stigmatised and even harmed for a condition outside of their control, particularly in Africa.
At just 31, the multi-hyphenate Hopa is a force to be reckoned with across different spaces. Through her considerable advocacy work as an activist, Hopa has and continues to dispel stereotypes and misconceptions about people living with albinism as well as changing what complex representation looks like within mainstream media. In 2018, Hopa was named the one of the world's 100 most influential women by the BBC. After hanging up her gown as a legal prosecutor after four years of working with victims of sexual assault, Hopa is on a mission to change skewed perceptions and prejudices when it comes to standards of beauty.
As a current fellow at the World Economic Forum, she is also working towards changing editorial oversights that occur when depicting historically underrepresented and vulnerable groups. The fellowship programme prepares individuals for leadership in both public and private sectors, and to work across all spheres of global society.
OkayAfrica recently spoke to Hopa to find out about how it felt to be the first woman with albinism to be featured on Vogue, the current projects she's working on and what's in the pipeline for her.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
How did it feel, especially as a woman who is living with albinism, to be the first ever to be featured on Vogue magazine? Was that some form of validation for you?
Validation is not the word for it. I think when I went through it, the entire time I needed to see it actually, to be honest with you. I needed to see that magazine cover actually happen. What I felt was relief, like a temporary dying of tension, because it was extremely, and still is, difficult to get an international publication to put you on a cover, especially as a minority group. It's difficult just in South Africa, so internationally, it was just too far fetched for me. So I almost felt like I needed to see it and hold it, to believe that it's actually real.
I was going through the processes of the shoot, but I couldn't believe it until I actually saw it. So I'd love to tell you that it was the most beautiful, wonderful experience of my life. But to be honest, I was tense the whole time. And the thing is, is that it wasn't so much an issue of validation, but of expansion because then I knew that my work could expand. A magazine like Vogue holds global influence, and really I think, more than anything, it was to say that we exist, we are here, our humanity is here, it's documented.
Did it come as a surprise for you?
Yes, because also I don't know where it stemmed from. We didn't actively pursue it. I think a lot of milestones in my career came as a complete surprise. I didn't know how to explain it because I never anticipated acceptance in the industry. I always anticipated to fight.
"...I never anticipated acceptance in the industry. I always anticipated to fight."
So when you don't have to [fight], you're like, "What's happening? What am I missing? What's the trick behind this?" And, always just going through this process of always multitasking, asking yourself way too many questions when you're supposed to be enjoying the experience. You always have to look at: Is the representation correct? Is it the kind of representation that I can account for?
When I started out, I would say that I was very receptive to whatever representation people had of me, and moving forward, I started understanding issues of stereotypical representation, tokenism––and it wasn't a theory. I was experiencing issues of harmful representation too, and having to try and mitigate against that. So, whenever something happened and whenever the industry brought flowers, I'd always be looking at them like, "Are there any thorns in these flowers?"
On the topic of representation, what would you say were some of the stereotypes that were imposed on you?
When I started out, I said, "Oh, I want to represent albinism in a positive way," but having no idea what that meant. And if you ask me now what positive representation is, for me, I would say it's complex representation and diverse representation. But then I also think, "Oh, it's us in positive stories," and that's not necessarily correct. If you're a Black woman who has albinism, there's a script to that. I thought that I was controlling my script but then you start realising, interview after interview, that the questions don't change. You start understanding that you're actually being stereotyped, in that any other version of your humanity is not even imagined.
And I just started feeling heavy because it was like a catch-22 situation. In 2008, there was a recognition of the things that were happening to people with albinism. The muti murders just got out of hand. I did want to speak about those things but the difficulty of intersection is that I had not just a local experience, but a global experience.
When you go to European communities and they ask you about those kinds of stuff, they already have a very racist view of Africa. And so, you feel like you're walking in the middle because you don't want to defend actions that are done directly to target you, but at the same time, you look at the context and the context is people who have a history of targeting people who are like you.
Do you think that things have shifted in a major way now versus back then or is what has already happened still negligible?
No, "negligible" is not the word I would use. The person who is heading this particular project at the United Nations is a Black woman from Nigeria who has albinism, and let me tell you about the power of what she's done. In Tanzania, one has not heard of any recent murders occurring when, in fact, that was the most problematic area.
Since she's been there with her policies, I think the past five years or so, one hasn't heard anything with regards to murders in Tanzania. But the issue is they left Tanzania and they moved on to Malawi, which is now having a great deal of issues.
As opposed to 10 years ago, you're beginning to see some resistance on the media front, because you're beginning to see the diverse stories of people with albinism––there is a recognition of humanity in the media space. You're beginning to see how the United Nations has worked with SADC countries, and how there has been policy reform that is more active, not just in terms of the violence or stigma that occurs with regards to people with albinism, but also at concepts like the influence of education.
You're a multihyphenate: a model, activist, actress and lawyer. When you were growing up, what is that you wanted to become?
I think I wanted to become a lot of things. I wanted to sing but I couldn't. I then actually wanted to be an actress. I mean, my father and I had different philosophies on how to move forward in life. He felt like acting was not going to be a sustainable career choice so he wanted me to be an accountant and I was like, "That is not a sustainable choice with regards to my own preferences." So law actually became a compromise between the acting and accounting.
When I became a prosecutor, a different level of consciousness had hit by that time. I think prosecutorial power is highly underrated because usually people focus either on the judge, magistrate or on the police. Actually, one of the most powerful people there is the prosecutor because they decide whether something goes to court or doesn't. They decide whether you go for community service or you don't. And when that docket comes, that is the only person who really has the power to change the trajectory of anybody's life.
"I think prosecutorial power is highly underrated..."
Thando Hopa pictured above. Photo by Elsa Niemoller.
What was a lesson or lessons did you take away with you as a prosecutor?
Prosecution was emotionally difficult. The reason I say that is because you get to see the worst kind of moments with regards to our humanity, and you get to see how often people opt for dehumanisation. But, particularly with sexual assault and gender-based violence, I learned the power of survivors. Survivors move through their day as a form of resistance. They are showing up for themselves in a system that is highly antagonistic towards them, in my opinion. It doesn't matter how nice you speak. It's not about the character of the person because the system will consistently have you go through a level of secondary trauma each time you tell your story.
Women and children are put in these positions where they constantly have to explain themselves almost like they're on trial. "Why didn't you scream? If you really were raped, why wouldn't you scream?" I mean, what the hell is that?
And so, I would always remind myself that there have been people who I've spoken to and who I've worked with who really just stood their ground. They showed up for themselves, and I think that's definitely a lesson I can take from that experience.
You're currently involved in a lot of things. What are some of the projects or the work that you're doing right now that you feel is significant?
Right now, I'm a fellow at the World Economic Forum. The fellowship has really made me realise something that was important to me, and that is editorial oversight of human interest stories in particular, but for vulnerable groups and historically oppressed groups.
What we're doing right now is creating a template that can be a pathway on how to approach human interest stories with regards to vulnerable groups. I strongly feel that you can't have the same editorial policy for the president of the country and a woman who is in highly underprivileged circumstances––or even in a group that is socially oppressed––and say that these people are the same.
I'm going to treat these people in the same way, because I do think that vulnerable groups, particularly because of the power dynamic that they have to experience, need to have more control over their representation. Of course not complete control over their representation, because a media story is supposed to still pursue objectivity, but to have partial control over how they are represented.
Thando Hopa pictured above. Photo by Trevor Stuurman.
What is next for you?
I'm excited to actually move into creating spaces where I can tell my own stories. I'd like to create a space, particularly with what we're working on now, where people who are underrepresented can have a holistic level of representation. Where we can tell stories that people who are underrepresented can see themselves in and not be limited to the stories that people usually see them in?
What do you know for sure?
That love is healing. Such a difficult question. I think what's funny is that the first thing that came into my mind is that old age saying, "If there's one thing we know for sure, it's that we all pay taxes and we all die." There is a truth to that, but I think honestly, in my experience, love and connection are healing. Connection makes you know that you're alive. I don't know anything else.
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For I was one of the "puzzle children" myself—a dyslexic, or "reverse reader"—and I still have a hard time reading today.
But after coping with this problem for more than 60 years, I have a message of encouragement for children with learning disabilities—and their parents.
Based on my own experience, my message to dyslexic children is this:
Don't accept anyone's verdict that you are lazy, stupid, or retarded. You may very well be smarter that most other children your age.
Dyslexia forced me to develop powers of concentration that have been invaluable throughout my career in business, philanthropy, and public life.
And I've done an enormous amount of reading and public speaking, especially in political campaigns for Governor of New York and President of the United States.
No one had ever heard of dyslexia when I discovered as a boy, along about the third grade, that reading was such a difficult chore that I was in the bottom one-third of my class.
None of the educational, medical and psychological help available today for dyslexics was available in those days.
We had no special teachers or tutors, no special classes or courses, no special methods of teaching—because nobody understood our problem.
Along with an estimated three million other children, I just struggled to understand words that seemed to garble before my eyes, numbers that came our backwards, sentences that were hard to grasp.
And so I accepted the verdict of the IQ tests that I wasn't as bright as most of the rest of my class at the Lincoln School in New York City.
Fortunately for me, the school (though it never taught me to spell) was an experimental, progressive institution with the flexibility to let you develop your own interests and follow them.
More to the point, I had a wise and understanding counselor in Dr. Otis W. Caldwell, the headmaster.
"Don't worry," he said, "just because you're in the lower third of the class. You've got the intelligence. If you just work harder and concentrate more, you can make it."
So I learned, through self-discipline, to concentrate, which in my opinion is essential for a dyslexic.
While I could speak better French than the teacher, because I'd learned it as a child, I couldn't conjugate the verbs; I did flunk Spanish—but now can speak it fluently because I learned it by ear, later, at the Berlitz School.
My best subject was mathematics: I understood concepts well beyond my grade level. But it took only one reversed number in a column of figures to cause havoc.
When I came close to flunking out in the ninth grade—because I didn't work very hard that year—I decided that I had better follow Dr. Caldwell's advice if I wanted to go to college.
I even told my high school girl friend that we would have to stop dating so I could spend the time studying in order to get into Dartmouth.
And I made it by the skin of my teeth.
I made it simply by working harder and longer that the rest—eventually learning to concentrate sufficiently to compensate for my dyslexia in reading.
I adopted a regimen of getting up at 5 a.m. to study, and studying without fail. And thanks to my concentration and the very competitive nature I was born with, I found my academic performance gradually improving.
In my freshman year at Dartmouth, I was even admitted to a third-year physics course. And in the middle of my sophomore year, I received two A's and three B's for the first semester. My father's letters were filled with joy and astonishment.
I owe a great debt to my professors and to President Ernest M. Hopkins. I had met Dr. Hopkins earlier and was so impresses that I made Dartmouth my goal. Most of all, however, I think I owe my academic improvement to my roommate, Johnny French.
Johnny and I were exact opposites. He was reticent, and had the highest IQ in the class. To me, he was that maddening type who got straight A's with only occasional reference to books or classes. He was absolutely disgusted by my study habits—anybody who got up at 5 in the morning to hit the books was, well, peculiar.
Inevitably, Johnny made Phi Beta Kappa in our junior year, but my competitive instincts kept me going. We were both elected to senior fellowships and I made Phi Beta Kappa in my senior year.
Johnny, of course, had the last word. He announced that he would never ware his PBK key again—that it had lost all meaning.
Looking back over the years, I remember vividly the pain and mortification I felt as a boy of 8, when I was assigned to read a short passage of Scripture at a community vesper service during summer vacation in Main—and did a thoroughly miserable job of it.
I know what a dyslexic child goes through—the frustration of not being able to do what other children co easily, the humiliation of being thought not too bright when such is not the case at all.
My personal discoveries as to what is required to cope with dyslexia could be summarized in these admonitions to the individual dyslexic:
►Accept the fact that you have a problem—don't just try to hide it.
►Refuse to feel sorry for yourself.
►Realize that you don't have an excuse—you have a challenge.
►Face the challenge.
►Work harder and learn mental discipline—the capacity for total concentration—and
►Never Quit.
If it helps a dyslexic to know I went through the same thing…
►But can conduct press conferences today in three languages…
►And can read a speech on television
►(Though I may have to rehearse it six times…
►(With my script in large type…
►(And my sentences broken into segments like these…
►(And long words broken into syllables)…
►And to win Congressional confirmation as Vice President of the United States…
Then I hope the telling of my story as a dyslexic child could be an inspiration to the "puzzle children"—for that's what I really care about.
By Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller ("The Puzzle Children," was a special on learning disabilities telecast on most PBS stations. It was hosted by Julie Andrews and Bill Bixby.)