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Ian Setliff, Vanderbilt University and Amyn Murji, Vanderbilt University
No one wants to catch the flu, and the best line of defense is the seasonal influenza vaccine. But producing an effective annual flu shot relies on accurately predicting which flu strains are most likely to infect the population in any given season. It requires the coordination of multiple health centers around the globe as the virus travels from region to region. Once epidemiologists settle on target flu strains, vaccine production shifts into high gear; it takes approximately six months to generate the more than 150 million injectible doses necessary for the American population.
Incorrect or incomplete epidemiological forecasting can have major consequences. In 2009, while manufacturers, including MedImmune and Sanofi Pasteur, were preparing vaccines against the anticipated strains, an additional influenza strain, H1N1, emerged. The prepared vaccine didn't protect against this unanticipated strain, causing worldwide panic and over 18,000 confirmed deaths – likely only a fraction of the true number, estimated to exceed 150,000. Better late than never, a vaccine was eventually produced against H1N1, requiring a second flu shot that year.
Given that influenza has caused the majority of pandemics over the past 100 years – including the 1918 flu that resulted in as many as 50 million deaths – we're left with the question: Can scientists produce a "universal" vaccine capable of protecting against diverse strains of influenza, one that doesn't require annual predictions by epidemiologists and a yearly shot for you?
Vaccines prime the immune system to fight
By the 18th century, and arguably much earlier in history, it was commonly known that a survivor of smallpox would not come down with it again upon subsequent exposure. Somehow, infection conferred immunity against the disease. And people recognized that milkmaids who came into contact with cowpox-ridden cattle would similarly be protected from smallpox.
In the late 1700s, farmer Benjamin Jesty inoculated his family with cowpox, effectively immunizing them against smallpox, despite future exposure. Physician Edward Jenner then catapulted humanity into a new age of immunology when he lent scientific credence to the procedure.
So if one inoculation of cowpox or one exposure to (and survival of) smallpox confers a decade's-worth or even lifelong immunity, why are individuals encouraged to receive the flu vaccine every year?
The answer lies in how quickly the influenza virus' anatomy changes. Each virus consists of a roughly spherical membrane encapsulating constantly mutating genetic material. This membrane is peppered with two types of "spikes": hemagglutinin, or HA, and neuraminidase, or NA, each made up of a stem and a head. HA and NA help the virus with infection by binding to host cells, and mediate the entry of the virus into the cell and eventually its exit.
Vaccines typically elicit antibodies that target these two molecules. Once injected, an individual's immune system gets to work. Specialized cells collect the vaccine molecules as invaders; other cells then generate antibodies that will recognize the foreign molecules. The next time those same invaders show up – whether in the form of the same vaccine or the virus strains it mimicked – the body's immune cells recognize them and fight them off, preventing infection.
For vaccine developers, one frustrating characteristic about influenza's mutating genome is how rapidly HA and NA change. These constant alterations are what send them back to the drawing board for novel vaccines every flu season.
Different methods to design a vaccine
The smallpox vaccine was the first to use the "empirical paradigm" of vaccinology – the same strategy we largely use today. It relies on a trial-and-error approach to mimic the immunity induced by natural infection.
In other words, vaccine developers believe the body will mount an antibody response to something in the inoculation. But they don't focus on which specific patch of the virus is causing an immune response. It doesn't really matter if it's a reaction to a small patch of HA that many strains share, for instance. When using an entire virus as starting material, it's possible to get many different antibodies recognizing many different parts of the virus used in the vaccine.
The seasonal flu shot generally fits into this empirical approach. Each year, epidemiologists forecast which flu strains are most likely to infect populations, typically settling on three or four. Researchers then attenuate or inactivate these strains so they can act as the mimics in that year's influenza vaccine without giving recipients the full-blown flu. The hope is that an individual's immune system will respond to the vaccine by creating antibodies that target these strains; then when he or she comes into contact with the flu, the antibodies will be waiting to neutralize those strains.
But there's a different way to design a vaccine. It's called rational design and represents a potentially game-changing paradigm shift in vaccinology.
The goal is to design some molecule – or "immunogen" – that can cause effective antibodies to be produced without requiring exposure to the virus. Relative to current vaccines, the engineered immunogen may even allow for more specific responses, meaning the immune response targets particular parts of the virus, and greater breadth, meaning it could target multiple strains or even related viruses.
This strategy works to target specific epitopes, or patches of the virus. Since antibodies work by recognizing structures, the designers want to emphasize to the immune system the structural properties of the immunogens they've created. Then researchers can try to design candidate vaccines with those structures in hopes they'll provoke the immune system to produce relevant antibodies. This path might let them assemble a vaccine that elicits a more effective and efficient immune response than would be possible with the traditional trial-and-error method.
Promising headway has been made in vaccine design for respiratory syncytial virus using this new rational paradigm, but efforts are still underway to use this approach for influenza.
Toward a universal flu vaccine
In recent years, researchers have isolated a number of potent, infleunza-neutralizing antibodies produced in our bodies. While the antibody response to influenza is primarily directed at the head of the HA spike, several have been found that target HA's stem. Since the stem is more constant across viral strains than the head, this could be flu's Achilles' heel, and antibodies that target this region may be a good template for vaccine design.
Researchers are pursuing a number of approaches that could cause the body to produce these antibodies of interest before becoming infected. One strategy, known as nanoparticle display, involves designing a molecule that incorporates part of the virus. In the lab, scientists could attach some combination of HA and NA particles to the outside of a spherical nanoparticle that itself is capable of causing an immune response. When injected as part of a vaccine, the immune system could "see" these molecules, and with luck produce antibodies against them.
One of the major questions that needs to be answered is what exactly should be displayed on the exterior of these nanoparticles. Some strategies display various versions of full HA molecules, while others just include stems. While more data on humans need to be collected to validate these approaches, the data from animal studies using stem-only immunogens are encouraging.
With current technology, there may never be a "one and done" flu shot. And epidemiological surveillance will always be necessary. However, it is not inconceivable that we can move from a once-per-year model to a once-every-10-years approach, and we may be within just a few years of being there.
Ian Setliff, Ph.D. Student, Program in Chemical & Physical Biology, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University and Amyn Murji, Ph.D. Student, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.


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After a family tragedy, Kate Donnelly left the Caribbean behind forever. But a series of bad management decisions has left her family's diving and marine recovery business drowning in red ink. Now her brother pleads with her to come back to the island nation of St Vincent. Without Kate's financial expertise, the iconic treasure-hunting enterprise started by her grandfather will go under. Unable to say no to the little family she has left, Kate heads back to the beautiful and terrifying ocean that still haunts her nightmares.
Holden Cameron was addicted to the adrenaline rush of active duty—including narrowly surviving an underwater explosives accident. The last thing the former British military diver wants is to babysit a family of thieves on a tropical island—even if they are the world-famous Diving Donnellys. But in his new civilian job, Holden must investigate the suspicious activity surrounding a Donnelly dive to recover treasure from the ancient wreck of a pirate ship.
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Turnout Time Vs. Exercise - Pasture Time for Conditioning
My horse lives in a big pasture and runs around a lot with his friends in the winter. Does that mean he's getting plenty of exercise, or should his spring conditioning routine still start as if he's had no exercise at all? – from horsechannel.com
Buy a lottery ticket, because this is your lucky day! I just happened to run across a study by Patricia M. Graham-Theirs and L. Kristen Bowen from the Equine Studies Department at Virginia Intermont College called "Improved Ability to Maintain Fitness in Horses During Large Pasture Turnout" published in the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science Volume 33, Issue 8, Pages 581-585, August 2013.
Their objective was to compare horses' maintenance of fitness during extended periods of no forced exercise with that after stall confinement. To do this they divided horses into three groups:
1) pasture turnout or P, 2) stalled and exercised or E, and 3) stalled with no exercise or S. The researchers looked at quite a wide variety of things, including body fat, bone mineral content, bloodwork, temperature, weight, body condition score, and heart rate. They even attached GPS units to the horses' halters to estimate distance traveled. Each horse also performed a standardized exercise test at the beginning and end of the 14-week study.
Interestingly, the P group traveled a greater distance daily compared with the E group, which were exercised for one to two hours per day, five days per week, at the walk, trot, and canter under saddle! Bone density was also greater for the P group, with heart rates and temperatures being comparable between the P and E groups. This data suggests that the stalled with no exercise group lost fitness, whereas the pasture group remained as fit as the stalled and exercised group. So access to pasture does appear to help maintain bone strength and exercise fitness ability!
That said, I still encourage you to put together a conditioning plan for your horse that addresses his cardiovascular system, provides strength training, and includes suppling exercises, gradually increasing the duration, intensity, and frequency of the physical fitness work to best prepare him for the season ahead.


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Star Wars Jedi Luke Skywalker: All it takes is a Karate uniform top, a bathrobe or bed sheet (or you can buy a Jedi cape inexpensively here), some khakis and a pair of boots – and a blue light saber, of course. Here is how I envisioned the costume:
And here's how it looked on Dub.
Sock Hop – I love this look for a brother and sister! The boy look is super easy, of course. For the girls, I paired a pink tutu pettiskirt with a cardigan, scarf and some black Mary Janes. Either cut out your own "poodle' or grab a really inexpensive one online. Add some cute glasses for a final touch!
Here's how it looked on my little one (Yeah…that was before her hair was done, but the only happy look I got. Toddlers!):
Baby Jazzerciser: This goes down as my favorite costume yet and it's super easy. Just pair a baby onesie with a bright cut-up onesie, legings or tights, some baby legwarmers or Baby Legs (or cut up some old socks) and use a knit baby headband for, well, the headband. I actually cut the elastic tops off of some baby socks for the little baby wristbands! My mother sewed an adorable boom box to complete the look. You can get something similar here or here.
Here's how my little one rocked it:
Baby Kitty Cat: This one can't get any easier. Combine a black baby onesie with black leggings or tights, and maybe a cute matching fur vest or black tutu pettiskirt, and you've got yourself a kitty cat! Add the finishing touches of a black nose and whiskers using eyeliner, and don't forget the kitty ears! You can currently buy kitty ears headbands at the Target Dollar Spot, online here, or you can make them on your own. Use a thin feather boa from the dress up pile, and cut it up to make "fur" wrist cuffs and use as the tail.
Pink Poodle: Similar to the black cat costume above, this costume starts with a pink leotard and tutu. I completed the look with a DIY Poodle Headband and faux fur cuffs.
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Stephanie Cristello published an interview with Richard Holland and Duncan MacKenzie on The Seen recently to talk about Bad at Sports' plans for EXPO, including the upcoming print publication Dana Bassett is spearheading and the various interviews we will be conducting on site at the fair.Â
Duncan MacKenzie and Richard Holland of Bad at Sports are two of the best in town to talk with about art. Known for their witty commentary and contemporary art talk platform Bad at Sports, they are most admired for their weekly podcasts and blog. The three of us sat down to discuss their involvement with EXPO/2013 – the recent venture of a newspaper that will be distributed throughout the fair spearheaded by What's the T? columnist Dana Bassett entitled The EXPO Register, and the live interviews they will be fielding from their booth next to the /Dialogues stage. The lineup for this year's panel is impressive, titled "One-on-One,†just one of many sports puns, MacKenzie and Holland will be in conversation with gallerists, directors, and curators, such as Solveig Øvstebø of the Renaissance Society, Elysia Borowy-Reeder of the MOCAD Detroit, and Director Charlie James, as well as artists William Powhida, José Lerma, and Sanford Biggers. While the details of these interviews are kept secret (you will just have to see them in person to find out), our conversation breaches the extent of Bad at Sports coverage at the fair, their plans for the paper, and MacKenzie and Holland's bucket list – like an interview about interviews, or something along those lines.
Stephanie Cristello: Let's start off by talking about some of the things you're doing for the fair. You're working with Dana Bassett to publish a newspaper reporting live?
Duncan MacKenzie: Yes, the newspaper is going to be called The EXPO Register and reflects our collective style – slightly goofy, a touch irreverent, yet fairly straight ahead. The great thing about working with Dana is that she has the same wry sense of humor as us, which will definitely be a part of it, but it will also be a sincere tool for the fair goers.
Richard Holland: At Bad at Sports we are slightly irreverent, but not extensively. We are respectful of our guests – we will make fun of them now and again, but at our core, we are the fan club newsletter. This newspaper will be a different side of that effort.
SC:Â So you will be reporting on trends, how much gossip is there going to be?
DM: 98% trash! No – there will be a chunk of it that's gossip, but it's light.
RH: We're just trying not to get sued, that's why we don't have comments on our site anymore. After the fourth time we got threatened with a lawsuit…
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Sometime this month, an updated list of "evidence-based" teen pregnancy prevention programs was endorsed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and posted to the website of the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH).
No notice, not even a press release to announce the addition of three programs to the coveted list of 28 deemed effective and carrying the HHS seal of approval. Until now, this list was the holy grail of the Administration's commitment to a science-based approach to teen pregnancy prevention and a directive for grantees of the President's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI).
o why the secrecy about the new additions? What does the Administration have to hide?
We have been around long enough to expect politics as usual in Washington, D.C. The backroom deals and secrecy should not surprise us. The jettisoning of young people and their sexual health for political expediency is not new. But, this blatant hypocrisy needs to stop. This latest example is just too much.
Perhaps the Administration realized that the inclusion of Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education on this select list would call into question its commitment to young people and their sexual health. Once again, they have succumbed to the political pressure of social conservatives and allowed the ideology of the right to prevail over the health and well-being of the nation's youth. The Obama Administration's endorsement of this abstinence-only-until marriage program runs in direct contradiction to its stated commitment to the health and well-being of young people and, quite possibly, its promise to uphold science and evidence.
The Trampling of Young People's Sexual Health
The President has talked about his administration's commitment to LGBT health and rights by recording his own "It Gets Better Video" and announcing support for both the Safe Schools Improvement Act and Student Non-Discrimination Act. And, the CDC has recognized the disproportionate impact of the HIV epidemic on young men who have sex with men and has committed millions of federal dollars to reducing the burden of disease on this population.
Yet, at best Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education ignores LGBT youth – and at worst it promotes homophobia. The stigmatization of LGBT youth throughout the program reinforces the cultural invisibility and bias these students already face in many schools and communities. The curriculum's focus on marriage as the only appropriate context for sexual behavior further ostracizes LGBT youth and the children of LGBT parents who still cannot legally marry in most states.
The Director of the CDC has called teen pregnancy prevention and HIV prevention two of the country's six "winnable battles," and recent analysis of National Survey of Family Growth data trends indicates that significant reductions in teen births have been primarily fueled by increased contraceptive use.
Today roughly 40 percent of high school students have had sex and young people under age 29 continue to account for approximately 30 percent of all new cases of HIV infection.
Yet, Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education does not include information about the health benefits of contraception or condoms.
Igniting Fears and Spreading Misinformation
In fact, Heritage Keepers contains little or no information about puberty, anatomy, sexually transmitted diseases, or sexual behavior. Instead, most of its lessons are devoted to promoting the importance of heterosexual marriage and the value of abstinence before marriage. Students are asked to take virginity pledges and class time is devoted to having students envision and plan their wedding days. Heritage Keepers also teaches students that:
- "Males and females are aroused at different levels of intimacy. Males are more sight orientated whereas females are more touch orientated." The implications of this difference are explained further: "This is why girls need to be careful with what they wear, because males are looking! The girl might be thinking fashion, while the boy is thinking sex. For this reason, girls have a responsibility to wear modest clothing that doesn't invite lustful thoughts." (Heritage Keepers, Student Manual, p. 46)
- "Sex is like fire. Inside the appropriate boundary of marriage, sex is a great thing! Outside of marriage, sex can be dangerous." (Heritage Keeper, Student Manual, p. 22)
- "Cohabitation (when two people live together before marriage) is not like marriage! [Heritage Keepers, p. 30] When couples live together outside of marriage, the relationships are weaker, more violent, less [equal], and more likely to lead to divorce" (Heritage Keepers, Student Manual, p. 26)
- "One reason may be that when people bond closely through sexual activity, then break up and bond with someone else, and then someone else, it may become increasingly difficult to maintain a lasting bond." (Heritage Keepers, Teacher Manual, p. 56)
- Sexual activity outside of marriage can lead to:"Sexually Transmitted Viruses, Sexually Transmitted Bacteria, Cervical Cancer, AIDS, Legal and financial responsibility for a child until he or she is at least 18, Raising a child alone, Emotional hurt and regret, Increased chance of abuse from a partner." (Heritage Keepers, Student Manual, p. 35)
When planning their weddings during class:
- Young men are asked to envision their wedding day: "The doors swing open and there stands your bride in her white dress…This is the woman you have waited for (remained abstinent for) who has waited for you…This woman loves you and trusts you with all that she is and all that she has. You want to be strong, respectful and courageous for her. With all your heart, you want to protect her, and by waiting (sexually) you have." (Heritage Keepers, Student Manual, p. 59)
- Young women are asked to envision their wedding day: "Everything is just as you have seen it in a million daydreams…" When the bride takes her father's arm: "Your true love stands at the front. This is the man who you have waited for (remained abstinent for) and who has waited for you…This man wants to be strong and courageous for you, to cherish and protect you… You are ready to trust him with all that you have and all that you are, because you have waited (sexually) you have it all to give." (Heritage Keepers, Student Manual, p. 49)
Limited Evidence of Effectiveness
Not only does the Heritage Keepers program ostracize LGBT youth, withhold life-saving information from sexually active and HIV-positive youth, and use fear-based messages to shame sexually active youth, youth who have experienced sexual assault, and youth living in "nontraditional" households, there are also questions about the effectiveness of this program to delay sexual initiation or favorably impact sexual behavior among youth. The original evaluation by Stan Weed, et al., of the Heritage Keepers program in 2005 was criticized by other researchers for having a flawed design and was never published, much less published in a peer-reviewed journal. Next, the program was reviewed in a congressionally mandated study of Title V abstinence-only-until marriage programs conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and published in 2007. Mathematica found no evidence to support the effectiveness of the program. Specifically, their interim report stated:
…the [Heritage Keepers] Life Skills Education Component did not have significant impacts on 11 of the 12 intermediate outcomes related to sexual abstinence. The one exception is a significant impact among middle school youth on their friends' support for abstinence.
Mathematica's final report concluded:
Findings indicate that the [Heritage Keepers Abstinence Program's] Life Skills Education Component had little or no impact on sexual abstinence or activity.
But, we are expected to believe that the third time must be a charm? This winter, Mathematica was contracted by HHS to review evaluations for their rigor, and this time they recommended Heritage Keepers for inclusion on the list of HHS-approved programs. To date, there is still no published peer-reviewed manuscript to help assess what, if anything, changed for the program to make the list. Was a new study conducted? Did the authors submit new data or simply rework the old?
A Call for Evidence and Rights
Whether the data exists to support the program's effectiveness is still in question, but the egregious content of the program is crystal clear. The Administration's hypocrisy must end. It is time to embrace both an evidence- and a rights-based approach to youth sexual health promotion. Evidence of effectiveness is important, but it should not be sufficient. It is not enough to help some students delay sexual initiation while leaving others ill-equipped to protect themselves when they do have sex. It is unacceptable to promote teen pregnancy prevention at the cost of ostracizing LGBT youth, survivors of sexual assault, or youth who are sexually active. Thirty years of public health science clearly demonstrates that providing young people with information about the health benefits of both abstinence and contraception and condoms, does not cause young people to initiate sex earlier or have sex more often. Abstinence-only-until marriage programs leave young people unprepared. They are unethical.
Young people have the right to honest, age-appropriate, comprehensive sexual health information to help them protect their health and lives. The Administration should immediately remove Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education from the HHS-endorsed list of evidence-based programs currently posted on the Office of Adolescent Health's (OAH) website. America's youth deserve better.


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How to Clean Up After a Broken Window
When you discover a broken window, it's important to make a determination as to how the damage likely occurred. If there is a chance that the damage is the result of a break-in, do not touch anything and immediately leave the premises and get to a safe place (i.e. a neighbor's home or a locked car) and call the police to investigate. Do not clean up after a break-in, as this can destroy important evidence. It's vital that you leave the home or business right away, as the suspect may still be inside.
In other cases where the damage appears to be accidental, begin by placing children and pets in a different area of the home so they don't come into contact with the broken glass.
Next, you may wish to remove any loose chunks of glass that are still in the window frame (i.e. pieces that are on the verge of falling out.) To do this, you must don a heavy pair of work gloves, ideally leather work gloves. If you do not have the appropriate gloves, you may opt to use an object, such as a broom handle, to dislodge the loose chunks of glass.
Once all of the loose glass has been removed from the window, use a broom and dustpan to sweep up the glass. In the case of hardwood floors, sweeping the glass can cause scratches to the floor's finish. So in these cases, it's best to sweep the glass into a dustpan as you go, rather than sweeping it into a single pile. This will limit the amount of distance the glass shards will need to travel over the floor.
Discard the broken glass in an outdoor trash barrel. If you discard the glass indoors, it could tear through the bag and cause injury. If you absolutely must dispose of the glass indoors, place the shards in a cardboard box and tape it closed before discarding.
How to Secure the Broken Window
Once you clean up from a broken window, you'll need to secure the property. You'll want to prevent the heat/cold or insects from entering the home or business.
In cases where just one pane has been damaged and the rest of the door or window remains intact, a small piece of cardboard can be taped over the damaged area. In the case of a door, it's wise to tape a piece of cardboard over both sides to prevent contact with any sharp pieces of glass that are still lodged in the pane. Using a piece of cardboard and tape is ideal because it will temporarily seal the hole, without damaging the window frame or surrounding area.
Of course, cardboard is a very temporary fix and it does nothing to secure the home or building from intrusion, so it's important to schedule your window repair services straight away.
In the case of a larger window or in cases where security is a concern and glass repair services are not immediately available, the best option typically entails performing a "board up" whereby a plywood panel is secured over the window using screws. The primary downside of a board-up surrounds the usage of screws, which will leave some damage in the surrounding area.
For those who do not have the knowledge or tools on-hand, many glass companies offer board-ups or emergency glass repair services.
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The European Commission published a call for tender for a study on the training needs of court staff on EU law in the EU. The general objective of the study is to map in details the training needs on EU law of the different types of court staff according to their respective tasks in the EU Member States.
Contract notice: 2019/S 027-059055
Access to tender documents:
Information on the tender is available on the e-Tendering platform here.
Deadline for receipt of tenders: 12:00 CET, 26 March 2019
Important notice:
Bids in response to this call for tenders have to be submitted exclusively using the e-Submission application which allows economic operators to respond to Call for tenders by preparing their Tenders electronically in a structured and secured way, and submitting their tenders electronically. Further information and guidance can be found on the e-Tendering platform.


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"Every time I'm contacted by a new client to experience these codes and have the opportunity to escort a new being on this bio-spiritual path, I give gratitude to the Developers, Sol and Leigh. It is truly a privilege to be part of this work, and I'm forever humbled to witness the transformation of health and wellbeing that typically occurs even after the first set of codes are delivered in Potentiation. Life as once known in sickness changes quickly for my clients as this truly revolutionary form of 'ener-genetic' reprogramming to wellness consciously shifts bodies that have been waiting with bated breath for this energy and information." Cheryl Diane, C.N.C., A.A.N.C., N.A.T.
Since the publication of our do-it-yourself book on the Regenetics Method, Potentiate Your DNA, interest in certification in the various levels of this "revolutionary healing science" (Nexus) has increased dramatically.
As this work has become ever more international, there has been a groundswell of demand for distance learning. Now we are thrilled to make this possible!
Distance Facilitator Certification
Distance learning, which saves time, money and hassle, is the wave of the future—and for us at the Phoenix Center, the future is now.
Qualified individuals who have met our Requirements and Prerequisites (see below) now can become certified in Potentiation (Level I), as well as subsequent levels (II-IV) of the Regenetics Method, from the comfort of home.
Training in each level takes only around two hours. Trainees receive individualized attention through a one-on-one Facilitator Certification Intensive with one of the Developers of the Regenetics Method.
Computer Requirements
Trainees require a computer, laptop or other device with good sound output and a functioning microphone for communicating clearly.
A high-speed Internet connection is also necessary. (Satellite or dial-up Internet will not work.)
Since the training is done via Skype, trainees must also have a Skype account (which is easy to set up) and be familiar with using this convenient service. Use of Skype-to-Skype means the Internet telephone connection is free for both parties.
NOTE: In order to limit bandwidth overload and ensure sound quality, Facilitator Certification Intensives are done using Skype audio only. There is no visual feed during training. We have tested this methodology and found that it works very well.
Other Requirements
Trainees must be proficient in understanding and communicating in English.
A quiet space free from interruption is also necessary.
Finally, trainees must be available between 1 and 8 PM Eastern (New York) time on the day (or night) of their Facilitator Certification Intensive. Certification seminars require approximately two hours each to complete. Exact training times are decided on an individual basis.
Level I trainees are responsible for acquiring the "Mi" tuning fork from the Solfeggio scale, used in Potentiation. Levels II, III and IV trainees will need the full set of six Solfeggio tuning forks.
Both the single fork and the set can be purchased directly from the Phoenix Center for Regenetics below.
Prior to their first scheduled training, trainees embarking on their Regenetics certification process also need to watch and study our Potentiation tutorial video, HOW TO POTENTIATE YOUR DNA, available here for as a little as a one-month (cancellable) subscription of $19.99.
The third prerequisite for all trainees is to have read Potentiate Your DNA and practiced performing both in-person and distance Potentiation prior to the online course. In other words, this foundational work must be completed in advance of participating in the Level I Facilitator Certification Intensive.
Fourth and finally, trainees must have already experienced the DNA activation(s) in which they wish to become certified.
Benefits of Certification
Graduates of our online trainings will immediately will be certified to offer DNA activation to paying clients—both remotely and in person.
Upon successful completion of a Facilitator Certification Intensive, graduates will receive a physical certificate by mail indicating their level of training in the Regenetics Method.
Certified Facilitators also will be listed on our website. This will allow potential clients to have confidence when deciding to work with you.
Another ongoing service we provide is a private Regenetics Facilitators Group that represents an ever-expanding database on all aspects of facilitating the Regenetics Method.
Our philosophy is to create a mutually beneficial collaboration between us as Developers and Facilitators that fosters a professional working relationship and ensures the integrity of the Regenetics Method, while creating a turn-key business opportunity for Facilitators in terms of:
1) assistance in answering client questions;
2) marketing and facilitation materials; and
3) first-class website presence and support.
We take our role as Consultants to our Facilitators seriously and go "above and beyond" to encourage our mutual success. For a fuller understanding of our business model, please contact us to receive a copy of the Memo of Understanding for all Facilitators.
Training Schedule & Fees
All trainees must begin with Level I training in Potentiation, before moving on to Articulation (Level II), Elucidation (Level III), and Transcenion (Level IV).
Fees (payable upon scheduling) for distance Facilitator Certification in the Regenetics Method are as follows:
Potentiation Electromagnetic Repatterning: $1,099
Articulation Bioenergy Enhancement: $1,399
Elucidation Triune Activation: $1,399
Transcension Bioenergy Crystallization: $1,499
NOTE: All fees are nonrefundable. In the event of technical difficulties or unforeseen circumstances, fees can be applied to future Facilitator Certification Intensives or other services or products.
Schedule Your Facilitator Certification Intensive
Trainees will be accepted as our schedule permits on a first-come basis.
Contact us with questions or to schedule your Facilitator Certification Intensive today!
Training Materials
Listed below is everything you need, in terms of materials, to perform your own Potentiation and become certified. If you prefer to schedule your session with us, please review our information on Sessions & Fees.
Regenetics Materials
Professional Regenetics Kit (Paperback Version)
Order the paperback version of the Professional Regenetics Kit (includes paperback of Potentiate Your DNA, all six tuning forks of the already discounted original Solfeggio scale, velvet pouch, and hockey puck for striking) and receive a complimentary paperback of Conscious Healing—a savings of $46.99. $273.99 + shipping
Professional Regenetics Kit (Ebook Version)
Order the ebook version of the Professional Regenetics Kit (includes ebook of Potentiate Your DNA, all six tuning forks of the already discounted original Solfeggio scale, velvet pouch, and hockey puck for striking) and receive a complimentary ebook copy of Conscious Healing—a savings of $38.99. $266.99 + shipping (Choose PDF, EPUB or KINDLE format below.)
Basic Potentiation Kit (Paperback Version)
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Potentiate Your DNA
In this masterful exploration of sound healing by acclaimed and bestselling author Sol Luckman, learn how to activate your genetic potential—in a single, thirty-minute session! Besides teaching you a leading-edge technique you can perform for your family, friends and even pets, Potentiate Your DNA provides a wealth of tried and true supplemental tools for maximizing your results and outlines a pioneering theory linking genetics, energy and consciousness that is sure to inspire alternative and traditional healers alike. 312 pages. $24.99 + shipping
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On June 15, the Pakistan Army launched the Zarb-e-Azb operation in North Waziristan, ostensibly in response to two attacks in Karachi, and at the tail end of several weeks of negotiations with a subset of the Tehreek-e-Taliban.
Up to 600,000 people could end up being displaced according to the federal government. Tanqeed visits them in Bannu.
Full–and more–interviews coming soon.


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The National Archives and Records Administration has told the White House to keep each of President Donald Trump's tweets, even those he deletes or corrects, and the White House has agreed.
The head of the archives, David S. Ferriero, told two Democratic senators in a letter last week that the White House has assured him it's saving all Trump's Twitter blasts.
The archives contacted the White House about the matter because the Presidential Records Act requires such correspondence to be preserved for history. Ferriero did not say when the agency contacted White House officials to remind them about the records requirement, but officials briefed the White House counsel's office about the law on Feb. 2, according to the archivist's letter to Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Tom Carper of Delaware.
The archivist's letter, dated March 30, doesn't describe precisely how the White House is saving Trump's tweets. The Obama administration used an automated system to isolate and preserve copies of President Barack Obama's tweets.
McCaskill and Carper raised the issue of Trump's tweets in early March following a spate of instances in which the president had deleted or altered earlier tweets. The two senators had previously raised concerns about Trump's tweets in a letter to White House counsel Don McGahn.
The two senators also pressed the archives for information about reports that some White House staffers had been ordered to avoid emails or use smartphone apps that do not preserve emails because of Trump administration concerns about leaks to the media.
Ferriero told them he was aware of those press reports but said that White House guidance ``to all employees expressly forbids the use of such apps.'' Ferriero also said he was not aware of government officials who have been instructed to avoid using email as a method of work-related communication.
Trump's almost-daily use of his official White House Twitter account and his separate private Twitter account has been heavily scrutinized by the media and by political friends and foes since his November election and even more so since his inauguration.
Three minutes before he took the oath of office in January, Trump tweeted from his private account that he was 'honered to serve you, the great American people, as your 45th President of the United States." The misspelled word in the tweet was later altered to "honoured" and then the tweet was deleted entirely.
Unlike the archives' clear guidance on saving Trump's tweets, the agency has not provided any guidance to government agencies about preserving communications to and from Trump's smartphones and agencies have not requested guidance, Ferriero said.
The two senators raised concerns with Defence Secretary Jim Mattis about whether communications from Trump's old smartphone were being preserved. Trump reportedly replaced his old unsecured Android smartphone with a secured iPhone but continued using the unsecured phone for tweeting through late March.
The senators had also written to McGahn in February, asking about reports that at least four senior Trump White House officials ``maintained active email accounts on a private email system.'' Newsweek had reported in January that senior adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, chief strategist Steve Bannon, counsellor Kellyanne Conway and press secretary Sean Spicer all were using private email accounts on a Republican National Committee system.
Trump repeatedly criticized Democratic president opponent Hillary Clinton for her extensive use of private emails when she was secretary of state in the Obama administration.
According to an agenda of the Feb. 2 briefing with White House officials, archives general counsel Gary M. Stern and John Laster, director of the agency's presidential materials division, explained that the president and White House counsel were "solely responsible for managing presidential records."
The role of the archives, they added, is mostly advisory, but presidential records can only be disposed of after the White House consults the archivist in writing.


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Why the smart money is flowing into lab space
Once a little-known corner of the real estate world, life sciences real estate is rapidly gaining the attention of property investors.
With a lively base of well-funded potential occupants, a shortage of suitable properties and rising rents, the life sciences sector has all the factors for a strong return on investment. In fact, life sciences research and development (R&D) space is increasingly recognized as a distinct and highly specialized property type, alongside data centers and self-storage facilities.
As such, life sciences companies large and small continue to pay top dollar for amenities-rich locations and facilities in a select group of top U.S. markets. Visit a major research university in San Francisco, Boston, San Diego or any of the other top 10 life sciences clusters, and you'll find biopharmaceutical companies paying a premium to be near the researchers who drive innovation.
"The life sciences industry has a unique dynamic in which established and start-up companies, investment firms, patent lawyers and related resources all cluster around the major research institutions," says Roger Humphrey, Executive Managing Director of JLL's Life Sciences business. "It's all focused on creating and commercializing innovation, which creates demand for real estate."
Investor capital spurs start-up demand for space
For life sciences R&D, the right real estate is in short supply. Laboratory vacancy rates are in the single digits in nine of the top 10 U.S. life sciences clusters, according to in JLL's latest Life Sciences Outlook. In East Cambridge, for instance, only 6.8 percent of lab space is vacant and year-over-year rents have risen 10.2 percent to reach more than $75 per square foot.
Much of the recent demand for life sciences R&D space has come from start-up companies flush with an influx of investor capital. While the overall volume of U.S. venture capital transactions dropped by 20 percent in 2016, life sciences volume dropped by just 8 percent. Only the software industry attracted more investment.
The needs of mature biopharmaceutical companies are also presenting property investors with opportunities. Whether operations are located in the city or the suburbs, major companies are seeking out amenities-rich properties that will help recruit and retain talent.
"These facilities offer investors the security of guaranteed cash flow from long-term leases by credit tenants in a sustainable industry that's facing space shortages," says Humphrey. "If you're a property investor, what's not to like?"
Institutional investors see real estate opportunity
In early 2016, Blackstone Group acquired BioMed Realty Trust, the largest provider of life sciences real estate. The 18.9 million-square-foot portfolio transaction encompassed significant square footage in the top life sciences markets of Boston, San Francisco, Raleigh-Durham and Seattle.
Another eye-catching move was Ventas' $1.5 billion acquisition of the life science and medical real estate assets of Wexford Science and Technology from affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Partners VIII LP, in 2016. The acquisition brought Ventas 25 class-A assets leased by leading universities, academic medical centers and research companies.
"As an asset class, life sciences real estate has come into its own," says Humphrey. "To date, investors have primarily focused on properties in the premier clusters, but watch for this to spill over into other clusters as life sciences real estate as the asset class matures."
Creative solutions to the space shortage
Developers and property investors are responding to rising rents with creative solutions. In San Diego's UTC submarket, for example, most of the 1.1 million square feet of new lab space that became available in the past year is from office buildings that were acquired by investors and converted into laboratories and other life sciences facilities. In fact, San Diego's entire Sorrento Mesa submarket comprises industrial and flex buildings converted into lab facilities.
Urban lab space is becoming more and more popular – a turnaround from the suburban facilities of previous years. In New York City, Alexandria Real Estate Equities has opened Alexandria LaunchLabs, an incubator/accelerator platform, at the Alexandria Center for Life Science. In Boston's Seaport District, Related Beal and Kavanagh Advisory Group are developing Innovation Square (iSQ Seaport), a 375,000-square-foot, LEED-certified laboratory facility for both start-up and established biotech companies.
Similarly, in the San Francisco-Bay Area's Mission Bay/China Basin submarket, Kilroy Realty is developing The Exchange. The 750,000-square-foot facility is not far from the Golden State Warriors' old practice facility, which is being redeveloped to house life sciences companies. Also in San Francisco, the real estate investment trust HCP has started building The Cove at Oyster Point, a seven-building campus with world-class public amenities such as bocce ball courts, a bowling alley and a full gym.
"Real estate decisions have the ability to attract and retain talent as well as cultivate the type of quality work environment that enables companies to prosper," says Humphrey. "This is resulting in bold new projects that have the potential to redefine the future of space and even the industry as a whole."
Indeed, the life sciences sector thrives on the 'new' – new spaces help ideas develop into new innovations and new clusters emerging in response. Where life science innovation goes, the property investors will undoubtedly follow.


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SAVANNAH — Army Pvt. Isaac Aguigui held the Army's lowest rank, served in the military less than two years and never saw combat. Yet Georgia prosecutors say the 21-year-old soldier from Cashmere, Wash., commanded enough authority to form an anti-government militia within the U.S. military with soldiers of greater rank and experience following his orders — including an order to commit murder.
That an untested soldier might possess such power adds another odd twist to an unfolding legal case full of stunning allegations.
Prosecutors in rural southeast Georgia said in court this week that Aguigui and three fellow soldiers at Fort Stewart killed a former Army comrade and his girlfriend last December. Their motive, prosecutors said, was to protect a secret plot to assassinate the president and overthrow the U.S. government — and along the way to bomb a park fountain in nearby Savannah, poison apple orchards in Washington state and take over the Army post where they were stationed. Authorities say the group stockpiled guns and bomb components that were seized from their homes and a storage locker.
Federal authorities have not said publicly whether they considered Aguigui and his associates a serious threat. One private group that monitors home-grown terrorism said it had never heard of Aguigui or his militia group.
"They were never on our radar screen," said Mark Potok, an expert on militia and hate groups for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. "You'd think the whole thing would be a joke except for that two people died and that they apparently spent $87,000 on guns."
Among the other details that emerged this week: Authorities say Aguigui funded the weapons purchases using a $500,000 in life insurance benefits from the 2011 death of his pregnant wife — a death that authorities call "highly suspicious." And in a videotaped interview with military investigators, a prosecutor said, Aguigui called himself "the nicest cold-blooded murderer you will ever meet."
Aguigui was due back in court Thursday along with two fellow soldiers for arraignment on charges including malice murder, felony murder and illegal gang activity in the Dec. 4 slayings of former Army Pvt. Michael Roark and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Tiffany York. Defense attorneys for the three men did not return messages from The Associated Press.
The three are being prosecuted in Georgia's Atlantic Judicial Circuit. The Army filed murder charges against them in March, but dropped them Aug. 15.
A fourth Fort Stewart soldier pleaded guilty to reduced charges Tuesday and told a judge Aguigui ordered two older, more experienced soldiers to commit the killings.
Pfc. Michael Burnett, the soldier who cut the plea deal, told the judge that Sgt. Anthony Peden, a 26-year-old veteran of two tours in Afghanistan whose Army record lists 16 medals and commendations, shot the teenage girl twice at Aguigui's command. Burnett also testified Pvt. Christopher Salmon, 26 with one Iraq tour on his service record, put Roark on his knees and shot him in the head.
Prosecutor Isabel Pauley said Aguigui targeted troubled soldiers for his militia, which he called F.E.A.R. — Forever Enduring Always Ready. Whatever the young private lacked in rank and combat experience, he had something else: roughly $500,000. Pauley said he received the life insurance and benefit payments after his wife, Army Sgt. Deirdre Aguigui, died.
Prosecutors say Aguigui bought $87,000 worth of semi-automatic assault rifles, other guns and bomb-making materials. Aguigui would give Roark money to buy weapons for him, the slain soldier's father said.
"They were using Michael and other kids as straw buyers, giving them money to go buy guns," said Brett Roark, citing conversations with prosecutors. "He wasn't a member of the gang."
Roark and his girlfriend were killed two days after Roark left the Army. The slain girl's older brother said he knew something was wrong when Roark started giving her cash and expensive clothes, sunglasses and other gifts.
"An E-1 (private) in the military does not make big money like he was giving Tiffany," said Nicholas Lee York, who said his sister told him that she and Roark had a "rich friend." ''I heard about their friend Isaac Aguigui and how he would give them a bunch of money."
Aguigui grew up with six siblings in a military family in the state of Washington. Their father, according to a short alumnus profile on his high school's website, retired after serving 20 years in the Army. Articles from Aguigui's hometown newspaper, The Wenatchee World, say Aguigui was home-schooled. His father, Edward Aguigui, did not return a phone message seeking comment.
Isaac Aguigui joined the Army and enrolled in the U.S. Military Academy Prep School, which prepares cadets for admission to West Point, but he never became an officer. Instead, Aguigui's service record shows he arrived at Fort Stewart in November 2010 as a private, working as an intelligence analyst in the Army's 3rd Infantry Division.
Aguigui came to Fort Stewart to join his wife, an Army linguist whom he'd met at the military prep school, according to her obituary. After she returned home from a deployment to Iraq, Deirdre Aguigui became pregnant. A few months later, on July 17, 2011, she was found dead at the couple's home on the Army post. Their unborn son was also lost.
Prosecutor Pauley said in court Tuesday the death of Aguigui's wife was "highly suspicious," but civilian prosecutors and military investigators declined to elaborate. Her father, Alma Wetzker, also declined to discuss his daughter's death, saying it was still being investigated.
Regina Ross-Schmid, an Army spouse at Fort Stewart and friend of Aguigui's wife, said soldiers who served with the woman were never given an explanation of her death.
"When we first were told she had died, what was said was she laid down to take a nap and when Isaac went to wake her up, he couldn't wake her up," Ross-Schmid said.
Ross-Schmid said she met the Aguigui for the first time at a memorial service for his wife on Fort Stewart.
"Everybody who spoke at the memorial was trying to choke back tears, these big strong Army men, and he's not showing any emotion at all," she said. "At the time I said, maybe he's in shock. I don't know. I can't explain it. It just seemed odd."


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Five Questions You Should Ask About Your Destiny
How you look at your life, what you do in life, where you go in life, and with whom… Fll these decisions are wrapped up in what you think about your destiny.
Granted, this isn't a subject that pops up on the radar of most people. But you aren't most people.
The subject of destiny has been defined by various cultures and religions since the dawn of time on this planet. Answers have been supplied. These answers are accepted for a period, and then new cultures and new answers appear.
But such collective solutions aren't necessarily yours. You have to make your own inquiry. And in the end, you decide.
So here are five crucial questions to ask yourself.
One: Is my destiny determined by forces outside myself?
Two: Do I choose my own destiny?
Three: Is my destiny the result of some combination of my own choices and outside forces? If so, how does this "collaboration" work?
Four: Is my destiny inevitably wrapped up in the future of others?
Five: Is my destiny unique to me, apart from the future of others?
In the West, this spirit of inquiry emerged in the Dialogues of Plato, who presented conversations between his former teacher, Socrates, and citizens of Athens.
For the most part, Socrates chose abstract qualities like Justice and Piety to open his conversations; as in, what is Piety? What is Justice? What is the Good?
Now, in the second decade of the 21st century, we are faced with a crisis which threatens to obliterate our civilization. Although I could choose many issues as examples of this threat, I select education itself.
For example, by designed omission, the whole question of The Group versus The Individual has been placed on a shelf where it receives scant attention.
Likewise, free will versus determinism has been excised from serious philosophical discussion.
People say, "Well, we don't have time for all that 'thinking'. It's a luxury we can't afford. We're just trying to survive."
But history proves that when the people leave these matters to a few elite thinkers, by default momentous currents are launched. And then the people are pulled along, whether they like it or not.
Ideas aren't just luxuries or toys. They rescue or drown whole societies.
Of course, if education in all its forms doesn't prepare people to be able to think beyond the ends of their noses, then the prospect of answering the big questions is rendered moot, because people aren't equipped for the job.
The word "destiny" itself has mixed messages. It appears to be associated with a pre-fixed outcome. On the other hand, it can be shaped.
The kind of New Age material that was distorted and imported from the East during the 1960s has left a legacy of "surrender." If you "let go" of enough preconceived perception, you'll drift upward and connect with a greater universal consciousness. Is this so?
Does destiny involve merging into a larger whole? Does it rather involve extricating yourself from that whole?
These aren't questions designed merely for the young. Answering them impacts your future and the future of your children in numerous ways. Neglecting to answer them is refusing to have navigational skills on the open sea.
Americans pride themselves on being practical and pragmatic. They opt for "what works" and discard everything else. But that approach has pitfalls. It excludes, for example, pursuing deep desires in the face of long odds. It ends up in shallow materialism, as if that were the totality of life.
John Dewey, the arch-pragmatist philosopher, defined American education for millions of people. He set its course along a stripped-down path that helped produce generations of dumbed-down worker bees.
Dewey accomplished this by default. His challengers were few, and they were weak. Their supply of counter-proposals was garbled and impotent. Dewey didn't just win the day through top-down manipulation of the American educational system. He triumphed because his opponents were unprepared to argue that human destiny was far wider and deeper than the next practical decision of the moment.
So consider these five questions and understand that your future is, in a real sense, riding on your answers. It always has. This is the way progress happens. People undertake a significant inquiry and come to conclusions. The inquiry may, depending on how honest you are, take five minutes or it may take a year. In either case, the future comes into focus based on your answers.
One could simply ask himself, "What do I really want to do in life?" A very good question. But, as it turns out, the reply to that question is often obscured by prior unasked and unanswered questions.
In other words, a person's prior view of his own existence is already limited, because he hasn't found out what he really thinks about something big. Something like destiny.
These are the famous words Plato placed into the mouth of Socrates: "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Americans are suspicious about this statement when they hear it or read it. They think it implies years of useless and even self-destructive internal wrangling that will come to nothing.
But it doesn't have to be that way. There is productive thought. It's motivated to take the ceiling off limited perception of what is possible in this thing called existence.
If you choose to, you have the natural right remove ceilings. Doing it is part of what and who you are.
Jon Rappoport is the author of an explosive collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED. Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.


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In March 2012 students of the Technical University of Budapest and students from Vojvodina began to plan how to achieve a polarization-based 3D movie. Initially we went to libraries and museums to learn about the history of the castle. We wanted to show how did Buda Castle look like at the time when King Matthias died in 1490. To show that advanced architects, astronomers and scientists have already worked in the castle even before the discovery of America. Based on the documentations we were not sure how did the castle look like. Thanks to Károly Magyar's help we managed to find the best direction how to continue our work. We also relied on the following book: Gerevich László, Exploring the BudaCastle (Budapest, 1966). At the end of summer 2012 all buildings of the former castle were modeled and we have begun texturing the buildings. After a while our work turned to be harder. Our computers could not handle the whole model because of it's huge size. We've got more spectacular pictures from the castle every day. We really liked our work! Next we started to create characters and to animate them. We needed to work very carefully and detailed because of the 3D experience in order to provide an accurate picture of the every day life of the inhabitants of the castle. Once everything is perfectly tearned we have rendered the whole video. We use rendering farm, because of the large size of the model. To do this on a high-performance computer would take us for about 14 years to render. Our film is based on historical research. Because of that era did not bequeath true and accurate sources, so it was difficult to consider which description rely on. In the future we would like to come out with a renewed version every year. Please, if you have any comments, suggestions, advices write to the proposal[at]3dpast.com email address! Describe also the bases of your proposal. We will discuss all the proposals with professionals, and change the new version of the film accordingly. Thank you very much for help! 3Dpast Team |


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Over the years, I've written a lot about servant leadership. I was recently reviewing Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert's book The Serving Leader (Berrett-Koehler, 2003 and 2016) when I realized how much I like the term serving leader—it makes the point that leadership is about doing something, it's not just a philosophy. When you are serving, you are taking action.
In my recent work on servant leadership, I've been focusing in on three actions every leader can take to serve their people more efficiently.
The first action is about Presence. Be present when you're with your people. Focus directly on them—not on the next meeting, or the call you need to make, or the text message that just came in on your phone. Don't let distractions take you away from a living person who is right in front of you. As a serving leader, you need to listen with the intent to learn, ask questions for clarity, and offer the support and direction your staff needs to be able to perform at their highest level. Each person has very different needs, and as a serving leader it takes your concentration and attention to be truly present with each individual. In this 24/7 world, this skill takes practice and commitment.
The second action is Acceptance. Serving leaders look for and build on the strengths each direct report brings to the job. And, realizing no one is perfect, they also identify weaknesses—areas where they might be able to help the person learn and grow. Helping someone develop new skills is perhaps the ultimate act of serving. Accepting people as they are and paying attention to both strengths and weaknesses allows serving leaders to set team members up for success, which serves not only the individual but the entire organization.
The third action is Creativity. Leaders work with teams made up of many different personalities and temperaments—and when you add the complexity of multiple generations in the workplace, the job of managing people can seem overwhelming. Some may see this as a challenge to be managed carefully, but the serving leader sees it as a chance to be creative and invite different perspectives to each project. Magical things can happen when different voices and opinions are shared in a trusting, collaborative environment. It brings about something I call one plus one thinking—where one plus one is actually greater than two. The job of the serving leader is to build a community where everyone feels they are part of the big picture.
I hope you think of yourself as a servant leader—but take it a step further and make sure you are taking the right actions to actively serve your people. Be present and focus on each person individually, accept people's strengths and help them overcome weaknesses, and encourage creativity by inviting everyone to share their perspective. I guarantee that you'll unleash talent and potential that will transform your direct reports, your team, and your organization.


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In many urban and suburban areas, Christmas trees are collected from curbside during the first 2 weeks in January. Be sure to remove all remove all lights, wire, tinsel, ornaments, nails, stands, other NON-Organic decorative materials and other materials that are not part of the original tree. This includes tree stands also. Flocked trees are usually accepted, but not artificial trees. Large trees (larger than the standard 6 - 7 ft tree) may need to be cut in half to be acceptable by your garbage hauler. But scrroll down this page for more specific information and local links.
What happens to the trees? In most cases, the trees are chipped and made into a mulch which is usually made available, free to city or county residents. Important: Never burn your Christmas tree in a fireplace or wood stove. Burning the tree may contribute to creosote buildup and could cause a chimney fire.
Tips: Always follow the links (usually the name of the city or county) below for updated information, as these agencies often wait until the last minute to change dates or update their information (it's government, remember?). If your area is not specifically mentioned below, contact your trash collection agency and inquire!
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