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At every screening we want to build connections between the moving personal stories & ideas in our films and the local environmental context and action here in the Bay Area.
Our Community Allies are leading environmental, arts and community organizations across the Bay Area. They bring the expertise and opportunities for our audiences to make lasting environmental change.
We collaborate with our Community Allies at the Festival and throughout the year, to bring more environmental films & discussions to wider audiences and promote the ongoing work we are all involved in.
We ask all our Allies to help us get the word out about our film screenings by announcing Green Film Fest 2019 and specific screenings of choice in your August or September newsletter and on social networks including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
If possible, we would also like to include the Festival in your event calendars or anywhere else that might promote the film screenings.
In return we offer the following benefits:
Making Connections
- Your organization name/link on our website: Thank you page; and Take Action page; and on your co-presented program's ticketing page.
- Thank you in a pre-Festival email blast; and mention on Facebook and Twitter.
- Your organization name on the on-screen slide loop at all Festival screenings in September 2019, including the Castro Theatre.
- At your related film screening you will be publicly acknowledged as a Community Ally and co-presenter
- Opportunities to distribute your printed collateral materials at Festival HQ and at venues during the Festival.
You will be given 2-4 complimentary tickets for your staff or for promotional giveaways, depending on the size of the venue.
Don't hesitate to contact us to find out more.
Thank you to our 2018 Community Partners!
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From 16th September 2019, Staffordshire University students can now access mental wellbeing and counselling support via one combined Student Wellbeing service.
We all experience problems and difficulties that affect our mental wellbeing and as a student, you may well find yourself experiencing some of these. These might be related to issues and events at university or they might be connected to previous experiences or issues in your personal life. Some examples of the sorts of things you might be affected by are: Relationships (with friends, partners or family); Self-harm: Eating difficulties; Study problems; Loneliness; Suicidal thoughts; Depression; Self-confidence; Sexuality; Bereavement; Anxiety; Gender; Addiction; Cultural issues; and Self-esteem.
If you're finding it difficult to engage with your studies or struggling to cope more generally with any of these types of issues, you can access support through the Student Wellbeing service. To access support and arrange an assessment appointment, simply fill in our online form by clicking the link below.
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If you have any difficulties filling out the form or have any queries, contact our admin team by telephone on 01782 294976 or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
Please note: we are not an emergency mental health service. Please do not complete and submit the online form if you are seeking support in an emergency.
We are open Monday to Friday, 8.45am – 5pm, except for public holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year.
If you are looking for help in an emergency or feel you need support urgently, please see information on our web pages about emergency and 24 hour support via the link below.
Once you have completed and submitted your form, we will look at the information you have provided and contact you to arrange an initial assessment appointment with you, or to signpost you to another service if we are not the most appropriate service for you. We aim to respond to submitted forms within 2 working days (not including weekends) during term-time, and within 5 working days (not including weekends) out of term-time, not including public holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year, when we are closed.
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- August 7, 2018
- Healing Violence Committee Comes to Completion
On June 2nd, 2018, the Healing Violence Committee commemorated 20 years of work guided by their mandate.
- March 23, 2018
- Commemorating 20 Years of Healing Violence
For the past 20 years, a standing committee established by the Sisters of Providence has been working hard to raise awareness about violence and its underlying causes, and to move to concrete actions to eradicate violence especially against women and children.
- July 14, 2016
- Clergy sexual abuse and bursary follow-up
As a follow-up to our conference last September 11 and 12, 2015, entitled "Healing the Church: Diagnosing and Treating the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis" the Healing Violence Committee of the Sisters of Providence wishes to report on the work we have done since that time.
- July 13, 2016
- Suggestions on further steps for healing the church
These suggestions came out of two day-long conferences held in September 2015 on the them of Healing the Church: Addressing the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis." They are made available for your consideration, presented according to theme.
- December 9, 2015
- Healing the Church 2015
The invitation to heal the church by addressing the crisis in clergy sexual abuse was accepted by more than 320 people who participated in conferences at the Providence Motherhouse September 11-12.
- September 11, 2015
- CKWS - Keynote speaker discusses clergy sexual abuse
A special conference was held this morning at the sisters of providence motherhouse — called "Healing the Church."
- May 18, 2015
- We have turned our attention to sexual violence in the church
The Healing Violence Committee lays out the reasons they ventured into a conference on clergy sexual abuse, and how the September 12, 2015 conference will play out.
- April 7, 2014
- Women Do Peace
You know about best-laid plans? After 10 years of holding great conferences, the Congregation's Healing Violence Committee had sworn off them. But then, a great synergy happened.
- April 30, 2012
- New Vision for the Future
On October 11, 2011 members of the Healing Violence Committee met at Marillac Villa to reflect upon our 1994 mandate, and upon a new direction to which our Provident God is calling us at this time in our history.
- February 21, 2012
- Change Makers
The Sisters of Providence are being celebrated as 'Change Makers' - females who have made a difference. 'Change Makers' is a one day photo exhibition that kicks off International Women's Week and will feature Kingstonians making real progress in the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.


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Hope everyone had a fun long weekend. I spent most of it stuck on the couch, thanks to my bum foot. I binge-watched every episode of "Stranger Things" (loved it), but I was also productive: I registered for some autumn stair races!
FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm about to humbly ask you to donate money to charity on my behalf for the umpteenth time, so grab your wallet. I need your help so I can compete in three fantastic events… including my first race in an Olympic venue!
Nope, that's not a typo. There's going to be race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which hosted the track and field events, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies, during the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics. The first stadium to be used as an Olympic venue TWICE!
I'll never be an Olympian, but in December, I'll be racing in the very same stadium as modern-day track superstars Carl Lewis and Florence Griffith Joyner, as well as Babe Zaharias, who won gold twice in '32, then switched to golf, won 10 LPGA titles, and is widely considered to be one of the best athletes of the 20th century. (Look her up!)
I'm very excited. It's a stair race, that goes up and down the aisles, and it benefits the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. I've competed in the CFF Climb in Los Angeles for the past three years, when it was held in a 54-story skyscraper, but they've moved it to the Coliseum this year. While I'm bummed I won't end a race on a rooftop overlooking the entire city, the thought of racing in an Olympic venue gets more and more exciting every time I think about it.
The CFF hasn't released details about the race yet, so I don't know how long it is, how many steps or aisles, or anything like that. But there was an option, during registration, to sign up for the "Super Stair Race," a course twice as long as the as-yet-unannounced regular course. I don't know what I've gotten myself into, but I signed up for that. Why not? As I've shown in Portland, Seattle and Denver, I don't leave unclimbed stairs on the table!
Now it's time for the polite and gracious request for your hard-earned cash. This race is a fundraiser for the CFF, which does great work for for those dealing with a terrible disease. I need to raise at least $150 to compete at the Coliseum. Can you please help? CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION!
Speaking of the CFF, their Orange County chapter does a stadium stair race every year called Hike the Halo, and I've signed up for that as well! It's a race up and down the aisles in Angel Stadium, and it'll be my fourth consecutive year. Me at home base:
I set a personal best last year, finishing the 2-mile/2,000 step course in 27.21. That's my goal to beat this year!
Hope you haven't put that wallet away! I need to raise at least $100 for the CFF in order to compete in Hike the Halo. Can you please help? CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION!
Lastly, I also registered for a race happening at the end of the month – just a few short weeks away! It's the Stair Climb for Los Angeles, benefiting the Ketchum-Downtown YMCA, and it's up to the roof of the 75-story US Bank Tower, which has the tallest stairwell west of the Mississippi. I've done this race three times before (read my most recent race recap), and it's exhilarating.
One more request for money: I need to raise at least $70 dollars so I can race up the US Bank Tower. Can you please help? CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION!
Thank you so much for your consideration. Racing is a great way that I keep on track with my health and fitness goals. In fact, I just figured out that I've done at least one race every month for the past year! In total, I've done 19 races since this time last year, most of them stair races, and most of them because you all so kindly gave from your heart to support me.
One of the reasons my injured foot is driving me crazy is because I'm getting anxious to keep training. I give these races my all, and suspending my training due to injury just sucks. My training got off to a great start last month, and I don't want to lose that momentum!
Keep it up, David!
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ROCKVILLE – Calling Maryland a hotbed for human trafficking, Gov. Larry Hogan (R) announced several initiatives to combat the problem plaguing the state.
Hogan signed an executive order Thursday creating the new position of anti-human trafficking director, an appointed position to help combat the problem. In addition, Hogan announced new funding for a variety of programs to help research and develop solutions to human trafficking.
Finally, Hogan said he would support a bill, which legislators will introduce on the first day of the 2019 legislative session in January that will increase time served for some felony human traffickers.
Hogan said three regions in Maryland are hotspots for human trafficking: Baltimore, Prince George's County and Montgomery County.
"The chilling reality is that Maryland's central location and access to major highways and airports like I-95 and BWI make our state a hotbed for human trafficking," Hogan said.
Human trafficking is the transportation of people for the purposes of forced labor or sexual slavery. Many of the victims are young and female. Both the state and the County have both forms of human trafficking – forced labor and sexual slavery.
Hogan briefly choked up, as he delivered his prepared remarks saying as a father himself it was hard for him to comprehend the suffering that many human trafficking victims have gone through.
"As a father, you know I'm heartbroken for these daughters and sons who are being victimized and brutalized," Hogan said.
As part of the state's initiative to combat the problems, 13 counties will receive $4 million of Maryland Criminal Intelligence Network grants to identify and dismantle criminal networks that are trafficking people. Montgomery County will receive $257,000 in MCIN funding.
Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett said that despite Montgomery County's affluence it is among the top places in the state and country for human trafficking.
"In the state of Maryland, which is one of the better educated communities in all of the United States – probably one of the more affluent – we have a problem that people often do not identify with a state such as Maryland and certainly, a jurisdiction such as Montgomery County," Leggett said.
According to Montgomery County Police statistics, there have already been 11 incidents of human trafficking in the County in 2018, up from four total in all of 2017.
Hogan also announced support for the Felony Human Trafficking Act of 2019.
Last year, Senator Susan Lee (D-16), sponsored a bill that would increase prison time for people convicted of felony human trafficking, by reclassifying some human trafficking crimes as violent crimes. The reclassification will apply to human trafficking crimes where a person is convicted of trafficking a child or a person with the intent to make the victim perform a sexual act.
While Lee's bill passed the Senate in the last legislative session, the bill failed to pass the House of Delegates because of a lack of time left in the legislative calendar, Lee said.
"I think we just ran out of time, like a lot of bills," Lee said. "There were so many bills during the 2018 legislative session. There were a number of bills that didn't get through."
In addition, Hogan announced the state will provide $5 million in funding to help assist victims of human trafficking with services such as providing emergency shelter, housing assistance, job training, a 24-hour hotline and trauma therapy.
As part of the slew of proposals, the University of Maryland will receive $500,000 in funding from the state to help create the Maryland Crime Research and Innovation Center that will focus on developing law enforcement solutions and other prevention programs to help combat human trafficking.


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Four local students were awarded $20,000 in scholarship funding from Modernism Week and OneFuture Coachella Valley.
The mission of Modernism Week is to celebrate and foster appreciation of midcentury architecture and design, as well as contemporary thinking in these fields, by encouraging education, preservation and sustainable modern living as represented in the greater Palm Springs area.
In an effort to fulfill this mission, as well as support our local community, the Modernism Week Scholarship Program was launched in February 2011. This program provides scholarships to local students pursuing college educations in the fields of architecture and design.
In 2018, $20,000 in scholarship funding was awarded to the Coachella Valley's own students: Xitlali Casarrubias, Karla Roman Wong, Joseph Gonzales, and Karen Morales Mesa.
"We are so proud to award scholarships to these deserving and talented students who want to study architecture and design and return to the Palm Springs area to contribute professionally to our local community," said Modernism Week Executive Director Lisa Vossler Smith. "Our scholarships are also renewable for four years to help students complete their programs and fulfill their dreams."
Scholarship recipient Karen Meza will be studying architecture at Cal Poly Pomona – a field she wanted pursue since her freshman year of high school. "I feel absolutely grateful to have been selected as a scholarship recipient," Meza said. "Not only am I receiving financial aid from an organization that supports my field but I'm also getting help from professionals who have experience in this occupation."
"Receiving this scholarship means that someone believes in my success," shared fellow scholarship recipient Xitlali Casarrubias. "This support encourages me to power through the hard times and keep pushing forward, and I will not stop until I achieve my dream of becoming an architect! After graduating from UC Berkeley, I plan to earn a master's degree and then work under an architecture firm."
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student Karla Wong will be entering her final year in the undergraduate program, and has secured an internship at an architectural firm with the intent of obtaining her Architecture license. "Receiving the scholarship was more than a blessing," Wong stated. "It only takes one person to believe in you, for you to get that chance you been waiting for so long; and I can't say thank you enough for having this opportunity and been awarded the scholarship. The scholarship is more than just financial help, it symbolizes a support system made of individuals rooting you on along your path to achieving your dreams."
We were proud to partner with OneFuture Coachella Valley, who provided matching funds to award each student with $5,000. OneFuture Coachella Valley works to help all students graduate prepared for college, career, and life — expanding and enhancing the local workforce so that our youth and economy thrive.
Congratulations to these future architects and all Coachella Valley students!


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Published on 1 Sep 2019
Sentinel North announces the opening of its excellence scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships competition, from September 1 to October 10, 2019.
These grants and fellowships aim to encourage the best candidates to undertake or pursue research activities within the Sentinel North research program in a transdisciplinary environment.
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Candidates who stand out by the excellence of their academic record and the innovative and multidisciplinary potential of their research project are invited to submit their application.
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Jessica Leeds, now much older at 74 than she was when the incident occurred, alleged that Trump had molested her over three decades ago. She met Trump on a flight to New York in the 1980s, and was seated beside him when the alleged assault took place. She said his arms were all over her, "he was like an octopus, hands all over the place…"
Ms. Leeds wording is the wording of a sexual assault case from two years ago and her number is the same as the Clinton Foundation – curious. Snopes says this is false.
She fled to her original seat – she had been switched to first class and went back to passenger seating – but she never told anyone.
The media now has
five eight of these women and it's exactly what they did to Herman Cain. His attackers disappeared after he dropped out.
Why does Ms. Leeds have the same number as the Clinton Foundation? More of the dirty politics of the Clintons? Or is this a Soros brain child?
Jessica Leads, who is accusing Trump of rape, has the same phone number as the Clinton Foundation… that's curious https://t.co/m3FJIqJM8e pic.twitter.com/ZzQgzu9yKO
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Why I love my Windows Phone 8
By Guido Marchetti, Office 365 Specialist for O2 Telefonica, MJ Flood Technology.
It's all about the latest and greatest smart phone. Apple and Android are without question the dominant market forces, for now. Apple clearly captured first mover advantage with its market leading and trend setting iPhone. Equally, Android has a number of manufacturers producing simply stunning devices, the best of which in my opinion, is probably the Samsung.
And then there is Microsoft's offering which has undergone quite a number of reincarnations over the years. Microsoft could be accused of having a few 'false starts' under their belt with their mobile platforms, but their latest, Windows Phone 8, could be about to change all that.


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It should come that my love of foods, cooking, and eating reaches the accoutrements associated with those pursuits. Also, should you be prepping salads, they'll remain crisp longer should Mom/Wife/Nurse T-shirt you store any dressings and oils privately in a different container, claims cook Candice Kumai, former variety of Lifetimeis Cook Oneself Thin" and TLCis Homemade Simple." (She notices that kale stands up much better than finer salad greens.) Only snow, when you are prepared to look in and eat.
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Cigar and Rum Pairing
Classic vs Classic
For this month's pairing I decided to prepare two classic cocktails that everyone should be ready to make at home. I also decided to pair the cocktails with a cigar that could be smoked within 30 minutes.
For both cocktails I'll be using Flor de Caña 18 Year Old Rum from Nicaragua. When tried neat, it is very drinkable, silky, has caramel and mild oak notes. The ex-whiskey barrels provide well-rounded background notes that allow for the lengthy aging to take place without being overpowering.
The first cocktail is a Rum Manhattan, we've used this recipe in the past and it lends itself very well for this type of rum, allowing it to shine through.
Flor de Caña
Rum Manhattan
3 oz. Flor de Caña 18
1 oz. Vermouth Rosso
Use an easy to find Vermouth, so you can always keep one at home. If using an opened bottle of vermouth, just make sure it is in good condition first. Vermouth, like all wines, can become oxidized over time.
The second cocktail is a crowd-pleaser: the Rum Negroni. Making a Negroni with rum results in a more agreeable cocktail and it normally uses only three ingredients in equal proportions. For the rum version, just like for the Boulevardier (American Whiskey Negroni), you can increase slightly the amount of rum.
Rum Negroni
1 1⁄2 oz. Flor de Caña 18
1 oz. Vermouth Rosso
1 oz. Campari
Arturo Fuente Gran Reserva
For the cigar I chose the Arturo Fuente Gran Reserva Chateau Natural (50 x 4 1⁄2), which should last about 30 minutes. It is made with a blend of tobacco leaves from different countries and has a medium body that should be ideal for both cocktails.
We will do the pairing simultaneously with both rums, to see how it unfolds during the first and second thirds of the smoking session.
As I light up the cigar, the tobacco notes begin to permeate my senses and I find that the Rum Manhattan is a perfect match: the rum is bold enough to rise above the Vermouth and the mildness of the first third of the cigar allows the rum to take center stage. The Rum Negroni is a bit more complex at first, even though it is balanced after increasing the amount of rum, as I explained earlier.
The smoking time is short and taking turns sipping both cocktails actually rounds up the experience, making it more enjoyable. As the session progresses the Rum Negroni starts to take the lead, offsetting the increase in intensity from the tobacco, reaching an excellent balance by the end of the second third, as I expected from the beginning.
Some people may think it is a crime to mix a rum of this age in cocktails, but when prepared with the correct proportions, the results are excellent. I hope you are able to find the ingredients so you can replicate this pairing.
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The combination of cinnamon and honey has long been not only a tasty favorite but a trusted home remedy for a large number of ailments going back to Ayurvedic medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine. The antiseptic and protective attributes of each ingredient are well-respected, and science is continually uncovering anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and other additional benefits from each of them. However, combining honey and cinnamon together seems to enhance their value as natural remedies beyond what they can do alone.
Caution: Not all cinnamons are made equal. The most common form of cinnamon contains relatively high levels of coumarin, a chemical that can cause liver damage over long-term usage. Please see these posts.
Honey and Cinnamon Health Benefits
Especially popular among those interested in complementary and alternative medicine are the honey and cinnamon cures for acne, arthritis, bad breath and other common health conditions.
No remedy combination is a cure-all. Still, as a cough and cold remedy, general immune booster, antioxidant, arthritis fighter, and for cardiovascular health the cinnamon and honey remedy combination seems very effective.
Continue reading to learn how Earth Clinic readers used the Cinnamon and Honey remedy to cure various ailments.


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Introduction: scope and purpose of this guidance
Introduction: scope and purpose of this guidance
What is this guidance about?
This guidance aims to improve access to high quality contraceptive services, especially for young people up to the age of 25. The recommendations cover:
Assessing local need and capacity to target services.
Commissioning coordinated and comprehensive services.
Providing contraceptive services for young people.
Tailoring services for socially disadvantaged young people.
Seeking consent and ensuring confidentiality.
Providing contraceptive services after a pregnancy.
Providing contraceptive services after an abortion.
Providing condoms in addition to other methods of contraception.
Communicating with young people.
Training and continuing professional development.
Who is this guidance for?
The guidance is for: commissioners, managers and practitioners who have a direct or indirect role in, and responsibility for, contraceptive services. This includes those working in the NHS, local authorities, education and the wider public, private, voluntary and community sectors. It may also be of interest to young people, their parents and carers and other members of the public.
Why is this guidance being produced?
The Department of Health (DH) asked the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to produce this guidance.
The guidance should be implemented alongside other guidance and regulations (for more details see sections 4 and 7 on implementation and related NICE guidance respectively).
How was this guidance developed?
The recommendations are based on the best available evidence. They were developed by the Programme Development Group (PDG).
Members of the PDG are listed in appendix A.
The guidance was developed using the NICE public health programme process. See appendix B for details.
Supporting documents used to prepare this document are listed in appendix E.
What evidence is the guidance based on?
The evidence that the PDG considered included: reviews of the evidence, economic modelling, the testimony of expert witnesses, stakeholder comments and fieldwork. Further detail on the evidence is given in the considerations section (section 3) and appendices B and C.
In some cases the evidence was insufficient and the PDG has made recommendations for future research.
More details of the evidence on which this guidance is based, and NICE's processes for developing public health guidance, are on the NICE website.
Status of this guidance
The guidance complements, but does not replace, NICE guidance on: long-acting reversible contraception, looked after children and preventing sexually transmitted infections and under 18 conceptions (for further details, see section 7).


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8 Expert Tips For Picking the Right Childrens Party Catering Service In Brookfield
When it comes to the things that can make or break an occasion, few are as crucial as the quality, taste and appearance of the food and beverages you serve. A lot is riding on your decision which catering service to work with, and if you think this decision really isn't that important, take a look at it this way, remarkable catering can save an occasion that's on the rocks, however bad catering will usually send out guests to the doors.
In addition, due to the fact that catering is typically the # 1 or # 2 line-item expense for many occasions, the caterer you select is also a significant financial choice and can affect how much money you have actually left over to invest in other areas depending upon food costs and amounts.
Add in that catering services can vary drastically in their pricing and the kinds of meals and services they use, and the process of choosing a catering service can figuratively and actually seem like you are comparing apples to oranges.
# 1 Responsiveness And Personal Interest In Your Requirements
Of all the event and catering professionals we talked with, this turned up over and over and over again, generally because how responsive and interested a catering service is throughout your preliminary discussions is a sign of how they will perform throughout the length of their contract with you (and more on agreements later on).
A potential catering service should be discovering as much as they can about you in your first few discussions with them, so you ought to anticipate them to be talking and asking concerns about 20% of the time and you offering answers and detailing your needs about 80% of the time.
# 2 Ability To Handle Your Particular Type of Occasion In Brookfield 3338
Not every catering service is best or every kind of occasion, and lots of caterers themselves freely confess this.
So when interviewing your Brookfield caterers (and you need to speak to a minimum of 3 caterers for any occasion with an affordable spending plan), you need to be specific about the kind of occasion you are planning and the kind of food and/or presentation you are anticipating. Otherwise, you might wind up choosing a catering service who simply isn't a good suitable for the type or style of your event.
Practically every caterer has a basic menu or menus to select from, and numerous do offer some level of built-in flexibility to adapt these menus to your specific needs by replacing particular items and/or personalizing others.
However, the standout caterers will surpass standardized menu choices and be willing to develop remarkable fare that matches a lot more specific style and dietary needs.
# 3 Willingness To Supply Tastings
How will you ever know exactly what a caterer can do unless you sample their goods? And more particularly, how will you know what the menu items you are considering will taste like unless you specifically try them?
Some people avoid asking to sample the specific items they want for their event due to the fact that it seems like a hassle for the caterer, however it is standard to ask for a tasting of exactly what you are meaning to order prior to you sign on the dotted line.
In addition, you can request wine parings for these tastings if they are appropriate for your occasion (once again, be prepared to pay a cost, it's a small price to pay to guarantee you select the best catering service). And when you are sampling the food, also take care of how it exists, as any caterer who takes the time to effectively display a sample will most likely be most likely to make that type of effort on your event day.
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Every detail needs to be consisted of in the agreement, consisted of selected menus, variety of portions and/or people to be served, beverage/bar service details (if suitable) and all rates and additional services.
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Picking up where his grandparents left off nearly 30 years ago, Jack Holden has kept a straight line in the Holden Herefords ranch he runs in Valier. His grandfather, Les Holden, bought his first Line One bull in 1947, and Jack Holden continued line breeding the Herefords after he took over the operation in 1987 at the age of 21. Just as they did in his grandfather's days, Holden's cattle maintain top-quality genetics.
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To help strengthen Montana's beef genetics, Holden and Mytty were eager to accompany Marty Earnheart, the Montana Department of Agriculture's Meats and Livestock marketing officer, on a trade mission to Uruguay in the fall of 2014. The South American country has a strong cattle market that has experienced considerable growth in the past five years.
The group visited 10 farms and met with 16 different producers. All were purebred herds, both Hereford and Angus.
"We hope to increase sales to Uruguay," Earnheart says. "In the past, we've had some sales, but with their ability now to ship beef to countries like China, Russia and others in the region, and their exports poised to increase quite a lot, we hope to back-sell what they're shipping out."
"They're losing a lot of cattle land to farming and to crops, so they need to have a bigger, more efficient cow on less land. They're looking to Montana genetics to do that for them," says Earnheart.
Holden, who has exported frozen breeding material to Australia for nearly 30 years and ships embryos to Scotland, England, Canada and Uruguay, says the trip was beneficial.
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Earnheart traveled to Costa Rica later in the year to develop a cross-breeding project.
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The University of Michigan- Dearborn will host an academic and professional lecture on public health policy and medical/legal marijuana in Michigan at the Fairlane Campus South on December 3, 2015.
The lecture is titled, "Why Public Health is Best Policy Route for MM and for Legalization 2016″. The U of M- Dearborn has a Public Health Policy program. The lecture will be led by Professor Michael Whitty as part of his lecture series and features noted cannabis activists and speakers Jamie Lowell (3rd Coast Dispensary, Michigan ASA, MILegalize) and Rick Thompson (The Compassion Chronicles, Michigan NORML, MILegalize).
The event was organized by Professor Whitty, a member of the U of M-Dearborn faculty. Whitty, also known as "Dr. Detroit," has taught at the U of D- Mercy and in several universities in California. His lecture series is popular, and previously included a discussion titled, "AIDS and the Origin of Medical Marijuana: A Unique Marriage".
Lowell and Thompson make their appearance approximately one week before each is due to speak in Washington, D.C. as part of the High Times National Business Summit 2015. Lowell will be receiving the H. T. Trailblazer Award; Thompson will be delivering a lecture titled, "Emergent Markets in the Midwest".
The Dearborn lecture takes on a somewhat urgent tone as mainstream media focuses on recent events in Detroit regarding medical marijuana dispensaries, and in Lansing regarding pending bills in the legislature. Communities like Warren and Royal Oak are pondering additional restrictions on caregivers and patients, while both Portage and Keego Harbor said YES to local legalization proposal during voting in the general election earlier this month.
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Erwin Bohatsch, born in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, in 1951, lives in Vienna and has been a professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts since 2005. As one of the central protagonists of the Neue Wilde (New Fauves), who have revived the aesthetic phenomenon of painting in answer to the conceptual art of the nineteen-seventies, Bohatsch has contributed to seminal exhibitions such as Zeitgeist at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin 1982, An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art New York 1984, and Avantgarde of the Eighties at the Los Angeles County Museum 1987. Other important museum exhibitions: Kunsthaus Bregenz 1998, Verläufe Gradients Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz and Museum Moderner Kunst Passau − Stiftung Wörlen 2006, China Retour. Erwin Bohatsch, Herbert Brandl, Gunter Damisch, Hubert Scheibl, Walter Vopava, Otto Zitko, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Shanghai Art Museum, New Art Museum of China, Beijing, Shaanxi Art Museum Xian, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guang Zhou 2005/2006, Erwin Bohatsch – Manfred Wakolbinger "Strömung" MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst Duisburg 2006, Wann immer vorerst Bank Austria Kunstforum Vienna 2007, Sammlung Veronika und Peter Monauni Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Vaduz 2009, Painting, Process and Expansion Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna 2010, Realität und Abstraktion Museum Liaunig Neuhaus Carinthia 2011.
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Each month after our book club discussion, we will share some highlights from the discussion itself, and also some of our own thoughts that we may not have gotten to share during the livestream.
Last month we read Leaders Eat Last, by Simon Sinek. You do not have to have read the book in order to understand this blog post. It was written in a way that cites and quotes from chapters so as to be implicitly understood. If you would like a preface, however, you may listen to Simon Sinek's Ted Talk on Leaders Eat Last; it is a perfect cliff notes for the book. If you are inspired to read the book and do not own it yet, you may purchase it on Amazon here! We hope to continue this book discussion ad infinitum within the comments section of this post, and welcome any and all of your thoughts!
As I read Leaders Eat Last, I was amazed by how perfect this book was for our first book club pick! It is poignant and relevant as it covers many topics we discuss here on the Gold Millennial Blog.
I will share our livestream discussion questions, some answers from book club members who participated, and some additional ideas to inspire us to take Sinek's genius beyond the book.
1. What was your biggest takeaway from this book? What surprised you most?
"I would say the biggest takeaway was just how vital building personal relationships with your coworkers is. There is no such thing as work-life balance. We are cohesive beings. We thrive in a world that is emotionally connected and supportive in an authentic, deep way.
When it comes to friendships, I realized that social media has watered down friendship to a stamp. Healthy relationships require regular consistency of quality heart-to-heart raw, vulnerable sharing of life. This is what is healthy, safe, and the springboard for personal success, for corporate success, for the success of the human race as a whole.
Don't let the internet cultivate a disconnected culture of abstraction. Value your relationships by investing in them near or far. Dare to be raw and real."
– Angela
Here Angela is referencing Chapter 15 "Managing the Abstraction," in which Sinek says that when numbers and data start representing people, the people are dehumanized. A statistic or a news report which describes how 1,000 people died tragically, does not hurt our hearts like a story about one single tragic death (p. 136-138).
People become dehumanized when they are at a distance from us, whether physically or metaphysically, as is the case when people are numbers. It becomes easier for leaders to send out 1,000 pink slips when they don't know any of those 1,000 people.
Practically, this means that companies can lead better when they limit groups to "Dunbar's Number" of 150, as science shows that this is the maximum number of relationships humans can handle (p. 143).
Sinek recommends meeting with co-workers at least weekly for a lunch or other social gathering for which there is no agenda, and no discussion of work (p. 207). If we never get to know each other, how can we ever expect to trust each other?
Leaders can also bring in constituents from outside the company to tell their stories to staff (p. 146-149). This is particularly impactful for agents and sales teams, but I can see it being quite powerful in any industry.
Imagine you are a teacher, burnt out and bogged down by the drudgery of school every day from 8am to 3:30pm with a classroom of crazy children. What if an adult were to come in and tell you about how a teacher changed his life – a story like this?
When I was a teacher, I heard this story, and I was instantly a blubbering mess. I will say that I was marginally more inspired to work hard for my students over the next week, but that magic faded. Which makes sense considering the study Sinek cites on page 147, which showed that "our bosses telling us how important our work is, is nowhere near as powerful as us getting to see it ourselves." I can see that if Teddy himself had come in and told his story, rather than a staff member having read it out loud to us, it would have meant even more.
As for my own biggest takeaway, I feel like I already intuitively understood the concept of the Circle of Safety and stewardship of good leadership, but I loved having Sinek's theory and terminology to cast a solid narrative around my intuition.
So I didn't feel really surprised by a lot of what I read in the earlier chapters. What really surprised me was some of Sinek's insights about Millennials at the end of the book. Coming of age in an age of instant gratification I feel has done us the most damage. It has made us feel we are failures when we have not even begun.
"It's as if many Millennials are standing at the foot of a mountain and they can see what they want – to make an impact or find fulfillment – they can see the summit. What many can't seem to see is the mountain." (p. 265)
I feel this sense of impatience and expectation that Sinek is talking about so strongly, especially when I think back to some of my first blog posts: "What I heard from Failure" and "Follow Your Heart is a Lie." I have had a lot of different jobs and careers in my life and I've started a lot of projects and clubs and organizations and through all of them I see this common thread of me wanting, perhaps even expecting, everything to happen sooner than it ever possibly could.
Sinek talks about an "elusive career fulfillment" that Millennials seek and can never seem to find. And I've been heading in the direction of believing that it just doesn't exist. I thought I was just jaded by all the fuckery that there inevitably is in every single industry on this planet.
But now I wonder if it does exist – it just might take us twenty years to get there and a lot of us are too impatient to wait, or really what it is is that we have no idea that it takes that long. We think it's something that comes to us rather quickly. But it actually takes quite a long time. It cannot be rushed, or even achieved sooner by hard work. Time is the only factor.
I think we hear a lot of success stories like Vani, The Food Babe, whose tiny little hobby blog came to fame when one post muckraking a national yogurt chain went viral. Millennials point to her story and say "Look! She did it! Why can't I manifest that with my vision board too?" What we don't understand is that people like Vani just got lucky. She didn't write that blog post expecting it to go viral. Before she wrote it, the only people who ever read her blog were her mom and her husband. She really just stumbled into fame and stumbled into career fulfillment. I don't believe that kind of synchronous stumbling happens on all of our paths.
What we have to do is slow down, and have some patience! As a generation I think our biggest, real flaw is that we think something is wrong with us, or more likely we think something is wrong with the world, when we don't find that One Thing right away, or ever.
I think we need to realize that not only may it take us our entire lives to find our One Thing, a One Thing may not even actually exist for us. And that's not something to be ashamed of. And it doesn't mean we can't still discover a path towards a fulfilling career.
A One Thing and a fulfilling career are not always synonymous. I know Millennials "want to make an impact," but we don't need to be setting off fireworks in our lives every single day, or even with every job we have.
2. When are some times you have felt like you were inside a Circle of Safety? Outside?
The concept of the Circle of Safety is a theme throughout the book (Ch 3).
"A lion used to prowl about a field in which four oxen used to dwell. Many a time he tried to attack them; but whenever he came near they turned their tails to one another, so that whichever way he approached them he was met by the horns of one of them. At last, however, they fell a-quarelling among themselves, and each went off to pasture alone in a separate corner of the field. Then the lion attacked them one by one and soon made an end of all four. – Aesop, sixth century B.C."
(p. 24)
"By creating a Circle of Safety around the people in the organization, leadership reduces the threats people feel inside the group, which frees them up to focus more time and energy to protect the organization from the constant dangers outside and seize the big opportunities. Without a Circle of Safety, people are forced to spend too much time and energy protecting themselves from each other." (p. 26-27)
When I worked at the school, I felt like I was very much outside of a Circle of Safety. My stories are reminiscent if not identical to the stories of staff from Goldman Sachs that Sinek relates on page 164. At the school, staff quit almost daily and there would always be two rumors after they left – one that they had quit, and another that they were fired. So we never knew the truth. We were all left wondering if they had been fired, and if we were going to be next.
We spent a lot of time talking about all the problems in the school and our bad feelings and our fatigue and hopelessness, who to trust and who we shouldn't talk with about these things. It diverted a lot of energy away from the job we were supposed to be focusing on – teaching the kids.
The leaders of the school told us things like, "the best thing you can do for us is solve your own problems," and when we spoke up during meetings, we were shot down. Collaboration was not only not encouraged, it was squashed. Everything the leaders said and did created an atmosphere of "every man for himself." I learned very quickly to keep my mouth shut about my problems, because they might be perceived as failures on my part and cause for dismissal or warnings.
I feel like I understand Sinek's Circle of Safety so intimately now that I have been in a situation where I was so far outside of it.
3. How do you feel about Sinek's description of the generations (ch 11-12)(ch 24)? Do you find them to be accurate?
What are some personal stories you can share about how the generational stereotypes have been true or not true?
After I read chapters 11 and 12, I was excited to hear from some of the older generations who have actually lived through Sinek's history lesson, so I was thrilled that my grandma read the book with us and participated in the book discussion. Here is what she had to share:
"I was born in '43 and I have a lot of aspects of the generation before the boomers. I save everything, in case I might need it some day. I grew up in a culture of need and want, so we had to do that.
When you went to work somewhere, you worked there for the rest of your life. When Grandpa went to work for UPS, he was going to work there for his whole life. People didn't flit from job to job like they do today." – Grandma Bernie
I found it fascinating to read about how our culture's history created the characteristics, beliefs, perspectives, and lives of individuals who lived through the fires of their times. As my Grandma corroborates, in her day, jobs weren't just jobs – they were careers, and they ended with a gold watch and a retirement package.
Today, not only do we not get a gold watch, we don't get the time of day, and we don't even usually get a retirement package. Most companies have stopped offering retirement packages altogether. In Colorado, and in many other states throughout 2018, teachers have been protesting and striking against threats to pension cuts and elimination. This is absurd. The only actual financial benefit of becoming a teacher – that guaranteed pension at the end of a thoroughly exhausting career – is no longer sacred. It is nothing less than a disgrace that this is how we treat the stewards of the next generation.
As a millennial, I felt like I had authority to speak as a millennial, but reading Leaders Eat Last gave me new insights into not only how our generation believes and behaves, but why we do so. I don't doubt my ability to represent our generation with pride, optimism, and a healthy dose of reality, but now I see clearly that there are a myriad of millennial perspectives outside of my own personal box of reality.
I see how things like participation awards, from which I was sadly not exempt, have negatively affected my world view and the way I function (or fail to function) in society. I also see how we are being asked to adapt to a world we were not raised to live in. The world is not purposely against us, but it is constantly shifting beneath our feet. Sometimes I feel like being a millennial is a bit like playing a real-life game of The Floor is Lava. If you want to go somewhere, you have to leap.
4. Should you be accountable for your behavior both on and off the clock? On social media? Why or why not?
Sinek discusses how abstractions like social media can lead people to abhorrent behavior, as if they are not accountable in the virtual space (Ch 15, p. 140). "An online community gives shy people a chance to be heard, but the flip side is it also allows some people to act out in ways they probably never would in real life."
What examples have you seen of people being unprofessional on social media?
As Sinek says, the overconfidence people get from social media can go both ways. It can help shy people share and connect socially, but there is also this shadow side to it, and the really, really dark corners where the Internet trolls lurk! It's hard not to be anywhere online these days without reading ridiculous comments from people that they would never dare to utter in the light of day, or rather, off-screen.
"Online accountability is SUPER important! This is a big issue in a lot of gaming communities, which often strive to ensure players don't bully or speak hate in chat. I think having accountability online helps create a Circle of Safety." – Mia
If we want to look at some really big examples, it's easy to google Trump's most embarrassing tweets and find a lot of things he (or whoever is behind his account) should not have tweeted. For example, "Fox viewers give low marks to bimbo @MegynKelly will consider other programs!" and in response to outrage, he was totally unapologetic, responding, "Over your life Megyn, you've been called a lot worse, wouldn't you say?" As if that makes it any better!
5. My favorite anecdote is about Captain Marquet, "True Power," p. 176-184. What is it about the Captain's story that makes it so powerful? What characteristics does the captain embody that we can emulate to become good leaders?
What I love most about the captain is his humility. The problem with most leaders is that they let their power go to their heads, rather than realizing that power belongs in the hands of the people. Marquet realized this when he disbursed power amongst his team, by shifting authority and holding individuals accountable for their own actions.
Marquet is quoted as saying "What happens when the leader is wrong in a top-down culture? Everyone goes off a cliff." He realized very quickly that "if he was going to succeed, he would have to learn to trust his bottom-ranked crew more than he trusted himself. He had no choice." (p. 179)
I think the whole point of this story is that good leaders don't pretend to have all the answers. When they don't know something, or need help, they model responsibility and show they care for their team by asking for help or delegating tasks to others who are more competent at whatever it is they cannot do.
Leadership is not dictatorship. Leadership is service. When we lead, we serve our team, we serve our constituents, and we serve our community.
6. Which of Sinek's ideas about what Millennials can do (p. 297-302) are you most excited to integrate into your life? Or if not so excited, which do you think you could most benefit from?
I am not very excited about cold turkeying my phone, but I recognize that it is the practice I need to integrate most in my life. According to statistics, 83% of Millennials sleep with their phones. I am certainly no exception. And while I am not ready to relinquish that creature comfort just yet, I am willing to take some baby steps away from my phone.
Starting with leaving my phone plugged in upstairs in the mornings while I go downstairs and GSD. I've also resolved to keep my phone out of sight at mealtimes, and model for my children appropriate self-regulation of screen time.
7. Besides limiting access to technology (p. 302 – 305), what can we do as parents to help prepare the next generation to become the next leaders of this world?
Besides mitigating the distractions of technology, we can also help our children survive in this increasingly complex world by letting them fall, and reminding them that falling does not mean a total failure to get up the mountain! They ought to expect to fall many times while climbing. I think a greater awareness of the fact that there is a mountain, and that it can take a very long time to fall-climb it, will set our children up for success, rather than setting them up with the Millennial expectation that they can just fly to the top of the mountain (in a private jet they manifested with their vision board).
Whenever I hear the Panic at the Disco's 2012 song "High Hopes," I think about Millennials. I know they write sins not tragedies, but in what I find to be a tragic parody of our generation, Brenden Urie sings,
"Had to have high, high hopes for a living / didn't know how but I always had a feeling / I was gonna be that one in a million… Mama said / fulfill the prophecy / be something greater / go make a legacy / manifest destiny / back in the days / we wanted everything / wanted everything."
It is only his line "back in the days" and the past tense of "wanted" rather than "want" that I feel is perhaps a nod to the fact that we believed in epic futures for ourselves once upon a time, but that magic has now faded, as we have become jaded.
It is my ultimate wish for my children… If I am able to give them absolutely nothing more from life than this… I want for them to grow up believing that fairy tales are possible, but never expecting that fairy tales will come true for them.
8. (Angela's Bonus Question!)
What would a TRUE leader DO with social media?
Leave your answers to this and any other question in the comments below 😉
Click here to purchase Leaders Eat Last, by Simon Sinek.


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Title: My Last Empress
Genre: General Fiction
Author: Da Chen
Source: Free for review from Amazon Vine Program
Rating: 3
Sexy Rating: 5
Description from amazon.com:
When Samuel Pickens' great love tragically loses her life, Samuel travels the globe, Annabelle always on his mind. Eventually, he comes face to face with the mirror image of his obsession in the last place he would expect, and must discover her secrets and decide how far he will go for a woman he loves.
Da Chen immerses the reader in the world of the Chinese imperial palace, filled with ghosts and grief, where bewitching concubines, treacherous eunuchs, and fierce warlords battle for supremacy. Da takes us deeply into an epic saga of 19th century China, where one man searches for his destiny and a forbidden love.
This is not the type of book I usually seek out, but Da Chen is a local author and I was curious. In the beginning pages I thought I would probably not be able to finish this novel. There were so many euphemisms for genitalia and sex that it was almost laughable. But I went on and although the subject matter concerning a young teenager smacked of pedophilia I found the story of 19th century china and it's sensibility, or lack of, fascinating.
It was an okay read for me. The prose was often poetic and the obsessive madness of the protagonist, Sam Pickens, was well written.


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NZ history of milling
Milling processes have been refined since Roman times. During the 1840s and 1850s, windmills and watermills repaced the steel handmill, producing a much finer product. Most of the common machines of the present-day mill were developed by 1900. Nowadays, nearly all New Zealand wheat is milled by the roller-mill process. The grain is cleaned and then fed between a series of rollers which shear, scrape and then crush the particles. It is the aim of the miller to remove the outer layers of the wheat grain and to obtain the greatest possible amount of the whitish interior of the grain, the endosperm.
Flour from different wheat strains can be divided into soft, hard and very hard depending on its milling properties and protein quality. Soft flours are difficult to mill by conventional means and have low protein content making them ideal for cakes and many biscuits. Bread making requires harder wheats and most of the wheats grown in New Zealand are in this class. Finally, spaghetti and other pasta use an especially hard wheat, Durum, in their manufacture.


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