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Raise awareness.Lots of it. Create a viral meme that points to an outrageous but oversimplified issue. Ask people to RT you and tell their friends. Don't have a specific call to action. Continue to do this with a new cause each week until every person in your life zones when they see your name on their feeds.
Criticize. Spend your time reading about people trying to address causes important to you. Write about how they aren't 100% respectful or ethical or inclusive. Propose only solutions that are completely unrealistic or no solutions at all.
Discourage people from asking questions. There's a group of feminists that don't want you to ask questions about feminism. For real though. If you want to know about feminism you should pick up a fucking book and stop wasting their precious time because it's not their job to educate you. I don't get this even a little bit. Write books and websites and lobby for change all you want to but the number one way to get someone on your side is to have a relationship with them. If you could explain to your friends and acquaintances why equality is so important to you, they'll be swayed a lot sooner than staring at some edgy t-shirt you printed. Maybe you think they're boneheads for not already understanding what you're telling them, that's okay. But people have to start somewhere. You did.
Splinter. You found a niche cause like solving cancer, cool! Start your own charity and name it after yourself. Make yourself executive director and put it on Facebook. Start a fundraising campaign to fund your new charity so that you can cover all your start up costs instead of asking people to donate to an established non-profit already in place, working, and with a lower operating cost. I'm sure you know better though!
Be as unlikeable as possible. Get a blog and twitter account you use mainly to shame people for being less knowledgeable than you. Be a generally negative bitch who plays into the worst kinds of stereotypes people have about "progressives" and scare a lot of people away.
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Thank you! It is important to maintain a certain level of sanity with a good balance of who I am following and reading, so I keep a close watch over what appears on my dashboard.
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By: Michael J. Sandel, The Atlantic, April 2012
THERE ARE SOME THINGS money can't buy—but these days, not many. Almost everything is up for sale. For example:
• A prison-cell upgrade: $90 a night. In Santa Ana, California, and some other cities, nonviolent offenders can pay for a clean, quiet jail cell, without any non-paying prisoners to disturb them.
• Access to the carpool lane while driving solo: $8. Minneapolis, San Diego, Houston, Seattle, and other cities have sought to ease traffic congestion by letting solo drivers pay to drive in carpool lanes, at rates that vary according to traffic.
• The services of an Indian surrogate mother: $8,000. Western couples seeking surrogates increasingly outsource the job to India, and the price is less than one-third the going rate in the United States.
• The right to shoot an endangered black rhino: $250,000. South Africa has begun letting some ranchers sell hunters the right to kill a limited number of rhinos, to give the ranchers an incentive to raise and protect the endangered species.
• Your doctor's cellphone number: $1,500 and up per year. A growing number of "concierge" doctors offer cellphone access and same-day appointments for patients willing to pay annual fees ranging from $1,500 to $25,000.
• The right to emit a metric ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere: $10.50. The European Union runs a carbon-dioxide-emissions market that enables companies to buy and sell the right to pollute.
• The right to immigrate to the United States: $500,000. Foreigners who invest $500,000 and create at least 10 full-time jobs in an area of high unemployment are eligible for a green card that entitles them to permanent residency.
NOT EVERYONE CAN AFFORD to buy these things. But today there are lots of new ways to make money. If you need to earn some extra cash, here are some novel possibilities:
• Sell space on your forehead to display commercial advertising: $10,000. A single mother in Utah who needed money for her son's education was paid $10,000 by an online casino to install a permanent tattoo of the casino's Web address on her forehead. Temporary tattoo ads earn less.
• Serve as a human guinea pig in a drug-safety trial for a pharmaceutical company: $7,500. The pay can be higher or lower, depending on the invasiveness of the procedure used to test the drug's effect and the discomfort involved.
• Fight in Somalia or Afghanistan for a private military contractor: up to $1,000 a day. The pay varies according to qualifications, experience, and nationality.
• Stand in line overnight on Capitol Hill to hold a place for a lobbyist who wants to attend a congressional hearing: $15–$20 an hour. Lobbyists pay line-standing companies, who hire homeless people and others to queue up.
• If you are a second-grader in an underachieving Dallas school, read a book: $2. To encourage reading, schools pay kids for each book they read.
WE LIVE IN A TIME when almost everything can be bought and sold. Over the past three decades, markets—and market values—have come to govern our lives as never before. We did not arrive at this condition through any deliberate choice. It is almost as if it came upon us.
As the Cold War ended, markets and market thinking enjoyed unrivaled prestige, and understandably so. No other mechanism for organizing the production and distribution of goods had proved as successful at generating affluence and prosperity. And yet even as growing numbers of countries around the world embraced market mechanisms in the operation of their economies, something else was happening. Market values were coming to play a greater and greater role in social life. Economics was becoming an imperial domain. Today, the logic of buying and selling no longer applies to material goods alone. It increasingly governs the whole of life.
The years leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 were a heady time of market faith and deregulation—an era of market triumphalism. The era began in the early 1980s, when Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher proclaimed their conviction that markets, not government, held the key to prosperity and freedom. And it continued into the 1990s with the market-friendly liberalism of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, who moderated but consolidated the faith that markets are the primary means for achieving the public good.
Today, that faith is in question. The financial crisis did more than cast doubt on the ability of markets to allocate risk efficiently. It also prompted a widespread sense that markets have become detached from morals, and that we need to somehow reconnect the two. But it's not obvious what this would mean, or how we should go about it.
Some say the moral failing at the heart of market triumphalism was greed, which led to irresponsible risk-taking. The solution, according to this view, is to rein in greed, insist on greater integrity and responsibility among bankers and Wall Street executives, and enact sensible regulations to prevent a similar crisis from happening again.
This is, at best, a partial diagnosis. While it is certainly true that greed played a role in the financial crisis, something bigger was and is at stake. The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the reach of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life traditionally governed by nonmarket norms. To contend with this condition, we need to do more than inveigh against greed; we need to have a public debate about where markets belong—and where they don't.
Consider, for example, the proliferation of for-profit schools, hospitals, and prisons, and the outsourcing of war to private military contractors. (In Iraq and Afghanistan, private contractors have actually outnumbered U.S. military troops.) Consider the eclipse of public police forces by private security firms—especially in the U.S. and the U.K., where the number of private guards is almost twice the number of public police officers.
Or consider the pharmaceutical companies' aggressive marketing of prescription drugs directly to consumers, a practice now prevalent in the U.S. but prohibited in most other countries. (If you've ever seen the television commercials on the evening news, you could be forgiven for thinking that the greatest health crisis in the world is not malaria or river blindness or sleeping sickness but an epidemic of erectile dysfunction.)
Consider too the reach of commercial advertising into public schools, from buses to corridors to cafeterias; the sale of "naming rights" to parks and civic spaces; the blurred boundaries, within journalism, between news and advertising, likely to blur further as newspapers and magazines struggle to survive; the marketing of "designer" eggs and sperm for assisted reproduction; the buying and selling, by companies and countries, of the right to pollute; a system of campaign finance in the U.S. that comes close to permitting the buying and selling of elections.
These uses of markets to allocate health, education, public safety, national security, criminal justice, environmental protection, recreation, procreation, and other social goods were for the most part unheard-of 30 years ago. Today, we take them largely for granted.
Why worry that we are moving toward a society in which everything is up for sale?
For two reasons. One is about inequality, the other about corruption. First, consider inequality. In a society where everything is for sale, life is harder for those of modest means. The more money can buy, the more affluence—or the lack of it—matters. If the only advantage of affluence were the ability to afford yachts, sports cars, and fancy vacations, inequalities of income and wealth would matter less than they do today. But as money comes to buy more and more, the distribution of income and wealth looms larger.
The second reason we should hesitate to put everything up for sale is more difficult to describe. It is not about inequality and fairness but about the corrosive tendency of markets. Putting a price on the good things in life can corrupt them. That's because markets don't only allocate goods; they express and promote certain attitudes toward the goods being exchanged. Paying kids to read books might get them to read more, but might also teach them to regard reading as a chore rather than a source of intrinsic satisfaction. Hiring foreign mercenaries to fight our wars might spare the lives of our citizens, but might also corrupt the meaning of citizenship.
Economists often assume that markets are inert, that they do not affect the goods being exchanged. But this is untrue. Markets leave their mark. Sometimes, market values crowd out nonmarket values worth caring about.
When we decide that certain goods may be bought and sold, we decide, at least implicitly, that it is appropriate to treat them as commodities, as instruments of profit and use. But not all goods are properly valued in this way. The most obvious example is human beings. Slavery was appalling because it treated human beings as a commodity, to be bought and sold at auction. Such treatment fails to value human beings as persons, worthy of dignity and respect; it sees them as instruments of gain and objects of use.
Something similar can be said of other cherished goods and practices. We don't allow children to be bought and sold, no matter how difficult the process of adoption can be or how willing impatient prospective parents might be. Even if the prospective buyers would treat the child responsibly, we worry that a market in children would express and promote the wrong way of valuing them. Children are properly regarded not as consumer goods but as beings worthy of love and care. Or consider the rights and obligations of citizenship. If you are called to jury duty, you can't hire a substitute to take your place. Nor do we allow citizens to sell their votes, even though others might be eager to buy them. Why not? Because we believe that civic duties are not private property but public responsibilities. To outsource them is to demean them, to value them in the wrong way.
These examples illustrate a broader point: some of the good things in life are degraded if turned into commodities. So to decide where the market belongs, and where it should be kept at a distance, we have to decide how to value the goods in question—health, education, family life, nature, art, civic duties, and so on. These are moral and political questions, not merely economic ones. To resolve them, we have to debate, case by case, the moral meaning of these goods, and the proper way of valuing them.
This is a debate we didn't have during the era of market triumphalism. As a result, without quite realizing it—without ever deciding to do so—we drifted from having a market economy to being a market society.
The difference is this: A market economy is a tool—a valuable and effective tool—for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values seep into every aspect of human endeavor. It's a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.
The great missing debate in contemporary politics is about the role and reach of markets. Do we want a market economy, or a market society? What role should markets play in public life and personal relations? How can we decide which goods should be bought and sold, and which should be governed by nonmarket values? Where should money's writ not run?
Even if you agree that we need to grapple with big questions about the morality of markets, you might doubt that our public discourse is up to the task. It's a legitimate worry. At a time when political argument consists mainly of shouting matches on cable television, partisan vitriol on talk radio, and ideological food fights on the floor of Congress, it's hard to imagine a reasoned public debate about such controversial moral questions as the right way to value procreation, children, education, health, the environment, citizenship, and other goods. I believe such a debate is possible, but only if we are willing to broaden the terms of our public discourse and grapple more explicitly with competing notions of the good life.
In hopes of avoiding sectarian strife, we often insist that citizens leave their moral and spiritual convictions behind when they enter the public square. But the reluctance to admit arguments about the good life into politics has had an unanticipated consequence. It has helped prepare the way for market triumphalism, and for the continuing hold of market reasoning.
In its own way, market reasoning also empties public life of moral argument. Part of the appeal of markets is that they don't pass judgment on the preferences they satisfy. They don't ask whether some ways of valuing goods are higher, or worthier, than others. If someone is willing to pay for sex, or a kidney, and a consenting adult is willing to sell, the only question the economist asks is "How much?" Markets don't wag fingers. They don't discriminate between worthy preferences and unworthy ones. Each party to a deal decides for him- or herself what value to place on the things being exchanged.
This nonjudgmental stance toward values lies at the heart of market reasoning, and explains much of its appeal. But our reluctance to engage in moral and spiritual argument, together with our embrace of markets, has exacted a heavy price: it has drained public discourse of moral and civic energy, and contributed to the technocratic, managerial politics afflicting many societies today.
A debate about the moral limits of markets would enable us to decide, as a society, where markets serve the public good and where they do not belong. Thinking through the appropriate place of markets requires that we reason together, in public, about the right way to value the social goods we prize. It would be folly to expect that a more morally robust public discourse, even at its best, would lead to agreement on every contested question. But it would make for a healthier public life. And it would make us more aware of the price we pay for living in a society where everything is up for sale.
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If you look up "Dharun Ravi" on Google Image, you would find fresh off the press images of a grim-faced young man. His photos have been time-stamped "5 hours ago", "18 hours ago" and so on. Dharun has been on the news radar in recent days for the court trial of a webcam spying case.
If you look up "Tyler Clementi" on the same search engine, you would find the first page filled with the same self-shot of Tyler: short cropped hair, glasses, and a hesitant smile. There are no time stamps on these photos, because they were not shot recently. Tyler had committed suicide on September 22, 2010. He would have turned 20 on March 1 this year.
Today, Dharun Ravi was convicted of invasion of privacy, witness tampering, among other charges. He also faces possible deportation to his native India.
A lengthy New Yorker profile of the case from February reported that Dharun had texted Tyler an apology after realising Tyler was distraught. But at that point, Tyler had already jumped to his death. Certainly, a tragedy could have been averted if Dharun had conducted with the same level of respect and decorum as he had written:
"I've known you were gay and I have no problem with it. In fact one of my closest friends is gay and he and I have a very open relationship. I just suspected you were shy about it which is why I never broached the topic. I don't want your freshman year to be ruined because of a petty misunderstanding, it's adding to my guilt. You have a right to move if you wish but I don't want you to feel pressured to without fully understanding the situation."
There are consequences, whether you are a founder of a controversial organisation running suspicious campaigns, whether you behaved lewdly under the influence of alcohol in public, or whether you spied on a roommate to shame him in the name of fun. To ill-intentions, there are always consequences.
Extended Reading: The New Yorker - The Story of A Suicide
Off the top of my head, I would recommend Crash, City of God, Persepolis, Maria Full of Grace, and A Separation (the first Iranian movie to win an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - this year). There are so many sociological issues that are addressed in movies, as I have very very briefly written here.
I wish I could afford the time to ponder and write a thorough reply to your question. But since I don't right now, here are some sites that I have bookmarked for my own use, unfortunately I never have the time to go through all these movies either.
I would definitely like to write something more substantial in the near future. Thank you for the question! Good day too. ;)


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Love this salad - everyone who tries it loves the flavors and asks for the recipe. So easy!
Greens with Creamy Berry Dressing
Yield: 6 servings (serving size: 1 1/2 cups)
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- Calories: 115
- Calories from fat: 24%
- Fat: 3.1g
- Saturated fat: 0.5g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.8g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.4g
- Protein: 2.6g
- Carbohydrate: 19.6g
- Fiber: 1.7g
- Cholesterol: 3mg
- Iron: 1.1mg
- Sodium: 295mg
- Calcium: 40mg
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Description This exceptional vase, which rests on a gilded wooden base, takes the form of a stylized boat, complete with rigging, port-holes and a flag. This might refer to the coat-of-arms of the city of Paris. At each side is a face (or mask) crowded with reeds and a faceted bowsprits coming out of the mouth. The lower part is decorated with a scene of sailors packing fish on the front, and a marine themed trophy composed of shells, sea-weed, coral, pearls, a trident, an anchor, a flag and oars on the back, painted by Jean-Louis Morin. The design of the vase is attributed to Jean-Claude Duplessis père. Similar pieces can be found in The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Musée du Louvre, Waddesdon Manor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Royal Collection in the United Kingdom, The Wallace Collection, and The Frick Collection.
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Inscriptions [Factory Mark] On base: Intertwined Lls; [Painter's Mark] Enclosed in apex of Factory mark: M; [Date] Letter: L (1764); [Decorator's Mark] On base in blue: M (Morin, Jean-Louis)
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Consumers value gadgets above good health, CEA finds
As consumers hole up in an economic downturn, the outlook for CE vendors remains bright
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If Black Friday and the holiday weekend was any indication, consumer electronics (CE) vendors have little reason to fear the economic crisis. According to several analysts and industry associations, CE devices ranging from high-definition televisions to gaming consoles will be a bright spot in struggling retail sales this holiday season, with many consumers valuing these devices above their good health.
The National Retail Federation (NRF) found that 172 million people spending around $41 billion total visited or planned to visit stores and Websites over the past weekend, up from 147 million last year. Clothing was the main reason consumers braved the Black Friday crowds, but 36% were out to purchase CE devices. According to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), CE purchases will beat out the NRFs overall projections made for retail this holiday season despite declining from years past. CEA surveys have found that nearly 80% of adults expressed interest in electronics this year, up from 75% last year. In fact, four of the top 10 items on consumers wish lists were CE devices, according to Steve Kidera, CEA coordinator.
Its a tough time, but compared to other industries, CEs are still faring well, Kidera said. In the top list, number 10 was good health peace and happiness was number one, computers were number two and good health was number 10, so I guess a lot of people would rather have a cell phone, a computer or a television than worrying about their health this year.
In particular, CE devices that have fared well so far include major gaming consoles, the Guitar Hero World Tour video game, Canon PowerShot digital cameras and the Acer Aspire netbook computers, according to Mark Sue, managing director of RBC Capital Markets. Other popular presents have been digital picture frames in the $49 price range for a 7-inch frame and the Garmin Nuvi 200, a personal navigation device retailing at $97 over the weekend.
Anecdotal comments suggest consumers will spend 15% to 50% less this holiday, yet consumer electronics seem to be holding relatively well due to dramatic price cuts and share gains from other segments such as clothes and sporting goods, Sue wrote in a research report today, classifying Black Friday and the start of the holiday selling season as mildly encouraging. Margins can't be too healthy, nonetheless, and there might not be too much profit to be shared from a $189 Blu-Ray player $289 two months ago, an $18 Gig USB flash drive or a $279 Atom-based netbook computer.
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The Ohio Rubber Group has selected two students at The University of Akron to receive the ORG Graduate Student Award for 2014. PhD Candidates Ms. Brinda Mehta (Polymer Science) and Ms. Nicole Swanson (Polymer Science)
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On August 22, 2013, Kelly Casanova was presented with the inaugural $2,000 Ohio Rubber Group Member Scholarship Award by Joel Neilsen, Chair of the ORG Scholarship Committee. Kelly is a Mechanical Engineer currently employed at Cooper Tire as a Tire Tread Compounder and is pursuing her Masters in Chemical Engineering at The University of Toledo. In attendance at the ceremony were P. Glenn Arbaugh, Director of Cooper's North American Technical Center, and Kelly's supervisor, Matt Snider, Manager of Compound Development.
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Washington • Senators pressed intelligence officials on Wednesday on their need to harvest tens of millions of phone records from Americans, suggesting that such a massive data-collection effort would be better handled by asking phone companies for specific information on individual suspects.
"It seems to me what's being described as a very narrow program is really a broad program," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said during a hearing on the National Security Agency's phone surveillance program.
"We've saved lives with this; good," Durbin continued. "That's what we want our government to do. Couldn't we also save the same number of lives, have the same impact if knowing my telephone number as a suspect, you could search my records instead of everyone's records in my area code."
NSA Deputy Director John Inglis said that it was possible to ask phone companies to store such data — if the government paid for that, he added — but Inglis later noted that it may not be practical for what the agency needs to do, which is conduct comprehensive queries.
"Breadth is important," Inglis said. "I think that we can take a look at whether this is stored at the provider, so long as you have some confidence you can do this in a timely way. We need to sometimes disrupt an operation that's in play, that's in progress. And so seconds, hours, matter."
The House last week narrowly rejected a measure that would have halted the NSA's bulk collection abilities in favor of phone companies retaining the data themselves. The NSA, under that plan, would have had to ask phone companies for individual data.
It is unclear how such a change would affect the NSA's new Utah Data Center, a massive storage facility set to come online this fall. The center is expected to be the world's largest data center and could hold some of the telephone "metadata" at the heart of the congressional debate and public angst over loss of privacy.
The center was not mentioned in Wednesday's hearing but the program to collect Americans' phone records, but not their content, was front and center.
One of the NSA's biggest supporters, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., defended the data collection by the agency as essential to thwart terrorist attacks — but she also signaled interest in changing the rules, including shortening the five years the NSA can hold the data.
"I support this program," Feinstein said. "I think based on what I know, [terrorists] will come after us. And I think we need to prevent an attack wherever we can from happening. That doesn't mean that we can't make some changes."
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is co-sponsoring a bill with Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., that would narrow the NSA's ability to collect phone data to only records relevant to an ongoing investigation that has a foreign link.
Lee, said there seems to be a disconnect in what the NSA is saying about its programs and the way the programs work and Americans are confused.
"What would you say to my constituents who say, 'I don't want the government having that information. It's not the government's information?' " Lee said.
Deputy Attorney General James Cole said the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has approved the program 34 times and added that there are multiple restrictions on how that data can be accessed and used.
"It's worth having a debate about where we're going to strike that balance between security for the nation and making sure that people's privacy and civil liberty rights are being honored," Cole said. "And that's a tough balance to find, but it's a balance worth talking about."
Leahy noted that the government could strip-search everyone entering a building, close off the borders, wiretap all cellphones and search every home in the name of security but that wouldn't be the right answer to facing a threat.
"There are certain things, certain areas of our own privacy that we Americans expect," Leahy said. "And, at some point, you have to know where the balance is."


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Child Quest International (CQI) wants to remind the public that National Missing Children's Day is honored on May 25th. CQI wants parents to know there are things they can do to keep their children safer and urges parents to talk to their children about interpersonal safety. CQI has developed the attached safety tips as a part of it's ongoing campaign to stop child victimization.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Celebrate Safety: Personal Safety Tips for Children
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
National Missing Children's Day: Honored Every May 25th
Between 1979 and 1981 a series of high-profile missing-children cases became national headlines. Three such cases contributed to the shock of the nation's consciousness bringing attention to the seriousness of child victimization and forever changing the response by law-enforcement agencies to reports of missing children.
On May 25, 1979, Etan Patz disappeared from a New York City street on his way to school. Even before cases of missing children routinely garnered national media attention, Etan's case quickly received a lot of coverage. His father, a professional photographer, disseminated black-and-white photographs of Etan in an effort to find him. The massive search and media attention that followed focused the nation's attention on the problem of child abduction and lack of plans to address it.
For almost three years national media attention was focused on Atlanta, Georgia, where the bodies of young boys and girls were discovered in lakes, marshes, and ponds along roadside trails. By the time a suspect was arrested and identified in 1981, 29 bodies were recovered. The suspect was apprehended, convicted, and now serves a life sentence in prison.
On July 27, 1981, 6-year-old Adam Walsh disappeared from a Florida shopping mall. His parents, John and Revé Walsh, immediately turned to law-enforcement agencies to help find their son. To their disappointment, there was no coordinated effort among law enforcement to search for Adam on a state or national level, and no organization to help them in their desperation.
The tragedies of these children and others exposed a fundamental flaw. There was no coordinated effort between federal, state, and local law enforcement; no national response system in place; and no central resource to help searching families. When it came to handling missing-children cases, the United States was a nation of 50 states often acting like 50 separate countries.
The momentum that began with the disappearance of Etan, Adam, and the 29 missing and murdered children of Atlanta led to photographs of missing children on milk cartons and, ultimately, a nationwide movement. In 1983 President Ronald Regan proclaimed May 25 National Missing Children's Day. Each administration since has honored this annual reminder to the nation to renew efforts to reunite missing children with their families and make child protection a national priority. National Missing Children's Day is a reminder to all parents and guardians of the need for high-quality photographs of their children for use in case of an emergency, and for the need for everyone to pay close attention to the posters and photographs of missing children.
Every year in America, an estimated 800,000 children are reported missing, more than 2,000 children each day. Of that number, 200,000 are abducted by family members and 58,000 are abducted by non-family members, for which the primary motive is sexual. Each year, 115 children are the victims of the most serious abductions; they are taken by non-family members and either murdered, ransomed or taken with the intent to keep.
As a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, Child Quest International is dedicated to the prevention and recovery of missing, abused, and exploited children. If you are in need of services aimed at locating and reuniting missing children with their loved ones, or no someone who is, please contact us at 888-818-HOPE. Child Quest International never charges a fee to law enforcement or searching families for our services.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Wireless Emergency Alerts on Your Mobile Device
A new nationwide alert system will use cell phone towers to send emergency text messages to people in specific locations.
The Wireless Association® and the wireless industry joined the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to offer Americans a robust and reliable wireless emergency alert system.
Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), also known as Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) or Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN), is a national emergency alert system to send concise, text-like messages to users' WEA-capable mobile devices starting April 2012. Wireless providers representing nearly 97 percent of cellular subscribers are participating in distributing wireless emergency alerts from federal, state, local, and tribal government agencies about imminent threats to safety, including severe weather events and missing children.
Only public safety entities can issue the alerts, which fall into three categories:
- Presidential Alerts – Alerts issued by the President or a designee;
- Imminent Threat Alerts – Alerts that include severe man-made or natural disasters, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, etc., where an imminent threat to life or property exists; and
- AMBER Alerts – Alerts that meet the U.S. Department of Justice's criteria to help law enforcement search for and locate an abducted child. This alert system is different than the wireless AMBER Alert program (www.wirelessamberalerts.org).
While these alerts will appear on a person's mobile device similar to a text message, Wireless Emergency Alerts are not text messages. Instead, Wireless Emergency Alerts use a different kind of technology to ensure they are delivered immediately and are not subjected to potential congestion (or delays) on wireless networks.
In addition, Wireless Emergency Alerts are a point-to-multipoint system, which means alert messages will be sent to those within a targeted area. The alerts are location-specific and will be sent to people who have "WEA-capable" devices in the affected areas, unlike text messages which are not location based. For example, if a person with a WEA-capable device from Washington, D.C. happened to be in southern California when an earthquake occurred in that area, they would receive an "Imminent Threat Alert" on their device without signing up or registering for them. The user will receive the alert on their device simply because they are in the targeted area.
"The ability for people to be made aware of AMBER Alerts and potentially aid in the safe recovery of a missing child is going to expand exponentially." says Anthony Gonzalez, Sr. Operations Director for Child Quest International, a nonprofit for missing children.
The alerts will have a "unique audible signal and vibration cadence to emphasize its important," according the wireless association CTIA's FAQ on the program. The messages will be no more than 90 characters in length, and include: an alert icon, info on who is sending the alert, what is happening, who is affected, and what action to take.
"Other benefits are that you don't need to have an app for it, sign-up for location based services, or pay for any additional fees." According to Gonzalez, "This local alert capability is built into the phones technology and can be utilized anywhere your device gets a signal."
Though all the major cell phone providers are all taking part in the alert system, they currently have a limited number of phones that are equipped to retrieve the alerts. That will change as new phones emerge with the built-in technology.
There are a number of WEA-capable devices available today, and many of the new phones that are sold from participating carriers will be able to transmit these alerts. If your device has the CTIA Wireless Emergency Alerts logo, then it is WEA-capable. To receive these alerts, you might need to only upgrade your device's software, rather than purchase a new one.
Mobile users will NOT be charged for receiving these text-like alerts and are automatically enrolled to receive them. Consumers can opt out of Imminent Threat alerts and AMBER alerts, but they cannot opt-out of Presidential Alerts. To confirm Wireless Emergency Alerts are available in your area and your device is capable of receiving the alerts, please check with your carrier.
The latest information on compatible phones is available online.
[Source: CTIA]
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
'QR Codes' Replace Milk Cartons in Quest to Find Missing Children
San Jose, CA - Say you're sitting in a Starbucks and see a teenager who looks just like that picture on the missing-child poster you scanned with your smartphone in Safeway two weeks ago.
But you're not sure, so you whip out your phone and check.
Bingo. It's the girl. You click on the highlighted hotline number, which immediately connects you to the police, who arrive in two minutes flat.
Forget those old forlorn photos on milk cartons. The latest big thing in the search for missing children are "QR codes," a bar-code-like "quick response" technology that puts missing-kid posters in thousands of people's purses and pockets. After Facebook and Twitter, the codes are the latest tools in the tech and social media box aimed at finding kids who vanish.
The day after 15-year-old Sierra LaMar disappeared on her way to her Morgan Hill bus stop three weeks ago, a Santa Clara County sheriff's sergeant called San Jose-based Child Quest International, suggesting that a QR code be put on Sierra's missing fliers.
Her friends and family also have been tweeting about candlelight vigils, posting on Facebook a variety of photos and videos of her and using social media to express sympathy and reach out to volunteer searchers.
Earlier this week, the KlaasKids Foundation encouraged people to swap their Facebook profile pictures with those of Sierra to keep her image in the spotlight in what they called an "online vigil." And volunteers have plastered her missing poster -- complete with QR codes -- across Northern California.
"The problem is educating the community on what a QR code is," said Child Quest's Anthony Gonzalez. "People who know about it rave about it. Others have never seen it and wonder, 'What is this thing on the poster?' "
QR codes are printed squares of jumbled black lines and squiggles. When a smartphone equipped with a free QR code app points the phone's camera at the image, it links directly to a website with more photos of the missing child, information and hotline phone numbers. (Haven't seen a missing poster with the QR code? Aim your phone at Sierra's QR code printed next to this story, or go to http://uqr.me/missing-sierra-lamar and snap a photo of the computer screen.)
"It essentially makes the missing poster portable," said Stephen Watkins, a Toronto man who works with Child Quest and modified QR codes that were first developed by Toyota to track car parts.
The idea came to him, he said, when he was at a Walmart and noticed customers passing missing posters, glancing briefly and moving on. He is using QR codes and other social media to continue his search for his own two sons, who in 2009 were taken to Poland by their mother.
To humanize the QR code, like he did with his sons' and Sierra's, he embeds a photograph of the missing child.
Technology has come a long way since the milk carton campaign in the 1980s, devised by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. That campaign lasted six months and -- despite becoming part of the pop culture of the time -- was considered a failure, said the center's Bob Lowery.
"People weren't really paying attention to the images on the milk cartons," he said. "The only ones paying attention were younger children enjoying their cereal."
When the center opened in 1984, it had a recovery rate of 62 percent for missing children. Now, nearly three decades later, that rate is 98 percent. "It's because of better awareness of missing children and also our ability to connect through social media, Amber Alerts and all the tools we have," Lowery said.
Even as media interest fades, Sierra's family and supporters can continue to tweet and retweet and add sympathetic friends to their Facebook accounts to keep the story going. After three weeks, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is still staffing its emergency operations center around the clock, staffing tip lines, putting GPS devices on their searchers, and keeping tabs on Sierra's so-far-dormant Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Robert McConnell, a computer programmer from Macedonia, Ohio, credits Facebook with getting him closer to finding his daughter. Even though he had full custody, he said, his daughter's mother took her to her native Indonesia and never came back.
"I thought my only avenue might be trying to get as many friends as I could in Indonesia on Facebook," he said. "I posted my daughter's pictures and everything and sure enough, about a year ago, I was contacted by a woman who knew her."
But the trail went cold when the mother and daughter, Bianca Damanik, now 9 years old, moved to somewhere near Jakarta.
But McConnell isn't giving up.
"I'm just hoping when she gets old enough," he said, "she'll go out and try to find me."
[Article 4/4/2012 By Julia Prodis Sulek writer for MercuryNews.Com]
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Clinical Overview
Clinical Features
In neonates two syndromes exist: early-onset (<7 days old) and late-onset (7-90 days old). Both include: sepsis, pneumonia and meningitis. In adults: sepsis and soft tissue infections. Pregnancy-related infections: sepsis, amnionitis, urinary tract infection, and stillbirth.
Etiologic Agent
Streptococcus agalactiae or group B Streptococcus (group B strep).
Approximately 19,800 cases occur annually in the United States in all age groups; approximately 7,600 cases occurred in newborns before recent prevention. The rate of early-onset infection has decreased from 1.7 cases per 1,000 live births (1993) to 0.28 cases per 1,000 live births (2008). Since active prevention began in the mid 1990s, the rate of group B strep disease among newborns in the first week of life has declined by 80%. Racial disparities in disease persist with the incidence among blacks approximately twice that of non-blacks for all age groups.
Neurologic sequelae include sight or hearing loss and cerebral palsy. Death occurs in 5% of infants and 8% of adults.
Direct medical costs of neonatal disease before prevention were $294 million annually.
Asymptomatic carriage in gastrointestinal and genital tracts is common. Intrapartum transmission via ascending spread from vagina occurs. Mode of transmission of disease in nonpregnant adults is unknown.
Risk Groups
Adults with chronic illnesses (e.g., diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease), pregnant women, the fetus, and the newborn are at risk. For neonatal disease, risk is higher among infants born to women with group B strep colonization, prolonged rupture of membranes or preterm delivery. Rates are substantially higher among blacks and the elderly.
Active surveillance for invasive group B strep disease is ongoing in a multistate population of approximately 33 million, including approximately 500,000 live births annually. The disease is not reportable in most states.
This pathogen emerged in the 1970s as the most common cause of sepsis in newborns. Adult disease was recognized more recently and the incidence has been increasing. Early-onset disease has declined by 80% since increased use of intrapartum prophylaxis has occurred.
To implement universal screening in all prenatal health care settings by promoting use of CDC guidelines for prevention of group B strep. To monitor potential adverse consequences of increased use of antibiotics. To identify a strategy for prevention of late-onset disease and adult disease.
Interface with national organizations, health departments and community groups to create awareness and promote a universal screening policy in all prenatal care settings. Continued active surveillance by the Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs) - to monitor rates of group B strep in 10 states in the country; this data can be used for continued research and to evaluate the effect of the newest guidelines.
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Another run down to Portland to catch a Seadogs vs. Thunder game. We tagged along with Tony and Sherry and the boys. It's become a regular tradition. The tickets are reasonable, the seats are great and it gets us out of town to boot.
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Robins Nest
So we have a nesting pair of Robins this year. We've had them in the past in various spots, but this year they build at about chest level in the front shrub. She'll wish she didn't by the time I snap my photos!
Hopefully I'll be able to capture a few shots at different stages and share them with you here.
…..and then Nathan saw the last one hopping across the lawn as Mama cheered him on.
Something to match my chainsaw
We finally broke down and bought a new mower. We we fortune enough to have had the old riding mower put in the contract with the house. I talked the previous owner into leaving it. It was three years old at the time and looking pretty spiffy. But it's had several riders over the past 11 years and has taken its toll. I've been too sick to mow and we've had so much rain that we fell behind. The grass was a foot tall in places by the time the rain stopped. The old mower just couldn't handle it. But the new one could! Husqvarna 46″ 21HP
[Update: after 4 hours, we had to change the oil... I put boy on that too.]
The Great Inventor
Here's a photo from a school project Nathan had… "Living Art". They were able to use the local Art Museum and showcase their knowledge and artwork for the project. Nathan was the presenter for his paired group. He dressed up as Da Vinci and talked about his great inventions.
On the Mound
Nate working his fastball from 60'6″. It's a long toss compared to last years 46′. He did OK, ended up with one K.
Twins Birthday Party
The younger set of twins in our family turned a year older. Its hard to believe. Time flies.. certainly when you're busy and more so the older you get. It was rainy so the go-karts never got their riders, but maybe next time. We all had a good visit and as usual, the baseball rivalry was alive and well.
This year's Lawnboy
A little bit cheaper, but not much. Last years lawnboy got a real job this year, so wasn't able to mow the lawn for me. (I have grass allergies So I thought it was high time Nathan got on the tractor. If he can drive a gokart, he can drive a lawn tractor. THe biggest thing different, the lawn tractor has reverse… that's taken him some time to conquer.
[UPDATE: The old Murray served us well, 11 seasons and it was included in the house at no additional cost]
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Finally. A Long Awaited Answer [Health Update]
I've spent the last six weeks in my worst health condition ever. I've been to the Dr several times, had plenty of blood drawn for various tests and all have come up empty… mono, lyme-disease, meningitis, lupus, cancer, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis and a few more that were wild guesses. That's enough to discourage the simple, typically healthy man like myself. Of course finding nothing, the problem must be in my head, so an SSRI was offered. I knew if I took that, the FAA would ground me for a long time, and not being convinced I was depressed, I push back hard on it. I don't like to take Advil, let alone some "side effects are worse than the symptoms" Rx.
A couple people recommended a nutritionist/chiropractor down state and like all the other recommendations I'd received, I gave them the polite "thanks, I'll look into it". But there comes a time when nothing else is working, you're willing to think outside the box. It turns out this guy does Contact Reflex Analysis. You know, that "acupressure" like method of letting my body, through its electrical energy, tell the Dr what was wrong. Sure, why not.
Never in six weeks had I been so relieved to hear his initial findings… "You're suffering from Adrenal Fatigue, we'll have you back on your feet soon enough". ?? Yeah, that much confidence exuded from him. "I know the problem, I have a solution". Recovery starts today. Just having an answer to the problem was enough to boost my energy levels 2 fold. The next steps were to continue to get rest and take some supplements. Not drugs, supplements. You see, the medical field (they're great, but lacking sometimes), doesn't know how to diagnose Adrenal Fatigue. It's also known as non-Addison's hypoadrenia - Addison's they can and will test for, but by the time your body has collapse into this state, you're more than bedridden, you've been hospitalized for adrenal failure.
Although I have a longish road ahead, I look forward to seeing improvements very soon and returning to my old self (several years ago) in due time. Adrenal recovery can take several weeks or several months, depending on the state one regressed to, I'll be a few months at the least.


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She was also chair of the Minnesota Republican Party from 1963 to 1969.
Nancy's life will be celebrated in Rochester. Details haven't been announced yet. Ranfranz and Vine Funeral Homes is handling the arrangements.
Brataas was 86.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas - The Mizzou men's and women's swimming and diving teams will compete in the 2013 SEC Swimming and Diving Championships this week, hosted by Texas A&M Feb. 19-23 at Student Recreation Center Natatorium.
The five-day event pits the men's squad against nine other league foes (Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas A&M), while the women face off against 12 teams (Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt).
Action gets underway on Tuesday, Feb. 19 with diving preliminaries starting at 11 a.m., while swimming competition kicks off during the finals session at 6 p.m. Wednesday - Saturday, morning prelims will start at 10 a.m. and finals at 6 p.m.
Texas A&M will stream all prelim sessions and finals sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Friday and Saturday's finals will stream live on ESPN3. Additionally, ESPNU will televise the Championships on March 4. The women's show will air at 3 p.m. CT, while the men's show will start at 4:30 p.m. ET.
Tuesday, Feb. 19
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Women's 3-meter (finals)
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Wednesday, Feb. 20
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10 a.m. 500 Free (prelims)
200 IM (prelims)
50 Free (prelims)
1 p.m. Women's 1-meter (prelims)
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Thursday, Feb. 21
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Friday, Feb. 22
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Guest can greet the New Year at Divan Istanbul Asia with beautiful views of the Marmara Sea and the Princes' Islands in a double room, including New Year's brunch and late check-out until 4.00 pm for 169 € + VAT, per person. To start the New Year refreshed in both body and soul, Nerolie Fitness & Spa offers 25% discount on massage services.
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Why to buy Remanufactured Equipment
Remanufactured equipment (sometimes called "refurbished" or "reconditioned," depending upon the dealer) is an option that allows both fitness facilities and home users to gain high quality, high-end commercial equipment at very low prices -- anywhere from 20-60% off the cost of a brand new unit.
Remanufactured versus Refurbished versus Reconditioned. Unfortunately, there are no industry standard definitions for these terms and what you get will vary from company to company. Make sure to ask what a company's definition of what they are selling you is because you might be surprised at the answer. Some companies will just wipe a unit down, touch up the paint and then send it out the door as "remanufactured." Beware of these companies!
Let's go over the life of a piece of gym equipment destined for remanufacturing. Most larger gym chains lease their equipment instead of buying it. This allows them to trade in their equipment every two years or so. Once that equipment has been returned (either to the manufacturer or the lease agent), it is then resold to a remanufacturer. A quality remanufacturer will then strip the unit down to the frame, sanded down to remove any traces of rust (a number of less reputable vendors might just paint over rust, so beware!) and then repaint it using the same high end paint ($250-300/gallon!) used by the manufacturers themselves. Then, all wear items are replaced -- bearings, grips, rollers and so on. Diagnostics are then run on the electronics to make sure they are up to snuff and then cleaned up or replaced. On most equipment (treadmills and ellipticals, for example) most problems will, luckily, come in the form of the control board. Luckily because the boards can generally be replaced for $30 or so and take almost no time to reinstall.
We also find that remanufactured equipment has a lower return or repair rate than new equipment. This may sound counter intuitive, but because the units are gone over and serviced so thoroughly, any defects or problems that might have come out of the manufacturer are found and fixed as part of the servicing. Repair and service issues on remanufactured units typically only amount to about 3% of the equipment we sell.
With a little bit of research, going the remanufactured route will allow a smaller fitness facility to compete with larger chains by offering competitive fitness equipment while saving money. In fact, many fitness trainers and gyms are finding they are able to reach a profit much earlier by taking advantage of the lower cost and high reliability of remanufactured equipment. It also lets home users purchase the high-end commercial equipment they work out on at their local gyms for a fraction of the price.
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London, England (Sports Network) - China's Zou Kai became only the second athlete to win the men's Olympic floor exercise twice after successfully defending his title on Sunday.
Zou won gold at the 2008 Beijing Games in this event and came in with the top qualifying score of 15.833. He bettered that mark to win the gold, nailing a 9.033 execution score while posting the second-highest difficulty score. He totaled 15.933, topping Japan's Kohei Uchimura, the reigning world champ, by 0.133.
Only the Soviet Union's Nikolai Andrianov had won this event twice before Zou, doing so in 1972 and '76. Zou also gave China its fourth gold in this event, matching the Soviet Union's record.
Zou earned his second gold of these Summer Games after China also won the men's team competition. The 24-year-old also grabbed three golds in Beijing and cited his experience in the sport as a reason for his success.
"I started gymnastics when I was four. Between four and nine years, I only did it recreational. I started with full time gymnastics when I was nine," he noted.
Russia's Denis Ablyazin took bronze despite matching Uchimura's score. Uchimura, who won the all-around gold medal at the London Games, earned the tiebreaker with a higher execution score over Ablyazin, posting a 9.100 mark to the Russian's 8.700.
It marked the third medal of these games for Uchimura, the first Japanese gymnast of any gender to accomplish that feat since 1984.
The United States' Jacob Dalton finished fifth with a score of 15.333.


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The Exeter Ship Canal, sometimes just called the Exeter Canal, downstream of Exeter, Devon, England was built in the 1560s which means it pre-dates the "canal mania" period and is one of the oldest artificial waterways in the UK.
At the start of Exeter's history, The River Exe was tidal and navigable up to the city walls enabling it to be a busy port. In the 1270s or 80s, the Countess of Devon, Isabella de Fortibus, built a weir across the river to power her mills (this weir is remembered in the name of the nearby suburb Countess Wear). This had the effect of cutting off Exeter's port from the sea and damaging its salmon fisheries.
In 1290, trade with Exeter's port was restored, only to be blocked by a new weir built in 1317 by Hugh de Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon (Isabella's cousin), who also built a quay at Topsham. Because of the blockages on the river, boats were forced to unload at Topsham and the earls were able to exact large tolls to transport goods to Exeter.


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Northshore School District parents and students are invited to attend the Career and College Readiness Open House from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Jan. 30.
Attendees have the chance to preview the 15 career and college readiness programs offered for the 2014-1015 school year. Programs include American Sign Language, Auto Service Technology, Composites Engineering and Manufacturing, Computer Game Design, Computer Science, Culinary Arts, DECA (Marketing), Event/Hospitality and Tourism Management, FBLA (Future Business Leaders), Health Science Careers, Robotics, Sports Medicine, Sustainable Engineering and Design/IB Design & Technology, Teaching Academy and Welding.
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We all do it... So, why not have a discussion about it!
We all do it... So, why not have a discussion about it!
This past weekend my father-in-law and I rode out to the Millwood Lake area in Ashdown where he wanted to show me some of his favorite camping spots and fishing holes. And along the way the conversation turned to golf, another one of his favorite past times.
Yesterday (9/23) marked the official arrival of the Fall season. The weather was a lot cooler this morning if you noticed. But have you ever wondered what the arrival of Fall looks like from the heavens.
North Carolina Woman named "Starshield" has a bad excuse for speeding last week.
Pizza man gets hurt in accident, cops deliver the pizza!
Dog attack thwarted by insertion of a finger in it's no, no place!
I have to admit, my husband and I just don't get these Lincoln car commercials with Matthew McConaughey. Luckily, Ellen Degeneres was able to explain it all!
As you probably know around here, the seasons don't always arrive or match up with the temperatures and the weather.
The Texas Department of Transportation is about widen a roadway and bridge in Bowie County in Northeast Texas.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has approved plans to widen a section of Farm-to-Market Road 991 and add safety lighting to US 67 east of Redwater
Some Northeast Texas Roadways will be getting new surfaces next year.
Earlier this week we had fun with our Question of The Day, If you could get a life supply of something, what would it be? We got a great response we got on Facebook!
Technology at our finger tips may not be the best thing for us, especially when it comes to work. Because of smart phones we now can work all the time. A new study says that's really really bad for our health.
Lady Antebellum's '747' hits land on Sept. 30, and the album's final track, 'Just a Girl,' may be one of the most heartfelt on the album. In this video made exclusive to Taste of Country, the trio talks about the song and what the lyrics truly mean.
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Applying for Youth Programs
If you are totally psyched to join an SCA crew, then you are the person we need. Don't think you're going to be disqualified for not remembering which state Yosemite is in. This may sound simplistic, but it's true: The only thing you need to show us is that you will be a great crew member. The catch is that we will only see you through your application materials, so you need to be sure they are showing you at your best.
New Candidates
- Sign up to join a program by completing a New Registration.
- Sign into the email that you listed on the new registration page to get the password for your MySCA account.
- Go to the MySCA Login page to sign in with your email address and your password. You will be asked to create a new password. Write down your username (your email address) and password so that you remember it for future use.
- Complete the basic application and the appropriate program application.
There is a one-time application fee of $25 dollars for US citizens ($40 for non-US citizens) for most youth programs. if you have questions, please contact email@example.com or your local rep.
Returning Candidates
Login to your application. On the first page, click "Update" next to your application. Review all of the information to ensure that it is correct. Pay special attention to the following sections:
- Update your Availability Dates at the top of the home page.
- Review and update any red tabs in the Basic Application (when the tabs are blue they are complete)
- Answer the new questions in the appropriate Youth program application
Application Status
After you submit (new candidates) or save (returning candidates) your application, return to the Home tab of your MySCA portal and verify that your Application Status is listed as "Complete." If not, click the "Update" link next to the application and review the process to see what information is missing.
Tips for Submitting a Successful Application
Every year we end up with more applicants than positions. We make our selections based on outstanding applications that tell us who you are and why you would be a great crew member. Selecting the right applicants is very important for our programs. We find that there are five areas that are particularly useful to us when we are evaluating applicants:
- Demonstrated leadership skills and/or responsibility
- Participation with extracurricular groups or volunteer organizations
- Good social and group skills
- Time spent outdoors and high comfort level with outdoor situations
- Interest in ecology or environmental topics
If you keep these criteria in mind when you're filling out your application, it will help you give us the kind of information we really need. Having trouble thinking of what to say about yourself? Here is a short brainstorming list to get the ball rolling:
- Do you have a passion for the outdoors or the environment?
- What's the closest thing to SCA you've ever done?
- Have you ever held a job?
- Do you help neighbors with chores and projects?
- Do you do some kind of strenuous work? Farm chores? Sports?
Make sure your application is complete. Have all your materials in during the winter months, including references. In order for your application to be guaranteed review, your application should be completed by March 1st.
Help us get to know you through your essay answers. Do not underestimate the importance of this section. By reading your answers and references (and we read every single one) we are able to learn if you are likely to be comfortable working in the field or if you seem like someone who can handle a more challenging work project. We only place people on crews we feel will suit them – because that's how we make happy crews. So make sure you paint a clear picture of yourself.
Pick a good range of availability dates. Selecting accurate availability dates is absolutely vital. In order to be considered for a crew you must be available for every day the program is in the field. Including the widest window of availability will ensure that you are considered for all programs.
Be flexible. Although Alaska and Hawaii may sound like spectacular places to spend your summer, there is something special to be found in every part of the country. You might be surprised at how much you enjoy a camping crew along the Natchez Trace Parkway in Tennessee, or a community crew working in your own neighborhood. You can dramatically increase your chances of selection if you are willing to try new things and visit new places.
Pick a good reference. The best references are those who have seen you work in groups outside of school. It's never bad to have a teacher or staff person give you a reference, but SCA really isn't an academic program. A more valuable perspective comes from someone who can comment on your performance in a program that shares something in common with SCA. Examples of great references are coaches, supervisors, youth mentors, or ministers.
Keep us in the loop. If any of your information changes after you submit your application, be sure to let us know. Here are common updates that we would love to hear about:
- Your availability dates have changed
- You earned the rank of Eagle Scout
- You completed a first aid course
- You hiked 30 miles of the Appalachian Trail
- You volunteered over Spring Break
You can always log back into your application and update any section. The changes you make take effect immediately.