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This is a reminder that academic classroom VCR support ends at winter break, approximately eight weeks from now. Any remaining classroom VCRs will be removed at that time. If you have not already updated your VCR/VHS based materials to a newer format, you need to do so right away.
In our previous communications (March, October and December 2013), we shared that the Pickler Media Library has been replacing many of the educational and feature film VHS titles with DVD format media. If you have VCR/VHS based materials that you still need to replace please contact Sharon Hackney at 785-7366 or firstname.lastname@example.com to make arrangements.
The ITS Service Center and the Learning Technologies staff can also provide guidance to anyone needing to make their VCR based academic materials available in DVD format. There are many issues present when dealing with copyrighted materials; copyright law, the TEACH Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act etc., and we will work with you to help you find the best legal solution for your existing VCR based materials.
We do recognize that there may be some instances where a VCR player is still needed on occasion, and the Pickler Library classroom (PL103) will be available as a group media viewing room (i.e., if needed, you can reserve this room to play VHS tapes).
If you have any questions please contact the ITS Service Center at x4544.
The Learning Technologies Team has now rescheduled our lynda.com workshop! It will be held next Wednesday, September 24th at 12:30 pm in the Multimedia Lab – PML204, right next to the IT Services Help Desk Area. We hope you can join us for a brief introduction to lynda.com and the many useful tutorials you can find on this website! We look forward to seeing you there!
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Due to the variety of Events scheduled for today, the Learning Technologies Team has decided to postpone the lynda.com workshop. It will be rescheduled for a later date, to be announced in the near future. In the meantime, if you have any questions regarding lynda.com, please don't hesitate to call our office at 660-785-7750 to ask any questions you may have. We encourage you to attend Constitution Day Events on campus today!
The Learning Technologies Team is pleased to announce a Fall 2014 Semester lineup of workshops for faculty focused on a variety of teaching with technology topics. These workshops will primarily take place every other Wednesday throughout the Semester at 12:30pm, with an occasional workshop occurring at a different time. Please see the schedule below for a full list of topics, dates, and times! The LTT Team will also be joining Dana Vazzana for her Magna Series Monday Morning Mentor Program. These sessions offer brief 20 minute presentations from faculty all over the United States on a wide variety of topics. Feel free to bring your lunch and join us! There's plenty of time to watch and still have time for lunch and good conversation. We are also glad to schedule an individual consult following following any topic of special interest. Thank you, Dana, and the APD committee for sponsoring this lecture series!
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE MANY EVENTS SCHEDULED ON CAMPUS TODAY, THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE! The first scheduled workshop held by the Learning Technologies Team will be on Wednesday,
September 17th on lynda.com, at 12:30 in the Multimedia Lab – PML204. lynda.com helps anyone learn software, technology, creative, and business skills to achieve their personal and professional goals. With a lynda.com subscription, members such as Truman State University receive unlimited access to a vast library of high-quality, current, and engaging video tutorials taught by recognized industry experts. You are free to join us in the Multimedia Lab for a brief demonstration on the power of lynda.com, then we strongly encourage you to attend Constitution Day festivities, including the guest speaker at 1:30!
On Tuesday, September 23 at 1:00 pm in SUB Georgian Room A, we will be watching the Magna Online Seminar Getting Started With Classroom Assessment Techniques with Dana Vazzana. This is an interactive online seminar that we will be watching live on the large screen. You can read more about the seminar and its content here: Classroom Assessment Techniques seminar. A late lunch will be provided. If you plan to attend, please RSVP by Friday, September 19 via the following form: RSVP form.
On Wednesday, October 1st, at 12:30 (PML103), the Learning Technologies Team will host a workshop on Assessment Techniques you can Employ in Blackboard. Following the Magna Presentation, are you considering your assessment strategies? If so, you might find this workshop particularly helpful. We will be demonstrating ways in which exams and problem sets can be designed to best support student learning and understanding. In this workshop, participants learn more about creating effective problem sets and questions using the Blackboard Tests and Pools functions for a class of their choosing.
On Thursday, October 2nd, at 3:30pm (PML103), the Learning Technologies Team will host a workshop designed specifically for New Faculty on Lecture Capture. This session will include a discussion regarding lecture capture for both face to face and online classes – another resource for professors to increase student participation and foster improved learning. Participants will be given resources and links to several lecture capture options, including Panopto and Screencast-O-Matic.
On Tuesday, October 14th at 10:30 am in VH1304, the Learning Technologies Team will hold a special session on Google Drive. Whether it's collaborative group projects or just an easy way to store or share your projects with others, Google Drive has you covered! Learn more about using Google Docs, Presentations, and Calendars – all features found in Google Drive that can enhance your personal and professional life!
On Wednesday, October 15th, at 12:30 pm via Zoom Cloud Meeting, we'll take a look at Zoom, an awesome platform that combines cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings and mobile collaboration. Feel free to sit at your desk, eat your lunch and join the Learning Technologies Team to learn more about one of the hottest topics in educational technology. To join the meeting via computer, please go to: https://zoom.us/j/803727492
To join by phone only: +1 (415) 762-9988 or +1 (646) 568-7788 US Toll Meeting ID: 803 727 492 A video tutorial regarding Zoom:
On Wednesday, October 29th, at 12:30 pm in PML103 the Learning Technologies Team will cover the topic of Lecture Capture, specifically how to use Screencast-O-Matic. This session will include a discussion regarding screen recording for flipped or online classes, another resource for professors to increase student participation and foster improved learning. Participants will be given resources and links to include this recorder within a class.
On Wednesday, November 12th, at 12:30 (PML103), the Learning Technologies Team will host a workshop on Flipped/SCALE-UP Classrooms. This session will include discussion regarding specific strategies that can be implemented for combining technology, group work, and discussion to increase student participation and foster improved learning. Participants will be introduced to the options available on campus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUFud6MoHMo (Virginia Tech: SCALE-UP Classroom)
On Wednesday December 3rd, the Learning Technologies Team would like to invite you to swing by their office in PML205 sometime between 10am and 3pm for refreshments. This is an opportunity for you to visit with the Learning Technologies Team about anything technology related you desire, and share ideas regarding future workshop topics.
On Dec. 9th, 10th, and 11th, the Learning Technologies Team will be hosting "Open Office Hours" for New Faculty in PML205. Now that you have survived the semester, we have some things to share with you! Please stop in for Apple Cider, and ask any questions you may have as you reflect on your semester and begin to think about the Spring!
When you create a computer document it's important to think about what would happen if your document were to be lost or destroyed; do you have a backup? Hard drives fail, laptops fall, flash drives usually don't survive being washed in the laundry, and people make mistakes and delete the wrong files. Accidents happen. If you have documents that are important to you, then you need to have a back up. Truman provides several places to store your files where they are automatically backed up. We encourage you to use these locations to help protect against loss.
* Files stored on your Y: drive (your personal network storage area) or on your W: drive (your department network storage area) are automatically backed up by Truman Information Technology Services.
* Email on the Exchange server is automatically backed up. Email archives are NOT automatically backed up unless you put the archive file on either the Y: or W: drive. Note: It is possible to setup your email client to move your email from Exchange to only your PC. This is NOT recommended because then your email is not backed up.
* Faculty course materials on the Blackboard system are automatically backed up.
* Faculty materials in the Truman Google Apps for Education system are backed up.
* Staff materials in the Google Apps for Education system are NOT backed up.
If you keep important files on your personal computer hard drive they are NOT automatically backed up. Be sure you regularly copy your personal computer documents to a network drive, an external hard drive, to cloud storage or some other secure storage location to ensure your files are backed up and protected.
If you have questions about storing your documents or on any other campus technology items we encourage you to contact the IT Service Center at 660.785.4544.
IT Services is excited to announce full-access to Lynda.com's extensive training catalog. We have arranged for two workstations to be available with our special licensing in the PML 204 Multimedia Lab. Lynda.com provides thousands of hours of interactive training on everything from MS Office products to 3-D animation, video production, eLearning tools, and so much more. To learn more – visit our link at http://training.truman.edu
Every Microsoft Windows product has a lifecycle. The lifecycle begins when a product is released and ends when it's no longer supported. Windows XP will no longer be supported after April 8th 2014 (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle).
What this means is after April 8th Microsoft will no longer provide security updates for Windows XP. All systems on the Truman network need to have up-to-date security software in order to protect your data, as well as other computers on the network, so if you are using a Truman Windows XP computer an upgrade is required.
Truman owned Windows XP computer systems need to be upgraded before April 8th. Please contact the Truman IT Service Center at x4544 to request your system upgrade to Windows 7. Our technicians will contact you to schedule a time that works in your schedule.
We recommend you also keep your personally owned computing systems current and up-to-date with supported software.
If you have any questions please contact the IT Service Center.
The Learning Technologies Team is pleased to announce a Spring Semester lineup of workshops for faculty focused on a variety of teaching with technology topics. The next scheduled workshop held by the Learning Technologies Team will be Innovations in Classroom Technology, on Wednesday, February 5th at 12:30 pm in PML 103. Feel free to bring your lunch and join the Learning Technologies Team to learn more about the hottest topics in educational technology. Keep up with the latest applications and approaches to interactive teaching and learning by joining the Learning Technologies Team as they discuss blogs, wikis, podcasts, streaming video, widgets, and more!
Other Lunch-n-Learn dates and topics are listed below:
On Wednesday, February 5th at 12:30 (PML103) join the Learning Technologies Team for a workshop on Innovations in Classroom Technology. Feel free to bring your lunch and join the Learning Technologies Team to learn more about the hottest topics in educational technology. Keep up with the latest applications and approaches to interactive teaching and learning by joining the Learning Technologies Team as they discuss blogs, wikis, podcasts, streaming video, widgets, and more!
On Wednesday, February 19th at 12:30 (PML103), the Learning Technologies Team will host a workshop on Improving Analytical and Discussion Skills with Group Work. This session will include discussion regarding specific strategies that can be implemented for combining technology, group work, and discussion to increase student participation and foster improved learning. Participants will learn hands-on how to use the Blackboard Discussion Board tool to increase the quality of student participation and to facilitate peer interaction.
On Wednesday, March 5th at 12:30 (PML103), the Learning Technologies Team will share a presentation on Captivating Your Audience with Cost-Effective Lecture Capture and Screencasting Tools. Creating successful screencasts requires knowledge of the whole screencasting workflow, from planning, through production, to delivery. This is a hands-on session, which will offer plenty of practical exercises and resources. If you want to know how to capture a voice-over narration, enhance your screen and highlight important elements, this workshop is for you!
On Wednesday, March 19th at 12:30 (PML103), join the Learning Technologies Team as they discuss How to Become a Transformed Twitter Teacher in a Flash! Twitter is becoming an integral part of many digital lives and personal and professional learning networks. This introductory course explains how to use Twitter as an educational tool for professional development purposes. Demonstration of how to sign up, send and read Twitter updates (also called 'Tweets'), and build your own PLN (Personal/Professional Learning Network) of friends will be showcased.
*Note – the session originally scheduled for April 2nd has been rescheduled for April 23rd. See details below.
On Wednesday, April 16th at 12:30 (PML103), the Learning Technologies Team will present Analog to Digital – How to Transform your Materials into 21st Century Learning Objects (VHS to DVD). At the end of 2014, all VHS players will be removed from the classroom. Do you have course materials still on VHS that you just can't bear to part with? If so, this workshop is for you! Join the Learning Technologies Team for a hands-on tutorial on how to transform your analog VHS recordings into a digital format, and learn about potential issues with copyright you may need to consider before making the switch.
On Wednesday, April 23rd at 12:30 (PML103), the Learning Technologies Team will host a workshop on Constructing Effective Assignments, Problem Sets & Exam Questions. This session highlights ways in which exams, problem sets, and homework assignments can be designed to best support student learning and understanding. In this hands-on workshop, participants will spend time creating effective problem sets and questions using the Blackboard Tests and Pools functions for a class of their choosing.
On Wednesday, April 30th at 12:30 (PML103), join the Learning Technologies Team for their final Lunch-n-Learn of the semester on the topic of Conducting Effective Online Meetings. Would you like to facilitate web-conferences with colleagues, group meetings with students, or hold office hours online? Are you interested in the many options available to facilitate web-based, real-time collaborative experiences? In this workshop, the Learning Technologies Team discusses web conferencing options, how to set up a meeting space, the meeting space layout, and the many options available to you. Specifically explore Zoom and Big Blue Button. By the end of the workshop, you will know how to set up the meeting space with Zoom and Big Blue Button, facilitate an online meeting, and take away a few best practices concerning online real-time collaboration.
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Truman State University is a member of MOREnet.
With the steady rise of streaming content and interactive web services, increased Internet bandwidth is in high demand. This past week, MOREnet completed a series of network equipment upgrades to increase its current infrastructure to support up to 8.8 terabits per second of network traffic in 100 gigabit per second (Gbps) optical paths. This upgrade ensures readiness to meet the demand of schools, libraries, government agencies and non-profit organizations who utilize the services of MOREnet and continue to rely more and more on Internet-based tools and resources.
With this equipment upgrade, MOREnet becomes one of the few networks in the country to support 100 gigabit optical paths. In addition, this lays the groundwork for the MOREnet network to meet future demands and support capacities of up to 1 terabit per second per optical path in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
Dr. Gordon Springer, the scientific director of the University of Missouri Bioinformatics Consortium weighed in on the update, "These connections are enabling my ability to carry on research I have wanted to do for more than 20 years. Additionally, the capacity to move large quantities of data is of strategic importance for the State's research and education institutions in the years to come."
Work on this project began in early 2013 when the University of Missouri was awarded a $1 million Campus Cyberinfrastructure – Network Infrastructure and Engineering (CC-NIE) grant to fund the build out of a 100Gbps circuit from Columbia to Kansas City and another 100Gbps circuit from Columbia to St. Louis. Both circuits will connect to Internet2's National Innovation Platform, making MOREnet the only research and education network providing network transport services for Internet2.
"MOREnet's upgrade dramatically expands capacity to access Internet2's Advanced Network services at 100Gbps and beyond. This network project enables the University of Missouri's researchers to better detect and treat autism, for example, while also supporting other Missouri researchers and connecting collaborators throughout the nation and the world," said Rob Vietzke, Internet2 vice president of network services. "This is another key building block that expands Missouri's support for large-scale science, technology, engineering and mathematics for future discoveries. The Internet2 community is delighted to have MOREnet as a leading national contributor to the nation's innovation platform."
Hank Niederhelm, Director of Infrastructure at MOREnet concludes, "We've seen tremendous growth in Internet bandwidth demand by our members in recent years and being able to position our statewide network to meet the continued demand is important to our members. Deploying a leading-edge network infrastructure capable of supporting very high bandwidth capacities will help Missouri to keep pace with new advances in education technology and research and we are excited to play a part in this."
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How does leadership style make things either more conducive to conflict or a healthier atmosphere of conflict resolution? Does the biblical theme of the heart connect in any way to our leadership style and personality? Let's learn how practicing the characteristics and demeanor of a shepherd is a biblical corrective to out of balance leadership styles. Continue reading
On weekends we like to highlight for you one of our growing list of free resources. This weekend we highlight a resource video from David Powlison where he addresses the issue of Responding to Criticism in Marriage. Continue reading
On weekends we like to highlight for you one of our growing list of free resources. This weekend we highlight a resource article by Dr. Jeremy Lelek in which he discusses Ten Simple (But Critical) Questions to Consider in Marriage Counseling. Continue reading
At a time when the news and the blogosphere is filled with painful stories of church conflict, believers are not left without clear direction from Scripture. A God-honoring response will always be a loving one. Continue reading
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As a father of six, he is no stranger to children. And Ziggy Marley was attracting plenty of attention as he showed off his son in Hollywood recently.
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Hospice provides comprehensive and interdisciplinary health care to terminally ill patients, as well as bereavement and support services to the patients' loved ones. Patients receiving hospice care forgo curative treatments. Hospice care is provided through certified hospice programs, and may be delivered in any patient care setting, but is most often provided in the patient's home.
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Hospice provides comprehensive and interdisciplinary health care to terminally ill patients, as well as bereavement and support services to the patients' loved ones. Patients receiving hospice care forgo curative treatments. Hospice care is provided through certified hospice programs, and may be delivered in any patient care setting, but is most often provided in the patient's home.
On Oct. 6, President Obama signed into law the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014. The bipartisan bill was designed to increase quality, transparency and accountability in post-acute care for Medicare beneficiaries. The Act would require post-acute care providers — including long-term acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, skilled-nursing facilities and home health agencies — to collect and report standardized assessment data as a first step in developing recommendations for alternative post-acute care payment models. Additionally, the legislation includes new survey and medical review requirements for hospices. These provisions will be implemented between 2016 and 2022. A copy of the bill is available at www.congress.gov/113/bills/s2553/BILLS-113s2553is.pdf. CHA has also created the attached summary of the bill.
On Aug. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule to update the Medicare hospice payment rates and wage index for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2015.
Online registration for the Hospice Item Set (HIS) Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES) Assessment Submission and Processing system is now available.
The Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES) Technical Support Office has posted recorded technical trainings for Medicare-certified hospices required to submit Hospice Item Set (HIS) records for the hospice quality reporting program. The trainings, which are short WebEx modules, focus on the registration of two separate user IDs, installation of the Juniper communication software, submission of HIS records to the QIES Assessment Submission and Processing system, and retrieval of hospice final validation reports from the Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) reporting system. Also available on the website are the HIS Submission User's Guide and the CASPER Reporting User's Guide for Hospice Providers. See the attached announcement to access the training modules and user guides.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a 1.3 percent payment update for hospices for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2015, representing an approximate $230 million increase compared to FFY 2014.
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This Thursday, we will be featuring a very talented local piano & singer duo from Berkley called Kayla and Gustavo!
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Unbeknownst to many of the public, August was National Immunization Awareness Month. I know, I know: it's been overshadowed by some very exotic and thrilling headliners this month. The Ebola epidemic blazing defiantly in West Africa. The jaw-dropping videos shown on Discovery Channel's "Shark Week." The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge clogging everyone's social feeds. Vaccines are just not as sexy or as flamboyant as these issues. Truthfully, they're a bit dull to talk about, not a topic you would tend to bring up at cocktail parties or at the water cooler. Read More
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Today we have another look at history, and what lead to the signing of Don't Ask Don't Tell. Detailed notes of President Clinton, Colin Powell, and Al Gore, discussing gays in the military have been released. While there isn't any groundbreaking new information, the notes do offer a little more insight into the signing of the discriminatory law.
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A word about DADT from a gay veteran
I got this via email from BarackObama.com today and I thought I'd share it with our readers. It's from Jason Rico, a gay ex-military person, from Obama for America.
Mike —
As a gay veteran, I had never thought I'd see the day come.
At 12:01 a.m. exactly one year ago today, gay servicemen and women became free to serve openly, thanks to the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT).
My mom raised me to be an honest man with a deep love for my country. When I joined the Navy in 1998, my patriotism came first and my personal life second.
What the fall of DADT has meant to me
One year ago today DADT was repealed in what has to be one of the crowning and defining achievements of the Obama presidency. There is no greater hope for us as Americans to see us live up to our sacred creeds of freedom and equality for all. Here we are, a whole year later, and the certain doom and despair promised by Republicans if they let "us" serve openly in the armed forces never came. We knew it wouldn't. I wanted to take a few minutes and pause and reflect on what the demise of DADT has meant to me.
There is only one clear choice come voting time in November. DADT has finally been overturned. Osama Bin Laden is dead. The auto industry was saved from certain collapse and the Leader of the Free world can publicly support marriage equality for GLBT Americans. We are better off than we were four years and there is still so much to be done. FOUR MORE YEARS!!! Go Obama and go HRC…I joined again last month. No Mitt Romney for me.
Air Force Staff Sergeant discharged under 'DADT' gets reinstated
The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) announced today Staff Sergeant Anthony Loverde, who was discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in 2008, will return be reinstated. Staff Sergeant Loverde will return to active duty in the U.S. Air Force and take the oath in Sacramento in May.
This makes Loverde only the second person, and second SLDN client, dismissed under DADT to return to active duty after the repeal. The first was Petty Officer 2nd Class Jase Daniels, who was reinstated as a linguist for the U.S. Navy. Continue reading
Rick Santorum: Top five controversial quotes
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2. Santorum has been an outspoken supporter of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. His comments about gays and lesbians serving in the US Military have discussed men "living in close quarters" and showering together, Fox News reported. The candidate also compared the differences of African Americans and gays serving in the armed forces:
"There are people who were gay and lived the gay lifestyle and aren't anymore. I don't know if that's the similar situation or that's the case for anyone that's black. It's a behavioral issue as opposed to a color of the skin issue, and that's the diff for serving in the military."
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Romney tells 63-year-old gay veteran that he supports repealing marriage equality in New Hampshire
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During a stop in Manchester, New Hampshire this morning Mitt Romney suggested to 63-year-old gay veteran Bob Garon that he would support the repeal of the state's marriage equality law, despite previously claiming that marriage is the purview of the states and advocating for states rights in the tenth amendment:
"Actually, I think at the time the Constitution was written marriage was between a man and a woman and I don't believe the Supreme Court has changed that."
"It's good to know how you feel," Garon said. "That you do not believe that everyone is entitled to their constitutional rights."
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Gay Soldier Shares Reaction To GOP Debate Boos
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Army Capt. Stephen Hill says he wasn't trying to score political points when he asked the Republican presidential candidates if they would reinstate the ban on gays serving openly in the U.S. military.
Now that "don't ask, don't tell" has been lifted, he needed to know if the military would take the next step and recognize his marriage, or if a new president would try to force soldiers like him back into the closet.
"I was looking forward to the future and hoping everybody would realize we are soldiers first, always," said Hill, 41, an Army reservist who returned last week from his yearlong deployment. "I was hoping 'don't ask, don't tell' would be a distant memory for everybody."
In an interview with The Associated Press, Hill reflected publicly for the first time on his reasons for submitting the pre-recorded question for the Sept. 22 debate, as well as his reaction to the heckles heard around the world; the answer that former Sen. Rick Santorum gave to thunderous applause; and the outrage expressed on his behalf by, among others, his commander in chief.
With Snyder on the telephone, Hill watched the debate live from Iraq at 4 a.m. And this is what he asked: "In 2010, when I was deployed to Iraq, I had to lie about who I was because I'm a gay soldier and I didn't want to lose my job. My question is, under one of your presidencies, do you intend to circumvent the progress that's been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military?"
Hill says the fact that he just outed himself on national television had barely registered when he absorbed the boos and Santorum's answer followed by applause.
"When the actual booing occurred, my gut dropped out, because my first inclination was, did I just do something wrong?" he said. "The answer, obviously, wasn't very supportive of gay people, and there was a lot of fear of how the Army would take the question."
He did not have to wait long to find out. At breakfast later that morning, the segment was playing on the chow hall television. Hill immediately tracked down his commander, who told him she had no problem with what he'd done but that she would need to run it up the chain of command. She later relayed the response.
"She said, 'What the military's most concerned with is that you are OK, because it's a lot of pressure on you and we want to make sure if there is anything we can do to help,'" he recalled.
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Happy Veterans Day!
Today is 11/11/11 and that has tons of significance for a lot of people for a lot of different reasons. Today is the day we honor those who have served in the military and put themselves in harms way for our country. This year's Veterans Day has special significance because this is the first year we can truly and officially celebrate ALL service members and their sacrifice whether they are straight or gay…


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OXFORD United have signed teenage striker Alex Jakubiak on loan from Watford until January.
The frontman, who turns 18 later this month, completed the formalities this afternoon after playing in Scotland Under 19s' 2-0 defeat away to Belgium Under 19s last night.
Jakubiak will provide competition up front for United, alongside Carlton Morris, Danny Hylton and James Roberts.
His senior bow came in March in a loan spell at Braintree Town, scoring against Wrexham.
It was his only goal in 11 appearances for the Conference Premier side, nine of which were as a substitute.
Jakubiak returned to Watford and started in their final Championship fixture of the season, a 4-1 home defeat to Huddersfield Town.
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- Some Performance evaluation philosophies are flawed
- Management is rarely measured for good people management. -good technical folks are people managers.
- Agility of software development hindered by tools
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I worked at Microsoft full-time (more than 10 years)Pros
Beautiful campus
Flexible work policies are common
Free drinks
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Review System- it has become more important to "manage your career" than create great products
Review System- Promotes back stabbing and an unhealthy, toxic work environment
Bloated software products that no longer delight the industry
Horrible software licensing system
Engineering "silos" of developer/test/program management which are ineffective and inefficient
I left Microsoft after 13 years. For the first 11 years, I received excellent performance evaluations. Then, when the review system changed, I suddenly found myself to be rated a poor performer- despite being the only person in my group to actually deliver a feature that shipped! Once you get a bad review, you are labeled as such and a comeback is extremely unlikely. I decided to leave before enduring more undeserved humiliation. I now work on open source software, and have replaced all of my windows based devices and software with open source, Apple, and Android equivalents. This turned out to be much easier than expected- leading me to realize that Microsoft is becoming increasingly irrelevant.Advice to ManagementAdvice
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President Barack Obama is scheduled to hold a Town Hall meeting on the economy at Mountain View's LinkedIn today (Monday,...Original post made on Sep. 21, 2011
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Beyond guaranteeing operational safety, David and Lindsay recognize that maintaining a nurturing, supportive community is the best way to help newcomers overcome their fears of flying through midair. To that end, they invite students to bring along their friends and family to cheer them on. They ban the word can?t from the school premises, although they encourage each student to progress through lessons at his or her own pace according to strength, skills, and desire.
The husband-and-wife team also operates the Circus Fund, an outreach program that provides at-risk youth with the chance to experience the circus arts and form support systems with their peers.
The Spa Gregorie team won Spa Finder?s Reader?s Choice award for Best Day Spa of 2011 for rejuvenating skin with Spa Gregorie's botanically enriched product line. Steps away from the spa's tranquil hair salon, Arcona formulas play a central role in the spa's 18 facial treatments while massage clients benefit from fluffy robes and a eucalyptus steam room. But the staff's dedication to well-being doesn't stop with the clients?contributions to the Make a Wish Foundation and multiple cancer research organizations echo this allegiance to communal prosperity, and any nonprofit group or charitable organization may use the Del Mar spa's conference room for free.
In 2011, the International SPA Association honored Spa Gregorie's CEO Angela Cortright with the Dedicated Contributor of the Year award. The press release cites her commitment to well-being and public service beyond her three eucalyptus-scented spas and reveals her favorite quote to be Muhammad Ali's maxim, ?Service to others is the rent we pay for our room here on Earth.? This attitude has earned the company an avalanche of awards, which document the good works of its expert aestheticians, hair designers, and massage therapists.
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Since the age of 7, Dr. Robert Stonebreaker shared a special affinity with all birds. Wanting to bring people closer to his feathered friends, he lent his passion to Free Flight in 1989, helping evolve the avian boarding and breeding center into a sanctuary where visitors could interact with the exotic creatures. Amid open air and emerald palm fronds, guests can let a yellow, orange, and green sun Conure perch on their arm or pet a Timneh Grey. The tropical oasis also teems with Koi lagoons, where schools of shimmering Koi swim under the flaps of fluffy white Cockatoos soaring through the aviary.
Dr. Stonebraker tragically passed away in 2010, but the team at Free Flight has upheld his tireless work by fostering human-avian relations and furthering visitors' understanding of parrots. Free Flights also encourages involvement through donation, membership, volunteer opportunities, and, most notably, education programs.
Lauren Taylor lives in an orbit around the camera. As a teenager, she modeled in front of the lens. She later attended the Institute of Studio and Makeup Design, after which she would collaborate with photographers behind the camera. Lauren eventually gravitated to the camera itself, which she now wields with aplomb in her own photography studio. Here, her life-long experience and education converge in the work of shooting sumptuous and striking images.
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