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The pitfalls of posting photos taken in clinical settings on social media
When and where is it acceptable to take photographs in clinical settings?
The #ImInWorkJeremy hashtag was one of the most memorable social media trends in 2015. It all began when Jeremy Hunt, the secretary of state for health, said in a speech at the King's Fund that "we do not have a proper seven day service in hospitals," and that this was a major reason for 6000 avoidable deaths every year in the NHS.[1]
Healthcare staff of all grades took issue with this assertion and posted responses on social media to show what they thought about Hunt's statement using the hashtag #ImInWorkJeremy.[2] They took to Twitter and posted selfies to let the secretary of state for health know exactly how they were spending their weekends: often on call and working long hours.
In a seemingly good humoured response Hunt posted a photograph of himself with NHS staff using the same hashtag. Unfortunately, in the background of the photo there was a whiteboard displaying confidential patient information. His tweet generated a flurry of outraged responses, and the photograph was promptly deleted and replaced by an edited version.
Although Hunt received little sympathy from the healthcare profession, this act of carelessness could have happened to anyone. Most people carry a smartphone these days, and a photograph can be taken and uploaded to social media within seconds, with little thought for the consequences such posts can have.
Like many individuals, the secretary of state for health took what seemed to be a harmless picture in a clinical setting, but in doing so he breached confidentiality. As one Twitter user said: "If I tweeted a photo with patient identifiable information to over 70 000 people, I would deserve to lose my job as an NHS worker."
Despite the powerful messages on social media that highlighted the issue of doctors' working hours, the reaction to the #ImInWorkJeremy campaign prompts the question, "When and where is it acceptable to take photographs in clinical settings?"
What's the problem?
Our lives are documented on social media—from instant reaction to political events on Twitter to avocado breakfasts on Instagram.
Working in the medical profession, however, means that more stringent rules apply, including what you can and cannot write about on social media, because of the right to patient confidentiality and the level of professionalism required by doctors and medical students.
The rise and prominence of social media prompted the General Medical Council to release a supplement to Good Medical Practice—Doctors' use of social media. The guidance discusses important features such as maintaining confidentiality, professionalism, and privacy, but also states how social media can benefit patient care, such as by "engaging people in public health and policy discussion."
The guidelines state: "You must make sure that your conduct justifies your patients' trust in you and the public's trust in the profession." Students and professionals must therefore be cautious about how their online presence could be construed by others.
Before, and since, the release of the guidance in 2013 there have been several cases where the professional lives of medics have been affected as a result of what they have posted online while at work.
In 2009 the craze of "planking" appeared, which led to the temporary suspension of seven doctors and nurses at Great Western Hospital in Swindon. The game, which entailed lying down in unusual places, saw staff from the emergency department lying down on resuscitation trolleys, ward floors, and even the helipad, with photographs uploaded on to Facebook. Although patient care wasn't compromised, disciplinary hearings were held on the grounds of unprofessional conduct.[3]
Searching the hashtag #deliveryroom on Instagram reveals thousands of results. Most of these are pictures of newborns taken by the parents. However, several photographs taken by medical students and doctors are graphic and display inappropriate content. One example is from Daniel Sanchez, a medical student in Venezuela, whose delivery room selfie included a women exposed from the waist down and clearly in the process of giving birth, complete with the caption: "Lady, I can deliver your baby but first let me take a selfie." Although Sanchez insists consent was given, the photograph led to disciplinary action.[4]
Another case concerned Mexican medical student Maria Hose Gonzalez, when a private photo sent to a friend on WhatsApp was leaked online. Posing with a big grin and sticking her fingers up at the camera, Gonzalez is seen next to a woman in bed who looks critically ill, with the caption, "I was on duty and saw a lady was dying and then . . . a selfie." In her defence she claimed that consent was allegedly given and that this was a private photograph that had been hacked and leaked as a personal attack against her.
Using social media for educational purposes
Taking photos of yourself in a clinical setting can be instantly incriminating, but what about photos you take for educational purposes? Even if consent is given, is it right to post photos containing patients on social media?
Figure 1, an app and website launched in 2013 and dubbed "Instagram for doctors," allows users to view and share clinical photographs of interesting cases for educational purposes.[5] The app has a strict code of use, with patient privacy and consent being paramount.
Only verified users can upload images and comment, which means that specialist advice can be obtained quickly from thousands of doctors worldwide. Confidentiality is maintained as the app will automatically block out faces, with the user also able to use a manual tool to remove all identifying features, such as tattoos. Before going "live" and visible to other users, the photograph is checked by a medical officer. Patients must sign a digital consent, which is emailed to them for their records.
When clinical photographs are taken, full consent must be given for their purpose. In 2014, the Medical Defence Union reported a case of a medical student tweeting a photograph of a patient's hands. Despite the medical student being instructed to take the photograph by the consultant, consent was given only for the photograph to be stored in medical records. The photograph, along with a hashtag naming the medical condition the patient had, was uploaded to Twitter. Owing to the characteristic deformity and a characteristic ring she was wearing, the patient was identified by a member of a Twitter community for people with this condition. A breach such as this could easily result in a fitness to practise investigation for a medical student by their medical school.
To post or not to post?
"My advice to medical students who use social media is they should be mindful about what they post," says Nirmai Kakani. As a consultant vascular interventional radiologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary, Kakani encourages students to use social media as a tool for discussing scenarios, but "the problem arises if real cases are shared. Interesting and unusual cases are more likely to be discussed, which may allow patients to be identified." Social media users usually have their location and even the hospital they work at visible on their profiles, which increases the risks of patients being identified.
Whether it's acceptable to take photos in a clinical setting is a grey area, but ultimately it's about patient consent, confidentiality, and professionalism.
Sally Old, medicolegal adviser at the Medical Defence Union, says: "Posting details of a clinical case, however heavily anonymised, without patient consent would constitute a breach of confidentiality." In its explanatory guidance Doctors' Use of Social Media, the General Medical Council states that doctors must not discuss individual patients or their care via publicly accessible social media.
Remember that when something is shared through social media it may not just be your friends and family who see it but it could potentially be shared with patients, employers, colleagues, national media, and regulatory bodies, for example. "Before posting, consider how you would feel if a colleague or patient saw what you had written, or if it was shared to a wider audience. You should also review the privacy settings for each of your social media profiles regularly," advises Old.
She explains that images or audiovisual recordings of patients can be used only if you have the patient's written consent to the specific use. If you are sharing with a colleague for a second opinion, get the patient's consent and ensure that the image is transmitted and stored securely. Don't use a photo sharing app or website as these might not be secure, and bear in mind that it is possible that images and recordings posted online may be reused in a different context.
"When anonymising the photo bear in mind that this does not mean just removing the patient's name and other identifying labels. Consider whether the photograph includes a feature that could allow someone, including the patient, to identify themselves," says Old.
As almost every aspect of life seems to be documented online, it may be tempting to capture all of your milestones and achievements at medical school on social media. Be cautious, however, for, as the General Medical Council guidance on social media use for doctors says, "Many improper disclosures [of confidentiality] are unintentional." It can be easy to do, so don't get caught out like Jeremy Hunt was—you may not be as lucky as him.Brendan Westhoff, final year medical student 1
1University of Southampton
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Competing interests: None declared.
Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.
- Hunt J. Jeremy Hunt sets out his 25-year vision for the NHS. Presented at the King's Fund, London 2015. http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/audio-video/jeremy-hunt-sets-out-his-25-year-vision-nhs.
- Knapton S. #ImInWorkJeremy: NHS staff post weekend working pictures on Twitter. Telegraph 2015 July 19. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11749289/ImInWorkJeremy-NHS-staff-post-weekend-working-pictures-on-Twitter.html.
- Press Association. Hospital staff suspended for Facebook "lying down game." Guardian 2009 September 9. www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/sep/09/hospital-lying-down-game.
- Willis A. Doctors are taking selfies next to women's vaginas while delivering babies. Metro 2015 July 16. http://metro.co.uk/2015/07/16/doctors-are-taking-selfies-next-to-womens-vaginas-while-delivering-babies-5298106/.
- Figure 1. FAQ. https://figure1.com/sections/faq/.
Cite this as: Student BMJ 2015;23:h6561
DOI: 10.1136/sbmj.h6561


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Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. —Constantin Brâncuşi
Every year on February 19th museums around the world celebrate the timelessly enchanting sculptures of Constantin Brâncuşi. Being born and raised in the city where the Endless Column, the Gate of the Kiss and the Table of Silence inhabit—Târgu-Jiu—, I decided to photographically capture an imaginary visit to Brâncuşi' studio. I would guess that he would be surrounded by the most beloved objects representing his Romanian identity; here, he would enjoy a Romanian appetizer called zacusca. Being in an artist' studio means experiencing something intense, where the space articulates for the spirit.
Brâncuşi' sculptures demand nothing less than eternity because of the invisible dimensions of the world that the artist could see and create. Back when I was living in Romania, I remember loving to visit the Endless Column, which it was just across the street from my high-school. I would look up, and around, and up again at the column like it was the axis of the whole world. Experiencing Brâncuşi is seeing differently. Don't be afraid to look and see, and meditate on the magic that we, as humankind, can achieve.
by Gabriela
I love experimenting with both photography and food. Each time I am in the kitchen, I am looking for new ways to enhance and bring out those unique qualities of food—flavor and aesthetic—that make both our eyes and taste buds happy. Going down the creative route has its advantages because each artist needs that small amount of confusion and desire to find the next creative sparkle one needs.
It fascinates me how my inner thoughts and creative obsessions get reflected into attainable projects. Food, as we know it, may not be always the primary subject of my explorations, but there is always reflected in my work a positive weakness toward appreciating nature and our relationship to it. And poetry has always been part of our lives, being the noble-mindedness of the past and future, by opening heart's doors to honesty and mind's visual interpretation to creativity.
Please step inside a poem with me today, through the newest short creative film I created for the poetry book of Medeea Iancu, Cîntarea care a biruit toate cîntările (The Canticle Who Has Smitten All Canticles) published by Editura Paralela 45. Retain on your own shelves a copy by ordering yours, and enjoy the flavor palette of this quinoa salad—mushrooms, peas and chia seeds complement perfectly the seasons changing. This hearty gluten-free recipe is lighter, quicker and more nutritious alternative to the old boring "veggies" salad.
1. Bring 1 cup quinoa and 2 cups of water to a boil in a medium saucepan. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer until tender and most of the liquid has been absorbed, 15 to 20 minutes. Fluff with a fork.
2. In a preheated skillet cook the bacon until rendered. Use its fat to cook the mushrooms and garlic for a few minutes, then deglaze with 1 tablespoon soy sauce. Set aside.
3. Mix quinoa with the mushrooms, bacon, blanched peas and red onion. Drizzle with lemon zest and juice, sprinkle with chia seeds and season according to taste with salt and pepper. Top with parmigiano and serve warm.
"Making art is all about humans and our psychology: who we are, how we behave, what we do with the hand we've been dealt. It's closer to your own bone when it's a memoir, but the bone is still the bone." - A.M. Homes
I would love to share with you the latest news about Florilegium and what I've been up to in the past weeks. First and foremost, I was excited to see Florilegium's first volume featured on the Communication Arts' website. I am so happy to see that my work, and most notably my magazine, is drawing people with its interesting design, surprising photography projects, illustration and text. As the largest international trade journal of visual communications in the US, Communication Arts has featured pages from Florilegium that showcase combined influences from graphic design, nature and contemporary art, influences that I used to develop a one-of-a-kind visual language.
I have also worked on making available Florilegium's volume one on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and you find it as well in my online shop in a special signed edition. The magazine will be distributed soon in more locations across the world. Now you can get a feel of Florilegium's content (illustrations below by Aitch) and a taste of the quiche recipe I produced for its first issue. When creating the recipe and photographs I was inspired by the contrast of the flower's colors and textures with the painterly lighting, and I've used simple geometry to evoke both natural and man-made aesthetics.
Three Flours Mushroom and Chorizo Quiche
White rice, whole flour and buckwheat crust
makes a 9-inch (20 cm) tart
1/2 cup (90 g) white rice flour
1/3 cup (50 g) buckwheat flour
1/3 cup (50 g) whole flour
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 tablespoon chia seeds
6 tablespoons (90 g) butter
3 tablespoons cold water
Quiche Filling
2 eggs
1 tablespoon butter
3 shallots, minced
2 cups (100 g) chopped white or brown mushrooms
1/2 cup (100 g) chopped chorizo
2 cups (200 g) mixed blue and Gruyere cheese
1/2 cup (50 ml) half-and-half
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1. In a food processor, combine the flours, sea salt, and chia seeds; pulse to combine. Add diced butter; pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal.
2. Gradually add the water. Pulse until dough is crumbly but holds together when squeezed (if necessary, add more water, 1 tablespoon at a time). Do not overmix.
3. Form dough into a ball and wrap tightly in plastic. Refrigerate until firm, at least 1 hour (and up to 3 days).
4. Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Roll and cut the dough to fit inside a 9-inch tart pan, cover it with a piece of parchment paper and top it with pie weights or dry beans. Prebake the crust for 10 minutes.
5. In a large skillet, heat butter over medium. Add shallots, and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, 1 to 2 minutes. Add chorizo and toss, cooking for 3-4 minutes. Add the mushrooms and season with salt and pepper. Cook for 5 to 6 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the mushrooms are soft and the liquid is evaporated. Top the crust with this mixture and cheese. Set aside.
6. In a bowl, whisk together eggs, half-and-half, nutmeg, sea salt and pepper. Pour egg mixture into crust. Bake until center of the quiche is just set, 25 to 35 minutes. Let quiche stand 15 minutes before serving.


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This is probably going to be quite a short blog entry, in word count at least, but there are pictures. Lots of pictures. I needed a distraction today and hey, this is my website blog so let's talk about me and what I've been up to. What I've been up to is shooting someone other than myself, so you can sigh in relief because it won't be my fugly mug that you have to look at. I spent the weekend in London to meet and shoot the wonderful Owen Gray as he passed through on his European travels. I didn't think that I'd ever get the opportunity to photograph him because he lives across the pond, and it's not like he needs photographs of himself. So it was a hugely pleasant surprise to get the chance to, and cue my usual pre-shoot anxieties and quiet excitement as I prepared for meeting him at the subway station on Saturday.
After four years of doing photography, I've never really lost those creeping worries and fears when photographing someone new, but they have more of a familiar comfort now than making me feel unsettled. I've embraced them because they never stop me from doing what I want to do, and if I'm a bit shy and quiet on a shoot, I'm still able to hopefully produce something that both of us will be happy with. Owen works with film photography himself and he was very patient and laidback and easy to work with, so my nerves were very quickly forgotten as we got on with making use of the warehouse conversion that I'd booked for our stay. The light was lovely and we didn't even need to adjust much in the layout as the decor really added to the mood and setting.
I suppose what draws me into wanting to photograph someone really begins with the face. I love subtlety and people who can express themselves quietly with their eyes. Portraiture is what I feel my strength is, and over the last two years I've made a swift change in regards to who I work with in order to focus on bettering myself as a photographer. I find that I work best with people who are not only appealing to me on a visual level but who I also admire in some way. I don't know if I can really explain what I mean properly when I say this, but I'm trying very hard to work with people who inspire me because hopefully then I can translate the depth I see in them through my photographs. After all, if I don't find my subjects interesting, then I'm not going to make interesting photographs. Sometimes it's frustrating feeling like I'm still so far away from what I'm aiming for in my work, but then again, I think if I didn't feel I had something to aim for, I'd be a bit lost.
Thank you to Owen for giving up some of his time on of his very hectic travels to work with me. There are so many more photographs from this shoot which will be up here on my website and my various other internet dwellings like Instagram and Twitter. 🙂
You can also find Owen on Tumblr (warning NSFW images) : http://theaccretion.tumblr.com


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Power, speed and agility are all important components of running the football, but vision is an underrated characteristic that every back must possess.
West Virginia's Rushel Shell seems to have all the physical ability taking care of, but his vision is costing him valuable real estate.
"He's trying hard, and he wants to be good," West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said Tuesday at his weekly news conference. "He is probably just trying a little bit too hard. He is second-guessing himself a little bit, and you can't do that at running back. You have to hit it."
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Holgorsen said he thinks Shell will improve with more reps.
"He needs the ball more, because the more he gets the ball the more rhythm he gets and the stronger he gets," Holgorsen said. "He needs to perform a little better. He knows that, and we are going to give him the ball as much as we can."
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Application deadline summer semester 2019
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- Study Plan: list 4 to 5 courses for each university you listed (the number and the title of the courses is sufficient). Please use a separate paper for each University!
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"Vegan Leather" Slate Sash Bag
Sash now comes in a super soft Vegan Leather!!! We're kind of freaking out over this new line of bags! They are made of a durable faux leather material treated to have a slightly distressed texture and slight color variations of light and dark.
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Jimmie Holland
COSA-IPOS Joint Scientific Meeting 2012
Tuesday, 13th November
Wednesday, 14th November
Thursday, 15th November
The Best of the Best
Trials in Progress
General Psycho-Oncology
Clinical Issues, Case reports and Service delivery
Jimmie Holland
Jimmie Holland MD has been central to the establishment of psychosocial oncology as a subspecialty within oncology dealing with the psychological, social, and behavioral aspects of cancer. In the 1970s, she recognized the need to treat the emotional trauma experienced by many cancer patients and their families and ultimately founded the field of psychosocial oncology. Dr. Holland started the Psychiatry Service at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in 1977, developing the methods for diagnosing and treating psychiatric distress in people with cancer. The Service achieved departmental status in 1996, and Dr. Holland served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences until 2003. The Center's psychiatry program has become the country's largest training and research program in psychiatric oncology. A graduate of Baylor University in Waco, TX, Dr. Holland earned her medical degree from the Baylor Medical School in Houston. She interned at St. Louis City Hospital and had residency training at Malcolm Bliss Psychiatric Hospital, Washington University and Massachusetts General Hospitals. Dr. Holland held appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at the State University of New York at Buffalo between 1956 and 1973 and at the major teaching hospital where she served as Director of Psychiatry. She is the founding president of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS) and the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) and is currently Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology and Attending Psychiatrist at MSKCC.
Abstracts this author is presenting:
When aging and illness combine to require care: caregivers for elders
IPOS Symposium - In sickness and in health: Coping and needs of spouses and children caring for adult and older cancer patients, clinical observations and research data
The psychosocial burden of lung cancer
ASCO/IPOS/COSA Symposium - Optimising outcomes after lung cancer – Targets and strategies (Part A)
Implementing Psycho-Oncology: Evidence into practice. Session opening.
Joint Opening Plenary: Implementing psycho-oncology: Evidence into practice
The science of the care of the whole patient
IPOS - Screening for distress: A practical guide to what really works


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Métal-Boîte Winter Forest Size 1 Pralines
A real delight for the eyes and the palate.
This Christmas tin with its winter forest theme contains an extra portion of love. A choice selection of the best and most delicate pralines and truffles combine to create a delicious assortment for this precious Christmas gift. Here nutty delicacies such as Amandine, Arriba-Nuss, Gianduja and Mandola lie next to creamy Truffes Classique milk and dark, Number One milk, Mocca, Plaisir, Prinzess and Rocher milk. After all, it's well known that the way to the heart is through the stomach.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Two Southern California school districts say they are working together to promote unity and respect for diversity after tensions at a high school football game.
Santa Ana Unified and Capistrano Unified said Wednesday that officials are looking into the details of last week's game between Santa Ana and Aliso Niguel high schools and working to ensure these don't lead to division but rather "dialogue, collaboration and mutual understanding."
Santa Ana's principal Jeff Bishop said students from his predominantly Latino school were greeted with posters such as "Trump 2020" and cheers of "USA" when their opponents scored. Aliso Niguel's principal said administrators removed political signs and the game was intended to be a patriotic celebration ahead of Sept. 11.
The events sparked tensions on social media. Aliso Niguel won 42-21.
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Justin Bieber Fans Just Paid $2,000 To Meet A Cardboard Cut-out
Sometimes you know it's cruel to laugh at something, but you can't help doing it anyway. This little tale right here is one of those times.
Some fans had reportedly been forking out $2,000 to see Bieber in concert, but for the extra cost they also got to do a meet and greet with man himself after his gig. Justin decided to stop doing the meet and greets because he said that they make him sad and drained. That's fair enough, the guy can do what he wants.
However, this meant that fans at his Vegas gig over the weekend were greeted with a cardboard cutout. If the fans were to get a refund on their VIP package, they would also have lost their ticket to see his show. A ticket which, for these people at least, is worth $2,000 and a photo with a cardboard cutout.
Whilst it is kind of funny, it's pretty darn ridiculous too. Surely someone involved in all of this must see what a rip off it all is, and issue part refunds to the fans. They made a promise, they didn't keep it.
It's a good cardboard cutout at least.


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Workplace wellbeing on World Mental Health Day
Each year around ten million adults in the UK will experience mental ill health, meaning one in four of us will experience a mental health issue at some point in our lifetime. Over the past year, awareness of mental health has accelerated, and more and more employers now understand that mental health is not only a serious issue for society but for businesses too.
With 'workplace' as the theme for this year's World Mental Health Day, this offers employers a valuable opportunity to address how mental health is approached in their organisations. Last week, with Business in the Community and others, we co-launched the Mental Health at Work Report 2017, which reveals three out of every five (60%) employees have experienced mental health issues where work was a related factor.
While it's evident that attitudes towards mental health in the workplace are shifting, this report demonstrates that employers are still failing to translate increased awareness into action. Worryingly, the figures reveal as many as 1.2 million people have faced disciplinary action, demotion or dismissal after disclosing a mental health issue at work. That's 15% of the working population and a troubling rise of 6%, when compared with the findings in last year's report.
Furthermore, mental health related absences cost UK employers an estimated £35 billion per year - over £1,300 per employee. A company culture that fails to address mental health issues could find that not only does their productivity suffer but their ability to attract and retain talent is hampered too.
Whether your business is big or small, having support available in the workplace is paramount. The time to act is now. Awareness and talking about mental health openly, is a great first step in creating a mentally healthy organisation. But to better support employees, transform practices and truly embed a whole organisational approach to workplace wellbeing, employers need to make the offer of mental health training a priority.
To date, over 206,000 people in England have Mental Health First Aid skills. Enlightened employers - such as Unilever, WHSmith and EY - are training staff to support the mental and emotional wellbeing of their teams by becoming Mental Health First Aiders. This means there are members of staff trained in how to recognise the symptoms of common mental health issues and can effectively guide people towards the right support.
For this year's World Mental Health Day, we launched a 'Workplace Wellbeing Toolkit' which illustrates a strategic step by step process to achieving this 'whole organisational approach', providing a suite of resources to help facilitate this. We urge employers of all shapes and sizes to act now and take a proactive step towards creating a mentally healthy organisation.
Investing in the mental wellbeing of your staff can help retain excellent employees while creating a more supportive, open culture. It just makes sense, for your staff and your bottom line.
For more guidance around how to approach and respond to a colleague who is experiencing a mental health issue, click here to download the free Line Managers Resource
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Nuno felt making was started by Polly Stirling, in Australia around 1992. The word nuno is Japanese, it means cloth. The felt produced is light and fine, using mainly wool but also other natural and synthetic fibres and sometimes incorporating other material such as foil. There are many examples of nuno felt on Pinterest Nuno felt fabric.
Generally people do not print directly on to nuno felt – it is too fine – but I would like to incorporate pieces into other printed fabric work and experiment with stitching and over-printing. I have just begun to make the felt and have not yet accumulated enough to make any printed work.
The process is simple, simpler than some web advocates seem to think. I have listed the things needed but this is not a comprehensive instruction.
The requirements:
- wool tops – fine wool, available in a wide range of colours
- bubble wrap – should be wider than the piece being made and twice as long
- backing fabric – fine silk gauze, fine polyester and other sheer fabrics will yield good results
- cool soapy water – I used detergent, others prefer natural soap, the idea is to allow the fibres to easily interact, to lubricate them, I use a spray bottle
- a roller of some kind – a length of waste pipe longer than the fabric is wide works well, 5 to 10cm in diameter
- a table that can withstand getting wet – I have not found the process to be mess making, some people seem to find it quite wet
- other fibres – camel hair (very fine), threads, silk fibres, in fact anything which will tend to bond or can be bonded by layering
The process:
- lay out the bubble wrap, bubbles side up, twice the length and about 10% to 20% wider than the backing fabric
- lay the backing fabric on to the bubble wrap
- lay out the fibres, as thinly as possible, making patterns if required, until the surface is covered. This process is the creative part, individual requirement will of course vary
- when sufficient thickness is obtained thoroughly wet the fibres with the soapy water
- fold over the rest of the bubble wrap
- roll up around the roller and roll back and forth about 300 times
- unroll, peel back the top layer of bubble wrap and check the felt. It should now have formed a layer bonded to the backing fabric, it will have shrunk
- add more fibres if desired and roll again
- when satisfied with the result peel the felt from the bubble wrap and rinse by hand to remove the soap
I have found that the backing fabric can be peeled carefully from the wool fibres to leave a very fine felt. The backing fabric may then be used again.


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IPM welcomes Trudeaus to Walton - Sept. 28, 2017
One of the brightest jewels in the crown of last week's International Plowing Match (IPM) in Walton was a visit from Justin and Sophie Trudeau and their children on Friday.
While the visit was late developing – the announcement was only made to the public the night before – hundreds came out to see Trudeau, who first tried his hand in the plowing fields and then spoke to those gathered around the main stage for the Queen of the Furrow competition speeches.
News broke around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday night that the Trudeaus would be in Walton for the IPM. Their visit, however, would be brief, as the Prime Minister was scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting with Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko at 3 p.m. in Toronto.
IPM Chair Jacquie Bishop said that she and the executive committee had been writing letters and attempting to draw Trudeau for the IPM for years, but it wasn't until Mrs. Nolan's Grade 1/2 class from St. James Catholic School in Seaforth wrote two letters to Trudeau that he began to take notice.
The class was on hand on Friday and was able to meet the Prime Minister and have their picture taken with his family. Trudeau thanked them for their letters and their enthusiasm about the match.
Trudeau also spent some time on a red Massey-Ferguson tractor that belonged to John Ryan, grandson of host farmer Jack Ryan. Trudeau met with the Ryans that morning and then his family made their way to the plowing fields by way of a people-mover with the Ryans, Bishop and other VIP guests.
John, with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet the Prime Minister and let him use his plow, withdrew himself from competitive plowing as a result, but his dad Joe says it was worth it.
Trudeau was coached on the fields by Brian McGavin, a champion plowman in his own right, who said that the Prime Minister impressed in the fields and kept it pretty straight.
While Trudeau was plowing, John Ryan came out and helped McGavin with his coaching duties, while also discussing his plow with Xavier, the Prime Minister's nine-year-old son.
After the furrow was plowed, the Trudeaus made their way to the main stage, where the Queen of the Furrow contestant speeches were ongoing.
Trudeau congratulated all of the young ladies for their hard work and commitment before greeting them all personally.
Sophie also spoke to the women, saying that they "rock" and that she was so impressed with the quality of contestants in the competition.
Bishop, reflecting on the Trudeau visit, said it was so special to have the Prime Minister in Walton for the match. She said the family was so gracious and welcoming and it was the private moments with the Trudeaus that she will remember forever.
Whether it was the conversations between John and Xavier or Sophie putting Huron East Mayor Bernie MacLellan's granddaughter to sleep on the people mover, Bishop says it was nice to be able to get up close and personal with the family.
Bishop also said that the Trudeaus were so great with the St. James students and she felt that was a very special part of the visit as well that those students will never forget.


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A new awards program has been launched to recognize and support the ethical leadership of organizations in the state of Utah.
Applications are now open for the Utah Ethical Leadership Awards, the first of their kind in Utah. All businesses, government entities, or nonprofit organizations with ethical standards are encouraged to apply. Applications close in three weeks, on August 11th. The application is available online at utahcf.org/ethics.
Governor Gary Herbert says: "The Utah Ethical Leadership Awards recognize Utah businesses, non-profit organizations, and government entities that embody best practices in ethical behaviors. The finalists and awardees are a great representation of Utah's principle-based ethical leadership."
Finalists and awardees will receive extensive press coverage in Utah Business Magazine and other media. Finalists will be announced after a rigorous evaluation process and will be notified the week of August 18th, and will be invited to an awards breakfast on September 12th, sponsored by Zions Bank, where the winners will be announced. One award will be given to the winner of each of the business, government, and nonprofit categories.
The awards are designed to recognize organizations that embody the spirit of ethical leadership exhibited by Bill Daniels, a founder of the modern cable industry and former owner of the Utah Stars. Bill Daniels believed deeply in ethics and integrity, and in the importance of absolute ethical principles, which earned him great respect throughout the business world.
The awards program is sponsored by the Community Foundation of Utah, the Daniels Fund, the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative at the David Eccles School of Business, Utah Business Magazine, and the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Utah. Fraser Nelson, Executive Director of the Community Foundation of Utah says: "The Utah Ethical Leadership Awards recognize leadership in Utah businesses, non-profit organizations and government entities that embody best practices in ethical behaviors. We hope to receive your application soon and to celebrate your leadership in principle-based ethics." Taylor Randall, dean of the University of Utah's business school, said: "The David Eccles School of Business is dedicated to making sure our students not only get an elite business education, but also learn how to better themselves, their workplaces and the world around them through leading an ethical professional life," "The Utah Ethical Leadership Awards are an outstanding forum to showcase for students, and Utahns in general, the local businesses that make ethical standards a priority. The awards will serve as i!nspiration for years to come for the future business leaders coming out of the David Eccles School of Business."
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Old Dogs & New Tricks Resumes Fundraising for Final Season
Thank you to BroadwayWorld for sharing news of Old Dogs & New Tricks' fundraising campaign for our final season! Read it HERE!
Thank you to BroadwayWorld for sharing news of Old Dogs & New Tricks' fundraising campaign for our final season! Read it HERE!
"'I think because we all have, or hope to anyway, good friends who are like family,' Acord said, reflecting on 'Old Dogs" success. 'Because we all age. And because, hopefully, we make folks feel just a little bit better about some of the adjustments and compromises…'" Read MORE
"Originally the show just focused on the four guys' love lives. But after five years, three seasons and two specials, we've expanded to include their work lives, and in Muscles' case, family." Read MORE
Web Series Worth Watching: "Nathan, Brad, Muscles and Ross return … It's great to see these groovy guys again (as well as Lydia and Nelson)" Read MORE
"…we felt the community could certainly use a little levity, especially now; a reminder of life the way it should be. Our community has always used comedy in the face of adversity. Hell, we practically invented the concept!" Read MORE
"Oh what a tangled web series they weave … Old Dogs & New Tricks wins for the best title:" Read MORE
"Long-running gay digital series Old Dogs & New Tricks returns with a 26-minute "mini-movie special" celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court marriage-equality ruling." Read MORE
"The show was written over the past year, and shot this past May, with a release of June 25, to coincide with the anniversary of the decision" Read MORE
"Set on the morning of June 26, 2015 (six months "and a day" after the show's Christmas-based cliffhanging season-three finale), the special resolves said cliffhangers and shows just when and where the love-lorn Dogs heard the news" Read MORE
Leon Acord joins Garret Miller & Rob Watson on the second-half of G-Rated Radio to chat about ODNT's upcoming special . Click HERE to listen!
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Absolutely Nothing- A Short Story
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L.A. Fight Club – Maricela Cornejo vs Eliza Olson
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October 7th Oscar de la Hoya and Golden Boy Promotions were at the Belasco Theater for another edition of The L.A. Fight Club Series.
In the Undercard of The Event Maricela Cornejo defeated Eliza Olson in a featured 6 round bout via unanimous decision.
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I would make a terrible Buddhist. The whole release your attachment to stuff tenet, which if I'm reading Buddhist writing correctly, is a pretty big deal is not my jam. I am not a hoarder or even a collector, but I am a saver of IMPORTANT THINGS. Some of those things include books, letters, rocks and seashells, and old notebooks full of the very cringey, but often incredibly self-righteous, ramblings of my younger self. We all have them, some in poem or song lyric form. Right.
Recently, I was summoned to my mother's house to retrieve boxes of personal things I had stored in my childhood bedroom. Why this purge needed to occur immediately, after a mere fifteen years of not living in the house anymore is a mystery, but the subtext of "your piles are in the living room" was clear.
A lot of boxes contained envelopes of photographs from high school and college. Others housed a more eclectic collection of items like mix tapes, graduation tassels, cards and notes with cryptic messages that read like World War II Navaho code breakers, but were apparently hilarious inside jokes, a hat box with hats in it from an unfortunate Debbie Gibson phase, just about every original cast recording CD of every musical ever, my Mulder and Scully action figures still in the package (NOTE!).
"When did you make a Billy Joel scrap book?" my brother teased.
"Shut your damn mouth," I said.
Opening each cardboard wormhole was an exercise in riding out embarrassment, nostalgia, and confusion. A lot of it would need to go, but what? How would I choose? It was all so precious to me, even some of things I had no clue about—a pencil sharpener shaped like a chicken, promotional flare from my stint as a Disney Store "cast member."
A musician friend of mine did a Kickstarter for his recent album and we had long discussions about the different reward items—hand written lyrics, old press photos, bits of recording gear—he didn't see the want behind these things. "Anything can be a thing to someone!" I told him emphatically, if not very scientifically. But it's true. We don't have to work too hard to imbibe something with meaning, to cast a spell over it declaring it sacred, immutable 4EVA. I know it's not the CD or the yearbook or the shoe box of movie ticket stubs that matter, it's the emotional charge they carry, it's that they are tunnels to places, times, and people that we can return to and in doing so give us back parts of ourselves. Heady stuff. Memories are a serious business. They are touchstones that can nourish us when we're in the deep valleys and sustain us over the course of wicked storms. They are the scaffolds that uphold our version of the truth.
We need the junk to make meaning for us when nothing else makes sense.
I was served this reminder last week when I happened to be standing on a street in Portsmouth NH, a pretty, seacoast town lined with quaint shops and sleepy cafes that make it feel like a bit of Paris transplanted to northern new England, when a motorcade of police cruisers pulled up the boulevard. An ordinary flatbed truck, the kind you might hurry up to pass on the highway in order to get out from behind its slow drag, followed carrying one item: a flat piece of rusty metal maybe 6 feet long and 3 feet wide. The metal was strapped down like a patient on an operating table. Small banners tacked to the sides of the truck bed lifted slightly as it moved passed with the phrase "9/11 Never Forget" written in red script against an image of the New York City skyline.
The piece was part of a metal beam taken from one of the towers and brought to Portsmouth to eventually become part of a permanent memorial. It was an odd feeling to cue up on the sidewalk and watch the piece zip by with the same fascination and urgency reserved for a glimpse of a traveling dignitary. I unconsciously put a hand over my heart and nodded. It feels ludicrous to say we'll somehow forget one of the most horrific tragedies to take place on American soil in the twenty-first century, that we somehow need these artifacts to help us remember, but it also feels unthinkable to say, "It's only a hunk of metal, it's only building scrap."
Maybe there's no threshold of preservation because maybe once the spell is cast upon a thing it can never be truly broken. That's a 24-hour genie on call, always at the ready to gift you back a memory, a moment, and for a lot of us, that's worth keeping a few shoe boxes full of precious junk.


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2016-2017 Undergraduate Bulletin > Course Descriptions > CJBA-Criminal Justice BA > 300 > CJBA 362
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This course examines the changing nature of crime in American history from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century. It focuses on crime by the different racial and ethnic groups that have played a significant role in America's crime history. Crime by these groups will be studied in the context of westward migration, slavery, racial segregation, urbanization, immigration, industrialization, Prohibition, the Great Depression, the World Wars, the black migrations, the Civil Rights movement, the social turmoil of the 1960s, and the new immigration of the post-1960s era.
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Cargo Theft: An Interview with Michael St. Hill of ISO
by Emily Holbrook
I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to speak with Michael St. Hill, director of insurance services for ISO crime analytics. We talked cargo, but more specifically, the major problem of cargo and equipment theft.
RM: Tell me a little about what you do exactly, will you?
MSH: Been working in insurance industry for over 15 years. I go out and speak to insurance companies and agents and brokers. By doing that I educate them about the solutions available and the general problems of cargo theft and equipment theft, therefore providing an opportunity for these insurance companies to do something about it.
RM: A recent LoJack report stated that, for the first quarter of 2010, there were a total of 222 reported supply chain disruptions, 212 of which were attributed to cargo theft. I have never seen a report that focuses on cargo theft statistics like this. Would you say these numbers represent an increase in thefts?
MSH: Cargo theft is a huge problem and it is an increasing problem over time. Where we fall short, as you just indicated, is the gathering of data. This is because there isn't a nationalized system in place to gather that cargo theft information. It's very hard to determine accurate trends without national statistics. There are reports out there that estimate cargo theft as a $30 billion problem, but there are other reports that state that it's a $5 billion problem. Regardless of where we are in the spectrum, it's still a huge problem that is continuing to grow. That's where CargoNet comes in. CargoNet is the first nationalized system that addresses the problem of cargo theft through data sharing. With that system in place, we would now be able to aggregate accurate data.
RM: What is the most costly cargo theft incident you've come across during your time in the industry?
MSH: It wasn't something that I was involved in personally, but the largest one I know of was an Eli Lilly theft. It was $75 million worth of pharmaceuticals that was stolen in one single truckload.
RM: Wow!
MSH: Yes, it was large. And, of course, a huge business interruption. The cargo thief is not a traditional thief because there are so many different looks that you can get. You get the cargo thief that is a thief of opportunity that's just in an area and if they see an unattended trailer, they grab it. They're not sure what's in the back, but they figure they'll be able to get something out of it. Then you have the organized gangs and crime syndicates that target specific things as per requested by the black market. Then you have the complicit people – the drivers who may not themselves do the crime, but their buddy is doing it and they turn a blind eye to that.
RM: What about vehicle telematics. Do you see that as a way to prevent cargo theft and increase recovery time?
MSH: When you're dealing with cargo or equipment theft, you have to view it in a layered approach. There is no panacea for cargo theft prevention or recovery. Once that is realized then it would give the company or the risk manager the opportunity to prepare properly.


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GENEVA – Iran and six world powers came to the table Monday for the first time in a year, exchanged pleasantries, but remained far apart on how deeply their talks should tackle the West's greatest concern -- Iranian nuclear activities that could make atomic weapons.
Tehran says it does not want atomic arms, but as it builds up its capacity to make such weapons, neither Israel nor the U.S. have ruled out military action if Tehran fails to heed U.N. Security Council demands to freeze key nuclear programs.
The long-term aim for the six nations is nudging Iran toward agreeing to stop uranium enrichment, which can make both fuel for reactors and the fissile core of nuclear arms.
Delegates from Iran, the European Union, the U.S., Russia, Britain, France and Germany hurried inside a conference center in Geneva to escape the pouring rain, and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief negotiator, in the foyer.
As the doors closed to reporters Monday morning, the two had joined the other delegations sitting around a light brown oval table, with flags of their nations behind them.
"The two sides exchanged pleasantries -- the atmosphere was pleasant but businesslike," an official from one of the delegations said. The official, who asked for anonymity because his information was confidential, told The Associated Press the first hour was taken up by the six powers making a case for why they thought Iran's nuclear program needed to be discussed.
Iran's semi-official Fars news agency said Jalili began the meeting with a reference to the slaying last week of a senior Iranian nuclear scientist "and a strong condemnation of the terror act against him."
The attack, which left another scientists wounded, has burdened the atmosphere, with Iranian officials linking the West and the International Atomic Energy Agency to the assault.
Before the talks began, the chief negotiator from one of the six powers warned: "Don't expect much of anything," in a comment reflecting the deep divide separating the two sides. He also asked not to be named because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Iran's defiance was highlighted Sunday when it announced it had delivered its first domestically mined raw uranium to a processing facility, claiming it was now self-sufficient over the whole enrichment process.
Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the country's vice president, said Iran had for the first time delivered domestically mined raw uranium to a processing facility -- allowing it to bypass U.N. sanctions prohibiting import of the material.
Salehi said the delivery proved that the mysterious bombings which targeted the Iranian scientists would not slow the country's progress.
Iran acquired a considerable stock of yellowcake from South Africa in the 1970s under the former U.S.-backed shah's original nuclear program, as well as unspecified quantities of yellowcake obtained from China long before the U.N. sanctions.
Western nations said last year that Iran was running out of raw uranium as that imported stockpile diminished and asserted that Tehran did not have sufficient domestic ore to run the large-scale civilian program it said it was assembling.
"Given that Iran's own supply of uranium is not enough for a peaceful nuclear energy program, this calls into further question Iran's intentions and raises additional concerns at a time when Iran needs to address the concerns of the international community," said Mike Hammer, spokesman of the U.S. National Security Council.
But Salehi denied that local stocks were lacking and said Iran was now self-sufficient over the entire nuclear fuel cycle -- from extracting uranium ore to enriching it and producing nuclear fuel.
Since Iran's clandestine enrichment program was discovered eight years ago, Iran has resisted both rewards -- offers of technical and economic cooperation -- and four sets of increasingly harsh U.N. sanctions meant to force it to freeze its enrichment program.
Nations have a right to enrich domestically and Iran insists it is doing so only to make fuel for an envisaged network of reactors and not to make fissile warhead material. But international concerns are strong because Tehran developed its enrichment program clandestinely and because it refuses to cooperate with an IAEA probe meant to follow up on suspicions that it experimented with components of a nuclear weapons program -- something Iran denies.
Israel has threatened to attack Iran, even though Israel is believed to have stockpiled more than 200 nuclear weapons and it is not a member of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Western officials have urged Tehran to address international concerns about its nuclear activities.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said it was up to Iran to restore trust about its nuclear intentions, urging it to come to Geneva prepared to "firmly, conclusively reject the pursuit of nuclear weapons."
But for Iran, the main issues are peace, prosperity -- and nuclear topics only in the context of global disarmament.
"Iran has not and will not allow anybody in the talks to withdraw one iota of the rights of the Iranian nation," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said earlier.


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Students and their families from Galilee Baptist Academy in Zachary had an evening of "Frozen" fun Feb. 3 during the faith-based academy's third annual Family Literacy Night.
Galilee's pre-K and kindergarten students and their parents visited four interactive literacy stations: Wonderful Winter Writing, Olaf's Polar Dough, Do You Want to Build a Snowman? and Snowy Storytime, said Terrie Hodges, interim administrator.
At each station, teachers demonstrated reading activities that parents could replicate at home, and parents were given informational packets that included literacy goals the families could work together to help their children strengthen their reading skills, Hodges said.
The students were awestruck by a visit from the movie ice queen, who drew names for a Scholastic Book Fair raffle, and the youth received goody bags filled with powdered doughnut-hole snowballs, a bottle of melted snow (water) and a "Frozen"-themed bookmark, Hodges said.
"Staff and volunteers made Family Literacy Night a wonderfully exciting event for our youngest GBA students," said Hodges.
Galilee Baptist Academy, a ministry of Galilee Baptist Church, educates 3-year-old pre-K through sixth-grade students.
Hodges said there are about 55 pre-K and kindergarten students who attend the academy from Central, Greenwell Springs and Zachary-area communities.


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Recruiters are struggling to fill roles in cyber security despite the increasing number of hacking attacks, experts say.
With this week' s London Conference on Cyberspace tackling cyber security on a global scale, the Cyber Security Challenge UK, last Friday, looked at problems closer to home with a roundtable debate on recruitment issues facing the UK industry.
Following on from head of GCHQ Iain Lobban's comments on the "disturbing" level of cyber attacks in the UK and the recent London Conference on Cyberspace, information security experts and leading employers expressed concern about the difficulties in procuring talent and resources to counter this rising threat.
Members of QinetiQ, PwC, the SANS Institute, the Royal Mail and Cassidian gathered at a rountable discussion held by the Cyber Security Challenge UK last week, along with government, skills and education experts, and previous contestants.
"It's difficult for the talented people out there to find open doors into the profession," said Cyber Security Challenge UK director Judy Baker, adding that routes into cyber security were often poorly sign-posted.
"There is a lot of serendipity in how people get into this industry and it seems that unless you have the right formal qualifications you can be screened out an early stage and never have an opportunity to demonstrate your skills."
Last year's challenge winner Dan Summers, was highlighted as a good example of how an alternative approach, looking for aptitude and talent rather than experience and qualifications, can pay off.
He entered the competition last year while working as a postman for the Royal Mail, and was offered several jobs after he won the challenge.
He's now working at the Royal Mail as part of their cyber security team.
Other former contestants spoke of their frustration in finding that companies required relevant experience and qualifications which often prevented them from pursuing a career in the field
Many began developing their skills in their own time, and the Challenge team said it aimed to target these kind of people in an effort to steer them towards employers who are desperate for people with their skills set.
"We need to capture the imaginations of some of those talented individuals and encourage them towards a path on the right side of law which can benefit the UK as a whole," said Nigel Harrison from the Cabinet Office.
"This can be done by offering them a space to express their skills and learn how they can adapt their talent to the needs of employers."
Many around the table insisted that the solutions needed to start in school while others said employers needed to be more creative in their recruitment campaigns.
The opportunities of a career in cyber security shouldn't just be presented to those interested in ICT, said Paula Glover, an occupational psychologist from QinetiQ.
"The net needs to be spread much further to make people aware that security isn't just a deep technical space, there are other aspects to it like business analysis and risk management," she said.
The Challenge has attracted thousands of players over its two programmes of competitions and over £30,000 worth of career enabling prizes have so far been awarded to the winners.
"We have a long way to go," Baker said. "80 per cent of the people who were involved in the games didn't know what training they needed to get them into this industry and 90 per cent didn't know there were employers out there that might be interested in their skills.
"We need to do a lot more to inform people about these issues."
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Personally, this isn't even a question. Heroes totally gets the nod in my book.
Damn you TV gods! Why would you do this to me? I'm a good little viewer, I suckle at the cathode ray nipple nightly, I'm a good little consumer too!
Why would you put HEROES and 24 up against each other? Why must I decide which to watch while the other is recording?
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I personally have to watch 24 back-to-back-to-back. So I wait for the DVDs to come out.
So Heroes, dude!
Ah… the sweet pleasure of having a dual tuner. Why choose between two hot shows when you can have both! Sorry dude. I actually had to make a choice myself. I can only record one show in HD on my computer while the other records in SD… but WAIT! I just remembered the TIVO in the bedroom is recording Heros in HD!! Whoot whoot!…
I think that Richard just used the same computer as Regina to post a comment on Ted's blog, and it auto filled her name.
Q, I couldn't agree more.
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This video provides an introduction on how to setup the Diginet LEDSmart Xpert dimmer.
In 2 minutes it covers how to program the following features:
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We have previously written about the importance of upgrading your wall dimmers to those optimised for LED dimming. This includes matching the LED and dimmers together to achieve best results. Wall dimmers are also known as: Rotary Dimmers Rotary Dimmer Switch Rotary..
In Part 1 we told you about the importance of mixing design and performance, creating a new design paradigm for LED wall dimmers with some innovative Australian design. However, beautiful design and appearance is only half the LED lighting puzzle...
There are millions of wall dimmers installed in Australian homes today. The fact is that these wall dimmers were never made for dimming LED lights and the rapid changeover to LED lights in homes represents a significant issue for home..
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I'm trying to force removal of yiff on F-Craft, but I'm getting kicked because I'm "discriminating". They don't like religion talk, they don't like it when I complain about yiff, etc.
That's it!!!!!!
I've had it!!!!!
From 26th of December, I'm starting a little fund here to run a new clean Christian friendly furry Minecraft server for everyone! There will be no yiff! Furry specialties will be put into group chats! Religion talk will be encouraged! There will be More Player Models Mod 2 to suit you into polymorphic furry avatars for the new furry Minecraftian adventure! Block/item logging mods and Lockette will be installed! Teleports will have no waiting! You'll be able to submit cute furry images as maps! Mobs won't grief! You won't lose your items when you die! And so much more!
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Intervention Age is Important
The earlier a child begins undergoing ABA therapy, the greater the outcome will be for their development. Early intervention is an important part of the process and has been proven to have a positive impact while improving a child's IQ, language ability and social interaction during this study by Autism Speaks.
We work with children as young as 18 months old in our centers. The intensive levels of treatment a child undergoes at an early age can play an important part in reaching their fullest potential, especially in our centers with a 1-to-1 ratio of therapist-to-child. Your child always has our full attention.
When your child begins treatment with us, they will undergo a thorough assessment to gauge their specific behavioral needs. This assessment is known as the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP). It is objective and points to a child's behavioral strengths compared to their typically developing peer groups. We observe the child's behavior during this assessment before sitting down with family members to make recommendations for ongoing therapy.
The same assessment is done every six months for each child at our center. It helps our Behavior Analysts plan for the following six months of treatment with a design specific to the needs of each child.
Age Range
While early intervention is important, we do welcome a range of ages at our centers. Most of the children we work with are between 18 months and 13 years old. There can be some exceptions to this depending on the situation.
How often we recommend seeing a child varies based on the individual. It can be as many as 40 hours per week for some children while others that are verbal could need less than 10 hours. Six hours per week is the minimum a child can be at our centers, but recommended treatment could be longer. It's specific to the child and can be better estimated after the initial assessment.


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The final season of TURN: Washington's Spies will soon be upon us soon, and while we all know the outcome of the war, it's certain we'll find ourselves fixated as the events unfold on AMC's hit historical drama.
From the press release:
NEW YORK, NY – April 25, 2017 – AMC announced today the fourth and final season of the Revolutionary War spy drama "TURN: Washington's Spies" will return on Saturday, June 17th at 9:00 P.M. ET/PT with a two-hour premiere.
The ten-episode final season opens with notorious traitor Benedict Arnold (Owain Yeoman) taking his revenge on George Washington (Ian Kahn) by rounding up suspected rebel spies to impress his new British commanders. Meanwhile, Abe Woodhull and the other members of the Culper Ring escape Arnold's clutches and unintended consequences compel Abe to seek revenge. For his side to prevail, he must forsake his bloodlust and turn his attention toward the one thing that truly matters: winning the war.
An AMC Studios production, "TURN: Washington's Spies" is executive produced by Craig Silverstein ("Nikita"), who also serves as showrunner, Barry Josephson ("Bones," Enchanted) from Josephson Entertainment, Michael Taylor ("Battlestar Galactica"), Andrew Colville ("Nikita") and Henry Bronchtein ("The Sopranos"), and is based on the book "Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring," by Alexander Rose, who serves as a producer and has been a member of the writing staff since season two.
In addition to Bell, Kahn and Yeoman, the series stars Seth Numrich as Ben Tallmadge, Daniel Henshall as Caleb Brewster, Heather Lind as Anna Strong, Meegan Warner as Mary Woodhull, Kevin R. McNally as Judge Richard Woodhull, Angus Macfadyen as Robert Rogers, Burn Gorman as Major Hewlett, Samuel Roukin as Captain John Simcoe, Ksenia Solo as Peggy Shippen and Nick Westrate as Robert Townsend.


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(Reuters Health) – Babies born a little early, but still within the range considered "full term," may have worse cardiorespiratory fitness than peers born after a full 39 weeks of gestation, suggests a recent study.
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This a book few gamers probably ever heard of. It's off the beaten path when most gamers seem to read science-fiction and fantasy books.
I used to be a hardcore fantasy reader until I branched out to other genres sometime in college.
Louis L'Amour used to be a famous writer of westerns. The Walking Drum is his first crack at writing a novel based on medieval history, and for the most part, it works.
The story is about Mathurin Kerbouchard, a pagan, scholar, warrior, and descendant of the line of Druids who used to live in Brittany. After the Baron de Tournemine kills Kerbouchard's mother, Kerbouchard flees Brittany to find his father who was a famous corsair in the Mediterranean Sea. His journey begins in 1187 AD.
What follows is a continent-sweeping adventure where basically Kerbouchard takes a grand tour of Europe at the end of the 12th Century to find his lost father and avenge his mother's death. He begins as a slave, becomes a pirate, then a scholar, then a merchant, then an alchemist, and then a doctor.
He's sort of like Conan the Barbarian who had a number of occupations over the course of his life, but with Kerbouchard these are condensed into a period of about 4 years. He never becomes a king, however.
The medievalist in me rolled my eyes at how fast he could memorize and copy books, or how much he knew about current events of the time. But this was more of a way for L'Amour to explain what life was like in the late 12th Century–particular in non-Christian areas of Europe like Moorish Spain and later the Middle East. And there's plenty of action through out to keep the reader entertained.
In my experience, the first 100 pages were slow-going. While in Spain, Kerbouchard discovered that his father was captured on the other side of the Mediterranean. Later he would discover that Old Man of Mountain, The Grand Master of Assassins himself, held his father prisoner in the fortress of Alamut.
It just seemed to take forever for Kerbouchard to get out of Spain and make progress. He ended up spending a lot of time in Cordoba. The story started to pick up when he escaped, along with his beautiful companion, Aziza, to the ruins of Castle Othman.
If you can make it beyond that point, you can probably finish the book as he has a number of adventures as a member of a merchant caravan. He even ends up in Constantinople and meets the Emperor Andronicus Comnenus, before traveling further eastward in search of his father.
You get lost in the medieval world L'Amour recreated.
Just don't look at this book as basis for facts on Medieval history. L'Amour took some literary license with some of the characters. The Emperor Comnenus, actually died a horrible death a few years before the story even began.
Overall, The Walking Drum is decent book.
Read this if: You're looking for something beyond the genres you normally read. You like historical fiction. You want some interesting ideas for your RPG campaign.
Don't read this if: You like characters that develop and change internally as the story progresses. He becomes a bit more worldly by the end of the story, but that's about it. Also, don't read this if you're hardcore medievalist (there's a saying among historians: "Don't read or watch any fictional account of the period your study, it will never be accurate enough for you.")


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The state of New Hampshire recently enacted House Bill 322 ("HB 322"), which requires the Department of Education to implement additional procedures to protect student and teacher data from security breaches.
Effective August 11, 2015, the DOE must develop a detailed security plan that requires notification to any teacher or student whose personally identifiable information could reasonably be assumed to have been part of a data security breach.
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PIA Applauds Senate Vote to Renew National Flood Insurance Program
Five Year Authorization Will Provide Certainty for Consumers
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2004 - The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) today applauded the passage by the U.S. Senate of legislation that reauthorizes the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for five years. The Senate approved the legislation by unanimous consent on June 15.
The reauthorization was part of S. 2238, which reforms the program. The measure now goes to the House, where a vote is expected next week. The House had previously passed H.R. 253, which reforms and reauthorizes the NFIP.
"PIA applauds the Senate for taking action prior to the June 30 deadline to reauthorize the flood insurance program," said PIA National Assistant Vice President of Federal Affairs Peter Bizzozero. "Senators have recognized the need for certainty in the availability of flood insurance coverage for homes and businesses by passing the five year reauthorization."
Two weeks ago, PIA initiated a nationwide grassroots action campaign, asking its members to contact their Members of Congress and to urge them to pass flood insurance legislation before authorization for the NFIP expired. Congress had passed two temporary authorizations for the program this year, to give the Senate time to address proposed reforms. In addition, PIA participated with a coalition seeking prompt NFIP renewal that included the American Insurance Association (AIA), the Financial Services Roundtable, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) and the Flood Insurance Servicing Companies Association of America.
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Kentucky), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic Policy of the Senate Banking Committee, who sponsored S. 2238, told PIA members during their Federal Legislative Summit on March 25, "When we reauthorize this bill it will be for five years. We won't have to worry about the program expiring as you have for the last three years. Hopefully that will bring continuity and stability."
Final Senate passage was assured when changes suggested by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) were included that addressed some of the concerns she raised. These focused on provisions in S. 2238 relating to a repetitive loss properties mitigation pilot program. Landrieu succeeded in adding language requiring FEMA to give greater deference to mitigation decisions made at the local level; clarifying that the pilot program is optional for local communities; and instituting a funding formula based on the percentage of the total number of repetitive loss properties in a state. The compromise addressing Landrieu's concerns was worked out in the Senate Banking Committee.
Approximately 95 percent of the flood insurance sold in the United States is backed by the National Flood Insurance Program.
Founded in 1931, PIA is a national trade association that represents member insurance agents and their employees who sell and service all kinds of insurance, but specialize in coverage of automobiles, homes and businesses.


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Freedom on the Inside (FOTI)
Freedom on the Inside (FOTI) is a partnership with the Learning Center at Red Willow. We provide weekly yoga classes to inmates in the Missoula County Jail. There is one men's class per week and two women's classes per week.
Our Mission:
Our mission is to share the gifts of yoga with incarcerated individuals. We provide functional yoga instruction to students who are in the Missoula County Jail. Functional yoga focuses on basic movements that release tension, provide pain relief, and, most importantly, connect students to their breath.
FOTI recognizes that incarcerated individuals are members of a traumatized population and that they may not have been previously exposed to self-regulating tools like connecting to one's breath. We hope that yoga empowers our students to connect to their inner resources. And we hope that yoga helps our incarcerated students shed their shame and hold their heads high with dignity. Yoga teaches us that we have options—and options are empowering.
Our long-term vision is to use the jail program as an introduction to yoga and extend the program so that when students are released, they can continue yoga classes in the community and use yoga as a resource to help them rebuild their lives. It is our vision that yoga would be a compliment to other rehabilitative and mental health programsn that might be well-suited for the individual students' needs. We hope to collaborate with community organizatons that currently offer yoga or to bring yoga classes into community facilities that work with people after they are released from jail.
What We Do:
Freedom on the Inside is a group of 15 yoga teachers who teach in the jail. They have attended the jail's volunteer training, created an orientation program to help teachers, and study how to best serve their students. FOTI teachers are scheduled weekly to lead the programs we currently offer in the jail.
How You Can Help:
You can help by making a contribution to our program and by liking our page on Facebook.