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Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
by Barry Michels
For his 25th birthday, one of my son's friends asked a bunch of his "elders" to write a brief answer to the following question: What do you wish you'd known when you were 25 years old?
When I was 25, I was in my final year of law school. I'd gone because it seemed like a safe choice, one that preserved my options. Everybody told me "you can do so many things with a law degree." They should have added "the only catch is you won't care about anything you do." I was also in a 5-year relationship with a woman who I felt affection for, but wasn't in love with. It took us 2 more years to realize we both deserved more.
Both of these situations were examples of a comfort zone: a secure, predictable place that promises to keep you safe. Human beings have a deep desire for safety and familiarity. That's why we naturally form habits: on some level, we like doing the same thing over and over again, even though it has the overall effect of deadening our lives.
Most people waste their lives in a comfort zone of some sort. Yours may be different from mine when I was 25, but if you examine your life with any honesty, you'll find them—routines and patterns that don't serve you. You may be dating people you know aren't right for you. You may be avoiding committing to one person. Your comfort zone might consist of doing things that come easily, rather than challenging yourself with things you aren't good at. For some people constant, frenetic activity is their comfort zone—they dread being still or alone, quietly meditating or reading a book. For others quiet solitude becomes their comfort zone: they dread being out among people.
What I know for sure is this: if you're comfortable, you're not fully alive. Everyone thinks the comfort zone is going to make life safe, but all it really does it make life small.
The lesson: always stretch yourself beyond what is familiar. Take the alien, untrammeled path. Spend time with people who seem irreconcilably different from you. Embarrass yourself by doing things you're terrible at. Risk heartbreak. Take action on a cause that has always moved you deeply. Fall so deeply in love that breaking up seems like it will kill you. The wider you cast your net, the more varied and exciting your catch will be. Don't be afraid to lose yourself in something or someone. Without the courage to lose yourself you'll never really find yourself.
Taking risks like these isn't pleasant—it's more like plunging down into a dark place of fear, loneliness, confusion, and chaos. But the hero's journey is never a linear ascent into the light. It requires us to go down and then climb back up again and again. That's why ancient Greek heroes ventured willingly into the underworld; their re-ascent gave them powers they couldn't gain any other way.
More than anything else, this is what I wish I'd known at 25: Progress, for individuals, communities, even countries, has a cyclical quality. You get pushed down and must fight your way back up to even greater heights. When we are the most uncomfortable and the darkness seems overwhelming, that is when we have the greatest opportunity to expand ourselves, as individuals and as a society. It is when everything plunges down into darkness that we can embody the heroic words of John Milton in Paradise Lost: "Awake, Arise, or be forever Fallen."


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UNITY: Journalists for Diversity will be holding a regional conference in Chicago on Friday Oct. 21. Here are notes on my remarks and information on the speakers in my panel and the schedule of the day's events.
UNITY: Journalists for Diversity in partnership with Loyola University has opened registration for an exciting media summit in Chicago at Loyola University's Schreiber Center on October 21.
The regional event titled "Rethinking Journalism in the Midwest" on October 21, 2016, will bring journalists from around the country to Loyola University for an event centered on prevalent and emerging issues within the Midwest.
Workshops will include diversity media coverage, community violence, systems issues/municipal finance, journalism tools, future of media and entrepreneurial journalism.
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM – Registration & Continental Breakfast – Wintrust Hall
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM – Welcome & Keynote – Russell Contreras, UNITY Board President; Neal Justin, Planning Committee Chair – Wintrust Hall
AM Keynote: "The Power of Partnerships", Teri Arvesu, News Director, Univision
Description: As audiences become more fragmented and newsrooms face challenges in resourcing, effective partnerships not only help offset deficiencies, but can also amplify messaging in order to be a catalyst of change.
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM – Sessions 1 & 2
Workshop #1 – "Forecasting the Future of the Media"
Ray Hanania, Columnist – Southwest News Group newspapers, Columnist the Arab News, Saudi Arabia, writer TheArabDailyNews.com & owner – Urban Strategies Group media consulting;
Blanca Rios – Assignment Desk Editor, ABC News 7 Chicago;
Tracy Baim – Publisher & Executive Editor, Windy City News;
Moderator, Ameet Sachdev, former Tribune health industry reporter, now VP at Res Publica Public Affairs.
Description: News media is changing everyday, from information gathering and sourcing through social media, to opting out of desktops and into mobile devices. Everything points to covering and writing about issues faster and with more content. A candid discussion on how reporters balance the pressure of 'feeding the beast' while staying grounded on journalism principles of fact gathering and reliable reporting.
Workshop #2 – "The Power of Startups: Starting Your Own Media Company"
Panel: Eric Ortiz, CEO, Evrybit and Managing Editor, Truthdig; DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweli TV and EmpowerMagazine.com; Barbara E. Allen, Filmmaker and Executive Director, Middle Passage Productions, Inc.; Moderator, Jackie Serrato, Independent Journalist, DNAinfo, City Bureau, La Villita Page.
Description: Startups are changing the way media is created and consumed amid a changing landscape. Learn how these entrepreneurs are putting their ideas in action and promoting their plan.
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM – Luncheon Forum – "Our Stories, Our Voices: How We Diversify the News"
Panel: Margaret Holt, Standards Editor, Chicago Tribune; Paul Street, Author, Social Critic, Political Commentator; Leah Hope, Reporter, ABC 7 News Chicago; Adriana Cardona-Maguigad, Investigative Producer/Reporter, Univision Chicago; Moderator, Richard Prince, Journalist.
Description: Newsrooms need to be representative of the communities they cover. See how media organizations are reaching emerging audiences and strengthening coverage of race, identity and inequality.
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM – Sessions 3 & 4
Workshop #3 – "Community Violence: Beyond the Streets and into the Coverage"
Panel: Susy Schultz – President, Public Narrative; George Villanueva – Assistant Professor of Advocacy and Social Change, School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago; Jamie Kalven – Invisible Institute.
Description: Among the challenges covering community violence is getting to the heart of the story through effective community engagement. This workshop shares those challenges and discusses strategies from those who have delved into the issue.
Workshop #4 – "Harassment In and Out of the Newsroom"
Panel: Lucy Westcott, Reporter, Newsweek;
Tracy Samantha Schmidt, Founder, sociallyauthentic.com;
Jill Geisler, Bill Plante Chair in Leadership & Media Integrity, Loyola University Chicago;
Moderator, Mi-Ai Parrish, Publisher, Arizona Republic.
Description: Accusations of inappropriate, and often illegal behavior while reporters are trying to do their jobs continue to emerge. Yet most accounts go unreported. How much progress, if any, has journalism made in regards to dealing with sexual harassment in its own shops, on the beat and on social media? What steps should employees take when facing such an ordeal?
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM – Sessions 5 & 6
Workshop #5 – "Nifty Tools to Hold Powerful People Accountable"
Panel: Aimee Levitt, Reporter, Chicago Reader;
Description: From public records to web scraping to video apps to plain old dogged reporting, what tools and techniques can journalists use to keep the powerful in check and to engage all members of the community?
Workshop #6 – "When Disadvantage is Systematic: Digging Beyond the Surface."
Panel: TBA
3:45 PM – 4:30 PM – Closing Remarks & Keynote – Russell Contreras, UNITY Board President – Wintrust Hall
PM Keynote: Karyn J. Taylor, Trial Consultant, The Strategic ImageSM; former Producer for CBS News 60 Minutes, ABC News Close-up and 20/20, and PBS Frontline.
"Journalism Reboot: Looking Back to Chart a New Way Forward"
Description: The news business has changed drastically since the late 1970s when the first wave of journalists of color breached the lily-white, all male bastion known as network television news. Those first pioneers came of age as producers, correspondents, and anchors in an industry defined by Cronkite, Sevareid, and Brinkley, but one mired in all the racism, sexism, and cronyism of the day. In a no-holds barred (but strictly off-the-record) analysis of how they succeeded and where they failed, we'll use their 20/20 hindsight to explore how we can chart a new course for our industry, short circuit the violence in our communities, and make our voices truly count.
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Thoughts on the future of media in the Midwest
UNITY Conference October 21, 2016
By Ray Hanania
The future is bright for independent, community and ethnic media. The internet has created new delivery methods to reach wider audiences. But the economic pressure on the mainstream news media and its reduction in staffing has resulted in less coverage of community and ethnic news. If you want that news, and many more people do today, you need to go directly to the ethnic media.
The internet is amazing as a vehicle for community and ethnic media because it makes it easier for people to find you. You don't have to have your newspapers at every news stand, which is impossible because the newsstands are controlled by the distributors.
Community newspapers can't get onto the news racks in many locations like 7-Eleven for example.
But while the mainstream print media is seeing circulation drops, broadcast news remains pretty strong and compelling. My daily structure involves watching the news on TV in the morning and at night, and listening to news radio during my rush hour drives and weekend drives … The Internet can't replace that although we are seeing more and more live broadcasts on Facebook and other social media.
So for the community media and ethnic media, the future is much brighter today than it was.
The mainstream media still doesn't get the significance of ethnic news and minority minorities … these are minorities that are outside the mainstream minority community of Blacks and Hispanics. That's one reason why the Asian media has been empathetic to these minority minorities like Arabs and Arab Muslims.
In addition to columns in the community media, I also write for publications in the Middle East. The archive websites where I host my writings, TheArabDailyNews.com has huge readership statistics and the second site TheDailyHookah.com is growing …
I think online readership is significantly larger than the actual print readership for many minority minorities like Arabs and Arab Muslims.
We're a growing demographic that the mainstream news media still hasn't address and that the Internet is servicing.
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From my standpoint as a former mainstream journalist covering Chicago City Hall (1976-1992) who is now more of an "ethnic focused columnist," today's journalism world is much brighter.
As someone who is intensely interested in writing about the experiences of American Arabs and Arab Muslims, it's far easier today than it was 40 years ago when I first entered journalism.
In 1976, the mainstream news media was much larger than it is today. There were far more newspapers. The industry was really competitive in covering news. That competition was a critical factor in contributing to the drive for excellence and breaking news. The scoop was important back then.
I used to write to several deadlines from City Hall, one at 10 am, one at 3 pm and one at 6 pm. The news changed and with it the coverage. News was delivered in different editions of the newspaper.
The newspaper was the alpha media at that time and it fed the broadcast media. Many TV and radio broadcast news reports basically followed up on newspaper reporting and newspaper reporters often were the primary source for discussions and talk formats.
The community newspaper worked in a defined geographic environment and the community press shared the stage in its neighborhood and community with the major daily newspapers and broadcast media. But they rarely went outside of their "community circle."
The ethnic media was weak and reflected the health of the community it represented. The African American and Hispanic media were very strong and developed partnerships and mergings with the mainstream news media. But there was a group of "minority minorities" that were left out, like Arab Americans and Arab Muslims, and other Asian ethnic groups.
(By the way, that is one reason why the Asian American media and community have been more welcoming to the Arab American and Arab Muslim news media. The Asian American Journalists Association was one of the first professional journalism organizations to fully open its doors to American Arab journalists. Asian Americans supported American Arabs as they grew into mainstream professional journalism.)
It was just a typewriter and a telephone, back then.
Today, things have changed.
There are far fewer mainstream newspapers, and TV and radio broadcasting have enhanced their role in news reporting and delivery.
And the Internet is media now shares its space with the rest of the world through the Internet. The Internet has allowed the media to expand its delivery to readers and viewers who might not have ordinarily been in the original delivery zones of the mainstream news media. But today, everyone can be a "journalist." Everyone can express their opinions through their own Blogs and websites.
The most significant change again is the broadening of the audience that the community and ethnic news media could reach.
This is most reflected in the ethnic media of "minority minorities" like American Arabs.
The mainstream news media has gobbled up most of the community news media. But the ethnic media has found new independence and is growing via the Internet.
My news website, which features the writings of some 15 other American Arabs, reaches more than 500,000 readers each month. You could never reach that level by simply publishing a print newspaper once each month or twice each month.
There are about 60 Arab American newspapers in America today that publish monthly or twice monthly, and only one that publishes weekly in Detroit. And there are only a few Arab radio stations, and three Arab cable TV programs, not including the Middle East Arab media like Al Jazeera or Al Arabiya which also provide news but news mainly focused on the Middle East.
Only recently, publications like Al Jazeera in Qatar and the Arab News in Saudi Arabia, where I write, have hired American Arabs to report on American Arab news, features and opinion perspectives. Hopefully, we'll see more of that.
Some additional Observations about Arab American and Arab Muslims in America
For UNITY, October 21, 2016 Loyola University Conference Center, Chicago Loop
My journalism experience as an ethnic writer
By Ray Hanania
For a long time, American Arabs pushed to be involved in UNITY and I want to thank the board and its membership for opening that door wide during the past few years, and engaging Arab journalists in their regional conferences in Detroit and here…
Adapting to today's world of journalism is not easy. Everyone is and can be a "journalist" now thanks to the advances in technology and the Internet. But they're really not all journalists.
I was lucky to cover Chicago City Hall at one of its most tumultuous of times, 17 years from 1976 through 1992 covering Richard J. Daley and every mayor through Richard M. Daley, for the Chicago Sun-Times.
But being Arab always put me in a different place from other journalists because Arabs are stereotyped in a horrible way in this country. Even today, Daley's successor Mayor Rahm Emanuel has rejected my requests to interview him.
It's about being Arab and the aura of controversy that is imposed on us through misinformation, stereotypes, discrimination and racism.
American Arabs today are victims; and we act like victims. We're defensive. We're constantly beaten up in the media. The media includes entertainment where Arabs dominate the cast of terrorists, murderers and mayhem …. People have been taught to fear us and to hate us.
Worse, the Arab identity is being erased, and the focus is shifting to Muslims and Islam.
Americans are the most educated people in the World but the least educated about the world. Most people think I am Muslim. I am Christian, Orthodox, who happens to be married to a Jew with a Jewish son. You should have been to his bar mitzvah. Turns out Israelis and Palestinians get along great together.
Arabs are excluded from almost everything and we have to fight our way in. The U.S. Census is a good example. Inclusion in the Census allows for empowerment. When you have no real statistics on your demographics, it makes it easier to suppress a community.
Here are some estimates: There are 7 million Muslims in America, and only 22 percent are Arab. Being Muslim is NOT about being Arab.
There are 4.5 million Arabs in America. The majority, 65 percent, are Christian like myself. You wouldn't know that from the way the media mis-portrays Arabs.
I fought my way into journalism in 1975. I was serving Active Duty during the Vietnam War in 1973 when I saw an Israeli and Arab debate on national TV. The Israeli looked, sounded and acted more American than most Americans. The Arab was confrontational, disheveled. Unshaven. Heavy accented. Dressed shabbily. And, he was angry, blaming the audience – Americans – for all his problems.
I recognized the problem and decided to change my college major from pre-Med to journalism and communications. I recognized the problem in the debate that day was in how each side presented their message to the "audience." One knew his audience very well, the other did not.
It's not what you say, but how you say it. If you want to influence Americans, you don't just speak English. You speak "American." The more you look and sound like them, the more they will embrace you. The less you look and sound like them, the more they will push you away.
It's not about right or wrong. It's about identifying with someone. It's about appearing to be a friend, or a stranger. Americans will believe almost anything from a friend. They will shut out almost everyone who is a stranger.
As an Arab in a country that despises Arabs, I've been forced to fight my way every step of the way.
The very day I was Honorably discharged from U.S. Military Service, the FBI opened a two year-long investigation into my life. I didn't know until years later. Bankers cancelled my bank accounts. People distanced themselves from me. I was fired from a job.
I got into journalism by hand writing Letters to the Editor every week, 10 pages long, reacting to the biased, racistly anti-Arab news media and delivering them to the local newspaper, the Southtown Economist. Eventually, the editor Marlin Landwehr, offered me a job, probably just to get me off his back.
I was told to keep my opinions to my side of the typewriter. And I did, until I started to notice not everyone else did. They wrote about their communities all the time. When I was hired by the Sun-Times, I wanted to write about being Arab American.
That was the career ender. They were so angry when I demanded in 1990 to be a part of a team of Jewish reporters they were sending to Israel to write a special 50 page magazine insert on Israel's 48th Anniversary. I was the only Palestinian working fulltime at a major American newspaper, at the time. The Palestinian Intifada was raging. It made sense. But they fought with me and threatened me. They would fire me if I made any mistakes. And they did.
In the past, that would be the end of the journalism line. But I left journalism just as the Internet was entering our lives.
The Internet has given voice to ethnic and racial "minority minorities" like Arabs, allowing us to publish our views and opinions, and to distribute them widely all over the world.
Today, I write about Chicagoland politics and mainstream issues, baby boomers and lifestyle for the Des Plaines Valley News, the Southwest News-Herald, the Regional News and the Reporter Newspapers.
I also write for many Middle East newspapers, including a weekly column for the Jerusalem Post and Yedioth Ahronoth. Today, I write a weekly column for the Arab News in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
My websites are TheDailyHookah.com and TheArabDailyNews.com.
But being an independent journalist means I have to generate my own income, so I have to work in communications. And I do very well.
It's too expensive to be a journalist. Unless you are salaried by one of the big media giants, it's tough to survive as an independent journalist. And they definitely will not hire a loud-mouthed Arab who wants to challenge anti-Arab bigotry and bias.
I spend a lot of time writing books about who we are as Arabs. My first book is I'm Glad I Look Like a Terrorist: Growing up Arab in America, which offered the reality of life challenges for Arabs in a humorous way. The title of the book was recommended by a former editor and friend, Bernie Judge. The second is called "Arabs of Chicagoland," which looks at the history of Arab settlement here. Numerous publishers said no one would read, let alone buy, a book about American Arab history and society. But they would if I delved into the pattern of terrorism and violence in America's Arab community. It was finally picked up by Arcadia Publishing and it did well. And my most recent book is called PoweR PR: The Ethnic Activists Guide to Strategic Communications. I have a new book coming out next year on Chicago City Hall politics.
I'm no Gary Webb, but I sympathize with what he went through. The world of the Internet and social media has allowed me to build an online network that brings my opinions and my experience directly to people who might never see or read about those experiences in the mainstream news media.
Diversity is important but it must include minority minorities like myself. That's why UNITY is so important.
This country will never truly be safe if we don't understand the people we fear the most and recognize they are just like us.
I never wanted to be a journalist or an Arab Journalist. Just like the majority of Arabs, I just wanted to be treated fairly.
Ray Hanania
"I write about three topics, the Middle East, politics and life in general. I often take my life experiences and offer them in an entertaining way to readers, and I take on the toughest topics like the Israel-Palestine conflict and don't pull any punches about what I feel is fair. But, my priority is always about writing the good story."
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992. Hanania began writing in 1975 when he published The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published "The National Arab American Times" newspaper which was distributed through 12,500 Middle East food stores in 48 American States (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues for the Arab News in Saudi Arabia at www.ArabNews.com, and at www.TheArabDailyNews.com, www.TheDailyHookah.com and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has also published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday Newspaper in New York, the Orlando Sentinel Newspapers, and the Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Palestinian, American Arab and Christian, Hanania's parents originate from Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club "Peter Lisagor Awards" for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named "Best Ethnic American Columnist" by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
The managing editor of Suburban Chicagoland Online News website www.SuburbanChicagoland.com, Hanania's columns also appear in the Southwest News Newspaper Group of 8 newspapers.
Click here to send Ray Hanania and email.
His Facebook Page is Facebook.com/rghanania
Visit this link to read Ray's column archive at the ArabNews,com ArabNews.com/taxonomy/term/10906
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DFCS Leader: "If You're Part of the Problem, Your Days Are Done"
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By Mike Klein Governor Nathan Deal's new hand-picked executive-in-charge of child protective services says, "If you're part of the bureaucracy and you're part of the problem, your days are done." Thursday afternoon the Governor's Office said Bobby Cagle will become interim director at the Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS), effective Monday. Cagle moves from the Department of Early Care and Learning where he has been commissioner since his appointment by Deal in 2010. Cagle told the Georgia Public Policy Foundation his assignment will be to evaluate everything and make any recommendation. "I intend to go in with a very critical lens, look at all that we have going on, the people that are in place and my charge… View Article


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FLUSHING, N.Y. (Sept. 18, 2018) - The remnants of Hurricane Florence have made their way up into the Northeast and New England regions, thereby causing some changes in the Queens College women's soccer schedule for this week.
The Knights were scheduled to take on Bentley University on Thursday (Sept. 20) following the Falcons' Northeast-10 Conference game against Adelphi on Tuesday (Sept. 18). However, soaking rains and gusty winds have made conditions unplayable in Waltham and the NE-10 battle between Bentley and Adelphi has been moved to Thursday. Therefore, QC will not be making the trip up to Massachusetts.
No make-up date has been set as of yet. The Knights will be back in action on Saturday (Sept. 22) at home against Saint Thomas Aquinas College with kick-off set for 1 p.m.


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Severing Heads and Social Ties: A Biogeochemistry and Material Culture Approach to Bodies in the Iron Age of Southern France
My work investigates changes to political economy and social structure amongst indigenous societies of the northwest Mediterranean during the course of the Iron Age (ca. 600 to 125 BCE), a period that saw the entanglement of diverse indigenous peoples with various colonizers (Etruscan and Greek, but also Punic and Roman). Ultimately, my goal is to combine isotopic and material culture data in order to examine how various sites' networks of relationality changed over the course of several centuries.
Returning to the Field: Notes from Ecuador
Over the last 30 years, Black activists in Latin America have become increasingly active in their pursuit of civil rights and cultural recognition. My research seeks to shed light on Black movements in two countries: Peru and Ecuador. My dissertation focuses on two questions:
Late to the Party
In every election since 2000, it has become customary for a chorus of journalists, pundits, and political scientists to predict that this will be the year the Latino "sleeping giant" awakens and makes its presence felt at the polls. In the buildup to the 2012 presidential election, Time Magazine ran a cover story titled "Yo Decido (I Decide), Why Latinos Will Pick the Next President". The "sleeping giant" narrative about Latinos has routinely appeared in one variation or another in the press since the late nineties with titles essentially echoing the 1998 Mother Jones article "
Bio-Cultural Diversity And State-Making On The Himalayan Frontier
I am thankful to the Social Sciences Division of the University of Chicago for the Long-term Research Grant. It has funded nine months of my ethnographic fieldwork on the politics of bio-cultural diversity conservation on India's north-eastern frontier. From July 2015 to March 2016, the university's generous grant allowed me to continue my research in Sikkim – a border state of particular ecological and geopolitical significance.
Justice for Me or You?
Self-interest is a fundamental human motive. However, individuals also care deeply about justice, fairness, and equality. My dissertation combines work in social psychology, behavioral economics, and cognitive neuroscience to investigate how one's perspective influences moral decisions, as well as how individual differences in justice motives can predict neural activity within different perspective-taking contexts. The Social Sciences Division Research Grant has been essential to carrying out these investigations.
Field Notes on Alchemy: Investigating Its Influence on Agriculture, Husbandry, and the Life Sciences
In my dissertation I am researching the influence that the alchemical concept of "immanent vitalism" had on various fields not traditionally associated with alchemy: husbandry, agricultural improvement projects, horticulture, botany, and the incipient "life sciences," such as they were, in mid-to-late seventeenth-century England and its colonial sphere.
Cultivating Empathy in High School Students through the Story Exchange
The generous support of the Social Sciences Division enabled me to conduct a research study with the entire 9th grade class at University Heights High School in the Bronx, New York. My research focuses on the cognitive and socio-emotional benefits of narrative. This project examines how narrative and personal storytelling can impact students' feelings of empathy.
Negotiating Privacy in the Context of Poverty
My dissertation asks how social and economic disadvantage shape poor mothers' capacities to achieve privacy. Privacy is a salient cultural value in the U.S., with over three quarters of Americans reporting that privacy is "very important" to them. Yet most of what we know about privacy is based on the experiences of affluent people. We know little about what privacy means for people living in poverty, who often lack the resources to pay for privacy (think data encryption software, gated communities, etc…) and whose communities are disproportionately affected by state surveillance.
Podium or Pulpit: Politics as Secularized Theology
Though his thought is now embroiled in controversy, if Carl Schmitt's assertion that "all significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts" is true, then the reverse of his formulation suggests that the theological is political. The political is the point at which both the religious and theological is secularized. And if theology is political, this phenomenon is therefore observable, quantifiable, and falsifiable.
Documenting the Existence of a Community of Letters in Late Medieval Spain and North Africa
Thanks to the generous support provided by the Division of Social Sciences Travel Grant, I have been able to spend much of the last year (July 2015 to May 2016) undertaking intensive research for my dissertation in Spain and Morocco. My dissertation project—entitled "Dynastic Ideology, Historical Writing and the Chancery in al-Andalus and the Maghrib: A Study of Itinerant Court Secretaries (Kuttāb) in the Late Medieval Islamic West"— explores the relationship between intellectual networks, historical writing and political power in fourteenth-century Iberia and North Africa.


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Hello! Yes this is it, the last week of this 31 day challenge, only I come up with these random ideas when I know that I can't really keep up with them, I can barely keep up with my normal scheduled content. This def was too ambitious, but i learned my lesson.
I finally finished my bullet journal set up for April, it took me a long time to draw because this month I actually put more effort into keeping the theme going plus I did a lot of changes for my pages.
For this month I chose to do a green house theme, so everything is plants and greenery.
1. Monthly calendar: For the monthly calendar I went for the list instead of the grid just to do a little twist, and I divided the page into two: the personal is for tests, assignments, payments and little reminders, and the blog section.. well is to plan my blog posts for the month of April.
2. Habit tracker: I drew 9 little boxes each with 31 days and each for each habit I want to do during the month, I used a table last month and I didn't use it at all
3. Goals: I also changed my goals for the month page, I usually have everything clustered in a mini space next to my monthly calendar, but this time around I divided my goals in sections.
4. Budget
5. Blog Planner: I am all about being more organized during this month and part of that is being able to plan my content. I drew nine boxes, each for a post I will be uploading on the blog.
6. Video planner: The same goes for YT, however I haven't been able to keep up with the channel, probably that will happen this month as well because I don't have that much time to keep up with everything
7. Wishlist
8. Blog and video ideas: I love how this page came out, I usually have one brain storm/planner page for my blog and YT content, but now everything is divided into sections. The upper part is for future blog posts and the lower part is for video brain storming
9. Weeklies: I created 2 weeks in advanced because like i said before I don't have that much time to spare during the day, so I like to create my weeklies in advanced.
And that is it for this month's set up! I think this might be one of my fave spreads ever!
I forgot to mention I used two Tombow green (Dark Olive & Hunter Green) markers for almost all of the plants as well as the olive green and Silver Grey Staedtler pens.
Today's challenge topic is What Makes Me Feel Better, and I think I am going to go with working, drawing, and planning in my bullet journal. It takes an amount of days for me to finish a monthly set up, so every time I am free I work on it, but sometimes when I have anxiety at night and I can't fall asleep I'll get up and work on it. I like it because it allows me to use my creativity while letting go of the issue.
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As an industry, healthcare understands the benefits of telemedicine and telehealth tools, but the government has been slow to catch up, leaving government treatment of this emerging care delivery method lagging.
This is why 22 health systems, along with other healthcare organizations and individuals, recently sent a letter to the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Keith Hall, in an effort to convey the importance of using commercial data to evaluate the effectiveness of telehealth. The lack of reimbursement for telehealth has left decision makers in government with few reasons to support telehealth initiatives, despite much success in the commercial sector. As the letter explains, "The lack of Medicare data is understandable given the outdated statutory restrictions on telemedicine: since federal law prevents many providers from being paid when they use telemedicine to serve Medicare beneficiaries, obviously, little data is available."
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Individual states have taken initiatives to get telehealth moving. According to Modern Healthcare, in 2014, the Federation of State Medical Boards expanded support for some technologies used in telehealth encounters. As things stand today, a full 29 states as well as the District of Columbia have enacted private telehealth coverage laws. That number is expected to increase, reaching 32 states by 2017.
Medicare, on the other hand, has only inched along, proposing a minor expansion of payment rules that would include telehealth as well as behavioral health visits. Actual payments around telehealth, though, have been minuscule, with Medicare paying out only $17.6 million in telehealth reimbursements last year out of the total $546 billion in Medicare expenditures, which is just over .003 percent.
A lack of reimbursement means reluctant providers, and reluctant providers mean a lack of real-world data around the cost-effectiveness and clinical results of telehealth. The commercial sector, however, has ample experience in telehealth and the corresponding research to support the expanding market — something the letter authors have personal experience in. As the letter states, "There is, however, substantial experience utilizing telemedicine outside Medicare. Combined, we have authored many studies showing its quality and cost-effectiveness in fee-for-service as well as managed care environments."
The letter was signed by key healthcare players including:
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- Stanford Health Care
- University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) Center for Telehealth
- Joseph Kvedar, MD, Partners Health Care
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While telehealth still stands as an emerging delivery method today, generalized increases in the costs of care delivery and growing popularity in the commercial sector will likely force government bodies to take a more serious and expedient look at their use.
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Hermès windows
I have always been obsessed with window styling and visual merchandising, admiring the creative and conceptual installations of various window fronts and department stores. For me, nothing compares to Hermès installations, which have long been considered as the leaders in creating beautiful windows that are not only visually stunning but also tell a story.
I have been lucky to view many of their windows both in Australia and overseas, and for their latest unveiling in Melbourne, Hermès collaborated with Bangkok based street artist Mue Bon.
Mue Bon took his street art, cartoon like visuals to the front window of Hermès on Collins street to create a colourful, whimsical window incorporating a beautiful mobile of Hermès 'tools of the trade' to incorporate the Hermès at Work exhibition at the Melbourne town hall.
The Hermès porte-cochère was transformed into a graphic artist laneway with Mue Bon's work embellishing the walls, while interactive, hyper-reality app Eye Jack made PUKRUK the lovebird (one of Mue Bon's graphic characters) come to life.
After the unveiling of the windows, I was invited to the launch of the Hermès at Work at the Melbourne town hall.
On until the 17th March, Hermès at Work showcases the incredible craftsmanship of nine various Hermès artisans, with demonstrations of how they handcraft products from bags, gloves, saddles, jewellery, watches, ties and more.
This may have been one of my favourite exhibitions as I have long admired Hermès for not only their beautiful products, but also the meticulous detail that goes into creating each piece. The evening was topped off by a stunning performance by the Melbourne symphony orchestra – combining craftsman's not only of product but also music – the perfect evening of bespoke proportions.


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Bottoms Up, Believers!
When I was growing up, it was pretty well understood that Christians — real, committed, Bible-believing, what today some would shorthand "evangelical," Christians — didn't drink. There was an easy contrast for me on this topic, growing up in Boston surrounded by Catholics or, you know, fake Christians. They drank. We didn't. Have fun in hell, suckers.
But sometime between then and now, and conveniently around the time my friends and I came of age at a Christian college of all places, this changed. Can we blame the emerging church for this like everything else? Did we finally discover "freedom in Christ?" What changed?
I'm not sure, but there's no question that a change has occurred and evangelicals have adopted drinking into their docket of acceptable practices — joining rock and roll and two-piece bathing suits — across denominations. Sure, there are still a few holdouts, but they seem to be outnumbered by those churches hosting "Theology on Tap" events in bars, brewing clubs in church basements, beer bolstered hymn sing-alongs, and communion with real wine.
It's happening, but why and how?
I'm working on a proposal for a book on this very topic. It is more memoir than investigation, but it necessarily considers this shift. To that end, I'm interested in your stories. As a Christian — evangelical, post-evangelical, mainline, other — do you drink? When did it become okay? Do you know people who still think to imbibe is to drink in the devil's poison?
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TGIF everyone!
Am I right, or am I right? Another productive week in the books, and after a week away from blogging I'm looking forward to getting back at it next week! But in the meantime I've got one more post for you, and this time it's an edible one! Shayna is a fellow Sweat Pink Ambassador and I'm looking forward to seeing what she's going to have us cookin' for dinner 😉
Hi everyone! I am so excited to do a guest post for Ariana! I am a fellow blogger at Enchanted Desert Minnie.Who doesn't love avocados? I can't keep them in stock in our house! I love making new recipes with them! Here is one that is a family favorite!
2 avocados
1 cup of basil (fresh)
1 clove of garlic
2 TBS of cottage cheese
1 jalapeño (optional)
Salt and pepper to taste
2-3 chicken breasts
1 pound of whole wheat fettuccine
To make the pesto put the basil, garlic and jalapeño in food processor. Blend until soupy. Then add the avocado, cottage cheese and salt and pepper. Blend until creamy. Set aside.
Begin to boil the pasta. While waiting for that to cook grill the chicken. Drain pasta and put back in pot, add the pesto mixture. Cut up the chicken in thin strips or cubes, add to pasta. Pretty easy meal that is a crowd pleaser!
Do you have a great recipe for avocado?
If you would like to connect with Shayna you can find her here!
Thanks for that, Shayna! Maybe this will be Sunday's dinner 😉
I hope you all enjoyed this week of guest posting! I'm going to begin looking to feature more writers on my blog now and then, so if you're interested in writing a post on here let me know! Next week we're back to regularly scheduled programming, but in the meantime you can also check out where else I've been this week below:
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A new PDF-based email attack appears to target people working in the defense industry, security researchers said.
Finnish antivirus vendor, F-Secure, discovered the attack last week and is still ongoing. It uses the 2012 AIAA Strategic and Tactical Missile Systems Conference as lure.
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The emails distribute a malicious PDF file that claims to be a call for papers for the renowned defense industry conference classified as SECRET.
"When opened in Adobe Reader, it exploits a known Javascript vulnerability and drops a file called lsmm.exe. This is a backdoor that connects back to the attacker," said F-Secure's chief research officer Mikko Hypponen.
The best protection against targeted attacks does not come from investing in expensive and sophisticated detection systems, but by performing employee training. Learning to check and to spot spoofed email messages can go a long way to stop such attacks.
According to a scan on Virus Total, the malicious PDF file still has a low detection rate with only 15 out of 43 antivirus engines detecting it.
After the exploitation occurs, a non-malicious PDF file about the call for papers opens on the computer in order to distract the user and avoid raising suspicion.
While they don't know the exact target of this attack, F-Secure said judging by its characteristics, it's most likely someone in the defense industry, possibly a military contractor.
In these types of attack, the emails appear as originating from individuals or organizations trusted by the targets, sometimes their bosses or work colleagues.
Such attacks are relatively common and have a good rate of success. For example, the security breach at RSA earlier this year, which eventually forced the company to replace all SecurID tokens, started with a similar email sent to an employee.


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Can I tell you that you guys make me smile? :P Your support and constant enthusiasm in the pursuit of a healthy and wholesome lifestyle truly makes me grin! From ear to ear. I am so infinitely grateful to have found you all through the blogosphere, and I look forward to sharing many more sweet moments with you as we grow together! As I'm sure many of you would agree, we are a strange and beautifully unique bunch who understands each other's quirks! And I love that about this community!
Thank you in advance for opening up to the public; I have to say that I'm having a lot of fun sharing recipes, tips, and life with all of you--and vice versa. :) YOU make this blog happen...OY, I sound like a show host.
I also wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU TO JENNY FROM FIT GIRL FOODIE!!!!!!! For always being encouraging and passing down the Versatile Blogger Award to me. *SNIFFLE* I appreciate your positive nature and passion to help others as you walk this extraordinary journey.
Here are the rules for this award:
- Write a post like this: Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to their blog
- Tell your readers seven facts about you
- Award recently discovered bloggers with the prize.
- Contact the winners.
And these are some random facts about me!
1.) I speak exactly 3.5 languages. Yep! Not three, not four. :P I speak Spanish (Castellano in Argentina), Korean, English (of course), and partly some French. That's the half in the 3.5 languages. I believe that if I were dropped off in France in a parachute, then I could pretty much survive life on my own. You see, I'm a Korean girl born and raised in Argentina, who happened to immigrate to the U.S. and learned French for five years. I love languages!
2.) I have hiked all of the Half Dome in Yosemite and survived! It was one of the coolest experiences in my whole life! And painful too. Try it, and your calves will thank you. Or hate you.
3.) I am sort of ashamed to admit this. But I am extremely competitive when it comes to physical activities! So sometimes I would rather not participate at all hah! I have been dubbed as the Queen of Laser Tag because I once went laser tagging with a whole group of church friends, and I won the top score and
incinerated beat all the guys!
4.) I'm an ENFP and seem to look at life/the world through a very idealistic perspective. I'm always inclined to be an optimist, and sometimes too much! I'm learning to find the balance in between so as to not come off as insensitive to others. :D
5.) I adapt to new environments and foreign countries rather well. I love to immerse myself within the culture and become one of the 'people' as much as I can! Culture and the ability to understand it is one of my greatest passions.
6.) I used to be the biggest tomboy when I was a little girl! I played with Barbies but mostly with toy cars and Nintendo. During the beginning stages of my teenage years, I wore super baggy pants and over sized t-shirts. Oh, and I had an afro when I was 3 years old.
7.) I ran Cross Country during my sophomore and junior years in high school. It was an amazing experience where I met awesome, caring people who really made the team feel like a family! I used to despise running before joining the team, but something changed I guess. :) Surprisingly, I won the "Most Improved" Award.
This was so fun and such an honor to be a part of! Thank you Jenny and to all who are reading this.
I would like to pass this award to...
-Rach from This Italian Family
-Hannah from Wayfaring Chocolate
Congratulations and have fun with it! ^.~*v
Your turn! Please feel free to share something about yourself! I love hearing about your unique-ness.
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I have been feeling more and more overwhelmed passing each day. I thought that I was on top of everything at some point but now it seems like the amount of stuff that I have to do not really even out with the time that I have. Is it because I want to do a lot or because I am falling behind? It might be both. Into the 3rd week in ITP I feel like I have to spend even more time to understand the new topics in Computational Media & Physical Computing. Now I have a new class; Video & Sound which needs some time devoted too. Also our shop shifts have picked up too. All and all I feel that I have to do a lot but can't concentrate enough to one thing so I can complete it and put it behind. I feel consumed by the school. Every minute of every day!!
I have to be working on this, it's just the beginning of the third week and instead of being behind I'd like to be ahead so I can find some time to do creative work.
Now gotta go out and do a part of my Physical computing class assignment :) I am going to be walking around and taking notes of all of the analog outputs (sensors that we use in a daily basis) around. It's gonna be fun :)


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Jordan Spieth was cruising to a wire-to-wire win at the Masters when things had a chance to get shaky on the back nine. That's when Spieth hit what he called "the two biggest shots of my life" to his first career green jacket.
The moment came just after hole No. 12, where Spieth had what he described as "kind of a dumb 3-putt" on the par-3. The bogey dropped him to 17-under. After Phil Mickelson hit a birdie on the hole ahead, Spieth had suddenly lost two strokes on his lead, which was down to four with six holes to play.
So when Spieth teed it up on No. 13, this was the first time all day when some started to wonder whether the 21-year-old would start to tighten up. Instead, Spieth hit a perfect 3-wood, and by his reaction, you could tell he knew he hit it well.
Spieth "got a nice little hook on the ball and a really good bounce to get up there to a comfortable 5‑iron in," he said after the tournament, with his typical understated recollection.
A couple of nice bounces were followed by a little roll, and the ball nestled right down in the elbow, leaving Spieth about 210 yards to the pin.
Spieth might describe his second shot as "a comfortable 5-iron," but there is nothing comfortable about trying to reach a par-5 green in two with the hole just on the other side of a creek and an uneven lie with the ball sitting about well above Spieth's feet.
Spieth had to hit this shot from the side of a hill.
The announcers even speculated that Spieth would lay up because, as they noted, "You've got to pick and choose where you challenge this golf course."
But Spieth didn't lay up. He went for it, gave it a full swing, encouraged the ball by yelling "Go hard!" and hit a gorgeous shot to within 12 feet for an eagle putt.
Spieth had played the hole perfectly.
Spieth would miss his eagle putt but left himself an easy birdie putt, which he sank to move back to 18-under.
Just as importantly, moments earlier, Mickelson misshit his approach shot and would go on to bogey hole No. 14.
Just like that, Spieth's lead was back to six shots over Mickelson and five shots over Justin Rose.
There were still five holes to play. But at this point, the Masters would be over, with Spieth as the champion.


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New CDS Facebook Page/
Those of you who are on Facebook might be interested in the Charlie Don't Surf group that I've just joined. It's been around since July last year but, I must confess, I've only just found out about it.
As a reminder, you can also find an I Ain't Been Shot, Mum group on Facebook as well. Click on the name to go straight there.


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I've created this blog with a few things in mind.
To jot down my personal thoughts, my days, my experiences and my advice to other young, new moms.
To show you that baby food does not have to be bought, but can be easily made so that you can provide the best nutrition for your baba.
To share some cool baby stimulation activities so that you can stimulate your baby so that he or she can grow and develop to the best of their ability.
I also make fitness smoothies and thought I might as well share too because you need to be healthy and full of energy to raise your little one as best you can.
Please remember that all babies are different and that in the end it is SO IMPORTANT that you trust your gut instinct above anyone else's advice because you are a mommy and you know what's best for your little one!
I hope you enjoy reading this. 🙂


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Sponsored by Indivisible Women of Nevada County
Nevada County Fairgrounds
11228 McCourtney Rd, Grass Valley, CA 95949
The NRA will hold a fundraiser on April 14th. We will hold a protest!
Bring your signs and torches! Bring your family and friends! Bring your voices and your bodies!
Given the deaths caused by this organization, and the stranglehold this organization has on our politicians, it's really time to stand up! NO MORE GUN DEATHS


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Garage Goes, House SavedSunday, February 26th, 2017, 8:58 am
On October 12, 2016, Woonsocket (RI) firefighters responded to a garage fire on Mason Street. Engine 1's crew arrived to find a two-bay garage with exposure issues and stretched a big line into action and quickly knocked down the bulk of the fire. The exposure dwellings received radiant heat damage to the siding. A car and the garage were a total loss.
– Fire News photo by Ken LaBelle
Tags: Garage Goes House Saved, Ken LaBelle
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"Red rubis means passion",
Red like a ruby. Red ruby. The most important factor in this stone of great value is its color. The red of the ruby is in a specific category: heat and burning.
Vast suite on the ground floor, viewing on the fountain, calm and fresh. White tadelakt walls warmed up with sumptuous red and ancient silks under superb engraved plaster.
Equipped with 1 double bed 160 x 200. Very beautiful bed out of cedar wood featuring a typical Berber design. Dressing table with mirror.
Living room with large seat in tadelakt and cushions.
Bathroom with bath-tub all in tadelakt red. Copper wash-hand basin and WC,
Hair dryer. Reversible air-conditioning.
Accommodation for 2 people.


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There are truths you learn, and there are truths you earn.
Life goes on.
High School. Freshman year. My primary interest: Girls (with girl parts).
September, my English teacher quoting Frost: "What I've learned from life can be summed up in three words: 'It. Goes. On.'"
I immediately took to this quote, and did what all high school freshmen did when they heard something they liked: I posted it in an A.I.M. away message. (My screen name was "Buffman116".)
Later that year, after flirtatiously instant messaging with a girl for a week-and-a-half, we decided to meet at a Church Carnival in Northeast Philadelphia.
I wore a XXL Tommy Hilfiger T-shirt, a pair of baggy jean shorts, and size 13 Sean Kemp Reeboks. I looked like a scarecrow dressed by Eminem.
My pockets jingled with quarters left over from the time I had spent nervously playing carnival games while awaiting her arrival. My stomach gurgled with soda, and funnel cake, and awkwardness.
And suddenly, in the way people appeared in the days before text messaging, she was there: a girl (with girl parts).
We walked through the carnival, my gangly, sweaty hand entwined in hers, pockets jingling, stomach gurgling.
We stopped in front of an attraction called "The Zipper", a ride that loaded customers into caged carts made for two. The cage that would contain us slammed against my too-long legs, but I was closer to my girl than I had been all night.
Stomach gurgling, pockets jingling, my brain told my neurons to reach my lanky arm around her shoulder. Instead, I smacked her in the face.
Arm eventually around her, I gazed into her eyes.
She closed her eyes (probably imagining I was Zack Morris).
Our cart swung up, and up, closer to the ride's zenith as customers loaded into the carts below.
I wondered when the ride was going to start and, in a moment of adolescent over-thought-this-moment-for-too-long-so-I'm-not-going-to-think-I'm-just-going-to-do inspiration, I wrapped my mouth around hers.
The ride jolted into action.
At that same moment, I lost the smallest hybrid of soda, and funnel cake, and awkwardness…
Into her mouth.
Panicking and not knowing what to do, I tried desperately to suck it back in.
The ride began to fling not only us, but the quarters from my pockets, which pierced our faces, and legs, and arms.
Later that night, reflecting, I knew I had earned those three words:
Steve Clark is a First Person Arts Grand Slammer winner and holds the title, "Best Storyteller in Philadelphia, 2013". He works as a 6th grade teacher in Philly (not dissimilar from Mr. Feeney of Boy Meets World). He writes and performs both poetry and stories, has watched every episode of Franklin and Bash, enjoys singing Clay Aiken songs at karaoke, and carries his all-time favorite book, Infinite Jest, with him just about everywhere he goes. He is tall.


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FirstClass Grant
FirstClass Grant Program for Teachers
Think like a child! Get inside your students' minds and let us help you fund programs you have been dreaming of. First County Bank Foundation is awarding funds for creative educational programs in local K-5 public school classrooms. The grants will be awarded to the most creative and educationally worthy classroom programs, with funds available as early as November.
Click here to see examples from past FirstClass Grant Recipients!
Effective January 1, 2018, First County Bank Foundation will only accept applications submitted online. For the most efficient online application process, please make sure to have all of your reference documents readily available so that you may complete and submit your application in one session, due to the inability to save your work for future use. Our priority areas of focus are:
- Grades K-5 public school teachers working in the towns of Stamford, Greenwich, Darien, Fairfield, New Canaan, Norwalk, Westport and neighboring communities in Bridgeport.
- Programs needing support must be creative educational programs related to subjects/curriculum taught and have a broad impact for an entire class/grade level.
- Requests for books, magazine subscriptions and electronics such as computers, tablets or mice are not eligible.
- Examples of program types: Nature-based, astronomy, financial literacy, conservation and environmental focus.
Specific Application Requirements:
- Authorization from school principal is required for eligibility
- Must demonstrate proof of program outcomes in the form of a written report; photos or videos must also be provided
- While all grant requests are considered, the maximum grant awarded is $1,000.00
The FirstClass Grant Program for Teachers Application forms are accepted from September 1st to October 31st each year. Application forms will not be accepted after October 31st.


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Beware: Mother Nature's porch light is on, but she's dishing out tricks.
Forecasters project the first cold airmass of the season could stir a chill — and maybe some snowflakes — into the plastic pumpkin pails of Buffalo Niagara's trick-or-treaters on Tuesday.
Between here and there, several chilly wet days are in store, according to the National Weather Service.
Forecasts show rain, associated with the passage of a cold front is expected Saturday, with chances of showers continuing into the first half of Sunday as well.
High temperatures Saturday will be in the upper 50s but will struggle to make it to 50 degrees by Sunday.
Sunday's 1 p.m. conditions for the kickoff of the game between the Buffalo Bills and Oakland Raiders at New Era Field call for 48 degrees with a light west wind and a slight chance for showers.
Later Monday, the lake-effect machine kicks on.
Mainly as rain, forecasters say.
Because temperatures are expected to stay just warm enough about 5,000 feet up in the atmosphere, precipitation should fall as liquid, but the lake-effect rain bands are expected to stay stationary, forecasters said.
That could bring heavy and "possibly problematic rains northeast of Lake Erie."
"Localized flooding in the Buffalo metro area is not uncommon from stationary lake bands in the fall," the weather service stated.
The temperatures "should be JUST high enough to prevent any steady snow from developing, although some flakes cannot be ruled out."
The weather should cooperate for trick-or-treaters across much of the country next Tuesday: https://t.co/6xLHUZmOoV pic.twitter.com/QtfrOIRkBF
— AccuWeather (@breakingweather) October 26, 2017
How close are we missing an early-season heavy lake-effect snow event?
"It's just 2-to-3 degrees too warm," said Dave Zaff. "A few degrees makes a big difference."
The chilly airmass sticks around for Halloween day, night and into Wednesday. More lake-effect rain is forecast, radar projections show.
The Buffalo Niagara region is escaping the nation's first major winter storm, which is bringing heavy snow to areas of Minnesota and freezing conditions through the Midwest as far south as Texas.
#Chilling news, it's cold outside !! Look at all the Freeze Warnings out across the U.S. #winteriscoming pic.twitter.com/iMzmNGTbLz
— Tom Niziol (@TomNiziol) October 27, 2017
WOW! Snow and blowing snow seen late this Thursday afternoon from Goodridge, Minnesota. Video credit: @northflwx #Snow #MNwx pic.twitter.com/nEhw7MpATc
— Mark Tarello (@mark_tarello) October 27, 2017


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Product Description
This is the best tool for sewing leather, canvas, or other heavy materials. The awl carries a spool of waxed polyester black thread on the handle. Hollow handle holds extra curved needle and wrench. Directions are provided with each sewing awl explaining how automatic awl lock stitch can be effected in repair work. Furnished with one straight (#413N 8) and one curved (#413N 6) needle.


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Betagen crème is specially formulated for reactive, irritated, prematurely aged skins. Betagen's unique formulation revises skin that is demonstrating signs of trauma and stress, and strengthens and regenerates the tissue. Containing powerful ingredients that promote skin immunity and healthy renewal, Betagen offers nourishment and protection and fights inflammation. Betagen is referred to as DMK's "Emergency Crème".
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Red/reactive skin, sensitive skin, sun-damaged skin, dry skin, flaky skin, thickened skin, aging skin.
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Daily. Apply DMK serums to cleansed skin. Apply four dots of Betagen to skin, spray skin with Herb and Mineral Mist and work into skin.


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Tignum Account Master
For those of you who have attended one of our programs, you know my passion for great examples of a high performance mindset. I can't seem to watch a TV documentary or a sporting event, or read a book without being drawn to those who overcome unbelievable odds to achieve high performance. This past week, at the US Open in Flushing Meadows New York, Rafael Nadal provided one of the best examples of everything we teach that I have ever seen.
It was 11 months since his last title and only 9 months ago many pundits were writing off Rafa's career. "He's too tough on this body", "he isn't sustainable", "he doesn't have the skills to win on hard courts". He was suffering from a hurt knee, then he had a pulled abdominal muscle, and off the court he was struggling with the break up of his parents. But what too many people didn't understand was Rafa's heart and determination and his ability to use this dip as the ultimate motivator. So often we work with clients who experience a huge dip in their own life. It may be the loss of a job, a divorce, an illness, the loss of a loved one, a burnout or one of many other reasons. But the strategies we teach at Tignum, and the advice we give to our clients, was exactly how Rafa climbed out of his dip to win the 2010 US Open and become one of the greatest players in history.
First, he never listened to what "they" said. Instead he focused on what "he" knew inside his own heart. He knew that the only way to climb out of any hole is one step at a time. He only focused on the next step. He took care of today and then worked on tomorrow when it was here. As he said after his semi-final win over Mikhail Youzhny, "I go to practice every day not to practice. I go to practice every day to learn something and to keep improving my level." How good could you be if you approached every meeting this way, every presentation this way, every day this way? When constantly badgered by the press about his place in tennis history, he always answered with humility and simply said, "why would I worry about that, all I can do is play every ball as well as I can and the rest is out of my control." How often do you focus on the things that you can't control? How often do you get caught up in your own importance rather then giving your all to a project and letting everything else take care of itself?
As we say to every single client we work with, "there is no reason that you can't be better tomorrow than you are today." There is no reason that you can't have more energy, more resilience, more focus, better skills in 9 months. Like Nadal, the key is that you need to work hard on just getting a little bit better everyday. You need to focus on the things that are in your control (like your Mindset, Nutrition, Movement, and Recovery strategies). You need to realize that just like tennis, there is no such thing as a perfect match. You are a work in progress. But most important, you have to realize that set backs are just dips in the road and the voices of the "they" can never drown out your own voices, especially if you make them powerful and productive.
By Scott Peltin
Founder & Chief Performance Officer


text: Third year student Henry Bellingham had an internship with Red Hook Post during the 2017-2018 year and was hired in June as a sound editor for the show Z-Nation on the SyFy Network. Henry's work on the show includes editing Foley, ADR, and FX (sound effects). SAC Alumni Jaime Marcelo and Ben Kruse Calla are also part of the sound editing team at Red Hook Post! Below is Henry in the Red Hook Post control room.


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Golf Lakes hosted the Masters last Wednesday, March 21 to Saturday March 24. The 44 players competed vigorously, with great sportsmanship and friendship, a fine capstone for the 2017-2018 season.
Marilyn Rotman, a retired greenhouse owner and President of the Michigan Shuffleboard Association who has shuffled for about five years total, playing out of Paradise Bay placed first in the District Amateur Division.
Second place went to Mary Fowler on her home courts who found the Masters a real pleasure, laughing about making new friends on such a cold and windy day on Wednesday, her first and last opportunity to play in this division as she will be a State Amateur October 1.
Third place was won by Elaine Antaya, who plays every Wednesday at Blackstock, Ontario all summer. Elaine's first teacher as a student of shuffleboard was Patty Yates, of Palmetto Shuffle Club. Elaine played often in District Tournaments here with her husband, Patrick.
Rita Marderosian, retired from the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, placed fourth. Mother of one and grandmother of three, she has six years of experience and resides at Golf Lakes.
Placing fifth, Ursula Joyal traveled daily from Sun City Center and had a blast playing the Masters. She and Maurice drove far to make new friends and gain valuable experience.
Martha Kaufman spent 25 years in Sarasota before moving to Golf Lakes a year ago, where she discovered shuffleboard. She finds it easier to make friends and less hard work than traveling for years with her daughter showing quarter horses. Placing sixth in the Masters and playing Tuesday nights at Golf Lakes is a nice beginning to a whole new career.
Cheri Wargo placed seventh. A retired Administrative Assistant in the securities industry, Cheri also likes gardening, crafts, watching Rick Hall drive racecars, and plays Scrabble.
First Place in the Mens Division of the SWCD District Amateurs was secured by Patrick Antaya of Lindsay, Ontario. The Antayas have played together, learned together and traveled together. They express appreciation for the tournament directors and all those who make such a tournament possible.
Second place went to Tony Sousa, a big, strong, jovial fellow who makes most of his chosen shots. Tony says he really loves this game.
Third place was won by Cau Huynh, a small player who is also very accurate. Winning many points this season, Cau also plays in several other sports, such as golf, table tennis, pickle ball, well you get the idea. Born to Vietnamese parents, Cau has been in America a few decades and has a great time.
Fourth place, Dale Overzet grew up on a Michigan farm, served in the Navy, worked as a data processor, then sold stretch Shrink Wrap while owning and operating an Ice Cream and fast food store with mini golf for 19 years. Dale really enjoys the fellowship of the shuffleboard fraternity.
Fifth place went to John Hoeksema of Golf Lakes who plays quietly and effectively. Sixth place went to Donald Trottier of Bradenton Tropical Palms, a quiet, intensive player. Seventh place went to Mike Collins of Bradenton Tropical Palms, a fairly new, jolly, outgoing player. In eighth place was Maurice Joyal who plays at Sun City Center and who looks forward to next season to gain more tournament experience.
In this, the second year of a Masters for State Amateur players, Kathy Laver placed first. Playing out of Hawaiian Isles, Kathy is 2nd V.P of the Southwest Coast District.
Kay Lynn Duncan of Haslett, MI and Tropic Isles Shuffle Club V.P, placed second in the Ladies Division. Kay Lynn is Secretary of the SWCD, and moves up to Pro October 1. She also won 1st Place of 33 entries in the Traverse City Cherry Festival Invitational Shuffleboard Tournament in 2017.
Third place went to Sandra Kolasinski of Village on the Greens. Full time in Florida now, Sandi still visits Massachusetts and Vermont each Summer. Sandy is parent of 2, grandmother of 5, and great-grandmother to 4. Shuffling for 14 years now, she loves it and looks forward to October to start again.
Dian Darrah, fourth, spends Summer in New Hampshire working at a Music Institute. She winters at Paradise Bay and shuffles to improve her game. Dian is an Assistant District Tournament Director.
Janice O'Sullivan of Sea Breeze placed 5th. She plays a credible game and played in several tournaments this season.
Rick Hall placed first in the Mens State Amateurs. Coming from Western PA, Rick has raced cars on dirt tracks for 41 years. He owns Halls Safety Equipment which services utility companies. This is only his 4th year of shuffling.
David Evenson of Palmetto placed second. Dave is a Past President of Palmetto and works on the discs and courts also. Larry Fowler of Golf Lakes placed third in his second State Amateur Masters, feeling honored and appreciative of many new friends. We have observed that Larry does a lot of work at Golf Lakes Shuffleboard.
Frank Marderosian, Past President at Golf Lakes Shuffleboard placed fourth. Frank, like Rita, is retired from Massachusetts Department of Corrections. Jim Lessard placed fifth in his first State Amateur Masters. Retiring after 35 years at AT&T, he and Mrs. Lessard traveled in a motor home for many years before settling into Ellenton Gardens.
Bill Bierema, age 90, of Golf Lakes placed sixth, obviously enjoying every minute of it! Many of us hope we can still play at that age. Don Sprague of Lincoln Arms, playing out of Bradenton Shuffle Club, placed 7th. Don has earned his 5 move-up points within 3 years and will be a Pro in October.
Due to space limitations we will only list the places of the Pros, with more to say about each next week. Ladies: 1. Lois Wegner, 2. Cheryl Putnam, 3. Evelyn White, 4. Arlene McCague, 5. Pat Tomko, 6. Linda Wallingford, 7. Shirley McCullough, 8. Marlene Coburn/Judy Cross. Men Pros: 1. Faren VanDeGrift, 2. Jim Miller, 3. Bob Kendall, 4. Ron Nurnberger, 5. Ralph Lozano, 6. Grant Childerhose, 7. Dwayne Cross, 8. Larry Taylor, Alternate John Mickle.
FL P-25 at Lakeland, March 19. Ladies Main: 1. Pam Nurnberger-Terri Smith.
Today is the second day of FL P-26 Tournament of Champions Pros Only, Must Qualify. Next Monday, April 2 at Hawthorne Florida Masters, M/L, W, N-W.
Happy Shuffling.


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Many people are at risk of developing skin cancer through constant exposure to the sun's harmful rays. Although there are several skin cancer treatment centers in places like Salem, it's still important to know how people acquire such health risk.
And while UV exposure is the top cause of skin cancer, other potential causes may put your life at risk. Here are the most common misconceptions that people have about skin cancer.
People who have natural tan don't have to wear sun protection
Although your skin tans naturally, as long as your skin browns when you're under the sun, it's a clear sign that your skin is UV damaged. It may look attractive to most people, but your skin's reaction to the sun is its effort to protect your skin against the sun's UV rays.
So, constant exposure to it can only put you at risk.
Oily skin doesn't necessarily mean moisturized skin
Your facial oil glands are hyperactive during the summer season, but it doesn't necessarily mean that your skin is hydrated because of the oil. Oil production is your body's response to the heat. So, you may want to drink a lot of liquid, especially during the hot weather to stay cool.
You only wear sun protection when it's hot
UV radiation isn't directly related to temperature. So you'll still be prone to UV damage even if it's a chilly day. So, it's always important to wear sunscreen no matter how cold the weather may be.
These are just a few of the most common misconceptions that people have about skin cancer. Always remember to wear as much sun protection as you can, especially during the summer. You may also want to read books about UV radiation or on possible ways on how you can get yourself protection.


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Canada 150 Tour of Point Atkinson Light Station
Location: Lighthouse Park, 4902 Beacon Lane
Lighthouse Park Preservation Society and West Vancouver Historical Society invite you to join a free guided tour of the light station grounds.
Learn about the link between the lighthouse and Canada's confederation. Climb the steps to the base of the lighthouse (the tower will not be open). Enter the Fog Alarm museum to learn about its inner workings and the role of the lighthouse keeper.
Sit inside the Power House to view a short slide show on the presence of the military during World War II.
Registration is required.
Please email Point Atkinson Pals at the link below to register
Next available tour dates:
- Sunday, August 13
- Sunday, September 3


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