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You are a son of God. He has restored His priesthood in our day, and He has entrusted you with that priesthood. The purpose of this book is to help you:
Strengthen your testimony and your relationship with God.
Learn and fulfill your priesthood duties.
Apply standards from For the Strength of Youth.
The Lord has promised that as you fulfill your priesthood duties, you will be sanctified by the Spirit, you will become the elect of God, and eventually you will receive all that the Father has (see D&C 84:33–38). Your service as a priesthood holder will bring great blessings to those you serve.
Focus on What You Are Becoming
Fulfilling your duty to God is a lifelong experience. Don't think of this book as a list of tasks that you must hurry through in order to earn an award. Instead, focus on how the activities you choose can help you develop spiritual attributes and become the kind of priesthood holder Heavenly Father wants you to be.
Completing the activities in this book is not a requirement for advancing in the priesthood. The purpose of the activities is to help you prepare for priesthood service.
Learn, Act, Share
The Lord has commanded, "Let every man learn his duty, and to act in the office in which he is appointed, in all diligence" (D&C 107:99).
As you diligently complete the activities in this book, you will have opportunities to learn your duties, make your own plans to fulfill them, and share your experiences with your parents and quorum members. Make plans that fit your interests and your needs. Make them challenging but also enjoyable. Focus on ways you can exercise the priesthood to be of service to others. By making and fulfilling your own plans, you will be taking responsibility for your own spiritual growth.
In some of the learning activities, you will be invited to write your thoughts and feelings about what you are studying. Consider writing these things in a notebook or journal.
Receiving Help
The plans that you make in this book are personal, but your parents, quorum members, quorum president, and other Church leaders can help. For example, you can:
Ask for their help as you learn your duties and make your plans. Your quorum president, for example, holds priesthood keys for your quorum, and he has a responsibility to help you learn and fulfill your priesthood duties.
Share your experiences with them during interviews, quorum meetings and activities, and informal conversations. This will help you see the progress you are making and build your confidence in talking about the gospel. The things you share can also strengthen the testimonies of others.
Invite your parents or quorum members to make plans too, and work on your plans together. When you work on your plans with someone else, you support and encourage one another.
How This Book Is Organized
You will learn principles and make plans in the following areas:
Spiritual Strength. Applying what you learn in this section will help you gain the spiritual strength you need to stay on the path of righteousness. You will develop habits of regular prayer and scripture study, which includes studying the words of the living prophets. You will learn and teach the doctrines of the gospel of Jesus Christ. You will also learn and apply principles that will help you be a worthy priesthood holder.
Priesthood Duties. Applying what you learn in this section will help you draw closer to the Savior as you exercise His priesthood. Your love for others will grow as you represent the Savior in serving them. You will learn how to administer priesthood ordinances, serve others, and invite all to come unto Christ.
For the Strength of Youth. In this section you will learn about and apply some of the standards from For the Strength of Youth, including the sections titled "Physical Health," "Education," "Family," and "Friends." Applying these standards will make you more effective in your service to the Lord and better prepared for your future.
Preparing to Receive the Melchizedek Priesthood. All of the plans you make in this book will help you prepare to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood and be worthy to serve a full-time mission. As a priest, you will have the opportunity to create a project that will give you additional preparation. You will learn about the covenants you make when you receive the Melchizedek Priesthood and the qualities that make missionaries effective.
For an interactive version of this book and other online resources, visit DutytoGod.lds.org.
Duty to God Certificates
After you accomplish your plans as a deacon and teacher, you will receive certificates acknowledging the progress you are making as you fulfill your duty to God. After you accomplish your plans as a priest, including your project to prepare to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood, you will receive a certificate acknowledging what you have accomplished throughout your years as an Aaronic Priesthood holder.


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Top 10 Society stories of the year
1. Regeneron Science Talent Search
2017 marked the first year in Regeneron's $100 million, 10-year sponsorship of the Science Talent Search, the nation's oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors. Indrani Das of Oradell, N.J., won the top award for her study of a possible approach to treating the death of neurons due to brain injury or neurodegenerative disease.
2. Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)
Nearly 1,800 young scientists selected from 421 affiliated fairs in 78 countries, regions and territories competed at the 2017 Intel ISEF in Los Angeles in May. The Society for Science & the Public was proud to welcome Zimbabwe and Ghana to Intel ISEF for the first time. Ivo Zell of Hessen, Germany, won the first place Gordon E. Moore Award of $75,000.
3. STEM Action & Research Grants Help Teachers and Nonprofits
The Society awarded $120,000 in grants to science research teachers to purchase much-needed equipment and $55,000 to 13 innovative organizations supporting community-based science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) projects through our STEM Action & Research Grant Program.
4. Advocates Named
In April, the Society named 45 Advocates who will work to expand STEM opportunities for underserved students. The Advocate Grant Program seeks to open the door to scientific research for these students, many of whom are unaware of or unable to take advantage of science fair competitions.
5. Research Teachers Conference
In October, 200 science research teachers from across the country received an all-expense-paid weekend to share best practices at the 2017 Research Teachers Conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Regeneron.
6. SN 10 Highlights Scientists to Watch
For the third year in a row, Science News highlighted 10 early- and mid-career scientists on their way to widespread acclaim. This year's SN 10, announced in October, were José Dinneny, Jennifer Dionne, M. Ehsan Hoque, KC Huang, David Kipping, Chong Liu, Lena Pernas, Kay Tye, Christina Warinner and Luhan Yang.
7. Broadcom MASTERS
For the first time in the Society's history, one of our own, alumnus Ben Hylak (shown above), spoke to the 30 middle school finalists who competed in the Broadcom MASTERS in October. Faris Irwin Wald of Santa Fe, N.M., won the top award — the $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize.
8. New Board Members Named
This year, the Society was proud to announce the addition of three new members to the Board of Trustees: Feng Zhang (shown above), noted scientist and alumnus of the 1998 and 1999 International Science and Engineering Fairs, as well as the 2000 Science Talent Search; Nobel Prize–winning scientist Martin Chalfie; and distinguished philanthropist and investor Christy Burton.
9. Science News for Students Celebrates Diversity
Science News for Students continued its series on the need for greater diversity in STEM. This year's focus was on the need for more people of color in science and how people with disabilities are involved in STEM.
10. Science News' Expanded Eclipse Coverage
Science News' extraordinary coverage of the 2017 total solar eclipse included a series of stories examining what we can learn from the natural phenomenon. The series also included reporting from the path of totality, an online interactive showing future solar eclipse paths and social media coverage.

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I'm Celeste Headlee and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Michel Martin is away. If you watch reality TV, then you may have stumbled across shows like "Clean House" and "Hoarding: Buried Alive." If you haven't, here's an excerpt from the latter.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: OK, this section used to be clear up until recently. I have things that I want to throw out or whatever; they're - old milk. This one is from May. So that's how many months it's old. And then I have - I have three of them here, which just haven't gotten into the garbage.
HEADLEE: So many people are aware of the issue of hoarding now, but when Kimberly Rae Miller was growing up, she didn't know there were other families like hers. All she knew was that something about her family was not like other families and her house - well, was anything but average. She grew up with piles of stuff; doors wouldn't close because things were in the way. Stacks of paper turned to sludge under her feet. The pool was filled with brown muck.
Summers meant flea infestations, and then there were the rats. The mess eventually drove her to take extreme measures. She details it all in a new memoir called "Coming Clean." Kimberly Rae Miller joined Michel Martin in studio, and she began by explaining what motivated her to share her family's dark secret in the book.
KIMBERLY RAE MILLER: Well, you know, we've only ever seen hoarding through the lens of reality television. And it's really important for me to tell people what hoarders are really like. I mean, this is one element of a fully rounded person, and it is a mental illness. And so, it was really important for me after my mother almost died a couple of years ago - I was forced to invite people into my home to help me clean it, because I was so scared for her health.
And it was the first time I'd ever told anyone my secret. And at that moment, when people didn't judge me, I realized that all of this shame I'd been carrying for years wasn't necessary and that people would love me anyway, and that they would love my family anyway.
When did you first realize that something just - something wasn't right - something's different and it wasn't right?
MILLER: Well, when I was in kindergarten I told the school psychologist that my parents locked my baby sister in the trunk. My baby sister was a giant Thumbelina doll that I had named Cheryl, but my claim had caused the school to call CPS and...
MARTIN: Child Protective Services...
MILLER: Yes.
MARTIN: Social workers.
MILLER: And they came to visit the home. And in the week between my telling the school about the abuse of my doll and when the social worker actually came to visit the home, there was a mad dash to clean the home, for fear that I'd be taken away from them - that I realized that something was really wrong with the way we were living. And after that I promised that I would never tell anyone about my dad.
MARTIN: It was your dad at this point who was the one...
MILLER: Right.
MARTIN: Or at least he was - your mom said he was the one. Or was he the one?
MILLER: Yeah, you know, I think there is a difference between compulsive shopping and hoarding. And hoarding - there are definitely signs and pathological compulsions and the way they see objects, the way they put value to objects...
MARTIN: Yeah, talk about that, if you would.
MILLER: Sure, you know, I mean, people who hoard find connections to things that maybe the rest of us wouldn't. And that's rooted in multiple things. I mean, I'm certainly not a mental health professional, and so I can't speak from it from that element, but from the research that I've done, many hoarders start hoarding as a form of - as a form of connecting to other people. And so when they see something that reminds them of someone they love, they hold onto it.
If it reminds them of a way they felt good or a positive memory in their life, they hold onto it. And a lot of hoarders are incredibly intelligent people and they're able to see things in ordinary objects that we wouldn't necessarily see. And so getting rid of those items is incredibly hard for them, because...
MARTIN: I was going to ask about that, what would happen if you'd throw something out? In fact, one of the things that your dad was particularly fond of papers, as I recall from the book, that - newspapers, which was particularly noteworthy because he also has a real love of NPR...
MILLER: Absolutely.
MARTIN: And we appreciate that. (Laughing)
MILLER: I always say that NPR is the fourth member of my family.
MARTIN: 'Cause NPR was on all the time. But he loved papers. Why do you think he loved papers so much?
MILLER: Well, I always say that my father was an information hoarder. He's a brilliant man and he absorbed information so quickly. And so if there was an item that he was interested in but he hadn't learned from yet, that he hadn't absorbed that information, he wanted to keep it until he had time to really process those items.
MARTIN: And I think a lot of people will wonder, well, where was your mom in all this, when this was going on. I mean, you started doing all these coping things. You realized that this was something to be kept secret but there were all these coping mechanisms, like your family joined a gym so that you could take showers or you realized not to have people in the house. And I think a lot of people would say, well, where was your mom in all this?
MILLER: Well, I do touch on that in the book, but, you know, my mom has had a particularly rough road in life. And early in my childhood she underwent a surgery that left her bedridden for over a year, and then afterward, there was such a prominent depression that followed that she really checked out for a long time. And in those years my father's hoarding was really left unchecked.
And in that time she even said that she started hoarding in kind, because she just wanted to make a place for herself in her own home - that my father's things had taken over so much that she really wanted to find her spot in her home. And I think that's probably not a rarity among hoarding marriages.
MARTIN: You know, your mom - there's some really vivid passages in the book, which is actually very funny in parts in some ways, if people can believe that. But where your mom keeps saying, she's going to hate us - trying to encourage your dad to clean up or at least to stop his behavior, at least to keep it under control or intervene at some point. She's going to hate us, but you don't.
MILLER: I don't hate my parents. You know, I really do believe that they did the best they could. And, you know, they didn't have easy lives either. And I always know that they were there for everything that they could be there for.
They were at every dance recital, at every soccer practice, every school play. They were good parents in the ways that they could. And I never believed that my father loved things more than he loved me. I knew that whatever drew him to compulsively collect things was beyond him.
MARTIN: He sounds hilarious in some ways.
MILLER: He's a wonderful man.
MARTIN: But he also had some moments where his behavior was completely inappropriate. Like, for example, you recount a time when you had - the rare time when you had a friend over, and he went off on some rant about something, because I think he thought you'd thrown one of his papers out. Am I right about that?
MILLER: No, it was actually a radio that was broken.
MARTIN: A radio that was broken. And he punched you in the face. So how do you understand that?
MILLER: Well, it's important to realize that my father had undergone a traumatic brain injury shortly before that incident, and I think that definitely influenced that particular moment in our lives. Not only was he suffering from chronic migraines and the repercussions of the injury, but he'd also lost his job. His house had just burned down.
There was a lot going on in that particular moment, and I think that led to that. If I talk to him about it now, he only has a very vague recollection of that, and he apologizes for it profusely. You know, he was not a violent man. And my father grew up in a violent household and so I can only assume that when he lost control he reverted back to the way he grew up.
MARTIN: What was the worst of it? For you - I mean we're only really just - honestly and this sounds like a terrible pun, scratching the surface...
MILLER: Yeah.
MARTIN: Of some of the things that you recount in the book about what became normal for you. I mean, sleeping in your car at points when you'd gone away from school just 'cause you couldn't stand being in the house. What was the worst of it for you?
MILLER: I think in the end all of it culminated in this innate feeling of shame, because where I came from was something to be ashamed of, and it's nothing I could share with anyone. And that definitely affected me throughout my life - of feeling like I am not worthy of being noticed and that it was important for me to hide. And it took me a long time to shed that shame.
MARTIN: If you're just joining us, we're talking with Kimberly Rae Miller. Her memoir, "Coming Clean," is her story of growing up in a household where her father, and then her mother, were hoarders. Can you just read a portion of the book for us, just describing your house just so, again, people can get a picture of what it is that you were living with?
MILLER: Sure. (Reading) Between my father's love of paper, and just about everything else he could get his hands on, and my mother's depression-fueled shopping, our house had started to resemble the remnants of the bottom of a garbage can. Soggy junk filled our living space. When I was 14, the boiler broke in the middle of winter, but we could never allow a repairman into our mess, and so we lived without heat, without showers.
MARTIN: And there was the - do you mind my telling this, this is kind of - I guess you don't, you wrote a book about it...
MILLER: I wrote a book about it. (Laughing)
MARTIN: This is a little bit of a spoiler alert here. There was one point that the house was such a mess that somebody was living in the attic...
MILLER: Yeah.
MARTIN: Undetected.
MILLER: Yeah. And...
MARTIN: Which was only discovered when your parents sold the house.
MILLER: Right. When I was 18, my parents abandoned their home and moved to an apartment. And they sold it as is, so the company that bought it bought it at a very, very discounted price for what the property was worth, under the guise that they needed to do the cleaning themselves. And they reported back to my mom that in the attic they had found someone's clothing, hundreds of beer cans, a cot. Somebody had been living in our attic.
MARTIN: What would you say to people who would say - it's interesting, it sounds a lot like other forms of addiction, you know, like alcoholism or substance - other forms of substance abuse, where people would say, well, you know, that's just - you say it's a mental illness but they should just stop it.
MILLER: Well, you know, I mean at the end of the day, you can't just turn things off. And, you know, my father is older now. He's much more aware of hoarding. And so he has actually, you know, put steps in place and has been trying to work on combating the constant urge to keep things collectively. And it's hard, it's a battle. But the home they're living in now is clean and they work really hard at it.
MARTIN: Why do you think it is, though, we're becoming more aware of this?
MILLER: I think many of us have always felt a connection to it, and once there was a name for it, and once these shows came out and there was visibility for this disease, people were able to finally connect, like I did, and say, yes, that's what my aunt has - yes, that's what my friend has - yes, that's what my dad has.
And feeling like you're part of something, feeling like since there's knowledge about it now, people are being trained in the mental health industry in it now. That, you know, life will get better for these people, hopefully, eventually. And I think we grasp onto that. And also, we live in a culture where consumerism is really pushed on us.
MARTIN: I was going to ask you if you feel that there's something about the era that we are now in that encourages this, that there's something about our obsession with stuff, and stuff is constantly being pushed on us. But you could also kind of look at it another way to think that maybe it's very ancient, that the desire to build up stores of things could be part of a survival instinct.
MILLER: Right, absolutely, hoarding has been reported throughout history in every culture, in every country. It's not unique to our time, but I think our time definitely promotes that sort of behavior. And a lot more research is being done into hoarding, and this is certainly not my research, so I can't claim ownership of it, but there was recently a marker found on a chromosome in people who are part of families with a high propensity for hoarding. And they're also discovering links in childhood development, and children who are neglected at certain points in their development, forming attachments to things as opposed to people.
MARTIN: Are you scared for yourself, I mean, you - I'm just saying, you're a very lovely young woman - I'll just say that you're very lovely.
MILLER: Thank you.
MARTIN: You have a very spare appearance, though, very minimal jewelry. Maybe that's just how you chose to dress today, because it's very hot, but are you worried for yourself? Are you vigilant for signs that you might be hoarding?
MILLER: Absolutely, it's a constant fear in my life. And, you know, I'm single now, I don't have children and so I'm able to keep my home very neat. I understand that that may change in years to come, but, yeah, no, it's absolutely a fear. And a lot of times hoarding is triggered in people who don't show those signs by a trauma and the hoarding turns on, so to speak. And I'm always afraid that I'm like one trauma away from becoming a hoarder.
MARTIN: Speaking of shame, you said at the beginning you wanted to write this book in part to kind of release the shame, but this isn't your real name.
MILLER: No.
MARTIN: This is not your real name.
MILLER: No, it's not, but...
MARTIN: And you don't name your parents in the book.
MILLER: Well, I...
MARTIN: So what's up with that?
MILLER: Well, I changed my name not because of the book. I changed it years ago because I was an actor. And so, in terms of...
MARTIN: Still are.
MILLER: Right, and I am an actor.
MARTIN: Yeah, still are.
MILLER: Yeah. And so I just changed my name because it was a long, convoluted name and it didn't fit well on my headshots. And in terms of changing my parents' names in the book, it was just really important for me to protect their privacy in the ways that I could. You know, they're incredibly supportive of me in writing this book. They were my fact checkers.
They never asked me to change anything in the book and they were really with me through all of it and it was a very emotional process. But I also was understanding that this was a secret for them too, and they are ashamed of it. And so I didn't want to make it any more painful than it had to be. And so I did change their names, but I also changed the names of everybody else in my life as well.
MARTIN: But you're a public figure.
MILLER: Right, but I'm public in what I choose to make public and so, you know, you can find my acting credits online and you can find my writing credits online, but you may not be able to find, you know, which politicians I contribute to because that's under my regular name. You know, so...
MARTIN: I'm just wondering though, isn't this a perpetuation of the shame factor...
MILLER: Yeah, no...
MARTIN: By not just saying the truth. I mean, couldn't the public scrutiny in a way be part of accountability to say, I'm not going back.
MILLER: Right, no, I absolutely understand that but, you know, I've gone as Kimberly Rae Miller for so long in my career and I do have other credits under that, so it made sense for me to keep my name the way it was.
MARTIN: Is there any one thing you wish people would know about this? I know, again, looping back to where we started our conversation, you're saying a lot of the acquaintance that people have with hoarding is through these reality shows and you're saying that's not reality. What's the piece of it that people aren't getting?
MILLER: Right, well, you know, these people who apply to be on hoarding shows are people who are so desperate for help that they will do anything, including humiliate themselves on television. And these people are living out their worst nightmare on TV and it's being filmed, and I don't know about you, but I probably wouldn't look so great if I were being filmed on my worst day. And, you know, these people have real lives, they have children.
They, you know, a lot of hoarders don't have good relationships with their children. I do, you know, but a lot of people who don't hoard don't have great relationships with their children. They're individuals and they have full lives and interests and educations and jobs and friends, and we need to see them as full people - as the full package.
MARTIN: Are you comfortable giving advice? If you live with someone, if you're close to someone, if you're neighbors of someone who you think is a hoarder and you would like to be helpful, can you offer some guidance here?
MILLER: Sure. I mean, there's - forced cleanouts don't usually last. I mean, it's really hard for people and it can also be the trigger that makes them hoard more, because they've just lost everything that they love. And so being there with someone and helping them go through it at their own pace and talking to them about it.
Hoarding is something that really needs behavioral retraining and thinking - changing of the way you think, and that's not always successful. I mean, it's a really hard thing to cure, so to speak. So, you know, being understanding - understanding that this isn't just stuff for them. This is their life. And being sympathetic to that.
MARTIN: Are you angry at them? I know you love them. I mean, that comes through. It comes through that they love you, and you love them, but at the end of the day, are you angry?
MILLER: I don't think I'm angry anymore. I think I definitely was, especially in the writing of this book. There are a lot of moments that I had to relive as an adult and see them through adult eyes, and feeling like that was a really, really unfair way to grow up. But also, in writing this book, I actually gave myself the opportunity to be angry.
I don't necessarily recommend everybody work through their issues by writing a book, but it worked for me. And by the end, I was really able to understand my family more and I was able to understand, you know, what they were going through at the time, because I only saw things as a child then.
MARTIN: Kimberly Rae Miller is the author of a new memoir titled "Coming Clean." It's about her experiences growing up with her father, who was a hoarder, and her mother, who was a compulsive shopper at one point. She was kind enough to join us here in our Washington, D.C. studios. Kimberly Rae Miller, thank you for speaking with us.
MILLER: Thank you for having me.
HEADLEE: And that's our program for today. I'm Celeste Headlee and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. We'll talk more tomorrow.
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Is there a way for Weland's scenery placement to snap to the grid?
I can easily snap scenery and items to the grid in Obed, but saving the map with Obed destroys the map so that AlephOne crashes and wipes both textures and the level name to "Please register."
I'm lining up ceiling lights and I'm sick of eye balling it in Weland only to open up the map to see they're all crooked.
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davey k necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 28 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
hi folks, i have been struggling to come up with a logo and webdesign for 5 months and i am at the end of my tether, please help if you can. the business will help to make childrens lives safer and better as at the moment there are no inspections of childcare facilities in ireland, so parents have no idea if the creche their child is in is actually a safe place or not, for this reason i need to establish a brand that parents can recognise as showing a quality mark of excellence
we have two audiences, one is the owners of the childcare facilities themselves, the other is the parents of the children-we have one taglines for the creche it is "SAFECRECHE-KEEPING YOUR CHILD SAFE", for the creche owners it is" MORE CHILDREN, MORE PROFITS, LESS STRESS"
therefore i need a logo and webpage that appeals to both
think of your children if you have any, what kind of a logo or brand would offer you reassurance that the facility they are in is actually a brand of excellence-thats what we are trying to achieve here
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Mark Imperial, founder of Remarkable Radio and Press and Publishing Partner Stewart Andrew Alexander confirmed they have officially launched a Nationwide search to find the 3 remaining Divorce Professionals to spotlight in the latest volume of the book series titled, "Stress-Free Divorce: Leading Divorce Professionals Speak."
Explaining the search process, Imperial said, "This is an important book series for us, so we'll be hand-picking the final 3 Divorce Professionals we feel are true advocates for the success of divorcing couples in America, while at the same time committing to spread the word about a charitable organization (TBA)."
Remarkable Radio and Press has pledged 100% of the royalties from the retail sales of the book to be donated to charity.
Scheduled for Summer release, the latest volume of "Stress-Free Divorce: Leading Divorce Professionals Speak" will spotlight each Professional selected from this search, sharing their insights and real world experience on Stress-Free Divorce.
Imperial said, "This book isn't just about Divorce. The Divorce Professionals we select are passionate about helping divorcing couples. They will answer the most common questions and bust the myths, pitfalls and misconceptions so many people have about Divorce. "Stress-Free Divorce: Leading Divorce Professionals Speak" will cover law, collaborative divorce, mediation, children, finances, mortgages, real estate, stress, and more – a lot of information that is rarely talked about."
Imperial went on to describe the book as, "A powerful resource for divorcing couples who want to divorce amicably, without the stress caused by lack of information, or worse — misinformation."
Having already secured several well-known industry leaders in this series, Remarkable Radio and Press is expected to make an announcement revealing the final selections by early Summer.
However, Imperial asserted, "One of the reasons Stewart and I launched this search is because we didn't want to go the route of filling this book with the stereotypical 'Experts.' This search would be unnecessary if that was the case. We want to spotlight professionals with stellar reputations who consistently do remarkable work for their clients."
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Long-time faculty members Dr. Graham F. Peaslee and Dr. Charlotte vanOyen-Witvliet have both been appointed to endowed professorships at Hope College, succeeding colleagues whose tenure in the positions has concluded.
Peaslee has been appointed the Elmer E. Hartgerink Professor of Chemistry. vanOyen-Witvliet has been appointed the John H. and Jeanne M. Jacobson Professor of Psychology.
In addition to recognizing faculty members for excellence, endowed chairs provide funding for summer research projects as well as some salary support. The college has a total of 20 endowed chairs for faculty and three endowed administrative positions.
First held in 2002, the John H. and Jeanne M. Jacobson Endowed Professorship is designated for a tenured faculty member with a commitment to the Christian faith who is an outstanding teacher-scholar or artist and who proposes to conduct a significant program of research or creative activity. The professorship is open to faculty from any department, with appointment for a four-year term. The professorship was established as a retirement recognition in honor of Dr. John H. Jacobson, who was 10th president of Hope College from 1987 to 1999, and his wife, Dr. Jeanne M. Jacobson, who was an adjunct member of the Hope education faculty and a senior research fellow with the college's A.C. Van Raalte Institute. It was previously held by Dr. Caroline Simon of the Hope philosophy faculty.
First held in 1995, the Elmer E. Hartgerink Endowed Professorship recognizes an outstanding chemist dedicated to students, teaching and research, and committed to the Christian faith. It was established by Elmer E. Hartgerink, a 1939 Hope graduate who spent his career as a chemist, serving in the latter part of his career as chair and chief executive officer, and then chairman of the board, of Wyckoff Chemical Company Inc. in South Haven. Hartgerink, who died in February 2000, received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the college in 1988. The professorship was previously held by its original recipient, Dr. William Mungall, who retired from the faculty at the end of June.
Peaslee has taught at Hope since 1993. Chair of the department of chemistry, he holds a split appointment between chemistry and geological and environmental sciences, teaching a variety of introductory and upper-level courses in each.
Trained as a nuclear chemist, he maintains an active interdisciplinary research program involving undergraduates. Since joining the faculty, he has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator for more than $3.4 million in external grants and has more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and given more than 100 public presentations.
For the past 18 years, he and physicist Dr. Paul DeYoung have collaborated to run the college's Nuclear Group, mentoring more than 100 research students and producing more than 60 research publications associated with the group. Peaslee has also conducted research on the Lake Macatawa Watershed since 1998, studying the sources of pollution in the lake. In addition to articles in research journals, his resulting publications include, as co-author, the book "An Environmental History of The Lake Macatawa Watershed."
Among other honors through the years, he has received the college's "Hope Outstanding Professor Educator" (H.O.P.E.) Award from the graduating class in 2000; the Macatawa Watershed Project's "Stakeholder of the Year" award in 2005; a "Janet Andersen Lecture Award" from the Midstates Consortium for Math and Science in 2010; and a "James N. Boelkins Natural and Applied Sciences Division Research Award" from Hope in 2011.
Prior to joining the Hope faculty, Peaslee was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at MSU. He was also a post-doctoral fellow in the Nuclear Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He completed his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1981 at Princeton University, and his Ph.D. in chemical physics in 1987 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
vanOyen-Witvliet has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1997. Her teaching responsibilities have included Introductory Psychology, Positive Psychology, Behavior Disorders, Clinical Psychology, Internships and Advanced Research Lab. She publishes in the field of emotion and psychophysiology research, with a specialized focus on justice, forgiveness, and gratitude.
With the support of the Fetzer Institute, the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, the John Templeton Foundation, the Towsley Research Scholar Award, the Faith and Learning Fund, and the Frost Center for Social Science Research, she has conducted programmatic research with students, published peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and given professional presentations in local, national, and international venues. She has conducted 100 media interviews about forgiveness, with her research featured in venues such as "Time," "Newsweek," "Reader's Digest," "O: The Oprah Magazine," "USA Today," "The Los Angeles Times," "The Chicago Tribune," "ABC News Good Morning America," and CNN.
Witvliet has mentored dozens of Hope students in psychophysiology research, 20 of whom have co-authored journal articles or professional conference presentations with her, and 11 of whom have co-authored projects winning Psi Chi Regional Research Awards.
Before joining the Hope faculty, she trained as a scientist-practitioner clinical psychologist at Purdue University and completed her predoctoral internship at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center affiliated with Duke University.
She graduated from Calvin College with a B.A. in psychology and music in 1991, and completed her M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Purdue University in 1993 and 1997 respectively.


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VANCOUVER—Tapping into technology has long been part of the routine for runners like Craig Slagel, from using stopwatches to digital music players to sophisticated GPS trackers.
But Slagel wanted a more engaging experience, so the Vancouver-based app developer set to work on a smartphone game he could play while his feet hit the pavement below him.
The result is Vancity Dash, an experimental iPhone and Android app that tracks a runner's progress using GPS technology, putting the user in the middle of a retro-style video game, complete with low-fi graphics, music and sounds that hearken back to the early days of Nintendo and Sega.
Runners collect coins as they go, which users who live in Vancouver can use to unlock local landmarks. Those unlocked landmarks, when a user runs by, provide bonus coins. Anyone using the app outside of Vancouver can collect the coins, but not the landmarks.
The entire game is designed to take place in users' headphones, allowing them to concentrate on the task at hand: running.
"My running friends are always looking for ways to enhance their running experience, whether it's music or looking at their GPS or timing themselves," says Slagel.
"I thought, 'How about something that's a bit more interactive and a little different? Really something to get you out?'"
Vancity Dash is part of a relatively obscure trend of location-based games, which use the GPS information from smartphones and tablets to allow users to interact with the real world.
They can range from simple tasks like racking up check-ins on FourSquare to complex apps such as Google's Ingress project, a so-called massive multiplayer game set to debut on the Android system that will use real-world GPS maps to put players in a science-fiction story involving global mind control.
Slagel created Vancity Dash with two other students who graduated from Simon Fraser University's digital media master's program.
He says the game, which is free, is primarily an experiment designed to test the technology. He says he and his colleagues at Leaping Coyote Interactive will use the lessons from Vancity Dash when they launch a new game later this year, pairing runners with a virtual running buddy, which will require food, water and gear that users will be able to purchase using points earned in the game.
Slagel says location-based gaming is a natural next step in a world where most people are carrying around smartphones and gamers are becoming accustomed to physically interacting with games through devices such as Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Xbox Kinect.
"I love the idea of combining the location technology and the game technology," he says.
"People are more interactive with their gaming, and I think location is the next level."
One of the most popular location-based games also focuses on running.
Zombies, Run! was released last year for Apple's iOS system and Android devices. Users play the role of a character in a zombie apocalypse, progressing through levels complete with audio narration as they run. When the zombies start chasing, they need to run faster to escape.
Zombies, Run! has been a huge success. Its UK-based developers, who originally sought funding through the online crowd-sourcing website Kickstarter, have sold more than 400,000 copies — a particularly impressive figure considering the app costs about $8.
One of the Zombies, Run! creators, Adrian Hon, says even the best apps available to runners have traditionally been about tracking their activity, not making the runs themselves more fun.
"I've run since I was a teenager, and I found it quite difficult to get into it, so I managed to do it through a combination of gadgets like GPS or apps," says Hon.
"But I was always surprised that there wasn't anything that actually made the act of running more interesting."
Hon says the idea to use zombies came from a running group that a colleague had attended. Participants were asked why they wanted to run.
"Some people said they wanted to lose weight, other people said they wanted to get fit, and one lady said she wanted to survive the zombie apocalypse," says Hon.
"This is a game where you're running all the time, and there are not many instances in the world where that would actually make sense."
Hon says the success of location-based games will likely depend on their ability to adapt to wherever a user is located, rather than requiring them to be played at a specific spot or only in a certain city.
Few people — particularly runners — like to be told where to go, he says.
"When I go running, I like to run by the park, I like my set route," he says.
"I wouldn't like the game telling me to go down some dodgy alleyway."


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Steroid development experiments started with testosterone in early 20th century. During the Second World War, the Nazis tried using steroids to make a super German soldier.
These steroids were developed by Dr. Ziegler to give American athletes an edge at the international sporting arena. The intent was in response to the suspicion built about Russians having used testosterone during weightlifting and bodybuilding competitions in the 1950s. However, by 1967, steroid usage was outlawed from the Olympics, and the 1980s saw steroid usage banned from the majority of sporting events. In 1990, Dianabol steroids attained illegal status in the States.
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FDA banned Dianabol for the substance's side effects. Increased blood pressure and heart rate are common, besides an increase in temper. Severe acne and water retention are also observed frequently. The substance is a potent androgen, which means it could amplify or trigger secondary male traits like male pattern hair loss, temper flares, aggressive behavior and increased facial hair. The most dangerous effects like liver damage are major concerns, with the drug also being linked to increased cancer risk.
Despite these legal impediments and health risks, some athletes and bodybuilders continue using Dianabol steroids.
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When administering Dianabol or other steroids, it's crucial to cycle the drug in timed non-usage and usage phases. Dianabol cycles refer to the drug's non-usage and usage phase.
Primarily used for bulking purposes, Dianabol is recommended for only 4-6-week cycle increments. Testosterone is the major hormone produced from this drug. The side effects include production of a potent estrogen variant that could lead to bloating.
As aforementioned, Dianabol steroids could increase blood pressure and also lead to some serious liver problems. The substance also makes its users look bloated, thanks to the drug's bulking effect. The cycle must be restricted to a six-week usage period, with the off cycle staying for a few weeks. As a result, the drug's long-term effects would be considerably reduced.
Most athletes stacking on Dianabol also use other testosterone-inducing supplements for better, long-lasting effects. This blend is usually followed because Dianabol gains tend to wither away quickly. Adding extra testosterone drugs assists the body with growth for multiple weeks post a Dianabol cycle.
Significant medical research has been done with regard to anabolic steroid usage in humans. The research has revealed long-term steroid usage causes major health issues and would eventually cause cancer, liver failure, or even death.
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When administering bodybuilding drugs, it's vital to train and consume the right food. Anabolic steroids assist the body with protein synthesis, resulting in more muscles. The majority of bodybuilders also resort to protein supplements for enhanced muscle production. These drugs come with advanced weight lifting plans that could cause unprecedented growth.
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Metallica rockers James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich have confessed they are huge fans of teen singer Justin Bieber, branding themselves "Beliebers."
The "Boyfriend" hit maker and self-professed Metallica super-fan posted a cover of the group's song "Fade to Black" online earlier this year, and it has caught the attention of the members of his favorite band.
When asked if the admiration was mutual, front man Hetfield told Q magazine, "Are we Beliebers? Yes."
Drummer Ulrich adds, "I think the kid's really talented and obviously to go through what he's going through at that early age must be a mind[bleep]. So the fact that he still goes out there and does it, I admire that and I think he's super talented, so I guess I am kind of a Belieber."
And bassist Robert Trujillo also continues the Bieber lovefest, saying, "As long as he stays out of trouble, I'll be a Belieber."


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The U.S. dollar continued to weaken Tuesday, as Federal Reserve policy makers started a two-day meeting that's expected to result in a modest scaling back of the central bank's bond-buying program.
The ICE dollar index DXY, +0.43% which tracks the greenback against six rivals, fell to 81.167, down from 81.268 late Monday in North America, while the WSJ Dollar Index BUXX, +0.33% edged down to 73.46 from Monday's close at 73.54.
Currency markets were in a holding pattern as investors awaited the conclusion Wednesday of the two-day Federal Open Market Committee policy meeting.
"We felt that the market overreacted yesterday to the Summers news, but the dollar's recovery today has been quite limited," said Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman, in a note. The dollar fell sharply Monday after former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers removed himself from consideration to run the Federal Reserve. Summers was seen as relatively hawkish.
"We were looking for more of an upside bias ahead of the FOMC given the dollar's recent decline," Chandler said.
Many economists predict the central bank will announce the long-anticipated trimming, or so-called "taper," of its monthly asset purchases by a modest amount.
Over the past few months, strength in the U.S. dollar has accumulated a "taper" premium — although not as pronounced as the one in stocks or Treasury yields — and the greenback's been shedding some of that over the past few weeks, said John Kicklighter, chief strategist at Daily FX.com, in emailed comments.
"The correction though has been exceptionally persistent," Kicklighter said. "Those trading the dollar will be watching two things — the possible pace of taper beyond the first move along with an eye to the first rate hike, and the impact on risk trends."
Analysts at Société Générale wrote: "Perhaps the biggest wild card will be the first glance at the [Fed policy makers'] forecasts for the fed funds rate in 2016." "Our guess is that the mean forecast could be as high as 2.75%-3%, which would put it significantly above current forward rates," they said.
The euro gained a little ground after a stronger-than-expected reading from the September ZEW index of German investor expectations. The euro EURUSD, -0.4995% traded at $1.3355 in recent action, up from Monday's $1.3339, and the British pound GBPUSD, -0.2405% rose slightly to fetch $1.5904 versus $1.5901. Strategists were reluctant to put much weight on the ZEW reading, however, noting the index's lackluster reputation as a gauge of economic activity.
"As usual, we would caution that the survey contains little forward-looking information and we will put much more weight on next week's Ifo survey" of German business sentiment, said Adam Cole, head of G-10 FX strategy at Royal Bank of Canada.
The Japanese yen fell, with the dollar USDJPY, +0.19% ticking up to ¥99.16 from ¥99.09.
The Australian dollar AUDUSD, -0.4976% rebounded after initially extending losses on the release of minutes from the latest Reserve Bank of Australia policy meeting.
The minutes retained language showing the central bank was still open to further cutting the policy interest rate from its record low of 2.5%.
This sent the Aussie as low as 92.84 U.S. cents from 93.08 U.S. cents just ahead of the release, and off from late Monday's 93.13 U.S. cents. The Aussie, however, fetched 93.53 U.S. cents in recent action.
TD Securities strategist Alvin Pontoh noted that the Australian dollar "has risen by 3 [U.S.] cents since the RBA last met, and unless this is reversed in the coming days and weeks, the risk is that the RBA could not only talk down the currency at its next meeting, but also re-introduce an explicit easing bias to the communiqué." However, Pontoh said TD Securities remained "comfortable forecasting no further rate cuts in the profile."
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Dear U4 project members
It's time to bring you up to date with a few developments and changes in the U4 project.
Some of you will be aware that I joined the U4 project as co-administrator back in August 2009. At around the same time Ron Scott was appointed as a fellow co-administrator, and William Allen assumed responsibility as the group administrator. Since then the bulk of the project administration work has been done by Ron and me. Ron was in charge of the phylogenetic analysis and I assumed responsibility for welcoming new members. However, since November 2011 Ron has not responded to any e-mails and we have also been unable to contact him via Facebook. William Allen has a lot of work and family commitments and did not have any spare time to work on the U4 project so he stepped down as administrator earlier this year. Therefore for the last two years I have effectively been running the U4 project single-handed.
Back in 2009 we had just 160 project members. The project has grown considerably since then and we now have 635 members. I am also very pleased that the project has attracted an increasing international membership, particularly in Scandinavia, Finland, Eastern Europe and the British Isles. Although the majority of our project members live in the US we now also have project members living in the following countries: Australia, Austria, the Bahamas, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the Virgin Islands, and the West Indies.
With the steady increase in the growth of the project it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to keep up with the workload. I had never intended to assume sole responsibility for the U4 project as I already run two other projects – the Cruwys/Cruse/Cruise surname DNA project and a geographical project for the English county of Devon. I am now writing to ask if any project members would be willing to offer their services to help with the running of the U4 project. I knew nothing about mtDNA when I first started out and have learnt from experience as I've gone along, and it would be very easy for someone else to do the same. I would be happy to share the knowledge that I've acquired. Ideally it would be best to have a number of admins. Nearly all the large haplogroup projects now have multiple admins. For anyone with mathematical skills there would also be scope for doing analysis on the ages of the various subclades and their coalescence times. If you are interested in helping out in any way please contact me by e-mail for an informal chat.
Project results page
The U4 project results page has gone through a number of changes in the last few years. Ron Scott identified a number of clusters but the naming system he used is now very out of date. I have followed the naming system used by Phylotree which now publishes the official mtDNA tree:
Phylotree is currently on Build 15, and Build 16 is imminent. FTDNA are currently still using Build 14. All U4 project results now conform with Build 15. Some of you might find that your original subclade assignment has been changed since I wrote to you about your results. If you notice any errors in your assignment do let me know. I have retained some of the clusters identified by Ron Scott but I have abandoned his naming system because it was in conflict with the updated Phylotree nomenclature. It may be that some of these new subclades will be recognised by Phylotree when it is next updated. The Genographic Project are supposed to be bringing out a big paper which will update the mtDNA tree, and I understand that FTDNA will not update their mtDNA haplogroup assignments until this paper has been published though the timeframe is not known.
FTDNA sale
You will probably have noticed that FTDNA now have a sale on which lasts until the end of the year. For those of you who have transferred Geno 2.0 results or 23andMe results to FTDNA this is a good opportunity for you to order a full sequence test in order to participate in the FTDNA genealogical matching database. The basic mtDNAPlus test was reduced in price in the summer and now costs just $49 so if you can't afford the full sequence then this would be a good starting point instead.
The upgrade to the full sequence test is also on special offer in the sale at US $139. Within the U4 Project 249 of our project members have now taken the full sequence test. Some of the sequences of our U4 project members were used in the 2012 paper by Dr Doron Behar et al "A Copernican 'reassessment' of the human mitochondrial DNA tree from its root":
The sale also provides a good opportunity to encourage your friends and family to take a DNA test, and perhaps some of them will be U4s like you! I've put full details of the sale prices of all the different tests on my blog:
Most distant known ancestor
While the majority of you have helpfully provided the details of your most distant known ancestor on your mtDNA line, we do still have a few project members who have not supplied this information. The ancestral details are displayed on the results page:
These details are also used for the project's maps (you need to make the appropriate selection from the drop-down menu):
The ancestral details also appear against your name in the match lists, and will help you to make genealogical connections. It is very easy to update these details from your personal page. You will find the settings under My account/GEDCOM/FamilyTree. As a lot of people get confused about the transmission of mtDNA you might like to refer to this chart on the ISOGG website showing the path of mtDNA in order to check that you've entered the details of the correct ancestor:
Full sequence results
Everyone who has taken the full sequence test should have received from me an explanatory e-mail with details of how you can contribute your results to GenBank for scientific research. I also provide details of the custom reports which are available from Dr Ann Turner. Note that there is now a page on the ISOGG Wiki which provides details of Dr Turner's reports:
If for any reason you have not received an e-mail from me do get in touch.
If you have any questions about the project I would be pleased to hear from you.
Kind regards
Debbie Kennett
Group Administrator
mtDNA Haplogroup U4 Project
This letter was also sent to all U4 project members using the FTDNA bulk e-mail system. There were 27 bouncing e-mail addresses. If you are a member of the project and have not updated your contact details please ensure that you do so in order to receive future communications from Family Tree DNA and from your matches.


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I've had some time to practice being still recently while working on recovery from a knee issue. The doctor suggested I spend some time reading (in response to my whine about boredom). This all coming after my exploratory plunge into finding joy! Call me cranky pants! Now, I know what you're thinking….time laying around! Sounds great! Well, let me tell you….it's fun for about a day. It becomes taxing pretty quickly so I needed to find something to occupy my mind. So, doctor's orders!
Most recently, I've begun "What Good is God?" by Philip Yancey. He visited my church last year shortly before Christmas so I had the opportunity to have him sign a few items for gifts, but I kept this one for myself….in that unread pile on my office floor. Pulling books out of the stack of unread works are like finding hidden gems! (That's joy!) So after digging it out of the stack, I nuzzled in for a read. Yancey has met with ten varied groups of people in varying stages of life crisis and how God fits into those moments.
I was struck by a quote of C.S. Lewis in Yancey's book, "Pride….is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of Lucifer….I am an instrument strung but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician." Like I read it about five times.
Hmmm…..Pride is a sin of Satan, because he believes he can do it better on his own. I hadn't ever thought of the world in quite that way before. Isn't that how we feel as well…about many things? Most things?
How often I make my own music because I am like a player piano on auto-pilot; when I could be looking to the composer/conductor for cues. Here I have the capability to make beautiful music, but I so often choose to play out of tune on my own volition. When I am out of alignment with God's will for my life, how can I possibly expect there to be a beautiful symphony? My head hurts from thinking now.
Jeremiah's Judgment
Jeremiah was a prophet during the final days of the kingdom of Judah. In the first Old Testament chapter begins with "The word of the Lord came to me, saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."" (Jer 1:4-5, NASB)
That speaks to what C.S. Lewis was trying to get at, that we are created as fully functioning strung instruments. God knew us before he created with us. He created us each with a specific and unique purpose. Isn't that the most amazing thing, and at the same time one of the hardest things to truly accept?
Jeremiah wanted the people of Judah to understand that God's promises would be fulfilled, but only after a period of exile and judgment. They would have to be obedient and faithful, certainly, but God's promises would be fulfilled indeed.
For some reason, Jeremiah 31:20 keeps returning to me, "Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him," declares the Lord." (NIV)
We know that the term Ephraim was often used as a term for Israel. So the Lord was reminding the people of Israel of his promise of restoration. God delights in his children as a parent might. Even though they do things outside rightness at times, or against a parent's will, it does not diminish the love that exists.
What I take from this is the unsettled assurance that even when I take matters of life into my own hands and attempt to do things on my own rather than asking for and applying guidance, my Father in Heaven loves me still (Joy! Joy! Joy!).
Even when I am guilty of performing an off-key instrumental solo, my Father still sits in the sidelines calling me gently back to him, yearning for me to run into his waiting arms. When one has that kind of love waiting on the sidelines, how can one not have joy? Perhaps now that I can see it in a slightly different light that it's actually a form of pride to believe that I can handle things on my own I'll now be more motivated to seek out God's will for myself moving forward.
God wants to restore us to wholeness, and through that He wants us to know joy here on earth, as a picture of what waits for us in the hereafter. Not the temporary, happy feeling, but real, deep, assured joy. He also wants us to receive his promises to be fully functioning instruments in concert with the rest of the symphony, according to his score. God is so good.
May your faith matter.
Note: More info on Philip Yancey's work What Good is God? In Search of a Faith that Matters is available from http://www.philipyancey.com/what-good-is-god


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What can the Public Sector Learn from the Best Corporate Innovation Strategies? – Part 2
In my previous post, I described the "culture of innovation," for which Bay Area companies have become renowned. And we looked, briefly, at what it could mean for the public sector.
It may come as something of a surprise that Bay Area companies are no more likely to follow a Technology Drivers innovation model than companies located elsewhere. Like many top innovators, companies in the Bay Area have not only found success in creating ground-breaking technologies, but they are almost twice as likely as other companies to have developed the capabilities needed to provide a superior understanding of the stated and unstated needs of their end customers. It isn't just about how many transistors you can fit on a chip. It's about how such advances can lead to products and services that gain traction in the marketplace through superior insight into, and understanding of, customers' needs.The effectiveness of this approach – customer insight and product development – is backed by some significant metrics. When it comes to innovation, it turns out that R&D spending doesn't necessarily correlate with success. The study team at the Bay Area Council Economic Institute (BACEI) asked global innovation leaders to name what they considered to be the world's most innovative companies. The top 10 included three Silicon Valley firms – Apple, Facebook, and Google – in addition to long-established companies like IBM. These innovative firms outperformed the top 10 R&D spenders across three financial measures over five years: revenue growth, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, and market capital growth. Only three of the top 10 R&D spenders – Microsoft, Samsung, and Toyota – ranked in the top 10 innovators
The innovation comes not just from how much you spend, but also how you spend it. . This was one point made in a recent IBSG blog post on tech innovation. As the Bay Area experience shows, an innovative culture may be the secret sauce in that process. These lessons from best practices in corporate innovation absolutely carry over to the public sector — and to the big government challenges we face, such as smart city design and intelligent urban planning.
BACEI's Sean Randolph puts it this way: "Two connections are evident. One is leadership: the most innovative companies start with a vision that is led from the top and systematically communicated throughout the system – and the officers responsible for innovation (CTOs in companies, but this could be senior planners in cities) work directly with other senior managers from inside the corporate suite. In other words, innovation strategy is closely aligned with operations, and not located in some external box that's connected to leadership by a dotted line.
The other lesson is in the "need seeker" strategy. Top-down models that deliver a product (in government's case a public policy or urban plan) that are conceived without an understanding of and deep connection to the people who will be affected – urban residents and businesses – are likely to be less effective."
To innovate successfully, government leaders and urban planners must innovate both from the top-down and from the bottom-up. It means embracing what Randolph describes as "an over-arching vision" that's grounded in a deep insight into people's needs, how they live, how they use services, and how their lives can change for the better through policy innovation.
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Stephanie David
Hi Gordon,
As an urban planner who has worked in the private and public sector, I enjoyed reading your article.
Whilst I agree with innovation being fundamental to smart city design, the ability to modernize stringent planning controls (which are in most cases lawfully bound) is of equal importance.
Bold changes that permit creative and practical solutions to current and intractable urban issues will only ever be made by leaders who can adapt complex public policy to our future needs. This is often more challenging than the private sector implementing innovative projects (more times than often on behalf of the public sector).
Your article points out what the public sector may learn from corporate innovation, yet it may only be realized by a bureaucracy that enables change to occur over different leadership terms and values and committs to longer term investments rather than short term wins.
A quandary faced the world over with glimpsed of hope in cities such as Seoul and on a smaller scale all over the world (including changes to land use zoning changes in local settings that have fundamental influence to the life of a city).


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Located on Brighton's seafront close to the West Pier, the Kings Hotel is perfect for the business or leisure traveller. Originally 3 regency town houses we are now a modern hotel with a vibrant and cosmopolitan atmosphere. All rooms are en-suite and many have scenic sea views.
Each room features a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, hairdryer and hospitality tray. A wide-ranging breakfast menu is available at Kings Hotel, including pancakes with fresh berries and maple syrup, grilled or poached fish, and a full English breakfast. The K Bar has a wide selection of drinks available along with a limited snack menu and you can also utilise the FREE WIFI available throughout the hotel. Located five minutes from the famous Lanes shopping area, Brighton Conference Centre and the city's busy nightlife, the Kings really is the perfect place to stay. There is a small car park at the hotel, charged at £17. 50 per night and available on a first come first served basis. See reception on arrival who will advise you of availability. If no spaces available you will directed to on-street parking near the hotel or the Regency Square NCP car park which is a few minutes' walk away. The hotel is fully non-smoking. The Kings Hotel is a pet friendly hotel, but charges will apply.
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"...but plenty a drop to drink."
This perversion of Coleridges's Rime of the Ancient Mariner refers of course to the stellar launches of British comics anthology Nelson at the Cartoon Museum and Gosh comics (covered here) last week.
For the latter event I had a great time scrawling all over Gosh's windows with Sarah Macintyre, Jake and Woodrow Phoenix, the results of which are pictured below:
The source illustration for my window adornment was the character sketch I sent to the editors of Nelson (Rob Davis and Woodrow) prior to drawing my five page chapter for the year 1999.


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i'm looking for someone to hit balls with / get a nice workout i used to play a lot and want to get started up again. i am decent but not spectacular :) thanks!
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just checked this! there are some decent courts in silver spring ..... i'll reach out after the holidays if it's still nice out! thanks!
Thanks Bibi - I'll keep your number handy if the weather stays mild this winter. Thanks for reaching out!
Where were you thinking of playing?
Im flexible. Now I just play at outdoor courts at a park in Silver Spring. Where do you play?
I usually play over at the Olney Sports Center off Georgia Avenue, north of LeisureWorld. A question for you - and the other people who replied - were you all thinking on playing at Wheaton, or even at Silver Spring? Wheaton's one has both indoor and outdoor courts...and I'm not too familar with the tennis scene in Silver Spring. I don't mind hitting around with other people...just forgive me if I'm lousy since I am still recovering from arm/hand injuries.
If the weather is free this coming Sunday, there is a group social tennis gathering off New Hampshire Avenue, a bit behind the Martin Luther King Jr. High School. Level is about 3.0 ish for both men and women. Don't know if you would be interested in that? Definitely outdoors though so weather permitting.
There is also tennis socials over at some tennis complexes in Germantown and Fairland Tennis Courts (Off US1 and Old Gunpowder Road?) but those are a bit far from Silver Spring. Don't know how far you are willing to travel.
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mind = blownDirkGently wrote:ok if we're talking racism, isn't it obvious that the RPM says "don't say that" on it from the riders perspective????
mdksniper wrote:mind = blownDirkGently wrote:ok if we're talking racism, isn't it obvious that the RPM says "don't say that" on it from the riders perspective????
Exactly what I (and the OP) said, but kite companies choose those guys who are not as good as most of the locals we are talking about...capitan nemo wrote:When you relate to a team rider you relate to a brand and then you might buy some gear from that certain brand.
So you're a troll?Osprey1 wrote:LOL.
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Its a good point, but I think part of sponsoring someone is also about them being a spokesman for the brand. Whitey gets chosen a lot because a lot of the time he speaks English and that is probably the most common language for the kite community (see kiteforum.com). Many "locals" dont speak english on a level that will make it interesting to listen to in the videos and promos.
A good example is Neto from Cumbuco, who was always an amazing ripper, but i think his improved English has made him much more marketable by L.F. moreso than his amazing style. Also if you havent seen him ride you are missing out.
Unfortunately even the ones that get chosen frequently sound like total idiots when they talk about the gear or kiting, but i suspect that might be a side effect of hard crashes.
Fun to stir the pot here


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The article "The Silver Van" first appeared in the July/August 2005 issue of Positively Aware magazine and is about the Chicago Recovery Alliance and co-founder Dan Bigg, 59, who died at his home on Tuesday, August 21. The Cook County medical examiner's office said the cause of death remains undetermined pending further tests. According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, "as a result of Bigg's efforts, friends and colleagues said, thousands of people who would have died from infections or overdoses are still alive — a flesh and blood legacy of the "harm reduction" philosophy Bigg helped to popularize.
You can also view the article in PDF form from the original print version which includes photos by Russell McGonagle.
It's a typical mid-May Sunday afternoon in Chicago—unseasonably cool with brief glimpses of sunlight on an otherwise gray, cloudy day. The setting is the infamous "Blood Alley", a narrow, nondescript, one-way street lined with turn of the century one- and two-story brick buildings, reminiscent of a Universal studio lot.
On any given Sunday, you'll find the instantly recognizable silver van operated by Chicago Recovery Alliance (CRA) parked on the street. Staff ed by both paid workers and volunteers, the van is a mobile operation frequented by injection drug users (IDUs). Here, they can exchange their used needles for new, sterile syringes.
They can also get cookers, cotton, sterile water/saline, alcohol pads and ties, as well as hepatitis A and B vaccinations, HIV tests, counseling, information, and condoms. The van operates at diff erent times and days at various locations throughout the city.
On this particular day, sterilization kits, neatly gift -wrapped in the Sunday comics page of the newspaper, are stacked off to one side, available on a first-come, first-served basis. A basket full of muffins and pastries disappears quickly.
Tucker and Sammy, two mixedbreed dogs who have just come from the dog beach at Montrose Harbor, lie quietly on the floor of the van. They appear disinterested and nonplussed as people begin trickling in. A few potential customers hesitate and stare from halfway down the block—a worker goes out to meet them. They glance warily in my direction—I appear conspicuously out of place with my notepad and photographer in tow.
They step into the van and are greeted with hello. They bring along their syringes, some in boxes, others carefully protected and wrapped in plastic bags, and place them in the sharps container. One 62-year-old gentleman comes in with a large, silver Heft y garbage bag, slightly used, filled with box after box of used syringes. "I was a latebloomer," he remarks dryly.
First-time clients are given a unique code, which is printed on a card. Then, each time they return they display the card, and their number is logged. They also are asked their zip code, drug of choice (heroin, meth, crack, steroids, etc.), and what type of syringes they need (intramuscular or intravenous). They are given as many as they want, no questions asked.
The ID card with the unique identifier helps CRA collect and track pertinent data. In addition, if the person carrying syringes is ever stopped or questioned by the police, in theory they should be able to simply present the card, and not be hassled for possession.
I meet Al, an African American man in his early 50's. He recounts an episode a couple of years ago when he and fi ve others were shooting up together. "They just started droppin', like they were in the desert, dyin' of thirst," he recalled. All five of his companions had begun to overdose.
Al was one of the first people trained by CRA on the use of naloxone (Narcan), which is a pure antidote to heroin. Remembering what needed to be done, he immediately began to fill five syringes with naloxone and "hit 'em anywhere with the damn shit", jamming the needles into them, one by one. Had he not, they probably would have all died.
Dan Bigg, executive director of CRA, describes an incident in which he administered naloxone to a woman who had been brought in by her boyfriend after overdosing. "She had this shirt on that had buttons on it, and you had to roll it up or whatever, so I just said 'fuck it' and went right through the shirt [with the needle]."
Her pulse was strong, but although her heart was still beating, she had stopped breathing. Without oxygen, she would soon die. While still in the passenger seat of the car, her boyfriend leaned the seat back, and Dan started to breathe for her. Several minutes later, her boyfriend took over. After one or two puff s of air from him, she awoke gently, and slowly looked around, not knowing where she was or why she was even there.
"This woman woke up and she didn't believe what we were saying," exclaims Bigg. He pointed to the boyfriend, a tough, Polish kid, who had tears streaming down his face. They continued describing to her what had just happened.
As it turned out, she had been in the van two or three months earlier, and had overheard someone talking about how they had used naloxone on a person who had OD'd. "Hey," she had mentioned to him at the time, "they're doing some overdose thing over at the van." The boyfriend, remembering what she had told him several months earlier, brought her in when she began to OD.
So why didn't he take her to an emergency room instead of the CRA van? "The bottom line is, if your relationship is spent fearing being thrown into a cell by a huge group of people, all of a sudden you're cautious of just about everything," states Bigg.
Between January 2000–2001, 466 people in Cook County died of a heroin overdose. Since then, over 300 lives have been saved by people like Al, trained in the administration of naloxone. While naloxone has been around for nearly 40 years in the medical setting, it hasn't been readily available to the public, until recent efforts here by CRA.
"The long and the short of it is, there's not too much cooperation around health issues [when it comes to drug use]. That's why we thought, this needs to be in the hands of people who need it immediately, because timing is everything," continues Bigg. "Just like epinephrine and glucagons in emergency medicine."
Gus Grannan, a volunteer for CRA, is a laid-back, soft -spoken guy who was born and raised in Detroit. He got his degree at Wayne State University, and continued his graduate studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He moved to Chicago in 1998, and now works for the University of Chicago Library. "I'd like to be doing this full-time," says Grannan, "but right now I just volunteer." He dons a black T-shirt with white lettering that spells out "San Francisco Needle Exchange." On it is an image of what appears to be the face of Jesus, with dreadlocks made of syringes, creating a surreal, halo-like effect.
Gus proceeds to explain the purposes of all the various items in the van. When he gets to the packets of ascorbic acid, he explains, "The heroin in Chicago will dissolve on its own in water because it's slightly acidic. But crack's a base, that's what it is, chemically, it's base, [a different pH], so if you put it in water it's not going to dissolve [in order to inject]… if you add enough ascorbic acid to it, it will neutralize it and it will dissolve [in water].
"We also vaccinate for hep A & B. There is no vaccine for C, but once you have hep C, and you contract A or B, it might cause even more serious damage to your liver."
It should be noted that people who inject drugs, are HIV-positive, or at risk for HIV should vaccinate against hep A and B, regardless of whether or not they have hep C.
Aizhan, a 37-year-old woman from Kazakhstan, stops by to visit and say hello. She's a petite, bubbly, energetic woman, whose eyes twinkle and face beams with an infectious grin. She has subtle, Asian features and a thick, Russian accent, but speaks English surprisingly well. She works with IDU's in her own country, and is here in the U.S. on a fellowship, studying at DePaul University.
In Kazakhstan, as in most of the newly independent states freed from Soviet control, drug abuse, particularly heroin, is a huge problem. Between 70 and 80 percent of HIV infections can be attributed to injecting drug users or their sexual partners. Most of the world's heroin comes from nearby Afghanistan, but in many surrounding places, including Moscow, syringe exchange is illegal, further exacerbating the problem and fueling the epidemic.
Through the efforts of Aizhan and others, and in conjunction with organizations such as the Open Society Network, they are beginning to reach out and educate injection drug users, using the same harm reduction philosophy that CRA is based upon. Aizhan would someday like to create an advocacy and methadone program in her own country.
But today, Aizhan has come by to let Bigg know how much she appreciates the work that he is doing. Back in Kazakhstan, they've asked her what she has learned so far. She tells them what she's learned through her work in the States and with CRA, and from Bigg in particular.
"I told them, three main things that I learned from you: Leadership… collaboration…and financial stability, which gives everybody possibilities.
"I love this country, I love America, I really do," Aizhan states emphatically. "But my country, I love more. I love my people. I want to help my drug users."
For more information on Chicago Recovery Alliance, go to anypositivechange.org


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Today Apple held an education event in New York City where it unveiled a new version of the iBooks app along with iBooks Author, a free Mac application that allows you to create books containing not just text but also rich media elements. Macworld's Dan Moren and Lex Friedman attended the event. I talk to them about their impressions.
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Rolling Stones magazine described Memphis' Big Star as the "quintessential American power pop band." Their influence on music has created one of the greatest cult followings in rock & roll. Now, Jody Stephens, the last surviving original member, joins the MSO for a memorable Big Star salute. The MSO will also feature the talents of Susan Marshall, Joshua Cosby of "Star and Micey" and Vicki Loveland and Van Duren.
Friday, January 31|7:30pm
New Daisy Theatre|Beale Street
Tickets: $25 adults|$5 students
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Reviewed by Justin L. (age 8)
This book reminded me of the time I had the worst nightmare about a giant who wanted me to die. This book made me feel a little scared. Even though I was scared, I liked the book.
I recommend this book to first through third graders who like scary stories. I also liked the pictures in this story because they matched the story well.


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dustin.haggett necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 50 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Tree Huggin Seeds
We are an on-line retailer of organic products that prove to be good for people and good for the Earth. Our first product is an organic vegetable seed kit for the beginner gardener. As more and more people come to realize they need to change their lifestyles to be healthy and youthful we want to be behind them every step of the way. We have created a website that has a complete interactive gardening calendar to help guide the beginner plant their first organic vegetable garden.
Our target audience is very broad. 20-50 yrs., both male and female. we want to portray our company as youthful, organic, fresh. Other brands that have a similar target market are: Toms of Maine, Burtz Beez, Naked Juice, Whole Foods Market.
Our logo should say "TreeHuggin Seeds" as this organic vegetable seed-kit will be TreeHuggin's first line of products. "TreeHuggin" should be one color, "Seeds" another.
Please see the following URL to see our current design layout for our website as logo colors should match: http://www.seologistics.com/HTML/tr…ex1.3.html
Please use your creativity. We are excited to see what you come up with!
Note: I have uploaded our first logo that was created for us. we would like something similar but less juvenile and more artistic.
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