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What did we learn from the Broncos' beatdown of Baltimore in the season opener? That Peyton Manning is as phenomenal as ever, and that Denver is scary good
DENVER — Long after the East Coast went to bed Thursday night, Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning flipped a short throw to his left to Demaryius Thomas, and Thomas sprinted up the left seam 78 yards for the touchdown, leaving six Baltimore Ravens flailing at him. That was it: the seventh touchdown pass on a historic night—another historic night for Manning; how many more of these does a man with four scars on his neck have left?
Seven touchdown passes. The most in his 16-year career, and the most in an NFL game since the AFL-NFL merger. "You're just sitting there like, 'That was seven?' Because he goes so nonchalantly about it,'' said a man seeing it up close for the first time, Wes Welker. To celebrate, Manning went to the Denver sideline, took a few way-to-gos from happy teammates, then found offensive coordinator Adam Gase next to the Broncos' bench area.
The pictures. Peyton Manning wanted to see the pictures—what the Baltimore defense had shown on the short series, how his line had blocked it, and what had made the hole for Thomas so big so fast. It was 49-27 very late in the fourth quarter, and Peyton Manning wanted to see the pictures.
When the Broncos dove into the Peyton Manning free agency sweepstakes 18 months ago, could they have really known what they were getting? No one knew how good he'd be, what his physical limitations might be after his long recovery from a series of neck surgeries. But it's safe to say, now, that the Broncos got all of Peyton Manning. They didn't get any cheap, try-his-best-in-the-twilight version of a faded star. They got the guy who would make Demaryius Thomas better and who would bond with Welker over 11:30 p.m. text messages during a mini-camp that Manning had invented at Duke last March and who would stay after practice to make sure rookie running back Montee Ball knew the keys to blitz pickup. They got the full Manning.
That, in a sloppy but compelling opener to the NFL's 2013 season, was driven home over and over as Manning dissected the Super Bowl champions.
This week, someone asked a big football fan, singer John Legend, whom he most admired in the NFL. "Oh, it's Peyton,'' Legend said. "No question. I love people who are so passionate about quality, so focused on doing great things every day. There's something to admire about that."
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Ten Lessons from Broncos 49, Ravens 27:
1. Some things never change: It's the little things that win and lose games. The blown replay choice by the Ravens was a huge play in the game. Would it have changed the course of the game? Probably not, but it was the big play in handing Denver a lead it wouldn't give up. Baltimore led 17-14 early in the third quarter. On a 3rd-and-9 at the Denver 21, Manning threw low to Welker. It was a bang-bang play, but the officials missed a clear trap by Welker; the nose of the ball hit the ground as he caught it. While everyone in the place waited for John Harbaugh to throw his challenge flag, Manning got the Broncos to the line and ran another play. Harbaugh, as most coaches do, relies on the coaches upstairs to tell him when to challenge a call; he blamed NBC for not showing the replay in time. [Fairness alert: I work for NBC, and I was in the NBC production office at the stadium Thursday night watching the game early in the third quarter.] Well, I would challenge the Ravens not seeing the replay in time. In the office watching the game on TV, I saw the replay in plenty of time for the Ravens to make the challenge. In fact, I wasn't the only one calling out to the TV: "Come on, throw the flag! It's obvious!" No flag came. Now, instead of punting the ball away, Denver had life. Three plays later, Manning threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to Andre Caldwell. If I were Harbaugh, I'd convene his coaches today and ask what happened upstairs. Were they not decisive enough? Did they truly not see the play in time? Whatever, that's a little thing that really hurt Baltimore.
2. Denver's not overrated. Second-biggest stat of the night for the Broncos: the 2.5 sacks for Shaun Phillips, seen as a declining player when Denver signed him in free-agency. Chris Harris moved from slot corner to the outside to replace the injured Champ Bailey and had a good night of coverage and a spectacular diving interception. And Manny Ramirez, playing center for the first time in his career (and snapping to the most exacting quarterback alive) didn't have an obvious gaffe all night. Said Phillips of the questions surrounding him in the preseason: "I took it personal that everyone was like, 'Oh what are we going to do about the pass rush?' I've had like 70 sacks in my career. What am I, some bum?''
3. Tight end, and the intermediate passing game, is a wasteland for Baltimore in the wake of losing Anquan Boldin and Dennis Pitta. The position is an absolute disaster zone for Baltimore (as our Greg A. Bedard foresaw back in August), and it was there for America to see Thursday night. Ed Dickson has a history of the drops, and he had his hands on three balls he should have caught against Denver. Dallas Clark, about all that was left on the scrap heap of free agency once Pitta went down early in camp with a hip injury, cost the Ravens four points just before halftime. He dropped an easy touchdown pass with 10 seconds left in the half, and the Ravens had to kick a chippy field goal. This is going to kill Joe Flacco if the Ravens don't fix it. And how can they, unless they abandon the mid-range passing game and just go bombs-away 10 times a game? Offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell may have no choice.
4. Flacco's fault? Stop. Just stop. It wasn't his best night. An early throw across the field into double-coverage was luckily not picked, and he had three or four other brainlock throws. But he had so little help from his receivers that you have to chalk this up as a learning experience. He learned he's going to rely on two good running backs and his speed downfield.
5. Dumbest play of the night (and there was some good competition for this): Denver's Danny Trevathan stupidly dropped the ball, I guess, in some form of celebration before he reached the end zone. I was standing with Rod Smith, the former Broncos receiver, on the sideline late in the game when Trevathan intercepted Flacco and returned it for a touchdown—or so it seemed. He actually dropped the ball at about the one-yard line, and it rattled around the end zone and went out of the end zone as players scrambled for it, resulting in a touchback. Smith, from the moment it happened, was not only all over Trevathan for his idiotic irresponsibility (my words, not his) but quickly pointed out that rising star middle linebacker Wesley Woodyard came out of the play gimpy with what appeared to be a knee injury of some sort. Imagine if Woodyard was lost for any period of time not because of a play that happened in the open field—but because some immature player didn't know how to carry a ball untouched into the end zone. Mind-numbing.
6. Wes Welker shouldn't be known as one of the league's surest-handed players anymore. Hey, a great debut for Welker, all in all … nine catches, 67 yards, two touchdowns. But he dropped a punt at his four-yard line (why he's fielding it there, who knows), leading to a simple Ravens touchdown in the first half. No cause for alarm, but as important as he is to Manning and to this offense, John Fox shouldn't have him returning punts. Add this muff to the fact that Welker, via Pro Football Focus, led all NFL wideouts with 15 drops last year, and you start to wonder if that miss from Tom Brady in the most recent Patriot Super Bowl was really any sort of fluke.
7. As if Manning needed it, he found another weapon: tight end Julius Thomas. The former Portland State basketball forward, 6-5 and 250, is an offensive force who vaulted over Jacob Tamme and Joel Dreessen on the tight end depth chart. His blocking is deficient, but he made a great catch, spin and run that changed the momentum of the game in the first half. Said Manning: "He definitely will make teams have a conversation, and that is what you want. You want guys that make teams have a discussion and say, 'How are we going to handle this guy?' ''
8. The game is changing I: Last year, the league set a record with an average of 128.4 plays per game. Last night, the two teams—both of which like the no-huddle—combined for 155 plays. With 104 passes.
9. The game is changing II. Fourteen kickoffs in this game. Zero returns.
10. It's only one game. The Ravens shouldn't throw hands in the air. They're a smart team, and Harbaugh's one of the smartest coaches in football—and one who knows which buttons to press too. Remember these results from Week 1 last year: The Jets scored 48 points. Indianapolis lost by 20. Russell Wilson was poor in a 20-16 loss at Arizona. It's a long year.
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Rod Smith watched Manning drive the Broncos to their sixth touchdown early in the fourth quarter. "What I see,'' he said, "is he's more confident in his arm. When you're confident in your arm, you're more sure of yourself and the throws you can make. And we've needed a quarterback who could lead the team. We've had no leadership there over the past five years. The beauty of a quarterback who everyone looks up to is he not only leads your offense, he leads your entire team. That's Peyton right now."
Smith's on to something. I remember the weak throw Manning made in overtime of the playoff loss to the Ravens—rolling right, across his body, for Brandon Stokley, a soft pillow of a throw intercepted by Corey Graham. The long 2012 season took its toll (including that game, which ended in minus-six wind chill), and Manning was spent. I still don't think his arm's what it was—Tony Dungy agrees—but you saw it last night: The arm's plenty good to dominate any team in football.
"Peyton never doubted he'd be back to playing at a high level," Dungy said after the game. "I remember asking him, 'Are you sure you want to keep playing?' He said, 'They have assured me I'm going to be fine.' I thought the second year with all these guys, Eric Decker and Demaryius Thomas and now with Welker, he'd be better. He understands where the weaknesses of the defense are. I still don't think he's throwing the ball like he did five years ago, but the accuracy is there, and the intelligence, and he's just got a lot of weaponry.
"And with Peyton, you know him. He's never going to be satisfied with good. He'll never be satisfied with anything less than perfection, and that is what he is driven by. If you're not ready for that as a teammate, if you're not ready for that as a coach, you're going to be stunned. Like Brandon Stokley said to Demaryius Thomas last year, 'Either you're going to get better, or you're not going to get the ball.' "
Manning came within a superhuman effort by Adrian Peterson of winning the MVP last year. As it was, Peterson, who rushed for 2,097 yards a year after major knee reconstruction, edged him 30-20; that's how good Manning's season was. This year he's off to the best Week 1 start by a quarterback in history, and an unprecedented fifth MVP (he shared the award with Steve McNair in 2003) is certainly possible. But that's not what Manning wants. He knows that greatness at his position is judged by Super Bowls won, not MVP awards. And he's got one Super Bowl ring. In his world, and in the world that judges all-time greatness, he can't retire with one and be the best ever.
But that's for another month—February, not September. For now, enjoy one of the best players any of us has seen in any sport. Enjoy the quirks, and the demands, and his drive to be perfect. There's something great, as John Legend says, about watching someone strive to be perfect the way Manning does.


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Anti-paedophile group targets child abuse sites
Calls for 'global attack'
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has called for international cooperation to tackle a core of 2,755 foreign-hosted abuse sites that it says are responsible for the majority of images of children obtained by UK paedophiles.
In its annual report, released today, the consortium of ISPs and content providers argues that the challenge of combating the sexual abuse of children online is not insurmountable. The number of sites identified by the IWF is down ten per cent on last year.
IWF chief executive Peter Robbins said: "We believe that speculative figures can create a distorted picture of the scale of the problem of child sexual abuse websites. This year we have highlighted what we believe is a manageable number worldwide of such websites, known to us.
"A coordinated global attack on these websites could get these horrific images removed from the web and those responsible investigated."
Some 80 per cent of the IWF's 2,755 targets are commercial operations, which hop from web host to web host to evade investigators. The need for international teamwork, particularly with the US and Russia, was highlighted by news that less than one per cent of UK reports of images of child abuse were traced to domestic sources.
Seven UK paedophiles were successfully prosecuted using evidence supplied by the IWF last year. You can read the full report here. ®

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Gov. Rick Perry, who is considering another presidential bid, will be in South Carolina, Missouri and Florida next week.
The direct cost of his travels generally is picked up by his campaign or another means, such as the economic development booster TexasOne, whose board he appoints.
But the cost of the security detail that accompanies him is paid by taxpayers, whose bill has topped $2.6 million since his 2010 re-election.
Perry is among governors scheduled to be in Greenville, SC on Monday with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as she announces her re-election bid.
On Aug. 29, Perry is scheduled to speak at a Chesterfield, MO event sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, Missouri River Township and Grow Missouri, which is pushing for an income tax cut in that state.
Perry's office in a press release Tuesday said he also will "share Texas' economic success story" at meetings with business leaders and a Missouri Chamber of Commerce lunch.
In advance of that trip, Perry's office said TexasOne is buying a 30-second TV spot touting Texas that began running Tuesday and will air on stations in St. Louis, Springfield and Columbia-Jefferson City.
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Heading into Labor Day weekend, Perry is among speakers at the Aug. 30-31 7th Annual Defending the American Dream Summit at Universal Studios Resort in Orlando. The gathering is hosted by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation.
Perry was in California last week and is headed back in October to address its state GOP convention.
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I may have picked the wrong time to go to Los Angeles.
October is normally a nice time to visit, as the heat has eased off and the perpetual smog and/or fire smoke has been cleared by the freshness of early Autumn. This year, though, my timing to visit Southern California could be some of the worst yet. Not because of fires or earthquakes or Academy Awards ceremonies, but because of gas prices.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a city more reliant on personal transportation than L.A., with miles of freeways all jam-packed with frustrated motorists burning fuel while slogging toward the next interchange.
Fuel that now costs, in some places, over $5 per gallon.


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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- British Columbia's Ministry of Justice issued a final report Wednesday confirming actor Cory Monteith died of an accidental heroin overdose.
The "Glee" star was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room July 13, 20013. He was 31.
Billboard.com quoted the B.C. coroner's report as saying Monteith died of a mixed drug cocktail involving "intravenous heroin use combined with the ingestion of alcohol."
The report also noted investigators on the scene discovered "a spoon with drug residue and a used hypodermic needle, along with two empty champagne bottles and glasses" when they entered Monteith's room after he did not check out of the hotel as scheduled.


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The authority and responsibilities of the Corporation, a bicameral body composed of a Board of Fellows with twelve members and a Board of Trustees with forty-two, are set forth in the Charter of the University granted by the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in 1764. "It is our fixed star; we can do nothing that contradicts its prohibitions or transgresses its grants of power," states Henry Wriston in The Structure of Brown University.
The Charter originally provided for a twelve-member Board of Fellows and a Board of Trustees of thirty-six1. It provided further that eight of the Fellows should always be Baptists and the rest "indifferently of any or all denominations." The President was always to be a Fellow and always a Baptist. Of the thirty-six Trustees, the Charter provided that twenty-two should be Baptists, five Quakers, four Congregationalists, and five Episcopalians.
In 1926 the Charter was amended to provide for six additional Trustees, bringing the Board of Trustees to its present number of forty-two. These six were to be elected "without regard to denominational or religious affiliations." At the same time the qualification that the President must be a Baptist was removed. In 1942 a further amendment to the Charter removed all denominational qualifications for service on the Corporation.
Of the 42 trustees, 14 are elected by alumni pursuant to an agreement between the Corporation and the Alumni Association. These 14 trustees include the current and two past Brown Alumni Association chairs, and eleven others elected to six year terms. The rest of the Trustees, called Term Trustees, are nominated by the Committee on Trustee Vacancies. Careful selection of internally appointed trustees and those elected through the alumni ensures that Corporation members have the professional and personal backgrounds needed to meet their fiduciary and oversight responsibilities.
The Statutes of the Corporation provide that "each person elected to the Board of Trustees shall serve no more than two non-consecutive six year terms, except in unusual circumstances." Election of both groups is by the full Corporation. Until 1981 members of the Board of Fellows were elected for life. Since that time, by action of the Fellows, they have been elected for terms of eleven years. In May 2007, the Fellows established a limit of one term. .
In addition to the President, who, as stated above, is always a Fellow, the Charter provides for the election of Corporation officers: a Secretary from the Fellows and a Chancellor, a Vice Chancellor, and a Treasurer from the Trustees. These officers form the Senior Administration Committee which serves to advise the President, review her performance annually and set goals for the coming year.
The full Corporation meets three times a year — on a Friday afternoon and Saturday morning in October and February and on the Thursday afternoon and Friday morning before Commencement in late May. The Thursday afternoon meeting is a strategic discussion session. Members of the Corporation hear and discuss reports from the President, the Treasurer, committee chairs, and senior University officers.
The morning meeting, which usually lasts about two hours, is a formal business session attended only by current Corporation members and senior University officers. It is at this meeting that votes are passed. The two Boards meet concurrently with the same agenda, the President presiding over the Fellows and the Chancellor over the Trustees.
A motion may originate with either Board and is discussed by both groups. However, any motion must first be passed by the Board that presented the matter and then must receive the concurrence of the other Board before it becomes a valid action.
The Trustees never meet without the Fellows. The Fellows, however, do meet without the Trustees, for the Charter provides that "adjudging and conferring the academical degrees . . . shall forever belong exclusively to the Fellowship as a learned faculty." It provides, further, that "the instruction and immediate government of the College shall forever be and rest in the President and Fellows, or Fellowship."
The Fellows, therefore, meet separately to discharge their responsibilities for establishing degree requirements and voting degrees. In practice, matters regarding degree requirements are generally taken up first by the College Curriculum Council of the Faculty, then presented to the Faculty for approval, and finally, approved by the Fellows. Candidates for baccalaureate and advanced degrees are recommended by the Faculty to the Fellows. Honorary degrees are voted by the Fellows after consultation with a faculty-student advisory committee.
A quorum of the Corporation is twelve Trustees and five Fellows. The Charter also provides, however, for a minor quorum of four Trustees and three Fellows which may transact any business except the placing of a building and the selection of Trustees, Fellows, and the President. The actions of the minor quorum must be ratified and confirmed by the full Corporation at its next meeting.
The functions of the minor quorum are fulfilled by the Advisory and Executive Committee, consisting of the President (chairman), the Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor, the Secretary, and the Treasurer, all ex officio, and at least nine other members. This committee meets no more than twice a semester to act on items that require timely approval or cannot wait until the next regular Corporation meeting. In addition to the powers of the minor quorum, the Committee, by action of the Corporation, is authorized to appoint faculty members.
In addition to the Advisory and Executive Committee, there are twelve other standing committees of the Corporation covering various facets of the life and work of the University. Much of the work of the Corporation is done through these committees and through ad hoc committees appointed from time to time.
The Corporation has three main committees: Academic Affairs, Budget and Finance, and Campus Life. Each member of the Corporation must serve on one of these committees; the President, Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, Treasurer, Secretary and the Chair of the Governance and Nominating Committee may serve on more than one of these committees. Chairs are appointed by the Governance and Nominating Committee for one year terms, which are renewable for a maximum of six years. Each of the Corporation's standing committees meets at least three times annually and submits an annual report to the Corporation.
Each Corporation member is expected to attend as many meetings of the Corporation as possible, but in any case, at least half of those held during his or her term of office. If the minimum standard of attendance is not maintained over a two-year period and there are no extenuating circumstances, a member may be requested to resign. If a member knows that he or she will be unable to attend meetings for a period, the member may request a leave of absence from the Secretary of the Corporation.
Members of the Corporation serve without compensation but are reimbursed for their expenses if they so request. Most prefer to consider their expenses as a contribution to the University.
In 2001, President Simmons initiated a comprehensive review of governance structures. In 2003, the Corporation approved a major restructuring of its governance which reduced the number (from 21 to 11) and size of its committees to ensure greater levels of engagement and accountability among members. The meeting schedules were reorganized to allow more time for meaningful strategic discussions and a regular schedule of committee reports to the full Corporation was implemented. Other engagement opportunities were created for alumni, friends and former Corporation members such as advisory and leadership councils which advise the President.
While the President as chief executive officer is responsible to the Corporation, she also, as has been stated, is a member and presiding officer of the Board of Fellows. In general, the Corporation concerns itself with matters of policy and does not become involved in the daily administration of the University.
The Corporation is responsible for selecting the President; siting buildings; setting the budget, tuition and fees; establishing policy and strategic plans; appointing faculty and senior administrative officers; and accepting gifts and naming opportunities.
For further information contact the Corporation Office at 401-863-2409.
1: The history of the Corporation is taken from the 1988 Self-Study Report for the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.


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Security officer shoots attacker in South Carolina; 7 injured
A security officer intervened after a fight broke out
A security officer intervened after a fight broke out
A shooter fired multiple rounds before a security officer shot the attacker early Sunday in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Police initially received calls about a large crowd. According to a Myrtle Beach Police Department news release, a fight began between individuals prior to the officers arriving.
One of the individuals pulled out a gun and shot the person he was fighting, police said. An armed security officer witnessed the shooting and shot the shooter, according to police.
The shooter fired multiple rounds before carjacking a vehicle and fleeing, police said.
Police arrived at the scene around 12:15 a.m.
Authorities found the vehicle and apprehended a suspect later Sunday morning.
Seven people were take to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injures, officials said. A patrol car was stuck by rounds.
The security officer suffered a graze wound to the leg, according to police. He was treated for the injury at the scene but not taken to the hospital.
Officers are continuing to investigate.


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Jeannette Ickovics, PhD
Samuel and Liselotte Herman Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health; Dean of Faculty, Yale-NUS College; Founding Director, CARE: Community Alliance for Research and Engagement
Departments & Organizations
Obesity Research Working Group
School of Public Health: Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS | Connecticut Women's Health Project
WHRY Pilot Project Program Investigators
Office of Cooperative Research
Jeannette R. Ickovics is the Samuel and Liselotte Herman Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She is a Visiting Professor at Yale-National University of Singapore for the 2017-2018 academic year. Dr. Ickovics was Founding Director of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Public Health. She is Director of CARE: Community Alliance for Research and Engagement, and Deputy Director for the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS where she was Director of an NIH training program for pre- and post- doctoral fellows for 15 years (now co-Director). Dr. Ickovics' research investigates the interplay of complex biomedical, behavioral, social and psychological factors that influence individual and community health. She uses this lens to examine challenges faced by those often marginalized by the health care system and by society. She has expertise in running large, scientifically rigorous clinical trials in community settings. Her community-based research – funded with more than $38 million in grants from the NIH, CDC, and private foundations – is characterized by methodological rigor and cultural sensitivity. She has held important academic and community leadership positions for the past decade, honing her leadership skills and expertise. As Director of CARE, she is seen as a trusted and respected collaborator. Through her work at CARE, she secured New Haven as the first US site of Community Interventions for Health, a multi-national, multi-sectoral research collaborative focused on the prevention of chronic diseases worldwide. She was founding Chair of the Adherence Committee of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (NIAID), responsible for the adherence portfolio across 27 AIDS Clinical Trials Units nationwide. Dr. Ickovics has been able to successfully accomplish all scientific goals ranging from nurturing institutional relationships, study design and implementation, recruitment and retention of hard-to-reach study participants, and data analysis, interpretation and dissemination. She has been PI on two multi-site NIH-funded randomized controlled trials on an innovative model of group prenatal care. Based on successful health outcomes, The United Health Foundation funded a dissemination study of group prenatal care in Detroit MI and Nashville TN, with an eye toward national scale-up. Dr. Ickovics is currently PI of a public-private evaluation with Merck for Mothers (evaluating the use of community health workers for pregnant women with chronic disease) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. She recently completed an NIH-funded randomized controlled obesity prevention trial at 12 middle schools in collaboration with the Rudd Center and the New Haven Public Schools. Dr. Ickovics is the recipient of national awards and recognition, and is author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications.
Education & Training
|Muhlenberg College, Honorary (2012)
|Yale University, Honorary (2008)
|George Washington University, Applied Social Psychology (1989)
|Muhlenberg College, Psychology (1984)
|Post-Doctoral Fellow
|Yale University
Honors & Recognition
Outstanding Community Partner Award (Partner for Health Change), 2016New Haven Public Schools (2016)
Master Lecturer, 2015American Psychological Association, Board of Scientific Affairs (2015)
Women of Innovation Award, Research Innovation and Leadership, 2015Connecticut Technology Council (2015)
CEA Winslow Award, Highest Honor, Leadership in Public Health Practice and Research with Commitment to Social Justice, 2015Connecticut Public Health Association (2015)
Winslow Centennial Honor Roll for Excellence and Service, Outstanding Contribution to Public Health,2015Association of Yale Alumni (2015)
Harvard Health Acceleration Challenge Finalist - Expect With Me recognized as an innovation in health careHarvard Schools of Business and Medicine (2014)
Hemsley Challenge Finalist, Health Care Innovation for Expect With MeUnited Health Group (2014)
Leadership in Healthcare Award, 2013Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce (2013)
Healthcare Hero, Community ServiceConnecticut Business News (2013)
Doctor of Science, Honorary Degree RecipientMuhlenberg College (2012)
Honorary Degree Recipient, Doctor of Science, 2012Muhlenberg College (2012)
Yale/Seton Elm and Ivy Award, For outstanding contributions towards improved relations between New Haven and Yale University, for community-based research on women's healthYale University (2003)
Fellow, Division of Health Psychology (Division 38), Society for the Psychology of Women (Division 35), Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Division 9)American Psychological Association (2002)
Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public InterestAmerican Psychological Association (2000)
Committee on Women in Psychology Distinguished Emerging Leader AwardAmerican Psychological Association (1999)
National Frontrunner Protegee Award (Science and Humanities)Sara Lee Foundation (1999)


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I remember a time with my Mission President, President Stucki gave a talk on constant perfection. He made a comment that if we ever felt like we were comfortable, like we had things figured out, like we could sit back and relax it was a great sign we needed to rise up and repent. Life is a process of constant repentance through improvement and progression. Somehow I have really taken the counsel to heart and don't like to feel comfortable. There is always more to do, someone else's life to bless, some work needing to be done.
My weeks of late have been filled with a whole host of events. Tuesday nights finds me at the Family History Library. I have been spending about a week an evening out with the missionaries. The Home Teaching list with 6 families requires diligent effort, coordinating with the schedule of my 14 year old companion, and hoping some of them might come around. There are two widows in the ward whose family history I am inputting on the computer and preparing for temple work. That requires constant updating and exchanging of information ever week at church. Preparing and teaching the Family History Class on Sunday. I go visiting with President Hahn usually about once a week for the Elder's Quorum Presidency. Last week I gave a talk in church on Family History. Tomorrow and Saturday we are preparing chili for the ward and work chili cook-off. Creating a couple gallons of white chili takes hours in itself. Chopping up those four huge onions kept my eyes watering for several hours. A black tie event tomorrow night, costume party Saturday night, Squash on Monday nights. I don't feel like I have much time lately. But I feel very fulfilled with my life at the moment. I hope someday my life will be remembered like that of President Kimball (whose biography I finished earlier this month) where his life was like an old shoe, worn out in the service of others.
Amanda and I attended a wedding last Saturday and because the weeks have been so busy we had to run to the temple afterwards and come back that same evening. The week before Amanda spent the whole weekend in Grundy. The week before was General Conference, which was fantastic I might add.
Work has continually picked up and I am feeling like I have a pretty good grasp on the work and what is required. I think I may have actually gone a day or two where I did not have to ask a question of a co-worker. Then today the bombshell came. Bank of America is doing away with the entire Wholesale Channel. December 31st will be the last day of Wholesale's existence. Meaning, I am without employment January 1st. Sure, I get a month's pay for severance. But hey, I just got hired on! I started as an official Bank of America employee on October first after four months as a contractor. Now on January 1st, I am starting over. Geez, I will have spent more time as a contractor at Bank of America than as an actual associate. What does the employment world hold for me next? Will I find another position in Bank of America? Will I stay in the mortgage industry? Where will I work for the remaining 6 months I am in Richmond, Virginia? At any rate, I have the next three months to find a new job. (Two months at Bank of America, one month's severance). My Monday at work was just about to close since I had gone through the rough tumble of learning the in and out of a new job. Now I get to start all over!
We have decided to take a trip to Europe in June of next year. We are thinking of spending 3 weeks in Britain and 3 weeks in Northwestern Europe. We would probably spend 2 weeks in the old mission visiting and staying with people, another week touring parts of Britain, then three weeks with Belgium as our home base. Our friends James and Catherine Cazier have invited us over and we will probably crash with them at their home in Belgium. So much of northwestern Europe is within a few hours of there. I hope to quell Amanda's desire to live in Paris and we both hope to see much of the storied lands. I think we will have to skip Germany this time around since there are so many places I would like to personally visit for family history purposes (not for research, just to visit). Amanda's goal is to earn the money to pay for the tickets to Europe and then I will pay for the rest. However, we will have to see how the trip looks as we get closer. Hopefully we won't miss a beat in preparing to meet our bills while away on vacation for 6 weeks and pay for the trip itself and then the move to wherever we will move for Law School. So much depends on my finding a good, new job. Hopefully not at a lower salary than the one I was earning with Bank of America.
For those who asked if I am still thinking about attending law school in England, the answer is no. I had an answer to prayer that made it plainly manifest I was not to attend law school in England. Despite the heartbreak it brought, there was a certain relief at not having to try and figure out the ramifications of attempting to do so. We also found out that Amanda would find it virtually impossible to work in the UK as a hygienist. Basically the UK now says no to any hygienist unless they are a EU citizen. To qualify she would basically have to take half of her schooling over again and the cost would be too prohibitive. One would think that a country where citizens pull their own teeth for a lack of dentists would openly welcome hygienists and dentists to immigrate. Classic socialistic medicine at work!
Well, time to shut down. I have to get up in the morning for a company that doesn't want me anymore. There is incentive to do a good job! Talk about moral hazard temptations abounding all over the place. Why should I care if I do a good job since there will certainly be no rewards. What are they going to do? Fire me. Wait, they already are. My incentive is not to care so much since job performance means nothing. Who cares about customer satisfaction? It will be a tough walk for all those involved. Should I take my sick days while I can, even though I am not sick? What about those paid vacation days I have accrued, use them all, now? How much time should I dedicate to finding a new job? It will be a temptation minefield to remain integrity, honesty, and dedication to the company who feels in most senses to have turned against us. To remain proactive and pushing forward where there are very few incentives will be difficult.
What does the future hold now? I haven't had much time to relax and think I am content lately. The next few months will probably hold even fewer. The table now has to include job hunting. I haven't even completed writing the personal statement and applying to law school (which has some large costs as well, although Amanda tells me I can't apply to California schools now).


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Episode 097: 8 Ways to Overcome Burnout (And Enjoy Your Life Again) Part 2
Finding Balance in a High Demand Life
Odds are you have experienced burnout in your life. You know, those times when you wake up tired, you go to bed worn out and the rest of your waking hours are filled with anxiety, irritability and a feeling of hopelessness? Today we share Part 2 of our discussion on How to Overcome Burnout and start enjoying your life again…
Today's episode is Part 2 of a 2-part series on How to Overcome Burnout and Enjoy Your Life Again. You can listen to Part 1 here. Today we are going to talk about the ways 5-8 to avoid burnout.
This topic is one that many people will relate to. It's a strange, and somewhat terrifying experience when you realize the things that used to bring you so much joy are now literally sucking the life out of you.
This episode came out of a conversation that I had about a year ago with my co-host, Mark, when he was still working a full-time job and trying to build a business on the side. He was the definition of "burning the candle at both ends" and he was approaching burnout. The suggestions we talk about in this episode (and Part 1 last week) are the ways I gave Mark to overcome his feelings of burnout and enjoy his life again.
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In today's episode, we talk about ways 5-8 for overcoming burnout:
- Family Date Night
- Get out with just your spouse
- Take an afternoon off
- Talk about it with a friend
And here is the full list of 8 Ways to Overcome Burnout:
- Plan a week off
- Keep time off simple
- Eliminate something from your schedule
- Create a daily family ritual
- Family Date Night
- Get out with just your spouse
- Take an afternoon off
- Talk about it with a friend


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A Military Retiree Against Republican Extremism
I've been a Republican for nearly fifty years, since I was first able to vote. But most of the GOP of today is alien to the principles of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, and it has taken on a tone that is even alien to the principles of my Christian faith. Wonderful public servants like Dick Lugar and Olympia Snowe have been driven from our party, and the formerly broad tent of our party is becoming exclusivist and even a Taliban-like enforcer of ideological extremism.
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What a great post. Thank you for sharing!
Excellent! You hit nthe nail right on the head with this one, from another Military Retiree!
Jerry: Thank you very much for your service to the country we all love.
By rejecting the extreme ideology of today's GOP, you are contributing to a better tomorrow, one where we will have a choice again.The only way to ensure that outcome is for the GOP to lose so badly, they will have to come back to reality again, or go by way of the Whigs.
I am betting the party will attempt to be more inclusive of other constituencies, and less beholden to the extreme religious right. It's as if Jerry Falwell was still alive.
Thank you, Jerry Your insight and comments give me hope. This website gives me hope, too. Before I discovered it I was beginning to think that being a Christian Republican was an oxymoron.
Thank you, Jerry. I too am a vet and at one time I was a registered Republican.
We have a lot of serious problems in America and we need well thought out solutions to overcome them. We don't need tea party idiots who want to impose the evangelical will on us while turning their backs on those of us who need a little help. But if the religious right needs a reminder:
"Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,' says the LORD. I will protect them from those who malign them." Psalm 12:5.
This is just one of dozens of verses that implore us to help those in need. Why do the tea thugs fail to see that?
Just like the Democratic Party was co-opted by the super libs in the 60s and early 70s, the Republicans have been co-opted by the extreme right.
And that's too bad, because I would like to see an old style Bob Dole or Christie Whitman run for President. Someone like that would get my vote in a minute.
I think Rudy Giulliani would be a great choice for a candidate, but he's not extreme enough for the likes of Karl Rove, Grover Norquist and Dick Cheney
I enjoyed reading your post.. thank you for your service to our great country.. I agree with you and even though I am a Democrat, I enjoy this site because I beleive there needs to be a moderate functioning opposition party.. that is the only way our country can survive...because if not then, well.. I guess we may have another party to replace the GOP .. they are getting really scary.. my Dad is an Independent .. served in the US Air Force and is a Veteran. He is a solid centrist as well and fully supports our President. He has seen it all.. he and I both believe that history sometimes rhymes.. the President is not perfect, no one is, but is the right man for the job .. the GOP has now gone far right and done what my Party did in the 70's etc .. gone very far off..however.. it was saved (Clinton!), and Reagan was President while we roamed the wilderness. I believe that is what is happening now and Pres O is sort of like our Reagan.. no matter.. if the GOP goes farther right after (i hope and pray) Pres O wins, they will not be in power as a national party for a long while until either they moderate (Huntsman?), or another center right party takes their place. Just my .02. Thanks for your story!
ps.... Bob Dole and John McCain.. even Jack Kemp or Mr Specter (RIP) didn't always agree with either of these gentlemen , but they have far more integrity in their pinky than Romney has in his entire being..
My first vote for President was for Richard Nixon and my last vote for a Republican President unless the Party changes will be when I held my nose and voted for John McCain. For 35+ years our family was been moved around Air Force Material Command. I met my husband at Wright-Patterson AFB and never gave a thought in all our transfers that I would ever vote for a Democrat for President.
When they closed Kelly AFB depot, we were transferred to Tinker AFB where he then retired to become a Government contractor. I was this lifelong Republican, very pro-military so it was easy to support Republican candidates like JC Watts here in OK. I live in Norman so I didn't see much of the hard right, but then I got involved in State Politics and it went downhill from there. That is when I realized that Oklahoma GOP was something I had never seen before -- grew up in Republican politics in Ohio. All of a sudden it hit me between the eyes that this hard right group of people who wanted the John Birchers back in the party who supported the Republican assemblies were in the same party as me and were the leaders. They do not value public education -- been in a lot of fights about that. I dared say I liked what David Boren was doing at OU and almost got my head taken off at a GOP meeting. Was President of the oldest GOP Women's Club in OK for two years, but now I don't even belong -- too hard right today. Figured the hard right just existed her in OK and was shocked to find out they are everywhere.
Don't see how we can co-exist in the same Party after the names we have been called for daring to support Obama over a liar like Romney adding to the names that we are called because we are not hard right. "My way or no way" group has zero tolerance for other's ideas.


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STOCKTON - A Holt teenager who stabbed her newborn baby to death after secretly giving birth has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
STOCKTON - A Holt teenager who stabbed her newborn baby to death after secretly giving birth has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Patricia Lopez, who was 17 at the time, entered a guilty plea Thursday in exchange for a lighter sentence.
She will get 16 years to life in prison, avoiding a potential 26-years-to-life sentence had a jury found her guilty of premeditated murder.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – This Sunday the Yale gymnastics team will compete at the Ivy Classic, hosted by Cornell, in hopes of reclaiming the title for the first time since 2005. The competition is a quad meet between the four Ivy League schools with varsity gymnastics programs: Brown, Cornell, Penn and Yale.
Yale goes into the competition with the strongest team in years. The Bulldogs have scored as high as a 190.825 last weekend, in large part thanks to the contributions of an outstanding freshman class. Freshmen Joyce Li and Morgan Traina are both top all-arounders, and Brianna Chrisman has also contributed on vault, bars and floor.
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