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Angela Nicole Chu
03rd March 2019
While it's true that you can go live anywhere at any time, having a live video set readily available makes going live a breeze. It's easier to commit to doing live video, and with nothing to set up and tear down after each broadcast, your excuses drift away.
Your set is also a quick glimpse into your brand's personality. What colors are used? What objects are visible? Your audience uses these as a glimpse into who you are and what you're promoting before you even say a word on camera. Your set becomes the best first impression that you can provide!
Creating a set for your live videos may seem daunting—or even expensive—, but neither is true. Most video sets are actually quite small, making them even easier to leave up at all times. Follow the steps down below, and you'll be able to construct a set of your own simply, easily, and cheaply in as little as one hour.
As mentioned earlier, your set's design becomes your audience's first impression of you and your company. The look of your set not only impacts followers who've chosen to view your stream, but it also grants you the opportunity to acquire more viewers.
As people scroll through their feed, make your set be the reason they stop and watch. Bright colors, pictures, and interesting items are a great way to do this. This is your set, so make sure some of your personality goes into it! What items around your house/office would look good on camera?
Make sure to contrast yourself (and your subject(s)) from the background as much as possible. You can achieve this by playing with those bright colors. If you normally wear light colors, make your background dark. Add dark items. Use a dark dropcloth, or even paint the wall dark if possible. Likewise, aim for a light background if you normally dress in dark tones.
Also, keep your personal features in mind. If you're a blonde, keep from using a pale-yellow backdrop. Likewise, if you're quirky and have blue hair, blue should not be incorporated into your background.
You can have the best camera, the best tripods, and the best microphones…but they are all irrelevant if you aren't using proper lighting. No matter how great you think that the natural lighting in the room appears, adding lighting equipment to your live video set is crucial.
You need to have as much control over the lighting on your set as possible, no matter the time of day or the weather outside. Because of this, you need to block out the natural light in the room as much as possible. If this is not possible, at least avoid sitting directly in front of—or next to—a window.
Ideally, a variety of light sources should be used in order to achieve three-point lighting, which is the industry standard. Three-point lighting means that three areas are lit: your subject (you!), the area behind you (backlighting), and the area opposing your subject (fill-lighting).
If you are just getting started and cannot purchase three studio-quality lights for three-point lighting at this time, consider the DIY route instead. Clamp lights—while harsh—are quite inexpensive and can direct light directly where it's needed. Alternatively, paper lanterns—while unable to direct the light—create a soft, diffused glow that flatters the subject.
While on a budget, use what you have around the home/office first, and see how it looks. A ton of money is not needed to achieve great lighting!
Audio Equipment
Yes, virtually every camera comes with a built-in microphone. So do mobile devices and computers. However, these built-in microphones leave something to be desired…namely, quality. The whirr of your air conditioning, your kids playing outside, and the faint wail of an ambulance passing several blocks away will all be detected by a built-in microphone.
Most viewers agree that a video that looks bad but sounds great is easier to consume than a video that looks superb but sounds terrible. Many viewers also enjoy listening to live videos podcast-style as they work, making audio quality key. Thankfully, creating great audio is easy to achieve.
To start, you need a microphone. If you are a one-man show, only one microphone is needed. It can be a lavalier microphone, a shotgun microphone (for close range), or a boom microphone, depending on what you desire. Connect this microphone to your camera, and you're all set!
What if you have multiple subjects and need multiple microphones? Gather a microphone for each subject, and then connect them to an audio mixer. A specific audio mixer is not required, so long as it has an available channel for each microphone in use. If you also have computer audio, Bluetooth audio, or MP3 audio to use for your broadcast, connect those sources to the mixer as well.
Now that all of your various audio sources are connected to your audio mixer, you just need to connect your mixer to your camera. This allows the camera to hear the audio and mesh it directly with your stream and/or recording.
As long as your camera has an XLR connection that can be set to Line or Mic, then it should be able to receive a feed from a mixer.
If you are using an iOS camera for your stream, use a handy adapter like an iRig Pre to bridge the connection between XLR connection to iPad/iPhone.
Other Gear
Now that the main essentials are in place, it's time for the finishing touches for your live video set.
First, what sort of table or desk are you using? This surface helps to frame you for your viewers. Do you want to be framed by a cluttered kitchen table that's been shoved in a corner? Of course not! Remember the color scheme and accessories we discussed earlier in the article, and keep this aesthetic alive. Affix a quick tablecloth to your table or desk to keep the color scheme alive (you can find brightly-colored plastic tablecloths for low cost at most party stores), and place some of your accessories on top.
Next, your tripods. Set these up where your cameras will go for each broadcast, and leave the tripods in these locations. This makes it easy to pop your cameras into place when it's time to go live and know that they are all positioned correctly. For a sturdy tripod for your cameras, I recommend the Manfrotto tripod line. If you are using iOS cameras, our friends at iOgrapher make handy filmmaking cases for your iOS devices that easily attach to the top of a Manfrotto tripod.
Lastly, you can set up an external monitor near your tripods. This allows your on-screen talent (typically yourself and guests) to see what is going on in real time. Connecting an HDMI cable from your main camera switcher to your monitor makes this quick and easy. Any monitor will do (some users prefer tiny monitors, while others prefer larger computer monitors), but here is a nice example.
With your set permanently available, it is easy to sit down and go live at any time. We'd love to see your live video set! Be sure to take a photo once it's ready, and use the hashtag #MadeWithSwitcher so that we see how you did.


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In each lesson you will learn one or two new chords, a new technique on guitar, some basic music theory and you will learn to play through a song or chord chart. Each lesson will give you some music to play along with and each lesson will finish by giving you a song to practice.
This course takes you right from the very beginning of your guitar playing journey, starting with 'What are the parts on a guitar'..... right through to playing your first songs and to more complex guitar chords and rhythms.
If you were to go to a guitar tutor you could be paying $25 per lesson to learn exactly the same thing. This would cost you $250 for the first 10 weeks. And normally a guitar tutor would expect you to keep going to lessons after the 10 weeks.
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By week two you will already be able to show off to your friends that you can play a song, not only will they be impressed but you will be surprised at how easy it is for you to improve quickly. Once the fear of the first 3 chords is passed (which is really easy) then you will be able to improve exponentially.
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Course Curriculum
StartIntroduction (1:27)
StartTypes of guitars (1:59)
StartParts of a steel string acoustic guitar (0:41)
StartHow to hold a guitar pick (0:51)
StartHow to strum a guitar (1:18)
StartThe strings on a guitar (0:47)
StartHow to read a chord diagram (3:41)
StartHow to play an A minor chord (1:31)
StartHow to read a rhythm pattern (0:54)
StartHow to read a chord chart (2:30)
StartTake One 52 bpm (1:27)
StartTake One 62 bpm (1:13)
StartTake One 72 bpm (1:03)
StartIntroduction (1:01)
StartHow to tune a guitar - with a tuner (3:24)
StartHow to play a D Major chord (2:22)
StartHow to play a G Major chord (1:40)
StartSongs you can play (2:21)
StartStop the buzzing (2:04)
StartWhat is a time signature? (2:33)
StartStrumming pattern (1:54)
StartPractice track introduction (0:38)
StartOpen Ocean 52 bpm (1:30)
StartOpen Ocean 62 bpm (1:17)
StartOpen Ocean 72 bpm (1:07)
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StartC Major chord (1:34)
StartA Major chord (1:32)
StartSongs that you can play (0:41)
StartRepeats (2:05)
StartStrumming pattern (3:14)
StartPractice track (0:29)
StartThe Future 56 bpm (1:22)
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Ólafur Elíasson | Munich, Germany
Ólafur Elíasson
Pinakothek der Moderne, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Katharina-von-Bora-Straße 10, 80333, Munich, Germany
7th June – 2nd Septemner, 2018
Without doubt, the Danish installation artist of Icelandic origin, Ólafur Elíasson (b. 1967), is one of the most outstanding artists of our times. Like no other, he captures the imagination of people around the globe – also outside the museum world – with his large art projects. His drawings are still of central importance to his work that encompasses all other media. Initial ideas are formulated in drawings that the artist refers to time and again in the course of a project. The impression is given that Eliasson's thought process is recorded in such drawings.
The comprehensive exhibition 'WATERcolours' at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München is a world premiere that presents Olafur Eliasson's multifaceted skills as a draughtsman for the first time. The curatorial idea is to show the close emotional and intellectual congruence between his drawings and his installation art and to let them be re-lived as a sensuous experience.


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The Department for Education has today (4th October) published
its Draft Code for Special Education Needs and Disability. In
Control welcomes its publication and we will be formulating a more
detailed response in the coming weeks with families and members of
our Children's Programme.
From our initial reading of the Draft Code, and in particular
the statements made about personal budgets, we are pleased to see
that the government has taken on board much of the feedback given
and drawn heavily on the work of the SEND pathfinder sites. The
offer on personal budgets proposes to put the child or young person
and family at the centre of decisions and most importantly - given
past experience of family members - makes provisions for clear
information to be provided to families to ensure they are able to,
and have adequate time to make a decisions.
We look forward to working with families, the Department for
Education and our growing membership in taking forward these
reforms. For more information about our work please visit our
Children's programme webpages or email email@example.com
To read the draft Code of Practice please follow visit the DfE
In Control will shortly be publishing its Implementation Plan
for Personal Budgets which has been produced in partnership with
SQW. A copy of this, together with a discussion paper about further
simplifying resource allocation systems, will be made available to
members of our Children's Programme next week, prior to it being
published nationally.
If you would like to keep up-to-date with In Control's work, as
well as all the latest tools, resources and news from the sector,
please sign up to our e-newsletter here.
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As a nurse, how much do you make?
You can make holding a hand seem like the most important thing in the world when a patient is scared
You can make a child breathe when they stop
You can make a father survive a heart attack
You can make yourself get up at 5am to make sure a mother has the medicine she needs to live
You make your family wait for dinner until you know my family member is taken care of
You make yourself skip lunch so that everything you did for someone's wife today is recorded
You make yourself work weekends and Christmas because people don't just need help Monday to Friday
As a Nurse, how much do you make?
You make a difference.
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5 Steps To Effective Risk Management
Respondents recognize the need to better identify and evaluate emerging risks and to adapt their company's business strategy accordingly. Eighty-five percent said opportunities exist to further improve the linkage between risk and business performance. But 77% limited their ability to adjust their business strategy to the changing risk landscape because they evaluated their company's risk profile annually instead of continuously.
To better take advantage of risks worth taking, to prevent counterproductive risks, and to be prepared for external risks that are outside of the company's control, Venture Captive recommends these six steps:
- Identify and assess risks that impact business strategy. To identify new and emerging risks, companies need to routinely evaluate their business strategies and determine the level of risk they can handle to generate value. Each identified risk should then be assessed in strategic and business planning discussions and its likelihood, potential impact, or trealizationisation determined.
- Design a risk response to reduce the downside and take advantage of the upside potential. Once key risks are classified as strategic, preventable, or external, they can be aligned with the company's risk appetite to figure out what amount of risk is acceptable. A cost-effective and efficient risk response plan helps balance the mitigation of risk with the expected benefits of the strategic programme.
- Align the functions to execute the organisation's risk response strategy. Identify the three lines of defence to define clear ownership and accountability for risk activities. This enables a company to validate risk coverage and foster a culture in which all parties understand their role in executing the company's risk strategy. In a sound risk culture, the tone from the middle tier of management is aligned with the tone from the top tier. Governance and business models support the delivery of desired risk behaviours and enable strong accountability and effective challenge. The risk-management framework is embedded in the way the business manages risk. And employee incentives support the delivery of desired risk-management behaviours.
- Develop risk processes to facilitate better co-ordination, communication, and reporting. Risk-management policies and processes are integral to influencing behaviours, co-ordinating activities, establishing communication protocols, and facilitating risk reporting.
- Design solutions that prevent, balance, or limit risk. Design risk and control frameworks that seek to eliminate preventable risks from arising and that can be monitored and tested to deter or detect preventable risks if they arise. Companies balance and manage strategic risks through solutions such as risk modelling and analytics, which enables them to monitor the risk exposure in real time and adjust the business strategy accordingly. Stress-testing, scenario planning, and war-gaming enable companies to assess the impact of outside forces on their business strategy, determine how to limit the external risks, and help bring the company back to business as usual.
- Implement technologies to effectively execute and sustain solutions. For risk prevention, optimise internal control frameworks to eliminate duplication and automate controls. Also, adopt continuous process monitoring solutions to further enhance and automate controls and to improve the second line's and the third line's ability to monitor internal controls. Scorecards, dashboards, and other forms of reporting, such as monitoring key risk indicators and key performance indicators, provide the board and executive management visibility into the risks that affect business strategy and the business's risk profile.


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I have a friend that is anxious to make her way down to the beach, but has an expired passport and no time to go get it renewed (busy schedule mixed with a hint of laziness). What would be her best options given her trip criteria:
• Typically books 30 days out (to work around son's schedule)
• Like doing excursions
• Would need to be sometime in May-July
• And obviously, can travel without a passport
I think U.S. beaches are out of the running since she's been to a few. I also suggested Puerto Rico but she has already been to San Juan and, as much as she loves Bacardi-cokes, was hesitant to go back before visiting some place new.
Is USVI the only other option? I know that St. Croix is the largest of the three saint islands, and they have pretty much everything you can ask for (good food, casino, historical sites, rum tours, shopping, great beaches). Are John and Thomas viable options?


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Original Airdate: 22 Oct 2006
| [Crime
(Cardiff, Wales, GB. Night, and it is raining on
the Scene Of Crime Officers in their white overalls as they examine the
body of a young man. A policeman gives a takeaway coffee to a
[Gwen's home]
(Gwen returns home in civilian clothes. Her live-in
boyfriend, Rhys Williams, is watching the television.)
[Police station]
GWEN: Von. Von, can you do me a favour? Can you do
a search for me?
[Incident room]
(Gwen brings a tray of drinks for the plain clothes
detectives. The Detective Inspector in charge is giving the briefing.)
(Gwen and Andy get out of their patrol car.)
(There is a nasty fight going on to the sound of
the Pipettes singing We Are the Pipettes.)
[Hospital staircase]
(Gwen's injury is seen to by a doctor, then she
walks along a corridor slowly. She sees a man in a long coat running up
the stairs and follows. He disappears at the top, and all Gwen can see
is plastic sheeting taped to the entrance. She calls to a man on the
stairs below.)
[Sealed off area]
(Gwen steps through the plastic sheeting and calls
along the corridor.)
[Patrol car 603]
GWEN: Registration, Charlie Foxtrot Zero Six
Foxtrot Delta Uniform.
[CCTV room]
YVONNE: No sign of a Captain Jack Harkness.
[Patrol car 603]
YVONNE [OC]: None of them's a Captain.
[CCTV room / Patrol car 603]
YVONNE: Which you forgot to tell me.
[Roald Dahl Plass]
(The Range Rover drops the four Torchwood people
off near the Millennium Centre and leaves. Gwen parks and gets out.)
[Patrol car 603]
GWEN: Did you get anything on that registration?
[Roald Dahl Plass]
(By the Water Tower.)
[Gwen's home]
(Rhys is cooking when Gwen enters.)
[Jubilee Pizza]
(Back at Roald Dahl Plass, Gwen spots a pizza
delivery bike go past. She is also being watched as she goes to the
[Tourist Information Centre]
(8:35 pm. Armed with two pizzas and the delivery
address, Gwen enters a small tourist centre by the waterfront. A man in
a suit steps through the beaded curtain at the back.)
(Gwen steps into a stone lined barrel vaulted
corridor. It leads to a lift which goes down and opens by a notice
saying This staircase Has 105 Steps. She walks out and through a
circular entrance with a cogged door partially visible, into a high
tech area. The cogged door rolls into place, and a grill shuts behind
her as well. There is a hand in a jar of bubbling liquid, a woman
welding something, and the base of the Water Tower running through the
space. Jack walks along an upper catwalk. Suzie takes off her welder's
helmet. Jack comes down and goes into his office. Gwen walks past Tosh
working on 4 computer screens at once. Tosh giggles and Owen laughs.)
[Holding cells]
(Glass or similar fronted, with air holes.)
JACK: Owen Harper, Gwen Cooper.
[Roald Dahl Plass]
(The slab slots into place in the pavement. People
are walking in the open air.)
(Gwen downs a pint rather rapidly.)
[Outside the bar]
JACK: Don't think you can fight it by staying
awake. I mixed in a little bit of sedative too.
[Another bar]
(More crowded and noisier than the one Jack and
Gwen were in. Owen goes up to a blonde at the bar.)
COLIN: Oi, you bastard, come here! Linda, what are
you doing with him? What the fuck do you think you are doing?
[Gwen's home]
(Gwen is starting to fall asleep at the keyboard.
At Torchwood, Ianto hacks into her computer and deletes what she has
written, powering off the machine.
[Police station]
YVONNE: Have any luck?
[CID room]
(Gwen files some papers.)
[Car park]
(Andy and Gwen are having a meal break. Gwen is not
listening to Andy's story, but thinking about that strange weapon.)
[Gwen's home]
(Her obsession continues while Rhys is serving up
[Roald Dahl Plass]
(Gwen sees another figure walking by the Water
Tower. Now she remembers - the murder weapon was what Suzie was welding
when she first visited Torchwood.)
[Millennium Centre roof]
GWEN: Owen and Toshiko, you didn't tell them that
you were shot in the head and survived.
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Can Kratom Help Fight Depression?
Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) is a natural opioid that is widely used as a traditional medicine in Southeast Asia. It has been used for centuries to treat a number of health problem, to help improve mood, relieve pain and increase work production. When we take Kratom, it is believed that it can result in reducing anxiety.
For a healthy person, using Kratom can improve your life. For some, Kratom is their secret to be more motivated and help you calm down in times when you are pressured. Kratom is legal in some countries, safe and very cost-efficient. This is why more people are curious as to how can Kratom change a person's life.
The Kratom Profile.
This is a leafy evergreen plant that is commonly found in Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, Malaysia, and Bali. The leaves are the most important part of the plant since it is used to make Kratom tea. Some may process it to may a powder form and most will just wash and it the Kratom leaves raw. If Kratom is in powder form, it can be mixed with juice or tea, not smoked.
How to take Kratom.
There are several ways to take Kratom. The most common is to simply "toss and wash." This is where you scoop a spoonful of Kratom powder into your mouth and flush it with a sip of water, swirl it inside your mouth to mix, then knockback. It takes a lot of practice but you'll get it done. Another popular way is to make a tea out of the Kratom leaves. There are also Kratom capsules available in the market which other users prefer. When using kratom, always find the right dosage for you.
Find your Kratom "Sweet Spot."
More doesn't mean better with Kratom. This is not like your ordinary supplement that there is a specific dose. With Kratom, you will be the one to judge and find out what's best for you. Start small, like 2 or 3 grams. After 20 minutes and there's no effect, up the dose. Once you start to feel the effects, take it from there.
Kratom and Depression.
During the treatment of depression, correct usage is important. Dosage is the most important factor that you have to consider.
Dosage. Everyone reacts differently to Kraton. This is why when treating depression you should know your dosage. Always start low. It may take a couple of trial and errors until you find the right dose for you.
For adults at around 150 lbs, there are three dosage suggestion. Light is 2 to 3 grams, Moderate is at 3 to 5 grams, and heavy at 5 to 7 grams. You have to make sure to take note the effects because if the dosage is too low, the effects won't be strong enough to sedate which is essential for patients with depression.
With Kratom, finding your 'sweet spot" is important. Remember that too little will not change a thing. If you took a little too much, you will have this heady feeling. If you feel nauseous, it means that your dose is too high. Remember, there's no going back.
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Stunning Brayside unit
294 Fireside Drive – Cochrane, AB
Fireside – 294 Fireside Drive. Welcome to the Whitney Townhomes of Fireside by LANDMARK HOMES. This stunning Brayside unit features 1,386 sq ft of beautiful living space and quality finishes. The main floor has an open floor concept including kitchen with S/S appliances, caesar stone countertop and breakfast island, dining room, living room and a 2 pc bathroom. The upper floor has a master suite complete with walk in closet and 3 pc ensuite as well as an additional bedroom, a 4 pc bathroom & den/bonus room. The lower level is unfinished and awaits your creative touch. Special features of this home include: Dual pane PVC slider and picture windows with SunStop coating and argon gas, modern faucets and toilets, Euro-style rainhead shower head and high efficiency furnace. Landmark Homes provides a 10 year certified new home warranty and a 1 year materials and workmanship, 2 year distribution systems warranty. Call today for more info or to schedule your private viewing.


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Baywoods Leadership
Meet Our Leadership Team
Frank McGovern
Executive Director
Frank has been an advocate for seniors for 25 years. He's a licensed Nursing Home Administrator in Maryland and holds both a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's degree in health care administration. He's passionate about perfecting best practices and continuously improving the quality of care for residents.
Gary Smith
Chief Financial Officer
Gary has been with the BayWoods team since 2006. He graduated magna cum laude from McMurry College with a B.B.A. in accounting. He also earned an M.A.S. in administrative science from John Hopkins University. Gary has dedicated more than 29 years of his career to work in senior care. His daily responsibilities include overseeing the financial health of the organization and guiding the company to its strategic goals.
John Gorman
Director of Facility Operations
John has been with BayWoods since October 2002. With 35 years of experience, he holds a 4th class engineering license. His jobs include overseeing safety management for the community, as well as supervising maintenance work and security. When he isn't tending to the safety of residents, he can be found at his home on the Eastern Shore with his wife and three children.
Jim Harrington
Director of Business Development
Since 1993, Jim has focused his career on the senior living industry. He holds a master's degree in health service management/ Health Administration. Jim is partial to the Annapolis area, as his grandfather was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He works tirelessly cementing relationships with external health providers and vendors to promote and create the healthiest atmosphere possible for our residents. His attention to marketing and sales for each level of care involves a great deal of interaction with many area hospitals, Physicians and other healthcare and community members. Jim hosts many events held at BayWoods to promote and educate the community at large.
Becky Crosby
Director of Resident Services
Becky has been serving the needs of BayWoods residents since 2003. Her principal job is to maintain a high level of quality in the activities our residents enjoy. She promotes wellness through fitness, clubs, communication, and easy transportation for residents. She's an Annapolis native and a graduate of Virginia Tech. She lives on the Eastern Shore with her husband and daughter.
Brenda Jones
Executive Assistant
Brenda has been with BayWoods since 2007, and is the primary support person for the President and Executive Director. Brenda is a strong member of the team here at BayWoods and is the go to staff member for residents and families alike. Brenda has been a longstanding resident of Annapolis and is very resourceful to all.
Katherine Solis
HR Director
Katherine (Kathy) Solis is an experienced HR Director with over 20 years of experience in the field. All of her experience is in various levels of senior living. She has a Bachelor's degree in Human Resources Management from Park University in Parkville, MO and a Master's degree in Human Relations (with an emphasis on Human Resources) from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK. She is married and has two grown children and one granddaughter.
Lori Charter
Director of Hospitality
Lori has worked in senior living since 1988. Having been a director in 4 different communities, Lori also has experience as a Corporate Director for Hospitality in a company that manages 14 communities. In addition, Lori worked in the Business and Industry side of dining services, managing accounts like Northrup Grumman and Honeywell dining services. Lori owned her own consulting business just prior to joining Baywoods. She has a degree in Business Administration with a major in Accounting and has been a Certified Dietary Manager since 2001. Lori is married and has one daughter who is a chef in Rhode Island.
Tina LaRose
Director of Health and Wellness
Tina S. Larose earned a PhD from Capella University with a dissertation on prosocial behavior as it relates to why people serve and the relationship between customer-oriented behavior and motivation among nurses. Tina began working at BayWoods of Annapolis since July 2019 and is a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator. She wrote a book about the field of nursing. In Coaching Natural Attitudes, and explains how empathy, enthusiasm and an understanding of a healthy and positive attitude are the heart of healthcare. Tina also has an MBA and MHSA from Strayer University. With extra knowledge working at other nursing and rehab centers, allows her to bring different management styles and perspectives in managing the health center and the people who work at BayWoods of Annapolis.


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When a new employee starts in your business, it's important to get them up to speed as quickly as possible so they can begin doing their job productively and safely. However, if you don't have a proper induction process set up, it can be easy to miss a few things which can lead to dangerous problems further down the line. Luckily, our Health & Safety consultant Steve can cover the basics of what should be included in a quality Health & Safety induction.
Before starting their role, new employees should be made aware of the risks to them that the role entails. If you already have someone employed in the same role, or have had someone previously, then you will ideally already have a risk assessment for this role. If the role is new, a risk assessment will need to be carried out. The new employee should also be made aware of any measures in place for avoiding risks and any safety procedures they will be required to follow.
Company Policy:
The employee should be given the salient points of your company's Health & Safety policy so they understand their Health & Safety obligations, and the obligations of others. The policy should state who is the responsible Health & Safety officer within the company so the employee knows who to contact in the event they come across an un-assessed health risk.
First Aid:
The employee should be shown where the first aid kit is and made aware of the person responsible for first aid within the company. If required, the employee may also need first aid training.
Fire Safety:
The employee will need to be aware of the emergency procedure in the event that the fire alarm sounds. They should be shown where the evacuation routes and fire exits are, including alternate routes, and where the assembly point is.
Finally, the employee should undergo any necessary training they may need in order to perform their job safely. This could be training in using PPE such as respirators, manual handling training or training in using machinery.
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Quest Consulting Services provided us with a comprehensive employment structure with contacts and a handbook and have been on hand to help me deal with the occasional issue I have faced with team members through their telephone support service.
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We have worked with Sarah and her team for 5 years and in this time our business has grown considerably. With telephone support available for all our Managers as they need it plus Sarah and her team proactively keeping us updated on changes in legislation we are reassured that we are in safe hands.
The HR software that Quest implemented also helps us keep on top of the routine aspects of HR such as holiday bookings, recording absence, holding personnel records which then allows Sarah and her team easy access to give us relevant advice.
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Danfoss has compiled an inventory of tools together with a portfolio of products to help ease the transition from R404A to alternative refrigerants.
With a Global Warming Potential (GWP) of 3992, R404A is among the most popular refrigerants covered by the January 2020 F-Gas ban in Europe and phase down in the frame of the Montreal Protocol.
The solutions announced by Danfoss include components for use with R404A nonflammable alternatives like R448A, R449A, R452A, R513A, and R134a – along with free digital tools to help HVACR professionals make the best possible choice.
Danfoss Cooling marketing director for refrigeration, Thierry Raoul, said the transition process is well underway.
"From the beginning of next year, R404A can no longer be used in any new refrigeration or cooling equipment in Europe. Only recycled refrigerant can be used for servicing, and the phaseout quotas have seen prices fluctuate significantly," Raoul said.
"But we're well aware of the scale of the challenge. That's why we invest thousands of hours in qualification processes and product upgrades to ensure high quality and reliability in the field. And reliability is what shop owners will remember at the end."
Raoul said Danfoss has the broadest possible toolkit of components and advice to aid the transition.
"In fact, our Coolselector 2 tool has been designed to help you select the best components for your low-GWP refrigerants – including the relevant log(p)-h diagrams or pipe sizing. Put simply, we're ready when you are," he said.
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A global history of restaurants beyond white tablecloths and maître d's, this book presents restaurants as both businesses and as venues for a range of human experiences. From banquets in tenth-century China to the medicinal roots of French restaurants, the origins of restaurants are not singular – nor is the history this book tells. This book highlights stories across time and place, including how Chifa restaurants emerged from the migration of Chinese workers and their marriage to Peruvian businesswomen in nineteenth century Peru; how Alexander Soyer transformed kitchen chemistry by popularizing the gas stove, predating the pyrotechnics of molecular gastronomy by a century; and how Harvey Girls dispelled the ill repute of waiting tables, making rich lives for themselves across the American West. An informed and entertaining history that takes readers from the world's first restaurants in Kaifeng to the latest high-end dining experiences.
'Unlike many books that delve into the history of restaurants and begin with France (or wayside taverns elsewhere), the academics who have written "Dining Out," a compelling volume, start in the Bronze Age. Their definition of a restaurant is elastic, referring to places where strangers might have gathered to eat and drink, including the symposiums of ancient Greece. Long before social upheavals gave rise to the modern restaurant in France, there were what we would consider to be restaurants in 12th-century China; the authors cite a traveler's memoir of a huge dumpling house with more than 50 ovens. (The influence of Chinese restaurants globally is significant.) The book discusses the economic and technological evolution of restaurants; restaurant service and hierarchy; tipping; the influence of transportation; sexism; chain restaurants; and food writing up to the present day.' — Florence Fabricant, The New York Times
'This book is for the dedicated foodie, a comprehensive social history of eating out, from the bronze age to modern times. There's much to nibble on: for example, the word "restaurant" was originally a popular restorative broth sold in France in the 1700s. By the 1780s it had morphed into what we now understand as a restaurant. There are about 150 photographs, about half in colour, and the authors include interesting archival excerpts from journals, documents and literature.' — Toronto Star
'What sets Rawson and Shore's contribution apart from other histories of restaurant culture is their insight into not simply European restaurants, but their even more ancient Asian counterparts. Appearing in China in the twelfth century, restaurants developed at a time when Chinese cities held three times the population of European capitals. Expansion of trade routes meant that business people ended workdays far from home, and travelers from Sichuan yearned for familiar food even in northern provinces. Japan inaugurated ritualized, sophisticated food service, and women waited tables long before Harvey Girls appeared on the American frontier. Today's foodies may be surprised to discover that farm-to-table cuisine appeared as early as nineteenth-century Manhattan, when Delmonico's started its own Brooklyn farm to supply fresh produce. America's burgeoning cities introduced an astonishing culinary range of ethnic foods, experimental chefs, and today's ubiquity of fast food.' — Booklist
'A truly international survey of restaurant history. Flavorful and scintillating.' — Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University
'Rawson and Shore offer a tantalizing trip through the history of eating out from the first restaurants up to today. We meet the restaurant as a place that bristles with innovation, as an institution that has fundamentally altered the ways in which food is prepared, served, and consumed, and one that has itself undergone profound social transformations - in the kitchen staff, the service personnel, and the diners. This lavishly illustrated book and its lively text makes the reader hungry for more.' — Dr Susan Pollock, Professor at Freie Universität Berlin (and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton)
'In their sweeping history of the restaurant, Katie Rawson and Elliott Shore are at pains to stress that the very social context in which public eating takes place invites competitive distinction, commercial wiles, the display of prestige, an atmosphere in which the customer is encouraged to feel as though he – and then, much later in history, she, too – is being feted . . . Dining Out is written with accessible lucidity, its passage eased by Reaktion's characteristically generous approach to illustration. If you are boarding a long distance train to the family Christmas, expecting to be consigned periodically to the lumbering trolley and its cargo of carbs and sucrose, the photographs herein of the gilded dining cars of the great era of American railroad travel will feel as smart as salt in the wound.' — The World of Fine Wine
Katie Rawson is Director of Learning Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania and writes on food history.
Elliott Shore is professor of history emeritus at Bryn Mawr College, and has written on the history of restaurants, advertising and German-America.
1 Eating Away from Home: The Long History of Restaurants
2 The Restaurateur and You: The Private and the Public in the Early French Restaurants
3 Elite Eating and the Democratized Restaurant
4 The Menu and the Chef
5 The Maître d' and the Waitress
6 Road Food
7 The Machine in the Restaurant
8 Chains and Local Gems
9 Global Dining
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Monday's Mini-Report, 6.27.16
Today's edition of quick hits:
* West Virginia: "As the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management revised its death totals from last week's widespread flooding, West Virginia residents braced for heavy rain produced by thunderstorms that could lead to more flash flooding in hard-hit counties today."
* The Brexit fallout continues: "Adding to investor concerns Monday, S&P Global Ratings lowered its credit rating on the United Kingdom to 'AA' from 'AAA' and said 'the outlook on the long-term rating is negative.'"
* Stay tuned: "The leaders of Germany, France and Italy have insisted that no Brexit talks of any kind can begin until Britain has formally applied to leave the European Union, which EU officials expect to happen before the end of the year."
* Somalia: "Gunmen stormed a hotel in Somalia's seaside capital Saturday, taking guests hostage and 'shooting at everyone they could see,' before security forces pursued the grenade-throwing assailants to the top floor and ended the hours-long assault, police and witnesses said. At least 14 people were killed."
* Iraq: "Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the country's military wrested full control of Fallujah from Islamic State, paving the way for an offensive to reclaim Mosul, the last major city controlled by the terror group in Iraq."
* Diplomacy: "The Israeli and Turkish prime ministers announced the restoration of full diplomatic relations, frozen for six years following the killing of Turkish activists who sought to break Israel's economic blockade of Gaza."
* Michigan: "The state's top doctor was among high-level Michigan health officials briefed about a deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Genesee County nearly one year before it was publicly disclosed, state records show."
* Quite a scene: "Ten people were injured during a white nationalist protest and counter-protest Sunday near the steps of the California state Capitol in Sacramento, authorities said. Five to seven people were stabbed during the melee, California Highway Patrol Officer George Granada told NBC News."
* The Arizona Department of Corrections on Friday "ceded a legal battle to defense attorneys for death-row prisoners by removing a controversial drug from its lethal-injection execution protocol. In a document filed late Friday, the department then asked a judge to declare moot a lawsuit brought against the drug's use."
* Antonin Scalia's passing has created a lengthy vacancy on the Supreme Court, but even without replacing him, the post-Scalia court is already more liberal than it was before.
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Memphis men's basketball coach Penny Hardaway is holding a press conference on Thursday afternoon to discuss the program's new recruits, his staff and everything else that has been happening with the Tigers since his hiring.
The press conference is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. CT.
Expect live coverage at commercialappeal.com and facebook.com/commercialappeal.
More: How Penny Hardaway bump gave Memphis basketball an immediate jolt on recruiting trail
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When is does open enrollment for Covered California start?
Open enrollment in California starts November 1st. 2020 for renewals (existing clients) and for new accounts (new clients). The start date for Medicare Part D (Medicare Drug Coverage) is Oct. 15th.
I got a letter and it said it ended on November 4th?
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If I'm not expecting any changes and I want to keep my plan should I still contact Vanessa?
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What is MAGI?
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When does open enrollment for Covered California end?
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I have a Medicare Supplement, do I need to come in during open enrollment?
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Do I have to change my Part D during open enrollment?/ Can I keep my Part D during open enrollment?
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When you're planning a hen outing you've got to include something that's fun for everyone and Disco Dodgeball is just made for girls who want plenty of laughs before hitting the town for the night's entertainment.
Now dodgeball is tremendous fun any time and it's probably one of the few games where you're allowed to bully and pick on other players, and ganging up on someone is just to be expected - the bride-to-be sounds like a great potential victim. But we've added a twist; with Disco Dodgeball we've put together some great sound from days gone by and developed games to link with the music. So not only do you have to concentrate on your dodgeball but you also have to dance too. And, if there are any shrinking violets out there, you need to know that there's nowhere to hide because your disco dodgeball session will start with a dance off that everyone has to join in.
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The topic of combatting bribes and rollbacks might be the most painful one in the Ukrainian society, therefore there are extremely high expectations when it comes to the agencies set up for this purpose.
The European Union once again has reminded Ukraine of this as well, along with warning it of a possibility of not being granted a visa-free regime. The price of the matter is the establishment of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption. It is a general knowledge that 3 out of 5 of its members were barely appointed, yet this is where the process halted.
Meanwhile, a formation of five principal anti-corruption institutions is currently being established in our country. They will have the authority to not only catch bribetakers red-handed, but to penalize them as well. But, as of today, this is just an idea. For now, most of them are only being formed.
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Looks like this week's releases will have a tough time finding the audience. Especially in the US, things are quite tough as both the films, Winner and Yaman opened to some very low openings.
As Winner was a masala entertainer, the family audience stayed back and did not prefer it much as only mega fans made it to the theaters. Whereas Vijay Anthony does not have a decent following in the US and this also made the film cater to no audience at all.
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A CANBERRA business owner who sacked a contractor for supporting the "no" campaign in the lead-up to the same-sex marriage vote last year has been cleared of wrongdoing by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Madlin Sims, who runs party entertainment business Capital Kids Parties, announced the move in a Facebook post after the contractor, an 18-year-old Christian nanny identified only as Madeline, changed her profile picture to a frame saying "It's OK to vote No".
"Advertising your desire to vote no for SSM is, in my eyes, hate speech," she wrote in the post, which quickly went viral. "1. It's bad for business. 2. I don't like s**t morals. 3. I don't want homophobes working for me, especially in an environment with children."
While many people supported the move, Ms Sims said she copped a barrage of death threats and abusive messages calling her "skank, whore, b**ch, putrid, s**t". In a subsequent post, she stood by the decision.
"She was let go because her actions showed she is extremely out and proud about her views on homosexuals," she wrote. "I stand by my decision to let go of this contractor and her actions since being let go have justified for me that I made the right choice in doing so."
Ms Sims was subsequently referred to the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) to determine whether Madeline was correctly classified as a contractor — and so not protected from unfair dismissal under the Fair Work Act — or should have been engaged as an employee.
In a letter to Ms Sims this week, the FWO told her that as there was insufficient evidence to make a determination, it would pursue no further action. It said there was some evidence suggesting an employment relationship, and other evidence indicating a contracting situation.
"The investigation ... has not identified any contravention of the Commonwealth workplace laws or the relevant industrial instrument," the letter said, according to the ABC.
"Discrimination occurs in the workplace when an employer takes adverse action against an employee because of a protected attribute. As the FWO has been unable to determine the nature of the engagement based on the evidence available, we will be taking no further action in relation to this matter at this time."
A FWO spokesman said, "The Fair Work Ombudsman has concluded an investigation relating to Capital Kids Parties and I can confirm that no contraventions of workplace laws have been identified."
Ms Sims told the ABC the decision was a "massive weight off her shoulders". "I would definitely do it again," she said.
"That business is like my little second baby, my pride and joy ... I was very scared of losing that. The biggest relief for me was when the 'Yes' vote was finally passed. Having this pop up after that happened, it's been a stressful few months."
Last year, Madeline said she was "hurt and offended" to be described as a risk to children and a racist. "I posted a filter and she said it was hate speech," she said. "Quite ironically she wrote her own hate speech about me.
"That was extremely hurtful, to hear her call me a homophobe and a racist, saying I was running around out in the open being horrible and discriminating against gay people when I've never done that at all."
Emotional moments of the same-sex marriage debate
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Country: Mexico
Manufacturer: Pirma
Sponsor (Front): Soriana (Mexican department store company)
Sponsor (Left Sleeve): City Club (Mexican grocery chain)
Sponsor (Right Sleeve): OCC (Mexican transportation company)
Sponsor (Rear): Corona (Mexican alcoholic beverage)
Size: 40" Chest - Medium (UK)
Patch: N/a
Estimated Value: £14.99 (Proof)
Additional kit information:
- The club's name is located on the front of the shirt.
- The club's name is located on the rear of the shirt.
- There is a faint jaguar pattern at the bottom of the shirt on the front.
This shirt has a cool jaguar skin print woven into the shirt material. On top of that I am enjoying the colour scheme used here. The green, white and orange work together really well. The one thing that I don't think is necessary for this shirt is the presence of the Chiapas text on the front of the shirt. I can understand it being on the rear but it makes the front side look too crowded in my opinion. Since this club no longer exists it has certainly resulted in the shirt becoming more important and special.
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The SENSEability exhibition has reached its next destination, if in town, it will definutley be worth a visit.
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Design Process on Addition Project
My work is usually designed by allowing a conversation between concept, material and abstract expression, which usually comes in the form of drawings. So whichever I start with, the creative process comes from going back and forth between them all.
To be given a piece from another jewellers through the Addition Project is an interesting way of starting. The pieces that are given are not in your style and ability, and can be at very different levels of finish, ranging from a complete test piece to a test sample. Each piece may use ideas and materials you have never thought of using in a way that seems almost alien. And now it is in your hands and you have a decision to make about the next step you're going to take. Whether it is a mixing their and my style or continuing down their almost alien path and create something new, or to include both, making a hybrid creation.
With the piece of work in the first round I manipulated and incorporated some of my own stainless steel elements creating something quite different from the original. The second round took me away from my own style of work, and challenged me to look at how to manipulate it without incorporating my own work, it was a piece that seemed like it didn't want to have any wire box frames added.
Photos of Round 2 will be coming soon…
Round 1
Having this test piece allowed for a great opportunity to be allowed to play around with the form, particularly in relation to the organic and fluid nature of it and towards my own style of work.
The first step was deciding how much to add/detract/completely change the piece. This was like trying to step into a really cold swimming pool – hesitant at first but then I just needed to jump straight in.
In the end, I wanted to see how the piece from Jen would be like, if you took the repetitive curves seen in the 2D pendant and continue that into a more three dimensional form, weaving between a piece of my work.
Allowing the curves of the piece to surround the rigidity of the square boxes.
Additions 1
Round 1
A photo of the first piece received as part of Addition Jewellery Project,
Additions Project
I have just taken part in an exciting project called 'Additions' organised by the lovely Jenny Laidlow. I am in one of many groups, each group comprises of different Jewellers that send one piece, a test piece, to the next jeweller in their group. This piece is given to that jeweller so that they can add, deconstruct, and completely change it. They will add their style to the pieces as they go, while another jeweller does the same to theirs, and so on.
I am one in a group of three, so each piece will have two others alter it, who are not the original creator. Each jeweller has one month on the piece before it gets moved on to the next. This will happen till the original test piece you send comes back to you, in whatever format that may be. You can then choose to keep this piece as it is or change it again until it is to your liking.
The aim of this is to give new life and inspire ideas to a piece, which really ends up as a collaboration piece with other artists.
Being part of this is an exciting opportunity, to have others designer's ideas input into a piece of my work will be a real insight. The piece I have sent is one of those pieces that has been made and remade and still doesn't work. I have been staring at it in the studio and as soon as this project came up it was clear that it was the piece to send.
I am very happy to announce I will be exhibiting, alongside some other fantastic artist, in Munich, in March as part of SENSEability curated by Drew Markou and Rachel Darbourne, here is a sneak peek of some of the work, hopefully we will see you there.
To check out the full listing and any other information check out……
It will run from Thursday 12th March at 10am with a breakfast private view. Closing on Sunday 15th at 6pm, at Studio Gabi Green, Munich, as part of Schmuck 2015.
New Rings
More to come…
On show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park now,
Check it out at http://www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/made


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Howard Mansfield's 1993 book "In the Memory House" explores how we as Granite Staters memorialize, preserve and present our past. Sometimes it's an old tradition like our town meetings. Sometimes it's the towns who take great pains to preserve its legendary 100 year old elm tree or historic societies that maintain the town's turn of the century fire truck. Sometimes it's preserving the memory of an unpopular president despite the fact that many want to forget his legacy. Through the pages of Howard Mansfield's book "In the Memory House" we'll look at how we remember our past.
- Howard Mansfield, author of "In The Memory House"


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We finally got an interview with someone from BMW Direct, the GOP direct mail firm whose business model includes fleecing GOP donors on behalf of obscure, often minority, candidates and then skimming off most of the contributions for itself and its affiliates. Good work if you can get it.
Our calls to the firm last week went unreturned, but we got lucky when we called again late today and Jordan Gehrke, BMW Direct's director of development, answered the phone. We called to ask specifically about complaints we'd received from another BMW client whose campaign had seen precious little of the contributions it was paying BMW to solicit.
Over the weekend, TPMmuckraker's Andrew Tilghman interviewed Ada Fisher, who's running for Congress in North Carolina. She used BMW Direct during her unsuccessful 2006 congressional run, but after that experience decided she'd be better off without them this time. "They sort of — what shall I say? — screwed me," Fisher told us.
By our count, BMW raised $400,000 for Fisher during the last election cycle, but only about $30,000 actually wound up being available for her campaign to use. The rest was plowed back into paying BMW and its affiliates for raising the money in the first place. "They make it seem like each of these people is a private entity. But as you listen more and more and you get smarter, you realize they all work together," Fisher said in the interview with us.
BMW's Gehrke acknowledged that Fisher's was a unique case. She came to BMW Direct late in the cycle, with less than a year left before the election. That's usually not enough time for the sort of direct-mail campaign BMW runs to yield results, Gehrke said, but they thought Fisher was a strong enough candidate to make up for the lost time. Alas, things didn't work out. As Gehrke explained: "[W]e think we would have been very successful if we had had another six months. For all kinds of reasons, fortune had its say, and things did not work out as we hoped."
Seems not. The donors who gave the $400,000 to Fisher's campaign saw less than 10 cents of every dollar actually go to the campaign they were aiming to help. Fisher herself complained that what little money BMW Direct did raise was so unpredictable and arrived so late in the campaign that it didn't really help. The only party to this arrangement who came out ahead was BMW Direct.
According to Gehrke, we're not taking into account certain intangibles, like building name recognition and improving the GOP brand:
"Is it worth it? Yes. If she doesn't win this year, maybe she ends up turning it into a state senate seat a few years later and then runs for Congress again. Going into a district where Republicans have not traditionally competed and having a black doctor on the ballot is a way of saying this is not your father's Republican Party. This is what building a party is about. This is what expanding your coalition is about. The point is, it has value."
That may be one way of explaining why it's good for the GOP, which is already struggling to raise money and hold on to House seats this year, to lose millions of its donors' dollars to the churn of direct mail costs. It doesn't explain why donors and candidates alike are being played for dupes.
Maybe we just don't understand.
Some right-wing blogs have taken up a concerted defense of BMW Direct in the past few days, claiming that the BMW Direct business model makes perfect sense, unless you're ignorant of the way direct mail works.
Mark Hemingway at NRO's The Corner, proclaims that "whether the candidate gets 5 percent or 75 percent — it's basically free money to them." The reason for the scrutiny, according to Hemingway, is that the left is trying to undermine the GOP's advantage in direct mail by painting direct mail firms as "the used car salesmen of politics."
Michael Krempasky at RedState (husband of former DOJ darling Monica Goodling) gives a nod to left-wing conspiracy theories, but ultimately dismisses us as oblivious:
"Every year, we see it again: shrieking, hand-wringing, gloating (?) lefties pointing fingers at Republican direct mail fundraisers. Trouble is, they don't seem to have much idea what they're talking about."
We're not alone apparently. It took Ada Fisher an entire campaign to figure out how the game is played.


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Self-efficacy is a person's belief about whether he or she possesses the necessary skills to complete tasks and achieve goals.
What is Self-Efficacy?
Self-efficacy is similar in some ways to self-confidence, but focuses more on an individual's belief in his or her ability to competently do things rather than his or her beliefs about his or her own worth.
The concept of self-efficacy was developed by child psychologist Albert Bandura, as part of his theory of social-cognitive learning. Social-cognitive learning focuses on learning by observation. Self-efficacy is critical to learning, according to Bandura, because people with a high-degree of self-efficacy have a strong incentive to learn. They tend to view new or challenging tasks as goals over which to gain mastery rather than as overwhelming setbacks at which they might fail.
Role of Self-Efficacy in Learning
People with high self-efficacy tend to have an internal locus of control, which means they believe that they can control what happens to them. People with low self-efficacy and an external locus of control, by contrast, tend to believe that external events and forces control their behavior and lives. Consequently, people with high self-efficacy are more likely to be persistent because they believe the ability to master something is in their power. This can affect motivation for learning, and students with low self-efficacy may struggle not only with grades but also with completing schoolwork.
Low self-efficacy can also lead to problems such as anxiety or depression. When a person is low in self-efficacy, they feel that they have little control over their own lives, which can contribute to feelings of overwhelm, sadness, or hopelessness.
Influences on Self-Efficacy
Teaching styles that encourage exploration and mastery rather than memorization or uniformity tend to produce more self-efficacy. Similarly, parents who institute consistent rules and provide their children with plenty of affection tend to have children with higher degrees of self-efficacy.
- An introduction to self-efficacy. (n.d.). University of Connecticut. Retrieved from http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/selfefficacy/section1.html
- Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman.
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