Chili's Chicken Enchilada Soup has been a long time favorite recipe here at CopyKat. Years ago this soup was made from scratch in the restaurant. In recent years, this soup is made in a large central kitchen and reheated in the restaurant.
One thing Chili's is famous for is their hot and savory soups and, of course, chili. A very satisfying lunch at Chili's is a bowl of delicious soup or chili and a colorful salad. Chili's chicken enchilada soup has been a long time favorite recipe here at CopyKat. Years ago this soup was made from scratch in the restaurant. In recent years, however, the soup has been made in a large central kitchen and then reheated in the restaurant. While the soup is still remarkably tasty in the restaurant, I think it misses the chunkiness and homemade flavor it used to have. My soup has more texture and is filled with more vegetables and meat than the restaurant equivalent. In other words, it's better!
I use processed American cheese in this recipe. I believe this is an underrated cheese because it melts so well and has a pronounced cheese flavor. I do not recommend using Velveeta for this because I think the flavor of Velveeta can take over in the soup. Store-brand American cheese works extremely well. Normally you might buy processed American cheese in slices, but you can also buy it in a chunk at the deli counter in most grocery stores. This saves you from having to unwrap multiple pieces of cheese.
Masa harina is traditionally used to make tamales, tortillas, and other Mexican dishes. It means "dough flour" in Spanish because it's made from dried masa, a dough produced from specially treated corn. Masa harina is found in the baking aisle of most supermarkets or you can order it from Amazon. Do not try to substitute corn meal or regular corn flour. They're produced from different types of corn, are processed differently, and will not produce the same results. You also can't use regular wheat flour. And, forget using tortilla chips or tortillas – they won't break down like the masa harina. Anyway, masa harina is super cheap and easy to use.
Chicken base is a paste. I think the base is better than bouillon cubes because it has more flavor and less salt. Click here to read about the differences between chicken stock, chicken bouillon, and chicken soup base.
You can make Chili's chicken enchilada soup at home with this recipe. If you want, a large can or two of chicken breast chunks works great. You can also use fresh, crushed garlic – I would personally add 1 to 2 teaspoons. If you like, you can choose to add some green and red bell peppers. If you want your soup to be a bit saltier, keep in mind that the cheese in the recipe is very salty, so prepare the soup as is then add salt to taste. This soup will be sure to please the hearty eaters in your family. This recipe makes a huge pot of soup, but it can be frozen and reheated later.
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You can make Chili's Chicken Enchilada Soup at home with this recipe.
Instructions In a large pot, combine the oil, chicken base, onions, cumin, chili powder, granulated garlic, salt, and cayenne. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onions are soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. In a pitcher or large measuring cup, combine the masa harina with 1 quart of the water.
Stir until all lumps dissolve. Add to the onions and bring to a boil. Once it starts to bubble, cook for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring constantly. (This will eliminate any raw taste from the masa harina.) Stir in the remaining 3 quarts water and the tomatoes. Let the soup return to a boil, stirring occasionally. Add the cheese.
Cook, stirring occasionally until the cheese melts. Add the chicken and heat through. Note Please note that you must incorporate in the masa harina into the water completely first. If you add the masa harina into the soup directly, it will be difficult to blend in and may be lumpy. If you feel 2 cups masa harina is too much, I have made the soup with 1 1/2 cups with good results.
Don't have any masa harina on hand? Crush up some tortilla chips in a blender to substitute.
Use left over rotissire chicken in this recipe!
Curious why you're not connected to Pinterest. Looks like a great recipe. Without a printer, I very much rely on my saved recipes on Pinterest.
This recipe is great! I have done twice before. I want to make it today but noticed I don't have granulated garlic, can I use fresh garlic and if so how much for half the serving ?
Sure, you can use fresh garlic, I would personally add 1 to 2 teaspoons of minced garlic, that is a huge pot of soup!
Ok great ! Very helpful. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday !
I love this recipe, but where is the salt? Very bland without it. The directions should say add salt to taste.
The cheese in the recipe is very salty, I would prepare the recipe as it, then season it after it is cooked.
Outstanding recipe! However, this makes a VAST amount of soup unless you have ten hearty eaters to feed, so I halve everything.
That bland, artificial plastic junk called Velveeta – no! Plenty of sharp cheddar makes this version better than Chili's. Also I don't like "burning hot & spicy" so no cayenne. A large can or two of chicken breast chunks works great.
Forget using tortilla chips or tortillas – Masa is super cheap and easy to use.
I love this soup! I agree, I do not use velveeta. I have since mixed up the recipe to suit my family.
I use petite cut tomatoes with jalapeños vs crushed tomatoes.
I add 2 cups shredded sharp cheddar and reduce american cheese to taste.
I also add 1 can white corn and 1 can kidney beans.
What is 1/4 cup chicken base?
It is a paste, it is like bouillon cubes in flavor, and use. I think the base is better because it has more flavor and less salt.
Hi, i love this soup, is there any way the you can put the recipe in spanish.
Can this be frozen in one or two serving size freezer containers and reheated later?
I am sure that would work.
Yes, you could portion the soup into individual serving sizes and freeze.


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DOH turns over medical transport vehicles in C. Luzon
Philippine News Agency•December 23, 2022
NEW AMBULANCES. The new medical transport vehicles turned over by the Department of Health Central Luzon Center for Health Development (DOH CLCHD) to 19 municipalities on Thursday (Dec. 22, 2022). The move aims to enhance the delivery of local health services. (Photo courtesy of DOH CLCHD)
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – The Department of Health Central Luzon Center for Health Development (DOH CLCHD) on Thursday turned over medical transport vehicles to 19 municipalities in the region to enhance the delivery of local health services.
The move is part of the mandate of the agency's Health Facility Enhancement Program to support local Universal Health Care implementations through the provision of medical transport and equipment to local government units (LGUs).
Of the 19 LGU health facility recipients, one is in Bataan province, four in Bulacan, nine in Nueva Ecija, two in Pampanga and three in Tarlac.
DOH CLCHD Director Corazon Flores said on Friday the medical transport vehicles will be used by the LGUs for the continuous delivery of quality healthcare services to their localities.
"Together, we shall ensure that each vehicle will be made available to anyone who will be in need of immediate ambulance services in their respective municipalities. We aim to keep patients stable while they get transferred to a health facility for more specialized care," Flores said in a statement.
Each of the medical transport vehicles is equipped with an ambulance stretcher, automatic external defibrillator (AED), nebulizer, portable suction machines, manual resuscitators, oxygen cylinder and other medical equipment and accessories that are needed to ensure quality patient transport.
She asked the recipients to take care of the vehicles for their enhanced delivery of emergency health services in their area.
Meanwhile, Flores assured that the DOH will continue to improve primary health care and provide easy access to health services in the communities. (PNA)

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Dogs Cry Happy Tears Of Joy When Their Owners Come Home Finds New Study
According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, Professor Takefumi Kikusui has found that dogs cry happy tears of joy when their owners come home.
A recent study found that many dogs also shed happy "tears of joy," much like people, when their favorite humans return from work. Dogs frequently hop around excitedly when this happens.
Six years ago, when the poodle belonging to Professor Takefumi Kikusui gave birth to puppies, the dog's expression changed as it breastfed the young. Tears welled up in his animal companion's eyes.
"That gave me the idea that oxytocin might increase tears," Kikusui says in a media release.
Dogs cry, according to the study's author, but they don't run down their faces way human tears do. When Prof. Kikusui of Azabu University in Japan investigated his hypothesis, he found that dogs shed more tears than usual when they were reunited with their owners. They continued to cry at the same volume even when they encountered strangers.
The dogs' eyes filled with tears when the researchers injected oxytocin, confirming the theory that the release of oxytocin leads canines to cry when they are reunited with their humans. According to previous studies, when dogs interact with their owners, they naturally generate the hormone. However, research into how dogs respond when they see their absent owners is very recent.
Dog happy to see owner.
The Japanese researchers also asked respondents to judge pictures of dogs' faces with and without added tears, and they discovered that respondents preferred the teary-eyed animals more. This suggests that the tears of dogs help people and their dogs develop closer bonds. Prof. Kikusui was particularly shocked by the results.
"We had never heard of the discovery that animals shed tears in joyful situations, such as reuniting with their owners, and we were all excited that this would be a world first!" Prof. Kikusui explains.
"Dogs have become a partner of humans, and we can form bonds," Kikusui concludes. "In this process, it is possible that the dogs that show teary eyes during interaction with the owner would be cared for by the owner more."
Although the study, which was published in the journal Current Biology (pdf below), demonstrated that dogs cry in happy situations, it has not yet been tested on negative emotions.
The research team has not yet established whether dogs cry when they reunite with their canine pals, but they aim to determine whether this somatic reaction also has a social purpose in the canine world.
Read the study given below:
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Plebney August 26, 2022 at 2:09 am
Two women in the U.S. were mauled to death by dogs in the past week. There is absolutely no excuse for adults to own these parasites.
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Abinico Arts August 29, 2022 at 5:04 am
Cats also show great emotion but are to dignified to flaunt it.


THURSDAY, Oct. 8, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Adults with the skin disease shingles appear to be at raised risk for stroke, especially when it affects the area around the eyes, researchers report.
Previous reports have linked shingles with stroke risk, but "the exact frequency and risk for these phenomena are still unknown," said study lead author Dr. Jiunn-Horng Kang, a principal investigator in the Neuroscience Research Center of Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taiwan. His team published their findings in the November issue of Stroke.
"Our study is the first to explore these issues with a nationwide population-based data," Kang said.
Shingles is a painful skin rash resulting from infection by the varicella zoster virus, which causes chickenpox. The virus remains in the body after recovery from chickenpox and can erupt again to cause shingles.
Kang and his colleagues studied data on 7,760 adult Taiwanese who were treated for shingles between 1997 and 2001. In the year after treatment, 133 of them, or1.7 percent, had strokes. The incidence in a control group of 23,280 adults who were not treated for shingles was 1.3 percent (306 people).
Analysis of the data found that the risk of stroke in that one-year period was 31 percent higher in the shingles group. The incidence was dramatically higher for those with a shingles infection in or around the eye -- nearly 4.3 times higher than in the control group.
Strokes can be ischemic, caused by a blood clot blocking a brain artery, or hemorrhagic, due to rupture of a blood vessel. The study found a 31 percent higher incidence of ischemic strokes, the most common kind, and a 2.79-times higher incidence of hemorrhagic stroke in the shingles group.
"The major mechanism of our findings is that stroke results from herpes zoster virus-induced vasculopathy [blood vessel damage]," Kang said. "The vessel to the brain damaged by the virus could be occluded [blocked] or ruptured."
"However, several other factors could also be involved," he added.
No known treatment exists to reduce the apparent risk of stroke that results from shingles infection, Kang said. "Our interest and ongoing research are focused on whether early anti-viral treatment for herpes zoster can reduce the risk of stroke," he said. "Also, from the clinical view, patients who have a shingles attack should be aware of the risk of stroke, and intensive monitoring and management of pre-existing risk factors for stroke, such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia [raised lipid levels] and diabetes, should be emphasized."
Shingles usually starts as a rash on one side of the face or body, which often causes pain, itching and tingling. Attacks can last for two to four weeks. The incidence of shingles increases with age, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends most people over 60 be vaccinated against the virus, with the major exception being those with weakened immune systems.
While there have been scattered reports about a possible association of shingles with stroke, "to my knowledge this is the first study to link shingles very specifically with stroke," said Dr. Daniel Lackland, professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, and a spokesman for the American Stroke Association.
"It might be a little too early for a lot of clinical implications here," Lackland said. "But a physician who is treating someone with shingles should emphasize the importance of traditional risk factors for stroke, and let the patient know that your risk might be a little bit increased and you should pay more attention to high blood pressure, cholesterol and the like."
Learn the basics about shingles from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.


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Q: How to execute Scitools Understand commands from python I want to execute Scitools Understand commands from python. It has its own shell which can be run using $ ./und and switches to und>. I want to run its commands from python. Any idea how can I do that?

A: First you should consider using the Python API for Ada Understand. This will be more comfortable than talking to the Understand console.
But using the console application is also possible. Ada Understand uses the standard input and output. Assuming you use Linux I have just a small demonstration for this.
create a file und.input with the contents
help
exit

And then exeucute this command
cat und.input | /opt/scitools/bin/linux64/und > und.output

This will create you the output into the file und.output.
You will not do it through files. With these files I just tried to give you evidence and a feeling that really the standard input and standard output is used. Knowing this, you need a way in Python to start a process and communicate to it over stdin and stdout. The subprocess module is a way to implement this. But there may be alternatives.
Although my demonstration above is on Linux, the Python implementation with subprocess will be the same for Windows.

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Who are the top fishermen in the state? Mark Mohan of Pembroke and Jake Souza of Berkeley were just named Adult and Youth Anglers of the Year, respectively, by MassWildlife.
Also just announced were the Freshwater Gold Pin award winners who caught the state's heaviest fish in 2013.
There was no exaggerating any of these catches. All had to be certified officially. Overall, this list is valuable not only to reveal our most successful fishermen, but also to highlight the special waters that produced our largest fish.
In addition to the Gold Pin anglers, many unnamed conservationists and wildlife managers deserve a tip of the hat for helping Massachusetts continue to protect and preserve excellent fishing waters.
Largemouth bass, 9 pounds, 8 ounces, Little Long Pond, Plymouth, by Phillip Strassel, Plymouth; smallmouth bass, 6 pounds, 1 ounce, Mystic Lake, Barnstable, by Jeff Capute, Centerville; bullhead, 2 pounds, 8 ounces, Furnace Pond, Pembroke, by Mark Mohan Jr., Pembroke; carp, 40 pounds, 2 ounces, Connecticut River, Holyoke, by Shane Emerson, Greenfield; channel catfish, 13 pounds, 9 ounces, Connecticut River, Springfield, by Nicholas Eastman, Springfield; white catfish, 7 pounds, 14 ounces, Mashpee-Wakeby Pond, Mashpee, by Eddie Lemieux, Acushnet; crappie, 3 pounds, 1 ounces, Singletary Lake, Millbury, by Brian Cofske, Oxford.
Also, white perch, 3 pounds, Wachusett Reservoir, West Boylston, by John Keating, Carlisle; yellow perch, 2 pounds, 4 ounces, Glen Echo Lake, Charlton, by Wayne Andrews, Holden; chain pickerel, 6 pounds, 7 ounces, Wequaquet Lake, Barnstable, by Capute; northern pike, 24 pounds, 5 ounces, Wequaquet Lake, Barnstable, by Capute; broodstock salmon, 10 pounds, 6 ounces, Cliff Pond, Brewster, by Jake Howarth, Brewster; landlocked salmon, 6 pounds, 5 ounces, Quabbin Reservoir, by John MacGeachey, Rutland; American shad, 5 pounds, 5 ounces, Connecticut River, Holyoke, by Philip Lees, Westfield.
Also, sunfish, 1 pound, 8 ounces, Ashunet Pond, Falmouth, by Todd Matera, Palmer; brook trout, 3 pounds, 7 ounces, Peters Pond, Sandwich, by Wilton Gray III, Lakeville; brown trout, 11 pounds, 4 ounces, Onota Lake, Pittsfield, by Richard Garhartt, Berlin, N.Y.; lake trout, 17 pounds, 9 ounces, Quabbin Reservoir, by Jason Grigas, Ware; rainbow trout, 6 pounds, 11 ounces, Stillwater River, West Boylston, by Mark Mohan Jr., Pembroke; tiger trout, 3 pounds, 12 ounces, Upper Lagoon Pond, Oak Bluffs, by Rich Roy, Vineyard Haven; walleye, 7 pounds, 14 ounces, Connecticut River, Montague, by Edward Brozo, Bernardston.
Largemouth bass, 7 pounds, 8 ounces, Paradise Pond, Princeton, by Jonathan Clark, Hubbardston; smallmouth bass, 5 pounds, 2 ounces, Quabbin Reservoir, Jadrien Berthiaume, Ware; bullhead, 6 pounds, 1 ounces, Cheshire Reservoir, Cheshire, by Nathan Luczinski, Cheshire; carp, 23 pounds, 2 ounces, Woods Pond, Lee, by Taur Adamczyk, Taunton; channel catfish, 9 pounds, 4 ounces, Connectiut River, Chicopee, by Alan Best III, Chicopee; white catfish, 4 pounds, Jenkins Pond, Falmouth, by Aidan Webb, East Falmouth; crappie, 2 pounds, 11 ounces, Singletary Lake, Millbury, by Michael Janowicz, Sterling.
Also, white perch, 2 pounds, 13 ounces, Wachusett Reservoir, West Boylston, by Rylie Jimenez, Auburn; yellow perch, 1 pound, 10 ounces, Parker Pond, Barnstable, Charles Anderson, Middleboro; yellow perch, 1 pound, 10 ounces, Connecticut River, Easthampton, by Ayva Crosby, Easthampton; chain pickerel, 6 pounds, 1 ounces, Herring Pond, Eastham, by Richie Emerson, Orleans; northern pike, 21 pounds, 4 ounces, Buel Lake, Monterey, by Hunter Kempf, Sullivan, N.H.; broodstock salmon, 13 pounds, 12 ounces, Little Pond, Plymouth, by West Amoling, Manomet; landlocked salmon, 4 pounds, 11 ounces, Quabbin Reservoir, by Hannam; American shad, 4 pounds, 15 ounces, Connecticut River, Holyoke, by Andrew Rogalski, Bondsville; sunfish, 1 pound, 2 ounces, Snake Pond, Sandwich, by Jake Souza, Berkley; sunfish, 1 pound, 2 ounces, Jenkins Pond, Falmouth, by Aidan Webb, East Falmouth.
Also, brook trout, 2 pounds, 5 ounces, Peters Pond, Sandwich, by Ryan Aittaniemi, West Barnstable; Brook trout, 2 pounds, 5 ounces, Sheep Pond, Brewster, by Tyler Brundage, West Yarmouth; brook trout, 2 pounds, 5 ounces, Asnacomet Pond, Hubbardston, by Hannam; brown trout, 3 pounds, 12 ounces, Mattawa Lake, Orange, by Kyler Ittner, Wilbraham; lake trout, 13 pounds, 6 ounces, Quabbin Reservoir, by Tyler Martin, Monson; rainbow trout, 4 pounds, Long Pond, Plymouth, by Timothy Nagle, Plymouth; tiger trout, 3 pounds, 3 ounces, Asnacomet Pond, Hubbardston, by Hannam; walleye, 7 pounds, 7 ounces, Connecticut River, Gill, by Trevor Lapinski, Montague.
Toby Crowley sent in the results of the Clinton Super Saturday Ice Fishing Derby. Crowley runs a great competition, turning 100 percent of the entry fees back into prizes for the anglers.
Jon Morse of Worcester took home first prize of $750 for the biggest largemouth bass (3 pounds, 14 ounces). Josh Cotier of Clinton earned $150 for his 3-pound, 9-ounce bass, and John Peters of Ashburnham won $60 for his 3-pound bass.
In the pickerel division, the first prize of $750 went to Steve Hardy of Lunenburg (2 pounds, 7 ounces). Steve Lutes of Clinton won $150 for his 2-pound, 4-ounce fish, and Steve Rice of Clinton won $60 for his 1-pound, 15-ouncer. Morse also won $100 for his 15-ounce white perch. Winning weights were much smaller this year.
Today — "Snowy Owls," a Brookline Bird Club-sponsored program with owl expert Norman Smith, 6:30 p.m., John Glenn Middle School, 99 McMahon Road, Bedford.
Today through Sunday — Progressive Insurance New England Boat Show, Boston Convention Center, 415 Summer St., Boston. Luxury yachts, sports fishers, performance boats, personal watercraft, sailboats and newest on-the-water accessories. Cost: $15. Info: www.newenglandboatshow.com.
Today — Fox and cottontail rabbit seasons close in all zones, along with snowshoe hare in zones 1-4.
Today — Trapping seasons close for muskrat, opossum, raccoon and skunk.
Today through Sunday — Granite State Outdoor Show, Grappone Center, Concord, N.H., hours: 2 to 9 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Cost: $8. Info: theoutdoorgazette.com.
Sunday — 3-D Safari League, 7 a.m. to noon, Century Sportsmen's Club, Auburn.
Sunday — Birdwatching Sachuest Point NWR & Coastal Rhode Island, Forbush Bird Club. Meet at 9 a.m. at visitors' center, Middletown, R.I. Free. Leader: Paul Meleski, (508) 757-2950, pmeleski1@msn.com.
March 8 — Nashua River Ducks Unlimited Conservation Fundraiser, opens at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m., Double Tree (Four Points Sheraton), 99 Erdman Way, Leominster. Cost: $60, couples $100. Info: Alan Chase, (978) 649-1833, or Dan Donnelly, (978) 345-2246.


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Self Care isn't something I've been paying much attention to lately. Putting myself second has become, well, second nature. Moments of pampering are pretty rare these days, so when they come around I want to use the best, most reliable products. After months of fine tuning my routine, here are my favourites that have really stood out to me.
L'oreal's Pure Clay Glow Mask has been a huge favourite of mine since it first launched during my University days. I find it not only great for my combination skin but gives me the promised 'Glow'.
From tired Uni student to even more tired Parent, this mask has helped me look and feel more alive. The miracle product brightens my skin and rids me of my dark under eye circles.
Vaseline is one of those products that follows you through every stage of your life. It's simple yet very effective in moisturising the skin and leaving your skin feeling hydrated without the added perfumes.
This is my go-to for after leg shaving and areas of dry skin. Amazing for sensitive skin like mine.
Mio skincare is a brand I was unfamiliar with until about four months ago. But the product I enjoy most from their range is this large handheld scrub brush. This is the perfect pamper tool for getting your skin to radiate a natural glow.
It is by far the best thing for getting rid of fake tan, dry skin and neglected skin.
My hair takes a big beating during the week. The constant quick washes, blast drying and straitening leaves my hair feeling exhausted and dry. Towards the end of the week my hair has almost given up until I pop on my Grow Gorgeous Overnight Hair Masque.
It works so well in our busy lives because I can apply and wash it out in the morning without the annoying waiting times. My hair gets an entire makeover overnight which lasts all week. No faff with all the results.
Lush's Dream Cream is the perfect product for those who struggle to get a full night like myself. The main reason I don't sleep is because of Ru but those baby free nights I find myself waking up as if he was still with us. I find it really hard to relax when I don't have my Dream Cream. This stuff is magic, it helps you relax and fall into a natural deep slumber.
This post contains gifted items, please see my disclaimer for more information.
Ooh I've never heard of Mio but that brush sounds and looks really interesting so I'll have to have a better look into them! I completely agree that Vaseline is a fail-safe option- their body care is so good and super affordable too!
I love the L'Oréal glow mask! They do some really fab masks in general, I have an exfoliating one of theirs that I love too!
I've always wanted to try lush's dream cream - sounds fab!


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Healthcare's Digitization: Coming to Terms with Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk
Healthcare technology has evolved significantly in recent years. For example, electronic health record systems, clinical…
Healthcare technology has evolved significantly in recent years. For example, electronic health record systems, clinical information systems, patient portals, and electronic billing systems are commonplace today. New solutions leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence are transforming how we diagnose and treat disease. Telemedicine networks connect patients to doctors and specialists across the country, and nanomedicine has the potential to revolutionize treatments for cancer, diabetes, and many other conditions.
Just like the digital technologies that preceded them, these new technologies bring new security risks that organizations must address to protect patients and their data. The authors of HIPAA predicted these risks two decades ago, leading to the implementation of the HIPAA Security Rule. The Security Rule continues to provide the security framework by which healthcare providers and their business associate partners must abide when implementing and operating systems that create, receive, maintain or transmit electronic protected health information (ePHI). However, simply asking a third party to sign a business associate agreement promising to abide by the HIPAA Security Rule requirements is no longer enough to manage the associated risk of adopting current and emerging technology solutions.
As the speed and scale of positive impact increases with new technology, so does the potential harm.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordinating Center (HC3) recently issued a threat brief regarding the security risks of the most promising emerging technologies impacting healthcare. On the list of emerging technology, HHS HC3 included artificial intelligence, 5G cellular, nanomedicine, smart hospitals, and quantum computing and cryptography.
We are particularly concerned that a vulnerability in technology may ultimately result in loss of life. Unfortunately, all the technologies listed in the HHS HC3 threat brief could fall into that category.
Organizations must prepare for the new wave of technology to avoid security and privacy risks.
Cybersecurity supply chain risks have been a growing concern for healthcare organizations for several years. Specifically, these risks relate to the acquisition, development, maintenance, and disposal of IT products and services from external suppliers. The concern is warranted as for three years in a row, the most significant breach impacting the healthcare industry resulted from a breach at a vendor that supported large numbers of healthcare organizations.
Healthcare providers usually purchase or license their technology solutions from vendors or share platforms with partners. Historically, providers would license software products and purchase the IT hardware necessary to support their use. Today, an organization's IT portfolio likely also includes software-as-a-service solutions hosted in the cloud and cloud-based infrastructure as a service upon which the provider establishes its virtual infrastructure, servers, and data storage.
Often, the solutions providers purchase, license, or subscribe to include software libraries and other components that the developers or manufacturers source from other third parties. The solutions may also be hosted on hardware or cloud services provided by different vendors leveraging even more third parties. Providers are, in many cases, getting the equivalent of a Russian nesting doll of third-party risks whenever they acquire a complex new technology solution.
While the technical vulnerabilities that can be exploited will vary with new technology, the higher-level issues are the same.
Cybersecurity supply chain risk management is the process of identifying and mitigating potential risks that may arise from third-party products and services within an organization's information technology (IT) infrastructure. Given the growing dependence on information technology infrastructure to deliver care, a healthcare organization should also consider the risk to patients, employees, and the business. The goal is to manage this risk to a level acceptable to the organization.
To understand the risk, the organization needs to know the safeguards the developer or manufacturer put in place during the design, development, manufacture, deployment, and ongoing operation of the technology to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information processed as well as the physical safety of users and others exposed to the technology. It is also essential to understand what components, particularly third-party components, the developer or manufacturer used within the solution as they, too, have their own risks. Requesting a software bill of materials is recommended when appropriate. Depending on the level of risk, including the potential impact, organizations might also consider requiring that the manufacturer produce reports of independent testing of the technology or, even better, be allowed to test it independently. Suppose the vendor will be receiving or storing ePHI on behalf of the provider. In that case, a prospective purchaser must understand the security program and controls in place to protect the information and decide if they are sufficient, given the potential impact of a breach.
When dealing with information technology, organizations should consider what happens if the information processed by the technology is accessed or exposed through human error, negligence, or unauthorized access. What if the technology becomes unavailable or the data is corrupted?
Organizations should ask:
How do we know data is exposed, and can we determine how?
What if the integrity is compromised? How do we know what was changed?
How will we understand the implications, and how do we fix them?
What if the technology goes down? Can we function without it?
What is the impact, how do we manage until we get it back online, how do we get it back online, and how fast do we need to do it?
Are people at physical risk from the use of this technology?
Do the benefits outweigh the cost?
What is our obligation to inform of the risk?
When an organization decides to accept the risk and implement technology, it must continue to manage that risk on an ongoing basis. Ongoing risk management includes monitoring the technology for new threats and vulnerabilities and testing the safeguards in place to ensure they are functioning as intended. Finally, they must regularly analyze the risk to see if it is still in an acceptable range and take appropriate action if it is not.
We often get caught up in the hype associated with new technology. It's exciting to think of the possibilities, but every technology comes with risks we must understand and manage before they become a reality.
Establishing a strong cybersecurity supply chain risk management program helps organizations develop controls within the acquisition process to measure and manage risk. Implementing a robust vendor risk management program enables organizations to adopt emerging technology in the future while protecting systems and data in the process.
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I live in an older small town surrounded by other older small towns. Each of these small towns is within walking distance from my own. (Each small town also has its own police, school system, government services, and crazy tax scale, but that's a different story for a different day on a different blog).
You may have noticed I've been to a few town-wide yard sales recently. There was this one in May, this one in September, and this one in October.
My town's community yard sale is today.
And I'm selling my vintage wares at another (within walking distance) small town's Fall Festival.
Which means I am missing my own town's community-wide yard sale!
Mr. VJIMT will drive his packed-up car alongside mine to the Fall Fest, and then he will be off to scour the yard sale lands.
I'm ITCHING to see what Mr VJIMT scored Gina....Was it worth missing out on the sale....??
LOVE the look of your Treasures....I would have shopped myself SILLY at your space....!!!
Life is so unfair sometimes. I'm hoping your sales made up for missing a sale.


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For Christians, Easter is the holiest time of the religious year. Many think it is Christmas, but no. We celebrate Christmas with huge parties, lights, gifts, and jubilant hearts, but Easter is WHY we celebrate Christmas in the first place. In my family, I like to talk to the children about the events of Holy Week through the week as they unfold. I like to explain them, have a conversation with the children about them, and talk to them about sacrifice. This year I gave up Starbucks for Lent – something that my children actually noticed. This was a great conversation starter about why we enter the Holy Season with contemplation and reverence in our hearts. One question that I get from Tiny (10 yo) sometimes is why we celebrate a death. In short, it's complicated. We are not celebrating that or how Jesus died. We are celebrating the gift that his death gave us.
These lessons were shared with me by my precious Grandmother (Maw Maw), and I want to make sure to pass them on to my children. Holidays were always an affair in my childhood. Sharing that time as a small child working in my Maw Maw's kitchen, playing with my cousins, and listening to the grown ups talk was more than most had. I try to give that to my own kids to to pay homage to a woman that blessed me so much when she was alive. Holidays are always bitter sweet. I love celebrating them with my own family, but miss those people who were such a big part of my life. I am truly blessed, both because I had a Maw Maw that love me unconditionally and took time to pass down her talents, and because I believe she hand selected these two perfect angels for me to carry on her traditions with. One tradition is cooking a turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and a massive ham for New Years and Easter. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.
Prepare the ham by washing it thoroughly and setting it in the center of a foil lined baking pan. Make sure that the edges of the foil are overlapping. You are going to pull up the ends around the ham to seal in the moisture as it cooks.
Salt, pepper and season lightly with garlic. Spear a cherry with a toothpick and use it to keep each pineapple slice in place. Use all of your slices and put them on the front and sides if you have enough. To give the ham a slightly sweet flavor without having a praline crust on it, my grandmother would then sprinkle brown sugar over it to caramelize as the pineapple juice cooks out of the fruit. Then pour the pineapple juice over the fruit and close your wrappings.
Alternately, pour about 2/3 bottle of coke over the pineapple rings (you don't use the sugar in this version), wrap and bake. If you start with a hickory smoked ham, all the better!
In either seasoning version, allow the ham to bake overnight at 250 degrees and do your best to keep errant family members from taking pinches out of the parts near the bone. No guarantees you can do this though, the ham is slow cooked at a low temp, all night, making the meat fall away from the bone.
This is going to make for some amazing cold weather breakfasts over the next few weeks. I will chop some and package just enough for four omelets, slice enough and package for ham biscuits, and portion it out depending on what dishes I might make from any leftovers. There were rarely many leftovers from my childhood crew.
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On average, the smokers rates for men and women are $2,025 and $1,505 each year for a 20-year $500,000 term life insurance policy. Quitting smoking for an entire year reduces the average premium to $797 for men and $659 for women. After two years of not smoking, rates drop to $670 and $543.
Switching to a different nicotine product won't help. Most people who use nicotine gum, patches, lozenges, nasal sprays or e-cigarettes still pay smokers life insurance rates.
Don't lie on your life insurance application. Your medical records and your life insurance medical exam, which includes a blood and urine test, will likely reveal your smoking habit. And if you're an ex-smoker, your insurer might verify the amount of time you've been smoke-free by checking past life and health insurance applications you've made. Misleading your life insurer is considered fraud and can jeopardize your beneficiaries' death benefit payment.
You can ask your insurer for a rate review if you quit smoking after buying a policy at smokers rates. The company will re-evaluate your health and smoking status and might grant you a better, nonsmoking rate. There's no risk to you. Even if you've developed other health problems in the meantime, your rate cannot be raised.
In another article on the cost of smoking, NerdWallet points to an eHealth study that found smokers pay 14% more for health insurance premiums on average. Bernard Health reports that many companies will lower your rate if you haven't used tobacco in the last 12 months.
NerdWallet run down some lesser-known ways smokers pay more for their habit, so be sure to check out the full post at the link below.


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Playmage Forum • View topic - WHY DOES A BANNED PLAYER SHOW UP IN MYSTICS??????
WHY DOES A BANNED PLAYER SHOW UP IN MYSTICS??????
If a player is banned they should be banned all the way. A guild with a banned still benefits from the banned players strength in the Mystics as one of the three that one must defeat before attacking the mystic. So if one can not beat the level 0 which still has all of their HP and I imagine stats then one has used energy on an alleged BANNED player - the kicker - if one beats them - NEGATIVE EXP!!!!!!!
And apparently the last one, too!
OH - AND STILL GETTING NEGATIVE EXP FROM ALFRED!!!!!!!!!!
Re: WHY DOES A BANNED PLAYER SHOW UP IN MYSTICS??????
Erm....This happened AFTER I was told in PM from admin that this was fixed - twice!!!!!!!!
Erm.... So I think I WILL emphasize my frustration!!!
Erm...I don't think you know what you are talking about!!!!!
Erm...In the future please get your facts BEFORE trying to correct & chastise someone!
So this http://www.playmage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=13128 is not your post saying exactly the same thing that you are getting negative exp from defeating Alfred in the mystic PVP?
Arctica wrote: So this http://www.playmage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=13128 is not your post saying exactly the same thing that you are getting negative exp from defeating Alfred in the mystic PVP?
Well as you can clearly see I NEVER received a response from admin in that post so I was hoping this might get their attention.
Really - your assistance is not required here.
DonnaNoble wrote: Erm....This happened AFTER I was told in PM from admin that this was fixed - twice!!!!!!!!
Now you have just contradicted your post, if the admin has responded in PM he should have to respond again on a forum post as you already have the answer, plus I wasn't attempting to give assistance, I simply pointed out you have made 2 of exactly the same posts.
I PM'd admin after there was NO response on the first post for several days. They said it was fixed. It happened AGAIN, AFTER they said it was fixed prompting this post!
" I simply pointed out you have made 2 of exactly the same posts."
Because you are the posting police??????
Are you actually losing the negative XP that you gained?
Maybe you should take a look and see if it is gained/lost.
dilsama wrote: Are you actually losing the negative XP that you gained?
Yes - I checked it - it is actually being added back on to my total exp to level.
We actually already fix the autoban script so it updates the players level within guild when they are banned so they won't show up, but we may need to also manually fix for the existing banned players prior to this fix patch. I will have this looked into.


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Frank Alan Cottle (21 December 1920 – 17 February 1992) was an Australian rugby league player who played in the 1940s and 1950s.

Playing career
A Norths junior from the Cremorne club, Cottle played nine seasons with North Sydney between 1940-1951.

War service saw Cottle miss the 1943, 1944 and 1945 seasons. He later went on to captain North Sydney and was a popular clubman during his time at the club.

Cottle was also selected to play for New South Wales on three occasions during 1947, and also represented City Firsts between 1947-1948.

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Q: Django: Photologue does not show images in templates I am trying to install django-photologue. Everything seems ok, because I install and set up following the official guidelines. I have to upload some photos as examples. However, when viewing a photo or gallery details , then an error as follows:
Caught an exception while rendering: 'Photo' object has no attribute 'get_thumbnail_url'

I tried to remove the following code from the file photo_detail.html
{% if object.public_galleries %}

This photo is found in the following galleries:

{% for gallery in object.public_galleries %}

{%previous_in_gallery object gallery%} {{ gallery.title }} {%next_in_gallery object gallery%}

{% endfor %}

{% endif %}

No more errors, but pictures do not show up. If you click on the link will still lead to correct photographs to see. I think the problem in:
{{ object.get_display_url }}

It is totally not return any value.
Please help me solve this problem. Thanks!

A: Did you run python manage.py plinit after install and opt to create both a thumbnail and display photosize? These photosizes need to be defined in your database.

A: Honestly from looking at the source, it looks like a bug in the project. If you search the source, thumbnail doesn't seem to be a field within the Photo class (get_FIELD_url is an easy way to access an ImageField's url btw.) So I would recommend tinkering with the source or finding another project. I might be wrong though but that's what my ~5 minute scan of the project found.

A: In other versions, you have to edit photologue/templates/photolog/tags/next_in_gallery.html and replace
{{ photo.get_thumbnail_url }}

with
{{ photo.thumbnail.url }}

Same for photologue/templates/photolog/tags/prev_in_gallery.html.


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Joe obtained his law degree with honors from the Georgetown University Law Center while working on Capitol Hill as a legislative aide handling issues such as health care and education and later while interning for the office of the vice president. After law school, he served as an attorney in the White House as deputy assistant to the vice president. As part of the vice president's senior staff, Joe was then the youngest deputy assistant to the vice president at the age of 25. In this role, his responsibilities included functioning as the final substantive control point before information reached the vice president, managing complex policy and political issues, and representing the vice president's interests on all policy matters within the administration. Joe also had TS/SCI clearances and handled countless classified documents related to foreign and national security policy.
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E-books in libraries: a snapshot of publishers' models
October 30, 2014 Jenny3 Comments
The good news: E-books are available to library users in most places for free (well, you know, taxes, but only a very tiny amount of the taxes you pay actually go to supporting the library [PDF]. We do a lot with a little).
The other news: E-books are still mostly only available to one person at a time (the "one copy, one user" model); the physical restrictions of print books are artificially imposed on e-books, despite the fact that the technological capability exists for an unlimited number of people to read an e-book at one time (the "simultaneous use" model). To enforce the 1C1U model, e-books come wrapped in Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology; enter private, third-party vendors in all their clunky, privacy-invading glory.
But at least e-books are cheap, right? Not to libraries, they aren't. While consumers often see deals on e-books, and prices are generally lower than print books, libraries get gouged. Depending on the publisher's model (see below), prices for a single 1C1U book may be as high as $90.
A note: I appreciate that publishers are dipping their toes into strange and scary waters with the whole e-book thing, and that no transition is without hiccups. I also believe that books have value, whether they're printed on paper or in e-ink; what you're paying for isn't the dead tree matter, but the work of the author and editor, as well as the other services publishers provide, like publicity, marketing, and distribution.
On the other hand, it would be nice if publishers, in turn, recognized libraries' role in the book ecosystem: we are both customers (there are more libraries in the U.S. than McDonalds, and we buy a lot of books) and promoters. Readers discover new books and authors at the library, and often go on to purchase those books.
Publishers and libraries share the goal of getting books into readers' hands, or onto their e-readers. But it can be frustrating for librarians to buy e-books for their libraries, not least because every publisher has a different set of lending rules. In Overdrive, for example – the third-party e-book vendor that the Minuteman Library Network uses – here's what we've got from the "Big Six" publishers (Penguin and Random House have merged, but still retain different models), all of which only offer the 1C1U model:
HarperCollins: 26 checkouts, then the book expires and needs to be "purchased" (licensed) all over again.
Penguin: 1 year of unlimited downloads ("unlimited" in the sense that there isn't a 26-checkout cap like HC, but it's still a 1C1U model)
Random House: Books do not expire, but are very expensive.
Macmillan: 2 years or 52 checkouts, whichever comes first. Previously, Macmillan would only sell to individual libraries, but recently they have made their titles available to consortia.
Hachette: Books do not expire, but are only available to individual libraries, not consortia.
Simon & Schuster: 1 year, and requires the added "feature" of a "Buy It Now"* button, so readers who don't want to wait in line for the e-book from the library can choose to buy it from another service instead.
*The add-BIN-or-no-books-for-you blackmail was not received well at all by librarians. Personally, I am much more concerned about Amazon collecting reading data from Kindle users, and Adobe collecting data from everyone; it's an invasion of privacy with no choice to opt out, whereas the BIN button does not cause users to purchase a book accidentally if they only mean to borrow. Protecting patrons' privacy and confidentiality is a core value of librarianship.
Another core value is resource sharing, which makes some publishers' refusal to sell to consortia particularly aggravating. (The books are the same price regardless.) Being part of a larger network of libraries offers tremendous advantages to the people we serve. It allows libraries to specialize somewhat, by developing a foreign language collection, for example, and eases some of the "a lot with a little" burden. (Academic libraries face the problem of not being able to share digital materials because of publisher and vendor restrictions as well, which is a threat to the InterLibrary Loan (ILL) system on which they rely.)
So that's a little snapshot of where we are now, at least those of us using Overdrive as a vendor. There are those who are trying to break out of this mold (e.g. the Douglas County Libraries, and now the Massachusetts State E-book Project), and their efforts are admirable, especially considering the significant hurdles they face. It may be a brave new world, but it has librarians in it.
NELA 2014: The Youngish Leader on Changing Direction
October 22, 2014 JennyLeave a comment
Stand Up and Shout: The Youngish Leader on Changing Direction, Zach Newell and Peter Struzziero (Monday, 4:30pm)
Peter and Zach presented a polished talk on some of the challenges of being a young leader in libraries. Peter is the director of the Winthrop Public Library (MA), and Zach is the Humanities Librarian at Salem State University (MA). In addition to their experience in NELLS (the New England Library Leadership Symposium), both have been involved on several committees at the local, state, and regional levels; this is one way to acquire leadership experience as library staffs shrink and the middle management level disappears. With little or no middle management, the route to the top is quicker, but people aren't always excited to step up; they may fear they're underqualified, or they may not want a different job than the one they have. However, Zach and Peter pointed out, younger/newer librarians can use other experiences and committee work as leadership training, and they can learn on the job by listening and observing.
Being a library director is "a different job from librarianship" – you're removed from the "front lines," and have to deal with things like union negotiations, staff issues, the budget, statistics, old buildings, new websites, and new programs. As Zach said, "We never stop to admire a job well done, because it's never done." (While it's true that we're always working toward our goals, I do think there's time to appreciate progress and achievement.)
Building relationships is essential; communicate with staff and with others in the town and community, even/especially when you don't need anything from them.
Get involved in the community. Be a familiar friendly face. Go to Town Hall meetings.
Take risks to make positive change.
Recruit good Trustees, and build a Friends group if there isn't one (or if they all quit on you…)
Get involved in your town library board (if you live in a different town than the one you work in)
Collect before-and-after stats to illustrate progress; "the proof is in the pudding."
Consider the future of libraries, but also YOUR future.
Look at job postings for library director jobs, even if you don't feel ready yet. See what skills and abilities are required. ("You may be ready now, even if you don't feel ready. You never feel ready.")
There are lots of places to acquire MBA skills without actually getting an MBA. Try edX, lynda.com, and TED talks; ask for informational interviews. There are also NELA and ALA (ALSC, YALSA, NMRT) mentoring programs.
Tweets from the session:
Citations and references:
Jordan, Mary Wilkins. "Developing Leadership Competencies in Librarians." IFLA, 2011. [PDF]
McChrystal, Stanley. "Listen, Learn…Then Lead." TED Talk, 2011.
New England Library Leadership Symposium (NELLS)
Sinek, Simon. Leaders Eat Last: why some teams pull together and some don't. New York, Portfolio/Penguin, 2014.
Are you a library leader? What's your #1 tip? Share in the comments.
NELA 2014: Library Corps of Adventure
October 22, 2014 October 22, 2014 JennyLeave a comment
Library Corps of Adventure! Looking at Libraries Across the Lewis & Clark Trail, Mary Wilkins Jordan (Monday, 2pm)
This presentation had very little to do with my day-to-day work at my library, but it's good to go to at least one of those sessions during a conference. Mary Wilkins Jordan is a popular professor at the Simmons School of Library and Information Science (SLIS, formerly GSLIS), and she didn't disappoint in this session. As we wandered virtually along the Lewis and Clark trail (not really just one trail, it turns out), Mary covered the following:
Coming up with the idea: she ended up driving more than 10,000 miles across ten states in three months
Obtaining funding: a Kickstarter plan failed, but the word got out to library listservs across the country, and librarians – surprise! – were happy to help
Researching libraries, museums, and historical sites along the trail
Planning, packing, preparation (including logistical hurdles like "no car")
Her trusty GPS, Jane, and the danger of accidentally turning off the "stay on paved roads" option
The cool libraries she found along the way, including at least one with cats available for checkout (Someone on Twitter responded to this news: "Wait…living cats?!" Yes. Living cats. They had barcodes on their collars.)
The difference between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams and private dams*
A library with plexiglass-esque floors (Actual question from the audience: "Does everyone wear pants at that library?" Answer: Yes, but that may be coincidence – the floors aren't actually see-through.)
The different information needs that people have in different areas, and how that information is communicated
Seeing ALA's summer reading theme (Fizz Boom Read) in action in libraries from Missouri to Oregon
Seeing a community get into the "Geek the Library" campaign
Encountering new topography ("Everything in Washington is up a very steep hill. I don't know how they do it but everything is uphill") and dangers ("An interesting thing about the West is that it catches on fire ALL THE TIME")
Observing that libraries are struggling for funding, but still doing great things in their communities
The importance of seeking better information, not just accepting the first information you find. (Seek better information, find cleaner bathrooms!)
Interesting facts about Lewis and Clark's traveling party ("Everyone lived. Everyone but one guy. He died of appendicitis. It was no one's fault")
Photos of various historical sites along the way
The lack of diversity in library staff
The different ways libraries are working in and with their communities ("Community involvement is critical")
*I made a terrible, obvious pun about this on Twitter, to which the US ACE responded:
Mary's talk was entertaining, and she said she's planning to write a book about her experience, so stay tuned. The data analysis stage, apparently, is less fun than the travel stage, but she's looking at the size of communities she visited, how many libraries were Carnegie buildings, how many and what kind of programs they offer, and whether or not they have a strategic plan.
"Everything is amazingly beautiful."
One of the unique things about working in a library is the opportunity to visit other libraries to see what they do differently and what's the same. If you have a job in a regular office, you probably don't see a lot of other people's offices, or at least you have to make an appointment with someone to do so. With libraries, you can just walk in and look around anytime they're open. (As Gina Sheridan says, "What makes a public library amazing is that we welcome everyone. Everyone!") I like to visit other local libraries when I can, and I try to visit libraries when I'm traveling as well, but I've never made an official project out of it (though I do enjoy stealing cool display ideas). Vermont librarian Jessamyn West, on the other hand, is working on such a project: she's going to visit all 183 of Vermont's libraries, and Mary's project reminded me a little bit of hers.
Are you a library tourist? What are some of the coolest/strangest things you've seen in libraries?
NELA 2014: Peter H. Reynolds
Picture book author and Massachusetts local Peter H. Reynolds spoke at the New England Roundtable of Teen and Children's Librarians (NERTCL) luncheon on Monday at 12:30. He gave a very engaging presentation, including slides and video, and he did an original drawing that was raffled off at the end of his talk (see easel in photo below).
Though I love picture books, I hadn't encountered The Dot before – or Ish or The North Star – but now I'm a fan. Reynolds' books are colorful, and they celebrate art and creativity in a way that doesn't bang the reader over the head with a moral.
He's also very quotable:
"Art is one of the last playgrounds we have left."
"Story is one of the most powerful technologies we have."
"Creativity needs funding." Tell your policymakers! Turn STEM into STEAM*, and remember that creativity isn't confined to art class – it should be encouraged in other subjects too.
"Vision: to be able to see something before it exists."
Ask kids: "Who are you?" and "Who do you want to be?" Remember those are two different questions. Tell them, "You are not the test score. You are not the data."
*Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics
Peter H. Reynolds at the NERTCL luncheon at NELA, Boxborough, MA, October 20, 2014.
NELA 2014: Programming for Millennials
Cross-posted at the NELA conference blog.
Mixing It Up for Millennials: Library Programming for 20- and 30-Somethings (11am)
In this panel presentation, three librarians shared their experiences creating library programs to attract that elusive 20s-30s age group. Carol Luers Eyman from the Nashua Public Library (NH) presented "A Night Out for 20-Somethings," an after-hours event at the library where 20-somethings could meet each other and see what the city's community groups and organizations had to offer. The event was from 6:30-8:30pm on a Friday night (after work, but "before the real parties started"). There was no alcohol, but library staff made the space look less "institutional" with tablecloths, (fake) candles, couches and chairs, a piano player, and refreshments. To promote the event, they went above and beyond the usual press release, contacting new teachers, young journalists, personal acquaintances, young library employees, older library employees' kids, etc.; they also extracted patron e-mail addresses in the 20-29 age range and sent one e-mail notification. The "Night Out" attracted 62 attendees (not including the 39 who just wanted to get into the library, not there for the event).
"Make programming social."
Sarah Moser is in charge of programming for adults at the Haverhill Public Library (MA), and she said, "You never really know what is going to attract this group." Art and music programs have done well; a Scrabble tournament and a community writers program flopped. The most successful regular program is the monthly book club, Get Lit. The library established a partnership with a local restaurant, the Barking Dog Ale House, where the group meets one Thursday evening each month. Holding the library program outside the library removes preconceptions about the library, and creates a looser social environment. Moser has had success in reaching out to authors on Twitter, where they are happy to re-tweet about book club events, and the group regularly attracts 10-15 people.
Kelley Rae Unger (Peabody Institute Library, MA), a former YA librarian, brought the concept of the Teen Advisory Board (TAB) to the realm of adult programming; she organized a 15-person focus group and created an Adult Programming Advisory Board, which meets 3-4 times a year; there is a mix of ages, interests, and genders. There was less enthusiasm for one-time or one-shot events, and more interest in multi-week or repeating events. Everyone on staff at Peabody runs some programming, in line with their interests ("teach what you know"), which include coffee roasting and beer brewing; volunteers from the community run programs also. They are active grant writers, and have funded many programs through grants. They have offered book clubs, programs about budget travel, a film discussion group, and cooking classes; in their Creativity Lab makerspace, they have offered silk screening, 3D printing, computer programming, Arduino, and woodworking. People register for events online, and events are promoted through a Constant Contact newsletter and the facebook page. Instruction is always free, though attendees may need to provide their own materials.
"If you own this story, you get to write the ending." -Brene Brown
Not every program intended to attract people in their 20s and 30s will do so, but that doesn't mean libraries should give up on this demographic. Involve community members in brainstorming, planning, and teaching; reach out and form partnerships with organizations and businesses in the community; and advertise creatively.
What cool library programs have you had? Share ideas in the comments.
NELA 2014: Consent of the Networked
Cross-posted on the NELA conference blog.
Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC) Keynote: Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom, Rebecca MacKinnon (Monday, 8:30am)
MacKinnon pointed to many excellent resources during her presentation (see links below), but I'll try to summarize a few of her key points. MacKinnon observed that "technology doesn't obey borders." Google and Facebook are the two most popular sites in the world, not just in the U.S., and technology companies affect citizen relationships with their governments. While technology may be a liberating force (as envisioned in Apple's 1984 Superbowl commercial), companies also can and do censor content, and governments around the world are abusing their access to data.
"There are a lot of questions that people need to know to ask and they don't automatically know to ask."
MacKinnon noted that our assumption is that of a trend toward democracy, but in fact, some democracies may be sliding back toward authoritarianism: "If we're not careful, our freedom can be eroded." We need a global movement for digital rights, the way we need a global movement to act on climate change. If change is going to happen, it must be through an alliance of civil society (citizens, activists), companies, and politicians and policymakers. Why should companies care about digital rights? "They are afraid of becoming the next Friendster." The work of a generation, MacKinnon said, is this: legislation, accountability, transparency, and building technology that is compatible with human rights.
It sounds overwhelming, but "everybody can start where they are." To increase your awareness, check out a few of these links:
Consent of the Networked (website for the book)
"Let's Take Back the Internet" TED Talk
"Hugs for YouTube" video
Age of Internet Empires (a map illustrating the most visited website by country)
The Economist's Democracy Index (2013)
Freedom on the Net (2013)
The Web Index: "Designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation, the Web Index is the world's first multi-dimensional measure of the Web's growth, utility and impact on people and nations."
International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance (Necessary and Proportionate)
Big Data and Civil Rights (civilrights.org)
Global Voices Advocacy: "We seek to build a global anti-censorship network of bloggers and online activists dedicated to protecting freedom of expression online."
Research on youth and privacy by danah boyd
NELA 2014
On Monday, October 20, I'll be at the New England Library Association (NELA) Conference. I'm looking forward to seeing several librarian friends, meeting some new people, and attending some excellent programs; I'm especially looking forward to Rebecca MacKinnon's keynote (despite its much-too-early time slot – 8:30am?!). I'll probably be on Twitter throughout the day (@itsokihaveabook, #NELA2014) and may do some blogging for the conference blog, http://conference.nelib.org. If you're a New England librarian, I hope to see you there.
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Dancer, Artist Enlivens Death Valley Junction In 1967 a flat tire led dancer and artist Marta Becket to Death Valley, an opera house — and her life's work. Today, she no longer dances, but she continues to attract an audience.
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In California's Death Valley, temperatures in the summer can exceed 120 degrees, not such a great place, one might argue, for ballet. But dancer Marta Becket would disagree. Four decades ago in the near-ghost town of Death Valley Junction, Becket turned a ramshackle meeting hall into what she calls an opera house. It's just outside the boundary of Death Valley National Park, in the middle of empty desert. But people from around the world who are traveling to the park also travel to see Becket perform.
NPR's Ina Jaffe has this profile as part of our series this week on the national parks.
INA JAFFE: At 83 years of age, the dancer of Death Valley is no longer dancing. But once a week, the audience still comes to see Marta Becket perform what she calls "The Sitting Down Show."
On a Saturday night, the 80 or so people in the audience nearly fill the small theater. Ramon Mentor, a Los Angeles TV producer, is here for the first time.
Mr. RAMON MENTOR (TV Producer): I know that there won't be anything like this ever. She's one of a kind. I just want to experience it completely.
JAFFE: My first experience with Marta Becket was 20 years ago. She was in her early 60s then. Long past the time when most dancers retire, she still danced on point, pirouetting to classical music in a white froth of the costume. Her theater was an accidental discovery, she told me then.
In the spring of 1967, she'd been touring the West with her solo act. Her husband was having a flat tire repaired at a service station down the road, and she was drawn to an abandoned old auditorium, she said, as if by a magnet.
Ms. MARTA BECKET (Dancer and Painter): Oh, I came around the back and looked through the hole in the backdoor. It was dark, very large, dark cavern, and sunbeams pierced through the cracks in the walls would hit a doll's head that stared back at me and kangaroo rats were running around. And I could see an old calico curtain hanging from a track. And I really did feel as if I was looking at the other half of myself. Like I was looking in a mirror.
JAFFE: So Marta Becket - native New Yorker, occasional ballerina and veteran of Broadway - made the tiny dilapidated Death Valley Junction her new home. She renamed the old theater the Amargosa Opera House and gave performances three times a week.
Ms. BECKET: And the performances kept on going regardless of whether anyone showed up or not. And…
JAFFE: So sometimes you perform to a completely empty house?
Ms. BECKET: Oh, yes. Oh, yeah, that was like a dress rehearsal. A dancer has to work. I mean, you have to have even a dress rehearsal so that you have something there when someone does show up.
(Soundbite of applause)
JAFFE: Twenty years later, she takes the stage leaning on the arm of an assistant. She's still raven-haired and elegant in her blue velvet gown. She no longer needs to dance to draw the admiration of the crowd; her life is her major creation.
Ms. BECKET: Thank you so much. It's taken me 40 years to get that kind of applause without having to do anything.
JAFFE: The stories of Becket's early days in Death Valley Junction now make up a good part of her sitting down show. She tells the old tales the way she did 20 years ago, just her voice has changed.
Ms. BECKET: The people who lived here were very strange and very rural to us and, of course, we were strange to them. Later on, a few years later, I wrote many musicals depicting my experiences here in Death Valley Junction. And I wrote a song that was the overture to it, and I'll sing that.
(Singing) Once I was a chorus girl on Broadway, thought that I would be a big star someday. The years went by, so with a sigh I realized that I was never going to make it on the Great White Way.
JAFFE: But Marta Becket has become a star of sorts. She's been the subject of documentaries and magazine articles. Tourists passing through Death Valley have spread her reputation around the country and the world. And her story is bound up with the derelict theater she transformed into an opera house.
Ms. BECKET: I looked up at the blank white walls and I envisioned a Renaissance audience seated in gilded balconies waiting for the performances.
JAFFE: So she painted them. It took six years.
Ms. BECKET: I have royalty in the center and nobility on the left and the right. The Spanish bullfighters, families on the lower left.
JAFFE: The murals envelop the audience. The ceiling has doves and cherubs. Filling the galleries along the sides are courtiers and commoners, lovers and drunkards, priests and nuns.
Ms. BECKET: Right next to the nuns, in this spot in here, I have the ladies of the night. Now, we were seven miles west of the bordello, and the madam heard that we were opening this theater and so she brought her girls every month to my performances, for culture.
JAFFE: And in fact, Becket's husband worked at that bordello. That may have contributed to the failure of her marriage. She was divorced in 1983. That same year, a local man named Tom Willet became her emcee, her performing partner, and soon, her close companion. He died suddenly three years ago. She missed one performance and went back on stage - another chapter in the Marta Becket legend.
Mr. TOMMY JORDAN (Musician): She gives me courage.
JAFFE: Says Tommy Jordan after the show, a musician from Southern California. He guesses he's seen Becket perform 10 or 20 times.
Mr. JORDAN: It's so rare to find someone living their life on their own terms. Maybe someday I'll be more like that.
JAFFE: Being like that was not always so revered, says Becket.
Ms. BECKET: It didn't matter if people thought I was crazy, because whose life is it, theirs or mine?
JAFFE: Were you aware of that, that people sometimes thought or seem to act like you were…
Ms. BECKET: Oh, yes. Somebody did a picture of me dancing to a painted wall.
JAFFE: Making fun of you?
Ms. BECKET: It made me like a freak because I was dancing to a painted audience. I was hurt, but it's not going to stop me because this is what I wanted to do.
JAFFE: Marta Becket is now coming up against the limits of the uncompromising life she's chosen. She's now the sole resident of Death Valley Junction, she's set up a nonprofit organization in hopes the town will go on without her. But she knows that she's what people really come here to see.
Ms. BECKET: No way can I retire. Who's going to pay the bills?
JAFFE: Would you prefer to retire, would you prefer to not perform anymore?
Ms. BECKET: No, I want to perform, but I like to perform maybe not quite so much. Spend more time painting. I'd like the option to decide whether I want to retire or not. I have no option. I've got to keep going.
JAFFE: Because she has to keep her opera house alive, she says, the way it's sustained her life for four decades in the desert.
Ina Jaffe, NPR News.
NORRIS: You can see photos of Marta Becket's 40 years of dancing in Death Valley at npr.org.


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Malachi 3:8
8 "Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How are we robbing you?' "In tithes and offerings.
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8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
8 Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?'In your tithes and contributions.
8 "Should people cheat God? Yet you have cheated me! "But you ask, 'What do you mean? When did we ever cheat you?' "You have cheated me of the tithes and offerings due to me.
8 "Begin by being honest. Do honest people rob God? But you rob me day after day. "You ask, 'How have we robbed you?' "The tithe and the offering - that's how!'
8 "Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me!" You ask: "How do we rob You?" "[By not making the payments] of 10 percent and the contributions.
Malachi 3:8 Meaning and Commentary
Will a man rob God?
&c.] Or "the gods"; the false gods, the idols of the Gentiles; the Heathens will not do that, accounting sacrilege a great sin, and yet this the Jews were guilty of: or "the judges" F3, as the Targum; civil magistrates; will any dare to defraud them of their due? see ( Malachi 1:8 ) . Yet ye have robbed me;
keeping back from the priests and Levites, his ministers, what was due to them; and which, being no other than a spoiling or robbing of them, might be interpreted a robbing of God: But ye say, wherein have we robbed thee?
as not being conscious of any such evil; or, however, impudently standing in it, that they were not guilty: to which is returned the answer, In tithes and offerings;
that is, they robbed God in not giving the tithes, and not offering sacrifices, according as the law required: but it may be objected, that the Jews in Christ's time did pay tithes, even of all things; yea, of more than the law required, ( Matthew 23:23 ) ( Luke 18:12 ) to which it may be replied, that though they gave tithes, yet it was (her Nyeb) , "with an evil eye", as Aben Ezra says; grudgingly, and not cheerfully, and with an evil intention; not to show their gratitude to God, and their acknowledgment of him as their Lord, from whom they had their all, but in order to merit at his hands; besides, our Lord suggests that they did not give to God the things that were God's, ( Matthew 22:21 ) and the apostle charges them with being guilty of sacrilege, ( Romans 2:22 ) and, moreover, the priests might not give it to the Levites, as they ought; and which is what they are charged with in ( Nehemiah 13:10 ) and Grotius says that they were guilty of this before the destruction by Vespasian, as appears by Josephus.
F3 (Myhla) "deos, vel judices", Calvin, Drusius, Grotius.
Malachi 3:8 In-Context
6 "I the LORD do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.
7 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says the LORD Almighty. "But you ask, 'How are we to return?'
9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me.
10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
Cross References 2
1. S Zechariah 5:3
2. S Leviticus 27:30; Numbers 18:21; S Nehemiah 13:10-12; Luke 18:12