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Q: DotNetNuke call to wcf service to GetModule(ModuleId) fails - Objects reference null exception I am working on DotNetNuke version 7.4.
in my Setting.ascx client side code of the module that I'm creating, I have a jquery ajax call to a wcf service which is supposed to get the module Information for the moduleId I pass to the method of the service.
When it creates new instance of ModuleCotroller, the Factory property inside the moduleController  is null.
thus trying to GetModule fails with following error:
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if (moduleController != null)
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I have added all nesseary config info required for DotNetnuke as well as the dlls.
Can someone please guide me what I'm missing.

A: I don't quite understand what you are trying to do, but you want to use the ModuleController factory to return the instance like this:
var modInfo = DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.ModuleController.Instance.GetModule(moduleId, tabId, false);

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Q: How to use Multer to upload a file in two different directories? I'm new in using nodejs and multer and I want to upload an image but in two different directories. I tried using two different middleware but since the first multer function returns a file destination I couldnt use it to upload in the other multer function. Is it possbile to upload a file using multer in two different directories?

A: Create multiple storages and call them at the same time.
Example:
const app = require("express")();
const multer = require('multer');

const storageA = multer.diskStorage({
  destination: function (req, file, cb) {
    cb(null, './storageA/');
  },
  filename: function (req, file, cb) {
    cb(null, file.originalname);
  }
});

const storageB = multer.diskStorage({
  destination: function (req, file, cb) {
    cb(null, './storageB/');
  },
  filename: function (req, file, cb) {
    cb(null, file.originalname);
  }
});

const destA = multer({ storage: storageA });
const destB = multer({ storage: storageB });

function fileUpload(req, res, next) {
  destA.single('file')(req, res, next);
  destB.single('file')(req, res, next);
}

app.post("/", fileUpload, (req, res) => {
  res.json({ file: req.file });
});

app.listen(3000, () => {
  console.log("Server started");
});

The uploaded file will be store in ./storageA and ./storageB.
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Content Directories at the Zindra Vortex
By Innula Zenovka, November 21, 2011 in General Discussion
Qie Niangao 2,364
Heh. That is an odd way of putting it, but I suppose anybody who is age-verified does have access to Zindra. So, technically, it's correct.
It's obvious to old hands like us that they would also have access to all Adult-rated sims (modulo restricted-access having nothing to do with maturity rating), Mainland Zindra or otherwise. To newbies, however, it's at least confusing, if not downright misleading.
If the idea is to give "Zindra" some differentiation from Adult-rated regions in general, well, I'd support that as an earned quality, but not as a trick of wording (nor SEO, for that matter).
Ginette Pinazzo 17
ZHV is a public area...fully shared resource. Just because it doesnt accept advertising doesnt mean its not shared. Has this not been made clear to you? I dont have adverts for my business there, you don't, BBQ doesnt...no one does. We don't envision meshing the adfarm mentality with a public sandebox/mentor/outreach center.
Talk to Vortex staff and users, besides me. Demonizing an individual (such as myself) is an old distraction technique used to stir up mobs and it's a hate tactic. Please refrain.
And 'it does not look good on you. ' is your perspective. Always preface that kind of statement as being 'in your opinion'...because really, that's all it is.
One 'blatant refusal' Ill HAPPILY admit to, is maintaining the simple standard refusal of any private advertising on LL land. I think you (and your competitors) could see the sense in that.
For the 100th time, linkage to the rest of Zindra is easy to do, and can be done quickly, if you dont think its there already, so why do you keep bringing it up? You really are repeating yourself ad nauseum. This was stated many times in this thread already. Can you say 'thanks'? Are there not enough dead horses to beat where you come from?
ASIDE - nothing draws residents away from the immersive nature of SL more than these forums. Think about it!
Please be consistent. If you are NOW complaining that Zindra Votrex is so hard to find, what on earth are you doing in this thread? You seem to contradict your own thesis. If ZHV is so hard to find, then Id think youd be happy (based on your arguments to date).
We dont rely on search or even DG to attract visitors to ZHV. W/o any real LL marketing effort (before listed in DG etc) ZHV had great results from DAY ONE. We used our OWN marketing. A lesson here for anyone listening.
LL's primary job could be argued to bring in new signups. They are not primarily setup to market or advertise specific businesses or lifestyles etc. That is the duty of residents. If you stop relying on LL to do any marketing for you (even for their own public sndbox/help center) you are free to really do it yourself and be far more effective.
And that is one big reason Vortex has a resident staff. Its LL land managed by resident staff. This way the best marketing can happen and no one has to wait 8 months for changes.
If you dont like the way its being managed, get involved and join staff or teach classes, etc. Thats a real simple lesson: if you dont get involved in something (and prefer to just observe and complain), you really arent providing creative investment and havent earned credibility yet to affect changes within a group. Get involved. It's real simple to do.
Now THAT is a true issue, Gavin/Counter. That DG listing needs tweaking regarding that wording. (easy to fix.....ZHV staff will get it done asap)...satisfied?
But its funny, the simple fact of that oversight shows you that ZHV is part of Zindra and was always planned as such. That exact langauge was written by LL....so its safe to assume they think of ZHV as part of Zindra.
Innula Zenovka 2,908
Ginette Pinazzo wrote:
Please be consistent. If you are NOW complaining that Zindra Votrex is so hard to find, what on earth are you doing in this thread? You seem to contradict your own thesis. If ZHV is so hard to find, then Id think youd be happy
(based on your arguments to date).
I am simply pointing out that, since you pride yourself in all these valuable services you offer people in order to help with retention, it seems a bit odd that the main way anyone ever seems to find out about them is by accident.
If I ran a group or venue that attempted to encourage new residents to learn about content creation, business start-ups and how to build, I (not being an expert in marketing, I admit) would try to make sure that new residents looking for assistance and tuition in these areas could find me in search.
I would not rely on their stumbling across my group's valuable services by accident when they were looking for something else.
Gavin Hird 59
Innula Zenovka wrote:
*^ THIS ^*
PS, it is called stealth marketing.
Huntress Catteneo 14
Well finally got from start to end on this thread, I will admit I did a bit of skimming in places since a lot was the same old rubbish thrown around a few times.. ok a lot of times.
So what did I see?
Most posts, HEAPS of posts, not really about the subject.
Lots of the usual ZE and ZA angst, oh really act your age people, you are adults after all, I know this as you must have been verified, so LL says you are adults.
A name, a name, it's all about names. The name of places, alts, people, things, in the scheme of things is not that important (save your arguments for and against, heard them and not interested, much like many other people). Just makes me think of the old school saying sticks and stones.... (Oh, plus that was not the main thrust of the start of the thread either).
People seem to be under the impression that Vortex is 'run' by ZE and/or Gina. WRONG Vortex has it's own little group, and it is definately NOT run by Gina. We are a group, all have input, and we all throw in our ideas etc and decide as a group. Most ideas and actions that have been carried out over the last few months at Vortex have had little or no component put in by Gina. Like others she has certainly put ideas in though , same as others.
Vortex is not available to everyone, or people have been chased off. Really? Damn I want to know who has that power and grab them every time there is a griefer, as we who look over things there sure can't do anything, we are toothless tigers, that can only use our charms to ask the trouble markers to please move on, thankfully quite a few do, but it is a lot of work.
Vortex is not relevant as noone really uses it anyway, and it does not benefit the mainland in anyway? That idea is definately WRONG, but I will forgive the misconception since few spend as much time there as the Vortex help crew that run to answer the lamp calls and put aside all that other work they are trying to do (hey what is a little lost time when putting together and running a sim wide arts event?). And what do they want help with? Well it the lamp rubbers aren't doing it just to see what it does, then they usually want to know how and where to go on the mainland and more importantly where to find the sex. The y do actually just say "where do I find the sex?", I personally find that honesty about what they seek refreshing.
So people do come, and they do want tho know how to find stuff, so that part comes part to THE ACTUAL TOPIC yayyyyy
Well I do not like 'directories' and 'guides' like ZA's or for that matter anyone else's. They are biased, they promote places and businesses over others. "Oh but all are welcome to apply to be on it" Slight problem with that, most don't know it exists never mind how to apply, therefore yep, it is open, but it is still wayyy biased. Not saying what any are doing now is wrong, or in anyway deliberate, it is a damn hard thing to do and be fair to every single resident.
I turn up, and get asked "How do I find the sex?"
Well my friend it is like this, yes there is loads of places out there, and we all like different things, and I can't say what is best for you, so open your map and zoom out a bit. Make sure you have people ticked on so you can see all the little green dots, which are people. Usually the places that have LOTS more dots than the others are sex places, use the map and click to one you think might be worth trying. You can always TP back out if not a good choice, and it can be a great adventure zapping and walking about. And guess what... they do usually like it, and I have just sent someone off to join the mainland in the most unbiased way I can atm.
What I would want to see in a guide, directory, info hub or whatever, is a listing of what is in every sim. If there was a program to just detect who or what group owned each bit of land in a region, put that in a directory. Can't do that? somone goes to each region and record who/what is there, and updates every now and then. Too much work? Too many regions? 10 people could do 34 regions each, 20 could do 17, keep breaking it down, not so bad, pay a few a small amount to do it. No-one should have to join someone elses group, it should not rely on all having to know it exists.
Ok, back to ArtFest for me, nice place, ever evolving with artists moving in all the time and starting to build, should hop over, it's in the desination guide and runs another month. relaxing and fun, as life should be... damn that wasn't too unbiased was it? > ~
Couple of comments here:
1. The directory functionality you are looking for is called SEARH. If people care to tick off the "Show in search" for the parcel or items on the parcel, it will show in search (hopefully). It may not rank very well, and I don't believe anybody finds it particularly fair. It is not free, but it is open for all to use.
The Zindra Directory is a service for our members, to promote our members and their businesses, venues, groups or events to a larger audience than they can manage alone. If you don't want to join the open enrollment Zindra Alliance, the directory is not for your content. That's all it is – like it or not.
2. The issue about naming Zindra is really not so much Vortex's issue as it is Linden Lab's issue. It has simply surfaced because you can no longer teleport to the Zindra continent without getting seriously wet (from map search.) At the end of the day, it is really only Linden Lab who can rename the sims, as they own them.
What struck me - and many with me, was that Zindra Help Vortex, being one of two map locations bearing the name Zindra, did not have any information about the continent and how to reach it whatsoever. So someone suggested putting the Zindra Direcory there, and off we went.
Personally I don't care if the Zindra Direcory is in Zindra Help Vortex or not. It is not going to make any difference. That place is totally irrelevant when it comes to marketing 85% of Zindra.
Vortex is listed in Zindra Directory and represented with a display at Zindra Arena as we want to include and help promote non profit locations of that nature.
Huntress Catteneo wrote:
I was under the impression that Vortex was run not by a group but by LL, same as any other sandbox. There's plenty of groups that do very valuable work that run their own sandboxes -- Virtual Ability, Builders Brewery, NCI and so on -- but they're all private groups operating on land they pay for. Why is the Vortex the only LL sandbox that operates this way?
And guess what... they do usually like it, and I have just sent someone off to join the mainland in the most unbiased way I can atm.
I'm sorry, but that's exactly the issue. About 90% of the Adult grid is private regions. Why, when people looking for Adult Content find their way to the Vortex by mistake, do you only direct them to the 10% or so of Adult Content that's on the Mainland?
The Vortex is supposed to be a non-premium Adult Sandbox, full stop. What's the special connection with the Mainland and why is an LL-owned group apparently displaying a bias in favour of recommending Mainland venues when the group's owners show no such bias in their selection of destinations in the Destination Guide? I don't have a problem with Zindra venues being specifically recommended, but if that's happening I'd also like to see the Adult Section of the LL Destination Guide displayed alongside it.
I'm starting to wonder if the cleanest and simplest solution isn't for the Vortex to be renamed so Zindra isn't mentioned -- no one seems to have thought it necessary to call the premium Adult sandboxes "Zindra" anything, after all -- so as to avoid people looking for Adult Content finding themselves in a sandbox by accident, and for the Vortex group to carry on its valuable teaching activities in the same way people like NCI, Virtual Ability and Builders Brewery do -- on its own land.
That would mean the group could readily deal with griefers and wouldn't find its core activies of teaching and mentoring disrupted by people looking for virtual sex. It would mean that people looking for Adult Content in General or the Zindra Mainland in particular could more readily find what they were looking for, and might mean that people looking for help with building and business start-up advice could more readily find what the Vortex has to offer.
They don't even do that because 85% of all content on adult mainland (Zindra) is commecial (it was close to 100% when it was populated), and the Vortex group seem to be under the impression all things commercial is evil.
So in reality they cater to a very limited section of adult content. ... which is why we have this discussion I suppose.
I support the name change of removing Zindra from the name of the Vortex sim (as previously stated.)
Thanks for the dose of reality Huntress! You are one who puts endless effort into the Vortex with the rest of the team there and its greatly appreciated by many. You have seen the Vortex grow and its impact on countless residents, as many of us have. There is always room for tweaks, and evolutions and that works well when you build on a foundation of success.
Let's all move forward and build, rather than rewrite history or devalue residents' previous and ongoing work. I support the Vortex teams' work and the continuing mission of the ZHV, which happens to include a well publicized roadmap with sound philosophies and principles.That type of foundation combined with innovation (ZHV is intentionally unlike other places in SL)
We don't need to see everything as compeition. Adults can participate in cooperative solutions. It just takes soem listening skills!
Huntress Catteneo wrote in part:
Ok, back to ArtFest for me, nice place, ever evolving with artists moving in all the time and starting to build, should hop over, it's in the desination guide and runs another month. relaxing and fun, as life should be... damn that wasn't too unbiased was it? >
I still think there should be some sort of directory at the Vortex landing point, but in reality, even if it's there, new arrivals are still going to ask "Which way to teh sexxors?" And "look for green dots on the Map" is probably a better answer than listing one's own favorite spots.
Ideally, there'd be some unbiased tool for matching the seeker's interests -- which is kind of what Search is supposed to do, but that can only work when the seeker knows enough about the universe of options available in Adult SL to know what they want and how to describe it.
For those new to Adult SL, I think browsing through some options is a lot more welcoming than starting with text Search.
Personally, then, I would favor starting newcomers with the Adult Destination Guide, as I said earlier. I like that it's curated by the Lab. (Yeah, sure, it could be all FIC-biased, but I certainly have no evidence of that, and frankly I've grown bored of that particular paranoia.) I like that it's easily navigable in the viewer; I mean, it's more inviting to browse through that Guide than it is to scan a categorized list of landmarks in a notecard.
The only problem is that it doesn't much lend itself to an in-world display without some technical help from a Linden, and possibly some minimal development. The benefit, however, wouldn't be limited to Adult content -- not at all. It would mutliply the use and usefulness of the Destination Guide, all across SL.
Why is the sky blue, why is the grass green, If one thinks a place should only be run just like the others (damn have the sesame st song in my head now), then why ask that something be put there that is not like the others? Other ll owned sandboxes have promotional material for businesses etc?
I'Innula Zenovka wrote
m sorry, but that's exactly the issue. About 90% of the Adult grid is private regions. Why, when people looking for Adult Content find their way to the Vortex by mistake, do you only direct them to the 10% or so of Adult Content that's on the Mainland?
Care to make your mind up about what you are arguing about (and I mean all people here), it seems very much like you want to just argue and harass each other, fine example to others of being the adults you want to represent. Very much the same as the meetings that many come to once, watch the carry on, and leave never to return. throughout this thread there has been a lot of lets have it both ways, which as I said just seems to say lets stir things up.
I hate going back over past stuff and having to remind people of what is said, but I am as capable as others here, so lets see 2nd post by Innula:
My point is that, if you look for "Zindra" on the map, the Zindra Vortex is all you find, apart from the ocean, and it just seems a bit odd that there's not much information there about Zindra the Continent.
So which is it? All the meetings I was going to ZA (343, 343) and others were all about the Continent/mainland, that has changed now? Suits me if it is all adult places, I own an island, but the meetings were always strongly advocated to be about the mainland. By all means change focus folks, but please don't pretend that is how it has always been.
Innula Zenovka wrote
Well it is different because it is run by a group that is set up and owned by LL that the helpers at Vortex are part of. If you want to know why it is like that, I guess you better ask them, I certainly don't know why it came to be that way. What I do know is it is (aside from the new premium boxes that most people I know can't use), it is one of the friendliest, cleanest, and less harrassment suffering boxes I know of. Many users there coment on it compared to normal LL sandboxes, which they refer to as being a nightmare. Private ones? Yep lots, I am part of a great one, my friend a couple, but they have their issues for people, and you are often easily banned from them for very simple transgressions.
Gavin Hird wrote:
Thankyou for listing Vortex, always nice to have some promotion.
Directory is for the ZA members. You must be one to be in it. That is the problem many have. The other problem is how do people learn about the group, and sadly like othe organisations, it is not seen as an unbiased one (few groups are, it is the nature of having lots of humans together).
As I said, I do the most unbiased method I feel I can atm and until recently it would actually work for ALL adult content since you just zoom out and there were the islands you could zap to as well. I say recently, since the last time I opened my map, the mainland is surrounded by deep dark blue, as far as you care to scroll, so I guess now it really is isolated, but hey, my viewer was probably just having a bad day again and others still see all the islands. I am getting used to the mounting glitches with every viewer update.
re my last post, sorry, but I have no idea how to do the quoting thing properly, so my post is a little hard to read and I underlined nothing, I have no idea how or why it did that.


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Green is the co-creator, writer and exec producer of the WGN series Underground, who is now working with exec producers Jordan Peele and JJ Abrams on Lovecraft. She is co-creator, writer and exec producer of the upcoming HBO series. She is also writer and producer of the Netflix film The Mother.
Niija Kuykendall will oversee for Warner Bros. Green is repped by CAA and Del, Shaw, Moonves.
The deal comes after Sony set a new version of Super Fly and as New Line preps a reprise of Shaft that Tim Story will direct with Samuel L. Jackson returning as the original Shaft's nephew, with Jessie T. Usher playing his son, and Richard Roundtree, who originated the character, back as well. Netflix acquired the foreign on that film, and will play it on its international streaming service two weeks after it opens.


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Ambulatory Surgery Centers Play Important But Shifting Role in NJ Healthcare
Andrew Kitchenman | June 22, 2015 | Health Care
Industry, traditionally run by doctors, trends away from standalone, out-of-network operations toward mergers with hospitals
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Ambulatory surgery centers have long been predominantly doctor-owned and independent from hospitals, but this is rapidly changing as the industry increasingly moves to merge with hospitals.
In addition, it was once common for the ASCs to not join insurance networks. But that has come to be seen as no longer viable, even before legislation was proposed to rein in higher out-of-network prices.
But while those two trends are reshaping ASCs, their importance in providing outpatient surgeries is growing, as hospitals look to move less risky medical procedures to less costly locations.
Roughly 40 percent of ASCs in New Jersey are now part of larger health systems, up from just 10 percent five years ago, according to Mark Manigan, an attorney who represents ambulatory surgery centers.
"That's just going to continue to grow," Manigan said, adding that "there appears to be just a boundless amount of capital" available for healthcare mergers.
Doctors began to launch ASCs in the 1970s and 1980s, partly as a way of moving away from the control of hospitals. With the mergers, things have come full circle.
One factor driving the change is the move away from a healthcare payment system in which providers are paid based on how many of medical services they provide and toward onein which providers are paid based on whether their patients have positive health outcomes.
This change is leading providers to invest in technology that helps them manage patients' health, as well as to better coordinate patients' healthcare. But ambulatory surgery centers were traditionally too small to make the necessary investments in technology. In addition, the centers frequently focus on a single specialty, which doesn't leave them in a strong position to coordinate patient care.
Manigan said the potential downsides of merging ASCs with hospital systems, including loss of independence, are outweighed by the benefits of being better prepared for changes in healthcare delivery.
"If you don't have scale, you're going to have a hard time dealing with that," he told a crowd of ASC executives at a recent conference of the New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers that was hosted by Manigan's firm, Brach Eichler, at the Borgata in Atlantic City.
Henry Bloom, whose healthcare consulting company, the Bloom Organization, advises ASCs on mergers, said they weren't merging with with hospitals a decade ago.
"Today, I will tell you that 80 percent of our transactions involve a hospital in some way," Bloom said, adding that many of the deals involve four or five parties: the ASC itself, an ASC management company, a hospital, and one or two physician groups. This enables the entities involved to expand the number of patients they serve.
The Philadelphia-based Rothman Institute – which operates three ASCs in South Jersey – is an example of the type of organization that's thriving in the changing landscape. Never entirely separate from hospitals (it has an academic affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, the institute is planning its fourth New Jersey facility and is looking to expand to the state's central and northern regions.
[related]The move away from being out-of-network is contributing to the trend, as doctors look to attach themselves to larger organizations, such as the Rothman Institute, that are inside insurers' networks.
"Many of these folks, they would not have talked to us, quite frankly, especially some in the north, because they were doing quite well on an out-of-network basis," said institute CEO Mike West. "They're very, very nervous now, and they would like us to … help them."
The Rothman Institute has partnerships with the AtlantiCare and Kennedy health systems.
West pointed out an advantage of ASCs working with hospitals: the ability to match the level of risk for different patients with the least costly health setting.
In the case of the institute, for instance, surgeries can be done at a major academic medical center like Jefferson, at a community hospital, at a specialty hospital, or an ASC, depending on the patients' health and individual risk factors.
ASCs are seeing a wider variety of regulators investigate their practices at both the state and federal levels, a group of Brach Eichler lawyers warned center executives.
NJAASC President Larry Trenk said that the merged entities essentially have the best of both worlds – the scale and information-technology infrastructure of hospitals, combined with the entrepreneurial spirit of the doctors who lead the centers. He said that hospitals value what the ASCs bring to their systems, and don't want to interfere with that.
But Chris A. Holden, president and CEO of Tennessee-based ASC operator AmSurg, said he's concerned that the industry will be affected by a generational change he's seeing among young doctors, who are less likely to be attracted to independent practices.
"How do we keep them engaged? How do we keep them feeling like owners?" Holden said. "I just don't want to lose that" entrepreneurial approach."


Amino acids are organic compounds, which contain functional groups of amino as well as carboxylic acid. An amino acid is a compound containing carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and in some cases sulfur. All these compounds form the basis of proteins, which are essential for our health and wellbeing.
These elements bind together forming chain and giving rise to things, which, in turn, create life. In fact, this involves a two-step process. In the first step, these elements bind together to form peptides or polypeptides. These groupings subsequently make proteins.
There are 20 diverse types of amino acids that form proteins. Each of these types determines the shape or form of the proteins. The common amino acids include glycine, glutamine, tryptophan, phenylalanine and valine. Among these, three of amino acids, tryptophan, phenylalanine and valine, are considered as vital amino acids in humans. Others are leucine, isoleucine, lysine, threonine and methionine. Since our body is unable to synthesize these types of amino acids, it is necessary that we ingest them through food.
Tryptophan is among the most familiar essential amino acids. This particular amino acid is responsible for various vital functions in the human body. Tryptophan not only aids in inducing normal sleep, but it also helps in lessening depression, anxiety and risk of artery spasms. At the same time, this amino acid helps to make the immune system stronger. Perhaps, tryptophan is best known for its ability in serotonin production. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is associated with good sleep.
It is interesting to note that various amino acids comprise roughly 75 percent of the human body. Amino acids are necessary for almost all bodily functions as well as the entire chemical reactions occurring inside our body. In fact, the chemical reactions largely depend on the amino acids as well as the proteins developed by them.
It is important for every one of us to ingest essential amino acids daily through our food. In fact, the absence of any one of these essential amino acids may cause a condition called protein degradation, as unlike in the case of starches and fats, the human body does not accumulate essential amino acids for future use.
Amino acids are extremely essential for building the assortment of proteins required by our body for growth, repair as well as maintenance of the tissues. Actually, amino acids play numerous vital roles in the human body, i.e. in promoting our health and protecting from diseases. For instance, the amino acid alanine is essential for promoting appropriate levels of blood glucose from proteins consumed through our diet. Alanine helps to encourage production of lymphocytes and may also be beneficial for people struggling with immune suppression. It has been established that alanine works to reinforce the immune system by means of antibody production.
Similarly, our immune system uses L-arginine to aid in governing the thymus gland activities. In fact, the thymus gland produces the antibody called T lymphocytes. Moreover, our body makes use of arginine to manufacture nitric acid, which is an endogenous or internally derived messenger molecule that is involved in various types of physiological effects on our cardiovascular system, especially those that are dependent on endothelium. Asparagine is required in our central nervous system (CNS) to sustain equilibrium - avoid extreme nervousness or being extremely calm. On the other hand, aspartic acid possesses the aptitude to shield the liver from toxicity due to certain drugs and, at the same time, protect our body from damages due to radiation.
The amino acid carnosine dissolves in water and, as far as its role in shielding the cell membranes from damages caused by oxidation is considered, it is a viable counterpart of vitamin E. It has been established that L-carnosine endorses aging healthily as well as cellular rejuvenation. These effects of this amino acid are attributed to its two means of action - glycosylation and foraging as well as eliminating free radicals. Cysteine helps to reinforce the protective lining inside the stomach and intestines. This lining may be susceptible to damages caused by use of aspirin and other similar drugs. Glutamine is another essential amino acid that offers a number of health benefits, including preventing oxidative stress, regulating the immune system, nitrogen shuttling, promoting intestinal health, muscle preservation, protecting from injuries and several other health advantages.
Glycine is another essential amino acid with inhibitory properties. This amino acid is responsible for various vital functions, both centrally as well as peripherally. Glycine may also be recommended to aid in alleviating the symptoms related to spasticity. Another essential amino acid, histidine is vital for maintaining the myelin sheaths that enclose the nerves, especially the auditory nerve. Histidine is often employed for treating a number of types of hearing disabilities. The amino acid isoleucine is essential for the most favourable growth of infants and also to maintain the balance of nitrogen in adults. Leucine is also an essential amino acid and it is employed in the form of a source for synthesizing blood sugar in our liver, especially during stress, starvation and infection. It is known to help in healing all these conditions effectively.
The essential amino acid lysine is employed for dealing with as well as preventing the excruciating and horrid condition known as herpes, which is attributed to the herpes simplex virus or HSV. Another essential amino acid methionine is not only a potent antioxidant, but also a lipotrope. In other words, this amino acid facilitates the removal of unwanted fat from the liver.
Phenylalanine is another essential amino acid, which is employed for curing depression, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, vitiligo, menstrual cramps, Parkinson's disease and even cancer. The amino acid proline is present as a vital ingredient of specific wound dressings, especially those using collagen pieces to promote wound healing. On the other hand, serine is required for metabolizing fats and fatty acids. This amino acid also plays a vital role in healthy muscle growth and reinforcing the immune system.


I have to admit that prior to hearing Elliott Masie talk about "learning agility" last week at the virtual Human Captial Media Symposium for CLOs , the concept was not on my radar. It appears that there are at least three definitions of learning agility being used in the field.
Modern organizations need agile learners. The most successful employees will be those who embrace the change and seek out learning when, where, and how they learn best. In other words, they must be agile learners. They write that agile learners….
These are my live blogged notes from Jay Cross & Clark Quinn's LearnTrends session on Reinventing Organizational Learning. Article they wrote for CLO mag: "Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer&#. Need to be more agile & change. If you don't know the solution & need to network/collaborate to find it, that's learning. Clark: "we're the people who've retained our love of learning despite our education&#.
This is a future in which workers are smarter, more agile, and more innovative. The Purpose of Business is Learning. But none of this is possible without learning. To survive and thrive today, industries need innovation which is essentially about learning.
I recently co-hosted a webinar with Cindy McCauley from CCL© on Making Leadership Happen, at Scale. During the webinar we took the opportunity to ask the audience their views on leadership and leadership development. which we need to apply leadership skills is shifting.
I have argued in previous blog posts that organizations need a learning culture because training is not sufficient to develop the necessary competencies of 21rst century workers. For one thing, the learning from training events is often not transferred to the workplace.
Organizations must be learning constantly to ensure survival. So, what are the leadership skills for "…complex, ambiguous, and uncertain environments"? In a time of disruption, leadership has to be about continuous development of the people around you.
What and how people learn is changing dramatically. Digital technology has opened the door to new learning formats and created a demand for new, more fluid types of training and development efforts. We need agility in learners and in learning interventions in organizations.
The DBT Center says that this will require "digital business agility" and their research suggests that the underlying capabilities are: Hyperawareness – ability to gather and analyze data from employees, contractors, customers, competitors, and the marketplace.
One of the keys to creating and sustaining a learning culture is hiring people who are continuous learners and who help others learn continuously. Edgar Wilson, in a post on e.Mile , writes that a "healthy" learning culture has four features: . It's learning ability.
Your primary responsibility is to lead people into a 21st-century knowledge economy that supports and sustains learning over everything else. Learning is the critical differentiator in the knowledge economy. How you manage that learning is the new competitive advantage. The lesson is clear: Corporations must learn to listen to their customers and employees or face the consequences.
In a December 6, 2016 blog post titled " Managing Minds, Winning Hearts ", I wrote: …workers will have to be smarter, more agile, and more innovative than ever.
We are now in the "Knowledge Economy" which means that we must learn differently than we have in the past. As I wrote in a previous blog post titled, The Manager's Abridged History of Work and Learning : . This has profound implications for how we manage workers and how we facilitate learning in the workplace. The book, Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies on Leadership in Global Business, reports that 47 percent of U.S.
We are now in the "Knowledge Economy" which means that we must learn differently than we have in the past. As I wrote in a previous blog post titled, The Manager's Abridged History of Work and Learning : .
@ ignatia (Inge de Waard) describes MOOCs thus in her Master's Thesis: "MOOC is above all referring to a pedagogical model with independent learners, access to information, opportunity to create emerging, spontaneous, yet not directed learning communities, etcetera.
I recently wrote about the challenges of integrating social learning in the workplace. Social Learning and social business go hand in hand. To facilitate social learning, an organization has to become a social business first.
The remaining tasks will require individuals who fundamentally think differently about work and learning. The key question we (as L&D/HR) need to think of is how are we going to support workplace learning to build such skills in the workforce?
How does someone who went to college to become a high school math teacher end up leading learning at Nordstrom? We are learning all the time about our evolving workforce — what matters to them and what helps them do their best work," Schlueter said. "We Pivoting to Learning.
ABOUT CLARK QUINN (Learning Technology Strategist): Clark Quinn, Ph.D., helps organizations align technology with how we think, work, and learn. ABOUT THIS INTERVIEW SERIES: ' Crystal Balling with Learnnovators ' is a thought-provoking interview series that attempts to gaze into the future of e-learning. It comprises stimulating discussions with industry experts and product evangelists on emerging trends in the learning landscape.
Organizations, i.e., the business leaders and executives are not interested in learning. Until and unless L&D can clearly and unambiguously articulate the responses to these questions, business will continue to view ESNs and collaborative learning/collaboration with scepticism.
LinkedIn has become quite a juggernaut in the corporate learning market. And the company just threw down the gauntlet; it's now announcing it has completely opened up its learning platform to external content partners.
Each area is critical today in building an organization and an organizational culture that will not only attract the best employees but will also provide them with the necessary platform to give their best. As L&D, we need to build in capabilities like agility , resilience and creativity.
From Agile to xAPI and everything in between, there are a lot of eLearning terms to get your head around. Active Learning. Active learning is a strategy focused on encouraging learners to actively participate in training. ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning). Learning Path.
This requires corporate universities to keep learning assets such as course materials up to date and faculty current with new developments in their professional areas. Traditionally, research is the domain of major academic universities, not corporate universities.
Changing the role of managers is a wrenching organizational change. Dan Pontefract, Head of Learning and Collaboration, TELUS, told us: Leadership is for all, but front-line and middle managers hold the key to the actual development of individual contributors.


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Meet the delegates: JL Merrow
On May 11, 2013 May 24, 2019 By Josephine MylesIn Meet the delegates5 Comments
Today we have the lovely Jamie Merrow, fellow Meet organiser and Chief Publisher Wrangler. And Jamie, I think I might be able to make your Meet wish come true! 😉
1) Tell us about yourself in 100 words or fewer.
I grew up on an island (http://www.visitisleofwight.co.uk/) and spent most of my childhood flitting between the beach and the local library, which had a museum filled with the remains of local dinosaurs on the upstairs floor. Despite all that reading, I came to writing somewhat late in life, nervously making my first foray into fiction in 2007. Oddly, I don't think I've ever written anything about dinosaurs *starts plotting m/m remake of One Million Years BC with guys in furry Speedos*.
2) Tell us something about you that might come as a surprise!
I jived for Cambridge University. There's nothing like energetic Latin American dancing for keeping the weight off. Unfortunately, I've done nothing like energetic Latin American dancing for years….
3) What do you like most about the LGBTQ genre?
The people, which probably sounds corny and clichéd, but is absolutely true!
4) What are you most looking forward to about UK Meet?
Apart from the Meet itself: revisiting Manchester's fabulous gay village. The guys at Taurus were all so welcoming when Jo Myles and I scoped it out last year, and the Richmond Tea Rooms is a venue straight out of Alice in Wonderland.
5) If you had one wish which would come true at UK Meet, what would that be?
To see Charlie Cochrane blowing Nigel Owens's whistle Jo Myles modelling her handmade corset! 😉
Jamie's email: jl.merrow@gmail.com
Website: http://jlmerrow.com
Blog: http://jl-merrow.livejournal.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jl.merrow
Twitter: @jlmerrow
Introducing the sponsors: Dreamspinner Press
On March 25, 2013 May 24, 2019 By Josephine MylesIn Introducing the sponsors
To continue our series of regular blog posts introducing our marvellous sponsors, here's our Chief Sponsor Wrangler, Jamie Merrow.
I'm delighted to introduce another of our sponsors, Dreamspinner Press, who've been with UK Meet since 2012. I've always had a soft spot for Dreamspinner Press, who were one of the first m/m publishers I ever plucked up the courage to submit to, way back in 2009. They had a call out for an anthology to be called Sindustry, and I loved the theme so much I sent them two stories. It seems I wasn't the only one taken by the idea – the anthology eventually ran to two volumes (which was lucky for me, seeing as I could have a story in each) and is still in print today. 🙂
Since then, DSP have continued to send out imaginative anthology calls—recent themes have included older lovers, superheroes, and bad sex—and to be willing to take a chance on unknown authors. Here's what they say about themselves:
Dreamspinner Press is an independent publisher specializing in gay romantic fiction with print, eBook, and audiobook releases, and titles translated in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Hungarian. We publish everything from short stories to full-length novels and multi-novel series in genres including contemporary, historical, mystery and suspense, science fiction, fantasy and paranormal, BDSM/kink, steampunk, transgender, Western, and humor, along with our own Bittersweet Dreams, Timeless Dreams, and Itineris lines. In March 2012 we also launched a GLBT young adult imprint, Harmony Ink Press.
Founded in January 2007, Dreamspinner Press released its first title in May of that same year. Over the intervening years, production has increased to at least eight titles a week. Currently Dreamspinner has more than 550 authors from six continents and 1,700 titles published or contracted. Its website has over 20,000 registered users, and readers can receive information about new releases through Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, various Yahoo! groups, and the Dreamspinner Press blog and monthly newsletter.
In addition to publishing, Dreamspinner Press supports the GLBT community through sponsorship of events such as the Rainbow Book Fair in New York and a number of local Pride festivals. Dreamspinner has contributed a portion of profits from its titles to organizations such as the Family Equity Council, COLAGE, It Gets Better Project, Service Members Legal Defense Network, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of New York City, Lambda Legal, Mass Equality, and the Trevor Project.
JL Merrow
JL Merrow is that rare beast, an English person who refuses to drink tea. She read Natural Sciences at Cambridge, where she learned many things, chief amongst which was that she never wanted to see the inside of a lab ever again. Her one regret is that she never mastered the ability of punting one-handed whilst holding a glass of champagne.She writes across genres, with a preference for contemporary gay romance and the paranormal, and is frequently accused of humour.
Introducing the sponsors: Less Than Three Press
On February 25, 2013 May 24, 2019 By Josephine MylesIn Introducing the sponsors3 Comments
To kick off a series of regular blog posts introducing our marvellous sponsors, here's our Chief Sponsor Wrangler, Jamie Merrow.
I'm delighted to introduce one of the sponsors of the 2013 UK GLBTQ Fiction Meet, Less Than Three Press. Of course, attendees of the 2012 Meet will be familiar with LT3 already, as this is their second year of involvement with UK Meet.
I first encountered LT3 when I was looking for a home for a lesbian fairy tale I'd written (LT3 publish gay, lesbian and trans* romance). At the time I thought LT3 somewhat unusual in that, as well as standalone ebooks, they publish serial fiction. Since then I've noticed serialisation has become increasingly popular.
Here's what LT3 say about themselves:
Less Than Three Press is a strong presence in the GLBTQ romance community. Together with a network of highly talented editors, artists, and writers, LT3 provides quality fiction, priding itself on stories that put substance first.
LT3 can be found wherever romance writers linger, advertising across the internet and at various conventions. The company is committed to professional integrity, offering strong editorial support to its talented writers, and excellent customer service.
Always looking for ways to please its readership, LT3 is constantly looking for new ways to reach out and offer quality fiction, from traditional print to digital, with plans to expand into interactive novels and other media formats.
LT3 is a labor of love between three women who wanted to write and publish books, but wanted to do it their way—with other people who love what they do, for people who love to read great romance, with high-quality, well-edited stories that are also affordable, engaging, and always come with that famous happy end.
And just in case there are any of you wondering, as I did, where the name came from, here it is:
The 'less than' symbol followed by the number '3' (as in <3) is the text emote for a heart.
As LT3 say, what better symbol for a publisher of romance?


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Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield October 25, 2012
At the start of this year, at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show, Honda's luxury arm Acura wooed the crowds with the world premiere of its NSX hybrid supercar concept. At the time, Acura promised its new flagship car would be on the roads for 2015 and ran a Super Bowl ad so popular, it crashed Acura's website. Now it looks as if Acura has moved its production schedule forward, with plans to premiere the production-ready re-imagining of its iconic supercar at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show in January. As Auto Express reports, the cat was let out of the proverbial bag by one of Honda's...
Acura NSX Hybrid Roadster Revealed In Avengers Promo
Cool cars have always played big parts in movies, and now it's the turn of the Acura NSX Roadster, set to appear in The Avengers. The roadster version of Acura's hybrid sports car was spotted on set during filming last year, but Acura has now revealed that the NSX Roadster will be used by Tony...
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Thirty years ago, bedrooms all over the world were adorned with pictures of supercars like the Ferrari 288 GTO, Ferrari Testarossa, Porsche 959 and Lamborghini Countach. At that time, very few of us worried about gas mileage, fuel economy or oil prices. All we wanted was a fast, sexy sportscar...
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The chances are by now that even if you didn't watch Super Bowl XLVI, you've watched all of the new TV ads which aired during the event last Sunday. That means you'll also have seen the hilarious debut advert for Acura's 2015 NSX Hybrid, staring Jerry Seinfield and Jay Leno...
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When I was growing up, I looked for a savior in just about everyone.
There were too many fruitless visits from child protective services. There were too many police cars that arrived to "quiet things down" only to let them flare up again the next day. There were too many visits to the hospital.The police men, the agency representatives, and even the hospital workers seemed unable to do anything about what they clearly knew was a problem. There were still too many holes in the wall from when the rolling pin aimed at me, missed.
Since those adults were unable to help me, it's no wonder that I started to imagine a hero in my father, whom I did not remember and hadn't seen since I was a toddler. I created a fantasy life where he rode to my rescue. Finally, when I was 12 years old, I met him again. And, of course, while the specific story is complicated, you won't be surprised to find out that the person who had abandoned me when I was a baby wasn't the person who was going to save me years later.
The day I met him, I realized something that would shape the rest of my life: there was no Hero (or Heroine) who was going to save me. I needed to save myself.
So, it's with that life context that I am watching the beatification of Steve Jobs. Google the term, "Steve Jobs tribute" and you get back 5 million plus results. And I'm fairly sure that's an undercount. There's a good reason for this; the Hero Narrative has deep roots in our culture. We find it in history books and religions, in our sports teams and, yes, even in our corporate cultures. We obsess. We deify, as if there is a single defining idea of how innovation works, what makes a leader great, or how success happens.
This is not new. It is the idea of The One and it shows up in many ways: Who will be the next leader of the free world? What nation will be the next superpower? Which visionary company is the single conqueror of industry? (It's Amazon, it's Google, it's Facebook, it's Apple!). And we have it in management disciplines with debates like: isn't it better to have one smart person than lots of ordinary people working for our organizations?
But I wonder if this framework is wrong.
Let's take another look at Steve Jobs's own example. He didn't study other people; he followed his own passions. He didn't seek meaning by trying to emulate someone else's life, or even emulating the winning business practices of his day — as I've written before, he created a clarity of purpose for himself. The same principle can apply to all of us.
I shall not obsess over others' success: not copying, idolizing, or mindlessly emulating.
I shall know my purpose and know why I'm doing something.
I shall ally myself to a tribe with a common purpose, though the tribe's members may work in vastly different fields and forms.
I will make ideas stronger by uniting with others to do great work, not by holding my ideas all to myself but releasing them into the wild.
I recognize the truth in the credo that the future is not created, the future is co-created and will do my part as a part of the whole.
In doing so, we might go from a culture of find-a-fits-the-mold superhero to a system of heroes- and heroines-next-door. We might create, rather than copy. We might initiate, rather than wait for permission. We might see ourselves as powerful enough. We might not believe that solving the many problems around us is someone else's responsibility. We might each be willing to disrupt ourselves, as Whitney Johnson suggests we do. We might reimagine our careers, with clarity of purpose, and this might show up in our work with others. We might just transform the organizing principles of the places we work. We might even end up reinventing our economy. We might recognize just how connected we are.
For my own situation when I was a kid, once I realized there was no hero coming to save me, I found ways to manage the situation. I said "enough" to what was going on. I also started to claim the things that mattered, like an education. As a result, I was ousted from my family — but I also started developing the sense of purpose that has led me to the work I do today and the people I do it with.
The cultural change when people know their own purpose and their own power in creating change is what could change everything: for ourselves, for our organizations, and our economy. So, go ahead and buy that Walter Isaacson book. But, let's not obsess over being the next Steve Jobs or starting the next Facebook or [whatever]. Let us, instead, be inspired to find our own purpose in the world, and a tribe of people to do it with.


"We have been systematically exposed to images of people killed in genocides, wars, fugitives for refuge, terrorist attacks, and other death camps or mass murders, which are terrible, often depicting thousands of deaths. However, the truth is that, despite the suffering they generate, we quickly recover from this feeling and, most of the time, we do not talk about it very much. The news runs in the press and by social networks, it is created, of some way, a certain collective interpellation that, soon after, is replaced by photos of food dishes and selfies on Facebook. "
To read the full article (in portuguese only) click here.


Thanks for the review of Carol's book — I'll have to get it!
I enjoyed your mention of Pasadena in the 50's — that's what I was born into — tho my parents soon moved to Arcadia and became more of the horsey set. I went to many parties in some of those gorgeous old Pasadena homes growing up.
Thank you for your review of Skylark! I look forward to reading it.
I was alive at that time period but too young to know what was going on around me on the civil rights and arts scenes. I did wear dresses and tops with spaghetti straps, though!
I love fiction and will definitely read it for the New Thought focus and historical insight.


To be regarded as a bit of a worrier is seldom regarded as a positive thing. It tends to go hand in hand with being regarded as a bit pessimistic or overly cautious. You're a weak link who looks at the negative side of any debate. Maybe you even lack the confidence to follow your instincts and take that risk.
It would be wrong to label worrying as a purely negative characteristic however. After all, there are times when being able to sense danger or prepare for threats is a useful attribute to have.
A recent study goes as far as to suggest that being prone to a good bit of worrying is far from a negative trait, but is, in fact, a sign of your intelligence.
The study saw participants surveyed with the aim of uncovering how they feel about a whole range of psychological measures. These included anxiety and worry, depression, social phobias, verbal intelligence, rumination, dwelling on past events, non-verbal intelligence and even exam anxiety. Quite a mixture if you have all of those!
The last of these measures was of particular importance to the study because it allowed researchers to separate the kind of anxiety that emerges in particular circumstances from the kind of anxieties that are more inbuilt. They could then see if smarter people tend to worry more.
Once they stripped out the circumstantial worriers, it emerged that people who tended to worry more often, and would also reflect on their worrying, tended to do better on tests for both verbal and non-verbal intelligence.
Of course, it wouldn't be quite right if the research didn't provide the worriers something to sweat about. The researchers also found that when people tended to dwell on past events, this was found to correlate negatively with non-verbal intelligence. In other words, when people dwelled on the past, they tended to score lower in non-verbal IQ tests.
So why was this form of worrying apparently harmful to our intelligence, whilst other forms weren't? The researchers suggest it's all down to how verbal and non-verbal intelligence is processed in our brains.
"...more verbally intelligent individuals are able to consider past and future events in greater detail, leading to more intense rumination and worry. Individuals with high non-verbal intelligence may be stronger at processing the non-verbal signals they interact with in the moment, leading to a decreased need to re-process past social encounters," they suggest.
Suffice to say, we should be mindful not to worry too much about the results of this study. The sample size used was not huge, and it was not done under clinical conditions. We should be careful before drawing too firm a conclusion from it therefore. There have been other studies that have drawn a broadly similar conclusion, however, in the sense that when we're good at ruminating, it suggests we're more verbally intelligent.
All of this, however, might help put your mind at ease if you happen to be something of a worrier yourself.


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Standing ready
The East shudders in the path of hurricanes. The Midwest lives under the cloud of tornadoes. The West waits for an earthquake called The Big One.
And the Northwest, according to a recent story in "The New Yorker" magazine, can expect "The Really Big One." We just don't know when.
The damage from such a quake is so unimaginable most residents try not to imagine it. Fortunately, the University of Washington Bothell has someone thinking about the unthinkable. Say, for example, violent shaking turns a Discovery Hall lab into a hazmat zone, an evacuation route has been planned and posted on a wall. Student should look for the evacuation route signs near the elevators.
Darren Branum thinks about evacuation routes and plans what to do in a disaster as part of his job as emergency preparedness manager for the campus, working with his counterparts at Cascadia College.
Branum began working at the Bothell campus early in 2015 after moving from UW Seattle where he held the position of fire prevention and life safety specialist.
The Bothell resident is trained as a firefighter, emergency medical technician and emergency dispatcher. A fit 44-year-old, he volunteers with Snoqualmie Pass Fire and Rescue and with emergency management for Seattle Seafair events.
Branum says the "New Yorker" story magnified a worst case scenario, but it did sound the alarm: Beware and prepare.
"It put the fear of God in them and got people talking," he said recently at his office, which is part of the UW Bothell Campus Safety Department.
Disasters, such as the 2011 tsunami in Japan, also motivate people to take precautions. "We try to get on top of that," Branum said. Once something happens, it's too late.
As a young campus, UW Bothell's new buildings are constructed to the latest seismic codes and would likely fare better than many of the older buildings in the region. But earthquakes aren't the only emergencies on Branum's list of potential disasters in need of preparation.
Like the university itself, Branum's job is really about information and prompting people to think.
Not only, What would you do if really big earthquake disrupted life as we know it in the Northwest? But, What would you do without power for three days? What would students do if they couldn't get to class for a week? Or if a fire or water main break closed a building or cut off university computers? What happens if I can't get home?
Disaster planners use the term "business continuity" to talk about maintaining services. On a campus, that means "academic continuity," ensuring that faculty and students continue instruction and learning. A lost week should not turn into a lost term, delaying a degree. Figure out ahead of time how to keep going, working from someplace else, Branum says.
From seven years on the Seattle UW campus, Branum knows students are tuned to the apocalypse – the zombie apocalypse. At events and meetings he talks with students about what they would do to survive a zombie horde. And if they can do that, he says, it doesn't take much more effort to prepare to survive a fire, flood or earthquake.
He promises there will be a zombie-related disaster planning event at UW Bothell.
As a community partner, Branum says it is important to extend awareness and resources beyond the campus. In mid-September, he will invite the university and the public to experience the Shake Trailer. Once inside this trailer, visitors will get the feel of a real earthquake. Other emergency response equipment and resources will also be available.
Also coming up is a meeting in September with Branum, other university officials, the Bothell police and fire departments, the FBI, and other agencies. They will discuss how to effectively respond to various scenarios that could arise on campus.
And in October, a class of about 20 UW Bothell staffers will start a training class for the Campus Emergency Response Team.
Although he lives 10 minutes from campus, Branum keeps an emergency kit and backpack with enough supplies and clothes to live out of his office for three days. The supplies are under his desk. That's where he plans to head first if the Really Big One hits. Then he is likely to be one of the first responders.
-- By Doug Esser for the University of Washington Bothell
A wealth of disaster planning information is available online from the University of Washington Bothell and other websites:
www.uwb.edu/safety/emergency-preparedness
www.uwb.edu/emergency
http://makeitthrough.org
mil.wa.gov/preparedness
http://www.fema.gov/