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INDEPENDENT STUDENT VOICE OF UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY
Valley Life
Equality in animal rights
Should animals be granted the constitutional right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"? Courtesy of stock.xchang
One of the central tenets of American liberty is the principle of human rights. At the very heart of The Constitution lies the conviction that America's citizens inherently possess fundamental civil liberties, but only if these citizens are human.
As part of Environmental Awareness Week, the Ethics Center will present the 25th annual Environmental Ethics Symposium: Animals and the Law, April 5 & 6 in LI 120. The two-day symposium will explore relevant issues and current events about animals and their legal status.
The panel of renowned speakers will include two of the nation's top animal law professors, Kathy Hessler and Pamela Frasch, both from the Center for Animal Law Studies at the Lewis and Clark Law School. Their lectures will contrast and reconcile the ideals of animal activism with America's current legal and educational realities.
Peter Young of the Animal Liberation Frontline is recognized for his civil disobedience on behalf of animal rights. He is best known for his 1997 raids on six different fur farms, which resulted in release of at least 8,000 mink and fox.
Young was sentenced to 88 years in prison for this, but due to a technicality he only spent two years behind bars, according to UVU Professor of Philosophy Chris Foster. Young claims that his participation in the vegan straight-edge scene has had the strongest influence on the course of his life and animal activism. Young will be speaking Friday at 10 a.m.
Ethologist and Primatologist Debra Durham, Ph.D., is an international expert on our "cousins" the chimpanzees. She will be educating the audience about an important recent breakthrough in chimpanzee research: a partial banning of it.
"We want to educate the public and engage students in the active conversation about the role of animals in the law," Foster said. Foster, along with Karen Mizell, organized the conference to address this topic as its importance escalates in relation to agriculture, bio-medical research, food health, the environment, animal ethics and the law. Students from a surprisingly broad spectrum of disciplines and interests will find it rewarding to attend.
The issue of animal rights has long been an ongoing and sometimes heated debate. Some animal activists lobby for greater legal protection of animals, while others claim that animals deserve civil rights equal to those that humans receive. Mounting scientific evidence suggests many animals, specifically the great apes, elephants and dolphins, possess the same capacities for intelligence, emotion and morality as humans do.
Opposition to animal rights comes in many forms as well. Some animal activists, including organizations such as PETA, have come to be perceived as frenzied extremists, not to be taken seriously by the general public.
While most reasonable people would disagree with senseless animal abuse and cruelty, many are essentially uninformed about the actual treatment of animals, the amount of tax dollars used to fund animal experimentation, and the government's sanction of the exploitation of animals for commercial gain, cosmetic testing and medical research.
On average, the general public likes animals. We own pets, visit zoos and aquariums and would cringe to see someone viciously beat a dog.
In answer to a question put forth by Peter Singer, a professor at Princeton University, "Is another shampoo worth blinding rabbits?" most would probably say no, and then wonder if the shampoo in their shower was tested on animals. Public awareness is key to change, but a large-scale shift in public opinion can be a long process.
Should animals and humans dwell as a community of equals? Do animals have intrinsic worth which entitles them to the right to life, the legal protection of liberty and the prohibition of torture? Perspectives will inevitably vary.
Roundtable discussions will be offered at the end of each day. Stop by the Library on Thursday and Friday to listen, learn and share your thoughts and questions.
10–11:15 | Animal Law: In the Real World – In Education
Pamela Frasch, J.D.
Assistant Dean, Animal Law Program
Exe. Dir. of the CALS, Lewis and Clark Law School
11:30–12:45 | Muzzling a Movement
Dara Lovitz, J.D.
Author, Muzzling a Movement
1–2:15 | Speaker's Lunch
4:00–5:15 | Learning from Difficult Cases: Tillikum v. Sea World
Kathy Hessler, J.D., LL.M.
Clinical Professor and Director, Animal Law Clinic
CALS, Lewis and Clark Law School
5:30–6:15 | Roundtable Discussion
10–10:50 | Animal Liberation Above the Law: In Defense of the Animal Liberation Front
Animal Liberation Frontline
11–11:50 | The Activist Attorney
Shannon Keith, Attorney
Founder, Animal Rescue, Media, and Education
12–12:50 | Speaker's Lunch
1–1:50 | Cousins: Chimpanzees and the Law
Debra Durham, Ph.D.
Ethologist, Primatologist
2–2:50 | Jill Ryther, J.D.
3–3:50 | Roundtable Discussion
By Lindsey Nelson
Tags: Chris Foster, Culture, Dara Lovitz, Debra Durham, Environmental Awareness Week, Equality in animal rights, Kathy Hessler, liberty, Pamela Frasch, Peter Young, Shannon Keith, uvu
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It's great to see that such discussions are taking place – the world and civilization has come so far – this type of thing is constant reminder that history will always move in the direction of liberty, equality, and justice for all living beings.
Two centuries ago some people could be considered others property… no longer.
About century back woman could not vote in any democracy… no longer.
About half a century back blacks and racial minorities would be subjected to governmentally sanctioned inferior status in the southern US, South Africa, etc… no longer.
A few decades back LGBT people could have been jailed for the sexual orientation they were born with… no longer.
As the movements for gender, racial, and sexual equality moves forward so shall the movement for giving dignity and rights to every living being.
Social progress is inevitable – it is natural law of…
[part 2]
…(of) civilizations. As civilizations develop and people become more educated they can understand about what it must be like to be the person being discriminated against. This leads to social change…
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THE gloves are off, and after an encouraging pre-season Coventry put their National Division One ambitions to their first competitive test at Birmingham & Solihull tomorrow (3pm).
Both clubs have recruited strongly over the summer, and Coventry - who start the game with six new faces on the field - believe they have put together a squad which can challenge bookmakers' favourites Worcester and Rotherham for promotion to the Premiership.
"This year we want to be one of the top clubs," said chairman Keith Fairbrother.
"It is a natural progression for us.
"In the first season after the club almost went under we were coming from nowhere. In the second year we put the foundations down for our move to the Butts which took away a lot of resources.
"Last season we turned things round after a coaching hiccup.
"This time, with the stadium plans complete and with the local authority, and everything else in place, we have been able to give our undivided attention to the squad.
"We've definitely recruited better than in other years and we've got a lot more options now.
"Worcester and Rotherham are full-time professionals and are rightly the favourites.
"But I really think the league comes down to six games and what we've got to do is win all our other games, beat both of them at home and perhaps nick one of our games away to them."
After a scare over the late arrival of scrum-half Toby Handley's release forms from the Italian Federation - he played at L'Aquila last season - Coventry start with the side named a week ago.
No.8 Julian Horrobin has recovered from a mouth injury and trained last night.
Birmingham & Solihull also field six of their close-signings season, but winger Andy Smallwood - who left Coventry three weeks ago after a contractual dispute - is on the replacements bench.
B&S finished their debut season in the division two points above the relegation cut-off after drawing five of their 26 games.
Their biggest losing margin was 15 points, and rugby administrator Keith Jervis is hopeful that the players he has brought in can turn more close games their way.
"It's going to be a very competitive league again and I don't think there is too much between some of the sides, so it is a question for us of turning draws and narrow defeats into wins," he said.


Since Nashville is near Memphis, TN, I felt that I may have a chance at some incredible barbecue. Bar-B-Cutie was recommended and the long lunch line showed promise. We waited thirty minutes to be served, which set me up with empty hopes.
The baby back ribs looked promising, but all hope was lost as my teeth discovered that they were overly cooked. They tasted okay, but the meat pratically fell off the bone and I could taste that they were definitely finished off in the oven.
The barbecue chicken looked institutional, like the middle school lunch lady would award as a penalty for cutting in line. It definitely basked in the warm glow of an oven.
The best part was the pulled pork. It was average and predictable. If you want authentic barbecue, try another joint.
Bar-B-Cutie scores a 2.5/5. I've had worse.


In looking at variable annuity death benefits we should first do a review of what a variable annuity is. A variable annuity is a contract that a person purchases from an insurance company. The insurance company in effect promises to pay you periodic payments for the rest of your life starting immediately or at some future date. In the interim you can invest the money in mutual funds that will grow tax-deferred until you start to take distributions.
Variable annuities will be invested in vehicles that will be affected by the ups and downs in the stock and bond markets. This can be an advantage if the markets climb and a disadvantage if they drop. One benefit is that if the value of the annuity contract drops because of the market movements, if you die before payments start, your beneficiaries will normally receive at least a death benefit equal to the amount you started with. There is an expense built into the annuity fees to cover this feature.
If your annuity account value is higher than the amount you deposited and you have not started receiving income benefits, your heirs will receive the account value if you die. So, it is either the account value or the amount you started with, whichever is higher.
Most variable annuities offer riders that allow you to step-up the death benefit on the contract anniversary date. This means that on the anniversary date the insurance company will look back over the last 12 month period and find the highest monthly amount. They will then lock in this new amount as the new death benefit.
For example, if you deposit $200,000 into a variable annuity that has a step-up rider and at the end of the first year the account value has gone up to $265,000, then the new death benefit is locked in at $265,000. Even if the market drops the following year and the contract value decreased to $170,000 your step-up death benefit remains at $265,000.
This is a good benefit to have if you have a growing family and the markets are increasing. Prices typically don't go down over time, so this gives you a way to increase your family's future financial security. This feature is also very helpful if you are not insurable through a regular life insurance policy. The gains on a step-up benefit may be taxed on receipt as well.
At the time of retirement you can choice to annuitize the payments from your contract. If you are married you can use the joint life payment option. This means that you and your spouse will receive monthly income based on the mortality table for both your lives. In other words, the income stream will be paid while either one of you is live. The payments you receive from the annuity will be smaller each month or year because of this option, but you can be assured that if you die and your spouse lives for 20 more years that they will receive the continued payments until they die.
If you have a variable annuity that is in your name only, when you get to retirement age, you may want to annuitize the contract with a period certain option. This means that the annuity will pay you a set income for as long as you live, even if you outlive the money that is in your account. However, if you die for example in the first year after starting benefits and you have a period certain of 20 years on your contract, your beneficiaries will receive monthly or annual benefits for the remaining 19 years. After that the contract is over.
If you are single and you annuitize with just a monthly income for life and no death benefits, you will receive a higher monthly payment, but if you die in the first or second year, the insurance company will not pay any benefits to your heirs. They will keep the remainder of your money.
When you are purchasing a single life variable annuity, you can attach a rider that adds a living benefit that makes sure that no matter what happens in the stock market and to the value of your account, you are guaranteed a certain annual return on your income base.
This means that you don't have to annuitize when you retire, you can just start taking an income from you account based on the market value of your account or your income base whichever is higher and you still maintain control of your money. If you die, at least your heirs will receive what you put into the account. If you have made gains, then they will have even more benefits.
In conclusion, you will probably be better off if you have both a step-up death benefit so your heirs will have future benefits as well as a living benefit to protect your retirement benefits. Both of these features have a cost though. Before adding them to your contract you should find out how much they will cost. Once you have all the information in front of you, you can make a much more informed decision about what to include.
Again, if you can't get life insurance for medical reasons, having the step-up benefit will be even more beneficial. Making sure that you have living benefits though is the main reason for purchasing an annuity. It is a way to guarantee you cannot outlive your retirement income.
The death benefits are a secondary benefit, but you should make sure that you understand all the options available to you because these benefits may change in importance as time passes and you want to make sure that you and your family are taken care of.


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Universal Deceit
There was an interesting debate held in the House of Commons this week which to us at Wirral Leaks explains everything you need to know about politics (and especially local politics).
Margaret Greenwood ,Wirral West MP and Shadow Secretary for Work and Pensions raised the issue of 'The Secretary of State's Handling of Universal Credit'
As you know – or at least you should know – is that that the current Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is Tatton MP Esther McVey who,of course was Margaret Greenwood's predecessor as MP for Wirral West.
So everything was perfectly set for a political catfight. And as we know no catfight is complete without Birkenhead MP Frank Field getting his catty claws out. He didn't disappoint – well he did, that's what he always does as far as we're concerned, but you know what we mean!
Here is our take on the debate but you can read it for yourself here
Greenwood opens up with :
That this House
censures the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the right hon. Member for Tatton, for her handling of the roll-out of universal credit and her response to the NAO report, Rolling Out Universal Credit;
notes that the Department for Work and Pensions' own survey of claimants published on 8 June 2018 showed that 40 per cent of claimants were experiencing financial hardship even nine months into a claim and that 20 per cent of claimants were unable to make a claim online;
further censures the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions for not pausing the roll-out of universal credit in the light of this evidence;
and calls on the Government to reduce the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions' ministerial salary to zero for four weeks.
And goes on to ask :
Will the Secretary of State apologise for the two points she has failed yet to apologise for to the head of the National Audit Office?
McVey then goes on to a) show up Greenwood for the naive political amateur that she is and b) demonstrate the essential modern political prerequisite for an MP – shameless hardfacedness.
The answer is no, they will not be apologising.
As it is about apologies today—and, as I said, I made my apology straight away—let us go back to another apology. I was hoping that the shadow Chancellor would be here today, because I was waiting for years for an apology for the lynching comment against me. Of course, we never got that apology. As the Opposition spokesperson knows all about that campaign in Wirral West, perhaps she would like to apologise on behalf of her party.
McVey completely wrongfoots Greenwood by attacking Labour Party Deputy leader John McDonnell which means the Blessed Margaret can only come up with the feeble response:
The point that the Secretary of State makes had nothing to do with my campaign in Wirral West in 2015.
Of course it doesn't and that is exactly the point! – and McVey is now allowed to plough on furrowing her own path rather than digging her own grave. However no political pantomime is complete without a Wicked Godfather . Enter stage right Birkenhead MP Frank Field:
An apology: I was in the House when somebody repeated that campaign phrase against the Secretary of State. I was stunned by what was said, and I hope that she will forgive me for not getting up immediately to object to it. I apologise for my total failure to respond as a human being when that was said, and I hope that she forgives me if I do not actually recite what was said, because such nastiness and evil is not directed just at her; it is directed at my hon. Friend Ms Eagle, the neighbouring constituency to the one that the Secretary of State fought. What is occurring is a disgrace. How we stop it, I do not know, but we can at least apologise when it occurs. I am grateful that the right hon. Lady raised it today so that my saying that would be in order.
FFS! Frankenfield spare us the melodramatics . However what follows is a case of Esther and Frank sitting in a tree ,K-I-S-S-I-N-G …or perhaps not!
McVey responds :
I know those words are heartfelt, and I accept that apology. It took a long time for people to come forward. I would have liked those on the Opposition Front Bench to have done so, because they represent the Labour party, and I know that such a thing is not at the heart of the Labour party.
We started off with a ding-dong in the Chamber today. I do not necessarily think that we are at our best in Parliament when we have a ding-dong like that. People watching outside do not understand the real reasons why we, on both sides of the House, came into politics. I put this on the record now: let us work cross-party to get universal credit right. Let us work with third sector organisations to get it right. Let us reach out and get it right, because it affects so many millions of people. We are doing our best, and lots more people are in work, but we can do more. Let us do it together.
Meanwhile whilst Wallasey MP Angela Eagle gets completely sidelined in the debate allowing for this following lovey-dovey exchange between McVey and Field :
One last point: Back Benchers can apologise only for our own action or inaction. That is my apology.
In this debate, one wonders what truth is and what facts are. When reading the NAO report, I reached totally different conclusions to the Secretary of State. I thought the message was that the Comptroller and Auditor General was perplexed beyond belief that he could not recommend to go back or to go forward. There was a clear recommendation that we should pause, and I ask the Secretary of State for that pause—not never to resume the roll-out, but to at least to ensure that we are not inflicting unnecessary suffering, horror and hunger on our constituents, which Opposition Members have certainly registered, and which must have been registered by Members on the other side of the House.
Yes, indeed, but I am really anxious to respond to the Secretary of State's wish that we work together. The building block of working together is to take that key sentence from the NAO report, whatever else it said, about a pause—not to scrap universal credit, but to have a pause—to make sure that in three respects we are not party to inflicting untold misery, horror and hunger on our constituents.
The first is that we do not continue the roll-out until we have universal support. We do not have universal support in the way in which all of us understand the word universal.
Secondly, on real-time information, the experience in my constituency—it must be the experience in other constituencies as well—is that real-time information is neither real nor on time. That is causing the most incredible problems with people's claims. Might we have a pause until we make sure the Revenue can service the Secretary of State's Department in a way that we need for a successful continuation of the roll-out of universal credit?
Thirdly, on debt, on which the Secretary of State could decide today, debts of yesteryear are being found and charged to people on universal credit. The repayment of those debts is overwhelming people. I am not saying that people should not pay their debts, but do we not think that feeding one's children, and ensuring the rent is paid and the heating is on, ought to be at least equal in importance to the repayment of debt? Might I therefore make a plea to the Secretary of State that she looks at the rules—not to scrap the repayment of debt, but the amount that is reclaimed—on debts that most of us will have forgotten?
Esther McVey The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Frank Field Chair, Work and Pensions Committee
I give way willingly.
Again, I thank the right hon. Gentleman for saying that. I want to reassure him. I have not been in post that long to get to grips with absolutely everything on UC, but debt and how it is repaid is precisely what I am focusing on at the moment.
That is wonderful news, but after the right hon. Lady has considered debt and decided on it there is the business about real-time information. This is not under her control as the information is supplied to her by another Department. It is not real and it is not on time, so perhaps she could look at that as the next item on the list. There is also the crucial business of universal support. I tried to claim, but I could not do it in the time. A lot of us need that support to make sure we can make a claim successfully. If we are going to work cross-party on this, there has to be give on the other side as well as on this side.
So there you have it – Greenwood's motion gets tossed into the bog and Field and McVey carry on with their love in, with Frankenfield seemingly having no political/ideological differences with McVey about Universal Credit but merely expressing frustration at the bureaucratic processes associated with its implementation.As far as we're concerned he was more keen about getting his bitchy digs in about the Labour leadership than 'the untold misery, horror and hunger' of Universal Credit . And as for Frankenfield giving way willingly – we're best saying nothing!
All we will say is that if Field donned a blonde wig and a pair of kitten heels would we be able to tell the difference between him and McVey when it comes to Universal Credit ?
Is it any wonder McVey gets away with it?As this Guardian article puts it If Esther McVey's getting away with it, things must be really bad
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Kristin Brodeur, you really can code!
So You Think You Can Code, ebookcraft's design contest, just announced its second-ever winner! Many signed up to prove their coding abilities by creating a beautifully designed, fully accessible, platform-agnostic ebook out of a tricksy, disastrous file riddled with problems. But only one could win.
Congratulations go out to Kristin Brodeur, who brought to her winning entry a careful hand and fine attention to detail. She took home the grand prize: $2,500 and a Kobo e-reader from Rakuten Kobo, a one-year subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud, and a three-month subscription to FlightDeck thanks to Firebrand Technologies.
L-R: Joshua Tallent, judge, Kristin Brodeur, winner, Monique Mongeon, judge, Symon Flaming, Kobo representative. Photo by Yvonne Bambrick.
"I wasn't expecting it for sure, so it was a little surreal but very cool. I put a lot of work into it," said Kristin, after receiving the prize on stage.
The judges, Teresa Elsey (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Monique Mongeon (BookNet Canada), and Joshua Tallent (Firebrand Technologies), relied on an extensive rubric to determine the winner. It used a number of weighted categories, including: fine typography, accessibility, device compatibility, rich navigation, ingenuity/creativity of design, adherence to standards, HTML updated to provide proper semantic markup and inflection, and lastly, catching and revising the errors in the file.
Kristin's submission offered the best reader experience of all submissions received, across different modes, systems, and devices.
The judges were particularly impressed with her pull quotes and her rich, thorough table of contents.
Kristin showed great care to restructure tables and complicated, large datasets into understandable, clean, and smartly designed elements that displayed properly across devices and screen sizes.
Her work reflected great consideration and respect for the text. She structured her file in response to the content's demands and to the reader's desire for streamlining, ensured that it adhered to various retailers' standards, and adjusted for devices both new and (very) old, including mobile. The competition's sample file included a number of images and Kristin responded with care, ensuring that even print-disabled readers could access the content through thoughtful use of alt-text.
Congratulations again to Kristin, and thanks to all those who competed this year, as well as our prize sponsors Rakuten Kobo, Adobe, and Firebrand Technologies.
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9 Essential Lessons For Changing the World
Schools have a standardized system and protocols in place for every aspect of student learning — except one: Schools have no system at all in place to teach students how to bring about change in the world.
Few, if any, schools offer a set of lessons and practices that guides students through the process of how to approach a problem, insist that change can happen and make it so.
If we believe that today's students are society's change agents, creators of innovations that will disrupt the status quo and transform our world, then we need our classrooms to be a place where they experience the changemaking process.
Over the past year, at 8 Choose2Matter LIVE events throughout the country, I have had the honor and privilege of helping 15,000 change-makers realize their potential and extend their reach and ability to make an impact in the world.
I now know unequivocally that all children can be inspired, equipped and mobilized to make a difference in the world, if they understand and are taught the following lessons:
1. You Must Own and Share Your Genius
When we spoke these following words to students: "YOU ARE A GENIUS and the WORLD NEEDS YOUR CONTRIBUTION," we were not just saying it to make them feel good. Each and every one of us has an opportunity and an obligation to take this message to heart.
Our talents and skills are not intended only to be used for our own good. They're meant to be shared as an offering to the world. A gift in the truest sense of the word.
Answering the question, "What is my genius?" holds out the promise of achieving both power and impact.
2. Vulnerability is Power.
At every Choose2Matter LIVE event, every student, teacher, mentor and speaker had the opportunity to tell their story. We listened to story after story of failure, of fear, of humility, of embarrassment, of projects gone wrong, of an idea not turning out as planned or desired. Yet, time after time, these so-called "failures" were in fact life-defining lessons, teachings that led to a transformative experience, a new life purpose and hard-earned success. It's only when we expose our darkest fears and our greatest mistakes that true growth occurs.
3. Don't Follow Your Heart — Follow Your Heart Break
Rather than stressing about finding our elusive "passion," we embraced an attitude of compassion.
Operating much like its close cousin, compassion opens us up to feeling others suffering so we can make ourselves useful to them in their moment of need. Perhaps it should not be surprising that the word compassion derives from the Latin root com and passio, as well as the Greek word patheia. Taken together, this literally translates as "[to] suffer with affection."
In a process we call "HeartBreaking Mapping," we strategically and empathetically explored the suffering happening in the world and worked together to discover ways we could use our talents and genius to be useful to those in need. See this post and also this post for more information.
4. Passion Matters
The world is not changed by people who sort of care.
The world is not changed by learners who sort of learn.
The world is not changed by leaders who sort of lead.
Sort of caring will get you run over by someone who actually does care.
Sort of learning is the path to ignorance-a road that starts comfortably enough, but soon leads to disengagement and despair.
Who changes the world? People who are fiercely passionate
The world is changed by people who are fully and completely, relentlessly sometimes, unreasonably committed to something they love. People with the focus and excitement to bound through the inconveniences and over obstacles.
When you're passionate about your work and about the people you are doing your work with and for, there are no limits to what is possible.
Nothing in this world has ever or will ever be accomplished without passion.
Download my free e-book, "Passion Matters," with all of my best free content about passion in the classroom. Also see the landing page for my book, The Passion Driven Classroom.
5. Take Your Ideas Seriously — We Do
If students have an idea, however big or small or crazy or epic or ridiculous, we asked that they write it down, pursue it and most importantly, share it with others.
Sharing your idea and asking for help can change everything. We practiced sharing our needs and gives and used every new and emerging technology to ensure this happened.
6. You can't do this alone. (Seriously, you CAN'T do this alone).
We are smarter together.
Anyone that's built a thriving business or led a successful project knows this already. You need to surround yourself with people who make you fulfilled, that make you smarter, that support you when you succeed and love you when you fail, that constantly push you to be the best you can be. Collaboration is disruptive – it's replacing competition as the new way to work.
To demonstrate the power of community, we invited our network to join us. Business Innovation Factory and other partners have provided a community of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs, innovators, artists, teachers, mentors and friends, united in the pursuit of self-potential and social impact.
When students understood that their community had their back, everything changed.
7. Dwell in Possibility
Realize the impact you could have. Embrace the possibility, the insane possibility that you can make a difference in the world.
These are powerful possibilities that are difficult for the average citizen, let alone the average high school student, to take seriously.
The moment students began to dwell in the possibilities, they were capable of so much more than they had given themselves credit for. This was the moment creativity was unleashed.
This new belief becomes contagious. And that's when responsibility set in.
Students started to realize their ideas, those possibilities are not just there to casually dream. They had responsibility to work collaboratively, honor all contributions and not let one idea or dream be held back.
8. Once you make an impact, you can't go back.
I cannot tell you the joy I experienced watching these young learners and leaders working together as a community of intention, engagement, passion and love; with the mission of becoming their best selves, living the lives they were meant to live and creating positive social change.
I cannot explain the feeling of gratitude and pride I felt knowing that the work we did in this past year directly impacted the way students (and myself, and other mentors and staff) see their lives and what they are capable of achieving in this world.
And now that I've felt that, and having known 100 percent what it feels like day after day to NOT be making a direct impact in anyone's life, I know we cannot go back to teaching and learning without meaning.
We refuse to. Until we can ensure these lessons are taught in every classroom, we will not rest or waste my time doing anything less impactful.
Which brings me to our last and final lesson.
9. Do Not Waste Time
The most dangerous word in the English language is tomorrow.
The time to dare, to make a difference, to embark on something worth doing, IS NOW.
You already have permission
You have permission to create, to speak up and stand up.
You have permission to be generous, to fail and to be vulnerable.
You have permission to own your words, to matter and to help.
Do Something Epic — NOW!
The world is ready. The world is waiting.
When we asked students, which of these lessons was most valuable, they responded in this way.
It is my hope in sharing this with you that we may we hold our world to this new standard we know it's capable of.
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Iranian Navy Test-Fires New Home-Made Torpedo
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TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari announced that his force has test-fired a newly-developed home-made torpedo successfully.
"The torpedo can be fired by submarines, vessels and air defense systems," Sayyari said in a press conference in Tehran on Saturday.
Sayyari further stated that the torpedo will be used in action in upcoming navy drills in coming months.
Senior Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) officials announced in May that the IRGC Navy is equipped with state-of-the-art weapons and vessels, and is one of the only two world military forces equipped with a unique torpedo which moves with unbelievable velocity.
Speaking to FNA, IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi said when the home-made missile/torpedo, Hout, was displayed in a series of wargames a few years ago, over 2,000 world media covered the news.
He said the speed of the missile is 100 meters per second (360km/h) under water.
The Admiral explained that the gruesome weapon has originally been made by the Russians, adding that Americans have spent a sum of 20 billion dollars in 15 years to develop its technology, but failed.
The Russians call the torpedo Shkval. The speed of this missile or torpedo far exceeds that of any standard torpedo currently fielded by NATO. This speed is a result of supercavitation: the torpedo is, in effect, flying in a gas bubble created by outward deflection of water by its specially shaped nose cone and the expansion of gases from its engine. By keeping water from coming into contact with the surface of the body of the torpedo, drag is significantly reduced, allowing extremely high speeds.
The Russians started designing it in the 1960s when the NII-24 research institute was ordered to produce a new weapon system capable of combating nuclear submarines. In 1969, the GSKB-47 merged with NII-24 to create the Research Institute of Applied Hydromechanics in Kiev, Ukraine (constructor Merkulov); the Shkval being a product of this merger.
Announced as being deployed in the early 1990s, although previously operational as early as 1977, the Shkval is designed as a countermeasure against torpedoes launched by undetected enemy submarines. It may also be used as a counter to incoming torpedoes whereby it is launched at the enemy submarine, forcing it to evade, and hopefully cutting the guidance wire to the enemy torpedo in the process.
Launched from 533 mm torpedo tubes, the VA-111 exits the tube at 50 knots (93 km/h). Shortly afterwards, its liquid-fuel rocket ignites and propels it to speeds of up to 200 knots (370 km/h). Some reports indicate that speeds of 250+ knots may be achieved, and that work on a 300-knot (560 km/h) version was underway. The rocket engine uses a combination of high test peroxide and kerosene; the propellant tanks contain about 1500 kg of hydrogen peroxide and 500 kg of kerosene.
The torpedo controls its direction using four fins that skim the inner surface of the supercavitation envelope. To change direction, the fin or fins on the inside of the desired turn are extended, and the opposing fins are retracted. To make faster turns, the push plate on the nose can be used to control the shape of the bubble the missile is traveling in.
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Trump, who is considering a run for president, said in a telephone interview on the program that he would not back off the issue, and that over the last few weeks he has only become more skeptical that Obama was born in the U.S.
Donald Trump's claims have been debunked by repeatedly. See for example PolitiFact, CNN, and Snopes.
Obama's birth certificate follows the jump along with more comments from PolitiFact.
This is actually an old claim that has been bouncing around the Internet for years. But keeping up with the latest birther claims is often like playing Whac-A-Mole, and we never got around to this one. So here we go.
The claim is based on an Oct. 16, 2008, telephone call between Bishop Ron McRae of the Anabaptist Churches of North America and Sarah Obama of Kenya, Barack Obama's elderly step-grandmother. The interview is complicated by the addition of at least one translator, because Sarah Obama, then 86, spoke Swahili.
"She says yes she was. She was present when Obama was born," said the translator.
Smoking gun? Only if you stop the tape there and don't listen to the rest of the interview.
Listen to the full conversation yourself. The parts in question begin about the 4:20 mark.


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Claudio Carletti, Chosen for the 2016 PoDoCo Programme, Is Putting Research into Practice at Kemira
The application period for the Post Docs in Companies programme is now open! Postdoctoral Researcher and D.Sc. (Tech.) Claudio Carletti, who got the opportunity to work at Kemira through the Post Docs in Companies (PoDoCo) programme, praises the programme that employs doctors in companies as a win-win solution for both researchers and companies. Kemira received the expert they needed for reaction kinetics research. And for Carletti, the programme has been an opportunity to learn about the industry and applying his own skills.
Read more about the PoDoCo programme here.
Claudio Carletti originally came to Finland in 2009 as an exchange student from Venezuela. Upon finishing his master's degree in Venezuela, he returned to Åbo Akademi to write his doctoral dissertation. His dissertation in the field of process design and systems engineering received the 2015 Science and Technology Faculty Award for best dissertation at Åbo Akademi, and his postdoc study in the field of chemical kinetics and fluid dynamics gained him employment not only in Finland but also in Bologna, Italy. Subsequently, Carletti and the Finnish chemical industry giant Kemira found each other through the PoDoCo programme. They began their collaboration in May 2017.
The PoDoCo program provides a possibility for a two-year collaboration, and in accordance with it's principles, the Nessling Foundation is funding the first year and Kemira funds the second.
Prior to working with Kemira, Carletti's research focused on pollution control technology used in coal-fired power plants to remove most of the sulphur dioxide harmful to the environment and human health. Carletti studied the process from various perspectives, and eventually chemical kinetics led him to Kemira through PoDoCo.
"I've always been interested in the development of technologies that protect the environment and reduce pollution. Making use of my research in Kemira's product development has been a great way to learn how I can be of use to the industry that is advancing these subjects", Carletti explains.
Kinetic chemical research: like baking a cake!
At Kemira, Carletti's research expertise is put to use in the product development of the chemicals used in wastewater and industrial water treatment. The name of the project he is working on is Chemical Kinetic Modelling of Water-Soluble Polymers.
"Oh, how would I explain the subject in simple terms?" Carletti laughs. "Well, water-soluble polymers are long, electrically charged molecules. They can be used to neatly separate other charged particles from wastewater, in this case dirt and pollutants. The kinetic study of a polymer blend suitable for the purpose actually resembles baking a cake: I mix the ingredients in certain proportions and a certain order. Instead of putting the "dough" in the oven, I leave it to stand. I observe how the temperature, pressure and the ingredient proportions affect the reaction happening in the mixture along with its speed. The goal is a reaction that is as effective and energy-efficient as possible."
Direct applications for your work through the PoDoCo programme
Carletti thinks the most rewarding thing about his work is that it offers a clear application for his diligent research.
"Doctors are trained to do research, but they may not necessarily know how to apply it to things that are valuable for companies. PoDoCo is a great opportunity for this kind of learning and research that has a concrete meaning for society and the environment", Carletti says.
He recommends the PoDoCo programme for researchers and companies in any field, whether it be engineering, medicine or art.
"I hope that my experience with the programme is a good example of the fact that it works. I also hope that more foundations will get involved with PoDoCo, so that more collaboration can be funded. This is a wonderful link between the academic world and industry, a win-win solution!"
The PoDoCo application period is now open from 1.3.–15.4.2018. The Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation is participating in the programme along with eight other foundations, which invest almost one million euros in the programme each year. Each foundation funds the work of a doctor-company pair in the programme that matches the foundation's purpose. The Nessling Foundation funds research that promotes environmental protection, and its hope is to find collaboration projects to fund that ambitiously solve environmental challenges.
Read more about the programme here.
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Total to acquire gas-fired combined cycle power plants in France
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French oil and gas company Total has signed an agreement to acquire two gas-fired combined cycle power plants (CCGT) in the North and East of France from KKR-Energas.
Total has signed an agreement to acquire two gas-fired combined cycle power (CCGT) plants in north and east France from KKR-Energas.
The two CCGT plants have a capacity to generate 825MW of electricity.
Financial details of the deal have not been divulged by the two companies and completion of the transaction is subject to approval of the relevant authorities.
Total Gas, Renewables and Power president Philippe Sauquet said: "This acquisition allows Total to continue its integration along the gas and electricity value chain from production to marketing.
"With the addition of two gas plants acquired from KKR-Energas and a growing portfolio of renewable power, the group will have the capacity to generate over one-third of the cumulated consumption of its B2C and B2B customers.
"The group will have the capacity to generate over one-third of the cumulated consumption of its B2C and B2B customers."
"Gas-fired power generation sources are an ideal complement to intermittent renewable sources of electricity. These flexible power plants enable the group to optimise the cost of electricity supply to its customers."
Earlier this month, Total acquired a 73% stake in the French electric utility company Direct Energie for €1.4bn.
At the time of acquiring stake in the French utility, Total chairman and CEO Patrick Pouyanné said: "This operation allows us to accelerate our integration downstream along the full gas and power value chain and to reach critical mass in the French and Belgium markets where we are growing fast."
Total also owns two power plants of 400MW each in France and Belgium.
The company is also planning to develop another 400MW plant in the Brittany region.
Within the next five years, Total aims to achieve a 15% share of the business to consumer (B2C) gas and electricity supply market in France and Belgium.
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Want to get from Amazon's HQ1 city to all three of the new cities revealed by the tech giant on Tuesday in the fastest way possible? You have two airline choices: Alaska and Delta.
While several air carriers serve the various airports in the New York City and Washington, D.C. areas nonstop from Seattle, only Alaska Airlines and Delta Airlines fly to Nashville, Tenn. from Seattle without connecting along the way.
We welcome Amazon to the East Coast and look forward to serving them as New York's largest airline with two hubs in their new Queens backyard and operations at Reagan and Dulles airports in D.C.
According to Google Flights, there are currently more than a dozen regular nonstops between Seattle and all three New York City area airports — LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark — with five airlines flying them: Alaska, Delta, United, American and JetBlue. That's a number of options to get to the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, where Amazon plans to plant one of two 25,000 job HQ2 flags, though LaGuardia is physically the nearest airport, a bit more than five miles away.
The schedule is lighter between Seattle and the Washington, D.C. area, where Amazon is placing the other 25,000 staff HQ2 in the Crystal City area of Arlington, Virginia. Nine nonstops to Reagan National, Dulles, and Baltimore Washington head from Seattle to the nation's capital region today routinely, operated by Alaska, Delta, United and Southwest. And clearly, Reagan National is the closest air destination, just one Metro train stop from the airport on the Blue and Yellow lines.
"We welcome Amazon to the East Coast and look forward to serving them as New York's largest airline with two hubs in their new Queens backyard and operations at Reagan and Dulles airports in D.C.," a Delta spokesperson told GeekWire when asked for its reaction, adding that Amazon and Delta are great partners in Seattle.
Only two airlines fly nonstop routinely from The Emerald City to Music City, U.S.A., Alaska and Delta. And both have begun service relatively recently: Alaska in 2015, and Delta just last year. Each has only one flight in each direction each day, year-round. Alaska adds a second seasonal roundtrip flight between the two cities in April, and Southwest Airlines plans to resume seasonal weekend nonstops.
At BNA we already have significant air travel to and from the Seattle area, but we can anticipate considerably more passenger activity in that direction in the years to come.
But Delta and Alaska have been extremely competitive in Seattle. It's Alaska Airlines' headquarters city. And after a code-sharing and frequent-flier program relationship split with Alaska last year, Delta has dramatically ramped up operations to where Seattle has effectively become an important hub for the Atlanta-based carrier.
And only Delta and Alaska serve all three cities named in Tuesday's announcement by Amazon with nonstop flights.
While it may be too soon to say when, of if, any of the major airlines will respond to a need for more airline seats between Seattle and any of Amazon's chosen cities, one thing's for sure: If anyone doing business at or with Amazon doesn't yet have a Delta or Alaska airlines frequent flier number, it's probably time to get one.


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Talk about a stretch. If you were making up a list of actors who could convincingly play Elvis Presley, I doubt whether Michael Shannon's name would make your short list. And Kevin Spacey may play President Frances Underwood on House of Cards, but Nixon? Well, Spacey's a terrific mimmic, so maybe.
I don't know who decided to team Shannon and Spacey in a comedy called Elvis & Nixon, but whoever it was deserves credit for a masterstroke.
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Although Shannon looks nothing like Elvis — even with deep sideburns and generous helpings of Memphis bling — he manages to capture the spirit of "The King."
And Spacey, who can be a great comic actor, makes a more than credible Nixon, hunched over, dyspeptic and willing to warm to anyone who happens to agree with him.
What we wind up with is a rousing snapshot of two paranoid men — one a president, the other a "king" — both of whom display cagey smarts.
The screenplay — credited to Joey Sagal, Hanala Sagal and Cary Elwes — takes a real incident and tries to determine what might have happened the day Elvis showed up at the White House requesting a meeting with Nixon.
Nixon didn't install his infamous taping system until a few years later, so it's open season for anyone who wants to speculate about a meeting between such unlikely companions.
Director Liza Johnson (Hateship Loveship) evidently thinks the meeting, which resulted in the most requested photo in the National Archives, couldn't help but be funny. In her imagination, Elvis didn't kowtow to Nixon, who initially was reluctant to meet with a rock n' roller.
Isolated and accustomed to being the center of attention, Elvis digs into Nixon's M&Ms, which had been forbidden to him, and asks to drink the Dr. Pepper Nixon's aides also asked him not to touch.
Elvis had no interest in protocol; he wanted Nixon to give him a badge that would make him a "federal agent at large," a lawman with undercover responsibilities.
Elvis liked badges, and had been awarded many by various local police departments. He carried firearms (licensed) and, in this telling, even brought them to the White House.
Johnson wisely delays the fated meeting until about an hour into the movie. Until then, Elvis gathers his support system, which includes Jerry Schilling (Alex Pettyfer), a friend who had known Elvis since childhood and whom Elvis trusted, and Sonny (Johnny Knoxville) another — albeit goofier — member of the Elvis entourage.
We also see some of the familiar White House figures of the day: H.R. Haldeman (Tate Donovan); Egil Keogh (Colin Hanks); and Dwight Chapin (Evan Peters).
Elvis' team is busy catering to "The King;" Nixon's team tries to convince him that it will be good for the president to meet with Elvis because everyone loves Elvis and some of that love could translate into votes.
There's a bit of a subplot: Elvis persuades Schilling, who lives in L.A., to accompany him to Washington. Schilling promises the woman he loves he'll be home in time to meet her parents the next day. I can't say we worry too much about whether he'll make it.
Shannon and Spacey come awfully close to parody with their portrayals, but they're far too skilled to let the movie degenerate into impersonations of two famous men, both of whom had little use for the Black Panthers, hippies and the counterculture.
Shannon convincingly finds the loneliness of a man who long ago got lost in his own image, but who also knows how to use that image to his advantage. And Spacey conveys all of Nixon's pettiness, as well as his deal-making instincts.
I'm not sure that Elvis & Nixon, which doesn't use any of Elvis' music but adds a lot of R&B to its soundtrack, is more than an amplified sketch, but why quibble: In Shannon and Spacey's hands, it produces a hunk, a hunk of pointed laughs.


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Napoli president denies interest in Edinson Cavani, Karim Benzema, Angel Di Maria
Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has rubbished reports Edinson Cavani could return to his side, and said reported interest in Radamel Falcao as "totally false."
The Serie A club are being linked with a big-name transfer this summer in the aftermath of Juventus signing Cristiano Ronaldo, but De Laurentiis says the current rumours doing the rounds could not be further off the mark.
Particularly in the case of Cavani, who played for Napoli between 2010 and 2013, De Laurentiis said his club simply could not -- or rather would not -- afford his salary.
"It's bogus -- I've always said that Cavani is somebody who earns a lot," he told Naples radio station Radio Kiss Kiss. "He's a player who gets €10 million gross every 10 months -- I don't think he could decide to reduce his wages towards the end of his career.
"As I've said, if he calls me and says he'll slash his wages to adapt to our financial means... but there's a whole state behind Paris Saint-Germain, in the form of Qatar. I decided to manage football the way I produce films."
De Laurentiis also strongly denied reports linking Napoli with Falcao, and that their transfer approach has been agreed with coach Carlo Ancelotti.
"[The reports are] totally false -- not just false, but totally false. I'm amazed how some journalists who have had long careers can write such things," he said. "Between me and [coach Carlo] Ancelotti, we've said many times that we agree we will sign young players. [Angel] Di Maria and Karim Benzema are old, so what am I meant to do?
"Fans enjoy talking about and playing football in bars and I respect them, but they've got to let us work calmly."
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Woman to be hauled before judge for allegedly helping on the run convict
Damon Jefferies vaulted the dock seconds after being jailed for six months and now faces additional prison time
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A convicted man who fled from court after being jailed is to go back before a judge.
Damon Jefferies appeared before magistrates in handcuffs today (June 14, 2019) after being arrested yesterday.
The 32-year-old, of Bedminster Down, had been on the run since fleeing from Bristol Crown Court on June 12.
On that day Judge Euan Ambrose handed him a six months jail term.
But Jefferies leapt from the dock of Court Nine - hotly pursued by court staff - and managed to flee the building in Small Street.
Magistrates sent his case to the crown court on July 17.
LIVE: Convict who jumped dock and went on the run arrested and in court again
Carla Bridgman, 28, of John Caller Crescent in Stoke Gifford, has been charged with perverting the course of justice by allegedly assisting Jefferies to evade justice at her home on June 13.
Magistrates sent her case to the crown court on July 12.
Jefferies was originally at the crown court for breaching the terms of a suspended prison sentence.
This is the smiling convict on the run after court escape
In February 2018 he was handed a 12 months jail term, suspended for two years, after admitting controlling behaviour in a relationship.
As part of his suspended sentence a judge imposed 150 hours' unpaid work, a rehabilitation requirement and a Building Better Relationships course.
Having failed to comply with the order on three occasions, in January this year a judge handed him an additional seven hours' unpaid work.
But Judge Ambrose was told Jefferies failed to attend unpaid work on multiple occasions and was still yet to begin his Building Better Relationships Course or rehabilitation.


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We begin the First Friday of this month, September 2015, with another of my Favorite Gurus, Jim Pershing.
Jim – or – James Pershing and I met through our work at NSPI – now ISPI: the International Society for Performance Improvement.
We'd been on several Committees over the years when we found ourselves on the same Board of Directors group – for my 2 years as President-Elect and then President of the Society – back in 2002-2004.
Lee, S. H. & Pershing, J. A. (2002). Dimensions and design criteria for developing training reaction evaluations. Human Resource Development International, 5 (2), 175-197.
Pershing, J. A., & Capps, P. (2001). ISPI 2001 annual conference evaluation report. Bloomington, IN: Education & Management Research Associates. August. 20 pages.
Gilmore, E. R., & Pershing, J. A. (2001). Don't miss! Identify all causes of that performance gap: A review of literature supporting a refinement of Wile's HPT model. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the International Society for Performance Improvement. San Francisco, CA, April 2001. Silver Spring, MD: International Society for Performance Improvement.
Pershing, J. A., & Pershing, J. L. (2001). Ineffective reaction evaluation. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 12 (1), 73-90.
Lee, S. H. & Pershing, J. A. (2000). Evaluation of corporate training programs: Perspectives and issues for further research. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 13 (3), 244-260.
Pershing, J. A., Molenda, M. H., Paulus, T., Lee, L. H., & Hixon, E, (2000). Letters home: The meaning of instructional technology. TechTrends, 44 (1), 31-38.
Pershing, J. A. & Lee, S. H. (2000). Transfer evaluation of knowledge and skill development: A case study of an instructional systems development training program. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 13(1), 7-29.
Pershing, J. A., Lee, S. H., & Chung, J. (2000). Theoretical foundations of conducting needs analysis for performance improvement in organizations: Definition clarification and a framework for action. Educational Technology International. 2(1), 5-29.
Pershing, J. A. & Lee, S. H. (1999). Employment profiles and compensation for educational technologists. TechTrends, 43 (6), 7-14.
Lee, S. H. & Pershing, J. A. (1999). Effective reaction evaluation in evaluating training programs: Purposes and dimension classification. Performance Improvement, 38 (8), 32-39.
Lee, S. H. & Pershing, J. A. (1999). Human performance technology: A vehicle for transforming from training to a learning organization for performance improvement in the workplace. International Journal of Educational Technology, 1 (1), 123-139.
Reigeluth, C. M., Pershing, J. A., & Park, S. H. (1998). A new paradigm for corporate training. Strategic Human Resource Development Review, 2 (1), 27-50.
Project Director: E-Learning Professional Development Workshop. Funded by the Credu Company of Seoul Korea. Amount $34,929. July1 thru December 31, 2002.
Principle Investigator and Project Director: Revision and Distribution of "Living in the Community" Manual. Funded by the Indiana Bureau of Developmental Disabilities Services: Division of Disability, Aging, and Rehabilitative Services, Indianapolis, IN. Amount $22,961. January 15, 2002 thru December 31, 2002.
Project Director: Professional Development Seminar: Evaluating Education and Training Programs. Funded by Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Instructional Technology Center, Singapore. Amount $2,310. April 16, 2001 thru May 31, 2001.
Project Director: ISPI Conference Evaluation: Participant's Perspectives. Funded by the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), Silver Spring, MD. Amount $900. April 1, 2001 thru August 31, 2001.
Project Director: Seminar: Human Performance Technology for the SK Group. Funded by the SunKyong Group, Seoul, Korea. One week seminar for 35 HRD Executives. Amount $38,386. June 7-13, 1996.
Project Director: LG/IU Instructional/Performance Technology Training Program for training executives of the LG Group. Funded by the LG Group, Seoul, Korea. Twelve week summer program. Amount $199,290. Summer of 1996.
Principal Investigator: Transfer Evaluation Study of the LG/IU Instructional and Performance Technology Training Program. Funded by the LG Group, Seoul, Korea. Amount $11,253. October thru December, 1995.
Project Director: LG/IU Instructional/Performance Technology Training Program for training executives of the LG Group. Funded by the LG Group, Seoul, Korea. Twelve week summer program. Amount $199,000. Summer of 1995.
Project Director: LG/IU Instructional/Performance Technology Training Program for training executives of the LG Group. Funded by the LG Group, Seoul, Korea. Twelve week summer program. Amount $132,000. Summer of 1994.
Principal Investigator: Revision of the Nursing Assistants for Long-Term Care Training Manual. Indiana Department of Health. Amount $ 10,000. February, 1994 to June 1994.
Project Director: Mobile Workshop Technology Training Program for the National Coordination Agency for Surveys and Mapping in Indonesia. Funded by BAKOSURTANAL, Jakarta, Indonesia. Amount $57,515. February, 1994 to May, 1994.
Principal Investigator: Safety Needs Analysis and Training Manual Revision. Hoosier Energy Corporation. Amount $10,000. January, 1994 to June, 1994.
Co-Investigator: Development of Evaluative Criteria for Educational Technology in K-12 Schools. Funded by National Study of School Evaluation (NSSE). Amount $15,000. October 1, 1993 to August 31, 1994.
Project Director: United Arab Emirates University Visiting Scholar: E. M. Ahmed Besais. Funded by the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities, The Ohio State University. Amount $10,500. August, 1993 to July 1994.
Pershing, J. A., Lee, H. K., & Won, Y. T. (2002, April). Leadership competencies? A case study of leadership development in a petrochemical company. Presented at the meeting of the International Society for Performance Improvement Conference & Exposition, Dallas, TX.
Pershing, J. A., Buzan-Hartke, G., & Kim, M. (2001, April). The power of human performance technology (HPT). Presented at the meeting of the International Society for Performance Improvement Conference & Exposition, San Francisco, CA.
Gilmore, E., & Pershing, J. A. (2001, April). Don't miss! Identify all causes of that performance gap. Presented at the meeting of the International Society for Performance Improvement Conference & Exposition, San Francisco, CA.
Pershing, J. A., Correia, A. P., Kim, J., & Tom, R. (2001, April). Evaluation & change management: Challenges and successes of a multi cultural team. Presented at the meeting of the International Society for Performance Improvement Conference & Exposition, San Francisco, CA.
Pershing, J. A. & Pershing, J. L. (2001, April). Questions about questionnaires: How to design and develop effective questionnaires for analyzing and evaluating performance improvement initiatives. April 8th Workshop, one-day. Presented at the International Society for Performance Improvement Conference & Exposition. San Francisco, CA.
Pershing, J. A., Lee, H. K., & An, J. S. (2000, November). Why do well-planned performance interventions fail? The importance of perception analysis. Presented at the Culture and Change Management Conference of the International Society for Performance Improvement, Washington, DC.
Pershing, J. A. (2000, November). Business impact ISD model: Indiana University. Presented at the Culture and Change Management Conference of the International Society for Performance Improvement, Washington, DC.
Pershing, J. A. & Lee, S. H. (1998, July). Human performance technology. A vehicle for transforming the corporate training function to a learning organization. Presented at the 27th International Federation of Training and Development Organizations World Conference. Dublin, Ireland.
Pershing, J. A. & Lee, S. H. (1998, March). Uses and abuses of level one evaluations: How to design and use reactionnaires in evaluating training programs. Presented at the meeting of the International Society for Performance Improvement Conference & Exposition, Chicago, IL.
My research interests include training and development in corporate and public agencies, planning and evaluating employee-related education, computer applications, project management, and cost-benefit analysis.
President's Service Award: International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) Presidential Service Award for consultation and technical assistance as a member of the Validation Team for the ISPI Performance Technologist Certification Program. Presented at ISPI annual meeting in Dallas, TX, April 2002.
Graduate School Full Member: Appointed to the Faculty of the Indiana University Graduate School with FULL status. Recommended by the Graduate Faculty Membership Committee of the Graduate Council and approved by the Indiana University Board of Trustees, January 31, 2001.
Distinguished Service Award: Presented by the Board of Directors of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). For Service as Interim Director of the Association and Interim Editor of the journal TechTrends. Presented at the AECT annual meeting in Long Beach California, February 2000.
Outstanding Service Award: For service as a Naval Academy Information Blue & Gold Officer for the United States Naval Academy. Presented by the Admissions Office in Annapolis Maryland on April 12, 1999.
Outstanding Service Award: For leadership to the LG Corporation in promoting and developing the uses of instructional and performance technology in the training and human resource development programs of LG Subsidiaries and the LG University, 1992 through 1997. Presented in August, 1997.
Commandant's Award for Outstanding Service: For service as a Blue & Gold Recruitment Officer and for the design and development of an instructional handbook on recruiting for use by Blue & Gold Officers. Presented at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, June, 1995.
Award of Appreciation: Development of a handbook for use by United States Naval Academy parents. Presented at the Naval Academy, Annapolis Maryland, June, 1993.
State of Indiana Outstanding Service Award: Presented by the Indiana Commission on Vocational and Technical Education for outstanding leadership in the field of vocational and technical education in the State of Indiana. Presented at the Annual Indiana Vocational Education Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, August 12, 1992.
Instructional Systems Technology Department Outstanding Service Award: Presented for leadership provided to the Instructional System Technology Department's curriculum development/revision effort, May 1,1992.
Indiana University Athletic Department Service Award: For outstanding service from 1979 to 1984 as a track and field judge and official for Indiana University Track & Field Program. Including officiating for the Pan American Games, Big Ten Championship Meet, and NCAA Championship Meet. Presented on September 22, 1984.
Gold Bar Award: For consultation and technical assistance in instructional design and evaluation. Fort Knox, Kentucky 194th Armored Brigade, USA Armor Center in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Presented on June 28, 1978.
State of Missouri Outstanding Service Award: Outstanding Award for Service to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education=s Task Force 1990 (long-term strategic planning project for statewide vocational/technical education through the year 1990). Presented on December 31, 1976.
Initiated Member of Phi Delta Kappa: An honorary professional fraternity in education. University of Missouri Chapter on May 7, 1974.
Initiated Member of Omicron Delta Epsilon: An honor society in economics. University of Missouri Beta Chapter on April 28, 1972.
Although Jim was a professor at Indiana, my lessons learned from him came during our time together on the ISPI Board, 2002-2004.
One was that a Professional Society was a place to profess and to hear such, from many different points of view. And to not be afraid of the results, because, that is science. Invite in those with opposite views and let the data put the issue to rest.
Another lesson was reinforcement – to pay attention to the research – and beware claims that seem to be good to be true.
Jim was a big contributor to ISPI and other professional organizations. He inspired me to do better.
If the work of Jim Pershing has been a valuable influence and/or resource for you – please share your stories about that in the comments section below.
Or simply share a URL there that is relevant.
And – thank you – for sharing!
We each have many influencers, mentors, both active and passive, knowingly and unknowingly in their respective roles in our development.
This series is my attempt to acknowledge all of them… one by one… in no particular order… as I attempt to consciously reflect on what I have learned and whom I have learned it from, regarding all things "Performance Improvement" – my first focus.
Next month – Karen Brethower.
Here is a page with links to all of the Past Posts from this My First Friday Favorite Guru Series, as listed below – find that – here.
Here is a page with links to all of the above Past Posts in My First Friday Favorite Guru Series – here.


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A mother and daughter wearing protective masks who are seeking asylum in the U.S. are seen at a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, April 1, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Go Nakamura, Reuters)
By Catholic News Service • Posted September 24, 2020
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The chairman of the U.S. bishops' migration committee told a House subcommittee Sept. 23 that any stimulus bill Congress is considering must include assistance for immigrant and refugee families and also make them eligible for past stimulus relief.
Many immigrants and refugees in this country are among the front-line essential workers the country has relied on during this pandemic, said Auxiliary Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Washington.
Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration, he made the comments in written testimony to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship during its hearing on "Immigrants as Essential Workers During COVID-19."
"Immigrants and refugees are a blessing to our country," the bishop said. "The church teaches that every human being is created in God's image and deserves dignity and respect and that human labor has an inherent dignity, allowing all to share in the ongoing work of creation, while providing the resources to build and sustain families."
"The contributions of essential workers have become undoubtedly more important during COVID-19," he continued. "While many essential workers are U.S. citizens, many are also immigrants and refugees. Immigrants comprise 31% of U.S. agricultural employees … (and) they risk their own safety to support their families and to ensure continuity in the nation's food supply chains."
Immigrant and refugees who are essential workers also are "highly vulnerable" to COVID-19 and "less likely to have access to medical care," Bishop Dorsonville noted.
And so far, "they have been completely left out" of any federal stimulus package offering financial help to many segments of the U.S. workforce and U.S. families, he said.
"We urge Congress to include immigrant and refugee families in any future COVID-19 relief as well as be made eligible for past relief efforts," he said.
"Additionally," Bishop Dorsonville said, "we continue to advocate Congress for a path to citizenship for undocumented workers who have been living, working and contributing to our country. As Pope Francis states: No one must be left behind."
The text of Bishop Dorsonville's written testimony can be found online at the Justice for Immigrants website, justiceforimmigrants.org.
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Pray, Will You Come On Board?
Please pray because the challenge to pray for California is ever so great today. The years of long standing drought bring devastation to our state this season. Please take this message seriously. Why? Let me share with you please.
Yesterday, after Church, while my husband and I, with our son went for a drive to relax and rest our mind, we ended up taking an hour drive around the Millerton Lake, CA. What we saw while driving around was devastating. The long-standing drought was literally drying up the Lake. In my mind, I heard myself saying: 'We need to do something.' As we arrived home, I felt the Lord calling me to send out this challenge on Facebook. And I did. This was what I wrote.
Today after Church we went on a drive around the Millerton Lake and saw first hand the devastation caused by this long standing drought in California. Please pray to end this drought because we desperately need the rain. Let's come together to call on our Father in Heaven to grant what we need, the rain.
Not only that, the long running drought dried up all the greens and as a result, wildfires flared up in various parts of California that Governor Jerry Brown declared State of Emergency for California, this week. Please keep praying until God answers and brings the water we need. Thank you.
California needs our attention and our prayers.
This morning, I woke up with a morning of dark clouds and light rain. It was like "God affirms a break through is on the way". At the same time, I felt in my inner being that God was saying: 'Get ready for a cold winter'. Do you believe that the long-standing drought is coming to an end? We still need to keep seeking & praying for God to bring the water we need to California.
In the afternoon, we (my husband and I) had a unique opportunity to watch a movie together. We picked the latest #1 movie in United States, War Room. We were not sure we could make it for this movie on time. However, thank God we made it a little late but not missing much. The truth is, I have had never cried entirely through a movie before. In fact, this would be my first. Without a doubt, this is a must watch.
It's Time To Take This Seriously!
Have you ever felt God's Call, a clear assignment He gave to you? A Call that is to become one of His mighty warriors in prayers to fight mighty battles in the Heavenly? Declares victory over the battle in the heavenly first before it manifests here on earth. God is looking for His mighty warriors who will faithfully fight His battles in prayers in the War Room. Are you one of them?
God wants you to come on board, take on this challenge and be His mighty warriors! If you hear from God and believe God is calling you for this special assignment, stop resisting. Come to Him today in your War Room, wait for your first assignment. He's been waiting for you way too long. It's about time.. don't you think?
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One of the many healing functions of dreams is to reconcile or heal the profound pain of the loss of a loved one. The grieving process is helped along by insights that come with dreams as well as the actual visit of a loved in a dream that quite often conveys a message of comfort or helpful information.
For example, the night that my mother died, I dreamed that she came to me and said she now understood me in a way she hadn't before, and she could see how special I was. This was a comforting surprise to me because while I understood that she loved me and accepted me; I always had the nagging feeling she didn't really know where I was coming from. While we spent a lot of time together and got along peaceably together, she was not a talker and I usually didn't bring up subjects that would make her even more reticent.
It is true that we were very different personalities. She was German-American haus-frau who was devoted to family, giving up her nursing career after she married. She expressed her love in what she did for us. I, on the other hand, was a career woman all of my life expressing my love in creative work such as writing and teaching. She often wondered why I never got married–even when I told her I stayed single because I had taken her advice of not settling for anything less than the best! The best just never came my way.
Having this dream made me feel that my relationship with her was now complete. There were no more loose strings or vague musings about what might have been. What dreams helped you resolve any issues with a person who has passed?


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HomeTips and AdviceWhat Do Women Want?
Anyone who saw the recent Women's March on Washington – and around the world – knows that the role of women has changed dramatically in the past few years. Today, the main breadwinner in 40 percent of families with children under 18 is a woman.
That's up from 11 percent in 1960 and 34 percent in 2000.
But what happens when women go car shopping? These days, car consumers do their research online. While ten years ago, car consumers visited about five dealerships, today, they're more likely to visit two or fewer.
So one would think the red carpet would be rolled out for a woman purchasing a car at a dealership. She may well be the family breadwinner, and she's ready to make a purchase!
Sadly, it's not the case. Despite organizations like askpatty.com and women-drivers.com, which purport to certify automotive dealers as "female friendly," or the like, the auto retail sector remains a boy's club. There may be more female sales reps on the showroom floor, but they're still far and few between. And just because there are some token women selling cars, it hasn't significantly changed the basic culture of the car retail sector. Sales reps still don't take women seriously as car buyers, and don't understand that a woman's idea of a reliable car isn't one that only needs service a couple of times a year – a reliable car is one that won't leave her stranded by the side of the road at 2:00 a.m.
The irony is, car dealers do want more women as customers. But their tactics to attract this demographic are still antiquated. Try as they might to lure women in with capuccino lounges and pink-themed washrooms, it takes more to sell cars to women. It starts with respect for their knowledge and research; chances are, they've spent 59 percent of their time online, checking out the manufacturers' sites, various dealer sites and third party reviewers.
What do women want? Sure, it's nice of the sales rep to point out how the glove compartment works, and where to stash a purse, but most women want a little more. Where most sales reps are into moving metal, women want concrete information and transparency. They want a relationship, with room for questions and conversation. So how about keeping the pressure to a minimum? And a sales rep who will make eye contract?
There's more. Women want to deal with a sales rep who's knowledgably, especially about tricky financing options. Women don't want to be left alone in a sales cubicle for an hour while the rep goes off to "check with the manager." They don't appreciate a sales rep who tries to push buttons, and wastes their time by trying to sell unnecessary options or hide relevant details.
Where's the dealer who will explain the difference between torque and horsepower? Whether a hybrid vehicle is – or is not – worth the investment? How do the safety features work? Can a safety system make a difference in insurance? What types of tires are best? What kind of upgrades are worth the money? Is it better to purchase or lease?
Wait a minute – don't men ask those questions too?
In short, what women want isn't a whole lot different from what men want. Good value, a reliable car, respect, and a truthful, transparent transaction.
So when women get what they want, it looks like everyone does. Including a sale for the car dealer!
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