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Says NC bill would change the grading scale.
— Various media reports on Tuesday, February 26th, 2019 in reports
NC education bill won't change student or school grades
By Paul Specht on Thursday, February 28th, 2019 at 5:11 p.m.
Teacher Yan Han helps students as she teaches a kindergarten class at East Voyager Academy in Charlotte.
Don't let anyone fool you: your kid's 85 score is still a B and his 50 is still an F.
But you might not know that from the media coverage of a recently filed bill on education policy in North Carolina. Parents and news consumers were left confused by vague headlines and misleading tweets.
House Bill 145 deals with the state's method for assessing the effectiveness of individual public schools — and doesn't affect student grade scales at all. The state currently assesses schools on a 15-point scale and the bill aims to re-establish that method next year.
So, why the confusion?
The bill uses a letter-based measurement system and language — grade, scale, performance — often associated with student grades and report cards. The bill also gives the impression things are changing because it shows a 10-point scale with the numbers crossed-out.
Still, the bill never uses the word "student." And it clearly refers to a system that's meant to offer a glimpse of the effectiveness of a school's administration and teachers by calculating academic achievement and growth.
Unfortunately, some of the media coverage didn't convey that reality.
MISLEADING REPORTS
Many TV stations reported on the bill with misleading headlines or descriptions.
The first line of a WNCN story says the bill might change the grading scale used "in state public schools." This gives the impression the scale is applied by teachers to students, not by the state to the school. Anchor Angela Taylor then described the bill by saying it would change "your child's school performance scores."
The NBC affiliate in Charlotte, WCNC, used a WRAL story to report on the bill.
WCNC's headline says "NC lawmakers consider bill that would change school grades."
The Charlotte station's tweet may have added to the confusion. The tweet included a photo of a person holding a pencil accompanied by the caption: "The new bill under consideration would adjust the current grading scale, making a score of 85 an A and a score of 70 a B." The station has 215,000 followers.
The tweet didn't specifically say the bill affected students. But it was so vague that readers might come to that conclusion.
The story now includes an editor's note on both WCNC and WRAL websites. It says: "This new scale applies to the grades schools receive based on performance. It would not change the scale used to grade students."
WRAL later changed its headline to say: "Bill would keep school performance grades on 15-point scale."
Fox affiliates used similar headlines in stories about the bill. Charlotte-based Fox 46 used a bare-bones headline saying the bill "would change grading scale."
Reaction to the stories was also misleading.
Lt. Gov. Dan Forest tweeted a WBTV story with the headline, "NC General Assembly mulling over changing school grading scales." Forest tweeted a comment about the story that mentioned students.
"Instead of lowering our expectations for our education system, we should be raising our standards for our students so that they can compete in a 21st Century global economy," he said.
Andrew Siciliano, the host of an NFL show on DirecTV, tweeted that the bill directly affects students. He has 157,000 followers on Twitter.
"North Carolina wants to give your kid an "A" with an 85. Embarrassing," he tweeted, along with a link to a story by WRAL.
Karen Zatkulak, a reporter at Asheville-based WLOS, asked NC Education Superintendent Mark Johnson about the bill during an interview. Her question, which comes around the 7:45 mark of a Facebook video, doesn't clarify whether the bill affects students or schools.
Johnson says he's not aware of the bill and wants to talk to legislators about it. But he adds: "I don't know if we necessarily want to make our grading scale less rigorous in order to give more students As," Johnson responds.
Thursday afternoon, pundits on the Fox News show, "The Five," also talked about the bill as if it would affect students.
"I think failing is good for character," host Jesse Watters said. "Now you can pass with what, a 40 percent? That's pathetic. That's why the Chinese are taking over."
WHAT THE BILL SAYS
Not only is the bill inconsequential for students, it also makes no major changes to the state's grading scale for schools.
The bill's effects — and some of the public's misinterpretations on social media — are detailed on a blog operated by Justin Parmenter, a teacher in Charlotte.
The North Carolina State Board of Education assesses school effectiveness on a 100-point scale. Current law requires the state to grade schools on a 15-point scale:
85-100 is an A
70-84 is a B
55-69 is a C
40 to 54 is a D
39 and lower is an F.
The bill makes it seem like the state currently operates on a 10-point grading scale. That's because HB 145 is a version of a bill passed several years ago granting the state permission to operate a 15-point scale for schools, said Drew Elliot, communications director for NC DPI.
A law from 2013 "originally set out a 10-point scale for school report cards. However, that scale was never used because it has been superseded by an annual waiver, usually in the budget bill, since the inception of the School Performance Grades," Elliot said.
HB 145 would make the 15-point scale permanent, "obviating the need for the annual waiver," Elliot said.
A lot of people — some media outlets, politicians, pundits and a sports reporter — got this one wrong. Not only does the bill not affect students' grades, it also makes no major changes to the state system used to give parents an idea of a school's effectiveness. We rate this claim False.
This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke University Reporters' Lab and PolitiFact. The NC Local News Lab Fund and the International Center for Journalists provide support for the project, which shares fact-checks with newsrooms statewide. To offer ideas for fact checks, email [email protected].
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https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article226925119.html
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2019 at 5:11 p.m.
Researched by: Paul Specht
Edited by: Bill Adair, Rebecca Catalanello, Jordan Schrader
House Bill 145, aka "15-Point Scale For School Performance Grades."
Webpage, "NC School Report Cards: Frequently Asked Questions," on ncpublicschools.org.
Email correspondence with Drew Elliot, communications director for the NC Department of Instruction.
Story by CBS17, "NC General Assembly mulling over changing school grading scales," posted Feb. 25, 2019.
Video of interview between NC Superintendent Mark Johnson and WLOS reporter Karen Zatkulak, posted on Facebook.
A tweet by NBC Charlotte, "The new bill under consideration would adjust the current grading scale, making a score of 85 an A and a score of 70 a B," posted Feb. 26, 2019.
A story by WRAL, "Bill would keep school performance grades on 15-point scale," posted 6:59 a.m. Feb. 26, 2019.
A tweet by NC Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, "Instead of lowering expectations for our education system, we should be raising our standards for our students so that they can compete in a 21st Century global economy," posted Feb. 26, 2019.
A tweet by Andrew Siciliano, "North Carolina wants to give your kid an "A" with an 85. Embarrassing," posted Feb. 26, 2019.
Blog post by Justin Parmenter, a teacher in Charlotte, "Misinformation about NC school grades dominates the airwaves–and Lt. Gov. Dan Forest's Twitter account," posted Feb. 27, 2019.
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Kemba Walker and Evan Fournier's tenures in Boston ended in disappointing fashion last season, not unlike how their Knicks careers had mostly gone leading up to Saturday night.
But the former Celtics backcourt came alive for their new team in their return to TD Garden, nearly lifting the shorthanded Knicks to a comeback before falling 114-107.
Both guards scored season-highs — Walker with 29 points in his return from being benched and Fournier tying his mark with 32 points, which he set in the season opener against the Celtics. They caught fire in the third quarter, with Walker pouring in 17 points and Fournier adding 11 to turn a 62-47 halftime deficit into an 88-86 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
It wasn't enough, though, spoiling an otherwise feel-good return to Boston.
"It felt great. A lot of love from the fans, which I really, really appreciated," Walker said after playing his first game since Nov. 26. "My two years here in Boston were really special. I met a lot of great people. The fans always treated me well. The whole city has always treated me well. So it was really nice to be back."
Kemba Walker and Evan Fournier (right) combined for 61 points in the Knicks' 114-107 loss to the Celtics.
Both Fournier and Walker's nights finished on a sour note. Fournier injured his left ankle late in the fourth quarter after landing awkwardly on a jump shot, though he finished the game on the floor. But seconds later, Walker picked up his sixth foul, ending his return with 2:06 left in the game.
The duo combined to shoot 21-for-44 from the floor and 9-for-21 from deep.
"I was very happy to see [Walker] smiling again," Fournier said. "We just get along because I think we have a game that can complement each other."
Before Saturday, Walker had sat out 10 straight games — resting the first game then getting benched by coach Tom Thibodeau for nine more. But after rookie point guard Miles McBride became the sixth Knick to enter COVID-19 protocols earlier on Saturday, and Derrick Rose was ruled out with an ankle injury, Thibodeau had no choice but to turn back to Walker.
It gave Walker — whose four-year, $141 million max contract with the Celtics was derailed by knee injuries — the chance to play against his "brothers" Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Marcus Smart, which he relished.
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Lest We Forget – The Hadden – Wagner Families Wall Of Honour
November 11, 2015 November 11, 2015 ianhadden1955 1 Comment
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, we pause to reflect and remember those who went before us, bravely sacrificing their youth and in too many cases their lives, for our freedom.
The following is the list of those known brave ancestors, some from my family and some from Ellen's, who gave so much. Today especially, we remember them. They shall not be forgotten.
GAMMIE, James (1895-1918), Private, Canadian Expeditionary Force, killed in action
GAMMIE, Peter (1893-1984), Private, Canadian Expeditionary Force (enlisted, not sent overseas)
GORDON, Alexander Garrow Duncan (1891-1917), Private, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, killed in action
MERNER, Albert Edward 'Herbert' (1897-1917), Canadian Expeditionary Force, killed in action
TRIGGS, James Little (1899-1916), Cabin Boy, Royal Navy, killed in action
TRIGGS, Phillip (1899-1967), Cabin Boy, Royal Navy
FINDLATER, William (1880-1918), British Army, died at home from wounds
FILKIN, Carl William (1897-1976), Canadian Expeditionary Force, lost left arm to shrapnel gun shot wound in France
SENATO, Nicola F. (1913-1945), U.S. Army, killed in action, Japan
NUSBICKEL, Thomas Raymond (1923-2002), U.S. Army
GAULL, George Leonard 'Lenny' (1920-2013), Canadian Armed Forces
MORGAN, Bruce Evan, M.D. (1924-2007), Navigator, Canadian Air Force
WAGNER, Carl Francis (1917-1993), Canadian Armed Forces
WAGNER, Gordon Gilbert Henry (1914-1994), Canadian Armed Forces
Collaboration in Genealogy – An Example Of Doing It Right
May 20, 2015 May 15, 2015 ianhadden1955 Leave a comment
While I was travelling through Scotland and Ireland, I received an email from Ancestry.com notifying me that another Ancestry member with the user name kforsman72 had sent me a message.
I will often receive these types of emails that are typically from people asking for more information about someone in my online public Ancestry tree. This message was different.
The message I received stated "I just wanted to let you know that I came across the graves of the Kletzings in Section 5 of Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. The graves include Josiah, Kate, Arba, Clarence, Florence Amy, and Kathryn Gall. I've created memorials and uploaded photos of the graves to Find-A-Grave, in case you are interested in viewing them."
Once I was home from my trip, I went to the Find-A-Grave site where I searched for and found the Kletzing memorials reference in the Ancestry message.
Grave site of Josiah and Kate Kletzing, Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois (Photo by Kate Forsman, 2015. Used with permission)
The memorial pages provide the information found provide information from and a photo of the grave of my wife Ellen's first cousin, three times removed Catherine 'Kate' (Nusbickel) Kletzing, her husband Josiah Kletzing and some of their children.
Kate Kletzing was the daughter of Frederick Nusbickel and Elizabeth Wagner, an older sister of my wife's 2X great grandfather Rev. Jacob Wagner. Kate was born 1 March 1855 in Rose, Wayne County, New York and according to U.S. census records she married Josiah Kletzing around 1880. Josiah and Kate had five known children, three of whom are documented on the gravestone. Kathryn Gall, who is listed on the gravestone, was Josiah Kletzing's second wife whom he married in 1915.
I now know kforsman72 to be Kate Forsman and from what I can determine Kate does not have the Kletzing family in her family tree. No, Kate took a photo of the Kletzing grave and set-up the Find-A-Grave memorial pages to help out other genealogists and researchers. That's a good thing.
But Kate took it a step further, checking on Ancestry to see who might have this Kletzing family in their tree. She found me and through that initial message, she helped me add some valuable evidence to my research database.
Well done, Kate. I believe the genealogy community is made of great folks who love to help others and Kate has demonstrated why I hold that belief.
Can You Help Find Photos of the Nusbickel Ranch in San Dimas, California?
April 15, 2015 April 14, 2015 ianhadden1955 2 Comments
I have written previously about Frederick Henry Nusbickel and that is how Charlene Wire found me.
As it turns out, the family of Charlene's husband Dick knew the farm well. They worked on the farm many years ago. In fact, Dick's maternal grandfather, Leonard Starner managed the ranch for more than thirty years.
I am trying to help Charlene and Dick Wire locate some photos of the Nusbickel citrus ranch. Dick spent the early years of his life on that ranch, just as his mother had before him. He rode on the tractor driven by his grandfather Leonard Starner through the orange groves and as a result, Dick has many fond childhood memories from that time.
More importantly, Dick is now an extraordinary watercolour artist. He is currently working on a series of paintings depicting buildings and scenes from the Nusbickel ranch. As you can see from the two examples below, Dick's talent is extraordinary but he needs some help. There are more ranch buildings and scenes to be painted in order to complete his series.
"The Pump House" and "The Barn" by James Richard 'Dick' Wire, depicting buildings from the Nusbickel Ranch, San Dimas, California. Photos privately held by Charlene and James Richard 'Dick' Wire. Used with permission.
Leonard Starner with his wife Essie lived on the farm and raised their children there, including Dick's mother Millie. The 1930 U.S. Federal Census shows the two families living on Foothill Boulevard ranch in San Dimas, California.
I'm not sure how Frederick Henry Nusbickel got into the citrus growing business. Frederick, you see, was born in Lyons, New York in 1881 and Lyons, New York, a small town located about half-way between Rochester and Syracuse on the south side of Lake Ontario isn't exactly citrus growing territory. Frederick Henry Nusbickel came from a well-to-do family, his father also a Frederick Nusbickel was a successful hardware merchant. As a result, Frederick Henry was able to attend and graduate in 1903 from the prestigious Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
In 1905, Frederick Henry married Maisa Parker, soon after starting his career in the California citrus business. Following Maisa's death in 1922, Frederick Henry married Marjorie Bixby Herlihy (nee MacPherson), the widow of Dr. John Stephen Herlihy. Frederick Henry, my wife's second cousin twice removed, passed away in 1951.
The Starner Family at the Nusbickel Citrus Ranch, San Dimas, California about 1942(bottom row (l-r): Kenneth and Don; Upper row (l-r): Glenn, Mildred, Earl, Essie and Leonard). Photo privately held by Charlene and James Richard 'Dick' Wire. Used with permission.
If you have, or know someone who has, or even someone who might have, photos of the Nusbickel ranch that was located on Foothill Boulevard in San Dimas, California, please contact me by leaving a comment below, by email at ian.hadden@rogers.com, or through Facebook. Let's help Dick Wire complete that series of paintings!
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GAMMIE, James (1895-1918), Private, Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force, killed in action
GAMMIE, Peter (1893-1984), Private, Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force
MERNER, Albert Edward 'Herbert' (1897-1917), killed in action
Sometimes My Genealogy Stars Are Aligned
January 28, 2013 March 5, 2015 ianhadden1955 1 Comment
As luck would have it, I stumbled into a gold mine of family records while I have continued to pursue my wife Ellen's ancestors. As I have recorded through many blog posts, Ellen's ancestry is rich and compelling, with roots that include United Empire Loyalists and American Revolutionaries I can trace her ancestors back to the 1620's in New England, their arrival occurring just a few years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. Ellen appears to be one of the few people who can claim U.E.L. (United Empire Loyalist) and D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution) status (although neither has been applied for to date).
With such a lengthy and deep ancestry in North America, spread over hundreds of years, family members in subsequent generations have been found in all corners of the United States and Canada.
In the past couple of weeks, I have devoted time to tracking down the family members directly connected to Ellen's second great aunt, Elizabeth Nusbickel (nee Wagner). Elizabeth was the sister of Ellen's second great grandfather Jacob Wagner. Both Jacob and Elizabeth had immigrated to the United States along with their parents Heinrich 'Henry' and Anna Marie 'Mary' (nee Eckhard) Wagner around 1833, settling in Wayne County, New York. Henry provided for his family by both farming his land and by plying his trade as a cooper. The photo, above right, was taken by Ellen's uncle Gordon Wagner in 1976 and was provided to us by Gordon as part of his genealogy work charts and papers on the Wagner family. The photo, which I scanned, depicts Stewart Smart (a cousin) with a barrel made by Henry Wagner over one hundred years prior to the photo.
Elizabeth Wagner married Frederick Nusbickel around 1843. Elizabeth and Frederick had five known children, the youngest, Catherine or 'Kate' was born in 1855 in Rose, Wayne County, New York. Around 1880, Kate married a Lyons, Wayne County, New York school teacher named Josiah F. Kletzing. Subsequently, Josiah and Kate left New York state and moved to the Chicago, Cook County, Illinois area where they settled down and raised their family.
While I have used the Ancestry website to view and save many records connected to the families, when the Ancestry 'well ran dry', I turned to FamilySearch.org to explore the Cook County databases that are available. This is where I got lucky. Through FamilySearch, I was able to locate and save vital records for the births, marriages, and deaths for the five known children of Kate and Josiah. In the case of their daughter Kathryn Kletzing, I was able to go one generation further by finding an image of her 1912 marriage license to Ralph Clayton Moulding as well as the birth records for three of their four children.
Fortunately, I was possibly one of the last people to access the record images online. Yesterday, FamilySearch 'announced' through it's wiki that these images would no longer be available directly through FamilySearch. The wiki now explains, under the "Image Visibility" section, that, "Due to the provisions and guidelines of a newly revised contract with Cook County, FamilySearch has removed all images for Illinois, Cook County vital records from its historical records collection online; free indexes to the collections will remain."
This affects the following databases:
Illinois, Cook County Birth Certificates, 1878 – 1922
Illinois, Cook County Birth Registers. 1871 – 1915
Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878 – 1922
Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871 – 1920
Although the images are no longer available online, they can still be acquired through microfilm viewed at a local Family History Centre, through the Cook County website for a fee, or through a Family History Library "photoduplication" request. I feel lucky that timing was on my side in the past few days as none of the now current acquisition methods is nearly as convenient as my experience.
Elizabeth Nusbickel Van Slyke
March 19, 2012 March 5, 2015 ianhadden1955 Leave a comment
She was born Katheryn Elizabeth Fredreka Nusbickel on July 25, 1877 in Lyons, Wayne County, New York, United States. She was the first child and eldest daughter of Frederick Nusbickel (Jr.) and his wife, Anna Marie Kletzing. She was also my wife's second cousin, twice removed.
She preferred to be known as Elizabeth and she was able to enjoy the relative prosperity gained through the family hardware business that was located on the northwest corner of Water and Broad streets in Lyons, New York. Elizabeth attended the Lyons High School, graduating in 1897. The graduation class photo, shown below, includes Elizabeth, seen standing in the back row on the left side of the large pillar. Notably absent from the photo are all the boys from the class. The only men present are school principal, Mr. Worthy Hanks Kinney, on the left in the back row, and teacher, Mr. Francis Gardner, on the right. (The photo is from school files and was re-printed by the Geneva Times newspaper in September 1960).
On June 25, 1902, Elizabeth married Oakley Earl Van Slyke, a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and Congregational clergyman who had graduated from Syracuse University in 1900. The announcement of their engagement included the note that Oakley was one of four students who won scholarships to continue their education at the Ph.D. level in Boston.
Oakley and Elizabeth were residing in New York state when their daughter Alice was born in 1905 but had moved to California by the time their son, Oakley Earl Van Slyke, known by Earl, was born in 1911. Oakley (Sr.) appears to have followed a path different from his ministerial calling as he worked initially as a nurseryman on a citrus farm in Glendora, California before going into the real estate business, first as an agent and then as a broker in the South Pasadena area.
Elizabeth passed away on July 23, 1952, two days short of her 75th birthday, in Santa Ana, California and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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Go to book: Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Express Review
Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Express Review
Designed as a last-minute gut check for the certification exam, this guide, written by medical-surgical nurses, provides quick, digestible nuggets of the most pertinent topics they encounter on the Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Board (MSNCB) and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) exams. It can be used in conjunction with other study aids to ensure nurses are as prepared as possible for the exam. The certification helps to ensure quality patient care, indicates expert knowledge in the area of practice, and builds trust on the part of the patient and facility. It also establishes a high level of standards within healthcare, strengthens the nurse's resume and job qualifications, and increases the potential for earning power. The book follows the most recent exam content outlines from the Certified Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse (CMSRN®) Certification Examination and the Medical-Surgical Nursing Board Certification Examination blueprints and uses a succinct, bulleted format to highlight what nurses need to know. It helps nurses solidify their retention of information in the month or so leading up to their exam. Special features appear throughout the book to call out important information including complications, nursing pearls, alerts, pop quizzes, and a list of abbreviations. The nursing pearls cover additional patient care insights and strategies for knowledge retention. The alerts include need-to-know details on how to handle emergency situations or when to transfer care. The pop quizzes cover critical-thinking questions to test nurses' ability to synthesize what they have learned. Nurses encounter ethical dilemmas in caring for patients, including issues concerning access to care, informed consent, and treatment goals. Legal issues for nurses include both professional-centered and patient-centered concerns. The book deals with these professional and legal issues and the ways to address them. It serves as a quick refresher for registered nurses preparing for their certification examination.
Go to book: Fast Facts for Psychopharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
Fast Facts for Psychopharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
This book serves as a clinical guide to assist clinicians in prescribing psychotropic medications to address mental health conditions. It is used to assist clinicians to understand the key aspects of psychopharmacology. This is the first practical guide for novice and experienced nurse practitioners for explaining and choosing appropriate psychiatric medications. This clinical reference is ideal for students and all clinically oriented healthcare professionals since it provides concise, bulleted-style text for easy access to pertinent information. The book offers readers a broad understanding of the key aspects of psychotropic medications used in general psychiatry and primary-care settings and includes strategies to ease medication decision-making and evidence-based best practices to select and manage psychotropic medications. It is organized into two parts. Part I begins with an overview of general pharmacological principles and a brief overview of neurotransmitters, and covers the rationale for medication use and the risks and benefits of the major classes of psychotropic medications. Part II includes medications across drug classes that are divided by age population and includes practice management strategies, safety considerations, drug interactions, identification of side effects and adverse reactions, basic laboratory test recommendations, treatment options, and self-management strategies. The book ends with important concepts for patient and/or caregiver education and advocacy. It is intended for clinical healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, APRNs, and other healthcare clinicians who need a practice guide, test review, or clinical resource guide that is easy to access and use.
Go to book: Foundations in Becoming a Professional Counselor
Foundations in Becoming a Professional Counselor:
Advocacy, Social Justice, and Intersectionality
This comprehensive introductory text for counselors-in-training delivers foundational concepts through the lens of advocacy and intersectionality. This book emphasizes exploration of the individual and collective effect of local, national, and global social issues on clients and their communities, and imparts real-world experiences from authors and clinical experts who provide personal accounts of challenges and successes in their practices.
The text examines key evidence-based counseling theories with an in-depth focus on trauma-informed counseling, and prompts reflection and dialogue about critical issues in counselor development. It introduces specific counseling micro-skills, techniques, and modalities, and describes the varied settings in which counselors can practice. Engaging activities that foster self-analysis and self-actualization illuminate the path to becoming a professional counselor.
Go to book: EMDR and Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy for Adults
EMDR and Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy for Adults:
Reclaiming Authentic Self and Healthy Attachments
At the heart of this innovative text is the strengths-based Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy for Adults (AFTT-A) model that facilitates healthier functioning and attachment patterns for adult clients. This model uses a multimodal, step-by-step approach to restructuring the internal personality system to reclaim the authentic "Self" by providing new attachment experiences for "Child" parts of Self and negotiating new adult-life roles. AFTT-A orients all inner personality components to the present moment in which unmet childhood needs for nurturing and protection can be met within clients themselves. The book delivers a sequence of scripted protocols that access and activate the client's own strengths, creating an internal system of resources and using bilateral stimulation to deepen positive affective shifts.
Throughout the book in Pause and Reflect sections, the authors encourage therapists to think about their own attachment patterns that emerge in therapy sessions and implement activities to enhance personal self-awareness and improve attunement to clients. Short vignettes and e cerpts from client sessions illustrate the model's application, and end-of-chapter Points to Remember and Troubleshooting tips reinforce key concepts and underscore common therapy challenges and their solutions. The AFTT-A model is useful not only for EMDR therapists but can also be easily integrated with non-EMDR models of trauma therapy.
Go to book: Introduction to Group Counseling
Introduction to Group Counseling:
A Culturally Sustaining and Inclusive Framework
This book primarily is founded upon the credence gleaned from Dr. Vannatta's published dissertation that demonstrated through a rigorous systematic content analysis of Group Counseling course syllabi used to prepare students at the graduate level to conduct group counseling programs and interventions, while learning group leadership skills, and understanding group dynamics and so forth, minimally included evidence of multiculturalism being incorporated in the courses. It provides content, experiential activities, strong case applications in group leadership across every chapter. The book also provides a detailed case illustration that includes a solid foundation of the goals, purpose, membership, and other group dynamics. It uses different examples to bring to life the learning objectives of the chapter. The cases attempt to provide a broad spectrum of group leaders, coleaders, and group members. The use of multiple cases affords the reader some consistency of engaging in the material while reflecting on applying specific aspects of group leadership. Additionally, the book has an entire chapter that includes a variety of creative and thoughtful case illustrations to highlight special topics centered on a myriad of multicultural considerations. Finally, it pays particular attention to providing information on leading groups, like most group counseling texts on the market; however, it expands the market by offering counselor educators, doctoral students and early career professionals strategies on providing supervision to masters' level practitioners.
Go to book: Pediatric Nursing Certification Express Review
Pediatric Nursing Certification Express Review
This book was designed to be a high-speed review – a last-minute gut check before the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PNCB) and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) exam day. The authors created this review, which is a quick summary of the key topics one'll encounter on the exam, to supplement their certification preparation studies. They encourages the reader to use it in conjunction with other study aids to ensure the readers are as prepared as possible for the exam. This book follows the most recent exam content outlines from the PNCB and ANCC, and uses a succinct, bulleted format to highlight what one need to know. The aim of this book is to help the readers solidify their retention of information in the month or so leading up to their exam. It is written by certified pediatric nurses who are familiar with the exam and the content one need to know. Special features appear throughout the book to call out important information, including: Complications: Problems that can arise with certain disease states or procedures; Nursing Pearls: Additional patient care insights and strategies for knowledge retention; Alerts: Need-to-know details on how to handle emergency situations or when to transfer care; Pop Quizzes: Critical-thinking questions to test one's ability to synthesize what one learned; and List of Abbreviations: A useful appendix to help guide you through the alphabet soup of clinical terms.
Go to book: C-EFM® Certification Express Review
C-EFM® Certification Express Review
This book has been designed to be a high-speed review—a last-minute gut check before the C-EFM® exam day. The authors created this review, which is a quick summary of the key topics one"ll encounter on the exam, to supplement their certification preparation studies. They encourage the readers to use it in conjunction with other study aids to ensure they are as prepared as possible for the exam. This book follows the National Certification Corporation's (NCC) most recent exam content outline. It uses a succinct, bulleted format with sample electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) tracings to highlight essential knowledge. The aim of the book is to help the readers solidify their retention of information in the month or so leading up to their exam. It is written by certified nurse practitioners who are familiar with the exam and the content one need to know. Special features appear throughout the book to call out important information, including the following: Complications: Problems that can arise with certain patient conditions or procedures; Nursing Pearls: Additional patient care insights and strategies for knowledge retention; Alerts: Need-to-know details on how to handle emergency situations or when to transfer care; Pop Quizzes: Critical thinking questions to test ones' ability to synthesize what they learned; and List of Abbreviations: A useful appendix to help guide us through the alphabet soup of clinical terms. Chapters cover maternal and fetal physiology, internal and external fetal monitoring equipment, fetal assessment methods, EFM pattern recognition, fetal and maternal complications, ethical and legal issues, and more.
Go to book: Treating Depression With EMDR Therapy
Treating Depression With EMDR Therapy:
Techniques and Interventions
Treating Depression With EMDR Therapy: Techniques and Interventions introduces EMDR DeprEnd, a pathogenic memory-based EMDR therapy approach. DeprEnd has been demonstrated in a number of studies and meta-analyses to be at least as effective as—and often more effective than—other guideline-based therapies in treating depression, including cognitive behavioral therapy. EMDR DeprEnd is particularly helpful with chronic and recurrent depression that does not respond well to other treatments. Written by the international research team who developed this quick-acting and efficient therapy, this book provides clinicians with the evidence-based tools they need to integrate EMDR DeprEnd into their practices. Treating Depression With EMDR Therapy explains a step-by-step approach to processing the pathogenic memory structures that are the basis of most depressive disorders and ways to address both Depressive and Suicidal States. Real-world case studies incorporate the often-co-occurring trauma-based disorders found in depressive patients. These are practical "how-to" chapters, including one devoted to drawing integration with numerous examples of actual patient drawings as clients go through the EMDR process. Abundant illustrations enhance understanding of stress- and trauma-based depressive disorders and the successful interventions that improve client outcomes. Protocol scripts for therapist and client also help prepare readers to provide optimal treatment to their clients.
Go to book: Lifespan Development
Lifespan Development:
Cultural and Contextual Applications for the Helping Professions
As humans navigate the different ages of life, they pass through different stages of development. Mental health professionals rely on various theories, treatment modalities, and ongoing research to inform their best practice; this book supports the reader to do so in a culturally responsive, humble, self-reflective way, in order that the clients will be ethically and effectively served across the lifespan. It is organized in a way that makes it interesting, entertaining, and relevant. The book is organized in two parts. Part one uses three chapters to provide an overview of lifespan development, theories of human and lifespan development, and theories of intersectionality and identity development. These chapters provide the foundation from which to explore relevant developmental concepts as they apply to people at various ages and stages of development. Part two cover different ages and stages of development. It presents each age and stage in a two-chapter sequence. The first chapter in each sequence will introduce a case study of a client belonging to a particular age group. The second chapter in each age and stage will anchor specific theories, models, and presents clinical interventions to working with the identified case. New and relevant research will be included to further contextualize the application of the theory. The book inspires the lifelong learners as scientist-practitioners, with ongoing openness to revising what one "know", even as one become more clear about what appears to be self-evident.
Go to book: Trauma Counseling
Trauma Counseling, 2nd Edition:
Theories and Interventions for Managing Trauma, Stress, Crisis, and Disaster
This book is a much-needed update that offers an in-depth and comprehensive exploration of the variety of relevant issues concerning clients' traumatic, crisis-related, and disaster events that commonly are encountered by professional counselors and other mental health professionals. The textbook is framed, theoretically, within a systemic paradigm, including important recent physiological and neurobiological understandings of the impact of trauma on individuals. The book is organized into six sections. Section I offers a foundation for understanding the various trauma-associated issues. In fact, it tries, with a great deal of intentionality, in the first three chapters, to construct a trauma scaffold of foundational knowledge, upon which students can build increasingly more complex conceptualizations of more nuanced clinical issues associated with trauma. Section II explicates relevant constructs, such as loss and grief; these constructs continue to build upon and expand the trauma scaffolding of the first section. It also offers information about the traumatic events that may be experienced by specific age groups, people who are vulnerable, and other particular populations. Section III begins with his explication of the moral psychology of evil. Section IV presents a broader systemic context for understanding the effects of trauma on groups of people. Section V analyzes assessment methods and interventions associated with psychological trauma. It identifies and discusses the larger scope of integrative approaches to trauma, crisis, and disaster intervention, thus emphasizing the importance of more systemic models. Section VI begins by presenting ethical perspectives on trauma work. It explicates vicarious traumatization, highlighting the need for counselor selfawareness. It also focuses on the importance of mindfulness-based self-care for counselors, encouraging clinicians to be healing counselors rather than wounded healers.


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Most of this guide has been focused on writing the template language. Here,
we'll look at the YAML format. YAML has some useful features that we, as
template authors, can use to make our templates less error prone and easier
to read.

## Scalars and Collections

According to the [YAML spec](http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html), there are two
types of collections, and many scalar types.

The two types of collections are maps and sequences:

```yaml
map:
  one: 1
  two: 2
  three: 3

sequence:
  - one
  - two
  - three
```

Scalar values are individual values (as opposed to collections)

### Scalar Types in YAML

In Helm's dialect of YAML, the scalar data type of a value is determined by a
complex set of rules, including the Kubernetes schema for resource definitions.
But when inferring types, the following rules tend to hold true.

If an integer or float is an unquoted bare word, it is typically treated as
a numeric type:

```yaml
count: 1
size: 2.34
```

But if they are quoted, they are treated as strings:

```yaml
count: "1" # <-- string, not int
size: '2.34' # <-- string, not float
```

The same is true of booleans:

```yaml
isGood: true   # bool
answer: "true" # string
```

The word for an empty value is `null` (not `nil`).

Note that `port: "80"` is valid YAML, and will pass through both the
template engine and the YAML parser, but will fail if Kubernetes expects
`port` to be an integer.

In some cases, you can force a particular type inference using YAML node tags:

```yaml
coffee: "yes, please"
age: !!str 21
port: !!int "80"
```

In the above, `!!str` tells the parser that `age` is a string, even if it looks
like an int. And `port` is treated as an int, even though it is quoted.

## Strings in YAML

Much of the data that we place in YAML documents are strings. YAML has more than
one way to represent a string. This section explains the ways and demonstrates
how to use some of them.

There are three "inline" ways of declaring a string:

```yaml
way1: bare words
way2: "double-quoted strings"
way3: 'single-quoted strings'
```

All inline styles must be on one line.

- Bare words are unquoted, and are not escaped. For this reason, you have to
  be careful what characters you use.
- Double-quoted strings can have specific characters escaped with `\`. For
  example `"\"Hello\", she said"`. You can escape line breaks with `\n`.
- Single-quoted strings are "literal" strings, and do not use the `\` to
  escape characters. The only escape sequence is `''`, which is decoded as
  a single `'`.

In addition to the one-line strings, you can declare multi-line strings:

```yaml
coffee: |
  Latte
  Cappuccino
  Espresso
```

The above will treat the value of `coffee` as a single string equivalent to
`Latte\nCappuccino\nEspresso\n`.

Note that the first line after the `|` must be correctly indented. So we could
break the example above by doing this:

```yaml
coffee: |
         Latte
  Cappuccino
  Espresso

```

Because `Latte` is incorrectly indented, we'd get an error like this:

```
Error parsing file: error converting YAML to JSON: yaml: line 7: did not find expected key
```

In templates, it is sometimes safer to put a fake "first line" of content in a
multi-line document just for protection from the above error:

```yaml
coffee: |
  # Commented first line
         Latte
  Cappuccino
  Espresso

```

Note that whatever that first line is, it will be preserved in the output of the
string. So if you are, for example, using this technique to inject a file's contents
into a ConfigMap, the comment should be of the type expected by whatever is
reading that entry.

### Controlling Spaces in Multi-line Strings

In the example above, we used `|` to indicate a multi-line string. But notice
that the content of our string was followed with a trailing `\n`. If we want
the YAML processor to strip off the trailing newline, we can add a `-` after the
`|`:

```yaml
coffee: |-
  Latte
  Cappuccino
  Espresso
```

Now the `coffee` value will be: `Latte\nCappuccino\nEspresso` (with no trailing
`\n`).

Other times, we might want all trailing whitespace to be preserved. We can do
this with the `|+` notation:

```yaml
coffee: |+
  Latte
  Cappuccino
  Espresso

another: value
```

Now the value of `coffee` will be `Latte\nCappuccino\nEspresso\n\n\n`.

Indentation inside of a text block is preserved, and results in the preservation
of line breaks, too:

```yaml
coffee: |-
  Latte
    12 oz
    16 oz
  Cappuccino
  Espresso
```

In the above case, `coffee` will be `Latte\n  12 oz\n  16 oz\nCappuccino\nEspresso`.

### Indenting and Templates

When writing templates, you may find yourself wanting to inject the contents of
a file into the template. As we saw in previous chapters, there are two ways
of doing this:

- Use `{{ .Files.Get "FILENAME" }}` to get the contents of a file in the chart.
- Use `{{ include "TEMPLATE" . }}` to render a template and then place its
  contents into the chart.

When inserting files into YAML, it's good to understand the multi-line rules above.
Often times, the easiest way to insert a static file is to do something like
this:

```yaml
myfile: |
{{ .Files.Get "myfile.txt" | indent 2 }}
```

Note how we do the indentation above: `indent 2` tells the template engine to
indent every line in "myfile.txt" with two spaces. Note that we do not indent
that template line. That's because if we did, the file content of the first line
would be indented twice.

### Folded Multi-line Strings

Sometimes you want to represent a string in your YAML with multiple lines, but
want it to be treated as one long line when it is interpreted. This is called
"folding". To declare a folded block, use `>` instead of `|`:

```yaml
coffee: >
  Latte
  Cappuccino
  Espresso

```

The value of `coffee` above will be `Latte Cappuccino Espresso\n`. Note that all
but the last line feed will be converted to spaces. You can combine the whitespace
controls with the folded text marker, so `>-` will replace or trim all newlines.

Note that in the folded syntax, indenting text will cause lines to be preserved.

```yaml
coffee: >-
  Latte
    12 oz
    16 oz
  Cappuccino
  Espresso
```

The above will produce `Latte\n  12 oz\n  16 oz\nCappuccino Espresso`. Note that
both the spacing and the newlines are still there.

## Embedding Multiple Documents in One File

It is possible to place more than one YAML documents into a single file. This
is done by prefixing a new document with `---` and ending the document with
`...`

```yaml

---
document:1
...
---
document: 2
...
```

In many cases, either the `---` or the `...` may be omitted.

Some files in Helm cannot contain more than one doc. If, for example, more
than one document is provided inside of a `values.yaml` file, only the first
will be used.

Template files, however, may have more than one document. When this happens,
the file (and all of its documents) is treated as one object during
template rendering. But then the resulting YAML is split into multiple
documents before it is fed to Kubernetes.

We recommend only using multiple documents per file when it is absolutely
necessary. Having multiple documents in a file can be difficult to debug.

## YAML is a Superset of JSON

Because YAML is a superset of JSON, any valid JSON document _should_ be valid
YAML.

```json
{
  "coffee": "yes, please",
  "coffees": [
    "Latte", "Cappuccino", "Espresso"
  ]
}
```

The above is another way of representing this:

```yaml
coffee: yes, please
coffees:
- Latte
- Cappuccino
- Espresso
```

And the two can be mixed (with care):

```yaml
coffee: "yes, please"
coffees: [ "Latte", "Cappuccino", "Espresso"]
```

All three of these should parse into the same internal representation.

While this means that files such as `values.yaml` may contain JSON data, Helm
does not treat the file extension `.json` as a valid suffix.

## YAML Anchors

The YAML spec provides a way to store a reference to a value, and later
refer to that value by reference. YAML refers to this as "anchoring":

```yaml
coffee: "yes, please"
favorite: &favoriteCoffee "Cappucino"
coffees:
  - Latte
  - *favoriteCoffee
  - Espresso
```

In the above, `&favoriteCoffee` sets a reference to `Cappuccino`. Later, that
reference is used as `*favoriteCoffee`. So `coffees` becomes
`Latte, Cappuccino, Espresso`.

While there are a few cases where anchors are useful, there is one aspect of
them that can cause subtle bugs: The first time the YAML is consumed, the
reference is expanded and then discarded.

So if we were to decode and then re-encode the example above, the resulting
YAML would be:

```yaml
coffee: yes, please
favorite: Cappucino
coffees:
- Latte
- Cappucino
- Espresso
```

Because Helm and Kubernetes often read, modify, and then rewrite YAML files,
the anchors will be lost.

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package nps.invite.models.read;

import nps.invite.eventsourcing.IdSuvery;
import nps.invite.eventsourcing.IdToken;

public interface TokenVerify {

    boolean isAvailable(IdSuvery survey, IdToken token);
}


Binance is interesting as it offers regular exchange market but also lab platform. This article reviews both platforms, alongside with exchange's registration & verification, fees and deposit methods. We conclude with pros and cons, followed by a quick summary of all findings that matter to interested traders.
The exchange started out as any other ICO fundraising project, bent on providing superior financial services for its clients and investors. The offered token of trade is BNC, with over 100 million of the coins available for general public to trade. The platform started its operations in July 2017 by a CEO Zhao Changpeng in China.
The platform users several platforms on which interested parties investigate. The regular exchange is crypto-to-crypto oriented only while another platform is a lab, where ICO projects can present their whitepapers for funding.
Service is available globally, as long as you possess the coins needed for trade. Support and website offer multi-language platforms, including Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean. The support itself uses ticket system and FAQ section, as shown in the picture below.
The account registration is usual business, as with all other exchange platforms, with slight difference being the captcha verification. You have to slide the puzzle piece to proceed towards verifying your email.
The captcha is not as easy as it seems since you really have little time to slide and confirm the exact word needed. You can see it in snapshot down from this text.
It takes time to figure out the process for many starters, thus the captcha, although effectively fighting bots, should be modified in future.
In case of verification requirements, to trade at Binance, it is not a must to have a verified account. You will have a right to withdraw two BTC per day, which is quite an amount, what with bitcoins price growth.
Should you wish to increase that limit towards 100 BTC per 24 hours, you need to submit ID document.
The available cryptocurrencies are all paired with bitcoins, with over 50 trading pairs (and currencies themselves) available to you.
You will find all major and popular coins in one place at Binance like Ethereum, Zcash, DASH, Litecoin and more. All of them are available for deposit and withdrawal, as shown in the picture below.
If you are interested in Cardano in particular, Binance can be the platform for you. Read more about Cardano exchanges, Best Cardano Exchange 2018.
You can only deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies since fiat money is not available for trade at Binance. The value might be presented in USD but the trade itself is conducted through cryptos only.
Depositing coins does not cost a thing while withdrawing them has a transaction fee that is different for each cryptocurrency.
Other exchanges such as LakeBTC or HitBTC offer both crypto and fiat currency deposits/withdrawals and thus have an upper hand over Binance in that aspect. Some of the digital coins can be suspended due to the small popularity. You should keep an eye on your favorite coin in terms of value and volume traded on daily basis.
Other than withdrawal costs, while trading at Binance, you will need to pay additional 0.25% of the transaction fee when trading with pairs. The said costs grow to 0.5% as the year's pass, since the discount level would drop for each consecutive year.
The exchange rate is narrow since the difference between by and sells price of coins is around 1%. The exchange rate in line with other rivaling exchanges such as LakeBTC and HitBTC.
In terms of fees, HitBTC has lower fees of 0.01% for long-term and 0.1% for immediate orders. LakeBTC also has lower market taker fees, ranging from 0% to 0.2%.
Liquidity largely depends on the coin itself, with more popular cryptos having a large rate of daily liquidity and volume. These are bitcoins, Ethereum, Litecoin, and bitcoin cash. Others might even be suspended or delisted due to the low trading volumes.
The trade widget is divided into basic and advanced platforms as shown below this paragraph. Both have same exact trading functions which are bought and sell and specified/limited value or at market price.
As you can see, support data is the same between each of the platforms, meaning that no real difference exists between them. The segregation of the "basic" and "advanced" trading is thus deemed as pointless.
The trade at Binance is somewhere in the middle between LakeBTC and HitBTC when it comes to available trade tools. LakeBTC is simple to buy and sells while HitBTC uses more margin trading functions than Binance.
If you have an ICO idea that is interesting, you can reach out to Binance for funds by providing the specification in their lab platform. The applications are checked on a daily basis, with offers depending on individual cases.
Many other exchanges, LakeBTC and HitBTC included, do not have this feature since ICOs are generally mistrusted.
The exchange is fairly young to have a long history, unlike HitBTC and LakeBTC who have been a while in the market. As mentioned before, the Binance started out as ICO crowdfunding startup offering BNC in 2017. Following the sale of 100 million of new coins, the exchange started the regular exchange platform.
New coins were added on daily basis, while support included Japanese and Korean languages for the website as well.
Much like LakeBTC and HitBTC, you have two-factor authentication (2FA) and API private keys and tools to protect you. Nothing out of the line but not totally insecure as well.
The company is new, with operations starting in 2017. It is always risky to invest money in one of the new players in the block, as they can close quite easily.
The exchange itself has a good interface and tools for beginners, while experts might find the platform lacking in options for them. Overall, we would recommend you not to put a large quantity of coins just yet. Check them out and put some small trades happening but keep the bulk of your assets to yourself until some more time passes.


Central banks are usually thought of as very conservative institutions; if they were cars they would be safe, family sedans. Lately, though, some central banks have been doing the market equivalent of zipping around in a sporty convertible. In recent years, at least two large central banks have been snapping up large quantities of equities, typically considered a risky investment.


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WWE Announces Loaded Schedule For SummerSlam Week
By Marc Middleton | August 13, 2018
WWE has announced a loaded line-up for SummerSlam Week in New York City, which begins with an O.A.R. concert to benefit Connor's Cure and ends with WWE Night at a New York Mets MLB game following the big arena events at the Barclays Center.
Below is full details on SummerSlam Week in the NYC-Metro area:
WWE® TAKES OVER NEW YORK CITY WITH SUMMERSLAM®
STAMFORD, Conn., August 13, 2018 – WWE's SummerSlam returns to the NYC-Metro area with a week-long lineup of events including interactive fan experiences and community outreach programs. SummerSlam takes place this Sunday, August 19, streaming live around the world on WWE Network at 7 p.m. ET from a sold-out Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The events begin today and include:
* O.A.R. Concert Benefitting Connors Cure - Monday August 13
WWE and O.A.R. have teamed up to raise awareness and funds for Connor's Cure through O.A.R.'s Just Like Paradise tour this summer. Connor's Cure was created by Stephanie McMahon and Paul "Triple H" Levesque to support pediatric brain and spinal cord cancer research. O.A.R will highlight Connor's Cure during their SummerStage concert, in New York's Central Park.
* Children's Hospital Visit – Tuesday, August 14
WWE Superstars Alexa Bliss®, Apollo Crews®, Titus O'Neil® and WWE Ambassador Dana Warrior will visit children at The Brooklyn Hospital Center. During the visit, WWE Superstars will spend time with children and their families, take pictures and sign autographs.
* UNICEF Kid Power Event – Wednesday, August 15
WWE Superstars Nia Jax, Ember Moon, Big Show®, Mark Henry® and WWE Ambassador Dana Warrior are bringing Kid Power to the Boys & Girls Club of Paterson, New Jersey. UNICEF Kid Power is a program of UNICEF USA that gives kids the power to save lives by connecting their everyday activity to real-world impact. During the event, kids will join Superstars in hands on experiences that get kids physically active. The Kid Power journey will continue for the Club kids of Paterson, as WWE is sending them home with their own UNICEF Kid Power Bands.
* New York Yankees Batting Practice – Wednesday, August 15
WWE Superstars AJ Styles, Bobby Lashley and Charlotte Flair® will visit Yankee Stadium to interact with players and take part in batting practice prior to their game vs. the Tampa Bay Rays.
* Brooklyn Cyclones Connor's Cure Night – Thursday, August 16
WWE Superstars Big Show, Mark Henry, Ember Moon and WWE Ambassador Dana Warrior will visit MCU Park in Coney Island to throw out the ceremonial first pitch and sign autographs for VIP ticket holders. The Brooklyn Cyclones will wear special jerseys during the game that will be auctioned with proceeds benefitting Connor's Cure.
* Hire Heroes USA Veteran Career Panel & Networking Event – Friday, August 17
The third annual Veteran Career Panel and Networking Event will be held at NBCUniversal's 30 Rock headquarters in support of Hire Heroes USA. The event, hosted by WWE Announcer Corey Graves, will give more than 70 veterans the opportunity to receive one-on-one career coaching while networking with key employers from the Tri-State area, including Comcast, Hilton, MetLife Stadium, Starbucks, Verizon Communications, Viacom and many more. WWE Superstars Mark Henry, Big Show and WWE Ambassador Dana Warrior will greet veterans as they arrive.
* "Be a STAR" Bullying Prevention Rally – Friday, August 17
WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, WWE Superstars Nia Jax, Titus O'Neil, Dolph Ziggler® and WWE Announcer Charly Caruso will speak about the importance of bullying prevention to Club members at the Boys & Girls Club of Kips Bay. In 2016, WWE and The Boys & Girls Clubs of America launched a multi-year partnership focusing on youth development and bullying prevention efforts around Be a STAR, WWE's bullying prevention initiative. The event will be held in partnership with Cricket Wireless whose Chief Marketing Officer, Tiffany Baehman, will also be on hand.
* New York Stock Exchange Closing Bell (NYSE) – Friday, August 17
WWE Superstars Bobby Lashley, Carmella and Shinsuke Nakamura® will ring the Closing Bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
* Special Olympics Unified Bocce Tournament – Saturday, August 18
WWE, an international partner of Special Olympics, will support the Play Unified campaign by hosting a Unified Bocce Tournament at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Special Olympics athletes will be joined by WWE Superstars Mark Henry, Big Show, Shinsuke Nakamura, Asuka, Andrade 'Cien' Almas, Jinder Mahal®, Peyton Royce, Billie Kay, Natalya and WWE Ambassador Dana Warrior.
* New York Jets Training Camp – Saturday, August 18
WWE Superstars Baron Corbin and Carmella will visit the New York Jets Training Facility to interact with players and get a behind-the-scenes look at training camp.
* NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn 4 – Saturday, August 18
NXT Superstars take over Barclays Center for NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn 4. NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa will defend his title against Johnny Gargano in a Last Man Standing match; NXT North American Champion Adam Cole will take on Ricochet; Kairi Sane will look to take the NXT Women's Championship title from Shayna Baszler; NXT Tag Team Champions The Undisputed Era will take on Moustache Mountain; EC3 goes up against Velveteen Dream; and more!
* SummerSlam – Sunday, August 19
A sold-out crowd will converge on Barclays Center for SummerSlam, WWE's biggest event of the summer. A WrestleMania® 34 rematch will see Roman Reigns® looking to take The Universal Championship from Brock Lesnar; Ronda Rousey will challenge Alexa Bliss® for the Raw Women's Championship; AJ Styles will defend his WWE Championship against Samoa Joe®; Seth Rollins® will challenge the Intercontinental Champion Dolph Ziggler; Carmella, Becky Lynch® and Charlotte Flair will take part in a Triple Threat SmackDown Women's Championship match; The Miz will take on Daniel Bryan®; SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Bludgeon Brothers put their titles on the line vs. The New Day®; United States Champion Shinsuke Nakamura takes on Jeff Hardy; and more!
* Rescue Dogs Rock Event – Monday, August 20
WWE Superstars The Miz, Maryse and Asuka will visit Faithful Friends Animal Hospital in Coney Island in their first appearance as celebrity social media ambassadors for the organization. Rescue Dogs Rock is a New York-based non-profit that rescues the most medically urgent cases of animal abuse and neglect, treats animals with the necessary medical care and then finds adoptive families for their forever homes. During this visit, The Miz, Maryse and Asuka will meet with rescued dogs, the vets that treated them, and their adoptive owners.
* Monday Night Raw® – Monday, August 20
For the third consecutive night, WWE will take over Barclays Center with Monday Night Raw. Fans in attendance will witness the fall-out from SummerSlam, with the event broadcast live on USA Network at 8/7C. With more than 1,300 episodes, Monday Night Raw is the longest-running, weekly episodic program in U.S. primetime TV history.
* SmackDown® Live – Tuesday, August 21
WWE caps off four consecutive nights of action at Barclays Center with SmackDown Live with the event broadcast live at 8/7C on USA Network.
* WWE Night at Citi Field – Wednesday, August 22
WWE Superstars Jeff Hardy, Mickie James and Curt Hawkins® will sign autographs and meet fans and players from the New York Mets ahead of their game vs. the San Francisco Giants.
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You want to present the best possible impression at every stage of your work. Your book, your business documents, and your website should be cohesive and polished. They should reflect your business and your personality. The content you create should be consistent and clean.
Making this happen isn't intuitive, and working with a professional is the best way to make sure that your presentation is applicable and excellent.
You and I will establish a working relationship built with trust, competency, and communication. You will understand every step we take together. I can interpret technical language and make it easy to understand. I have years of experience, loads of integrity, and lots of common sense (a commodity that seems to be in short supply these days).
My resumé is online at LinkedIn.com.
I live in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. I create and manage websites, edit manuscripts, and publish books, locally and remotely.


This makes such a delicious and filling breakfast- and it's good enough to feel like a weekend treat! If you are short on time in the morning it is fine to pre-cook and re-heat in the microwave. I just love the crunchiness of the almonds on top of these. I don't add any sweetness into the mix- I like to serve them with raspberries, fat-free yoghurt and some maple syrup, but if you prefer it to taste sweeter you could add some sweetener or fruit syrup/maple syrup into the mix.
I recently bought some vanilla bean paste and it adds such a lovely flavour, but vanilla extract is fine if you don't have bean paste. (Vanilla bean paste has 1 syn per tsp, none in vanilla extract).
Mix together the oats and baking powder and then mix in the egg, yoghurt and vanilla extract.
Spray a small oven proof dish with low calorie cooking spray, and spoon in the mixture.
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WHAT IS THE STRONGEST CHELSEA FC ELEVEN? | LET'S TALK ABOUT CHELSEA!
It's a debate that has been going on for a while now - What is the strongest Chelsea eleven? I talk you though who I believe it is w...
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It's a debate that has been going on for a while now - What is the strongest Chelsea eleven? I talk you though who I believe it is with all the players discussed in detail in the latest episode of the new extended series - Let's Talk About Chelsea.


ANA exercised rights to substitute 737-700s with 737-700ERs. The two 737-700ERs are part of a larger order announced June 23, 2003, for 45 737-700s.
"The value of the Next-Generation 737 family continues to grow with the 737-700ER, and we are delighted to have ANA as the launch customer," said Alan Mulally, chief executive officer and president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "This new 737 derivative is a great example of how Boeing helps our customers succeed by responding to new emerging airline business requirements."
Boeing is scheduled to deliver the first airplane to ANA in early 2007.
"This special airplane will bring new possibilities for ANA in terms of the routes we fly," said ANA President and CEO Mineo Yamamoto. "It will allow us to explore destinations that could hitherto only be reached with larger aircraft, and further provide greater choice and convenience to our customers."
The 737-700ER is a Boeing Business Jet-inspired airplane, designed for long-range commercial applications. The airplane features the fuselage of the commercial 737-700 and the wings and landing gear of the larger 737-800. The high-performance derivative can fly up to 2,145 nautical miles farther than the current 737-700. With up to nine optional auxiliary fuel tanks and optional Blended Winglets, the 737-700ER is capable of flying up to 5,510 nautical miles.
Sharing the same industry-leading reliability and low operating and maintenance costs of other models in the 737 family, the 737-700ER allows carriers to compete in relatively new markets such as the long-range all-premium class market, or is particularly well suited for low-cost carriers seeking to operate on longer routes. The Next-Generation 737s are 10 years newer and fly higher, faster, farther, and more quietly than competing models. To date, 95 airlines have placed orders for more than 2,960 Next-Generation 737s. More than 1,130 737s are on order, worth about $69 billion at current list prices.


In English, a vowel letter is pronounced with full vowel quality only when the syllable containing it receives stress. Most Japanese learnes of English inadvertenly use the Japanse system of pronouncing all the vowel letters with full vowels, resulting in speech sounds that do not sound very much like English. The case in point is how they prounce "different." Do in Rome as the Romans do. Speak in English as English speakers do.


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Amazon to invest $1billion to aid small, medium Indian businesses
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, attends a company event in New Delhi, India.
Amazon.com Inc CEO Jeff Bezos said his company will invest $1 billion to bring small and medium-sized businesses online in India and expects to export $10 billion worth of India-made goods by 2025.
Bezos' visit comes amid strident criticism from small business owners who accuse the company and Walmart's Flipkart of unfair business practices. The companies deny the allegations.
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has also just launched a probe into Amazon and Flipkart.
On Wednesday, Bezos spoke at a company event at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru stadium that it has described as "a first-of-its-kind mega summit" to bring together more than 3,000 small businesses.
Amazon will also use its "size, scope and scale" to export $10 billion worth of locally made Indian goods, said Bezos as he praised the country.
"The dynamism, the energy … the growth. This country has something special and it's a democracy."
Bezos' schedule has been kept tightly under wraps but sources said he has sought a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other government officials.
India's business owners allege Amazon is driving them out of business by offering sharply discounted products and favoring select big sellers on its platform. The company has maintained it provides opportunities to more than 550,000 sellers to use its platform and grow their business in India.
The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), a group representing roughly 70 million brick-and-mortar retailers, has said it will protest across 300 cities during Bezos' visit.
There were two small protests, one in New Delhi and another in Odisha, on Wednesday.
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AIDS is a syndrome that continues to generate fears, misconceptions, misunderstanding, and discrimination because of stigma, rejection and isolation. Respect for the dignity, privacy and confidentiality of anyone who seeks health care is a fundamental right. The client/patient therefore, has the right to considerate and respectful care and the right for his/her privacy and confidentiality maintained. However the clients/patient with Hiv/Aids is often denied these rights. T hey are usually discriminate against, made to go mandatory HIV testing and their serostatus testing revealed without their consent. These are violations of their rights and the healthcare provider who do such are not only violating the ethics of their profession, but could also be found liable by a court of law.


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Yearly, you can count on the third week in November being celebrated as National Transgender Awareness Week. Between November 13-19, people and organizations in the U.S. help raise visibility about transgender people. As allies of the trans community, we need to address the issues members of that community face such as social stigma, discrimination and harassment when they tell other other people who they are.
Some of these issues result in:
Being fired or denied a job.
Facing harassment and bullying at school.
Becoming homeless or living in extreme poverty
Being evicted or denied housing or access to a shelter.
Being denied access to critical medical care
Being incarcerated or targeted by law enforcement.
Facing violence and abuse.
https://transequality.org/issues/resources/understanding-transgender-people-faq-
Sobering Statistics
The Trevor Project reports that 59% of Black transgender and non-binary young people have seriously considered suicide and 45% have experienced homelessness. According to The Advocate Magazine, between October 2019-September 30, 2020, there were 350 murders of transgender people, most of them Black and Latino women. These horrific figures were taken from the Trans Murder Monitor.
National Transgender Awareness Week culminates in The Transgender Day of Remembrance, usually held on November 20th. This day honors the memory of transgender people whose lives were lost in anti-transgender violence that year. Vigils are hosted by local transgender advocates or LGBTQ organizations and held at community centers, parks, places of worship and other venues. The vigils include reading a list of those who have died that year.
There are documentaries to explore such as Disclosure on Netflix. It shows the "dynamic interplay" between trans representation on screen, resulting cultural attitudes off-screen, and real-world consequences.
Transhood is a 2020 American documentary film directed by and produced by Sharon Liese. It follows four children, beginning at ages four, seven, twelve and fifteen. Since November 12, you can see it on HBO Max.
Definition of A Transgender
Many transgender people are misunderstood by the straight population. They are NOT the same as cross dressers who tend not to associate with LGBTQ+ community. Most identify as heterosexuals. Cross dressing is a form of gender expression.
They are people whose gender identity is different from the gender they were thought to be at birth. Sexual orientation has to do with whom you're attracted to. Transgender people can have any sexual orientation.
Although some have the following medical treatments such as hair growth or removal of hair, hormone therapy or chest surgery, it is not necessary to do so if you are transgender. The operations such as bottom surgery are expensive.
How Many Transgenders Are There In the U.S.?
The Williams Institute, an LGBTQ policy program at UCLA Law, using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, in 2016, estimates that there were 1.4 million transgender people (but that was four years ago). Hawaii, California, Georgia, New Mexico, Texas and Florida have the highest percentages of adults who identify as transgender.
The youngest group, 18 to 24, are more likely to identify as transgender. There were encouraging winnings in this year's elections by transgenders who were "out:"
Sarah McBride, 30, is the first trans state senator in Delaware. She is the highest ranking openly trans lawmaker in the U.S.
Taylor Small, 26, Director of Health and Wellness program at The Pride Center in Burlington, won a seat in the Vermont Legislative.
Brianna Titone, 27, scientist and first openly transgender state legislator for The House of Representatives, elected in Colorado.
Lisa Bunker, children's book author, won a seat as a Democratic Legislator in New Hampshire.
Stephanie Byers, 57, a member of the Chickasaw Nation in Kansas, is the first openly trans member of the Kansas State Legislature.
How To Be A Trans Ally
Don't use a term if you don't know what it means. Ask what it means.
Ask what pronouns a person prefers ( see my post about pronouns).
Show empathy and interest in their stories.
As GLAAD notes on its tip sheet (@glaad),"being an ally is a sustained and persistent pattern of action, not an idle or stable noun!"
When Your Child Is Gay: What You Need To Know
For more detailed advice, see book, co-authored with a mother of a gay son and a psychiatrist, Jonathan L. Tobkes, M.D.
Buy at Barnes & Noble
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Wesley Cullen Davidson is an award-winning freelance writer and journalist specializing in parenting as well as gay and lesbian content. For the past two years, Wesley has concentrated almost exclusively on the lesbian and gay community, specifically on advising straight parents of gay children on how to be better parents and raise happy, well-adjusted adults
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The Benefits of an Industry Alliance
How You Can Utilize the Potential of Embedded Vision Technology
The embedded vision ecosystem spans hardware, semiconductor and software component suppliers, subsystem developers, systems integrators and end users, along with fundamental research. A worldwide alliance will help the ecosystem develop fully and function efficiently.
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Embedded vision technology has the potential to enable electronic products to be more intelligent and responsive, so that they are more valuable to users. It can enable electronic equipment companies to both create valuable new products and add helpful features to existing products. And it can provide significant new markets for hardware, semiconductor and software manufacturers. A unified worldwide alliance of suppliers, system developers and end customers will help transform this potential into reality in a more rapid and efficient manner.
As computer vision technology developersand users, you're already well aware 0f the vibrant potential of this technology and have developed extensive expertise in applying it not only in the lab but also in far more challenging real-life operating environments. Due in no small part to your efforts over the years, the technology required to implement embedded vision is becoming less expensive, and has now crossed a threshold enabling widespread deployment. As such, you're likely excited about the potential for latestgeneration chips, sensors, and algorithms to not only make dramatic performance improvements in your applications,but also to significantly reduce the cost of creating and manufacturing those designs. And you might even be considering leveraging your technology proficiency in targeting new products for emerging high volume markets.
From High-End to Mainstream
As embedded computer vision technology becomes less expensive, it is proliferating rapidly into a wide range of applications and markets. Odds are high, for example, that the cellular handset in your pocket and the tablet computer in your satchel contain at least one rear-mounted image sensor for photography (perhaps two for 3D image capture capabilities) and/or a front-mounted camera for video chat support. The same goes for your laptop computer, where bezel-located image sensors are now pervasive and are increasingly also installed in all-in-one desktop computers and standalone displays. Driver-assistance cameras have been resident in high-end cars for several years now, and are now migrating downward into higher-volume mainstream models, along with increasing the number of cameras per car to fill in blind spots, assist in parking and other maneuvers, and provide early warning of impending collisions and other looming catastrophes.
Digital still and video cameras have displaced their analog precursors, with latest-generation models going beyond simple image capture and processing functions to incorporate more advanced analysis-and-response features such as face-detection-driven focus and exposure compensation. Advanced cameras will even delay the shutter activation until they discern that the subject is smiling. As such, they not only "see" but also are beginning to "understand" the environments in which they operate. Other consumer electronics systems are also becoming vision-augmented if not vision-centric, with Microsoft's Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 game console leading the charge. Medical systems are increasingly supplementing human intelligence with computer vision-fed algorithm analysis to assist in patient diagnosis and treatment. And the ability to assess and react to a subject's emotional state is not only of interest to physicians; imagine the interest in such a capability to a toy manufacturer, for example, or to a retailer.
Open Up New Markets by Decreasing Costs
Embedded computer vision relies on a diverse range of technology. For example, driven by expanding and evolving application demands, image sensors are making notable improvements in key attributes such as resolution, lowlight performance, frame rate, size, power consumption and cost. Similarly, embedded vision applications require processors with high performance, low prices, low power consumption, and flexible programmability, all ideal attributes that are increasingly becoming a reality in numerous implementation forms: microprocessors and embedded controllers, application-tailored SoCs, DSPs, graphics processors and FPGAs. Similar benefits are being accrued by latestgeneration optics systems, lighting modules, volatile and nonvolatile memories, and I/O standards. And algorithms are increasingly up to the challenge, leveraging these hardware improvements to deliver more robust and reliable analysis results.
How Do You Ensure Success in Both Established and New Markets?
The consequent increase in (and improvement in) suppliers, products from those suppliers, and volume shipments of those products is good news for those of you in traditional embedded vision applications such as factory inspection, optical character recognition, robotics, surveillance and military systems. You're able to leverage more cost effective building blocks, hardware, semiconductor and software alike from a burgeoning list of vendors. And you're also able to leverage your existing expertise to target new markets for the technologies you've developed and refined over the years. But how can you identify, track and cultivate effective relationships with the ever-expanding list of suppliers? Similarly, how can you make your company visible to customers in new markets that you may not yet realize exist? And how can you keep abreast of developments elsewhere in the supply chain and distinguish yourself as a leader in your product space?
The Intention of the Embedded Vision Alliance
A unified worldwide forum addressing the full range of embedded vision technology and applications would be the ideal means to regularly assemble ecosystem participants spanning all points of the spectrum. This, in summary, is the intention of the Embedded Vision Alliance, spearheaded by BDTI (Berkeley Design Technology, Inc.) and publicly launched in May 2011. By both formally and informally coordinating the activities of Alliance partners, the Alliance aspires to dramatically accelerate the adoption and progression of embedded vision technology for the benefit of all market participants. The Alliance has already developed a robust website presence, freely accessible to all and including (among other things) technical articles, video demonstrations, and a multi-subject discussion forum staffed by a diversity of technology experts. But the Alliance's vision is much more expansive, including:
comprehensive education facilities that will enable new participants in the embedded vision application space to rapidly ramp up their expertise;
creating links between research and industry to speed the commercialization of technology breakthroughs;
the codification of hardware, semiconductor and software standards that will accelerate technology adoption by eliminating the confusion and inefficiency of numerous redundant implementation alternatives; and
the creation of reference designs and other aids that will streamline the development of embedded vision products.
Brian Dipert, Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance
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The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Lab is happy to announce our spring 2018 request for Incubator-project proposals. ESIP is one of SGCI's partners.
For this round of funding, ESIP Lab have identified the following topics as emergent areas of need in the Earth science community, and for this RFP, project proposals that address these areas will be given priority.
Modernization of Earth science workflows using open source, machine learning and/or cloud computing.
Data provenance to advance data-driven decision making.
Projects have a 6-8-month duration. A typical budget for Lab projects is $7,000, however, larger budgets will be considered with the firm limit that costs may not exceed $10,000. Deadline for submission is May 30, 2018.


A final Deer Alliance HCAP MCQ for 2010 will be held at 8 p.m. on the evening of Wednesday 29 September 2010 at Lynham's Hotel, Laragh, Co. Wicklow.
This will be followed (for successful candidates) by a Range Test, to be held on Saturday 9 October 2010 at Midland Rifle Range, Blue Ball, Tullamore, Co. Offaly (commencing at 10 a.m.).
The full calendar of HCAP sctivities for 2010 having concluded on 28 August 2010, these additional events are being held primarily to facilitate applications already on hand from candidates previously unable to participate and now needing HCAP Certification in order to obtain Coillte Stalking Permits, in line with the policy adopted by Coillte Teoranta in 2001 and in place since 2005.
Applications for both dates will be accepted from previously failed candidates provided appications to repeat are received immediately.
In any event, the closing date for applications for both events will be first post on Friday 17 September 2010 and under no circumstances will applications received after that date be accepted.
A final list of candidates eligible for the MCQ will be posted here on or about Friday 24 September 2010, and a list of candidates eligible for the Range Test will be posted here on or about Monday 4 October 2010.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2010 by Liam Nolan.


Description: During the event, spend 1 Crystal = 40 Consumer Points (CP). Players can use the Consumer Points to purchase items in the Consumer Points Shop. All Consumer Points will be cleared when the event ends.
maybe if its impossible to directly make pages, maybe they can work around it like have a "2nd bag" or a magic chest that is within your pack that holds more items (like diablo), or even simpler, increase stack size limit... a guild vault.. unlock the equipment vault to hold other items... or maybe increase the number slots per page from 36 to 100 like the vault. but YES WE NEED MORE STORAGE SPACE.
i do think that r2 fails to realize they can make money out of us by just giving us more storage space that we can buy or unlock.. unlimited space means unlimited moneys..
what other way is there to get divine wings other then 2 a day from ewing exchange and cashing..
U can get DF from Corruption, there is a chance for it to drop in void, u can exchange ladder celestial gems and there is probably something that I missed.
Well its Saturday, Land Grab day! and yet again the Lag is ramping up to an unplayable level. is this going to be the new norm? shut servers down every weekend?
It is sad that they do still have paying customers who would cash more and some who would come back to cashing if they would just get the game back up to running par. This is totally crazy to not be able to play period due to the lack of give a **** from the devs or the techs who might do the repairs. Just a little TLC to this game and players would come back to playing again if they cared about it making money again.
The **** why do you stupid r2 devs hate U.S West pvp? three saturdays in a roll now that West pvp is down, if you cant fix our server least move us to one that works!!