Plenty of companies yearn to integrate cloud computing with their IT infrastructure but feel hesitant to do so due to concerns about data security. A lot of public cloud host service providers make use of the same hardware infrastructure to manage the needs of various clients which can compromise the security of data systems.
However, it is possible to hire the expertise of private cloud computing companies as they follow data security methods that can work for HIPAA and PCI-sensitive organizations. By getting private cloud computing solutions, companies can have greater control over their data security needs.
Here are 5 handy tips for implementing cloud computing concepts while maintaining the highest levels of security.
The first thing that you need to keep in mind is the location of your data. Unless you know the location of your data, it won't be possible for you to secure it. While it is still important for you to use technologies like firewall, data encryption, and intrusion detection methods, knowing your data's location allow you to prevent security breaches when the cloud system stops working. You should be able to use dedicated hardware to implement stringent security parameters for your data that you share through cloud computing.
Make sure that you keep your data perfectly backed up. When you take backups of your data, you can be sure of the fact that your data is safe against any kind of losses. This can also help you secure all important information about your business and provide you with the peace of mind that you seek.
The data centers that you choose to work with for your company should always take data security in a serious manner. They should be able to implement the best security measures in the servers in which your data is kept. It is important that they are PCI or HIPAA certified and SSAE 16, SOC 2 and SAS 70 audited. Managed services like intrusion detection, firewalls and antivirus can really work out well for you by making your data, applications, and enterprise more resilient.
A good way to ensure security for your data would be to check out the clients that a cloud service provider has worked with. By seeing whether the cloud provider has already worked with clients in the past requiring critical and stringent security measures, it is possible for you to make sure that your data is in good hands. Organizations operating in the financial, insurance, healthcare and government sectors are certainly good examples requiring high-end data security. By contacting these companies, you can be sure if they offer excellent data security.
It is important that you also carry out detailed tests to ensure that the cloud systems are equipped with the best security features.
These are the top 5 and most important cloud computing security tips that many app development companies india agencies are adopting in their development and implementation processes so as to have better security for their product or services.


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Cheng-Yu Chen
Vice President, Taipei Medical University
Director, TMU Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Professor of Radiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Medical University
Joint Professor of the Institute of Medicine, National Defense Medical College
Chair of Neuroradiology, Department of Medical Imaging, Taipei Medical University Hospital
President of Asian-Oceanian Society of Neuroradiology and Head & Neck Radiology (AOSNHNR)
Special Advisor to Editor and Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR)
Director, The Radiological Society of the Republic of China (Taiwan Radiological Society)
I received my medical degree in the School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan in 1985. My major academic and research interests are neuroscience and neuroimaging, particularly involving studies on ischemic stroke, brain tumor, drug abuse, and dementia. My professional appointments are: The Vice President, Taipei Medical University and The Director, Research Center of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Health (TAIMH), Taipei Medical University since 2019. The chair, Department of Medical Imaging, Taipei Medical University Hospital since 2013. I took the office of director of Imaging Research Center, Taipei Medical University in March 2014. I have served as an editorial board member of the American Journal of Neurology {AJNR) from 2001-2011. I was appointed the section editor, Classic Case, special consultant, AJNR in 2011. I was a member of the scientific program committee, RSNA from 2007-2012 and president elect, AOCNR, 2018. I have been engaged years in imaging research, especially Radiomics and Radiogenomics. Recently, two papers with impact factors exceeding 10 have been published by Clinical Cancer Research and Nature Communications. I have served as the Principal Investigator of integrated projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology three times from 2018 to 2020. My future plan is to build up an advanced imaging center equipped with high end scanners such as 7T animal MRI, 3T human MRI with 64 channel head coils and super high detector row CT center. The imaging cores will be incorporated with other basic science teams to probe neurological disease. My goal is to complete these platforms in a great medical University and hospitals.
Bridging New Horizon of AI Innovation and Precision Practice
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Taiwan. Even with the recent addition of new target therapies and immunotherapy, the five-year survival remains disappointed, only below 15%. Clinically, the process of imaging and pathological diagnosis, driver gene verification, and radiotherapy and multiple-line drug selection of lung cancer is a complex, labor-intensive, and resource-consuming task, challenging both physicians and patients, suggesting an apparent unmet need in combatting the lung cancer and also a huge socio-economic impact if a system, such as AI prediction models, can be built to fill the gaps.
The talk will feature an AI laboratory team from a medical university that wade through a process of developing useful image AI algorithms for lung cancer and beyond, under the grant support by Ministry of Science and Technology MOST), Taiwan, and collaboration with industries. The team is now named Deep-Rad. AI after going through initial phase of executing MOST project in establishing big lung cancer image data for AI application. Talk will include developing AI-based platforms, encompassing medical imaging diagnosis and prognosis prediction of lung cancer, AI-powered electronic medical record system, an AI platform for analysis of genetic risk, drug response, and prognosis of lung cancer, as well as AI-aided precision medicine and match-up clinical trial system in lung cancer. By employing high quality and curated clinical and image data, as well as collaborating with Health IT companies, hopefully the precision lung cancer AI systems can help optimize clinical pathway in the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer, thus holding the values for academic research and industry-university application. Lastly, but not the least, we will share our new direction to go beyond the lung cancer and expand to precision healthy aging at the end of the talk.

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Education Minister of Punjab
Om Parkash Soni (O P Soni), a Congress MLA from Amritsar Central assembly consituency, is the current education minister of Punjab. He was given the charge of education department in April 2018. He is a senior leader of Congress party and elected as MLA for 5th time. His qualification is Higher Secondary.
When Congress party came into power in the state in March 2017, Smt. Aruna Chaudhary became the Education Minister of Punjab. But she remained education minister for just over an year and this department was handed over to OP Soni.
He is an MLA from Amritsar Central constituency in Amritsar district. In the current elections held in March 2017, she won the elections from Amritsar Central constituency with a margin of 21,116 votes and Tarun Chugh of BJP was the trailing candidate. He has represented the same constituency as MLA in 2012 also. Being a 5th time MLA, he is a senior leader and hence inducted as a minister in the current govt although his educational qualification is not much suitable for this post.
For a complete list of minister, check this page - Cabinet Ministers of Punjab.
O.P. Soni - Personal Details
Om Parkash Soni was born on July 3, 1957 at Bhilowal Pakka (Dist. Amritsar) and his age is 61 years. He is married to Smt. Suman Soni and currently resides at Rani Ka Bagh, Amritsar. His contact number is 9814418866 and email id is officeopsoni@gmail.com. He passed the Higher Secondary exam from Higher Secondary School, Lopoke in year 1974.
There are four directorates which function under the Punjab Education Department. These directorates are:
Directorate of Public Instruction (Colleges)
Directorate of Secondary Education
Directorate of Primary Education
Directorate of State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT)
Here it may be important to note that the education department, under the education minister of Punjab, is responsible for the school level education in the state. There are various other departments related to the eduction like higher education, technical education and medical education etc. Here is a list of such departments and their current ministers:
Medical Education and Research - Brahm Mohindra of Congress party is the minister of this department. He is one of the senior most leaders of Punjab Congress and is MLA from Patiala Rural constituency in Patiala district.
Higher Education and Languages - Razia Sultana, an MLA from Malerkotla city (the only muslim dominated town in Punjab) is the minister of higher education department. You will be amazed to know that her educational qualification is Matric and is minister of Higher education department whose main role is to manage the college & university level education in the state.
Technical Education and Industrial Training - Charanjit Singh Channi is the minister of this department. He is associated with Congress party and currenty represents the Chamkaur Sahib constituency in Ropar district.
List of Previous Education Ministers of Punjab
A list of previous education ministers of Punjab is given below:
Aruna Chaudhary (Congress) - 2017
Dr. Daljit Singh Cheema (SAD) - 2014
Sikander Singh Maluka (SAD) - 2012
Sewa Singh Sekhwan (SAD) - 2010
Dr. Upinderjit Kaur (SAD) - 2007
Khushal Behl (Congress) - 2002
Tota Singh (SAD)- 1997
Education Minister of India
In India, the education department comes under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) and there are two main departments under it - Department of School Education and Literacy, Department of Higher Education. Prakash Javadekar, a BJP leader and Rajya Sabha member from Madhya Pradesh, is the minister of this department i.e. Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of India. You may simply say that Prakash Javadekar is the education minister of India. He was given the charge of this ministry in July 2016. When the current BJP government came to power in May 2014, Smriti Zubin Irani, a BJP leader and Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat, was the minister of this department.
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Crack azimuths on Europa: The G1 lineament sequence revisited
Alyssa Rose Sarid, Richard J. Greenberg, Gregory V. Hoppa, David M. Brown, Paul Geissler
Planetary Sciences
The tectonic sequence in the anti-jovian area covered by regional mapping images from Galileo's orbit E15 is determined from a study of cross-cutting relationships among lineament features. The sequence is used to test earlier results from orbit G1, based on lower resolution images, which appeared to display a progressive change in azimuthal orientation over about 90° in a clockwise sense. Such a progression is consistent with expected stress variations that would accompany plausible non-synchronous rotation. The more recent data provide a more complete record than the G1 data did. We find that to fit the sequence into a continual clockwise change of orientation would require at least 1000° (> 5 cycles) of azimuthal rotation. If due to non-synchronous rotation of Europa, this result implies that we are seeing back further into the tectonic record than the G1 results had suggested. The three sets of orientations found by Geissler et al. now appear to have been spaced out over several cycles, not during a fraction of one cycle. While our more complete sequence of lineament formation is consistent with non-synchronous rotation, a statistical test shows that it cannot be construed as independent evidence. Other lines of evidence do support non-synchronous rotation, but azimuths of crack sequences do not show it, probably because only a couple of cracks form in a given region in any given non-synchronous rotation period.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2004.08.011
Geological processes
Sarid, A. R., Greenberg, R. J., Hoppa, G. V., Brown, D. M., & Geissler, P. (2005). Crack azimuths on Europa: The G1 lineament sequence revisited. Icarus, 173(2), 469-479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2004.08.011
Crack azimuths on Europa : The G1 lineament sequence revisited. / Sarid, Alyssa Rose; Greenberg, Richard J.; Hoppa, Gregory V.; Brown, David M.; Geissler, Paul.
In: Icarus, Vol. 173, No. 2, 02.2005, p. 469-479.
Sarid, AR, Greenberg, RJ, Hoppa, GV, Brown, DM & Geissler, P 2005, 'Crack azimuths on Europa: The G1 lineament sequence revisited', Icarus, vol. 173, no. 2, pp. 469-479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2004.08.011
Sarid AR, Greenberg RJ, Hoppa GV, Brown DM, Geissler P. Crack azimuths on Europa: The G1 lineament sequence revisited. Icarus. 2005 Feb;173(2):469-479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2004.08.011
Sarid, Alyssa Rose ; Greenberg, Richard J. ; Hoppa, Gregory V. ; Brown, David M. ; Geissler, Paul. / Crack azimuths on Europa : The G1 lineament sequence revisited. In: Icarus. 2005 ; Vol. 173, No. 2. pp. 469-479.
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For the past 30 years, wildlife photographer Paul Brown's artistic eye has helped him capture award-winning shots of everything from grizzlies in Alaska to wood ducks in Mississippi. His photos and wildlife articles have graced the pages of leading outdoors magazines like Field & Stream, Outdoor Life and Sports Afield.
But on April 9, 2004, what caught Brown's eye had nothing to do with wildlife.
Brown was in his Brandon, Miss., kitchen helping to prepare dinner, when the evening TV news program flashed a report about the first civilian contractor taken captive in Iraq. As Brown listened, he soon learned that the Halliburton truck driver, Thomas Hamill, was a farmer from Macon, Miss., just a short drive from Brown's home.
"Every day I followed the story for new developments. I was obsessed with his story and enamored with this individual," says the Land Bank South customer. When Hamill escaped after 24 days, Brown says, "I told my wife, somebody needs to tell this man's story, and not just in a magazine article."
The events that followed would transform Brown's career and life.
Knowing that Hamill was likely inundated with requests for media interviews and book proposals, Brown nonetheless packed up a box of his work — T-shirts, calendars and wildlife photography books — and shipped it to Hamill's home.
"I then got up the nerve to call him, and I got lucky — he answered the phone," says Brown, who talked Hamill into a face-to-face meeting. Over the next six weeks, Brown convinced Hamill to work with him on a book. "He really just wanted to put the ordeal in the past and move on, but people needed to hear his story of faith and triumph," he says.
Brown spent 36 hours taping Hamill as he recalled the events of his captivity. Within three weeks, Brown had a publisher, a sizable advance for Hamill, and a finished manuscript. The two had started the book on July 5. By Oct. 11 it was on bookstore shelves, and within two weeks it hit the New York Times best-seller list, where it remained for four weeks.
Over the course of the next two years, Brown accompanied Hamill on book tours and speaking engagements across the country. At an event in Philadelphia, the Freedom Award was presented to Hamill, along with Shoshana Johnson, a young soldier who had been in the same convoy as Jessica Lynch when it was attacked in Iraq. She approached Brown about writing her story, and his second autobiography project was launched.
A third autobiography — this one the story of an Arizona woman who escaped polygamy — is currently in the works.
Brown may be a best-selling author these days, but photography is still his passion and remains the lifeblood of his business. The son of a hobby photographer ("one of the best black-and-white photographers in the world," says Brown), he started taking photos of friends and learning darkroom techniques while in high school, using a borrowed Kodak. His graduation gift? A black and white enlarger.
A mallard wings its way over Mississippi marshland.
While studying marketing at Mississippi State University (MSU), Brown was introduced to hunting by his brother. "I never had hunted because my dad didn't hunt," he explains.
"I was a little bored with the whole thing, so I'd put my camera in my pocket and take pictures while we were out," he says. Disappointed in the quality of his photos, he splurged on a 400-mm lens and new camera body when he graduated from college.
Brown had taken a few MSU journalism classes and soon after graduating began freelance writing for outdoors magazines while also trying to sell his photos. "I loved profiling people, getting in their head and seeing how they did what they did," he says. All the while, his photography business grew. Gradually, he cut back from six or seven monthly feature-writing assignments to two or three a year, as photography work began paying the bills.
In the late 1980s, Brown was selling his prints at a wildlife expo when a customer asked if he had ever produced calendars. "I started thinking about his question, pulled some ideas together and within a short time, the two of us came up with a concept," he says.
In 1988, the man's employer, Challenger Electric, bought 25,000 copies of Brown's first calendar. Since then, businesses across the country — including Land Bank South and other Farm Credit cooperatives — have bought his calendars every year.
"At first I had to build my name recognition, and initially was able to sell calendars based on the quality of the work," says Brown.
It wasn't long before he began brainstorming new ways to leverage the work involved in publishing calendars. "A lot of my calendar customers starting asking me for other premium-type items, things they could use as gifts," he says. "So, out of the calendars came these coffee-table books."
Brown's company, True Exposures Publishing, Inc., published his first book in 1991, Wildlife of the South. Since then, he has published Wild Visions and Conserving Wild America, sold mostly to corporate customers. The company also publishes books for others.
His calendar business is about to take a new course as well. Later this year, he will launch a series of online, on-demand calendars.
"We created this option for individuals who want to buy one to 100 calendars. Organizations also use this new concept as a fundraising opportunity," he says. Through the Web site, clients can customize the calendar they want. They choose how the months appear, select from six photos per month, and add special dates or other customized information. For each calendar sold, the organization receives a $2.50 rebate, making it an easy fundraising tool.
"People ask me all the time, 'how can I do what you are doing?'" says Brown. The key, he advises, is to continually look for new ways to use photography to make a living, and to understand there's more to photography than just capturing images.
"The business side is what people don't understand. If I'm lucky, I may spend three months of the year in a blind shooting pictures. The rest of my time is spent in the office: photo editing, filing, managing the business, responding to requests," says Brown, who has nearly 1 million images on file.
This spring, he spent a week photographing wildlife in British Columbia. "In a week, I probably shot 600 images, which isn't a lot, but the editing of those once I got back took two weeks alone."
Even finding time to get away on his 160-acre tract in Holmes County can be challenging. "The Land Bank has been one of my calendar accounts for a long time, and when we decided to buy this property, they were the natural fit to finance it," he says. "It's in the middle of nowhere, and has a wealth of wildlife. I took my best eastern wild turkey and wood duck photos on that property."
For the amateur with professional aspirations, Brown says to "start simple" — in your own backyard, even — and shoot lots of pictures. "See if it excites you," he says. "You have to be passionate, because it is a very competitive business."
Paul T. Brown was in Alaska on March 18, 2003, photographing wildlife, when he discovered an amazing sight: two eagles resting, heads bowed. The scene made a huge impression on the professional photographer from Brandon, Miss.
"There was our national symbol, appearing to be praying at a time we were about to go to war. This was a very profound moment, one that I will never forget," Brown says.
He was able to shoot one photo of the mighty birds, before they changed positions, but that one frame was a perfect shot.
The next day, U.S. troops stormed into Baghdad.
After he arrived home, Brown showed the photo to his pastor and to other wildlife photographers. They convinced him that it was a photo that needed to be published.
The response to Brown's praying eagles was overwhelming. The non-manipulated photograph was published in numerous magazines and newspapers across the country. So many people requested copies of the photo that he developed a Web site, www.prayingeagles.com, where visitors can purchase prints, posters and T-shirts of the famous photo, accompanied by a prayer that he penned.
"The image spoke to the deep sentiments that Americans were feelings for their country and continue to feel," he says.


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Who are guys that he would be comfortable with trading?
The Padres are in the middle of a lot of trade rumors this offseason. Noah Syndergaard is one of the big names that has been thrown around and the guys wanted the thoughts from a former GM. They were in luck because former Rockies GM and MLB Network's Dan O'Dowd joined the guys to give his perspective.


This hematite replacement ball is a sleek alternative to your typical titanium and steel balls for your captive bead rings. It is 4mm and has a single hollow hole through the bead instead of dimples, which will hold the ball in place. These hematite balls generally work best with 16g and bigger gauged captive rings, as the smaller gauged captive rings may slide through the hole.


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Q: "content://sms" not working in android 2.3.x OS version I am trying to read all SMS from android device using following content provider:
content://sms

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context.getContentResolver().query("content://sms", null, null,null, "date DESC")

but the cursor return null in android OS version 2.3.3.
But same code work fine in android 2.2 and 4.0.
I don't understand what is problem, may be "content://sms" content provider not supported by Android 2.3.3 OS version, if yes then please tell me what is the corrrect way to find content provider for SMS.

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Q: How to delete pipelines when removing a branch? is there a way to delete pipelines of certain branch when removing the branch in gitlab?
As I know there is API but using it I can remove only one by one.
curl -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: " -XDELETE

But it's not convenient. Maybe there is another way to automate deleting?

A: just create a scheduled pipeline like this
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    curl GET all pipelines
    filter the output by branches
    curl -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: " -XDELETE all the filtered pipelines

I didn't posted the entire code because do you know how to use the api.


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The coming smart-thing apocalypse
Bad Password is a monthly hacking and security column examining infosec and our ever-eroding "privacy".
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Bad Password is a hacking and security column by Violet Blue. Every week she'll be exploring the trendy new cyberhysteria, the state of the infosec community and the ever-eroding thing that used to be called "privacy." Bad Password cuts through the greed, fearmongering and jargon with expertise, a friendly voice and a little levelheaded perspective.
Like some people I know familiar with the ins and outs of digital surveillance (and startle like housecats when an app makes a geolocation request) I don't own any "smart" home items. My 1913 flat is well-connected to the internet, and my living room is a hacker's honeycomb hideout of entertainment playthings, but I'm far too pleased with my paranoia to own something from the class of spyware and advertising honeypottery known as the Internet of Things.
I'm also fairly certain that if I did own, say, a "smart" refrigerator, I'd accidentally trip over a setting in Transmission and download tentacle porn to the fridge. Which would mutate with malware being served to the interstitial ad I had to sit through to when I wanted eggs or milk, and I'd be assimilated in short order. This is how the rise of the machines begins; mark my words.
But if headlines are a reliable barometer for Skynet hysteria (spoiler: They are) it's easy to believe it's time to stockpile supplies, homemade paper-making kits and possibly a sundial and an abacus. Just in case hackers and/or your gadgets rise up and extract vengeance. In this spirit, last July, news outlets shouted that you should patch your Chrysler vehicle before hackers kill you. Which ones are the hackers who will take over our coffeemakers and our Jeeps and kill us, exactly? Well, in this instance, that would be the hackers who co-orchestrated the Jeep-hacking publicity stunt. So, you know, look out for those guys.
It's still important that we hear the note of the truth buried in clickbait's siren song. Many of the Internet of Things hacks pulled from headlines and editorialized on highbrow shows like CSI: Cyber are based on real, reproducible exploits. Yes, a baby monitor can be hacked, but it's for very specific models and no one is going to hack it so they can sell your baby on the darknet (CSI: Cyber S01E01, "Kidnapping 2.0").
Seriously, it's not "the hackers" I worry about. (Yes, I have tape over every camera and microphone in the house, but who doesn't these days?) No, what I worry about with things like WiFi thermostats and smart versions of boilers, locks, lamps, microwaves, dishwashers, dryers, outlets and smoke detectors is their software. And, like all things with software in them, a dev somewhere probably meant to send it for a code audit, or eliminate the hard-coded password, or file a patch, or tell comms that customers urgently need to update the firmware on their smart toilet. But ultimately they were distracted by the chance to eat a dozen tacos for $2.
Web app security company Veracode wrote in The Myth of the Smart Home Power User, "The problems [these] researchers identified were the kinds of things we in the security industry were writing about 10 or 15 years ago: a lack of basic authentication requirements to access administrative interfaces, open ports that leave the devices discoverable to internet scans, no privilege separation for user accounts and hard-coded passwords."
I'm not joking about the toilet as an attack vector, either. Veracode added, "In one example: A brand of 'smart' toilet by a prominent Japanese firm has the same, hard-coded Bluetooth passcode, '0000,' which is (coincidentally) a common default sync passcode for many Bluetooth-enabled devices, creating the possibility of a whole new category of 'overflow' attacks."
Or, you could just end up without hot water for six weeks, like this guy.
Still, how realistic is it for malicious hackers to take over my toilet? What are the chances of the next Lizard Squad deciding to weaponize my lavatory for the lulz?
Pretty low on all fronts, I'd say. In reality, hackers have shit to do, and it usually involves money.
The most we have to worry about with smart devices is their stupidity. And, absent acts of malice (like Volkswagen's shady emissions practices), that living in a state of irrational, omnipresent fear of household appliances is the cost of a connected world.
[Image credit: Getty Images]
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We are thrilled to announce three Rowmark Ski Academy alumnae have been named to the 2018-2019 U.S. Ski & Snowboard Alpine Team. Named to the A Team are Breezy Johnson '13 and postgraduate Alice McKennis '08. Katie Hensien '18 has been named to the C Team. This is Breezy's fourth year on US Ski Team, Alice's seventh year, and Katie Hensien's second year.
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Charismatic Katie Hensien Transitions to National Team, Keeps Adding to Career Highlights
Rowmark Ski Academy Announces Its Own as One of the Newest Member to the US Alpine Ski Team
Breezy Johnson's Unparalleled Work Ethic Takes Her All the Way to PyeongChang
Extraordinary Athletes: How Rowmark Ski Academy Develops Future Olympians
Rowmark Junior Program Director Troy Price Crowned National Development Coach of the Year
Troy Price, Rowmark Ski Academy's beloved junior program director since 2010, in May added national accolades to his already long list of accomplishments. U.S. Ski and Snowboard named him the 2018 Development Coach of the Year, one of only two top coaching awards they bestow annually.
U.S. Ski and Snowboard initially selected Troy as the 2018 Alpine Domestic Coach of the Year, one of 14 silver-level coaching awards for various disciplines, including snowboarding, cross country, and ski jumping. From that group of 14 winners, only one is picked to receive the gold-level, cross-discipline honor of Development Coach of the Year.
Neither Troy nor Rowmark Director Todd Brickson knew Intermountain Division (IMD) Director Carma Burnett had nominated Troy for the initial award. Appropriately enough, Troy learned he'd won that title while he was at Canada's Whistler Cup overseeing the Western Region's U14 team—a team that existed thanks in part to his vision. With his award, Troy joins a list of past winners whom he considers legends within the sport. "It's a little humbling to be on there," he said.
Not everyone's as modest: Rowmark Director Todd Brickson said Troy was "so deserving" of the recognition. Troy loves what he does, cares deeply, and is intelligent and well-organized, Todd said. "Not only is he directing our junior program and driving really sound athlete development within Rowmark," Todd said, "but Troy is reaching out beyond our program to make our division better. It therefore makes our program better. And now he's also creating regional projects and philosophies that make the whole West better." That big-picture scope is rare, Todd said, and ultimately benefits skiing at the national level too.
U.S. Ski and Snowboard summarized Troy's efforts in a news release: "He established the division's development committee nine years ago and has served as committee chair since its inception, playing a key role in managing development projects, running the Tri-Divisional Championships," and fielding the regional team for the Whistler Cup. And in her nomination letter, Carma wrote that "Troy IS Development in the IMD Alpine Division." Read her letter here.
"I hope I have been able to convey how passionate and amazing Troy Price is when it comes to developing athletes," Carma concluded her letter. "He pays as much attention to the 'elite' athletes as he does to the 'last pick.' IMD is fortunate to have his energy and input."
Rowmark and Rowland Hall alumna Sofia Yubero '17 has known Troy since she was seven years old, and as a seventh grader started at Rowmark Junior under his direction. Some of the IMD events she and her peers got to compete in wouldn't have existed without Troy, she explained. And of course, he goes above and beyond in his leadership roles: "Even if he's running the race, he's cycling the chairlift and bringing food and drinks to all the other volunteers," she said. "He's extremely organized and knows how to achieve his agenda. No one works harder for what they want than Troy, and he's a true role model."
Immediately above: Troy Price (far left, bottom) with his Rowmark Junior crew in March.
Top of page: Troy Price, right, with U.S. Ski and Snowboard Chairman Dexter Paine during the Chairman's Awards Dinner in Park City May 3.
At Rowmark, Troy focuses on the athlete as a whole, from ski racing to good sportsmanship to academics. One career highlight, for instance, came when rising sophomore Tommy Hoffman, as a seventh grader, won the region's first U14 event—an event Troy had proposed. "To have a Rowmark kid win it, that was awesome," he said. But what was so memorable about the event was how Tommy took the initiative to shake the hands of the other top-10 finishers before stepping onto his podium. "He showed respect to his competitors," Troy said. "That sportsmanship was a true reflection of our program."
Troy's positive, inclusive coaching style and inimitable work ethic has absolutely benefitted Rowmark, Todd said. "When Troy first took the job, our junior program wasn't really a feeder program," the director said. "We would gain zero to one or two kids moving into our junior program for the academy and had to recruit most of our skiers from all over the country and internationally." But as a result of Troy's work, the junior program has become a primary feeder for the academy, and skiers coming from the junior program are well-prepared to meet the demands of the Rowmark/Rowland Hall lifestyle.
Troy doesn't mince words: he's put in long days to achieve his myriad goals. It helps that he's eerily organized—he holds an accounting degree from Weber State University and worked in that field before leaving to pursue his coaching passion. Though he switched careers, accounting strategies stuck with him: "There are a few coaches out there who nicknamed me Mr. Spreadsheet," Troy joked. But even the spreadsheets hold deeper meaning for Troy. Once he's formed a relationship with a Rowmarker or any IMD skier, he keeps an eye on their careers. "It's exciting when I'm creating a ranking sheet and I see an athlete succeed or make a championship event, and I know I may have had a small impact in that."
And it's just that: at the root of it all, Troy is an amazing coach who knows how to motivate his skiers. "During each of the last three years in a row, Troy's U14 athletes have qualified for the U16 Nationals," Carma wrote in her letter. "More so they continue to have success as they advance their ski-racing journey."
Sofia can vouch for Troy's impactfulness. She took a postgraduate year and is currently recovering from injuries, but hopes to ski for Middlebury College, where she'll be a freshman in the fall. "I definitely wouldn't be the person or athlete I am today if it weren't for Troy," she said. "He's been in my life for so long, and we've spent so much time together that he's essentially like a second father to me. But besides our close, personal connection, as a coach, he taught me about the value of work ethic and the importance of goal setting. There's nothing like grueling workouts in the summer and fall heat, but somehow Troy always made us excited to work towards our in-season goals that were months away."
And through his coaching style and his talent, Troy simply inspires a love for the sport, Sofia said. She still remembers sprinting against him during physical testing when she was younger: "Following him on a powder day around Snowbasin is one of the best things because he knows the mountain so well," she said. "Plus, he's an insane skier. I loved skiing behind him and trying to mimic his every move." Troy cultivated a fun atmosphere, Sofia explained, because he knows the competition aspect of the sport eventually comes to an end. Rather, he focuses on the promise that "if our love of skiing is strong enough, we—his athletes—will continue to ski for the rest of our lives."
Katie Hensien started her Rowmark Ski Academy career strong with a U16 slalom national championship in Sugarloaf, Maine, back in 2015. Rowmark Director Todd Brickson still remembers the middle of Katie's second run, when she suddenly and precariously skied on one foot as the other flew into the air.
"She didn't fall, but picture one ski on the ground and one ski near her head," Todd said, crediting Katie's flexibility. "It all happens in one moment and then she regains her balance and keeps going."
Katie, now a senior, laughed knowingly at Todd's memory. "I did that in Davos, too," she said, referencing her fourth-place slalom finish January 31 at the World Junior Championships in Switzerland.
Katie's incredible recovery to win that U16 title epitomizes her style, Todd said. "She goes all out, she attacks, but she's also a smart skier," he explained. Rowmarkers and their families know all too well that ski racing isn't a judged sport—it's simply about clocking the fastest time. "It doesn't have to be perfect, it doesn't have to be pretty, and Katie gets that," Todd said.
Katie modestly paints her past year in ski racing as one of ups and downs. But her career has generally followed an upward trajectory, and she's performed in increasingly competitive races:
She had a spectacular 2016-2017 season with her first NorAm top 10, plus four International Ski Federation victories in slalom and giant slalom.
In May, the U.S. Ski Team named Katie an alpine C-Team member—the youngest American to qualify.
This winter, she earned her first two World Cup slalom starts, one of which also entailed her first European competition.
In Davos, her first World Juniors, she finished as the top American and fourth overall, a mere 0.71 seconds shy of a podium spot.
U.S. Ski & Snowboard Alpine Development Director Chip Knight told Ski Racing Media Katie had a great day in Davos and skied well in a heavily stacked event. "She more than held her own," he said, adding she finished third in her second run, and in both runs she was very fast on the bottom of the course.
Katie's World Juniors outcome is even more impressive given an unprecedented blow in her personal life: less than two weeks beforehand, she learned her grandfather, Gil Hensien, had passed away. The 18-year-old had never before lost a family member. "It was hard to deal with that and keep moving forward," she said. "He was kind of an idol of mine." Gil had always supported her racing—even if he didn't entirely understand it—but never got a chance to see her in action. So in Davos, she penned "♥ G. Hensien" on a piece of tape and stuck it on her helmet, front and center. With that dedication, he joined her in spirit on the slope. "Now that he got to watch me, I'm happy," she said.
This one was for you grandpa! 💙G.Hensien 1/20/18
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The positive Davos result initially left Katie "speechless," she said with a smile. But beneath the surface, the new career highlight stoked her motivation. "When I can put two solid runs together, nothing is impossible," she reasoned, "just more hard work."
Her determination and ability to learn from past races paid off February 16 in Whiteface, New York. She landed second in the slalom and secured her first NorAm podium, achieving a primary goal for the season.
"It feels great as we head into NorAm finals to recognize that I have the speed needed to challenge for the top of the podium," she wrote on her blog.
She certainly has the speed, and she also has the support. Katie's devoted parents moved their family to Park City from Seattle so she could attend Rowmark. She looked at a few other ski academies, but one chat with Todd and she was hooked.
"I knew right away that was what I wanted," Katie said of meeting Todd and hearing about Rowmark in person. "He's really confident in his athletes and he's determined to make them as successful as possible in school and skiing."
So her folks made it happen, and now they love Utah just as much as their daughter does. The Hensiens, naturally, are known for their optimism. "Katie's parents are the two most positive people I think I've ever met, and she has that same personality trait," Todd said. "It just helps her in so many ways."
❄Thankful For These Two❄📷: @skitechdad
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Katie said her down-to-earth mom sparked her love of athletics and always told her she could play any sport she wanted, as long as she enjoyed it. Accordingly, Katie still makes time for mountain biking and hiking with her new German Shepherd, Jess. Her passion for skiing, appropriately enough, started with a family trip to Whistler, British Columbia. As reported in the Park Record, the Hensiens put three-year-old Katie in ski school for the day: "When they dropped her off, she cried because she didn't want to ski," reporter Ben Ramsey wrote. "But by the end of the day, she cried because she didn't want to leave."
As a senior set to graduate in June, Katie will soon leave Rowland Hall—but not without happy memories and lifelong friends, many of whom are Rowmarkers. Though she applied to college, Katie is keeping her options open for next year. Dreams of competing in the Olympics occupy the back of her mind, but she's taking a zen approach to it all. "I'll keep striving for it," she said. "But wherever my path takes me, I'm just going to go with it."
After her Wrongful Arrest, Alex Wubbels '94 Spurs Movement to Protect Nurses, Patients
The Rowmarker and two-time Olympian on how Rowland Hall shaped her, and how she's turned a traumatizing and widely covered incident into a rallying cry for her community
In February of her Rowmark Ski Academy postgraduate year—which skiers often use as a stepping stone to national or college teams—Alex Shaffer '94 competed in exactly zero races. She took a month off in the middle of racing season.
"People thought I was crazy," Alex said. Some peers and national coaches saw her hiatus as a big mistake. But a race-free month was hardly the death knell of the 19-year-old's career.
The respite (from competing, not practicing) was part of a post-knee-injury plan hatched by Alex and Rowmark Co-Founder Olle Larsson. "It gave my body and my mind a chance to find that fire again," Alex said. Come spring, a string of successful races qualified her to the U.S. Ski Team. By her 2004 retirement from the sport, she'd earned two national championships and competed in two Olympics, cementing her legacy as one of our notable Rowmark alumni.
The September 1995 Rowmark Edge announcing Alex's spot on the U.S. Ski Team.
Rowmarkers like Alex thrived because they were independent thinkers, Olle said, and weren't deterred by occasionally unconventional training plans. "It's difficult with a young teenager to sit down in the fall, and lay out a whole program for the winter, and stick to it," he said. "Alex had that ability because she could see there could be higher gratification in the end."
Alex Shaffer—now Alex Wubbels—honed that kind of mental fortitude at Rowmark. In true Rowland Hall tradition, her sixth-grade biographers documented that evolution in 1994: "Alex is a person who has grown more self-reliant, independent, and has increased her self-esteem over the past four years," wrote then-sixth-graders Kaebah Orme '99 and Myndi McCloskey. "The person who has most influenced her life would probably be her coach, Olle Larsson, who taught her about life, rules, and learning. He taught her to understand herself and depend more on herself."
Olle's lessons stuck. Now a critical care nurse, Alex proved her enduring conviction on the University of Utah Hospital floor.
On July 26 last year, during a mind-boggling incident recorded on a body camera, Salt Lake City Police Department Detective Jeff Payne wrongfully arrested Alex when she refused to allow him to take a blood sample from an unconscious patient who'd been in an automobile accident. Per hospital policy—which Alex calmly relayed multiple times—Payne needed a warrant or patient consent, or the patient needed to be under arrest. Payne lacked any prerequisites. Alex adhered to the policy and refused to yield.
After a half-hour of bullying by the detective, she could have given in. Maybe it wasn't worth it.
But for Alex—who sees it as a privilege to help patients and keep them safe when they're unable to do so themselves—the issue transcended worth.
You can't just come in and take something that isn't yours. If there's anything more proprietary and more personal than your blood, I don't know what it is.—Alex Wubbels, Class of 1994
"You can't just come in and take something that isn't yours," she said. "If there's anything more proprietary and more personal than your blood, I don't know what it is."
So she did her job and protected her patient, even though it entailed being grabbed, dragged from the ER floor while yelling for help, handcuffed, and put in the back of a police car.
"My heart was pounding," Alex said. "I was scared to death." She's still coping with post-traumatic stress from the arrest, but even in the chaos of it all, she knew she was doing the right thing.
"In moments of duress, our guts tell us a lot about right and wrong," she said. "I learned to trust my gut that day, I think, more than I probably have in a while."
Alex's story went viral in September, after she and her lawyer released bodycam footage from the arrest. The video sparked international outrage over the aggressive arrest and mistreatment of a nurse doing her job.
"Alex Wubbels did everything correct," Utah Nurses Association (UNA) President Aimee McLean told the American Nurses Association (ANA). "She stepped away from her patient's unit, she deescalated, she followed hospital policy and procedure. This never should have happened." ANA called Alex "a hero to her patient, to her hospital and to nurses across the country."
During the wave of media attention, Alex told reporters she hoped her actions were enough to invoke change. They certainly were.
Alex reached a $500,000 settlement from the city and university—she donated some money to the UNA, and set up a fund to help others obtain police bodycam footage. Relevant hospital and police policies were updated. Payne was fired and his watch commander was demoted, though news media have reported they're both appealing. The Utah House and Senate have passed a bill that aims to prevent this from happening again, and now it awaits the governor's signature.
The Rowmark Effect
Alex's Rowmark years with Olle primed her to go against the grain when needed. "Talk about the principles of standing up against bullies—that's pretty much what he taught us from the very beginning," Alex said of Olle. The duo has maintained their friendship. "He is one of those people that I am just so grateful to have in my life."
When he heard about the arrest, Larsson wasn't surprised that Alex stood her ground that day. He cited her independence, thick skin, and broad life experience as an elite athlete competing internationally. "She could be calm-minded skiing at 70 miles per hour," he said.
Like so many skiing prodigies, Alex started young. She and her brother, Pete Shaffer '96, also a Rowmarker, grew up on a ranch in Aspen, Colorado. "We didn't have babysitters," she said. "You either skied till the mountain closed and got the bus home, or you skied till your parents got off work and you caught a ride with them. So you just skied—that's just what you did."
Alex joined her local ski club one year younger than normally allowed, climbed in the rankings as a middle schooler, and attracted the attention of recruiters, including Larsson. She committed to Rowmark due to the selling point of a Rowland Hall education—her parents knew skiing wouldn't sustain her forever, and they wanted her to attend a challenging school.
So Alex and Pete moved to Salt Lake City and lived with host families while their parents stayed in Aspen. During Alex's senior year, the Shaffer siblings happily landed with Middle School math teacher Nancy Robinson, now a popular tutor. After Alex's second of two knee injuries, Nancy remembers the skier's dogged determination to heal. The teacher, who's now like a sister to Alex, even begrudgingly joined the senior for some early morning physical therapy—a 6 am aqua-jogging class at the Steiner Aquatic Center. "We spent a lot of time running back and forth in the pool," Nancy laughed.
"Alex's big goal was to go to the Olympics, and despite her various setbacks and challenges, she made it," Nancy said, adding Alex acknowledged her challenges and found a way through them. "Whatever she's going to do, she's going to do it as well as she can."
Rowland Hall delivered on the challenging education Alex's parents sought for her—it was, in fact, probably more challenging than Alex would've liked at the time. "I remember being so focused on skiing, literally nothing else mattered," she joked.
More than anything, the curiosity that I have for medicine and for nursing came directly out of Rowland Hall. If you're curious about something, learning is easy. I got that from Rowland Hall in a way that I could have never imagined.—Alex Wubbels
But in retrospect, she's grateful that Rowland Hall helped her hone her learning skills. Her junior year, for example, she'd just had knee surgery and needed to write an essay for Carol Kranes' English class. She perfunctorily completed it in her hospital bed, and in a suggestion that seemed novel to Alex, Ms. Kranes later encouraged the Rowmarker to resculpt the essay into something better, and turn it in for a new grade. "I was like, 'huh,'" Alex said quizzically, imitating her teenage self. Through interactions like that one, Alex said, Rowland Hall dispelled her misconceptions about school. It was about learning how to learn, staying curious, and gaining a deeper understanding of subjects, not rote memorization or completing an assignment for the sake of completion.
"I was a blob when I showed up. I was actually a figure of someone when I left," the alumna said. Her teachers and coaches, she explained, helped to shape her into an effective citizen, and a good person who strives to be the best version of herself.
This set her up for success in her nursing career—a job that shes says keeps her on her toes, and in a state of perpetual learning. She even spends 20 hours every two weeks as an educator in the burn unit. "More than anything, the curiosity that I have for medicine and for nursing came directly out of Rowland Hall," she said. "If you're curious about something, learning is easy. I got that from Rowland Hall in a way that I could have never imagined."
"Nurses are closing their ranks around Alex Wubbels"
Alex's desire to understand and educate steered her actions after the arrest: "This happened, it should never have happened, and it will never happen again," she said. "In that light, what can I do to inform people."
Friend Nancy Robinson confirmed that after the incident, Alex felt a responsibility to raise awareness and help nurses and others who perhaps had similar experiences but didn't receive media coverage. "She's very conscious that this is not just her experience, she just happens to be in the limelight because there is video footage," Nancy said.
Indeed, the incident was isolated, Alex said, only in the sense that it was filmed. "Without the bodycam my story would've gone nowhere," she said. "It made it really easy for anyone to watch that footage and feel like it was them, or someone that they loved."
According to the ANA, one in four nurses has been assaulted at work. In addition to new legislation here in Utah, Alex's arrest sparked an ANA-led movement to #EndNurseAbuse, including a pledge with 13,000 signatures and counting. On a personal level, the response to the incident reinforced her commitment to nursing. In the same blog post where the UNA president defended Alex's actions, the national organization doubled down in a heartening way. "Nurses are closing their ranks around Alex Wubbels," the post reads. "ANA has your back." She received an outpouring of supportive letters and emails from nurses across the world. "We're not just here for people that need help—we're here for each other," Alex said. "I couldn't have done what I did if I wasn't a nurse."
One of the most important things Alex learned as a ski racer was how to recover. You can set the goal of a perfect run, she explained, but it's not realistic. "If you're always aiming for perfection, the little bumps are going to throw you off so much so that you won't ever recover," she said. "I realized that it wasn't about the perfect run. It was about who can recover the fastest from the mistakes." As in ski racing, so in life: "There are bumps and bruises, and that's to be expected," she said. "It's how you recover and how you pick yourself back up and move forward that determines what happens." Through no fault of her own, Alex hit a major bump. But she's moved forward admirably by fighting for what's right and defending herself, and her community.
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The March Euro area flash PMI came in below expectations, implying that the overall economic activity continues to be weak at the best. The composite PMI, which combines the manufacturing and services surveys, dropped to 51.3 from 51.9. The first quarter results as a whole point to modest GDP growth of 0.1 percent to 0.2 percent, basically the same as the second half of 2018 and significantly softer than 0.4 percent in the first half of 2018 and 0.7 percent in 2017, noted Lloyds Bank in a research report. It confirms that the deceleration in euro area activity is much more protracted than had initially been expected.
The euro area manufacturing PMI dropped for an eighth straight month to 47.6 from 49.3. Particularly concerning is another big fall in the German manufacturing PMI to 44.7 from 47.6, the lowest level since 2012 during European debt crisis. The export orders component, especially, dropped to just 39.5, reflecting softening global demand. The French manufacturing PMI also dropped to 49.8 from 51.5.
Slight comfort came from the euro area services PMI, which greatly remained at the last month's unexpectedly positive outturn. The headline index was slightly softer at 52.7 from 52.8. The German Services PMI stayed at a comparatively healthy level in spite of falling to 54.9 from 55.3. This might be sufficient for the economy to avoid contraction in the first quarter. Nevertheless, the French services PMI disappointed on the downside, dropping to 48.7. Overall, the PMI survey indicates towards a deceleration after 0.3 percent growth in the fourth quarter.
Today's reports confirm the ECB's March economic forecasts that indicated the loss of economic momentum continuing into the first quarter of this year. This has already led policymakers to signal no interest rate hike until next year.
"Those economic forecasts also pointed to tentative hopes that Eurozone growth improves gradually from Q2 onwards (0.3 percent q/q in Q2 and 0.4 percent q/q thereafter). We're not really at a stage yet where the net asset purchase programme (QE) is likely to be restarted, but there's a risk that policymakers will be disappointed on growth again", added Lloyds Bank.


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The seeing and the starry sky were exquisite Saturday night for our September Open Night. The sky over the village was cloudless and sparkling with diamond stars. The Milky Way stretched broad and bright overhead, arcing half-way across the sky, dust lanes evident. It was the finest sky I've seen in quite some time. All told 49 visitors came, stretched out over the two hours of the event — much better than 49 all showing up at once, which has often happened! The smaller crowds at any given time allowed for better interaction with visitors and gave them the sense that they could take their time looking through the telescope. Several College students were in attendance including a young man from Mexico City. Students rarely show up at these events so it was a pleasure to have them. Three students arrived at the scheduled 11:00 closing time and I spent a half-hour with them… they were excited and enthusiastic about the entire experience. Earlier in the evening a girl, maybe eight years old, was obviously enthralled with her views of Jupiter and the Galilean Moons; she even used a chart I provided at the eyepiece to put names to the star-like dots aside the huge planet. It is extremely gratifying when someone, most especially a child, really "gets" what they are seeing when looking through a great telescope. That young lady wasn't just looking at Jupiter, she was observing! Also featured was the Andromeda Galaxy which filled the field of view with its misty wonder – the light of a trillion stars 2.5 million light-years away! Jupiter was resplendent with not only the dark, broad equatorial cloud bands visible, but other "stripes" could be seen in the temperate zones. I must say, between the excellent seeing and improved tracking of the telescope, I enjoyed the best views I've ever had of those two objects, both at 122X. The telescope's right ascension clutch has been slipping badly. By hand-tightening the clutch I found that the telescope tracked as well as some modern electrically-driven scopes making higher-magnification public views practical and enjoyable. Observing Jupiter was, by the way, greatly aided through use of a neutral density filter — it was difficult to observe without the filter as Jupiter was so very brilliant! It was an excellent night.
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Sounds like a wonderful night. Wish the observatory wasn't so far from us!So cool about the little girl. A future Astronomer perhaps? You never know when you plant seeds of knowlege and excitement.
A couple of weeks ago we sat out on our deck observing Jupiter through binoculars – it was really lovely. I'm glad your evening went so well and yes it is wonderful when children "get" what they are looking at.
I get the same feeling when I see children at art museums – when you can tell they're off on their own, even when holding a parent's hand.


This month I participated in a Crafting A-Z challenge with Crafting in the Rain. I picked F, and decided my craft would be about flowers.
While searching the Silhouette store recently for gears (for a different project) I came across this file and couldn't resist it.
I picked out some spring colors and ran them through my Silhouette and played around with the layout of the gears for a while until I decided this was the arrangement I liked the most.
Then, while I was at the dollar store the other day, I saw a little bag full of glitter Easter eggs and I figured they would make the perfect addition to this picture.
And to top it off, my neighbor found this shadow box and didn't have any plans for it, so she gave it to me to figure out something for it. I think I did it justice don't you?
And so there you have it. A quick little spring shadow box. It's was under $3 to make and it's going to look fabulous on my wall!
Don't forget to check out the other projects that are being done this month of the Crafting from A-Z series! This month it's A-G, so head on over and check out the other projects!
Love the gears as flowers! The colors are so pretty, and nice score on the free box!
I like how you turned an industrial shape into a cute spring craft!
Yay, glad you were able to use the shadowbox after all!


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Organization is seeking volunteers to help victims of sexual abuse
By: Brenda Matute
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX — The purple door has a team of advocates who specifically work with survivors of sexual abuse.
Those advocates make up the sexual abuse response team, or SART, which right now is under staffed.
Maribel Arredondo, with the purple door says the volunteers are trained to be the first line of support for victims.
"You're just there as a moral support for the survivor letting them know what their options are and letting them know they're not alone," said Arredondo.
Volunteers take on their choice of an 8-hour shifts where they are on-call to perform tasks like accompanying a victim to the hospital after they've been abused.
"Be there to support their survivors as they're getting their exams done," said Arredondo.
Volunteers can also accompany victims of sexual abuse to court proceedings if the victim chooses to press charges.
"They go to trial or they go to court proceedings, then the volunteer who showed up at the hospital we try to have them also show up at the court, so they've got that consistency of support," said Arredondo.
Volunteers do need to complete two trainings before joining SART, one course focuses on the services the purple door offers.
The other is a 40-hour training program from the Attorney General's office and takes 4 weeks to complete.
Arredondo says anyone with a willing heart can be a volunteer.
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Our CCXP Board led by Barbie Fink, CCXP, Director Customer and Employee Experience at Adobe has worked this summer with approximately 40 Certified Customer Experience Professionals (CCXPs) to develop more questions for the CCXP exam. By the end of the year, we hope to roll out new versions of the certification exam that will have more questions and include the latest knowledge and understanding from the customer experience discipline.
Why is the current CCXP exam item update effort important?
The world of the CX is constantly evolving. In just the past 10 years it has incorporated best practices from the fields of Innovation, Change Management, Social Media, Collaboration and Technology to name just a few. The exam rewrite is necessary to reflect the expanded breadth of the present body of knowledge.
What does the update effort mean for those preparing to sit for the exam?
Those considering taking the exam can be assured that it will address the many types of CX challenges and situations that they have experienced or will encounter in today's business environment. Earning the CCXP designation will signify you are a subject matter expert in both the theory and the practical real-life application of CX management.
How would you suggest CCXP candidates prepare for the exam?
The exam requires an understanding of CX concepts together with those of market research, change management, strategic planning, project management, statistics and quality process management and improvement. The well-prepared candidate will have both a solid background in these areas and the work experience actually applying these concepts within a business.
This volunteer opportunity has helped bring the CCXP community together and has encouraged future leadership. The new exam will progress from the 70-question version to a full 100 questions.
On behalf of everyone involved with CCXP we want to thank the following Certified Customer Experience Professionals for their incredible efforts this summer in overhauling the CCXP exam by providing new and insightful exam questions for potential use on new versions.


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How Not to Worry About the Next Stock Market Crash
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About two-thirds of adults expect to experience another financial crisis in their lifetime, according to a recent Northwestern Mutual survey. Yet only 38% say they are confident their financial plans can withstand a bad market cycle.
It's reasonable to worry: It's not simply that there have been two giant market crashes in the past 15 years. After all, the market has climbed back from those painful lows and is hitting records again—but that's really just something else to make you a touch nervous. Earlier this year, Wall Street's boom feels disconnected from the slower, start-stop recovery on Main Street, where the economy actually contracted slightly in the first three months of 2015. Recently even Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen wondered aloud if stock prices were getting ahead of themselves.
To get the higher returns stocks can deliver, there's no way to avoid the risk of loss, but you can take steps to buffer the shocks.
Begin With Balance
Financial advisers always say you should adjust your stock exposure to your risk tolerance. But as the boxer Mike Tyson once said, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." If you are relatively new to investing—or find your market mood swings back and forth—a good default investment is a classic balanced fund like MONEY 50 choice Vanguard Wellington
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Take Refuge Abroad
"There is a clear home bias among U.S. investors," says Omar Aguilar, chief investment officer of equities at Charles Schwab. But while staying at home might feel safer, spreading your bets may smooth your returns, since markets don't move in lockstep. Research from Vanguard shows that since 1970, putting 20% to 40% of equities in foreign stocks lowered volatility. The iShares Core Growth Allocation ISHARES TRUST S&P GROWTH ALLOCATION FUND
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"You shouldn't be in the market if you need the money in less than three years," says Tim Clift, investment strategist at Envestnet. It can help to view your portfolio as a row of buckets. The first bucket covers near-term costs and holds low-risk, short-term bonds and cash. The next bucket might hold higher-yielding intermediate-term bond funds. Any stocks would go in the third bucket, for money you won't need for years.
Adapted from "Never Worry About Money Again," by Carla Fried, Ian Salisbury, and Taylor Tepper, which appeared in the July 2015 issue of MONEY magazine.
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Prof. Vasso Papandréou (Valimitika, 9 december 1944) is een politicus van Griekse afkomst. Ze is een van de oprichters van de sociaaldemocratische partij PASOK. Papandréou is lange tijd lid geweest van het partijbestuur.

Biografie
Papandréou studeerde achtereenvolgens economie aan de Universiteit van Athene (tot 1969), Universiteit van Londen (1969-1971) en de Universiteit van Reading (tot 1980). Naast haar opleiding was ze tussen 1971 en 1973 hoogleraar op de Universiteit van Reading. Op diezelfde universiteit deed Papandréou tussen 1973 en 1974 wetenschappelijk onderzoek. In 1974 richtte ze samen met onder andere Andreas Papandreou de partij PASOK op. De partij werd opgericht als een reactie op de val van het Kolonelsregime en was de eerste sociaaldemocratische partij in Griekenland. Tussen 1981 en 1985 was ze hoogleraar economie aan de Universiteit van Athene. Naast haar werk aan de universiteit was ze tussen 1982 en 1985 lid van de Raad van Bestuur van de Griekse bank Emporiki Bank.

In juli 1985 werd Papandréou benoemd tot onderminister in het kabinet van Andreas Papandreou. Vier jaar later werd ze benoemd tot de Griekse afgevaardigde bij de Europese Commissie. Tussen 1989 en 1993 was ze verantwoordelijk voor de portefeuilles Industrie, Onderwijs, Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid. In 1996 keerde Papandréou terug naar de Griekse politiek. Tussen 1996 en 2004 was ze achtereenvolgens minister van Ontwikkelingssamenwerking (1996-99), Binnenlandse Zaken (1999-2001) en Milieu (2001-2004).

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A study into an implant that can automatically deliver medication to diabetic patients is now concluding its trial phase. The implant can read blood glucose levels and deliver medication automatically in response to them.
The implant aims to replace oral medications and injections for type 2 diabetics. Part of the study took place in San Antonio, Texas where doctors say it's common for diabetics to fail to refill prescriptions.
The implant resides under the patient's skin and monitors glucose levels in the blood continually.
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Max Bonney is in the middle of a nightmare. Not only does he feel responsible for the breakup of his father's second marriage, he is also being shipped off to St. Stephen, New Brunswick, to spend the summer with grandparents whom he doesn't even know. Once in St. Stephen, things go from bad to weird as Max starts to have disturbing dreams about Samuel de Champlain, the great explorer who once stayed on nearby Dochet's Island. The only thing that seems to be going right for Max is that he makes friends with Tran, and then Tran introduces him to Caetlin, who happens to have the most beautiful blue eyes he has ever seen...
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