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It's Good to Be Back
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Istarted my first playoff game at the Georgia Dome.
I finished it on my living room couch.
It was the divisional round last season against the Seahawks. It was my sixth year in the league, and I was finally playing in my first playoff game. The Georgia Dome was loud, too. Guys had always told me that playoff games are different — you know, do-or-die, every play matters, all that stuff. But whenever they would tell me that the atmosphere was crazy — like the crowd was louder — I didn't really buy it. I was like, How are people just gonna be louder all of a sudden?
Well, they were. I mean, if you ever went to a game at the Dome, you know how loud it could get.
But for that Seahawks game … I had never heard it like that.
So I was amped up. I was really just getting back to being healthy after missing a few games with a torn MCL and meniscus, and I was finally ready to go.
Then, on like the fifth play of the game, I beat the tackle to the edge and was about to sack Russell Wilson. He stepped up in the pocket to run, and just as I reached my left arm out to grab him the tackle pushed me in the back.
I think the push is what did it.
My left elbow hyperextended, and my bicep basically popped off the bone.
I went to the sidelines, then to the locker room. The doctors checked me out, confirmed that my bicep was torn and my season was over, and then … I was so pissed that I didn't even go back to the sidelines, like most guys do after an injury. I didn't want to stick around, and I didn't want to go to the hospital. I was so upset that I didn't know what to do, so I just packed up my bag, got in my car and drove home.
Actually, my wife drove. I was in the passenger seat when my agent called and tried to calm me down. But I wasn't hearing it, man. I was just thinking, Why is this happening to me?
I was mad at the world.
I got home in time to catch the end of the game on TV. I sat on my couch in the dark and watched my teammates celebrate their win over the Seahawks. They were headed to the NFC championship game.
I was headed for rehab.
I had been down that road before — a torn ACL, MCL and meniscus in 2012; a torn right bicep in 2014; the torn MCL and meniscus in 2016. And let me tell you something: Rehab sucks. I didn't think I wanted to go through that again. I decided I'd rather just hang it up.
I was ready to retire.
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It's really not like me to think that way, honestly. I don't know why I was so mad. Maybe I just felt unlucky, like I wasn't in control.
But still, it's not like me to give up like that, or to just … not fight. You know? I mean, I had already overcome more than just a few major injuries. I probably shouldn't have been playing football in the first place.
At least that's what doctors said when I was a kid.
I was born with something called Erb's palsy. The best way I can explain it is that when I was born the doctor had to pull me out by my neck. In the process I suffered nerve damage on the right side of my body — basically in my neck, trap and bicep. So I've always had limitations in my right arm as far as strength and mobility.
Even today I have to lift different dumbbells when I'm doing curls or shoulder raises or whatever, because my right arm just isn't as strong as my left. I wouldn't say it's night and day, but it's a big difference. My right arm is also a little smaller than my left, and I can't fully extend it — like, I can't lock my right elbow so my arm is completely straight.
So all throughout my childhood, as far back as I can remember, I was doing physical therapy to strengthen my right arm.
I think I started to realize that there was something different about me when I was in elementary school and kids started making fun of my small arm.
Now, I don't want to make this about me being a victim or anything like that. There are a lot of kids who had it worse than I did when it came to to being picked on or made fun of. I was lucky because I was always a big kid, and so nobody messed with me too much.
And there are varying degrees of Erb's palsy, too. So there are a lot of people who have even greater limitations than I do.
I don't know where my Erb's palsy ranks as far as how severe it is, but I know that it was at least bad enough to where some doctors told my mom that I shouldn't play football.
It wasn't until middle school that I told my mom I didn't care what the doctors said. I wanted to play. I had played football in the street with my friends — and I had played all kinds of other sports, too — and my arm was fine. I had always found ways to adjust and work around my limitations.
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I know my mom didn't want me to play football … but she let me play anyway.
And I think more than anything it was because she wanted to keep me off the streets.
See, we lived on the south side of St. Louis. We had moved there from the north side a few years earlier after my oldest brother, Anthony, was killed on the streets.
I was 10 years old when he died, so I don't remember a whole lot about it. I just remember that it was a school night and I was asleep when my mom came in all frantic and woke me and my older brother and sister up and told us she was taking us to our grandma's house.
The whole drive, she didn't say anything. But when we got to our grandma's she sat us all down and told us that Anthony had been shot and killed. He was caught up in the street life, and he had been out that night with some of his friends when somebody murdered him in an alleyway — took his money and his shoes and just left him there.
That's about all I'm gonna say about that. To be honest, I really just don't want to relive it all. It was just … hard, man — losing my brother, and being 10 years old and not understanding why. It forced me to grow up fast, and it made my mom promise herself that she was never going to lose another one of her kids to the streets. So she moved us about 20 minutes away, to the south side of town, and she basically put me and my older brother and sister on lockdown. We weren't even allowed out of the house after dark. My mom put me in baseball and basketball just to keep me busy.
So when I came to her and told her I wanted to play football, I'm pretty sure she didn't care that some doctors had said I shouldn't play.
It was still safer than me being out on the streets.
I never went into football dreaming of making it to the NFL or anything. I just wanted to play because I loved playing in the yard with other kids. My mom had never let me play little league, and I wanted to play real football. I wanted to have fun.
I was about six feet tall and over 200 pounds when I joined my eighth-grade football team, so I was pretty big.
I was pretty good, too.
And I guess the rest is history. I chose to play college football at Iowa, and spent five amazing years there before the Bucs drafted me with the 20th pick in 2011. I spent four years battling injuries and dealing with coaching changes in Tampa before becoming a free agent in 2015.
So yeah, I had overcome a few things in my life and my career. Erb's palsy. Losing my brother. A handful of pretty serious injuries.
But none of that really mattered to me when I was sitting on my couch with a torn left bicep, watching my teammates celebrate on TV. I was just mad. I was happy for them, but I just honestly didn't feel like I had it in me to work my way back from another injury.
I was in the dumps for about a month. I was on the sidelines with my arm in a brace for the Super Bowl, just trying to be there for my teammates and to help out however I could.
Now, we all know what happened in the second half of that game. When it was over, I just remember thinking that we'd had a lot of opportunities and were just one big play away from getting the win. And I wondered, Damn, what if I could have been the one to make that play … to have been the difference in the game?
That put me even further in the dumps — thinking that maybe my teammates needed me, but I just wasn't there for them.
I wondered,Damn, what if I could have been the one to make that play … to have been the difference in the game?
I felt that way for about another week or so after the Super Bowl. I don't think my outlook really turned until I finally got that stupid brace off my arm and was actually able to start rehabbing.
Actually, I gotta give a shout-out to everybody back at the University of Iowa right here. When I was back in college in Iowa City, the coaches and the staff really taught me about hard work and discipline. I know it's cliché, but the things I learned there have always helped me keep my head down and keep working hard to push through injuries. That's what the Iowa program is all about: hard work.
And I thought a lot about all that once that brace came off my arm. Because of that Iowa mentality — along with a lot of prayer and talks with my wife, Shannon, and just reflecting — I decided that it wasn't time for me to hang it up just yet. I had to try to come back.
And I'm glad I did.
I mean, this year with this team has just been a lot of fun. I know I've felt great. I had a career-high 9½ sacks this season — six of them in one game against the Cowboys.
Now that was a crazy week. I was getting a lot of media requests. And one thing about me is that I'm kind of laid back — I don't really like being the center of attention. So it was a little uncomfortable for me because it felt like everybody was talking about me that week.
Don't get me wrong, it was fun to follow all the stuff on social media — there was one meme where somebody put the Crying Jordan face on Dak Prescott … I thought that was pretty funny.
That's how you know things are getting crazy, right? Like, when you get meme'd, or you do something that has people making memes, that means a lot of people are talking about you.
So yeah, it was kind of fun. But really, I just couldn't wait for the next game so people would move on and forget about me again. Haha.
I don't know, man. I'm just glad that I didn't retire. I'm happy to be back. Happy to be here in Atlanta. Happy to be in the playoffs. This time, I can hopefully contribute to my team and help my brothers finish what we started.
You know, we try not to get too far ahead of ourselves. So we're honestly not thinking about getting back to the Super Bowl. We're just taking it one game at a time and trying to make plays when we can and play winning football. That's all you can do.
And as long as I don't finish the season sitting on my couch, I think I'll be good.
"Spoelstra … He Deserve a Jersey for What He Gon' Have to Do."
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Where the Grass Is Greener
When the pandemic started, I guess we all needed to find hobbies to help us pass the time. For me, it was reading. This has been a pretty big year for me — tra
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Philly, We Are on a Mission
I am human. Sometimes, in game, I can make it look like I am not. I do things very fast, yes. I work well with my team, yes. I make lots of plays, yes. But I am
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The Fight Unseen
Jessica Mendoza's greatest pride is her background. The Olympic Gold Medalist shines light on her Hispanic heritage fueling her career.
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Do You Need to Improve Your Efficiency or Effectiveness?
Fix the wrong one and you could make things worse.
Consider two spaceships. Both have cargo to deliver from Earth to Utopia Planitia on Mars.
Crew B has a ship that's a little slower. Because its previous-generation propulsion system requires more fuel, they have less room for cargo on each run. But they're highly reliable. Every delivery arrives at Utopia Planitia's shipping and receiving dock on time. Like clockwork.
Both ships are working hard and are producing results. They also have very different problems which require different solutions.
Crew A is highly efficient, but not very effective at achieving their desired result. Crew B is highly effective, but they're not as efficient as they could be.
Efficiency vs. effectiveness. These words are often used interchangeably in productivity conversations, but they're quite distinct.
Efficiency is a measurement of how much energy or other resources we're wasting as we work. Think of it as how much fuel you use per kilometer traveled. Effectiveness is how well you are achieving the desired outcome. Do you deliver your cargo to Utopia Planitia on time? Are you a day late? Do you arrive on time with only half of it? Do you deliver all of it, on time, to Jupiter Station?
We want to be as efficient as possible, maximizing results and minimizing costs. But efficiency is often the wrong place to start. Efficiency only matters if you're already reasonably effective.
Improving the efficiency of crew A isn't going to get cargo to Utopia Planitia any faster. They make good time and good use of resources already. What they need is training on how to be a more effective crew: knowing where your delivery is, taking pride in your work, how to work the guidance system, things like that. Give them a faster ship and they'll make mistakes faster.
Crew B has their job down. You give them a faster ship, they'll get more done with it. Give them the same pep talks and remedial training that you give to crew A, and they'll patiently sit through it, counting the hours until they can get back to work.
Some days, we get stuck. We know we have things we should be working on. We've made plans and now it's time to put those plans in motion. But instead of heading out there like a rocket, we spend our days going in circles. Anyone who's tried to get up earlier knows the bed's gravitational pull is strongest at 5:00 AM.
And some days, we've got our mental game together but we're fighting against the laws of physics. We know exactly what needs to be done and want to fix the bottlenecks that are holding back our output.
First, work on improving your effectiveness. Make sure you're delivering your cargo to the right place, on time. Once you know the job, then you can start to work on efficiency. If you optimize too soon, you might optimize the wrong thing.
Question: Do you need to improve your efficiency or effectiveness? Share your thoughts in the comments, on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook.


Uh-oh! One of your top summer intensive choices isn't auditioning anywhere near you this year, and you can't travel to them. No worries – DVD auditions are accepted by many national and regional ballet schools. (Though some, like SAB, only accept videos from foreign students.) And with a few tips, you'll be well on your way to an audition-worthy disk.
This post is in two parts because there are so many tips on this that I'd like to give you. Today, I'll focus on the content – what you are going to perform for your video audition. In Part 2, we'll talk logistics, filming style, how-to and putting together the audition packet.
Just as with live auditions, most schools devote at least one page on their website to video auditions: what to wear, what steps to include, what papers to include and how long it should be. Find this for each of your video audition schools and print out the pages for easy reference and comparison. In order to prevent yourself from having to make more than one audition video, read through the requirements of all your schools of interest to see if you can make one DVD to satisfy all of them. Usually, the only time this won't work is when one school requires a you to send a variation – many schools will not want variations on your video, so you will need to make a separate disks for the two types.
Most schools will simply want a short barre and center class, but with special modifications. If you read all requirements carefully, you will find that most modifications can be combined and do not conflict with each other, so that you can make one class DVD to use for all your auditions. If you can't however, don't try to buck the rules. If you need to make different tapes, just go ahead and make different tapes. Run a single taping session and use editing to pick and choose what portions should be included for each school. Then, make darn sure not to mix up those different DVDs.
While some of us (ahem, moi) might make perfectly successful SI DVD auditions without rehearsing, that is not the recommended protocol! I only made my tapes with no rehearsal as a young dancer because I didn't know any better, and that's the very reason I created this blog – So other dancers won't be as clueless as I once was!
You want to decide ahead of time exactly what exercises you will perform, which side you will perform for each, what music you will use for each, etc, and then practice, practice, clean, clean. Make yourself a list so you don't accidentally forget to perform one during your taping. If you forget to perform a step, it will be impossible to tape a new session and splice it into your DVD without the details of your hair, makeup and background giving away your cheat.
Pliés – Just do something straightforward like demi, demi, grand, and a port de bras or port de corp in first, second, fourth and fifth.
Tendu – Three battement tendus (from fifth, first, and then fifth again) ending the third one in demi plié. Instead of en croix, perhaps go front, side, back, and then balance in fifth or rétiré before your reversal. I would also recommend using a full port de bras in each direction to show your understanding of the lines involved there.
Jeté – Two quick battement jetés and one pas de cheval, perhaps with the arm in second and ending with a relevé rétiré balance with arms in first or, if you are advanced enough, with a single pirouette from fifth. Perform this devant, a lá seconde, and devant with your inside leg to jazz it up before reversing, but realize how that will change the pirouette directions.
Rond de Jambe – To a waltz: two slow ronds par terre, two quick ronds, degagé to 90 degrees, demi rond at 90 to a lá seconde, one rond de jambe en l'air, demi rond to derrière 90, close fifth. Reverse. Since this is an audition, I would save time and not include a port de corp if you have already included one with your plié exercise.
Frappé – Two (Cecchetti) frappés devant, one relevé, repeat a lá seconde, repeat derrière, then frappé a lá seconde into relevé and petit battements. Reverse and balance in relevé sur le coup de pied before closing fifth.
Adagio/Fondu – Developpé devant, battement fondu simple to 90 degrees en relevé, hold or balance for a moment and close fifth. Repeat a lá seconde. Repeat derrière/arabesque. Instead of repeating to the side, hold the balance in arabesque for the final counts. Do not reverse.
Grand Battement – Keep it simple with two grand battements en croix with arm in third for devant and derrière.
You'll note that this is a very short barre with few balances and port de corps. Remember that your adjudicators need only a snapshot of a class.
Adagio – Beginning croisé, developpé croisé devant, passé through rétiré to attitude éffacé, stretch to second arabesque, relevé to pas de bourée into demi plié fifth, developpé écarté devant, promenade to écarté derrière, relevé and tombé into balancé to the right, devellopé the left leg through sur le coup de pied to chassé croisé en avant on the left and close the right leg back. Repeat left.
Tours – On the diagonal in fifth croisé with right foot front, chasse croisé en avant to prepare. Tombé pas de bourée to the right, piqué to first arabesque, land in fourth position with left leg front, single pirouette en dehors to fourth, double pirouette en dehors to fourth. (Or balance in retiré and then a single pirouette if that better suits your level.) Perform once right and once left, preferably without a break – Just rond the right leg around at the end of right side.
Petit allegro – From fifth en face, right foot behind: Glissade, jeté right, glissade, jeté left, balloté devant éffacé, balloté derrière éffacé, coupé and brush to assémblé side with the left leg, closing back. Peform right and left, with battu on the jetés and assemblé if you are advanced enough.
Grand allegro – Same preparation as pirouette exercise. Sauté first arabesque, glissade, pas de chat, sauté first arabesque, glissade, grand jeté, pas couru and piqué into third arabesque, chasse into grand jeté en tournant entrelacé landing in fourth arabesque, small devellopé through to devant and chassé into chainés, chassé out and into first arabesque a térre.
If you are over 13, you may be required to perform the whole video en pointe in addition to the next section.
Pointework 1 – En face: two echappés changée to second, one to fourth, and one passé through retire; repeat that phrase to the left; pique with the right leg into pas de bourée suivi traveling right, continue into a small circle around yourself, changée fifth in sous-sous, chassé an avant croisé on the left foot and close right foot behind to fifth. Repeat to the left.
Pointework 2 – En diagonale: pique first arabesque, tombé over, coupe under to renversé, pas de bourée en tournant, coupé over on the left foot into piqué pas de bourée closing in fifth position demi plié, and chassé en arriére to croisé devant in prep for left. Repeat to the left.
Pointework 3 – Piqué turns en diagonale.
Pointework 4 – If you have enough room on your tape, show off any pointe strengths that you would like in a set of 16 or 32 counts. I always added hops on pointe to my audition videos. Fouetté rond de jambes en tournant (foutté turns) are rarely requested, but do include them if they are a specialty of yours.
Remember to finish each exercise cleanly. And check those requirements – San Fransisco and Miami City have very specific DVD choreography specifications that would not be satisfied by the above sample.
If a variation is requested, make sure you don't include something so long that you can't also fit your barre and center while accommodating the time limit. Two of my favorite short variations for pre-pro dancers are Bluebird from Sleeping Beauty and Kitri's (second) first act variation from Don Quixote. Each one is only about a minute, and both feature jumps, turns and pointework.
See? This won't be so bad. Videos let you a) audition in the comfort of your home-field-advantage studio, b) create exercises that present you at your very best, c) practice the exercises ahead of time and d) take multiple recordings from which to choose your best execution. In the next post, I'll help you get this awesome DVD made and help you put together your best video application packet.


Back in the summer of 2014 one of my bike fit clients got back in touch soon after driving away to confess that he came for his fitting as a 'mystery shopper' from Cycling Weekly. Though he wrote his article straight away it didn't appear in the magazine until November.
Unfortunately the Mystery Shopper took his bike away with its original set up and wrote his item without trying mine. He experienced and wrote about the fitting process, but my service is much more than the two hours that my clients spend with me. In the words of one of several who contacted me after reading the article... "[Cycling Weekly] failed readers in the most important aspect, I think, which is 'proof of the pudding' over a period after bike fitting."
The Mystery Shopper might have felt "almost cramped" part way through, but by the end "the drops were supremely comfortable" and he was "as low as Mark Cavendish hiding in a sprint train". I've done over 500 bike fits since I packed in my old day job a few years ago, and the vast majority of my customers have come through word of mouth. The position makes even more sense on the road.
I think that he quoted me out of context on a few things too: "[Williams] doesn't believe in all this angle stuff" he said. On the contrary - I think that flexibility and angles are extremely important. I just don't think that as an experienced and skilled fitter and coach I need a computer to work them out for me.
So what's the big deal about hip angle anyway?
Why would my setup have set off klaxons at Retul and Specialized HQ?
And why do I think that they are wrong?
Here's a picture of cyclist in action. I think that this is a pretty good set up. He can ride it for hours at a time on the drops and the hoods. It's pretty streamlined and very relaxed. He can easily take one or both hands off the bars and it's great for fast corners, fast descents, bumpy roads and riding on a wheel in the gutter. The Mystery Shopper described the pedal stroke as 'beautifully smooth'.
As you can see, Retul just joins the dots. And the warning lights start flashing. That hip angle is waaay too closed.
But like most real people, our rider has a spine. And if you were to run your fingers along the top of his back you'd find that his spine is nowhere near the straight line that Retul sees. I've approximated where it is in the picture below.
My understanding of the 'hip angle' dogma is that it has its origins in Triathlon. Triathletes were thought to run better off the bike if they rode with a more open hip angle. ...but they were riding with tribars and the dynamics of riding with the elbows supported is completely different. When triathletes don't have tribars, as is the case in draft-legal racing, the story changes somewhat. Here is a photo of the fastest running triathlete in the world (can you hear the klaxons?) between two Retul compliant rivals with 'nice', open hip angles. Alistair Brownlee (for it is he) is also the best cycling triathlete, so evidently his hip angle isn't hindering either his cycling or his running. I didn't set Alistair's bike up, but I have set up and coached World and European Duathlon champions for both draft-legal and non-drafting racing.
A more open hip angle is, in itself, not a problem. The problem is the side effects: If you open up your hip angle you sit more upright and cannot reach the handlebars - so you have to rotate forward around the bottom bracket by moving the saddle forward (and upward). This moves your centre of gravity forward and puts more pressure onto your hands and arms.
It also brings your knees in front of the pedals such that you push yourself forward as you ride - further increasing the pressure on your hands and arms. This feels 'powerful' for a while, but leads to sore hands and tension (which becomes discomfort and then pain) in one or more of your arms, neck, shoulders, upper back and lower back. It makes riding on the drops for any length of time almost impossible and makes your bike 'twitchy' and stressful to ride in a big group or over bumpy roads.
You also end up sitting on your perineum rather than your ischial tuberosities and unfairly blaming your saddle or your shorts for making you uncomfortable 'down below'.
I just copied the pages about me. You might still be able to read the whole issue of Cycling Weekly here.


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Within a group of five industrial design students, we focused on environmental impact as well as an improved ergonomic handling of the crate for customers and deliverers. In an extensive field research we gathered information about preferred placement, arrangement and size of handles resulting in the big and grippy handles on the top, as well as the handles on the bottom, which allow for easy transport with stretched out arms and relaxed muscles. Along with a survey, we figured out existing crates' problems and aimed to fulfill enhancements people proposed to us such as less weight, more compact size or locked-in bottles to prevent annoying rattling. To ensure minimum environmental impact and sustainability we decided to use "Arboform" as main material and Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) for soft-grip around the handles. With the deposit system in Germany and biodegradable materials, the crate cuts down environmental impact to the bare minimum.


When you have variables declare, you may need to do some operations with them or you can use them to store values for use later in your program. Therefore you need to know VBA operators that can be use to do such things.
To run the VBA example code, you may need to create a new form by using VBA Editor. Then add one command button as you will click the button to show the result. The group of tools(including command button) is display when you click the Toolbox in the ribbon.
-Assignment Operators(=) is used to assign value to variable.
-Arithmetic operators (+,-,*, /, mod) are used to do math operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and modulus of division.
-Logical operators (And, Or, Xor , Not) are used to do logical operations such and, or, exclusive or, and not.
-String concatenation operator (&) is used to concatenate sub strings.
-Line feed operator (Vbcrlf) is used to make a new line in the text output.
-Underscore operator(_) is used to continue code when it is too long to write it on a single line.
-Comparison operators (=,>,<,>=,<=,<>) are used to compare values. The results from using comparison operators are true or false.
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Kirk Linton with his Japanese colleagues at the end of a school cultural exchange.
Leadership, School Community, Well-being
Pandemic Perspectives from the Field
A school leader's journey
by: Dr. Kirk Linton
In early 2020, I sat in the revolving restaurant of the Calgary Tower on a cold January night to share a meal with a teacher and vice-principal from Tarui, Japan. We were celebrating the successful conclusion of a cultural exchange between our schools. Over the week, we had opened our school, billeted students in our homes, and shared rich cultural experiences. Through broken English and Japanese we told stories and forged bonds. Little did we know that within weeks, borders would close, and the COVID-19 pandemic would change all our lives fundamentally. Looking back, it is easy to see the ways we took that experience, and so many like it, for granted.
In early February, our school community would be thrown into disarray. One of our students returned from a trip to China and questions began to arise. Parent calls followed. What if the student had been exposed to this novel coronavirus? What if it came into the school? This previously distant disease became an unsettling and very present reality.
As anxiety rose, I worked with parents, staff, and my admin team to maintain calm while coping with crippling uncertainty myself. My responsibility to create a safe environment for children had never felt so challenging or elusive. Following guidance, we didn't encourage the use of masks in our school, citing their limited effectiveness
(if only we knew!) and scarce supply for healthcare workers. On Sunday, March 15 in the late afternoon, we watched a news conference announcing the closure of physical schools effective Monday morning. We had no more notice of the closures than the families we served.
Overnight, we were thrust into this strange new reality. My wife was home sick with our three school-aged children who were suddenly distance learning. I felt I had no choice but to go in to work to help guide my community through those tenuous early days of remote teaching and learning.
Our staff met in-person the next morning as we had always done. I naively felt prepared to lead. After all, I had spent years researching instructional leadership. In our meeting I told teachers to "get comfortable with being uncomfortable." I am surprised now they didn't walk out. "Uncomfortable" was a grave underestimation of how they were feeling. A teacher with a compromised immune system contacted me that night to say he could not meet in person anymore. In that moment, my perspective changed. I realized that the very lives of my staff would be impacted by my decisions from here on out. The gravity of that responsibility sat heavy on my shoulders.
We scrambled to provide professional learning and resources to our teachers as they moved online. We shared resources, PD was organized, and teachers worked together to troubleshoot new tech tools. In the end, our success pivoting to online learning was built on relationships rather than program. We worked tirelessly to reach out to families in those months. We reached out to one another. We focused on building community despite physical distance.
The pandemic has been one of the most dynamic, nerve-wracking, challenging, exhausting, and at times exciting experiences of my career as a school principal. From moving classes online overnight in the spring, to riding the wave of uncertainty and fear about school reopening through the summer, to reinventing school around safety guidelines in the fall, to the constant threat of contact-tracing and isolations this winter, this school year has been like no other. It has been said that leadership is a rainy-day job. In the 2020–21 school year, we are living through a monsoon.
On that cold January night with our Japanese counterparts, we compared our school systems in the hopes that this cross-pollination of ideas would lead to positive change. We dreamed of future trips to Japan and the celebrations and fun that would ensue. While those dreams now seem distant, I often think of our friends from Japan and wonder how they experienced this global calamity, how they adapted their school and family life, and when we will meet again. We will certainly not take it for granted when we do.
The pandemic has tested our resilience and fortitude as educators, parents, and individuals. I am proud of how my school has served our community and how all teachers continue to show commitment to their students even in the face of personal health risks. Let us move forward through this pandemic with hope for better things to come while celebrating the gift of a new perspective.
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First published in Education Canada, June 2021
Dr. Kirk Linton
School Principal
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National Security Transparency Commitment
The National Security Transparency Advisory Group (NS-TAG)
On July 2, 2019, the Minister of Public Safety Canada announced the creation of the National Security Transparency Advisory Group (NS-TAG), a key step in implementing the National Security Transparency Commitment (the Commitment). This advisory group on national security transparency will advise the Deputy Minister of Public Safety Canada and other Government officials on the implementation of the Commitment across the Government of Canada's national security and intelligence departments and agencies.
To advise the Deputy Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada ("Public Safety Canada") and the Government of Canada's federal departments and agencies with national security responsibilities on how to implement the Commitment.
The NS-TAG will accomplish this by advising on how to:
Infuse transparency into Canada's national security policies, programs, best practices, and activities in a way that will increase democratic accountability;
Increase public awareness, engagement, and access to national security and related intelligence information;
Promote transparency while ensuring the safety and security of Canadians.
Details on the Group's mandate and scope, meetings and membership are included in the NS-TAG's Terms of Reference.
Advice to the Deputy Minister of Public Safety Canada
The NS-TAG members independently identify which national security topics are of interest and importance to Canadians, and focus their meetings and advice accordingly. The Deputy Minister of Public Safety Canada may also provide guidance and submit specific questions to the Group. To develop their advice, the NS-TAG refers to their own expertise, as well as perspectives gathered through NS-TAG meetings and engagement activities with government and non-government subject matter experts.
The advice and/or recommendations that the NS-TAG gives to the Deputy Minister of Public Safety Canada, and by extension to the national security community, is provided through written material or in-person deliberations. The format of advice may adapt to the subject matter at hand at the discretion of the NS-TAG.
The NS-TAG's advice will be made publicly available here:
Initial Report: What We Heard in Our First Year (November 25, 2020)
Meetings and Accountability
The NS-TAG will meet up to four times per year in locations across Canada to discuss the implementation of the Commitment and provide their views to the Government.
The NS-TAG's advice will be included in meeting summaries, which will be posted below.
Following NS-TAG meetings, meeting summaries will be made publicly available here.
Summary Report of the Meeting of the National Security Transparency Advisory Group (NS-TAG) August 22-23, 2019
Summary Report of the Meeting of the National Security Transparency Advisory Group (NS-TAG) December 1-2, 2019
Summary Report of the Meeting of the National Security Transparency Advisory Group (NS-TAG) February 2-3, 2020
Summary Report of the Meeting of the National Security Transparency Advisory Group (NS-TAG) June 10, 2020
Summary Report of the Meeting of the National Security Transparency Advisory Group (NS-TAG) July 10, 2020
Summary Report of the Meeting of the National Security Transparency Advisory Group (NS-TAG) October 7, 2020
Summary Report of the Meeting of the National Security Transparency Advisory Group (NS-TAG) November 4, 2020
Members are appointed by Public Safety Canada's Deputy Minister for a two-year term with the possibility of renewal.
One of the NS-TAG seats is to be held by a senior Government official from Public Safety Canada, who will sit on the group in an ex-officio capacity. This person will serve as the bridge between the Commitment's internal and external transparency efforts, and will be involved in coordinating the NS-TAG's efforts internally within government. The ex-officio government member will not speak publicly on the NS-TAG's behalf.
Members accept their appointment on a voluntary basis, and are not paid or remunerated for services rendered. NS-TAG members are entitled to reimbursement for reasonable travel, hospitality, and accommodations expenses in accordance with the Treasury Board Secretariat's Directive on Travel, Hospitality, Conference and Event Expenditures.
Current NS-TAG Members
The current members of the NS-TAG can be found below, in alphabetical order.
Michèle Audette
William Baker
Khadija Cajee
Mary Francoli
Harpreet Jhinjar
Thomas Juneau (serving as non-government Co-Chair)
Myles Kirvan
Justin Mohammed
Bessma Momani
Dominic Rochon (serving as government Co-Chair)
Jeffrey Roy
Left to right: William Baker, Khadija Cajee, Myles Kirvan, Bessma Momani, Dominic Rochon, Thomas Juneau, Mary Francoli, Jeffrey Roy and Justin Mohammed. Absent: Harpreet Jhinjar.
(Biography coming soon.)
William V. Baker is the current Chair of the IRCC Departmental Audit Committee (2019-) and Chair of the RCMP Departmental Audit Committee (2013-). Over the course of his notable 33-year career in the public service, he has served in various leadership roles with the Government of Canada, including at the Canada Revenue Agency, the Canada Firearms Centre, as well as a tenure as deputy minister of Public Safety Canada (2009-2012). He also served within the Government of Saskatchewan's Department of Finance. Since his retirement in 2012, he has remained active on several boards and committees including the CSIS Departmental Audit Committee (2014-2018) and United Way Ottawa's Board of Directors (2010-2013).
Khadija Cajee co-founded No Fly List Kids, a group of parents with children who have been falsely flagged on Canada's No Fly List, after discovering her son had been Designated High Profile on this list since birth. The group has grown to represent a movement that has risen to the national stage and impacted federal national security legislation. She has testified federally on this issue and has pushed for meaningful change to the legislation. She is the co-founder of Support Ontario Students with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) advocating for provincial legislated standards of care for children with T1D in Ontario schools. Khadija is an entrepreneur and Partner at Servo Annex Inc., a digital advisory firm serving C-suite clients. Having grown up in apartheid South Africa, Khadija has a keen interest in social justice, human rights, and civil rights.
Mary Francoli is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies. She is also an Associate Dean and Director of the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs. She holds a doctorate in Political Science from Western University. Prior to joining the School of Journalism and Communication, she was the Leverhulme Visiting Fellow in New Media and Internet Politics at Royal Holloway, The University of London. As a leading researcher in the field of open government and open data, her research explores the relationship between digital media and issues related to politics and governance. Amongst other topics, much of her research takes a particular focus on the ways that digital media has impacted citizen engagement and mobilization, governance, and access to information and data. A frequent expert commentator on issues relating to open government and open data, she has authored two major reports for the Open Government Partnership and has provided her expert testimony to the Standing Parliamentary Committee on Government Operations.
Harpreet Jhinjar has extensive experience in community policing and public engagement. He has worked as a police officer for 10 years with the Edmonton Police Service. Harpreet is an expert in leading solution-based community initiatives on sensitive issues such as Youth Crime, Countering Violent Extremism, and Domestic Violence. With a multidisciplinary approach, Harpreet delivers meaningful solutions to these initiatives through community dialogues, stakeholder collaborations, as well as establishing linkages between communities and social agencies. Because of his problem-solving projects on these initiatives, he has received numerous awards and recognition, including the Motorola Webber Seavey Award by the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Harpreet holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Criminology and a Master of Science in Criminology and Forensic Psychology from Middlesex University London, UK. Harpreet currently works as the Gang Prevention Coordinator with the Abbotsford Police Department.
THOMAS JUNEAU
Thomas Juneau is Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. His research focuses on the Middle East, in particular Iran and Yemen, and on Canadian foreign and defence policy and international relations theory. He is also currently conducting a number of research projects on the relationship between intelligence analysis and policy-making in Canada. He is the author of Squandered Opportunity: Neoclassical realism and Iranian foreign policy (Stanford University Press, 2015), editor of Strategic Analysis in Support of International Policy Making: Case studies in achieving analytical relevance (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), and co-editor of Canadian Defence Policy in Theory and Practice (forthcoming) and of Iranian Foreign Policy Since 2001: Alone in the World (Routledge, 2013). He has published book chapters and articles in, among other publications, International Affairs, Political Science Quarterly, Nonproliferation Review, Orbis, International Journal, Canadian Foreign Policy, Middle East Policy, and International Studies Perspectives. From 2003 until 2014, he worked with Canada's Department of National Defence, mostly as a policy analyst covering the Middle East. He also acts as a consultant for various departments with the Canadian government and is a frequent commentator in Canadian and international media.
Myles Kirvan is a graduate of both Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. He served as an advisor to Ministers of the Crown for some years after which he joined the Public Service of Canada as a lawyer with the Department of Justice. He has served as Associate Deputy Minister of Public Safety Canada and as Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada. Myles has served as a Director of Desjardins Sécurité Financière and as a Director and Vice-Chair of the Institute on Governance. He is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and was inducted into the Common Law Honour Society of the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. He is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and the Canadian Bar Association. He volunteers with Salus, Ottawa and with St. Joe's Supper Table, Ottawa.
Justin Mohammed is the Human Rights Law and Policy Campaigner at Amnesty International Canada (English section). He is a graduate of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law, as well as Carleton University's Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs. Prior to his current role, Justin clerked at the Federal Court of Canada and served as a Human Rights Officer with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). He is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council on International Law.
Dr. Bessma Momani is Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and a Senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI). She was a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at both the Brookings Institution and Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, and formerly a visiting scholar at Georgetown University's Mortara Center. She was a 2015 Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and now sits on its board of directors. She is also a Fulbright Scholar. She has authored and co-edited ten books and over 80 scholarly, peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters that have examined international affairs, diversity and inclusion, Middle East affairs, and the global economy. She is recipient of a number of research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), International Development Research Council, and the Department of National Defence. Dr. Momani is a regular contributor to national and international media on global security and economic policy issues. She has written editorials for the New York Times, The Economist, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Newsweek, and Time Magazine.
DOMINIC ROCHON
Dominic Rochon is Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, National and Cyber Security Branch at Public Safety Canada. He comes to Public Safety from TBS where he was Assistant Deputy Minister, People Management Systems and Processes for the past year. His responsibilities included Phoenix stabilization, leading in shaping a Next Generation HR and Pay solution, and contributing to the transformation of business solutions. Prior to this role, Dominic was Deputy Chief, Policy and Communications with the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), where he was responsible for the organization's Strategic Policy, Strategic Planning, Strategic Communications and Communications Services, as well as the Disclosure, Policy and Review groups. Specifically, Dominic led CSE's efforts in Business Planning, Reporting, Operational Policy, Legal Disclosure, Access to Information and Privacy, Cabinet and Parliamentary Affairs, domestic and international Strategic Policy, Internal and External Communications, Creative Services and Linguistic Services. Dominic also held two other previous positions at CSE: Director General, Policy and Communications, and Director, Operational Coordination where he led CSE's 24/7 operations center. Dominic came to CSE from the Privy Council Office (PCO) where he served as Acting Director of Operations in the Security and Intelligence Secretariat. Prior to his three years in PCO, Dominic spent four years in TBS's International Affairs, Security and Justice Program Sector, where he left as Acting Director of the Security and Justice Division in 2007. Dominic received his Bachelor's Degree in Political Science with Honours in International Politics from the University of Ottawa. He is married with two children.
Jeffrey Roy is Professor in the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University's Faculty of Management. He is a widely published observer, critic and teacher in the realm of digital technologies and their widening impacts on government, democracy, industry and society. Dr. Roy has worked with the OECD, the United Nations, multinational corporations, and all levels of government in Canada. He has produced more than eighty peer-reviewed articles and chapters and his most recent book was published in 2013 by Springer: From Machinery to Mobility: Government and Democracy in a Participative Age. Professor Roy is a member of the Editorial Board of Canadian Public Administration, the scholarly journal of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, and he is also a featured columnist in Canadian Government Executive, a leading national publication devoted to public sector governance and public policy challenges. Among other bodies, his research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the IBM Center for the Business of Government.


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Startup Diaries: Vytal - Week 7
Entrepreneurs | Startup Diaries | Vytal
Published on November 15 2017, 3:55 pm
Join Wichita entrepreneurs Spencer Steinert and Jared Goering as they set out to change the world, starting with their human-performance tech company, Vytal.
In this installment of Startup Diaries, Vytal founders Spencer Steinert and Jared Goering talk about their decision to enroll at Wichita State University, after nearly foregoing college completely to focus on Vytal. Check out previous diary entries to learn more about Spencer and Jared, their team and their vision to change the world.
WHY WICHITA STATE?
Jared, left, and Spencer go over company information in Widget, a startup workspace in Devlin Hall, home of Wichita State University's Center for Entrepreneurship.
Our interaction with Wichita State University began only about a year and a half ago. Before that, college wasn't even on our list of things to do after high school.
During our senior year of high school, we were very focused on Vytal, so going into full-time entrepreneurship after graduation seemed like the most logical option, much to the chagrin of our peers and family members. We simply felt that traditional college would be a waste of time and resources.
However, a trip to Riverfest got us thinking twice. That's where we met Jacob Wayman from the e2e Accelerator. He was manning a booth, sharing information about e2e.
We had very few connections in Wichita, but by the end of the day, Jacob had set up meetings for us with people he thought we should know, including David Johnson. David and his business partner Adal Bilbrey would, over the next few months, mentor and consult us on our entrepreneurial efforts.
Jacob also introduced us to Mark Torline, the head of Wichita State University's Center for Entrepreneurship. One of the first questions Mark asked us was, "Where are you going to college?" When we told him our plan, he persistently told us there was no way we weren't going to attend WSU. He introduced us to Jeremy Patterson, director of the Human Performance Lab (HPL) and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Creativity.
The HPL was where the concussion and balance app Sway was created. Sway was the first FDA-approved smartphone application and the cofounder, Chase Curtis, has gone on to be an expert and consultant in the wearable market. Chase talked with us on Vytal and really helped point us in the right direction. This, combined with the range of industry partners the HPL works with convinced us that WSU is where we need to be. We immediately started working with Jeremy and the lab in the final weeks of summer.
School was about ready to start, but we still hadn't committed. That changed when Jeremy offered us a place in the first cohort of the Masters of Innovation Design (MID) program, a two-year Masters course focused on cultivating design thinking processes and bringing together a skilled interdisciplinary team. The cohort included 12 people from four different countries with backgrounds ranging from astrophysics and aerospace to art and design. We are extremely fortunate to be able to work with these people on a daily basis and to receive this kind of training for our future.
As part of this group, we have partnered with Johnson & Johnson to assist with the company's new product innovation. Johnson & Johnson sends us a list of problem prompts and we work as a team to come up with solutions that likely wouldn't have been thought of otherwise.
This partnership with Johnson & Johnson helped in creating a spin-off organization out of the MID group called the Innovation Factory. Through this organization, MID members will work alongside startups and companies to come up with innovative solutions to problems they are facing. One of the main areas we will be helping in is that stage when you have an idea but don't really know how to get started and take it further. This is where a lot of really good ideas get lost.
It's not lost on us how insanely cool it is to be able to do these kinds of things with these kinds of people. And if we would've skipped college to try to build Vytal on our own, it almost certainly would have led to disaster.
Instead, we are here because a lot of great people were willing to take a chance on us. We've joined a sort of family here at WSU with people that not only share our vision for the future, but will help us build it.
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.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is notifying the public that two additional cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a rare but serious brain infection that can result in death, have been reported with the lymphoma drug Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin). Due to the serious nature of PML, a new Boxed Warning highlighting this risk has been added to the drug label. At the time of Adcetris' approval in August 2011, one case of PML was described in the Warnings and Precautions section of the label.
In addition, a new Contraindication warning against use of Adcetris with the cancer drug bleomycin due to increased risk of pulmonary (lung) toxicity has been added to the drug label (see Data Summary below).
The signs and symptoms of PML may develop over the course of several weeks or months. They may include changes in mood or usual behavior, confusion, thinking problems, loss of memory, changes in vision, speech, or walking, and decreased strength or weakness on one side of the body. Patients who develop any signs and symptoms of PML should notify their healthcare professional immediately. Healthcare professionals should hold Adcetris dosing if PML is suspected and discontinue Adcetris if a diagnosis of PML is confirmed.
FDA recommends that healthcare professionals refer to the current Adcetris drug label for the latest prescribing recommendations (also see Additional Information for Healthcare Professionals below). Patients should contact their healthcare professional if they have any questions or concerns about Adcetris.
Cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a rare but serious brain infection that can result in death, have been reported with Adcetris.
Patients who develop any signs and symptoms suggestive of PML should notify their healthcare professional immediately.
Patients who are receiving Adcetris in combination with bleomycin should talk to their healthcare professional about stopping this combination of medications.
Patients should talk to their healthcare professional if they have any questions or concerns about Adcetris.
Patients should report serious side effects from the use of Adcetris to the FDA MedWatch program, using the information at the bottom of the page in the "Contact Us" box.
Concomitant use of Adcetris and bleomycin is contraindicated due to pulmonary toxicity.
John Cunningham (JC) virus infection resulting in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) and death has been reported in Adcetris-treated patients.
The factors leading to reactivation of latent JC virus are not fully understood. In addition to Adcetris therapy, other possible contributory factors include prior therapies and underlying disease that may cause immunosuppression.
Healthcare professionals should instruct patients to report changes in mood or usual behavior, confusion, problems thinking, loss of memory, changes in walking or talking, decreased strength or weakness on one side of the body, or changes in vision.
Healthcare professionals should consider a possible diagnosis of PML in any patient currently receiving or who has received Adcetris in the past, and who presents with new signs or symptoms of central nervous system abnormalities.
Evaluation of PML may include consultation with a neurologist and performance of a brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and/or lumbar puncture with analysis of cerebrospinal fluid by polymerase chain reaction for JC virus and/or brain biopsy.
Healthcare professionals should hold Adcetris dosing for any suspected case of PML and discontinue Adcetris dosing if a diagnosis of PML is confirmed.
Healthcare professionals should report adverse events involving Adcetris to the FDA MedWatch program, using the information at the bottom of the page in the "Contact Us" box.
To date, three patients have developed PML while receiving treatment with Adcetris.
A 48 year old man with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) was diagnosed with PML after receiving Adcetris. The patient's medical history included prior treatment with multiple chemotherapeutic agents and targeted radiation therapy. After the third dose of Adcetris, the patient presented with left-sided weakness and slurred speech. Cerebrospinal fluid was positive for John Cunningham (JC) virus. The patient's condition deteriorated rapidly resulting in death within four weeks of onset of symptoms.
A 50 year old man with HL was diagnosed with PML after receiving Adcetris. The patient's medical history included prior treatment with multiple chemotherapeutic agents, targeted radiation therapy, and autologous stem cell transplant. After eight cycles of Adcetris, he presented to the local emergency room with complaints of changes in speech, difficulty writing with his right hand, and right lower extremity weakness. In addition, he had poor coordination, poor balance, and left-sided sensory deficits. Although magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was inconclusive and cerebrospinal fluid analyses were negative for JC virus early in the course of the neurologic work-up, an immunostain of a spinal cord lesion biopsy was positive for JC virus. The patient's neurological condition continues to worsen, and most recently he lost motor function of his lower extremities and deep tendon reflexes of his legs. He also has tremulousness of his hands and hypoactive arm reflexes.
A 38 year old female patient with a history of Stage IV cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) was diagnosed with PML after receiving Adcetris. The patient's medical history included prior treatment with multiple chemotherapeutic agents and targeted radiation therapy. Prior to treatment with Adcetris, a baseline neurological examination was normal. After the second dose, the patient complained of inability to read, inability to find words to express herself, memory lapses, and slight loss of balance. A brain MRI revealed a demyelinating process and a brain biopsy was positive for JC virus. Treatment with Adcetris was discontinued.
A clinical trial compared the combination of Adcetris plus Adriamycin (doxorubicin), bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (ABVD) to the combination of Adcetris plus Adriamycin (doxorubicin), vinblastine, and dacarbazine (AVD) as front-line therapy for HL. An excessive number of patients in the Adcetris plus ABVD treatment group experienced non-infectious pulmonary toxicity. The frequency of pulmonary toxicity in the Adcetris plus ABVD group was approximately 40%, compared to a frequency of 10-25% most commonly reported in the literature with bleomycin-based regimens (not containing Adcetris). No pulmonary toxicity has been observed thus far in the Adcetris plus AVD treatment group. Patients have reported cough and dyspnea. Signs of interstitial infiltration have been observed on radiographs and computed tomographic imaging of the chest. Patients have responded to corticosteroid therapy.
Seattle Genetics Inc said it found a second instance of a patient on its cancer drug Adcetris developing a deadly brain infection, prompting the company and regulators to include a stronger warning on the drug's label.
There has also been a third suspected but unconfirmed case.
The infection has also been reported in patients taking Biogen Idec's multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri.
A milder warning was included in the original Adcetris label based on a single case reported in a patient who had received four chemotherapy regimens prior to receiving the drug.
Following the occurrence of a second case of the infection, the company began working with U.S. regulators to add a stronger, boxed warning.
The infection, known as progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), is a rare disease of the central nervous system that often leads to death or severe disability and is believed to be caused by the JC virus.
"Although PML in lymphoma patients can be caused by factors such as underlying disease and prior therapies that affect the immune system, a contributory role of Adcetris cannot be excluded," Chief Medical Officer Thomas C. Reynolds said in a statement.
Adcetris, known chemically as brentuximab vedotin, received accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in August 2011 for two types of relatively rare blood cancers -- Hodgkin's lymphoma and anaplastic large cell lymphoma.
The drug links a tumor-targeting antibody to a cancer-killing chemotherapy drug with the goal of limiting side effects.


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Mass. Criminal Database Deemed Public Safety Risk
The 25-year-old system cannot reconcile arrests with court dispositions or use fingerprints to verify criminal history, state auditor Joe DeNucci finds.
K.C. Jones
Massachusetts' criminal justice information system is outdated and hindering law enforcement efforts to obtain information on criminals and crime, according to State Auditor Joe DeNucci.
DeNucci said Tuesday that a recent audit of the Criminal History Systems Board revealed that the 25-year-old system cannot reconcile arrests with court dispositions or use fingerprints to verify criminal history. The board maintains Criminal Offender Record Information and other data for police, prosecutors, and courts. It holds records on criminals, missing and wanted people files, drivers, and vehicles, and firearms licenses.
"Massachusetts cannot guarantee the reliability of law enforcement decisions that depend on this information," DeNucci said, because the technology is too outdated and ensure the accuracy and efficiency of the information.
He tested the system and reported that it failed to identify 38,000 cases in which there had been convictions. The cases include felonies such as murder and failure to register as a sex offender. He also said there's no link between arrest data given to the State Police and the disposition data entered by the courts. That prevents law enforcement from keeping accurate and up-to-date records, he said.
Massachusetts also fails to use fingerprints to verify criminal information, allowing criminal charges to be entered for the wrong person -- either by mistake or because someone intentionally provides police with someone else's name and birth date, he said.
"These are serious public safety concerns that must be addressed by the commonwealth," DeNucci said in a statement Tuesday.
The audit also showed that the system can't identify all users and prevent improper access, including hundreds of queries on celebrities and public figures for no legitimate work purpose, DeNucci said.
He said the technology is outdated, in part, because of a lack of funding, but added that the Criminal History Systems Board received money from an IT bond and plans to modernize its system. The board is in the process of choosing a vendor and expects the work to be completed within two years.
"I am deeply concerned that the lack of a modern, state-of-the-art criminal-history information system could pose a threat to public safety," DeNucci said. "I am fully aware of the commonwealth's fiscal problems, but effective law enforcement must be a top priority. I hope these serious issues are addressed in the near future."
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Ideology, more often than not, drives policy. Denise Rhoades, a fervent conservative and Circles enthusiast, approached me after hearing my panel remarks at the Midwestern Governors Association conference on poverty and commented, "You are a progressive with a conservative accent." Bemused, I asked her what she meant. She said that my focus on economic development, job creation, qualifying people for the workforce, and changing the accountability of the system are ways in which both progressive and conservatives can agree.
With regard to the Bootstraps and Benefits ideologies, where would you place yourself on the scale below? Where would you place your community? Where would you place your organization's board and top management team?
The Bootstraps and Benefits book appreciates both perspectives, while keeping a focus on reducing the poverty rate by 10% and supporting families to achieve 200% of the federal poverty level (FPL). The FPL for a family of four is roughly $25,000, so we aim for a family of this size to earn twice that income, or roughly $50,000 annually.
Focusing on clear goals is a unifying way to address the differences between conservative and liberal political ideologies. It isn't necessary to agree or compromise on key values when we are disciplined in working together on achieving mutual goals. Arguing about hot topics can even be avoided by viewing them as distractions from supporting people out of poverty.
With regard to legislation, administrations will always support policies consistent with their party's viewpoints. Thus, our work must align with right and left policy opportunities that show efficacy in reducing the poverty rates. Furthermore, evidence shows that poverty rates go down when the economy is producing more and better jobs. Therefore, transformational leaders can become interested in economic development planning and can align poverty reduction efforts with the emerging economy.
The European roots of the United States come from nations that had significant disparity between a small ruling class and the masses, where poverty was typical. Severing political connections to Great Britain, the 1776 Declaration of Independence aspired for equality, although the systems that were created replicated many old patterns. European settlers imagined a boundless wilderness to tame in America and created disparity with indigenous populations. The Industrial Revolution of the mid-1800s followed patterns established by military organizations originally meant to serve the interests of kings and queens. Schools were built to serve agriculture and new industrial enterprises. Today, these systems still resemble early efforts to create a conforming labor pool.
While the Declaration of Independence aspired for everyone to have "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," the United States has not accomplished the political changes necessary to realize equality. Slavery was not abolished until 1865. Black males achieved the right to vote only in 1870, women the right to vote in 1920, and it took until 1964 to ban segregation in public places and employment discrimination based on race. At present, the United States has one of the world's highest rates of incarceration. The culture of racism continues to negatively influence who can move out of poverty. White males have approximately a 300-year head start in getting ahead financially. To use a baseball metaphor, if one starts on third base, did they actually hit that triple and deserve all the entitlement associated with the feat?
The American Dream was established on an expectation that hard work could lead to social mobility. With a mantra of "bigger is better," business leaders have argued against putting any limit on what people might earn, with fear that it will stunt economic growth domestically and push entrepreneurs abroad. Meanwhile, the world's population has grown approximately 10 times in the past three centuries. Having seven billion people share the Earth challenges the idea of unlimited growth: How can our biosystems be sustained while rewarding unlimited growth and the consumption of the natural world?
The economy that was first installed in the United States did not produce a middle class. The growth of a middle class came from the Homestead Act of 1862 and the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862, which made land available for farms and schools; the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. that made banking secure for citizens in 1933; the establishment of the Federal Housing Administration in 1934 that made home buying financially safe; the labor policies of the mid-1930s and the Social Security Act of 1935 that provided an array of new benefits and protections to workers; the 1944 GI bill that gave grants to millions of veterans to attend college; and the Pell Grants of 1965 that made it possible for even more people to attend college. Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, I directly benefited from these policies that produced a strong middle class. In the 1980s, principles of free market enterprise influenced economic development. Financial crises in the 2000s led to a major recession. In recent decades, many policymakers have become concerned about a middle class that is shrinking. To reduce poverty rates, transformational leaders can advocate for policies that serve the majority of Americans.
War on Poverty legislation was introduced in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, creating programs that became our modern-day social safety net. In 1963-64, a Social Security administrator named Mollie Orshansky devised a poverty rate based on a formula using the cost of a subsistent food budget. Income roughly three times the cost of that food budget was considered to be above the poverty line. The official poverty rates have remained an important longitudinal barometer.
However, unequal inflation rates for necessities such as healthcare and housing have caused census analysts to create updated calculations known as the Supplemental Poverty Measure and Alternative Poverty Measure. Using these more accurate calculations, researchers at Columbia University calculated these new poverty rates from 1967 to 2012 and compared them to the official poverty rates. While the official poverty rate was stable from 12% to 15%, the updated measures showed that the poverty rate was 25.6% prior to 1967 and has dropped to 16% today.
Furthermore, researchers compared the updated poverty measures for a five-year time period (2007-2012) with and without government safety-net programs such as U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); and others. Without government programs, poverty rates would have increased 5.1%, but with those programs, poverty rates rose only 1.3%. (For more detailed information, please see the 2016 report by the Office of Human Services Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, titled Poverty in the United States: 50-Year Trends and Safety Net Impacts.) While the updated measures are more accurate indications, all metrics reveal information about how many people are financially suffering.
To inspire a community-wide intention to reduce poverty, Circles USA emphasizes getting children out of poverty as a focus of necessary system changes. Instead of saying, "Let's get all the children out of poverty right away," we recommend the goal of supporting 10% of the children out of poverty as a starting place to provoke a tipping point that over time could more quickly help the other 90% out of poverty. Plus, it's easier for people to withhold judgments about poverty when focused on the innocence of children.
You cannot change the strategy of a community, an organization, or system – without focusing on culture and the beliefs people hold about how things work. Sometimes attributed to the business guru Peter Drucker, "culture eats strategy for breakfast" is an illustrative warning relevant to all of us working on the elimination of poverty.
At Circles USA, we've changed the culture of poverty by tapping the power of a culture of prosperity. Whenever people have an experience that contradicts a negative reality that they have been normalizing, healing occurs. For example, participants in poverty are called Circle Leaders, and they lead the process to achieve their own economic stability. Since a typical experience for those in poverty is to be dismissed and marginalized, there is a powerful healing that occurs through the acknowledgement that they are the poverty experts and must be at the planning table to find real solutions on behalf of the entire community.
The idea of a poverty reduction system is a powerful contradiction to executives who are immersed in the management of requirements for a fragmented and random array of community programs. There is genuine excitement about focusing on how to rearrange work into more clear pathways that actually lead people out of poverty and reduce poverty rates.
As more coherence is created in the sector of human services, we can find opportunities to enlist other sectors in ending poverty. For example, in workforce development, employers can challenge their mindsets about employees with backgrounds in poverty and implement responsive ways to do business in order to be more successful. Teachers can integrate pedagogies for engaging children from homes in poverty. Civic groups can question their hidden biases and rules that make it difficult for those in poverty to feel welcomed. Philanthropic organizations can analyze if their funding practices favor short-term wins at the exclusion of long-term gains. Whatever the challenges, transformational leaders engage crucial conversations that generate more cohesion towards a shared vision of ending poverty.
Are you leading Big View discussions on this topic? Share your perspective with us at Circles@CirclesUSA.org.
This past January, my friend Chris and I flew to my brother's home in Florida to pick up a family heirloom and drive it back to my home in Albuquerque. It is a five-foot model of a clock tower built meticulously by hand by my great-grandfather, John W. Miller, in 1893.
Clock towers typically have four faces so that anyone in the community can see what time it is. It serves everyone equally regardless of who and where they are. Imagine an economy that has the same purpose as a clock tower—to serve everyone regardless of where they are located in a community. Right now, if you are born in poverty, the economy will not serve you at the same level as someone who is born into wealth. This can change. Like a clock tower, the economy is a tool invented by humans to serve human beings. The condition of poverty is an unnecessary characteristic of the US economy. An economy that generates so much poverty as ours is like a clock tower that has only one or two faces rather than all four.
The business community, which currently wields the most influence of all sectors, needs to adopt the triple bottom line approach–measuring its success and implementing policy decisions based on the question, "is it good for profit, people, and the planet?" This maturational step is essential for sustaining human life on Earth. No longer can the simple pursuit of a profit be what drives the business community. It's too dangerous.
The government sector must evolve from its motivation to serve to the lower realms of political and bureaucratic goals to the higher road of service to its citizenry. The primary question is, "are we expanding the capacity of our citizens to thrive?" Politicians must learn to take the high road, follow their conscience and their constituencies, and let the chips fall where they fall. Everyone will be better off for it in the long run.
Philanthropy must invest in innovation. To end poverty, it must invest in creating poverty reduction systems as an alternative to poverty management systems.
Education must understand where the emerging economy is heading and provide students with the tools, skills, and awareness to thrive within the emerging economy, not the economy that is disappearing from us .
Faith organizations must stay out of politics if they are going to compromise their spiritual principles and values for political gains. They must remain focused on raising consciousness, deepening the spirituality of its members, and building loving and caring communities.
Leadership development and support are essential to shift each sector to a higher plane of functioning which is where I am investing the majority of my time and energy going forward.
We must recognize the purpose of the economy is to serve us all, not just some of us. Regardless of which sector you work in, there is a need for your leadership in building alternative systems to replace existing ones. To have four faces of the clock for all citizens to see, we must notice that there are at least two faces missing, and it is our responsibility to put them onto the clock, so everyone has an opportunity to prosper.
Most Americans spend the first 2/3rds of their life earning enough income to build up an arsenal of stuff, only to spend the last 1/3rd getting rid of it. All that stuff temporarily stays in our homes and then works its way to the overfilled landfills, the rivers, the oceans, or wherever else it goes. Meanwhile, some lucky people don't do that. Call them the really privileged ones. Because of their global circumstances, culture, family, or simply an early moment of radical clarity, they decide that loving others is what is worth spending their time and talents doing. Gathering stuff is mostly seen as a distraction.
For these privileged ones, life is slower, richer, happier, deeper, and better. How do I know this? I have found this privilege in myself—not as strongly as I wish it were, but still there as the quiet voice within. I have also met people who gave up stuff and tuned in. They report how much better it all gets. They chase love rather than things. They take the time to feel life rather than numb out. They choose to learn how to love others unconditionally. How sweet can one's life experience get? Chocolate syrup with marshmallows sweet.
Sometimes the worst time of our life sets us up for the best time of our life. By looking at mythological stories from around the world and throughout history, Joseph Campbell mapped out the universal story that all humans live and called it the Hero's Journey. The Wizard of Oz is an iconic Hero's Journey.
The journey begins with the call to adventure. Dorothy decides to leave home. She then refuses the call—after being fooled by the soon-to-be-wizard– to go back home. But as life would have it, she is tossed into the air by an unexpected tornado, her familiar world now completely upside down. She is dropped into the unknown world of munchkins, witches, and a yellow brick road.
With no seeming ability to return home anytime soon, she receives guidance from Glinda, the witch of the north. Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road. She soon meets her circle of allies—scarecrow, tin man, and lion. Metaphorically, they are brains, heart, and brawn. But doubt lessens each of them as Dorothy and her allies make their way to see the wizard to claim their brains, heart, brawn and the way back home.
We all know how the story ends. Dorothy meets the wizard only to see that he was not the way home she thought he was to be. Instead, her guide the good witch Glinda shows up to tell her she always had the power inside herself to return home.
The Wizard of Oz contains all of these main chapters of the Hero's Journey: Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, Assistance to Accept the Call, Trials and Tribulations (as in the wicked witch of the west), Guidance, The Emotional Reward (treasuring home and family in the case of Dorothy), and Returning Home with more wisdom and a desire to share the lessons learned with others.
As people's homes come spinning down into our Circles' communities, they are often very distressed, disoriented, and reluctant to walk on the new road. As they continue to walk into the unknown, their allies show up, guidance is given, and the emotional reward that can only come from taking up the adventure makes the experience worth it all. Sometimes the worst of life can become the beginning of the best of life. So it is for everyday heroes.
On the second evening of our international Circles Conference in Pittsburgh, I was having dinner with Vince, Sarah, Gena, and Courtney. All of us were saturated from the busyness of the day, and with nothing better on our minds, Vince, Sarah, and I decided to clarify some random historical facts. For starters, there have just been six Presidents with really long terms and a series of stand-ins: Lincoln, Washington, JFK, Lewis and Clark, and Vince. Vince remains President today but keeps a very low profile by staying off both Facebook and The View. His current stand-in provides daily "air cover" so Vince can quietly negotiate world peace, sustainability, and increasing the kind quotient of human beings everywhere without the media catching wind of any of it and spoiling his 2019 surprise about saving humanity.
We then concurred that yes indeed it was true that Pittsburgh had been relocated 400 miles east when the steel mills closed down and the beach was in walking distance. If the group would get off their rear ends and walk with us, we could be out of the snow and onto a balmy boardwalk in 10 minutes. No takers. The intoxicating power of making stuff up grows stronger and stronger. We are emboldened, feeling confident—cocky even. Who knew that "alternative facts" were so empowering and liberating?
Later on, I asked Courtney, who is 22, if she knew some of my favorite bands from the 60's and 70's—I gave her my list. Nope, nothing rings a bell. I then asked her about Led Zeppelin. YES! She knew Led Zeppelin's music because of her sister.
Guess I was expecting her sister to be 60. Sarah points out that it probably wasn't someone's mother who had passed it onto her sister; it was most likely someone's grandmother. This is when I reminded everyone how young I was, having been born in '87. The hair loss was of course from that chemistry experiment gone awry that almost killed my lab partner Danny Devito (looked at what happened to him). I also reminded everyone, again, that I had been a child prodigy community organizer and had started my career at the age of 3 working next to Obama. The idea of Circles came to me when I was eating a box of Cheerios at daycare.
President Vince laughed and reminded everyone that this could not be possible because I had been his ace campaign manager back in '52 when he beat Ike. That would make me at least 39.
And so it went until we finally left the establishment and found our way to a pub on the balmy boardwalk to have a nightcap with our good old friend George Washington.
Truth is so yesterday. Alternative facts are so lit—did I say that right?


Don't add too much extra peanut butter because it won't set correctly.
Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper and let it set.
Depending on the size of the cookies, it makes between 30-40 cookies.
I discovered a new website that analyzes recipes and tells you what the calories are! It's so cool! Check it out here: Recipe Analysis. According to both the Recipe Analysis and a general google search, the No Bake Cookies are about 115 calories each cookie.
I have a family reunion this weekend and decided to make my favorites: the No Bake Cookies. They are the perfect crowdpleaser as well as super easy. There are very few ingredients and they are things I always have on hand. I used to bake A LOT. It was one of my hobbies in fact, and I loved doing it. When I started getting healthy, the baking hobby went bye-bye; mostly because I did not trust myself to have treats in the house, and also because I am a TASTER when I bake.
I got all the ingredients out beforehand. Which was a good idea because our kitchen and pantry is in shambles! It took me awhile to find the wax paper, for example.
I made a slight variation this time I made it. I used 2 cups of the regular oats I usually use, and 1 cup of the Scottish Oats. I think it will add a different texture to the cookies.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Follow the first part of the recipe and melt the butter.
Be sure to let the sugar dissolve completely or the cookies will be grainy.
After the first stage, you must quickly add the peanut butter, oats and vanilla quickly and mix well before it sets.
I let the cookies set for a few hours. Enjoy!
QUESTION: Have you ever made No Bake Cookies before? Any variations out there?
What a smart recipe! It's so simple and quick! My family will love this. Thanks for sharing.
Love, love, love no bakes! I just discovered them a couple years ago. Great for this time of year when it's sometimes too hot to turn on the oven.
Exactly! I wanted to make cookies but when it's 100 degrees out, I'm not turning on the oven!
oooooh! M&M's! What a great idea!
nooo bakes are dangerous ;).
This looks almost exactly like the no-bake cookies my brother would make growing up. They are addictively delicious!
I'm gonna try these with Stevia and see how they taste. Maybe with almond butter too, just to be a rebel.
I would love an update on the Stevia and almond butter! I had a bag of Splenda but wasn't feeling brave enough to try it instead of sugar.


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Q: Configuring Solaris 10 SPARC for internet ready connection I have a Oracle SPARC server with Solaris SPARC 10 OS installed
I have a domestic router/modem box from my ISP in my house. I have a wifi extender in my room which has a RJ45 female socket for ethernet connection. The Wifi extender is configured properly to act as a bridge for machines to connect with my router/modem.
I have setup my NIC card in Solaris 10 with the following commands
dladm show-link
ifconfig e1000g0 plumb up
ifconfig 192.168.0.22 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast + up

I have put the IP address of 192.168.0.22 into the /etc/defaultrouter file and again the same IP address in /etc/hostname.e1000g0 file
Next I typed in 'init 6' to reboot Solaris 10.
Once Solaris 10 is up again I can successfully ping the address of 192.168.0.22. But my router obviously needs a password as it is a WPA protected domestic router. This means programs like WGET which needs an URL address to download data doesnt work ATM. Does anyone know what to do to complete the tasks of making my server internet ready. Thanks in advance for any help given to me
Regards

A: You do not put your Solaris IP address in /etc/defaultrouter
You put the address of the router, which must be in the local network of your Solaris box.  It may end with .1 or .250--you need to find out (try ping). For example, in your case it may be 192.168.0.1.  After that you also need to configure /etc/resolv.conf with your DNS servers.

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