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14 Workout Trends You'll See Everywhere in 2019
Charlotte Hilton Andersen
From the latest fitness classes to old workouts having a comeback, here are all the fun ways to get fit this year.
Pop star dance workouts
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Dancing is a perennial workout favorite but the type of dance fitness that's in vogue changes frequently (Jazzercise, anyone?). The latest dance trend for 2019? Variety. 2019's Just Dance is already out on the Nintendo Switch and the XBox, for people who prefer to get their groove on in the privacy of their own home. If you like heading out to a class, latin-infused Zumba is in nearly every city in America. If you'd like a cultural experience, try BollyX, a Bollywood-inspired workout. If you like being the first to try new things, check out Banana Skirt fitness dance classes. Or if you're feeling particularly brave, go for Pole Fitness classes that use, oh yes, a stripper pole. The best part about dance is that it can be modified for all fitness and skill levels (no pro dancing skills required!) . Nervous about working out in front of strangers? Try these 26 simple ways to get fit without hitting the gym.
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What's your biggest obstacle to working out? If you're like most people, it's time. We've only got so many hours in the day and the thought of spending an hour or more working out is often enough to make a busy person drive right past the gym. That's why you're going to start seeing a lot more mini classes—15 minutes or less—at gyms and online, says Kim Schaper, a certified personal trainer and workout designer. But can you really get a good workout in such a short amount of time? Using the HIIT (high-intensity interval training) protocol you can, she says. Getting your heart rate way up for short periods of time is tough but it has major metabolic benefits—plus, you can do anything for 15 minutes, right? Hint: HIIT is one of the 50 things your doctor wishes you knew about losing weight.
Mindfulness plus marathons
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Two of the biggest current trends in fitness—meditation and marathon training—combine in this new multitasking workout. "There's running simply for building fitness and there's running for stress reduction. Our program uses mindfulness techniques to help people get both types of benefits," says Elinor Fish, running expert and founder of Run Wild Retreats + Wellness. "While exercise is a great way to reduce stress, the wrong approach to exercise can exacerbate the physical symptoms of stress including joint aches, persistent fatigue, disrupted sleep cycles, and increased mental stress of feeling that you 'should be' exercising more, doing more, trying harder." So forget pounding the pavement (and your joints) in an attempt to break your personal best; the new running method is about focusing on your posture, breathing, and surroundings so that you'll feel sweaty but also relaxed at the end of your workout. And you don't have to be training for a marathon to do this workout, the techniques can be used to run or walk any distance you like, she adds.
Super-slow weightlifting
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Call it the anti-Crossfit movement—in 2019, the emphasis will still be on weightlifting, a crucial part of any well-rounded fitness program, but instead of seeing how many reps you can bang out in a certain time frame, you go as s-l-o-w as possible, making each movement deliberate, says David Ezell, PhD, a fitness psychotherapist, clinical director at Darien Wellness, and host of the podcast The Weighting. This not only ensures that you're getting the most out of every heavy rep but it cuts down on injuries and burnout, he says—two criticisms CrossFit has had to contend with. "Past fitness trends have been all about competition and 'winning'; this new trend is the opposite—it's about focusing on yourself and what's best for your own body," he explains.
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Kickbiking, also known as adult scootering, takes the scooter you enjoyed as a kid and turns it into a fun workout tool. Unlike some fitness programs, this is as simple as it gets: If you know how to use a scooter, then you know how to do this workout, says Jordan Crowder, a fitness expert with Kickbikes America. "Kickbiking provides a super low impact cardio exercise that is a perfect alternative to running or cycling. It works your entire lower body, especially your calves and butt, and engages your core," he explains. "It is a very effective cross-training workout for marathon and triathlon training and is very effective in rehabbing from injuries and post surgery." But perhaps the best part is the kickbikes are set up so you can use them with your dog, helping them get exercise right along with you!
Courtesy F45 Training
Personal trainers offer a custom workout experience, but they can be very pricey. Group fitness classes give you a good workout for a fair price but aren't adapted to your personal needs. Enter F45 Training: A group personal training workout class that combines the flexibility of personal training with the fun and affordability of group fitness. Specially certified personal trainers teach an athletic 45-minute workout that blends high-intensity interval training (HIIT), circuit training, and functional training, says Liz Harvey, personal trainer, nutritionist and a regional director of training for F45. Because of its intensity, it's best for people looking to amp up their current fitness level or who love a challenge, rather than exercise newbies. Need some fitness inspiration? Check out these 11 people who got in the best shape of their lives after 50.
Spin fusion classes
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Fusion classes are all the rage and in 2019, look for more classes that incorporate spinning (indoor stationary cycling) with other types of training. One hot example? SpinSculpt, a class that uses spin bikes and weight lifting to give you a low-impact, full-body workout in just one hour, says Cat Kom, a certified personal trainer, gym owner, and founder of Studio SWEAT onDemand. Do it in the gym or at home, online. "There's really no need to isolate strength and cardio into different workouts," she says. "We're all too busy for that and there are tons of dynamic workouts that include both. The calorie burn in these workouts is ridiculous and you'll love how toned you look too."
Heart-rate training
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Forget about the old days of putting your fingers on your neck and trying to count how many beats you feel in one minute: Today's fitness tech has evolved to where it can constantly monitor your heart rate, heart variability, calorie burn, oxygen use, and other factors. But the point in knowing all those numbers is to put them to good use, says Joanna Stahl, fitness expert and founder of Go2Practice. Her trend pick for 2019 is workouts based on feedback from your smartwatch. "Heart rate training can provide instant feedback such as when you are warmed up, ready for the next round of sprints; you can also know if you are lacking sleep, need to drink more water, or have taken too much caffeine," she explains. "Having this type of personal data will make your workouts more targeted and efficient." Check out the 9 surprising things your fitness tracker knows about you.
Custom home gyms
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Having a few pieces of exercise equipment stashed in your basement is old news. In 2019 people are going to be tricking out their homes with workout studios filled with state-of-the-art equipment, says iFit trainer and fitness expert Becca Capell. Sound like something only rich people could do? "Nearly two-thirds of people who sign up for a gym membership never or rarely ever use it. Instead of wasting that money, use it to buy equipment you'll really use at home," she says. "It's not just cost-effective but also super convenient and allows you to customize your gym to have only the things you love." Combine this with the explosion of online workouts and you'll have a custom gym experience for an affordable price.
Isometric strength training
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If you're old enough, you may remember "isometrics" was once a fitness buzzword used by PE teachers everywhere. Well there's nothing old-fashioned about this workout and 2019 is going to see a big resurgence of the low-impact, static-hold strength training moves, says Brian Sterling-Vete PhD, fitness coach and author of 12 strength training books. "Isometric exercise is one of the most thoroughly researched and scientifically proven forms of exercise, but since it's so simple, people often downplay it," he explains. These exercises are perfect for people short on time, he adds. "Since a single isometric exercise takes between only seven and 10 seconds to perform, performing one exercise for each body part takes just 30 minutes and produces tremendous results," he explains. You can learn more from his book The 70 Second Difference, or you can get more information from The World Isometric Association.


Forgiveness of a hurt does not come cheap, but the return on investment is priceless.
When we let go of the baggage of anger and resentment we free up space and energy to move forward with our lives feeling clean and clear.
At dinner tonight we were talking about what we brought on this pilgrimage that we realize now we do not need. Tonight the talk was more about how to make our load/suitcase lighter but it brought me back to my intention for this pilgrimage, which I haven't shared, until now.
A spontaneous prayer arose within me as I approached the Cruz de Ferro, an important point of intention on the Camino, on my own personal pilgrimage which began 10 days before we began this pilgrimage adventure together.
As I walked to place my rock on the pile of thousands I asked to feel free from the useless self doubt that has haunted me on and off since I started to manifest a vision of REALIZING CONNECTION. My intention was/is to empower myself to make the bold choices needed to bring us closer in a world that seems so focused on division.
Over the last 9 days I've realized I have some forgiveness to experience, of myself and others, to really walk my talk when it comes to connection. There are people I have not forgiven, and I feel now how that is like anchor I'm dragging as I try to fly free.
I've realized on this Camino that forgiveness needs to be a new daily practice.
I need to let myself, and everyone else, off the hook.
Now forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting. I do believe people show you who they really are through their actions. We can forgive and hold real and safe boundaries.
Forgiveness is about you, not the one you feel wronged you.
Maybe the most important person to forgive is yourself.
With so much gratitude to walk with each of you. What joy and connection we are creating!
Let's keep keepin' it real!
That's the reason why I decided to joint the virtual pilgrim. To let go. Thxs for this blog post Jennie.
Grateful this made sense to you Angie. Thank you.


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Theology Explained and Defended: In a Series of Sermons, Tom 3
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miseries, which have rung with groans, and shrieks, throughout the whole reign of time, and from one end of heaven to the other. What a vast proportion of these evils has man created for himself, and his fellow-creatures! How small a portion has God created ! and how mild and proper a punishment has this been for the authors of the rest! Of this complication of guilt and wo, every man is, in some degree, the subject, and the author. All men are daily employed in complaining of others; and none, almost, in reforming themselves. "Were each individual to begin the task of withdrawing from the common mass the evilsewhich he occasions, the work would be easily done. Those, produced by men, would be annihilated, and those, occasioned by God, would cease; because, where there were no transgressions, God would not exercise his strange work of punishment.
How mighty would be the change! Benevolence would take place of malignity, friendship of contention, peace of war, truth of falsehood, and happiness of misery. This dreary world would become a Paradise. The brutal, deformed character of man, would give place to the holiness and dignity of angels, and all the perplexed, melancholy, and distressing scene of time would assume the order, beauty, and glory, of the celestial system. . With the nature and effects of the present human character, the selfishness of man, so fondly, proudly, and obstinately cherished by every human breast, you are all, at least in some degree, acquainted. It is scarcely necessary, that I should recall to your minds the universal corruption of the antediluvian world, and the violence and pollution, which rendered this earth too impure, and deformed, to be any longer seen by the perfect eye of JEHOVAH. It is scarcely necessary to remind you of the premature apostacy, which followed the deluge; the brutal idolatry, which, like a cloud from the bottomless pit, darkened this great globe to the four ends of heaven; the putrid infection, which tainted Sodom and Gomorrah; the rank and rotten growth of sin, which poisoned and destroyed the nations of Canaan ; the deplorable defections of Israel and Judah ; the bloody oppressions of Assyria, Babylon, and Persia ; the monstrous ambition, and wild ravages, of Alexander ; the base treacheries, and deformed cruelties, of his followers ; the iron-handed plunder, butchery, and devastation of Rome; the terrible ravages of Mohammed and his disciples; or the fearful waste of man by Alaric, Attila, and their barbarous companions in slaughter. As little necessity is there to detail the wars, and ruins, of modern EUROPE ; the massacres of the Romish Hierarchy, the tortures of the Inquisition, the absolutions and indulgencies issued from the Vatican, to pardon sin, and to sanction rebellion against God. Your minds must be familiarized to the lamentable degradation, the amazing miseries, the death-like slavery of the nations, which fill the continent of Africa. You cannot be unacquainted with the swinish brutism of the Chinese; the more brutal deformi.
ty, the tiger-like thirst for blood, of the Hindoos and of the strangers, who have successively invaded Hindostan; the fell and fiendlike cruelty that has made modern Persia a desert; the stupid, but furious superstition, and the tainted impurity of Turkey. To these monstrous corruptions, these wonderful sins of nations claiming, generally, the name of civilized, add the crimes of the savage world; and fasten your eyes for a moment on the wolfish rage, which reigns, and riots, in the human animals, prowling, regularly, for blood and havoc around the deserts of America and Asia : and you will be presented with an imperfect, but for my purpose a sufficient, exemplification of the spirit, which rules the heart of man, and actuates the vast family of Adam.
But this spirit is unnecessary to man. The disposition, which I have described, might just as easily inform the mind, and control the conduct. We might as easily be benevolent, as selfish ; virtuous as sinful. No new faculties are necessary; and no change is required, but of the disposition. How superior is the disposition, here illustrated, to that, whose effects have been so uniformly dreadful! Hitherto I have used the language of supposition only; and have declared, that, if such were the character of our race, such also would be the state of this unhappy world. Now I inform you, that such, one day, will be the true character and state of man.
The period will one day arrive: the period is now on the wing: the day will certainly dawn: the morning-star is, perhaps, even now ascending in the east, of that day, in which Christ will return, and reign on the earth. I neither intend, nor believe, that he will appear in person, until the great and final day, which the Scriptures emphatically call his second coming ; for the heavens must receive him until ihe times of the restitution of all things, But he will appear in his Providence, and by his Spirit, to renew the face of the earth. A new heart and a right spirit will he create within them. His law he will write in their hearts; and his fear will he put in their minds; and their sins, and their iniquities, will he remember no more. This new heart, this right spirit
, will be no other than the disposition, which has been here considered; the very obedience of the Law, which will be thus written ; the new creation, which is thus promised.
By the implantation of this holy character in the soul, a change will be accomplished, which is exhibited in the Scriptures in terms of hyperbolical and singular sublimity. In their present state of Apostacy, mankind are considered in this sacred volume, as being all buried in a death-like sleep. From this benumbing lethargy, hopeless and endless, unless removed by Almighty power, they are represented as roused anew to consciousness, to feeling, and to action, by the awakening voice of God. In the present state, they are declared to be madmen; groping in the gloom, wantoning in the excesses, and venting the rage, of Bedlam. In the new one, they are exhibited as restored to reason, to sobriety, to intellectual dignity and usefulness, and as introduced again to the society, converse, and esteem, of rational beings. Originally, they are prisoners to sin and Satan, the victims of turpitude, and the sport of fiends : yet they are prisoners of hope. 'In their renovation they have heard liberty proclaimed to the captide, and the opening of the prison doors to them that are bound; and, at the sound of these glad tidings, they have shaken off their chains, and escaped from their dungeon into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God.
In their present state ; they are pronounced to be dead, and fallen together in one great valley of the shadow of death; the appointed and immense receptacle of departed men; where their bones are dispersed over the waste ; dried, whitened, and returning to their original dust. A voice from heaven, resounding through the regions of this immense catacomb, commands the scattered fragments to assemble from the four corners of heaven; to re-unite-in their proper places; and to constitute anew the forms of men. A noise, a shaking, a rustling, is heard over the vast GOLGOTHA; a general commotion begins; and, moved by an instinctive power, bone seeks its kindred bone; the sinews and flesh spontaneously arise, and cover the naked form; and the Spirit of life breathes with one divine and universal energy on the unnumbered multitude. Inspired thus with breath, and life, the great host of mankind instinctively rise, and stand on their feet, and live again with immortal life. The great world of death is filled with animated beings; and throughout its amazing regions, those who were dead are alive again, and those who were lost to the creation are found.
This resurrection is no other, than a resurrection to spiritual life; no other, than an assumption of this new and heavenly character. This character, this disposition, will constitute the sum, and the glory, of the Millennial state, and the foundation of all its blessings. When the heavens shall drop down dew from above, the skies pour down righteousness, and the earth open, and bring forth salvation; all the external good, all the splendour and distinction, of that happy period, will follow as things of course ; as consequences, which, in the divine system, Virtue draws in its train.
The Lord of hosts will, therefore, make for all nations, a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees well refined. The Lord of hosts will swallow up death in victory; and will wipe away the tears from all faces; and will take away the reproach of his people from all the earth. He will lay the stones of Zion with fair colours, and her foundations with Sapphires; will make her windows of agates, her gates of carbuncles, and all her borders of pleasant stones. And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness ; and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
SERMON XCIX.
TAE LAW OF GOD.- THE SECOND GREAT COMMANDMENT UTIL
ITY THE FOUNDATION OF VIRTUE.
Acts 57. 35.--I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring, ye ought to sup
port the weak; and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give, than to receive.
IN my two last discourses, I endeavoured to show by a variety of arguments, that a disposition voluntarily employed in doing good, is productive of more Personal and Public happiness, than any other can be. In those discourses, and in several preceding ones, it has, if I mistake not, been sufficiently proved, that the same disposition in the Creator and his intelligent creatures is the source not only of more happiness to the Creation at large, than any other, but of all the happiness which has existed or will ever exist.
Virtue, or Moral Excellence, is an object of such high import, as to have engaged, in every enlightened country, and period, the deepest attention of mankind. It has, of course, been the subject of the most laborious investigations, and of very numerous discussions. Inquisitive men have asked with no small anxiety, 6 What is Virtue ?" 66 What is its nature ?" " What is its excellence ?" And, " What is the foundation, on which this excellence rests ?" To these questions, widely different and directly opposite answers have been given. In modern times, and in this as well as other countries, much debate has existed concerning the Foundation of Virtue. It has been said to be founded in the Nature of things; in the Reason of things; in the Fitness of things ; in the Will of God; and in Utility. My intention in this discourse is to examine the nature of this subject.
The phrase, the foundation of Virtue, has been very differently understood by different writers. Indeed, the word, foundation, in this case seems to be a defective one; as being ambiguous; and, therefore, exposed to different interpretations. When Virtue is said to be founded in the Will of God, or in Utility, some writers appear to intend by this phraseology, that the Will of God, or Utility, is the Rule, Measure, or Directory, of virtuous conduct. Others evidently intend, that one, or the other, of these things, is what constitutes it virtue ; makes it valuable, excellent, lovely, praiseworthy, and rewardable. It is, therefore, absolutely necessary for me to observe, antecedently to entering on this discussion, that I use the
phrase in the sense last mentioned; and intend, by the Foundation of Virtue, that which constitutes its value and excellence. It is necessary, also, to premise further, that by the word, Utilily, I mean a Tendency to produce Happiness.
Having premised these things, I shall endeavour, in the following discourse, to support this Doctrine : That VIRTUE IS FOUNDED IN Utility.
The Text is a general and indirect declaration of this doctrine. The word, blessed, is sometimes used to denote a state, happy.in itself; and sometimes a state, made happy, or blessed, by God. To give, in the sense of the text, is voluntarily to communicate happiness; or, in other words, to be voluntarily useful. As we are in fact made happy by God, whenever we are happy; it is evident, that those moral beings, who are most happy, being made so by Him as a reward of their character and conduct, and not merely by the nature of that character and conduct, are most approved by him. That, which is most approved by God, is in itself most excellent. But the text informs us, that voluntary usefulness is most approved by God, because it is peculiarly blessed by him; and is, therefore, the highest excellence. Å man may be virtuous in receiving good at the hands of his fellow-creatures. But his virtue will consist only in the disposition, with which he receives it: his gratitude ; his desire to glorify God; and his wishes to requite, whenever it shall be in his power, his created benefactors. This is being useful in the only way, which the situation, here supposed, allows; and the only thing which is virtuous, or excellent, in the mere state of receiving good.
To give, or communicate good, is a nobler, and more excellent state of being, than that of receiving good can be ; because the giver is voluntarily the originator of happiness. In this conduct he resembles God himself, the Giver of all good, in that characteristic, which is the peculiar excellence and glory of his nature. Accordingly God loves, and for this reason blesses, him, in a preeminent degree. The proof of his superior excellence is complete in the fact, that he is peculiarly blessed: for these peculiar blessings, which he receives, are indubitable evidence of the peculiar favour of God; and the peculiar favour of God is equal evidence of peculiar excellence in him, who is thus blessed. But the only excellence, here alleged, or supposed, by Christ, is the spirit of doing good; or, in other words, the spirit of voluntary usefulness. In this spirit, then, Virtue or moral excellence consists; and the only excellence, here supposed, is of course founded in Utility.
To the evidence, furnished by the text, both Reason and Revelation add ample confirmation. This, I trust, will sufficiently appear in the course of the following Observations.
1st. Virtue is not founded in the Will of God.
Those who hold the doctrine, which I have here denied, may have been led, unwittingly, to adopt it from an apprehension, that

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I love breakfast food, particularly for dinner, since I don't have time to fix much in the morning and usually just eat instant oatmeal. Anyway, I have discovered a great breakfast dish that you could really eat at any time of the day. I start by microwaving either 1 egg, beaten, or about 1 egg's worth of egg beaters for about 1 minute. I put one slice of fat-free cheese on the egg to melt. Then I toast one english muffin and put half the egg on each side of the muffin. I top it off with a Morningstar Farm sausage pattie on each side, and it is delicious! It totally fills you up and you feel like you are eating a lot, but it's very low in points. Just thought I'd share!
Our leader told us a way to make an egg muffing lower in points by cutting out the middle of the muffin.
Neato I thought , cut out 1 pt by doing this ..
Hello, In respond to the English muffin. They do make a 1 pt muffin I bought it at Fry's food store. Its called Nature's Grain Lite.
Also you can use Canadian bacon - 4 slices for 1 point!


Since Joshua and I have been dating, our holidays tend to rotate and be a product of organized chaos. Some time with one family, some time with another. Albiet slightly crazy, I wouldn't change it for the world.
All of his dad's side of the family met at Joshua's aunt's house at around four o'clock, and we ended up staying there waaay too late. We enjoyed an awesome dinner, kiddo amusement and lots of family fun. Our family events consist of toddlers running around and chatter in the backyard, kitchen and living room. It's awesome. My mom also attended this event and my dad and step-mom went to their friend's house since none of the kids were going to be around.
After we left family event numero uno, we drove out to J's momma's house about an hour away where we were spending the weekend. We got there pretty late, so I was ready for food again. Green Bean Casserole all the way, guys. So delicious. Also, hell yes I totally wore yoga leggings and a loose fitting sweater. I only got one picture of Joshua and I, and it's with my iPhone front camera. This is the only picture I took all weekend. At this point, we really needed to leave, but the conversation was really going and we didn't want to be rude.
On Friday, we passed on the Black Friday shopping & hung around the house. I watched lots of episodes of Bones on Netflix and got a few last minute things done for work, which starts tomorrow!
Saturday, we went to a family-friend's 3rd birthday. She's so cute and growing like a weed! Every time she opened a gift, she would exclaim "Oh! My! Gosh!" Her vocabulary is quite extensive and I love it. Chatty toddlers are the bomb dot com.
Today we retook our Christmas card photos. We had them done a few weeks ago, but weren't happy with how they turned out, so we had a friend with a DSLR retake them for us at a park we liked better. I bought a new cardi for today and I am friggin' in love with it. I like longer fitting shirts, so Old Navy's Boyfriend Cardigan is right up my alley. I fully expect myself to own one in as many colors as possible.


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Bertrange crash driver dies in hospital
It was a tragic accident that occurred in the N34 underpass near the "Belle Etoile" shopping centre in Bertrange early Monday morning. The driver of a small car crashed with force into an oncoming vehicle.
It was a tragic accident that occurred in the N34 underpass near the "Belle Etoile" shopping centre in Bertrange early Monday morning. The driver of a small car lost control on a slippery road and crashed with force into an oncoming large family car.
For the car's 21-year-old male passenger, help arrived too late as the young man succumbed to his injuries and died at the scene.
The driver, also a 21-year old man, was rushed to hospital with severe injuries where he has been in a critical condition since Monday. However it has now been reported that the battle has been lost and the driver died on Wednesday night.
The N34 underpass has been closed since the beginning of the week as major structural damage was caused by the accident. Repair work should be completed soon.


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I'm super interested in working with people who are into helping people and making an impact on social justice. Below is a list of past and current collaborations. If you have a project that needs assistance, or would like to know further about these organizations, please contact me.
Also, if you're a woman and interested in submitting to this blog, I'd love to hear from you. Whether it's a small business or nonprofit you'd like me to spread the word about, or a written piece you think would fit this blog, contact me. I love boosting other women who are out there contributing. I mean it. Here's my email maryalicelagman@gmail.com.
A New Way of Life
Legal Clinic Community Volunteer
ANWOL provides housing, case management, pro bono legal services, advocacy and policy development on behalf of formerly-incarcerated women rebuilding their lives. They offer a bi-monthly legal clinic to help people reduce, reclassify and/or expunge their criminal convictions. Their mission focuses on ensuring the women, children, and families in the community are positioned for successful re-entry.
Community Ambassador and Farmer's Market Glean Team Leader
Food Forward is a food recovery organization that Organization that recovers food that would otherwise go to waste from backyard fruit trees, public orchards, farmers markets, and the downtown Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market. 100% of recovered produce is given directly to food banks and hunger relief agencies in Southern California.
New Basin Blues
Assistant Race Director – Resolution Relays
The proceeds of this inaugural relay race will help fund the New Basin Blues Cross-Country Shoe Fund and outreach. Every year, New Basin Blues running club donates running shoes to high school cross country teams from disadvantaged communities. Some of these kids have been running in basketball shoes or hand-me-downs that are two sizes too small for them, and most of these kids had never been in a specialty running store. Through donations and a pairing with Adidas, kids are fitted and gifted with a brand new pair of running shoes! Besides the shoes, the club seeks to demonstrate to youth that there's a running community outside of their schools that is here to support them.
Veterans in Global Leadership
VGL is comprised of high-potential student veterans seeking to enter positions of leadership in order to positively impact a rapidly changing global landscape. While many veterans assistance programs exist, a program to serve returning post-9/11 veterans aspiring to leadership positions was lacking; thus VGL sought to fill this education gap by identifying and cultivating diverse, highly competent, skilled student veterans who have already excelled in facing and solving the complex challenges, and positioning them to obtain the fellowships and scholarships that will facilitate their entry into impactful leadership roles in a range of fields.
Cesta Básica Sustentável, Brasil (Sustainable Food Basket)
Community Ambassador, Researcher, Grant Writer
The Sustainable Food Basket project promotes the consumption of crops and products cultivated in small family rural properties in Brazil. Such consumption leads to increased health, encourages biodiversity, and reduces climate change by valuing Brazil's natural ecosystems. The cultivation, distribution, and sale of these products develops economic empowerment in these primarily women-led communities.
Listen for Life
Listen for Life serves as the umbrella for several projects that seek to propel musicians into becoming global agents of social change. These ventures include providing music therapy to hospitals and refugee camps and holding free concerts with donations benefiting local organizations.
Compassion Club/Compassion In Action
Compassion Club and Compassion In Action is a partnership that collaborates in providing meals and hygiene kits for the homeless population in Los Angeles area.


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Author: Sanction College Students Who Shouted Down My Speech
LISA RATHKE, Associated Presscmaadmin (EDU)
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — An author of a book discussing racial differences in intelligence who was shouted down by protesters at Middlebury College when he gave a guest lecture and was confronted by some of them afterward says he wants the college to sanction those involved.
Charles Murray, who describes himself as a libertarian and social scientist, warned that anything less could become an inspiration for other protests and has the potential "to be a disaster for American liberal education."
He says when he left the building where his lecture was held last week he walked into "the middle of a mob."
"If that's the new normal then why would any college in its right mind allow a controversial speaker to arrive?" he said on Monday. "Because no college wants to go through what Middlebury's gone through."
Middlebury police are investigating what happened after Murray's talk Thursday. A professor had her hair pulled and injured her neck, but Murray was unharmed, the college said.
The college has initiated an independent investigation, college President Laurie Patton said in a letter to the school community.
"Once that work is completed, the college will follow a process of determining a course of action for each individual understood to be involved in some way in the events of last Thursday," she wrote.
She said people have the right to make their voices heard in support of and in opposition to other people and ideas.
"Our concern," she said, "is acts of disruption and violence, where available means of peaceful protest were declined."
Murray is known for co-authoring the 1994 book "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life," which suggested genetics and environmental factors play a role in explaining racial differences. He was invited to speak at Middlebury by a student group, the American Enterprise Institute Club.
Hundreds of students chanted as Murray began to speak Thursday, forcing the college to move the lecture to an undisclosed location. Murray's talk was live-streamed to the original venue, but protesters drowned it out. The topic, he said, was the divergence of the country's culture into a new upper class separated from mainstream America.
Afterward, a group of protesters surrounded Murray, professor Allison Stanger and college administrator Bill Burger as they were leaving, he said. The protesters became violent, with one pulling Stanger's hair, twisting her neck, the college said.
After Murray and the two Middlebury staff members got into a car to leave, protesters banged on the windows, climbed onto the hood and rocked the vehicle, the college and Murray said.
"If it hadn't been for Allison and Bill keeping hold of me and the security guards pulling people off me, I would have been pushed to the ground," Murray said.
The college said it believes outside agitators were involved.


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Posted on July 10, 2018 by Joe
The GUN GRABBERS spent more than $80 million in 2016 to elect Hillary Clinton president and a Senate that would confirm her Supreme Court nominees. They failed.
Then it spent at least $3 million in 2017 to defeat Neil Gorsuch's confirmation to the Supreme Court. They failed.
Now the President has nominated another pro-gun rights person to fill a seat on the Supreme Court, and there's no doubt the gun grabbers are going to spend millions of dollars trying to derail another justice who will NOT fall in line with their extremist gun ban agenda.
They cannot afford another defeat.
Via email.
[See also Kavanaugh Has a Record on Guns.
SCOTUS nominations are why I and millions of other gun owners voted against Hillary Clinton. We now need to follow through and get good judges actually onto the SCOTUS bench.
Please consider donating to organizations who will use the money to help get Judge Brett Kavanaugh nomination confirmed.—Joe]
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Lyle on July 10, 2018 at 10:27 am said:
If we're struggling with elections, nominations and appointments and such, in an effort to "protect our rights", then we're ceding authority to the courts to define,redefine, or eliminate our rights.
If rights are inherent, if they're "endowed by [our] Creator" as it says in our country's founding document, then it wouldn't matter who's in office. No one would have the power to alter or abridge or to violate our rights without being arrested for that crime. Which system are we pretending to live in?
If we're pretending this is Rome, with a "Holy Roman Emperor" as it were, with the authority to redefine rights or eliminate them altogether, with authority over the very precepts of the constitution, then by all means; your livelihood and indeed your very life will depend on the outcomes of elections and appointments.
If we are we pretending to live in the American system on the other hand, wherein rights are inherent and untouchable, then the particular people in office will scarcely matter at all– Anyone attempting to alter, abridge or otherwise infringe (touch upon the outer edges of) someone's rights would be subject to prosecution as soon as they could be identified and located.
Shouldn't we decide which system we're operating in before we get too carried away with cementing that system into our personal actions and reactions and thus paying homage to it?
This is all a long-winded way of breaking the news, of course; we've been operating as a Fascist system all along, with the "unalienable rights" wordage merely serving as cover. Oops; we all fell for it.
Joe on July 10, 2018 at 7:12 pm said:
And do you have a plan to change the games we are currently playing such they play by our rules rather than us playing by theirs?
Windy Wilson on July 11, 2018 at 2:41 pm said:
We sons of liberty changing the rules the Leftists make us play by seems about as likely as the mice belling the cat.
We're dealing with people who don't believe any of the rights we hold as endowed by our creator are in fact so given to us. To them our rights are a matter of majority vote, not something that cannot be infringed. The Leftists are going all PSH because they know they only have the majority vote, not any of the good arguments. And yes, we've been living in a fascist system since at least WW2, when we won the war but lost the philosophy.
Weer'd Beard on July 11, 2018 at 8:03 am said:
To be fair, Michael Bloomberg can afford to lose like this until he dies.
The good news is that unless you are owned by Michael Bloomberg, you aren't even on the Radar as a gun control group.
CSGV appears to be all but dead, same with the VPC, really all the Joyce Foundation shell groups.
Brady Campaign was gasping for air, then suddenly it is moving around again…I suspect because Bloomberg paid their operating expenses, so he could own an anti-gun group that wasn't founded by himself.
Everytown and Mom Demand Action are the only name in gun control, and that name is Michael Bloomberg.
The hand-picked anti-gun kids from Parkland made a little splash on the scene, and who owns the "March for Our Lives" brand? Bloomberg.
Last I heard those kids were taking a bus tour not funded by Bloomberg….I have no idea if they're still doing it, or where it is because without Bloomberg notifying the press and drumming up chatter, nobody cares.
He's 76, it will be interesting to see how late in life he chooses to continue this pet project, and once he quits it will be interesting to see where gun control goes…he will probably fund the Everytown shells while he's Retired, but after he dies I suspect they will be given an endowment from his estate that likely will be mismanaged away within a few years.
Maybe some new Dictator Wannabe will take up the mantle of gun control after Bloomberg, but I would love for this war to be finally over…..but for right now Bloomberg will probably plague us for another decade at LEAST, and he CAN afford to lose, so we have no choice but to win.
pkoning on July 11, 2018 at 12:25 pm said:
Tom Steyer ("Impeach Trump Now" and one of the high priests of warmism) seems like a plausible guy to pick up the astroturf factory when Bloomberg finally disappears from the scene.
As Victor Lazlo said in "Casablanca", "there is always someone else". He meant it in an optimistic way, but the same goes for the evil ones who can't bear the thought of others having the same freedoms they enjoy.


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Rep. Todd Young, R-Ind., center, and other GOP leaders speak to reporters just before a vote to delay the individual and employer mandates of President Barack Obama's signature health care law, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 17, 2013. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers for Season 1 of Claim to Fame.
Season 1 of ABC's newest reality competition series Claim to Fame kicked off on July 11, 2022. Hosted by brothers Kevin and Frankie Jonas, the name of the game describes it perfectly. Claim to Fame started with 12 contestants who are all, in some way, related to a celebrity. One contestant is eliminated each episode and their identity is revealed. The last person standing takes home a grand prize of $100,000.
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"Pepper" was voted by the other contestants as the season's first guesser. This meant she had to pick one contestant and correctly guess who they are related to. If she was correct, the person she revealed would be eliminated — but if she was wrong, then Pepper would be sent home.
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This was when both the cast and viewers at home were thrown a huge curveball. Hosts Kevin and Frankie Jonas were briefly ushered off-camera and informed that Maxwell had cheated by using a smartphone during the competition. Because it's against the rules, he was disqualified and sent home.
Had Maxwell not been caught cheating, Pepper would have been the one to go home in Episode 1. That's because her guess was dead wrong, as Maxwell's true identity is Max Norris, the grandson of Chuck Norris.
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In Episode 2, Pepper was voted as the guesser for the second time in a row. Pepper chose to expose Michael's celebrity relative as Zendaya. She was correct, meaning Michael was the second player to go home. Michael is Zendaya's cousin.
In Episode 3, Lark was voted as the guesser. She chose to guess X's celebrity relative as Laverne Cox — and she was correct. X is actually Laverne Cox's twin brother, M Lamar.
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In the bottom two this episode were Logan and Louise. After a tie in voting, L.C. — as the winner of the challenge — had to cast the tie-breaking vote to decide on the guesser. She opted to pick Logan, who then went on to target his friend Louise.
No surprise here — he guessed with "100% confidence" that her celebrity relative is Simone Biles. When Kevin Jonas asked what clues led him to that guess, Logan was honest. "Well, they look like they could have been twins. That was the main one," he said with a laugh. Of course, Logan was not wrong. Louise is, in fact, Adria Louise Biles, the sister of Olympic gymnast Simone Biles.
With only four players remaining, the contestants cast their vote to decide who would be the guesser. Power team L.C. and Logan had the upper hand, voting Pepper as the guesser, making Lark their target. Though Pepper was convinced that Lark was related to Martha Stewart — a theory she has had throughout the game — L.C. put Lark's clues together and was positive that she was related to supermodel Cindy Crawford.
Going against her gut feeling and siding with L.C., Pepper correctly guessed that Lark was related to the iconic model — she is Cindy Crawford's niece.
What are the real identities of the remaining 'Claim to Fame' contestants?
We would love to know! (But honestly, that would make watching the show not as fun.) Here are the best guesses we have so far about the true identities of the remaining Claim to Fame cast.
Spoiler alert! While we don't know for sure who the Claim to Fame contestants are, the correct identities may be spoiled in the guesses below.
Who is Logan on 'Claim to Fame'?
OK, so we've figured out that Logan from Claim to Fame is Bradley Logan Crosby. And thanks to this interview, we know that Logan's second cousin is Jason Aldean.
Who is Pepper on 'Claim to Fame'?
Pepper's true identity has stumped Claim to Fame fans so far. But, after Episode 9 revealed that Pepper's celebrity relative's nickname is "Dino," our best guess is that Pepper is Dean Martin's granddaughter.
Who is L.C. on 'Claim to Fame'?
L.C. isn't her real name. However, we do know that her famous relative is an actor and that the biggest award they've received is an Emmy. Since the beginning, some viewers have guessed she could be Keke Palmer's sister, and she's since confirmed that this is true!
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1of5FILE - Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. The seditious conspiracy case filed this week against members and associates of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group marked the boldest attempt so far by the government to prosecute those who attacked the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot.Susan Walsh/APShow MoreShow Less
2of5FILE - Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, center, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. The seditious conspiracy case filed this week against members and associates of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group marked the boldest attempt so far by the government to prosecute those who attacked the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot.Susan Walsh/APShow MoreShow Less
4of5This photo, provided by the Collin County Sheriff's Office shows Stewart Rhodes. Prosecutors have filed seditious conspiracy charges on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, against Rhodes, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and 10 suspected associates. The seditious conspiracy case filed this week against members and associates of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group marked the boldest attempt so far by the government to prosecute those who attacked the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. (Collin County Sheriff's Office via AP)APShow MoreShow Less
The seditious conspiracy case against members and associates of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group marks the boldest attempt so far by the government to prosecute those who attacked the U.S. Capitol, but invoking the rarely used charge carries considerable risks.
Still, legal experts who have reviewed the indictment unsealed this past week against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and 10 others said prosecutors stand a good chance of winning convictions on allegations that the defendants were working together to use force to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
The Civil War-era charge is hard to prove, and scholars say overzealousness in applying it, going back centuries, also discredited its use.
The experts who examined the indictment against the 11 Oath Keepers members and associates said the government's case is supported by detailed allegations that participants in the plot discussed their plans in encrypted chats, traveled to the nation's capital from across the country, organized into teams, used military tactics, stashed weapons outside Washington in case they felt they were needed and communicated with each other during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
"This is as good a case as you could bring," said Carlton Larson, a law professor at the University of California at Davis who is an expert in treason law.
In the weeks leading up to the insurrection, the indictment alleged, Oath Keepers discussed trying to overturn the results of the 2020 White House election, preparing for a siege by purchasing weapons and setting up battle plans.
"We aren't getting through this without a civil war. Too late for that. Prepare your mind, body, spirit," the indictment quoted Rhodes as writing in a November 2020 chat after President Donald Trump was projected to have been defeated by Democrat Joe Biden.
Authorities say several members of the Oath Keepers shouldered their way through the crowd on Jan. 6 and into the Capitol in a military-style stack formation. Group members are accused of setting up "quick reaction force" teams that stationed weapons outside of Washington and were prepared to deliver arms to group members and associates if they believed the need arose.
In late December 2020, Rhodes wrote in a chat that the only chance Trump had to succeed in overturning the election outcome was if he and the Oath Keepers frightened members of Congress and "convince them it will be torches and pitchforks time is (sic) they don't do the right thing. But I don't think they will listen," according to the indictment.
Rhodes did not enter the Capitol building on Jan. 6, but authorities say he was communicating with Oath Keepers outside on the Capitol grounds. Phillip Linder, one of the lawyers representing Rhodes, said his client intends to fight the charges. Rhodes remains jailed in Texas and has a detention hearing this coming Thursday.
"We believe he is not a flight risk, not a danger and should be released," Linder said after Rhodes' first court appearance on Friday.
Rhodes has said in interviews with right-wing hosts that there was no plan to storm the Capitol and that the members who did so went rogue. But he has continued to push the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
University at Albany assistant professor Sam Jackson, author of the book "Oath Keepers: Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Antigovernment Group," said it wasn't clear to him before the indictment whether Rhodes or Oath Keepers leaders were involved in a plot to attack the Capitol.
"Now it's clear that that is the case," he said. "It's also clear that national leadership was not solely focused on some anticipated or perceived threat from antifa or other opponents of Donald Trump. But they really were thinking about, 'OK, how do we prevent the certification of the Electoral College vote if members of Congress don't see things the way that we do?'"
The last sedition case was filed in 2010 against members of a Michigan militia. Two years later, they were acquitted by a judge who said their hateful diatribes didn't prove they ever had detailed plans for a rebellion.
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Lawyer William Swor, who represented Hutaree militia leader David Stone, said prosecutors in the decade-old case failed to prove that group members were "more than just talking" and were "actively planning to oppose the government."
"It's a substantial burden on the government and it is a substantial risk," he said. "If the government fails to meet its burden, they're out on the street."
Among the last successful convictions for seditious conspiracy stemmed from the storming of the Capitol in 1954 when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House floor, wounding five representatives.
Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism, said the collapse of earlier sedition cases against far-right extremists suggests that judges and juries may have difficulty believing that a small group of people "seriously thought they could take on the entire U.S. government."
Pitcavage said prosecutors in the case against Oath Keepers appear to have a "tremendous amount of evidence about planning beforehand" as well as compelling video evidence of the group members storming the Capitol.
"That sort of evidence was largely missing from all these previous cases," Pitcavage said. "Sedition cases, in my opinion, are always inherently risky to a certain degree. But I do think prosecutors in this case have a far stronger case to make for the jury than some of their predecessors did."
If convicted of seditious conspiracy, the defendants could face a maximum prison sentence of 20 years, compared with five for the other conspiracy charges.
In all, more than 700 people have been arrested and charged with federal crimes in the Jan. 6 riot. More than 70 defendants remain detained on riot charges. At least 186 defendants have pleaded guilty to riot-related charges as of Thursday.
Billeaud reported from Phoenix and Kunzelman from College Park, Maryland. Associated Press writer Jake Bleiberg in Dallas contributed to this report.
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We need to prepare our school pupils for Wales' dysfunctional economy
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Calvin Jones, Professor of Economics at Cardiff Business School
From 2022 school pupils in Wales will begin to be taught under the new 'Successful Futures', curriculum, developed by Welsh Government in collaboration with Professor Graham Donaldson.
Beginning with Year 7, then rolling out across all ages, the new integrated curriculum is the biggest change in school-age education in Wales in the devolution era.
At a time when it is becoming ever-clearer that life outcomes are centrally influenced by early-years experiences, success is critical.
The increasingly fragmented and uncertain working lives faced by current – and almost certainly future – Welsh citizens means that the importance of the curriculum in preparing pupils for work, however defined, cannot be overstated.
With Successful Futures, we have a unique opportunity to teach business and economics (and social science more generally) in ways that connect, for pupils, 'big' systems to individual outcomes – including their own.
Making our pupils 'economically aware' might be almost as important as making then literate or numerate, and unlike other subjects, almost guaranteed to have an ongoing resonance and importance throughout their lives.
Uniquely for Wales, the Future Generations (FG) Act (and Commission) provides guidance for what kind of society we are preparing our children to be part of and to contribute to – and by extension, what knowledge, competencies and capacities they will need.
It is this Act that can provide the 'why' for what our children will learn. The concept of wellbeing is central to the FG Act, and to understanding how different human and environmental systems 'deliver for Wales'.
It is no great leap to imagine how the concept of wellbeing could be used across Humanities to explain how our physical, social, economic and historical contexts combine to deliver material, psychological and spiritual welfare, and a sense of place and belonging – albeit not, of course, evenly across people or places.
Within this the key objective for economics should to explain how economic systems – both market and otherwise – combine to create and distribute the products and services which underpin our welfare, and to contextualise economic structures and actors within wider society and ecological systems.
Here then is an opportunity to deliver the story of 'stuff', and the stories of places and people, in ways that reveal the forces that shape key outcomes for these places and people.
What better grounding to then to helping pupils understand their own potential roles in these places and systems and place careers development and advice within this wider societal and ecological framing?
To show how an economic life is only a part (but a vital one) of a social life, and how this all made possible by the planet that harbours us?
Explaining change is as important as revealing structure. My father left school in the Valleys in 1963 with, um, patchy qualifications and worked in factories – all within walking distance of his house – that are now gone.
I left university in 1990 for a well-pensioned 'job for life' in a council. Those options are increasingly unrealistic, and the impacts of 'Industry 4.0', the 'gig' economy and stagnant economic growth must be reflected in a syllabus that aims to equip students for life in the 2030s and beyond.
Moreover (and despite the fact that many of our best students leave), this education should be unapologetically bespoke to Wales: unlike physics, the laws of economics do not apply evenly across place, and Wales has a narrow and in many ways dysfunctionaleconomy that shapes (and limits) opportunity.
We could develop a curriculum that emphasises subsidiarity and gives birth to truly place-based education across Wales, with the students of Pembrokeshire learning about the economy on the beaches, those of Gwynedd next to the hydropower turbines of Snowdonia, and those of Wrexham in the cavernous hangers of Airbus.
And of course, the implication of this is that the economy cannot be taught wholly in the classroom; here we have an opportunity to really involve the firms, third sector, public organisations (and even universities) in Wales in helping shape business education to improve the employability that is such a current concern.
Meanwhile, fundamental concepts that are key to personal success – such as enterprise – can be interpreted for places where, for example, social and financial capital, and familial or peer examples of entrepreneurship, may be scarce.
This reshaping and localisation of economic concepts, together with a focus on wellbeing, provides an opportunity to fit our children better for their future working lives.
But only if we can integrate the teaching of economics and business with careers development advice, and have these conversations in light of the best of our knowledge about which future skills (such as problem solving in complex environments) will be in demand, and what sorts of activities (rather than narrow occupations) will be valued and valuable.
If this all sounds a little complicated to you, you're not wrong. There would be much to do before holistic, integrated, career-focussed and context-aware business education was a reality in Welsh schools.
In particular this 'bespoke and local' approach would need careful explanation to parents who like the idea that they can assess the performance of a school via standardised assessments (however false that impression might be, given the social factors that shape pupil performance differently across space).
This is a particular need to explain how an ethically-aware, place based education can actually help students who go on to leave Wales – something we already passionately believe to be true at Cardiff Business School.
My impression after talking to teachers is that the biggest hurdle is the lack of confidence and knowledge amongst teachers themselves about economics, management and business – which of course is not much taught to pre-16-year-old pupils, outside the Business GCSE.
Those teaching history, geography and R.E. (and new teaching entrants) must, before 2022, be given the knowledge and confidence to teach business and indeed social sciences if the Curriculum is to be truly relevant.
Some of this can be achieved by the provision by Welsh Government of a bank of resources, including materials and pedagogic approaches that help teachers deliver core concepts and describe key structural economic features, but which still leave room for 'localisation'.
The Government might also help schools develop local networks with organisations 'on the ground' by engaging with relevant representatives – Federation of Small Business, Institute of Directors, Welsh Council for Voluntary Action etc – at national scale.
An additional approach might be the expansion of problem-based (or project-based) approaches that bound teachers' required knowledge, at the same time as emphasising a multi-disciplinary approach to enabling pupils' understanding of apparently 'economic' outcomes.
And, as Professor Chris Taylor made clear in a recent lecture, there is a need for us in higher education to step up and help.
The gulf between universities and schools in Wales is considerable, bridged occasionally by specific programmes and by the provision of PGCE and bachelor's level teacher training (not, one notes, education), but with no sense that schools and HEIs are (along with further education colleges) in any way part of an integrated educational offer.
Successful Futures, which comes already with an appreciation that pre-16 education must fit with A-levels and Welsh Bac, offers the opportunity to build this educational framework in ways that fit with, and contribute to, the goals and ways-of-working of the Future Generations Act.
For a HE sector faced with falling numbers in key UK undergraduate age cohorts and the potentially significant impacts of Brexit, there is the opportunity to teach different people different things.
For my Business School and those like it there is a particular opportunity to help ensure that teachers in Wales have the knowledge and competence to teach business and economics in ways that are topical, interesting and applicable.
We have the time before 2022 – just about – but we also must lever the resources to engage both teachers and university lecturers in a programme that would build on past provision and benefit both sides, and of course the school pupils themselves.
So this would not be easy: it requires a deep change in the way public and quasi-public institutions work, and in the behaviours and attitudes of those that work in them.
But this is true anyway of the new Curriculum and of the Future Generations Act. These are things that if done half-heartedly, are best not done at all.
In the area of business education we have a clear and present need, hence a strong rationale for action, and a clear and distinctive set of objectives.
The only question is whether the education system in Wales has, across its varied stakeholders, the capacity and incentive to make this a reality.
So, people. Give me your inset days…


Berkeley Symphony and its incoming music director, Joana Carneiro, have named a Berkeley native, composer Gabriela Lena Frank, as creative advisor. Frank will help shape the symphony's programming, assist community outreach programs, and serve as mentor to the emerging composers of the symphony's Under Construction program for development of new music. The announcement was made last Monday, two weeks after the symphony named the four current Emerging Composers-In-Residence and alternate for the current Under Construction series.
Frank will also play a key role in Carneiro's debut concert as music director on Oct. 15 at Zellerbach Hall, when Carneiro will conduct the West Coast premiere of Frank's "Peregrinos" (Pilgrims), inspired by stories of Latino immigrants, the subject of a recently completed PBS documentary.
Carneiro conducted the World Premiere of Frank's "New Andean Songs" in March 2008 for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, during which time she and Frank struck up a close friendship. They had both been graduate students at the University of Michigan.
Frank, of Peruvian-American heritage, has been widely recognized, including a Guggenheim Fellowship for this year. Her work has been performed by more than 100 orchestras, as well as popular local groups like the San Francisco Girls Chorus, Chanticleer and the Kronos Quartet. Current and forthcoming projects include a premiere by Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, and an opera on Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo, a collaboration with Cuban playwright Nilo Cruz, 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winner.
Frank was born in Berkeley in 1972 and holds degrees from Rice University and a doctorate from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She has studied composition with William Albright, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, and Michael Daugherty.
Among Frank's duties will be mentoring the Emerging Composers-In-Residence for the symphony's Under Construction program for development of new music, the composers for the upcoming season announced Aug. 3: Bruce Christian Bennett of San Francisco, who received a Ph.D. in compostion from UC Berkeley; Patricio Da Silva of Danville, in his second season with Under Construction; Don Myers of Aptos, student and teaching assistant to the late composer Lou Harrison; and composer and violinist Andy Tan (An Tan), currently an MA candidate in composition at UC Davis. Berkeley composer and jazz bassist Clark Suprynowicz, another of last season's Under Construction composers, was named as alternate for the 2009-10 season.
Joana Carneiro will conduct orchestral readings and performances of the composers' short works commissioned for the series, with the composers present, Sunday, Dec. 6 (on the theme "1969") and Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010 (on the theme "The Greek Muse"). Besides Frank's activities with the composers-in-residence, other composers from Berkeley Symphony's subscription concert series who will participate in mentoring include John Adams and Steven Stucky. Carneiro has also announced she will consider compositions from this season's series for further development and possible premier in a future symphony subsciption concert.
Under Construction was initiated in 1993; the 2009-10 season marks the third year of the program's expansion to include composers-in-residence whose commissioned short works are to be presented over a series of evenings. Each is a Bay Area resident who has not had a previous work in full symphony performance.


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Realizing that US healthcare reform was transforming how providers needed to do business, and with a need to provide more services closer to their patients in the North part of Snohomish County, WA, The Everett Clinic set out to develop a new delivery model for patient care. The challenge was to create a model that still focused heavily on the patients; reduce the first and on going costs of the facilities; provided a very lean yet flexible space for physicians and clinical staff to function efficiently within; and defend against a competitor expanding into that area of the market.
Our team was hired early in the process to support TEC's due diligence on the projects feasibility; develop a clear set of quantifiable and qualitative goals to measure against; and build and lead a highly effective team who could deliver great value for the new Smokey Point Medical Center within a 24 month development period.
We worked with the team of experts and the clients internal staff to test and then design the space around the functional operations needed at every level. The model brought the point of care services to the patient. It created right sized rooms and exam pods around a center core team area, which created flexibility for the space, and improved collaboration, safety and efficiency for the clinical team. The space helped improve the patient throughput and clinical steps by making travel intuitive, which allowed for partial patient self rooming. It reduced non patient care space by 23% which allowed for future expansion of 20 more exam rooms, and improved room utilization to above 80%, both resulting in higher revenue per SF and reduced operational cost per patient care square foot; and it was delivered for over 20% less cost than market comps within a 22 month delivery schedule.
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