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Dan's Tips for Weaving Together A Recovery Plan to Heal Your Depression
What will make the pain of depression stop?
Sometimes the ache is dull, other times sharp. It can last a few hours, days, or weeks.
This is ground zero for depression sufferers. What can I do to feel better?
The answer is often elusive. Many don't know where to get help, let alone walk the path of healing. Recovery starts and sputters for others: they feel better on a med, then it stops working. Or, they start a bold new exercise regimen, only to see it fizzle.
There is no one-size-fits-all cure for depression. That what makes it so exasperating. It isn't like having a bad cold where Nyquil will do the trick for most. Rather, depression is an illness of the body, mind, and soul that doesn't lend itself to simple fixes. Because we're all humans with bodies and brains, some things will generally work for everyone; exercise comes to mind. But because we're also unique, we need a tailored recovery plan to get and stay better.
We need a quilt of healing.
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The Ten Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques: An Interview with Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg
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I'm Dan Lukasik from Lawyerswithdepression.com. Today's guest is Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg. Dr. Wehrenberg is a clinical psychologist in Naperville, Illinois. She is the author of six books on the treatment of anxiety and depression published by W.W. Norton, including, "The Ten Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques: Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Depressed and What You Can Do to Change It" and "Anxiety + Depression: Effective Treatment of the Big Two Co-Occurring Disorders." An international trainer of mental health professionals, Dr. Wehrenberg coaches people with anxiety via the internet and phone. She's a frequent contributor to the award-winning magazine, Psychotherapy Networker and she blogs on depression for the magazine Psychology Today.
What is the difference between sadness and depression and why do people confuse the two so often?
Dr. Wehrenberg:
Because depression comprises sadness. Sadness is a response to a specific situation in which we usually have some kind of loss. The loss of a self-esteem, a loss of a loved one, the loss of a desired goal. Depression is really more about the energy – whether it's mental energy or physical energy – to make an effective response. So, sadness is an appropriate and transient emotion, but depression sticks around and affects all of our daily behaviors and interactions.
What causes depression? Sadness, as you say, is an appropriate response to loss. What is depression a response to? What are the causes of depression?
Over the course of my career, I've developed the idea that there are four potential causes to depression. This comes from working with people for forty years; it comes from reading a lot of research.
The first part is genetics. You are born with a brain that is going to tend toward depression because of the function of neurotransmitters in your brain. It's a genetic predisposition towards depression. With poor self-care, poor nutrition, you may end up stimulating or starting that feeling of low energy, of low interest in the world around you. Then if you pull back from the world around you, now you start to have fewer experiences that keep you interested in the world.
Another possible and probable cause is with people who are experiencing situational stress that goes on, and on, and on. That could be the stress of not being able to earn enough money, and you've got two jobs, and kids, and a life filled with stress. It could be the stress that comes on while caring for someone in your family circle who's got a disability, or a chronic illness; that increases with severity over time. So, you're stuck in stress, and you deplete yourself. And you can become depressed.
The state of the depression is a lot like the state of being sick. If you had the flu, you wouldn't feel like sitting around eating and drinking; you wouldn't feel like playing a round of tennis. If somebody says, "Let's watch a really interesting T.V. show" and you say, "No, I want to go to sleep instead," that's pulling back from the world is healing. People have the same feeling when they're depressed, but those feelings don't lead toward healing because they're persistent.
Two other causes that people would certainly be aware of are trauma or coming from early childhood adversity where early in your childhood you were not treated well, you were neglected, had some other abusive situation, and those two very difficult situations can lead people to function in a depressed way.
Let's talk about the issue of stigma. As a person who's had depression for the past 15 years, it's something that I've had to deal with. Why is there so much stigma surrounding depression?
Part of it is because we have this mentality in this country that you should be able to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. And we look at people who are low energy, who aren't completing tasks, and we judge them as doing it on purpose. People who aren't depressed are of the impression that you could just decide to do it differently.
I was speaking with a 21-year old client of mine the other day who said, "I can't make myself do the work, and I hate it that I am that lazy." So, he judges himself as lazy, even though it's the depression that's robbing him of energy and mental tenacity. So, even depression sufferers judge themselves to be wrong, lazy, and bad and believe they should do better. So, I think the cultural expectation that you should be more productive. Also, people don't see it as the medical problem it is. It's just that it's not a very "visible" medical problem.
In the past 40 years or so that you've been a therapist and have treated people with depression, what have you observed about the rate of depression in our country and our understanding of it?
I think the rate of depression, everybody would agree, is growing. More and more people are suffering depression.
There are different reasons why when we look at this.
Culturally, one of them is that American culture is a highly stressed culture. But it's stress not over life and death, but that's certainly the case for many living in poverty who have to worry where their next meal is coming from, but usually, what we look at is the stress of always needing to be more, to do more, to get more status and money. That's not a very good way to feel good about yourself because there's a limit, a human limit of time, a limit of money, a limit of talent or ability, a limit to resources or access to achievement.
Following up on what you just said earlier, you talked about some possible causes of depression including genetics and family of origin issues. Now you're talking about American culture and its connection to depression. What is the connection?
We have a culture that values productivity, money, and status, and not everybody can achieve goals of status or financial success and it gets depressing to see how valuable those seem to be in our country.
We don't value something everybody can do. Like, be a person of good character. We value how much status you've got, which is very different.
Dr. Andrew Weil, who is a real guru of physical health and mental health, says he thinks that stress equals inflammation in your whole body and that inflammation is a trigger for depression.
Why did you write the book, "The Ten Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques?" It's a great read. I recommend all my listeners and readers at lawyerswithdepression.com to pick it up.
I wrote it because I believe both consumers and therapists need ideas for what to do right now other than to investigate, in some more general way, a life history, what do you do today that will make you feel somewhat better, to start you moving out of the depression. I wanted to present as many practical ideas as I could that would help people start to lift out of depression with the help and advice of a therapist and also for the general public that could read this book and say, "Oh, there are things I can do that would make me feel better." And they're simple; they're not complicated.
Can you share with our listeners some of the techniques you recommend in your book?
Let's start with somebody with low energy. Almost everybody who is depressed is doing something even while they are depressed. Playing a game on their phone, watching T.V. or watching Netflix. They are doing something. Unless, they are sleeping, of course. But I want to use what you're already doing to help motivate you to do something you think you should do. So, for example, I often see people with depression that aren't doing good health care, they're not doing good care of their environment, they are not doing dishes, they are not doing laundry, stuff like that. So if you just think about household stuff for a second, what I want my clients to do is to break down the task into its parts.
If you're going to do laundry, the first thing you have to do is pick it up off the floor. So, I don't want you to think, "Oh, I've got to get all the laundry done." If you're depressed, that won't work. What I want you to do is think is, "All I have to do is pick up the dirty clothes in the family room and then I'm going to sit down for 15 minutes and do what I'm willing to do anyway – play a game on the phone, turn on Netflix. Set a timer for 15 minutes of enjoyment of your show and then when the timer goes off, you just get up and pick up the clothes off the floor of your bedroom. Little pieces, okay.
What we know about depression is those small accomplishments are perceived in the brain as positive and encouraging, and you start to feel, "Oh, I can do something for myself." You begin to have just a little rise in your overall energy. If you can do that consistently, then pretty soon, you get the task of doing the laundry over with. It may take a few days, but it's done. Then you have a positive self-appraisal. That's what I'm going for, for example, with a very simple way to think about raising your energy through small increments.
So the small steps and small behaviors affect neurochemistry?
They do, indeed. Because when you take action and it has a positive outcome, you have just changed the level of the neurochemical called dopamine, which I call the "James Brown" of the brain. It's the "I feel good," when dopamine is released in your brain you feel better. We know that people who decide, "I am going to do this," and do it, they get a rise in dopamine and change your neurochemistry.
I want to discuss your second book, "Anxiety + Depression: Effective Treatment of the Two Co-Occurring Disorders." I struggle with both anxiety and depression with depression being the primary diagnosis. Many people I meet struggle with both. Why do the two co-occur together and sometimes not?
Very often, if you are looking at brain function and structure, what you see in people who have both anxiety and depression, which, by the way, is about fifty-percent of the time, is that people who have one, have the other. Often, the anxiety comes first, and it's not treated well. There's a neurochemical called serotonin which is related to something called rumination or you might think of it as "brooding." When people brood, when they go over and over a failure or fear, they get stuck mentally. It raises anxiety because it's hard to solve a problem that you're just brooding about and it raises depression because you don't feel like you're moving very much in your behavior or your thinking. That's a pretty simplistic statement. And people will say, yes, but there are far more theories about the underlying neurochemistry. That's true, but the chemistry that relates to brooding is related to both anxiety and depression, the repetitive, negative thinking.
Regarding your history as a therapist treating people with anxiety and depression, are there some techniques that work better with anxiety versus depression? Or, do all these techniques work equally well with both conditions?
I think you have to look at the energy level. Some people with anxiety and also depression have a fair amount of energy to cope with the depressive quality of repetitive, negative thinking. And you use the energy of that anxious person to be more assertive with yourself to say, "I'm going to take charge of this."
But what I also find that works very well with anxiety and depression together is to work on mindful awareness, to try to stay in the moment, not to try to predict a negative outcome, but rather to pull yourself into the moment. And mindfulness, which can be done by meditating to stay in the present moment, but you can also just keep pulling yourself back to this moment by saying to yourself, "What's happening now?" This pulls you back from predicting negative outcomes and then getting upset about what might happen. If you stay in the now, you can say I can do this activity now, this action now, and all I have to worry about is now. And then you tend to get better outcomes. So, that's good for both for anxiety and depression.
Anxiety is "I worry about the future; I fret about the past." And depression includes, "I think the future will be grim." So if you stay in the moment, you're addressing both of them.
As a psychologist and therapist who's worked with people with anxiety and depression for decades, tell us a little bit why a person struggling with depression and anxiety should see a psychologist, a therapist? What benefit could be obtained from seeing someone such as yourself and how does that work?
We know that medication, which is often people's first choice, can be extremely helpful. But what I say to my clients is that medication can help you feel somewhat better, but it doesn't teach you anything about managing your life. Psychotherapy, when it's practical, when I'm looking at it through the "The Ten Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques," what it's teaching you is how to handle your negative mood, what to do when you don't have energy. It's teaching you behavior that will rewire your brain. It talks about how and why exercise and nutrition are important.
But also why taking even a small action on your behalf changes your neurochemistry. So, psychotherapy immediately affects brain function. But, you usually need a psychotherapist to give you ideas, help you find ideas of how you stop yourself, how you block yourself, and to help you find the most effective tools for you in your specific situation. A psychotherapist can be very helpful in teaching you how to get rid of these negative symptoms and feel better for life.
Dr. Wehrenberg, what's the best way for our listeners and readers to get in contact with you?
Well, if you're able to spell my name, you can look me up on Margaretwehrenberg.com. I work in Naperville, Illinois. But my website has my telephone contact and a link. And if you went to the Psychology Today magazine website, you can look at my blog on depression, and you would be able to contact me through there as well. I have a really good "Contact me" on my website.
On behalf of your listeners at Lawyerswithdepression.com., I want to take the time to thank you for this insightful interview. I think it's going to help many people.
Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
One Woman Lawyer's Journey Through Depression
Acknowledging my depression for the first time during my third year of law school was as terrifying a realization as it was liberating. Between finishing up final classes, getting ready for the bar exam, and preparing for the first semester of my LL.M degree program, I fought every day to simply get out of my own way, and I fought even harder to hide it. I would wake up in the morning in tears, yet by the afternoon I was at school, going through the motions, and relieved to just make it to the end of the day.
This contradiction of being in law school and living with depression was an unbearable secret. At my core, I was beyond ashamed and embarrassed. I would beat myself up over and over again with the same though: how did I mange get myself to law school only to end up feeling this way? I was so lost, and I was experiencing a pain that was as indescribable and unfamiliar as it was pervasive and present. I convinced myself this that feeling this way was the price I had to pay to become a lawyer, to live up to this expectation I had created about myself. So just get through it, I told myself. This is the way it's to be done. Suck it up. Survive.
In the months to come, however, my depression worsened. Despite having passed the bar exam, started course work toward my LL.M degree, and a relationship with a man who said he cared for me, I crashed. I spent entire days in bed, with no one to the wiser. I stopped answering my phone and emails, and I wasn't going to classes. Getting out of bed felt like stepping off the edge of a cliff. Life having any sense of forward momentum and progress was something that seemed to happening for other people, and I was left struggling, trying to figure out how to keep up.
Something inside me managed to articulate clearly and loudly that something was wrong with me that went beyond telling myself to suck it up. One morning, moved by forces that to this day are still a mystery to me, I found my way to the university's student counseling services. A social worker took me in a back room for an intake interview. Directly and clearly, I was honest for the first time about what was happening to me. The next thing I knew I had a calendar filled with multiple weekly appointments with a psychiatrist who immediately put me on an anti-depressant and talk therapy.
Believe me when I say that those talk therapy sessions in the student counseling center changed my life. My therapist saw through me with kindness and compassion in a way I didn't think was possible for another person to do, and she understood the how and why of what was happening to me. She helped me put words to emotions and thoughts that existed only in my head. I learned that I could say I was dealing with depression, and that with work it was something I could learn to manage.
But my therapist also told me this was only the beginning for me with understanding and successfully managing my depression. She said we had only scratched the surface. Her words were profound and prescient. As my experience with law evolved from getting through the competitive and pressure filled environment of law school to the demands of practice, so did my experience with depression and its affect on my ability to know and to listen to love myself. For a while, I felt good, and depression felt like memory. I found I was more comfortable with and better at being a working lawyer than I was a law student. Practice requires you to touch more upon your true nature more, I think, than law school. There was less posturing and more action, and I am more suited for that reality. I still, however, had a lot to learn about asserting myself and holding my own in intense environments. As the red flags of my depressive behaviors and thoughts would pop up, I realized that no matter what anti-depressant I was on, or what words of wisdom I tried desperately to recall from a therapy session, I was still out of sync with myself emotionally and my surroundings. This was a powerful insight, but I still could not in the moment handle the stresses I experienced on a daily basis successfully or in a way that felt true to myself. Sexism, cutthroat competitive colleagues, long hours, bitter partners who saw heaping insult upon you as affective training and as lawyerly karmic right. The romantic ideal of the practice of law as noble and worthwhile was elusive and false. The reality was all too much.
Even as I become more successful in advancing my career, obtaining a Federal clerkship and a Big Law job, my depression didn't dissipate and disappear, as I had naively hoped it would (because as all lawyers know, the right job and status fix things, right?). Instead, its presence became more insidious, because when I felt it, I immediately knew it meant that something was dreadfully wrong, and the fear of where it could take me became all-consuming. The energy it took for me to hold my own with colleagues and clients and still at the end of the day deliver good work took over, and any healthy sense of self-care I had learned when I first acknowledged depression in my life was pushed aside. I now felt like a failure at the most fundamental level because I couldn't control my depression. Even as my experiences with depressive tendencies became more insightful and clearer to me in their meaning, I was still at a loss as to what to do, and I brutally beat myself up for not being able to fix it.
After completion of a project I was on in 2009, I left my job, and I left life as a working lawyer. And again, I crashed. For a time, I swung too far in the other direction, internalizing depression to the point where it became my identity. I didn't know where depression ended and my sense of self began, and concluded that the entirety of my life would be determined by its presence. Therapy and medication again were options, but this time, I knew in my gut what I needed was beyond the relief they would provide.
Only with time and by stepping back from thinking of myself as both a lawyer and as someone with depression have I have learned that ultimately I am neither one of those things. I have learned that when I fight and ignore my intuition is when I get into trouble. That is what depression at its worst takes from me. It takes away my voice. When outside noise and pressure and people are too loud, and are in turn amplified in my mind by my depressive thinking, I, in the most glorious sense of the word, am gone. The "I" whose evidence of worth is proved by mere existence; the "I" that only has to live and breathe to be worthy, is nothing to me. All I can see is worry and striving and other people's judgments, and my own judgments, and angst and pain.
I don't know that I will work in law again, but I entertain the thought now and then. This thought isn't without a realistic notion of what it will take to get back into the profession, so, equally, I honor the thought that I may never find a fit for myself in law. I've also accepted depression in my life as a siren meant to warn me I'm headed for trouble. This clarity isn't without fear. I've had hard times since I left my last job as a lawyer, but I can honestly say that what I've learned about myself and life since has so far been worth it all.
In Therapy With Jerry
These days, it's no big deal to admit you have a therapist.
I've had the same therapist for seven years. His name is Jerry. He's 74, Italian and grew up in the Bronx. I see him a few times a month, generally. In one-hour chunks of time. Sometimes, I come and there's doesn't seem to be much to say about why I started coming there in the first place – how to cope with my depression. Probably because I've gotten pretty good at dealing with it successfully over the years.
On occasion, we spend a fair amount of time talking about or catching up on his life. I know quite a bit about it: the death of his beautiful wife thirty years ago from cancer (she was also a psychologist), his heroic and loving raising of his two small children left without a mother, the political travails of being the head of the Department of Psychology at a local university and his views on parenthood, love, aging and mortality.
To me, he's father I never had. My own dad died 33 years ago at age 56 from alcoholism . . . and a three pack a day habit of Camel unfiltered cigarettes (something he picked up in the Navy during WWII). Dad was tough in a brutal and mean way. Jerry is tough in a loving way. Compared to other therapists I've had, he's practical rather than Pollyannaish, wise rather than wishy-washy. I love him and respect him. And he's my dear friend.
I recall when my mom died four years ago from brain cancer. While walking around the funeral home greeting people who had come to pay their respects, in walks Jerry. I didn't expect it. But I was so happy to see him. I introduced him to my friends and family, people he had heard so much about in sessions. I didn't introduce him as my therapist. Just, "This is my friend, Jerry." And it rang so true.
I'm sure it was interesting for him to attach a face with a story and how they fit into the drama of my life.
Most people stay at wakes for fifteen minutes. Then say, "I'm sorry for your loss," and leave and that's okay – but not Jerry. He stayed by my side for a few hours. He was there for me. He didn't have to be. The meter wasn't running for his time. He was just being who he was since I met him: a loving and compassionate person full of integrity. In short, one of the finest people I've ever met.
It's not to say that we haven't had our differences. But they've been minor. Over time, not only have I come to appreciate the bounty of healing I've reaped in therapy with Jerry, but also it's limitations. While we can make a lot of progress in an hour, it's still just that – 60 minutes every other week of sharing ups and downs, problems and triumphs, and the sifting through and making sense of life. I wish we saw each other outside of therapy as friends. But maybe many patients feel this way. I wouldn't be surprised.
Jerry is a man of science and rationality. He believes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in which depression sufferers heal when their dysfunctional thought patterns of depression are challenged and changed for the better.
There's much to be said for this type of therapy. He's challenged and helped me leave a lot of the thoughts that had fueled my depression behind in the dust: "I'm not good at anything," "I'll never get over this," etcetera. I now think and believe, "You know, I pretty good at most things and superlative at some" and "I have and will get over it. This too shall pass." I now believe in these takes on reality because he has helped me, as a wise guide, to do so with his characteristic wit, insight and humor.
When it comes to the spiritual, Jerry won't go there. He's a self-proclaimed agnostic at best. At first, this disappointed me. How could this loving and brilliant man not believe in God? But, I came to accept this as I had others in my life that didn't believe in a God however he or she could have conceived him or her.
But I know this is true: regardless of what Jerry does or doesn't believe, I know that a kind and loving God, the only one I can really believe in, loves and blesses Jerry just as Jerry does his clients in his own unmistakable way.
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Reconstructed/Reconceptualized Opens Sept. 1 in Crisp Museum
By Ann Hayes on	 August 22, 2017 Arts and Media, Museum, River Campus
"Najjar Abdul-Musawwir: Reconstructed/Reconceptualized opens Sept. 1 in the Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum at Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus.
The public is invited to the opening reception scheduled for 4-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 1, with an artist's talk at 6 p.m. by Abdul-Musawwir, professor of fine arts at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
The exhibit will remain on display through Oct. 23. Admission is free. A limited print catalog accompanies this exhibition.
"Reconstructed/Reconceptualized" is an investigation of the history of the banjo and its direct link to African string instruments including the kora, ngoni, nyatiti and xalam, and how their aesthetic descriptions speak passionately to the construction of the banjo. The spiritual kinship between the banjo and African string instruments has created a timeless bridge across the Atlantic Ocean.
His interest in the banjo as an object connecting Africa's presence in America began in 2000 during a class discussion about Henry Ossawa's "Banjo Lesson" painting.
"In my studio practice, the aesthetic experiences have been intellectually and emotionally inspiring, and have brought me to a point of investigating the material as content – various wood quality and forms," Abdul-Musawwir said.
During a three-month residency at the Smithsonian Museum of African Art Warren M. Robbins Library, Washington, D.C. in the spring of 2016, Abdul-Musawwir studied a wide range of documents on African string instruments.
"With the professional assistance of librarian Janet Stanley and library technician Karen Brown, I was able to answer many questions on the banjo's history in America," he said. "The outcome is a reconceptualization of the banjo and its kinship with Africa."
Abdel-Musawwir earned his Master of Fine Arts from SIU-Carbondale. He is the host for WSIU Television's "Expressions."
Financial assistant for this project has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.
The Crisp Museum is located in the Cultural Arts Center at Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus, located at 518 S. Fountain St. in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, 1-4 p.m. on weekends and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the first Friday of the month. For more information, call (573) 651-2260 or email museum@semo.edu.
Crisp Museum Hosting 'Wooden Models' Workshop Jan. 18
Crisp Museum Hosting Finger Weaving Workshop Jan. 25

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Blog Posts > Gov. Justice, County and Municipal Officials Publicly Oppose Amendment 2
Gov. Justice, County and Municipal Officials Publicly Oppose Amendment 2
Amendment 2, or the Property Tax Modernization Amendment, will be on the ballot this November for West Virginia voters to consider. If passed, it would amend the constitution to give the state legislature the authority to exempt business machinery and equipment, business inventory, and personal vehicles from property taxation. As such, passage of the amendment would give the legislature control over $515 million of property tax revenue, or 27 percent of total property tax revenue in the state, resulting in the fulfillment of a long-term goal of state legislators to take control of a significant portion of property tax revenue in order to pursue a property tax cut that largely benefits out-of-state businesses.
The proposed exemptions under Amendment 2 would result in local governments losing control over an essential revenue stream. The $515 million in property tax revenue from personal vehicles and business machinery and equipment, business inventory, and other business personal property accounts for up to 37 percent of total property tax revenue in some counties. The loss of this critical revenue will adversely impact the ability of municipalities, county governments, and school districts to provide needed services that benefit all West Virginians, and will likely lead to cuts to services or increased taxes on other parties, like homeowners.
As we approach this fall's election, public officials across West Virginia are increasingly coming out in opposition to Amendment 2. A recent article provides further details. Excerpt below:
In November, voters will weigh in on four proposed amendments to the West Virginia Constitution.
Amendment 2, dealing with the Legislature's authority over certain taxes, has been discussed widely over the past few weeks.
The amendment has drawn criticism, particularly from county and municipal government officials. They say the measure jeopardizes critical revenue streams without a clear indication of how — or even if — those revenues would be replaced.
Revenues from those taxes fund municipalities, counties and local school systems.
Because the amendment only involves giving the Legislature authority to exempt the taxes, there is no set plan in place for how lawmakers will implement the changes.
One of the strongest of these opposing voices comes from the very top level of state government — Gov. Jim Justice.
"We're taking away an income stream and betting on good times forever and putting at risk our schools, our EMS, our firemen, our police and whatever it may be," he said. "We have to step back and think about what we are doing."
The boards of the West Virginia Association of Counties and the County Commissioners Association of West Virginia recently issued a joint press release encouraging residents to reject the amendment.
Take action to educate your friends and neighbors about how dangerous Amendments 2 and 4 would be for our schools, local public services, and communities. Update your profile picture across your social media platforms to one from our digital toolkit!
Reminder: Amendments 2 and 4 Postcard Party next Monday
Kanawha County friends, let's gather to take action and stand up for local control, our public schools, and the community services we all rely on.
Amendments 2 and 4 are blatant power grabs that would see local decision making exported to the state legislature. Everything from critical funding for our schools, local libraries, and public safety to keeping politics out of our kids' classrooms is at stake.
Make your voice heard, and enjoy the company of our community while you're at it. Food and refreshments will be provided at both events.
Date and time: Monday, September 26 from 5-7:30pm
Location: WV Citizen Action Group office (1500 Dixie Street, Charleston, WV 25311)
Find the Facebook event here
New Census Data Reveal that Government Policies Drove Poverty to a Record Low, Significantly Cut Uninsured Rate
The annual Census data was released last week and the WVCBP was thrilled to see that–as a result of enhanced public assistance measures–the child poverty rate, overall poverty rate, and uninsured rate across the country all declined significantly. Our colleagues at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities published a statement further detailing these positive developments. Excerpt below:
Today's Census figures show government policies prevented massively higher financial hardship and lack of health insurance in 2021, as the nation continued to wrestle with the COVID-19 pandemic and recover from the resulting job loss. The expanded Child Tax Credit alone kept 5.3 million people above the annual poverty line and helped drive a stunning reduction in child poverty to a record low. Poverty overall also reached a record low and the uninsured rate dropped substantially, with Medicaid and Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace coverage reaching or nearing record highs.
In both 2020 and 2021, the federal government provided large-scale assistance to families and individuals in the face of an unprecedented crisis. Strengthened economic and health security policies coupled with a recovering economy and rising employment resulted in historic declines in poverty and boosted health coverage, despite the economic and health crises caused by the pandemic.
The data for 2021 show that the nation knows how to reduce poverty, broaden opportunity, and expand health coverage. Temporary measures drove progress. Policymakers should build on this experience to address the widespread insecurity and inequities that pre-dated the pandemic and will worsen if temporary relief measures aren't replaced with longer-lasting policy advances.
Read the full statement.
Food for All Summit 2022: Amplifying Appalachian Voices
The fourth annual Food for All Summit is a place to learn about the decisions that state and federal policy makers are considering that affect both food access and farm viability. Come learn, build skills, and develop policy-changing ideas!
The event will take place on November 16 from 10am-4pm at the Brushy Fork Event Center (929 Brushy Fork Road, Buckhannon, WV 26201).
Please refer to the event landing page for updates on the event itinerary, speakers, and more. There is no cost to attend. Breakfast and lunch will be provided, but registration is required.
New Child Tax Credit Proposal Revealed, Includes Strengths and Weaknesses
Beginning in July 2021, most households with children had received monthly enhanced Child Tax Credit (CTC) payments of $250- 300 per child. However, the enhanced CTC included in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was temporary and expired at the end of 2021.
The impact on children and families since the expiration of the enhanced CTC has been severe. Between Dec. 2021 and Jan. 2022, there was a staggering 41 percent increase in child poverty nationwide due to the loss of the monthly payments. And as inflation continues to exacerbate family financial hardship, the need to make a robust CTC permanent is as urgent as ever.
Recently, a new proposal to expand the CTC was announced by Senator Mitt Romney. While we are excited to see bipartisan interest in enhancing the credit and while the proposal does improve some elements of the current law, it also has serious shortcomings – primarily, it does not make the full credit available to the lowest-income families (a notable divergence from the now-expired enhanced CTC that was included in the ARPA). Further, it proposes problematic offsets that would prove detrimental to low-income families.
A blog post from our colleagues at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities provides further insight into the proposal's pros and cons. You can read it here.
Share Your Medicaid Experience with Us!
The WVCBP's Elevating the Medicaid Enrollment Experience (EMEE) Voices Project seeks to collect stories from West Virginians who have struggled to access Medicaid across the state. Being conducted in partnership with West Virginians for Affordable Health Care, EMEE Voices will gather insight to inform which Medicaid barriers are most pertinent to West Virginians, specifically people of color.
Do you have a Medicaid experience to share? We'd appreciate your insight. Just fill out the contact form on this webpage and we'll reach out to you soon. We look forward to learning from you!
You can watch WVCBP's health policy analyst Rhonda Rogombé and West Virginians for Affordable Health Care's Mariah Plante further break down the project and its goals in this FB Live.
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Что такое пользовательская настройка режима балансом белого?
When a subject is illuminated with many different types of light sources, the existing white balance controls may not be able to reproduce color accurately. In this type of situation, use the custom white balance function. Set what aspects of the scene to view as white and calibrate the amount of correction required under the light source to reproduce the color correctly. The A700 can memorize three custom white balance settings.
The custom WB data registered on the LCD monitor displays the image with the specific color temperature and CC filter value.
These values for the color temperature setting can also be used for complete control.
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As I walked through the door, exclaiming my back is killing me, D picked up on the message. When we sat down to work with the pain, he asked me: What did you feel as you stepped through the door?
So he said, slow down. That's the message I got, to slow down. Ease up a little.
I've carried the message with me, this past week, using it as a baseline to reflect on what I am doing, in which areas, and how it all serves me. Or doesn't, for that matter.
Coming to a realization that for quite some time I've been pushing all my own buttons. At the same time. Working on all areas, simultaneously. Pushing against the boundaries of my comfort zone… no, that's untrue. I've been pushing against the boundaries of my stretch zone, going dangerously into the red snap zone… in many, if not all, areas of life.
I realized, as I took in the message I was sending but not picking up on, that I don't have to work in all areas, everywhere, all the time. It is not only reasonable but actually wise, to heed the advice of the master of self-care, Pop the cat. Let myself rest, consolidate, push fewer buttons, letting come that which wants to come, given that I let go of that which has done its job.
So I breathe in. Hold it, for a few seconds. Then… exhale, letting go of a bit of the urge within, to be done. Knowing it's not at the finishing line the reward of this journey lies. It is the journey itself. That is the reward. The growth. The expansion. The learning. That which is life. Living it. Loving it. Letting go to let come, and reveling in each twist and turn, each nook and cranny, falling through internal trap doors, one after the other. All the while being open. And gentle. Knowing my gentleness towards myself is that which ensures the openness, the willingness, the ability to step without hesitation into the next inch of the unknown.
As a direct result of the reflective process of this past week, I honored myself today.
Saying No to others. Saying Yes to me.
I want to separate. He said.
I don't. I said. But what to do, since it takes two to tango?
So he left. Got a rental apartment and moved out, a month later, providing me with the grand opportunity to practice the fine art of letting go and letting come.
Letting go of all my beliefs about what our relationship was, and should be.
Letting go of the way I would have liked for us to be working on our relationship, living under the same roof.
Letting go of the feeling that somehow I've failed. Again. Second time around.
Letting come whatever our relationship might transform into.
Letting come the sweet sensation of knowing it – life – is up to me. Going it alone, with all the up's and down's it brings with it.
Letting come the curiosity of what wants to happen now.
Letting go of that which has been, that which is no more.
Letting come that which wants to happen.
What is there for you to let go of, in order to let something else come?
When letting go, I open up for new things. If I let them, that is. It can be as hard to let go of my resistance to let go, as it can be to let come. These ladies talk about what they wouldn't give for a chance to revisit their younger self. Being kinder to themselves, with the ability to let go, spending more time being, not doing.
It's beautiful this video, I've watched it several times now, and causes me to stop.
Pause. Look around me. Inhale and smell my surroundings.
Take in the sounds close and afar, feel my body relax as I exhale. Noticing.
What might come, if you let go?
Since 2012 I have blogged, mostly in Swedish, over at herothecoach.com and this post is a sample of what I've been writing over the years, in English. I hope you enjoy this #ThrowbackThursday, originally published here, and if you do, please subscribe to updates so you won't miss out on future posts. And as an extra gift for you – check out #ulab – Leading from the emerging future, that is just starting in September 2016. I have joined in – again – and I strongly recommend that you do too!


This was a funny sort of summer. A respectable number of pretty days. Some stretches of rain. Some very cool days. Not a lot of swimming. We had a handful of 90 degree broilers but not enough to coax the window unit air conditioners out of the basement. Although my dreams of nurturing a wonderful, lush little garden never came to be, we did enjoy a harvest.
Yep…we gathered about 20 cherry tomatoes from our two plants, and we got 2 green beans from the vine that our older son planted in Sunday School. He is thrilled!
Fortunately, my in-laws have greener thumbs. We were happy to share their zucchini, and this gorgeous sweet pepper.
Rebirth…and it's not even Spring!


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MN earns "C" grade for infrastructure in ASCE report card out today
October 9, 2018 By Scott Peterson
Minnesota earned a "C" grade for overall infrastructure, according to a new report out today from the American Society of Civil Engineers or ASCE. Spokesman Jason Staebell says the "C" grade means "infrastructure is mediocre and requires attention. While our bridges, transit system, ports and more are in fair condition, some elements show general signs of deterioration and require attention." Aviation received the highest grade of a "B". Road conditions received a "D+". The report found that the average driver in the Twin Cities spends 41 peak hours in congestion each year–at an average cost of $1332. Spokeswoman Ariel Christiansen says "much of Minnesota's infrastructure is aging, and reaching the end of its expected lifespan. The majority of our systems were built in the late 20th century before much of today's modern technology was developed. New materials and expanded environmental awareness and regulation require upgrades." The other categories graded were: dams (C), drinking water (C-), energy (C), ports (C+), transit (C-) and wastewater (C). The grading was based on 8 criteria: capacity, condition, funding, future need, operations and maintenance, public safety, resiliency, and innovation. Though average, Minnesota's grade bested the national cumulative average of a "D+".
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The word telecommunication was adapted from the French word télécommunication. It is a compound of the Greek prefix tele- (τηλε-), meaning 'far off', and the Latin communicare, meaning 'to share'. The French word télécommunication was coined in 1904 by French engineer and novelist Édouard Estaunié.
For more details on this topic, see History of telecommunication.
A replica of one of Chappe's semaphore towers.
Digital television standards and their adoption worldwide.
Italics indicates an unrecognised or partially recognised country. 1 Entirely in Southwest Asia. 2 Partially or entirely in Asia, depending on the border definitions. 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 Has part of its territory in Asia / North America / South America / Africa. 7 / 8 Entirely on the North American Plate / African Plate.
* Territories also in or commonly reckoned elsewhere in the Americas (North America).
1 Transcontinental country. 2 Only recognised by Turkey. 3 Not fully independent.
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^ Telecom Industry Revenue to Reach $1.2 Trillion in 2006, VoIP Magazine, 2005.
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The importance of telecommunications as a service industry in itself as well as a critical support element for other service industries is now the subject of high level policy formulation in practically every country in the world.
The public telecommunications sector does not include private networks (1) that do not automatically connect to the public network or which have limitations on membership.
Useful for gauging the size of the telecommunications sector vis-a-vis the overall domestic economy (e.g., telecommunications revenues as a percent of GDP).
The World Telecommunication Development Report (WTDR), first published for the World Telecommunication Development Conference in 1994, features trends in national, regional and international ICT development.
Like the World Telecommunication Development Report, regional reports such as Asia-Pacific Telecommunication Indicators and African Telecommunication Indicators are renowned for identifying regional trends and developments.
The reports provide a comprehensive review of a nation's telecommunication and mass media industries as well as the use of ICTs in different sectors of the economy such as government, education, business and health.


The Dietsmann Safety Campaign was all about hand care. During this year all Dietsmann employees were informed about manual handling dangers and what they can do to protect their hands and avoid injuries. The campaign explained safe manual handling practices and showed how to improve working methods, avoid risks and prevent accidents involving hands.
All the themes were brought together on a poster.
The monthly themes are listed below.


Still, warm and with the faintest hint of drizzle in the air, the evening was absolutely ideal for encountering a roebuck feeding along the woodland edge. Sadly, it was also tailor-made for the predations of the ravenous Highland midge, clouds of which swarmed from the heather around me, as I lay with rifle by my side, scanning a vast tract of bog for a foraging buck.
Surrounded on three sides by stands of well-grown spruce, this northern bog formed a rich isthmus of sedge, cotton grass, vetch and gorse, all offering fine browsing for early summer roe.
My plan for putting a buck in my roe sack was a simple one ? namely, to lie in ambush on a low heathery knoll, some 100m from the forestry fence, in the hope that sometime before dusk, a shootable beast might emerge from the gloom of the close-ranked conifers.
Cursing the ineffectiveness of my chosen insect repellent, I wiped a gloved hand across my midge-bitten face, as a fresh cloud of winged torment rose from the surrounding vegetation like a vengeful wraith. To gain a little respite from this aerial assault, I slid the hood of my camouflaged jacket over my head and, as I did so, caught sight of a movement on the edge of the trees.
Taking up my binoculars, I focused on a point where an overgrown forestry ride met the now collapsed and dilapidated deer fence. There, little more than 100m away, and looking straight out across the bog, stood a fine, thick-necked, six-point roebuck ? exactly the kind of beast I sought! Barely lifting my face from the concealing heather, I carefully slid my stalking rifle on to a clump of yellow grass in front of me ? a perfect rest ? all the while keeping my eyes fixed firmly upon my quarry.
Despite his suitability for culling, the roe would have to cross the tumbled down fence, and then move out across the bog before a safe shot could be taken. There, the rising ground would provide the perfect backstop for an errant bullet.
As though responding to an off-stage cue, the buck cleared the tangle of collapsed fencing in a single bound, and with a spring, cantered out in front of me.
My pulse now raised by adrenalin, I surveyed the animal through binoculars once more. Heavily set and with a broad grey face, the buck?s advanced years made him ideal for the gamelarder. So, easing the .270 into position, I checked the safety catch and silently chambered a cartridge.
The buck, having now slowed to a stop, stood grazing in belly-high vegetation, quite oblivious to the drama, and the fact that it had unwittingly put itself in the perfect position for the shot. I nestled the rifle?s heavily figured walnut stock into my cheek and shoulder, then settled the crosshairs of the 8×56 Schmidt & Bender scope directly over the animal?s heart. The yellow grass tussock offered perfect concealment and provided near bench rest conditions, so it was with considerable confidence that I eased the Heym?s safety forward and steadily increased the trigger pressure.
In spite of the .270?s apocalyptic roar, I distinctly heard the ?thwack? of bullet striking muscle and bone. The buck dropped on the spot like a puppet with severed strings. Working the bolt I quickly reloaded, sending an empty brass case pinging into the surrounding heather, as the echo of the shot receded into the far distance.
Feelings of relief and elation washed over me, for I was convinced that I had made a perfect heart shot, and that although hidden from view, my quarry now lay dead before me. Imagine, then, my utter amazement, when this same roebuck rose like an antlered Lazarus, from the very clump of rushes into which he had so dramatically descended.
A picture of health and clearly quite unscathed, the old roe shook himself, took a few steps forward, and barked loudly. There wasn?t a mark on him!
My mind raced as I struggled to make sense of the situation. Had the shot missed? How could it have, when I had heard the bullet strike and saw the animal drop like a stone? The buck took a few more steps and barked again, the points of his antlers gleaming ivory white.
or was he finally down and dead?
As the minutes ticked by, there came neither sound nor movement from the swathe of rushes, so easing the rifle?s safety catch to the rear, I recharged the magazine and rose to my feet. With binoculars supported by my stalking stick, I swept the foreground for any sign of a wounded roe, but found none.
Still greatly puzzled, I shouldered my roe sack, and with rifle muzzle held high, quietly moved forward. Striding out across the quivering sphagnum, I half expected to see the old roe spring to its feet, and barking, bolt away to vanish amidst the dark conifers.
My fears, however, turned out to be groundless, as I found the old buck lying dead exactly where he had fallen, a crimson rill trickling from a single bullet hole behind his right shoulder. Stooping, I rolled him over on to his left side, and there found only a single exit wound. I remained baffled.
With the light of evening fast fading, and the midges? appetite as keen as ever, I decided that this was no place for a postmortem, and that perhaps some things were simply beyond explanation.
With the task of gralloching now before me, I looked for somewhere dry to lay my binoculars and unloaded rifle, and turning, noticed a clump of ling a little to my left. As I approached this patch of heather, the puzzling events of the evening became a little more transparent, for there, stretched out on the ground, and almost entirely obscured by surrounding rushes, lay a second, thick-set, grey-faced roebuck! Identical in appearance to the beast I had first stumbled across, this animal also displayed a crimson bullet hole behind his right shoulder. The two bucks were like peas in a pod, and might have been drawn from the same plastic mould.
In an instant, the fog of mystery evaporated, for this was the buck that I had seen jump the collapsed deer fence, then canter out on to the bog. Unknown to me, however, this animal had chosen to stop and feed next to another aged roebuck, an animal slumbering and completely hidden from view.
When I had taken aim and fired, the first buck fell dead, almost on top of his reposing compatriot. The sleeping buck, disturbed by events, had then leaped to his feet and bounded forward, barking and giving the impression that the first buck had been miraculously resurrected. Small wonder I had been puzzled.
Later, when congratulated by a friend on taking two such fine old bucks, I considered ? at least for a moment ? owning up to my blunder and admitting that my success was due entirely to confusion. There are occasions, however, when it is better to remain silent, and have this taken as a sign of modesty. This, I believed, was just such an occasion.


When kids are allowed to move around and blow off steam, they are better able to focus on their schoolwork, say a growing number of researchers.
More educators are looking for ways to help kids be active, to help them learn better. For instance, one teacher in Toronto takes her Grade 7 kids outside to identify shapes or call out adjectives that describe what they see.
Or, she'll have them walking around the class, talking about work that is pinned to the wall—as if it were an art museum. Then she'll get them to write a poem about what they saw.
Letting kids move around helps them focus for longer periods of time, she says.
* One teacher posts signs in the corners of her classroom that say: "Agree," "Disagree," "Strongly agree" and "Strongly disagree." Then after she makes a statement like, "Homework is fun!" the kids get to run to the corner of the room that has the sign they agree with.
By combining activity with learning, letting kids take breaks often during the day and understanding that kids need to move in order to learn, schools are helping kids be their best.
There is a Primary version (ESL and Grade 2) of this article available here.
Do you think you get enough physical activity at school?
If so – what does your teacher do to ensure that you move around both in class and outside?
If not – pretend you are the teacher and create activities that could be used in your class that would increase the activity level of you and your classmates.
The journalist of the article chose to use bullet points to list different ways teachers increase their students' activity levels.
Why do you think the journalist chose to write with bullet points instead of paragraphs? What are the benefits and drawbacks of writing using bullet points?
A compound word is made up of two words joined together. Some examples are: doghouse, newspaper and sandcastle.
Find the compound words in the article, then think of at least 10 more compound words.


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Ishita Dutta
Ishita Dutta is an Indian film and television actress known for her role in the thriller movie Drishyam (2015) and the Hindi soap opera Ek Ghar Banaunga, aired on Star Plus. She is the younger sister of actress Tanushree Dutta.
Dutta was raised in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, in a Bengali Hindu family. She attended D.B.M.S. English school in Jamshedpur and studied media in Mumbai. Her sister, Tanushree Dutta, is also an actress / model known for winning the title Femina Miss India (2004).
Real Name : Ishita Dutta
Profession : Actress, Model, TV Anchor
Date of Birth : 26 August 1990
Born In : Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Zodiac Sign : Virgo
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Sister : Tanushree Dutta (Actress)
Hobbies : Dancing
Favorite Color : Black
Favorite Actress : Priyanka Chopra
Favorite Actor : Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Farhan Akthar, Hugh Jackman and Chris Hemsworth
School : Dakshin Bharat Mahila Samaj English School, Jamshedpur
Educational and Qualification : Media Studies
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She and her sister Tanushree Dutta worked together in their next film, Yenidu Manasali, directed by Shrikanth H.R. and produced by Niyaaz Ahmed, but it remained incomplete and unpublished.
She then starred in the soap opera Ek Ghar Banaunga.
In 2016, she played in Rishton Ka Saudagar - Baazigar in front of Vatsal Sheth. She made her Bollywood debut by supporting the 2015 Drishyam action drama alongside actors Ajay Devgn, Tabu and Shriya Saran. She played the role of the daughter of Devgn's character. She worked with Kapil Sharma in Firangi.
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What Makes a Vintage Fabulous?
Here at Angel Peak Minimum Security Prison Ini learning that license plates are for more than just cars. While making vanity plates naturally appeals to me, there are so many other creative outlets for these metal marvels. The license plate bird house is particularly nice and you should expect to attract jailbirds with it.
Journey back in time with us and browse the last 20 or so years of mailers, newsletters, and video.
Did you know that you can give us money? And then we can do whatever we want with it? Man, is this a great country, or what?!
A Year in the Making is a Cameron Winery propaganda film that condenses 12 months in the Clos Electrique vineyard into 12 minutes. Produced by Jeremy Fenske and Elaine Skinner, it stars the grand crew and farm animals of vintage 2012.
©2018 Cameron Winery. If found, please hold its little hand and return to P.O. Box 27 Dundee, Oregon 97115, 503/538-0336. Site design/dev by Gyroscope Creative.
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Gordon inducted into NMPA Hall of Fame
Jeff Birchfield • Updated Jan 27, 2019 at 8:11 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jeff Gordon made his mark as one of NASCAR's greatest drivers. On Sunday night, he officially became a Hall of Famer.
The four-time NASCAR champion was inducted into the National Motorsports Press Association Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the University Hilton. He is also scheduled to be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame later this week.
With the first Hall of Fame induction chosen by media members who cover the sport, Gordon talked about his journey from a young driver to making it to racing's highest levels. He remembered a 1981 race with quarter-midgets and the 1990 Belleville Nationals for being two races that furthered his career.
Once in the Cup Series, he said the 1994 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis changed his life forever and made him a household name.
"There has been a lot of reminiscing the last few days," Gordon said. "I've thought of all the competitive times in the sport. The final win at Martinsville in 2015 stands out. Joey (Logano) and Matt (Kenseth) got together, but the competitor in me thought I still had the car to run them down.
"Martinsville was such a great track for me. The fans' reaction, it still sends chills how popular that win was."
Gordon, 47, was honored twice with the NMPA's Richard Petty Driver of the Year award during his racing career.
He ranks third all-time in the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series in both wins (93) and pole positions (81). He won a first championship in 1995, becoming the youngest driver in the modern era to do so at 24 years old. He won championships in 1997, '98 and 2001. In 1998, he tied Richard Petty's modern-era record of 13 wins in a season.
Gordon made 805 career starts, including a record 797 consecutive starts, between 1992-2016 and was a three-time winner of the Daytona 500 and a record five-time winner of the Brickyard 400. He won four consecutive Food City 500s at Bristol Motor Speedway between 1995-98, and added a fifth Bristol victory at the 2002 August Night Race.
Those Bristol races included the bump-and-run move where he moved Rusty Wallace out of the way. While great friends now, Gordon explained that the two Hall of Fame drivers didn't like each other back then.
"I wouldn't call it hatred, that's too strong a word, but there were some hard feelings with me and Rusty," he said. "I bumped him out of the way a couple of times and then he wrecked me. I finally got him to admit it. We laugh about it now and we have a common respect.
"We've gone out to the desert three times and have raced in the sand dunes, no trophy on the line, but pride on the line, and I love passing him every chance I get. This last time, I couldn't pass him and I saw he was really happy about that, throwing the sand in my face. We have fun now, but we didn't have much fun back then."
After retiring from the Cup Series, Gordon was part of the winning team at the 2017 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, joining A.J. Foyt, Mario Andretti and Jamie McMurray as the only drivers to win both that event and the Daytona 500.
Now an analyst for Fox Sports, Gordon said the current role helps him still contribute to the sport he loves.
"I love motorsports and NASCAR is my favorite form of motorsports," Gordon said. "I always want to give back to the sport that has been so good to me. Being on television, I feel, allows me to do that."


There's a snippet of sandy beach – just 900 feet wide – on Cleveland's near west side at Edgewater Park. On warmer days the beach at Lake Erie can be crowded with families pressed up against the lakeshore, playing in the sand or wading in the water, or with couples holding hands and admiring the shocking pinks and oranges of the sunset.
But when the weather turns, it's a different story. Then, like some sort of noxious cauldron, Lake Erie spits and froths icy brown waves. And a different kind of crowd descends onto the beach: a shiny-black-wet-suit-clad band of surfers looking for the perfect wave (or any wave really).
Surfing Lake Erie isn't as unlikely as it sounds. In fact, some people think die-hards have been catching waves along the North Coast for as much as half a century. Legend has it that a GI brought a longboard home after a stint in Hawaii during the Second World War.
The Great Lakes, Erie included, have more coastline (10,900 miles) than both of American's other two coasts combined. Add that to the weather patterns that govern the region – cold fronts blow through regularly during autumn and winter and when they hit the warmer air that tends to linger over Lake Erie and brew stormy weather – and you get the nasty, chilly, mudslinging waves that make Cleveland's coastline surfable.
Late autumn (October and November in particular) is the best time to catch a wave in Cleveland – the fouler the weather, the better the waves will be. But, the area's hard-core surfers – and they're all hard-core really, after all, they're willfully risking hypothermia, frostbite and anything else the lake can throw at them – will keep coming back until the lake freezes, which can be as late as February. By May, the water has warmed again and the waves start to kick back up. During the summer, surf is gentler and harder to come by.
The waves on Lake Erie can, theoretically, get up 20 feet, but you're more likely to see something half that size or smaller. An easy rule of thumb for finding surf-size waves is to look for small-craft advisories issued by the National Weather Service and a more surf-minded site, surfline.com, offers daily surf reports.
Local surfers ride the waves at Edgewater and any of the dozens of other area beaches, but if you want to track them down, one of the best places to find them is through forums like the wagnersurfclub.com, where you'll find links to everything from daily forecasts to pictures.
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Sarah Routh writes about food, travel, and entertainment. She's written a cookbook, a children's book and more restaurant reviews than she can count. Sarah grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and although her sixteen-year-old self would never believe it, she's thrilled to be raising her three children there. When she's not writing, eating, or shuffling children around, she's busy exploring her hometown.


Historically, enterprises within the private sector have only really thought about erasing data when infrastructure is being decommissioned. Servers which have reached the end of their useful life are retired, and the information stored on their hard drives is securely wiped prior to the kit leaving the data center. This makes sense; you don't want old kit appearing on eBay or found in Agbogbloshie with a copy of your HR database still intact.
Over the last decade, there has been a veritable avalanche of global legislation that makes securely disposing of this data more important than ever. Many of these laws have penalties for noncompliance, ranging in severity; so, all organizations are now expected to ensure tight oversight of their data throughout its lifecycle—not only when the data is retired.
Here are some of the many scenarios in which data sanitization should be undertaken and why.
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes live in May 2018, has a fundamental tenant for the individual's 'Right to be Forgotten.' This allows EU citizens to request removal of their data from company system(s) at any time. As a high-level requirement, seems easy enough to achieve; however, only if you're thinking about structured data (data within a database). That's not enough. You must also consider any artifacts that reside in unstructured data (emails and attachments, spreadsheets, word documents etc.) When you consider that these must also be removed, the task doesn't sound so achievable—especially when the secure data removal must be verified and certified to achieve data sanitization.
While your company may be very diligent about controlling and recording its physical assets when employees join or leave the organization, you must also consider the risks to data from both physical and logical access. This access may still be achievable through devices that have not been securely erased prior to a rebuild and re-issue. An organization's policies should mandate secure erasure to provide necessary protection from data breaches that can occur at transition points in your hardware's chain of custody and use.
All old IT equipment presents a potential data breach risk if it's storage is not securely wiped prior to reuse, resale or disposal. Corporate policies should mandate data erasure as part of the project lifecycle with evidence of completion to fully address the risk.
With more enterprises adopting cloud processing and storage for critical applications, it's imperative that your cloud provider has a data sanitization plan when you wish to exit its services.
Does your cloud service provider proactively sanitize your data, or does it just reallocate its storage and wait for the data to be overwritten?
Regardless of whether your data is residing within your own data center, a 3rd party data center or the Cloud, when data is moved from one location to another, from an old server to a new one, or virtual machine to another – the original data location must be erased.
If your data was originally located within an environment under your control, there is a common attitude that this does not present a risk. Many businesses believe this data can be left until the asset is reused, at which point it would eventually be overwritten. However, taking this approach presents an issue, as this data would effectively become 'dark data' and would still be subject to the GDPR's right to be forgotten.
Many organizations use 3rd party facilities for their disaster recovery plans. While this is an excellent choice for many reasons, cost being the primary driver, it also brings potential complications with data once the DR exercise has completed. In fact, it is highly likely that the recovery disks used are immediately tagged as available for reuse. This means that for a certain period of time, the data used during the recovery process is out of the owner's control and, therefore, vulnerable. The simple step of sanitizing all the disks after use mitigates any such risk and should be the default action regardless of where the DR testing is performed.
Data should never be retained indefinitely. This isn't only good practice to reduce the data storage burden, but also to reduce corporate risk—provided the data is securely erased. Company policies should outline retention timeframes to meet business and regulatory requirements; they should also mandate the destruction of the data once it reaches the end of its useful life. The data that is no longer needed should be securely erased from any storage device, virtual machine and files or folders using automated routines.
Corporate policies should also consider what happens to media if it becomes faulty. While it may be possible to have a selective policy/process based on the known contents of a drive, it is a much better risk position to take to ensure that no faulty device is removed from your data center without either being securely erased. Or if secure deletion is not possible due to the particular fault, physically destroyed.


As we've mentioned in the past the GDPR regulations which come into effect in May 2018 carry an obligation on all schools to appoint a Data Protection Officer.
Over the last few weeks, many of you have contacted us to ascertain whether Judicium will be offering such a service.
We are now pleased to announce that a Data Protection Officer service will be available from April onwards.
Data protections experts are a rare commodity and in order that we may allocate resources efficiently we would be very grateful, if your school is interested this service, that you contact at the earliest point you feel possible.
Full details of the service are available on our website www.judiciumeducation.co.uk or you can email enquiries@judicium.com or call Alex on 020 7336 8403.


Peel and cut wild mushrooms. Put them into the pot and boil for 30 minutes. When water starts boiling, add 2 halves of the onion and salt.
While you`re cooking this simple broth, prepare the rest of ingredients.
Chop second onion and fry it in the pan with olive oil.
Cut potatoes into small cubes. Add it into the pan with water 15 minutes before the end of cooking.
Peel carrot and cut it into small cubes. Add it to the onion and fry everything, stirring constantly.
Add sautéed veggies into the pan with the soup. Boil everything on the slow fire for 5 more minutes.
Serve this delicious soup with fresh dill and sour cream if you like.


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Full circle: Nokia negotiates sale of Digital Health division to Withings co-founder
By Boyd Chan Neowin @therealboydchan · May 2, 2018 06:56 EDT · Hot! with 2 comments
It was just over two years ago that Nokia bought health-focused Withings for $191 million amidst the company searching for a new niche after the Finnish company had sold off its Devices and Services unit to Microsoft back in 2014. Nokia tried dabbling in the VR space with its $60,000 Ozo camera but ultimately killed it off late last year while also culling 310 jobs in the process, leaving the business to focus on networking equipment and licensing deals. In fact, its deal with HMD Global has seen numerous Nokia-branded smartphones released to market, with the Nokia X having been teased just a few days ago.
Now, it looks like the cellular stalwart's relatively recent acquisition of Withings is more or less going back from whence it came according to an announcement today. As part of Nokia's intention to "shift to become a business-to-business and licensing company", it has kicked off negotiations to sell off its Digital Health business to Éric Carreel, co-founder and prior chairman of Withings. The prospective deal would include the "ecosystem of hybrid smart watches, scales and digital health devices" for both consumer and enterprise segments. The discussions come after reports that other companies, such as Samsung and Google's Nest, had expressed interest in buying out the division.
An agreement is expected to be struck by the end of Q2 2018 when other information, such as the pricing of the deal, will likely be more readily disclosed. However, given that the Digital Health division posted revenues of around €52 million last year, the resulting amount could be a drop in the bucket compared to the €23.2 billion in sales achieved by all other divisions for the same period.
At present, it remains unclear whether or not the Withings name will also make a transition as part of any potential sale, as Nokia had phased out the brand in favor of its own late last year for its digital health products.
Source: Nokia via TechCrunch
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I was able to create this sensory bin for around $5.30 (I already had the container, which I picked up at Michael's Craft Store for about $3.99). I was able use this sensory bin for fine motor skills as well as speech activities! I could have gotten out of the Dollar Tree for $3.20 but I loved all the cute Eggs they had so I bought three packages of eggs, which you could get by with only one package!
I picked up my eggs, adorable Easter Tongs and Easter Grass (PAPER) at the Dollar Tree! When I saw the Tongs I knew that these would make a great fine motor task!
I thought of three different fine motor activities for you to use with this sensory bin!
2) Hide objects inside the eggs and the students will have to use their fine motor skills to get whatever is inside out! Depending on their age they can match the eggs to put them back together!
I love being able to use one toy or object for more than one purpose, this cuts down on transitions and me loosing her attention while transitioning to another toy or activity. We used this activity to practice speech (as you can see my daughter is watching my mouth and using tactile cues).
Spatial Concepts: Once the student picks their egg have them place it in, under, on top, etc. A great way to get some movement into your activity for those who need to move!
Social Skills: If you are in a group therapy session your student's can work on social skills such as: sharing, turn taking, eye contact, manners, etc!
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Quarantine Has Transformed Not-TV Into Essential TV
Jason Parham
Covid-19 lockdown has readjusted our appetite for entertainment—and changed our relationship to television entirely.
The coronavirus pandemic has changed many people's TV-watching habits. Photograph: Joos Mind/Getty Images
Every Saturday night for the last two months, the most compelling TV has played out on Instagram Live. Verzuz, a song-battle series started by producers Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, is one of the driving engines behind appointment viewing under lockdown. Already, T-Pain has squared off against Lil Jon. Nelly and Ludacris have traded regional pop hits. In the days leading up to the Jill Scott-Erykah Badu bout, black Twitter morphed into a smorgasboard of memes. When R&B legends Teddy Riley and Babyface finally came to a head (after a string of technical difficulties cut the first match short), the meeting carried Super Bowl-level significance, exceeding half a million viewers—including former First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Verzuz is not television in the traditional sense—the weekly stream is essentially a competition between two musicians (producers, songwriters, or rappers) to decide who has the superior discography—but it does incorporate all the hallmarks of great TV: the mind-tingling minutiae found in a music docuseries, the comforting goodwill of family sitcoms, deliciously home-baked reality show drama. (The latter is always supplied in the comments section from other celebrities.) On average, Verzuz streams pull in anywhere from 300,000 to 500,000 viewers—a serious number, considering people could be doing literally anything else with their free time—and the hype around the series has been nothing short of volcanic.
The weekly music competition is just one way television is being reassembled under quarantine. Culturally, what the pandemic has made clear is that some of the best TV is not on TV anymore. Depending on your internet diet, that's been the case for a while now—Insecure and High Maintenance were darling web series long before they were given prestige treatment on HBO. Today we live in and across screens; they're our chief form of communication, our main points of access. They're the gateway into and out of the world. Our appetites for entertainment have rapidly changed; TV naturally adapts in response. The limits of quarantine have made this change especially palpable, especially exciting.
These very circumstances have resulted in a small entertainment renaissance. What is happening in this moment is a reengineering of our expectations around TV: how we define it, what it looks like, where we experience it and for how long, as well as what it's ultimately capable of. The next phase of TV won't be steered by one company or ethos—sorry, Netflix—but it will reflect a patchwork of what we are witnessing in small brilliant bursts across video-centric social platforms: the hypnotic efficiency of TikTok, the impulsive, DIY nature of Instagram Live and Snapchat. With nothing to do and nowhere to go, everyone is turning the camera on themselves. The TV set is broken. These are the new prime-time channels.
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Understanding this shift requires that you toss out whatever grizzled understanding you have of television and how TV shows are made. Studio-backed programs aren't going away—I'm not sure I'd survive without Atlanta, Barry, Los Espookys, and Queen Sugar—but it's important that we make room for TV that is more structurally loose and nonconformist. Television that you wouldn't think of as TV.
Since early April, I've spent the bulk of my nonworking time one of two ways: on TikTok or secretly thumbing through Instagram. (I swore to never get back on the app, but I have to find utopia where I can these days.) Some mornings begin with a shot of self-help programming, of which Tabitha Brown has become an indispensable balm. With a following north of 3 million, her TikTok videos meld the best of the genre: uplift, realness, and honey-dipped hard truths. A clip about fresh pressed juice becomes a moment of needed encouragement. "Tell yourself 'Today I'm being good to myself," Brown says in the video before taking another sip. "I don't care what the day brings.'" Watching seven or eight videos in succession is not that different from the self-improvement TV Netflix markets to global audiences with Queer Eye and Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. Even as the formats are disparate—highly produced half-hour segments, as opposed to an off-the-cuff moment before or after a meal—the results are strikingly similar. Suddenly the day feels a little less impossible to take on.
Brown has creator-compatriots of all sorts—each with their own swaggering brand of original programming. TikToker Boman Martinez-Reid makes reality-style quarantine parodies on par with the best of Bravo's Housewives franchise. Leslie Jordan's Instagram confessionals also have become must-see TV, averaging around 1.4 million views per clip. Some of today's buzziest dramas don't even boast those numbers; by comparison, Season 3 of Westworld drew around 800,000 people per episode. "He has an instinctive grasp of the vlogger aesthetic," The New Yorker wrote about Jordan in April, "and the droll affect of Truman Capote after a few martinis."
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Even among friends and secret Instagram crushes, I've noticed an increase in the frequency of their posting. I consume all of it with a kind of giddy abandon. I devour their Stories without hesitation, clip after clip after clip, watching as they discuss government failures or the latest Verzuz. One influencer I originally followed for free fitness advice (hey, trainers are expensive in New York) has since switched up his programming completely; he exclusively uses Stories to record his infant son, who, in a surprise move from bit player to leading role, has become the primary reason to tune in. At times when his son is asleep, the videos deflate considerably and have less action; it's mostly him smoking weed and eating ice cream. I sometimes think that if Brown, Martinez-Reid, and Jordan command prime-time slots in this new TV era, the Instagram Stories I obsessively watch are akin to cable networks—smaller in viewership but profoundly entertaining all the same.
During a birthday Zoom call in March, a friend mentioned how our relationship to content would be radically different on the other side of the pandemic. Hearing it then—"the Other Side"—it felt so far away, so imposing and unseeable, but I can't escape the feeling that what we're experiencing now, this boom in freestyle short-form content, is the very beginning of that. It's already happening. We're becoming TV—an endless form of entertainment for one another. And even when this is over, when we regress to a version of our former selves, many will stay plugged into this new way of life, this transformed mode of communication. All we have are our screens. All we have is each other.
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A fire extinguisher factory in Chicago caught on fire late Thursday night. It's the definition of the cruelest irony, the fire raged for about three hours, apparently a warehouse full of extinguishers wasn't enough to stop it.
When firefighters got to the scene, they found there weren't enough hydrants around to get the water they needed to put it out. They made a chain of six fire engines, pumping from one to another, just to get enough water to finally kill the fire.
No one was injured, but the roof completely collapsed and the building was seriously damaged. Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused it.


Lung Ching, also known as Dragon Well, is one of the most famous Chinese green teas. The very best leaves are pan dried by hand to create their unique flat shape. Our organic Lung Ching comes from the eastern province of Zhejiang, where the tea originated and the emerald green leaves have a wonderful sweet, grassy aroma when infused. It has a bright amber liquor with a spring fresh flavour.


Class 7RH have been working hard on a number of different ICT activities since the half term break. Different learning intentions are set by ICT teacher Miss H, depending on the expectations that we have for each pupil.
One group of pupils was set the task of designing a calendar using Publisher. An image for each month needed to be sourced first using Google Images. This then had to be copied and pasted into the correct part of the calendar.
The pupils have been learning how to then change the background colour using the software, as well as the size and the colour of the font. An important part of this learning is to understand the school ICT file structure. Class 7RH have been asked to take responsibility for their work by saving it in the correct location.
Other Class 7RH pupils have been working on improving their keyboard skills. A number of games have been played that test the typing skills and help class members become familiar with the keyboard.


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By focusing on the effects of globalization and the cultures and sociopolitical environments of diverse nations and organizations, students in this specialization learn how to work effectively with nongovernmental organizations, voluntary organizations, and intergovernmental organizations around the world.