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CEO Steven Goldstein: Active Leader in the Rochester, N.Y. Hospital Market
In 2009, Mr. Goldstein became part of the American Hospital Association's 27-member board of trustees and was the only CEO of a New York state hospital to serve on the board. When the country was shaping healthcare reform, Mr. Goldstein and others were tasked with detailing efforts hospitals could undertake to achieve savings in the healthcare delivery system.
Mr. Goldstein also serves as vice president for the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center and is president of URMC's long-term care division.
Prior to joining Strong Memorial Hospital, he had various executive leadership roles at The Children's Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, the University of Nebraska Hospitals and Clinics in Omaha and the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute.
Steven Goldstein will be a featured panelist at the Becker’s Hospital Review Annual Chief Executive Officer Strategy Roundtable, taking place Nov. 1, 2012, at the Ritz Carlton Chicago. Please join us for the Roundtable from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Dinner and a reception to follow. Registration limited to 100 attendees. To register or learn more about the event, click here.
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Sao Paulo, Brazil – m.gaia studio, Imagine Cup winner and Independent Games Festival nominee, today introduces Fruit Monster 1.0, an iPhone and iPad game developed by Big Green Pillow.
In this cute and fun game, the player takes control of a voracious monster that likes to fill his belly with fruit. It is a perfect game for the whole family: easy to play and very addictive. By simply touching the screen, you can control the monster and make him eat the fruit. But be careful: the monster eats everything that stands in his path, so pay attention to the bombs!
* Normal Mode
* Special mode for children
* Game Center Achievements
* Gorgeous graphics
* Twitter and Facebook social features
* Totally Free
About Big Green Pillow:
Big Green Pillow is a new game development studio emerging in the mobile scene.
With an experienced and multidisciplinary team the group have developed for different platforms and medias, always focusing on creating rich and meaningful experiences. Get in touch or see what they’re up to at biggreenpillow online.
* iPhone 3GS/4/4S/5, iPod touch (3rd/4th/5th generation), and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.2 or later
* 34.3 MB
Pricing and Availability:
Fruit Monster 1.0 is free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. An HD version for iPad is also available for free.
Founded in 2008, m.gaia studio has won many international awards, including Independent Games Festival Student Showcase. We are a venture capital-backed company from So Paulo, Brazil, focused on delivering innovative and engaging experiences to our players. Copyright (C) 2013 m.gaia studio. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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THAT persistent rumble, somewhere between stentorian and strangulated, is the sound of the lawyer Martin Garbus clearing his throat. He’s a bit under the weather. “Don’t get too close to me,” he says. It is a well-intentioned warning, not censure. Not from him.
First Amendment cases have been the ideological bread-and-butter of his practice for decades. Free speech is a Martin Garbus mantra, just as it was in 1964 when, with his mentor Ephraim London, he helped represent the comedian Lenny Bruce against obscenity charges. His pal, Mr. Bruce, wound up firing them, went lawyerless, and botched his appeal.
So it is disorienting to be catching Mr. Garbus on an afternoon when, involuntarily, he’s having trouble speaking freely. Or at all. He’s battling a nasty West Coast cold — “They’re the worst kind” — not to mention a gentleman’s agreement with CBS Radio not to blab about its impending litigation with his latest boldface client, Don Imus.
The hoarse but impressively pinstriped Mr. Garbus is just back from Los Angeles. There, he hobnobbed with so many clients/acquaintances — they are often one and the same, like Al Pacino and Garry Marshall — that he’s having trouble recalling who’s who. Pardon the namedropping, but he’s known Garry since they were 9 and Penny since she was 6, he says, and oops, his lips are sealed about Mr. Pacino’s legal matter. Big caseload out there, including the videographer Josh Wolf, released in April after eight months in jail — reportedly the longest incarceration ever of an American journalist — for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigation of an anti-capitalist protest in San Francisco.
But our immediate business is local, if one considers Mr. Imus — the fired, and now gung-ho litigious, CBS Radio D.J./shock jock who no longer broadcasts from the WFAN studio in Astoria, Queens — a local talent.Continue reading the main story
It is nice to learn, as an aside, that Mr. Marshall, who played basketball with Mr. Garbus in the Bronx on a teen team called the Falcons, has expressed interest in producing a student play that was banned by Wilton High School in Connecticut over its interpretation of the Iraq war.
The play’s cancellation received national attention. Mr. Garbus, a censure-hater since the Army nearly court-martialed him for being AWOL (he contends he was persecuted for giving speeches about Sacco and Vanzetti, the Fifth Amendment and Red China), has been representing the thespians for free. An admirable gesture: 20 percent of his cases are, he says, labors of conscience rather than $400- to $1,000-per-hour cash machines that pad the lifestyle and furnish the apartments in Midtown and Beijing he shares with his wife, Sarina Tang, an art dealer with a gallery in China. Whence came his fancy yellow tie with the bold black calligraphy.
Speaking of expensive cases, his affiliation with Mr. Imus is the catalyst for this meeting at his art-bedecked office at Davis & Gilbert, the firm he joined in 2002 after leaving his own firm, Frankfurt, Garbus, Kurnit, Klein & Selz. He left not in a tiff, he says, but because he wanted to handle more plaintiff and contingency cases: “I’m a risk-taker.”
He actually believes he can portray the abrasive Mr. Imus as a wronged figure, and defense-worthy despite his despicable tirade against the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.
“I find the words he used offensive, but within the terms of his contract with CBS, he was clearly allowed to use them, the F.C.C. regulations were not violated, and he is defensible under the terms of his contract,” says Mr. Garbus, who did not know Mr. Imus before taking the case.
At stake is the $40 million balance of the five-year contract Mr. Imus signed in 2006. ”The name of the game here is hypocrisy,” Mr. Garbus says. “It’s not a difficult case. My 2-year-old could win this case.” At age 72, he has a 2-year-old? “A 2-year-old grandson.”
GO for it, Mr. Garbus. He seems, with the exception of that awful cough, a sure indication of 72 becoming the new 62. He’s an intellectual live wire (he has written six books; the latest of them assails the Supreme Court’s growing conservatism), a trait he shares with Mr. Imus, whom he calls an “extraordinarily bright” radio presence and friend of literature. “He has actually read the books he’s talking about, unlike Larry King, who falls asleep.” Ouch. One other celebrity client who won’t be calling Mr. Garbus for legal advice anytime soon is Paris Hilton. “I would not represent Paris Hilton because trying a case is all about passion, and I do not care what happens to Paris Hilton.”
Mr. Garbus is hemming and hawing about annoying CBS by speaking about Mr. Imus. “I thought what CBS did to him was wrong,” he says. Then he predicts that, unlike a copyright infringement case against the rapper Eminem, in which he represented the plaintiff, Jacques Loussier, this dispute probably will not settle out of court.
Mr. Garbus, whose mother died when he was 3 and whose father owned a Bronx candy store, Sol’s Luncheonette, has been taking cases like Mr. Imus’s practically since getting his degree at New York University Law School. A Hunter College graduate, he decided on law school after his Army contretemps and went to class at night while still enlisted. His other mentor was Emile Zola Berman, who defended his decision to represent Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin, Sirhan B. Sirhan. Mr. Berman explained it like this: “I’m not defending his crime, only his rights.” Mr. Imus’s ears may be ringing.
The Public Lives profile on May 25, about Martin Garbus, a Manhattan lawyer representing the fired radio host Don Imus in his pending lawsuit against CBS, misidentified the mentor to Mr. Garbus who won all nine cases he argued before the United States Supreme Court. It was Ephraim London not Emile Zola Berman, who represented Sirhan B. Sirhan, Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin.


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United Biscuits said it had a received an offer from Italy-based Ferrero for the manufacturers of its Belgian Delacre and Delichoc brands. Ferrero said it expected the deal to be completed by mid-December.
‘Made an offer for Delacre and Delichoc biscuits’
Ferrero and United Biscuits both said: “A Ferrero-affiliated entity has made an offer to acquire the manufacturers of Delacre and Delichoc biscuits – NV Biscuits Delacre SA and United Biscuits Industries SAS (together ‘Delacre’) – from United Biscuits.
“The relevant worker council consultations have been completed and the offer is now subject to a competition review in line with standard procedures and steps for a transaction of this nature.”
Ferrero had initially made an offer to buy the brands in July, it was understood.
Ferrero is widely known for its Nutella, Ferrero Rocher, tic tac and Kinder bueno brands.
Form a conglomerate
United Biscuits was part of its owner Yildiz Holding’s plan to form a conglomerate in June, named Pladis. Pladis featured Yildiz Holding’s core biscuit, chocolate and confectionery businesses – including United Biscuits, Godiva Chocolatier, Ulker and DeMet’s Candy Company.
Meanwhile, Ferrero acquired 30% of the UK chocolatier Thorntons in June last year, after striking a deal worth £112M. It was believed Ferrero had plans to eventually buy the entire company.
Ferrero deal for Delacre – at a glance
- Ferrero close to acquiring Delacre and Delichoc brands from United Biscuits
- Deal subject to competition review
- Ferrero expects deal by mid-December

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Emergency Foods for Winter Birds
A 5-K student of Webster Groves, Missouri, won a first place in the St. Louis Science Fair in 1999 with her " Scientific Observation, 'Breakfast for Birds'. "
Putting sample kitchen foods out in 6 food categories -- meat, (cooked ground beef, hot dogs, and peanut butter); vegetables, (carrots, broccoli and peas); fruit, (grapes, oranges, apples); dairy, (white cheese, yellow cheese, cottage cheese); grains, (bread, oats, rice crispies); fats or sweets, (butter, piece of chocolate and marshmallows) -- she tested the preferences twice a day of mockingbirds, bluejays, starlings, chickadees, and juncos. Cardinals and sparrows did not eat this food.
Ten pieces of a type from each food group were put out on a board on the floor of an open porch at 7 am each day and counted when one full group was gone. Then replaced, to be counted again later. For six days.
Birds do not like vegetables. -0-
But they loved the following in descending order:
1) Peanut butter, 2) cut up hot dogs, 3) whole-milk cottage cheese, 4) cut up grapes and apples, 5) Rice Crispies. They ate almost all of these. In general, meat-dairy-grains were the winners. They also ate a little butter. Bread, although handy, came in 9th.
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Doctors as well as health rights activists have demanded finalisation of the trans-fat limiting law immediately for the sake of public health.
They made the call from a virtual human chain on Monday.
The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority has prepared draft regulations for limiting trans-fats in food products that is yet to be finalised.
Industrially produced trans-fat is a toxic food element that causes increased risks of deaths from heart diseases.
Globally, almost 500,000 people die due to trans-fat-induced heart diseases.
The World Health Organization has set the target to eliminate trans-fat from the global food supply by 2023.
The National Heart Foundation, Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB), PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress), and some other civil society organisations, professionals and people from different ages and socioeconomic strata, took part in the human chain with placards, festoons using Facebook.
They urged the speedy finalisation of the "Limiting Trans Fatty Acid in Food Products Regulations 2021".
Dr. Sohel Reza Choudhury, Professor at the Dept. of Epidemiology and Research of the National Heart Foundation of Bangladesh, said the prevalence of heart diseases in Bangladesh is increasing day by day.
“Trans-fat in food is a major cause of heart diseases. Hence, it is highly necessary to finalize the regulations on limiting trans-fat as soon as possible to reduce the risk of heart diseases.”
Executive Director of PROGGA ABM Zubair said the sooner the regulation on limiting trans-fat is implemented, the sooner public health will be safeguarded from risks of heart diseases.


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The Joy of Gardening
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Copyright ©2008 Alice Gaines
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The Joy of Gardening
I’d heard of little green men, but I never expected to find one in my garden. I almost missed him because he blended in with the tomatoes, but when the breeze picked up the leaves of the plants and he didn’t blow with them, he stood out from the background. I must have gasped in surprise, because he turned and spotted me.
“There you are, finally.” He put his hands on his hips. “I’ve been doing your work while you got your beauty sleep.”
“It’s 7:00 AM,” I said.
That earned me a rise of a green, leafy eyebrow. “And?”
He stared at me as if he’d never heard anything so stupid. “You expect tomatoes on Saturday, don’t you?”
“And beans and peppers and squashes?”
“Do you have a point?” I asked. “Or is this a list of the contents of my garden?”
“The squashes!” he proclaimed. What a drama queen.
I glanced over at my zucchinis. “They look fine to me.”
“They would to someone with your sex life,” he said. “Or lack thereof.”
I crossed my arms over my chest. “My sex life is none of your business.”
“That could change.”
The little green man was out of his little green mind, but I was not discussing my sex life with a pile of vegetable matter with an attitude.
“Your squashes aren’t getting any fucking,” he said. “Were you ever going to pollinate them?”
“Don’t bees do that?”
“You can’t rely on them. And forget the birds. Hopeless. Besides, you haven’t lived until you’ve had vegetable sex.” He turned and headed toward the squashes. “Come on. I’ll show you.”
I followed him to my big healthy plants that -- to date -- hadn’t produced a single fruit. I’d get blooms but no produce. Maybe this guy could tell me why.
He moved a huge leaf aside. “See, here’s a female flower.”
“Flowers have different sexes?”
He didn’t answer but just gave me the “I can’t believe you said that” look. He pointed to another flower. “There’s the male. Pick it.”
I did as he said and found myself with a big yellow flower in my hand.
“Now, bare the stamen,” he said. “Oh, yeah. Do it.”
The little man had started breathing hard as he stared at the flower in my hand. I hadn’t noticed his crotch before, but I couldn’t miss it now. He was getting a boner, and a really nice one for someone his size. Green, but very nice. I peeled away a petal of the flower, and his cock got bigger. I peeled away more, this time with a seductive flourish, and he got more and more impressive. Finally, I had all the petals gone, and the plant’s tiny sex organ was naked in my hand.
He swallowed. “Now, smear it over the pistil.”
“Uh…yeah. What’s that?”
“The inside of the female flower. That’ll spread the pollen onto her.”
“Like this?” I parted the petals of that flower and slowly, carefully rubbed the stamen all around the female parts.
“Shit, this always makes me hot.” He’d taken his hard-on in his hand and now stroked it. He gave new meaning to the term “woody,” but he was looking better and better.
“Um,” I said. “What was that thing you said about something changing?”
“You mean this?” he said, still pumping his member. “I’m a plant. I can keep growing and growing.”
“What I meant was I said my sex life was none of your business, and you said…”
He was growing really huge now, and the head had gotten bulbous. “That could change.”
“Did you mean that?”
“Peel off your own petals and find out.”
“We’ll get between the tomatoes. They’ll hide us.”
I checked them out. They stood tall enough to hide us from view, and the leaves were close enough together. “Let’s go.”
We made a mad dash for the spot between the rows. While he lay on his back in the dirt, I crouched and shucked out of my robe and nightgown. Now naked, I could easily spread my legs and lower myself over him.
Let me just say that if you ever find a little green man in your garden, you should definitely have him explain flower sex to you. The minute I got the lips of my sex around his cock, he drove it up into my pussy. By now “hung like a stud horse” described him better than “little and green.” He filled me and only kept on swelling larger. I swear, the tomatoes got into the act, too, as their branches flounced and fluttered all over me. The smell of fertile earth penetrated my nostrils as I got closer and closer to the big O.
My vegetable lover started breathing funny -- the grunts of a man about to lose control. He had the presence of mind to put his hand at our joining and flick his thumb over my clit. Firm but leafy, too, his skin even seemed to have little spines that produced extra friction. Any healthy woman would have done what I did -- close her eyes, tip back her head, and scream with pleasure. My pussy clenched all around him and then burst into the biggest climax of my life. It went on for long seconds as he shuddered and thrust madly. Finally, his whole body went stiff, and his voice echoed with mine as he came.
When it was all over, I rested against his chest and did my best to get air into my lungs. “Oh, my God…”
“Nice,” he sighed.
“Can we do this again some time?”
“Just wait until pumpkin season…”

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Tassels aren’t just for graduation anymore! Blue Tassels fall from black rondelle beads making these earrings one of a kind.
A Diamond Spur Boutique Original handmade with love in Idaho.
Sienna Native Cuff Bracelet
Red Floral Earrings
Green Native Earrings
Circle Diamond Cut Copper Earrings

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Sometimes life gets the best of you. After months of travelling and doing a cross-country move, it got the best of me. Just color in went to the wayside while I focused on getting my family settled into our new life and routine 🙂
Finally, I’ve gotten it all sorted out and am excited to share a new freebie!
This is something I worked on before all the fuss – where I wanted to share some color combinations with you all!
However, I need to find those and scan them, download them, edit them and make it look good for you all!
This color chart will let you experiment with your OWN color combinations!
You have several options with these color charts and the reason I started creating them!
I love creating resources that help a colorist do what they do best…and that is color in!
What would you like to see in the future?
I have a bunch more resources but would love some more ideas!
You can download the color chart by clicking on the button bleow and saving it to your computer! 🙂
I’d love it if you could share this post if you find it useful…
I’m happy to be back!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!Download Free Lips Color Chart Here

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A while back I wrote an article titled Calories In, calories out* that described the balancing act of weight loss. However, there was one caveat: not all calories are created equal. In other words, calories from the different foods/drinks we eat (from fats, carbohydrates and proteins) do not affect our bodies in the same way.
Many foods that contain natural sugars, added sugars, and starch (rice, potatoes, pasta, breads, baked goods) raise our blood sugar. These foods are considered to have a high-glycemic index. Proteins and fats on the other hand do not significantly affect our blood sugar and are considered to have a low-glycemic index.
So why does this matter? Well, research from the Harvard School of Public Health indicate that the risks of diseases such as type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease are strongly related to the glycemic index (GI) of the overall diet. Other studies show that low-GI diets improve our sensitivity to insulin, improve weight loss maintenance, and decrease our levels of LDL (aka “lousy”) cholesterol.
The moral of the story: eating lower glycemic-index foods reduce your risk for heart disease and diabetes and also assist in weight maintenance. I am not touting for the Atkins diet here. I believe that low-GI diets are easier to stick to on a day-to-day basis compared to low-carb diets. Look forward to a later post on helpful recipes and ideas on how to eat the low-GI way in addition to ways to combine foods to lower their impact on our blood sugar. 'Till then here's a link with a list of the GI indexes of 100+ foods.
What are your thoughts on the glycemic index?
Hello and welcome! My name is Andrea Notch Mayzeles. I am a Certified Health Education Specialist, Mom, and Master of Public Health dedicated to the path of well-being. As a wellness professional I am committed to continued learning and am here to share research, recipes and musings on health, psychology, personal development, and parenting. I hope you enjoy!

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Stressed out teen with suicidal thoughts
I have many problems that I would like to discuss with you. I will not tell you my age, but I am a teenager. My first question is very simple. Can you tell me how I can relieve myself of stress? Even though school is out, I am still stressed out for some reason. So far, I've had two muscle spasms which are very uncomfortable. My doctor said that it might be because of stress in school. What should I do?
My second question is about dealing with my thoughts about death. When I was a kid, I used to constantly think about death and its effects. I used to even cry over it, but now I am all right. Well, not completely. I do sometimes still think about it, and when I do, I work myself up pretty good.
And my third problem is about suicide. Whenever I feel down and very tired, I think about how horrible my life is. I say, "Life sucks and then you die," and "What's the point of life since you're going to die anyway?" Well, whenever these things come up, I think about suicide. When at home, I open up my window and look all the way down. I think about my body splatting down on the ground, and then I forget about it out of disgust. Well, I hope that you can help me, and please hurry up. This is urgent.
You’re not alone in having thoughts of suicide, and reaching out for help is a major step forward. If you haven’t already, you might consider making an appointment to speak with a mental health professional about your concerns. A first step may be your school’s counseling center, but if that service isn’t available or you’re not comfortable with that option, try calling the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255). This resource offers free, confidential support at any time of day. You can also check out Feeling suicidal…Help! in the Go Ask Alice! archives for tips on what to do if you’re feeling suicidal. If you’re currently in crisis, it's critical to seek support right away. Once you've been able to reach out for support, you can also work on incorporating stress management strategies into your routine.
Based on your description, it’s possible you’re experiencing suicidal ideation (another term for suicide-related thoughts) along with suicidal imagery (also referred to as suicidal intrusions or flash-forwards). Common instances of suicidal imagery include envisioning what would happen to you during or right after a suicide attempt or completion, or imagining the responses of people you know in the aftermath. Although the frequency and intensity of suicidal ideation and imagery vary from person to person, suicidal thoughts and associated images may cause great distress and put a person at risk of attempting suicide. The good news is that there are interventions available to address suicidal ideation and imagery. Experts generally recommend psychotherapy (more commonly called talk therapy) and getting evaluated for medication. Research shows the combination of both tends to be the most effective at reducing suicidal thoughts. Some of these forms of treatment include:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy: This is an evidence-based form of psychotherapy shown to reduce rumination, which is the persistent repetition of depressive or maladaptive thoughts (such as suicidal ideation) and the repetition of associated images (such as suicidal imagery). In CBT, a therapist helps to identify and change negative thinking patterns while also providing tools such as relaxation, coping, or stress management strategies to manage negative thoughts, beliefs, and emotions as they arise.
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: Research indicates this may also help decrease depressive rumination and associated stress. This type of cognitive therapy emphasizes the acceptance and management of maladaptive thoughts, rather than trying to change thinking patterns. Proponents of this type of therapy believe in accepting maladaptive thinking as outside of a person’s control. However, it does emphasize that how a person responds is within their control — for example, they have the ability to not act on maladaptive thoughts or emotions, and to replace maladaptive behaviors with more helpful behaviors.
- Eye movement dual task: This process may help reduce suicidal imagery as well. This treatment typically spans over three weeks, where, in six hour-long sessions, a person engages in a task (such as playing a game or working out a math problem) that activates their working memory while also being asked to recollect suicidal thoughts and images. The eye movement dual task isn’t designed to be a stand-alone treatment and instead is recommended as a complement to other treatment approaches.
You also mentioned wanting to learn more about stress management strategies. Stress can sometimes manifest itself in tense muscles and other bodily symptoms. In addition to considering professional help, there are a number of strategies you can try at home. These include:
- Deep breathing: While sitting or lying down, place one hand on your abdomen and one on your heart. Inhale and exhale slowly, feeling the sensation of your stomach rising and falling.
- Meditation: The goal of meditation is to focus your attention as a way to become more relaxed. Try to find a quiet place, and focus your attention on your breath, something in the room, or to words in your mind. If you notice your mind wandering, gently bring your attention back.
- Progressive muscle relaxation: In this strategy, you tense one muscle group at a time for a few seconds, and then release. Start with your toes and feet, and work your way up the body, or start with your face and work your way down.
- Yoga: Yoga integrates specific poses and movements with a focus on mindful breathing and meditation. If you’re new to yoga, you might start by going to a class or working with an instructor who can ensure your safety.
- Tai chi: This ancient Chinese practice involves slow movements and postures. Similar to yoga, participants are encouraged to focus on their breath.
Adapted from MedlinePlus.
In addition to these strategies, you may also find it helpful to read some of the Q&As in the Stress and Anxiety section of the Go Ask Alice! Emotional Health archives. These can provide some additional strategies as well as share some thoughts of those who are also learning to cope with stress.
It's admirable that you're so intuitive and ready to seek help. There is hope and you deserve to feel better. Here’s to taking care and seeking support soon.
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Vujovic: The draw is a real result, Vardar was better in the first half
Today, within the group "A" in the first round of the Champions League, Vardar 1961 in Norway played a draw 27:27 against the team of Elverum.
- Congratulations to Elverum for today's performance. An interesting match, we played better in the first half, and the opponent better in the second. Maybe the draw is a real result. Elverum plays very good handball, at a high level. And we are already thinking about the next match - said the coach of Vardar 1961 after the match with Elverum, Veselin Vujovic.
He will have his second match this season in the Champions League Vardar in SC "Jane Sandanski" - Skopje on September 22 against the Belarusian Meshkov Brest from 20.45.
- They wanted to win, in the end I think it is a fair result and Elverum deserved a point. We now have three home matches in the Champions League in which we will try to win points - are the words of the Croatian playmaker of Vardar, Ante Gadza.
And after the match with Meshkov Brest, on September 29 Vardar will host the Danish Aalborg, and on October 13 Montpellier from France.


Following a massive cybersecurity breach that affected thousands of Canadian CRA accounts, experts say that a behavioural shift in how the public approaches cybersecurity is important, but institutions need to take the lead.

The CBC first reported the series of cyberattacks that compromised the personal information of 11,200 accounts. The hackers targeted the Canada Revenue Agency and GCKey, an online portal through which Canadians are able to access employment insurance and other benefits.
The hackers obtained information through “credential stuffing,” a type of attack where attackers obtain username and passwords that have been used on other websites, acting chief information officer for the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Marc Brouillard, said during a press conference.
Annette Butikofer, chief information officer at the CRA, said the agency was impacted on three separate occasions. She added that the hacked accounts have temporarily been revoked and individuals affected will get a letter from the CRA that will tell them how they can regain access to their accounts.

Onus is on organizations: Cavoukian
Ann Cavoukian, former information and privacy commissioner of Ontario, said that the CRA should have been more responsible for ensuring their systems are up to date so attacks like this didn’t happen.
“You can’t put this on the individuals by saying they have crummy passwords,” she said. “To expect individuals to regularly change their passwords and make it difficult, that’s just not going to happen. I think the CRA has to devise stronger systems.”
One way to do this would be implementing end-to-end encryption, a type of secure communication that would prevent third-parties from being able to access data.
“If systems are not encrypted, hackers are going to jump all over it,” Cavoukian said. “Why the heck doesn’t the CRA elevate the level of security and protection by encrypting the data to make it much more difficult [for hackers]?”
Shared Services Canada said in an email that GCKey is an end-to-end encrypted service, and that the service itself was not compromised.
In the press conference, Brouillard said that systems did not include two-factor authentication because the system has to include security measures that are accessible by all Canadians.
“We are constantly evaluating our security posture and addressing issues, adding mitigations. This is an ongoing challenge,” he said. “Two factor- authentication systems would have prevented this, [as well as technology] where you are required to have a key or device. But that is something that is challenging, not everyone can have those things. We also have to worry about making our systems accessible and easy to use.”
Brouillard noted that the government is looking into different technologies “where multi-factor is available” and they are encouraging Canadians to adopt the practice.

Sumit Bhatia, director of communications and knowledge mobilization with Ryerson’s Cybersecure Catalyst told Yahoo Finance Canada that the lack of clarity on what cybersecurity protocols the CRA uses is concerning.
“I’m assuming that like any other company when a breach takes place, there’s some sort of an audit that happens. And then there’s some consideration placed on how they would share what their cybersecurity best practices are,” he said.
“We don’t have two-factor authentication and that just leads to believe that there’s still work to be done on their side with regards to how they manage security.”
Bhatia says that changing technology in a government system takes time, and that one change could impact an entire system dramatically.
“These organizations are using legacy systems and they have to plan out a roll out in a way where one piece does not have a major impact on others,” he said.
“Attacks like this are also an indication that people need to be made aware of their role and responsibility in dealing with public systems and that’s where evolution becomes a priority.”
Bhatia also added that while the CRA needs to implement stronger technology, in the long term Canadians need better cybersecurity education that starts at the grade school level.
“We are talking about a cultural shift and by that, I mean about living in an era where security can’t be an afterthought like it was a few years ago,” he said.
“We are teaching six-year-old kids to learn how to code, how are we not making sure that every time they are taught about technology, or how to use a phone, laptop, or iPad, but we are not starting the discussion about security?”
The RCMP has confirmed it will be investigating the attacks but has not released any information in terms of who is responsible.

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Union representing Canadian auto workers announces new deal with Ford – Global News
TORONTO – Unifor says Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd. has agreed to spend nearly $2 billion on its Canadian plants as part of collective bargaining negotiations.
Under the tentative deal, Unifor National President Jerry Dias says $1.95 billion will be invested in Ford’s Canadian plants, including $1.8 billion toward the production of five electric vehicles in Oakville, Ont., and an engine contract that could yield new jobs in Windsor, Ont.
Dias says the 6,300 union workers at Ford will vote on the deal this weekend.
Talks between the union and the automaker came to a head on Monday ahead of a bargaining deadline of 11:59 p.m eastern time.
Workers had previously voted to support a strike if a deal could not be reached by that deadline, with the future of the Oakville, Ont. plant potentially on the line.
Once agreed to by union members, Ford’s deal on new products lines, shifts, wages, pensions and benefits will set the tone for upcoming talks with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and General Motors.
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Tesla slashes the price of the Powerpack by 27% on Battery Day – Electrek
Tesla has greatly reduced the price of its Powerpack battery system today ahead of its Battery Day event.
Powerpack hasn’t been talked about much lately.
It has been relegated to the background since Tesla introduced the bigger Megapack for utility-scale projects.
However, Tesla is still making the product and it is still being used for many commercial-scale projects, like Electrify America’s charging stations.
Now we’ve learned that Tesla is slashing the price of the Powerpack.
Earlier this year, Electrek reported that Tesla revealed the price of the battery system through its new commercial solar configurator.
At the time, the Powerpack was being sold for $172,000 before incentives and including a commercial inverter.
Now a tipster pointed out to Electrek that Tesla has updated the pricing today, reducing the Powerpack to $125,000:
It brings the cost of the system down to $539 per kWh, but that’s including the expensive commercial inverter.
The price per kWh goes down significantly when adding more Powerpacks to the same inverter system.
That’s also without incentives.
Tesla’s price guide for commercial solar is only available in California, where they have strong incentives for energy storage for self-generation.
According to Tesla’s configurator, a Powerpack can be added to a 40 kW solar system for just $26,000 after incentives.
The price change happens as Tesla is about to announce new batteries at its Battery Day event later today.
While the timing is interesting, it could be completely coincidental, but I guess we will know in just a few hours.
It is a significant price drop before incentives, but the system was already expensive to start with.
The price difference might also be on the inverter side and not the battery side.
Either way, it is worth noting, especially considering the crazy incentives in California. If I was a business owner in California, I would certainly consider this solution.
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Canada signs deal with VBI Vaccines to develop coronavirus candidate by 2022 – Global News
Canada will contribute around 75% of the U.S.-based company’s development costs and C$55.9 million ($42.2 million) for the project.
VBI Vaccines said last month that together with the National Research Council Canada it was investigating the vaccine candidate, VBI-2900, in preclinical trials.
As per the agreement, signed last week, the company’s Ottawa-based unit is obligated to complete the vaccine development in or before the first quarter of 2022.
Ottawa signs 2 new COVID-19 vaccine deals for Canada
There are currently no approved vaccines for COVID-19, but around 38 vaccines are being tested in humans around the world.
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Land and Climate Change: Critical Correlation and Impacts
Land is a critical resource: The world body IPCC recently released a report on climate change and land—critical evidence and input that goes into forthcoming climate and environment negotiations.
Land has a significant correlation with climate change. This is because land acts both as a source as well as a sink for greenhouse gases (GHGs) but this aspect is seldom discussed. Geneva-based UN body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL) in its 50th session held on 2–7 August 2019. It highlighted how land-use patterns affect climate change and in turn gets affected by land. The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) was also presented in the press conference for a meaningful engagement with governments to address the growing concerns of land and climate change.
Land is a critical resource, IPCC report says that land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is acting to these pressures. At the same time, keeping global warming to well below 2ºC can be achieved only by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors including land and food.
Figures associated with climate change paints an alarming picture. The concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere (as in 2018) is 408 parts per million (ppm), which is highest in the last 3 million years. Almost 800 million people or 11per cent of the world’s population is vulnerable to the various impacts of climate change such as droughts, floods, heat-waves, extreme weather events and rise in the sea level. The global average temperature has increased up by 0.9ᵒC, compared to its level in the 19th century, whereas ocean temperature has risen up by 0.4ᵒC from 1969 onwards. Greenland and Antarctica that store most of the world’s ice have lost 286 and 127 billion tonnes of ice, respectively. Sea level has risen up by 8 inches, leading to submergence of a million ha of coastal areas, each year.
Land Emits High Levels of GHGs
According to the report, land acts both as a source and as a sink for greenhouse gases (GHGs) because it is used for various purposes such as urbanization, industries, agriculture, pastoralism, which in the process leads to the GHGs emission. As per this report, 22 per cent of the total GHG emissions come from agriculture, forestry and other land use.
The report extensively talks about the environmental impact of the process of food production. Report highlights that large amount of GHGs is added to the atmosphere through this process. It stresses the need to prevent both over-consumption and wastage of food. 1/3rdof the food produced is wasted; when decomposed, it releases large amounts of GHGs in air.
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Land also acts as a sink for emissions because land through its vegetation removes carbon dioxide through their natural process of photosynthesis. Due to deforestation, earth has lost 3 per cent of its forest cover since 1990. Despite deforestation and widespread exploitation, the land has removed more emissions than it has emitted. The report points out that land has removed 6 giga tonnes of emissions every year, from 2007–2016. This figure is equivalent to the total emissions by the United States of America, which is the largest polluter followed by China. In simpler terms, land through its vegetation sequesters a third of carbon emissions.
Just like land use pattern adds to climate change, climate change has an extremely negative effect on land as well. The report highlights the effect of climate change on land degradation and desertification. Intense heating hampers vegetation growth, and so with reduced vegetation, degree of soil erosion increases. Increased temperature also leads to a reduction in soil moisture leading to increased aridity. The degraded land is also a contributor to climate change as the degraded land loses soil carbon and emits GHGs.
The report defines desertification as land degradation in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid areas that are collectively known as drylands. According to the report, climate change will accelerate desertification process. Reduced vegetation will expose soil for erosion and reduction in soil moisture. With no vegetation to hold the soil, there would be a recurrence of dust storms and sandstorms, leading to decreased precipitation, exacerbating the process of desertification. According to the report, majority of the 1.3 to 3.2 billion people affected by land desertification are living in poverty in developing countries.
Climate change has the potential to hamper food security in the future, the report says. The report further emphasis that climate change and its associated risks will reduce crop yields, driving up prices, leaving more people hungry and poor.
Increased food prices and the recurrent natural calamities and extreme weather conditions will push more people into poverty.
Mitigation strategies suggested in the report largely focuses on the need for sustainable use of land. The report proposes reduced deforestation and an increase in afforestation and reforestation, which will have a huge potential in reducing emission levels in the atmosphere.
The report further stresses the need to change the methods adopted in food production. With 1/3rd of the food being wasted, there is a need to curb this as in the process of decomposition of the food that is wasted, GHGs are emitted. Issue of over-consumption and the need for its prevention is also highlighted. A change in dietary choices with a need to shift towards plant-based foods is stressed upon.
The international body has highlighted the role of indigenous communities in the conservation of land and forest resources.
While highlighting the mitigation strategies, the report also underlined the risk associated with these methods. While afforestation is a necessary step in combating climate change and various other risks associated with it, proper assessment should be made about the landscape. For example, cultivating forests on grassland will reduce the capacity of the land to act as a carbon sink. Similarly, planting foreign species have the potential of reducing the population of native plant species. Also, there is a saturation point for land after which it would no longer be able to absorb carbon. In this case, artificial techniques such as carbon sequestration and Direct Air Capture and Storage (DACS) would need to be employed.
One flip side of afforestation and reforestation as underlined in the report is that most of it would be carried out on land currently under agriculture. Reduced land under cultivation would lead to less food production, driving up its prices, thus hampering food security.
In the 14th Conference of Parties (COP14) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Land Desertification, being organized in India, the IPCC Special Report has been widely discussed. The member countries of the UNCCD had in its COP12 in 2015 adopted the target to achieve land degradation neutrality target by 2030 to mitigate climate change.

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Insert your needle into the first leg of the V in the garter stitch as well. Once you have your needle inserted all the way along the row, you can pull the working yarn to rip back the rows above the needle. The stitches will be sitting on your needle ready to go.
What do I do if my stitches open?
If your wound has just started to open, with only a small part of the incision spreading apart, cover it with a clean bandage and call your surgeon. If it is open wide, cover it, call your surgeon, and organize to meet at the nearest emergency room.
Can you fix a dropped stitch without unraveling?
The steps to correcting a dropped stitch
Step 1, spot the mistake – don’t panic! Step 2, secure the dropped stitch with a locking stitch marker. This will prevent the dropped stitch from unraveling further. Step 3, knit until you are directly above the dropped stitch.
Can you fix a dropped stitch?
To fix the dropped stitch, you first have to work your way over to the stitch. Just knit all the stitches up to the spot where your dropped stitch should be sitting on the needle.
Why is my knitting getting wider?
If your knitting is getting wider, it means that you are adding extra stitches or changing your tension along the way. More and/or wider stitches create the extra width. To prevent this, ensure that you are not making any new stitches unless the pattern tells you to.
How do you increase when picking up stitches?
A make 1 increase is when you make a new stitch using the yarn extending between 2 stitches. Use your right hand needle to pick up the yarn that extends between 2 stitches and twist this loop with your fingers. Then, slip the loop onto your left-hand needle and knit or purl it as you normally would.
How do you pick up more stitches then there are?
1. Measure along the edge you will be picking up stitches from and using safety pins or locking stitch markers divide the edge into two or more equal sections, placing the markers/pins at even intervals along the piece. Divide the number of stitches you need to pick up by the number of sections you’ve created.


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(MoneyWatch) Most people spend more time planning their next vacation or car purchase than planning for their retirement and rest-of-life. That's a huge mistake. Neglecting to plan for a period of your life that might last 20 years or more -- during which you have to rely mostly on your accumulated financial resources -- could be the biggest mistake you'll ever make.
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A waterline in Jefferson City High School building burst Friday evening, resulting in a significant water leak near the Union Street entry.
The burst was due to a frozen fire suppression system. The water was turned off, and a plumber and district staff are working to resolve the issue, JC Schools Communications Director Ryan Burns said.
The few fans and players who were present waiting for the junior varsity basketball game to start evacuated the building. The boys basketball game against Capital City High School has been rescheduled for Wednesday.


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An Acoustic Evening with Patty Griffin & Lee Ann Womack
July 22, 2017 @ 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Buy Tickets Friday, June 9 at 10 a.m.
Patty Griffin is a Grammy-Award winning artist who has achieved great acclaim for her songwriting as well as her powerful voice. Her first two albums, Living With Ghosts and Flaming Red are considered seminal albums in the singer-songwriter genre, while Children Running Though won Best Album and led to her being named Best Artist at the 2007 Americana Music Awards. She won the Grammy for Downtown Church, her 2010 gospel album. Her songs have been covered by a myriad of artists including Emmylou Harris, The Dixie Chicks, Joan Baez and Bette Midler. She was born in Old Town, Maine and resides in Austin, Texas.
Progressive traditionalist Lee Ann Womack has sung for Presidents, the Concert for the Nobel Prize and Maya Angelou’s Celebration of Joy Rising. More importantly, the Grammy-winner built a career seeking songs that slice life wide open to let the pain, the emptiness, the rage and the desire pour out.
A Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year, she’s also won the prestigious Album of the Year for There’s More Where That Came From, plus a pair of Single of the Years for “I May Hate Myself in the Morning” and “I Hope You Dance.” I Hope You Dance sold over 6 million albums; the title track topped multiple charts in multiple formats around the globe.
The East Texan is a duet partner of choice for Willie Nelson, Alan Jackson, Dr. John, Ralph Stanley, Buddy Miller, George Strait, Jim Lauderdale and Willie Nelson. A featured vocalist on Miller’s Silver Strings project, Rodney Crowell and Mary Karr’s Kin and music supervisor Randall Poster’s critically acclaimed Divided & United, Womack’s soprano has a purity that rivals Dolly Parton and an ache that suggests Emmylou Harris at her most haunted.
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text: Hongkong Telecom is to cut wages for its 13,800 staff by 10 per cent. Those who do not agree by November 1 will be sacked. The telecommunications giant said the cuts would help it to save more than $300 million a year. About 30 top executives were not affected because their pay had been cut by 10 per cent two months ago, the company said. News of the cuts by one of the territory's biggest employers came hours after the Government revealed unemployment had hit five per cent, its highest level in 15 years. Almost 500 jobs a day had been shed in August, according to the latest figures. Telecom chief executive Linus Cheung Wing-lam, among those who took a 10 per cent pay cut two months ago, said the action was needed to avoid mass sackings. 'If we don't cut salaries, we might have to lay off staff. We are talking of thousands of people and not only staff; their spouses and children would suffer too. Hong Kong is going through a difficult period that coincides with substantial liberalisation of the telecommunications industry,' he said. 'We have bitten the bullet and we are making a difficult decision to implement a 10 per cent across-the-board salary cut.' The company, which dismissed 270 managerial staff in July, had no plans to lay off others, although there could be no guarantee, he said. Staff said that the company was 'mean' and did not care for workers who faced financial hardship. Ip Kwok-fun, a Hongkong Telecom employee for 20 years and chairman of the Hong Kong Telephone Co Ltd Staff Association, said the cut would cost him $2,000 a month. He said most workers had been with the company for at least 10 years and made about $10,000 a month. 'One thousand dollars off their pay cheque would be a big blow to them. They have to pay their mortgage and support their families. 'It's unfair for a company that's profiting to punish its workers just to keep profit levels high. It's unacceptable,' said Mr Ip. He said the union had surveyed Telecom employees and found that 90 per cent were opposed to salary cuts. The ones who thought cuts were acceptable said they would not take more than a four per cent pay reduction. Legislator Lee Cheuk-yan said Mr Cheung had told him yesterday that the parent company, Cable & Wireless, wanted Telecom to cut salaries so that profits could be maintained. Mr Cheung said he wanted profits to at least be in single digits and to save $300 million with the salary cuts, said Mr Lee. 'I asked him to consider early retirement or other schemes that would be less painful for workers, but he said he wanted it to be more simple,' he said. 'They care more about their major shareholder in England. The shareholder wants money to invest in its company,' Mr Lee said. Mr Cheung denied the decision was made under pressure from Cable & Wireless. He said the company faced keen competition. The company's net profit increased 52 per cent to $17 billion for the year ended March 31, boosted by a $6.7 billion payout from the Government for the early termination of its international licence monopoly. Ignoring the payout, profits grew by 11.6 per cent.


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Witology: Collective Mind to Respond to Intellectual Challenges
No large project can be done by one person. Since the time of the Egyptian pyramids construction the success of any enterprise has depended on appropriately organized collaborative efforts of large numbers of people. During wars and peacetime, hierarchical schemes have proved to be good, and information technologies have brought them almost to perfection over the past quarter of a century. However, as far as innovations are concerned, it all depends on the personal experience and creative intelligence of individuals. Hence, there are risks associated with astronomical fees of top managers whose intuition should compensate for the lack of a technology to recover the implicit knowledge.
If organized in the same way as a neural network, collective intelligence is likely to produce qualitatively new results.
But how can we effectively harness the intellectual power of a large number of people? Councils and committees are not smarter and more original than their most creative and competent members. Large groups of experts are conservative, slow and unoriginal. So, it turns out that intelligence as the ability to find unconventional solutions is non-additive, isn’t it? It was believed so until recently. Hope for a breakthrough lies in a brain analogy. If interactions between neurons give rise to individual human intelligence, then people can be probably organized in such a way that their collective intelligence is better than individual intelligence. So, you just have to find an appropriate architecture design enabling your business to make use of the tacit knowledge that can not be transferred from people’s heads into corporate databases. The development of such social business applications will govern the development of information technologies over the next decade.
There are two types of the architecture of collective intelligence, which are conventionally called social and semantic ones. The former is focused on people brought together in a social network that in the course of communication detects leaders and helps improve their proposals. Within the framework of this type, the techniques of brainstorming, foresight, and organizational activity games have emerged, but they all are unstable in terms of productivity and non-scalable in terms of the number of participants. The second approach puts emphasis on messages that contain ideas. Relations between messages make a semantic network, and analysis of the network reveals the key ideas. A system of scientific publications is created in this way, as well as the indexes of search engines and the rating systems for blog’s posts. But semantic networks are liable to various instabilities, such as wrapping, flames, and flash mobs.
Stabilization and scalability is achieved via combining social and semantic networks. Even the simplest technical means of their integration (for example, «friends + comments») give rise to proto-intellectual phenomena such as media viruses and «smart crowds». At the heart of the phenomena lies information dissemination riding on waves of strong emotions, and this has already found application in commerce and politics. A little closer to collective intelligence is crowdsourcing, when companies engage thousands of people in some activities in exchange for prizes or even participation in profits. The collaborative development of free software and information aggregation tools, such as Web 2.0 sites or prediction markets, is even more complex. Here, the participants exchange their modest contributions for respect of the community or other advantages.
The architecture of a platform to address diverse problems should combine social and semantic networks.
Successful collective intelligence applications are still unique, i.e. they are created based on intuition for particular projects. But general architecture principles are more or less clear, which means that soon there will be versatile tools to tap into collective intelligence to work systematically on a wide range of problems. In this new area, most successful will be those who start first with a right architecture.
Experiences of using different crowdsourcing models have shown that effective scalable collective intelligence can not emerge through individual techniques of working together cooperatively, as most of pioneering projects have demonstrated. It is essential to combine a variety of methods effective in their specific fields, into one system. As a result, thanks to the synergy effect of the combination, solutions can be found to problems for which uncoordinated social engineering technologies are inefficient or inapplicable.
Published research papers and competitive analysis show that such complex tools for creative collaboration will be available within 1-2 years. With the new generation of products, networked collective intelligence will acquire features of «big technology», when success is determined by the competent combination of proven methods of social engineering with innovative know-hows.
At first, crowdsourcing was chiefly to demonstrate its prospects. That is why most successful were the projects aimed at engaging mass audiences (blog-hosting services, Wikipedia, free software). The next generation collective intelligence technologies will provide large companies with competitive advantages. They will enable them to better use manpower resources to identify and solve important problems and quickly detect smart people and create for them additional opportunities for social uplift.
Witology is a leader of the fundamentally new class of social collaboration applications.
An example is the Witology platform that is now ready for beta testing. In terms of theory, the platform is based on social psychology and nonlinear dynamics. In practical terms, the platform rests upon on the current developments in the field of idea management, prediction markets, e-recruting, and other crowdsourcing methodologies, combining them with a number of proprietary core know-hows. Collective intelligence emerges on the basis of the socio-semantic network and a proprietary mechanism called «controlled chaos of ideas». Together they form a controlled environment in which solutions to a problem posed by the customer are generated and evolutionarily selected.
Collective intelligence created on the Witology platform is employed to find solutions to real-world problems, such as creating new products and identifying new markets, choosing innovation priorities based on the experience of a large number of people, using tacit knowledge to improve the efficiency and scalability of best practices, and finding bright, unexpected solutions that run counter to the established rules.
Wit-projects imply the multi-level parallel identification of the best ideas and smart people.
A simplified scheme of collective intelligence application is as follows. The facilitator on behalf of the customer set the community a task. In doing so, the facilitator encourages the participation of all potentially useful people who are directly or indirectly connected with the company. Then the task domain is structured, key problems being identified. All further work depends on this step, and the technologies applied at this stage determine, to a large extent, the success of the collective intelligence system as a whole. Then, to find solutions to the identified problems, the participants put forward ideas and contra ideas (in the form of texts), which are discussed, getting quotations like market ones. By betting on promising ideas, participants earn reputation that increases their influence on the community and makes them outstanding in the eyes of the facilitator. In that way runs the multi-level parallel filtering of ideas and people, customized for a specific task. The result is not only a solution to the problem, but also the formation of a relatively small, well-matched and well-established community of practice, which is capable of solving similar problems.
Tools of the socio-semantic network allow the facilitator to compensate for avalanche-like network effects, control the formation of clans, and stop speculative games that do not lead to any result. The reputation earned can be the basis for remuneration of the participants on the customer’s side. This increases the motivation of all participants, as opposed to the crowdsourcing models when the prize goes only to the person who has completed the solution. The reputation with regard to the nature of activity (creativity, criticism, provocation, precognition, etc.), as well as the topics of the problems solved, is the basis for invitation to new projects.
Organizations can use wit-projects as a means to improve their performance, answer to challenges and manage human capital in an intelligent way.
In large companies and organizations, the employees usually have clearly defined functions, and therefore their creativity is underutilized. Creative functions are concentrated among a few expensive specialists and top managers, which becomes a bottleneck for the development of innovative potential of the company.
Collective intelligence based on the socio-semantic network allows you reduce the deficiency in and cost of creativity, make use of the non-verbalized tacit knowledge of employees, and strengthen their loyalty. Collective intelligence is an innovative technology that improves the efficiency of corporate governance in the key sphere of innovations. Therefore, it is collective intelligence systems that will be a zone of the rapid development and intense competition of large companies and organizations in the coming years.


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