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Salt Lake City Community Gathers for Shine a Light Walk
to Raise Money for Critical Rare Disease Research
WHAT: Shine a Light NF Walk is a community event to bring neurofibromatosis out of the shadows. Patients, family, and friends gather to raise awareness, raise money, and recognize the remarkable courage it takes to live with this rare disorder.
Neurofibromatosis, or NF, is a genetic disorder that causes tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body. Affecting 1 in 3,000 people of all populations, there is currently no treatment or cure for NF. We’re walking to raise money to fund critical research that will benefit the 2.5 million people around the world who are affected.
Proceeds benefit the Children’s Tumor Foundation, the leader in the fight against NF.
We thank our presenting sponsor, Recursion Pharmaceuticals.
WHO:
Open to the public - everyone is welcome (registration required): individuals, friends, families, teams, and corporate groups.
WHERE:
Sugar Beet Pavilion at Sugar House Park
1330 2100 S., Salt Lake City, UT
WHEN:
Saturday, May 11, 2019
5:00PM
SCHEDULE:
5 pm - Registration/Check-In
6 pm – Welcome/Announcements
6:30pm – Food & Fun
8 pm – Walk
WHY:
Money raised at the Shine a Light NF Walk supports the Children’s Tumor Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding effective treatments for the more than two million people worldwide living with neurofibromatosis. For more information, visit www.ctf.org.
REGISTRATION:
Register for the Shine a Light NF Walk in Salt Lake City or make a donation at: www.shinealightwalk.org/utah.
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Have Too Many Bad Habits? Here Are
6 Ways To Create Good Ones
It’s said that we become our habits. In some cases that is not a good thing; bad habits prevail among many Americans. One report found that over 70 percent of US adults have at least one unhealthy behavior associated with chronic health problems.
Breaking bad habits isn’t easy, but sometimes the best answer is replacing them with empowering new habits that bring positive changes to one’s daily life.
“We often have habits that hold us back, like smoking or eating food lacking in nutrition,” says Dr. Rob Carter III, co-author with his wife, Dr. Kirti Salwe Carter, of The Morning Mind: Use Your Brain to Master Your Day and Supercharge Your Life (www.themorningmind.com).
“A great way to start every day is with a series of empowering habits. Morning, in fact, according to some researchers is the best time to start making these kinds of changes in your life.”
Carter has six ways you can create new, empowering habits and make them stick:
Prioritize habits. “For each area in which you want to grow,” Carter says, “take some time to think about what kind of empowering habits you’d like to establish around that topic.” Areas to consider are health, wealth, social, relationships, job, hobbies, self-esteem, interpersonal skills, positive thinking, time management, and life purpose.
Focus on one at a time. “Because we have a limited amount of willpower in the morning, it’s very important how we use that energy,” Carter says. “By focusing on just one habit you would like to change – for example, eating a healthy breakfast – you can concentrate that willpower on the task at hand until it becomes a habit.”
Be reasonable with yourself. The time it will take to establish the new habit depends upon how much resistance a person has. And sometimes developing a new habit represents a long leap from where one currently stands. “That’s too daunting,” Carter says, “so break it down into more achievable steps. Incremental improvements add up to a big transformation and are often more powerful and sustainable.”
Commit specific time toward the goal. Carter suggests nailing down a detailed timeline and committing a full effort toward formation of the new habit within that time span. “Write down what you hope to achieve, how many times a week you will practice the new habit, and when and where you’ll do it,” Carter says. “Having a specific goal helps keep you accountable to yourself.
Reward success. Have a reward in place to celebrate performing your new habit. “It has to be something that will motivate you to complete your habit,” Carter says.
Stack habits. “The neural pathways of your pre-existing habits are well-travelled routes in your brain,” Carter says. “You can take advantage of this by building a new habit and associating it with an old one that is well-established. This is a quicker way to create new habits than if you were to start from scratch. For example, if you want to create a new habit of exercising in the morning, and you have a habit of reading the newspaper every morning, tie these activities together by exercising immediately before you read the paper. Reading the paper becomes your reward.”
“When you learn for yourself how simple it is to change habits,” Carter says, “you’ll want to make adjustments to all areas of your life.”
About Dr. Rob Carter III and Dr. Kirti Salwe Carter
Dr. Rob Carter III and Dr. Kirti Salwe Carter are co-authors of The Morning Mind: Use Your Brain to Master Your Day and Supercharge Your Life (www.themorningmind.com). Rob Carter is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, an expert in human performance and physiology, and has academic appointments in emergency medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, in public health and health sciences at Los Angeles Pacific University, and in nutrition at the University of Maryland, University College. He holds a PhD in biomedical sciences and medical physiology and an MPH in chronic disease epidemiology.
Kirti Carter was born in Pune, India, and received her medical education in India, where she practiced as an intensive-care physician before moving to Texas to complete postgraduate training in public health. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Stress (FAIS), has more than 18 years of experience in meditation and breathing techniques, and has been facilitating wellness seminars for the past decade.
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By: Karla Phillips, ExcelinEd’s Policy Director for Next Generation Learning
After reflecting on my years at Gold’s Gyms, Bally’s Fitness and L.A. Fitness, I realized Mike Petrilli is right. The OrangeTheory fitness model can teach us a lot about the role of innovation.
Petrilli pointed out last week on The Flypaper that OrangeTheory’s technology is not the innovation. Rather it’s how the company uses technology to meet customers’ needs. And this is exactly the role innovation should play in schools. The goal shouldn’t be to implement technology but rather to solve problems—sometimes age-old problems like addressing the needs of all students.
However, there is a key difference between tailoring instruction to students and tailoring workouts: schools face an infinitely greater amount of laws, rules and regulations governing everything they do. And schools need flexibility to innovate.
This is why ExcelinEd recently released a new Next Generation Learning Policy Toolkit. These resources can help states identify ways to prioritize innovation, pursue student-centered practices and ensure every student succeeds.
Alabama, for example, has identified the goal of innovation as advancing “the benefits of local school and school system autonomy in innovation and creativity by allowing flexibility from state laws, regulations and policies.”
The debates over grade-level instruction are more than just debates; they are requirements solidified in federal and state law since No Child Left Behind. And, quite frankly, they are the heart of just about every difficult decision made daily for special education students.
As the debates over grade-level instruction and proficiency determinations intensify, we must remember that we used to live in a world without grade-level expectations. And that wasn’t good for disadvantaged students.
Innovation should and must be the solution. This doesn’t mean just adding technology to the classroom, but thoughtfully implementing innovative policies, assessments and calculations. It’s what all our students deserve.
With graduation season nearly upon us, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2019’s Best & Worst Entry-Level Jobs as well as accompanying videos.
To take stock of the first-timer employment landscape, WalletHub compared more than 100 different types of entry-level positions based on 13 key metrics. The data set ranges from median starting salary to projected job growth by 2026 to median tenure with employer.
Best Entry-Level Jobs
Worst Entry-Level Jobs
1.
Electrical Engineer I
100.
Machinist I
2.
Systems Engineer I
101.
Sheetmetal Mechanic I
3.
Engineer I
102.
Building Inspector
4.
Env., Health, and Safety Engineer I
103.
Carpenter I
5.
Hardware Engineer I
104.
Aircraft Painter I
6.
Web Applications Developer I
105.
Tool and Die Maker I
7.
Electronics Engineer I
106.
Automotive Mechanic I
8.
Industrial Engineer I
107.
Floor Assembler I
9.
Architect I
108.
Boilermaker I
10.
Operations Research Analyst I
109.
Welder I
Best vs. Worst
For the full report, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-entry-level-jobs/3716/
