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Wednesday, 10 February 2010
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Pop 4 Kids: You've Got A Friend
By Countdown Kids
see relatedSpotlight: Little Doctors Program®
Schools honored for engaging children in community serviceFebruary 2, 2010 / Hudson Valley, NY – Hudson Valley Blood Services honored local elementary and middle school administration at its Little Doctors Program® Recognition held January 29, 2010 at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY. The event recognized schools for outstanding achievements, and offered administrators at non-participating schools to learn more about The Little Doctors Program®.
Among the groups recognized were 2008-09 winners:Outstanding Middle School: Mildred E. Strang Middle School, Yorktown Heights, NY
Lifesaver Award (drive held during a critical time): Thiells Elementary School, Theills, NY
Rookie of the Year: St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Kingston, NY
Home Run Award: P.S. 83 Donald Hertz School, Bronx, NY
Home Run Award: Yonkers Public Schools, Yonkers, NY
These winning schools collected a combined total of 407 pints of blood and blood products.
Eben Yager, General Manager of the Hudson Valley Renegades and Chairman of Hudson Valley Blood Services Volunteer Leadership Team, hosted the event, which also featured guest speaker Jeff Cool, Clarkstown Capitals Hockey Club Assistant Coach and New York City firefighter who was injured during the devastating “Black Sunday” fire in the Bronx on January 23, 2005. Jeff Cool needed 47 units of donated blood to help save his life, and spoke about the need for blood and the importance of becoming a blood donor.
The Little Doctors Program® is the brainchild of Karen Brothers, a Putnam Valley Middle School teacher who felt her students would benefit and learn from the experience of organizing and planning a community blood drive. Now in its 14th year, the Little Doctors Program® was born from the creativity of students and New York Blood Center. The program teaches community service and leadership skills, and offers a learning experience for both students and the surrounding community. As part of the Little Doctors Program®, students recruit blood donors and are outfitted in hospital scrubs while working at blood drives, where they serve as “Little Doctors” to usher donors and serve post donation refreshments.
To date, more than 225 elementary and middle schools throughout New York and New Jersey are running Little Doctors Program® blood drives. Congratulations to all schools and the community who continue to support New York Blood Center’s mission to help save lives.To donate blood, please call: 1-800-933-2566
Visit: www.nybloodcenter.org
To arrange a blood drive, please call 914-784-4639.
Any company, community organization, place of worship, or individual may host a blood drive. NYBC also offers special community service scholarships for students who organize community blood drives during the winter holiday and summer periods. Blood donors receive free mini-medical exams on site including information about their temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure and hemoglobin level. Eligible donors include those people at least age 16 (with parental permission or consent), who weigh a minimum of 110 pounds, are in good health and meet all Food & Drug Administration and NY or NJ State Department of Health donor criteria. People age 76 and over may donate with a doctor’s note.
About New York Blood Center: New York Blood Center (NYBC) is one of the nation's largest non-profit, community-based blood centers. NYBC has been providing blood, transfusion products and services to almost 200 hospitals, serving 20 million people, in greater New York since 1964. NYBC is also home to the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute and the National Cord Blood Program at the Howard P. Milstein National Cord Blood Center, the world's largest public cord blood bank. NYBC provides medical services and programs (Clinical, Transfusion, and Hemophilia Services) through our medical professionals along with consultative services in transfusion medicine.
Monday, 08 February 2010
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Rendezvous and Dreams
see relatedBook Promo: GLORY AND THE CLEVER CAT!
GLORY AND THE CLEVER CAT!
(F/F Romance, Historical Fantasy)
by Carol Storm
www.nobleromance.com
Fate made them queens . . .
Passion made them lovers . . .
Power made them enemies . . .
While she was having her bath, Catherine of Echosea tried to erase Gloriana from her thoughts, and focus on the planned ambush in the swamps. The defeated queen was determined to save her people. She knew her own gentle nature had been her downfall far too often in the past. This time she had to be ruthless, and ignore her feelings. So many of her people had lost everything, yet they still believed in her. She didn't want to fail them here as she had failed them so many times before.
But instead of meditating on Gloriana's downfall, Cat found herself thinking about her breasts. She closed her eyes, rubbing her sensitive nipples in the heated water of her bath. Where had such a mad impulses come from? This was not the time for such things. Stroking her own pert breasts only emphasized the contrast between her body and Gloriana's. The Queen of Albion was at least twelve years older than she was. Yet she had high, firm breasts and the most amazing, voluptuous curves. Catherine actually had to bite her lip to keep the fantasy from going any further. Tonight was about duty, not desire.
"Took you long enough," Queen Gloriana growled, when Cat finally appeared by her bedside. The older woman lay sprawled on a heap of pillows, her magnificent body naked. Red hair spilling free in an abundant flood of curls. The sagging and wear in her face and bosom only emphasized her long-established stature as a powerful queen. A successful queen.
"The warm water made me sleepy." Cat had donned a nearly transparent bed gown of pale blue gossamer silk. Baring her flesh did not embolden her as it did the older woman; she felt exposed and insignificant. Yet she had the upper hand as long as she kept her mind on the mission, and kept her royal identity a secret.
Gloriana chuckled. "Why not warm your hands on my breasts for a minute or two?"
Saturday, 06 February 2010
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Passion, Plan, Profit: 12 Simple Steps to Turn Your Passion into a Solid Business
By Christy Strauch
see relatedPassion, Plan, Profit: 12 Simple Steps to Convert Your Passion into a Solid Business
12 steps to creating your business plan. The shelves of any bookstore are filled to the brim with advice on how to write a business plan. The trouble is that many of those books are geared towards teaching the enterprising entrepreneur how to write a plan that will help them secure funding. But what if someone wants to write a business plan for themselves, as a guideline to run their business? The author explains how a business owner, or even someone just contemplating starting a business, can write a plan that serves as a template to empower the entrepreneur to run their business profitably over the next year. 12 Stepsby Christy Strauch
I wrote this book for creative types who haven’t necessarily had a peaceful relationship with numbers or money. Because of that, the first step in this business plan process is to connect with your purpose for being in business. This book is for you who love your work; once you make a deep connection with the purpose of your work, it’s easier to persevere through some of the more challenging modules that come later (you have a Purpose to pull you through!).
Knowing your purpose also helps you communicate with your perfect customers most effectively (Step 5), create a clear vision (Step 2) and mission (Step 3); figure out a strategy that is in line with your purpose (Step 6), and gives you the impetus to blaze through your numbers forecast (Steps 9-11).
Once you know your purpose, step two is to create your vision: where do you want to be in twelve months, and in three years? If the business plan is the road, your vision is the destination.
Step three is your mission. It answers these two questions: what do you do; and who do you it for? Although the answer to these questions may seem obvious to you as the business owner, clearly articulating them to your perfect clients can be tricky. Clarifying your mission means looking more deeply at what you actually provide to your customers, and who those customers really are, through their eyes.
Step Four asks you to articulate your business values. These are your moral compass; they’ll help you make the difficult decisions that inevitably pop up five minutes after you open your doors for business.
Step Five takes you through the process of figuring out who your best clients are: who needs you, wants what you sell and can pay for it, and how best to talk to them.
Just as your values are your moral compass, in step six you figure out your strategies which serve as your business compass. They’ll help you, along with your purpose, to choose the business activities that make most sense to serve your customers and attract the right new ones.
Step seven asks you to figure out what you’re best at: what is unique about you compared to all your competition? Step eight sends you out to look at your competition, as well as what’s going on with your customers, the economy, and your own internal business practices in a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis.
Steps nine, ten and eleven all focus on your numbers: step nine takes you through forecasting your income for the next 12 months; in step ten you forecast your expenses for the same period; in step eleven you select the three or four measurements that you will watch regularly to make sure everything’s on track.
The final step, twelve, is where you take all the information you’ve put together in the previous steps and summarize it into your 5-7 specific goals, and the plans under them, that you will achieve over the next twelve months.
Lest you think you’re finished, there are two auxiliary steps after this: the monthly and quarterly review process. Because things begin to change right after you remove your pen from the paper, these reviews help you keep up with (or even stay ahead of) the inevitable changes that happen to all businesses.
The antidote to any overwhelm you might be feeling now, is to get started on your purpose. Knowing that, connecting deeply to it, will give you the stamina to finish the rest of the process. After all, you were put on the planet to do this work. It’s time to get started!
Christy Strauch is the author of Passion, Plan, Profit: 12 Simple Steps to Convert Your Passion into a Solid Business. In addition she is president of Clarity To Business and has worked with over 300 small business owners, from artists to real estate agents, helping them do what they are passionate about – and make a profit. Her book is available at Amazon.com at http://bit.ly/9Yk2uo
Friday, 05 February 2010
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Iggy the Iguana
By Melissa Marie Williams
see relatedIggy the Iguana and Melissa M Williams Tour
The Key to Acceptance
Often we may find that our notion to accept one another for who they are on the inside, comes from being around others who may at first seem to be different on the outside.
Let me introduce you to the main character in my Chapter Book Series, Iggy the Iguana! Meet Iggy! He’s a Green Iguana, born and raised in the suburbs of Houston Texas. Young Iggy has attended a private “All-Lizard” school his entire life. All kinds of lizards went to his school, geckos, water dragons, chameleons … you name it, Iggy has seen it. To compare it to human terms, just think of one broad race going to school with a bunch of similar looking people, but maybe not all from the exact same place. Iggy is surrounded by diversity on a very small level.
Everything changes for Iggy in fourth grade, because he is about to move to an “All-Animal” school and has no idea what to expect, due to the shelter of his past experiences. He’s heard a lot about other animals (Rumors and Stereotypes) but has never actually met a turtle, cat, monkey, or a guinea pig. His worry and fear of not fitting in has him extremely anxious and worried on his first day of school.
We all understand that we have to leave our comfort zone at times to experience new situations, which then lead to growth and change. Iggy starts to realize this through his journey. The theme inside Iggy the Iguana speaks to our empathetic hearts, as the main character understands that first impressions are not always correct and not too judge too quickly, because everyone has a story. His lesson of acceptance and understanding rises multiple times through out the story, as he also starts to realize that not all of the animals at his new school have grown up in the same type of family structure as him, either. Diversity may mean many things, but acceptance and a healthy sense of curiosity is beneficial to our youth as they learn not only through their experiences, but their friends’ experiences too.
As an author, I love being able to use personification to place fun and interesting animals into a realistic setting that kids comprehend. During my years in the counseling profession, acceptance of self was always the goal of psychological study and theory. When we accept others entirely for who they are on the inside and outside, we are exercising our own form of self-acceptance. This type of acceptance is a proactive choice, and it may not always come naturally to everyone, so we have to continually make the effort to stay open-minded.
The entire Iggy the Iguana series has been written to give adults and children realistic scenarios to discuss together, while reading a story that is still light hearted and full of laughter, drama, and excitement. I would love to hear your thoughts on childhood acceptance and diversity today! For more information on the books, check out Iggy on www.IggytheIguana.com
Win the Iggy the Iguana Give Away! Including the Newly Released Items in Iggy Collection, Snap Shell the Turtle (Plush Doll), Iggy Collector's Baseball Cards, and The Read3Zero T-Shirt ... supporting the fight against illiteracy 30 minutes at a time. Be our most active visitor during the tour for a chance to win this Iggy Collection -- the tour schedule is posted at http://virtualblogtour.blogspot.com/2010/01/iggy-iguana-and-melissa-m-williams-tour.html to make it easy for you to visit and comment. To learn more about Iggy and Melissa Williams – visit www.iggytheiguana.com.
Iggy the Iguana
By Melissa Marie Williams
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Simply put...a wonderful story...
Iggy The Iguana is a wonderful children's story, written by an even more wonderful author. The story deals with the hero, Iggy (the iguana) who is going to a public school (as opposed to an all iguana school) for the first time and is dealing with issues, scenarios and simple truths about growing up like our own children. He is befriended by a range of different "characters" (no pun intended) and even the mixed and crazy emotions of dealing with a new school, bullies and even his first childhood crush. Each character takes on a life of their own and I am sure your child will find one character to identify with sometime throughout the course of this wonderful story.
I would highly recommend the read for the sheer beauty of depth each character brings to every page. By far...five stars and a big thumbs up!!!
~Bobby Ozuna, author Proud Souls and host of The Soul of Humanity, Internet Radio ShowAbout Melissa M WilliamsMelissa M. Williams is an advocate for literacy and creativity in children. Her children’s chapter books were inspired by real life experiences with childhood pets she owned while growing up in Houston, Texas. While finishing her Master’s degree in Professional Counseling, Melissa started substitute teaching for elementary schools in order to understand the daily life of her young audience. The students helped her create relatable and realistic stories while including lessons, values and acceptance within the story-line. In addition to writing, Melissa spends most of the school year speaking to students about her own journey as an author and the process of creative writing, while encouraging each student to think outside the box, follow their inner passion, and write their own stories.
Thursday, 04 February 2010
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Forgotten
By Chelle Cordero
see relatedA Night of Romance
Local romance writers – Chelle Cordero, Charmaine Gordon, Janet Lane Walters, Sara Taney Humphreys, & Kathleen Kubik – talk about and read from their current books & autograph copies. Sunday February 07, 2010 7:00 PM Yonkers Central Plaza, 2614 Central Park Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10710, 914-771-6400
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