How I Create: Q&A With Career Coach Michelle Ward - Psych Central

What do you want to be when you grow up? That?s the question Michelle Ward, the When I Grow Up Coach, helps her clients answer. Ward is certified by the International Coach Federation. She?s spent over 750 hours coaching hundreds of creative people to devise the career they think they can?t have ? or discover it in the first place.

She?s also a musical theater actress with her BFA from NYU/Tisch. And she?s one of the most creative and passionate people I?ve had the pleasure of meeting online. Ward infuses everything she does with creativity and her enthusiastic one-of-a-kind approach.

Below, in our monthly series, Ward shares the behind-the-scenes of her creative process, how she overcomes the comparison trap, her powerful advice for readers and much more.

Ward also has served as an expert source and contributor for publications such as?Newsweek and Forbes and websites such as Yahoo!?and?AOL Jobs. She?s spoken at?SXSW, The World Domination Summit?and?Etsy Success Symposium.

She?can be found coachin?, bloggin? & givin? away free stuff at whenigrowupcoach.com.

1. ?Do you incorporate creativity-boosting activities into your daily routine? If so, what activities do you do?

You might wanna slap me for saying this, but I feel like everything I do centers around doing it creatively. I?ve built my business on writing and making videos and speaking and playing my pink ukulele?so every time I decide to work on something, I think about what I want to express and how. I wrote/filmed/edited a music video for?my communty site.

When I put my career change exercises into?workbook?form, I decided to make the whole freakin? thing (yes, all 50+ pages) rhyme.

When I offered?An Effective Escape: Leaving Your Day Job Without Living in Your Parents? Basement?for the first time, it was as a virtual workshop. I?m usually doing something around speaking, singing, or writing? but not in a do-a-creative-exercise-every-day way.

2. ?What are your inspirations for your work?

It depends on what I?m working on, but the things that are popping into my head? Dr. Seuss,?Cee Lo Green,?Garfunkel & Oates, Cee Lo Green, stuff from my childhood (I so wanna write a Choose Your Own Adventure Book!), Jessica Swift, Color Me Katie, Danielle LaPorte, Alexandra Franzen, my clients, Broadway?.oh, I?ll stop there now.

3.?There are many culprits that can crush creativity, such as distractions, self-doubt and fear of failure. What tends to stand in the way of your creativity?

The Comparison Vampire! Oh, I call the voices we have in our heads that suck the good stuff outta us Vampires, and The Comparison Vampire tends to be the worst of all.

Look at how professional?her?videos are. Look at how perfect?his copy is. Blech. It makes you wanna just throw in the towel and never write another word or speak another sentence or pluck another tune ever again.

4.?How do you overcome these obstacles?

I think a big part of it is being confident and authentic in what you?re doing. Sure, his copy might be ?perfect? and her videos might be ?professional,? but mine are 100 percent Michelle at all times, and I?m proud of what I produce.

I?m all there, singing or speaking or writing my heart out, and I?m confident that what I put out into the world represents my uniquity, my perspective, and my knowledge. Let?s face it: They?re not better than you, They?re?different. Two separate things.

5. ?What are some of your favorite resources on creativity?

Anything that Keri Smith puts out is worth picking up and working through. It looks easy on the surface to follow her exercises (i.e. smear food on this page of the book, tie a string around the book and take it for a walk, etc.), but actually confronts our Vampires and can be a great (yet scary!) learning experience.

I also recommend the Right Brain Business Plan?to any and all creative entrepreneurs (I have one!), aspiring or otherwise. The Artist in the Office is also a must for those of us barely surviving our day jobs, and nothing beats The Artist?s Way for tapping into your inner creative.

6. ?What is your favorite way to get your creative juices flowing?

For writing, I keep tons of images with inspiring sayings on a Pinterest board, and that?ll be my first stop if I need something to write about. For my songs, I tend to have an idea as to what I wanna sing about (it?s recently been about my?boob cancer, oddly enough), and then rhymes come to me on the subway, when I?m about to fall asleep, or in the shower. I always have my iPhone handy to take notes.

7. ?What?s your advice for readers on cultivating creativity?

Don?t wait for lightening to strike or the perfect moment where inspiration knocks you over ? because it often doesn?t happen that way. Instead, show up to do the work and start wherever feels easiest.

Sometimes I start a blog post in the middle because the beginning just won?t come to me. Sometimes I write a song with the chorus leading the way because the verses are elusive. Do something every day for a small bite of time (yes, you can?get a lot accomplished in 15 minutes a day, thankyouverymuch) and you?ll be able to have a tangible product in no time.

Also, don?t be married to the format. Sometimes I know I need to write a blog post, but writing feels hard in that moment?so I make a video instead. Pay attention to what feels fun and easy at the time, and know if you move forward with that it?s not cheating.

8. ?Anything else you?d like readers to know about creativity?

Wanna know a secret? You?re creative. You might not believe me, but it?s true! We all have it in us?just start believing that I?m talking to you when I mention ?creative people,? start exploring in a fun and easy way, and you?ll be able to own that title more than you think!

Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. is an Associate Editor at Psych Central and blogs regularly about eating and self-image issues on her own blog, Weightless.

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Tension, but No Violence, as Protestants Parade in Belfast

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A Parade to commemorate a 1912 accord that helped lead to the partition of Ireland was watched over by a heavy police presence. ...

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/world/europe/tension-but-no-violence-as-protestants-parade-in-belfast.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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18 People Who Already Somehow Broke Their iPhone 5

Even though the iPhone 5's aluminum backing removed the odds of shattering the glass by 50%, some people will always be on the wrong side of the odds. These are those people. Those poor, unfortunate, unlucky souls who have already broken their brand new iPhone 5 after only a week.

I don't want to jinx myself here?I'm totally jinxing myself here?but I've never been on the other end of a shattered iPhone before. But I do know that anytime I drop that slippery soap of a phone, I get that huge sinking feeling that's similar to heartbreak. I feel for you guys.

And if you already broke your iPhone 5, it's not over! Take it to the Apple Store, bat your eyelashes and hope for the best.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5947528/18-people-who-already-somehow-broke-their-iphone-5

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Avast! Free Antivirus 7.0.1466 / 7.0.1468 Beta | software programs

Here are some key features of "Avast! Free Antivirus":

Core and detection:
? Antivirus and anti-spyware engine
? State of the art scanning engine provides reliable protection against viruses, spyware and other forms of malicious software.

Real time anti-rootkit protection:
? Unique "on access" technology checks all kernel-mode drivers that the operating system is loading for signs of rootkit behavior. This enables even unknown rootkits to be detected and stopped before they can do any damage.

avast! Community IQ:
? Most samples we process come from sensors deployed throughout the avast! community in the Behavior shield and anti-rootkit modules. This is a unique source of data made possible only thanks to our huge user base. Most of the collected samples are analysed by a number of automated processes and only a small fraction of the samples need to be processed manually by our virus analysts.

Code emulator:
? When a suspicious executable is encountered (during both on-demand and on-access scanning), avast! is able to emulate the program?s code in an isolated environment. The code emulator is used for two purposes. First, it is used for generic unpacking. Secondly, it is used in the heuristics engine. Technically, this is done using dynamic translation, a method much faster than traditional emulation techniques.

Heuristics engine:
? avast! features a new heuristics engine designed to proactively detect malware undetectable with normal definitions. The heuristics engine is able to cover both binary (executable) and script malware.

Potentially unwanted programs detection:
? avast! detects potentially unwanted programs, such as remote admin tools and commercial key loggers. Custom rules can be set for dealing with these types of programs.

Scanning:
? Boot-time scanner
? Allows you to scan your computer for infections before the operating system has started and before a virus can be activated (32-bit operating systems only).

Command-line scanner:
? Enables you to run a scan directly from the command line.

Wake-up for scan:
? Microsoft Windows is woken from sleep or hibernation mode, performs a scheduled scan, then returns back to sleep mode.

Scheduled scanning:
? Allows users to define the scan time and files to be scanned.

avast! Intelligent Scanner:
? Can reduce the number of required file scans by up to 80% through a white list of proven safe applications. Files identified as safe are not rescanned unless they change.

Shields:
??Behavior Shield
? Monitors activity on your computer using a number of sensors (file system, registry and network based) and reports/blocks any suspicious behavior.

??Behavioral Honeypots
? avast! sensors identify and monitor suspicious file activity on selected computers, automatically submitting files to the Virus Lab for additional analysis.

??File System Shield
? Real-time scanning of opened/executed files.

??Mail Shield
? Scans all incoming/outgoing e-mails for malware. For MS Outlook, a special plug-in is used. Other email clients are protected by a generic POP3/IMAP4/SMTP proxy. New in version 5, the proxy also supports scanning of SSL communication (gmail.com, sympatico.ca, ?.)

??Web Shield
? Scans all visited web pages and checks all files, pages and java scripts downloaded from the internet. Thanks to the Intelligent Stream Scan feature, the Web shield doesn't slow down your web browsing.

??P2P Shield
? Checks files downloaded using P2P programs. - ABC, Ares, Azureus, BearShare, Bit Torrent, BitComet, BitLord, BitPump, CZDC++, Direct Connect, eDonkey, eMule, iDC++, iMesh, Kazaa, Kceasy, LimeWire, Morpheus, Opera's DC++, Overnet, Qtrax, Shareaza, SoulSeek, StrongDC++, uTorrent, Vuze, WinMX, Winny2, Zultrax.

??IM Shield
? Checks files downloaded while using instant messaging or ?chat? programs. - AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Gadu-Gadu, gaim/Pidgin, Google Talk, ICQ, IM2 Messenger, Infium, Miranda, mIRC, MSN/Windows Messenger, Odigo, PalTalk Messenger, Psi Jabber Client, QIP, QQ, SIM, Skype, Tlen, Trillian, WengoPhone, XFire, Yahoo! Messenger.

??Network Shield
? Provides protection against network-based viruses. The module has two main components: a URL blocker, designed to block malicious URLs (as defined by the Virus Lab), and a lightweight intrusion-detection system.

Updates:
??Smart virus definition updates
? Incremental updating system minimizes the size of regular update files.

??Fast application of updates
? New format for the virus definition file speeds up application of updates into avast! 5.0 and reduces demand on CPU/memory, resulting in uninterrupted computer use.
? New format for the virus definition file means faster updates and reduces demand on CPU/memory, resulting in uninterrupted computer use.

Gaming:
? New Silent/Gaming Mode automatically detects full-screen applications and disables pop-ups and other on-screen notifications without degrading security.

Optimized for latest Intel Core i7 CPUs:
? Critical sections of the avast! scanning engine code have been optimized to deliver unrivaled performance on the latest Intel chips.

CPU optimization:
? Multi-threaded scanning optimization
? avast! runs faster on new multi-core CPUs. A new avast! feature allows the splitting of large individual files between cores, accelerating the scanning process.

Green computing:
? Reduced demands on the disk drive result in lower energy consumption.

Miscellaneous:
? avast! iTrack - Real-time graphic scanning reports.
? Graphical user interface - Easy to navigate graphical interface.
? Automatic processing - Infected files are processed automatically without requiring user instructions.

Source: http://www.thisoft.com/2012/09/avast-free-antivirus-701466-701468-beta.html

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Thieves take $10,000 in wedding presents when couple leaves gifts outside overnight

Amy and Jason Wright on the day of their wedding. (Morning Call)A newlywed couple's marriage is off to a rough start after thieves took more than $10,000 worth of gifts that the couple left unprotected outdoors overnight.

"Somebody had come and taken all of the wedding gifts," Amy Wright, the bride, told local Pennsylvania affiliate WFMZ. "Every last card was gone, the boxes, the gift bags."

To be clear, the wedding gifts weren't just sitting out on the sidewalk. But they were left unattended inside the outdoor tent where the wedding reception was held. Amy, 30, and her husband Jason Wright, 31, spent the morning after their Saturday night celebration filling out a police report.

"We noticed there were no gifts on the table [in one tent], and we said, well, somebody must have moved them into the house," Amy told the Morning Call. "We checked with our friends, and no one seemed to know what happened to the gifts.

"We had to call every family member and friend and ask them what did you give, it was embarrassing," Amy told the station.

The gifts were stolen just a stone's throw from where Amy and Jason were sleeping, 20 yards away in a nearby house.

And adding insult to injury, the couple found torn-up wedding cards floating in a pond on the property.

"When I discovered that in the pond I was just in tears, I broke down," Amy told the station.

We've reported on some crazy wedding stories this year alone, such as the bride who was doused in a "black oily ooze" just moments before the ceremony, and the $5,000 ceremony thrown for a pair of California dogs.

But the Wrights shouldn't necessarily given up hope just yet. They are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to whoever stole their wedding presents. And stranger things have happened with positive outcomes, including the feat of the New York City garbage man, who in August, sifted through tons of trash to find a woman's missing wedding ring.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/thieves-steal-10k-wedding-presents-couples-leaves-gifts-232016085.html

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As social media marketing grows, Facebook marketing also continues to gain speed, but is it working? Advertisers everywhere have tapped into the social networking giant, and have opted to participate in Facebook marketing?either through paid advertisements or simply just social networking between the brand and their consumers... or both.

The major red flag that comes with Facebook marketing, when an advertiser is using it for social media marketing purposes, is their inability to?truly develop buyers from simply followers. With Facebook marketing advertisers see a growth in their brand's following, but do those likes and followers really mean revenue for the business?

When it comes to Facebook marketing, like all social media marketing, brands can see significant results, they just need to ensure that they are using Facebook effectively to warrant such results. Via Facebook marketing you now have people following you and supporting your brand, but the most important thing to most marketers is making sure that such brand supporters purchase from their business.

Check out this article from Entrepreneur to help you with your Facebook marketing campaign and ensure revenue, not just followers. This article?provides insight?into "How to Convert Facebook Fans Into Paying Customers".

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/224420

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Sisterhood by Mary Thompson ? Fine Lines - Creative Writing Journal

Before we were friends, my older sister always called me ?a little snot.? The word still makes me cringe. Snot? What an awful bodily excretion to be nicknamed for. As a little kid, I never understood why she felt that way about me. Was I really such a bad sister to have? I might have been a little rambunctious and overdramatic, and yes, I wanted to wear the same clothes that she did and have my hair tied up the same way that hers was, but did I annoy her so much that she felt the need to label me as a disgusting piece of biohazard that accompanies illness and bad nose-picking habits?

My sister?s first baby is now three years old and is, as everyone claims, just like me in that she is full of ornery spunk and doesn?t slow down for a minute. My sister adores her and is proud that she resembles me in personality. When my niece gets to be a little too ornery, her mother simply calls out her name, sternly, and then waits until she settles down or wears herself out. It is never with anger or annoyance, but with an experienced, loving patience. ?

I remember one Christmas Eve at my grandma?s house, all of the older cousins were playing Trivial Pursuit, the decades-old board game that was the only form of entertainment my grandma had kept since her own kids had grown up and moved away. Though they were all still too young to actually know any of the answers, they had fun just taking ridiculously wild guesses and making up their own rules to win. I wanted so badly to join in the game, to laugh and be silly, to be one of the older, fun cousins I admired. When I asked my sister if I could play, too, or at least be on a team with her, she ignored me. I asked again, again, and again, until she told me that I was too young to know any answers and no one wanted to play with such a whiney little snot, anyway.

After her wedding, my sister moved five hours away, where her husband?s family lives. For the first time in her life, she had really, permanently, moved out of our house and away from our family. Speaking to her on the phone, I try to keep her updated on all that is going on with our family: my older brother and his wife moving into their new apartment, my little brother?s high school football games, and my plan to go to California in the spring to meet my boyfriend?s family. I avoid subjects that deal with the boys and me, spending any time together to let her believe that she has not missed out on anything since she moved away. She doesn?t like to be left out.

When my mother stopped trying to pick out my clothes and left the morning chore up to me, I ignored the rules of fashion and blended the line between acceptable outfits for girls and those for boys. Because my brother?s athletic shorts and t-shirts were always included and because I always slicked my hair back into a low ponytail at my neck, it was easy for others to confuse me with a pre-pubescent boy. My family?s thick eyebrows, which I did not know how to properly pluck, didn?t help much either. Meanwhile, my sister was a high school student who followed all the latest trends with big hoop earrings, choker necklaces, midriff-revealing cameo tank tops, and overly distressed bootleg denims. When I came out of my bedroom in the mornings before school, she never failed to pick at the areas of my wardrobe of which I felt most insecure, like the shorts that hung loosely off my hipless frame and the helpless mess my hair became the more I refused to brush it through. I was becoming more and more aware of who in our family was the ugly sister.

The summer before she was pregnant, my sister refused to go shopping with me. By this time, I had figured out how to properly dress myself like a girl and was becoming a pretty stylish shopper. But when I wanted to share this new interest with my sister, she merely scoffed at my taste in fashion. I wasn?t offended, though, because I knew she was simply hiding her own insecurities. She had recently shied away from wearing clothes that showed off her womanly curves and fell into the habit of throwing on the same loose-fitting t-shirts and jeans. Though I never had the nerve to tell her, I thought it was silly. She might have weighed a little bit more than she did in high school, but she was still the most beautiful girl I knew.

At times when, as a kid, my giddy restlessness offended or annoyed my sister far beyond toleration, I would catch her scowling at me, her eyes so full of contempt that I wanted to shrink smaller and smaller until, gladly, I was gone from her sight. I still get the chills when I think of the sudden frigidity that would overwhelm the air between us at those moments, how quickly I had stopped wanting to do everything with her, wanting to be just like her, and began instead to fear her stifling glare of disapproval.

I often find it difficult to make eye contact with her when we get together for holidays or other family occasions. Instead, I watch her two kids play with toys on the living room floor while we chat in the kitchen at our parents? house. I listen to her talk about her first experiences as a mother, both the joys and the pains, and admire the warmth in her voice, the same kind of warmth that our mother always conveys when she speaks. She says that she can?t wait until I get married and have a family so that our kids can grow up together, just like we did with our cousins. Sometimes, I think we must remember our childhood together very differently.

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Mary Thompson is a student at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.?

Source: http://finelines.org/?p=951

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Handle the truth: Navigating knowledge in the web age

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Separating fact from fiction in the age of political spin and internet rumours can seem impossible. To navigate the modern information ecosystem successfully, you have to understand how knowledge spreads and evolves, as well as the irrational ways that people digest factual information. Read on to discover insights, tools and ideas that could help to reveal what to believe and what to disregard, ranging from politics to science.

Source: http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/23d58936/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Cspecial0Cnavigating0Eknowledge0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story01.htm

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Iran sees cyber attacks as greater threat than actual war

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Northwestern Kellogg gets the McKinsey treatment - Fortune - CNN

By John A. Byrne

(Poets&Quants) -- When Betsy Ziegler applied to Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in the mid-1990s, she was rejected outright. Ziegler, instead, got her MBA degree from Harvard Business School.

As Kellogg's associate dean of MBA programs and dean of students, Ziegler likes to joke that it took her 15 years to finally get inside the school. Since arriving little more than a year ago, however, the former McKinsey & Co. partner has swooped in like the master consultant she has been and turned over every rock and pebble in the place.

Ziegler, 41, isn't the only McKinsey partner to decamp at a business school. Only this year, former McKinsey partners took over the B-school deanships at Johns Hopkins University and Northeastern University. But Ziegler's role brings her much closer to the nitty-gritty operational details that can make or break a premier MBA program.

In all probability, it is the first time that a business school's core operations have been as meticulously examined and dissected. Ziegler has deployed early "engagement interviews," "touch point maps," "gap analysis," "product portfolio reviews," and even "exit interviews" with recent graduates to get under the hood of the MBA experience. Kellogg Dean Sally Blount calls her "an operations genius."

Ziegler is a frenetic dynamo and a self-described geek. Words tumble out of her like bullets from an automatic weapon. An inordinate whiteboard scribbler, she'll ferociously draw charts and diagrams to illustrate every point. "Give me a whiteboard and a pen and I go," she laughs. Facts and figures back up all assertions, opinions, and hypotheses. "I am a data monkey," she concedes. "I am used to using data to make decisions." That's why her team spent six months building a "business intelligence data architecture" that could spit out the answer to virtually any numbers-based question she posed.

Yet students, many of whom have dubbed her "Dean Z," have also forged close relationships with her. "One of the most defining things about Dean Ziegler is that she has an open door policy and students use it," says Jenna Giordano, a second-year MBA candidate who is president of the Kellogg Student Association. "So a lot of students have formed personal relationships with her."

All of this is in the service of ensuring that Kellogg, long known for having a student-driven culture with an emphasis on collaboration, can deliver the most distinctive MBA experience in the world. "When I say we want to deliver a distinctive student experience, my language is not relative to my six or nine peer schools," says Ziegler. "I want people to feel here how they feel when they fly Singapore Airlines, order room service at a Ritz Carlton, return shoes to Zappos, or walk into an Apple store. You feel embraced and supported and every single detail is thought about."

Ziegler says this in all seriousness and with a passion that confirms she is hell-bent on making it happen. "I know from my previous life that those companies all have a set of things that they all do. None of those things have anything to do with being a for-profit institution. They are things like hiring the right people, giving work meaning ? and improving what you do every day?."

When she started at Kellogg in June 2011, she spent her first four weeks doing what every McKinsey consultant does at the start of an assignment: learning what people in the organization already know. She met one-on-one with 90 Kellogg staffers "to know how they spend their time and their view of what impact they have on the students."

"I gave everyone the opportunity to be king or queen for the day, and I asked each person what three things they would do if they had the power. Those ideas formed the basis of my first-year priorities."

Putting the MBAs to work

It was during a lunch with students the month after Ziegler joined the school that she hit upon the idea to use Kellogg students to create consulting teams to dive deep into the school's operations. Over salads and sandwiches, one of the second-year students who had been a consultant said to Ziegler: "I want to learn how to lead consultants. First-year students want to be consultants, and clearly you need help. Can you come up with a project where you are the partner and we learn from you but I get to lead a team of students?"

Ziegler embraced the idea, creating three projects with three "partners" from the dean's office, three student managers, and 15 students who served as "consultants" -- five per team. Ziegler's group worked on the student experience. "They had two deliverables," she explains. "One, they had to give me a touch point map of all the interactions our students have with us, and two, they had to tell me what matters most to them and how we are doing against what matters. That is the killer chart. It gives me the foundation from which to build upon."

What mattered most? Leadership opportunities afforded by Kellogg's 98 active student clubs, which also got the highest performance grades. The worst scores, not surprisingly, went to food and facilities. So Ziegler has been pressing for renovations to Kellogg's Jacobs Center as the school's new home, now under construction, won't open until 2016. Kellogg has since gutted and completely renovated two major study rooms for students and spiffed up the prominent staircase that leads to the dean's suite. The school also has brought back the coffee cart with food and Starbucks drinks, added a broader selection of healthy snacks outside its deli, and included a salad and soup station in the main atrium where most students eat.

For each issue, Ziegler saw an opportunity for improvement. Kellogg, for example, found that alumni interaction was fairly important to current students. The school is now building a social network to connect alums with students, faculty, and administrators. The network will go beta in late December or early January. The school has also hired a new head of alumni relations who is meeting with students to strengthen interaction between MBA candidates and graduates. When an MBA has a summer internship in Dallas, efforts will be made to make sure the Dallas alumni club knows the student is in town.

The idea to do exit interviews of graduates came out of a town hall meeting at which a Kellogg MBA, who formerly worked for General Electric (GE) and had already landed a product manager job with Apple (AAPL), made the suggestion.

Ziegler took the idea to heart, enlisting the MBA to design the questions. She invited all of Kellogg's nearly 1,000 graduates to participate and ensured that only direct reports to Dean Sally Blount would conduct the interviews.

"It was very important that the senior team did it," she insists, because it signaled that everyone at that level cares. "Not every one on the senior team gets to spend a lot of time with students so we wanted them to hear what they have to say."

The school created 200 interview slots and filled all of them within a day. Ziegler herself did 95 of the 225 exit conversations in the bold red leather chairs in her office.

The interviews largely reaffirmed the value of Kellogg's close-knit culture. But the conversations also offered valuable insights, including the idea to have a fully dedicated staffer in Kellogg's career management center devoted to international students and domestic students who are looking for jobs outside the U.S.

Standing apart from the competition

Why is this stuff important? Ziegler puts it this way: there are about seven B-schools schools that are most often considered the best in the world: Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Kellogg, Chicago Booth, Columbia, and MIT Sloan.

"If you go to any of the top seven schools, you get three things consistently," she says. "You get a great academic experience, though the pedagogy may be different. You get an amazing alumni experience because you get access to an outstanding alumni networks. These schools have produced great leaders over decades and decades of time. And the third thing is that the likelihood of you getting a really good job is very high because the top recruiters are coming to each of these schools to find the best and brightest. The mix might be different at any one place, but recruiters really want the students who graduate from these schools. Those you get no matter what.

"What makes Kellogg differentiated is those four things plus this culture and community," Ziegler argues. "I characterize it as being one of partnership.... Our students deeply care about one another. A typical story I hear is about the students who say they were up for the same job at Orbitz yet they helped each other prepare for the job interviews. And then, when one got the offer, the other student who didn't sent a card and flowers congratulating the winner.

"That is something we really cherish and celebrate and need to continue to cultivate. Not every person wants that. That's okay. That's why there are lots of choices."

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Source: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/09/26/northwestern-kellogg-gets-the-mckinsey-treatment/

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Cincinnati Insurance Consolidates Executive Oversight of Insurance ...

Jacob F. Scherer, executive vice president of The Cincinnati Insurance Company since 2008, was named chief insurance officer.

His executive oversight responsibility for the insurance subsidiaries is expanded to include personal lines and reinsurance in addition to business insurance.

The company is consolidating under Scherer the responsibility for strategic oversight of multiple departments handling property casualty insurance sales, marketing, underwriting and related field services.

Scherer?s 28 years with Cincinnati and 38 years of service in the insurance industry include experience in sales and agency relationship management, field marketing and underwriting, life insurance marketing, agency perpetuation planning and management of a family-owned independent insurance agency.

The company also announced that Thomas A. Joseph, CPCU, is leaving the company today after 35 years of service. Joseph was senior vice president in charge of personal lines operations for The Cincinnati Insurance Company and president of The Cincinnati Casualty Company since 2008.

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Source: Cincinnati Financial Corporation

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Israel: U.S. must be firm on stopping Iran nuclear threat

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A senior Israeli official said on Sunday the United States should not wait for Iran to decide on building a nuclear weapon before it considers military action against the Islamic Republic

"When is the point at which it should be stopped? Just when the bomb is assembled on the tip of the missile and is ready for launch?" Dan Meridor, deputy Israeli prime minister with responsibility for nuclear and intelligence affairs, said in a radio interview.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who sees a mortal threat to Israel from Tehran, has hinted he could resort to war unless Washington and other world powers give Iran an ultimatum on curbing its uranium enrichment programme.

U.S. President Barack Obama has rebuffed Netanyahu's lobbying, opening a rift between the allies although they agree that Iran has yet to take the final steps of purifying uranium to military grade and assembling a warhead.

Tehran denies seeking the bomb, saying its nuclear projects are for peaceful energy and medical purposes. Diplomatic talks between it and world powers have so-far proved fruitless.

Speaking on Israel Radio, Meridor praised the Obama administration for its insistence that it will not allow Iran to get nuclear arms. But such shows of resolve must be emphasized, he said.

Iran could reach stage of nuclear development which would allow it to make a warhead quickly years in the future when the world's guard was down, he said.

"This demands clarification, to my mind, to make clear that even an Iran that is a decision away from nuclear weaponry, be it within days or weeks, is a nuclear-armed Iran," Meridor said.

The Israelis have made clear they sees the window of opportunity to strike Iran closing as it digs in and defends its facilities.

While not explicitly stating when they would consider Iran close enough to the nuclear threshold to warrant a war, Israeli officials say they are watching the pace of its fortification, its uranium enrichment to 20 percent purity - just short of bomb-fuel grade, and its production of enrichment centrifuges.

"I think the question is when the crucial stage is passed beyond which you will be hard-pressed to stop Iran from assembling a nuclear bomb," Netanyahu said in a Jerusalem Post interview published on Sunday.

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak accused Iran in May of pursuing a strategy that would allow it to build a bomb at 60 days' notice.

Israel refuses to confirm or deny its own nuclear capabilities, which are widely believed to include the Middle East's only atomic arsenal. Iran's eastern neighbor, U.S.-allied Pakistan, is also nuclear-armed.

(Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israel-says-u-must-firm-stopping-iran-nuclear-094311252.html

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Zscaler Offers Free Integrated Email and Web Security to Google Postini Users

September 13, 2012 08:59 AM?Eastern Daylight Time?

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zscaler, the Cloud Security Company, provider of the world?s largest secure cloud gateway, today announced it is offering its integrated email and web security services free for six months to all Google Postini customers. This in response to Google?s announcement that it will retire its Postini service and migrate existing customers to Google Apps, leaving those who don?t want to switch either vulnerable to spam, phishing and other email-security exploits, or faced with the difficult choice of migrating to an appliance-based solution that lacks real cloud security.

?Postini customers have a legitimate concern about their email security in light of recent Gmail account hacks?

?Postini customers have a legitimate concern about their email security in light of recent Gmail account hacks,? said Rebecca MacDonald, vice president of Marketing for Zscaler. "Even security analysts are recommending Postini users who want to make the switch wait until the second half of 2013 to allow Google time to address the transition. With Zscaler, Postini users benefit by gaining a full-featured email security solution today, plus the added protection of the Zscaler web security solution, which has been recognized as the leader and ?most visionary? in Gartner?s Magic Quadrant report for Secure Web Gateways, and awarded a 2012 Marketing Penetration Leadership Award by Frost & Sullivan.?

Recognizing that web and email security solutions are most effective when they are both integrated and delivered through the cloud, this free offering is an easy transition from Postini?s cloud-based service to Zscaler, with no hardware or software to install.

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Walk to fight breast cancer features Marymoor Park camp site

Andy Nystrom / Reporter

Christi Dudzik of Woodinville flashes a No. 1 sign to a friend at Marymoor Park on Friday afternoon after finishing her first day of walking in the Susan G. Komen Seattle 3-Day.

September 14, 2012 ? 4:43 PM

Christi Dudzik of Woodinville flashes a No. 1 sign to a friend at Marymoor Park on Friday afternoon after finishing her first day of walking in the Susan G. Komen Seattle 3-Day. Dudzik, who is participating in her eighth 3-Day, had one of her best friends die of breast cancer at age 36. This weekend, Marymoor will serve as a camp site for some of the 1,300 walkers. The park has about 500 pink tents, hot showers, food and more. The 3-Day is a 60-mile walk throughout the Seattle area for women and men who want to make a personal difference in the fight to end breast cancer.

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Maturitas publishes clinical guide on low-dose vaginal estrogens for vaginal atrophy

Public release date: 13-Sep-2012
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Amsterdam, September 12, 2012 - Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today the publication of a position statement by the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) in the journal Maturitas. The society published a clinical guide on low-dose vaginal estrogens for postmenopausal vaginal atrophy also including a summary of recommendations.

Vaginal atrophy is common after menopause and adversely affects quality of life in one out of every two women. This guide provides the evidence for the clinical use of low-dose vaginal estrogens for this condition, focusing on publications since the 2006 Cochrane systematic review. The guide concludes that low-dose vaginal estrogens are effective and that there is no need for added progestogens for endometrial protection if topical estrogens are used in the recommended doses. With regard to duration of use, recommendations vary among patients, but vaginal atrophy is a chronic condition and will recur on cessation of treatment. Thus annual review would be prudent.

These and other recommendations presented in the EMAS clinical guide are published in the article: "EMAS clinical guide: Low-dose vaginal estrogens for postmenopausal vaginal atrophy" by Margaret Rees, Faustino R. Prez-Lpez, Iuliana Ceasu, Herman Depepyre, Tamer Erel, Irene Lambrinoudaki, Karin Schenck-Gustafsson, Tommaso Simoncini, Yvonne van der Schouw, and Florence Tremollieres (10.1016/j.maturitas.2012.06.009). The article appears in Maturitas Volume 73, Issue 2 (October 2012) published by Elsevier.

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About the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS)

The EMAS promotes the study of midlife health through its journal, congresses, schools and website and encourages the exchange of research and professional experience between members. Using a range of activities and through its affiliates, the EMAS aims to guarantee and provide the same standard of education and information throughout Europe on midlife health in both genders. Recognizing the issues arising from increased longevity, the society also provides articles, patient information, web resources, and referrals for healthcare providers in the field and keeps its members up-to-date.

For more information go to: http://www.emas-online.org/

About Maturitas

Maturitas is an international multidisciplinary peer reviewed scientific journal of midlife health and beyond, publishing original research, reviews, consensus statements and guidelines. The scope encompasses all aspects of postreproductive health in both genders ranging from basic science to health and social care. www.maturitas.org

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include ScienceDirect, Scopus, Reaxys, ClinicalKey and Mosby's Nursing Suite, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai's Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

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Public release date: 13-Sep-2012
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Contact: Greyling Peoples
g.peoples@elsevier.com
31-204-853-323
Elsevier

Amsterdam, September 12, 2012 - Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today the publication of a position statement by the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) in the journal Maturitas. The society published a clinical guide on low-dose vaginal estrogens for postmenopausal vaginal atrophy also including a summary of recommendations.

Vaginal atrophy is common after menopause and adversely affects quality of life in one out of every two women. This guide provides the evidence for the clinical use of low-dose vaginal estrogens for this condition, focusing on publications since the 2006 Cochrane systematic review. The guide concludes that low-dose vaginal estrogens are effective and that there is no need for added progestogens for endometrial protection if topical estrogens are used in the recommended doses. With regard to duration of use, recommendations vary among patients, but vaginal atrophy is a chronic condition and will recur on cessation of treatment. Thus annual review would be prudent.

These and other recommendations presented in the EMAS clinical guide are published in the article: "EMAS clinical guide: Low-dose vaginal estrogens for postmenopausal vaginal atrophy" by Margaret Rees, Faustino R. Prez-Lpez, Iuliana Ceasu, Herman Depepyre, Tamer Erel, Irene Lambrinoudaki, Karin Schenck-Gustafsson, Tommaso Simoncini, Yvonne van der Schouw, and Florence Tremollieres (10.1016/j.maturitas.2012.06.009). The article appears in Maturitas Volume 73, Issue 2 (October 2012) published by Elsevier.

###

About the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS)

The EMAS promotes the study of midlife health through its journal, congresses, schools and website and encourages the exchange of research and professional experience between members. Using a range of activities and through its affiliates, the EMAS aims to guarantee and provide the same standard of education and information throughout Europe on midlife health in both genders. Recognizing the issues arising from increased longevity, the society also provides articles, patient information, web resources, and referrals for healthcare providers in the field and keeps its members up-to-date.

For more information go to: http://www.emas-online.org/

About Maturitas

Maturitas is an international multidisciplinary peer reviewed scientific journal of midlife health and beyond, publishing original research, reviews, consensus statements and guidelines. The scope encompasses all aspects of postreproductive health in both genders ranging from basic science to health and social care. www.maturitas.org

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include ScienceDirect, Scopus, Reaxys, ClinicalKey and Mosby's Nursing Suite, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai's Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

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Elsevier
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Protesters storm US Embassy in Yemen in new attack

SANAA, Yemen (AP) ? Chanting "death to America" and "death to Israel," hundreds of protesters angered by an anti-Islam film stormed the U.S. Embassy compound in Yemen's capital and burned the American flag on Thursday, the latest in a series of attacks on American diplomatic missions in the Middle East.

The string of assaults this week, in Yemen, Egypt and the storming of a U.S. consulate in Libya that killed four Americans, point to an increased boldness among Islamists who have become more powerful since last year's wave of revolts toppled authoritarian leaders.

The anger over the movie denigrating Islam's Prophet Muhammad has also put the region's new leaders ? some of whom are themselves Islamists ? in a difficult corner, between a base demanding a free hand to respond to the insult and U.S. pressure to crack down. In the past, protests have broken out over perceived insults to Islam from the West, but in Arab countries they never escalated to the degree of breaching embassies, suggesting now hard-liners feel they can act with impunity.

Yemen's president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, quickly apologized to the U.S. for the embassy attack and vowed track down the culprits, just as Libya's president did. Egypt's Islamist President Mohammad Morsi, who had been slow to speak out on Tuesday's assault on the embassy in Cairo, promised Thursday that his government would not allow attacks on diplomatic missions.

U.S. officials suspect the Libya assault may have been a planned terror operation rather than a spontaneous mob assault. While protesters in other countries were unarmed, a crowd bristling with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades overwhelmed the consulate in Benghazi late Tuesday, killing the ambassador and three other Americans.

Protests are also erupting in other countries. In Egypt, protesters clashed with riot police who had pushed them away from the embassy the night before.

In Iraq, several hundred Shiite hardliners protested in Baghdad's Shiite stronghold of Sadr City. The leader of an Iranian-backed Shiite militia that previously attacked U.S. troops, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, threatened anti-U.S. attacks.

The movie "will put all the American interests in Iraq in danger," the militia leader, Qais al-Khazali, told The Associated Press.

In Iran, about 50 protesters shouted, "Death to America," outside the Swiss Embassy, which looks after U.S. diplomatic interests in Iran. Riot police kept the crowd away from the building.

Hundreds converged Thursday on the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, which is heavily barricaded because of past al-Qaida-linked attacks on the compound. Yemeni guards at checkpoints on roads leading up to the compound did nothing to stop the crowd, said Ahmed Darwish, a witness who was at the scene.

The crowd swarmed over embassy's entrance gate. Men with iron bars smashed the thick, bullet-proof glass windows of the entrance building while others clambered up the wall. Some ripped the embassy's sign off the outer wall.

Inside the compound grounds, they brought down the American flag in the courtyard and replaced it with a black banner bearing Islam's declaration of faith ? "There is no God but Allah." They did not enter the main building housing the embassy's offices, some distance away from the entry reception. Demonstrators set tires ablaze and pelted the compound with rocks.

Yemeni security forces who rushed to the scene fired in the air and used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, driving them out of the compound after about 45 minutes and sealing off the surrounding streets.

The Embassy said nobody was harmed in the attack. "All embassy personnel are safe and accounted for," spokesman Lou Fintor said.

Hadi, the president, offered his "sincere apologies" for the attack and promised to catch those behind it. He said the attack was carried out by a "rowdy crowd" as part of a conspiracy to derail Yemen's close relations with Washington.

The assault appeared to be a copy-cat of the protest Tuesday night at the U.S Embassy in Cairo, when angry youths climbed the walls and brought down the flag, though they largely refrained from any material damage.

Yemen is home to al-Qaida's most active branch and the United States is the main foreign supporter of the Yemeni government's counterterrorism campaign. The government on Tuesday announced that al-Qaida's No. 2 leader in Yemen was killed in an apparent U.S. airstrike, a major blow to the terror network.

The spreading violence comes as outrage grows over a movie called "Innocence of Muslims" produced by anti-Islam campaigners in the U.S. that mocked Islam's Prophet Muhammad. The amateurish video was produced in the U.S. and excerpted on YouTube. It depicts Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman in an overtly ridiculing way, showing him having sex and calling for massacres.

Egyptian protesters clashed Thursday with police near the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. Police used tear gas to disperse the protesters and the two sides pelted each other with rocks. But unlike Tuesday, the police kept the protesters away from the embassy's compound.

The Interior Ministry, which is in charge of police, said 16 protesters and 13 policemen were wounded in the clashes, which broke out overnight and were ongoing. Twelve protesters have been arrested, it said.

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, speaking while on a visit to Brussels, vowed on Thursday not to allow attacks on foreign embassies in Cairo, saying the Egyptian people reject such "unlawful acts."

Afghanistan's government, meanwhile, sought to avert any protests as past anger over perceived insults to Islam has triggered violence in the country.

President Hamid Karzai canceled an official visit to Norway and spoke by phone with U.S. President Barack Obama to convey his condolences for the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other diplomats, a statement said. He also discussed the "film and the insulting of holy Islamic values," but the statement provided no other details.

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Associated Press writers Slobodan Lekic in Brussels and Lara Jakes in Baghdad contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/protesters-storm-us-embassy-yemen-attack-143500133.html

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5 Important Things That You Should Know About FDA Reporting For ...

Medical device manufacturers, device distributors, and healthcare facilities are required to submit annual reports to the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) regarding the safety of medical devices or other products. Although this process is time consuming and requires a lot of data gathering, it does have a great influence on the overall wellbeing of the US healthcare system.Read below to find out why FDA reporting for safer these products is important.

1. Although the FDA does put drugs and medical devices through a safety test before approving their release on the market, only a small batch out of each product is tested. Some issues may remain undiscovered during the testing period and appear only when the medical product is used at a larger scale. Reports submitted by manufacturers or by healthcare facilities can help the Administration intervene in time, before too much damage has been caused.

2. Personally assessing every single medical product is a virtually impossible task to accomplish, even for a large organization such as the FDA. The manpower and the amount of money the Administration would have to invest in order to do this are unimaginable. The annual reports submitted by manufacturers and device users help the Administration to focus only on situations that have proven to be dangerous and not waste time or money on evaluating perfectly safe medical equipment.

3. Reports submitted by medical device manufacturers and distributors help the FDA stop the release of certain, potentially hazardous, pieces of equipment to the general public. This can prevent people from getting hurt or even lose their life. Even if the device or drug has already been used on patients, the FDA still has the ability to limit its usage so no further harm can be caused.

4. Reports submitted regarding unsafe products help the FDA weed out the faulty medical products or correct their malfunctions if possible. In this way, the Administration strives to improve the overall safety of these products used in the United States and to increase the faith of the general public in FDA approved products.

5. By accepting reports from various sources, such as healthcare providers, manufacturers, distributors, and patients, the FDA can easily store and analyze data regarding a large variety of these products. The database the Administration has created based on the reports it receives allows any interested party to research the safety of a certain medical device or drug. The fact that report data is made public helps promote a safer and more transparent healthcare system, which both medical professionals and patients alike can trust.

The FDA reporting for safer products program was created as a means to make the US healthcare system a more secure environment and to protect the wellbeing of American patients. Taking into consideration all the reasons listed above, the importance of submitting reports to the Administration regarding unwanted effects of medical products in undeniable: it reduces costs, it saves time and most importantly, it guarantees the safety of these products available on the market.

To learn more, visit our website about FDA Reporting for Safer Medical Products today and bookmark it to share with others!

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