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Provides information on how to start a variety of businesses, including everything from a cupcake vendor to a dog treat business, as well as a list of “how to” guides to starting a business in many other popular industries.
The Canadian Registry of Therapy Animals and Service Animals (CRTASA) is a newly established centralized registry service in Canada aiming to ease the access to public places for owners and their officially trained working animals. To become a CRTASA member and to obtain an official CRTASA Photo ID Card that will help confirm rightful ownership of your official working animal and its working status please visit: www.crtasa.com.
I just LOVE techie toys and this one is my most recent discovery. One True Media allows you to create short multi-media videos with just the click of a few buttons. And it's a FR!EE service, as long as you stick to the standard features (which I have so far). I'm going to walk you through how to use it.
Step 1) Upload your photos and/or video clips.
Step 2) Edit your photos and/or videos (move them around for zooming and focal point and setting order of display).
Step 3) Select your "style" (theme, colours and types of transitions between photos and/or videos, etc).
Step 4) Select or upload your audio file (either music or a narration or whatever).
Step 5) Preview your "montage" they call it. If it's good to go, then save it and
Step 6) Post it to Facebook, YouTube or any one of a few other social media sites. You can even email it to people.
Here's a link to the one I made last night in less than 30 minutes for my step-daughter Alison (she's such a joy to me). Alley's Montage.
If you'd like to add captioning to the video you'd have to add the text to the photos prior to uploading. You can do that using a fr!ee program called Paint.NET. Download Paint.NET.
Let me know what you think!
Till next time, take self-care seriously and God bless.
Conceive, Believe and then Receive! Because you CAN!
Trish:-)
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This is an impressive article about a 5-year study done at Stanford University on the impact of coaching and self-management practices on people living with chronic illness...
The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program is a workshop given two and a half hours, once a week, for six weeks, in community settings such as senior centers, churches, libraries and hospitals. People with different chronic health problems attend together. Workshops are facilitated by two trained leaders, one or both of whom are non-health professionals with a chronic diseases themselves.
Subjects covered include: 1) techniques to deal with problems such as frustration, fatigue, pain and isolation, 2) appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength, flexibility, and endurance, 3) appropriate use of medications, 4) communicating effectively with family, friends, and health professionals, 5) nutrition, and, 6) how to evaluate new treatments.
Each participant in the workshop receives a copy of the companion book, Living a Healthy Life With Chronic Conditions, 3rd Edition, and an audio relaxation tape, Time for Healing.*
It is the process in which the program is taught that makes it effective. Classes are highly participative, where mutual support and success build the participants’ confidence in their ability to manage their health and maintain active and fulfilling lives.
The Self-Management Program will not conflict with existing programs or treatment. It is designed to enhance regular treatment and disease-specific education such as Better Breathers, cardiac rehabilitation, or diabetes instruction. In addition, many people have more than one chronic condition. The program is especially helpful for these people, as it gives them the skills to coordinate all the things needed to manage their health, as well as to help them keep active in their lives.
The Division of Family and Community Medicine in the School of Medicine at Stanford University received a five year research grant from the federal Agency for Health Care Research and Policy and the State of California Tobacco-Related Diseases office. The purpose of the research was to develop and evaluate, through a randomized controlled trial, a community-based self-management program that assists people with chronic illness. The study was completed in 1996.
The research project had several investigators: Halsted Holman, M.D., Stanford Professor of Medicine; Kate Lorig, Dr.P.H., Stanford Professor of Medicine; David Sobel, M.D., Regional Director of Patient Education for the Northern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program; Albert Bandura, Ph.D., Stanford Professor of Psychology; and Byron Brown, Jr., Ph.D., Stanford Professor of Health Research and Policy. The Program was written by Dr. Lorig, Virginia González, M.P.H., and Diana Laurent, M.P.H., all of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center. Ms. González and Ms. Laurent also served as integral members of the research team.
The process of the program was based on the experience of the investigators and others with self-efficacy, the confidence one has that he or she can master a new skill or affect one’s own health. The content of the workshop was the result of focus groups with people with chronic disease, in which the participants discussed which content areas were the most important for them.
Over 1,000 people with heart disease, lung disease, stroke or arthritis participated in an randomized, controlled test of the Program, and were followed for up to three years. We looked for changes in many areas: health status (disability, social/role limitations, pain and physical discomfort, energy/fatigue, shortness of breath, psychological well-being/distress, depression, health distress, self-rated general health), health care utilization (visits to physicians, visits to emergency department, hospital stays, and nights in hospital), self-efficacy (confidence to perform self-management behaviors, confidence to manage disease in general, confidence to achieve outcomes), and self-management behaviors (exercise, cognitive symptom management, mental stress management/relaxation, use of community resources, communication with physician, and advance directives).**
Subjects who took the Program, when compared to those who did not, demonstrated significant improvements in exercise, cognitive symptom management, communication with physicians, self-reported general health, health distress, fatigue, disability, and social/role activities limitations. They also spent fewer days in the hospital, and there was also a trend toward fewer outpatients visits and hospitalizations. These data yield a cost to savings ratio of approximately 1:4. Many of these results persist for as long as three years.***
Trainings for representatives of health care organizations are 4½ days. There are 3-4 trainings scheduled at Stanford University each year. Click "Training" on the menu to learn more.
*Both Living a Healthy Life With Chronic Conditions (3rd edition) by Lorig, Holman, Sobel, Laurent, González and Minor (2006), and the Time for Healing audio tape by Catherine Regan can be ordered from Bull Publishing.
**A complete report on the measures used and their psychometric properties can be found in Outcome Measures for Health Education and Other Health Care Interventions, by Lorig, Stewart, Ritter, González, Laurent and Lynch, Sage Publications, 1996.
***Outcome data reported in:
Lorig KR, Sobel DS, Stewart AL, Brown Jr BW, Ritter PL, González VM, Laurent DD, Holman HR. Evidence suggesting that a chronic disease self-management program can improve health status while reducing utilization and costs: A randomized trial. Medical Care, 37(1):5-14, 1999.
Lorig KR, Ritter P, Stewart AL, Sobel DS, Brown BW, Bandura A, González VM, Laurent DD, Holman HR. Chronic Disease Self-Management Program: 2-Year Health Status and Health Care Utilization Outcomes. Medical Care, 39(11),1217-1223, 2001.
In HMO setting: Lorig KR, Sobel DS, Ritter PL, Laurent D, Hobbs M. Effect of a Self-Management Program on Patients with Chronic Disease. Effective Clinical Practice, 4(6),256-262, 2001.
Reproduced from: http://patienteducation.stanford.edu/programs/cdsmp.html
There is a basic SSA. gov document for 2010 that explains the "how and when" to report base levels and changes in sources of income and assets.
I've been told that one should be very careful around disclosing income from family that supplements SSI benefits because some family assistance is allowed while other assistance has to be reported under SSI's income and assets guidelines. The penalties for underreporting or not reporting are severe, and you are expected to know the difference between what's reportable and what's not. A road towards discovering what's kosher and what's not kosher starts, out, first, with authoritative information from SSA itself, in its written publications.
Camera Mouse is a free program that enables you to control the mouse pointer on your computer screen just by moving your head. It was developed by researchers at Boston College and Boston University to help people with disabilities use the computer. It is available for free download, with no gimmicks or advertisements, because they want to help as many people as possible. The main audience for this program is people who do not have reliable control of a hand but who can move their head.
Offering the computer and technology training you need for life – absolutely free! Whether you’re new to the computer, returning for review, or want to use technology to enhance your skills, GCFLearnFree.org has something for you.
GCFLearnFree.org® is supported by the Goodwill Community Foundation, Inc (GCF®) whose mission is "to create and provide education, employment, and life enrichment opportunities for people who desire to improve the quality of their lives".
Ever wondered how long will it take to pay off your credit cards, loans and other debt? I know it's scary to think about the long-term financial impact of debt but until we look at it, that debt remains a ball and chair around the ankle and limits our full potential in life. I dare you to dive in and take a good look at the reality. I've even found you a tool to make the task as painless as possible.
All those calculations give me a headache so I thought you might feel the same. The good news is I've found an online caclulator that you can use to enter all your credit cards, loans and other debts one at a time, each with their respective interest rates, minimum payments as well as your anticipated monthly payments. It gives you the total number of months to pay off each debt as well as a running total of your debt and time required for debt retirement.
I just love fr^ee online tools, don't you? Check it out here:
Here's to your financial health!
Trish:-)
PS... If you need some help developing a plan of action for paying down your debt, be sure to shoot me an email at trish@changingpaces.com.
Have you ever come across content on a website that you would like to read in more depth but don't have the time at that moment? Sure, you can add it to your favorites in Internet Explorer, but there's a better - and free - alternative. Instapaper allows you to save your favorite web pages to a personal password-protected account where your content is stored for later viewing. Once you access your account, you're given the option of viewing the original web pages in either a html or text format. Another great feature of Instapaper is that you can e-mail or forward links or long e-mail messages, such as newsletters, directly to your Instapaper account to save for later reading.
Check out other applications such as Instapaper Text at Extras. Note - the Read Later Bookmarklet does not work with Internet Explorer but can be installed on other browsers such as Chrome, Firefox or Mozilla. Instapaper applications are available for the iPhone, iPad and Kindle which gives you an idea of how we will use e-reader technology in the future.
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