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NACD Communications Specialist Bill Berry represented conservation in a panel discussion featuring NRCS leaders and Field to Market staff. Berry’s session underscored the value of partnerships, allowing attendees to voice successes and potential improvements to conservation programming.
Following the summit, Field to Market – of which NACD is a member – held its annual plenary meeting and celebrated its 10th anniversary. Berry and NACD Director of Development Melisa Augusto participated in those business meetings and also used the time to introduce NACD to new corporate partners.
In observance of Thanksgiving, the NACD Washington, D.C., office will be closed Thursday. We hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday! All of us here at NACD are thankful for you and your service to conservation.
Speaking of being thankful… One of the best ways to show your appreciation for locally-led conservation is by becoming a Friend of NACD here on our website. You can also give back to conservation every time you make a purchase on Amazon.com during your Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping by linking your account to NACD. Click here to make the connection through Amazon Smile.
NACD’s Forestry Notes has a new look!
If you are interested in receiving Forestry Notes – now a monthly publication with an updated look! – head over to our website. There you’ll find archived editions of Forestry Notes and an online form you can use to subscribe to the news service.
Interested in learning about State Forest Action Plans?
State forestry agencies use State Forest Action Plans to assess natural resources and develop strategies for improving forest health, wildlife habitat, and water quality as well as reducing wildfire risk. Some states use public input to identify priorities for private landowners, tribes, communities, and other groups. You can learn about the plans and how you can engage in the input process by watching this newly archived webinar hosted by the Joint Forestry Team.
Calling all Soil Health Champions!
NACD has $1,000 stipends available for Soil Health Champions to attend NACD’s 2017 Annual Meeting in Denver. Champions can use their stipends to pay for travel costs, hotel accommodations, meals, and even their meeting registration! So far, 18 stipends have been reserved, leaving only 12 stipends left. If you are a Soil Health Champion and would like to attend our upcoming annual meeting, reach out to North Central Representative Beth Mason before the December 15 deadline.
NACD Director of Projects and Partnerships Rich Duesterhaus met with representatives from The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company last Thursday to provide feedback on the company’s Water Positive Landscapes program and to share best practices with other organizations partnering in the effort. One of the primary benefits the Water Positive Landscapes program provides NACD members is funding for monthly urban and community conservation webinars, organized by NACD’s Urban and Community RPG and Deb Bogar.
Arkansas has named its top Envirothon team for 2017! The first place trophy went to Marshall High School’s A Team of Marshall, Arkansas. The state’s Envirothon competition took place at the University of Central Arkansas’ campus in Conway, Arkansas, yesterday.
The winning team, coached by Dorothy Taylor, will represent the state at the 2017 international Envirothon held in Maryland July 23-29, 2017. Pictured, from left to right, are team members Clay Horton, James Housley, John Taylor, Garrett Harris, and T.J. McElfish.
There are so many ways to work on handwriting without actually using a pencil. You probably know the face your child makes when you suggest a little handwriting practice. It's a cross between "NO!" and "Why???!!!" Anyone who has worked with a child who struggles with handwriting knows this face. But, what if I told you there were ways to work on the skills needed for handwriting and pencil grasp that don't actually require a pencil?
It's true! Kids can strengthen the fine motor skills and bimanual skills needed for handwriting legibility and written work through activities that develop skills such as fine motor strength, precision, bilateral coordination, eye-hand coordination, and even posture and core stability.
Want to get a printable handout that contains creative activities to develop these skills? It's a free offer this week only from the Functional Skills for Kids therapy team. You can grab the free three page handout here and pass it on to therapists, teachers, and parents who are looking for fresh ideas to improve handwriting in fun ways.
Grab your copy of Motor Activities to Improve Handwriting HERE.
These are just a FEW ideas that you can try to work on handwriting and pencil grasp skills.
Print off the printable handout for a checklist-type list of activities that can be used as a home program for therapists. School-based OTs will love to add these checklists to their toolbox of resources that can be shared with teachers and parents. It's a great explanation sheet for helping parents and teachers understand the underlying skill areas that go into handwriting and pencil grasp.
This printable handout is a tool you need in your therapy binder to copy and share again and again!
What are your favorite ways to work on the skills needed for written work and pencil grasp? Share them in our private handwriting Facebook group, Sweet Ideas for Handwriting Help.
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The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Korea (CanCham Korea) hosted its annual Maple Gala on the evening of March 21, 2014 at the Banyan Tree Club and Spa in Seoul.
More than 200 guests from Canada and Korea attended the black tie affair. They included Canadian Ambassador to Seoul David Chatterson, Chairwoman Genny S. Kim of Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Korea, Sen. Yonah Martin from British Columbia, and former Korean Prime Minister Chung Un-Chan .
“We sincerely thank you for many attendances including general manager of Air Canada Young Lee, President Amy Jackson of American Chamber of Commerce in Korea, president Kim Hang-Kyung of Korea-Canada Society, etc.” said Genny Kim, canCham Chairwoman.
She said as well: Additionally another special thanks to sponsors such as Air Canada, Bombardier, Jouviance, LG Electronics, Shin&Kim, Natural Factors, etc.
Upon recently-concluded FTA between Korea and Canada from her standpoint as CanCham chairwoman, she mentioned that the Korea-Canada Free Trade Agreement would bring bilateral dynamic growth for the business communities of the two countries.
Starting his welcoming remarks with comments regarding the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Korea and Canada last year which were filled with many commemorative events, Amb. Chatterson said: “Bilateral relations have blossomed over the last 50 years, grounded in our strong political and economic partnership and cooperation."
"With more than 50 years of diplomatic relations between Canada and South Korea, a free trade agreement is the natural next step in a dynamic relationship between two nations committed to economic growth and development through free trade,” the Canadian envoy said.
"I am very pleased to see more increasing partnerships with Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Korea like tonight's event, hoping continuing friendship between the two countries and for the CanCham members to enjoy good food and wine during the function all the time," he added.
After Amb. Chatterson’s welcoming remarks, special screening "The Feast of Aurora" by Astro-photographer O-Chul Kwon provided participanting guests with fantastic aurora scenes of Canada.
By her toast, Sen. Yonah Martin from British Columbia, Canada who was on hand, also congratulated Korea-Canada FTA conclusion as a milestone to pave the way for the prosperity between the two countries.
Canada-born new age pianist Steve Barakatt enthralled guests with his sweetish special performance including Rainbow Bridge Story.
Last but not least, lucky draw and cocktail hour by SKYY became pleasant times to enhance amusement and to harden friendship between chamber members until the Maple Gala was finalized by late night.
The Canadian Chamber is a non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing a strong Canadian community in Korea and to promote Canadian business interests.
Founded in 1995, the Chamber opens its membership to Canadians and Koreans alike.
It organizes a number of fun and informative networking and social events each year, while also advocating on behalf of the Canadian business community and in close collaboration with the Canadian Embassy on a range of issues.
As of March 12, 2018, we will no longer be updating or maintaining the WannaCrypt Patch (MS17-10) collection. Even though we’ve removed the collection from the Collection Library, there are still ways to identify and keep computers patched.
It’s been nearly a year since the mass hysteria after WannaCrypt and its nasty host of friends hit newsstands. If you need a refresher, we previously posted about this vulnerability here.
First, maintaining the collections each month takes up valuable resources and time. These would be better put to use making PDQ Deploy and PDQ Inventory even more powerful than they already are—not that we’re biased or anything.
Second, you are already patched for the WannaCrypt vulnerability if you’ve been regularly applying Microsoft Windows Updates to your machines. Microsoft released the patches for the MS17-10 vulnerability a year ago in March of 2017, with a few exceptions (looking at you, Windows XP). For more information, refer to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-010 – Critical.
Many of you have been using the WannaCrypt Patch (MS17-10) collection to determine whether any machines on your network are vulnerable. If you currently have any collections, schedules, reports, or other references pointing to the WannaCrypt collection, you will need to update those to prevent incorrect or accidental deployments. I’m going to walk you through an easy way to stay current.
The Windows Updates collections in the PDQ Inventory Collection Library identify which computers do not have the most current cumulative update or monthly rollup. Remember, the most recent Windows Updates include the WannaCrypt patches, as well as the patches to mitigate other vulnerabilities.
We recommend using these collections along with PDQ Deploy to automate Windows patch management. Our products are designed to work together to automatically deploy updates to the computers that need it; a true set-it-and-forget-it.
If this is the first time you’re hearing about Auto Download packages, take a look at all of our Auto Download videos.
We recommend downloading two Windows Update packages from the Package Library; one for testing and another for production. This allows you to deploy the most current Windows updates to a pilot group of computers (perhaps belonging to your IT colleagues) to ensure that the update doesn’t break any of your end-users’ critical applications.
Open the package and add to the name for identification purposes (optional).
Change the approval setting to Immediate (Package Properties > Options tab).
The second Windows update package will be for the rest of your environment.
Using a Manual approval setting will allow you sufficient time for testing to ensure the Windows Updates don’t make it out to any end-users until after testing is complete. However, if you know the amount of time the testing will take, you can select a set number of days with the Automatic approval setting.
Download a second Windows update package.
(Optional) Add identification to the package name.
Now that you have two identical packages with different approval settings, you just need to set up a schedule. The schedule won’t deploy the new versions of packages until after approval.
Here is a video that walks you through establishing a schedule.
To ensure these packages deploy to computers that need the update, you can link to the PDQ Inventory Windows Update collections we discussed earlier.
Once you’ve created the schedules, the test package will be approved immediately after the update is released and deployed. You can then approve the production package for mass deployment to the rest of the organization once you are reassured no critical applications are affected.
With this setup, the newest version of the Windows Update packages will auto download each month, and the scheduled deployment will only go out to the computers missing the update as defined in PDQ Inventory.
I found an interesting article here.
The article itself is pretty cut and dry, a bunch of butthurt dumb asses complaining to their superiors. What’s interesting is the response their superiors gave. Which I have the pleasure of showing you.
This is in response to the New Year’s Eve hack of the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association website by Anonymous, a loose knit band of cyber experts who have gained access to other law enforcement association sites including PORAC and many other international corporations.
Thats the first paragraph now let me narrow down the interesting part.
Remember when they used to call us a bunch of teenagers that have a bit of motivation but can’t do anything?
To think how much they change their tones, they now know the truth.
3rd March 2015 - A new UN report on the global drug situation has highlighted the widening rift between countries on the issue of the death penalty for drug offences. These tensions are set to surface as Member States convene in Vienna next week at the annual meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the UN policy making body on drug control issues.
The Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), released today, calls upon States that ‘continue to impose the death penalty for drug-related offences to consider abolishing the death penalty for such offences’.
The statement comes just a week before the annual meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the UN policy making body on drug control issues, and underscores an issue that has become increasingly volatile among members of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in recent years. Indeed, attempts to craft a joint resolution on drugs at last year’s meeting nearly fell apart amidst heated debates between Member States on including language against the death penalty.
The death penalty for drugs looks to again be a major point of contention at the 2015 Commission meeting next week. A recent spate of executions in Indonesia has turned the world’s attention to the practice, with the killings of Dutch and Brazilian nationals prompting those governments to recall their Ambassadors from Jakarta. It remains to be seen how these diplomatic tensions will influence the States’ relations during the Commission meeting.
But it is not just Indonesia’s actions that are bringing these tensions to the fore. A number of other countries have demonstrated a renewed enthusiasm for executing drug offenders over the past year: Iran has escalated drug related hangings, Pakistan has resumed executions and Oman has proposed to introduce capital punishment for drug crimes. A protest to end the use of the death penalty for drugs will take place outside UN headquarters in Vienna during the Commission meeting.
The statement from the INCB -- a body of independent experts that monitors the implementation of the international drug control treaties -- reinforces a similar call the group made one year ago, which added its voice to those of other UN authorities, including the Secretary-General, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), who have called for ending the death penalty for drug offences.
Ironically, although the UNODC has publicly spoken out against the death penalty for drug offences, the agency has been linked to funding aggressive anti-trafficking operations in several death penalty States, and a number of donor governments have publicly acknowledged the link between UNODC counter-narcotics funding and death sentences. In recent years the United Kingdom, Denmark and Ireland all resolved to end funding UNODC programmes in certain countries while the death penalty is still enforced.
“The death penalty for drug offences represents the sharp end of the world’s failed war on drugs, disproportionately punishing the vulnerable while failing to tackle entrenched forces of crime and corruption. We welcome the growing number of UN bodies willing to condemn this unjust and ineffective punishment, but these positive sentiments must be backed by effective action if we are to stem the rising tide of states seeking to put drug offenders to death.
A side event organised during the Commission meeting by the NGOs Reprieve, Harm Reduction International and the International Drug Policy Consortium will specifically examine links between international and UN aid and death sentences and executions for drug offences.
Why Many Businesses Choose to Incorporate in Nevada.
Nevada is a very attractive option for businesses choosing to incorporate. Here are a list of the top reasons to consider it even if your business is not based in Nevada.
Nevada Protects the Corporate Veil.
Nevada offers it’s corporations great protection for its board of directors, even if you are the only member on the board and own all of the shares. In the last 24 years the Nevada courts have only allowed the corporate veil to be pierced twice, and both were for outright fraud cases. In comparison, one out of very two cases in California.
Nevada does not exchange information with the IRS.
The only other state to do this is Texas. Keep in mind that if you must register your corporation in another state, the state laws there will apply.
Currently the filing fees with Nevada are $125.
Nevada offers protection of Board of Directors from shareholder lawsuits.
The shareholders must prove gross negligence in order to find the Board of Directors liable. And to prove gross negligence is to pierce the corporate veil in Nevada.
In Nevada, you must only have a legal purpose to form a corporation or LLC.
Meaning, a person could form a Nevada LLC to hold personal assets. It is not required that the LLC have a business purpose to form.
There is no joint and several liabilities.
This means that if a judgment is entered against several defendants, they will each assume equal liability for the full amount of the judgment, regardless of their relative fault in causing the problem. In Nevada, courts are required to assign a percentage of faults to each defendant. And each defendant is only liable for their percentage.
One person can hold all of the corporate positions.
Nevada Protects the Board of Directors and Officers.
In 1987, Nevada passed a law permitting corporations to place their own provisions in their Articles of Incorporation that can eliminate the personal liablity of the officers and directors to the stockholders. Furthermore, this provision is automatic in Nevada.
Members are not required to be listed in state records.
Stockholders, directors, and officers are not required to be US citizens or live or hold meetings in Nevada.
Next post: Why Incorporate Your Business.
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