The personal development professionals at the Self Development Site have announced a new free report on the importance of personal development in honor of the 2012 Mental Illness Awareness Week.

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This mental health week was designed to help more people around the nation understand the serious issues surrounding mental health needs and the way in which personal development can help people overcome certain mental health set backs. Numerous celebrities such as Catherine Zeta Jones and Brooke Shields have been adamant on bringing attention to mental health in the past few years and have helped compound the efforts of the National Alliance on Mental Issues to promote mental health awareness during this week long event.

The new report from the Self Development Site will work to compound the efforts of this mental health week and help those who may need some personal development assistance find ways to do so. The report will detail how self development can help individuals in all areas of their live including their careers, relationships, parenting and finances. The new report, which is being offered for free in time for the 2012 Mental Illness Awareness Week is currently available on the company website for free.

To find out more about the company and the best ways to seek professional personal development services visit the company website online at http://selfdevelopmentsite.com/.

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CPI(M) toes Buddhadeb line, bats for industrialisation The CPI(M) will not only facilitate land acquisition for private projects, it will even play the role of a ?provider?, Gautam Deb Ishita Ayan Dutt / Kolkata Oct 04, 2012, 15:10 IST

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee may not be the lone voice in favour of industrializing Bengal within the CPI(M), any more. For him, its always been a personal battle for Bengals development; or, at best a battle fought by him and his deputy, Nirupam Sen. No longer, though. Going by what former housing minister, Gautam Deb, said recently, the CPI(M) will not only facilitate land acquisition for private projects (if it is back in power) , it will even play the role of a provider.

Deb was not alongside Bhattacharjee, when he courted big private capital (foreign and domestic) openly. Not that Deb was ever against private capital, his claim to fame being the township at New Town in Rajarhat.But defeat appears to have brought them on the side.

Land, considered to be scarce for industrial projects in Bengal, is available, but there are no takers. For instance, of an 1150-acre industrial park at Kharagpur, only 540 acres has been allotted, and Telcon accounts for half of it. At the 1458-acre Panagarh Industrial Park, Matix has been allocated 500 acres and H&R Johnson 66 acres. The rest is available, according to the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) website.

So is industrialization CPI(M)s poll plank for panchayat elections? Of course, we will talk about it. Why should we not? Forget about fresh investments, they (the Trinamool Congress government) couldnt even keep the projects that we had bagged, a CPI(M) leader said.

The party, however, will build an argument for industrialization. The dismal state of the rural economy, reflected in farmer suicides, will be highlighted, and industrialization will be projected as the only alternative to come out of the stagnation in rural development.

Will people buy the argument? Will the fact that Singurs unwilling farmers are yet to get back their land make them reconsider their position? Will a united CPI(M) succeed in presenting a better case for industrialization. As of now, its anybodys guess.

Excerpts from Buddhadeb Bhattacharjees article on industrialization in Bengal published in January, 2007:

The opposition accuses us of having agreed to capitalist development. Is it possible to talk of socialist development in one state of our country? What we can do at the most in this structure is to bring in some alternative Left policies. This comprises land reforms, protecting public sector, some initiatives in education and health, and so on. The Party Congress and the Central Committee have said that this means there is no need for foreign investment where we have the technology. We are not to allow FDI in retail trade. Do we need foreign entrepreneurs to sell our agricultural products as one Indian entrepreneur told us some time back?

IBM, Cognizant, and GE Capital have evinced interest in investing in the IT sector and we need their units. We will await the final denouement of the software debate. We must do something about our young men and women who are computer-literate and know English.

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THREE Faversham Swimming Club squad members received speeding tickets during the recent Dover Development Gala.

These tickets are presented to swimmers who exceed the race entry times as specified by the Amateur Swimming Association.

MAKING A SPLASH: Faversham swimmers finished fifth overall at the Dover gala

Young Molly Stemp collected her ticket for a dynamic dash in the girls' 11yrs 50m breaststroke, touching home in a personal best time of 47.18.

Emily Holt's sprint in the girls' 10yrs 50m backstroke earned her a ticket with a personal best time of 45.17.

Joseph Russell, meanwhile, collected his ticket for a high powered performance in the boy's 10yrs 50m backstroke, stopping the clock with a time of 45.50.

A number of Faversham swimmers recorded first place finishes. This included the 10yrs and under 4 x 25m mixed medley relay team, Ben Wall in the boy's 10yrs 50 metre freestyle, Harry McKenna in the boy's 10yrs 50m butterfly (a personal best time of 47.16), Rebecca Crouch in the girls' 1515 yrs 50m freestyle (another personal best, 30.76).

Second places went to Harry McKenna (boy's 10yrs 100m individual medley, pb 1.41.42), Rebecca Crouch (girls' 15yrs 50m backstroke, pb 38.08) and Ben Collins (boy's 15yrs 50m backstroke, pb 35.08).

Further personal best times were achieved by Lauren Scott (girls' 100m individual medley, 1.43.76, and 50m breaststroke, 58.06), Harry McKenna (boy's 50m breaststroke, 56.27), Emily Ing (girls' 50m freestyle, 46.41), Alice Searley (girls' 50m butterfly, 44.14, 50m freestyle, 36.91).

Faversham head coach Sharon Wenn said: "We only had 15 swimmers that could attend the gala and they all swam really well."

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PHILADELPHIA, October 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Interactive, online curriculumfor learners who provide care that promotes independent living for peoplewith physical disabilities and older adults

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that Elsevier's DirectCourse has expanded, adding a new curriculum, College of Personal Assistance and Caregiving (CPAC). This interactive, web-based curriculum is designed to train and educate personal care assistants, home care providers and family caregivers caring for people with physical disabilities and older adults to live independently in their communities. A pilot program has been launched in several states, including Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wisconsin and Tennessee.

CPAC was created by the Center for Personal Assistance Services at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), in collaboration with the University of Minnesota's Research and Training Center on Community Living and Elsevier. The curriculum, that currently includes more than 20 lessons, empowers organizations to provide their home care providers with a career path, increase their job satisfaction, and reduce turnover in the field.

Core lessons in the curriculum include:

"The inclusion of the CPAC curriculum in DirectCourse provides an unprecedented knowledge base for personal care assistance professionals," said Bill Tapp, Elsevier's DirectCourse Vice President. "This new curriculum offers organizations relevant tools and interactive capabilities required for advancement in today's workforce. Most importantly, CPAC provides a learning gateway for families, workers, and those who assist individuals with physical disabilities and older adults, enabling them to live independently in the community."

CPAC courses were created for consumers who are self-directing and are delivered and administered by Elsevier's industry-leading learning management system, Elsevier Performance Manager: Core Development. This makes it easy for administrators and supervisors to track progress, measure effectiveness, assign lessons and even create customized content.

"Building on the continued success of DirectCourse's online curricula, Elsevier is committed to advancing knowledge and skills in a growing number of working professionals in the best way possible," said John Schrefer, President of Elsevier's MC Strategies. "CPAC provides a robust, comprehensive knowledge base and will complement Elsevier's proven platform for educational and professional development."

About DirectCourse

DirectCourse is Elsevier's expansive suite of online curricula to train professionals who support people with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities, as well as older adults. DirectCourse is anchored by the College of Direct Support, an online curriculum for direct support professionals managed in collaboration with Elsevier/MC Strategies and the University of Minnesota's Research and Training Center on Community Living. In addition, DirectCourse contains the College of Employment Services, a new online training curriculum developed by the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston. http://directcourseonline.com/

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EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Oct 2, 2012) - An Edmonton Economic Development Corporation (EEDC) publication has been singled out for a national marketing award, as one of 160 submissions and earning recognition for EEDC''s work in generating awareness of Alberta''s capital city.

The economic development attraction brochure won in the Economic Developers Association of Canada''s 2012 Marketing Canada Awards program''s single publication category. Created in 1968, the national association of economic developers offers its members professional development, networking and resources.

"EEDC uses various tools to attract people considering relocation and this lure brochure highlights the opportunities in the region and our vibrant quality of life. We have a culturally diverse city and lead the world in innovation, education and medical research," says Jenifer Christenson, executive director of external relations. Included are Edmonton''s many festivals, world-class medical facilities, family-friendly neighbourhoods, strong education system, and arts and culture scene. "The brochure''s concise nature delivers critical information in a format that is direct and engaging," says Christenson. "Including testimonials from newcomers to the city lends a personal connection to the reader."

The brochure''s underlying message is that working, living or visiting Canada''s festival city is a positive experience- bringing to the surface Edmonton''s strong workforce, advanced education and vibrant arts and culture scene, upon which the city is built.

Edmonton Economic Development Corporation (EEDC) provides leadership in economic development, markets Edmonton as a must-see destination, manages the Shaw Conference Centre and Edmonton Research Park, and acts as a stakeholder in TEC Edmonton, a joint venture with the University of Alberta.For more information, visit http://www.edmonton.com Learn more about Edmonton through the stories of people who''ve experienced it at http://www.edmontonstories.ca

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CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - Insurance Noodle, part of Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings plc (WSH), the global insurance broker, today announced the availability of its immediate personal lines quoting hub. Expanding on the functionality of the company's commercial lines quoting hub, the offering allows insurance agents to login and complete an online application to get real-time quotes for home and auto risks in 38 states. The quoting hub connects member agents to products from highly rated personal lines carriers. Currently, five industry leading insurance carriers offer quotes via the hub, and the platform will feature additional carriers in the next few months.

Insurance Noodle is the distribution vehicle for the Willis Commercial Network North America, which provides products and services to small insurance agents and brokers nationwide.

"The release of Insurance Noodle Personal Lines means Willis Commercial Network (WCN) now offers agents a complete solution for their customers' property and casualty insurance needs whether home or business, personal or commercial," said Ralph Blust, Executive Vice President of Willis Commercial Network. "Our platform connects agents to standard personal lines carriers plus both the admitted and non-admitted commercial lines marketplaces. WCN delivers total access for the small agency from a single resource, saving significant time and effort while expanding their ability to write more business," he added.

The personal lines automated quoting platform has been pilot tested by existing members since July, with nearly 1,000 members adopting the platform within the first month. It is now being offered for widespread distribution to small agencies across the country. While available carriers vary by state, the platform delivers at least two options (on personal lines) for most locations.

Along with carrier access and fast quotes, the Insurance Noodle platform provides agents with an efficient means of accessing their Insurance Noodle book of business. All client records, quotes and policies from all carriers are stored in the member's profile on the Insurance Noodle website. Agents can quickly quote, bind, service, and renew business, all online. More enhancements to the network are in development. Agencies interested in signing up for Insurance Noodle Membership can visit http://www.insurancenoodle.com, call 888-466-8868 or email membership(at)insurancenoodle(dot)com.

About Willis Group Holdings

Willis Group Holdings plc is a leading global insurance broker. Through its subsidiaries, Willis develops and delivers professional insurance, reinsurance, risk management, financial and human resource consulting and actuarial services to corporations, public entities and institutions around the world. Willis has more than 400 offices in nearly 120 countries, with a global team of approximately 17,000 employees serving clients in virtually every part of the world. Additional information on Willis may be found at http://www.willis.com. For more information about Insurance Noodle, visit http://www.insurancenoodle.com or call 888-466-8868.

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Personal (www.personal.com), a web and mobile application for individuals to store and share their most valuable information, today launched the Personal Platform, a collection of developer tools and APIs that enable developers to build web and mobile applications that responsibly and securely collect, store and share highly sensitive user information. This information includes personally identifiable information (pii), as well as thousands of fields of data that are less sensitive. Announced at Masherys Sixth Annual Business of APIs (BAPI) Conference in San Francisco, the DC-based company also revealed that more than 150 developers have already signed up for the API at http://developer.personal.com/.

The Personal Platform includes several privacy and security enhancing features. Now, with just a few lines of code, developers can better protect themselves by using Personal to store and share sensitive information as well as increase their access to better customer data by encouraging users to manage their own information. These features include:

From the BAPI stage in San Francisco, Personals co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Tarik Kurspahic announced that the Personal Platform is already yielding results with several third-party applications ready to launch including:

All apps are better with access to great data. Personal Platform makes it easier, safer and cheaper for developers to follow best practices around privacy and security while building apps that leverage data responsibly, said Shane Green, co-founder and CEO of Personal. Developers can now give users clearer and more granular control over their information, which will help create a more robust and transparent personal data ecosystem that benefits both users and developers.

Today, Personal joined the ranks of companies that are realizing the vision of APIs to fuel competitive edge and growth, said Oren Michels, CEO of Mashery. Consumers in the post-website era can more easily work with businesses that leverage APIs like Personals, so that apps grant wishes for their customers.

About Personal

Personal (www.personal.com) gives individuals a web and mobile vault for securely sharing and storing data, notes and files so they can better manage their lives at home and work. Built on a privacy- and security-by-design platform, Personal helps individuals to properly leverage their data so they can realize the most value from it -- all with the peace of mind that the data in their vault remains legally theirs, they always know who can access it, and it can't be shared without their permission. http://www.twitter.com/personal.

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PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Health and wellness, leadership, and personal development take center stage at the ninth Pennsylvania Conference for Women sponsored by Independence Blue Cross (IBC) and held today at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia. At the annual women-to-women event, IBC leaders Kimberly Eberbach and Lorina Marshall-Blake will share their knowledge, experience, and insight with conference attendees and the company will host an exhibitor's booth in the Health and Wellness Pavilion.

Kimberly Eberbach, IBC vice president of wellness and community health, kicks off a series of presentations at 11:05 a.m. in the Health and Wellness Pavilion with a discussion about technology's role in our personal and professional lives. Her segment, "Tech Savvy Healthy Living," looks at web-based, texting-based, and telephonic tools, such as IBX Mobile and IBX Healthy Steps, which engage users in healthier living.

Eberbach will also host an important and relevant panel discussion about the physical and emotional aspects of dealing with aging. "Embracing Our Ever-Changing Body" will help attendees manage all aspects of the aging process from weight and nutrition to skincare and attire, while identifying how to make effective health decisions.

Lorina Marshall-Blake, IBC vice president of community affairs and president of the Independence Blue Cross Foundation, joins other corporate, community, and civic leaders in the Career Pavilion for a Local Leader Meet Up session at 11 a.m. During her 30-minute Meet Up session, Marshall-Blake will answer questions related to career and personal development. Local Leader Meet Ups are designed to give attendees access to leaders with whom they would not typically have an opportunity to talk and exchange ideas.

Throughout the day, IBC will offer giveaways, free body mass index screenings, strength testing, and an exciting chance to win box tickets for a Philadelphia Union game and an iPad4 for conference attendees who visit the IBC booth in the Health and Wellness Pavilion. Guests of the conference are encouraged to stop by the booth to talk about their health insurance needs, and to learn more about how IBC is changing the game. The pavilion opens at 7:30 a.m. and remains open until the conference closes at 5 p.m.

About Independence Blue Cross

Independence Blue Cross is a leading health insurer in southeastern Pennsylvania. With our affiliates, we have 3.1 million members nationwide. For nearly 75 years, we have been enhancing the health and wellness of the people and communities we serve by delivering innovative and competitively priced health care products and services; pioneering new ways to reward doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers for coordinated, quality care; and supporting programs and events that promote wellness. To learn more about how we're changing the game, visit http://www.ibx.com. Connect with us on Facebook at ibx.com/facebook and on Twitter at @ibx. Independence Blue Cross is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

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June 1, 2010

Jack Crenshaw

In the two decades or so that I've been writing this column, we've covered a lot of topics, ranging from the best implementation of abs(x) to CRC algorithms to logic theory, Karnaugh maps, and electronic gates, to vector and matrix calculus to Fourier and z-transforms to control theory to quaternions, and lots more. I even wrote about whether or not the ancient Egyptians really built the values of and into the Great Pyramid (they did. And , too).

Almost all of the topics involved math, but they also required software, either for embedded systems or just to illustrate a given algorithm. But I've never talked much about the way I write software. I thought the issue of my own personal software development methodology would be, at best, a distraction from the topic at hand and, at worst, a subject of great hilarity.

I've always known that the way I write software is different from virtually everyone else on the planet. Is this true for everyone? I don't have a clue.

That's why I thought it would be fun to share with you the way I write software. If you do it the same way, that's great. It would be nice to know that there are other folks who share my approaches. On the other hand, if it's not the same way you do it, we have three possible outcomes. Either you'll learn from me, and decide that some of my approaches have merit; I'll learn from you, and decide that I've been doing it wrong all these years; or my revelations will serve as a subject of great hilarity. Any of those outcomes, I submit, would be good. It's a win-win-win situation.

The environment Let's begin with the software development environment. In my time, I've used some really rotten development environments. I've worked with systems whose only I/O device was a Teletype ASR-33. We got so tired of emptying the chad-catcher on the paper tape punch, we just let it flutter to the floor. (At the end of the day, guess who got to sweep it up.)

I worked on one program where my only "compiler" was a line-by-line assembler (meaning that it didn't accept mnemonic names, only absolute addresses). The bulk storage device was an audio cassette. Just so we're clear, this wasn't a homebrew system I cobbled up out of old Intel 4004s. paper clips, and chewing gum. It was a system built up by serious, if boneheaded, managers in a very large corporation.

Perhaps because of these nightmare environments, I really appreciate a good one. I especially love using integrated development environments (IDEs), in which all the tools are interconnected, preferably by a lovely and fast GUI interface. I know, I know, real men don't use GUIs or IDEs. Some folks much prefer to use only command-line interfaces. and to write ever more complex and inscrutable makefiles.

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Fitness and Personal Development Guru John Spencer Ellis Wins Quilly Award from National Academy of Best-Selling Authors for The Wellness Code

John Spencer Ellis recently received a Quilly Award from the National Academy of Best-selling Authors for his book, The Wellness Code. The academy honors authors who have achieved best-selling status for their literary works.

The Wellness Code: Your Ultimate Guide to Health, Fitness and Nutrition was compiled by a select group of the worlds leading health and fitness experts and offers tips, tools and secrets for better health, fitness and wellness. The book can be purchased at Amazon.

As an author and business owner, I couldnt have been more thrilled to receive this honor and to accept my Quilly Award, said Ellis, founder of John Spencer Ellis Enterprises, a personal development and fitness solutions company. For the past 20 years, I have been incredibly passionate about offering health and wellness solutions to people around the world, and I believe that The Wellness Code can truly help people live healthier, better lives.

The Quilly Awards, which provide a 12-inch commemorative gold statue crafted by the same artisans who sculpt the Oscars and Emmy Awards, were founded by the National Academy of Best-Selling Authors to commemorate an authors achievement of being named to a nationally recognized best-seller list. The awards are exclusively distributed at the Academys Annual Golden Gala in Hollywood.

This years Sept. 26-28 event at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel also honored Jack Canfield, named Publishing Phenomenon of the Decade by Time magazine, with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Wellness Code discusses topics including diet and exercise, nutrition, physical and mental health, careers, healthy habits and more. It was published by CelebrityPress, a leading fitness and health book publishing company.

About John Spencer Ellis Enterprises John Spencer Ellis Enterprises is a solutions provider for fitness and coaching professionals around the world, providing education, turn-key business programs, coaching and resources for new and advanced fitness and coaching professionals. For more information about John Spencer Ellis Enterprises or The Wellness Code, please visit http://johnspencerellis.com/

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