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Sage Solutions, LLC Lauches New Website Dedicated to Helping ...
Sage Solutions, LLC is proud to announce the launch of a new website today dedicated to helping older adults improve their quality of life. Kathryn Freda established Sage Solutions in 2002 by specializing in Eldercare Consulting, Family Conversations, Wellness Workshops and Wellness Assessments designed to offer better life strategies for her clients.
James mistakenly felt that his parents needed to move to an assisted living facility where his father could get better care. He believed that his mother was stubbornly insisting that they remain in the home when his father clearly needed to be in a setting where professional assistance was available. She asserted (correctly) that his father?s physical ailments would disqualify him for an assisted living facility and it would be unaffordable ? excuses he did not think were plausible.
In order to find the help she needed to get skilled help and improve her relationship with James, Anne enlisted the help of Kathryn Freda, Eldercare Consultant and owner of Sage Solutions, LLC. Kathryn recommended that she facilitate a Family Conversation during which Anne and James could develop feasible strategies that would enable Anne and her husband to remain in their home. The Family Conversation included mother and son, a close family friend, a social worker and an in-home care provider.
Kathryn led the meeting and ensured that everyone had a chance to present his or her ideas to the group. By the end of the meeting, Anne had very clear action steps to take to remain in her home and provide proper care to her husband. James?s attitude toward his mother and her goals was completely changed as well. He agreed with the plan and thanked Kathryn for her help.
Anne was thrilled with the outcome of the Family Conversation. ?James didn?t have any faith in me or my ability to know what was best. He wouldn?t listen to me at all. We were at a stalemate. After Kathy led the meeting, my son was a different person. He trusts me now. I cannot thank Kathy enough for breaking through to him and helping us execute a plan that really works,? she said.
Kathryn Freda has been helping older adults and their families improve their lifestyle by optimizing the services and options available to them for over 17 years. This experience, coupled with a master?s degree in human development and gerontology provides her with the expertise and experience to work with her clients. Whether they are looking for a roadmap to achieve their life goals, or need help figuring out what the road ahead will look like, Freda can help them to get there. To learn more about Kathryn Freda and Sage Solutions, please visit us @ http://www.sagesolutions.com.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Google dreams up tiny laser projection system to control Project Glass
A virtual touchpad projected onto limbs and other everyday surfaces? That's the type of crazy idea we'd normally expect to see from Microsoft Research, not Google. Heck, maybe we even did. But Google has applied to patent the concept specifically in relation to Project Glass. The system would use a tiny laser projector mounted on the arm of the spectacles to beam out QWERTY and other buttons, and then the built-in camera and processor would try to interpret finger movements in the region of those buttons. Hey presto! No more fiddling with your face.
Filed under: Displays, Wearables
Source: USPTO
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
AP Exclusive: Army seeks to bar any mental health defence by Bales in Afghan massacre
SEATTLE - The U.S. Army seeks to bar Staff Sgt. Robert Bales from using any sort of mental health defence to charges that he slaughtered 16 Afghan villagers last year because he has refused to take part in an official review of his sanity, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Bales, a father of two from Lake Tapps, Wash., is due to appear Thursday morning in a military courtroom at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle, where his lawyers say he will plead not guilty. Bales is accused of leaving a remote base in southern Afghanistan early on March 11, massacring adults and children in two villages, and burning some of the bodies ? attacks which drew such outrage that the U.S. temporarily halted combat operations in the country.
In court documents provided to The Associated Press by John Henry Browne, one of Bales' lawyers, military prosecutors argue that Bales should not be allowed to have any expert witnesses testify about what effect his mental health might have had on his guilt. Nor do they want any expert to testify during the penalty phase of the trial, should it get that far, as to whether any history of traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder should spare him the death penalty.
The reason: His lawyers have refused to allow him to participate in a "sanity board" review.
Such reviews are conducted by neutral doctors tasked with discerning a defendant's mental state at the time of the crime and whether he's competent to stand trial. Bales, who grew up in Norwood, Ohio, was serving his fourth deployment in a war zone, and his mental health has been expected to be a key part of the case.
"An accused simply cannot be allowed to claim a lack of mental responsibility through the introduction of expert testimony from his own doctors, while at the same time leaving the government with no ability to overcome its burden of proof because its doctors have been precluded from conducting any examination of the very matters in dispute," Maj. Robert Stelle wrote in a motion Jan. 3.
Alternatively, Stelle wrote, the judge should order Bales to immediately undergo the sanity review.
Bales' attorneys have said he may have suffered from a traumatic brain injury, possibly when he lost consciousness when an improvised bomb went off during one of his tours in Iraq. They have thus far refused to let him take part in the sanity board because the Army would not let him have a lawyer present for the examination, would not record the examination and would not appoint a neuropsychologist expert in traumatic brain injuries to the board.
However, in a reply to the government's motion, one of Bales' lawyers, Emma Scanlan, wrote Tuesday that Bales will participate ? as long as only certain information about the results are forwarded to prosecutors. Prosecutors should promptly receive findings about his current competence, but nothing about his mental state at the time of the attack, she wrote.
That information should not be turned over to the government until Bales' defence team actually gives notice of their intent to use a mental-health defence or to have an expert testify, Scanlan said.
"There is no authority for the bizarre proposition that the accused has to submit to a compelled mental health examination before he gives notice of a mental defence," she wrote.
It wasn't clear whether the Army would agree to those conditions. The sides are expected to argue the issue before the judge on Thursday.
The court filings provided to the AP are supposed to be public, according to lawyers who specialize in military law. However, in this and other courts-martial, Joint Base Lewis-McChord has refused to provide them to reporters, leaving civilian defence attorneys as the only source for records that can be key to the outcome of cases.
Among other issues raised in the documents is the date for Bales' court martial. Prosecutors are arguing to set the trial quickly ? for June 10 ? because many witnesses remain in a volatile part of Afghanistan. Two possible witnesses have already been killed in separate and unrelated attacks, they noted, and as American troops withdraw, access to those witnesses is only going to get tougher and more dangerous.
"Simply stated, with each day that passes, the government's right to a fair trial is further jeopardized," they wrote.
Scanlan called that unrealistic, given how much time the defence team needs to review more than 30,000 pages of discovery materials, and find and interview witnesses ? not to mention getting their own client to open up. The defence has suggested a May 2014 trial date.
"Without adequate time to develop the relationship of trust required for effective representation in a capital case, counsel may never learn or be able to present the most crucial facts about the accused, facts without which any possible understanding of his actions is impossible," she wrote.
She noted that Bales' case was formally referred to a court martial just last month. For the last five U.S. courts martial where the death penalty was a possible punishment, the average elapsed time from date of referral to date of trial was one year and eight months, she wrote. Setting Bales' trial for this June would be a record pace, she suggested, and would risk harming the quality of his legal defence.
The documents also show that Bales' lawyers requested the appointment of a neuropsychologist to the defence team after a forensic psychiatrist who had already been appointed, Dr. Thomas Grieger, reported that he didn't have the expertise to evaluate Bales for traumatic brain injury. The Army refused, saying the defence hadn't shown that such an appointment was necessary.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-army-seeks-bar-mental-health-defence-085233714.html
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Former Army psychologist critical of military commits suicide
Peter Linnerooth, 42, killed himself Jan. 2 in Mankato. He was an Army psychologist who received a Bronze Star upon his 2008 discharge. He was critical of the U.S. Army's work in providing mental health care to soldiers.
Peter Linnerooth was an affable, punctual and conscientious graduate student at Minnesota State Mankato. He later earned a doctorate degree, became an Army psychologist and was deployed to Iraq during the height of the war. When he returned to Mankato, Linnerooth was a paranoid and disorganized assistant professor.
He went to Iraq to help U.S. troops deal with the damage post-traumatic stress disorder inflicts, but upon return, he also was in the clutches of PTSD, said his mentor Dan Houlihan, professor director of Minnesota State's School Psychology Doctoral Program.
On Jan. 2, Linnerooth, 42, killed himself in Mankato.
Linnerooth was awarded a Bronze Star after an honorable discharge in 2008 and became critical of the military's limited work on providing mental health care to soldiers, especially to those with PTSD, in the pages of Time magazine and the New York Times. Capt. Linnerooth will be buried with full military honors at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 14, at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
"He was really, really suffering," Linnerooth's widow, Melanie Walsh, told Time for its story on his death. "And it didn't matter that he was a mental health professional, and it didn't matter that I was a mental health professional. I couldn't help him, and he couldn't help himself."
Houlihan was Linnerooth's adviser as he earned his graduate degree and later sought to hire Linnerooth after his military service, which began in 2002. Linnerooth was an assistant
professor at Minnesota State Mankato for about 18 months in 2008 and 2009, where he concentrated on "clinical interpersonal dynamics," according to his school biography."When he went in and when he came out, it was shockingly different," Houlihan said of Linnerooth's military service. "He had very clear symptoms of PTSD."
Houlihan and Linnerooth shared an office wall in Mankato, and Houlihan knew Linnerooth was in his office whenever he heard the motor of his paper shredder.
After Mankato, Linnerooth continued his work on the mental health of soldiers and returning veterans, especially those suffering from PTSD, with Veterans Administration medical centers in Capitola, Calif., and Reno, Nev.
His writing appeared in the medical journal of the American Psychological Association.
"That was the most vivid thing that stood out: He was a brilliant writer," Houlihan said. "He was the best pure writer I've ever dealt with. He had a writer's flair."
After his career as an Army psychologist, Linnerooth was critical of the Army and its response to the mental health needs of soldiers. In a 2010 interview, he lambasted military leadership for not being more connected with on-the-ground troops and for not allocating more resources for mental health programs, Time said.
"The Army has been criminally negligent." Linnerooth said.
In a 2009 New York Times article, Linnerooth said during his deployment in Germany, he was the sole psychologist for a community of 10,000 people in 2005. In the article, Linnerooth told a story about how he had treated a burly man whose job in Iraq was to recover the bodies of soldiers, and how one instance particularly haunted the soldier.
"He had picked up this corpse that was so badly burned, it weighed about 20 pounds," Linnerooth said. "He was this big, tough, awesome guy. For him, it was like picking up his daughter. That was an extreme case. But you get those at least once or twice a week."
Larry Shellito, commissioner of Veterans Affairs for Minnesota, didn't know Linnerooth but talked about the reach and grip of PTSD.
"Oftentimes, you have to look at the people that surround the people with (PTSD) to make sure they are also OK, because it's got a multiple impact," Shellito said. "It's not just the individual who suffers, it's the people who care for him."
Retired psychology professor Wayne Harris got to know Linnerooth when he worked as Harris' graduate assistant.
He recalls Linnerooth as bright, witty and "very conscientious."
"Really, he was just the type of person you'd want to be helping people, but that takes a personal toll," Harris said Saturday from his Minneapolis home. "He needed some support in his role, too."
Linnerooth was a psychologist with the U.S. Army in San Antonio; Schweinfurt, Germany; and Iraq, where he was stationed for 18 months. His time in the Middle East, which spanned 2006 and 2007, was a period of escalating conflict and increased presence of U.S. service members called "the surge." His Bronze Star was awarded for "meritorious service" in a combat zone.
"Having intellectual knowledge doesn't protect you from the effects of seeing things ... seeing people in difficulty, seeing people in pain, seeing people severely injured. Those memories are with you for a long time," Harris said. "There is no immunity from that."
He added that the effects of PTSD can strike long after the disorder's onset.
"Those scars are still there, and if things start falling apart in your life, those scars are going to have an effect," Harris said.
Houlihan said the scars came from being thrust into helping assist during surgeries after combat.
"If they had wounded people, he would scrub up and be in there," Houlihan said. "There is no training in psychology to prepare for that. And he saw things that he couldn't reconcile."
According to a friend quoted in Time, Linnerooth lost his job with the Veterans Affairs department in Reno when he missed a two-year deadline to get his state psychologist's license.
"He would have periods where he could get into something (at work), but then he would slip back into it" -- the effects of PTSD, Houlihan said. "It was a struggle."
Linnerooth also had started struggling in his second marriage, Time said.
Houlihan said Linnerooth's work should have focused on writing instead of working as a therapist.
"The military needs to be more up front to help people prepare, and Peter never lived to tell people that," Houlihan said.
Linnerooth was born in Minneapolis, grew up in Mankato and attended high school in Rochester, according to his obituary. He obtained degrees from Concordia College in 1992, Minnesota State Mankato in 1995 and the University of Nevada, Reno in 2004.
Time said Linnerooth is survived by his wife, Melanie; his mother, Gayle McMullen; three children, including two from a previous marriage; and two stepchildren.
See Time magazine's obituary on Linnerooth at nation.time.com/2013/01/11/dr-peter-j-n -linnerooth-1970-2013.
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Monday Motivation, Jan.14/2013 - Sales Shift
"Softchoice is entering into its 5th year working with Jill Harrington and Lorella Depieri?The consistent feedback is that this is ?the best sales training? many have ever received? Lorella and Jill have tailored a world-class sales methodology to our business environment and created an interactive facilitation format that is outstanding. We are confident that it shows in the results in terms of seasoned reps uncovering new opportunities within days of training completion and reps of all experience levels closing bigger more strategic deals within a matter of months? The SLS program has been a direct contributor to our sustained growth."
"I can honestly say I learned more in 3 days than I had in 3 years of Business School! You put some confidence behind the potential and I can't thank you enough."
"Jill, you are truly making a difference in people's careers. I am sure you hear this all the time, but I have to tell you that you are brilliant at your profession. As an attorney, I have been subjected to countless hours of "training," and I can honestly say that your course was the most beneficial and enjoyable that I have ever taken... you have truly changed my perception of selling. Thanks for everything."
"The combination of sales training, reinforcement clinics, coaching initiatives, coupled with Jill's contribution as a speaker at our national sales and marketing conferences, has raised the bar within our team in terms of how we look at our sales efforts. We have moved away from being task oriented sales people to becoming a strategic sales team. The sales planning and support tools were critical in the continuance of our learning and application of training after the sessions were completed. Overall, we became a better sales force as a result of this partnership."
"Jill, I wanted to drop you a quick thank you note regarding the most recent CSP training. I have been getting glowing comments on how fantastic the training was and also on how wonderful the instructor was. Everyone I have spoken to regarding the training felt it was a valuable use of their time and that it would definitely help them advance their sales cycles. Thanks again for all of your dedication in making this program a success."
"Jill is an inspiration ? her knowledge, style, energy and enthusiasm should be bottled and sold. By far the best sales training that I?ve ever been through, and I?ve done the Xerox sales training!!"
"Jill, just wanted to reiterate that the SalesSHIFT presentation that you presented today at the SITE Education day was absolutely fabulous and key to sales success. The topic, message and delivery were excellent! The message was simple yet so powerful that I walked away inspired, motivated and ready to implement the directives from the presentation. In fact, I'm following through on revisiting a client conversation to fully understand their point of view based on my learnings at your presentation... Thank you for delivering a strategic and vital sales message that is critical to the success of individuals and businesses.'
"I was less than enthusiastic to attend yet another 'sales training', as this was probably the 15th throughout my career. Jill Harrington?s qualities as a business person, a communicator and seasoned sales leader quickly turned things around for me. Without question, one of the best trainers I?ve ever met."
"On behalf of the coaches (and the coaches before them!) a heartfelt thank you for all your efforts to help us grow this business, and more importantly for how much you really care about our people."
"Jill is rock solid in her delivery and an expert in her field. The content is not only educational but extremely entertaining as well. If you are interested in improving sales in your organization, you owe it to yourself and your company to talk with Jill."
"Jill has worked with our Sales and Service teams with fantastic results each and every time. Jill presents passionately, professionally and with great clarity. Her post-training follow up is exemplary and ensures that we get phenomenal value from each experience."
"Thank you again for taking the remainder of our team through the CSP training. Changing an individual?s process in a profession like ours is only possible when you gain absolute buy-in to the concept and you develop a deep rooted belief in the rep that applying this process will prove success in every outcome... Your amazing ability to send seven people back to me that were wholly committed to this program makes my job easier."
"What?s changed for me is that for every important client meeting, I review my notes from your training just to remind me to always put myself in the clients shoes and to always focus on what is important to them so that I can do my best to satisfy their requirements?so far it has paid off more than I could have ever imagined. I?ve been selling in various industries for 16 years now?I only now feel like a true professional! Thank you so much?no BS, I truly attribute much of my recent success to your training!"
"Jill has trained three of my teams in the past five years for various companies and she consistently delivers valuable, relevant and useful sales techniques and ideas. She is a true professional sales trainer who kept my goals and objectives in mind throughout the four day session. Jill?s approachable style will put the most fragile and non-confident sales people at ease and allow for true learning to take place. Within days of the training I observed first-hand the shift in my sales team and the wins that we scored. Thanks Jill- looking forward to a follow up refresher day in the future."
?I consider myself a so called seasoned professional and let me tell you ? I am enjoying your (webinar) training. Yes it?s reinforcing what I already know but I haven?t needed to do any new business development prospecting in a long time and frankly I?ve gotten rusty. The session on Friday was excellent. I immediately updated my LinkedIn profile following the meeting. Goes without saying ? you can use me as an advocate for your training any time. Thank you.?
?Based on the feedback I received from John and a few of the attendees, it sounds like the session last week was extremely well received! Jill thank you for your hard work and thorough preparation. I had one of the Relationship Managers say to me, "she really knew her stuff!" ? thank you once again for a "top shelf" experience!?
"JIll's approach was exactly what the client needed. It was focused, informative, energetic, interactive and tailored to the issues the client was trying to behaviorally change. Her commitment to insuring the client got the desired results was evident. She would be an asset to any organization looking to improve their sales performance."
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Biden to meet with NRA to discuss gun safety
Vice President Joe Biden, with Attorney General Eric Holder at left, speaks during a meeting with victims' groups and gun safety organizations in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Biden is holding a series of meetings this week as part of the effort he is leading to develop policy proposals in response to the Newtown, Conn., school shooting (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Vice President Joe Biden, with Attorney General Eric Holder at left, speaks during a meeting with victims' groups and gun safety organizations in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Biden is holding a series of meetings this week as part of the effort he is leading to develop policy proposals in response to the Newtown, Conn., school shooting (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Dan Gross, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, center, speaks outside the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, following a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, victims? groups and gun safety organizations in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex. From left are, William Kellibrew, Witness to Violence & Founder William Kellibrew Foundation; Hildy Saizow of Arizona for Gun Safety; Colin Goddard, a survivor of Virginia Tech shooting; Annette Nance-Holt, mother of victim to gang violence; and Lonnie Phillips, stepfather of a Aurora, Colo., shooting victim. Biden is holding a series of meetings this week as part of the effort he is leading to develop policy proposals in response to the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Vice President Joe Biden, center, with Attorney General Eric Holder at left, speaks during a meeting with victims' groups and gun safety organizations in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Biden is holding a series of meetings this week as part of the effort he is leading to develop policy proposals in response to the Newtown, Conn., school shooting (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Vice President Joe Biden, fourth from right, with Attorney General Eric Holder at his left, speaks during a meeting with victim's groups and gun safety organizations in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Biden is holding a series of meetings this week as part of the effort he is leading to develop policy proposals in response to the Newtown, Conn., school shooting (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration is sitting down with gun owners groups ? including the National Rifle Association ? as officials look at ways to curb gun violence.
Vice President Joe Biden, who is leading an administration-wide review of gun safety laws, has vowed urgent action in the wake of last month's massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.
The meeting with the NRA is one of three Biden has scheduled for Thursday, as he prepares to make recommendations on gun policy by the end of the month. Besides the NRA, Biden and other officials are meeting with sportsmen and wildlife interest groups, as well as people from the entertainment industry.
The NRA, the nation's largest gun-rights group, has blocked gun-control efforts in the past and is opposing any new ones.
Shortly after last month's shooting in Newtown, Conn., President Barack Obama tasked Biden with heading a commission to come up with recommendations on gun policy by the end of January. Obama supports steps including reinstating a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and closing loopholes that allow many gun buyers to avoid background checks.
Biden, who met with representatives of victims groups and gun-safety organizations Wednesday, said officials are considering steps that could "take thousands of people out of harm's way" and improve the safety of millions more.
"I want to make it clear that we are not going to get caught up in the notion that unless we can do everything, we're going to do nothing," Biden told groups including the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "It's critically important we act."
Biden faces a tougher audience when the NRA joins other gun-owner groups and retailers including Wal-Mart. NRA officials didn't return messages for comment Wednesday, but the group's executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, has dismissed the assault weapons ban as "a phony piece of legislation" and has recommended putting armed guards in all schools as a way to stop another school shooting.
Biden said he wanted to hear from "all parties, on whatever side of this debate you fall."
In a nod to political realities that could imperil sweeping gun-control legislation, Biden said the administration is weighing executive action in addition to recommending legislation by Congress.
Recommendations to the Biden group include making gun-trafficking a felony, getting the Justice Department to prosecute people caught lying on gun background-check forms and ordering federal agencies to send data to the National Gun Background Check Database.
The Brady Campaign says that some 40 percent of gun sales are made without background checks, such as at gun shows and over the Internet.
The shootings in Newtown, in which 20 children and six adults were killed by a man with a military-style semiautomatic rifle, have prodded the administration to act. Obama had remained largely silent on gun control after the 2011 shootings in Tucson, Ariz., that killed six people and wounded 12 others, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and the Colorado movie theater killing of a dozen people and wounding of many more last July.
Biden, referring to the Newtown shootings, said at the White House, "Every once in a while, there's something that awakens the conscience of the country, and that tragic event did it in a way like nothing I've seen in my career."
Biden said he and Obama are determined to take action.
"We can affect the well-being of millions of Americans and take thousands of people out of harm's way if we act responsibly," he said.
The president hopes to announce his administration's next steps to tackle gun violence shortly after he is sworn in for a second term.
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Associated Press writers Erica Werner, Darlene Superville and Julie Pace contributed to this report.
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