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VA Recreation Therapy Offers Veterans Free Skiing Opportunity at Holiday Valley, NY

2/22/2019

As a service disabled Vietnam Veteran, I support local veteran groups. This announcement is from the VA Western New York Healthcare system and offers free skiing to veterans being treated in their system.

News from Western New York Healthcare System:

On Friday, March 1, 2019, veterans with disabilities will be treated to a fun day of skiing as part of VA Western New York Healthcare System’s Recreation Therapy activities and hosted by the Lounsbury Adaptive Ski Program at Holiday Valley Ski Resort in Ellicottville, New York. The ski program will kick-off from the Tannenbaum Lodge at Holiday Valley. Veterans enrolled in VA health care are welcome to participate and can register by calling 716-862-6814.

Ski passes and equipment are generously donated by Lounsbury Adaptive Ski Program at Holiday Valley. Disabled veterans can take part in stand up or adaptive skiing at no cost.

“This is a great partnership and winter activity for Veterans,” stated Pamela Kaznowski, Recreation Therapy Supervisor. “Recreation therapy offers so much to improve quality of life. This could be a Veterans’ first experience in winter sports and a day of camaraderie with fellow Veterans, giving them the inspiration to take their rehabilitation to a higher level.”

Image source: https://www.holidayvalley.com/explore/resort-map/

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International Trade and Investment Interactive Infographic

2/22/2019

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This link takes you to a sophisticated interactive infographic that explains International Trade and Investment:

https://toplink.weforum.org/knowledge/insight/a1Gb0000000LFX9EAO/explore/summary

To use the infographic, listen to the narrative first (the audio button on the top right). Then click on the circular nodes, such as "Digital Trade" or "Global Trade Architecture." This will take you to a new view of the graphic and descriptive text on the right.

Currently, I am teaching two undergraduate Strategic Management courses, and one graduate Strategic Management course. I'm also teaching two graduate courses related to international trade. This is the perfect infographic for my students, and for anyone wishing to gain a better understanding of contemporary trade issues.

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"How Facebook Stole Your Psychological Profile"

1/1/2019

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This is an article from Psychology Today, by Susan Krauss Whitbourne Ph.D. Here is the opening paragraph:

"As revelations continue to unfold in the latest Facebook scandal, we now know that millions of its users have unwittingly participated in research revealing details about their friends, their shopping habits, and their psychological profile, otherwise known as “psychographics,” or profiling of personality."

Here is the link to the full article:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201804/how-facebook-stole-your-psychological-profile

This issue is one of a few reasons I have left Facebook. Their networking tools are wonderful -- I had 2,200 Friends. But their psychological profiling, and their selling or sharing of those profiles, began to bother me to the point that I felt it necessary to give up the benefits for a little more control.

Could someone with the right expertise and software profile me by going through my personal website? Yep. But I have somewhat more control here, and I can monitor myself as well.

It is more work to share things here, so I'll have to be more thoughtful. Yet I regained substantial time now that I am not checking, reading, and posting on Facebook. I will miss my friends there. I hope they join me here.

Here is another excerpt from the Psychology Today article:

"It appears that these protections weren’t taken when Alaksandr Kogan, a University of Cambridge (England) psychologist who worked for Cambridge Analytica, partnered with Facebook to provide a means of profiling users (who had to opt-in) with a personality test assessing the Five Factor Model. This is a test that is widely used in legitimate research on everything from narcissism to psychopathology and every other personality constellation in between. There are short and long versions; this article* will lead you to some of these free versions."

* http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-personality-test-cambridge-analytica-data-trump-election-2018-3

How about a photo to brighten up your day?

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A new journey

12/21/2018

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This blog page will document my photography as I travel and teach globally. This is my replacement to Facebook.
Maybe not as fancy, but I promise I will not collect or sell your personal information to anyone. Please follow me. I'll try to entertain.
My first photo in the header here is from last summer from a visit to Olcott Beach.
In my website, I have two other blog pages you can follow:

Join me on all of these.
Happy 2019.

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