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On children's book author, Darcie Mae's, website - http://sammyandrobert.tripod.com - is a new page titled: The Peablys. The Peablys is a series of children's stories about little people that live in the woods of Maine. The first story in the series will be put up on: Sunday - August 1, 2010. A new story will go up each following Sunday. Read along and follow Bub & Sis Peably as they grow up. The stories follow seasons, holidays, and you'll even learn a little French.
I am proud to announce that I will be hosting a townhall meeting with community, business, and education leaders focusing on the consequences of Amendments 60, 61 and Proposition 101. These three issues will be on the ballot in November. I am hosting the discussion because I feel that it is essential that Coloradans should be informed about the aspects of these ballot measures, including their impact on our state's business, jobs, and schools. The three other participants at the discussion will be:
-RJ Hicks, Metro North Chamber of Commerce
-Jennie Belval, Board Member, Boulder Valley School District
-Sheila MacDonald, Coloradans for Responsible Reform
While supporters of these three initiatives were invited to participate in this roundtable, they declined our invitation. The discussion will be held on Saturday, July 24th from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM at the Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library located at 3 Community Park Road in Broomfield.
Eating Recovery Center (http://bit.ly/dCLIrZ), a national eating disorders recovery program providing comprehensive treatment for anorexia and bulimia, today announced the opening of a new outpatient location. Enabling Eating Recovery Center to expand its outpatient recovery services, the new Denver, Colo. office will offer integrated care for eating disorders in a flexible outpatient setting.
“This expansion allows Eating Recovery Center to offer patients a collaborative, team-based approach to outpatient eating disorder treatment,” said Kenneth L. Weiner, MD, CEDS, co-founder and medical director of Eating Recovery Center. “With access to a team of individual and family therapists, dietitians, and medical professionals, patients benefit from a well-rounded treatment experience that can help them achieve sustainable recovery.”
The outpatient clinical team works together to help individuals and families who are new to eating disorder treatment address disordered eating and body image issues before they have the chance to escalate. The clinicians are also committed to helping individuals who have been in a recovery program stay on track as they move into lower levels of care. The services offered include individual and family therapy, dietary counseling, psychiatric medical management, body
image and aftercare eating disorder support groups (http://bit.ly/bkZtR1), and an evening intensive outpatient program, which begins this month.
The evening intensive outpatient program is an integrated option for individuals who require more structure than individual counseling provides. Participants meet Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5 to 9 p.m. and take part in individual counseling, group therapy, nutrition education and multifamily therapy. They learn to break patterns that maintain their diseases and integrate sustainable changes into their lives. The timing of the program enables participants to integrate the skills learned in evening sessions into their daily lives.
“Eating disorders are complex conditions and every person’s experience with the disease is different,” explains Weiner. “The evening intensive outpatient program allows us to tailor treatment to the individual needs of each patient and promote successful recovery.”
Eating Recovery Center also operates a licensed behavioral hospital for adults with severe eating disorders, and will open an adolescent treatment facility in the Denver Lowry neighborhood in October 2010. All services are guided by the leadership and clinical expertise of Weiner and Emmett R. Bishop, Jr., MD, CEDS, co-founders of Eating Recovery Center and nationally renowned experts who have separately founded numerous other eating disorder programs (http://bit.ly/dCLIrZ) throughout the country.
The outpatient office is now open at 600 S. Cherry Street, Suite 600, in Denver, Colo. For more information or to make an appointment, please call 877-218-1344.
The world's largest maker of wind turbines, Vestas, is bringing over a hundred new jobs to our community, thanks to Colorado's commitment to a clean energy economy.
Vestas is locating its research-and-development facility in Louisville, where it plans to employ 75 to 125 engineers, scientists and support staff within the next year with an estimated payroll of $8 million.
Just last year, I supported one of the most aggressive tax incentives in state history for companies who bring new, good-paying jobs to the state and now with Vestas adding these jobs in our backyard, we’re starting to see the desired outcome.
This year, working with the state’s largest utilities, I helped pass legislation pledging 30% of its energy come from renewable sources like wind and solar by 2020 – the second highest goal in the nation. Vestas and our own local engineers will be a part of achieving this impressive goal.
Myself and my fellow Democrats in the state legislature have aggressively worked to diversify Colorado's energy portfolio, to drive innovation, and to train our workforce for tomorrow’s green-collar jobs. In the process, the state’s attracted more than 1,800 new companies, tens of thousands of new jobs, and millions in new investment to Colorado.
Vestas Technology is looking primarily for electrical and mechanical engineers, with open positions posted at monster.com or careerbuilder.com.
Education Corporation of America, a leading owner and operator of private higher education institutions in the United States, announced that Ecotech Institute kicked off its first day of coursework today. Ecotech Institute, based in Aurora, Colorado, is the first and only college focused entirely on preparing America’s workforce for careers in renewable energy and sustainable design. The school’s first class of students began their journey today as people of all ages dashed into classrooms, teachers passed out syllabi and Ecotech backpacks filled the hallways.
“Our announcement to launch in the Denver metro area was met with great enthusiasm, but today marks a greater step to becoming a part of the community,” says Michael Seifert, president of Ecotech Institute. “Our students can be proud to say that they were in the inaugural class in the first school of its kind.”
Ecotech Institute, which is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, is launching with seven highly practical degree programs and one certificate program that provide graduates with skills that are highly valued by today’s renewable energy employers, including:
· Electrical Engineering Technology, Associate of Applied Science
· Energy and Environmental Paralegal, Associate of Applied Science
· Energy Efficiency, Associate of Applied Science
· Environmental Technology, Associate of Applied Science
· Renewable Energy Technology, Associate of Applied Science
· Solar Energy Technology, Associate of Applied Science
· Sustainable Interior Design, Certificate Program
· Wind Energy Technology, Associate of Applied Science
In order to ensure students will graduate with the most practical knowledge and skills in the renewable energy and sustainable design industries, Ecotech Institute tapped industry experts and leaders to co-develop the academic curriculum and serve as advisors. “Our curriculum blends hands-on experience with the progressive knowledge required for working in today’s cleantech jobs,” adds Glenn Wilson, dean of students at Ecotech Institute and curriculum contributor. “Today is symbolic of the positive outlook that teachers, faculty, employers and the community have on the future of green jobs.”
Classes launched today in Ecotech Institute’s temporary facility in Aurora at Iliff and I-225. However, the transformation has begun on an existing large footprint building in Aurora that will open in January. The new campus will be a LEED-certified training facility with cutting-edge labs and technology-savvy classrooms. In addition to bringing the building up to LEED standards, Ecotech will also transform the vacant commercial building into a community asset.
To learn more about Ecotech Institute, visit www.ecotechinstitute.com. ; The next round of classes begins in October 2010 and applications are being accepted now. Financial assistance is available for those who qualify.
Boys and girls ages 6-12 are invited to attend Saeng Myong's Junior Tae Kwon Do Summer Camp July 12-16, 10:30am - 3:30pm. No prior training necessary! Students will practice basic martial arts techniques while making friends, enjoying games and activities and having fun! Cost is $140 per child; please bring a sack lunch all days.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, JULY 9. PLEASE CALL 720-566-0677 TO REGISTER ASAP!
Children’s Book: Full Color
3 More Fun Sammy & Robert Adventures:
Sammy & Robert See Amphibians, Reptiles,
Some Birds, And Some Insects Out Exploring A While
By: Darcie Mae
8 ½ x 11in. - 44 pages
ISBN# 978-1-4512-8648-9
Publish America: www.publishamerica.com
Author’s website: http://sammyandrobert.tripod.com
This is the 4th book in the Sammy & Robert series of fun, rhyming, and educational children's stories. In this book there are 3 full length stories.
The first story is entitled: Sammy & Robert See Amphibians & Reptiles. In this story the two squirrels are out exploring and come across a place where some amphibians and reptiles are kept. They go in, see, and learn about a few of each. A frog, salamander, alligator, and some snakes are a few.
The second story is entitled: Sammy & Robert See A Bird Sanctuary. In this story Sammy & Robert are exploring one day and come across a bird sanctuary. They go in, see, and learn about an albatross, eagle, owl, and peacock to name just a few.
The third story is entitled: Sammy & Robert Learn About Some Insects. In this story Sammy, the big gray squirrel, and Robert, the small red one, walk around one day finding and learning about some insects and bugs. An ant, beetle, bee, fly, and mosquito are a few. The time of year is fall, the weather is getting colder, and food is harder to find. By the end of the story Sammy is starting to think it is time to go home, and get Robert home- who depends on him for food and warmth at night.
Look not only for Darcie Mae’s Sammy & Robert children’s books, but her Mother Mouse books as well.
Mother Mouse ISBN# 978-0-9817521-8-1
3 stories that teach manners, measurements, & shapes.
Mother Mouse: Book 2 ISBN# 978-0-9822560-7-7
2 stories that teach opposites & ways of transportation.
Mother Mouse Tells Mice Kids A Thanksgiving Story ISBN#978-1-936046-30-0
Teaches to be thankful for what you have and to share with those in need.
Sammy & Robert (Book 1) ISBN# 1-60474-811-7
1 story that teaches you can be different, how this should not matter, and
though different you still can be best friends.
Sammy & Robert’s Animal Adventures (Book 2) ISBN# 1-60703-987-7
2 stories. One teaches about farm animals, & the other about a zoo with mammals and about herbivores, carnivores, & omnivores.
Sammy & Robert Discover The Ocean (Book 3) ISBN# 978-1-61546-827-0
3 stories. In the first they visit a beach, the second they go out on the ocean in a boat, and in the third they snorkel and learn about crustaceans & mollusks.
Books are available on the web at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, wholesalers, and on many other websites. You can also have your favorite book store order the books for you.
Email the author at : sammyandrobertbooks@yahoo.com
“But I don’t like it!” “Yuck!” “Ewww!” Sound familiar? How many times have you heard these words come out of your child’s mouth? Often we hear our children say these words before they have had even one bite of a new food.
Developing a taste for a new food is a learning process. When it comes to fruits and vegetables it is especially important to eat a variety because fruits and vegetables are the primary source of vitamins that growing bodies need to be healthy and fight diseases.
Most children need to try a new food at least 10 – 15 times before they develop a taste for it; so keep trying! Here are some tricks from Dr. Sears L.E.A.N. Coaches to help you expand your child’s palate:
1. Use “The bite rule” to encourage the reluctant eater: "Take one bite, two bites…" (How ever far you think you can push it without force-feeding). The bite rule at least gets your child to taste a new food, while giving her some control over the feeding.
2. Share it. If your child is going through a picky-eater stage, invite one of your child’s friends over who is the same age or slightly older whom you know "likes to eat." Your child will catch on. Group feeding lets the other kids set the example.
3. Dip it. Children (and adults) think that immersing foods in a tasty dip is pure fun (and delightfully messy). Some possibilities to dip into:
• Cottage cheese or tofu dip
• Cream cheese
• Fruit juice-sweetened preserves
• Guacamole
• Peanut butter, thinly spread
• Pureed fruits or vegetables
• Yogurt, plain or sweetened with juice concentrate
Those dips serve equally well as spreads on apple or pear slices, bell-pepper strips, rice cakes, bagels, toast, or other nutritious platforms.
4. Package it. Appearance is important. For something new and different, why not use your child's own toy plates for dishing out a snack? Our kids enjoy the unexpected and fanciful when it comes to serving dishes – anything from plastic measuring cups to muffin tins.
5. Creative cuts. Using a small cookie cutter, cut the vegetables into interesting shapes.
6. Steam your greens. They are much more flavorful if they are gently steamed (just a few minutes) and usually sweeter than when raw.
7. Be persistent! It will pay off and your child will thank you later.
These healthy tips to help expand your child’s palate are taught by Dr. Sears L.E.A.N Coaches - certified individuals who train parents and organizations to help children live healthier lives through Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitude and Nutrition.
Dr. Sears’ L.E.A.N. Coach Candidates are people with a passion for improving the health and wellness of children, families and expectant mothers, including healthcare workers, childbirth educators, parents, community leaders, Head Start case workers, sports coaches, educators and others who are committed to improving the health of future generations.
The next Dr. Sears L.E.A.N. Training and Certification (www.drsearslean.com/coaches) will be August 6-8, 2010, at the Renaissance Denver Hotel in Denver, Colo. For more information, visit http://www.drsearslean.com/coaches/be-a-coach/registration.
