N24 Awareness Day. Imagine if you came to work one day and your boss told you that a new law had declared that work would start one hour earlier every day.
If you wanted to keep your job, you had to comply . . . and all workplaces observed the same rules. Think about that. Maybe you used to come in to work at 9 am every day. On Monday, your boss says that’s all over. Tuesday, you come in to work at 8 am. Thank heavens for the weekend! What if this new policy never stopped? This is what life is like for people who live with N24 (non-24-hour Sleep-Wake Syndrome.) N24 is chronic and debilitating. To learn more about N24, read the words of people who live with it. Like this: Like Loading... November 24 is N-24 Awareness Day. Saturday, November 23, 2013 A SHOT at Fixing Broken Sleep Clocksby Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CTP, CMC, ACT, MCC, SCACAnother article in the Sleep Series~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.” ~ William Howard Taft~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Your chance to step up and make a differenceWe have known for DECADES that as many as three quartersof those of us here in “Alphabet City“ ~ 75% ~ have chronic problems with sleep and sleep timing.
Were you aware that, for longer than the Baby-Boomer generation has been ALIVE, there has been only asmall pocket of concerned individuals — dismissed as mavericks, complainers, enablers, alarmists, incalcitrant slug-a-beds, fringe-scientists — who have been interested enough in the quality of the LIVES of those who were so affected to lobby for efforts to understand why? Remember: links on this site are dark grey to reduce distraction potential while you’re reading. Like this: Black Friday/Cyber Monday. World Kindness Day. World Kindness Day® The date decreed for World Kindness Day is 13th November.
This was the opening day of the first World Kindness Movement® conference held at Tokyo in 1998, and the 35th anniversary of the Small Kindness Movement of Japan, which brought the signatories of the ‘declaration of kindness’ of the World Kindness Movement together in 1997. The purpose of World Kindness Day is to look beyond ourselves, beyond the boundaries of our country, beyond our culture, our race, our religion; and realise we are citizens of the world.
As world citizens we have a commonality, and must realise that if progress is to be made in human relations and endeavours, if we are to achieve the goal of peaceful coexistence, we must focus on what we have in common. When we find likenesses we begin to experience empathy, and in such a state we can fully relate to that person or those people. Joseph Campbell tells us, "People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. Kindness Day. 1st International Conference on Anticipation. Anticipation is coming to the fore as an emerging field of study that is influencing a wide variety of disciplines.
This international conference will explore the interaction among anticipation, uncertainty and complexity. Some questions that we intend to raise are these: When does anticipation occur in behavior and life? What types of anticipation can be distinguished? What structures and processes are necessary for anticipatory action? How can anticipation be modeled? November 8 – Forever. Taxonomy Boot Camp - The Conference on Taxonomy and Information Architecture. Taxonomy Boot Camp brings together practitioners and experts in taxonomy, vendors who have created tools to help manage your taxonomies, and novices who are starting out in the world of information management.
Two parallel tracks on the first day provide those new to the field with the nuts and bolts they need to get up-to-speed and give expert practitioners insights into how other professionals have made their organizations more successful through better use of taxonomies. On the second day of the Boot Camp, everyone shares in case studies, practical sessions on taxonomy tools and their use, and cutting-edge developments in the field. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn about tools and techniques you can use to bring your information clouds together and meet the people who can help you be successful in your efforts. Register for Taxonomy Boot Camp today! Wikipedia Loves Libraries. Shut not your doors to me proud libraries, For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring, Wikipedia Loves Libraries is a general initiative for improved Wikimedia engagement with libraries (and archives), and more concretely an annual campaign of wiki-workshops and edit-a-thons at libraries around Open Access Week in October/November.
The first Wikipedia Loves Libraries campaign was in 2011 across North America, and it's coming roaring back in 2013 worldwide. It has been modeled on the summertime Great American Wiknic (multiple wiki-meetups on a single day), the broader WikiProject GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) collaboration effort, and the June 2011 edit-athon at the British Library, where Wikipedians gathered at the library, and were given access to library resources in order to expand Wikipedia articles about miscellaneous topics. The advantages of the Wikipedia Loves Libraries model: Planned United States 2014 library events[edit] Los Angeles Convention Center. The 15th Annual Independent Games Festival.