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Psychedelics Get New Medical Respect Psychedelics Get New Medical Respect Research at Emory University shows particular promise for the use of MDMA, a popular illegal recreational drug, to help cure PTSD. By Bob Bahr June 29, 2021, 8:21 pm Edit MDMA is on a fast track for FDA approval as a treatment for PTSD. After decades as a much-abused, illegal party drug known as ecstasy or molly, the psychedelic pharmaceutical MDMA may be coming into its own as an accepted...

Tackling The Cybersecurity Skills Shortage With A Training Advancement Agenda By Sandra Wheatley Ransomware is big in the news today, and organizations around the world are scrambling to get ahead of it. It’s crucial that organizations not only have the right security technology in place, but they also have knowledgeable, talented cybersecurity experts running those systems. This is the main impetus behind employee cyber training, and why cyber training for individuals looking to advanc...

Veterans possess situational and other traits that translate well to a role in cybersecurity.

DANNY KOCH Memorial Day is often associated with the beginning of summer, cook outs, vacations and taking in a baseball game. Sometimes, we lose focus of the significance of this holiday observed now on the last Monday of May. Before it was called Memorial Day, it was called "Decoration Day.”  “Decoration Day” dated back to the Civil War where it originally honored soldiers who died during the war. Today, we honor and commemorate on Memorial Day all men and women who have died while serv...

Education filter by industry Over the next 4 years, Box Tops will provide $500,000 to fund scholarships, loan forgiveness & programming to help the organization’s mission of increasing the number of Black male teachers in their 8 Minneapolis-area partner schools to 20% by 2025. Moodys is pleased to welcome five new scholars to Moodys Veterans Program (MVP) for the 2020-2021 academic year. The five scholars are each veterans of the armed forces enrolled in graduate or undergraduate degree prog...

GoFundMe / Special to the Daily On May 22, the Vail Veterans Program will be honoring the life and service of Christopher “Bubba” Rush with a partner workout at CrossTraining Fitness of Vail. A GoFundMe account has been set up for the workout, “Bubba’s Memorial Workout,” , which provides injured military and their families with innovative and transformational programs that build confidence and improve lives. “The workout has been designed to highlight Chris’ years of service (also...

CONTENT: Multimedia with summary Moodys is pleased to welcome five new scholars to Moodys Veterans Program (MVP) for the 2020-2021 academic year. The five scholars are each veterans of the armed forces enrolled in graduate or undergraduate degree programs at Columbia Universitys School of General Studies. MVP advances Moodys CSR strategy by preparing scholars for careers in finance, technology, and economics. To learn more about the strategy, please visit https://mdy.link/3gXZsb9  

Developing the Cybersecurity Workforce With Fortinets Security Academy Program The cybersecurity skills gap has posed a challenge to organizations everywhere. The threat landscape grows more sophisticated and digital attacks continue to expand at a rapid rate. Organizations are faced with many cybersecurity challenges without enough security professionals to address them. One answer to filling the skills gap is to tap and hire underrepresented candidates, however, providing them with the educat...

Ridgefield Rotary Invites Residents to Fly the Colors, Proceeds Support Area Veterans Written by HH The Ridgefield Rotary Club and the Marine Corps League invite Ridgefield residents to be part of their Fly the Colors program. The Rotary Club displays its flags in early May, before Memorial Day, and takes them down after Veterans Day.  Fly The Colors continues to grow with close to 500 Ridgefielders participating in 2019. If you would like to participate and show your American p...

RENO — A ribbon cutting March 8 marked the official opening of a 39-photograph display honoring female veterans who work in every department for the VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System in Reno. The national photo exhibit features women who served in all branches of the military and are now employed in different sections of the local healthcare system. Glenna Smith, public affairs officer, said the project originated in Oregon to honor 20 female veterans as part of the “I Am Not In...