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The Individual Development Plan is an ongoing exercise designed to guide your thinking about your long-term and short-term career plans.
The University of Minnesota Medical School and a graduate student committee have developed the IDP to be used by graduate and postdoctoral trainees as part of their career development strategy.
Another tool, myIDP offered by ScienceCareers can also be used to identify potential careers and set realistic goals that will help you be successful in whichever career path you choose.
Yoji Shimizu, Assistant Dean for Graduate Education in the Medical School leads the Fall 2016 workshop on the process of writing and submitting an NIH predoctoral fellowship application.
Different jobs can require the submission of different kinds of information such as a cover letter, curriculum vitae (CV) or resume. Below are some references that provide information on the differences between the CV and Resume. How to craft an effective CV, Resume and cover letter.
Moving to Industry - A Nature article where life-science industry insiders offer tips on how to beat job competitors.
Future of Research - a grass-roots organization working to discuss problems in research careers and seek solutions to those problems.
Scientista - Women in Science - An organization of Women in STEM. There are some very good articles in the Advice Center.
Versatile PhD - A website that provides tools for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars interested in non-academic careers. These tools are designed for students in the humanities, social sciences and STEM disciplines and they provide both free and subscription based services to its users. Features include interactive tools, community discussions, job listings, networking opportunities and local meet-ups. The U of M participates in the subscription based service, so students can access additional content.
Health Policy Research Scholars - Health Policy Research Scholars is a national leadership development program for first-or-second-year doctoral students in any academic discipline who want to apply their research to help build healthier and more equitable communities. We’re looking for any student whose research has the potential to impact health and well-being—the economics PhD student examining how the marketplace drives decisions that create barriers to good health. The engineering PhD student studying systems that better support wellness. The agriculture PhD student who pursues research while keeping an eye on how it impacts long-term health. The goal of the program is to train doctoral students to use their discipline-based research training to advance health equity to build a Culture of Health, one that enables everyone to live longer, healthier lives.
Economic Development Fellows Consulting Program - connect groups of graduate students to serve as consultants to Minnesota companies looking to overcome business challenges.
Having "The Conversation" - How do you tell your advisor that you don’t want to pursue the faculty path? Or, at least, that you’re exploring other possibilities?
Boreas Leadership Program - Boreas offers University of Minnesota graduate and professional students and post-doctoral fellows free co-curricular leadership development opportunities that build on the strengths of graduate education to create effective change agents.
Research Group Management in the Biological Sciences - This CBS professional development course is aimed at postdoctoral scientists and senior graduate students who envision transitioning to a project or group leadership position in academia, industry, or government research.
Presentations in the Biological Sciences (APS 6011) - This CCE course in Applied Professional Studies gives students experience in the diverse ways in which biologists communicate in their professional lives.
AAAS Career Development Center - Offers an array of online courses related to all aspects of career development. AAAS members can register for courses for free or at a reduced cost.
Office of Technology Commercialization the OTC hires interns that are paid on an hourly basis. You will be asked to conduct a variety of searches for existing intellectual property or patents in the context of a University research proposal for commercialization. It is a chance to gain insight into a career as a patent agent, patent attorney, technology transfer officer and more.
Economic Development Fellows Consulting Program Student consulting teams (approximately five students/postdocs per team) work with companies to identify a set of project goals and develop strategies for addressing their unique business challenges. Consulting teams are led by an economic development fellow who serves as project manager and acts as a liaison between the team and the client.
CTSI Career Development Seminars The Clinical and Translational Science Institute offers career development seminars that are learning opportunities for faculty, staff, and students on a variety of research-related topics.
MnDRIVE A $36M investment by Minnesota's legislature that partners university researchers and state industries to enhance the quality of life and economic vitality in Minnesota and beyond.
CEI Preparing Future Faculty Courses The Center for Education Innovation offers a set of courses designed to provide a teaching and learning forum in which participants discuss learning theory and strategies, develop teaching skills, create classroom and job search materials, and work with faculty from a range of institutional types.
UMN Post-Doctoral Association The University of Minnesota Post-Doctoral Association aims to improve the quality of the postdoctoral experience on campus and to facilitate the long-term success of its members.
Advanced Professional Degree Consulting Club The Advanced Professional Degree Consulting Club provides a highly informative forum for graduate students to learn about consulting as a career option.
Medical Devices Center An interdisciplinary program that combines basic research, applied and translational research, education and training, and outreach and public engagement all related to medical devices.
MIN-Corps Seminars & Courses The MIN-Corps offers a variety of short-term non-credit bootcamps and workshops aimed at catalyzing technology commercialization across the University of Minnesota.
Technological Leadership Institute The TLI offers courses and seminars related to the creation of medical device innovations where you can apply the experience you've gained from your current degree.
Office of Technology Commercialization the OTC Oversees all aspects of technology commercialization at the Universty, bridging the gap between the lab and the marketplace to connect faculty with companies to achieve results.
Entrepreneur Programs/Clubs The Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship in the Carlson School of Management has several clubs and programs that interested students can join.
Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship An excellent program that offers courses for those students who are interested in entrepreneurship.
UMN Science Writing Opportunity Inquiry promotes U of M research excellence and innovation to a broad audience and taps into the collective knowledge of our research community. We welcome ideas for original stories as well as story submissions from across the university.
American Intellectual Property Law Association The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) is a national bar association constituted primarily of lawyers in private and corporate practice, in government service, and in the academic community, with nearly 14,000 members. AIPLA represents a wide and diverse spectrum of individuals from law firms, companies, and institutions involved directly or indirectly in the practice of patent, trademark, copyright, and unfair competition law, as well as other fields of law affecting intellectual property.
Interested in going into Industry?
A forum in which to join forces to improve their craft and encourage conditions that promote good science writing.
A national leadership development program for first-or-second-year doctoral students in any academic discipline who want to apply their research to help build healthier and more equitable communities.
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"As we were kicking around the idea of a Spock's Beard 'Best Of', the idea of having some kind of an additional track came up. I felt, as always, like it would be more exciting to do something new than to rehash something we had already done. Then one morning I got inspired and wrote the music that would become 'Falling for Forever'. It was a lot of fun writing for the Spock's gang including Ted and Nick's voices. I definitely had them all in my mind. and I think the end result is really, really cool. Al is killing it on guitar, Dave's bass tone will take the paint off your walls, Ryo is ripping on the keys as usual, and both Jimmy and Nick trade off drum solos toward the end of the song! Ted sings the choruses, Nick sings the middle section, and I sing the verses. It's truly a team effort.
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You can check out Part 1 of this series here.
In many ways, the challenges I will discuss in this series are issues that most church planters/pastors face in any context.
Living in NYC simply exacerbates some of these challenges (for instance the disproportionate cost of living here, as mentioned in Part 1).
For instance, when it comes to the financial pressures of any start-up, these anxieties exist for any entrepreneurial endeavor.
However, the pure financial costs are higher here, simply put.
One could talk about the “greater risk, greater reward” mantra to describe the merits of planting a church in NYC… but it’s exceptionally difficult to quantify the great “reward” of planting a church in NYC vs another city/context when ministry “success” entails so many different elements.
If one were to speak purely of numbers of people when it comes to church “success”, there are significantly larger churches and church plants around the country, a fact that can easily cloud the merits of investing significantly more money to plant a church here rather than say, South America.
But I digress…. (although you’ll see how church size will come up later in the post).
The next challenge I wish to write about is one that is ubiquitous regardless of context… and yet there are some peculiarities to NYC.
Here’s Challenge #2: Planting a Church in NYC is Awfully Lonely.
Church Planting in NYC can be an isolating experience.
Non-profit management guru Peter Drucker once said that the four most challenging jobs in the US are the President of the US, the CEO/President of a Hospital, a University President, and a Pastor.
It’s already hard enough being a Pastor and navigating the different “hats” one has to wear (which, along with the other 3 vocations Drucker mentions, is why being a Pastor can be one of the most challenging jobs), but adding the element of being an entrepreneurial Pastor can make the task of Church Planting profoundly more difficult and complicated.
Both Pastor and Entrepreneur are inherently stressful positions, and adding NYC to the equation makes for a particularly combustible context.
I believe this to be true of most pastors/church planters I meet in NYC, but what makes the feeling of loneliness more acute here is the feeling that I’m never quite measuring up.
If one were to go purely based on Sunday attendance (which is generally the standard measurement across time/place in church planting in the States – as much as people would hate to admit), then “success'” is difficult to come by in NYC when compared to one’s previous context (usually a mega-ish church in the suburbs of middle America) or even in the shadows of more established churches in the City (so many great, longstanding churches to name).
The above paragraph reveals even more nefarious messages that I often tell myself as a church planter – I’m measured against other Pastors/Churches.
Church Planting in NYC is financially taxing, a stress on my family, and not quite as glamorous as the big city itself.
I suspect most of us have.
Thankfully, the above news is something that many have reflected on before, and as a result, ministry heroes of mine have tried hard to keep Pastors/Church Planters in NYC from isolating and growing cynical.
1) Redeemer City to City & NYC Leadership Center – I link these ministries together not because of any official connection but because these organizations have long been advocates of resourcing and connecting church planters for decades now.
I’ve written about the spirit of leaders like Tim Keller and Mac Pier before, and I truly think these guys have been forerunners to much of the camaraderie and friendship enjoyed by Pastors in NYC today.
Also, shout-out to Parakeleo, a ministry of mutual support for church planting spouses that I’ve heard great things about.
2) Emotionally Healthy Spirituality – I can’t emphasize this one enough. My heritage obviously comes from New Life Fellowship, so it’s no surprise that I want to advocate for every pastor to learn from Pete & Geri Scazzero and Rich Villodas in living an emotionally healthy life that allows my marriage and family to flourish. Church planters especially can use a healthy dose of EHS.
3) Christ Tabernacle – Ever since I’ve known the CT guys, I’ve been amazed at their hospitality and willingness to serve/connect church leaders in NYC. Pastor Michael Durso is part of that wave mentioned above, and Adam Durso and the rest of CT are some of the most generous folks I know.
4) Recovery House of Worship, Trinity Grace Church & “Network” Church Planting – I LOVE the RHOW folks. They are a church planting movement doing amazing work in the city and beyond, and are some of the most mission-minded church planters I know. I learn so much from them about mission and discipleship whenever I’m around them!
TGC is another family of parishes all around NYC. Their kingdom vision is really genuine and inspiring, and the ways they plant churches by 1) empowering/contextualizing and 2) serving with a Central Office is something that many church plants and churches have learned a great deal from (including Hope).
I LOVE how these folks fight against the isolationist spirit of church planters by creating a network of mutual support.
– I Desperately Need a Gospel-Centered Approach to My Identity, Our Church, and Our City.
Together – and only together – can we be part of something significant in this Great City.
It’s hard to believe that September 23rd is finally here. After months of wrestling with God about what our next steps were, Tina and I came to the conclusion that God was calling us to stay in NYC and plant a church in Astoria, NY.
Less than one year later, Hope Church NYC officially launches. I am so humbled and grateful as this church planting project is born.
As we head into this Sunday, I wanted to recognize some folks whom God has graciously allowed to have a hand in planting Hope.
1) Tina and Our Son David – This has been an unbelievable season for our family, and one that has taken precedence over what’s happened at Hope. David has been such a gift, and Tina has been the best mom and wife I could have ever asked for.
My wife and son have been a gift from God.
With all the stresses of a newborn and a new church, Tina has been a steady and faithful rock throughout the process, even putting up with my shenanigans with good-spirited aplomb.
And David has been a true champ. I love these two!
2) Launch Team – What makes a church is the people, and Hope is full of some incredible people. I can’t thank these folks enough for their commitment, their volunteering, and most of all, their presence!
There have been some funny, “that’s church planting” moments for sure, but I’m so grateful for the willingness to go with the flow as we’ve had so many stops/starts & twists/turns.
This community has also shown me so much grace through my own mistakes – many of which have been painful but necessary to see.
Launch team and new regular attenders – thanks so much for being part of what’s happening at Hope!
PS Special shout-out to our other pastoral staffers – Craig Okpala and Joe Longarino. Studs.
3) The Evangelical Covenant Church – It’s been such a joy to be part of a larger movement, and the Evangelical Covenant Church has been super supportive and encouraging throughout. Jason Condon, the Director of Church Planting for the East Coast Conference of the ECC, has been so helpful and insightful in this process, and learning alongside other church planters in NYC, NJ, and New England has challenged and encouraged me in so many ways.
We’re so lucky to be part of this family of churches!
4) Family and Friends who have Supported Hope – So many friends and family have supported this church plant with their prayers and their financial support, and it’s been so humbling to hear stories of people fasting and praying on our behalf, while others have given sacrificially so that we could launch.
Seriously humbled by all these folks who are literally all around the world. Thank you so much for your friendship, mentorship, and generosity.
And a very special thanks to the Hyun and Park families. Tina and I are so, so grateful for you and your support.
5) New Life Fellowship – I’m so grateful for all the friendships I’ve made at New Life over the years, and the incredible people I’ve learned so much from. Obviously Pete and Geri Scazzero have had a significant part in that journey, and I’m so, so grateful for all they have deposited in me over the years.
I wouldn’t be the person I am today without New Life, and Hope wouldn’t be the kind of church that it is without New Life.
6) Other churches in NYC – There have been so many pastors who have voiced their support of what we’re doing, and to know we stand side-by-side with so many churches is an amazing feeling.
*Update – The above sermon was preached on my last Sunday at New Life Fellowship, April 17th. I shared how painful, but hopeful, it’s been for me to leave.
As many of you know, this week is my last week at New Life Fellowship. I’ve been a part of the staff team for the past ten years, and it’s been quite a remarkable journey.
*I was also in seminary during this time.
Heres a picture of me at the Bowery Mission during the summer I decided to move to NYC.
I’m so grateful for so many of the people I’ve met and served with along the way – everyone from former and current staff, elders, deacons, volunteers, and small groups folks. You guys are heroes to me. As with any church, it’s not really about the building, it’s the people. And at New Life, it’s full of incredible people – children, youth, young adults, families, marrieds, singles, and the elderly. It makes me tear up just to think about how meaningful these relationships have been for me.
As an attempt to clarify what’s happening. I wanted to write this post to answer many questions I’ve fielded over the past few weeks. Please keep in mind these are my responses alone – I simply wanted to share from my perspective. If you have any other questions, please feel free to leave them in the comments below!
1. Why are you leaving?
Ultimately, Tina and I felt like this was the right time to leave as God was stirring something new in us. The NLF staff team is more than capable (along with some tremendous volunteers that include our elder board), and we felt like God was stirring us to move forward in other ventures.
In some respects, this decision doesn’t make a whole lot of sense – I’ll be unemployed and I’ll be leaving an incredible team and church. However, I think this decision-making process over the past year has been a result of really trying to discern and follow God’s lead. It’s crazy enough that it must be God (or, at least I sure hope so)!
May 2010 – I first mention to Tina the possibility of moving on. We begin praying.
Sep 2010 – I first mention to Pete Scazzero the possibility of us moving on.
Jan 2011 – Meeting/speaking with different coaches, consultants, therapists, and mentors about this pending decision.
Mid-Late Jan 2011 – I meet with elders to share with them how Tina and I are leaning toward leaving.
Feb 15, 2011 – I give my final decision to the elders and lay out a timeline for informing folks about my departure.
2. Where will you be going?
We’re not entirely sure just yet, but we’ll definitely be in NYC in the Fall. I hope to visit and learn from other churches.
From May-June we’ll be in Korea, and from July-August we’ll likely be outside of NYC as well (likely Houston).
We hope to use this summer as a time of discernment, rest, and prayer. There are a couple of opportunities before us in Fall 2011, and we want to prayerfully consider what to do next.
3. Why leave when you are uncertain about your future? Why not wait until you figured that out first?
I must admit, this was largely due the advice we received from different consultants at the time (around January). Now that we’re leaving, we can see the wisdom in leaving earlier rather than later.
First, on a personal level, since God was working in me and allowing me to dream about other possibilities, I would not have brought my best energy to our team and our church if I hung around any longer. Now that I’ve been in this “goodbye” period, I really see how this is the case!
Second, on an organizational level, the longer I stick around, the more awkward and difficult it is for others to move forward and step into leadership. The sooner I leave, the earlier people can step into all that they’re called to do and lead.
I originally thought May would be a good time to leave and hand things over, but logistically, Tina and I had already planned a trip the first week of May to Asia, and so we thought it would be weird to go on vacation, come back, and still be saying “goodbye”.
We wanted to go through this season of Lent at NLF though, a very appropriate time for grieving. Easter could have been our last Sunday, but as silly as this sounds to me (because this departure can in no way “take away” from the unsurpassing power and joy of resurrection), we did not want to be a distraction on Easter.
4. Are you starting a church somewhere?
No, not yet. Although we’ve given church planting some serious thought and it sounds really exciting (and part of our future someday by supporting at the very least), it would take some time before it was actually launched.
You will certainly hear about it if we decided to start a church.
5. What’s happening at New Life to fill the void?
The leadership team (elders and staff) are going through their next steps right now. I’ve given recommendations, but now that I’m leaving, I haven’t been a part of some of these larger decisions. It’s been difficult for me to dis-engage, but I know it’s best for the organization.
You can trust that many committed and godly people will continue to serve New Life Fellowship. If you’d like to find out what’s happening next, I believe Rich, Jackie, or Pete would be the best ones to contact.
6. Did the leadership team have anything to do with your departure?
No, in that this was our decision alone. Everyone else wanted us to stay.
Yes in that leadership was part of the discernment process… I had been talking it through with key folks since September, and these discussions helped me process what God was doing in us.
7. You seemed so excited about the future of New Life. What happened?
I’m still excited about many of the good things happening at New Life. It’s actually quite painful to grieve that I won’t be part of it this next season.
In some respects, I’m proud that I was able to really pour myself out the last year while we were pondering this decision. We care so much about the church, and I’m glad that that shone through to others.
Again, this is a big faith step for us, and we’re trying to listen to God’s call as closely as possible.
8. Can we still keep in touch?
Yes! You can hit me up on facebook (www.facebook.com/drewhyun) or twitter (www.twitter.com/drewhyun). I will be taking a break from social media for the summer (May-July), but you can still add/follow me there and on this blog.
Some have asked if I even have an email address not associated with New Life, and to be quite honest, I’m not sure yet which one I’m going to use.
When it comes to pastoral stuff like weddings, funerals, counseling sessions, visitations, and the like, I’m taking an indefinite break from those types of things. I’m not sure how long the break will be (because those are elements of being a pastor that give me life), but yeah, for now you can contact New Life for those things.
9. Will you be preaching anywhere?
I’ve gotten this question from a few folks, and the short answer is that I will be preaching and speaking at different venues, but not at a regular place for now.
I’ve turned down a lot of engagements over the years because of Sunday commitments, but I’m much more open to accepting some of those requests now (I’ve already accepted one engagement in DC in August and then another in the Ithaca area in September).
Tina and I are coming up with some expectations and boundaries when it comes to speaking at different places, so it will likely be in moderation. And, as usual, we’re partial to anything in the NYC area (or Hawaii – lol).
We are looking forward to visiting other churches around NYC, though.
At the risk of speaking for my wife, she’s doing quite well, considering I’ll be jobless and we’ve had lengthy discussions about kids in the near future.
She’s excited about this new season for us, and I couldn’t be more thankful for the strength, courage, and faith that Tina has modeled and demonstrated to me over these past few months.
She is as lovely as ever, and that’s a hard thing to say considering she’s been as lovely as lovely can be the past three years that we’ve been married.
It’s been a fast and fulfilling month. I have much to be grateful for as you can see in the following list.
Some friends who joined us in watching the Packers beat the Steelers. So gratifying.
1. The Packers Winning the Super Bowl – If you were to ask me at the beginning of the season which team I’d root for to win the Super Bowl, I would have said the Packers. I know, I know, I’m still working on the Jets being my team, but Aaron Rodgers and Jahvid Best (former Cal players) are easily my favorite players in the league.
I was so happy for Aaron Rodgers and Packer nation, including Carl and Chris Park.
2. Extraordinary Seminar with Ron Vogt on “Bearing the Cross: Being Real and in Relationship. Ron has influenced me greatly, and to hear some of his latest reflections felt like drinking from a deep well.
3. Seeing Peter, Jenny, and Eli on President’s Day Weekend. I couldn’t be happier to see them. Seriously.
4. Reading Tim Keller’s newest book, King’s Cross. The book is quite splendid – I simply pause, ponder, and soak in the beauty of Christ at the end of each chapter.
5. Seeing Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) and Kenneth the Page (I don’t know his real name) filming an episode of 30 Rock in Long Island City. NYC is the coolest city in the world.
It was quite random to see them filming, so I just parked and Kimberly Jones and I kept inching closer and closer until one of the crewmen asked us to go to the other side of the street.
I’m pretty sure Tina Fey said “hi” to me with her unassuming glance.
6. Retreat-ing with 43 others last weekend. Highlights included: Worship in Singing times (thanks Craig and Heriberto!), Shaming Shame rituals, Bearing One Another’s Shame, Taboo (Unlimited Passes, Stool, Menus or “Men use”), Raw and Honest Conversation, Hitch, Conversations about Awkward Christian Dating, Sweet Clementines, and quite simply, Connecting with some really wonderful people.
Good Times in Bloomingdale, NJ, minus a few friends who missed the picture.
Special shout out to Dr. Jay Feld, therapist extraordinaire, retreat speaker, and dear friend. It’s hard to believe we’ve partnered together for this retreat for six years straight.
I’ve written before about our New Year’s Eve Parties here and here, and I’m obviously a big fan of getting together, eating delicious international fare, then working it all off with dance lessons, singing, playing games, listening to good music, singing some more, dancing some more.
Doing all of the above in the name of “cultivating a deep spirituality with God” is always a good thing.
Anyhow, I thought I’d add 10 more reasons (in no particular order) you should come out to our party tomorrow.
Worship at New Year's Eve - easily my favorite part of the night.
2) We have a stellar lineup of performers this year at our Coffeehouse – New Life’s very own Judea Costes, Henn Sie, Cate Song, and Abbey Hoffman. They’re worth the admission price alone!
3) We can all do the Electric Slide and Cupid Shuffle again, led by the hip-shaking Mike Park and Rich Villodas. Does this ever get old? Probably. But probably not.
Where else can you experience the Cupid Shuffle led by Mike and Rich? It may not be synchronized, but it will be fun!
4) Our Hip Hop Lessons will be given by talented and experienced instructor Susan Maysonet (one of NLF’s very own). She will also be leading our Family Dancing time as well!
The dreaded dancing circle actually works on New Year's Eve at New Life!
5) The dreaded dancing circle, found in most wedding parties and impromptu dance parties, are actually a chance to showcase some of NLF’s extraordinary dancing talent.
6) You’ll have a chance to join in the longest dancing train you’ll ever experience.
Seriously, will you ever be part of a longer dancing train anywhere else?
7) The worship experience is incomparable. There’s something about ringing in the New Year with family and friends singing at the top of our lungs about the faithfulness of God that is unlike any other feeling in the world.
8) You never know what interesting characters and costumes you’ll see now that it’s 80s night.
By popular demand, it's 80s night tomorrow night.
9) We will likely have a time of silent reflection during our meditation time. Who says it’s loud and rowdy the whole time?
10) It’s a chance to hang out with kids, youth, parents, grandparents, singles, couples in a fun, delicious, and warm atmosphere.
Fun times for the whole family!
Doesn’t this all sound so spiritual?
You can register at the door tomorrow night. More information can be found here.
Feel free to invite family and friends!
Sidenote: If you’re in Manhattan and would prefer another party, I’d highly recommend Restore’s New Year’s Eve Gala to support a fantastic cause.
In the flurry of Christmas parties and potlucks, I was called in for jury duty last week. Interestingly enough, the interruption to my schedule felt like a respite from all the usual December end-of-year activities.
In my prior experiences with jury duty, I’ve never been called in beyond the waiting room, so I was surprised and anxious when I got called into a courtroom with a number of other potential jurors. In fact, I was in the first group sitting in the jury box, and it was certainly an honor to hear from the judge about our legal system and the role we would play as jurors.
If you’ve ever been on jury duty, you probably know that there’s a vetting process that each juror has to go through under the watchful eyes of the prosecutor and defense attorney (as well as all the other complementary participants in a courtroom).
Are you related to or know anyone involved in law enforcement?
Do you know anyone who has been accused of a crime? What’s been your experience with people in law enforcement?
First off, it was so cool hearing about the disparate backgrounds and occupations of my fellow potential jurors. NYC is definitely a melting pot.
Despite the ethnic differences of our jury group, it was customary to hear others answer “no” to a majority of the questions related to knowing people who have been in law enforcement or been accused of crimes, etc. Usually, the answers were “yes” to one or the other – do you know more law enforcers or more criminals?
When it came time for me to answer questions about my job and various relationships I have with people, I shared that I was a pastor who had a broad range of relationships with people from different walks of life.
Unlike most of the other potential jurors, I was one of the few people who said “yes” to almost everything. Both the prosecutor and the defense attorney narrowed their questions to me specifically after the general questions were asked.
– Can you tell us about your interaction with police officers?
– Can you tell us about people that you know in law enforcement?
– Can you tell us about the trials of accused people that you knew?
– As a pastor of a church community, I know cops, defense attorneys, prosecutors from the DA Office, and other legal and security professionals.
– As a pastor of a church community, I also know people who have been victims of racial profiling, accused of armed robbery, accused of selling drugs, etc.
Of the groups mentioned above, they’re all folks I’ve met through New Life Fellowship.
People prosecuting and representing the state, people defending and the people being defended – they’re all friends and families who attend New Life Fellowship.
At some level, this might seem like an awkward dynamic. At another level, it’s also quite beautiful. Messy, but beautiful.
I count it a privilege to being a pastor in this community, and although some tend to think that religious people see the world through black-and-white, right-and-wrong lens, being part of such a diverse community has shown me that there are more shades of gray when it comes to the problems we all face.
And at the end of the day, these problems remind us that we are linked not by our perfection or our rightness, but by our common weakness, a weakness that calls for a better way, a better truth, a better life.
In other words, we all come together – prosecutor and prosecuted – because we’re all longing for advent.
I think that message will preach. I think that community will preach, too.
1) Alpha Retreat – These retreats never get old. This past season was a trying one for our leadership team (it seemed like we were all going through tough days every week), and yet God still met us in profound ways. This is less than half of our group, but we’re the lucky ones who got to experience a beautiful day full of the most meaningful connections.
2. Adventure Kids – Tina and I have been working with 1st-3rd graders at NLF for the past few months, and it’s been a really exhilirating time. I’m so, so, so grateful for our volunteers who show up week after week to share some love with these kids.
32 kids raised their hands yesterday when an invitation was given to them to trust Jesus with their whole lives. Awesome.
3. Eli – Tina and I had a chance to take a weekend road trip to Virginia to visit Pete, Jen, and Eli. It was a glorious time, and I didn’t realize how much I missed them until I saw Eli say, “Uncle, Auntie” with his sweet, sweet voice. We foolishly didn’t take pictures, but I have enough pics to remind me how much I love this family.
4. New Life Fellowship Baptisms – Baptisms are so cool because of what they symbolize – new beginnings, new ways, new life. The Christian story is captured in this brief act – uncertainty, death, resurrection, celebration.
It’s a sacrament of ultimate hope.
The fact that this moment can be celebrated with the closest of people is what makes the event all the more special.
5. Blake Griffin – I couldn’t resist adding this one, as trivial as it might be in light of the others.
But man, did anyone see Blake Griffin highlights against the New York Knicks?
I’ve watched about 10 Clipper games this season (my one “splurge” this year was to get NBA League pass so I could watch my beloved Clips and Jeremy Lin)., and although the team causes me such immense grief, the anticipation of one of Griffin’s extraordinary plays gives me reason to keep watching throughout.
Once Baron Davis comes back healthy, watch out!
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江崎グリコ株式会社 生物化学研究所 Biochemical Research Laboratory, Ezaki Glico Co. Ltd.
第一製薬株式会社 ヘルスケア事業部 Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
第一製薬株式会社 特薬事業部 Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Inhibitory effects of hydroquinone-α-glucoside (HQ-α-G) on the melanogenesis were investigated and compared with those of arbutin. The levels of inhibitory effects of HQ-α-G and arbutin on the tyrosinase activity were nearly the same. Inhibitory effects of both compounds on the melanogenesis, were studied using cultured B16 melanoma cells, and HQ-α-G was also found to have a similar effect to that of arbutin without inhibiting cell growth. In this experiment, while HQ-α-G hardly inhibited cell growth at 1 mM, arbutin inhibit it significantly at the same concentration. From these results it is suggested that HQ-α-G as well as arbutin inhibited the melanogenesis by affecting tyrosinase rather than by killing melanocytes. Furthermore, the melanogenesis of guineapigs with brown hair was reduced to about 80% by applying them each compound. The great differences in toxicity to normal human keratinocyte were not recognized between these two glucosides. It is, therefore, considered that HQ-α-G is an effective and safe ingredient for cosmetics.
.ALPHA.-D-Glucosyl Transfer to Phenolic Compounds by Sucrose Phosphorylase from Leuconostoc mesenteroides and Production of .ALPHA.-Arbutin.
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Next stop – Bangalore! After succesful WELTSTADT exhibitions in Berlin, Prague, Johannesburg, New York, Plovdiv and Riga, WELTSTADT opened in Bangalore on December 3rd!
The exhibition is shown at two different locations in Bangalore – at the local Goethe-Institut (Max Mueller Bhavan) and in a vacant public lot, the Nextbangalore GATISHIL Space at Rhenius Street, Opp. Hockey Club, Shantinagar. The Nextbangalore Gatishil Space is an urban intervention that transforms a vacant plot into an inviting temporary public space, open to all. Nextbangalore is an initiative of MOD Institute engaged in developing future visions for the city through public participation.
From December 2014 to March 2015 Nextbangalore Gatishil, the mobile phase of Nextbangalore, will crowdsource future visions for three specific areas in Bangalore! Nextbangalore Gatishil will provide a temporary studio, a laboratory and a mobile wagon which will be on tour in the three Gatishil areas. Join them with your ideas and visions and be involved in designing proposals for these sites on nextbangalore gatishil.
Jonas Büchel from Weltstadt Riga (free Riga!) and Leona Lynen, Weltstadt Editor, joined the Nextbangalore team in mid-December to jointly realize workshops around the theme of vacant public spaces. Together with the local Goethe-Institut, an evening of mutual exchange between bottom-up urban initiatives from Bangalore was organized where the setting of the Weltstadt exhibition functioned as the backdrop to discuss the question of who creates the city.
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For Karachi's Water Mafia, Stolen H2O Is A 'Lucrative Business' : Goats and Soda In Pakistan's port city, gangs siphon off water from government pipes and resell it to residents. Surprisingly, the municipal water board is now partnering with the mafia to distribute it.
Residents have to call men like Mohammad Zubair, a driver who belongs to a group of water handlers known as the "water tanker mafia." For a price, drivers will deliver clean water, which is pricey, or polluted water, which is cheaper.
Zubair's tankers can't reach into the narrow alleyways deep in Karachi's slums. So residents order water by donkey cart or motorcycle, or they pay to fill up their plastic jerrycans at "water stations" — large drums of water set up alongside little grocery shops.
A young man fills the jerrycans tied to his motorbike with water in the Korangi slum.
Fetching water at these stations is a duty that has to be done several times a day — so it's often left to children like Shabina.
She shrugs when asked about her age, but says she's in preschool. She fills her two jerrycans, about 10 gallons in all. They are placed in a wheelbarrow and her playmates help her push it home.
A little girl fills two jerrycans with water in the Korangi slum in Karachi. Fetching water is a duty that often falls on very young children.
The situation wasn't always like this.
Residents like Raja Akhtar say that years ago, they used to have running water.
But about a decade ago, residents say the mafias began siphoning off water from government pipes running through private land — and their supply dried up.
The reason for water tapping is obvious. "It's a lucrative business," says Sanaa Baxamoosa, general manager at Hisaar Foundation, a Karachi-based nonprofit that works on water, food and job security.
The mafia sells it at different prices based on the water's quality. The government's water is considered the cleanest, so it fetches the highest price, about $150 for a month's supply.
Akhtar can't afford that — it's more than his monthly salary as a security guard. So he buys cheaper brackish water from a different supplier. Men like Zubair specialize in selling polluted water to Karachi's poorest residents. This water often comes from wells dug near a dam on the outskirts of Karachi. Residents say if they don't boil it immediately, it starts to stink. It also costs Akhtar about $20 a month.
The business largely exists because Karachi's water supply barely covers half of the city's needs. According to Ghulam Qadir, the chief engineer of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, the city receives 450 million gallons a day from the Indus River and a nearby dam — but requires 1,200 million gallons. "We are suffering from water scarcity, and that's why the tanker mafia is active," says Qadir.
He estimates that about a third of the municipal water supply is lost or siphoned off.
The situation in Karachi reflects a broader water crisis across Pakistan. Inefficient agriculture, dwindling aquifers, an increasingly dry environment, rapid demographic growth and heavy pollution are diminishing both the quantity and quality of water for residents. And this means that Karachi's water problems, and its attendant crime of water theft, may become a problem in other parts of Pakistan.
In a grubby café in Karachi, Saghir Ahmed, a water tanker driver, explains how the mafias work. He says that he and other drivers routinely pay off officials from Karachi's water board, the police and the "landlords" — men who own the land where the government pipes are punctured, and who build valves to allow the drivers to pump the water. Those valves, used to steal government water, are called "illegal hydrants."
"The water board, police and landlord — these three — they benefit, they take the money," he says.
Karachi's water crisis got so bad that about a year ago a judicial commission was formed to investigate it.
Soon thereafter, the water board shut down many of the illegal hydrants. Qadir, the chief engineer at the Karachi water board, said they also lodged more than 300 complaints with the police against suspected water thieves. It's unclear, however, how many illegal hydrants remain.
And then, says Baxamoosa, the activist, the Karachi water board tried to entice the mafias to work legally.
"They've kind of partnered with them. They're using these tankers now as their distributors," she says.
Two water officials spoke to us on condition of anonymity — they were not allowed to speak to media — and confirmed this. They said tanker mafia drivers could fill up from legitimate government water sources, but on one condition: They would have to distribute about half the water at cheaper, government rates to residents in designated areas where there are no pipes, or where the water infrastructure has collapsed. They are free to sell the rest at commercial rates to whomever they wanted.
Basically, the tanker drivers now sell nearly half of the city's supply of water.
Despite those reforms, Karachi's water problem isn't solved.
Because the water tanker drivers can sell about half of the government water at commercial rates, it's still unaffordable for many of Karachi's residents. And the taps that run into the slums? They are still dry, likely as a result of ongoing drought and infrastructure damage, says Qadir.
So residents like the Akhtars must buy water from the local water stations that dot the slum.
At the Akhtar household, Raja's wife, Imtiyaz, showed us where she boiled their water, hoping that would kill whatever made the water so smelly. Then she made everybody tea.
She gestures to her neighbor, Shabana Khalid, 28, who dropped in for a visit. Her son constantly has diarrhea, one of the leading causes of child mortality in Pakistan, according to UNICEF. The cause of much of Pakistan's diarrhea: bacteria in the polluted water that residents drink.
Akhtar says she has terrible stomach pain. She and her husband aren't sure if it's the dirty water they buy because they can't afford so-called "clean" water.
Whatever the cause, she can't afford decent medical care because their spare money is spent on water. Her husband says it's a vicious cycle that will only be broken once they have piped water.
"Our lives would be much easier," he says. "We would no longer face this problem."
Junaid Ahmed, freelance reporter in Karachi, contributed to this story.
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Live musical performances, a marketplace, food, dance competitions, fashion shows, art exhibits, kids' zone and more. Sat-Sun from noon-9 pm. Free.
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Source: Received as budwood from L. Navarro, IVIA, Spain, via CCPP, 2001.
Parentage/origins: Originated as a mutation of 'Washington' navel.
RRK, 8/2006: Also known as 'Cabanes' navel and 'Pitarch' navel. Originated as a mutation of 'Washington' navel detected in 1957-1977 at Ribera de Cabenes, Castellon de la Plana, Spain. 'Ricalate' is slightly smaller and later than 'Washington' and hangs well until late in the season. According to Luis Navarro, Ricalate has no petiole wing. Some on our trees do, some don't. This selection is under patent in Spain. Ricalate was given to CCPP by AVASA for trial only.
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It’s been 5 days since my last update and I’m not sure where the time went. I’m fairly certain it was spent trying to sleep when Luke sleeps and getting stuff done around the house.
Today I took some pictures for some friends of ours with their two cute little boys. They were SO much fun and I can’t get over how sweet their little smiles are!
Yesterday we had a bridal shower for my cousin. It was a really good time and they played the coolest games! Since I’m going to have to get planning on my baby sisters bridal shower, it was great to get some ideas.
It has rained like crazy around here lately and to be honest, I’ve been loving it. I don’t like not being able to take the kids to the park, but I’m finally getting some stuff done around the house.
Sorry for the short update, but I really have to get to sleep. Luke’s wakeup call comes early.
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https://adoptionisinourhearts.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/its-been-5-days/
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The mission of the RNA Regulation Section (RRS), led by Myriam Gorospe, is to investigate the post-transcriptional mechanisms that regulate gene expression in aging physiology and pathology. The Section is particularly interested in the control of mRNA processing, transport, turnover, and translation by RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) and noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). The general working hypothesis in the RRS is that post-transcriptional gene regulation directly impacts upon the normal physiologic decline of aging as well as the aberrant gene expression programs in age-associated disease. The Section is testing this hypothesis in normal aging processes by analyzing the impact of RBPs and ncRNAs on age-associated inflammation, impaired muscle regeneration, cellular senescence, and declining responses to proliferative and metabolic stimuli. The Section is also investigating this hypothesis in age-associated diseases such as diabetes, obesity, sarcopenia, neurodegeneration, and cancer, by testing the impact of RBPs and ncRNAs on post-transcriptional gene regulation in pathologies of aging.
Neurodegeneration, through the analysis of gene expression program and cell types implicated in neurodegenerative processes.
Abdelmohsen K, Panda A, Kang MJ, Xu J, Selimyan R, Yoon JH, De S, Wood WH3rd, Becker KG, Gorospe M. Senescence associated lncRNAs: Senescence-associated long noncoding RNAs. Aging Cell 12:890-900, 2013.
Kang MJ, Abdelmohsen K, Hutchison ER, Mitchell SJ, Grammatikakis I, Guo R, Noh JH, Martindale JL, Yang X, Lee EK, Faghihi MA, Wahlestedt C, Troncoso JC, Perrone-Bizzozero N, Resnick SM, de Cabo R, Mattson MP, Gorospe M. HuD regulates coding and noncoding RNA to induce APP Aβ processing. Cell Reports 7:1401-1409, 2014.
Yoon JH, De S, Hafner M, Srikantan S, Abdelmohsen K, Grammatikakis I, Kim J, Kim KM, Noh JH, White EJF, Martindale JL, Yang X, Kang MJ, Wood WH3rd, Noren Hooten N, Evans MK, Becker KG, Tripathi V, Prasanth KV, Wilson GM, Tuschl T, Ingolia NT, Gorospe M. PAR-CLIP analysis uncovers AUF1 impact on target RNA fate and genome integrity.
Yoon JH, Jo MH, White EJF, De S, Hafner M, Zucconi BE, Abdelmohsen K, Martindale JL, Yang X, Wood WH3rd, Shin YM, Song JJ, Tuschl T, Becker KG, Wilson GM, Hohng S, Gorospe M. AUF1 promotes let-7b loading on Argonaute 2. Genes & Development 29:1599-604, 2015.
Noh JH, Kim KM, Abdelmohsen K, Yoon JH, Panda AC, Munk R, Kim J, Curtis J, Moad CA, Wohler CM, Indig FE, de Paula W, Dudekula DB, Piao Y, De S, Yang X, Martindale JL, de Cabo R, Gorospe M. HuR and GRSF1 modulate the nuclear export and mitochondrial localization of lncRNA RMRP. Genes & Development 30:1224-1239, 2016.
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MedStart is an early admission program designed to accept students during their junior year of their undergraduate degree program at an accredited U.S. College or University. The program allows students to enroll into The University of Toledo's College of Medicine program for the next academic year following completion of the four-year baccalaureate education from an U.S. accredited institution. Students accepted into the MedStart program are required to participate in a 2-week program on the Health Science Campus during the summer between their junior and senior years of college.
*Note: The application period will open August 3rd. Deadline for application and all supplemental materials is September 28th. Please carefully review "How to Apply to the MedStart Program" section. Furthermore, instructions of how to complete the application are provided in a PDF format.
The applicant must demonstrate motivation and enthusiasm for medicine as indicated from their volunteer and community service, medical related activities, leadership skills and/or research experiences. The MCAT is not required for acceptance into the program.
Important: Students who apply and are considered to the MedStart program must accept an offer of admission to the UT College of Medicine and Life Sciences at the end of their junior year of their undergraduate degree program. Students who apply MUST be available to start medical school no earlier or later than one complete academic year after being accepted. Failure to enroll in medical school the following year regardless of reason makes the student ineligible for the MedStart program and will result in a withdrawal of the admission offer.
Once the Letter of Intent has been signed, the applicant will not be permitted to apply to other medical schools. The applicant’s position will be held for the following Fall medical school class. Submission of an AMCAS application to another medical school will be considered as a withdrawal from the MedStart program and the applicant's place in medical school will no longer be held. In addition, the applicant will not be reimbursed for his/her program fees and the applicant will have to apply as a regular applicant in order to be considered for a position in the medical school class.
Who is eligible to apply to the MedStart Program?
The student must apply to the program in the beginning of his/her junior year of their undergraduate studies degree program at an accredited U.S. College or University. *Note: The MedStart Program will not consider applicants who plan to accelerate their coursework and graduate early.
Completion of a minimum of one year of general chemistry with labs, one year of organic chemistry with labs, one year of biological sciences, or one year of physics at the time of application is strongly recommended. *Note: The minimum prerequisite courses (as indicated below) obtained at an accredited institution of higher education must be completed by the time of matriculation.
Applicants are encouraged to acquire a broad undergraduate education including Humanities and Social Sciences.
*The University of Toledo Medical School Admissions does not accept virtual online lab courses.
An overall undergraduate GPA of 3.7 or higher with a science GPA of 3.5 or higher at the time of application is strongly recommended.
An ACT or SAT score is required. Applicants that have taken the exam(s) more than once should submit all their test scores. An ACT/SAT score taken once the student has matriculated into college will not be accepted.
An ACT score of 30 or higher or an SAT score of 1980 or higher is strongly recommended.
Applicants applying to the MedStart program must be citizens of the United States or have permanent resident status (permanent residency "green" card). If applying as a permanent resident, an applicant must be a permanent resident at the time of application and will be required to submit a photocopy of the front and back of their permanent resident card.
To apply to the MedStart program, first review the instructions on how to complete an application via PDF download then click on this link application website .
All recommendation letters, test scores and updates must be uploaded into the application.
4. The application period will open August 3rd. Deadline for application and all supplemental materials is September 28th.
If you have any questions, contact the University of Toledo Medical School Admissions Office at 419.383.3680 or Medadmissions@utoledo.edu.
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I was born at home, a suburban semi in Whitton, Middlesex, in 1936, “with instruments”, as my mother used to say, and it didn’t mean violins playing. In midwife-speak, I was turned down, a salutary experience for a future writer.
Earliest significant memory is a wartime one from 1944: being collected from an air-raid shelter at school and told our home had been destroyed by a V1 Flying Bomb. Miraculously my family escaped — brothers John and Andrew crawled out of the rubble, having survived under a Morrison table-shelter — although our neighbours in the other half of the house were killed.
After the bombing we were billeted with a farmer and his family in the West Country, an episode that influenced Rough Cider, my book about the memories of an evacuee.
In 1945 a huge crowd packed the White City for the first big athletics meeting after the war, when Sydney Wooderson ran against Arne Andersson. My father took me, but we were among the thousands who didn’t get in.
Even so, my interest in athletics was sparked. Later we went to the London Olympic Games. I grew up a fan and cycled to meetings in and around London through the 1950s. But as an athlete I was inept. You’ve heard of the Fosbury Flop. I was a flop before Fosbury was born, which is why I developed into a track “nut” and not a world-beating athlete. Much later, I wrote a bibliography of track and field, an athletics novel and the official history of the Amateur Athletic Association.
After Hampton Grammar School, I went to Reading University to study Fine Art and soon switched to English. My towering achievement at Reading was finding my future wife, Jax (known as Jackie Lewis then). Studying was just a bind for us both and we ended with less than brilliant degrees. When asked for a reference, Prof Gordon gave me a generous one, but added in a personal note, “You will now admit that you did no work at all.” Ah, but he couldn’t get enough crime novels to read and was amused years later when I sent him one.
National Service followed — as a Pilot Officer who piloted nothing and a Flying Officer who didn’t fly. Teaching RAF boy entrants earned me enough to get married and qualified me to teach in FE, first at Thurrock Technical College, then Hammersmith College. In spare evenings and weekends I tried sports writing. Out of it eventually came The Kings of Distance, my first book. A great thrill, especially when World Sports named it Sports Book of the Year.
But how do you follow that? One day in 1969 we spotted an advert for a first crime novel. The prize was £1000. Too tempting to ignore. Encouraged by Jax, I used my knowledge of obscure Victorian athletics, wrote Wobble to Death in under four months. Off-beat, with a catchy title, it won. The book was launched with a 24 hour Wobble for Shelter around Sloane Square. Barbara Windsor started the race and wobbled better than anyone.
Almost by default I was a crime writer. Good thing Jax had read some whodunnits and could advise, because I hadn’t progressed much past the Saint. Didn’t appreciate the honour of being reviewed by John Dickson Carr, Edmund Crispin, Julian Symons and HRF Keating. I knuckled down to learn the tricks of the trade and wrote seven more Victorian crime novels. In 1975, I kissed farewell to teaching and went full time.
Waxwork, the eighth novel, had a good review in Time magazine, and TV Producer June Wyndham-Davies decided to buy it for Granada. Starring Alan Dobie as Sergeant Cribb and Carol Royle as the woman awaiting execution, it was screened at Christmas, 1979.
Two series followed. All the book were dramatised and six new stories were written by my wife Jax and me just for TV. Our audience rose to 12.5 million in 1981 and Alan Dobie and William Simons (as Constable Thackeray) were nominated for Emmy awards. Click on TV, Film and Radio for more.
After giving up the day job, I went back to what I knew best. Goldengirl, under the pen-name Peter Lear, was about the exploitation of a brilliant runner aiming to win three gold medals at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. It was filmed starring Susan Anton and James Coburn. Shame about the timing: just before the film was released, the Russians marched into Afghanistan and the Americans pulled out of the Olympics. Not many people know about Goldengirl.
Early in my career, Mad Hatter’s Holiday was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards. The last of the Cribb books, Waxwork, won the 1978 Silver Dagger and in 1982 The False Inspector Dew won the Gold. The Summons (1995) and Bloodhounds (1996) each won a Silver. In 2000, I was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger for my career in crime writing and in 2018 the Mystery Writers of America honoured me as their Grand Master. For the full trophy cabinet, click here.
In 1991, I faced the new challenge of writing about a modern policeman. Peter Diamond, in The Last Detective, took to the bookstands and had a gratifying reception, winning the Anthony Award for best mystery of the year in America. Diamond has gone on to eighteen other books and a clutch of awards on both sides of the Ocean. More recently Henrietta “Hen” Mallin has been featured, first in a cameo role in The House Sitter, and then centre stage in The Circle and The Headhunters.
Put On The Spot: In 1990, the CWA had its glitziest Awards Dinner, with Princess Margaret as the main guest, and a galaxy of film and TV stars, among them Diana Rigg, Julie Christie, Francesca Annis and David Suchet. So it was a calamity the evening before when our speaker, John Mortimer, was taken to hospital with a detached retina.
CWA Awards Dinner: L to R: Peter, Diana Rigg, James Melville, Princess Margaret, Catherine Aird.
"Buried here, with a stake drove through his body, is the wicked murderer, John Proctor, who cut the throats of his wife and child and then poisoned himself, July 6th, 1765." The opening lines of my History of Whitton essay in 1951 show a morbid fascination with crime even at age 15. My first payday as a writer.
With Audrey and Leslie Charteris.
Our "bombed out" family was short of books. I can recall only two: The Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall and Alias the Saint. I thought "Alias" had something to do with the Old Testament (I was only eight at the time) and chucked that one aside, but I devoured the Marshall Hall book. He was the outstanding barrister of his age. I read each of the murder trials many times. Eventually I was forced to turn to the book about the saint, who was, of course, Simon Templar, the Leslie Charteris hero. Is it any wonder I became a crime writer? In 1992, when Chairman of the Crime Writers, I was thrilled to present Mr Charteris with the Cartier Diamond Dagger.
Murder We Promote: There's a vogue now for performance groups, writers teaming up to hawk their wares through entertainment. The first of them, Murder We Write, grew out of a chat over lunch in 1990 between Liza Cody, Paula Gosling, Michael Z Lewin and me. We agreed that a show might be a painless way to sell books. Mike got on the phone and within weeks we were touring the Mid-West, illustrating the writer's craft with a variety of techniques such as radio drama, audience participation and mime. The show took us up and down Britain as well, to the Edinburgh and Dublin Book Fairs and on TV. In other tours it morphed into Partners in Crime (just Mike and me); and Wanted for Murder (with Liza), which included magic, juggling and singing. A different way to reach out and sell books. Ten performance groups are now listed in the CWA directory.
Fiction In The Family: My brother Andrew Lovesey, a biochemist, wrote The Half-Angels (Sphere Books, 1975), a science fiction fantasy, and would have done more, but died young. Our son Phil Lovesey, "a promising new young British voice" (Time Out), writes psychological thrillers: Death Duties (HarperCollins, 1998), Ploughing Potter's Field (HarperCollins, 1999), When the Ashes Burn (HarperCollins, 2000) and The Screaming Tree (HarperCollins, 2002). In a change of genre, Phil has since teamed up with his wife Jacqui Lovesey to develop a series of illustrated fantasy novels about a magical hare called Matlock. View the official Matlock the Hare website.
Our daughter Kathy wisely eschewed literature for commerce and became a Vice President of J P Morgan Chase in New York.
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^ Stathopoulou M., Cartalis C., Andritsos A. (2005)."Assessing the thermal environment of major cities in Greece". International Conference "Passive and Low Energy Cooling for the Built Environment", May 2005, Santorini, Greece, pp. 108–112.
^ Kassomenos P.A. and Katsoulis B.D. (2006). "Mesoscale and macroscale aspects of the morning Urban Heat Island around Athens, Greece", Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 94, pp. 209–218.
^ Santamouris M., Papanikolaou N., Livada I., Koronakis I., Georgakis A., Assimakopoulos D.N. (2001). "On the impact of urban climate on the energy consumption of buildings". Solar Energy, 70 (3): pp. 201–216.
^ Santamouris M. (1997). "Passive Cooling and Urban Layout". Interim Report, POLIS Research Project, European Commission, Directorate General for Science, Research and Development.> and human wellbeing and health.
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Beck returned to the Skanderborg Festival (also called SmukFest and Smukkeste). It ran for 5 (!) days from August 5-9, and Beck played on the 8th.
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Lake Linden is a village in Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,007 at the 2010 census. The village is mostly within Schoolcraft Township, though a tiny portion lies in Torch Lake Township.
Lake Linden was named for an early settler. A fire destroyed most of Lake Linden in 1887.
Lake Linden was the site of a large plant to process the copper ore of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. Calumet and Hecla shut down the operation in 1968.
A portion of the village was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Lake Linden Historic District in 2009.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.89 square miles (2.31 km2), of which 0.77 square miles (1.99 km2) is land and 0.12 square miles (0.31 km2) is water.
As of the census of 2010, there were 1,007 people, 481 households, and 263 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,307.8 inhabitants per square mile (504.9/km2). There were 568 housing units at an average density of 737.7 per square mile (284.8/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 97.4% White, 0.7% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.2% from other races, and 1.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.8% of the population.
There were 481 households of which 24.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.8% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 45.3% were non-families. 41.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 20.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.07 and the average family size was 2.78.
The median age in the village was 44.1 years. 21.4% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22.8% were from 25 to 44; 25.4% were from 45 to 64; and 23.4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 51.0% male and 49.0% female.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,081 people, 485 households, and 307 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,646.8 per square mile (632.4/km²). There were 569 housing units at an average density of 866.8 per square mile (332.9/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 97.41% White, 0.09% African American, 0.65% Native American, 0.46% Asian, 0.19% from other races, and 1.20% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.93% of the population. 22.2% were of Finnish, 21.5% French, 14.3% French Canadian, 12.9% German, 9.0% English and 5.3% Italian ancestry according to Census 2000.
There were 485 households out of which 26.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.9% were married couples living together, 11.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.7% were non-families. 34.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 19.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.23 and the average family size was 2.84.
In the village, the population was spread out with 23.6% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 23.8% from 25 to 44, 24.9% from 45 to 64, and 21.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.4 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $24,234, and the median income for a family was $30,000. Males had a median income of $29,327 versus $18,654 for females. The per capita income for the village was $14,189. About 16.6% of families and 17.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.1% of those under age 18 and 20.1% of those age 65 or over.
This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Lake Linden has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.
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English Plus Afternoon Activities because Killarney has so much to offer!
The English Plus Activities Course is designed for those students that wish to take part in a group class in the mornings but would also like to enjoy the school’s interesting and varied afternoon activity programme. The course includes a Saturday Day Trip.
The English Plus Activities Course is available for all students; to adults (18 +), teenagers (13-17) and to small children (3-12) Adult English classes are held in the main school building opposite Killarney National Park. Children’s classes are held in the ‘Kidzone’ on the same site. Teenage English classes are held at our teenage school in Lisivigeen, Killarney.
Please see a YouTube playlist of families discussing our Afternoon Activities.
What are the different Afternoon Activity Programmes?
The adult programme has more of a cultural emphasis including visits to Ross Castle, Muckross House, Geraldine Museum as well as outdoor activities such as cycling and walks in the National Park.
What are the family Day Trips?
What are the Teenage Day trips?
This course is designed for those who wish to improve their English whilst at the same time developing their horse riding skills. This course is not suitable for Advanced horse riders. Available only during Easter or the summer months, the horse riding part of the course will be delivered by Abbeyglen Riding Stables , one of the best equestrian centres in Kerry.
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Student folk ensembles at Hope College will perform on Sunday, Nov. 19, at 2 p.m. in the John and Dede Howard Recital Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.
The recital will feature the Indie Folk Ensemble, the Americana Roots Ensemble and the Appalachian String Band. The three groups will perform a diverse selection of bluegrass, old-time and American folk music, as well as string-band covers of popular music.
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ThunderCats is an American animated series based on a group of cat-like humanoid aliens. The show was created by Tobin “Ted” Wolf and animated by Japanese animation studio Pacific Animation Corporation. The characters were originally featured in an animated TV series named ThunderCats, running from 1985 to 1989.
There were also several comic book series produced. A ThunderCats comic book series based on the animated series was originally published by Marvel Comics through its Star Comics imprint in 1985, lasting for 3 years and 24 issues. During this time, a new series was published by Marvel UK consisting of 129 issues and was also published for three years.
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The narrator of the novel, Esther Greenwood is a scholarship student at a prestigious women's college entering her senior year as the novel begins, and working at an internship for Ladies Day magazine in New York City. However, she faces an increasing sense of anxiety concerning her future during this time, not sure what career path she will take or whether she will take one at all and instead get married. This anxiety leads to a severe depression and a suicide attempt from which Esther slowly recovers through asserting her independence. You will have to look into the text for your quotes.
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at Brown University. This conference is organized by Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Education Department, Africana Studies, Brown Green Party, Brown Democrats, Democracy Matters, American Civil Liberties Union, Americans for Informed Democracy, and Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance.
Next Saturday, Dec. 10, I'm going to be in New York City as the guest speaker at the Community Service Society of New York Roundtable Discussion on Prisoner Re-entry Issues. The discussion is from noon to 3pm in Conference Room 4A at 105 East 22nd Street.
Peter Wagner, JD, Executive Director. Peter Wagner teaches, lectures, and writes about the negative impact of mass incarceration in the United States. His current focus is on working to demonstrate - through graphics, legal research, and state-by-state analyses - the distortion of the democratic process that results from the U.S. Census Bureau's practice of counting the nation's mostly urban prisoners as residents of the often remote communities in which they are incarcerated. The New York Times editorial board has twice supported his efforts to change the way prisoners are counted, and the Boston Globe identified him as the "leading public critic" of the prisoner miscount. He has presented his research at national and international conferences and meetings, including a Census Bureau Symposium, a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, and a keynote address to a conference at Harvard University. Mr. Wagner's publications include Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in New York (2002); The Prison Index: Taking the Pulse of the Crime Control Industry (2003); and, with Eric Lotke, Prisoners of the Census: Electoral and Financial Consequences of Counting Prisoners Where They Go, Not Where They Come From, [PDF] 24 Pace L. Rev. 587 (2004).
Also see the Prisoners of the Census and Prison Policy Initiative websites.
We came in road-weary VW Buses, with backpacks and sleeping bags, willing to sleep on any floor, withstand certain adversity, every abuse and encounter death, to add another face to the struggle for equality and dignity in America during the 1950’s and 60’s. There had been protests against the American evil system of Jim Crow, in the courts and in the streets, but after Montgomery the protests swelled to a collective force.
Now in October 2005, we arrived in Montgomery, Alabama “The Cradle of the Confederacy” on jets, sports sedans and air conditioned SUV’s with matching luggage and stayed at the Embassy Suites, showing evidence of years of wear and tear.
I was moved beyond words to see my name and that of my mother among the 300+ names on the Wall of Tolerance. However, I was more impressed and honored to be with the thousands of allies, veterans of the movement, who were in the crowd and whose names did not appear. Black, white, red, yellow & brown, Uncles & Cousins, Mothers & Sisters, Christian & Jews, Gay & straight; some with walkers and in wheel chairs accompanied by children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, proud to share a moment, that for most, if not all of us, never dreamed would come.
Yes, I had a pittance in the Civil Rights Movement, I was the first “colored girl” to graduate (1956) from an integrated school in Baltimore MD after the Brown vs. BOE (1954), walked many picket lines, participated in sit-in demonstrations, gone to jail for having the audacity to ask to be served a 10 cent hamburger at the White Castle, faced death at the hands of an angry white mob when I had the impudence to attempt to register people to vote and walked the ever moving line of Jim Crow. But today I was in the company of real heroes, people who had practiced non-violence here in the overtly violent south.
It was here in Montgomery that a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was selected to lead a congregation and began his march toward fame. Here, he preached nonviolence in the face of Jim Crow. Rosa Parks sat down and refused to get up here, and thousands of unnamed “workers in the vineyard” walked to work for more than a year because of her. The bus boycott started here. Heroes whose names are lost to history took a stand for freedom here. People from Hawaii joined the thousands more who walked in the rain and mud for five days from from Selma to Montgomery, seeking the right to vote.
This magnificent day was the dedication of the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, which includes the Wall of Tolerance. The wall incorporates the names of people who have dedicated themselves to fighting intolerance in their daily lives. Using digital technology to spectacular effect, the names flow down a curved 20 by 40 foot wall. The names on the wall include Civil Rights workers from all fifty states and Japan.
Patiently, we stood in line to touch, to feel, to smell and take pictures of the bus in which Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat to a white man, as if it were the Holy Grail and to gently touch the waters of the black granite memorial which flow over the names of 40 martyrs who lost their lives during the Civil Rights Movement, a period framed by the momentous Brown v. Board decision in 1954 and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968.
The memorial sits only a few blocks west of the first capitol of the Confederacy, the spot where Jefferson Davis took the oath of office to become President of the Confederate States. From Court Square, the order was sent in 1861 to "reduce" Fort Sumter, beginning the Civil War. Ninety-four years later, on a December evening, Mrs. Rosa Parks began a historic bus ride from Court Square. East is the Dexter Avenue (King Memorial) Baptist Church, where a young pastor named Martin Luther King, Jr., led the movement Mrs. Parks began.
"Fifty years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat just a few blocks away from where we are today," said Center co-founder Morris Dees in his welcoming remarks. "You've come from throughout the United States to be a part of the march that she started. "The placement of your name on the Wall of Tolerance shows the march for justice continues," he said.
"This event is about honoring heroes," said U. S. Congressman Artur Davis (D-Ala,), who was the dedication's keynote speaker. "It has been the lot of our country that the bravest of us have laid down their lives, some anonymously, some in full view of the world," Davis said. "All share courage and are heroes. That's what we honor today."
He urged everyone to consider "the enduring power of people who are willing to take a stand." Davis continued, “Standing here, five minutes away from where George Wallace declared that men and women could not be equal, there is a new ground rising. There is a new Alabama in sight. There is a new country in sight. But only if we keep believing in each other, in the power of right."
NAACP chairman Julian Bond, greeted with a standing ovation as he was introduced, served as host for the dedication ceremony.
"Each of us is a ripple, and together we are all a mighty stream," said Bond in his closing remark.
Monday, October 24, 2005 sitting in the airport as we said our goodbyes, the overhead TV monitors flashed an alert, “Civil Rights Giant Rosa Parks dies”. We hugged each other, as it seemed she, the woman whose name was on the invitation to the movement, had waited until the conclusion of the tribute to the other unsung heroes to take her final bow.
She left us physically but her legacy will never fade away.
Marsha Joyner with her son Chris German (L.) and with Cedrick Ashe (R.), standing in front of the bus on which Rosa Parks made history.
First photo is taken in front of a replica of the Cleveland Avenue bus, on which Rosa Parks made history. The original bus is on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, Michigan. For more information see "The Bus," by Donnie Williams.
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The blog I need help with is gajasboas.hostzi.com.
The blog you specified at gajasboas.hostzi.com does not appear to be hosted at WordPress.com.
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Alberta Provincial Highway No. 1A is the designation of two alternate routes off the Alberta portion of the Trans-Canada Highway. However, it is not the only name used for spurs off Highway 1 - Highway 1X is another such designation. These highways, however, are not part of the Trans-Canada Highway network, and only have Alberta's provincial primary highway shields instead of the ones used for the Trans-Canada Highway.
The Lake Louise to Banff section of the Banff National Park 1A route is also known as the Bow Valley Parkway. It begins at Highway 1 at Lake Louise, generally paralleling it until it meets Highway 1 again approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) west of Banff. It provides more immediate access to attractions in Banff National Park such as Castle Mountain and Johnston Canyon. This spur has a reduced speed limit of 60 km/h (37 mph), and provides opportunities to view wildlife at various times of the year.
Parks Canada introduced planned and marked pullovers along the route to enhance and educate visitors about the region. The Bow Valley Parkway is one of only two parkways between Lake Louise and Banff, and the only one that allows views of the mountain scenery, waterfalls, and various view points of the nearby rivers and creeks. It was the original highway that connected the valley and is advertised as a "year-round scenic heritage experience".
Parks Canada enacted seasonal travel restrictions along the Bow Valley Parkway on a 17 km (11 mi) segment between the Johnston Canyon Campground and the Fireside Picnic Area (adjacent to the Highway 1 eastern junction). From March 1st to June 25th, travel is not permitted between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. in order to protect wildlife. Highway 1 can be used as an alternate route.
The second of the 1A routes, known as the Bow Valley Trail, begins in Canmore, off of the Trans-Canada Highway at exit 91. It formerly began at the Trans-Canada Highway at exit 86 and passed through Canmore; however, ownership of the section was transferred to the Town of Canmore. The roadway still carries the name "Bow Valley Trail".
From exit 91, it heads eastbound, along the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks, until it reaches the Hamlet of Exshaw. From Exshaw, Bow Valley Trail heads to the northeast, past Highway 1X.
Just east of Highway 1X, Bow Valley Trail narrows and the speed limit is reduced to 80 km/h (50 mph) for approximately thirty kilometres as it passes through the Stoney Indian Reserve, where warning signs that there may be livestock and/or pedestrians on the road are posted. Highway 1A passes Morley approximately eight kilometres from the reserve's eastern boundary; the community is situated just south of the highway. As the Highway leaves the reserve, it widens and the speed limit increases back to 100 km/h (62 mph). Shortly after leaving the reserve, the highway skirts the north shore of Ghost Lake, a manmade glacier lake that is a popular spot for Calgary's boating and sailing enthusiasts in the summer, as well as ice sailing in the winter. The lake also supplies most of the water power for Calgary through TransAlta Utilities. Highway 1A meets northbound Highway 40 approximately 3 km (1.9 mi) after passing Ghost Lake.
From Highway 40, Bow Valley Trail proceeds towards the east, and then slightly to the southeast, before reaching the Town of Cochrane, where it intersects with Highway 22. There, the highway widens to 4 lanes as it leaves Cochrane and proceeds 18 km (11 mi) southeast until it reaches Calgary, meeting northbound Highway 766 about 6 km (3.7 mi) west of the city limits. Upon reaching the Calgary city limits at 12 Mile Coulee Road, it continues as Crowchild Trail, a major north-south expressway, (although it travels in a southeasterly direction from the city limits to 24 Avenue NW) through the northwest and southwest parts of the city. Within Calgary, it crosses Stoney Trail (Highway 201) as well as a number of major streets, before reuniting with the Trans-Canada Highway (known as 16 Avenue N) near McMahon Stadium and the University of Calgary. The section along Crowchild Trail is maintained by the City of Calgary rather than Alberta Transportation.
When initially constructed, the Icefields Parkway was designated as Highway 1A between Lake Louise and Jasper. The route was renumbered to Highway 93 in 1959.
A former section of Highway 1A exists along the former Kicking Horse Trail, the original road between Lake Louise and Golden, British Columbia that opened in 1926. When the Trans-Canada Highway was realigned in 1962, the segment became Highway 1A. It began at British Columbia Highway 1, 3 km (2 mi) west of the Alberta border in Yoho National Park. It meandered eastward through Kicking Horse Pass to Lake Louise, generally paralleling the main Highway 1 and CPR rail line to the south. The section between Lake Louise (townsite) and Lake Louise (lake) is known as Lake Louise Drive, while the remainder of route is now closed to vehicle traffic and is part the Great Divide hiking trail.
Highway 1A used to be an alternate route that followed 17 Avenue SE in Calgary and linked with Highway 1 in Chestermere. It began at Highway 2 (Deerfoot Trail) and Blackfoot Trail interchange and continued east along 17 Avenue SE where it passed through the former town of Forest Lawn. It crossed 116 Street SE, entering Chestermere and terminated at the Highway 1 interchange. It was dropped by the province in 2013 and the section within Chestermere was renamed to Chestermere Boulevard. As of 2016, remnant Highway 1A signage still remains on Deerfoot Trail and sections of 17 Avenue SE within Calgary; however, it has been removed along Stoney Trail, through Chestermere, and along the Trans-Canada Highway.
The existing Bow Valley Trail / Crowchild Trail section and former 17 Avenue SE section of Highway 1A used to be connected by following a series of streets through inner-city Calgary. From its present terminus, Highway 1A followed 16 Avenue NW east and was cosigned with Highway 1 to 14 Street NW. Highway 1A turned south, and after crossing the Bow River using the Mewata Bridge, and then branches east at its interchange Bow Trail. Highway 1A passed through downtown Calgary on a pair of one-way streets, with eastbound traffic following 9 Avenue S and westbound traffic following 6 Avenue S. East of 6 Street SE, both directions of Highway 1A followed 9 Avenue SE, crossing the Elbow River on the Inglewood Bridge and passing through the community of Inglewood, linking with eastern section of Highway 1A by either using 16 Street SE and Blackfoot Trail, or directly along 17 Avenue SE. This section of Highway 1A was dropped in the 1970s.
A former alignment of the Trans-Canada Highway between Brooks and Medicine Hat, through County of Newell and Cypress County, is locally referred to as Highway 1A. Running parallel to Highway 1, it runs to the south along the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline. The road is paved between Brooks and Highway 875, with long-term plans to pave it to Tilley, as well as some sections around Suffield. Between Tilley and Suffield, the road has both gravel and unimproved sections and serves as a local ranch-access road. Once in Cypress County, it is referred to as the Old Trans-Canada Highway, while in Redcliff and Medicine Hat, it goes by South Railway Avenue and Saamis Drive.
Despite the Highway 1A name, the route is maintained by the local municipalities and is not part of the provincial highway system.
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Alberta Provincial Highway No. 1X is a spur highway between Highway 1 and Highway 1A approximately 7 km (4.3 mi) east of Exshaw near the western edge of the Stoney Indian Reserve. It serves as the only Bow River crossing between Canmore to the west and Morley to the east, providing access to First Nations lands and communities in the area. At 4.5 km (2.8 mi) in length, it is one of Alberta's shortest provincial highways.
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^ a b c d "2016 Provincial Highway 1-216 Progress Chart" (PDF). Alberta Transportation. March 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 12, 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
^ "Bow Valley Parkway Seasonal Travel Restriction". Banff National Park. Parks Canada. April 1, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
^ "Cochrane Interchange". Alberta Transportation. Government of Alberta. April 6, 2017. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
^ Tucker, Erika (April 7, 2017). "Alberta government announces plans for Town of Cochrane interchange". Global News. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
^ Official Road Map of the Province of Alberta (PDF) (Map). Department of Highways. 1960. §§ B-6, C-5, C-4.
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^ "Kicking Horse Pass National Historic Site of Canada". Parks Canada. Government of Canada. March 22, 2012. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
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^ Google (December 21, 2016). "Old Hwy 1A - 17 Ave SE" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
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^ Province of Alberta Canada Official Road Map 1962 (Map). Government of the Province of Alberta. § Calgary inset.
^ a b County of Newell (2018). "2. Road Map" (Map). Landowner Map Book. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
^ "Paving Plan". County of Newell. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
^ a b Cypress County. Rural Land Ownership Maps (Map). § 14-15, 20-21. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
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2019-04-19T20:37:42Z
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Highway_1A
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Recreation
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tripod
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Baldwin 88-Note Pianovelle Keyboard NEW DEMO, NOT REFURB! $3,750 FT //Delivery or Free Pickup in Chgo.Hts.
Scottie Pippen Bulls Figure '88 $150 FT 9.5 in. tall.
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2019-04-20T08:43:42Z
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http://engagedencounter.tripod.com/it/id1.html
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Arts
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cafepress
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Dress your lapel to impress with fun Heaven Buttons. At CafePress you'll find many sizes of shapes of attention-getting & conversation-starting buttons. Find pins on every topic under the sun (including summer themes like that beach party). Plus score cool badges celebrating political campaigns & presidential candidates as well as holidays & occasions like 4th of July and Father's Day. We have buttons with funny sayings that are sure to make people laugh and break the ice at a party. We also have mini-buttons and all the way up to 3.5" buttons, all available with bulk discounts so you can buy 1 or 1,001 buttons and get a great deal. And don't forget that if you need buttons with promotional messages and your own logo, it's simple to make your own personalized buttons.
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2019-04-19T11:05:11Z
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https://www.cafepress.com/+heaven+buttons
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Arts
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Shopping
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cnet
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Fear not, the STI will live on in every other market where it's currently offered.
The importer in charge of bringing Subarus into the United Kingdom has decided this year will be the last year it imports the WRX STI, and it's rolled out a new special edition to bid it farewell.
IM Group, the company responsible for distributing Subaru's vehicles in the UK, has unveiled the WRX STI Swansong Final Edition, which will be limited to 150 units.
"With the launches of new models, and investment in platform and powertrains going forward, the timing has felt right to open a new chapter for Subaru and allow WRX STI's heritage to inform future developments rather than being continued," the group wrote in a statement.
Good night, sweet prince (in the UK).
It's important to note that the STI has no plans of going anywhere in its other major markets, including the US. This decision was entirely up to IM Group, which will undoubtedly strike a chord of sadness in fans of the road-going rally car.
The WRX STI Swansong Final Edition claims to be the most capable UK STI to date. It packs 19-inch wheels with new Brembo brakes underneath, an electronic center differential and bi-LED headlights that move their beams with the steering wheel. It still relies on Subaru's tried-and-true 2.5-liter flat-four engine, mated to a six-speed manual transmission.
Aesthetically, there's a redesigned front bumper with a blacked-out lower grille, gloss black interior trim inserts and a Final Edition badge on the door. The car's multifunction display is now 5.9 inches, up from a previous 4.3.
Aside from the badge, if those updates sound familiar, that's because it's the same host of updates that Subaru brought to both the US-spec WRX and STI for the 2018 model year. Again, those cars will continue on in the US and other markets. It's just the UK where the STI gets the axe.
The WRX STI Swansong Final Edition can be ordered starting today. It's priced at £33,995 ($45,095, directly converted) including value-added tax and all associated fees, which is only £2,000 ($2,650) more than the regular STI.
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2019-04-25T16:41:33Z
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https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/subaru-wrx-sti-ends-uk-run-with-swansong-final-edition/
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Arts
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Shopping
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telegraph
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Birds of a feather flock together: and if birds could be tweedy rather than feathery, I would be of that genus or species. With others of my ageing type, I assemble outside provincial book fairs waiting tremulously for them to open, as drinkers waited outside pubs in the days when they still had opening and closing hours. We all rush in, hopeful of finding something special and fearful that others will find it first. It isn’t only fish that get away.
How many hours, among the happiest of my life, have I spent in the dusty, damp or dismal purlieus of second-hand bookshops, where mummified silverfish, faded pressed flowers and very occasionally love letters are to be found in books long undisturbed on their shelves. With what delight do I find the word ''scarce’’ pencilled in on the flyleaf by the bookseller, though the fact that the book has remained unsold for years, possibly decades, suggests that purchasers are scarcer still.
Alas, second-hand bookshops are closing daily, driven out of business by the combination of a general decline in reading, the internet and that most characteristic of all modern British institutions, the charity shop. Booksellers tell me that 90 per cent of their overheads arise from their shops, and 90 per cent of their sales from the internet. Except for the true antiquarian dealers, whose customers are aficionados of the first state and the misprint on page 287, second-hand bookshops make less and less economic sense.
Second-hand booksellers are not in it for the money, of course: it is probably easier to make a good living on social security. The booksellers love books, though not necessarily their purchasers, and in their way are learned men. When they have been in the trade for many years they know everything about books except, possibly, their content. Possessed of astonishing memories, they say things like “I haven’t seen another copy since 1978”. Some of them seem destined to be mummified among their books like the silverfish, and probably cannot conceive of a better way to die.
Neither can I. The Rev Thomas Dibdin tells the story in his book The Bibliomania, or Book-Madness: History, Symptoms and Cure of this Fatal Disease (first edition 1809, 87 pages; second edition 1811, 782 pages) of a bibliomaniac who, on his deathbed, excitedly sent out for books from the catalogue of a bookseller, his obsession keeping him happy until the very moment of his death. Alas, his library of 50,000 books was sold posthumously for a third of what it cost him; but if the really important business of life is to die well, then no better death could be imagined.
Booksellers tell stories that they regard as tall when they are in the mouths of others of their trade: they are a jealous and envious lot. But they all say that libraries around the country are disembarrassing themselves of 17th- to 19th-century books because, rarely consulted, they are deemed to waste space that could more usefully be devoted to computer stations and multiple copies of Dan Brown, much in demand.
Certainly, those of us who like ancient books on arcane subjects have noticed that many of our purchases emanate from institutions of learning. It makes no difference that Mrs Theobald Smedley-Wilkins left Lead Poisoning in the Later Roman Empire to an institution in perpetuity in memory of her late husband, Alderman Theobald Smedley-Wilkins. The librarian takes his revenge upon the now redundant work by stamping it sadistically with a large and ugly “withdrawn”, thus successfully reducing its resale value. This means that those of us who would like to leave books to public institutions as being exceptionally rare or even unique now think twice about doing so.
Browsing among the shelves is rewarding in a way that surfing the internet (the largest second-hand books website searches through 140 million volumes for sale, or says it does – I haven’t counted) can never be. Of course, if there is a particular book that you want urgently, the internet is a wonder: you type in the title, you pay by credit card, the book arrives the next day. There is no need any longer to resort to the bookfinder, that strange professional searcher after needles in haystacks, who guards his sources more jealously than any journalist and, I suspect, would not reveal them under torture.
The joy of finding something that one did not know existed, and that is deeply interesting or connected in a totally unexpected way with one’s intellectual interests of the moment, is one of the great serendipitous rewards of browsing, and one unknown to those who take a purely instrumental view of bookshops, leaving them the moment they discover that they do not have the very book that they want.
As for us aficionados, the strange thing is that one is guided by a kind of instinct to the right shelf. For example, in Manchester recently I found a small bookshop with so little stock that I wondered how it survived. For some reason I picked from the shelf a slim paperback entitled Making Sense of the NHS Complaints and Disciplinary Procedures – an illustration of an important literary principle, namely that there is no subject so boring that no one has written a book about it.
Why on earth did I hone in on this book, so dull and tedious? There was a slip of paper in the book. It was a review copy, and had been sent out by a medical publication to a doctor for review. The doctor in question was Dr Harold Shipman, and the book had obviously been read thoroughly. I bought it for £5, not as a memento mori but as a reminder of the irony of human existence.
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2019-04-20T08:50:59Z
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9715377/Why-second-hand-bookshops-are-just-my-type.html
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This thesis begins by arguing that the defining moment of New Zealand nationalism occurred not at Gallipoli but in Britain in 1905 with the triumphant tour of the All Blacks. The myths were later strengthened in the 1930s cultural literary movement which placed the 'ordinary bloke', and his traditions, at the centre of importance in New Zealand society. While this literary movement diminished towards the 1970s, it continued to exert a powerful influence in New Zealand up till the 1980s when authors, such as Greg McGee, sought to challenge the relevance of this nationalism and definition of masculinity. The intention of this thesis is not only to consider the mutually reinforcing areas of masculinity and rugby in generating a distinctively New Zealand identity, but more importantly to demonstrate how perceptions towards masculinity have been reviewed and reevaluated since the late 1970s. Rugby has also had a role in challenging and undermining those myths of identity. In order to chart the shifts in these perceptions, the thesis will not only focus on Greg McGee's Foreskin's Lament and its subsequent revision in 1985,but also on Whitemen. Old Scores, Skinand Bone and the accompanying literary criticism which deals with all of these texts to destabilise the myths and suggest where masculinity now stands in New Zealand.
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2019-04-21T06:09:22Z
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https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/1019
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cnet
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With browser extension Shopping Enhancer, you can make Amazon and Google play nice when comparison shopping.
Attention all shoppers. With the browser extension Shopping Enhancer, you can get Amazon listings back among your Google Shopping results.
You may not have noticed, but Amazon prices no longer show up in Google Shopping searches. According to the New York Times, last fall Google started requiring retailers to pay to be included in Google Shopping results, and Amazon opted not to pony up. As a result, to see pricing information for a product from the two e-commerce giants requires two separate searches. Unless you install Shopping Enhancer, that is.
Available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, Shopping Enhancer delivers Amazon results to Google Shopping. After installing the extension, simply conduct a search via Google Shopping and if Amazon carries the product, you'll see it listed among the results.
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2019-04-21T14:39:31Z
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https://www.cnet.com/how-to/bring-back-amazon-results-to-google-shopping/
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Arts
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Shopping
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histage
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You think it's easy to write a murder? Just ask the Marquis Crossing Ladies Society for the Arts. They decide to do just that, especially when they find out they have to pay royalties to do someone else's play. "Anybody can write a murder," Emma tells the others, and Opaline immediately begins to try to strangle the other members "just to figure out how to do it." The ladies soon find themselves writing an "operatic murder mystery dinner theater with possible audience participation," providing no one sells fruit to the audience. Then two actual convicts on the lam decide the best place to lay low is with the ladies, who drag them into the play. A wise-cracking farce where no one can tell the loaded guns from the unloaded ones.
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2019-04-21T17:13:30Z
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https://www.histage.com/marquis-crossing-ladies
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Arts
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customwritten
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Student Plagiarism - Why Students Plagiarize?
What is Academic Plagiarism and Why Students Plagiarize?
"Ah, a little pasting from the website will never hurt. The teacher will never know where the information came from and it will help me get the paper done faster. I just don't have enough time to write it.' This student is clearly misinformed. Most teachers will know where the information came from and/or will use different ways to determine if the work is the student's work.
Modern technology, the Internet, and the World Wide Web makes it easier to plagiarize and many students believe they will not get caught doing it. Sometimes students do not realize any information coming off the Internet is copyrighted. Often students fall behind in getting their work done and they believe the only way to copy information from different sources. Many students have more than one class and they think they cannot write all the term papers due for these classes. However, plagiarism is cheating and often carries a stiff penalty from the college or university.
Plagiarism is copying someone's words or ideas without giving them credit for it. While many students, teachers, and writers do not mean to plagiarize, they often do it. The best way to prevent plagiarism is to give credit to someone's words or ideas.
Use quotations marks and cite the source if you are referring to someone's words or ideas that come from a variety of sources such as a magazine, book, newspapers, or from a Web page. Citation is stating where the words or ideas came from with the correct documentation of the source in a specific style such as the Modern Language Association's (MLA) style.
Paraphrasing another person's words or ideas is still plagiarism without you document where the original source came from. When citing the source use one of the specific style's of documentation such as MLA. Read the paraphrase to see if the wording is more of a copy of the original or truly rephrased in your own words.
Sometimes students use source after source in a term paper. They fail to use their own words and express their knowledge about the topic. While documentation of all these sources shows the paper is not plagiarized, the instructor wants to see the work of the student. It is important to think about the topic and write about what you know as well as use the research you find.
"Students often plagiarize because they find their lives so busy' (Moore 1968). "Plagiarism is copying another person's work' (Moore 2003). "It is important to document sources. This means giving the name of the author, title, the name of the journal or magazine, the volume number, and the page numbers' (Moore 2004).
Notice that all the sentences in the paragraph have been cited. None of the writing is the individual's. The right way to do a term paper or essay is to use your thoughts and knowledge about a paper and mix this with sources that are cited.
Today's hectic schedules often cause students to consider plagiarizing. "Plagiarism is copying another person's work' (Moore 2003). The student simply copies and pastes information from different web sites into their paper believing the instructor will never know. What they should do is to use quotation marks if using the person's words and ideas or the student could paraphrase the words of the author. Either way the information should be cited and documented in a reference page. "It is important to document all the sources. This means giving the name of the author, title, the name of the journal or magazine, the volume number, and the page numbers' (Moore 2004).
Notice the student's ideas are mixed with others words and ideas that are cited in the paragraphs. If a person is going to use the words or ideas of someone, they must cite and document where the information came from. Plagiarism is using the works or ideas of someone else.
Not only students plagiarize; some of the essay writing and research companies or "non-profit organizations" fight each other over... who "plagiarizes more" and who has "the right" to plagiarize.
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2019-04-22T08:04:51Z
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https://customwritten.com/writing/essay-plagiarism
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Arts
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Reference
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houstonpress
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Bombay Pizza Co. is worth visiting for its sheer originality. It only helps that every pizza made here is fantastically scrumptious. The pie starts on a thin, crispy crust studded with sesame seeds, unlike any crust you have tried before. Next comes an unprecedented array of toppings. The saag paneer version features spiced greens, paneer, fontina, goat cheese and mozzarella. For something spicier, try the Gateway to India, which boasts tandoori chicken, crabmeat, artichoke hearts, fresh cilantro, mozzarella, provolone and cilantro chutney. You can also make a custom creation, but with so many amazing options available, you probably won't want to.
Best Pizzeria: Bombay Pizza Co.
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2019-04-24T16:17:18Z
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https://www.houstonpress.com/best-of/2010/food-and-drink/best-pizzeria-6606948
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Arts
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Business
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dickinson
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"Health" in Dean Meredith's Report "Women at Dickinson College"
In her report "Women at Dickinson College," Dean Josaphine B. Meredith discusses women's health in a section entitled "Health." She explained that there had not been a single serious illness in years as she is sure to send any sick women home or to the doctor as soon as she saw symptoms. Moreover, Dean Meredith advocated for a Women's Hygiene Program at Dickinson College. She wrote that "The girls need a course in Hygiene to supplement their physical training. The Physical Tr. teacher has plenty of time for it.
In her essay " Women at Dickinson College," Josephine Brunyate Meredith discussed women's extracurricular activities at Dickinson College. Meredith first examined the women's literary societies. She argued that the two women's literary societies were not as well organized as the male literary societies. She wrote that "The Literary Societies, however, provide the only chance for many of the students to learn how to speak and if properly helped by the Faculty many students would work hard and enjoy the work.
Meredith's historical account of women's experiences at Dickinson College is further developed in her exploration of womens' interests and roles within student organizations. She dedicates several pages in her essay to explore specific organizations such as: Woman's Student Government; Y. W. C. A. and Religious life; Sunday Services; Literary Societies; Music; Dramatics; Girls Fraternities and Co-educational Organizations.
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2019-04-22T19:02:11Z
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http://coeducation.dickinson.edu/taxonomy/term/2819
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Arts
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Recreation
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nytimes
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With a festival of music, drama and dance, Jerusalem has inaugurated a new, three-theater cultural center.
The celebration this week honored Lester Crown, the Chicago entrepreneur, and his family, who presented the handsome complex adjoining the Jerusalem Theater as a gift to the city. But unannounced, it also turned into a celebration of Isaac Stern, whose enthusiastic impetus to music in Israel since its founding was extolled in speeches and scrolls and spontaneous tributes from an adoring public.
The adoration came from fans who showered the violinist with applause, bravos and flowers at the two inaugural concerts and crowded into his dressing room to hug him afterward. Affection also came forth in toasts, embraces and private remarks from Israeli leaders at an informal dinner that inaugurated a kind of bistro-little theater in the building's basement following Sunday's invitation-only opening concert.
''He is the greatest friend we have,'' said Mayor Teddy Kollek.
However, the violinist showed that he also remains a musician by practicing in his hotel suite from midnight until 2 A.M. the night of his arrival. ''I'm here, the head's here, the hands are still in New York,'' he said, impatient with his fingers.
Mr. Stern played the Mendelssohn Concerto at Sunday's Presidential gala and Monday's public inaugural concert in the Henry Crown Symphony Hall, a 750-seat auditorium named after Lester Crown's 89-year-old father. The elder Mr. Crown also came here for the event, but illness prevented him from leaving his hotel.
''It is a bittersweet night for all of our family,'' said his son when he was called to the stage to receive from Mr. Kollek a medal struck by Jacques Lipchitz, the late sculptor.
''It is a beautiful hall that has the ring of truth and beauty,'' said Mr. Stern from the stage, before yielding to insistent applause demanding an encore.
Another American contribution to the inaugural was David Schechter's one-woman drama ''Hannah Senesh,'' performed by Lori Wilner. It was staged in the 450-seat Rebecca Crown Auditorium, a theater named for Mr. Crown's late mother.
The center also contains a large, fully equipped television and radio studio.
Mr. Crown declined to disclose the cost of his gift.
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2019-04-20T11:32:59Z
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https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/15/arts/new-jerusalem-arts-center.html
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Arts
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Arts
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esu
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Congratulations and welcome to ESU!
New students attending ESU in the fall of 2018 are getting a promise – the promise of a guaranteed, fixed, four-year tuition rate. This new initiative, the Warrior Promise, guarantees incoming undergraduate students that they will pay the same tuition rate, without an increase, for the next four years.
The Warrior Promise tuition guarantee is a fixed tuition rate that will allow ESU students to complete as many undergraduate degrees, minors and certificates as they choose within their four-year window. A Warrior Promise tuition rate will be established by the Board of Governors for each new entering undergraduate cohort of degree seeking freshmen and transfer students.
ESU joins a select number of other colleges and universities nationwide with guaranteed tuition programs. ESU is the first university in Pennsylvania to provide its students the assurance of a guaranteed four year tuition rate.
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2019-04-23T13:58:33Z
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https://www.esu.edu/student_billing/tuition_fees/warrior_promise/index.cfm
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Arts
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News
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rutgers
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Mary Loomas joined Kateeva in January 2018 where she leads Kateeva's FP&A organization. Here, Loomas is responsible for FP&A, business partnering and analytics, investor relations, long-range forecasting and corporate KPIs. Previous to Kateeva, Loomas managed Intel’s Global Revenue team responsible for revenue forecasting, accounting, and risk management. Prior to this role, Loomas led a financial planning transformation and system implementation program for Intel. Loomas started at Intel in 1994 and has held many finance & IT roles, including Finance Information Systems Director, SAP G/L Implementation Program, Corporate Marketing Controller, Cost & Inventory Manager, and Technology Development Finance Manager. Loomas left Intel in 2004 and started her own artisan chocolate company in 2005. She returned to Intel in 2011 to run the Financial Planning transformation. She has a BA in Management Science from UC San Diego and an MBA in Finance from LMU.
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2019-04-18T17:24:16Z
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http://bigdata.rutgers.edu/mary-loomas.html
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Business
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newyorker
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Musicals often smother the fun out of movies that weld real and fantastical elements. But “Groundhog Day,” starring Andy Karl in the Bill Murray role, has it mostly figured out.
What did you do this morning? Perhaps you woke up at your regular time, made coffee in the same machine that you did yesterday, took the same commute to work that you do every day. In adult life, the details that distinguish one day from the next tend to blur, and our routines remain, by and large, identical. The movies of our lives would be excruciating studies of repetition.
But “Groundhog Day” goes deeper than its elevator pitch suggests. Its structure allowed for endless comedic variations on a theme—say, trying to come up with the perfect pickup line when you have infinite tries—that show off Murray’s improvisatory genius. The film is a romantic comedy, a fish-out-of-water story, and a carpe-diem morality tale reminiscent of “Our Town” and “A Christmas Carol.” Beyond that, it’s also a spiritual brainteaser. The screenwriter, Danny Rubin, has said that Phil goes through phases akin to the Kübler-Ross stages of grief: bewilderment, hedonism, suicide, self-improvement, altruism. Is he in Purgatory? Has time become stuck, or has Phil’s consciousness become unstuck? And how long does he spend in February 2nd? Based on the amount of time it takes Phil to master the piano and ice-sculpting, the Web site What Culture once estimated that he endured twelve thousand three hundred and ninety-five days, or about thirty-four years. Rubin thinks it was at least a lifetime. Ramis guessed ten years. The studio thought it was two weeks.
Given its stoner-koan status, it may depress you to learn that “Groundhog Day” is now a Broadway musical. As with the recently opened “Amélie,” musicals have a way of smothering the fun out of movies that weld real and fantastical elements. But have no fear: “Groundhog Day,” which just opened at the August Wilson Theatre, has it mostly figured out. Stephen Sondheim once said that “Groundhog Day” was the one movie he’d want to adapt, and it’s fascinating to think what the puzzle master might have done with it, repeating and refracting musical motifs. As it turns out, the job fell to the Australian satirist Tim Minchin, who’s cerebral in a different way: he’s a potty-mouthed freethinker revered by the “skeptic” community for his waggish cabaret persona. Minchin was the perfect match for “Matilda the Musical,” since he shares Roald Dahl’s flair for contemptuous whimsy. His score for “Groundhog Day” is, appropriately, more steeped in American musical styles, from marching band to country-and-Western, but he’s vulgar enough to give Phil a nasty edge.
His collaborator is Rubin, who wrote the original screenplay and then rewrote it with Ramis. Since then, he’s become an accidental mystic, sought out by numerologists, homeopaths, and Buddhist scholars who are convinced that “Groundhog Day” contains the secret to all existence. Credit Rubin and Minchin with not simply inserting songs into a ready-made formula but teasing out new ideas. In the musical, Ned Ryerson (John Sanders), the perky insurance salesman, is given a hint of backstory, just enough to lend him a jolt of poignancy. Act II opens with an unexpected solo for the actress playing Nancy, Phil’s one-night stand, which undercuts the story’s white-man centrism while drawing a nifty parallel between Phil’s predicament and the fate of Broadway actors, who also go through the same motions night after night. It’s a risky choice, one that doesn’t entirely work, but it gives the show a chance to distinguish itself from its source material. Similarly, the director, Matthew Warchus (who also did “Matilda”), adds clever visual flourishes, like a vertical car chase in miniature.
Still, is it really “Groundhog Day” without Bill Murray? Andy Karl, who played the title role in the “Rocky” musical, doesn’t try to mimic Murray’s misanthropic euphoria—who could?—but puts his own sardonic stamp on the character, bringing to mind Jason Bateman in “Arrested Development.” He’s more of a looker than Murray, but that explains Phil’s arrogance with women, especially Rita (the spunky Barrett Doss), the TV producer immune to his charms. The night I saw the show, Karl busted a knee during a leapfrog maneuver and had to perform the last ten minutes with a wooden cane and a look of barely suppressed agony. (He took off the next day but was back for opening night.) Not that it was an artistic choice, but seeing jerky Phil so humbled lent the show an extra dose of pathos.
Where Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2001 French film balanced its whimsy with Gallic humor, the stage adaptation overinflates every flight of fancy.
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2019-04-25T04:20:32Z
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-tao-of-groundhog-day-onstage
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Arts
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Arts
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uni
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University of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate., "University of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda, April 23, 2007" (2007). Faculty Senate Documents. 903.
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2019-04-25T06:06:22Z
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https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facsenate_documents/903/
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Arts
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Reference
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wordpress
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skills – Vibrational Reviews – What is YOUR vibration?
Why is it so hard to get out of the rut you are in?
Skills vs Competencies. What’s the Difference?
Proficiency, facility, or dexterity that is acquired or developed through training or experience.
An ability and capacity acquired through deliberate, systematic, and sustained effort to smoothly and adaptively carry out complex activities or job functions involving ideas (cognitive skills), things (technical skills), and/or people (interpersonal skills).
So, a Skill is something Learned in order to be able to carry out one or more job functions.
A cluster of related abilities, commitments, knowledge, and skills that enable a person (or an organization) to act effectively in a job or situation.
Competencies refer to skills or knowledge that lead to superior performance.
A competency is more than just knowledge and skills. It involves the ability to meet complex demands, by drawing on and mobilising psychosocial resources (including skills and attitudes) in a particular context.
A measurable pattern of knowledge, skills, abilities, behaviours, and other characteristics that an individual needs to perform work roles or occupational functions successfully.
Competencies specify the “how” (as opposed to the what) of performing job tasks, or what the person needs to do the job successfully.
Competencies, therefore, may incorporate a skill, but are MORE than the skill, they include abilities and behaviours, as well as knowledge that is fundamental to the use of a skill.
An example of this in an IT context is “Programming”. To effectively write a computer program one needs good analytical, logical, and interpretive ability as well as the skill to write the program in a specific language. So, learning Java, C++, C#, etc. is a Skill. But underlying the ability to use that skill effectively is analytical, logical and interpretive ability – those are Competencies.
The reason that we suggest this is because it is relatively easy to learn other programming languages once one knows one language well (and I talk from personal experience). However, without the underlying Competence, it is virtually impossible to write an effective program – irrespective of the language.
Behavioural (or Life Skills) Competencies Life skills are problem solving behaviours used appropriately and responsibly in the management of personal affairs. They are a set of human skills acquired via teaching or direct experience that are used to handle problems and questions commonly encountered in daily human life. Examples are: Communication, Analytical Ability, Problem Solving, Initiative, etc.
Functional (or Technical) Competencies Functional Competencies relate to functions, processes, and roles within the organisation and include the knowledge of, and skill in the exercise of, practices required for successful accomplishment of a specific job or task. Examples are: Application Systems Development, Networking and Communication, Database Analysis and Design, etc.
Professional Competencies Professional competencies are competencies that allow for success in an organisational context. They are the accelerators of performance or – if lacking in sufficient strength and quality – are the reason people fail to excel in jobs. Examples are: Business Environment, Industry and Professional Standards, Negotiation, People Management, etc.
Core Competencies – Core competencies are those competencies that any successful employee will need to rise through the organisation. These Competencies would generally relate in some way to the business of the organisation.
Key Competencies – Key competencies contribute to valued outcomes of the organisation, defining the abilities of individuals to meet strategic demands, and are important not just for specialists but for all individuals.
Critical Competencies – Critical competencies are competencies without which the organisation will be unable to achieve it’s goals and strategy.
Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.
If you remember, my passion, my purpose, my reason d’etre is to penetrate the invisible portion of all knowledge. It gives me joy, and it keeps me busy.
One of the tools I use to do my “work” is the ability to see what I feel. See its size, nature, movement, and its connections to other things. I am an empath and I am (I hate the word) a clairsensar, which means what I just said… I see what I feel… blah blah blah.
SOURCE: click to continue reading Why is it so hard to get out of the rut you are in?
how do you go from one profession to another? having a vague idea is not enough!
how do you know what skills to build?
I had a conversation yesterday with one of my clients, and as it is predictable in many conversations, weight came up.
Weight is a universal source of grief, effort, disappointment, and self-hate.
But why would that be so?
I can recall, in my life, four “campaigns” to regain control over my body.
The most recent one is successful and is going to last. The previous ones included one or two elements that were not sustainable. for example the first time I was on a starvation diet, and I maintained it for 10 years, until I came to the United States, where the plenty beat me on my a**.
I am starting a new series that also shows a new direction I am taking my teaching/coaching practice.
The new direction is skill-building.
Obviously, if you are like most people, you have no idea what a skill is. You may say some inane things, but you still don’t know. Even if you read the “what color is your parachute” famous book that has been published and every year for 48 years, with over ten million copies sold.
I have taught it. I have lead the workshop. And I can safely tell you that in all those years, there wasn’t one person who learned from me, or from the book what a skill really is, and then develop skills that would take them far on the job market.
Why? Because skill is part of the invisible world.
I realized today that I am still at the beginning phases of my “entrepreneurial” journey… meaning: I am not a seasoned entrepreneur.
There are so many how’s that I can promise you it takes years of diligent doing projects one after the other, with help, before you’ll get any good at it.
Here is an embarrassing example: I have been making my own capsules of supplements… I buy empty capsules and fill them with whatever I want to take.
SOURCE: click to continue reading What does skill-building do to you, beyond building skills?
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2019-04-23T10:11:41Z
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https://vibrationalreviews.wordpress.com/tag/skills/
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Worldwide, more than 65% of deaths go unregistered. Without a death certificate or documented cause of death it is difficult to precisely estimate the causes and risk factors for death, which then makes it difficult for countries to make data-driven decisions on policy and funding priorities.
The Data for Health project aims to enable countries to improve birth and death certificate systems, conduct public health surveys to monitor risk factors for early death, and support governments to strategically use public health data to inform policy priorities. The program aims to improve health data for over a billion people in twenty low and middle-income countries over four years.
The Nossal institute has expertise in international public health, health systems, health capacity building and the development of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) systems. The Institute contributes to the project by overseeing training in verbal autopsy methods; medical certification of cause of death, death and birth notifications; and other CRVS related training in specified countries—primarily in Asia and the Pacific.
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2019-04-18T14:22:54Z
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https://mspgh.unimelb.edu.au/research-groups/nossal-institute-for-global-health/maternal-sexual-and-reproductive-health/bloomberg-data-for-health-services
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Gonzalo Higuain left the field in tears, inconsolable. Rafa Bentiez applauded the crowd, but surely must have wished his team had taken just one more of its chances. Napoli had won, gaining revenge on Arsenal for a bitter 2-0 loss suffered in October at the Emirates — but it was not enough.
The Champions League’s Group of Death claimed the Italians on Wednesday night as their splendid win at the San Paolo was not enough to progress into the round of 16. Borussia Dortmund’s 2-1 win in France over already eliminated Marseille, courtesy of a late goal from Kevin Grosskreutz, condemned Napoli to an unwanted berth in the Europa League — and put Arsenal through in their stead.
It was not a vintage Arsenal performance by any stretch, and it will raise new questions about this side’s spine after they let a lead slip on the weekend against Everton, missing the chance to hold a seven-point lead atop the Premier League table. Arsene Wenger will surely point to the fact that job is indeed done — but privately, he will be seething after his team was reduced to ten men by Mikel Arteta’s sending off, and failed to kill of a game that for large portions they had dominated.
Fatigue that seems to be striking Arsenal at just the wrong time. The Gunners have been sublime in England, winning games they should win, and eking out points in matches that are closer. To date, the only real midseason blip they have suffered was that draw to the Toffees; their loss at Old Trafford was more unfortunate than anything else. And on Wednesday, with Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere and Theo Walcott all left on the bench, Wenger seemed to be looking ahead to a very difficult game Saturday against Manchester City.
That allowed, for the better part of an hour, Napoli failed to seriously trouble Arsenal, muffing chances and looking panicky when they were on the ball. Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker were stout in the middle of the defense, and Mathieu Flamini turned in another excellent performance, carrying the water, and doing the dirty work up and down the center of the pitch.
That all fell apart when Arteta was sent off with 15 minutes to play. Suddenly, Arsenal — which only moments earlier had conceded a goal to Higuain after a belt of sustained pressure — looked vulnerable.
Credit Benitez for getting the tactics right: his substitution of Lorenzo Insigne for Goran Pandev was inspired, pushing Jose Callejon up the pitch, and forcing Carl Jenkinson into positions he could not escape from. Pablo Armero grew into the game, becoming a steadily harassing presence and a point of service for Higuain, who could and should have done better on at least two other chances.
And that will have Napoli fans shaking their heads. The Italians were close — but not close enough in the end. For Arsenal, it was an escape. Wenger and fans must hope it is not a precursor of things to come as well.
Not since the 2005-06 season had Ajax, the proud four-time European champions, made it to the knockout rounds of the Champions League. The side was lead by Wesley Sneijder then, and still enjoyed something of a continental presence. But the post-Bosman Arrest decay after the mid-90s European halcyon could not be stopped. And Ajax only ever seemed to fall further away.
On Wednesday, though, Ajax stood a decent chance of making it out of that brutal Group H. All it needed was a win at AC Milan on the final day, with Barcelona already qualified and Celtic knocked out. Certainly, that seemed within the realm of possibility, given that only an injury time flop and converted penalty saved the Rossoneri from a loss in Amsterdam in their first meeting.
But in spite of their youthful eagerness, a very green Ajax team, easily mistakable for a youth side from appearances, never managed to find the goal it needed against Milan, the affair ending as it started: 0-0.
A pair of early Dutch chances required interferences from the far post and Milan goalkeeper Christian Abbiati on Christian Poulsen and Davy Klaassen headers. When Riccardo Montolivo got himself sent off for stamping on Poulsen’s ankle in the 22nd minute, the momentum seemed to be with Ajax.
Milan, however, consolidated their personnel behind the ball and shored up its organization. Ajax applied constant pressure in the ensuing 70 minutes but never did find a successful route through all that traffic.
Whether it is in crisis or not, Milan remains awfully hard to break down for an inexperienced side such as Ajax, no matter how technically gifted. The Italians remain savvy at killing off games, however unsightly the process. And it certainly did get ugly late on, as Milan scrapped and clawed its way into the round of 16 by conserving the tie.
FOXSoccer.com’s Leander Schaerlaeckens contributed to this report.
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2019-04-22T08:56:10Z
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https://www.foxsports.com/soccer/story/napoli-2-0-arsenal-group-stage-gunners-avoid-epic-disaster-despite-loss-121113
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The Pen’s parade lines up every person from poorest to richest on the horizontal axis, while the vertical axis shows the level of expenditure (or income) per capita. The $1.25 a day line intersects with Pen’s parade for 1990 and 2010 at 43.1 and 20.6 percent respectively, providing the percentage of the population living below the extreme poverty line in the developing world in those years. One can see that growth in developing countries has accrued to a large extent to the middle quintiles, as the difference between the income earned in 1990 and 2010 is the largest at those percentiles.
Another way of depicting an income distribution is to show income on the horizontal axis, count how many people earn that particular level of income, then stack them on top of one another such that the number on the vertical axis represents them (figure 1.b). One can see that in 1990 the largest number of people making the same income (the peak of the distribution graph), made less than $1.25 a day, while in 2010 the peak had come close to $1.65 a day. Note that the full population of the developing world in 1990 and 2010 is captured below each income distributional line respectively.
As such, one can get an informed idea about the implication of shifts in the income distribution often caused by growth. In turn a picture also emerges of the effect of those shifts on the extreme poor.
Another interesting observation from figure 1b is that far fewer people lived on or close to US$1.25 a day in 2010 than in 1990. Hence, shifting the income distribution to the right using the same growth rates as experienced in the recent past will lift fewer people out of poverty than was the case in 1990. This happens not just because there are fewer extremely poor, as we can see from figure 1a, but also because the 2010 income distribution lies well below the 1990 income distribution. Consequently, it will likely become harder and harder to lift people out of poverty through growth alone. While growth remains vital, we need to complement efforts to enhance growth with policies that allocate more resources to the extreme poor. This can be accomplished to some extent by focusing on inclusiveness, particularly with respect to job creation, and/or through government programs, such as public works, and cash transfer programs.
I agree these two charts are really useful for understanding changes in global poverty over the last 20 years, and the relationship between growth, distribution and poverty.
However, I have some misgivings with both.
According to the first chart, the richest 1% of the developing world has a daily per capita income of less than $10. So much for the emergence of a global middle class! Based on data from Povcalnet, the richest 6 centiles (6%) should appear above the $10 mark in 1990, and by 2010 the richest 11 centiles (11%) should be above this threshold. So there must be an error somewhere in the calculations behind this chart, or at least in the labeling of the y-axis.
The explanation here is that the x-axis uses a logarithmic scale. It is accurate to say that the peak of the density function occurs at around the natural log of $1.65. But this is not the same as saying that the largest number of people making the same income falls at $1.65, which wrongly interprets the log scale as a linear scale.
Despite these misgivings, I agree wholeheartedly with the conclusions you draw from the two charts and look forward to more analysis on the Bank's twin goals.
Thanks for your comment. It is quite interesting and to some extent worrying that you get different results from the same dataset i.e. povcal.net. Log linear or normal linear, the peak remains at 1.64-65 a day in our distribution function for 2010. I will send you by email the excel file with our numbers so you can compare them with yours. Figure 1a might not completely show the tails well at the upper end (and lower end) of Pen’s parade and hence you should not jump to conclusions. Anyway, have a look at the excel file I am sending you and let’s get together and exchange notes, ideas and future work?
Thanks Jos. As discussed over email, after seeing your data I now suspect that the reason we arrive at different estimates of the statistical mode (the peak of the distribution graph) is that we use different methods for approximating the shape of the income distribution.
The estimates I provided in my earlier comment are drawn directly from Povcalnet, where the shape of the distribution is based on the best fit between a General Quadratic and Beta lorenz curve. I would favor my $1.22 estimate of the mode since it is faithful to (and therefore consistent with) the Bank's method for compiling global poverty estimates. But no approximation of the shape of the distribution can be definitively correct as all approximations are…approximations.
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2019-04-19T14:57:35Z
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http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/node/1111
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After savoring the tart delights of "Downton Abbey," how can we go back to starched style of "Masterpiece"?
Midway through the first hour of PBS’s “Little Women,” my husband turned to me and asked when the handsome and mysterious drifter was going to show up.
Lots of people will be asking themselves that question, I suspect, even those who adore Alcott’s tale. The roots of that love reach deep, but even that level of affection may not be enough to triumph over the emotional aridity of this new "Masterpiece" production.
The challenges screenwriter Heidi Thomas and director Vanessa Caswill face in updating “Little Women” for 2018 are multifold. First, Alcott’s creation is so timeless that the story has been adapted for film and television screens numerous times already, although not lately.
Gillian Armstrong’s 1994 production with Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon and Christian Bale (!) as Laurie, the prototypical guy who gets friend-zoned, is the novel’s most recent cinematic take. But in the quarter century that has passed since the release of that work and this one, our expectations of what a period piece can or should look like have drastically changed.
Simply put, we’ve been primed to expect something to happen in such stories.
“Downton Abbey,” a drama borne on cumulus clouds of etiquette and fantastic, glittering refinement, brought in problems straightaway in the form of the seductive Mr. Pamuk. Hence my husband’s assumption that, following the girls’ whinging about an impoverished Christmas, some guy that looks like Colin Farrell would show up at the door and, you know, mix things up.
Even in that version, as in all others, everyone would envision themselves as a Jo.
At different points in cinematic history the independent, ambitious protagonist of “Little Women has been played by trendsetting women of a given era, Winona Ryder and Katharine Hepburn among them. Maya Hawke, the daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, brings Jo to life in this new production's version of 19th-century Massachusetts, a place far removed from the grime and peril of the Civil War.
Hawke commands the focus of the story quite ably. Sometimes, actually, her Jo outshines the other March girls sharing scenes with her, particularly Willa Fitzgerald’s graceful and confident Meg and Annes Elwy’s frail and retreating Beth. This is less excusable for Fitzgerald’s society butterfly than Elwy’s shy heroine, even if Beth is in one key respect the heart and soul of the piece.
In contrast, Kathryn Newton, cast as the self-involved and bratty Amy, holds her own. She’s the second-strongest performer in the cast after Angela Lansbury, pitch-perfect as the high-handed Aunt March, a mistress of caustic wit and spiritual sister to the dowager Countess of “Downton.” Declaring Lansbury to be a revelation is like informing you that the sky is blue: the woman elevates everything she does, and her work in this “Little Women” is evidence of that.
Less impressive, though not for lack of talent, is Emily Watson’s Marmee, written as a matriarch who allows her girls space to blossom into their individual personalities but realized here almost as auxiliary to the action. Their neighbor Laurie (Jonah Hauer-King), grandson to the wealthy Mr. Laurence (Michael Gambon, who is barely there), soon becomes Jo’s bosom confidante and the source of romantic competition, though muted between her and Amy.
With the family patriarch (Dylan Baker) tending to soldiers on the front lines, Marmee and the girls are said to barely be getting by. Yet their dresses are smart and they have a servant; they’re not stuffed into a crumbling cabin and they can afford to blow the occasional quarter on pickled limes.
The visual demarcations of social and economic status aren’t particularly obvious, save for Aunt March’s ostentatiously decorated parlor and her overly familiar parrot; a scene where the bird chomps on Amy’s bow is a rare entertainment.
Beyond that, and to its detriment, “Little Women” returns to the classic PBS “Masterpiece” style of being true to a piece of literature nearly to the point of drowning it in formaldehyde.
One positive note is Caswill’s cinematography, evocative of an aesthetic that resembles Hudson River School landscape art in miniature. Woefully, the action occurring within these settings is less interesting: Unless you find watching Jo, Meg and Amy change into a variety of gowns, prance between fancy parlors and poor, dilapidated homes, or run through the wintry woodlands of 19th-century Concord enticing, there’s precious little to keep a person enthralled.
Perhaps loyal “Little Women” readers would argue that Alcott’s examination of their progress from adolescence to adulthood holds its own fascination, and to those viewers the production’s close adherence to the source material could be seen as its strength. To them, Marmee being called away to care for Mr. March, leaving the girls to find their own way in the world, is all the action “Little Women” requires.
Alcott’s story is a journey of maturity, after all, one that empowers and tests the sororal bonds of the March sisters. Largely that narrative's perspective is Jo’s. Admirably, Thomas has written a script that allows room for Meg, Amy and even poor Beth to stand out as individuals finding their own way within a world where their choices are limited and prescribed for them. Jo defies these notions; that’s why so many love her.
But after about an hour of “Little Women” you may hanker for a refreshed view of this bygone era akin to what Julian Fellowes achieved with “Downton.” Even the smallest refinements to Alcott’s dialogue to make it sound natural to modern ears, in the way Kenneth Lonergan finessed turn-of-the-20th-century conversation in Starz’s recent presentation of “Howards End,” would have done a service to the production without sacrificing its charm.
Worse still, and much to my spouse’s chagrin, the tale’s central non-familial relationship plays out between two actors, Hawke and Hauer-King, who have zero onscreen chemistry. Readers might excuse this, suspecting this lack of spark is intentional given how their story plays out, but it does very little to spice up the two-hour second part of the work. It’s fine that no alluring strangers show up, and maddening that none of Alcott’s uplifting zest does either.
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2019-04-18T13:07:21Z
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https://www.salon.com/2018/05/13/pbs-little-women-looks-thoroughly-unfashionable/
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All vendors wishing to do business with Arkansas State University must complete a vendor packet to become an Approved Vendor. Only an Approved Vendor can submit a bid.
The bidders' list for Arkansas State University is used for two purposes: by law for Competitive Sealed Bids/Requests for Proposals over $75,000 and for reference when searching for providers of a particular commodity or service.
All contracts are reviewed on the basis of the total amount spent over the life of the contract. This will determine how it is to be procured, not just the first year of spending.
Upon receipt of the completed application, a determination will be made as to your company's eligibility and, if eligible, will be placed on the bidders' list. Incomplete or incorrectly completed applications will not be processed.
An approved vendor will remain on the list until such a time that: three (3) no bid/no responses are accrued as a result of a bid solicitation; mail is returned for any reason; or, the vendor is removed from the list for cause.
A hard copy of construction bid specifications and plans may be reviewed at Arkansas State University Procurement Services or Construction Office both located in the Facilities Management Building at 2713 Pawnee, Jonesboro, AR or at Southern Reprographics Plan Room located at 901 W. 7th Street, Little Rock, AR 72201. They may also be electronically accessed through McGraw-Hill Construction Dodge and Reed Construction Data.
Being placed on the bidders' list does not ensure any subsequent contract award.
All solicitations for Competitive Sealed Bids/Requests for Proposals are posted to this website.
No gifts or gratuities of any kind or nature, regardless of value, will be accepted from a business or vendor by any individual employed in the Procurement Services Department.
This includes payment, loan, subscription, advance, deposit of money, services, or anything of value, present or promised. This also includes any tangible or intangible benefit in the nature of gifts, favors, entertainment, discounts, passes, transportation, accommodation, hospitality or offers of employment.
In accordance with Act 698 of 1991, Arkansas State University established a “Minority Purchasing Program” which supports the policy of the State of Arkansas to promote equal opportunity, as well as economic development in every sector. This University is committed to utilizing minority businesses in contracting to the maximum extent feasible. An annual procurement goal of fifteen percent (15%) has been established by ASU.
We encourage all small, minority, and women owned business enterprises to compete for, win, and receive contracts for goods, services, and construction. We also encourage all companies to subcontract portions of any state contract to minority business enterprises.
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2019-04-23T12:44:52Z
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http://www.astate.edu/a/procurement/vendor-information/
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The digital society in Europe is being developed by siezing all the benefits that the Digital Single Market strategy provides. The European Commission is taking concrete actions for the development of cross-border digital public services and ensures the use of digital tools and systems to provide better a modern eGovernment to citizens and businesses.
The European Commission is developing policy to train European citizens in digital skills with initiatives like the skills agenda for europe. These actions will help Europe's growth in an increasingly digital society.
Digital tools allow access to better social care, health monitoring and recording through eHealth and ageing with inititatives like EU eHealth Action Plan and Telemedicine.
Smart digital technologies like the development of self-driving cars are being supported by the commission. It also encourages smart energy use in homes and for transport in order to have a positive enviromental impact.
EU-wide common emergency and support lines like the 112 emergency number and 116 helpline are being promoted to establish easily accessible harmonized services that would benefit all EU citizens.
The European Commission includes concrete EU actions in its strategy, to support projects related to jobs, employability, training, and social issues. You can read a set of success stories about digitisation, employability and inclusiveness.
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2019-04-23T01:44:48Z
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https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/policies/creating-digital-society
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spcnet
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I liked the cases in here a lot more interesting then the cases in part 2-4. This is my favorite one out of all 4.
I think that is the best one out of the 4 that they've made. Joyce character was so funny and so much more relax then how she was in part 2. But I what I still don't understand is that at the end of this series Esther character was already wearing a wedding dress and then at the beginning of part 2 she was only sitting as a guest.
VERY goood seriesss! luvv 'em aLL!
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2019-04-23T20:57:11Z
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http://www.spcnet.tv/TVB-Series/Armed-Reaction-p42.html
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BLOSSOMERS are a band creating and breathing in Vienna. After releasing a three-track EP in 2017 that showcases their search for a new, headstrong rock sound that finds its place in the current era of short-lived music consumption, they are now working on their first major longplayer release.
This trailer promotes their upcoming single release, 'Daddy Long Legs', which will be available on online platforms on May 1st.
All the blossoms fade if you keep looking too long for the prettiest one.
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2019-04-24T12:57:41Z
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In68Wqmlces
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I am a newbie! I was watching Sony Entertainment TV a few weeks ago and they always air a music video between shows. I happen to catch the "Fidelity" video and instantly fell in love with it. After that I googled her and downloaded Soviet Kitsch and Begin to Hope. I want 11:11 and Songs, but I can't find them anywhere, I only listened to them here.
I completely agree with whomever said she's addicting. She really is, I can't stop listening to her songs!
I want 11:11 and Songs, but I can't find them anywhere, I only listened to them here.
More info available on this post.
I had heard the name, Regina Spektor; however, not much more until one night on Grey's Anatomy, they played an excerpt of her song, Fidelity. The next day, I went to I Tunes and bought the album. I love it!!! I love so many artists who play the piano such as Billy Joel, Ben Folds Five, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, etc.
And her song, Fidelity is very descriptive of things that have been happening to me over the last month. Once I heard the entire song, I felt like Regina got me, how I was feeling.
I have been a CBS Sunday Morning watcher for years, and when I saw the story on Regina in January I was almost instantly hooked. Now this is really weird: here I am, a 63-year-old guy who hasn't been much into the music scene for a long time, except for an occasional Sinatra or some cool jazz. But there was just this "something" about Regina Spektor that hit me like a ton of bricks. I now own all her albums and have spent hours on youtube. I'm afraid I've developed what amounts to a "teenage crush" on her. I just can't get enough of her. My two teenage kids think I'm nuts, and I suppose I am, but there's no denying it. I'm reminded of the way I felt at the age of 15 when I had it bad for Natalie Wood -- it feels the same. I've loaded as much of her music on my Treo phone as I can find and it's in my car all the time. What the hell's the matter with me?
I will be visiting New York next month to see my son perform with his chorus at Carnegie Hall, but I must confess, secretly, that I'm much more excited to be seeing Regina perform at Purchase College on March 28. Does that make me a bad father, or just a nutjob? Anyway you look at it, I'm hooked!
about 2 years ago i went on this website called soundgirl and heard the song carbon monoxide and thought it was too weird but it kept staying in my head so i decided to listen to it again and i loved it and now i am obsessed with her music.
Earlier this year when I saw her video on a cable channel. I loved the song (Fidelity) and d/l some of her songs... I was completely hooked. Now I'm addicted lol!
I hadn’t heard any of her music since that time in my friend’s car. Then a few days ago, I saw her video Fidelity on TV for the first time. It was amazing. I was so happy for her! You know what they say about a friend of a friend, right? I just bought her new album off of amazon, and I’m impatiently awaiting its arrival.
By the way, after reading about Elena and Frank’s chance encounter in Chicago, and their unlikely reuniting here, I figured anything was possible. My buddy used to run Regina’s website way back when, maybe he’s still around? He often had to remind me that there is no such country as Hungaria.
holy crap! did you "the Owl of minerva" know regina?
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2019-04-19T20:58:54Z
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http://board.reginaspektor.com/topic/1881-how-did-you-get-into-regina/?page=2
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At the close of the twentieth century, a number of scholars in education began to focus their work on how pedagogy might address a legacy of historical violence and injustices that continue to haunt and define our present. Extending from Shoshana Felman’s groundbreaking work (1992) on the vexed relationship between historical trauma, testimony, witnessing and pedagogy, a general concern was forged around how learning from traumatic events involves a break down in meaning, a crisis, and an encounter with what Deborah Britzman (1998) terms, “the failure of knowledge” (p. 265). Whereas, conventionally, learning is understood as the cumulative and progressive acquisition of knowledge leading to “mastery,” at issue for these thinkers is how the encounter with traumatic histories necessarily implies grappling with that which cannot be mastered as knowledge, with what defies and dispossess us of epistemological certainty (see: Kincheloe and Pinar, 2001). Britzman (1998b) crystalized the issue when she coined the term “difficult knowledge,” particularly accentuating the internal conflicts and psychical defences against knowing that learners erect as they become un-done by the difficult stories of others.
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2019-04-23T20:06:07Z
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https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/jaaacs/article/view/190371
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View full sizeJohn Munson/The Star-LedgerMakini Brice teaches a resume-writing class as part of the NJ LEEP after school-program in Newark.
NEWARK — Neftali Rodriguez began each day at Newark's Barringer High School the same way — with an inspection of his belongings and a pat-down by police officers assigned to protect his classmates from one another.
But it was an after-school program that helped keep him on course.
For two hours a session up to five days a week, Rodriguez voluntarily participated in grammar, writing and life skills classes offered through the Law and Education Empowerment Project (NJ LEEP), a Newark-based after-school program for high school students.
Rodriguez, 19, just completed his first year as an undergraduate at Drew University in Madison.
This year, for the first time, NJ LEEP will send all of its two dozen participants to college — a significant achievement when roughly half of the teens from cities like Newark, Irvington and East Orange fail to graduate high school.
View full sizeJohn Munson/The Star-LedgerRhonda Adams (left) and Dana Arscott attend a house meeting Friday as part of the NJ LEEP after school-program in Newark.
They will attend the College of New Jersey, the College of the Holy Cross, Mt. Holyoke College and Smith College, among others. One student will attend Princeton University.
Students interested in the program must apply as eighth graders, but Craig Livermore, the group’s executive director, said academics are not the only factor considered in the selection process. He said he also looks for motivated kids willing to buckle down and work hard.
The program is in its fifth year and is funded privately by donations of $500 up to $160,000 from groups like the New Jersey State Bar Foundation, the Law School Admission Council and Seton Hall Law School, with whom NJ LEEP has a partnership.
The program’s work load is considerable. Students must complete homework assignments, show up roughly every other Saturday for writing courses and study for the SATs — all on top of their regular school work.
Jabir Brinkley, 18, of Hillside, said he learned time management skills in his NJ LEEP classes he never would have mastered on his own at high school. Now, he’s a few months from his first day at Farleigh Dickinson University, which offered him a full scholarship.
View full sizeJohn Munson/The Star-LedgerKristen O'Neil (left) helps Rosslin Mensah-Boateng with math homework.
The program’s success with at-risk youth is evident in the numbers: SAT scores for NJ LEEP participants are 265 points higher than the citywide average.
NJ LEEP also helps students afford college. Each senior is receiving average of $35,000 per year in scholarship money.
Livermore said he encourages his students to apply to small, liberal arts colleges. Though many of those schools have high sticker prices, most are eager to lure qualified, low-income and minority students with generous aid packages.
Most after school programs for at-risk youth in New Jersey are designed for younger students, said Mark Valli, executive director of NJ After 3, a statewide network of after school programs. Convincing teenagers to stick with such a rigorous program is more difficult, he said.
Along with the classes and college-prep work, sophomore, junior and senior NJ LEEP students participate in four constitutional law moot court debate competitions throughout the school year.
View full sizeJohn Munson/The Star-LedgerAlexis Ware attends a resume-writing class.
Maalika Hudson, mother of an NJ LEEP participant, said the competion’s oral argument training can be a double-edged sword. It has prepared her 16-year-old daughter for law school, where she expects to land one day — and for success in family arguments.
Instilling a love of the law in youth is vital, said Alycia Guichard, director of the Street Law Program at Rutgers-Newark. The organization teaches members of the community about their legal rights.
Immersing students in law culture also boosts their social capital, Livermore said. Through NJ LEEP, students interact with professors and lawyers with differnt ethnicities and backgrounds. Each NJ LEEP student is mentored by a law student.
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Excellent light - I like how you get just a hint of the wood (guess) tone.
I like the reflection. Very good detail in the coin showing its wear.
There's quite a lot of these in the challenge, but this is one of the better ones. I think the reflection has helped this one along a bit. I'm not sure about the lighting, it seems you have some direct front on light which has given the coin a very scratchy silvery look.
I often find when I'm doing a shot of something like this it often ends up better when I use ambient or low lighting and go for longer exposure.
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https://www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=771557
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If you already have a Java application that uses DynamoDB, you will need to modify it so that it can access your DAX cluster. The DAX Java client is very similar to the DynamoDB low-level client included in the AWS SDK for Java, so you do not need to rewrite your entire application.
The AmazonDaxClient is synchronous. For a long-running DAX API operation, such as a Scan of a very large table, this can block program execution until the operation is complete. If your program needs to perform other work while a DAX API operation is in progress, you can use ClusterDaxAsyncClient instead.
The following program shows how to use ClusterDaxAsyncClient, along with Java Future, to implement a non-blocking solution.
// Futures always wrap errors as an ExecutionException.
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https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/DAX.client.modify-your-app.html
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The division of Current Records oversees a variety of administrative functions, including registration, drop/add tasks, grade processing, academic-status control, enrollment cancellations, and posting permanent academic records. The categories below will assist you in finding the right form for your specific need.
Grade-related functions include making grade changes, handling exceptions to credit hours, changing student academic-status, grade rosters, granting academic reinstatements for dismissed students, and preparing appeal cases for the University Appeals Committee's consideration. Use the following forms or consult the listed web documents to initiate grade-related changes.
For more information see Grading System section of the Undergraduate Bulletin chapter Academic Regulations and Procedures.
For more information see Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Course Option section of the Graduate Bulletin chapter Academic Regulations and Procedures.
For more information see Course/Credit Modification section of the Undergraduate Bulletin chapter Academic Regulations and Procedures.
For more information see Reinstatement of Student Schedules Canceled for Non-Payment of Tuition and Fees section of the Undergraduate Bulletin chapter Academic Regulations and Procedures.
For more information see Drop/Add Tuition Refund Appeal section of Current Records - Appeals.
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For more information see Student Catalog Year section of the Undergraduate Bulletin chapter Academic Regulations and Procedures.
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More information and instructions are on the form.
NOTE: Students interested in classes at Florida State University's Republic of Panama campus should contact Ms. Alexandra Anyfanti at aanyfanti@fsu.edu.
If you are an FSU student who wants to attend a private/out-of-state school, please fill out the Transient Student Form.
If you are a student from a private/out-of-state school, visit http://admissions.fsu.edu/transient/ to download the transient student form as a PDF.
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Instructions how to change your address are available at sc.my.fsu.edu/students/how/change-your-address.
For more information see Request to Prevent Release or Publication of Directory Information section of the Undergraduate Bulletin chapter University Notices.
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Hall of Fame inductee Ozzie Smith threw the ceremonial first pitch. In a rematch of the staff who faced off in Game 1, Jon Lester again outdueled Adam Wainwright to give the Red Sox a 3–2 series lead. Boston scored first for the first time since Game 1 when Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz hit back-to-back doubles with one out in the first.Matt Holliday tied the score with a home run to center in the fourth inning, but it would be the only run Lester would allow over strong 7⅔ innings of work. Wainwright matched Lester until the seventh inning, when a ground-rule RBI double by David Ross and RBI single by Jacoby Ellsbury scored Xander Bogaerts and Stephen Drew to give Boston a 3–1 lead.Koji Uehara relieved Lester with two outs in the eighth and retired all four Cardinals he faced to earn his second save of the series.
Following the team's World Series win, Boston Red Sox fans congregated at the site of the Boston Marathon bombing to celebrate the title. The white lights of Boston's Prudential Tower displayed "GO SOX." Red Sox owner John Henry said after the game that the parade would take place on Saturday, November 2.
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Hezekiah basically led a revival in 2 Chronicles 30. Even though they technically missed the time of year for Passover, Hezekiah decided that it would be a good idea to have the ceremony and bring honor to God.
Then, on top of that he sent out messengers to all the wayward tribes of Israel inviting them to come back and begin worshiping God again. Naturally, not everyone accepted his invitations, but he was trying to Israel back together under the leadership of God.
2Ch 30:25 The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
2Ch 30:26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.
2Ch 30:27 Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy habitation in heaven.
It must have been different to have that type of leadership. He had the people tear down the altars to the various idols, and the people were apparently having a great experience worshiping God and getting their lives right with Him.
Revival needs to start somewhere. In this case, it started with the powerful. Revivals have also started with ordinary people. John the Baptist was nothing overly special on an earthly level, but he began preparing the hearts of the people for the coming Messiah.
In either case, someone was there to get people moving in the right direction. That is what we need today. We need some type of revival. I’m not sure how it will happen. It could come from the top or from the average everyday person, but if it does happen, it will naturally have a beginning. Maybe God wants to use one of you to kick off this movement.
Zak Schmoll is the founder of Entering the Public Square, and Managing Editor of An Unexpected Journal. He earned his MA in Apologetics at Houston Baptist University and is currently a PhD student in Humanities at Faulkner University. His work has been featured on several websites including The Federalist, Public Discourse and the Fourth World Journal.
Posted on August 23, 2013, in 2 Chronicles and tagged 2 Chronicles, Following God, God, Hezekiah, John the Baptist, Revival, Worship. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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https://achapterperday.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/2-chronicles-30-revival-comes-to-jerusalem/
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Belt tests in my alma mater focus more on the upper ranks: Black belt tests can be 45 to 90 minutes long, but lower rank tests are pretty short: usually about 15 – 25 minutes long.
The white belt test is really short. Its main purpose is to determine if anyone is exceptionally talented or experienced. Everyone comes in as a white belt, of course, even if you come in from another school2, but if you hold black belts in other disciplines, chances are that you’ll dispense with some of the beginners training. That’s the main purpose of a white belt test: to determine how far the student will advance. Not if, but how far.
The only way to fail a white belt test is to walk off the mat before it’s over.
My mother recently reminded me that I took one of my AP tests in Latin, which I didn’t remember doing (it was thirty years ago). I don’t remember the idea, or the reasoning that led me to doing it. It makes sense, though, if I remember correctly.
I mean, I really sucked at Latin in high school. And here I was taking my AP test in it. Why? Because no matter how bad I was at Latin, the practice test was still unbelievably easy. Like, my straight C average in Latin in high school translated to an A in the AP test world. As usual, I was my own worst critic. And if I hadn’t taken the practice test, I might never have found out that I could pass the real one.
Who knows how well we’re doing? Don’t doubt yourself TOO much; you’re also probably your own worst critic. Just do the best you can.
And don’t leave the mat until the test is over.
There are some schools who don’t make an entire production out of a test, but who spring them on you one day unexpectedly, or even just abandon them altogether and present new ranks whenever the instructor deems the students ready. I think I favor a hybrid approach myself, but that’s another story.
Usually. Unless you hold a recognized certificate from a similar school, or something. Or are really obviously advanced.
I swear this is an actual transcript of a conversation I overheard one day.
Secret alien technology, heh. –Wait, what’s that in the alien’s trunk? A flag? And it says … lisp?!
Lisp is a programming language taught in prehistoric Intro CS courses, with – as far as I could ever tell – the sole purpose of hazing students. I figured it was there to winnow out the students who thought “Hey, this could be a lucrative career” from those who really had a passion for programming. Since leaving that course (back when dinosaurs ruled the earth), I never heard of that language again. What’s the story?
The story is at the top of the tool’s own page. It describes how an Norwegian IT lawyer decided to write this simple but useful tool, and basically decided to write it in Lisp, just to be perverse.
It reminds me that – yes, this is our job, and often we have to race to find the best solutions for things, but that far too often we’re constrained by fear, or by worry, or by concern. We design things as best we can because there’s a certain artistry in good design, but mostly because we don’t want the phone to ring at 3 am.
But it’s supposed to be fun. It’s too easy to forget that. Mr. Miazine, apparently decided, just for the sheer giddy foolishness of it, to write the thing in the most bloody-minded language he could find. Look at his grin, in the picture on the article. He knows. He knows he could have written something quick and easy and common, fired it off, and left it to be used but forgotten in a corner of the internet like some kind of programmer’s paper towel.
Instead, he created art. Intentionally or not, he made a statement that said, “Do what you love and love what you do.” Even though – or perhaps because – that statement was written in the most archaic language possible.
Cheers, Sir. I salute you, and thank you for reminding us to pursue our passions.
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2019-04-22T09:08:31Z
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https://pinoles.wordpress.com/2017/12/
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A humbling $26 million take has landed the recently released Sony film, “White House Down,” in fourth place for the weekend’s box office.
The movie’s underachieving status is perhaps an indication that the public is not currently in sync with those in Hollywood who subscribe to a liberal agenda and who tangentially pledge allegiance to the current administration.
With a $150 million budget and A-list cast, rather than being the enjoyable Fourth of July blockbuster that the studio had intended, “White House Down” turns out to be an infantile far-left fantasy dressed up as a string of “Die Hard”-style action sequences.
Sony Pictures and director Roland Emmerich have put together a film with a story line that could easily have been penned by any number of the left-leaning hosts that occupy the MSNBC cable television studios.
The lack of originality in the film is jarring, considering it was only a few short months ago that another “Die Hard” replica, “Olympus Has Fallen,” made its debut, featuring a similarly politically rolfed plot. The filmmakers in “Olympus,” though, at least appeared to make an effort to stay within the margins of believability by having their White House-seizing villains hail from North Korea.
In contrast, “White House Down” creators have fashioned their terrorists to conform to politically charged caricatures of domestic right-winged activists, who devise a plot to thwart the world peace plans of an altruistic president.
The premise involves a domestic terrorist group, comprised of mercenaries, neocons, and tea party clones, which carries out a paramilitary attack on the White House. The villains are prompted to engage in the nefarious activity because they disagree with the president’s plan to remove all U.S. military from the Middle East.
Jamie Foxx plays the role of the U.S. president whose ambition is to rid the world of terrorism.
It turns out that the elimination of terrorist activity is an easy task for liberal Hollywood writers. According to the “White House Down” premise, poverty is the real reason that the terrorism came into being, economic hardship being the catalyst for the mayhem that has been plaguing the globe.
With this line of reasoning, screenwriters have the troops being ejected from the Middle East and additionally have a comprehensive peace treaty being signed into existence with Iran. The money that is saved in the process will be used to eradicate the pesky poverty problem, thereby eliminating the root cause of terrorism and granting the sterling U.S. president superhero status.
When the onscreen terrorists begin their attack, Channing Tatum’s character, a Capitol Police officer, happens to be touring the facility with his daughter. The president is able to escape from the bad guys and ends up joining Tatum’s character in his rescue efforts, ultimately saving the whole world from the malevolent scheming of the angry right.
Foxx’s character is no doubt intended to have folks substitute in, media-wise, our current commander in chief. The movie president is an individual of African-American descent, who is a cool, nicotine craving, basketball playing, Lincoln loving figure.
Still, the president is not averse to using guns and even a rocket-launcher in his peace-seeking efforts. At one point in the film, he is able to escape death, thanks to a pocket watch that Honest Abe had fortuitously handed down to him.
The mastermind of the domestic terrorist activity is eventually revealed to be the leader of the opposition party, a Boehner-like character who actually harbors presidential aspirations of his own and is willing to use any means to achieve his goal.
Once the villains are defeated, the president is able to usher in world peace.
Unfortunately, what he is unlikely able to do is to stop the word of mouth on this agenda-ridden flick.
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https://www.newsmax.com/hirsen/white-house-down-box-office/2013/07/01/id/512775/
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It looks fall will finally descend upon New York City today, as temperatures are expected to drop dramatically as a cold front moves in from the Midwest.
A cold front expected to move into the region tomorrow, according to Accuweather, will give New Yorkers a taste of autumn and offering a break from the stagnant humidity. Showers are predicted Thursday through Saturday.
Temperatures could drop 20 to 30 degrees along the East Coast.
Despite temperatures that hit 86 degrees yesterday, the ice rink at Rockefeller Center opened to the delight of a few skaters who sloshed through puddles of melted ice.
Elizabeth Reynolds, 39, of Queens, lapped the rink decked out in winter leggings and a long-sleeved top.
Irene Jay Liu and Cynthia R. Fagen contributed to this report.
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2019-04-26T14:52:52Z
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https://nypost.com/2007/10/09/fall-to-finally-descend-on-new-york-city/
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General Electric has partnered with SU Career Services to present the sixth annual “Leadership At Work” series, a leadership development program that helps students at SU translate their campus leadership experience into the increasingly complex and diverse world of work. The series includes sessions on facilitation skills, social styles, team building and presentation skills. Each session is taught by a GE leader.
As part of the “Leadership At Work” series, students will work in groups to develop solutions to various business problems. At the end, they will have the opportunity to present these solutions to top leaders at GE. Last year, GE implemented one student group’s idea about how to leverage social media for recruiting.
The “Leadership At Work” sessions will take place on Feb. 4, 5 and 11. Interested students can apply for the series via OrangeLink. Successful candidates will have a record of academic achievement, an interest in securing significant leadership roles on campus and in the community, and analytical skills. Freshmen, sophomore and junior applicants (from all majors) are preferred. Applications will be accepted until Jan. 31. Approximately 60 students will ultimately be selected to participate.
Recognized as “The World’s Most Admired Company” by Fortune Magazine, GE offers a broad range of exciting opportunities in diverse businesses from aircraft engines and diagnostic medical equipment to industrial systems, financial services, information technology and broadcast communications. GE also works to develop leaders through its worldclass leadership programs, including the Information Management Leadership Program (IMLP), Edison Engineering Leadership Program (EEDP), Commercial Leadership Program (CLP), Operations Management Leadership Program (OMLP) and more.
For more information about the “Leadership At Work” series, contact Walters at jewalt02@syr.edu, 443-3616.
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Our human resources pathway allows you to shape your studies towards your career ambitions and build expert knowledge in people management alongside the operational functions of companies.
Why study BA Business Management (Human Resource Management) at Middlesex University?
Tailored towards ambitious students who are keen to apply theory to practice in a business environment, you will learn how organisations operate from developing strategy to styles of management. Supported by academics who bring professional expertise to their teaching practices, you will study the key functions that underpin business success. You will also gain a broad understanding of the human resource (HR) sector to understand the legal and ethical challenges that HR professionals face, and study the techniques companies use to match skills and abilities to their business needs.
Work placements are an invaluable opportunity to gain employability skills so we have introduced two options by which you can integrate into your time at Middlesex. Those who wish to do a placement can take either a 36 week sandwich placement in Year 3 as part of a 4 year degree or two 18 week summer placements allowing you to complete your degree within 3 years.
You will graduate with the specialist knowledge, skills and experience to launch a successful human resource career across a wide range of businesses, governmental and third sector organisations.
What will you study on the BA Business Management (Human Resource Management)?
You will develop essential skills and knowledge in business management and expand your knowledge of the behaviour of people in organisations, and the wider business environment. At the end of Year 2 you can take a year's placement before returning to complete your degree. In your final year you will focus on strategic management and leadership, and management development.
You will develop key business skills, knowledge and experience in order to excel in a management career. Companies and organisations require graduates who have expert business knowledge, who can also demonstrate analytical and problem solving skills, with the professional acumen to deal with challenges in a fast-paced corporate world.
The aim of this module is to provide an introduction to the use of computer software to collect, analyse and present business data. Students will learn to solve business and management problems using Excel or other appropriate software with an emphasis on the application of methods to solve problems, and the interpretation and communication of results. The main aim is to enable the student to become a discerning user of quantitative methods and computers in business analysis, which can be built upon in further study.
This module aims to develop the financial understanding and knowledge of students within business organisations so as to enable them to make effective decisions and to assess the cost, economic and financial implications of these decisions. It aims to provide an understanding of the fundamental roles of accounting and finance for business students who do not need to develop specialist knowledge as well as to provide an understanding of key economic principles that inform business thought and practice.
The aim of this module is to develop students understanding of the management of organisations. It will introduce management concepts such as the business functions,organisational structure, work design, entrepreneurship, and business ethics. Students will develop the ability to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of various management theories and their application in the management of organisations.
This module is designed to provide you with an overview of key marketing concepts and techniques, as they apply in a variety of organisations and in both conventional and online environments. You will develop knowledge and understanding of the core role of marketing in determining the growth potential of an enterprise, including the value of the marketing mix in ensuring successful marketing implementation and the significance of external and internal operating environments for marketing practice.
The aim of this module is to develop students understanding of how people in organisations interact. It will introduce various people management concepts and human resource processes and practices. Students will develop the ability to compare and contrast a variety of organisational psychology and sociological theories and their application in the management of people.
The aim of this module is to enable you to develop a critical understanding of the multifaceted social processes that are imperative to organisational life, and through which organisations may exert influence on ourselves as much as on society at large in order to pursue their objectives. The module will cover a wide array of theories pertaining to organisational behaviour, organisation theory, sociology, psychology and economic issues as far as they are relevant for the understanding of these social processes. You will develop your own abilities to analyse these theories critically, build up your own views on how to think and feel about these emergent issues as well as empower themselves with the capacity to argue and support these views in an academically rigorous manner.
In this module, you will begin to acquire the knowledge and skills typically required for more advanced study of businesses and in managerial decision-making. You will learn to analyse business environments and handle information using techniques, models and frameworks that will also start to build higher level employability skills.
This module aims to broaden and expand your knowledge of the concepts and techniques required for the design, operation and control of business processes. Cases and practical exercises are relevant to a variety of commercial, manufacturing and service organisations. The module builds on the IT and quantitative skills developed in the first year.
This module aims to provide students with the ability to apply key skills in information systems to the business management domain. The module also aims to enable students to obtain important aptitudes towards using information technology solutions such as business intelligence (e.g. data analytics), digital technology solutions (e.g. smart environments) and modern forms of communication (e.g. social networks) to improve business processes. The module enables students to acquire knowledge in a number of topics aligned to the following key areas: (i) information systems and business intelligence (in particular the development, management, application and implementation of information systems and the impact upon organisations, (ii) communications (in particular the comprehension and use of relevant communications for application in business and management, including the use of digital tools) and (iii) digital business (in particular the development of strategic priorities to deliver business at speed in an environment where digital technology has reshaped traditional revenue and business models). The cross-discipline nature of the module ensures that students will gain experience in using information systems, while engaging in strategic management activities and following a pattern of work resembling project management practices in controlled environments.
The aim is to introduce non-HR specialist students to the key areas of HRM and to build on relevant knowledge and skills developed in introductory organisational behaviour modules. By the end of the module you will be familiar with a wide range of generalist HR policies and practices within the five key areas of the discipline - employee resourcing, employee reward, performance management employee relations, and employee training and development.
This module provides students with an introduction to innovation and entrepreneurship. It examines different forms of innovative and entrepreneurial practice including commercial and social enterprise. This includes an introduction into management issues faced by entrepreneurs and small business owners. The module will also introduce students to such concepts as opportunity recognition and the ability to act upon opportunities and problem-solving.
This module aims to provide grounding in the core competencies related to management and leadership in organisations, enabling you to apply theory to practice in management and leadership development. Alongside this, it will provide opportunities to develop personal skills through workshops in leadership and team building. This module is aligned to CIPD intermediate unit narratives.
This module aims to present a broad and integrated view of strategic management in organisations and outline a range of critical perspectives on key concepts of strategy. It will introduce generic strategies at the corporate, business and functional levels and provide a range of analytical models and concepts that can be applied in assessing the strategic capability of an organisation and the environment in which it operates.
The aim of this module is to promote greater awareness and understanding of the importance of diversity issues from both a national and international perspective. This module also provides insight to the implications of diversity from a societal, organisational, and employee standpoint. A range of diversity debates, concepts and practices regarding equality, fairness and inclusion are also explored. This is used as a means for endorsing the significance of diversity management to careers and business sustainability and success. A variety of topics are covered including cross-cultural management, gender disparity, age perception, disability awareness, effective multicultural teamworking, and diversity legislation.
This module introduces students to organisation consulting. It builds on learning from prior modules and provides students with a theoretical introduction to consulting and the idea of the learning organisation. Students are required to undertake a live team-consulting project to identify solutions to real business issues. This module also provides students with the opportunity to apply theory to practice and to develop employability skills. These include team-building, communication,interpersonal, and reflective skills that can boost employment outcomes.
The primary aim of the internship module is to provide you with the opportunity to undertake a period of work experience for a minimum of 30 days. This will facilitate you to gain an insight into the world of work and appropriate conduct at work, and the process of becoming and staying employable through assertiveness, continuing development and reflection on both your development and the link between theory and practice. You will also develop an understanding of the organisation, sector and the environment in which it operates.
This module aims to explore ways of developing creativity and innovation at work, from an individual, team and organisational level. The focus will be on recognising and unleashing your latent creative potential, becoming more creative, facilitating teams to uncover more of their creative potential, and develop skills in building work environments which will release your creative energy and the energy of those whom you work with. This module will introduce the knowledge and skills needed to facilitate creativity in workplace. It draws upon the literature and the experiences of creative practitioners to examine the wide range of principles and practices which can be utilised in fostering a creative attitude at work.
This module builds on personal effectiveness developed in prior study to provide a bridge between university and future careers and further develops the strategic role of the HR practitioner to enable you to implement specific organisational change related to the management of people.
This module builds upon knowledge and skills gained on general business functions and their impact on work. It explores, in more depth and on a critical basis, the interrelationship of the workplace and individuals in the organisation of services. It looks at contemporary issues unique to the organisation of work within services, including management approaches to control, the interaction between customer and service provider at the point of delivery and the role of aesthetics in service provision.
How is the BA Business Management (Human Resource Management) taught?
Workshops, simulations, role-play, case study analyses and problem-solving exercises will help you hone your practical business management skills. You will also learn by reading textbooks and journals and attending lectures and seminars, including talks by guest speakers. You will do exercises in class, online and in groups, take part in class discussions and give group presentations.
We encourage our students to undertake a paid work placement during their studies either as a year long assignment between Year 2 and 3, or as two shorter placements during the summers of Year 1 and 2, and between Year 2 and 3. The paid, year-long work placement exempts you from paying tuition fees for the full academic year ensuring you gain the necessary practical skills to embark on your chosen career.
You will be assessed through exams, tests, essays and other written assignments, presentations, and individual and group assignments. You will be given regular feedback on your work. IT skills and the ability to interpret numerical data are important for this course.
You will be taught through a combination of Lectures, Seminars, and practical workshops and computer laboratory sessions. Lectures allow you to gain and develop knowledge in specific subjects. You can discuss and develop your understanding of topics covered in lectures and practical’s in smaller seminar groups usually made up of 35 students. In addition, you can arrange one to one sessions with your personal tutor or module leader. You will also have access to and use resources to support your learning including; Student Learning Advisers, Graduate Academic Assistants, Learning Enhancement Team and Library Resources throughout your course.
There is formal ‘summative’ assessment as part of the module, usually towards the end of the module. Assessment methods could include written examinations, a range of coursework including essays, reports, portfolios, and practical sessions including presentations. The grades from the summative assessments count towards your module mark. Assessments are reviewed annually and may be updated based on student feedback, to suit content or based on feedback from an external examiner.
If you are unable to meet the entry requirements for this course you may still be eligible for our Foundation year course. This is an extra year of study to prepare you for the full degree. For more information see our Business Foundation page.
Please apply via UCAS using this course’s UCAS code N601.
How can the BA Business Management (Human Resource Management) support your career?
Every aspect of the course has been exciting. I particularly enjoyed the third year modules. Strategic Management gave me a deep insight into the workings of a business environment and Leadership Management helped me discover my strengths and weaknesses in order to become an effective leader in the future.
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The goal of Hispanicize Pictures is to produce and showcase films either featuring Latino actors or made by Latino filmmakers.
MIAMI — Walking through the meeting halls of the JW Marriott Marquis Miami recently, I ran into a slew of Latino bloggers, Latino tech entrepreneurs and Latino journalists.
I was in Miami participating in Hispanicize, the annual gathering of top Latino bloggers, journalists and media execs, as I’ve done the past two years (I’m Cuban-American, born here in Miami). The conference — billed as the “SXSW for U.S. Hispanics” — is considered one of the largest gatherings of Latinos in the tech and media business.
This year, event organizers launched Hispanicize Pictures, with the goal of producing and showcasing films either featuring Latino actors or made by Latino filmmakers. Manny Ruiz, Hispanicize’s founder and someone I’ve known from our time together on the student newspaper at Miami Dade College two decades ago, said the hope is to boost Latino presence in Hollywood — something fiercely needed.
Despite comprising 17% of the population and buying one-fourth of all movie tickets in the U.S., Latinos represent less than 3% of film directors and 6% of screenwriters, according to a 2015 study commissioned by the National Association of Latino Independent Producers.
Other minority groups don’t fare much better. A University of Southern California study released last year showed film directors to be overwhelmingly white (87%); black, Latino and other “underrepresented racial/ethnic groups” make up just 13%. Female directors made up 15%, it said.
On the conference’s third night, Hispanicize Pictures unveiled its debut production: Hold On, the tender story of a struggling singer in L.A. who teams up with a fledgling music producer. The film is based on the true-life story of Micayla De Ette, who lost a sister to addiction and persevered with her singing career while living behind a church.
After the screening, the cast and director Tarek Tohme took questions from the audience. Introducing the group, Ruiz pointed out the uniqueness of those gathered on stage: an Arab-American director, a mixed-race leading actress and several Hispanic actors, including Hollywood journeyman Luis Guzmán (Boogie Nights, Carlito’s Way) and his son, actor/producer Cemi Guzmán.
In the audience, members of Black Hollywood, an investor group that backs minority projects, cheered on the cast, while Latino digital influencers spread the film’s praise on social media via smartphones.
Cemi Guzmán, who helped produce Hold On, said the project was unique not just for the diversity of its cast but for the financial backers now trying to distribute and promote the film.
Hold On is now in the hands of the film distribution gods, a fickle and unpredictable realm where marketable films are often chosen over important ones. It’s yet unclear whether the film will reach wider distribution and find its way into a theater near you.
But, on many levels, it’s already a blockbuster.
Jervis is based in Austin for USA TODAY. Follow him at: @MrRJervis.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2017/04/13/hold-on-latinos-hollywood-hispanicize/100412544/
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The 1943–44 Chicago Black Hawks season was the team's 18th season in the NHL, and they were coming off a 5th-place finish in 1942–43, failing to qualify for the playoffs.
The Black Hawks would once again finish just under .500, with a 22–23–5 record, good for 49 points, and 4th place in the NHL. The Hawks 178 goals would rank them just ahead of the New York Rangers for 5th in the league, while the 187 goals they let in ranked 4th. The team would qualify for the playoffs, as they would have 6 more points than the 5th place Boston Bruins.
Doug Bentley would have another huge season, breaking the Black Hawks record for points in a season, which he set in the 1942–43 season, by earning 77 points, along with a club record 38 goals, which led the NHL. Clint Smith, who the Black Hawks acquired from the Rangers in the off-season, would set a club record with 49 assists, and win the Lady Byng Trophy. Bill Mosienko would have a break out season with 32 goals and 70 points. Earl Seibert would anchor the defense, leading all defensemen with 33 points and had a team high 40 penalty minutes.
In goal, the Hawks would begin the season with Hec Highton in goal, however, after a 10–14–0 start, and a GAA of 4.50, the Hawks would trade him to the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League for former Hawks goaltender Mike Karakas. Karakas would put together a 12–9–5 record with a 3.04 GAA, helping Chicago clinch the final playoff spot.
The Black Hawks would have a first-round playoff date with the second place Detroit Red Wings, who finished 9 points better than Chicago in the regular season, in a best-of-seven series. The Hawks and Wings would split the opening two games in Detroit, and Chicago would take a 2–1 series lead by shutting out the Red Wings in game three. The Black Hawks would dominate game four, winning 7–1 and take a commanding 3–1 series lead. Chicago would then complete the upset in game five, defeating the Wings 5–2 in Detroit, and earn a spot in the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 1941. Their opponent would be the Montreal Canadiens, who dominated the NHL with 83 points, 34 points better than the Hawks in the regular season. Chicago would prove to be no match for the powerful Canadiens, as they would sweep the Black Hawks, including a Stanley Cup clinching win in overtime in the 4th game, to win the 1944 Stanley Cup.
^ "Standings: 1943–1944". National Hockey League. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
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ALBANY — If the powers behind the huge power line proposed for our region think new routes or promises of economic benefits will silence their critics, they should think again.
The proposal also claims the power line will bring cheaper, cleaner power from upstate to the energy-starved New York City metropolitan area. That means lower rates, says NYRI President Chris Thompson, citing studies by NYRI consultant Charles River Associates.
But one thing that hasn’t changed is opposition to the power line that would cut through Sullivan and Orange counties.
Heatherly, who lives across from NYRI’s downtown route, points out that power for local residents still can’t be tapped directly from the lines. And although underground is “better” than 10-story towers, there would still be blasting and digging for months, she said.
Another NYRI opposition leader, Troy Bystrom of the Upper Delaware Preservation Coalition, is also skeptical of the project that will now bury the lines near Utica.
Still, Bystrom, like other NYRI opponents, wants to study the complete PSC submission — four binders, each 4 inches thick, Thompson says.
It is posted on the PSC Web site. It should be available at the new NYRI Web site, http://www.nyri.us, and at the towns intersected by the line within the week.
But NYRI opposition is still so strong, some see the new NYRI site — and the entire PSC submission — as a PR move.
“They’re just trying to get a whole new image out there,” says Nina Neighmond of the Town of Wallkill, which would still be sliced by NYRI.
ONEONTA _ Wes Gillingham, program director for Catskill Mountainkeeper, will give a talk titled “The Future of the Catskills: Can Catskill Mountainkeeper Help?” on Tuesday.The event will be at 7 p.m. in the Strawbale House at Hartwick College’s Pine Lake Environmental Campus as part of the ongoing “Conversations at the Lake” series.
Gillingham will discuss his work with Catskill Mountainkeeper, a nonprofit advocacy organization whose mission is to protect the ecological integrity of the Catskill Mountain range and the quality of life of those who live there.
FALLSBURG — When the Ontario and Western Railway first chugged its way through Sullivan County in 1873, fewer than 30 houses stood in the hamlet of Roscoe.
“It was the railroad that built the Catskills,” Wilmer Sipple, director of the Roscoe O&W Railway Museum, said this week.
It’s now been 51 years since the O&W ran out of steam. But hiking, biking and nature enthusiasts throughout our region have worked for several years to convert the old rail beds into recreational trails.
In Fallsburg, a corps of volunteers and town officials are looking to eventually connect three towns by continuous trails. Fallsburg’s rail-trail advisory committee will show the public next Sunday the results of 18 months of studying the project’s feasibility.
WALTON – Catskill WoodNet, a regional collaboration of woodworkers, artisans and sawmills, has launched the “Pure Catskills” brand for local wood products.
The new trademark for forest products is a spinoff from the “Pure Catskills: Buy Fresh, Buy Local” campaign that promotes more than 150 area farms, spearheaded by the Watershed Agricultural Council.
The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development is trying to form an alliance of several communities along the state Route 28 corridor to hash out ideas for a $500,000 state fund earmarked for the area.
Peter Manning, a representative of the Arkville-based center, said the state has committed the money for a Central Catskill Mountains Smart Growth Program to support improvement projects that retain the vibrancy of the hamlets, villages, and town centers along the corridor – specifically in the towns of Andes, Middletown, Olive, and Shandaken, and the villages of Fleischmanns and Margaretville.
ARKVILLE _ A group of teachers gathered at the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development on Tuesday to learn how to connect their students with the land and heritage of the Catskills.
New York City is catching some lumps over plans about how to release water from the Delaware Basin Reservoirs in the Catskills, the source of the city’s drinking water. Environmentalists, public officials, fishing organizations, and residents along the Delaware River are not excited about the implementation of the new plan, called the Flexible Flow Management Program. It was an agreement between New York City, New York state, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania to provide enough enough drinking water while protecting the environment and river communities.
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Hughes, C. (2009) "We just take what they offer": Community empowerment in post-war Timor-Leste. In: Newman, Edward, Paris, Roland and Richmond, Oliver P., (eds.) New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding. The United Nations University Press, New York, pp. 218-242.
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https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/8649/
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Join us every Thursday for family-friendly singing, karaoke, ukulele, guitar (acoustic or electric), piano/keyboard, poetry, comedy, improv, speech…whatever! $7 requested donation from the public and performers. 10-minute sets. First come, first served basis, so get here early and sign up for your time in the spotlight!
Search listings near Irvine, CA.
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2019-04-20T23:21:15Z
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Filled: ILL: Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2007 Jun;29(6):693-9. Epub 2007 Apr 2.
Jun;29(6):693-9. Epub 2007 Apr 2.
the Glasgow Antimicrobial Audit Tool (GAAT).
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There are no comments for Alice Of Wonderland Series. Click here to post the first comment.
Based on Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".
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https://fineartamerica.com/featured/alice-of-wonderland-series-mo-t.html?product=adult-tshirt
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Cash Smuggling: Growing Problem For Mexican Gangs?
Sure, running a drug ring is the road to riches. You bring the stuff over the border, you get tons of money.
But then you have to get that money back over the border. And as banks -- including those in Mexico -- get better about finding and reporting suspicious transactions, a lot of times you just have to resort to trying to sneak tons of cash back south.
It didn't work so well for one druglord Sunday in Hidalgo. Fourteen tour-bus passengers -- half of them American, half Mexican -- were arrested when $3.1 million in cold, hard cash was found in their luggage, stuffed in deflated air mattresses.
"This seizure of $3.1 million in undeclared currency and 14 arrests, the largest currency seizure by CBP in Fiscal Year 2010, is a magnificent achievement and serves as a validation of our enhanced outbound enforcement effort, which includes not only CBP officers and agents but also ICE-Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents," said Alan Bersin of Customs and Border Protection.
That must have been one nervous tour bus when the feds decided to take a close look.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office said there'd be no further info on the arrests, or how agents go about trying to catch large shipments of cash.
Operation Firewall is one way they do it. In fiscal year 2009 the feds seized almost $125 million in cash and monetary instruments.
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2019-04-23T04:35:23Z
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https://www.houstonpress.com/news/cash-smuggling-growing-problem-for-mexican-gangs-6742385
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IEEE 802.11 standard has evolved from the early basic transmission rate to today's multiple transmission rates. The performance of IEEE 802.11 devices has been improved by exploiting multiple transmission rates. However, to take advantage of such evolution, a mechanism is required to choose the most appropriate rate under different circumstances, namely rate adaptation. Rate adaptation is critical for improving system performance by exploiting multiple transmission rates provided by the current IEEE 802.11 WLANs (Wireless LANs) and adjusting the data rate accordingly under different channel conditions. The key challenge in designing such an algorithm is to select the most suitable data rate under different environments in order to maximize the throughput over wireless links. For a given channel, the poorer the channel quality, the lower should the data rate be. However, in a congestion dominated network, lowering the data rate does not help the situation, instead, it further decreases throughput because lower transmission rate will increase both transmission range and transmission time and therefore introduces more collisions. Multiple rate adaptation schemes for IEEE 802.11 WLANs have been proposed and studied. The first generation rate adaptation schemes work well in collision free environments. However, in a congestion dominated environment, these schemes perform poorly because they do not differentiate frame losses caused by collision from those frame losses caused by channel degradation and unnecessarily decrease the data rate. The second generation rate adaptation schemes use Request To Send/Clear To Send (RTS/CTS) control frames to differentiate frame losses. However, there exist several problems when using these control frames. One obvious problem is the introduction of overhead which may lower network performance especially when the data frame size is small. The second problem is that, in IEEE 802.11 standard, the RTS is always transmitted at the lowest rate which may waste bandwidth under certain circumstances. The third problem is deciding when to turn on and off RTS/CTS control frames to reduce the overhead. Besides the problems mentioned above, most current rate adaptation schemes only consider the situation when the channel quality is good or when there are a lot of collision. Little or no action has been taken when the signal strength is low. According to our study, special actions need to be taken when the channel quality is poor. In our proposed algorithms, we have made several adjustments to accommodate this situation. This dissertation first gives several guidelines on how to design an efficient rate adaptation scheme and then presents two practical rate adaptation algorithms called Advanced Rate Adaptation (ARA) and Fast Recovery Rate Adaptation (FRRA). These two algorithms fully satisfy the proposed guidelines and are implemented along with four other representative rate adaptation schemes on a Linux-based testbed. The proposed algorithms and other selected rate adaptation schemes are evaluated extensively in both controlled and public field tests. Experiment results show that ARA and FRRA outperform other rate adaptation schemes in most scenarios.
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Hugh Jackman trolls Ryan Reynolds with a mock Once Upon a Deadpool ad that pokes numerous holes in Reynolds' seemingly perfect public image. Anyone who's been following the X-Men movie franchise for the past couple of years knows the two actors have engaged in a good natured back-and-forth, with Reynolds relentlessly campaigning for Jackman to reprise his Wolverine role in an upcoming Deadpool movie. Jackman remains adamant he's hung up the claws for good, a proclamation that had Reynolds recently call his friend selfish.
Sadly, it seems like X-Men Origins: Wolverine is the only time the two will share the screen in a Marvel movie, but film fans can see both stars in separate projects this fall/winter. Jackman leads Jason Reitman's The Front Runner as disgraced presidential candidate Gary Hart, while Reynolds will once again return as the Merc With a Mouth for the PG-13 edition of Deadpool 2, Once Upon a Deadpool. Earlier this month, Reynolds had a bit of fun at Jackman's expense by unveiling a fake awards promo for The Front Runner, and now it's Jackman's turn to strike back.
It's a humorous post that will only continue to fuel speculation Jackman is actually in Once Upon a Deadpool. For many fans, the constant interaction between the two actors is too coincidental for this to just be more of their trademark ribbing. While that could be all there is, it's understandable why some viewers would get out the tin foil hats and believe something's afoot. After all, Reynolds (with his new friend Fred Savage) shot new material for Once Upon a Deadpool in secret, and the announcement of the film came as a surprise. It's quite possible Jackman came on set for a day to shoot a brief cameo and Fox is keeping it under lock and key to shock audiences when the movie opens in December.
Considering how last year's Logan ended Wolverine's story, it makes sense why Jackman would be hesitant to reprise his trademark role. Most are in agreement James Mangold's Western-infused take on the X-Men property was the prefect sendoff, and little from an artistic perspective could be gained by having Jackman return. However, the Deadpool movies occupy their own zany corner of the universe and are famous for their fourth-wall breaking and meta references. Jackman could make an appearance (either as himself or Wolverine) in this one-off and it probably wouldn't throw the canon out of whack (even more so than it already is). Plus, it would make fans cheer to see the two faces of the X-Men series together again.
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https://screenrant.com/once-upon-deadpool-hugh-jackman-ryan-reynolds-promo/
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Last updated 3/22/2013 by David Giblin.
Publication: Bot. North. Middle States. 347. 1833.
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http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/waflora/checklist.php?Taxon=Platanthera%20dilatata&ID=131981
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Assuming you’ve all finished Fire and Fury by now, here’s a suggestion on what to read next: the Athens-Clarke County comprehensive plan.
A document that’s mandated by the state once every decade, the comp plan is chock full of data about Athens and ideas for solving the city’s problems, based on thousands of comments collected through the Envision Athens process. It’s available on athensclarkecounty.com, but you’ll have to act fast. The one and only public hearing on the draft plan is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7 at the Dougherty Street government building. That may not leave you enough time to read the 100-page report (not counting all the appendices and supporting documents), so here are some of the highlights.
Let’s start with the economy. Athens has seen a decline in manufacturing jobs, although that’s still the fourth-largest sector in the local economy, and an increase in health-care jobs. Manufacturing growth is limited by the small amount of commercial and industrial land available, as well as lack of interstate access. The unemployment rate is just 4.5 percent, but 36.7 percent of Athens residents live in poverty (28.4 percent, not counting college students), which is the fourth-highest rate in Georgia. About 40 percent of children live in poverty, and the number who receive SNAP benefits (food stamps) is up.
Overall, there are 60,000 jobs in Athens but less than 40,000 workers. Forty thousand people commute from surrounding counties, while 18,000 Athens residents work in a different county. Part of the reason so many people who work in Athens don’t live in Athens may be home prices. Single-family construction has dropped in Athens but increased in surrounding counties. “Workforce housing is desperately needed as home sale prices are beyond the ability of a median family to afford,” the draft says. So is housing for seniors, with a 0 percent vacancy rate in senior-oriented developments. Retirees are the fastest-growing age group and single-person households are up as well, while the number of families with children is falling.
Schools are another factor, although the comp plan points out that education is improving, with more residents who have at least an associate’s degree and fewer who dropped out of high school.
The comp plan proposes to attack poverty through job training, better collaboration among nonprofits and improving access to services. Removing legal and bureaucratic barriers to businesses will create more and better-paying jobs, as will promoting Athens’ music scene and marketing the city to tourists.
Concerning land use, many of the proposed policies focus on creating a downtown with fewer vehicles and more open space—for example, by reducing the number of parking spaces developers are required to provide. The comp plan also calls for easing the requirement for first-floor commercial space in residential buildings (much of which remains vacant in newer developments), a zoning overlay for Firefly Trail and other greenways, a “contingency plan” for Georgia Square Mall (perhaps a movie studio or senior housing), an industrial park off Atlanta Highway, enticements for groceries downtown and in other food deserts, and a lower-density multi-family zone to buffer neighborhoods from heavy commercial.
Other recommendations include redeveloping Atlanta Highway as a tech corridor, developing the “river district” between downtown and the North Oconee, improving the “gateways” into town and incentives for environmentally sustainable construction. Much of this could be accomplished through special tax districts (such as Tax Allocation Districts, where additional revenue from new development is plowed back into infrastructure, or Community Improvement Districts, where businesses agree to tax themselves) or by the county government buying available tracts and flipping them to developers.
In the housing section, the comp plan recommends a variety of strategies to make housing more affordable: reducing the minimum square footage (currently 1,000 for single-family homes); redeveloping run-down apartment complexes into mixed-income developments (a la Columbia Brookside, formerly the Pauldoe housing project off Hawthorne Avenue); allowing accessory dwellings like in-law suites; and spending money to preserve and upgrade housing stock in the urban core. Since 60 percent of Athens households are renters, there’s also a need for non-student rental housing, education on tenants’ rights and landlords’ responsibilities, and a process for fixing up nuisance properties. Not to mention basic infrastructure like sidewalks.
Of course, development can harm the environment, and the comp plan includes numerous strategies for protecting nature (including a goal of preserving 20 percent of the county as greenspace), as well as for arts and culture and other topics.
A future land-use map is a major component of the comp plan. It’s not zoning, but it does serve as a guide for what might be built where 20 years from now. This time around, other than consolidating some categories, officials opted not to change much—Envision Athens wrapped up late, which did not leave enough time to give the land-use map the attention it deserves, ACC planner Gavin Hassemer said, but he expects it to be revisited over the next couple years. “Even those parcels that changed, they were more corrections, if you will,” he said.
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2019-04-23T10:34:19Z
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https://flagpole.com/news/city-dope/2018/02/06/get-excited-the-comp-plan-is-here
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Abstract: This paper introduces an improved transmission line NL-L (N∈ ℤ+, >2) de-embedding methodology by providing more stable and accurate transmission line characteristics, such as, Z0, phase and attenuation constants. More accurate results are achieved by using a deterministic matrix decomposition technique and also a more accurate π-based circuit modeling of the parasitics for the probing pad adapters. Electromagnetic simulations (EM) and measurement results show that the inclusion of the improved parasitic model result in significantly more accurate de-embedding at mm-wave frequencies. © 2009 IEEE.
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https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/83478
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Blue Dragonfly is a photograph by Steven Michael which was uploaded on July 25th, 2016.
"Blue Dragonfly" - Dragonfly Wall Art by Steven Michael Photography and Art.
The Blue Dasher Dragonfly showing his acrobatic skills on the tip of a steal sculpture.
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Tom Brady may have been with Bridget Moynahan just moments after she gave birth to their son, but he’s notably absent from the baby’s name!
Bridget announced today that she has named their first child John Edward Thomas Moynahan.
Tom left practice with the New England Patriots to fly into L.A. for baby John’s birth. He then returned to his team for a preseason game.
Bridget, 36, and Tom, 30, split after three years together. Tom is now dating supermodel Gisele Bundchen.
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http://extratv.com/2007/08/28/bridget-moynahan-names-baby-boy/
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KUALA LUMPUR: Kapar member of parliament, Datuk Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid, has claimed that PKR Wanita chief, Zuraida Kamaruddin, threatened to ‘whack and strip naked’ his wife, Datin Faezah Ariffin.
Abdullah Sani, who is a contesting for a spot on the PKR central leadership committee, claimed that the Housing and Local Government Minister had used a PKR member to deliver the threat to his wife via WhatsApp, at midnight last night.
He claimed the threat was made after Faezah, who is also a candidate for the PKR Wanita vice-presidency, had criticised Zuraida’s leadership during a party event in Seremban last week.
“My wife lodged a report at the Bukit Raja police station.
“She received a WhatsApp voice note from a man (believed to be a supporter of Zuraida), who also mentioned Zuraida’s name.
“Among others, the man claimed that ‘Kak Zu’ had told him to whack and strip Faezah naked.
“This is even worse. She (Zuraida) should be subjected to disciplinary action, not me. I don’t need to threaten people. I’m a scaredy cat, I don’t dare to threaten people.. I maintain my discipline.
“Tell Zuraida to mind herself, discipline herself. You’re a minister, behave like one. Don’t act like a child,” he said when met at the Parliament lobby.
Abdullah Sani made the revelation when commenting on Zuraida’s call that any PKR election candidate who engages in personal attacks should face disciplinary action by the party’s Political Bureau.
On August 11, Faezah was quoted as saying that Zuraida had failed to effect changes within PKR and was instead the cause of discord within the women’s wing during her time at its helm.
Meanwhile, Zuraida, when asked about the matter by reporters at the Parliament lobby, appeared shocked.
Zuraida, who is contesting for the PKR vice-presidency, claimed she had no knowledge of the threat and denied using someone to threaten to ‘strip Faezah naked’.
“I think the person was not being literal in that sense. I’m guessing that the what the person meant by ‘stripping her naked’ was to expose her and not in the physical sense.
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2019-04-19T09:17:57Z
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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/minister-threatened-strip-wife-naked-131824990.html
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Principal–Agent Issues and Adverse Selection: Can Everyone Agree?
It’s a well-known childhood taunt: “I know something you don’t know.” Whenever children use this taunt, you know that they’ve pulled out the heavy artillery in a battle of wits. And as I was once told, don’t engage in a battle of wits unless you come fully armed.
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2019-04-26T07:55:12Z
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https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/managerial-economics-for/9781118412060/24_9781118412060-ch17.html
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Kids
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Marie, I really don’t know. I’m not in and have never been in Hartford. I know Julian Bakery makes paleo breads. You can check their website for where they are in stores near you. If you have a store like Whole Foods, Trader Joes, or any other health food store, you can call and ask if they carry paleo bread or do a product request if they don’t.
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2019-04-24T10:45:50Z
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https://hunterslyonesse.wordpress.com/recipes/
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Shopping
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dartmouth
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Government 97, 98, and 99 consist of independent research and writing on a selected topic under the supervision of a Department member who acts as adviser. Open to honors students. In exceptional cases these courses are also open to other qualified students by vote of the Department.
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2019-04-25T04:12:11Z
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https://govt.dartmouth.edu/undergraduate/courses/honors-program
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Today I Am grateful for a fun and relaxing morning with the boys – even if I did manage to squeeze some work in.
I Am also grateful that April was able to join us for a fun, relaxing evening.
Finally I Am grateful for the ability to catch when my “act” is running me in the few moments of unawakeness and overwhelm, quickly put an end to it, and go back to the fun and relaxation.
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2019-04-22T20:52:33Z
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https://brianjudegratitude.wordpress.com/2016/10/01/daily-gratitude-day-1370/
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ha
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Belgian Colony. Leopold III 50 Francs 1944 MS64 NGC, South African mint, KM27. Frosty lustrous coin with splendid details and a faint champagne tone. Good eye-appeal.
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2019-04-21T21:48:15Z
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https://coins.ha.com/itm/belgian-congo/belgian-congo-belgian-colony-leopold-iii-50-francs-1944-ms64-ngc-/a/3053-35555.s
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Cybertrust has retained its position providing secure gateway services to the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO), after the agency put the work on the market in February. ANAO is a public agency which audits government departments and statutory bodies.
Cybertrust has retained its position providing secure gateway services to the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO), after the agency put the work on the market in February.
ANAO is a public agency which audits government departments and statutory bodies. The group had around 316 staff as at 30 June of this year, with the majority of those located in Canberra.
The agency recently signed Cybertrust to a new three-year, AU$448,000 contract, after putting the work out in a tender in the February/March timeframe of this year.
The agency's chief information officer Gary Pettigrove told ZDNet Australia yesterday by telephone that Cybertrust was chosen for reasons relating to quality of service, price and certification.
"We went through a tender process, we had a number of tenderers, and we picked one," he added, declining to name the unsuccessful vendors.
The new contract will last from 28 September this year through 31 October, 2009.
According to Pettigrove, other current IT projects at the agency include an initiative to purchase an electronic document and records management system, in addition to the pending re-launch of the agency's Web site.
The group's Intranet portal was also recently re-launched, running on Microsoft's Sharepoint solution. Work is still going on in that area.
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2019-04-25T22:41:56Z
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/audit-office-renews-cybertrust-gateway/
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chron
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Baly-Chaumette received the award during the organization's "Fabulous Faces" luncheon held recently at Sweetwater Country Club.
"Jacquie exemplifies the true spirit of entrepreneurship," says Jody Tancred of Sterling Bank-Fort Bend.
"Her hard work, determination, creativity and professionalism inspire others. She will be attending WBI's Fort Bend meetings and networking events, as well as serving as a mentor to inspire other professional businesswomen throughout the year."
In Fort Bend, Baly-Chaumette is the chair of the infrastructure division of the Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce, serves on the county's Mobility Planning Committee and is president of the board of the Fort Bend YMCA.
Baly-Chaumette holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in city planning from University of Houston. Her past job positions include vice president at the Greater Houston Partnership, and director of planning for the cities of Seabrook and Sugar Land. Baly-Chaumette is also a trained flutist, and with her husband David, has two sons, Raphael, 8, and Alexandre, 5.
In addition to the entrepreneur award, 14 women business owners were recognized by Fort Bend WBI as "Fabulous Faces." They were: Gina Beil, UpClose Magazine; Kathy Carpenter, Carpenter & Carpenter, P.C.; Cindy Casaly, Designer Events; K.C. Crandall, Evocative Designs; Joy Dowell, AnnaBelles; Lisa Fredrickson, Fort Bend Focus Magazine; Jeri Krauss, Christian Brothers Automotive; Lihn Lu, Teachers N' Kids; Patricia Trejo-Hickman and Gloria McCarty, White Lotus Spa; Nancy Romano, Mass Mutual; Eilene Murphree, Image Concepts; and Connie Smith, Minuteman Press.
The "Fabulous Faces" event benefited the Fort Bend Women's Center, whose mission is to assist survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault by providing them and their children emergency shelter, crisis intervention, counseling, support services, and educational outreach.
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2019-04-20T05:17:13Z
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https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/article/Baly-Chaumette-named-2006-Entrepreneur-of-the-9555757.php
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wordpress
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In the absence of transcendently based purpose and meaning, everything is a tumultuous sea of circumstance viewed through the prism of survival – survival being the value underpinning all other values. Within such a paradigm the concept of hope is relegated to a mere vacuous wishing for serendipitous events to intercede and alter circumstance . . . because there is nothing outside of circumstances in which to place hope. Hope is something that existentialism and nihilism disparage as a useless waste of time and energy – Which is no surprise, given that they are philosophical systems built entirely upon the need for human action and choice, as a means of controlling circumstance.
But the only guiding principle to all of this acting and choosing is whether or not it serves the pragmatism of survival. This is why such philosophies have fostered the existential relativism of “situational ethics” – where ethics are conformed circumstantially to whatever best serves the survival of the prevailing forces placed in crisis. And nihilism’s “will to power” mandate found in “the ends justify the means” – where actions are based on whatever best serves the survival of the agenda of the prevailing force’s will. In all cases survival is the value at the top of the heap – to be served at all cost . . . because it is survival that interprets all circumstances, then in turn, adjusts how all other existential values are to be accordingly held.
With theism, hope is the best way of describing how a theist relates to the transcendence of God, amid circumstance. In this paradigm, survival only has significance as it serves transcendent values – it doesn’t get to drive the car . . . because hope is the guiding principle. Therefore the theist acts and chooses in accordance with the transcendent values, believing that what is transcendent will prevail – this is why all hope is placed in God, the source of all transcendence. So no matter the circumstance, what is transcendent remains immutable . . . which is well beyond the purview of external efforts.
Again in contrast, where there is an absence of transcendence, survival is paramount. Therefore circumstances must relentlessly be kept out of the ditches, or from plummeting over the cliff – all presumably, by the finite external efforts of human intelligence. So even when the existentialist/nihilist has exhausted every avenue of human action and choice – ironically, he must still grudgingly rely on serendipitous hope . . . a hope placed in random chance, because he has left himself no alternative.
So I place my hope in God, not as an idle wishing, or as some sort of fallback position, but rather as a foundational cornerstone, a sustainable presuppositional context. It is a calibration of my heart and mind, allowing me to distinguish between what is merely superficial, from what has lasting value. As a Christian, I am called to a hope (Ephesians 1:18), a hope I am to give a reason for (1 Peter 3:15), a hope that ultimately defines everything about my life . . . so I place my hope in God.
There is an allure to believing that knowing anything can be free of an accompanying faith – this is likely because the idea that knowing something for certain creates the illusion of control . . . our desire for having control being at the opposite end of the spectrum from our need for faith.
Pre-historic man sees a blinking firefly against the forced perspective of a starlit night and believes he has discovered an explanation for the heavens and in this knowledge feels a little more in control of the wild chaos that surrounds his life. Then we look back with the informed perspective of scientific explanation and conclude that pre-historic man’s knowledge was an illusion . . . which of course begs the question: What opinion will the future have of our knowledge? Is our knowledge similarly, only our own claim on a little bit of delusional certainty against a vast uncertainty?
So then is the answer to chase knowledge like a mirage, believing it functions like a complex algorithm, winding its way to a zenith point where the boogie man of fear and uncertainty can finally be subdued . . . to finally arrive where pre-historic man always dreamed of being, with enough knowledge and certainty to control the wildness of his world . . . on his own terms. But what if all the knowledge in the universe only gave you control over a very small broom closet in a vast city of rooms, what then? So maybe it’s not about quantity – but quality . . . perhaps there’s a special knowing.
It’s the Gnostic who convinces himself there must be an esoteric knowing – but ironically doesn’t realize his obsession with such a knowledge actually impedes true wisdom and understanding. Gnosticism distilled down to its core etymology is a perverse pre-occupation with being in the know, as if the meaning of life could be hemmed in and held hostage. But in truth it only ends up placing you on an epistemological treadmill that never arrives — all of that energy expended may create the illusion of accomplishment . . . but ends in self-delusion.
Faith is the antidote for our Gnostic inclinations – not because it is antithetical to knowledge, but rather because it gives knowledge purpose. Knowledge is abstract and formless apart from a meaningful context. It is not self-assessing, and is most certainly not self-apparent, because in and of itself, it is completely incapable of causing belief. But faith is the very substance of belief. Faith can weigh and assesses what knowledge can only collect as disparate components — then faith peers into the mystery of the unknown and discovers the source of meaning and significance . . . because it is willing to leap!
Now you may prefer a different nomenclature for describing the very same thing: presuppositional assumptions; intuition; theory . . . but these are all feeble attempts at describing the very same epistemological leap from what cannot be proven as true – to what we choose to believe is true. The whole of human understanding is not immune to the effects of this faith axiom – therefore ALL philosophies boil down to a leaping out in faith, each assuming they’re offering the correct explanation of reality . . . in the exact same way the Christian faith does.
But faith is not only about drawing the correct conclusions as if it were merely an intellectual exercise, it is about how we live our lives in light of those conclusions, which in turn, inextricably alters who we are . . . this is why we must choose carefully where we place our faith.
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2019-04-26T08:38:42Z
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https://stillchasinglight.wordpress.com/2016/01/
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Autonomous vehicles promise to be the next revolution in public transport. They should find their first users in suburban areas, which are less well served by traditional transportation networks.
In AVENUE’s vision for the future public transport in urban and sub-urban environments autonomous vehicles will ensure the safe, rapid, economic, ecological and personalised transport of passengers, minimizing vehicle changes, picking them at their doorstep and depositing them as close as possible to their destination.
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2019-04-22T02:20:05Z
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https://iss.unige.ch/news/avenue-h2020-project/
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Lawrence Isaacson (ACA ’00) returns to Aspen for his sixteenth summer as the conductor of the July Fourth concert. Known for his interesting programming, energetic performances, audience interaction and spirit of collaboration, he has also performed as a Guest Conductor for the Oregon Symphony, Longwood Symphony, Round Top and Eastern Music Festivals, as well as Usdan’s Center for the Creative and Performing Arts and the Performing Arts Institute. He is currently the music director and Conductor of Symphony Nova. A former trombonist who began his career at the age of nineteen performing as an extra with the Chicago Symphony at Carnegie Hall, he has performed world-wide in concert and on recordings with many of America’s finest ensembles, including the Empire Brass Quintet, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Boston Pops, Boston Symphony, Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Detroit Symphony, and the San Diego Symphony. Currently at the Boston Conservatory, where he is the associate director of the music division, he is a former faculty member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New England Conservatory, Boston University, Tufts University, University of New Hampshire, Mannes College of Music, McMaster University, and Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute.
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2019-04-23T00:13:42Z
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http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/events/performers/lawrence-isaacson/
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The Octonauts (TV show) are all the rage with the grandsons at present (less so with Ms 4). So when it was Master 6’s birthday recently I guess the choice of a cake was a no-brainer.
Captain Barnacles, Peso and Kwazii.
Master 3 and I recently borrowed this toy from the Darwin Toy Library and it was a big hit with both of us as well as Master nearly 6, big brother.
If you have grandchildren you might be interested in it. There is an A to Z alphabet on the mat, the animals have the relevant letter on the front, and when you combine the two it says, for example, “E” for Elephant and makes an elephant’s noise. Very cool. Then there’s all the imaginary games you can play with it as well. Quite the hit!
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2019-04-21T01:08:23Z
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https://troppont.wordpress.com/category/for-kids/
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artfund
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Important works by Wim Wenders, Gabriel Orozco and Thomas Joshua Cooper have been given to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Important works by Wim Wenders, Gabriel Orozco and Thomas Joshua Cooper have been given to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. They were presented jointly by the artists and collector and philanthropist Anthony d’Offay, through the Art Fund.
Wim Wenders is perhaps best known for his work as a film director (Wings of Desire, Paris Texas, Buena Vista Social Club – and most recently Pina) but has also produced a major body of photographic work. New York, November 8, 2011 III is a powerful large-scale work taken in the immediate aftermath of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks. He was one of very few artists who were given access to the site of the twin towers immediately after events of 9/11.
Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco often works with unconventional material. He also makes use of found objects which he alters and adapts. His exquisite aluminium sculptures, Pinched V, V & VI are based on expanded forms of wax, pinched and twisted between the artist's finger and thumb – appearing to change from every angle. Orozco’s work will be joining SNGMA’s impressive sculpture collection, which includes works from Bourdelle to Hirst.
Born in California, Thomas Joshua Cooper has lived in Scotland since the early 1980s, where he is the founding head of photography at Glasgow School of Art. A Premonitional Work, The River Findhorn (Message of H. O’Sullivan) is inspired by the 19th century American photographer Timothy H. O'Sullivan, whose work has had a great impact on Cooper’s artistic approach. Elegant and haunting, the black and white photograph depicts the still surface of water with rock towering behind.
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2019-04-25T19:45:30Z
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https://www.artfund.org/news/2011/06/01/art-fund-aids-doffay-gift
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scribd
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Before WILKINSON, WYNN, and DIAZ, Circuit Judges.
sentence of sixty months of imprisonment.
applicable to supervised release revocation.
receive the sentence imposed, up to the statutory maximum.
Cir. 2007) (internal quotation marks omitted).
unreasonable, much less plainly so.
Crudup, 461 F.3d at 43940.
sentence within the statutory maximum.
discern no meritorious issue for appeal.
must state that a copy thereof was served on Gambrell.
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2019-04-26T08:42:57Z
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https://www.scribd.com/document/321207943/United-States-v-Adrian-Gambrell-4th-Cir-2013
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weebly
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Just recently redid my home page, with some favorite photos. Of course there's a story behind every photo.
1) I had recently arrived at a book retreat weekend in Santa Cruz, California, and one of the authors was snapping photos. I was a bit wary as I had barely met this author, and it shows. Which is one of the reasons I love this picture. I've since found out that Adam Johnson has a wonderful eye for impromptu portraits.
2) Another book retreat weekend, this one in Boulder! I was with my dear friend, the writer David Slayton, when we ran into Peter Heller, one of the featured authors, and asked him to eat with us. This is me, stealing one of Peter Heller's french fries. (I did confess.) Photo by David.
3) My friend Ben LeRoy, who's also a publisher, decided in 2014 to spend one day volunteering in every state. He happened to come into Nashville while I was there visiting, and our mutual friend Zack Barnes - a devout reader, writer, and now a middle school teacher - and I hustled to find volunteering opportunities. Ben and I spent the morning at a downtown rescue group, and the afternoon sorting donated clothing for a domestic women's shelter. What an eye-opening day; what two wonderful men. (One of my very favorite fan/author stories is the night Zack came to a Laura Lippman event - before heading for the event his fiancee Anna asked him if the Harry Potter hoodie he was wearing was appropriate. It's fine; it's just Sara, he told her. So of course Laura asked me and Zack out to dinner, at a lovely restaurant ... Zack hasn't dared wear a sweatshirt to an author event since. I think I was too polite to take a photo of his sweatshirt that night. I'm sure this one is Ben's photo, using a timer.
4) Ali Karim is a reader and book blogger from the UK who's also a chemist - he's been my good friend ever since the day that he declared to author Taylor Stevens at a book conference that he was voting for her for the award she was up for ... when I was standing right there, up for the same award! Of course I didn't let him forget it for a long time. Ali is such a good guy, and such a book enthusiast. (This was post-event at a book conference - we were both tired.) I'm betting this is a Peter Rozovsky photo.
5) This was at the Newburyport Book Festival, just after the dinner - co-organizer Jennifer Entwistle had just urged people to take the flower centerpieces with them, and authors Ethan Gilsdorf and Max Gladstone, and I all grabbed flowers and of course lined up for Jen to take a photo.
6) And here's me congratulating my friend Taylor Stevens for winning the best first novel Barry award for her first novel! I lost, but won another award at the same conference, so all was good. I also love this photo because it was taken by my good friend Christine McCann.
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http://sarajhenry.weebly.com/behind-the-photos.html
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Citation: Hames S (2014) The 'Settlers and Colonists' Affair. In: Manfredi C (ed.). Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 73-104.
Abstract: In the final weeks of 2012, media reports on Alasdair Gray’s essay ‘Settlers and Colonists’ sparked a heated debate concerning Scottish cultural governance and ‘anti-Englishness’. This chapter documents and contextualizes the controversy vis-à-vis the campaigns for and against Scottish independence, and several related cultural debates. A detailed chronology of initial media coverage and political reaction (extraordinary in its volume and vehemence) is supplemented by a list of recommended essays and blogs providing further insight. The lasting impact of this episode on Gray’s reputation and public standing is unclear; this chapter examines the role of politicians, the media and Gray himself in a process by which the author became (and was made to become) a casualty of his own incautious words, but also rendered curiously voiceless.
Rights: This item has been embargoed for a period. During the embargo please use the Request a Copy feature at the foot of the Repository record to request a copy directly from the author. You can only request a copy if you wish to use this work for your own research or private study. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: [insert URL for product on www.palgrave.com and www.palgraveconnect.com] C Manfredi, Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds, Forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.
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2019-04-22T16:43:14Z
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https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/handle/1893/18345
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colostate
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The Asian Pacific American Cultural Center (APACC) at CSU for student staff members!
Must attend Fall staff training on Sunday-Friday, August 11-16, 2019 (all day including some late evening hours and an overnight retreat Sunday-Tuesday; please notify us of any conflicts as soon as you are aware of them) and Spring training on Saturday, January 25, 2020.
Other websites that may be resourceful are Scholarships for Asian-Pacific Islander College Students and Scholarships & Financial Aid For Minority Students.
Registered Nursing – This Scholarship recognizes an outstanding nursing student enrolled in an accredited Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program.
Nurse Practitioner – APRN – This Scholarship recognizes an outstanding nursing student enrolled in an accredited Nurse Practitioner (NP) program.
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2019-04-23T04:16:25Z
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https://apacc.colostate.edu/job-openings-and-scholarships/
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Zambia’s newly-elected President Michael Sata has warned Chinese investors to respect the country’s labour laws.
“Your investment should benefit Zambia and your people need to adhere to local laws,” Sata told Chinese ambassador Zhou Yuxiao, who paid a visit to the new president at State House on Monday.
“If they adhere to local laws, there will be no need to point fingers at each other,” Sata said.
Sata, who was elected last week, is known for his tough stand against the influx of Chinese investment into the country, particularly in the mining sector, which he says does not benefit the locals.
China has invested an estimated $6.1-billion into the southern African nation since 2007, equivalent to more than one third of gross domestic product last year.
Sata told Zhou that China had been instrumental in developing Zambia during the relationship between the two countries that began in the 1960s.
“Through the visit of President [Hu] Jintao we were given two gifts, and that is a stadium in Ndola and the hospital in Lusaka,” Sata said.
Chinese banks and markets have opened on Lusaka’s streets, but poor Zambians accuse Chinese companies of importing their own workers and mistreating the locals they do employ.
In 2010, two Chinese mine managers were charged with attempted murder for shooting at 11 Zambian workers who protested about poor pay and work conditions.
This entry was posted in Africa - International and Regional News, Central Africa, Southern Africa and tagged China, mining, Sata, Zambia. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-24T09:50:21Z
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https://ksafricajournalism.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/king-cobra-warns-china-to-respect-zambias-laws/
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libsyn
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How did the Hawaiians go from a warring people to the peaceful culture they are now known for? Listen as Steve Strang shares from his recent trip to Hawaii what he learned about its Christian history. Hear stories on the Plymouth Rock of Hawaii, the painted church and how two missionaries brought Hawaiians education and the Word of God.
Our problems will not be solved until people's hearts and lives change. Listen as host Steve Strang calls us to pray for a change within ourselves and our society. He shares the parallels of today's social, political, and financial issues with what was happening in the 1960s and 1970s that led to two great revivals. Be inspired and pray today.
Teach your family to cry out to God again and restore His presence in your home. Listen as authors Pat and Karen Schatzline share the vision God has given them to bring the altar back into churches and homes. Hear what happens when the altar is restored.
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2019-04-26T13:49:32Z
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http://strangreport.libsyn.com/2017/04
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amazon
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The ARN of the output that you want to update.
AWS Elemental MediaConnect is updating the output.
AWS Elemental MediaConnect is removing the output.
The result of a successful RemoveFlowOutput request including the flow ARN and the output ARN that was removed.
The ARN of the output that you removed.
The ARN of the flow that is associated with the output you removed.
The ARN of the role that you created during setup (when you set up AWS Elemental MediaConnect as a trusted entity).
The updates that you want to make to an existing output of an existing flow.
The port to use when AWS Elemental MediaConnect distributes content to the output.
The IP address where you want to send the output.
The result of a successful UpdateFlowOutput request including the flow ARN and the updated output.
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2019-04-24T06:36:54Z
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https://docs.aws.amazon.com/mediaconnect/latest/api/v1-flows-flowarn-outputs-outputarn.html
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wordpress
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International executive protection – close protection – bodyguard licenses are subjects we are being asked about all the time and I want to put things straight.
There are numerous companies claiming to offer international close protection – executive protection – bodyguard licenses or official certification- there are no such things! These are purely a marketing ploys to attract students. Wherever you work, you will have to work within the local laws and requirements and these vary greatly from state to state and country to country. There is no course that covers all laws and is internationally recognized. If you do not believe this, phone up your local licensing authority and ask them and then inform them of anyone who is offering these false executive protection – close protection – bodyguard licenses and certification recognise at International level.
In most places, the only legal requirements you need to be a bodyguard is a basic security guard or private investigator’s license, if that; there is no need for any specialist training, military or law enforcement experience. Simply having a security guard or private investigator’s license does not makes you a high risk bodyguard, any more than having a driver’s license does not make you a licensed racing car or stunt driver.
We know that in Britain the government (SIA) is regulating the security industry and this will include the close protection – bodyguard – executive protection sector. The SIA close protection licenses appears to be one of the few specific close protection – executive protection – bodyguard licenses that will require proof of minimum training or experience to qualify for it. This license will only officially be recognized inside of Britain, we have already people contacting us for work claim to have been inform the with the SIA license they could work anywhere. WRONG!
Government licenses are only valid in the country or state of issue. The standard of training for most government licenses, range from average to poor, and the courses usually only last a few days. Government licenses do nothing more than train security guards etc. to the minimum required standard for insurance purposes and verify that criminals are not being hired. In some areas, private investigators (PI) licenses can be gained through internships and these internships can be bought, for a fee. We know a few self-proclaimed high risk bodyguard servicing around the globe, who gained so called experience for his PI license working behind the counter of a gun shop and another who is virtually illiterate in English, Spanish or Italian! There are many so called bodyguards and companies who have never done any training, apart from security guard training or investigator’s study- this is their choice-but they have to know – in theory,theory and practice are the same…in practice,theory and practice are NOT the same.
If you want to employ, train with or work for this type of company, it is your choice but do not expect to be taken seriously outside of your ,,village”. Always check the background of those you employ, train or do business with and if people cannot provide proof of experience, there is a very good chance they don’t have it.
Close protection – bodyguard – executive protection and specialist security courses are meant to give you training in advanced procedures and techniques that are not normally employed by security, military and law enforcement units. The close protection – bodyguard- executive protection business is a specialist business, and you need specialist training. You cannot expect to do a 4, 7 or 30 day course and be a trained and certified bodyguard,and most important for a company is that they search ,for hireing ,already experience personel(ex-military- some of the security companies refuse Ex-police force,the Police is not the same as a military camp. Most of our personnel/associates have a minimum of 10 years experience(military experience) and they are still learning and training every day.
We at ECPC&Co only recognize the training given by us and our close associates. There are many other companies and schools, but is up to you to do your research and find out which ones are for real. If they are offering close protection – bodyguard – executive protection licenses or official certification etc. we would say stay well clear and inform yourself.
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2019-04-21T08:46:27Z
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https://europecloseprotectioncompany.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/enabout-the-marketing-of-close-protection-training/
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usatoday
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Known for its Mount Gay Rum factory – you'll find the product everywhere throughout the island – and a very curious sea turtle population just offshore, Barbados is a unique Caribbean alternative. With warm air and sea temperatures year-round, this tiny, British-influenced island is a pleasure any time of year, but especially in June, when the crowds are thinned and the prices are right.
With nighttime temperatures in the high 70s and daytime temps reaching nearly 90 degrees, Barbados weather in June serves up a hot time of the year to visit, even with the cool Atlantic trade winds on the coast. Despite the hot temperatures and balmy atmosphere – the humidity averages around 80 percent all month – things are likely to cool off with afternoon rainstorms. June is the start of the island's rainy season, but storms do not produce much rain; the total average rainfall for the month is only 4 inches.
If you prefer a glimpse of the "real" Barbados for an affordable price, June could not be a better time to visit. June is within Barbados' low tourist season, which runs from mid-April to mid-December. The airfare, cruise fare and hotel costs are also lower during this time, and the crowds are considerably thinned out. Fewer people visit the island or take a Caribbean cruise in June weather, so there's more elbow room on the beaches, better access to tours, and even better prices in the tourist shops.
If you visit Barbados in June, you're likely to experience the Crop-Over Festival. An event that dates back to the 1780s, the "Crop-Over" initially marked the end of the island's important sugar cane harvest. In the 21st century, this important annual festival features calypso and soca music, dance competitions, local food and crafts, and a special crowning of the "king" and "queen" of sugar harvesting. The June-through-August festival won't interrupt your June visit to the island; although it attracts thousands of spectators, the event is spread out over the entire summer, and the main draw, Kadooment Day, occurs in August.
Like all islands in the Caribbean, Barbados has a risk for hurricane and tropical storm activity. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from early June to the end of November, so June travelers should beware of the potential for canceled cruises or flights. However, Barbados has a very low threat risk for storms; since 1955, only three hurricanes and two tropical storms made landfall on the island.
Waldron-Gross, Leah. "Visiting Barbados in June." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/visiting-barbados-june-109854.html. 31 July 2018.
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