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Candidate's Statement of Commitment Regarding Dispositions
It is the responsibility of the College of Education, in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences, to successfully prepare candidates to become effective teachers. The initial licensure program requires candidates to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions outlined in the conceptual framework of the College of Education as they align with the expected behaviors of beginning teachers. Each candidate will be evaluated on these dispositions by faculty and school personnel and provided with feedback to assist with their progress.
Dispositions are defined as the professional attitudes, values beliefs demonstrated through both the verbal and non-verbal behaviors as educators interact with students, families, colleagues, and the communities (NCATE, 2008). The following dispositions are expected of Niagara University teacher education candidates in the university classroom and in the schools.
Professional Commitment and Responsibility
The candidate demonstrates a commitment to the profession and adheres to the legal and ethical standards set forth by it. The Candidate:
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- Exhibits professional standards in appearance
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- Collaborates with peers and supports their development
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- Reflects upon his/her professional practice
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February 7, 2011
The cute robots in this video are about to get down 'n nasty after hooking up through a gay chat site. There's just one problem: the horned up bareback bottom forgot to ask the top about his HIV status. What follows is a funny, pornographic (NSFW), painfully realistic "negotiation" in which stupidity rules the day.
I have had conversations exactly like this one. And I'll go even further: in my crystal meth days, I had chats like these through glory holes. "If you're clean, we'll do it raw," the gentleman in the adjoining booth would suggest, to which I would reply, "You're going to take the word of a stranger you're talking to through a three inch hole in the wall ...?"
The lesson in all this, of course, is not to put your life into the hands of someone you've known for five minutes. Or five months. The responsibility not to get exposed to HIV (and hepatitis and other STDs) is entirely yours. And another thing: If you're a sexually active "man about town" and your last HIV test was months ago, the results don't really matter anymore. Go get a new one.
I exchanged e-mails with the producer of the robot video, who prefers the anonymity of cyberspace but nevertheless has strong feelings about the curious mating habits of the gay male. "If (HIV negative) guys are out there having anonymous sex with strangers, they're having plenty of contact with HIV+ guys." he wrote me. "Is there really something that they'd do with a stranger from Manhunt or Grindr that they wouldn't do with someone who says he's HIV+? It seems that what bothers them is knowing the truth."
"I'd like to think that gay men could educate themselves enough to apply a safety standard to their conduct that doesn't stigmatize anybody," he goes on, perhaps a bit optimistically, "rather than hide behind a curtain of fear and blame.
This funny, bawdy robot video says more about the state of gay male sexual risk than any of the horrid public health campaigns out there today. It is exactly the kind of message I would have praised in my recent video conversation with HIV activist Sean Strub about HIV prevention campaigns.
If you want to do something about new HIV infections among our gay brothers, here's an easy task: send this video to every sexually active guy you know.
Sometimes the truth hurts. In this case, it's also hilarious.
Kudos to Maureen McCarty of The New Gay for flagging this video for me. Finding potty-mouthed robots chatting about risky sex is exactly what makes a good editor, I always say. -- Mark
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Can anyone help, been struggling for hours.
(i) given that w=1+2i, express w2, w3, and w4 in the form a+bi.
(ii) given that w is a root of the equation z4+pz3+qz2-6z+65=0, find the values of p and q.
(iii) write down a second root of the equation.
(iv) find the other 2 roots of the equation.


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Connie S. Foster, 71, of Macon, MO, died Friday, December 7, 2012, at the Macon Health Care Center in Macon. Funeral services will be Wednesday, December 12, 2012, at 1:00 p.m., at the HUTTON & MCELWAIN Funeral Home in Macon. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens north of Macon. Visitation will be held Tuesday evening, from 5:00-7:00 p.m., at the funeral home.


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Congress views graphic abortion horrors
Rep. Trent Franks directs attention to babies apparently killed after birth
Editor's note: The follow video includes graphic images. Please use extreme caution.
Networks and newspapers recently, reluctantly, covered the story of the horrors of Kermit Gosnell's abortion business in Philadelphia, where witnesses testified babies were born, breathed and cried before succumbing to scissors the staff would use to cut their spinal cords and kill them.
Gosnell now is serving life in prison for murder, and evidence of additional horrors are starting to surface about similar scenarios across America's abortion industry.
Those memory-searing graphic images even have made their way into the halls of Congress, wherein rests the power to address abortion's violence in a meaningful way.
It was, according to Operation Rescue, the courage of U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., that provided the truth to members of the House Judiciary Committee.
Franks cited the developing case involving the Houston, Texas, abortion business run by Douglas Karpen.
WND reported recently that authorities in Texas are calling for a formal investigation of Karpen following the release of a video made by three former employees who had said he was in the practice of killing babies born alive by twisting off their heads or shoving a surgical instrument into their brains.
"In a week when serial murderer Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of killing babies, I read with disgust about the allegations [against] Houston-based abortionist Douglas Karpen," said Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in a statement.
"The Harris County authorities should perform a full-scale investigation and take action against those who broke state law," Dewhurst said.
The outrage followed the release by the Texas-based Life Dynamics of a video with accusations from three women who worked for Karpen.
The women explain that the abortionist sometimes would twist the baby's head off his neck, shove a surgical instrument into the vulnerable baby's brain through the skull, or shove a surgical instrument into the chest or abdomen.
The interview featuring Deborah Edge, Krystal Rodriguez and Gigi Aguilar provided proof, Life Dynamics said, "the lofty rhetoric of 'choice' may insulate those who work in the political and public relations arena, but the day-to-day reality for those who provide those 'choices' is to deal with the corpses and parts of corpses they pull out of their customers' bodies."
Mark Crutcher, the founder of Life Dynamics, said, "While the pro-life movement claims that abortion takes the life of a living human being, nobody on Earth knows that better than the people who work at abortion clinics."
Edge said, "I thought, well, it's an abortion you know, that's what he does, but I wasn't aware that it was illegal. … Most of the time we would see him where the fetus would come completely out and of course, the fetus would still be alive.
"He does a lot of huge abortions. A lot of the times, we would bring the big fetus[es] that were over age, we would re-open the bag and just look at it and be like, 'Oh my gosh, it's so big!'"
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Franks explained why the committee was discussing the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
"Whatever else happens during a late term abortion … a child dies. The mother is never the same," he said. "Whatever gifts that child might have brought to humanity are lost."
The graphic images were provided by the former Karpen employees and were shown in support of the legislation that would give nationwide protection for unborn children after 20 weeks – when they are known to feel pain.
The bill originally addressed the District of Columbia, but was expanded when Gosnell's "House of horrors" was revealed to have babies' feet in jars and human remains in a freezer.
Testimony on behalf of the bill came from several witnesses brought by Franks, including former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levantino.
He described in graphic detail the process used, while he still was an abortionist, of removing a baby from a mother.
"You will know you have it right when you crush down on the clamp and see white gelatinous material coming through the cervix. That was the baby's brains."
But he said since he fled the abortion industry, he was worked on many cases where a mother's life was seriously threatened by a pregnancy.
He cited one case where a woman suffered from severe pre-eclampsia or toxemia, and could have died if left untreated.
"This case was managed successfully by rapidly stabilizing the patient's blood pressure and 'terminating' her pregnancy by Cesarean section. She and her baby did well. This is a typical case in the world of high-risk obstetrics … During my time at Albancy Medical Center I managed hundreds of such cases by 'terminating' pregnancies to save mother's lives. In all those hundreds of cases, the number of unborn children that I had to deliberately kill was zero."
Also testifying was nurse and pro-life blogger Jill Stanek, who as a nurse in Chicago held an abortion baby that was born alive and left to die.
Dr. Maureen Condic, of the University of Utah's Department of Neurobiology, also testified babies can feel pain as early as 8-10 weeks.
"We really appreciate the work of Rep. Franks and the testimony of Mrs. Stanek, who highlighted our documentation of abortion horrors, as well as the powerful testimony of the others who spoke. We constantly endeavor to get information like this into the hands of the public, and we are grateful for their help in doing so," said Cheryl Sullenger, senior policy adviser for Operation Rescue.
"It is hard to believe that anyone seeing those photos would not have second thoughts about abortion practices in this nation."
Florida question
WND reported recently when a related issue arose in Florida:
A lobbyist for Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion business in the United States, said a doctor and a mother should be allowed to decide to kill a newborn who survives an abortion.
The Planned Parenthood comments came at a recent Florida legislative hearing from Alisa LaPoit Snow, who was opposing a proposal that would require a doctor to provide care to an infant whom an abortion failed to kill.
Lawmakers were stunned, asking the same question over and over.
"So, it is just really hard for me to even ask you this question because I'm almost in disbelief," said Rep. Jim Boyd. "If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?"
Snow's response?
"We believe that any decision that's made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician."
In the Florida hearing, the same, or very similar, questions followed several times, as if the lawmakers could not believe the position advocated by Snow.
"You stated that a baby born alive on a table as a result of a botched abortion, that that decision should be left to the doctor and the family. Is that what you're saying?" asked Rep. Jose Oliva.
Snow didn't change her response.
"That decision should be between the patient and the health care provider," she said.
When one lawmaker suggested at that point the "patient" also would include the newborn, Snow responded: "That's a very good question. … I would be glad to have some more conversations with you about this."


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Wales went ahead early on with a try from a driving line-out by No 8 Jon Fox, outside half Dan Jones converting. France came back with a penalty for Franck Pourteau but some good phase play enabled prop Keagan Bale to crash over from close range, Jones' conversion taking the score to 14-3. Pourteau nicked another penalty for his side just before the break but in the second half, France were the stronger side.
Spilt ball out of a scrum on Wales' line led to a try for No 8 Antoine Jelonch, narrowing the gap to just three points. Dan Jones gave Wales a cushion with a penalty soon after but it was Frnace's second try that made the difference. From a driving line-out, replacement scrum half Artur Retieres went over on 51 minutes, replacement Anthony Belleau scoring the winning conversion.
Wales had attacking opportunities but weren't clinical enough in their execution. Lewis said: "I can't fault the players' effort and the pack were excellent. But we needed to keep possession for longer periods in crucial areas and that's what let us down in the end. It was disappointing to lose, especially from a position where we were leading but we made it easier for France."
Wales play England next Sunday at the Gnoll (March 23, 1.45pm) and Lewis believes his side will need to be more efficient if they are to come away with a result.
"The challenge next week will be even bigger, especially up front, and England will ask more of our defensive patterns too. As a group, we learn a huge amount from games like this so we are looking forward to preparing for and playing England next Sunday."
Wales Under 18 squad which played France today (Chartres) and faces England next Sunday 23 March at the Gnoll (1.45pm):
Kieron Assirratti (Blues/ Coleg y Cymoedd/ Wattstown), Keagan Bale (Dragons/ Coleg Gwent / Caerleon), Robert Lewis (Blues/ St Peters / Coleg y Cymoedd), Leon Brown (Dragons/ Newport High), Harrison Walsh (Ospreys / Bishopgore / Mumbles), Liam Belcher (Blues/ Coleg y Cymoedd / Pontypridd), Dafydd Hughes (Scarlets / Llandovery College / Llandovery), Matthew Dodd (Ospreys / Olchfa / Dunvant), Seb Davies (Blues / Coleg y Cymoedd / Pentyrch), Calum Haggett (Blues / Coleg y Cymoedd / Gilfach Goch), Josh Middleton (Scarlets / Coleg Sir Gar / Kidwelly), Tom Phillips (Scarlets / Coleg Sir Gar / Llangennech), Jon Fox (Ospreys/ Gower College / Swansea), Harrison Keddie (Dragons / Coleg Gwent / Caerleon), Josh Cole (Ospreys / Neath Port Talbot College / Tonmawr)
Backs: Michael Hale (Blues / Glantaf / St Josephs), Owen Davies (Dragons / Monmouth Boys School / Oakdale), Kieran Hardy (Scarlets / Coleg Sir Gar / Pontyberem), Thomas Williams (RGC/ Rydal Penrhos / Newtown), Dan Jones (Scarlets / Coleg Sir Gar / Carmarthen Quins), Owen Watkin (Ospreys / Bridgend College / Bryncethin), James Whittingham (Blues / Cowbridge), Morgan Williams (RGC/ Coleg Llandrillo / Caernarfon), Rhys Gealy (Ospreys / YG Gwyr / Pontarddulais), Lloyd Lewis (Dragons / Ysgol Gwynllyw), Shaun Pearce (Scarlets / Glan y Mor / Bury Port)


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Love this ad by Dice/Red Hat in an attempt to attract talent. I mean, I sure hope it's an ad, because if it's a legit bit of "news" then slashdot's standards have really fallen.
then slashdot's standards have really fallen
Since when?
It's advertisement for a Linux company.
I'd say Slashdot's standards have risen.
It's just a slashvertisement. We get these every so often. At least this one's for a respected, FOSS company. And it's a fairly transparent slashvertisement.
And it's a fairly transparent slashvertisement.
Agreed. If they're going to do that, the, "New submitter markfeffer, Senior Editor at Dice, writes [...]" part was at least an honest way to handle it.
Maybe they should add the disclaimer at the bottom like we used to have for parent and sibling companies, too.
I'd be a lot more comfortable if there was an explicit acknowledgement as an ad, for all we know timothy saw Red Hat in the title and was friends with the Dice guy so decided it would make a good submission.
Even as an ad it's kinda pointless, all it does is say Red Hat is hiring, then gives some extremely general job application advice. Why not make it interesting by mentioning something about how Red Hat differs from non-open source companies in its hiring, or giving tips on how contributors to a big project could get themselves hired to work on that project.
I do believe you that it's not an ad (I didn't think it was an ad to begin with though didn't really express that well in my post).
I admit I'm not familiar with dice.com so I just guessed you were operating as a recruiting company. If I were to offer some constructive feedback it would be this. Slashdot has an anti-corporate reflex, even Red Hat, an open source company that contributes a ton of resources to open source, gets a lot of flack. So coming in with posts designed to direct traffic to your company'
Slashdot is OWNED by Dice.
When they were running anything VA/SourceForge related, they would actually bother to flag the conflict of interest. Now they're not even bothering with that.
There are lots of ways to find people who are likely to be interested in the positions you have open: advertise in the right places, look at people who have made visible contributions, get your existing staff to recommend friends etc.. It takes time and effort and the work is commonly contracted out to headhunters by larger companies.
News coverage is the best form of advertising and lots of media are happy to cover hiring news involving large numbers from decent companies. Some readers are going to be ver
I worked for a startup at rockstar paygrade. They moved me to another country, and then decided I wasn't producing at the level of 3 people, and stranded me in the other country...
I've been out of work for a while, now.
high pay? pay AT ALL? where? when can I start?
(yes, the job market still pretty much sucks. getting better but its not an employee's market yet by any means).
(yes, the job market still pretty much sucks. getting better but its not an employee's market yet by any means).
If you're good, and you're in the Bay Area, it definitely is. Try something like putting Erlang on your linked in profile if you are having trouble.
As someone who's been involved in various stages of the hiring process, my question is, does it work?
I have been involved in hiring hundreds of people, at several different companies, and I have found that idiosyncratic hiring practices rarely help. It is much better to follow the KISS principle:
1. Screen the resumes and pick the top 10%
2. Email them and set up a phone call.
3. Chat for a few minutes, and if you like them, set up a face-to-face interview.
4. If you like them at the interview, and they can demonstrate competence, then offer them a job at the end of the interview.
I have worked for companies that did much more elaborate interviewing, including multiple interviews, lunch meetings, etc. We seldom changed our opinions after the first interview, it was time consuming, and the candidate pool was shrinking as the best people were accepting jobs elsewhere.
offer the job at the end of the interview? that happens?
rarely. RARELY! any company these days is going to do due dilligence and perhaps even the week long (or longer) 'background check'.
I'd love to meet a company who can hire on the spot. never seen it happen in my 30+ years of working in software.
Background checks using databases are an instant thing. Whatever you do past that is IMHO a waste of time.
Background checks using databases are an instant thing. Whatever you do past that is IMHO a waste of time.
Indeed. Background checks take five minutes, and an interview can take an hour or more. So you do that background check before you waste time scheduling an interview. I would never interview someone without googling them first. I also like to check Linkedin, and see if they already know someone in our company, or someone I may know in another company.
I can do better than that. My current employer hired me on the first phone contact. No face to face interview needed. Rare as it may be, there are companies out there that actually have a clue as to what it is they're looking for, and when they find it they don't play stupid games.
Staffing firm? also interviews are to be a 2 way thing not just looking for a seat filler.
I had something like that one a quick phone call from a Staffing / outsourcing firm and then a few days later a call saying why are you not in city that is like 150 miles away in the phone call they said maybe some places up to about 75 miles away. And I did not even fill out any paper work at all.
Some times when they want to hire with just a phone call it may be a scam or a body shop where it's sink of swim or at time
Extensive experience in spelunking, cave diving, labryinth design, byzantine cryptology and chinese calculus.
Must be a self starter able to absord intense criticism, derision and scrutiny.
Prior work experience in self generated realities and distorted truth dimensions a plus.
New submitter markfeffer, Senior Editor at Dice, writes
Not even trying to hide things anymore? Fail Dice ad is fail.
Congratulations to Red Hat though I definitely won't among the hires. I am uninterested.
Here's why:
Most of these tech companies require that a [new] hire remains up-to-date. This isn't the problem, though. The problem is that the costs involved are pushed to the employee. The time/energy spent is enormous. If one has little ones, it's worse.
Time came when I was absent minded, thinking about a function that just could not work properly. Exposure to newer ways of solving tasks like the one I had would have helped, but I had to foot the initial cost!! Imagine that in this economy. My company agreed to reimburse the costs if I passed, and remained with them for at least 2 more years. In the mean time, deadlines were exerting enormous pressure.
Guess what, I quit, and I am a happier fella.
Soooo most countries red hat operate in give you 2k personal training budget as well as free premium courses like RHCE etc... I'd say you can stay up to date and then some and not have it wreck your pocket
I do not, will not, customize a resume for Red Hat. The Starship Enterprise could be flying over and hiring, but they would get standard and that is that.
Those who have spent any serious time applying for jobs know that numbers matter. It is ALL a numbers game. There may be ten thousand, or maybe a hundred thousand, people who will apply for the position who technically qualify. The job market is overflowing with programmers who have "mad skillz" (and maybe even spelling skills). The odds of getting the job are very very slim and you will have taken 8 hours to customize the resume, format it perfectly, etc. It takes about 2 minutes to fire off the appropriate standard resume (I assume you've three or four standard resumes) and a marginally modified cover letter.
Assuming the probability of getting a specific job is about the same, you do the maths on which is the more productive approach.
Sure, Red Hat is a major prize, but so is the lottery. And you know how that is a really crappy investment.
If you are looking for some job, any job, this attitude may make some sense. Say, because you are unemployed or because you are truly miserable in your current position. Even with a pretty crummy employment market at the moment, this is not most people.
If you are looking for a next position, say because you have a big life change coming, want career advancement, or just plain feel like it's time for a change, this doesn't make sense at all. Spewing uncountable copies of your resume to the four winds and hoping might land you a job. If so, my guess is at some company you have no connection to, no passion for, and likely no reason but the pay check to keep going. This is not a recipe for happiness OR success in the new job.
I frankly can't imagine being willing to leave my current position for another one unless it was more than sufficiently exciting to justify customizing a resume and cover letter. Heck, the last time I did that it was for an internal transfer. Probably the next time, too. Red Hat is an excellent fit for me. Of course, I also find the whole idea of finding jobs through any form of job add rather improbable. I've literally never been hired for a job that I had seen an add for before I had talked with the hiring manager. Do people really get jobs that way in statistically significant numbers?
It doesn't have to be the choice between "8 hours to customize" and "2 minutes to fire off". I've, too, used several templates while looking for a job last year, but I also took time to write a paragraph or two for more interesting offers.
As for formatting etc.: LaTeX does a good job making the resume look good with minimal effort. Word processor would've taken much more time for similar results, that's for sure.
Not sure about where you are, but I've found that places in Tampa are generally having a hard time finding the right person. Last couple times I've hired somebody, it took months until we finally found somebody from out of town in both cases. I also recently changed jobs and heard that I was pretty much the only qualified person they talked to.
Also, there is the difference between looking for "a job" and "the job you want". I've only worked a handful of places, and I can see that the company can make a huge
Red Hat is a major prize
They're going to be like any other company.
True, but it doesn't matter what the company is like. When people look at your resume in the future, be it on paper or on LinkedIn, they notice the names. Having Big Names on your resume is significant, and anyone applying for a job involving Linux is applying for a job at a company that knows Red Hat and probably uses their enterprise products.
In the end, a resume is all smoke and mirrors anyway. Accurate, yes. Truthful, yes. But market-speak just the same. It has no relationship to your ability to do thin
You're better off not sending them your resume.
Captcha: leftists. Yup.
So it's the PHB who run the show the that means that the minimum of five years' experience and other BS like we want a masters or phd comes from non tech managers?
Having worked at Red Hat in 2 different departments, I can certainly say that this article is 100% bullshit.
Last line in the article:
"In essence, Red Hat wants to know that you're going to make a commitment to the job, not simply get a bit of experience and jump somewhere else
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RedHat takes full advantage of it's brand to sucker and lure unsuspecting and gullible people into working long hours for low pay. Everyone is overworked at the low to mid levels, management is dysfunctional, and voicing your own "ideas" is a frowned upon form of insubordination that is likely to get you blacklisted/fired.
If you want to form a real opinion about the worklife there without a bunch of marketing nonsense, take a look through the reviews on glassdoor.com: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Red-Hat-Reviews-E8868.htm
Actually this comment is a complete farce - I work at Red Hat as an 'individual contributor' pretty far down the chain and am constantly amazed by how seriously my ideas and suggestions are taken. To the contrary of getting blacklisted/fired, I've received awards for voicing my opinion in a frank manner. We are constantly encouraged to voice our opinions, as well. This is not your traditional top-down hierarchy kind of company at all; you can easily get involved in a project or work directly with people who
Keeping your mouth shut has less to do with job performance and more to do with not pissing off someone that has the power to fire you.
It's not good for business, just your career.
They have a 3.8 rating on Glassdoor....that is pretty good. Google's rating is 4.1.
How dare a Linux & open source company try to hire employees and make money! Who do they? Decadent monsters.
Earning money is not evil.
It's how you earn it and what you do with it that counts.
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