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The Orange County Fair is a traditional county fair that showcases the rural side of Orange County, CA right in the city of Costa Mesa. There are carnival rides, livestock shows and exhibits, pig races, vegetable and garden exhibits, and equestrian events. There are also home arts and crafts, local youth and adults performing, circus acts, carnival rides, motocross, demolition derby and lots of fair food. Technology is well-represented with all kinds of gadgets demonstrated and sold in the exhibit halls.
There are free concerts, magic and acrobats at various stages around the fairgrounds and ticketed sports events and concerts in the OC Arena as well as ticketed concerts at the Hangar and the Pacific Amphitheatre. Concert ticket prices include admission to the Orange County Fair.
This information was accurate at the time of publication. Please check the OC Fair website for the most current information.
Fair Details
When: July 14 - August 13, 2017, Wednesday through Sunday, closed Mondays and Tuesdays
Hours: Weekdays noon to midnight, Saturday and Sunday 11 am to midnight, closed Mon-Tues.
Where: Orange County Fairgrounds, 88 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa, CA.
Cost: General $12 Wed-Fri, $14 Sat-Sun, Seniors (60+) $7, Youth (6-12) $7, Children 5 and under, active military and veterans with ID are Free. Season Passes are available. Pre-sale tickets are available through ticketmaster.com with no service charges for print-at-home. Check Goldstar.com for discount tickets. (see below for more on Ride Tickets)
Parking: $10, $30 Pacific Amphitheatre; Free weekend offsite parking and shuttle service are available on Saturdays and Sundays from the Experian parking structure off the Bristol Street exit of the 405 freeway. The free shuttle operates from 10 am to 1 am.
Info: www.ocfair.com
OC Fair Express: Saturday and Sunday $3 admission and $2 OCTA bus fare each way from 9 Orange County locations.
Opening Day - First 3 hours, noon to 3 pm free parking and free entry.
Active Military & Veterans Get in Free - Free entry for active duty military and veterans with ID every day plus up to 6 half-price general admission tickets for family members.
Wednesdays We Care Wednesdays gives one free ticket and one free ride in exchange for donations of food, books, toys and school supplies. See the website for details. Donations are accepted until 3 pm at Blue, Yellow or Green Gates only.
Thursdays - Kids 12 and under are FREE all day. Also $3 Taste of Fair food noon to 4 pm, $30 unlimited ride wristband.
Fridays - Seniors (60+) $2 off, + free Ferris wheel and merry-go-round rides. $2 Rides and $2 Games for everyone noon to 4 pm.
Sat-Sun - 1/2 price General Admission and 1/2 price carnival rides 11 am to 1 pm, Free off-site parking with shuttle (see Parking above)
Unlimited Ride Wristbands - Wristbands are available for $30 on Wednesdays and Thursdays. They must be purchased before 5 pm and can be used until 8 pm. Includes 2 free games.
More Promotions free ride on La Grande Wheel with Pacific Amphitheatre ticket stub.
Read and Ride - Kids 5-11 can turn in two short book reports to get 3 free ride tickets. Instructions and form here. Completed book report forms can be redeemed for ride tickets at the Centennial Farm Information Booth during Fair hours. Tickets are not valid on the final weekend of the fair.
Events in the Orange County Fair Arena 2016
OC Action Sports Arena events are NOT included in fair admission. Tickets are available from Ticketmaster.com
July 14 - X-treme Freestyle Moto-X
July 15-16, Brew Hee Haw Craft Beer Roundup
July 15 - Annual Speedway Fair Derby
July 16 - Summer Fist Mixed Martial Arts
July 19-23 - Knights of Valor (medieval jousting)
July 26-30 - Monster Truck Destruction Tour: Monster Trucks and Freestyle Moto X
Aug 2 & 4 - Extreme Rodeo
Aug 3 & 5 - Broncs and Bulls
Aug 6 - Fiesta del Charro
Aug 9 & 12 - Motorhome Madness Demolition Derby
Aug 10 & 13 - Orange Crush Demolition Derby
Aug 11 - Damsels of Destruction Demolition Derby
Aug 12 - Minivan Mash-Up Demo Derby
Aug 13 - Emergency Pursuit Derby
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Summer Concert Series at Pacific Amphitheatre During the OC Fair
Tickets are available at the OC Fair box office or through Ticketmaster.com. Additional concert information is available at http://pacamp.com/pa/. check Goldstar.com for discount tickets. Pre-Fair concert-goers can return with their ticket stubs for free Fair entry.
July 4 - Symphonic Springseen with Pacific Symphony
July 8 - Steel Pulse/The Wailers/Fortunate Youth
July 9 -Steel Pulse/Common Kings/The Simpkin Project
July 12 - Kenny Loggins with the Pacific Symphony
July 13 - Dashboard Confessional/ The All American Rejects
Fair Days
July 14 - Gabriel Iglesias
July 15 - Lynyrd Skynyrd/Jeremiah Red
July 16 - Happy together Tour (The Turtles, Chuck Negron (formerly of Three Dog Night), The Association, The Cowsills, The Box Tops and The Archies)
July 19 - Retro Futura ('80s Bands The English Beat, Men Without Hats, Modern English, Paul Young, Howard Jones, Katrina of Katrina and the Waves)
July 20 - The B52s with the Pacific Symphony
July 21 - Slightly Stoopid/Iration/J Boog/ The Movement
July 22- Strangelove/Dead Man's Party
July 23 - Pepe Aguilar
July 26 - Gavin DeGraw with special guest Calum Scott
July 27 - Justin Moore/Tyler Rich
July 28 - Robert Tapia/Larry Hernandez
July 29 - Echo and the Bunnymen/Violent Femmes
July 30 -Kenny Rogers - The Final World Tour, special guest Linda Davis
Aug 2 - The Band Perry/Alice Wallace
Aug 3 - Huey Lewis and the News
Aug 4 - Colbie Caillat/Justin Young
Aug 5 - The Fab Four "
Aug 6 - Michael McDonald/Boz Scaggs
Aug 9 - Steve Miller Band/Peter Frampton
Aug 10 - The Isley Brothers/The Commodores
Aug 11 & 12 - Rebelution
Aug 13 - Jake Owen/honey County
Buy Pacific Amphitheatre Tickets
There are additional tribute band concerts and a few original acts performing at The Hangar at the OC Fair. Original non-tribute bands at the Hangar this year include Metalachi heavy metal mariachi band, Trevor Hall, The Marshal Tucker Band and Mariachi sol de Mexico.
Fun Fair from the Air - OC Fair Ride Tickets
The Orange County Fair has 35 rides in the Main Carnival and another 28 rides in the Kiddie Carnival. Full price ride tickets are 2 for $1 available on site in 10, 40, 100, and 200 ticket packages. Ticket value is loaded onto a ride pass. If you buy ride tickets online, you get more tickets for your dollars the further in advance you purchase.
Unlimited ride wristbands are available on Wednesdays and Thursdays only. They must be purchased before 5 pm and can only be used until 8 pm.
A full list of rides with height restrictions and tickets required is below for the Main Carnival and Kiddie Carnival.
Orange County Fair Main Carnival Rides
Orange County Fair Main Carnival Rides
Bookmark this page on your phone for easy access at the fair.
Rides are listed by height requirement.
Ride Name Height Requirement Tickets
Creep Show 42" 9
Dodgem 42" 12
Euroslide 42" 7
Fun Factory 42" 8
Haunted Mansion 42" 9
Surf Shack 42" 7
Zero Gravity 42" 9
Mardi Gras 42" 6
Merry-‐Go-‐Round 42" 6
Silly Seas 42" 6
The Big Top Swinger 44" 12
Alien Abduction 48" 10
Cliff Hanger 48" 10
Crazy Coaster 48" 14
Cyclone 48" 8
Disk'O 48" 10
Experience 48" 12
Flying Dutchmen 48" 10
Freestyle 48" 12
G-‐Force 48" 14
Techno Jump 48" 10
Tilt-‐A-‐Whirl 48" 9
Wild River 48" 14
Zipper 48" 10
Rave Wave 48" 14
Sky Flyer 48" 12
Mega Drop 52" 14
Remix 52" 12
Tango 54" (Solo) 14
Insanity 54" (Solo) 16
La Grande Wheel 54" (Solo) 12
Sky Ride 54" (Solo) 8
Mach 1 56"-‐75" 20
Speed 56"-‐75" 20
Flying High - Kiddie Carnival Rides at the OC Fair
Ride Name Height Requirement Tickets
Farm Tractors 32" 6
VW Bugs 32" 6
Motor Bikes 34" 6
Quad Runners 34" 6
Clown Glasshouse 36" 4
Survival Island 36" 7
Tea Cups 36" 6
Toon Town 36" 6
Up Up & Away Balloon Ride 36" 6
Wiggle Wurm 36" 6
Little Dipper 36" 7
Mini Bumper Cars 36" 7
Spider Mania 36" 6
Carousel 42" 6
Goliath Slide 42" 5
Kite Flyer 42" 7
Monster Trucks 42" 7
Pelican Splash 42" 6
Pirate's Island 42" 7
Super Slide 42" 4
Dizzy Dragon 42" (Solo) 6
Rockin' Tug 42" (Solo) 6
Traffic Jam 44" 6
#16 Wheel 48" 8
Bumble Bees 48" 7
Cobra Coaster 48" 8
Silver Streak 48" 7
Sky Ride 54" (Solo) 8
Over-the-Top Fair Food
The Krispy Kreme Chicken Ice Cream Sandwich, the S'moreo Texas Donut - topped with chocolate drizzle, Oreo cookie crumble, graham cracker crumbs and marshmallow cream, and the giant Mexican Churro Funnel Cake are just a few of the decadent, artery clogging delights you'll find at the Orange County Fair. Other treats include deep-fried octopus on a stick, grilled pig legs, chicken in a waffle on a stick, French toast bacon bombs, bacon Nutella pickles, pork belly bacon dogs, bacon-wrapped Brussles sprouts or asparagus and the deep fried pizza log, to name just a few.
Looking for something a little healthier? Chicken and veggie kebabs, corn on the cob or pineapple shrimp are pretty safe bets.
Pig Races
The Alaskan Pig Races are scheduled multiple times per day at the Orange County Fair.
Peking Acrobats
Aside from the paid concert tickets, there is tons of free entertainment on multiple indoor and outdoor stages at the Orange County Fair. Country, Americana, magic, acrobats, karaoke, livestock shows and races and strolling performers provide entertainment every way you turn. The Peking Acrobats pictured here are a favorite. Look for other circus acts and more on the free entertainment schedule.
Straight Shooter - Carnival Games at the OC Fair
There are dozens of carnival games to try your chances at winning prizes big and small. Make sure there's room in your car before you try for that giant stuffed animal!
Look kids, food grows on plants!
At the Orange County Fair, there are lots of opportunities to learn about how food grows and how you can grow your own food plants at home.
Pumpkin Patch
Youth and adults compete in all kinds of growing and making categories at the Orange County Fair.
Animal Encounters at the Orange County Fair
They may have done away with the livestock competitions, but not the livestock. There are plenty of opportunities to visit, pet or even feed farm animals in the livestock exhibits at Centennial Farm at the Orange County Fair.
Milking Demonstration
No milk maids here! You can watch a modern milking demonstration with live cows in the Millennium Barn at the Orange County Fair, or try your hand at milking a cow replica.
Exhibit Halls at the Orange County Fair
You can shop for everything from fresh fudge and spices to kitchenware, beds, window treatments and fine jewelry at the Orange County Fair. You never know what new wonder you will find being demonstrated in the exhibit halls.


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It's a little difficult to get a blog episode out when there's a largish dog begging for your attention. The dog in question is Chiquita, our newest resident. Chiquita's owner died suddenly and the ol' gal was was looking for a new home.
She may be the sweetest-tempered dog I've ever met, happy to see anyone. She didn't bark at repair men and delivery guys today, even though she's starting to get the feel of her new territory.
The first thing we did when we got home was give her a bath; she's been living outside for the last few weeks. She put up with the water and shampoo stoically, but we missed a few spots.
People over in Facebookland have been asking for pictures, so here for your delight are a few snaps. (You can click to see them larger.)
We had bought a package of rawhide bones for her; after she showed no interest in a tennis ball we gave her one of those. She walked around with it for a while, relaxed in the shade with it firmly between her teeth, but never chewed it. After a while, she found a corner of the yard and buried it. In the second photo she's pushing more dirt on top of the burial site. Of course I've heard about dogs burying bones, but I've never seen it before.
As you can see our new doormat could stand to shed a few pounds. Her hip stiffens up and stairs are particularly difficult for her. We'll be putting he on a diet.

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Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Ticket 42: Have A Unique Concept For The Song
If no one else has ever written a song about 'that', or from that angle, it will cover a multitude of songwriting sins. Unfortunately being totally original is quite hard...
Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!
Her Majesty
I Am The Walrus
Octopus's Garden
Yellow Submarine
Why Don't We Do It In The Road
Curl (Jonathan Coulton)
Free Nelson Mandela (The Special A.K.A.)
Glad To Be Gay (Tom Robinson Band)
I'm Your Moon (Jonathan Coulton)
Killing Me Softly With His Song (Roberta Flack)
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Sherman/Sherman)
See also
Ticket 49: Employ Madrigalism
Ticket 54: Unify Your Lyrical Imagery/Extended Metaphor
Ticket 61: Don't Bore Us, Get To The Weirdness
Ticket 64: Try Writing For Kids
Ticket 66: Write An 'Occasional' Song
See the full list of songwriting tips here - Tickets To Write
Posted by Matt Blick at 13:06
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Now, how should I put this? I knew that Christ's teachings are full of paradoxes. I do take them seriously, but have never really sat down and reflected on them. Until that one fine evening last year when the hymn "Lord, We Touch You Today" was sung during the Mass, the chorus stirred my peaceful spirit.
Here's how the chorus goes:
To live is to die, and to laugh is to cry
To live is to love with all our heart
To live is to walk and to talk in your love
And to live, is to sing in your love
(The hymn ends at 2:16. This is the best video I can find on YouTube.)
I've been singing this hymn for at least a thousand times throughout the years and yet, I only realised it that very day that I did not really understand the words of the chorus! Oh dear. What have I been doing all these years?
One of the youth leaders I know used to put it very bluntly that while the world tells us that we should live our lives to the fullest of our ability, Christ tells us that we must die everyday. The world sounds more promising and "life-giving" instead, eh?
It was Jesus who said it, "For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it" (Mt 16:25). Putting it in layman's language - if I strive to live and make myself happy and comfortable, I would lose it despite the effort put in; but if I generously give my life away for Christ's sake, I will gain life instead. Isn't that quite confusing and mind-boggling? (Ouch, my brain's hurting!)
What Jesus really meant is that, it is through dying to our self that we may receive life eternal. Therefore, "to live is to die."
Perhaps, if we just think about these paradoxes given by Jesus, they somehow do make some sense.
Without sorrow (to cry), do we know what joy (to laugh) really is?
Without love, is it still worthwhile to live?
Without death on the Cross, would there be Resurrection?
Without lowering ourselves, how can we expect to be lifted up?
Without taking up our own crosses, can we still follow Christ who has never promised us an easy life as a follower of His?
Without the heart of a servant, can a leader identify himself with his/her subordinates and thus lead them effectively?
Without giving away what we have, how can we receive anything when both our hands and hearts are full?
So the list goes on and on...
What a mystery, but our faith is built exactly on these paradoxes of Christ. Lighting Rod said it well, that "Christian paradoxes reveal deeper wisdom. Self sacrifice helps us to better appreciate the gift we have been given, and suffering gives us the opportunity to strengthen our wills and to become more Christlike."
Perhaps - just perhaps - God purposely leaves these mysteries with us to keep us wondering and searching, so that on the day we finally see Him face to face and when these mysteries are unravelled, we would experience that everlasting joy and glory He has promised, which is now far beyond the human minds and hearts can grasp.
"The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness." ~ Pope Benedict XVI


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If you are on an outdoor trip of a few days you will need something like Deuter ACT Lite 65 10 backpack. Since you are reading this, you must be familiar with backpacking and you surely know this. You will be happy for having every extra cubic centimeter which this great pack provides.
This is a trekking tool for several days' trip, too big if you are out for one day only. For such shorter adventures, Deuter has smaller versions from the same ACT Lite series. See below some of its basic features.
- Product name: Deuter ACT Lite 65+10 Hiking Backpack
- Amazon price: $209.00 – $234.99 (check the links for updates).
- Place to buy: Amazon.
Basic features
This rucksack has typical Deuter features which include: mesh side pockets, a bottom compartment for light stuff like sleeping bag, the main big compartment, anatomically shaped aluminum internal X-frame, which provides a great rigidity and transfers the weight down to the hip.
Here are some detailed specifications:
- Total volume: 75 L;
- Torso: 15-21 in (38-53 cm);
- Listed Weight: 3 lb 15 oz (1760 g);
- Measured Weight: 4 lb 2 oz (1870 g);
- Dimensions: 31.5 in x 14 in x 12.5 in (80 cm x 36 cm x 31.75 cm);
- Material: Ripstop 210 & Duratex Lite;
- Carrying Capacity: 45 lb (20 kg);
- Compartments: 2;
- Ice Ax Loops;
- Hydration Sleeve and Tube Exit;
- Interior pockets: 1;
- Exterior pockets: 5;
- Adjustable shoulder harness;
- Rain cover and detachable day pack are available options.
There exists a SL (slim line) version for women, with a shorter torso, with a more narrow space between shoulders harnesses.
The pack has pockets on the hip belt, on both sides. The sternum strap is stretchy, adjustable (movable up and down). There is a sleeve which can be extended up and this gives +10 liters of volume.
Do not forget: check free returns conditions when you purchase the backpack on Amazon.
When you open the lower compartment zip, you will see a divider between the two spaces, with a double zip. So this can be used to get into the main compartment space as well, or to transform the interior into a single huge compartment.
My only reason for not giving the rate 10 is the bottom compartment zip, you can see it on the right. It is a semicircle loop and sometimes it can be annoying to close it and to open it (at least in the case of my own quite old pack). You will this also in the video below, at 7:07. But this is a feature which you will see on practically any type and any brand on the market.
The main compartment is quite big, top-loading, and it contains a hydration sleeve at the back, for a 3 L bladder. The compartment is closed by two drawstring cords with locks, at two different levels, the upper one is at the top of the extendible sleeve (this is what gives extra 10 L volume).
There is a large 28 cm mesh pocket above the lower compartment, with a short strap and buckle to secure it to the pack. There are two mesh pockets, 15 cm, on both sides at the level of the lower compartment. Two loops for ice-axe are on the bottom, two 10-cm cord loops with cord locks higher up. There are 4 more cord loops on the top external pocket. There are several compression straps as well.
The Deuter ACT Lite 65+10 pack is waterproofed inside.
This is a relatively big backpack, so you should know how to properly load it. Use the lower compartment for lighter but bulky stuff, like your sleeping bag. Heavier items, like crampons etc., should be at the bottom of your upper compartment. In such a way they will be above your belt, good for balance and good for your knees.
Take care that your load lifters are properly positioned. Ideally, they should be at some 45 degrees. If they are not tight enough the backpack will hang too far off, not good for balance. If they are too tight, they lift shoulder straps off. See it properly done in the picture here on the right.
But note, this angle will depend on your torso length as compared to the distance between the hip belt to the point where the lifter is attached. In other words, it will depend on the size of the backpack. So experiment a bit and find out what suits you best.
See here a nice presentation of this pack, a SL version (suitable for women):
So why Deuter? What is Deuter?
Deuter is a German brand of bags and backpacks, founded in 1898 in Augsburg.
I myself have been using one Deuter backpack in the past 12 years. Yes, you are reading correctly, almost all the mountains described in this site I have climbed carrying my Deuter which you may see in the photo right.
It is perhaps showing a bit of age, but I doubt that I shall need yet another one in this life. My own backpack came with the rain cover, stored in the pocket on the bottom, and it has an expandable top lid, which is good enough even if I stay outdoor overnight.
I just came from El Teide mountain, climbed it for the 5th time. Can you guess what I have been having on my back?
It is good to know that these backpacks have been around since 1898. All started with Hans Deuter when he got an order to make the Bavarian Post Office's postal bags. So this is a brand that has stood the test of time, it provides reliable German products of a top quality.
A good alternative from the same brand: Deuter Aircontact 65 10 backpack
- Place to buy: Amazon.com.
Dimensions: 11.02 x 15.75 x 33.07 inches (84 x 40 x 28 cm).
- Capacity: 65 liters (note, there is expandable top just like in the previous model, hence +10 in its name).
- Colors: Midnight / Ocean.
- Weight: 6 lbs / 2.71 kg.
- VariFlex pivoting hip belt, anatomically shaped.
- Detachable rain cover.
- Anatomically shaped aluminum internal X frame.
- U-shape opening on the back side, for an extra access to the pack; this feature you do not have in the previous model.
- The air ventilation system is a bit different from the first model above, and you will be able to see it in the video below.
Customer reviews for this item are simply wonderful, see some statements below, which I find particularly important:
"My back stayed remarkably cool in the 103-degree temperatures in the bottom of the canyon due to the featured "Aircontact" harness system."
"The hip belt pivots, my first experience with this feature, and it did very well, allowing for a more natural walking motion. "
"I went out for 3 days camping with my Deuter completely full and it was like I had a feather on my back".
See here a nice YouTube video about Deuter Aircontact 65 10 backpack:
I hope you find this text useful. Both items presented here, Deuter Act Lite 65 10 backpack, and Deuter Aircontact 65 10 backpack, are top class items from a reliable manufacturer. You will love it.
Please note that in 2018, Deuter has launched a new Aircontact Lite series, so see this Aircontact Lite 65 + 10 pack.
Please leave your comment in the box below. I shall be happy to read it and to answer any question. Thank you.


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AI & Statistics 2017
Registration, Hotel and Visa Information
Poster/Talk Instructions
Key Dates
Past Meetings
AISTATS 2017 Sponsors
The above are listed by amount sponsored (and alphabetically within).
Call for Sponsors
All sponsorship queries must be directed to the sponsorship chair, Alekh Agarwal [email@example.com].
The speakers and participants at AISTATS traditionally number some of the most prestigious researchers in the above fields, together with their students and the most promising young talent. We invite contributions from your organization to sponsor AISTATS 2017. Sponsorship brings with it the following key benefits:
Direct outreach to experts from industry and academia
Disbursal of merchandise, information brochures, souvenirs
Special recognition within the community
Direct outreach to top quality students and young researchers
To help determine the level of contribution, we welcome sponsorship at 4 different levels. Sponsorship provides funds that help ensure the success of the conference. It is also an effective means of advertisement throughout the international machine learning community. The majority of contributions support registration and travel costs for students and young researchers.
All sponsorship levels include recognition on the conference website, including a logo and link of your choice, company logo on the conference program, 1 full conference registration (including the conference banquet), and poster board space during the evening poster sessions (2- 3 evenings).
$3K Bronze
Logo + Link on the conference website
1 full conference registration (including the conference banquet)
Posterboard space during evening poster sessions (2-3 evenings)
$5K Silver
Bronze Sponsor benefits
1 additional conference registrations (including the conference banquet)
Sponsorship of coffee breaks (includes listing in program, registration, plus posterboard space during breaks)
$7K Gold
Bronze Sponsor benefits
2 additional full conference registrations (including the conference banquet)
Sponsorship of best paper award OR keynote session
$10K Platinum
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3 additional full conference registrations (including the conference banquet)
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The Revolution Will Be Digital
The election of Donald Trump, a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobe, to the highest office in the land was about so much more than our country's presidential choice. His contentious win revealed, for the world to see, the fault lines in America's struggle to live up to the ideals on which it was founded—for all people, not just those who have traditionally held power. In the digital space, the election results, and the conversations being had about it, also made crystal clear for influencers of color and those in the LGBTQ, Muslim, and disabled communities just who our allies are and, more importantly, how we need to flex our collective muscle to affect change.
We have watched as organizations cashed in on our reach and influence to bring in revenue, all while remaining silent to our suffering. Their actions mirror America's tradition of undervaluing the work and contribution of people in the margins—an undervaluing that is one of the hallmarks of systemic oppression, racism, sexism, homophobia and hate extended to anyone who does not fit into the tiny, exclusive box occupied by our country's president-elect and the majority of his supporters. Indeed, the Social Media Marketing and Digital Influencer arenas are microcosms of our society's larger problem.
Instead of disrupting the system to treat influencers of color with the same dignity and value of our white counterparts, these organizations have all-too-often embraced inequity and inequality, refusing to hold the digital community accountable for reckless communication, decisions and actions that negatively impact influencers in the margins. We, in turn, have felt the pressure to silence our voices in order to maintain the income we need to provide for our families. All-too-often, we have settled—for less pay, for inadequate representation, for slick talk by our digital counterparts—convincing ourselves to be grateful for even the most half-hearted attempts at inclusion.
In our own digital homes, we speak out against injustices toward our people and try our best to provide a safe space to our readers and followers. We fight with every written piece, with every social media post, with every Tweet, with every status update and video, to create a space of our own. We people of color have always done the work—often to the detriment of our families and ourselves.
We will no longer stand silent in the larger digital space. We stand united, willing to risk our livelihood if need be, to demand change. We demand the larger digital community join us in raising our voices on issues concerning the oppression of Black, Latinx, LGBTQ, disabled individuals, non-Christians and all other humans who are in the margins.
We stand together sober-minded. We stand together, settling no more. We stand together, demanding real, measurable changes. We stand together, asking that you pledge to join us in this work.
We demand that all conferences, summits, and organizations that cater to the digital community create safe spaces for those of us on the margins to be respected and heard. Those spaces should be supportive, inclusive, and reflective of those of us in the margins. Any conference, summit, etc., that does not support women in general and women of color specifically, will be publicly boycotted and deemed a part of the problem.
Supporting one another has always been a priority, but we are vowing today to spend our dollars in our communities first, in order to move the work forward and help each other reap the financial benefits we deserve. We expect our allies to pledge to support our work, as we do theirs.
Regardless of our niche or expertise, we vow to always speak of injustices when it rears its ugly head: racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism. We must name the beast before it can be slayed and, in order to do that, we will move out of our comfortable spaces knowing that we have each other's backs.
We are our sister's keeper. Supporting one another emotionally will be key as we move forward in this work of dismantling systemic racism and the wheels of oppression that have been turning for far too long.
Our work will not be done in silence. It will not be done in a silo. This work will be done out loud, in the digital spaces we have created, flowing freely from our online homes into the physical spaces we occupy.
We will do it together.
I will stand with influencers of color as they work to dismantle systemic racism and oppression through their mediums.
If I'm an influencer, I pledge to consider how the use of my platform by 3rd parties will impact my community first. I pledge to stand in solidarity with fellow influencers of color by reaffirming their voice. I pledge to participate in conferences that do their due diligence to present diverse speakers and sessions.
A'Driane Nieves
Amber Dorsey
Amiyrah Martin
Brandi Riley
Brittany Minor
Chantilly Patiño
Christie Glascoe
Christine Koh
Denene Millner
Erica Alcox
Faiqa Khan
Jai Correa
Jasmine Banks
Keka Araujo
Kelly Wickham Hurst
Lucrecer Braxton
Luvvie Ajayi
Ruby Wright
Sili M. Recio
Stefania Pomponi
Xenia Galaviz
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Professor Jacqueline Rose explores the push and pull of resistance from politics across literature, feminism and psychoanalysis.
Resistance must surely be one of the most appealing, seductive words in our political lexicon.
Never more so than today in a political moment which seems to many to bear all the signs of a fascist resurgence as the election of Donald Trump, Brexit in the UK, the tightening grip of President Erdogan in Turkey, the clamp down on dissent in Hungary, the military dictatorship in Egypt, the smudging of Holocaust memory by the (mercifully unelected) Marine Le Pen in France – to name just a few instances – all seem to feed off, and intensify, a cruel, self-serving, racist, nationalism that is darkening the political skies
When Trump repeated 'America first' in his inauguration address, he may or may not have been aware that this was the clarion call of the Americans who had opposed US intervention into the Second World War, most famously Charles Lindbergh whose anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi sympathies were clear for all to see. In such moments, resistance starts to feel, not just like an obligation, or necessity, but as the only means of survival, the only means of assuaging political grief. For the millions who poured onto the streets in protest at Trump's election, for all those who are continuing to organise across the world in the face of rampant inequality and injustice, resistance becomes, however perilous, the only way to breathe.
Resistance is also exhilarating, ramped up by its own confrontation with despair. Following the riots against then French President Nicholas Sarkozy in 2007, the protest group the Invisible Committee, launched their pamphlet on The Coming Insurrection: "From whatever angle you approach it, the present offers no way out. This is not the least of its virtues". Resistance can take on the aura of the sacred, notably with reference to Resistance to Hitler – the only version of resistance which, with its capital R, is seen to merit the status of a proper name. And it can be the object of intense longing (as in sehnsucht or yearning, which was one of Rosa Luxemburg's favourite terms). "This word," writes Jacques Derrida with reference to the French Resistance, "which first resonated in my desire and imagination as the most beautiful word in the politics and history of my country."
If resistance is so powerful as an idea, it might also be because it is one of the rare words in our political discourse that contains at its core an acknowledgement of how difficult, as a state of being in the world, it is to achieve and maintain.
Paradoxically, the possibility of being quelled feeds the urgency of resistance.
Janus-faced it turns to a better future, while remaining alert, in every passing moment, to the possibility that it might fail. This is one reason why Howard Caygill subtitles his 2013 book on resistance 'A Philosophy of Defiance'. Resistance by definition includes the recognition that, whatever it struggles for, the powers-that-be will do everything they humanly, and inhumanly, can to resist in turn. Not for nothing do we talk of crushing resistance. Think of the modern-day manhunt which cuts down the enemy with no legal process or possible path of escape, reducing its targets from human to prey: the Indian Government's explicitly named 'Operation Green Hunt' against Indian tribal peoples, Obama's drones.
Resistance both enacts, and provokes in response, a desperate refusal to comply.
We do not diminish resistance as a concept if we say that it embodies an adolescent spirit, provided we add, as the feminist psychoanalytic thinker Julia Kristeva reminds us, that adolescence is the moment when the human mind first takes the measure of its own scope, when it discovers what it means in life to be propelled by an ideal. Resistance is the political term in which, whatever the dangers, we lodge our better selves for safe-keeping.
But resistance also has another aspect which is perhaps less often talked about. And that is its capacity to stir up the undercurrents of a political moment which the dominant order would prefer to hide from our sight. Resistance fighters will often appeal to the idea of self-sacrifice in a cause for which they will willingly give their lives. But they can also play on a more uncanny musical chord, as for example in the case of the mid-1990s Mexican Zapatista Liberation Movement which drew its moral authority from claiming to speak on behalf of the 'resistant dead': "Everything for everyone says our dead. Until this is true there will be nothing for us." Note how radically counterintuitive and therefore powerful is their claim. The resistant dead arrive as ghosts on the scene to issue their call for social equality and redistribution of wealth, that is, for a form of inclusiveness – 'everything for everyone' – to remedy the flagrant iniquities of an unjust, discriminatory world. It is through the dead that the Zapatistas make their appeal to the universal dimension, death as the great equaliser that flies in the face of society's most ruthless and violently defended distinctions (the distinction between rich and poor being the most glaring).
Here, literature – one of our primary sites for the expression of resistance – also has a key role to play. In the final volume of Philip Pulman's famous trilogy, His Dark Materials, the main protagonist, Lyra, and her companions manage to gain access to the world of the dead. "The rich ones are the worst," says the boatman who ferries them across to the island, "snarling and savage and cursing me, railing and screaming: what did I think I was? Hadn't they gathered and saved all the gold they could garner? Wouldn't I take some now, to put them back ashore? They'd have the law on me… they fall silent in the end." The Zapatista's resistance may be death-defiant but it is also through the voices of the dead that they give us a glimpse of utopia, of a truly equal world. Resisting the given order of things as drummed into us on a daily basis, such a world would expose flagrant wealth for what it truly is: not just corrupt but, in the final hour, impotent and destitute.
We might call this the psychic undercurrent of resistance, that is, its ability to tap into our inner worlds. Resistance does not just belong on the streets, but in the heart where it often finds itself at odds with our most fervent aspirations to make the world, to make the mind's domain, a better place. For the earliest psychoanalysts, resistance referred to the rejection by polite society of the most troubling discoveries of psychoanalysis itself: the perversions of the soul, the sexual transgressions of the psyche, the violence inside each and every one of us which we always prefer to think is the exclusive property of somebody else. "We are only sorry," wrote psychoanalyst and novelist Arnold Zweig to Freud in 1930 in response to one of his mentor's more pessimistic moments, "that you do not feel that so vital, dynamic and revolutionary a principle as yours, once launched upon the world, will continue to be effective, until it has finally overcome all the blunt resistance the world can offer." Psychoanalysis, as revolutionary impetus against the norm, felt itself besieged. As, indeed, it turned out to be. According to one story, when the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, it was the old man in Vienna that Hitler had foremost in his sights (the Nazis burnt Freud's books).
By the end of his life's work, the idea of resistance darkens in Freud's mind as it creeps into the consulting room, where it proves to be more and more obdurate, the chief obstacle to the task of psychoanalysis itself. Famously, resistance is often seen as psychoanalysis's best tool in deflecting criticism ('you are resisting!'). But Freud was talking about something else: more like an inertia in the human mind – he called it the death drive – which stalks our efforts at self-knowledge and blights our struggle to transform ourselves. "The 'inner world'," wrote the analyst Joan Riviere in the 1950s, "encounters a two-fold resistance": an incapacity to understand it, but more important, a passionate emotional rejection beyond the scope of reason. The mind resists knowledge. There are things we prefer not to think about. This version of resistance also resonates profoundly in today's abject political world. The politics of fear exploited by so many leaders expertly plays on what the mind rebuffs and feels it has to protect itself against. In the recent UK Brexit referendum, 'Take Back Control,' a slogan targeted above all at migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, was the mantra on both sides.
It is perhaps for this reason that in the field of resistance, artistic, literary and cultural activity, as celebrated in many of the pieces that follow here, has such a key role to play. One example from literary writing resonates especially powerfully on the complexity of our theme. The Armed Forces Special Powers Act passed by Nehru's government in 1958 against the secessionist Nagalese is generally recognised as the most sanguinary single piece of repressive legislation of any modern liberal democratic state. Out of the tragedy that followed – the licensed destruction of villages, the rapes and the killing – the Nagalese Resistance emerged, celebrated by the writer Temsula Ao in her 2006 collection of stories, These Hills Called Home – Stories from a War Zone. Ao does not flinch from describing the worst of what took place, alongside the acts of courage, often by women who were also the foremost targets of the government-sanctioned viciousness. But at the same time, she does not shy away from describing in no less intimate detail the violence of the Resistance fighters themselves (it is central to Caygill's argument that resistance, most often embedded in scenarios of war, gets caught in a spiral of violence). There is a tendency to idealise resistance, and for good reason, but that should not lead us, Ao's stories suggest, to shutting down the question of the human price paid for those who fight on its side. Remember Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth which opens with his call for insurrectionary violence and ends with his psychiatric case-studies of the deep inner torment suffered by fighters and government officials during the Algerian war, the victims and perpetrators of torture alike.
One of Temsula Ao's stories, An Old Man Remembers, opens with a former freedom fighter resisting his grandson's pleas to tell the story of his life in the jungle. Crippled by his own refusal to remember, he finally speaks the truth in what can only be described as a 'talking cure': "as though an ancient attic door had suddenly become unhinged and all the accumulated junk of a lifetime had come tumbling out of dusty storage spaces, threatening to engulf him". When he starts to speak it is like "the massive gush of a waterfall that threatened to drown both storyteller and listener". The story he did not want to tell is of his own lost innocence, of one particular act of violence which as a young boy he had committed with his companion against enemy combatants, whose bloody, lifeless bodies they both felt the following morning that they must return to see – out of a sense of guilt but also of shared humanity. In a single stroke, Ao takes her reader from outer to inner landscape, condensing onto the same page the political and psychic meanings of resistance. She is instructing the champions of a brutally oppressed people (resistance as uprising) to remember the worst of who they came to be (resistance as the agonies of self-knowledge, as inner psychic reckoning and pain).
As psychoanalysis also teaches us, not only individuals but also the group can be in flight from memory. Over the past two years, students in South Africa have risen up against the still present colonial heritage, the continuing racism and inequality of the post-apartheid world. While garnering widespread support, their protests have also, as I discovered during a recent visit, been met with anger and dismay – they were meant to be the 'born-frees' no longer stricken with the past iniquities of their land. Instead, by raising their voices, they are claiming their place in a history that has not gone away. We should be thankful to them for reminding us of the power of resistance to uncover the unconscious of a nation.
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The block is considered to be a five patch as it is designed on a 5 x 5 grid, but the construction is done as an uneven nine patch.
Since "Starlight" is part of the name of this quilt block, I chose to make the background fabric dark, to represent the night sky. However, your colour choice may be the opposite and that is fine too.
One sample quilt illustrated, is set with the blocks side by side, separated by sashing of the same colour as the background fabric. This gives the effect of the blocks floating. The second quilt is set on point, also with sashing which gives the impression of framing the quilt blocks. There is no end to the possibilities of how to set the blocks for your quilt to make a totally different look. Enjoy!


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There are two sides to personal responsibility.
Personal responsibility has been a favorite catch-phrase of mine since I started teaching at my current school. It has helped me have higher expectations of my students and helped me be a better person. It is all about taking responsibility for one's actions and choices.
As a society, I think we've decreased in the amount of personal responsibility we expect people to take. We allow others to get away with excuses rather than demanding that they live up to requirements or their word. Think about how refreshing it is when someone accepts responsibility.
At the same time, I've come to realize that environment does impact an individual's ability to thrive. Perhaps this is best described as the difference between excuses and reasons.
It is important for individuals to take responsibility for their choices and actions. At the same time, it is our responsibility to cut people some slack in ways that are appropriate - to help the individual cope with their situation. This emphatically does not mean lowering our expectations.
For example, if I have a student who is having family trouble. I shouldn't accept sub-par work, nor should I allow the student to slack on turning work in. On the other hand, I can offer additional time in cases where it wasn't possible to complete the work for family-related reasons. Or offer additional help outside of class if the parents aren't there to offer guidance.
All things being equal, we should treat everyone the same. But of course, all things aren't equal. The trick is to help students develop their sense of personal responsibility while not simultaneously holding them responsible for things that aren't theirs. Maybe that goes for the adults in our lives, too.
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Junior Achievement (JA) of the Cape Fear Region is an organization that brings business education to our local schools. Volunteers from the business community work with organizers and teachers to deliver hands-on programs that teach the key concepts of work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy to young students - starting in Kindergarten!
JA is currently conducting a fundraiser raffle for a week-long stay at a Wrightsville Beach Oceanfront House. The house is being donated for the week by the owner (with no connection to HHW) and we thought this could be a great chance for families and friends to experience the beauty of Wrightsville Beach while donating to a great cause!
The drawing for the raffle will be this Friday, 3/18/11. The cost of the tickets is $10 for 1 ticket or $25 for three. The oceanfront house is a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom house with great amenities including off-street parking for 4 vehicles. The house is available during selected weeks between September 15th and April 15th (except Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and Easter).
For full details and to donate to JA for your raffle tickets, please visit http://www.jacarolinas.org/donatetocapefear.
If it turns out that you're not the lucky winner, give us a call to discuss real estate options in Wrightsville Beach, including primary residence, vacation home, or investment property for oceanfront, soundfront, or private neighborhoods: 800-852-1605.
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Capricorn Forecast for 2019
For you, 2019 is a crossover year. A crossover between the past, present and future, that is. Saturn returned to Capricorn in December 2017 and having spent the whole of 2018 here, will also spend the whole of 2019 here, not leaving until December 2020. Yet Jupiter's return to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart in November, also means that you have reached the last full year of a 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion, with one major cycle still in its early years and another in its final year. It is on 3rd December that Jupiter will return to Capricorn and with Pluto here from 2008 to 2024, this will begin your most powerful year in a lifetime. For you, 2020 is the year that everything until now has been leading up to and everything from then will lead on from.
In 2019 you are still preparing, with a chance to first bring your current 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion home. This means there will be time during the year when you need time out to hear yourself think. Yet Jupiter is the planet of luck and expansion, so when you do spend time navel gazing this is likely to have fortunate ramifications, with your imagination and mind inspired. The year begins, as it always does, with the Sun in Capricorn, with your new solar and calendar years always starting at the same time. A solar eclipse on 6th January will give you a chance to commit to this new solar year, the future and the journey ahead. The reason for that solar eclipse is that you have the South Node in Capricorn and therefore the North Node in your relationship sector.
As well as determining where the eclipses will fall this year, with a total solar eclipse in your relationship sector on 3rd July and a lunar eclipse in Capricorn on 17th July, the lunar nodes will also police a balance between your personal and relationship needs. The North Node promises major new beginnings on the relationship front this year, with the six weeks leading up to a solar eclipse on 3rd July and the four weeks after, especially auspicious. Fortunately, there is support from the communication gods from the get go and throughout the year. For while this is an important relationship year, there is also a need to remain true to yourself. This is also an important year for home and family matters, especially in the first two months of the year and then to a slightly lesser degree for the next few months. Matters of the heart and all things fun, playful, romantic and creative also get a boost in February and March, one they will retain all year.


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How to craft the perfect instructional video for social media
We've now discussed how to create effective event and testimonial videos. In this article, we'll explore how to create the instructional video, which is probably the most scalable form of social media video content. It's not bound by the frequency of events or the availability of a testimonial subject (although you may want to feature an outside expert as explained below). Social media in general is a great forum to provide support and the instructional video can be a great tool that helps your customers better use your products.
Instruction options
Any IT related product has an inherent opportunity for the creation of instructional videos. Most software products, whether on web, mobile, or desktop, have many features that customers either aren't aware of or aren't familiar with how to use in an optimal way. Creating a series of instructional videos with one video per feature or function is a great way of creating interesting video content that really helps your customers.
For physical goods products, there are a lot of instructional video topics that can stem from how to use the product. For example, cosmetics have an unending instructional video opportunity that can teach people how to look great. The best thing about instructional videos is that they afford you a chance to give customers useful information while featuring what your products can do in a way that directly drives sales.
Selecting the steps
The key to figuring out what to film in an instructional video starts with breaking down your instructions into steps. That said, not every single step in an instructional video needs its own isolated video shot -- this could make the process overly time consuming and result in a video that is needlessly pedantic.
Video is a visual medium, so the perfect video is filled with interesting shots with movement. If you're talking about a software feature, think about the best looking screen. Skip showing literal shots of basic steps like "log into your account." The video host can still speak to these steps, but limiting how much literal illustration renders the video easier to make and better to watch.
Filming the steps
The actual steps should be about 10 to 15 seconds of footage, with each video clip corresponding to one key step. Try to show that step a few times in one shot or slowly in one shot so you have plenty of timing flexibility when lining up the shot with future narration.
If the product is a physical goods product, filming the steps in context is important to help the viewer relate to how they would use the products themselves. If the product is an IT product, there are great tools to capture screen videos. For example, QuickTime for the Mac is free and can make screen video recordings. When capturing the screen, try to grab a rectangle of footage in the 16:9 "widescreen" video shape (analogous to what you see on a widescreen TV or in a movie theater). This footage will most likely be incorporated and played on a 16:9 widescreen video player -- such as what you see on YouTube -- so you want to use the video canvas space efficiently and minimize pillar boxing (which is what happens when you try to put a horizontal smart phone video into a 16:9 video player -- unattractive black bars on the left and right sides).
Giving the instructions
There is a reason why the highest converting videos on the top ecommerce video sites feature on-camera talent, so avoid voiceover-only videos if possible. In an instructional video, you can communicate the heart behind your advice -- in other words, your desire for your customers to learn something helpful can come across on camera. An instructional video also gives your executives a chance to demonstrate their expertise and credibility, which in turn helps build credibility for your company and products.
When filming the instructional segment, try to keep the entire video to 45 seconds or less. This means that the instructions should be very focused on one specific feature or tip, instead of a long form training exercise. The shorter length makes the video faster to make and easier to watch and digest for the viewer.
Once again, follow general video best practices such as using a low cost lavalier mic with your mobile phone, keeping the camera steady for this main shot, and being sensitive to keeping a strong light source (such as a window) behind you so that your subject has clean, shadow-free light on their face.
Some of the most scalable instructional videos involve instruction video segments filmed with a webcam, where the social media marketer can explain the processes themselves. Webcams as well need a lot of light, so positioning a laptop with a webcam such that you're face is looking out a window (and the laptop's "back" is to the window) will maximize the light on your face. Remember to keep the energy up and present a friendly demeanor to lift the engagement of your audience and send the right underlying customer service message.
By combining a quick tip on camera with key, visually interesting supporting shots, you can entertain, inform, and help your customers on a regular basis through your social media channels with great looking instructional videos.
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The Promotion and Development Sector is a part of the Rectorate and consists of the following Offices.
|Cordinator of the Section
Marisa Labiri
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|Promotion and Development Sector Support
Antigoni Georgiou
Office Administrator
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The Alumni Relations Office is devoted to the support of programs and activities of the University of Cyprus which are designed, developed and implemented in order to create and enhance long term and mutually beneficial relations between our higher academic institution and its alumni.
The role of the Alumni Relations Office is twofold. On one hand it supports the University regarding the activities that concern the alumni and on the other hand, it serves as a liaison between the alumni and the University.
It is in essence a communication mean between the alumni and the University administration, the academics and the administration staff. Our constant effort is to keep the alumni up-to-date as regards the activities, the goals and the University philosophy so that there can be on their behalf a constant connection and contribution to the Institution.
Marisa Labiri
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University Officer
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The Communication Office is responsible for all the central University´s promotional activities such as Press Releases and Press Conferences. It works closely with the Media providing information on the Institution, while it actively promotes the research conducted by the academic personnel and has impact on society.
The Communication Office is also responsible, amongst others, for, the daily press, the weekly e-news letter, the e-events diary, the bi-monthly events diary, the List of Experts, the PR website and the branding of of the University of Cyprus.
|Katerina Nikolaidou Pietroni,
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|Fotini Panayi,
Communication Officer
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The Event Office is responsible for organizing, coordinating, promoting and presenting the central events of the University of Cyprus. Here are some indicative examples of the events organized:
- Annual Lecture in memory of Ntinos Leventis
- Celebration of Letters
- Common Celebration of the National Anniversaries of 25th of March and 1st of April
- Lectures for and against a particular topic (Logos and Antilogos)
- Nomination of Honorary Doctorates and
- The Graduation Ceremonies
Moreover in collaboration with several Municipalities of Cyprus, as well as with representatives of the Greek – Cypriot community in Great Britain, the Events Office organizes a number of established lectures entitled «Free Universities». The lectures are comprehensible and open to the public. They give the opportunity to the society to get informed for several subjects of general interest.
Furthermore, the Events Office is responsible for organizing ad hoc events, in which the participants are personalities that have an academic background or come from the wider political and social space in Cyprus and abroad.
|Doxa Komodromou,
University Officer
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|Eleana Miltiadous,
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A fun way to practice your etudes is to add a drum beat. If you know someone who can make up an accompaniment it's even better. Have fun with this tip and enjoy watching us play Berbiguier #10.
The video below is with the flute intro.
Since school is starting all over the US, there will be a lot of new flutists entering beginner band. A lot of times, band classes can be overcrowded which will leave some students with a lot of questions. Over the years I have created videos with quick tips and reminders for beginner flutists. Bookmark my website and keep an eye out for my tutorial videos like How to get a Sound out of the Flute, How to put the Flute Together, etc. Send me an email if you have a specific question.
This video is a quick guide on how to put a flute together without damaging it. Enjoy!
Since school is starting all over the US, there will be a lot of new flutists entering beginner band. A lot of times, band classes can be overcrowded which will leave some students with a lot of questions. Over the years I have created videos with quick tips and reminders for beginner flutists. Bookmark my website and keep an eye out for my tutorial videos like How to get a Sound out of the Flute, How to put the Flute Together, etc. Send me an email if you have a specific question.
This video is a quick guide to where to place the fingers on the flute and how to hold the flute. Enjoy!
Since school is starting all over the US, there will be a lot of new flutists entering beginner band. A lot of times, band classes can be overcrowded which will leave some students with a lot of questions. Over the years I have created videos with quick tips and reminders for beginner flutists. Bookmark my website and keep an eye out for my tutorial videos like How to get a Sound out of the Flute, How to put the Flute Together, etc. Send me an email if you have a specific question.
This video is a quick guide on how to make a sound out of a flute. Enjoy!
Shopping for a beginner flute? Check out this video on my favorite beginner flute. Of course I'm selling Pearl flutes on my website, but feel free to follow this link to read about all my recommended flute brands, even those I'm not selling.
Email me if you have any questions.
It's that time of year where rising 6th graders are deciding what instrument they want to learn in middle school and probably have a lot of questions.
My first advice is choose carefully! It would be a good idea to try as many different instruments as you can before you decide which one is the best fit for you. Some music stores or music schools will have a day when you can try out all the different types of instruments. Look for some instrument petting zoos near you. UNCSA Community Music School is having an open house August 13th and will have an instrument petting zoo available.
Once you have picked the instrument you want to learn, be sure to do some research in order to find out the best brands for beginner level instruments. You want an instrument that is well made and receives positive reviews. If you choose to study the flute, then you can use my Recommended Flutes web page to help kick start your research. I'm proud to say that I'm now a vendor for my favorite student model flute, Pearl Flutes, and I can offer the lowest price on a brand new Pearl Flute with free shipping in the US.
Good luck instrument shopping!!
There's an ear verses eye phenomenon going on in the music world and I have been lucky enough to experience both. My ear is still developing and may never be as strong as the folk musicians I play with, but being a trained classical musician working with folk musicians has, I believe, made me a stronger musician and especially a stronger teacher. I've always been very observant with how my students' brains develop through the stages of learning how to play the flute. There are stages they go through when reading music and similar stages they go through when learning how to play by ear but there are certain road blocks with each as well. Over the next week I hope to devote a lot of time to touching upon this subject and therefore enlightening my readers on this subject and as a result I'm hoping this will explain why they may be faced with certain roadblocks. I hope to also explain why we may have ended up with these two types of musicians and why one type should be more understanding of the other and to understand the limitations of each.
First let me explain the value in learning how to read music. Some of my students are naturally drawn to learning how to read music and some are more drawn to learning music with their ear. When I can tell they are more suited to reading music I have no trouble in teaching them this technique because it is very useful in many situations. When I teach a student to read I explain to them it's like reading a manual for a project and if they don't know how to follow the manual's instructions then they won't end up with the final results they were looking for. We've all been there, like when we buy a product at a store that needs assembling and if we think we know what we're doing and don't follow the instructions exactly then we're not always happy with the results. There are a lot of details in reading music that have to be followed exactly, for example, writing the accidentals before the notes and not after. You have to be consistent with everything because eventually you want the brain to process what's on the page very quickly; the job of a classical musician is to play many different performances in a year and to be able to put their part with everyone else's part (everyone else can include hundreds of people) with as few rehearsals as possible and sometimes with no rehearsal. Learning how to read music is a very efficient way to be able to play anything at any given moment as long as what is to be played has been written on manuscript the way a classically trained musician has been trained to interpret it.
When you are taught to read music, your brain learns to use what the eyes sees on a page and connect it to what the fingers are doing on the instrument. The more you practice this technique the quicker this process becomes. I have seen some of the greatest musicians read extremely difficult music for the first time and make it sound like they have played it over and over. But just because you can read music doesn't mean you can hear something and play it back. This style of learning a piece (learning by ear) has to be developed separately. It's like if you always practiced hopping on the left foot your entire life and then you were expected to hop on the right just as well…. it won't happen. Likewise, if you read a piece over and over and expect to eventually have it memorized by doing this, it won't happen or if it does it's only because your playing the piece as if you were reading the music which isn't very reliable. To truly be able to memorize a piece without the fear of forgetting where you are in the piece or that you might play the wrong note somewhere, it's best to develop a good ear that can hear a tune and repeat it.
Music theory is such an important part of music education, yet a lot of teachers avoid teaching the fundamentals and just teach what a student needs in order to play the next piece they need to learn. I've had students hire me simply so I can play their pieces for them so they can hear what it sounds like, this (they tell me) is how they were taught. I can't teach that way! A student is better off learning all their scales; chromatic, major, all 3 minors, all the modes of every scale, the whole tone scales, arpeggios, etc. It sounds difficult, but it's not. In fact when I give my students lesson #1, they are amazed how much more simple it is. It's like someone has just turned on the lights and most are ready for more. Here's a run down of that first lesson…
You will need a keyboard or a picture of a keyboard and you will need to be able to locate C on this keyboard.
Here's a link to a picture of one that is labeled.
Notice that all the white keys are labeled C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C and the black keys have 2 note names, one is a sharp name and the other is a flat name, (the black keys have two names because a sharp symbol raises a note by a half step and a flat symbol lowers a note by a half step. Since the pitches of two white keys with a black key between them is a whole step apart then raising the lower note by a half step and lowering the higher note by a half step makes them meet in the middle. Sometimes a key will have to be called by it's flat name if you're in a key using flats and other times it will need to be called by it's sharp name if you're in a key using sharps; this is needed in order to avoid using a note name more than once). Now let's count the keys from C to B (in other words, don't count C twice). There are 7 white keys and 5 black keys for a total of 12. All the keys are a 1/2 step away from one another so if you play C,C#/Db,D,D#/Eb,E,F,F#/Gb,G,G#/Ab,A,A#/Bb,B, then you have just played all the pitches in a chromatic scale within 1 octave (technically you would have to include C for it to be an octave but I think it's important for my students to understand that there are only 12 different pitches in music).
I start all my students off with one octave of the chromatic and once they realize there are only 12 notes then they don't feel so overwhelmed. The flute is a little more than a 3 octave instrument and a lot of the notes in each octave have similar fingerings so it's not long after they learn one octave on the flute that they are on the second octave and the third octave takes a little more time because of the changes in fingering.
The Major Scale
Once you understand that all major scales are made up of the same combination of whole steps and half steps then learning all 12 major scales becomes so easy. Several of my students have displayed frustration from never been told the pattern earlier. They feel like their previous teachers had no faith in them to learn all 12 majors. They explain to me that they are taught one scale at a time and it takes years to learn 6 when I have taught them 12 in less than 30 mins. Here goes….
C major is what everyone knows as "the easy scale", it's made up of all natural keys; in other words, it's all the white keys starting on C and ending on C.
Now take a look at the keyboard and notice the placement of black keys between the white keys from C to C. First there are two sets of black keys then three. Since all neighboring keys are half steps then the two white keys that are side by side, with no black key between them, are half steps. If the white keys have a black key between them then they are whole steps (two halves equal a whole). Now see if you can figure out the pattern of whole steps and half steps in a major scale. If you figured out two whole steps, then a half step, then three whole steps, then a half, then you got it right. In other words…. whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step. Using this pattern you can build a total of 12 unique major scales since there are 12 unique pitches within an octave. It's pretty easy to do on a keyboard since you can see the whole steps and half steps. Try building all 12 scales on the keyboard and then try it on your own instrument. When you have to play a whole step on your own instrument, you have to have a grasp of the chromatic scale so you know which note to skip and then which note you play next.
Naming the Major Scales and the notes within them.
A common problem my students have is not being sure what to call some of the scales, for example C# or Db. They are both the same note so what is the name of the scale? Well you go with the one with the least accidentals. When you build a C# major scale, you will end up with 7 sharps but if you call it Db major then you will have only 5 flats so it's a Db major scale. Every white key has a sharp (half a step higher) and a flat (half a step lower) pitch, C has a C# and a Cb, D has a D# and a Db, E has an E# sharp and Eb etc. Sometimes the half step higher or lower might be another white key so B for instance can also be called a Cb, F might be called E# etc. The following video demonstrates this on a keyboard.
In a scale you have to use all 7 note names once and cannot repeat them so a C# scale will have a C#,D#,E#,F#,G#,A#,B#,C#. Look at those notes on a keyboard, a C# is also a Db, a D# is also an Eb, an E# is also an F, an F# is also a Gb, a G# is also an Ab, an A# is also a Bb, a B# is also a C, and a C# is also a Db. This tells you that a Db major scale is Db, Eb, F, Gb, Ab, Bb, C, Db. This scale has 5 flats and 2 naturals so we call this scale a Db major scale instead of C# major. Now try building the major scale starting on D. The first note is a D so the next note will have to be some kind of E whether it's Eb, E or E#; then the next note is some kind of F, then G, then A, then B, then C then back to D. Have fun with your scale building! I hope this has helped!!


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Make Your Business More Effecient and Productive with this To-Do List
For the past few years, everyone - from housewives to businessmen - started to create To-do lists on a daily basis. Checklists are everywhere now- you can create them at work, plan your leisure time by creating a list, or you can use your record keeper to list your goals for the next year. Not long ago, psychologists got interested in this popular trend and studied how these lists affect not only our productivity but also our mood and lifestyle. As a result, they discovered the rules of perfect To-do lists and explained how poorly written lists can make you even more lazy. By following these easy tips with Zip Checklist you can learn how to avoid creating useless lists that instead of helping you only increase procrastination.
How Your To-Do Lists Make You Less Productive?
Do you remember a day which you started with a long list of tasks? You were very productive and crossed the items off your list one by one the whole day. However, by the end of it, you discovered that you spent your whole day doing small things that didn't really matter. Your big goals stayed untouched, but you were busy and worked hard the whole day. Does it sound familiar?
This is when creating a list using your record keeping software is just another way to avoid serious tasks that you can't finish in a matter of minutes. Procrastination in society is getting worse and scientists now tend to blame not only Web-surfing, TV, cellphones, and video games, but also a trend of creating to-do lists.
When you begin with a wrong list, you just put important tasks aside focusing on easy and pleasant tasks instead. On the surface, you look quite busy and focused. But in fact, you just avoid the hard tasks and create a feeling that you are productive to fool everyone around, including you. How to change your old habits and start creating useful lists? Zip Checklist, the premium record keeper for managers and entrepreneurs, knows the answers.
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Make a Flow Chart
Create a list that tells you when to start and when you'll be finished. This piece of advice from life coach Neil Fiore, author of The Now Habit, helped thousands of businessmen already, since it teaches you that each item on the list should have a priority assigned to it. Then try this- spend a few hours on a number-one priority item, and then you can "reward" yourself by doing something easier and lower-priority.
Break It Down
Make it easier for you to accomplish everyday goals by breaking them down into much smaller parts composed of specific activities. When you also list specific actions and subgoals, you make your list longer, but much easier to understand.
Stay Focused
Lists created with your record keeper help you to maintain focus. If you are a person who can be easily distracted, set a timer and stay concentrated on the task for one hour straight without checking your Facebook feed, texting your partner, etc. Then, you can take a break, relax, and set a timer again. This works like a charm and help you to finally get everything done.
Now, when you know that there is a right way and a wrong way to do a list of tasks, you can start using your employee record keeping app in the most effective way possible. To achieve better results, all you need is to plan wisely and stay focused on work. Zip Checklist, your new favorite record organizing app, can help you with everything else.
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Importance of Plumbing Services
If you to get the help form the expert, plumbing services are good for you in doing the right.Cases of the pipes that are leaking can be well handled by the plumbers who have the skills for doing such.You will have the best way to be having you're the repairing and maintenance done within your line of interest as you use the plumbing systems.The customers will have to get all the installations done so that they will have all the work done.
You get to be carded from this efficient way of being served by all those services which needs to be offered to you.Let to hire the services to be offered to you in case you come across any of the services which are not god for you.In that time you have to hire the services then you will be satisfied in having all the mistakes done.This will be of great interest if at all you need some help in your entire life.
Installing of the device will be made easy if you let the plumber to do it.If you apply for the services is one of the best decision you will manage to make as you will be taking all you need.By getting the expert, you will efficiently active the best during the repair as you may take all you will be in need to get.
You will get to be encouraged to meet all that you demand, so that you meet in doing all you could wish to meet in your life.This will bring all the plans which you have to fulfil upon having the best repair and maintenance of your pipes.It will somehow be good to you if you are after getting the nice person who will help to bring the success which will favor you.
Their services are always available at any of the time you could need in your whole life as you continue to do what you will fell to work for you.The best will come over to you given you have such considered as you will be in for the idea to get the nice done to you within the time you are in for it.The services will be serving you for the long time possible thus making all you need working for you as you could wish it to be.Hire the right expert who can fix all the problems you could have if you need the success.


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A construction worker was seriously injured Friday when he fell at least 40 feet at the problem-plagued Bank of America tower across from Bryant Park.
The worker, identified only as a 43-year-old man, was installing a wall panel with two other workers on a scaffold when a plank apparently broke, officials said.
Fellow hardhats said he was not wearing a safety harness.
An ambulance rushed the victim from the 54-story, glass-clad building at Sixth Ave. and 42nd St. to St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan.
His condition could not be immediately determined, but witnesses said he was conscious and complaining that he could not feel his legs.
The other two workers were not seriously injured, officials said.
Hardhat badly hurt in 40-ft. fall in midtown
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Construction worker falls from dangerous worksite
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A week before Thanksgiving, Harvard College's Working Group on Diversity and Inclusion released a long-awaited report assessing whether all of the College's students "benefit equally" from Harvard's educational and residential environment. The report represents a significant work of institutional introspection: Its overview of peer institutions' policies on inclusion and its identification of ways in which Harvard currently fails to live up to its own aspirations make its specific short-term recommendations ripe for serious consideration. Perhaps even more crucial are the longer-term questions the report poses for future reforms of residential living, academic departments, and administrative offices. These structural ideas should serve as a basis for the College to address more deeply embedded issues surrounding identity and ensure the continued fulfillment of its promises of inclusion.
A particular strength of the report is its focus on practical changes that have the potential to immediately improve the College's environment. One of the working group's proposals, implemented last year, was the elimination of specific lines for Student Events Fund tickets, which had created a stigma around eligible students. Implementing more such ideas mentioned in the report would help to eliminate the "unnecessary markers of social distinction" that can interfere with building an inclusive community. The report's immediate academic recommendations are similarly targeted. Clearer academic pathways for students from different backgrounds, better resources for underrepresented students, and a more intuitive listing of courses that directly address diversity are all relatively simple initiatives that would ensure that Harvard's academic life is in concert with its institutional philosophy.
While immediate changes represent a key facet of the report, they must not overshadow the longer-term questions in the document's final pages. These issues will provoke harder conversations, but represent an equally pressing area of attention. In residential life, housemasters must address what the report identifies as "the lack of clear policies…and consistency across houses." Academic departments must continually revisit the role of diversity in their fields and the ways in which hiring, mentoring, and advising may reinforce existing disparities. And administrators must investigate seriously the working group's contention that the current structure of diversity and inclusion offices requires "streamlining" and reform. Moreover, the University must continue to discuss and revisit each of these issues moving forward.
The report, however, is not without flaws: Though understandably focused on racial and socioeconomic diversity, it should have done more to address issues surrounding gender identity, sexual orientation, and, particularly, ability. While the report mentions all these elements to varying degrees, more focus on specific areas of reform would have been welcome. This concern is especially germane for people with disabilities, given Harvard's long-term challenges with accessibility.
Despite this issue, the Working Group's report is a laudable call to action for all members of the University community. As the report quotes Harvard law professor Randall L. Kennedy, "Harvard, too, has been indelibly scarred by slavery, exclusion, segregation, and other forms of racist oppression," to say nothing of other kinds of oppression. Put simply, the Harvard bubble has never been closed off from the problems of the wider world. With an eye towards both the report's long-term and short-term proposals, the current generation of Harvard students, faculty, and administrators can move our institution closer to the aspirational goals that to which its mission commits us.
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CMRL recruitment 2018 notification has been released on official website www.chennaimetrorail.org for the recruitment of 01 (one) for Asst. Manager/Dy. Manager/Manager (Finance & Accounts) vacancy. Walk-in-Interview 20th January 2018.
Advertisement Number:- CMRL/HR/12/2017
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|Chennai Metro Rail Limited
|Post Name
|Asst. Manager/Dy. Manager/Manager
|No of vacancies
|Job location
|Chennai (Tamil Nadu)
|Official website
|Interview date
|20th January 2018
Here on this page you will get the details like the Name of vacancies released by CMRL with exact number of posts. Some other criteria like Education details, application fee and way to apply application for CMRL recruitment 2018.
CMRL recruitment vacancy details
You need to check the eligibility criteria carefully before applying the application form for any post, if your profile is not matching with requirement then kindly do not apply as your application form will not be approved.
|Post Name
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|Salary Details
|Asst. Manager/Dy. Manager/Manager (Finance & Accounts)
|Rs. 40000 – 80000/-
CMRL 2018 eligibility criteria
Educational Qualification: Must be a Chartered Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of India or Cost Accountant and member of Institute of Cost Accountant of India with relevant post qualification experience.
Age Limit: 38 years as on 27.12.2017
Nationality: Applicants should be:
- a citizen of India, or
Note: Check the official notification to get detailed information regarding eligibility criteria.
CMRL 2018 Selection process
The candidate's selection will be happening as per the below process.
- Walk-in-Interview
CMRL application fee 2018
Fee charges: No Fee
CMRL application form 2018
Interested and eligible aspirants can attend the interview with along with duly filled in application form in prescribed format supported by bio-data, one set of self-attested copies of certificate of educational qualification, age, experience, community and latest passport size photograph & original certificates for verification on 20.01.2018.
Venue: CMRL Depot, Admin Building, Poonamallee High Road, Koyambedu, Chennai – 600107
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Welcome to New Mark CommonsWe are a quiet, secluded neighborhood located within the city limits of Rockville, Maryland.
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Ideally located near I-270 and Town Center, New Mark Commons was incorporated in 1967 and has 384 homes, including 186 Single Family Units and 198 Townhouses.
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Well here I go again, always seem to be starting again. Tomorrow is my first day taking Duromine 30g, am hoping that it will help kick me along, have read so many good stories on here about people taking it, although my doctor has told me that it does not work for everyone. At least I know that my blood pressure is normal, and for someone my weight that is really good. Going to a shopping centre later to weigh, went to the one I used to go to last year, and they have removed their scales. I am thinking I am around 150kgs, and at 165cm is morbidly obese. I am a 51 year old woman, married with 4 adult children and one beautiful grandchild. I am doing this again for me, my husband and I want to travel more now, and lugging myself around is a struggle, feet and ankles ache and so do legs and back, get really puffed out going up stairs and am so slow coming down that I hold people up behind me.
Please help me with my journey, and I will encourage and support you as well.
Will post again when I have finished my first day and know my exact weight so that I can get a ticker going.


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Kentucky VA Streamline Refinance Guidelines
- The Kentucky VA streamline refinance is fairly simple when compared to qualifying for a VA loan in Kentucky.
- The VA does not require an appraisal, credit information, or underwriting, but your VA approved lender may require these.
- It is possible to roll your closing costs into your Kentucky VA streamline refinance – meaning you will be required to bring zero money to closing.
- With the kentucky VA streamline, your new monthly payment must be lower than the previous loan's monthly payment, unless you are refinancing an adjustable rate mortgage or the new loan term is less than the old one.
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- The VA streamline allows for a fixed rate or variable rate mortgage.
- With the VA streamline, you can finance energy efficient improvements into your loan, up to $6000.
- No cash out is allowed with the Kentucky VA streamline refinance.
- You must be current on your existing VA mortgage and not have had more than one 30-day late mortgage payment within the past 12 months.
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The reality of organizations today is that everything is changing faster than ever before. Everyone is doing more with less and in this fast paced and chaotic world communication breaks down, people are on edge and relationships suffer.
The most successful leaders recognize they not only need to understand their employees but they need to understand themselves if they are to maximize everyone's abilities. It's not enough just to be technically and intellectually competent. Leaders today need to know how to deal with their emotions to communicate effectively, get the best out of their people and negotiate the day to day challenges.
The most important "e-term" you may learn in 2019 is Emotional Intelligence. Emotional Intelligence brings a new demension to understanding and evaluating what is intelligent behavior. Broadly speaking Emotional Intelligence addresses the emotional, personal, social, and survival dimensions of intelligence, which are often more important for daily functioning than the more mental aspects of intelligence. It is the less cognitive part of intelligence and is concerned with understanding oneself and others, relating to people, and adapting to and coping with the immediate surroundings. Emotional, personal, and social intelligence helps predict success because it reflects how a person applies knowledge of a more personal and interpersonal nature to the immediate situation. It measures a person's ability to get along in the world.
Experts say that Emotional Intelligence can make or break careers and elevate leadership to higher levels of success.
As a leader, understanding and evaluating your own Emotional Intelligence will enable you to: Persuade, motivate and influence others to get things done Understand your emotions and influence the emotions of others in a positive way Overcome the causes of difficult behaviors in others Regulate your emotions to keep in control … how to alleviate anger/tension Use empathy the right way Communicate in a constructive way that does not cause anger, resentment, or hurt Improve your relationships with your people
In short, Emotional Intelligence is synonymous with good leadership. Identifying and nurturing Emotional Intelligence skills are essential to organizational success.
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Great cheeses
We happen to be out in the regional market Syracuse New York buying some mother's day flowers and some vegetables for ourselves. When walking down to the market we noticed the great layout of all the different cheeses. We ended up buying some New York State cheddar, some smokey Swiss, and some cheese curds. We were amazed at how great the taste is. They do have a site online which is simply http://www.buttercupcheese.com/ if you like to take a look at the cheeses. They can be shipped to you.