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this season and it's likely some weeks, even if I do, I'll need to keep them on the short side. All of which is to say, here's some quick thoughts on Season 5's second episode!Paige's situation just keeps getting more complicated in more compelling ways. The discovery that she's distraught enough to be sleeping in her closet sometimes was heartbreaking – but of course Philip and Elizabeth barely had time to worry about that once Stan revealed he'd noticed something was wrong with her.
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I loved the demented Americans version of "the sex talk" Philip and Elizabeth then had with Paige. Which wasn't, "Make sure you're ready" or, "Be sure and use protection," but basically, "Don't tell him we're Russian spies." Paige in the meantime denied that she and Matthew were having sex, after a scene that seemed to imply they were about to. But perhaps the show is leaving that moment (and her decision) a private one - and hell, Paige deserves some privacy at this point.
A great transition in this episode was Stan asking if Paige was okay cutting to Paige training to fight with Elizabeth – a very visceral underlining that no, Stan, no she isn't.
So… who else thinks Stan's new potential love interest Renee could be a spy? The fact that she's played by a notable guest star (The Walking Dead's Laurie Holden) and Stan telling Philip "she's like a female you" both had me wondering. Especially in an episode that once more showed just how skilled Philip is at acting casual and buddy-buddy with Stan.
Stan trying so hard to stop Oleg from being pulled back in by the US government was a great storyline for him. The two may have been connected by their mutual love of Nina (and Stan may have fears of that relationship causing problems) but his insistence that Oleg was a good guy who should be left alone also felt genuine. The fact that they not only ignored him but even used his name to connect to Oleg was terrible to see unfold.
Lastly… wow on Elizabeth and those bugs that helped give this episode its title! The way she stayed so calm in the face of such a horrific scenario was an awesome display of just how well trained she is. Keri Russell was terrific showing this calmness take over in the moment and then her disgust/fear unloading later as she took that shower.
The situation with the Jennings and the Beemans has been a powder keg since The Americans began, but it's never been more dangerous (and thus exciting) than it is now – even while the two families are closer than ever. Meanwhile, we're learning how Oleg's story is in fact tied back to Stan (and why it's worth still following Oleg's story), as much as Stan wishes it weren't.
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It's time once again for the weekly roundtable discussion for the blog. Up this week: Writing for art vs. writing to sell. Art vs. Commerce. Creativity for creation's sake or creativity for the sake of making a living wage.
Have both sides been incited enough yet by that lead-in? Good. Let the discussion commence.
Is there a difference between writing for art and writing to sell? What is it (or what are they)?
Richard Lee Byers: I supposed that writing purely for art would mean that the writer was creating purely for his own enjoyment or to express a personal vision and was sublimely indifferent to the possibility of making any money off his work. Whereas writing purely to sell would mean that the writer only cared about money and was indifferent to self-expression and the possibility of creating something of real quality or lasting value.
Fan fiction writers and certain bloggers may represent that first hypothetical type of writer. But I have seldom if ever met a professional or aspiring professional fiction writer who could be fairly characterized as a pure example of the second. Even if we care a lot about the commercial potential of our work, we still take pride in our craftsmanship, and we still tell stories that interest us and allow us to on some level express things that matter to us. If we weren't going to do that, we probably wouldn't have gone into the profession in the first place.
Terri Smiles: I consider books written with the primary purpose of making money to contain less commentary on society or what it is to be human. That is not to say that books that include such "deeper" themes can't become commercial successes, but rather that the author had points to make or at least questions for the readers to think about, in addition to a romping story.
Marian Allan: There isn't NECESSARILY a difference. Shakespeare wrote for the market, after all. Writing for art is putting your heart and mind into it; writing to sell is hoping for the best.
Frank Fradella: There are, in my mind, three stages in being a writer. There's the hobbyist, who likes to write, who gets pleasing feedback from friends and family and who's entire "career" may never progress past Live Journal and an entry in a Poetry.com anthology. These are people who often say, "You know, I had an idea for a novel..." and never actually write it. If you are very, very lucky, this is the stage where Harlan Ellison slaps you across the face and tells you to go be a plumber instead AND YOU GO BE A PLUMBER INSTEAD.
Past that, there's the craft. This is where the words come out of you intentionally, with deliberation. Where the countless hours spent reading better writers is starting to rub off on you and you realize there's an honest-to-goodness craft at work here; that nothing happens by accident. This is the stage where you study and understand structure and character and motivation and develop your own style. You write, and you write a lot. Not all of it is very good. Much of it stinks. You greet the praise of friends and family with skepticism. It's nice, but you'd rather get that reaction from a respected peer.
Finally, the craft turns a corner and becomes a profession. You write stories that matter to you, but you write them in such a way that resonate with other people. You learn how to pitch and write queries and you get paying work that puts food on the table and gas in the tank. You now spend more time marketing your work than you do writing it. (This, in my mind, is where we separate the talented amateur from the true professional.)
Iscah: You may be a little more free to experiment with writing for arts sake and writing for sales sake. But writing to sell is also writing to communicate, to share a story, and there's a high degree of art to doing that well. Being intelligible doesn't make you less of an artist. You don't have to push the boundaries of them medium to write a good book, though there are certainly times you can do both.
Percival Constantine: I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. If you write a book or a story, why wouldn't you want to be compensated for your hard work? The way I would differentiate it is forcing yourself to write in a genre you don't like just because it's popular. As an example, I'm not a fan of erotica, so if I wrote in erotica just to make a quick buck, I think that would be a betrayal of the art side of things.
Corrina Lawson: In the initial stages, no, because the only guarantee you have when you write is to amuse/enjoy yourself. After a draft, it may needed to be tweaked or altered a bit for the market.
Lance Stahlberg: I confess I'm having trouble understanding the question. How can there be a distinction? So I guess the answer is "No." Not in my mind.
"Writing for Art" without any desire to sell is still writing.
"Writing to sell" cannot be done without also paying attention to the art or the craft. If you don't legitimately enjoy what you are writing, if you don't take care to enough to craft a well told story or put your own artistic voice into the work, you will not engage readers, and thus won't sell.
Even when you look at the most infamous example of godawful writing that sold a gazillion copies and got a movie deal in the mommy porn market, that started as &q uot;art" in the writer's mind. By all accounts, it was written as fanfiction, purely for enjoyment. It was the publisher who made it into a blockbuster through crazy marketing tactics. Trying to replicate that with the intent of becoming a commercial success is a stupid way to try to hit the lottery.
Lee Houston Jr.: Your questions are certainly intriguing, but I honestly don't know if I can answer them individually. So just give me a moment to hop up on my soap box and I'll tell you how I feel about writing. I write because I love to create. I have been an avid reader as far back as I can remember, and that (in part) has inspired me to tell my own tales.
Whether or not I'm successful is hard to say. People do read my work and (hopefully) want more.
I'm certainly not getting rich writing, and if that was my only goal, I may have given up a long time ago. I do want to reach a point where I can financially support myself writing, but I'm referring more to maintaining the basics of life like keeping a roof over my head and the bills paid than any desire for exotic vacations or a fancy house. Yet when it comes to writing, I'm doing what I love and love what I'm doing. So from that perspective, then I am definitely successful.
Jack Wallen: I think there is – very much. Why? Those that write to sell write what sells and that can become very calculated. Those that write for art, write to honor the craft and the word. That is not to say one cannot write what sells while still honoring your art, but most often writing to sell can quickly lead to selling out your art. It's the same thing we see in the music industry (over and over again). Band write music that comes from their soul until they get a taste of success. At that point the temptation is very great to write for the audience with the most influence over the industry. How many times do you hear an author say something like "I could write romance, but...". We do that because we know romance sells. I don't do that because I don't want to take time away from what I love – horror.
Why do writers tend to divide into camps and support one over the other? Aren't both needed?
Terri Smiles: I don't know why writer's divide themselves. I want people to read. ALL readers are good readers, no matter what their preference - and they writers to produce what they want to read.
Marian Allan: People are bilaterally symmetrical, aren't we? We love to divide things into this or that, these or those, yin and yang. So writers divide into pantsers and plotters, literary and commercial, artists and craftsmen. With writing, what you do and how you do it is actually somewhere on a continuum, and you might shift position depending on the project. Why do we choose up sides? Because it gives us something to argue about over beer.
Shelby Vick: Part of the problem here is, I feel, deciding the difference between writing for art and writing for money. The latter, I feel, is a goal most writers appreciate; who doesn't like money? But the former suggests that 'creating' and 'style' would be the main objective. Or is that a description of the art of writing? Whatever it may be, I feel most writers write because they have the drive to do so. I have written since I learned to put a pencil to paper and form words. Many of the writers I know are the same, and have a compulsion to write. Some train that compulsion so they can actually sell what they write.
Jack Wallen: I think this is simple – writers that write to sell have decided it's the only way to see their "brand" as a business. I am a full-time, stay at home writer. I do not treat this as a business. This is an art that happens to make me a living. From my perspective, the second I dishonor my craft and turn it into nothing more than a product to consumer I remote the art from the results. That would spell doom for my words and worlds.
I often wonder what my idol, Clive Barker, would have become had he treated his written words as a commodity. I can't imagine the likes of Imajica would ever have been penned. That would be a travesty.
Richard Lee Byers: Personally, I'm not acquainted with many writers who intrinsically support one over the other since, as my previous answer implied, most working writers see this as kind of a false dichotomy to begin with.
Sometimes writers succumb to the temptation to take public potshots at others who are far more successful even though, in the detractor's view, their work is not very good. But this happens because envy is the spiritual malady to which writers are most prone. That same critic will almost invariably hold other highly commercial writers in high esteem.
Iscah: I think writers tend to support things that reflect what they themselves do. I support both, but I admit to getting annoyed when writers think writing is all about their own expression and reader experience isn't a critical part of making something sellable or even enjoyable.
Percival Constantine: Both absolutely are needed. I think a lot of the division comes from the starving artist stereotype. There's this myth that if you write for money, you're betraying the artform and are a sell-out, which I think absolutely needs to be dispelled. If you're only writing for the sake of art and feel that money shouldn't be part of the equation, then why are you selling books in the first place as opposed to giving them away for free?
Corrina Lawson: I've no idea why writers or other creative types do this. Creative people need to eat. This is an art but it's also a job.
Frank Fradella: The conversation of "art vs. commerce" is an internal dialogue. It's a mental shift. It doesn't come from the audience. You can deviate from what's come before all you want, but you better be good enough to pull it off. That's the only reason why guys like Neil Gaiman and David Mack became such game changers in comics. It's not that you CAN'T go against the grain and bring new art into the world, but only a craftsman who's turned the corner and made it a profession can do it for a living.
Lance Stahlberg: I had no idea that they did. Anyone who thinks in terms of "Writing to sell" clearly does not get it.
Of course once you get into publishing your work, you start to think in terms of what market to target and how to reach them. But you write the story first, then you figure out how to get people to read it. Not the other way around. Even that's the wrong approach. You don't treat them separately at all. You do both concurrently.
Starting with the question "How can I sell a million copies to X market" before you&# 39;ve typed a word is a recipe for disaster. You make an interesting character. You pit them against an interesting conflict that follows a plot that you think people will enjoy. That's art. And that's marketing. Favoring one concept over the other is nonsense. To me, they are one in the same. If you focus too hard on appealing to readers, you are dooming yourself. It is impossible to please everyone. Don't bother. But if you think "to hell with what other people like" and write only what you like... well maybe you'll still have a commercial success on your hands without realizing it. More likely, it'll suck and won't sell. But you won't care. Because you're an arteest and above such things.
What advice do you have for writers pursuing a living wage in art?
Iscah: Nearly every career field allows for opportunities where artistic skills can enhance what you do. So don't think you have to be a full time artist to make art. Drawing, writing, dancing as a career is a labor of love, but it's still labor. What's fun for a few hours make not be fun 9 to 5. So I advise only attempting a career in the arts if it's something you passionately love doing. Otherwise pursue something more stable so you can continue to enjoy art as a hobby.
You could write whole books answering 3 and/or 4. The advice is more specific depending on what field of art you want to pursue. But quitting the day job is exactly what some people need to do... Or more accurately, making it your day job.
Percival Constantine: If your goal is to make a living wage, then the first thing you have to do is get rid of this imaginary divide between art and commerce. Stories are an artform, whether it's books, movies, TV, comics, games, whatever, and people pay money for them all the time, and your story is no different. Write the story, make it as good as you can, and then get out there and sell it, whether you're selling it to an agent, a publisher, a studio, or directly to your customers. Then repeat the process again. Also, learn about whatever industry you're trying to make a living in. If you have the attitude of "I'm an artist and don't want to be bothered with the commercial side of things," then your chances of making a living wage will drastically decrease. You can't separate yourself from the commercial side and expect to be successful.
Corrina Lawson: Money brings choices. Create a secondary skill that will support your creative work and then you can make a real choice between art and writing to sell. the eldest son wants to pursue screenwriting but is also interested in accounting. My advice: learn that, use it to bring in income so creative choices aren't based on "I need that $500 to buy groceries."
If you mean commercialism as marketing, I certainly want my readers to know when the next release of whatever I have created is available.
All the projects I have done so far have either been for the sheer joy of writing or the creative challenge involved. If given the opportunity, there are a few things I would love the chance to do (like reviving Ellery Queen for today's audience), but again, it's more for the writing/challenge than the money that might be involved.
Regardless of what perspective you look at writing from, create the best possible work you can, because it is quality that will attract and maintain your readership in the long run, not quantity. And of course, it doesn't hurt to love what you do and do what you love, regardless of what career your pursue.
Terri Smiles: If you are writing for the sake of art, marry well and don't give up the day job. I also believe there is a middle ground between art and commercial fiction which is what I pursue - "light," entertaining fiction that also explores what it is to be human and the deeper aspects of our lives. But I worked as a healthcare lawyer for many years to be able to write the way I want to write. Art does require sacrifice and I have the scars of years of servitude to show for it.
Marian Allan: All these questions have long and complex discussions rather than answers -- except the last two, which both have the same answer: Don't give up the day job.
Frank Fradella: The advice to "write what you know" is important in that the core emotional anchor of the story has to wring true. Even when you're being paid to write non-fiction. When I wrote and illustrated The Idiot's Guide to Drawing (with thanks to Tom Waltz), it was purely work for hire. It was the kind of work I'd never done before. But I approached that book with the core belief that everyone sucks at the beginning, and everyone can get better with a little advice and a lot of practice. That, I think, is what made that book successful.
Lance Stahlberg: Keep at it. Stay motivated to keep your butt in the chair and keep writing. Learn the craft. Finish your story. Then learn the business. If you have the stoma ch and money for self-publishing, cool. Otherwise learn how to write a good submission letter. Network with editors and/or don't give up on finding an agent who will treat you right.
Do what you love. But don't pin too much of your hopes on being able to quit your day job. That could well come in time, but not if you neglect the art. Don't lose sight of why you wanted to be a writer in the first place.
Jack Wallen: Write what your heart and soul begs you to write. I write a number of very different series. As I am finishing up one book, I follow what my soul wants to write next. I never know what that'll be. The second you give over and write what you think will sell, you lose. Why? Because what is selling when you begin might well not be what's selling when you're ready to hit publish. Don't follow the rule "Write what you know." Instead... write what you love, what you have a passion for. In the end, it will come through in the words and the reader will enjoy it all the more.
Richard Lee Byers: Work steadily. Be flexible and open to whatever opportunities present themselves. Network. Follow guidelines and meet deadlines. Recognize that in today's marketplace, even writers who are traditionally published must generally accept a fair amount of responsibility for promoting their work.
What advice do you have for writers pursuing art in a commercial culture?
Frank Fradella: You can be an artist all day long, but at the end of that day, if you don't treat your craft like a business, you are losing the field to those who do.
Richard Lee Byers: I'm not sure such writers need much advice. If you are genuinely indifferent to making any money from your work, then clearly, you couldn't be alive at a better time. You can self-publish on the Internet without ever having to compromise your personal vision by considering the marketplace or seeking to accommodate a traditional publisher's requirements.
Terri Smiles: If the primary goal for your writing is maximizing income, don't write for what's hot now, write for what's just starting to garner interest. It's hard to tell, but you'll be ahead of the curve.
Iscah: Understand the steadiest paychecks come from working on other people's projects. A graphic designer or journalist will see steadier income than a gallery artist or novelist. A novelist willing to ghost write or work with a franchise may reap more financial reward than one who insists on only writing in their own worlds. However financial rewards are not the only rewards available.
There's a crass side to commercialism, but usually truly great art or writing is much easier to sell and will endure much longer than shoddy work. It's all somewhat subjective and at the mercy of the market. But a career in the arts is often a test of endurance as much as anything else.
Jack Wallen: If you opt to go the commercial route, you have to spend a lot of time following trends. In fact, you can't just follow trends, you have to predict trends. As I said, the second you start writing that book based on a current trend, by the time you finish that trend may be played out. You've got to be one step ahead of the game to really be successful. That takes a lot of energy and time, so you have to be willing to put in the extra effort before you begin writing that first word. You can be lazy and pay close attention to what Hollywood is releasing in the future, as that can help as a guide. For example, Gone Girl was just released and has been a serious success. Six months ago, you should have been on top of that and ready to release something in the same vein.
Corrina Lawson: Know your core story. Know what changes you can live with and what you can't. And make sure if you sell your rights, you get something for them. Never sign a contract with an agent or intellectual property rights attorney to look it over.
Lance Stahlberg: Sorry, but that question does not compute. If you write strictly for fun and only post for free to fanfic boards and whatnot with no interest in selling it... God love you. You don't need advice and probably don't want it. If you want your work to stand out in a competitive market, the answer is the same as #3 above.
Lee Houston Jr.: If you mean commercialism as marketing, I certainly want my readers to know when the next release of whatever I have created is available.
All the projects I have done so far have either been for the sheer joy of writing or the creative challenge involved. If given the opportunity, there are a few things I would love the chance to do (like reviving Ellery Queen for today's audience), but again, it's more for the writing/challenge than the money that might be involved.
Regardless of what perspective you look at writing from, create the best possible work you can, because it is quality that will attract and maintain your readership in the long run, not quantity. And of course, it doesn't hurt to love what you do and do what you love, regardless of what career your pursue.

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Friday, 21 September 2012
It is all very well for top level cricketers such as Clegg and Pietersen to issue filmed apologies and to make a bit of a meal of it. This leaves lower league cricketers uncertain as to when they can apologise and how best to do so. For it is unlikely that they will face concerns about their abandonment of election promises or their propensity to tweet suggestions to South African bowlers about how to dismiss their skipper. Opposition players have all too readily worked out how to dismiss Fantasy Bob's team. Any player therefore tweeting suggestions would simply be wasting tweeting time. Not necessarily something to apologise about.
But for cricketers who are uncertain, here are the situations in which apologies are appropriate and indeed obligatory.
The run out - the call of 'Yes...No...Sorry' has an inbuilt apology and needs no further explanation. It is infinitely adaptable to a wide variety of situations. Sometimes it is reversed so that it runs 'No...Yes... Sorry.' But it is rarely that the sorry comes first. Cricketers finding a batting partner inclined to use sorry as his first call might well spend the afternoon firmly in their crease. On many occasions, the basic structure of this call can be interrupted by other comments, observations about the futility and absurdity of life or the dubious parentage of the batting partner. It is often developed by creative players into a full dialogue; 'yes' and 'no' can sound between them with astonishing rapidity leading to a cry of 'sorry' in perfect unison. Musicologists suspect that Gustav Mahler arranged a version of this for soloists and choir, but the manuscript appears to have been lost.
The LBW - it is a scene that is repeated week after week. A lower league umpire will startle from his reverie at the call of 'Howzat'. He has no idea what has just taken place but in a spirit of sportsmanship he will raise his finger. His team mate 22 yards distant will look incredulously at him - point at his thigh, point at his foot outside the leg stump, point at a mark on the wicket further outside the leg stump, look heaven-wards and trudge off. At the innings end the umpire returns to the dressing a room and breezily says to his victim, 'Sorry, buddy. You had to go. Plum as plum.' His victim demonstrates considerable restraint before asking whether it was the fact that the ball pitched outside leg stump or caused a nasty bruise on his hip bone about 2 feet above stump height that rendered that particular ball plum. Apologies in these circumstances may never be fully accepted. Batters become obsessed with which of their team mates is likely to be umpiring when they bat and many a lower league batting order is mystifying to the observer until this factor is taken into account.
The drop - Lower league cricketers are not unfeeling. They know that not all chances will be taken. When a player has dived six feet to his left and stuck out his hand in an heroic attempt to hold on to a ball travelling at the speed of sound 2 feet above ground only to see it fall to the ground, the may have some sympathy. Unless they are the bowler. A bowler expects every connection of bat on ball to deliver a catch. 'Catch it' he will scream on every delivery. A complete pointless instruction. Players are generally aware of that part of the game so the instruction is otiose. They know what they are meant to do. Unfortunately there can be a gap between intention and execution and having some lunatic scream 'Catch it', just as you cup your hands in the path of the ball is the surest way for you not to catch it. This has been scientifically proved. But in such situations, there are different schools of thought about how to behave. Some will wait to the end of the over and approach the bowler personally with a remorseful apology. They may offer some explanation which will boost the bowler's ego - spinning too hard for me or too much pace are the most obvious. Some will think it inappropriate to talk directly to the bowler but will communicate an apology to the skipper thus making him share the guilt. A better skipper would have placed such a hopeless fielder nowhere near where a catch would go. Others will stand on the spot of the crime and beat their breast and fall to lamentations and self recriminations. Generally the bowler finds that the last option is most pleasing, and many will encourage self immolation or hari kiri.
Fantasy Bob hopes cricketers find this guidance helpful. A good apology can make a game. It will certainly set up an enjoyable drink in the bar at the end of play.
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Aston Martin Works to celebrate National Classic Car Day
Aston Martin Works is inviting all Aston Martin owners to visit its Newport Pagnell site on Chris Evans' National Classic Car Day to help raise money for BBC Children In Need.
The move by Aston Martin is the first official endorsement by a premium car manufacturer for the BBC Radio 2 DJ's latest auto-themed idea.
Aston Martin's invitation is for all Aston owners to visit the Newport Pagnell Works site on the morning of Friday 4 April. It is promising refreshments and "the usual warm welcome", and will help coordinate donations to the BBC Children In Need Charity from visitors.
Evan's idea is for owners to pick up friends and family for a lift to work, and for the passengers to donate petrol money to the BBC charity.
There's just one proviso, says the firm – book fast, by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. That's because parking is strictly limited and is thus being allocated to Aston Martin owners ahead of time. "If you plan to attend," says the firm, "please ensure you reply promptly".
Motoring Research was the first automotive outlet to reveal news of Chris Evans' new charity car day – and we immediately committed to it by promising to all drive our own classic cars to work on Friday 4 April.
Follow our progress next week as we report live via Twitter. Hopefully we all make it in…


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Thinking of enrolling in college for the first time or going back to school but not sure how to pay for it without taking on a huge amount of debt? Everyday we hear about the student loan debt crisis in this country but yet people still go about going to school by continuing to do the same things that are causing the younger generation to delay buying a home, delay starting a family, delay investing due to taking out student loans…
I want you to know that you do not have to go into a huge amount of debt. There are many options out there to decrease your risk of incurring high student loan debt.
My personal story.
I've personally never had to take out a student loan. It wasn't because my family was rich or that I had a full scholarship. I've always disliked debt and found ways to limit the amount I have to pay for school. For me, I went to community college for a little over 2 years even though I got accepted to other schools because it was the most financially responsible thing for me. It took me over 2 years to finish because I also worked during this time. I looked at the bigger picture. I realized working gave me experience on top of my education. How often do we see job postings that are entry level looking for experience? I always kept that in the back of my mind. It may have taken me longer to finish getting my degrees but I had not debt, worked throughout my entire college career and that made it easier for me to get jobs and end up working in a career that pays well. After going to community college and getting my associates degree, I transferred to a state university. I could have went to a private school or a more well known/respected school but I knew that wouldn't guarantee me success or a job. I was confident enough in myself that having the degree and experience put me one step ahead of some of those with zero experience while saving money on large tuition expenses. I also stayed home during my college years to avoid additional costs. By the time I got to a state university, I worked for a job that offered tuition reimbursement. I was able to take courses that I initially paid for out of pocket but was reimbursed the tuition costs from my employer. I also work at an employer( who I am currently still with) that has their own credit union who allows you to fill out the tuition reimbursement form, take out a loan and if you pass with a C or better in your course they will reimburse you so that loan gets paid off without you having to pay out of pocket. So if you don't have the money to pay out of pocket you can take out a loan but expect to be reimbursed as long as you pass the course.
Different ways to lessen your costs of attending school
- Job outlook & choosing a major
Before choosing a major , decide on a few different fields you will like to work in and what degree they require. Next, research those particular fields and degrees to get an outlook on that career path in the upcoming years. It's pointless to get a degree in something you will not be able to find a job doing. Even if it is something that you enjoy, you can always still do it as a hobby. If you are risking going into debt wouldn't you prefer to have some kind of guarantee you can find places hiring that will pay well when you graduate?
- Scholarships & Financial Aid
Check if you qualify for financial aid. If you do , that is great, if not you can find local & national scholarships to apply for at your school, place of work, local library or via the web. The internet has leveled the playing field. There are tons of scholarships available and some that go unclaimed because people do not take advantage of them. There are scholarships that are specific to majors, gender, ethnicity, income, location and more. Why not take advantage of free money if it is being offered?
- Gain experience through working or internships
It has become normal to job search and see entry level jobs require 1 plus years of experience on top of having a degree. I often question this and try to comprehend how can a position be entry level if it requires experience. You spend 4 years focusing 100% on your studies to get good grades but not qualify for a position because you have zero work experience. I suggest getting a part time job or finding an internship in your field of interest. If you have a heavy workload at school you can also decide to work during the summer break. Another option after graduating high school is to take a year off to work and save money or go to school part time while working. This will give you work experience and the option to gain income to go towards your tuition or loans. Do not underestimate the power of getting hands on experience in your prospective field.
Going to college is one the first major decisions you will make as an adult. It should be a decision that you put thought into and research. Why not start off your financial health on the right foot?


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1. Fill a large pot with enough water to cover the eggs, then bring to a boil. Using a slotted spoon gently lower the eggs into the boiling water. Cover and let simmer for 10 minutes. Remove the eggs from the heat and run under cold water until completely cooled.
2. Peel the eggs, cut in half and scoop out the yolks into a medium bowl. Add the mayo, mustard, pickles, pickle juice, sugar, vinegar, hot sauce and salt and pepper to taste, and mix with a fork until well combined.
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It's been quite some time since we've been behind the wheel and it was readily apparent by our speed. Those vehicles on the motorway sure go fast! For the first 30 minutes everyone was passing us! We've vacated Waiouru in order that the marina can give her the final coats of varnish. Whilst it might have been a cheap 'high' staying aboard, every brain cell counts these days!
We did the usual thing boaters do and hired a
small sewing machine compact car from Enterprise. Their prices are competitive and the service is excellent. Rather than opt for the smallest category of vehicle and have a windscreen full of squashed eyeballs we paid the additional £2 per day for the next category of vehicle. They have given us a two door VW Polo which is sufficient for our needs.
Jan's peering out the motel window!
What do you do when you have a day to kill; little money; and want to stay away from canals. The plan was to travel to Foxes Outdoors in Amersham. On each of our three previous holidays in the UK we have called in to Foxes to purchase outdoor clothing and footwear.
They will provide on request the necessary documentation for the refunding of the 20% VAT on purchases to travellers leaving the UK. Whilst they may not be the cheapest; they have a wide range of products and the service is excellent.
Today's plan was to purchase replacement shoes for both of us. In the end Jan purchased a pair of walking shoes and three pairs of walking socks. I decided my existing walking footwear was sufficient. What I really needed was a pair of lightweight boots for use when travelling on Waiouru or walking the towpath. This didn't require high quality £100+ footwear.
There is a large Tesco supermarket opposite Foxes and we had noticed on an earlier visit the attention taken to make it blend in with the surrounding buildings. Something unlikely to occur 'down under'.
Struggling to kill more time we drove towards Hemel Hempstead and (damn it all) started travelling beside the Grand Union Canal. Of course we started checking boats and potential mooring locations <grrrr>. Dragged ourselves away to a B&Q to check on small clotheslines and toolbags. However we resisted purchasing anything because we can use our seniors card tomorrow (Wednesday) and receive a 10% discount on all purchases. Still looking for some cheap boots we called into a large 'Sports Direct' store where I managed to purchase a pair of heavily discounted Karrimor boots (paid under £40) that should suffice.
Prior to our last holiday in the UK we always booked B&B's using the local Tourist Information service. This enables you to advance book accommodation in the desired area. But the restriction is…. only one night in advance. However we noticed the cost of B&B's was steadily increasing and then stumbled upon the Travelodge budget motel chain. It is possible to book accommodation with them well in advance using the internet. Moreover we found we could plan our holiday itinerary around their discounted room rates and were able to book rooms between £19-25 per night for the two of us. Moreover the rooms were frequently larger than those we'd had in B&B's. Breakfast isn't included in the price but we haven't found that to be an impediment.
Got to be early or in the right place to get a £19 room
So we've killed a day and save quite a few of our diminishing brain cells. Our first night away from the boatyard and Waiouru in more than a year!


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Fall Emporium: Posh Pets
Attractive and functional apparel will help customers keep pets looking their best during the holiday season.
By Stacy N. Hackett
In the months leading up to the holidays, people begin searching for the perfect gifts for their loved ones. And as all pet retailers know, those loved ones frequently include family pets.
"Pets are members of the family—almost like children—and are lavished with gifts, treats and trips," said Sandi Kaneko, president of Walnut, Calif.-based 26 Bars & a Band.
Part of this lavish treatment, she said, includes pet apparel.
"Modern pet parents want their furry companions to make a fashion statement."
To that end, Kaneko recommends pet apparel as an ideal holiday gift, both for pet owners to give their own pets and for shoppers to give to friends' pets.
"Apparel is a great gift because of the range of choices," she said. "Consumers love the price point options that give them the flexibility to stay within budget or splurge for a special holiday gift."
Her company recently added Paul Frank hooded sweatshirts to its lineup.
Dorothy Hunter, CEO of Paw's Natural Pet Emporium in Richland, Wash., agreed. She stocks pet T-shirts with "cute sayings," and said pet apparel, such as sweaters, coats and pajamas, also make ideal gifts.
Villaggio Family Pets in Temecula, Calif., stocks a small selection of T-shirts with sayings year-round, but Jesse Lopez, store employee, said that Halloween costumes for dogs sell best out of all the items in the pet apparel category.
"During October, we can hardly keep them in stock," he said.
Villaggio Family Pets used to also stock apparel accessories, such as small purses, but found that they were not as popular with customers. The store also sells more clothing for adult dogs than for puppies, Lopez noted.
Certain types of apparel accessories might sell better at stores in true wintry climates. At Paw's Natural Pet Emporium, Hunter displays pet apparel with other winter-appropriate accessories like nose balm, foot protectors, heated dog beds, leg warmers—all together just like a human clothing store.
Visual Displays
When displaying apparel such as T-shirts, coats and sweaters, Hunter recommends showing the products in use.
"Put it on a dog mannequin," she said. "People are visual—we have to see everything. Just hanging it on a hanger isn't good enough."
Seeing the product on a mannequin or another pet can encourage additional sales, Kaneko said.
"When consumers see pet apparel on display as fashion, they get a better sense of how it would look on their own or their friend's pet," she said.
Taking this idea a step further, Susanne Postill, owner of Eco-Pup Dog Clothing in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, suggests inviting customers to events designed to highlight the uses and features of the clothing.
"Host free…demonstrations of the various benefits of pet apparel with Q&A sessions and tips on how to use the products for the holidays," she said.
The benefits of apparel include keeping a pet warm, protecting a hairless pet's sensitive skin from the elements and helping a pet stay clean and dry, Postill said.
"By showcasing the benefits (not just the cuteness) of pet apparel, retailers can encourage people to buy apparel as gifts for other pet owners," she added.
Educating customers about the functions of pet apparel comes naturally during the winter months but should remain a year-round activity, said Andrea Friedland, vice president of customer relations for New York-based Pawz Dog Boots. In addition to dog boots, the company manufactures the 1Z Coat, which is designed to be waterproof and windproof and has a built-in harness.
"Most people don't understand that some dogs need a coat to be warm or that some dogs have thin [paw] pads and need boots while visiting the beach," she said.
She encourages store owners and employees to discuss how pet apparel can improve dogs' lives.
Because it is perceived as a "special" item and not an everyday necessity, owners might be more willing to purchase apparel as gifts leading up to the holidays.
"Apparel is…seen by others and defines the personality of the pet and is an extension of the owner," Friedland said. "Feminine and frilly, no frills and functional, the holidays provide an opportunity to add to [a] pet's apparel choices."
Holiday Themes
Displaying frilly and functional apparel together helps owners choose what best fits their pet's personality. During the holidays, focusing on apparel items in a range of holiday colors can add visual impact to displays.
"Red and green color options always prove to be popular during this time and make a great holiday-themed display when featured together," said Dave Colella, co-owner of Brentwood, Tenn.-based Earthdog.
Grouping several types of items in the red and green color families can lend a holiday feel to the entire store. In fact, Wendy Schuchart, co-owner of The Good Dog Co. in Golden, Colo., finds that her company's red and green collars, leashes and hemp toys become quite popular during the winter months. She recommends that stores group these and other items to create a "holiday gift guide" for pet owners and other customers.
Small items placed near the cash register can encourage impulse purchases. Friedland finds that Pawz Dog Boots make ideal stocking stuffers.
"Small and inexpensive, they fit perfectly in a dog's stocking," she said.
Whether through an attractive gift guide display or a few simple words, the power of suggestion often can lead to additional sales, Colella said.
"I think the casual question of, 'Is there a pet in your life that you're shopping for this year?' can go a long way in sparking the thought process," he said.
No matter how you market the items, pet apparel continues to attract attention at the holidays.
As Kaneko said, "The gift-giving potential of pet clothing during the holiday season will continue to grow, especially with pet parents seeking to find one-of-a-kind gifts for their furry loved ones."


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On a recent trip, where I drove eight hours to get to my destination, I was reminded once again what it's like to be a traveler. We have all the great directions, mapping programs and GPS these days, but if this trip is your first time to your particular destination, there's always an element of anticipation or even surprise...and we hope it's surprise 'in a good way', but you may still be a little unsure about that.
The weather will have an effect. If it rains or storms while you're in transit, it will (and for safety, it should) slow down your journey.Whether you're driving or flying, the journey will not be the same as you planned when it rains or snows.And getting there will probably be a whole lot less fun. So you take a deep breath and try to remain cool...after all, this is supposed to be a vacation. It's supposed to be fun.
And of course, if you're driving, have you ever taken a trip where you didn't see those ever-present orange cones and signs that construction is on your road? Some people have joked in the past that the construction cone should be the official "state tree" in a number of states! Is there a closed shoulder on the road? Is there a detour?What does that mean? Probably more delays. Take another deep breath and try to remain cool...after all, this is supposed to be vacation. It's supposed to be fun.
So as you finally arrive in Asheville NC, and make your way to your destination at Abbington Green Bed & Breakfast Inn, I can promise you some well-deserved good news. Your room will be ready for you to relax and catch up on the comfort your are looking forward to.Your whirlpool tub and the king size bed will be waiting. We will welcome you with genuine enthusiasm and friendliness.
So whether your journey to Asheville was sunny and fair or not: We get it. We understand what it took to get here. We know you want to relax and that sometimes the most relaxing vacation "schedule" is not to have one. Take another deep breath...and this time you can actually relax...after all, this is supposed to be vacation. It's supposed to be fun....and Asheville, with all its art and food and mountains, really is fun! Our "bit of Britain" here in Asheville awaits you. See you shortly!
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A couple of weeks ago I found out on Twitter that Dorie Greenspan's brand new book "Around My French Table" had been released earlier than expected and since I had pre-ordered it a long time ago I received my copy a couple of days later. As I opened the cardboard box I could barely contain my excitement. This was like birthday and Christmas rolled into one. I have been a huge fan of Dorie's ever since I first received my copy of "Baking: From my home to yours", and holding her new book in my hands was so much fun. I started flipping through the substantial book, and almost immediately felt overwhelmed. There are so many incredible looking recipes in this book; anything from hors d'oeuvres, to soups, salads, meats and best of all, desserts.
The recipe starts by measuring flour, baking powder, salt and pepper into a big bowl and whisking them together. In a second bowl, your wet ingredients of eggs, milk and olive oil get a good whisking as well. The wet mix gets quickly incorporated into the dry ingredients before adding in the grated and cubed cheese along with chopped chives and toasted walnuts. The finished batter gets spread into a greased loaf pan and is then ready for the oven. Now this is where this recipe gets tough. I had every single person in our house come into the kitchen during the baking of the bread with their mouth watering and wondering what smelled so incredible. I wish I could bottle this smell, which is simply drool inducing and makes the waiting time for the bread to cool very, very cruel.
This bread is so simple, yet absolutely amazing and flavorful. Ms. Greenspan did not disappoint with this recipe either, and I'm excited to be introducing my family to more french inspired dishes. Best of all, in true Dorie fashion many of her recipes have side notes or what she likes to call "Bonne Idee" that will give you further options of how to change up already wonderful recipes. This bread was gone so quickly in our house that the next time I'm making it (and there will be a next time) I'm doubling the recipe! This is a great dish to serve along side a hearty stew or soup, and I hope you'll be giving this one a try and adding some "French flair" to your dinner table as well.
Savory Cheese and Chive Bread
(adapted from "Around my French Table" by Dorie Greenspan)
(Printable Recipe)
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 - 1 teaspoon salt (depending on what cheese you're using)
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper (or more to taste)
1 pinch of cayenne pepper
3 large eggs, at room temperature
1/3 cup whole milk, at room temperature
1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 generous cup (about 4 ounces) coarsely grated Gruyere, Emmenthal, or Cheddar (I used Emmenthal)
2 ounces Gruyere, Emmenthal, or cheddar cut into very small cubes (I used Emmenthal)
1/2 cup minced fresh chives or other herbs (or thinly sliced scallions)
1/3 cup toasted walnuts, chopped (optional)
Center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Generously butter and 8 -x- 4 1/2 -x- 2 3/4 -inch loaf pan. If your pan is slightly larger, go ahead and use it, but your loaf will be lower and you'll have to check it for doneness a little earlier.
Whisk the flour, baking powder, salt, and white pepper together in a large bowl.
Put the eggs in a medium bowl and whisk for about 1 minute, until they're foamy and blended. Whisk in the milk and olive oil.
Pour the wet ingredients over the dry ingredients and, using a sturdy rubber spatula or a wooden spoon, gently mix until the dough comes together. There's no need to be energetic - in fact, beating the dough toughens it - nor do you need to be very thorough: just stir until all the dry ingredients are moistened. Stir in the cheese, graded and cubed, the herbs, and the walnuts, if you're using them. You'll have a thick dough. Turn the dough into the buttered pan and even the top with the back of the spatula or spoon.
Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until the bread is golden and a slender knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Transfer the pan to a cooling rack and wait for about 3 minutes, then run a knife around the sides of the pan and turn the loaf over onto the rack; invert and cool right side up.


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Some of you have seen my involvement with an organization called "West Coast Patriots III%." "What the heck is a III%er?" you ask?
Legend has it that only three percent of the population of the Thirteen Colonies fought during the American Revolution (this number may not be precisely accurate, but stay with me – it's apocryphal, ok?!). Today's three percent movement has a mission derived from those original freedom fighters: to stand up wherever civil liberties are violated.
We are not "anti-government" – very much the opposite. We wholeheartedly endorse our founders' vision that this Country be not only a representative democracy, but a constitutional one –our "constitutional republic." And to that end, we are a non-partisan organization welcoming any member who identifies as left, right, or center who is interested in the preservation of our civil rights.
We are not racist, antiemetic, extreme, or "right wing." We aren't anti-immigration. We are CERTAINLY NOT "sovereign citizens." We aren't "paramilitary" or whatever the Southern Poverty Law Center would like us to be. We aren't even partisan. You'll see us on the front line criticizing ANY politician that deigns to infringe upon the civil liberties of individuals. We are made up of a diverse body of individuals.
III%ers DO, however, know the Constitution well, along with the Declaration of Independence and understand what it means. They listen. They study and learn. They keep up with current legal trends and court cases. THEY DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF THOSE WHOM THEY HAVE IDEOLOGICAL DISAGREEMENTS.
This is about freedom, friends. Unconstitutional laws and actions come from both sides of the political aisle. Let's fight them together.
[Disclaimer: the III% movement, just like every other group, has members that do and say things we don't agree with. We can't control individuals – just like the Democrats, Republicans, left and right have individual members that occasionally go off the rails, we will too. But believe me, we'll be disclaiming that nonsense from the rooftops when we see / hear of it!]


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Tea Party admits racism, boots racist Tea Party Express leader
A pattern of racism by Mark Williams, founder of the Tea Party Express, got him and his organization kicked out of the National Tea Party Federation. Williams, the chairman of the Tea Party Express, wrote a racist satire on the group's website last week in response to an NAACP resolution calling out the Tea Party to denounce the racists in its movement. When the NAACP voted on the Tea Party resolution at its convention last week, the Tea Party denied the presence of racism in its rank and file. But the Tea party expelled Williams after his racist satire was highlighted by the national media. Resource for this article - Tea Party Express racist Mark Williams kicked out of movement by Personal Money Store
Tea Party racism exemplified in Tea Party Express
Williams founded the Tea Party Express and built it into one of probably the most powerful factions of the Tea Party movement. The New York Daily News reports that raising $ 2.3 million and helping Republican Scott Brown get elected to the late Ted Kennedy's seat are among the Tea Party Express' achievements under Williams. Williams relinquished the chairmanship last month to focus on leading a racism-tinged campaign against a mosque project in New York called the ground zero mosque, during which he has said Muslims will "worship the terrorist Monkey-god" in a temple in honor of the 9/11 attackers. Williams called Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who backs building the mosque, a "Jewish Uncle Tom who would have turned rat on Anne Frank".
Tea Party Express calls Muhammad a 'monkey god'
When the NAACP passed their resolution demanding the Tea Party take steps to separate racism from its movement, Williams was calling Muhammad a monkey god and the Tea Party was playing victim. Right wing pundits and Tea Party officials said their entire movement was being labeled racist by the NAACP. They retorted by calling the NAACP racist. But the NAACP Tea Party resolution's meaning was clear after Williams wrote a letter and posted it on teapartyexpress.org.
Slavery satire by the Tea Party Express
The Tea Party movement expelled Williams and his Tea Party Express after he wrote a letter, labeled as "satire," from NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous to President Lincoln . This sample from the letter was posted by Fox News:
"Perhaps one of one of the most racist point of all in the Tea Parties is their demand that government 'stop raising our taxes.' That is outrageous! How will we coloreds ever get a wide-screen TV in each room if non-coloreds get to keep what they earn?" he wrote. "Mr. Lincoln, you were the greatest racist ever. We had a fantastic gig. 3 squares, room and board, all our decisions made by the massa in the house. Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we belong."
Will NAACP Tea Party resolution give Tea Party a backbone?
Long term Tea Party interests may benefit from booting the Tea Party Express. The NAACP resolution, the Huffington Post reports, may benefit the Tea Party in the long run because now the movement may have to be responsible for controlling its behavior. Before the resolution called out Tea Party racists, the amorphous nature of the group served as a convenient excuse for such behavior.
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No one cares.
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The word of God provides the standard upon which our faith, teachings and lives are based.
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Floating homes. Underground skyscrapers. Pathologically-organized aquariums. Glossy glass panels. Disposable nano devices. Virtual realities. Automated butlers and outer-space jet packs. Nap time loopholes and wall projector re-runs. Solar-puffed quinoa and zero-calorie butter. Photoshopping palm trees into holographic polaroids. Wandering around the endless artificial maze. Sunshine-starved, deliciously-sweaty central park runner. Drench me in your scent. Playing strip Mario Kart. Squirt-gunning top-shelf into peppermint mouths. Nude beach watercoloring. Swathed in banana sun cream. Sweltering under straw canopies. Samurai sliced coconuts. Coral reef diving into rainbow goldfish. Floral-shaped gelato melting down to your fingers. Sticky neapolitan kisses. Glowing carousels. Kaleidoscope nights.
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Hello and Happy Spring! Please take a moment to view the above video from The Radcliffe Group that explains a great new program offered through our team and Raintree Mortgage. When partnering with our strategic partner, Christopher Binney, of Raintree Mortgage, Chris is able to cover closing costs for FHA and VA Buyers. Chris […]
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Interest rates are so important in real estate that we have to discuss the Federal Reserve's Qualitative Easing program with you. When Janet Yellen took over for Ben Bernanke, she indicated that she would stay the course with this program that has kept mortgage interest rates extremely low. As we turned the corner to 2014, […]
I've recently put up a Youtube channel which I wanted to share with you. This channel will be hosting our educational series from myself and my strategic partners on topics such as short sales, Credit Debt Relief act, Foreclosure legislative changes and Homeowners Bill of rights. You'll also be able to see monthly market updates, […]
The Federal Reserve has cut its Qualitative Easing program fairly substantially and very quickly. This program was buying 85 Billion dollars of mortgage backed securities until very recently. It was cut to 75 billion and then a month later to 65 Billion. Just a week ago, it was announced this program is going to 55 […]
Market inventory is currently at 6,400 single family homes and approximately 1,700 condo's a decline of approximately 10% since November 2013. New home sales are also down to the 500 range per month from 700 in months prior. We're seeing fairly stable prices with multiple offer still extremely common however in Summerlin, Green Valley area, […]
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Dave is a hard-working and ever attentive agent–especially during a trying short sale process. I was out of state the entire time due to military orders, and Dave went the extra mile to make sure my needs were taken care of–often working around the schedules of everybody involved on nights and weekends. He always replied to an email or call immediately–I can't think of a time where he didn't get back to me the same day (or same minute). I recommend him, good luck finding a better agent in the entire Las Vegas area. Military clients look no further–he has your best interests at heart.
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Dave was extremely thorough with the entire process and explained everything with a lot of detail. His team was very good at communicating with us when it came to completing the paperwork process involved with the sale.
David Radcliffe has made this process so much simpler than any previous real estate agent we have ever worked with. He negotiated on our behalf professionally and appropriately. He contacted us when needed, and handled logistics independently when possible. This was GREATLY appreciated. In the end, we felt that David Radcliffe made this experience wonderful and we would recommend him again to anyone buying or selling in this area.
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1993 Elias M Stein
1995 Andrew Wiles
... for his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.1997 Mikio Sato
... for his creation of the theory of hyperfunctions.1999 Yuri I Manin
... for his important work in algebraic geometry and mathematical physics, in particular for those fundamental papers he has recently published about quantum groups and mirror symmetry.2001 Elliott H Lieb
...for his outstanding work in mathematical physics, particularly for his contribution to the mathematical understanding of the quantum-mechanical many-body theory and for his work on exact solutions of models in statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics.2003 Richard P Stanley
... for his fundamental contributions to combinatorics and its relationship to algebra and geometry, in particular for his important contributions to the theory of convex polytopes and his innovative work on enumerative combinatorics.2005 Luis Caffarelli
... for his important contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations.2008 Endre Szemerédi
... for his deep and pioneering work from 1975 on arithmetic progressions in subsets of the integers, which has led to great progress and discoveries in several branches of mathematics.2011
... for his fundamental contributions to one of the largest mathematical projects ever, the classification of finite simple groups, notably his contribution to the quasi-thin case.2014
... for his spectacular breakthrough concerning the possibility of an infinite number of twin primes.
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Houston Primed to be True Winner of Sunday's Big Game
Feb. 1, 2017
Be it the commercials or the actual football, we're all drawn to Sunday's big game as one of the most anticipated gridiron match-ups of the season. This Sunday, the New England Patriots will meet the Atlanta Falcons on the field at NRG Stadium right here in Houston, Texas.
With the help of JLL Research, JLL's America's Executive Chairman and Hall of Fame Quarterback Roger Staubach predicts Coach Bill Belichick and the Patriots will take home the team's fifth NFL championship.
Since we began making predictions based on real estate market data of the participating teams' cities, JLL Research and Roger have accurately predicted the winner of the big game nearly 70 percent of the time.
Beantown has more than Tom Brady
Boston currently has one of the strongest economies in the nation. A diverse mix of industries such as healthcare, education, technology, finance and life sciences have supported robust job growth. In recent years, the city has consistently tracked year-over-year job growth at a rate of 2 percent. Here's the Boston breakdown:
- Nearly 3 million square feet of large office leases were completed in the fourth quarter of 2016.
- Forty percent of overall activity in the third quarter of 2016 resulted from technology focused companies.
- Average asking rates saw an uptick and reached $34.00 per square foot. Rents have increased by 26.5 percent since 2010.
Atlanta: First down in uncharted territory
Atlanta has solidified its position as a major business hub of the Southeast region in recent years. Continued urbanization and a focus on walkability are driving renewed interest in Atlanta's urban submarkets and pushing rents higher. The city continues to improve as a top destination for corporate relocations, as companies and talent are drawn to the low cost of living, low cost of doing business and high quality of life. Here are Atlanta's advantages:
- Four Fortune 500 headquarters have moved to the city in just the past six years.
- Average asking rates in Atlanta have increased by 15.3 percent since 2010 and are expected to climb.
- New public transportation referendums will benefit the entire Atlanta metro by improving safety and functionality for pedestrians, bikers and drivers.
Win-Win for Host City, Houston
All around the city local government, hotels, restaurants and other venues and organizations have been preparing to welcome, host, feed and entertain the onslaught of visitors that come with Sunday's big game. The city is projected to earn between $44 and $48 million in net tax revenue as 150,000 visitors rent hotel rooms, eat at restaurants and shop around town. Projections for the net economic impact on the region have been between $350 and $500 million according to reports from the Houston Super Bowl Host Committee and VisitHoustonTexas.com. No matter the outcome of Sunday's game, Houston is primed to benefit greatly as host to the biggest game in football.


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ניורומנסר נחשב לאחד מספרי הנבואה אשר חזו את האינטרנט. וניתקלתי היום בראיון עם הסופר שלו.
אני מביא אותו לכאן בשביל כמה ציטטות מעניינות, אשר עונות לשאלה כיצד גיבסון הגה בכלל את ניורומנסר ומגישתו אל ההווה. קיבצתי עבורכם חלקים אשר בעיני היו מעניינים:
The present has recently caught up with William Gibson. The great prophet of the digital future, who not only coined the word 'cyberspace' in his debut novel Neuromancer in 1984, but imagined its implications and went a long way to suggesting its YouTube and MySpace culture, has stopped looking forwards. 'The future is already here,' he is fond of suggesting. 'It is just not evenly distributed.'
I have become convinced that it is silly to try to imagine futures these days.'The problem, he suggests, is one of time and place: things, technologies, now happen too fast and in unpredictable locations.
It's an obvious question, but where does he get his ideas from? 'Well, when I start a book, I just look for things to be interested in. Often, they don't have much to do with the final product and I am never quite sure how they have informed the process, but they are there at the beginning.'
These things are not news in the old sense, but cultural peculiarities that resonate with him in some way. 'I then keep all of them in proximity until they start to generate connections, the more unlikely the better. The beginning of a book is a good place, but when I am a little further in, I completely lose faith in the process. At that point, strange things start to emerge, things I would never have dreamed of.'
One of the strangest of these things was the idea of cyberspace. Neuromancer was built around the story of an out-of-work computer hacker induced to commit an unlikely crime. It was, along the way, a meditation on artificial intelligence, virtual reality and genetic engineering, and the place these things might come to occupy in pop culture. 'Cyberspace' was the name Gibson gave to the novel's digital terrain.
Gibson started writing when he married and had his first child in his late twenties. He had stopped reading science fiction, but went back to it to discover it had ceased to be 'cool'. It was still all about space travel and little green men. 'I remember thinking: what can I do that is alien without aliens?' he says. 'That is where Neuromancer came from.'
Two particular things inspired him. One day, waiting for a bus, he saw a poster for the Apple 2c, a relatively small personal computer with a handle on it, like a briefcase. 'I stood there and remember thinking: Wow, computers can be small.'
It was also about the time of the first video arcades and Gibson would look in and see kids playing. 'I was always struck by the idea that the kids pushing the buttons wanted more than anything to be on the other side of the screen. The look on their faces suggested that.'
He started to invent a world where subcultures, particularly urban youth subcultures, might meet digital technology in a way that had not happened yet. He evolved the language for this place in part from overhearing conversations at science-fiction readings. He'd go to Seattle and 'just eavesdrop guys in a bar or whatever, guys who were maybe in working at the early days of Microsoft'. Once he overheard two women who worked as keypunch operators at an army facility have a brief conversation about viruses on the machinery. 'I didn't ask, I just took it home and thought: this sounds good. The idea of computer viruses was generally unknown at that time, but I could see how it might work in Neuromancer.'
It seemed to write itself, he suggests. 'I had no way of knowing then that no book gets written by the guy who walks around thinking about writing books. The conscious ideas I had for the book were not very good ideas. They never are. The book is what happens when your fingers are hitting the keyboard.'
Was he a prophet? 'Not a very good one: there are no cellphones in Neuromancer. A 12-year-old would spot that straight away. There's no email either, no websites, no internet really. But there is a lot of heightened language about the possibility of computers to transport us out of ourselves.'
That possibility has taken us a long way in the years since. Does he have any idea, I wonder, where it will lead next?
'Well, as time has gone along, it has become more apparent to me that people don't sit down in parliament and say, "What this country needs is the iPod!" This stuff is called into being by people trying to make a buck, or out of curiosity, and it is now completely out of control.'
I'm reminded of something Gibson once said: 'I didn't imagine that art girls in the Midwest would be flashing their tits in cyberspace… but I'm glad that they're doing it.' Does he retain that optimism?
'You could say, in some ways technology and entertainment culture does not look that good from outside. I mean, if you looked at the internet objectively, sometimes you would think it was just a tsunami of filth, something you would not want anywhere near your children.'
It is though, he believes, an intimately human form of culture. 'I think that one of the things that sets us most thoroughly apart is the ability to preserve our individual memory. The information of the cave paintings becomes Borges's library, Borges's library becomes a laptop computer.' The internet is the shared memory of the species.
I wonder if Gibson, an inveterate blogger, thinks it possible to have human relationships in cyberspace that are as close as in the real world?
'If they are text-based, I would say yes. I have some friendships conducted almost entirely through email that are very intimate. I think we are getting to the point that a strange kind of relationship would be one where there was no virtual element. We are at that tipping point: how can you be friends with someone who is not online? In a couple of years, we will be no more disturbed by our relationship with virtual worlds than we are by our relationship with broadcast television.'


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Dana Milbank's Dec. 5 Washington Sketch column, "ALEC stands its ground," offered a misleading view of his time at the American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) recent policy summit. In fact, he wouldn't have been able to write even his opening line — "it was like going into the belly of the beast" — if our doors hadn't been open to him.
Mr. Milbank was offered access to the meeting alongside several dozen reporters — both critical and supportive of the organization. Like other similar organizations, ALEC holds events with both public and private elements. At Congress, for instance, conference committees are conducted in private so that legislators have the opportunity to resolve disagreement on specific bills. But, apparently to his chagrin, Mr. Milbank does not dictate ALEC policies; they are created and upheld by ALEC's board of directors, which is composed solely of legislators.
ALEC is a unique public-private partnership among legislators, policy experts and business leaders — but legislators have the final say on which policies ALEC supports. Before making those decisions, they seek input from a variety of perspectives, and it is incumbent on those legislators to understand how their decisions may impact constituents and their employers.
Throughout 2013, ALEC made great strides in the realm of transparency by publishing all model policies, working documents and tax disclosures, as well as opening the vast majority of all conference activities to the media. Apparently, no good deed goes unpunished.
Bill Meierling, Washington
The writer is director of public affairs for the American Legislative Exchange Council.


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Rosario Dawson, America Ferrera have signed on to Diego Luna's indie drama "Chavez," which stars Michael Peña as labor organizer Cesar E. Chavez. Dawson will play Dolores Huerta while Ferrera will play Chavez' wife Helen, according to IMDB.
The film which started shooting this week in Sonora, Mexico was written by Keir Pearson who's best known for writing "Hotel Rwanda."
Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal and Pablo Cruz will produce through Canana Films along with John Malkovich, Lianne Halfon and Russell Smith, according to Variety.


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Phil Watkinson PREC*
Phil Watkinson has been licensed and working with the Hammer Watkinson team at RE/MAX since 2003. He entered the real estate industry after completing his Bachelor's degree in Urban Geography at UBC. Born and raised on Vancouver's Westside, Phil has intimate knowledge of the city's neighborhoods, zonings and construction styles. Over the years Phil has gained valuable personal experience and expertise in the buying and selling of real estate, the management of residential and commercial rental properties, numerous renovation projects and most recently subdividing property and constructing new houses. Most of his business comes from working with past clients, although he still loves meeting and working with new clients.
Phil and his wife Meghan have lived in the Main Street area for the past ten years and enjoy the neighborhood's community and parks with their two daughters.


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The first three papers in this issue are concerned with how students make sense of the tasks they are presented with in higher education. Two of these are provoked by a concern for international students but have much wider applicability. They show that while the study of international students' experiences is motivated by a concern for the progress of this specific group, it highlights the challenges all students face when they are less familiar with UK higher education practices.
Jane Spiro opens the issue with a study of how international and home students respond to reflective tasks. This longitudinal study not only observes linguistic changes in the reflective writing of teachers, it also attempts to show what reflective writing reveals about how these student teachers' make sense of the term. Although looking out for differences between the international and home students, the conclusion is that all students need to make sense of our expectations of reflective writing. Jane found that after a year of master's level study, teachers shifted their conceptions of reflection from being about linking their study task to their own teaching practice to an evaluation of their own practices as scholars and researchers. They used reflective writing to arrive at plans of action as developing academics.
Fiona Gilbert and Garry Maguire review their feedback practices to help international students make sense of assessment tasks. Drawing significantly on the work of the Oxford Brookes ASKe CETL, they describe how they prepare students for assessment and their feedback practices. This reflective audit led them to make explicit their own practices and consequentially to they were able to produce a model which draws together their thinking. This paper is packed with links to resources they use and have created for the reader to follow up.
Jenny Phillips continues our ambition to include student perspectives in each issue of BeJLT (see student perspectives in Issues 5.1 and 4.2). She writes as a student expected to undertake peer group review, offering a vivid insight into what was for her, an emotional experience. Jenny constructively reflects on her negative experience in order to produce advice for lecturers to better prepare students for such tasks.
The remaining two short articles explore how staff are making sense of the policy context and their roles within a changing higher education system. Liz Browne offers a personal critique of the Coalition government's recent School Direct proposals and their potential impact on teacher education. She sets out to present a clearer picture of the challenges facing us and issues a call to action for staff to be aware of such changes in their own professions. Irmgard Huppe reflects on her role as a Digital Media and e-Learning Developer and the potential of this group of staff to fulfill the potential of technology enhanced learning and the ambitions of the Oxford Brookes Strategy for Enhancing the Student Experience.
Finally, we leave you will some recommendations for your summer reading from members of the BeJLT Editorial Board and other colleagues from Oxford Brookes. I hope you find something in there to interest you.
Professor Rhona Sharpe


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2. Stir in the onion, garlic and ginger and cook gently for about 3-5 minutes until softened.
3. Pour in the coconut milk, fish sauce and palm sugar and then bring to the boil. Reduce to a simmer, then add the salmon chunks.
4. Leave to simmer gently for 3 minutes and then add in the vegetables and lime.
5. Cook for a further 2 minutes until the salmon is cooked through and the vegetables are tender.
6. Scatter with the coriander and peanuts and serve with steamed jasmine rice.
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Bilingual training is the process of instructing students using two languages. Other studies have discovered that, at worst, instruction within the residence language produces English results that are no completely different from results for English learners in all-English instruction, with the added bonus of permitting them to keep up and additional develop their residence language.
In addition to federal policies that were at finest detached, if not outright hostile, to bilingual training, beginning in 1997 voters in Arizona, California, and Massachusetts enacted the nation's most restrictive language insurance policies, severely limiting the usage of the home language in the education of language minority students.
In Cape Breton and different parts of Nova Scotia , plenty of secondary faculties now offer the choice of taking introductory courses in Scottish Gaelic , as reflecting upon the province's both intimate and dark history with the Gaelic language and Highland Scottish diaspora.
21 This undertaking is beneath the auspices of the International Study Program of Burapha College quotation needed Wichai Wittaya Bilingual Faculty in Chaing Mai (1995), 22 Siriwat Wittaya Bilingual School in Bangkok(2004) , 23 Chindemanee Faculty English Program (2005), 24 The Sarasas model, pioneered by the Sarasas colleges affiliation in Thailand, are exemplars of parallel immersion.
Mainstream personnel have been skilled on the characteristics and desires of LEP learners; practices which enhance the tutorial achievement of LEP students have been included into the educational and administrative repertoires of mainstream personnel.